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TCL > April 2013 Issue > Calendar
April 3
Colorado Women's Bar Association Charity Fashion Show. Location: Chlóe Discotheque, 1445 Market St., Denver. Time: 6:00–8:30 p.m. Cost: $20 (proceeds benefit CWEE, The Gathering Place, and WeeCycle). Information or to register: www.cwba.org.
April 3–7
Arapahoe County Bar Association 2013 Spring CLE. Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Information or to register: (303) 797-2227 or www.arapahoecountybar.org.
April 4–5
Colorado Employment Law Conference. Location: Marriott City Center, Denver. Information or to register: (303) 860-0608, (888) 860-2531, or www.cobar.org/cle.
April 4–6
ABA TECHSHOW® 2013. Location: Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave. Information or to register: www.techshow.com.
April 8
Colorado Supreme Court Pro Bono Legal Services Commitment and Recognition Ceremony. Location: Ralph Carr Justice Center, 2 E. 14th Ave., Denver. Time: 3:00 p.m., guided tour of the Justice Center; 4:00 p.m., recognition ceremony. Information: Lauren Dickey, (702) 625-5440 or email@example.com.
April 10
Hot Topic CLE: Work–Life Balance. Location: Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, 1801 California St., Denver. Time: noon–1:30 p.m. Information: Jessica Brown, firstname.lastname@example.com.
April 11
Colorado Judicial Institute Judicial Independence Membership Breakfast. Keynote Speaker: Colorado Attorney General John Suthers. Location: Denver Athletic Club, 1325 Glenarm Place. Time: 7:30–8:30 a.m. Cost: Free. Information: (303) 766-7501 or www.coloradojudicialinstitute.org.
Denver Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Movie Night CLE. Location: CBA-CLE offices, 1900 Grant St., Ste. 300, Denver. Information or to register: www.denbar.org.
April 12
Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Colorado Annual Banquet. Location: The Palace Chinese Restaurant, 6265 E. Evans, Denver. Time: 5:30 p.m., cash bar; 6:30 p.m., dinner. Information: Fay Matsukage, (303) 282-4105 or email@example.com.
April 13–20
National Institute for Trial Advocacy Seminar. Building Trial Skills: Rocky Mountain. Location: NITA Education Center, 1685 38th St., Ste. 200, Boulder. Information: www.nita.org.
April 16
Arapahoe County Bar Association CLE Program. Witness Preparation. Location: Greenwood Village City Hall Community Room, 6060 S. Quebec St. Time: noon–1:30 p.m. Cost: $15, ACBA members; $20, nonmembers (box lunch included). Information or to register: www.arapahoecountybar.org.
April 19
CBA-CLE Live Seminar. Juvenile Law. Location: CLE large classroom, 1900 Grant St., Ste. 300, Denver. Time: 9:00 a.m.–4:15 p.m. Cost: $289, CBA members; $339, nonmembers. CLE credits: 7 general. Information or to register: (303) 860-0608, (888) 860-2531, or www.cobar.org/cle.
Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center Annual Dinner. Location: Westin Hotel, 1672 Lawrence St., Denver. Cost: $200. Information or to register: (303) 692-1165 or www.rockymountainchildrenslaw center.org.
April 20
Boulder County Bar Foundation Tree-Planting Event Benefiting the Fourmile Reforest Project. Times: 8:00 a.m.–noon or 1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Information or to volunteer: Gabriella Stockmayer, email@example.com. To make a donation for the purchase of trees: www.bouder-bar.org/calendar/php.
April 22
Casemaker Training. Location: CLE small classroom, 1900 Grant St., Ste. 300, Denver. Time: 10:00–11:30 a.m. Information or to register: (303) 860-1115, (800) 332-6736, or www.cobar.org/cle.
May 1–5
National Institute for Trial Advocacy Seminar. Robert F. Hanley Advanced Trial Skills. Location: NITA Education Center, 1685 38th St., Ste. 200, Boulder. Information: www.nita.org.
May 2
Colorado Paralegal Day Reception. Location: CBA Executive Conference Room, 1900 Grant St., Ste 900, Denver. Time: 5:30–7:30 p.m. Information: www.cobar.org/paralegal.
May 3
Weld County Bar Association 100th Anniversary Celebration and Annual Dinner. Location: Greeley Country Club, 4500 W. 10th St. Information or to register: www.weldcountybar.org.
May 4
Denver Bar Association Barristers Benefit Ball. $25k for 25 years. Location: Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center. Information: Denise Lynch, (303) 824-5327; www.denbar.org.
Waldo Canyon Fire Tree Planting Service Project. Location: Flying W Ranch Property. Information: Dan Stuart, (303) 471-7955.
May 6
2013 Legal Inclusiveness and Diversity Summit. Location: Sheraton Denver Downtown, 1550 Court Place. Time: 8:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. CLE credits: 7 general. Information or to register: (303) 832-3503 or www.centerforlegalinclusiveness.org.
May 9
Colorado Trial Lawyers Association Spring Dinner. Location. Denver Marriott City Center, 1701 California St. Time: 5:00–9:00 p.m. Cost: $160. Information or to register: www.ctlanet.org.
May 11
Sean May Memorial Run/Walk. Location: Barr Lake State Park, Brighton. Time: 9:00 a.m. Cost: $35. Information or to register: www.seanmaymemorialrun.org.
May 17–19
Colorado Women's Bar Association 36th Annual Convention. "Taking it up a Notch!" Location: Sebastian Hotel, Vail. Information or to register: www.cwba.org.
May 21
Colorado Lawyers Committee Annual Luncheon and Awards Presentation. Location: Marriott Denver City Center, 1701 California St. Time: 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Cost: $60. Information or to register: (303) 894-6366 or www.coloradolawyerscommittee.org.
El Paso County Bar Law Day Luncheon. Location: Springs Orleans, 123 E. Pikes Peak Ave., Colorado Springs. Time: 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Information or to register: Claire Anderson, (303) 473-9700; www.elpasocountybar.org.


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How are these two commission actions
related? Well, as we all know, the FCC is the
primary agency in charge of protecting
and managing RF spectrum and ensuring
its optimum usage serves the "public interest."
The commission is under enormous
pressure to strike a balance between the
increasing need for spectrum for mobile
wireless services and the importance of a
free, robust broadcast service for the public.
Unfortunately the commission's spectrum
auction rules clearly tip the balance
in favor of the wireless industry.
Should we be surprised? Of course not.
Broadcasters saw this coming, despite assurances
from the chairman that the commission
would comply with the congressional
mandate to develop rules that would
protect broadcasters' coverage area. Unfortunately,
time and again, the FCC rejected
broadcasters' input, an outcome that could
result in higher costs for our industry and
weakened coverage.
Take OET-69, for example. The FCC rejected
the NAB's request to ditch the flawed
TVStudy methodology the commission proposes
to determine coverage in favor of
OET-69. NAB Spokesman Dennis Wharton
alluded to the commission's "bizarre commitment"
to TVStudy. "The commission cannot
even get the results of its new software
to match those of the old software," he said.
Another issue is the concept that broadcasters
who don't participate in the auctions
be forced to cover the costs of relocation.
"In pitching the
auction, former Chairman [Julius] Genachowski
made plain to Congress that the voluntary
auction would not cost broadcasters who
didn't participate a penny," Wharton said.
"Congress then approved the auction and
even provided a fund to cover all costs. The
FCC should do everything in its power to
limit repacking to that fund, and if it exceeds
the fund, the new licensees should
be responsible for any excess costs as they
are in any other proceeding."
While the rules don't go far enough in
protecting broadcasters' interests, there
are a few nuggets. The commission did take
steps to protect funding for public broadcasters
during repacking and opened the
door for some stations to experiment with
new transmission technologies.
In the end, though, it's obvious that our
industry is on its own if it wants to protect
the future of free over-the-air broadcasting;
it certainly cannot look to this FCC anymore.
And neither can the public, who so
often turn to broadcasters first when a crisis
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Panel: New Approaches for Addressing the Threat of WMD Proliferation
October 21, 2005
Author: Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Preventive Defense Project
Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction:
Current Challenges and New Approaches
Panel II: New Approaches for Addressing the Threat of WMD Proliferation
Remarks by Dr. Ashton B. Carter, adapted for publication
October 21, 2005
Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
ASHTON CARTER: I'm going to confine myself initially to the problem of nuclear proliferation and state possession, not because I think state possession is the principal problem, but because state possession is the route to non-state possession. The only way that you can make a nuclear weapon is to have plutonium or highly enriched uranium, which are not materials that occur in nature. They have to be made by people and, thank God, it's quite an effort to make both of those materials. So far in human history, only governments have been able to marshal the resources over time to do that. It's well beyond the reach of even well-organized terrorist groups, and certainly not Al Qaeda today given the pressure it is facing. So, the only way terrorists are going to get nuclear materials is from a government; hence my focus on governments. It's not at all that I don't take seriously the non-state threat; we did take seriously the non-state threat in the early history of the Nunn-Lugar program. One concern was a rogue military officer or some disgruntled post-Soviet faction.
The danger doesn't come from eroding global regimes. Proliferation doesn't happen in global regimes; it happens in particular places. So let's walk around the world to real places and see how all of this applies. Let me start with the toughest case of all, which is North Korea. I've had some dealings with the North Koreans. My first encounter with the North Koreans – which Bill Perry and I have written about – involved planning an air strike on Yongbyon in 1994, which fortunately we didn't have to carry out. If we had carried it out, we would have destroyed the reactor, the fuel fabrication facility, the reprocessing facility, and the two reactors under construction in North Korea all in a short period of time. We would have destroyed the operating reactor – a graphite moderated reactor – without causing a radiological problem, which is no mean feat.
Although nobody wanted to strike the reactors, we were prepared to because the risk of North Korea getting nuclear weapons seemed so grave. Nuclear weapons in the hands of the North Korean government would have been a direct military threat to us, to the Japanese, and to the South Koreans. North Korean nuclear weapons could have catalyzed a domino effect of proliferation across East Asia. Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and others would have looked around and said, "If the North Koreans develop nuclear weapons and get away with it, maybe we ought to rethink our own stand." Many at this conference have talked about the integrity of the non-proliferation regime. What does it mean to the integrity of the non-proliferation regime if the world's zaniest, Stalinist throwback gets nuclear weapons and nobody does anything about it?
And that's just if nuclear weapons stay in the hands of the North Korean government. North Korea appears to be willing to sell everything it makes. And North Korea is not going to be around forever. This regime is going to toddle off the cliff of history at some point, and who knows whose hands its plutonium will come into at that moment? For all these reasons, what's happening in North Korea is a disaster.
Now, war was averted in 1994 by the negotiation of something called the Agreed Framework, which was far from perfect but at least it stopped the fuel rods at Yongbyon from being reprocessed for eight years. Over the last five years the Agreed Framework has unraveled. As you probably know, the biggest disaster in non-proliferation history has unfolded in the last five years in North Korea. And, believe me, the North Koreans don't care about the NPT. I've talked to the North Koreans. If you talk about the NPT or the United Nations or anything like that to the North Koreans, their eyes just glaze over. The PSI also is useful to talk about in other contexts, but it is not going to help us with the North Koreans. If you're talking about North Korea exporting a softball-sized piece of plutonium, there's no way we're going to catch that with PSI. So, none of the things that have been talked about today as general solutions to the problem of WMD proliferation are going to work with North Korea. I'm not denigrating them at all. They're terribly important things, but the North Koreans are masters at making themselves an exception to every rule.
What to do? We're trying to talk the North Koreans out of their nuclear program rather haltingly, but they've gotten away with murder for the last five years. So, I don't know whether it's now possible to talk the North Koreans out of their nuclear weapons program. Now we need to ask ourselves: What if we can't negotiate a solution? What do we do then? That's what I call Plan B for North Korea. Plan B is very serious business. Bill Perry and I hosted a workshop in Washington of experts involved in North Korea, as well as general diplomatic and military experts, to think about that. I'll just tell you a little something about the results of that meeting.
There are things you can do, and are going to have to do, if you can't talk North Korea out of its nuclear weapons program. They are not just military things, although military options figure in. I believe it's incumbent upon our government to have a Plan B, even as it is incumbent upon us to give Plan A (diplomacy) a shot because it might work. Plan A and Plan B play off against one another. If you have a good Plan B and the North Korean's know it, that may clarify their thinking a little bit about accepting a diplomatic outcome. Likewise, Plan B is a plan of pressure and coercion and maybe elimination of the North Korean regime. It is not something the United States can do unilaterally because the Chinese, the South Koreans, and others are able to provide relief to North Korea from just about any kind of pressure short of military pressure that we can apply. Therefore, it's important to have the support or at least the acquiescence of those other countries for a strategy of pressure. You're never going to get that unless you've tried diplomacy and it has failed. And so Plan A is essential to Plan B and Plan B is essential to Plan A. We need both for dealing with North Korea. At any rate, the NPT and the PSI, wonderful as they are in other contexts, don't apply.
Let me go to Iran. Iran is a very different case, and the bad news is that the Iranians are playing us and the Europeans like a violin. They know exactly how to walk up to the line and walk along the line. The good news is that the Iranians seem to actually care what the rest of the world thinks (i.e. they actually see the line). They do so for both economic and political reasons. Therein lies the germ of possible diplomatic success. That germ does not exist in the case of the North Koreans; they don't care what anybody thinks of them. But the Iranians do. That means that, over time – and Iran is a much less time-urgent situation from a technical point of view than the North Korean situation – we may be able to turn Iran around diplomatically.
In order to do so, we're going to have to address two facts. One is that the Iranian nuclear program is not a love affair of the mullahs with the bomb. It's a love affair of Iranians with the bomb. It's a widely shared view in Iranian society. Reformers and mullahs alike think that it might be a good idea for Iran to have a bomb.
The other thing is that Iran wants a civil nuclear fuel cycle. I think that was discussed this morning – the fuel cycle issue. I'm the co-chairman of Richard Lugar's Policy Advisory Group. He is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He asked us to look into the fuel cycle issue, and we wrote a report to him, which he conveyed to the President, on how the President could follow up on initiatives that he proposed in February 2004 in a speech at National Defense University. That's a very important issue. It is related to Iran and is an example of how what happens globally actually applies locally. That principle applies much more in the case of Iran than in the case of North Korea.
The last place I want to mention is India. A significant deal was made between Prime Minister Singh and President Bush in July 2005. I have to testify in two weeks to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee right after Under Secretaries of State Bob Joseph and Nick Burns, and I don't yet know exactly what I'm going to say. So I can't really share that with you because I'm still thinking it through. In effect, what we're doing there is granting the Indians something they've wanted for thirty years in return for something we get back. And the question is: What is the something? The answer to that question is going to be a big story in the strategic world, never mind the non-proliferation world. I think the principal significance of the deal is seen if you look beyond its nuclear piece to the deal as a whole.
Let me close. The point is that if you look at locations of nonproliferation concern around the world today, none of the situations I have covered – North Korea, Iran, and India – is close to being under the control of U.S. policy. All of what DoD calls the eight D's (dissuasion, diplomacy, disarmament, denial, defusing, deterrence, defense, and destruction) are in play in different ways in each of these cases – from the threat of military action to simply defending ourselves against a nuclear North Korea or a nuclear Iran, right forward to the front end where you're talking about regimes and agreements and negotiations. So it's not an either/or. This is a problem that's so important that there's no silver bullet. You have no choice but to play every instrument in your orchestra. I want to make the point that the debate should not focus on whether this or that, one policy or approach or another, is most important to nonproliferation. I'm not of that view. I'm of the view that I'll take anything I can get. And as I go around the world, I see different circumstances that require somewhat different approaches in which all of these policy approaches play a role, but with different weights. We can't afford to have theological debates amongst ourselves. We need to get on with the job of working these problems, because proliferation doesn't happen in global regimes; it happens in particular places.
None of the eight D's can work unless you have intelligence that supports our understanding of proliferation, and the Iraq case illustrates that we're far from being in a good situation with respect to WMD intelligence. That's a whole other subject. I happen to be optimistic in that regard. There are a number of things in the world of technology and analytical processes that I think can make a material difference in our ability to detect, characterize, and counter nuclear proliferation. That's a subject of another panel sometime. Thank you.
IAN JOHNSTONE: Thank you, Dr. Carter. We started a little late and so we'll go a little late. One of our panelists has a plane to catch, and has to leave no later than five past four. Ms. McNerney, I'm going to take advantage of the chair and ask one question for which I'm curious what your answer might be. We've talked a fair amount today about the Proliferation Security Initiative and Resolution 1540. My question is simply: Is it worth taking the Proliferation Security Initiative to the Security Council with the aim of adopting a 1540-type resolution, which would in effect make the PSI obligatory for all states in the world under Chapter 7 of the UN charter?
PATRICIA MCNERNY: Thank you. Actually, when we were negotiating 1540, PSI had already been created. Certainly that was one of the intents, one of the most debated paragraphs that we had in our original draft. In the end, this is what happens when you take things to the Security Council: You don't always get what you want. We did get a paragraph – operative paragraph ten – which calls on states to take cooperative action consistent with national legal authorities and international law. We negotiated with the Chinese, but they didn't want to have the words PSI in the text. I think it gives you a good sense of where the Chinese are in taking that kind of effort to the Security Council. The Chinese are obviously a huge source for technical items that end up in the Iranian and other programs. There's a lot of interest there, obviously with their own shipments.
One other point to make is that PSI is designed to be flexible and fast moving. Information comes, and you work with the small number of states that can take action. If the entire Security Council got the information and decided the action, it just wouldn't work. It wouldn't be PSI anymore. You have to be careful about what it is you're trying to do.
There is one area where you might have some options. Let's say that Iran eventually does get to the Security Council. Perhaps there are some country-specific actions that can be enumerated along the lines of PSI, within resolutions, if you're ratcheting up the pressure on a government like Iran. Those can be some options along the road. There's another area in the terrorism context. Resolution 1373 and some of the other terrorist resolutions have some more specific requirements regarding financing. You can list entities and terrorist organizations, and all countries have to take certain actions with respect to their financial institutions. This is a little tricky in the proliferation world where dual-use items exist. They're not legal per se, but there could be some potential for strengthening some of those financial requirements of 1540 that you could look to the Security Council to do.
IAN JOHNSTONE: Anyone else on this? Can we open it up to the floor? All right. Questions? If you could use the microphones, please. Thank you.
ANTHONY QUAINTON: In this morning's panel and this afternoon it seems to me that everyone recognized the paradigm shift for non-state actors and the fact that deterrence doesn't address that threat. It still seems to be received wisdom that deterrence, nuclear deterrence in particular, is applicable against state threats. I'd like to argue that a little bit and see what the panel thinks. The real strategic threats that have been talked about – Iran and the usual suspects – have undemocratic, unrepresentative ruling cliques that rule over their countries. In order for a deterrent threat to be legitimate it has to be credible. And I wonder, today, if it's really credible for us to think about whether, if there was a nuclear strike from one of these regimes, the US would retaliate in kind, potentially killing hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of innocent Iranians or North Koreans because of the transgression of the top clique. In this day of mass communications, people would be swarming into those countries, projecting to the world at large the suffering and the death that was caused by U.S. retaliation and the precipitous loss of legitimacy and influence that the US might suffer because of that act. So with that scenario, I wonder if we've recognized the paradigm shift for non-state actors. If we're missing the paradigm shift for state actors, we should be really rethinking whether or not the nuclear piece is even valid in the 8 D's or whatever that Dr. Carter was talking about. I thought it was interesting that Dr. Carter talked about a kinetic approach to North Korea in 1994. It would be interesting to hear what they thought about a nuclear option in that case.
ANTONIA CHAYES: What makes you think that we have to have a nuclear response to a nuclear act? The one advantage in the deterrence scheme is that we're talking about relatively small countries, so it's possible to mount a conventional response. I think the real difficulty with deterrence comes when there's some question about the state's role, and it's a big question given the kind of nuclear incident that might occur. It becomes very unclear or hard to prove - even if it were clear from the superior intelligence that Ash is hoping for – that it was Iran or another country. A strike against a state, even a conventional strike, would be very problematic in terms of enhancing legitimacy, especially if it were the United States that did it unilaterally. That's the question – fixing the blame for the kind of nuclear strike or nuclear incident that's likely to happen.
IAN JOHNSTONE: Anyone else on this one?
ASH CARTER: Just to add one thing. I think everything Tony says makes perfect sense. You're absolutely right. It's an entirely different game. The real problem in a case like North Korea is: Who gets deterred? They know we don't need nuclear weapons to destroy them. They know that if they start a war on the Korean peninsula, we will end it with the elimination of their armed forces in three or four weeks. We'll destroy the North Korean armed forces and we'll destroy their regime. We've had that war plan for fifty years, and it just gets better and better and better. And it doesn't require nuclear weapons. The North Koreans know that.
The dynamic in the North Korean case is whether we will be scared away or chased away from defending our own interests or defending our allies because they have nuclear weapons. That's where deterrence comes into play. That's what their fervent hope is. Then you have to go back to 5027, the war plan for the defense of South Korea, and ask: What could four or five North Korean nuclear weapons do? We'll still defeat them, but it makes for tougher slogging. The North Korean move would be against the Japanese, for sure. If the North Koreans use nuclear weapons, I'll bet my boots that they will launch a NoDong on Japan. They can't reach the United States yet. They'll go after Japan. So you're absolutely asking the right question in the North Korean case. The question is: Who gets deterred?
It ought to be an additional incentive for countries to safeguard the fissile material that they have because they know that, if a nuclear bomb goes off, it could be traced to them. I don't know what this country will do if a nuclear weapon goes off, but I would say to Musharraf or anybody else that the American President is going to be in a terrible situation. We will know with high likelihood – radiochemical forensics are very good in this case – we'll know after a few days or weeks where the bomb came from. It doesn't mean that a particular country did it. It does mean that it the bomb can be traced back there. The reaction of any President to that fact is hard to calculate, and I think creates a funny deterrent effect in stimulating people to keep secure custody of the materials they have.
MARY BETH NITIKIN: All right. I'm always for more justifications for getting people to secure their nuclear materials as soon as possible. I think part of the interesting thing about this debate in Washington, and part of the shocking part of it is – in talking to a wide variety of thinkers with different points of views on utility of the US nuclear deterrent – how many people say that, if a nuclear bomb went off in the US, it wouldn't matter. We would have to nuke somebody. You know. It's this gut reaction, American thing. And very serious people are arguing this in very serious ways more so than I just did. It's kind of like, "If we have it, then we could use it" is sort of the highest utility. Are we just crazy enough to do it? Are we going to go along with that argument?
Another interesting aspect is, is nuclear deterrence more effective in preventing an attack on your soil by the smaller rogue nuclear states rather than, for example, one of the P5?
IAN JOHNSTONE: I think we have time for one more question.
MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER: I just have a question for Dr. Carter. I listened with great interest to his analysis of the DPRK and the uranium situation and this question of Plan B and Plan A, but somehow you didn't mention the Six Party Talks, which are at present a reality. As far as Iran is concerned, there has been an attempt at negotiation by the European countries which did not succeed, basically due to the fact that there is a new administration in Iran. I wanted to ask you what you think of the prospects of these negotiations. Thank you.
ASH CARTER: Thank you. I'm sorry. I should have mentioned the Six Party Talks. The Six Party Talks are Plan A at the moment. But they haven't gone anywhere for four years. We've been congratulating ourselves for having Six Party Talks, while the North Koreans have been reprocessing plutonium. That is the history of the Six Party Talks. The Chinese have been congratulating themselves on renting a room where we can meet, and the South Koreans have been congratulating themselves that there hasn't been a war. And so it's been wonderful, except that the North Koreans have been making plutonium the whole time. I'm very hopeful, but it's hard to be optimistic, that the Six Party Talks will produce a diplomatic outcome. So that is Plan A. I should have made that clear.
In the case of the EU initiative with respect to Iran, belatedly backed by the United States, it's fashionable to criticize it and say the Iranians are playing games on us. But as I said, there's a good side to that. At least they'll play the game, and therein lies the hope that something might come out of the negotiations. The Iranians have other fish to fry. They have economic and political fish to fry. Iranians of all stripes including the mullahs are trying to deliver prosperity to their people, and if it looks like they're going to get seriously hung up on this nuclear issue, then that will make them slow down. In the world of proliferation, that's about the best you can hope for. You never shut it down entirety. All these programs bubble up again. The best you can do is a delaying game, and it may be that we'll be able to delay it until some kind of change happens in Iran which makes having a bomb compromise so many other things that the Iranians want from the world that they'll say, "To heck with it, we won't do it." That's the hope. Fortunately, in their case we have time because Iran's program is on a much slower fuse than the North Korean one.
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It's appropriate that the idea started with a suggestion a year ago from Tracy Saucier, director of the Beeville Art Museum. Saucier, says Moreno Gifted and Talented teacher Debra Hanus planted the idea with Moreno Principal Joni Barber, who passed it on to her.
Last October, Hanus broadcast an "all call" announcement on the school's public address system, inviting any student interested to sign up.
About 20 responded, she says.
STEP ONE: decide what the mural would contain. The idea, Hanus explains, is that the youngsters would decide what subjects the mural depicted.
They chose four subjects: The Beeville Art Museum (no surprise there), the Rialto Theater, Lady of Justice atop the Bee County Courthouse and the Joe Barnhart Bee County Library. Students also have painted a scroll-like banner with "Moreno Middle School 2012-2013" on it.
STEP TWO: the students drew their ideas on pieces of paper the same size as the panels.
STEP THREE: once the template met their approval, work began in early December on the mural itself.
The Joe Barnhart Foundation supplied all the materials — three, 4-by-8-foot plywood panels, paint, brushes and aprons.
Hanus estimates each student involved in the project has spent at least 30 hours on the project.
"Just multiply 30 hours times 20 students," she advises.
AFTER SCHOOL, on a Monday in early March, a number of students gathered in a portable classroom — once used to store textbooks — to work on the mural.
"I used an entire quart of Modern Masters Theme Paint to do the sky," boasts seventh-grader Hadyn Kroen. The paint, he explains, is the same used at Disney theme parks.
"He made it come alive," adds Hanus, who brings more than a dozen year's experience in pottery, but admits that, although she has taken one course in painting, she had to teach herself some painting techniques to help the students.
As often occurs in a joint project, the students rapidly began working as a team.
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Hanus pauses to scan the panels, which stretch across the entire wall of the classroom.
"I'm surprised that it came out as well as it did," she says. "It doesn't look like a professional came in and did it. It's done by students, and I'm pleased with the quality."
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After the ongoing acquisitions get approved by anti-trust organizations and will be closed, Western Digital will command about 50% of the hard drive market, Seagate will have roughly 40% market share and Toshiba will have 10% of the market, according to IHS iSuppli market tracking firm.
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Waterloo Lutheran Seminary
Friends of the Seminary Golf Tournament
May 29/14
Date: May 29/14
Time: 11:30 - 20:00
Location: Ariss Valley Golf & Country Club
Cost: $135.00 entry fee
Register online at this link: https://event-wizard.com/2014Golf/0/register/
Everyone is invited to the Friends of the Seminary
Golf Tournament which will be held Thursday, May 29th at the Ariss
Valley Golf and Country Club.
Your foursome could win the Bishops Cup or your congregational entry might win the Deans Cup.
Waterloo Lutheran Seminary's previous tournaments have supported many Seminary programs and initiatives.
Our tournament is viewed by those who attend as a real community builder or what could be called a friend raiser and on top of that we have a lot of fun.
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Entry fee: $135.00
Includes: Golf Cart, 18 Holes of Golf, Box Lunch, Buffet Steak Dinner and Charitable Donation Receipt (In lieu of prize table)
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Registration: 11:30 a.m.
Tee-Off: 12:30 Shot Gun, Scramble Format (best ball)
Finish: 5:30 p.m.
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The Bishops Cup
Bishop Michael Pryse is challenging all members of the Lutheran golfing community to compete for the Bishops Cup which is awarded to the lowest scoring team.
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The Congregation Challenge is a contest designed especially for foursomes from congregations. Bring out a foursome and show your congregational spirit. All members of the foursome must be from the same congregation to qualify and the top scoring team will win the Deans Cup.
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Posted by karen on 3/16/2010, 10:38 am, in reply to "Re: low muscle tone"
Thank you everyone for your responses & experiences in this matter its greatly appreciated. I have one other question to those who have used OT& PT, did your insurance company pay for this? I just got word from the OT that I went to have him evaluated with said my insurance will not cover this, only short term therapy. And being that he is only a baby they do not know how long he will need therapy. Anyone else have this problem?
--Previous Message--
: My daughter had very low tone in her neck and
: upper torso. She could not hold her head up
: until she was about 10 months old. However,
: she is doing great now and completely caught
: up at 22 months (crawling, walking,
: climbing, running, dancing). You would
: never know she had such a rough start. We
: had physical therapy and occupational
: therapy in the NICU and at home for about
: 1.5 years. My daughter was discharged from
: both P.T. and O.T. at the beginning of this
: year. Hang in there and get any help you
: can. It really pays off.
: --Previous Message--
: Hi, my daughter also had low muscle tones.
: She
: was in Early Intervention and had PT until
: she was 2. She's doing fantastic now and
: you'd never be able to tell. She was very
: low tone in her upper torso and neck, her
: legs were extremely sturdy.
: Best,
: Angela
: http://www.pieceofkateb.blogspot.com/
: --Previous Message--
: Thanks Katie for the reply. Where was the
: muscle tone issue in your son & how long
: has he been doing therapy? Thanks..
: --Previous Message--
: We've had the same problem and I've seen
: that
: many other parents here have said the same.
: To my understanding, it's typical of PRS
: kids. My son's was pretty bad for a while
: (maybe 40% delay). He is 19 months now, and
: has had physical therapy since he was born.
: He is doing much better and at his last
: review he was rated at 0% delay! Early
: intervention in key, the therapists are
: awesome. Sounds like you are doing all the
: right things! Good luck!
: --Previous Message--
: hi,i was checking to see if anyone's child
: with pierre robin has any low muscle tone
: issues. my son is 5wks old & has a mild
: case of pierre robin & when he was
: having a follow up visit with his feeding
: specialist she noticed that he had a
: slightly low muscle tone in his neck and
: torso. he is able to move his head side to
: side and lift it up when lying on his
: stomach,but his neck tends to flop forward
: if not supported and his neck has to be
: supported to be held up. he just started
: going to physical therapy to help strengthen
: him up, i am just hoping that there is not
: some other underlying problem. i had an
: amnio,FISH test,cgh array,fragile x &
: sma tests done while i was pregnant &
: all came back negative. has anyone else's
: child has this issue with the muscle tone?
: thanks...
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If Baseball is Religion….
Sometimes I wish I was a baseball scholar and could then issue baseball fatwas. Fatwas are such useful tools. Look at their history.
Don't like Salman Rushdie's books? Issue a fatwa allowing for his death. Don't like the intermingling of the sexes in educational institutions? Issue a fatwa allowing for the death of those who okayed it.
I'm not saying all fatwas inspire quite such lunacy and, in fact, despite its modern connotation, a fatwa usually has more to do with the mundane elements of everyday life than anything else.
But, if you take it just a little ways past the line (or way over as in the case of the two I already mentioned), it gets your name out there and lets you make some bold statements. And since nowadays it doesn't even appear that you have to be a recognized authority to issue a fatwa, I see that as an opening up of the field to just about anyone. With that in mind, here are my first few baseball fatwas:
Starting Kyle Farnsworth is Justification for Losing Your Franchise
Yes, I realize this affects the Tigers just as much as it does the Yankees, Cubs and Royals but at least the Tigers and Yankees never seriously considered this option. As the baseball ascetic, St. Allen of Michigan has brought to our attention many times, Farnsworth is a huge bag of suck and it's time there were consequences.
Pink Hats Should not be Allowed Into nor Sold in Stadiums
I have mentioned this before but this is my first time codifying the decree. There is no reason to feminize the sport. If you can't appreciate the game for what it is and need a pink hat to get you to the park, maybe it's better if you stayed home. Pink is for cotton candy, baby girls and prom dresses, not baseball hats.
Songbirds are Unacceptable Mascots and Their Fans Deserve Ridicule
Look, there are hardcore birds like Eagles and Falcons and then there are pansy birds like Blue Jays, Orioles and Cardinals. You can try to blame it on the owner or tradition but you're still the one wearing a fancy pigeon on your clothing. I'm even open to extending this fatwa to fans of franchises named after baby animals. Would you cheer for a team if they were called the Puppies? The why would you cheer for the Cubs? Marlins may be fish but they can put up a fight. And if you think that Rays aren't dangerous, you might ask Steve Irwin for a second opinion.
So, there you have it. My first three baseball fatwas. Now, let the arguments in baseball jurisprudence begin.
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WHAT? Madness, the Cardinal is the biggest baddest bird there is out there, have you tried catching a Cardinal? Hunting one? It can't be touched, just like MC Hammer.
WHAT? Madness, the Cardinal is the biggest baddest bird there is out there, have you tried catching a Cardinal? Hunting one? It can't be touched, just like MC Hammer.
Yeah. Ever try to take a Cardinals eggs? Its nest? Fuhgettaboutit.
Maybe they should call a team the "Cassowaries." They are the most dangerous birds on earth and the only ones known to kill people. Not a pansy creature by any means ;o)
Andy, actually MC Hammer has been touched. Bazinga! The only thing that can't be touched in the Indians organization is the money they own. Fatwas now? Wow Allen, you have crossed the line.
I think the Eagles' fight song cancels out the threat of a bird. At least an animal kinda means something. IE, what is recognizable about a bruin (what is a bruin?) or a 76er (what is a 76er?) or a piston?
And the "menacing" team names (Raptors, Thrashers, Pirates, etc) don't really do that much better than the non-threatening team names in terms of fanbase, record, etc (Yankees, Twins, Jets, etc)
I deal with pigeons everyday so theyy don't bother me. Kyle Farnsworth should be sent to the glue factory while wearing a pink hat.
Laughing very hard at brooklyntrolleyblogger's line about Farnsy and pink hats. Now that's combining two fatwas. Excellent!


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The Filibuster
Is baseball becoming a small man's game? Frank Thomas is retired,
Jermaine Dye can't find a new home. Even Ryan Howard didn't seem to be
quite the same dynamo last season as he was the year before. Joe
Mauer and Albert Pujols, while not necessarily small, definitely
aren't monsters like McGwire and Bonds. And let's not forget Dustin
Pedroia's MVP win from a year ago. With all the focus on multi-tooled
players, is there still a place for a big man with a big stick?
-Levi J.
Peru, IN
Believe me, dear readers, when I put an entire year's salary on the table and bet on the fact that from now until the end of time, in this grand game of ours there will always be a place for a big man with a big stick.
(That's what she said.)
That and I will obviously continue to have the self-restraint of a 14 year old.
But that doesn't matter.
Sure, the game changes. It morphs to suit the times, needs. In the nineteen-aughts the emphasis was on the fundamentals — moving the runner over, taking the ball the other way, sliding cleats up. The Ruthian era saw the longball gain importance. The 60s saw pitching dominate. The game of the 80s stressed the need for speed. The steroid era killed all of that, making it easy for old, overweight has-beens to resuscitate their careers while inflating the record books at the same time, thus exaggerating the homerun to cult status.
And now, after all of that, indeed we are seeing another theme take form and that theme is: athleticism. Five tooled players are the hottest commodity. Weight consciousness abounds. The current goal is to be well-rounded and excel at every part of the job. The more a player can do, the more valuable he becomes and we are experiencing a real shift in the athletic zeitgeist of Major League Baseball.
What a wonderful thing!
Instead of waiting for the juiced-up meat-head to play the 3-run homer waiting game, now we get to see hitters expand the strike zone and hit to all fields. The running game is in renaissance and we get to experience the art of the steal, which in my opinion, is one of the most beautiful facets of any baseball game. And now managers manage more: hit and runs, double steals, sacrifice bunts. They're all results from this new found shift towards athleticism.
Baseball is rewarding itself with pure, stealth athletes.
Yet fear not, homer lovers, for the game will always need its big men. The premier archetype, George Herman Ruth, made baseball what it is today; and without that powerful mystique and consistent threat from the "slugger", baseball would not remain as our US American pastime.
So while the bones of the league may shift more towards athleticism and overall skill, I assure you that there will always be room for Dave Kingman and Frank Thomas and Ryan Howard.
Like they say all over the internets, chicks certainly do dig the long ball.
And contrary to everything you know, chicks run the universe.
Don't hate me. 'Cuz I'm right.
Something on your mind? Want to see Jeff and Al sweat (separately, not together, eww)? Think you got a real stumper? Send us your Filibuster question(s) by commenting or emailing them to us at email@example.com.
***Photo collages of Tiffani Amber Thiessen circa 1992-1996 also welcome.
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We absolutely do. (Dig the longball. And run the universe.) Thanks for recognizing it.
Hey guys,
Are you gonna do another series of "RSBS TV" previewing each divison like last year?
McCarpie — I do what I can🙂
Teen-Tiger — Because it's hard for Al and I to be in the same place due to geography this year, we won't do the same thing but we will continue to produce material under the guise of RSBS TV. Keep checkin' in and thanks for askin!
Love that photo of Ryan :O) And yes, we do dig the long ball, but I also love the running game! Wish there was more of it!
Jenn — Me too. When I was growing up, the running game was the game, so I sorta feel detached from the game of my youth and wish it'd come back full force.
I love love pitchers duals, low scoring games, a squeeze play, great defensive plays and yes the long ball too! My dream is someday to watch a no-hitter in person. I've come close to being there or close to watching one in person. Some day…
I have missed seeing a no-hitter TWICE, Emma! Both Mark Buehrle's! I had tickets to both of the games right after the no-hitters he threw. Always a bit late…
Chicks rule the world, no question. And this chick does dig the long ball, particularly when it's a walk-off. But there's nothing more nail biting than a no-hitter.
Chicks ruling the world and yet still the suggestion that a "big man with a big stick" may have no place…. as you say always room for it, sometimes it may hurt, sometimes it'll be all pleasure, but just like your bushisms, there will always be room….
Outside the Phillies Looking In
Not only do the women dig the longball, we guys do, too! It gets us out of our seats, high-five everyone around you – it makes the loneliest, most unaccepted-in-society person in the world a part of humanity!
As long as the home run ****** doesn't shoot up, pop, drink or use anything to pump themselves up – the world is a better place for the longball hitter!
Jane — I enjoy both… in moderation of course.
Peter — At least Bushisms make you laugh… Yes!
Randy — I agree… let's keep the juice out of it and all will be well.
Personally, I'm not a huge fan of home runs. At the right time, they can be amazing or interesting, but I'd rather see pitching, defense, or a hit to a place where no fielder's gonna be. In the right situation, a double or a sac fly or even a walk can be just as beneficial as a homer. But I seem to be alone in this opinion and MLB does not depend on my support of the longball (and it's one of the most easy things in baseball to understand), it doesn't matter.
"Chicks dig the longball"? Do the hens let em stay up that late? They'll need their rest if they are going to grow into their feathers!
I love a no-hitter, myself. I would not mind "overdosing" on no-hitters, CGs, and perfect games. (Moderation? What's that?…) Too bad you missed Buehrle's gems!
Cici — I like all apsects of the game, in moderation. If every one had the same feel it'd get boring.
Greg — yeah, the no hitter sounds like it'd be great if more plentiful, but in reality I don't think so. Its rarity gives it its mystique.
Jeff, I could see your point if we were talking about a Halladay no-no in a ST game, or King Felix against a B squad in a double-header. (I'd also question their managers' sanity!) There ain't no way, though, that I am getting tired of a Morris-Smoltz matchup–I don't care how many times they throw no-no's or CGs (we knew their offenses were not slouches)! Bring it on! If Cliff Lee is going against Mark Buehrle, I ain't missing it. If three or four guys are in the Cy Young race, and each has thrown a no-no, the way I see it, that would make the Cy Young race more compelling, not less. I for one, wish the CG were more common (whether or not it is a no-no). If you see it differently, OK, but I'd disagree with you. I can't see that getting old, or boring. But what do I know?😉
Take care, Jeff!
Greg, I'm pretty sure we're in agreement. No-hitters are great. But if they happened every day don't you think it'd be a little washed out? Not as important/impressive? I agree the Morris/Smoltz game was one of the best ever (I rewatch it often), but if that type of game was pitched every day by every pitcher, then I wouldn't be nearly as excited about it.
I guess I don't see it that way, no. Oh, well. Take care, Jeff!


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A group called the Aloha Family Alliance this week sent out thousands of fliers showing two men in black suits embracing, about to kiss. They appear to be getting married.
The caption on the flier read, "Don't be fooled. Civil unions is same sex marriage."
It targets State Rep. Blake Oshiro (D) a gay attorney who is the author of the civil unions bill to give homosexual and heterosexual all the benefits of marriage under Hawaii state law. HB444, as the civil unions legislation is popularly known, was vetoed this summer by Gov. Linda Lingle (R).
Oshiro said Thursday he was surprised and disappointed his opponents would go on the attack just days before Hawaii's primary election Saturday.
"I think it is sad people need to resort to such negative imagery in order to get their point across," said Oshiro.
The flier urged support for Oshiro's Democratic primary election opponent Honolulu Councilman Gary Okino, a staunch opponent of civil unions.
Okino has made a crusade out of trying to block legislation that benefits gays.
"If you want a society that is righteous, moral, that is what you have to base your vote on," Okino said Wednesday.
The Aloha Family Alliance that sponsored the flier was described by member James Silva as a small group of six mostly Catholic men from the Aina Haina area.
A word in the flier is misspelled
Oshiro said, "I hope they learn to spell. They spelled some things wrong, but I would hope they realize negative campaigning sometimes ends up hurting the candidate they are trying to help."
Silva said the flier is not negative but rather attention-getting to make sure voters support Okino at the polls.
But Oshiro said after the flier appeared, many people called and e-mailed to offer him their support.
"I received calls from about 15 people who said this turned their stomach, and so, they were definitely going to be voting for me and tell their friends because they found this distasteful," said Oshiro.


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A Win Closer
Yanks Take Series Lead!!!
I'm getting excited. I can't help myself. The Phillies have won 11 of their last 12 postseason home games, and the Yankees beat them last night! No matter what, the Yankees will not lose this series on the road. Game 3 was a great game. I didn't do anything for Halloween, it was just my quintessential Saturday: watching my Yankees win. What could be better? The Yankees beat the Phils 8-5.
Pitching Analysis: Andy Pettitte started last night, and he did a pretty good job. He went 6 innings and allowed 4 runs on 5 hits, and struckout 7. He had a rough 2nd inning in which he allowed 3 runs. Werth homered, the bases became loaded and he walked in a run, and the Victorino got a sac fly to give the Phils a 3-0 lead. Andy served up another solo shot to Werth in the 6th.
Another postseason win for Andy.
The so-called "shaky" bullpen was not shaky last night; in fact it was quite solid. I have to admit, I was nervous when Joba came out to start the 7th. But he really did a nice job, pitching a 1-2-3 7th. In the 8th, it was Damaso Marte's turn, the only reliever besides Mo whom I had confidence in. And he really dealt. He pitched a 1-2-3 8th, and struckout 2 of 3 hitters. Phil Hughes started the 9th. He got 1 out, but then served up a solo homer to Ruiz. I don't know what to think about that. I mean, they had a 4 run lead, so I don't blame him for throwing strikes. But when he was good, he threw strikes and struck everyone out. I don't know. Anyway, after allowing that homer, Hughes was pulled for Mo, who got the next 2 guys out to nail down the victory for the Yanks.
Offensive Analysis: The offense did explode last night, but it took the Yanks awhile to get something started off Hamels. Finally in the 4th, a rally begun. The Yankees were down 3-0 at the start of the inning. Mark Teixeira drew a seemingly-innocent 1 out walk. Then the big man game to the plate. Alex Rodriguez, who was previously 0-8 in this World Series, looked to provide a spark for the Yanks. He hit a ball deep to right that was heading out, but it bounced back into the park in an odd way. I thought it was a homer, but they said it was a double. The Yanks asked for instant replay, and the umps correctly ruled it a homer. Yay! 3-2 now.
Is is gone?
Hell yeaz!
In the 5th, the Yankee bats were loud. Nick Swisher led off with a double. I think it is safe to say he broke out of his slump last night. Melky Cabrera then struckout, and I was like "Darn, Melky, now Pettitte has to bat. Way to strand the runner." I spoke too soon. Andy Pettitte smashed a solid single up the middle, which scored Nick Swisher! An RBI single for Pettitte? Hey, I'll take it! And a funky, awkward slide by Swish.
…..okay then,……that's Swish for you……
The Yanks weren't done yet. Jeet singled, and Johnny Damon drove in 2 more runs with a double! That gave the Yanks a 5-3 lead, a lead that they would never give up.
The Yanks added on 1 run in each of the next 3 innings. In the 6th, Swish hit a solo homer to give his team a 6-3 lead. In the 7th, Jorge drove in a run with an RBI single to make it 7-4. And in the 8th, Hideki Matsui came off the bench and hit an opposite-field solo homer to make it 8-4 Yanks. It was nice to see some extra runs.
This game was pretty exciting. The Yankees were down 3-0, and wound up coming back and winning 8-5. The heroes for this well-played game are Andy Pettitte, for pitching nicely and for being clutch with the bat, Nick Swisher, for coming out of his slump, and Arod, for proving that he is not slumping and for proving wrong the stupid FOX announcers. Haha. It's Ryan Howard who stinks. He was 0-4 with 3 K's last night. He's a bum.
Great job, Yanks. We are so close!!! The closest we've been in years!!!! AAAHHH!!!
Lemme see this 2 more times!!!!
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CC vs. Blanton on paper, is a win for the Yankees. However the games aren't played on paper so we have to approach this game much the same way we did last night's game. Attack early, work the count, knock him out. He has something like an 8+ ERA against us, all when he was in Oakland and Alex specifically has astronomical numbers against him. If CC can give us 7 IP and 2 ER, we can win this game. Provided we hit the ball, of course.
Can you almost taste it? Great job by the Yankees winning the next two games after losing the first one. I'm with you, I'm getting excited! 2 more Yankee wins to go!!!!
— NYColeman
This was good offense. The Yankees are doing good. CC should deliver tonight.
Matthew Tang
WE'RE SO CLOSE I CAN TASTE IT! Or maybe that's just the pizza I had for dinner… whatever. We are ONE WIN AWAY from accomplishing Mission27. This is an incredible feeling. I never want it to end!
Slow your roll kiddies!
Virginia, how many times have I said Girardi is an idiot?
He was up 3 games to 1 and instead of pitching
Gaudin and/or Chamberlain against Lee and hope for the best; He goes with Burnett on short rest and loses.
Now, Pettitte in game 6 and maybe Sabathia in game 7 are going on short rest. If he doesn't go with Burnett in game 5, he would have a rested Burnett in game 6 and could use Pettitte and/or Sabathia in game 7, if necessary. He did not look at the big picture and this could implode. If they win, it won't be because of Girardi; it will be in spite of him. He is an idiot and the only good thing if they lose is that he could & should get fired. I've loved the Yankees since 1970, but I hope he gets fired.


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- Report shows most corn growers following refuge requirements
- Cotton Belt results
Corn growers found to be out of compliance with refuge requirements will be checked more frequently by the Bt corn registrants and have a higher probability of losing access to Bt corn if compliance is not established and maintained.
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As planting for the 2012 season approaches, the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) notes that newly revamped on-farm refuge assessments are part of the enhanced Compliance Assurance Program (CAP) implemented last year, which is designed to improve compliance with Insect Resistance Management (IRM) requirements.
Corn growers found to be out of compliance with refuge requirements will be checked more frequently by the Bt corn registrants and have a higher probability of losing access to Bt corn if compliance is not established and maintained.
The Agricultural Biotechnology Stewardship Technical Committee (ABSTC), a consortium of Bt corn registrants, submits an annual CAP report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describing industry-coordinated compliance assurance efforts for Bt traits.
The year's report is the first following the implementation of the enhanced CAP.
"To implement the CAP, technology providers made some major changes to their procedures last year as directed by EPA," said Mike Smith, ABSTC IRM subcommittee co-chairman.
"One of the changes was the selection process for on-farm assessments. In past years, we've randomly selected those participants, but in 2011 we used a more targeted approach and conducted assessments based on purchase history, and, as anticipated, using this methodology resulted in the identification of more non-compliant growers than in years past.
"Changes were also made to the grower survey and included more Bt corn products with differing refuge requirements."
The survey results include compliance with refuge requirements for corn borer traits and rootworm traits, either alone or in stacked Bt corn products, regardless of refuge size differences.
Highlights of the report include:
• The CAP for all Bt corn products with structured refuge requirements continues to be effective. In 2011, the majority of growers surveyed planted the required refuge size on their farms and the majority of growers surveyed planted a refuge within the required distance for all of their Bt corn fields. Furthermore, the survey indicates that the vast majority of all Bt corn fields have an associated refuge.
• The majority of growers found out of compliance in 2010 were found to be complying with the IRM requirements during the 2011 growing season. This result is consistent with previous years and confirms that the CAP's phase compliance approach in which non-compliant growers were provided additional educational materials and re-assessed in 2011 is working.


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In this Sept. 21, 2007 file picture the Euro sign is photographed in front of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany.
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"Europe's Troubles: Power Politics and the State of the European Project"
Journal Article, International Security, volume 35, issue 4, pages 45-86
Spring 2011
Author: Sebastian Rosato, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 20052006
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Quarterly Journal: International Security
The 1990s were years of great optimism in Europe. As the Europeans were putting the finishing touches on their economic community, observers predicted that political and military integration would soon follow. Optimism has turned to pessimism since the turn of the century, however. Most analysts believe that the economic community is in crisis, and hardly anyone predicts the creation of a political or military counterpart to it. Why has the European project run into trouble and what does the future hold? The answers to these questions are largely to be found in the distribution of power. It was the overwhelming power of the Soviet Union that drove the Western Europeans to consider a variety of integration initiatives and to build and maintain the European Community (EC) during the Cold War. In 1991 the collapse of the Soviet Union deprived them of a compelling geostrategic reason to pursue further integration or even to preserve their economic community. As a result, the Europeans have made no real effort to establish a political or military community over the past two decades, and the EC has slowly started to fray. As long as there are no significant changes in the balance of power going forward, worse times lie ahead.
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December 12, 2012 —
"We have a conflict of interest now. Mr. Clemente is prosecuting me in two different courts. I'm going to be on the board. I would ask the board to either get alternative counsel, or I guess we have to write letters and talk to the state bar and others to see what's right and wrong, because I certainly can't go and talk to him about different issues… where I might find myself in trouble."
That was Ned Lang speaking at the town meeting on December 10. Lang is set to become a member of the Tusten Town Board at the reorganization meeting on January 2, 2013. The remarks refer to the ongoing legal battle between Lang and the town attorney Jeffrey Clemente over a pro-gas drilling sign.
During a raucous and sometimes tense meeting, the board discussed updating the scheduled of penalties for zoning violations.
At one point Lang said, "Mr. Clemente wants to hit me with a $92,000 fine for a sign that was on one of my apartment houses that was two square foot bigger than the law allows; this is a problem."
Clemente countered that this was "a lie," and he added, "Ned and his father are angry because they didn't get special treatment. They were long-standing friends of mine before they decided to do an over-sized sign, and I chose to enforce the law rather than deal under the table with friends."
Lang accused Clemente and the board of selective enforcement and said there are many signs in town that violate the town code.
Clemente responded that a selective enforcement charge is a "weak defense of a person who is guilty."
One proposed change to the schedule of penalties was that each day a violation continued to exist would be considered a separate violation. That was changed to retain the existing language, which said that violations would be added weekly.
The board approved minor changes to the penalties, but kept the provision that stipulates that a first violation is punishable by a fine of $50 to $500, and up to six months in jail. The provision about jail time has existed in the code since at least 2001, and according to code enforcement officer Gary Amerbach, is similar to other town codes in Sullivan County.
Lang called for Amerbach and Clemente to be fired.
In other developments, the board passed a road use agreement law, as Clemente and councilperson Tony Ritter stressed that the law would only impact very large projects, such as large housing developments. Lang and council member Norman Meyer opposed the law.
In a surprising move, Kathy Michell, who served as the town clerk for eight years, resigned from her position effective that night. She said she wanted to spend more time with her mother and coming grandchild and pursue other interests.
Earlier in the year, Michell lost a primary race against Lang. She received a lengthy round of applause from the audience.
The board appointed Carol Coney to fill the remainder of Michell's term.