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TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto's City Council voted overwhelmingly at a raucous meeting on Monday to strip embattled Mayor Rob Ford of more of his authority in a move Ford denounced as a coup d'etat while promising political foes election battle next year to rival the Gulf War.
Ford, who has been under fire for his drug use and drinking, as well as the way he has handled the accusations, vowed in an interview to give up alcohol and lose weight.
Earlier at a tumultuous City Council meeting, members voted to slash Ford's office budget and transfer some of his powers to Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly, among other limitations, by a vote of 36-5.
"This is a coup d'etat," Ford told council, denouncing the motion.
Ford intends to seek re-election next year and warned councilors that the campaign would rival the 1991 Gulf War.
"This, folks, reminds of when I was watching with my brother when Saddam (Hussein) attacked Kuwait. And President Bush said, 'I warn you, I warn you, do not (attack Kuwait).' Well, folks, if you think American-style politics is nasty, you guys have just attacked Kuwait."
On Friday, the council had suspended Ford's authority to dismiss the deputy mayor and the heads of council committees and removed his powers to act during emergencies.
Ford has admitted to smoking crack cocaine, buying illegal drugs and driving after drinking alcohol but has ignored calls to resign.
In an interview with CBC on Monday after the City Council action, Ford said he had not had a drop of alcohol in three weeks and vowed to stop drinking completely.
"Finished," he said when asked by host Peter Mansbridge about his drinking. "I've had a 'come to Jesus moment' if you want to call it that."
Ford also said he planned to lose 30 pounds within five months.
Monday's City Council meeting turned into a spectacle as Ford stalked around the meeting room, getting into an angry verbal exchange with gallery spectators, some of whom shouted "Shame! Shame!" at him. At one point, while running across the room, he collided with Councilor Pam McConnell, almost knocking her over. He later apologized.
Ford also mimed drinking and driving – apparently a jab at a councilor whose license was briefly suspended after a roadside breathalyzer test. A video clip spread quickly on social media.
The council had been looking for ways to neutralize Ford since he will not quit and the council cannot remove him or strip him of roles laid out in provincial law, such as representing the city at events.
"What we're doing is saying to our deputy mayor, please represent our city until 2014, because we trust you more than we trust the mayor," Councilor Karen Stintz told reporters before the vote. Stintz, once a Ford ally, now plans to run against him in the October 2014 election.
Ford's lawyer, George Rust-D'Eye, told Reuters ahead of Monday's vote that if the mayor cannot carry out roles mandated by provincial law because of the council's decisions, a court could intervene. He reiterated his position to reporters after the vote.
Ford, who told Fox News that he hopes to run for prime minister one day, recently admitted he has driven after consuming alcohol. And in 1999 he was arrested for impaired driving while on vacation in Florida and pleaded no contest.
The mayor's brother, Doug Ford, – who is also a city councilor, meanwhile, brought a motion that was later ruled out of order that would have called a snap mayoral election, something the mayor also has sought.
The revelations about Ford, which started in May when two media outlets said they had seen video of him smoking from what appeared to be a crack pipe, have thrust Toronto into the international spotlight.
A new television show featuring the mayor and his brother debuted on Monday evening on Canada's right-wing Sun News Network.
During the one-hour show, the mayor and his brother took recorded questions from viewers and defended his recent performance as mayor, but revealed nothing new about the scandal.
(Reporting by Allison Martell, additional reporting by Cameron French; Editing by Janet Guttsman, Jeffrey Benkoe, Peter Galloway, Bill Trott and Cynthia Osterman)
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The discomfort is mostly stemmed from the perceived sexual content, yes. I'm an extremely plot-driven writer and the sexual content comes last really. I realized there would be others that were different then I but I apparently didn't take to what extreme into account. My fault completely. The original intent was to have the main thread and then if people wanted interactions with others away from that thread then they were completely free to do so. The only stipulation was to let me know when one of these threads was created so I could link it to the main thread.
If we can put the main thread in Light - Small Groups - Exotic....can you put other secondary threads in other categories? I was always under the impression that if the main thread was someplace that all of them did.
Then again, this is my first foray into GMing here.I'm open to whatever arrangement you would be comfortable with. =-) I will pm you and we can chat.
Also, since I'm offering up being a co-GM, can I get a list of who all is playing who so I know what characters are gonna be around, please? All I really have straight is I'm playing the Cheshire Cat, I assume Aislinn is still playing Emma, Christa is Belle I believe, and beyond that I'm a little foggy. Possibly because it's almost 1am right now and things I read are blurring together. Lol
I can send you the info sheets I have in the morning...=-)
VonDoom, I rather like that idea, and I even have an idea what the price could have been.Aislinn, of course, has final say, but I have an idea for the game that might be fun.Rather than the fate of the town and its occupants resting solely on the shoulders of Emma, and Henry by connection, what if each character in the game has a particular 'task' related to their storyline that, collectively, breaks the curse? Well, everyone but the two who enacted it, anyhow.For example: I've already come up with the idea, with Christa, that Beast is going to mysteriously inherit a crumbling mansion in the woods, which he feels compelled to restore. Perhaps, the restoration is his task, since the mansion is the Earth equivalent of his castle in the Enchanted Forest.So, each character would then have a personal goal, and that goal leads to the over-all goal of breaking the curse, even though they are unaware of it. Rumple would know about those goals and their consequences, and Regina would probably catch wise at some point. I think it might make for a really interesting dynamic, and Emma can still be the pivotal piece of the puzzle, but the rest of the characters aren't just sort of...aimless.
Scars goal, toss mufasa off a cliff
Ruby on a leash, eh?
Flower, we should totally figure out what Beast did to get cursed. I was thinking maybe he was hunting and killed something she cared about, or was a jerk to her. I'm imagining that back before he was cursed, Beast was an arrogant, self-involved, entitled ass. Similar to the Disney story, except he would have been in his late teens to early twenties.
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Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah says it was "fair" to fine him $50,000 after being caught on camera yelling "F*ck you faggot" to a rowdy fan. Noah will not contest the fine, reports the Sun-Times.
"I made a mistake," Noah said. "I'll learn from it and move on."
Asked about receiving a lesser fine than the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant, who was fined $100,000 for making an anti-gay remark to a referee last month, Noah said that didn't matter to him one way or another. "I didn't really know what my fine would be," he said. "I was just ready to face the consequences and move on and get ready for this game. I don't want to be a distraction to this team."
The league says Bryant's fine was higher "because it included a sanction for verbally abusing" a game official. Bryant is contesting the $100,000 penalty.
The Joakim Noah incident happened on May 22, during Game 3 of the Bulls' 96-85 playoff defeat to the Miami Heat. Noah later apologized at a press conference. Ironically, the new anti-homophobia PSA that features Grant Hill and Jared Dudley was broadcast during half-time.
Joakim Noah is the son of former French-Cameroonian tennis legend Yannick Noah. In 2005 and 2006, the legendary tennis star and well-known playboy was gay-baited by tabloid media in Cameroon.
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Myths And Facts About The Conservative Media's Witch Hunt Against Susan Rice
Research ››› ››› CHELSEA RUDMAN & MELODY JOHNSON
Conservative media have been facilitating a witch hunt against U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, claiming that her public statements regarding the attack on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, were untruthful and misleading. In fact, Rice was using talking points that had been approved by the CIA, and she repeatedly emphasized that the information was preliminary.
What Informed Susan Rice's Comments On The Sunday Talk Shows Following The Benghazi Attack?
Why Did Rice Connect The Benghazi Attack To An Anti-Islam Video?
How Definitive Were Rice's Sunday Show Statements About What Happened In The Attack?
What Role Did Classified Information Play In The Talking Points Rice Used In Her Appearances?
Sept. 16: Susan Rice Appeared On Sunday Shows To Discuss Benghazi Attack
Rice Appeared On Sunday Shows To Give Current Assessment Of What Had Happened In Benghazi. On September 16, Rice appeared on five Sunday news shows, including CBS' Face the Nation, NBC's Meet the Press, and Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, and told hosts that an FBI investigation of the attacks was under way. She also reported that the intelligence community's best assessment of what had taken place was that a small number of extremists appeared to have taken advantage of a larger protest at the compound over an anti-Islam video made in the U.S. [Media Matters, 10/11/12]
MYTH: Rice Fabricated Her Statements As Part of An Obama Admin. Cover-Up
Fox's Krauthammer: Everything Rice Said "Was A Confection," An "Invention." On the October 10 edition of Fox News' Special Report, Fox contributor Charles Krauthammer claimed everything Rice had said in relation to the Libya attack "was a confection" and an "invention."
KRAUTHAMMER: So everything that Susan Rice said was a confection, it was an invention. And as you showed, it was repeated again and again. You had Hillary Clinton speaking about the video as the body of the ambassador was lying next to her. Then you had Susan Rice spinning the tails. You had the president of the United States addressing the General Assembly more than two weeks later talking about the video, the insult to Islam, et cetera. You have this entire story going all along.
They're trying to sell the video, they're trying to sell extremism and they're trying to sell all of this at the time when they know it isn't true. So that's number one. And that's a scandal and I think it has to do with the fact that they were spiking the football over the death of bin Laden and al-Qaeda a week earlier in Charlotte and this was a contradiction of it. [Fox News, Special Report with Bret Baier, 10/10/12, via Fox Nation]
WSJ's Rabinowitz: Rice's Appearance On Sunday Shows Was Part Of Obama Admin.'s Efforts To "Conceal, Falsify, And Tell Lies" About Benghazi. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote:
All administrations conceal, falsify and tell lies -- this is understood -- but there's no missing the distinctive quality of the prevaricating issuing from the White House in these four years.
It's a quality on vivid display now in the administration's mesmerizing narrative of the assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya. Here's a memorable picture, its detail brutally illuminating, of Obama and company in crisis mode over their conflicting stories about who knew what when. The resulting costs to truth-telling and sanity, or even the appearance thereof, are clear. Nor can we forget the strong element of farce -- think U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on those five Sunday talk shows, reciting with unflagging fervor that official talking point regarding mob violence and a YouTube video. Farce, but no one is laughing. [The Wall Street Journal, 10/21/12]
FACT: Rice's Comments Were Based On Information Provided By The Intelligence Community ...
Wash. Post's Ignatius: CIA Document Supported Rice's Description Of Attack As Reaction To Anti-Islam Video. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reported that the CIA confirmed that Rice's description of the Benghazi attack on the Sunday shows was accurate:
"Talking points" prepared by the CIA on Sept. 15, the same day that Rice taped three television appearances, support her description of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate as a reaction to Arab anger about an anti-Muslim video prepared in the United States. According to the CIA account, "The currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the U.S. Consulate and subsequently its annex. There are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations." [Washington Post, 10/19/12]
Wash. Post Editorial: "Ms. Rice's Comments" On Sunday Shows "Were Based On Talking Points Drawn Up By The Intelligence Community." A November 22 Washington Post editorial noted that Rice's comments on the Sunday shows "were based on talking points drawn up by the intelligence community":
[A]s congressional testimony has established, Ms. Rice's comments on several Sunday television talk shows on Sept. 16 were based on talking points drawn up by the intelligence community. She was acting as an administration spokeswoman; there was nothing either incompetent or deliberately misleading about the way she presented the information she was given.
Nor was her account of what happened as far off the mark as Republicans claim. Though investigations are not complete, what has emerged so far suggests that the attack was staged by local jihadists, not ordered by the al-Qaeda leadership in Pakistan. Officials believe that it was inspired in part by demonstrations that took place that day in Cairo. That is not so far from Ms. Rice's explanation that "this began as a spontaneous . . . response to what transpired in Cairo." [Washington Post, 11/22/12]
CIA Approved Rice's Final Talking Points. In an article describing changes made to the talking points Rice received, The New York Times stated that former CIA director David Petraeus and other senior agency leaders reportedly signed off on the final unclassified talking points given to Rice:
The issue took on added resonance after Republicans criticized the ambassador to the United Nations, Susan E. Rice, for suggesting on Sunday talk shows five days after the assault that the siege in Benghazi was a spontaneous protest rather than an opportunistic terrorist attack.
Democrats leapt to Ms. Rice's defense on Friday, saying she was simply following the unclassified talking points provided to her. "I really think Ambassador Rice is being treated unfairly," said Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat who leads the Intelligence Committee.
Senator Mark Udall, Democrat of Colorado, said that Mr. Petraeus explained to lawmakers that the final document was put in front of all the senior agency leaders, including Mr. Petraeus, and everyone signed off on it. [The New York Times, 11/16/12]
... And There Is No Evidence Of An Administration Cover-Up
Press Secretary Jay Carney On Sept. 12: Benghazi Attack "Is Under Investigation." The day after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that the violence was already "being investigated" and that "as we find out information that can be made available I'm sure we will." From Carney's statements:
CARNEY: It's too early for us to make that judgment [that Benghazi attacks were planned and premeditated]. I think -- I know that this is being investigated, and we're working with the Libyan government to investigate the incident. So I would not want to speculate on that at this time.
I want to be careful about making statements that are based on speculation about this incident and its causes. It's under investigation, obviously, and as we find out information that can be made available I'm sure we will. [Press gaggle, 9/12/12]
Director Of National Counterterrorism Center Testified At Senate Committee Hearing About The Attack. On September 19, director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matt Olsen informed lawmakers about information obtained in the investigation. [The Washington Post, 9/19/12]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: State Dept. Launched Independent Inquiry Into Consulate Attacks. On September 20, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the State Department was "opening a new inquiry into the attack" that would be "carried out by an independent four-member panel chaired by retired diplomat Thomas Pickering. [The Washington Post, 9/20/12]
Wash. Post Columnist Robert Kagan: Attacks On Rice Are Unfair Because There's No Persuasive Evidence That She Was Part Of A Cover Up. Washington Post columnist Robert Kagan asserted on November 16 that the attack on Rice "strikes me as unfair." He added: "I haven't seen persuasive evidence to support the theory that Rice's statements were part of a coverup to hide a terrorist attack":
[T]he idea that Rice should be disqualified because of statements she made on television in the days after the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, strikes me as unfair. It seems pretty clear now that she based her statements on information the CIA provided at the time. That information proved erroneous, and why the CIA was giving faulty information to senior administration officials remains unclear. I haven't seen persuasive evidence to support the theory that Rice's statements were part of a coverup to hide a terrorist attack. The fact that Rice was working from information provided by the CIA would seem to undercut such a theory. [The Washington Post, 11/16/12]
For more on the administration's investigations into the Benghazi attack, see here.
MYTH: Rice Had No Reason To Connect Benghazi Attack To Anti-Islam Video
Fox's Kilmeade: "Rice Was Making Believe That The Tape Was The Real Deal." On November 14, the co-hosts of Fox News' Fox & Friends discussed whether Susan Rice might replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Co-Host Brian Kilmeade said, "I think the Democrats have to feel like she's an embarrassment. She went out there and had her answer widely panned. Does the president really want to re-litigate this fight? And go back to the days when Susan Rice was making believe that the tape was the real deal?" [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 11/14/12]
Megyn Kelly Questioned Whether Rice Could Become Sec. Of State After She Linked Benghazi Attack To Video. America Live host Megyn Kelly said, "I think now all of our viewers know [Rice], because she's the one who went on all the Sunday talk shows and told us that everything that happened in Benghazi was linked to this video, which we now know was not the case. Can she possibly ascend into the Cabinet, into this position in the Cabinet, given that?" [Fox News, America Live, 11/13/12]
FACT: Rice Said Benghazi Attack Was A Response To Violent Protest At U.S. Embassy In Cairo ...
Rice On ABC: Attack Began As A "Response To What Had Transpired In Cairo": A Protest Over "This Very Offensive Video." On the ABC's This Week, Rice said that "our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous -- not a premeditated -- response to what had transpired in Cairo. In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated." [ABC News, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, 9/16/12]
Rice On CBS: Attack Began "As A Reaction To What Had Transpired Some Hours Earlier In Cairo." On CBS' Face the Nation, Rice said that "based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is as of the present is in fact what began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in Cairo where, of course, as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy sparked by this hateful video." [CBS News, Face the Nation, 9/16/12]
Rice On NBC: Attack Was "Initially A Spontaneous Reaction To What Had Just Transpired Hours Before In Cairo." On NBC's Meet the Press, Rice said that "the best information that we have available to us today our current assessment is that what happened in Benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in Cairo, almost a copycat of-- of the demonstrations against our facility in Cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video." [MSNBC, Meet the Press, 9/16/12]
Rice On Fox: "What Happened Initially Was That It Was A Spontaneous Reaction To What Had Just Transpired In Cairo." During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Rice said:
RICE: [T]he best information and the best assessment we have today is that in fact this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. That what happened initially was that it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo as a consequence of the video. People gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent and those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons, which unfortunately are quite common in post-revolutionary Libya and that then spun out of control. [Fox News, Fox News Sunday, 9/16/12]
... Nobody Disputes That Cairo Protest Was Caused By Anti-Islam Video ...
AP: Protesters Assaulted Cairo Embassy "To Protest A Movie Attacking Islam's Prophet, Muhammad." A September 11 Associated Press article reported that hundreds of Islamist protesters marched to the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that day and stormed the outer part of the facility. From the AP article, headlined "Mysterious Anti-Muslim Movie Prompts Protest in Egypt":
Ultraconservative Islamist protesters climbed the walls of the United States Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and took down the American flag, replacing it with a black flag with an Islamic inscription to protest a movie attacking Islam's prophet, Muhammad.
The protest was a result of outrage over a movie being promoted by an anti-Muslim Egyptian Christian campaigner in the United States, clips of which are available on YouTube and dubbed in Egyptian Arabic. The video depicts Muhammad as a fraud, and shows him having sex and calling for massacres. Muslims find it offensive to depict Muhammad at all, much less in an insulting way. [Associated Press, 9/11/12, emphasis added]
... And Video Reportedly Did Play A Role In Motivating Attackers In Benghazi
NY Times: "The Attackers" In Benghazi "Did Tell Bystanders That They Were Attacking The Compound Because They Were Angry About The Video." The New York Times reported that there is evidence to support the notion that the anti-Islam video motivated the attack:
What do eyewitnesses say about the events in Benghazi? Were they related to the insulting video, or is that a red herring? And was the assault planned for the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, or was it spontaneous?
According to reporting by David D. Kirkpatrick and Suliman Ali Zway of The New York Times, eyewitnesses have said there was no peaceful demonstration against the video outside the compound before the attack, though a crowd of Benghazi residents soon gathered, and some later looted the compound. But the attackers, recognized as members of a local militant group called Ansar al-Shariah, did tell bystanders that they were attacking the compound because they were angry about the video. They did not mention the Sept. 11 anniversary. Intelligence officials believe that planning for the attack probably began only a few hours before it took place. [The New York Times, 10/17/12, emphasis original]
NY Times: Attacks Were "Carried Out ... In Retaliation For An American-Made Video Mocking" Islam. A November 27 New York Times article said that parts of Rice's testimony were "wrong in some respects," but "accurate in others," specifically citing the video as a cause of the attack:
On-the-ground accounts indicate that Ms. Rice's description of the attack, though wrong in some respects, was accurate in others. Witnesses to the assault said it was carried out by members of the Ansar al-Shariah militant group, without any warning or protest, in retaliation for an American-made video mocking the Prophet Muhammad. [The New York Times, 11/27/12]
Wash. Post Editorial: News Organizations Quoted People At The Burning Consulate Saying They "Were Angry About The Video." A November 22 Washington Post editorial pointed out that several Western news organizations quoted people protesting outside the attacked Benghazi consulate saying that they were angry about the anti-Islam YouTube video:
Though investigations are not complete, what has emerged so far suggests that the attack was staged by local jihadists, not ordered by the al-Qaeda leadership in Pakistan. Officials believe that it was inspired in part by demonstrations that took place that day in Cairo. That is not so far from Ms. Rice's explanation that "this began as a spontaneous . . . response to what transpired in Cairo." Republicans claim that Ms. Rice "propagated a falsehood" that the attacks were connected to an anti-Islam YouTube video. How then to explain the contemporaneous reports from Western news organizations quoting people at the burning consulate saying that they were angry about the video? [The Washington Post, 11/22/12]
MYTH: Rice Prematurely Gave A Definitive Assessment Of The Attack
Mara Liasson: "Susan Rice Was So Definitive" In Her Statements On Benghazi Attack. On Fox News' Special Report, Fox News contributor and NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson claimed that Rice "was so definitive" about what had happened in Benghazi:
LIASSON: I think the most, kind of mystifying part of this is that Susan Rice was so definitive, and was so kind of out over the tips of her skis, as they say, on the Sunday talk shows. Why not say, then, "We are doing an investigation to find out what happened," instead of saying definitively this was a spontaneous protest that in some cases got hijacked? I mean that's caused more trouble for them than the attack itself I believe. [Fox News, Special Report with Bret Baier, 10/10/12]
Fox's Laura Ingraham: Why Didn't Rice Just Say There Is "An Ongoing Investigation, And I'm Really Not Going To Say Anything More"? On the September 16 edition of Fox News Sunday, Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham asked why Rice had not just said that there is "an ongoing investigation, and I'm really not going to say anything more. We're going to learn more." [Fox Broadcasting Co., Fox News Sunday, 9/30/12]
FACT: During Sunday Shows, Rice Repeatedly Emphasized Ongoing Investigations And Cautioned Against Jumping To Conclusions
Rice: "There's An FBI Investigation That Has Begun ... That Will Tell Us With Certainty What Transpired." On the September 16 edition of ABC's This Week, Rice told guest host Jake Tapper that an FBI investigation was under way and relayed the administration's "current best assessment" based on the information available at the time:
RICE: Well, Jake, first of all, it's important to know that there's an FBI investigation that has begun and will take some time to be completed. That will tell us with certainty what transpired.
But our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous -- not a premeditated -- response to what had transpired in Cairo. In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated.
We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to the embassy to -- or to the consulate, rather, to replicate the sort of challenge that was posed in Cairo. And then as that unfolded, it seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons, weapons that as you know in -- in the wake of the revolution in Libya are -- are quite common and accessible. And it then evolved from there.
We'll wait to see exactly what the investigation finally confirms, but that's the best information we have at present. [ABC News, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, 9/16/12]
Rice: "We'll Want To See The Results Of That Investigation To Draw Any Definitive Conclusions." On the September 16 edition of CBS' Face the Nation, Rice repeatedly stressed to host Bob Schieffer that the United States was conducting an investigation of the attack and that "we'll want to see the results of that investigation to draw any definitive conclusions":
RICE: Bob, let me tell you what we understand to be the assessment at present. First of all, very importantly, as you discussed with the President, there is an investigation that the United States government will launch led by the FBI, that has begun and --
SCHIEFFER: But they are not there.
RICE: They are not on the ground yet, but they have already begun looking at all sorts of evidence of -- of various sorts already available to them and to us. And they will get on the ground and continue the investigation. So we'll want to see the results of that investigation to draw any definitive conclusions. But based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is as of the present is in fact what began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in Cairo where, of course, as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy--
SCHIEFFER: Mm-Hm.
RICE: -- sparked by this hateful video. But soon after that spontaneous protest began outside of our consulate in Benghazi, we believe that it looks like extremist elements, individuals, joined in that -- in that effort with heavy weapons of the sort that are, unfortunately, readily now available in Libya post-revolution. And that it spun from there into something much, much more violent. [CBS News, Face the Nation, 9/16/12]
Rice: "Investigation, Which Is Ongoing," Will Give Us "The Definitive Word As To What Transpired." On the September 16 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, Rice reiterated that an investigation into the Benghazi attack was ongoing and that the administration would "look to that investigation to give us the definitive word as to what transpired." [MSNBC, Meet the Press, 9/16/12]
Rice: "Obviously, We Will Wait For The Results Of The Investigation And We Don't Want To Jump To Conclusions Before Then." On the September 16 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, Rice noted that the FBI was investigating the attacks "closely" and stated that "we don't want to jump to conclusions before then." [Fox Broadcasting Co., Fox News Sunday, 9/16/12]
MYTH: Rice Should Have Called The Attack Terrorism Because She Saw Classified Intel Suggesting Possible Al Qaeda Involvement
Fox's Kilmeade And Doocy Suggested Rice Shouldn't Have Relied On Unclassified Talking Points In Public Appearances. On the November 27 broadcast of Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade talked about three Republican senators' upcoming meeting with Rice and criticized her for using unclassified talking points in public appearances. Co-host Steve Doocy also said, "Keep in mind ... she also had access to the classified information":
KILMEADE: I think they're saying this. We know -- if you say you got those talking points, fine. But what kind of secretary -- potential secretary of state would take a -- unclassified talking points, take them as gospel, and go, "These are where we stand." And say you got the intel community, this is what the intel community gave you, when a week ago, we heard from the former CIA director who said, "I thought it was Al Qaeda within 24 hours. I wrote it down there."
DOOCY: Right.
KILMEADE: "Someone edited it out." The national intelligence director said, "I never touched it." And then he said, "Oh those? I touched it." Essentially, politics enters into the fray. So if she goes out there and says, "Yeah, I went by this paper." Well, what kind of secretary of state goes by this paper and doesn't use all her plethora of contacts to find out what the real story is?
DOOCY: Exactly. And keep in mind, she -- in addition to the unclassified talking points, she also had access to the classified information, so she knew what really was happening. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 11/27/12]
Fox's Herridge: "It Seems Clear Ambassador Rice Could Not Adequately Explain Her Statements About Benghazi." Following Rice's meeting with Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Fox News' Catherine Herridge said that "it seems clear Ambassador Rice could not adequately explain her statements about Benghazi given that she had access to both classified and unclassified information." [Fox News, Happening Now, 11/27/12]
FACT: References To Al Qaeda Were Removed To Protect National Security ...
NY Times: Petraeus Told Lawmakers References To Specific Terrorist Groups Were Removed From Unclassified Talking Points For Security Reasons. The New York Times reported that in his November 16 congressional testimony, former CIA director David Petraeus told lawmakers that the names of terrorist groups suspected in the Benghazi attack "were removed from the public explanation of the attack immediately after the assault to avoiding alerting the militants that American intelligence and law enforcement agencies were tracking them." From the Times:
David H. Petraeus, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told lawmakers on Friday that classified intelligence reports revealed that the deadly assault on the American diplomatic mission in Libya was a terrorist attack, but that the administration refrained from saying it suspected that the perpetrators of the attack were Al Qaeda affiliates and sympathizers to avoid tipping off the groups.
Mr. Petraeus, who resigned last week after admitting to an extramarital affair, said the names of groups suspected in the attack -- including Al Qaeda's franchise in North Africa and a local Libyan group, Ansar al-Shariah -- were removed from the public explanation of the attack immediately after the assault to avoiding alerting the militants that American intelligence and law enforcement agencies were tracking them, lawmakers said.
The article also noted that Petraeus reportedly said that after the references to the specific terrorist groups were removed and replaced with the less specific word "extremists," "the final document was put in front of all the senior agency leaders, including Mr. Petraeus, and everyone signed off on it." [The New York Times, 11/16/12]
... And Conservative Media Have Previously Attacked The Obama Admin. For Allegedly Leaking Classified Intel
Fox Skipped Investigations To Declare Obama Admin. Guilty Of Leaking Classified Information. Conservative media hyped accusations that the administration gave classified information to filmmakers, even though the group that released the initial documents given to the filmmakers made no such claim. Similarly, Fox News figures declared the Obama administration guilty of leaking classified national security information to the media, despite the fact that investigations into the allegations had just begun. [Media Matters, 5/24/12, 6/9/12]
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May 4, 2012
Police and court records reveal that three of the five suspects entrapped and arrested by the FBI in a supposed plot to blow up a bridge in Ohio suffer from mental health problems, according to a report posted today by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Three of the five "anarchists" arrested by the FBI suffer from mental health issues.
One of the suspects, Brandon Baxter, was talked out of committing suicide in February. A week later he joined the plot arranged by an FBI informant.
"Really, from everything I know, this is not something Brandon would think up on his own," said John Pyle, an attorney representing the disturbed 20 year old.
Pyle has questioned the role of an FBI "Confidential Human Source" in the case. "We need to … put the case under a microscope," Pyle told the Los Angeles Times. "But just on the basis on the filing in the court, there's some indicators that this informant was playing a really active role."
Baxter's lawyer revealed the identity of the "informer" who acted as a provocateur. Shaquille Azir is a convicted felon accused of passing bad checks. He has worked for the FBI since July of last year. It was Azir who arranged the purchase of inert C-4 explosive from an undercover FBI agent and also fronted money to buy the material the mentally disturbed "anarchists" believed was real explosive.
"The FBI source – who has been paid '$5750 for services and $550 for expenses' – has prior convictions for cocaine possession (1990), robbery (1991), and four convictions for passing bad checks between 1991 and 2011, according to the bombing complaint. No mention is made, however, of Azir's two pending criminal cases," reports The Smoking Gun.
Azir, aka Kelvin Jackson, has a lengthy criminal record that also includes grand theft, tampering with records, and aggravated theft.
"The FBI is not choosy about the people it uses. Some have criminal records, including attempted murder or drug dealing or fraud. They are often paid six-figure sums, which critics say creates a motivation to entrap targets. Some are motivated by the promise of debts forgiven or immigration violations wiped clean. There has also been a relaxing of rules on what criteria the FBI needs to launch an investigation," writes Paul Harris for the Guardian.
Since September 11, 2001, the FBI has built a huge network of informants. Many of them are convicted criminals. The agency maintains a roster of 15,000 spies, Trevor Aaronson wrote for Mother Jones last year. For every informant officially listed, Aaronson notes, the agency has as many as three unofficial ones, according to an FBI official.
The current network rivals COINTELPRO, the agency's illegal surveillance and political neutralization operation that allegedly ended in the 1970s but in fact continues today. As Brian Glick and others have documented, covert action against political enemies is a permanent feature of the federal government.
The FBI and the federal government seek out the mentally ill and other deluded souls who are easily tricked into engaging in illegal behavior. This is done because the domestic terrorist threat is virtually nonexistent in America. It is a transparent chimera engineered by the government to provide a pretext to attack legitimate and constitutionally protected activity and characterize it with the help of the establishment media as terrorism.
In fact, the FBI and the feds – with the help of the corporate media – pose a far more serious threat to America than any number of mentally ill "anarchists" or Muslims.
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Braselton Mayor Pat Graham won't run for re-election this fall and instead seek the Georgia State Senate seat currently held by Sen. Ralph Hudgens. Hudgens will be running for Georgia Insurance Commissioner, thus opening up the Senate District 47 seat.
Graham, a Republican, said her campaign would be based on "conservative principles."
"Over the last eight years, we have relied on conservative principles and worked to transform Braselton into a recognized City of Excellence," she said. "We have never raised taxes and yet the city is in solid financial shape. I'll rely on those same conservative principles and management experience to help prevent any tax increase and make state government more efficient."
Graham has had a high-profile in the state while serving as Braselton's mayor and was profiled in a Georgia Trend magazine cover story this year.
She serves on the State Water Council as a member of the Upper Oconee Board. Her peers across Georgia have recognized her by electing her to the Board of Directors of the Georgia Municipal Association and she also serves as Chair of the Municipal Government Legislative Policy Committee for GMA.
Graham also represents the cities of Barrow County on the Board of the Northeast Georgia Regional Development Center and she serves on the Boards of Directors for the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and the Barrow County Chamber of Commerce.
Elections for Braselton mayor will be in November and Graham said she's making her announcement now so that others can consider the open mayor's seat. In the last election, Graham was re-elected with over 70 percent of the vote.
"I chose to make this announcement at this time for dual reasons – to allow residents of Braselton ample time to consider the municipal elections this November and to show citizens of the 47th Senate District my commitment to a positive, issue-focused campaign during the upcoming year," she said.
District 47 is made up of all of Barrow, Madison and Oglethorpe counties, as well as a large part of Jackson County and smaller areas of Elbert and Clarke counties.
The Republican Primary for the Senate race will be July 13, 2010.
Graham to run for state Senate seat; move to open up Braselton mayor's slot
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The Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index both closed at 2016 highs Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen pulled stocks out of an early slump
U.S. stocks gave up early gains Thursday as investors digested an array of fresh stimulus measures from the European Central Bank designed to combat weak growth and low inflation but
Wall Street appears to have regained its mojo, with stocks in one month going from the brink of a bear market to their highest point this year. But that's not
Shares of Allergan (AGN), the pending merger partner of U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, rose Monday after the Ireland-based company reported fourth-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street forecasts. The company's stock
It's no surprise energy stocks are in a world of hurt — that's what happens when oil is this cheap. But seeing bank stocks fall apart is the latest chapter
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen signaled this past week the central bank will be reluctant to raise interest rates next month if global economic troubles and the punishing slide in
Volatility continues to rule on Wall Street as stocks bounce around in choppy trading Tuesday amid oil weakness and global stock turmoil that saw Japanese shares fall more than 5%
Stocks dove sharply into negative territory after the Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it has not ruled out another interest rate hike at its March meeting despite noting that it
A record number of punishments were levied against bad brokers in 2015 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), the brokerage industry's personal regulator. In 2015, 492 brokers were barred
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Californian alternative rockers CAKE returned with their first studio album in seven years in January. To celebrate, the band will be performing Live On Letterman on June 28th from the Ed Sullivan Theater.
CAKE were founded in 1991 and have enjoyed various successes throughout their career. Last.fm Trends look at their scrobbles ahead of their performance on Letterman.
Classic CAKE material is still seeing a lot of activity at the moment. "The Distance" was listened to by 3,299 listeners last week, taking its total scrobble count to 1,474,504. Released in 1996 on the band's second album Fashion Nugget, the song nailed over 1,000 more listeners last week than the second most listened to track, "I Will Survive".
Compared to that Showroom of Compassion, released January 11th, hasn't made a huge impact on CAKE's charts. Last week, "Long Time" was the highest placed CAKE track from the new album, coming in at #17 with 963 listeners. The lead single "Sick of You" nipped in at #25 with 797 listeners.
Of course, the band haven't been totally absent since 2004's Pressure Chief. 2007 saw the release B-Sides and Rarities which has been scrobbled 767,063 times, a fair way off CAKE's most popular release Fashion Nugget, scrobbled 8,239,804 times.
Make sure you tune into Live on Letterman on Tuesday June 28th to catch the live CAKE performance. In the meantime, make sure to check back with Last.fm Trends every weekday for all the latest scrobble news.


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The Amarillo Bulls lost a tough one Friday when Topeka made a second-period goal hold up the rest of the game in NAHL South Division action at the Kansas Expo Center.
The RoadRunners won, 1-0.
Topeka scored at the 4:14 mark of the second period on a Sean Gaffney shorthanded effort on an assist from Brandon Brossoit.
Topeka goalie Spencer Viele stopped all 22 shots he faced to produce the shutout and hand the Bulls just their fifth loss in 39 games this year.
Amarillo goalie Paul Berrafto was also outstanding stopping 16 of the 17 goal he faced.
Topeka moved to 25-10-5 and with 55 points. Amarillo dropped to 28-5-6 and 62 points.
With Texas (31-10-1) beating Wichita falls 3-2 Friday it moved ahead of Amarillo by a point in the South Division.
Amarillo returns to action at 7:05 p.m. Saturday at Topeka.


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A week or so ago I received a bracelet from Westminster Studio, shown below.
Before even putting it on it was remarkable. The colors were striking, all the pearl drop pieces just have a glow to them that makes the silver loops they are held by stand out that much more. The pearl drops came in pink, brown, and a 'somewhat' off white. The blend of the colors work perfectly. Even the end of the clasp clears with a small white/pink pearl, to bring the whole bracelet together. I love this bracelet because it looks clean, it doesn't come off gaudy or take over an outfit. It can be paired easily with anything from jeans and a tank-top to a simple sundress. The bracelet fits nicely, it comes with numerous loops to hook so you can change the size around your wrist. I like Westminster Studio's because every piece has that same clean simple look as the bracelet I received.
Here is some information about Jennifer, the creator of Westminster Stuido;
"I'm an art teacher in Arizona and I had worked at an Alternative High School for over a decade and loved the kids there. We were a place for teen parents, kids who live on their own, kids with chronic disease whos medical conditions made it difficult for them to attend regular school, etc. Our state (already 50th in the nation for school funding) made more drastic cuts to education that resulted in many of my coworkers getting laid off, my having to take a pay cut, and our entire school getting closed down with no place for the kids to go. It was so incredibly sad.
Every day I'd go in to work and do what I could to council the kids about the transition they were about to make and try to talk them out of dropping out of school altogether. The days were stressful and emotionally taxing. At the end of the day I needed to do something positive to both unwind and lift my spirits. After spending a day passing out kleenex to students in tears because their school was closing and they had nowhere to go I wanted some positive space that wasn't sad or depressing. So I started making jewelry, first just for myself. I'd make a new piece each night and wear it to work in the morning. I tried to make jewelry that felt uplifting, to keep my spirits up a bit during a difficult time. My coworkers and students started to compliment and ask about the pieces I was wearing and I started giving some away as gifts and then eventually people I worked with began asking if I would be willing to sell some and then through word of mouth I started creating pieces by request for their friends and family members.
I found that I really enjoyed making jewelry and loved when people would come back and tell me about compliments they had gotten while wearing something I made. It made me feel great and I loved the creative outlet. As an art teacher, I helped others create art all day, but didn't get a chance to make any myself. But now, in the evenings, I make jewelry and even though I've moved on and work at a different school it still lifts my spirits to spend time creating something beautiful."
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No. 9 Gamecocks Dealing with High Expectations
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier has successfully handled high expectations for most of his college career. He knows his ninth-ranked Gamecocks will have to quickly learn the same lesson.
Excitement among South Carolina fans is at an all-time high after last season's 11-2 season, the most victories the program's ever produced. To achieve their goals in the Southeastern Conference, the Gamecocks have to stay focused.
The Gamecocks were picked in the preseason top 10 for the first time, the school announced a record membership for its athletic booster group and talk of SEC titles and more fills local airwaves.
Spurrier said Monday the Gamecocks have set their goals to go beyond last year's showing. The run at the top starts Thursday night when South Carolina opens the season at Vanderbilt.


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Hubble Sees 'Comet Galaxy' Being Ripped Apart By Galaxy Cluster
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with several other ground- and space- based telescopes, has captured a galaxy being ripped apart by a galaxy cluster's gravitational field and harsh environment.
The finding sheds light on the mysterious process by which gas-rich spiral-shaped galaxies might evolve into gas-poor irregular- or elliptical-shaped galaxies over billions of years. The new observations also reveal one mechanism for forming the millions of "homeless" stars seen scattered throughout galaxy clusters.
There are many galaxies of different shapes and sizes around us today. Roughly half are gas-poor elliptical-shaped galaxies with little new star formation activity, and half are gas- rich spiral and irregular galaxies with high star formation activity. Observations have shown that gas-poor galaxies are most often found near the centers of crowded galaxy clusters, whereas spirals spend most of their lifetimes in less crowded circumstances.
But deep observations of the universe show that when the universe was half its present age, only one in five galaxies was a gas-poor object. So where do all of today's gas-poor galaxies come from? Scientists suspect that some kind of transformative process must have taken place, but because galaxy evolution occurs over billions of years, they previously have not been able to see this transformation at work.
The new Hubble observations, made by an international team of astronomers led by Luca Cortese of Cardiff University, United Kingdom, provide one of the best examples to date of this metamorphosis. While looking at galaxy cluster Abell 2667, astronomers found an odd- looking spiral galaxy (shown in the upper left hand corner of the image) that plows through the cluster after being accelerated to at least 3.5 million km/h by the enormous combined gravity of the cluster's dark matter, hot gas and hundreds of galaxies. As it speeds through, it rams into the hot gas that permeates the cluster. Its gas and stars are pulled away by the gravitational tidal forces exerted by the cluster, just as the forces exerted by our moon and sun pull the Earth's oceans.
The unique galaxy is situated 3.2 billion light-years from the Earth. It has an extended stream of bright blue knots and diffuse wisps of young stars whose formation and evolution have been driven by both the cluster's tidal forces and a mechanism called "ram pressure stripping." Abell 2667's hot gas is composed of charged particles with a temperature of 10-100 million degrees. During the ram pressure stripping process, the charged particles strip and push away the infalling galaxy's gas, just as the solar wind of charged particles pushes ionized gas away from a comet to create a gas tail. For this reason the scientists have nicknamed the stretched spiral the "comet galaxy."
In the midst of the destruction a baby-boom of star formation in the center of the infalling galaxy has been triggered by the tidal effect of the cluster's gravity. Millions of stars have been ripped from their host galaxy. The spiral galaxy will inevitably lose all its gas and dust in the collision, and become a gas-poor galaxy with an old population of red stars.
Scientists estimate that the total duration of the transformation process is close to one billion years. What is seen now in the Hubble image is not yet half-way through the transformation (i.e. roughly 200 million years).
The strong gravitational pull exerted by the galaxy cluster's collective mass has bent the light of other, more distant galaxies and distorted their shapes - an effect called gravitational lensing. The giant bright banana-shaped arc seen just to the right of the center in the photo corresponds to the magnified and distorted image of a distant galaxy that lies behind the cluster's core.
The Hubble image was taken by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in October 2001 and is a composite of three observations through blue, green, and near-infrared filters.
The astronomers combined the Hubble observations with various ground- and space-based telescopes: the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and the twin Keck Telescopes in Hawaii.
The Very Large Telescope was used for optical spectroscopy and near-infrared photometry. Spitzer Space Telescope provided mid-infrared photometry. The Chandra X-Ray Observatory took X-ray observations, and the twin Keck Telescopes were used for optical spectroscopy. Optical spectroscopy is used to measure the temperature, composition, and radial motion of stars and galaxies. Infrared photometry measures the brightness, and any change in brightness, of an object glowing at infrared wavelengths.
These results were published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by L. Cortese (Cardiff University), D. Marcillac (Steward Observatory), J. Richard (California Institute of Technology), H. Bravo-Alfaro (Universidad de Guanajuato), J.-P. Kneib (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille), G. Rieke (Steward Observatory), G. Covone (Osservatorio de Capodimonte), E. Egami (Steward Observatory), J. Rigby (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington), O. Czoske (Bonn University), and J. Davies (Cardiff University).
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Vicks Vaporub Works as Treatment for Foot Fungus in HIV-Infected Individuals, Study Finds
Vicks VapoRub may be a cheap, effective and safe topical treatment for foot fungus (also known as onychomycosis) among people living with HIV, according to results from a pilot study presented at ID Week 2012.
Onychomycosis is common in both the general population (affecting about 6% to 8%) and among those living with HIV. Studies have shown about 15% to 40% prevalence in people living with HIV, but data is limited, according to study author Mariea Snell, M.S.N. "Infection is associated with more advanced immunodeficiency and usually presents as proximal onychomycosis, which is often harder to diagnose and treat than other forms of this disease," Snell told TheBodyPRO.com.
Snell, from BJK People's Health Center and Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and colleagues followed 20 patients with toenail fungus for 48 weeks, with patient visits every 12 weeks. The patients were 90% male and 55% African American, with an average age of 46 years. Ninety-five percent were on antiretroviral therapy, with 60% having a viral load below 50 copies/mL. The median CD4 count was 399 cells/mL.
None of the patients involved in the study had previously used an antifungal therapy to treat their onychomycosis. "Antifungal therapies are the mainstay of treatment and can be administered topically or orally," Snell said. "Topical treatment is not as efficacious as oral therapy but both are associated with high rates of treatment failure and relapse. At present, oral terbinafine is the first line treatment for onychomycosis, but the drug interactions with many antiretrovirals and liver toxicities made it not an option for these patients."
The participants self-treated by topically applying Vicks VapoRub to affected toenails for a maximum of 24 weeks. At each visit, a digital photograph of the affected toenail was taken and a clinical assessment was made. For the first two visits, treatment adherence and tolerability were determined. (Non-adherence was defined as missing more than 20% of topical applications in any 12-week period.)
To measure the change in fungus, the most affected nail was overlaid with transparent film and the affected area was outlined. The outline was transferred to a template, which was then divided into eight segments, each covering 12.5% of the area. The total percentage of affected segments was recorded. Nail clearance was calculated as the median percentage cleared in total affected nail segments from baseline to week 24.
After 24 weeks, 15 of the 18 participants for whom complete data were available had seen clearing of their most affected nail, with a median clearance of 25%. Two of these participants had total resolution of their infection. Two of the three participants with no nail clearing were non-adherent. A total of 21 jars of Vicks VapoRub were used, each costing $5.38.
After 48 weeks, eight of the 15 participants seen had stable or improved clearance of their most affected nail. The treatment was well tolerated, with no side effects reported. Quality of life had improved, with fewer participants reporting that they felt embarrassed by their nails or felt discomfort/pain when wearing shoes.
The inspiration for conducting this study came about due to a series of coincidences, Snell recalls. "I have a friend that works for a podiatry practice, and we called them to help us with a patient that had suffered from this for many years," she said. "It became a very emotional issue for him, and he was desperate to have this treated. When we consulted with them for a treatment option, they told us that no studies had been done to support VapoRub, but they had patients tell them that it works. We thought it would be worth a try."
Because the treatment of onychomycosis is difficult overall, with limited and costly options, these early findings suggest that Vicks VapoRub could prove to be a cheaper, safer and more effective alternative. The researchers noted that topical application of the product for more than 24 weeks may be required for full nail clearance. Snell plans to do another study with a larger sample size, an added control group and increased treatment duration.


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With the new year comes good news for the people who buy water from Gastonia. The city is holding your rate.
For the first time in three years, you won�t be paying more for water.
The plan to keep raising rates for water and sewer took a turn for the better when City Hall staff examined the amount of money coming in since Cramerton signed up to buy water from Gastonia.
The merger resulted not only in dropping the planned rate increase for Gastonia customers but also has meant lower rates for Cramerton water customers.
In short, people in both municipalities benefited from the cities working together.
As businesses have learned during the recession, there are almost always economies of scale to be found if you just take a look.
In good economic times, there�s less incentive to find cheaper ways to operate. Come lean times � or crises � that�s when the rocks get turned over to find savings that existed all along.
It�s a good exercise to apply to other areas where local governments might benefit taxpayers by working together to provide improved service, often at lower costs.
In Gaston County, Cramerton provides an example of the good that can come from putting turfdom aside and capitalizing on cooperation.
When McAdenville examined its need for an independent police department, Cramerton officials worked with their neighbor to provide the safety and protection for Christmas Town USA�s residents. The arrangement continues to work to the satisfaction of both.
When the tables were turned and Cramerton had a need � water � it found a cost-saving source by working cooperatively with Gastonia.
Flip Bombardier, Gastonia�s assistant city manager, calls the agreement between the two municipalities a �win-win for both Gastonia and Cramerton.�
He�s right.
Municipalities across Gaston County would do well follow suit and look for more ways where synergy can benefit the people who foot the bill for government.


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Author Notes: After checking out this week's contest every day, I noticed that no one posted a recipe for granita and decided to make one myself.
Usually I like to use fresh fruit or berries in granitas, but since I didn't have any, I used a can of pineapple chunks and added orange tea, candied orange peel, honey, cinnamon, and vanilla to enhance the flavor. The addition of yogurt makes this granita smooth and creamy.
This granita makes a wonderful smoothie or a float. —Kukla
Serves: 8 to 10
• 1 28oz can Sweet Pineapple Chunks in 100% pineapple juice (drained)
• 1/2 cup Clover Honey
• 2 bags Orange Pekoe Tea steeped in 3/4 cup hot boiled water
• 2 medium size cinnamon sticks
• 1 teaspoon high quality vanilla extract or half vanilla bean
• 1 cup Greek Style whole milk plain yogurt (strained)
• 1 lemon juiced
• 1/2 cup candied orange peel (diced)
In This Recipe
- Pour accumulated pineapple juice (about 1 3/4cups), the steeped orange tea, honey and cinnamon sticks to a medium sauce pan.
- Stir while bringing to a boil, then reduce heat to low and let simmer for about 10-15 minutes. Turn off heat, cover with a lid and allow the flavors to concentrate for another 15-20 minutes. Uncover, discard cinnamon sticks and set aside to cool.
- Meanwhile, in a blender, puree pineapple chunks, add lemon juice, vanilla and yogurt, and blend until combined and smooth.
- Add the cooled syrup, blend one more time, and pour the mixture into a roasting pan or glass baking dish. The dish should be large enough so the liquid is not more than 1-inch deep.
- Freeze the mixture for 2 hours. Remove from the freezer and scrape with 2 forks to break up ice and add the diced candied orange peel. Return to the freezer and freeze until solid, about 4 hours, scraping with forks every hour or so.
- When the granita is frozen, scoop it into chilled glass bowls and serve immediately.
- For the smoothie; blend 2 scoops of granita with 1 cup of cold milk. For the float; top 2 scoops of granita with any soda of your choice (I like Gingerale or orange).
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Monica Alfred has been named Community Outreach and Education Director (COED) for Iris Domestic Violence Center. Iris created the COED position to emphasize a more concentrated focus on "preventing" domestic abuse and relationship violence in 2018 as opposed to serving survivors. Ms. Alfred, as COED, will be providing public information presentations about domestic abuse as well as concentrated training exercises to individuals and organizations seeking to learn about the dangers of domestic abuse. While Iris will continue to serve the victims of domestic violence and strive to provide the support needed to empower those who are already victims and seeking assistance, we believe the fight to end domestic abuse requires that we expand our efforts to provide more public information about the problems and dynamics of domestic violence and the services available through Iris.
Iris will make educating the public on the problems of domestic abuse a greater priority in 2018. It is our hope to inform indivduals about the dangers of domestic violence before they become victims. Presentations on the signs of domestic violence, what you should look for, how to respond to a friend, family member or coworker who you suspect is being abused and what services and assistance are available, can be of great help in preventing a further increase in the number of victims. The prevention of domestic abuse and relationship violence can only be achieved if people know what it is - how to spot it - how it can arise in your life - and what you can do to prevent it from claiming additional victims.
Since initiating the program, presentations have been made by Ms. Alfred and Iris Executive Director John J. Price to the freshman and sophomore class at Southern University, instructors with the LSU Dept. of Agriculture and to staff social workers at Woman's Hospital. Presentations have also been made to the Professional Insurance Agents of Baton Rouge and health fairs at both MckInley High School and Woodlawn High School. In April, a more extensive training on the nature of domestic violence and the role of mental health professionals is scheduled at Capital Area Human Services.
It is anticipated that the public, folliwing the roll out of our new Iris website in May, will be able to view a sample of the training presentations being offered, select which one(s) that they are interested in seeing and schedule the event and date directly online by simply following a menu offering of the selected programs.
Programs and trainings will be made available by Iris on a variety of topics ranging from a basic "DV 101" presentation to more individualized programs tailored to meet a specific situation or topic about which a group may be interested. For more information on our outreach program, please contact Monica Alfred at 389-3002 or email her at email@example.com.
Jane Schoen has been appointed Director of Development for Iris Domestic Violence Center. Ms. Schoen, who joined Iris last year, is working to coordinate both the Donor and Volunteer groups at Iris. Ms. Schoen helped manage the recent Iris Adopt a Family Christmas program this past holiday season which was an overwhelming success as a total of 48 families were adopted and received Christmas gifts and presents through the generosity of our community.
Under Ms. Schoen's leadership, Iris is busy working to better organize and coordinate the donor giving program in 2018. The donations received by the Iris safe house shelter during the Christmas holidays were particularly special and came from the many generous followers of Iris who support our programs and the work we do in the fight against domestic abuse. Those same donations are badly needed by Iris throughout the entire year and having a development director will go a long way to ensure that we are doing all we can to assist those wishing to make a donation to Iris and make the process simple and user friendly. In addition to maintaining the indivdiual donor base for Iris, as Director of Development, Ms. Schoen will also establish relationships with local businesses, groups and organizations as part of a corporate giving program. Jane will be a wonderful asset for Iris for years to come.
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FOX44: Vigil highlights new laws against domestic violence
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Dozens gather at Capitol for domestic violence vigil
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