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Unintended consequence of the 14th Amendment have allowed an elite group of non-Americans to birth their children in the United States, immigration experts say.
Called "birth tourism," wealthy pregnant women from foreign countries come to America on a temporary visa with the intention of having their child here.
The 14th Amendment says if a child is born in the United States he or she should receive a birth certificate and is therefore granted citizenship.
However, the unanswered question is does this pertain to children of illegal immigrants or children born to parents who are temporary visitors, said Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies.
"There has never been a Supreme Court ruling or an act of Congress or a executive order that has really cleared this up," Camarota said.
"The courts have ruled that the children of an legal immigrant, a green card holder, are automatically U.S. citizens, but temporary visitors remain a vague area."
Chino Hills officials have been dealing with the fallout from this loophole as an alleged Chinese maternity hotel is being operated out of a large house at 15250 Woodglen Drive.
City officials expect to soon file a criminal complaint against homeowner Hai Yong Wu because of a number of code enforcement violations.
Wu allegedly violated ordinances against operating what the city considers a hotel in a residential house and against altering the structure of the house without permits, City Attorney Mark Hensley said.
Residents are also upset because the alleged operation has disrupted their quiet neighborhood.
"I'm retired from teaching and over the last 15 to 20 years I was spending up to $800 a year trying to have enough books and enough learning materials for my students," said Linda Spencer, who resides near the Woodglen house.
"Now you're talking about offering a free education to kids because their parents came over, birthed them here - now they are a citizen and now those children are eligible for a free education and they're able to go to college."
The federal government maintains that "there is nothing in the law that makes it illegal for pregnant women to enter the United States," said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"However, if a pregnant woman or anyone else uses fraud or deception to obtain a visa or gain admission to the United States that would constitute a criminal act and be a matter of interest. Likewise, that would also be true if that woman conspires with others who then commit fraud on her behalf."
Chino Hills is not the only Southland city where the issue of "maternity tourism" has arisen.
The practice has also been found in San Gabriel Valley locales such as San Gabriel, Rowland Heights, Walnut, Temple City and Arcadia.
In 2011, San Gabriel city officials shut down a cluster of townhomes where officials found about one dozen Chinese nationals and 10 newborns in March of that year. The city closed off the buildings because they were judged to be unsafe for human habitation, not for any potential violations of immigration law.
"The city conducted an inspection based on a complaint," said Clayton Anderson, neighborhood improvement services manager for San Gabriel.
"We observed that there were load-bearing walls that been breached ... the properties were unsafe for human occupancy at that point."
The city's action prohibited anyone from being inside the townhomes unless they were there to repair the buildings, Anderson said.
San Gabriel officials also contacted Los Angeles County authorities to inform the infants' mothers that they could not stay in the townhomes.
"They ended up staying in a hotel in Baldwin Park," Anderson said.
In Arcadia, city officials have used zoning laws since around 2003 to shut down about five operations where women who came to the United States to give birth stayed in residences, Assistant City Manager Jason Kruckeberg said.
In those cases, the city informed the homes' operators that they were illegally operating a business in a residential area. Those operations either shut down or moved after Arcadia officials provided notice.
Kruckeberg said there have been several allegations of other such operations in the city.
Arcadia officials have asked the federal government for advice, but have not received indications that immigration authorities are very concerned about maternity tourism.
"The answer that we're getting back has been that `We're not regulating this at this time," he said.
Camarota said it is unclear how many children are born to immigrants through surveys or through the number of birth certificates issued.
Birth certificate records analysis show from 6,000 to 7,000 people born in the United States a year have foreign addresses. The problem is that that number cannot be used to accurately estimate birth tourism because typically those mothers have some ties here, and the address they provide for the birth certificate is typically that of a relative or a hotel, Camarota said.
"We're very sloppy about citizenship and sloppy about administration data of this kind, therefore, we're not able to get a good picture of it," he said.
There is nothing illegal about these parents coming to America if they are here for tourism, however, if they're here with the clear intent to have a child, they have mislead the person who stamped their passport and there does "seem to be a violation of the spirit of the immigration law," Camarota said.
"The system is so slipshod that if we issue temporary visas to millions of people, but we don't have an exit system or a check out system that would record your departure and no one knows if you over-stayed," he said.
"And the fact that you had this kid is an another example of not checking up on you in any meaningful sense to the terms of your visa."
Jerome Corsi, a conservative author and columnist who has studied the issue of birth tourism, said this practice is more deceptive than illegal.
"It certainly is taking advantage of loopholes and taking advantage of wealth, but there is nothing in the law that I'm aware of that says you can't do it. I think it's a case of once it has become public, the doctors become embarrassed, the hotels offering the programs are embarrassed when they get shut down."
Because the program is limited to a elite group of people from foreign countries - the two biggest being China and Turkey - who can afford this, it has gained the attention of Americans because it looks like selling U.S. citizenship to wealthy foreigners, Corsi said.
"You've got a speciality marketing and people taking the opportunity and the advantage they have if they have the resources to do it, that by itself limits the market," he said.
Corsi said in the modern world there is an advantage to be an U.S. citizen for economic and military strength as well as the quality of life here.
Certainly, as a U.S. citizen there is access to benefits that may not be available to non-citizens, including driver licenses, voting and being able to apply to various schools that non-citizens might find more difficult to qualify for, Corsi said.
"So wealthy people wanting this may say, `I want my son or daughter to go to Harvard (University) or a medical school,' whatever their aspiration is, so getting the child born here is like getting a ticket to those benefits in the United States," Corsi said.
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Ahh, good to see MMABay keeping up their tradition of unbiased reporting and not 'getting it'. Oh, and spelling mistakes.
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lol at Wolfslair being the first one to post this.
we just got the news off the web its every were
i think its really sad that such a long term and obviously loving relationship between fighter and gym has decayed that much for whatever reason, that there now appears to be some form of gloating over such a sad fall from grace.
As for Kelly i hope its not true, dealing heroin is really low. Loved watching the guy in the UFC had some awesome scraps, his fight with Paul Taylor was one of the most exciting fights iv seen.
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only when you have walked a mile in my shoes over this matter, will you understand my point
Conspiracy is a bullshit charge, no evidence to actually say he has committed a crime!
MMABUM can go fuck themselves!
Sadly from what I have read it sure doesn't seem like he has been fitted up. Can't say I would ever say Free Paul Kelly for dealing H, ruins lives, horrible drug.
The shame is he was an exciting fighter, always enjoyed seeing his fights.
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The Second-Term Illusion / Or, why Barack won´t be beating up on Bibi next year (FP) FOREIGN POLICY) BY AARON DAVID MILLER 04/11/12)
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It´s 2013. Barack Obama has just been re-elected, the Democrats have retained their majority in the Senate. And the American president, freed from political constraints in a second term, decides to take on an issue that stymied him so badly in his first.
"Israeli-Palestinian peace is critically important to our national interests," Obama tells his new secretary of state (Kerry, Rice, Donilon -- take your pick). "If we don´t move now, the two-state solution is dead."
"It means taking on Benjamin Netanyahu," the secretary responds.
"I´m ready for that," Obama shoots back. "And besides, it´s time to find out whether I really deserve that Nobel."
According to popular legend, an American president, unshackled by the politics of reelection, is more willing and able to do forceful Arab- Israeli diplomacy (read: pressure on Israel) during a second term. Over the years, this notion and its rallying cry ("Wait until after November") has encouraged and sustained the hopes, dreams, and fears (in some cases) of Americans, Israelis, Arabs, Palestinians, assorted Europeans, and anyone else frustrated by the lack of progress and persuaded that domestic politics is the albatross around the president´s neck.
But of all the urban legends swirling around the presidency and America´s Middle Eastern policy, few are as compelling (or as wrong) as that of the empowered two-term president. Like the belief in the existence of a peace-process tooth fairy, it´s more myth than reality, and here´s why.
No precedent:
That something has never happened doesn´t mean it can´t happen. Life´s full of uncertainties and surprises. But the fact that the second-term fantasy has never played out makes you wonder about the viability of the whole idea. Why is it that in 50 years of U.S. involvement in the peace process, that fantasy has never been tested, let alone realized?
History tells a different and more grounded tale. Most of the toughest diplomacy, particularly with the Israelis, occurred in a president´s first term, not the second.
In 1975, barely a year into his short presidency, the much- underestimated Gerald Ford used very tough diplomacy with then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to secure a second Sinai disengagement agreement between Israel and Egypt.
Three years later, Jimmy Carter pushed early in his first term on Arab-Israeli diplomacy partly because he believed that the odds against a breakthrough would grow longer if he waited. He was encouraged in this view by his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who reckoned that it was better to have a battle with the pro-Israel community sooner rather than later.
Likewise, the tough diplomacy leading to the 1991 Madrid peace conference, including the denial of housing-loan guarantees to the Shamir government, also occurred during George H.W. Bush´s first and only term -- he never got a second one to test the proposition (and no, Israel wasn´t the reason -- it was the economy, stupid).
Of all the second-term diplomacy undertaken by various American presidents, none really fits the model of the empowered, tough-minded two-termer.
Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger´s diplomacy (two Arab-Israeli disengagement agreements in 18 months, from 1973 to 1974) did occur in the president´s second term, but under very strange circumstances. The October 1973 war created the opportunity, and Nixon, weakened by Watergate, wanted to show that American foreign policy was still vibrant and effective.
In 1988, Secretary of State George Shultz pushed a peace initiative during Reagan´s second term, but you´d be hard pressed to call it forceful. Shultz did help engineer a late-in-the-game second term recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization, but only after its leader Yasser Arafat had met U.S. conditions. And Bill Clinton did undertake a serious diplomatic effort in his second term at Camp David, but it certainly wasn´t tough and determined, and certainly wasn´t designed to squeeze the Israelis. If anything, he pressed the Palestinians, whom he judged to be evasive and withholding.
The fact is, there´s just no historical basis to the proposition of an empowered second-term president getting tough on Arab-Israeli peacemaking or pushing the Israelis around. Regional conditions matter far more than those in Washington.
Same old, same old:
Let´s assume for the sake of this thought experiment that Obama does decide that nothing is more important to his second term than Israeli- Palestinian peace (a dubious assumption, but I´ll humor myself). And let´s further stipulate that he´s determined to find a way forward. Domestic politics will be the least of the obstacles that stand in his way, truly more a speed bump than a Mount Everest.
A willful president is critical to success. But more important is the situation in the region and the calculations of Arabs and Israelis. Today, three challenges impede a two state solution: an Israeli prime minister who´s very far from either Obama´s or the Palestinian position on a deal, a divided Palestinian national movement, and the uncertainties of an Arab Spring that will further limit Israel´s flexibility. All will still be there in 2013.
And then there´s Iran. Assuming we get through the end of this year without an Israeli military strike (a pretty good bet) or a negotiated solution (another safe wager), the nuclear issue will be front and center in January 2013.
The president´s effort to buy time and space to allow sanctions and diplomacy to work to preempt a military solution may be a good idea, but it has created a longer-term problem. In shifting from the rhetoric of containment to prevention, Obama has laid the groundwork for making Iran´s nuclear program an American problem and maybe paved the way for a military solution too.
With Israel and now America focused so much on the mullahs´ putative nuclear capacity, it´s hard to see how any Israeli prime minister -- particularly this one -- would make any concessions on peace with the Palestinians until the Iran situation were much clearer. Add to that the southward-bound direction of the Israeli-Egyptian relationship and you have 1,001 reasons to avoid decisions on the Palestinian issue.
What you see is what you get:
I believe Obama really cares about the Israeli-Palestinian issue; I also think he´s terribly frustrated by the lack of progress and holds Israel, specifically Netanyahu, primarily responsible. He´d really like to get tough.
At the same time, Obama has proven himself to be a cautious, pragmatic, and deliberate man. Like FDR, he wanted to be a transformative political figure and alter the trajectory of American domestic and foreign policy. But his nature is more the transactor and the dealmaker. That´s who he is.
The president isn´t a man of any extreme -- the community organizer, campus radical, alien president trope is a bunch of partisan mumbo jumbo. What´s important about Obama´s storyline is Harvard Law School, the U.S. Senate, two best-selling books, and succeeding in American politics. To do so, let alone become president, he had to be a man of the system.
When it comes to the Arab-Israeli issue, a second term is more likely to see Obama the unchanged, not the unchained. He´s plenty frustrated by Netanyahu. But Obama lacks FDR´s partisan toughness and fight; public anger doesn´t come naturally, nor does going for the jugular. Instead, he´s a compromiser always looking for middle ground and balance, even when it seems naive. That´s where his vision of the truth (and solutions) lie.
He has gotten emotional on one issue and that´s health care, and he was prepared to fight for it. As for Israelis and Palestinians? He´ll take a look in 2013, see where the lay of the land is, and carefully calculate the odds of success or failure. Remember, for a two-term president, legacy cuts both ways: You want to be remembered as the hero, not the goat, and that means leaving a vapor trail of kudos, not stumbles, let alone outright failures. And going all out on Arab- Israeli peace when the conditions just aren´t there has failure written all over it.
The reality of the second term:
Every administration is different, but there´s a reason the second term doesn´t produce unchained presidents throwing their weight and influence around.
First, they don´t have as much of either. The first day after Inauguration 2.0, two clocks start ticking: the legacy clock and the lame-duck clock. The first measures what a president can accomplish in the time he has left with the street cred and reputation he´s developed; the second watches those assets slip away. It´s a race, really.
Presidents and their staffs also get tired, are scandal-prone, and start making mistakes in a second term (see: Reagan and Iran-Contra; Clinton and Monica Lewinsky). And then there´s the problem of how America´s allies and adversaries perceive the president´s waning power. Arafat´s decision to pass up Clinton´s proposals on final- status deals in December 2000 was clearly driven partly by his galactic miscalculation that he´d get a better deal and a tougher line against Israel from the son of George H.W. Bush.
The fact that Obama won´t get a third term may even work against him. Beginning Jan. 21, if not Nov. 5, the Arabs and the Israelis will begin to take the measure of a president who now has a guaranteed expiration date.
If there´s anything the locals are really good at, it´s evasion, delay, and maneuver in the face of initiatives they don´t like. And they´ll be taking Barack Obama´s measure to see how serious he really is.
What they´ll conclude, of course, depends on how the president behaves. But the obstacles standing in the way of a two-state solution are formidable and growing. More than likely, the second- term illusion will remain just that. And in assessing Obama´s intentions, credibility, and drive on Middle East peace, the Arabs and Israelis may well conclude that if it swims, has feathers, and quacks, it´s more than likely a duck -- and a lame one at that.
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Klaeng, Rayong 21100
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Centara Sappaya Rayong, Boutique Collection is designed and built with a primary goal. This is partly achieved via architectural design, but more importantly we are focus through natural beauty of the location and the meshing of the structures with the canvas provided by nature. This place is perfect for romantic getaway or honeymoon either family's vacation. The resort is associated with popular tourist destinations. Activities available tent to focus on either in resort such as swimming, beach runs, fishing, golf and meditation. Guest service with Concierge service, Wireless internet, Laundry service, Tour desk, and extra large corridor are provided at this resort. Located on Lam Mae Phim beach, on the eastern coast of the gulf of Thailand. Only a 2 hour drive from Bangkok, it is on one of the most beautiful beaches.
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A stunning modern gem conveniently
located in Rayong province, tucked away on the sands of Laem Mae Phim
Beach, the Centara Q Resort Rayong is now set to invite you into a crisp,
futuristic cocoon. Small and sleek, the hotel has just 41 intimate,
innovative rooms; which, like the rest of the Resort, have all just
undergone an extensive renovation. Clean, swooping lines combine with
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adding up to a sophisticated retreat in tune with its surroundings.
The resort has also expanded to gain a whole new accommodation building, and its dining venues also sport a bold new look, but they're still just as laid-back and relaxed as they've ever been, basking beachside in boutique style. Just because the Resort is built on an intimate scale doesn't mean that it's missing any of the touches that help create a great getaway; here you'll find breezy ocean-facing rooms, a full service spa, a large swimming pool, and a range of enticing leisure activities.
The 41 freshly-styled rooms make light, bright retreats for couples and families, and perfectly
evoke the wide open sea and fresh air with their uncluttered lines and sleek configuration.
Each living space is between 34 and 58 square metres, and all rooms come with an
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If you've got a family that needs some flexibility when it comes to room layouts,
the resort can offer you the choice of two double beds or a king-sized bed plus a sofa bed – one less thing to have to figure out.
Along with a totally relaxing getaway, you will have free wireless internet access, and a range of in-room amenities including a flat-screen TV with DVD player, individually controlled air-conditioning, a work station, an in-room safe, a minibar and a hairdryer.
Superior Ocean FacingEach Superior Ocean Facing room has a combined indoor and outdoor space of 34 square metres, laid out in a contemporary style combining sharp lines, light wood accents and a cooling white and grey décor.
The Gulf of Thailand forms an alluring visual backdrop for each furnished balcony, and each room offers you the choice of either a king-sized bed for 2 adults and1 child; or two double beds, ideal for families of 2 adults and 2 children. Every Superior Ocean Facing room has a bathroom with a spacious shower.
In-room amenities and services include free Wi-Fi, individually-controlled air-conditioning, a flat-screen TV with international channels and DVD player, a minibar, tea and coffee-making facilities, an in-room safe and a hairdryer.
Deluxe Ocean FacingRevivifying views of the beach from your spacious Deluxe Ocean Facing room are just the start. 58 generous square metres of total living area include a balcony for lounging and sunning yourself, a bedroom with the option of a king-sized bed or twin beds, and a bathroom with both bathtub and shower. The Deluxe Ocean Facing rooms can comfortably accommodate couples and families of 2 adults and 1 child.
In-room amenities and services include free Wi-Fi, individually-controlled air-conditioning, a flat-screen TV with international channels and DVD player, a minibar, tea and coffee-making facilities, an in-room safe and a hairdryer.
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Type of cuisine: Thai and European cuisines
Seating capacity: 60 seats
Perched up on the second floor, the brand new QZeen Restaurant is both a crisply modern and laid-back dining destination. QZeen Restaurant commands great views across the swimming pool and out to the beach. Within this sleek, chic setting, we serve a variety of buffet-style breakfast options, and then an excellent array of European and Thai dishes for lunch and dinner, including zesty regional favourites such as pad thai with king prawns, pad kra-pao fettuccini (fettuccini pasta with Thai basil and chilli), tom zab (North-eastern spicy meat soup) and moo cha-muang (fragrant and rich Thai pork curry).
Opening Hours: 06:30 - 22:00 hrs
Type of cuisine: wine, cocktails and tapas
Seating capacity: 15 seats
Perched up above Qube Pool Bar, the brand new Quattro Rooftop Lounge is absolutely laid-back and serves tapas and a choice of cocktails and wines in tandem with stunning views across the Gulf of Thailand.
Opening Hours: 17:00 - 22:00 hrs
Type of cuisine: refreshments, cocktails and light bites
Seating capacity: 40 seats
Located on picturesque Laem Mae Phim Beach, a stone's throw away from the swimming pool and the calm waters of the Gulf of Thailand, Qube Pool Bar is found in a relaxed, open-air setting, and is home to an extensive list of refreshments and exquisite cocktails that are just begging to be sampled, along with a selection of light bites inspired by traditional Thai flavours.
Opening Hours: 10:00 - 21:00 hrs
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Type of cuisine: light bites, refreshments and cocktails
Seating capacity: 20 seats
For another dimension of relaxation, what better than lazing the day away beachside while enjoying a selection of drinks and light bites inspired by Thai and international flavours. Quicksand Beach Terrace is found in a relaxed open-air setting with a choice of day beds and sun loungers.
Opening Hours: 11:00 - 22:00 hrs
Sometimes it's just easier to stay in the lap of luxury and have dinner brought to you. Dine on Thai delicacies or a choice of international dishes in the comfort of your own room, available throughout the day until 10.00pm.
Opening Hours: 06:00 - 22:00 hrs
The resort is just three hour's drive away
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opportunities of the resort town of Pattaya. If you're keen on water
sports, the islands of Koh Lan and Koh Sak, off the coast of Pattaya,
are ideal for diving and snorkeling, while the islands of Koh Samet
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island getaway. Our tour desk will gladly arrange visits to nearby waterfalls,
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Adnan Oktar: Georgians are modest, blessed, a very pure nation. They are very beautiful people.They are a source of joy within the Turkish-Islamic Union; being nested with such a beautiful nation, living together with them, being brothers with them…For me, Georgia is an Anatolia there. That is, when Georgia is mentioned, the first thing that occurs to my mind is Anatolia. The warmth of Anatolia, the training of Ottoman, a beauty of the Ottoman.INSHA'ALLAH IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE THE DOORS OF THE GEORGIA WILL BE OPENED. WE WILL BE TOGETHER WITH THIS BEAUTIFUL, BLESSED, HOLY PEOPLE, WE WILL BE BROTHERS. We willdrink that beautiful education, that beautiful moral perfection as much one can.
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Adnan Oktar: We will fish all together with the Georgian fishermen, fry them and eat them together. Georgia is our heart, they are our whole brothers. They are pure Turks. A great part of Turkey is of Georgian origin. This trouble, this scourge will come to an end with the Turkish-Islamic Union. AZERBAIJAN, GEORGIA, ARMENIA; BY ALLAH'S LEAVE THEY WILL ALL BE OUR NEW NEIGHBORHOOD. WE WILL EAT, DRINK, CONVERSE, SPEAK AS WE WISH. THEY WILL COME TO US AND WE WILL GO THERE. THE BORDER GATES WILL BE WIDE OPEN. THEY WILL COME AND FISH HERE, WE WILL GO AND FISH THERE. EVERYTHING WILL BE OPEN. They have put many impediments through many a hardship. We will break all these chains, go through these impediments. We will experience a free, very prosperous, joyful and blissful life Insha'Allah.
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Turkey and Georgia signed agreements to implement a passport-free travel regime. According to the new protocol the citizens of the two countries will show their identity cards instead of their passports.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili attended an opening ceremony for the modernized Sarp customs point to mark the passport-free travel agreement between the neighboring countries. Prime Minister Erdogan also gave the news of "common-gate model" regime. Implementing a passport-free regime via the Sarp border gate will also ease traffic at the gate.
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[If you think I don't write enough here, I have a good excuse: I've been blogging at the Lindependence 2008 Felton Diary here. I'll get here when I can.]
I've mentioned this before in blogs, but it bears repeating: For years, I have hoped to be a thorn in Dell's side, the pebble in ol' Mike's Gucci loafers about dependability and quality of the machines that came from the Dallas conglomerate.
So when Dell decided to see the light and offer Ubuntu as an OS option, I asked for a nice bearnaise sauce to go with the crow I dutifully, and happily, ate.
Fast forward to late last week, when I helped my commercial neighbor Ron at Long Cabinet Company with the memory on his Dell laptop, it was one of those opportunities to show that what we do, hardware- and software-wise, is not exactly some sort of black magic. In addition, it showed Ron how Dell and Microsoft are working together to make Vista unusable.
Ron's wife had bought Ron a gig of memory and he asked me to install it. Thanks to Dell — more crow, please — adding memory on the laptops is merely a matter of just removing a panel, popping it in, and putting the panel back on; 60 seconds, tops.
This was the easy part: The harder part, and the part I couldn't explain other than to say that it's a huge mistake by both Dell and Microsoft, was trying to justify to Ron how Dell could sell a machine that they said was Vista-ready with "only" 512MB of RAM and how Microsoft could make an "new and improved" operating system that . . . well . . . oh, never mind. In the end, both Dell and Microsoft took a back seat to an explanation of how GNU/Linux doesn't have the same problems that Ron was experiencing.
One more convert in the making? One can only hope.
(Larry Cafiero runs HeliOS Solutions West in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)


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'The Rangers got little help from goalie Dan Blackburn, who made his season debut — delayed from last Saturday because of a dislocated finger. Blackburn, who also battled a groin injury during the preseason, was a tad off, allowing a long-range goal to his usually speedy glove side, and the long-distance Connolly one-timer, although he was stellar late in the third and in OT.'
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(Yahoo!) - In what can only be described as a bizarre crime, which police appear to have only scratched the surface of, the lead singer of a recently reunited rock band was kidnapped, attacked, robbed, and released over the weekend.
Alex Band, best known as lead singer of The Calling, was abducted in Lapeer, Michigan, early on the morning of Sunday, August 18, according to a press release from the Lapeer Police Department.
Police responded to a call from a regional hospital emergency department at 4:30 a.m. regarding the incident. Band reported "being forced into a blue colored minivan style vehicle between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. by two male subjects" in the area of West Street and South Main Street. He claimed that he was "assaulted, robbed, and dropped off on another street within the City of Lapeer."
One of his fellow band members took him to the hospital, where he was treated and released. The incident remains under investigation.
TMZ, who was first to report the news, reports that Band was out for a stroll to the mini mart at the time of the abduction.
The Calling is best known for their 2001 hit "Wherever You Will Go." The L.A. based band broke up in 2005 but reportedly recently reunited.
Clearly, it seems like there's more to this story than we've learned so far. Why was Band targeted? What was stolen from him?
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In more recent decades, the tech industry has seen the rise of products and services that are similarly ahead of their time. Some of them represent great ideas that couldn't really be implemented well with contemporary technology; others are brilliant plans that weren't turned into viable businesses by the first person or group to come up with them. All of them flopped, but all of them also influenced the industry. This list should serve as a warning to those who think that being the first to think of something will lead to any easy road to success.
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Winston Churchill wrote afterwards: 'No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening. The measured, silent drawing together of gigantic forces, the uncertainty of their movements and positions, the number of unknown and unknowable facts made the first collision a drama never surpassed. Nor was there any other period in the War when the general battle was waged on so great a scale, when the slaughter was so swift or the stakes so high. Moreover, in the beginning our faculties of wonder, horror and excitement had not been cauterized and deadened by the furnace fires of years.' All this was so, though few of Churchill's fellow participants in those vast events embraced them with such eager appetite.
In our own twenty-first century, the popular vision of the war is dominated by images of trenches, mud, wire and poets. It is widely supposed that the first day of the 1916 Battle of the Somme was the bloodiest of the entire conflict. This is not so. In August 1914 the French army, advancing under brilliant sunshine across a virgin pastoral landscape, in dense masses clad in blue overcoats and red trousers, led by officers riding chargers, with colours flying and bands playing, fought battles utterly unlike those that came later, and at even more terrible daily cost. Though French losses are disputed, the best estimates suggest that they suffered well over a million casualties in 1914's five months of war, including 329,000 dead. One soldier whose company entered its first battle with eighty-two men had just three left alive and unwounded by the end of August.
The Germans suffered 800,000 casualties in the same period, including three times as many dead as during the entire Franco-Prussian War. This also represented a higher rate of loss than at any later period of the war. The British in August fought two actions, at Mons and Le Cateau, which entered their national legend. In October their small force was plunged into the three-week nightmare of the First Battle of Ypres. The line was narrowly held, with a larger French and Belgian contribution than chauvinists acknowledge, but much of the old British Army reposes forever in the region's cemeteries: four times as many soldiers of the King perished in 1914 as during the three years of the Boer War. Meanwhile in the East, within weeks of abandoning their harvest fields, shops and lathes, newly mobilised Russian, Austrian and German soldiers met in huge clashes; tiny Serbia inflicted a succession of defeats on the Austrians which left the Hapsburg Empire reeling, having by Christmas suffered 1.27 million casualties at Serb and Russian hands, amounting to one in three of its soldiers mobilised.
Many books about 1914 confine themselves either to describing the political and diplomatic maelstrom from which the armies flooded forth in August, or to providing a military narrative. I have attempted to draw together these strands, to offer readers some answers, at least, to the enormous question: 'What happened to Europe in 1914?' Early chapters describe how the war began. Thereafter, I have traced what followed on the battlefields and behind them until, as winter closed in, the struggle lapsed into stalemate, and attained the military character that it retained, in large measure, until the last phase in 1918. Christmas 1914 is an arbitrary point of closure, but I would cite Winston Churchill's remarks above, arguing that the opening phase of the conflict had a unique character which justifies examining it in isolation. My concluding chapter offers some wider reflections.
The outbreak has been justly described as the most complex series of happenings in history, much more difficult to comprehend and explain than the Russian Revolution, the onset of World War II or the Cuban missile crisis. This part of the story is inevitably that of the statesmen and generals who willed it, of the rival manoeuvres of the Triple Alliance – Germany and Austria-Hungary with Italy as a non-playing member – against the Triple Entente of Russia, France and Britain.
In today's Britain, there is a widespread belief that the war was so horrendous that the merits of the rival belligerents' causes scarcely matter – the Blackadder take on history, if you like. This seems mistaken, even if one does not entirely share Cicero's view that the causes of events are more important than the events themselves. That wise historian Kenneth O. Morgan, neither a conservative nor a revisionist, delivered a 1996 lecture about the cultural legacy of the twentieth century's two global disasters, in which he argued that 'the history of the First World War was hijacked in the 1920s by the critics'. Foremost among these was Maynard Keynes, an impassioned German sympathiser who castigated the supposed injustice and folly of the 1919 Versailles Treaty, without offering a moment's speculation about what sort of peace Europe would have had if a victorious Kaiserreich and its allies had been making it. The contrast is striking, and wildly overdone, between the revulsion of the British people following World War I, and their triumphalism after 1945. I am among those who reject the notion that the conflict of 1914–18 belonged to a different moral order from that of 1939–45. If Britain had stood aside while the Central Powers prevailed on the continent, its interests would have been directly threatened by a Germany whose appetite for dominance would assuredly have been enlarged by victory.
The seventeenth-century diarist John Aubrey wrote: 'About 1647, I went to see Parson Stump out of curiosity to see his Manuscripts, whereof I had seen some in my childhood; but by that time they were lost and disperst; his sons were gunners and souldiers, and scoured their gunnes with them.' All historians face such disappointments, but the contrary phenomenon also afflicts students of 1914: there is an embarrassment of material in many languages, and much of it is suspect or downright corrupt. Almost all the leading actors in varying degree falsified the record about their own roles; much archival material was destroyed, not merely by carelessness but often because it was deemed injurious to the reputations of nations or individuals. From 1919 onwards Germany's leaders, in pursuit of political advantage, strove to shape a record that might exonerate their country from war guilt, systematically eliminating embarrassing evidence. Some Serbs, Russians and Frenchmen did likewise.
Moreover, because so many statesmen and soldiers changed their minds several times during the years preceding 1914, their public and private words can be deployed to support a wide range of alternative judgements about their convictions and intentions. An academic once described oceanography as 'a creative activity undertaken by individuals who are ... gratifying their own curiosity. They are trying to find meaningful patterns in the research data, their own as well as other people's, and far more frequently than one might suppose, the interpretation is frankly specula- tive.' The same is true about the study of history in general, and that of 1914 in particular.
Scholarly argument about responsibility for the war has raged through decades and several distinct phases. A view gained acceptance in the 1920s and thereafter, influenced by a widespread belief that the 1919 Versailles Treaty imposed unduly harsh terms upon Germany, that all the European powers shared blame. Then Luigi Albertini's seminal work The Origins of the War of 1914 appeared in Italy in 1942 and in Britain in 1953, laying the foundations for many subsequent studies, especially in its emphasis on German responsibility. In 1967 Fritz Fischer published another ground- breaking book, Germany's Aims in the First World War, arguing that the Kaiserreich must bear the burden of guilt, because documentary evidence showed the country's leadership bent upon launching a European war before Russia's accelerating development and armament precipitated a seismic shift in strategic advantage.
At first, Fischer's compatriots responded with outrage. They were members of the generation which reluctantly accepted a necessity to shoulder responsibility for the Second World War; now, here was Fischer insisting that his own nation should also bear the guilt for the First. It was too much, and his academic brethren fell upon him. The bitterness of Germany's 'Fischer controversy' has never been matched by any comparable historical debate in Britain or the United States. When the dust settled, however, a remarkable consensus emerged that, with nuanced reservations, Fischer was right.
But in the past three decades, different aspects of his thesis have been energetically challenged by writers on both sides of the Atlantic. Among the most impressive contributions was that of Georges-Henri Soutou, in his 1989 work L'Or et le sang. Soutou did not address the causes of the conflict, but instead the rival war aims of the allies and the Central Powers, convincingly showing that rather than entering the conflict with a coherent plan for world domination, the Germans made up their objectives as they went along. Some other historians have ploughed more contentious furrows. Sean McMeekin wrote in 2011: 'The war of 1914 was Russia's war even more than it was Germany's.' Samuel Williamson told a March 2012 seminar at Washington's Wilson Center that the theory of explicit German guilt is no longer tenable. Niall Ferguson places a heavy responsibility on British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey. Christopher Clark argues that Austria was entitled to exact military retribution for the murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand upon Serbia, which was effectively a rogue state. Meanwhile John Rohl, magisterial historian of the Kaiser and his court, remains unwavering in his view that there was 'crucial evidence of intentionality on Germany's part'.
No matter – for the moment – which of these theses seems convincing or otherwise: suffice it to say there is no danger that controversy about 1914 will ever be stilled. Many alternative interpretations are possible, and all are speculative. The early twenty-first century has produced a plethora of fresh theories and imaginative reassessments of the July crisis, but remarkably little relevant and persuasive new documentary material. There is not and never will be a 'definitive' interpretation of the coming of war: each writer can only offer a personal view. While I make plain my own conclusions, I have done my best to rehearse contrary evidence, to assist readers in making up their own minds.
Contemporary witnesses were as awed as are their twenty-first-century descendants by the immensity of what befell Europe in August 1914 and through the months and years that followed. Lt. Edward Louis Spears, British liaison officer with the French Fifth Army, reflected long after- wards: 'When an ocean liner goes down, all on board, great and small alike, struggle with equal futility and for about the same time, against elements so overwhelming that any difference there may be in the strength or ability of the swimmers is insignificant compared to the forces against which they are pitted, and which will engulf them all within a few minutes of each other.'
Once the nations became locked in strife I have emphasised the testimony of humble folk – soldiers, sailors, civilians – who became its victims. Although famous men and familiar events are depicted here, any book written a century on should aspire to introduce some new guests to the party, which helps to explain my focus on the Serbian and Galician fronts, little known to Western readers.
One difficulty in describing vast events that unfolded simultaneously on battlefields many hundreds of miles apart is to decide how to present them. I have chosen to address theatres in succession, accepting some injury to chronology. This means readers need to recall – for instance – that Tannenberg was fought even as the French and British armies were falling back to the Marne. But coherence seems best served by avoiding precipitate dashes from one front to another. As in some of my earlier books, I have striven to omit military detail, divisional and regimental numbers and suchlike. Human experience is what most readily engages the imagination of a twenty-first-century readership. But to understand the evolution of the early campaigns of World War I, it is essential to know that every commander dreaded 'having his flank turned', because the outer edges and rear of an army are its most vulnerable aspects. Much that happened to soldiers in the autumn of 1914, alike in France, Belgium, Galicia, East Prussia and Serbia, derived from the efforts of generals either to attack an open flank, or to escape becoming the victim of such a manoeuvre.
Hew Strachan, in the first volume of his masterly history of World War I, addressed events in Africa and the Pacific, to remind us that this became indeed a global struggle. I decided that a similar canvas would burst through the frame of my own work. This is therefore a portrait of Europe's tragedy, which heaven knows was vast and terrible enough. In the interests of clarity, I have imposed some arbitrary stylistic forms. St Petersburg changed its name to Petrograd on 19 August 1914, but I have retained throughout the old – and modern – name. Serbia was commonly spelt 'Servia' in contemporary newspapers and documents, but I have used the former, even in quotations. Hapsburg citizens and soldiers are here often described as Austrians rather than properly as Austro-Hungarians, save in a political context. After the first mention of an individual whose full name is 'von', as in von Kluck, the honorific is omitted. Place-names are standardised so that, for instance, Mulhouse loses its German designation as Mülhausen.
Though I have written many books about warfare, and especially about the Second World War, this is my first full-length work about its forerunner. My own engagement with the period began in 1963, when as a callow school-leaver in my 'gap year', I was employed as an assistant researcher on BBC TV's epic twenty-six part series The Great War at a salary of £10 a week, at least £9 more than I was worth. Programme writers included John Terraine, Correlli Barnett and Alistair Horne. I interviewed and corresponded with many veterans of the conflict, then merely entering old age, and explored both the published literature and archive documents. I embraced that youthful experience as one of the happiest and most rewarding of my life, and some of the fruits of my 1963–64 labours have proved useful for this book.
My generation of students eagerly devoured Barbara Tuchman's 1962 best-seller August 1914. It came as a shock, a few years later, to hear an academic historian dismiss her book as 'hopelessly unscholarly'. It remains nonetheless a dazzling essay in narrative history, which retains the unembarrassed affection of many admirers, including myself, in whom it contributed significantly to stimulating a passion for the past. Those days will exercise an undying fascination for mankind: they witnessed the last fatal flourishes of the old crowned and cockaded Europe, followed by the birth of a terrible new world in arms.
Max Hastings
Chilton Foliat, Berkshire
June 2013
A New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearWorld War I evokes images of the trenches: grinding, halting battles that sacrificed millions of lives for no territory or visible gain. Yet the first months of the war, from the German invasion of Belgium to the Marne to Ypres, were utterly different, full of advances and retreats, tactical maneuvering, and significant gains and losses. In Catastrophe 1914, acclaimed military historian Max Hastings re-creates this dramatic year, from the diplomatic crisis to the fighting in Belgium and France on the western front, and Serbia and Galicia to the east, and shows why it was inevitable that this first war among modern industrial nations could not produce a decisive victory. Throughout we encounter high officials and average soldiers, as well as civilians on the home front, giving us a vivid portrait of how a continent became embroiled in a war that would change everything.
From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. InCatastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict different from the familiar one of barbed wire, mud and futility. He traces the path to war, making clear why Germany and Austria-Hungary were primarily to blame, and describes the gripping first clashes in the West, where the French army marched into action in uniforms of red and blue with flags flying and bands playing. In August, four days after the French suffered 27,000 men dead in a single day, the British fought an extraordinary holding action against oncoming Germans, one of the last of its kind in history. In October, at terrible cost the British held the allied line against massive German assaults in the first battle of Ypres. Hastings also re-creates the lesser-known battles on the Eastern Front, brutal struggles in Serbia, East Prussia and Galicia, where the Germans, Austrians, Russians and Serbs inflicted three million casualties upon one another by Christmas. As he has done in his celebrated, award-winning works on World War II, Hastings gives us frank assessments of generals and political leaders and masterly analyses of the political currents that led the continent to war. He argues passionately against the contention that the war was not worth the cost, maintaining that Germany s defeat was vital to the freedom of Europe. Throughout we encounter statesmen, generals, peasants, housewives and private soldiers of seven nations in Hastings s accustomed blend of top-down and bottom-up accounts: generals dismounting to lead troops in bayonet charges over 1,500 feet of open ground; farmers who at first decried the requisition of their horses; infantry men engaged in a haggard retreat, sleeping four hours a night in their haste. This is a vivid new portrait of how a continent became embroiled in war and what befell millions of men and women in a conflict that would change everything.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles—the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg—that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches.
In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict different from the familiar one of barbed wire, mud and futility. He traces the path to war, making clear why Germany and Austria-Hungary were primarily to blame, and describes the gripping first clashes in the West, where the French army marched into action in uniforms of red and blue with flags flying and bands playing. In August, four days after the French suffered 27,000 men dead in a single day, the British fought an extraordinary holding action against oncoming Germans, one of the last of its kind in history. In October, at terrible cost the British held the allied line against massive German assaults in the first battle of Ypres. Hastings also re-creates the lesser-known battles on the Eastern Front, brutal struggles in Serbia, East Prussia and Galicia, where the Germans, Austrians, Russians and Serbs inflicted three million casualties upon one another by Christmas.
As he has done in his celebrated, award-winning works on World War II, Hastings gives us frank assessments of generals and political leaders and masterly analyses of the political currents that led the continent to war. He argues passionately against the contention that the war was not worth the cost, maintaining that Germany's defeat was vital to the freedom of Europe. Throughout we encounter statesmen, generals, peasants, housewives and private soldiers of seven nations in Hastings's accustomed blend of top-down and bottom-up accounts: generals dismounting to lead troops in bayonet charges over 1,500 feet of open ground; farmers who at first decried the requisition of their horses; infantry men engaged in a haggard retreat, sleeping four hours a night in their haste. This is a vivid new portrait of how a continent became embroiled in war and what befell millions of men and women in a conflict that would change everything.


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Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Won't Solve the Jewish State Problem
I spent the summer of 1999 in Israel. Ehud Barak had just been elected prime minister, sparking a surge of optimism about the prospects for a two-state deal. We're going to define our borders with the outside world, an Israeli friend told me. Then we can focus on the deeper conflict: inside Israel itself.
Fourteen years later, the optimism about the two-state solution is gone. But my friend's statement retains a kernel of truth. And unless you understand it, you can't understand the peace talks restarting this week.
On Wednesday, absent a last-minute crisis, Israel and Palestinian negotiators will resume haggling under the State Department's watchful eye. Lots of issues could scuttle their efforts. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas hates negotiating while Israel continues to build settlements. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hates having to release Palestinian prisoners in order to lure Abbas to the negotiating table. On the borders of a Palestinian state, the security arrangements that would bind it, and the fate of Palestinian refugees, the two men are solar systems apart.
But even harder than these concrete questions about the allocation of land, people, and guns may be a symbolic one: Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a "Jewish state." Ron Dermer, Netanyahu's top aide and incoming ambassador to the United States, has called it "the core issue." Which is revealing, because it's not really about the conflict between Israel and a Palestinian state. It's about the conflict within Israel itself.
On the surface, Netanyahu's insistence that Abbas recognize Israel as a "Jewish state" makes little sense. In the Camp David Accords, Egypt didn't recognize Israel "as a Jewish state." It just recognized Israel. Same with Jordan when it made peace in 1994. Ditto with the Palestine Liberation Organization, the organization Abbas now leads, which recognized "the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security," in the Oslo Accords signed 20 years ago. Until recently, it wasn't even clear if the United States recognized Israel as a "Jewish state."
As Abbas declared in 2010, Israel is "free to call itself the Israeli Zionist Jewish Empire" if it wants. Why does Netanyahu need the Palestinians to define what Israel is?
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Samari Rolle At NB?
This is the second article in which Preston hints that Rolle may be moved to NB. This could either mean that:
1. Our first draft pick will be a CB.
2. They maybe like Ronnie Prude as a potential starting candidate at the 2nd CB position. I think David Pittman has to improve his work ethic which has come in question this year. Derrick Martin is apparently going to be switched to safety and backup Landry and Reed with Gerome Sapp being a UFA that probably won't be back.
Next year's secondary could be
2CB: Prude or drafted CB
NB: Rolle
DB: Ivy
SS: Landry
FS: Reed
backup safety: MartinIt's a new season! It's a new day!
Re: Samari Rolle At NB?
Rolle would be a suitable NB, no doubt.
I would also bet that Sapp will be back.
I don't know if they'll restrict Martin to safety. I see him as being able to play both, but his potential CB skills are through the roof. He might be one of the best pure athletes in the secondary and he's got very good size. He's so young and so raw that he could eventually turn out to be a starting corner in the NFL (even his draft report suggested this).
I still haven't given up on Pittman, because his performance in college and the Senior Bowl should not be forgotten so soon. Given more time, he may be able to start in the NFL. If the Ravens go CB on the first day, it shows that they aren't feeling too good about Pittman.
Prude is obviously a guy that has a lot of potential, and he already has made an impact. It seems he may also be starting material.
Ivy has been a very good NB for us this year, but will probably never be a starter.
All 3 of these guys could potentially be starters one day, and it would be tough to say at this point if the Ravens would even take a CB in the first two rounds unless McCauley falls in the first, or Bennett/Wilson are around in the 3rd.
Re: Samari Rolle At NB?
I thought a traditional NB is someone whose chief advantage is *speed*, because for the NB often the sideline is not there to help, and you need to stay with your man wherever he goes. So I'm not sure it's somewhere we would want an older CB who may be a little *slower* then he was.
Remember our current NB is Corey Ivey, a speedy madman who is always going 110%. Ivey is (I think, someone correct me if I'm wrong) much more the traditional NB.
I know Preston wrote it, but that doesn't mean it's true.
I would guess we'll see Rolle at CB again next year, and I think we could do a lot worse. Remember on Saturday he covered Reggie Wayne of the Indianapolis Colts pretty effectively; it's not like he's terrible. If he's not starting at CB, he may see some action at NB or DB but I doubt we will see him primarily as our 'starting' NB.
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His definitions and arguments were so clear in his own mind that he was unable to understand how any reasonable person could honestly differ with him.
Re: Samari Rolle At NB?
I disagree. First of all a nickel needs to be able to tackle better than an outside CB, Rolle is a terrible tackler. Second, NB is not a problem area. Ivy was rarely beaten. Rolle was the DB getting lit up all year. You don't mess with something that isn't broken.
I would either keep him outside, or cut him...I do not think he would be a good nickel.''You'd love to go on the first day but I'm glad for the situation I'm in,'' he said. ''Baltimore knows how to play defense.''
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Re: Samari Rolle At NB?
The only way I see Rolle cut is if we pick up someone unbelieveable in the draft in the first round.It's a new season! It's a new day!
Re: Samari Rolle At NB?
I don't think he'll get cut either, I think he'll be starting again next year. I just don't feel he would be an adequate nickel guy, his skills don't fit what you look for in a nickel.''You'd love to go on the first day but I'm glad for the situation I'm in,'' he said. ''Baltimore knows how to play defense.''
Re: Samari Rolle At NB?
Personally, I think Rolle would make a great nickel. We just can't have him giving top WRs these 15 yard cushions. Way too easy.
Re: Samari Rolle At NB?
Rolle is going to be your starting CB. The young guys we have are not ready to start in the NFL. He just needs to take this time off to get his confidence back. He did a decent job against Reggie Wayne in the playoff game.


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Questioning the autonomy of ASADA - a suggestion Sports Minister Kate Lundy flatly rejects - Dr Ashenden has told Fairfax Media the Australian government ''should be embarrassed about its track record on anti-doping''.
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''I think the Australian government has rested on its laurels since the Sydney Olympics … an era when it was quite rightly regarded as a world leader in anti-doping,'' he said. ''Since then, nothing startling has come from Australia. In fact nowadays we are out of step on important issues, such as the debate about zero tolerance towards past drug use by athletes and support staff.
''I think the Australian government should be embarrassed about its track record on anti-doping. Australia is an international laughing stock regarding how our favourite son Shane Warne was treated when he was found to have used a diuretic.
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Program Length - Two Years• The program will run for 24 consecutive months and can be started any time from 1/1/2006 through and including 5/31/2006. You may select the start date when you request consideration for eligibility.• Each year you will select an option which will stay in force for twelve months once it is selected. You may change options only once thereafter - to affect the second year. Near the conclusion of month twelve, you can request a different option, which will go into effect on the first day of month 13 of the 24 month program.
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Novak misquoted Dean to buttress Social Security crisis rhetoric
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Syndicated columnist and CNN host Robert Novak misquoted Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean in order to suggest that Dean supports the Bush administration's message that Social Security is in crisis.
From the February 26 edition of CNN's The Capital Gang:
NOVAK: The Democratic line that this isn't a problem -- Howard Dean gave a speech at Cornell on Thursday of this week in which he said that 80 percent -- over the years, 80 percent of the Social Security benefits will be lost. There is a problem. So, Howard sometimes tells the truth. He doesn't get the exact line.
In fact, Dean did not say "80 percent of the Social Security benefits will be lost," as Novak claimed, but rather that "if Social Security were left alone for 30 years, benefits would be reduced to 80 percent of what it is now," as The Cornell Daily Sun reported in its coverage of Dean's February 23 speech at the university. The article further noted that Dean "would not endorse" privatizing of Social Security, adding that "[h]e acknowledged that while there were indeed problems with the program, turning to Wall Street was not the answer."
As Media Matters for America has noted, the Social Security trustees projected in their 2004 report that the current system could pay out full benefits for 37 years, or until 2042; it could then pay 73 percent of currently scheduled benefits immediately thereafter and 68 percent of benefits in 2078. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's 2004 projections, the current system could pay out full benefits until 2052, 81 percent of currently scheduled benefits in 2053, and 71 percent in 2100.
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John "Elton" Kies
John "Elton" Kies, 89, of Platteville died on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at Epione Pavilion, Cuba City.
Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, February 16, 2013 at the First English Lutheran Church, Platteville. Rev. Michael Short will officiate. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery, Platteville. Friends may call from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. Friday at the Melby Funeral Home & Crematory, Platteville, or from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the service on Saturday at the church. Online condolences can be made at www.melbyfh.com
John "Elton" Kies was born on December 16, 1923 to John W. and Lucille (Tracy) Kies in Belmont Township. He graduated from Potosi High School in 1941. Elton was united in marriage to Lucille Voigts on January 4, 1950 at the Peace Lutheran Church, Belmont. To this union four children were born.
He greatly valued family and is survived by: Rita and Dennis Noble, David and Susan Kies, Zeena and David Engelke, and Jean Kies and husband, Lew Wasserman.
Together, Elton and Lucille farmed south of Platteville. He was 4-H leader with the Blockhouse Builders f-H Club for 40 years; affiliated with Grant County Pork Producers; and a member of the Grant County Cattleman's Association. Elton liked sports and visiting with old friends and neighbors. One of the highlights of each year was helping 4-H kids weigh and identify their beef steers for the Grant County Meat Animal Sale. Additionally, he enjoyed running "the gate" annually during the sale. He truly liked meeting and getting to know many of Grant County's great young people. He was a member of the First English Lutheran Church, Platteville.
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What I Did This Summer
What I Did This Summer
This is the first in a series of articles about Carolina students and their exciting, diverse summer activities.
Close your eyes and imagine traveling to the Caribbean. Beautiful, white-sand beaches. Clear skies. Crystal blue waters.
That's one scene that awaited a group of Carolina students who flew to the Dominican Republic for a Maymester study-abroad adventure.
But during the eight-day trip, the students also saw extreme poverty. They spent time with orphaned children who craved adult attention. And they made a difference in the lives of a small group of nuns and the orphanage they manage.
Cultural exchange
"The trip provided students with an awareness of international poverty," said Maymester course instructor Peter Cardon, director of international programs in the College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management.
Peter Cardon
"The students also acquired public-relations skills helpful in promoting a non-profit organization -- in this case, the Orchid Foundation, which supports the orphanage at which they worked for more than a week."
In addition to playing with the children and getting to know the people who ran it, the Carolina students painted the large, main orphanage building.
"We wanted to provide some meaningful service -- painting the building -- and give emotional support to the children," Cardon said. "We accomplished in four days what the nuns expected to take two weeks.
"The orphanage is well run by Catholic nuns. However, with 165 kids, the best efforts of the three to four nuns running the orphanage still leave many of the children starving for adult attention. The children loved getting some time to play with our students."