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FRISCO, Texas - It was a first road trip for both the USSDA Academy and TPAL teams as the Development Academy traveled to Colorado for a two-match weekend against Colorado Rush and Real Colorado while the TPAL teams took on the Houston Dynamo. In nine total games last weekend, FCD lost just once with the weekend highlighted by a sweep of the Dynamo in Houston and the U-18s taking over sole possession of first place in their division. Here's all the results:
Real Colorado: 3
The under-18s started their weekend in Colorado with a wild 3-3 draw against Real Colorado. In a see-saw battle, Cesar Murillo and Yannick Koffi scored in the first half to give FCD a 2-1 lead, but Real scored twice early in the second half to turn the game around before Vernon "Bubba" Bailey scored in the 82nd minute to keep FCD undefeated.
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Houston Dynamo Under-13's: 0
Imanol Almaguer and Adriel Serrano scored in the U-13s second win of the year over Houston. The Under-13s moved to 5-0-0 to start their TPAL season.
Houston Dynamo Under-12's: 2
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5 cloves garlic – minced
1 package extra firm tofu – cut into bite-sized pieces
2 stalks of broccoli – cut into bite-sized pieces
1 carrot – chopped into bite-sized strips
2 T Tamari
Cayenne (red) pepper flakes
3/4 – 1 C natural peanut butter
4-6 servings of brown rice (I used Instant brown rice)
Handful of crushed peanuts (optional)
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Saute tofu in 1 T olive oil and 1 T sesame oil until it starts to turn golden. Add the garlic in and cook for another 5 min. Set tofu/garlic aside. Cook broccoli and carrot pieces in 1 T olive oil and 1 T sesame oil, along with about a 1/4 cup of water, covered, until soft.
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My favourite story of the day. Maybe I'm delirious from the altitude here in Utah with all the nosebleeds I've been getting but when this report came across my blackberry earlier, I could barely contain myself.
Aretha Franklin has cancelled her wedding to her William Wickerson. It's the statement they released that cracked me up:
"Regretfully, To Our Friends and Supporters: Will and I have decided we were moving a little too fast, and there were a number of things that had not been thought through thoroughly. There will be no wedding at this time. We will not comment on it any further because of the very personal and sensitive nature of it. We appreciate all of the many well wishes from friends."
Aretha is 69 years old. The notion of a 69 year old moving too fast in love is... I dunno, maybe the best thing I've ever heard.
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University of California, Los Angeles officials are considering a requirement that most undergraduate students take a class in racial cultural, gender or religious diversity as part of their pursuit of a degree.
University of California, Los Angeles officials are proposing that most undergraduate students be required to take a class in racial cultural, gender or religious diversity in order to graduate.
The Los Angeles Times reports that this is the fourth effort to bring such a requirement to UCLA's College of Letters and Science, which enrolls about 85 percent of undergraduates.
Such a requirement has existed at the Arts and Architecture school for the last six years and is at most UC campuses and many other universities. But the curriculum change has been repeatedly rejected in votes by the college's faculty group.
Previous proposals have been met with questions about whether students were already overburdened with requirements, whether the university could afford extra classes, or if the classes improve ethnic relations or skew left politically. But UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said it's important for students to have an explicit class that deals with multiple cultures in the United States living together.
Faculty leaders are now preparing for another attempt to bring such a requirement to the college for students entering in fall 2015, said Jan Reiff, a UCLA history and statistics professor who is chair of the campus-wide faculty Academic Senate. But this time it may be revised to include more community internships and more science courses, she said.
But UCLA anthropology professor Joseph Manson, who opposed a previous effort in 2012, questioned whether it's appropriate to change the curriculum for non-academic, or political, goals.
The UCLA College Republicans, a student group, said in a statement that it values diversity but believes the new proposal is "a guise by university leadership to push an otherwise unwanted and offensive political strategy." They said there are more effective ways to promote tolerance and understanding among students, such as expanding free speech zones on campus.
According to last fall's statistics, UCLA has nearly 25,300 U.S. undergraduates of which 39% are Asian American or Pacific Islander, 31 percent are white, 20 percent are Latino and 4 percent are black.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In 2011, the Internal Revenue Service instituted new rules that require independent tax preparers to register, pay an application fee, pass a qualifying exam and take continuing education courses.
But several independent tax preparers objected and sued the IRS; on January 18, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled the IRS did not have the authority to set the rules.
"I think they should be credentialed," said Linda Robinson.
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"A lot of these people aren't necessarily honest," said Robinson. "I know some cases where people's money had been deposited into their preparer's account and they never received the money.
The court's 22-page decision does not affect the regulatory practice requirements for CPAs, attorneys, enrolled agents or enrolled actuaries.
Mark Patrick is a CPA with the firm Patrick and Robinson believes the IRS regulations are necessary.
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Patrick is convinced that the rules also bring accountability.
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Robinson, like Patrick, believes regulation is necessary before the tax season get into full swing.
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IRS spokesperson Michael Dobzinski said the IRS has asked the court to lift the injunction.
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"It's nonstop," Morris Gross, the hospital's vice president for facilities, said Tuesday as he led a tour of the new building for The News-Times. "When you can see the finish of something, you want to get there."
Construction of the hospital's 300,000-square-foot building, the largest and most expensive in the hospital's 129-year history, is done. Workers are pushing to finish the interior as well as complete landscaping to create green spaces, "the Oasis," outside its expansive lobby.
The building will be dedicated in June. But because the staff has to learn to use the new facility in phases, patient care probably will start in one of the departments about a month later.
"I think the first of the new departments will be open in mid-July," Gross said. "The last will start no later than late August or early September."
The building will offer patients state-of-the-art technology in rooms that are brighter and more spacious.
The old emergency department has about 23,000 square feet of floor space. The new department will have about 45,000 square feet. All of its 69 rooms, which include eight for pediatrics, will be a private to allow patients, medical staff and family members to speak without being overheard.
"The old department was designed to handle 45,000 patients a year, but we now treat about 70,000, which is why it can be so crowded," Gross said. "In the new department, we can comfortably handle 90,000 patients."
The new critical-care unit rooms are larger, with about 325 square feet per room, compared to about 220 square feet, and they're private, too. Each has a window and its own bathroom. All the equipment needed to treat the patient will hang from the ceiling, to prevent anyone from tripping over a wire or intravenous tube.
The new lobby will be much grander, with lots of natural light, a fireplace, a mosaic panel and a caregiver center, where families can obtain information about the illness of a loved one and along with counseling to help them deal with it.
Western Connecticut Health Care, which runs Danbury, New Milford and Norwalk hospitals, announced expansion plans in 2010, and construction began in November 2011.
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Graham Readfearn | July 26, 2011
By Graham Readfearn • Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 10:58
TO followers of the climate change policy debate, the extreme conspiratorial rhetoric is all too familiar:
Climate change is a hoax. Environmentalists are just communists in disguise. The United Nations is using efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions as a smokescreen for installing a world government. Greenies are actually reds. Eco fascists want your freedom.
Such rhetoric is daily bread for many neo-conservative commentators, some climate change deniers and even the occasional elected representative. The language is divisive, often becomes abusive and – regrettably – has become a feature of the manufactured debate over the risk posed by human-caused climate change.
The manifesto of Norwegian terrorist and Christian fundamentalist Anders Behring Breivik, currently facing trial for the massacre of 76 people, shows what can happen when the unhinged take the language of the far-right to its ultimate ends.
In the 1500-word document, published online under his Anglicised name Andrew Berwick before the brutal bombing and shootings in Norway, Breivik reveals a hatred for Islam and socialism.
But the manifesto also echoes the beliefs of many climate change deniers and cites the work of Lord Christopher Monckton, Alex Jones and Steve McIntyre.
The document reveals how sceptic commentators had convinced him that the so-called "climategate" hacking of emails and data disproved human-cased climate change.
Writing about the unauthorised release of emails from researchers of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit in November 2009, Breivik says:
Breivik then provides seven URL links to the PrisonPlanet website of conservative radio host and climate change denier Alex Jones. Some of these links were re-posts of blogs written by Steve McIntyre.
Also in the manifesto, Breivik lists "environmentalist organisations" as being "smoke screens" for "cultural Marxists". He also includes in this bracket, groups which advocate for animal rights, human rights, feminism and anti-racism.
In a section of his manifesto entitled "Green is the new Red - Stop Enviro-Communism!", Breivik writes of the "global warming scam":
One section of Breivik's manifesto points readers to a video clip of Lord Christopher Monckton, the climate change sceptic who is nearing the end of an Australian tour supported by mining magnate Gina Rinehart, The Climate Sceptics political party and part-funded by the Association for Mining and Exploration Companies. He is scheduled to tour New Zealand in August.
In the video, which is an excerpt of Lord Monckton's October 2009 speech to Bethel University in St Thomas, Minnesota, Monckton states that attempts to agree a binding agreement to cut global emissions were a UN plot to install a world government. Lord Monckton told the audience:
Echoing the paranoia that environmentalists are communists, UK-based Daily Telegraph columnist James Delingpole, a climate sceptic, is currently promoting his book Watermelons – The Environment Movement's True Colours – in which he argues environmentalists are "green on the outside, red on the inside".
When former Fox News pundit Glenn Beck heard of the Norwegian tragedy, he compared the young Norwegians killed by Breivik to "the Hitler youth". Lord Monckton also once described a group of climate change campaigners as "the Hitler youth".
All public commentators should understand clearly that readers and listeners can hang on their words. Their views and beliefs can accumulate and hang heavy in the psyche but very few followers would ever consider violence. No doubt the commentators themselves would recoil at any such thought.
But unfortunately for those now dead and scarred in the Norwegian terror attack, the weight of conspiracy became too much to bare for Anders Breivik.
Rob replied on Permalink
A little over the top, dont
A little over the top, dont you think?
Is your purpose here to brand AGW skeptics as mass murderers?
Its like saying the Norway nutball ate corn flakes so we should all be wary of corn flake eaters.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Of course the Climate
Of course the Climate Alarmists will now compare anyone who disagrees with them to mass murderers. This isn't a new tactic for them – they've been doing it since day one.
They very casually compare us to Holocaust deniers, as a matter of routine. This comes as no surprise.
Do we need any more proof that the Climate Alarmists are a completely unhinged cult? Their rhetoric will only become more demented as they continue their decline.
Cedric Katesby replied on Permalink
"Of course the Climate
"Of course the Climate Alarmists will now compare anyone who disagrees with them to mass murderers"
Ah, a strawman argument. Read the post again and do it honestly this time.
"They very casually compare us to Holocaust deniers, as a matter of routine. This comes as no surprise."
Deniers of all stripes are comparable. Their M.O is always the same.
Holocaust deniers are just one group but their thinking is not unique.
There are also vaccine deniers.
HIV deniers.
Moon landing deniers.
And climate deniers.
The methodolody is the same. If you don't want to be a denier then don't whine about it. Change your methodology so that you are clearly distinct and separate from the "real deniers" out there.
One thing you could do is not complain the people keep comparing you to Holocaust deniers.
That's…um…an argument that deniers use. Fail.
"One expects scientific discourse to be focused dispassionately on substantive issues. Yet doctors, scientists, and others who question whether human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) have been called the moral equivalent of Holocaust deniers
Op-ed pieces and non-technical articles continue to reiterate that it is beyond reasonable doubt that HIV causes AIDS, but the restrained language of the Durban Declaration has been replaced by strident denunciations: Public dissent from HIV = AIDS is said to be on a moral par with Holocaust denial.
Readers of this essay are invited to sample items on that website and to note the lack of substantive discussion and the preponderance of attacks on so-called "HIVdenialists."
Questioning HIV/AIDS: Morally Reprehensible or Scientifically Warranted?-Henry H. Bauer, Ph.D.
(Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 12 Number 4 Winter 2007) http://www.jpands.org/vol12no4/bauer.pdf
Gringo replied on Permalink
There is no comparison in the
There is no comparison in the entire article. All it does is point out, quite accurately, how dangerous Conspiracy Theories can be, to some.
Every single issue Breivik addressed in his manifesto regarding Global Warming is false. Ever single one of them! Had he actually done some real research (ie, visited desmogblog.com or skepticalscience.com, he would have found out how unreliable his sources (prisonplanet, mostly) are.
The "Global Warming is a Marxist Plan" is just a small part of his delusions as set forth in his manifest. Yet it has something in common with all the other topics he raises, namely that he takes for granted whatever extreme right-wing loonies write or say.
That is the issue Graham raises. That repeating lies, distortions and falsehoods has consequences, be it some Republicans demanding the UN panel on Climate Change to be defunded or a Norwegian right-wing terrorist believing it's all part of a global Marxists conspiracy.
anonymous replied on Permalink
"All it does is point out,
"All it does is point out, quite accurately, how dangerous Conspiracy Theories can be, to some."
Uh-huh. Yet conspiracy theories are evidently not so "dangerous" that D'Smogblog never ceases to relentlessly promote their own conspiracy theories, vis-a-vis "big oil", Koch Industries, etc., etc.
Funny how you lefties want to always have your cake and eat it, too.
Gringo replied on Permalink
You'd have a valid point if
You'd have a valid point if neither "Big Oil", Koch Industries, etc., etc. would stand to lose lots of money should AGW reduction policies be implemented.
But they do and one has to be extremely naive not to see that.
It's a proven fact that "big oil" and related have sponsored and still do sponsor all kinds of so-called 'skeptics' (scientists and an alarming number of none scientists), not to disprove AGW but to make people believe that the science is not settled.
But don't take my word for it: google it. Find out for yourself. If you do not want to believe in alleged Conspiracy Theories from the Left, fine, but then at least don't take those same theories from the Right for granted as this idiot in Norway did.
anonymous replied on Permalink
So you are claiming the
So you are claiming the science is "settled"?
Gringo replied on Permalink
' "So you are claiming the
' "So you are claiming the science is "settled"? '
Exactly! It is as settled on AGW as it is on the scientific theory of gravity or the earth being round.
Cedric Katesby replied on Permalink
Conspiracies do
Conspiracies do happen.
That's not the same as "conspiracy theories".
People do get together in secret to commit crimes or pervert the course of justice or come up with a means to defraud the public.
It does happen.
They do it in secret so as to reduce the risk of detection.
When those people slip up, they hopefully go to jail or are forced to pay massive fines in court.
Conspiracies are part of the reality-based community.
They can be uncovered by investigative reporting, following the funding of "advocacy front groups", the publishing of memos from meetings and whistle blowers.
It's evidence-based. No hearsay allowed. Either there are tax records or there are not. Either someone did commit a crime or do something unethical or they did not. There must be evidence to support this. Evidence that would stand up in a court of law.
Conspiracy theories, however, are not the same thing.
Conspiracy theories are based on anomoly hunting, speculation and paranoia. They are a comfort to those that want quick, easy answers to the troubles of the world. Denialists flock to conspiracy theory thinking as a sop to help justify their denial.
Conspiracy theories alwasy expand.
Conspiracy theories are always unfalisifiable.
Conspiracy theories explain everything.
However, the Marshall Institute (and their clones) really does exist. It's not a fantasy. Their funding really does come from the usual suspects and their tactics are the same tactics that those self-same people used to decieve the public about the safety of tobacco.
It's all documented:
The American Denial of Global Warming
k-tron replied on Permalink
Wake Up
you would have a valid point, however, the only companies that will be able to trade in the carbon taxes and get away with murder, like they are right now, as well as consolidating wealth, is the fact that big oil are the only ones that will be able to trade, pay and deal with the carbon taxes. many regular people such as you and i will not be able to handle the burden as we are already dealing with so much only to live in this wretched world. ppl better wake up and get together, instead of fighting each other before it's too late.
Dabig replied on Permalink
Europe is all LEFT. "Right"
Europe is all LEFT. "Right" means Nationalist Socialist on the Left, which doesn't actually exist in the USA. The Left wants to conceal that the "Socialist Right" isn't actually Socialist, and to dishonestly project the "Nationalist" to the Conservative American, of which there is no equivalent in Europe. The European "Conservative" is Left also, not at all equivalent to the American Conservative. We obviously need a new discipline in the use of language, the MSM continues to try to mush it all up to support their agenda.
JBowers replied on Permalink
You mean unlike Watts's
You mean unlike Watts's assertion that CRU and UEA are even more untrustworthy because they hired a PR guy to help deal with the CLimategate manufactroversy, but it turns out that the guy was allegedly involved with the News International phonehackings?
Rob replied on Permalink
And then there are these
And then there are these guys:
There are dangerous extremists on both ends of the spectrum.
Cedric Katesby replied on Permalink
The magical balance fairy strikes again.
DogSoldier replied on Permalink
No, it's a pretty accurate assesment
Rob, what is a little over the top is to claim Graham is branding AGW skeptics as mass murderers. That isn't what he said. Let's ignore your defensive assumptions for a moment and look at the facts. Let's look at what Anders Beivik actually said. He claimed that scientists conspired to falsify data in order to prop up the premise of climate change. This belief, in addition to his racism and paranoid hatred toward communists or socialists were what motivated him to commit such violence, not corn flakes.
DogSoldier replied on Permalink
Climate denialists are very thing skinned..
As evidenced by the insults and lack of factual rebuttal.. Keep up the great work Graham! ignore those poor souls wounded deeply by the words of one Anders Breivik…
Rob replied on Permalink
What insults? And what is
What insults? And what is there to rebut? Breivik is a right wing extremist, and likely more than a little unbalanced. He apparently had a paragraph on global warming in his 1500 page diatribe against the world. So what?
The ELF group that I mentioned earlier are left wing nuts and arsonists. Should we blame the enviromental movement for their actions or brand enviromentalists as arsonists?
anonymous replied on Permalink
If only the real damage
If only the real damage left-wing "environmentalists" did were limited to a few minor arsons!
DogSoldier replied on Permalink
Rob, I was referring to the
Rob, I was referring to the insults coming from Anonymous. Regarding Breivik, yes he shares the beliefs of many denialists that climate change is a vast conspiracy. It's good that you can admit this. But your reference to the ELF group is a fallacy, or more accurately, a false analogy. Graham is not discussing ELF, he is talking about Breivik and how similar his beliefs are to to climate change denialists.
Peter Hartmann replied on Permalink
the point is to show that
the point is to show that stirring up people with conspiracy theories, fear and hate will push violent people over the brink. something similar happened when Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, or when Mark Stroman went on his killing spree. if you propagate fear and hate you will have contributed to creating a climate in which horrible deeds like these become more likely. that is not to say you should be held accountable for it, but that it would be wise, and Christian, to instead spread a message of peace and understanding. there will always be crazy people that do evil things, but less so the less they find themselves supported by "normal" people.
also, you might remember when Marc Morano did with James Jay Lee, what you falsely allege Readfearn is doing now: trying to disgrace a whole group on the deeds of some crazy person.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Or maybe he was influenced by
Or maybe he was influenced by this?:
The Climate Scientology Cult was fantasizing mass murder long before the massacre in Norway happened. Maybe they're jealous that someone beat them to it?
"Or maybe he was influenced
"Or maybe he was influenced by this?:
The difference is, they were using black comedy to convey a message. The right winger brevik targeted political opponents for real.
Makes you wonder what other right wingers out there are just completely conned like Brevik & are ready to kill for their deluded beliefs. Brevik like many right wingers probably tuned into rabid right wing shock jocks that pervade western culture, spewing messages of ignorance,hate, bigotry & misinformation.
Many people like to listen to them & all too willing admit they like them…..they like being lied to & hyped into misguided action.
anonymous replied on Permalink
"The difference is, they were
"The difference is, they were using black comedy to convey a message."
Evidently, the message is, "do as we tell you, or we will murder you."
Ha-ha! Comedy!
Climate hypochondriacs love a good laugh.
Cedric Katesby replied on Permalink
The strawmen keep
The strawmen keep coming.
Evidently someone doesn't "get" Monty Python and their Salad Days.
British black comedy has a long and noble tradition. Deal with it. You'll find that it's not really comparable to stalking and killing 68 children with an automatic weapon.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Evidently someone has no idea
Evidently someone has no idea what the term, "strawman argument" means. Yet that doesn't seem to stop him from incorrectly employing the term in EVERY. SINGLE. COMMENT.
(And, no, it doesn't refer to anything you simply don't like.)
Cedric Katesby replied on Permalink
"Evidently someone has no
"Evidently someone has no idea what the term, "strawman argument" means. Yet that doesn't seem to stop him from incorrectly employing the term in EVERY. SINGLE. COMMENT.'
I've made muliple comments. Yet, and yet, I have not use the term in every single comment (incorrectly or otherwise).
You just created another strawman. Look up the term.
Let me help you with that:
Do not lie or distort things just to win an argument. It's dishonest.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Cedric Katesby wrote: "You'll
Cedric Katesby wrote:
"You'll find that it's not really comparable to stalking and killing 68 children with an automatic weapon."
No, it's comparable to blowing the skulls off of children, using explosives, after they quite understandably express indifference to your global warming hysteria.
Ha-ha! Comedy!
Cedric Katesby replied on Permalink
No, it's comparable to
No, it's comparable to blowing the skulls off of children, using explosives, after they quite understandably express indifference to your global warming hysteria.
How shocking. When did this happen?
(awkward silence)
It didn't.
You are deliberately fiction with reality. You shouldn't do that. It's makes you look dishonest.
Not to mention monsterous.
bratisla replied on Permalink
So, by your logic, you should
So, by your logic, you should now adknowledge that the guy giving a noose to a climate scientist did a death threat.
And it happened IRL, not in a TV spot.
Who would have guessed? Right
Who would have guessed? Right wingers & denialism. The easily duped go hand in hand.
On top of that he was a christian fundamentalist. Conned every which way he moved. He was living in a snow dome, completely unaware of the reality of the outside world. His idols having complete control of his rational & logical senses.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Right. Because in the 20th
Right. Because in the 20th Century LEFT-wingers, in the form of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc., only murdered 100,000,000 people.
Breivik is a rank amateur compared to that.
Cedric Katesby replied on Permalink
Ah, the "Tu Quoque" gambit.
Ah, the "Tu Quoque" gambit.
DogSoldier replied on Permalink
In case "Anonomous" doesn't
In case "Anonomous" doesn't get what that is.. Tu quoque: Literally, you too. This is an attempt to justify wrong action because someone else also does it. "My evidence may be invalid, but so is yours."
DogSoldier replied on Permalink
In case "Anonymous" doesn't
In case "Anonymous" doesn't know what that is.. Tu quoque: Literally, you too. This is an attempt to justify wrong action because someone else also does it. "My evidence may be invalid, but so is yours."
anonymous replied on Permalink
He wasn't trying to "justify"
He wasn't trying to "justify" anything. He merely pointed out the fact that while Breivik may be bad, leftists are historically far, far worse.
The truth stings, yet it is still the truth.
DogSoldier replied on Permalink
It's also a wildly false
It's also a wildly false analogy.. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and yes, on the right Hirohito, Hitler and Mussolini were leaders of their respective countries. And in that capacity they were in a position to do a great deal of harm. An analogy to that would be the deaths of half a million Iraquis due to the imperialist policies of one George W. Bush. But these situations are not the same as a right wing terrorist indiscriminately killing men women and children because - Partially: He believed that climate change was a massive conspiracy.
anonymous replied on Permalink
SQUAWK! George Bush! SQUAWK! Polly wanna cracker!
What an idiot …
DogSoldier replied on Permalink
The only idiot on this thread
The only idiot on this thread is the one who refuses to address the topic, and instead revels in fallacies.. You haven't refuted any of Grahams points, or added anything of any real substance to the discussion. All you do is make ad hominem attacks and false analogies.
Now, let's develop some perspective on this article. Anders Breivik claimed that climate scientists conspired to falsify data in order to prop up the premise of climate change. As a denialist, do you agree with Anders Breivik?
anonymouse replied on Permalink
One should only 'feel'
One should only 'feel' "slurred" if one 'feels' associated, affiliated or similar…
I think its terrible to paint everyone on the right with the same brush.. However.. there is that nagging issue regarding the canvas…
Roger B replied on Permalink
There is a slight error in this article. Bethel University is not in St. Thomas, MN. Bethel and St. Thomas are both Universities in St. Paul, MN. Bethel is a conservative fundamentalist Christian University at which "Lord" Monckton gave a speech denouncing John Abraham, who is a professor at the University of St. Thomas. St. Thomas is a Catholic University that "Lord" Monckton referred to as a "half-assed Bible college."
With his beliefs, Breivik
With his beliefs, Breivik would fit right into Harper's Reformatory Party.
anonymous replied on Permalink
So, you're saying Stephen
So, you're saying Stephen Harper is a mass-murderer?
DogSoldier replied on Permalink
That's a fallacy. VJ never
That's a fallacy. VJ never stated that Harper was a mass murderer. I believe this type of fallacy is called a Non-Sequitur.
anonymous replied on Permalink
I believe the best part of
I believe the best part of you ran down your mama's leg.
rum replied on Permalink
pathetic article and as usual a pathetic response by phil where once again he draws the wrong conclusion because of a faulty cause and effect analysis. hey, maybe thats why he is wrong on climate change. he doesnt understand cause and effect. pathetic none the less.
RickJames replied on Permalink
Too calm the rhetoric, I
Too calm the rhetoric, I recommend this site immediately suspend it's use of the heavily charged term "denier". I'm sure, in the interests of peaceful discussion that this adjustment will be happily made so as not to contribute to the stirring up of the crazies.
"Too calm the rhetoric, I
"Too calm the rhetoric, I recommend this site immediately suspend it's use of the heavily charged term "denier". "
Hey I know! We could ban it like they did at WUWT, but allow deniers to mention the terms warmists in every post because hey, that ok isn't it?
It's the most accurate term for someone who flat out refutes evidence & facts. A skeptic is someone who can be convinced. A denier cannot.
They deny the earth is warming, they deny man has anything to do with that warming & they deny there will be any implications because of that warming.
So denier is the most accurate term.
"contribute to the stirring up of the crazies."
That just illustrates what side of the debate they reside from.
Cedric Katesby replied on Permalink
"I recommend this site
"I recommend this site immediately suspend it's use of the heavily charged term "denier"."
It's not a "heavily charged" term. It's a real word to describe a real type of person doing something very specific. However, nobody likes being called it for the same reason people don't like being called a thief or a liar.
Yet thieves do exist. Theft doesn't happen by magic.
Liars do exist. Lies abound and they get out there because of people telling lies.
Deniers do exist. They influence your community. They put the health and safety of children at risk by denying the efficacy of vaccines. If you ever have baby in a hospital, the odd of that child dying of pertussis or measles or chicken pox are higher thanks to deniers.
Holocaust deniers do exist. They cause incredible pain and suffering by denying history.
Tobacco-cancer deniers exist. That doesn't stop them from having their tongues surgically removed or having to carry around an oxygen bottle.
Deniers pit themselves against reality.
Reality doesn't care. Reality will bury them every time.
The trouble is that deniers can harm (via action or inaction) those around them.
Don't mince words. Call a spade a spade.
"They put the health and
"They put the health and safety of children at risk by denying the efficacy of vaccines. If you ever have baby in a hospital, the odd of that child dying of pertussis or measles or chicken pox are higher thanks to deniers.
Another one of my pet hates. The anti vaccine mob. Again, all about money & started by the chiro's & homeopaths ( to get more money for themselves), who without a shred of scientific evidence convince people not to vaccinate their kids. Vaccines that may have had adverse effects on a few, but saved 100's of millions.
Don't get me wrong, I support eastern medicine & have used it many times, but to misrepresent the science & evidence to attract more of the publics money is criminal. Like the fossil fuel companies misinformation campaign against climate science.
RickJames replied on Permalink
The word is so thoroughly
The word is so thoroughly emotionally associated with the holocaust that it's use in other settings stir the same emotions. Emotions that are angry and looking for revenge.
If this article is about the danger of rhetoric, the word denier is an example to consider.


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On the Use of the Geometric Median in Delay-and-Sum Ultrasonic Array ImagingSupporting data for the paper in IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelect. Freq. Contr., "On the Use of the Geometric Median in Delay-and-Sum Ultrasonic Array Imaging"
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Data from Gai et al. (2019) The head circulatory system of Galeaspida (Verteb...This dataset contains six dimensional synchrotron x-ray (SRXTM) and one microfocus (XTM) datasets and computed tomographic datasets from seven galeaspid neurocrania from the...
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coronal mouse brain block (04-2019)3d print files of a brain block to facilitate cutting blocks of mouse brain tissue for sectioning.
Data from GlobalMass (02-2019)This repository contains supporting documentation with background information about the structured expert judgement described in the paper entitled: Ice sheet contributions to...
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Uganda: Anti-Gay Bill And Witchhunt Violates Constitution
Recent protest outside Uganda House, country's High Commission (embassy) in London
The new anti-gay law violates Article 21 of the Ugandan constitution and Articles 2 and 3 of the African Charter on Human and People's Rights - both of which guarantee equal treatment and non-discrimination to all people.
It is part of a broader attack on civil society and is symptomatic of Uganda's drift to Mugabe-style authoritarianism. This wider repression includes a clamp down on protests, strikes, the media and opposition activists.
Summary of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill:
The Bill extends the existing penalty of life imprisonment for same-sex intercourse to all other same-sex behaviour, including the mere touching of another person with the intent to have homosexual relations. Life imprisonment is also the penalty for contracting a same-sex marriage.
Promoting homosexuality and aiding and abetting others to commit homosexual acts will be punishable by five to seven years jail. These new crimes are likely to include membership and funding of LGBT organisations, advocacy of LGBT human rights, supportive counselling of LGBT persons and the provision of condoms or safer sex advice to LGBT people.
A person in authority – gay or heterosexual - who fails to report violators to the police within 24 hours will be sentenced to three years behind bars.
Astonishingly, the new legislation has an extra-territorial jurisdiction. It will also apply to Ugandan citizens or foreign residents of Uganda who commit these 'crimes' while abroad, in countries where such behaviour is not a criminal offence. Violators overseas will be subjected to extradition, trial and punishment in Uganda.
This bill is in some respects even more draconian than the extreme homophobic laws of countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill has been widely misrepresented as increasing the penalty for homosexuality to life imprisonment. This is incorrect. The penalty for anal intercourse has always been life imprisonment. The new law increases the penalty for other same-sex acts - including mere sexual touching - from seven years to life imprisonment. See the penal code below.
In violation of Uganda's constitution:
This Bill violates Article 21 of the constitution of Uganda, which guarantees equality and non-discrimination:
21. Equality and freedom from discrimination.
(1) All persons are equal before and under the law in all spheres of political, economic, social and cultural life and in every other respect andshall enjoy equal protection of the law.
In violation of the African Charter on Human and People's Rights:
It also breaches the equality and anti-discrimination provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Articles 2, 3 and 4), which Uganda has signed and pledged to uphold.
Every individual shall be entitled to the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms recognised and guaranteed in the present Charter without distinction of any kind such as race, ethnic group, colour, sex, language, religion, political or any other opinion, national and social origin, fortune, birth or any status.
Every individual shall be equal before the law. Every individual shall be entitled to equal protection of the law.
EXISTING UGANDA LAW - Prior to Anti-Homosexuality Bill:
Penal Code Act of 1950 (Chapter 120) (as amended)
Section 145. Unnatural offences
"Any person who—
(a) has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature;
(b) has carnal knowledge of an animal; or
(c) permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature, commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for life."
Section 146. Attempt to commit unnatural offences
"Any person who attempts to commit any of the offences specified in section145 commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years."
Section 148. Indecent practices
"Any person who, whether in public or in private, commits any act of gross indecency with another person or procures another person to commit any act of gross indecency with him or her or attempts to procure the commission of any such act by any person with himself or herself or with another person, whether in public or in private, commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for seven years."
Tatchell is a human rights campaigner, and Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation.
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• that the packaging is intact not damaged or wet or in any case altered, as well as the closing material (adhesive tape or metal bands).
Any damage to the packaging and/or the product or if the numbers of packages or indications do not match, must be immediately disputed, by placing SUBJECT TO WRITTEN VERIFICATION on the carrier's proof of delivery.
Once the carrier's document is signed, the Customer cannot file any dispute regarding the exterior characteristics of what was delivered.
Any problems relative to the physical integrity, the correspondence or the completeness of the products received must be reported within 8 days of delivery via e-mail to the address email@example.com.
18. If the material stored in the warehouses of the carrier is not collected within 5 working days due to the repeated inability to deliver at the address indicated by the Customer at the time of the order, the order will be automatically canceled. In this case, Moneta will reimburse the amount received as payment, net of the costs for the attempted, unsuccessful shipment.
Right of withdrawal
19. Pursuant to the European Community regulations in effect, if the customer is a consumer (in other words a natural person who is buying the merchandise for purposes not referred to his/her own professional activity), he/she has the right to withdraw from the purchase agreement for any reason whatsoever, without having to provide explanations and without any penalty, with the exception of the types of products for which this is expressly excluded and barring what is indicated in the next point 19.
20. The right of withdrawal can be exercised within 14 days from the receipt of the product with the following methods:
i) The Customer sends a letter, telegram, fax or e-mail addressed to:
c/o Alkemy Spa
Via San Gregorio 34
20124 Milan
Email: email@example.com.
To this purpose, the withdrawal form published on the website can be used, even though this is not mandatory. Click here to download the form.
ii) The Customer Service contacts the Customer providing via e-mail the Return Authorization Number (RMA).
iii) The Customer lists the RMA Number on the return form received together with the delivery documents.
The product shall be returned to Moneta c/o Alkemy Spa, via Monte Bianco 5/7, 21015 Lonate Pozzolo (VA) within 14 working days from the receipt of the RMA. All costs to return the products are charged to the Customer.
Alkemy S.p.A. will collect the products at the shipping cost mentioned in the website only if, due to their nature, the Customer cannot return them by mail.
IMPORTANT: no returned merchandise will be accepted unless it has a returned authorization.
21. The right of withdrawal is in any case subject to the following conditions:
the right applies to the product purchased in its entirety; it is not possible to exercise the right to withdraw only on a part of the product purchased (i.e.: parts, accessories etc....);
the item purchased must be intact and returned in its original packaging, complete with all its parts (including packaging and any documentation and accessory: manuals, etc...); in order to limit damage to the original packaging we recommend, when possible, to place it in a second box on which a label must be placed listing the RMA number (return authorization number); in all cases, avoid placing labels or adhesive tapes directly on the original package of the product;
the shipment, until the verification of receipt in our warehouse, is the complete responsibility of the customer;
in case of damage to the item during transport, Moneta will report this to the customer (within 5 working days from the receipt of the item in its warehouses) so that he/she can promptly file a report against the carrier chosen and obtain the reimbursement of the value of the item (if insured); in this case, the product will be made available to the customer for its return, at the same time canceling the request for withdrawal;
Moneta is not responsible in any way for damages or theft/loss of returned goods shipped without insurance;
upon receipt, the product will be examined to assess any damages or tampering not resulting from the transport, which will be charged to the Customer. In any case the customer will be only responsible for the decrease in the value of the merchandise resulting from a different use of the product from the intended one to define its nature, characteristics and operation;
22. Except for any refurbishment cost for damages according to the preceding paragraph and net of the direct return costs pursuant to paragraph 18 (only if the Customer doesn't return the products directly by mail), Moneta will reimburse the customer for the entire amount already paid, within 14 days from the receipt of the withdrawal notice, by refunding the amount debited to the Credit Card or by Bank Transfer. In this last case, it will be the customer's responsibility to promptly provide the bank details for the reimbursement (IBAN code of the current account of the invoice recipient).
Moneta may suspend the reimbursement until receipt of the products or evidence by the Customer that the products have been returned, if prior.
23. The right is forfeited completely due to lack in the essential condition of integrity of the item (package and/or its content) if v verifies that integrating elements of the product are missing (accessories, parts, manuals, ...);
If the right of withdrawal has been forfeited, Moneta will arrange for the relevant communication via registered letter with return receipt; the product will remain available to the Customer for 30 (thirty) days from the date the registered letter was sent. After this deadline, the product will be disposed of without further notice.
24. All the products sold by Moneta are covered by a 24 month warranty for non-conformity. To use the warranty service, the Customer must keep the invoice (or the DDT) which he/she will received at his residence
25. The 24 month warranty applies to the product with non-conformity, provided the product is used correctly, in compliance with its intended use and with what is provided in the attached technical documentation. This warranty is reserved for the private Consumer (natural person who purchases the merchandise for purposes not referable to his/her professional business). In case of non-conformity, Moneta will arrange, at no expense to the Customer, to refurbish the non-conformity of the product through repair or replacement, or cancellation of the agreement.
26. In case of DOA (Dead on Arrival: product not working upon delivery) the manufacturer reserves the right to replace the product or to credit the entire amount depending on product availability. The replacement or possible repair time of the product depends exclusively on the policies of the manufacturer.
27. If, for any reasons, they should not be able to provide their customer with a product under warranty (restored or replaced), Moneta may, at their own discretion, arrange to return the entire amount paid or replace it with a product of equal or superior characteristics.
28. No damages can be requested from Moneta for any delays in carrying out the replacements.
29. If the application of the warranties anticipates the return of the product, the items must be returned by the Customer in the original package (complete with all its parts (including packaging and any documentation and accessory: manuals, accessories, etc...); in order to limit damage to the original package, we recommend, when possible, to place it in a second box; in all cases labels or adhesive tape should not be placed directly on the original package of the product.
30. The data controller is Alkemy Spa, Via San Gregorio 34, 20124 Milan.
31. Any complaint must be addressed to Moneta, c/o Alkemy Spa, Via San Gregorio 34, 20124 Milan. For any additional information: E-mail: email@example.com
Applicable law
32. The sale agreement between the Customer and Moneta is entered into in Italy and regulated by the Italian Law. For the settlement of civil and criminal disputes resulting from this distance sales agreement, if the Customer is a consumer the Court of reference of his/her municipality of residence has jurisdiction. In all the other cases, the Court of Milan has exclusive jurisdiction.


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2012 California ALJ & Mediator Training
April 16-20, 2012
Sheraton Universal City Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
The Academy for IDEA Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers, on behalf of the California Office of Administrative Hearings, conducted a five-day training for special education hearing officers and mediators at the Sheraton Universal City Hotel in Los Angeles, California, on April 16-20, 2012. Attendance was available to any person currently serving as a special education hearing officer or mediator.
|Monday, April 16
|1:00 - 4:30 pm
|Mediating with Parties Who Are Not Native English Speakers
|Karen Bhangoo, Ph.D.
|Marc Purchin, M.B.A
|Tuesday, April 17
|8:30 am - Noon
|Psychological Testing: What You Need to Know About SLD and ADHD
|Amy Majlke, Ph.D.
|1:15 - 3:00 pm
|Current Problems in the Conduct of Hearings
|Panel Chair: Hon. Timothy L. Newlove, ALJ
|3:15 - 4:30 pm
|Deaf Education in the 21st Century: Assumptions, Myths and Misunderstandings
|Marc Marshark, Ph.D.
|Wednesday, April 18
|8:30 - Noon
|Psychoeducational Evaluations: Why You Hear Different Answers From Different Sides
|Grace A. Mucci, Ph.D., ABPdN
|Perry D. Passaro, Ph.D.
|1:15 - 4:30 pm
|Review of Recent Caselaw
|Prof. Perry A. Zirkel
|Thursday, April 19
|8:30 - Noon
|IDEA, FAPE and the 2004 Amendments
|Prof. Ruth Colker
|1:15 - 3:00 pm
|Evaluating Experts and Expert Testimony
|Hon. Kristin Miller (ALJ GA)
|3:15 - 4:30 pm
|Who Can Get An IEE - and How
|Mary Schwartz (IHO IL)
|Friday, April 20
|8:00 - 11:00 am
|Writing Better Decisions (III)
|Prof. Elizabeth Francis


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There are literally more iPhone cases on the show floor than CES attendees, but only one that uses the same bracelet technology that made the 90's easy to forget.
Case-Mate's new Snap case for the iPhone 4 and 4S features a rubberised kick stand on the back that pops out when the metal strip inside is snapped. It will prop your phone up in either portrait or landscape orientations, while looking awkwardly phallic in the process. Available soon for around £25 in a variety of colour options. [Case-Mate]


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The Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund (SCSF) provides individual grants ranging from $1,500 to $2,500 to every student who qualifies and reapplies yearly, from admission to graduation.
The grant can be used to cover tuition expenses and related supplemental educational expenses such as books, lab fees, travel and select costs of living. All Shawn Carter Scholars are required to "give back" by conducting community service and by serving as mentors to younger, aspiring Shawn Carter Scholars.
The Foundation was established by her and her son Shawn Carter after her retirement. The Foundation was essentially formed because Ms. Carter wanted to create "something that would enhance the future of our young people." The Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation is unique in that it offers scholarships to single mothers, children who attend alternative schools, students who have earned a GED, students with grade point averages of 2.0 and students who have previously been incarcerated, etc. but desire a higher educational opportunity. This group is generally not the recipients of college scholarships and is typically ignored by the Board of Education. The Shawn Carter Foundation offers scholarship opportunities to any under-served student across the United States who desires a higher education. One of the key questions asked by the Foundation when students apply for a scholarship is: What are your plans to give back to the community?".
All high school seniors, undergraduate college students, and students at vocational or trade schools are eligible to apply. All applicants must be US citizens, 25 years old or younger, and have a minimum GPA of 2.0.
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Maryland Sea Grant, part of the University System of Maryland, plays an important role in the network of organizations working to preserve and restore the Chesapeake Bay and Maryland's coastal waters.
We serve as a bridge between scientific expertise and the needs of people who manage, conserve, enjoy, and make their living from the Chesapeake Bay, America's largest and most productive estuary.
Our mission combines scientific research, education, and public outreach. Guided by our strategic plan, we work to develop sound ideas and practices that can enhance the Bay's ecology as well as the businesses and jobs that depend on it.
Working with a variety of partners, we act as an "honest broker" to spread science-based, useful, unbiased solutions to a wide audience.
We are pursuing these efforts at an important time in the Bay's history. An unprecedented array of activities is underway to reverse decades of damage to the Chesapeake and coastal bays' environments.
Maryland Sea Grant's contributions to those efforts include:
- Research: A cornerstone of our program is the funding of scholarly research at the region's universities and labs that is relevant to the Bay's restoration. These research projects improve understanding of Bay ecosystem dynamics, water quality, commercial fisheries species, and more. Many of these studies' findings offer direct applications to public policy and management of natural resources.
- Education: We work to improve and spread environmental-science education at all educational levels. We help school teachers obtain professional development training and create new marine-science based lesson plans they can use in the classroom. We support graduate fellows who work directly with funded researchers and sponsor undergraduate students through a summer research program.
- Extension: Our specialists across Maryland share sound conservation and business practices with diverse audiences. We advise community groups, teachers, government officials, aquaculture businesses, seafood processors, and others. We offer expertise in aquaculture, education, seafood technology, marine economics, land-use planning, and water quality.
- Communications: Our communications staff plays a key role in informing the public about how scientists are helping to understand and preserve the Bay. We produce a quarterly magazine, documentary films and short videos, and news articles that provide context, depth, and narrative that nonscientists can understand and enjoy. Read our free award-winning magazine, Chesapeake Quarterly.
- Strengths in scientific synthesis: Issues surrounding the marine and coastal environment are inherently interdisciplinary -- they are as much about social science and economics as marine science. We fill the challenging role of bringing together diverse information from multiple sources and crafting a big-picture understanding of issues through reports and workshops. For example, we convened a scientific review of the long-running efforts to replenish the Chesapeake's native oyster population. The review's conclusions led to new insights and public discussions about the importance of monitoring and evaluating restoration efforts to assure their effectiveness.
- Strengths in facilitation: We build bridges among researchers and other groups who care about Maryland's natural resources. We are called upon to guide discussions and decision-making processes among multiple stakeholders about environmental issues that can be contentious and complex -- for example, a five-year project we facilitated on Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management. We strive to provide a neutral platform where fair and informed solutions to complicated and sensitive issues can be developed.
Maryland Sea Grant, founded in 1977, is administered by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the State of Maryland, Maryland Sea Grant forms part of a network of 33 university-based Sea Grant programs around the country.
Our program's management approach includes a strategic plan developed through dialogue with representatives of the wide range of audiences invested in the issues we study.
Learn more about Maryland Sea Grant's achievements.
Read a message from our director, Fredrika Moser, Ph.D.


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101 New Skill Uses gives you yes, you guessed it 101 New Skill Uses, that will help you roll the dice on a new way of doing things.
From leaping charges into battle, to intricate seductions that leave you with a willing informant, to skill uses that suppress cursed magic items, along with a way to get magic items to activate faster, and using the heal skill to harm, 101 New Skill Uses brings a host of new options and risks to your characters actions.
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Jonathan Roberts cartographer for Kobold Quarterly, The Breaking of Forstor Nagar, and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents another Fantastic Map: "Over The Rooftops".
This multi-page PDF allows you to print out the battlemap at a 1 square=1 inch scale as a letter-format or A4 map and is also available in a printer-friendly light grayscale version. High-Resolution JPEGs of the maps with and without grids, along with individual images for the barricades, ladders, lightning ballista, target areas, and wagons. The file also contains a MapTool file set up for quick use in a 4E, PFRPG, or any OGL game.
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Headed down the Dark Pathways!
How can you say "No" to a FREE collection of Pathfinder templates, encounters, feats and domains, and all of it bundled together with a new fiction piece by author David Bain? You'd have to be crazy to turn it down.
Includes an interview with over Creighton Broadhurst of Raging Swan Press and Living Greyhawk fame.
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Los Angeles White Collar Crime Lawyer
White Collar Crime - An Overview
Crimes that do not involve physical violence, and that relate largely to financial matters, are often called "white collar crimes." White collar crimes involve most of the same legal principles as do other crimes, and people charged with white collar crimes have the same rights and protections as defendants accused of other crimes. On the other hand, white collar offenses are often very complex, and involve numerous complicated legal and factual issues. The possible penalties include fines, prison sentences, and criminal forfeiture. If you have been charged with a white collar crime, it is essential that you seek legal counsel from an experienced criminal defense attorney at once so that you can preserve your rights and protect your future.
Fraud Crime Overview
Fraud is a very serious, and very broadly defined, criminal offense. Criminal fraud is a charge that can be brought against a business, as well as against an individual (a business cannot be put in prison, but can be hit with substantial fines). A charge of fraud-let alone a conviction-can wreak havoc with the reputation of a person or company charged. Zealous legal representation is critical in fraud cases, as in all criminal cases. It is critical for an accused to seek help from an experienced criminal defense attorney.
Insider Trading
Insider trading is an offense that has received a lot of attention in the media in recent years. The charge is a serious one, and can subject a person to both civil and criminal liability. It is critical for an accused to seek help from an experienced criminal defense attorney.
Penalties for White Collar Crime
The most frightening part of being a defendant in a white collar criminal case-or any criminal case-is the potential penalty involved. Most white collar defendants have no prior experience with the criminal justice system, and the question of what could happen looms understandably large in their minds. An experienced criminal defense attorney can give specific advice on the possible penalties in a particular case.
Civil Consequences of White Collar Crime
A prosecution for a white collar crime can lead to more than criminal penalties. Many white collar offenses may give rise to civil lawsuits, brought either by the federal or state government, or by the victims of the offense. Any civil liability imposed as a result of these suits is in addition to, and not a substitute for, the penalties imposed in the criminal case. An experienced white collar crime attorney can give specific advice on the possible civil liability in a particular case.
Eisner Gorin LLP has been recognized as one of the best U.S. law firms, based on the experience, professionalism, and ethics of its criminal defense lawyers and attorneys. We aggressively defend clients in all Southern California courtrooms on state and federal charges, including DUI, DMV, misdemeanor, felony, juvenile cases, in the following communities and courthouses.


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Lohse, 'pen come through for Crew on wild night
Despite four errors, righty gives up just three runs (one earned)
PITTSBURGH -- Mark Reynolds called it an "ugly, terribly-played game" for the Brewers, who wound up winning anyway -- with a little bit of magic.
Kyle Lohse covered the Brewers' defensive bumbles with 6 1/3 quality innings, Carlos Gomez hit a memorably long home run, and Milwaukee relievers made big pitch after big pitch Friday to strand a boatload of Pirates on the bases in the late innings. But this will go down as the night Martin Maldonado literally knocked the cover off the baseball in the Brewers' 5-3 win at PNC Park.
"Never in my whole life have I seen that," said Mr. Baseball himself, Bob Uecker.
Maldonado's hit came straight off the sandlot in the sixth inning, a bouncer to third base that might have been mundane had the baseball not broken at the seams before it reached Pedro Alvarez's glove. Maldonado was safe, everybody had a good laugh, and it led to a Brewers run when Gomez followed with an infield hit of his own for a 5-2 lead.
The Pirates cut their deficit to 5-3 in the seventh inning, but stranded six men on base over the final three innings, as Brewers relievers Will Smith, Jim Henderson and Francisco Rodriguez each authored a harrowing escape.
When Reynolds deflected a line drive and made a bare-handed catch to end the game, the Brewers had the best record in baseball at 12-5, though they didn't play like it for much of the night. Milwaukee's four errors were a season high, including one charged to Reynolds when he bumped third baseman Aramis Ramirez trying to field a routine infield pop-up by the Pirates' very first batter, Starling Marte.
Marte promptly stole second base and scampered to third when Maldonado's throw sailed wide for another error, and he scored on Russell Martin's groundout. In the third inning, Gomez and shortstop Jean Segura bobbled the baseball on Martin's RBI single, putting Lohse in a precarious situation. He managed to wiggle free with the bases loaded and the deficit only 2-0.
It was the first of many Brewers escapes.
"You have to credit Lohse for pitching around all of the [trouble] we caused for him," said Reynolds.
Lohse improved to 11-2 lifetime against the Pirates by limiting the damage to three runs (one earned) on four hits in 6 1/3 innings, with three walks and five strikeouts. It was significantly more of a challenge than five days earlier, when Lohse needed only 100 pitches to breeze through 8 2/3 innings against the same team.
"I kind of pride myself on being able to take myself out of the moment and just make pitches," he said. "The way that first inning went, that first [error on Reynolds], that's part on me, because I didn't direct traffic as well as I should have. After that, you try to minimize the damage. …
"It wasn't pretty. They all count the same. Sometimes you have to win ugly. Sometimes everything goes just right and you catch breaks; tonight was just kind of a grind-it-out night."
While Lohse and four Brewers relievers did their work, Brewers hitters mounted a comeback.
Scooter Gennett's two-run double and Maldonado's RBI single in the fourth inning turned a two-run deficit into a 3-2 lead, and Gomez made it 4-2 in the fifth with a monstrous home run that struck high off the batter's eye in straightaway center field. It was his team-best fifth home run this season.
"We made a lot of mistakes, and they didn't take advantage," Gomez said. "We made a couple of errors, we put a lot of men on base, and they didn't score runs when we gave them the opportunity. We took advantage the next inning [the fourth] and found a way to make runs."
Pirates starter Charlie Morton lost after allowing five runs on eight hits in six innings. He's 2-6 in 11 career starts against the Brewers.
"There was a tale of two Charlies tonight," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "The first three innings and the second three innings."
Lohse kept the Pirates off the scoreboard from the third inning until the seventh, when another Brewers error -- charged to Segura after a wild throw -- led to another unearned Pirates run. Clint Barmes scored on Andrew McCutchen's two-out double off Brewers reliever Tyler Thornburg, snapping Thornburg's streak of 21 consecutive batters retired and cutting Milwaukee's lead to 5-3.
With the tying run in scoring position, left-hander Smith caught Alvarez looking at a nasty breaking ball for Strike 3. After Smith found trouble in the eighth, Henderson took over and put the go-ahead runner on base before getting Marte to pop out with the bases loaded. In the ninth, Rodriguez walked the leadoff man, but retired the heart of the Pittsburgh order -- McCutchen, Alvarez and Neil Walker -- for career save No. 309, one shy of Goose Gossage for 20th in Major League history.
"We had a lot of innings with men on base, and our pitchers made nice pitches when they needed to," Maldonado said.
When someone suggested to manager Ron Roenicke it was a "team win," he smiled.
"I guess that's what you call it," Roenicke said. "We were fortunate to win the game, especially the way we started out. It was just one of those games. Goofy stuff happened early, goofy stuff with Maldy hitting that ball. I haven't seen that before. … I don't know. It was a strange game."


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Central Africa: Great Lakes Region and Cameroon Article produced for The Indigenous World 2005, IWGIA's Yearbook, published May 2005
To obtain a copy of The Indigenous World 2005 from IWGIA, click here
At the International Conference on Peace, Security, Democracy and Development in the Great Lakes region in November 2004, 11 heads of state signed an agreement to end conflicts in the Great Lakes region, although the strategy to implement the declaration have yet to be agreed in inter-ministerial meetings during 2005.Despite this, conflicts continued to rage throughout the region, particularly in eastern DRC. There were signs of improving regional relations when the Congolese authorities signed separate joint verification mechanisms to improve border security with Rwanda and Uganda, while in August DRC, Rwanda and Uganda agreed to disarm groups operating within their territories within the year. Nevertheless, hostilities resumed in November when Rwanda's President Kagame announced they would invade DRC again to disarm and repatriate Hutu militants because the Congolese authorities were not acting quickly enough to do so.


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Belchertown, Massachusetts
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Belchertown is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1761 and was previously called (Cold Spring Plantation). It can be found in Hampshire county and is a part of the Northampton registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at 2 Jabish St., Belchertown 01007. On the attached map, Belchertown is shown as 19 in Hampshire county.
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