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Posted on 05/02/2011 4:52:21 AM PDT by Jemian
"We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!" President Bush
The big news of the day is the death and burial at sea of Osama bin Laden. Thank you, President Bush and the US military (including my son and future son-in-law) who made this day happen. Other news is the nuptials of William and Catherine in Great Britain. May God bless their union and draw them close to Him in Jesus Christ. Alabama (my state) and other southeast states continue the task of digging out and rebuilding. A massive effort is underway with able bodies and supplies needed.
My Mom always talked to my Dad and I in the early morning and neither of us appreciated it. So, one morning Dad told Mom that he could cook his own breakfast and mine too, and she could just sleep in.
That took care of that crisis - never did see Mom before 8:00 a.m. after that!
Last week, while walking in my house, my back "popped". The meetings have not helped it so today I went to a "doc-in-the-box". I now have some pain killers and an appointment for an MRI on Friday. BUT, I am not responsible for anything I say and do for the next few days until this pain subsides. LOL!
I'll try talking to him sometime and see how well he likes that! So there!
Glad you're getting the MRI. Have fun in La-La Land, in the meantime...
Toby, today's picture is from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Miss you!
I have a sister who won't talk in the early a.m. Her husband makes the coffee, she will sip the coffee, read the paper and fuss around. Along about 0800 she'll "good morning" then is silent for more minutes. It's nutty. Of course when my feet hit the floor, there's lots to say.
Hope the MRI shows results that can be treated and get you on your way to recovery. I have another GF that's also having back pain, doing the MRI's, etc.
good morning all
When you get back are you going to smoke her?
It's raining like crazy here and we're under a tornado watch. My garden needs this rain. Thank You, Jesus.
I'm not sure I like the tornado watch part, but since they just tried to burn Texas down, I really, really like the rain part!
Take care and don't go out in the tornado if it shows up, you are still in recovery from the last accident you had!
Me? Go out in a tornado? Why? Is there something out there I should see? Maybe I should check!! ;)
Good morning. Today's picture is from Jupiter, Florida.
Kudos and Bravo to the LSU students who exercised their free speech and prevented a low-life professional student from burning a flag yesterday. The grad student was chased off campus to the shouts of "Go to hell, hippie" and "USA, USA!" There is hope for America.
A special "Toby" ping.
Good morning.
Had some huge thunderboomers here last night. Hail, too.
Hail, not good. I hope everyone was alright?
Good morning everybody, checking in. Mr. Prairie has a doctors appt this afternoon and I plan to go with him, so trying to get ahead of the game, multi-tasking this morning.
yes, I loved the LSU response to the would be flag-burner. We need more people standing up and putting their foot down on these leftist shenanigans.
Everyone is fine. Hail did beat the heck out of some of my geraniums.
I sent a note to Allie, Toby's granddaughter.
Hopefully he is okay & with the heads up he will wander over to FR.. wondering if he is having computer issues still
Big storms going through here.. been busy in yard past few days.. lots of clean up & did my first mowing (everyone else on road has done MANY)
Seeing play Chicago again this weekend. A friend is in it (little theater locally)... very well done production. I did photo shoot at dress rehearsal and then saw it last weekend
Still missing mom. Despite our differences, mom is mom
That is always a special celebration - the first fruit of the year in a garden. I celebrate my first rose and my first tomato. Yum! Sate in butter and put a dash of cinnamon on it. Be careful not to over-cook the zucchini.
I also, earlier this week via Facebook, sent Allie a note. I've been trying to ping him every day so that he won't have trouble finding us. I'm wondering if he just gave up, not seeing any traffic here.
How are the dogs taking the thunder? When the tornados came through I was expecting the dogs here to be rather excited but they were the calmest critters in the house.
Good morning!
After hitting close to 80 yesterday, we are back into the 50'w for the weekend.
Ahhh... spring. It's been a wet start. I am sure the mosquitoes will make their presence known real soon.
Good morning. Thanks for reviving this thread. I haven't had much time this week so haven't been doing much reading.
Has Toby been around?
i'm on the road at the moment so I won't be staying. But, no. Toby hasn't appeared yet. Bummer!
FYI, I love bacon.
Hello....Toby you are missed don't make these ladies come looking for you..it won't be pretty.
Listen to Dog! He know wherewith he speaks.
Good evening, everybody! I am home. I hate traveling. I especially hate traveling by car.
The Notes and Mussing of a Madman...
Mitch Daniels? I think I will go and kiss my sister...wait, I don't have a sister...
Why are we in Libya? And why are there boots on the ground? Oh, to the liberals/socialists/democrats/progressives/communists reading this, there ARE boots on the ground (you morons).
0bama not beatable? Methinks that's mental masturbation on the left. OK, I'm being redundant.
Newt, please, any commercial with Nancy Pelosi doesn't give me a hard on.
At some point, everyone one in America is going to realize we are moving towards a civil war...and if not, those are the people who will die first.
Soon, and I hope I'm wrong, everyone in American will have to chose...and take a stand.
Inflation is here, structural unemployment is here, how is that hopey changey working out for you, Peggy Joeseph?
Sheesh, having to type this disturbs me...
Good morning. Building a computer for a co-worker. Leaving for fishing to Leadville after the breakfast Wednesday. Can't miss this breakfast. Our Republican co-chair of the Colorado redistricting committee will speak. As it stands right now, the CRAT are trying to gerrymander the blankety-blank out of the districts. If I'm lucky though, I will wind up back in the House 6th District (Coffman - R 6th Colorado) and out of the 7th (perlmutter -CRAT- 7th - hussein lapdog), but I'm not getting my hopes up too high. Coffman comes to the breakfasts when he is in town and emails the founder of the club who reads the email to us every Wednesday morning with the latest in congress.
Good morning!
The "unbeatable" drumbeat is being tattooed across the MSM in the hopes it will become a reality. They're trying to sink it into our brain so that it will be in our subconcious by the time we get to the voting booth. That is the only way it will happen. He will have to do some strong campaigning to get his base out again. Whoever is the opposing candidate needs to hammer home the failed policies of the current admin and point out WE CAN'T AFFORD 4 MORE YEARS OF THIS DISASTER!
Good Morning Everyone. Willbe busy today. Do a little launering, a bit of ironing, local vote needs doing, doing lunch with a friend, packing for our trip to Ohio, checking our gardens and watering. Our neighbor will keep the plants watered while we're gone.
OH, you should see my watermelons. I have six on the vine, one is the size of a tennis ball. The watermelon plants are climbing a fence, one vine has outgrown the fence so I tied a 10 foot bent rebar to the end of the fence and wound and tied the vine to the rebar. We'll see what happens.
Newt and Pelousy, Newt endorsing pro-choice RINO Didi Scozzifava, not even to get into the stuff that happened over a decade ago. I agree, Newt is a non-starter.
I read where Pawlenty is getting some wealthy backing....who knows?
Having to read it is disturbing too, but sometimes the truth hurts... I'll take the pain now and hope for the best.
The only thing is, it isn't just ignorance - of which there is plenty - it's also because there is no longer any common sense. Children are no longer taught how to think, they are now taught WHAT to think. Doesn't leave too much room for either brilliance or common sense!
I guess that proof reading really is a talent -
our was supposed to be your.
Yep. Indoctrination is part of this nation.
Huckabee is NOT running for President.
I only have one word in response: YIPPEE!!!!
yes, I saw that too.
I don't find any of the current ones particularly exciting except for Cain, and I'm not sure he can win.
Good Sunday morning!
It is gorgeous here in east central Alabama. The grass is green, the sky is a deep clear blue, the birds are singing in the trees.
I'm going to be staying home today, staying horizontal and working on baby layettes while I let my back heal. At least, I hope it is healing.
Toby, we miss you!
Good morning All'
So happy to see atrw back here, I tried to get into the other one, with no luck.
Sorry to hear about the loss of so many mothers, I lost mine in 04.
I'm gonna get a fishing license today
My mom died in '04 as well. Still seems "not quite right."
Rave, ok, is this a new hobby for you?
Good Morning Everyone.
We'll be leaving in a little while and will be gone about 10/11 days. We're headed to Ohio for a meeting and just generally look around. We were both stationed at Wright-Patterson many years ago, and this will be our first trip back.
Prayers for those in flooded areas. Stay safe.
Till later..
Have a safe and enjoyable trip.
>>Rave, ok, is this a new hobby for you?
No-—never fished before....(outside of a silly attempt when I was a little Raven)
Have a safe trip till.
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According to AMD internal documents seen by X-bit labs, which describe performance of AMD's new products, AMD A8-3550 APU (quad-core, 4MB cache, 400 stream processors, Radeon HD 6550 graphics core at 594MHz) delivers three times higher performance in 3DMark Vantage test compared to Intel Core i5-2300 (quad-core, 2.80GHz/3.10GHz clock-speed, 6MB cache, Intel HD graphics core at 850MHz/1100MHz): P3335 versus P1007 marks. Besides offering more performance, the graphics core from AMD also supports DirectX 11 capabilities, whereas Intel's graphics engine features only DirectX 10.1.
The new AMD A-series APUs will also support Turbo Core technology, which will be able to overclock two out of four cores by 300MHz while disabling another couple of them. Unfortunately, the actual resulting clock-speeds are unclear and therefore it is unknown how completive will performance of Llano be against Intel Core i-series "Sandy Bridge" microprocessors.
Besides integrating high-performance graphics engine and Turbo Core technology, AMD will also promote so-called Dual Graphics technology, which will essentially be a CrossFireX capability for low-cost discrete and integrated graphics. Certain combinations of standalone graphics cards (code-named Whistler and Seymour) with integrated solutions will add up to 75% of graphics performance to systems. One of the messages that AMD wants to send is that while its discrete graphics cards provide additive performance with its platforms, Nvidia Corp.'s GeForce graphics cards do not provide additive performance on either AMD or Intel platforms.
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Debates of Oct. 23rd, 1996
House of Commons Hansard #89 of the 35th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was technologies.
- Constable Philip Francis
- Quebec's Economy
- Peacekeeping
- Neighbouring Rights
- Small Business Week
- Persons Case
- The Montreal Centre D'Entreprises Et D'Innovation
- Child Poverty
- Reform Budget Platform
- Small And Medium Size Business Week
- Revenue Canada
- Montreal's Economy
- The Member For Vaudreuil
- Persons Case
- The Leader Of The Bloc Quebecois
- The Environment
- Tax Harmonization
- Montreal's Economy
- Securities
- The Economy
- Montreal's Economy
- Goods And Services Tax
- Montreal's Economy
- The Economy
- The Deficit
- Exports
- Bombardier
- The Canadian Armed Forces
- Justice
- Biosphere Reserve
- Food And Agriculture Organization
- Presence In The Gallery
- Government Response To Petitions
- Ways And Means
- Taxation
- Committees Of The House
- Marriage (Prohibited Degrees) Act
- Committees Of The House
- Petitions
- Business Of The House
- Board Of Internal Economy
- Questions On The Order Paper
- Motions For Papers
- Human Reproductive And Genetic Technologies Act
- Bankruptcy And Insolvency Act
- Manganese Based Fuel Additives Act
- Peacekeeping
2 p.m.
The Speaker
As is our practice on Wednesdays, we will now sing O Canada, which will be led by the hon. member for Saanich-Gulf Islands.
Constable Philip Francis
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Janko Peric Cambridge, ON
Mr. Speaker, this summer Constable Philip Francis, a member of the Peel Regional Police who lives in my riding of Cambridge, was awarded the Medal of Bravery.
On September 21, 1994, Constable Francis, with the help of Mr. Robert Fitzgerald, pulled two people from a burning tractor trailer whose fuel tank had ruptured following a collision with a vehicle on Highway 401 near Milton, Ontario.
As the tires of the rig exploded, Mr. Fitzgerald hoisted Constable Francis on to the cab of the truck. The constable smashed the window and pulled two passengers to safety just moments before the rig was completely in flames.
Through his example, Constable Francis has shown that bravery and concern for others are not outmoded virtues.
On behalf of the people of Cambridge, I congratulate Constable Francis on being awarded the Medal of Bravery.
Quebec's Economy
Statements By Members
October 23rd, 1996 / 2 p.m.
Maurice Godin Châteauguay, QC
Mr. Speaker, like Saturne Solutions, Quintiles and Ericsson recently announced major investments in Quebec. Highly sought by other provinces, not to mention other countries, these companies chose to invest in Quebec. This testifies to Quebec's ability to compete at the international level.
But how to explain that, every time a business decides to rationalize its Canadian operations, as CIBA did, Quebec gets the short end of the stick. It is not because Quebec is not competitive, as everyone recognizes its expertise in the pharmaceutical area. There must be other reasons.
We, for our part, feel that federal comments maintain an unhealthy climate for the Quebec economy. These comments, which were probably inspired by the famous plan B, hinder the Quebec government's efforts. Clearly, renewed federalism is not a panacea for Quebec. The time has come to move on to sovereignty.
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Bob Mills Red Deer, AB
Mr. Speaker, two years ago I brought forward a votable motion to extend the Access to Information Act. Although many Liberal members supported it, they voted against it because they were assured by their party brass that improving access to information was high on the government's agenda and that legislation was just weeks away.
Today, we all know that was not true, so I hope they have learned their lesson: Do not trust the party brass to do in the future what we can do for ourselves today.
Later today we will begin the first hour of debate on a new votable motion on Canadian peacekeeping. Many Liberal members will also want to support this motion because if it is passed, it will give the members the right to speak out and represent our troops when we send a large contingent abroad. Motion No. 31 also gives final approval for large peacekeeping missions to members of Parliament through a free vote.
When the time comes, members should use their votes to make a difference. Help support our troops and empower members of Parliament by supporting Motion No. 31.
Neighbouring Rights
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Progressive Conservative
Elsie Wayne Saint John, NB
Mr. Speaker, Bill C-32, an act to amend the Copyright Act, will have a serious impact on the private radio broadcasting industry if the neighbouring rights
provisions are permitted to proceed. Many people from the radio industry in my riding have told me they are very very worried.
Dr. Arthur Donner conducted an economic impact analysis for the Department of Canadian Heritage. This study clearly showed that higher copyright payments would seriously hurt most and put some radio stations out of business. It also showed that only 2 per cent of neighbouring rights fees would go to new Canadian talent, so why are we doing it?
The U.S. just passed a similar law, however it exempted the radio industry from the neighbouring rights fees. They felt that the value of air play was considered payment in full.
This government continues to renege on its election promise of creating jobs. It continues to eliminate this country's infrastructure of long term jobs. I urge the minister to amend Bill C-32 to exempt all radio from neighbouring rights.
Small Business Week
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Andy Mitchell Parry Sound—Muskoka, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to salute small business in this country and to recognize Small Business Week.
Today in Canada all but approximately 2,000 of the more than two million businesses fall within the self-employed or small and medium size business categories. Ninety-nine per cent of the new businesses started up in the last decade have been SMEs.
Today in my riding the CFDC, in partnership with the BDC, local chambers and others, is conducting a conference for existing and new entrepreneurs. I applaud this community initiative to help the small business community adapt and take advantage of market opportunities.
On a national level, our federal government is working to help small businesses compete by streamlining regulations, improving access to capital and enhancing export opportunities. Canada is a great place to do business. Today I salute the small business men and women across this country for their entrepreneurial spirit.
Persons Case
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Georgette Sheridan Saskatoon—Humboldt, SK
Mr. Speaker, October is Women's History Month. What better time to recall the historic Persons case of October 18, 1929. On that date the British Privy Council overturned the decision of the Canadian Supreme Court which excluded women from public office, pursuant to its interpretation of the British North America Act.
Having decided women were not persons, the court said that women could not be appointed to the Canadian Senate. Dismissing this interpretation as "a relic of days more barbarous than ours" the privy council opted for a more modern view that women were "people too".
If we do not remember our history, we shall be condemned to repeat it. In the telling of this tale we can be encouraged by the increased numbers of female parliamentarians, over 50 MPs and more than 20 senators. While it is an improvement over 1929, the lesson of the Persons case is that we can do better.
I look forward to a time when the proportion of female representation in government is a true reflection of the general population and like the privy council, we can look back on today's modest numbers as a relic of days gone by.
The Montreal Centre D'Entreprises Et D'Innovation
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Bernard Patry Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would like to inform the members of this House of an excellent initiative taken by our government in the Montreal area.
On October 11, the Secretary of State responsible for the Federal Office of Regional Development-Quebec announced a $500,000 federal subsidy to the Centre d'entreprise et d'innovation de Montréal or CEIM, to set up a new program aimed at helping small businesses at the start-up or expansion stage carve out a solid position for themselves in the year 2000 economy.
The CEIM will provide training services to 15 new businesses in the high-tech health care industries, thus helping to create over 200 jobs in areas that are vital to our prosperity.
This support for the CEIM shows that our government is still a partner of Quebec's small business sector. It also demonstrates the major role we intend to play in the development of the greater Montreal area so it may remain an economic, technological and cultural powerhouse essential to the future of both Quebec and the rest of Canada.
Child Poverty
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Christiane Gagnon Québec, QC
Mr. Speaker, a study conducted by the Bread for the World Institute shows that Canada has the second highest percentage of children living below the poverty line after the United States.
According to this study, 14 per cent of children in Canada live in poverty, compared to only 3 per cent in Finland, Norway, Denmark and Switzerland, and 7 per cent in Germany and France.
In spite of these disturbing statistics, the Canada Information Office continues to distribute fact sheets stating that Canada is the best country in the world. This is chloroform for steadfast Canadian nationalists.
Canada is a country where the gap between the rich and the poor is widening and child poverty is growing. There is no valid reason for the child poverty rate to be higher in Canada than in European countries.
The government must act on its 1989 commitment and eliminate child poverty by the year 2000, otherwise too high a price will have to be paid and the human deficit will be out of control.
Reform Budget Platform
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Herb Grubel Capilano—Howe Sound, BC
Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance often talks nonsense about the Reform budget platform. For him and the media, here are the facts made simple.
Spending cuts of $15 billion plus $24 billion in revenue increases in four years will produce a surplus of $39 billion. This money will be used to eliminate the deficit of $14 billion, provide tax relief of $15 billion, raise spending on medicare and education by $4 billion and pay down the debt by $9 billion.
This spending program uses exactly $39 billion in the revenue surplus. Our fiscal program does not produce deficits. We first balance the budget and then use only money in the bank to finance tax cuts and spending increases. The debt reduction money is our contingency reserve. Simple, eh?
Small And Medium Size Business Week
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Eleni Bakopanos Saint-Denis, QC
Mr. Speaker, the week of October 21 to 25 is Small Business Week. Small and medium size business is the driving force behind the Canadian economy. It is also the driving force behind job creation. That is why our government is committed to supporting the small business sector to ensure its growth.
In Quebec, the Federal Office of Regional Development speaks for the federal government to small business. Through a network of 13 regional offices across Quebec, it works in partnership with Quebec entrepreneurs.
Small and medium size businesses, often run by families or young entrepreneurs, are the key job creators in Canada, particularly in my riding of Saint-Denis. There are also those who seek markets outside this country and the federal development office of Quebec provides them with the expertise to help enter those markets.
I salute all the people in the small and medium size businesses in Saint-Denis and throughout Canada for their contributions to Canada's economic development in this week dedicated to them.
Revenue Canada
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Mark Assad Gatineau—La Lièvre, QC
Mr. Speaker, Revenue Canada strives to offer its services directly to small businesses, provided they have modest means.
The main services already in place include the electronic filing system, the payment of the GST and the transfer of funds.
Eventually, customs processing will be made possible through the use of Internet and the implementation of an electronic system as simple as the sending of a fax, as well as the release and reporting of goods, and the payment of duties and taxes, without having to go to the customs office.
Canadians want less paper but more services. This is what Revenue Canada is in the process of achieving.
Montreal's Economy
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Denis Paradis Brome—Missisquoi, QC
Mr. Speaker, socio-economic stakeholders, Montrealers and Quebecers in general were very optimistic and pleased following the speech delivered yesterday by the Prime Minister to the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal.
The participants greatly appreciated the call for Canadian solidarity by the Prime Minister, to help put Montreal back on its feet and get ready for the next century.
They were also pleased to see the Canadian Prime Minister hold out his hand to Lucien Bouchard and invite him to co-operate to find a solution to the real problems experienced by real people.
The threat of another referendum on separation remains the last major obstacle to Montreal's economic recovery. Let us hope the PQ government leader will soon remove this threat, which hinders
Montreal's economic development. We need political and economic certainty.
The Member For Vaudreuil
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Bernard St-Laurent Manicouagan, QC
Mr. Speaker, since the House resumed this fall, the Liberal members from Quebec are using the period for statements by members to launch petty attacks on the Quebec government and all sovereignists.
Yesterday, the member for Vaudreuil took this anti-Quebec offensive one step further. The Liberal member attacked an article in Montreal's La Presse .
The article, which appeared in the arts and theatre section, dealt with a film about the referendum and noted that, in it, the federalist option was essentially defended by anglophones and new Canadians. This brief comment in a review of an NFB film was not to his liking.
We know all about these Liberals, who for years have been trying to control the CBC. Now they want to control all print media, silence the sovereignist opposition and turn our media into branch offices of the federal Liberal Pravda . How sad and how cynical.
Persons Case
Statements By Members
2:10 p.m.
Daphne Jennings Mission—Coquitlam, BC
Mr. Speaker, I rise today because I believe in the strength, the capability and the equality of women.
This week is the anniversary of the pivotal Persons case where Canadian women against all odds finally won the basic right of equality: the recognition of women as persons in law and the equal right to vote.
I feel it is most fitting for me to encourage women of today to honour the memory of Nellie McClung and her compatriots by embracing our freedom and exercising our equality by denouncing special status. Special status is divisive. It is the very issue that Nellie McClung fought against.
Today we can honour those women whose struggle was against true inequality and who gave us all the ability to participate equally. We can recognize that they would not have sought further protectionism in the guise of affirmative action.
Our charter of rights and freedoms clearly states that we are all equal before the law and I believe that would have been enough for Nellie McClung.
I thank the women of the Persons case for their legacy. I am proud to say again, women are persons and equal today, without distinction.


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For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn't understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn't care. He just can't believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relieved when the verdict is guilty. He laughs when the police and prosecutors congratulate themselves. He is content to allow an innocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to be executed.
Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row.
Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Donté is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what's right and confess.
But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges, and politicians that they're about to execute an innocent man?
"John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got in the United States these days." (The New York Times Book Review)
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I believe a reviewer should finish a book before submitting a review. What do you think?
"I confess, I loved it!"
This book held my interest from the beginning. I find it interesting that Grisham gives us another book about an innocent man wrongly accused. In this novel, the reader comes to know and understand and feel for the main characters, and rightly despise the true murderer. The characters have depth and are driven by their convictions. The only criticism I have is that I wish Grisham would have given the mother of the victim more dimension, because she was presented so singularly, I found it difficult to feel as much sympathy as I wished to, for her and her family.
Otherwise, I was engaged and interested throughout this book. Very few authors can keep you feeling so "on the edge" for so much of the book, just waiting as each chapter goes by to see if the accused can avoid execution. The reader finds him or herself waiting for those in power to listen to and act positively on the appeals and motions. I didn't want to stop listening, I had to know what would happen.
The ending was wrapped up neatly, maybe a bit too quickly or tidily. Regardless, I liked this book.
"Not Your Mother's Grisham"
It's good to see John Grisham exploring different aspects of law practice. I liked the fact that this story was not a "beginning, middle, and end" plot, with a giant chase scene at the end. The book is character-driven, not led by the plot, and I prefer that. I disagree with the reviewer who said the book takes forever to "get off the ground", as I was into it from the start.
I like Grisham's writing method of gently easing the reader into the story and the situation, rather than starting off running with a big conversation or event where you don't know any of the characters and their contexts. Grisham is excellent at providing context, and the reader never feels as though he/she doesn't really know a character or can't place that character. Grisham never gives any superlative qualities to any character, and none is considered more "special" than any other by virtue of looks, income, money, status.
I would like to see Grisham explore different geographical areas other than small towns in the South, but I think that's what he knows best and where he feels most comfortable getting into detail.
I don't think Grisham needed access to an execution in order to describe the scene. It would be easy enough to create the details and emotions (but then I am a creative) if your imagination is working 100%.
I also liked that the resolution to the story was not of a "perfect world" in which everyone gets a prize. The realistic descriptions of the issues surrounding capital punishment, and the pathos, anguish and gut-wrenching emotional contortions of the principal characters simply added to my interest, rather than detracting. I was never of a mind to comment to myself "oh please stay away from that, it's too painful".
I would caution the narrator not to read the female parts in a simulated falsetto. Just makes the women all sound like old "fuddy-duddies".
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I usually listen to my audiobooks only in the car, but The Confession was so good I couldn't turn it off. Very credit-worthy!
I am an entertainer...so I spend a lot of time on the road. I take my audio seriously. I appreciate great writing and outstanding narration.
"I Confess It Left Me Cold"
I settled in when the book started, looking forward to an other solid Grisham story. I was still into it about one third of the way through when I started to yawn a little. Half way through I was wondering if I should just turn it off and move on.
Heavy on the "capital punishment is bad because sometimes bad things happen to good people" theme -- this one lacks the life so much of Grisham's other work has. It becomes more of a detail laden essay on the justice system in Texas, statistics that are irrelevant to anything that makes for an interesting book and endless editorializing.
The good guys and too good and the bad guys leave me...well...yawning.
Not the best use I ever made of a credit.
"Enjoyable listen."
This book provides a fairly interesting treatment of the death penalty. Grisham develops the main characters fairly well, and the plot is interesting and compelling. Grisham books are always smooth and well crafted.
I raced through the book, although a few parts seemed to drag just a bit. I think I have heard or read all of Grisham's books, and this one seems a little different. However, I still get each one as soon as it comes out, and I am never sorry that I spent my credits on Grisham. Thumbs up.
"A Must Buy"
I have been listen to books from audible for three years now and have mostly listen to books by Dean Koontz and Jeffrey Dreaver. This book has opened my eyes to John Grisham and can not wait to get another book. I found myself searching for time to listen and not wanting it to end. Great Listen.
Sure, I'd love to hear your story....
"The best Grisham in years."
Excellent work - - great characters and a real message - - whether you believe in the cause or not. Very well written and the reader is pitch perfect.
"Wow! Makes you think!"
As a lifelong conservative and a 21 year veteran of the military, I am finding it more and more difficult to believe how crooked our justice system can be. It pains me to say, but after much discussion, debate and reading stories like this, these do not seem to be isolated incidents. I understand that this is fiction, but a litle research will show that Texas Oklahoma and Alabama are full of these types of cases. Grisham seems to have learned a great deal from the research required to write the innocent man, and that research came in handy for this. Although a work of fiction, there is more truth than any conservative would care to admit!
"Grisham needed another payday"
Normally a Grisham fan, but this book was simply boring. It also dripped with liberal politics. I am pretty liberal, but I don't need to be hit over the head with some of the themes in this book. Simply unimpressed.
"Expecting too much?"
I can recommend this book and believe you will be touched by Grisham's accounting of death row. Very different from The Chamber, there is suspense leading up to this event, and is Grisham at his best.
He does a terrible job, again, with the main characters. The Clergyman is weak, the law enforcement personal complete fools, government reps. mental and unbelievably arrogant, and the lawyers a mix of all these traits. Even the victims, the parents in particular, come across as so inauthentic that it makes what could have easily have been a five star book, IMHO, a mediocre story.
This book is meant to stir your emotions, and I think it will. The moral of this story is supposed to be that there is no justification for a highly cultivated civilization as ours to administer justice by putting someone to death, or killing someone, as the text reads. What you'll find, however, is that what Grisham is really saying is that it is wrong to put an innocent person to death. The "real" perpetrator - well, kill the S.O.B.
The inconsistencies and outright contradictions, the outrageous suit which puts a man on death row, the cast of numbskulls, and an ending which fizzles out is why I cannot give this book more than two stars. I think that us Grisham fans are longing for a spellbinding legal thriller with the unanticipated twists, and characters we learn to love or love to hate. What I believe we are not looking for is for Grisham to use his gift of writing as a means for him to convey his polical, social, or moral convictions - which is how this work and others in recent past have come across.
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Oh, man. I'm starting to miss all those Pearlshipping moments, so I looked up an AMV with "High Touch!" playing in the background and I almost cried again! ;~;
If Ash and Dawn were to reunite in the anime, where would it be and what would happen? Would you make it PearlShippy?
Again? Hmm... Ash could call Dawn over to the 6th gen region based on France. They'd have so much fun together like go shopping, dinner and a walk...
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In its recent report, Growth Isn't Possible, UK-based nef (the new economics foundation) concludes that it is impossible to avoid the dangers of climate change as long as economic growth continues in high-income countries.
And what better way to illustrate this finding than with a nine billion ton hamster?
Together with its partners One Hundred Months and Wake Up, Freak Out, nef uses a seemingly harmless hamster in an animated clip to highlight the dangers of endless growth on a finite planet. "A young hamster doubles its weight each week between birth and puberty," an ominous voice on the clip warns. "But if it grew at the same rate until its first birthday, we'd be looking a nine billion ton hamster."
Ecuador has become the first country to set a concrete Ecological Footprint target. The country has included the goal in its National Plan that, by 2013, its Ecological Footprint will be within its biocapacity, a trend that it will maintain going forward.
"Ecuador wants to be a leading country [in] officially using the Ecological Footprint as a resource accounting tool for policy and decision-making," Ecuador Environment Advisor Dania Quirola Suárez said in a roundtable side-event with Global Footprint Network at the Copenhagen climate talks.
The Forum Roundtables held June 7 through 12, 2010 in Tuscany, will include a special track on the future of the Mediterranean region. These highly interactive discussions will explore how countries, communities or companies in the Mediterranean region – and beyond – can prepare for and succeed in a world of increasingly severe resource constraints, such as climate change, water scarcity, urban crowding, and soaring energy costs.
Over the last decades, all Mediterranean nations have started to run ecological deficits; today, each nation's residents use more ecological services than are available within the nations' own borders. This puts them into a fragile situation. What will 2030 look like if we fail to address these ecological deficits now? What immediate actions can leaders take to ensure a viable future for their city or country? How is it in each city's or country's self-interest to make natural resource issues a priority? For decision-makers, knowing the answers to these questions can mean the difference between their region's long-term success and its vulnerability in a resource-constrained world.
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The Salome family in Long Island, NY, pays a whopping $20,000 in utilities a year, in part to keep indoor and outdoor hot tubs percolating at a toasty 104 F. The women of Rutger's University's Alpha Chi Omega sorority house haul some 1,120 plastic bottles to the curb each month – a total of $13,440 each year! The Poisler family's historic 1800s home and its vintage 1970s appliances generate hundreds of dollars of heating and energy bills each month.
Into these hefty Footprint households enter Annabelle Gurwitch and Holter Graham, hosts of Discovery Planet Green's "WA$TED!" Now in its second season, WA$TED! continues to entertain and educate viewers by featuring the Ecological Footprint of average Americans. With the help of a Footprint calculator built especially for the series by Global Footprint Network and expert advice from Global Footprint Network partner BioRegional , the show's crew tallies each household's Ecological Footprint, then guides them toward simple, low-cost ways to "green up" their act.
Those who were in the Chilean Andes during the first week of January may have witnessed a large blue footprint in the sky. That's because Global Footprint Network was selected among non-profits around the world to be featured on a glider competing during the 3rd World Sailplane Grand Prix Championship. And not just any glider – the winning glider flown by reigning champion Sebastian Kawa of Poland.
Counted among the many who use Global Footprint Network's "wallet cards" as a teaching tool is Lama Gangchen Rinpoche, a teacher and healer in the Tibetan Tantric tradition. This past August, Global Footprint Network Senior Associate Steve Goldfinger visited Buddhist monasteries in Tibet and southwest China's Yunnan Province with the Lama.
The world has the resources to allow 9 billion people to live well within the means of one planet – but achieving this goal will require radical transformations to world markets, governance and our very notions of growth and progress. Such is the conclusion of Vision 2050: the New Agenda for Business, an effort by some of the world's most influential companies to lay out a pathway for achieving a sustainable world by 2050.
The report suggests that greater sustainability and resource-efficiency will, increasingly, become a precondition for corporate success. "Sustainability will become a key driver for all our investment decisions, said Idar Kreutzer, CEO of Storebrand, a leading Norwegian financial group.
Led by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the Vision 2050 project – aimed at identifying both the scope of ecological challenges the corporate sector will face in the coming years as well as related opportunities – involved the participation of companies such as Boeing, Syngenta, Weyerhauser, Procter & Gamble, Alcoa, Duke Energy, Toyota and Volkswagen. Global Footprint Network participated in Vision 2050 by creating a scenario calculator that helped leaders run the numbers on various ecological scenarios and solutions.
In an age where "greenwashing" is more prevalent than ever, it's difficult to determine which organizations are genuinely seeking answers– let alone solutions – to the challenges we face today. Skipso, based in London and Del Mar, California, is doing both.
The organization offers an array of services, functioning as an aggregation site for clean technology and sustainability experts. Its Open Innovation Lab is what truly sets Skipso apart.
Licenses for the 2009 National Footprint Accounts are now available from Global Footprint Network. The licenses offer access the spreadsheets used to calculate the national-level Ecological Footprint and biological capacity of more than 240 countries and territories from 1961-2006.
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Here's how RW members rated this race (476 votes).
In short: Fave race of the year In full: 4th time doing this, great scenery all the way. Excellent value for money. Its a race that you will earn your medal. I did a marathon the week prior and ached more after this half. See you all in 2015! Date of review: November 5, 2014
In short: Another wet but very satisfying raceIn full: Doesn't get any easier, but the last 1.5 miles downhill was more enjoyable than ever. Great support, great Marshalls, excellent chunky medal and brilliant Hoody too. Will be back again next year. It's so satisfying to finish it each year and knocked another four minutes off my Marlow Half PB this year.Date of review: November 4, 2014
In short: superb; Striders do it bestIn full: Superbly organised. Great value. Great goodies. Great big hills :-)Date of review: November 3, 2014
In full: Er, it's hilly! :-)But also excellently organised, very well marshalled, and brilliant value for money with a chunky medal and a fab cosy hoodie.Date of review: November 3, 2014
In short: Great half despite the rain!In full: As usual, a well organised event over a lovely route through the Chiltern countryside between Marlow and Henley. As others have noted, the hills at miles 8 and 11 are a big tough feature, as is the fast descent back into town. Thanks to the marshals, spectators and everyone else who contributed to this fun event.Date of review: November 3, 2014
In short: 2nd time that I've done this race and I've fully enjoyed it againIn full: Great race! The organization and atmosphere is outstanding. I love the route through Chiltern countryside. Thanks to the hills it's never boring. ...but don't chose this race for trying a new PB.Date of review: November 2, 2014
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In short: A Run In The CountryIn full: What a blast, had a great run but two of the hills have become steeper since I last ran -must be global warming !. Great medal and hoodie and the tastiest apple I have ever had in my life. Date of review: November 2, 2014
In short: I LOVE MARLOW HALF!In full: This is the most ridiculous half marathon I've ever done and I just love it...!Great organisation; lovely course (it's hard - be under no illusion); cheery marshals, in spite of the rain; really friendly bunch of runners.Well done Marlow Striders.Date of review: November 2, 2014
In short: Glorious scenery, excellent organisation and killer hills - a great raceIn full: My 6th time running this race and still my favourite in the calendar. Forget trying to get a PB due to two killer hills but instead just enjoy the wonderful Chilterns scenery through mainly deserted woodland roads. Well marshalled and organised as always and with great support all the way round. I really liked the hoodie this year - makes a nice change from yet another technical tee. Only thing I'd change would be to replace the post run apple with a banana! Fantastic job, thank you Marlow Striders. Date of review: November 2, 2014
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Donald Hall "Don" Abram of Sheridan, NY, died at home, surrounded by family on March 21, 2013.
Born June 21, 1932 in Cassadaga, NY to the late Clarence and Evaline (McGrath) Abram. Beloved husband of Dolores M (Stawiarski) Abram. Broth-er of John "Jack", Mary, Beverly, William, Richard, Everett "Bud", his twin brother David, and Kathleen. Married in 1951 to the love of his life and mother of his 11 children, Dolores Maxine Stawiarski "Dee" of Jamestown, NY.
Upon graduation from Cassadaga Valley Central School, he was employed at the former Cassadaga Feed Mill before going to work for Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation in 1954 where he was employed for 36 years working his way up from janitor, to Operations Clerk, to Storekeeper at the Fredonia Service Center where his sense of humor brightened the days of many co-workers and friends.
Survived by spouse, Dolores, children: Stephen (Patricia), Mary Ellen (David) Watson, Timothy, Diana (Jeffrey) Schmitt, Michele (John) Szymonik, Kevin (Angela), Patricia (Gregory) Cook, Anne, Paul (Marilyn), Matthew (Karen) and Jennifer (James) Dillon, as well as numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren who all wish him peace and a loving Godspeed to his final resting place.
Predeceased by parents, Clarence "Abe" and Eva-line, brothers William and Everett, sister Beverly, and infant grandson, Scott David Watson.
He will be remembered most not only for his charismatic personality and uncanny quick wit, but also for his selfless giving as evidenced by his temporary sheltering of an orphanage run-away young teen, his financial co-signing of numerous fellow employee loans and the myriad of charitable organizations that he supported on a regular basis as well as being a dedicated blood donor of well over 100 pints. He lived under the presumption that no matter how limited his means, there was always someone less fortunate than he who needed support.
A special thanks to the many friends and local community members who have been a beacon of sup-port to Don and his entire family.
A celebration of his life will be announced at a later date at the convenience of family. Flowers gratefully declined. Donations may be made in his honor to Sheridan Volunteer Fire Department, 11261 Center Rd, Sheridan, NY 14135.


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LINGUIST List 24.3488
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2nd Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference
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Full Title: 2nd Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference
Short Title: APCLC 2014
Date: 07-Mar-2014 - 09-Mar-2014
Location: Hong Kong, China
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Meeting Description:
2nd Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2014)
7-9 March 2014
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hunghom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Conference registration: 6 March 2014 (Thursday)
Conference: 7-8 March 2014 (Friday-Saturday)
Conference tour: 9 March 2014 (Sunday am)
The aim of the APCLC 2014 is to bring together academics from around the world, and from the Asia Pacific area in particular, in order to report on the varied developments in the use of corpora in linguistics, language learning and translation studies. Some countries have a number of well-developed projects related to the theoretical and applied aspects of corpus analysis; other countries are just starting to develop corpus resources. Through this conference, we will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and expertise and lay the foundations for future developments in the application of corpus resources in Asia and the Pacific.
Invited Plenary Speakers:
Dr. Michael Barlow, Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Prof. Douglas Biber, Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of English, Northern Arizona University, USA
Dr. Lynne Flowerdew, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Prof. Ka Yin Benjamin T'sou, Chair Professor, Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies; Director, Research Centre on Linguistics and Language Information Sciences, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
Prof. Jong-Bok Kim, School of English; Director, Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Registration Fee:
Including luncheons, coffee and refreshments on 7-8 March, not including conference dinner (7 March) and conference tour (9 March)
Early Bird (on or before 18 November 2013):
Regular: 1,400 HK$
Student: 1,000 HK$
After 18 November 2013:
Regular: 1,600 HK$
Student: 1,100 HK$
Conference dinner: 350 HK$
Conference tour: 100 HK$
Final Call for Papers:
We invite papers in all aspects of Corpus Linguistics, from teachers, research students, researchers, training consultants and practitioners from the industry. Conference themes include, but are not limited to:
- Corpora and language learning
- Translation corpora
- Corpora and the web
- Corpora and discourse analysis
- Learner corpora
- Usage-based linguistics
- Theoretical issues in corpus analysis
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Extended submission deadline for call for papers: 25 October 2013 (Fri)
Notice of acceptance: 11 November 2013 (Mon)
Early bird registration: on or before 18 November 2013 (Mon)
Cancellation: on or before 17 January 2014 (Fri) (no refund of registration fee after this date)
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Topic: Ruby/Rails' future in Corporate IT
Can any patron speculate on where Ruby/Rails can fit within Corporate IT; specifically how it
relates to: Oracle <---> IBM Websphere/EJB <---> Browser?
A lot of Corporate IT use Oracle-based n-tier systems with Java being the middle tier and a browser being the GUI.
Can Ruby/Rails/Mongrel (or whatever) effectively replace such a scenario?


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Sublime With Rome just posted a new song from their upcoming album Yours Truly today to celebrate the launch of their new webstore! Click HERE to check out all the preorders for Yours Truly including some with t-shirts, hoodies and wristbands!
Look for the iTunes preorder on June 21st before the album is released July 12th!


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February 12, 2013
To the USA Team Handball Community:
I'm writing to give you all a brief update on what's been happening in the world of USA Team Handball since the beginning of 2013.
IHF President Visit: As some of you know, the President of the International Handball Federation, Dr. Hassan Moustafa, visited USATH in Colorado Springs in December. Dr. Moustafa is very interested in the development of our sport at the youth level in the United States. We are currently working with the IHF with the goal of implementing a grassroots level program based upon the IHF's "Handball@school" initiative. While we are currently fine tuning the details, we expect to send out a Request for Proposals within the next few weeks, to identify communities to host this program in 2013.
Junior Men's Pan American Championships: Given our extremely limited resources, we are often faced with difficult decisions relating to our participation in international competitions. For example, our Junior Men's National Team recently qualified to participate in the Junior Pan American Championships in Argentina. The team qualified by way of its participation in the IHF Trophy Cup in Mexico City late last year. For the record, the federation was able to send the team to the IHF Trophy Cup based upon a grant from the IHF. While we would love to be able to send the Junior MNT to Argentina, there simply is no funding in our budget to do so. We were faced with the decision of either declining the invitation immediately or giving the athletes the opportunity to self-fund (which would have been more than $1,500 per athlete). The federation would still have had to expend unbudgeted funds to send staff to support the competition. While we initially explored sending a self-funded team, ultimately it was my recommendation to the Board of Directors that we decline to participate. My goal is to bring our federation to a place where we won't have to make that kind of decision.
National Team Tryouts: We have begun the process of improving the level of athleticism of our national teams through regular athlete identification events. We will be conducting tryouts on a monthly basis in Colorado Springs through June, under the supervision of Coach Javier Garcia Cuesta.
Competition Season: The competition season is in full swing, with tournaments coming up throughout the country. I am optimistic that College Nationals and Open Nationals will be well-run, fun and exciting for all.
Development: We have now distributed the IHF equipment grant, which was delivered late last year, to over 40 community recipients who work mostly with youth and college programs. We have approximately 50+ new U-10 mini-handball members, thanks to the programs in Minneapolis, MN, (Craig Rot) and Weston, MA (Anne Coulter, Allison Felix). Other active youth programs deserving of recognition are: Colorado Springs, Denver, Las Vegas, Lakewood NJ, San Francisco area, and Washington DC. Several new college clubs are either forming or already practice and play. The group includes: Penn State University, Clemson University, Colorado State University, Kennesaw State University, Western Illinois University, University of Michigan and the University of Virginia.
Media/Website: We have hired a new media services professional, Jon Gomez. Jon is a former high level athlete, having competed for Texas A&M as a javelin thrower. More importantly, Jon recently completed an internship with the USOC Communications Division and is excited to help bring more exposure to our sport as well as make the website more relevant and easy to use. Jon can be reached at email@example.com. I want to thank Francesca Simeral for all her hard work and dedication to USATH during her tenure, and wish her the best as she completes her studies at USC.
As always, please feel free to contact me. My office number is 719-866-2203, my mobile number is 607-220-3464 and my email address is email@example.com.
Yours in sport,
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Skip to comments.RNC Chairman Reince Priebus Announces First Wave of Republican Convention Headliners
Posted on 08/06/2012 8:13:45 AM PDT by JeepersFreepers
Tampa, Fla. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus today announced the first list of headliners addressing the Republican National Convention August 27-30. Additional convention speakers, including the keynote, will be announced in the coming days and weeks. The speakers are:
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, the first female governor of South Carolina and the youngest sitting governor in the United States;
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, the 44th governor of Arkansas and 2008 presidential candidate is a NY Times best-selling author, radio and television show host;
Ohio Governor John Kasich, former House Budget Committee chairman;
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, the first female Hispanic governor in the U.S. and the first female governor of New Mexico;
Arizona Senator John McCain, the partys 2008 nominee, now serving his fifth term in the U.S. Senate;
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Americas 66th secretary of state and the first African-American female to hold the position; and
Florida Governor Rick Scott, from the convention host state.
(Excerpt) Read more at gopconvention2012.com ...
They don't call the GOP the stupid party for nothing.
oh cant wait, the suspense is killing me.
Can;t wait for him to pick some other boring no emotion RINO, pro homo, pro liberal socila issues guy for VP too.
Gingrich, Palin and Cain need to speak. It's a convention. We need red meat, not let's all get along dullards.
I wish he'd pick Gingrich as VP.
This Reince 'and repeat' Priebus is an absolute moron. McCain?Huckabee? No Sarah?? The RNCe is stuck on stupid!!
Stupendously underwhelming.
Conservatives, your party has been co-opted. What will you do about it?
There are a lot of people in the GOP who love his social conservative credentials AND his social justice economics. How do you think he got elected governor of Arkansas twice?
What I find more telling about this list of speakers, however, is that it probably means none of them will be selected as VP.
What a freakin' neocon liberal socialist lineup.
What a freakin' neocon liberal socialist lineup.
I don't like the GOP establishment either, and their picks. However, I will point out that Mike Huckabee was one of the driving forces behind the Chick-Fil-A support. Huckabee is a solid moral conservative; even if lacking in other areas. I will be surprized if he gives Romney more than a Luke warm mention.
Typical Liberal Willard...
Dump the Conservatives and the TEA Party...
The Palin snub is now officially confirmed.
Whaaat? No Dole?
RNC Chair trumpeting the me-too diversity credo.
- Talk Radio hosts Limbaugh, Levin, Hannity, Wilkow ??
- Celebrities Norris, Nugent, Eastwood, Stallone, Willis, Downey ??
- Pundits Coulter, Malkin, Crowley ??
The RINO's in control of the RNC are trying to throw the presidential election again just like 2008. The Huckster and McLame. Surprised that Lindsay Grahamnesty is not on the list.
Oh joy.
That isn't the GOP Convention it's the RINO Convention.
How is it officially confirmed? This is just the "first wave" of announcements. Left out are some people who will obviously be there, such as Christie and Rubio.
Netflix and channel surfing will see tremendous gains.
I will watch Gov. Martinez, because I am not familiar with her. As for McCain, Huckabee, Rice, et al., I wouldn't waste the time.
if they don't, we need to turn the convention into a Conservative equivalent of '68 DNC in Chicago.
God, these people are so friggin STUPID
No Scott Walker, No Gingrich, No Cain,
Wow, this is a terrible lineup.
What about Trey Gowdy? Now that guy can fire up some people.
What about Mike Kelly?
I am sure that EVERY speaker has endorsed the GOP's candidate for president.
If Palin has decided not to endorse in this presidential race, can you blame the GOP for filling her spot with someone who IS on the team?
Every speaker is going to say something like this: ".... so join me in helping to elect ______ President of the United States!"
If Palin can't do better than "... help me to elect Anybody But Obama!" then why would the GOP want her to speak?
(If you were running for office, would you let someone speak at your banquet who has not endorsed you?)
Hopefully by 2016 the TEA Party will know better and run a parallel convention. It would be conservative nirvana where the real business takes place.
He'll be there, you just won't see him crouched down in the lectern when McLame is speaking. Hey Laz, did you not recognize the half a loaf they were throwing to the Tea Party with Martinez, Scott and Haley?
Oh Lord, Trikki Nikki...
She will be in town, but is too savvy to crash the convention.
But will draw some of the media attention away from the RINO love fest.
Here's some recent history for you..
Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin
The 2008 lineup had at least 30 speakers. Based on that, this list is only 25% of who will be speaking. I'm thinking they are saving the best for last!
Seriously, if you were a candidate for public office would YOU invite someone to speak at your event if they refused to endorse you?
The 2008 lineup had at least 30 speakers. Based on that, this list is only 25% of who will be speaking. I'm thinking they are saving the best for last!
True...Palin has yet to endorse the GOP candidate...not sure why she would get a slot at this point.
"Conservative gop activists" Carolyn Kennedy, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Michael Moore, Chris Matthews and Bob Beckel will headline the gop convention in Tampa... and then the progressive wing of the gop will be heard from.
If the Republican Party understands the significance of and the power behind the American Peoples rejection of the party of the left, they will reaffirm their allegiance to our Constitution, our Declaration of Independence and our way of life at the national convention.
And then they should come out swinging at the leftists who are taking increasingly bigger, bolder steps away from the Constitution.
Does not Priebus and his friends recognize the Democrats are unceasingly moving US towards a method of government they still send our military halfway around the world to battle?
Stupid like a den of foxes.
I'm thinking they are saving the best for last!
and your idea of "best" would be ???
My short list of convention speakers would include Rick Santorum, Clint Eastwood, Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Newt Ginrich, Dennis Miller, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan and Michelle Bachman.
So they have decided to play the "me too" game by including, 'first" gender/race" in the bios. Guess we can probably look forward to Lindsey Graham too then. And, do we have someone in a wheel chair who could speak? We got the "old" and "young" boxes checked off.
Where is DeMint? Gov. Walker of Wisconsin? Palin? Newt? this is disgusting. Romney and the good ole boys in the establishment are not uniting the true conservatives.
Somebody had to get booted out of the tent to make room for all the crisco butts satisfied with an occasional political reach around.
Do people on either side actually watch this crap? I wouldn't watch regardless of who is on.
Real life and death problems and both sides have a wrestling event with scripted promos. Complete with each person getting their theme music as they walk out.
Just stupid from both political sides. Total crapfest and boredom from complete hacks and phonies.
Given the history, I'm sure they would say that it is WE that are trying to co-opt their Grand Old Party. It's the problem we face with only two parties. As folks recoil in horror from what they wrought last time, they flee into the big tent, but their tidal influx keeps the party moving leftward. Not that I agree with that, necessarily.
Yeh, really. More of the same old garbage from the same old wastebaskets.
Look, Mitts going to be a good president, and I think when you look at what Obama has done and what Mitt Romney brings to the table in terms of being able to manage something, anything."
Well, I guess Mike has lost credibility in my eyes (although he did say "good" not "great" - this could be damning with faint praise). Thanks for the information.
Has Sarah Palin been as vocal in support of Romney?
Thanks again for the quote by Mike Huckabee. I am afraid that Mike has, like so many before him, been infected by that terrible virus known as "party loyalty." This disease keeps, otherwise conservative, folks from opposing a bad call by someone in their own party...or someone in their party running for office.
McLame but no Palin.
Screw you RNC
"My short list of convention speakers would include Rick Santorum, Clint Eastwood, Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Newt Ginrich, Dennis Miller, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan and Michelle Bachman."
Except for Palin (and maybe even including her), I wouldn't be surprised if you're soon attacked for any or all of the rest of your choices. Circular firing squad.
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Birds Moving North As Warming Increases
Contributing Monkie G Monkie
Published on May 17, 2010
Filed Under Nature / Non Human Stories Tags Birds, Global Warming
If you're one of those who thinks climate change is for the birds, you're wrong. At least in the metaphoric sense. As for real birds, researchers from Auburn University have discovered a curious behavior pattern that might turn out to be the result of global warming.
As part of the North American Breeding Bird Survey (begun in 1966) that studied the ranges of common birds from Mexico to Canada, Alan Hitch and Paul Leberg observed the breeding patterns of eastern arboreal and semi-arboreal birds (the kind you find in backyards – 56 species in all). Some names with which you might be familiar are the Common Ground-dove, Bachman's Sparrow, Northern Mockingbird, Bewick's Wren and the Golden-winged Warbler.
What they discovered was that the birds are migrating north — in a pattern that coincides directly with increasing global temperatures.
The findings would probably be inconsequential if the birds were expanding their ranges in various directions, but of these 56 species, all had moved in a northward direction only. While their findings support a similar study in Great Britain, it is nearly impossible to scientifically draw a direct link between global warming and the bird movement.
Regardless, there is a very real danger, according to one of the researchers, that the birds might out-migrate their food supply, wiping out local populations of some species. Birds can migrate easier than earth-bound species — but if they move north too quickly, they might not find any food there. Maybe they would then evolve into a new species. Or maybe the bird migration is connected to terrestrial migration.
Either way it is clear that global warming is not well understood in terms of its impact on global life. So, there ought to be a huge market for scientists in upcoming years.
Maybe I shouldn't have gone with Liberal Arts.
For more on the study, click here.


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She has been a professional cheerleader, an actress, and a singer/dancer in a show band before settling into her true love
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I was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, to a Jewish family living in what was the equivalent of Soviet 'projects' known as "Khrushchyovkas." When I was about nine years old, the government announced that Jews were free to leave the Soviet Union. My family and everyone else in our closed little universe said, "Check, please!"
We departed Kyiv on May 1, 1988. It was a strange day to start a long trip to a new life; being a major Soviet holiday, there was only one other family on the train. After a layover in Czechoslovakia, we were en route to Vienna, the first stop on the Soviet Jews' "above ground" railroad. We stepped off the train in Vienna and were greeted by a representative from the Israeli Embassy. "Would you like to go to Israel?" he asked very politely. I don't recall what my folks said, but years later my dad would tell me, "It's too hot in Israel."
In Vienna, a non-governmental organization (NGO) called the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) helped my family find a place to stay while they arranged transport to Italy -- the place where we'd be interviewed and someone would decide whether we met the U.S. government's criteria to be refugees. My parents say they were mortified when I started rifling through the file cabinet of the INS officer interviewing us. Can you imagine me doing that in a Soviet government official's office at the time? So as my mom and dad mentally prepared for the gulag that they were sure awaited them, the INS official, after spotting my mischievous behavior, turned to my parents and said, "He'll do well in America."
We touched down at JFK Airport on a PanAm flight on June 30. My parents worked incredibly hard after we got to America. While my mom took advantage of all the benefits that came with being a refugee (job-training and English classes), my dad, a proud man, spurned most assistance, refused food stamps, and worked 80-hour weeks doing manual labor. He helped our family accomplish the American dream. My mom and dad now live in a house, dad drives an SUV, and they just bought a small "dacha" in Pennsylvania.
And me? Well, I earner my bachelor's degree at Northwestern University, double majoring in Religion and in Asian Civilizations and Languages; I certainly had a hard time explaining that to my blue-collar emigre parents. I worked for a few years doing various jobs before deciding to go back to school. I earned an MPA (Master of Public Administration) from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, meeting the woman I'd marry along the way. We joined the Foreign Service together and after an amazing two-year tour in Nepal, we are in, you guessed it: Ukraine. My parents are still scratching their heads over that one.
Editor's Note: This blog is one of a series of individual stories by former refugees who are now working for the State Department. The series is part of the State Department's ongoing effort to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Convention and in honor of World Refugee Day on June 20. Each story reflects an individual's experience and does not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. government.Become a fan of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration on Facebook.


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2.) Use saddle soap if boots are extra dirty.
The Durango Lil' Rebel cowboy boots provide extreme quality and comfort for your beginner cowboy's feet. This Children's Cowboy Boot features a saddle vamp design foot under an 8" synthetic leather shaft. Rolled shank area. Piping details and easy pull-on holes. Soft mesh lining. Single-stitch welt. 1 1/8" rocker heel. Imported.


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What's up everyone! I can't tell you how excited we are to be finally releasing #1Nite! This has been one of our personal favorites off Night Shades, and we feel like proud parents finally getting the chance to witness their dorky kid's first at-bat. Our friend Ryan Tedder wrote this song with us, and we were brainstorming to figure out what we could do to spice this song up for those of you who already heard it months ago.


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Daisy Garden Crib Skirt
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A delicate vine of summer blooms makes its way around this white gathered bed skirt. It's detailed with pick stitching and embroidery and trimmed with yarn-dyed gingham.
- Pure organic cotton percale. A percale weave is noticeably denser and wears well over time.
- 200-thread-count.
- Detailed with satin-stitch embroidered flowers.
- An Easy-Care finish makes this bedding smooth and soft right out of the dryer.
- Crib skirt is tailored with split corners for easy placement around bedposts; four-sided skirt fits around the entire crib.
- Machine wash.
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- Decking: 28" wide x 52" long
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PNT adding Google surveys
February 26, 2013
Starting Friday, online readers of the Portales News-Tribune will be asked to take a short survey to access full versions of stories.
The PNT is part of Clovis Media Inc., which includes the Clovis News Journal, the Quay County Sun and Cannon Connections. Along with the PNT, the Clovis paper is partnering with Google to implement a survey component on the two websites.
PNT adding Google survey
Many news websites are being switched from free pages to partial and full paywalls to recoup some business costs to produce the news and ads in print and online.
CMI is partnering with Google to generate some new revenue without implementing a paywall, Publisher Ray Sullivan said.
Google works with companies needing market research. Partner papers receive a share of the fee companies pay for each brief survey that's completed.
When implemented on the PNT site, a news story will show a few sentences, then require a reader to answer a multiple-choice question or two to see the rest of the story.
The Clovis News Journal began testing Google surveys last September.
Those wishing to avoid the surveys may subscribe to the PNT's replica e-paper for a $6 a month subscription fee. To do so, click on the "Subscribe" tab at the top of the PNT's home page online and follow the steps.


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Topic: Validating against values in other records
I'm working on an auction service atm. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:
- A bid must be higher than any previous bids on the same item.
- A bid must be higher than the min bid value set by the seller.
This pseudo-code is the best I came up with, but it's not working:
class Bid < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_exclusion_of :amount, :in => 0..Bid.find_all_by_item_id(bid.item_id).max
validates_exclusion_of :amount, :in => 0..Item.find(bid.item_id).min_bid
validates_numericality_of :amount
The main problem is I don't know how to refer to the bid-data (bid.item_id) from within the model.
If at all possible I'd like to do this validation in the model, but I'm suspecting I might need to move it to the controller?


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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Air Zermatt Adds Becker Audio to Bell 429 Fleet
Source: Becker Avionics
Air Zermatt AG in Switzerland selected the Becker Avionics DVCS6100 digital aircraft audio system, for their new fleet of Bell Helicopter 429 light-twin helicopters. Air Zermatt selected Becker's DVCS because it allows their flight crews to select and control all onboard communication devices for inbound and outbound communications, including; public address, warning systems, radios and crew intercommunications. Additionally, the system has an excellent man-machine interface, proven field reliability, and is able to transmit on up to 8 channels simultaneously, along with providing a radio relay feature.
The Bell 429 is an advanced light twin-engine helicopter that is used by Air Zermatt as a multi-mission platform, capable of performing the full array of EMS, utility, and search and rescue operations from their several bases in the Swiss Alps.
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Topic: I need help with routes.rb
I can't for the life of me figure this out, but because "i came down in the last shower" when it comes to programming its not suprising!
map.resources :orders do |map|
map.resources :invoices
ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
map.resources :orders, :invoices,
or anything i try, I will get this error;
undefined method `first' for :orders:Symbol
or this error;
undefined method `resources' for #<ActionController::Routing::RouteSet:0x32fce40>
I even downloaded the code for resful2 from the agile web development book and got the same error."undefined method `first' for :orders:Symbol"
Has anyone got some insight into this? Please!


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Improve the Nation's Nutrition and Health
Arizona Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program
Impact Nugget
Arizona Cooperative Extension, in partnership with other agencies in the Arizona Nutrition Network, provides nutrition and health education for food stamp-eligible families. In 2005 Cooperative Extension faculty and volunteers in the Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program directly contacted 14,667 children in schools, and 462,824 adults and seniors, and over 735,527 were reached using print and radio ads.
Families eligible for food stamps often need help receiving food stamps, getting referrals to social service agencies, and planning meals and eating healthy foods within limited budgets. Less than a quarter of those eligible for food stamps actually receive them.
What has been done?
Arizona Cooperative Extension faculty, in partnership with local social service agencies, county health departments, and other community organizations in the Arizona Nutrition Network, teach a variety of programs to food stamp-eligible families throughout the state. The social marketing campaign provides consistent messages on three themes: "Add physical activity to your day"; "go low–drink 1% milk or lower"; and "Eat 5 A Day" to increase fruits and vegetable consumption. Other topics include healthy eating based upon the new dietary guidelines and the new food guide pyramid, increasing calcium consumption, increasing physical activity, food safety, and eating for disease prevention. Local staff and volunteers distribute educational materials through classes, workshops, health fairs, after school programs, parents' groups, community and wellness centers, food banks and other venues.
In 2005, Cooperative Extension faculty and volunteers in the Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program directly contacted 14,661 children in schools, and 462,824 adults and seniors. Extension's indirect contacts through newsletters, radio and television, as part of the social marketing campaign reached an audience of 735,527 in Arizona. In one county, 48 adults received their food handler card through food safety training; post evaluation at five workshops showed increased knowledge of hidden fats in foods and the importance of reading labels and understanding portion size.
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Arizona Nutrition Network
Cooperative Extension faculty and staff salary match
In-kind support through personnel, facilities, equipment, supplies, and co-sponsoring events
Scottie Misner, PhD, RD
State EFNEP/FSNEP Coordinator
The University of Arizona
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