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More than 550 La Marque ISD students attend school elsewhere
- By T.J. AULDS
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Good article TJ, I expect those tranfer numbers to increase as well. That's about par for LMISD to not respond to the News' request for any data. As far as I can see, that "Good News" campaign is just another phoney attempt to prevent the final demise of LMISD. It is good to see the many parents refusing to be the sheeple and follow this board's baloney while caring enough about their children's education. Maybe a good follow up story about how many superintendants each ISD has or how many TREs they have had to have to stay afloat.
Those are just the numbers of students who legally are attending other districts. You could probably double that to get a real number. Many of them just use relatives or other addresses to get around the system.
Robert, perhaps district officials were unavailable because they were at Lending-Tree.Com or Quicken Loans trying to obtain desperately needed money that they don't want anyone to know about?
Your right TCLocal, there are probably far more students using relatives addresses in order to attend other schools than anyone really knows about?
I wonder if district officials have any idea THIS YEAR how many students have now transferred to other districts, dropped out, moved out of state or for many other reasons won't be returning back to LMISD in August?
The person in charge of tracking these students in the past has done such a pathetic job of keeping track of these students that the district has been required to hire an ex-district employee, as well as, district employees and spend thousands and thousands of dollars during the Summer trying to locate their COHORT students.
One ex-employee was paid $25.00 an hour during the Summer and I was told that person made over $21,000 and only brought back 3 students to the district. I suppose when your best friends with someone in administration it really doesn't matter because afterall it's just somebody else's money!
I suppose we were all hoping that the "Good News" was that the Empty Eagle's Nest and their lost sheeple's had left and had found something else to destroy, but seeing how there was a recent guest column in the paper supporting LMISD I guess it was only wishful thinking.
First, I would like to say how wonderful and good it is for those other districts named in this article, to provide the "love" needed to take in these students RUNNING away from a third rate, incompetent educational process in LMISD. The love and consideration, they should have gotten at LMISD, had to be PROVIDED to them as EDUCATIONAL REFUGEES, by GISD,TCISD,HISD,and DISD. I say well done and thank you to each of those school districts! I agree with the other posters who posted before I did, because there are probably more than those who are known to be transfer REFUGEES,in those schools. Nobody mentioned CCISD, but I KNOW there are some up there too! Thank you too CCISD!
Second thing, I would like to say,.. all this is a %!* shame, this situation is going down like this, because of what seems to be LMISD Board's lack of knowledge, incompetency, and their blind loyalty and discipleship to the EAGLES' NEST! You cannot compete with these other school districts, walking in the science of "NESTOLOGY!" They will hand you your heads on a silver platter, like they ARE doing!!!
"Well we are doing okay in football!" For real? Question: For how long? Look closely,...football is going downhill here too, and it is not about football anyway, but, I'm just saying......
So,..that leaves these kids and parents no other options, but to leave this place for better opportunities, better diligent educators,and leaders who know what these kids will need in the future, and are qualified,focused,...and energetic toward providing them what they need.
Notice what one ex-LMISD parent in the article was quoted as saying:
"She said discipline problems and the lack of gifted and talented programs for her daughters prompted her to seek open enrollment in Texas City." One of them said,"WE all do what needs to be done in order to help our children to get better educated!" There is LOVE for a child "RAT" there!
JUST AS I HAVE BEEN HARPING ON FOR YEARS ABOUT LMISD!!! NO DISCIPLINE, or LACK OF DISCIPLINE, HAS PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN THE DEMISE OF THIS DISTRICT!! People can say what they will or may, but here it is in black and white quote, from a parent who was not AFRAID to tell it like it happened!! This parent is not the only one! I have talked to many who says the same, &%$ thing! It's like the animals running a zoo, instead of the zoo keepers! Think about it!!
When you don't have order, you have CHAOS,....and CHAOS, is the slipping point,...because everything, start going downhill toward the bottom from there. Nobody wants to admit that, but my fellow Smack-Talker, Mr. Walker and myself,..and I struggle trying to figure out why. I've said it once and I'll say it again, I'm "A-political" when it comes to these community kids' education. I know what it is like to go face a world where you have been left behind educationally! I had to play catch-up, and I was one of the blessed ones who came out of the tailspin okay, but there were many more, who did not, and they were lost to the lower elements, and opportunities of society.
Now, what Mr. TJ Aulds has written here, draws a picture of which LMISD, and their leadership should be shamed, and apologetic toward, but I don't think they care. I really don't, because I don't think their mission is educating children. I think their mission is creating and maintaining high paying jobs, for themselves and their friends,...otherwise they would all resign, to help rectify dysfunctionalities, and correct problems needed for a better school district conducive for educating.
Love is an action word, and so if a parent says they love their children, that to me means they will seek to give that child the best opportunity they possibly can and a better, more productive life,..like that parent I mentioned above did. If that is so, then why would they enroll that child in an institution, which is rated unacceptable by the state, and where CHAOS, UPHEAVAL, and DRAMA, is constantly on display,..and manufactured there daily,..when there are other options available? I realize everybody has a choice, but a bad choice concerning this now, could come back to bite that child later when he/she goes out in the world to COMPETE, locally, nationally, and internationally for positions, and jobs in this world against superior educated young applicants. I use to hire and fire people, so I know what I am talking about, but to each his own.
Somebody from West Texas told me once, "JBG"...."What wisdom,..can't get you to see,...The SWINE PIT of life,...( EXPERIENCE) ...will make 20/20 clear to you!
So, what is this Old Plow Boy from Central Texas trying to say? I'll tell you! Experience is NOT THE BEST TEACHER,...as the world claims,....WISDOM, coming from GOD is!! Another thing, when you get WISDOM,...don't leave, until you get some UNDERSTANDING to go with it,...then and only then, are you good to go!
This is a good place to say Amen, so let me do that,...AMEN!
"La Marque is also an open enrollment school district but did not respond to The Daily News' request for transfer data".
This seems to be the norm lately for district officials as they obviously don't know how to answer the simplest of questions on their own due to their lack of qualifications in their positions so they just chose not to answer anyone's questions at all.
There's no longer any transparency in this school district and the public should start to question what exactly those in charge are doing in the dark that they don't want others to know about?
Where there's smoke there's usually fire and this smoke is not coming from a camp fire in their village....
Well it seems that everybody is jumping LMISD's rapidly sinking ship!
I heard today that Mr. Hawkins the principal at the Middle School resigned last week. Add on top of that Newt Simpson who was over Technology retired and Mr. Gurnell the principal at the High School unexpectedly recently resigned as well.
Does anyone else see a pattern of where the men are leaving or are being forced out of the district because incompetent women are now in charge and some people are saying that they have heard that they are leaving because they can't work underneath them?
It appears that Thomasine Allen has her own agenda as to who she wants where in the district and therefore is making sure to make life hell on district employee's until they've had enough of her nonsense and leave the district.
Roaches do the same thing when they take over a place and finally force you out. Kinda looks like exactly what is happening with LMISD right now, the roaches got in and now are bringing others with them!
LMISD is taking on so much water now that their ship is barely afloat while school board members sit back and turn a blind eye to the real problem facing the district because their being directed by a certain board member to do as they are told to do whether it's the correct thing to do or not?
You can bet the farm that tomorrow I will be asking through an Open Records request the ethnical and gender make-up of ALL district employees for the entire school district following the reduction in force including all voluntary resignations! And they should remember, I already have the prior ethnical and gender make-up information before this year's RIF and voluntary resignations [wink]
The LEGEND and SAGA of the great demise of LMISD should serve as a warning for every school district in Texas! Yes, let this be a warning especially to other constituents,...letting them see what putting politics over the welfare of children will get them!
LMISD is a poster child, the best example one can gaze at today, demonstrating what apathy,..selfishness,.politics, greed,..incompetence, shrine building,..and lack of knowledge, will get you,...WHEN infused in the process of running and maintaining a school district.
This whole LMISD system, day by day, in the hands of the present leadership has become a laughing stock,....a JOKE,..in the eyes of those who adheres to excellence in compliance with Texas Education Standards. I suspect, because they answer to a religious Sensei whose mind is still at this late date, buried in history, and enslaved in the annals of our old ANTEBELLUM SOUTH!
It is truly with deep regret, and great dispair that I had the unpleasant opportunity to watch arguably one of the greatest, well operated school districts in Texas history, maybe even the nation,.....come tumbling down to be no more than a MERE JOKE, being laugh at as an embarrassment, as insignificant, and being rated bottom of the barrel state of quality.
There are some, as there always are, who will look for "effective ammunition" in order to defend what has happened here, but even a mere child with little understanding, can look at what has transpired here,...and know there is no defense, nor justification for this fiasco occurring here.
Yes,..at last there are those brave souls at LMISD who tried to weather the storm, but are now witnessing the ship rapidly and steadily going under! So they are jumping overboard, for it is the only rational, sensible thing to do! I applaud you brave souls, even though you are late! So I say to anyone who is hedging,...or debating a move, take care of your families,..and be sensible. This gig is done!
There are those who saw the demise of LMISD coming years ago when many others remained blinded to the truth. Those wise ex employees who had eyes to see, jumped ship then,and move on for more stable opportunities! Lastly, sound doctrine says,...it is better to jump ship late, than to drown! Your choice though!
It is sad JBG but along with the school district sinking fast, the entire community is being drug down as well. Folks are leaving town and no new residents are arriving. A quick drive around town will quickly prove my point. Vacant houses everywhere, once nice neighborhoods have become dumps. I know my next move is out of this town.
Robert and Mr. JBG, both of your post are right on the money!
Recently a developer wanted to build some apartments off of Main Street somewhere and the bank denied the developer their request for money because the apartments would be located within the LMISD.
Now that's sad and down right pathetic when the development and future growth of LM has been halted as a result of our school system!
It's time that these village idiots pack their bags and go back to their own village and destroy it any way that they choose to because they've already done enough damage to LMISD to last a life time! [angry]
Just another nail the way I see it. This coffin is taking longer to make than any coffin I ever saw made........ just a damn shame. LM city proper may never recover from the damage this ISD board has done. Our council should of said something - they may not of legally been able to "do" something but I sure blame them for not standing up and saying something!
Margurite, Mayor Hocking and City Manager Carol Buttler attended a board meeting last year and extended an olive branch to the board members and district offering any help that they could and the board members basically told them to buzz off and mind their own business.
I think when the district is finally consolidated with surrounding school districts those board members living in West Texas City will certainly be history because the people of Texas City would never tolerate such incompetence, poor leadership skills and foolishness.
This is why the Empty Eagle's Nest can't "fly" in Texas City because the people there are much smarter there than the lost sheeple that follow a wanna-be reverend and community activist in LM.
Margurite, I'm super glad our City Council kept their noses in their own business and away from what these other public servants are doing! That is job enough for them in itself, than for them to become involved in this contagious mess which is happening across town.
We are talking about an A Number One, "NESTOLOGY" mindset here, and these people only listen to orders of the Voices coming from the,... "High And Low Royal Order Of The Nest!"
My second point is "The Nest" is synonymous with the words separation, and division. That is what the mentality they practice is all about! It's about,..DIVISION, SEPARATION,...separate systems,...separate accountability and separate ways of measuring. I deduced that when the LMISD BAND was carried in another direction, instead of competing with bands from other schools at the UIL competitions! They instead,...became a swing band of sorts.
It is rumored that one band member years ago, told the parent,... the LMISD band leader, told the band that they were NOT going to win anything at UIL competition! It was rumored he told them, "WE ARE NOT THIS TYPE OF BAND SO DON'T FEEL BAD,...because we are not going to place here!" To me that says it all, that in itself would have been my key to remove every child I had enrolled there,.. out of that school district,..but that is just they way I roll.
Allow me to drive my point on home now, IF OUR CITY COUNCIL, had involved themselves in anyway as trying to fix, LMISD, we'd be having so much racial dissension,..finger pointing, and discord by now, we would "ALL" be in the dung heap instead of just the ISD. Under normal circumstances I would agree with you but in this specific case, our Council did the wise and prudent thing of doing what they were elected to do, and letting others do what they were elected or ALLOWED to do. That limits who they can blame for this mess and also keeps the focus on the and nobody else!
It is the constituents' responsibility who elected these individuals and allowed them to stay in office, who shares blame for their actions, an the lawmakers of the state who crafted ineffective laws allowing them to hind behind, as they continue to tear down instead of building up!
JBG - the issue I have is that those who elect LMISD board do not all live in LM. LM on the other hand suffers economically by the decsions made by people who have no vested interest in the economic development of LM.
The council I know tried to intervene on occassions and even tried to help on others. I just think the council should not be scared to say - hey - our economic development is directly tied to this ISD board. I think they should say it as publically as they remain silent on thier antics. Disapproval is not something you are not allowed because you are electe. I don't give the council a pass on passing..........
Remember Margurite, this council is still learning how to count and trying to remember where they place funds.
More than 550? How many more? How many transfered to private or state charter schools. Did LM ISD lose any to home schooling?
The story leaves more questions unanswered.
What it fails to say is the state money doesn't belong to LM ISD. It belongs to the students. LM ISD didn't lose money they drove students to better schools where their state funding is funding their education. LM ISD's loss is the students gain.
Your absolutely right IHOG the money is following the student and exactly how the system should work.
No low performing school district should be supported with the same amount of money that a better performing school district is getting for educating someone else's children.
The reason that nobody knows any true facts or figures from district officials at this point is because the board members made a pact when they got on board promising not to let the public or the newspaper know what is happening with the school district.
These board members and district officials obviously believe that the district now belongs to them. Certain school board members feel that because they are elected officials they don't have to answer to anyone..... well at least for this very moment anyways.
Eagle nesters think doing away with "open enrolement" at other schools would save LM ISD.
Wrong. It would just increase the loss of population in the LM ISD district. Instead of increased enrolement LM would have more empty homes and a reduced tax base.
LM ISD once claimed over 5,000 students. Twice todays total.
Where are that lost 3,000 now? Living with parents in other districts.
550 transfers is only 1/6 th of the decline.
Eagle nesters on the LM CC drove population out of LM. Thats where LM ISD problems started. Population decline in the district.
LM CC can save LM ISD by making LM a better place for business to thrive and a better place for parents with children to live.
Starting with cleaning up the crime and getting away from CAD's constant property tax increases. Stop spending money by schools and city residents can't afford.
I'm sorry IHOG, you lost me with this City Council controlling LMISD thing. I understand Margurite saying that LMISD is hurting LM City development by being atrocious, and I can see that, but you are going to have to explain HOW can the City do anything with LMISD. This whole thing could very well be determined by what parents think about the quality of education their children are getting.
If the parents keep pulling their children out and carrying them to other places, then LMISD is doomed,...and there is no question about it! That is a given! Right now, I see no reason why any parent should settle for what LMISD is offering, when much better can be had, from the NORTH, SOUTH, WEST, and EAST of them. I mean parents of LMISD have their choice, TCISD, HISD, GISD, DISD,.....who are all much better than what their children are getting at LMISD! Ohhhhh, if only I could go back and have a do over! TCISD, would have had one of the greatest student athletes of all times, ....of all T-I-M-E-S!
I was refering to the underlying problem with LM ISD.
The decline of population that goes back to the policies of Eagle Nesters who dominated the LM CC in the past.
LM was once a prefered village to live in. Eagle Nesters did all they could to discourage "any but us" living in LM.
LM ISD hasn't lost any state money. It never belonged to them. Students own it and take with them when leaving LM ISD.
The ugly thing about state funding is private school students don't get their share. It is education funding provided by state taxpayers. Parents of private school students are taxpayers. Forced to fund ISD and private schools by the political power of unions.
Great post and on the money.
They CHOSE to put their children in private schools. They KNOW they have to pay more for their children. If they think private schools prepare their children better than the public schools, then they have to budget better to put their children in these schools.
Their share is what they decided to do. Like it or hate it.....but it's the law right now.
You are right. They choose better schools for their children. Why then can't they chose to use their education money to fund those better schools. Why are the taxes they pay reserved for funding unacceptable schools?
Nothing but union political power in Austin explains that unfair use of their taxes.
In the final anallisis their taxes are not used to fund education. It's exclusively used to support unions. Unions are why unacceptable schools are not acceptable.
If was what you really wanted, then you would go where you wanted to use your taxes.
I read what your saying, and I probably know you knew what the state funding for education is......you and I were paying taxes for education even if we didn't have any kids. School them yourself. Still pay taxes. Put them in private school. Still pay taxes. Until it changes, your stuck!
Your taxes are going to pay even if you don't want to.
And to be saying it again, teacher's do not have unions in Texas. No unions are funding teachers or schools. Do you think LMISD is going down the tube because of unions?
The people running LMISD and the people voting for those trustees are making this district fail. If you live in a neighboring district, maybe you should be thinking/wondering about the students coming into Texas City, Dickinson, Hitchcock, Galveston.....many students coming with poor educational foundation.
What are these districts going to do? Most do not have the buildings, teachers, etc. to teach 500 more students in TC, Dickinson, Hitchcock, Gal. You won't have a decision. Your district must take them and try to educate them.
No unions are coming to your door to help you.
Mr. Aulds putting this article out there was a very good thing! It draws a very GOOD TANGIBLE picture of how bad LMISD really is, and what actions parents are taking to ensure their kids are properly educated!
I do agree with everybody, that this chart and breakdown Mr. Aulds put out there could be just scratching the surface of the real amount of LMISD children who are EDUCATIONAL REFUGEES at other schools!
I'm also glad IHOG, that the state money follows the children, and that is GREAT, considering the mismanaging we know is going on over here. Hey be not deceived, there are some LMISD kids as far north as Clear Creek ISD. I know this to be true.
I'm happy as a tick on a dog about it all! The reason is I was a recipient of an education, tainted under "NESTOLOGY" conditions, and I worked my _the_ off trying to overcome that! I did a good job,..but it took a lot of work. Nobody should have to be left that far behind,...that's all I know!
I had someone bring to my attention that one of my post may have been on the line of being "sexist", however what I posted in no way was intended to be sexist. but rather a statement that is repeatedly being made by district employees. If my statement came across as being sexist than I apologize as I said it was certainly not my intention.
Don't apologize for what you say. Those who throw "racist, sexist, etc." daggers at your comments have no other way to counter your arguments. To heck with them until they can intelligently counter your posts with something substantive. Don't ever apologize to those kind of people.
Excellent point Cougargator!
The sad part about sending a child to either a private school or another school district is that the parents still have to pay local school taxes to an underperforming school district, as well as, tuition and transportation expenses which doubles the cost of educating their child.
It's no doubt that spending the extra money is well worth the education that a child would not receive in LMISD right now!
Every time ISD school taxes go up it increases the number of parents who can't afford to fund a better education elsewhere. If you think that is accedential you don't understand how progressives think.
If all parents could use their education taxes for school choice all schools would be better. Bad schools would be replaced by good schools and a good education would cost less because we wouldn't be funding bad schools.
SCOTUS offered taxpayers and voters a way to cut education costs and greatly improve education quality.
Several American school districts took the offer.
They fired "all" the employees of their ISD and replaced them with State Charter or private management.
Taxpayers own "all: the infrastructure of the ISD. ISD employees own nothing and are owed and deserve nothing beyond their last paycheck.
It was an easy choice to give or lease the ISD infrastructure to the charter and private schools who used it to cut costs even after paying extra teachers more.
There is enough waste in ISD budgets to hire twice as many teachers and double their pay.
All the best ISD teachers got better jobs in the new schools, low quality teachers got jobs in the private market. Most ISD schools have more good or great teachers than low quality teachers. The ISD system won't let them teach because failing is sold as a reason for more money.
Mr. IHOG,..Hey Mr. IHOG! Sir, you just don't understand! Coming in here talking sense, about good management principles! Who does he think he is? We don't operate like that around the EAGLES NEST!!!
I suppose to bring him on board, I'll have to go give him a crash course in the ways the NEST operates. JBG knows "NESTOLOGY!" LMISD is not about educating. LMISD is about maintaining jobs, and shrines. Come on now,..even Little Stevie Wonder, Ronnie Milsap ,......and Ray Charles could have spotted that!
Not that I don't agree with him because he is talking miles of good educational sense,...but I'm just saying.......
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If somebody has complimented me for my "handsome looks" or for anything else, my ego feels flattered. If somebody has ignored me, my feelings become disturbed and I feel as if I have been insulted.
Feeling honoured or insulted, this process goes on at every step because we keep on repeating: My house, my job, my family, my city and my, my, my…!
What all these things show? They simply exhibit that we are living in a body-conscious situation all the time. We are giving too much importance to this body and its belongings. It is sad that only this kind of thoughts keep us busy all the time. The reality is not our body but our soul. Because our soul is immortal, I, you and we all have been taking births and dying since times immemorial. And this process will go on and on till our soul attains salvation.
It is advised by the great seers that while performing the worldly deeds, one should shut one's eyes at intervals and retrospect. Tell yourself that "my reality is not that I am a body but I have to consider myself as a soul. I should try to become 'ashriri' which means that I have to become completely detached from my body."
One should have similar thoughts regarding one's family members and about other human beings too; and should think about them that they too are all souls.
While doing so, we have to perform good deeds and help others by showing love and sympathy. We should be particularly sensitive and caring about those people who are in distress and need help immediately.
In this way, we can see 'soul' in all the living beings; and can thus become soul-conscious.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Making Meals for Another Day
I wanted to show you guys how creamy this is before the topping goes on. Just look at all that gooey, cheesy goodness:
These are going to make fantastic meals sometime in the future.
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Do you bake these off before you freeze them?ReplyDelete
I make ahead Lasagna all the time and I bake it before I put it in the freezer! Boy make ahead meals really make life easier...
The best mac & cheese is the creaminess! Yum!ReplyDelete
OMGOSH! Gooey, cheessy goodness like this is JUST what I need today. :::droool:::ReplyDelete
Susan - No, I don't bake them before I freeze them. Since I use fresh bread crumbs they would brown if I baked it first and then reheating from the freezer would cause them to burn. Since the noodles and sauce are cooked before being assembled I freeze it after I mix the two together and then bake it after it defrosts.ReplyDelete
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Erm...I know I'm a cheapskate...Is there any report designer that is free? Possibly it can do a runtime report customization
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Career: 1960-1981
Title Reigns: 1964-1967, 1974-1978, 1978
Notable Wins: 1964 KO 7 Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship, 1974 KO 8 George Foreman for the heavyweight championship, 1975 TKO Joe Frazier
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Key Performances: Sonny Liston I 1964, Cleveland Washington 1966, Zorra Folley 1967, Joe Frazier 1975
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Hey....my Virtual Phone starts, i can use it properly, but when i hit "run" nothing happens, and with nothing I mean nothing: no Console chanches an no Window opens where I can select my(running) device....any Idea why?
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I've had the same problem, there are multiple videos on how to fix it,, but for every fix a new problem.. Like if I do finally load it with the accelerator; it still wouldn't load the app, or if I did figure a way to load the app I couldn't exit, not to mention the time it takes to load. I finally came to the conclusion my computer was out to get me :o so I said f it and grabbed an old android phone I had laying around. I installed the driver to my computer after plugin, then I switched the emulator for the USB and then presto.. Saved me a lot of time and head aches on loading..
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Almost 1,000 firefighters and deputies are battling the blaze, which is only 10% contained as high winds and searing heat help the flames to spread.
Sky's Greg Milam revealed that prisoners have also been brought in to cut away at brush to create breaks to halt the spread of the fire.
Ventura County fire spokesman Tom Kruschke said: "We're going to be at Mother Nature's mercy."
The blaze erupted during Thursday's morning rush hour along the US 101 motorway in Camarillo, some 50 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
More than 6,500 acres had been engulfed by midday on Thursday as temperatures soared to 35C (95F).
Winds gusting to 30mph quickly spread the blaze through the bone-dry canyonlands and toward the coast.
By Friday morning 15 homes had been damaged but none destroyed, the Ventura County Fire Department (VCFD) said via its Twitter account.
The fire forced the evacuation of the campus of California State University, Channel Islands, which is attended by about 5,000 students.
Several vehicles in a car park were destroyed as flames moved close to a mobile home park and the fire also spread to a US Navy facility on the coast.
Police were also forced to close an eight mile stretch of the famous Pacific Coast Highway as the fire approached the busy road.
The strong winds fanning the flames died down early on Friday, but the fire continued to spread through coastal canyons, threatening scattered homes.
VCFD spokeswoman Lori Ross said the fire was heading south towards the LA County line, adding that firefighters were concerned that winds could turn onshore in the afternoon, posing a new threat.
Eight helicopters and six planes were dropping water and fire retardant onto blazing hillsides, up from a total of six aircraft on Thursday working to protect homes in the area, said the VCFD.
"There are some big beautiful homes up there .. But so far, they're doing a good job of protecting them," Ross told the LA Times.
Fire officials said a hazardous materials team has been dispatched to deal with a highly toxic pesticides fire caught up in the wildfires.
The pesticides were stored at a farm in Ventura County, near the campus of California State University.
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Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Why India Is The Biggest Threat To Pakistan?
1. India has never accepted Pakistan and whenever any Indian politician or intellectual tries to say anything of the sort, he or she is demonised by the Indian media and society and branded a traitor straight away. Story of Jaswant Singh is not very old and then there was Advani on Pakistan a few years ago.
2. The only country Pakistan has ever fought a war against is India and 1948, 1965, 1971 (also a small level conflict in Kargil sector) are examples of this long history of conflict.
3. According to the formula of British exit from Pakistan & India in 1947, any autonomous Muslim majority areas were to join Pakistan but India forced the Hindu Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir to allow Indian troops to occupy Kashmir and as a result Kashmir has become a festering wound causing perpetual conflict between India and Pakistan.
4. Pakistan & India have fought wars and killed thousands if not hundreds of thousands of each other and still Pakistan is being told by the West that their enemy is anyone else but India.
5. RAW ( Research & Analysis Wing) which is an Indian spy agency is orchestrating discontent in the Pakistani province of Balochistan by using the Afghan soil.
6. In 1971, India attacked the East Bengal province of Pakistan and occupied it, eventually turning it into present day Bangladesh and not long ago Rahul Gandhi who is the grand son of Indira Gandhi (who was the Prime Minister of India at the time of invasion of East Bengal) boasted about this "achievement". Pakistan cannot allow this sort of thing to happen again and must prepare itself against any aggression by India in the future.
7. On all international forums, Indian media, its intellectuals and its lobbyists in Washington and other foreign capitals spend a lot of money to keep Pakistan under microscope and give it bad publicity.
These are just few of the reasons why India is the actual mortal threat to Pakistan and not Taliban or Al Qaida. Taliban and other outfits like it are a nuisance in the long run and will run out of fuel eventually but India is an actual threat to Pakistan, its land, its people, its interest at home and abroad and must be treated as such. My request to all foreign journalists is this "Stop lecturing us on who our enemies are because we have lost enough lives to know who that is".
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- ColinXL2 September 2009 at 17:17
All right, lets go over these point by point...ReplyDelete
1. India has fully recognized Pakistan and the two nations have diplomatic missions in each others countries so where is the non-acceptance of Pakistan? You're confusing the Jinnah debate with something else.
2. India is the only nation which Pakistan has fought wars with because Pakistan declared war and initiated hostilities on all occasions including 1971.
3. The British formula you speak of stated that any princely state cannot be allowed to exist after the partition and must join either India or Pakistan. The leader of the Kashmir signed with India after Pakistan basically declared war on him and sent in troops. By law India's hold on Kashmir is technically legal, "Azad Kashmir" isn't.
4. Again Pakistan started all those wars.
5. RAW is a complete joke as opposed to the CIA trained ISI and even you will agree on this. RAW cannot even secretly follow journalists in India, the idea that it can forment trouble in other parts of the world is laughable
6. Pakistan started the first air raids. Pakistan first declared war, ergo Pakistan started the 1971 war.
7. And now you are in denial. By this statement you declare Pakistan to be the only one who is pure and righteous and everybody else in the world to be liars, misinformed idiots or both. The truth is that Pakistan needs to grow up and turn into a shining example for the rest of the Muslim world, but this will not happen if it continues its stupid India fixation.Replies
- Anonymous2 November 2013 at 06:20
Dude, where did your get damn "FACTS", from Sean Hanity or Fox TV. I wonderDelete
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- Anonymous3 September 2009 at 11:30
this is a joke. Pakistan was part of India, it was the Pakis who wanted their own Islamic state, India GAVE you Pakistan.ReplyDelete
Without India's agreement, you wouldn't have Paksitan in the first place and now you say India is the biggest threat to the stability of Pakistan?!!! Whilst your politicians, women and children are being murdered on the streets by your Muslim brothers..... you people are seriously brainwashed....Replies
- Anonymous2 November 2013 at 06:24
Then how the fuck do you explain Muslim govermenets before Brits and how the fuck Pakistan came into being before India, you dumb ass.Delete
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- ColinXL3 September 2009 at 14:57
Look Mr. "Anonymous" next time write your comment in a reasonable manner and refrain from using racial slurs. What? You think by acting like a complete idiot you will convince anyone your opinion is right?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous13 September 2009 at 08:08
To an extent we in India do agree to your points but with some deliberate changes. There are people here in India who claim that had it not been them, the Pakistan could not have happened. Truly speaking of Advani and Jaswant, Jaswants' has not been ridiculed for praising your Qaide Azam but for painting true picture of what happens with Muslims in India till date. True, minorities like Parsis, Christians etc are pampered but when it comes to Muslims, the state goes in a disarray so that they do not demand and need exhorbitant force to acheive something. This has been true with the Congress pre and post 1947 and the BJP. You need not be surprised that all the criminal acts of Hindus are called Nationalist and this is the very reason you find more than 60% jail inmates to be Muslims!! This negates Maulana Azad's calculation that Muslim could have been better with the 20% population they would have had in undivided Hindustan but we know what happens to 80% Kashmir or 35 Asam or 35% Kerala and worst of it 30% of West Bengal. Any way, we Indians are enough to set these creature right while you put your house in order so that together we prove that Muslims, though divided into two countries, their common faith is a binding force and settle the final thing, bring the faith to others.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous26 September 2009 at 00:23
why cant i post a comment?sadReplyDelete
- Anonymous26 September 2009 at 00:38
How can india GIVE us Pakistan when india itself was under British rule? Talk sense please. The balochistan issue is because of indian hand and has been proven again and again, Its too sad that Pakistan media is not as strong as the indian counterpart to make the world leaders focus on this. .ReplyDelete
As for who initiated the wars....I will say india started it and you will say Pakisan started it. There is no solution. But again...look at the poor kashmiris and you will see indians are the real aggressors.
After knowing my muslim brothers from india here in the US, I am so glad my parents migrated to Pakistan where they can live proudly as a muslim and not face religious incidents. Please dont give me the story of shia muslim VS sunni muslim riots in Pakistan. I am from the city of Peshawar where they say such riots happen and till 2004, i did not see a single riot ( i moved to US for studies )
By the way...more than 82% of inmates in USA are colored ( non-white ). Ever wondered why? If people of a certain race or religion is supressed, they are bound to revolt and do things they shouldnt be doing. If the colored people get equal opportunity for better jobs as whites, they will equally excel like them and not just increase their ratio in jails.
It definitely is true that india is the main threat to Pakistan and Pak should be ready to face its biggest threat, instead of fighting afghans or pashtuns. The reason for past 3 wars must mean something.
Long Live Pakistan.
- Anonymous21 October 2009 at 20:05
it is pak that has given birth to talibans now taliban is killing pak people everyday,by attactking on the public places.moreover there are thousand of talibanis spread allover who are ready to kill thousand of pakisthani on a signal from there head.it is talibas not india who is killing pakisthani leader one by one including b butto.it is taliban who said that they want to aquire whole pakisthan land not india.many pak youth have been brainwashed by talibans and using them against pak only. i think takibans is bigest threat to pak and secondly pak itself is bigest therat to pak becouse pak leader is doing nothing to distory talibans infact they are supporting talibana thinking that taliban will support them against india,if in the case of war.as far as india is concern,i think india is more focus on development rather than pak but at the same time pak is more focus on india rather than development of its people.as far as pak and threat is concern, pak is bigest threat to whole world becouse of its nuke capabilities and political instability,any army person can rule there and use these nuke wapions against any bodyReplyDelete
- Anonymous27 December 2009 at 23:34
punjabis and punjabis army is responsabile for creation bangladesh . because of punjabies don't want a elder brother over punjab .. punjabi army still playing active role in baluchistan , killing inncoent baluch people . so called baluch terriost. punjabi army still not aceepting ppp mandet and start propaganda againt Mr Asf zardari because he belong to sindh.. why Z.A.Bhutto hanged by punjabi army , why benazir bhutto killed by punjabi army consiprecy , still continue consiprecy aginst small province especialy Sindh and baluchistan .ReplyDelete
Dear Anonymous,ReplyDelete
You can blame the army in many cases but you cannot call it a Punjabi army. All of Pakistan's army dictators who ruled the country are as follows: General Iskander Mirza was a Muhajir, General Ayub Khan was a Pakhtun, General Yahya Khan was a Pakhtun, the only civilian martial law administrator in the history of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a Sindhi, General Zia Ul Haq was a Mohajir and was born in India and then the latest Army General who ruled Pakistan was Pervaiz Musharaf. Musharaf was a Urdu speaking Muhajir.
You can see the folly of your argument here. Army, which has ruled Pakistan for more than half the time after independence and which has committed many mistakes in your eyes, has never had a Punjabi as its head when it ruled the country. So a Punjabi army ruling Pakistan is the biggest myth manufactured by the enemies of Pakistan.
Many Thanks for your comments.
Yours sincerely.
Sikander Hayat
- Anonymous6 December 2013 at 19:30
India on 3 December 2013 successfully test fired its surface to surface ballistic missile Prithvi-ll from Chandipur in the Balesore district of Odisha. The test which is a part of the user training exercise of the Indian Army and it was conducted from lunch complex 3 of the ITR in Chandipur along the Odisha coast.ReplyDelete
The last user trial of Prithvi-II was successfully carried out from the same base on 7 October 2013.
Prithvi-II Missile features
1.Inducted into India's Strategic Forces Command in 2003, the Prithvi II missile is the first missile to be developed by DRDO under India's Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme.
2.It is capable of carrying 1000 kg of warheads and thrusted by liquid propulsion twine engines, uses advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvring trajectory.
3.The nine meter long Prithvi-II missile is equipped with advanced high accuracy navigation system and guided by an innovative guidance scheme.
4.The improved Circular Error Probability (CEP) achieved by the missile is a testimony to specify the efficacy of this missile system.
5.Prithvi uses an advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvring capabilities and comes within metres of its target.
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Three teens were injured during a knife fight at a private party held at a "quality of work life" building near the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Dutchess County early Saturday reported the Poughkeepsie Journal.
Two of the teens were stabbed and one was hit on the head with a piece of wood; all were treated for non-life threatening injuries at St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital, City of Beacon Sergeant Lou Locato told the Poughkeepsie Journal.
By the time, Beacon police showed up at 12:15 a.m., the fight was already over. Thirty people were still inside the building, and another 30 to 40 were in the parking lot.
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In her Feb. 3 op-ed column, "Failing our troops," Kathleen Parker suggested that Americans' support for women in combat is "evidence of . . . misinformation." It is a pity that she used information inappropriately to back her case.
Ms. Parker stated that while some women are more fit than some men, "most aren't as capable of becoming as strong as most men." To use this truism as an argument to bar women from a specific job, one must assume that no woman is capable of achieving the fitness level of any man holding that job. Where is the evidence for that? I would suggest that there is at least one woman in the military who is fitter than one or more of the men in combat roles. To deny that woman the opportunity to do that job is discrimination — pure and simple.
Ms. Parker took Gen. Martin Dempsey's statement that "the burden is now on the service to come back and explain . . . does [the standard] have to be that high?" as evidence that standards will be inappropriately "gender-normed." In fact, the requirement of an employer to prove that a barrier to employment is a "bona fide occupational qualification" is a long-established practice to avoid discriminating. Should the military be allowed to use spurious exclusionary standards when every other employer in the United States cannot?
Finally, Ms. Parker stated that combat situations . . . are "not the same as directly engaging an enemy." Oh, really? If "directly engaging" the enemy means exchanging fire, then the women in Iraq and Afghanistan who have reputedly done just that while in a "combat situation" prove this a false distinction.
Women are not asking for "special treatment," as Ms. Parker stated. They are asking for equal treatment – now that is a real distinction.
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This Saturday the 2012 Caulfield Cup will take centre stage in Melbourne as the spring gets into full swing and the horse the punters are coming for in the Caulfield Cup odds this year is the Peter Moody-trained Lights Of Heaven.
Since the capacity final field for the $2.5 million Group 1 BMW Caulfield Cup (2400m) was released earlier in the week the five-year-old Zabeel mare, winner of the Eagle Farm Cup – Brisbane Cup double during the winter, has been backed right in from $17 to $10.
There is lots in Lights Of Heaven's favour as she is primed to get the run of the race from her ideal barrier eight draw, coming into seven with emergencies out.
It will be better for her historical-wise however if the money stops now and she jumps at $10 or more in the Caulfield Cup betting markets as five of the past six Caulfield Cup winners have won at double-figures.
For more on whether Lights Of Heaven Can Win the 2012 Caulfield Cup follow the link.
Other notable Caulfield Cup market firmers include:
- #10 My Quest For Peace ($14 into $9) – Drawn on the inside with barrier two so, if they don't get caught up early, should be ready to strike, Luca Cumani-trained raider has awesome form over this distance back in Britain and genuine claims to win this with just 53.5kg on their back
- #11 Niwot ($34 into $26) – Sydney Cup winner is a genuine two mile horse but money is coming for the Hawkes-trained champ to finish up there over the 2400m this time, one of the few Aussie-bred hopefuls in the mix, needs to improve on their Turnbull eighth but the extra 400m will allow them to do that as will the barrier (6) and the weight (53.5kg)
- #15 Alcopop ($26 into $16) – Sentimental love for Jake Stephens' veteran galloper after their storming second to Ocean Park in the Caulfield Stakes last Saturday, trainer says they are career best despite their age (8) and are crying out for the 2400m
Caulfield Cup odds meanwhile are still led by Gai Waterhouse's in-form import Glencadam Gold who, since drawing the second widest barrier, eased out from $4 to $5 and can now be had at $5.50 to score their fifth straight win in Australia.
The classy galloper is set to carry 53.5kg which is a good weight for them and they will try to get across early from their horror gate and lead all the way like they did over the mile and a half last start when they ran off to win the Group 1 The Metropolitan Handicap in Sydney by four lengths.
Along with the favourite other Caulfield Cup market drifters include:
- #2 Dunaden ($7 out to $8.50) – Reining Melbourne Cup winner has drawn the extreme outside barrier, need to be at their best to overcome that gate and have the speed to beat this field over the 2400m, also carries equal 58kg topweight which in itself is a tough ask
- #7 Southern Speed ($17 out to $26) – One of the biggest easers in the market the reigning Caulfield Cup winner has drawn awkwardly with 14, she won from three last year, carries 2.5kg more than 12 months ago too and last year's winning hoop Craig Williams jumped off her in favour of Dunaden, out to improve on a second last placing in the Turnbull Stakes last start from the same barrier (14)
See below for the full Caulfield Cup market moves and current fixed win odds, prices courtesy of bookmaker.com.au.
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2012 Caulfield Cup Betting Market Moves
Caulfield Race 8 – 4:05pm (AEST) – 20/10/2012
#1 Americain (19) – Steady at $16
#2 Dunaden (22) – $7 out to $8.50
#3 Jakkalberry (13) – $14 out to $15
#4 Winchester (16) – $34 out to $41
#5 December Draw (12) – Steady at $7.50
#6 Voila Ici (17) – Steady at $21
#7 Southern Speed (14) – $17 out to $26
#8 Sanagas (3) – $51 out to $61
#9 Glencadam Gold (21) – $4 out to $5.50
#10 My Quest For Peace (2) – $14 into $9
#11 Niwot (6) – $34 into $26
#12 Lights Of Heaven (8) – $17 into $10
#13 Secret Admirer (11) – $21 out to $26
#14 Sneak A Peek (10) – $16 out to $17
#15 Alcopop (9) – $26 into $16
#16 Moudre (5) – $67 into $51
#17 Folding Gear (4) – $19 out to $21
#18 Zabeelionaire (1) – $34 into $31
#19e Sabrage (20) – Steady at $101
#20e Gatewood (18) – $11 into $9
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Cook Islands – Tobacco Control Action Plan adopted
January 2013 - In line with the recommendations resulting from the needs assessment exercise conducted jointly by the Government of Cook Islands and the Convention Secretariat in early 2012, Cook Islands has adopted a Tobacco Control Action Plan for the period 2012 to 2016. The Action Plan was launched in December 2012 by Nandi Glassie, Minister of Health, and aims to ensure that Cook Islands fulfils its obligations under the WHO FCTC.
The Action Plan was developed by the Ministry of Health in consultation with other Government agencies, nongovernmental organizations and civil society. It identifies seven objectives and initiatives:
- improving infrastructure and setting up a multisectoral coordination mechanism;
- increasing awareness among and empowering the community to discourage tobacco use and encourage protection from exposure to tobacco use;
- promoting cessation services;
- reducing the accessibility of tobacco products by increasing the levy on imported tobacco and through supply reduction measures;
- further reducing tobacco promotion and regulating tobacco product contents and disclosures;
- reducing exposure to second-hand smoke ;
- strengthening tobacco monitoring, evaluation and surveillance programmes.
The Action Plan also identifies the responsible implementation agencies and timelines. The country's multisectoral coordination mechanism will set a national smoking prevalence reduction target for the Cook Islands once the 2010 national census and 2010 STEPS data become available.
In a major achievement following the joint needs assessment mission, the Action Plan stipulates that the Government will double the tobacco import levy between August 2012 and August 2015, with a 33% increase each year. The first increase in 2012 raised the price of the average pack of cigarettes by approximately 2.10 New Zealand Dollars. To ensure that the real value of the levy is maintained against inflation, there will be a 2% increase each year from 2016.
During the needs assessment mission, the Convention Secretariat had the opportunity to brief the Cabinet on the major recommendations arising from the mission for implementation of the Convention. The Secretariat also provided technical input during the development of the National Action Plan together with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, WHO, the Australian Department of Health and Ageing, and two nongovernmental organizations from Australia.
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The Challenge of Computing on a Planetary Scale: Inside Google's Faculty Summit
For the first time, Google held its annual Americas Faculty Summit in our New York City offices. On July 14th and 15th, about 100 faculty members from universities in the western hemisphere attended the two-day summit, which focused on systems, artificial intelligence, and mobile computing. Google New York is our second largest office outside of our HQ in Mountain View and it employs more than 2,300 employees, about half of whom work in engineering and computer science.
We run this gathering each year to stay on the cutting edge of technology and innovation, and we learn enormously from the vibrant computer science research community in our universities. But, we also want to share with the faculty our experiences, which often relate to doing computer science at planetary scale. (Even we are amazed as to how much processing we do!) This helps the faculty do a better job focusing their research and preparing students. The field of computer science has endless challenges and is still sufficiently young that progress will continue to accelerate—and that's good for our users, our industry, and our company. Of course, we also want to maintain Google's reputation for quirkiness, irreverence, and passionate excellence, so that we can attract and hire the next generation of computer scientists.
While it's difficult to cover all the topics at a two day event, I'll provide some highlights. Johan Schalkwyk, one of our top speech scientists in New York, described some of the fascinating challenges related to implementing speech recognition on mobile phones. One goal, for example, is to get a device to execute any spoken search query, regardless of the accent of the user. While this sounds simple, it is a grand challenge problem in artificial intelligence. Our voice systems, which are available on Android, iPhone and other mobile devices, are trained on over 230 billion spoken utterances and possess a one million word vocabulary—and we are working to make them even better. Interestingly, we have a new challenge: Quite often, our systems are even more accurate than the humans that rate them for accuracy, making it challenging to evaluate our own quality!
In the domain of ultra-large software systems, John Wilkes, a distinguished engineer from Mountain View, spoke to the audience about a new system we are building that will automatically manage the seemingly endless number of computers in Google's worldwide data centers.
Some of these computers are working round the clock answering user queries, processing e-mail, or otherwise attending to tasks that require instantaneous responses. Other computers are working on long jobs, for example, actually learning to do language translation from vast corpora in English, French, German, Chinese, etc. The key, John described, is to make sure that we can easily specify the requirements of each job that needs to run, and then have an uber-manager, "the cluster management system," automatically allocate those jobs to the right sets of computers in a way that maximizes performance while minimizing costs. Our current cluster management system is seven years old, and we discussed its success and challenges, as well as our hopes for the new system we are building to replace it.
While you wouldn't think that professors of computer science would be interested in shopping or commerce, Andrew Moore, a former professor at Carnegie Mellon and now the Director of Google's Pittsburgh office, described the deep research questions in areas such as shoe shopping. How can we implement a system to analyze the image of a shoe—its color, shape and pattern? How can we show a pair of shoes that someone might purchase based on this image analysis? How can we simultaneously provide accurate results of shoes a shopper would most likely purchase, without showing shoes they would not like, and provide the serendipitous connections that a shopper would experience in a real store? Optimization, computer vision algorithms, auction theory and more all play a role, and are the subject of active research not only at Google, but across the computer science community.
The field of computer science is, in many ways, a large expanding sphere that grows into ever more domains of applicability. The greatest recent successes have been at the boundary of computer science and virtually every other discipline. So, we covered quite a diversity of topics in New York. There is more on our research blog and also on the Official Google Blog, where you can even see a poem by NYU Professor Ken Perlin in iambic pentameter, musing about the future of mobile devices.
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The Long Beach Ronald McDonald House is a home a way from home for families with critically-ill children. We provide a place to stay, a source of comfort and care, and a chance to focus all of their energies on the one thing that matters most of all: their child. Fulfilling this mission is possible because of the generosity and commitment of the community. Through gifts of time, talent and financial support, the Long Beach Ronald McDonald House is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for the families of children facing critical, often life-threatening, illnesses.
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Gov. Rick Perry announced he had added legislation that would make it illegal for TSA agents to engage in "intrusive touching" at airports security checkpoints without probable cause to the list of items for the legislature to consider during the special session.
The measure had previously failed to pass in the Texas Senate after the Justice Department wrote a scathing memo against the bill that threatened legal action against the state and the bill became enmeshed in Senate politics.
There are questions about what affect the legislation might have since airport security is a federal matter.
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who was accused of lobbying against the bill in May said he was "pleased" by Perry's decision.
"I'm very pleased that Governor Perry agreed to add this legislation to his Special Session call," Dewhurst said. "Addressing unreasonable and unlawful searches of innocent travelers by some TSA employees is an issue that affects all Texans who use air travel, and it should not wait until next Session."
Before the Senate took up the bill initially, the Justice Department sent a letter to state advising that passage of the bill would result in immediate legal action by the federal government and that it could result in airline flights to and from Texas being delayed or cancelled.
Opponents of the bill used it as ammunition to stall the bill. Patrick blamed Dewhurst for the unexpected opposition and claimed Dewhurst was openly lobbying Senators against the bill. Dewhurst said that Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, had told him there were 12 Senators against the bill, enough to block it from coming up for consideration.
The day after, Patrick slammed Dewhurst.
"Apparently, for political reasons… he came up with this elaborate political play to kill the bill without his fingerprints," Patrick said, speaking to the drama over the anti-airport pat downs bill that failed yesterday.
When asked about how would affect his relationship with Dewhurst, he paused for a while before answering the question.
"I have to ask myself," Patrick said, before trailing off again.
Shortly after making those comments, Patrick announced that he would explore entering the U.S. Senate race and challenge Dewhurst's bid to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.


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Interesting developments in the desktop 3D printing market, as big business watches the latest crop of affordable desktop 3D printers launching on crowdfunding sites to use as internal solutions across their enterprise. Kickstarted Polish 3D Printer Manufacturer Zortrax sells 5,000 units to Dell:
…This is the first I've heard of a mass order of home 3D-printing equipment and it means a real boon for the budding Olsztyn-based company.
"Dell kept in touch with us when we were still in the middle of our Kickstarter campaign. We weren't in a position to make them a reasonable business offer at that time, since our production volume was very limited," said Rafał Tomasiak, Zortrax CEO. "At that point in time the production was very tedious, every single printer was quality checked and tested by us. Business negotiations with Dell were stalled at some point and we focused on shipping the printers to our Kickstarter backers. Now the situation is much different, we are prepared for large quantity orders."
Zortrax launched last May and is now shipping to happy Kickstarter backers….
"Frankly speaking, we were surprised that any company, even a company like Dell, wants to place such an order! But after a while we realized how many printers we use in our own office… For a designer who prints a large number of prototypes it is much more useful to use 10 smaller printers on one desk, which operate simultaneously, rather than one with a larger build volume," said Tomasiak.
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don't forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you've made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we'll feature it here!
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"Good guy Costco," reads the caption of a photo of Jim Sinegal that's become popular on Facebook. There's just one small problem…
Every day, the Daily Dot finds something that people on Facebook are sharing and, in turn, shares it with you—with a little explanation. Here's today's share.
In an era where we hear a barrage of bad things about CEOs, Facebook users are thrilled to have found a counterexample: Jim Sinegal, of Costco, who paid his workers an average of $17/hour and keeps his own salary, without bonuses, at $350,000.
"Good guy Costco," reads the caption of a photo of Sinegal, an image liked by almost 100,000 people and shared by almost 50,000. It's superimposed with text illustrating his nobility: "Costco CEO pays his employees $17/hr on average, plus benefits. Earns less than $500k, refuses Wall Street Demands to cut employee salaries and benefits."
Only one problem: Sinegal hasn't been CEO for more than a year.
That honor now belongs to Craig Jelinek, who drew a salary of $649,999 last year, plus a $99,200 bonus.
Still, Costco looks a lot better these days than its closest competitor, Walmart, which saw employees in 100 different cities strike on Black Friday.
The image, unsurprisingly, was on Reddit before Facebook, and its designer openly admitted his information was from a 2005 New York Times article.
That didn't seem to bother some enthusiastic Facebook users, though.
"That is what America is about…fairness and not greed," wrote Ann Zimmer.
Photo via The Other 98%/Facebook
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No new lake accesses for five years?
By Celeste Beam, Alexandria Echo Press
Douglas County anglers looking to launch their boats at new public accesses may have to wait a few more years.
Lawmakers are considering bills in both the Senate and House that would prevent the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) from building public access ramps on public waters that don't already have them.
The reason for the five-year moratorium is to give the DNR - and concerned citizens - time to find ways to prevent the introduction and spread of exotic invasive species into lakes.
In Douglas County, there aren't many lakes that support a permanent game fish community that don't already have public accesses, according to Dean Beck, supervisor of the DNR's Glenwood Area Fisheries.
Notable exceptions, he said, include Lake Darling, Lake Jessie, Lake Ina, Spring Lake, Lake Charlie and North Union, Stoney and Lottie between Brophy and Cowdry lakes.
Currently, lakes that don't have public accesses are less than 150 acres in size and are too shallow to consistently overwinter game fish, Beck said. The majority of the bigger lakes likely already have at least one public access in place.
He added that many of the lakes within Douglas County are interconnected anyway so there are ways to access them. If the idea of the moratorium is to actually prevent access, Beck questions how it can be done.
"I have mixed feelings about this," he said. "But I do understand their feelings and concerns."
The last public access put in on a Douglas County lake was about five years ago on Lake Blackwell.
Beck said the DNR has a priority list for public accesses it would like to build. One of the lakes in Douglas County the DNR has on its list is Lake Darling, which currently does not have a public access. Although, he noted that it is accessible to the public through other ways.
Carl Towley with the Lake Darling Area Association said the association supports any legislation delaying construction of new lake access ramps, which would allow the DNR more time to draft comprehensive aquatic invasive species guidelines.
He suggested that the DNR look closely at what other states, such as Colorado, Arizona and Idaho, are doing to combat the issue of invasive species, specifically zebra mussels.
In Colorado, for instance, all boats entering or exiting known infested lakes must submit to a detailed boat inspection. And all out-of-state boats must submit to a state certified boat inspection prior to launching in any Colorado lake or reservoir.
In Idaho, authorities enforce mandatory boat and trailer inspections at 15 major highway stations and all vehicles towing boats must stop for an inspection by the State Department of Agriculture.
The main boat ramps in Arizona are closed outside of the inspection hours of 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and violations could result in a court appearance and up to a $5,000 fine.
Beck said the push right now for public accesses is to put them in bigger lakes around the state, such as Rainy Lake or Lake of the Woods.
The DNR has also looked at putting additional accesses on three Douglas County lakes - Miltona, Ida and Big Chippewa, Beck said.
One of the reasons the DNR pushes to install public accesses is because state law prevents the DNR from stocking a lake with fish if it doesn't have a public access - although there have been exceptions to this rule as Lake Darling has been stocked in the past.
Garry Leaf, executive director of Sportsmen for Change, thinks the proposed legislation will be a tough sell among fishing enthusiasts in part because invasive species enter lakes in many different ways.
"People who look at it will cast a suspicious eye on lakes that are pushing it," he said. "Are they really against invasive species or are they trying to keep the public off their lake?"
Andrew Tellijohn, State Capitol Bureau, contributed to this story.


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Dear Mexican, Why do Mexican soccer fans chant "Osama! Osama!" when their side plays the United States? You don't hear American soccer fans yell "¡La migra!" --White Boy Dash
ear Gabacho,
You think hurling bin Laden's name is tasteless? How about the Daily Mail columnist who, on the day England faced West Germany in the 1966 FIFA World Cup final, wrote, "West Germany may beat us at our national sport today, but that would be only fair. We beat them twice at theirs"? Or the hooligans who greeted Jewish fans during a Lazio-AS Roma Italian league match with a banner that read, "Auschwitz is your town, the ovens are your houses"? This is soccer we're talking about, not Wimbledon. Offensive jeers are part of the game, and anyone who can't take the heat should leave la cocina. Jingoism is the main reason fútbol is the world's most popular sport: Countries and regions can spill their aggression toward each other out on the pitch and in the stands instead of the battlefield. That's why Mexicans love to trash the United States when the two countries play. Ustedes exploit us, humiliate us, dominate us in every socioeconomic category, even beat us in soccer--the United States has triumphed over Mexico in six of their last nine matches, including a 2-0 shellacking in the second round of the 2002 World Cup. So instead of wielding knives, our best revenge is the clever insult, the well-timed "Chinga tu madre" ("Go fuck your mother") whistle, the beer poured upon Landon Donovan as he triumphantly exits the stadium. All the great soccer-playing nations draw rabidly nationalistic fans, and the United States will remain a third-rate country until Americans cry "Tacos!" next time Mexico's squad invades el Norte.
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Why is it that we Mexicans get teary-eyed and emotional when "Volver, Volver" is played on the radio, in concerts or at weddings? --Chente Chunti
Dear Gabachos,
If you want to render a Mexican helpless, play this tune of lost love, which translates as "Return, Return" and is sung by ranchera icon Vicente "Chente" Fernández, the guy you see on posters in your local music store's Spanish-language section: gold-embroidered charro outfit, ivory white teeth and mustache as thick as a folded wallet. "Volver, Volver" is all about the treacle, with a chintzy organ intro, plodding guitar chords, pussy lyrics ("This passionate love/Is all disturbed to return") and Fernández whimpering throughout...until the chorus, when he roars, "Y volver, volver, vooooooooolveeeeeeeeer" ("And return, return, reeeeeeeeetuuuuuuuuurn"). Psychologists have observed that overcompensation on one part of the psyche leads to unconscious manifestations of the other in a concept known as reaction formation, and "Volver, Volver" allows Chente--Mexico's ultimate symbol of mexicanidad--to reveal machismo's deep, dark secret: Mexican men, for all their bravado, are more emotive than Oprah. With "Volver, Volver," Fernández made bawling the ultimate proof of huevos--you're not a real man if you can't cry--and so Mexican men drunkenly howl along in unison in honor of the hombre whenever the song plays.
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Dreaming Of You
Restaurateur Aden Ingle has been in love with the perfect man since his fourteenth birthday. Unfortunately, his perfect boyfriend only exists in his dreams. But Aden's always believed it was his destiny to meet his dream man, and he's perfectly content to wait around for him to walk into his real life.
When he meets Logan Price at a Hotel/Restaurant Trade Show, he finds himself drawn to this man who shakes him out of his dream world. Pretty soon, the flesh and blood reality is becoming more appealing than the fantasy. The only problem is Logan lives half way across the country in California.
Aden's going to have to choose whether to give up everything he's built for himself professionally and uproot his whole life for Logan, or wait for the man from his dreams to become a reality.
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Joint spectrum allocation and relay selection in cellular cognitive radio networks
Zhang, Tengyi
Wu, Yuan
Lang, Ke
Tsang, Danny Hin Kwok
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|Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) has been proposed in recent years to solve the spectrum scarcity problem by exploiting the existence of spectrum holes. One of the important issues in the cellular CRNs is how to efficiently allocate primary user (PU) spectrum inside a CRN cell without causing harmful interference to PUs. In this paper, we present a cross-layer framework which jointly considers spectrum allocation and relay selection with the objective of maximizing the minimum traffic demand of secondary users (SUs) in a CRN cell. Specifically, we consider (1) CRN tries to utilize PU spectrum even when the CRN cell is not completely outside the protection region of the PU cell, and (2) cooperative relay is used in cellular CRNs to improve the utilization of PU spectrum. We formulate this cross-layer design problem as a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and propose a low complexity heuristic algorithm to solve it. Compared to a simple channel allocation scheme, the numerical results show a significant improvement by using our proposed method and the performance is close to the optimal solution. We further consider the spectrum allocation among several CRN cells with the objective of maximizing the overall minimum throughput of all cells while ensuring each individual cell's minimum throughput requirement. A low complexity algorithm is proposed to achieve the objective with satisfactory performance. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010.
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text: Once there was a pastor, and he wanted to paint his church. But all he had was one bucket of paint. So he got a bunch of buckets and some water, and he thinned the paint enough to cover the entire church. Then he spent all day painting. That night it rained, washed all the paint off. The pastor was discouraged, and asked God, "Why...Why God, did You let it rain and wash off all my hard work?" To which God replied, "Repaint! And thin no more!"


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 13 (UPI) -- Tampa Bay Devil Rays prospect Josh Hamilton has been granted a personal leave for the rest of the season.
Hamilton, who has gone from top pick to top bust, has been playing at Double-A Orlando of the Southern League. He was granted the leave just 10 days after he returned from a mysterious six-week absence.
The Devil Rays did not give a reason for his latest departure, saying only, "The purpose of the leave is to provide Josh an opportunity to address certain private, non-baseball matters."
Linda Hamilton, Josh's mother, told the St. Petersburg Times that her son is "just taking some personal time, like everyone else. He's fine. It's just some personal time."
Hamilton, who turns 22 on May 21, has yet to play this season. He was the No. 1 pick in the 1999 draft out of Athens Drive High School in Raleigh, N.C. Injuries have prevented him from playing more than 96 games in a season.
The 2003 season began with an unexplained absence. Then, upon returning to baseball on May 3, Hamilton said his absence was not related to drug, alcohol, or legal issues, and that he received counseling for a form of depression caused by family issues and professional pressures.
His biggest problem has been injuries. He missed more than 230 games over his first four professional seasons, thanks to shoulder, back, rib cage, elbow, and quadriceps problems.
Through 251 minor league games between Rookie ball and Double-A, Hamilton is hitting .295 with 33 home runs, 166 RBI, and 44 stolen bases.


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Healthy Baking substitutions
I love Pinterest for this very reason: I popped on over for some visual pleasure just now and *boom* – within 10 seconds I found this helpful list of healthy baking ingredient alternatives.
Next time a recipe calls for sugar, I'm going to give the apple sauce or stevia a go. I've been wanting to try them both for ages, so I guess stumbling across this handy list is just the final push in the right direction!
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On Wednesday, a man who has been in the position to serve and protect for more than two decades, was taken to jail.
Randy Burgess was arraigned in front of Judge H.L. Kirkpatrick. He was indicted by a special grand jury at the end of October on three counts of Fraud with and Access Device, three counts of Breaking and Entering, one count of Embezzlement and one count of Impersonating a Law Enforcement Officer.
According to the indictment, Burgess broke into cruisers belonging to the Sheriff's Department and allegedly stole gas credit cards. Burgess then reportedly used the cards to make purchases for himself. This all happened after he resigned from the Sheriff's Department on July 9.
During the arraignment, Judge Kirkpatrick revoked Burgess' bond and sent him to jail. Kirkpatrick told Burgess that since he had spent more than two decades as a law enforcement officer, he should have known better than to break into the cruisers and take the cards.
Burgess had been on bond in a felony Child Abuse case.
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