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Ide Jengiri was a member of the Unicorn Clan. He oversaw to the Ide family's day-to-day responsibilities at Shiro Ide, alongside with Ide Yoshiko, daughter of the Ide Daimyo Ide Tadaji. They developed a casual relationship and many guessed they would marry. [1] Yoshiko preceded her aged father in death only by a few years, succumbing to some unknown fever that had robbed her first of her mind, then her life. [2]
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by James Corbett, The International Forecaster:
We all know by now that the real terrorists (the politicians in the suits and ties and the banksters that pull their strings) are waging their war of terror on multiple fronts for multiple reasons.
Domestically, it rallies the population around the flag, keeping the flock in check. At the same time it justifies the build up of the police state control grid to catch the thought criminals who resist.
It also writes a blank check for the illegal wars of aggression abroad. Simply place your terrorist boogeyman in the square of the chessboard you're looking to occupy and — hey presto! — you've got yourself an excuse to invade. (Even if you "accidentally" end up supporting them, right Uncle Sam?)
But of course the politicians, their string pullers and their fellow travelers benefit from the war of terror in a more straightforward sense. They get to use the terror scares that they themselves create to drum up billions upon billions in the name of fighting the boogeymen.
We've all heard of the $640 toilet seat and other ridiculous examples of Pentagon "overspending," but these stories tend to trivialize the abuses by the military-defense contractors whose entire industry is built on providing overpriced solutions to made up problems. After all, the Pentagon itself just admitted it could cut $2 billion from its budget by shutting down some of the needless bases and defense facilities that have been built around the globe in the name of the American empire.
But $2 billion is chump change.
In the 15 years since 9/11, $1 trillion has been spent building up the police state in the American "homeland" itself.
Meanwhile, the Defense Department has been spending over $600 billion per year maintaining the American military in the post-9/11 era. $4 to $6 trillion of that was spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars alone, the most expensive wars in US history.
Combined defense spending, including Homeland Security, DoD, State Department, defense related debt interest and other defense costs, has reached the highest levels in modern history over the past decade. From a Cold War era high in the 1980s of $3500 for every man, woman and child in the United States to a 1990s low of $2500, that figure has since breached $4000. Just look at the chart; it isn't hard to see exactly when the trend reversed and the good times began to flow for the military-industrial contractors: It was 9/11, the birthday of the war of terror and the new era of homeland security.
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The billions upon billions in military aid sent to the co-perpetrators of the war of terror, including the $38 billion that has been promised Israel over the next 10 years.
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South View offensive guard James Pollock is an impressive prospect on the offensive line, especially considering that he's only a second year starter on varsity. College programs are beginning to show more interest in Pollock and two could be close to offering him.
"I hear from ECU and Purdue a lot," said the 6-foot-4, 270-pound Pollock. "Both of those schools send me stuff about three times a week. I've also started to hear from Cincinnati."
The Duke Blue Devils were showing interest in Pollock back in September, but he mentioned the communication with them has fallen off lately.
ECU is a school Pollock said he is interested in and will likely be interested in for the remainder of his recruitment. He hopes the Pirates extend him an offer sooner rather than later – if they do it would be his first Division I football offer.
Pollock plans to learn more about ECU this weekend.
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The Pirates have been known to offer recruits during game day visits, which could be good news for Pollock.
In regards to this season at South View, Pollock and his teammates struggled in the win department. The team only put together two wins and Pollock described the season as a setback.
"We didn't have the bond on the team this season necessary to win," he said. "I'm going to try to step up as a senior leader next year because that was a problem of ours this season as well."
Pollock has improved his football IQ and understanding for his position exponentially in just a years time. Things he struggled with last season, like pass blocking and footwork, he excelled in this season.
During the offseason Pollock plans on adding more explosiveness to his game along with strength. He hopes hitting the camp and combine circuit this summer will bring about even more interest from coaches.
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At A ball Visalia in 1971 he was 7-1 with a 3.60 ERA making a quick impression. In 1972 he was up at AA Memphis going 11-7 (second to only Randy Sterling in wins) with a 2.80 ERA becoming a highly touted prospect. The next year he was 6-3 posting a 1.80 ERA at AAA Tidewater the third best pitcher on the staff behind Sterling & John Glass.
Apodaca made his debut in late September 1973, in a crucial game against the Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. He allowed one run & two walks in less than one inning of work giving him an infinity ERA. He did not appear in any other games that regular season nor the post season. In 1974 he had a good spring and made the 1974 Mets roster. How could Met fans ever forget the way his name would roll out of the mouths of announcers Bob Murphy & Lindsey Nelson in those golden days of Mets announcers.
In the 1974 Mets home opener, after the '73 NL Pennant flag was raised, Apodaca got the call in relief. He appeared in the 9th inning, since the Mets top fireman, Tug McGraw was out sick & not able to pitch that day. With two St. Louis Cardinal runners on base, Apodaca retired Tim McCarver to earn the save in relief of Jerry Koosman. The next day he relieved George Stone in the 9th inning & gave up three straight singles blowing a save opportunity & taking the loss.
On May 13th in St. Louis, he earned his first victory beating Bob Gibson and the Cardinals, pitching five innings of relief. He would remain in the bullpen over the next two months, taking a pair of losses. In July he was put into the starting rotation of a struggling staff. On July 12th his first start came at Los Angeles, where he pitched six shutout innings beating the Dodgers 5-2.
His next outing wasn't as good, as he was hit hard for five runs by the Giants in Candlestick Park, exiting in the 4th inning. He won his next two decisions including a brilliant two hit seven inning shutout performance against the Cincinnati Reds at Shea Stadium. In September he was back in the bullpen, earning one save, a win & a loss.
For the season he went 6-6 with three saves, posting a 3.50 ERA, In 35 appearances he strike out 54 batters & walked 42 in 103 innings of work.
In 1975 Apodaca was the Mets main relief specialist, taking over as the teams closer when Tug McGraw got traded away to Philadelphia. Apodaca missed the first two weeks of the season on the DL, returning on April 20th. He returned to save his first game, which was in relief of Jon Matlack, beating the Chicago Cubs. Apodaca saved seven games and earned one win through mid June before blowing an opportunity. In that stretch he only allowed four earned runs in 28 innings & pitched good enough for a 1.15 ERA.
He took his first loss in Montreal on June 18th allowing a 9th inning RBI single to Gary Carter & then a 10th inning game winning hit to Pete Mackanin. In a July game against the Phillies, he took a bouncer to his face & suffered a fractured nose, requiring 14 stitches. He missed most of July but did return at the end of the month for one appearance.
In August he saved four more games. Even though Cleon Jones had been let go due to an ugly scandal on both ends & the Mets fired manager Yogi Berra the team was still in contention, six games back at the start of September. Apodaca earned a three inning, scoreless save on September 5th against the Cardinals. On September 9th he was beaten in the 10th inning in Montreal on a (former Met) Mike Jorgensen walk off double. Apodaca finished the year strong with two relief wins from September 20th through the 23rd.
He had his best overall season in 1975, posting a 1.48 ERA, with a team leading 13 saves (8th best in the league) and a 3-4 record. He allowed just 66 hits, 4 HRs & 14 earned runs in 85.0 innings pitched, striking out 45 batters & walking 28.
In 1976 he lost his closer job to Skip Lockwood, but made 43 appearances & was second on the staff with five saves. He struggled with a 3-7 record although he posted another strong ERA (2.81), striking out 45 batters & walking 29 in 89 innings. He was also credited with two holds & he finished up thrity other games.
In 1977 he appeared in a career high 59 games, mostly in middle relief for the last place Mets, a franchise that was hitting rock bottom. Once again Apodaca was second on the staff, to Skip Lockwood, with five saves going 4-8, with three holds & a respectable 3.43 ERA. Three of his wins came in the month of June, two were results of leads he had actually blown. On June 30th he pitched three scoreless innings in Montreal & benefited from a Mike Vail 9th inning RBI groundout.
His final win of the year & in his career came on September 17th, as he pitched one inning against the Chicago Cubs. The Mets won the game in the 9th on an Ed Kranepool walk off double.
In Spring Training of 1978 hard luck fell on Apodaca, he tore a ligament in his right elbow which ended up finishing his career. He did not pitch for three seasons, until 1981 when he attempted a comeback with AA Jackson. He pitched in just six games, before being forced to retire, ending a once promising career that never took off.
In just five brief seasons he appeared in 184 games, going 16-25 with a 2.86 ERA and 26 saves. He struck out 197 batters walked 131 in 361 innings pitched. Apodaca made just 11 starts with one complete game to his credit.
Coaching Career: After his playing days he spent over a decade as a coach in the Mets farm system, starting at Little Falls & Jackson in 1983. That season he helped coach a young Roger McDowell & Calvin Schiraldi.
He went to the Columbia Mets from 1984-1987 working under Bud Harrelson in 1985 & finishing as league champs in 1986. He went to the St. Lucie Mets then back to Jackson in 1989-1990. From 1991- 1996 he was at the Mets AAA level first with Tidewater then at Norfolk when the team moved.
Over the years he tutored Anthony Young, Pete Shourek, Bobby Jones, Paul Byrd, Rick Reed & the Generation K trio of Jason Isringhausen, Bill Pulsipher, & Paul Gibson.
He was promoted to pitching coach of the New York Mets on Bobby Valentine's staff from 1996 to 1999. Apodacas staff won 88 games in both 1997 & 1998 posting the leagues 4th best ERA in 1998 & most saves in 1997 (41).
On June 5th 1999, the Mets were one game under .500 & the front office wanted to shake things up a bit. Valentine arrived at Shea' to learn that GM Steve Phillips had fired his three closest coaches Apodaca' Tom Robinson and Randy Niemann.
Apodaca moved on to the Milwaukee Brewers as pitching coach in 2000-2001, then returned to the Mets organization as pitching coach for St. Lucie in 2002.
In 2003 he got the job as pitching coach for the Colorado Rockies under Clint Hurdle whom he had met while coaching in the Mets minor league system. Their staff went to the World Series in 2007, and got to another post season in 2009.
Apodaca held the position through June 26th 2012 when he was asked to be reassigned. He was then named special assistant to the General Manager; Dan O'Dowd.


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Measuring the Impact of Meat Packing and Processing Facilities in the Nonmetropolitan Midwest: A Difference-In-Differences Approach
We measure how local growth in meatpacking and processing affects growth in local economies, government expenditures, and crime rates from 1990-2000 in nonmetropolitan counties of 12 Midwestern States. Propensity score matching is used as a check on possible non-random placement of meatpacking and processing plants. Results suggest that as the meat packing industryï¾'s share of a countyï¾'s total employment and wage bill rises, total employment growth increases. However, employment growth in other sectors slows, as does local wage growth. There is some evidence that slower wage growth swamps the employment growth so that aggregate income grows more slowly. We find no evidence that growth in the industry changes the growth rates for crime or government spending.
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Adkins returns to Sfida GroupChanging of the guard at Melbourne-based Sfida Group with the return of former general manager Andrew Adkins to the apparel and footwear specialist.
Adkins (pictured) had joined sports technology business Sports Performance Tracking several months ago but has now returned to his former role at the West Footscray company.
Adkins served as general manager for more than eight years.
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I;m heading to Akron tomorrow for the Irish Whiskey Boris release because I have nothing better to do. If anyone wants some, shoot me a message and ill pick some up for you. Im probably going to stop at Thirsty Dog too to see if they have any BA Siberian Night and BA Wulver left and get some of that too. I was able to find some here today, but was only able to get 2 bottles of each. Apparently we only got 13 cases of the Siberian night and 8 of the Wulver. Cheers


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I realise this is probably a very basic question, but I'm not a Facebook user and I'm lost.
I do the website for a small local festival. It has come to our attention that somebody has set up a Facebook page for this festival. That's fine - but they're using the festival logo (without permission) as their "profile picture" and giving the impression that the page is "official". Is there any way to find out who owns the page and/or send them a private message? We don't want to create any bad feelings - just to ask them not to use the logo and to make clear that they have no relationship with the festival committee. (We've already had a couple of instances of "but it says on your Facebook page...".)
You should be able to send a message to the admin of the page or at least be able to see who started the group.PM me the link if you like and I will have a poke around
Thanks Mike - it's probably just me not seeing it, but the only "contact" details I could find was a link to our official website.
PM on its way.
When the page moves to timeline (3/30), a "message" option will appear but until then there is not a direct way to communicate.
Thus you can either post to the wall of the page for them to contact you or use the report link to alert facebook and ask them to remove and/or merge it with your official page.
Thanks Ted.
It appears I can't do anything without a Facebook account of my own, which I don't want. (Without logging in, there is no message button, I can't post to the wall and there is no report link.) I'll have to try and find a committee member with a Facebook account to deal with it.


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"Dude," Finn whispered into Puck's ear, nudging him awake. "Dude, wake up."
"What do you want?" Puck groaned. He had stayed the night at Finn's. His mom was pissed off at him for drinking all the beer and he really didn't want to have to deal with that yet.
"You gotta come see this," Finn smirked.
Puck pushed the blankets off himself, shirtless and wearing only pajama pants and followed Finn into the kitchen. Finn sat at the table and signaled him to be quiet and sit.
"What are we waiting for?" Puck asked.
"Kurt," Finn grinned.
Oh no. Puck had forgotten that Finn and Kurt were living together now that their parents were married. Not that Puck would ever admit it, but over the past year of Glee Club and football, he found himself attracted to Kurt. It was crazy. Puck had always thought he was straight, but after Kurt he couldn't even look at girls the same.
Kurt amazed him more and more everyday. That voice that sent chills down your spine, that body (he had caught a few sneak peeks in the showers) and his surprising skill in football. He never realized how diverse a person could be. On second the boy would be belting a high F in Glee Club and the next he was kicking field goals on the football team. He was damn good at both of them. Oh, and he was a Cheerio who spoke fluent French. Was there anything this kid couldn't do?
Puck came back to earth. "What about him?"
"You know how much he cares about how he looks and how much energy he has. You have to see him get up in the morning," Finn looked more than amused.
"I'll take your word for it."
The two boys waited in silence for Kurt to wake up and after about five minutes, the tiny soprano made his way into the kitchen. Puck was suddenly very aware of the fact that he was shirtless.
Kurt was wearing ratty, old, plaid pajamas and his hair was standing up in every direction. Despite it, in Puck's opinion, he looked just as fabulous as always. Kurt was like a zombie, not noticing anything or anyone else in the kitchen and going straight for the coffee maker. He reached for the large, hot pink mug in the sink of clean dishes next to the coffee maker and filled it to the top. He even had the little packages of milk, cream and sugar that you got at restaurants. One milk, three sugar, Puck noted, watching his actions very closely. Finally, Kurt took a sip, moaning loudly and sitting back against the kitchen counter. This was all too much for Puck. Why did he have to be so adorable?
"Do you two need to be alone?" Finn joked from the kitchen table.
Kurt jumped, finally recognizing Finn's existence. "Shh, ours is a forbidden love." Kurt bantered. "It's okay, baby. I appreciate you." he cooed to the coffee maker, stroking it affectionately with his empty hand.
Puck was swooning inside for the small boy. This was quickly becoming more than just an innocent crush. He had to make his move before it was too late. And he knew just what to do.
There he was at McKinley. It was 8 o'clock in the morning. He was a lot earlier than he usually was as he normally didn't show up for homeroom. He stood in front of Kurt's locker, waiting. He was going to approach him. He ran a nervous hand through his mohawk. In the other hand? Coffee. In a large pink mug with one milk and three sugars.
Kurt turned the corner and Puck's heart began to race. He looked fantastic, wearing a simple white t-shirt, extravagant black scarf, electric blue jeans and black knee-high boots. On trend as always.
Kurt gave Puck a strange look. "What are you doing?"
It wasn't that Kurt didn't want Puck around, it was just strange. They were on good terms now, what with Glee Club and football in common, but they didn't really talk outside of that.
"I have something to say," Puck announced. Kurt nodded, eager to hear what he had to say. Puck was a bad-ass, it wasn't often that he did something like this. Especially to a guy. Especially to Kurt. "This is gonna come as a shock, but I like you."
Kurt gasped, hands flying up to his face over-dramatically. Puck was gay? Since when?
Puck continued. "I like you a lot. And I really hope you like me too cause this is really hard for a guy like me. We wouldn't have to live in the shadows. With you on my arm, I would be out and proud. But if you don't like me, I'd really rather you not tell anyone. You know, I got a badass rep to keep up."
Kurt took a deep breath. "Puck, I'm flattered but I can't see you giving me what I want in a relationship. With all the girls I've seen you date, you throw them to the side after you get bored of them. How can I be sure you won't do that to me?"
"Kurt, it's different with you. I care about you, I pay attention to you." Puck smirked as he admitted the next thing he had to say. "I don't know if you realized, but I was at your house on Saturday." Kurt nodded again. "And I saw you in the morning." The slight smile that had been playing on Kurt's face dropped. "You were adorable. The way all your hair was standing up on end and how in love with your coffee you were… It was actually the driving force to me telling you all this. I couldn't take not being with you anymore. So, as proof that I pay attention to you. I made you this." Puck gestured to the coffee he held in his hand. Kurt looked at it warily, wondering if all of this was just some kind of prank to get him to drink a weird concoction. "C'mon!" Puck encouraged him.
Kurt took the coffee from his hand, giving him one last strange look before taking a small sip of the coffee. Perfection. He moaned just as he had that Saturday. The kind of moan that would get him in trouble if a teacher walked by.
"It's good?" Puck grinned.
"Perfect," Kurt grinned just as widely as the bell rang. Kurt kissed Puck on the cheek. "I'll see you at lunch," he teased. "Boyfriend," he added with a wink thrown over his shoulder.
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Prompt: Puck spends the night at the Hudmel house and the next morning Finn's like 'come on, get up, you totally have to see this.' Finn parks them in the kitchen and they wait. After a few minutes Kurt comes stumbling in. Puck is in shock because fabulous super diva Kurt is wearing ratty old pjs, his hair is standing up on end, and he's walking like a bleary eyed zombie. Kurt beelines for the coffee maker and stands in front of it, staring like it contains his salvation. At the first sip, he gets a look of such absolute complete and utter bliss, that Finn jokingly asks if they need to be alone. "Shhh, ours is a forbidden love." Kurt affectionately pats the coffee maker. "It's okay, baby. I appreciate you." Puck had already been secretly crushing on Kurt, but this is all just too completely endearing/adorable for him to stand. A couple of days later, he's waiting in front of Kurt's locker with a huge cup of coffee made to Kurt's exacting specifications and finally works up the nerve to ask the other boy out.


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Pakistan warned the United States it risks losing an ally if it continues to accuse Islamabad of playing a double game in the war against militancy, escalating the crisis in relations between the two countries.
Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was responding to comments by U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, who said Pakistan's top spy agency was closely tied to the Haqqani network, the most violent and effective faction among Islamic Taliban militants in Afghanistan.
It is the most serious allegation levelled by the United States against nuclear-armed and Muslim-majority Pakistan since they began an alliance in the war on terror a decade ago.
"You will lose an ally," Ms. Khar told Geo TV in New York in remarks broadcast on Friday.
"You cannot afford to alienate Pakistan, you cannot afford to alienate the Pakistani people. If you are choosing to do so and if they are choosing to do so it will be at their (the United States') own cost."
Adm. Mullen, speaking in Senate testimony, alleged Haqqani operatives launched an attack last week on the U.S. embassy in Kabul with the support of Pakistan's military intelligence.
The tensions could have repercussions across Asia, from India, Pakistan's economically booming arch-rival, to China, which has edged closer to Pakistan in recent years.
A complete break between the United States and Pakistan – sometimes friends, often adversaries – seems unlikely, if only because Washington depends on Pakistan as a route to supply U.S. troops fighting militants in Afghanistan, and as a base for unmanned U.S. drones.
Pakistan relies on Washington for military and economic aid and for acting as a backer on the world stage.
"The message for America is: 'They can't live with us, they can't live without us," Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani told reporters.
But support in the U.S. Congress for curbing assistance or making conditions on aid more stringent is rising rapidly.
The unilateral U.S. Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May took already fragile relations between Pakistan and the United States to a low.
Relations were just starting to recover before the Kabul attack. Both sides are now engaged in an unusually blunt public war of words.
The dangers could be enormous if Washington fails to arrest the deterioration in relations with Pakistan, a largely dysfunctional state run by a feckless, military-cowed government and teeming with Islamist militants.
At stake are the fight against terrorism, the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and – as Islamabad plays off its friendship with China against the United States – regional stability.
"Anything which is said about an ally, about a partner, publicly to recriminate it, to humiliate it, is not acceptable," said Ms. Khar.
The United States has long pressed Pakistan to go after the Haqqani network, which it believes operates from sanctuaries in North Waziristan on the Afghan border.
Pakistan says its army is too stretched fighting its own Taliban insurgency. But analysts say the Islamabad government regards the Haqqanis as a strategic counterweight to the growing influence of old rival India in Afghanistan.
The Haqqani network, Adm. Mullen said, is a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI).
The charges come amid mounting exasperation in Washington as the Obama administration struggles to curb militancy in Pakistan and end the long war in Afghanistan.
Adm. Mullen, CIA director David Petraeus and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton all have met with their Pakistani counterparts in recent days to demand Islamabad take action against the Haqqani network.
Any Pakistani offensive against the Haqqanis would be risky. The group has an estimated 10,000-15,000 seasoned fighters at its disposal and analysts say the Pakistani army would likely suffer heavy casualties.
Mahmud Durrani, a retired major general and former Pakistani ambassador to Washington, said both sides should ease tensions to avoid American military action beyond drone strikes or economic sanctions.
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Easy Pistachio Fluff Salad
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This is something you'd find at a bbq,or in your deli window, it tastes great,and is so easy!
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This was the easiest thing to make on short notice for an office party. It was a HIT! I used the colored marshmallows as pictured only I used a little more than a what was called for and added some extra cherries to boot. I decorated the top with left over cherries (whole with stems) and walla. I have to make it again for my husband this wknd........lol. Very easy and VERY tasty. Thanks so much for the recipe!
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- 1 (3 1/2 ounce) box instant pistachio pudding mix
- 4 cups Cool Whip
- 1⁄2 cup chopped pecans
- 3⁄4 cup drained pineapple tidbits
- 1⁄2 cup maraschino cherry, drained and halved
- 1⁄2 cup shredded coconut
- 1 1⁄2 cups mini marshmallows
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By Danna Harman, USA TODAY
MEXICO CITY For most of the 20th century, power and the Institutional Revolutionary Party — or PRI — were one and the same in Mexico. All the mayors were PRI. All the congressmen, senators and governors. All the presidents.
In 1989, Baja state elected the country's first non-PRI governor. That broke the party's monopoly and started PRI on a long slide. In 1997, the PRI lost its absolute majority in Congress. In 2000, newly elected Vicente Fox of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) ended 71 years of PRI presidents.
The PRI's skid looks set to continue July 2, when Mexico holds national elections.
Roberto Madrazo, the party's presidential candidate, is running in third place behind the conservative PAN's Felipe Calderon and Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador of the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
Is the PRI's role as the powerhouse of Mexican politics history?
"Don't bet on it," says Gabriel Guerra Castellanos, political analyst for the daily Reforma newspaper. The party machinery, built up over eight decades, means "the PRI remains arguably the country's only real national party. And its resilience to the changing political landscape is actually remarkable."
The PRI still has the largest bloc of deputies in Congress — 204 out of 500. It holds 58 of the 128 Senate seats. Seventeen of Mexico's 31 governors are PRI, as are 70% of its mayors.
For much of its history, the PRI was a loose coalition of local political bosses, military strongmen, labor unions and peasant groups.
Its ideology — always populist and nationalist — moved left or right with changes in leaders. It functioned as a patronage machine, doling out money, jobs and favors, and tapping the wealth of the state oil monopoly, Pemex, for party benefit.
Today, the PRI defines itself by what it is not. "We are not the intolerant right wing and radical like the PAN, and we are also not populist and violent like the leftists in the PRD," says Martin Olavarrieta, a PRI candidate for Mexico City's assembly. "We are in the center. We represent prudence, maturity and responsibility."
Voters complain that the PRI's identity is blurry and say they don't see how Madrazo can deliver on campaign promises.
"Madrazo says he will bring us millions of new jobs — but how? What is their platform? What are their projects?" asks Alberto Barajas, a security guard in Mexico City. "I understand they are not the other parties. But who are they?"
A poll released last week by Consulta Mitofsky shows that PRI is likely to lose ground in elections July 2 but remain a powerful player.
Even if Madrazo loses, Mexicans will give the party enough votes to "sustain a strong PRI presence" throughout the country, says Pamela Starr, a Latin America analyst at the Eurasia Group, a New York consulting company.
Madrazo, son of a former PRI governor, has little reason to be as confident. For more than a year, the 53-year-old former congressman, senator and governor has lagged in every national poll. Calderon and Obrador have swapped the lead several times.
Mexico does not require a runoff between the top two candidates, so the presidency will go to the winner July 2 even if he captures less than 50% of the votes.
All three candidates have stressed economic issues and expressed degrees of outrage over the Bush administration's proposal to tighten border controls and deploy National Guard troops to help catch illegal immigrants.
Calderon favors corporate tax cuts and reduced government intervention to create jobs. Obrador proposes social programs aimed at the poorest Mexicans.
Madrazo calls himself a "progressive leftist" and has accused Obrador of stealing his ideas. On the campaign trail, he calls for increased competitiveness, improved security and changes in police policy. He promises 9.6 million new jobs.
Madrazo's poor showing in two national debates and his authoritarian management style have created rifts in the party. In recent weeks, three prominent PRI senators have endorsed other candidates.
"Madrazo is a divisive character, who plays politics in an old-style, non-inclusive fashion," Guerra says. "He is a master at wiping out his internal opponents, but that's not enough anymore."
Mexico City taco vendor Jesus Jimenez says he is a "PRI-ista, now and forever," but "someone in the PRI messed us up when they chose Madrazo."
One of the PRI legislators who defected, Genaro Borrego Estrada, a 30-year party veteran and former PRI president, quit the party and endorsed Calderon last week. He says the PRI's malaise goes beyond Madrazo.
"We are an unpopular party, and I am sure we will not triumph on July 2, but it's not all because of Madrazo," Borrego says.
The PRI, Borrego says, has been unable to define itself in the period of multiparty politics.
"We need radical reform and a new definition of what the party should be," he says.
PRI's reputation for corruption and cronyism remains a hurdle.
"Corruption is, sadly, a national trait. It comes with holding office here, and none of the parties can claim the mantle of totally clean government," Guerra says. "But the perception is that the PRI is the worst."
PRI also is saddled with an image of being out of touch, and its faithful are often called dinosaurs. Mexican cartoonists have portrayed Madrazo as a lumbering brontosaurus, even though Obrador is the same age.
"They are trying to portray us as old, but it's a myth," Olavarrieta says, pointing out that the average age of PRI governors is 42 and that Enrique Pena Nieto, the PRI governor of Mexico state, is not even 40.
"Saying the PRI is old and finished is an easy slogan," says Olavarrieta, 42. "In fact, we are reinventing ourselves."
The future of the party, Borrego says, will depend on how far it goes to re-fashion itself. "The day after elections, there will be a battle between the various factions: the pragmatists who want to restructure, the idealists who want a whole new party and the nostalgics who want the old party," he predicts.
"Madrazo could try and keep a stranglehold on the party," Guerra says. "What is needed is a fresh reformer to jump on the locomotive and steer it away from the old way of doing politics.
"But there will be a struggle before this can happen."
Contributing: Harman is Latin America bureau chief for USA TODAY and The Christian Science Monitor


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HI folks,
What do you do with your surplus Avaya phones that are just sitting, and no longer in use? We buy back certain types of them for cash or trade!! Please let me know if you have any available.
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When we finally break free from this oppressive phone system we will be taking them out back and terminating them old yeller style.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Lower-Income, High-Achieving Students Fall Behind
It's a popular belief that gifted kids are "the kids with disposable income," as Mara Sapon-Shevin wrote in her book Playing Favorites. Since all gifted kids supposedly have well-off parents, there's no need for schools to concern themselves too much with their welfare. After all, these are the kids best able to fend for themselves.
Now a new report from Civic Enterprises, a think tank, and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, called The Achievement Trap, shows not only how wrong that assumption is, but that it's a dangerous assumption as well. Fully 3.4 million K-12 students with family incomes below the national median test in the top quartile for academic achievement. Unfortunately, a higher proportion test in the top quartile in first grade than later on. In other words, as these students progress through school, their achievement suffers.
As I mentioned in the last post, there is much to dislike about No Child Left Behind (though I think there's some evidence that it has created incentives to reverse failure in the worst schools). One thing to dislike is that these millions of high-achieving, low-income students are in fact getting left behind. Even as they fall out of the top quartile, they rarely test as "failing." And so they're ignored both by the standards movement, and by the folks who dislike gifted education because it's only for the kids with "disposable income."
I'm glad this report is out, and I hope it gets some attention, because it shines a spotlight on what many of us who are involved in gifted education know. The leveling impulse in schools hurts all gifted kids, but it does not hurt all gifted kids equally. Well-off parents can afford to move to a different district, put their kids in private schools, hire tutors, pay for summer courses, or give up a parent's income to homeschool. Low-income families are simply stuck with the schools they get. And so, these promising children wind up falling out of the top quartile, and going to college at lower rates than other children whose potential they matched in first grade.
Can anything change it? Under the current educational set-up, I think the best approach is to measure individual children's progress, not just the progress of groups and schools. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has hinted at shifting NCLB to this concept. What gets measured gets changed, and if schools are held accountable for the low-income children who drift from the 90th percentile in first grade to the 70th percentile in fifth grade, maybe that's a few more children who won't fall through the cracks.
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- Taia said...
The article measures academic achievement in terms of being in the top quarter academically. Only 25% of students can be in the top quarter. We can't increase the fraction of low-income students in the top quarter without decreasing the fraction of high-income students, the NCLB approach.
I would be more interested in how absolute scores of ALL students can be improved, on a test like the NAEP, ACT or SAT.
I also wonder how correlated parental intelligence is with parental income, and if we will ever know the genetic heritability of intelligence. Unfortunately, nature has not bestowed her gifts equally.
- Karen said...
Tracking test scores by group rather then individual makes NCLB worthless for the following reasons.
1. Schools in neighborhoods with well off, well educated parents get credit for the efforts of the parents while schools in areas with poor illiterate parents get penalized.
2. Schools are motivated to screen incoming students.
3. Schools are motivated to force out poor performing students to improve test scores.
4. Schools with high turnovers suffer, especially those near embassies. Last years English Language learners are now back in China and have been replaced by Israelis fresh off the plane who speak no English. But the test doesn't care; the test expects the group to make progress even though it isn't the same group.
5. There is a lot of pressure to hold back students so the school will look good on the tests while there is no way to move up because concerns about the test.
Another major problem with NCLB is teaching to the test. This is a problem because.
1. It is possible to teach kids to score well on a test without actually teaching them the material. Consider basic division on a multiple choice test. A number is divisible by 2 if it is even. By 3 if the digits add up to 3, 6, or 9. By 4 there is 50% if it even or teach to divide by 2 twice. By 5 if it ends in 0 or 5. By 6 if it is even and divisible by 3. By 7 if none of the other answers work. By 8, there is a 25 % chance it is divisible by 8 if it is even or divide by 2 three times. By 9 if the digits add up to 9. By 10 if it ends in 0. Now by teaching a child to divide by 2 they can get at least 90 percent on a basic division test without really knowing much division.
2. Long term education goals are forgotten. There is no reason a child can not be introduced to the periodic table in Pre-K. Right after the Alphabet and the numbers. It is simply another basic set that is key to understanding a major area. The alphabet is the basic set for all words and language. The numbers are the basic set for all mathematics. The Period table is the basic set for all science and matter in the universe. It fits perfectly in the pattern and could easily be painlessly introduced with well designed materials. Doing so would allow children to notice and understand chemical formulas on products, the mention of elements on TV or in everyday life and allow them to enter later science classes with a much greater understanding. But because the period table is not part of any test until much later if ever it will not be discuss in early childhood education and may not be discussed in elementary school at all.


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Now, I enjoy verbal repartee and arguing fine points as much as anyone (how could I engage in this exercise if I did not?). And while I will try to be exacting both in presenting the big picture and in working through the details, of some necessity there must initially be a focus on the big picture. So, first, I may simply not have time to respond to or work through all the minutiae while I'm trying to single-handedly re-think the entire field of law. So please allow me to beg off defending minor points at this time. Believe me, everything will eventually be revisited and dealt with.
Second, not everything becomes clear instantly. Sometimes, if you catch me in a flaw of logic, I may need to cogitate on it slowly, and work though the
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Above all else, I wish to be reasonable. So I can at all times explain my position rationally, describe the evidence I find controlling, and provide the logic that leads me to my conclusion. What I cannot abide, and what I will never do, is to propound a conclusion which I cannot rationally explain, nor will I ever claim that no rationale is necessary. If you do the same, we will get along fabulously.
C. A work in progress.
I am going to go through the whole field of law, and I'm going to have to do it in broad strokes at first. Details will be filled in later. Then will come biblical proofs, historical proofs, and a consideration of counter-arguments. Finally, when I have the assistance of thousands of staff, we can begin the diligent work of examining cases and casebooks, and applying principles to specific fact situations to derive a comprehensive jurisprudence. Don't look for it in six weeks.
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Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Le 19 avr. 04, à 11:08, Reinhard Poetz a écrit : > >> ...I have to think more about the API of this component but first I >> want to talk more about the background of my idea. I had several >> discussions with Alex Schatten and we came to the conclusion that, >> generally spoken, there are two database usage scenarios: >> >> 1. Enterprise Level > > > Where you need java code and/or O/R mapping tools, no question about > this. > >> 2. Simple database applications >> Usually very small projects where you need only a few >> 'interactive' pages. >> >> If you are familiar with O/R-mapping tools I always recommend them, >> also in scenario two... > > > Ok, but our users lists shows clearly that many people are doing stuff > directly in SQL, for various reasons, including the welcome > "transparency" of SQL when doing simple things. > > And I'd add a third category > > 3. Read-only database publishing or mining applications > > Where you do no transactions, only queries, and where O/R mapping does > not bring much to the SQL -> XML -> whatever chain. See below > >> ...IMO there are users who don't want to write programmes at all. >> They prefer XML declarations. So the question is 'How can we support >> them?'. > > > Don't you think many of these users would prefer writing simple > scripts rather than XML declarations? > > But I'm thinking more about providing an alternative to the ESQL / > SQLTransformer stuff, maybe you're seeing things from a different > point of view? I'm talking if really simple applications like a registration form, a simple page filling one table with data, or something like that. As soon as you need more I recommend using O/R-mapping tools because they are easier to use as many people think! > >> ...WDOT? Maybe we should collect some proposals and then poll our users? > > > Hmmm...it might be better to come up with examples or use-cases of > what you think a ModularDatabaseComponent could be so that people can > judge on code. Otherwise I'm afraid a pool could lead to much talk > without a concrete outcome. I'm aware of the fact that there are many ways in Cocoon. I think that we as community should give clear advice what's in our opinion the best way. If I'm asked I say: 1. Enterprise Level ---> O/R-mapping, EJB 2. Simple Database Applications with CRUD (create/update/delete) ---> Flowscript and Database Component 3. Publishing ---> SQLTransformer Following this I don't see the need for a. calling DB from within Flowscripts b. code CRUD in templates (Groovy, JXTemplate, ...) and XSP and not sure about c. DatabaseActions. There might be reasons to use them if people don't want to learn Flowscript but I'm not sure if we should recommend it. You also asked how the DatabaseComponent which I'm thinking of could work - here an example: function myDBFunc() { var myDBComp = cocoon.getComponent("myDBComp"); myDBComp.setMapping("mappingFile.xml"); myDBComp.add("tableSet-A"); // tell the component which tableset to use cocoon.sendPageAndWait("blabla", {}); } Maybe the DatabaseComponent should support reading operations too. The question is whether we don't duplicate the efforts of e.g. OJB with this approach? The only difference is that you don't need Java objects ... Comments? > Unfortunately I currently lack the time to work seriously on the > Groovy/DB stuff. I'll try to not talk too much about it until > something usable is here ;-) > > -Bertrand -- Reinhard
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--- 6 min - Bro. Wilber relates his experience of going down the Pentecostal Road "quite aways", before turning back when he found that "wasn't the way to go".
--- 14 min - One of the tenderest words in all of Scripture is when Jesus calls Mary by name on resurrection morning.
--- 17 min - preaching in earnest now regarding blind Bartimeus.
--- 33 min - relates the preaching of Annette Marsnik on John 17. Jesus had authority over ALL FLESH. There was a drawing power within Jesus which affected all men.
--- 35 - Walking off Whiteface mountain in total darkness. You can have eyes in your feet.
--- 36 - He wonders aloud what it was like to observe Jesus' personal characterists. Never a man spoke like this man.
--- 40 - We need our lives to be filled with MEANING. Jesus Himself is the Logos, which can be translated as meaning itself.
--- 44 - "Jesus, thou Son of David" This was a term of Messianic dignity.
--- 47 - "tough love" "severe mercy"
--- 49 - Bartimeus had to walk by faith, not by sight. He had to walk for some distance to come to Jesus before he was healed. Jesus didn't walk right up to him, but called for him to come and close the distance first. Jesus gets men on their feet.
--- 51 - When you ask men you're begging, but when you ask God you're praying. Bartimeus will be asking Jesus for something, so it's not appropriate for him to be wearing a beggar's garment - he therefore casts it aside.
--- 53 - Steve relates his own salvation experience and the message - preached by a Scottish woman named Mae Decker - which compelled him to come to Jesus.
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