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Mon. May 20, 2013 | John C. Cotey | Email
FORT MYERS — Despite passing the 100-pitch threshold, David Paul still felt good.
He had bulldogged his way through seven innings of Monday's Class 3A state baseball semifinal. Struggled with his control at times. Worked into trouble, then right out of it.
Through seven innings, he had stranded seven and picked off another.
What was one more inning, two more baserunners, one more jam for a kid who probably had the best baseball season in Pinellas County this year?
"If I'm in a game I gotta win," said Clearwater Central Catholic coach Todd Vaughan, "that's the guy I want throwing for me."
But fastballs aren't always fast enough, and in Paul's case, curve balls don't always curve enough.
The right-handed junior didn't know it at the time, but the last bender of his hugely successful season was cleared for takeoff at JetBlue Park.
"He made a good swing," Paul said, "like he knew it was coming."
Casey Cribb's towering eighth-inning home run cleared the Green Monster Jr. in left, and the Marauders were denied a spot in the state final after a disheartening 3-1 loss to Jacksonville Providence.
The loss was 10 years to the day that CCC went extra innings at state, losing 1-0 in the 2003 championship.
CCC lost Monday's semifinal because Cribb made the best swing of the game, and the Marauders didn't. Mighty Casey's at-bat will be remembered, and the missed opportunities on offense will be hard to forget.
CCC filled the bases in the first inning and the third, and couldn't score, and had a runner thrown out at the plate — when it looked like he would surely score — on a brilliant scoop and throw by the second baseman.
By the time the Marauders scored the one run they needed to win in regulation , it was already the eighth inning and no longer enough.
For the game, CCC stranded 10.
"We had our chances," Vaughan said. "We needed a hit here and there. "
Paul kept CCC in the game, as he has all season. He boasted an 11-0 record entering the semifinal and allowed only 33 hits in 74 innings .
He hit two batters in the first inning Monday and survived loading the bases. He let the first two batters in the fourth reach, then picked one off. He stranded a runner at second in the fifth, and had two runners on in the sixth with one out.
No problem.
"You go back to some of the guys we've had and he's right in the line," Vaughan said. "Just grind and gritty and mean and dirty and everything."
Paul started the eighth with a groundout, but walked the next batter.
Then, he made the one throw that was probably worse than the curve ball — a pickoff attempt that sailed wide and let David Boyle make it to third base with one out.
Vaughan had pitchers ready, but he trusted Paul, who hit the next batter.
The Marauders' defense, which had been so good all day as shortstop Benito Mendizabal and second baseman Derek Gibree made a series of great plays, was eager for a double-play grounder.
Cribb, who had reached all three times up — two hits and a walk — strode to the plate. Hoping to minimize any potential damage that could result from loading the bases, Vaughan told his ace to go get 'em.
Paul's curve ball was a bait pitch Monday. He struggled to find the strike zone with it, so he used it to get batters to swing at bad pitches. After throwing a strike, Paul tried another one.
"I didn't think he'd hit a curve ball out of the park, honestly," Paul said.
Paul didn't join Vaughan in the postgame news conference. Afterward, just outside the park as his team prepared to head home, he didn't have many words to describe what happened.
Vaughan stood right there with his player, ready to squeeze the kid's shoulder if he needed it.
"It was a great accomplishment getting here," said Paul , shaking his head and averting his pink eyes, "but we know we should be playing (Tuesday)."
John C. Cotey can be reached at email@example.com or on Twitter @JohnnyHomeTeam.


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We made it here safe and sound, though I'm still rather jet-lagged. It's almost surreal for me to be in Germany. When we moved back to the US, after 4 and a half years of living here, I was still a child. A 12 year old child. All of the familiar but forgotten sights and smells are bringing me right back to my childhood. It's comforting in a way. It's almost like I didn't realize I missed it so much.
Our plane ride from DC to London was quite uneventful, but the plane from London to Frankfurt was oh-so-bumpy. I don't think I released my death grip on the arm rest for the duration of the flight. We then had a quick 30 minute train ride to Koblenz and an even quicker 10 minute taxi ride to our airport. Oh, how I love the Autobahn. We clocked our driver going 190 km...that's almost 120 miles per hour if you're counting. My lead foot would certainly fit in very nicely here.
Jonathan had his welcome dinner last night, which I was invited to, so I got to see the MBA school and meet his classmates. There are 4 other spouses/significant others here. Not to be anti-social, but I'm very much looking forward to exploring on my own and not tagging along with the other plus ones. Which is just what I did today. I ate breakfast with him this morning before he left for a day of company tours in Koln, then I went back to our room to catch some more winks as I did not sleep at all last night. Remember how I brought The Memory Keeper's Daughter with me? I'll probably finish that tonight as I've been reading it non-stop since I've had trouble sleeping! I should have brought another book, but I usually never get the chance to read on vacation.
After finally getting some sleep, I woke up and walked around town for a bit. Unfortunately, the town we are staying in is very small so there are only a few shops and restaurants. There's not even a post office or bank here so I was unable to buy any stamps and get more Euros out, which means I'll probably be eating in the hotel restaurant for dinner tonight. Yesterday was a national holiday, and most Germans take off today too so I'm not sure if any of the restaurants will be open. Jon won't be back until 9:00 PM tonight, so I've got quite a bit more time on my own. I took a few pictures today, but I haven't uploaded them to the computer yet. Anyway, just wanted to say hello and let you all know that we made it here safely! Have a great weekend all!


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Five Convicted in Fort Dix Plot
New York, NY —
A jury has convicted five men of conspiring to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, in New Jersey.
That's after five days of deliberations. The men were Muslim immigrants originally from the former Yugoslavia, Turkey and elsewhere.
Sohail Mohammad is an immigration attorney in New Jersey, he says he and other local Muslims closely followed the trial.
MOHAMMAD: They tried their case. They tried to put their proofs in and the jurors have spoken. And they have given a decision and I think we as Americans ought to respect the decision.
REPORTER: The prosecution's case hinged on evidence obtained by government informants.
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– WWE Raw star Alberto Del Rio turns 34 years old today.
– Chris Jericho, who appeared on last night's Dancing with the Stars finale, wrote the following on Twitter: "DWTS was one of the best times of my career. Every dance was a joy! @CherylBurke I love u in so many ways!! Thank u my dancing Yoda"
– Judy Carter, who teaches stand-up comics and corporate speakers, wrote a blog on comedyworkshops.com about how injured WWE Superstar John Morrison came into her office on Monday morning. Morrison has hired Carter because he wants to be funnier in the ring, funnier in his interviews and is looking to "jumpstart a speaking career."


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'Bund', a very famous area of Shanghai with interesting buildings and a huge walkway overlooking the river and views of the many tall buildings beyond. (High Scrapers – Guide Sharon.)
Next stop to the 'Old town' of Shanghai, the Yuan bazaar.
Back on the bus to cross the great Nanpu Bridge for a tour of the Pudong district, the region put aside in 1990 for redevelopment to entice foreign investment and drive the city into the 21st century. Here we went up the Jin Mao tower, the 2nd tallest building in the world. To the 88th floor in about the same time as it took us to reach the same distance in the Burj Khalifa in Dubai last year, the tallest building in the world. We looked over another sky scraper under construction which we were told will be higher than the Burj, but I see in today's paper the tallest will be the 1,000 metre Kingdom tower in Jeddah when completed in 2018.
It seems cities love competing for the best, highest and fastest so the next ride was in the Shanghai Magkev train that travels the 45km distance from the central city to the airport in 7 minutes at a speed of 430 kms per hour.
Transport on Shanghai roads is quite something with huge spaghetti junctions up to five stories in some places and although not many bridges there are several tunnels under the river.
It was then back to the hotel for a quick change and to the final dinner. This was at a restaurant in the Yuan area that we had visited previously in the day and is lit splendidly at night. The meal was quite bland but we found out that is typical in the provinces near Shanghai, the more spicy meals we had enjoyed on the tour being typical of areas further north and west. Goodbyes were said in the foyer tonight although we did see some at breakfast the next day as our tour party left for different places around the globe.


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Election has Clear Mandates for Obama … and Republicans
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows since November 6th's Election have featured some astoundingly stupid comments from Republican strategists who claim to believe voters gave them an Election Day "mandate" to continue their attempts to obstruct President Obama's agenda.
Apparently some Republicans are still living in the same parallel universe that allowed them to convince themselves that by now, President-elect Mitt Romney would be organizing his transition.
It really is mind-boggling. Notwithstanding all of the available evidence, they still believe that the American people want them to stand in the way of increases in taxes for the wealthiest 2 percent and to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits for future retirees.
Who got a mandate for his policies on Election Day?
- Democrats took two additional seats in the Senate and now hold a 55-45 edge. The Senate Democratic caucus now includes more Progressive members and fewer Conservative members.
- Democrats picked up at least 7 and probably 8 seats in the House, and nationwide got over a half a million more votes for their House candidates than did the Republicans — even though the Republicans continued to control the chamber.
- And the verdict that was rendered at the ballot box could be seen in virtually every national opinion survey.
The election was a battle over the future of the middle class, and Obama won that battle. The Republican presidential ticket lost by 332 electoral votes to 206 electoral votes. Obama got 50.6 percent of the popular vote and Romney got 47.6 percent of the popular vote.
The presidential campaign focused like a laser on the question of whether tax rates should be increased for the top 2% of Americans, or whether we should adopt Romney's proposal to lower tax rates for the wealthy by another $5 trillion and inevitably increase taxes on the middle class.
The campaign centered on the Ryan-Romney budget that would have slashed spending on critical services for the poor and middle class, reduce funding for education, do away with Medicare and replace it with a voucher program that would increase out-of-pocket costs for seniors by $6,500 per year.
And it was clear throughout, that the Republicans continued to favor privatizing Social Security.
A Greenberg-Quinlan Research poll found that by 51 to 42% the voters said Obama would do a better job restoring the middle class.
They found that by almost two-thirds, voters believed Social Security and Medicare should not be cut as part of a deficit reduction deal.
A November 15, 2012 Hart Research poll for Americans for Tax Fairness found that:
By a strong 17-point margin, voters favor ending the Bush tax cuts on incomes over250,000 (56%) rather than extending the tax cuts for all taxpayers (39%).
President Obama now holds a commanding position in the debate over tax policy. When voters hear President Obama's position on the Bush tax cuts — that he will sign a bill continuing them for 98% of Americans but will veto a bill continuing them for incomes over 250,000 — fully 61% agree with this stance. By contrast, when voters are read congressional Republicans' position — that they will pass a bill continuing the cuts for all income levels, but will block any bill ending the cuts for those making over 250,000 — only 42% agree while a 53% majority rejects its plan.
NBCNews.com's First Read, November 15, 2012 — more autopsy 2012 with additional analysis of exit polls in battleground states — shows that support for raising taxes for 250K+ earners or everyone:
- Nevada 64%
- Wisconsin 64%
- Virginia 63%
- Iowa 63%
- New Hampshire 61%
- Ohio 57%
- Florida 57%
- National average 60%.
Greenberg-Quinlan found in a November poll that Americans reject austerity in favor of investment that creates jobs. They were asked to choose between two statements:
We should avoid immediate drastic cuts in spending, and instead, we need serious investments that create jobs and make us more prosperous in the long-term that will reduce our debt, too.
The only way to restore prosperity and market confidence is to dramatically reduce government spending and our long-term deficits.
The statement favoring investments was chosen by 51% compared to 42% for the statement favoring cuts.
In fact, there is little question that voters understand better than many commentators and pundits that the budget battle in Washington is not mainly about ratios of revenue to cuts, or "reining in entitlements" — it is about who pays.
Will the wealthy, who have siphoned off all of the economic growth of the last 15 years, be asked to pay to fix the deficit that resulted from the Bush Tax cuts, and two unpaid-for wars? Or will the middle class — whose income has been stagnant or declining — be asked once again to foot the bill?
Voters get it. Time for D.C. pundits to get it as well.Voters did send a mandate to Republicans on November 6th — a mandate to wake up and smell the coffee.
Here are a few of the mandates the voters gave Republicans:
- Bad idea to be viewed as a party who mainly represents the interests of the 1% and has candidates that were born on 3rd base and think they hit a triple.
- Bad idea to insult almost half of the voters with comments about the 47% who can't be convinced to "take responsibility for their lives."
- Bad idea to insult the fastest growing ethnic group in America with your plans for "self deportation" and vetoing the Dream Act.
- Bad idea to patronize American women — who incidentally represent about 52% of the electorate — by telling them that government must intervene in the reproductive choices that should be left entirely to them and their doctors.
- Bad idea to believe you can any longer win national races in America by insulting and alienating people of color.
- Bad idea to ignore the persistent march of demographic changes that are transforming the American electorate. In addition to the growing proportion of people of color, the millennial generation — the most consistently progressive generation in recent American history — is becoming a larger portion of the overall electorate with every passing day.
Finally, the voters sent a loud and clear message that it is a bad idea for the GOP to continue to be the party that opposes traditional progressive American values. They voted to confirm their view that they want a society where we have each others' backs — where we're all in this together, not all in this alone.
They voted for a society where everyone does his or her fair share, gets a fair shake and plays by the same rules. They want a society that is hopeful and vibrant and celebrates its diversity — a society where it doesn't matter whether you are a man or woman, gay or straight — a society where it doesn't matter where you were born, or how much money your parents had when you grew up.
In short the voters showed once again that they want the kind of a society that Barack Obama described in his first major national speech — to the Democratic Convention in 2004 — a society where there are no blue states or red states — just the United States.
Now it's time for the Republicans to lead, follow or get out of the way.
Robert Creamer, author of Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win, is a Democratic strategist. He and his firm, Democracy Partners, work with many of the country's most significant issue campaigns.


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By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
The Honey Badger, the celebrated knucklehead former college player, entered the NFL combine this week and out the other side emerged Tyrann Mathieu, legitimate pro prospect.
That's a shame in a way.
And not because Mathieu, for all his well-documented sins at LSU, doesn't deserve a shot in the NFL.
He surely does.
The NFL has harbored far more dangerous miscreants over the years, and his past issues are not of a nature that would suggest he'd be a threat to the peace and tranquility of whatever city welcomes him to the NFL.
But won't we all miss the "Honey Badger?"
It wasn't unexpected, but distressing nonetheless to hear Mathieu officially retire the "Honey Badger" nickname during his talks with teams and media in Indianapolis.
"I don't (want to be known as the Honey Badger)," he told the media gathering. "Back when I was the Honey Badger, I didn't have everything intact. Going forward I'm going to focus on being Tyrann Mathieu, and that is the person I want to control."
He's probably right. If he's going to put the past in the past and change his wayward habits, perhaps it's best to distance himself from the thing that most defined those days.
But it's still sad.
Honey Badger might have been the greatest nickname in the history of sports, perhaps because, rather than dreamed up by a public relations expert, it just sort of happened by popular consensus.
To be honest, even though I've read National Geographic all my life, I'd never heard of the creature until the viral YouTube video started popping up.
But once you saw that pesky, little ferocious varmint wreaking untold havoc on nature, it was perfect. It was exactly the way LSU's Honey Badger played the game of football.
Mathieu didn't particularly like the name at first.
Yeah, it was pretty cool when it was attacking and slinging cobras around and eating them for breakfast, along with many others that ought to be further up the food chain.
But the thing also wasn't above eating termites with the same persistence and energy.
Anyway, Mathieu eventually warmed up to it, even embraced the idea of an outwardly cute little animal that no animal in the safari wanted to mess with, no matter how much bigger it might be.
That perfectly described Mathieu, and the persona helped make him the most famous and celebrated defensive player in college football during LSU's 2011 run.
As we know now, after multiple reports of failed drug tests and banishment from the LSU kingdom, there was a darker side to the cute Honey Badger. Perhaps he got caught up in the hoopla and got to thinking Honey Badgers were also bulletproof and as immune to team rules as they were to cobra venom.
Hopefully, he can still play like the Honey Badger.
The combine, for what it's worth, suggested he can. Most of the blogging and whatnot that came out of Indianapolis listed him as one the "big winners" who improved his stock by dropping by.
Understand, even without the off-the-field issues, he wasn't a slam-dunk first-rounder.
I think he might have been the single-most disruptive defensive player I ever saw at LSU, maybe in college.
He just made play after big play to the point it was uncanny.
I'm not sure what position he played. Just call it "playmaker." Sometimes it looked like LSU just lined him up out there and told him to go and do whatever he wanted, wherever his instincts took him, to get in offenses hair.
He was everywhere, and certainly it was all the more fun to watch when what was often the smallest player on the field was also the biggest pest. He surely had the best instincts for the game and the big play that I've ever seen.
Don't let them kid you. Even a team with LSU's stockpile of talent missed him last year.
But to call him a natural lock-down corner would be stretching it.
It almost seems like you just stick him out there and wait for the fireworks to begin. But the NFL likes things a little more structured.
You might say he's a defensive version of the gritty, do-everything college quarterback star who doesn't exactly have the measurables the cookie-cutter NFL is looking for.
Some of those fears apparently were dismissed by his workouts in Indianapolis, particularly a better-than-expected 4.5-second timing in the 40-yard dash.
Where he really dazzled, according to some quoted scouts, was in the ball-hawking drills (gee, imagine that, he does seem to have a nose for it).
Along the way he picked up Deion Sanders as his unofficial cheerleader and biggest proponent that he can be a big-time player in the league.
But it was still more important how he dealt with the questions about how it came about that he was missing from the LSU secondary this season.
It sounded like he said — probably after some careful coaching — all the right things, taking personal responsibility for his indiscretions and vowing to have finally learned his lesson.
His gets the "knucklehead" tag just because of the multiple chances LSU gave him before declaring strike three. But it's not like he murdered somebody or even harmed anybody but himself.
There was some immaturity there, but it never appeared there was an inherently criminal mind at work.
So let us wish the new Tyrann Mathieu well in the NFL draft. I just wish the Honey Badger could go with him.
Scooter Hobbs covers LSU athletics. Email him at email@example.com


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Wood Leads Georgia Past Auburn 5-2
May 4, 2012
Athens, Ga.---- Georgia got eight strong innings from Alex Wood and some help from the Auburn bullpen to win the opening game of an SEC series 5-2 Friday at Foley Field.
Georgia (26-20, 10-12) scored four runs without the benefit of a hit in the sixth to break a 1-1 tie. The Tigers (25-20, 10-12 SEC) issued two bases-loaded walks, hit a batter with the bases loaded and a ground out allowed another run to score.
It was more than enough for Wood who struck out 10 and allowed two runs on four hits tom improve to 6-1. Auburn right hander Jon Luke Jacobs (5-2) got the loss but pitched 5.1 innings allowing just three hits and two runs.
In the third, Georgia went on top 1-0. With one out, senior Colby May walked, next left fielder Connor Welton ripped a single to right field to put runners on the corners with junior third baseman Curt Powell at the plate. Powell blooped a single over the head of the first baseman to give Georgia a 1-0 lead, while also extending his hitting streak to 14 games.
In the fifth the Bulldogs were threatening again. With two outs, second baseman Levi Hyams was on third, Welton hit the ball hard to left center. Auburn's left fielder Cullen Wacker and center fielder Ryan Tella went for the ball, Tella, running full speed, dove for the ball, but collided with Wacker. Wacker made the catch the for the third out, but both players were down for several minutes. Fortunately, both players were able to walk off the field. Wacker suffered a strained knee and he did not return to the game.
In the sixth Auburn equaled the score. After Wood retired the first two batters, first baseman Garrett Cooper singled to center and pinch-hitter Justin Bryant reached on a walk. Shortstop Dan Glevenyak shot a single past a diving Powell and into left field, scoring Cooper and making the score 1-1.
After 5.1 innings, Georgia chased Auburn starter Jon Luke Jacobs once he gave up an infield single to junior shortstop Kyle Farmer. Later that inning Auburn's bullpen allowed four walks and one hit by a pitch giving Georgia a four-run lead. Right hander Slade Smith came in to relieve Jacobs, the first batter he faced, right fielder Hunter Cole, singled to left field, then junior catcher Brett DeLoach walked to load the bases. Freshman Justin Bryan then walked to give the Bulldogs a lead again; next Smith continued to struggle with his control as he hit center fielder Peter Verdin with a pitch, allowing Cole to score. Verdin was the last batter Smith faced--he finished with one hit, two walks and three earned runs--relieving him was left hander Cory Luckie. With the bases still loaded, Hyams grounded into a fielder's choice for the second out of the inning, but DeLoach scored on the play. Luckie then walked back-to-back batters giving Georgia another run to make the score 5-1.
Auburn picked up another run in the eighth and then Georgia looked to freshman Pete Nagel came in the ninth and took care of the Tigers. He picked up the first save of his career with two strikeouts and pitched around an error.
"I thought Alex Wood did a very good job and Pete came in and threw strikes too," said Georgia coach David Perno. "We managed to have a big inning without getting a hit, but I'll take it. We have a tough time getting that big hit or double with the bases loaded, but it was good to see us score four runs. I was impressed with our outfield play, that is the group we had out there in the fall and we tried some different combinations for various reasons during the season but now it looks like that's the best one and we'll stick with Conor (Welton) in left, Peter (Verdin) in center and Hunter (Cole) in right."
The series continues Saturday with first pitch slated for 4:05, and the game will be televised by CSS. Before the game, the Bulldogs will honor former baseball lettermen.
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Alleged Berrendo Middle School shooter changes plea
Campbell enters 'no contest' plea; disposition set for July 2
Mason Campbell, the 12-year-old boy accused of shooting two classmates at Berrendo Middle School, changed his plea from "not guilty" to "no contest" on Friday morning at the Chaves County Courthouse in Roswell.
Through his attorneys, Campbell offered an apology to the victims of the shooting during the plea hearing.
"Mason accepts full responsibility for his actions and does apologize to his victims and their families," said defense attorney Jason Bowles, of the Bowles Law Firm in Albuquerque.
While changing his plea to "no contest," Campbell calmly answered "yes" as Judge Freddie Romero questioned him about whether he understood what the plea change meant, and if Campbell understood that he was giving up his constitutional [auth] rights by changing his plea.
A date of July 2 was set for disposition of the case, which is the juvenile version of sentencing. Romero will decide Campbell's fate after a hearing at which the shooting victims and their families are expected to testify.
Romero told Campbell that disposition options range from supervised release to incarceration until the age of 21.
Police say Campbell, armed with a shotgun, opened fire at the middle school on Jan. 14, seriously wounding two students before a staff member persuaded him to put down the firearm.
Wounded were 13-year-old Kendal Sanders and 12-year-old Nathaniel Tavarez.
Both children survived, but still suffer from their wounds.
Nickie Portio, mother of Kendal, and her attorney, Tamara Brock Segal, from the law firm Brock & Goetzmann of Dallas, said no civil lawsuit has been filed by them yet.
"Kendal had to have surgery to repair her heart, and she still has pellets in her body," her attorney said.
Portio said she accepts Campbell's apology, but added that he needs to be incarcerated. "He did commit a crime, and he needs to feel the consequences of his actions."
Campbell's attorneys, Bowles and Robert Gorence of Gorence & Oliveros in Albuquerque, released a statement on behalf of the Campbell and Bowles families.
"The question of what happened on Jan. 14, 2014, at Berrendo Middle School was never in dispute," Gorence said. "The questions relating to why and what are Mason's mental status are still being analyzed by medical professionals. The plea today was important so that the victims are not put through further trauma, for Mason to accept responsibility, and to continue the healing process for all."
Gorence said the no contest plea acknowledges the limitations in decision-making of an immature brain, and it maximizes options for Kendal and Nathaniel.
"We wish everyone continues their prayers for Nathaniel and Kendal, and for the son we love, Mason," Gorence said.
Special Prosecutor Matt Chandler said the state would seek the maximum punishment for Campbell.
"The goal is for the child to be held in custody until the age of 21," Chandler said. "That amount of time would give Mason a chance for complete rehabilitation and would give the families time to heal."
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According to the Wall Street Journal, a person close to the Whitman said she could announce her candidacy for governor in the next four to six weeks. AP received that same information.
Hector Barajas, a spokesman for the California Republican Party said:
"Being business-savvy is going to be an asset for her. That's one of the most important things people are looking for right now."That's true right now. But in 2010, who knows?
Whitman is a staunch Republican, and that may work against her in the blue state known as California. While Schwarzenneger was able to use his Hollywood fame and the dismal performance of former governor Gray Davis to his advantage, Whitman will not have such an advantage.
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Encounter the Northern Territory's superb landscapes and sites, including Uluru
The remote town of Yulara is a convenient start point for visitors setting off to the explore the sensational range of natural wonders the Red Centre has to offer.
The ancient rock formations of Kata Tjuta (also known as The Olgas) create an amazing landscape of spectacular domes and canyons.
An iconic image of outback Australia and a sacred site for the local Aboriginal people, Uluru's remarkable colour changes are a wonder to behold. Visit the lesser-explored region of the West MacDonnell Ranges and compare the ever changing landscapes of the Red Centre.
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Join an Indigenous Guide on a Mala walk around the base of Uluru, an experience exclusive to Intrepid Travel
This trips provides you with the best guides in the business who know the Australian outback like the back of their hand
Wander through the iconic domes of Kata Tjuta, and gaze in awe at the sacred rock of Uluru
Dine under the stars and camp within privately owned sites on the red earth of the outback
Enjoy our exclusive Australian Native Foods menu throughout the trip. Created in conjunction with Aussie bush tucker specialist Andrew Fielke, you will be treated to a plethora of native dishes incorporating ingredients such as kangaroo, emu, lemon myrtle, desert lime, wattle seed and more
Hike through natural amphitheatres, rocky chasms and lush oases in Kings Canyon
Traverse the immense landscape of the West MacDonnell Ranges and keep an eye out for an abundance of wildlife
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This is a camping trip for those who are looking for the basics. Simple facilities and lack of emphasis on creature comforts make this an authentic experience of the Australian outback.
Group participation makes up a lot of this trip, so you'll be required to help with preparation of meals and cleaning up. These are the kind of tasks that bring a group closer together. Group sizes can also be pretty big, so be prepared to share this experience with a bigger group than what you might be familiar with.
Temperatures in the Red Centre can be extreme. During the day the weather can be very hot (and the Australian sun is very strong) so please bring appropriate clothing, use sun protection and drink plenty of water. In the evenings temperatures really drop, so bring base layers and warm clothing.
This trip requires a moderate level of fitness as it involves a lot of walking, allowing you to really get among nature. Please bring sturdy, comfortable walking shoes and comfortable clothing.
On most days of the trip, you'll spend several hours driving through very sparse areas of desert. Crank up the tunes and sit back to enjoy landscapes that you would miss in any other form of travel.
Notes: Total driving time is approximately one hour. Total walking time is around an hour.
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Note: Total driving time today is around three and a half hours. Total walking time is approximately two hours.
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Note: Total driving time takes around five hours. Total walking time is approximately three hours.
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1. Trip commences in Yulara on day 1 at approximately 12pm and finishes in Alice Springs day 4 at approx 6pm.
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Native Innovation at Poets House
Who: Native American Poets
What: Native Innovation: Indigenous American Poetry in the 21st Century
When: March 21 through March 24, 2013
Where: Poets House, New York
The ghosts of the Mohawk woman Molly Brant and the Canarsee chief Gowane, the burdens and gifts of history, the deaths and resurrections of languages, the puzzles and promises of identity: such were the concerns of "Native Innovation: Indigenous American Poetry in the 21st Century," a four-day symposium hosted by New York City's Poets House last week.
The conference resulted from years of collaboration among Poets House staff members, poets Joseph Bruchac and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, and others. "It's up our alley because we care about many different poetries, the relationship between language and culture, and the relationship between oral and written traditions," explained Poets House executive director Lee Briccetti. Poets House was also inspired by its proximity to the National Museum of the American Indian, which sits a few blocks away at Bowling Green, and hosted a Joy Harjo reading on Thursday night to kick off the conference. This symposium marks the first collaboration between the two institutions.
It marks a collaboration, too, between two generations of native poets. The older one came of literary age in about 1970, during the period often called the Native American Renaissance. In the wake of N. Scott Momaday's rise to fame, poets such as Harjo and Maurice Kenny began gaining attention from the mainstream, according to Bruchac, who also started publishing around then. More and more native writers followed suit, including younger poets such as Cedar Sigo, Natalie Diaz, James Thomas Stevens, Sherwin Bitsui, Santee Frazier, and Jennifer Elise Foerster—all of whom spoke and read at the conference.
On Saturday, Bruchac summoned us back to the panels in Kray Hall by playing an Abenaki recorder. The music was filled with trills and dives and leaps, and the next day, he generously provided me (and Youtube) with an encore:
Music proved a constant through the weekend, not only because Bruchac occasionally whipped out his flute, but also because he and Harjo sang during their readings, and Kenny's voice rose and fell as he recited his work, and the poets sometimes talked in their native languages, which have a music of their own.
Several of the most fascinating discussions focused on the nature of the those languages, how they differ from English, and how such differences filter into poetry. "English was my first language, but I feel like I'm bumping up against its restrictions," said Karenne Wood, who is Monacan, during a Sunday session. "English is noun-driven and subject-focused, and it has the ability to be abstract and bury itself in complexites. My native language is very practical—it's about what we have done, will do, are doing—it's centered in action. I believe the value systems encoded in native languages and ways of thinking are very powerful."
In another conversation, Bruchac elaborated on what such a value system means for him. His native language, Abenaki, is built on verbs, he explained; the word for river means "flowing thing," and the word for "watch" translates as "that thing which makes a noise but is doing nothing useful." The language's grammar complements the Abenaki view that "things aren't sitting still"; it "matches the mutability that characterizes existence, the fact that we're all changing in various ways and going through a universe affected by our passing through it."
How might linguistic structures influence poetry? Diné (also known as Navajo) is another verb-based language, and Jennifer Foerster noted during a panel that its structure adds kinetic energy to the poetry of Diné author Sherwin Bitsui. He writes, in Flood Song: "A city dragged its bridges behind it and finally collapsed in a supermarket asking for the first apple that was ever bitten." I imagined Manhattan yanking Staten Island by the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which is visible from Poets House.
The synergy between his languages has prompted Stevens, who is half-Welsh, to place English translations side-by-side with his Mohawk poems, showing that one is not above the other, that they merely represent different ways of looking at things. Such strategies reveal what gets lost in translation, he says; simple English words correspond with full phrases in Mohawk. "Rabbit" means "two ears side by side," and "horse," "one moves atop its back."
For many of the poets, preserving or reviving languages has proved a crucial task. "Language is power, and that's why we lost our language, because people knew that," said Natalie Diaz, who is Mojave. "They tried to sever the language, to cut off our tongues." She told us that members of her community have taken the Mojave language into high schools: high school students are "our fastest group of learners and will be our first truly fluent Mojave language teachers," she said. "When you gave them their name in Mojave, you can see them swell up; they're no longer Tyrone or Ziggy, they're 'one who carries the cane.'" Three elders in her community remain who are native speakers of Mojave; they tell the renamed youth: "Now you are what you were meant to be called from the beginning."
Bitsui described the significance of recovering his Diné language. He grew up in a "traditional Navajo world" where everyone spoke Diné, but he lost it little by little; in high school, he was made to feel ashamed of the language. When his grandfather was recuperating after an illness, Bitsui faced a turning point. "There was a moment when I could not express my fear or love," he said. "I could not say 'Grandfather, I don't want you to die, I want to learn more from you about who we are, I need you'—I could not say that. I remember sitting on the edge of his bed. I'm bawling, and he's looking at me like 'What the hell, what's up with you, I'm not dead.'" From then on, Bitsui said, he focused on remembering the language and "being brave" in it. He told his parents to address him in Diné on the phone. "For me it's empowering to come back into that and celebrate it," he said. "Now I can converse with people. It's the essence of me; it's home. It's beautiful and musical and funny and deep, bluesy, romantic."
Running through all the discussions is the question of how the poets relate to their backgrounds. While Stevens has published poems in Mohawk, Santee Frazier "actively extricate[s] any terminology or words associated with native people. . . . I don't want to put my nativeness on the page," he explained. "So the poems become personal or mimetic; they represent things in my life that are distinctly native, but without announcing it.
"I have the luxury of not having to do that because people did that before me," he added. And Hedge Coke muttered—to Frazier, or to her poetic forebears, or to both—"Yes! Thank you! Thank you!"
When Stevens asked a panel what makes literature or writers "native," Hill answered simply: "Native literature is written by native people." The conversation swiftly turned to stereotypes, with Hill noting that—despite what some seem to think—"we are contemporary people. We get on airplanes and go to France! Native people are everywhere, all over, and do a lot of different things."
The panel concurs that those stereotypes exert a certain effect on publications. Hill pointed out that natives living in the Midwest have a hard time getting published because "people have the conception that there are no Indians in that area at all. People want more beads and feathers, but we're working slowly to change those misconceptions."
Kenny added that he's sure his books about Francis Bacon and Hart Crane won't see the light of print: "If you don't have a teepee in it, if you're not scalping somebody, they don't want it," he said ruefully.
During a Sunday session, Bruchac tells us that, in the Abenaki language, the word for "humor" is imbedded in the word for "human," suggesting that the "common way to be is to find ways to laugh." He asks how humor influences the panelists' work.
"Humor for us is another way of surviving; it gives us a break," said Diaz. Laughter is abundant in these panel discussions, among poets and audience members alike. Only after the conference has ended do I realize that such moments of humor provided attendees with a break, too—that this symposium, for all its hilarity and hope, was deeply sad. In the days following it, I have been thinking of the languages and people no longer on this island. It is Passover, and I ponder the horrors that led my own ancestors away from their native places and toward someone else's.
During the Sunday night reading, Kenny—physically slight but a giant among Native American poets—bellowed and bounced. He described visiting a synagogue-turned-museum in Prague; the names of Holocaust victims were inscribed on the walls. "Every time I saw a Steinberg, I saw a Red Jacket," he declaimed. "We shall suffer, and I shall weep for all of us."
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Solar energy companies have been shining with investors, amid a view that after years of price cuts the industry is coming of age as an affordable competitor to conventional sources of electricity while still getting government subsidies.
To get here, the front-runners had to survive a shakeout. Beset by flux in demand and supply, due in part to subsidy cuts and timing, and the rise of Chinese rivals, the industry fell into overcapacity starting around 2009. Companies had to focus big-time on efficiency and bringing costs way down.
Can they keep delivering as they plumb new markets, from residential rooftops to military bases?
SunPower (SPWR), one of the largest firms in IBD's No. 2-ranked Energy-Solar industry group, is down 2% this year after a stunning 431% stock rise in 2013 — shares rallied in mid-January but gave up the gain in a 10% slide Monday.
One of the four highest-rated companies in its group, along with Canadian Solar (CSIQ), JinkoSolar (JKS) and SolarCity (SCTY), SunPower is slated to report its latest quarterly earnings on Feb. 12.
Led by CEO Tom Werner for more than a decade, SunPower focused on building the industry's most power-efficient solar components and then vertically integrated its business to insulate from supply-demand shocks.
In the "downstream" part of the business, it can stay involved with solar projects its panels go into — big ones and smaller distributed solar installations, meaning the high-growth market of mainly residential and business rooftops. Here it competes with installer SolarCity, which doesn't make its own panels, and SunEdison (SUNE), which like SunPower wanted to be in the downstream business partly to aid in the marketing of its own solar products.
SunPower CEO Werner recently spoke with IBD about the solar industry's prospects.
IBD: Only 15 companies with a market cap of at least $1 billion saw their stock rise 300% or more in 2013 — SunPower and three other solar companies made the cut: Canadian Solar, SolarCity and SunEdison. How is business going?
Werner: Having a good stock price is good — among other things, it gives you a lower cost of capital if you keep growing.
Our business is great — we're fully allocated for the year because we're vertically integrated. We have all the projects we can do this year.
IBD: Your company has taken some measured steps to become vertically integrated and diversified over the years — what is the rationale for that strategy?
Werner: It makes sense to be diversified, if you look at residential and commercial installations, utility-scale, and geographically where optimum profits are for the next five years. If we said we're only going to be in business a year, we could allocate our modules to the most profitable projects. But it would reduce our opportunities for 2015, 2016 and 2017. We've allocated our product for both long and short term.
The U.S. (distributed solar) lease business is a very strong growth area and positively viewed by investors. We could move a lot of product to that business and be dependent on that business in the future, but purposely we're not, because we want to be diversified.
We're lower-risk because we're diversified, and of course that appeals to certain investors.
IBD: What percentage of your manufacturing do your own projects and installations consume these days?
Werner: The percentage is 70%. Thirty percent goes to projects that someone else develops. We use 100% our own products (in installations), because our products are superior and higher-reliability, producing more energy over the life of the system. A rooftop is space-constrained, so typically you want a high-density solar module and that's what we make.
IBD: You're doing several solar projects with branches of the military. What is the opportunity there?
Werner: The (military) services each have a goal of a gigawatt in the near term of renewables, so that's a big opportunity over the next 10 years. It may be better for our stock to do more (residential and commercial) leasing business this year than to do projects for the services for 2014, but it may not make sense if you're thinking of your business over, as an example, a 10-year period. And we will do some projects in South America, in Chile. And Japan. We think of opening up markets for the long term.
IBD: How big a presence are you in U.S. residential and commercial rooftop solar installations?
Werner: We are No. 1 in distributed generation (across) both residential and commercial markets in North America. SolarCity and other companies have done well and the gap is close.
How are we doing? We're doing fantastic. We are the originators of the distributed generation business in North America. To give credit, some of those other companies did pioneer financing (through third parties such as banks that are able to utilize a 30% renewable energy tax credit) and leasing.
IBD: You say the gap is close between you and other companies in installations, but you purposely don't allocate as much as you could to that market. Is that a risk?
Werner: Other companies have grown, so the distance between us and the third and fourth players has narrowed. (SolarCity is the closest rival in installations.) Some analysts describe it by installer and some by manufacturer — if you look at it by manufacturer it would be China Inc. (Chinese firms collectively) — Trina (TSL), Yingli (YGE), etc. It is a business decision — it's why we're building a new fab (manufacturing plant). It's coming online in 12 months and puts SunPower less in an allocation position and we can attack on all fronts. Is it a risk in a one-year period? Not a big one.
IBD: What, if anything, are you doing regarding potential energy storage for rooftop-type customers?
Werner: Storage is one of the most important components of our strategy. We have a pilot project in Australia, one in California and one in Germany. One of our shareholders is (French energy company) Total and they have investments in storage — it's good to have options.
We will be selling storage this year tied to our "energy services" offering. You can take energy from the peak of the day and use it at some other time but not infinitely, maybe four hours (of storage in a battery-type device).
IBD: What's the outlook for solar demand applicable to the different segments of the business?
Werner: At a high level: The distributed-generation business and power plant business both look like they have an incredible amount of growth ahead of them. It was a very aggressive cost-reduction environment, and if you didn't get costs down you didn't survive. We got costs down and are approaching economic parity with (other sources of) electricity in a lot of markets.
In power plants for the near term, the U.S. is a big market. But increasingly there's a developing-country market with potential to be a really big growth driver in the next 10 years. Distributed generation will be a huge business — though it will be policy-dependent.
Solar stocks in general are up because we're entering the mainstream market and there's massive opportunity. That means there's economic parity with conventional sources of electricity.
We just announced a project in Chile where we'll build a 70-megawatt power plant. We will sell the electricity at market rates and there's no (government) incentive. That's a unique place — there's a lot of sunshine and conventional energy prices are higher than elsewhere in the world. But we'll be mainstream in more and more markets because we're at scale.
The size of the opportunity is the size of the electricity market, which is really, really, really big: People in one year spend $3 trillion on electricity.


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And once again we're reminded that London really is the centre of the universe ('llow me, I'm a Londonder) as just a day after Kanye West announced a surprise one-off gig in London this month, Justin Timberlake announces he will also play here next week. Timberlake will play a post-BRIT Awards gig at The Forum in London on February 20th. Tickets are £50 (plus booking) and go on sale tomorrow (February 15th) at 9am via Live Nation.
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MISS E. BALLANTINE, DEBUTANTE, FETED; Entertained by Her Parents at a Large Dinner-Dance in Ballroom of St. Regis. DINNER FOR MISS WILLYS Festivities Held for Misses Alexandra Gardiner, Cecily Workand Emma Cuddihy. Party for Miss Willys. Luncheon for Miss Gardiner. Miss Work Introduced. Dinner Dance for Miss Cuddihy.
Mr. and Mrs. John Herbert Ballantine gave a large dinner dance last night in the marble ballroom of the St. Regis for their debutante niece, Miss Elizabeth Jeanette Ballantine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Ballantine of Newark. N.J., and some of her young friends. Miss Ballantine was graduated from the Westover School and is a member of the Junior League of New York.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Two University of Michigan seniors signed contracts with National Hockey League teams on Wednesday (March 28), as goaltender Shawn Hunwick (Sterling Heights, Mich.) has signed an Amateur Tryout Contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets and defenseman Greg Pateryn (Sterling Heights, Mich.) signed a two-year contract with the Montreal Canadiens.
Hunwick will dress for the Blue Jackets tonight in their home game against the Detroit Red Wings and serve as the back-up goaltender. Pateryn's deal kicks into effect beginning with the 2012-13 season.
Hunwick appeared in 40 games this season for Michigan, posting a 24-13-3 record with five shutouts, a 2.00 goals-against average and a .932 save percentage. He earned a 54-24-7 mark with 10 shutouts, a 2.06 goals-against average and a .928 save percentage in 87 career games in Maize and Blue. Hunwick leaves Michigan as the program's all-time leader in GAA and save percentage.
Pateryn earned 15 points (2g, 13a) and a team-high 58 blocks in 41 games during his senior season in Ann Arbor. In 142 career games, Pateryn has tallied 43 points (6g, 37a) for the Wolverines.
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He got £3.4 million in bonuses, 92.7% of his maximum target, after ITV posted a 27% leap in profits. But the biggest windfall was from his £4 million "joining" award. He got shares when he arrived in 2010 and they have soared in value as the broad- caster's stock price tripled under his charge.
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The City Council has introduced a package of 17 bills in the wake of the city's botched response to last December's blizzard. But at a Council hearing Wednesday, Bloomberg administration officials rejected the bills, saying they would hamstring the city's flexibility in emergency response, or duplicate efforts already in place at various agencies.
The Council bills would force city departments to take a range of actions, from conducting a complete review of the city's 911 communication system to establishing plans for snow removal at intersections and bus shelters.
But in her testimony before the Council, Liz Weinstein, Director of the Mayor's Office of Operations, said many of the bills are actions that city agencies already perform and therefore could make snow recovery more inefficient.
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"These new regulations improve fuel efficiency so that by 2025 new cars will consume 50% less fuel and emit 50% less GHGs than a similar 2008 model, leading to significant savings at the pump," said environment minister Peter Kent. "At today's gas prices, a Canadian driving a model year 2025 vehicle would pay, on average, around $900 less per year compared to driving today's new vehicles."
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Election 2012 -- Ryan v. Biden, the Catholic 'Thrilla in Manila' [2]
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The legacy of Vatican II [4]Former RTÉ Deputy Head of News Desmond Fisher looks back at the Second Vatican Council and its impact five decades on.
Michael Sheridan, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs, to discuss Catholicism and politics. [5]
Spokane Diocese claims lawyers mishandled sex abuse scandal bankruptcy [6]
Italian Catholic Church to pay property tax from 2013 [7]
Study of never-married Catholics gives insight into future of vocations [8]
Australia's Cardinal George Pell was present when a boy raped by a Christian Brother in regional Victoria described to another priest what happened [9], a parliamentary inquiry has been told.
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"The Public Bike System (PBS) was created to offer an attractive and easy-to-use option for those seeking urban transportation that has less impact on the environment than traditional fuel-powered vehicles, and to act as the perfect complement to public transportation networks.
"The entire system was designed from a clean sheet, intended to marry the practical with the aesthetic. World-renowned industrial designer Michel Dallaire was entrusted with the design of the physical components. The bikes themselves feature clean lines and a sleek look that in no way compromises their sturdiness and safety. Design elements are carried over to the technical platforms, bike docks and pay stations. All with the intention making the PBS an enhancement to the urban landscape, not an impediment to enjoying it.
Innovation is another hallmark of the PBS. It employs cutting-edge technologies to their best advantage: the entire system is solar-powered and uses wireless communication. (((Welcome to 2008.))) All the components are modular. With no need for permanent installations or external energy sources, the technical platforms that constitute the base of the stations can simply be dropped off at any desired location without incurring expensive infrastructure work. No need to excavate or anchor the platforms to the street. And no need to install electrical or communication cables.
The technical platforms, holding 6 bike docks and 6 bikes apiece, are simply attached together to form a station. Stations can be set up in a matter of minutes, leaving no trace of their presence once they are removed. Because the technical platforms are so easy to move, stations can also be expanded or contracted in very short order. The PBS is very user-friendly, requiring only an access card or credit card to obtain a bike. No intermediaries are needed. In a very short time, riders can be heading off on their bikes. And returning them is equalling simple, making short trips a breeze.
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120 concerned forestry workers protesting against a logging firm in Rotorua found themselves in the wrong place.
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NY MTA Contract Talks With Union Delayed
(New York, NY - WNYC) The NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its main union have cancelled a bargaining session only ten days before their labor contract is to expire.
The heads of the union and the NY MTA were supposed to hold their first face to face talks on Thursday. But that probably won't happen until after NY MTA executive director Joe Lhota has his confirmation hearing before the State Senate on Monday.
Lhota is expected to be confirmed as chairman and CEO of the NY MTA. That should put him in a better position to strike a deal with Transport Workers Union Local 100 president John Samuelson.
Both sides say preliminary talks have gone fairly well. Gone is the animosity that Samuelson, a track worker, felt toward former MTA chief Jay Walder. One union official described the problematic relationship this way: "Walder condescended to John, like he still had steel dust under his fingertips. But John feels Lhota is genuine and honest."
At least that's the feeling for now. The two sides will probably need to agree that any pay raises over the next three years be offset by measurable productivity gains or benefit cuts.
For example, the NY MTA is asking the TWU to allow a combining of the train conductor and train operator jobs. New hires would be trained to do both tasks, allowing the authority to pay fewer workers to stand in reserve in case an operator / conductor misses work because of sickness or some other reason.
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Camera has lots of features and takes good pictures.
Micro USB cable will not attach to camera. Double the normal force needed and it still fails to go in far enough. This reconditioned unit looks new, but close examination of the cable shows pin damage, probably from first user. Not sure if a generic micro cable will work,or if I need to purchase a Fuji JZ100 cable. I only hope it's just the cable and not the camera port.
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Obama's new administrative amnesty program, which requires immigration officials to dismiss cases against illegal immigrants who do not have an additional criminal record, goes into effect this week. While the vast majority of Americans disapprove of the program, few appreciate just how many illegal aliens Obama plans to release.
The Pew Hispanic Center estimates there are 11.2 million illegal immigrants in the United States. Others place that number at 13 million or more. Of those, just over 300,000 are currently facing deportation.
That means at most 2.6 percent of illegals in the United States face deportation, the penalty required by law.
However, the Los Angeles Times reports, "Fewer than 20% of the cases in immigration courts involve people with criminal records beyond immigration violations, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research group based at Syracuse University." More than 80 percent of these pending cases would be dismissed under Obama's administrative rule.
Of the 300,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation….
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