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The World Bank safeguard policies are the cornerstone of Bank support for sustainable poverty reduction and the key to effective development. In response to a changing global context, the Bank is considering how environmental and social safeguards must be adapted to its twin goals: ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Civil society organizations (CSOs) from the South and North are engaging in a global campaign to hold the Bank accountable to stronger, more comprehensive and properly implemented safeguards.
BIC focuses on the following safeguard areas of concern:
BIC also works closely with civil society partners who focus on the following concerns:
Other safeguards issues addressed in the ESF draft include Community Health and Safety, Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Heritage, and Financial Intermediaries. To learn more, see our "Resources" tab or contact BIC to get in touch with our partners focusing on these issues.
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What are the safeguards?
The original safeguards were created largely as a collective call from communities and organized pressure from CSOs. In the 1980s and 90s, in response to strong public criticism of its involvement in controversial projects—such as the Narmada Dam in India, which displaced over 300,000 people—the World Bank developed safeguards to help identify and minimize harms to people and the environment. Since that time, other international institutions have also created their own safeguards. These safeguards require borrowers to mitigate certain risks in order to receive bank financing. Examples include conducting an environmental and social impact assessment, consulting with affected communities, and restoring the livelihoods of displaced people.
When communities believe that World Bank-financed projects have not complied with the safeguards, they can bring their concerns directly to the institution. Since 1993, communities have been able to bring complaints to the World Bank's Inspection Panel. This opens up additional avenues for dispute resolution, particularly when governments are not responsive to communities' concerns.
Why is this review important?
The Bank's safeguards review will affect the future design of development projects and will change the ways we hold international institutions accountable for the problems that development projects can cause for people and the planet.
The World Bank was the first international organization to adopt safeguards, and its safeguards have since become the most influential model. The new safeguards will shape how other international donors and investors approach environmental and human rights protection.
In recent years, global crises such as climate change, food and fuel shortages, and financial instability have emerged that affect all development projects. The Bank created the safeguards before these issues rose to prominence.
The balance of power has shifted, as well, with the rapidly expanding influence of emerging economies such as China, Brazil, and India, among other large middle income countries, at international institutions. At the same time, the World Bank is facing new competition from banks in emerging economies. In 2009 and 2010, China's Export Import Bank and its Development Bank lent more to developing countries than the World Bank did. Financial institutions from emerging economies are providing governments with low cost alternatives to the Bank. This has led to a sense of competition and uncertainty over the World Bank's role as a leader in development finance. The Bank has responded by trying to make its safeguards more flexible in an effort to attract large borrowing countries. These changes have made it more difficult for CSOs to monitor and hold the Bank accountable for its use of public funds.
Nevertheless, the World Bank's safeguards continue to serve as de-facto international standards for other development banks and governments. As a result, any reforms to the World Bank's safeguards—whether progressive or regressive—will have far reaching global impacts. Priorities include getting specific and mandatory protections for laborers, children, people with disabilities, indigenous peoples, gender and sexual minorities, as well as for forests and natural habitats. There are also advocacy efforts surrounding the creation of a climate-focused safeguard.
The first draft ESF met wide criticism. For many CSOs and stakeholders, it ran contrary to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim's promise that the new framework would not represent a weakening or dilution of current Bank social and environmental policies. Of significant concern is the proposed ESF's use of 'weasel words', which protect the Bank from having to assume responsibility for compliance with the safeguards. Phrases such as 'as appropriate,' 'where possible' and 'within a timeframe acceptable to the Bank' allow for deferred risk appraisal, unclear supervision requirements and 'opt-outs', all of which undermine the past thirty years' progress in protecting the poor and the environment from harm in Bank-funded projects. For a collection of media coverage and CSO reactions to the first draft, see our Safeguards Reactions Roundup.
When is this happening?
The World Bank announced the start of the safeguards review in early 2011, and formally initiated its two-year safeguards review in July 2012, in the midst of a Bank-wide strategic reorganization. Upon release of an "approach paper" for the Safeguard review process in early October 2012, the Bank began a three-stage consultation process. Phase I ran from October 2012 to April 2013, and consisted of more than two-dozen multi-stakeholder consultations, as well as meetings with government officials, international experts, and civil society representatives.
The second draft ESF was released for public consultation in August 2015. A CSO letter on Phase 3 consultations was submitted to the World Bank Safeguards Review team and the World Bank Board of Directors on May 22, 2015. The Bank's Chief Environmental and Social Standards Officer responded on June 23, 2015 with this letter.
On August 4, 2015 the World Bank publicly released a second draft of its Environmental and Social Framework (ESF), thus initiating Phase 3 of the safeguards review. The ESF contains the safeguard policies designed to protect communities and the environment in World Bank investment projects. The first draft of the ESF, which was approved for consultation in July 2014, was met with wide criticism from World Bank Vice Presidents, civil society organizations (CSOs), UN experts and local communities.
Click here (العربية|Arabic) (Spanish|Español) for BIC's Guide to a First Look at the World Bank's Revised Environmental and Social Framework.
Click here (العربية|Arabic) for BIC's Safeguards Training Packet for consultation participants.
The effectiveness of the World Bank's revised ESF is compromised by several overarching issues, including an over-reliance on borrowers for due diligence, lack of clear timing and procedural requirements for risk appraisal, and no budget or implementation details.
New types of lending
Traditionally, the World Bank finances specific development projects, such as dams, roads, and oil and gas infrastructure. These are called "investment loans." Safeguards were designed to manage the environmental and social risks associated with these specific projects. However, financing is now being channeled in ways where the borrower's actual use of World Bank funds is often unknown and less accountable. These recently introduced instruments are called "development policy loans" and " programs for results." The environmental and social impacts of these new investments can be significant and negative, but are extremely difficult for CSOs to monitor and are not safeguarded with the same rigor and transparency as investment lending. The World Bank has developed assessment tools that are appropriate for these new types of lending, although their use is not guided by the same requirements as for investment lending.
Non-investment lending activities are growing as a percentage of Bank lending.
Other IFIs, such as the Asian Development Bank and governments provide safeguards coverage of non-IL activities. The Bank has fallen behind international best practice.
The World Bank safeguards review should not be limited to investment lending, but rather should include full and systematic consideration of possible safeguards application to all Bank activities and operations with potential for significant environmental, social, or human rights impacts. Any decision on the coverage of the safeguards should come at the end of the safeguards review, not at the beginning. Whether or not the Bank attempts to limit the scope of the safeguards review to investment lending. CSOs will continue to push hard for safeguards application to all types of Bank activities with potential for significant social, environmental, and human rights impacts.
Reliance on local laws and borrower systems
Globally, donors are expressing a desire to shift away from exclusive reliance on an IFI's environmental and social safeguards towards greater support for a borrower's systems for managing environmental and social risk or reliance on developing countries' local laws. CSOs insist that support for greater country ownership of safeguards and support for borrower systems is not at odds with maintaining high, common, minimum standards for risk management.
The Bank, for example, has developed a "country systems" approach, which allows borrowing governments to rely on their own local laws instead of following the safeguards. This helps to build countries' own capacity, but can also mean that development projects go forward in the short term in the absence of strong environmental and human rights protections. Many poor communities do not have a voice in how their government chooses a development path or decides on specific high risk investments. While it is important to ensure country ownership over development projects, this ownership should be democratic, environmentally sustainable, and socially just.
The newest safeguards draft maintains the transfer of responsibility for safeguards implementation to borrowing countries. Some borrower governments see this transfer as burdensome. Civil society shares this concern, especially considering that the Bank lacks the jurisdiction to ensure that Borrowers assume accountability for harm when safeguards fail. Both government and civil society concerns are exacerbated by the lack of 1) An updated safeguards budget and implementation plan 2) A methodology for determining whether borrower frameworks offer protections equivalent to Bank safeguards.
Timing of safeguards application: moving them "upstream" in the decision making process
The Bank's safeguards can work better before projects are identified. For many types of risk (climate, human rights) the Bank's country assistance strategy (which determines, in part, the kinds of projects that are funded in a particular country for 4-6 years) represents the earliest opportunity to assess cross-cutting risks and to set priorities. The Bank seems to agree. The new corporate strategy calls for a more strategic, evidence-based approach to designing Country Partnership Frameworks.
It is crucial that certain safeguards are triggered before World Bank Executive Directors approve them. Particularly for projects that fall into high or substantial risk categories, the Bank should require that certain social and environmental assessments are completed, disclosed for public comment, and discussed before the project can move forward. However, the latest draft of the safeguards framework removes the timing requirements for most of these crucial evaluations, even those that protect indigenous peoples and persons who may be displaced by Bank projects. This means it's possible for a project to begin without plans in place to protect the communities and ecosystems that it will affect.
Human rights
Most governments and international institutions use human rights standards as a way to manage risks and recognize the rights of disempowered people, particularly the poor. In many cases, CSOs have helped to incorporate human rights—ranging from the rights to life, food, and health to freedom from discrimination—into national constitutions and laws. When these same governments sit on the World Bank's Board of Directors, however, they refuse to explicitly incorporate human rights into Bank policies. The World Bank continues to base this refusal on its Articles of Agreement, established at the time of the Bank's founding in 1944, which prohibit it from involving itself in the politics of member countries.
According to many from civil society, and even former World Bank General Counsel Roberto Dañino, this excuse no longer holds water, as country governments and other international institutions have made concrete commitments to respect universal human rights. UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston has also been very vocal about the World Bank's aversion to human rights, which he denounces in a recent UN report on the subject. At a Tom Lantos Human Rights hearing in September 2015, he noted that the Bank currently "treats human rights more like an infectious disease than universal values and obligations."
While the Vision Statement of the latest safeguards draft includes language on human rights, and specifically references the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the language is 'aspirational' and in no way binding. The Bank is sending a clear message to the world, and to its own staff, that respect for human rights is discretionary. Civil society continues to push for a requirement that the Bank respect human rights in all of its lending activities, and respect and enforce borrower international treaty obligations.
Phase 3 of the Review
Tracked Change Version of Second Draft Framework for Consultation
ESF Consultation Paper (العربية|Arabic) (Español|Spanish)
Inspection Panel Comments on the Second Draft of the Proposed ESF
Indicative List of Issues for Phase 3 Consultations
Summary of Phase 2 Consultations and Bank Management Responses
Report by Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on Human Rights and the World Bank
Analysis of Second Draft prepared by the Dutch Sustainability Unit of the Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment
Civil Society and Media ReactionsPRESS RELEASE: Dangerous Rollback in Environmental and Social Protections: World Bank's New Framework Undermines President Kim's Commitment to "No Dilution"
World Bank Safeguard Proposal 'Dangerous,' Rights Groups Say (ICIJ)
Rights Groups Say New World Bank Proposal Endangers People And Environment (Huffington Post Business)
How is the World Bank's Newest Safeguards Document Different from the Initial Draft? (DevEx)
World Bank Regressing on Environmental and Social Protection Say Advocates (Humanosphere)
Why the World Bank Should Embrace Human Rights (Human Rights Watch)
How is the World Bank's newest safeguards document different from the initial draft? (DevEx)
World Bank Safeguard Review (Center for International Environmental Law)
Letters to World Bank President Jim Yong KimU.S. Senate letter on improving World Bank road safety
Letter from Council for Global Equality on LGBT inclusion in Safeguards
World Bank Executive Director Statements on Second DraftStatement from Mr. Matthew T. McGuire, Executive Director for the United States
Brief of statement made by Mr. Subhash Chandra Garg, Executive Director for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka
Statement from Mr. Jose Alejandro Rojas Ramirez, Executive Director for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Spain
United Kingdom statement on the World Bank Safeguards Review
Nordic-Baltic Position, 3rd Phase consultations, Safeguards Review
Brazilian Government Comments on World Bank Environmental and Social Safeguards Policy Review
SubmissionsCommunity Voices from Lagos for Submission to the Safeguards Policy Review CLICK HERE for video March 2016
Comments from United States International Council on Disabilities March 2016
Comments on World Bank Second Draft ESF from Center for International Environmental Law March 2016
Comments from NARASHA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP, Kenya March 2016
Comments from Council on Global Equality March 2016
Coalition des organisations de la Société Civile sur le Financement du Développement, Contribution à la révision des sauvegardes environnementales et sociales de la Banque Mondiale March 2016
Comments from World Resources Institute March 2016
Joint Submission from the Ulu Foundation, Both ENDS, Ecological Justice Indonesia, and Urgewald March 2016
Forest Peoples Programme Briefing Note on Effective Participation and Free, Prior and Informed Consent March 2016
Forest Peoples Programme Compiled Comments March 2016
Comments on Overarching Human Rights Provisions in the World Bank's Environmental and Social Framework, Coalition for Human Rights in Development March 2016
Letter to the World Bank from Labor Unions and Civil Society Organizations in Myanmar (Burma) regarding ESS2: Labor and Working Conditions March 2016
Comments from the Human Rights Campaign March 2016
Comments of EarthRights International on the World Bank's Second Draft Environmental and Social Framework (July 2015) March 2016
Oxfam Comments on Second Draft of World Bank Environmental and Social Framework March 2016
Amnesty International – Submission to the World Bank on the second draft of the Environmental and Social Framework March 2016
Both ENDS assessment of the Policy framework and ESS 1 in light of World Bank President Kim's commitment to "no dilutions" of existing Bank safeguards March 2016
Submission on the Second Draft Environmental and Social Framework, AU Program on International and Comparative Environmental Law March 2016
Recommendations from the Disability and World Bank Safeguards Campaign ESS1, ESS10, Glossary March 2016
Submission on Child Rights from the Bank Information Center March 2016
Joint Submission on ESS6 from a Coalition of Civil Society Organizations March 2016
Submission on Land Rights and Involuntary Resettlement in the World Bank Proposed Environmental and Social Framework Feb 2016
Indian Law Resource Center Comments on the World Bank's ESF Second Draft Feb 2016
Sierra Club and BIC Submission on the Climate and Resource-Efficiency related Provisions of the Second Draft ESF Feb 2016
Conservation International's Comments on new draft World Bank ESF Feb 2016
Gender Analysis, Conclusions & Recommendations on the
World Bank Environmental and Social Framework Second Draft Dec 2015
Gender Analysis of the second draft World Bank ESF Gender Action, Oct 2015
Submission from Human Rights Watch on the World Bank's second draft ESF Oct 2015
Comments by Humane Society International Sept 2015
Phase 2 of the Review
World Bank Operational Manual
Program for Results (P4R, OP 9.0)
Development Policy Lending (OP 8.60)
Investment Lending Policy (OP 10.0)
IFC 2010 Performance Standards and Sustainability Policy Review
World Bank Guidance Note, Stakeholder Consultations in Investment Operations, November 2011
Civil Society Materials for Phase 2 ConsultationsSafeguards Case Studies of World Bank Group Projects , April 2014
Safeguards Consultation Background Packet
ESS1 – Environmental and Social Assessment
ESS2 – Labor
ESS3 – Climate Change
ESS5 – Land and Resettlement
ESS6 – Biodiversity
ESS7 – Indigenous Peoples
ESS10 – Information Disclosure and Stakeholder Engagement
Talking points on Child Rights
Talking points on Disability Rights
Talking points on Gender & SOGIE
Talking points on Gender
Talking points on Human Rights
Talking points on the Environmental and Social Policy (ESP)
What IEG Recommends about the Safeguard Reform – Facts and Myths
Letters to World Bank President Jim Yong KimNobel Women's Initiative Letter on draft ESF
Letter to Jim Kim on behalf of twenty-eight Special Procedures mandate holders of the U.N. Human Rights Council
Letter from Bank on Human Rights and signatories regarding the safeguards consultation process
Letter on Child Rights and Safeguards from 55 endorsing organizations
Submissions from CSOsCivil society statement on World Bank Safeguards from 360 endorsing organizations
Critiques and Recommendations on WB Safeguards from Egyptian CSOs
بيان تفصيلى لمؤسسات المجتمع المدنى المصرى حول السياسات الحمائية الجديدة للبنك الدولى(Critiques and Recommendations on WB Safeguards from Egyptian CSOs- Arabic)
بيان من مؤسسات المجتمع المدني المغربي (Statement from Moroccan CSOs on the Bank's Safeguard Policies, Arabic)
Comments on WB Safeguards from Ulu Foundation- Learning from the ADB
Oxfam Submission on Phase 2 of WB Safeguards Review
Joint Nordic CSO input on World Bank Safeguards
World Resource Institute comments on draft ESF
Transparency International's Submission on World Bank Safeguards
Comments from Latin American and Caribbean CSOs on Draft ESF and WB Consultation Process, (Spanish)
- Environmental and Social Assessment (ESS1)
Disability and World Bank Safeguards Campaign ESS1 Red-line Edits
Conservation International ESS1 Redline Edits
- Labor (ESS2)
Statement by Global Unions to the 2014 Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank
- Climate Change (ESS3)
Climate Change Model Policy for Safeguards
Comments on the Climate and Resource Efficiency-Related Provisions of the Draft ESF
Sierra Club Proposed Redline Edits ESS3
- Community Health and Safety (ESS4)
Population Action International Comments on ESS4
- Involuntary Resettlement (ESS5)
Joint Safeguards Submission on Resettlement and Land
Land Rights and the New WB Safeguards_Case Studies by Inclusive Development International
- Biodiversity (ESS6)
Safeguard Submission on Biodiversity, Forests and Forest-dependent Peoples
Conservation International Redline Edits ESS6
Comments on ESF from US Federal Ministry of Environment
- Indigenous Peoples (ESS7)
Recommendations from Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation
Statement from Tanzanian Indigenous Peoples organizations on the proposed ESF (27 endorsing organizations)
- Information Disclosure and Stakeholder Engagement (ESS10)
BIC Submission on ESS10 on Information Disclosure and Stakeholder Engagement
Submission on ESS10 and Accountability
- Child Rights
Bank Information Center Child Rights Submission
BIC Child Rights Submission- Tata Mundra Case Study
BIC Child Rights Submission- MUTP Case Study
BIC Child Rights Submission- Malawi Water Project Case Study
- Disability Rights
Redline edits of ESS1 Annex 1_Disability and World Bank Safeguards Campaign
ESS1 Proposal for an Annex 2 on Universal Accessibility and Inclusion Plan_Disability and World Bank Safeguards Campaign
Submission from International Disability Alliance and International Disability and Development Consortium
Input from Light of the World on WB Safeguards Review
Inputs on ESS Framework from Persons with Disabilities in Tanzania/Disabled People International
- Gender and SOGIE
Gender and SOGIE Joint Submission
Gender and SOGIE Model Policy
Gender Review and Recommendations on Proposed ESF from Gender Action
Submissions from National GovernmentsComments from the Government of France
Comments from the Government of Germany
US Government Comments on Draft ESF
Comments and Recommendations from China on the Proposed New Safeguard Policies
Brazilian Government Comments on the Environmental and Social Framework Policy
Comments of the Government of India on the World Bank Consultation of the Safeguard Review
Republic of Indonesia Response to WB Safeguard Policies
Comments from the Russian Executive Director's Office EDS23
Nordic/Baltic Comments on Draft ESF
Ministry of Labor Tajikistan
Comments from the Executive Director for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain, and República Bolivariana de Venezuela
Phase 1 of the Review
Statements and CorrespondenceInspection Panel Comments on the First Draft – Unofficial May, 2014
World Bank Response to CSO Top Priorities Letter, April 7, 2014
CSO Safeguard Top Priorities Letter, March 25, 2014
World Bank Safeguards Review Team Presentation at the 2014 Spring Meetings, April 12, 2014
United States Comments on the World Bank Safeguards Review (Phase 1), April 29, 2014
Initial Comments by Civil Society Organizations on the World Bank Safeguards Review, December 2012
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Letter to President Kim accompanying CSO Comment on Safeguard Approach paper, December 20, 2012
World Bank reply to letter on Safeguard Policy review, January 13, 2013
CSO Letter to President Kim on Safeguards and Investment Lending Reform, September 7, 2012
CSO letter on World Bank safeguards review, September 14, 2011
World Bank response to CSO letter on safeguards review, September 20, 2011
World Bank Safeguards Review Background, July 28, 2011 (Español), (Français)
CSO Civil Society Comments and Concerns about the World Bank's Proposed "Program for Results" (P4R)
World Bank Internal Evaluation Group (IEG) on Safeguards
IEG Evaluation Brief: Evaluative Directions for the World Bank Group's Safeguards and Sustainability Policies, No. 15 (July 2011)
IEG Evaluation: Safeguards and Sustainability in a Changing World (2010)
Safeguards Documents at Other International Financial Institutions
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB):
In 2014, the NGO Forum on the ADB started advocacy and monitoring work on the new multilateral development bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Follow BIC's work on AIIB's draft Environmental and Social Framework.
Asian Development Bank (ADB):
The NGO Forum on the ADB covers safeguards at the Asian Development Bank.
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):Implementing Guidelines – Environment and Safeguards Compliance Policy, 2006
Independent Advisory Group on Sustainability Final Report, 2011
Child Rights Program Manager
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Younger workers have highest poverty rates
April 05, 2001
In 1999, the poverty rates for younger workers were about twice as high as the average for all workers.
Among workers age 16 to 19 years, 10.1 percent lived below the poverty level in 1999. For workers age 20 to 24, the poverty rate was about the same: 10.6 percent. These rates are about double the average of 5.1 percent for all workers.
Poverty rates of workers generally declined with age up to age 45. The poverty rates were about the same for workers age 45 to 54, 55 to 64, and 65 and over—all were around 3 percent.
These data on the working poor are from the Current Population Survey. The above figures are for individuals who spent at least 27 weeks in the labor force in 1999. Find out more in "A Profile of the Working Poor, 1999," BLS Report 947 (HTML) (PDF 60K).
Related T.E.D articles:
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Younger workers have highest poverty rates on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2001/apr/wk1/art04.htm (visited September 30, 2016).
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Open Stage Student Matinees are weekday performances designed for students and take place on designated Wednesday mornings. Open Stage matinees are followed by a talkback where you can discuss the play with the cast and Pittsburgh Public Theater staff.
Students may also access Resource Guides that correspond to each of the shows. Resource Guides for the 2016-17 season will be available beginning in the fall.
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All Open Stage Student Matinee tickets are just $15.75.
The Fantasticks has the distinction of being the longest-running musical in the world. It opened in 1960, played for 42 years, and was quickly revived. With imaginatively simple staging, it tells the story of two fathers, next-door neighbors, and their elaborate scheme to bring their son and daughter together. Its iconic songs include "Try to Remember" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain." Director Ted Pappas will bring his special touch with great musicals to this stage phenomenon.
This theatrical valentine, written for a gala given by Queen Elizabeth I, is aglow with spirited females and romantic fun. After a shipwreck, outspoken Viola washes ashore and disguises herself as a boy. Believing the masquerade, beautiful Olivia falls head over heels in love. Meanwhile Duke Orsino passionately pursues Olivia and Viola falls for him! All of Illyria is mad with merry mix-ups and not even the pompous Malvolio can stop the party in Shakespeare's great comedy.
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Brandon Rios Discusses Hiring, Working With Alex Ariza
By Chris Robinson
As recently reported, former lightweight titlist Brandon Rios has acquired the services of strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza heading into his Nov. 23 clash in Macau, China with Manny Pacquiao.
As outspoken of a figure as you will find in the sport, Rios was actually in a subdued mood on Thursday afternoon prior to another workout as he discussed what it's been like working with Ariza thus far.
"It's something different," Rios revealed. "Different exercises I've been doing. It's tiring. I do get tired. I felt that I'm more tired this time. But, hey, I love to work out and I think it's going to come out good. That workout is just insane. After that, and coming to the gym; we'll be ready."
Prior to his rematch with Mike Alvarado this past March, Rios had been testing the waters with a different strength coach, Angel 'Memo' Heredia, a man known best for his work with Juan Manuel Marquez.
Rios was asked to compare the techniques of Ariza to those of Heredia and paid each man their respect wit his response.
"Different styles," said Rios. "Different styles of training. Memo likes to work with weights and Alex, he works with the core, the leg movement. He likes to work on speed and everything. They've both done great. Memo is great at what he does and Alex is great at what he does. There's no comparing them."
Ariza made his name in the sport largely due to his role with Pacquiao from early 2008 all the way up until his knockout loss to Marquez this past December.
Tension in the camp between Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach and Ariza ultimately led to his exit from the team, but it also paved the way for a new union with Rios as well as his stable mate Mikey Garcia.
Giving the circumstances of what happened with his forthcoming opponent, it was only natural for Rios and his side to look for an edge.
"You know what? They fired him for some reason," Rios stated. "I don't know. That's not up to me. That's up to their camp. But you know what? They fired him so we hired his *ss. Why not? Why leave him on the sidelines? A man that knows what he does and does a great job at what he does; we can't leave it to go to waste."
[QUOTE=budfr;13789440]I´m glad there´s more Latinos that are S & C coaches and more Latinos that like to work out. We had a reputation for being lazy to work out, to eat alot due to social , family events , and…Comment by budfr on 09-28-2013
I´m glad there´s more Latinos that are S & C coaches and more Latinos that like to work out. We had a reputation for being lazy to work out, to eat alot due to social , family events , and…Comment by turnedup on 09-27-2013
Brandon today: "He was fired for some reason and we hired his azz". Brandon the morning after losing: "He's no longer with our camp". Ariza after the loss: "Garcia wouldn't let me operate, never mind he's actually fought as a…Comment by jri9d0 on 09-27-2013
As the saying goes "styles makes fights" and I don't care if Brandon looks like an eight time Mr Olympian his style is ripe for failure come fight night.Comment by LAPete on 09-27-2013
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Pair assaulted 17-year-old boy they mistakenly believed had raped a female friend.
Had been accused of misleading investors about Fannie Mae's exposure to risky mortgages.
Walbridge native accused of embezzling funds from the union.
James Worley faces 19 charges, 2 counts carry potential death penalty.
He receives 8 years in prison.
A Romulus, Mich., man who traveled to Toledo to have sex with a 13-year-old boy he met through social media has been sentenced to 16 months in prison. Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Michael Goulding also classified Emanuel Anderson, 43, as a sex
An Oregon man who ignored a stop sign and hit a car while driving drunk pleaded no contest Thursday to two counts of aggravated vehicular assault. Todd Pryll, 48, of the 3300 block of Seaman Road, faces up to 10 years in prison and a lifetime
A Toledo man accused of assaulting and robbing an 84-year-old man was indicted Friday on a murder charge. Carlton Hunter, 45, of the 1700 block of North Erie Street, was indicted by a Lucas County grand jury for murder, aggravated robbery, and
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China has upgraded the last six Type 053 frigates built, apparently in order keep them in service for another decade or more. Originally built in the 1990s, the six Type 053H1G ships were the last of 53 built over about twenty years. Based on the older Russian Riga class frigate, the Chinese expanded the original 1,400 ton Riga (armed with depth charges, three 100mm guns and torpedoes) design, to a missile laden 2,500 ton vessel equipped with modern electronics. The latest versions, called the F-22, is built only for export. The primary customer is Pakistan. The remaining Type 53s are mainly used for coastal patrol.
Four years after placing the order, Pakistan has received three F-22P frigates from China and is building the fourth one in Pakistan. The Pakistanis were very pleased with their inexpensive Chinese warships, and ordered four more, to be built in Pakistan. The F-22P is an improved version of the Chinese Jiangwei II (053H3). Pakistan already had four of these, as the F-22.
The 123 meter (406 foot) long F-22P displaces 2,500 tons, and carries an eight cell short range (8.6 kilometers) FM-90N surface-to-air missile system. There are two, four cell anti-ship missile systems (180 kilometers range C-802s), two, three cell launchers for rocket launched ET-52C anti-submarine torpedoes, two, six cell RDC-32 anti-submarine rocket launchers. There is also a 76.2mm gun, two 30mm anti-missiles auto-cannon, and a helicopter. Each ship has a crew of 202 and a top speed of 52 kilometers an hour. The F-22Ps are inexpensive, costing about $200 million each. The new American LCS weighs about the same, but has only half as many sailors in the crew, lots more automation and costs over $600 million.
China has developed new designs to replace the Type 53, mainly the 4,000 ton Type 54. This ship is based on Western, not Russian, designs. Twelve of these have been built so far, ten to the more advanced Type 054A standard.
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Skip to comments.Holder and DOJ hoping Justice Scalia will rule ObamaCare Constitutional
Posted on 03/24/2012 9:43:14 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
On Monday oral arguments will begin for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a case which will demand arguably the most important ruling the Supreme Court will make in a century.
And the Courts decision on the Constitutionality of ObamaCares individual mandate will indeed be that important, for a finding that it is Constitutional and may therefore be implemented would provide the federal government unlimited, dictatorial power over the lives and actions of the American people.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found the individual mandate unconstitutional, ruling quite correctly that the Article I, Section 8 Commerce Clause powers of Congress upon which Obamas handlers had depended for the authority to force certain Americans to purchase unwanted healthcare did NOT provide such authority after all. (1)
And as the argument made by the 11th Circuit in its 305 page decision was brilliant and almost certain to influence the thinking of the 5 members of the Court who still believe the United States Constitution rather than the Little Red Book to represent the law of the land, Obamas Department of Justice lawyers were forced to invent a new method for allocating Congress the power necessary to impose the mandate.
The non-existent penumbras magically created by the Burger Court to justify Roe v Wade were not likely to work this time.
So DOJ attorneys have decided to apply the necessary and proper clause which provides congress the authority to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the enumerated powers of congress, such as the power to regulate commerce! (2)
The DOJ took this tack because in 2005, Justices Scalia and Kennedy sided with the Courts Marxist left in deciding the...
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I wondered why he was at the last Party at the White Hut.....with all the Celebrity/Hollywood/Donor usual Guests?
Holder and DOJ are in state of delusion and denial.
I wondered why he was at the last Party at the White Hut.....with all the Celebrity/Hollywood/Donor usual Guests?
That's not a good sign.
If scalia did rule in favor of ObamaCare - it would destroy his entire legacy forever.
It's called rope-a-dope.
My God.
She WROTE Obamacare.
There is NO DISPUTING this fact.
Justice Thurgood Marshall recused himself from a Supreme Court decision regarding a meat company because he said "I like their ham."
Why, in the name of all that is decent, is this woman being allowed to rule on this decision?
If scalia did rule in favor of ObamaCare - it would destroy his entire legacy forever.
I'm confident he will do the right thing. But it's all scary.
No, the ruling will just solidify Scalia's belief that the Commerce Clause is originally intended to control all aspects of "commerce" by the Federal government over the individual's rights.
Elena KegFace!!
Regulating commerce is not in dispute.
And what about the hundreds of years of basic contract law to where an individual must have what is known as consent and mutual assent to enter into a contract?
The entire premise behind the mandate is absurd!
Read up on Scalia's past decisions when the commerce clause became part of the issue. For kicks, study Scalia's work before he was appointed to be a SC Justice. In short, Scalia is a radical when it comes to the expansion of the commerce clause, yes, even when the individual is compelled.
Just saying his "vote" is not entirely with the Unconstitutional crowd, although it MIGHT be. We will see.
Thanks for posting that disgusting picture of toe sucker Dickie Morris in drag!
I'm sorry, SkyPilot, but decency was a long time ago. Indecency has prevailed.
In full seriousness: the only thing government consistently does well is look after the interests of government.
In full seriousness: the only thing government consistently does well is look after the interests of government.
Well said. Sickening, isn't it.
I understand that - but granting the govt this power literally is the end of this nation as the government will be able to force you literally to purchase anything at any price for whatever stupid reason it comes up with with no recourse!!!!
"So DOJ attorneys have decided to apply the necessary and proper clause which provides congress the authority to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the enumerated powers of congress, such as the power to regulate commerce!"
If no commerce was engaged in by Americans there is no necessary and proper clause application. Furthermore...congress does not have the enumerated power to compel us to purchase anything.
I worry most about Justice Kennedy .
The Obamacare Challenge: The Questions Before the Supreme Court and Their Portents for CongressBy Robert Alt and Edmund Haislmaier
March 22, 2012
The Justice Departments attempt to use this error to arrogate unto Congress the constitutional authority to enact the lawi.e., arguing that the mandate is somehow necessary and proper to avoid the negative effects that might otherwise flow from the operation of the community-rating and guaranteed-issue requirementsis constitutional hubris on stilts. The Necessary and Proper Clause, when utilized in conjunction with the Commerce Clause, permits laws carrying into execution Congresss authority to regulate interstate commerce. It does not give Congress license to blunder boldly so that it can lay claim to greater authority to fix the problem it created. And to satisfy the Necessary and Proper Clause, even where the law is legitimately carrying into execution Congresss authority to regulate interstate commerce (which the PPACA does not), the law must still be properthat is, constistent with the letter and spirit of the Constitution. The PPACA, which admits to no limiting principle and which is inconsistent with any reasonable conception of limited and enumerated powers, clearly fails this test.
Both Silberman and Sutton cited Scalias opinion in 2005 upholding strict federal regulation of marijuana in the case of Angel Raich, a Californian who used home-grown marijuana to relieve her pain. If Congress could regulate Angel Raich when she grew marijuana on her property for self-consumption, Sutton wrote, it is difficult to say Congress may not regulate the 50 million Americans who self-finance their medical care.
Maybe Scalia will see it that way, maybe not...
...the authority to enact laws necessary and proper for the regulation of interstate commerce is not limited to laws governing intrastate activities that substantially affect interstate commerce. Where necessary to make a regulation of interstate commerce effective, Congress may regulate even those intrastate activities that do not themselves substantially affect interstate commerce.
Scalia concurring in Raich
Two appeals court justices, both friends of Scalia, cited his opinion in Raich to uphold Obamacare:
But the Raich ruling did not enable congress to RULE the American public.Will this matter to Scalia? We sure better HOPE so.
"such as the power to regulate commerce"
What commerce? Not engaging in commerce cannot itself be commerce.
"Scalia is a radical when it comes to the expansion of the commerce clause, yes, even when the individual is compelled"
I don't know about that last part. Certainly Scalia believes in a post-New Deal commerce clause. However, the marijuana case everyone's been harping about is not strictly analogous to the Obamacare case. Growing dope for personal consumption may not be commerce, much less interstate commerce, but at least it is an overt action. Therefore, it may fall under Wickard v. Filburn, as awful as that precedent is.
Wickard's standard is that the feds can pass and enforce laws covering actions that affect interstate commerce, whether or not said actions are interstate or commercial. Obamacare's mandate does not regulate non-commercial activity impinging on interstate commerce. It doesn't regulate anything. It compels action ex nihilo. Wickard does not apply.
'If Congress could regulate Angel Raich when she grew marijuana on her property for self-consumption,' Sutton wrote, 'it is difficult to say Congress may not regulate the 50 million Americans who self-finance their medical care.'"
Pure legerdemain. To compel individuals to purchase insurance is not to "regulate" their out of pocket spending. The two have nothing to do with eachother. As wrongheaded as was the Raich decision, at least regulating the harvesting and smoking of marijuana is a regulation of commerce. That is, so long as you assume home growth and personal consumption is interstate commerce, which it isn't.
Point is, you must regulate the thing that is commerce for it to be regulation of interstate commerce. Mandating people buy insurance cannot be regulation of paying for a minute clinic visit with cash. They are completely seperate. It would be as if the feds presumed the commerce clause empowered on the basis of pot growing to order Raich to become a professional circus clown.
There may be a connection between clowning and pot use; I'm not familiar enough with clown culture to say. I am sure either way the compulsion wouldn't be regulation of commerce and wouldn't be constitutional.
I worry most about Justice Kennedy .
Same here.
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Need some fresh inspiration for your wardrobe? Look no further than Princeton in the 1930s. This passage is from the spring 1934 issue of Apparel Arts, and was alerted to us by Dan Flores of the blog An Uptown Dandy, a fine fellow I've met on occasion around town. Assuming the report is accurate (and …Read More


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The Nelson Perch was designed in 1964 in conjunction with the revolutionary open-plan office system Action Office 1. This high stool encourages working positions that alternate between standing and sitting. It also serves as an ideal object for leaning on, providing healthy support during informal meetings at stand-up tables. The armrest and steel foot ring allow the user to adopt a variety of comfortable postures.
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Dolphins Being Killed Along Gulf Of Mexico
Multiple dolphins have been killed along the Gulf of Mexico, according to authorities, who have found their bodies with gunshot wounds, cuts, and missing jaws. The dolphin deaths have caused the Nat
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Another Oil Platform Explodes In Gulf Of Mexico
GRAND ISLE, La. — An offshore oil platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast. All 13 workers were rescued from the water, the U.S.
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BP's Attempt At Containing The Oil Leak In Gulf Of Mexico Fails
Biloxi, Mississippi (CNN) -- The effort to place a massive containment dome over a gushing underwater wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico was dealt a setback when a large volume of hydrates -- icelike
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Workers lower cap over oil well in Gulf of Mexico.
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The Barrow County Sheriff's Office reported the following incidents:
THEFT: On June 21, a deputy was dispatched to Pak Mail on Loganville Highway, Bethlehem, where a man said he had purchased a Marshall guitar amplifier from a company in Fort Wayne, Ind., for $1,740, but he decided to return it.
The man said his wife took the item to Pak Mail on June 12 and dropped it off for delivery. However, he said his credit card has not been credited for the amount and the company said they never received the amplifier.
Thieves broke into a home in the 100 block of Acadia Drive between 4 and 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and stole two televisions with a total value of $900, Athens-Clarke police said.
A burglar set off an alarm when breaking into a home in the 100 block of Chesterton Drive at 1:50 p.m. Wednesday, but by the time officers responded the thief already made off with an Xbox 360 and a laptop computer, together valued at $3,000, Athens-Clarke police said.
An apartment complex under construction in Southeast Clarke County on Wednesday was struck by television thieves for the second time this week.
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office reported the following incidents:
MISSING SHOTGUN: On June 14, Deputy Daryl Howington was dispatched to Braselton, where a woman said she had a friend do some work at her house three days earlier and subsequently found several items missing, including five swords and a shotgun.
She confronted the man and he confessed to taking the items. He later returned the swords, but not the shotgun. The man later said the shotgun had been pawned, but he would try to get it back.
Here's what's going on around Athens today, June 29:
Athens law and health care experts tried to read the tea leaves of what the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on the Affordable Care Act could mean for people living in Northeast Georgia.
MACON — A 32-year-old Macon man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in connection with a 2010 burglary spree in a Lake Wildwood community in Bibb County.
FOLKSTON — Dozens of southeast Georgia residents were warned Thursday to brace for more flooding from the swollen St. Marys River as water from Debby continues to push downstream.
GAINESVILLE — A north Georgia woman who told investigators she liked to blow up toilets in the woods and make pipe bombs has been indicted by a federal grand jury that accused her of making explosives, authorities said.
ATLANTA- Georgia will wait until the November elections before implementing President Barack Obama's health care overhaul after the U.S. Supreme Court found it largely constitutional, Republican Gov. Nathan Deal said Thursday.
MINNEAPOLIS — As prosecutors in Minnesota began preparing to file charges against a man accused of molesting two girls and raping a third in the 1990s, the suspect fled the United States, eventually winding up in London, where authorities caught up to him two years ago.
PHOENIX — An Arizona man collapsed in court and died after hearing a jury convict him of burning down his $3.5 million mansion.
MEXICO — Mexican authorities have identified two federal police officers who shot dead three of their colleagues at Mexico City's international airport this week and say the shooters were part of a trafficking ring that flew in cocaine from Peru.
NEW YORK — Michael Burke's voice still cracks when he talks about how his older brother Billy, a firefighter in Manhattan, was helping two people in the World Trade Center when the towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday became the first Cabinet member held in contempt of Congress, a rebuke pushed by Republicans seeking to unearth the facts behind a bungled gun-tracking operation and dismissed by most Democrats as a political stun
BEIJING — Pottery fragments found in a south China cave have been confirmed to be 20,000 years old, making them the oldest known pottery in the world, archaeologists say.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. — The body of a 4-year-old boy missing for a week was found buried Thursday at his home, a family spokesman said.
BEIRUT — Turkey deployed anti-aircraft guns, rocket launchers and other weapons along its border with Syria on Thursday, a military buildup that came as world powers showed new urgency to resolve the crisis before it ignites the region.
WASHINGTON — Republican leaders pushed a sweeping highways-student loans package salvaging millions of construction jobs and maintaining low interest rates on millions of new college loans toward a House vote Friday even as conservative groups mounted a last-minute and likely futile campaign against it.
NEW YORK — Peter Madoff was the quiet one.
While Bernard Madoff was the face of the investment firm that attracted rich and famous clients with too-good-to-be-true returns, his younger brother kept firmly behind the scenes.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A raging Colorado wildfire that forced tens of thousands to flee destroyed an estimated 346 homes this week, making it the most destructive fire in the state's history, officials said.
LOS ANGELES — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. said Thursday that its board has approved a plan to split into two companies, one containing struggling newspaper and book publishing businesses and the other comprising faster-growing entertainment operations.
The Oconee County Sheriff's Office reported the following incidents:
COPPER STOLEN: On June 20, a deputy was dispatched to Whitlow Creek Drive, Bishop, where an employee of Scout Construction arrived to find someone had cut about four feet of copper pipe that extended from a house where a heating and air-conditioning unit was to be installed.
DUI: On June 20, a deputy was dispatched to Old Epps Bridge Road and Dowdy Road, where motorists reported a woman was in the middle of the road yelling at passing motorists.
This cartoon appears in the Athens Banner-Herald on June 29, 2012.
CONTRARIAN ON 'CREATIVE CLASS': In a Thursday column, Melissa Link of the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission invoked the name of University of Toronto professor Richard Florida, who has promulgated the idea that a thriving "creative class" — artists, musicians, etc. — can drive high-quality economic growth in a community.
Players sat under bleachers and in the Athens Christian gymnasium as they awaited their next game. Parents and supporters hid under trees to watch the action on the field. Those on the field perspired and persevered.
When Archer defensive end Antonio Riles steps on a football field, opposing quarterbacks tend to take notice.
Some might believe that establishing a strong team bond in just a day is an unrealistic expectation. However, the football players and coaches at the Northeast Georgia Fellowship of Christian Athletes Day of Champions on beg to differ.
The Cedar Shoals receiver jumps up from the grasp of a Parkview defender, shrugging his shoulders and pleading his case with an official in the end zone.
Parkview took home the Lineman Challenge title Thursday at the Northeast Georgia FCA Day of Champions camp at Athens Christian. The Panthers performed the relay-style challenge with the fastest overall time after the 15 different competitions.
The North Oconee Titans have done nothing but improve in the Terry Tuley era. Last year the team had its best season ever, going 11-1 and reaching the second round of the playoffs, where the Titans fell to Appling County.
Get in the zone. Those were the four words that Georgia Tech football team chaplain Derrick Moore preached to roughly 500 high school football players from ten teams on Thursday afternoon at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes' Day of Champions.
NEW ORLEANS - The Hornets have officially made Anthony Davis the most popular big man in the Big Easy.
PHILADELPHIA - A day after a miserable performance by their bullpen, the Philadelphia Phillies shook things up.
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Cary Tennis
|Cary D. Tennis
|September 11, 1953
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|Salon column "Since You Asked"
Cary D. Tennis (born September 11, 1953), an American author and columnist. He is best known for his work as an advice columnist in his column "Since You Asked" on the website Salon.com which ran for twelve years (2001–2013). Tennis resurrected the advice column into a relevant, even thriving, literary form. He was the Anti-Dear Abby, with a style more reminiscent of an essayist's ruminations than the pat responses usually found in print.[1]
Cary Tennis graduated cum laude from the University of Miami in 1976 with a B.A. in literature and journalism and entered the masters program in creative writing at San Francisco State University in 1978. He passed his oral examinations (Wallace Stevens, William Faulkner and Vladimir Nabokov) and had his creative thesis approved ("The Riverwood House and Other Stories"), but he never completed the degree program.[2]
After university, Tennis worked in the mailroom of Western Electric in San Francisco, worked as a bike messenger, formed a new wave band called the Repeat Offenders (wrote, sang, played guitar), and worked as a rock journalist for the SF Weekly.[3][4]
In the late 1990s he spent five years in a clerical job at Chevron. In 1999 he started working for Salon Magazine, first as copy editor, then copy chief and from 2001 as Salon's resident advice columnist.
Tennis' "Since You Asked" column began in 2001, and was based on a previous column by Garrison Keillor[5] entitled Mr. Blue which appeared in Salon's Books section. In an unusual format for advice columns, "Since you Asked" publishes long letters, sometimes of 1,000 words, and equally long responses.[6]
In the column, Tennis makes occasional reference to his own life, both as a suffering cancer patient and a recovering alcoholic.
Tennis writes of his craft: "I'm no expert. I know the same things we all know," he says. "What I'm offering is, you know, good writing! Good writing can clarify overlooked or obscure areas of emotion. With sufficient craft, these things can be illuminated, and in a way that's pleasurable to read. Plus I'm kind. I offer sympathy to people who are in trouble." [4]
Tennis writes of America: "Nothing has changed structurally; we are still a hateful, war-waging culture that denigrates women, celebrates killing, despoils the planet, plunders the resources of less powerful people, keeps a permanent underclass in virtual economic slavery and wages imperialist wars abroad. We're still the same country we were when I was growing up in the 1960s.".[7]
In 2007, Tennis wrote Since You Asked (ISBN 978-0-9793270-0-1) which is a collection of articles from his column.
Tennis announced in his column of November 19, 2009, that he has been diagnosed with a chordoma, a rare malignant tumor that usually occurs in the spine and base of the skull.
On Monday, September 30, 2013 Tennis posted on his Facebook page that he had been fired by Salon. He also noted this in the comments section to his column on that date. No explanation for the firing was provided.
Tennis was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. He is based in San Francisco and is married.
- ^ Welch, Siobhan (October 19, 2008), "Book review of Since You Asked: The Best of Salon.com's Cary Tennis", popmatters
- ^ "Colgate Writers' Conference - Conference Staff – Cary Tennis". groups.colgate.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
- ^ Colin, Chris (July 9, 2007), "ON THE JOB: Cary Tennis, Salon.com's long-running advice columnist, hit bottom so you don't have to", San Francisco Chronicle
- ^ a b Colin, ON THE JOB: Cary Tennis, Salon.com's long-running advice columnist, hit bottom so you don't have to
- ^ Colin
- ^ Sarno, David (July 15, 2007), "The Web, Etc.", Los Angeles Times, p. 10
- ^ Cary Tennis. "Am I cut out for my dream job? - Salon.com". salon.com. Retrieved 2015-10-20.


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Zac Brown Band serves up Thanksgiving treat with new video
Zac Brown Band fans got an early Thanksgiving treat this week with the release of the music video for "Goodbye in Her Eyes." The band continues to mark themselves as creative video innovators on the singles from this year's album, "Uncaged." A couple months ago they released the rollicking animated Mike Judge-created piece for "The Wind." Now, they return with a unique perspective on perhaps the album's best track.
This time, the boys from Georgia apply the new single's emotional lyrics of soon-to-be-lost love and a swelling harmony-rich melody to a sepia-tinged circus scene.The result is a starkly beautiful, visually engaging menagerie of animals, jugglers and acrobats interwoven with the uncertainty of young love. »Read Full Blog Post
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In early 1968, conservative British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge was asked to conduct a televised interview of an Albanian nun. He had never heard of her. The world did not yet know her. It soon would: Her name was Mother Teresa.
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The Fatah-affiliated PA government called Israel Defense Forces (IDF) counter-terror operations that killed 19 Hamas terrorists a "massacre" and called for the deployment of international forces in the Gaza Strip "to defend Palestinian civilians against recurring Israeli acts of aggression."
While Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams address "core issues" in the Israel-Palestinian peace process, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and former Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei issued similar statements.
"The Palestinians can't remain idle in the face of this massacre. Such crimes won't bring peace at all," said Abbas.
Offering his condolences to senior Hamas member Mahmoud al-Zahar, Fayyad called Israel's counter-terror operations "murderous actions" that sowed more hatred and hostility.
Meanwhile, chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei said Israel's efforts to destroy rocket-launching cells in Gaza will torpedo the peace process.
"This massacre places obstacles and creates difficulties for the negotiators," Qurei said. "We appeal to the Americans and the other Quartet members [United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia] to assume their responsibilities and force Israel to stop its daily incursions and actions against the Palestinians," he said.
And Hamas terrorists called on its members to carry out suicide bombings in Israel.
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EMD Serono said today it launched a research collaboration with Pfizer and The Broad Institute focused on the genomic profiling of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus nephritis (LN) patients. The value of the collaboration was not disclosed.
EMD Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck KGaA, and Pfizer will jointly fund the collaboration, in return for receiving real-time access to all data and analysis. The companies can each send a research scientist to the Broad Institute to exchange technology expertise in computational and experimental genomic profiling.
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#157 - notanigger (06/11/2013) [-]
Everyone is talking **** about the Xbox one and I'm just sitting here playing halo
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its funny because halo4 is call of duty space marines.....
Halo ended in 3 with chief dead. PERIOD end of story.
Halo ended in 3 with chief dead. PERIOD end of story.
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Sir you obviously love the ps4 and cod and that's fine here in Microsoft we aren't we don't need to be sad because our credit cards got hacked
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He didn't say he hated Halo, just Halo 4 and Reach, you need to learn to read and not be such a dick. Also, about the credit card hacking: Sony was hacked by the world's largest hacking group, so there was absolutely nothing they could have done to prevent it. In addition to that, of the 55+ million Psn accounts at the time, less than 2000 were at risk for credit card information being taken.
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I didn't say he hated halo I said he loved cod
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You can all give me red thumbs, but it doesn't make me any less right about the hacking.
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"Oh, John, don't you see? There is no longer just a John and a Fanny. There is an us."
He stepped away from my touch, his face tragic and his eyes filling with unshed tears as he cried in a plaintive wail, "Brown is going to kill me!"
His words were like a coolant, making me stand straight and pull back my hand. Neither of us spoke for long moments before I said in a voice that didn't sound my own, "So he has told you of his feelings toward me?"
John nodded, shamefaced. "Every last thought and breath he takes is for you. He showed me your letters in Scotland. He always kept them in his inside coat pocket and would read and reread them as we walked. I admired you from our first meeting but I…but I…" He paused to take a ragged, tear-choked breath. He looked as if he might die of guilt from hurting the one man who, by John's own words, had been nothing but kind and encouraging to him. "But it's bad sport to press your best friend's girl. All this while I've been burning inside with love for you, Fanny, yet have said nothing in the fear that you might regard his feelings whilst shun mine. My dear, dear girl," he added with sudden ardency before quickening forward to grasp both my hands in his. "Say you admire me above all others. Say there has never been anyone but I in your nightly prayers. I love you so, Fanny. More than sonnets and verses will ever express."
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Customs and Traditions of Arabic Culture
The Arab world comprises of 25 countries and territories. The boundaries span from northern Africa to the Middle East along with Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq as the members of Arab world. The Arab countries and territories are rich in the traditions and culture that western world is unaware of due to limited access. The major portion of the Arabic culture constitutes focus on the religion. Islam is the central religion of Arab countries. The entire Arabic world is highly comprised of Muslims and the language in power is Arabic as it is also the language of Islam.
Despite of Islam being the central religion, Arab countries do have the other two Abrahamic religions Judaism and Christianity which believe in one God. The variable religions being practiced in Arab world make it so enriched in culture and customs.
The most highly esteemed thing for Arabs is family. Generally among the rest of the world, people have the idea that Arabic or Muslim women are restrained for participating much other than taking care of the family and house hold. Yet the Arabic culture shows that Muslim women are allowed and are successfully contributing to all the fields in the world whether it is science, medicine, architecture, education, business, banking or media. The Arab women are adequately contributing towards the development and prosperity of the Arab nations along with men.
Most of the Arabic culture is inspired from the religion Islam. So the customs and traditions are also accordingly. The food that is allowed has to be Halal, which means according to Islam only that food is allowed which is not prohibited in Islam and is gained after proper slaughter. They eat food products made out of chicken, goat and cows in the form of chicken, mutton and beef but only when the animal is properly slaughtered. Any other meat form is not allowed in Islam and so in Arab world.
Through out centuries there has been an image about the Arabs that their religion is quite tough, especially regarding the regulations of marriages. Here it is worth mentioning that although according to the Arabic traditions and religious terms, arranged marriages are always preferred. But it is mandatory, the compulsory part being that both the partners must consent that the marriage is according to their will not against it. So this is freedom in the correct manner.
The dependency of Arabic culture on its central religion Islam makes it so different and pure. All around the western world, sexual objectification is very common, which is not a good thing as it gives rise to quite a lot of issues between marriages and families. Where as this is highly unacceptable in the Arab world because Muslims take sex as a sacred act which is only legitimate in a marriage. And no one is allowed to mockingly perform marriages and divorces for their sexual interests and desires in Arab. The Arabians have very strict rules and regulations for this matter and this is why Arabic women are most safe and secure.
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In a catchweight title fight what happens if 1 fighter comes in over the catchweight
but under or at the limit of the division weight limit of the belt?
So lets say fighter A is the WW champ
Fighter B wants a catchweight of 144
They both agree.
Fighter A is 147 at the weight in
Does the catchweight agreement effect the sanctioning body? Or do they not observe it?
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One of the things I liked of Mayweather was when He said: Fck it, you are fighting a welterweight.
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lets say Martinez says f it and comes in at 160
does it effect the titles Im wondering like it would as if he came in at 161 and lost them at the scales..
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To fighter X: "although you made the weight limit, you did not make the weight limit. Better luck next time, good luck tomorrow."
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thats not true
in terms of it still being a title fight that would be up to the governing body. If they agreed to let the terms of the contract dictate then I could see them agreeing to the title being off the table
in reality it's all up to the terms agreed upon in the contract and by the governing body
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unfortunately for JMM's dumb ass, he decided to fight wifebeater jr even after he failed to make weight. And wifebeater jr didn't get penalized either because JMM allowed wifebeater jr to redo the contract a few days before the fight.
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Naked T Tauri stars show variability consistent with the existence of starspots on their surface. As the stars rotate, the number of spots in view varies and the rotational period can be measured. This method of period determination has been used on a large set of known classical T Tauri stars (Bouvier et al. 1993, 1995) and ZAMS stars (Prosser et al. 1993,1995). The results of these works and others have lead to an improved understanding of the evolution of angular momentum in PMS stars and disks (Edwards et al. 1994). Here, I discuss a portion of my studies of naked T Tauri stars. NTTs are intermediate in evolutionary status between cTTs and ZAMS stars (although closer the cTTs).
I will specifically discuss sources near \sigma Orionis. Deep ROSAT pointed observations detected nearly 80 sources within 10 arcminutes of \sigma Ori. I have made follow-up photometric observations to determine their color and rotation periods. To date my findings indicate the following:
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\item 90% of the X-ray sources in this region lie in a well defined region above the main sequence. This indicates that the X-ray sources are both PMS and nearly coeval.
\item The color of the observed variability of these PMS stars is indicative of a wide variety of spot temperatures, filling factors and spot size.
\item The rotation periods of the X-ray sources are on the order of one day \pm half a day.
\item There are many non X-ray sources along with the X-ray sources above the main sequence. This implies that there may be many X-ray quiet PMS stars still undiscovered by X-ray surveys.
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My thesis will include the rotation periods of about 70 the PMS stars in this region and others elsewhere in Orion. Overall, I will increase the number of nTTs with known periods by an order of magnitude.
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Expect a formal traditional Symphony Ball draped in a limitless flow of lights at this year's Amarillo Symphony Guild fundraiser.
The elegantly themed "Crystal Ball" is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Saturday in Amarillo Civic Center Heritage Ballroom, 401 S. Buchanan St.
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