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Who doesn't remember his or her first trip to the circus? The magical performances under the big top, scent of peanuts and popcorn, parade of animals, flying trapeze artists and, of course, the clowns. From the ancient circus day in Pompey's Rome to today's "Greatest Show on Earth," the circus has entertained millions and provided a livelihood for countless men and women all over the world. If one of your ancestors jumped aboard a circus train or spent some time in the carnival tent, use these tips to find out more.
1. Learn the big top backstory.
The first American circuses began shortly after US independence, and circuses became a primary method of entertainment during the 1800s. At the beginning of the 20th century, more than 100 circuses were traveling around the country, performing for nearly 12,000 spectators at each stop. For a crash course in circus history and lore, visit www.circushistory.org and www.ringling.com. You can learn P.T. Barnum's genealogy and read how the Ringling Brothers got their start online, too.
2. Jump in the resource ring.
You've discovered your forebear was a "fancy pants" or "roustabout"—but what does that mean? Check out The Circus Dictionary for the definitions of 300-plus circus terms. For more research resources, visit the helpful (though not recently updated) Circus-Folk site. Then search the Family History Library catalog on the keyword circus to learn what records you can rent on microfilm. You can browse circus-related biographical sketches from 1733 to 1870 in the online version of T. Allston Brown's History of the American Stage.
3. Perform ancestry acrobatics.
Just as acrobats on the high wire reach out to support one another, so do genealogists. Reply to a query or post one about your circus ancestor on the Circus Historical Society's message board and in our Query Center Forum. Scour the Occupations, Circus and Theater sections of Ancestry.com's message boards.


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text: School closure over the summer widens the achievement gap between classes. School chair image via www.shutterstock.com June 23, 2016 How community schools can beat summer learning loss for low-income students Laura Bronstein, Binghamton University, State University of New York The learning loss that occurs over the summer for poor students can lead to a growing academic achievement gap in subsequent years. What are community schools and how do they help low-income students?


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On to my gripe.
While we where on our way back from stream of the dead we decided to finish the loop and come out on Rt. 16 for a nice ride. Has anyone ever been on the Tannery Road.
I was disgusted. I was driving down the road to find a deer leg in the road. No biggy. I stopped to kick it out of the road only to find the remains that have been there awhile. I thought it was just another deer hit in maine. Then I realized that the deer was part of the rest of a mess of dumpings of leaves, branches, sheetrock and other house hold debris as well as about five beaver carcuses and beaver tails and who knows what else. I didn't have the means of picking this stuff up, but should I go back? It would be atleast all day to clean this up aswell as gross. I won't point fingers but there is a local Taxidermist in the area. Hummmmm?


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Phishing is the name given to the unscrupulous attempts to gain personal account information. This information includes banking account numbers, credit card numbers, usernames and passwords, and social security numbers. According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, www.antiphising.org, up to 5% of recipients respond to these spoofed emails. Computerworld, www.computerworld.com, estimates the figure is much higher at 20%.
According to Wordspy, www.wordspy.com, the term 'phishing' was coined by hackers and 'dot con artist' who imitate legitimate companies in e-mails to entice people to share passwords or credit-card numbers. Recent victims include Charlotte's Bank of America, Best Buy, Paypal and eBay, where people were directed to Web pages that looked nearly identical to the companies' sites.
It is important, as an Internet and email user, to remember that companies will never request your account information in this manner. Be suspicious of ANY email that requests personal account information. Do not click on any links contained in these emails. Although the link may appear to take you to the web site of the company, there is code hidden in the link that redirects you to a 'look-a-like' site belonging to the scammer. If the e-mail refers you to a Web site, look carefully at the URL. It's easy to disguise a link to a site.
"Beware of the @ symbol in a URL. Most browsers will ignore all characters preceding the @ symbol, so this Web address -- http://email@example.com -- may look to the unsuspecting user like a page of Respected Company's site. But it actually takes visitors to thisisascam.com. The longer the URL, the easier it is to conceal the true destination address. Other ways to disguise URLs include substituting similar-looking characters, so that paypal.com could be (and has been) spoofed as paypaI.com or paypa1.com. Similarly, a zero can be substituted for the letter O within a URL." (Computerworld)
A "rose is not always a rose" no matter what you call it. The hacker could also include hidden code that redirects the user to their site if a link is clicked even though the link appears legitimate.
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Santonio goes down for the year and we sign another Hill? really? You mean to tell me that there is no better WR on the street right now than Stephen Hill, Kerley, and the new Hill? So Terrell Owens, Chad Johnson, and Kellen Winslow arent a viable option? Plax? I mean what is going on here. I know that their best days are behind them but I think they are better than what we have. As we speak we have the worst skill players in the NFL. Our WRs are non-existant. Our #1 guy is actually a #2 and hes done for the year. RB we have no one. TE keller is not a top TE. Hes good, maybe better than average but thats it. QB- How do we know what he is? hes got an average to below average line, no Wrs, lousy RBs and an at best above average TE that been hurt the entire season. Id be hard pressed to believe that a Joe Montana or Dan Marino could win with this garbage....and it all comes back to Tannenbomb. Bad drafts and lousy free agent signings. HE DOES NOT KNOW FOOTBALL TALENT HE KNOW CAP SPACE. I say hes gone next.
Mr T as fatcessa calls him
it really seems as if the jets are purposely trying to piss the fans off. they did squat in the off season to improve this team. first it was the preseason td scoring debacle then by chance our best player on defense goes down and then on offense.
if i werent so pig headed id be willing to bet woody might be thiking of selling this team to the la investor looking to put a team back in la. and really screw us fans in the end.
there seems to be no sense of urgency with anything.
31 teams is more accurate as of right now
Did fans think the Jets were going to find a Calvin Johnson on the street? What the hell did you expect them to do?
They did need to find a player that fits, did they not? There is a SHORT list of these players out there, is there not?
They wanted a younger player with speed and some experience. Former 3rd round pick, started and put up some numbers for a bad offense last year, had a good pre-season, has some talent, we know he has confidence with his Revis slaying last year, and probably a little delusion too, but that's ok.
But what the hell did anybody expect during week 5 of the regular season?
Some of you have really warped expectations.
CMART....don't let any poster on this board tell you that your input is not tops.
We all, especially and even me, use it to be better educated about our NY JETS.
Don't worry, Tebow can play Tight End better than Kellen Winslow. JI posters told me so.
And who needs Plax and his silly td's? Having a good red zone offense like last yr is sooooo overrated.
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theres a good group of guys here who i enjoy talking football with if you dont like what i have to say theres an ignore feature. sorry you feel the way you do about me.
It gets old reading it.
It's amazing, one loss after week 4 and fans are already talking about firing everybody, rebuilding the team, blah blah blah... Look, losing 2 key players sucks, and it doesn't bode well. The odds are against the Jets, nobody is naive to that, not me, not most people, but I'm going to voice my opinion if the board is just going to spend the rest of the season lashing out and crying about every ****ing thing that the Jets do or don't do.
I get it, things look bleak, but if you talk football as you say you do, engage in the threads that are out there, not the miserable SOJF agenda and ***** convention that seems to be going on with the board this week.
My observation, and I'm sticking to it.
Mike Tanenbaum has regressed as a GM. Don't listen to me look at the proof:
1. Last 3 drafts have ranged from mediocre to terrible.
2. Nothing at the skill positions.
3. LB corps is old, slow, overpaid.
4. Mr T loves giving big contracts to resign aging players who then bottom out almost immediately after the payday (Holmes, Pouha, Harris, I can't wait to see Dustin Keller getting $35 million guaranteed and Revis and his broken knee $60 mil guaranteed)
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Polls consistently find that the vast majority of Americans oppose cutting Social Security, whether they're progressives or Tea Partiers or anything in between. And most real experts agree it's not necessary. We're supposed to have a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." So why does something most of us oppose look more likely with every passing day?
Republicans have been threatening to shut down the government unless the program is slashed, and the Administration's been sending out benefit reduction trial balloons ever since the Deficit Commission came to its ignominious end. Since Tea Partiers and progressives both oppose cutting Social Security, why shouldn't they work together to make sure it doesn't happen? Left and right joined forces to audit the Federal Reserve. Why can't they unite to protect America's retirement security? That's why I've written this letter.
Dear Tea Party Activists:
I don't speak for any organization, much less any movement. I'm just writing as one citizen to another. You're usually described as "right-wing" and people like me are typically called "progressive" (we're both called other names sometimes, too). But we share some values – like representative democracy, public accountability, government transparency, and a love for this country. Something very undemocratic may be happening, and it's up to us to stop it.
The next month will be crucial for the future of our nation – and for own futures, as the older Americans we're all destined to become. In the weeks leading up to the President's State of the Union address on January 27, Democratic and Republican party leaders will conduct a flurry of so-called "bipartisan" negotiations to cut Social Security. They may also agree to raid the its Trust Fund, which currently contains $2.6 trillion they'd love to use for other purposes.
We should work together to prevent that, building on seven points of agreement:
1. The people lead in a democracy, not the politicians.
2. The Social Security Trust Fund is our money, not theirs.
3. They shouldn't hijack payroll taxes to create "invisible tax hikes" on the middle class.
4. We paid for those benefits. We kept our part of the bargain, now you keep yours.
5. Don't punish hard work or thrift.
6. Don't use "means testing" to create a huge, ineffective government bureaucracy.
7. Don't turn Social Security into a welfare program.
Here's why we should be in this fight together.
1. The People Must Lead – and That Means Us
One of your political manifestoes is called the "Contract From America." Nice touch. As we wrote in "The New Silent Majority," there aren't enough leaders in either party listening to the people on this issue. 76% of Americans oppose cutting Social Security to reduce the deficit, including 77% of Republicans and 76% of the Tea Party's rank and file members!
Don't let Washington politicians and media tell you this is a "left/right" issue. It's not. We've already said that 76% of you oppose cutting Social Security. Six of ten Tea Partiers also oppose raising the retirement age to 69 or reducing cost of living adjustments.
Some of the Republicans you support are selling you out. Take Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. He was on TV this weekend saying that he wants to cut Social Security, and that he'll hold the entire Federal budget hostage to do it. That's right: Medicare, Social Security, even paychecks and medical care for our troops – this Washington insider wants to hold them all for ransom just to do something you oppose.
We may disagree on a lot, but neither of us wants to surrender our decision-making to non-accountable party leaders. That's why your vigilance over the Republican Party makes a lot of sense. Every political movement should remain loyal to principles rather than parties.
Let's face it: Your movement has always been divided between the real grass-roots activists – people like you – and GOP hacks like Dick Armey who are funded by self-serving billionaires. Don't let them hijack your movement by working against your interests. Stand up and stop them, before it's too late. You hold Republican power brokers accountable, and we'll do the same with Democrats.
2. That Trust Fund Is Ours, Not Theirs
Eight out of ten Tea Party supporters agree with this statement: "Social Security should be guaranteed because it is financed mainly by taxes on employees and their employers."
You guys got this one right, too. That's our money. We've been contributing to this fund for our entire working lives, Now some Beltways insiders and media big shots are saying its "funny money" or "just paper" or "IOUs." What kind of country do these people live in? In our United States – where people like us live – people honor their debts. We're not welshers. They're only talking about "IOU's" so that they can take the $2.6 trillion in that account and use it in other ways.
Now, I support a whole lot more government spending than you do, and I think all tax revenue is "our money." You don't – but we should be able to agree on this: The working men and women of America didn't set that money aside to subsidize new government programs, or to pay down the debt on Washington's past fiscal irresponsibility. That money's being held in trust for our retirement. Let's tell them to keep their hands off it.
3. Don't Let FICA Become an "Invisible Tax Hike" on the Middle Class
Here's what FDR said about Social Security:
"We put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program."
Makes sense. Even Glenn Beck likes to quote that line. But now some of those "damn politicians" want to raid our accounts anyway, and last month's tax deal could be the first step down that road. For the first time in 75 years,they're mingling general budget dollars with our retirement funds.
You say you're for a simpler, fairer tax system. Well, it's not fair to take a tax (FICA) intended for people's retirement and turn it into a general tax that the Federal government can use any way it pleases. And remember, it's got a cap on it, so the rich pay a lower percentage of their income into it than the rest of us do. If we start mingling this money with general funds, it becomes just another tax — one that hits middle-class families harder than the rich. That makes it the opposite of a flat tax: It becomes an "upside-down" or "inverted" tax with a higher rate for the middle class than the wealthy.
Last month's tax deal reduces the payroll tax for a year, and takes money out of the general Federal budget to make up for the lost income. That's the first time that's Social Security's ever had anything to do with the deficit, even indirectly. FDR had it right: This money should be completely separate.
FICA's not a tax in the usual sense, anyway. Technically, Social Security is "social insurance," so FICA's more like a premium. Like other kinds of insurance, we pay into a fund and then draw from it when we need it. If they tamper with our FICA "premiums," they'll be creating an "invisible tax hike." And they'll have undermined your basic tax principles of fairness and simplicity.
Let's demand that politicians from both parties pledge not to use the Trust Fund for anything but our retirement. Not now, not ever.
4. Protect The Benefits We Paid For
You've heard a lot of phony scare talk that "Social Security's going broke." Well, it's not — especially if they keep their hands off our trust fund and FICA premiums. Here's the truth: If nothing's done, the program will be fine until 2037, and then it will only be able to pay 75% of planned benefits. In response, some politicians want to start cutting it sooner — and deeper – than that! That makes no sense.
We kept our end of the bargain by paying those taxes every year. Now it's their turn.
If we stopped capping the FICA tax at and just made it a simple "flat tax" at all income levels, we would fix almost all of its problems. So our choice is: Enact a truly flat tax (and a fair one), or break a promise to the American people by needlessly cutting their retirement benefits. Do we want to let our politicians make us the first generation in history to break a promise because of a lie?
5. Don't Punish Hard Work or Thrift
Washington insiders like John Boehner and Lindsey Graham also wants a means test for Social Security. This is one of those ideas that sound pretty reasonable, even to a lefty like me – until you stop to think about it.
The first problem with proposals that say they'll cut benefits for the "rich" is that they usually define "rich" as starting at around $40,000 per year! Does that sound rich to you?
Here's how it would work: Take somebody who's worked their entire life and paid into Social Security, but when they reach retirement age they need to keep working – maybe to pay for an underwater mortgage, or because their defined contribution plan tanked. That person would get less of the benefits they paid for because they're working than they'd receive if they just sat around at home. Or take someone who's lived frugally and invested wisely, so now they're earning a comfortable investment income. They'll get less of a benefit than they would have if they'd spent recklessly and lived lavishly. Does that sound right?
6. Don't Create a Huge, Ineffective Government Bureaucracy
Then there are the strictly practical problems. One of the great advantages of Social Security is that it's cheap and easy to administer. If the government has to start "means testing" it will need to hire more people, expand its computer system, link electronically to the IRS, maybe even start monitoring people's bank accounts. In other words, means testing would create a new, giant, expensive, intrusive government bureaucracy.
Now, we're different, you and I. I like government bureaucracies. They're there to do the things we ask them to do. But I know you don't feel that way, and I don't like wasteful spending any more than you do. Means testing means bigger, less efficient government. What's more, very few people over the age of 65 make a lot of money, so most experts think means testing will cost more than it saves. The idea's a loser on both moral and practical grounds.
7. Don't Turn Social Security Into a Welfare Program
We probably disagree even more strongly about welfare. I think people need a helping hand from government sometimes, and that there's no shame in that. If you don't agree, then this might surprise you: They want to turn Social Security into a welfare program.
Social Security's greatest strength has always been the fact that, true to FDR's vision, it isn't welfare. It was never intended to simply help the needy. It was designed to be a self-funded program (it's forbidden by law from contributing to the Federal deficit) that funded everybody's retirement. Means testing turns it into welfare.
I didn't think you guys were big on welfare.
Standing Together
Even Newt Gingrich hasn't come out in favor of benefit cuts – and he wants to lower taxes on Social Security benefits, which is an indirect form of benefit increase (and it favors higher earners – so much for "means testing"). So maybe Newt and the other GOP Presidential hopefuls who have stayed silent on the subject are with us too. We know that many of the Democrats in Congress are. But there are plenty of others who have Social Security in their sights, and we have to stop them.
When people in Washington use the word "bipartisan," they're usually talking about a backroom deal. Why don't we get together and show them some real bipartisanship?
Don't worry. We'll have plenty of time to fight again afterwards, especially when you guys start talking about "privatization" again. But that's how we Americans have always operated: We set aside our differences when confronted by a common threat, and once we've defeated it we start brawling again.
So let's stop the flim-flam artists, the backdoor taxers, the piggy bank raiders, and all the other "damn politicians" you (and we) have worked so hard to elect. It's what progressives want. It's what Tea Partiers want. Hell, it's what America wants. So let's get it done. Let's defend our money and our benefits, stop the invisible tax hike, and prevent them from pulling any backdoor budget chicanery.
Then, after we win, I'll want to talk to you about some of the signs I've seen at your rallies. And who are you calling "communist," pal? But let's save Social Security first. Then we can have a good old-fashioned American slugfest.
Do we have a deal?


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Coming soon to iOS users, but already in place for Android Users, now when you look at your friend's profile on Instagram, you can see if they follow you or not.
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Lane Kiffin was waiting for USC quarterback Matt Barkley on the sideline after Barkley threw his second interception of the game against UCLA on Saturday.
So was Trojans wide receiver Marqise Lee.
Both looked at Barkley with confused looks, almost like they were questioning Barkley on what he was seeing – or not – in a sloppy performance against the crosstown Bruins.
Barkley said something to them, pointed to the field as if explaining a point, before Kiffin and Lee turned their attention back to the field.
Whatever Barkley said, it didn't seem to satisfy either his coach or his wide receiver.
It was that kind of day for the Trojans senior quarterback, and really it has been that kind of year.
He returned for his last year at USC claiming unfinished business remained. He will leave with the bulk of that work undone, his inability to carry the Trojans to victory in each and every signature game this year a haunting epithet for his star-crossed career.
Barkley arrived at USC the No. 1 recruit in the country, and it was easy to envision multiple national championship runs and epic victories and a Heisman Trophy campaign.
None of it came to fruition, partially the result of circumstances beyond his control but also due to his own inability in key games.
Thus, he will leave USC with no national championships, no major bowl wins – or even appearances – no real signature win and shut out in the Heisman Trophy.
Just as importantly, he walked off the Rose Bowl field Saturday after a 38-28 defeat not even the best college quarterback in Los Angeles – at least on this day – after being badly outplayed by UCLA redshirt freshman Brett Hundley, who now has a chance to do for the Bruins what Barkley could never accomplish for the Trojans – guide his team to the Rose Bowl.
Meanwhile, while Hundley stood triumphantly on the sideline in the closing minutes, Barkley was looking up to the sky after taking a vicious hit by UCLA's Anthony Barr, ultimately sending Barkley to the USC sideline.
Barkley gets one more chance for redemption next week against to get a big-time win when Notre Dame comes to the Coliseum, but no matter what happens Barkley and the Trojans will settle for a second-rate bowl game next month.
Not exactly the ending so many expected when he spurned the NFL – and likely a top-10 placement in the draft – to return for his senior year.
And certainly not the season so many envisioned when the Trojans opened as the No. 1 team in the country and Barkley was the odds on favorite to win the Heisman Trophy.
So much for all that, with the Trojans getting beat by Stanford, Arizona, Oregon and UCLA and Barkley playing a significant role in each defeat by throwing ill-timed interceptions – he now has 15 on the season, which is a career high for him – and never quite showing he could carry USC to a decisive win.
No, it was not all his fault. The USC defense shares the bulk of the blame.
But Barkley never rose above the faults of the Trojans, something other great quarterbacks have done in their career.
Sadly, that will likely be the lasting memory of his stay at USC, and Saturday cemented that reality for him.


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Goldsmith a Republican conservative but not a
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drew support from Comey, who refused to sign a recertification of the
wiretap program in March 2004 when he was filling in for ailing Attorney
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The battle over the warrantless wiretaps reportedly
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Patrick Fitzgerald to be special prosecutor to investigate who leaked
the identity of a covert CIA officer after her husband, former
Ambassador Joseph Wilson, criticized Bushs misuse of intelligence on
In 2003, when Ashcroft was still handling the
investigation, Bush had expressed confidence that the leakers would
never be identified. But Ashcroft stepped aside because of conflicts of
interest and his deputy, Comey, selected U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald.
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dogged investigator as he zeroed in on Cheneys chief of staff Lewis
Libby and Bushs political adviser Karl Rove as two officials suspected
of exposing CIA officer Valerie Plame.
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high profile for the White House to easily remove. But the days of Comey
Fitzgeralds chief ally were numbered.
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Post in June 2004, Comey and Goldsmith threw down the gauntlet again,
leading the fight to repudiate the memo and pressing for a revised
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Goldsmith quit the Justice Department to become a professor at Harvard
Law School.
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department, going into private law practice. On Aug. 15, 2005, in his
farewell speech, Comey urged his colleagues to defend the integrity and
honesty of the department.
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Justice, Comey said. It is a gift you may not notice until the first
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most of whom we never knew. They were people who made sacrifices and
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those who may never know us, as full as we got it. The problem with
reservoirs is that it takes tremendous time and effort to fill them, but
one hole in a dam can drain them.
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actions of one may affect the priceless gift that benefits all. I have
tried my absolute best in matters big and small to protect that
reservoir and inspire others to protect it.
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Flanigan, a former deputy White House counsel who had become general
counsel of Tyco International. But Flanigans nomination foundered over
questions about his dealings with corrupt Republican lobbyist Jack
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strategies for protecting administration officials implicated in abuse
of detainees.
An Aug. 1, 2002, memo prepared by hardliners in the Justice
Department and signed by Jay Bybee, then-chief of the Office of Legal
Counsel defined torture so narrowly that interrogators would have wide
latitude in abusing prisoners to extract information.
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of detainees. This torture memo argued that U.S. government operatives
should be spared prosecution for torture if they had Bushs approval.
Flanigan sat in on at least one meeting during which lawyers
discussed various torture techniques, including telling detainees that
they would be buried alive and subjecting them to waterboarding which
involves tying a person to a board and using water to simulate drowning.
Flanigan and Addington reportedly tried to shepherd this policy
through the government by limiting the opportunities for critical
comments. As Newsweek reported, Flanigan and Addington came up with a
solution: cut virtually everyone else out.
During questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee on his
nomination to replace Comey, Flanigan declined to say whether he voiced
support for the torture memo in its original version, although he did
say he supported a revised less sweeping version in December 2004.
Flanigan also told the committee that he saw ambiguities in setting
limits on the abuse of detainees, saying that he did not believe that
the term inhumane is susceptible to succinct definition. As the fight
over his nomination grew more contentious, Flanigan asked Bush to
withdraw his name on Oct. 6, 2005. [Washington Post, Oct. 8, 2005]
With Flanigans nomination in flames, the acting deputy to
now-Attorney General Gonzales became Paul McNulty, who also has a strong
pedigree as a hardline Republican legal operative, a Bush loyalist and a
member of Gonzaless inner circle.
McNulty was chief counsel to the Republican-run House Judiciary
Committee when it pressed for impeachment of Democratic President Bill
Clinton in 1998. McNulty also headed Bushs Justice Department
transition team after Election 2000. [NYT, Oct. 21, 2005]
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Since Gonzales like Ashcroft has recused himself on the Plame
leak investigation, McNulty also has inherited the job of overseeing
Fitzgerald. In that position, the deputy attorney general can apply
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and other bureaucratic means.
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right-wing Republicans in the U.S. Congress.
Earlier, as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington,
Sentelle had teamed with another Republican judge, Laurence Silberman,
to overturn the felony convictions of Oliver North in 1990. Sentelle
also provided one of the two votes in 1991 to throw out the convictions
of Norths boss, National Security Adviser John Poindexter.
Faced with these obstructions, Walsh had come to view the Reagan-Bush
loyalists on the U.S. Court of Appeals as a powerful band of Republican
appointees [who] waited like the strategic reserves of an embattled
army. Sentelle, who had named his daughter Reagan after the President,
was one of those strategic reserves.
A dozen years later, George W. Bush executed a similar maneuver,
replacing a relatively non-partisan Republican (Comey) with two
candidates who are considered more politically reliable or some might
say pliable (Flanigan and McNulty).
With Comey gone, Fitzgerald still pressed ahead
with his investigation of the White House leak of Plames identity, but
he had lost the strong institutional support that Comey had provided.
On Oct. 28, 2005, Fitzgerald indicted Libby for
lying to investigators and obstructing justice, but the special
prosecutor backed off from his expected indictment of Rove, who had
become Bushs deputy chief of staff.
(Significantly, Libby was replaced as Cheneys
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House policy on torture.)
On Feb. 6, 2006 with few Americans knowing or
understanding the significance of this history Gonzales testified
before the Senate Judiciary Committee, avoiding any details about the
internal disputes on the legality of Bushs warrantless wiretaps.
Gonzales simply told the senators that the
administrations reading of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of
1978 let Bush bypass its seemingly clear language requiring warrants
from a special secret court for wiretaps of communications originating
in the United States.
Even Republican senators Arlen Specter and Lindsey
Graham objected to the administrations strained interpretation of the
But Bush, in effect, is buying time while he builds
federal judicial majorities in favor of his vision of an all-powerful
Bush took a big step in that direction with the
confirmation of Justice Samuel Alito, an architect of the so-called unitary
executive theory. The U.S. Supreme Court now has at least four of
nine justices who favor granting the President virtually unlimited
powers as Commander in Chief.
In the meantime, Bush is relying on shrewd
bureaucratic maneuvers neutralizing and removing skeptics in order
to fend off harassing actions by Democrats and other Americans,
including traditional Republican lawyers, who oppose Bushs
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VIJAYAWADA, India -- When was Lord Buddha born? Or when did he attain Nirvana? The answers to such puzzling historical questions may be found in the texts of puranas and scriptures.
However, author Kota Nityananda Sastry in his latest book 'Age of Lord Buddha' makes a critical appreciation of available data compiled by Western historians who, he thinks, made a mess of Indian history.
The Cambridge and Oxford histories of India accept 483 B.C as the date of Buddha's nirvana. But, William Jones, on the basis of Chinese and Tibetan records infers that Buddha lived in the 11th century B.C.
Historian Fleet, who makes a study of 'Rajatarangini', thinks that Buddha lived in the 17th century B.C. Chinese monk Fa-Hien puts Buddha's Nirvana at 1050 B.C. These contradictory theories may confuse one altogether.
The history that Buddha lived in the 5th century B.C was propounded by E.J Rapson who writes that the exact date of Buddha's Nirvana is not known and hence the popularly accepted year of Buddha's Nirvana is imaginary.
Sastry quotes his father Kota Venkatachelam's treatise 'Age of Buddha, Mililnda & Amtiyoka', which establishes that Buddha lived between 1887 B.C and 1807 B.C.
Venkatachelam's book 'The Plot in Indian Chronology' had gone into the history and the missing links in the chronology of events in Indian history.
Sastry states that Western scholars arbitrarily skipped 12 centuries of Indian history because their 'hypothesis' about Alexander's invasion did not match with centuries-old Indian chronology.
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Ultimately, Dr Sastry quoting evidences comes to the conviction that Lord Buddha was born in 1887 B.C and attained Nirvana in 1807 B.C.
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We had some girls that were ready to get loose. One of them wanted everybody to pop their titties out while we were in the limo. It is always a good sign when we see a pair or two in the limo, but every girl with their tits out is a sign for a great night. It did turn out to be great. All the ladies were but ass naked or half way there. Bethany was a tall delicious looking fox. Her legs went all the way up to her big naturals. Juan laid the pipe on her, and she took it like a girl starving for cock. Esmi got her grove on with the rest of the ladies as she was getting them all hot and horny. This group of party animals were a fun bunch and super sexy.


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Moving to a smaller home in later life is a lot like starting a diet: It sounds like a good idea – but one that can always wait until tomorrow. In most cases, though, retirees can benefit from downsizing sooner rather than later.
Yes, the difficulties in doing so are well known. Moving itself is daunting at almost any age; most of us are reluctant to walk away from homes filled with memories; and the savings from downsizing, at times, can be difficult to quantify. As such, many people wait well into retirement before pulling up stakes.
But as Tom Lauricella reported this week in The Wall Street Journal's Sunday edition, the advantages in moving early can be significant. Among them:
Budgets. If the mortgage on your current home is paid off – and if moving to a smaller residence in a different community results in, say, new association fees – downsizing, on its face, may not seem worth it.
But such figures are often a mirage, says Lawrence Glazer, a financial planner at Mayflower Advisors in Boston. In a larger home, "the expenses are hidden," he says. "It's maintenance, a roof, a boiler, heating and landscaping."
Nest eggs. A move to a less-expensive home could be a boon to your retirement savings.
Steven Sass, an associate director at the Boston College Center for Retirement Research, offers the example of moving from a house that sells for $250,000 to one that costs $150,000. Fees and expenses tied to the move typically add up to about 10% of the selling price – which would leave $75,000 after buying the new residence. That amount could be added to a retiree's savings.
That $75,000, Sass estimates, could generate an additional $3,250 from savings every year. What's more, the retiree would have savings from lower expenses on the new, smaller house, which could total $3,000 a year.
Family stress. No one likes to talk about it, but…if one member of an older couple develops a serious illness, or dies suddenly, younger family members frequently find themselves caring for the original family home – and ultimately selling it. And that can place strains on all concerned.
"Once you're over 80, more things happen where you don't have 100% control, and it's harder for those people to move," says David Schwartz, chief executive at advisory firm FCE Group in Great Neck, N.Y.
Also worth reading:
Money tips for home remodeling
8 investments to beat rising interest rates
A Social Security 'split' that pays off
Glenn Ruffenach edits The Wall Street Journal's guide to planning and living the new retirement. Reach him at email@example.com.


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January 18, 2008
How I Got PTSD; Part 3, My exes
After boot camp they sent me to the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, Connecticut. I worked in an office for the students of the Naval Submarine School. In February, 1988 I met my ex husband, Donald David Newsome. He was a dungeon master of Pallidium games. I though he was smart and creative like me. Shortly after we met, we exchanged poems and started dating. He pushed himself on me in a hotel room. I believed at the time, he had just gotten carried away with passion. He was delusional, he believed in a pantheon of Gods and told me my diety was Baal Gortha. He believed he was some sort of wizard. I believe he was talking about devil worship now, because he tried to summon a demon once when we were together. He got out on a mental health discharge.
I got out on April 17, 1989 after I told them about the pot I smoked in DEP. I did not tell them it was my father's pot. I had discovered his stash. This lead to my discharge, as I knew it would. I was frustrated with not being allowed to go to a school, the rules, and depression. I moved out to Ferndale, Washington to be with Don, who I believed loved me, because he said he did. We moved in with his father, who he had said raped little girls right in front of him. I allowed his sexual abuse to continue. He pushed anal sex on me many times. He also pushed LSD on me. He loved pornography, not me. We had a daughter in 1990, and I gave her up for adoption because I didn't trust him with a baby. He pushed me up against the stove once and threatened to punch me once. He obsessed about me, calling hospitals and police if I was a little late. He threatened to destroy my stuff. The only way I could figure to get out of it was to push marraige on him, so we got married on April 19, 1991. He raped me because I told him I didn't want to and he kept insisting we had to consummate the marraige. We moved shortly after the marraige and I forgot the top of the wedding cake in the freezer of the old house. He finally asked me for a divorce on July 9, 1991 (One year and a day after the birth of our daughter) and we separated. I did not get my divorce until 1995.
For a long time I suffered from major depression and the anxiety that comes with PTSD. I also felt a learned helplessness and a lack of self respect that took years to overcome. I drifted in and out of sexually abusive relationships, leaving when I felt I had killed whatever interest these men had in me to begin with. Depression and anxiety kept interfering with my work life and I had a history of absenteeism from calling in sick, except when I worked as an Assistant Head Housekeeper at Park Motel in Bellingham, Washington. I worked at that job until they dissolved the position. I didn't feel good at a job until college where I worked as a writing and math tutor. I started college in 1992, graduated community college in 1994 and attended the university in 1995.
College was good for my self esteem. So was Wicca. But I kept running into men who'd push anal sex on me. Although nobody really beat me up until I met David Gallacci, aka "Oak," who was a cross dresser, an artist and a pot head. He threw me on the ground, pushed me down and broke my things on purpose. Apparently he had bipolar too. I interfered with him and his ex-girlfriend Autumn. I was "the other woman." I'm still not sorry I broke up that relationship.
I finally dropped out of college in 1995 because of paranoia and a rape that happened in the computer lounge I always used. Shortly after this I went on a spiritual journey. Somewhere in California, I met some Native American men in a cafe. I went to their house because I wanted to tell them about the relocation of the Navajo in Arizona. Three of them raped me, and a fourth, a half breed (for lack of a better term) punched me six times in the head. I hit him with a kitchen chair and threatened to poke out his eyes. He stopped then. I said "I'm leaving your house now." I reported it, and because I wouldn't let them pull out my pubic hairs, nothing was done about it.
In 1995 some time I went back to Verona, Wisconsin where my biological father lived and paid him a visit at work. It was the first and last time I ever gave him a hug. He put his hand on my rear end.
In 1997, I was being stalked by a convicted rapist. He had been a friend at the time of his date rape. He had sex with all my friends and then pushed sex on me. He kept calling even though I asked him to stop. He wrote me nasty letters. He fathered my youngest daughter after he pushed sex on me. I could not get a restraining order even though he was convicted of rape. In 1997, my schizophrenia became full-blown. I gave birth to my youngest daughter. I ran, on foot, away from a crack addict karaoke singer, and hitchhiked. I was really paranoid and lost in delusions. I was out of my head when they took my daughter away from me in Missoula, Montana. I tried suicide that night because of depression and schizophrenia. I was institutionalized at St. Patricks hospital for several weeks. I had them send me back to Bellingham, Washington.
They put my daughter in foster care. I lost all hope of getting her back when CPS and the courts gave the father unsupervised visits, refused to drug test or treat him, believe me about him, and wrote nine paragraphs against me and one against him. I gave her up for adoption to the foster family to keep her away from, a child molestor who molested the daughter of two friends of mine. After this I lost my housing and ended up homeless until 2002 when I finally got treatment for both schizophrenia and PTSD.
Only one guy beat me up during my stint as a homeless woman. This was at the Greyhound bus station in Seattle, Washington. He worked behind the counter. He tried to lock the bathroom door and almost shut the door on my arm. My arm was in the way because there were older women there and I tried to prevent him locking the bathroom door. He shut the door anyway and I slapped him. He threw me outside. I got back up and went inside. This time when he threw me, I landed on my head. The police charged me with assault, and I spent a month in jail before the judge threw the case out of court. He was a mulatto, and I don't know his name. This was in 1998. Although I spent most of my time in California, where it was warm and dry, I travelled all over the country. I rarely stayed in one place long enough to be found by any person who'd prey on the homeless. I was scared of stalkers. Nobody in my family, except my older brother, Chris, offered me shelter or money.
For a long time I could not handle being in crowded places or sitting with my back to an open room. But I took example from Peggy, and stepped in wherever I saw abuse going on. That helped my self esteem a lot.
Now, I see a light at the end of that tunnel and I'm sure it's not a "freight train coming my way." (to quote Metallica). I'm sure now there is such a thing as love and God and that I will find justice. Jim, the man who raped me at seven, got away with raping my cousin, too. He only got probation for that. I pray that next time he gets caught raping a child, he will get sent to prison for life.
That is my story. Thank you for listening.


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WWII veteran shares memories of the war, along with daughter of another war hero
Thursday morning, some lucky students at Arendell Parrott Academy were witnesses to a living, breathing history lesson.
World War II veteran and Snow Hill resident Ben Rayford, 89, spoke to history classes in the academy�s library about his experiences in the war. He was invited to the school by a good friend, Mitzi Moye, the school�s director of advising and community service � whose own father was a WWII veteran.
She shared entries from her father�s war diary with the students.
Rayford and Moye enthralled Parrott students with their stories and memories of the war.
�It was very powerful,� APA junior and Trenton resident Lee Jenkins said of Rayford�s presentation. �It was very impressive and it�s helped fill me with respect for the man, for all he went through. It made history more vivid.�
After graduating from Newton Grove High School, Rayford served as a company clerk for an infantry unit in the European theater of the war. He described Germany�s leader, Adolf Hitler, as a �threat to the world.�
�We were at a time in history when something had to be done,� Rayford told the students.
Before being drafted into the Army, Rayford learned how to type � a skill he said probably �saved my life.�
�I was a lucky man,� he told the students. �Knowing how to type allowed me to work well behind the lines. I was there for 15 months and I didn�t get a scratch.�
One of the most memorable points in his service came when he landed at Normandy, France, one month after D-Day. He quietly told the students about going over the top of a hill and the shock of seeing more than 15,000 white crosses.
Those crosses marked the graves of Allied forces that died there on June 6, 1944.
�They were the boys that didn�t make it,� he said, wiping a tear from his eye.
It was that type of emotion that helped open the eyes of Farmville�s Victoria Oakley, an APA junior, who admitted she was still moved several minutes after listening to Rayford.
�It�s one thing to read about it; to read the numbers and to see statistics,� Oakley said, �but to see his emotions in his face and to hear him get choked up, it brought emotions out of me. It helped connect me with what happened in World War II and it just makes history more alive.�
Moye shared several stories about her father, including one about how he smuggled her mother�s wedding ring pearl under his tongue back to the U.S. after the war. Moye continues to wear that pearl in a ring today.
�When I recently went to go have (the pearl) reappraised, I was told it wasn�t worth very much,� Moye said. �I was like, �Yes, it is!� It�s worth the world to me. I�m looking forward to passing it down to my children and their children.�
Rayford and Moye attend Snow Hill Presbyterian Church, where Moye said they�ve become close friends.
�We became much closer after my father died in 2000,� she said. �I connected with (Rayford) because my father and he went through similar situations. I�ve clung more to him as more of a mentor and a father figure.�
Having Rayford and Moye speak to their students was important, said APA history instructors Betsy Barrow and Brad Sauls.
�Today is priceless to my students,� said Barrow, whose grandfather also served in WWII. �So many of them are interested in this time period. To actually meet someone who went through this, to bring history alive, is invaluable. It brings to life stories from their history books.
�These are stories I can take and use in my classroom.�
Sauls, an educator in Greene County and at APA for 14 years, said, �As a teacher, I can talk about the war. But for the students to see someone who has lived and served in it, there�s an emotional element here I can�t convey in the classroom that was shared here.�
One of the many questions from the students was what advice he�d give to the 16- and 17-year-olds gathered to hear him speak.
Rayford�s answer was as succinct as it was poignant.
�Treasure the moment you�re living in now,� Rayford said softly and slowly while making eye contact with as many students as he could. �Enjoy the present, but look to the future. I hope you�re never called on to do what we had to do.�
Bryan C. Hanks can be reached at 252-559-1074 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at BCHanks.


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Apple is...
Mini-me to Google's Dr. Evil...
Apple's iOS 5 mobile operating system will include support for WebGL, the emerging standard building hardware-accelerated 3D graphics with JavaScript. But WebGL will only be available to developers building iPhone and iPad advertisements via the company's iAd platform. Apple man Chris Marrin recently revealed this news on the …
WebGL is a bit of a security liability. It's not hard to write something in WebGL that will leave a device unresponsive or crash it. There was an advisory about this not long ago, and I've seen examples that kill a box when running chrome. Put that on a mobile, where it's going to leave the device in a locked-up, battery draining, possibly even battery exploding state... that's not really wise is it?
Clearly the technology is in there, and since Apple will be vetting iAds that's one place where it's safe to use it. Wonder if it'll be available to app developers too then? And how long will it take to get WebGL to a slightly safer state?
By only allowing it in iAds, Apple provides a differentiator that they can use to get more advertisers to buy into their platform.
As for a malicious app that would lock a mobile device and pemanently drain the battery, that's nonsense. Any sane user, upon having their device lock up, would simply hold down the standard, internationally recognized power button... oh, wait, iPhone doesn't have one of those. Well, then you could just remove the battery... oh, wait, can't do that on an iPhone. You could, of course keep these directions handy: http://www.wikihow.com/Hard-Reset-an-iPhone. But I suppose that's too technical for fanbois. So we'd better keep the technology out of their hands until it can be fully sanitized.
Or maybe like I said before, Apple is just trying to drum up iAd sales.
At any rate, I'm more interested in how Apple makes it available through iAds and not elsewhere. Is there a verification server, a cached whitelist, or is it something as simple as sniffing an element or attribute?
My guess is it's something that can be fudged, and someone will do so within a day or two of release.
iAds don't exist in the browser. They show up in apps only, and have to be approved pre-deployment. It's highly unlikely that bad WebGL would screw up a device sufficiently that a hard reset would be needed (I don't remember ever having to hard reset an iPhone, though older iPods required it periodically), but it's entirely possible that they're unclear about the security of their WebGL renderer for now. There have been proof of concepts demonstrating the ability to do very nasty things with WebGL (generally due to flawed, or at least overly-trusting, graphics drivers.
<Fail>Any sane user, upon having their device lock up, would simply hold down the standard, internationally recognized power button</Fail>
Used an iPhone? Ever? Really? Suuuuuuuure.... then you'd know that there is a power button on the top... just like on the iPad and iPod (touch, nano, but not classic), that you can use to turn it off. In fact I've used mine very successfully on a number of occasions. Sure its not a "big red" power off button, but I think you'll find that most devices don't have those now... nope just checked my 2 laptops - different non-standard power buttons on those. Oh wait, yeah my xbox one is green, the wii is yellow and the PS3 one is black. Yep nice and standard there too....
Get a grip and whine about things that dont show you up to be anti-<insert company name here>. **sigh**
...nothing else. If this is how Apple wants to drum up their nonexisting iAd revenues then they are banking on the stupidest advertisers only, I think.
As a side note I think Apple has no clue about mobile ad business - they have learned this the hard way during the past year: after big introduction last year it didn't get a single mention at WWDC so it's obviously a huge flop (Steve "Freedom from Porn" Jobs never admits errors.)
Moreover I don't think they actually like his ad-based ecosystem at all - it eats into their super-profitable wallet garden App Store sales. Witness this as new Mail was introduced with "No ads" as a feature and even the Puritan-In-Chief proudly reaffirmed their anti-ad stance:
"No ads," he boasted. "We build products that we want for ourselves, too, and we just don't want ads."
I have a free app in the store, uses both iAd and adMob. iAd brings in more money, even with a lower fill rate (which makes the customers happy)
The "No ads" policy on Apple's services is just a reflection of how they've always worked. Have you ever seen them advertising for others on their machines? Crappy trialware? Stickers? Nope.
I doubt Apple will open WebGL up for general use. It will open iOS up to apps and games that aren't controlled and taxed by the App Store.
iAds generates revenue for Apple, so they get access to the 3D hardware while everyone else who hasn't paid the 30% tax do not.
As for the potential security issues surrounding WebGL, it honestly is a load of crap. Any API exposed by a browser should be hardened against abuse and malfunction by being inside the browsers security system. For example, the WebGL API calls should be checked then passed on to the OS native 3D system, not blindly handed off. It is a browser, it's expected to be secure before fast.
I'll warrant it has less to do with security, and more to do with cannibalisation of App Store sales.
With Facebook expected to kick off it's own app store for iOS, using web apps, Apple will be all to aware that they can't control every possible ecosystem, so they'll do everything they can to reduce the flexibility of web-based apps and games.