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Not far from here, a little over 220 years ago, General Lord Charles Cornwallis found himself in a bit of bother due to the ragtag Continental army under General George Washington. After the heroic night storming of one of his outer redoubts by Colonel Alexander Hamilton, Cornwallis realized that he was obliged to surrender his army of British grenadiers, the finest infantrymen in the world, to the upstart colonists. This was a fact that the noble-born Cornwallis simply could not face. Rather than endure the social humiliation of surrendering in person to Washington, the noble lord feigned illness to avoid the surrender ceremony altogether. Washington, the scion of one of Virginia's oldest families, was quick to recognize Cornwallis's slight; he sent his second-in-command, General Lincoln, to meet with Cornwallis's stand-in, General O'Hara. As the British troops marched by their American conquerors, the British military band, reflecting what must have been the utter disbelief of the British army, played the tune, "The World Turned Upside Down."
Since that encounter on the banks of the James (with the notable exception of the War of 1812), Anglo-American ties have recovered from this nadir, especially during the 20th century. It is not an exaggeration to say that, in Great Britain, America has no more proven or dependable an ally. History has underscored the commonalities of the relationship with ties built on common language, common history, and common culture. It is hard to imagine another two powers having shared interests as compatible as the descendents of Lord Cornwallis and his worthy adversary.
Yet now this seemingly unshakeable relationship is being called into question, and a seminal decision regarding its future awaits Britain early in the new century. A referendum on Britain's entry into the Euro-zone1 may occur as early as the next parliament. A "yes" vote would irrevocably merge British sovereignty into a larger European supranational construct, if the rhetoric of the current Euro-zone members is to be believed. This is, quite simply, the last real chance for Britain to choose an alternate future path, one that recognizes that its natural economic and political partner remains the United States and not the European Union (EU).
Such a shift has its origins firmly planted in modern-day realities. When asked in a November Economist poll who was the UK's most reliable ally in a crisis, 59 percent of those polled said the U.S., with only 16 percent paying Europe that compliment. People in the UK remain profoundly skeptical of Europe and the euro; this dissatisfaction will lead them, sooner or later, to cast about for a viable alternative to being swallowed by the EU. Thus, the notion of closer Anglo-American trade ties is destined to play well in the UK. This strategy is politically viable, especially for the Tories. There is no doubt that the people of the UK remain deeply skeptical about the euro in particular and the European experiment in general. For instance, the unpopular Tories, albeit on a low turnout, stunningly won the Euro-elections of summer '99 by turning them into a referendum on joining the euro. A September 1999 survey by Solomon Smith Barney, Citibank, and MORI, the preeminent British polling firm, showed 58 percent of the population against euro membership and only 27 percent in favor. Recently, in the wake of the Anglo-French beef dispute, the numbers have gotten even worse for advocates of euro membership. A December 1999 survey shows that support for the single currency has slumped to a record low of 17 percent. Nor is even remaining in the European Union beyond question. Another MORI poll of May 1999 indicated that 47 percent of those with a definite opinion wanted Britain to withdraw from the EU altogether.
Despite these figures, the Labour Party platform has committed the government to call for a referendum on the euro in the life of the next parliament. Assuming the Conservatives campaign for a "no" vote in a euro referendum, however well they put their argument, however skillfully they deconstruct the "yes" case, their task is an essentially destructive rather than a creative one. This is a charge that has dogged conservatism in both the U.S. and UK since the glory days of Reagan and Thatcher; one knows what conservatives are against, but what are they for? This damning question is invariably what Labour is bound to ask in the upcoming British referendum. Silence is not an effective answer, either politically or intellectually.
My proposal is that, as an alternative to Prime Minister Blair's "third way" push for ever closer integration with Europe, we should rally round a rival standard: Britain's entry into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as an Associate member. Such a plan requires the UK to shift its politico-economic focus from Europe and, instead, return its gaze to what is clearly the most successful partnership of the 20th century--the special relationship between the UK and the U.S. of Hamilton and Washington. Broadening NAFTA represents the kind of international institution we conservatives ought to favor: a coalition determined to genuinely maximize trade liberalization throughout our member states.
Beyond providing the British with a compelling political alternative to euro membership, there are several general reasons such an association makes sense from an American point of view. First, the U.S. is already deeply enmeshed commercially with Britain; further trade liberalization would result in immediate and significant benefits for the American economy. Over the last 10 years UK net direct investment in North America has been greater than double its investment in the EU. Direct net investment in the UK from the U.S. and Canada has been 1.5 times the figure of total EU investment in Britain. In 1997 British direct investment in the U.S. was $18.3 billion, greater than any other country's, and 30 percent of the total of all foreign direct investment in the U.S. America invested more in Britain than anywhere else--$22.4 billion, or 20 percent of the total of all U.S. foreign direct investment. Also, Sterling has tended to be more in line with the dollar than with the D-mark and the other European currencies. This greatly affects interest-rate harmonization, leading to the inescapable conclusion that the American and British economies are more in-sync with one another than either is with the economic powers on the Continent.
The changed nature of the post-Cold War era itself has made a significant U.S.-UK economic link possible. Sharing borders, as the UK does with the Continent, does not necessarily translate into increased financial interactions compared with trade with a country far away, as it has done throughout history. This is the result of the telecommunications revolution that is such a salient characteristic of the age of globalization. To some extent the Internet has epitomized this "death of distance." The centrality of a U.S.-UK trade link would not have worked nearly so well in the age of the sailing ship, or even when the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957. But globalization has made such a link very possible as the above economic figures indicate.
Second, the U.S. and the UK share a common politico-economic culture; this makes a trade combination between them far more likely to prove economically successful. In the era of globalization, the world can best be assessed as divided into two camps, exhibiting markedly different strains of capitalism: Statists and Reaganite/Thatcherites, with advocates of the third way vainly trying to square the circle of finding a coherent middle way between the two. Germany and France, with their reliance on a massive role for the state in their economies, lavish tax and benefits systems, structurally high unemployment (U.S. unemployment is less than half that of France, Italy, Spain, and Germany), and greater tendency toward protectionism, are clearly statist in politico-economic culture. A most curious phenomenon is that all the major parties in both France and Germany share a common loyalty to the social-democratic model. This is not the case in the UK; Prime Minister Tony Blair has done little to overturn the effects of the Thatcher revolution relating to privatization, deregulation, and a more market-oriented approach. It is simply a fact of life that continental Europe is largely statist and that this politico-economic orientation is increasingly incompatible with the Anglo-Saxon form of capitalism. Any historical look at the UK's long-evidenced frustrations with the EU illustrates the difficulties of unlike forms of capitalism banding together. The U.S. and the UK exhibit an anti-statist, pro-free trade, pro-markets politico-economic culture; sharing a common school of thought makes a trade combination infinitely more likely to be successful and is a strong argument in favor of the new NAFTA combination.
An expanding, free-trade oriented NAFTA would have a great competitive economic advantage over the EU due to this shared politico-economic culture. The English-speaking peoples' anti-statist cultural model, stressing the centrality of the rule of law, relatively lower tax rates, and less social spending, is the principal reason that, over the past 15 years, the U.S. and Canada have created 2 million more new jobs than the EU countries. Dismally, the EU has run a net loss of private sector jobs in the 1990s. The EU has a more corporatist approach, wants a larger role for the state in the marketplace, a padded safety net and, correspondingly, espouses a greater advocacy of protectionist doctrines to shield these inefficient practices. The Anglo-American economic culture exhibits a greater advocacy of free trade, a more dynamic economic environment, and a limited safety net. Such a grouping will inevitably fare better in the new era, driven as it is by markets and economic fundamentals. In terms of politico-economic culture in the age of globalization (to say nothing of the advantage a common language bestows), a free trade area centered around an Anglo-American nexus is simply a better fit for both countries than any conceivable alternate economic arrangements.
Third, the grouping will also protect the U.S. politically from whatever the outcome of the European experiment in supranationalism. I wish to make it clear that I am not against Europe; I am against a protectionist Euro-Federal grouping. We need to be as clear-eyed about this as the French and Germans are. They have no trouble reconciling the ambiguity that the U.S. is both an ally and a rival of theirs; such are the complexities of the world. There is a danger for the U.S. if the EU proves to be too successful in its attempts at centralization. If it succeeds in becoming some sort of coherent federal structure, it may well try to sever the transatlantic link--as Henry Kissinger has suggested2 --even attempting to become a rival hegemon in the long term. This is fundamentally not in America's interests. There is little doubt that such a goal is the object of many European centralizers. Georges-Marc Benamou, in Le Dernier Mitterand, has the elderly French President saying, "France does not know it, but we are at war with America. Yes, a permanent war, a vital war, a war without death. Yes, they are very hard the Americans, they are voracious, they want undivided power over the world."3 Likewise Gerhard Schroeder, in a television interview on December 28, 1999, said, "Whining about US dominance does not help, we have to act." He then went on to advocate that Europe act more like a single country if it wants to challenge U.S. economic and political dominance.4 As the preponderant power in the world, it is precisely such a challenge, from however seemingly benign a source, that America must counter. Nor is there a genuine teleological argument here; there is no doubt that a major strain of Euro-federalism is anti-American in its thrust. We need to stop thinking that French rhetoric isn't serious, that it's just a cultural eccentricity. Rather, it reflects the honest beliefs of a people that have a very different political and economic agenda from ours. Britain will not play a decisive role in what becomes of the EU (as always, that will be left to Germany and France), but it can play a critical role in assuring that an American-led bloc will maintain its dominance by a wide margin over such an integrated statist rival.
political way ahead for this revolutionary new trade nexus is
straightforward. After campaigning for the euro option in the
context of a referendum early in the life of the next parliament
and losing, the Blair government will either fall or be gravely
weakened, as it is so closely associated with entry into the
Euro-zone. Either with a desperately weakened Blair or, better yet,
a Tory government flush with triumph after winning the referendum,
Britain's entry into NAFTA becomes the logical policy alternative.
Britain, in line with the current Conservative position, should
attempt to renegotiate the Treaty of Rome, allowing it opt-outs
over all pieces of legislation relating to further losses of
sovereignty and the ability to enter into negotiations to join
NAFTA as an Associate member. Unlike others who advocate a closer
Anglo-American trade link, however, I believe such talks, while
desirable from a British point of view, are bound to fail. As
Geoffrey Martin, the European Commission's representative in London
stated, "The Conservative Approach is detached from the real
circumstances of the EU."5 He pointed out that
the trend in the EU was to extend its remit; I take him at his
word. The EU
will go forward with an ever closer union whatever Britain decides to do. It is precisely because of these differences over Europe that the UK is looking for an alternative to euro membership in the first place. In such a situation the UK may well find it necessary to leave the union.
negotiations fail (as is likely), Britain should then reenter the
European Free Trade Area (EFTA), also joining the European Economic
Area (EEA) along with Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein, which is
the linking of the single markets of the EU and willing EFTA
members, excepting matters relating to the Common Agricultural
Policy and fisheries.6 Such a link would
preserve British sovereignty (a vital political concern), keep the
UK in the single market, while allowing it to negotiate Associate
NAFTA status. EEA membership entails no transfer of legislative
power from the parliaments of contracting parties to EEA
institutions. Decisions by the EEA joint committee (composed of EU
and EEA members) in principle need to be transposed into national
legislation to be binding in each EFTA country. This would be the
best-case scenario for Britain in the age of globalization;
remaining in the common market while joining an expanding, free
trade-oriented NAFTA would amount to having
its cake and eating it too. However, if the other member states of the EU refuse to allow for such a variable-speed Europe, a fundamental choice must then be made. Britain should then withdraw from negotiations with Brussels and enter the NAFTA free trade area as an Associate member.
NAFTA countries are already engaging in preliminary talks with EFTA states about Associate member status, along with Chile. Such a revamped NAFTA, rechristened and transformed into a global Free Trade Association (FTA), will be founded around a genuine commitment to increasing free trade between its member states and at a global level. It will serve as a practical advertisement for the enduring global benefits of free trade; an example all the more important in the wake of the Seattle debacle. It could come to encompass such countries as New Zealand, Hong Kong, Bahrain, Ireland, Chile, Singapore, Israel, Denmark, Estonia, and the Czech Republic. The Free Trade Association will be an inclusive grouping, whose expanded membership should be based solely on a policy commitment by its member states to a genuinely liberal global trading order. This commitment will be characterized by a state meeting certain numerical targets (such as those used in the methodology employed in The Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom) regarding a country's openness relating to its trade policy, capital flows and investment, property rights, and low level of regulation. Members will thus select themselves based on their genuine commitment to a liberal trading order. The plan embraces a commitment to a state's sovereignty; its economic policies (and the choices they represent) will determine whether or not it qualifies for the grouping. However, given my firm belief in the economic superiority of the Anglo-American economic model, such an organization will have a disproportionate number of English-speaking members, certainly in the short- and medium-term. However, the numerical target concept allows for self-selection, giving the whole project an inclusivity it would otherwise lack, while advancing our common desire to strengthen the ties that bind the English-speaking world together. The Free Trade Association's internal initiatives will include: freer movement of capital within the new grouping; establishing common accounting standards; setting uniform numerically driven very low rates of subsidy, as well as diminishing overt and hidden tariffs.
This new Anglo-American economic tie will simply build upon the older links that have made this relationship one of the most fruitful and enduring in history. This plan exemplifies conservatism at its Burkean best, proposing policies based on conditions that already exist, rather than as with the EU, trying to legislate sand castles into reality. For an indication of the vibrancy of the Anglo-American tie lies in its duration. As Winston Churchill observed during the Battle of Britain, August 20, 1940: "The British Empire and the United States will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage. For my own part, looking out across the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished; no one can stop it. Like the Mississippi it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands and better days." Let us heed this hallowed voice, preserving and enhancing this vital link, which has seen us through so much in the past and can be a source of so much in the future.
John C. Hulsman, Ph.D., is Senior European Policy Analyst in the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
1. The Euro-zone consists of the 11 European countries that have initially adopted the euro as their currency (Germany, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, and Austria). The euro will become the sole legal tender in these participating countries by July 1, 2002.
2. Conrad Black, "Britain's Atlantic Option--and America's Stake," National Interest, No. 55 (Spring 1999), pp. 21-22.
5. Robert Preston, "Opposition Party Commits to Altering EU Treaty," Financial Times, October 6, 1999.


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Improving TCP Performance Over an On-Board Multi-Homed Network
Previously, a multi-homed NEMO architecture has been proposed to improve the reliability and aggregate the bandwidth of MR by simultaneously using multiple wireless links. In this paper, the authors propose a novel protocol called ETOM (Enhancements for TCP On a multi-homed mobile router) to improve the performance of sending a single TCP connection over multiple wireless links on a MR. ETOM consists of three components. First, they use a reordering buffer to eliminate unnecessary retransmission caused by out-of-order packets. Second, they develop a multi-homed split connection mechanism to enable the TCP connection to quickly adapt to the conditions of multiple links when packet loss occurs.

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Since tomorrow is the bite the bug event insh'Allah, I'd figured I share some facts about Malaria.
What is Malaria?
Malaria is a life-threatening parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes.
Top ten facts about Malaria
- Just one mosquito bite is all it takes for the malaria virus to be transmitted and potentially kill an innocent child or pregnant mother.
- Their are over 3 billion people at risk today, most of them in the African region
- Although some are under development, no vaccine is currently available for malaria that provides a high level of protection
- Five percent of African children are killed by Malaria, about 3,000 a day.
- Approximately half of the world's population is at risk of malaria, particularly those living in lower-income countries.
- An African child has on average between 1.6 and 5.4 episodes of malaria fever each year.
- Every 30 seconds a child dies from malaria.
- The initial symptoms are malaise (not feeling well), low grade fever, body pain or cold like symptoms followed by intermittent high fever.
- Malaria costs Africa more than $12 billion in lost GDP every year
- The first time Muslims will be united for Malaria in the U.S.A. will be tomorrow insh'Allah =)
See you there insh'Allah!


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Worldwide MVNO Directory
November 2016
There are roughly 800 MNOs in the world for you to sell your systems and technology into. The last MVNO Directory detailed 645 MVNOs. For those of you who have contacted all the MNOs it is time to contact the MVNOs.
Each MVNO will have a different set of agreements with their host MNO and a different take on what technology they want to control. The confusion in the market is the blurring of brands and resellers with MVNOs; it is difficult to distinguish between these without being privy to their contract with the MNO. At the brand and reseller end you are really dealing with the MNO itself. Then there is a middle ground of MVNEs who represent many branded operations but they are the company you need to contact for back office systems and technology. At the full MVNO end there is even potential that the operation will add to and improve the physical network of the MNO as well as being responsible for their own switching, back office systems, value added services, billing, SIM cards, handsets and anything else you would expect an MNO to need to do business.
The exciting press release would be to sign up a big name to your application such as Tesco Mobile or all of Lebara's multi-country operations. But the small operations will have lofty ambitions too, so while the immediate big budgets may rest with the big names, the up and coming resellers, brands and very small MVNOs can be pots of gold in the making. It is also worth noting that these smaller operations may have been over looked by your competition and depending on what you consider to be "an order" then they could be a better suit to your sales team than starting with the obvious mega MNOs.
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Matritech's stated goal is to be an extension of its clients' businesses by developing a thorough understanding of their needs and contributing to their success. According to one client, a logistics director in the construction sector, Matritech has accomplished this goal by providing valuable support.
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One way Matritech provides this support is with its project managers who suggest ways to save costs, simplify manufacturing and enhance the quality of metal parts.
A strategic buyer in the lighting sector and long-time client praised Matritech for its ability to help with any project.
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Matritech is known for its one-stop-shop offering, as it performs a range of manufacturing processes under one roof. Its services include bending, cutting, stamping, machining, tool making and assembly. The company can also help with every stage of metal parts manufacturing, from development to prototyping and production.
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Poland's first openly gay member of Parliament was assaulted outside a café in Warsaw after he attended the city's annual Pride parade Saturday, reports PinkNews.
Robert Biedron, who was elected to parliament in 2011, says he and a group of friends went to a cafe after the parade, where an identified man began harassing them.
"An aggressive man insulted us, using homophobic statements," Biedron told a local news organization, according to PinkNews. "He began to choke one of my friends and punched him in the face. When he recognized me, he spat in my face, raised his fists, and kicked me in the stomach."
PinkNews reports that the assailant fled but was quickly arrested by local police.
Despite the homophobic assault, Biedron remains optimistic about the future of LGBT rights in Poland. He noted that this year's Pride parade was missing the antigay protesters who have in years past thrown bottles and stones at the LGBT Poles marching for equality.
Earlier this year, former president Lech Walesa, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and pioneering labor leader, refused to apologize for antigay comments he made on a TV program saying that gay and lesbian people do not deserve equal rights and should "sit behind a wall" in Parliament.
In response, Biedron and Anna Grodzka, Poland's first openly transgender lawmaker, staged a protest where they sat in the front row of the House of Parliament. Both Biedron and Grodzka are members of the country's socially liberal Palikot Movement.
Pro-equality legislators introduced several civil partnership bills in parliament earlier this year, but those were defeated by conservative MPs citing a provision in the Polish constitution which defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman, according to PinkNews.


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Google wants to monitor your phone calls' background noise to better serve you ads
Google is no stranger to collecting your information in order to better serve you advertisements, but if a recently filed patent ever comes to life, the company will be taking it to the next level.
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True Crime Report, New Mexico: Man Leads Cops on Chase in School Bus [VIDEO]
During the True Crime Report, we like to play "Florida or New Mexico" because the two states are, umm…over-represented when it comes to weird crime. Nathaniel Shipman ain't helpin' New Mexico's stats, here, and we have dashcam video to prove it.
Took awhile, but the New Mexico State Police and Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department got their man. Shipman, 27, stole a school bus and led troopers on a high-speed, then low-speed chase. High-speed before the spike strip took out his front tires, low-speed after he continued going on the rims.
Trailing a line of law enforcement vehicles that looked like something straight out of the Blues Brothers, Shipman drove through one attempt at a pit maneuver — basically ramming the bus from one side to turn it — before getting popped by a larger highway patrol SUV.
No one knows why Shipman stole a school bus, but apparently when the authorities got him he was in his underwear.
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We continue our tour in the halls of the Asics showcase on Torstrasse in Berlin, which you should by the way definitely check out if you are in the city. Here we give you a first exclusive look at the upcoming collaboration with Mita Sneakers. They chose black leather and black nylon on the upper, while the in-sole comes with a leopard pattern. The sneaker will drop October 2010.
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|21 Jun 2013
Activation reset issue - lab environment
I'm having a weird issue that I've never come across before. I recently upgraded all of my company computers, and we're doing a training in social media for some of our Board of Directors. I picked the nicest 13 laptops from our recently returned models, and planned to use them for the training before selling to staff or recycling them.
Those laptops contained employee info, so I planned to wipe them clean and install a plain, new version of Windows 7. However, I'm seeing the activation is suddenly giving me a 3 day timer instead of 30. I followed my normal routine of using the slmgr to reset it, and that isn't working. I reboot, and the timer still says 3 days. I'm not going to burn activations on these computers, because after next week, they will be wiped clean again, and will have their individual Vista installs put back with their valid licenses. I've never encountered this issue, where I couldn't extend the timer with the rearm. What's going on here?
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Hello Scott,
You get the 3 day period instead of 30 day grace period when you check the Automatically activate Windows when I'm online box below during installation. Leaving it unchecked will give you the full 30-days. When checked, slmgr will not help.
Hope this helps.
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|21 Jun 2013
That might have been the case. Damn. I ran slmgr /dlv and it said I already used the 3 activation periods, so I'm S.O.L. I think. Better build a new image and follow your suggestion above.
Thank you...much appreciated!!
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|21 Jun 2013
You're most welcome. Please let us know how it goes.
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|24 Jun 2013
That worked! My training class on Wed will go much more smoothly now, knowing that the systems won't be shutting off or giving activation messages during the training. Thanks again!
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|24 Jun 2013
Great news. I'm glad that was all it was.
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UNICEF condemns new recruitment of children by armed groups in Central African RepublicListen /
The United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) has condemned the new recruitment of children by armed groups in the Central African Republic and called for their immediate release.
The agency says it has clear evidence of the continuing recruitment and use of children by armed groups in the country and is warning the leaders that such practices are a grave violation of international law.
It says the takeover of the capital, Bangui, by rebels from the Seleka coalition at the end of March has not stopped such human rights violations.
UNICEF spokesperson in Geneva Marixie Mercado says the Central African Republic has a history of children associated with armed forces and groups.
"Before the latest upsurge of fighting began in December last year, UNICEF estimates that at least 2,000 boys and girls were associated with armed groups. Recruitment of children for use by armed forces and groups has taken place by both sides since December. UNICEF has called on the new leadership in the Central African Republic to immediately release children associated with armed groups and the new authorities in Bangui have indicated their intention to identify and release children among the ranks of armed groups."
Ms. Mercado says UNICEF is committed to working with the authorities in the Central African Republic to stop new recruitment and to support the process of identification, verification and reintegration of children.
Gerry Adams, United Nations.
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Bum Bot on patrol of streets gets mixed reviews
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Unbearable sounds from box perfect teen-repellent
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Bush expected to sign farm bill extension
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Yahoo may get higher buyout
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp. reportedly dangled a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo Inc. Friday, hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks of saber rattling.
Rules to clamp down on creditors, rates
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Food prices expected to remain high
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Unexpected gains Friday defy economy's downfall
WASHINGTON - The economy showed off unexpected signs of resilience Friday as job losses slowed, the dollar gained a bit of muscle for a change and there were even indications that food prices may be easing. The unemployment rate dipped, though that may not last.
Company's TV system to challenge satellite, cable
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Littlefield wins first playoff game
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Roosevelt's new football coach
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Hill's clutch hit gives Plainview Game 1 victory over Caprock
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At ritzy receptions in the nation's capital, Tomas Resendiz has been mistaken for a waiter. Other guests have handed him empty glasses and turned to him for more cocktails. Despite his suit and tie. Despite his impressive title: Congressional Hispanic Caucus Liaison for U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo.
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Lubbock community gathers for Day of Prayer
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Jerry Collins, 67, of Littlefield died Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at First Baptist Church. Hammons Funeral Home, Littlefield.
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John Byrd Watts
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Gary Horton
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Paul W. Armstrong, Jr.
Paul W. Armstrong, Jr., 80, passed away May 1, 2008. Paul was a good man, a simple man. He was a farmer, an Aggie, and a family man who never forgot how lucky he was to have his wife, Jacquelyn Kelley Armstrong, by his side for 58 years.
Carma Oliver
Carma Oliver passed away peacefully on April 23, 2008, in her care home, in Tucson Ariz., after a long battle with Alzheimer's. She is now healed and with the Lord. Carma was a loving mother and grandmother, and was loved and adored by family and friends alike. She will be greatly missed.
Roy Lynn Mixon
Roy Lynn Mixon, 59, of Lubbock passed away on Monday, April 28, 2008, in an Albuquerque hospital. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, May 2, 2008, at Southcrest Baptist Church.
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Donnie Blackmon Lewis
Donnie Blackmon Lewis, 60, of Lubbock died Saturday at her home. Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Franklin-Bartley Chapel, burial will follow in the Meadow Cemetery. Her family will receive friends Wednesday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Donnie was born August 14, 1948 to Donald and Ida (Wilson) Blackmon. She was a graduate of Ropesville High School, and she attended South Plains College, and University of Texas. She married Bill Lewis October 21, 1986, in Lovington, N.M. She was a member of St. Luke's Methodist Church, and was a retired bookkeeper.
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Richard Purdy
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Evangelist Carla Eloise Simmons
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Katy Shannon Swann
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Area delegates support UMC decisions against homosexuality
FORT WORTH - Lubbock-area delegates backed decisions made at the United Methodist General Conference this week banning same-sex unions and rejecting proposed changes in a statement that homosexuality is "incompatible with Christian teaching."
United Methodists end conference with eyes on global agenda
FORT WORTH - United Methodists spent long hours debating homosexuality, focused on aid to Africa and took steps toward becoming a more global church during their 10-day general conference, which ended Friday night.
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LCHS earns its fourth straight trip to state
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F***ing Outside The Box tells the story of 17 year old Frankie as she attempts to act out a Sex and the City-inspired rape-fantasy role play, with an acquaintance she met at a party. Frankie is desperate to be sexually adventurous and desired, but can she deal with the realities of this increasingly dark encounter?
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Red Sox, MLB name Moitoso an 'All-Star'
Moitoso will also be honored during a pregame ceremony at Fenway Park on Saturday before representing the Red Sox at the All-Star Game in Anaheim on July 13.
Debuting in 2009, the campaign recognizes individuals who serve their communities in extraordinary ways. Moitoso, one of three Red Sox finalists, was chosen for his community service with Ludlowe Corps, which sends local students to developing countries to participate in health, education and environmental projects.
Moitoso's Ludlowe Corps has also raised over $100,000 for projects including distributing mosquito nets, starting a new elementary school in Senegal and helping with flood relief in Ecuador. Around 1,500 middle school students have already raised funds, and nearly 50 students have traveled to Senegal and Ecuador to participate.
Fans across the nation cast 1.7 million votes more than double the amount of votes from the previous year at PeopleAllStars.com to select the 30 All-Stars Among Us winners out of the pool of 90 finalists who are serving as leaders within their communities.


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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound OffThis review does have a bit of a track-by-track element to it, but I thought that it was okay here as it's only got five songs. I also realise my personal rating for this is a 4.5, but I'm trying to be a bit more objective about how much new it actually offers here.
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Wendy - thank you - apreciate your compliment, so nice you like the design.PJ
Katie - thank you - I'm pleased you like it, the bullfinch is my favorite winter bird....PJ
PJ, this is OUTSTANDING! You picked the perfect subject matter for this effect. :-)
Wow! This is very creative PJ. I love that you put one in the center with the true colors. Pretty bird!
Very cool way that this was presented.Loved it.
Thank you Hester and Barb - so glad both of you thought it was lovely!!!Wishful thinking is allowed on Jigidi, Barb - over here bullfinches are winterbirds (they are visible against the white snow)PJ
When I think of birds I think of spring. Maybe that's just wishful thinking. :-))Thanks, PJ, for a lovely puzzle.
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Virtual reality therapy an emerging weapon in war on PTSD
By HUGH LESSIG | Daily Press (Newport News, Va.) | Published: October 7, 2012
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The world of virtual reality, dramatized in films like "The Matrix" and TV's "Star Trek," has become an emerging weapon in the very real war against combat stress for troops and veterans in Hampton Roads.
The Hampton VA Medical Center is one of a few dozen places around the country that offers the chance to re-experience combat trauma in a tightly controlled setting – and slowly overcome long-held anxieties.
Wearing goggles and earphones in a doctor's office, patients revisit a three-dimensional slice of Iraq, Afghanistan or Vietnam, navigating a digital world ridden with incoming mortar rounds, bullet holes in windshields and even the smell of cordite and burning garbage.
As a form of therapy, virtual reality is not new. Patients who suffer fear of flying have used it for years. It helps others conquer their fear of speaking in public
At the Hampton VA, staff psychiatrist Kathleen Decker has used the technique for about four and half years with veterans and active-duty troops who suffer from combat-related post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Decker estimated that between 50 and 80 setups such as hers exist throughout the VA medical system and the Department of Defense. Hampton is believed to be the only medical center to offer the service in the VA's Mid-Atlantic Heathcare Network, which covers portions of Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.
After donning the goggles and earphones, the patient uses a joystick controller identical to one used for video games. But forget any comparisons to XBOX or Playstation, according to Decker.
"You're not playing a game," she said. "You're striking chords in their memory. When you're in a war game, you are busy being aggressive. This is much more about seeing things happen around you."
The level of detail isn't as sophisticated as today's video games, but that isn't necessary.
"It just triggers the memory in the person," Decker said. "It doesn't have to be a perfect representation of the environment."
One of Decker's patients agrees.
Sam asked that his real name not be used for this story. He's an active-duty soldier who suffers from PTSD, and his goal is to recover and serve as a squad leader again. He has completed four combat deployments, serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
During his final deployment in February 2009, Sam was riding in a convoy of armored Stryker vehicles in northwest Baghdad when an improvised explosive device struck the vehicle in front of him. Sam was stationed in the hatch, and he suffered lung injuries and a traumatic brain injury from the blast that hit the neighboring vehicle.
He doesn't remember the attack, but the resulting trauma is very real.
Sam doesn't drink or do drugs, so he turned to violence to deal with the anxieties welling up inside him. He assaulted his wife. He started getting violent with soldiers.
To compound the agony, Sam's 16-month-old daughter passed away in 2010. He had missed her birth while on deployment..His commanders ordered him into counseling, and at first, he didn't see the need.
"I blew it off," he said. "I didn't believe in PTSD treatment. I thought it was just weak-minded individuals."
The turning point came when doctors hooked him to a machine that showed his brain activity. His aggression, he said, "was off the charts."
Doctors at Fort Meade referred him to the Hampton VA, where he became a candidate for Decker's virtual reality therapy.
"I didn't want to do it," he said. "I was anxious for a week. But for me to continue active duty, this is a necessity."
Sam has undergone one virtual reality session so far. He was transported into a digital world as a .50-caliber gunner on a convoy. It took him back to a previous deployment in Afghanistan, where that was his job. He found himself looking for old dangers.
"It was wild – like seeing the overpasses, that's one of the things we look for," he said. "The tops of buildings, anything on the ground, we're always looking for that stuff, so I thought it was pretty realistic."
Sam hopes to eventually conquer his fears by experiencing them over and over with Decker at the controls, deciding when to fill the screen with an IED blast, or send a sniper's bullet through a windshield, or induce a variety of odors from a collection she keeps in a file drawer.
The smells can be as effective as visual cues – and truly foul-smelling. One depicts the odor of blood.
Decker said she proceeds very slowly, allowing patients like Sam to gradually experience a traumatic event without getting overly stressed. For example, Sam's first session involved moving through the virtual world with no trouble.
The "cardinal symptom" of PTSD is avoidance, so she doesn't want a patient to say, "I'm not trying that again. It was too stressful." She keeps up a constant dialogue with patients as they look through the goggles, asking about their anxiety level.
"The therapist has a tricky job of not fostering avoidance," she said.
Sam admits that he's not one to express his feelings in public, especially when they relate to difficult periods of his life. But he wanted to tell his in hopes that others would seek help.
"I never cared about soldiers' aches and pains," he said. "That's the guilt I have today. If I go back to being a squad leader, I will definitely check my soldiers a lot more, physically and mentally. I wouldn't give them a choice to seek help if I saw them acting out of character."
Many of today's younger soldiers joined the military after the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Sam, who is 36 and has 14 years of Army service, was inspired by the earlier generation of Vietnam soldiers. It is worth noting that Decker has two Vietnam-inspired virtual reality worlds in her toolbox. One puts the patient in a helicopter, the other slogging through a rice paddy as a foot soldier.
Sam hopes that Vietnam veterans find their way to offices like hers.
"Hopefully, those guys can get some treatment and relief," he said. "That's what I'm looking for – the relief."
Capt. Heather Bautista, standing, a social worker at the David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis AFB, Calif., turns to see the virtual fireball of an exploded IED as she checks the operation of virtual reality-based software in April, 2009. At the controls of the system is Lt. Cmdr. William Satterfield of the U.S. Public Health Service.


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Can the Environmental Protection Agency Fairly Regulate the Shale Gas Revolution?
May 7, 2012
Hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") was commonly used with almost no controversy for decades to extract deep reserves of oil and gas. Now, however, it is a line in the sand, dividing stalwarts from both parties, says Jon Entine, a senior fellow at STATS and the Center for Health & Risk Communication at George Mason University.
Hard-edged Democrats claim fracking is at best a dangerous unknown with limited economic benefits, and at worst an environmental and health disaster in the making perpetrated by energy plutocrats. In contrast, Republicans portray shale gas as a growth engine and a way to lower energy costs.
Given this dynamic, and given that Democrats currently control the White House, it should come as no surprise that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), whose appointed regulators are ostensibly non-partisan, has established itself as a shamelessly biased opponent of shale energy.
- Last December in Pavilion, Wyoming, the EPA stirred up an international anti-fracking storm when it announced it had found a direct link between fracking and groundwater contamination -- the EPA would backtrack only months later, conceding it had used poor evaluative techniques.
- Similarly, in February of this year the EPA targeted Cabot & Gas Oil for contaminating groundwater in Dimock, Pennsylvania, and called for "immediate action," only to fallback a month later by confirming that the water was safe.
- Finally, the EPA demonized Range Resources in Parker County, Texas, with similar charges, even going so far as to criticize state officials (mostly Republican) for poor oversight, only to admit months later that other gas sources might be at fault for water contamination.
This string of incidents underlines the partisan style of the agency as a whole that rushes to accusations and forms data to fit its preconceived conclusions.
Source: Jon Entine, "Can the EPA Fairly Regulate the Shale Gas Revolution?" American Enterprise Institute, April 30, 2012.
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Ravitch's book has lessons for Milwaukee schools
Public education is a battleground across America. And in Milwaukee, it is no different.
In recent months, the state has withheld money from MPS, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Gov. Jim Doyle have proposed mayoral control of the district and new legislation gives the Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers more control over failing schools and districts, which many see as code for "Milwaukee Public Schools."
Wisconsin's application for federal Race to the Top funds failed earlier this year, depriving MPS and other state districts much needed resources.
Milwaukee -- who soon welcomes a new superintendent, Gregory Thornton -- gets noticed on the national stage and so you can expect to read about MPS in "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education," the new book by New York-based Diane Ravitch.
Ravitch -- who was assistant secretary of education in the elder Bush's cabinet and was appointed by Bill Clinton to the National Assessment Governing Board -- is a research professor of education at New York University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is also a respected education historian and writer.
In the book, which she wrote after reconsidering some of her long-held beliefs about education, Ravitch looks at some of the recent trends in school reform -- from vouchers, choice and charter schools to a heavier than ever focus on testing and accountability to attempts to force successful business management ideas onto public schools.
"Untethered to any genuine philosophy of education," she writes in the book, "our current reforms will disappoint us, as others have in the past. We will, in time, see them as distractions, wrong turns and lost opportunities. It is time to reconsider not only the specifics of current reforms, but also our very definition of reform."
We asked Ravitch about how some of the specific discussions in "The Death and Life of the Great American School System" relate to Milwaukee.
OnMilwaukee.com: Milwaukee was a key district in the development of vouchers and choice. How did the city's early adoption affect the landscape?
Diane Ravitch: Milwaukee is indeed the nation's laboratory for assessing the value of school choice. The advocates of school choice predicted that academic performance in choice schools would not only soar, but that the competitive pressure would cause achievement in the regular district schools to improve. None of this has happened. The latest studies show that students in voucher schools and in charter schools do not perform any differently from those in the regular public schools.
OMC: Has our continued embracing of vouchers contributed to the problems we have now in public schooling?
DR: Of course. "Reformers" in Milwaukee have been pursuing strategies that we now know are ineffective. The more time and resources devoted to ineffective strategies, the less attention there is to finding useful improvements. Choice got the support of foundations and business leaders, but it has not worked.
OMC: What is the effect on our public schools of this so-called two-tiered system of choice schools and public schools?
DR: Typically, when large numbers of choice programs are introduced, motivated families leave the public school system. As New Orleans demonstrates, the choice schools tend to get relatively higher-performing students, especially since they retain the ability to remove or "counsel out" students who don't test well or who are disruptive. Over time, the public school system has a disproportionate share of the students who are most challenging to educate. It is surprising that choice schools don't show better results since the playing field is not equal.
OMC: Is it alluring to public schools to consider reorganizing under a charter?
DR: Certainly, especially if they thus become deregulated, can select incoming students and can remove students they don't want.
OMC: Last year, the discussion of mayoral control of MPS was extremely divisive. What have the results of mayoral control been in other cities?
DR: Mayoral control solves no problems. Of the cities that take the national test administered by the federal government, the highest performing do not have mayoral control, while some of the lowest performing -- Cleveland and Chicago -- do have mayoral control. Since New York City adopted mayoral control in 2002, it has seen very meager improvement on its national scores, less than other cities that are tested.
And mayoral control leaves parents feeling angry and disaffected because decisions are made about their children without their participation. Taking the public out of public education is not a school improvement strategy.
OMC: That discussion was replaced with a new bill that would extend the state DPI's ability to step in and take over low performing schools. Although some legislators admitted the bill didn't go far enough there seemed to be the sense that it would be considered successful if it helped land money in the next round of Race to the Top funding.
DR: This is a proposal that will do nothing to improve schools. I do not know of a single instance in which a state has taken control of a school or even a district and made it better.
OMC: Is this a kind of game that states are forced to play in order to get that money?
DR: Yes, Race to the Top is encouraging state legislators to take punitive steps towards schools and teachers that will lead nowhere.
OMC: What's the administration's theory about how withholding this money from districts in need affects the children in that district?
DR: This is simply a threat. It should never become reality. No child will benefit if the funding to his or her school is withheld. Race to the Top has ignited an outburst of meanness, not a race to help kids and teachers and schools.
OMC: What advice would you give to legislators who are serious about wanting to transform low-performing schools into high-performing ones?
DR: Short-term: Create a team of expert educators who spend at least a week in every low-performing school in the state. Their job would be to document the reasons for the school's low performance. Perhaps there are a large number of non-English-speaking students. Or a large number who are transient or who need access to a health clinic. Or perhaps there is an incompetent principal. Whatever the reasons, they will be different for every school. The team should survey the school, diagnose the issues, make recommendations and develop a strategy to support the school and improve it. The goal should be improvement, not punishment.
Long-term: The legislature should develop a comprehensive plan to require that future teachers have a major or double major in the subject(s) they plan to teach and that they have the pedagogical skills to teach what they know and control their classroom; they should require that principals have at least five years as teachers and excellent ratings as teachers; they should require that superintendents are experienced educators. They should change the assessments away from bubble-guessing to assessments of comprehension, based on knowledge. They should require every school to offer a balanced curriculum that includes the arts, science, history, geography, literature, mathematics, civics and foreign language.
OMC: Why does it seem that teachers have become so easy to scapegoat? Didn't we used to value and respect teachers? Now it seems to be common wisdom that they're overpaid, bulletproof and lax. What happened?
DR: Teachers are being blamed for all the ills of society. They are being blamed for the achievement gap. We can't fire poverty; we can't fire families; we can't fire students; so we fire teachers. This mindset will discourage good people from becoming teachers. It will destroy the teaching profession. Whenever we meet a teacher, we should say two simple words, "Thank you."
OMC: And because almost no one ever seems to talk about parents and rarely about the kids except in platitudes, what advice would you give to parents who want to understand the buzzwords and move beyond them to help their children's schools become more successful?
DR: Take good care of your children. From the time they are babies, watch their health and take them for checkups regularly. Make sure they are getting good nutritious meals. Talk to them. Explain things. Read the signs on the street out loud. Give every object a name.
When they are not old enough, read picture books to them. Show them that reading matters and model it. Take them to the library and the museum and the zoo. Limit television and video games and computer time. Review their homework with them. Join the PTA. Meet with their teachers. Ask what you can do to help the teacher. What you do and what you value will influence what your child does and values
MariaM | May 11, 2010 at 11:40 a.m. (report)
Choice, or voucher, schools are not the same as Charter schools. Charter schools are public schools. They cannot choose students. If fact, many MPS district schools use admission criteria (High School of the Arts, King, Riverside, Golda Mier...). Charter schools must use a lottery system and must take all students, including all students enrolled in special education.
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dukefame | May 11, 2010 at 9:15 a.m. (report)
Ravitch is really very insightful and is on target with most of this, sadly many pundits and politicians (on all sides) will label her as a turncoat who is in the union's pocket. Fairly heavy stuff for OMC...I guess that's what happens when your kids start public school.
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LAPD Lawn Still Brown Two Months After Gala
Tire tracks from heavy machinery used as part of setup and teardown for a November 7 gala are still visible on the lawn at LAPD's new headquarters.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Two months after a gala event at the new Police Administration Building caused heavy damage to the nearly one-acre lawn along 2nd street, neighbors are still left waiting for a fix.
The Police Foundation has promised to pay for the damage, but the timeline for getting a contractor in to replace the grass is uncertain. Also unclear is what is causing the lawn's dozen palm trees to wilt.
The park space at the new LAPD headquarters opened to the public in September, but was closed off for nearly two weeks around the November 7 "True Blue" gala. The heavy equipment used to assemble a large tent left deep tire tracks on the now-patchy brown lawn.
While the Los Angeles Police Foundation was quick to accept responsibility for the situation and its repair, getting the fix done has been a longer process.
The contractor who will be doing the work has surveyed the damage and will hopefully start the job in the next few weeks, said Thom Brennan, commanding officer of facilities management.
Most noticeable to those passing by is the poor condition of the 12 palm trees planted near the corner of 2nd and Spring, but Brennan said that the two are unrelated. The department is consulting with the city's Recreation and Parks department to figure out how to bring the trees back to health.


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James Reimer didn't leave any doubt as to the impact that Francois Allaire had on his development as an NHL goaltender.
"Huge," Reimer said on Monday. "There were so many parts of my game where there were kind of grey areas.
"With him, everything was black and white, so every situation that came up, he knew what to do. In the NHL game, everything happens so fast, so you need to know, 'If this happens, do this, if that happens, do that.'"
Reimer took issue with those who have argued that Allaire's blocking/butterfly style is out of date in today's NHL, where pucks come at the net in a blink of an eye.
"I have always been more of a butterfly, use-my-size-to-my-advantage kind of guy, which is exactly his style," Reimer said. "We're all in the goalies' union, but I think that the blocking/butterfly goalies look down on the hybrid ones and the hybrid ones look down on the butterfly goalies."
Reimer said Allaire's teachings gave him confidence.
"(His style) fit perfectly into my natural game," Reimer said. "That's why it was so good for me. Could I adapt a little bit to a different style? Maybe. But the butterfly/blocking style was definitely more suited to me and that's what I felt more comfortable playing."
Allaire and Reimer were linked by one curious incident last February. After the Leafs were loathe to call Reimer's injury a concussion after he was run over by the Montreal Canadiens' Brian Gionta during a game in October — instead using "concussion-like symptoms" — Allaire openly referred to it as a concussion.
And whether Leafs assistant coach Scott Gordon, a former minor-league goalie, had differing views than Allaire when it came to the position, is not clear. Allaire, in an interview with the National Post on Monday, hinted at there being too many influences when it came to the goaltending.
Little of that mattered to Reimer.
"I hope I can give him a call or text sometime and let him know how much I appreciate him," Reimer said.


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Testifying On Proposed Changes to Mitchell-Lama Rules
On November 6, Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh and I submitted testimony to the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development on the agency's proposed changes to the rules governing Mitchell-Lama developments. We raised particular objections to the proposed amendments affecting succession rights; establishing procedures for the reconstitution of Mitchell-Lama coops as Housing Development Fund Companies; and weakening the priority for veterans. Such changes would harm Mitchell-Lama tenants and cooperators who have long abided by the rules and embraced the spirit of the program, and undermine the preservation of our vital affordable housing stock. Please see our testimony attached.


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Derek Jeter fakes being hit by pitch
On Sept. 15, in a game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter pretended as though he had been hit by a pitch from Rays pitcher Chad Qualls. In fact, as Jeter later admitted, the pitch hit the end of his bat and not him. The Rays ended up beating the Yankees, 4-3