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either you believe in representative gov or you don't…
Poll: 30% of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs lived together
By Ross Ramsey
Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Did humans live at the same time as the dinosaurs? 30% of Texas voters agree with that statement; 41 percent disagree, and 30 percent don't know.
Supporters of Gov. Rick Perry were more likely than any other group to believe that dinosaurs and humans roamed the earth together ten millennia ago.
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by WARREN MOSLER
Perry insisting that abstinence only program works as Texas is 3rd in teen pregancies %.
"… one wants to explain the empirical fact that involuntary unemployment is only associated with money-using contractual economies. In other words, real economies that do not use money and money labor contracts to organize production (e.g., feudalism, slave economies, South Sea Islanders discovered by Margaret Meed, etc) may possess important nonlinearities and even an uncertain future — but there is never an important involuntary unemployment problem. Slaves are always fully employed as well as are serfs in feudalism……"
What about the hypothesis that unemployment is a structural feature of capitalism?
Capitalism provides a necessary condition for unemployment: the prevalence of the employer / employee social relation. Without this relation both employed and unemployed cannot exist.
Having established a necessary condition one investigates a possible sufficient condition. Some pieces of the puzzle:
– The "rentalization" of labor. If X hires Y, then X is renting Y's capability to labor for a specified period of time.
– The highly skewed distribution of income and wealth, in a frame of fast growing productive capacity and increasing average life standard.
– The increasing propensity to save as income grows.
– The paradox of thrift.
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 10:55 am
unemployment, as defined, comes from the currency monopolist restricting supply.
that is, the govt not spending enough to cover the tax liability plus savings desires
or, for a given size govt and given savings desires, unemployment is the evidenced we are over taxed
Charles Yaker
Jokes aside. When Gore ran against Bush I sort of thought half of us saw the future and were prepared to go out and meet it; while half saw the future and where frightened into returning to their childhood myths. I don't know if it is a good description or not but I do know this is serious stuff because they have already infiltrated our military. If you don't believe me check out Mikey Weinstein and the Military Religeouse Freedon Foundtion. http://www.MRFF.org. Mikey is a very credible Republican who is an Air Force Acadamy graduate as are his sons. He worked in the Regan White House and for Ross Perot, his father's roommate at Anapolis. His organization is the one that blew the whistle on the bible verses inscribed on gun sites as well as other violations of our Constitution.
Poll: 30% of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs lived together
Without the sacrament of marriage? I'm shocked too!
Unforgiven Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Those trailers must have been HUGE!
Calgacus Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 1:30 am
@Unforgiven, Texas-sized.
roger erickson Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 11:01 am
No wonder the dinosaurs died out. They got stuck with the contaminated FEMA trailers! SCOT refused to take the crass action suit and god sent a giant tornado to level the trailer park. That's why there's no evidence.
I always say: half the population is below average intelligence.
And it's amazing how many people argue with me over that.
(And yes, I know the proper term is "mean", not average. But I suspect only about 1% of the population would understand that.)
Charles Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 3:33 pm
@jaymaster, Actually, half is below median intelligence, not mean.
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 5:35 pm
I'm a direct descendent of adam and eve
jaymaster Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Some unsolicited advice then: Don't touch the apple!
Winslow r.
When you have a chance can you confirm/deny the following….
In addition to 'loans create deposits ' we have 'government spending creating deposits and reserves'.
The simple model is the government prints a $10 bill and takes it to a bank and deposits it into a checking account. The bank creates a $10 deposit and has $10 in reserves.
Of course the flip side to this transaction is taxes destroy deposits and reserves.
This question follows from RSJ's post at Nick's site
Posted by: rsj | August 20, 2011 at 07:27 AM
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 12:54 pm
yes, gov spending adds net financial assets in the form of reserve balances and/or currency in circulation
Winslow r. Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Okay, but would you take it a step further? Does it increase bank deposits too on the H.8?
Government doesn't transact with sellers of goods and services using cash or reserves. RSJ's point is the government uses bank deposits. Simplified form is government deposits reserves into a bank in return for a deposit account that they can use to transact business. The government then writes checks from a bank.
I don't recall if this is totally true. In the past I received checks from the government for goods and services rendered and don't recall if the checks were issued by a bank or u.s. Treasury. Probably not important.
Either way, the money is deposited into the banking system into my deposit account, increasing the deposit base without an increase in loans but reserves would increase.
Winslow r. Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 2:30 pm
I find 'bank loans create bank deposits' to be very helpful.
I'm trying to determine if 'government spending creates bank deposits and bank reserves' could be helpful as well?
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 4:06 pm
gov spending adds net financial assets ultimately in the form of cash, tsy secs, and/or reserve balances.
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 4:05 pm
yes, bank deposit go up unless the gov's payment somehow adds to bank equity.
any reason any of this matters?
Winslow r. Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 4:34 pm
If you look back at Nick's post, Nick was claiming there was no 'accounting connection' between government spending and bank deposits used for transactions.
The 'bank loans create bank deposits' doesn't provide that connection.
'Government spending creates bank deposits and bank reserves' does provide that connection.
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 4:41 pm
seems he's just being argumentative.
he has to know that when someone gets a soc sec payment via direct deposit it's an incremental balance in that person's account.
even if that person is from Austria, or whatever…
Winslow r. Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 5:07 pm
….and when a person sends a tax payment to the treasury, bank deposits and bank reserves are destroyed. Thanks!
Bad. But, just to take a little pressure off the Texans/Americans, a majority of those surveyed in the UK think Sherlock Holmes is non-fiction, and Winston Churchill fiction.
beowulf Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Understandably so. The world's most famous consulting detective is happily retired and, at last report, still tending his bees in the Sussex countryside.
real conservative should not believe in evolution, but should believe in social Darwinism (survival of the fittest in economic sense).
real conservative also should not believe in climate change, nor in mass extinctions of plans and animals caused by people, but should believe that nature will magically regenerate no matter how much you abuse it (not that it is abused according to real conservative).
real conservative believes in unending progress of capitalism and is an enemy of socialism and equates communism with hell. Capitalism for real conservative is a natural state of human society that should have been present from the times of Garden of Eden (which was too much like communism if you think about it).
MamMoTh Reply:
August 20th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
@Gary, and Austrians should believe mass extinction of animals is due to malinvestment in unfit species caused by the government messing around with the interest rate for which liquidation was the right solution.
Vincent Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 2:39 am
@Gary, I wish someone would come out with someething like this…evolution is a fundamentally important concept, but it doesn't help us understand the origin of humnanity and the universe,
Mario Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 3:10 pm
exactly. Why can't both exist? God or Source or Creation or whatever created the pieces and all the stuff and from there things have more or less "evolved" as they deemed fit through interaction together. What's the problem really? Frankly, as soon as a human makes a new discovery or breaks an addiction or bad habit or changes their behavior in some way or learns a new concept EVOLUTION by definition is taking place. We can literally watch it happening before our eyes today. If evolution somehow threatens your belief in God either your faith is pathetic or your God is waaaay too small. Take your pick.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jon
Huntsman on Thursday turned to Twitter to attack a rival, Texas Gov. Rick
Perry, for his positions on evolution and climate change."To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy," Huntsman tweeted.
Mitt Romney believes in global warming and thinks that man
is contributing to it.
by Steve Dennis
Mitt Romney was asked late last week at a town hall style
meeting in New Hampshire whether he believed in global warming, and if so did
he believe it was manmade. His answer should send shivers down the spines of
all Republican primary voters who are thinking about voting for him as a viable
option to Barack Obama:
I believe the world is getting warmer. I can't prove that, but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer. And number two, I believe humans contribute to that.
Perry's answer on "evolution" draws fact checks
Gov. Rick Perry's answer to a child's question about evolution has drawn another round of national parsing of the presidential candidate's statement.
At the urging of his mother, a young boy asked Perry's views on evolution.
"Here your mom was asking about evolution, and you know it's a theory that's out there, and it's got some gaps in it," Perry said, according to ABC News. "In Texas, we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools — because I figure you're smart enough to figure out which one is right."
Perry's response drew swift reaction from education officials and legal analysts in Texas, who were quick to point out that Texas public schools do not teach creationism.
The researchers over at PolitiFact Texas looked into the issue and rated Perry's statement as "False."
Bachmann doubts evolution, wants intelligent design in schools
, Humanist Examiner
June 18, 2011 – Like this?
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has once again expressed doubts about the validity of evolution, and her support for introducing creationism, also known as Intelligent Design, into the public school science classroom.
Friday, speaking at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, Bachmann reiterated her suspicions about evolution and her support for evolution. This is not the first time Bachmann has made such claims.
In 2006, Bachmann claimed "there is a controversy among scientists about whether evolution is a fact… hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel prizes, believe in intelligent design."
pebird Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 9:53 am
@WARREN MOSLER, I believe in idiotic design.
Greg Marquez Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 11:48 am
@WARREN MOSLER, I'm pretty sure Warren that you don't believe the truth is determined by referendum, or by intellectual fashion. Most intellectuals know less about Darwinisim than they know about MMT. 99% of the people in the United States couldn't even tell you why the term neo-Darwinism exists.
roger erickson Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 2:44 pm
evolution IS intelligent design, and incredibly elegant too
what's the problem here?
someone discover that even a straw man can evolve? :)
roger erickson Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 2:46 pm
I don't believe in the utility of belief. Only in finding out.
Belief = presumption, which always leads us astray; it's only a question of how soon
Tom Hickey Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Energy is the capacity to produce change, and intelligence is the capacity to direct change. The latter capacity increases up the evolutionary ladder, until at the human level, our species discovered how to *use* energy to produce change. Then things really took off.
Deus-DJ Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Hehe, well said.
Dave Begotka
I don't "believe" anything………except I can melt the tires off a superbike…….and I suck at spelling and basketball
Alien intervention sounds better than our brains got smaller since Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal or that bible stuff…..
Bigfoot lives…..
roger erickson Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 2:40 pm
with his foot in his mouth! :)
Paul Mineiro
This makes me question my belief in polling rather than my belief in representative democracy.
ESM Reply:
August 20th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Agreed. These polls are stupid, and they can be done in such a way as to get almost any result. If a pollster called me and asked me whether I believed in evolution, I would hang up immediately.
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 9:05 am
at least somewhat inter related?
that's the scary thought that I've been realizing as of late…all the mess we have in America…we actually DESERVE this mess, b/c we are the ones creating it. That is the most frightening realization of all…of course the next most frightening is that our politicians execute our insane demands. It's really representative indeed! More so than I ever imagined. Dear Lord.
Ryan Reply:
August 20th, 2011 at 9:30 pm
@Mario, The scary policy is that half our graduate school seats in science and engineering are filled by foreigners when, as this article indicates, we have millions of people here that need to learn. What is worse is economists and lawmakers have adopted various policies that favor white collar services for an imagined population of educated workers that doesn't exist. Hence the low unemployment rate for folks with degrees, and SSI disability for those that don't.
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 9:04 am
looks to me like an anti intellectual wave that seems to happen when intellectuals are seen to have failed us, President Obama being the latest example.
historically, numerous revolutions have involved the actual killing of intellectuals
the intellectual side of man is a relatively new phenomena, and a work in progress as it interacts with man's 'biological' nature.
See Robert Pirsig's 'Lila'
Mario Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 12:07 pm
good point. Intellectualism is a very dangerous force when it is devoid of the people's reality and the care for the people at all times.
One of the revolutionary ideas of MMT is actually it's base premise that full employment is a public purpose of government and should be achieved immediately.
Since when have intellectuals thought like that?!?! It's always been a mental masturbation about how full employment is impossible or not ideal for all sorts of reasons all the while they are refusing to look at what the REALITY of unemployment is for people on the ground. We see this all the time in our military ops too like in counting US casualties only, coining phrases like "bad intelligence," "collateral damage," etc. It's in the media all the time and politics is very little else. It's all intellectualism at its absolute worst, devoid of reality and heart, commitment and practical applications. These guys have been too smart for everyone's own good.
I prefer intelligence over intellectualism anyday and unfortunately we don't see enough of the former and waaay too much of the later.
The Tea Party is attempting to be a more gritty and "straight-shooting" form of intellectualism…but the fact is it doesn't matter how you slice a ham, it's still always going to be ham. Personally I like a gritty and straight-shooting form of intelligence myself. That's my personal preference.
I'll check out pirsig too. Thanks
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 12:51 pm
mmt says that without govt/taxes/currency there is no unemployment
unemployment is a monetary phenomena.
"… one wants to explain the empirical fact that involuntary unemployment is only associated with money-using contractual economies. In other words, real economies that do not use money and money labor contracts to organize production (e.g., feudalism, slave economies, South Sea Islanders discovered by Margaret Meed, etc) may possess important nonlinearities and even an uncertain future — but there is never an important involuntary unemployment problem. Slaves are always fully employed as well as are serfs in feudalism…….Finally it should be noted that herds of animals, schools of fish, etc organize together to solve the economic problems of What? How? For Whom? Without using money, contracts or markets, these animals still face complex nonlinear problems in their search for food and interaction with other herds. Yet animals never suffer from involuntary unemployment!.
Professor Paul Davidson
University of Tennessee
(PKT Archives)
MamMoTh Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Herds of animals organize themselves without money, but they sacrifice the members less fit for survival. I'd call them unemployed (or employed as some member of another species herd lunch.)
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 4:04 pm
when you die you are no longer unemployed. and unemployment doesn't go down either.
otherwise smaller nations would have lower unemployment rates than larger ones…
Mario Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Herds of animals organize themselves without money, but they sacrifice the members less fit for survival. I'd call them unemployed (or employed as some member of another species herd lunch.)
LOL. yes that is quite true. Leaving the scrawny ones out to die is the equivalent of leaving the less productive or empowered workers today to die in poverty and squalor. In some senses of the word, just being ravaged to death by a pack of wolves might be a bit easier than slowly eeking out a dying existence for 10 years.
A jobs program is like a the tribe giving the scrawny guy a last ditch effort in being able to "run with the pack" if you will.
I'm all for it. Live by the sword, die by the sword. I'd rather be my brother's keeper thank you very much. ;)
Clonal Antibody Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Both of Persig's books have been very influential in my life.
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 12:52 pm
roger erickson Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 2:39 pm
for heaven's sake; the evolution of the vertebrate forebrain in addition to the hindbrain is documented out the wazoo, is already millions of years old, and predates even the onset of homo sapiens (despite what Pirsig says; he's on the right track, but rather out of paradigm)
doesn't matter; natural selection still applies;
if your car fails in a race with other cars, you don't forswear all cars; you up the design ante
similarly, if our delegated intellects fail in an adaptive race with other intellects, American ingenuity doesn't forswear the human fore-brain! (or at least we didn't used to do that)
we set the goal higher and rely upon our OWN instead of delegated intellects, and then find an ingenious way to set higher stds for policy delegates
(jeez, how long does it take to notice a change in context? longer with every increase in population?)
if the Founding Fathers/Mothers could see us now, they might well renounce US citizenship in shame, or rise up to soundly kick some oversize butts
Art Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 3:13 pm
"if the Founding Fathers/Mothers could see us now, they might well renounce US citizenship in shame, or rise up to soundly kick some oversize butts"
Hey, those oversized butts correlate rather tightly with productivity increases:
Net energy balance = kCalories in – kCalories out
Productivity means the same # of kCals can be consumed w/ fewer kCals expended, so higher net energy balance.
But our evolutionary bodies haven't yet adapted, so we still eat for a non-linear and uncertain future, causing waistlines to expand alongside productivity (with some national and regional outcome variation based on cultural values, practices, etc).
Empirically, the data seem to back it up. Not sure what this to do with anything, just find it interesting that the primary cause appears to be something that economists otherwise fawn over. Also that we can never assume a future where humans don't need to adapt (my book 2 cents: Rene Dubos' Man Adapting).
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 4:11 pm
different point.
how long ago did humans evolve to sweet talking with with today's type of verbal language to get a date?
(vs other animals which still don't use human type of verbal communication)
in other words, when did we start thinking in words the way we do today?
100,000 years ago or so?
roger erickson Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 2:38 pm
> intellectual .. interacts with man's 'biological' nature
> different point
Agreed. Was actually trying to be cheek-in-tongue, but typed too fast.
Point is that there's really no point in trying to separate intellect from biology -even though they're often assumed to be different. :)
Just different points on the same spectrum of layered capabilities. Hotmountain's un-pointedness theorem applies.
roger erickson Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 2:41 pm
> 100,000 years ago or so?
Way, way, way before that. You never seen videos of bonobos sweet talking one another? Even cicadas engage in sweet chirps. You really can't pin down any clear point of change, although you could argue for some recognizable inflection points.
So the analogy, while of limited use, is a bit out of paradigm, and won't scale. :)
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 5:17 pm
ok, how long ago did people reject each other for different religious beliefs?
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 5:16 pm
right, the question is when the intellect became sufficient to at least sporadically dominate?
Tom Hickey Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 7:18 pm
"Point is that there's really no point in trying to separate intellect from biology -even though they're often assumed to be different. :)"
Exactly. See Antonio R, Damasio, Descrates' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (1994) for the biology/neurology.
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 23rd, 2011 at 5:45 am
agreed. and the intellect has yet to take over. the struggle is still on.
the question was about when it began to seriously challenge
Mario Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 3:06 pm
the intellectual side of man is a relatively new phenomena, and a work in progress as it interacts with man's 'biological' nature.
by relatively new I'm assuming your going back a good couple thousand years or more? Ancient Egypt dealt with these very issues as well. We have enough historical data to at least learn something that we could stop today and not repeat again surely.
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 5:20 pm
i'm thinking 100,000 years or so
Winslow r.
Of course it depends how you define 'dinosaur'….. :)
Unforgiven Reply:
August 20th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Deficit Pterrordactyl?
I'm sure there must have been a few Austeropithicus wandering about…
roger erickson Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 2:26 pm
museums are full of Austerian toolkits used by extinct, non-adaptive hominids
WARREN MOSLER Reply:
August 21st, 2011 at 9:00 am
i'll defer to the historical religious texts for that


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It couldn't have been scripted any better for our first game.
SALT LAKE CITY — All things considered, Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak liked what he saw in the Huntsman Center Thursday night.
And with good reason.
The Utes picked up their inaugural Pac-12 victory with a 62-60 overtime win over Washington State. Senior guard "Jiggy" Watkins hit the game-winning shot with 3.3 seconds left to play, capping all scoring in a competitive contest featuring eight ties and seven lead changes.
"It couldn't have been scripted any better for our first game," Krystkowiak said after Utah prevailed in its first Pac-12 home game.
The Utes made history just five days after a 40-point setback at Colorado. Krystkowiak said the Utes tried to take shortcuts in that game.
This time, however, he noted that they did things right.
Krystkowiak was pleased with how everyone came back from the 73-33 debacle in Boulder to have a great week of practice and preparation, as good as he's seen in his first season at the helm.
Outlasting Washington State validated the focus.
"We had some warriors, man," Krystkowiak said while noting that five of the seven players who saw action for Utah logged 31 minutes or more.
Watkins headlined a tight rotation with 20 points, seven rebounds and six assists. His final basket — a jumper from inside the paint — proved to be the final difference.
The confident New Yorker said there was "no doubt" it was going in.
"All I had to do was stop," he explained. "(The defense) kept going so I just had to rise up and take that shot."
Watkins made a similar shot near the end of regulation to force overtime. He spent a lot of time in practice this week stopping for short jumpers on drives to the basket.
Both came after Watkins left for the game for a time in the second half with a sore knee.
"It didn't matter how much pain I was in," Watkins said. "I'm a tough kid. I'll work through it."
And he did.
However, there were other standouts as well.
Chris Hines made big plays offensively and defensively down the stretch. His jumper with 45 seconds remaining tied the game at 60. He later forced a turnover on Washington State's attempted response to Watkins' last shot.
Jason Washburn and Dijon Farr finished with 11 and 10 points, respectively. Cedric Martin topped the Utes with eight rebounds.
"It was really exciting for all of us," Hines said after Utah snapped a two-game skid.
Watkins threw the ball into the air as time expired and the team huddled together on the floor before heading to the locker room.
Krystkowiak said things were rather subdued at that point.
"I think we did most of the celebrating on the floor," he noted. "By the time they got to the locker room everybody needed a 20 (-second timeout) I think."
There's little time for rest. The Utes host Washington Saturday at noon.
"This win took a lot off our shoulders," Martin acknowledged. "We've got to stay humble with it and we just need to prepare for Saturday."105 comments on this story
Utah held a halftime lead for just the third time this season. The Utes shot 50 percent from the field and played consistent defense in building a 29-23 advantage. Things didn't go as well after the break as Washington State quickly climbed back into contention. Brock Motum paced the Cougars with a game-high 27 points on 10-of-12 shooting. He also grabbed eight boards in the game.
"We played better in the second half and with better effort," said Washington State coach Ken Bone. "But when you let a team like Utah hang around, they get more confident and they bury a couple and gain some momentum on the home court. That is what happens."
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BLOCKED "For the second time in 10 days, the Senate on Thursday rejected Democratic efforts to take up a jobs bill championed by President Obama. The vote to advance the bill was 50 to 50. Democrats needed 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster," Robert Pear writes for the New York Times. "This time, the bill was narrowed to provide $35 billion to state and local governments to prevent layoffs of teachers, police officers and firefighters. To offset the cost, the bill would impose a surtax of 0.5 percent, starting in 2013, on income in excess of $1 million. Despite the vote Thursday, Democrats said they hoped to gain a political edge, by forcing Republicans to vote on this and other discrete parts of broader legislation proposed by Mr. Obama to create jobs and revive the economy." http://nyti.ms/pHpsta
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--Manu Raju for POLITICO: "A united GOP Conference, along with three members of the Senate Democratic Caucus — Sens. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) — voted" no. 'It seems all we care about is scoring political points to be used in the next election,' said Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). 'Shame on us if the blame game is the best thing that we can do.' ... The Senate on Thursday night also rejected by a 57-43 vote a separate portion of the president's jobs bill, pushed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), eliminating a much-criticized rule allowing federal and local agencies to withhold 3 percent of payments to contractors. Ten Democrats, which included a mix of moderates and those up for reelection, voted for the McConnell plan, but 60 votes were needed to break a Democratic-led filibuster. http://politi.co/nHac43
-- It's hard to miss the counts: 50 votes for the Democratic bill, 57 for the Republican bill.
HUDDLE SCOOP: CANTOR SNAGS CASH FROM DEMOCRATIC MEGADONOR SABAN -- A dispatch from Jon: Haim Saban, one of the most influential pro-Israel Democratic donors in the country, cut twin $2,500 checks to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) -- arguably the president's chief antagonist on Capitol Hill -- on Sept. 13, according to the Virginia Republican's third-quarter fundraising report. It's more evidence of a mini-trend for Cantor: He's beginning to break into Democratic fundraising circles. "Mr. Saban was asked by a friend to meet with Eric Cantor because of their shared support for issues central to Israel," one source told Huddle. "The contribution does not reflect a shift in Mr. Saban's backing of the Democratic Party."
Saban told the Washington Post's Greg Sargent earlier this year that he would contribute to President Obama's re-election effort if asked, even after expressing disappointment with the president's handling of a Middle East speech that was heavily criticized by conservatives over the president's restatement of long-standing U.S. policy on the path to resolving the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. But Obama hasn't yet asked Saban for money, and -- though he said he supported Obama in 2008 -- Saban didn't give Obama anything in his first run, according to a search of Federal Election Commission records. The New York Post reported earlier this month that Republican Mitt Romney covets Saban's backing in the 2012 presidential election. A source in Saban's camp said the "Power Rangers" creator believes Romney is a "worthy candidate," the Post reported, but he hasn't met with Team Romney and he hasn't donated any money as of yet.
Whatever he does in the presidential election, Saban's contribution to Cantor's re-election is noteworthy on Capitol Hill, where Democrats can't be happy that one of their biggest machers is helping to fund the competition, too.
RUBIO'S BIOGRAPHY PROBLEM -- The Washington Post's Manuel Roig-Franzia shook up the Republican superhero's origin story: "a review of documents — including naturalization papers and other official records — reveals that the Florida Republican's account embellishes the facts. The documents show that Rubio's parents came to the United States and were admitted for permanent residence more than 2 1 / 2 years before Castro's forces overthrew the Cuban government and took power on New Year's Day 1959. The supposed flight of Rubio's parents has been at the core of the young senator's political identity. … The real story of his parents' migration appears to be a more conventional immigrant narrative, a couple who came to the United States seeking a better life. … In a brief interview Thursday, Rubio said his accounts have been based on family lore. 'I'm going off the oral history of my family,' he said. 'All of these documents and passports are not things that I carried around with me.'" http://wapo.st/mYN5YE
--The Republican pushback on the story started almost immediately, and several pointed to this Miami Herald piece by Marc Caputo asking if the Post "embellish[ed] Marco Rubio's 'embellishments'?": "Regardless of when his parents left Cuba, they were exiles because they stayed in the US, specifically Miami, in a community where they soon felt they couldn't go back to their homeland. Though the story said his parents left for economic reasons, it's silent about the fact that the dictator before Castro, Batista, was so brutal that it made Castro look like a good alternative at first. … The Post also says 'the supposed flight of Rubio's parents has been at the core of the young senator's political identity.' That's a stretch. The actual story of the 'flight' is far less emphasized than the fact that Rubio's an Hispanic Republican, an immigrant and an exile. So to suggest Rubio serially embellished the "dramatic" story of his parents fleeing Cuba could be a little too dramatic itself." http://bit.ly/r7wSI9
--And POLITICO's own Alex Burns looks at how this impacts Rubio's standing in the Republican veepstakes: "It's perfectly possible for Rubio to survive this episode: Richard Blumenthal won a U.S. Senate election even after it was reported that he exaggerated his Vietnam War service. Joe Biden became vice president despite having once lifted a family history from the British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock and passed it off as his own. … The Rubio disclosure isn't career-ending, but it probably makes him a less appealing running mate in 2012 – particularly for any potential Republican nominee who's already battling the impression that he's insincere." http://politi.co/opJ2RV
-- Here's how Rubio handled it: "What's important is that the essential facts of my family's story are completely accurate. My parents are from Cuba. After arriving in the United States, they had always hoped to one day return to Cuba if things improved and traveled there several times. In 1961, my mother and older siblings did in fact return to Cuba while my father stayed behind wrapping up the family's matters in the U.S. After just a few weeks living there, she fully realized the true nature of the direction Castro was taking Cuba and returned to the United States one month later, never to return. They were exiled from the home country they tried to return to because they did not want to live under communism. That is an undisputed fact and to suggest otherwise is outrageous."
BAD NEWS FOR OBAMA, GOOD FOR SENATE DEMS Per John Bresnahan and Manu Raju in today's POLITICO, In every major race next year featuring a Senate Democratic incumbent, Obama is polling worse than the incumbent — in some cases, by a substantial margin — according to publicly released surveys. So rather than running for reelection on Obama's coattails, these Senate Democrats may end up facing questions over whether they can win with the president on the ballot. 'That means Montanans have good taste,' Democratic Sen. Jon Tester said, referring to his approval ratings, which are far better than the president's in the Big Sky State. 'I'm a nicer guy.'"
JOE SCARBOROUGH HEARTS TIM BERRY We missed this yesterday morning, but Joe Scarborough and Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff Tim Berry had a little love fest on Morning Joe. Toward the end of McCarthy's segment, Scarborough, who represented Florida in the House, joked that "one of the reasons why Republicans did such a horrible job in the past is because of a guy who is actually right behind you who works for you now, Tim." Berry, of course, worked for Tom Delay. Scarborough continued that it's "all Tim's fault," to which Berry replied "you were there too" – referring to the days when Morning Joe was Rep. Joe. Scarborough shot back "fighting you guys!" referring to leadership. It was obviously all a joke. Fast-forward to the 18:30 mark. http://on.msnbc.com/qKLZTM
GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 2011, and welcome to The Huddle, where we're all tied up in the World Series, and wondering how many shots we'll get of George W. Bush during the games in Arlington, Texas.
Happy birthday to Shaggy (43) and Spike Jonze (42). And if Delta keeps its flight schedule in tact tonight, from LaGuardia, Washington will get a visit from Ian Wishingrad and Gary Freilich of the Big Apple.
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TODAY IN CONGRESS Even the Senate is out. They are back on Monday, as is the House.
SEPTEMBER SCORECARD Roll Call's Kyle Trygstad: "The DCCC, looking to pick up 25 seats next year to win back a House majority, raised $6.6 million, well ahead of the National Republican Congressional Committee's $3.8 million haul. But the NRCC has more cash on hand and less debt." http://bit.ly/rnv9f7
YEAR OF THE WOMAN, PART II Jennifer Steinhauer writes for the New York Times: " The 2012 elections are likely to mark the new 'year of the woman' in the Senate. For better or worse. Ten women — six of them incumbents — are presumed Democratic Senate nominees this year, and another is seriously considering a run. Republicans have one female senator, Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, up for re-election, and one presumed nominee, Linda Lingle of Hawaii, that state's former governor. Other women in both parties are engaged in primary fights. It is the greatest number of female incumbents ever up for re-election in the Senate, and would be among the highest number of nominees ever, which could add up to a banner year for women in the deliberative — and testosterone-infused — legislative body. But, with Democrats endangered and Republicans lagging in recruitment of women — one of their own, Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, is retiring — it is also quite possible that in 2012, women could lose ground in the Senate for the first time in a generation." http://nyti.ms/q88BQF
--And a trio of current female members are the subject of a group profile in this month's Good Housekeeping. The magazine looks at the friendship of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Sen. Kirsten Gilibrand and Rep. Gabby Giffords in the wake of the shooting of the latter: http://bit.ly/nm8I7H
FILING TIME FOR BOEHNER Speaker John Boehner's Freedom Project raised $75,872 in September, according to its most recent filing with the Federal Election Commission. Donors include: Greenberg Traurig's Alejandro Urrea ($1,500) and 3M CEO W. James Mcnerney ($5,000). Where does Boehner stay, you ask? Intercontinental in Cleveland and York Harbor Inn in York Harbor, Me. Where does he eat? Obviously at Trattoria Alberto (several charges, one of $630), his Italian haunt on the Hill, The Monocle, Granville Moore's on H Street, Cantina Marina ($261), Poste ($250), The Source ($395), The Occidental Grill ($4,600) and Capital Grille ($713).
THE NEW SOLYNDRA "With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work," ABC News' Brian Ross, Matthew Mosk and Ronnie Greene report. "The loan to Fisker is part of a $1 billion bet the Energy Department has made in two politically connected California-based electric carmakers producing sporty -- and pricey -- cutting-edge autos. Fisker Automotive, backed by a powerhouse venture capital firm whose partners include former Vice President Al Gore, predicts it will eventually be churning out tens of thousands of electric sports sedans at the shuttered GM factory it bought in Delaware." http://abcn.ws/oINTLL
SNOWE, SESSIONS WENT TO END THE TRICKERY The two senators write a Wall Street Journal op-ed explaining why they're introducing the Honest Budget Act: "It will strip away many of the most blatant and dishonest gimmicks—making it harder to spend money we don't have, and helping to confront the larger culture of fiscal corruption that is bankrupting the country and eroding public confidence in government. … Our bill puts in place a 60-vote threshold before any appropriation bill can be moved through Congress—unless both houses have adopted a binding budget resolution." The bill would eliminate other tricks, including requiring a supermajority to delegate emergency spending and getting rid of phony rescissions. http://on.wsj.com/nlCezG
WHO KNEW? Per the Los Angeles Times, "Former Southern California utility executive John Bryson was confirmed Thursday by the Senate to be President Obama's next Commerce secretary. Obama's nomination of Bryson initially had run into opposition from Senate Republicans who threatened to withhold support until three long-awaited trade pacts came to fruition. Congress approved the trade agreements last week. With Obama poised to sign the trade deals with South Korea, Panama and Colombia into law Friday, the nomination cleared the Senate. The vote was 74 to 26."


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You can play roulette at a traditional land-based casino and online. It is a widely popular game which gives you a chance to make some real big money. One might even say that roulette is a worldwide renown classic when it comes to games. Its popularity is undeniable whilst its origin is disputed to the point where it has taken almost mythical proportions.
French Origin
One of the alleged inventors of roulette is the mathematician, physicist and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662). If his name rings any bells it might be because of his numerous inventions. For example, Pascal invented an early calculator called the Pascaline. Pascal also invented the syringe and the hydraulic press. He also lay forth the probability theory within gambling after having come to the realization that things don't happen randomly but depend on what has happened beforehand. It is in fact said that Pascal initially opted to invent a perpetual motion machine – which instead resulted in the early version of the roulette wheel in 1655.
It wasn't until the mid-1800's that the roulette wheel was further developed by two other Frenchmen, the twin brothers François and Louis Blanc. The inventors added the green "zero" to the roulette wheel and they also added the colours red and black. Therefore, the opinion of who actually invented roulette stays disputed. However, what is agreed upon is that roulette stems from France. Moreover, roulette is in fact French for "small wheel".
Unfortunately for the brothers, about the same time as they developed the roulette wheel as we know it today, is when gambling was banned in France. And so, François and Louis Blanc took their updated roulette to Germany where they set up a gambling house in 1843. Gambling was eventually outlawed also there. And so their next venture became Monte Carlo. François and Louis Blanc are in fact credited for the widespread popularity for roulette at the time. They are also said to be the very contributors to making Monte Carlo into a flourishing casino city.
The origin and inventors of roulette are indeed disputed. Nothing appears from thin air however and there are in fact several other spinning wheel games that are said to have influenced roulette. From England we have Roly-Poly and Ace of Hearts. And the rules of these games appear to have blended with various features of Italian board games such as Birbi and Hoca.
By the time François and Louis Blanc opened casinos in Germany and Monte Carlo. Roulette was taken beyond the borders of Europe to the United States. Today we have two types of roulette; European and American. The two versions have the same rules however American roulette has a greater house edge. It has an extra green coloured slot with double zeros which belongs to the house. As a result, European roulette is preferred worldwide.
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I live in Northern western WA where our summers can be very mild. Even in a very cool season these have always produced a lot of fruit until frost. I have noticed you cannot put the purple ones and the green ones near each other because the purple turns green. These are fantastic in salsa, posoles (soup), and all kinds of dishes. I only eat them cooked as they are too hard to eat when they are raw. Peel the wrapper and wash, then store in the freezer for later, they are just as good! I recommend these to all market growers despite their skepticism. They self sow for me often, and i sell the extra the seedlings in the neighborhood very quick!
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We have a meeting scheduled for May 12, 2011 at 7:00 PM. The meeting will be held at the Headquarters Fire Station Graham, 23014, 70th Ave E. I have been dispatched to Texas for a fire assignment and may not be in attendance. Ted Keeley or Brandon Mohler will have updates on the timber sale on the trails system. Heath will lead any other discussions or gather any information which needs to be passed back to me. WOW will present for approval their event scheduled for June. The grant presentations went well. I am pretty optimistic regarding the maintenance grant which includes the mini-excavator.
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The DFL Central Committee, it's governing body, most probably composed of the most radical of the DFL activists (I actually heard at one convention one candidate being asked, "What is your position on abortion and how radical are you?") has sent out a postcard to prospective voters, with this photo of a Catholic priest wearing a campaign button saying: "Ignore the Poor."
I don't know how many were sent out, but this was received by a Catholic in the Twin Cities. It shows the willful ignorance of Democrats by ignoring what Catholic Charities, the many thousands of Catholic parishes with social justice ministries, especially parishes like St. Joan's, Cabrini, Christ the King, St Edward's, Pax Christi, St. Stanislaus, some of the most active of Catholic progresssives in the entire country, and the Catholic school system, pre-K to grad schools, and what they have done and continue to do for poor people in this country.
Is this intended to bring out the Catholic progressive vote? Or those who hate Catholics?
Monday, October 25, 2010
DFL Central Committee Insults its Base: Catholic Progressives behind Loaves & Fishes and the Homeless Shelters
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Cisco Selected to Supply Data Communications Solutions for Motorola's $263 Million Air Force Contract
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San Jose, CA--May 21, 1997--Cisco Systems Inc. (San Jose, CA) announced that it has been selected to provide state-of-the-art data communications technology to Motorola's Space and Systems Technology Group (SSTG) for the Theater Deployable Communications (TDC) contract with the U.S. Air Force.
Cisco products, as part of the overall solution, will help simplify the training and stand-up time for deployed installations, because the equipment and software called for in the contract are similar to the Cisco products used at fixed-base installations.
The selection of equipment suppliers is part of the multimillion dollar contract Motorola received from the U.S. Air Force in February 1996 for a new advanced rapid deployment communications network. If the Air Force chooses to exercise all options, the multi-year contract could exceed $263 million. Cisco's value could possibly exceed $10 million over the life of the contract.
In the initial phases of the contract, Cisco will supply Motorola with the Cisco 3100, an Ethernet workgroup switch that provides high-end features, including multilayer capabilities, and the Cisco 2511, Cisco 2524, and the Cisco 4500 routing platforms for test and evaluation purposes.
Theater Deployable Communications (TDC) is a state-of-the art ground-to-ground communications infrastructure designed to replace older, existing systems. The TDC system can transmit and receive voice, data, and video communications securely to or from wireless, satellite, or hard-wired sources.
Delivery of the first system to the Air Force is expected to occur before February 1998.
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How many cattle trucks does it take to get a football team and all their supporters to a game?
A cattle truck used to transport the entire Looma football team and their supporters over 100kms to a game every week, and if you think that's devoted, the community made their own oval too.
Looma was one of the first remote communities in the Kimberley to get seriously stuck into football. Like most of the other communities, Looma's a long way from anywhere, at the end of a beaten track.
Getting to a game every week is a feat, even though Looma has it's own bus now. Some teams travel hundreds of kilometres to play in their closest comp, especially over the east side. You can read about the incredible mileage covered HERE.
That's just the beginning though, because then they also have to think about how they're going to pay for the petrol, who's going to cook lunch, who's going to wash the uniforms, who will train them and how will they pay for the ongoing costs associated with a team from such a high maintenance location?
Biggest question: considering the logistical complications of running a football comp under these adverse conditions, what allows football in the Kimberley to thrive the way it does? …and believe me, it's on fire.
The answer is: a mountain of support, devotion, commitment, encouragement.
In the last few days I have met some of the mountain builders.
Over 20 years ago, Geoff Davis started his work with a perception that Indigenous people in the Kimberley were under represented in sport. Geoff had a feeling that this could all change if Indigenous people were more involved in the administration and decision making of their own sport, so he did something really obvious.
He travelled around the Kimberley asking people what they wanted and then gathered together a group of people who could give it to them.
This group became the organisation, Garnduwa Amboorny Wirnan. The name comes from three different language groups and means 'bringing people together and doing things'. Simple huh?
Garnduwa is now the peak Indigenous sporting body in the Kimberley. Its programmes and training have delivered so successfully over the years that it now administers mainstream programmes from local, state and national levels.
Geoff's well into his footy and has been integral in delivering the training and support needed for this region to thrive, despite the obstacles. He's not officially working with Garnduwa anymore but he's still putting in the hard yards as the head of the Central Kimberley Football League... and he left behind a network of devoted staff, who remain committed to delivering programmes that inspire communities and give them control over their sports.
Looma is a great example. Husband and wife team, Bernie and Benno Pindan have devoted 19 years to the Looma football team. That's 19 seasons of trucking and busing it to the Derby and Fitzroy comps, and now they are intent on taking a grand final in the West Kimberley Football League in Broome. If you want a taste of the fever that is football in Looma, you can listen to local lady, Lynley Guboy rave about her favourite team HERE.
You are going to meet these people and the players they support in our latest project, 110%. It's important that you meet people like Geoff and Bernie and Benno, because without them, there would be no comp to play in. Football is their passion, and it's only through their complete commitment, and then 10% more, that any goals are kicked out here.
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Dan Bross, Senior Director, Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft, sat down recently with Marcel Bucsescu, Manager of Corporate Leadership at The Conference Board, to talk about the goals of the newly-formed Committee on Corporate Political Spending, of which Microsoft is a member.
During the interview, Dan covered Microsoft's political reporting principles, commitment to stakeholder dialogue, open disclosure on trade association engagement and the importance of corporate governance and transparency in political giving by corporations. On May 15, Dan will speak at the Conference Board Corporate Political Spending Conference in Washington, D.C. as part of Microsoft's ongoing engagement in this important dialogue.


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I can't do much right now. One of the surprising side effects of my condition is that I am extremely easily overwhelmed.
My brain seems to be operating at about 60% of capacity, maybe as an oxygen-preserving measure? I can — and am in fact supposed to — get up and walk around occasionally, but even normal household occurrences like having one kid rooting through the pantry and two others fighting over a toy are enough to send me into a near panic attack (luckily I have a lot of help and don't usually have to handle that kind of thing by myself). It's hard for me to keep up with conversations for more than a few minutes, to write replies to emails, and I even have trouble reading books, since my focus drifts after a few pages.
One thing I can do, though, is read blogs. They have been a lifeline for me through all this. Reading posts about what's going on in other people's lives has given me a much-needed sense of connectedness to the world, and the one-way format (as opposed to, say, social media or in-person interactions) is easy for me to handle since it requires little brainpower.
The only problem is that I am reading all my favorite blogs faster than the authors can post. I keep opening up Google Reader to find no new content. So, obviously, I need some new blogs to read. This is where you come in:
What blogs do you recommend that I read? What are some of your favorites?
The ones that I love the most right now are slice-of-life blogs where the authors talk about the goings on in their lives. Some share tips and tricks, some post lots of pretty pictures, and some just talk about what's new with them that day; some are hilarious, and others are just really honest. All tell stories about their lives in some form or another. To give you ideas, here is a random sampling from my Google Reader:
- SlowMama
- Barefoot and Pregnant
- Look. Snap. Love.
- Fountains of Home
- Sarah Sitting Down
- Kelle Hampton
- Mama Needs Coffee
- My Shtub
So, based on that, what else should I be reading? Recommend away! Please include a brief description of the blog, since clicking through and figuring out what a blog is about on my own is waaaaay out of my league right now. (And shameless self promotion of your own blog is welcome!)
Now I'm all exhausted from writing this post, so back to resting. Thanks in advance.


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Asafa Powell ran the 100 meters in 9.99 seconds into a strong headwind on Sunday at the Rieti Grand Prix, on the same track where the Jamaican star set a then-world record of 9.74 two years ago.
Powell was hoping to improve on his season best of 9.84 that got him third at last month's world championships in Berlin, when fellow Jamaican Usain Bolt set the current world record of 9.58.
Powell's fellow Jamaican and training partner Nesta Carter was the runner-up in 10.08 and Simeon Williamson of Britain crossed third in 10.18.
The wind registered minus 1.5 meters.
"It was a very strong wind," Powell said. "When I saw the wind blowing today I was like, 'It's not going to be a fast race.'"
There was also a headwind for the semifinals, which Powell led in 10.12 despite slowing down before the finish. In 2007, Powell set his record in the semifinals.
Powell believes he can still challenge Bolt.
"To be running these fast times is outstanding. He really needs some strong competition _ he's running 9.5 _ so we need to get there too to put on a good show," Powell said. "Before, I was the man to beat. Now I have someone in front of me, so I really have to push myself."
Powell now will return to his in-season training base in northern Italy to prepare for the season finals in Greece.
Another member of Powell's training group, Olympic and recently crowned world champion Shelly Ann Fraser, won the women's 100 in 11.18 _ into a headwind of 2.4.
Olympic silver medalist Sherone Simpson was the runner-up in 11.37 and Gloria Asumnu of the United States was third in 11.52.
Kerron Stewart, the Olympic and world silver medalist in the 100, won the 200 in 22.62, with Berlin 400 runner-up Shericka Williams crossing second in 22.69.
American sprinter Wallace Spearmon won the men's 200 in 20.27 after placing sixth in the 100.
In perhaps the outstanding performance of the night, David Rudisha of Kenya clocked 1 minute, 42.01 seconds in the 800 to break Sammy Koskei's 25-year-old African record of 1:42.28 and register the best performance of the year at the distance.
The 20-year-old Rudisha was eliminated in the semifinals at the worlds last month on a cold and rainy evening.
"I had problems with the cold, so it's good to know that I'm in form," Rudisha said.
Berlin runner-up Alfred Kirwa Yego was again second, in 1:42.67, and world champion Mbulaeni Mulaudzi crossed third in 1:42.86.


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Citing Detroit, Martins slates forum on distressed municipalities
Citing Detroit's bankruptcy, Sen. Jack Martins is kicking off a series of hearings on distressed municipalities. The first two are set for Syracuse (today) and Buffalo (Thursday), the city President Barack Obama will visit this week.
"Detroit presents a worst-case scenario for municipalities everywhere facing similar concerns, but it is not alone," Martins (R-Mineola) said in a statement. "Many of our municipalities right here in New York are being crushed by overwhelming long-term debt and structural budget shortfalls. Governing Magazine states that there have been 36 municipal bankruptcies since 2010, including Detroit, a fact that has left many wondering whether it can happen here in New York. By attempting to address these concerns, these hearings are not only timely, but extremely important."
The third hearing is slated for Garden City a week from today. It is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building. Testimony is limited to invited speakers. Martins chairs the Senate Local Government Committee.
Obama will make three stops in upstate New York as part of a push for his economic agenda. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will meet him at Buffalo, the first stop, but won't travel to Syracuse or Binghamton.


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Ariana Grande may be the belle of the ball here on the Daly Download, but there's another lady that's totally dominating Carson's countdown…Iggy Azalea!
Grande's collabo-partner can lay claim to not one, but two songs that are burning up the charts.
Yesterday, Grande and Azalea had no "problem" securing the #1 spot. Did they pull it off two days in a row?
Here are the top five downloaded songs in Los Angeles and Orange County:
5. Problem –Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea
4. Happy –Pharrell Williams
3. Turn Down For What – DJ Snake & Lil Jon
2. All Of Me (Tiësto Remix) – John Legend
1. Fancy – Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX
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Lucky, a jewel thief, is recruited by the CIA. When a routine "theft" for The Company turns deadly and Lucky is almost killed, upon recovering he must find out who double-crossed him. Unbeknownst to others, the secret curtains of light that only Lucky can see provide him with comfort. Lucky and his sidekick, Mickey, will find the people behind them trying to destroy him and the United States.
©2013 Joe Corso & Deborah McCarthy (P)2015 Joe Corso & Deborah McCarthy
"Science fiction at its best."
Brilliant, exciting, adventure.
Everyone knows that things happen for a reason and this story is the proof. Who would have believed when Lucky had an horrific injury it would leave him with an amazing gift - the ability to jump through time.
This time travel makes him incredibly rich, changing life for Lucky and his friends, opening new doors and making unbelievable things possible, like the inventions of his friend The Professor. However, things like this do not go unnoticed, others are watching him too.
This great story has fantastic characters, excitement, intrigue, suspense, adventure and brilliant storyline.
I just love listening to Al Benelli, his wonderful narration of The Time Portal brings this great science fiction story wonderfully to life.
No I didn't but I loved it all the same.
"I loved it!"
I never read the print edition but the reviews on Amazon for the print edition influenced my decision to buy this.
I really enjoyed how the chief character, Lucky dealt with the corrupt government official who was trying to have him killed.
I loved that there were so many distinct and unique voices. It was like listening to a cast of characters. I know someone else said that in their review, but it is very true.
Yes and no. I knew it was more than 12 hours long but I truly found myself wanting to move quickly to the next chapter. I did however put it down a few times.
My first "time travel" book. Surely not my last. I'll be looking for Book 2 in the series.
"Best Time Travel Book ever!"
What would you do with the ability to travel through time? Would you tell the world... And end up on the cover of "Newsweek"? ...Or would you guard your secret? Would you time travel for pleasure or business... or both?
Imagine trading your 21st century pocket knife or lipstick in a Byzantine marketplace for a few "ancient" coins... only to bring them back to Sotheby's to auction for a small fortune. Sounds like a great little business, huh?
Like to "lose" that idiot in the next cubicle at work... Or that annoying neighbor? Why not get them a job far away... and long ago... like perhaps, helping to build the Great Pyramid? Would you like to take your friends to see the ruins of Rome... before they got ruined?
When a terrorist plot leaves Lucky Campo fighting for his life... that life is forever changed as his miraculous recovery leaves him with a far more miraculous new ability... the power to locate and identify the many "portals" scattered throughout the space-time continuum. Fame, fortune, romance and adventure await this independent CIA operative as he puts his newly acquired powers to work to uncomplicate and enrich his greatly entangled life.
This latest collaboration by Joe Corso and Al Benelli is pure magic. The story is amazing and the storytelling a work of theatrical genius. Move over Harry Potter, Bilbo Baggins and Han Solo... Lucky Campo is the new Sci-fi fantasy hero in town. - Audavoxx.
"Words escape me"
This might be a great book for my 5 year old nephew
The way he made Lucky sound made me think of an uneducated wanna be thug
Sadness that I bought the audio book based on the plot.
"Couldn't keep going, HORRIBLE narration/production"
The narrator is horrible. He also tells you things like, END OF CHAPTER 1. I tried to ignore the accent and the way the narrator read but I just couldn't. A shame.
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The intro is hilarious. But, anyway. The moment it drops, yeah, it's fucking good shit. Very fast, great roaring voice and brilliant drumming. All fits perfectly. Brilliant guitaring, actually. Fucking EXCELLENT vocals just past the 2 minute mark on the first track, "Crest For War", with a great solo to follow.
Wow, the intro to the next track "Abomination Of God" is not really what you expected, still fucking fast though, just goes better than you expect it to. The changes in riff work, groove and tempo is quite impeccable. And I am glad to hear there are no gay singing parts. Nor pointless and boring melodies. But, still the cliche, boring solos here and there. Doesn't spoil it though, so it's cool.
Every song starts differently, which is INSTANTLY a great sign. The music is great, but they are lucky the vocalist is competent, cause the amount of thrash bands that are totally spoilt by the weak vocals, so I must credit the vocals, though nothing outstanding.
Great scream on the title song and maybe one of my favourite songs of the LP.
Maybe there are certain parts to this CD I would speed up a bit, or make the changes faster, tighter etc.. But, all in all, not bad at all.
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One evening in July 2010, during the office of compline in a chapel hewn out of the rock at the monastery of Grand-Saint-Bernard (where the dogs were invented), 2,500 metres up in the Alps, a pilgrim heard a liquid, tick–tock sound accompanying the chant. Next morning he asked one of the monks if they had installed some kind of musical instrument. "Good heavens, no," he replied. "It's the ice melting and dripping through the rock surrounding us. It's our summer delight: in winter it all freezes and we don't hear it."
The pilgrim was Brian Mooney, and he was on the 40th day of his 76–day walk to Rome from Coggeshall in Essex. As he rightly remarks, the journey is very different from "the hullabaloo of the crowded Camino Francés" to Santiago in Spain. No one, to speak of, walks all the way to Rome. But Brian Mooney is no ordinary pilgrim. A Reuters correspondent for 30 years, he set off, a fit 60-year-old, on a well-planned route, but with no clear idea of what the pilgrimage would mean for him.
His narrative, A Long Way for a Pizza (Thorogood, £14), strongly conveys the day–byday accumulation of miles beneath the feet. His boots needed mending twice. His feet never blistered, but his back did, under the sun of an Italian summer. He followed the Via Francigena taken in the year 990 by Sigeric, Archbishop of Canterbury, who went to seek from the Pope his pallium, the scarf of office that metropolitans still wear.
He tells the tale with occasional references to Hilaire Belloc's The Path to Rome, which he does not make the mistake of attempting to emulate. (I remember in 1983 seeing off from Chelsea Belloc's greatgrandson, Louis Jebb, on his own path on foot to Rome, which he finished too, not without trouble.)
Indeed, Brian Mooney had never managed to finish Belloc's remarkable book before he trod his own 1,322 miles. Afterwards he came to see something more in the author, even if – unlike Belloc, to whom hearing Mass was part of the reality of the way, along with bread and coffee and sun and snow and song and boasting and endless draughts of wine – for him compline at the Great St Bernard pass was the only church service he attended.
I'm puzzled here by some of the untold story. He starts at the church of St Peter in Chains at his home town of Coggeshall and ends at San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. By chance, if chance it was, a copy of the Gospel according to St Luke was pressed upon him by a friend and made his daily morning reading. The author excels in not saying too much (or the tale of the long walk could have become tedious), and what would ordinarily (perhaps glibly) be described as his spiritual outlook is present only implicitly.
A telling detail comes when early one morning at Chapelle des Buis he opens a door to find Franciscan friars around a simple altar. "No one looked up. One smile, one gesture, and I would have stayed." It seems to me that he was seeking sympathy from men who were deeply engaged in their task, as if he expected a smile or gesture to him from a quartet playing late Beethoven. Perhaps I've got it all wrong. He is, in any case, right to tell it as he found it.
There is plenty of humour to go with the unstated physical fortitude of getting up each agonising dawn for two and a half months and finishing each day's allotted miles. In the church at Amettes he sees the kneecaps kept as relics of St Benoit–Joseph Labre, the champion 18th-century tramp-saint. His eye picks out from the frieze on the cathedral at Fidenza a group of medieval pilgrims, with one leading a horse on whose back improbably a leopard sits balanced. This image, drawn by his wife, the art historian Gail Turner, forms the jacket of the book. Brian Mooney brought back no leopard. What he acquired by travelling hopefully you may judge by reading his account.


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HTC today expanded its "HTC One M8" smartphone line beyond Android with the launch of "HTC One M8 for Windows," a release that packs Microsoft's third-place mobile OS into HTC's flagship device.
The device, which ships with Windows Phone 8.1 and costs $99, is set to launch online at noon ET today, CNET reports. It won't hit retail stores until tomorrow, and it's available exclusively on Verizon.
As with the original HTC One M8, the HTC One M8 for Windows features a 5-inch 1080p display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 quad-core 2.3GHz processor, 32GB of storage, HTC's "BoomSound speakers," HTC's "Duo Camera," and a 5 megapixel front-facing camera.
According to HTC America president Jason Mackenzie, today's release represents "the first time a smartphone manufacturer has launched an iconic device in multiple operating system without making any compromises."
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Re: Puzzle -----clearing up a few things and away until BB-south-----Mr. Wyatt Reformatted
Ahhhh,let us all send a quick mental thank you to our English teachers of old who we once thought were being tireless nags.
Inoseit- I wasn't aware that I had asked a question, but since the software guy was kind enough to sort your rambling into a few identifiable themes I might as well tackle a few.
For one thing allow me to suggest that very, very few people here are invested because of Oscar Wyatt's connection to the company. I believe that the vast majority of investors are here because they have the idea that someone else is doing their homework for them. There is a belief that there is safety in numbers. This may well be true in a dark alley at midnight in a dodgy part of town but it makes for a poor basis for investing a good portion of one's life savings.
Right now, an investment in CEN could just as easily be based on the notion that the trend is your friend. You can't tell me that "attention to every detail, angle, nuance, metric, and overall relationship of an investment to a given market within the larger market as a whole." is making such a difference to John Q Average's investment in this company. For one thing the poor human brain is only capable of meaningfully applying about 6 variables to an issue, beyond which we get bogged down in minutiae that impede the decision making process or that fill us with confidence that because we have absorbed so much information that we will surely reach the proper conclusions come decision time.
There are untold numbers of investing styles, but when it comes to investing in a company like CEN, all you really need to know could pretty much be gleaned from a very quick peek at the charts, news releases and, if you really need something to put you to sleep at night, the financials. All the big words on this BB (miocene, oligocene etc.) and all the pretty pictures of seismic are merely filler to 98% of the crowd here and serve only to give a sense of security that if x number of people have analysed this then it must be so.
But wait, some may say, we needed all this info to get in on the ground floor. Getting in on the ground floor usually means that you're one of the poor souls who endured years of dead money, or worse- quick climbs that just as quickly reversed themselves while you doggedly held following the BB mantra. Now, of course, those who were in on the ground floor have that moral superiority that makes others say, "Man I wish I had bought when this stock was at a dollar", but if you were putting your money to profitable use during that time, believe me, you didn't miss out on anything!
Now, you bring up some women brokers as though I may feel some slight for not being one of the "real men" - rest easy, not the case. But, I have no doubt that you are indeed broker thanks to the women in your life.
It remains to be seen whether the degree of information provided here will prevent anyone here from sticking with the stock if it should ever become a loser or whether the crowd will stick together in lemming like fashion.CEN is proving to be an excellent investment, but don't kid yourselves that this investment is any better because of the crowd of followers, the company would have done what it is doing in any case. Find a company with a nice trend line (there are stock filters for this) and keep a clear head.
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I am interested in writing for the best! I have worked extensively in the creative writing field, ranging in experience from over eighteen years of advertising and marketing writing, to playwriting and production, to acting and directing. In terms of ad writing and production, I've garnered experience at Zimmerman Partners Advertising, ranging from a year and a half as the manager of a team of writers and artists, to five+ years writing National and Regional ads for Nissan and Papa John's Pizza, as well as countless others, including work on Lennar Homes and Le Meridian hotels.
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Copywriting * Responsible for managing a team of copywriters: two in-house and a variety of freelance resources. * Mentored the copywriters, offering ways to elevate their craft, to work more efficiently, to activate their "intellectual toolboxes, " and to offer multiple creative options to the internal clients, usually consisting of a spectrum from "safe" to "risky." * Practiced a form of "Servant Leadership" with regards to the copywriters I managed. This means that I always offered insight and advice into how to succeed at new tasks, versus retaining that knowledge for myself. This, in turn, meant that each copywriter garnered new skills each project, without any resistance from myself, which resulted in copywriters able to handle more and more work, and a manager able to focus on branding, corporate concerns, and more. * Conveyed the message of the brand through a variety of materials: web, mobile device, print, and video. * Created both the overall umbrella brand voice and the supporting brands for cause/charity based initiatives at the company. * Reworked marketing strategy as it relates to messaging, moving the company from description/call-to-action forms of communication to a content/market-need/discover form of communication. * Entirely overhauled the creative process to encourage collaboration between the creative teams: digital, video, and traditional graphic design, going from an assembly line approach to a collaborative approach based on creative briefs. * Created "best strategy" templates for online and digital communication, including emails, webpages, email blasts, and more, in order to focus on marketing strategy and targeting, versus the prior "kitchen sink" approach. * Created the communication strategy and the copy for the 'Bloomberg BNA Custom Events' initiative, from the brochure to the website and all aspects in between. Encouraged the use of u...
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Content & Branding Specialist Creative Direction * Wrote and conceived a variety of materials across all platforms and verticals. * Clients include Vocus, Capella Hotels & Resorts, DreamHouse Studios, K. Hovnanian Homes, Orleans Homes, The Related Group, Grainger, The Shelton Group, NDG Communications, The Related Group, e-Site Marketing, Brookfield Homes, TV on Wall Street, V2 Electronic Cigarettes, Proof, Burson-Marseller, Dominion Energy, Fix The Debt, The Teaching Company/Great Courses, Georgetown University, PeerBelt Incorporated, Hinge Marketing and more. Highlights of the work include: * Case studies detailing the Vocus solution for website, public relations and general marketing usage. Involved interviewing clients, transcribing client testimony and presenting a compelling case study for the public. * Integrated e-mail campaigns for Vocus events and appearances at trade shows. These e-mail campaigns targeted specific audience groups with a series of e-mail messages designed for that particular cohort, and were written to fit together and create a cohesive messaging whole. * The overall brand voice for Capella Hotels and Resorts, using market data to differentiate the brand from others in the premium hospitality category. * All website copy for every Capella Hotel & Resort worldwide. Used the branding voice as a filter to determine effective copy. Advised external agencies as to print and brochure creative, in order to ensure brand consistency. * The website for Dreamhouse Studios, positioning the interior design firm as an "artisan design house, " using the ideal of creating tableaus with passion to drive the creative. Directed the visual look and feel of the website, driven by copy choices and the overall vision of the brand. * Brochure, website, advertisement and press release copy for a suite of real estate companies, both at the corporate branding level an...
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Advertising Ft. Senior Copywriter/Producer, Print Director * One of only four writers who worked on Nissan of North America nationwide. * Worked my way up the ranks of the organization, starting as a junior copywriter in their retail automotive department and leaving with national, award-winning advertising experience. * Collaborated with editors, directors and artists to produce a variety of campaigns, ranging across all tiers of marketing. Experienced with all aspects of creative work in advertising, from writing and creation to management of production. * Honed my ability to create within a set of "Brand Identity" limits. * Created large, multi-faceted "pitch books, " used to research and target creative work for client pitches. The effort paid off: the "pitch books" for Papa John's and for Six Flags resulted in our successful capture of that business opportunity. * Helped to create Zimmerman's first in-house brand: "Z-Motion." Worked with an editor to create a supporting video used for both lobby engagement and recruitment purposes. * Acted as division lead for Nissan during hurricanes. This responsibility included the setting up of an office at a remote location, the continued processing of the work from the new location, and nightly status sessions with the nationwide team. In one hurricane, this entailed setting up an office and working remotely with a team of four on all Nissan initiatives for nearly a month. * Former administrator of the Print Department, where I managed a team of five junior writers as they processed the quick order needs of hundreds of car dealerships in their weekly advertising push. * Writer and designer of radio, television, print, and internet advertising campaigns. * Clients include Nissan, Papa John's, Levitz, Six Flags, Lennar, Blue Dot and more.
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