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Hundreds attend funeral of Lejeune Marine killed in Duplin Co. plane crash
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He died in a plane crash while on his way to a fellow Marine's funeral. On Tuesday, it was his own funeral that drew hundreds of mourners.
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» NC OKs higher rates to keep Blue Cross policies
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What a way to say goodbye to Floyd Casey Stadium.
Thanks to Waco PD Sgt. WP Swanton for this great post-game pic:
What a way to say goodbye to Floyd Casey Stadium.
Thanks to Waco PD Sgt. WP Swanton for this great post-game pic:
It's that time of year again. And every year our Ft. Hood AUSA toy drive has been getting bigger and bigger thanks to your generous donations and help.
Here is the link or click the picture below.
The toy drive benefits the Central Texas-Fort Hood Association of United States Army.
All you have to do is purchase one of the toys on the list. They are then collected and donated to children of deployed soldiers who cannot afford a Christmas or have some major life-altering event this time of year.
Listen to my interview with event organizer Matthew Wright to get more information on this year's event:
Check back here for the latest updates on closings and delays due to weather.
REGULAR TIME: Baylor, MCC, Waco ISD, Midway, Robinson ISD, Connally ISD and McGregor.
Axtell ISD - 2 hour delay
Christ Church School in Temple - Closed 12/6
Cranfills Gap ISD - School will begin at 10:00 a.m.
Dawson ISD will be CLOSED Friday.
Education Service Center Region 12 - Closed 12/6
Frost ISD - Closed 12/6
Hallsburg ISD - School and bus routes will be delayed two hours.
Hubbard ISD - School will begin at 10:00 a.m.
Jonesboro ISD - School will begin at 10:00 a.m. Bus routes will run two hours later than regularly scheduled.
Meridian ISD will have a two hour delay Friday.
Moody ISD - 2 hour delay
Mullin ISD - 2 hour delay. School will begin at 10:00 a.m. Bus routes will run two hours later than regularly scheduled.
Riesel ISD - 2 hour delay
Valley Mills ISD - School will begin at 10:00 a.m. Bus routes will run two hours later than regularly scheduled.
West ISD - 2 hour delay. Bus routes will run two hours later than regularly scheduled.
Whitney ISD will have a two hour delay. Buses will be two hours late and there will be no AM kindergarten.
Central Texas Youth Rodeo at McGregor Arena - Canceled for the weekend
The III Corps and Fort Hood senior commander has authorized delayed reporting for Dec. 6.
All units will cancel physical training.
Soldiers and Airmen will report to work at 9 a.m.
Department of the Army civilians will report to work at 8 a.m.
Contract personnel should contact their employers for report times.
Meadows CDC will open for mission essential personnel at 5:30 a.m.. All other CYSS child care programs such as School Age Care (SAC) and CDCs will open at 7 a.m.
Fort Hood military and civilian personnel are encouraged to check for updates on the post's Web site at www.hood.army.mil , Fort Hood Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/forthood , local radio and television stations or call the Fort Hood weather hotline at (254) 287-6700.
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I almost didn't wast the time and effort to post this. I've pointed out the Trib's politically correct BS so many times before it's become tiresome.
But this one was too obvious to pass up.
From the December 4, 2013 Waco Trib: Police: Man shot in home after refusing strangers gas money.
And here is how the Trib describes the suspects: "Gillman answered the door to find two men in their mid-20s, who asked him for gas money, Swanton said."
From the Waco Police news release on the same incident: "As Gillman answered the door he stated that two (unknown to the victim) black male suspects, described as in their mid-twenties and wearing hoodies, asked him for gas money."
Notice anything glaringly absent from the Trib's account of the suspects?
And then there's this...
From the December 3, 2013 Waco Trib: Police look for help to ID robbery suspect
And how does the Trib describe the suspect here: "The robber, described as being a white man who wore glasses, a black ski mask, a black coat and a white shirt, went to Smoke City, 5201 Sanger Ave., Nov. 19 and demanded money."
Got it.
And just to be clear, the Trib has a history of inconsistently identifying the racial identity of crime suspects. So either the Trib is randomly incompetent or they just let each reporter pick and choose when to identify the race of suspects. Either way, it's dangerous to the community and must really piss off the police who are the ones who are asking the public's help in trying to identify and catch these a-holes.


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Painting, "The First Grain Elevator in Chicago, 1838" by Lawrence C. Earle |
From the earliest interpretations of the U.S. Constitution by legendary Chief Justice John Marshall, an important and continuing legal dispute has been between state and federal regulation of business. Article I empowers Congress "to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States," a definition stretched over the years to cover businesses with only a modest connection to interstate commerce, but the states have a legitimate role, too, notably in protecting public health and safety. Where to draw the line?
For instance, Congress and the Supreme Court have interpreted "interstate commerce" to validate such widely disparate federal legislation as farm planting limits in the Depression and the public accommodations non-discrimination requirements of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. At the same time the Court has upheld state business laws, for instance, in the formative years of the nineteenth century, a New York insolvency statute, Philadelphia's regulation of ship pilots, and New England states' restrictions on alcoholic beverages imported from other states.
Two other notable Supreme Court nineteenth-century business cases concerned huge Chicago grain warehouses, called elevators because they moved grain up and down. One dispute concerned a state license requirement and price-fixing regulations for grain warehouses. The Supreme Court's influential ruling in this dispute would be cited in future cases stretching over a century. The other Chicago case was a rare curiosity at the Supreme Court: at issue was the puncture of a warehouse on the Chicago River, and the resulting loss of grain valued at $394.38 into the water, by the errant boom of a schooner being towed, inexpertly, by a tug boat.
Loading the great whaleback ship at the famous grain elevators, Chicago, U.S.A. (1895) NYPL Digital Gallery ID G90F176_011F |
In the first case the warehouse owners, who had been fined $100 for their refusal to obtain the state license and for charging more than the prescribed rates, retained one of Chicago's leading lawyers, William C. Goudy.
Goudy was prominent and respected in civic affairs and politics as well as in the law. He was a contemporary of Melville Fuller, who later became chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1888-1910). Goudy sometimes collaborated with Fuller, sometimes opposed him.
Notably, Goudy was a very early advocate of freedom of the press, more than a half century before that First Amendment guarantee was actually enforced by the Supreme Court. He defended the editor of the Chicago Times against both libel and criminal contempt of court charges. A leader of the Democratic Party, Goudy served as the Democratic national committeeman from Illinois and was a finalist in the legislature's election of a United States senator in 1877, the same year that the warehouse dispute, called Munn v. Illinois, [one of The Granger Cases] was decided by the Supreme Court.
Goudy argued that, under the Constitution, only Congress could regulate interstate commerce, which was clearly involved here because, as the Court acknowledged, Chicago was "the greatest grain market in the world," shipping Midwest produce from fourteen warehouses to many eastern states and even directly to Europe. He also contended that, because the owners had built their warehouse and operated it before the Illinois licensing and price-control law was enacted, it violated the Fourteenth Amendment's standard that a state may not deprive a person of his property without due process of law.
However, while admitting that it found no precedent "for a statute precisely like this," the Court ruled against Goudy. Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, noting "the vast importance of the questions involved," declared that neither the commerce clause nor the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited such state regulation of private property functioning as a public business, and therefore "the statute in question is not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States." Two justices dissented forcefully, terming the statute "an invasion of private rights."
It followed, then, that the case of the schooner's damage to another Chicago grain warehouse produced a similar result: the operator of the tugboat was not shielded by the commerce clause from liability under Illinois law. In its opinion, rendered in 1886, the Supreme Court cited Munn v. Illinois as a precedent. So did dozens of subsequent Supreme Court interpretations of the commerce clause, most recently in 1987. A long tail, indeed.
Mercifully, the Chicago Tribune, in reporting the Munn decision, neglected to mention that the losing lawyer was none other than the highly-esteemed William C. Goudy.
Joe Mathewson, a former Supreme Court reporter for The Wall Street Journal, teaches journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School and is the author of The Supreme Court and the Press: The Indispensable Conflict (www.supremecourtandthepress.com), published by the Northwestern University Press in its Visions of the American Press series edited by David Abrahamson.
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"Avatar" director James Cameron's company is launching a joint venture in China to market its 3-D technical wizardry to the country's fast-developing film and television industries.
Cameron Pace Group's announcement Wednesday comes as the fast growth of China's film market is attracting Hollywood studios that are rushing to link up with local partners.
The venture with two Chinese partners will supply 3-D filming technology and production services, said Cameron and his business partner, Vince Pace. They said they are discussing possible collaboration with state broadcaster China Central Television on developing 3-D TV.
"This is an enormous untapped market that is right on the verge of the transition from 2-D to 3-D," said Cameron in an interview. "This is the best place for us to create a kind of second home."
The Chinese partners are Tianjin North Film Group, a state-owned film and television production company, and Tianjing Binhai Hi-Tech Development Group, which operates a technology park in Tianjin, a port city east of Beijing where the venture will be based.


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Posted: Feb 25, 2013 4:24 PM by MTN News
Updated: Feb 25, 2013 4:37 PM
VIRGINIA CITY - The 14-year-old boy accused of bringing guns into a Harrison school late last month is receiving mental health treatment.
The teen was absent for his detention hearing in Madison County Monday morning.
A juvenile probation officer and the county attorney told the court that he had just been entered into a treatment facility and they did not want to pull him out for the hearing.
According to Monday's testimony, the teen had undergone a mental health evaluation at the request of his parents before the incident at Harrison School.
In court, the boy's probation officer said he will be undergoing a second mental health evaluation in the treatment facility.
Court documents state that it is too early to decide the course of the case until the treatment is complete.
On Jan. 25, in what court documents say was a political statement, the teen reportedly brought two guns into the school, intending to prove that you don't need an assault rifle to carry out a school shooting.


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Yesterday afternoon DJ Clue bombarded the blogs with a handful of exclusive records by the likes of A$AP Rocky, Pusha-T, 2 Chainz, MGK, Young Jeezy and Lloyd Banks, and almost immediatly the internet went into a frenzy. Later that day, Clue unleashed 'Desert Storm Radio: The Takeover', a mixtape featuring all his newbies plus some of the hottest tracks that were released in the past few days.
Above yo can stream a loosie by the A$AP crew's head-honcho which won't be featured in his forthcoming album, but the Harlem representative still goes in over spaced-out synths as he talks about he three favorite things "Pussy Money Weed".
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Todays set of uploads is not for the squeamish! I was taking my usual stroll, with cam, in the meadow yesterday, but was not expecting to find anything to photograph as it was so windy. I had virtually given up when I almost trod on this beautiful preying mantis, together with its prey, a little grasshopper. He was the largest mantis that I have seen, about 3 in length, and proudly holding his dinner in his front paws. When I produced the camera he started to eat his dinner, which unfortunately was still alive at the time (he obviously likes his dinner hot! I have uploaded V.5 at the end, not the best of the bunch, but the first image I took, where the mantis was proudly holding up the little grasshopper for me to see.
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Title: | raw nature |
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Uploaded: | 20 Oct 2010 - 5:27 AM |
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you are now known as the bug lady ! these are awesome truly brilliant
It looks like she's enjoying her meal.... Excellent set, great documentation,
V5 really is special .... surreal even
Looks like no breaky for me today
But what 5 wonderful shots you have got
Super set. But it may be some time before I can fancy crunching on crisps again...
V5 is the outstanding shot and really does deserve its own upload, it's quite extraordinary.
Fantastic set of macro work again. Great composition. V5 I like most.
I'm glad I've already eaten! Love how he's showing you his catch in V5, Carol! Brilliant set.
Perfect 10.
I too do not appreciate the the tradition of sacrifice.Just turned my head & all was over & no photograph.
This is an outstanding set Carol, you certainly know how to 'get em'
V5 has it for me today, the composition is superb and the background is so very complimentary. Too cold here today, first frost this morning!
Sad, but that is nature. Amazing images Carol, especially V5 which is my favourite.
great set I am going with V5 for the two animals and perspective - as in size and clarity of the two varied species
Great set of macro shots V5 for me excellent capture.
V5, I feel is one of the top shots, Carol.All photo enthusiasts should view V5. You are a wonderful recorder of Nature's events - Raja.
V5, a fantastic image Carol, superb observation and capture.
An incredible set of natural history images, this is outstanding work
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Watertown— This Sunday at 11:00 a.m., the Zoo at Thompson Park will be celebrating the one-year birthday for their youngest Otter Molly.
Zookeepers will be providing Molly with a special cake to eat and decorating her exhibit. They will also have delicious donuts and hot beverages available in the Discovery Center for everyone else to enjoy.
At the end of March, Molly will be leaving the New York State Zoo and relocating to her new home at the Akron Zoo in Akron, Ohio. There she will be a part of a brand new exhibit, the Mike & Mary Stark Grizzly Ridge which will include grizzly bears, red wolves, coyotes, river otters, black bears and eagles.
This fun day at the Zoo is open to those that want to stop by and wish Molly a happy birthday or see her before she will leave. The event is free for members; regular admission prices apply for non-members.


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Indy Quarterfinals Reveal Bright Future for Midwest Lacrosse Read the latest from Lacrosse Magazine - spot the Chapter Laxer! Annie Spewak plays with Team Pride at USL Girls All-American Showcase read more ...
On Saturday, June 15, 2013, USL St. Louis/Missouri Chapter and the MSLA partnered to hold a combined event at Gay Field in Clayton, Missouri to bring the top Seniors in Missouri together one more time to play on Missouri turf. The afternoon started with the girls draw at 4:30 for the 2nd Annual Roz Schulte All-Star Game where 26 girls representing the Class of 2013 flaunted their stuff. The boys faced off in for their inaugural event at 6:30 and despite the ominious weather approaching from the West, managed to get in a full game. Approximately 200 family, fans and friends cheered from the sidelines.
2013 Girls - Purple and Orange Squads Photo Gallery posted: here
Elections for the St. Louis - Missouri Chapter Board of Officers were held on September 17, 2012 at the Marriott West in Creve Coeur. The following persons will provide leadership and serve as guides for lacrosse in the greater St. Louis area for the next two years: President: Michael O'Brien Men's Vice President: Jay Cammon Women's Vice President: Judy Anderson Treasurer: Tamara Boots Secretary: Jennifer Vogel At Large: Jim Guffey, Bob Panke, Kevin Finn, Carolyn Freeman, Peter Coser For more contact info, go to: Board of Directors page.
Team USA goalie Devon Wills hopes to become the first woman in Major League Lacrosse, citing it as an opportunity to grow as a player and coach — and to grow the game. Read More
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South Carolina-based Performance Friction Brakes is the latest key partner to join the DeltaWing program for next summer's 24 Hours of Le Mans. Like many components in the new DeltaWing design, Performance Friction has developed a specific package for the car's 2012 debut. With the front wheels of the car featuring only 4in. wide tires, the brakes for the front of the car required a unique packaging solution.
"We are very fortunate to work with key partners like Performance Friction Brakes," said DeltaWing designer Ben Bowlby. "Like EMCO Gears, PFC is based in the U.S. and that has been very handy for us as we finalized the package and they began manufacture of the components. We didn't partner with PFC just because they are in the same country, though, we have joined forces because their products presented a unique solution for the car's braking.
"Unlike many traditional sports cars, we couldn't just take parts off the shelf that were being used by teams up and down pit lane. The front of the DeltaWing is extremely compact, so we had to be very creative with the packaging of the design to ensure adequate performance over 24 hours while keeping the component weights to a minimum. The car is unique in that 60 percent of the braking occurs at the rear wheels, but that doesn't mean we could ignore the front."
"Certainly the DeltaWing concept has shaken up the conventional thinking within the racing community," agreed Darrick Dong, director of motorsports for Performance Friction. "PFC has approached the challenge as to how best to balance the DeltaWing's braking capacity and created quite a bucket list of achievable goals. We are excited to have come up with a quite unique and innovative carbon brake system.
"PFC's brake configuration is very advanced and forward thinking, utilizing shape optimized monobloc calipers featuring a patented pad retraction that was awarded the 2011 Most Innovative New Motorsport Product of the Year Award at the Race Tech World Motorsport Symposium. Coupled with the PFC zero drag brake calipers, PFC's carbon discs and pads are of a continuous strand fiber matrix. This technology is far advanced when compared to the demilitarized carbon products being used by many today. Like the DeltaWing, the PFC brake system has the potential of being a real game changer."
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Making sense of Big DataData science and analysis are key skills in need By Kang Ye-won Big Data has been one of the top buzz words this year. Yet, except for a handful of global platform providers such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon, most companies haven't quite figured out how to utilize the massive amount of data streaming on a daily basis. Almost 73 percent of companies increased collecting data in their organization but 53 percent of them said they use only half of this, according to SAS Institute, a business-to-business (B2B) software provider. So what is at the core of the Big Data fanfare? It's about the technology to deal with Big Data that matters. Because in the smart era, anything in our daily lives can be recorded as data from what we chat about and text on our cellphones to where we eat lunch during the day to what transportation we take on commutes and what we do while on the move. And if smart technologies such as smartphones are to play the role of our senses to perceive information from the slew of data: Big Data technology is like our brain making sense of the information. Insiders describe Big Data has characteristics of three V's — volume, velocity and variety. And the skills on demand are abilities to access and extract key information out of the data deluge, analyze and update the real-time streaming of data, and visualize the outcome for better understanding and application. There is a global shortage of so-called "data scientists" and there lies future opportunities, experts say. Defining Big Data Although there's no specific threshold in defining Big Data, the size of data has grown from hundreds of gigabytes, which is about a laptop's storage size, now to terabytes — thousands of gigabytes — to petabytes and even up to zetabytes. To put the numbers in perspective, Facebook's 845 million users' log data amounts of more than 25 terabytes every day. Twitter generates more than 12 terabytes of tweeting data each day, according to Lee Ji-eun, a manager at IBM Korea. Also the form of today's data is not structured as in Excel files but rather unstructured in shapes ranging from the 140-character tweets to mobile photos to YouTube videos. Despite the buzz, Big Data is not a new concept, at least in finance, said Jim Nelms, the chief information security officer (CISO) at the World Bank, during a Finance IT World conference held by IDG in Seoul. Financial institutions such as banks and large retailers have churned out volumes of data on transactions and customer profiles. "The biggest paradigm shift is that it's fast and accessible to many more people," Nelms said. "The question is how we capture the capabilities we have and harness them for profits," he said. Although no one has quite figured out how to fully monetize Big Data, the possibilities are infinite. For instance, the potential value of data in the U.S. healthcare sector was estimated at $300 billion every year, two-thirds of which come from a reduction of national expenditure by about 8 percent, according to a report by McKinsey Global Institute in May, 2011. In retail, up to a 60 percent jump in net margins was expected and manufacturers can cut nearly half of product development and assembly costs. In technology, the potential value shoots up exponentially. Personal location data alone was projected to lead to more than $100 billion in revenue for service providers and up to $700 billion for end users. Global race The biggest utilizers of Big Data have been the B2B software providers such as IBM, Oracle and EMC. IBM's Watson, a supercomputer that won Jeopardy! last year is a good example of using Big Data technology. It stored 200 million pages of text in its memory and included advanced search and analysis programs, which enabled it to go from data digging to answering within three seconds, to ultimately beat the other two former champions. These large solution providers have been aggressively buying smaller firms specialized in Big Data. This April, IBM acquired Vivisimo, a Pittsburgh-based firm that helps organizations access and analyze Big Data. Another B2B solution provider is MicroStrategy, a Washington D.C.-based company that focuses on mobile intelligence. "As our competitors have been acquired by bigger players, (MicroStrategy) is one of a few left in the field," said Chung Kyung-whu, a senior sales engineer at MicroStrategy in Korea. Following the social media trend, MicroStrategy recently invested in analyzing Facebook data collected from mobile and tablet users. For clients, including clothing brand Guess and professional sports teams, including FC Barcelona and the Washington Capitals, the firm runs apps that collect Facebook fans' personal information including gender, age, marital status and geographic location as well as income and education level, political stance, and likes and dislikes. But the company hasn't been able to connect the dots on how to monetize the data and analysis — that is the challenge for other data analytics. "It's been about a year since that we started to dig into social media data, and in eight out of 10 cases, no insights were found. ... most companies are at a stage of market sensing and trawling tweets at most," Chung said. Experts say the real business model lies in the "intelligent platform" such as an ecosystem built by Google. Most recently, the search giant, which has focused on providing consumer-based free services, released BigQuery, a cloud-based data analytics tool for corporate customers, which can scan terabytes of data in seconds. Google's platform has gradually expanded the field of its data in industries from media and healthcare to game and local traffic, according to Moon Byoung-soon, a researcher at the LG Economic Research Institute (LGERI), in a memo. And in order to succeed, Moon said Google had to master both software and hardware. "Hardware is a key component in terms of distributing services, and the user information collected from them is more precious than anything else," he said. Similar to Google, other platform giants Facebook, Amazon and Apple have all accumulated stacks of user information locked into their own services, which have a mounting potential for Big Data business. Just last Friday, Facebook's most anticipated IPO was set at $38 a share to give the company a valuation of $104 billion, the largest gain by an American company. Despite some investors' worries over the firm's not-yet-so clear strategy on monetization models, the raging interest in the firm's shares indicate the power of its 845 million users' personal data. Local status quo In a recent study by the Korea Communications Commission, more than half of 50 million Korean cellphone owners use smartphones. Despite the high penetration of broadband across the nation, Korea's data only takes up about 9 percent of the global data traffic, said Moon, in a report. The local portal site providers such as NHN and telecom companies including SK, KT and LG, own torrents of data in petabyte sizes but they're mostly limited to domestic use. The closest Big Data local technology is SK Telecom's T Map, a real-time GPS app on mobile and tablet devices, said Lim Byung-hwa, a senior researcher at the Korea Economic Research Institute. One of the reasons for Korea's lag in Big Data is the government's strict regulations on data collection. Korea passed the Personal Information Protection Act, which took effect last September and requires any "data handler" to provide technical security at each step where the personal information is handled. The law also mandates the data handlers to obtain individuals' consent when the information is collected and provide the use of data. Any employers or business companies who don't comply with the rules face up to 10 years in prison or 100 million won in fine. Google recently stirred a controversy on privacy glitch by secretly installing cookies on iPhone users' Web browsers and tracking their search histories. Although this is a matter of ethical debate in the U.S., it is illegal in Korea and local companies have a very limited access to collect personal information for the use of target marketing, Moon said. "The government's regulation needs to loosen up, too, but at the same time, companies need to invest more in protecting online privacy," he said. Koreans also have high resistance toward sharing their information online due to previous privacy breach cases. "If people don't trust the service providers and refuse to share their information, the business won't develop further," he said. Another challenge in Big Data is a shortage of workers with the skills set. The so-called data science is projected to become the next wave of opportunities. The talent is not only limited to abilities in computer science, engineering and maths but also managers and analysts, who can capture insight from large data sets, will be in demand. The U.S. alone faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million experts to handle Big Data and make decisions based on their findings, according to the McKinsey report. Security of data is another area in need. "There's a high deficit in security jobs," said Nelms. As technologies evolve, positions such as chief information officers (CIOs) or CISOs are challenged to take charge in securing sensitive data in more delicately-controlled fashion. The field technologists are expected to have not only technical degrees such as science of security or encryption, but also expertise in the type of data they deal with, whether it's in finance, health care or manufacturing. |


text: This Palpatine action figure was released in 2005 in the Revenge Of The Sith Collection. Hasbro gave the figure seven joints and included five accessories (darth sidious head, 2 darth sidious hands, 2 blue force lightning pieces). Here is what we noticed when we took a closer look at the figure: This Palpatine (Lightsaber Attack!) action figure was released individually cardedFirst the figure was released mistakenly with a blue lightsaber, Hasbro fixed this and then released the figure with a red lightsaberBoth lightsaber hilts are wrong and don't look like what Palpatine's lightsaber looked like in the moviePictured here is the second and corrected version with the red lightsaber, the error version is here: ROTS Palpatine (blue lightsaber)The lightsaber is permanently attached to the right handThis figure came with an extra head, an extra set of hands and blue force lightningThe head can easily be replaced by the second head by just pulling it off the neckBoth heads are sculpted beautifully and capture Palpatine's regular appearance and the Darth Sidious look very well!Both hands can also easly be replaced by the second set of handsThe blue force lightning pieces attach nicely to the wristsWhen the figure is pressed down, the right arm moves up and down (Lightsaber Attack!)Palpatine's body is one solid piece of plastic, so it's a surprise that the figure leans a little bit to the leftThe figure stands OK without help from a stand The articulation details are as follows: swivel neck, 2 swivel arms, 2 swivel elbows, 2 swivel wrists Packaging TextThe Supreme Chancellor encounters questions about his ultimate motives. During a confrontation with Mace Windu, he uses his deadly powers and experiences unexpected and frightening results.


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Customers line-up for Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day in Hunstville, Ala. on Wednesday. Chick-fil-A supporters are eating at the chicken chain's restaurants as the company continues to be criticized for an executive taking a public position against same-sex marriage. / AP Photo/The Huntsville Times, Glenn Baeske
Chick-fil-A corporations president Dan Cathy recently confirmed the popular fast food company opposes same-sex marriage and other gay rights.
The company has consistently donated portions of their profits, including $2 million in 2010, to faith-based organizations including the WinShape Foundation, the Marriage & Family Foundation, and Exodus International, according to reports by Equality Matters.
Students nationwide have reacted to the news, some in opposition, some in support of the company.
Cathys words confirming the privately owned fast-food chains support of a faith-based agenda were magnified when former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee organized Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day to be held on Aug. 1.
Huckabee rallied supporters through a Facebook event page, and over 570,000 people said they would attend. He encouraged Americans to patronize the restaurants as a show of support for Chick-fil-As right to free speech and promotion of traditional [Christian] values.
For Corrina Delia, a rising senior at FSU, attended the appreciation day among long lines of supporters and said she heard of the event mainly through Twitter and Facebook.
Ill support [Chick-fil-A], she said. And I love their food. I am a big private business advocate. I dont care what it is that they do with their money. Chick-fil-A is a private business.
But for FSU students, the Chick-fil-A debate extends past this one appreciation dayan on-campus location of the restaurant is coming soon.
The construction of FSUs Chick-fil-A will be in accordance with general student preference, considering results from a referendum on the ballot during last springs Student Government Association elections. The referendum challenged the restaurant and its leaderships views, but a majority of votersover 60 percentsupported a Chick-fil-A on campus despite the corporations controversial opinions.
Assistant Director of Pride Student Union Shantel Moten said she is disappointed that construction is moving forward with such support.
This isnt about food, its about combating a culture of bigotry, Moten said.
Chick-fil-A does not promote equality and actively works with other hate groups to disenfranchise the queer community. Its pretty upsetting to see one being built on my campus.
Moten views the construction of a Chick-fil-A on campus as offensive and insensitive to the LGBTQ community at FSU.
It creates an atmosphere of intimidation, Moten said. Our grievances are not being met with the appropriate action and it makes us feel like second-class citizens on our own campus.
While Moten and other members of Florida States LGBTQ community are adamant in their disapproval of Chick-fil-A and what the companys social views are, students such as sophomore John Kim believe that this is a matter of plain legality, and that the company is within its rights do as they please with their revenue.
Kim believes Chick-fil-A will benefit the FSU community overall.
[Chick-fil-A] is providing jobs and money for the school, Kim said. Chick-fil-A is paying rent to the University and portions of the money will go to the University and Student Government, and that money can later be spent for the University.
Kim said since Chick-fil-A is a privately owned company, they are not obligated to act in the will of the general populous.
The company has every right to say whatever they please, Kim said. If people are that insulted, they have the right to legally go against the company. If people dont want to go there, its their democratic right not to go. They can go to other on-campus venues.
Moten said, ideally, she would like to see construction cease completely.
All students deserve to feel comfortable and safe on campus, Moten said. Chick-fil-As donations target the LGBTQ community in order to exclude us and deny us rights. That is discrimination and it should be unacceptable.
Students like Cameron Pennant are ambivalent. Pennant, like many other FSU students, enjoys Chick-fil-As food.
However, he said he is divided because he doesnt necessarily agree with the companies ideologies.
Plenty of people love going to Chick-fil-A for their food, Pennant said. As much as I feel conflicted about the situation, I still love waffle fries and their chicken sandwiches.
Pennant said both sides of the conflict, the LGBTQ community and Chick-fil-A, have legal rights to oppose each other.
We have to be prepared to look at both sides of the issue, Pennant said. This isnt just a social issue, its also a legal issue. They have the right to use the money as they want. We still have the right to petition, which is a First Amendment right.
Moten said the Pride Student Unions active disapproval of the company has been a prolonged effort through petitions, the referendum and boycotts.
Boycotting Chick-fil-A has been a tactic we have been using since the information about the donations leaked and we will continue to do everything in our power to make our rights a priority, Moten said.


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Both the scale of the statue and level of devotion make this image startling to me. In discussing with other editors what political statues in America are similar in scale, Mt. Rushmore came to mind. What other ones would compare? In what ways do Americans show similar devotion to our political leaders, past and present?
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North Korean women prepare to bow before the statue of the late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung erected on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea Sunday Aug. 5, 2007.


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From the February 12, 2009 National Review Online
February 12, 2009
by John Fonte
Richard Nadler argues that, for both practical and political reasons, conservatives should have embraced the "comprehensive" immigration-reform legislation that was proposed in Congress in 2007. Perhaps he has forgotten what was in it.
As I wrote two years ago, the bill would have established an impossibly unrealistic one-day background check for illegal immigrants, following which they would have received a temporary visa, and it would have created an amnesty for MS-13 gang members. Other provisions of the bill rejected cooperation between the feds and state and local authorities; established so-called enforcement "triggers"—conditions that had to be met for the "temporary worker" program to take effect—that were almost entirely bureaucratic (e.g., the number of agents hired); did not provide for a real skills-based immigration system; and, according to the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector, would have resulted in lifetime costs of around $2 trillion.
Nadler tells us that there are "three permanent interests involved in immigration": border security; "employment demands," i.e., business interests in cheap, low-skilled labor; and Hispanic ethnic concerns.
In truth, there is only one interest in American immigration policy that should concern us, and that is promoting the "general welfare" of "We the People of the United States." Clearly, this would include—along with serious border enforcement and the economic well-being of all our citizens—an emphasis on the patriotic assimilation (Americanization) of newcomers into the American way of life.
For decades, our official policy of promoting massive low-skilled immigration has been accompanied by a de facto anti-assimilation legal regime. This regime consists of letting immigrants maintain dual allegiances, including voting and even running for office in their birth nations; bilingual education; foreign-language voting in U.S. elections; multilingualism in all federally funded organizations (as mandated by Executive Order 13166); and ethnic preferences ("affirmative action") for new immigrants.
These measures have harmed the patriotic assimilation of immigrants. For example, social scientists Jeffrey Staton, Robert Jackson, and Damarys Canache found in an empirical study that maintaining dual citizenship weakened a naturalized citizen's attachment to the United States. Another study by Zhenchao Qian and Daniel Lichter showed that increased low-skilled immigration led to a decline in inter-ethnic marriage, which is always characterized as the most powerful indicator of cultural assimilation.
There is plenty of other evidence that Americanization is not proceeding very well. A longitudinal study of 5,000 children of immigrants by two Hispanic-American sociologists, Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut, finds that these children are not patriotically assimilating but instead are "selectively acculturating." That is to say, they are learning English, but they identify emotionally with their parents' birth nation instead of with the U.S.A.
A Pew Hispanic Center survey taken about seven months after 9/11 showed the same pattern. Only 34 percent of Latinos who are American citizens considered themselves Americans first; 42 percent identified with the old country first; and 24 percent considered themselves pan-ethnic—"Latino" or "Hispanic"—first. Remember, these are American citizens.
So we have an assimilation problem, which harms American national interests. The good news is that the American people overwhelmingly support patriotic-assimilation policies. A Harris poll commissioned by the Bradley Foundation Project on American National Identity revealed the following attitudes among registered voters in 2008: Fully 90 percent favored "Americanization," defined as "embracing American culture and values" and learning English; 85 percent believe English should be the official language of the United States; 75 percent oppose immigrant dual citizenship; 71 percent oppose multilingual ballots.
I have a proposal for Richard Nadler: Since you don't like enforcement of border security first, what about assimilation first?
Would you agree to a real, comprehensive immigration/assimilation reform package that would include (besides serious border enforcement, which you say you favor) ending bilingual education, outlawing immigrant dual citizenship, ending multilingual voting, repealing Executive Order 13166, and ending affirmative-action preferences for naturalized citizens and their children?
If you say yes, then there could be the start of a conservative agreement on this issue. If you say no (which is what Linda Chavez and Clint Bolick said when I proposed this compromise to them), then you would be saying that you're interested only in increasing low-skilled immigration for short-term political gain, no matter what the cost to national cohesion. In that case, there is no basis for an agreement or even a serious conversation based on principle.
In fact, you would be saying—as you appear to say throughout your NR/NRO piece—that we have to abandon conservative (and, more importantly, American) principles in order to get the votes of certain special-interest groups, including particular types of corporations and a Hispanic demographic that is viewed, inaccurately, as a monolith. Most significantly, you would be saying that you have no problem with a gradual but steady evolution towards a bilingual, binational America—with the result (after decades, to be sure) being the Quebecization of the United States.
John Fonte is a Senior Fellow and Director of Hudson's Center for American Common Culture.
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| Amy Road (TR-735) Over Gravel Run | Rural: Crawford County, Pennsylvania | Metal 3 Panel Pin-Connected Pratt Half-Hip Pony Truss, Fixed | 1895 By Builder/Contractor: Unknown |
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Rehabilitation Date | Main Span Length | Structure Length | Roadway Width | Main Spans | NBI Number |
2002 | 43 Feet (13.1 Meters) | 43 Feet (13.1 Meters) | 16 Feet (4.9 Meters) | 1 | 207235073530450 |
This was a very small three panel pin connected half-hip Pratt pony truss. It featured a wooden deck. An i-beam was added to one side of the deck, supposedly to add strength and support for the bridge. One would expect such an addition to include putting a beam on both sides. This bridge looked unusual with the beam on only one side.
The Historic Bridge Inventory as usual, thinks that small 19th century pin-connected pony trusses are not historic. While it is right in that truss bridges with distinctive details are more significant, a bridge like this, a classic and supposedly "common" pony truss does in fact represent the development of the truss bridge. After all, the bridges that are "common" represent the results of the development, a gradual standardization of bridge design. Furthermore, as this now-demolished bridge helps demonstrate, bridges of this type are no longer common because so many have been demolished.
Information and Findings From Pennsylvania's Historic Bridge InventoryDiscussion of Bridge The ca. 1895, pin connected, single span, 43'-long, Pratt pony truss bridge is supported on concrete filled, built up caissons. The traditionally composed trusses have no innovative or distinctive details. The upper chords and end posts are built up, the lower chords and diagonals are eye bars to facilitate the pinned field connections, and the verticals are laced angles. The fabricator and construction date are not documented in available records. The bridge is one of several nearly identical ca. 1895 pony truss bridges in the county. Sixteen pin connected Pratt pony truss bridges remain in the county with the earliest dating to 1889. It is the early examples and those with distinctive details that represent the significance and development of the technology. This bridge is not historically or technologically significant. Discussion of Surrounding Area The bridge carries 1 lane of an unimproved road over a stream in a sparsely developed, wooded setting. Bridge Considered Historic By Survey: No |
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ALBANY, GA. -- Georgia U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R) is summoning President Barack Obama to reverse a controversial Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule that stems from the new health care law.
Under the law faith-based institutions will be forced to provide health insurance covering contraceptives and abortives, even if it does infringe on religious beliefs.
Senator Chambliss sent out a statement about his letter to the president.
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The Honorable Barack Obama
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Dear Mr. President:
We are writing to express our concerns with the final rule, promulgated on February 10th by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under which virtually all private health care plans would have to cover sterilization procedures and all forms of contraceptive methods that have Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. We urge you to revisit this rule due to the fact that its implementation will unjustly impact religiously-affiliated organizations and individuals.
The implementation of this rule will jeopardize access to vitally important health care services by undermining the religious practices of employers that regard certain contraceptive methods or sterilization procedures as morally objectionable. The Department's recent actions suggest a disregard for the Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty and do not adequately reflect all the public comments received by HHS. The final rule is inconsistent with your stated commitment to avoid skirting constitutional and customary limits on executive branch power.
Implementing a mandate that health insurance plans must provide coverage for all FDA-approved contraceptive methods and sterilization procedures, even if the organization purchasing the plan believes one or more of these services to be immoral, will have troubling consequences. Letting employees receive coverage through their insurance company, rather than receiving coverage directly through an employer, as the Administration proposed last week, would not forestall such consequences:
The final rule leaves few viable options for religiously-affiliated organizations and individuals to avoid using their funds to pay, directly or indirectly, for services they consider morally objectionable. One option, of course, would be to simply stop offering insurance coverage to employees. If forced to choose between their moral obligations and insurance coverage, some religiously-affiliated employers will choose the former. It defies logic that this Administration would promulgate a rule which would have the effect of reducing the availability of health care coverage when the Administration has long maintained that enacting health care reform would expand access to health insurance. A second option for faith-based institutions would be to restrict the individuals they hire and serve to only those sharing the organization's religious tenets in order to meet the rule's narrow definition of a religious employer. Because religiously-affiliated hospitals and other organizations are major employers in many communities, and because such organizations extend services to those in need without regard to the religious affiliation of those they serve, it is hard to comprehend why this Administration would deliberately implement a policy that would have such a detrimental impact.
As you stated on June 26, 2006: "I think we make a mistake when we fail to acknowledge the power of faith in people's lives—in the lives of the American people—and I think it's time that we join a serious debate about how to reconcile faith with our modern, pluralistic democracy." With the above in mind, we urge you to revisit this final rule and ensure the adoption of any changes necessary to ensure the fair treatment of faith-based institutions and all people of faith, consistent with the Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom for all.
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