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Intel Corp. on Tuesday again reaffirmed that even though Xeon microprocessors are gaining RAS [reliability, availability, serviceability] capabilities, Intel Itanium platform, which was mainly designed for mission-critical servers with RAS features, will remain important part of Intel's offerings.
"Instead of Itanium at the top and Xeon at the bottom of the lineup, we are going to have them side by side. With server vendors including Windows, Linux and Solaris now running on the Xeon architecture, there's no workload in the world today that Xeon can't handle," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's data center group.
Recently Oracle announced that it would stop designing new software for Intel Itanium-based servers, which are available from HP and SGI only at the moment. The company noted that, on the one hand, Intel adds RAS capabilities to the Xeon platform, which means that the chip giant wants x86 architecture to serve top-to-bottom of the lineup; on the other hand companies like Microsoft and Red Hat also had dropped developing software for IA64. Both Intel and HP said that the Itanium roadmap extends for more than ten years.
Unfortunately for Itanium, Intel Xeon is not only supported by a broad amount of applications and software, but it also offers higher number of cores and outperforms Itanium in a lot of cases. Intel retorts that the evolution of Itanium is not on the company's typical tick-tock schedule.
"Itanium is on a two-year beat rate. Xeon is delivering up to 40% performance, which is a world record. Since Itanium is not on a tick-tock schedule, Xeon and Itanium will leap-frog each other," said Mr. Skaugen.
One of the things that Intel wanted to do sometimes in 2003-2004 was to unify Itanium and Xeon platforms, which would make it easier for manufacturers to assemble servers on both. Although both platforms now use QPI [QuickPath Interconnect] bus and share a number of other technologies, they are not socket compatible, which causes a lot of headaches for those, who use IA64 chips. Moreover, with little support from server makers (IBM and Dell dropped Itanium years ago) and software designers, Itanium-based mission-critical machines will hardly get affordable, something which contradicts to Intel's current Xeon multi-processor approach.
"We want to democratize mission-critical computing and fundamentally change the economics in that space. The largest software vendors have embraced this [x86] technology, bringing four- to eight-socket systems gluelessly into the architecture. [...] The days of IT organizations being forced to deploy expensive, closed RISC architectures for mission-critical applications are nearing an end," said Mr. Skaugen.
Sales of Intel Itanium-based machines are growing. According to Intel (which cites figures by IDC), revenues of Itanium-based servers totaled $102 million in 2002 and $4 billion in 2010. By contrast, x86-based server sales increased from $19.53 billion in 2002 to around $33.3 billion in 2010. Nonetheless, given the fact that the x86 server market is eight times larger compared to IA64 server market, it makes less and less sense even for Intel to invest into its development.


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Online comments need names, too
Nancy Langseth, Minot
Since living part of the year in another state I have been reading The Minot Daily News online. I noticed that comments were made after some letters, news stories, and editorials. I was shocked at some of the comments as they are extremely nasty. There are personal attacks as well as ridicule of someone else's opinions or actions. I wouldn't say it is constructive criticism.
The other aspect of these comments I find troubling is the people do not use their actual names. It is easy to make nasty remarks about people if one can hide behind a false name. Some of the comments are not nasty, but too many of them are and for what purpose?
I am surprised that a publication allows such a practice. People who write letters to the editor need to give their full name as well as provide their home address and phone number. This same policy should be applied to the comment section online.

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Debates of March 23rd, 2009
House of Commons Hansard #31 of the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was judges.
- Question Period
- Supreme Court Act
- Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
- Norouz
- Simani
- Aboriginal Women
- Manufacturing Industry
- Richard Rumas
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- Wild Rose, Alberta
- RCMP Public Complaints Commission
- Bloc Québécois
- Richard Rumas
- Canadian Forces
- Scott Francis Vernelli
- Fernand Lindsay
- Canadian Forces
- Doug Frith
- The Economy
- Canadian Forces
- The Economy
- Employment
- Forestry Industry
- Employment Insurance
- Science and Technology
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Arts and Culture
- Foreign Affairs
- Justice
- National Defence
- Le Réveil Newspaper
- The Conservative Government
- Finance
- Oil and Gas Industry
- Campaign Advertising
- Intergovernmental Affairs
- Multiculturalism
- Science and technology
- Search and Rescue
- Seal Hunt
- Infrastructure
- Presence in Gallery
- Government Response to Petitions
- Committees of the House
- Nowruz Day Act
- Committees of the House
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Starred Questions
- Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
- Committees of the House
- Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992
- Environmental Enforcement Act
- Committees of the House
- Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992
Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Government Orders
1:50 p.m.
Dennis Bevington Western Arctic, NT
Mr. Speaker, I referred to a number of areas where I think Canada needs to make progress in developing equipment and machinery, especially for resource development in the Arctic. In the 1970s and 1980s Canada did pretty well with what it built for the north.
A primary industry like shipbuilding is not simply about building hulls and putting sails on or motors in. It is an integrated industry. It is also about the people who build all the electronics, the people who build the machinery that is used on the ships. Those industries are attached to other industries. If we take the legs out from under the electronics industry for marine use in shipbuilding, we will see a drop off in that industry and an inability of that industry to compete in other areas. Shipbuilding is the prime industry but it is surrounded by other industries. Pulling the prime industry out puts the boots to many other industries.
Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Government Orders
1:50 p.m.
Peter Julian Burnaby—New Westminster, BC
Mr. Speaker, I have to say, God love a Liberal. The Liberals are rising in the House to defend a report which nine years ago they did absolutely nothing on, while they are getting ready to sell out the entire shipbuilding industry in Canada. One has to have a lot of nerve to do that.
Liberal members have been besieged by hundreds of letters from shipyard workers in their ridings, boilermakers, sheet metal workers, people who depend on the shipbuilding industry and the Liberal members are giving them the backs of their hands. It is absolutely disgraceful.
The Conservatives and the Liberals are conspiring together to sell out one more industry. They did it with the softwood lumber sellout and now they are doing it with shipbuilding.
Could the hon. member for Western Arctic tell the House why the Liberals and the Conservatives always get it wrong?
Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
Dennis Bevington Western Arctic, NT
Mr. Speaker, I have been in the House only three years. I have only seen the Liberals and the Conservatives get it wrong for three years. Sorry, I cannot speak to nine years ago and I really do not want to go there.
What I want is to get it right for Canada. I am speaking to this bill to try to impress upon members the need to look ahead, and not to think of ideologies other parties held so dear for many years because they thought that was the way to go. We have to consider where Canada has to go. We should not think about the past. We should think about the future.
Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
John Cannis Scarborough Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, I want to set the record straight again.
The hon. member for Burnaby—New Westminster referred to the sellout of the lumber deal. I chaired the committee when it did the review. He was a member of the committee. All the stakeholders came before the committee and asked for financial support, which the Liberal team was ready to give. What happened? The Liberals agreed with the NDP on the 2005 budget, but the NDP went to bed with the Conservatives and the deal went down the drain. A billion dollars was left in the United States. The lumber deal went down the drain thanks to the NDP.
Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
Dennis Bevington Western Arctic, NT
Mr. Speaker, I really do not want to repeat myself and I do not want to go in directions we do not need to go in this House.
The issue in front of us is a 25% tariff that is going to be applied to our shipbuilding industry over the next three years. This will actually cripple the industry at a very difficult time for industry in general. What are we doing? Why are we doing something that was created by the Liberals nine years ago and carried on by the Conservative Party? What is going on in this country?
Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
Brian Masse Windsor West, ON
Mr. Speaker, that was an interesting intervention especially given the fact that the NDP did not even have enough votes to vote with the Liberals at that time. Obviously the Liberals cannot even do basic counting.
The Canadian public was tired of the Liberals' behaviour with respect to the sponsorship program. That is really what is at stake here. The bluster coming from the member shows the sensitivity the Liberals have about this issue. They know that their minister at the time, David Emerson, who flip-flopped and crossed the floor to the Conservatives, was the mastermind behind it. He sold us out with the softwood lumber deal. He was the architect of and tried to sell us out with the South Korea deal, which the New Democrats have been able to stop. The heart of the matter is that this deal should be stopped right now. If the Liberals want to do something productive, they could carve out this element and correct their ways.
I would like the hon. member to comment on that.
Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Government Orders
1:55 p.m.
Dennis Bevington Western Arctic, NT
Mr. Speaker, the fundamental problem that I see is we did not have enough seats then and we do not have enough seats now to do the right thing for Canadians. The solution of course is more seats for the New Democratic Party.
Statements By Members
March 23rd, 2009 / 1:55 p.m.
John Weston West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, BC
Mr. Speaker, with the coming of spring, millions of people around the world have observed the Persian New Year, Norouz. The people of Iran have celebrated Norouz, the first day of spring for over 3,000 years. In recognition of this occasion, and as the government liaison to the Persian and Iranian community in Canada, I am delighted to extend my warmest greetings to all those in Canada who are celebrating this new year holiday.
In Canada, this gives us an occasion to embrace our brothers and sisters of Persian background and to learn more about the proud Persian culture, history and language. We in Canada draw tremendous strength from the rich history and diverse heritage which shape our lively cultural landscape. We acknowledge the contribution to Canada of people of Persian background.
This is a celebration that makes all of us in Canada happy. To repeat those words in Farsi, Jashnay Norouz dar Canada mojebay shadiay hameeay maas. Norouz Mobarak.
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Judy Foote Random—Burin—St. George's, NL
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and congratulate two talented musicians from the riding of Random—Burin—St. George's: Bud Davidge and Sim Savory. Those two individuals are an impressive duo known as Simani. They have enriched Newfoundland and Labrador culture for over 30 years with their musical talent.
Mr. Davidge and Mr. Savory were recognized and awarded with the lifetime achievement award at MUSICNL, a Newfoundland and Labrador music awards show.
These two musicians played their first gig together in May 1977 in Belleoram. In 1981, after only four years of playing together, the duo had written enough material to produce an album.
In total, Simani has released thirteen albums, two books and has appeared on several TV specials. The longevity of the duo's career is proof of their success.
Newfoundland and Labrador is a big part of our culture. Today I thank and congratulate Simani on this prestigious lifetime achievement award.
Aboriginal Women
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Meili Faille Vaudreuil—Soulanges, QC
Mr. Speaker, since 1980, 511 aboriginal women have disappeared or been murdered in Canada, according to the Native Women's Association of Canada, the NWAC. Aboriginal women are actually five times more likely than other Canadian women to die a violent death.
Over the last few years, both Amnesty International and the United Nations have asked Canada to investigate these unexplained disappearances.
The federal government has been reprimanded many times about this, and the time has certainly come for it to take action and develop a plan to fight violence against aboriginal women, as requested by the NWAC. The government should also immediately abide by its international commitments, inquire into the deaths and disappearances of these women, and fix the problems in the law enforcement system.
Finally, it is important as well to improve the social and economic conditions of aboriginal women, as guaranteed by international treaties to which Canada is a party, in order to reach levels worthy of a Western country.
Manufacturing Industry
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
David Christopherson Hamilton Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, on Saturday I was proud to join more than 2,000 Hamiltonians, including Don Frasier, Rolf Gerstenberger, Bob Bratina, Andrea Horwath, Paul Miller and the NDP MPs for Hamilton East—Stoney Creek and Hamilton Mountain who marched to show their anger and frustration with industry and government attacks on their jobs and their pensions.
Like other manufacturing employees in the Ontario heartland, steelworkers are being laid off by the thousands. The very survival of our southern Ontario communities is at risk.
But the people of Hamilton are not known for just lying down and taking it. We are fighters and we will fight for decent jobs, fight for livable pensions and fight for the well-being of our community.
In fact, just last week Hamiltonians also took to the streets to save CHCH, our local TV news station.
Here is the message that those 2,000 workers asked us to bring back to the government: Stop ignoring layoffs. Stop ignoring the unemployed. Stop allowing foreign companies to control Canada. And stop pretending that fixing our economy is somebody else's problem.
Richard Rumas
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Gary Schellenberger Perth—Wellington, ON
Mr. Speaker, it is with great sadness that I rise in the House today to commemorate the passing of Richard Rumas.
Richard worked at the House of Commons for 34 years serving as a procedural clerk in several directorates. Most recently, Richard served as the Clerk of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. I know that I speak for all members when I say that his time with our committee was far too short.
Richard will be remembered as a man who was always willing to share his knowledge with colleagues and who served all members faithfully and with distinction.
I ask all members to join me in remembering this remarkable man who served this House so well.
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Kirsty Duncan Etobicoke North, ON
Mr. Speaker, March 21 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the beginning of the "Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination".
On this day in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid pass laws.
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the day in 1966 and called on the international community to redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination.
Let us, therefore, remember all those who have fallen victim to acts of racism around the world and give thanks for their lives and the gifts they gave to their communities.
Let us be vigilant regarding human rights and ensure that our institutions and legislation are appropriate to punish those who discriminate, incite or perpetrate acts of violence against minorities.
Wild Rose, Alberta
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Blake Richards Wild Rose, AB
Mr. Speaker, today I invite the world to come and see why my riding of Wild Rose is the most beautiful piece of country Canada has to offer.
This large region of Alberta has attracted visitors world-wide since the Canadian Pacific Railway brought the first tourists to Banff's mineral springs.
Generations have fallen in love with our land and built our vibrant communities that rise from the rolling prairie or nestle in the Rocky Mountains.
It is a region steeped in the history of the aboriginal peoples who have lived there for millennia, and the settlers who opened the Canadian west. That frontier heritage is reflected in our many summer rodeos and festivals.
Wild Rose is a place to walk nature trails and marvel at some of the last untouched wilderness in North America. It is a playground for hikers, skiers, campers and anglers. It is a place where elk and bighorn sheep saunter the streets of our mountain towns.
Wild Rose has placed out a welcome mat for the world to come and see.
RCMP Public Complaints Commission
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Maria Mourani Ahuntsic, QC
Mr. Speaker, we learned last week that the funding of the RCMP Public Complaints Commission may not be maintained at its current level. Less than two weeks from the cut-off date, the Minister of Public Safety has apparently still not made up his mind.
This commission plays an important role: it receives public complaints about the RCMP and can also hold inquiries, like the one on the use of tasers. Reducing the budget of this commission would greatly compromise its ability to conduct these inquiries, an ability that commission chair Kennedy considers "necessary to respond to current public expectations of police accountability".
It is important for the minister to reassure Canadians that the commission's funding will be maintained at current levels so that the review of public complaints does not degenerate into a real farce.


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I purchased these for my Mule, Motosport did a great job as they came in on the day they said they would. The free shipping was added bonus as well. These tires look great on my MULE, the aggressive tread will allow me to go thru anything especially the thick gumbo mud here in Southeast Texas. The only draw back, they tend to make my MULE vibrate at lower speeds... I would suspect any tire with that type of tread would do the same.
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Second set I have purchased 1st set has 2500 miles on them and still going strong. These were put on a 2015 teryx 800 and no complaints
gift to my uncle looks great goes anywhere
Purchased item as a gift. Super speedy delivery from Motorsport. Tires installed with ease & recommended sizing from this site, also accurate! Good buy overall
I got a front tire and I've hit plenty of trails and mud holes never have to worry about anything
The tires are decent in mud, only down side to the tires is they are very heavy, and they suck in sand, but other than that they are a good tire.
I have had these on a 2007 Yamaha Big Bear 400 for five years. I recently put a set on a 2007 Kawasaki Prairie 360. I bought both sets from Moto Sports.These are great tires. I would highly recommend.
Husband loves these tires. Not as tall as expected. They do dig and will tear up some yard if its wet. "
These are not your everyday driving Mrs. Daisy tires!!! These tires make you want to slap your momma and your sister!!! These tires are mean, like an A-10 Warthog rolling in for guns!!! They go places in two wheel drive that larger more expensive tires can't go in four wheel drive!!! These tires are either moving your machine or moving Mother Earth!!! When you have to get across the gaping hole that opened up and filled with hot lava, these are the shoes you want to wear!!! Don't waste your time and money on other websites that claim to be the standard, shop MOTOSPORT.com and deal with the best in the business!!! I'm done cause I gotta go ride this beast!!!! Ride safe and keep the rubber side down!!!
Put these on a Kubota RTV 900 4x4. A huge improvement in off road capability over the stock tires. This thing will go anywhere, now. Have not had them long enough to say anything about wear, but so far, so good. Great service from Motosport, tires shipped out fast.
first of all motosport is the best place to buy tires,i have an online atv.store south of me and the way they ship and higher cost and fast shipping it is moptosport all the way.i have had the tires about a year and they hve been great on my 2006 honda foreman.i took them in some very rocky country bear hunting for 3 weeks and they preformed perfect ,no chipping ,great traction, easy handling.just a slight vibration on hard dirt roads.you can't go wrong with motosport.
at 30 mph they are a smooth ride on the road & really bite in on the trail
These tires are just amazing.. i have them on my Kingquad 400 and they work better than expexted. *Speechless*
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Pro's: My most favorite tire when it comes to traction, and ruggedness. These tires will make your machine more usable for sure. They have gobs of traction and plenty of rubber to live for years. They are not easily punctured, and can rock climb to creep through some of the heaviest mud.
Cons: the real only con with these tires is weight...they will slow you down for sure, although they may be lighter than years past. And if you aren't looking for TOO much traction then this is not your tire.
These things made my 2wd garden tractor feel like it has 4WD!
Great snow and mud tire great looks bad to the bone. 5 star tires. Thank you Steve
The new tires didn't have the thread the old ones did. Therefore they do not pull as well probaly a 3rd less pulling in the mud and I was not told this before I bought them and didn't have time to look for a better tire
I put these on my 2012 Polaris Sportsman 400 HO factory steel wheels. Matched to factory tire size (25x8-12) these thicker tires reduced clearance to 5/16 inch (8mm) between sidewall and tie rod end. No spacer. Since mounting only about two hours of riding in snow, no problems.
The 27 executioners are big, heavy for a low boor machine but they are great for mudding do to the tread death and the width of the tire that keeps you on top of the mud better than the skinny execution like the stock 25's that are skinny and dig down into the mid, they skinny are good if there is a bottom. Both are good but in my opinion the 27 are better, I would highly recommend these tire for trail/ mid rider. These tires wear like iron and last a long time, the are also one tough tire, they are extremely hard to puncture and they have the biggest rim guard ever, the 25's have a bigger one than the 27's. I rode my executioners at welsvile and that place is basically all razor sharp for and I did not have a single puncture, will the other rider I rode with the rock slashed right through there tire. You just can't beat the price of these tires.
i saved over $250.00 buying a set of these from motosport, not to mention these tires are bad to the bone in mud, snow and just about any situation you can think of.
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Front Tire: 25x8-12 Rear Tire: 25x10-12
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What I DO most while drinking my favorite tea is work or get ready for work.
What I ENJOY doing most while drinking my favorite tea is just enjoying the tea experience.
Started with a cup of Earl Gray Green, really old becuase it was in one of Adagio's original silver sample tins. But that EG flavor hadn't really faded.
Now I've switched over to Jasmine Pearls for the day. Somehow I'm managing to drink a cup hot, while also steeping to put on ice for the rest of the day.
Augie - if you think tea doesn't go with Snickers, you need to try a darker tea.


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WASHINGTON — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie challenged his fellow Republicans to put forward more policy positions to solve the nation's ills as he courted a constituency important to a potential presidential bid.
"We've got to start talking about what we're for and not what we're against," he said yesterday at the nation's highest-profile gathering of tea party activists in suburban Washington. "Our ideas are better than their ideas, and that's what we have to stand up for."
Christie is among the potential Republican presidential candidates wooing the party's base yesterday and today at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md. The gathering is sponsored by the American Conservative Union, a Washington-based group that promotes smaller government.
A year ago, Christie was excluded from the event after he angered limited-government voters for being among the Republican governors who said they'd seek federal funds provided by the Affordable Care Act to expand Medicaid, which serves the poor.
In his speech, Christie hit several themes popular with the crowd. As he stressed his opposition to abortion rights, Christie argued that Democrats are a less-welcoming party on that issue.
"They're the party of intolerance, not us," he said.
He also called for a stronger national defense.
"We need to make sure that we say we are for America being a leader in the world and we are for a strong national defense," he said.
And he urged greater party unity. "We don't get to govern if we don't win," he said. "Let's come out of this conference resolved to win elections again."
The governor's remarks were well received. "I think he kind of electrified the crowd," said Mike Frank, of Alexandria, Va. "He says that he gets things done. We need people who are doers."
The Republican Party's full political spectrum is on display at the conference, from Christie to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
In his address earlier yesterday, Cruz pointed to the failed Republican presidential campaigns of Bob Dole in 1996, John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012.
"Those are good men, they're decent men, but when you don't stand and draw a clear distinction, when you don't stand for principle, Democrats celebrate," he said.
Cruz also said the U.S. should "abolish" the Internal Revenue Service, "audit the Federal Reserve" and "repeal every single word" of the health-care law.
Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee, told the convention that the media has made too much of the "civil war" between the tea party wing of the Republican Party and more-traditional supporters.
"I'm Irish, that's my idea of a family reunion," Ryan said. "I don't see this great divide in our party. What I see is a vibrant debate."


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by Anton Shilov
The global economic slump causes prices to drop and it is natural that manufacturers tend to decrease manufacturing costs. According to media reports, the necessity to lower production costs forced many fabless chip designers to adopt thinner process technologies at contract makers, such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
In spite of anemic chip markets and the forecast that TSMC's capacity utilization ratio will likely drop to only 75% by the end of Q4 2008, customers have accelerated plans to upgrade to higher-end process by making most of the rising idle capacity at TSMC in hope of paring down costs, reports China Economic News Service.
Leading graphics chip designers, ATI, graphics products group of Advanced Micro Devices, and Nvidia Corp. are expected to be the first to utilize the 40nm process technology of TSMC in order to improve performance of graphics processors. Communication chip developers Altera, Broadcom, Marvell, Netlogic are projected to follow. In addition, companies like Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems are more than eager to adopt the new fabrication process to cut costs.
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Brad Pitt is better-known for playing dashing hunks and dramatic leading men than he is for roles as a criminal, but he's showing off his darker side Killing Them Softly opens tomorrow. In the film, he plays a morally ambiguous "enforcer" with ties to the mob, and he looks pretty damn badass from what we've seen in the trailer.
It's unlikely that this role will turn Brad into Hollywood's go-to bad guy, but it got us thinking about all the other guys we always see popping up in these gangster flicks (a couple of them popping up with Brad in Killing Me Softly).
If we were casting a mob flick, these are the 13 wise guys (and girl) we'd want in it.


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""It's not so much a frenzy as it was before, but in the long term it's going in the right direction." "
Borrowing the Company Jet
Calculating the cost of personal use is as complicated as it is important.
When an employee takes a personal flight on his company's aircraft, how do you calculate the trip's cost or value? The answer depends on who's asking the question and why.
The Federal Aviation Administration generally prohibits passengers from paying for flights that aren't operated under a commercial certificate. "Payment" means forking over any kind of direct or indirect compensation. The FAA says, however, that if the flight is "within the scope of and incidental to" a company's business, it can charge the employee the cost of "owning, operating and maintaining the airplane."
That's a broad standard for figuring costs. In interpretations, the FAA has said it's acceptable to use the cost of aircraft usage as established by the company's accounting department in the normal course of business and that the cost could represent a pro-rata portion of "all fixed and variable overhead expenses associated with the aircraft." More recently, as part of a convoluted analysis that sowed more confusion than elucidation, the agency said that the cost could even include depreciation of the airplane.
On the other hand, if an employee's flight is for personal purposes (and is thus not "within the scope of and incidental to" company business), such charges are prohibited. Instead, FAA regulations permit the employee in some cases to "time share" an aircraft for an amount equal to twice the actual fuel costs, plus certain stated expenses. Barring astronomical fuel prices, this amount won't cover all of the company's expenses for the flight—certainly not a pro-rata portion of the cost of owning, operating and maintaining the aircraft.
Compare this with the Internal Revenue Service's approach. The IRS is interested in the cost or value of a flight for two main reasons. First, if an employee travels on company aircraft for personal purposes, the agency treats the flight as a perquisite and the employee as a recipient of taxable income. The IRS gives the company a choice in calculating the amount of that income. To the extent that the employee doesn't pay for the flight, the company must impute his income using either the ride's fair market value or a calculation method called SIFL. The former is basically the cost to charter the aircraft, while the latter reflects the cost of first-class airfare. Needless to say, the two numbers will be very different.
The second reason the IRS is interested in the cost or value of a flight is to determine the company's deductible expenses for tax purposes. Companies usually want to deduct the cost of employees' personal flights on their aircraft as a business expense. In 2004, though, Congress made this more difficult by limiting the write-off for certain top executives (so-called "specified individuals") to the amount paid by (and/or income imputed to) those executives when the flight is for their "entertainment, recreation or amusement." As a result, whenever a specified individual takes a non-business flight, a big chunk of the company's expenses are often at risk of being disallowed for tax purposes.
How big a chunk? Since the IRS lets the company calculate income to the employee for the flight based on charter rates or Standard Industry Fare Level, one might think the business could use the same approach to calculate its lost deductions. Unfortunately for the company, that doesn't work. IRS regulations provide that all fixed and variable flight costs—including an allocable portion of any interest expense used to finance the purchase of the aircraft, plus lease payments and tax depreciation on it—are at risk of being disallowed.
IRS rules for how to calculate these costs and assess the amount of the tax deduction disallowed are extraordinarily complicated and sometimes counterintuitive, and enterprising aviation tax accountants have created software to help the company do the job. The bottom line: if top executives frequently use the aircraft for personal "entertainment, recreation or amusement," the company's tax bill will go up.
Ironically, this inability to deduct entertainment flight costs creates yet another "cost" for the company—taxes—and yet another headache (this time for public companies) in calculating the cost of personal-use flights.
Like the IRS, the Securities and Exchange Commission regards free or discounted flights for employees on the company aircraft as a perquisite. In the case of free flights on corporate aircraft for certain top executives (often called "named executive officers") that aren't part of their employment duties, the SEC requires public companies to report what the commission calls the "aggregate incremental cost" of the flights as "other compensation" to such executives in the proxy statement. Unlike the FAA, the SEC isn't focused on whether the executive can pay for the flight, and unlike the IRS, it doesn't care what the actual value provided to the executive is. Its only concern is the additional cost the company incurs in providing the transportation, which has traditionally been thought to be similar to the direct operating costs (DOCs) of the flight—an amount less than, say, the cost of chartering the aircraft.
But as we just noted, if the IRS deems the executive's flight "entertainment," the company stands to lose significant tax deductions. Is this also an "aggregate incremental cost" that should be disclosed in proxy statements? Though loss of a tax deduction isn't a "cost" per se, in an abundance of caution, some companies have been disclosing the fact (if not the amount) of the lost deductions as a result of personal-use flights. And, just to come full circle, if the deduction is a cost, receiving a tax deduction might be compensation, which is exactly what an old FAA interpretation concluded in proscribing flights by a tax-savvy operator who claimed they were conducted at "no charge."
Even in this simplified account of a complicated subject, it's apparent that companies face contradictory government standards in dealing with non-business flight expenses for employees and others that are certain to keep aviation lawyers and accountants busy for years to come.
Jeff Wieand is a senior vice president at Boston JetSearch and a member of the National Business Aviation Association's Tax Committee.
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Let me introduce you to Enlightened Teresa. She's open, warm, generous. She's had a lot of therapy. She's read Melanie Beattie, Tikh Naht Han, Martin Buber and John Bradshaw. She's a glass that is half-full, life is full of wonderment, a carpe diem kind of gal. She's can-do!
Then there's Teresa, Princess of Doom. Life has served her up a few raw deals and she's more than a little bitter. She doesn't like new people, new places or new things. In short, it's safe to say she doesn't like ... change. The Princess of Doom doesn't take well to life's little set-backs. In fact, she's been known to weep openly while clutching a newly minted parking ticket.
Lately these two just can't seem to agree on anything. They co-exist, battling over daily decisions and vying for position. It's exhausting, frankly. I've discussed this with friends, just to make sure it doesn't mark some sort of psychotic break, and most assure me they recognize the syndrome. Here are some examples of what happens when Enlightened Teresa and the Princess of Doom step into the ring.
A man I hardly know invites me to his company picnic.
Enlightened Teresa: What a great opportunity to meet new people! You've never been to Burbank, now you get to explore a new area! Sure, you're a little nervous, but that's normal. You'll just have to flex those social muscles and see what happens! (Enlightened me doesn't see anything wrong with using exclamation points, while the Princess of Doom finds them nauseating).
Princess of Doom: Picnic? Two words. Sun burn. Two more words. Food poisoning. I predict an endless afternoon during which you'll be stuck with a bunch of unspeakably boring accountants eating botulism-infected potato salad and trying to act like you enjoy having your face painted by some out-of-work actor in a clown suit.
I get rejected after a job interview.
ET: Well, this was a great learning experience. You are really on your way. The next time, you'll really shine. This kind of thing just takes time!
PD: Of course they didn't want you. You'll probably end up picking cans out of the trash and collecting all your loose pennies just to buy yourself a pack of generic cigarettes to smoke on the street corner with the other washed-up failures. Believe me, you're never too young to be a washed-up failure, my friend. (For some reason, the Princess of Doom is prone to expressions like "my friend" and "pal.")
An ex-boyfriend finds true love.
ET: Isn't that great for him? You see, there's someone for everyone! It's so nice when two wonderful people find each other.
PD: Nice? That yutz can find someone and you can't? Pack your bags, pal. Looks like you're about to board the bullet train to Spinster City.
You get the idea. The tricky part is that both have totally equal influence. I suppose as long as they stay neck and neck in the attitude foot race, I'll stay in that comfort zone between Mary Poppins and Chicken Little. I'm told it's normal to be somewhat fragmented, that we all have different aspects of our personalities, all of them real, each of them serving a distinct purpose.
Now that I've assured you how normal this all is, I might as well tell you about Ginger and Incense-Peppermint-Strawberry-Wine.
Having Ginger is kind of like having my own inner Spice Girl. She's feisty, aggressive and prone to making very suggestive comments at inappropriate times. When Ginger comes out, it's like having a minor form of Tourrette's Syndrome. She blurts out untoward remarks at odd moments with her faux-sexy stripper voice. This makes Ginger an exciting party guest, but a bit of a freak show, say, on an airplane or in an elevator.
And than there's Incense-Peppermint-Strawberry-Wine. She makes appearances only during first date situations. She's usually nodding, her features arranged in such a way as to express maximum empathy and interest. She's soft and sweet, with rounded edges and a winning personality. It's not like Incense-Peppermint-Strawberry-Wine makes a special effort to obscure the Princess of Doom, but let's just say she's a lot more popular. Negativity and bitterness, while amusing, don't tend to be romance magnets, my friend. Well, we've got to go. We rented "Sybil." Now, that was one crazy chick.
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Defining "Casual" And "Hardcore"
It's funny. People – bloggers, gamers, forum posters – throw around terms like "casual" and "hardcore" as if they were pre-designed, approved MMORPG terms. Thing is though, we really have no metrics for defining exactly what those terms are or when they come into affect. I've often called myself a casual player but it's only been recently that I've wondered what that means.
Even when I played MMORPGs for 6 hours a day, I always considered myself a casual player. Now I probably play only about 5 – 10 hours a week and I still call myself casual. So was I actually a hardcore player before? I've always assumed that the terms were related to the amount of time one played and that casual players only played for a few hours and hardcore players were the guys who gave up their lives so they could raid 5 nights a week. Now I'm not so sure.
It seems to be that casual players always blame the hardcore ones for making the games too time consuming, too grindy, too difficult whilst the hardcore players blame the casuals for being too sociable and forcing the developers to dumb the game down, making it too easy and accessible. At the end of the day, its human nature to want to belong to a camp or group (it's the dormant tribesman in us all) and that's exactly what these terms let us do.
I think the concepts of casual and hardcore are more of a mental state than anything else. It doesn't really matter how long you spend in front of your computer because if you don't consider yourself hardcore, then you never will be. I bummed around in Everquest, playing for hours every day, and yet barely raided and never, ever considered myself hardcore. That was for the unemployed 40 year olds who lived at home in their parent's basement but certainly not me, no sir.
I was totally wrong, of course. And probably a little jealous of those guys that did raid and strutted around with the coolest gear, flexing their virtual guns. Regardless of how much I played, I always thought of myself as casual because that was my state of mind. I didn't raid. I wasn't hardcore.
So what I'm trying to say is that you just can't define "casual" or "hardcore" so be careful who you label with the terms. The're just abstract terms we use to help turn our arguments into cases of "us" versus "them". At the end of the day, the most flexible MMORPGs are the ones that let us play in the biggest variety of ways and appeal to the broadest spectrum of players but we won't always be able to get what we want. Fortunately, though, we live in an era of competition and, if one game doesn't appeal us to, another is certain to come along.


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USAT Offers CIDP Level 2 Seminar
The Level 2 - Developing Taekwondo Athletes and Coaches Seminar is the program where coaches will start to separate themselves from the rest of the pack. This comprehensive seminar takes a closer look into the technical and skill development of Taekwondo athletes. It provides coaches with information that will develop or strengthen the skills needed to guide their athletes toward performance excellence in competition! Level 2 also introduces coaches to sports science principles and its application to coaching Olympic-style Taekwondo. The program continues to build upon the competency-based approach by providing opportunities for coaches to apply the theories into practice at the seminar.
To ensure that all coaches who participate in this seminar have a quality experience, it is going to be limited to 20 coaches! An application form is available to be downloaded on the USAT website. The deadline for applications is Friday, December 5th and will be provided on a first come, first served basis. Do not hesitate so that you can be one of the few Taekwondo coaches in the country to have a Level 2 certification!
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Happy Monday!
How was your weekend? Mine was pretty good...very relaxing. I actually didn't really go out too much...just spent quality time with the BF, it was nice though.
I didn't really try any new makeup looks this weekend either because I was lazy and still have a surplus of videos of myself putting on makeup which I haven't edited for youtube yet. I'm trying to space out the videos a little more to give myself some breathing room.
Can you believe January is already almost over? This year is already flying by! Gotta remember and smell the roses sometimes.
On Friday I went with my roomie to MAC after work to help her find a natural yet fresh look for work...she's going on a business trip and wants to look hot...you know, in a work kind of way. It was really fun actually...and then we got home and I showed her how to apply it. I introduced her to the wonderful world of paint pots as bases and she was amazed at how they can totally intensify and change the color of eyeshadows :) She spent $100 and was like "Whoa I'm going to wait another 8 months before I purchase makeup again...". I just looked at her and was like "Yah, it's addictive huh" lol.
So I had time to post my video from my CVS haul...it has some swatches and mini reviews in there. I've been getting a lot of comments on my curly hair...good ones...lol but noooo it's not natural. Just some good ol' hairspray and a curling iron. I think I'm going to go ahead and do a tutorial on it...it's really easy and lasts a few days. Anyhow, back to the vid...hope you all enjoy!
By the way, I posted a new video.
7 comments:
- Vanessa said...
Looking cute Ren!
- January 28, 2008 at 1:33 PM
- mandilicious said...
ooh..great haul, i have the HIP liners too, i bought them last time they were bogo half off, but i haven't really used them yet..hehe..what are you wearing (make-up) in this video?..it's really pretty!..and i really love the nude lips!!
- January 28, 2008 at 5:27 PM
- Mrs. Lynne said...
Hi love!! I'm glad you agree with me on the price of HIP. I'm really with you on the under $10 for drugstore. I mean their products are competitively priced to MACs for decent quality, but in line next to stuff like Wet'n Wild? That's just boo boo. I don't mind paying the price, but I'm still under the "drugstore" aura and finding it difficult to make peace with a $15 pigment (that's how much the pigments are here!).
And I love your thumbs own on the eyebrown stencil. I see those all the time and wondered how much of a miracle they had. Not much :) Lol.
Have a fab week sis!
*I am officially entering my 3rd attempt at the stupid word verification nonsense!! Lol. The word is: lamwrd. Ooohh, I have a lamwrd for you!!!
- January 28, 2008 at 7:22 PM
- sassychix said...
u look lovely with this hairdo! :)
- January 28, 2008 at 9:01 PM
- yummy411 said...
you look cute in your video! great haul! i got a lot of the same stuff. i got that deep pink stick color from hip hoping for a flammable paint dupe or something to that effect. thanks for sharing!
- January 28, 2008 at 10:31 PM
- Bliss said...
Im totally loving your hairdo heheh. I mean the colour really makes the makeup popped, im never suited with nude lips and you really look good with it, i loved your daisy tutorial. :) ps: Im linking you, thanks
- January 28, 2008 at 10:34 PM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
vanessa: thanks sis!
mandilicious: yah those HIP liners are hot, lol, but I really need to also do a look with them...I'm wearing like a pink smokey eye in this vid with lipglass from the N collection...i'll be doing a tutorial this week :)
mrs. lynne: lol I was just thinking yesterday how the word verification thing was all screwy! let's petion L'Oreal HIP so they either get their own space in the front in the grocery store or drop those prices! yah and pass on those eyebrow stencils
sassychix: thanks! I have thick str8 hair and always love big curly hair on pplz, I think I'll be doing a tut on the hair soon
yummy411: yah I love the pink shadestick thing...I wore it under an almost white/pink and it didn't disappear on me like it usually does!
bliss: I think you can definitely pull off nude lips :)
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This is a fun and young looking hairstyle as this woman has her hair styled into this funky ponytail. The hair at front is styled back and curled over. At back, the hair has all been gathered for this flirty and classy look.The hair is cut long.This hair colour is medium brown with highlights of red and orange added for extra flair.
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Skip to comments.Marco Rubio is a Natural Born Citizen, just like John Fremont and Chester Arthur
Posted on 04/27/2012 8:24:47 AM PDT by vadum
According to the Constitution, to be eligible for the presidency (or vice presidency), a person must be a natural born citizen of the United States. The purpose of this restriction is to prevent a foreigner from becoming the nations chief executive.
How can people become U.S. citizens? There are just two ways; either they are born citizens or they become citizens later in life. In the first case, anyone who is a citizen by nature of his birth is a natural born citizen. In the second case, anyone who is a citizen of another country at birth, but is granted U.S. citizenship sometime afterward, is a naturalized citizen.
For example, John McCain, though born in Panama, is eligible for the presidency, because he became a citizen at birth. Similarly, had Gen. George Meade sought the presidency, he would have been eligible because, though born in Spain, he was a U.S. citizen by nature of his birth. Any non-naturalized U.S. citizen over the age of thirty-five with fourteen years of residence can be President of the United States.
Sadly, this common-sense, logical approach does not dissuade some conservative pundits from inventing a new constitutional requirement for the presidency. Despite the plain meaning of the text, they claim that, to be eligible, a persons parents must also be U.S. citizens. A few even assert that ones parents must also be natural born citizens. Ill spare you a recitation of their nonsense about native born or Emerich de Vattel or whatnot. Finding things in the Constitution that are not there is for Democrats!
Now that Mitt Romney has become the presumptive Republican nominee, there is speculation that the junior senator from Florida will be his running mate. Marco Rubios parents were from Cuba and did not become U.S. citizens until he was four years old. Voices from the fringe are claiming that this means Rubio is not eligible and theyre wrong.
Marco Rubio was born is Miami, Florida. He is, therefore, a natural born citizen of the United States. Per the Constitution, the citizenship status of his parents (or grandparents or anyone but himself) is irrelevant.
Lets look at U.S. political history for more proof. Were there other instances of a presidential or vice presidential nominee with a foreign-born parent? You betcha!
The first presidential nominee of the Republican Party, in 1856, was John Charles Fremont. He was born in South Carolina to an American mother and a French father. Jean Charles Fremon was born a French citizen, near Lyon, France. He was not a U.S. citizen at the time of his sons birth and never did become a citizen. Abraham Lincoln campaigned for Fremont. All the founders of the Republican Party campaigned for Fremont. One would be hard-pressed to find any suggestion at the time that Fremonts birth made him ineligible for the presidency.
The seventh vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party, Chester Arthur, was born in Vermont to an American mother and a foreign-born father. William Arthur was born a British citizen in County Antrim, Ireland who did not become a U.S. citizen until his son was fourteen years old.
John Fremont, George Meade, Chester Arthur, John McCain, Marco Rubio all eligible for the presidency. Republicans should not allow themselves to be distracted away from contesting the 2012 presidential campaign on the real issues.
Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the country. Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP, cited by Clarence Thomas in a Supreme Court decision. His Grand Old Partisan website celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. See www.grandoldpartisan.com for more information.
I wonder if this thread will get any posts.
Ah, so this is why the feckless republicans have allowed little barry bastard to negate the founders' declarations and defy the Constitution: the treacherous Republicans planned to do the same thing when it suited them to do so. And which of the two socialist/commie parties are you working for, vadumb?
Well, that pretty much captures the simple-minded view.
..but, but, but... we've been told that some Frenchman at the time of the founding defined Natural Born as both Citizen parents and Domestic birth and that French law should apply here.
Actually, Rubio has another technicality that could help him above even that argument. Cuba at the time of his parent's birth, had a protectorate status of the US from the Spanish/American war. There is a case to be made that they did have protectorate citizenship.
I am curious about another issue though. The big argument on NBC is regarding 'dual allegiance'. How does this apply to Native Americans. 'Tribes' (they are called Nations) have a special place under US law in which they have their own governments and can establish their own laws, etc. I'm both a Natural Born US Citizen as well as a 'citizen' of the Citizen Band Pottawatomie Nation. Would someone consider this 'dual allegiance'?
To get more to the point of what the founder's intended in the Constitution, I would do a simple test. At the age of 18, could the person in question have chosen to become a citizen of a country other than the United States? As a matter of law that person could have divided loyalties.
I may be wrong, but I believe that Rubio could not have become a citizen of Cuba at the age of majority.
But all that aside, the Dems have trumped the citizenship issue for any candidate until 0bama is declared an unlawful President. Because he clearly had the right to citizenship in another country by right of birth. Hell, me may still have the right to do so.
If Rubio would be a citizen were there no laws making him one, then and only then would he be a natural born citizen. That's what 'natural' means.
"Natural born" as in "vaginal born" not Cesarean Section, right?
Stupid me.
I didn't know Human Events was so uninformed and a bunch of liars.
I need not spend my short life reading anything from them again.
And if Zak is monitoring this thread, how about these two individuals, both my sons, and both quite clear in their understanding that while they might be citizens-by-birth, they are NOT NBCs.
1. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, US Citizen father, non-US Citizen mother, 1977
2. Born in Boulder, Colorado, US Citizen father, non-US CItizen mother, 1979
But since both were granted citizenship at the moment of their births due to the circumstances of their births, they are NBCs - according to Zak.
My question to Zak is, therefore, by what mechanism, other than by statute, would US citizenship have devolved upon them?
Really? And what "French law" exactly?
"Who is this IGNORANT idiot. Maybe he should read a book, or just google NBC before he embarrasses himself with this article."
He already did.
If Barack Hussein is considered NBC, and serving, and not deposed by congress or SCOTUS, with Kenyan citizenship of his father, then Rubio is also NBC.
My problem with Rubio is not his NBC status in 2012, it is NEE. (not enough experience)
"Cuba at the time of his parents birth, had a protectorate status of the US from the Spanish/American war."
If that isn't a strech!!!!!
No evidence that he comprehended any of it, though.
Neither Obama, Rubio, nor Romney are eligible.
Now THAT is a very interesting question. It seems to me that tribal "sovereignty" is superseded whenever something important (e.g. tax revenue etc.) is at stake.
For example, in Wagnon v. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (SCOTUS, 2005) the court looked at a case in which the tribe imposed its own tax on gasoline sales and had sued to block collection of the state tax.
In a majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas, the high court held that the Kansas tax is "nondiscriminatory" and "poses no affront to the [Potawatomi] nation's sovereignty."
Guy was referencing Vattel, who wrote about civil law, which was based on old Roman law.
The US Constitution and US laws in general are based rather in common law, an almost entirely separate code based on centuries of English judicial decisions.
The common law definition of how one becomes a citizen is quite different from the civil law definition.
IMO the Founders intended the normal, common law definition of legal terms unless they explicitly state otherwise.
Rubio the globalist ?
He sounds polished and smooth, but...
Rubio Praises U.N., World Bank, IMF for Not Asserting Narrow American Interests
Search the web for the above story...
I'll make a post of it.
I would not vote for him for any office he ran for.
He's simply building his "Senate career" in his personal pursuit of the Presidency.
In many if not most cases, you would be a "citizen by statute" in other words a "naturalized" citizen.
Unless you were born in the continental United States, your "Natural Born" status is in question. Alaska & Hawaii could be a problem depending on WHEN you were born. In Obama's case, WHERE was he born.
The citizenship and naturalization laws are complex regarding territories etc. Many people THINK they know all about it, they are wrong!
If you study this for awhile as I have, you will realize, "you don't know, what you don't know".
Not really. Rubio's parents were born in 1927 and 1931 in Cuba, however Cuba during that era, was a US Protectorate from 1901-1934 under the Platt Amendment.
It may not be a 'bingo there is the answer' but it does give a different legal foothold.
First, JC Fremont wasn't elected.
Second, if memory serves me correctly, Chester Arthur burned his records shortly before his death, "cleverly" concealing a lot of things from posterity.
Out here on what Mr Zak calls "the fringe," there those of us who believe there are three kinds of citizen:
1) naturalized, (foreign born)
2) natural, (born in USA, parents maybe or maybe not citizens)
3) natural born, (both parents citizens at time of birth, whether naturalized or natural)
If that is not so, there was no reason to differentiate the categories within the Constitution.
The left will man the ramparts defending obama. If the right elects a president with the exact same qualifications, in regard to his birth, they will attack unmercifully until the "usurper" is deposed. They will never admit to the hypocrisy of their position, and they will never relent.
To use Zak's logic, one of the Chinese anchor babies, born on a maternity tourism jaunt to the good ol' US of A, then raised in Communist China would make a dandy president.
Much as what happened with the current occupant of 1600 Penn'a Ave, Wash DC, except he was raised in Indonesia of Communist parents.
Were your parents citizens when you were born? (I am assuming they were probably born here as well, being so-called "Native" Americans).
Then you are a natural born citizen. Indian, Native American, Hindu, Flat Earther, doesn't matter. Born in the U.S. to U.S. citizens, you are a "Natural Born" citizen"
That and/or the writer is an example of what happens when the progressives/socialists/liberals, unions, etc. take over the school system.
What the hack propagandist is saying is NOT what was taught in middle school as late as the early 70s. What else have they gotten wrong and then taught us and our kids?
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.
It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.
Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.
~ Ronald Reagan, from his first inaugural speech as governor of California, January 5, 1967
He and obama are NOT NBC.
Well, that pretty much captures the simple-minded view.
Yup, In the words of Richard "Bull" Moll on 'Night Court', "I only have 2 functional brain cells".
Sorry, I made a mistake, Swiss, not French. The Laws of Nations was a given set of laws in Europe at the time that those nations, specifically the English, used as almost a baseline for their own interactions.
US Law however, is based on Common Law, not the "Laws of Nations" which was an old offshoot of Roman Law (if my memory of the history of it is correct).
If such was the case, why the need for the 14th amendment???
Yes and Yes, however, I've seen the argument that any dual allegiance makes one not NBC as that is the 'foundation' of why they had it.
I don't think that's accurate. I think his mother became a citizen before his birth. It was his father there are questions about. His father, though, had been an immigrant. Had returned to Cuba apparently due to the instability and revolution, and apparently with the intent of getting his wife (wife-to-be?) to the US. He accomplished that.
He then did appear before the authorities for immigration well after he'd lived here for 2 years. He then accepted various jobs in various locations as an acceptable immigrant and as a Cuban refugee, based on that law as well.
He would have met the requirements for citizenship of the original immigration and citizenship law if he had lived under that first law in the 1790s.
So, if we're going to apply a 1700s definition of "natural born", then we must also apply the first law of the 1790s (1793, I think), to his case.
Had the same situation applied in Rubio's case in the 1790's, there would have been no denying Rubio's natural born citizen status. Both parents had gone before the authorities after two years residence and indicated their desire to be here. Rubio had been born prior to that in the US.
I have no problem with Rubio as a candidate. Jindal, on the other hand, was not born to citizen parents.
If your neighbor steals a case of beer from your local "Stop & Rob", does that mean it is legal for you to do so?
IMO the Founders intended the normal, common law definition of legal terms unless they explicitly state otherwise.
Well, then, General, can you cite a common law definition of "natural born citizen" that dates from the time of the adoption of the Constitution?
Understood, and Vattels writing is not "French law"
The US Constitution and US laws in general are based rather in common law, an almost entirely separate code based on centuries of English judicial decisions.
Not sure that is true.
I wonder if this thread will get any posts
Well, I'm posting. And, while I'm here I'll say that I'm so glad to hear some common sense reasoning on this subject for a change. You learn to recognize the NBC fanatics on here and ignore their posts w/o even reading them. (NBC = Natural Born Citizen.)
It's certainly an interesting point. But I wonder if citizens of U. S. protectorates were ever free to migrate to any of the continental United States. They certainly weren't permitted other citizenship privileges—like voting.
Turn loose of your bitterness man. It will kill you. Holding on to bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for your enemy to die.
I think this is an appeal to Scottish Law.
"Rubio's parents were born in 1927 and 1931 in Cuba"
Were they U.S. citizens when Marco was BORN? They were not, THAT is what is relevant.
Answer: yes, he could have become a citizen of Cuba at age 18.
RE: First, JC Fremont wasnt elected.
I think the author's point was that the founders of the GOP ( including Lincoln ) did not find Fremont's birth circumstances to be a constitutional barrier to his becoming President of the USA.
It should not be surprising that within Vattels Law of Nations the term natural-born Citizen was defined as: The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. (Emphasis added) Notice the plural use for parentage.
This was based upon the idea of a singularity of allegiance. The position being that if a person whose father was born outside the country and the son inside the country it would put the son in a position of dual allegiance between his birth country and the country of his father. Vattel stated it this way: I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.
The implication is that if circumstances placed the country at odds with the country of a presidents father the president may not be able to bring himself to wage war, if necessary, against a nation that he has a direct relationship with. How could a man expect to defend against or wage war with the country of his father?
Which brings us to the issue at hand how do we interpret the constitutional meaning of natural-born citizen? As the Constitution is the basis of our law and is law in and of itself we should look at the Constitution through statutory construction.
First; a review of the plain meaning of the text has probably been the greatest contention in determining the meaning as the term is not used in general language today, outside of this context, and obviously being overlooked by those in political power, so it is of little use.
Second; should the plain meaning not prevail then one must determine the original intentions of the person or people that wrote it.
Finally we must turn to any legal precedence that may aid us in our determination. In the case of Minor v. Happersett (1874) we find the following:
At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country, of parents who were its citizens, became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners
Some authorities go further, and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction, without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case, it is not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient, for everything we have now to consider, that all children, born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction, are themselves citizens." (Emphasis added)
From the Federalist Papers:
House Report No. 784, dated June 22, 1874, stated, The United States have not recognized a double allegiance. By our law a citizen is bound to be true and faithful alone to our government. It wouldnt be practical for the United States to claim a child as a citizen when the childs natural country of origin equally claims him/her because doing so could leave the child with two competing legal obligations, e.g., military duty.
The primary author of the citizenship clause, Sen. Jacob M. Howard, said the word jurisdiction, as here employed, ought to be construed so as to imply a full and complete jurisdiction on the part of the United States, coextensive in all respects with the constitutional power of the United States, whether exercised by Congress, by the executive, or by the judicial department; that is to say, the same jurisdiction in extent and quality as applies to every citizen of the United States now.
This remark by Howard puts his earlier citizenship clause remark into proper context:THIS WILL NOT, OF COURSE, INCLUDE PERSONS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES WHO ARE FOREIGNERS, ALIENS, WHO BELONG TO THE FAMILIES OF AMBASSADORS OR FOREIGN MINISTERS ACCREDITED TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, BUT WILL INCLUDE EVERY OTHER CLASS OF PERSONS.
United States Attorney General, George Williams, whom was a U.S. Senator aligned with Radical Republicans during the drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866, ruled in 1873 the word jurisdiction under the Fourteenth Amendment must be understood to mean absolute and complete jurisdiction, such as the United States had over its citizens before the adoption of this amendment. He added, Political and military rights and duties do not pertain to anyone else.
Essentially then, subject to the jurisdiction thereof means the same jurisdiction the United States exercises over its own citizens, i.e., only citizens of the United States come within its operation since citizens of the United States do not owe allegiance to some other nation at the same time they do the United States. This makes arguing the physical presence of being subject to laws silly because being subject to another countries laws while visiting makes no change to an aliens allegiance to their native country.
I read further than I wanted, but definitely stopped at:
"...The Constitution says that the status of parents is irrelevant...."
The Blackstone definition is for "subject," of course, since that was the English common law equivalent of "citizen." But it is basically jus solis, determination by location of birth, not by parentage.
Blackstone: 1765
There have been a number of Supreme Court decision with peripheral bearing on the issue, but none are definitive. In particular, the 14th Amendment may have altered the meaning of the terms used in the original constitution.
Personally I wish the Court would take such a case and just define the term. That is exactly what the Court should do, clarify ambiguous points in what the Constitution really means.
"Natural born" as in "vaginal born" not Cesarean Section, right?
ROFLOL..... I love it. But, now, you have all the NBC fanatics confused.
Bull. Nothing but revisionist history. His explanation had nothing to do with the context of the Constitution. Only people who have never read The Federalist Papers and the Founders' letters would believe this.
Read my tagline. Will not vote for the ineligible Rubio, or the ineligible Obama.
Rubio helps seal Obama's lack of NBC status issue. We need people that shun CFR and globalist UN agenda. It will only get worse after their summer global warming conference.
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Baltimore Ravens Win Super Bowl XLVII
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The Baltimore Ravens won Super Bowl XLVII Sunday 34-31, overpowering the San Francisco 49ers early in the game with strong passing.
Baltimore had a wide lead of 28-6 well into the third quarter, but the 49ers staged a dramatic second-half comeback that gave them 25 more points and nearly the victory.
Among other highlights, the game featured a 108-yard kickoff return, rival head coaches who are brothers and a power outage that shut off lights in the New Orleans Superdome for more than a half hour.
The first touchdown came with about 10 and a half minutes remaining in the first quarter. Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco connected with wide receiver Anquan Boldin in the end zone for a touchdown, and the Ravens got the extra point.
The 49ers followed with a push that looked like it would end with a touchdown, but quarterback Colin Kaepernick's pass to Michael Crabtree in the end zone was unsuccessful. Kaepernick was then sacked, and the 49ers ended up sending in David Akers to kicked a 36-yard field goal.
About three minutes into the second quarter, a strong drive by San Francisco ended when running back LaMichael James fumbled, giving the ball back to the Baltimore.
Baltimore continued its assault as Flacco passed to Dennis Pitta in the end zone to give Baltimore a 14-3 lead.
The 49ers quickly lost possession in their next drive as a Kaepernick pass was intercepted, and a scuffle erupted on the field.
Toward the end of the second quarter, the Ravens' Jacoby Jones caught a long pass, fell on his back and then got up to evade a 49er and run into the end zone. With the extra point, it gave the Ravens 21 points.
San Francisco narrowed the score with a field goal with about 8 minutes left in the second quarter.
Beyonce's sizzling halftime performance was upstaged at the beginning of the third quarter when Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones caught the kickoff in the Ravens' end zone and then ran 108 yards for a touchdown.
Then, less than two minutes into the quarter, play paused when lights in part of the New Orleans Superdome lost power. Play didn't resume for more than half an hour.
After catching a pass, 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree busted through a pair of tacklers to deliver a touchdown, narrowing the score to 28-13.
The 49ers followed with another quick touchdown after Ravens quarterback Flacco got sacked, forcing his team to punt.
Later, with about four minutes left in the third quarter, Ravens Ray Rice fumbled the ball, ceding possession again to the 49ers.
The 49ers' David Ayers then scored a field goal for 3 points, further narrowing the score, to 28-23.


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Minimum autorotation rpmSaturday, September 28th, 2013
When a helicopter is in autorotation (that is, gliding without the benefit of engine power) rotor rpm must be maintained. This is done when entering the autorotation by lowering the collective control. If the rotor rpm approaches an upper limit, the collective is raised to add pitch. This increases drag and slows the rotor rpm. A low rotor rpm situation is just the opposite, lower the collective pitch to reduce the drag and allow the rotor rpm to speed up.
Rotor rpm in autorotation is a function of several factors like density altitude, gross weight and airspeed. An over speeding rotor is easy to manage since the collective control was lowered on entry there is plenty of movement upward to add drag. However, if a pilot enters autorotation and lowers the collective control all the way down and the rotor rpm is still too low this could be a problem. Typically, in this case, the main rotor pitch is set incorrectly. The helicopter's maintenance manual has a procedure to adjust this by either lowering the collective control's down stop or adjusting the main rotor blades' pitch links. To accomplish this, a mechanic will note the helicopter's weight and the density altitude and then reference a chart to get the correct rotor rpm. A flight test will then be performed at those conditions and the actual rotor rpm will be noted with the collective all the way down. If it is not at the correct rotor rpm stated in the chart, the mechanic will make an adjustment.
This is done to insure that in the worst case scenario (light helicopter, high density altitude) the pilot will be able to lower the collective control far enough to guarantee an acceptable rotor rpm in autorotation.


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Regular exercise is important for healthy dogs, but owners need to consider their canine's health before they push them into intense physical activity. Delaware Online reports many owners do not consider things like their dog's health, temperament and the weather outside before they head out for exercise.
"There are things people forget in their urge to get out there in the beautiful spring weather with their best friend," veterinarian Tim Wright told the news source. "They are just like us, and if they've been cooped up all winter they need to get into shape, too. Not every dog is ready to run two miles."
Owners need to make sure that their dog is ready for physical activity. This is especially important if the dog has existing medical conditions. For example, canines suffering from dog hip dysplasia may need to engage in alternate activities for physical fitness, as the owner could be putting them in pain without knowing it. Your veterinarian can make exercise recommendations tailored to the needs of your specific dog.
VCA Animal Hospitals also recommends that pet owners look for ticks on dogs after they have been playing outside for extended periods of time. Ticks may carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease or other serious illnesses, which can be debilitating to dogs. After you start an exercise program with your dog, monitor for any signs of lameness or discomfort and bring any concerns to the attention of your veterinarian.


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Episode 22 | TV-MA
Finally reunited on New Year's Eve, tension grows between Misaki and Sato after he lies about spending time with Hitomi - and the tension grows even more when the lies continue at their next session.
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"Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them. "
Z-line Design's Jim Sexton
Jim Sexton quit college after about a week because he wanted to create his own entrepreneurial future. "I have a knack for designing and picking things that people will buy," he said. "When I got in the leather business 25 years ago, leather was a tufted sofa with no promotion behind it and very few sold." Figuring the public would want to buy natural materials if the price point was right, he designed some items for Emerson Furniture and "they sold like crazy."
But Sexton has also seen the down side of being an entrepreneur. "About 35 years ago, I opened a store that was like a wholesale club. We built it up, but all of a sudden Nixon went down, gas prices went up, we were losing in Vietnam-and it failed," he explained. "Going bankrupt isn't fun. You have to pick yourself up and go back to work."
In 1995 he formed Z-Line Designs. Today the company is a leader in ready-to-assemble furniture. It has thousands of employees and sells to Wal-Mart, Staples, Sears, Office Max and Target. Its headquarters are in San Ramon, Calif.; its main showroom is in High Point, N.C.; and its factories are in China and Taiwan. A sponsor of Nascar on the Joe Gibbs Racing team, driven by Kyle Busch, and Indy car on the Dale Coyne Racing team, Z-Line also owns and operates three business jets. Sexton himself travels more than 200 days a year.
How did Z-Line come about?
Some friends in Silicon Valley were telling me about the Internet and people communicating by computer. And I thought, if this works, then people will be buying a lot of computers for their homes and they'll need furniture for them. So what I should do, I thought, is build the cheapest furniture that could be manufactured, which would be in China, do a flat box, which ships through distribution centers easily, and sell the furniture to the big-box retailers.
I started designing some desks and created the R-Z with frosted glass. My wife Monica asked, "What will you call the company?" Looking at the desk, it took me only about three seconds and I said, "Z-Line."
Did you fund this yourself?
Yes, and Monica and I are still the sole owners.
How did you get involved in Taiwan and China?
We hired some Chinese employees in California who knew how to do business in Hong Kong and I got an agent in Taiwan. But as we got into it, I learned that the factories there are small, so you have problems if you want 20,000 of an item. I told my agent we had to go to China. We went from one factory to another and halfway through the trip I realized my agent spoke Mandarin and the Chinese were speaking Cantonese. So I got a Chinese guy.
But it was still hard. I realized I needed to have a company run by American standards. So we fired everyone over there and I brought a Chinese factory owner to my house in America. I said, "Here's my money, you put up your money. I'll tell you what to make and how to make it. We'll never have a defect and you don't ship anything unless it is 100-percent perfect. I'll hire my own staff in China that will help run this for you."
How long did it take?
It probably took at least a year before we got through the relationship issues. We started delivering furniture to the box stores in 1996.
Had you been to China before you started doing this?
Never. The first night in my hotel, after crossing the bridge from Hong Kong, I called my wife and said, "Honey, I've lost my mind. This is horrible. I think I'll just come home." She said, "Oh, suck it up. Get out there and do your job."
How did you market to the big-box stores?
We kept pounding on doors. Then Office Depot put one of my desks in a new store in northern California. The public loved it.
But in 1997, we were down to our last $3,000. At the High Point Furniture Market, we were showing an office concept when some people from Office Max came by. The vice president said, "This is pretty interesting. I'd like to put this in 30 or 40 stores as a test." I said, "I can't do that. I have another company coming in two hours and they're planning on putting in the whole project." He said, "Are you telling me I can't buy this?" I said, "Yes." He said, "OK, we'll take one desk and put it in a thousand stores." I said, "No, you have to have the whole thing to make it work: the bookcase, the file cabinet, the desk, the printer table." He stood there a moment and said, "OK, we'll do it." And that kicked things off for us really well.
I'm guessing you didn't have anyone coming two hours later.
I think you're right about that.
Why did you decide to sponsor racing?
We wanted to brand the name Z-Line. I looked at advertising in Architectural Digest and Metropolitan Home and on television; it's very costly. I thought that if I can have a car out there for three hours with 200,000 people watching in the stands and millions more on television, a driver wearing my suits, the preseason activities-you can get national exposure. But racing is expensive, too.
Ballpark, how much does it cost to sponsor a racing team?
It's in the neighborhood of $5 million per year.
How did you get involved with Nascar and Joe Gibbs Racing?
Racecar driver Kevin Conway sent me an e-mail about Nascar and we decided to meet. He came in with a PowerPoint about Nascar demographics that convinced me. Nascar's fans are our customers. At the last minute he asked, "Would you like to be a partner with Joe Gibbs?" So I flew and met J.D., the son of Joe. It was like an interview. We talked for a couple hours with him and Joe and they said, "OK, we like you and you can join our team." Last year I decided with Joe Gibbs to pick Kyle Busch after watching him the year before. He just has this intensity about him. He's doing a terrific job this year. [Busch was the top-ranked driver in Nascar's Nationwide Series as this issue went to press.-Ed.]
How effective has racing been for Z-Line?
Not much happened the first year. Then this year with Kyle Busch, it all started to light up. When you win, things happen. This year, we picked up over 50 new accounts. Now we have customers that are running our car and Kyle in their advertising, giving away hats, doing promotions on our products. In our ad now we say, "You call them customers. We call them fans." People are going into stores and asking for Z-Line desks. And we're expanding our product line. We also see a big jump on our Web site after every race. So it's working really, really well.
What is your management style?
We have entrepreneurs inside my company-about eight top-level managers-who are each operating a business inside my business, working their own numbers and figuring their own profits. I've hired people that are probably a lot smarter than I am and let them do their jobs. We get together each day or each week and discuss where they're going. We get a lot done. Z-Line is a 24/7 operation and very fast. We can design a desk in three days, start manufacturing 15 days later and ship 10,000 pieces 30 days after that.
What do you consider to be your role as the CEO?
To be a guiding light and find the next opportunity. We don't sit back ever and probably reinvent ourselves each year. I also watch over all the financials.
What are the worst mistakes a CEO can make?
Micromanaging. I think that you let the people underneath you have lots of room to make mistakes, or don't make mistakes, and see where it goes. Don't watch everything to the last detail.
How did you get into business jets?
After 9/11, my CFO came to me and asked, "Whatever happened to this airplane idea? You've said, 'We can't go here, you can't go there because your back's hurting and so on.' If you had been at that meeting, we would have made that sale. But you weren't and we lost it." So we looked into costs and depreciation schedules. That's when we first went out to get a plane.
What did you look for?
I wanted a plane with long range, so the Lear 25 came up. Then we bought a Falcon 50, which we fly all over the world, and eventually the Gulfstream III, because we needed room for more people. We fly a lot-350 to 400 hours in each airplane a year. I rebuilt the inside of all my airplanes and put in all the comforts of home.
I understand you are a pilot but don't fly your jets.
I became a pilot in 1967. This was just me enjoying my life. We have three pilots and our own mechanics. I'm in the back-probably their worst nightmare. I make sure my planes are taken to the nth degree of perfection.
How do you see the U.S. economy developing?
I think we're creeping along and you'll see it go up inch by inch, but 2010 will be difficult. We have to build our way out of our reliance on oil. Our technology is amazing and will help pull us out of this. Americans are the best in the world at building businesses.
If President Obama asked you for economic advice, what would you tell him?
I met President Obama, and I think what he is doing is exactly what I would be doing if I were him-reaching out around the country and the world, meeting people, finding out what's going on in China, Russia and other countries, interacting. That's what needs to be done now and I think he's doing a great job of it. It's a total world economy now.
What do you consider your greatest success?
I have to say my daughter, my son and my wife. Businesses come and go, but nothing is more important than my family. We also believe a lot in charities:
Make-A-Wish Foundation and Operation Helmet.
CEO Files Résumé: Jim Sexton
POSITION: President, CEO and founder of Z-Line Designs, San Ramon, Calif.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS: Designer, Emerson Furniture.
PERSONAL: Born in Norfolk, Va. Age 59. Married 30 years. Two adult children. He and his wife live in Blackhawk, near San Ramon and have condos in Capitola, Calif., and at the Bath Club on Miami Beach. Collects exotic cars, including four Mercedes-Benzes, two Ferrari Spiders, a Lamborghini Diablo and a Bentley Flying Spur.
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Anyone interested in getting together on either the Saturday or Sunday of the Masters? We can think up a good bar to meet at, I just wanted to see how much interest there would be.
Also, Greg and myself are thinking about doing another Master's pool again this year if there is enough interest.


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I brewed the Huang Gang sample last night.
10g in a 120ml gaiwan. Boiling Iceland Spring bottled water.
20 seconds for the first few steeps then getting long as time went on.
This tea had good staying power. Lasted longer than I wanted to stay up. The aroma hung in there until the end.
The mouth feel was slightly heavier than the Fushoushan but still very light. I liked the after taste on this one even better than the Fushoushan, especially around brew 4. Faint lingering tropical fruit.
Super strong flowery aroma on the first few steeps. Any stronger and it might be overpowering for me.
I enjoyed this session. It was a lot of tea to drink in one sitting, even for me. I was very alert, but not jangly. Relaxing.