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Serbia Stuns U.S. Men in World League Final Round
B.J. Hoeptner Evans
Manager, Media Relations and Publications
Phone: 719-228-6800
ANAHEIM, Calif. (July 23, 2008) – The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team could not find an answer for Serbia's Ivan Milijkovic, who had 16 points on 16 kills as Serbia surpassed the U.S. Men, 25-23, 25-19, 25-17, in an FIVB World League Final Round match on Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Team USA, which won its World League pool with a 9-3 record to make it to the Final Round, must defeat Poland on Thursday (9:15 a.m. PDT) if it hopes to advance to a medal match. In the other pool play match on Wednesday, Brazil defeated Russia, 25-23, 25-18, 25-15. The top two teams from each pool will advance to Saturday's semifinals.
Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawai'i) led the U.S. effort on Wednesday with 10 points on eight kills and two blocks. Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) added nine points on nine kills. David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) scored seven points on four kills, two blocks and the only ace scored by either team in the match.
While Milijkovic pounded out the offense for Serbia, Marko Podrascanin helped keep the U.S. hitters at bay with a match-high five blocks. Serbia finished the match with 13 blocks as compared to five for the United States. Serbia was also credited with 42 digs as opposed to 27 for Team USA.
The U.S. Men had 32 kills on 84 attempts for 38 percent while Serbia converted 48 percent of its kill attempts to points.
Among the other U.S. scorers, Ryan Millar (Palmdale, Calif.) had five points on four kills and one block. Riley Salmon (League City, Texas) scored three points on three kills. Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.), scored two points on two kills and Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.) and Gabe Gardner (San Clemente, Calif.) each scored on one kill.
U.S. setter Lloy Ball (Fort Wayne, Ind.) tallied 30 running sets and 33 still sets on 64 attempts with one fault. Libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) was credited with nine digs on 14 attempts and 14 "excellent" receptions with no faults on 27 attempts.
U.S. Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) started Priddy and Salmon at outside hitter, Lee and Millar at middle blocker, Stanley at opposite and Ball at setter with Lambourne at libero. Tom Hoff (Park Ridge, Ill.) played as a substitute in the first set. Rooney entered the match as a substitute in the second set and Gardner and Touzinsky both saw time in the third set.
"The biggest disappointment to me is the fact that we did not play as a team," Hoff said. "We need to recover the shape we had in the summer, when we were training."
The United States got off to a strong start in the first set, taking a 12-9 lead and later leading 18-14. However Serbia went on a 5-1 run to tie the score at 19-19, then took a 21-20 lead before winning 25-23.
Buoyed by its victory, Serbia grabbed an 8-6 lead at the first technical timeout (TTO) of the second set, and increased it to 16-11 at the second TTO before breezing to the 25-19 set win.
The score was tied at 7-7 in the third set when Serbia went on an 8-1 scoring run to lead 15-8. The U.S. Men never threatened after that.
View the U.S. Men's World League Media Guide at www.usavolleyball.org/media/national/08WL_MNTMediaGuide.pdf.
The U.S. World League site is www.usavolleyball.org/national/08WL.asp.
The FIVB World League site is www.fivb.org/EN/Volleyball/Competitions/WorldLeague/2008.
2008 FIVB World League Final Round
U.S. Men's Roster
1 Lloy Ball (S, 6-8, Fort Wayne, Ind., IPFW)
2 Sean Rooney (OH, 6-9, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
8 Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9 Ryan Millar (MB, 6-8, Palmdale, Calif., BYU)
10 Riley Salmon (OH, 6-6, League City, Texas, Pierce College)
12 C Tom Hoff (MB, 6-8, Park Ridge, Ill., Long Beach State)
13 Clay Stanley (Opp, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawai'i)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
15 Gabe Gardner (Opp, 6-9, San Clemente, Calif., Stanford)
18 Scott Touzinsky (OH, 6-6, St. Louis, Mo., Long Beach State)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon
Assistant Coach: Ron Larsen
Assistant Coach: John Speraw
Team Doctor: Michael Wynn
Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison
Athletic Trainer: Aaron Brock
Schedule and Results (all times PDT)
Pool E
July 23: Brazil def. Russia, 25-23, 25-18, 25-15
July 24: Japan vs. Russia, 6 a.m.
July 25: Brazil vs. Japan, 6 a.m.
Pool F
July 23: Serbia def. USA, 25-23, 25-29, 25-17
July 24: USA vs. Poland, 9:15 a.m.
July 25: Poland vs. Serbia, 9:15 a.m.
Semifinals – July 26
6 a.m.: Pool F winner vs. Pool E second place
9:15 a.m.: Pool E winner vs. Pool F second place
Finals – July 27
5:30 a.m.: Bronze medal match
8:30 a.m.: Gold medal match


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Intercountry Adoptions: Haiti | Haiti Adoption Alert: January 15
We have received numerous inquiries from American citizens whose Haitian adoptions had already been completed by the Haitian Government. We understand the deep concern these prospective adoptive parents feel about the welfare of these children, and we are actively working to identify available options in light of the recent tragedy.
DHS' U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs have already begun defining possible ways to expedite these pending cases. DHS is actively considering expedited Humanitarian Parole for pending adoption cases in which the Government of Haiti previously issued a final adoption decree or granted custody to U.S. citizen adoptive parents for the purpose or emigration and adoption in the United States. As soon as there is a plan in place, we will provide details.
As you know, the U.S. Embassy is focusing its efforts to assist U.S. citizens in Haiti directly affected by the crisis.
The State Department continues to make adoptions a priority and we are continuing to work on adoption cases.
U.S. citizens with pending adoption cases in Haiti are requested to contact the Department of State at firstname.lastname@example.com for information about their adoption case. In your inquiry, please include in the subject line, Haitian adoption Information. The inquiry should include the full name and contact information (including e-mail address) of parents, full name(s) of child(ren), date(s) of birth of child(ren) (if possible), a brief summary of the status of the case, and the name and contact information for the orphanage, and the file and/or case number.
To bring an adopted child to United States from Haiti, you must be found eligible to adopt by the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government agency responsible for making this determination is the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Learn more here.
In addition to these U.S. requirements for prospective adoptive parents, Haiti also has eligibility requirements for prospective adoptive parents. Learn more here.
More about the crisis:state.gov/haitiquakeHow To Help:Center for International Disaster Information | Clinton Bush Haiti Fund | InterAction | Mercy Corps | Red Cross | Text Donation
Chuck S. in Minnesota writes:
Thanks for what you are doing to get the American citizens whose Haitian adoptions had already been completed by the Haitian Government out of Haiti. Keep giving this priority.
I'm sure there are a lot more orphans in Haiti and I bet there are a lot of Americans who would love to adopt them. Is there something you can do?
Lindsay C. writes:
Please!!! Senators and Congressmen, President of Haiti, allow the adopted children to come to their parents in the U.S.!!! There are so many that can be helped and saved from this tragedy and the people that love them are worried and feel helpless. PLEASE make the decision to save these kids and get them to safety!
Kristie in Ohio writes:
I am writing to beg of your assistance in the recent tragedy from the earthquake. I have a cousin who is 2 years into the process of adopting a little girl from one of your orphanages there, in Port-au-Prince. I am asking for you to please grant permission for these children to be immediately evacuated to their adoptive families, here in the US and elsewhere. There is no reason to keep them there, in the looting and unsafe conditions, without water and food, when they have capable, loving families waiting for information, and for thei arrival. Please grant this permission. As soon as possible.
Marsha S. in Minnesota writes:
Our son and wife have been to Haiti twice to see their two children (siblings) they are in the process of adopting. They need to get those kids home ASAP! They have been waiting 2 years.....please let these kids come home.
Nicole L. in Ohio writes:
Please help bring the innocent ones home. Plenty of people are trying to adopt these babies and now is the time to get them out of a disasterous situation and into loving safe homes.
Lisa K. in Wisconsin writes:
Please get those children to their new families! The government of Haiti is in no position to try and stop this. They need our help!
Jenny W. in Minnesota writes:
My Aunt and Uncle have 2 waiting children in an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti that was on Fox News today, they had no drinkable water or formula for their babies. (For His Glory Outreach, Maison des Enfants de Dieu) We understand that the only thing standing in the way of evacuating those babies to the US is approval from the State department and the President of Haiti. Please, PLEASE will you approve these evacuations and humanitarian visas so these kids can get out of harms' way, and so they can begin to serve the many hundreds of new orphans that are likely to surface after this devastation?
Thank you for you time, please act NOW.
Jenny W.
Linda W. in Iowa writes:
I am adding my earnest plea to Jenny W.'s. Please act to evacuate these kids to their waiting families.
Rochelle B. in Minnesota writes:
Thank you for all efforts of behalf of the adoptive children in Haiti and their parents in America!! Please do everything possible to bring these children out of the disaster immediately.
Jennifer E. in Minnesota writes:
I'm appealing for action. I've received this info. from friends who are awaiting the final paperwork to go thru for their adoption of two children at an orphanage in Haiti. The creche where Philippe and Patricia are staying, Maison des Enfants de Dieu, was just featured on FoxNews.com Here are the gps coordinates if needed: orphanage coordinates: 72 deg 33'29.5â€N 72 deg 18'08.76†W. I'm told the only thing they need to evacuate the children in the orphanage to the U.S. is approval from the State Department and the President of Haiti. Everything else in place to be able to evacuate - the only thing keeping our kids in Port-au-Prince is this permission. They have babies with diarrhea who will dehydrate quickly and we need to get the kids out. Please, I'm asking you, the State Department to get this approval as soon as possible. Thank you for listening!
Kristen in California writes:
I am very relieved to hear that humanitarian parole is being persued for orphans with adoptions finalized in Haiti. HOWEVER, there are many more orphans in varying stages of the adoption process who need to be moved to safety. I hope that you will consider granting parole to all orphans who are in the process, not just those in the later stages. This children are vulnerable and need to be moved to safety!!
Chrystal D. in Virginia writes:
My husband and I would like to adopt and wish to be considered in emergency efforts to relieve children from crisis. Please contact me ASAP.
Judith G. in Minnesota writes:
Please bring the adoptive Haiti children matched with USA parents home!!!!!
Sarah T. in Canada writes:
I'm just wondering how you'd go about in adopting a child from Hatti in Canada. I know there are so many in need and that it's so hard to deal with this devastating event. Can you please contact me. Thank You!
Denise writes:
i want to Adoption child, let me no what i have to do thank you
Juliann K. in Minnesota writes:
Please move quickly! My friends here in MN have two children they were adopting from the Children of God orphanage. At last report on Sunday the 17th they were still without water and no contact from UN or any other relief agency.
Amanda T. in Ohio writes:
My husband and I would love to adopt a child from Haiti. We are prepared to take whatever steps are necessary. Please inform us of how we can help. Thank You.
Joseph D. in New Jersey writes:
Can Haitian Americans support their affected loveones by the earthquake to come to the US for treatment and help? If yes, how to do that?
Kevin D. in Florida writes:
What a perfectly good time to call on Cuba to step up and help the United States bring a humanitarian effort to Haiti. By providing a supply point between here and the United States. We could set up MASH teams to care for the critically injured closer to Haiti. Have a fueling Point for planes and ships of all countries. Maybe we our to countries can work together on this? I think our Sec. of State and the State Department should consider this.
Kathi S. in Indiana writes:
I am a healthy 50 year old with a good job. God has placed it on my heart during the last 2 years to look into adoption. With the earthquake in Haiti and so many children in need of a great parent and home I want to help. I am a single parent with my youngest at Purdue. Paying all of the enormous fees to help children without parents is not right. I saw $670.00 just to fill out paperwork. That is one form. Tell me where to go to help a child that I won't pay money for but my time, energy and most of all love?????????????????
Shannon in Canada writes:
My husband and I would like to adopt and wish to be considered in emergency efforts to relieve children from crisis. Please give the children a chance, get them out of Haiti ....I am sure their are many people around the world that would take these children in as their own. I beg you to help these children, they have suffered enough, lets think of the children and whats best for them..............
Patricia N. in Wisconsin writes:
I'm told the only thing they need to evacuate the children in the orphanage to the U.S. is approval from the State Department and the President of Haiti.
How hard can it be to simply say "Okay, this is the right thing to do. Get these children to their new homes since they have NO home" It's totally uncalled for that so many people want to adopt & the cost and permission makes it un-attainable. Mrs. Clinton should take on this adoption nightmare. She would go down in history if she would eliminate these barriers & help the "village" who want to help. She has the power unfortunately, not the "village" that put her where she is...I wish this w/b a priority for her.
Tishri C. writes:
Our son is at God's Littlest Angel's orphanage in Haiti and we heard that President Preval has signed to allow the children to come to the USA to their American families. Please let these children come home.
Natalie S. in Minnesota writes:
I am a great aunt of a child in Haiti that my neice & her husband are awaiting to bring home through their adoption. They heard Jan. 4 that their process was almost complete...just waiting for VISA & Passport approval for their son.
Kori R. in Nebraska writes:
Thank you for bringing home the children whose adoptions are finalized, but please make it possible for the other orphans at various stages of adoption to come home to their parents. Many of these children have already waited up to four years to have a place to call "home." Do not make them wait any longer. Grant humanitarian parole for all the orphans of Haiti immediately!
Trudy E. in Nebraska writes:
Officials, please do everything as quickly as possible to help all children out of Haiti. The 'Cry of the Orphans' has to be heard by the USA...they have no one to speak for them.
Get those with US parents home and help those that need protected. Orphans are not safe in Haiti, food and water is scarce, security is scarce. Press for the children to be granted hunamitarian parol visas immediately!!!
Val in Iowa writes:
Fox news just reported Dutch is sending a plane to pick up children no reason to let them suffer. Most of these people have all their paperwork and are far into adoption and many others would take children after proper paper work here in states where they have help? Why the hold up? There should be no red tape on something so simple, the US does not let children any children suffer period.
Kathleen O. in New York writes:
Our dear friends are in the last stages of adoption from For His Glory, Maison des Enfants in Haiti. It has taken years of red-tape. They have been looted and are desperate. Please, please get these kids out to their US families!
Cecilia C. in Indiana writes:
Please removed the red tape and bring these children home to U.S. where there parents are waiting. U.S. is better than this don't let these children die beause someone won't step up and do the right thing.
Amanda in Pennsylvania writes:
Please, grant these children their visas so they can go to their home in the U.S. My sister in law and family have waited long enough for the adoption to be completed. The grant would be a long awaited answer to prayer! Please let their daughter come home.

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Skip to comments.Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 10 February 2013
Posted on 02/10/2013 5:19:39 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
February 10th, 2013
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.; Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Mayor Kasim Reed of Atlanta.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Reps. Tom Cole, R-Okla., and Keith Ellison, D-Minn.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): ens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Angus King, I-Maine; former Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.; former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas.
I appreciate the sympathy, but actually I have machines that do all the bullwork, my job is fixing them after I break them...(usually during a storm) so I'll apply it to that.
Ohhh, sparks flying between RINO Chrystal and RAT Whaaan over defense "cuts" and the responsibility of the alleged president.
Sorry I should have looked it over before posting. When I get upset, which seems to be all the time now, I type too fast.
I'm convinced now what he is doing to those of us in the military now is on purpose. There is no other rational explanation.
Repeal of DADT...allowing women into the infantry and armor branches and now allowing the "spouses" of gay couples to have ID cards and benefits.
Combine that with the looming 500 billion in cuts making us a hollow force reminiscent of the Carter years decreases in our benefits and a paltry 1% pay raise proposed for FY 2014.
This is...in my personal opinion...a purposeful attempt to break the morale and will of our armed forces.
This Administration and 99.9% of the Libtards today see the military as the execution tool of all the evil that America has spread around the world since we were founded. So just as America has to be taken down a notch...so too must her military. By whatever means necessary.
There is no other way to explain it.
And in the mean time all of our enemies are gearing up and improving their militaries. Why? Because they know we have been put in a position where we can't oppose them.
Not that this administration actually wants to stop them...
She found that the rain was only very slightly acidic, while the rivers and streams were quite neutral. A little research led to the observation that the acidity was likely due to carbonic acid (from the now dreaded CO2) and that it was quickly neutralized by the soil. Since this finding was quite opposed to the propaganda being taught, I thought her results were quite significant.
I had recently acquired a brand new PC-XT with a full 10 meg hard drive with one 5-1/4 inch 360K floppy drive, and a pen plotter. We plotted her results on the plotter. She also made some plots for a friend who had looked up some information in an encyclopedia, for her "science project".
My daughter received a red ribbon - the lowest prize given, with no comments by the judges. Her friend got a blue ribbon, with comments about her great graphics. My daughter's problem, obviously, was that her data defied the propaganda being spewed by the school system. The last thing they needed was some stupid student presenting facts that disputed that.
what a coincidence.Time to validate "we didn't have anyone near in BenghaZi" when the sh_t hit the fan. Never ends with these idiots.Can't help if you are not there.
One question I have in that regard was prompted by what Dempsey said in the hearing--and I have yet to hear anyone in the MSM or elsewhere raise it.
Dempsey said that the Pentagon was looking at plenty of other problems that day--9/11--including in Cairo, as mobs rioted in front of our Embassy. When you look at the timeline of day's events, you see that Benghazi happened around 9 pm that evening well after the events in Cairo had occurred. So what was DOD doing in response to the events in Cairo before Benghazi? Did they move any of our forces closer to the region? Were they put on alert? After 9/11 there were demonstrations worldwide against the US, e.g, Tunisia, Yemen, Karachi, etc. but Dempsey tried to conflate those with the events of 9/11.
We don't get dnc Dave until 10 Eastern.
Exactly a different world.
To ask is to know the answer.
So if we had gotten McCain in 2008 instead of Obama, we would be leading from the middle, not from behind.
Thanks! (I think)
Right back at-cha.
Waahn was wacking hard defending "that guy" on Bengazi.
Excellent. I'm so happy to know you have machines!
You might enjoy an old BBC comedic series from Netflix called "Yes, Minister". It was made in the early '80's and will tickle the funny bone of any government cynic.
I remember you saying your Sunday Show's schedule got all rearranged!
I'm just now going to watch FNS.
I want to see Rand Paul on CNN. Not sure of the time it starts here, but I'm checking now.
That's good, Bernard. And I'll take it, leading from the middle better than from behind which is going to get a whole lot of us killed.
And also, we would have Sarah. However, the LSM would not give a free pass to anything she said, no matter how brillant, as they do Ole' Uncle Joe.
Its what they do. And what we have not learned to do. Political expertise, they have it we don't.
The bent axel,plouffe et. all, set up a scenario where the left got no budget cuts or sequestration.They never ever cut anything. Why would they? We are too easy a mark.
Under sequestration the commies have a list of six or eight key liberal causes where all the old people, children, or whomever will all die or suffer terribly if any of their funding is cut. Budget cuts(actually reductions in the increases) are miraculously always dire.They are never able to be worked out,never four day weeks instead of five. Just for grins they throw in military cuts as dire as well knowing our side hates cuts in the military.
The fact that huge budget deficits threatening the future of our kids or buying our own debt is never under consideration because once again we let them set the agenda...again.....is even more depressing.
You gotta wonder if we will ever learn.
Tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
They are all pontificating pissants.
Thank you so much, for taking the time to provide the link!
The Weather Channel is almost useless! Too many commercials.
I always get the feeling they're hoping for a tragedy to report.
We wouldn't have seen him since. (except on FOX)
Its called communists in office leveling the playing field.
LOL Wallace has to stop Piglousy from talking before he even asks the question.
"We don't have a spending problem," she says. Where have we heard that before?
Sequestration was Obama's idea, but the Reps signed on to it. IMO neither party wants to make real spending cuts. They keep coming up with ideas to kick the can down the road. Both parties are holding DOD hostage, which was always the objective.
What I see coming out of this are some accounting gimmicks to forestall any real cuts and an agreement by the Reps playing the good cop to increase revenue by "closing loopholes" to protect DOD cuts. It will be portrayed as a matter of national security so that the Reps get a pass on agreeing to more taxes.
The sequestration bill excluded the entitlement programs and means tested welfare programs from any cuts meaning that any cuts to non-DOD discretionary funding would fall on all the agencies of government. Just as the military has done, we will have the Dems painting a doom and gloom picture of the impact of such cuts on children, the poor, health, etc. And the MSM is already awash with stories of how the implementation of sequestration will plunge us back into a recession.
So the spending will go on, taxes will continue to be increased whether thru tax rates, closing loopholes, the implementation of Obamacare etc. and so will the deficits. Projections are that we will raise more revenue in 2013--$2.7 trillion--than in any time in our history. And we will still run a $900 billion deficit.
Americans want all the benefits of the welfare state, but they don't want to pay for it. Eventually taxes will be raised on everyone in order to fund the welfare state. The Dems are setting the stage for it and after they regain the House in 2014, it will be a much different ball game. When Willie Sutton, the famed bank robber was asked why he robbed banks, he responded, "That's where the money is." Well, the middle class is the biggest bank of all and the Dems will tap it to keep the welfare state treading water. It will eventually fail, but not before defense is eviscerated (Guns versus Butter) and the government seizes most of the economy.
Well...it's the 'future'. We all know about 'Nemo'. Can anyone name 'A' thru 'L' from earlier this winter season? No peeking. How about the current 'O' "ravaging" the upper Midwest?
We understand that, the problem is Darwinists have used it to disprove God and promote communism. We are saying it is time to accept evolution is a fraud. Some great people came onto this thread to counter evolution:
Hope things are improving.
Prayers for you Alas
That's sort of a confession, as it really means: "We have no problem spending every nickel you have."
She, also, said that it is the 1st amendment that gives us the right to bare arms.
Exactly. Scare the sheeple, watch the Republicans fold like a cheap suit. Pitiful.
We are being treated to a good cop, bad cop routine. The Reps want to fold. Protecting our national security is a good excuse to keep the spending going.
It does, if going sleeveless is a form of expression.
The Second Amendment lays out our right to bear arms.
YOU are the one who gets the BlueRibbon!
What a wonderful way to raise a daughter! Taking on "science' ( girls aren't supposed to be good at that.ha).
And learning the lesson that you don't just accept whatever they "teach"you. And learning that character and hard work and honesty is WAAAAAY more important than phony ribbons.
What a great lesson for her!
Oh, I see, that's where Moochell gets it from. And she has mighty fine ones too.
At one juncture he tried to portray Benghazi like a police op,a robbery at a 7-11 that was thousands of miles away (supposedly)and they simply could not respond to every 7-11 that gets knocked off. Especially, when they had no idea what was going on.(so many lies there you don't know where to begin)
When asked who was in charge of the op Panetta replied, "the forces on the ground." In other words Woods,Doherty and Smith who had all been told to stand down were actually in charge of the op but didn't know that no help was ever coming.Bizarre at best.
Supposedly, no one in dc was even engaged or even there watching events happen,no one calling into see if he needed a cappuccino or a bagel,or a back rub by Lindsay Graham,just Panetta. Once again stretching believability here.
Panetta also claimed that it would have taken 8 hours to respond instead of calling in F-16's in theater that could have been there in under two hours.
Panetta lied his ass off and then twisted the rest to make it sound somewhat feasible but told just enough truth to let us know that zero was MIA once again and he actually had no one to turn to and was obviously told to stand down.
Should anyone dare to get to the bottom of the Benghazi fiasco they will undoubtedly hear that it was a CIA op and they are not allowed to talk about it--the ultimate plausible deny-ability.
My thinking was either one of two scenarios could have happened:
1. Benghazi was a hit on Stevens by CIA or others since he had been gun smuggling all over the Mid- East and knew too much and had become:
a political liability.
2. A hostage taking so they could eventually trade Stevens for the blind sheik once again:
a political situation.
Let's hope we can keep Benghazi and the death of four warriors alive since the DBM are still trying to find Ben Ghazi's house on a map...
The commercials, given the junk science (they really, really like GlobullWarming) TWC's been serving up by the cubic mile for the past ten years or so, may just be the high point of their broadcasting.
You'd get better weather guessing out of Farmer's Almanac, or just cut to the chase and use http://forecast.weather.gov
(You can dial that deal in to within fifty feet of your front door, if you don't worry too much about somebody selling the coordinates.)
I am watching Stephy and they are REALLY getting DESPERATE! HA.
when they played the clip of Eric Cantor and then followed with a Republican commenting at length....THE SOUND WENT OUT!!!( yeah, I checked the other channels, just during that segment, just on Stephy)..
Now Stephy says " oh, yes, there's been a lot of DISCOMFORT on the ground with the drone Strikes. Discomfort???ha.
Its very possible we may never get any traction there. These guys are just too politically astute to be beaten. They will have to self destruct and that's is taking longer than I ever dreamed.
We haven't got the idea that we are the Party of Opposition!
In Britain you see them screaming at each other in Parliament...and the Party of opposition in other countries can get aggressive.
MTP Gregory interviewing Dick Durbin
on drones- asks Dick should we change the CIC's ability to kill at will with drones. DIck says obama made it clear he would eliminate torture (lololol - kill em, don't grill em). He won't answer Gregory's questioning about changing the policy. compliments obama for being "engaged" in providing the legal basis for drone attacks.
Menendez - should he retain his chairmanship? Mendendez has given Dick his assurance that he wasn't involved with that stuff, other than that he can't comment on it.
LOL. You're absolutely right!
Yes, and the political statement that Moochelle's "bared arms" are screaming is:
"In a shouting match, I could simply beat you to death...and I just might."
You are lucky we get FNS at 2:00pm Eastern.
How is the fund raising going!!
Is FR guys almost there for the quarter?
Remember a dollar a day is hard to miss but slowly adds up for FR!!
When you have a voter base of village idiots...what do you expect them to elect?Its the un-elected you have to watch out for.
Not necessarily, what if they just keep buying our own debt until a dollar won't buy a banana.
MTP Round Table
Gersen, WaPo, rightly points out what obama is proposing to Republicans - "Give up spending cuts for tax increaes." No Republican is going to go for that.
Mike McCurry (? I think) If obama would be willing to deal with entitlement reform, Republicans would deal with him on everything else and ignore the rest of us, Brings up that obama is ruining the immigration deal when he gets involved. Refers to Rubio and Jeb Bush as "heroes" in the immigration debate. (lolol - yep, my kind of heroes)
Who is the black dude on MTP - using phrases like Republicans showed him the back of their hand. That guys is an idiot. Says obama has shown Boeher he is willing to deal with them (???) He has a huge chip on his shoulder.
True, maybe both and they were "thinking" it would be a win/win situation regardless of the outcome.
[I woke up with a small headache, then I endured her undiluted RATaganda, now I have a full-blown ears-ringing, pounding skull-crusher.]
There is a simple solution to your dilemma, take an aspirin for your small headache and avoid anything that compounds your misery.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (64 votes).
In short: Well organised and good value race.In full: Small, about 200 or so taking part. Very well organised and good value race. No road closures but very good marshalling and not a lot of traffic down the lanes, so no problems. No steep hills but a lot of steady climbs/descents so not a quick course.Date of review: August 27, 2012
In short: Faultless, a brilliant runDate of review: August 26, 2012
In short: Great route, fantastic cakes at the end:-)Date of review: August 26, 2012
In short: Wonderful race in a great setting In full: Fantastic value for money and great organisation make this a perfect choice for anyone fancying a rural race in a wonderful setting. "Undulating" probably sums up the route with a few hills but nothing too challenging. Date of review: August 26, 2012
In short: Some short but steep hills in 2nd half. Fun race.Date of review: March 29, 2012
In short: Superb race, well organised and tough as you likeIn full: Well done to the organisers again. As ever things well very well (with the exceptiong of my legs...). It seems the route is now virtually 12 miles, and a fellow runner said is is now way harder than a road half-marathon. I tend to agree. The cruel structure of the race, with the 4 huge climbs kept for the second half, and the cheeky nature of the sting in the tail are just brilliant. Go too fast in the first 5 miles and you will pay later. All the usual worked well - drinks stations, the school etc. There appears to be a minor glitch with the times (I have been given the time for the person who finished after me) but as I was out for a fair while it makes no material difference. And oddly there seems to be a proble with this review page which is posting reviews to the V of P half...All in all a great race, keep it up.Date of review: March 2, 2012
In short: Great Race -In full: Have a look at the photos on the Pewsey Vale Running Club Facebook page.Date of review: February 28, 2012
In short: The Terminator: terminated my legs for the next 24 hours!!!!In full: First time at Terminator, and was disappointed that the sun decided to make an appearance, the race would have been even more hardcore in typical February conditions (However I am probably in the minority of loving a run in the pouring rain!).Not as muddy as expected, but some of the hills were lethal even with minimal mud so I dread to think what they would have been like if it had been raining for the fortnight before. If you like scrambling up banks assisted by a rope, clambering over straw bales, wading through bogs, staggering up near vertical hills to the 'flag' only to find that the 'flag' is not the one you can actually see but the one way off in the distance, all topped off with a quick dip in the river then this is the race for you! If not then I would give it a miss! Hats off to the marshals, great support the whole way round. Brilliant organisation by PVRC went without a glitch and great value for money. Even more chuffed to get a prize for my efforts totally unexpected, but very pleased. Events like these show the 'big' races how it should be done. Great like-minded runners made for a fab run, thoroughly enjoyed the whole race and can't wait for next year, with, hopefully, more typical weather!!! Date of review: February 27, 2012
In short: Excellent fun and really welcoming bunch of people organisers and runners alike.Date of review: February 27, 2012
In short: Superb race - my all time favourite!Date of review: February 27, 2012
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"Brain calisthenics" — such as computer-based exercises in quickly linking graphs to equations — help students internalize abstract ideas and see patterns intuitively, say cognitive science researchers in a New York Times story.
Now, a small group of cognitive scientists is arguing that schools and students could take far more advantage of this same bottom-up ability, called perceptual learning. The brain is a pattern-recognition machine, after all, and when focused properly, it can quickly deepen a person's grasp of a principle, new studies suggest.
In a 2010 study, UCLA and Penn researchers used perception training to teach fractions to sixth graders in a Philadelphia public school.
On the computer module, a fraction appeared as a block. The students used a "slicer" to cut that block into fractions and a "cloner" to copy those slices. They used these pieces to build a new block from the original one — for example, cutting a block that represented the fraction 4/3 into four equal slices, then making three more copies to produce a block that represented 7/3. The program immediately displayed an 'X' next to wrong answers and "Correct!" next to correct ones, then moved to the next problem. It automatically adjusted to each student's ability, advancing slowly for some and quickly for others. The students worked with the modules individually, for 15- to 30-minute intervals during the spring term, until they could perform most of the fraction exercises correctly.
In a test on the skills given afterward, on problems the students hadn't seen before, the group got 73 percent correct. A comparison group of seventh graders, who'd been taught how to solve such problems as part of regular classes, scored just 25 percent on the test.
Notice how few students understand fractions.
Reading the comments reminded me of the parable of the six blind men and the elephant. Every reader seems to think the research proves their theory: Kids need more practice; kids need to construct knowledge, kids need real-world examples, kids need visuals.
I'm not doing well with abstract ideas this week, due to a horrible cold and a racking cough, but here's UCLA's graphs 'n equations module.


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About the Crisco taste--it definitely tastes artifical--very distinct.--I can understand you calling it "plastic-like", althoughI can't think of a proper adjective to convey the taste. It doesn't seem to happen in pies, so it must be the addition of the yeast.
Did you use the 6 TBS oil and 2 minutes kneading time?
Is your recipe getiing close to DKM's?Not sure which recipe you used.
No, I haven't tried lard--I'm not sure how that would taste (lol)! have you tried making pizza with lard?
YES! It makes a much lighter, more tender crust than one made with crisco or oil, and no oily/greasy texture or "off" taste.You really should give it a try ( and cholesterol be damned! ) Just stay away from the low quality stuff that most grocery stores sell, which is mostly made from fat trimmings left over from pork processing. (If it's kept in the bakers aisle at the store instead of the refrigerated section, it's made from at trimmings.) What you want is rendered leaf lard, which is made from the fat around the kidneys. (It's the stuff high-end bakers use for pie crusts, buscuits, and pastries.)


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Ze week, she is gone! Pouf! Where did zshe go?
I had a little bit more geekiness in my posts this past week than I normally do. I'm not apologizing.
Actually, I meant to use some word that meant "twitter update", but now that I look at it, maybe twitterdate would be some sort of speed dating but via twitter.
I've been keeping the twitter stuff alive and I still find it addicting after a full week. I even set up and reserved a twitter account for my employer, because I didn't want someone else snarfing up our company name as a username. I think twitter usernames will be like domain names, and you need to reserve yours early. I'm glad I got a short name like whall.
I also discovered Twittermaps, where you can use little macros in your tweets to identify where you are physically on the earth. Then the tweets can be in an RSS feed so others can see the tweets that are geographically, close, and/or you can see them on a map with a date and time.
You can use a zip code, a city, latitude and longitude, an address, or whatever. This is cool stuff. I can easily envision a lot more done with this, when the tweets can have GPS data embedded in them from a typical cell phone or twitter client. The above map shows a kind of archive of the tweets in a given area.
Twittervision, by the same folk, is similar but seems to be more of a real-time view of tweets. When you go to twittervision, you can see a 3d-view of the earth, and it spins around and shows you the latest tweet
You can just sit there and watch the world spin around, and see people's thoughts and actions live.
How long until the first fake suicide threat? Or when tweets are used in a murder investigation? Will such an open medium foster in an air of honesty in the technologically-enabled society?
Faces of Meth
Courtesy of a Scott Adams blog entry about not being able to keep his joking mouth shut in public, I was able to watch "Faces of Meth"
You can click on various photos of people who have been consumed by meth, and see their before and after pictures. Some of these are pretty eye-opening.
I'd make a pretty good "after picture".
Now I know what "XXX" really means
Don't go asking me what I was searching for or anything embarrassing like that. Suffice it to say, this is a pretty funny video. I'm a big fan of Thumb Wars and it's kind of like that.
It's safe for work. No nudity, despite what the "initial image" looks like below.
Best of LOLcats
I only give you the very best, you know dahlingks.
WordPress update
There's another update – WordPress 2.3.1 –
I'll probably load it today UPDATE: I just loaded it.. One of the cool things about 2.3 and later is that it actually notifies you of an update being available when you login.
It also lets you know of plugins that have been updated, and is just very cool all around. Open source stuff has a lot of benefits, like being free, being available to everyone to contribute, and all that, but a lot of times things just stall. Or are hard to use. Or is maintained by a bunch of effete jerks. But in WordPress land, I'm pleasantly surprised every time something new comes out. The new features are cool. They're useful. And I haven't run into any bugs myself, so that means either the coding is spot-on or the testing is adequate.


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Buffalo Wing Pizza Roll-Up (team Robert version)
- Pizza Dough:
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 (1/4-ounce) packet fresh fast-acting yeast
- 1 1/2 cups warm water, between 100 and 115 degrees F, as measured with a candy thermometer (any hotter will kill the yeast - an organic leavener; too cool and the yeast won't be activated)
- 4 cups all-purpose flour, plus some extra to knead the dough
- 1/4 cup cornmeal, for pizza stones
- Pizza topping:
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- 2 medium onions, chopped
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley leaves
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (16-ounce can) tomato chunks or chunky tomato sauce
- 1/4 cup instant flour, or enough as need to thicken the pizza topping if it is too runny (recommended; Wondra)
- 1 pound ground chicken
- 3 ounces blue cheese
- 1/2 cup "buffalo wing" sauce (preferably Anchor Bay Wing Sauce made with the recipe from the place where buffalo wings were originally invented)
- 1 (6-ounce) container plain yogurt
Dissolve salt, sugar, and yeast in the warm water and allow the yeast to proof. ("Proofing" the yeast is testing it for viability. It will develop foam which looks like the head of a beer. If it doesn't proof, the yeast is dead and should be discarded.) Proofing takes about 15 minutes.
Place flour in a food processor fitted with a dough blade, and through the feed tube with the food processor running, slowly pour the proofed yeast mixture, until the dough comes together and is a cohesive mass. Transfer the dough to a floured board, and knead for about 5 minutes. Place in a bowl, cover with a clean dish towel and allow dough to rise, so that it roughly doubles in volume. (This will take about 30 minutes to an hour). The dough has risen enough if you make an indentation with your finger and it does not spring back.) Punch the dough down and allow it to rise again. (Allowing the dough to rise a second time gives it a finer texture.) Note: It will not rise as much the second time.
While the dough is rising, prepare the pizza topping. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil over medium- high heat in a large saucepan and saute garlic and onions until they begin to soften. Add parsley, salt, and tomatoes. Cook for about 20 minutes to allow flavors to integrate. (Begin the chicken as described below, while the sauce is cooking.) Remove from heat and whisk in instant flour to thicken. Mix with an immersion blender, then set aside briefly.
While the sauce is cooking, in a separate fry pan, heat the other tablespoon of olive oil over medium high heat, and brown the ground chicken, breaking up the pieces as it cooks. When the ground chicken has browned, remove from heat, crumble in blue cheese, and stir in buffalo wing sauce and yogurt. Fold this mixture into the tomato sauce. If the mix is absolutely too runny for a pizza topping, add more instant flour.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Divide the dough in half and stretch out 2 (14-inch) circles. Transfer them to pizza stones sprinkled with cornmeal. Top with the buffalo chicken pizza topping. Roll up and seal ends. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the dough is nicely browned.
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Topic: Rails Full Calendar
I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with rails3_fullcalendar (https://github.com/bokmann/rails3_fullcalendar) . I have downloaded this repo and it is exactly what i am looking for in terms of functionality. There are one of 2 things i would like to do with this
1) merge this with my current application so that users can enjoy this feature
2) or re create the steps used to make this ( I feel this way i would learn more about how it works)
The only problem is i cannot find a guide that is suitable for someone relatively new to rails? Does anyone know of a guide for this or can someone suggest something similar
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Richard J. Stubley
TUPPER LAKE – Richard John Stubley, of Saranac Lake, formerly of Tupper Lake, died Dec. 31, 2012, at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vt., surrounded by several loving family members.
Born in Seneca Falls on July 29, 1929, he was the son of Robert H. and Vernice (McClure) Stubley.
He graduated from Warsaw High School in Warsaw, in 1946 where he had participated in many sports and activities.
He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served from Sept. 2, 1948, to Aug. 17, 1952, including service with the First Marines, First Marine Division in Korea during part of 1951 until August 1952. He attained the rank of staff sergeant.
On Jan. 6, 1951, he married the former Mary Eileen Grover at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Warsaw. She pre-deceased him in August 2006.
He graduated from Buffalo State College in 1956 with a B.S. degree in Industrial Arts Education. He taught industrial arts and driver education at Tupper Lake High School from 1956 to 1994.
He was a member of the VFW Post 3120 in Tupper Lake, past member of Tupper Lake Country Club and former lector and lay minister at St. Alphonsus church in Tupper Lake.
He is survived by six children: Marie (Glenn) Heinrich, Hagerstown, Ind.; John (Deborah) Stubley, West Falls; Karen (David) Carr, Watertown; Sheila (Arthur) Schneck, Saranac Lake; Diane (John) Steves, Liverpool; and Bridget (Phil) Blinn, Lake Placid. Also surviving are 11 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; one brother Robert (Lorraine) Stubley, Warsaw; one sister Judith (Russell) Allen, Warsaw; and several nieces and nephews.
Dick loved the game of golf and achieved two holes in one at the TLCC.
Calling hours are scheduled from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, at the Stuart-Fortune-Keough Funeral home in Tupper Lake.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Friday at St. Alphonsus Church. Burial will be in the parish cemetery in May.
Those wishing to make memorial contributions are asked to consider the Tupper Lake or Saranac Lake volunteer rescue squads.
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dsnito wrote:Berkeleyan wrote:Lazarus_2 wrote:I like the drumming on Hello Goodbye...
The End is good also.
Dear Prudence
Back In The USSR
I can't recall anymore at this very moment.
As far as I know, the drumming on DP and BITUSSR is Paul's, with some assistance by George. During those recording days Ringo had gone to Sardinia w/ his family. He was stressed out with the tensions within the band so he quit the Beatles for about a forthnight and took off with his family to sail on Petter Sellers' yatch.
Sr.Berk, you've been read MYFN book from end to end...c'mon, you can tell me.
You know what ? I have not. I lifted the most of that from "The Beatles Recording Sessions" (1988) (referred to as "the [other] bible" by Paul himself - I wish I could recall where I read this).


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Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Should the US Ban In-flight Calling?
[Avionics Today Feb. 18, 2014] U.S. transportation officials are considering a ban on in-flight cell phone calls, as lawmakers consider a bill that would do just that. The Department of Transportation (DOT) also announced it is seeking public comment on whether it should propose a rule to ban cell phone communications on flights within, to and from the United States.
The House committee on transportation and infrastructure last week approved a bill with no opposition that would prohibit the in-flight use of cell phones for voice communications on commercial airline flights. Now the measure is up for consideration by the full House and a similar bill is currently moving through the Senate.
Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), who sponsored the bill, says that he feels the aircraft cabin environment forces passengers unwillingly to listen to calls made by others. Shuster believes it necessary to ban in-flight calling so noisy conversations do not impinge on the comfort of travelers.
"Airplane cabins are by nature noisy, crowded and confined. In our day-to-day lives, when we find someone's cell phone call to be too loud, too close, or too personal, we can just walk away. But at 30,000 feet, there's nowhere else for an airline passenger to go," said Shuster.
In-flight cell phone use has been prohibited since 1991 due to concerns about harmful interference to wireless networks on the ground. However modern aircraft feature onboard avionics systems that can safely expand the use of in-flight calling by airline passengers.
In December, the Federal Communications Commission issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to consider a proposal to allow in-flight calling, which would allow airlines to make the decision for themselves. If that proposal were adopted, it would revise the FCC's prohibition of cell phone service on commercial aircraft.
A December Quinnipiac University poll showed 59 percent of Americans stating they do not allow the use of cell phones for voice communications, while 30 percent were in favor of lifting the ban.
DOT is allowing 30 days for the public to submit comments on whether the agency should propose its own rule to ban voice communications on mobile devices.
"DOT is committed to ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to express his or her opinion when it comes to this important issue, and this Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking will give stakeholders and the public significant opportunity to share their comments," said U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx.


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1/26/15 I hesitated trying the Diesel line because I had a feeling they were just strong for strong sake - not my bag. But as part of the Build Your Own Mega Sampler, the price is right to give 'em a go. Two words my friends: "HELL YES!"
Excellent smoke. Full bodied, with a nice complex flavor. I'll be buying more of them. I prefer a medium-bodied smoke, but these were excellent. Buy the smokes and be blown away.
One of my new favorites... great flavor, nice even burn from start to finish..
Great construction and burn, but a real beast. A little more power that I'm looking for. Took the cello off and left them in the humi to calm them down. Will probably be ok after a big meal and with a serious whiskey.
Damn good smoke. Rates right up there with the best of them. No matter which size you get, you just can't go wrong with this one.
Very strong tough cigar. Not meant as a negative. Good for those who like a wallop upon smoking. Surprisingly smooth, but with authority. Draw is easy and volume of smoke is medium....
The Diesel Unlimited is an excellent smoke. The Belicoso has a smooth draw and some great flavors that include sweet cedar and earthy tones. This is now one of my regular "go to" cigars. This also pairs well with sweeeter beverage like a rum n coke or ice tea.
I just got a 5 pack of these beauties as part of the "build your own" sampler. I wasn't expecting much but I was pleasantly suprised with the Diesel Unlimited. The rich flavor was consistent down to the nub and the aroma from the thick plumes of smoke was great. I sat down with a glass of some aged whiskey and lit up one of these babies what a great combo. I will definately be back for more of these tasty cigars.
Just buy it. Right now. Go. I got 5 of these in a sampler, and just had one outside my doorstep in the pouring rain... Wow. I was calling up friends telling them how spectacular this was. Full flavors of leather, spice, and earthy tones follow the smoke throughout. Truly incredible. I will ABSOLUTELY be picking up a box of these the next chance I get. stars across the board. Stop reading this. and buy the damn cigar.
As a relative newb, trying to acclimate my palate to the nuances of cigar smoke, the Diesel Unlimited initially blew me away. It was a quire robust smoke with lots of flavor and a lot of thick white smoke. However, it kind of stampeded over me in the initial go-round (again, courtesy of my inexperience with smoking cigars in general). The thesis here is that the Diesel Unlimited is a potent, peppery smoke with a good deal of wallup to each draw. Over a substantial amount of time spent smoking, however, as my palate has matured and I've been exposed to many different flavor profiles, I find myself increasingly drawn to the Unlimited as a great Friday evening, end-of-the-office-week cigar. It doesn't have the same subtlety and mild character of some of the cigars I have labeled "Saturday morning cigars": Macanudo Hyde Park Cafe, 5 Vegas Gold, Rocky Patel Sungrown, Nub Connecticut, etc. However, it is a great, heavy, full-bodied cigar with the right amount of smoke and long white ash; perfect for sitting on my deck, propping my feet up on the patio furniture, and feeling like a Captain of Industry. That is, until my wife calls me inside to set the table for dinner. All in all, I give the Diesel Unlimited a 7.8 out of 10, with the heaviest weight of the points scheme coming in the flavor and construction departments. After smoking a few more of these puppies and trying yet more cigars, I assume that the Diesel beli may climb its way up to an 8.
Solid, full power smoke. Good flavor with a perfect draw. This cigar burnt perfect everyone.
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Important American Folk Art from the Ralph and Susanne Katz Collection
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Lot 5064: AMERICAN CARVED AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED WOODEN FIGURE OF LADY LIBERTY, LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY |(146 views)
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Description: holding a metal flag, on a base.
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Dimensions: Height to top of flag 17 in.
Exhibited: New York, American Folk Art Museum, Liberties with Liberty, February 25 - May 18, 1986.
Literature: Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo, "Beyond Tradition: A Folk Art Collection in New Hampshire," Antiques & Fine Art, vol. VII, issue 2, Summer/Autumn 2006, p. 138.
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A Day for Detroit: Martin Lewis
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 Every hour, we'll be posting images from the Detroit Museum of Art's collection. This gesture is part of a larger, Internet-wide effort to reflect on the institution's resources in the hopes that it might, in some small way, counter any proposal for future deacquisition. For more information A Day for Detroit has been covered here, on the Daily Serving. Please consider joining the Detroit Institute of Arts as a member. Or, join us today and post pictures from the DIA collection today on your blog, facebook, or twitter feed.


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Holder must uphold the law, regardless of stance
Marijuana is illegal under federal law. Yet Attorney General Eric Holder has decided not to interfere in any way with two states where recreational use of the drug has become permissible.
Colorado and Washington decriminalized marijuana last fall. Many states allow its use for medicinal purposes, but the two western states in essence allow anyone who wants to get high to buy the drug.
Proponents of legalizing marijuana for recreational use were delighted by Holder's decision. "The message to the people of the other 48 states … is clear: Seize the day," exulted Neill Franklin, of one pro-legalization group.
Indeed, the message is clear: If federal officials do not agree with a federal law, they will not interfere when states attempt, in effect, to nullify it within their own borders.
In announcing the decision, the Justice Department attempted to defend it by saying it was "based on assurances that those states will impose an appropriately strict regulatory system" on marijuana.
Again, under federal law the only appropriately strict regulatory system is to ban recreational use of marijuana.
What federal law will Holder's Justice Department decide next to allow states to nullify?
This is dangerous ground. The Justice Department is supposed to uphold the law, not pick and choose when and where it will do so.


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How are we to explain the formation and collapse of the world's great empires in the sweep of human history? And what might the fates of past civilizations suggest about the global political scene in the present and future? Such questions are the focus of Robert D. Kaplan's recent book, The Revenge of Geography (2012), which Malise Ruthven treats in extensive detail in the February 21st issue of The New York Review of Books. Kaplan has worked for decades as a journalist, author, consultant, and lecturer, and one of his earlier books, Balkan Ghosts (1993), apparently dissuaded President Clinton from earlier intervention in the former Yugoslavia. Kaplan served as a member of the Defense Policy Board under Secretary of Defense Robert Gates from 2009 to 2011, and since then he has been chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm based in Austin, Texas.
As the title of his book suggests, Kaplan regards geography, the physical features of the earth's landmasses and waters, as the most basic and abiding determinant of human history. He takes issue with accounts that position culture and ideology as the motor forces of social and political affairs, and he questions the notion that globalization, with its boundary-traversing flows of people, goods, ideas, ideas, and images, is fundamentally recasting the contemporary world. Yet he would be among the first to admit that his analytical optic is not new, for he draws much inspiration from the work of the medieval Arab chronicler and social theorist Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) as well as the British geographer Sir Halford Mackinder (1861-1947).
Ibn Khaldun argued that the earliest societies were formed by nomadic peoples in the rugged steppes, deserts, and mountains who constructed relations of authority through ties of kinship and "group feeling" ('asabiya). Groups with pronounced 'asabiya were the most capable of forming expansive dynasties and empires, and stable empires in turn offered the most promising conditions for productive agriculture, prosperous cities, and refined urban life. But every empire bore the seeds of its own demise, since the luxuries of rule were all too likely to result in corrupt and tyrannical rulers. New groups from the severe margins would eventually displace the old dynasts, according to Ibn Khaldun, and the cycle of imperial ascent and decline would begin once more.
Ibn Khaldun's claims have been most thoroughly elaborated in the work of historian Marshall Hodgson, who is best known for his three-volume work Venture of Islam. But they also resonate with the vision of Halford Mackinder, who proposed the existence of a Central Asian "heartland" within a larger "World Island" of Eurasia and Africa. For Mackinder, this heartland of flatlands and steppes has consistently served as "the pivot on which the fate of great world empires rests." In Mackinder's analysis, the geography of Central Asia, with its arid expanses and harsh climates, bred tough nomadic peoples (think of the Huns and Mongols) who not only formed their own empires, but also prompted Russians and Europeans to establish powerful states in order to fend off their advances. In Mackinder's estimation, controlling this heartland, and that portion of Eastern Europe that lay on its doorstep, provided the key to world domination.
Robert Kaplan draws heavily on Khaldun and Mackinder's ideas to explicate the geopolitical challenges faced by a number of contemporary states. For example, he applies Ibn Khaldun's scenario of settled states and nomadic invaders to present-day China, which is defined in his characterization by a dominant Han population in the country's arable cradle and a host of restive Tibetans, Uighur Turks, and Inner Mongolians on its periphery. "The ultimate fate of the Chinese state," he contends, will depend on whether the Han can keep these groups under control, "especially as China undergoes economic and social disruptions." In similar fashion, Kaplan turns to Mackinder's heartland thesis to make sense of Russia's recent geopolitical aspirations, which in his view have turned on Putin and Medvedev's efforts to create a land-based Central Asian empire with vast oil and natural gas reserves.
There are certainly some instances when Kaplan's insistence on the salience of geography is well-taken. But there are far too many moments when his account is overly narrow if not myopic. China's "economic and social disruptions"—the embrace of neoliberal restructuring, the rapid but uneven economic expansion, the simmering discontents of both avowed dissidents and ordinary citizens—are hardly secondary to the state's fraught relations with its sizable ethnic minorities, which cannot in any case be entirely reduced to the realities of the physical environment. In addition, Kaplan is much too quick to impute sweeping cultural effects to geographic factors. For example, he proposes that Mongol incursions from the steppes helped to deny Russia the full impact of the Renaissance.
He also suggests that the country's current lack of natural boundaries (aside from the Arctic and Pacific oceans) has promoted its thorough militarization and obsessive focus on security. In short, Kaplan paints a canvas of the world's past and present in bold but overly broad strokes, strokes that in the end obscure a good deal more than they reveal.
Indeed, the thrust of Kaplan's argument reminds me of nothing so much as the work of Samuel Huntington, another commentator who has sought to provide a skeleton key to the world's current conflicts. To be sure, The Clash of Civilizations posits cultural divides, not geographical configurations, as the main force driving contemporary geopolitical tensions. But Huntington and Kaplan share the same penchant for more or less monocausal explanations, the same readiness to cast reified peoples, cultures, and states as the central protagonists of their geopolitical dramas. Moreover, both writers imply that the Cold War was a brief interlude that departed only momentarily from the more consistent and defining dynamics of world history. To an important extent, both writers suggest that our global present is not merely shaped by the past, but fundamentally in its thrall.
Thus, The Revenge of Geography and other works of its ilk are troubling not merely because they carry considerable weight in key sectors of U.S. policymaking circles and the broader reading public. More broadly, they leave us ill prepared to confront the specificity and singularity of the current global conjuncture. Much as Hannah Arendt insisted on the newness of totalitarianism even as she placed it within the long arc of anti-Semitism, imperialism, and modern oppression, we too should scrutinize the present with an eye for its irreducible distinctiveness. Little is to be gained, and much potentially lost, from the impulse to read the current moment as the product of general determining forces. Whether such forces go by the name of "geography" or "culture," they encourage an interpretation of history by commonplaces, including the commonplace that history is ultimately—and merely—a narrative of rise and fall.
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Senate passes day care unionization bill
MARSHALL – Minnesota senators burned plenty of midnight oil Tuesday on the day care unionization issue.
In the end – after about 17 hours of debate – the Senate passed a bill to allow the unionization of home child care and personal care workers in Minnesota.
District 17 Democratic Sen. Lyle Koenen of Clara City said the Republican caucus clearly had strong feelings about the bill – strong enough to offer numerous amendments, which is why the debate lasted into the morning hours.
"We could tell that, and we made the decision to let them go as long as they wanted to," he said. "It showed how important it was to them. A lot of it was their caucus doing the talking, although they did ask some of our caucus questions. Mostly, we let them do what they wanted to (Tuesday night)."
The Senate voted shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday, and the bill passed on a vote of 35 to 32, with four majority suburban Democrats voting with Republicans against it.
Republicans have been fighting against the bill, calling it an opportunity for unions to collect millions of dollars in dues from providers who have no intention to unionize. The Associated Press said Senate Minority Leader David Hann charged that the bill was more about rewarding labor for its political donations to the DFL than improving circumstances for the workers in question.
The bill would give two groups of workers the right to vote on whether to form unions. It would allow a union vote for some personal care attendants who care for the elderly and disabled people in the home, in addition to in-home family child care workers who are being organized by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). The bill is supported by AFSCME and Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
Koenen voted for the bill because he said it would at least give day care providers and personal care attendants the option of unionizing, although he doubts there would be enough support from either camp to form a union.
To do that, 30 percent of providers or attendants would have to sign off on unionizing. A 50 percent-plus one vote would then be needed to form a union.
"Although it's one bill, those are two separate deals; those two votes are completely separate from each other," Koenen said. "If my mail is accurate, I don't think it will ever happen, but mail isn't a scientific poll, either. Using that as a guide, they're way overwhelming against wanting to form a union. I don't think they would ever get the votes."
The bill now heads to the House, where it could come up for a vote Saturday.
District 16A Rep. Chris Swedzinski, R-Ghent, calls the bill's success to date "concerning as it contradicts the will of Minnesotans, who are overwhelmingly opposed to it. A very large percentage of those that took my legislative survey say they are not in favor."


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The College of St. Scholastica aspires to be a diverse and inclusive academic community of excellence, grounded in the rich Catholic Benedictine heritage, sending forth thoughtful leaders sharpened and sensitized by the liberal arts, who are prepared and committed to serve and transform the world.
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Street Cats battle to hold second place on Sunday
The Alpena Street Cats host the Detroit Fighting Irish on Sunday at 5:00 pm at the Northern Lights Arena.
The Street Cats are currently 9-5 and in second place in the Midwest Junior Hockey League.
The Fighting Irish are third place at 8-5.
A win by Detroit would pull them into a tie for second with Alpena, while a loss would give Alpena a two game spread in the standings.
The Street Cats and the Fighting Irish haven't faced each other since the first weekend in November.
The Street Cats swept the Irish in that three game series.
They won the Friday game 3-0, picked up a 5-4 shoot out win on Saturday and won 4-2 on Sunday.
Alpena split last weekend's two game home series with first place Traverse City Hounds.
They won a tight 2-1 win on Friday, but nearly got shut out in a 4-1 loss on Saturday.
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Shortages of controllers and other components have already impacted pricing of mainboards and will thus boost costs of other similar devices, such as graphics cards. In addition to that, contract prices of hard disk drives (HDDs) are also likely to get higher because of the same reasons.
The recent earthquake in Japan interrupted production of controller chips for motors used in hard drives at Texas Instruments' plants and the latter may not resume shipments until September, according to sources of DigiTimes web-site. As a result, manufacturers like Seagate Technologies or Western Digital will have to rely on controllers from STMicroelectronics, which will boost pricing due to lack of competition.
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK), a leading producer of platters for hard drives, in mid-March also had to shutdown its plants and suspend operations at its sites in the Tohoku and Kanto regions for three days. SDK resumed production on March 17, centering on basic chemicals necessary for the supply of drinking water, food, medicine and electricity and decided to give priority to items urgently needed by society. As a result, SDK's production volumes are limited for the time being, due to limited supply of electricity, raw materials and fuels. Furthermore, the confusion of road networks and the shortage of fuel for trucks are disrupting logistics. Thus, SDK has to discuss shipment schedules with individual customers. Ultimately, it supplies of Showa Denko K.K.'s platters for HDDs will be limited.
Channel prices on hard disk drives have already increased by 10% - 15% and due to a shortage of controller chips for motors used in hard drives, prices of HDDs in the OEM market are likely to increase by 5-10% in the second quarter. Eventually, pricing on hard disk drives will continue to grow, but it is not clear by how much.
Companies like Seagate and Western Digital did not comment on the news-story.