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Three "case studies" on using Twitter to engage people in a cause and to use Twitter as a fund-raising platform:
Twestival: On one day in February of 2009, Charity: Water held Twestivals around the world. This event combined Twitter with offline events in about 200 cities around the globe. The events generated more than $250,000 in support of Charity: Water's clean water efforts in Africa.
TweetUp4Troops: During the week of Veteran's Day in November 2009, the Christmas SPIRIT Foundation held Twitter-initiated local events to honor veterans, generate support for its Trees for Troops program and have fun. CSF announced the program and began recruiting local hosts in mid-September. In addition to locally hosted events, Applebee's restaurants in the Phoenix area joined by providing funds from a single day event.
Tweetsgiving: Epic Change is a new nonprofit organized that amplifies the voices and impact of grassroots changemakers and social entrepreneurs. One of its major projects involves support for Momma Lucy's school in Tanzania. In 2008, Epic Change held a global 2008 Twitter campaign to "share your gratitude." The effort -- organized by two volunteers and launched six days later -- led to more that $9,000 in donations to Epic Change. In 2009, Epic Change began organizing in May and launched in September. Events around the world increased donations to more than $36,000.
These three campaigns combined Twitter's online functions with off-line hosted events.
We've developed the following "lessons"/"tips" from these campaigns that could benefit other organizations seeking to use Twitter as a platform for fund-raising.
Planning the Campaign:
- Start early (ideally six to nine months before "event").
- Keep it simple: remember you have only 140 characters!
- Make it easy and secure to donate and to spread the story and message.
- Avoid the curse of knowledge (forgetting what it is like not to be on the "inside").
- Select the social media platform that fits your organization and your community. Whatever social media you're using, use it often!
Growing the Campaign:
- Start by engaging your existing network/community and grow from there.
- Build a strong database of participants to continue keeping in touch with after the event is over.
- Pursue those who show interest beyond online conversation.
- Illustrate where contributions go and what donations support (photos, videos, testimonials).
- Be transparent (include any qualifications, share exact dollar ($) amount that goes to the charity; include a "leader board" for fund-raising updates.
- Make your Web presence strong and the site easy to navigate.
- Use a variety of mediums to tell your story: video, photos, audio, etc.
- Seek volunteers aligned with your cause in many regions of the country/globe.
- "Manage" the volunteers and ensure they abide by your values, message, and purpose.
- Provide a link to a place where people can make donations quickly and easily.
- Network, network, network and find others who will spread your message.
Using Twitter for Your Campaign
- Do NOT ask for donations at the beginning; start by building/engaging a community around your cause.
- Team up with other cause marketers or cause marketing programs already on Twitter.
- Communicate personally with followers, especially those who find you. Go to their bio, read their blog, direct message them back with some bit of information that shows you took the time and effort to read about them.
- Search for people who may be interested in your cause on Twitter – do a keyword search to find them.
- Ask core volunteers to retweet for you.
- Select a hashtag (#) that makes sense and is easy to remember/use. Start using it early.
- Consider adding a Twibbon for all who are Tweeting on your cause.
- Remember to thank people on Twitter (or other social networks) for their support/donation. Also retweet when they post/tweet something nice about your organization.
- Tweet the status of the fundraising campaign regularly.
So, what do you think? Which of these are the most important? What is missing to create success?
Please share your thoughts by completing the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DrakeCoTwitterTips.


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Lil Wayne's Mom Urged Him To Quit High School
Lil Wayne's mom encouraged him to drop out of high school.
The 30-year-old rapper, claims his mother advised him to quit school when he was 14 so he could focus on his music career but insists he will be stricter on his own kids.
The Lollipop hit-maker, who has four children, Reginae, 15, Dwayne III, five, Cameron, four, and Neal, also four, from four different relationships, told Katie Couric in a new interview that will air on Monday that he has no regrets about his decision.
He said: "Not at all. I mean, kids please finish high school, and all my kids, you are finishing high school, but it was my mom's idea (for him to drop out).
"I had an album out. I was platinum already, thank God, and I was still trying to go to regular public school and she stopped me getting ready for school one day. She was walking past the room, I'll never forget she was on the phone with somebody talking loud and she walked past my room and she saw me putting my bag on my back and she said, 'you going to bring that to school with you?' and I remember I asked her, 'you don't want me to bring it?' and she thought about it and said, 'I do.'
"Two minutes later she walked back into the room and she was still on the phone and said, 'you don't go to school no more, you're getting a GED.' I said okay."
He added: "So I got a GED and went to college."

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Popular comedian "Sumeo" dead at 58
Samoa's very own comedian and funniest man Molioo Leaena "Sumeo" Si'itia passed away yesterday morning while getting ready to go on air for his very popular morning radio talk show called "Malu ole Taeao" on Talofa FM at 7 a.m. Samoa time.
Samoa News spoke with Enoka Keresoma who was at the studio with Sumeo yesterday morning. He said that while he and Sumeo were getting ready to go on air, Sumeo collapsed.
"I contacted the ambulance and tried to revive Sumeo; CPR was performed… while waiting for the ambulance, however the efforts were unsuccessful."
Keresoma said Sumeo collapsed at 7:05 a.m. and died on the way to Tupua Tamasese Meaole hospital in Mato'otua.
He added that Sumeo will be sorely missed not just as a co-worker but a funny man, who lightens up the whole office every day with his jokes, both on and off air.
Samoa News understands his wife, Liai Si'itia, is overseas attending a business meeting in Bangkok.
Sumeo's three boys were notified of the death of their father immediately after the incident.
Sumeo's duo with Samoa's other favorite comedian Petelo, became household voices for many families on Radio Polynesia for more than 10 years.
Sumeo and Petelo videos on YouTube are also a hit with Samoans living off island.
One of Sumeo's close friends, Marieta Heidi Ilalioa, a reporter with the Samoa Observer, told Samoa News she's still trying to cope with Sumeo's sudden passing.
"I still can't believe he's gone. Sumeo is a funny, loving person that anyone would want to be friends with," she said.
Sumeo was 58 years old and from the villages of Lotofaga Aleipata and Vaitele fou.
The last time Sumeo was in the territory was early July upon an invitation by Gubernatorial team Lolo Letalu Moliga and Lemanu Peteli Mauga. Comedian Sumeo and sidekicks Pili and Ne'emia performed before the senior citizens who were treated with entertainment and lots of laughs.


text: Most Christmas songs are cheery and happy. For many people, however, the holidays are difficult, and can lead to increased depression and anxiety. It seems like all the holiday songs talk about how much this is the "most wonderful time of the year". However, holidays can also remind people of loss. I think the song "River" by Joni Mitchell, from her album Blue, is a great Christmas song that deals with grief and loneliness during the holidays.


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Cooling System
The reference single-slot cooler Nvidia developed for the GeForce 8800 GT proved to be not quite good. It even didn't cope with its job in cramped system cases with poor ventilation. The GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB being based on a G92 chip in which all 128 shader processors are active and having higher clock rates than the GeForce 8800 GT, Nvidia has to return to the solution that was tested on the GeForce 8800 GTX and older GeForce 8800 GTS to avoid overheat-related problems.
Notwithstanding a differently shaped casing and a different base, this is still the same design with a blower and a heavily ribbed aluminum heatsink. It exhausts the hot air out of the system case through the slits in the mounting bracket. Three heat pipes are utilized to distribute heat evenly in the heatsink. Two of the pipes transfer the heat right to the spot from where the hot air is exhausted. The third pipe connects the base with the edge of the heatsink in front of the fan. The sole of heatsink, which contacts with the GPU die, is made from copper, of course. Ordinary dark-gray thermal grease is used as a thermal interface.
The base the rest of the cooler components are installed on has juts at the places of contact with the memory chips and load-bearing elements of the power circuit. Fabric pads soaked in white thermal grease are used there to ensure proper thermal contact.
The cooler has a Delta BFB1012L fan (5.67W, 0.48A, 12V) with PWM-based speed regulation. Its speed in 3D mode is normally not higher than 1000-1100rpm, which is perfectly silent. This indicates high efficiency of the cooler. The whole arrangement is secured on the PCB with a number of spring-loaded screws and additionally fastened to the mounting bracket to prevent the cooler from misaligning and damaging the GPU die. The rectangular casing of the cooler is embellished with a picture of the robot. The fan bears a Leadtek logo. These are the only things that differentiate the card from the reference one.
So Nvidia secured its new product against overheat with a high-performance cooler that may cope with the card even at overclocked frequencies. This cooler features a clever design, a high quality of manufacture and high reliability.


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Living in Romantic Baghdad
An American Memoir of Teaching and Travel in Iraq, 1942-1947
Publication Year: 2012
Published by: Syracuse University Press
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Editor's Foreword
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Why is this memoir published posthumously, almost sixty years aft er it was written? Th e author, Ida Donges Staudt (1875-1952), and her husband, Calvin K. Staudt (1876-1951), who cofounded the American School for Boys in Baghdad in 1924, retired in 1947. They accepted the invitation
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This book chronicles interesting and colorful incidents of my life in Baghdad and Iraq. It gives my observations and experiences and reactions in a reborn land as it was trying to adjust itself to a new world with its surging influences and problems. My life in Iraq, as it was framed between two...
1. Arriving in Baghdad, 1924
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When I was graduated from a small college, which was only a little more than a preparatory school, I was not yet sixteen. The town was small and its two major influences were the college and the church. I grew up rather unsophisticated and knew much less of the general ways of the world than...
2. An Educational Adventure
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Our appointed task was to be engaged in educational work in Baghdad, and to that end we at once addressed ourselves. It was an educational adventure in more ways than one, and was undertaken at a time when conditions for such a venture were favorable. This was shortly after the...
3. School of Life
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As I was about to undertake the writing of this chapter, a letter came to us from one of our former students who is now enjoying a fellowship in a university in America where he is doing graduate work. In his letter he tells what the American School for Boys in Baghdad has meant to him. He...
4. Significant Occasions
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No sooner had we arrived in Baghdad than we launched into a continuous stream of public events. These were significant occasions which introduced us to every phase of Baghdad's stirring and varied life. These occasions, too, were spectacular and dramatic in both setting and action...
5. Yesterday and Today in Baghdad
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I seldom went down the street in those earlier years without exclaiming at something new that had caught my eye: a new business establishment displaying new goods, the first large plate window installed by an automobile concern, a modern hotel modeled aft er a European, a cinema offering...
6. Gardens, Houses, and Feasts
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No one really knows the heart of Baghdad unless he has intimately entered into the exquisitely lovely customs that prevailed. It was my rare privilege while in Baghdad to enjoy many a garden party, to share the joys of the various feasts of the different communities, to be entertained with...
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Weddings in all countries are of ageless interest, and those in Baghdad were novel as well as interesting to us. This, in large measure, was attributed to the great variety of forms which stemmed from the many races and religions in the population and the desire of each group to hold on tenaciously...
8. Little Journeys about the City
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How long the summer days in Baghdad are. The sun rises early and greets the sleepers on the roof with a heated and vehement call: "Arise, arise." And it is the part of wisdom to heed this fervid call. For the sluggard who continues to doze aft er Phoebus has given the call there is no mercy. He...
9. Baghdad from the Tigris
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It is the Tigris that draws you in Baghdad; at least, it did draw me. The river is so accessible, so near to every part of the city, flowing almost through the middle of it, that one would suppose much use would be made of it for recreation and enjoyment. But we did not find this to be so, though when...
10. To Basrah on the Tigris
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Having learned to know the Tigris as it flows through the heart of Baghdad, I bestirred myself to follow its course also from Baghdad to Basrah. Henry Van Dyke once wrote that every river has its own quality and that it is the part of wisdom to know and love as many as you can...
11. Visiting the Shiah Holy Cities
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The rug below the table on which I am writing was bought from an Iranian pilgrim. As I look down and see the intricate design, and turn the rug over to see the many knots to the square inch, I am touched with a profound thought. Th is pilgrim came with very little money in his possession...
12. In the Land of the Kurds
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When you are in Baghdad you certainly are confined to it. Are there pleasant drives in the environs, or a variety of scenes nearby, or hills with a cooler air within a reasonable distance? None. Th e plain of southern Iraq, throughout most of the year, is a hot, parched desert, with towns not...
13. Exploring Scenic Iraq
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From Arbil to the Iranian frontier five mountain ranges must be crossed. When we had reached the top of the first range, we could discern lying before us, as far as the eye could reach, range aft er range of mountains, each rising higher and higher in the distance. Some of the peaks toward...
14. The Bedouin Tribes
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One cannot live in Iraq without being conscious all the time of the tribes. Almost the whole population outside the cities is subject to the tribal system. Someone who has lived in the country the major part of his life, and who knew the tribal ramifications, has stated that seven-eighths of the...
15. The Uprooted Assyrians
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Strange to have a train conductor in ecclesiastical robes," I said to my husband in the train from Basrah to Baghdad on our arrival in Iraq in 1924. He was a friendly, bearded man, this priestly conductor, or guard as the British would say. Th e black robe he wore had a rusty look, and the purple trimmings...
16. Iraq's Great Statesman
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Three armies in the First World War were on the march to break up the Turkish Ottoman Empire. These three campaigns were spectacular and of staggering consequences. General Allenby marched his army from Egypt into Palestine; Prince Faisal and Colonel Lawrence headed toward...
17. And So They Passed
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The death of King Faisal was a great loss to the country. Indeed, it was a calamity for he could not be replaced. Then there were other very influential people who passed away aft er our arrival in Baghdad. Th e number is really appalling. Death seems to have singled out Iraq as his special field...
18. The Magic Horse and the Magic Carpet
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Routes! Routes of migration, routes of armies, routes of travel, routes of trade; land routes, sea routes, and air routes girdling the earth like Ariel! Nowhere else in the world had I ever become so conscious of routes as in Iraq. Whether I was thinking of the ancient highways of the land or...
19. The Story of Oil
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Three letters of the alphabet spell the little word oil, which, like the little word atom, is charged with tremendous power, both for good and for evil. Oil has shaped and shapes national and international policies. It causes plans and intrigues to move as does that dark and thick and oily flow. It...
20. A Nazi-Inspired Revolt, 1941
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Crossing Faisal Bridge one morning, an automobile stopped at my side, and a friendly voice invited me to share the car. It was the wife of Herr Doctor Grobba, the German minister to Iraq. Incidentally while conversing, she made some reference to her husband, and this gave her an occasion...
21. Changing and Changeless Baghdad
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In July of 1941 we left Baghdad with nothing in our possession by way of booking except railway tickets from Baghdad to the port of Basrah. As World War II was on, we were advised to go without booking and pick up chances along the way. Happily, chances followed one aft er another...
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Print-ISBN-13: 9780815609940
Print-ISBN-10: 0815609949
Page Count: 296
Illustrations: 1 map and 1 black & white
Publication Year: 2012
OCLC Number: 808345632
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AJMER: A two-member empowered committee of the Rajasthan high court found delays in implementing court orders on the issue of Anasagar and Foy Sagar lakes. The members said complaints of pick and choose on removing encroachment in catchment area have come to them. The committee has asked the administration to make the area free encroachment zone by February 21. The two members, Ashok Bhargava and Virandera Dhani, reached Ajmer on Saturday and surveyed the Anasager Lake. They checked the drainage treatment plant site and inquired about the progress of construction. Officials of the municipal corporation assured them that the plant will start working in the next few months. The committee
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By Fermat's Little Theorem is divisible by 5, if is not divisible by 5
Fermat's Little Theorem states that:
Given a prime and a natural number coprime to
I need to show that if p is an odd prime not equal to 5, then either or is divisible by 10. It was trivial to show that they were both divisible by 2, so all that's left is to show one of them must be divisible by 5. I tried this a couple of different ways. First, I tried to assume one was not divisible by 5, and prove that the other one was. I also multiplied them together and tried to show that was divisible by 5, since there is a theorem that states if p is prime and p divides ab, then p divides a or p divides b. However, I got stuck using both methods. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Consider the sequence of integers . These are 5 consecutive integers, so exactly one of them is divisible by 5. Hence their product, which is , is divisible by 5. But . Therefore is divisible by 5. Since 5 is prime, this means that one of and must be divisible by 5. In the latter case, is divisible by 5.
And as youve pointed out, theyre both divisible by 2; hence whichever of them is divisible by 5 is divisible by 10.
Examining every possible situation
(p is not 5)
Now where and are natural numbers,
Now you have to show that one of this factors is divisible by five for b=1,2,3,4
Indeed if b=1, then 5a+b-1=5a which is divisible by 5
If b=2 then 25a²+5ab+2²+1= 25a²+5ab+5 also divisible by 5
If b=3 then 25a²+5ab+3²+1= 25a²+5ab+10 divisible by 5
If b=4 then 5a+b+1= 5a+5 divisible by 5
We have shown that is divisible by 5 whenever p is not divisible by 5


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As a journalist I was disgusted to see one of my contemporaries, Close Up's Kate Lynch, blatantly plagiarise someone else's work.
Admittedly, we creative journalists tread a fine line, paying homage to others' work on occasion and openly borrowing research material on others - but to so obviously steal an entire concept and then claim it as your own is unacceptable. It reflects badly on all of us and is a cautionary tale. But on to this week's column.
Despite the hysteria and misreporting which emanated from the UK's Million Women Study, hormone-replacement therapy is a wonderful development of modern medicine.
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Is there a gender pay gap in this country for people doing the same job? It seems so, according to research from the Ministry of Women's Affairs - up to 17 per cent less than men for graduates with equivalent degrees. But the causes are complex and - women won't want to hear this - it's largely our fault.
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So what do we want? To have our cake and eat it too? Green MP Catherine Delahunty's Equal Pay Amendment Bill which she says will remove discrimination?
This will force employers to report all employees' personal records - salaries, home address, education - to the Labour Department for statistic keeping and publication. It will also force employers to reveal this information to any employees who demand to see it or, if confidentiality is an issue, an independent arbitrator. Who pays? Three guesses.
Sisters, this is not feminism. This is patronising. This says women are so feeble they need Big Brother to force bosses' arms up their backs and give women, who mostly are paid less at the moment, equality. What happens when the tables inevitably turn and women are paid more? Will we show ours if they show theirs?
But there is hope for equity from our youth. Midweek I co-judged a debate, Youth for Act. They want government out of our lives.
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There's been no lack of discussion lately about the use of this sourcing medium or that. Is Twitter better than Facebook? Are niche job boards more effective than general ones? And so on. These are all important questions, to be sure, but the media we select represent just one-half of a successful sourcing strategy. The other half is the message we deploy on those media, and with apologies to Marshall McLuhan, that message has its own distinct purpose and value.
Historically, we recruiters have devoted the content of our messaging to information. We typically provide details on the requirements and responsibilities of the positions we are filling and, often but not always, an introduction to the products or services of our employer. Basically, we are announcing our openings. And for much of the 20th Century, that was good enough.
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GOP still clueless – it's not about majorities, it's about fundamental change
Nate Silver is someone I've come to enjoy reading when it comes to election analysis. He knows his business. But he too seems to have missed the significance of the New Hampshire and Delaware senatorial primaries, casting them only as elections – if they go to the "insurgent" Tea Party backed candidates – that could cost the GOP a majority in the Senate if the insurgents win.
Of course, that's not the point, at least as I see them. While Christine O'Donnell may not be the ideal candidate for the US Senate, she's at least fiscally conservative. Mike Castle, the GOP choice on the other hand, is described by Silver like this:
… Michael N. Castle, who has held elected office in Delaware for 30 years as its governor, lieutenant governor and lone United States representative. … Mr. Castle — a moderate who is unambiguously a member of the establishment …
Are any lights flashing and horns sounding in your head right now? Silver describes Castle in terms that make him part of the problem, not part of the solution. He's a perfect plug-in to the Congress the country as a whole seems so unsatisfied with and is on the verge of changing.
Oh sure, he might nominally give the GOP another seat in the Senate – but to what end? Voting with the Snowe/Collins Republicans and the Democrats on bills that expand government and spend more?
When is a seat not really a seat, or a majority not really a majority? When you elect "moderates" of either party who are not averse to expanding the role of government. That's part of the reason you see more and more polarization within the country. Right now the left is having fun characterizing the right as "radical". But one only need look at the size of the liberal caucus in the House to know where the heart of leftist radicalism lies.
I continue to harken back to polls which show the vast majority of Americans think the country is on the wrong track – in numbers which haven't changed much in the last 8 years or so. In other words, the people as a whole are dissatisfied with both parties and their representation. And again, I'll point back to the Ned Lamont/Joe Lieberman race where the left tried precisely what is happening on the right in states such as AK, NH and DE at the moment.
These movements to effect change are indicators. What is described as "radicalism" from "political activists" are the surface bubbles of a molten core of unrest among the majority of Americans. They're thrashing around for ways and means of changing something that seems never to change. The Tea Party movement is one of those bubbles. The Daily Kos left was another. But nothing much has changed, has it? And the "wrong track" numbers continue to remain at a constant level. And the frustration builds.
This isn't about majorities in the Senate. It isn't about the horserace in November. It's about fundamental change – and not many seem to understand that. The people in Alaska have said "enough" with the Joe Miller primary win. The fact that the GOP primary races in both DE and NH are as close as they are should be sending unmistakable messages to the GOP leadership – one's even they can't miss – that establishment moderates aren't who the people want in the Senate. Naturally, it seems the Republicans are as tone deaf as everyone else.
If the GOP only wins 7 seats instead of 9 in the Senate, that's fine, as long as the 7 are of the type that are committed to paring government down – reducing its sized influence and cost. Those 7 are enough to keep the Snow/Collins branch of the GOP from pushing the numbers over to the Democratic side. As it stands, in fact, not having a Senate majority is probably better for the GOP than achieving one right now – they'd just blow it and, as Mitch McConnell once said, being minority leader in the Senate is one of the most powerful positions in Congress. And besides, we'd have to listen to Obama whine for 2 years about the "Republican Congress".
Nope, the hand writing is on the wall if the GOP (and for that matter, the Democrats) would just pause long enough in the partisan bickering and bomb throwing to read it. This isn't about either of their parties, or them. It's about changing the direction of the country. The party that first manages to absorb that message and then elect candidates that actually work toward that end is the party that is going to be in power for quite some time. In principle, that should be the GOP. But as usual, in their normal clueless way, they continue on the same road that put them in the minority two years ago believing instead that all this excitement about the midterms is actually because people are embracing their candidates over the Dems. How they have missed the fact that the Tea Party insurgency indicates they couldn't be more wrong still amazes me.
So continue on your merry blinkered way, GOP, and fight the movement and candidates who're all but lighting the way with the platform you should be embracing. Continue to put up your moderate establishment candidates and then wonder why, in two years time, you're back on the other side of the wave as Democrats are again swept into office while you are pushed out.
It is the usual short term view that drives politics today and drives me crazy. The belief that winning a majority is all that's important because then the party can act on its agenda. No – it can't. Not if those it has elected aren't in tune with the principles of the platform. Not if those elected are "moderates" who have no problem with big government, subsidies, entitlements and high taxes.
If returning to the fundamentals of Constitutional government is "radical" then the GOP needs to become the radical party. Until they absorb that, embraces that "radicalism" and runs candidates who believe in that fundamental principle, the wrong track numbers will continue to remain constant and the GOP will continue to be the clueless lesser of two evils, but not by much.
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If returning to the fundamentals of Constitutional government is "radical" then the GOP needs to become the radical party. Until they absorb that, embraces that "radicalism" and runs candidates who believe in that fundamental principle, the wrong track numbers will continue to remain constant and the GOP will continue to be the clueless lesser of two evils, but not by much.
And it will at lease flirt with its own demise.
This isn't about majorities in the Senate. It isn't about the horserace in November. It's about fundamental change – and not many seem to understand that.
We just can't seem to get this across to those whose mental model of politics is a complex football game, in which the most important consideration is for their side to "win". For them, winning is more about bragging rights to their liberal buddies, and taking satisfaction that they've accomplished something by putting their side in control.
Winning an election means nothing! If the people elected don't move in the direction you want to go, you've accomplished nothing. At best, you might have slowed the pace of the march over the cliff, but I'd say even there the bad outweighs the good. Here's why.
If Republicans win with Snowe/Collins/Castle/etc types as a big enough segment to control what passes and what doesn't, we get a double whammy against us. First, nothing of consequence happens, because those squishes tug on their chins and have sober, ego-boosting meetings with their opponents (in which they usually get rolled and are too damn stupid to realize it), and end up insisting that anything that can pass is so watered down it doesn't reach the level of fundamental change. It's just tinkering around the edges.
Second, the rot continues, but limited government conservatives are blamed for it! They were nominally in control, even though in fact they were not because the squishes are not conservative. That nuance does not get past the media propaganda machine, which is determined to make limited government types look bad. "See! We let them try their whacky, extremist ideas. They didn't work!"
And then discontent starts building to throw out those Republicans, and the cycle begins again, with each turn of the crank making it less likely that the serious change we need to make is practical without breaking the system down completely and starting over.
If we can't have fundamental change, we're screwed. I would rather see limited government devotees in a years-long minority, constantly warning about the coming calamties and polishing their proposals for fundamental change, than have them combined with squishes for a majority that does nothing of consequence but has to stay quiet about what's coming for the sake of holding their coalition together. At least, that long term devoted minority might be given control when it matters most, because both the big government crowd and the "why can't everybody get along" squishes have both clearly failed.
Wow, this post is as wrongheaded as it can possibly be.
When McQ writes that this is "about changing the direction of the country", he should recognize that his approach will never, ever, EVER accomplish the change he desires. McQ simply fails to recognize that the American political system contains too many veto points to effect change in the method he advocates. In order for McQ's preferred method to effect the change he desires, he would have to elect in excess of 60 Senators that are "committed to paring government down ", PLUS a large majority of House members who are "committed to paring government down ", PLUS a President who is "committed to paring government down" PLUS have a judiciary that is willing to accept "paring government down" — all simultaneous. The chances of that happening are pretty infinitesimal. After all, the Democrats have had two successive extraordinary electorally successful cycles, and are not even near having those types of majorities.
Contrary to McQ's wrongheaded notion about how to effect change, the best way to effect change is to elect a large number of moderates to offices where non-moderates cannot win, and then convince the moderates to work with you to effect the changes you desire to the greatest extent possible.
McQ writes that the Tea Party and Daily Kos constitutes"the surface bubbles of a molten core of unrest among the majority of Americans", who are "thrashing around for ways and means of changing something that seems never to change. … But nothing much has changed, has it?" McQ ought to reread and contemplate that sentence more. Daily Kos, like the Tea Party, is one of those bubbles. And Daily Kos has had two extraordinarily successful electoral cycles in a row. How successful does McQ think Daily Kos has been at effecting its style of change? To the extent that Democrats have been successful at effecting Daily Kos-style change, it is because they worked to coopt Democratic moderates, not drive them away and drive their seats to the opposite party. To the extent that Democrats have effected Obamacare (which is, to be sure, not even close to what Daily Kos would prefer as a health care system), it is because they were able to get the votes of the Ben Nelson's and Blanche Lincoln's of the world to vote for Obamacare.
There will never be 60 Jim DeMint's in the Senate, 250 Paul Ryan's in the House, Ronald Reagan in the WH, and a majority of Scalia and Thomas's throughout the judiciary — all simultaneously. Never. The only way to effect the change you desire is to elect 45 Jim DeMints and 15 Mike Castles, and then convince the Mike Castle's to go along with the Jim DeMints.
The only way to effect the change you desire is to elect 45 Jim DeMints and 15 Mike Castles, and then convince the Mike Castle's to go along with the Jim DeMints.
At gun-point.
Seriously, did you become politically aware this year…??? I go back several decades now. Tried that…doesn't work.
I became politically aware round about 1980. And not once during the last 30 years have we had 45 Jim DeMints in the Senate. So when you write "Tried that…doesn't work", I'd ask: when? As far as I can tell, there have never been 45 Jim DeMints and 15 Mike Castles, or anything near that. There have been maybe 20 Jim DeMints, and 20 Lisa Murkowskis, and 15 Mike Castles. That certainly doesn't work. But the solution is to get rid of the Lisa Murkowskis and elect in their stead Jim DeMints, as will happen in Alaska. As I outlined above, getting rid of the Mike Castles and trying to elect Jim DeMints in their place will certainly not work.
As I outlined above, getting rid of the Mike Castles and trying to elect Jim DeMints in their place will certainly not work.
First of all, you don't know it won't work. I grant that it's a low probability, but low probability doesn't mean zero. We're reaching a sea change in how people look at government, and a lot of the old rules are out the window. We won't really know until we make a full-throated try.
Second, you don't account for the damage caused by any significant number of Castles in the party. They encourage more squishes. They make deals with corporate types, and play politics as usual. They drive their own party's base into cynicism and despair. They stroke their own egos by "affecting the process", e.g. sabotaging any real attempts at change.
Then, and here's the kicker, when you absolutely need their support the worst… they bail. See Jeffords, Jim and Specter, Arlen. They go to the other side to get their egos stroked, and pull away any chances for real change.
Convince 15 Castles to go along with 45 Demints? Ha! How many of them would just trot over the Democrats and whine about being treated badly, and be promised a plum committee chairmanship, and jump ship?
We heard exactly the same arguments you are making when Toomey took on Specter in 2004. See the outcome? Now, why in the world would we expect different outcomes this time around?
First of all, you don't know it won't work.
Yes we do. Because only Scott Brown or Mike Castle can get elected in their respective states.
Christine O'Donnell isn't electable in Delaware. Not only is she too conservative for the population, but she is also woefully underqualified to be a US Senator. We have an incredibly difficult time electing candidates that are more qualified than the Dems (see Ferris Wharton vs. Beau Biden).
You know the Democrat Machine, if not the Democrat politicians, ignore the Tea Party movement as a political strategy. They wouldn't take the time to smear them as racist if they didn't really take them seriously.
The Republicans are hopelessly in denial about the Tea Party movement. They are being given a 2nd chance and whoa is them if they don't make a serious effort to act on it. But I believe the think the public would be satisfied with Clinton era quasi-gridlock. They don't appreciate that isn't sufficient and there will be adverse consequences for them as well if they think it is.
How do you pronounce "Christine O'Donnell" in Connecticutt-ese?
— 'Ned Lamont'
It may make Conservatives feel better about themselves and their idealogical purity to vote for CO'D, but at the end of the day, but she's a guaranteed loss in November. And I'd rather have a guy that votes with us 75% of the time (Castle) vs. a guy that votes with us .05% of the time (the Dem nominee).
And that doesn't even factor in money. With Castle on the ticket, the election's already in the back and Republicans don't have to spend a dime. With O'Donnell, they'll have to blanket the airwaves (the costly Philly and Baltimore airwaves, no less) just to make it competitive. That money would be much better spent in NV, WA, CO, WI, OH…
And I'd rather have a guy that votes with us 75% of the time (Castle) vs. a guy that votes with us .05% of the time (the Dem nominee).
I wouldn't, not when the 25% he doesn't support consists of the things we absolutely must do to turn the tide of big government.
What good are the 75% "voting with us" votes when the "us" is creating new welfare state programs like the 2001-2006 GOP?
You realize that the Democrat that will get elected if Castle loses the primary will vote for all the 25% as well. And the 75% Castle wouldn't. And unlike Castle, he isn't 71 with the potential to retire from politics in the near future.
I wouldn't, not when the 25% he doesn't support consists of the things we absolutely must do to turn the tide of big government.
Ralph Nader circa 2000 approves of this logic.
"As I said earlier, your arguments are the exact same arguments we heard from pragmatic Specter supporters in 2004. "
Except that:
* the pre-primary polls had Toomey down just a few points in the general instead of a slaughter.
* Toomey didn't come with the excess baggage that O'Donnell does
* Toomey had a record to run on while O'Donnell is the Conservative version of Obama: no experience.
Imagine for a moment that Republicans were 100% conservatives as Democrats are 100% liberal or progressive or what ever we're calling them.Then when neither party had a significant majority,all negotiated compromises would end with a policy in the center. When the Republicans had a significant majority, then new policy would be right of center and, of course, new policy would be left of center when the Democrats had the majority.
But the Republicans are not 100% conservatives. More like 75% or 80%. Therefore, when the Republicans have the majority, new policy at best ends up at the center. When neither side has a significant majority, new policy ends up left of center. And when the Democrats have the majority, new policy ends up much further to left than it would if the Republicans were 100% conservatives. This explains why, over the years, government policy has tilted so much to the left.
So I agree with Billy Hollis. The RINO's have to go!
OK yeah. This Republican primary boils down to the old argument about "form vs function"
The old choice between an iPod that looks like a toilet, or an iPod that explodes.
I'll take none of the above.
Looks like O'Donnell won.
Get behind her, or the FREAK out of the way.
"…may not be the ideal candidate…"
May be the political understatement of the season.
This is the direction you want the Tea Party to take us???
And the intellectual case against O'Donnell is overwhelming. A précis for those who have avoided the Delaware drama: O'Donnell lied about attending a Master's degree program at Princeton University; claimed that her political enemies are creeping in the bushes outside her house; is opposed to the sinister habit of masturbation; is a supporter of the "ex-gay" movement, despite the inconvenient revelation that her former staffer Wade Richards "returned" to homosexuality and denounced those peddling "cures" for his sexuality; filed a $6 million lawsuit against the conservative group ISI for "gender discrimination"; was denounced by her former campaign manager as a "fraud" who uses campaign donations to pay rent and utility bills; and has implied that her Republican opponent is gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Bravo, tea party. Bravo. Does "anybody but Castle" really have to be just anybody?
And congratulations to Chris Coons for winning the lottery today.


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Posted on February 15 2013 by Brian E. Scheid
We all love a good piece of music, especially when it's from the Zelda universe. But what one thing we love more are fan arrangements of our favorite pieces, especially when they sound (arguably) better than the original. YouTuber Shigihara has posted her own vocal rendition of Fi's Theme, technically Fi's Lament heard at the end of the game, which she describes as using pseudo-Hylian and Ciroan (A game she is developing). The result is a beautiful cover that sounds oddly like it could've come from the game Nier, a game which had one of the most superb soundtracks made in recent history so you know it'll be good!
On another note, Shigihara is holding an Ocarina contest in which the winner can receive a Zelda Tenor Ocarina from STL Ocarina so be sure to watch the video through to the end to see how to enter for a chance to win!


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Although your dream car may be more along the lines of a ferrari or an audi r8, some of the future developments in the automotive industry might be just as likely to turn heads.
The Aptera 2e, for instance, has attracted national attention by winning the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize. The coveted prize will be awarded on September 16 in Washington, D.C.
The X Prize is a $5 million award for the most innovative new green car. In order to win, the car had to get more than 100 miles per gallon of gasoline or be fueled by another efficient source. It also had to be capable of being produced on a large scale.
For the Aptera team, winning this prize is a dream come true. 111 vehicles were initially in competition for the award.
The body of the Aptera 2e is said to be three times as strong as traditional steel, and its sleek three-wheeled design has a pod-like, futuristic appearance.
With a top speed of 90 miles per hour and the ability to go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in less than 10 seconds, the 2e is no slouch in the performance department. The 2e is an all-electric vehicle.
Testing for the X Prize included a combination of lab trials and real-world track experience. The car underwent two months of testing at the Michigan International Speedway, where it was driven on the track to test its performance and handling.
For the lab testing, the Aptera 2e was tested at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. There, its energy consumption and emissions were measured using a device called a "dynamometer."
The Aptera team was unsure of how the car would perform in the lab testing. Apterra Chief Engineer Tom Reichenbach was hopeful from the start, but even he was pleasantly surprised by the results.
"We expected the results to be better than what we got at the track, but it was significantly better. We were very pleased," he said. "We came to the X PRIZE to validate this vehicle as one of the most efficient in the world, and we've done just that. It's been an awesome experience."
As of right now, the Aptera 2e is only available for purchase in California. However, the company is working to expand its sales range. The X Prize may make that possible.
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All of these teams were excluded from the preseason Top 25 ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll but find themselves currently ranked.
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The SEC has a reputation for playing stifling defense, but the running game has been just as good over the years. Last season, a total of eight teams averaged at least 160 yards on the ground, and there were two that ranked inside the top 20 in the country.
When looking at the backfields in the SEC, there is just about everything you hope to see. There are your bruisers who want to run defenders over and pick up those tough yards. You have your playmakers that look to make defenders miss and end up on highlight reels.
However, the thing that arguably separates this conference from everybody else is the depth at the running back position. While most teams have just one great back, the SEC may have two or three guys who could legitimately be the starter.
There is still a lot of time between now and the new season, but it is never too early to peak at what the new year has to offer.
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PETA Celebrates 100,000th Lifesaving Surgery
Thanks to your support, PETA is celebrating a heartwarming milestone. Our little fleet of mobile clinics recently performed its 100,000th spay/neuter surgery since it began operating in 2001. The lucky recipient was Coco, a female pit bull from Lewiston, North Carolina, who had been bred an appalling three times before her owner finally agreed to do the right thing and get her spayed. Coco is out of the puppymaking business at last, and with her risk of cancer and other diseases reduced, she'll most likely be much healthier and happier. She also won't be bringing more pit bulls into the world to be chained outside, forced to fight, abused, or abandoned.
Spaying and neutering prevents cats and dogs from being born into a world that is already teeming with discarded animals. These unwanted animals would likely be dumped on the streets or would have to be euthanized in shelters. Thank you for helping PETA spare millions of animals a life of suffering. And we're not going to rest on our laurels: The spay-and-neuter marathon at our Norfolk headquarters this month means that we're now working toward our 200,000th lifesaving surgery.
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Help "fix" the homeless-animal crisis! You can volunteer to help "Cocos" in your area or sponsor one in ours.
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PETA you are performing wonders. I dream of the day that all animals are free of suffering and and finally are respected and given the right to share this wonderful planet with mankind.
I am a proud owner of seven cats and one dog. PETA your awesome thanks for your support of the animals 🙂 one day I dream animal abuse and animal cruelty will stop.
its ,,just so amazing the fact ,that how so meany people HAVE LOVE for the animals ,I wish and I pray to that ,one day just ever and forever will any kind of animal that lives all over the earth,to live in freedom be protected,and the care of all of us people in earth.I THANK YOU PETA FOR DOING THIS ACTION FOR HELPING THOSE INNOCENT CREATURE WHO HAVE ANY RIGHT LIVE THEIR LIVES..the greatest gift our planet-earth,this will be,00STOP–TOTALLY KILLING AND EXPERIMENTATION ANIMALS..THANK YOU PETA FOR GREAT CARES"!!!!
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A Barter Available to You
Ever hear the story of the kid who bartered a free cell phone up to a Porsche or a red paperclip up to a house? Craigslist offers yet another random section under for sale, called barter. Here is a local one available to you:
Bounty Hunter Metal Detector (Gloucester)
I have a $750.00 Bounty Hunter metal detector that I would like to trade for an Ipad tablet.This machine has been used three times and just sits in a closet.I need to trade it for something I can use.I would like to get a 32 gig Apple IPAD for trade.Let me know what you have and we can go from there.Thanks for reading.Comes with bag and two coils and manual.
I have always told my wife, when I retire I just want an old school lawn chair (you know the ones that you can't strap on your back) and a metal detector. I will roam the beaches with my headphones on and dream of the big find. I hope someone takes their Ipad, trades it for the metal detector, finds a huge diamond ring and then buys a house on Good Harbor Beach. With a name like Bounty Hunter were you really expecting a metal detector? I was thinking sawed off shotgun.
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Pop Gallery's Peggy Russell
Look for the Peggy Russell interview At Newly Opened Pop Gallery Tomorrow
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Pop Gallery Is Located at 67 Main Street In Beautiful Downtown Gloucester's West End
Block Party Pics!
The block party was a blast had by all! We had three boys and found plenty of fun for both the wee one and the teens at Toodeloos, West End Sweets, the big inflated movie screen from Cape Ann Community Cinema, and just walking around. Afterward, sitting on the boulevard under the moon listening to the waves was a perfect end to a lovely day!
ps: Anyone catch the homie windsock floating over Citizen's Bank?
Pimp!- Panther Lamp at Bananas
Sabine at Bananas tells me that back in the day when people first started having televisions in their homes the press was telling people that they needed to have a light on in the room or they would go blind watching tv in the dark. So most people had some type of lamp on top of their big ol' tv sets. She says the panther lamp was a very popular lamp to have.
Downtown Gloucester Christmas Shopping Ideas-Uggs at Mark Adrian Shoes
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Mark Adrian Shoes has the answer to your last minute holiday shopping woes: Warm, cozy, comfy UGG's! Stop in and choose from a wide variety of styles and sizes in boots, shoes, and slippers.
Mother's Day Gift Ideas At Bubbles, Downtown Gloucester
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Advice- Do Not Go To The Mall Today
As you are probably aware, the mall and shopping up the line are ridiculous right now. We just got back from BJs where we buy our diapers and wipes for Snoop Mad and it was ridiculous.
If you have to go, you have to go. But if you just need a present for someone there really is no need to drive up to the mall to get one. There are plenty of great places to shop downtown. Hell, even if you plan on getting gift cards as presents you can buy them at Stop and Shop. Gift certificates to restaurants are great gifts to buy and easy to wrap and you can get those locally too.
There is great working mans outdoor clothing at Nelsons. Sporting goods at Palazolla's. Women's wear at Seasons, Cormorant Shop, First Impressions, The Black Swan and other joints. There's gifts at Stone Leaf, Pisces, The Black Swan, Bubbles, The Art Room, Harbor Goods, The Dress Code, The Magic Scarf, Menage Gallery, Present and a whole bunch of other places. Then there's books at Dogtown Books and The Gloucester Bookstore. There's Art at the local joints, jewelry from the folks around town like Beth Williams, Candy Marshall, and Jacki Ganim-Defalco. You could get gift certificates for spa treatments at any of the salons like Deborah Coull, Headlines or Mattys or Lauras or Salon one, and others that escape me. If I forgot anyone don't hesitate to write me and I'll add to the list. I'm just banging this out off the top of my head.
Trust me on this one. I guarantee you can find gifts right in downtown Gloucester, save gas money, avoid the crowds and fighting the taffic, and have fun doing it- right here in Gloucester.
Hell a bottle of booze is a great gift and you can get that at The liquor Locker or Seabreeze liquors. There is absolutely no reason to go fight that madness out of town right now unless there is a specific gift that our downtown doesnt carry but I bet if you just thought about it you could easily do all your holiday shopping right downtown and be happy about doing it.
I know this so mch that I'll personally guarantee it. If you go downtown to shop and are not satisfed I'll refund to you triple the current subscription price to GMG. THAT'S HOW CONFIDENT I AM! Now get to it!
Seafood Plateware At The Black Swan
Local Holiday Shopping Spotlight- Menage Gallery
Menage Gallery At Dusk
There are many many fantastic gift ideas at The Menage Gallery on Main Street. Look for a spotlight slideshow highlighting the cool stuff you can buy this holiday season later today.
Local Holiday Shopping Spotlight- Alexandra's Bread
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Save money, shop local, we have a plethora of outstanding shopping options right here in Gloucester.
I bought an awesome fleece hat at Cormorant Shop this week. Nice and warm. I love fleece!
Holiday Shopping Spotlight- Seasons On Main
Seasons On Main Street Carries North Face Gear
For a holiday shopping idea how about a North Face Fleece jacket? Seasons on Main Street carries many North Face items and they are warm and soft- good stuff! Look for a Seasons On Main Street Slide Show later today.
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text: Budget Oregon's Fire Season Expensive By Barbara Dellenback • Nov 21, 2013 U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Oregon's last fire season was the most costly in history, according to the Oregon Department of Forestry. Department official Dan Postrel says the department spent $122 Million fighting fires that scorched more than 100,000 acres-more than 156 square miles. That is the most in 60 years. New Armed Citizen Patrol Forms In Josephine County By Barbara Dellenback • Nov 19, 2013 Another group has formed to provide armed citizen patrols in the rural outreaches of Josephine County, Oregon, where voters have consistently refused to raise their taxes to pay for sheriff's patrols as federal timber revenues have dried up. The Grants Pass Daily Courier reports that the group patrolling the rural area east of Cave Junction brings to three the number of armed citizen groups filling the law enforcement gap in the county. Only two deputies are on the road in an area bigger than Rhode Island. California University System Approves Budget By Barbara Dellenback • Nov 15, 2013 U of California The University of California's Board of Regents has approved a proposed budget for next school year that hinges on the state giving the system an additional $120 million for pension cuts, enrollment growth, and improvements to academic programs. The Board of Regents passed the spending plan unanimously at a meeting Thursday.