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Remote Access VPN using Mutual Group Authentication ( CA certificate)
Dear Experts,
In my organization , we have Cisco ASA 5540 that is configured with the remote access VPN profile. The Remote VPN is configured in such a way that the user authentication will be through Microsoft LDAP ( AD server).
Currently the VPN client is using the Group Authentication method and we would like to go for certificate based authentication (
Mutual Group Authentication) using CA server. Below are my queries regarding to the these migration.
1.Have anyone did Remote Access VPN with CA Server ?
2.Can i use the same AD server as CA server ?
3. What are configuration changes that required in ASA for the Remote VPN users to enroll the certificate with CA server ?
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Magnus Hagander wrote: > . > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:55 AM, raghavendra t > <raagavendra(dot)rao(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > For?some setups reason, i started taking Hot backup. In this course I have first issued pg_start_backup('backup') and went to the data directory for backing up in OS format using the command "tar -cf backup.tar? /data" . When i issued this command , tar was generating some errors as show below. > > > > bash-3.00# tar -cf 16aprilstandby.tar /db-data/ > > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names > > tar: /db-data/base/24643/151667: file changed as we read it > > tar: /db-data/base/24643/151764.2: file changed as we read it > > tar: /db-data/base/24643/151766: file changed as we read it > > tar: /db-data/base/24643/151768: file changed as we read it > > tar: /db-data/base/66412/151969: file changed as we read it > > > > After sometime tar has ended and i also issued pg_stop_backup() and i continued the process. > > > > My question here is, is this errors generated by tar are to worrisome or whats happening in the backend. > > Is "tar" file is safewell to use. Could you please tell me. > > Those are not errors, they are warnings. As long as you use > pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup() before and after the tar, they > are perfectly harmless, and can be ignored. Yes, and the manual does mention this issue: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-BASE-BACKUP Some file system backup tools emit warnings or errors if the files they are trying to copy change while the copy proceeds. When taking a base backup of an active database, this situation is normal and not an error. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
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Tell us: What is the standout performance of London 2012?
Here's a talking point for you. Seb Coe, the head of the London 2012 Organizing Committee, told the Associated Press yesterday that he believes David Rudisha's world record time in the men's 800 meter "will be the standout performance of these Olympic Games."
Wow. Bold statement from such a robust Olympics. Not Michael Phelps becoming the most decorated Olympian ever? Not Usain Bolt's going back-to-back in the 100 and 200? Not Jennifer Ennis in the heptathlon at home? Not Liu Xiang limping to kiss the final hurdle? Not Gabby Douglas or McKayla Maroney or Aly Raisman? What about Nic Batum punching Juan Carlos Navarro in the groin?
There have been so many memorable moments from these Games, it's hard to pick the best #LondonPerformance.
So, we're asking for your help: What has been THE standout performance of London 2012? Share your answer and a brief explanation in the comments or on Twitter by tweeting with the hashtag #LondonPerformance to @USATODAYSports. We'll feature our favorite answers on the site.


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Sale Prices Can Be Misleading
Sometimes a store's "big sale" isn't saving you money at all.
Catchy slogans and big discounts don't always mean you're saving money. One web site, NerdWallet.com, says it's a pretty common practice to change the asking price, or retail price, for an item on the shelf, then offer a coupon or a reduction in price -- which turns out to not really be a bargain.
Almost every store runs sales. That's a tried and true way to bring customers into stores. Despite a plethora of information now available by just doing a little "Googling," people don't always do comparison shopping. They're attracted by the flashing signs saying you're saving 40-percent, or more.
If the store bumped the price up before telling you about the discount, the savings may not be as big as you think.
And, the practice isn't illegal, in most cases. It's simply up to the buyer to make sure -- when he or she thinks they're getting a good price, that they really are.


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Pohl netted 12 of her 18 in the first half on 6-of-6 shooting and finished 8-of-10 from the floor, including the game-winning points on a layup with 1:13 remaining.
Shawnee State hit eight of its first 12 shots of the game and raced out to a 28-11 advantage with just about five minutes left in the first half. The Bulldogs played horribly, shooting 4-of-16 and committing 14 turnovers in the period after entering the game averaging 15.5 miscues per contest.
Briannica Tyes 3-pointer in the final minute cut the halftime deficit to 33-20 and the club came out with a much improved energy after the break.
The Bears still led by 10 early in the second half before the Bulldogs put together a 16-5 run. Tye started the spurt with a bucket and ended it with a 3-pointer, giving CU a 44-43 advantage. Josette Campbell also hit a trifecta at the 12:07 mark, just the second made 3-pointer of the game for the home team. But Jessica Pace was called for an intentional foul after the basket and Pohl hit one foul shot on the other end, tying the game at 44 with 8:35 remaining.
From there it was nip-and-tuck the rest of the way, though the Bears scored six of the next seven points to lead 50-45 with 6:10 remaining. Pace made a layup and Tye nailed another 3-pointer, one of three for her in the game, tying the contest at 50.
Desirai Smith hit a leaner in the lane just before the shot clock expired to put Shawnee back ahead, but Campbell answered with a trifecta for a one-point CU lead with just over a minute left. The Bears turned the ball over on its next possession but the Bulldogs gave it right back with a miscue under the SSU goal.
Pohl was fouled and hit one free throw, tying the game at 53 with 25.1 seconds remaining, but she was whistled for an intentional foul as Tye raced down the floor after the foul shot. Tye made both free throws and then 1-of-2 after the inbounds play for a 56-53 edge.
Alannah Sheets missed a 3-pointer off the glass after both teams called timeout and Pace grabbed the rebound, but she barely hit the front rim on the 1-plus-1 and the ball rolled out of bounds. With no timeouts Pohl fired a fastball some 70 feet down court to Simpson, who caught the ball near the left elbow, took one dribble and stepped behind the arc for the tying 3-pointer with 2.5 seconds remaining, sending the game to overtime.
In the extra period Sampson gave the home team the lead with a layup but missed the foul shot and TaCouya Allen answered with a 3-pointer for the Bulldogs. Smiths free throw with 1:38 left tied the contest at 59 and a steal by Sheets set up the winning points, as she got stuck under the goal but found Pohl for another layup with 1:13 remaining.
London Elie missed a short jumper for CU and after the Bulldogs forced a shot clock violation, Allen had the final shot, but it was partially blocked near the goal. Pohl grabbed the rebound and the Bears played hot potato in the final seconds before Cumberland could foul.
Tye led the Bulldogs with 14 points and Pace finished with 13 points and eight rebounds, but the duo made just 9-of-23 shots from the field. Shawnee State outscored CU, 40-16, in the paint, especially in the first half when the visitors posted 10 assists on 15 made shots.
(men) Shawnee St. 73, Cumberland 63LEBANON -- Cumberland was outscored 13-2 in the final four minutes versus Shawnee State University Thursday night, falling to the Bears 73-63 at the Dallas Floyd Recreation Center.
A free throw by Daniel McFadden gave CU a 61-60 advantage with 4:25 left in the game, but the Bulldogs committed three costly turnovers in the ensuing four possessions to give SSU a six-point lead with 2:28 to go. McFadden connected on a layup to slice the lead to four with 1:19 to play, but the Bears went on to convert two buckets and two free throws to seal the game.
Charles Stewart had a big night for CU (8-18, 4-13), scoring 17 points on 7-of-12 shooting and grabbing six rebounds. McFadden contributed 12 points for the Bulldogs and Jerret Towns added 10.
Stewart scored eight of the Bulldogs first 10 points on the night, with three of those points coming from his first 3-point goal of the season, to give CU a 10-8 lead. Cameron Prather then knocked down his first 3-pointer of the year to extend the lead to five at the 13:49 mark.
The Bulldogs led by as many as nine with just over seven minutes remaining in the first half but went without a field goal for the last six minutes of the period while the Bears went on a 12-1 to lead 39-34 at the break.
The Bears pulled ahead by eight a minute into the second half on a tip-in by Andrew Devlin before Lester Gude drilled a shot from beyond the arc to cut the lead to 43-38. In three successive possessions beginning with 15:12 on the clock, CU drained a three-pointer, one each from Prather, Towns and Gude to cut SSUs lead to 52-51, and then took the lead on a layup by McFadden with 12:41 left to play.
A bucket by Stewart gave CU its biggest lead of half at 59-54 with 10 minutes left in the contest but the Bears responded with two jumpers to pull within one point and held Cumberland to one field goal in the final eight minutes.
For Shawnee State (16-9, 11-5), Tyler Morgan and Jeremy Bennington each scored 18 points and Morgan tallied 11 rebounds.
Cumberland wraps up the weekend at home versus the University of Rio Grande in a 2 p.m. Saturday doubleheader at the Floyd Center.


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Just because you are mentioned in the same sentence as Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods doesn't mean you deserve to be mentioned.
But it doesn't mean you don't either.
PGA CHAMPIONSHIP: Rory McIlroy rolls over field
PHOTOS: Top shots from PGA Championship
McIlroy is 23. That is the same age that Nicklaus and Woods were when they won their second major.
The eight-stroke margin by McIlroy broke the PGA Championship record of seven set by Nicklaus.
But of course when you talk of Woods and Nicklaus you talk of total major championships and right now they are the only two in the conversation.
"It's tough to say that Rory is a Tiger Woods-type player," said fellow Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell. "Tiger Woods is a once-in-a-lifetime type player, and Rory McIlroy is at least a once-in-a-decade type player. He's that good."
No one would disagree with that. But it doesn't mean we can't project. That is a national pastime for sports fans.
How many majors are you predicting for McIlroy?
While we put down arbitrary numbers, here is some good work by some good people that we might have missed while sleeping or deciding where the London Olympics fits in history.
Steve Gardner will hold a fantasy chat starting at 11 a.m. ET.
Lane Kiffin has given up his right to vote.
Denard Robinson says he can outrun Usain Bolt.
Video: Mike Trout does it again.
Video: Vandy's James Frankin does a class thing.
Here are the Sprint Cup points leaders.
Dream Team author talks about how much LeBron deserved a gold.
$38 million gets you A-Rod's Miami home.
The 2016 Usain Bolt odds are out.
San Diego State is thinking about never punting.
Digger Phelps does some crooning.
Kobe Bryant has fun with Anthony Davis' unibrow.
James Dolan is advertising for an assistant.
The Dolphins are getting the attention they craved.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
Michael Hiestand has covered sports media and marketing for USA TODAY, tackling the sports biz ranging from what's behind mega-events such as the Olympics and Super Bowl to the sometimes-hidden numbers behind the sports world's bottom line.


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"…the line between reality and fantasy is blurred as to create a lucid dream like state that is in effect like sleep walking through an acid trip."
"Loaded with style, blood, laughs and razor-sharp wit."
"The sharp images, hilarious satire, blaring electronic music, and it's social relevance make this an exploitation film for the modern age. The world needs more films like this…"
"…like an L.A. fever dream with bright neon colors spattered throughout… and a glossy 80's vibe to it all."
"A razor-sharp, wickedly funny satire! Thrilling and provocative! It deserves to become a cult classic!"


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Sunday Sound-off: Is it OK to wear sweatpants to nice restaurants?
This week during my Thursday morning chat with Kramp and Adler on 102.1, I mentioned that my 4-year-old son was in a "sweatpants" phase and -- since I am honoring his fashion choice -- it limits where we can eat for Easter brunch.
My situation reminds me of how often I see adults in nice restaurants wearing sweatpants or "Zubaz." (You know, those baggy, tiger-striped pants.) I don't know if this is a Milwaukee thing or a fashion phenomenon that happens in a lot of cities, but a lot of folks in this town wear their lounging duds to fancy events and I'm not sure what to think about this.
What are your thoughts?
Who cares? People should wear whatever makes them comfortable. If someone wants to wear sweatpants to The Pfister, that's their choice. Milwaukee is a working-class city, and because of this fact, it's very down-to-earth. People wearing sweats in public is a small price to pay for the lack of pretention in this city.
Put on a real pair of pants, please. Sweats are fine for running to the grocery store, but when you're going out for dinner at a nice restaurant, have a little pride / class and wear something without an elastic waistband (unless one is medically required).
HarleyRider | March 26, 2008 at 9:42 p.m. (report)
I am glad that the subject was brought up. I get tired of jeans and a t-shirt as the acceptable outfit just about anywhere. People wonder what I am up to when I put a sports coat on to a function. It would be nice if, as a collective group, we would put a little more effort into dressing better.
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Reader | March 26, 2008 at 3:54 p.m. (report)
Esquire says it best: "Sweatpants are for sick days, couch surfing, and light exercise. For anything else, throw on a pair of jeans and get on with it."
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Theadams | March 26, 2008 at 11:16 a.m. (report)
This says it all...from a Seinfeld episode: Jerry: "Again with the sweatpants?" George: "What? I'm comfortable." Jerry: "You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.'"
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sheila_d | March 25, 2008 at 1:50 p.m. (report)
Absolutely NOT!!! That's what is wrong with this city. Some people could care less how they look when they go out for dinner, be it a nice restaurant or a casual one. And many times over, they are the ones who complain about the service. Neatly dressed patrons receive better service! Try it sometime and I think u will agree. she-she
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wfbgal | March 25, 2008 at 11:37 a.m. (report)
Going through some old photos this weekend we found one of my son as a toddler in dress pants and his tye dyed blue shirt. My husband and I started remembering how we sat in our hotel room trying to get our son dressed for my sisters wedding. He was suppose to wear a white, button down dress shirt and his dress pants. He absolutely insisted on wearing his "blue shirt". I'm sure the blood curling screams could be heard out in the hotel hallway - he was screaming at the top of his lungs - I want to wear my blue shirt!. The fact of the matter is, he had to wear his dress shirt for the wedding and to the reception he could wear his blue shirt. I gotta tell you, it wasn't fun getting the white shirt on and my husband and I arrived in the nick of time to the wedding, stressed out and unhappy - but "darn it" he wore the nice shirt. Even now. On picture day, you wear a collared shirt. When we play golf we wear nice dress pants and collared shirts. When we go out for dinner, we dress approprately. Sometimes saying no to your child is a good thing. They also need boundries - otherwise when they get to school they are not going to follow the rules and as hard as it was to get rid of the passifier, it is going to be harder to correct the "not following the rules" behaviour in school. Sometimes on Principle, you have to say no. I hope you appreciate my honest answer.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Horizon Christian's soccer players have learned firsthand the difference between playing on their toes vs. their heels.
The aggressive Hawks demonstrated that in a big way Monday when they defeated Columbia Christian 3-1 in a United League match.
"We started playing that way in the second half of our last game (a draw last week at Life Christian)," Coach Oscar Stenberg said. "We continued doing so (Monday).
"That one was a good one for us - all the way around."
Horizon enjoyed a huge advantage in time of possession against Columbia and limited the number of its defensive breakdowns.
On offense, leading scorer Gabe Holste has added ball distribution to his developing game. Stenberg said it has taken some time, but his senior is more effective now that he's distributing the ball over the top to teammates.
Holste delivered the assist on Horizon's first score when he lifted a corner kick to the opposite post where freshman Jared Davis headed it home.
Columbia, which entered the game in second place in league matches, tied the score before halftime but Horizon regrouped and returned to its aggressive play.
Patrick Foss gave Horizon the lead for good midway through the second half with the first goal of his career when he came sprinting down the middle left side and cleaned up a deflection by converting a nifty touch shot past the Columbia keeper.
Foss scored his second career goal 10 minutes later to seal the win. Lanky freshman Mason Bloomster, who used his 6-foot-2 frame to play above the Columbia defense on a couple of occasions, forced the issue with another leaping attempt at a header on a crossing pass from left to right. The Columbia keeper made a play on the ball, but his airborne momentum caused him to go headfirst into Bloomster's chest. Both players went to the ground, while Foss, who had worked around to the right side, tapped in the deflected ball just before it went over the endline a few yards to the right of the post.
Horizon is tied for fourth place with three league games remaining.
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The man behind an attempted military mutiny in Papua New Guinea has appeared in court charged with mutiny, as
Sir Michael's son Arthur Somare has called for an early election to determine once and for all who is the nation's PM – his father or Peter O'Neill.
Colonel Yaura Sasa was arrested in the Port Moresby suburb of Boroko on Saturday night, less than three days after he led the failed mutiny of about 30 men on behalf of former leader Sir Michael.
A police spokesman said Colonel Sasa was brought before the district court in Port Moresby yesterday morning but the men loyal to him remained inside the Taurama barracks.
"The colonel was arrested and charged last night with mutiny for his actions on the 26th," Superintendent Dominic Kakas said. "We appealed to him to talk to his men. He is now remanded in custody at Bomana jail."
Mr Kakas said the men loyal to Colonel Sasa had not been charged.
Mr O'Neill appointed his deputy Belden Namah as acting Defence Minister during the political crisis, and called on Sir Michael to stop issuing statements that he is the prime minister.


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Wellington Zoo welcomes inaugural Artist in Residence
Wellington Zoo welcomes Phill Waddington, inaugural Artist in Residence
Celebrated Petone painter and environmentalist Phill Waddington is Wellington Zoo's 2014 Artist in Residence.
'We're thrilled to announce our inaugural artist in residence programme, and delighted to welcome such a wonderful artist and passionate conservationist to Wellington Zoo,' said Karen Fifield, Chief Executive.
Waddington was named the Wellingtonian of the Year – Environment at the 2013 Welly Awards after his lifelong love of wildlife led him to develop a world-leading humane pest trap, which he gifted to the Department of Conservation. It is now used nationwide to enable to recovery of New Zealand's native birds.
During his residency Waddington will create a new body of work influenced by the animals at Wellington Zoo, and is donating the commission to the construction of the Meet the Locals precinct – a future space within the Zoo to talk about and care for our native wildlife.
'I'm really keen on painting endangered species – it's all about the cause. The challenge will be to capture the portraits of individual animals!' said Waddington.
The programme is kicking off with a Trade Me auction for Waddington's portrait of Wellington Zoo's lionesses, Djane; Djembe and Zahra, titled The Three Princesses.
The reserve for the original artwork is $2,000.
For the first time, limited edition prints of Waddington's work will also be produced and sold in the Wellington Zoo gift shop, along with greeting cards.
If visitors see Waddington at work, they're very welcome to come up to him and ask questions – 'preferably about painting, though, as I don't know too much about the animals yet!'
About Wellington Zoo
Wellington Zoo is New Zealand's first Zoo, established in 1906, and is Wellington's oldest conservation organisation. Home to over 500 native and exotic animals, Wellington Zoo became a charitable trust in 2003.
Wellington Zoo became the world's first carboNZero certified zoo in May 2013.
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Brandon Jennings (born September 23, 1989 in Compton, California) is an American basketball player. He plays point guard for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played basketball in Italy for Lottomatica Roma of the Italian Lega A.


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Biggest Technology Headlines in 2010
Which Is the Most Shocking Tech News Story of 2010?
2010 was a pretty exciting year in tech. Not only did we see some of our predictions come to fruition, but science made big leaps (new life!), and we got a bit closer to a Minority Report-kind of lifestyle. Well, when it comes to video games, anyway. But when it comes to major headlines, Apple definitely dominated the scene with Antennagate and the white iPhone 4 saga, while AT&T changed the game by limiting data usage for its customers; online privacy concerns continued to be on the top of the mind for Facebook users, Facebook gamers, and regular 'ole web surfers alike. Speaking of Facebook, Queen Elizabeth made her first appearance on the social networking site last month, marking a major milestone for the British Monarchy.
Which headline do you think was the most shocking in 2010? Vote below, then share your own lists, headlines, and items in our Best of 2010 group. Your awesome content could be featured on the GeekSugar homepage!


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Richard Ramirez is dead. The serial killer dubbed the Night Stalker was the face of evil for many Southern Californians. And he was the face of something else -- the futility of this state's system of capital punishment.
Ramirez was 25 when he was captured in 1985. He was 53 when he died overnight at San Quentin State Prison. So he lived most of his life with the death penalty hanging over him but never suffered that sterile version of the satanic horror he perpetrated on 13 murder victims.
One old report we read today quoted a legal expert saying in 2010 that Ramirez's case was "only about halfway through the appeals process" and calculated that meant he would be in his 70s before his execution would be carried out.
You might say that by dying of natural causes, Ramirez beat the system.
The system itself was on Death Row last November when California voters considered Proposition 34, which would have ended the death penalty in the state and converted the sentences of Death Row inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The argument, a good one, was that it was costing the state more than $100 million a year on fruitless legal battles and Death Row incarceration. Since the state resumed executions in 1992, only 13 condemned convicts had actually been put to death while more than 700 others continued to sit in prison; as of last fall, 84 Death Row inmates had died of natural causes.
Voters defeated Prop. 34, and the death penalty survived -- in name only.
Last week, a state appeals court expanded the death penalty's legal limbo by striking down California's latest attempt to update its legal injection procedures, ruling that prison officials flouted administrative rules when they crafted new regulations.
And so capital punishment continues to be on hold here.
As the Los Angeles News Group editorial board said after Prop. 34 was defeated: Voters made it clear they want to keep the death penalty. But it's up to state officials to fix a broken system by streamlining the appeals process and moving to a single-drug protocol for lethal injections.
It's obviously a broken system when even Richard Ramirez eludes it.


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Kim Kardashian and Gabriel Aubry End Romance
Posted Tuesday December 7, 2010 5:13 PM GMT
While it's hard to even dub it as a relationship in the first place, Kim Kardashian and Gabriel Aubry have ended their short-lived romance.
According to reports, the E! relaity babe and the hunky model thought things were moving too quickly while deciding a friendship would work out best.
The two first met in October, with Kim and Gabriel first spotted out together at a Los Angeles Lakers game followed by a movie outing.
Kardashian and Aubry followed it up by spending Thanksgiving alongside one another, with a source telling Us magazine, "They were so cute together. Kim love[d] being with him."
Nonetheless, it seems that Kim and Gabriel are no more.
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This a quote from the 1988 black comedy "Lucky Stiff",with Jeff Kober as Ike McArthur Nixon Mitchell and Donna Dixon as Cynthia Mitchell. The film is about cannibalism-so the quote is perfect.
Ike McArthur Nixon Mitchell:Why are the gods so good to us?
Cynthia Mitchell:Because we love people and we know how good they really are!


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Former Creston Village Superintendent Roger Uhler had already "paid enough," Wayne County Common Pleas Court Judge Mark K. Wiest said Friday, declining to impose either jail time, a fine or court costs for a misdemeanor conviction involving record-keeping at the village water treatment plant.
Uhler, who was found guilty in April, already has sustained $1,730 in jury costs, in addition to attorney fees, in fighting the three counts on which he had been indicted, including two felony counts for falsifying records.
Uhler was found not guilty of the two felony counts. Had he been found guilty, he could have been given a maximum 10-year prison sentence. Uhler was found guilty only of the misdemeanor which could have carried a fine and jail time.
During the trial, Uhler admitted that he blended statistics from the village's water treatment plant for more than a year, but said that it was not a major concern to him whether the figures were accurate or not. A parade of witnesses from the Creston community took the stand during the trial to testify to Uhler's character, community involvement and civic dedication.
Wiest said at Friday's sentencing that many of Uhler's friends and associates had written letters to the court praising his lifelong service to the Village of Creston and Wayne County.
Uhler's attorney Robert Gluck pointed out that Uhler had no previous criminal record and had devoted his life to community service. He said the case had placed both a personal and financial strain on Uhler, including the "agony" of his disqualification from serving in some of the community roles that are important to him while under the cloud of legal proceedings.
Brad Tammaro, attorney for the Environmental Protection Agency who prosecuted the case against Uhler, argued during the sentencing that the case "hasn't cost him (Uhler) anything," and said that to let Uhler off with no more than court costs and a scolding would be to demean the impact of his actions.
Following the sentencing, Uhler and family members tearfully embraced and told each other, "It's over."


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when a mainstream film producer adapts an original idea/story/novel into a film, but compromises many plot points for the purpose of making money off of the film to a larger more general audience; much of this is in dismay to the original writer who in the end has little control over what happens
author: aw man! what happened to my story? they ruined it completely! this man wasn't supposed to die! and what's with this love triangle?
onlooker: you got the hollywood treatment man!
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I've heard that Kydex Sheaths will scratch knives. What's the story?
Kydex is SOFTER than steel, if the Kydex can scratch the knife, it's not much of a knife and you're wasting good money on a sheath for it. Kidding aside, what people see that they think are scratches from Kydex are rub marks. This especially shows up when the knife has a high polish finish. No matter how well I fit the sheath, I can't control how you insert and remove the knife.
If you don't want the knife marked up, you should probably leave it in the box since Leather or Nylon will also eventually leave some sort of mark.
If there is dirt or grit in ANY sheath (leather, nylon or Kydex) you will scratch it. SharpShooter Sheath Systems sheaths have a Clean-Out to allow you to either blow thru to remove loose stuff or flush the sheath out to prevent this from happening. The Clean-Out on my sheaths is 1/8" in diameter running out from the point of the blade. Short of a small animal or child crawling in there, you can easily clean it out.
Why is Kydex better than leather for a knife sheath?
It's NOT! Leather has its place as does Kydex. For a traditional look and feel, nothing is better than a good leather sheath, if that's what you're looking for I have someone who does fantastic work I can refer you to.
Kydex however is best for hard working applications where the knife and sheath will be wet or dirty. A SharpShooter Sheath System will retain your knife securely and should outlast the knife since it cannot rot or deteriorate over time.
What colors of kydex do you have?
Light Grey
Khaki (aka: Desert Tan for you young guys)
Blaze Orange
Do colors cost any extra?
Black is the price listed.
Other colors add $5 to the price.
Orange adds $7 to the price
Do you do custom work?
Almost every item done is custom or can be made as such. The kydex is formed around each specific knife so it fits THAT specific model.
I have made other Kydex items for things like FireSteels and Collapsible Chopsticks. These jobs are very time consuming so I have to charge accordingly. Generally I ask that you send the item so I can look at it and try to figure out how to make it work before quoting a price. If we can't reach an agreeable price, I do ask that you pay the return postage; the time involved in engineering the sheath is on me
Do I need to send in my knife?
Not always. If I have the same knife on hand I can make you a sheath using mine as a pattern. However I can't guarantee the fit. Semi Customs and Customs do vary a bit from knife to knife and I'll ask that you send yours, it only costs you $4.05 to send it USPS Priority Mail and I'll be able to make the Sheath System fit perfectly.
If you want to gamble on the fit on a semi-custom and it doesn't fit well, you'll need to send the knife and sheath back to me at your expense, fair is fair.
MY suggestion is spend the money and send your knife.
How about hardware such as Tek-Loks?
Since there as many different tastes in hardware as there are options, I don't include any mounting hardware. SharpShooter Sheath Systems are drilled to accept the Large Tek-Lok or ClipOver ( 1 ½" between holes) If you need a different spacing let me know on the order.
I can supply the hardware as well.
For belt I recommend the "ClipOver" attachment which allows you to put on and take off the sheath without removing your belt. It's VERY secure and comfortable. This will add $7.95 to the price
I have small and large Tek-Loks on hand at $9.95 each.
I also have MY NEW MOLLE Compatible attachment available. This will fit in place of a Large Tek-Lok or ClipOver and doesn't have any sort of nylon straps. $15 each.


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Seven-Night Mediterranean Cruise with Stops in Rome, Palermo, and Tunisia
The western Mediterranean is home to some of the world's most beautiful places. Ancient art and cathedrals decorate Italy's western coast. Soft, white-sand beaches line the south of France. Markets and museums dot the Spanish coastline. On this seven-night cruise, you'll get a chance to explore Europe's scenic coastal regions, as well as the Tunisian port city in North Africa. The tour also includes all meals aboard the ship, as well as a post-cruise trip—choose between one night in Rome or a four-night stay in Rome and Venice. Both land trips include accommodations and a hop-on, hop-off tour of Rome.
With this deal, you'll take a transfer from the airport in Rome to the port in Civitavecchia, where you'll board either the MSC Splendida (for departures through March 15) or the MSC Orchestra (for departures starting March 30). Both cruise ships feature luxurious amenities such as deck-top swimming pools, international restaurants, performance theaters, and gaming casinos.
The full itinerary for cruises on the MSC Splendida is different than the full itinerary for cruises on the MSC Orchestra, but both ships will make stops at cities in Italy, Spain, France, and Tunisia.
Included in All Itineraries:
Genoa, Italy: You'll explore the restored childhood home of Christopher Columbus among sections of medieval walls in this northern Italian seaport. The city produces rich green olive oil used in pesto and focaccia and is conveniently located near other port towns, including Portofino.
La Goulette, Tunisia: This charming North African fishing port is home to some of the country's finest seafood restaurants. Camels carry tourists down the street, and you might spot pink flamingos bobbing in the water.
Palermo, Italy: Sicily's capital has long been a melting pot of ancient Mediterranean cultures, resulting in a visually stunning assortment of Byzantine mosaics, Roman cathedrals, and bustling Arab markets. The city's Regional Archaeological Museum displays artifacts dating back to prehistoric times.
Rome, Italy: A day trip here includes a hop-on, hop-off sightseeing tour that stops at 11 different locations, including the Colosseum, Piazza del Popolo, Fontana di Travi, and Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City, while an on-board audioguide explains their historical and artistic significance.
A tour aboard the MSC Splendida (departures through March 15) also includes stops at Marseilles, France, and Barcelona, Spain, home to Gaudí's Sagrada Familía cathedral and other art nouveau architecture. The MSC Orchestra (departures starting March 30) will make stops at the Spanish party island of Ibiza, as well as Villefranche-sur-Mer, located on the French Riviera.
Post-Cruise Trips:
After disembarking from the cruise ship, guests can choose to spend either one night in Rome or four nights in Rome and Venice. In Rome, you'll stay at the 4-star Mecenate Palace or similar accommodations. The 4-star Hotel Principe, one of the accommodation options in Venice, is situated on the city's famous Grand Canal.


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But the housing sector needs a merger before that happens, Cramer says.
Cramer makes the call on viewers' favorite stocks.
After hours Morgan Stanley recommended investors buy Lehman Brothers stock and set a price target of $31. What's the "Word on the Street?"
Overstock.com and its outspoken leader are going after some big fish on Wall Street. Overstock Chief Executive Patrick Byrne has filed a $3.4 billion lawsuit against brokerage firms alleging a "massive, illegal stock market manipulation scheme." The suit has left some power players fit to be tied, including Marketwatch.com columnist Herb Greenberg. As fate would have it, our cameras were rolling on Greenberg's fit.
The Dow fell sharply on Monday after S&P jolted three leading U.S. banks with downgrades and Wachovia ousted CEO Ken Thompson. What's the "Word on the Street?"
Financials came under pressure Monday after Wachovia ousted CEO Ken Thompson. Which other banks could also go lower?
Joe Keating, CIO of private asset management at RBC Bank, picked stocks for graying Boomers. Plus: Web-Exclusive picks -- not on TV!
The judge presiding over Russia's $22.5 billion lawsuit against the Bank of New York Mellon insisted on Tuesday the case move toward a quick conclusion after more than a year of procedural delays.
Stocks finished flat Monday as concerns about the Federal Reserve's rate decision in a couple of days kept a lid on activity generated by merger buzz.
Stocks ticked higher Monday amid merger buzz but index gains were modest as the market awaits the Federal Reserve's rate decision later this week.
Morgan Stanley analysts Monday told clients to "sell the rally" in financial stocks, slashing forecasts for big bank earnings and warning that the current credit crunch is only just beginning.
Want to position your portfolio for the recovery? Then fly in the face of the crowd calling for big-cap equities. So says William Greiner, chief investment officer of UMB Asset Management. He told CNBC he believes the U.S. is already in a recession -- and says the best thing to do is buy small-cap stocks.
CNBC asked the experts where they would invest in this market environment, and here's a sampling of their recommendations.
A double helping of economic data and first-quarter earnings reports will flood the zone next week, but it's the corporate earnings that will drive stocks and give a better picture of where the economy is going. If GE's bombshell earnings miss is an indicator, the news will be as nasty as traders expect.
Following are the week's biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Halliburton and Bank of New York Mellon popped while American Airlines and The Gap dropped.
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Is it time to jump back into beaten-down financial stocks--or is it still too early? Even the financial giants themselves can't agree.
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text: If you missed the Georgia Jewelers Association (GJA) State Convention this fall you missed a great event. Held at beautiful Brasstown Valley Resort in the north Georgia Mountains Sept. 19-21, the weather could not have been more perfect. The event had great turn out, wonderful speakers and fabulous jewelry entered in the 2008 Design Contest. The release of GJA's 2008-2009 yearbook was timed to coincide with the meeting. A golf tournament in the most splendid of surroundings, and great barbecue cooked and served by the GJA board members rounded out a great opportunity to be inspired, and refresh and renew friendships.


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Kevin Gulliver, MSN, RN-BC, CNE
Mail Code: 3018
Phone: 702-895-1229
Fax: 702-895-4807
Email: [email protected]
Kevin Gulliver is a lecturer and clinical instructor with the UNLV School of Nursing, teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. In his undergraduate courses he focuses on medical-surgical and health promotion nursing care of older adults. In the graduate program he teaches assessment and evaluation strategies for nursing educators, and mentors nurse educator students in their individualized identification and development of specialized clinical or educational knowledge and practice. His prior teaching experiences include medical-surgical nursing, nutrition and development across the lifespan, sociocultural variables affecting health care delivery, and senior practicum supervision.
Gulliver has had a wide range of administrative and clinical nursing experience. He has served as the clinical director an organ procurement program, quality assurance specialist, and a director of nursing services and delivering direct patient care in long term care, medical-surgical, and trauma intensive care settings. His master's degree focused on nursing management. His thesis focused on hopelessness and spiritual well-being in persons with HIV infection. He has also completed a post-masters certificate in nursing education. He is board certified as a nurse educator through the National League for Nursing, and as a Gerontological Nurse through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. He has continues his education at the doctoral level in the areas of nursing and educational psychology.
Gulliver's research interests focus on the use of simulation in learning, and assessment of learning and teaching using advanced statistical methods and authentic assessment strategies. His recent research activities explored the effectiveness of simulation and debriefing on students' perception of interdisciplinary collaboration and use of crisis resource management skills.
In addition to his teaching role, Gulliver has served in leadership roles for the school of nursing. He has also served as president of Zeta Kappa chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International and Nevada Nurses Association in addition to other leadership positions in these and other professional and civic organizations.


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State of the College Address
Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MPH
Dean, UTHSC College of Pharmacy
Dear Faculty, Staff, Students and Alumni,
The University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy is ranked 17th among 129 colleges and schools of pharmacy in the United States by US News and World Report. We provide the only ranked pharmacy program in the state of Tennessee. The College offers both PharmD and PhD degrees with the opportunity for students to pursue PharmD/PhD and PharmD/MBA degrees. Overall we enroll approximately 620 professional degree students and 60 graduate students. The PharmD program maintains an on time graduation rate that exceeds 94%, and a first time board pass rate exceeding 98%. Our graduates continue to have a powerful edge in a competitive market for residency and job placement.
During my first year as Dean at the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, we have capitalized on our assets. One of our greatest strengths is our statewide presence, allowing us to offer an exceptional education program, drawing on a talented pool of students, faculty, and alumni.
As I travel across Tennessee getting to know alumni and appreciating the beauty of this state, I am impressed with our statewide support. In the last year, our alumni were recognized locally and nationally as successful business people, as innovators, and for their distinguished service to our profession. The College has provided nearly 44,000 hours of continuing education to more than 17,000 pharmacists throughout Tennessee and the nation. Alumni were generous with their financial support and time over the past year, endowing new student scholarships, raising over a quarter of a million dollars to name the Student Affairs Suite on the Memphis campus, and allowing me to visit with them at their practice sites including community pharmacies, health-systems and organizations such as BlueCross BlueShield. Both state and local pharmacy associations and societies have welcomed me with open arms, giving me the opportunity to present at several of their meetings across the state.
Our outstanding faculty and staff continue to grow in number and stature. A total of 4 new faculty and 4 new staff have been hired since March of last year. We continue searches for additional faculty and we are currently recruiting for Director of Admissions and Alumni Affairs and Coordinator of International Affairs and Experiential Education staff positions. Our Health Outcomes and Policy Research faculty transitioned from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences to the Department of Clinical Pharmacy in July to provide more opportunity for collaborative research. Faculty have increased their scholarly productivity and research funding, thus improving our NIH ranking. Additionally, many faculty were awarded internal seed grants to help generate research and funding to purchase needed equipment. The campus administration has been extremely supportive of the College, and we are extraordinarily grateful for funding provided by UTHSC and Plough Foundation to transform our good manufacturing practice (GMP) Facility to a state of the art enterprise. Meanwhile, faculty across the state continue to serve as leaders at the campus, state and national levels with numerous professional organizations. For example, during the last year, faculty and staff have been recognized with state and national awards for their achievements in education, student organization advising, research, practice and service to our profession. Our strong residencies continue to thrive in number, quality, breadth, and depth. The PGY1 Community Pharmacy Residency Program added two new positions in Knoxville this year, while both PGY1 and PGY2 residents have been honored with national research awards and competitive research grants. I am continuously impressed how we, by working together, so effectively engage in all aspects of our mission areas.
Our student pharmacists are the foundation for all that we do. Our goal is to produce the top graduates, not only in the state of Tennessee, but in the nation. We are dedicated to giving our graduates a competitive advantage in the job market. To that end, we are becoming more student-centered by providing greater flexibility in campus choice, along with opportunities to earn additional certificates in medication therapy management, informatics and nuclear pharmacy. Beginning this Spring, during the experiential portion of our curriculum, students may choose one of three tracks to gain more focused experience in their chosen career path: 1) community practice/residency, 2) inpatient practice/residency and 3) graduate/dual degree. Our International Program is flourishing with the addition of a month-long experience in Gambia to the already impressive list of established experiences in 12 different countries. Students are offered PharmD/MBA degree options with both the University of Memphis and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. To produce the best graduates, we must recruit the cream of the crop to our programs. While the unique opportunities outlined here will certainly draw outstanding students to the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, a new Direct Admission Program with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville has been implemented as well. Exceptional high school students meeting rigorous admission criteria will be admitted to the College of Pharmacy as freshmen and will retain their admission status by satisfactorily completing pre-requisite coursework, achieving an acceptable PCAT score and completing the interview process. The Direct Admission Program will be expanded across the state to the University of Memphis this year. Our student pharmacists continue to astound us with their academic and professional accomplishments both individually and collectively through student organization outreach on both campuses. A complete list of all regional and national student awards, leadership roles and presentations is impossible to include here; however, our student pharmacists were recognized at the recent American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists meeting as 2012 Division A Chapter of the Year, they received the 2012 National Operation Immunization Award, produced the 2012 Most Informative PharmFlix Video, and our own Nick Capote is the 2013-2014 National APhA-ASP National President-Elect. Please join me in congratulating all of our students on their many outstanding accomplishments.
In summary, the College of Pharmacy serves the entire state of Tennessee as one college with two campuses in Memphis and Knoxville and a clinical education center in Nashville. Student pharmacists across the state are successful both academically and professionally. Our residency programs continue to be highly sought after and nationally acclaimed. Faculty are flourishing as educators, researchers and practitioners while serving as leaders throughout the state and the nation. Our alumni continue to lead the way in practice, innovation and service to the profession. I am grateful for the efforts of faculty, staff, students and alumni who have led the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy to this success. The last 12 months have been filled with hard work, dedication, and stretching ourselves to new heights of achievement. I appreciate all who have contributed to our productive and successful year, and I look forward to us working together to realize many more accomplishments in the future.
Contact Us
College of Pharmacy -
881 Madison Avenue
Memphis, TN 38163
Phone: (901) 448-6036
Fax: (901) 448-7053
College of Pharmacy - Knoxville
1924 Alcoa Highway
Knoxville, TN 37920
Phone: (865) 974-2100
Fax: (865) 974-2022
College of Pharmacy - Nashville
193 Polk Ave Suite 2D
Nashville, TN 37210
Phone: (615) 253-5600
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Combining acting with a distinguished career as a singer songwriter, Hugh Dillon is a dark horse that has been galvanized as one of North America's most respected performers.
Dillon first earned notoriety in Canada and abroad as the lead singer in the multi-platinum rock and roll band, The Headstones. Signed to Universal Music in the early nineties, the band released six albums. It was early on in The Headstones' success when Hugh caught the attention of legendary filmmaker Bruce McDonald. Bruce cast Hugh in Dance Me Outside in 1994. Next came his critically acclaimed lead performance as Joe Dick in McDonald's 1996 feature film, Hard Core Logo. Quentin Tarantino distributed the movie through his company and brought international attention to the indie classic and its lead actor.
The Gemini award winning actor has since starred in the critically acclaimed Sundance Film Festival award winning movie, Down To The Bone alongside Vera Farmiga (The Departed, Up in the Air) as well as notable roles in Feature Films Lone Hero, Assault On Precinct 13, The Trailer Park Boys: The Movie and Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning.
Hugh's ability to capture honest, realistic portrayals of complicated characters has been his calling card. In 2007 he began his starring role as Mike Sweeney in the dark and twisted serial Durham County. His performance as Ed Lane in the CBS/CTV co-production Flashpoint is his first step across the border in network primetime and has recently begun their fourth season of production. Other television appearances have included ReGenesis and Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Dillon has never strayed far from his musical roots, bringing his music with him to film and television. His latest musical musings are featured in Flashpoint, Durham County, The Trailer Park Boys: The Movie and the Jennifer Lynch-directed movie, Surveillance. In between on-screen takes he retreated to The Tragically Hip's Bathouse Studio near his hometown of Kingston, Ontario, to record new tracks with Hip-ster Paul Langlois (producer). His aptly titled album, Works Well With Others, was released in the Fall of 2009.
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Understanding the Democrat and Republican Parties
Through Their Own Words
Political parties are comprised of individuals. Within a particular party, the individuals may vary to some degree on how they view particular issues. Corporately, however, political parties set platforms that generally represent the ideologies of the people that make up that party. In closely comparing the party platforms of the two major political parties in this nation, one can better determine which party best represents his or her moral, social, and economic convictions and make an informed choice based on that persuasion.
How the Democrat and Republican parties address the social ill of poverty is worth examining. Poverty is a reality in this nation and abroad, and neither political party diminishes that reality nor seeks to intentionally do injustice to the economically disadvantaged. However, the parties have differing ways in which they approach the poverty issue. I have compared two years from each party's platform; years in which they specifically addressed Poverty, Welfare, and Welfare Reform. There were other years in which these issues had been addressed, but for simplicity, I used just two; 1968 and 1980. After each year's bulleted platform summary, I recapped the conclusions of each party in my own words.
These are the parties, in their own words:
|Democrat Party Platform (Poverty, Welfare, Welfare Reform) – 1968
|Republican Party Platform (Poverty, Welfare, Welfare Reform) – 1968
Summary of the political parties – 1968:
That the Democrats had a very different approach to attacking poverty than Republicans is evident by comparing the platforms. The Democrats had enacted a variety of programs and payments to the poor in an effort to lessen the burden of the poor. They favored no limits on the amount of children that the federal government would provide assistance for and favored removing a requirement for the mothers of young children to work. The Democrats opposed state sponsored welfare and favored a federal plan instead. They also favored assistance payments with automatic cost of living adjustments.
The Republicans opposed their approach, citing that the programs and payments stifled work ethic and weakened the family unit. They favored making payments to privately run daycare centers on behalf of the mothers so that their children would be taken care of, allowing them to accept work to provide for their family. The Republican approach also favored home ownership and entrepreneurship for the poor to promote self-determination. Republicans suggested including representatives from the poor in decision making when it came to developing and implementing programs that would best serve them. The Republicans favored state and community sponsored services as opposed to a federal welfare program, except for a unified federal food distribution program (as opposed to food stamps) to help provide poor with sufficient food for a balanced diet.
Democrat Platform (Poverty, Welfare, Welfare Reform) – 1980
- States and cities which make an honest effort to meet the welfare crisis find themselves in deepening fiscal difficulty.
- Incentives continue that cause families to break apart and fathers to leave home so that children may survive. Disincentives continue for welfare families to seek work on their own.
- Many of these young mothers want to work. A companion to any effective welfare reform must be provision for adequate and available child care.
- Social services must continue to be developed and operated at the local level, close to the users.
- A government pledged to a fairer distribution of wealth, income, and power, and to holding as a guiding concern the needs and aspirations of all, must also be a government which seeks to alleviate hunger.
- Over the years, the Food Stamp Program, expanded and made more responsive by a Democratic Congress and Administration, has become the bulwark of this nation's efforts to relieve hunger among its citizens.
Republican Platform (Poverty, Welfare, Welfare Reform) – 1980
- In every society there will be some who cannot work, often through no fault of their own. Yet current federal government efforts to help them have become counterproductive, perpetuating and aggravating the very conditions of dependence they seek to relieve.
- For two generations, the Democrats have deliberately perpetuated a status of federally subsidized poverty and manipulated dependency for millions of Americans. This is especially so for blacks and Hispanics.
- For those on welfare, our nation's tax policies provide a penalty for getting a job. In these cases, due to taxes, earned income is actually less than welfare benefits. This is the "poverty trap" which will continue to hold millions of Americans as long as they continue to be punished for working.
- By fostering dependency and discouraging self-reliance, the Democratic Party has created a welfare constituency dependent on its continual subsidies.
- The Carter Administration has proposed to nationalize welfare.
- The Democrats have presided over—and must take the blame for—the most monstrous expansion and abuse of the food stamp program to date.
- We categorically reject the notion of a guaranteed annual income, no matter how it may be disguised, which would destroy the fiber of our economy and doom the poor to perpetual dependence.
Summary of the political parties – 1980:
Reading through both platforms for 1980, again we see significant differences in how the parties aim to attack poverty. The Democrat party took a strikingly different tone than that of 1968 against the very policies that they fought to implement. Realizing the need for young mothers to work, they called for payments to day care centers to provide a means for young mothers to enter into the workforce to provide for their families. The Democrats had also realized that the federal government could not do it all. They suggested that the local government and the community were to have an integral role in welfare reform: "Social services must continue to be developed and operated at the local level, close to the users, with knowledge of and sensitivity to both the particular problems of each case and the community's unique infrastructure, resources, and support networks."
Democrats also cited a fiscal crisis for taxpayers, due to inefficiencies within the welfare system. They also deplored the incentives that "cause families to break apart and fathers to leave home so that children may survive." According to democrats, the dependency upon their welfare policies and programs had caused welfare families to" not seek work on their own" and rely upon welfare to provide a regular income. The Democrats continued to praise their food stamp program and its expansions under Democratic presidencies in the fight against hunger.
The Republican Party blamed the Democrats for aggravating the poverty issue instead of helping it. They believed that Democratic programs were counterproductive and encouraged dependence instead of dissuading it. The Republicans recalled "For two generations, especially since the mid-1960s, the Democrats have deliberately perpetuated a status of federally subsidized poverty and manipulated dependency for millions of Americans. This was especially so for blacks and Hispanics, many of whom remain pawns of the bureaucracy, trapped outside the social and economic mainstream of American life."
The Republicans berated that the nation's tax policy provided a penalty for getting a job, citing that most individuals earned income is actually less than welfare benefits. Republicans called this the "poverty trap" that punished Americans for working. The Republicans insisted that increasing welfare and food stamp payments was counterproductive and increased dependency on continual subsidies. They adamantly opposed nationalizing welfare, stating that it would cost billions more and made millions more on welfare. Additionally, they called for reforms to alleviate the tax burden by ending payments to illegal aliens and the voluntarily unemployed. Republicans opposed a "guaranteed annual income" for the poor warning that it would doom the poor to perpetual dependence. The Republicans devised various means to increase work incentive and decrease abuses within the welfare system.
When comparing the political parties on just one issue, one may not be able to determine which political party would best wholly represent his or her ideology. If you are unsure of where the parties stand on other issues that may be near and dear to you, I encourage you to take a look at the party platforms and compare them FOR YOURSELF. Bypass listening to the rhetoric of the liberal and conservative medias; bypass reading the revisionist history of so many commentaries and read FOR YOURSELF the principles that your representatives who have aligned themselves with either party actually stand on.
For more information on other issues that are near and dear to you, check out the Democrat and Republican platforms in their entirety at the American Presidency Project: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/platforms.php


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I apologize for anyone looking for my shop. I currently started a new job and couldn't keep up with my orders. If you are truly interested in something feel free to contact me and maybe we can work something out. Again, I apologize for any inconvenience but it was just simply too much to keep up with working full time and wanting to be there for my family. I will truly miss my etsy shop... who knows, maybe I'll be back some day...
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Welcome to Studio B Dance Center
Since 1996, thousands of students have taken lessons with our highly talented and nurturing teachers. Our state-of-the-art facility is a magnificent place for the tiniest ballerinas and the trendiest teen dancers to feel at home. We do not believe we are the best cause we're the biggest. Instead, we believe we're the biggest because families think we are the best.
As a parent, you have a choice among different dance schools. All studios are not the same.We constantly upgrade and improve our facilities and provide ongoing training to our staff to ensure that we are always providing our students and parents with the best experience possible. Today, there are a number of studios from which to choose. We invite you to compare all of our studio features and options to see why our dance studio is chosen more often than any other dance school in the area.
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The Chicago Agency for Metroplitan Planning announced a $600,000 grant from MacArthur that will expand its Full Circle community mapping and planning efforts. The project develops wireless web tools to help communities identify how land parcels are being used, and how they could be used more effectively through a coordinated local planning strategy.
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Trail connects Cranberry's Graham Park to Hunters Creek
Cranberry is expanding its biking and walking trails.
Township officials celebrated the opening of a 2,000-foot walking trail on Wednesday linking the Hunters Creek neighborhood and Graham Park, and plans are under way for the expansion of other trails.
Construction of the Hunters Creek trail grew out of a year-old partnership between the Hunters Creek Homeowners Association and the township.
Cranberry's Department of Public Works built the trail, and the homeowners association made a five-year commitment to pay for most of the materials.
The cost of the trail was not available.
"It started with our philosophy of connecting our public assets to the neighborhoods," township Manager Jerry Andree said.
The township's 2009 comprehensive plan identified the creation of a network of trails and sidewalks as one of its most important goals.
Out of that grew the township Bicyclist and Pedestrian Connection Plan to expand the system.
The Bellevue neighborhood is connected to Graham Park by a trail, and a separate trail is being developed to connect the park to The Crossings neighborhood, the township said.
"It's another step in building our nonvehicular network. It builds connections, it builds ownership," Andree said. "It's all about building relationships to our neighborhoods and our communities."
Also, developers are modifying a planned bikeway for a proposed housing development on the former Davis farm along Glen Eden Road.
Developers plan to build 323 houses, townhouses and apartments in two phases, rather than three phases as initially proposed.
As part of those changes, township officials said, developers will scrap plans to construct a 400-foot bike lane along Freshcorn Road and instead paint bike lanes on a 3-mile portion of Heights Drive, Freshcorn and Powell roads between Route 19 and the turnpike.
Bill Vidonic is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-380-5621 or email@example.com.


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A video of Toronto police officers fatally shooting a knife-wielding man in an empty city streetcar has gone viral and raised questions about police protocol and behaviour.
The case surfaces as the Ontario coroner's office delves into what role officers played in the deaths of three people, thought to be mentally ill, killed by Toronto police between 2010 and 2012.
In the latest case, early Saturday, witnesses said the suspect, Sammy Yatim, brandished a knife and exposed himself before ordering passengers and the driver off the streetcar as it approached Dundas Street West and Bellwoods Avenue.
The video, taken by a passerby, shows Mr. Yatim, 18, standing in the aisle near the front of the streetcar, its door open and interior lights on, as five police officers, four with weapons drawn, repeatedly order him to "drop the knife" over the wail of sirens.
When Mr. Yatim walks toward the door, nine gunshots ring out and he crumples out of view. As the sirens intensify, police close around the car and the sound of a taser can be heard.
Toronto Police Service spokesman Mark Pugash said he cannot comment on the shooting and what led police to fire on Mr. Yatim, who died of gunshot wounds to the chest. He said he was "not allowed" to discuss the case because it is under review by the Special Investigations Unit.
Standard police protocol calls for shooting only when life or limb is on the line, said Matthew Light, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Toronto.
"One thing that's universal to all [police] departments across Canada is you can only shoot to kill to protect life, not to prevent damage to property or prevent someone from fleeing," Prof. Light said.
While Mr. Yatim has not been identified as suffering from mental illness, his behaviour prior to the shooting suggests he was a troubled young man.
Witnesses to the shooting and a spokesman for the Toronto Transit Commission said the streetcar was empty save for Mr. Yatim. All TTC vehicles are equipped with closed-circuit television cameras, and images are used in investigations, a transit spokesman said.
Martin Baron, 47, was returning home with his wife and teenage son when he says he saw people running off the streetcar. Mr. Baron said the suspect was "perfectly still."
"It escalated very, very quickly, and then shots were fired. About 30 seconds after they stopped shooting they actually tasered him – you could hear the taser – and then an officer went in the back door of the streetcar and you could see them performing CPR on him," Mr. Baron said.
Toronto Councillor Janet Davis took to Twitter to question the seemingly excessive force. "He was cornered on an empty streetcar!" she wrote. Ms. Davis asked if a crisis intervention team, which deploys mental-health professionals and police officers, was on the scene. "Police need better training & support – and direction. This kind of thing should never happen," Ms. Davis tweeted.
A vigil at the site of the shooting is planned for Monday evening, according to Facebook page set up for Mr. Yatim.
Last year, an inquest was called into the death of three people who appeared to have mental-health issues when they were shot and killed by Toronto police between 2010 and 2012. The province's coroner's office has not yet announced a date for the inquest.
In one of the cases, a 29-year-old man, Michael Eligon, fled a hospital where he had been involuntarily admitted under the Mental Health Act. Wearing only a hospital gown and armed with two pairs of scissors, Mr. Eligon attempted to rob a convenience store, steal a car and break into several houses before police caught up with him. Police said officers ordered him to drop the weapon, but that he was fired upon when he refused and approached them.
The Special Investigations Unit cleared the officer involved in the shooting, but in its report raised questions about whether officers should be trained differently for crisis situations.
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Book review
"The Eleventh Man": The fates of legendary football teammates play out in WWII
Ivan Doig's sweeping new novel, "The Eleventh Man," follows the fates of a legendary Montana football team that enlists during World War II.
Seattle Times book editor
Ivan DoigThe author of "The Eleventh Man"
will read at these locations:
• 7 p.m. Monday at Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., Lake Forest
Park (206-366-3333 or www.thirdplacebooks.com).
• 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Eagle
Harbor Book Co., 157 Winslow Way E., Bainbridge Island (206-842-5332 or www.eagleharborbooks.com).
• 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Seattle's
Elliott Bay Book Co., 101 S. Main St., Seattle (206-624-6600 or www.elliottbaybook.com).
• 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12 at Town Hall Seattle (sponsored by University Book Store), 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle; $5 (206-634-3400 or www.ubookstore.com).
• 7 p.m. Nov. 13 at Parkplace Books, 348 Parkplace Center, Kirkland (425-828-6546 or www.parkplacebookskirkland.com).
"The Eleventh Man"
by Ivan Doig
Harcourt, 406 pp., $26
Ivan Doig is a fearless storyteller. The Seattle author, an icon among writers of the American west, has set his novels and memoirs against our region's natural grandeur and has put hundreds of characters in play on its outsize stage. Now, in his novel "The Eleventh Man," Doig has taken on the largest of backdrops: the entire theater of World War II.
"The Eleventh Man" is the story of Ben Reinking, the son of a newspaper owner in Gros Ventre, a small town in Montana. Ben, out of college just two years, is fighting the war in a peculiar way: Yanked from an assignment as a combat pilot, Ben has been pressed into service as a journalist/propagandist for the Threshold Press War Project, a government-backed press service that feeds heroic stories to midsize and small newspapers that can't afford their own war correspondent.
In college, Ben was a member of Treasure State University's legendary "Supreme Team," which fought to an undefeated season after one of their players ran himself to death in a workout (who's at fault is one of the unfolding mysteries of the book). Every surviving member of the football team has joined up. Ben's assignment is to tell their war stories, all over the globe.
Right from the get go, Ben resists; the odds are that at least a few of these stories are going to be obituaries. His handler, a shadowy figure called the Colonel, insists that the awful arithmetic of wartime still tilts toward the team's survival: " 'Statistically speaking, in this war we are looking at a nine percent mortality rate for active combatants such as your teammates. Rounding that off to a whole man, as we must' — Ben stared at a human being who could use the law of averages to measure dirt on a grave — 'that is one in ten, isn't it.' " Not to give too much away, but things don't quite turn out that way.
Ben, not having any choice in the matter of wartime duty, throws himself into the task; he's got the genes of a newspaperman and can't resist the dramatic contrast of the Supreme Team's stories: Vic Rennie, the Blackfoot Indian who lived in a relative's shack while attending Treasure State, has already stepped on a land mine and is consigned to a wheelchair. But Dex Cariston, scion of a moneyed Montana family, is sitting out the war in a camp of conscientious objector-status smoke jumpers (as with many details in this book, this one is based on historical fact; there really was such a unit).
Meanwhile, Ben's blood is aboil over Cass Standish, a married female pilot assigned to the same Montana air base. Cass is head of a squad of all-female pilots charged with ferrying planes from one North American location to another. Some of the best scenes in "The Eleventh Man" convey the crackling "From Here to Eternity"-style passion between these two: Cass is wild about Ben, but she's married, her husband is slogging out the war in the jungles of New Guinea and she's not about to write a Dear John letter addressed to a soldier in green hell.
Doig's way with a sweeping scene is on display in "The Eleventh Man's" evocation of the awful grandeur of war. Standing on the deck of a destroyer as it attempts to bomb a Japanese submarine into oblivion, Ben watches his own death postponed:
"Sea air rushed by, there on the steel promontory into the dark. A mane of moonsilver flowed back from the destroyer's bow ... As his eyes adjusted, Ben could just make out the long narrow deck below, armaments jutting ready if they only had a target, faces of the gun crews pale patches foreshortened by helmets."
Then the submarine takes a direct hit: "He felt the shudder up from the water. Astern, explosions bloomed white in the darkness. Knowing this to be one of the sights of a lifetime, he watched with an intensity near to quivering. Not often is it given to you to stare away death, see it go instead in search of your sworn enemy."
While "The Eleventh Man" is a showcase for larger-than-life characters and scenes, at times it threatens to founder under the weight of its structure. Readers are parachuted into the lives of each teammate, then yanked up again and set on the road to somewhere and someone else. The book is a stage chockablock with interesting characters who speak their lines — bluff, hearty, lyrical, ironic — then get snatched away.
And a key concern of the novel — whether a malign deus ex machina is dictating the assignments, and fates, of the team — was never quite resolved to this reader's satisfaction. Would a government agency really thrust these young men into hazardous assignments for the purpose of creating dead heroes, or is Ben's presence more a sort of jinx? Both possibilities are suggested but never spelled out. Ben's minders are manipulative and heartless, but they never really step from behind the curtain.
With Doig's warm regard for his Supreme Team characters, his disdain for his story's villains and his way with the heart-stopping action scene, in "The Eleventh Man" he has created a wartime epic, but with a difference. Though its marketing suggests it will resonate with the "Greatest Generation, "The Eleventh Man" trembles with the weariness of the modern age toward carnage — a war novel with an anti-war heart.Mary Ann Gwinn: 206-464-2357 or firstname.lastname@example.com. She is The Seattle Times book editor and a director of the National Book Critics Circle.
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Quoting Quiverfull: Female Soldiers Forced Into Combat?
Ladies Against Feminism posted this snippet of the original blog posting at Why I Am Not A Feminist by Judithann Campbell. Judithann Campbell is not Quiverfull or part of the Fundamentalist Evangelical crowd represented by people like the Botkins. Ladies Against Feminism used her writing without giving her credit or even looking to see if the rest of the article conforms with their beliefs. Perfect example of LAF cherry picking to support their issues. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Distinctly Feminine Fashion?
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Quoting Quiverfull: Hiring Hitman For Hubby Same as Abortion?
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by Robin Brookshire from Ladies Against Feminism and her own blog Raising Homemakers When our daughters were little they had way too many toys – too many to count, actually. But that started to change as our ideas about family economy and industry in the home changed. Instead of buying toys, we began to invest in tools for our daughters, even at their young ages – tools that would help them cultivate interests, develop skills, and hopefully be a blessing to the home and economies of their future families. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Modesty Prayer?
by Stacy McDonald of Ladies Against Feminism and Your Sacred Calling - Living out Biblical Principles: A Young Woman's Prayer of Chastity I have made a covenant with my body to be discreet and chaste; why then should I flaunt myself before men? Does God not see my ways and count all my steps (Job 31:1,4)? … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Twerking Kills Your Soul?
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text: Bake Off isn't fancier on BBC1... but the contestants are This year's amateur bakers are in whole different league, says Ellie Walker-Arnott Comments Written By Ellie Walker-Arnott 12:26 PM, 07 August 2014 When it was announced that The Great British Bake Off was leaving its home on BBC2 and being promoted to the BBC's flagship channel, ardent fans were worried that a move to BBC1 could mean a move away from the homespun, low-key charm of the Bake Off tent. After last night's launch show, it seems those fears were unfounded. The Bake Off wasn't a bit shinier or glossier or tougher. They might have moved to the grounds of another stately home, but the tent was the same. Mary was still gliding around queen-like under canvas while silvery-haired Hollywood was still all growly when he wasn't impressed. Mel and Sue were still pushing the boundaries of socially acceptable innuendo. The contestants were still delightful and nice. They didn't come complete with sob-stories. And they weren't voted out by the audience on premium rate phone lines. Though while we are on the subject, there was something a little different about this year's contestants. We are sure it's got nothing to do with moving to BBC1, but 2014's bakers were a bit fancier than before. The standard already feels incredibly high this year. Week one and there were no disasters, meltdowns or huge mistakes. No cakes fell dramatically to the floor. No one confused for salt for sugar. It was a far cry from last year's blood bath. Sure Iain's swiss roll was more of a swiss fold and Claire's chocolates cakes were a bit of a mess, but right from the get go this lot were pulling out all the stops. And by stops I mean a floral printed sponge, ganache and pipettes of lemon grizzle. Pipettes. In the first episode. And I haven't even got to the gadgets. This year's bakers have come prepared. Nancy bought with her a tiny handmade guillotine for perfectly chopping mini cakes in half, while Norman utilised an odd-looking implement to pry cakes from their cases in one time-saving swoop. As we munch our way into series five (you're a fool if you don't snack during the Bake Off), it's clearly no longer enough to be able to whip up an all-in-one sponge without getting the edges burnt. I used to watch the Bake Off and think if I found the inclination to dust off my recipe books that I could create a cake almost as good. But not now. These amateur bakers are in a whole different league. The Great British Bake Off continues on Wednesday at 8:00pm on BBC1 Like this? Share it. Facebook Twitter Google Tumblr Pinterest Blogger Reddit VKontakt Print Email


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Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug 27
Azerbaijani privately-owned banks' credit metrics are stable, as the economy is on the positive side of economic cycle, benefiting from high oil prices and significant government spending, global rating agency Fitch Ratings said Aug. 27.
Fitch Ratings at the same time believes that the asset quality and performance may be prone to significant volatility through the cycle given the potentially cyclical economy of Azerbaijan.
"Asset quality is the major risk, given growing retail credit risks (although these have been managed fairly well to date due to only moderate consumer indebtedness) and mostly long-term corporate lending, which is significantly exposed to project finance and construction activities, often with bullet repayments. Consequently, this is of untested quality," Fitch said in a report.
The rating agency believes that the slow loan turnover increases the banks' liquidity risks, particularly in a stress-case scenario.
As a mitigating factor, their customer funding is relatively sticky, Fitch added.
"The banks face emerging capital constraints due to lack of scale, fast loan growth, limited new equity injections from banks' private shareholders and only moderate profitability. The latter is somewhat stronger at the banks that focus on retail, micro and SME lending, due to higher margins and lower impairment charges," Fitch said.
There are 44 banks in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani banks, in January-June 2014, increased lending to economy by 21.64 percent up to 16.754 million AZN versus the same period of last year.
Consumer lending rose by 31 percent in first half-year compared to the same period of last year.
The consumer loans in total loan investments made by banks stood at 40.7 percent, or 6,819 million AZN. For comparison, in January-June 2013, they totaled 37.7 percent, and the loans amounted to 5.199 million AZN.
Following the introduction of limits by the regulator, the consumer lending declined in the country.
Loans worth 882.3 million AZN were issued within six months of 2013, while in Jan.-June 2014 the loans totaled 605.2 million AZN.
In late 2013, the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) demanded the banks to tighten control over the consumer loans. CBA sent letters to the banks instructing them to stop lending to the borrower without a certificate of employment.
Aside from that the terms for lending for purchasing cars were also tightened, which, as many experts believe, is due to the deterioration of the banking sector's portfolio quality in this type of lending.
Out of the banks' total portfolio, loans and advances worth 877.6 million AZN (5.24 percent) were overdue versus 781.8 million AZN (5.67 percent) in January-June 2013.
Throughout the year the overdue loans rose by 12.2 percent.
The official exchange rate for Aug. 27 is 0.7844 AZN/USD.
Azerbaijani banks' credit metrics remain stable, Fitch says
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October 12, 2011
WAUKESHA, WIS.—Several academic programs at Carroll University will be represented at the Hispanic Family Health Fair from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, at the Waukesha County Expo Center, 1000 Northview Rd., Waukesha. Students from the nursing, physician assistant studies, physical therapy and Spanish programs will provide services at their health assessment booth, which also will feature brochures in Spanish and English, displays and admission information about these programs."This is an excellent example of interdisciplinary service learning, which fits into the big picture of our health care system," said Jane Hopp, dean of Carroll's College of Natural Science, Health Science and Business. Spanish-speaking students will serve as interpreters, and provided translations for some of the printed materials. They also will be greeters and survey takers, and will assist with children's activities, including face painting, coloring, games, and arts and crafts.Student nurses will supply information on breast health and will have breast models on display: realistic models in various sizes with lumps and nodes, and pillow-like models from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation that have directions for self-exams.Physical therapy students will provide handouts related to the benefits of exercise and risk factors for high cholesterol and high blood pressure. They also will conduct assessments for blood pressure, posture screening, percentage of body fat and balance screening.Students in the physician assistant program will record medical histories on wallet-size information cards supplied by ProHealth Care. Ann LeBaron, clinical assistant professor, said "These are a great resource for the medical professionals in the participant's life, and good for participants to have in case of emergency, especially when a translator is not readily available."Elena De Costa, associate professor of Spanish, is a founding member of the Waukesha Hispanic Collaborative Network, which organized this event. She has attended the health fair with her students for the past 13 years, and this year initiated participation by Carroll's health sciences programs.For more information about the health fair, call the Hispanic Community Health Resource Center at 262.928.4181.
Contact: Jess Owens 262-951-3104
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Looking Up When You're Burned Out
Delivered on 10/28/2007
Part 3 of the series 40 Days of Purpose 2007
Pastor Rick looks at worship, loving and knowing God, and specifically how to place our trust in him, through the story of Job. Ken Blanchard gives a testimony about losing his home in the wild fires just days earlier.
Living a Purpose Driven Life
Delivered on 12/02/2007
Part 8 of the series 40 Days of Purpose 2007
Pastor Rick helps us to apply the lessons learned in the Purpose Driven Life campaign by asking five questions about how we will live. This message includes powerful testimonies from David Miller, an AIDS activist, and Christopher Yuan, an instructor at Moody Bible Institute who came out of a gay, drug-dealing lifestyle.