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Over in the Faith & Reason Forum there's a fascinating debate underway about religious suppression, free speech and cheerleaders.
erikmartin kicks it off by pointing out a recent news item: Catoosa County, Ga., public high school cheerleaders were taking to the field with Bible verse banners until stopped by local school officials.
Erikmartin calls writes that federal law bans "government-sponsored religious suppression. It's called the First Amendment."
But others say his Constitution comment is wrong. minusRusty writes:
Cheerleaders are representatives of the school, and as such, during their duties as cheerleaders, some restrictions can be placed on their code of conduct, including abiding by the Establishment clause (also part of the 1st Amendment). They can rah-rah religion as much as they want in their "off-duty" life.
Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center, writes in his syndicated column:
... Religious freedom is not a popularity contest ... Public schools may not proclaim a religious message at a school-sponsored event, even if the messenger is a student. I doubt the people of Catoosa County would cry "free speech" if they were transported to a school district where weekly banners proclaimed passages from the Quran, the Book of Mormon, the Bhagavad-Gita or some other scripture not their own ...
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Enterprise Mobility is a set of tools, processes, and technology that enables mobile devices, wireless networks, and related services to be used for mobile cloud computing in a business context. As the name suggests, enterprise mobility refers to leveraging mobile communications to keep the enterprise connected.
Enterprise mobility allows employees to be connected, whether on site or off site with the help of smartphones, tablets, wireless IP networks, managed services, and cloud computing. With the perpetual battle for time in the workplace, being able to provide employees with tools to work while on-the-go is one of the biggest assets a company can possess. As a result, all location barriers are removed and the enterprise is more flexible and responsive.
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I'm using m0n0wall 1.2b9 with 3x 3c905 NICs. One is assigned for WAN
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OPT1 (192.168.10.1) with a WLAN Accesspoint (Cisco Aironet 340,
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I can't ping the AP via LAN ( trying it from my desktop at 192.168.0.10
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AP 192.168.10.100 (connected to OPT1)
ping from LAN to m0n0 at 192.168.0.1 OK
ping from LAN to m0n0 at 192.168.10.1 OK
ping from m0n0wall to 192.168.10.100 OK
ping from LAN to 192.168.10.100 ARGH!
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Twenty-five years ago, in Tasmania, when Edwin Ride moved in with his girlfriend (now wife) Sharon, they built a vegetable garden together. It was something she had been doing for ages and he was an eager convert.
They moved to Canberra from Darwin 15 years ago and rented in Yarralumla for a decade. The generous landlord allowed them to put in veg beds, fruit trees and a chook pen. The soil was good, but possums were a pest. Then the family bought a place in Kambah.
Much of the block was covered with couch grass, so Edwin welded a ripper to mount on his car's tow bar and turned over most of the front yard. They scattered clay-breaker and then put down a treble thickness of cardboard boxes and covered that with 20cm of woodchips.
Now they have a nice humus but, when the time came to plant fruit trees, they made mounds with imported topsoil. Sharon Ride likes ornamental plants in the front garden so there has been a compromise and irises, forget-me-nots, cornflowers and roses provide floral highlights and a three-tiered bee hive is being agisted in the area. They have been hosting the bees for a couple of years for a work colleague of Sharon's.
A persimmon, two apple trees, a mulberry, fig, Trevatt and Moorpark apricots, greengage, damson, double grafted Japanese mariposa/Santa Rosa plum and d'agen plum trees are underplanted with potatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins, garlic, rainbow chard, dwarf beans, basil, coriander, self-seeded lettuces, onions and chillies. These are surrounded by watering dripper hoses and circles of rocks making an informal labyrinth.
Edwin Ride has a background in environmental science and jewellery making and he is good with his hands so timber decks surround the house and a tinkling two-tiered water feature with water lilies and goldfish greets people at the front porch. A finger lime is covered with blossom which attracts hoverflies.
Most of the family's vegetables, though, grow in raised wicking beds built to Edwin's own design using, with permission, recycled material from demolition sites, particularly fencing material, and from offers on Gumtree.
In late winter or early spring Edwin starts his seed-raising in the lounge room in front of a north-facing window. Then they are moved to a small cold frame. This season direct plantings into a series of wicking beds include broccoli, garlic, snow peas and broad beans, leeks from seed, well established mibuna to be cooked in a stir-fry, mizuna, kohlrabi, capsicums, cucumbers, zucchini, parsley, beetroot, black Russian and sweet bite tomatoes.
Garlic at the base of a plum tree. Photo: Melissa Adams
Recently he has direct planted Yates Sun 'n' Snow sweetcorn because it was delicious last year, Dutch cream potatoes and bush beans. Some happy and quite advanced Roma tomato and capsicum plants called to him at the local supermarket a few weeks ago and he couldn't resist so they have gone in too.
There are two chook runs. The winter run is planted out with gross feeders in spring and summer. The bedding straw is composted and all garden waste and food scraps go to the chooks for them to eat, kick around or play with. The litter is raked periodically and it goes on the vegie beds under the fruit trees.
As an independent researcher-curator and house-husband, Edwin does most of the cooking. The family eats lots of salads fresh from the garden during spring, summer and autumn. He also barbecues young zucchini with fresh garlic or makes a barely cooked ratatouille-type mix with eggplant, tomato, zucchini and fresh herbs, the leftovers of which get used the following Saturday morning in a ramekin as a relish for a baked egg.
A recent favourite is a broad bean hummus/pesto. Edwin makes his own sourdough and generously served the dip for us to taste on triangles of his freshly toasted bread. We ate at the garden table in the company of ever-present ARF (ACT Rescue and Foster) dog, the gorgeous big brown Aspen, a Keeshond/Border Collie cross, aged 14.
Edwin and Sharon Ride's broad bean hummus and their chickens. Photo: Melissa Adams
Broad bean hummus
500g broad beans (will yield about 250g beans when podded)
2 tsp olive oil
2 tsp lemon juice
garlic (half a small clove)
Pod and boil the beans for 10-15 minutes. Rrefresh in cold water, then skin them. Wash, then blend or puree with a little of the cooking water (1-2 tbsp, depending on how mature and floury the beans are). Stir through the olive oil, lemon juice and finely minced garlic. Taste and adjust for flavours. Add a pinch of salt to taste and sprinkle with sumac.
Serve at room temperature, as a dip or on sourdough toast.
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By Del Jones, USA TODAY
Corporations hire economists to get a crystal ball into the future. Not Frank MacInnis, CEO of Emcor Group, (EME) who says, "I am my own economist." The construction industry is sensitive to the economic winds, yet MacInnis has steered Emcor stock up 1,360% since becoming CEO in 1994. MacInnis, 60, spoke with USA TODAY corporate management reporter Del Jones about predicting swings.
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A: I'm in a difficult, low-margin business, and we've reported 47 consecutive quarters of profitability, which is hard to do. We've managed through several economic cycles and made a lot of consistent money due to right decisions.
Q: Isn't it easier to listen to economists than to play do-it-yourself?
A: I've been a CEO for 30 years. Sometimes you know things. You don't know how you know them, but you know. It's nice to agree with smart people, but you can't always follow the herd mentality.
Q: If you follow the herd, at least you won't be alone out on a limb if you're wrong.
A: Insecure CEOs look for air cover. That's not a valid defense. We're each paddling our own canoe, and it shouldn't be an excuse if I make the same mistake that others are making. I'm paid to think for myself.
Q: Are government economic reports helpful or hooey?
A: Information in all aspects is getting better. The interpretation is a whole other thing. You could have read the Census Bureau report on construction activity for any month of this year and seen bad news for Emcor. Nothing could be further from the truth. Housing construction continues to decline dramatically, but non-residential construction is growing, and in some segments, such as hospitality and gaming, at dramatic rates.
Q: To which reports do you pay the most attention? Which do you dismiss outright?
A: I don't dismiss any, but I pay a lot of attention to employment statistics. Employing people is expensive and time consuming. If a sector is adding people, it is making a serious and expensive bet, a significant sign of faith in the future.
Q: What is a time series? Do you rely on them?
A: It's a basket of economic indicators that are germane to your own business. In our business, for example, you could look at indices like employment, the Census Bureau construction reports, real estate absorption reports and interest rate fluctuations. Take that basket and apply degrees of weight to each and compare it to the past. It's a complicated way of doing what I do with my gut. There are too many moving parts in a time series analysis. A seasoned CEO instinctively applies the right weight to this factor or that. For example, I have an idea about how high interest rates can go up before it impacts my customers' decisions about construction projects.
Q: Rely on gut, not data?
A: I have a good memory, and I retain a lot of what I read. When the time comes, I'm confident in my instinctive reactions to be comfortable about going with my gut. More often, a prompt decision, even if wrong, is better than a late decision. Emcor did not lose a dime from the dot-com collapse.
Q: Many saw the dot-com bubble, but it proved difficult to know when that bubble would burst. How do you dodge pain without missing opportunity?
A: Asset allocation. Every CEO has a kitty for hot markets, but must not plunge in with an outsized portion of resources. The guardianship of capital is one of the CEO's primary responsibilities. You do not avoid apparent bubbles as long as you're reasonably confident in your ability to manage your way out of them. We looked at dot-com customers and decided that the companies were running on blue sky and hot air.
Q: Are there any existing bubbles now to be leery of?
A: I see none looming. This economy has recovered in a very measured and controlled way.
Q: Emcor's clients include 75% of the Fortune500 companies. Do you learn from them?
A: We see our customers making significant construction decisions that involve large capital deployment, and we conclude that they must be counting on profitability.
On the other side, we know when customers make defensive moves in anticipation of sector downturns. If a customer begins to lengthen their payment periods, they are concerned about their liquidity.
I've found this to be a useful guide to impending recession even before people talk about it formally.
Q: Some companies have unusual indicators, such as tracking cardboard box makers. Will we find you on the overpass counting trucks going down the interstate?
A: I don't think so. But a CEO has to read as much as possible, not just about his own business, but about broad trends.
Q: Alan Greenspan made economic forecasts in the bathtub. Does that have merit?
A: Wherever you do your best thinking is where you ought to be.
Q: How do you keep emotions at bay? How do you guard against being overly optimistic or pessimistic?
A: The construction industry is made up of optimistic people, some to a fault. It's not easy to curb enthusiasm and understand that there are dispassionate economic forces at work.
I impose discipline by telling myself that my major job is watching for the next recession. I'm looking every day for evidence. I know it's coming, I just don't know when. My job in a nutshell is looking for the danger signals, notwithstanding my innate optimism.
Q: Is a recession coming?
A: The fundamental indicators that I use suggest that the prospects for non-residential construction and for facility management are very good. This is not because I'm Pollyanna. I'm not. I take seriously my responsibility to look for and find danger signals and translate them into action.
Q: How far out does your optimism go?
A: It would be a mistake to say I can see out more than 18 to 24 months. It looks good for that long, barring the unknowable.
Q: You say you're not Pollyanna-ish, but is it equally risky to be too conservative and miss economic upswings?
A: Certainly. If you don't trust your instincts and invest in advance of improvement, you will be sorry. You will reduce your performance on the topside while condemning yourself to performance with the pack on the downside.
Q: When you see a recession coming, how will you respond?
A: The same way that each of us makes personal decisions about asset allocations. If you have personal money to invest, you might allocate a portion to speculative investments like real estate in Bora Bora. That's what every CEO does in a nutshell, decides how to allocate capital between risk and reward. Every company needs to be willing to take a measured chance and take advantage of trends. But it's a terrible mistake to put all your assets into a perceived trend.
Q: You once built pipelines between Iran and Iraq. How crucial is the price of energy to the U.S. economy?
A: I've been surprised by the resilience of the American and world economy to oil price fluctuations. No oil-producing nation is in a position to unilaterally withdraw oil from the world market for long. Iran has changed dramatically since the time I lived there. It is a very young nation with a host of difficult social and educational problems that require steady income in order to help solve and keep the present administration in power.
Q: Say we bomb Iran. What happens to our economy?
A: It might be a similar situation to the oil shock of the '70s where you get a period of overreaction. An increase in the price of oil only means that other sources of oil are made more economical.
Q: Can you read the economic tea leaves of China or other foreign economies?
A: I certainly cannot. There are the usual economic risks compounded by sovereign risks associated with the differing laws, differing customs and the differing policies of governments. It's one reason why Emcor expands primarily at home. China is only for the bravest and best capitalized.
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Urwid's display modules provide a layer of abstraction for drawing to the screen and reading user input. The display module you choose will depend on how you plan to use Urwid.
Typically you will select a display module by passing it to your MainLoop constructor, eg:
loop = MainLoop(widget, ..., screen=urwid.curses_display.Screen())
If you don't specify a display module, the default main loop will use raw_display.Screen by default
# These are the same
loop = MainLoop(widget, ...)
loop = MainLoop(widget, ..., screen=urwid.raw_display.Screen())
Urwid has two display modules for displaying to terminals or the console.
The raw_display.Screen module is a pure-python display module with no external dependencies. It sends and interprets terminal escape sequences directly. This is the default display module used by MainLoop.
The curses_display.Screen module uses the curses or ncurses library provided by the operating system. The library does some optimization of screen updates and uses termcap to adjust to the user's terminal.
The (n)curses library will disable colors if it detects a monochrome terminal, so a separate set of attributes should be given for monochrome mode when registering a palette with curses_display.Screen High colors will not be used by the curses_display.Screen module. See Setting a Palette below.
This table summarizes the differences between the two modules:
|optimized C code
|compatible with any terminal
|UTF-8 support
|bright foreground without bold
|88- or 256-color support
|mouse dragging support
|external event loop support
|if the termcap entry exists and TERM environment variable is set correctly
|if python is linked against the wide version of ncurses
|when using xterm or gnome-terminal
The urwid.web_display module lets you run your application as a CGI script under Apache instead of running it in a terminal.
This module is a proof of concept. There are security and responsiveness issues that need to be resolved before this module is recommended for production use.
The tour.py and calc.py example programs demonstrate use of this module.
Screenshots of Urwid interfaces can be rendered in plain HTML. The html_fragment.HtmlGenerator display module lets you do this by simulating user input and capturing the screen as fragments of HTML each time html_fragment.HtmlGenerator.draw_screen() is called.
These fragments may be included in HTML documents. They will be rendered properly by any browser that uses a monospaced font for text that appears in <pre> tags. HTML screenshots have text that is searchable and selectable in a web browser, and they will shrink and grow when a user changes their browser's text size.
The example screenshots are generated with this display module.
Almost any device that displays characters in a grid can be used as a screen. The lcd_display module has some base classes for simple LCD character display devices and a complete implementation of a lcd_display.CF635Screen for Crystal Fontz 635 USB displays with 6 buttons.
The lcd_cf635.py example program demonstrates use of this module.
See also
The MainLoop constructor takes a palette parameter that it passes to the register_palette() method of your display module.
A palette is a list of display attribute names and foreground and background settings. Display modules may be run in monochrome, normal or high color modes and you can set different foregrounds and backgrounds for each mode as part of your palette. eg:
loop = MainLoop(widget, palette=[
('headings', 'white,underline', 'black', 'bold,underline'), # bold text in monochrome mode
('body_text', 'dark cyan', 'light gray'),
('buttons', 'yellow', 'dark green', 'standout'),
('section_text', 'body_text'), # alias to body_text
The Display Attributes section of this manual describes all the options available.


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A PILOT scheme that provides internships for young people in county council care has seen a new batch of graduates.
Leader of Hampshire County Council Councillor Ken Thornber congratulated Cameron Smith, Kirsty Hamblett, Michaela Blaylock, and Melissa Mallows for taking part in the Internship Plus Scheme.
The scheme provides paid work placements with the county council, but also allows interns to access relevant qualifications.
One graduate, Michaela Blaylock, 21, now works full time for Hampshire Trading Standards and spent her internship promoting the county's Buy With Confidence scheme.
As an intern she was encouraged to take NVQs to add to her National Diploma in public services.
She said: "I achieved the best grades possible under the scheme and it really boosted my confidence and my belief in myself. Getting the job has also been a real boost. It is great to be working, to be earning my own money.
"I would definitely encourage other young people in care to get involved with the Internship Plus scheme.
"The scheme has really helped me build my confidence," she added. "I really enjoyed working as part of a team, meeting different people and telling them about the service. I got to see what working life was like and what would be expected of me."
The scheme currently has 15 young people taking part, and Hampshire County Council has agreed to make the successful pilot permanent.
Cllr Thornber said it was important to give young people in care extra support.
According to Hampshire County Council, 33 per cent of 19-year-olds in local authority care are not in education, employment, or training, compared to 15 per cent of the general population.
"As corporate parents we were particularly that we help those people who need that extra support to succeed in the workplace," he said.
"Young care leavers face particular challenges that their peers do not. I am very pleased to celebrate with these young people, the successful completion of their internship.
"As one of the county's largest employers I think it is important we take a lead with initiatives like this which help young people take their first steps into employment."
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Going "green" has come to mean many things to many people, but to the folks at New Living, it is a social, environmental and economic lifestyle. The place itself, located in an old hardware store in Rice Village, specializes in building supplies, such as organic bedding, nontoxic paints and nontoxic children's furniture. Additional "green" services include chemical-free home cleaning, recycling pickup and professional consultations. Before stocking its shelves, New Living requires vendors to fill out a survey with questions about the social and environmental impact of their products, and asks about the companies' labor standards and ethics. New Living then fact-checks the answers and displays the results next to each product, so buyers can better know what they're purchasing. Local venues such as Beaver's Icehouse boast nontoxic paint from New Living, and the Moody Gallery used the store's tiles, made from 100 percent recycled glass, in its new kitchen.
Here in H-Town's funkier regions, strip malls, those much-maligned supposed harbingers of sterility and bland suburbanism, sure can have a hell of a lot of grit and soul. Take this doozy on the northside, just across the street from the site of the former Northline Mall. The actual strip looks to be about 50 years old, and it's a one-stop for just about all your H-Town needs. There's 'cue and CFS at the arched-roofed Hungry Farmer, ghetto Chinese at the rugged little red-roofed China Inn, and a shop where you can buy or even rent a boomin' system for your ride. Best of all, there's one of the last outposts of the once-mighty Soundwaves music/surf chain, and unlike the Montrose location, the Crosstimbers outlet does not force its primarily blues/soul, hip-hop, zydeco and gospel inventory to contend for shelf space with boogie boards and ding repair kits, so it's that rarest of things: a living, breathing record store. That's one reason that in looking at this delightfully run-down and lovably cheesily constructed strip from across the street, you could convince yourself it's any year between 1975 and 2010. Timelessness like that is often in too short supply in this ever-changing, ephemeral megalopolis.
The gas station at the northeast corner of Montrose and Richmond used to be a full-service garage and repair shop, meaning the retail part of it was as cramped as most Montrose convenience stores. Now it's a big, shining example of how to do gas stations right. There's 14 pumps — in the middle of Montrose! — but inside is where A to Z Food & Deli really comes through. Sparklingly clean, the store not only offers a great selection of convenience-store stuff, it features a not-bad-at-all kitchen and deli, with subs, breakfast tacos, Philly cheese steaks and other items. The staff is friendly and eager, too.
It wasn't long ago that River Oaks was considered the richest ZIP code in the nation. But time can take its toll, and even $15 million mansions need a facelift sometimes. During the last three decades, Houston's Exterior Worlds has helped with that. The company specializes in "high-end landscape design," repairing and building outdoor fountains, luxury swimming pools and even outdoor kitchens. That's along with the normal range of services. Exterior Worlds helps keep River Oaks one area that non-Houstonians can envy.
Smack-dab between the antiquing hotspots of lower Westheimer and West 19th Street there looms this 1895 carriage barn, with more than 5,000 square feet of trash 'n' treasure within. Lots of antique stores tend to cater to women, but Heights Station's multi-dealer layout features a couple of fun testosterone zones with their sports memorabilia and rock and roll collectibles sections. You can get that old chair just about anywhere, but only at Heights Station — the mother of all attics — can you also go home with a signed 8-by-10 glossy of Journey from their "Don't Stop Believin'" heyday and a Charley Kerfeld rookie card.
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A Gainesville man is among three people charged with drug trafficking following the discovery of 120 kilograms of cocaine and 380 pounds of methamphetamine at a warehouse in Duluth.
Jose Romero of 15 Mimosa St., along with Epifanio Sandoval of Athens and Luis Pacheco-Vasquez of Forest Park, were taken into custody at the scene, according to a statement released by the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff's investigators began building a case in early February based on information they received about the warehouse.
"After countless hours of surveillance on the warehouse and key subjects in the investigation, officials were granted a search warrant of the property," sheriff's spokesman Lt. Sean Smith said in the release.
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Here's another installment of our series of posts on GIS Crew members past and present. This time we're focusing on our very first crew member, Rebecca Davanon. She started the crew back in Fall 2005 and did a lot of great work getting the crew up and running. She's now working full-time in GIS for the City of Nashville. In her words:
"I work for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County's Emergency Communications Center (ECC). Our center receives and dispatches fire, police, and medical calls and communicates directly with PD, FD, and EMS as they respond to calls....I maintain the street centerline database and the common place point database used by ATM and CAD. As new streets and addresses develop in Davidson County I add them into a GIS database and map. This map also contains fire beats, police beats, wrecker beats, and lots of other jurisdictional zones which I update as necessary. I use a tool called Motorola Geofile Utility to convert GIS data into a format CAD/ ATM recognizes. I update street and common place changes to the CAD system at least once a week and am responsible for updating all 911 ATM maps once a month. When discrepancies in data occur during a call, it is reported to me and I research and correct the database error. In addition, I maintain the county Neighborhood Notifier mxd for auto-dialing residents with emergency information. I also help with special projects like developing an emergency response system for Davidson County greenways, verifying street data in the field with a Trimble GeoXH unit, and ordering annual orthophotos for ATM. In addition to all this, I help maintain our MDC server that manages police mobile laptops, the AVL server, CAD information databases, the many software upgrades the occur over time, and of course hardware issues. I am being trained in managing all these systems and will eventually be on 24 hour call for 911 operations in case issues arise during my off hours."
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As reported over the weekend, Matt Morgan has returned to TNA. Morgan did have talks with WWE, but word is that a big part of Morgan's decision was going to be based on how he was going to be used in terms of importance for the company he signed with.
i have nothing against you matt but i think you should have went to wwe.unless you turn out to be involved with aces and 8's,then that would be of interest!!
it's good to see he's not about the money, he picked the deal which lets him do what he loves more, respect earned
*happy dance*
WWE would never use him like TNA do, WWE has got a higher card of wrestlers than TNA. Hope Matt gets a push soon
Morgan is boring. Being part of Aces & Eights may help his career.
dont worry guys he will be back just you watch
.. because protein powder isnt free
pretty much any talent thats been in tna will never be pushed to superstar status in wwe. why would they? yes they may be amazing but if they've been in tna wwe unlikely to push them that serious.
there may have been talent with wwe title reigns in the past that have been in tna before. titles are accessories in wwe now. cm punk is really the only guy whos been in tna thats been seriously pushed in wwe. and how long did he spend in tna exactly? its not like he was an aries or aj styles.
morgan is unlikely to be a superstar (pretty much cos hes just a big guy) in tna but at least he can look like a power strong guy in tna. in wwe he'd probably get a brodus or ryback type gimmick….
I think he's great, he has some charisma with his direct auto insurance commercials lol.
Yes… he shows great charisma on those Direct Auto Insurance commercials when he reads his lines off of a teleprompter.
Looks like wwe really didn't want matt
give MM the TV title
I completely agree with u give Morgan the tv title let him build up the belt to a secondary belt or step stone for the tna heavyweight title after a 6 month rein would be great for tna and the product. That will boost their product with the prestige of the title
I could see him being in the Aces and 8s being a big help for him. He'd be in a group, wouldn't have to rely on mic skills, just some trash talking from time to time, he just needs to expand his move set and with already having the size and being in shape, he could certianly be imposing grouped with those guys.
Also…..where has Crimson been?
crimson is ovw champ
This might just mean that the new contract that Morgan has signed with TNA he is going to be used with high importance in TNA " ….. does this mean its going to give him some kind of creative control (hopefully not ) since we have seen what it did to WCW in the past
Matt Morgan returned to TNA cause he the DNA of TNA
and as far as I know the only TNA wrestler to be the one man Tag team champion
Whatever spin he wanted to put on it, the bottom line is he was rejected by WWE and came back to TNA after he sooked for months about not getting a fair go… I think he should be used in a tag team with someone like big rob..
he should not be a face a heel is what they need to put him as they have a zillion faces and not many heels
Matt Morgan in the WWE would have been the best move for him. Matt should have went to the "E" where he would have been a maga superstar! Now mid card at best . Wait.. Never mind it's TNA! He can still do two years in TNA and make the switch!
yeah wwe really needed his stuttering character back along side the muppets lol
I'll take Morgan as a powerful destruction-ridden heel in TNA over a stuttering idiot they'd make him in WWE again. I like Matt Morgan…then again he had no choice as WWE won't sign TNA guys with the lawsuit…but can't fault Matt for wanting to get paid in his prime….Any idea how long his contract is??
Matt was boring when he was on before and probably be when comes back unless he's with aces& 8


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CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge has appointed a receiver to assume control of the finances for a troubled detention facility in Central Falls.
A Rhode Island Superior Court judge approved a petition Friday from the Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation, the quasi-public private corporation that operates the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility. The court named Jonathan N. Savage as temporary receiver.
The detention facility for federal prisoners housed detainees for Immigration and Customs Enforcement until 2008, when the agency stopped using Wyatt because one of its detainees died of cancer after allegedly being neglected and abused by prison staff. Since then, it has been unable to fill its cells.
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Ford just opened a massive auto plant in Chongqing, China, in hopes of amassing the same riches as other automakers from one of the world's fastest-growing auto markets. But questions are already being raised about whether Ford is too late.
Ford was late to come to China compared with other major automakers, the Los Angeles Times reports. It sold about 500,000 cars in China last year, which pales compared with General Motors' 2.6 million and Volkswagen's 2.3 million.
The Ford Focus made in the plant will be expensive by Chinese standards, selling for up to $24,000, even though it is aimed at first-time buyers.
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Maybe it was best that Courtney Love didn't attend Monday's pretrial hearing in her upcoming Los Angeles court case, since the proceedings proved doubly damaging to her defense. Not only did Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg toss a defense motion to bar evidence against Love — including urine samples and her statements to police — but one of those alleged statements, as recounted on the stand by an arresting officer, included an admission that Love had been using OxyContin, or as she allegedly referred to it, "hillbilly heroin."
Love was arrested last October after smashing the windows of the house where ex-boyfriend Jim Barber lives, resulting in charges of disorderly conduct and being under the influence of a controlled substance. On Monday, Reuters reports, Officer Scott Blackman testified that such symptoms as slurred speech and dilated pupils suggested to him that Love was intoxicated, and he testified: "She admitted to taking Hillbilly Heroin, the street name for OxyContin." According to the Associated Press, Love's attorney, Michael Rosenstein, tried to blunt the impact of the police testimony by arguing that, even with such an admission, police had no cause to arrest Love because they wouldn't have known that she didn't have a prescription for the drug, that Barber had declined to press charges, and that she had a taxi waiting at the scene, meaning that she wouldn't have been about to drive while under the influence. "It's very clear, quite frankly, that this was a witch hunt against my client," Rosenstein said, adding that police "recognized my client as high profile. She should have been released to the waiting taxi cab and sent home."
Love has two other pending court cases. She's awaiting trial in Beverly Hills on charges of illegal possession of hydrocodone and oxycodone, which authorities said they discovered later that same October morning after Love was taken to a hospital for a reported overdose. She also faces reckless endangerment and third-degree assault charges in New York City for allegedly hitting a clubgoer with a microphone stand during a performance last month to promote her new CD, "America's Sweetheart."


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Concerns were raised about the world's largest economy after a disappointing first quarter in which US GDP shrank by 0.5% over the quarter (or by 2.1% on an annualised basis). However, this contraction was largely the result of temporary factors including adverse weather conditions and a correction in inventories.
The revised estimate for the 2nd quarter painted a much more positive picture with quarter-on-quarter growth of 1.0% (i.e. an annualised growth rate of 4.2%), driven mainly by personal consumption spending and a rise in inventories (see Figure 3). This rebound was broadly in line with our previous expectations, so we are still expecting average US growth of 2.1% in 2014, picking up to around 3% in 2015.
Barring any major adverse shocks, we expect the Fed to stop buying assets and end its QE programme before the end of this year. Following on from this, we would expect the interest rate to start to rise during the second half of 2015, based on our growth projections.
Alongside the strong Q2 growth rate, many of the key economic fundamentals in the US suggest the recovery is robust and that interest rate rises later next year are plausible.
Employment has been recovering well, with over 200,000 non-farm jobs added each month from February until July. The unemployment rate has also fallen by 2 percentage points in the two years from July 2012 to July 2014, to a rate of 6.2%. This implies that consumption is likely to remain relatively strong, helping to stimulate growth.
Household debt as a percentage of GDP has fallen from just over 98% at the start of 2009 to a littleover 80% in the first quarter of 2014. This makes it likely that the observed increases in consumption will be sustainable as they are not exclusively reliant on consumer borrowing. This is reinforced by the recent upward revisions to the personal saving rate for 2011, 2012 and 2013.
The US has been experiencing a fiscal squeeze as the government seeks to cut the budget deficit. While the US is growing, this is prudent fiscal management that will limit the growth of government debt.
Another positive for the US is the rise in commercial and industrial bank lending. In the years after 2008, commercial and industrial loans fell significantly, but by July 2014 this had picked up by more than 40% from its low point. The Fed's QE policies seem to have had the desired effect of stimulating lending to the real economy.
These fundamentals suggest the US recovery is on track, but here are some key dates to watch out for that should give us more information:


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I designed this lesson plan based on the fairly standard one of teaching present simple, every day activities and adverbs of frequency. I tried to keep in mind Kalinago English's critique that this can lead to inauthentic sentences (How often do you take a shower? Sometimes-who talks like that?). I made this lesson for my high-school age beginners and while I just wrote a post defending explanations and translations in class, I also felt that it was important for them to slip some things by them without teaching them them deliberately. I wanted to see if we could jump to authentic communication without having to go into too many confusing explanations of grammar.
- To teach/review/elicit Present Simple in sentences
- To teach verbs of every day activities
- To teach/review adverbs of frequency: always, often, usually, sometimes, never
- Flash cards with pictures of everyday activities such as: ESL Flash Cards
Warm Up
Try a few questions out on them to see how their vocabulary is. Ask a few students, "When do you wake up?" "When do you leave for school?" "When do you have dinner?" See how that goes and get a feel for what they know and what they don't know.
Vocabulary of Every Day Activities
Put up a list of some things we do every day (wake up, get up, make breakfast, brush my teeth, shave, have a shower, make dinner, go to work, etc.) and a few sometimes activities (wash the clothes, watch TV, go for a walk, etc.). Now narrated your usual routine, adding in times and words like "often" or "usually", as well as some commentary just to make it a little authentic. Make sure you emphasize the vocabulary words when you say them. You can even point at each word on the board as you use it. I say something like this:
I wake up at 8 o'clock. Usually I get up then and go to the bathroom. There I brush my teeth and usually I shave, but not always; I hate to shave. I make breakfast. Sometimes my wife makes breakfast, and I go to work at 9am…..
Now field questions they might have.
After that, hand out each student a picture card or two, Go over the vocabulary on the board one by one. Say the word, and ask which student has a card with a picture of that word on it. Have the student come up and tape it next to the word for a little TPR and a little analyzing of pictures.
If they seem to have the vocab down, ask them to break into pairs and tell each other their daily routine. Bring the class back together and ask them some more questions, "What time do you wake up, Azamat?" "What time do you have lunch, Irina?" and so on. Or if you want to really test them, ask the students' partners, "What time does Irinia wake up, Azamat?" When you feel they are comfortable you can move on to "How Often".
How Often
Put a model question on the board: "How often do you watch TV? (Note: I often underline the parts of model sentences that I want the students to manipulate or change. That way they can clearly see the base structure and also they know where they have to think). Then write down the adverbs of frequency, "usually, often, sometimes" as well as expressions like every day/month/year".
Ask a few students individually, "how often do you talk on the phone?", "how often do you wash the dishes?" Make sure they are giving good answers and that they sound authentic. Add any vocabulary onto the board that they ask for. When I did this, students immediately wanted to know how to say, "Once a week" for example. Now tell them to look at their picture cards and ask their partner how often they do the things in the picture.
For homework, have them write out their daily routines. Make sure they have the vocab down and also that they can write times and use the preposition "at".
The next class before they hand the homework in, you can have them work in pairs or small groups. Tell them to take out the homework and then in their groups find 3 things in common (we both wake up at 7am, we both make dinner at 8pm) and three differences (I have dinner at 8:30 but she has dinner at 8pm).
As a follow-up you could have them find a free time when they can meet by asking each other, "Are you free at 3 o'clock?" "No, I have lunch at 3 o'clock."
Note that this doesn't work well if the students all have almost the exact same schedule because they may not have to even ask a question. When I did this, they all said, "But we all have our break at 4pm. So we can meet then."If you enjoyed this post, check out my books at www.AlphabetPublishingBooks.com.


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Green latest Colorado media figure to attack Gore over Nobel Prize while ignoring state researchers who shared award for similar theories
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Columnist Chuck Green attacked former Vice President Al Gore over his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, asserting in a column in The Pueblo Chieftain that Gore's selection "diminished the once-noble award." Green did not mention the numerous Colorado scientists who shared in the prize as part of their work with the United Nations' International Panel on Climate Change, or whether their selection also "diminished" the award. Furthermore, in challenging "Gore's theory" on climate change, Green cited Colorado State University professor William Gray -- despite the fact that the majority of scientists disagree with Gray's theory on rising global temperatures.
In his October 17 column in The Pueblo Chieftain, Chuck Green continued a pattern identified by Colorado Media Matters (here and here) of conservative Colorado media figures attacking former Vice President Al Gore over his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that the selection of Gore "diminished the once-noble award." Green also mirrored another conservative criticism, in a column critical of what he called "Gore's theory" that global warming has been "caused by wasteful human activity," by omitting any mention of the numerous Colorado scientists who shared the prize with Gore for contributing research to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which also recently concluded that the Earth's climate is warming and that most of the observed warming is "very likely" due to human influences.
Green touted Colorado State University professor emeritus of atmospheric science William Gray -- who once called global warming "one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people" -- but made no mention of four other CSU scientists who shared the Nobel Prize with Gore for their IPCC work. Green also failed to mention that the overwhelming majority of scientists disagree with Gray's claim that rising global temperatures are part of "a natural cycle," and agree that climate change is caused primarily by human activity, as Media Matters for America has documented.
Furthermore, Green claimed that Gray's "study of hurricane activity on the planet ... contradicts the Gore camp's contention that man-caused global warming has caused an increase in hurricane activity." In fact, as Media Matters has noted, during his March 21 testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Gore stated: "There is no consensus linking the frequency of hurricanes to global warming and I've never said there is -- it's the intensity of hurricanes. It's also true, the scientists say, you can't take an individual storm and say, 'This is caused by global warming.' But the odds of stronger storms are going up." [emphasis added]
Green's criticism of Gore followed the October 12 announcement that Gore and the IPCC would share the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
According to Green, "Prominent scientists labeled Gore's choice as the award winner as foolish, and the president of one research organization said it was 'disappointing' that 'an environmental alarmist' would receive such high recognition." Green did not identify the "[p]rominent scientists" who he said called Gore's selection "foolish," although the "environmental alarmist" remark mirrored one made by Joseph Bast, president of the free-market think tank the Heartland Institute. Green also did not mention the roles of Colorado-based researchers who contributed to the work of the IPCC, including Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder (NCAR).
As the Rocky Mountain News reported on October 13, "Co-winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore are dozens of researchers from Colorado's powerhouse atmospheric-science institutions." The News further reported:
The Colorado scientists, from Boulder, Fort Collins and Golden, explained global warming to diplomats from 100 nations in a series of influential reports for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
"It's a tremendous feeling to see the work that has been going on for so long and by so many people to be acknowledged," said Susan Solomon, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
That the Nobel was awarded for peace rather than chemistry or another hard science was fine with Solomon.
"Science has a role to play in serving world peace," she said. "Better to know the facts than to live in ignorance."
Solomon, the first person to explain that man-made chlorofluorocarbons were destroying the ozone, took the lead in summarizing for policymakers the science of climate change in the 2007 report.
"Over 100 governments were involved in negotiations with about 30 or 40 scientists," said Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. "All the wording was approved on a word-by-word basis."
The triumph, for many of the Colorado scientists, was that 100 nations signed the IPCC's 2007 summary report, which concluded that the connection between human activities and global warming is "unequivocal."
"Evidence is now so strong that we were able to get that approved," said Trenberth, lead author of "Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change" in the 2007 IPCC report.
In the tense negotiations, "The scientists determined what got said -- the politicians determined how it was said," Trenberth said.
The News also reported that "[d]ozens of scientists from NOAA, NCAR, the University of Colorado and Colorado State University also are members of the UNIPCC and will share in the award."
Similarly, as the Fort Collins Coloradoan reported on October 13, at least four CSU scientists "are among the thousands of scientists who have worked on IPCC projects through the years, including David Randall, an atmospheric science professor [at CSU] and a coordinating lead author on a chapter in the panel's Fourth Assessment Report on climate change released this year." The Coloradoan further noted:
CSU's connection to the prize highlights the important work going on at the university, said Bill Farland, vice president for research.
"The important issue here is the recognition of the important role this kind of scientific contribution can play in decision-making on a global basis," Farland said. "We're very proud of the scientists from CSU that played a role."
CSU researchers Keith Paustian, Richard Conant and Stephen Ogle have also contributed to the IPCC.
Green did not indicate whether the Colorado scientists should suffer the same criticism as Gore, but he did note Gray's criticism of Gore and his comment about global warming: " 'We'll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realize how foolish it was,' Colorado State University meteorologist William Gray said of Gore's version of global warming." Green further wrote:
Among the most outspoken scientists who disagree with Gore's views, Gray is predicting that a period of global cooling is imminent as part of a natural cycle of earthly environmental conditions.
Rather than accepting Gore's theory of global warming, caused by wasteful human activity, Gray attributes it to oceanic warming related to salt content and solar activity that is at a peak level.
However, as Media Matters has noted, on April 26, 2006, RealClimate.org, which describes itself as "a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists," responded to a paper written by Gray by detailing "the fundamental misconceptions on the physics of climate that underlie most of Gray's pronouncements on climate change and its causes" and "the gaping flaws" in his "scientific argument." Colorado Media Matters, likewise citing the RealClimate critique, noted its conclusion that Gray has "fail[ed] to adapt to a modern era of meteorology, which demands hypotheses soundly grounded in quantitative and consistent physical formulations, not seat-of-the-pants flying."
Moreover, a May 28, 2006, Washington Post Magazine article by Joel Achenbach reported that Gray "concede[d] that he hasn't published the idea [his theory about recent warming trends] in any peer-reviewed journal. Achenbach also noted that Gray's rejection of climate models puts him "increasingly on the fringe" in the field of meteorology. When Achenbach "ask[ed] Gray who his intellectual soul mates are regarding global warming," Gray responded, "I have nobody really to talk to about this stuff.'" In the article, Gray was quoted as saying, "Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews." Gray reportedly expressed regret for that comment later.
In touting Gray, Green also failed to mention that the IPCC disagrees with the assertion that rising temperatures are part of a "natural cycle." In fact, according to the panel's recent conclusions, evidence that the Earth's climate is warming is "unequivocal" and most of the observed warming is "very likely" due to human influences.
Later in his column, Green asserted:
Gray, whose fame comes primarily from his study of hurricane activity on the planet, cites statistics that show significantly more severe hurricanes (101) occurred during the 49-year period beginning in 1900 than the number of hurricanes (83) that swept the planet during the 49-year period beginning in 1957 -- which contradicts the Gore camp's contention that man-caused global warming has caused an increase in hurricane activity.
As Media Matters noted, while Gore in his book An Inconvenient Truth (Rodale Books, May 2006) attributed the claim "that global warming is even leading to an increased frequency of hurricanes" to "some" scientists, he also acknowledged that "[t]here is less agreement among scientists about the relationship between the total number of hurricanes each year and global warming." Further, in the update to his film, An Inconvenient Truth, Gore said: "There is no scientific consensus linking the absolute number of hurricanes to global warming." From the update:
GORE: In the year that has passed by since the end of filming An Inconvenient Truth, there have been several brand-new scientific studies that have further firmed up the emerging consensus that links stronger hurricanes with higher ocean temperatures, particularly higher temperatures in the top layer, the top 200 feet, where the heat energy drives strength into these ocean-based storms. There is no scientific consensus linking the absolute number of hurricanes to global warming. There's some indication that on a worldwide basis, the number stays fairly steady. But when hurricanes do form out of these delicate and mysterious atmospheric conditions in the oceans, then global warming makes them stronger. And, when they get stronger with more moisture, they become more destructive.
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