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It is almost 4:30 p.m., and 22 church staff members and six sponsored children are gathering in a church classroom. They are beginning a time of fasting and prayer for sponsors.
"We are usually gathered to pray every first Monday of the month. Our main prayer is for sponsors," says Nie, coordinator of Sola Fide Student Center in Indonesia.
The staff and children of Sola Fide Student Center have held a regular prayer time for sponsors since July 2009, an activity started by Nie. She was inspired by Compassion partnership facilitators who shared a testimony about the struggles sponsors sometimes go through.
"There is a sponsor who struggles every day himself by selling milk using a bike. One day, after this sponsor went back from one of his customer's houses, he found his bike had fallen and all the milk spilled out. The testimony inspired us to create one regular activity to bless and encourage them. Starting from there, I asked children and staff to gather and have prayer time regularly."
The children weren't asked to attend the prayer meeting every time, but there are six sponsored children who never miss it. They aren't even scheduled to attend the center on a Monday, but they voluntary come just to attend the prayer time.
"Those children do not just come to pray with us, they also join in the fasting session and open it together with us. We are really happy because children are not only seeing the benefit that they received from their sponsors. Their concern has risen after we told them about problems that their sponsors face every day."
Lots of children in the Compassion center pray and cry out for their sponsors not only when they gather for prayer time. Children also pray at home.
"Lots of children had never thought about their sponsor's real conditions before until they received a letter that sometimes told about the struggles that their sponsors face every day. It is why the children never miss a time to pray for their sponsors who might be sick and need support in prayer or support to look for a job."
Children who haven't gotten a letter from their sponsors and don't know their sponsors' condition don't want to be left out. They pray for their sponsors also.
For example, Timothius is an 11-year-old boy who always gets interesting goods from his sponsor, but he has never received any special prayer request from his sponsor. Even though Timo doesn't know what his sponsor looks like, he always prays for him every night, accompanied by his mother.
In his prayer Timo always says,
"My dear Jesus, please protect my sponsor. I know that he is getting older and he probably only lives with his pet. There's no one to see and look after him there, but I believe You always hear my prayer and protect him. Please bless him every day. Amen."
Other children in other areas of eastern Indonesia might not have a fixed prayer schedule like at Sola Fide has, but they never miss their own prayer time for their sponsors.
Andreyana, a sponsored child at the Agape Student Center in Sangir Island, always prays for her sponsor. In her prayers Andreyana says,
"Dear God, you are awesome and remarkable. You let me meet my sponsors, even though they live far away from me. I never imagined that I'd have someone who loves me very much out there. Jesus, please bless them, bless their job, and both of their children in their school. Protect them, so they will have success and achieve their goals."
Aldi, from Ikhtus Student Center in Beha, Sangir Island, also never forgets to raise up some prayer for his sponsor. Aldi always says,
"Dear Jesus, I pray for little James and Thomas. I believe you will always take good care of them while their parents are working. Dear God, I also pray for my sponsor. Please bless his job, bless his effort in giving me support. May you always provide his family needs. Please bless his family and give them strength, health; also put faithfulness in his heart so he will always surrender to you."
Stenly from El Shaddai Student Center in Bitung has the same way to keep in touch with his sponsor besides a letter. He is grateful his sponsor has helped him to improve his talent in drawing. Stenly never forgets to put some prayer,
"Dear God, thank you for your love that you have shown through my sponsor. He has shown love that you given to him for me. I can feel his care through the support that he gives all this time. This support encourages and helps me to grow and sharpening my talent. My Lord, please bless him and his family. In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen."
Serti from Kasih Persaudaraan Student Center has a simple prayer,
"Dear Jesus, thank you for always blessing me every day. You always deliver my need through the great sponsors who found me. Dear Jesus, please bless them. I and my family really love them. Please bless them with health and guard them from bad guys. My dear God, I also want to thank you because I have graduated from primary school and have the opportunity to continue to junior high school. Please bless my sponsors, who have given all support for me all this time. Because of them, I can attend the school. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen."
Welmina from Kasih Persaudaraan Student Center prays,
"My dear God, please bless my sponsor. Please guard his family because I love them so much. Please protect my sponsor, too, so he will always be safe when he is working at his duties. Please make him happy; don't let him cry. Because of his love, I can go to the student center and pay my school fee. In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen."
Another child, Elyakim, from the same student center also raises his prayer,
"My dear Lord, I pray so you always help my sponsor. Lord, I pray so you always help them every day because they have helped me by giving me support. When my father didn't have money to buy my uniform, my sponsor gave it for me. I don't want my sponsor to stop sponsoring me. I want to keep doing activities in the student center. I would ask you to forgive me if I was lazy, but I promise will not be naughty anymore now. I don't want to make my mother or my sponsor cry because of me. I love my mother and my sponsor. In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen."
Children in eastern Indonesia don't see what happens with their sponsors every day, but the letters that they receive help them know about their sponsors, including challenges that their sponsors face every day.
"We hope we can always uphold our sponsors in our prayers. I hope our sponsors also want to tell more about struggles that they face every day. It will help us not just know them better, it will help us to have better relationships with them and Christ through our prayers." And so prays Megawati, one of the sponsored children from Sola Fide.


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Heading off to college is often one of the most exciting journeys in a person's life. Living on campus is a great way to make friends, become involved in a new community, and gain independence. Dorm life can also be stressful, since living with a friend or stranger is a new experience for most students. The following information offers tips on roommate etiquette and helpful strategies to address conflict in University housing. The office of University Housing and Residence Life (UHRL) believes that a positive relationship among roommates is an essential component of the overall college experience.
It's not essential that roommates become best friends, but dorm life is easier when there is a positive and respectful environment. Open communication and the willingness to compromise are valuable aspects of a healthy roommate relationship. Regardless as to what the religious and cultural backgrounds are, each student enters the dorm with a unique set of personality traits, habits, and beliefs about what college life will be like.
During the first week of the semester, a room meeting is recommended. This is an opportunity to sit down as a group and decide together what the rules, responsibilities, and shared expenses will be. Everyone should have equal input in these decisions, and compromise will be necessary. Since views and habits usually evolve over time, it's important to continue discussing these themes throughout the year.
Dealing with Conflict:
Even under the best circumstances, conflict is bound to arise between roommates. This is especially true after the first few weeks of school, when the stress of midterms and the challenges of living away from home become clearer. Overcoming conflict can lead to more open, effective communication. Here are a few suggestions to help students work through everyday issues:
Here are some guidelines to address difficult conversations.
Whether or not you and your roommates are best friends, the close living quarters in dormitories offer you a unique glimpse into each others' personal lives. For this reason, you may be among the first to notice if your roommates are experiencing serious difficulties. While it may be tempting to offer help or advice when roommates are in trouble, it is important to recognize that many situations require the assistance of a trained professional. If you have concerns about a roommate or friend, do not hesitate to contact University Housing and Residence Life or the Counseling Center.
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By Emily Crowe
CMI staff writer
While some of the estimated 40 residents who attended a town hall meeting Tuesday expressed concern about funding for the Ute Water Project, top officials behind the plan were optimistic it will happen.
The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority chairwoman Gayla Brumfield, said construction is currently underway on the first section of the intake structure.
"At the end of this, we'll have all of the basic work done at the site to be able to install wells," explained project manager Paul van Gulick.
Brumfield said phase two of the project will provide construction of an interim pipeline, which will run from northern Curry County, west of Cannon Air Force Base, and toward Portales and Elida.
Several residents expressed concern over whether there would be sufficient money to fund the project in the long-term, as well as how much the pipeline would deplete water levels at Ute Lake.
According to van Gulick, the Interstate Stream Commission, which controls the reservoir, will allow up to 16,450 acre feet of water per year to be pulled from the lake.
"The current demand among all the members is about 12,000 acre feet per year," he explained. "So right now today, we wouldn't be using that. It allows a measure of growth over the lifetime of the project."
Once fully completed, the project is expected to pump water from the Ute Reservoir in Quay County to the member entities of Clovis, Portales, Elida, Texico, Grady, Melrose and Curry and Roosevelt counties.
Funding for much of the project comes from the Bureau of Reclamation, and Brumfield explained that funding from the federal government is starting to come in.
"The state has really stepped up to the plate and has been funding this project, over $30 million to date," she said. "We've had about $3 million from the federal government."
The total cost for the intake structure is $14 million, and the interim pipeline is expected to cost $88 million, according to van Gulick. The project's total estimated cost is more than $550 million, with 75 percent expected from federal funding.
"We're going to work on the interim pipeline, which is about an $80 million project," Brumfield said. "We're looking at $10 million a year for that. That's going to take about eight years to put that in. In the meantime, we'll continue getting money from the state and maybe some other entities with the federal government."


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Godek was an illegal bioweapons project by bitter, unlaid scientists to create a G.enetic O.rganism D.esigned for E.rection K.illing. G.O.D.E.K. throws out dating advice in the same way your body might throw out three pounds of uncooked meat. He thinks the idea of buying your girlfriend a pizza is enough content for three books. On Halloween, G.O.D.E.K. doesn't give out candy -- he gives children tips on keeping their marriage spontaneous with heart balloons and back massage coupons. And speaking of children, the following four books were printed on their flattened and dried remains:
Love Coupons: A Coupon Gift of Love and Romance (2009)
Released in 2009 for $5.99, this book is a collection of 22 coupons you tear out and give to your lover. They're exactly like the chore coupons we all gave our mothers when we were seven, only less erotic.
Here, lover: probably nothing. In fact, it's an IOU for probably nothing. Godek, you'd have a better chance of getting laid if you bought her a snow shovel. And ladies, if you're excited about your date letting you pick out your own lottery tickets, you're probably too young to be dating a child molester.
If you're involved in a kiss that started with a coupon, it has as much chance of ending in sex as a cervical smear.
"I'm sorry, we don't honor those here, ma'am. Yes, I can see what the coupon says. It says your husband knows less about women than the person who made your dress. And it says the two of you haven't had sex since we've had a coloreds only bathroom. Now if you'll please get back to your couples square dancing class, we have paying customers that could use this table."
"OK, honey, your present is for you, just for one day, to shut the fuck up." This is a very dangerous coupon to redeem. Not because your woman might realize you're telling her to shut up, but because it's hard to tell the difference between the panicked flailing that says "you're on my hair" from the panicked flailing that denotes ordinary sex. And ordering food is almost impossible with body language. You have to keep dropping a love handle on the phone until Pizza Hut says, "Who the hell is th- oh, your wife must have used a language of love coupon again. We'll send your pizzas right over, Mr. Godek."
Dear wife,
I can't fucking believe you used that coupon. The only thing that sickens me more than your pedestrian concept of romance is my willingness to indulge you in it. Why do we have to taunt our sexless marriage in this horrible new way? Is it really so hard for you to just die quietly? I will never forget that you and that coupon have done this to me. To us. To our children.
If that's your girlfriend's idea of spontaneity, scientists classify her as an igneous rock, except less wet. Telling a girl to order her own flowers is like telling a boy to give himself his own blowjob. She will not be happy or impressed. This coupon has less respect for the human clitoris than North Africa.
"Look, you're the one who redeemed the coupon, and I'm the one who ate Indian food and Indian food leftovers in the same day. So quit making faces and hold my hand through this. Hrnk! I'll be damned if I let you leave and tell all those bitches at your work that we can't even get through a romantic coupon together!"
Cuddling, snuggling, coupons and romantic comedies ... Godek, your ideas for dates sound like the side effects of chemical castration. You womanly little thing, the closest she'll get to fun on this date is when your pants come off and she laughs about how she thought you were a lesbian.
Enchanted Evenings(2001)
Re-released in 2001, Enchanted Evenings is a list of date ideas that retailed for $12.95. The tips range from pedestrian ideas like going out to dinner to retarded non-ideas like lists of Godek's favorite musicals. Despite its 137 pages, it has less actual content than a tampon applicator.
Yeah, and there's also a difference between wit and letting your brain pee wherever it wants. You're so stupid that your sperm can't figure out how to die during a wet dream.
Godek loves sex on a full stomach. He and his wife release so much gas during their love making that their bedroom sounds like Mexico City traffic. They're so accustomed to it that if you sit on a whoopee cushion near them they have a simultaneous orgasm and squirt hot dog water.
Hey, Godek. The fuck: you.
Sorry to have to do this to you, unwitting stranger, but the sight of Godek crying on top of his wife is too much of a burden for only two people to carry!
Ah, the classic songs that will make her say, "You remind me of both my gay fathers."
Just when you thought the fat content in Ben and Jerry's couldn't get any higher, Godek invites his wife to the factory. Face.
That's your whole idea? No wonder your wife's idea of a climax is watching you apologize from wet underwear.
Nice cleverness, dude. I can't tell if you learned sexual innuendo from a 12-year-old or a rape crisis center. Seriously, how did you get like this? You write like an alien monster left its dick in your brain.
So your idea is to take my date to an ATM? I guess she is a prostitute. Great thinking, Godek!
Judging from the rest of your book, you're going to need an extra pillow to weep into and six pizzas. And I suppose your wife just needs a large animal corpse to hollow out and fill with her eggs.
Hire a local youngster? Hire a local youngster!? Are you even listening to yourself, Godek? So this weird kid kickstarts your romance with Nintendo, and then what? "Thank you for the lesson, young lad. Yes, that's right. There's no way out. It's OK to scream. We like it when you scream. G.O.D.E.K.!"
Yeah, I get the idea that after you clean something there's more pubic hair on it than when you started. Is this really an "Enchanted Evening"? It seems like it only ruins housework and nudity. You have the personality of a bag of snakes and now you want to take your balls out while you wash dishes? Everything that you think is romance is what ancient people used to make their women sterile.
If you suggest this idea, your lover will react as if gallons of black fluid started spraying out of your mouth. This is skull-fucking crazy and so needlessly annoying to the rest of the world. I'm starting to get the feeling that Godek's boner can only come out when everything around him is trying to kill him. Which is probably why foreplay for him is fingering Old World lab apes.
And if your date doesn't speak English, this is a great way to warn her you're going to murder her.
I'm sure she'll have a blast too, Godek. And while you're rummaging around that poor woman with a flashlight, I'll get started on her suicide note so that afterward she can just sign her name and be done with it.
And a shark's every sense tells it your wife is a manatee.
I think Indiana Jones would be wondering why his starter is so salty, and Princess Leia would be using The Force to sense ... a presence ... yes ... the annoyed waiter's nuts ... soaking in your soup.
Why would I do any of this? To know what a dead foot feels like when maggots eat it? It's bad enough that this is the same damn enchanted evening suggestion as the one right before it, but those are the four most irritating impersonations you could have picked. I mean, Captain Kirk on a date with Lucille Ball? I think that would go ... a little something like this: AUTHOR GREGORY J.P. GODEK BEATEN TO DEATH BY RESTAURANT. NO ARRESTS MADE. INVESTIGATION CLOSED.
Jesus, it's like all the evil in the world collected inside this one asshole. I'd like to meet Godek's parents so I can ask them if there were skeletons pouring blood on them when he was conceived. His dark mind ... it's what an abortion would think if it knew what was being done to it. When Godek dies, if that's even possible, it will blast a pyre of insects into the sky to devour all our gods.


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'We'll take a cup o' kindness yet, for auld lang syne'
December 29, 2011 —
The words for the most commonly sung song for English-speakers on New Year's eve, "Auld Lang Syne," come from an old Scottish ditty that was first published by the poet Robert Burns in 1796. Burns transcribed it (and made some refinements to the lyrics) after he heard it sung by an old man from the Ayrshire area of Scotland, Burns's homeland. According to www.infoplease.com, "Auld Lang Syne," which asks whether old friends and times will be remembered, is "one of the most popular songs that nobody knows the lyrics to."
I also discovered that "it was bandleader Guy Lombardo, who played the song at midnight at a New Year's Eve party at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City in 1929, when a tradition was born." Lombardo's version of "Auld Lang Syne" was played every New Year's Eve at the Waldorf Astoria from the 1930s until 1976. In the first years it was broadcast on radio, and later on television. The song became such a tradition that Life magazine wrote that if Lombardo failed to play "Auld Lang Syne," "the American public would not believe that the new year had really arrived."
Here are just a few of the events happening in our own backyard on December 31, 2011.
Middle Eastern/Flamenco
WHERE: The Delaware Valley Youth Center, 8 Creamery Road, Callicoon. 570/224-0813.
WHAT: "Bring your dancing shoes to a family-oriented New Year's dance party featuring live traditional Flamenco and Middle Eastern dances with popular music to follow. Bring a dessert for the potluck table. Money collected will benefit Delaware Riverkeeper."
A peaceful New Year's
WHERE:The Kadampa Meditation Center, 47 Sweeney Rd., Glen Spey, NY. 845/856-9000.
WHAT: Kadampa will hold a New Year celebration to help bring peace and compassion to 2012. There will be light refreshments, a video presentation and candlelit prayers at midnight.
Dancing Cat New Year
WHERE:The Dancing Cat Saloon, 2037 Route 17B, Bethel, NY. 845/583-3141.
WHAT: "We are going to have a fantastic party to bring in the new year, all night long, with very talented and fun friends Compton Maddux and the Dirt Simple Band." The Cat has put together a package that includes lodging nearby for those who want to "dance the night away" without having to travel; visit www.dancingcatsaloon.com for more information.
New Year's at the Crossroads
Free rides home
Yellow Cab Co. in Monticello, in partnership with Dana Distributors in Goshen, NY, will offer a free ride home to those who feel they should not drive. After a patron has surrendered his or her keys, establishments within a 20-mile radius of Monticello will contact the taxi company, ensuring safe passage for those in need. For more information regarding this "program with responsibility," call 845/794-4040.


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Show Notes: How Obama's Labor Department Gets Between You and Your Savings
Posted by Alec DiFruscia on Monday, December 5th, 2016, 9:00 AM PERMALINK
In Episode 68 of The Grover Norquist show, Grover sits down with ATR's Justin Sykes to discuss the Department of Labor's (DOL) fiduciary rule, a rule that places the federal government between Americans and their retirement savings, and is a cornerstone of Obama's regulatory regime.
Estimates show that the rule could disqualify up to 7 million IRA holders from investment advice and potentially reduce the number of IRAs opened annually by 300,000. Repealing this burdensome rule should be a priority of President-elect Trump.
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Ohio Senate Must Act to Protect Citizens' Property Rights in Civil Asset Forfeiture Bill
Posted by Krista Chavez on Friday, December 2nd, 2016, 4:24 PM PERMALINK
The state government of Ohio reinforced the power of law enforcement to seize money, cars, and other assets suspected of being connected in any way to a crime through civil asset forfeiture laws. Legislators realized this corruption, and the state's House of Representatives passed a bill in May (with 72 to 25 votes in favor) to reform the practice in Ohio.
The Columbus Dispatch quoted Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist when discussing the need for asset forfeiture reform:
"In criminal cases, the burden of proof rests with the prosecution to prove a defendant's guilt. But in forfeiture cases, the property owner is put in a position in which he must prove that he obtained his property lawfully."
H.B. 347 would limit state law enforcement's coordination with the federal government unless the seizure is greater in value than $100,000. Doing this closes a loophole allowing local law enforcement to use federal standards when forfeiting assets. The legislation also requires a criminal conviction for the government to seize the property.
The bill would also end civil asset forfeiture for most cases were the property exceeds $25,000 in value.
In current Ohio law, officers can seize property from individuals without any criminal or formal charges. The legislature will use the bill proposed to protect Ohio property owners and reinstate due process for forfeited property.
According to the Institute for Justice, current Ohio forfeiture law has a low bar to forfeit, no conviction required, poor protections for innocent third party property owners, and close to 100% of proceeds from forfeitures streamlining back to law enforcement. IJ's Policing for Profit report notes that forfeiture proceeds in the state averaged at $8,575,933 per year between 2010 and 2012, and it gives the state a D- for its current laws.
The legislation carries significant support from not only the legislature but Ohioans themselves. A poll from the U.S. Justice Action Network released in September 2015 showed that out of 500 registered Ohioans, 81% believed that asset forfeiture reform was essential for the state's improvement.
Asset forfeiture is a bipartisan issue, and innocent property owners deserve to receive the due process protections guaranteed to them in the Bill of Rights. Americans for Tax Reform urges the Ohio Senate to stand with the state's House of Representatives to reform civil asset forfeiture and protect its citizens' rights.
If Rosenworcel Renominated, Trump & Republicans Lose the FCC
Posted by Katie McAullife on Thursday, December 1st, 2016, 5:45 PM PERMALINK
The Trump Administration has an amazing opportunity to affect tech and telecom policy. His appointments to the Federal Communications Commission will make all the difference in what has been a bitterly divisive and aggressive left-wing term under Chairman Tom Wheeler.
That is if he gets to make any appointments.
Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid and President Obama are making a last ditch effort to control the Internet. They are circulating a petition to lift the hold on Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and have her reconfirmed next week just before Congress recesses.
Under this scenario, Republicans are on the verge of destroying one of the largest sectors of the economy. For what?
The best Trump and the Republicans can hope for is a 2-2 split on the FCC period. Wheeler has made it clear that he will not follow the tradition of the outgoing administration's chairman stepping down. Wheeler plans to stay. At least an even split would prevent them from forcing through more anti-free market regulations, and teach Wheeler to compromise.
A 2-2 split slows down the new commission's ability to make reforms and reexamine the highly controversial, overbearing, partisan rulings from the last few years.
A 3-2 Democrat controlled FCC means the commission will immediately start pushing through regulations that Wheeler yanked from the Commission's November meeting agenda -- items that Chairmen John Thune, Fred Upton, and Greg Walden all asked Wheeler to hold off on. Wheeler refused to listen to any congressional guidance, be it from Republicans or Democrats, before President-elect Trump's election.
If Rosenworcel is reconfirmed it is not to solidify the reconfirmation of Commissioner Ajit Pai. He has a year left in his term. With her reconfirmation the FCC stays under Democrat control under the Trump administration. And the President-elect is robbed of his ability to nominate two new commissioners.
The current commission should not be rewarded for its bad behavior. Just today an article in the Hill by Larry Spiwak detailed some of Tom Wheeler's shamefully partisan moves :
- Attempting to force non-profits filing in commission proceedings to reveal their donor lists in clear violation of Supreme Court precedent;
- Improperly coordinating with the White House to encourage mass "clicktivism" as probative evidence to support the FCC's controversial decision to reclassify broadband internet access as a Title II common carrier telecommunications service while deliberately ignoring any serious economic analysis of the issue;
- Hiring people for senior leadership positions at the commission even though they filed as interested parties in dockets they were later tasked with supervising, thus creating a serious conflict of interest problem;
- Illegally attempting to hold a Twitter town hall with an outside party to discuss a yet-to-be-released commission item during the Sunshine Act "quiet period";
- Only making public the results of an internal peer review critical of the FCC's economic analysis in the Business Data Services proceeding on the very day comments were due, thus depriving interested parties of an opportunity for meaningful comment;
- Continuing to lie to the American people that cable and satellite companies allegedly charge consumers $231 a year in set-top box rental fees, even though that number was thoroughly and publicly debunked;
- Improperly expanding the FCC's important merger review authority to impose conditions and "voluntary commitments" to serve select political constituencies and priorities that by any reasonable account had no nexus to any specific merger-related harm;
- And as perhaps the most partisan act Wheeler grasping the hands of his fellow Democratic commissioners and raising them high over their heads in a victory salute to a standing ovation after the Open Internet Order vote. Such childish behavior simply confirmed what every telecommunications professional already knew: Wheeler had no intention of conducting a dispassionate analysis and viewing all parties equally before the law. (I shudder to think what would happen if several justices of the Supreme Court were to do the same after a controversial ideological vote.)
Senate Republicans should not be making last minute deals with Obama and Harry Reid. They should continue to hold the line so that President Trump can name the new appointees to the commission.
This among other things is just why Mitch McConnell needs to get out of the way and let a real Republican head the Senate. He is weak and unfocussed. He should be able to keep others of his party "lined up" when the Democrats try to pull this kind of oBUMa crap.
Just do away with the FCC entirely and start over. A new Congress and President should be able to do that.
Just defund the FCC and pass retroactive legislation nullifying abhorant FCC rulings.The courts have no say in what congress funds.
Mnuchin: Dodd-Frank Reform "Number One Priority"
Posted by Justin Sykes on Thursday, December 1st, 2016, 2:23 PM PERMALINK
It was announced Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Steven Mnunchin, formally with Goldman Sachs, to the lead the Treasury. Following the announcement, Mnuchin wasted no time laying out his general priorities for financial services reforms in 2017, which included reforming the Dodd-Frank Act and the Volcker Rule in particular, easing the burden on regional banks, and potentially returning Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to private control.
Appearing on CNBC's "Squawk Box" Wednesday, Mnunchin expressed intentions to target the costly and burdensome Dodd-Frank Act, stating:
"The number one problem with Dodd-Frank is it's way to complicated and it cuts back lending, so we want to strip back parts of Dodd-Frank that prevent banks from lending and that will be the number one priority on the regulatory side."
Since enactment over six years ago, the Dodd-Frank Act has unleashed a slew of costly and burdensome regulations that have forced many community banks out of the market, chilled small business lending, and general reduced American financial competitiveness, among other problems.
Mnuchin will be in good company for prioritizing Dodd-Frank reform next year, as President-elect Trump has already vowed to "dismantle Dodd-Frank" and freeze or scrap other financial regulations such as the Department of Labor's Fiduciary Rule.
President Trump and Mnuchin will have their work cut out for them somewhat, as House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling has laid out a financial reform blueprint with the Financial CHOICE Act he introduced this year.
Hernsarling's CHOICE Act looks to repeal burdensome regulations such as the Volcker Rule and Durbin Amendment, and rein in out of control regulators such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Financial Stability Oversight Council, in addition to a number of other reforms.
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CFPB Should Stop Work on Costly Arbitration Rule
Posted by Johnathan Sargent on Thursday, December 1st, 2016, 11:34 AM PERMALINK
Earlier this year the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a new rule that would harm both consumers and businesses. This rule would ban the commonly used arbitration clauses in consumer finance contracts.
A report published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) examined the rule and how by banning these clauses the CFPB is effectively forcing consumers to forgo the quick and relatively cheap option of arbitration and instead pursue the long and more cumbersome process of filing class action lawsuits. Such lawsuits only benefit high-priced lawyers at the expense of both consumers and businesses.
CFPB Director Richard Corday describes arbitration clauses as "contract gotcha that effectively denies groups of consumers the right to seek justice". However, this statement could not be further from the truth.
According to the CFPB's own study, arbitration often results in better outcomes for consumers. Class action lawsuits on the other hand are only approved by the courts 20 percent of the time. Those lucky enough to be part of the 20 percent of approved cases must wait an average of 3 years in order to see any kind of settlement while those involved in arbitration wait an average of 6.9 months.
That CFPB's study also found based on a survey of over the 400 class actions against financial firms, the average payout to class members was less than $2.00 a person, much lower than typical payouts under the arbitration process.
The arbitration rule is currently slated to be finished in 2017, but lawmakers are concerned the CFPB could look to push through the rule this year to circumvent President Trump blocking finalization. Such a "midnight regulation" from the CFPB would be ill advised and the Bureau should instead freeze its rulemaking on this issue and others until the new administration takes office.
Simply put, the arbitration rule is another example of the agency's attempt to overregulate the financial services industry at the expense of consumers and businesses. In the 6 years that the agency has existed it has issued nearly 50 rules that have cost Americans and businesses billions of dollars in additional costs. Fortunately, next year consumers will have both a Congress and executive branch dedicated to protecting their interests and enforcing oversight of the CFPB.
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Pro-Growth Reform Should Rollback or Remove Distortive Excise Taxes
Posted by Alexander Hendrie on Thursday, December 1st, 2016, 9:00 AM PERMALINK
A major goal of tax reform is eliminating or minimizing the extent to which the code picks winners and losers, with the end goal of a code that treats all economic decisions neutrally. This means removing any distortions in the tax code so that capital can form in the most productive way possible, resulting in more jobs, increased wages, and higher growth than may otherwise occur.
One broad way of achieving this is ensuring that businesses are taxed as equitably as possible by eliminating business credits in exchange for lowering rates within an across the board tax cut.
A different, more targeted way to achieve this goal is through the repeal of certain taxes, such as excise taxes. When it comes to alcohol excise taxes, this problem is especially noteworthy as the code currently taxes beer, wine, and spirits at different, arbitrary rates:
- Beer is subject to an $18 excise tax per barrel, with a reduced rate for the first 60,000 barrels produced by smaller brewers.
- Wine is subject to excise taxes between $1.07 and $3.40 per gallon, with a phased out credit for small wineries.
- Spirits are taxed at $13.50 per proof gallon, but with no reduced rate for smaller distillers.
This makes no sense, and is exactly the type of distortion that tax reform should aim to fix.
One possible path forward to undoing this inconsistent taxation is by passing the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (S. 1562/H.R 2903), legislation sponsored by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO), and Congressman Erik Paulsen (R-MN) and Congressman Ron Kind (D-Wis.). The legislation is supported by a majority of both chambers -- 287 Congressmen and 52 Senators from both parties -- so there is clear consensus on the ideal path forward.
This legislation moves closer toward the goal of tax equity by ensuring the code treats beer, wine, and spirits in similar ways. In addition, it also equalizes the tax treatment of producers large and small.
By lowering rates, the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act achieves another key goal of tax reform – encouraging growth, jobs, and higher wages, through a more efficient system. It's a basic principle that if you want more of something, you tax it less. Less income being diverted to federal and state governments means more resources left that can be invested by businesses in economically productive activity.
Excise taxes by their nature are counterproductive, because they have two competing goals. Lawmakers often justify these taxes as a way to clamp down on negative behavior, but the more successful they are at this goal, the less revenue they produce. In addition, they pick winners and losers by taxing a selective, narrow base, which distorts production and economic choices.
Tax reform that lowers rates and removes distortions is decades overdue. Removing credits, deductions, and discriminatory taxes – like alcohol excise taxes – must be a key component of pro-growth reform that increases wages, creates more jobs, and boosts economic growth.
The proposed bill would reduce the excise tax on domestic spirits producers by 80% for the first 100,000 proof gallons/year. The US and EU complained to the WTO about Colombia's tax rates on booze. In defending against the complaint, Columbia could at least say that the different tax rates are based on the alcohol content, and not on national origin. The US does not even have that argument to justify the uneven playing field of taxing imports at five times the rate of domestic spirits producers.
ATR Statement on EPA's Newly Released Fuel Economy Standards
Posted by Justin Sykes on Wednesday, November 30th, 2016, 5:45 PM PERMALINK
Washington – ATR President Grover Norquist issued the following statement this week in response to the EPA's unprecedented push to finalize strict new fuel-economy standards for 2022-2025:
"The EPA's push this week to finalize burdensome and costly new fuel-economy standards is clearly an affront to the incoming Trump administration. The EPA's actions disregard the appropriate and in-depth analysis needed to ensure that the new standards take into account fuel efficiency, affordability, and the impact on the economy.
"The overly strict standards proposed by the EPA will only make cars and trucks increasingly more expensive and unaffordable for American consumers. As a result, American families and workers will be forced to look to less efficient and less safe used cars and trucks.
"Such stringent and premature standards are unrealistic, and effectively put the government in between consumer choice and American mobility."
Trump has his team looking at those regulations which are unduly oppressive and will be immediately withdrawn.
This one will probably be among the first to go.
ATR Statement on H.R. 34, the 21st Century Cures/Mental Health Reform Package
Posted by Alexander Hendrie on Tuesday, November 29th, 2016, 1:47 PM PERMALINK
Congress will this week consider H.R. 34, "the 21st Century Cures Act." This fiscally responsible legislation promotes medical innovation by streamlining the discovery, development, and delivery of medicines. It also reforms the nation's failing mental health system to ensure millions of Americans receive the care they need. Members of Congress should have no hesitation supporting and voting "Yes" on this important legislation.
Fiscally Responsible: The 21st Century Cures package contains no tax increases, and all new spending is fully offset over the ten year window with corresponding spending cuts, as noted in an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.
In all, H.R. 34 provides $6.3 billion in funding over the next ten years, including $4.8 billion to the NIH, $1 billion to combat opioid abuse, and $500 million to the FDA. Unlike the version of Cures passed last year, spending in the updated version is not mandatory, so Congress will retain necessary oversight over all spending.
More than half of the legislation's spending is offset by rescinding funds from Obamacare's unaccountable Prevention and Public Health Slush fund, a fund that has been used to push the Obama administration's partisan agenda with non-existent congressional oversight. Other offsets include several changes to Medicare and Medicaid that will help promote the sustainability of these programs in the decades to come.
Promotes Medical Innovation: H.R. 34 devotes significant resources to streamlining the long process of medical innovation by reforming the discovery, development, and delivery of medicines and treatments.
Reforms include reducing regulatory red tape, breaking down barriers that restrict data sharing, speeding up clinical trials while increasing patient input, promoting new technologies, and expediting the review of potentially breakthrough devices.
While the resources needed to develop new cures are costly and time consuming, the potential savings to the broader healthcare system are significant. Updating the regulatory system governing the development of new medicines and treatments will ensure the U.S. remains a world leader in treatment, that the lives of millions will improve, and that costs will be minimized.
Reforms Failing Mental Health System: All too often, the U.S. mental health system fails to provide proper treatment to the millions that need it. The federal government spends roughly $130 billion on mental health each year, often with underwhelming and ineffective results. While there are 112 federal programs dedicated to addressing mental health, there is little, if any coordination. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) has even been dubbed the "worse government agency".
While there is need for change, the solution cannot be spending billions in a system is plagued by inefficiency and waste. Instead, H.R. 34 contains many important reforms that update the mental health system without spending any new money.
Specifically, the legislation reforms SAMSHA, creates more oversight and connectivity over the many programs and agencies involved in mental health and priorities evidence-based care that empowers caregivers, supports innovation, and advances early prevention programs.
In addition, the legislation creates more support for the mental health workforce, for on-campus mental health education, and for addressing substance use.
There is clear support for reforming our mental health system in this direction. Similar legislation, "the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act" (H.R. 2646), sponsored by Congressman Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) passed the House of Representatives by an overwhelming vote of 422-2 earlier this year. Lawmakers should have no hesitation again supporting these important reforms.
Top 5 Financial Regulations Trump Should Repeal
Posted by Justin Sykes on Monday, November 28th, 2016, 2:57 PM PERMALINK
Throughout his campaign Donald Trump pledged to repeal and "dismantle" burdensome financial regulations such as the Department of Labor's (DOL) "fiduciary rule" and regulations enacted under the Dodd-Frank Act. Now that President-elect Trump has clinched the Whitehouse and has the backing of a Republican House and Senate, he now has the ability to act on his campaign pledge.
Looking ahead to 2017, there are five financial reforms that Trump can undertake to relieve the burdensome and costly regulatory impact left over from the Obama administration.
- Repeal the DOL's Fiduciary Rule. Trump should look to repeal the DOL's costly fiduciary rule before it takes effect April 2017. The massive rule spans over 1000 pages and reduces the ability of financial advisors to give advice to IRA and 401(k) holders. Estimates show the fiduciary rule could disqualify up to 7 million IRA holders from investment advice, and reduce the number of IRAs opened annually by up to 400,000.
- Repeal the Durbin Amendment. The Durbin Amendment, passed as part of the Dodd-Frank Act, requires the Federal Reserve to fix the price of fees charged to retailers for debit card processing. Prior to Dodd-Frank, issuers of debit cards received a fee from the merchant to offset the cost of running the debit card system. This has increased the cost of accepting debit cards for many small businesses, which in turn pass those costs onto consumers.
- Repeal the Volcker Rule. Passed as part of the Dodd-Frank Act, the Volcker Rule, named for former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, limits the type of trading activities that banks can engage in, specifically proprietary trading (trading for ones own accounts). Volcker has since acknowledged however proprietary trading did not lead to the financial crisis, calling the justification behind the rule into question. As a result, U.S. financial institutions have become less competitive globally, the cost of raising capital for small businesses has increased, and market liquidity has been reduced.
- Stop or repeal the Arbitration Rule. The CFPB is currently racing to finalize the proposed Arbitration Rule before President Trump takes office in January. The proposed rule would ban arbitration clauses in consumer finance contracts such as those used by lenders and credit card companies. The rule would be a boon for trial attorneys and a burden for consumers. The CFPB's own study found arbitration clauses result in better outcomes for consumers, with awards being given in a matter of months, while class-action awards take years and have average payouts of less than $2 per person.
- Reform the CFPB. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is the fastest rulemaking body in the federal government. Of the nearly 50 rules the CFPB has imposed, 26 of them have directly resulted in $2.8 billion in costs and 16.9 million hours of increased paperwork. Two primary CFPB reforms Trump can focus on are subjecting the bureau to Congressional oversight and shifting CFPB leadership from one unaccountable bureaucrat to a 5-member board.
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IRS Employees Putting Taxpayer Info At Risk with Un-encrypted Emails
Posted by Natalie De Vincenzi on Friday, November 18th, 2016, 3:44 PM PERMALINK
IRS employees sent numerous emails with unencrypted taxpayer data, in violation of the agencies email policies, according to a report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). As the report notes, almost half of IRS employees sampled failed to abide by the agency's email policies. Based on these findings TIGTA estimates that the information of more than 28 million taxpayers could be vulnerable.
Under IRs procedure, employees can only send emails containing taxpayer data if it is properly encrypted. As the report notes:
"IRS employees should never include taxpayer PII/tax return information in electronic mail (e-mail) messages or attachments unless an IRS-approved encryption technology is used."
However, this was not the case. In a random sample of 80 employees, TIGTA found that 49 percent of employees, failed to follow IRS guidelines. As the report notes:
"39 (49 percent) employees sent a total of 326 unencrypted e-mails containing 8,031 different taxpayers' PII/tax return information internally to other IRS employees or externally to non-IRS e-mail accounts."
As the report notes, this poses a serious risk that taxpayer information will be improperly disclosed. The information sent in these emails included personally identifiable information and tax return information. Of most concern, TIGTA identified 51 emails that were sent to non-IRS e-mail accounts and an additional 20 that were sent to personal e-mail accounts.
TIGTA determined that this issue could affect more than 28 millions of taxpayers. According to the report:
"Based on our sample results, we estimate that 11, 416 SB/SE Division employees sent 95,396 unencrypted e-mails with taxpayer PII/tax return information for 2.4 million taxpayers during the four-week period of our sample. If this four-week period is typical, we estimate that more than 1.1 million unencrypted e-mails with taxpayer PII/tax return information of 28.2 million taxpayers could be sent annually."
This is not the first time the IRS has left taxpayers in danger. In September, TIGTA released a report on the failure of the IRS to ensure the proper return of laptops that contained sensitive taxpayer information by contractors. TIGTA estimated that the IRS had failed to properly document the return of 84.2 percent, or more than 1,000 computers due to be returned by contract employees.
Additionally, last year there was a data breach that left hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' information exposed after being warned by watchdog groups. Following the hack, TIGTA revealed that the IRS failed to implement 44 recommendations that would improve the IRS's ability to protect taxpayer information from hackers. Of these 44, ten recommendations were over three years old.


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MONTPELIER The Vermont Senate passed a bill Tuesday to clarify the role of the defender general in investigating problems in the states prison system, after complaints the office was hampered in investigating a prison suicide last year.
The measure passed without debate on a voice vote and now goes to the House. Passage came more than five months after inmate Robert Mossey, 38, of Burlington, hanged himself in a mop closet at the Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport.
Complaints that the prisoners rights division of the defender generals office was hampered in its investigation of Mosseys death were first aired at a meeting of the Legislatures Joint Corrections Oversight Committee in November.
In an interview this week, Defender General Matt Valerio said he had a heated meeting with a lawyer for the Department of Human Resources and other officials last year over a trend he was seeing in which his offices investigations were being hampered by that department. Valerio said he could not recall if the meeting came before or after Mosseys death.
Sen. Richard Sears, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the corrections oversight panel, said in an interview that the prisoners rights office needs unfettered access to Corrections Department records and the ability to interview inmates in its investigations.
This bill deals with the right of the prisoners rights office of the defender general to be able to access records and testimony from various offenders. Because in reality, the defender general is the law service for all persons who have been placed in corrections custody, the Bennington County Democrat said.
Valerio said state law already gave his office sufficient authority; he said he hoped the bill would clarify that.
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PRINCESS ANNE, MD - (March 6, 2012) - The 2012 Gala at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore produced its share of memories, which were quickly circulated via e-mail and social media.
From Larry King's amusing story of his role in an adolescent prank at his Brooklyn, N.Y junior high school, to heartfelt remarks from Tippi Hedren and S. Epatha Merkerson, the 400-plus guests heard well-traveled celebrities express appreciation for UMES recognizing their contributions to American culture.
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After a low-key ceremony to award honorary degrees before a reception and dinner, the quintet of stars slipped backstage to change out of their robes in preparation for a night of fine-dining and dancing.
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Andrea Sims, who has helped the university arrange the celebrity-themed Gala the past three years, said, "I truly had chills when (Marilyn) and Billy walked over to the students and began performing."
It was difficult to determine who had more fun, the students or McCoo or Davis – or the dozen or so folks jammed into that hallway witnessing the performance.
"We were definitely surprised," Davis said. "We loved it."
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It was an indelible snapshot from a special evening that will live on with lucky choir members who sang alongside two legendary performers.
"I want you to know how comfortable they made us feel," said Taylor, a senior.
Witcher remembered thinking at the moment how she "felt honored to be singing with Grammy-award winners. You don't get to do that every day. They're really humble people."
Perhaps the happiest person in that cramped hallway was Dr. Della Dameron-Johnson, the choir's long-time advisor.
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Arriving home to a flood in the kitchen (more frozen pipes) and no power (don't ask) provided plenty of stimulation to propel me into action and the beginning of another adventure-filled week here at Green Acres. I missed a (so I hear) fabulous show in Honesdale, PA (www.thecooperageproject.org) and one in Hawley (www.silkmillharmony.com) too, so apologies to the Jill's are in order. Mea culpa, ladies. Weather permitting, I'll see you all soon.
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By Martin Griffith: The Associated Press
HAWTHORNE, Nev. — For more than 50 years, this struggling desert town that proudly calls itself "America's Patriotic Home" has held what's billed as the nation's biggest Armed Forces Day parade.
Some 3,500 people turned out earlier this month for the celebration, complete with water fights, a watermelon eating contest, dunk tanks and horseshoe pitching.
But the pride masked fears: The Pentagon wants to close the nearby Army Ammunition Depot, which accounts for nearly half of all jobs in the remote Nevada town of 3,800, about 130 miles south of Reno.
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Although it sits on sagebrush-covered desert more than 200 miles from the ocean, the 147,230-acre depot opened as a Naval Undersea facility for submarine munitions in 1930. It features more than 2,400 bunkers that hold bombs, mortar shells and other munitions, and has shipped explosives for conflicts from World War II to the war in Iraq.
Today, Hawthorne seems frozen in its heyday era of World War II, a pit stop town of motels, gas stations and fast-food places framed by miles of bunkers. Travelers passing through on U.S. Highway 95, which doubles as the town's main drag, are greeted by a huge American flag flying from a 150-foot pole.
But the Pentagon says moving the depot's storage and recycling functions to the Tooele Army Depot in Utah would cut duplication and save money.
Supporters of the Hawthorne depot say the BRAC recommendation grossly underestimates the facility's economic impact on the town and neglects cleanup costs that would total more than $400 million. They also say it fails to take into account the facility's superior ability to store and ship ammunition, and to decontaminate and recycle military explosives for use by the mining and construction industries.
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Rutland City Alderman Charles Romeo, left, and Mayor Chris Louras wave to voters driving into the Godnick Adult Center polling place Tuesday evening. Both Romeo and Louras won re-election.
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Louras beat back a challenge from Board of Aldermen President David Allaire, 2,032 to 1,611.
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I can work with anybody, he said. I will continue to work with him the same as I always have.
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This might actually be my favourite Sonata Arctica album, actually.
Written by Milena on 14.06.2012 at 22:48
If they cut the forced crap such as "Misplaced" and "Ain't Your Fairytale", this would have been one of my top ten albums... ever? But the rest makes up for it big style.
WPBO is the best SA track to this date, and "The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Real Puppet" takes the cake as my personal favorite SA track. That's their only vaguely proggy song ever and is it good.
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"Ain't Your Fairytale" is an awesome track!
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I go through stages of hating it and loving it it was forced though. Tony was putting pressure on himself to write "Sonata Arctica songs" instead of just "songs", so most of the faster tracks on this album were penned when he hit the studio, set the metronome to one of these ridiculous speeds and tried to write a song around it.
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This is an important step along the trail of finding the chemical biotracers of extraterrestrial life as we know it.
The Jupiter-sized planet, called HD 189733b, is too hot for life. But the Hubble observations are a proof-of-concept demonstration that the basic chemistry for life can be measured on planets orbiting other stars. Organic compounds can also be a by-product of life processes and their detection on an Earth-like planet may someday provide the first evidence of life beyond Earth.
Previous observations of HD 189733b by Hubble and the Spitzer Space Telescope found water vapor. Earlier this year Hubble found methane in the planet's atmosphere.
"Hubble was conceived primarily for observations of the distant universe, yet it is opening a new era of astrophysics and comparative planetary science," said Eric Smith, Hubble Space Telescope program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "These atmospheric studies will begin to determine the compositions and chemical processes operating on distant worlds orbiting other stars. The future for this newly opened frontier of science is extremely promising as we expect to discover many more molecules in exoplanet atmospheres."
Mark Swain, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) to study infrared light emitted from the planet, which lies 63 light-years away. Gases in the planet's atmosphere absorb certain wavelengths of light from the planet's hot glowing interior. Swain not only identified carbon dioxide, but also carbon monoxide. The molecules leave their own unique spectral fingerprint on the radiation from the planet that reaches Earth. This is the first time a near-infrared emission spectrum has been obtained for an exoplanet.
"The carbon dioxide is the main reason for the excitement because under the right circumstances, it could have a connection to biological activity as it does on Earth," Swain said. "The very fact that we're able to detect it and estimate its abundance is significant for the long-term effort of characterizing planets both to find out what they are made of and if they could be a possible host for life."
This type of observation is best done for planets with orbits tilted edge-on to Earth. They routinely pass in front of and then behind their parent stars, phenomena known as eclipses. The planet HD 189733b passes behind its companion star once every 2.2 days. This allows an opportunity to subtract the light of the star alone, when the planet is blocked, from that of the star and planet together prior to eclipse. That isolating the emission of the planet alone and making possible a chemical analysis of its "day-side" atmosphere.
"In this way, we use the eclipse of the planet behind the star to probe the planet's day side, which contains the hottest portions of its atmosphere," said team member Guatam Vasisht of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We are starting to find the molecules and to figure out how many of them there are to see the changes between the day side and the night side."
This successful demonstration of looking at near-infrared light emitted from a planet is very encouraging for astronomers planning to use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope after it is launched in 2013. These biomarkers are best seen at near-infrared wavelengths. Astronomers look forward to using the James Webb Space Telescope to look spectroscopically for biomarkers on a terrestrial planet the size of Earth or a "super-Earth" several times our planet's mass.
"The Webb telescope should be able to make much more sensitive measurements of these primary and secondary eclipse events," Swain said.
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The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) and is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Md. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) conducts Hubble science operations. The institute is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., Washington, D.C. STScI is an International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA 2009) program partner.


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According to Matt Bochat, Bee County Extension Agent, "Cattlemen from all over the Coastal Bend area consigned cattle to this year's sale. We ended up with 349 total head consigned up about 65 head from last year."
The total for this year's sale was a huge $426,000. Cattle pairs averaged $1,516. Bred cattle averaged $1,128/head and open cattle averaged $907/head.
"We were kind of surprised at the numbers we had this year being that we are still in a long drought and cattle numbers continue to decline quickly in this part of the state," Bochat said.
Proceeds from the Tri-County Sale are used for the 4-H youth programs in the three counties. Beef producers who wish to participate in next year's sale can visit the AgriLife Extension Offices of Bee, Goliad or Refugio to pick up a consignment form and a copy of the sale rules.
The event is conducted by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service with Bee, Goliad and Refugio counties cooperating. The sponsors for this year's event were Beeville Livestock, AgMed Supply Company, Lyssy & Eckel Feeds and Silveus Insurance Group.


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Apps for booking charter flights on smartphones and tablets continue to mature as accepted wisdom loses weight: it turns out that more and more convenience-minded customers are indeed willing to consummate five- and six-figure transactions without speaking to a human.
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Probably it was said already....but I just got done watching the game on DVR and I gotta ask why Camby was not in there
Camby got his contract to play significant minutes DNP's do not make sense to me
Melo was in foul trouble because he was over matched....putting smaller players at the 4 and 5 is a Dantoni gimmick and in the long run does not work.
I have said it time and time again Melo is simply not a 4...period.
Look I'm not gonna get too bent out of shape simply because of a loss...but when we don't give ourselves the best chance to succeed then that makes me mad
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Our lone weakness is rebounding this year and we have the player who led the league in rebounding per 48 minutes last season on the bench!?
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Southern Vermont College student recognized for involvementMay 07,2013SVC student wins award
BENNINGTON Southern Vermont College student Hanifah Presley received the Engaged Student Award from the Vermont Campus Compact at the 2013 Engaged Campus Forum last month.
The campus compact is a consortium of Vermonts colleges and universities committed to civic engagement.
Presley, of Brooklyn, N.Y., received the award after a significant investment of time and energy in activities that promote and support engagement at Southern Vermont among her peers.
Since 2011, Presley has been active in MooseCorps, a community service club that provides service opportunities for the entire college community, worked many hours at One World Conservation Center in Bennington and sold Candy Grams to raise funds for the American Heart Association.
In a statement, Corie Steinke, the colleges residence director and civic engagement coordinator, said Presleys greatest strength is her willingness to communicate helpfully with other students.
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House finishes its plan for 2014 spendingBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | March 27,2013MONTPELIER The House Committee on Appropriations has put the final touches on a fiscal year 2014 spending plan that reins in some of the new spending proposals unveiled earlier this year by Gov. Peter Shumlin.
By a 7-4 margin, the committee voted along party lines Monday in approving a general fund budget that shaves more than $15 million from the version presented by Shumlin in January. House Speaker Shap Smith said Tuesday that while lawmakers saw merit in the Democratic governors proposals, they dont believe taxpayers have the capacity to fund them.
Shumlins budget raised general fund spending by 5.8 percent; the House plan would result in an increase of 4.7 percent.
We shared many of the same goals the governor had with regard to the investments that were made, Smith said. But we had concerns with regard both to revenue sources and to the amount of spending in the budget.
Casualties of the House budget scissors include renewable energy subsidies, which had been slated to get $5 million from Shumlin but would see only $1 million in the House plan. The House also eliminated entirely the $6 million Shumlin had allocated for thermal-efficiency programs.
By far the most significant cut came in the area of child-care subsidies for low-income parents, to which Shumlin had appropriated $17 million. The House plan would invest only $3.3 million in new child-care supports.
The House budget also sets aside a $7 million reserve to backfill potential reductions in federal aid.
The Houses distaste for, and distrust in, Shumlins revenue proposals helped fuel the discrepancies in spending levels. Shumlin wants to use a tax on break-open tickets that he says would generate $17 million annually. Smith, however, said fiscal analysts for the Legislature studied the proposal and determined it would raise only about a third that amount.
(Shumlin) taxed break-open tickets and gambled that they would result in a balanced budget, Smith said. And we just werent willing to take that bet.
Smith said the House also rejected the governors other primary revenue source, which came from reducing $17 million from an earned-income tax credit that offers tax credits and cash payments to low-wage workers.
We believe that we should not actually ask 40,000 lower-income working Vermonters to support additional programs in the state of Vermont, Smith said. We think that should be a shared burden for all Vermonters.
Smith said that while attention will focus on differences between the legislative and executive branches, they are actually in agreement on the vast majority of the $1.36 billion general fund proposal. The House, for instance, has given its blessing to a controversial plan that would impose a five-year lifetime cap on a welfare program called Reach Up.
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Smith said the Legislatures plan also includes heightened supports for people who stay on Reach Up for years at a time. He said the Reach Up program is designed to help people find work, and that if they cant secure employment after five years, then perhaps the program isnt working for them.
The budget heads to the House floor for debate later this week.
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Walker confident he's clear in probe
Gov. Scott Walker tells The Associated Press that he remains "absolutely" confident that he is not a subject of a criminal investigation involving former aides in his Milwaukee County office.
Walker said in a Monday interview that none of the evidence revealed for the first time in court last week would suggest that he's a target of the investigation.
Emails discussed at the sentencing last week of former Walker deputy chief of staff Kelly Rindfleisch showed that members of Walker's 2010 gubernatorial campaign held daily meetings with his county executive office staff.
Walker says he had no knowledge of county workers doing campaign work while on the clock for their county job. He says if he had known what Rindfleisch was doing, he would have taken action to stop it.
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