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- Traditional Animation
- Studio Gallop
- Animation Studio: Studio Gallop
- Cartoon Characters: Chacha, Shiine, Riiya, Seravi, Dorothy, Marin, Rascal-sensei, Orin, Urarâenchou, Yakko.
- Voice Actors: Masami Suzuki, Noriko Hidaka, Shingo Katori, Tohru Senrui, Junko Ohtsubo, Tomo Sakurai, Taiki Matsuno, Noriko Namiki; Full Voice Cast ...
- Directed By Shoki Tsuji.
- Animated By Hajime Watanabe, Tatsuo Sato.
- Written By Ryousuke Takahashi, Min Ayabana.
- First Aired on May 20, 1994.
- Originally Aired on TV Tokyo (Japan).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio State University has enrolled a record number of out-of-state and international freshmen this year.
The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/Ro83lE ) reports that the state's largest university has already hit targets for out-of-state and international students that weren't expected until 2015. University officials reported the news to trustees Thursday.
Of Ohio State's 7,186 freshmen this year, 1,758 are from states other than Ohio. That's about a 17 percent increase over last year.
A growing number of schools across the nation have been turning to out-of-state students to make up for state cuts in funding to higher education. OSU officials said they have been motivated by the need to make up for a drop in Ohio's population of high-school-age children.
Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com

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It's time for the 40th Annual Annie Awards and this year's nominations have just been announced by the International Animated Film Society.
Spearheading another solid weekend at movie theaters across the States, "Taken 2" is comfortable situated atop the box office to begin the weekend of October 5-7, 2012.
The Olivier Megaton directed crime drama starring Liam Neeson as a retired CIA operative scored a $18.5 million opening day followed by a $19 million day two while estimated to churn out a respectable weekend total of $50.0 million.
Gearing up for its October 5th release, "Frankenweenie" premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood last night (September 24).
And there was no shortage of famous faces at the event, as Winona Ryder showed up looking fine in a The Way We Wore vintage dress with Sergio Rossi heels and a Ferragamo clutch.
Arriving just in time for Halloween, Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie" hits theaters on October 5th.
Tim Burton fans can get a sneak peak of the film today as Walt Disney Pictures has released a new clip featuring the Frankenstein-inspired origin of the flick's undead canine star, sparky.
Giving movie-goers a glimpse at what they can expect from the latest Tim Burton animated work, Walt Disney Pictures recently released the very first clip from "Frankenweenie."
The upcoming black and white motion picture focuses on Young Victor, who conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended (sometimes monstrous) consequences.
He's always up to something awesome, and Tim Burton's latest project "Frankenweenie" has released a new promotional poster.
The Walt Disney Pictures production is an animated film starring the voices of big celebrities like Winona Ryder, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Catherine O'Hara, and Charlie Tahan.


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A sheriff's deputy didn't bother to wait for a trained alligator trapper to deal with an unruly alligator that was snapping at cars near a dentist's office in Oldsmar, Florida. Nope, Pinellas County Deputy Jeff Crandall decided to take action himself, since the animal was heading toward the roadway.
According to numerous reports, Crandall grabbed a rope from his trunk, lassoed the gator's neck, jumped on its back and taped its huge mouth shut—exactly what wildlife officials tell you not to do.
Nevertheless, photos of Crocodile Crandall atop the alligator are priceless, even if his actions were ill-advised. Fox 13 in Tampa has a report:
A 911 call alerted officials to the problem gator early Tuesday morning. Crandall, a 30-year squad veteran, was the first to respond. He subdued the gator and, with the help of a backup deputy, tied it up and put it in the back of the truck.
Nobody, not even a sheriff's deputy with past experience dealing with alligators, should attempt to do this, a wildlife official told the Tampa Bay Times.
"Unless it's an absolutely necessity, we advise sheriff's deputies to wait until we get there in these situations," Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Gary Morse told the Tampa Bay Times. "Large, powerful animals like that are always dangerous."
Apparently, Crandall, who declined to be interviewed by the Times, has dealt with alligators before. The Times said he subdued an unruly alligator outside Oldsmar's Forest Lakes Elementary School.
Unfortunately for this recent gator, after meeting its match in Crandall, it will now be put down.
Photos of Crandall atop alligator courtesy of Pinellas County Sheriff's Department. Photo of alligator in truck is a screengrab from report by WTSP News 10, Tampa.


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Humorist, cigar salesman, mystery writer, and perennial Texas candidate Kinky Friedman has thrown his black felt cowboy hat into the ring for the Democratic nomination for Texas Agriculture Commissioner, and he says his campaign will have one theme.
Legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Texas.
Friedman tells 1200 WOAI's Michael Board that legalization has worked well for Colorado and Washington, which voted in favor of it last year.
"I am certainly hearing from a lot of friends in Colorado that their property taxes and their state and local taxes are going down," Friedman said.
Friedman ran as an independent for governor in 2006 and sought the Democratic nomination for Agriculture Commissioner in 2010. Friedman says he was considering another run for governor, until State Senator Wendy Davis (D-Ft. Worth) decided to get into the race.
Friedman says the taxes that would be collected from legalized marijuana would be used to close the funding gap which exists in education.
"All the candidates talk about education, yet we remain 48th in education funding," he said. "I'm the only candidate telling you how we fund it."
Three Republicans have announced their candidacy for Agriculture Commissioner, but Friedman is the only Democrat in the race. Incumbent Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples, a Republican, is running for Lieutenant Governor.
"Legalizing marijuana would suddenly catapult Texas to leadership in America, and it would take the wind out of the sails of the drug cartels," he said.
A recent poll by a pro-legalization organization showed that 58% of Texans support the legalization and taxing of small amounts of marijuana. But there is no effort in the legislature to legalize pot.


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The official BMW CCA LA Chapter forum on Bimmerfest.com. With over 3,500 members, LA BMW CCA members enjoys a number of club sponsored events, contests, and offers a great way to meet new friends who appreciate our very own ultimate driving machines. For more information about the LA chapter of the BMW CCA jump over to their website - www.bmwclubla.org
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Los Angeles BMW CCA autocross - Nov 13 - Cal Speedway
BMW CCA - Los Angeles Chapter - Autocross
Sunday Nov 13
Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, CA
Register here --> http://www.motorsportreg.com/index.c...917495AEA44263
Map here --> http://maps.google.com/maps?rlz=1C1_...ed=0CBoQ8gEwAA
Thank you to Beverly Hills BMW for their support of the autocross program!
Last day to register online: Sat Nov 12, 2011
This event will be the first where we experiment with a new feature, we are calling it; Speed Shop Hands On Tech Session (SSHOTS). We'll be doing SSHOTS with HP Autowerks from Santa Barbara. Harold and his team specialize in M3, E9x, and E8x BMW maintenance and tuning. The HP Autowerks team will be on-hand to consult on the performance upgrades and setup of your BMW. They will also be bringing their pro driver, Jeff Tyler, and shop track-car (1M!) so that you can ride as a passenger in a well driven, well setup car. Their driver will also be instructing and, if OK with you, driving your car to give an honest and educated assessment of it. What first, upgrade anti-roll bars or camber plates? Is it the car that's slow or is it the driver? Which suspension and brake upgrades are the best value for the money? HP Autowerks along with Jeff Tyler have the knowledge and experience to answer those questions.
Entrance to Auto Club Speedway and the LA BMW CCA autocross is free. If you don't plan on driving in the autocross, please drop by and see what these events are all about and get a free ride in a modified 1M.
For drivers, registration is $65 if you pay in advance and $75 (cash only) if you register at the event. Your entry fee includes instruction, lunch and waters. Extra lunches are $7 each, and helmet rentals are $10. Online registration is at MotorsportReg.com
The gates open at 6:00. Registration and tech open at 7:00. There will be a mandatory driver's meeting at 8:30. First car out will be at 9:00. The event will end by 5:00 or dusk.
This event WILL sell out so please pre-register. We don't want to turn people away but we will in order to ensure everybody gets as many runs as possible. No refund or credit will be issued if you cancel less than 7 days before the event. Before that we will issue you a credit toward a future event only.
When at Auto Club Speedway, please respect posted speed limits and other traffic signs. We like having a place to play and would hate for "one bad apple" to ruin it for everyone.
I just want to add that we hope you all will come join us for the last autocross of the 2011 season. It has been a fun year and we look forward to capping it off with another great event!
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The day before, a few of us will go have lunch with legendary road racer and K1 Speed owner Boris Said. I can't wait to hear him tell war stories! Great motorsports weekend for us in SoCal.
As an update to this event - we will run RAIN OR SHINE! No weather cancellations. Folks should dress appropriately!
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Its not too late to signup at motorsportreg. If you plan on showing up that morning as on-site registration, I can't make any promises that we won't be full. That said, I've never seen us turn anyone away.
Here's the morning schedule:
6am event open. Volunteers are very welcome. Course setup and such.
7am-8:30 tech and registration open.
8am-8:30am optional track walk
8:15 am Instructor meeting
8:30 am Mandatory driver's meeting
8:30 am Instructor recon laps
8:50 am first run group to grid at conclusion of driver's meeting
8:50 am first work group meet at timing tent at conclusion of driver's meeting
9am first car out
FYI, chance of percipitation Sunday morning. And that doesn't mean anything to us. We play rain or shine.
Hello! I'll start off by saying I'm not sure this is the place I should post, but I have some feedback about this event that I wanted to share and maybe a suggestion or two. The course was fast and fun, and the organizers really did a good job. Everything was super efficient, we were done by 3 or so.
The amazing thing, to me, was that in all this, the most noticeable problem I was able to see was that course workers were not really doing what they were supposed to. This is a pet peeve of mine and the only defense I can offer them is that it was not entirely clear who was responsible for what. Everyone knew generally where to stand, but the "boundaries" between stations were fuzzy. Maybe the worker chief can have a map on hand? This way he/she can tell the workers exactly what area they are expected to cover - instead of listing a pole to stand by, we can be given a specified range. There will always be a few people who simply won't run after cones. :-/ But "I didn't know I was supposed to cover that area" won't be a valid excuse.
Another kind of nit-picky comment I have is that rather an aggressive stand was taken against those who missed calls to work or run when they were at the skid pad. A few were told in very certain terms that it is their responsibility to keep track of this, and I would normally agree! But when you have an event that is so far ahead of schedule, it becomes a lot less black and white. You give drivers a timeline with designated times for driving, so they start the day with the assumption that they will have x amount of minutes of drift time (and then they allocate time accordingly for changing out wheels/tires, etc). My answer to this is... there is someone manning the drift box, right? Give them a radio and have them give drivers a head's up, just saying red is in grid, or green is working. Making people responsible for this is great in theory, but when you run SUCH a good show that you're that far ahead, sometimes it is hard to keep up with, even in places where we CAN hear the loud-speaker. I LOVE that there is a skid pad, I don't want to see it detract from the event in any way, such as delaying workers. I want it to stay! :-)
Having said that, this event was a blast. Please feel free to move this post if I've misplaced it
Thanks for the kind words. Both items you mention, I observed too. And I think your solutions are good ones.
Since I was running work assignments and changes, I take some responsibility for the course worker issue. My hope is that after a few more events the guys that weren't taking responsibility for their area will be more proficient and aware. Essentially, the problem will fix itself as today's noob is tomorrow's veteran.
Another way to solve the missed run group issue would be to have had 25 more drivers registered on Sunday. If we had 6 more cars per color group, we probably would have hit the time targets. I prefer this solution above all others. Also, if we had 6 more course workers per group, that would be one additional body per corner station.
I'm glad that you enjoyed Sunday's event. The club/chapter/program is doing a great job. Imagine how much better the event could be if we had more dedicated volunteers.
Overall I loved the venue. Breakfast and lunch was a great touch and in our opinion totally worth the drive from Ramona, CA to ACS. There was never a shortage of things to do and it was great seeing all types of drivers out there learning. As still a rookie myself with a long road ahead of me, I really enjoyed having all these different instructors. I think I went through 4 different ones and learned different things from each one allowing me to hybridize the information during my practice runs and lay down one clean timed run. I got too excited during the timed and screwed up my first two on a couple of things.
Regarding the venue, I agree with Shadowfax...having a clear delineation of work stations allows for people to be responsible for specific sections of the course without having to worry about other stations. Having more cars for the run group wouldn't really solve possible confusion or one station running after another stations cones. As such, having clear worker stations and having the worker chief spread them out, is the best way to ensure all corners are addressed as much as possible during the run group.
I also wanted to address a question I had when I was driving the course. There were times where I noticed that a cone was down or out of place because the course workers hadn't gotten to them yet or what not. From the venues I'm used to running, a competitor is within their rights to stop and point at the cone signifying a "downed cone" which means that the course is different from official setup. This also entails them get a rerun since the course was not as originally intended. I just drove a little wider through those areas, but it did throw me through a loop the first time having me to alter my driving line. This wasn't a big deal as I went to test a few different driving techniques and learn, but I could see this potentially being an issue for someone that's especially competitive and trying everything in their power to win class/get top time of day/etc.
Thank you BMW Club LA for posting up results hours after the event, and all the volunteers for helping make this event happen: Course designer Jon Lugod, and all the volunteers that laid the course out Saturday and helped with the clean up Sunday
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Liberty to Face North Carolina A&T in NCAA Tournament First Four
|The Liberty men's basketball team celebrated upon hearing the announcement of its NCAA First Four matchup live on CBS during the selection show.
The Liberty men's basketball team now has an opponent and a destination in the NCAA Tournament. Head coach Dale Layer and the Flames will head to Dayton, Ohio to square off with North Carolina A&T, Tuesday, at 6:40 p.m., in a First Four tilt.
The matchup inside UD Arena will be broadcast live on Tru TV, with Marv Albert serving as play-by-play announcer and former NBA player Steve Kerr handling color analysis.
Tuesday's winner in the clash of 16 seeds will head to Lexington, Ky., on Thursday for a meeting with overall No. 1 seed Louisville. Game time at Rupp Arena is set for 6:50 p.m. on TBS.
Liberty (15-20) punched its ticket to the Big Dance, last Sunday, defeating Charleston Southern, 87-76, to claim the 2013 Big South Championship. Junior point guard Davon Marshall led Liberty's offense during the tournament, averaging 18.0 ppg en route to being voted Tournament MVP. Along with Marshall, junior guard John Caleb Sanders and senior guard Tavares Speaks were also named to the all-tournament team.
Tuesday marks Liberty's first-ever meeting with the Aggies (18-16). North Carolina A&T defeated Morgan State in the MEAC Championship, Saturday, clinching its NCAA Tournament berth. Head coach Cy Alexander's team is led by senior forward Adrian Powell (12.5 ppg) and junior guard Lamont Middleton (12.4 ppg).


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RIALTO - It was late February in 2010 when former City Administrator Henry Garcia issued a warning about the city's finances.
Rialto, he said, had a "36-month window" before it faced a financial crisis brought on by a gasping economy and skyrocketing public employee costs.
Garcia has since moved on to a $400,000 job as city manager in Moreno Valley.
Officials here are still staring at the window.
In early December the City Council voted to place an extension of the 8 percent utility-users tax on the March ballot.
A resolution for the council vote said "an emergency exists in the finances of the city of Rialto" due in part to a decrease of revenues in each of the past six fiscal years and the rising costs of providing city services.
Indeed, even as San Bernardino trudges through Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, the Finance Department here has warned that without an extension of the utility-users tax, which brings in roughly $11 million annually, Rialto could see massive cuts to public safety and other services in order to avoid bankruptcy.
"I think the community's perception has changed a bit," City Administrator Mike Story said. "They love us, but they can't afford us. We have to be paying for our own stuff."
Finance officials are looking for ways to do that as the city wrestles with a $7.6 million budget deficit and continues to spend economic reserves in order to maintain services.
The next few months will provide a clearer picture of whether Garcia's dire prediction will come true.
Story said the new year will see labor groups contributing to their pensions, and negotiations will kick into high gear as the city hopes to gain some concessions.
The City Council in 2008 sweetened pensions for police and firefighters by approving a "3 at 50" plan that allows one to retire at age 50 or later and take 3 percent of his final pay-year for every year of service.
Non-safety employees saw a bump to 2.75 at 55, meaning they could retire at 55 and get 82.5 percent of their final year's salary to live out their golden years.
Salaries and benefits make up the lion's share of the city's budget.
Employee contributions to retirement are a good start, but "it's not a place to stay," Story said.
With contracts expiring on June 30, he hopes labor groups - which include police, firefighters and other employees - will consider dollar amounts to concede, as well as "philosophical" changes to labor contracts.
That includes items like sick time and vacation accruals, overtime, holidays and cashouts.
A mid-year budget adjustment will be announced in February, and voters in March will decide whether to extend the utility-users tax.
"And that'll give you a better window of what we're looking at," Story said.
With some service cuts already made, and previous employee concessions, Story said the reserves, which could go as low as $7 million by July, may be extended through fiscal 2013-14 without being depleted.
Mayor Deborah Robertson said as the city prepares to enter talks with the unions, she will also ask department heads to see if more consolidation can be done at top levels in City Hall.
That means looking at the ratio of supervisors to rank-and-file employees and reorganizing in a way that won't necessarily mean cutting jobs, she said.
"There's only so much you can do in terms of the reorganization of the city," Robertson said.
Robertson also has met with developers to look into moving projects along in the next two years.
"The city doesn't benefit when there's nothing in the ground," she said.
Robertson said rather than taking a sequential approach to the city's financial problems, it's important to work out "parallel" solutions.
The city may also revisit a tax on petroleum companies in the city, Robertson said. Voters in November rejected a $5 million tax on the companies, but Robertson said a similar measure may be put on the June ballot.
Story said the city can't "keep going to the well" of service cuts, and that "we have to go with where the money is at."
That means personnel costs.
"There's still more that needs to be done," Story said. "This is just a start. Otherwise it's going to be a much steeper fiscal cliff for us without it."
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While reporting White House press secretary Tony Snow's defense of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) need for access to a plane that can fly nonstop to her district, numerous media outlets -- including CBS, CNN, National Public Radio (NPR), Fox News, and The New York Times -- failed to note that Snow's defense came the same day the Republican National Committee (RNC) issued a press release attacking Pelosi. As Media Matters for America has noted, the Bush administration has a pattern of purporting to take the high road during controversies while allowing surrogates to smear the opposition.
On February 8, Snow called the Republican-led controversy a "silly story" that has "been unfair to the Speaker." Almost simultaneously, as Media Matters noted, the RNC issued a press release attacking Pelosi. Under the banner "Pelosi Power Trip," the press release accused " 'Non-Stop' Nancy" of "want[ing] [a] non-stop military aircraft for herself, staff, family, and other members in California Delegation"; of requesting a plane that "includes [a] private bed, entertainment center, and costs $22,000 per hour to operate"; and of "go[ing] beyond what prior Speakers requested." The RNC is chaired by Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL), who was reportedly recruited by Bush to fill the position.
Snow was pressed about the RNC's actions during his February 8 press conference, and he reiterated the White House's "position":
SNOW: [A]s speaker of the House, she is entitled to military transport, and that the arrangements, the proper arrangements are being made between the sergeant of arms office in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Department of Defense. We think it's appropriate, and so, again, I think this is much ado about not a whole lot. It is important for the speaker to have this kind of protection and travel. It was certainly appropriate for Speaker Hastert. So we trust that all sides will get this worked out.
When asked if "the RNC [is] now beyond the president's purview? If you think it's a silly story, is there -- they're able to just operate if they want to attack like that on their own?" Snow replied: "Well, apparently they did this time." When pressed further if there was "no message coordination between you guys and the RNC," Snow stated: "[T]here is from time to time, yes. But in this particular case, we've got a clear view."
Snow also noted that "the president's position is that Speaker Pelosi, because of an agreement that was made, I think wisely, of necessity after September 11th, has access to U.S. Department of Defense transportation, under suitable rules and guidelines, and that is going to be negotiated between DOD and the sergeant at arms, and that's as it should be." Snow further explained that, regarding the types of planes available and the distances in which said planes can travel: "You're talking about a limited fleet. The jet that Speaker Hastert used probably gets you about halfway across the country. They got G-3s and G-5s that can get you all the way."
Yet, in reporting on Snow's comments regarding Pelosi's access to a government plane, numerous media outlets failed to note that Snow's defense of Pelosi came as the RNC was orchestrating attacks against her. For instance:
- On the February 8 edition of the CBS Evening News, CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reported House Republicans' objections surrounding the issue and noted only that "the White House ... isn't anxious to jump on Pelosi's case about the plane." Attkisson did not report the questions about "message coordination" or Snow's response to them.
- Similarly, on the February 8 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNN correspondent Kitty Pilgrim reported that "White House spokesman Tony Snow defended" Pelosi's "right to military transport as speaker of the House," but followed up by saying only that Republicans "on the House floor raised voices and passions" over the issue.
- Also on CNN, during the 7 p.m. ET hour of The Situation Room on February 8, CNN congressional correspondent Andrea Koppel reported that "[e]ven the White House seemed to come to her defense," aired Snow's defense, and did not note the RNC's nearly simultaneous attack.
- During the February 8 edition of NPR's All Things Considered, NPR Capitol Hill correspondent Andrea Seabrook noted that "Pelosi has another ally in this: President Bush. She says he's repeatedly told her she needs extra security, and today, White House press secretary Tony Snow called this whole story silly and unfair to the speaker." Seabrook did not mention the RNC press release.
- On the February 8 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume, both guest host Chris Wallace and Fox News correspondent Steve Centanni noted Snow's defense of Pelosi but did not mention the RNC's attack in their reporting. Centanni reported simply: "She has support from the White House, even though the Defense Department says there are no promises of nonstop, coast-to-coast service. Press secretary Tony Snow suggests Pelosi is not making any extravagant demands."
- A February 9 New York Times article titled "Speaker's Plane Becomes a Point of Criticism" reported on House Republicans' attacks and added only:
The White House weighed in, as well. 'This is a silly story,' its spokesman, Tony Snow, said.
Mr. Snow said that the Republican criticism was unfair and that the Bush administration essentially sided with Ms. Pelosi.
- A February 9 CNN.com article, "House security chief: Pelosi didn't ask for plane; I did," reported that the "White House also stood behind Pelosi," but did not mention the RNC.
Media Matters also noted that the Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle ignored the RNC's press release attacking Pelosi while reporting Snow's defense on February 8. A later version of the AP article -- updated after the Media Matters item written but before the item was posted -- noted that Snow's defense of Pelosi stood in contrast to the RNC's attack. The Chronicle also noted the disconnect in a different article by the same reporter, which was published in the paper's February 9 edition. The Chronicle article reported that while "Snow, too, brushed aside the claims made by the leaders of the president's party in the House ... [t]he Republican National Committee issued a statement attacking the speaker."
By contrast, as Media Matters documented, CNN Political Ticker producer Alexander Mooney noted the disconnect between the White House and the RNC in a February 8 CNN.com post, as did Time magazine national political correspondent Karen Tumulty in a February 8 post on Time's Swampland weblog. The Los Angeles Times further noted on February 9: "While the presidential spokesman defended Pelosi's right to military security, the Republican National Committee -- usually a White House echo chamber -- was busy beating her up with blast e-mails about 'Nancy's flight of fancy.' "
Media Matters previously identified the Bush administration's pattern -- largely ignored by the media -- of purporting to take the high road during controversies while surrogates smear political targets. Media Matters has cited numerous examples:
- In the days after Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot his 78-year-old hunting partner on February 11, 2006, friends of Cheney's took to the airwaves and claimed that Cheney's victim was to blame for not following proper hunting protocol. Days later, in his first public statements regarding the incident, Cheney stated, "[I]t was not Harry's fault. You can't blame anybody else. I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend."
- In November 2005, after Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA), a decorated Vietnam veteran, called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan attacked the lawmaker during a press briefing, and congressional Republicans quickly followed suit. But on November 20, 2005, when Bush addressed the controversy for the first time by calling Murtha "a fine man, a good man" who made the "decision to call for an immediate withdrawal of our troops ... in a careful and thoughtful way." In a speech the following day, Cheney followed Bush's lead and described Murtha as "a good man, a Marine, a patriot."
- In the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, Bush administration officials and Republican surrogates attempted to deflect blame for the botched response onto state and local authorities. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, for example, repeatedly employed false or misleading claims to shift responsibility away from the federal government, as Media Matters repeatedly noted. Meanwhile, President Bush repeatedly avoided answering questions regarding accountability for the Katrina response. Finally, at a September 13, 2005, press conference, Bush accepted blame for the government's handing of the disaster. He said, "[T]o the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility."
In their coverage of these comments, news outlets regularly depict Bush and Cheney as taking the high road, while failing to point out that they nonetheless benefit from attacks and smears by their surrogates. In the case of Pelosi, Snow defended Pelosi -- with some in the media, such as Attkisson, reporting that he was doing so to maintain civility with Pelosi in advance of "a major confrontation with the House over Iraq next week" -- while the RNC attacked Pelosi. Subsequently, congressional Republicans criticized Pelosi on the House floor, and the media continued to treat the GOP-generated story as news.
From the February 8 edition of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric:
ATTKISSON: The White House, already bracing for a major confrontation with the House over Iraq next week, isn't anxious to jump on Pelosi's case about the plane.
SNOW: I don't believe she's asking to be sent on the, you know, on the space shuttle.
[end video clip]
ATTKISSON: Pelosi today suggested sexism may play a role in all of this, that as the first woman speaker, she wants no less opportunity than the men have had. The Pentagon says that's exactly what she'll get, the same small jet, Katie.
COURIC: Sharyl Attkisson reporting from Capitol Hill tonight.
From the February 8 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight:
PILGRIM: What Mrs. Pelosi's staff admits to is asking the DOD for a plane that could fly nonstop to San Francisco. The DOD letter in response doesn't reveal whether she indeed asked for a C-32, the same plane as Vice President Dick Cheney's Air Force Two, a plane that carries 45 people. The DOD letter only says they will provide a plane subject to availability and not always guaranteed.
"Aircraft assigned to these missions will accommodate between seven and not more than 10 passengers. Your family will be required to provide reimbursement to the Treasury."
White House spokesman Tony Snow defended her right to military transport as speaker of the House.
SNOW: I don't believe she's asking to be sent on the, you know, on the space shuttle.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Would you like her to be put on the space shuttle, Tony?
PILGRIM: But the debate on the House floor raised voices and passions.
From the 7 p.m. ET hour of the February 8 edition of CNN's The Situation Room:
KOPPEL: But Pelosi is insisting she fly nonstop. And in a statement, the top House law-enforcement officer said he recommended it due to the post-9-11 threat environment.
Even the White House seemed to come to her defense.
SNOW: It is important for the speaker to have this kind of protection and travel. It was certainly appropriate for Speaker Hastert.
KOPPEL: But in a letter to Pelosi on Wednesday, the Pentagon indicated the offer wasn't open-ended. "While every effort will always be made to provide nonstop shuttle support, such support is subject to aircraft type and availability and therefore may not always be guaranteed."
From the February 8 edition of National Public Radio's All Things Considered:
SEABROOK: Pelosi has another ally in this: President Bush. She says he's repeatedly told her she needs extra security, and today, White House press secretary Tony Snow called this whole story silly and unfair to the speaker.
SNOW [audio clip]: I think this is much ado about not a whole lot. It is important for the speaker to have this kind of protection in travel. It was certainly appropriate for Speaker Hastert. And so we trust that all sides will get this worked out.
SEABROOK: In the end, the Pentagon told the speaker's office that it can't guarantee a larger plane will always be available, so Pelosi says she'll fly commercially nonstop with her security detail. And there you have it, the speaker's first full-blown, all-out Washington kerfuffle.
Andrea Seabrook, NPR News, the Capitol.
From the February 8 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume:
WALLACE: Welcome to Washington. I'm Chris Wallace, in for Brit Hume. The White House calls it a silly story, but the House of Representatives is taking it seriously. The debate over what kind of military airplane House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to use and what she's entitled to. Correspondent Steve Centanni takes us along for the bumpy ride.
CENTANNI: She has support from the White House, even though the Defense Department says there are no promises of nonstop, coast-to-coast service. Press secretary Tony Snow suggests Pelosi is not making any extravagant demands.
SNOW: I'm not aware that this is a primary concern at this point. I don't believe she's asking to be sent on the, you know, on the space shuttle.
CENTANNI: But Pelosi is pulling no punches, accusing her critics of trying to change the subject.
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December 9, Concert and Reception
KEMP, the Knoxville Early Music Project, presents a concert and reception to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary. The concert and reception will be held on Friday evening, December 9, 7:30 p.m., at St. John's Cathedral in Knoxville, Tennessee. KEMP has performed music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods for two decades, and this event will bring together many former members of the ensemble. A concert of primarily Christmas music will be presented followed by a reception with snacks and warm beverages.
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By Andrea Brown Herald Writer
Moving day was an unsettling experience for Sharon Grader 22 years ago.
"I cried when we moved in the house," she said. "We were so poor we couldn't afford anything else. The trim was brown, but it had faded so much it was purple."
She looked forward to the day they could move out.
The overgrown back yard was a landmine. "We found batteries and an old plastic Christmas tree buried in the yard," she said. "They had dumped diesel oil in one corner. My husband bought a wheel barrow and there was so much nails and crap in the ground he had three flat tires."
She and her husband, Bill, got right on it and kept going. They transformed the dilapidated dump into a showplace.
Their garden will be on the Edmonds in Bloom Garden Tour on Sunday. The six gardens on the self-guided tour reflect the diversity of the region, from a tranquil Zen garden to rare species rhododendrons and raised vegetable beds overflowing with produce.
"Serenity and calmness" is how Sharon Grader describes her secluded backyard retreat.
"We have created rooms," she said. "We do get sun, but it's in different places depending on the time of day.
A brick path under the tall trees winds under a trellis and through to a mix of different textures.
A commissioned artist did the front gate on the 11,000-square-foot property.
"It's eclectic. It is kind of Asian, but we have palm trees," she said. "We like what we like, and that's what we buy. It doesn't have to be matchy-matchy."
It helps that husband and wife are on the same page. He's a carpenter with the Seattle parks department. She's a graphics designer at Parsons Brinckerhoff.
"We both like lots of different shades of green," Sharon Grader said. "It isn't like a crazy quilt with so many colors."
The textures have a soothing flow that adds to the harmony.
Tall stalks of bamboo tower over a fence. Fuchsias pop with color.
Much of the glass and pottery accents have a blue theme.
Empty blue Riesling wine bottles hang from trees.
"I saw an ad on TV for Absolut Vodka. It was a wall of frosted bottles, hundreds and hundreds of them. I thought it was so cool," she said.
"We drink white Riesling. I'm a creative person, so I can make leaps to all sorts of places. I thought we could do that with blue bottles. I cut the bottoms off with a tile saw, and we strung them up.
"It is one of those things people comment about and find interesting."
Another point of interest is a big fiberglass cat.
"I saw it at a nursery and said, 'That's what I want for my birthday,'" she said.
Her husband brought it home strapped to the passenger seat.
He built the potting shed using recycled material. Leftover bricks were used for paving.
"The only really new stuff is the fencing," she said.
There is seating in the garden as well as on the expansive deck spanning the back of the home.
"We remodeled the house, popped it out, enlarged the kitchen, added a bedroom and put in French doors," she said.
Oh, what a difference 22 years makes. You couldn't pay her to move now if you tried.
"We just want to come home. We don't want to go out and do anything," she said. "It's easy to just grab a glass of wine or a beer. Go sit and read a book or the paper. It's just very peaceful."
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Edmonds in Bloom
The self-guided tour on Sunday features six gardens in Edmonds and Woodway.
Tickets: $15.
Tickets are available in advance and on tour day at Sky Nursery, Swansons Nursery, Wight's Home and Garden, Plant Shack, Bountiful Home, Frances Anderson Center and Garden Gear.
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Systems and methods for providing inflatable apparel, patent No. 8,393,013, invented by Thomas K. Bowen of Provo and Anne Fairchild of Provo, assigned to The Big Red Button LLC of Layton.
Systems and methods applying a design on a medium, patent No. 8,393,266, invented by Michelle Mellor Rasmussen of Orem, Adam M. Goodman of Orem and Nathan A. Arnesen of Lehi, assigned to Lifestyle Crafts LLC of Farmington.
Longitudinally spinning suspension roller coaster, patent No. 8,393,275, invented by Timothy R. Jacobi of Hyde Park and Stanley J. Checketts of Providence, assigned to S & S Worldwide Inc. of Logan.
Superabrasive elements having indicia and related apparatus and methods, patent No. 8,393,419, invented by Regan L. Burton of Saratoga Springs, assigned to US Synthetic Corp. of Orem.
Serpentine robotic crawler, patent No. 8,393,422, invented by Ralph W. Pensel of Sandy, assigned to Raytheon Co. of Waltham, Mass.
Omnidirectional drive and steering unit, patent No. 8,393,431, invented by Merin J. Swasey of North Logan and Stanley J. Checketts of Providence, assigned to Boomerang Systems Inc. of Morristown, N.J.
Instrument port for minimally invasive cardiac surgery, patent No. 8,394,015, invented by Christopher DiBiasio of North Providence, R.I., Keith Durand of Somerville, Mass., Jonathan Brigham Hopkins of Salt Lake City, Zach Traina of Hingham, Mass., Alexander Slocum of Bow, N.H., Samir Nayfeh of Shrewsbury, Mass., Pedro J. Del Nido of Lexington, Mass. and Nikolay V. Vasilyev of Belmont, Mass., assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. of Boston, Mass.
Electrosurgical instrument with an ablation mode and a coagulation mode, patent No. 8,394,088, invented by Hugh S. West, Jr. of Sandy, assigned to HS West Investments LLC of Sandy.
Drug delivery vehicle that mimics viral properties, patent No. 8,394,391, invented by You Han Bae of Salt Lake City, Eun Seong Lee of Salt Lake City, Dongin Kim of Salt Lake City, Yu Seok Youn of Salt Lake City and Kyung Taek Oh of Salt Lake City, assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation of Salt Lake City.
Flexible and plastic radiopaque laminate composition, patent No. 8,394,448, invented by Thomas F. Lachner of Lake Bluff, Ill., assigned to Merit Medical Systems Inc. of South Jordan.
Self-contained biological analysis, patent No. 8,394,608, invented by Kirk M. Ririe of Salt Lake City, Michael R. Newswander of Hyde Park, Randy P. Rasmussen of Salt Lake City, Mark Aaron Poritz of Salt Lake City, Stewart Benjamin Smith of Salt Lake City, David E. Jones of Clearfield and Gary Clark Kessler of Bountiful, assigned to BioFire Diagnostics Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Flashlight with a pushbutton switch, patent No. 8,395,066, invented by Greg W. Koch of Kaysville, Bruce K. Bangerter of Bountiful, Kevin E. Collier of Kaysville and Darrell B. Steinicke of Bountiful, assigned to Mag Instrument Inc. of Ontario, Calif.
Ultrasonic torsional mode and longitudinal-torsional mode transducer, patent No. 8,395,299, invented by George Bromfield of Salt Lake City, assigned to Piezo-Innocations of Salt Lake City.
Circumferentially spaced magnetic field generating devices, patent No. 8,395,388, invented by David R. Hall of Provo, Paula Turner of Pleasant Grove and Clint Cook of Provo, assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. of Houston, Texas.
High field strength magnetic field generation system, patent No. 8,395,468, invented by James C. Stephenson of Salt Lake City, Bruce K. Gale of Taylorsville and Cynthia Furse of Salt Lake City, assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation of Salt Lake City.
IIR sliding window integrator and search engine delay component, patent No. 8,396,097, invented by Thomas R. Giallorenzi of Riverton, Johnny M. Harris of Centerville, Matthew A. Lake of Salt Lake City, Samuel C. Kingston of Salt Lake City and Myren Iverson of Layton, assigned to L-3 Communications Corp. of New York, N.Y.
Anti-social protocol for emergency dispatch, patent No. 8,396,191, invented by Jeffrey J. Clawson of Salt Lake City.
Systems and methods of supervising contacts, patent No. 8,396,205, invented by Jason Lowry of Salt Lake City, Matthew Lawrence Page of Sandy, Taylor Henry White of Holladay, Nicholas Bauer Ramond of Draper and Brian Douglas Minert of Orem, assigned to Incontact Inc. of Midvale.
Parameter value rejection for a cardiac monitor, patent No. 8,396,542, invented by Steven R. Johnson of Fair Haven, N.J. and Bruce Hopenfeld of Salt Lake City, assigned to Angel Medical Systems Inc. of Fair Haven, N.J.
Identity theft and fraud protection system and method, patent No. 8,396,747, invented by Steven I. Bachenheimer of Aventura, Fla., assigned to Kemesa Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Dynamically specifying a merchant identifier in an electronic financial, patent No. 8,396,792, invented by W. Bradley Wilkes of Alpine and Dan Roper of Provo, assigned to Propay USA Inc. of Orem.
Identifying and ranking networked biographies and referral paths, patent No. 8,396,867, invented by Sunil Mehta of Fremont, Calif., David Meyer of Spanish Fork and Poonam Murgai of Fremont, Calif., assigned to NimbleCat Inc. of Fremont, Calif.
Toilet stool, patent No. D677,478, invented by Judy Edwards of Saint George, Bill Edwards of Saint George and Bobby Edwards of Ivins.
Squirt gun, patent No. D677,741, invented by Kyle S. Wilson of Sandy.
Leash, patent No. D677,842, invented by Edward Van Lee Kalbach of Nibley, assigned to EK Ekcessories Inc. of Logan.
Everett Robinson, an attorney registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, compiles this list weekly for The Salt Lake Tribune. Robinson can be reached at 801-649-5858. For more patents, see the Money page at sltrib.com, go to Sections on the left-hand side and click Patents.


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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey ® Presents Built To Amaze!?, the 143rd edition of the Greatest Show On Earth. Surprise and wonder delights audiences with over the top feats of strength, agility and courage. As the momentum builds so does the anticipation, anything can happen when Ringling Bros. Presents Built To Amaze!
Circus performers from across the globe create the perfect blend of athleticism and bravery, where power meets fearlessness and amazement has no bounds. Magnificent elephants, ferocious tigers, astonishing acrobats and awe-inspiring aerialists are engineered into one spectacular performance. Celebrate the tradition TODAY and experience it's modern flare of twists and turns where excitement and suspense are so intense you'll be tempted to cover your eyes. From the blueprints to the band, the crates to the clowns, the hammer to the high wire, witness the spectacle as we measure out the perfect mix of marvel and majesty in an imagination equation where the impossible comes to life.
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August 15, 2006
Dear FOS11 members,
Over this month and leading up to the commemoration, Families of September 11 (FOS11) will be conducting our annual appeal (via both email and direct mail) to our members and the concerned public.
We are grateful for your guidance and candor over the years. With your support our organization has grown in strength and reach to embrace a wide variety of members including not only families of victims of September 11, but also survivors, witnesses and others affected by acts of terrorism worldwide. We continue to reach out, gladly, to those who need us. It is our legacy to our loved ones.
We hope that you will help us to continue.
We are a 501(c) (3) and all donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law. Use the button above to give online. Or, you may send a check to our offices at:
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In recognition of your gift, we will send you a 9/11 commemorative wrist band, which was designed by the young son of John Salamone, who lost his life on 9/11, in tribute to his dad and to remind us to "remember, honor, hope."
Your support is vital as we plan our programs into 2007 and beyond. We appreciate your willingness to help.
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I work closely with the parents of young children to understand what the child is expeirincing in order to put it all into perspective. I will guide you to exprience your own insights about the nature of thought and how your thinking may be contributing to your child's experience of life, moment by moment. I also provide a variety of resources for you to further your education between sentences..
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I have a great need to protect children. I feel most children are vulnerable to the complexities of the adult world. I feel children heal faster and grow emotionally regarding their age developmental goals when the parents are fully invested in taking care of themselves. I offer parent training classes, and psychotherapy for adults for whom themselves struggled as children, which in turn, helps their child to reach his/her maximum potential.
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Little children need a clinician that they can begin to trust. We have a clinician that can develop a relationship in a very short period of time. She has the ability to help you as a parent sort issues as well as assist with parenting issues as they arise. If your looking for someone who really gets your child come see us today! You will be glad you did!
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Pros - Look, sound, comfort
Cons - Durability
It's sadly discontinued now, and i couldn't really find a Sony alternative at this price and value.
It looks good, the housing is made of strong high quality plastic and metal, sounds good and forgiving, and is comfortable with decent isolation.
Mine doesn't work anymore. To make the J-cable, Sony took 3 separate cables, each different in length and soldered them together. It ripped at the soldered section 4 or 5 times over the 6 years i was using it. I was able to solder it every but the last time. The strain reliefs also broke on both earpieces after a couple of years.
I'm going to try to avoid J-cables and go for Y-cabled IEMs.
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text: 10:30 a.m. 49A02-1211-CT-917. In 2005, Attorney Berton O'Bryan assisted Mary Linder in drafting and executing a will. The will made reference to a list of specific bequests, which Linder would update from time to time and keep with the will, and provided that the personal representative of Linder's estate should honor the list as if it were set forth in the will. O'Bryan provided Linder with blank sheets upon which to record these specific bequests, and the sheets contained neither instructions nor designated spots for the bequests to be signed and witnessed. Upon Linder's death, the will and completed list were discovered and admitted to probate, but the list was declared invalid. Thereafter, a group of Linder's relatives who had been named in the list brought a legal malpractice action against O'Bryan alleging that he had been negligent in advising Linder and drafting the will. O'Bryan successfully moved for summary judgment on the basis that he owed no duty to the relatives because they were neither his clients nor known third-party beneficiaries. The relatives now appeal.


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Kenny Chesney taking 2014 off the road
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When Kenny Chesney wraps up his "No Shoes Nation" tour later this month, he won't return to the road until 2015 at the earliest.
The country superstar tells "The Hollywood Reporter" he'll be taking a break from touring next year to devote his attention to his next album. He admits he loves touring more than anyone in the world, and it's weird to not be looking at next year's stage design. But Kenny explains that music is what enables him to tour, and after releasing an album as personal as Life on a Rock, he believes the path he followed that led to those songs is what he "should be exploring" now.
Chesney adds that he's a point in his career in which "you need to challenge yourself, to really make the record the focus, to ask yourself what you want to say" and not just cut songs because they fit what people expect.
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A master was asked by a curious monk: "What is the way?" "It is right before your eyes," said the master. "Why do I not see it for myself?" asked the monk. "Because you are thinking of yourself," said the master. "What about you," said the monk, "do you see it?"The master said: "So long as you see double, saying I don't, and you do, and so on, your eyes are clouded." "When there is neither I nor you, can one see it?" said the monk. "When there is neither I nor you, who is the one who wants to see it?" replied the master.
Yes, the Way is right before your eyes. But your eyes are not right before the Way - they are closed, closed in a very subtle manner. They are clouded. Millions of thoughts are closing them, millions of dreams are floating on them; whatsoever you have seen is all there, whatsoever you have thought is all there. And you have lived long - many lives, and you have thought much, and it is all gathered there in your eyes. But because thoughts cannot be seen you see your eyes as clear. The clarity is not there. Millions of layers of thought and dreams are there in your eyes. The Way is right before you. All that is, is right before you. But you are not here. You are not in that still moment where eyes are totally empty, unclouded, and you see, and you see that which is.
So the first thing to be understood is: how to attain unclouded eyes, how to make eyes empty so that they can reflect truth, how not to be continuously in a mad rush within; how not to be continuously thinking and thinking and thinking, how to relax thought. When thought is not, seeing happens; when thought is, you go on interpreting and you go on missing.
Don't be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don't think about it, see it!
What to do? One thing: Whenever you look, just be the look. Try. It is going to be difficult, difficult just because of old habit. But try. It happens. It has happened to many, why not you? You are no exception. The universal law is as available to you as to a buddha or to anybody. Just make a little effort.
You see a flower: then just see, don't say anything. The river is flowing: sit on the bank and see the river, but don't say anything. Clouds are moving in the sky: lie down on the ground and see, and don't say anything. Just don't verbalize!
This is the deepest habit, to verbalize; this is your whole training - to jump immediately to words from reality, to immediately start making words: "beautiful flower," "lovely sunset." If it is lovely, let it be lovely! - why bring in this word? If it is beautiful, do you think your word "beautiful" will make it more beautiful? On the contrary, you missed an ecstatic moment. The verbalization came in. Before you could have seen you moved, moved in an inner wandering. If you go too far away in this wandering you become mad.
What is a madman? He who never comes to reality, who always wanders in his own world of words - and he has wandered so far that you cannot bring him back. He is not with the reality, but are you with the reality? You are not either. The difference is only of degree. A madman has wandered very far, you never wandered that far - just in the neighborhood - and you come again and again and touch reality and go again.


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Climate change spreads to Jupiter as scientists reported in WorldNet Daily, May 23, 2008, there is noticeable climate change taking place on Jupiter, too. "The news follows reports as far back as three years ago that ice caps on Mars are also retreating much as some of the ice in the Earth's Arctic circle. There's one striking difference between Earth and the other two planets, however. Neither Jupiter or Mars have any people nor industrial activity creating so-called "greenhouse gases" like carbon dioxide. Increased turbulence and storms first observed on Jupiter more than two years ago are still raging, according to astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, who snapped high-resolution pictures of the planet earlier this month. Captured with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the 10-meter Keck II telescope, this so-called "major upheaval" on Jupiter involves stunning changes in the planet's atmosphere, said lead astronomer Imke de Pater, professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley."
Editorial Comment: We couldn't beat World Net's comment so we repeat it; "Does Al Gore know about this?"
Evidence News, 11th June 2008


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'"I think more than anything, we're going to tell the people of this community and outside this community that we need their help," Regier said. "I think from a budgetary standpoint, we can be competitive with this hockey club."'
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AUDIO Movies: "The Family" with Robert Deniro, "Insidious Chapter 2"
A couple of big productions at theaters this weekend, including a new one starring Robert Deniro that looks like it tries a bit too hard to be funny, while being, basically a mob picture. Hap Erstein with PalmBeachArtsPaper.com gives us his reviews.
"The Family" - Robert Deniro and Michelle Pfeiffer play a former mob boss and his wife. They are in the witness protection program and are moved to a small town in France with their two kids, but the mob discovers where they are due, in part, to old habits that don't die easy. Hap enjoyed the "Bobby Deniro" factor, but says it wasn't anything special.
"Insidious Chapter 2" - We talked Hap into seeing his second horror film in the past couple of months, but he wasn't as pleased with this one as the previous one.
Hap's Art House Pick of the Week
"Prince Avalanche" - The guy who directed "Pineapple Express" tries his hand at a more artsy pic, starring commercial star Paul Rudd.


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Chris Cillizza's strange scorecard
Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza offers a scorecard [1] of "winners and losers" from yesterday's Sotomayor hearings.
His second "winner"? Lindsey Graham, who Cillizza says "was the Republican senator best able to rile Sotomayor" and "managed to unsettle Sotomayor." Cillizza provided no evidence to support that assertion. Nor did he mention that Graham asked Sotomayor if she has a temperament problem - a question that was rather odd coming at the end of a day in which she had answered a barrage of often hostile questions without losing her composure.
Cillizza wrote that Graham's "low-key delivery" proved that he is "one of the best questioners/smart legal minds in the Senate" -- but even Chris Matthews found Graham's questioning condescending [2]. When even Chris Matthews thinks someone is being condescending to a woman, there's a problem.
Even more odd, Cillizza couldn't think of a single Republican to list under the day's "losers." Not, say, Jeff Sessions, the Senator whose own judicial nomination was derailed amid charges of racism - and who suggested [3] that Sonia Sotomayor should have ruled the way Judge Cabranes did because he is also "of Puerto Rican ancestry." Not only that, Sessions blundered into a Marshall McLuhan moment [4] - something that just doesn't happen in real life.
No, Cillizza's "losers" were President Obama and Democrat Herb Kohl - not because Kohl did anything wrong, but because the cable channels didn't cover him.
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The Hill pushed GOP attack on ethics watchdog
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An article in the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill made a poorly substantiated claim that "tax experts" believe that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonprofit government ethics watchdog group, may have violated IRS regulations governing nonprofit organizations by filing ethics complaints with the Justice Department and Federal Elections Commission against mostly Republican members of Congress. The claim against CREW was forwarded by Republicans, but the article downplayed the claim's partisan nature. In fact, no complaint has been filed with the IRS, and two of the three "experts" cited in the article demonstrated either incomplete or inaccurate knowledge of the issue.
In a March 14 article by staff writer Alexander Bolton, The Hill made a poorly substantiated claim that "tax experts" believe that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonprofit government ethics watchdog group, may have violated Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations governing nonprofit organizations by filing ethics complaints with the Justice Department and Federal Elections Commission against mostly Republican members of Congress, including former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN). In fact, Bolton's article quoted a total of three "experts" -- including one who demonstrated inaccurate knowledge of the issue and another who acknowledged not knowing enough about CREW's conduct to render a definitive opinion. Only one of the three, a professor at an Ohio law school,who said he thought there could be a "good case" against CREW, hedged those comments, saying "at least preliminarily." The Hill is a Washington-based newspaper that covers Congress.
The headline of the article -- "Watchdog's tax status, politics are questioned" -- gives no hint of the partisan nature of those asking the questions; the report appears based only on statements by National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesperson Brian Nick, who told The Hill that Republican lawmakers are "weighing ... options" for a such complaint.
CREW is classified by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization, meaning contributions to it are tax-deductible. Although the IRS released new procedures for the 2006 election cycle governing nonprofit organizations, to date, CREW has not been identified by the IRS as the subject of any scrutiny. Nonetheless, the Hill article suggested that, by filing ethics complaints with the Justice Department and Congressional ethics committees, CREW may have violated a prohibition on 501(c)(3) organizations engaging in activity that aims to influence the outcome of federal elections.
Bolton's article quoted three people to support the premise that CREW may have violated that prohibition, two of whom either acknowledged not knowing enough about the case to render a judgment about it or demonstrated that they did not know enough about the case by getting the basic facts of the case wrong.
Rosemary Fei, a lawyer at the San Francisco law firm Silk, Adler & Colvin, acknowledged in the article that the IRS would have to investigate "all the facts and the circumstances" before determining whether CREW violated the prohibition against influencing elections. And Miriam Galston, co-chairwoman of the American Bar Association's political and lobbying subcommittee on tax-exempt organizations and a professor at George Washington University Law School, told The Hill, "the fact that they [the ethics complaints filed by CREW] are all on one side could create the foundation for a claim like that [of the NRSC]." However, that assertion is refuted by Bolton's own reporting, which shows that CREW has filed ethics complaint against members of both parties, and listed Democrats and Republicans among the "13 Most Corrupt in Congress" in 2005.
The third "tax expert," Richard J. Wood, said in the article that the NRSC "is probably right" to believe that CREW may be violating IRS regulations, reportedly citing a memo written by the IRS general counsel saying that a group's "long-term strategy can be used to determine that it is engaging in prohibited behavior," although neither he nor Bolton indicated any knowledge of CREW's "long-term strategy" or suggested how it could be used to determine that CREW "is engaging in prohibited behavior." Wood is a former employee of the IRS Office of Chief Counsel who is currently a law professor at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, which according to its website is the largest university affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.
CREW executive director Melanie Sloan is also quoted in the article pointing out that CREW's complaints are "solidly grounded," given that several of the lawmakers that the organization has targeted have either been indicted (as in the case of DeLay and Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA)), are widely expected to be (as in the case of Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH)), or are still under investigation (as in the cast of Frist).
On the day The Hill published the article, Fox News anchor Brit Hume repeated the article's claims on Special Report with Brit Hume, using its thinly supported premise to state that "an advocacy group that claims to be a nonpartisan ethics watchdog here in Washington could soon be in serious trouble with IRS." He then repeated the charge that the majority of CREW's ethics complaints have been filed against Republicans, and quoted Sloan's defense of the organization, noting that she is "a regular guest on the left-wing network Air America."
From the March 14 edition of The Hill:
Tax experts say the activities of a controversial government watchdog group that has publicized four ethics complaints against Republican lawmakers since the beginning of this year raise red flags at a time when the IRS has renewed its focus on the political activities of tax-exempt groups.
In the past few weeks, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed complaints with the Senate and House ethics panels against Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas). It has filed more ethics complaints against congressional lawmakers than any other prominent advocacy group in the past two years.
Republican Party officials say they are weighing a tax complaint against CREW for engaging in partisan activity.
Since its inception, CREW has prepared ethics complaints against or demanded probes by the ethics panels or the Justice Department of 12 sitting Republican lawmakers: Frist, Santorum, Sen. Ted Stevens (Alaska), Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), Sen. Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), Rep. Bob Ney (Ohio), Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (Colo.), Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (Calif.), House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis (Calif.), House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Johnson.
In addition, the group has filed Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaints against Frist, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), the leadership PAC of then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (Texas), then-Senate candidates Mel Martinez and Alan Keys, both Republicans, and the Bush 2004 presidential campaign.
Republican Party officials say that CREW's activities violate regulations for tax-exempt organizations and that they are weighing filing a complaint with the IRS.
"It's certainly a possibility. We're weighing our options on that," said Brian Nick, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Tax experts say that CREW's seemingly lopsided focus on Republicans will raise flags at the IRS, but they caution that determining violations of tax status so depends on the specific facts and circumstances of each case that it is impossible to predict how the IRS will act.
"At least preliminarily, I think they have a good case," said former IRS official Richard J. Wood, referring to the concerns of Republican officials. "It looks to me that they're probably right."
Wood is a professor at Capital University Law School, teaching about tax issues and business associations. He worked at the IRS from 1980 to 1990.
He cited the legal case pitting the New York City Bar against the IRS in which a court found that the bar violated its tax-exempt status by rating the qualifications of judicial candidates facing election. He also cited a memo from the IRS general counsel, GCM 39811, which states that even if a group does not intervene in the election of a candidate its long-term strategy can be used to determine that it is engaging in prohibited behavior.
Rosemary Fei, who represents tax-exempt and nonprofit groups as a lawyer with Silk, Adler & Colvin, said that the apparent one-sidedness of CREW's activities raises concerns but that it is impossible to know how the IRS would act without knowing all the facts and circumstances of the group's activities.
"If I were at the IRS, the imbalance in complaints would certainly cause me concern about whether the organization might have violated the political-intervention prohibition, but on the other hand that prohibition is based on an evaluation by the IRS of all the facts and the circumstances," she said. "While a single fact like this looks pretty bad, the IRS would need to investigate to see if the charity had legitimate public-policy or public-education or civic duties in mind when it brought these complaints."
But Sloan said she has criticized Democrats, including Reps. Neil Abercrombie (Hawaii) and Norm Dicks (Wash.), for ethically questionable conduct -- in quotes appearing in Capitol Hill publications, in The American Prospect magazine, and in the Los Angeles Times. She also noted that her group included two Democrats, Reps. William Jefferson (La.) and Maxine Waters (Calif.), on its list of the 13 most corrupt members of Congress, released last year. The list included 11 Republicans.
Sloan said that CREW's ethics complaints are solidly grounded. She noted that Cunningham recently pleaded guilty to accepting bribes, that DeLay was indicted in Texas in a campaign-finance investigation and that the Justice Department is widely expected to indict Ney in the near future. She also said that Frist, the target of a complaint CREW filed with the FEC, is struggling to resolve with the agency questions about his fundraising activity.
Miriam Galston, an associate professor at George Washington University Law School and the co-chairwoman of the American Bar Association's political and lobbying subcommittee on tax-exempt organizations, said that the IRS would likely look at how an organization handles its drafted complaints.
"Filing those complaints would not constitute, taken by themselves, intervening in a political campaign," Galston said. "If they went further and publicized the list and publicly tried to make some political mileage out of fact of the allegation and tried to sully campaign prospects using their own complaints, they could be said to be intervening in a political campaign."
Galston said that a group could be found to be engaging in improper political activity even if an election is not on the horizon.
"You could easily see that any kind of good-citizen or civic group would want to file complaints, but the fact that they are all on one side could create the foundation for a claim like that," she said.
CREW has publicized its complaints against Republican lawmakers on its website and through press releases.
Sloan said that she has filed complaints almost exclusively against Republicans because they control both branches of Congress and the White House and, as a result, are more likely to be the recipients of corrupting gifts and contributions.
"Republicans are the ones in power," she said. "You're stupid to pay off a Democrat. They can't do a whole lot for you."
Sloan also pointed out that CREW signed a letter from the Congressional Ethics Coalition, a group formed in 2004 to reform the congressional ethics process, that called for the House ethics panel to investigate six lawmakers, including three Democrats: Reps. Jim McDermott (Wash.), Conyers and Jefferson. She did not cite an instance when CREW on its own drafted an ethics complaint against or called for an ethics or Justice Department investigation of a Democratic lawmaker other than Lincoln.
From the March 14 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume:
HUME: The Hill newspaper reports that an advocacy group that claims to be a nonpartisan ethics watchdog here in Washington could soon be in serious trouble with the IRS. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW's, status as a tax-exempt group bars political activity, but The Hill found since its creation more than three years ago CREW has filed at least 20 complaints against Republican lawmakers, only one against a Democrat. Melanie Sloan, who runs CREW, disputes any claims that the group is biased and claims the current number of complaints against Republicans on the current balance of power in Congress, saying, quote, "You are stupid to pay off a Democrat. They can't do a whole lot for you." She, by the way, is a regular guest on the left-wing network Air America.
Disclosure: CREW deputy director & communications director Naomi Seligman was previously communications director at Media Matters for America.
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