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Exhibit A: Florida
Exhibit B: Ohio
Our voting system is a national embarrassment, but it cannot be fixed because Republicans a) don't care and b) hate fair elections.
The Ohio story is about this:
Under Husted's plan, 12 of those 18 electoral votes would be handed to Mitt Romney, the popular vote loser.
The reason for this is Ohio's incredibly gerrymandered Congressional districts have been drawn to pack Democrats together so they have the majority in only 4 of the state's 16 congressional districts.
Under Husted's plan, 12 of those 18 electoral votes would be handed to Mitt Romney, the popular vote loser.
The reason for this is Ohio's incredibly gerrymandered Congressional districts have been drawn to pack Democrats together so they have the majority in only 4 of the state's 16 congressional districts.
I just looked at the election in Ohio, for some context:
President: 2,697,308 D votes, 2,593,789 R votes. 50.9% D
Senate: 2,645,942 D votes, 2,371,242 R votes.
House: 1,984,187 D votes , 2,282,590 R votes.
(Note in one Republican district and one Democratic district the incumbent ran unopposed and no votes were tallied; these contests might have shifted the totals a bit, likely to the Dems, had they been run)
House seats: 25% Dem (4/16).
That's shameful in its own right. To suggest it should be extended to the Electoral College is just greedy to boot – though I fully expect the Republicans of PA and other blue states they control to do it.
I would not be surprised if this was the biggest Republican fad since voter fraud.
The Republicans actually gained a seat in the OH state house(60-39) while retaining their 23-10 seat supermajority in the state Senate.
It was already floated in Pennsylvania, which has a House/state popular vote discrepancy similar to Ohio's.
This is an example of how they could have beaten us if they wre a bit more competent.
Makes sense from their perspective. They have the advantage in the wide, empty spaces of America, and breaking up votes by congressional district, combined with gerry-mandering, would transform their territorial advantage into an electoral one. It'd also disenfranchise millions of US citizens of course, but sense when as the Republican Party given a damn about that?
It is interesting to go here to see what went on at the state level this election.
In Rhode Island the Republican Party should probably just disband(32-5 Senate, 69-6 House), and in Utah the Democrats aren't doing much better(24-5 Senate, 61-14 House).
Of course a Rhode Island legislature last session with around the same party split passed a Republican-style voter ID law and destroyed public worker pensions.
Here in Illinois we're going to get a Democratic supermajority in both houses and the first item on the agenda will likely be public worker pensions.
One party states have factions instead of parties.
I've lived in one-party Democratic areas. At least in the Northeast you end up with party machines largely staffed with hacks; they will be good on national issues but not on local ones.
Something to keep in mind is that in Rhode Island a lot of those 'Democrats' are basically Republicans who cynically chose a party affiliation that wouldn't be instant poison at the ballot box.
Wow, I was curious about the New Hampshire House having listened to this weekend's This American Life. The results are not yet finalized, but holy shit I counted 73 incumbent Republicans who did not seek reelection or resigned. That is 1/4 of their caucus, and judging from the show I'm betting they were all moderates. As for the radical Republican freshman class of 2010 that was the subject of the show, it looks like 64 of them lost on Tuesday. That's quite reassuring actually.
The New Hampshire House of Representatives has 400 members? That is totally insane, isn't it?
Looks like the next highest number is Pennsylvania with 203. Going by people per representative that's 3295 in NH and 62773 in PA, Vermont being second with 4176. They seem to take "no taxation without representation" seriously in the Northeast Appalachians.
That's just a slightly below average performance for Democrats in Utah.
The best the Dems here have ever been able to hope for is enough of a bloc in one house to uphold a veto.
Florida wouldn't know what to do with itself if it didn't make the headlines every four years during the elections.
I apologoze for our fuckupedness.
You don't have to 'goze for nuthin'.
Florida doesn't matter.
Great minds and all, I just posted a comment on this in Farley's thread, gonna re-post here:
Can we please agitate for secure computer terminals and paper confirmation records now?
Or does that make me an unhinged crank?
I am from Ohio, I have seen all the games. And this issue scares the heck out of me, especially because the Dems aren't the least bit interested.
At least we have 50 separate systems. That's a good firewall. But that also means federal law can only do so much. I don't want a federalized system, but I also don't want a situation where a GOP state legislature could require voters to use Amiga computers from the 90s as the sole systems used to record their votes.
My small city (part of a metro area but not part of a county) went to exclusively paper ballots this election. They were read/tabulated by scan-tron, but no computer voting. We've had computer-ish machines in every election I've voted here (since 2006).
I don't know why they changed, but I will say that they had my polling station room set up to accomodate about 30 people filling out ballots at the same time. No WAY they could have had that many machines available. The most machines I've ever seen for an election was about 6. So maybe paper actually made it quicker to vote?
To be fair, Florida is an embarassment to the United States of America without an election afoot.
But, the blatant and active measures that one faction of our political make-up utilizes and creates just to oppress voting or redistrict is an honest tragedy.
And, as others before me have stated, not a big concern of a lot of people.
I hate saying libs/progs have to sink to repub/con levels, but we must get on the ball about any/all voter-related issues. (Which really means upping our electorate game to the local/state/Rep. levels)
And, for the love of all that is holy, unholy and meh, there should be No Partisanship in the Voting Room. None, whatsoever.
To be fair, Florida is an embarassment to the United States of America without an election afoot.
For certain, non-standard definitions of "fair," sure.
Exhibit C: plurality voting.
Just saying. I know that other stuff is plenty important, and probably 10 times more likely to get fixed (~10% instead of ~1%). But fixing plurality voting would easily be 50 times more important. And it wouldn't be so unlikely if people actually started talking about it.
How is this going to fix gerrymandering?
Exhibit D Arizona. 500,000 uncounted ballots according to Maddow tonight.
You forgot PA.
These things make me happier and happier that I live in California.
Keep fucking that rat, Husted.
If the Republicans actually pulled this off we have an initiative process in Ohio. The districts would be redrawn so quickly that they'd come to regret this power grab. PA lacks that leverage and I'd watch that state to see if the "let's disenfranchise people on the presidential level" movement is the next republican fad.
It was actually already floated in Pennsylvania; that could even be where Husted got the idea. Some legislative Republicans apparently considered it a bridge too far. It was also talked about in Wisconsin last year. Hey, it's not like any more of the red states will adopt the system, so what's not to like?
I really, really hope that Democrats keep up their game in off years for a change, because repeatedly handing complete control of states to Republicans sure does keep biting us on the ass.
As an Ohioan, I want to add that the redistricting bullshit has been a big issue here. Especially here in Lucas County, a solidly democratic area that they originally tried to cut into three different pieces, mixed with huge swaths of conservative area. Effectively breaking up and diluting our vote. Not to mention redistricting Kucinich out of his seat (since they weren't able to legitimately vote him out.)
There WAS an amendment to fix it on the ballot. It was voted down, but I think that may have been voter confusion. People may have (wrongly) believed that the "stop crazy, partisan redistricting" amendment was a "redistricting amendment". That is, they may have thought that a "no" vote meant "no redistricting", as opposed to its actual effect of "no attempts to stop crazy, partisan redistricting". (And, God knows it's hard to get Ohioans to not tune out political ads, for obvious reasons…)
Hopefully, we'll try again, with a better public information campaign, in 2014.
One county, one electoral vote!
(Would be very surprised if some hack somewhere hasn't already floated that plan.)
IMO, the best solution is to get rid of Congressional districts.
Elect all Congresscritters at-large and the problems with gerrymandering obviously disappear.
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10 movies release this Friday and not one excites me. 8 odd released last Friday and some were really bad. Despite that, I had a good run at the movies one week, watching one every day. Yes, folks, that's me. 🙂
It started innocently. I had missed a screening of Hugo thanks to a clash with Fatso and Jannat 2 (that I had to review). After all the lovely things people had to say about Hugo, not only was I determined to watch but also show it to my sister. So after a review of The Little Door, we landed at the PVR Cinemas' box office to watch Hugo. To the disappointment of 7 of us, every theatre across the city was running only one show and this particular one was sold out! Not wanting to watch an 11:15 pm show at Malad (of all places) where I was bound to fall asleep, we promptly booked tickets for the next day.
Just when one of my accompanying friends asked if I'd watch The Avengers with him, again. I really loved The Avengers even though I had originally watched it in 2D. When folks were raving about it in 3D, I didn't realize they meant the IMAX 3D. In any case, I went ahead with it and thus, started my week at the movies (literally).
Of course, I had reviewed the film and here's a link to what I had to say.
I think all day was spent in preparation of watching Hugo. We couldn't have been more excited for it. When the lights dimmed and the movie started rolling, we knew no amount of excitement could have prepared us for what came.
Hugo was heartbreaking-ly beautiful. The kind of movie that could be termed 'magic'. The experience was fulfilling. And it just left you speechless because you couldn't find the right words to do it justice.
I'm a Tim Burton fan (especially for his rendition of Alice In Wonderland :P) and then there's Johnny Depp (who doesn't love him?) and Helena Bonham Carter (who had me at Wings Of The Dove). I enjoyed Dark Shadows.
A good run at the movies had to be disturbed. Dangerous Isshq decided to hold a press screening at PVR, Phoenix (so far!). I made plans to get there with a friend but while driving, my car hit the divider, the tyre burst and I was stuck getting it repaired. Nevertheless, I braved it out and made it just in time. I wish I hadn't though. Dangerous Ishhq was baaad.
Even though press screenings of/at YRF studios are held the same day as the release, there's something to it. Maybe it's walking into the YRF preview theatre, the theme lunch or meeting the people. In any case, I had plonked myself on the seat at 11 am.
There's been quite a debate about this one. I wasn't pleased with the way the 2nd half of Ishaqzaade turned out. It didn't match the 1st. The film had everything going for it, the actors, the music, the cinematography, except for the screenplay.
Do you agree with my review here?
When I thought I had my fill at Ishaqzaade, I received an invitation for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to be screened on Saturday. It isn't common practice to hold screenings of films one week prior to the release or on Saturday morning for that matter. But some of our reviewers were headed to Cannes and they needed to watch the movies before they left. So there we were.
Find my review of the film here. Funnily enough, when my status read The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, people on my messenger either thought I was on vacation or had checked into a hotel for work. I wish I could check into a hotel and play movies all day long. Don't you?


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A car stolen from the Monrovia home of a San Fernando reserve police officer was found abandoned and burned in El Monte early Thursday. However, a gun, badge, police uniforms and other items that had been inside it remained missing, authorities said.
The car was stolen about 7:50 a.m. Wednesday from the 200 block of Los Angeles Street in Monrovia, Monrovia police Sgt. Nick Manfredi said.
A reserve officer from the San Fernando Police Department left his white Honda Accord running and was in the process of loading the car with items when the theft occurred, according to El Monte and Monrovia police.
"He was going from his home back to the car making trips," Manfredi said. "Then he heard the sound of his vehicle revving, looked outside and saw it being driven away."
Inside the car was a 9 mm, semiautomatic handgun loaded with eight rounds and a San Fernando Police Department badge, Manfredi said.
Also in the car were police uniforms and firefighting equipment, El Monte police Lt. Dan Burlingham said.
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Geographers chosen for panel on climate change
University of South Carolina geographers Dr. Kirstin Dow and Dr. Ed Carr are among 800 of the world's top scientists who will have key roles in compiling an international science report on global climate change.
The report will be published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as early as 2013.
The IPCC was established in 1988 by the World Meterological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess major scientific and technical issues confronting governments and other organizations interested in climate change.
Dow and Carr, who are associate professors of geography in the university's College of Arts and Sciences, were selected from a field of 3,000 scientists nominated to contribute to the report.
Both will have a key role in the compilation of a volume on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability associated with climate change. Dow will serve as a lead author for the report's chapter on adaptation, opportunities, constraints and limits, while Carr will serve as a review editor for a chapter on rural areas.
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Really good for you. i recommend taking fish oil daily for overall health. you can't surf if your not healthy.. . god bless
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Really good for you. i recommend taking fish oil daily for overall health. you can't surf if your not healthy.. . god bless
all recent shark attack victims had fish oil in them at the time of attack
...god bless
I was taking fish oil for almost three years before my doctor urged me to stop. According to 2011 study by the US Cancer Institute, men who take fish oil have a 71% higher risk to develop prostate cancer than those who don't take fish oil. You'll find plenty of articles on this, just as you'll find plenty of articles that says it's a bunch of bull. Either way, I'm not taking that chance. Enjoy!
I take fish oil daily with my GNC multi pack, Mega Man Joint. I trashed my body skateboarding and what not. Taking these vitamins makes a huge difference in how I feel. I had arthritic knees by 27 (one knee had a total reconstruction) so I'm always looking for ways to relieve joint pain. No narcotic solutions for this guy. Take care of your body's folks because they're not replaceable like skateboard decks.
Flaxseed oil. And less stress. ¡buena suerte!
I take 1 a day and my dogs do too.
yeah, everything is tainted and dangerous these days... that's why the average lifespan has been increasing moderately over the course of time. speaking of mercury - the Japanese are the worlds largest concentration of centurions (ppl who are at least 100 years old) and they contribute their long lives largely to diet of fish and vegetables. maybe ingesting mercury correlates to living a long life...
I have heard good things about fish oil. I just take a multivitamin that may have some fish oil in it, but I would consult a doctor or nutritionist for a more reliable opinion.
I has been widely shown that multi vitamins have little to no health benefit. The body is not able to absorb the vitamins in these capsules. The majority of the pill you take comes right out the other side.
The idea that because a carrot is healthy and contains a lot of beta carotene, therefore isolating beta carotene into a pill will have the same effect is flawed thinking. Food science is still in its infancy and the way various vitamins and nutrients in a particular type food interact to create a positive health benefit is not understood.
Feel free to waste your money on vitamins. Most likely any positive effects you are feeling is just a placebo.
to get actual nutrients your body can use eat lots of fruits, vegetables and wild caught fish. its as easy as that.


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You speed bumps are giving me a headache. Try Wet n Wild in Orlando.. they have a killer wave pool.
Well, Typhoon Lagoon(Disney World) is better, plus Jeb Bush surfs there. Yo, any of you Floridians know Noelle Bush? She's pretty cool, huh?
And I reckon Singer Island likes self-inflicted headaches becuase this was cleary a sponging sensitive thread, but he just had to take a look. And boom, he just got knocked the F out by novice sponge questions. Took it right to the dome. But don't worry, luckily, there is a pain management place in every strip mall down there. He'll be ok.


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why are you quoting shit about me not entering? i already stated i'm not doing battles.
preview might very well end up final entry..
yay, i won!
new theme is animal like chars ..so you can do like a rabbit or hawk or a tigerelephantsnakehuman..all the additional stuff is up to you guys..
dont know if it works so...http:[email protected]/4732860601/
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well id be better if you copy the url and go to insert image when writing your post...so we can see it immediately..i kinda like yours, not too bad..
to me it seems deadline in char thread doesnt work..we will expand it each n everytime to get more people in..so just draw something up if you feel like..im goin to draw my entry today i guess..have semester exams in about 2 weeks and have to do lots of catchup work...didnt do much graff lately..atesk knows whatsup..haha ive been gettin on his nerves for that shit muahahhaa
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damn this is old
you never see a killer like me coming then yea dead one shot u get it
damn this is taking forever
truth phat nobodys entering..dammit caracs are the strongest part of my whole style n its the one battle no ones into haha
I'm good at characs too mayn, how about a friendly battle u and i ?
what you are talking about no one entered last battle beside me, phat you could have...so ill be announcing new battle if you two are up to it...
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We see it all the time here. Lasting true friendships. If you're an alum or "future alum" then you probably know what I'm talking about. There just seems to be a real connection between brothers and sisters who become close while at Multnomah - praise God for that!
An Email to the Alumni Department:
Hello Multnomah Alumni Dept. (that means you Michelle and Farrah!),
Hope y'all are doing well. I always enjoy getting the Multnomah update in my email box. I do hope things are going better for you healthwise Michelle. Please know you have been prayed for today!
Attached is a picture from the Disneyland Half Marathon this past August. I think the picture captures the love between friends...friendships that were made during our Grad Year 2004-2005 and still continue to this day. Toby Yuen and myself (Ed Murphy) did the race, and Brinton and Allison Hinz (who met and were married that Grad year) came out to cheer us on. It was a fun reunion time we had together.
During the months I was training and preparing for the race, I really wasn't thinking about the race itself but I was more focused on how excited I was to see my friends again. It was a huge blessing for all of us to reconnect that weekend. Although we are not living next door to each other anymore in the single seminary student housing, we still have the friendships that were made while we were part of the Multnomah community. And we still are part of the Multnomah community! 🙂 These are the people who helped spur me on in my relationship with God during school, and they continue to do so now. I'm thankful for friends, like these and others, that I made while in seminary. I'm thankful that the Lord allowed me the blessing to attend Multnomah.
Anyway, I was just counting my blessings tonight and wanted to share them with you. God Bless you guys!
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Microsoft wants 20,000 extra green cards per year too
Microsoft is willing to
pay the U.S. government for additional H-1B worker visas
, saying there aren't enough skilled Americans to fill its available job openings.
More specifically, it suggested that the government raise $500 million a year by tacking on an extra $10,000 fee for each newly created H-1B visa or $15,000 for each new green card. This money can then be used to offer better education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) for Americans. Microsoft noted that not enough Americans are skilled in these areas to keep up with demand.
In addition to raising the number of visas offered, Microsoft wants the government to give 20,000 extra green cards per year.
H-1B visas allow foreign workers to come to the U.S. temporarily to work in their field. They can renew their visas every three years. Green cards, on the other hand, allow foreign workers to live in the country permanently. Currently, the government offers 65,000 visas a year, but in the past has seen numbers as high as 195,000.
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Many worry, however, that Microsoft is just looking for cheap labor. An issue is that Microsoft and other corporations don't need to prove that there aren't skilled Americans to fill these jobs. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) even warned that there are "inadequate safeguards" that protect skilled Americans from being booted out of jobs for cheaper foreign workers.
"The biggest myth people have is that a company like Microsoft somehow looks to foreign workers as an easy supply to displace American workers," said Karen Jones, Microsoft's deputy general counsel for human resources. "We simply cannot find qualified Americans to fill these jobs."
An analysis of Microsoft's green card applications shows that 25 percent were entry-level workers and 61 percent were a step up as software engineers or marketing managers. Most hold technical jobs, but most also make fewer than six figures while many graduates usually demand over $100,000 annual salaries.
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You're from Gerrards Cross! i worked there at the tanning shop. I'm from Wycombe. What weight are you?
You're from Gerrards Cross! i worked there at the tanning shop. I'm from Wycombe. What weight are you?
goodluck mate.
"My whole life is an epic journey man, I mean who else do you know that listens to Enya whilst taking a dump?"
Haha yeah small world hey? I fight at 75kg, once i have fought at 70kg but that is way too low i havent been that much since i was like 10.
Quick update, I won my fight by a BIG decision tonight against Kevin Stonehill (Didnt get to fight Wez in the end)
Spanked him in the 1st with a right cross, left hook & lead leg headkick to put him down. Picked him off and wore on him with some heavy kicks to finish strong.
Second went the same way with another headkick that caught his guard, rocked him again with that and was immediately pounding away with all i had to get a finish while it was there. Unfortunately i didnt manage it and backed off to save myself from blowing myself out for no reason! Almost done it again with a nice check hook late in the round but didnt capitalise as im an idiot!
Third round i knew i had it in the books so i made sure i stayed nice and technical, kept moving and picking off with hands and feet not to give any risks. Increased the tempo here and there probing for a late tko/ko.
Guy was TOUGH, i literally gave him all i could without dying out and he kept on coming so props for that i thought i hit hard! LOL!
It was a nice win and its pushed me up to 3-0-0 so its smiles all round for me
Link to the last fight, it starts about 4minutes in. Please excuse my awful kicks at the start of the round LOL!! Dont ask what I was thinking oh my lord. Watching it back there is so many things I have done wrong and could have done better, im not happy with that performance now. Especially the third round the effort in that was seriously lacking!! But thats what its there for and thats why I train so next time out all of the problems & mistakes will be strengths!!
The link to my second fight is on the link below aswel starts at 41.40, this was a TERRIBLE weight cut down to 70kgs, first time I had ever cut weight like that for a fight and it seriously impacted me in the fight. Had nothing in the tank & felt sloppy as hell. Rules were changed by my opponent as he didnt want any leg kicks or knees to the head, I agreed as I was sure i would win anyways lol. After getting kneed in the nuts @ 43.10ish I realised oh shit im in a scrap and sharpened up a bit, took a while lol! All in all an awful fight but ended up getting the Knockout of the night though with a lovely headkick @ 47.08 that makes a cracking noise on impact


text: Okay, I do this every year and nobody has ever gotten more than 1 or 2 correct. Let's see if we can beat that this year. You have 20 players to choose. You're not picking who you want the Cowboys to choose but who they actually will take in this draft. How you use those 20 picks is up to you. If you want to burn 5 picks on 1st round prospects, that's on you. Here are my 20, but this is like the deaf kid dancing. 1. Kenny Vaccaro S Texas 2. Sylvester Williams DT North Carolina 3. D.J. Fluker T Alabama 4. Justin Pugh T Syracuse 5. Cornellius Carradine DE Florida St. 6. Jonathan Cyprien S Florida International 7. Terrance Williams WR Baylor 8. Eric Reid S LSU 9. Travis Frederick C Wisconsin 10. Khaseem Greene OLB Rutgers 11. Akeem Spence DT Illinois 12. Le'Veon Bell RB Michigan St. 13. Brian Winters G Kent St. 14. Josh Boyce WR TCU 15. Sanders Commings CB Georgia 16. Devin Taylor DE South Carolina 17. Cobi Hamilton WR Arkansas 18. Rontez Miles S California (Pa.) 19. Blaize Foltz G TCU 20. Demontre Hurst CB Oklahoma


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A message from Board of Regents Chairman Howard Hawks on the presidential search
As you know, President James B. Milliken has accepted the position of chancellor of the City University of New York and soon will be leaving Nebraska. I'm very pleased to tell you that at our meeting on Friday, the Board of Regents will consider the appointment of James Linder, M.D., of Omaha, as interim president, effective May 3, 2014.
Dr. Linder is very familiar with the university, having served in faculty and administrative positions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and in the Office of the President on a full- or part-time basis for more than 30 years. Currently, he is senior associate to the president for innovation and economic competitiveness and president of the University Technology Development Corporation. He also recently chaired the successful search for the new UNMC chancellor.
Dr. Linder holds an appointment as professor of pathology and microbiology at UNMC, where he received his medical degree and has served on the faculty since 1983. During that time, he has held a number of administrative positions, including vice chair of pathology, director of surgical pathology and cytopathology, associate dean for academic affairs, interim dean of the College of Medicine, associate vice chancellor for research and CEO of UNeMed. He also has extensive experience in the private sector.
Dr. Linder is widely published and holds multiple patents. He and his wife, Karen Linder, founded and manage Linseed Capital, which supports early-stage startup companies in the Midwest.
The Board of Regents considered several outstanding candidates for interim president, and Dr. Linder emerged as our consensus top choice to lead the university during this period of transition. He is deeply committed to our mission to serve Nebraskans through teaching, research and service, and he understands how important it is to maintain the momentum each campus is experiencing today because of your hard work. We believe he will do an excellent job.
Dr. Linder will spend the month of April working closely with President Milliken to help ensure a smooth transition. We expect him to remain interim president until the national search is successfully completed and the new president begins. He and the Board have mutually agreed that he will not be a candidate for the permanent position.
Much work remains for my colleagues on the Board and me as we continue the presidential search. President Milliken will be difficult to replace, but we are committed to finding the right person who can build on the University of Nebraska's impressive trajectory. We hope you will continue to provide us your feedback on the search at www.nebraska.edu/presidentsearch.
Thank you for your commitment and contribution to the success of the University of Nebraska.
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The hosts of ABC's hit daytime TV show The Chew bring you their easy, delicious meals, entertaining tips, and money-saving tricks, in this must-have companion cookbook.
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I loved my iPhone 4 results. But no one can get them on iPhone 5 unless you severely cripple the phone's abilities. Or never use the 4G transmitter.
Well, its the matter of taste. In my case, the difference in speed doesn't matter to me. Both phones do more or less the same things. There is however one thing I like more on i5, it's the light weight of it ,very nice indeed. But, as I stated before, that's not enough for me, to pay for it.
I don't know the specific article at Apple to point you to I read it a couple of years ago in the main documents you get with your phone. Yes, imagine that, actually reading the instructions of something you buy. :-)
Okay here's my test results:
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It says I've plugged it in because I forgot to take a screenshot before I put it on to charge (you can see it is charging at the time of the screenshot, that's what it is referring to). This wasn't a high use day either so that pretty dismal.


text: CHaff you should read before you write... I saw Xcel infinity suits at marshalls for 69.99. I didnt say you bought it there. Just a statement that I saw them. Am I stupid for buying a 170$ suit for 69.99? I think not. Im not going to get into how long I've been bodyboarding and the places across the world that i've surfed, but I am respected where I surf. I also stand up surf when the waves are smaller so theres no need to bring up the fact that I'm a bodyboarder. Anyway I think this "IDIOT" has said enough. Take care buddy.


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La La Anthony To Get Primary Temporary Custody Of Son & Carmelo Gets Visitation
(TMZ) -- Carmelo Anthony and La La are hashing out a temporary custody agreement in which she will get primary custody of their son ... TMZ has learned.
Sources close to the former couple tell TMZ 10-year-old Kiyan will live with La La in NYC. He'll spend a couple of days a week with Carmelo.
TMZ was told the two believe they can work out all the details without going to court ... it being done with their lawyers.
Both Carmelo and La La agree it's important they work out a structure for Kiyan so he's not whipsawed from place to place while they end their marriage. TMZ was told La La has issues with Carmelo for sure, but she's adamant he's a great dad and deserves time with his son.
TMZ was told they are absolutely getting divorced, even though legal docs haven't been filed ... yet.


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Right now the political landscape is grim for Republicans–and in the short term, thanks to the so-called fiscal cliff, things may get grimmer still. But moments like these can pass, often quicker than we think. And next year may turn out to be one in which the pernicious effects of the Affordable Care Act–aka ObamaCare–really begin to kick in, from higher premiums to the loss of employer-based health insurance to the start of enrollment in insurance exchanges. It will become more and more clear to the public what a nightmarish law the Affordable Care Act actually is.
"The administration is well behind schedule," my Ethics and Public Policy Center colleague James Capretta told Byron York of the Washington Examiner. "It's going to be a train wreck in a lot of places."
The Affordable Care Act is President Obama's signature legislative achievement. Even before its worst effects have been felt it was, according to the presidential scholar George C. Edwards III, "perhaps the least popular major domestic policy passed in the last century." If conservatives are correct about the inherent flaws of ObamaCare–and I believe they are–it could well become a political millstone around the neck of Democrats for much of the rest of this decade and beyond. This will have ramifications far beyond what happens regarding the fiscal cliff.
As the problems with the Affordable Care Act mount, Mr. Obama will do what comes most naturally to him: blame others. In the end, though, ObamaCare is his baby. It's one of the most far-reaching progressive achievements in modern times. And it will, if the conservative view of the world is right, turn out to be a policy disaster of the first order.
In 2010, Mr. Obama got what he wanted. He signed the Affordable Care Act into law. In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld its constitutionality. And it 2013 liberals and Democrats may well learn the wisdom of the words, "Be Careful What You Wish for 'cause It Might Come True."
ObamaCare, 2013, and the Start of the GOP Comeback
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Syria's Forsaken Rebels
Has Washington given up on Syria?
Last week, I wrote about one of the troublesome byproducts of the Trump-Putin summit in Hamburg: a ceasefire in southwestern Syria that Israel worries will entrench Iranian control of that area bordering the Israeli Golan Heights. The day after my article came out, the Washington Post reported on another troubling decision that President Trump has made vis a vis Syria: Ending a CIA program that had provided arms and training to anti-Assad forces.
Gen. Tony Thomas, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, insisted that this decision was not a sop to Russia. But whether intended that way or not, that is the effect of this decision. The Post quoted a current U.S. official as saying: "This is a momentous decision. Putin won in Syria." That seems indisputable. By stopping support for the anti-Assad forces, the U.S. is conceding that Bashar Assad—Russia and Iran's client—will stay in power indefinitely.
The U.S. continues, of course, to support the Syrian Democratic Forces, the misleading name of the largely Kurdish YPG rebels that are besieging the Islamic State city of Raqqa. But the YPG has no interest in overthrowing Assad and no interest in governing Arab areas. Their objective is to set up a Kurdish state, Rojava, in northern Syria, and they have friendly relations both with Damascus and Tehran. There is no way that the Kurds can rule the majority of Syrian territory, which is populated by Arabs.
That will leave multiple factions to battle it out for control of most of Syria: the Iran-Assad-Russia axis (spearheaded by Hezbollah and other Iranian-created militias, and backed by Russian air power), the al-Nusra Front (the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, which is rumored to get support from Gulf states), and the Islamic State, which may be down at the moment but hardly out. These factions have their differences, but they are united on certain core essentials. All are rabidly anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Israeli, and all are violent jihadists, whether of the Shiite or Sunni persuasion.
It is not in America's interest for any of these groups to control a substantial amount of Syrian territory. Yet President Trump has now made the puzzling decision to stop support for the only faction that could keep substantial swathes of Syria out of jihadist hands.
Granted, the moderates loosely affiliated with the Free Syrian Army have been losing ground for years. That is largely the fault of President Barack Obama, who unwisely refused to heed the advice of the officials in his administration who advocated a vigorous train-and-assist program for non-jihadist rebels. Such a program would have had a much greater chance of working in earlier years. America's failure to help the moderates has led many fighters to defect to more radical groups, and many of our allies have been killed or expelled.
But it would not be impossible to reverse these trends, and trying would be worthwhile. There are, after all, scores of military-age Syrian men who have fled the country as refugees. If the U.S. had the will to act, they could be trained, armed, and organized into an effective military force on Jordanian or Turkish soil and then sent with U.S. advisers and U.S. air support to secure Syrian territory. We currently provide that kind of aid to the Kurds, but we have cut off the Arab fighters, who are willing to risk their lives to fight against one of the biggest war criminals in the world—Bashar Assad, who is responsible for upwards of 400,000 deaths.
This decision makes little sense on strategic or moral grounds. Instead of abandoning the moderates, we should be doing more to buttress them. Even if it's too late to overthrow Assad, who is more secure than ever since Russia entered the conflict in 2015, it might at least be possible to limit him to a few major cities and the Alawite heartland and prevent jihadists from taking control of most of the Syrian countryside. If we stop trying, we are conceding much of Syria to the Iran-Russia camp indefinitely. That is not in our interest, nor in that of our regional allies. Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, will be very happy.
The Democratic Party's False Centrism
It's a duck.
Democrats are finally digging out of the wreckage the Obama years wrought, and are beginning to acknowledge the woes they visited upon themselves with their box-checking identity liberalism. So, yes, the opposition is moving forward in the Trump area, but toward what? Schizophrenia, apparently.
The party's rebranding effort began in earnest last week when Democrats revealed a new slogan meant to evoke an old one: "A Better Deal." Writing for the New York Times opinion page on Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer insisted the Democratic Party's new agenda "is not about expanding the government, or moving our party in one direction or another along the political spectrum." Any sentient political observer could be forgiven for thinking otherwise.
"First, we're going to increase people's pay," Schumer wrote. "Second, we're going to reduce their everyday expenses. And third, we're going to provide workers with the tools they need for the 21st-century economy." He endorsed Bernie Sanders' $1 trillion infrastructure spending proposal, a national paid family and sick leave program, and a hike of the minimum wage to $15 per hour. To reduce the cost of consumer goods, Democrats will pursue changes in the law to allow Congress to break up big firms with oppressive capriciousness.
When pressed on Sunday about what the "Better Deal" agenda may mean for health care, Schumer confessed it meant the most radical expansion of entitlement benefits in American history. "Medicare for people above 55 is on the table. A buy-in to Medicare is on the table. Buy-in to Medicaid is on the table," the senator said. All options are available—including, apparently, a single-payer system in the form of voluntary Medicare-for-all—once Democrats "stabilize" ObamaCare's insurance market.
Schumer admitted that the source of Democratic troubles in 2016 and since isn't Moscow or former FBI Director James Comey; it's that the electorate doesn't know what values or beliefs his party represents. Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy agreed. "Our failing historically has been to focus on very targeted demographic messages, cultural issues, rather than broad-based economic themes," he insisted. So the Democratic Party's message in 2018 will apparently be not just big government but behemoth government. And yet, the faintest warble of Schumer's conscience compelled him to assure voters that big government isn't the Democratic objective. Why?
Because the way for Democrats to win involves party members farther to the Right—that faction of Democrats known as the Blue Dogs. "The [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] recognizes that the path to the majority is through the Blue Dogs," asserted Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. She told Politico that she is in talks with at least 20 potential candidates vying to revive this endangered species. "We are able to convince folks who normally wouldn't vote for a Democrat to vote for this Democrat."
Before voters purged moderate House Democrats by voting for Republicans instead in 2010, their eventual disappearance was heralded as a great victory for the Progressive Monolith. "Democrats aren't ideological enough," wrote Ari Berman in an October 2010 New York Times op-ed. He argued that ideological homogeneity would make Democrats "more united and more productive." In fact, the 2010 midterm elections marked the end of the legislative phase of Barack Obama's presidency. Good call there.
The House's Blue Dog Coalition is "dedicated to pursuing fiscally-responsible policies, ensuring a strong national defense, and transcending party lines," according to its mission statement. How those objectives comport with Schumer's platform—cutting a 13-figure check for infrastructure, rampant economic interventionism, and a semi-single-payer system—is anyone's guess. Democrats may plan on localizing individual races so as to shield their candidates from the party's negatives, but that's easier said than done. Just ask Jon Ossoff, who lost in a Georgia special election despite having done precisely this.
The party's leaders seem aware that the kind of hyper-liberalism articulated in the "Better Deal" agenda is incompatible with the kind of "economic populism" that proposes individual frugality and prudence as well as solvent safety nets for those who need assistance. For all his faults, Trump was able to marry these two concepts in a way that appealed both to Republicans and enough swing Democrats to win the White House. Democrats appear to be appealing to centrists only at the point of a progressive bayonet. If Democratic candidates start winning again, it won't be a result of their party's coherent platform.
Challenging Violent Speech—Unless It's About Israel
The border of incitement.
The idea that speech can itself constitute an act of violence grows ever more popular among the left's leading polemicists. They argue that employing a politically incorrect word can be triggering; that the wrong gender pronoun can provoke; that words and sentences and parts of speech are all acts of aggression in disguise. The left seeks to stop this violence, or less euphemistically: to silence this speech.
Given their particular sensitivity to the triumphant mightiness of the pen, it's profoundly disturbing to note where lines are drawn and exceptions made.
Linda Sarsour, the left's darling of the day, posted a widely-shared picture of Palestinians praying in the streets of Jerusalem, an act protesting the placement of metal detectors outside the Al Aqsa Mosque. "This is resilience. This is perseverance. This is faith. This is commitment. This is inspiration. This is Palestine," Sarsour wrote. "Denied access to pray at Al Aqsa Mosque in their own homeland, Palestinians pray on the streets in an act of non-violent resistance. They are met with tear gas and rubber bullets."
Absent from her platitudinous prevarication was any mention of the inarguably violent act that led Israel to construct the metal detectors in the first place, the recent killing of two Israeli police officers at the Temple Mount. Also absent: any reference to the three Israelis who were brutally murdered in the settlement of Halamish on Friday night. It was a far cry from nonviolent resistance when 19-year-old Omar al-Abed entered a home, saw a family finishing a Shabbat dinner, and began indiscriminately stabbing his victims.
Sarsour's rhetoric is dangerous precisely because she understands her audience and how to appeal to their emotions. She peppers her statements with a few felicitous bromides like "non-violent resistance" and hopes no one notices the inconsistency of her arguments. Others on the left are slightly more honest about their intentions.
Writing in Al Jazeera, Stanley Cohen called on Israel to "accept that as an occupied people, Palestinians have a right to resist—in every way possible." He begins by telling his readers: "long ago, it was settled that resistance and even armed struggle against a colonial occupation force is not just recognized under international law but specifically endorsed." His entire article is predicated on a false premise in that it demands the characterization of Israel as a "colonial occupation force"— a characterization that is categorically incoherent.
Cohen cites a 1982 UN Resolution which "reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle." He does not mention which countries voted for and against this resolution.
Among the countries that voted for it: Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Pakistan, Rwanda, Qatar, Niger, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq.
Among the countries who voted against it: Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States.
On college campuses, the call for armed struggle has become the Cri de Coeur of leftist students who are otherwise hypersensitive to the impact that intangible words can have on corporeal beings. On Columbia's campus, students who form the backbone of the BDS movement have successfully blurred the line between incitement and impassioned—albeit severely misguided—opinion. In 2016, the Columbia/ Barnard Socialists concluded one social media post by declaring: "long live the intifada." As recently as Sunday—after the Halamish attack— the Students for Justice in Palestine shared the Al Jazeera article calling for armed resistance. Where are the outraged professors, administrators, and students concerned for the safety of the student body? Where are the charges of bigotry and racism, the calls to silence this speech, to stop this violence?
Nowhere does the idea that speech can constitute violence find more support than on elite liberal arts colleges. But regardless of whether they have intellectual or moral merit on their own, calls for safe spaces, trigger warnings, and micro-aggression-free environments that come from groups or individuals who not only condone, but use their words to quite literally call for violence, must be ignored, and the hypocrisy highlighted.
From the safe confines of an ivy-covered campus–or from the relative safety of this country, for that matter–it's easy to preach justice and retribution, to portray armed struggle as the necessary means that will find justification through a righteous end. But especially those who are sensitive to the power of language should understand: euphemistic terminology does nothing to mitigate the violent nature inherent in this rhetoric. There must be no confusion. The left's glorification of armed struggle is nothing short of approval for those Palestinians who target and kill innocent men, women, and children. Those who proclaim to speak for social justice have been damningly silent.
Russian Undressing: An Explanation
Podcast: How bad is it?
On the first of this week's COMMENTARY podcasts, Noah Rothman and Abe Greenwald join me to sort through—and we do it systematically, which is a first for us—what is going on with the Russia investigation and how it divides into three categories. There's the question of the probe itself, there's the question of collusion, and there's the question of obstruction of justice. It's really good. I mean it. Give a listen.
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Polish Democracy in the Balance
Democracy dies while the president looks the other way.
Past U.S. presidents have used their bully pulpit to campaign for human-rights and democracy. By encouraging the unprecedented wave of democratization that has swept the world since 1945, their words and actions had consequences. That's not something that Donald Trump does. Far from it; he positively praises dictators. His words have consequences, too, and they are not good.
After Trump praised Rodrigo Duterte for his war on drugs, which involves sending out death squads to kill thousands of people, the Philippine president was emboldened to impose martial law on Mindanao. After Trump visited Saudi Arabia and praised its rulers, they were emboldened to launch a counterproductive boycott of Qatar that is splintering the anti-Iran coalition in the Middle East. And after Trump visited Warsaw on July 6 and embraced the ruling Law and Justice Party, it was emboldened to push through parliament a law that would essentially destroy the independence of the Polish judiciary, the last major institution standing in the way of its authority.
Now, it's perfectly plausible to argue that, in each case, local officials reacted to their own imperatives and that the words of Trump were not decisive. The president of the United States does exercise an outsized influence on allies, though; especially allies like Saudi Arabia and Poland, which rely on American protection for their very existence. Strong words of censure from Trump might not have dissuaded any of these rulers from the path they chose, but his words of support undoubtedly encouraged him to take actions that are antithetical to American values.
That's particularly the case in Poland, which has long been held up as a shining star of the post-Communist world. Now its star is faded, its stature diminished because the populist Law and Justice Party appears intent on imposing quasi-authoritarian control over its unruly democracy. Party members have just pushed through parliament, without the benefit of hearings, a law that would remove all of the country's supreme court judges and replace them with alternatives handpicked by the justice minister, who is a party member.
Under pressure from crowds of protesters and the European Union, President Andrzej Duda unexpectedly vetoed the supreme court bill, while signing other legislation that increases political control over the lower courts. The question now is whether Law and Justice will try again to politicize the judiciary as part of its larger assault on Polish democracy.
Already, Law and Justice has taken over the state-owned news media and turned it from the BBC model to the RT model, labeling political opponents as traitors to the Polish people. As the Wall Street Journal noted, the party's leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, "has accused the opposition of conspiring to kill his identical twin brother, who died in a 2010 plane crash in Russia. 'You murdered him, you scumbags,' he said to the opposition during the parliamentary debate on the new law."
There is not a shred of evidence to support this incendiary accusation; the plane crash was almost certainly an accident. Poland's own investigation "blamed the disaster on a combination of factors, including bad weather and errors made by a pilot who was not adequately trained on the plane he was flying, a Tupolev-154. That probe also said Russian air traffic controllers gave incorrect and confusing landing instructions to pilots — but it stopped short of alleging intentional wrongdoing."
In his disdain for political opposition and the media and his embrace of conspiracy theories, Kaczynski is reminiscent of Trump, except that he operates in a much more fragile political system without the protections enshrined in a centuries-old constitution.
During his ballyhooed speech in Warsaw, Trump defended "Western civilization," but he had not one word of rebuke for his hosts in the Law and Justice Party over their efforts to undermine Polish democracy. The State Department, to be sure, is speaking up against the Law and Justice power grab. "The Polish government has continued to pursue legislation that appears to undermine judicial independence and weaken the rule of law in Poland," it said in a statement. "We urge all sides to ensure that any judicial reform does not violate Poland's constitution or international legal obligations and respects the principles of judicial independence and separation of powers."
Nice words, but they don't carry much weight. The whole world knows that the State Department does not speak for the president. And, while Trump tweets about a plethora of other topics, he remains conspicuously silent about the sabotage of Polish democracy. Despite the veto of the supreme court bill, the future of Poland's institutions remains very much an open question. It's not too late, Mr. President, to speak up for the very principles of Western civilization that you praised in Warsaw when you said: "We treasure the rule of law and protect the right to free speech and free expression."


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By Lesli Nolen
Published October 2012
I often check the Ranch & Rural Living website at ranchmagazine.com to see how many views each of my articles has received. I noticed that my article, "Common Sayings have Biblical Origins" has over 4,500 views, making it among the most frequently viewed of those listed. Since the topic is so popular, I thought I would share a few more common sayings with you. Not everyone is aware that many of the sayings they hear and use come from the Holy Bible and have been around for quite a while. After all, there is "Nothing new under the sun."
Scapegoat—A person who gets stuck with the blame.
Leviticus 16:9-10 Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the LORD and sacrifice it for a sin offering. But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to be used for making atonement by sending it into the desert as a scapegoat.
A Drop in the Bucket—A small amount of a plentiful commodity.
Isaiah 40:15 'Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.'
In the Twinkling of an Eye—Very quickly, suddenly
1 Corinthians 15:52 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Signs of the Times—Awareness
Matthew 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern, the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Old Wives' Tale—Questionable stories
1Timothy 4:7 Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly.
Sour Grapes—Not getting what you want
Ezekial 18:2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Out of the Mouths of Babes—Childlike simplicity
Psalms 8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Matthew 21:16 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
Going the Extra Mile—Do more than is required
Matthew 5:41 If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
Do as I Say, Not as I Do—A person that knows the right way but fails to do as they should. Two faced
Matthew 23:2-3 "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach."
Like Mother, Like Daughter—As you know, you teach
Ezekial 16:44 "Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.' "
Raising Cain—Causing a disturbance
1 John 3:12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous.
Stumbling block—Obstacle hindering your thoughts, movements, speech
Matthew 16:23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.
Straight from the horse's mouth—Statement worthy of belief usually from the source
Numbers 22:28 Then the LORD opened the donkey's mouth, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?"
The powers that be —Those in authority
Romans 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
There's a time and a place for everything—Wait; It will happen
Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.
Nursing a grudge—Having a long-term resentment
Mark 6:18-19 For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." So Herodias nursed a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she was not able to.
A still, small voice—Quiet, calm, hushed, untroubled. Quiet as the breath of God.
1 Kings 19:12 And he [an angel] said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?"


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Never have so many adults talked about the fate of a television show on Nick. You can't help it because you have two stars of the show who seemingly hate each other. You have a rabid fan base who wants the show Sam And Cat renewed for a second season. There are conflicting reports whether a second season has actually been ordered or whether the "second" season is just the completion of the shows already ordered and not yet filmed or the shows filmed but not yet aired.
Ariana Grande has been accused of being a coke using mess and Jennette has been a no show at the awards show produced by her network; gave the world a bunch of half naked selfies; and has had rumors of her personal life plague her for years.
After a series of Tweets on Kid's Choice Awards night Jennette has taken a social media break in an apparent bid to try and get her fans to overwhelm Nick offices with pleas for the show's return. The latest I am hearing is that Ariana was given a raise while Jennette was not. At the time Jennette was not upset that Arian was given a raise but that she was denied a raise. Since that point in time Jennette has other issues with Ariana but the reason Jennette was not given a raise was because of the selfie photo scandal and the way she has handled her personal life for much of the past year. Nick is not Disney but they still like their tweeners to behave. It does them no good to have a show if parents won't let their kids watch it.


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Nicola WellmanClass: Sophomore
Height: 5-4
Previous School: River Ridge HS
Hometown: Spring Hill, Fla.
From Coach Maren: "Nikki's technique is nearly flawless and her desire to win will carry her far this season. I see improvement daily and have no doubt that she will produce for the team in both singles and doubles."
2011-12 (Fr.):
• Posted eight wins during the fall slate, including a 5-2 record in doubles play
• Recorded a 3-1 record in the Flight B doubles draw at Hokie Fall Invitational
• Tallied eight singles victories during spring play
• Competed in positions 3-6
• Finished the year with five victories in final nine contests
• Collected four victories in doubles play
• Earned Big South Women's Tennis Freshman of the Week (March 26-April 1)
• Posted 52-3 record in singles play during three-year career at River Ridge
• Also boasted 34-2 record in doubles matches
• Participated in Class 3A state tournament, advancing to the semifinal round in singles during sophomore and junior seasons
• Competed to a state doubles runner-up finish as a sophomore
• Led her team to a district title in 2010
• Named to St. Petersburg Times' all-North Suncoast first team
• Earned back-to-back Pasco Player of the Year honors


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The winner of this give-a-thon giveaway will get a Caboodle for themselves, plus one will be sent to the charity of their choice. To enter, please leave a comment on this post and don't forget to name your charity and leave a link to their website. The winner will be announced on Christmas Eve along with all the other give-a-thon winners.


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ITS Network Services has converted to FAMIS for Data & Voice Service Requests
ITS Network services now accepts data and voice service requests through FAMIS. We will no longer be using the HEAT system for voice and data service requests. Please contact Sharon Drachenberg with questions related to voice service and Jon Wolter with questions related to data and infrastructure requests.
New Voice and Data Recharge Rate
Based on a review by the Office of Internal Audit, ITS - Network Services is changing the basis for telephone charges and introducing a modest data charge. This change has been approved by the Cabinet. Over the next few years, this will evolve into a flat per FTE voice and data charge. Please see our Voice and Data FAQ.
Passphrase Implementation
Starting on April 15th, ITS implemented the process of switching UNI accounts from using passwords to passphrases. Instead of having at least three UNI accounts with separate passwords that expire every 90 days, you will now use a single passphrase that expires after a year.
Please note that the change will be made once your current password is changed on or after 4/15/2013. You will need to change it to a longer passphrase and use it to log in to your UNI computer (and labs), your UNI Gmail, WiFi-UNI, e-Learning, e-Business (formerly MEMFIS), etc. The Computer Consulting Center (273-5555) and some local IT support staff are able to reset your passphrase.
For more info please see...
ITS Recommended Passphrase Standards
Be Alert for Computer Support Scams
The Security Office in ITS-Network services has become aware of multiple attempts to conduct social engineering attacks against UNI employees. The attack originates as an off-campus phone call purportedly from a technical support person and they attempt to instruct the user to install malicious software on the computer claiming that the software is needed to fix the computer. This software can then be used to steal information stored on the computer, to conduct further attacks, or to participate in other illegal activities.
Faculty Focus Intersession Technology Integration Workshops, January 7-11
A variety of intersession technology integration workshops, hosted by ITS-Educational Technology, will be offered throughout the week. Sessions will focus on technology's role in teaching and learning. Workshops will address topics related to blended and online learning, Bb Learn & integrated third party tools, accessibility in online learning, ifolio (UNI's eportfolio tool), the Rod Library Learning Commons project, polling technologies, plagiarism prevention technology, and more.
Tell us what you want in the Learning Commons!
Rod Library, in partnership with other campus units, is seeking to develop space in the library building into a learning commons. The learning commons will be a student-centered physical and virtual learning space designed for optimal learning in groups or individually. The reconfigured space will be designed to be open, comfortable, inspirational, and practical. This survey will help us gather information from the campus community (students, faculty, and staff) about technologies, services and furnishings that will meet the needs of 21st century learners and researchers.
Learning Commons Task Force wants your ideas...
Change is coming to Rod Library. If you've been in the library lately, you may have noticed that the area behind the Reference Desk, on the 2nd (main) floor, looks different. This space will be transformed into a new learning commons. A Learning Commons Task Force has been appointed to research what a learning commons looks like at other universities and to get the ball rolling. Membership on the committee includes representatives from ITS-User Services and ITS-Educational Technology staff as well as Rod Library faculty and staff.
Faculty Technology Workshops Now Scheduled for August and September
Faculty, please see newly-scheduled workshops for August and September on ITS-Educational Technology's online Faculty Workshop Calendar Workshops are offered on Bb Learn 9, Google Apps, Panopto, Lynda.com, and integrating library resources in eLearning. Technology integration work sessions are also scheduled, with instructional designers available to assist you.
Faculty Technology Workshops
ITS, Rod Library and the Office of Assessment will team up this summer to offer several workshops for faculty on using technology for teaching, research and assessment. View the schedule and sign up online.
Panopto Workshops for Faculty
ITS will offer two workshops that will demonstrate the new features of the Panopto 4.1 upgrade. If you're currently using Panopto and would like to learn more about the new features, or if you'd like to learn more about classroom capture technologies, sign up for a session online. The workshops are from noon to 1 p.m., Tuesday, March 20 or Thursday, April 5.
Transition to Google Calendar - May 7, 2012
UNI is migrating from Oracle Calendar to Google Calendar. Google Calendar is part of Google Apps and has been available to users since the migration to Google Mail.
Spotlight on STEM Day
The annual Spotlight on STEM day is Thursday, February 23, 2012. The focus of the Spotlight Day is on science and math projects that integrate technology in the PreK-12 curriculum. The Spotlight Gallery (table displays) will be open from 9:30 - 11:30 am. There will be Spotlight Presentations (20 min presentations, every 30 min) from 1:30 - 3:30 pm. This is a great opportunity to hear about authentic applications of science and math in PreK-12 classrooms and to talk with teachers and students to get their perspective of learning with hands-on, inquir
New help for campus Drupal editors
A new email list has been created for editors of campus Drupal sites. Questions can be sent to the list at any time instead of waiting for a monthly help session. List subscribers will be sent a survey to determine effectiveness of monthly scheduled open office hours. Contact Carolyn Dorr or call 273-2761 for more information.
Digital Learning Day Brown Bag Lunch Session
The Office of Continuing and Distance Education and the ITS Educational Technology department are hosting a Brown Bag Lunch session 11:30am-1:30pm in ITTC 134 on Wednesday, February 1 for Digital Learning Day. Please bring your own lunch. Brownies will be provided.
This event will showcase innovative uses of digital technologies, mobile learning and other new technologies used to enhance teaching and learning. No registration required.


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Using BT4R1 USB Persistent: When I close the laptop lid and reopen I am presented with a password dialog to unlock the screen. No password is successfull in unlocking ( toor ).
I must open another console and kill the screenlock process. Also I cannot find any configuration applet for the screenlock...
yer had the same thing. Its not too bad if you are on persistant, just go into the settings and change the pass to tor or somthing.
disable the hibernation with power settings or something similar
what i'm supposed to do then? there's no default password?


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Toys and Apps Are Yet to Play Nice Together
Efforts to Link Tablets to Dolls and Board Games Falls Short So Far, but Industry Continues to Try
Last year, trying to show how the toy industry could remain relevant in the tablet age, Hasbro Inc. unveiled an iPad-enhanced version of its classic Game of Life. Instead of spinning a wheel in the center of the board game to take a turn, players spun a wheel on the iPad.
The idea bombed.
And it wasn't alone. More than 90% of the so-called app toys that were trotted out last year sold poorly, estimates Jim Silver, editor in...


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Samsung Electronics has unveiled its new 1/3.2-inch 8 megapixel (MP) CMOS imager, the S5K3H7, utilizing 1.4um back side illuminated (BSI) pixel technology.
Samsung's S5K3H7 imager supports up to 30fps at full 8Mp resolution and 1080p full HD video recording. The highly sensitive shutter operations coupled with high-resolution features allow the capturing of motion snapshots and continuous shooting of fast-moving subjects such as pets and sports in action.
By adopting a parallel processing data solution, the new imager doubles the frame rate over previous generation of 8MP imagers to 30fps, while operating at similar power levels due to the sensor's low-power circuitry, the vendor said. The new sensor also provides 720p video recording at 120fps and VGA resolution images at 240fps for slow motion playback on mobile phones.
In addition, the slim form factor fits a 8.5x8.5mm auto focus camera module with a height dimension of 5.5mm gives design engineers a great deal of freedom in designing camera modules suitable for slim mobile handsets and small form factor applications.
Samsung's S5K3H7 is scheduled for mass production in March 2012.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- 2015 global tablet demand forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report provides a 2015 forecast for the global tablet market and analyzes the strategies of key market players such as Google, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.
- 2015 China smartphone panel trend forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the strategies of key China-based major panel makers BOE, Tianma and IVO for attacking the different market segments through technology and pricing, and their relationship to local vendors Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Xiaomi and Coolpad.


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Need parts for your Chumby? Need Chumby parts for another project? We now carry a full selection of Chumby parts for repairing your Chumby, or for various other projects. These parts are all refurbished, but are fully functional and will be drop-in replacements for your Chumby. We may not have specifications or additional information regarding these parts. They are meant to be replacements and are not necessarily intended for building a Chumby for scratch. Feel free to play with them assuming this limited information.
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