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Transcript: Press briefing Q&A with CA Assembly Speaker John Perez on the May revised budget for FY2013-14
Posted by Jenny Jiang on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 · 1 Comment
Partial transcript of press briefing Q&A with California Assembly Speaker John A. Perez on Gov. Jerry Brown's May revision of the fiscal year 2013-2014 budget. The press briefing was held on May 15, 2013:
Question: [Inaudible]
Assembly Speaker John A. Perez:
Well, we expect the Governor to start from a point. We expect others to start from a different point. That's what you deal with from a budgetary process. We've been very clear that the first tenet of our framework is fiscal stability. But in the second tenet in talking about strengthening our middle-class and using education as the corner stone of that work in the middle-class, we understand that students live in the real world. They do not just exist in the classroom. And so we believe strongly as we've outlined in our budget blueprint that you'd have to deal with the crisis of childhood poverty in the state of California. We will continue to look at that in our budget subcommittee process, our budget committee process, and I think that we're going to reach an accommodation with the Governor in this area.
…The Governor has said that California has this trend of boom and bust and that the capitol is sort of like a funding machine. Do you think that there is the same sort of desire for fiscal discipline in the legislature that the Governor seemed to be saying he wanted during the press conference?
Assembly Speaker John A. Perez:
If you listen to everything that the budget chair and I have said over the last couple of years, if you listen to what we've outlined in our blueprint, you'll know that the answer is emphatically yes. We absolutely believe in fiscal discipline. And when you look at the tenets of our blueprint, they're predicated on that.
With respect to the boom and bust, that's exactly what informed our view of how to deal with a rainy day fund.
One of the areas of greatest volatility is individual income tax and in particular capital gain tax. Over the last 20 years, they fluctuated anywhere between 3% and 14.5% of the general fund. And so we think the most responsible way to deal with that boom and bust is to deal with the area of greatest volatility and that's where we've proposed a rainy day fund that captures any portion of the general fund that comes from capital gains above 6.5% and divert it into a rainy day fund so that you smooth out the peaks and you smooth out the valleys.
So we're in absolute agreement with the Governor about fiscal discipline and stability.
Assembly Speaker John A. Perez:
We're where we are, which is that we have got to look at the formulaic changes and make sure that we address the questions that the Governor outlines by looking at a couple of things. First, in making sure that as voters approve Prop. 30 as an expression of their desire to save public education and invest in public education that any change in formula has to result in an increase of funding for all schools. Second, that you have to deal with the reality of individual students and that you can't only look at clusters. You can take clusters into account, and I believe one of you asked the Governor about clustering – is it related to his formula? Yes, you can look at clusters but you also have to make sure that you're making the proper decision that impacts students even when they attend schools or live in school districts that don't have the clusters that the Governor's identified.
So in broad terms, we're in agreement with the Governor but in areas of specific work, we would like to work out details to make sure that it works for everybody. And you've seen that play out in both our education policy committee, our budget committee in general, and our budget subcommittee on education.
Assembly Speaker John A. Perez:
Well, it's not getting rid of. It's making sure that to the extent that you include a concentration grant that you also figure out ways to deal with the issues of individual students. We believe that there's a way to do this where all school districts get an increase over time and that is really important for us.
It's also important for us that as you're changing the formulas that you insulate school districts from any one-time hit that could happen during the transition.
And again, we're very optimistic that we can reach an agreement with the Governor…
Assembly Speaker John A. Perez:
[Response in Spanish]
Assembly Speaker John A. Perez:
I think it's a good starting point. Again, we're at the starting point of the discussion. The May revise gives us the new framework in terms of dollar amounts. It builds on all the work that the budget committee, budget subcommittee has done up to this point, and then we start narrowing in on issues.
One of the things that's most significant with the Governor's [budget] with respect to the Medi-Cal expansion is that he agrees with us that we should have a statewide approach. The second thing that's important is he understands that there's a need to protect counties from the unintended consequences from the real-life impact of those people who will not get coverage either through expansion. The rest is detail work that we're committed to do with the Governor. We think we'll get to an accommodation.
Assembly Speaker John A. Perez:
So this is a 72-page document that I got at the same time you did. Until we review every page of these 72-pages, until our budget committee and our budget subcommittee go and look at every single line of what's in there, we can't give you an accurate assessment on how far apart we are.
In broad terms, we're in the same place but the details matter and we're going to do the detail work.
…His forecast for essentially lower personal income taxes…do you share that kind of pessimistic approach of what's coming?
Assembly Speaker John A. Perez:
What you characterize as pessimistic, I would agree with your characterization. Budgeting is all question of projections and assumptions. So what we see in the Governor's proposal is very conservative sets of assumptions at every fork in the road. The reality is you never get all the upsides and you never get all of the downsides. There's always a combination of the two.
So a quick review of what the Governor proposed assumed all of the negative potential outcomes. We believe that there'll be some mixed. We're waiting to see what the LAO [Legislative Analyst's Office] comes up with with respect to his analysis, and then we'll use both sets of data to drive this discussion.
…Many of you stuck around with the Director of Finance where you were asking how perfect the science of projection is and she basically gave you the same answer I gave last week. This is an imperfect science. You use the best evaluations of what's ahead of you and the best rearview look at what has happened in the past to try to discern what's happening.
So the areas of the most important agreement are that we agree with the Governor on fiscal discipline and on making sure that we don't make out-year expenditures that are not supportable with long-term revenues.
How we finally look at what those numbers look like will be informed both by what happened today and what the LAO did and a deliberative process of the committees. Because I know that the Chair will have both sets of experts come forward and try to discern what makes the most sense from those sets of data.
I think I'm also – I was fascinated by one of the answers the Governor said when somebody…asked him about franking, and the Governor said "I stand on intelligent analysis of the issues." We, too, stand on intelligent analysis of the issues.
Assembly Speaker John A. Perez:
We have to. When you look at our democracy, it is predicated on a balance between the three branches. And so we need to make sure that the courts are able to operate efficiently because they play such an important role in our democracy, and we think the courts will have their voices heard. We'll add our voices to theirs in making sure that as we recover, the courts are able to recover along with us.
Assembly Speaker John A. Perez:
Yes. But even before we had a super majority, the last two years we've had on-time budgets. So the controlling question isn't whether or not we have a super majority. The controlling question is whether we have a budget chair and budget subchairs that are going roll up their sleeves and do the hard work that's necessary. Over the last several years, our chairmen have proven the ability to do that and been able to work together with the Governor and with the Senate to get on-time budgets two years in a roll. This will be a third year in a roll. Each of the last two years, we saw an improvement in our credit worthiness. We expect to see the same this year.
One of the things that's highlighted in the Governor's May revise is that the estimate for the cost of financing debt decreased $480 million. That's $480 million that can be set aside to build our reserve, set aside to make the investment in education, set aside for the purposes that are much more important than managing debt. And the reason that we have that $480 million upswing because of the decreased cost of carrying our debt load is because of the responsible work that we've done with this Governor over the last couple of years to balance our budget, act on time, and increase credit worthiness.
Thank you all very much.
Learn More:
- WhatTheFolly.com: Transcript: CA Gov. Jerry Brown's press conference remarks on the May revision of the 2013-2014 budget
- WhatTheFolly.com: Transcript: Press conference Q&A with CA Gov. Jerry Brown on the May revision of the 2013-2014 budget
- WhatTheFolly.com: Transcript: Press conference Q&A with CA Department of Finance Director Ana Matosantos on the May revision of the 2013-2014 budget
- WhatTheFolly.com: Transcript: Remarks by CA Assembly Speaker John A. Perez on the May revised budget for FY 2013-14
- WhatTheFolly.com: Transcript: Press briefing Q&A with CA Assembly Speaker John Perez on the May revised budget for FY2013-14
- California Department of Finance: May revision of the Governor's budget for fiscal year 2013-14 (PDF)
- California Department of Finance: California budget
- CalChannel.com: Video of press conference on CA Gov. Jerry Brown's May revision of the 2013-2014 state budget
- CalChannel.com: Video of press conference with John Perez on May 15, 2013
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The AFC East experts are back again. In the last preseason roundtable of the year, the experts share their thoughts on what each team needs to be concerned with as the regualr season gets underway this weekend.
What are the top three concerns affecting your team heading into the 2009 season?
Alain Poupart (Dolphin Digest):
1. Keeping Chad Pennington healthy:
Make no mistake, the Dolphins had a lot of things go right in 2008, but they wouldn't have come close to winning the AFC East title without the performance of Pennington, who was nothing short of spectacular. Don't believe me? His passer rating was the second-best in the league and he became the first QB in LEAGUE HISTORY to throw for at least 3,500 yards with no more than seven interceptions. Here's the catch, though: Look at Pennington's history, and you'll see he's never played 16 games two consecutive years. On the contrary, his pattern has been very good to great years in even-numbered seasons, and bad, injury-riddled seasons in odd-numbered years. Well, it's 2009. Backup Chad Henne looks like a good prospect for the future, but it's doubtful he's ready now to lead this team to the playoffs.
2. Are the rookie cornerbacks ready?:
Second-round pick Sean Smith made a couple of spectacular interceptions in the preseason, and he has the look of a future star at the potential. But it WAS the preseason, and he IS a rookie, so there no doubt will be growing pains for him as a rookie starter. First-round pick Vontae Davis, meanwhile, wasn't nearly as impressive as one would have expected given his draft status, although he did get better as the preseason went along. Bottom line is those two enter the season as unknowns because of their rookie status, which is a concern because this isn't a team that has a lot at cornerback beyond veteran starter Will Allen and those two.
3. Covering kicks:
The Dolphins were nothing short of brutal on special teams in 2008, and we saw some of the same things in the preseason, capped by a punt return for a touchdown allowed against New Orleans in the finale. Sure, those were backups on the field at that time, but there was at least one major special teams breakdown in every single preseason game, whether it be a long return allowed or a fumble. The Dolphins were able to overcome their special teams deficiencies last year in part because of a soft schedule, but we all know they have the toughest schedule in the league this year (based on last year's standings). Regardless, this is team that's not nearly overpowering enough to be able to overcome problems in the kicking game.
Tyler Dunne (BuffaloFootballReport.com):
1. The direction of the offense:
The offensive coordinator was fired. The no-huddle offense was shut down in the preseason. And it's really hard to tell if this year's offense is any more explosive than last year... even with Terrell Owens. T.O.'s presence should help but Buffalo's offense was droned to a yawn all August. What's the direction? New coordinator Alex Van Pelt vows to push the ball downfield more. But at the end of the day, Trent Edwards is the one making those decisions. The unit needs to develop some cohesion fast and settle on an identity. Van Pelt had only 10 days to gear up for his new position. Buffalo insists the hurry-up will stick. We'll see. Too often this preseason, the Bills offense raced on and off the field.
2. Trent Edwards' blindside:
When the Bills traded Jason Peters to Philadelphia, they figured Langston Walker could simply move from right tackle to left tackle and everything would be fine. Wrong. The mammoth, slow-footed Walker never materialized into a productive left tackle through camp, so the team cut him loose. Demetrius Bell, a 7th round pick two years ago, will suddenly be protecting Edwards' blindside. That's a daunting task. Obviously, the Bills are thinking long term here. They like Bell a lot and figure they'll take their lumps now with the future in mind. Still, you have to wonder if Bell is ready. He's athletic and has shown quick feet, but this decision remains a colossal risk. You can bet every opposing defense will throw the kitchen sink at Bell.
3. Getting heat on the QB:
It took the entire training camp, but the Bills were finally able to reach an agreement with first round pick Aaron Maybin. And the sigh from the front office could be heard throughout Western NY. Buffalo needs Maybin to produce now. Not later. Right now. Aaron Schobel, returning from a foot injury, didn't look explosive during the preseason. Chris Kelsay is a run stopper at best. Maybin has the raw speed around the edge to be the disruptive force Buffalo's defense desperately needs. He had a couple sacks in the preseason that hinted he's ready to play now. With classic, pick-you-apart quarterbacks Tom Brady and Chad Pennington in the division, Maybin must be a game-changer. The Bills' defense is solid, but lacks playmakers. In Maybin, they hope they finally found one.
Dan Leberfeld (Jets Confidential):
1. Starting a rookie quarterback:
No matter how highly-rated the quarterback was coming out of college, this is a tough proposition. There is a good chance Mark Sanchez is going to be special one day, but the odds are stacked against this happening in his rookie year. Usually rookie quarterbacks are very inconsistent.
But one factor that gives him a fighting chance is he was drafted by a pretty good team that went 9-7 last year. So often first round quarterbacks go to bad teams and when they enter the line-up they don't have a good supporting cast around them. Sanchez has a pretty good team around him, so that should help.
2. The lack of a dominant pass rusher:
There is no doubt Rex Ryan is is a really smart defensive mind, and did a great job in Baltimore. But last time I checked, he didn't bring Terrell Suggs with him to New York, and he doesn't have a Suggs-type pass rusher on this Jets team. Vernon Gholston doesn't look like that kind of player so far, and Calvin Pace and Bryan Thomas are solid players, but not scary pass rusher.
So unless somebody emerges like Marques Murrell, Rex is going to have to manufacture the pass rush with his creative schemes.
Not matter how smart you are as a defensive coach, it helps to have a pass rusher that forces opposing offensives to slide the protection to that person.
3. The need for a big play WR:
The Jets have a lot of steady targets in the passing game like TE Dustin Keller and wide receivers Jerricho Cotchery and Chansi Stuckey, but they like a star target in their passing game, somebody that scares the daylights out of the opposition. They can certainly win with the cast of targets that they have in the passing game, but they could use a big, physical, game-changing wide-out who can bailout the QB when the throw isn't perfect. There need for this type of guy is why they were rumored to be interested in 6-6 Plaxico Burress during the off-season.
The Jets don't have a big target at wide receiver or tight end, and that means that Mark Sanchez doesn't have the margin of error most quarterbacks need with their throws, especially rookies.
1. Protecting Brady:
There is no greater priority than protecting Tom Brady at this time. New England has made the bold choice ot go with just two quarterbacks on their roster, Brady and undrafted rookie Brian Hoyer. If Brady gets hurt, the Patriots can flush their season quickly. There will be no repeat performance like Matt Casssel was able to generate as Hoyer looked average in preseason and has a long way to go to learn the offense or any NFL defense.
2. Establish a Running Game:
If Tom Brady is forced to run the spread offense all year, it only takes one team one player willing to risk it all to blitz Brady into oblivion. Sure the Patriots might win, but Brady runs the risk of getting crushed by a 300-pound defender. If New England can find a way to get Fred Taylor, Sammy Morris and Laurence Maroney on track, the Patriots offense will be extremely dangerous. A multi-dimensional offense commanded by Brady could make the Patriots even more opportunistic than the 2007 team. Part of Matt Cassels success in 2008 came on the back of the 6th best rushing offense which gained 142.4 yards per game last year.
3. Prevent the Big Play:
The Patriots have a horrid track record of giving up the big play. Though the defense has found a way to prevent opponents from scoring in the Red Zone, their big play susceptibility could become their undoing. The Patriots were the second worst team in the league last year giving up 12 plays of 40 yards or more. Newcomers Leigh Bodden, Shawn Springs, Darius Butler and Patrick Chung will be counted on to address the issue. Bodden and Springs are a significant upgrade over Ellis Hobbs, Lew Sanders and Deltha ONeal. Even Rodney Harrison thinks Chung will become an impact player.
Dan Leberfeld covers the New York Jets for Jets Confidential Magazine
Alain Poupart covers the Miami dolphins as the Associate Editor of Dolphin Digest
Tyler Dunne covers the Buffalo Bills for the Buffalo Football Report
Jon Scott covers the New England Patriots for Patriots Insider


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County's overall rate hike expected to total 4.85%
URBANA — Champaign County Board members gave final approval Thursday night to a tax levy ordinance that likely will result in a tax increase for most county property owners.
The county's tax levy will increase about 2.9 percent from $28.8 million to $29.7 million under the proposal adopted 19-0.
The overall increase in the county's tax rate is estimated to be 4.85 percent, meaning that the owner of a home assessed at $150,000 would pay about $18 more in property taxes next year.
The county's overall assessed valuation is projected to decrease by about 1 percent, primarily because millions of dollars of Carle Foundation properties have been removed from tax rolls after a new charity care exemption law was approved by the Legislature last year.
The board also approved, 13-6, a $37.8 million general corporate fund budget for the fiscal year beginning Dec. 1.
All of the no votes came from Republican board members: Aaron Esry, Stanley Harper, Stan James, John Jay, Jim McGuire and Max Mitchell. They did not explain their no votes.
Board members also voted to issue $937,885 in tax anticipation warrants, a form of short-term borrowing, in order to help the nursing home with its cash flow. The facility traditionally has greater cash demands in November and December, according to Scott Gima, the manager of the home.
The board gave its final approval to the reappointment of Cathy Emanuel of Champaign to the county nursing home board, as well as the appointment of two new members to the panel, Sam Banks of Champaign and Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Donald Lyn of Mahomet.
Board members Diane Michaels, Jeff Kibler and Giraldo Rosales were absent from the meeting.
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Prince Charles speaks about 'deep loss' after IRA killed his relative in Sligo
The Prince of Wales has said he feels the pain of other victims of the 30-year conflict on the island of Ireland.
On what is set to be an emotional day on his trip to the site where his great-uncle was assassinated, Charles said people in Ireland and Britain need no longer be victims of a different history.
Charles made the remarks at The Model arts centre in Sligo ahead of a peace and reconciliation prayer service in nearby Drumcliffe and the poignant visit to Mullaghmore where Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed by the IRA on August 27 1979.
The prince will meet rescuers and locals who were in the seaside beauty spot when the earl was murdered with three others, including his teenage grandson and a local boy, in a bomb attack.
"We all have regrets, as my mother said in Dublin Castle 'with the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we wish had been done differently or not at all'," Charles said.
"I'm only too deeply aware of the long history of suffering which Ireland has endured, not just in recent decades but over the years of its history.
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Mullaghmore has remained synonymous with IRA terrorism and the 30-year conflict since the horrific attack.
The earl, who holidayed for decades at nearby Classiebawn Castle, was blown up onboard the pleasure boat Shadow V after he set out from the harbour along the Atlantic coast to pick lobster pots and fish.
Three others were murdered - Lady Doreen Brabourne, 83, the mother-in-law of Mountbatten's daughter died one day later, Nicholas Knatchbull, the earl's grandson and aged only 14, and Paul Maxwell, a local boy from Killynure, Enniskillen, who had worked on preparing the royal boat for fishing and was only 15.
Charles said: "At the time I could not imagine how we would come to terms with the magnitude of such a deep loss.
"Through this dreadful experience I now understand in a perfect way the agonies borne by others on these islands of whatever faith or political persuasion."
The prince said he would attend the peace and reconciliation service in Drumcliffe where WB Yeats is buried and he recalled a verse by the poet who wrote "and I shall have some peace there, peace comes dropping slowly".
"As a grandfather myself I pray that his words can apply to all those who have been so hurt and scarred by the troubles of the past so that all of us, all of us who inhabit these Atlantic islands may leave our grandchildren a lasting legacy of peace, forgiveness and friendship."


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Frederick Krafft (1860–1933) was an American socialist political activist and politician. Twice nominated by the Socialist Party of America as its candidate for Governor of New Jersey and twice a candidate for United States Congress, Krafft is best remembered as the defendant in a 1918 trial for alleged violation of the Espionage Act. Krafft later was the only person convicted under this law to receive a full executive pardon from President Woodrow Wilson.
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Frederick Krafft was born in the United States in 1860. He was the son of German parents, radical republican "'48ers" who emigrated to America following the abortive German revolutions of 1848.[1]
During his youth, Krafft studied to become a Christian minister, but the death of his father forced Frederick into the world of business, where he was employed by a life insurance company for 25 years.[2] Krafft was subsequently the business manager for the New Yorker Volkszeitung, a German-language socialist daily newspaper located in New York City.[2]
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A longtime resident of Ridgefield,[3] Frederick Krafft was a State Secretary of the Socialist Party of New Jersey, the state affiliate of the Socialist Party of America (SPA). Krafft was a frequent delegate to conventions of the party, including the gatherings held in 1908, 1912, 1917, and 1919.[4]
Krafft was elected to the governing 15 member National Executive Committee (NEC) of the SPA in 1918, although he was unable to participate in its activities until early the next year due to his ongoing legal difficulties.[5]
During the bitter 1919 party split from which emerged the Communist Party of America and the Communist Labor Party of America, Krafft was one of the 7 supporters of the "Regular" faction headed by Executive Secretary Adolph Germer and NEC member James Oneal. Krafft was the NEC member who moved for the suspension of the Ohio state organization of the SPA in June 1919 owing to its support of the Left Wing Section headed by Alfred Wagenknecht and L.E. Katterfeld.[6]
In 1920, Krafft was the nominee of the SPA for Congress in the 6th Congressional District of New Jersey.[7] He ran again for the same seat in 1924, this time as the nominee of the Progressive Party headed by Robert M. La Follette Sr.,[7] an umbrella organization with which the Socialist Party actively participated.
The 1918 trial[edit]
Frederick Krafft is best remembered as the defendant of one of the political trials associated with World War I.
In August 1917, Krafft was speaking on a street corner in Newark, New Jersey. At some point in his talk, soldiers in the crowd began to create a disturbance, causing Krafft to send for the police in an effort to maintain order.[1] Instead of receiving police protection, Krafft was instead arrested for holding a meeting without a permit. These charges were later extended under the 1917 Espionage Act when a complaint was filed by soldiers in the crowd, who accused the socialist agitator of German extraction of attempting to cause insubordination and disloyalty in the armed forces.[1]
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Krafft was sentenced to 5 years in federal penitentiary and fined $1,000.[1]
On March 5, 1919, Krafft received a full pardon from President Woodrow Wilson for the 1918 conviction, owing in part to Krafft's pro-war stance at the 1917 Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party.[8]
Death and legacy[edit]
Frederick Krafft died in August 1933.
- ^ a b c d H.C. Peterson and Gilbert C. Fite, Opponents of War, 1917-1918. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957; pg. 47.
- ^ a b c "Krafft Begins Five Year Prison Term," New York Call, vol. 11, no. 143 (June 16, 1918), pp. 1-2.
- ^ Stephen M. Kohn, American Political Prisoners: Prosecutions Uner the Espionage and Sedition Acts. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994; pg. 110. Note that this book makes use of an incorrect date for the start of Krafft's sentence in Atlanta.
- ^ Early American Marxism website, passim.
- ^ "Socialist Party of America (1897-1946): Party Officials," Early American Marxism website. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
- ^ See: "Supplementary Report of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America to the Emergency National Convention, September 4, 1919. Corvallis, OR: 1000 Flowers Publishing, 2007; pg. 4. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
- ^ a b "New Jersey: U.S. Representatives: 1920s," Political Graveyard. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
- ^ "Wilson Commutes Espionage Terms," New York Times, March 6, 1919. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
- Now and Then. New York: Socialistic Co-operative Publishing Association, 1901.
- "Shoot to Kill": A Labor Drama in One Act. New York: Co-operative Press, 1905.
- Let the Facts Speak for Themselves: Being a True Record of the Case of Frederick Krafft (Arrested while Speaking under Auspices of County Committee of the Socialist Party of Essex County). Newark, NJ: n.p., n.d. [c. 1917].


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not interested, I dont understand why there is not a developer that can just turn on and use the botom half to 3/4 inch while the rest is off. I am pretty sure the super amoled screen is not using any energy on a black screen lik the tft or lcd or bacisicly the others
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Looking for a delicious side dish that everyone will love? This Bacon Cheesy Bread is so good and so easy to make! And if you have kids who don't like green onions, just put them on half of the cheesy bread! Hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
Serves: 9
20 minPrep Time
25 minCook Time
45 minTotal Time
- 20 Frozen Rhodes Rolls
- (3/4 cup) shredded Cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup of crumbled bacon or bacon bits
- 1/4 cup finely chopped green onions
- Heat oven to 350°F. Spray a 9x9 glass baking dish with cooking spray.
- Thaw rolls, but don't let them rise yet. Cut each roll into quarters and put them in the baking dish.
- After you have cut 10 rolls and put them into the pan and let them rise until double in size.
- Sprinkle 1/4 cup of bacon bits on top of the rolls.
- Finish cutting the rest of rolls and put them on top of the other rolls and bacon bits.
- Sprinkle the rest of the bacon, cheese and green onions on top.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 23 to 28 minutes or until golden brown. Cut into squares.
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a Request from ~AdanteYuroku Revy infamously known from "Black Lagoon" anime/manga series. to me, the anime doesn't feel like one, it feels like a very well animated action movie with very likable and interesting characters. The manga is also a good read and Rei Hiroe's artwork is always top-notch.
Revy is Foul-mouthed psychopath who enjoys killing and causing mass amounts of destruction. but she is the MOST INTERESTING character and is always fun to watch
I highly recommend anyone to pick this series up if you haven't yet.
to put it simply, It's Fucking Awesome.
Black Lagoon and Revy belong to Rei Hiroe/Sunday GX
nice work as always
Revy is so badass
That is awesome! (I love that anime/manga! xD)
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Dude watch Black Lagoon, I'm telling ya it's an awesome series, you won't regret it!
thanks and thanks for the fav too, but I actually do all my inking traditionally. I'd have to print your sketches and ink/trace them, but I don't have a light-box...
Got it on my xmas list, so here's hoping
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Jennifer Warner can still remember the last words her husband said to her and her son.
It was Labor Day weekend 2010. The soldier told his now 14-year-old son, "I'm not home, you're the man of the house."
He then said to Warner, "I love you."
On the following Monday, two soldiers in dress uniforms knocked on Warner's door.
"I opened the door, and it was shocking to me. I screamed and yelled," she recalled. Her husband had fallen in his barracks at Fort Polk, La., and died.
He had just finished a 15-month deployment, and was to be stationed at Fort Polk for the next year. Warner stayed behind in Killeen.
More than three years later, Warner credits her strength to her belief in God and her family's support.
"I believe in God and I have faith and say prayers every single day. My husband's been gone over three years and I will not forget him. I owe him. He gave me a better life. I pray someday I'll see him again," Warner said.
To share her strength with others, Warner decided to participate in a fashion show to raise money for the American Widow Project.
The show will feature the latest styles available at Dillard's in Killeen, which will be worn down the runway by military widows.
Proceeds will go to support the widow project and Fort Hood Survivor Outreach Services, which supports 270 spouses in the Central Texas area.
The project, a San Marcos-based nonprofit, provides military widows with support through inspiring and empowering community programs, said Taryn Davis, who founded the project after her husband died in combat in Afghanistan. Since 2008, the project has helped more than 800 widows.
"I think the fact that the models are military spouses and widows is what makes the event special," Davis said. "These women and what they give and sacrifice on a daily basis is incredible."
The fashion show is hosted by students in a public relations class at Davis' and her husband's alma mater — Texas State University in San Marcos. The group hopes to raise $10,000 for the organization, and get good marks in the course.
As the models walk down the runway, the audience will learn about who they are, who their spouse was and what they are doing now.
"It celebrates that after tragic events, they can still support each other," said Sequoia Owens, a public relations major working on the fashion show.
Military widow Angela Garcia said she isn't too nervous about walking down the runway — she's excited.
"I'm in a lot of Facebook widow groups, but it's different when you have a face to put to a name. We share stories and laugh and cry together," she said. "I hope (the audience) takes away what our life is like for a little bit, and they see our strength."


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gogetty is a tiny getty written from scratch. It'll only work with linux VCs and possibly other software terminals, as it doesn't try to perform any terminal ioctls (for example, to set baud rate). However, it is the only extant getty to correctly handle session and program group IDs, letting you use it to start an arbitrary program on another console.
tn5250 is a 5250 terminal emulator, used for connecting to IBM's AS/400 (now known as eServer iSeries) midrange computers. tn5250 implements TN5250E, which means it is capable of device name selection, and printer sessions. The emulator supports color, 132 column mode, and most other features found in 5250 terminals and Client Access' 5250 emulator. While tn5250 is text-based application, a script is included to run it in an xterm properly. If you don't know what an AS/400 is, this program will probably not be of much use to you.
A stock market application.
Software to build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel.


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The Ultimate Fabric Sourcing Checklist for Fashion Designers
We share a list of steps to take and pitfalls to avoid for a smooth fabric sourcing process!
We share a list of steps to take and pitfalls to avoid for a smooth fabric sourcing process!
Tips and lessons on how to approach fabric sourcing and ordering the right way.
A look at Re.Verso, a process for collecting waste fibers (mostly wool) and recycling them into a new fabric.
A look at the earth friendly dyed fabrics of manufacturer Shinnaigai Textile.
Pure Waste offers a variety of eco friendly fabric and yarn available to source for your next collection.
If you are designing a line and want to be able to be certain that no animals were harmed in the making of your products, there is a solution- ahimsa silk.
A look at the beautiful work of Brooklyn-based textile designer and weaver, Hiroko Takeda.
When it comes to sourcing your organic cotton fabric, you should check out Organic Cotton Plus.
Interested in using angora wool in your collection? Or are you against it? You've heard about the PETA controversy. But it is possible to source angora safely.


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R.I.P Trafalgar Law, Ch. 498-729
As we clearly saw in the latest chapter, Trafalgar Law is no more. He fought valiantly against the evil Doflamingo, but alas, he was too weak. Doflamingo pulled out a gun and shot him three times. In his final moments, Law thought "Cora-san...!!", then passed away.
This blog is dedicated to his memory.


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1. What is BDSM?
Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism (BDSM) is any state of affairs wherever populace - of their own free will and pronouncement - enlarge the of your own sway atmospheric condition relating them and act this out for their gratification. This may be physiological property pleasure, but it does not ever have to be.
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One is not more important, or much real, than the another. The two forms are in recent times incompatible. Quite repeatedly population burgeon from "kink" to "lifestyle"
3. Is BDSM abnormal?
There are muscle atmospheric condition in all forms of human behavior: at work, at home, in politics, in sports and in (sexual) contact. Magnifying the impetus component in your relation is not unexpected. The in progress inference among professionals (laid trailing in miscellaneous diagnostic manuals, specified as the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) is that accordant influence substitute relating knowing and adjusted adults is sane and innocent (sexual) conduct.
4. What "causes" BDSM feelings?
It is not altogether clean to science, why some relations are attracted to BDSM and others are not. It appears that inheritable cryptography may have something to do next to this and it may too be that upbringing, social group environment and tuition may have an power. Fact of the substance is that the jury is inactive out on this one and that we simply do not cognise the statement. Based on research by for guide the Kinsey Institute, Cosmopolitan, Time Magazine and respective European universities and some other sources it is calculable that between 15 and 30 proportionality of the fully developed Western people nurtures some kind of BDSM emotions.
5. Why is within such as a social stygma on BDSM?
A epochal relation of the large-scale unexclusive inference on BDSM is based on extremely noncurrent information, such as the finished 100 age old "Psychopatia Sexualis" (written by R. von Kraft-Ebing at the end of the 19th time period) and investigating by S. Freud in the rash 20th period of time. Also, patriotism (fear of the undiagnosed) drama an of the essence role when it comes to the broad belief going on for BDSM and so does ill-informed amount of money of the subject matter by excess-oriented media. Lack of reliable, dilligent medical investigating on the subject matter besides acting a module in this. Most investigation was through by therapists, desire to boost themselves or their "therapy" instead than firmly researching the phenomena as specified.
6. I comprehend family who are completely paramount in tangible existence are really acquiescent in bed. Is this true?
The leprechaun subject matter almost great profile politicians or managers want to be humble in bed originates from prostitutes ("commercial mistresses") testing to puff their work. Fact of the business is that near is no evidenced seam concerning popular general behavior and physiological property behaviour. Sexual behaviour is a very individualist thing, thence terribly antithetical for individualistic inhabitants.
7. Are family next to a BDSM-inclination not truly all victims of early years trauma or abuse?
Scientific research has qualified us that the figure of citizens next to a (juvenile or otherwise) health problem conditions is not greater nor lesser than it is in any opposite civic quantity. One will brainwave injury victims in both societal band. Having said that, the mass even of broad-mindedness in the "BDSM group" allows for more sounding going on for specified subjects and the "BDSM community" is one of the completely few public groups that in fact and actively sets up sustain and help facilities for such as cases. There is no function why those with a unhealthiness ancient times should not get in into BDSM-activity, provided they wish professional assist and - on a in the flesh even - business deal beside the trauma FIRST and OUTSIDE a BDSM-situation.
8. At what age do BDSM-emotions emerge?
About 25 proportionality of the "BDSM population" (according to investigating by the POWERotics Foundation) has nurtured BDSM-like emotions from a markedly puppylike age. Often, this gathering can retrieve someone spellbound by clout situations since the age of 12. Many others yet "discover" their BDSM-preference at a much next stage, most oftentimes after eye-catching trial in their individualized life, specified as a divorcement. The explanation for this belike is in the reality that specified actions causes relations to come up with nearly themselves, their personalities, preferences and requests.
9. Why are some general public so closemouthed roughly their BDSM emotions?
Regardless the subject: it is not unproblematic to have to speak about the planetary you are "different". This is real for everyone, who nurtures emotions, morale or ideals that do not coinside with their civic environment. People, brought up in a business-environment, will often have a trying time recounting their parents and friends they would rather be a artist or an actress, for trial product. Gay associates human face a akin challenge and so do democrats who came from a typical party nest. The phenomena is best-known as "coming out (of the secret)" (telling your situation you are variant) and that is a problematic function that requires a lot of rearrangement between defensive and explaining yourself to a in all likelihood involuntary addressees. People with a BDSM-inclination obverse the aforementioned job. Quite repeatedly this even leads to a situation where on earth race - contritely - are too frightened to even archer their spousal equivalent astir their emotions.
10. If so many culture raising these emotional state at new age, why is here so bantam reports ready for them?
Much - unluckily - depends on the administrative district you were foaled in. Fact is that in utmost countries physiological property instruction in pervading leaves substantially to be sought after. World wide-ranging investigation has shown that as much as 70 pct of the people picks up their physiological property figures "from the street" (i.e. friends, pornography, excess-oriented media, sundries) and are not or fundamentally imperfectly instructed by their parents or school. The rife embassy conditions - beside drastically rapid and ill-informed opinions more or less gender - makes it delicate for organisations to set up seemly subject matter programs in numerous countries. The opposite tribulation is that not everyone, who (temporarily) may nurture BDSM-like emotions during time of life and adolescence, at the end of the day develops a continual interest in BDSM, since considerably of this has to do next to the more overall sexual enquiry phase, each person goes through at childish age. It is deeply substantial youngsters hound their own path, lacking too many after-school influences. This forms a perplexity for organisations, want to impart reports.


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About 36 Degrees North
36 Degrees North (36°N) is Tulsa's basecamp for entrepreneurs. It's the best place to find a high-quality workspace, meaningful resources, and a diverse community of passionate individuals, so you can focus on creating a long-lasting, impactful business.
With over 11,000 square feet of vibrant work, collaboration and event space in the heart of the Brady Arts District, we are the central gathering point for Tulsa's entrepreneurial community, resources and programs. We exist to make it ridiculously easy for new and experienced entrepreneurs to find the right people, best practices, capital resources and workspace so they can move forward in their startup journeys.
- Pursue Wisdom and Experience
- Focus on What Matters
- Share Transparently
- Listen Actively
- Show Empathy
- Be Persistent
- Create Peace
- Do the Right Thing
Where did the name "36 Degrees North" come from?
36 Degrees North is the latitudinal line that runs through Tulsa, Oklahoma. Identifying with this marker helps convey the fact that we are both a physical spot on the earth where entrepreneurs gather and a point on many people's professional journey.


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The Global Pledge
- Federal Copyright
I created
The Global Pledge
during the 1987-1988 Presidential Campaign as the Bush Campaign repeatedly attacked Governor Dukakis for vetoing a bill in Massachusetts that would have made have made it
for students to say the
Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag
in the classroom.
I created
The Global Pledge
as writing assignment at
Cape Cod Community College
, an editorial in the college newspaper, an editorial in the Cape Cod Times, and a
letter to both Vice-President Bush and Governor Dukais
~ all of which are well documented. It became Copyrighted at that time. (1987-1988)
The basic premise of my letter to the two men was;
patriotism comes from the hearts and souls of individuals and that you can't legislate people or children to be, or feel, Patriotic.
And, instead of forcing children to make a pledge to a flag; why not allow them to
choose to make a pledge to make this a better world for all.
A Pledge to the entire Planet Earth.
Global Pledge
, so not only American children could
to say it, but Chinese Children, Russian Children, and Children all around the world. Then one day, 24 hours a day, children would be making a pledge to make this a better world.
It was soon picked up by some wonderful local teachers who shared it with their students, and then went on to newspapers, radio shows, TV shows, and soon was said in classrooms across the country, and around the world.
As the Pledge became more popular, I constantly had people & children contacting me how they had created their own Pledge and they would often send it to me. And although I was very pleased that they had taken the idea to heart; it was suggested to me in 1990 to Copyright
The Global Pledge
This is the Federal Copyright.
By Jerry Schmeer Jr.
Wikipedia Article on Michael Dukakis and the Pledge
Articles about Jerry Schmeer & The Global Pledge
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Article 4
Article 5
Article 6
Just a few of the Letters Jerry has received over the years.
President Bush's Office
Governor Dukakis
Congressman Studds
President Clinton
Vice-President Gore


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Brazillian cosplayer Layze Michelle has worked hard to make a number of incarnations of the titular princess from The Legend of Zelda feel real, as well as a handful of other characters. Her cosplay is, quite simply, amazing. Check out a selection of her Zelda cosplays below.
Photos by CsouzaPhotography.
(via Kotaku Cosplay)


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Qps is a visual process manager, an X11 version of "top" or "ps" that displays processes in a window and lets you sort and manipulate them. It displays some general system information, and many details about current processes (such as the TCP/UDP sockets in use by a process). Qps runs on Linux and Solaris.
Pirate, and do the community a disservice
Piracy is one of the major obstacles for the general acceptance of
free software. After all, why use a free word processor when you
can get MS Word for "free"? And by doing so, you (or your company)
reinforces the grasp that Word has on the market because of
network effects, since you want to exchange document with
others (who, in turn, will need to buy^H^H^Hsteal MS Word...).
It is only when you strictly obey the licensing terms of commersial
software that their cost becomes visible. In the place you work,
insist that the company pay for each copy of Windows, Word,
and every little shareware utility you use, and you will start hearing
grumbles from the department paying the bills.
And nobody with the slightest insight in the massive amount of
dedicated overtime work that game developers put in a modern
game (only to see people pirate it - thank you very much, we'll
have to make it more expensive to cover the costs next time)
will argue in favour of game piracy.
Do complain about buggy, unoriginal overpriced junk games, but
remember that they are being forced to market quickly because
piracy dramatically shortens the time a game can be sold profitably.
After a couple of months, games are being dumped in bargain bins
for the price of a blank CD-R, because - guess what - that is what
they are competing with.
A tool for securing DNS communications between a client and a DNS resolver.
A polyhedral extraction tool (PET).


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Nomura expects 50 basis points repo rate cuts in 2013 (including a 25 bps today) from the RBI. Consensus expectations are 75-100 bps
a) Inflation: While headline and core inflation have eased and the RBI expects inflation to moderate further in Q1 (January-March) 2013, suppressed inflation, pressure from food prices and elevated inflation expectations suggest that inflation in FY14 (year ending March 2014) could face downward rigidity.
b) The current account deficit (CAD) has emerged as a big concern. While financing has not been an issue so far, the widening CAD is unsustainable and "remains a constraint on monetary easing."
c) Reforms have reduced immediate risks, but sustainability of recent reforms remains to be seen. Fiscal risks have moderated in FY13, but a "sustained commitment to fiscal consolidation is needed to generate monetary space."
The accused, who was described as the most brutal of the six accused by the Delhi Police in its charge-sheet, was declared as 17 years and six months and 24 days-old (as of today) by the JJB
New Delhi: The sixth accused in the case of 16th December gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student was on Monday declared by the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) as a 'minor', which would enable him to walk free by 4th June, this year when he attains the age of 18 years, reports PTI.
The accused, who was described as the most brutal of the six accused by the Delhi Police in its charge-sheet, was declared as 17 years and six months and 24 days-old (as of today) by the JJB, which relied on his birth certificate and school documents produced before it.
Section 15 (g) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act mandates that a juvenile aged between 16-18 years if convicted of any offence can be sentenced to be sent to a special home for a period of three years at the maximum, and, thereafter, be released on probation.
However, Section 16 of the Act also provides that a juvenile can only be kept at the special home till he attains 18 years of age and he cannot be sent to jail thereafter, which in effect will result in his release.
The JJB also rejected the police's plea for bone ossification test of the sixth accused for determining his age.
Lawyers appearing for the prosecution said they will appeal against the JJB order in a higher court.
Earlier on 15th January, the principal of the school, from where the juvenile had dropped out, had submitted before the JJB that as per the school records he is 17 years and six months-old.
The present and the former headmasters of the school in Bhawanipur at Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, where the juvenile had studied till Class III, had appeared before the Board and said they cannot identify the boy but know that he took admission in the school in 2002.
The former principal said that during the time of admission, the boy's father had come to admit him and mentioned his date of birth as 4 June 1995.
The five other accused—Ram Singh, his brother Mukesh and their accomplices Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur—have been charged with the offences of murder, gang-rape, attempt to murder, kidnapping, unnatural offences, dacoity, hurting while committing robbery, destruction of evidence, criminal conspiracy and common intention under the IPC.
The 23-year-old paramedical student was brutally raped and assaulted in a moving bus on 16th December and she died on 29th December in a Singapore hospital.
The juvenile is the eldest son of a mentally challenged father and his mother relied on farming to raise his two brothers and two sisters in a small hamlet at Badaun.
The investigators had said that around five to six years ago, he fled from his home and came to Delhi where he did small jobs till he met Ram Singh, who was driver of the bus.
The police sources had said that on the fateful night, all the accused had partied and had then gone on a joy ride in bus and to "pick some girl for sexual pleasure".
They had first robbed Ramadhar Singh, who they had picked up from RK Puram Sector 4 and then dumped him near IIT gate.
And from Munirka, they had picked up the gang-rape victim and her male friend and dumped them on the road assuming they were dead, according to the sources.
Flagging concerns about fiscal and external imbalances in the economy, the apex bank said that more reforms are required, especially in road and power sectors, to remove the investment bottlenecks
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday said recent reforms have reduced the immediate risks for the economy but emphasised on the need for more measures to restore investor confidence, reports PTI.
Flagging concerns about fiscal and external imbalances in the economy, the apex bank said that more reforms are required, especially in road and power sectors, to remove the investment bottlenecks.
"The fresh round of reforms that were initiated in September 2012, after a hiatus, has reduced the immediate risks facing the Indian economy...
"On the whole it appears that the reform measures taken so far have not decisively lifted business sentiments and further action may be needed to restore confidence," RBI said in its third quarter review of Macroeconomic and Monetary Development.
The monetary policy, RBI said, could focus more on boosting growth after the reform actions get executed.
"While government has embarked on a fiscal adjustment path, staying on this course over the medium-term is necessary for providing sufficient space for monetary policy to stimulate growth," RBI said.
In the past couple of months the government has taken a host of reforms initiative including opening the multi-brand retail chain to foreign direct investment (FDI), and also the Union Cabinet has approved hiking foreign investment limits in the insurance and pension sectors.
Earlier this month, the government also allowed partial deregulation of diesel prices, besides limiting the number of subsidised LPG cylinders to nine per family a year.
"Fiscal risks have somewhat moderated in 2012-13, but a sustained commitment to fiscal consolidation is needed to generate monetary space," RBI said.


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Release Notes: In this version, user-defined fonts are now used correctly across all affected dialogs, and GPG Keys now compiles clean with GCC 3.x.
Release Notes: Support for importing/exporting files to/from files, some additional feature enhancements, a redesigned option dialog, and bugfixes.
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