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Mike wrote:If Reformation leader Luther held to that, he suffered from insufficient reformation.Romans 6:14-18 "For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you. Being then made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness."Maybe Luther couldn't read well.
Dominic wrote:He is 84 and will be a corpse soon , what will he have to say when he stands before Jesus and making a mockery of the gospel and the bible
Cazares wrote:....I am not a follower of Camping,but the earth in itself changed since that day.
Neil wrote:"To the Christian nothing is secular, but all is sacred."Since I presume you're not a pantheist, you must have a more specific sense in mind.
Neil wrote:Chick fil-A is no more a Christian organization than American Motors was a Mormon organization when George W. Romney was its CEO.
Paul wrote:The last time I checked, we were under Grace and not the Law. The Law is for unrepentant sinners who are still lost in their sin. Jesus told the religious leaders of the day that He was in fact the Lord of the Sabbath. We receive our rest in Him as we surrender and submit to His will. This gives us the liberty and freedom to work and do without toil and burn out. So what if these churches want to not have services on Sunday? What is one day to another? Just straining a gnat through a hypocritical sieve.
Chris Perver wrote:Don't get me wrong, I liked Bush better than Obama, but if memory serves me correct, when the President was told about the 9/11 attacks, he continued on addressing a kindergarten class as if nothing had happened.
Guinness wrote:Stephen,Once taxes have been lawfully levied it is the government's money.Refund cheques are for the return of money the government has no lawful right to.There is no meaningful analogy to be made between direct government funding of education and tax refund cheques.
Jim Lincoln wrote:These schoold shouldn't be funded by the state, nor the state even think they can or should have an influence on hiring practices.
Bernard wrote:There is no mention of Bible version (that I could see). Given the TBS involvement, it seems safe to assume that this is a KJV production.If it is, my question would be: Is this the wisest investment of funds for a printed gospel for evangelistic purposes in 2008?Faith cometh by hearing, but hearing cometh not readily by confusion.


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I've got a few where I'm their EPC...all I can say is, the easiest way to tell is if the EPC changes dramatically based on your own sales.
Good luck with getting the links back up, I know it sucks big time when you should have left them up. If the page doesn't get its traffic directly from Google (ie, they have to navigate to it from elsewhere on your site), it may be easier to just make a new page for them than to restore old links!

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A 51-year-old man is facing charges after he allegedly videotaped a 13-year-old girl while she was naked, according to Coatesville Police.
On Thursday, investigators received a report that Angel Gonzalez-Garrido was in possession of child pornography at a home on the 700 block of East Lincoln Highway. When police arrived at the home they found a videotape of the teen naked in her bathroom. Police arrested Gonzalez-Garrido at his job in Caln Township yesterday.
Police say Gonzalez-Garrido was a friend of the family and a caregiver to the young girl. Investigators say the girl's parents were not inside the home during the alleged incident.
Gonzalez-Garrido was charged with endangering welfare of children, corruption of minors, indecent assault, and invasion of privacy.
Gonzalez-Garrido was arraigned on $50,000 bail.


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The coalition "are considering" assessing children in their DLA shake up.
In the DLA reform white paper they are "considering" reassessing disabled children, as well as adults. Not only do they want to cut the benefits bill by chucking of disabled adults they want to do the same to children. They have also sneeked in an item on carers allowance "they are looking at it" ie going to means test or abolish. In this proposal you also have the right to "ask" for an appeal. Not saying you will get an appeal, but you have the right to ask for one. Picking on the disabled and vulnerable is discusting.
We're looking into a technical problem with the suggest a campaigns system.
Last night we merged this with another DLA campaign after being asked to by the people who had originally created the suggestions. This follows on from previous problems we had with merging campaigns.
Unfortunately last night there was a problem with the system and when we merged the campaigns thousands of votes were removed from the total.
I'm really sorry this happened. We're looking into this and trying to sort it out.
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jaydee commented
This 'reform' is just so arbitary- an attack on those of us who are vulnerable through no fault of our own. I'd love nothing more than to be well again and able to work but I cant. My disability is totally debilitating but fluctuates and I'm so stressed that assessors may not be able to see this. Without my DLA I could not afford the adaptations I have unfortunately had to make to my life. This 'reform' is so ill conceived. Please please rethink this.
Jan commented
I can not believe the callous cruelty of these clueless Conservatives. Nor can I bear the spinelessness of their lily livered Liberal "chums".The Big Society? B*** S***. Picking on the weak and the vulnerable is so easy isn't it? Yet they are so terrified of asking their Banking friends for a few quid! How pathetic.....
Teresa Godwin commented
While recognising the need for the system to be looked at, the current scheme is flawed and will bring untold hardship on many people who are already suffering. This has been ill-thought out and must be halted.
neil foss commented
Replacing DLA on political grounds as a cost cutting measure contravenes the DDA and the UN charter on disabled rights. It contravenes the governments own published advice on making disabled people feel part of society, stopping discrimination against disabled etc. etc. Where's the Impact Assessment? They must be stopped, they must be challenged by a judicial review.
J-Jon commented
The government's conduct in this matter is disgraceful. Making assumptions about how many people legally classified as disabled are fit for work, before anybody's been tested, guarantees that a great many people who can't work are gonna be expected to. And basign ther assessment on 'what you can do' is vile also. With work as scarce as it is, how are disabled people meant to find jobs that fit what they alledgedly 'can do'? Especially given the time constraints that are goign to be implemented for those on JSA.
The ConDems simply hate people who need support, and resent the thought of the rich having to pay out a tiny percentage of their massive wealth to allow the system to help the needy. The Tories and Lib Dems are parasites.
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Gary Williams commented
I receive DLA and because of the mobility component am able to work. If it is stopped as it will be for me under P.I.P. elegibility I will have to give up work which means I pay no tax/N.I, receive benefits and also have my mortgage interest paid. Who thinks these schemes up? To save circa £200 a month it will cost over a thousand. And these people are in charge of the countries finances!
Gary Williams commented
I receive DLA and because of the mobility component am able to work. If it is stopped as it will be for me under P.I.P. elegibility I will have to give up work which means I pay no tax/N.I, receive benefits and also have my mortgage interest paid. Who thinks these schemes up? To save circa £200 a month it will cost over a thousand. And these people are in charge of the countries finances!
mary anderson commented
stop this attack on dla ,, we are real people, not satistics,,
but what do you expect from the eton boys club
shame on you all
mary anderson commented
stop this attack on dla ,, we are real people, not satistics,,
but what do you expect from the eton boys club
shame on you all
Anonymous commented
I claim DLA and I am a taxpayer,a lot of us are.We are entitled to this benefit,get Phillip Green and Vodaphone to pay tax.
Stephen Budden commented
As a totally blind person, DLA helps to fund the assistance I need to help me retain some independence.
tipsy commented
It has been said that a country is judged by how its treats its sick and disabled, says a lot for this country doesn`t it.?
Fletcv commented
All these cuts are scaring the hell out of me. I still work but can no longer work full time. I need taxi's to get there and back. I can't pay my rent, my other half cannot afford to pay it for me. I need to claim DLA at the very least, but the whole process makes me feel sick. I have MS, anxiety and now hypertension. I'm 42. I'm not going to get better and suddenly become more mobile with less fatigue.
NathalieS commented
My disability (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) has turned my life upside down; now the Government wants to pull the rug from under me by abolishing my disability benefits. I have limited mobility and use my DLA for local public transport. My condition affects my temperature so I often need the heating on more often than others too. Disabled people need DLA to survive
yawn commented
The disabled need DLA to continue so they can 'live' with their disability to a reasonable level. Mine is used to fund aids & equipment to use the kitchen, get me from a to b and indeed the roof over my head. I get colder than I used to therefore my utility bills are higher than norm and I have to eat a special diet due to gastric problems. Without the DLA I would have to say goodbye because I could not survive and at my age 59 plus disability couldnt cope with being destitue. DLA serves as more than financial security, its breadline living on the cheap and any new benefit to replace it can only mean reduced monies. Leave well alone.
anu commented
The devil is in the detail of the Comprehensive Spending Review. The removal of the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance for people living planned from October 2012 will further disable those disabled people who require residential accommodation and support.
The mobility component of people entering residential care will be cut when they have been resident for 28 days and is 'justified' by stating that they already lose the care component when they enter a care home and that when / if they are in hospital they don't receive the mobility component Disability Living Allowance.
There is an implicit cost in having severe mobility issues; this cost is met in part by the mobility component of DLA. Those requiring residential care and support still need to be able to book taxis, or use their motability wheelchairs or vehicles to visit the shops, attend appointments or visit family & friends.
The removal of the mobility component of DLA will effectively deny people requiring residential care of this basic right.
The care component stops because people move into residential care to be CARED FOR, the home will generally not provide a free taxi service wherever, whenever the person needs or wishes. If the mobility component of DLA is removed from people who require residential care and support it will literally condemn them to not being able to leave the home.
People already needing residential care and support will have their last shred of independence torn from them.
The treasury have calculated that this will save approximately £135m annually until 2015. This 'saving' is blatant theft from the vulnerable.
This isn't in any sense being 'all in this together', this isn't any kind of 'Big Society'; this is wholesale, savage bullying of those who are not in a position to speak up for themselves; those who will become increasingly disenfranchised and shut away from society as a result of this brutal move.
dx commented
Looking at how cameron et al are now considering this, i would assert that cameron cynically used the loss of his son to make promises to parents about how well they would be protected, knowing FULL WELL he was planning to make massive cuts everywhere.
Certain LAs are now using folk with disabilities to make a political point - that they cannot make cuts without affecting the most vulnerable.
I dread to think what will happen. We have a genetic disease, affectig us all and it is frightening to think it will become harder to claim for the extra help we need.
King Frog commented
9 out of 18 people on this page have NOT actually voted :o(
Leaving a comment does NOT count as a vote.
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But it is a nice way to end a first date.
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But it is a nice way to end a first date.
Of course the Tories care about people (voters) - they are a political party and need to be elected just like any other party. Bizarre to argue otherwise - you cant be elected if you only target 1-2% of the population!
No they don't, they just sell a dream of sucsess that doesn't reflect reality, and fear of following a different path.
Your boyfriend is very lucky MSP
MSP - Member
....they sell a dream of success that doesn't reflect reality, and fear of following a different path.
(indeed)...they are a political party and need to be elected like any other....QED
Think you'll find it was
Brown the ageing population that f**ked up pensions for pretty much everyone in the private sector.
Plenty of the very limited sample defined as folk I know, have had decent pay rises this last few years, mostly in engineering and pharma, but that's a good thing IMO. Plenty of jobs and opportunities in engineering right now due to the lack of trained and skilled people caused by the demise of the UK's manufacturing industry over the last 30 years
GO has confounded his critics (including Balls and the IMF and many on here)
GO and his critics go on about sticking to Plan A and austerity when the reality is completely different. Step away from the rhetoric and he has shown a high level of flexibility (which neither he nor his critics admit). On more than one occassion he has pushed back the timetable for balancing the structural budget
There isn't actually any real economic growth though is there? GO is just fuelling another debt-fuelled housing bubble in the South East, with his insane mortgage guarantees.
I note this morning that buy-to-let mortgage applications from landlords have rocketed. Always the sign of good times to come, eh?
Hands up if this is you.
I don't want to brag, but getting made redundant in 2009 (a product of the economic crisis) has been the best thing happened to my career. My wages have gone up 50%. I understand I am probably in the minority and I don't think this has anything to with the tory government. Rather just being in the right place at the right time, but it does make me feel good!!
None of that is spin at all. I criticise and applaud GO when appropriate (and roughly equally). His critics stated repeatedly that the downturn would be more severe and more extended that it proved to be. They were wrong pure and simple. But you are correct and I agree he missed targets and made errors in forecasting/policy mix etc. This was partly his fault, partly the fault of the current economic elite (that misjudged the size of the negative fiscal multiplier by 2x!!!) and partly external events. In reverse, he has been helped by factors that are outside his control - not least that the ECB managed to (temporarily?) halt the implosion of the €.
It is churlish not to congratulate him for being flexible - even though sympathy is reduced when he himself pretends otherwise (that is spin!) - and that is what I am doing. But I have consistently said over several years that we credit politicians with too much credit and criticise them too often when the reality is that they are largely spectators reacting to events around them. GO's performance has been mixed but I am pleased that he has achieved some success and hope (as noted before) that he is even better in managing recovery. But that will largely be down to you and me, not our elected "representatives."
Boom and bust - economic cycles. What is the difference? Magnitude, that's it. You cannot (by definition) eradicate economic cycles (that's the beauty of economics - all these factors are inter-related - one reason why the € is fundamentally and fatally (IMO) flawed). Labour screwed up largely because they failed to understand the core element of the economic philosophy that they claim to adhere to (Keynesian economics). Balls admitted that himself - remarkable economic and political folly to believe that boom and bust can and had been eliminated. And they are suffering the consequences now (as are the rest of us).
Binners - the housing policy may well prove to be an error but that also needs to be balanced by the fact that business surveys from all sectors are running at record highs. That indicates that GDP "should" accelerate from here (hence the OECD's upward revision of UK growth last week). Plus new orders are rising. So is not just the housing market.
His critics stated repeatedly that the downturn would be more severe and more extended that it proved to be
C'mon 2008 - 2013 is going a bit ....isn't it?
RIght, so the south-east/London is out of recession? Phew!
His critics stated repeatedly that the downturn would be more severe and more extended that it proved to be
Well it's a good job that Ed Balls doesnt say that this is pointless since he is arguing much the same as me (edit: with regards to what Keynes actually believed in). And if you want Labour to return to power then you need to hope that he is not alone.
GO missed target and timetables - fact - but less than his critics argued - fact - but the job is only just started - fact - and the UK's economic recovery - fact - is not built on sufficiently strong foundations for anyone to be complacent - fact - and the on-going squeeze in real wages and living standards could itself be the Tories Achilles Hell - fact.
...oh and did anyone mention the "fact" that debt levels remain severely elevated.....and what caused the crisis in the first place?????
So the next election battle lines are drawn. The Tories will win if economic recovery continues and broadens. Labour will win if this does not translate into pounds in pockets across the UK. At the moment, this is finely balanced and neither side can be complacent but the momentum is shifting in one direction.
You will call me impertinent next wont you as I insert a football playing the man analogy
as we were not interested in this...FACT
Sorry, dont understand a word of that.
Plenty of jobs and opportunities in engineering right now due to the lack of trained and skilled people caused by the demise of the UK's manufacturing industry over the last 30 years
There is some truth in the lack of training investment in engineering over the years, but that's the past the thing is right now there is a lot of opportunity. The UK still has a decent manufacturing industry, unfortunately it is mostly ignored by the media and politicians who don't understand it.
There is some truth in the lack of training investment in engineering over the years, but that's the past the thing is right now there is a lot of opportunity. The UK still has a decent manufacturing industry
The fact that something has happened automatically puts it into the past, so I'm not sure what the point of that comment is. The changes to our education system are political and deliberate to reflect a change in emphasis in the nations economic activity from manufacturing to other, mainly service orientated jobs. Therefore far fewer people training as engineers or even learning the basic skills like maths etc etc, which is hardly surprising as there are far fewer jobs in that sector. (NB: My school in Ipswich in the the 60's/70's expected about 90% of the school to work in engineering. At that time there were any number of large manufacturing companies in the town, Ransomes and Rapier, (walking dragline), Ransom Sims and Jefferies (Ploughs, lawn mowers etc) Cranes, (pipework fittings), Compair Reavel, (air compressors), Bull Motors (Electric Motors), Rola Celestion (loudspeakers), to name but a few. Only one remains, and that in a much smaller way than it used to be. Most of the site, now being a retail park and Industrial Estate.)
I think if by decent you mean high quality, I'd agree, but if you mean a decent proportion of the workforce are engineers I'd have to say you are living in cloud cuckoo land. Like I say when I was at school 90% of my peers trained to be in or around engineering as a career.......and yes the demise did mostly occur during "her" reign.
Two interesting articles in the New Statesmen today:
In politics, trajectory is everything. The return of growth and falling unemployment means that Miliband now struggles to discomfort the PM.
The opposition should worry less about the growth rate and more about developing its own story about the economy.....
...Today nef is publishing research into how economic debates are framed on both sides of the political spectrum to win support for different policies. Our main finding? The coalition has an economic narrative that is the textbook definition of a powerful political story.They have developed a clear plot, with heroes and villains, and use simple, emotional language to make their point clear.
Repeated with remarkable discipline over several years, their austerity story has gained real traction with the British public. In fact, the polling data we analysed showed that month on month, no matter what people think about the coalition, they continue to believe spending cuts are necessary for the economy.
The story relies on a small set of frames to understand our economy. That austerity is the inevitable price we pay for decades of overspending. That spending cuts are the only medicine for our sick economy. That Britain is broke, hobbled by dangerous debts, and government spending is a bad habit we need to kick. It casts the coalition as its heroes, cleaning up the mess of the last Labour government. George Osborne faithfully retold it on Monday as he reminded us pre-crisis Britain was dependent on state spending and blamed falling living standards on his predecessors.
The government has successfully framed all economic debates on its own terms, but what is most powerful about their narrative is how resilient it is to different circumstances. If the economy is strong the medicine is working, if the economy is weak we need more medicine.
So as LW commentators are suggesting, time for Ed and his team to get their thinking hats on
I've had my biggest pay rise since 97!
(had to move to Germany for it though)
The government has successfully framed all economic debates on its own terms, but what is most powerful about their narrative is how resilient it is to different circumstances. If the economy is strong the medicine is working, if the economy is weak we need more medicine.
Easy to control the narrative when you've got almost all of the press parroting the same line though.
THM you dont half write some crap dressed up as facts.
I know AA and what makes it such fun is that publications as diverse as the FT and the New Statesman do the same! Makes for a good Econ set though and at least they can argue points rather than just being rude!! I am sure you find that too! !
I know AA and what makes it such fun is that publications as diverse as the FT and the New Statesman do the same! Makes for a good Econ set though and at least they can argue points rather than just being rude!! I am sure you find that too! !
All they have pointed out in that is how big the lie is.
Only 0.7% growth this year? Still 3.2% lower than in 2008.
The slowest economic recovery in 100 years, slower than the recovery from the great depression.
A mere 0.1% drop in the unemployment in the last three months.
The number of men working full time fell by 272,000 and those in part time work rose 281,000. Is this the point where right wingers usually say you should be lucky or grateful to have a job?
Unemployment among 16-24 year olds was up 34,000. This means the UK has an unemployment rate of 21% among young people, with 960,000 now jobless.
Wages have fallen for 36 of the 37 months of the shower of sh*t Government. This makes CMD's Government the the worst performing Government in UK history on wages. No former Prime Minister in the history of our parliamentary democracy has seen wages drop for this length of time – not Thatcher, not Harold Wilson, not Ted Heath.
There has also been the rise of Zero Hours contracts, which mean working people are not guaranteed regular hours by their employer, or access to basic employment rights such as sick pay, paid annual leave or a notice period before dismissal.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, found more than 1 million UK workers is now on a Zero Hours contract. Such contracts could also be seen as part of the wider underemployment problem that has affected the UK economy in recent times, with large numbers of workers on part-time or casual contracts wanting to work more hours but being unable to do so.
The cost of living is currently rising at four times the rate of wages.
The UK Essentials Index shows that prices of the basic items that the poorest buy have risen 33% since 2007.
Statutory Homelessness (people without a home who are eligible for local authority support) rose 21% in the last year, while Rough Sleepers (those not eligible for support) rose 31% in England and 62% in London. The Bedroom Tax, where people receiving Housing Benefit have had their payments cut for having 'spare rooms' (while in most of the country, no appropriately sized housing exists) is also seeing many more lose their homes.
The number of people relying on food aid in order to eat rose by 300% between April 2012 and April 2013. In fact the numbers relying on food aid have shot up 200% in just three months. 150,000 people have joined the queues at food banks, on top of the half million people already there since 2010.
Mark Hoban, a Minister for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) was asked to explain how an economic recovery could be under way whilst the numbers of those relying on Food Banks to eat was growing. Hoban's response was "You'll have to ask the Food Banks."
The Food Banks were asked. Food Banks themselves (and Oxfam) report that the enormous spike in reliance on Food Banks is directly linked to government cuts.
So while CMD's work experience boy tries claim that a recovery is underway, the question is, a recovery for who?
I know AA and what makes it such fun is that publications as diverse as the FT and the New Statesman do the same! Makes for a good Econ set though and at least they can argue points rather than just being rude!! I am sure you find that too! !
Problem is you fail to separate the politics from the economics. Its lazy analysis and means you end up debating politics rather than the economics.
The Bedroom Tax, where people receiving Housing Benefit have had their payments cut for having 'spare rooms' (while in most of the country, no appropriately sized housing exists) is also seeing many more lose their homes.
some great 'facts' quoted in the above piece. the one quoted above especially stands out.. can you quote ONE example where a tenant has been evicted as a result of what you call the bedroom tax.
now i have some limited experience of this policy. my best mate lives in a council house he has two empty bedrooms and is be moaning the fact he has his housing benifit reduced. he refuses to move though as the properties available from the council are not as good as his and the privately available properties are too expensive. he know which side of the bread his jams on even if all his housing costs are no longer covered by the govt.
On the other flipside you move this lad out for an older single mum with three kids by three dads to move in. Manchester has lots of these.
I know AA (again!) but when the title suggests this is a thread debating the political context of current economic trends it's an easy mistake to make! Apologies for the sloppiness. But debating economics without reference to politics is like recommending a MTB without discussing the style of riding/type of terrain to be ridden. Interesting (perhaps) but ultimately pointless.
The central point is that both economics and politics have entered a new and important phase (brought out in one of the NS articles, the FT and Stephanie Flanders on the BBC two days ago, oh and in the title of this thread!). Economic activity is recovering and broadening BUT as El-bent clearly points out is still at an early stage/sporadic (same point I made). But both the Tories and Labour recognise it and they themselves have shifted the terms of reference. Labour is now focused on "living standards" rather than growth per se (so as I pointed out earlier, they accept the change even if some here do not) but if polls/opinion are to be believed they are slipping. Hence my comments about thinking hats.
But from a non-political perspective, I expect this to be a weak, shallow and prolonged (in a bad way) recovery. There are strong domestic and international headwinds which GO has not even come close to tackling. So I agree with the FT, the new phase is all about can GO manage economic recovery successfully. Oops, that's poltical again, sorry!
The nice weather will have had something to do with the minor recovery but normal business will resume in winter.The end.
One swallow doesn't make a summerWell I'll join the steadily growing flock in saying I'm all right Jack.
Graduated in Process Enineering back in 2008, done alright for myself in the intervening years.
How is the national debt doing under the Tories?
I wonder where the national debt would be under labours policy?
Broadly the same given the similarities in policy responses?
in saying I'm all right Jack.
I see Thatcher's force is strong in this one....
I wonder where the national debt would be under labours policy?
Not sure that really the point. The point is that they have been busy convincing the great unwashed that they are dealing with it and bringing it down, whilst predictably the policies they have been pursuing has in fact increased it dramatically. If this were done on the High Street the retailer would have trading standards all over them.
Regarding the OP, this in fact would be probably the biggest single reason (of many) why his thread title is utter twaddle
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William W. Wilson, the brother of a fugitive accused of orchestrating a multi-million dollar fraud, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to 18 months of probation.
By all accounts, Wilson, a 23-year-old student at Ohio State University, was a minor player in the investment scheme that federal prosecutors claim was operated by his brother and cheated investors out of $8 million.
"He understands what he did and he'll never do it again," said defense lawyer Edward C. Cosgrove,
Michael H. Wilson, who remains a fugitive in Canada, is viewed by the FBI, Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Attorney's office as the prime suspect in the case.
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Hi! My name's Tad Poleman and here is my official roundup of the Winter Olympics here in Sushi, Russia. We're now halfway through the Olympic Games, and it's been so exciting I haven't even written an article about it yet. So here is a summary of what's happened so far.
Who can forget Geoff Chafe winning Britain's one and only medal in the nude luge? Amazingly he beat his nearest opponent the German Hans Neesontohz by only inches, after the plucky Brit slid off the edge of his sledge and skidded over the finish line on his red raw arse. He won't be able to sit down for at least a month now but he'll be happy with that gold.
Then there's the star of the games so far, Norway's famous Olaf Breibing, who won an incredible 17 skiing medals in just one race. Those crazy Norwegians, I don't know how they do it.
We've had amazing new sports being demonstrated for the first time. There was the diathlon, which is a combination of sledging and firing a bazooka. Of course that had to be cancelled after the first round, but I'm sure it will make a comeback at the next Olympics once the safety concerns have been resolved.
A more successful demonstration sport was the ski snooker, which was won by the Finn Finn Makinitupanen. He won in a nailbiting finale after his opponent potted a snowball and skied into a tree.
Sadly there have been tragedies as well. At least five skiiers have crashed and broken their leg. Most of those have since been shot and made into glue.
But overall, you have to say it's been a good Olympics so far. And congratulations to the mighty Leichtenstein - who would have doubted that they would end up topping the medals table yet again this year.
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Catching up: Kraft records personal best in 3,000-meter race for SDSU
Wessington Springs native Drew Kraft set a new personal best in the 3,000-meters on Jan.26 for the South Dakota State Jackrabbits at the USD Alumni Meet. The junior distance runner clocked in at 8:40.34, beating his previous career best of 8:46.42, which he set last year.
Kraft's time ranks in the top-ten in The Summit League.
The Jacks travel to Lincoln, Neb., for the Husker Invite on Feb.1.
- The Dakota State women's 3,200-meter relay team consisting of Kayla Sveen, Stephanie Warnke, Brooke Fritz, and Stephanie Uher qualified for nationals with a time of nine minutes and 51.34 seconds, placing second in the event at the Buena Vista Open on Jan.26 in Storm Lake, Iowa.
Uher, a Mitchell graduate and senior for the Trojans, also finished fourth in the women's 400-meter dash with a time of 1:02.22.
Warnke, a senior from Fairfax, finished second on the day in the 800-meters with a time of 2:25.90.
In the 3,000-meters, Amber Wiebenga, a sophomore from Avon, placed 12th with a time of 13:43.53.
Warnke and Uher were also part of the 4 x 400-meter relay team that finished fourth with a time of 4:14.24.
Dakota State returns to action on Friday and Saturday as the team travels to the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational, hosted by the University of Nebraska, and Storm Lake, Iowa, for the Dennis Young Classic at the Lamberti Recreation Center.
- Former Stickney standout Shelby Assmus placed second in the shot put at the USD Alumni Meet and Bill Bergan Invite Saturday for the South Dakota State women's track and field team. Assmus, a junior for the Jacks, recorded a throw of 46-feet-06.75.
Rochelle Wynia, a freshman for the Jacks from Platte, finished the 3000-meters in 11:30.94.
The Jackrabbits will be back on the road again next weekend as they travel to Lincoln, Neb. Nebraska will be hosting the Husker Invite over Friday and Saturday.
- Former Bon Homme standout Raquel Sutera had a career week for the Mount Marty women's basketball team in two games against Dakota Wesleyan Unviersity and Nebraska Wesleyan Jan. 23 and Saturday.
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Georgia Tech's first International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team will compete at MIT Nov. 6 - 8.
For the first time, Georgia Tech will have a team competing in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) scheduled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology November 6-8.
Led by advisors Eric Gaucher, associate professor in biology, Joshua Weitz, assistant professor of biology and physics; Mark Styczynski, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering; and Richard Joh, a physics graduate student, the group includes 13 undergraduates from the College of Sciences and College of Engineering. The team will compete against 130 other teams from the United States, Latin America, Europe, Canada and Asia.
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FOLLOWING the sudden rise in temperature over the last week the RSPCA is urging people not to leave pets in cars, conservatories or caravans whilst they are enjoying the sunshine.
The RSPCA says it has already received numerous reports of animals being left in hot places, most of which related to dogs.
An RSPCA spokesman said: "In the whole of May last year we received 448 reports of incidents involving hot animals. In just three days this year we received almost half that total and the calls keep coming in.
"Most people seem to know the 'don't leave dogs in hot cars' message but I think they just don't think anything bad will happen to their pets, particularly if they're just leaving them for a few minutes.
"What people need to realise is that the next animal to die in a hot car, conservatory or outbuilding could be their pet - that's how serious this is.
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Most of us won't get a call from Google tomorrow with an in-depth review of what we're doing right and wrong within the realm of SEO. But you can learn how to comprehend the subtle cues Google feeds your way from time to time.
Analyzing your Sitelinks is a great high-level way to see if you're squared away from the top of your information architecture. Not all sites have Sitelinks, but many do. You can often find this by searching for your brand name or a keyword you have in your domain name — any term you're sure that you rank first for.
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RESIDENTS can get advice on how to spare the planet at Christmas at an eco road-show on Wednesday.
Bracknell Forest Council's waste team will be offering information on how to avoid excessive packaging, use up leftovers and dispose of recycling and rubbish at the event from 9am-1pm at Bracknell Leisure Centre in Bagshot Road.
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A General Coalition Structure: Some Equivalence Results
It is well known that in a differential information economy the free coalition formation may imply some theoretical difficulties. It does not suffice to say that a coalition can be formed by several agents. We define a set of all possible coalitions as the set of those coalitions that can be formed and joint by any agent. There exists, in this way, a rule imposed over coalition formation. We assume that only a subset $\mathcal{S}$ of $\Sigma$ is alowed to form. In such way, we fix over the set of agents an aggregation rule for which the coalitions can be formed only if they belong to this subset. We have restricted the set of coalitions that can be joined by traders. The main result is the equivalence between two private core concept: the classical one for a differential information economy and the private core restricted.
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- Greenberg, Joseph & Weber, Shlomo, 1983. "A core equivalence theorem with an arbitrary communication structure," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 11(1), pages 43-55, January.
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Danish mainstay Libertine-Libertine gives us a peek at their Spring/Summer 2014 goods through an accompanying lookbook. Bringing their distinct Scandinavian aesthetic to Venice Beach, Los Angeles, and the blazing hot sun of the Palmdale desert, the brand once again presents a strong collection in the form of on-point pieces reworked with unique prints, patterns, and a contemporary silhouette. Libertine-Libertine's denim offerings are featured as well, characterized by a slim fit with a patterned inner lining.
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Bob Marley Honored by New Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Flavor, One Love
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For those moments when "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)," Ben & Jerry's now have a cure. Today, on the 36th anniversary of reggae legend Bob Marley's death, the ice-cream gurus have announced a new flavor in his honor: One Love.
According to a press release, the new limited-batch treat features banana ice cream with caramel and graham cracker swirls, as well as fudge peace signs. The flavor was conjured with the Marley family, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit a youth empowerment program in the musician's native Jamaica.
Ben & Jerry's released a promotional video, embedded above, for the new flavor. In it, Ben & Jerry's Jeff Furman, a longtime member of its board of directors, explained the choice.
"I mean, the words 'one love, one heart,' that touches everybody in every language," said Furman. "That's very connected to the kind of company we want to be. We don't do it through music; we do it through ice cream."
Because Marley gave voice to some many Jamaicans, Jacqueline Bryan, a counselor at One Love Camp in Tapioca Village, Jamaica, said, the camp continues to help youth find their own voices through music, creative writing and other means of expressing themselves.
One Love joins a long history of Ben & Jerry's flavors named for musicians. Past flavors have included the Jerry Garcia tribute Cherry Garcia, Phish homage Phish Food, the Dave Matthews Band's One Sweet Whirled and Magic Brownies, Willie Nelson's Country Peach Cobbler, Getting Down With Guster, Queen tribute Bohemian Rhapsody, John Lennon's Imagine Whirled Peace and Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road.
Music festivals have gotten in on the game, too, with flavors named for the Newport Folk Festival, Bonnaroo, Glastonbury and more.
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Budget groups pressed lawmakers not to skip a budget resolution this year, a move that House Democrats have considered.
"Neither filing taxes nor passing a federal budget should be optional," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "Taxpayers face stiff penalties for their failure to file, but members of Congress face no such punishment when they fail to pass a budget. Without a budget, the country is flying blind."
House Democrats haven't committed to passing a budget resolution this year.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said this week it would be difficult to steer a budget in the House because it's an election year and because of the dire fiscal situation. The resolution, which isn't binding, is used to set discretionary spending caps and lay out the majority's estimate of the fiscal picture in the short- and medium-term.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday the plan is to bring a budget resolution to the floor.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and The Concord Coalition, another fiscal responsibility group, said skipping a budget would send a bad message about Congress' willingness to take on deficits, which the Congressional Budget Office projects to average nearly $1 trillion for the next decade.
"Now more than ever, we need a budget resolution that will set fiscally responsible revenue, spending, and deficit reduction targets and include credible budget enforcement mechanisms needed to meet them," said Robert Bixby, executive director of The Concord Coalition. "The numbers will look bad but there should be no such thing as a deficit too big to face."


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Picture this: New SCADA platform supports larger, global networks
Wonderware says the latest release of its supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) platform responds to the growing need to manage production operations across large-scale, distributed global networks.
Wonderware says the latest release of its supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) platform responds to the growing need to manage production operations across large-scale, distributed global networks.
Wonderware System Platform 3.1 was released February 17, along with In Touch 10.1, a new version of the company's flagship human-machine interface (HMI) package.
"Wonderware System Platform 3.1 and InTouch 10.1 together deliver the software functionality needed today by users in the geographically distributed SCADA application space," says Keith Jones, marketing program manager for Wonderware HMI/SCADA products.
According to Jones, Wonderware System Platform 3.1 offers significant benefits for users needing highly distributed, networked software solutions. In addition to scalability from 250 to more than one million I/O points, highly distributed applications can be optimized for peak performance over networks of various sizes and speeds.
New configuration options also are available, he says, making Wonderware System Platform software even easier for users to engineer pilot projects and roll out applications across multiple locations. The new platform also extends the flexibility and configurability of the Wonderware Historian, offering more options to optimize storage for analysis of information from historical data.
InTouch 10.1 delivers increased operations productivity, with new features that have been most requested by customers, Jones says. For instance, new Microsoft .NET controls provide flexible trending and alarm management capabilities. Enhancements in internationalization enable a single application to be created, and then reused by personnel in locales around the globe.
Craig Resnick, a research director with ARC Advisory Group , agrees that the new Wonderware solution address a market need.
"In spite of a turbulent global economy, initiatives such as sustainability are continuing to drive investment in software-based performance and productivity improvement solutions across many infrastructure operations such as water and wastewater, facilities, transportation and power distribution," Resnick says. "These performance and productivity solutions—such as those built on the Wonderware System Platform 3.1 and InTouch 10.1—provide the return-on-investment and return-on-asset justification required by infrastructure operations. [The value of these systems] is proven out by improvements to key performance indicators such as overall equipment effectiveness and energy consumption monitoring that is visualized on HMI software-based digital dashboards."
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
But the year started with global economic turmoil, as a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing triggered a worldwide stock hiccup that sent values plummeting. The continued plunge in world oil prices has resulted in a slowdown in exploration and, by extension, the manufacture of exploration equipment.
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Washington will be the last one to know – but around the country, responsibility may be making a comeback.
We'll know for sure after the November elections. But the signs are encouraging.
In increasing state capitals, lawmakers are filing bills that finally, and blessedly, put a few reasonable strings on public benefits. Most of them involve drug testing, which is the minimum that should be required. Florida was among the first to require those receiving public benefits to be drug tested; now Georgia and South Carolina and, no doubt, other states are following suit.
Gov. Nikki Haley's spokesman used the key word in describing the movement in South Carolina:
"Anything that increases accountability ..."
He went on from there, but that said it all. Accountability.
Truth be told, governments have done no one any favors by not expecting accountability over the decades. They've paid out tax money with little regard for making sure taxpayers were well-served. And in expecting almost nothing in return from recipients, they've propagated what, in other circumstances, is called "the soft bigotry of low expectations." The less we expect of people, the less we'll get – and the more potential that will be lost.
This is certainly true in the case of unemployment benefits, and South Carolina state Sen. Paul Campbell would like to change that. His bill would require beneficiaries, after six months, to volunteer 16 hours a week in order to receive benefits.
The knee-jerk reaction among some will be to consider that harsh. Oh, good grief. Our ancestors thought nothing of earning their keep with a good day's work – and 16 hours isn't even half a working week. Besides, it may just give someone the chance to not only feel as if he or she is contributing, but to hone or even show off some job skills. And that could lead to future employment!
Moreover, now more than ever, it's time states and local governments got more bang for the buck. A sudden army of volunteers could help keep the trains running on time, as it were, and maybe help spruce things up a bit without increasing taxes during a fragile economy.
Predictably, a liberal organization is blowing back against the ideas, saying that, "To suggest that the unemployed are lazy drug abusers who are just sitting around feeds a false, ugly stereotype." Nonsense. No one is saying that. Besides – if they're not lazy drug abusers, then they shouldn't mind volunteering.
Meanwhile, anyone who is lucky enough to apply for a job and earn a paycheck is likely subject to drug testing. Why should public benefits carry any less than that minimal burden?


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The Chancellor has spoken, the opposition leader has blasted the speech, and now the nit-picking begins. But what were the five biggest announcements in today's Budget? Here's a guide:
1. The pensions revolution
His plan to abolish the 55 per cent tax rate on those who withdraw more than they should from their pension all seems very generous. (Except it isn't – the Budget small print reckons it'll lead to a spending splurge that will send £2bn to the Exchequer). The policy is aimed to address a genuine disappointment that many people experience on retirement when they discover what they can and can't do with their pension pot. Tax restrictions on how pensioners access pension pots will be lifted and pensioners will not have to buy an annuity. The amount that can be taken out as a lump sum will increase from £18,000 to £30,000. Defined contributions pensions will be made more flexible. As Fraser says, this means that millions of people will see their pension pot turn into a bank account – and those people are the ones most likely to vote.
2. Savings – ISA limit to £15k.
This is another prong of Osborne's offer for the aspirational voters. ISAs will become much more generous, with the allowance rising to £15,000 a year, and stocks and shares ISAs will merge with cash ISAs – savers will be able to put the full amount in cash or shares. (Although where you find a Cash ISA that doesn't offer negative real rate of interest is a separate question). The 10 per cent rate on income from savings will be abolished, which allowed Osborne to tease Labour about its own 10p disaster when in government. A churlish observer would point out that no matter how big the pot gets, there's still less of an incentive to save than there is to borrow with low interest rates.
3. Personal tax allowance
This will rise to £10,500, but there was no budge on the 40p rate. Osborne simply pointed out that raising the allowance would benefit all taxpayers. The government says this will make the average taxpayer £800 a year better-off. But the sum will be less than half of this for those on welfare, due to the withdrawal of various benefits.
4. Welfare cap set at set at £119bn
The cap will then rise to £127bn in 2018-9. Osborne will want Labour to kick up a fuss about this: it's his trap.
5. It's a budget for Sun readers
Bingo duty halved to 10%, 1p off a pint of beer, cider duty and Scottish whisky duty frozen, the planned rise in petrol duty scrapped. Anyone would think the Chancellor was trying to make amends to Sun readers for the 2012 budget in which their pasties and caravans took a hit. This was, as the Treasury briefed, a very blue-collar budget.
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