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This special family audio guide, designed for children ages 5 to 10, offers an informative, dramatic, and fun way to tour the museum and is available in English or Spanish. With 32 stops, it's the perfect length for kids and a great way to inspire them to explore the museum. Audio guides can be purchased with admission tickets or separately at the audio guide counter in the Michigan Avenue or Modern Wing lobbies.
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Introduce your child to the museum's encyclopedic collection with a variety of hands-on activities. Assemble puzzles based on masterpieces you'll see in the galleries, build architectural wonders with colorful blocks, and learn about art through interactive stories and games at Curious Corner.
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Will Obama's gay marriage support backfire?
Karl Rove takes on the politics of the president's gay marriage stance, the new job numbers and much more
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The stakes are high and could not be higher so what do you think are the biggest topics on the news web sites today.
If biggest jobs the economy or even health care.
You guessed wrong.
The news web sites top stories or whether Mitt Romney was a -- fifty years ago and who is dining tonight with President Obama the fund Richard George -- how Hollywood house -- -- -- If you're like twelve -- other on -- Americans and do not have a job.
You may have time to read all about that stuff but no doubt you would much rather have a job and job was that really matters to you.
So what so many Americans still a lot of work do voters really care a governor Romney did when he was a teenager -- the present having dinner with tonight.
-- -- -- -- -- -- Even Harry you -- I'm -- I did a stab at that one problem but how the news media is says seems to be at least not completely or toll of at least certainly there's a significant amount of discussion about that.
Governor Romney fifty years ago and the dining did tonight -- -- Obama.
Well the the the George Clooney fund -- in Los Angeles is catnip to the press because it brings together.
The president and a celebrity.
In Hollywood with a lot of people who I'll walk a red carpet at the at the Academy Awards it's not substantive and really hasn't.
Very little impact on the outcome of the election but they like governing because it's -- and -- a couple things they like.
And then the other one's interesting to me -- the -- -- post rather extensive story -- -- What Mitt Romney may or may not have done when he was in high school fit as you say.
Nearly you nearly fifty years ago and that that clearly is rather odd journalism I'm not -- we learned much about that.
Governor Romney said if I did -- and -- offended people and I apologize I don't remember the incident in question.
I'm not -- it adds much to our knowledge element and and really frankly is a waste of time and energy and effort by what used to be one of the great newspapers in America and -- -- devoting this kind of resources to this kind of a story.
On the Republican candidate I don't remember them.
You know examining -- some of the -- Well -- -- -- loss to Barack Obama's lost years and occidental or what he -- a community organizer or in an in depth large story investigating.
You know well his reverend Wright's comments I did I just don't remember that maybe there was there and I missed a bit.
The seems to me to be silly journalism.
Part jobs that's what so many Americans talking and actually get out from the -- way you you go across the country -- -- -- are scared to death their houses are underwater.
They can't sell their houses to move to a job because they can't get rid of the house.
-- and it is jump still the -- descendant of the the issue for November.
Then every absolutely every poll you see.
Has the economy and jobs way out in front of any other issue everything -- by significance is generally followed by deficits and health -- and dead.
But I mean way out in front as the economy and jobs this is why the administration welcome sings like a discussion celebrity dinners in Los Angeles.
Or governor Romney's pranks.
And when he was in high school they'd like to be talking about anything but jobs.
There's a reason why.
An and an all has to do -- numbers Greta.
Remember the jobs report last week.
For every one person who got a job there were three people who dropped out of the workforce altogether.
One out of every six Americans is unemployed.
Working part time but -- desperately to get full time work or so discouraged they dropped out of the workforce and we know people everybody knows somebody is in that one out of six.
75 to 80% the American people think we're still in a recession.
-- -- thirds of the American people think that the president's policies.
Have either had no effect on the economy or have hurt the economy and then we saw this -- today from Gallup that was released.
People they were asked if after the election do you think.
If Mitt Romney wins will -- do a good job on the economy.
Pretty think President Obama will 6133.
Say that about Romney.
Say about pres Obama does -- and Limbaugh team Obama wants to talk about anything but.
Jobs economy and what are we gonna do to get our country growing again.
But as a candidate in the president of our governor rod between now -- November in -- what can you really say on jobs they haven't already said ad nauseam to the point where we all Fred Lincoln in -- their -- just doesn't really matter how the numbers actually play out and come November how it really is and not what is said between now and November this.
We all heard it now.
Yes what we have but but we also want to hear the next step and this is what's really important for Romney.
It's not simply for Romney to -- critique as I've just done what.
President Obama's done with the challenge for Mitt Romney is to find a way between now on the November elections.
The systematically lay out what it is that he will do in order to get the economy grow -- what is it that he's gonna do.
And the -- -- in terms of people who get their hands around.
And -- a -- -- the American people where they get comfortable with it.
You're right we we know you didn't -- numbers of cells will have a big impact but at the end of the day you will be the numbers themselves plus a vision on the part of Mitt Romney.
There will get it will decide whether or not he wins it will be a -- it will be the numbers and a vision on behalf of Barack Obama.
To see whether or not he can stay in office and and his vision is gonna principally be I think.
Trying to paint his opponent Mitt Romney as a rich guy who -- only cares about rich people I I was taken aback in the president's speeches CNN the kickoff speech is -- Virginia commonwealth university in Ohio State University.
He said governor Romney sincerely believes.
That have millionaires like him are prosperous and get along then -- that's all that's needed to everybody else would do okay.
Or really did can be governor -- ever say that any place I'm not familiar with him but that's -- -- that we're gonna hear during the campaign.
What I don't understand maybe it doesn't poll well but I admit I haven't heard any candidates we -- -- -- raise taxes are cut spending -- an extensive thread I've crashed Wednesday but that's essentially what this argument closed down to besides issue about whether to cut regulations and things like that.
But I never hear anyone seizing upon the enormous amount of waste and our government because.
It is so it started does it not -- because there's just so much waste -- at night after night after night talk about billions and millions and insist it's extraordinary -- government.
But nobody runs on that.
Depth look at it and the President Obama did run on in 2008 he said quote all scrub the budget line by line in and government programs to do no work.
But he -- three and a half here's to do it ended and and it's not simply credible for him to make that argument.
-- he's been making that argument by saying we need to put our fiscal house in order and cut and necessary spending but again he's gonna have to give a little substance to that.
Soon after whoever put give a little proof that he's about about what he's talking about look there's -- -- eighty some -- days left.
There's plenty of time to do it but there has to be a systematic -- the Romney campaign and the Obama campaign vols have to have a clear idea of what they want to talk about.
And when they wanna talk about it and then go delivered that in a way -- gets inside the -- and minds of Americans.
But there -- plenty of time left but but neither one of them if pres Obama's got a problem -- that he's got a record deal with.
Governor Romney's got a problem and he's got to lay out a vision in order to add to the critique that's been laid out of the president said.
-- -- Is the issue of gay marriage which is so it's just so much in the news today in light of the -- presents a statement yesterday he's in -- personally gay marriage is that going to be any factor in the race for I guess for that for president Bob and outlays since.
Brainer for governor Romney come November.
Yeah -- it'll be a south factor but it's gonna pale in significance to the economy but it will have an impact.
It'll he'll have all the positive and a negative impact for President Obama you'll energize gay activists say it will give him some more money.
He will not help them among young -- younger voters but it's gonna probably mean that'd be a look he announced it today after the North Carolina referenda on -- amending the constitution.
To -- to -- a definition of traditional marriage.
You know 6139.
Is a battleground state he won by 151000 votes.
I think he probably -- North Carolina suffers among both advocates and proponents.
-- advocates and opponents of of gay marriage because he made his statement today afterwards.
But I think it's gonna have something of an impact it'll matter a couple of close states I don't think it's inside the contest because it can't just going to be economy jobs.
Deficit spending.
Affordable Care Act and and and throughout that all the question of leadership in fact I think the biggest difficulty for the president this is probably leadership.
Because if you look it look like it Joseph Biden forced him to do this and then in the cleanup afterwards.
The Obama White House said you know what the president was gonna do this -- closer to the convention.
And you know Biden got over his skis and we sort of felt like we had to do it now well what that says is the president made it political determination.
That he was gonna make a decision on -- and make an announcement on this issue at a time calculated to give him the biggest political benefit.
And is regret is is that he was sort of forced into a buzz vice president.
Speaking his mind on a Sunday morning talk -- -- that -- exactly the son of a good leader.
Write your -- the -- -- elect -- map tonight if the election word tonight.
Who wins who loses and where's the focus.
Yeah well first all go look at that map today and I want to caution everybody you can go to this sign up for rove dot com and we'll send in the map every two weeks.
And eventually we'll start doing -- every week but it looking into it the map is unchanged from two weeks ago it it points towards.
If the election were held today Barack Obama would be closer -- a Blue States would bring him closer to an electoral victory.
Then then Romney who's represented by the red and pink states.
But the fact of the matter is this election is going to be very close and this map trails in national polls for example in the national polls we now have.
Gallup and raspy -- -- and -- of political battleground all showing governor Romney tied or ahead.
And yet this this map shows him he's behind in electoral college and that's because the poll this map relies upon polls and maybe months old take South Carolina.
For example on that map that map shows South Carolina.
As a toss up state there's no way south Carolina's going to be a toss -- state but the last poll and the only Paula we have access to.
Is December of last year during a contentious primary in which Mitt Romney was briefly behind.
From President Obama I don't think that's I was gonna turn out but out I want to start the map.
-- -- the time to really pay attention this map is later on but if you wanna sign up now she can Begin to get your biweekly hit a political opium.
Do so rove dot com and -- send you free link to it every two weeks.
You know I think -- the -- the primary yesterday Wisconsin you have Wisconsin course it's my home state of bailout attention to it.
As a state that's going to be won by president Bobby won it in 2008 by a huge margin.
I think in light of the fact that the good governor Scott Walker got more votes the Democrats combined in the primary an enormous a number of Republican votes.
I think that that could change the dynamics in that state.
Yeah absolutely look I think Wisconsin -- things going to be where are we on the morning of June 6.
If Scott Walker wins this by -- margin of -- -- fifty to 485347.
-- and then Wisconsin is going to be Wisconsin of 2002004.
You may remember bush and narrowly lost by less than 5000 votes I think it was Wisconsin in 2000 and half a percent in 2004.
-- It is if what if walker wins that it could -- Wisconsin could be a battleground state.
If walker loses or if it's a very narrow narrow narrow narrow victory.
Then Wisconsin could be more like 2000 I were Barack Obama won with a double digit win.
Copyright and that's going to be an -- -- to watch that.
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In between the pillow talk and steamy hot tub scenes, Decker was shown fretting over his future with the Denver Broncos last summer as he approached the final year of the contract he signed as a rookie four years ago.
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Source: The New York Times [1]
July 14, 2012
"The Op-Ed section has published "A World Without Coral Reefs," a provocative and disturbing essay by Roger Bradbury, an ecologist studying resource management at Australian National University. He asserts that these dynamic biological communities, long heralded as the rain forests of the sea, are doomed "zombie ecosystems" — with the triple whammy of overfishing, pollution and ocean acidification from the global buildup of carbon dioxide bound to overwhelm conservationists' efforts.
Needless to say, his essay is eliciting reactions as varied and passionate as those greeting Peter Kareiva's very different critique of conventional conservation strategies.
Randy Olson, the marine biologist who turned to filmmaking, blogging and authorship (with "Don't Be Such a Scientist"), first alerted me to Bradbury's line of thinking and said he's thrilled with the piece."
To read the full text of this article, click here [2].
[1] http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/
[2] http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/reefs-in-the-anthropocene-zombie-ecology/


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If I were building a shrediquette design, I would build it according to shrediquette's specifications first, before I started looking for different props. He details all the parts on his Webpage. I think that is the BOLT, and uses Airace propellers.
But don't take my word for it, as the guy who designed and built it. He is here on DIYDrones, just like nearly anyone else you are ever likely to find in the hobbyist UAV community.
The basic principle is just like any other quad, hexa, or octo. You have the same number of motors turning in the clockwise direction as you do in the counter clockwise direction.
The main reason to do this is to nuetralize the torque on the craft coming from all the motors, so that you don't continually spin in one direction if the motor's are all at the same speed.
I think some of the flight dynamics of a quad are posted around somewhere here, if you can find that you can derive the specific maths for a Y6 with little difficulty.
ready equations would be of great help! .. here we have to deal with more number of variable and im not quite sure how far i can go with building effective and correct control system!
Hi ariyan m kabir,
I don't know what you exactly mean by "motion equations", but as a start, have a look at the mixer table for my Y6 below:
Const M_1 = &H52
Const M_2 = &H54
Const M_3 = &H56
Const M_4 = &H58
Const M_5 = &H5A
Const M_6 = &H5C'-MOTOR 1-
Ms_1_i = Sempf(throttlechannel) + Vorwahl ' vorwahl = "idle up"
Ms_1_i = Ms_1_i + Roll_int 'Roll PID
Ms_1_i = Ms_1_i + Nick_int 'Pitch PID
Ms_1_i = Ms_1_i - Yaw_int 'Yaw PID
Ms_2_i = Sempf(throttlechannel) + Vorwahl
Ms_2_i = Ms_2_i - Nick_int
Ms_2_i = Ms_2_i - Yaw_int
Ms_3_i = Sempf(throttlechannel) + Vorwahl
Ms_3_i = Ms_3_i - Roll_int
Ms_3_i = Ms_3_i + Nick_int
Ms_3_i = Ms_3_i + Yaw_int
Ms_4_i = Sempf(throttlechannel) + Vorwahl
Ms_4_i = Ms_4_i + Roll_int
Ms_4_i = Ms_4_i + Nick_int
Ms_4_i = Ms_4_i + Yaw_int
Ms_5_i = Sempf(throttlechannel) + Vorwahl
Ms_5_i = Ms_5_i - Nick_int
Ms_5_i = Ms_5_i + Yaw_int
Ms_6_i = Sempf(throttlechannel) + Vorwahl
Ms_6_i = Ms_6_i - Roll_int
Ms_6_i = Ms_6_i + Nick_int
Ms_6_i = Ms_6_i - Yaw_int
@ Thielicke
He's referring to a coupe of physical equations that describe the craft.
Do some research on the 'net and look for something that's called the Drive equation. That will be your primary equation for pretty much everything.
Hint: the limit of a propeller's airspeed is its pitch.
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon weighs in on regulation and what he hopes to accomplish in Davos.
Jan 24, 2012
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Breaking news in the hours before he leaves the data also in the World Economic Forum JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon.
Sat down for an exclusive interview -- very own Charlie Gasparino Charlie literally just back from that interviewed joins us now.
Resorts holding him holding hands walking around the office you guys that very chummy we're always miss the document.
I feel pretty good -- I've known for years.
I joked you know I knew you when neither of us agree here at an outlook because good but now look at -- actually has more greater than I can without.
You know here's an interesting thing about should be done you know we have to submit questions I mean generally do we're gonna talk -- he agreed to take every question.
No time limit.
And you know what I like about him is that he's certain about his job he has confidence in his ability he's -- like a lot of CEOs like James Gorman from for Morgan Stanley you know.
Good guy yet but not UGU won't go before a character straight on and he won't go for -- -- did he went before a camera for Fox Business we spent about 25 minutes with a yes.
Or -- all sorts of questions we have breaking news throughout today but in this segment I wanna focus on regulation -- -- Very critical about regulation and over regulation convoluted regulation G thinks.
Is hurting the US banking system vehicles and on American that's hurting the economic recovery we do of recovery its dining -- And to specifically I asked them about three sort of regulations that are out there that that he's gonna go to dot most member the world economic for right or the regulators are one place but he tells the -- network he's gonna go to doubles.
He's gonna press his case -- three regulations it's essentially the Basel III regulation -- it's Dodd-Frank and an aspect of Dodd-Frank.
Called the vocal rule was into -- -- For the -- Roy agreed with which is no prop trading we did very little or no problem.
Put but market making is an essential function and the public should recognize that we have the widest deepest the most transparent -- -- -- world.
And that part of that because we have enormous more commission.
The market making -- cost Ding used to run the systems.
-- -- -- -- your research and the beneficiary of that is you do investor whether that's for comments we don't know the outcome of -- -- know a lot of building will be OK and some think it could be a disaster music.
I don't know yet.
Time we've given our comments I think it if the rules will.
Were written as some of those things they -- -- they -- originally -- and you know just some of the comments it would be pretty -- it would move.
The best capital markets overseas what did you mean by some of the global regulations being an American was that was out of quota -- -- there was I question -- from our anti American summer anti European -- -- so what I say to some -- So what I said is -- in Basel III.
Some of the rules in Basel III.
Or directly aimed at just American banks they don't have those -- assets overseas.
System one number two did you risk weighted assets it's quite clear that in certain parts the world a much more aggressive -- that so that is clear against American banks you don't Tim Geithner.
You're on the Fed board Tim -- ECB president of the New York fed.
I mean why did he take these comments you your critique is not against regulation -- like -- take its -- high import I don't know professional review those who I spoke to knows exactly right thing but I think a lot of people.
-- -- -- -- Like Barney Frank would listening to set.
It's just there's so many people who know throwing things and -- with that you're their favorite pet -- in there that it it just became a very convoluted kind of thing so.
Hopefully so -- be fixed.
And and and again I've seen JPMorgan refine -- -- I detection hurt medium sized small banks more which I'm not in favor of let me be against that is -- coming -- unintended consequence so you're basically -- in terms of regulation there is no adult in the room.
There's been don't charge.
There's no one person in charge and we set up when the regulations in favor as the financial services oversight committee and because one -- -- we had is that we didn't have.
One place -- we had a lot of things on regulator improperly -- becoming gaps in the system.
But the financial oversight we wouldn't -- enough teeth so here I'm complained that that particular regular regular role should be doing more -- not -- -- So so that would give its own charges say no we're not gonna do a B and seeks a bid for the system.
We know that but -- -- that we have ten -- twenty major regulars now.
So remember live regular is all the -- were protects their own entity.
And I'm looking across the whole system anymore so when you go to -- -- you corner of one of these regulators what -- Scotch and or class of one would have preferred drink.
We have what I what I poses a wind -- of his -- about what -- didn't tell.
The -- that I and I really do visit that if people got together.
And and because Democrats Republicans Europe US and actually thought across the whole picture about policy leverage Basel III Dodd-Frank.
What works what we need to fix we don't need to fix.
I think you could actually have more consistent -- policy and a better recovery I can't prove it.
I think it says -- written ten years from now but what some think -- that's it isn't that -- not just saying this from a personal standpoint.
JPMorgan -- ship when you're saying that these regulations are hampering the recovery that's going actually break vision for the tighter policies.
So we're -- policies so I was just in Berlin.
And quite clearly the ECB and the leaders of Germany but look to see you think be more aggressive making loans and buying sovereign -- and staying there.
But quite obviously speak the -- over there they want to see less sovereign debt.
They wanted to have more stress tests and -- -- more capital those will be account purposes like I'm not saying that that's something to -- more capital.
I'm simply saying if you want to work he's got to stop doing things which are spread across purposes -- -- kind of interest seen on the other hand quite critical of the regulations.
You do believe five seats in your comments your in the analyst call.
That we are in the middle of a recovery that could pick up steam.
Fairly significant that's correct and Comerica.
And it's a mild recovery but is broad based and it could be strengthened as we speak -- we took -- in your view Jamie Dimon economists.
4% GDP this year to be three -- -- -- here.
Interest -- that will that translate into jobs because that's the interesting thing here we have.
We do have positive GDP growth very little job for creation do you think that might translate into job we've had I African remain in the UK jobs in the last twelve months or so it's taken up here and housing I think is bottoming out and -- -- supply and demand coming -- So United States get three million Americans a year.
Household formation.
Which normally one point 31 point four million homes a year it's been half that.
-- household formation goes up which I think we'll -- jobs we're inevitably more homes really there we go back to building a 1000003 year which are economists think we gonna have to start building soon -- -- saint.
You too much -- could be six months nine months twelve months eighteen months that that -- -- two -- three million jobs so that is what I record could be due to give itself sustain recovery.
Our jobs more -- comes more jobs more homes for people employed were kids moving out of their parents homes and that kids right that they have -- out some of.
Back and I applaud you actually look have been -- Not bad not that we have more to make headlines yeah I mean.
What's -- interest in -- he's going to Davos this is key and I think you -- -- we should we should make this point.
He's going to gobbles essentially to press his case.
About the about the state of banking regulation -- -- convoluted as he put a convoluted.
Nature of -- that's where he's going.
We should point out that you also thinks housing spotting -- -- that's not really -- headline.
The bigger headlines what -- -- to do in Dallas he's gonna we -- meetings audition listening I I think so I mean when you what do you think of him go and adopt those and you know he has all the regulators in one place.
So which is why and in Atlanta headline one place to get to meet all the regulators.
You can essentially pressure case and that's what he's gonna do not just talking about -- -- position deregulation yep -- over regulation we should point out that this is a wide ranging interview.
I -- to everything within what else are gonna be hearing today well I think you're gonna be here and later and at 1 o'clock about how long.
He plans to stay at JPMorgan at least on -- identical thing and what he pledged to do next which and he talks about that openly talks about that openly and which kind of surprising to me.
It's been mild recovery GDP -- three to 43 to 4% that's a that's an interest -- that life.
Lots of interest -- headlines Johnny thank you very much exclusive interview would think it.
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January 24, 2013
By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press
President Barack Obama devoted one word — "deficit" — to the issue that brought Washington to the brink of fiscal crises time and again during his first term.
But it was the paragraph that followed in his inaugural address that foreshadowed what's to come — more hard bargaining and more last-minute deals driven by Obama's own conviction that he now wields an upper hand.
"We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future," he said. "The commitments we make to each other — through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security — these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great."
This was the language of his re-election campaign.
And while his speech contained no reference to either political party, his pointed rejection of "a nation of takers" was an implicit reminder of Mitt Romney's infelicitous declaration that Obama's support came from the 47 percent of American voters "who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it."
In keeping with the objective of inaugural addresses, Obama chose to draw attention to the aspirations he hopes will define him rather than the conflicts that have characterized his relations with a divided Congress. He conceded that "outworn programs are inadequate to the needs of our time," but forged ahead with a call for training more math and science teachers, for building roads and even for funding more research labs.
If there was a way to reconcile such spending with demands to stabilize the nation's debt, he didn't mention it.
"Inaugural addresses are intended for the ages, not for a particular moment," said Matt Bennett, a former aide to Al Gore and a vice president of the Democratic-leaning group Third Way. "We will have to wait for the State of the Union, which is addressed directly to Congress, for a clearer sense of what he wants to do in the near-term and how he wants to get it done."
Obama's State of the Union address is scheduled for Feb. 12.
Obama and his aides approached the inaugural speech with a belief that the president had replenished his political strength with his re-election and with his end-of-year deal with Republicans that raised upper-income tax rates on some of the wealthiest Americans.
What's more, Obama delivered the speech as House Republicans were backing off earlier threats to withhold an extension of the nation's borrowing limit if not accompanied by sharp reductions in government spending. Instead, House leaders planned a vote Wednesday to raise the government debt ceiling for three months to avert a first-ever default on U.S. obligations.
The White House welcomed the move, even though Obama as recently as last week had rejected the idea of a short term increase. "We shouldn't be doing this on a one- to three-month time frame," he said in a White House news conference. Yet, on Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said that while the bill still faces concerns in Congress, if it reaches Obama's desk the president "would not stand in the way of the bill becoming law."
The GOP bill would take the biggest potential crisis off the immediate horizon. But Obama and congressional Republicans still face two other fiscal deadlines: March 1, when steep automatic spending cuts in defense and domestic programs are scheduled to kick in, and March 27, when the current authority to keep government operating runs out. And then, on May 18, another debt limit crisis will loom.
"It's a matter of how you interpret it," said Jared Bernstein, the former chief economist for Vice President Joe Biden. "If you believe the Republicans will make the debt ceiling crisis a quarterly event, then this is a bad outcome. The White House playbook is that there are now enough Republican grownups in the room they can hammer out deals."
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, set a hopeful tone, declaring that the inaugural was a chance to "renew the old appeal to better angels." On Tuesday, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate's Republican leader, urged Congress and Obama to make spending and the debt their top priority and called for an overhaul of entitlement programs.
"It's nice to say, as the president did yesterday, that these programs free us to take the risks that make our country great," he said on the Senate floor. "But if we don't act to strengthen and protect them now, in a few years they simply won't be there in their current form."
During negotiations last month aimed at avoiding a combination of spending cuts and tax increases, Obama presented Boehner with a proposal that would have reduced spending on Medicare and other entitlement programs by $400 billion; reduced non-entitlement programs by $200 billion over 10 years; and lowered cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients and other beneficiaries of government programs.
But Obama also wanted some increased spending and still wants more tax revenue through changes in the tax code that would force the rich to pay more, proposals Republicans reject.
Even an ally like Bernstein pointed out that when it comes to spending outside of defense and entitlements, Obama has an incompatible goal of reducing the budget as a share of the economy to the lowest levels since President Dwight Eisenhower's administration.
"It is very hard for me to square those tight budget constraints on the non-defense discretionary side of the budget and many of the aspirations I heard today," Bernstein said. "That said, I think they are exactly the right aspirations."
And there was little about finding common ground in Obama's speech.
"We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate," he said.
It was not meant as a self-critique.
January 24, 2013
By HENRY C. JACKSON
Associated Press
Nearly 50 years ago, white supremacists planted a bomb in a Birmingham, Ala., church that killed four young girls preparing to worship, an act of terror that shocked the nation and propelled Congress to pass that historic 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Lawmakers now want to honor those victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor that Congress can bestow.
Birmingham Reps. Terri Sewell, a Democrat, and Spencer Bachus, a Republican, announced the bipartisan effort Tuesday to award the medal to the four slain children: Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, all 14 when they were killed, and Denise McNair, who was 11.
Sewell said the bombing was a catalyst for the civil rights movement.
"I wouldn't be here, my mayor wouldn't be here, were it not for the struggle and sacrifice of those freedom fighters," Sewell said during an event at the National Press Club on Tuesday.
She was joined by Birmingham Mayor William A. Bell, who says he knew Denise McNair well. His brother was her classmate and their families were friends.
At that time, "everybody in Birmingham — they had some kind of connection or relationship," to the victims, he said.
The four girls were among a group of 26 children entering a church basement on Sept. 15, 1963, when dynamite equipped with a timer detonated. Twenty-two others were injured when the massive explosion blew a hole through a wall in the church, shattering most of its windows.
The grisly images from Birmingham drew national attention and deepened tumult in Birmingham, a city already rife with racial tension. In the aftermath, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a eulogy for the "martyred children."
The bombing proved to be a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. Within a year, Congress passed the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act and, a year later, the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
But it took more than a decade before any of the bombing's perpetrators were successfully brought to justice.
In 1977, Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley reopened the case, asking the FBI for help. That led to the murder conviction of Robert Chambliss, a known Ku Klux Klan member. Eventually, two others — Thomas Blanton Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry — were convicted for roles in the bombing, Blanton in 2001 and Cherry in 2002. A third suspect, Herman Cash, was identified by federal investigators but had already died when the FBI announced its case.
The push for a Congressional Gold Medal, which will be led by Sewell and Bachus in the House and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., in the Senate, is part of a yearlong effort to commemorate Birmingham's role in the civil rights movement.
Bachus, who couldn't attend Tuesday's event, said recognition from Congress is the right way to honor the four girls whose deaths "led to a permanent change in our society."
January 24, 2013
Assemblymember Cheryl R. Brown (D-San Bernardino) will swear-in thirteen new executive officers of the Sacramento NAACP branch including the new president, Tyrone Netters, on Wednesday, January 30 at the State Capitol in Sacramento. As a former executive officer of the San Bernardino NAACP branch, Brown said she's honored to be a part of the experience.
"As a former branch president, I'm proud to support the NAACP. I'm excited to participate in the ceremony as the officiator, it's a true honor. I am sure the leadership and advocacy of the new executive committee members of the Sacramento Chapter will have an immense and vital impact in the Sacramento community," she said.
This is the second time in history that a former NAACP executive officer in the State Legislature will swear-in an executive committee. The Honorable Mervyn Dymally was the first executive officer in the State Legislature to hold this honor.
The following officers will be sworn-in by Brown on January 30:
Tyrone Netters, President
Stephen Webb, 1st Vice President
Betty Williams, 2nd Vice President
Velma Sykes, Treasurer
Joell Reed, Secretary
Aliane Murphy-Hasan, Asst. Secretary
Dale McKinney, Chair, Education
David Clements, Chair, Criminal Justice
Peter Brixie, Attorney, Legal Redress
Malachi Smith, Chair, Veteran Affairs
Natasha Drew, Advisor Youth Council
Stacey Drew, Freedom Fund Committee
Dr. Nate White, Chair, Membership
The ceremony will take place in Room 127 from 5:00 – 7:00p.m. A light reception will follow in Room 125.
January 24, 2013
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted Friday January 18 on charges that he used his office for personal gain, accepting payoffs, free trips and gratuities from contractors while the city was struggling to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. The charges against Nagin are the outgrowth of a City Hall corruption investigation that already has resulted in guilty pleas by two former city officials and two businessmen and a prison sentence for a former city vendor. The federal indictment accuses Nagin of accepting more than $160,000 in bribes and truckloads of free granite for his family business in exchange for promoting the interests of a local businessman who secured millions of dollars in city contract work after the 2005 hurricane.
The businessman, Frank Fradella, pleaded guilty in June to bribery conspiracy and securities-fraud charges and has been cooperating with federal authorities. Nagin, 56, also is charged with accepting at least $60,000 in payoffs from another businessman, Rodney Williams, for his help in securing city contracts for architectural, engineering and management services work. Williams, who was president of Three Fold Consultants LLC, pleaded guilty Dec. 5 to a conspiracy charge.
The indictment also accuses Nagin of getting free private jet and limousine services to New York from an unidentified businessman. Nagin is accused of agreeing to wave tax penalties that the businessman owed to the city on a delinquent tax bill in 2006. In 2010, Greg Meffert, a former technology official and deputy mayor under Nagin, pleaded guilty to charges he took bribes and kickbacks in exchange for steering city contracts to businessman Mark St. Pierre. Anthony Jones, who served as the city's chief technology officer in Nagin's administration, also pleaded guilty to taking payoffs. Meffert cooperated with the government in its case against St. Pierre, who was convicted in May 2011 of charges that include conspiracy, bribery and money laundering.
Nagin, a former cable television executive, was a political novice before being elected to his first term as mayor in 2002, buoyed by strong support from white voters. He cast himself a reform-minded progressive who wasn't bound by party affiliations, as he snubbed fellow Democrat Kathleen Blanco and endorsed Republican Bobby Jindal's unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign in 2003. Katrina elevated Nagin to the national stage, where he gained a reputation for colorful and sometimes cringe-inducing rhetoric.
During a radio interview broadcast in the storm's early aftermath, he angrily pleaded with federal officials to "get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans." In January 2006, he apologized for a Martin Luther King Day speech in which he predicted New Orleans would be a "chocolate city" and asserted that "God was mad at America." Strong support from black voters helped Nagin win re-election in 2006 despite widespread criticism of his post-Katrina leadership.
But the glacial pace of rebuilding, a surge in violent crime and the budding City Hall corruption investigation chipped away at Nagin's popularity during his second term. Nagin could not seek a third consecutive term because of term limits. Mitch Landrieu, who ran against Nagin in 2006, succeeded him in 2010. Aaron Bennett, a businessman awaiting sentencing in a separate bribery case, told The Times-Picayune that he introduced Nagin to Fradella specifically to help the mayor get Home Depot granite installation work for a business that he and his sons founded. Fradella's company received millions of dollars in city contracts for repair work at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and in the French Quarter after Katrina, the newspaper reported. Some of the allegations in the indictment have been the subject of state ethics complaints. In April 2010, the Louisiana Board of Ethics charged Nagin with two possible violations of state ethics law.
One charge involves Nagin's "use of a credit card and/or gifts" from St. Pierre and his technology firm, NetMethods, while the company was working for the city. NetMethods paid for Nagin and his family to travel to Jamaica in 2005 and to Hawaii in 2004, according to newspaper reports. In the other charge, the Ethics Board says Stone Age LLC, the Nagin family's business, was compensated for installation services provided to Home Depot while the home improvement retailer was negotiating tax breaks from the city.
Nagin has largely steered clear of the political arena since he left office. On his Twitter account, he describes his current occupations as author, public speaker and "green energy entrepreneur." He wrote a self-published memoir called "Katrina's Secrets: Storms After the Storm."
Nagin's attorney, Robert Jenkins, didn't immediately return cellphone calls seeking comment on the indictment.
January 24, 2013
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press
The "baby dolls," an on-again, off-again Mardi Gras tradition of New Orleans' African-American community, are on again.
The troupes of women strutting and prancing in bonnets, garters, and skimpy or short, ruffled dresses on Fat Tuesday also are being spotlighted in a new book and museum exhibit that trace their history and modern rebirth.
When the predominantly African-American Zulu krewe hits the streets on Fat Tuesday — Feb. 12 — its marchers will include the Baby Doll Ladies, a troupe formed after Hurricane Katrina. They play tambourines and cowbells to accompany their dance, a hip-hop style called bounce.
Though Mardi Gras celebrations date from the city's French founding in 1718, historians say the baby doll tradition started in 1912 when black prostitutes who worked just outside the legal red-light district called Storyville dressed up on Mardi Gras to outdo their legal rivals.
Storyville was closed in 1917, but the baby doll costumes caught on and survived for decades in African-American neighborhoods.
In the years of segregation, blacks celebrated Carnival in their neighborhoods with informal parades of the brightly feathered and beaded Mardi Gras Indians, picnics and parties centered on the floats of the Zulu parade and costume traditions such as the baby dolls.
The end of segregation in the 1950s and '60s — and new economic opportunities — brought new avenues for African-Americans to participate in Mardi Gras. Debutante presentations at gala balls and more traditional float parades sprung up. And the revival of Lundi Gras celebrations the day before Mardi Gras brought together the monarch of the predominantly white Rex krewe to meet with the king of Zulu to toast the coming festival.
As times changed, the baby doll tradition faded.
But not everyone forgot the dolls, or what they meant to Carnival in New Orleans.
One new group — the 504 Eloquent Baby Dolls of New Orleans, named in part for a telephone area code — will march with a tribe of Mardi Gras Indians and the Skull and Bones club, maskers clad as skeletons in another revived black tradition.
"I've got a wonderful group of women who want to educate our youth, who want to bring our culture back to the streets of New Orleans," said Denise Trepagnier, a heavy crane operator and part-time seamstress who organized the group.
Around New Orleans neighborhoods, you might catch a glimpse of other baby doll troupes with names like the Gold Digger Baby Dolls, the Treme Million Dollar Baby Dolls and the Ernie K-Doe Baby Dolls.
Trepagnier is planning a route for her group. But, unlike the float parades, many baby dolls go where the mood takes them.
Like Trepagnier, dancer and choreographer Millisia White had education as a goal when her New Orleans Society of Dance began performing as the Baby Doll Ladies in 2009. She said she first saw baby dolls as a child in the 1980s.
"That was my first glance of a woman out in the street, expressing herself independent of the men. That was exciting to me," she said.
Those baby dolls were likely the Gold Digger Baby Dolls, the first group in the revival.
Trepagnier said she remembers seeing baby dolls until about 1962. After that, "they seemed to have disappeared. I didn't see any for a long time," she said.
The return of baby dolls is like the comeback of Mardi Gras Indian tribes, which started as raucous groups in black neighborhoods and now are a celebrated part of the Carnival season, said Wayne Phillips, the Louisiana State Museum's curator of costumes and textiles.
An exhibit about the origins of baby doll masking and the new groups reviving the tradition has just opened at the Louisiana State Museum. And the LSU Press has just released "The 'Baby Dolls: Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition" by Kim Marie Vaz, associate dean at Xavier University in New Orleans.
Beatrice Hill, a founder of the original baby doll troupes, gave an account of their birth published in the 1947 book on Louisiana folklore, "Gumbo Ya-Ya."
Hill told Robert McKinney, a researcher for the Depression-era Louisiana Writers project, that uptown prostitutes got word their downtown counterparts planned to dress and parade on Mardi Gras in 1912.
In Hill's account, the uptowners met at 3 a.m. one morning in 1912 to plot strategy against their rivals.
One jumped up, Hill reported, and said, "Let's be Baby Dolls. That's what the pimps always call us."
They hit the streets with cigars in their mouths and "money all over us, even in our bloomers," throwing dollars at men, Hill recounted.
Surviving transcripts of McKinney's interviews show the prostitutes, calling themselves the Million Dollar Baby Dolls, later collected dues and held dances to raise money for their costumes, possibly making them the first organization for parading women, said Vaz. At the time, high society white women's Carnival organizations held balls but didn't parade.
The Louisiana Weekly, the newspaper of the New Orleans black community, identified the Million Dollar Baby Dolls in 1939 as among the city's oldest African-American masking groups, Vaz said.
Phillips figures respectable women were masking as baby dolls within 20 years of the 1912 escapade.
The earliest known photographs of baby doll maskers are cells from a 1931 film that doesn't make clear whether they were prostitutes or mainstream revelers, Vaz said.
"Even today, those in the Baby Boom generation recall their mothers and grandmothers warning them against the lewd and lascivious behavior evidenced by many a Baby Doll on Carnival Day," she wrote.
Perhaps taking a tip, though not their designs, from a booklet published in 1922 by the Dennison Manufacturing Co., some women wore costumes fashioned from crepe paper.
The first of the current baby doll troupes apparently started in the 1980s, when Merline Kimble and friends revived her grandparents' Gold Digger Club of baby doll maskers. The late Antoinette K-Doe created the group named for her husband, Ernie K-Doe, in 2003 with friends including Reed, Trepagnier and praline store owner "Tee-Eva" Perry.
The revival of the dolls complements the long-standing street-marcher traditions of Fat Tuesday.
Among them are the revelers of jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain's Half-Fast Marching Club, the Jefferson City Buzzards, the Lyons Carnival Club and others. Some trace their roots to Mardi Gras' raucous street celebrations of the 19th century.
Like the baby dolls, they'll be strutting their stuff and having a ball before the solemn season of Lent brings the revelry to a halt on Ash Wednesday.


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it's interesting. gives a guide on how to make lightsabers, costumes, etc. pretty cool.
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it's interesting. gives a guide on how to make lightsabers, costumes, etc. pretty cool.
They're a pretty good site. I prefer Padawans Guide though. http://www.padawansguide.com/
Interesting.Both are very informative.
I agree
Both are ok,but there's gotta be a site out there with more detail,like someone who actually makes costumes and gives real advice on how to make them,like say I'm having trouble with a Jedi robe it'd be nice if there was someone to talk to who had pictures and advice instead of giving answer that come with more questions.
eh, that's called a forum (like this one!)
http://boards.theforce.net/Costuming_and_Props/b10019/ That is an excellent costuming forum. Read the "Read this First" thread, it has a list of different major costume threads.
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Civil libertarians and defense lawyers are hailing the decision in Florida v. Jardines, which curbs the use of police dogs in front of homes.
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Miami-Dade Detective William Pedraja zeroed in on Jardines' house after catching a tip from the CrimeStoppers hotline. A month later, detectives and federal agents brought Franky to Jardines' front door, and the drug detection dog alerted his handler to the smell of marijuana emanating from the house.
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How to stay at Onsen-Ryokan
This past Sunday, the onsen in the mountainside was very pleasant. The mountains were still covered with snow.
Every Japanese loves Onsen. The onsen we went was Kusatsu, one of the most popular places for hot-spring, 'onsen', where more than 3 million people visit every year.
Kusatsu, located in the northwest of Gunma Prefecture, has been a well-known, well-loved spa since its discovery in 1193. By the early 1600s, it had grown to be one of the largest spa-resorts in Japan with 68 inns.
Onsen ryokan (Japanese Hotel) offers Yukata which is a traditional garment, similar in style to kimono, but lighter, much more casual, and made of cotton. We can wear Yukata at all times during our stay, including to the bath, to both dinner and breakfast, and to bed as sleepwear. (click here to see 'how to wear Yukata')
Yukata were prepared at our Ryokan as well. One was medium size and the other one was large size.
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The interior of ryokan was Japanese taste and this kind of atmosphere matched our wearing yukata.
Symbol of Kusatsu was the girl wearing yukata and this kind of character you can find at many other Onsen places.
Onsen Ryokan is usually managed and operated by Okani, a woman who is a master and at the core of the existence of Ryokan. I found the poster which introduces the Okami of all ryokan at Kusatsu. They always wear Kimono nicely in front of customers.
When we go to Onsen, both customer and master of hotel wear kimono. That is one of our tradition and I want you to experience onsen trip when you visit Japan. And then, you will realize why Japanese loves onsen so much !


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- Yellowhead Inn Edmonton, Alberta
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- The Yellowhead Inn in beautiful Edmonton, Alberta is in the heart of the Festival City. Our homestyle atmosphere offers the best Highway Hospitality for all travelers, truckers, and tourists. Only seconds away from the stunning Yellowhead Casino, our home away from home is also the perfect place to enjoy a night on the town. ... more less
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