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Rackspace announced the OpenStack, open source cloud computing operating system Monday. Rackspace is donating the code behind the Cloud Files and Cloud Servers to the project, which has attracted the attention of some major partners, including NASA.
A compute provisioning engine is slated for later this year.
It will incorporate NASA's Nebula technology and Rackspace's cloud servers. OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Object Storage are both available in developer preview and will be released mid-October and mid-September, respectively. OpenStack will be available under the Apache 2.0 license.
Rackspace president Lew Moorman said the decision to go open source was made to prevent vendor lock-in.
Rackspace announced several partners involved in OpenStack, including Citrix, Autonomic Resources, Intel, Dell, and Sonian.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A House panel is set to vote on legislation that would place a question on the ballot on whether Rhode Island should hold its first constitutional convention in nearly 30 years.
The Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday. The Senate already approved a companion bill.
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In 2004, voters rejected holding a constitutional convention. The last one was held in 1986.
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Ozawa is a great interpreter, and Kathleen Battle is a fine soprano. The orchestra understands the brightness of Poulenc's orchestrations. However, there is still a bit of a lacking, especially in the choir, which is placed further away from the microphones than they should be. Consequently, they are continually overshadowed by the orchestra. It's hard to argue, however, with the right tempos, the excellent playing, and the wonderful soloist.
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Kathleen Battle is absolute perfection and orchestra, tempos are all fantastic. Not sure why the choir got the short end of the stick. There are times when the choir is so overpowered it made me look at the jacket to see who were the sound engineers. Almost sounds like a live recording rather than a session recording. But we've come a long way since 1989 in sound technology, condenser microphones and in learning how to best mic and record a choir. Not an easy task even today. Still, you won't find a better recording of Poulenc's Gloria. Treat yourself!
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Anyone watching the Justice League animated movies in order: The New Frontier, Crisis On Two Earths, Doom, Flashpoint, and War, will notice that they have become darker and more nihilistic one after another. Now we arrive at Gods and Monsters, the depressing continuation of this trend.
Of course, they are all "anti-heroes" now, to put it kindly, although a combination of violent vigilantes and fascist army is probably closer to the truth. Batman's a vampire (how imaginative! A vampire bat!), and embarrassingly Superman (sporting a goatee which I guess is meant to make him look badass?) is a Mexican illegal immigrant, a move obviously intended to make a politically correct point, although not really exploited here. Truth Justice and the Mexican way ! Yay! Oh and his real father is the murderous General Zod.
Even worse is the new sword-carrying Wonder Woman. Her family has been massacred by Highfather, who in the real DC universe is the embodiment of goodness, while Darkseid, who Highfather betrays here, is supposed to be the embodiment of evil. (Hence the name)
Poor old Jack Kirby must be rolling over in his grave to see his creations being so abused. He understood the difference between good and evil, light and dark, something that modern writers (themselves gone over to the dark side?) no longer see.
So by what perversion of the word 'Justice' can this trio of murderous misfits call themselves the 'Justice League'? I refuse to call these impostors by their assumed superhero names, since they are NOT the beloved characters they purport to be or anything close, so I dub them Sword Woman, Goatee Man and Vampire-Batman.
This morally inverted universe could be interesting if there was some realisation at some point by the characters that they were actually the bad guys and see them turn it around. Now That could have been thrilling. The problem is that we are supposed to be on their side from the start and see their personality flaws (ie that they are all bloodthirsty killers) as badass.
The film is basically a series of massacres, each more brutal than the last. Leaving aside the destruction of Krypton, massacre #1 is the "Justice League" wiping out a terrorist organisation. At least 50 people are horrifically killed by the JL, when they could just as easily have been captured by this super-powered trio. Some are hacked to death by Sword Woman, some crushed to death thanks to Goatee Man's heat vision (which he uses indiscriminately) and one has his blood sucked by Vampire-Batman. Nice. But that's OK its alright since they are "terrorists" and therefore deserve to be summarily executed by our heroes.
A token protest by ordinary people is then shown as well as a critical report by Lois Lane, but this legitimate concern is depicted as a bunch of small-mindedness.
Massacre #2 is of a group of scientists, some beloved characters in the comic world. Oh and a kid who just happens to be a young version of Cyborg. Again the film goes out of its way to make this as sadistic as possible.
Massacre #3 is the aforementioned backstory of Sword Woman.
Massacre #4 is a continuation of the massacre of scientists, this time inside Magnus's house. The violence is even more graphic with one poor victim being literally ripped in two. Note that our heroes were not able to save one person.
At this point I was pretty stunned but was still expecting some big turnaround to come. This, after all, has received some 5/5 reviews.
Massacre #5 is when Goatee Man and Sword Woman decide "heroically" not to give up but instead fight the army. To be fair, this sequence is less graphic than the earlier ones; we don't actually see any soldiers being killed when their tanks and helicopters are smashed by our heroes. Maybe these all were drones. But I guess showing soldiers dying would make the shallow ending less palatable.
Then comes an almost literal Deus-ex-machina. Lex Luthor (channeling his inner Stephen Hawking) appears out of thin air and explains to the JL what's happening and they go and fix the "villain".
Cue general rejoicing. Lois Lane recants her former opinions. The JL are now exonerated. So what if they have killed dozens of soldiers unnecessarily in addition to over 50 "terrorists" and failed to save a single scientist? They saved the world! Oh, from a threat powered by Goatee Man's rocket ship and protected by their "Justice" tower's force field. But nevermind, that's not anything to worry about.
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Despite an apparent slowdown in its once red-hot economy, China continues to provide investors a robust playing field. Today's screen includes three Chinese Internets: Autohome (ATHM), BitAuto Holdings (BITA) and Qihoo 360 Technology (QIHU).
Today's column focuses on the first two, a pair of rivals.
BitAuto, a provider of auto-related online content and marketing services, may be poised to gain from an expected rise in nominal wages and domestic consumption in China. Passenger car sales have been cruising higher, with double-digit growth last year.
BitAuto's earnings growth has been strong the past four quarters, coming in at 86%, 29%, 109% and 129%. Analysts expect a 38% gain in Q4. Sales growth ranged from 36% to 57% during those periods. Q3 after-tax margin of 20.5% was the highest since Q4 2010.
Last month, BitAuto increased its float with a secondary offering, making it easier for mutual funds and other big players to take positions. Daily volume has surged to some 1.3 million shares from about 56,000 a year ago.
The big money has noticed. Forty-six mutual funds owned BitAuto shares as of Dec. 31, doubling from the prior year.
The stock, which came public in November 2010, rallied more than 300% last year. It cleared a 35.14 entry point of a cup base Jan. 8 in heavy trade, and is still within buying range. But caution and vigilance are in order. The most recent base was sixth stage, and late-stage base breakouts tend to fail more often than early ones. Two downside reversals in big volume after the latest breakout were a red flag.
Autohome, which soared more than 75% in its Dec. 11 debut, is back near new high ground amid volatile trading.
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I remember before the houses on Seabright Way, Whittal Close and the newer part of Greenway Avenue were built, we used the field as a general play area, all the kids from Arden Way, Chapel Road and Church Road did. We used to have our annual bonfire there on November 5th and sometimes a firework display if we were lucky. It was also a great way of getting rid of all unwanted large rubbish.
I also remember the gates leading on to the green in the middle of Arden Way. They were where the end of the green that meets the back of houses 18 - 28 were and I cannot remember why they were there but they took them down in the early 1980s.
There was also the old rec play area,opposite to where it is now. It was in the far right hand corner of the rec, next to the tennis courts and, early on, there was a merry-go-round, cement tubes and the big slide. This was upgraded in the mid 1980s to include a wooden castle, monkey bars and wooden seats... everything got flattened in the early 1990s when they decided to put the play area on the road-end of the rec where it is now, despite much opposition from residents who believed this would be a danger to toddlers who went wondering off and got on to the busy main road.
I remember the old doctor's surgery on Arden Way, now at Ivy Place, and I remember the Pit-Mount which is now the Severn Valley Country Park. It was so much fun jumping across the slag heaps but then in 1987 they decided to turn it into the country park. It was great when the country park first opened as we used to go down and swim in the newly created ponds. Back then, they were clean, the water was clear and there were no plants growing in them and they were fed by a freshwater spring. Now they are very much naturified!
I would love to see some old photos of Alveley. I'd love to see what Arden Way was like before it was built in 1974. I grew up there after my family moved to number 28 in April 1976 then I was born in the July.
I remember the Post Office how it used to be when Jim Stephenson owned it and June, Rita and someone else worked there, all lovely ladies who were really kind to us kids. The village phone box was outside the Post Office then, where the post box is now, then it was moved down to the dip on Daddlebrook Road in the early 1980s.
I remember Mrs Bouldy's shop too, just further up the road from the post office opposite Pete Barlows.
Do you remember Lynne Seales's shop there too? When it first opened, it sold hedgehog crisps which were strange but we still bought them.
There was also the newsagents which back then was owned by Clive Jeffries and his lovely wife and of course the VG owned by Angie, lovely Angie. Next to the VG which is now the chippy I believe was the hairdressers which closed down to be replaced by the butchers, after the butchers was moved from Bell Lane, behind the church, next to the then Bell public house.
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Recumbent bike Intenza 550RBi
Recumbent Intenza 550RBi is a professional recumbent intended for commercial, non-commercial or rehabilitation purposes. Robust construction with stable back support is especially suitable for obese people who have reduced mobility or for seniors who want to keep permanently fit by training. The main advantages of the recumbent Intenza 550RBi are comfortable seat, incredible 40 load levels (thus guaranteeing maximally smooth transition between levels), 6 preset programs, 7 custom programs, HRC programs or a manual program. Sophisticated LCD screen displays a variety of useful information, including displaying time, speed, distance, pulse, calories burned, and many others. Finally, the recumbent Intenza 550RBi is equipped with heart rate sensors in the handles, transport wheels, bottle holder or a BeltDrive system, which ensures maximally quiet operation during exercise. Due to these excellent properties and rich functional equipment the recumbent Intenza 550RBi became very popular.
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- 40 load (resistance) levels
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- maximum recommended height of an athlete: 195 cm
- maximum load: 180 kg
- dimensions when assembled: length 159 cm x width 70 cm x height 123 cm
- recumbent weight: 101 kg
- category S (according to EN957) for professional fitness centres
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Exercises on this machine will increase your fitness stamina. Regular training promotes weight loss and strengthens the cardiovascular system.
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Regular training improves fitness level, supports weight loss and strengthens cardiovascular system.
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Seito smiled softly as he heavily swung the axe down onto the log of wood that stood in front of him, nearly splitting the stump below it in half during the process. He didn't notice the brief star-eyed look from Damon behind him and when he turned, Damon shook his head to compose himself and smile at the beautiful aristocrat. Seito smiled back at him in return.
"You're really strong, sir," he said and Seito raised an eyebrow.
Damon swallowed as Seito came up to him and handed him back the axe.
"We're friends now, Damon," he said "Please, call me Seito. I'm sure friends aren't formal with one another."
Damon hunched his shoulders shyly and sagged them while placing the axe down along with all the others. He sighed as he glanced at Seito slightly unsure to how to answer him.
"I'm sorry, S…Seito," he stuttered out and leaned against one of the walls of his cottage "But I would prefer to get to know you better before going onto informal terms."
Seito raised an eyebrow and smirked, sitting down on the stump with his legs crossed.
"Do you know how tiring it is having people around you calling you 'lord' and 'sir'?" he asked "Do you realise how boring a life of luxury can get?"
He scoffed and looked away, scowling into space distastefully.
"You wouldn't," he commented before Damon could answer "You probably would want to swap places with me because you are not as fortunate."
Damon bit his lip nervously at the negative aura around Seito and looked away.
"Well, I like my life," he said and sighed as he remembered all the good things he had "I'm happy being here in a peaceful environment like this and being surrounded by the beauty of Mother Nature. I don't want anyone to take that away from me."
"I wouldn't mind starting a new life here," Seito commented wistfully while looking around at the greenery "All alone where no-one can bother me and I am free to do what I wish. You are alone here, aren't you?"
"Well, I do get the odd one or two visits from my girlfriend who lives in the village…" Damon said as he shrugged and rubbed the back of his head.
Seito's face fell as he felt his heart pulse painfully at the mention of a girlfriend. As he blocked out Damon's words, he tipped his head back and stared at the sky above him. With a grimace, he held back the disappointment. Of course, he hardly knew this young man. Of course he would have a girlfriend, Seito should have known before riding out to meet the young man. He was very beautiful and young after all. But as Seito gazed into Damon's bright eyes, he felt himself smile to see the beauty within this young man. Seito decided that even though he couldn't have Damon for himself, he could at least be his friend and enjoy the little freedom that he had before his wedding.


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Today i took a few spare hours to get myself set up for XNA. I've been totally keen to get working with this ever since it got out but always managed to find an excuse why i'd put it on hold.
I also got myself another blog which is going to be dedicated to my tour of duty with XNA..
First installment of my n00bness can be found over here – www.virtualrealm.com.au/blogs/csharpzealot – courtesy of Glenn Wilson, founder of www.virtualrealm.com.au and fellow MVP (DX).
Anyways – i figured i'd keep my ramblings separate from here so it's pure XNA.


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Hi guys! How are you? It's currently 9 am and I'm actually sitting here dreaming about breakfast-- and considering that I started having banana (+ greens + fruit) smoothies for breakfast everyday--- this is an incredibly weird thing for me to dream about. But I am. It took me 31 years, but I'm finally eating bananas (and buying 30lbs of them at a time apparently, but thats another story for another day).
So anyway! A super exciting thing happened recently in South Florida! Orchard Supply Hardware starting opening up shops down here! If you're in northern California, then you've probably already heard of them-- but holy crap their stores are amazing (and pretty adorable too). Super fun fact: the stores actually started in San Jose--- and my favorite (once) internet people, now best friends live in San Jose! Lots of good things coming out of that town :)
My friend Nico and I headed down to the Fort Lauderdale preview night this week. I love wandering around hardware stores--- finding things I need and don't need (but find incredibly fascinating). I bought Marlowe a purple water bottle (I had promised her a new glass one forever-- finally found the purple one and bought it) and a banana plant-- because I have dreams of turning our yard into a banana jungle. We already have maybe 13 banana plants?!
Signs of the seasons everywhere. I regret not getting that blue-ish one.
Also a nature + garden + food freak. ^
Orchard is a good mix of supply + garden-- without being overwhelmingly big or overwhelmingly small. It's really the perfect size. You know, just right. And while it's big enough to contain everything, it's small enough that you don't have to go wandering through isles to find the service you need. There's always someone right near by to assist you or help your tackle your home project. And they have everything there-- seriously, everything. There's even a whole isle called the "whatchamacallit" isle-- with all the random goodies you could need and thought you'd never be able to find. Fort Lauderdale is bit far from us (not too far though), but Orchard plans to open up stores across all of south Florida-- so I'm hoping they move in right next door. (Also hoping my friend from San Jose move in next door, but thats another story). Wont you be my neighbor? But for real, the store has a good vibe, and its obvious to see the effort they put in to fit in and help the local community. Super happy to have them over here on the east coast! :)
I made a tiny franken-pumpkin for miss marlowe. I wanted to bring her but the event was a bit late for a school night outing. But they have other family events coming up in Fort Lauderdale and other locations, so I'll def. be taking her to one of those :)
And then I of course left with my banana.
Thank you Orchard Supply Hardware for inviting me to your preview night. Happy to be working with you guys and excited to see your new locations opening up! We're exciting to have you coming to town :)
And thank you Nico for taking a bunch of these photos too :)


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Beatrix Potter Illustrations on Display
Published: January 14, 1988
LONDON, Jan. 13— Generations of children have been brought up on the tales of Peter Rabbit, but few know that his creator, Beatrix Potter, was a watercolorist and naturalist as well as a storyteller.
At the Tate Gallery here, an exhibition of 700 drawings, manuscripts and other memorabilia shows the versatility of Miss Potter, whose 30 books have been translated into 16 languages. She illustrated the books herself, with delicate pictures of characters like Tom Kitten, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddleduck wearing a shawl, and the frog Jeremy Fisher with his waistcoat and fishing rod.
The exhibition is to move in May to the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City.
''The exhibition has been extremely well attended, far more than anticipated,'' said a Tate spokesman, Michael Fraser. ''We get between 800 and 1,700 visitors daily.''
''Her work is being reassessed, and some critics have pointed out she was a considerable artist and should not be known just for the illustrations of her children's books,'' Mr. Fraser said. ''She was an acute observer of natural history and produced very fine illustrations of animal and insect subjects, as well as archeological artifacts and landscapes.'' Interest Is Growing
A Potter biographer, Judy Taylor, said: ''The interest in her is growing at a fascinating rate. The fact that we had this big exhibition at the Tate is remarkable, and more is being written about her.''
''Her stories are very strong and beautifully rounded,'' Miss Taylor said. ''Children know where they are with them. She doesn't write down to them; she uses difficult phrases and words, which are intriguing even if you don't always understand what they mean.''
A new, ''easy to read'' edition of Peter Rabbit with very simplified drawings caused outrage in the British press last fall and Miss Taylor resigned as the publishers' artistic adviser.
Miss Potter's books have been translated into Latin, Japanese, Icelandic and Afrikaans, among other languages. The most recent inquiries about publication rights have come from Bulgaria and Indonesia. Always Strong Sales
''In 80 years there has never been a time when Beatrix Potter did not sell well,'' said Sally Floyer, from Miss Potter's publishers, Frederick Warne. ''But in the last 20 years, people have focused on quality illustrated children's books and she has been handed down from a generation to another.''
Miss Potter, who was almost entirely self-taught as an artist, is particularly popular in Japan, where her books have sold nearly five million copies and where there is a Friends of Peter Rabbit society.
Her first book, ''The Tale of Peter Rabbit,'' was published in 1902 and was an immediate success, selling 28,000 copies between October and Christmas that year.
There is also a secondary Potter industry in china, jigsaw puzzles, tea cosies and clothes, but this is not a new phenomenon.
''She was an extremely good businesswoman and she began merchandising - with a Peter Rabbit doll -as early as 1903,'' Miss Taylor said.
Miss Potter lived in the scenic Lake District in northwestern England, where she went into farming when her eyesight began to fail.
''She became a farmer and a sheep breeder and ran an extremely successful farming business ending up with 14 farms covering 4,000 acres,'' Miss Taylor said. Miss Potter, who died in 1943, bequeathed all her property to the National Trust, a charity dedicated to preserving British heritage. She was born in London in 1866 but had always been attracted by the country, and moved to the Lake District in 1905.
She and her brother Bertram kept animals at home to study and to draw. ''She had a very lonely childhood,'' Miss Taylor said. ''She was the child of wealthy middle-class parents, and it was a time when children were educated at home, so she was very much thrown on her own resources.''
When she was 46, Miss Potter married a lawyer. They had no children.


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Your source for Mountain Biking in the Triangle
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill
Current Trail Status
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|Average Rating
|Overall :
|3.4 / 5.0 based on 42 votes
|Technical :
|2.3 / 5.0 based on 42 votes
|Climbing :
|1.9 / 5.0 based on 42 votes
|Freeride :
|1.9 / 5.0 based on 42 votes
|Scenery/Wildlife :
|3.6 / 5.0 based on 42 votes
|Flow :
|3.5 / 5.0 based on 34 votes
Location: Southwestern Wake County
Miles: 8
Skill Level: beginner to intermediate
Contact: Park office (919) 387-4342 (call to see if trail is open)
Park Hours and Fees
Rules of the Trail
Like Lake Crabtree Park,
Harris Lake's mountain bike trails are close to a lake,
made up of several loops that connect to a main trail,
and are managed by Wake County Parks. The breeze coming
across the water can be quite refreshing on a hot summer
day! The major loops here are signed as
"beginner", "intermediate" and
"advanced", and can be enjoyed by all skill
levels. A few optional "double black diamond"
loops have been added near the advanced section. This
trail has something for everyone, from the "just got
my first off-road bike" beginner to the more
seasoned rider, and all obstacles have optional
ride-arounds so that beginners and veterans can enjoy the
trails together. In short, this is just a good set of
single-track trails. Currently there is approximately 8
miles of bicycling trails.
The park is located in a flatter part of Wake County so there aren't as many long or steep hills as some other trails, but rest assured, the available terrain has been used wisely. There are several log crossings, a couple of whoopdee-doo sections and a few small bridges on the trail.
Harris Lake County Park also has full amenities such as restrooms, picnic shelters, play areas, Frisbee golf, fishing locations and canoe rentals.
Check the Events calendar for upcoming races and trail workdays at Harris Lake County Park.
Park Hours and Fees
8:00 am to sunset, seven days a week. Hours are posted at the gate, and on the phone answering system. The park is closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.
Access to the park is free.
From Raleigh: Take 440 to US 1 South. Take US 1 12 miles from beltline to exit 89. Take a left and go about 2 miles to the park entrance. Go to the back of the park and turn left into the parking area. The trailhead is labeled "Hog Run Trail".
From Durham/Ch. Hill: Take 751 past New
Hill and over US 1 (Note: road changes name a few times,
just keep on keepin' on). After
crossing over US 1 go about 2 miles to the park entrance. Go to the back of the park and turn left into the parking area. The trailhead
is labeled "Hog Run Trail".
Rules of the trails
This trail is not open for night riding except under organized night ride events coordinated with cycling clubs and park staff. Stay tuned to this site for upcoming night rides.
Rules, guidelines, and definitions for our TriangleMTB.com trail reviews
I live 15 minutes from Harris so I ride here quite frequently. Changes were made over the past year and they have seriously improved things, IMO. Much better flow and a lot less rooty. The West was left pretty much intact I believe, and that's still one of my favorite trails.
I used to drive 30 minutes to get to Crabtree but these days I spend all my time at Harris. It's a lot of fun. The beginner/intermediate trails are a good warmup, although those trails aren't in as good a condition as the advanced section. I believe I heard that they will be doing work to the Intermediate trails so that could change. My preferred loop in the advanced has been East-->Fire Road-->New Connector (across from the inner loop, a super fun little trail)-->West-->North-->Fire Road-->New Connector (Yes I like it so much I hit it twice!)-->South. Really fun loop, combined with the intermediate/beginner stuff it's 11+ miles.
I feel very lucky to live so close to this trail. I ride it at least one or two times a month. The trails are well maintained and very flowy. There are so many fun sections, especially in the advanced area. You don't have to climb much to get great flowy roller coaster type rides. If you're looking for jumps and crazy riding features this isn't the place for you. If you want to ride where there's beautiful scenery while cruising at 8-10mph this is the place. There are some rooty sections but overall it's not bad.
|Once again Harris Lake trails are closed. All other trails are open but not Harris Lake. So frustrating. Seems like this trail is closed more than open unless there is an event. Then it is open rain or shine. So inconsistent.
|From Durham, its a pleasant and easy ride out there via the American Tobacco Trail and the trails are flowy and fun after a long spin, but one warning, the water from the water fountain is terrible and murky. We both felt nauseaus after drinking it. They have a vending machine that sells water so bring one dollar bills or fill up at the convenience store on US 1. The park staff is present and helpful in terms of navigating the trails if its your first time out.
|Harris Lake is fun. It's not particularly rigorous, but definitely one of those places where what you put in is what you get out. I love it to get a hard fast spin. Do the whole trail twice! Ideal for single speeders...nothing that is not rideable.
It's not a bad trail but not a very fun one either. Imagine a Lake Crabtree but with more elevation change, more roots, and basically no flow. The advanced section has a couple ok jumps and berms along with a small black diamond area with some steep up and downs. There's a skills area in the beginning that's pretty fun. This trail is really more for fitness than fun/tech.
If you're from the triangle area then you can have more fun at Crabtree. Otherwise, if you're going to do this drive you might as well go the extra 10 miles to San Lee which is infinitely better.
|Not sure why this trail has a low rating relative to the others in the area. I think it is a great trail for beginner to intermediate riders. I like how it is laid out with "beginner", "intermediate" and "advanced" loops so you can pick what you want based on ability. It is not technically challenging for intermediate riders, but can be a good workout because it has good flow with a few jumps and a fun little double diamond section. There is also a skills area for practice.
|Excellent trail for beginners, a few tough obstacles but nothing overwhelming. Beginner loop is 0.7 miles, and both intermediate loops put together are about 2 miles, and all of the advanced loops are 5 miles together. Great view of the lake, and a lot of nearby wildlife. I have come within a few feet of deer quite a few times on this trail. Not a lot of climbs, but enough to work the legs a bit. Overall, I don't know why this trail is rated so low, probably because it's lack of "technical" obstacles, but overall this is a very enjoyable ride. Highly recommend this trail for true beginners looking to see what mountain biking is all about!
|No detailed review given.
Considering the other trails I've ridden in the area (CNF, Little River, Briar Chapel, & Little River) this is a pretty good group of trails. For anyone looking to log substantial mileage, be prepared to ride everything in both directions. For anyone looking to spend an hour or two pedaling through the woods on singletrack, get some exercise, and occasionally be challenged, these are great trails for you.
-The beginner trail is .5 miles and hitting it twice is a good way to get warmed up and get your bike dialed in.
-The intermediate trail is pretty tame (save for a good number of root-y sections), but is enough to get you off your seat occasionally and get you ready for the advanced section.
-The advanced loops (it's kind of a contorted clover shape) are a good way to get lost in the magic that is a thin strip of dirt coming at your front tire. There are roots galore to keep you from getting to complacent, with plenty of twists, turns, and dips for one to lean into and pump through. Where a few of the loops run along the lake, there are a series of relatively challenging ups-and-downs through fingerling gulleys that edge the water. These all have ride-arounds and are marked with the relative rating of 'Double Black Diamond'. There are a smattering of skinnies in some of the trails and a couple of wooden jumps--however, many land to flat, meaning you may need to carry good speed, be prepared to drop your seat, or just ride around.
Given what's available in the Triangle area, I'd say this is pretty similar to CNF, with less overall diversity in trails and fewer instances of challenging topography. However, the trails at Harris Lake are better maintained than CNF and appear to dry faster.


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Andy KrollMay 13, 2013 10:31 AM
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and the private space travel company SpaceX, has parted ways with FWD.us, the tech-centric political group that Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg launched last month. So, too, has investor and entrepreneur David Sacks, who created the social network Yammer and financed the satiric 2005 movie Thank You for Smoking. The tech news website AllThingsD first reported the departures of Musk and Sacks, and their names have been removed from the list of nearly two-dozen "major contributors" to FWD.us.
Zuckerberg and Facebook "Causes" creator Joe Green founded FWD.us to lobby on behalf of Silicon Valley firms in Washington. They quickly earned the endorsements of a host of other tech superstars. The group—which, as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, does not have to disclose its donors—has reportedly raised more than $25 million so far. The group chose the ongoing fight over comprehensive immigration reform as its first foray into Congressional politics, seeking to expand the number of visas available to engineers and other high-skilled workers that tech companies would like to recruit. By all accounts, FWD.us' message has gotten a warm reception on Capitol Hill.
But the group caused a political firestorm recently when it ran TV advertisements praising Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) for supporting more oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve. Another ad depicted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) criticizing Obamacare and President Obama's refusal (so far) to green-light the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. FWD.us ran the ads to give Begich and Graham some political cover on immigration reform, the theory being that by touting the senators' conservative bona fides, they could give them the space to take a moderate position on an immigration reform bill. The Begich and Graham ads ran for a week and are no longer on the air. Liberal and environmental groups reacted furiously to FWD.us' conservative and anti-environmental message, protesting at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California. And last week, nine progressive groups, including MoveOn.org, Progressives United, the Sierra Club, and Daily Kos, pledged to pull down their existing paid Facebook ads or cancel future ad buys for at least two weeks.
It's not surprising that Musk would break with FWD.us. Tesla Motors builds high-end electric cars; its entire business model is built around a clean-tech economy. Musk also sits on the board of SolarCity, a company that delivers, installs, and maintains solar panels powering homes, businesses, and government offices.
Musk sent this statement to AllThingsD: "I agreed to support Fwd.us because there is a genuine need to reform immigration. However, this should not be done at the expense of other important causes. I have spent a lot of time fighting far larger lobbying organizations in DC and believe that the right way to win on a cause is to argue the merits of that cause. This statement may surprise some people, but my experience is that most (not all) politicians and their staffs want to do the right thing and eventually do."
FWD.us spokeswoman Kate Hansen emailed this statement to Mother Jones: "We recognize that not everyone will always agree with or be pleased by our strategy—and we're grateful for the continued support of our dedicated founders and major contributors. FWD.us remains totally committed to supporting a bipartisan policy agenda that will boost the knowledge economy, including comprehensive immigration reform."
Asawin SuebsaengMay 10, 2013 7:52 PM
Val Kilmer is a part-time Washington lobbyist now.
Earlier this week, the film and stage actor (Batman Forever, Top Gun, The Doors, MacGruber) was on Capitol Hill advocating for the Equitable Access to Care and Health Act, which would expand Americans' ability to claim religious exemptions to Obamacare's health insurance mandate. Kilmer alerted the world to his latest foray into political advocacy with a series of tweets, which included a photo taken at the Hart Senate Office Building.
In the bowels of government WASHINGTON DC twitter.com/ValEKilmer/sta…
— Val Kilmer (@ValEKilmer) May 8, 2013
In the bowels of government WASHINGTON DC twitter.com/ValEKilmer/sta…
A day lobbying for health care exemption on the hill. The EACH ACT (bill #1814). twitter.com/ValEKilmer/sta…
— Val Kilmer (@ValEKilmer) May 8, 2013
A day lobbying for health care exemption on the hill. The EACH ACT (bill #1814). twitter.com/ValEKilmer/sta…
New hair do for my new job as lobbyist twitter.com/ValEKilmer/sta…
— Val Kilmer (@ValEKilmer) May 9, 2013
New hair do for my new job as lobbyist twitter.com/ValEKilmer/sta…
The description of "lobbyist" here should not be taken literally; a search on the House lobbying disclosure webpage does not yield Kilmer's name.
The EACH Act is sponsored by Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.), best known for getting his six-pack abs splashed on the cover of Men's Health. Under the EACH Act, Americans can avoid the insurance mandate if they file an affidavit stating that their religious faith bars them from buying insurance. Various religious groups have fiercely opposed the law, and Obamacare already includes a "religious conscience exemption."
Kilmer did not respond to requests for comment and it's not known whom he met with (he reportedly had dinner with Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York). "We have no idea why he was at the Hill; we have nothing to do with that part of his life," a representative for the actor said. "He doesn't have a publicist now, and he doesn't really do interviews."
Kilmer's visit is likely linked to his religious faith; he is a committed Christian Scientist. "It is quite a challenging faith," he told Esquire in 2005. Certain Christian Scientists' beliefs about health care, particularly their denial of modern medical care to children, are controversial, to say the least.
This isn't the 53-year-old actor first brush with politics. A few years ago, Kilmer considered making a run for governor of New Mexico, consulting with strategists and politicos; then-New Mexico governor Bill Richardson said he liked Kilmer's prospects partly because "he was Batman." He has engaged in some environmental activism and supported Ralph Nader in the 2008 presidential election. In 2010, Kilmer teamed up with the ACLU to win the right to convert his ranch near Santa Fe into a posh bed-and-breakfast.
It's hard to say if Val Kilmer will continue his public charge for Obamacare religious exemptions. As for merging elements of his faith and profession, it's still a work in progress: For more than a decade Kilmer has been working on a "tragicomic" film about Mark Twain—and Christian Science church founder Mary Baker Eddy.
David CornMay 10, 2013 4:45 PM
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton take part in the Transfer of Remains Ceremony marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed in Benghazi, Libya.
The latest revelations about the Benghazi talking points—as opposed to what actually happened at the US diplomatic facility at Benghazi, where four Americans died—do not back up Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham's hyperbolic and absurd claim that the Benghazi controversy is Obama's Watergate. But neither are they nothing.
As ABC News reported on Friday morning, the most discussed talking points in US diplomatic history were revised multiple times before being passed to UN Ambassador Susan Rice prior to her appearances last September on Sunday talk shows. The revisions—which deleted several lines noting that the CIA months before the attack had produced intelligence reports on the threat of Al Qaeda-linked extremists in Benghazi—appear to have been driven by State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland, who, it should be noted, is a career Foggy Bottomer who has served Republican and Democratic administrations, not a political appointee. Her motive seems obvious: fend off a CIA CYA move that could make the State Department look lousy. (The other major deletion concerned three sentences about a possible link between the attack and Ansar al-Sharia, an Al Qaeda-affiliated group; last November, David Petraeus, the former CIA chief, testified that this information was removed from the talking points in order to avoid tipping off the group.)
But here's the problem for the White House: It was part of the interagency process in which State sought to downplay information that might have raised questions about its preattack performance. That's a minor sin (of omission). Yet there's more: On November 28, White House spokesman Jay Carney said, "Those talking points originated from the intelligence community. They reflect the IC's best assessments of what they thought had happened. The White House and the State Department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of those two institutions were changing the word 'consulate' to 'diplomatic facility because 'consulate' was inaccurate."
Assuming the talking points revisions released by ABC News are accurate—and the White House has not challenged them—Carney's statement was not correct. The State Department did far more than change one word, and it did so in a process involving White House aides. So, White House critics can argue, Carney put out bad information and did not acknowledge that State had massaged the talking points to protect itself from inconvenient questions.
This is not much of cover-up. There is no evidence the White House is hiding the truth about what occurred in Benghazi. My colleague Kevin Drum dismisses this recent Benghazi news ("on a scale of 1 to 10, this is about a 1.5"). But the White House has indeed been caught not telling the full story. Despite Carney's statement, there was politically minded handling of the talking points. Yet in today's hyperpartisan environment, such a matter cannot be evaluated with a sense of proportion. Obama antagonists decry it as a deed most foul, and White House defenders denounce the the critics. The talking points dispute is not a scandal; it's a mess—a small mess—and not as significant as the actions (and non-actions) that led to Benghazi. Yet no mess is too tiny for scandalmongers in need of material.
Kate SheppardMay 10, 2013 1:56 PM
On Friday, US District Court Judge Edward Korman went all Dikembe Mutombo on the Obama administration's request to delay implementation of his ruling that emergency contraception be made available over the counter to everyone within 30 days. The Department of Justice announced last week that it is appealing Korman's April 5 decision.
Korman's latest order rejecting the request of a stay is, to put it nicely, highly critical of the Obama administration, calling the DOJ's appeal "frivolous" and an "administrative agency filibuster."
In its appeal, the DOJ claimed that Korman's April 5 decision "undermines the regulatory procedures governing FDA's drug approval process." But Korman calls this argument "something out of an alternate reality," given that the FDA's scientists approved it for use over the counter when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled their decision in December 2011, implementing an age limit of 17. Sebelius, he writes, "completely lacks" the scientific expertise to decide whether a drug is safe and effective.
Korman also accuses the administration of "sugarcoating" its effort to block access by lowering the age for one brand of emergency contraception, Plan B One-Step, on the day before they filed the appeal. The administration has suggested a three-tiered system that Korman explains as:
Korman calls this proposal "convoluted" and "nonsensical."
Further, he notes, the Obama administration's plan still harms all women seeking access to emergency contraception, because they will need to a government-issued identification to prove their age. This is a particular burden on young women, poor women, and minorities, who are less likely to have that ID.
It would, however, benefit Teva, the company that makes Plan B One-Step, Korman writes:
The benefits the proposal would confer on Teva were not insignificant. Because, as the Assistant United States Attorney observed, 99% of Plan B One-Step consumers are aged 15 and above, Teva would lose next to nothing in the way of revenue by limiting sales to those women. On the other hand, Teva's proposal would enable it to have its product, and its product alone, displayed on the shelves in the family planning area of stores with an on-site pharmacy. Thus, a consumer looking for an emergency contraceptive would only find Plan B One-Step on the shelves, and if she came in after the pharmacy counter was closed, her only option would be Plan B One-Step. If she were under the age of 15, she would have no option, because she could only obtain levonorgestrel-based emergency contraceptives with a prescription.
Moreover, because the FDA claimed that one of the studies conducted by Teva—the so-called "actual use" study—was essential to the approval of Teva's proposal, Teva enjoys three years of marketing exclusivity to the 15 and 16 year old consumers. The pharmaceutical companies that sell "brand X" versions of Plan B One-Step as well as the two-pill package of the drug could not display their products on the shelf because the old marketing regime remains in effect for them, and their products can only be sold from behind the pharmacy counter. Anyone under the age of 17 needs a prescription to obtain these products, and anyone over the age of 17 can only obtain them from the pharmacy by showing proof-of-age identification.
While this proposal was a boon to Teva, it did little to eliminate the practical obstructions in obtaining emergency contraception to women of child-bearing age whether over or under age 15. On the contrary, Teva will use its privileged marketing status and exclusivity to increase the cost of the drug. The price of Plan B One-Step under the new marketing regime is expected to be $60, significantly more than the one- or two-pill generic version, and could conceivably go higher, if only to accommodate the more expensive packing, age-verification tags, and anti-theft technology that the new marketing arrangement would require. The cost of all emergency contraception, particularly Plan B One-Step, which is the most expensive, is already an impediment to access for many women and adolescents.
The DOJ has until noon on Monday, May 13 to try to appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals for a stay.
Asawin SuebsaengMay 10, 2013 6:00 AM
The "Great East Coast Cicada Sex Invasion of 2013" is upon us.
After 17 years of feeding and living under the earth's surface, billions of "Brood II" cicadas will emerge this summer between Connecticut and Georgia, swarming in thick, forbidding billows of shed exoskeletons and raucous insect lovemaking. (To get an idea of what the cicada mating call sounds like, click here for audio.)
For all their physical creepiness and loud public sex orgies, the (actually completely harmless) bugs have a rich cultural history in the United States. Bob Dylan wrote a song about the cicadas, for instance. But cicadas also have a rich political history in this country. Here are their greatest hits:
1. Ronald Reagan name-checks the cicada: In June 1987, Greatest President in American History Ronald Reagan delivered one of his weekly radio addresses on the budget plan for fiscal year 1988. In his prepared statement, he used the cicada in a simile to bash Democratic budget proposals:
Like the cicadas, the big spenders are hatching out again and threatening to overrun Congress.
Like the cicadas, the big spenders are hatching out again and threatening to overrun Congress.
President Reagan then asked the American people to get behind a balanced budget amendment and the line item veto to "make the cicadas in Congress go back underground."
The subsequent UPI headline read:
2. John Kerry and the cicada-morphing attack ad: Reagan wasn't the only Republican (or politician, for that matter) to invoke cicadas in a political attack. During the 2004 presidential campaign, the Republican National Committee launched a 1:15-long web ad comparing Democratic candidate John Kerry to the "Brood X" cicada. The attack ad includes an up-close shot of a cicada's face morphing into a picture of a confused-looking John Kerry:
The video, which (naturally) painted Kerry as a serial flip-flopper, was emailed to approximately 700,000 supporters of President George W. Bush: "Every 17 years, cicadas emerge, morph out of their shell, and change their appearance," the narrator observes. "Like a cicada, Sen. Kerry would like to shed his Senate career and morph into a fiscal conservative, a centrist Democrat opposed to taxes, strong on defense."
The Kerry campaign and the Democratic National Committee responded to the ad by saying they were "not bugging out" over it.
John Kerry would go on to lose to George W. Bush in the November election by about 3 million votes.
3. Teddy Roosevelt vs. the anti-imperialist cicadas: In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt gave a Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery. During that speech, he passionately defended American imperialism in the Philippines and his administration's policy of imposing "orderly freedom" on the Filipino people.
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Tim MurphyMay 9, 2013 4:38 PM
"The Liberator."
"The Liberator."
Defense Distributed, the Texas-based company specializing in 3-D-printed plastic firearms, took down its downloadable files on Thursday at the request of the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Control Compliance. The company posted a blueprint for the first fully-operational printed plastic handgun, "The Liberator," on Monday at its site, DEFCAD; the file was downloaded more than a 100,000 times in its first three days.
In a letter to the company's founder, Cody Wilson, the State Department alleged that the Defense Distributed's file-sharing service violated the terms of the Arms Export Control Act, and demanded that it take down 10 of its files, including the Liberator, within three weeks.
"Our theory's a good one, but I just didn't ask them and I didn't tell them what we were gonna do," Wilson, a University of Texas law student, told Mother Jones. "So I think it's gonna end up being alright, but for now they're asserting information control over the technical data, because the Arms Information Control Act governs not just actual arms, but technical data, pictures, anything related to arms."
Erika EichelbergerMay 9, 2013 10:45 AM
Somewhere that looks like the Cayman Islands, home to thousands of US tax cheats.
Somewhere that looks like the Cayman Islands, home to thousands of US tax cheats.
Late Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced a bill that would repeal part of a law aimed at fighting offshore tax evasion.
The law, called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, was passed in 2010 and is supposed to go into effect on January 1, 2014. It requires foreign financial institutions to report information about Americans with accounts worth more than $50,000 to the IRS. Firms that don't comply will be fined.
Tax policy watch dogs say the FATCA is essential to rooting out tax cheats. "The increased bilateral exchange of taxpayer information that...[is] crucial to cleaning up the worldwide shadow financial system," Heather Lowe, director of government affairs for the advocacy organization Global Financial Integrity told Accounting Today earlier this month. "[F]oreign financial institutions should not harbor the illicit assets of U.S. tax evaders."
But Paul's bill to weaken the law was immediately hailed as "heroic" by the biggest independent financial advisory firm in the world. In an email press release from the deVere group, chief executive Nigel Green said, "Senator Paul's heroic stance against this toxic, economy-damaging tax act is a landmark moment in the mission to have it repealed. He has taken a courageous stand against FATCA, [a law that] will impose unnecessary costs and burdens on foreign financial institutions."
Paul, generally a die-hard anti-taxer, says the intent of his bill "is not to disrupt legitimate tax enforcement." Instead, he says he objects to FATCA because it "violates important privacy protections," by giving foreign governments too much access to US citizens' tax information. Paul says he is only in favor of repealing those provisions.
But Paul has a long history of fighting the offshore-tax evasion law. Since FATCA was signed, the Treasury Department has been negotiating and signing treaties with over 50 countries to implement the law's provisions. Paul has put a hold on Senate approval of all tax treaties since he was elected in 2010, and as such has been blamed for trying to block FATCA.
A companion version of Paul's bill is expected to be introduced in the House soon.
Tim MurphyMay 9, 2013 6:00 AM
Every documented migrant death in Pima County, Arizona, from 2001 to 2013
Every documented migrant death in Pima County, Arizona, from 2001 to 2013
Pima County, Arizona, has found a new tool in the quest to save lives along the US-Mexico border: data. On Monday, the county medical examiner's office and Humane Borders, a human rights group based in Tucson, unveiled the Arizona OpenGIS Initiative for Deceased Migrants, an online mapping tool that allows anyone to search the hundreds of known deaths of migrants in the county since 2001.
The app, based on information compiled by the medical examiner and other sources and made possible by an anonymous $175,000 grant to the county, could help identify the unclaimed bodies of migrants and reunite them with their families. The data can be sorted by gender, cause of death, approximate location, and the victim's last name, if known. The medical examiners "get these calls from people—'My loved one disappeared three months ago, five months ago, at this point,'" says John Chamblee, a researcher at the University of Georgia who helped create the app. "Or they'll get a call like, 'The smuggler called me,' and they left their loved one at this point and they try to find out about them." Now can just create a custom map using whatever information they have, and sift through the results.
The Pima County data's impact is potentially far-reaching. Humane Borders hopes better tracking will help reduce the number of fatalities across the borderlands by giving aid workers an idea of where to place food and water. The data can also be used to trace shifts in migrant traffic and how policing strategies affect migrant safety. In Texas' Rio Grande Valley, the number of migrant deaths jumped from 52 in 2011 to 129 last year, an alarming increase immigration experts attributed to more effective strategies to block crossings in Arizona. Researchers like Princeton University sociologist Douglas Massey have attributed the swelling number of deaths along to the militarization of the border: With easily followed geographic corridors closed off, migrants are forced to travel through less navigable terrain, where they may become lost or run out of supplies. According to the Border Patrol, there were 463 migrant deaths in the Southwest in 2012, the highest total since 2005.
But Pima County is mostly alone in its quest for better information on migrant deaths. Only a handful of other counties, such as Imperial in southeastern California, have even produced reliable data. Data collected by the Border Patrol is unreliable, and not very specific. (One of Chamblee's challenges was to reconcile often contradictory data sets maintained by the border patrol, foreign consulates, and the Pima County medical examiner.) As Mother Jones has reported before, the Pima County medical examiner is unique because it is wholly independent of law enforcement, which means it faces less political pressure and fewer distractions. In some smaller counties in Texas, for instance, coroner is just a part-time job.
It's not that officials in other counties don't care about the issue; they're just worried that the data would be misused. "Some of them think politically don't think it's a good idea to create this," said Kat Rodriguez, a program director at Coalición Derechos Humanos Arizona. "Suddenly the narrative would be, 'Oh my God, look how much money is being spent on these illegals.'"
The Pima County project looks at a slice of a larger dataset that does not exist for now. Draft legislation floated by the White House in February included language requiring US Customs and Border Protection to collect statistics on deaths along the border. It would be required to publish those statistics at least once a quarter and issue a report within one year of the bill's passage analyzing any trends and recommending actions to prevent such deaths. The draft immigration bill being considered in the Senate has no such provision, nor do any proposed amendments. In the meantime, Pima County's program will have to do.
Andy KrollMay 8, 2013 6:00 PM
Incoming Congressman Mark Sanford.
Soon after Mark Sanford, the former governor of South Carolina who resigned in disgrace in 2009, pulled off an upset win in his congressional race on Tuesday, a conservative group called the Independent Women's Voice boasted of its role in his victory. "Independent Women's Voice was the only outside group supporting Sanford on a significant scale, by educating voters about the facts about the Democratic candidate," IWV president Heather Higgins said in a statement. IWV spent $250,000 on TV and print ads in the last week of the election, helping to power Sanford to victory over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a special election in South Carolina's 1st Congressional district.
And if the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch are encouraged by Sanford's win, they, too, can claim a degree of credit, for IWV has plenty of ties to the Koch political network.
IWV, a nonprofit group that doesn't have to name its funders (and can't make politics the majority of what it does), is the sister organization of the Independent Women's Forum, another nonprofit focused more on policy issues. Higgins, who chairs IWF's board, has staked out a position as a leading critic of Obamacare. She also argues that independent women voters are not destined to vote Democratic and, instead, these women are up for grabs on political and policy matters and can be won over by Republicans—if GOPers get their messaging right.
When IWV applied for tax-exempt status in September 2004, it listed Nancy Pfotenhauer, a former Koch Industries lobbyist, as its president. (She also had a leadership position at Independent Women's Forum.) Pfotenhauer, who is currently a Koch spokeswoman, has filled a number of roles with Koch-linked groups. She was formerly the president of Americans for Prosperity, the Kochs' flagship advocacy organization, and is now a director at AFP. She was a vice president for Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Koch-backed predecessor to AFP. She also advised John McCain's during his 2008 presidential campaign.
IWV does not have to disclose its donors, but the group received $250,000 in 2009 from the Center to Protect Patient Rights, a money conduit for conservative nonprofits run by Koch operative Sean Noble. As the Center for Responsive Politics has reported, the Center to Protect Patient Rights handed out $44 million in 2010 and nearly $15 million in 2011 to an array of nonprofit groups including Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform and the 60 Plus Association, which describes itself as the "conservative alternative" to the AARP. Noble spoke at a 2010 Koch donor retreat (PDF) in Aspen, Colorado. Pfotenhauer spoke at the same retreat, as did Higgins.
Higgins also briefly served on the board of the Center to Protect Patient Rights. There is no public information revealing whether IWV still receives financial support from Koch-linked sources.
There's another curious wrinkle about IWV. In its 2004 application for tax-exempt status, the group said it would not spend "any money" on influencing elections. Yet in later tax filings, IWV changed its tune and told the IRS it spent $772,435 on elections in 2010. There are no tax filings available yet detailing IWV activity in 2012 or 2013.
IWV's six-figure spending on Mark Sanford's behalf was anything but a safe bet. But as it turns out, it was money very well spent.
Gavin AronsenMay 8, 2013 4:39 PM
Former deputy chief of mission in Libya Gregory Hicks testifies before the House Oversight Committee.
This week, several top Republicans have claimed that a supposed White House administration cover-up of the September 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, would soon bring down the Obama administration, and on Wednesday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House oversight committee, held a much-ballyhooed hearing featuring testimony from three witnesses whom he said would "expose the full truth of what happened both before and after the attacks." Yet while the hearing was underway, Issa tweeted a link to a Washington Post story that undercut his own claim.
As he chaired the hearing, Issa sent out this tweet: "MUST READ: @WashingtonPost breaks down @GOPoversight's #Benghazi hearing" and linked to a Post story filed as the hearing was happening. The article reported what was under way in the hearing room, but it also noted, "the witnesses' prepared testimonies do not include major revelations about the attacks." Major revelations were what the Benghazi critics were breathlessly awaiting.
The Post story did say that the witnesses' "accounts are likely to shed new light on the oversights that made the facilities in Benghazi easy targets"—and to that extent Republicans got what they wanted. The witnesses—State Department officials Gregory Hicks, Eric Nordstrom, and Mark Thompson—presented emotional, long-awaited accounts of the attack and its aftermath. They alleged that requests for additional security before the attack and access to classified State Department documents after the attack fell on deaf ears.
Hicks, the former deputy chief of mission for the US in Libya, echoed the critics' common complaints about the administration's public response to the assault, slamming UN ambassador Susan Rice for initially blaming the attack on an anti-Muslim video that led to protests throughout the region. "I was stunned," he said. "My jaw dropped. I was embarrassed." He also testified that he was told by the State Department not to meet with members of Congress investigating the attack.
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, another top target of Republican criticism, was not mentioned until an hour into the hearing, when Hicks referred to a 2:00 a.m. phone call he received from her seeking details after the attack and shortly before the Libyan prime minister called to inform him of Stevens' death.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the committee, disputed allegations that the State Department's response to the attacks had been misleading. He called the idea that relief efforts had been inadequate—a theory that's been promoted by House Republicans—the "most troubling" of "all the irresponsible allegations" about the Benghazi episode.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) sympathized with the witnesses by recalling how she had been shot five times during a fact-finding mission in 1978, while leaving the Jonestown cult settlement in Guyana. She said she had reservations about the level of security provided at that time, when California Democrat Rep. Leo Ryan became the only member of Congress to die in the line of duty in US history.
At his daily briefing, White House press secretary Jay Carney dismissed the Benghazi hearing as an "effort to chase after what isn't the substance here." He defended Hillary Clinton's handling of the consulate attack and said, "This is a subject that has from its beginning been subject to attempts to politicize it by Republicans, while in fact what happened in Benghazi was a tragedy."
Nevertheless, Issa hinted there may be more testimony in the future. "Our committee has been contacted by numerous other individuals who have direct knowledge of the Benghazi terrorist attack, but are not yet prepared to testify," he said in a statement.
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|[jira] Commented: (OPENJPA-528) FK columns which contain reserved workds are renamed incorrectly.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-528?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12580516#action_12580516 ] Jeremy Bauer commented on OPENJPA-528: -------------------------------------- The original fix provided by Michael has been enhanced to eliminate the problems encountered in the TCK. In short, when schema mapping occurs columns are inserted into a table object, including foreign key columns. Then, when foreign keys are mapped into the same table the column name validator finds the column already exists and generates a new unique column with a numeric value appended. This column is mapped to the foreign key. Later, when the entity is persisted, the extra/incorrectly generated column name is not found in the database table. The result is a SQLException. To eliminate this problem, a new method was added to the DBDictionary to enable/disable the column name uniqueness check. The method to populate the foreign key column was changed to disable uniqueness checking - since the FK column is already in the table. Thus, an extra/incorrect column does not get generated. A patch is provided as OPENJPA-528.patch. Please review by tomorrow morning (3/20/08). > FK columns which contain reserved workds are renamed incorrectly. > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: OPENJPA-528 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-528 > Project: OpenJPA > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Michael Dick > Assignee: Michael Dick > > The check for reserved words in FK column names happens before we append the _ID suffixes. As a result if a reserved word is found we end up appending a number to the reserved word and then appending _ID. > Whats worse is that the check for uniqueness also occurs before we append the _ID, which could lead to other problems down the road. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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