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(Reuters) - A Texas law requiring abortion providers to show or describe an ultrasound image to a pregnant woman and to play sounds of the fetal heartbeat does not violate the Constitution, according to a federal appeals court.
The Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on Tuesday overturned a federal judge's decision to block the law, ruling that the ultrasound requirements do not infringe on abortion providers' free speech rights.
"The required disclosures of a sonogram, the fetal heartbeat, and their medical descriptions are the epitome of truthful, non-misleading information," Chief Judge Edith Jones wrote for the three-judge panel.
The Texas law, enacted in 2011, requires abortion providers to display the ultrasound images and describe them in detail. Women cannot decline to hear the physician's description of the image unless they qualify for an exception under the statute. Exceptions include if the woman suffered rape or incest or if the fetus has abnormalities.
A coalition of medical providers sued to block the law in June 2011, arguing that the law made doctors a "mouthpiece" for the state's ideological message. The First Amendment includes protections against compelled speech.
The challengers, represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, also argued that disclosure of the sonogram and fetal heartbeat was not "medically necessary" and therefore beyond the state's power to regulate the practice of medicine.
A federal judge in Austin granted the providers' request for a preliminary injunction, ruling that the law violated physicians' free-speech rights. But the 5th Circuit disagreed.
"Only if one assumes ... that pregnancy is a condition to be terminated, can one assume that such information about the fetus is medically irrelevant," the panel concluded.
The panel cited a 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in which the Supreme Court upheld a law requiring abortion providers to inform pregnant women of relevant health risks and the gestational age of the fetus. The high court ruled that doctors could be required to provide information that is truthful, not misleading and relevant to the decision to have an abortion.
The Texas law is among the most extreme ultrasound requirements in the country. Similar laws requiring the presentation of an ultrasound image to pregnant women have been blocked in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
Six other states also require abortion providers to perform an ultrasound and provide women with an opportunity to view the image, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights group. But unlike Texas, those states don't require women to hear a description of the image.
The president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, Nancy Northup, said in a statement that the appellate decision "clears the way for the enforcement of an insulting and intrusive law whose sole purpose is to harass women and dissuade them from exercising their constitutionally protected reproductive rights."
The Office of the Solicitor General, which represented the Texas officials, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, issued a statement praising the ruling as a victory.
"This important sonogram legislation ensures that every Texas woman seeking an abortion has all the facts about the life she is carrying," he said.
The case is Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services et al v. David Lakey et al, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, No. 11-50814.
For the Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services et al: Julie Rikelman of the Center for Reproductive Rights.
For the Texas defendants: Jonathan Mitchell of the Office of the Solicitor General.
(Editing by Eric Beech)


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John McCain suffered for our sins in a Communist POW camp, yet survived and resurrected a political career marked by service to country and to selfless devotion to family and to his sacred honor. Now, in this, his most difficult hour of need, his chosen disciple, Sarah Palin, has in effect betrayed John McCain just as Judas betrayed Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
Her 30 pieces of silver? - the backing of the so-called Christian Right for her own bid for the Presidency in 2012. Due to her complicity, the McCain campaign, and by logical extension, McCain himself, is being crucified, and the suffering will go on for 9 more days before he is put out of his misery.
One has to ask - "Why would a so-called Christian Right back a candidate whose resemblance to Judas Iscariot is so uncanny?"
Is it because the Evangelical Christian Militant Right is so far removed from true Christian principles as to care for nothing but power - have they truly become like the Pharisees of old? Are they ironically ignorant of the eerie similarities? Or is it because, like Judas, they are playing a divine part in bringing about destiny through betrayal?
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When John Tharp '66 began planning for his 50th class reunion in October 2016, his travel itinerary included how long the trip would take on his Cannondale bicycle.
Bobby Adamson was looking for a place to transfer to for his final two years of college while his younger brother Travis '14 was being recruited by OU head football coach Kent Kessinger to play wide receiver for the Braves.
Expanding on more than 151 years of preparing students for lifetimes of significance, Ottawa University announced on Feb. 17, 2017, that it will be opening a brand new residential campus in Surprise, Ariz., beginning in the Fall of 2017.
Welcome to our spring Spirit magazine! It is difficult to believe we are getting ready for yet another commencement celebration season as this academic year moves to a close in a few weeks. It is always a time to remember why we do what we do as graduates of extraordinarily diverse ages and backgrounds take that special walk to pick up their hard-earned diploma from Ottawa University. It is a walk that folks have taken for 152 years!
Moving on to current events and observations, on February 17, we officially announced our plans to open a brand new residential campus in Surprise, AZ, which will welcome its first students this coming fall. This is both a missional and strategic move for our institution, an initiative which has been under consideration for over five years. This effort has been made possible by generous gifts from donors who share our vision for the future of OUAZ and who appreciate the desire and need for OU to continue to grow while meeting the lifetime needs of its thousands of students who deserve to taste the Ottawa Spirit. If you visit us in Surprise, you will find tremendous energy and enthusiasm for this extension of the Ottawa mission and we are excited to be able to finally bring this effort to fruition. I look forward to sharing updates with you over the coming months and in future Spirit Magazines as we embark on this latest outreach of Ottawa University into a world that seems to need more and more of what we do and teach every day.
Our beloved College in Ottawa is also bustling with activity over the next couple of months as the Schendel Conference Center plays host to several conferences. The Women in Gold Leadership Conference, the 22nd Annual Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference and a special Non-Profit Leadership Workshop will give students, faculty, staff, alumni, as well as the Ottawa and Kansas City communities an opportunity for some exciting learning and dialogue.
OU alums are invited to a gathering for our east coast friends in Tarrytown, NY, on June 2, and the Braves Classic Golf Tournament in Ottawa on June 23. I am looking forward to connecting with those of you who are able to join us at those events. Our alumni exemplify what we attempt to teach on an everyday basis, and you are a key part of the fabric that makes our school what it is.
I hope you enjoy this latest edition of Spirit Magazine. If you haven't been to campus (any of them) to visit us in a while, I encourage you to make the trip. We would love to see you.
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Ottawa University women's soccer head coach Marc Gordon was named the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Plains Region Coach of the Year and the KCAC Coach of the Year after an impressive 2016 season.
The Ottawa University women's wrestling team was the national runner-up at the 2017 National Collegiate Wrestling Association National Championships. The Braves were led by sophomore Valeria Rivera who won the National Championship in the 109 pound weight class. Rivera is the second women's...
In December, Ottawa University announced it will add men's and women's bowling to its lineup of varsity intercollegiate teams. The teams will begin competing in the 2017-2018 season and recruiting has already begun. The addition of bowling brings the number of intercollegiate teams offered at...
The OU men's and women's indoor track and field teams competed at the 2017 KCAC Indoor Track and Field Championships on Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4. The women finished seventh and the men placed eighth at the meet. Bryanna Music brought home the Braves only KCAC Championship. She...
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The Butterfly Garden
When people picture the zoo, they never think of groups of teenagers blending in with the usual crowd. But there we were, armed with sunscreen and enough money to buy all of the overpriced, unhealthy food our little hearts desired. We foresaw many Dippin' Dots in our future. Only five minutes after we'd entered the zoo and we were panting from exhaustion. I made a mental note to bring an adult-sized wagon the next time we came. Sadly, when I suggested this to my friends, they scoffed at the thought of pulling me around. When I offered to rotate turns, they looked at their significantly shorter selves and my lanky build and gigantic backpack and deemed that it would still be unfair. I sniffed at their claims and looked down at myself, wondering what they could find so disagreeable.
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On Election Day in three Midwestern states—Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio—the labor movement will be working to make its power felt. In these states a battle between two very different visions for the economy is playing out.
The GOP aims to create momentum for its ongoing push to diminish the role and strength of unions in the American economy. At the same time, unions are mobilizing to mount a strong defense of organized labor this fall and beyond.
Tonight, PBS will premiere As Goes Janesville, a documentary about how Rep. Paul Ryan's Wisconsin hometown has coped with the closing of the General Motors plant that had been the heart of the town's economy for a century. Reflecting on the disappearance of good jobs, one worker in the film laments that she once considered herself middle class. But "now either you're rich or you're poor. There's no in-between."
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Scott Weiland Responds to Being Fired by the Stone Temple Pilots...
Earlier today, '90s grunge-lite act announced that they'd fired troubled frontman Scott Weiland. This afternoon, Weiland responded in a press release.
I learned of my supposed "termination" from Stone Temple Pilots this morning by reading about it in the press. Not sure how I can be "terminated" from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of its biggest hits, but that's something for the lawyers to figure out. In the meantime, I'm looking forward to seeing all of my fans on my solo tour which starts this Friday.
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7812s are pretty standard for this sort of thing, and you can get them in beefy TO-2s, which take the silverpaste real good and have two places to bolt them to a big heatsink.

That said, it's worth thinking through what jonfoote mentions about the Carnot cycle. ĀThat is: if you use linear regulators, you're dumping half of your input power as heat right there, then dumping 90% of what gets through as heat off the peltier device.

The exact math there is left an exercise for the reader.

(Hint: leave room in your enclosure for a little muffin tin, and consider making some DIY versions of these: http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Bake-Super-Pack-mixes/dp/B00005C32X )

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On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Corey McGuire <email@example.com> wrote:

 http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=527 times 18?Ā That sounds like a bit much.Ā Maybe there's a better regulator.

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Corey McGuire <email@example.com> wrote:

 This is the best back-of-napkin application I've seen for TEJ's, ever and a 24v power supply is the perfect supply for it.

There are two problems I see:

When you cycle them to maintain a temperature, the heat you moved to one side will quickly conduct back to the other.

In this process, a charge will be created and sent down the wire.

How you handle this is a mystery to me.

Here's what I would do.Ā I would NOT wire them in series.Ā Instead, I would implement switching power supplies and use them to keep the TEJ's active at 16v when cooling or a lower voltage while maintaining the desired temperature.Ā Then I would switch them relative to how far below the desired temperature they are.Ā Any temp above desired, 16v; 1 degree below, 12v; 3 degrees below, 8v... or whatever.

I would NOT overdrive them because I imagine they just get even LESS efficient.

1 arduino
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a fist full of switching power supplies
a capacitor just to keep power going to the TEJ to help resist the heat moving backward (I don't know if this is a problem, but it is a cheap solution.)
 whatever else (I am not even pretending to be an EE.)

YMMV

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Sean Cusack <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

Oh yes...I know they are terrible at efficiency...but they are also the only thing that I know of that can get you to sub-ambient temperatures without using a (comparatively) giant refrigeration system.

I'm planning on using these to cool a few pieces of lab equipment. Typically, to get to sub ambient conditions, you have to use ice/water (gets you to 0C), or dry ice/acetone (gets you to -78C), or full on Liquid N2 which gets you too cold for most practical applications. It would be *awesome* to hit like -20 or -10 or even 5C repeatedly and controllably for a million and one different chemical reactions.

There is equipment that allows you to do this now, but pretty much its a standalone refrigeration system that pumps cooled silicon based oil through your reaction mixture. It takes up a ton of room on my bench, and since those refrigerators are on the order of $7k a pop, its tough to convince my boss to allow me to buy more than about 2 of them. In other words, longer hours for Sean in the lab = teh sux.

So, I'm trying to use these doodads as a way to run a bunch of reactions at a controllably cold temperature. I agree there's problems, but given the application, it may just work!

 Sean

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On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Corey McGuire <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

 > Messy, messy stuff.Ā TEJ's are not efficient.Ā This is fine by themselves.Ā When you stage them, their inefficiencies > become readily apparent as they begin to compound.
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 > May I ask what you intend to do with them?

Yeah, also curious. Corey is absolutely right: TEJs have terrible
 Carnot efficiency -- Āway less than 10%. This means to move (not
 remove) 5 watts of heat you have to put in 50+ watts of power, which
 turns into heat you ALSO need to remove.

 So they are only useful in a few applications where the small temp
 difference over a tiny scale is worth the waste. If they really were
 the magic refrigerators people think they are, they would be in every
 PC and laptop. And note that if you are trying to keep things cool,
 there may be far better solutions.

 "In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"

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A young man was struck and killed by a Metrolink train Wednesday afternoon in Pico Rivera.
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If you were to buy 100 shares of QIHU at current prices, it would set you back about $9,300. But if you looked at the QIHU Sept $100 Calls, for example, which closed Wednesday at $5.64 per contract, you would pay only $564 per contract (the price of each option contract is multiplied by 100 to get the real-dollar cost because each contract controls 100 shares of QIHU stock).
Most options traders simply an trade option for its inherent value, however. So, if one were to buy the QIHU Sept $100 Calls at $5.64, the closer QIHU common stock gets to the $100 strike price, the more the value of the call option itself will increase. If QIHU hits the low $121 target by September, it's likely that the owners of the QIHU Sept $100 Calls could double, triple or even quadruple their investment depending on how early QIHU stock hits that target.
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- June 24: QIHU's price crossed the 21-day moving average
- June 23: QIHU stock saw a triple moving average crossover of the 14-day, 9-day and 18-day moving average
- June 20: a short-term bullish momentum indicator
- June 17: a short-term bullish Williams Percent Return indicator
- June 17: a short-term bullish MACD indicator
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Who, what, where?
We are Evans Cycles, a specialist bike retailer, with over 40 stores around the UK. Our head office is located near Gatwick Airport, where roughly 200 people work in two big warehouses, plus our contact centre, marketing, HR and other functions. At least half of them ride to work regularly as cycling plays a central role in most people's life around here. That means that there are leg-shaving roadies, serious downhillers and BMX riders who can perform jaw-dropping tricks on any day of the week. Most people have more than one bike and most of us take part in a variety of different cycling disciplines.


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A nine-year-old boy has been told he cannot take time off school during term time to attend his own mum's wedding.
Claire Whitelegg is getting married to fiancé Andy McLeary next week and asked her son Riley's Clive School, in Shropshire, if he could have three days off to attend the nuptials in Cornwall.
She thought the ceremony would be considered one of the "exceptional circumstances" needed to take a child out of lessons during term time, but was told her son would not be given permission.
She told the BBC: "My partner and I both work full time for the police and we do shift work.
"It's almost impossible for us to get leave at the same time as each other in the school holidays, so we couldn't wait until then."
"It's absolutely bonkers that the school have banned my son from attending my wedding.
"The fact is that if I had went along with the school's ruling then there would be no wedding because I can't leave a nine-year-old home alone for three days.
"Riley is an excellent pupil and has only had time off before because he got Shingles.
"Riley has been upset by all this and is worried what the teachers will say to him when he goes back to school on Thursday.
"The school isn't even holding normal lessons this week anyway because it's sport's week. "
Ms Whitelegg added that she planned to ignore the decision, and would appeal if she was hit with a fine.
"I am fully prepared to go to court and I will refuse to pay any fine," she said. "The court fines each parent who is responsible for the child so that could be me, Andy and Riley's dad.
"If that is £60 then you're looking at a final bill of £540 for the three days he would be off school which is ridiculous.
"If it means going to prison then so be it."
But the school said it had only received Ms Whitelegg's request seven days before the boy was due to be taken out of class, and head teacher Mary Lucas said she would have been happy to talk to his parents about the issue.
In a second statement, Ms Lucas said the request had actually been received five days before the planned absence, and had not made it clear that it was for his mum's wedding.
She added: "If she had come into school to... explain it was her own wedding and why it had to be on this particular date, such as her working patterns, then it would have been quite likely that we would have agreed."
The school added that fines were usually only given to parents who take children out of classes without permission for five days or more.


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Free trees planted near Baldwin Borough municipal center
Nearly 45 volunteers gathered at the Baldwin Borough municipal complex early Saturday morning with a rake or shovel in hand and ready to plant 25 red cedar, hackberry, Kentucky coffee and ginkgo trees, despite the brisk temperatures.
"Free trees and volunteer labor, you can't beat that," Baldwin Borough manager John Barrett said.
The trees — planted around the municipal building, parking lot and pool area — were received through a grant from TreeVitalize and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, with the help of nonprofit Economic Development South.
This is the third grant of free trees received by communities covered by the Brentwood-Baldwin-Whitehall Shade Tree Commission since its formation one year ago. Brentwood received 29 trees from TreeVitalize in November 2012 for Brentwood Park, and Whitehall received 25 in May for Snyder Park.
"We're thrilled," said Jonathan Turban, chairman of the state's first multi-municipal shade-tree commission, started with guidance from Economic Development South and the Penn State Center.
One year after the formation of the commission, members of the group are celebrating many successes.
A tree inventory also is under way along Brownsville Road in Brentwood, in Elm Leaf Park in Baldwin and in Snyder Park in Whitehall, Turban said.
Many types of trees have been inventoried already in the three boroughs. And when trees are found to be damaged or in need of some tender care, members of the commission — which serves in an advisory role for Brentwood, Baldwin and Whitehall — will contact municipal officials to alert them, Turban said.
An advertising committee also has been formed to help spread information about what the commission is doing.
The committee created a Facebook page — Brentwood-Baldwin-Whitehall Shade Tree Commission — made T-shirts with the slogan "Can you dig it?" scribbled across the front and had booths at the Baldwin Borough and Whitehall community days.
"We're trying to get the word out," Turban said.
All of the commission's accomplishments in the last year shouldn't come as a surprise, Economic Development South executive director Greg Jones said.
"We had a lot of people that were just really energetic about this," he said.
All of this has come at no cost to the communities, Jones added.
At the Baldwin municipal complex, the trees carefully were positioned where they would provide screening for trash bins and generators in the parking-lot area or give shade to those watching a ballgame, Barrett said.
"There were some really good opportunities that were aesthetically pleasing," he said.
Maintenance, too, was taken into consideration, Barrett said.
The volunteers included members of Baldwin High School's Project 7 club that helped with the planning. They said they, too, gained something from the day of helping the environment by planting trees.
"I'm having a great time. I've never planted a tree before," said Whitehall resident Emily Jacobetz, 17, a Baldwin High School senior and member of Project 7.
"This is the perfect opportunity to help the environment. Trees are probably the most important thing in the environment. Not only do they help the environment, but they also look good."
Next, the commission hopes to get a grant for free trees in the spring for McAnnulty and W.R. Paynter elementary schools in the Baldwin-Whitehall School District, Turban said. Then, in the fall, commission members will look at planting along public streets.
Stephanie Hacke is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-388-5818 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Four months on, one new house and a romantic marriage proposal.
Russell Brand certainly knows how to sweep a girl off her feet.
And it seems there may be another celebration on the way for the British funnyman and US love Katy Perry.
The I Kissed A Girl singer has sparked speculation that the couple are expecting their first child with recent comments on her Twitter page.
The day after her New Year's Eve proposal in India, the 25-year-old wrote: "Let me tell you 2010 is BUMPIN!"
And a few days later, she added on her boyfriend's page: "Hey, I heard ur prego-ed."
The pair have also been spotted checking out baby booties in a London children's shop, while Katy has been drawing further interest with her recent restaurant orders.
During lunch at a local cafe, she asked for her eggs to be "well done" and said "hold the mayo" of a portion of chips.
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Laya flew to New York and found Shulamith emaciated and panhandling, carrying a bag holding a hammer and an unopened can of food.
Junkies have their own look (emaciated, haunted, sallow) and their own junk names: Doolie, Cash, and Dupré.
The man is emaciated under a white dishdasha and a red headscarf, a burning cigarette glued to his lips.
It took about 20 minutes to convince the emaciated hiker to let them carry him to the helicopter.
An emaciated Steve Jobs jiving from an underground lair about his health is quicksand.
A little wine was mulled; the girl could not swallow it, emaciated as she was.
On coming to myself, I looked around and saw my brother, pale and emaciated.
He was of emaciated frame, spare, and well nigh destitute of strength.
The superior extremities were emaciated, and marked like the abdomen.
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Revenues have hit a five-year high at Kennedys climbing up 10 per cent at the latest year end from £117m to £128.5m.
The firm has defied the effects of the 2008 economic collapse pushing up turnover by 45.7 per cent since 2009/10 when it stood at £88.2m.
Net profit has increase by £5.3m over the same five-year period, rising by 10.5 per cent between 2012/13 and 2013/14 from £117m to £128.5m.
Average profit per equity partner (PEP) fell, however, down from £429,000 to £418,000, although the number of equity partners at the firm increased by four in the last twelve months to a high of 58.
Kennedys chief executive officer Guy Stobart also attributed the fall in PEP to increased investment over the period, including merger integration and an extensive overhaul of the firm's IT systems.
The revenue hike comes a year after the firm merged with aviation boutique Gates & Partners last May (31 May 2013). The deal added 20 partners to the insurance firm spread across four offices in London, Dubai, Singapore and Brussels.
The firm also attempted to tie up with Scottish firm Simpson & Marwick, a move that would have created a £160m firm (30 August 2013). The deal collapsed in December with both firms citing 'complex reasons' (11 December 2013).
There was heavy investment in the firm's billing system, which was completely overhauled and the system relocated from London to Chelmsford and entirely computerised.
Earlier this year Kennedys called on its fixed-share partners (FSPs) to top up their capital contributions to 30 per cent of their salaries in response to HM Revenue & Customs' (HMRC) changes to partnership taxation (15 May 2014).


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Confederacy or Totalitarianism
Confederacy or Totalitarianism
Our unalienable rights are now in question!
We've already waited too long, we now face the inevitable, rally we the
people, and restore the Confederacy, or else soon live under totalarian rule.
Could the Confederacy rise again? We can all doubt, wish, or take action, and see which path works! Or we can sit on our duff, and watch our liberties fade away under Socialist Yankee Rule. If my ideas are not satisfactory, lets hear a workable plan that is better. However, any workable plan, must rally 'we the people' in mass!
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The exercise of power never granted!
"I would have never surrendered the army if I had known how
the South would have been treated." … Robert Edward Lee
In writing this article, let it first be said, I could careless as to someone's race, my stance is upon
our God given unalienable rights, plus the equality of all men, without any guarentee of results.
am convinced this modern, anything goes culture, can never surpass the honor, grace and charm of the Ante Bellum South, and the Confederacy. And I believe today's Southern Ladies, if they choose, could change the course of history. But it would require a wee bit of devotion and sacrifice! As an example, it would mean giving up your Levis and skin tights; what a horrible thing to ask of a modern woman! But then there's the old 'what could have been' and will never be cliché. Which will surely happen, if there is no action!
However the question remains; how did this society reach the point, where so many people, all but worship socialism? Where the federal government, has become the nanny and caregiver! It all started when people discovered, they could vote themselves money and benefits. When the redistribution of wealth, replaced earning one's own living! It has been perpetuated by those who feel themselves victims of society. It was someone else's fault, the wealthy, or the majority race.
Some will proclaim, my distant ancestors were mistreated, thus I am entitled! There was a time when a day's labor was from sun to sun, and precious few thought society, the government or the majority race owned them. There was also a day when equality, did not equate to equal results. In any case that day is nigh at hand, when the money, government benefit's, and the patience of the majority, will come to an end.
On that day the illegal aliens will go home, and those who claim victim-hood will either join the great melting pot, or else ship out to another nation. In this regard, often such truth is much too difficult to swallow. Nonetheless, the day will come when the racial blame game, at someone else's expense, will come to an end, and likely by political revolution.
The alternative will be too horrendous, for the social misfits to consider! As for the rush to socialism, it will either terminate or else it ends in a dictatorship, with freedom and constitutional government cast aside. Those who continue to picket, protest, complain, divide and destroy the present order, be careful, you may not like what come after.
Destoy this constitutional democracy, such as it is, and the alternative will not be a mild form of socialism, where we all share and share alike. The choice will be between a just and honorable Confederacy, or else a Jack Boots form of totalitarianism. A system of government where no court will bail you out, all are slaves of those in power, and you obey or die!
God save the Confederacy
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25% of Romney bundlers hail from finance sector
WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney depends on a wide network of venture capitalists, hedge-fund managers and other Wall Street bankers to raise the hundreds of millions he has amassed in his bid to oust President Obama, a USA TODAY analysis of his fundraising operation shows.
More than 300 people — or nearly a quarter of the roughly 1,200 individuals USA TODAY has identified as Romney fundraisers — come from the world of finance, more than any other sector. More than a dozen come from the ranks of a single company, investment powerhouse Goldman Sachs, which spent nearly $4.4 million to influence Washington policymakers last year.
By comparison, 77 of Obama's 532 fundraisers work in the securities and investment industry, according to a tally by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics. Obama has slammed Romney's record in private equity, while Romney has pledged to dismantle financial-industry regulations enacted during the Obama administration.
Those fundraisers who commit to raising as much as $250,000 to host Romney at dinners and receptions include diet guru Jenny Craig, who hosted Romney at her California beachfront home, billionaire hedge-fund guru Julian Robertson and Arizona Cardinals tight end Todd Heap.
Romney's supporters have unleashed torrents of campaign cash since he effectively clinched the GOP nomination. Last month, he and the Republican National Committee raised $106 million — $35 million more than Obama and the Democratic National Committee. The June haul marks the second month in a row Romney and the GOP have outraised Obama, as Wall Street and other interests turn away from a president who has slammed Romney's record as a venture capitalist — and flock to Romney, who has pledged to dismantle new financial-industry regulations erected during Obama's time in office.
Unlike Obama, Romney has refused to name his top fundraisers. USA TODAY reviewed Federal Election Commission data, invitations to 85 Romney fundraising events obtained by the non-partisan Sunlight Foundation, campaign news releases and news accounts to offer a snapshot of Romney's fundraising network.
Political fundraisers, often known as "bundlers" for their ability to bundle together contributions from family, friends and business associates, are crucial to politicians collecting money in small increments from thousands of donors. Bundlers are so valuable that presidents often reward them with ambassadorships.
Romney's most prolific supporters also have performed double duty — writing large checks to Restore Our Future, a pro-Romney super PAC that can raise unlimited amounts to aid his White House bid as long as it operates independently of his campaign.
More than 90 of the fundraisers identified by USA TODAY also have contributed $25,000 or more to the super PAC. They have donated nearly $18.4 million to the group, which has spent more than $53 million to promote Romney and attack his rivals.
"You see Romney look-alikes — people from the same world he comes from," said Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation. "While it's not surprising, it's sobering when you think about who has his left and right ear."
More on super PACs, Romney fundraising
- STORY: Mitt Romney declining to disclose names of campaign bundlers
- STORY: A few wealthy donors fuel super PACs
- STORY: Payday lenders scrutinized for funneling cash to super PACs
- STORY: Donors to Romney super PAC have ties to for-profit colleges
- STORY: Romney, GOP outraise Obama and Democrats again in June
The Romney campaign did not respond to interview requests.
Edward Schwartz, president of a Bloomfield Hills, Mich., investment firm said he joined the fundraising team because of his family's close ties to Romney's brother, Scott, a Michigan lawyer. Romney's background in government and business have given him skills "that surpass any candidate I've seen," Schwartz said.
He declined to say how much he has raised.
"We've made our very best efforts," Schwartz said.
Romney has also tapped business, religious and family ties to build his fundraising network.
His fundraisers include dozens of current and former executives of the consulting and private-equity firms he ran. Dozens more are fellow Mormons, such as JetBlue founder David Neeleman. Republican stalwarts, including former U.S. ambassador to Belgium Sam Fox, also have joined the fundraising circuit. Scott Romney is a national finance chairman.
A St. Louis businessman, Fox said President Obama "means well" but doesn't have the experience to right the troubled U.S. economy.
Fox, who said he had his assistants research Romney's career in business and government after Romney sought his support in 2005, said "he's been successful at every problem he's taken on."
He donated $190,000 to a pro-Romney super PAC but won't say how much he has raised — only that the "floodgates opened" once the former Massachusetts governor clinched the nomination in May.
Neeleman called Romney "one of the smartest guys I know" and said Romney's long volunteer church service — first overseeing a local congregation as a Mormon bishop and later as a stake president presiding over several congregations in suburban Boston — demonstrates his kindness. The church does not have paid clergy, and bishops and stake leaders have broad responsibilities to manage budgets, deliver sermons and provide spiritual counseling.
"As a Mormon, I know what that entails," Neeleman said. "You have to be very compassionate and loving. When I people say he's out of touch because he's rich … I'd like to see them give that kind of service."
Neeleman said he hosted a fundraiser for Romney at his Connecticut home in May, but said he's unsure how much was raised.
Indeed, without voluntary reporting from the campaigns themselves, it's impossible to determine exactly how much either presidential contender has raised through bundlers. Every few months, Obama releases a list of bundlers who have collected at least $50,000, but describes their fundraising totals only in broad ranges. The campaign's most recent release shows 532 people directed at least $106.4 million to Obama's re-election efforts through April 20.
Among Romney's backers: a Georgia executive who was on the invitation as a host of a February fundraising event for Romney a month after the Securities and Exchange Commission accused him of insider trading. On Jan. 9, the SEC filed a civil complaint against Parker "Pete" Petit, alleging Petit tipped off a friend to the impending sale of Matria Healthcare, a health-wellness company where Petit was CEO. On Feb. 8, Petit was on the host committee for a Romney fundraiser at the W Hotel in Atlanta, according to an invitation obtained by the Sunlight Foundation. He gave $2,500 to Romney's campaign Feb. 6.
Petit has denied any wrongdoing. His lawyer, Aaron Danzig, sent USA TODAY a January news release, saying the SEC "has targeted an innocent business executive."
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From the scrap heap to the record books
By Elaine Bussjaeger ('10), JMU Public Affairs
Engineering sophomore Drew Joyner presents the record-setting ECYCLE during a public display at Early's Cycle Center in Harrisonburg.
Dr. Rob Prins explains how participation in activities such as electric motor sports can increase student and public awareness and interest in alternative energy.
The ECYCLE, an electrically powered motorcycle, is the brainchild of a team of James Madison University students from the School of Integrated Science and Technology, the School of Engineering and Dr. Robert Prins, assistant professor of engineering.
The project to convert a small 1968 Sears 124cc motorcycle to electric power started this August in JMU's Alternative Fuel Vehicle lab. The engine was removed and fitted with a DC motor, controller and other electrical components. Six Odyssey PC680 batteries for energy storage were donated from BatteryMart.com by Mark Jenkins, a JMU MBA alumnus.
The motorcycle was recently taken to Maxton, N.C. for an East Coast Timing Association land speed event. The ECYCLE improved the record time for electric motorcycles from 53.548 mph to 70.17 mph.
"I felt that that was a record that students ought to be able to break, so I recommended that they start with this bike," Prins said.
By working on the motorcycle, students are developing an appreciation for the energy required in transportation applications. They are developing an aptitude in the areas of electrical energy storage, control and machinery, Prins said.
The team will work to improve the ECYCLE with several adjustments before the ECTA 2010 season opener in April.
"It's really cool. I think it's cool that I get credit for class for working on a motorcycle," said Drew Joyner, a sophomore engineering major who helped lead the project.
"I've got a few more years here, but even after that, it can kind of be a legacy that's passed down, to make it better each year to try to keep that record."
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The final three at the end of Tuesday's Dancing With The Stars: The Results show: Buzz Aldrin, former Bachelor Jake Pavelka and Kate Gosselin.
And who went home?
It came down to Buzz and Jake in the bottom two. Kate was safe! As Tom Bergeron said, "No fainting!"
While Jake shook his head in surprise, Buzz, 80, was sent packing.
When Brooke Burke asked the astronaut to remind everyone why he did the show, Aldrin said, "I did this show for the fighter pilots out there, the military people and the elder geezers like me who would just like to see an elder come back week after week.
"But I'm interested also in having the public be thankful for the great successes that we had in the Apollo program and look forward to even greater successes in our future space program. That's why I came on board to take the challenge and take the risk and I thank everyone who voted for us."
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Chronic Wasting Disease FActs
What is "chronic wasting disease?"
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal brain disease of deer, elk, and moose that is caused by an abnormal protein called a prion. Animals infected with CWD show progressive loss of weight and body condition, behavioral changes, excessive salivation, increased drinking and urination, depression, loss of muscle control and eventual death. Chronic wasting disease is always fatal for the afflicted animal. The disease cannot be diagnosed by observation of physical symptoms because many big game diseases affect animals in similar ways.
Where is it found?
CWD was first described in a Colorado Division of Wildlife captive deer research facility in 1967 and a few years later in a similar Wyoming research facility. It was later discovered in some free-roaming animals near these facilities in Wyoming and Colorado. The disease has now been discovered in either wild or captive deer and/or elk in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Montana, Minnesota, West Virginia, Virginia, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Utah, New York, Michigan, Maryland, Texas, Missouri, Colorado, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Moose in Colorado and Wyoming also have been found with the disease. In South Dakota, CWD was discovered in seven private, captive elk herds during the winter of 1997-98 and in another private, captive elk herd in August of 2002. CWD was first found in free-roaming wildlife in a white-tailed deer in Fall River County during the 2001 big game hunting season. In South Dakota, CWD has only been detected in free-roaming wildlife in Lawrence, Pennington, Custer, and Fall River Counties and Wind Cave National Park.
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How often does it occur?
Surveillance by hunter-harvest survey and testing of sickly deer and elk implies CWD is relatively rare in free-roaming cervids when the number of animals present is considered. Thus far, in South Dakota, sixteen years of surveillance and testing of wild deer and elk have shown 168 CWD positive deer and 92 CWD positive elk out of 25,121 deer and elk tested. Of the 260 positive animals, Wind Cave National Park has discovered 60 elk and 10 deer that tested positive. In the 2013-2014 sampling period, 24 animals (11 deer, 13 elk) were found that were infected with CWD.
How is it transmitted?
How the pathogenic prion is transmitted from diseased animals to healthy ones is believed to be through direct animal to animal contact and/or contamination of feed or water sources with saliva, urine, and/or feces. Numerous organizations and individual scientists across the United States and Canada are continuing to conduct detailed investigations in an effort to obtain a definitive answer to the route of transmission. Evidence shows that infected carcasses may serve as a source of infection. CWD seems more likely to occur in areas where deer or elk are crowded or where they congregate at man-made feed and water stations. Artificial feeding of deer and elk will likely compound the problem.
Is CWD transmissible to humans?
Public health officials and the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia have found no link between CWD and any neurological disease in humans. There is also no scientific evidence that CWD can be naturally transmitted to humans, or to animals other than deer, elk, and moose. As a general precaution, however, it's a good idea for people to avoid contact with any wild animal that appears sick regardless of the cause of the illness. Research also shows that the disease has been detected in the muscle tissue of infected mule deer. However, there is still no evidence that humans can contract the disease and it is believed that there is human resistance to the disease.
Is the disease transmissible to domestic livestock?
According to experts, there's no evidence that CWD can be naturally transmitted to domestic livestock. Chronic wasting disease is similar in some respects to two known livestock diseases:
- Scrapie, which affects domestic sheep and goats worldwide and has been recognized for over 200 years; and
- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), which is a more recent disease of cattle in Great Britain and Europe. BSE has been found in Canada, and in the United States.
Though there are similarities, there is no evidence suggesting either scrapie or BSE is caused by contact or close association with wild deer or elk.
What should you do if you see a deer or elk that looks sick, emaciated (thin) and disoriented?
Call GFP at 605.394.2391 (Rapid City) or 605.773.3381 (Pierre) or the Animal Industry Board at 605.773.3321 (Pierre). Arrangements will be made to investigate the report.
Can the animals be saved?
Veterinarians say that nothing can be done to save deer and elk affected by CWD. However, removing affected individuals may help prevent the spread of infection within a herd. Feeding affected animals may keep them alive a little longer, but will not change the ultimate outcome. In fact, feeding could increase the likelihood of transmitting the disease to other deer or elk.
Simple precautions for hunters.
There is no evidence CWD can be naturally transmitted to humans. Research to-date indicates the prions causing CWD accumulates mainly in the brain, eyes, spinal cord lymph nodes, tonsils, pancreas, and spleen. New research has shown that the prions causing CWD can accumulate in muscle tissue, but at relatively low levels and with no evidence of an increase risk to humans. Therefore, public health and GFP officials advise hunters to take a few simple precautions when handling/transporting deer or elk carcasses.
- Do not shoot, handle or consume any wild animal that appears sick.
- Wear rubber gloves when field dressing and processing animals.
- Minimize handling brain or spinal tissues/fluids, and wash hands afterward.
- Bone out carcasses or at least avoid consuming brain, spinal cord, eyes, spleen, and lymph nodes of harvested animals.
What should a hunter do if he kills a deer or elk that is unhealthy.
In the rare event that an emaciated, unhealthy looking deer or elk is killed, leave the animal where it has fallen and contact any GFP Wildlife Officer, the Rapid City GFP office at 605.394.2391 or the Pierre office at 605.773.3381. Be prepared to show the animal to a Game, Fish and Parks representative and provide information where you can be reached for follow up investigation if necessary.
The Animal Industry Board in Pierre may also be contacted at 605.773.3321.
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Eliminating CWD is difficult, given the limited understanding of its cause and transmission and the lack of any vaccine or treatment.
The Animal Industry Board established specific requirements after CWD was first diagnosed in private, captive elk herds to prevent further introductions or recurrences in private, captive elk and deer herds. All captive herds that were infected or exposed have been depopulated, and a voluntary cervidae (deer and elk) CWD surveillance and control program for captive cervids is now being implemented.
Joint management strategies for CWD have been, aimed at intensified surveillance to determine to what degree CWD occurs in free-roaming animals. GFP, in cooperation with South Dakota State University and Wind Cave National Park, tested hunter-harvested animals, vehicle killed animals, sick animals, and research animals starting in 1997. Emphasis has been placed on testing elk and deer from areas near previously quarantined CWD private elk herd sites, areas where CWD has been found in wild animals, and sick animals from anywhere in South Dakota.
Animals tested from 1997-2014 by GFP and Wind Cave National Park consisted of 6,060 elk, 6,032 mule deer and 13,205 white-tailed deer and 2 moose. Two hundred and eighty-two animals (178 deer, 104 elk) tested positive for CWD during this time period.
Animals tested from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015 by GFP and Wind Cave National Park consisted of 129 elk, 19 mule deer, and 30 white-tailed deer. Twenty-two animals tested positive for CWD during this CWD surveillance period. Ten deer and 5 elk were found by South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks that tested positive for CWD. Wind Cave National Park found 7 elk that tested positive for CWD.
As of June 30, 2015, a total of 25,299 wild deer and elk have been tested for CWD in South Dakota and 104 elk and 178 deer have been found to have the disease. All CWD detected to-date in free-roaming wildlife has been in southwestern South Dakota and includes Lawrence County, Pennington County, Fall River County, and Custer County, Wind Cave National Park, and Custer State Park. Sick deer from several areas of the state are being tested as part of our CWD Surveillance Program, and no CWD has been found in other areas in South Dakota.
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Alex Ostapenko wrote: [...] > I do not know any way to pass options used in a project to an external > script. Possible way is to parce project file and get them from it but > it will be definetely not portable between different VS versions. Probably not. Which means that configure.bat needs to get the options from somewhere else. Since they must be centralized, it can either read them from the one central location (let's call the one for MSVC msvc.config) or from somewhere else. Since there can be only one central location the "somewhere else" would have to be generated from msvc.config. > [...] > No, this file can not be generated. It is an origin where > compiler/linker/librarian options are being taken from. May be it was > just a wrong analogy with .config files (I have got an expression from > makefiles that .config files play the same role). What I meant was that the generate.bat script that populates the stdcxx Solution could generate it from msvc.config. > [...] > That is how it was originally organized. Compiler options where placed > in the configure.wsf. However Liviu insisted on splitting options into > separate files. I could return them back if needed. No, I don't think you should. I agree with Liviu's approach. The options for each compiler need to be in one central place. That's a requirement. They will most likely need to be organized in groups along the same lines as in the other .config files. The configuration script needs to be general so that it can be used for different compilers with different command line options. That's also a requirement. Otherwise we would end up with a bunch of scripts, one for each compiler, every one of which containing the exact same logic but different options. Now imagine the nightmare of wanting to support one version of Intel C++ on top VS 6 and VS 7. We'd also have two different scripts each with the same set of options that we'd have to carefully keep in synch... > [...] > MS> If you mean that they will be created by hand I fear it would be both > MS> too tedious and error-prone. Assuming we have three versions of VS to > > I can not agree. For the first time solution for VS6 could be created. > All others could be obtained by autoconverting it to a new format and > may be minor subsequent fixes. This is not an option unless we solve the two fundamental problems: 1. compiler and linker options for each compiler in the same place, 2. adding a test, example, or any other component to stdcxx requires at most one additional change (and preferably none). > > MS> maintain (6.0, 7.1, and 8.0), each time a new test is added we will > MS> have to remember to update three VS Solutions and add the test to > MS> each one of them. Each time we decide to change a compiler option > > What test are you talking about? Configuration ones or unit/integration? I was talking about unit tests. (For the sake of clarification: test = unit test, config[uration] test = configuration test). When a developer whose environment is VS 7.1 adds a new unit test, I don't want them to have to remember to change more than one place in the stdcxx build infrastructure for that test to become part of the test suite for automated testing. Ideally, they would have to do nothing else beyond adding the test to the Solution. > [...] > MS> also important that there be an easy way to add/change/remove options > MS> across all projects in the Solution. > > Could you explain why it could be need for? In a single solution it > could be easily done from Visual Studio. If compiler and linker options can be easily modified across all Projects in a Solution it removes a part of one of the problems with this approach, but it doesn't solve the whole problem. The other part is having multiple Solutions for different versions of VS, all of which currently share the same compiler and linker options. Changes made to the VS6 Solution will also need to be made in the Solution for VS7, and if VS8 is incompatible, in the one for VS8 as well. It is *really* important that we not duplicate the compiler and linker options. Look at gcc.config and all the conditionals in it to get an appreciation of what it would involve to duplicate those options in two or more places and to keep them in synch. This complexity is only going to increase with new versions of compilers and as we add new platforms. > [...] > MS> I agree with this part. A single configuration script shared by all > MS> versions of VS and all compilers on Windows (except perhaps those > MS> targeting UNIX-like environments such as Cygwin). It should be > MS> possible to invoke the script independently of VS from the command > MS> line but it can also be included as a VS Project in the stdcxx VS > MS> Solution (using VS 7.1 terminology). All other Projects within the > MS> Solution will depend on the output of the script (the config file), > MS> so that building the library will automatically create or update > MS> the config file as necessary. > > But that will not work if we are going to generate solution files. What exactly will not work and why? > > ??>> Your design will require running first steps > ??>> from a command line. > > MS> It doesn't matter how the script is invoked, it can be made nearly > MS> transparent to the user (with icons, shortcuts, etc). > > Well, common sequence will be the following: > 1) Running cmd.exe to open command line. > 2) Running vcvars32.bat (or similar file to setup path and includes). > 3) Running script that will configure library and produce solution file. The first 2 steps can be invoked from step 3. In fact, if the script is a batch file step 1 is implicit. Running vcvars32.bat is usually the user's responsibility in any case. It's okay to make the assumption that the compiler is correctly set up. > 4) Opening solution. ...and the last step can be invoked last from the script. If the two scripts to generate the final Solution and to configure the library are themselves a VS Solution and a VS Project, respectively, it's all just one step. > > Only there user will be able to work with a solution. Sequence does not > look completely transparent. Here's how I picture this to work on Windows: An icon somewhere in the file system (such as a shortcut in the Start Menu or in a directory) that the typical GUI user will click or double click on to get going for the first time. (A user who works on the command line will simply execute the file). This will fire up a sequence of events the result of which will be a VS IDE populated with a Solution with the stdcxx library, examples, etc. loaded in it as Projects, ready to build (or first configure and then build). It could also work the way The Demo does, i.e., that the initial Solution will contain just a single Project that, when activated, will populate the rest of the Projects in the Solution. Passing arguments to the file behind the icon will let us also build any or all of the Projects withing the Solution, and even run the examples and tests to produce output for automated testing. > [...] > MS> As for compilers w/o the IDE, I was (perhaps again naively) hoping > MS> that the IDE is available everywhere. If that's not the case, I would > MS> still like to focus on the IDE first and handle those w/o it as a > MS> special case. > > That is definetely not the case. PSDK compilers do not have IDE and even > could not be integrated into existing VS IDE. Well, we'll just have to come up with an alternative for the SDK then. I'm not terribly concerned about it at this point. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Right now I would like to see a prototype for VS 7.1 using the IDE. Martin
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Is Bolt on track for 2016?
LONDON — Toting his third gold medal of the London Games, Usain Bolt gave a little wave to 80,000 or so of his best friends in the Olympic Stadium stands.
Almost immediately, the questions started: Was Bolt bidding adieu for good? Will the world get to watch him sprint on his sport's biggest stage again in 2016?
"It was a goodbye to London. I was just having fun with the crowd," the Jamaican said. "I came here to London to become a legend, and I am a legend, and I wanted to thank them for supporting me."
He accomplished exactly what he wanted to at the 2012 Olympics. Three events — the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4x100 relay — and three victories. Plenty of pre- and postrace preening. Just like at Beijing in 2008.
As for trying to go for a Triple Triple four years from now, Bolt insisted Rio de Janeiro isn't necessarily in the offing.
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He came up with three remarkable runs, improving his career mark to 6 for 6 in Olympic finals. In more than a century of modern Olympics, no man had set world records while winning the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay — until Bolt did it in Beijing. No one had won the 200 meters twice, let alone completed a 100-200 double twice — until Bolt in 2008 and '12.
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Still amazing that candidates cannot get "it" together. When, do they stop spending money and realize that the game is over?
For any actively participating candidate that is working in government, the rule should be, "do your job, first".
In VA, Bachmann, Huntsman, and Santorum failed to meet the requirements for the March ballot. When, running for the most important office, in the nation, there should never be any failure to go by the rules. Knowing that they are not fulfilling their obligations, yet still taking contributions, seems unprofessional.
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