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There will be an all-Canadian matchup in the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, but it's not the showdown many hockey fans had been anticipating.
The prospect of a Montreal-Toronto clash disappeared Sunday night when the Ottawa Senators beat the Bruins 4-2 in Boston. That result, coupled with the Canadiens' 4-1 win over the Leafs Saturday night, gave the Canadiens first place in the Northeast Division and the No. 2 overall seed in the Eastern Conference.
That means Montreal will play Ottawa in a best-of-seven series that opens Thursday night at the Bell Centre. Game 2 will be Friday night at the Bell Centre, before the series shifts to Ottawa for Game 4 on Sunday and Game 5 on Tuesday, May 7. Those games will all start at 7 p.m. If necessary, Game 5 will be on Thursday, May 9 at the Bell Centre, Game 6 is slated for Saturday, May 11 in Ottawa and Game 7 on Sunday, May 12 at the Bell Centre.
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The Canadiens had a 2-1-1 record against the Senators in the regular season. This will be the first playoff meeting between the two teams since the Senators returned to the NHL in 1992. The Canadiens head into the playoffs on a two-game winning streak after beating Winnipeg 4-2 on Thursday before defeating the Leafs.
The other first-round matchups in the Eastern Conference are Pittsburgh vs. the New York Islanders, Toronto vs. Boston and Washington vs. the New York Rangers.
The Bruins enter the playoffs having lost seven of their last nine games (including one overtime loss and another in a shootout) and Sunday's game was their sixth in eight nights. The Leafs have lost four of their last six games. The Bruins and Leafs haven't met in the playoffs since 1974, when Boston won in a first-round sweep.
The first round matchups in the Western Conference are Chicago vs. Minnesota, Anaheim vs. Detroit, Vancouver vs. San Jose and St. Louis vs. Los Angeles.
The Canadiens will practice at 11 a.m. Monday in Brossard.
(Photo by Allen McInnis/The Gazette)
Senators beat Boston for Habs matchup, montrealgazette.com
It's Montreal vs. Ottawa, by Pat Hickey
Get ready for a 417 playoff matchup, by Jack Todd
The field is set for first round, NHL.com
Canadiens vs. Senators series preview, NHL.com
Sports psychologist put Eller on right track, by Dave Stubbs
Top 25 photos from 2012-13 season, canadiens.com
Most Memorable Moments Against the Senators, canadiens.com
Habs playoff fever heats up with "Bring the Cup Home", by Stu Cowan


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Tuition at Pulaski Technical College will increase by 2.5 percent for in-state students beginning with the fall 2010 semester.
The Pulaski Technical College Board of Trustees unanimously approved the increase during a regular meeting on Jan. 25.
Tuition costs will increase $2 per credit hour, from $80 to $82 for in-state residents. Tuition for out-of-state students will increase $4 per credit hour from $131 to $135, and tuition for international students will increase $14 per credit hour from $253 to $267. In-state tuition is capped at $1,722 per semester.
The increase will cost a full-time student taking 15 credit hours per semester an extra $30 per semester. The current fees will remain the same for the 2010-11 academic school year.
The Pulaski Technical College Board of Trustees reviews tuition adjustments in January each year in order to give current and new students plenty of time to prepare for the fall semester and to publicize the information. Registration for the fall semester begins in April.
"We had hoped to get by a year without an increase in tuition, but with the events over the past week or so, we thought it necessary," college president Dr. Dan F. Bakke said, referring to state budget cuts announced earlier this month. "We do not want to cut any services that our students have come to depend on."
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...this my next to last day at the old job. Words can't even...so we'll spit in bits!
The Golden Filter plays for free tonight and then at Glasslands tomorrow.
Justice heads up Summadayze lineup. link
Klaxons will release album outtakes as EPs. link
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UTSA presents 'New Art/Arte Nuevo,' July 2-Aug. 10
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Assistant Director of Public Affairs
(June 30, 2008)--The UTSA Department of Art and Art History will present the juried exhibition, "New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2008," from July 2 to Aug. 10 in the Arts Building gallery on the UTSA 1604 Campus. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
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An opening reception, free and open to the public, will be hosted by President Ricardo Romo and Dr. Harriett Romo from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, July 2 at the gallery. Free parking is available in lot 8 during the reception.
The exhibition presents the work of 47 artists who live, work or who have roots/raíces in South and West Texas. The artworks included represent an array of aesthetic interests and themes that range from representational imagery to abstract design and from cultural criticism to sublime expression in works that extend across the full range of traditional and new media.
"This show represents one of many new innovations taking place within the ever-growing UTSA Department of Art and Art History," said Kent Rush, professor and department chair. "This new competition and exhibition represents our desire to reach out in a big way to locate and showcase new artistic talent in the region as well as create an awareness about our evolving and dynamic art program in the hopes of inspiring and drawing in future students."
"I would like to thank Benito Huerta and Kathy Vargas for the engagement, spirit and care with which they tackled the difficult task of selecting works for the exhibition," said Scott Sherer, gallery director and UTSA assistant professor of art and art history. "Their individual creativity and their commitment as educators and cultural activists are examples of the potential for contemporary artists to encourage reflection, change and reverie."
The internationally acclaimed artists-jurors, Benito Huerta and Kathy Vargas, B.F.A. '81 and M.F.A. '84, made selections from nearly 600 works of art submitted by 150 artists. Huerta is director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; Vargas is chair of the Department of Art at University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio.
"New Art/Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2008" is made possible by the generous support from the Salute to Education program funded by the San Antonio Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealers and the Ford Motor Co.; Target Corp.; President Ricardo Romo and Dr. Harriett Romo; Dan Gelo, dean of the UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts; and Kent Rush, UTSA professor and chair of the Department of Art and Art History.
For more information, contact Laura Crist at (210) 458-4391.
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From Interstate 10, take exit 557 to UTSA Boulevard. At the second traffic light, turn right onto James Bauerle Boulevard. Turn left onto O'Neil Ford Avenue and make an immediate right into lot 8. The Arts Building is on the right at the top of the walkway to the center of campus.


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Several days ago this blog reported about an American air strike in Afghanistan that allegedly resulted in the death of civilians at a wedding party. US air force public relations denied the incident had ever happened. Today, a report was published by a special nine member panel of Afghan legislators to examine the incident. They concluded the air strike had killed numerous members of the wedding party. "We found that 47 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in air strikes and another nine wounded. They were all civilians and had no links with the Taliban or al-Qaida." The United States air force was charged with a similar bombing on the Afghan border which also resulted in the death of civilians.
President Karzai has been pleading with coalition and American forces to avoid killing civilians, but extensive use of air strikes is bound to resort to the death of civilians. A missile went astray and instead of killing the Taliban, it killed civilians. Part of the problem in Afghanistan is inadequate ground forces to do the job without extensive assistance from the air force.


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Erika EichelbergerDec. 1, 2012 11:08 AM
It's one thing to expand executive powers when your guy is in the White House—but what if the other party holds the Oval Office? That's what elite conservative legal minds were mulling at an American Enterprise Institute event Friday headlined "Founders betrayed? New threats to US democracy and rule of law." Conservative luminaries, including Bush-era torture-justifier John Yoo, warned of a grave constitutional threat in the Obama administration's use of executive power.
CATO institute fellow Nicholas Rosenkranz said Obama had seized a "vast amount of executive power" by allowing people who entered the country illegally as children to stay (though as my colleague Adam Serwer pointed out last summer, presidents from both parties have long claimed the authority to grant stays of deportation). He was also concerned about the possibility that the DOJ may decline to enforce federal drug laws in states that recently legalized pot. (This coming from the same school of thought that says the 10th amendment allows states to ignore federal laws they don't like.) "For those of you who are nervous about some of the tendencies of of this particular president," Rosencranz said, "I would keep your eye on the executive choices like declining to execute law."
He said Congress should clarify that the president must enforce federal laws. Would this, then, apply to Obamacare under a "President Ryan in 2017," asked moderator Henry Olson, director of AEI's National Research Initiative. Well, yes, Rosencranz said—yes, it would.
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Adam SerwerNov. 30, 2012 1:09 PM
"If you don't have a right to trial by jury, you do not have due process," Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said as he urged passage of Senator Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) amendment blocking indefinite detention of US citizens and legal residents captured on US soil Tuesday night. "You do not have a Constitution. For goodness' sakes, the trial by jury has been a long-standing and ancient and noble right. For goodness' sakes, let's not scrap it now."
The Senate seemed to have concurred as it passed Feinstein's amendment in a 67-29 vote, with mostly Republicans voting no. After a year of trying, Feinstein had gotten her colleagues to agree that any American apprehended on US soil should have the right to a trial.
Or had she? Consider this: Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) voted for the Feinstein amendment, though they were among the most vocal supporters of indefinite military detention for US citizens in the past. According to their floor speeches, the Feinstein amendment actually legalizes indefinite detention rather than blocking it.
The question of what the Senate actually did hinges on language in the amendment that reads: "An authorization to use military force, a declaration of war, or any similar authority shall not authorize the detention without charge or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States apprehended in the United States unless an Act of Congress expressly authorizes such detention" (emphasis mine). It's that "unless" that the supporters of indefinite detention latched onto.
"Senator Feinstein's amendment…does not prohibit military detention if it is expressly authorized by law," said Levin, "which I read as a statute authorizing the use of military force itself or some other act of Congress." Since Congress did authorize the use of military force against Al Qaeda in 2001, Levin argued, Feinstein's amendment expressly allows military detention without trial of US citizens, even if captured on US soil. (An opponent of indefinite detention, Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), actually had a similar interpretation.)
"That was strange indeed," said Raha Wala of Human Rights First, who isn't buying Levin's interpretation despite having opposed the Feinstein amendment because it didn't protect all persons in the United States. "I don't think that argument works."
Levin's Republican allies seemed to think otherwise. Ayotte, delivering her remarks in front of a large poster of the US-born radical Anwar al-Awlaki holding a bazooka, said she agreed with Levin's interpretation (though she did vote against the amendment). "I wanted to add my support for [Levin's] interpretation of the current Feinstein language," Ayotte said. "Would we want to tell a member of someone who had committed an act like 9/11 against us, an act of war against our country, the first thing they hear is you have the right to remain silent?" Ayotte asked, perhaps unaware a French national named Zacarias Moussaoui was tried and convicted in federal court for his part in the 9/11 attacks without ever being held in military detention. Graham also called Levin's take "incredibly sound."
Feinstein spoke shortly after Levin, Graham, and Ayotte. She thanked the chamber for a spirited debate, particularly Graham, for expressing himself "in a very spicy way." But Feinstein said that the Levin interpretation was incorrect, and that based on a federal court decision in the case of Jose Padilla (the only American accused of terrorism to be held in military detention in the US) the 2001 AUMF doesn't count as an authorization to detain US citizens captured on American soil indefinitely.
One thing might explain Levin, Graham, and Ayotte's insistence that Feinstein doesn't understand what her own amendment does: They may be hoping that if an American citizen apprehended on US soil is detained without trial, and that detention is challenged in court, judges will take their remarks as evidence of Congress' true "legislative intent" and decide that the law does authorize domestic indefinite detention. Ironically, conservatives generally frown on that kind of legal interpretation.
That seems like a long shot, however, which means that despite the flaws of the Feinstein amendment, if it makes it into law, it may mark one of the few times since 9/11 that Congress has acted to protect the due process rights of American citizens rather than narrowing them.
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Gavin AronsenNov. 30, 2012 7:08 AM
Thanks to several smartphone apps created just for the 2012 election, TV viewers could fact check attack ads from the comfort of their couches. One of these programs, the Super PAC App, allowed viewers to hold up their iPhones when a TV ad aired and—provided the phone could pick up the audio—get a report back with links to articles that addressed the ad's claims and data about the group behind it. Viewers could also opine on the spot by selecting one of four ratings: fail, fair, fishy, or love.
Earlier this week, Glassy Media, the maker of the Super PAC App, uploaded the results of the more than 38,000 votes cast from its app. We dug into the data to determine the top vote-getters for each of the four ratings (as selected from the 40 ads that were tagged the most by app users):
Fail: "Join Our Fight to Repeal Obamacare"
Restore America's Voice is a PAC that spent nearly $3.4 million against Democrats in 2012. None of that money is evident in this amateurish, low-budget ad, in which Mike Huckabee urges viewers demand the repeal of Obamacare. Of the 179 Super PAC App users who voted on the ad, 66 percent gave it a "fail." The Super PAC App links to a CNN article that backs up the ad's claim that Democrats introduced a $940 billion health care plan, but it also points to PolitiFact posts that dispute the claim that Obamacare will eventually cost $1.76 trillion and say Huckabee's claim that Obamacare is the "largest tax increase in American history" is pants-on-fire false.
Fair: "Romney/Ryan Bromance: You Complete Me"
About 35 percent of the 360 viewers who voted on this ad from the liberal super-PAC American Bridge 21st Century thought it was fair. It features Mitt Romney repeatedly saying that his budget policy is identical to Paul Ryan's. The Super PAC App links to articles that back up the ad's implication that Romney incorporated his running mate's idea to privatize Medicare into his campaign and shed a few details on Ryan's budget plan. (American Bridge spent $8.7 million during the election.)
Fishy: "Failing American Workers"
The Super PAC App wasn't foolproof: It still reports that "no specific claim [was] found in this ad," a Romney campaign spot that claims that 582,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost under Obama and that the president failed on seven occasions to "stop China's cheating." But according to PolitiFact, the country has actually gained half a million manufacturing jobs under Obama. PolitiFact ranks the ad's claim that Obama failed to stop China's cheating as half true. Yet 24 percent of the 226 viewers who voted on this ad deemed it fishy.
Love: "Pants on Fire"
This ad from the Democratic Governors Association's super-PAC, which spent $1.6 million on the election, juxtaposes clips of Republican governors allegedly lying about health care with a cartoon of Yosemite Sam inadvertently blowing himself up. The Super PAC App fact-checks Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's pants-on-fire claim about a Medicaid mandate and Florida Gov. Rick Scott's false assertion that Medicaid would cost his state $1.9 billion a year with the same PolitiFact articles that the ad cites. The app links to a different PolitiFact article in response to Sarah Palin's death panel claim; this one doesn't call it the "lie of the year," but it still gives it a pants-on-fire rating. Viewers enjoyed the ad: Of the 155 who voted on it, 66 percent gave it a "love."
Tim MurphyNov. 30, 2012 7:08 AM
RedState founder Erick Erickson.
Update: On Friday morning Erickson announced that he had decided not to challenge Chambliss. As he explained: "Were I to run for the Senate, it would be a terribly nasty campaign. It'd actually be really awesome, but it'd be really nasty. I have a seven year old, a soon to be four year old, and a wife who does not like being anywhere near a stage. I'm not putting my family through that when the best outcome would mean a sizable pay cut in pay and being away from my kids and wife all the time huddled in a pit vipers often surrounded by too many who viewed me as a useful instrument to their own advancement." But, he added, Chambliss shouldn't rest easy: "We will find someone to catapult into the arena."
Erick Erickson has the itch. After years of backing conservative primary challenges to moderate GOPers, the RedState founder and CNN contributor is mulling a primary challenge of his own. He's thinking of taking on Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the Georgia Republican who last weekend took the occasion of the fiscal cliff debate to publicly criticize anti-tax activist Grover Norquist. "Saxby Chambliss is waffling around like a dog off its leash for the first time," Erickson wrote in a post for RedState on Tuesday, before speculating that "[a] conservative from metro-Atlanta could put Saxby Chambliss in peril and we should work to make that happen." By then, he was telling his radio show listeners that he just might be the man for the job: "I've been very adamant, I wasn't going to do it, but after a few conversations today with a few heavy hitters in Washington, D.C. and some here in Georgia, I should at least consider it."
From his perch at RedState, Erickson has scored a few big wins in his plan to make the Republican Party walk and talk a bit more like Erick Erickson. He beat the drum early on Marco Rubio, back when then-Gov. Charlie Crist was the toast of the Republican establishment. He backed Ted Cruz for Senate when the former Texas solicitor general was flailing in the polls.
But he's chosen jesters as often as he's picked kings—and it's cost the Republican party dearly. He endorsed Sharron Angle in Nevada. He was among the first prominent conservatives to back Richard Mourdock's campaign against Sen. Richard Lugar. He backed Christine O'Donnell in her primary against former Rep. Mike Castle.
The only way Republicans could possibly stand any chance of losing a Senate seat in Georgia in 2014 is if they they nominated someone with a history of degrading comments about women and inflammatory views on abortion. That is, someone like Erick Erickson.
To recap, Erickson:
At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?
At some point soon, it will happen. It'll be over an innocuous issue. But the rage is building. It's not a partisan issue. There is bipartisan angst at out of control government made worse by dumb bans like this and unintended consequences like AIG's bonus problems.
If the GOP plays its cards right, it will have a winning issue in 2010. But it is going to have to get back to "leave me the hell alone" style federalism where the national government recedes and the people themselves will have to fight to take their states back from special interests out of touch with body politic as a whole.
Were I in Washington State, I'd be cleaning my gun right about now waiting to protect my property from the coming riots or the government apparatchiks coming to enforce nonsensical legislation.
At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?
At some point soon, it will happen. It'll be over an innocuous issue. But the rage is building. It's not a partisan issue. There is bipartisan angst at out of control government made worse by dumb bans like this and unintended consequences like AIG's bonus problems.
If the GOP plays its cards right, it will have a winning issue in 2010. But it is going to have to get back to "leave me the hell alone" style federalism where the national government recedes and the people themselves will have to fight to take their states back from special interests out of touch with body politic as a whole.
Were I in Washington State, I'd be cleaning my gun right about now waiting to protect my property from the coming riots or the government apparatchiks coming to enforce nonsensical legislation.
I'm not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out my wife's shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door. They're not going on my property. They can't do that. They don't have the legal right, and yet they're trying."
I'm not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out my wife's shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door. They're not going on my property. They can't do that. They don't have the legal right, and yet they're trying."
On the plus side for Georgia Republicans, at least Herman Cain's not running.
Adam SerwerNov. 29, 2012 6:11 PM
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is not happy that the government might have to actually convict a suspected terrorist of a crime before locking them up forever and throwing away the key. So he's working on an amendment to the pending defense bill that would make it clear that if the government thinks you're a terrorist, it can put you in prison without ever having to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you so much as vandalized a dive bar bathroom wall.
The text of the amendment, which is circulating on the Hill but has not yet been formally introduced, would affirm the government's power to "detain under the law of war" any individual "who joins al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or an associated force" and "plans or participates in a belligerent act against the United States on behalf of such forces anywhere within the United States and its territories." In other words, you could be deprived of your freedom in a war with no definable end, based on the mere suspicion that you've committed a crime. During the debate over last year's defense bill, Congress agreed to leave open the question of whether or not military detention authority applied to US citizens apprehended on American soil. This amendment would ensure that it does.
The amendment is a response to the one proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) that would prevent the government from detaining Americans and legal permanent residents suspected of terrorism without charge or trial. That amendment wouldn't protect all non-citizens apprehended on US soil however, so civil liberties and human rights groups are opposing it as unconstitutional. "Any approach to dealing with indefinite detention should be consistent with basic constitutional principles, which say that all persons are guaranteed due process," Human Rights First's Raha Wala said in a statement emailed to reporters.
Instead, these groups are backing amendments from Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) that would ensure that any person—citizen or otherwise—apprehended on US soil could not be deprived of their freedom without due process of law. You know, like it says in the Constitution.
Adam SerwerNov. 29, 2012 4:59 PM
President Barack Obama has threatened to veto the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act if the final version includes certain provisions, including continuing restrictions on Guantanamo Bay detainee transfers that make it impossible for the administration to close the prison. The statement was issued Thursday, as the Senate debated the defense bill.
Legislators should be forgiven for not taking this threat too seriously.
The first big restrictions on Gitmo transfers passed in 2010. Attorney General Eric Holder called them "dangerous," but the administration did nothing. Then in January 2011, the administration's ability to move detainees out of Gitmo was curtailed again. The administration did nothing. They issued a formal veto threat in 2011 over provisions in that year's National Defense Authorization Act, then backed down.
Obama reiterated his intention to close the Guantanamo detention camp on Jon Stewart's Daily Show just prior to the 2012 election. But Congress has hemmed him in with those transfer restrictions, and bringing suspected terror detainees to US soil is even less popular than it used to be.
Civil liberties and human rights groups have urged Obama to veto the defense bill if it retains the transfer restrictions, since they would make it impossible for Obama to fulfill his promise to close Gitmo. It's also the only way for the administration to convince Congress that it's actually serious when it says the restrictions are unacceptable.
But they probably aren't serious, at least not if we're defining "seriousness" as being actually willing to veto the bill. Not if the past is any indication.
Nov. 29, 2012 1:42 PM
U.S. Army Capt. Peggy Hu, Zabul Provincial Reconstruction Team civil affairs, speaks with a local child during a routine patrol in the local area Nov. 21. U.S. Air Force photo.
Erika EichelbergerNov. 29, 2012 12:08 PM
The American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate-funded group that generates nearly a thousand pro-business model bills per year and feeds them to state legislatures nationwide, is holding its annual policy summit in the nation's capital this week to meet with new state lawmakers and "prepare the next generation of political leadership." This coincides with the release of a report showing that ALEC's economic prescriptions are not good for the economy.
Each year, ALEC ranks the states on how tightly they adhere to the group's policy recommendations—from personal and corporate tax rates, to public sector employment levels, to right-to-work laws—as a predictor of their economic growth. The study released Wednesday, by the Iowa Policy Project and Good Jobs First, two policy groups that promote economic growth at the state level, introduces those rankings to reality. It concludes: "A hard look at the actual data finds that the ALEC…recommendations not only fail to predict positive results for state economies—the policies they endorse actually forecast worse state outcomes for job creation and paychecks." (Though the report is careful to maintain that though ALEC policies are correlated with less prosperous state economies, that doesn't necessarily mean the policies caused economic decline.)
Let's take a look. In six key measures of economic growth, ALEC's "Economic Outlook Rankings" fail to coincide with the actual economic outlook of a state over time. On the horizontal axis we have all 50 states' ALEC economic grades from 2007, when ALEC started its ranking system. The vertical axis shows the percent change in actual economic performance from 2007 until last year. If ALEC's fortune-telling were correct , the plotted points would form an upward, rightward line, with a better score corresponding with a better economy. But what happens is pretty much the opposite:
Note the downward slope:
Whoa, downward slope:
A better economy means higher incomes, means more tax revenue, right?
Aaaaand upward slope:
Instead of boosting states' fortunes, the report finds that ALEC's preferred policies seem to provide "a recipe for economic inequality, wage suppression, and stagnant incomes, and for depriving state and local governments of the revenue needed to maintain the public infrastructure and education systems that are the true foundations of long term economic growth and shared prosperity."
Andy KrollNov. 29, 2012 11:50 AM
A screenshot of CNN's coverage of President Obama's first 2009 inauguration.
President Obama's second-term inauguration ceremony will take place on January 21, 2013, which is also the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's historic Citizens United decision. Citizens United freed corporations and unions to spend money from their treasuries directly on politics, and opened the door for the creation of super-PACs.
With that anniversary in mind, Public Citizen, the good-government group founded by Ralph Nader, is pressuring Obama to reject corporate donations to his inauguration ceremony. Public Citizen president Robert Weissman writes in a November 29 letter to Obama that the public would likely be left in the dark about which corporations gave money and states that there is a "very real risk of corruption" from letting corporations underwrite the ceremony. Weissman's letter comes after the Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administration is mulling whether to take corporate money for the inauguration. Obama banned corporate donations for his 2009 inauguration, and instead raised $50 million from hundreds of individual donors.
"The corporate donors to the inauguration will expect—and receive—something in return," Weissman writes. "The concern is less that they get a tax break in exchange for their million-dollar donation than that they get better access—their calls returned faster, their proposals reviewed in a more favorable light."
If the inauguration needs to rely on private donors and not just public funding this time around, Weissman says, that outside money should come in the form of small-dollar donations from individuals.
If inauguration planners do break with the precedent set by the corporate-free 2009 inauguration, it wouldn't be the first time Democrats backtracked on this kind of issue. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, told reporters a year before her party's 2012 national convention that planners would not accept corporate money to put on the convention. But strapped for cash, convention planners ended up taking millions from corporations anyway, breaking their pledge.
Read Weissman's letter to Obama urging a ban on corporate inauguration money:
Public Citizen letter to President Obama on corporate inauguration donations
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NCAA penalizes University of Montana over booster perks
MISSOULA, Mont. - An NCAA investigation has found the University of Montana and former coach Robin Pflugrad failed to monitor the football program, allowing boosters to provide benefits to players that included bail money and free legal representation for two athletes.
Other player perks provided by boosters included free meals, clothing, lodging and transportation.
The NCAA launched the investigation on January 30, 2012, when they notified UM President Royce Engstrom in a letter.
Athletic Director Kent Haslam said UM's been cooperating with the NCAA since the start. Even providing an outline for penalties, many of which the NCAA followed. But Haslam and other UM officials got the final report just one hour before it was made public Friday.
Part of that report discusses an incident from October 2011 when two football players, Trumaine Johnson and Gerald Kemp, were arrested after a post-game party got out of hand. The report says the mother of another Griz football player bailed Johnson and Kemp out of jail. It goes on to say another UM booster provided free legal services for the men.
The report found the relationship between football players and boosters goes back even further, citing that from 2004-2012 UM boosters provided meals for at least eight players on more than 100 occasions.
"There are often times good intentions...no malice, no anything," said Haslam. "Just good intentions can be a violation of NCAA rules."
The penalties announced Friday include a 3-year probation period, the loss of four scholarships for the next three seasons and vacating five wins, including two playoff victories.
The NCAA says ineligible student-athletes took part in those games. Those athletes received help with their legal problems that was not allowed under NCAA rules.
Haslam said he's happy the investigation wrapped up before the fall football season started.
"I don't want to sound like I'm celebratory at all but it is nice to have it concluded," he said. "That the chapter is closed, we can now move forward. The public, everyone can understand exactly what was going on. We know what the penalties are and we can deal with those."
Pflugrad is now an assistant at Weber State. He is suspended from coaching during the first game of the 2013 season and faces recruiting restrictions.
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Did environment or infection cause a blood disorder in newborns?
Roger P. Smith
Science can be a powerful tool for discovery and problem solving, but it can also be a messy, nonlinear process that does not provide all the answers. In such cases, people are forced to make the best decisions possible based on the available information, often erring on the side of caution—especially where public health is concerned. Whether or not those decisions are too conservative will often be the topic of long debate. One such example, involving drinking water standards and the health of newborns, has continued for more than half a century.
In 1987, the Journal of the American Medical Association reprinted, as part of its Landmark series, a case study originally published in 1945, accompanied by a commentary and a report of a new and fatal instance. The author of the original paper, Hunter Comly, was a pediatric resident in Iowa City when he described two examples of a previously unrecognized blood condition in infants. Called infantile methemoglobinemia, the affliction had as its main symptom cyanosis, or turning blue (thus the condition was also sometimes called blue baby syndrome). Cyanosis can also be a symptom of a congenital heart disease, so Comly felt that the two conditions might be confused.
In the congenital condition, called tetralogy of Fallot, a complicated structural defect allows blood returning from the body to the heart to be pumped out again without going to the lungs to be resupplied with oxygen. The hemoglobin in red blood cells turns red when iron in the molecule binds to oxygen; it turns bluish-purple when the oxygen is unloaded, which is why veins are bluish. With too much deoxygenated blood in the arteries, the skin turns from pink to blue (cyanosis comes from the Greek kyanos, meaning dark blue).
Alternatively, some chemicals can oxidize the iron in hemoglobin. The altered form, called methemoglobin, loses the ability to bind oxygen, and the pigment now changes to greenish brown or almost black. The human body contains enzymes to reverse methemoglobinemia, but only up to certain levels. After blood levels reach 15 percent, adults become visibly cyanotic. If more than half of the hemoglobin is converted, oxygen transport, particularly to the brain, is severely hampered, respiratory distress is likely, and death is possible.
In congenital heart disease the cyanosis is apt to improve if treated with oxygen, and if a sample of shed blood is shaken in air, it often becomes lighter and redder in color. Since methemoglobin does not bind oxygen, infants with that condition do not "pink up" on oxygen, and samples of shed blood exposed to air undergo little or no change in color.
The two conditions also look a little different. During the influenza epidemic of 1918, the word "heliotrope" was used to describe the color of the cyanosis of hypoxia, whereas the cyanosis of methemoglobinemia is often described as slate-gray. Simple laboratory tests are available to identify and quantify methemoglobin in blood, and infants with high levels of it respond rapidly to intravenous methylene blue—this blue dye turns the blue baby pink. When cyanosis develops post-partum, it is usually noticed first in the lips, spreading gradually to the nail beds of the fingers and toes, the face and then the whole body. Both congenital heart disease and methemoglobinemia tend to result in hypoxia and peripheral vasodilation, which may intensify the cyanosis.
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Shahid Afridi's Pakistan squad has shrugged off a pre-tournament corruption crisis and transformed into a leading World Cup contender after thrashing West Indies by 10 wickets on Wednesday to reach the semifinals.
Three key players were banned last month in a spot-fixing scandal that had hung over the squad for six months, yet it only seems to have galvanized Pakistan under skipper Afridi and coach Waqar Younis.
Afridi took 4-30 to help skittle West Indies for 112. Mohammad Hafeez chipped in with two wickets, then scored an unbeaten 61 in a 113-run opening stand with Kamran Akmal (47) as Pakistan coasted to victory with almost 30 overs to spare at Dhaka.
"This is a great gift to give back to the nation on Pakistan Day," Afridi said. "The boys have done a great job.
Next up is a semifinal at Mohali against either archrival India or defending champion Australia, who meet in an epic quarterfinal on Thursday.
Australia is coming off a four-wicket loss to Pakistan in Colombo last Saturday, which ended a 34-match unbeaten streak at the World Cup and put skipper Ricky Ponting's job in the spotlight.
Reports this week have suggested Ponting could be forced to quit or be fired if Australia loses to India, suggestions the 36-year-old batsman rejected outright on Wednesday.
India has its own pressures, not least the huge expectations in the cricket-crazy country of more than 1.1 billion, adding to the burden on the brilliant but sometimes brittle batting order.
Pakistan cricket was seemingly in chaos before the tournament after Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were banned by the International Cricket Council for their involvement in a spot-fixing scandal.
The ICC found the players guilty of taking bribes to ensure no-balls were bowled at set times during a test match against England last August - the allegations first exposed in a British tabloid newspaper sting.
Even before that, Pakistan was supposed to be one of four co-hosts for this World Cup, but was stripped of its rights when international cricket ceased in the country in the wake of a terror attack on the Sri Lankan team's convey en route to a match in Lahore.
Amid the endless politicking within Pakistan cricket, Afridi wasn't even confirmed as World Cup captain until after the deadline. Afridi and Waqar were also criticized by Pakistan great Imran Khan for picking too many batsmen, potentially reducing the bowling department to address problems atop the batting order.
None of it seems to have distracted them.
Hafeez opened the bowling and the batting for Pakistan in a man-of-the-match performance. Afridi's haul gave him a tournament-topping 21 wickets.
"The coach told me a couple of days back that I would bowl with the new ball ... I just kept them on a line and length today, and it worked," Hafeez said. "My batting form came back at the right time and I hope to carry it on."
The lack of a good start from the openers had been Pakistan's only major issue at the tournament. The bowling has been outstanding, with paceman Umar Gul working effectively in tandem with the spinners.
After wins over 2007 finalists Australia and Sri Lanka in the group stage, the pressure was on Pakistan for a change ahead of its match against the West Indies.
"It was a pressure game. When you're favorite, it creates pressure. That pressure has given us a boost," Waqar said. "Picking up (Chris) Gayle early made us believe we can do it straight away. The pressure got the best out of us."
The West Indies lurched to their third consecutive defeat after a promising start to the tournament.
After wasting potentially winning positions against England and India in their last two group matches, the West Indies were never in game against Pakistan. Coach Ottis Gibson warned of a "serious" overhaul among the senior ranks in the wake of three consecutive batting failures.
Chris Gayle returned to the starting lineup and scored two nice boundaries but played an irresponsible shot and was out for eight. Shivnarine Chanderpaul, recalled to add some stability in the middle order, was the only West Indies batsman to show real fight, finishing unbeaten on 44 after helping the Caribbean team avoid its lowest total ever at the World Cup.
Ramnaresh Sarwan (24) and Kemar Roach (16) were the only other batsmen to reach double figures.
"Definitely not enough runs on the board ... We didn't counter the bowling well, and fell well short," skipper Darren Sammy said. "We lost wickets in clusters in spin through the tournament, and today was no different."
The next quarterfinal in Dhaka is South Africa against New Zealand on Friday. The winner will advance to a semifinal against either Sri Lanka or England, who meet Saturday at Colombo.
Sri Lanka coach Trevor Bayliss on Wednesday said he was confident Muttiah Muralitharan, the world's leading bowler in both test and ODI cricket and the only survivor of Sri Lanka's World Cup-winning squad in 1996, would recover from a hamstring strain to take part against England.


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Brandon Banks, without question.
Brandon Banks, without question.
I wish I was on HGH.
For the record, I heard more about PEDs when the same guys and their friends were in college.
So, any whistle blower (and he isn't a even a whistle blower, he's probably getting some benefit from it) is a malignant rat?
You sure do have an interesting moral compass there.
Eli Manning- He has not been injured at all in his career.... something is fishy here.
The punishment this kid takes during certain games is unreal but he gets back up... HGH i think so.
*Fingers crossed that he never gets injured*


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A Project Manager Described his Recent Agile Project in this Way:
Agile practices helped us know where we were the whole way through the project, but we had a side benefit I hadn't anticipated. The testers drove the project. In every other project I've managed, the testers were downtrodden, always complaining about the time they had left to test. But here, the testers defined the acceptance tests and helped the customer define her requirements. A couple of times the testers even explained risks to the customer. In one case, the testers told the customer that postponing a specific user story was tantamount to not putting the user story in this release.
I wasn't surprised. When I've seen testers fully participate on any project, they shine. Agile projects push testers into leadership roles. Projects that don't require tests before the code exists can easily push the testers into a background role. If you've ever been on a project where the developers didn't quite meet their deadlines but the schedule didn't slip to meet the testers' needs, you were on a project where the testers were pushed into the background. On those projects, it doesn't really matter what the testers provide for information; there isn't enough time in the schedule for anyone to hear or act on the information anyway.
Contrast those projects with agile projects. On an ideal agile project, the project team discusses the user stories to roughly estimate the time it will take to implement each one. The customer ranks the user stories (1,2,3,4, and so on) to determine which user stories the project team will approach in this iteration. (If you don't have access to real users, use a surrogate, such as a product manager.) Then, before a single line of code is written, the testers write acceptance tests with the customer.
The developers can discuss how they might implement the user story, they may even prototype to discover any of the system-level "gotchas" before implementation, but they can't write any production code until the acceptance tests are complete. Testers write system level acceptance tests to drive the product development. The developers implement only enough code to pass the tests.
Some people get stuck here. "What do you mean we write tests before the product exists? How the heck do we do that?" One technique is to think of concrete examples of how the system will work. Say you're testing an elevator for a four-story building. The user story says the elevator comes when the user presses the button. Rather than "elevator response time shall be such-and-so," you think of one or several worst cases for response time (everyone presses a button with the elevator in a particular position).
Then define the response time for that worst case scenario. This scenario leads to questions about other scenarios, and therefore more tests. Those tests are easy to write before the implementation, and they tend to get written in essential terminology, which clarifies the business domain in people's minds. The tests help the developers start on their design, so that they create a product that meets your specifications.
One major side effect of this write-the-test-first doctrine is that the tests are as easy to automate and maintain as the code. The project staff and the customer start discussing the domain model in the code. The testers (with the customer) write the tests in domain terms, the developers write the code, draw mockups as GUI specifications, write the GUI code to the mockups, then test the GUIs manually. (Some people do develop GUIs test-first, though, instead of mockup-GUI-manual.) Because the domain


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Discussion in 'Chevy Truck Accessories' started by silverado469, Dec 11, 2010.
Just need some opinions on which wheels to get
XD Addict -12mm offset
XD Diesel 0mm offset
Can ya do 2 on one side and the other 2 on the other side??? J/k Hard one...Both are sweet..
Put me down for 87 votes for the Addicts!!! They would look sweet on your truck!
x2 Love the addicts. Not a fan of the chrome lip. I guess you gave up on the Flyers center cap idea?
Haha thanks man
Haha yeah didn't make it far on that one lol
The addicts look better in my opinion.
I actually really like the XD Diesel! I agree about the chrome lip, though. I would probably paint/powder coat that lip before I installed them. Other than that, my vote goes to the Diesel.
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Ok... actually, I don't know. Haha. They're both pretty sweet.
x3 I've always dreamed of owning a set of addicts!!! Just a sweet design and from the side those chrome bolts or lugs or whatever they are really stand out!
X4 put me down for the addicts as well. They look really good just from the picture with the Trail Grapplers.
Go with the ADDICTS, sweet wheel.
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I have heard and read that when moving hives a short distance that you should move them a mile or more away and then to the desired location or to move them a foot or two a day.
Why is this?
Can I do this in winter carefully (so as not to disturb the winter clutch). I want to move my hives to a new location about a 100 feet away.


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One of Our Own in Hakin9 Magazine
HackerDefender Rootkit for the Masses
Chris Gates
A how-to on using the HackerDefender rootkit and hide files, processes and registry keys. You will also learn about using a backdoor client.
This is not freely available on their site, but eventually will be on EH-Net. Be patient. Until then, check it out at Barnes & Noble or Borders Bookstores.
Great work as always Chris,


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Family-owned-and-operated for the past 59 years, Deer Valley Ranch is a faithful hat-tip to the Colorado Mountains' blessings of beauty and a quieter way of life. Each cabin is outfitted with cozy mountain décor and has its own kitchen, fireplace, and deck with a view of 14,275-foot Mt. Antero outside. The outdoor hot tub or the spring-fed hot springs pool down the road are ideal for soaking year round, and proximity to Chalk Creek Basin and Monarch Mountain ski resort make this spot an ideal home base for winter and spring sporting.
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American Celebration in Brainerd includes parade, music, fireworks
The American Celebration in Brainerd kicks off Thursday, June 27, with the Little Miss and Mister 4th of July Pageant and caps off Sunday, July 7, with Arts in the Park.
The American Celebration Parade and fireworks will be Thursday, July 4.
Following is a schedule of activities.
Thursday, June 27
1-3 p.m.: 14th annual Little Miss and Mister 4th of July Pageant for boys and girls ages 4-8, Westgate Mall, Brainerd/Baxter.
Saturday, June 29
Race for the Cure, Forestview Middle School, Baxter.
Tuesday, July 2
5 p.m.: Right Friends Picnic, Camp Confidence, East Gull Lake.
Wednesday, July 3
4-11 p.m.: Battle of the Bands, Don Adamson Football Field, Brainerd High School.
7 p.m.: Gospel Night, Heritage Assembly of God Church.
Thursday, July 4
Noon: Brainerd Bees vs. Fort Ripley Raptors baseball game.
4 p.m.: The American Celebration Parade, Brainerd.
6:30 p.m.: Entertainment by Ladies of the '80s, Don Adamson Field, Brainerd High School.
10:15 p.m.: Fireworks, Don Adamson Field, Brainerd High School.
Friday, July 5
7-10 p.m.: Show & Shine Car Show, Bodyworks, Baxter.
Sunday, July 7
10-4:30 p.m.: Arts in the Park featuring 140 artisans, entertainment and food, Gregory Park, Brainerd.
July 4-7
27th annual NAPA Auto Parts Show 'N' Go, Brainerd International Raceway.


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Well it almost came down to a photo finish but I managed to get my wife's Jawa costume ready for her to wear to school and surprise her class full of second graders.
Jawa Costume pictures by MentalMando - Photobucket
She currently has a broken foot and has to wear a Velcro cast/boot so I didn't bother making her boots she couldn't wear . . . maybe next year.
- Mask: home made from a Jason hockey mask, two gumball machine eggs, and a simple LED circuit (thank you TK409.com for the idea)
- Gloves: Jersey gloves with black fur sewn on the back of the hands
- Robe and Hood: Hand sewn from a white Ralph Lauren estate blanket dyed with RIT dark brown
- Bandoleers: 1905 British bandoleer and two WWII German ammo pouches mounted on a hand made 2" Leather belt.
Now if I can just get my wife to stop saying Ewok instead of Jawa . . . though I think she was doing that to annoy me.


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Grace United in Pequot to celebrate Advent season
Grace United Methodist Church of Pequot Lakes welcomes residents to its Advent season worship services at 9 a.m. Sundays.
Pastor Dianne Ciesluk will be basing her Advent and Christmas Eve sermons on the book, "Finding Bethlehem in the Midst of Bedlam," by James Moore.
Bedlam in all its shapes and forms is unavoidable, whether it is the bedlam of daily busyness or the bedlam of traumatic events. We can find Bethlehem in the midst of bedlam when we discover the freedom, hope, peace, love, life and salvation given to us through Jesus Christ.
On Sunday, Dec. 15, the sermon title is "Love Came Down at Christmas." The Grace Bell Choir will present prelude music at 8:40 a.m. in the sanctuary.
On Dec. 22, the sermon title will be "The Precious Memories of Christmas." Sunday school children will sing during the service.
A time of coffee and goodies follows each service. Nursery is provided.
Grace UMC will celebrate Christmas Eve at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 24, as luminarias light the way to a candlelight worship service to welcome the baby in the manger, Jesus. There will be scripture readings and music. Ciesluk will preach on "Mind the Light."
Grace UMC is 1.7 miles south of the lights in Pequot Lakes on Highway 371. For more information, go to http://www.graceumcpequotlakes.org/ or call 218-568-5755.


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17 ejected from Gator football game
Published: Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 6:16 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 6:16 p.m.
Police ejected 17 people from Saturday's University of Florida-Louisiana-Lafayette football game for a variety of offenses, a University of Florida Police Department press release states.
Of the 17, four were UF students. One arrest was made -- a non-student on a charge of disorderly intoxication. Six of those ejected were given civil citations for possession of alcohol.
The cause of the ejections were: possession of alcohol, six; false student identification, five; disorderly conduct, four; possession of paraphernalia, one; and smoking, one.
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didnt you just fix that damn thing?!?
Idk how ppl's computers get so ****ed up. I havent used any anti-virus in about 8 years, and my computers run excellently till just wear and tear starts to break them down.


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Zelaya returned to power
posted at 8:48 am on October 30, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Now we know why John Kerry demanded that the Law Library of Congress withdraw its report declaring the removal of Manuel Zelaya from the Honduran presidency legal, weeks after the issuance of the report. Honduras, under new pressure from the US, has agreed to allow Zelaya to return as president to the Central American nation under an agreement announced this morning. However, there is one piece of good news, assuming Zelaya keeps his word:
The interim government of Honduras has yielded to international pressure and agreed to allow the return to power of Manuel Zelaya, the ousted President who was toppled in a military coup four months ago.
The breakthrough came after renewed pressure from senior US officials who travelled to Honduras this week for a last-ditch effort to end the crisis.
"It is a triumph for Honduran democracy," said Mr Zelaya after the rival sides agreed to a deal under which he may be reinstated as President within days.
Well, no, it's actually not a triumph for Honduran democracy. The parliament in Tegulcigapa had voted unanimously for his removal after Zelaya attempted to violate the nation's constitution and fake a referendum vote, for which ample evidence existed. It's actually a triumph for American interventionalism, which this administration pretended to eschew. So much for a humble foreign policy.
The problem should be short-lived, however (emphasis mine):
Mr Micheletti said that Mr Zelaya could return to office after a vote in Congress that would be authorised by the country's Supreme Court. He said that the deal would require both sides to recognise the result of a presidential election due to take place on November 29 and would transfer control of the army to the top electoral court.
The United States, the European Union and Latin American leaders had all demanded that Mr Zelaya be allowed to finish his presidential term, which ends in January. They had said that they might not recognise the winner of the November election unless democracy was first restored.
Zelaya had attempted to use the army to promulgate his illegal referendum on allowing presidents to seek more than one term, with ballots stashed for the purpose. Now he won't have any authority over the army at all, which will temporarily take its orders from the court. Meanwhile, the elections that even Zelaya's own party wanted will go forward, without Zelaya able to seek a second term (and without Micheletti as well). In other words, he may be president, but he's already a lame duck — with a very, very hostile parliament to boot.
Rumor has it that Zelaya initially refused to sign the agreement, and that he had to be prodded to do so. It's not hard to see why. He gets to return home, but essentially gets to sit in an office for a few weeks and do nothing. Assuming he doesn't lead some sort of coup d'etat himself on his return to Honduras, which would make the Obama administration look even more inept in this circumstance, Zelaya is out of power for good.
Update: Be sure to read Fausta's roundup from the region.
Update II: Law Library of Congress to John Kerry: Pound sand.
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Everybody leaves off the fact that the Honduran legislature AND the Honduran Supreme Court still has to sign off on the deal.
It's not a done deal yet folks So I wish people would stop saying that Zelaya's coming back. It's very likely but hey, they decided to kick him out once because THAT'S THE LAW. So why is anyone so sure they won't do so again. I hope they say no to this twisted arm twisting by our duly elected Communist and his lackeys/lickspittles (john kerry and hillary clinton, I'm talking about YOU).
They wisely will leave the Army in control of certain aspects of Government (that'll hopefully keep El Puerco Chavez at home) and the Court will also supervise him. Personally, I don't see the point to this except to appease some of their citizenry who were hoping for a "BIG MAN" cult of personality to take effect.
The U.S. and the Congress have shown their true colors and their fecklessness in this thing.
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A food enjoyed in the ghettos of the Dirty South while growing up. It is made by spreading mayonnaise on one slice of white bread and then covering that slice with another. Often accompanied by some sugar water to wash it down.
Sugar water and mayonnaise sandwich!!
by Dirty January 03, 2004
The sexual act in which the male bangs the female in the doggie-style position and upon ejactulation, releases his semen between her butt cheeks and mashes them together, thus creating a medley resembling that of a mayonnaise sandwich.
by JJJ December 19, 2004
When one jizz' on a pillow and flips it to squish the jizz covered pillow on a bed like a mayonnaise sandwich.
Chris pissed me off so I fucked my girlfriend in his bed and laid a nice mayonnaise sandwich right on it.
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The continuing "democratization" of air transport – driven by emerging economies, a global increase in wealth, greater urbanization, the need for more eco-efficient aircraft and a nearly doubling of major airport hubs for mega-cities – will lead to the demand for more than 26,900 new passenger airliners and over 900 new factory-built cargo aircraft during the next 20 years, according to Airbus' latest Global Market Forecast.
Unveiled at a press conference today in London, the 2011-2030 Global Market Forecast foresees an overall doubling of the global passenger airliner fleet sized at 100 seats and more, increasing from 15,000 aircraft today to 31,500 by 2030. The average seat capacity of aircraft also will continue to increase as air traffic retains its positive growth curve.
"Key factors identified in our new 20-year forecast include a strong driving of traffic growth by the emerging economies, the nearly doubling of traffic in and between more mature markets, and the positioning of Asia-Pacific as the leader in world traffic," John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer Customers, told reporters at the press conference. "Other factors are a faster growth in long-haul traffic than short-haul, while the 39 cities worldwide that handle more than 10,000 long-haul passengers daily today will become nearly 90 cities in 20 years."
The largest category for new aircraft in terms of requirement numbers is the single-aisle segment, in which Airbus is a leading supplier with its A320 and A320neo jetliner Families. The need for nearly 19,200 single-aisle aircraft with capacities of 100-210 seats is anticipated by the Airbus Global Market Forecast during the 20-year timeframe, representing a combined value of some $1.4 trillion. Of this total, approximately 50 per cent of the deliveries are anticipated in the well-established North American and European airline markets.
For the twin-aisle category, which typically seats from 250 to 400 passengers, the Airbus Global Market Forecast sees a broad segmentation with broad demand. A doubling of the worldwide twin-aisle fleet will result in deliveries of some 6,900 new passenger and freighter aircraft during the 20 year period – valued at an estimated $1.5 trillion. For passenger aircraft, an estimated 70 per cent of the demand will be focussed on the 250-seat and 300-seat segments. Airbus' product lines in the twin-aisle category are the A330 passenger and freighter aircraft, along with the next-generation A350 XWB Family.
In the Very Large Aircraft (VLA) category with seating capacities of more than 400 passengers, the Airbus Global Market Forecast calls for the requirement of 1,781 jetliners valued at some $600 billion – an increase in demand from the 1,738 aircraft estimated by the 2010 forecast. Of the total, 45 per cent of VLA deliveries are expected for Asian airlines, followed by 23 percent for carriers in the Middle East and 19 per cent for European airlines. The VLA category is addressed by Airbus' 21st century A380 flagship, which was developed for the growing requirement of high capacity aircraft to handle concentrated traffic volumes that link the world's mega-cities and large airport hubs.
The Airbus Global Market Forecast is a regularly-updated 20-year outlook on aircraft demand and passenger flows, taking into account econometric forecasts that are complemented by market research and judgment. It involves detailed studies of network evolution – including new routes, markets and deregulation "hot spots" – and anticipates the fleet evolution covering hundreds of passenger airlines and cargo carriers.
- For a detailed review of the 2011-2030 outlook, visit the Airbus website's interactive Global Market Forecast section, which includes the full report focussed on passenger transport development, along with a pocket guide version; as well as the press conference presentation slides of John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer Customers, and Chris Emerson, Airbus Senior Vice President, Head of Product Strategy and Market Forecast; and a video interview with Leahy. A separate Global Market Forecast for freighter aircraft will be issued at a later date, reflecting its importance to Airbus and the industry.


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States examining their own gun-law options
posted at 7:41 pm on December 21, 2012 by Erika Johnsen
The states are already beginning to play out the battle between the "fewer guns means less crime" and "more guns means less crime" mentalities, and while Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed a bill that would have allowed for concealed carry in schools earlier this week, states like Virginia and Texas are starting to think the matter over — and a few other states are following suit.
A South Carolina House member introduced legislation there earlier this week. The Florida legislator who wrote the state's "Stand Your Ground" law and an Arizona gun rights group have also proposed arming trained teachers
"In our zealousness to protect people from harm we've created all these gun-free zones and what we've inadvertently done is we've made them a target," Florida GOP Rep. Dennis Baxley told the AP. "A helpless target is exactly what a deranged person is looking for where they cannot be stopped." …
Advocates of arming school staffers argue opponents are sensationalizing the issue, and insist no Rubicon is crossed when a gun is brought into a school. In Michigan, it is legal to carry a pistol in schools — as long as the weapon isn't concealed. Patterson pointed out several school districts in Texas have armed police forces. And Utah, Oregon and New Hampshire already allow concealed carry in schools, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. …
And here's another smattering of examples of the conversations currently getting started across the country, via the NYDY:
MINNESOTA: Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, says he'll listen to "anything and everything." But, "There's a limit to what society can do to protect people from their own folly." …
OKLAHOMA: Two Republican lawmakers have called for teachers or school personnel who receive special training to be armed. Legislative leaders have sidestepped questions on the proposals. …
TENNESSEE: A Republican lawmaker has called for adults on campus to be armed. …
UTAH: Republican attorney general reaffirmed support for existing law that allows concealed weapons on public property, including schools.
Various other states are wondering whether to institute more gun control, including their own state-specific "assault" weapons bans, with New York Gov. Cuomo especially leading the gung-ho charge on that one:
Mr. Cuomo, speaking on WGDJ-AM, said gun control had not recently been among the most discussed topics in the capital, so he had reached out to lawmakers to gauge where they stood before he made his proposals final.
He added that he was focusing his attention on changing state laws restricting the possession of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. The governor described the state's existing ban on those items as having "more holes than Swiss cheese." …
In the interview, Mr. Cuomo did not offer specifics about the measures he might propose, but, while discussing assault weapons, he said: "Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option. Permitting could be an option — keep your gun but permit it."
While all of these governors and legislatures consider the options that are best for their state in the coming days, I would merely point out that Connecticut having some of the strictest gun laws in the country didn't do anything to stop last week's murderous rampage.
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The taxis do not transport people normally if they aren't full. Going up he did start early if we were willing to pay more per person. We had to wait at the top to fill the taxi
The three hour trip form Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai was lovely. There were mountains and rice fields. The bus did not afford good opportunities for picture taking. We were met in Chiang Rai by Mae, Max's sister. She is a kindergarten teacher. She brought us a car to use and then she left. We went to the airport and got our tickets to go back to Bangkok, found a guest house (several were full), and went to dinner. The restaurant owner is a school friend of Max's. We finished the evening at the Chiang Rai Night Bazaar. There was some entertainment. We watched 4 costumed Thai girls dance.


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I'm also working on Next Door Neighbor, a block that uses lots of triangles. The going is slow, but it does use lots up!
I'll get the link for you: http://quilterscache.com/N/NextDoorNeighbor2Block.html
This pattern uses 16 triangles. There's another one there too so you might check that one out. Hope this helps you decide. Thank you, fronzstore!
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text: I'm relatively new to beekeeping, running 20 hives and planning to double again this year. Here's what i noticed about pricing my honey this season. Starting the year i can maintain a reasonable price per lb of $6.00. As the size of the container gets bigger i only give a small discount on the money I'm saving from not having to use the equivalent amount of small jars. So after getting into some festivals this year to move some product i seen a few things. 1. It gets very competitive when multiple people are selling honey close to each other. I maintained my price and had little problem selling any of my honey. 2. As the container gets bigger lets say a gallon of honey, why do people give it such a heavy discount as bulk? When your selling a gallon of honey at 30$, that hardly has to cover any of your expenses for the year. 3. Its fun to watch people start at 8.00/lb and drop down to 3.00/lb just to try to sell some honey. But i guess it isnt all about the money and some people just want to unload as much of their honey as they can and be done with it in 1 or 2 festivals. I guess i see value in honey and figure that everyone in the area would kind of stay around a average price and not try to under cute each other. Who knows.


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The Midwestern mecca of Milwaukee is in the midst of a dramatic transformation, thanks to successful sustainable development strategies, and public/private partnerships that generated more than $2 billion of new tax base. In Sustainable Development—A Winning Strategy for Growth (Monday, Sept. 11, 3 to 4:30 p.m.), city development commissioner Rocky Marcoux will outline the pivotal roles that planning, infrastructure, public works, and creative financing have played in executing sustainable growth in this major metropolitan area. His presentation will include case studies involving brownfields, adaptive reuse of historic warehouse districts, creation of a riverwalk, revitalization of public housing, and creation of new industrial zones.
Getting ROWs right
Public works personnel should include right of way (ROW) personnel at the onset of a project—doing so could help prevent costly construction delays down the road. Mack Dickerson will share successful strategies for acquiring ROW in horizontal design/build and construction-manager-at-risk projects in You Want the Right of Way When? (Tuesday, Sept. 12, 1 to 2:15 p.m.). The presentation is geared toward civil engineers, ROW managers, utility coordinators, appraisers, and construction managers. Vice president of Tierra Right of Way Services Ltd., Dickerson served as ROW project manager on the award-winning Skyline design/build project, the first in Arizona to include design/build in its scope.
More education
Sunday, Sept. 10, 4 to 5 p.m.
We Can Rebuild: Levee Disasters and the Aftermath
In 1972, Tropical Storm Agnes overwhelmed 14 levee miles and pumping stations in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley; Larry Mathena Jr., a civil engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, shares how lessons learned can be applied to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and preparations for future storms.
Monday, Sept. 11, 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Integrating CSS Into Your Transportation Program
Context-sensitive solutions (CSS) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach involving all stakeholders to develop transportation systems that preserve scenic, aesthetic, historic, and environmental resources, while maintaining safety and mobility.
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 1 to 2:15 p.m.
Sustainable Stormwater Design—A Case Study
Western Michigan University, the city of Kalamazoo, and a local economic development organization partnered on a private business park to create a sustainable stormwater system that improves water quality, reduces runoff, protects downstream property, and recharges groundwater.


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New manager at Cascade Youth-Family Center
BEND, Ore. - Richard Streeter, M.Ed. will join Cascade Youth and Family Center as the Program Manager in August.
Cascade Youth & Family Center has provided safety to the runaway, homeless and at-risk youth population in Deschutes County since 1989. Services include emergency and transitional shelter, food and hygiene distribution, family mediation, and crisis intervention for approximately 230 youth per year. Cascade Youth & Family Center is the only outreach program for homeless youth in Central Oregon.
Richard Streeter brings over twenty years of experience serving underprivileged youth and their families. With a Master of Education degree and working on a Master of Science in Counseling, Richard brings a strong academic perspective to the practical experience of running programs for at-risk youth.
Richard served as the Executive Director of the Eastern Oregon Academy in Burns for the past 4 ½ years; he worked with a residential, treatment program for youth in Billings, Montana for 16 years before that.
"I am pleased to have someone of Richard's caliber in the position of managing Cascade Youth & Family Center. His direct experience and knowledge of best practices will increase our capacity to serve youth facing adversity," stated Stephanie Alvstad, Executive Director of J Bar J Youth Services.
About J Bar J Youth Services
Located in beautiful Central Oregon since 1968, J Bar J Youth Services is a nonprofit organization providing innovative options for at risk youth and their families in their efforts towards personal responsibility and self-sufficiency. Based on nationally recognized best practices and as pioneers in cognitive behavioral treatment, J Bar J programs target risk factors for anti-social behavior stressing individual achievement and academic success.