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SOUTH WALTON, Fla- The Seahawks of South Walton will play Friday night at Freeport, in our "Southern Orthopedic Specialists" game of the week.
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"We need to be fundamentally sound. Can't turn the ball over, we're facing a very well coached team. They don't turn the ball over. You know coach Anderson's got them believing in themselves, believing they can win. You can see that on the film, it just jumps off the film, they play hard. So we're gonna, we're just gonna have to play well. We're just gonna have to get to the point where we don't stub our toe every three plays. We got to get all 11 on the field on the same sheet of music," coach Wiles said.
This the 6th meeting in what they call the "Battle of the Bay" Bulldogs have won the first five, Seahawks hoping to end that streak.
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Seven years ago, industry was left quite confused when FDA withdrew five draft guidances associated with 21 CFR Part 11, the regulations that focus on electronic records and submissions. The agency issued a Scope and Application guidance a few months after the withdrawals, in August 2003, to help define how it planned to interpret and enforce Part 11 (enacted in 1997) while regulators worked out a more final revision to Part 11 based on industry feedback. That revision has yet to make its debut.
This morning, however, officials from FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Office of Compliance shed some light on the status of Part 11 via a press briefing.
George R. Smith, a project management officer in the Office of Compliance and co-chair of the Part 11 Working Group, described the agency's plans to carry out inspectional efforts tied to Part 11. The goal, said Smith, is to carry out focused inspections pertaining to Part 11 regulations on human drugs in an effort to help increase industry understanding of and compliance with Part 11. Enforcement actions will be taken when noncompliant activities are determined, he said.
To explain what this means for industry, here is a bit more background: Since 2003, according to the Part 11, Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures—Scope and Application guidance, FDA enforced "with discretion" those Part 11 records tied to validation, audit trails, legacy systems, copies, and retention. All predicate rule requirements and other sections pertaining to Part 11 such as controls for closed systems, and authority and device checks, had remained in tact and were deemed somewhat "more" enforceable by the agency. It now looks as though those areas that fall under Part 11 and are deemed enforceable will be included in inspection reviews.
Smith pointed out during the briefing that Part 11 was originally established to apply to all FDA program areas to permit the widest use of electronic technology. However, the new requirements led to many industry complaints, including comments that Part 11 would restrict use of technology, increase the cost of compliance to an extent not envisioned by FDA, and discourage innovation in technology, all while having no positive public health impact. This feedback led to the withdrawal in 2003 of the five draft guidance documents tied to Part 11 and to the issuance of the Scope and Application final guidance in August 2003.
At this time, it's unclear what types of new enforcement actions may be taken by FDA during the planned inspectional activities, which are expected to start "soon" according to an FDA notice on the subject. Ideally, the information gained from the inspectional efforts will be used to further modify Part 11 in the future. The agency is expected to post more details on its website later today, July 8, 2010, and Pharmaceutical Technology will update this blog post as information comes in.
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A federal district court decision on a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule requiring employers to post notices informing workers of their right to unionize could have a wide-reaching impact on most U.S. employers and their workers, according to experts.
Judge Amy B. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on March 2, 2012, that the NLRB can require employers to display notices regarding worker rights under the National Labor Relations Act. However, Jackson struck down provisions of the rule designed to punish employers that don't display the notice.
The judge found that the NLRB overstepped its authority when it attempted to make noncompliance with the notification requirement an automatic unfair labor practice. Jackson ruled that the automatic unfair labor practice (ULP) provision and a provision designed to suspend the statute of limitations by tying the time limit to an employer's failure to post the notice were invalid.
The judge's ruling is a mixed bag for employers and didn't include any major surprises, according to attorneys familiar with the issue.
"If you paid attention to the court proceedings and took note of the questions the judge was asking, then you could pretty well predict where this decision was headed," said G. Roger King, a partner with the Columbus, Ohio, office of the law firm Jones Day. "It was pretty evident from the judge's line of questioning that she was set to overrule the ULP provision of the rule but would most likely leave the notice requirement intact."
Experts agreed that the ruling was a victory for the NLRB and organized labor. While the judge did limit the scope of the notification rule by invalidating the ULP and statute-of-limitation provisions, the NLRB can move forward in implementing the notice requirement. Pending any appeals, the notice regulation is scheduled to take effect on April 30, 2012.
Copies of the required notification are available for download from the NLRB's website. The notices must be placed in locations where employers post other employment-related notifications, such as employee bulletin boards and break rooms. In some cases, the notice will have to be posted on an employer's Internet or intranet sites if a business has posted other employment-related notices online.
NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce told reporters that he was pleased with Jackson's decision and stated that the new notice will "provide American workers with meaningful awareness of their rights and protections under federal labor law."
AFL-CIO officials said they largely agreed with the ruling.
"While the judge invalidated two sensible enforcement mechanisms in the rule, her decision affirms that the board has ample authority to enforce the notice-posting requirement on a case-by-case basis," AFL-CIO General Counsel Lynn Rhinehart told The Wall Street Journal.
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The notice requirement of the rule applies to most U.S.-based employers, which could catch thousands of businesses off guard, according to Paul Salvatore, a partner in the New York law office of Proskauer Rose.
"The new notice rule and this court decision will have an impact even if a company's employees have never engaged in any labor organizing activities," Salvatore said. "And many employers appear to have the attitude that if their workers aren't unionized, then this doesn't apply to them and therefore they don't have to pay attention. … The reality is, this court ruling will affect millions of U.S. businesses."
The notice requirement applies to all employers and employees that are subject to the National Labor Relations Act, which is approximately 6 million businesses and 130 million workers. The requirement does not apply to businesses that aren't covered by the NLRA, which generally includes employers in the transportation, mining and agricultural industries.
"The scope of this new notification requirement is huge, and employers need to be aware that this change is coming," said Michael J. Lotito, a partner in the San Francisco office of the law firm Jackson Lewis.
While posting the notice shouldn't create too much hardship for most employers, the new notices could generate issues that employers should be prepared to address, according to Lotito.
"First of all, it could present problems for employers that have multiple locations spread out over a wide area," Lotito said. "These businesses will have to think about things like where they post the notices to ensure that it will be seen by all employees."
In addition, the notice could generate questions from employees about their rights to unionize, Lotito said.
"There are many businesses that have been union-free for their entire existence and don't have much if any experience dealing with questions from employees about union representation," Lotito said. "The workplace poster required by the NLRB may bring up some questions that supervisors and managers aren't prepared to handle."
Lotito, Salvatore and King advised employers to review their employment policies and be prepared to answer questions.
"Training and reviewing employment policies with your organization's supervisors is a good idea. Employers need to be prepared, and a wrong response from management if employees begin asking questions about their organizing rights could land an employer in hot water," Lotito said.
Some management attorneys have voiced the opinion that employers could express their concerns about unions and even post a notice regarding an employer's rights guaranteed under the NLRA.
John Raudabaugh, an attorney with the National Right to Work Defense Foundation and a former member of the NLRB, isn't sure that this is sound advice.
"My advice to employers would be to do what is required under the NLRA and to consult with the attorneys on the best approach to take," he said. "Employers have different workplace situations, different workforce makeups and different cultures, so employers should talk with their attorneys and figure out what steps they should take."
Raudabaugh worked on the legal challenge to the notice rule that was filed by the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Right to Work Defense Foundation and the National Federation of Independent Business. These groups said they planned to appeal Jackson's ruling and were asking the federal courts to issue an injunction to block the rule from taking effect until the appellate court has a chance to review the case.
Raudabaugh said he believes the case will eventually reach the Supreme Court.
Bill Leonard is a senior writer for the Society for Human Resource Managment (SHRM). Find out more about human resources at ToolkitHR.com.


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General Mills (GIS) is another strong consumer stock, according to Link. She says its strengths, like P&G, include a strong management team. The company has a Holistic Margin Management program that overseas efficiencies or productivity initiatives that will save General Mills $1 billion in costs for the next three years, Link said.
Furthermore, General Mills has "superior brands and unusually cheap valuation -- the best in the industry and has always commanded a premium multiple given its growth, but now trades in line with peers." Link notes that Kellogg, General Mills' biggest competitor, is a "broken story and mismanaged."
Link also writes that Altria is experiencing easy comparisons given its "horrendous" volumes in 2009. Furthermore, limited government and state tax increase has helped the company improve in volume, pricing and market share. "Plus, they have the added benefit from the UST (U.S. Smokeless Tobacco) acquisition that they bought in 2008 and plowed a tremendous amount of money into rebranding or repositioning and are now just beginning to see huge volume increases." Altria purchased U.S. Smokeless Tobacco for growth "and it is now starting to work."
Link said the McDonald's (MCD) is "a true winner from trade down." She points out the company's implantation of strategies, including new products in the beverages and breakfast category, remodeling stores, adding more drive-throughs and extending hours. Furthemore, McDonald's reported "huge" comps last week with upside in all the regions where the company operates. "Valuation is compelling and this management has executed on its new strategy perfectly."Link has generally avoided retail stocks. " Costco (COST) was the only one that I liked but even that one has been held back despite great comps because of the weak macro. "I really don't see many that are differentiated and the pricing is so severe. Plenty are cheap, but then again -- so many stocks are." UBS analyst Nik Modi said in a major stock market pullback scenario -- "in that environment -- given the dividend yields of these companies, you would see relative outperformance like you did in the '08 period ... but these stocks going up in absolute terms may not be as clear." He said that most likely, they would go down less.
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No one has ever claimed pro-abortion Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was too intelligent or too observant to be the leader of the Democrats in the Senate. Reid proved that to be true the other day when he claimed that "five white men" on the Supreme Court decided to protect Hobby Lobby from President Obama's abortion mandate.
"The one thing we are going to do during this work period, sooner rather than later, is to ensure that women's lives are not determine by virtue of five white men," Reid said. "This Hobby Lobby decision is outrageous and we are going to do something about it. People are going to have to walk down here and vote/"
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Agencies Reach Accord on Managing Long Island Sound Dredged Materials
Six government agencies tasked with regulating dredging activities in Long Island Sound have reached accord on a process to support the goal of reducing or eliminating open water disposal of dredged materials into the Sound while maintaining the economic viability of New York and Connecticut's working ports. The agreement ratifies the intent of three federal and three state agencies to formally administer a Regional Dredging Team to comply with the June 3, 2005, rulemaking by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency(USEPA) that designated open-water dredged material disposal sites in Central Long Island Sound (CLIS) and Western Long Island Sound (WLIS). The establishment of the Regional Dredging Team will assist dredging proponents in considering and evaluating various management options for their dredged] material while a larger effort to develop a Dredged Material Management Plan (DMMP) for Long Island Sound is being conducted. The agreement covers dredging projects in both New York State and Connecticut waters. The agencies establishing the agreement are the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and New York State Department of State. The Long Island Sound Regional Dredging Team (LISRDT) will review all
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Ellicott Announces New Dredging Technology
Ellicott International offers details on a new type of dredge which actually walks by itself. The dredge moves on three moving spuds or traveling carriages enabling it to remain in exact position at all times because there are always two spuds firmly anchored in the bottom. It walks with the spuds while floating on the surface. This positioning allows the cutter to move forward into the next cut without losing position
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the report that it submitted to Congress on its Hopper Dredge Fleet. The Corps owns and operates four hopper dredges. The report recommends that one dredge be retired and another one be kept in ready reserve status. A combined fleet of government and contracted dredges are used to keep U.S ports and waterways open for navigation. Source: HK Law
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Investment Based on U.S. Commitment to 'Private Sector First' Philosophy Announcement Coincides with Annual National Dredging Meeting in Washington, DC Washington, DC._WEEKS MARINE Inc. (WMI), an ENR top 100 construction contractor with deep roots in the New York maritime community and based in Cranford, NJ, today formally announces two major additions to its considerable dredge, tugboat, booster, hopper barge, and industrial workboat fleet
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IBISWorld report indicates that government & private funding is expected to boost revenue for the US dredging industry. Excerpts from the report are as follows: A weak economy has made growth for dredgers slower than expected. Nevertheless, increased government and private-sector funding is expected to boost revenue for the industry over the next five years. While lacking in prominence, the Dredging Services industry is an essential part of the US economy
Vosta Gets Order for Cutter Suction Dredge
Vosta LMG has been awarded a contract for a cutter suction dredge CSD750 by International Seaport Dredging Ltd., a joint venture company of the Belgian dredging major Dredging International (member of the DEME group) and the Indian construction giant Larsen & Toubro. The dredge will be used for dredging projects throughout India due to the growing demand from the Indian market for dredging operations. The mono hull cutter suction dredge design and characteristics has been defined in
Ellicot Dredges 2008 Annual Report
In 2008 Ellicott Dredge Enterprises and its product units Ellicott Dredges, Mud Cat, IMS dredges, and Liquid Waste Technology (LWT) sold close to 100 dredges in over 20 countries. The company introduced new dredge products with more underway. The company's new plant in Wisconsin near Minneapolis is in full production. During the last quarter Ellicott Dredge Enterprises' units received the following noteworthy orders:
Panama Canal Authority Awards Dredging Contract
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced that Dredging International N.V. has been awarded the contract to dredge an area of the Panama Canal's manmade body of water, Gatun Lake. The dredging project is another integral element of the Canal's Expansion Program. The primary element within the scope of work for this contract is to widen and deepen the existing navigational channel by dredging approximately 4.6 million cubic meters in the northern most reaches of the Lake
Tin Dredges: Thai Built and Operated
"We hire a new crew to build each dredge," said Khun Songpon, "My father, Yongyut Junsiri, trains them as they build the dredge then the same crew operates it in Indonesia. They built it so they know how to care for it and how to fix it when necessary." It is a brilliant innovation, but not surprising from a firm that can draw on the 35-year experience of its president Yongyut Junsiri in both the design and operation of dredges
Royal IHC Launches Easydredge 2700
Royal IHC (IHC) has launched the first Easydredge 2700, the first vessel in its range of standard trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHD) to be delivered in summer 2015. The launch took place at the shipyard of IHC's partner, MTG Dolphin, in Varna, Bulgaria.
Phase 1 Dredging Wraps Up in Redwood City
Phase 1 of maintenance dredging of the Redwood City Harbor and Channel was completed this week, bringing the Port of Redwood City channel to a depth of 28 feet. The $12.8 million project, completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Port of Houston Expecting Record Year
The Port of Houston Authority is expecting 2014 to close as a banner year for the port, with 34 million tons of cargo handled through November, Executive Director Roger Guenther reported to the port commission of the Port of Houston Authority at its monthly meeting Tuesday.
Barge Master T700 to Be Installed on Boskalis Ndeavor
A Barge Master BM-T700 system was unloaded in Singapore today as it awaits the early 2015 arrival of DP-2 multipurpose vessel Boskalis Ndeavor. According to Barge Master, the T700 will be mobilized on the Ndeavor and continue to the Phillipines where a bridge will be installed between two
Canada Invests $18.4m in Small Harbors
The Government of Canada invests in Newfoundland and Labrador's small craft harbors Senator Fabian Manning, on behalf of the Honorable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, announced an $18.4 million investment in improvement projects at small craft harbors in Newfoundland and Labrador
Royal IHC Bags Dredging Package Order
Royal IHC (IHC) has secured a new contract with the Chinese shipyard, Jin Hai Heavy Industrial Group, for the delivery of a dredging installation package for a trailing suction hopper dredger. The package contains major parts of the dredging installation for the 7
US-flag Great Lakes Cargos Up Nearly 15%
U.S.-flag Great Lakes freighters (lakers) moved 11.3 million tons of dry-bulk cargo in October, an increase of 14.7 percent compared to a year ago. The October float was also 19.6 percent above the month's long-term average. Iron ore for North American steelmakers totaled 5
Damen Delivers Tug for Scrabster Harbor
Scrabster Harbor Trust (UK) has taken delivery of a new harbor tug / workboat, a Damen Stan Tug 1606. The vessel, named Highlanders, will replace itscurrent workboat which was built in 1976. The new tug will undertake pilotage, towing, general harbour and maintenance duties.
Cutter Suction Dredge CSD500 from Damen
A Nigerian customer added its ninth Damen dredger to its fleet. The Cutter Suction Dredger type CSD500 was chosen due to the availability of Damen Field Services in Nigeria, the builder said, adding that the local presence was even more practical in view of the challenging assembly conditions.
NY-Area Seafarers to Join MM&P
New York Harbor Tug Boat Captains and Crews, Staten Island Ferry Workers, Circle Line and Other Tourist Boat Crews Vote to Join New Union. New York-area watermen who operate tugboats, dredges, tourist boats and ferries, members of Staten Island-based Local 333
Van Heck Advances Dredging Innovation
Van Heck started in 1964 as a one man operation to build and develop pumps and services to the dredging industry. Driven by innovation and its reputation, the company expanded into the offshore industry boom of the 1980s and its expertise grew as it helped tackle the challenges set by this
Boskalis Raises Full-year Profit Forecast
Q3 TRADING UPDATE - HIGHLIGHTS Good third quarter with sizable financial settlements on old projects Order book increased slightly to EUR 3.3 billion 2014 OUTLOOK Market conditions remain challenging Good second half-year expected
Song Thu Lays Keel for New Dredger
The construction of a new vessel of dredging fleet, project TSHD 2000, has been launched to the RS class in Da Nang, Vietnam. The keel laying ceremony was held at Song Thu Corporation shipyard November 21, 2014. It was attended by Andrey Tarasenko, General Director of FSUE Rosmorport
Vosta LMG Successfully Tests Dredging Connection
A new "quick connect dredge hose coupling" designed by Vosta LMG has been successfully tested in the United States in a joint effort with a USA customer. The new coupling was developed to enhance safety and to make the assembly and disassembly procedures for floating dredge hoses
Damen Expands Dredge Pump Range
The Damen DOP submersible dredge pump range has been enlarged, now running from the smallest DOP150, fitting in any corner of a building pit, to the DOP450L doing some 4,000 m3 of mixture per hour. The DOP submersible dredge pump is designed to be used in many dredging activities


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The West Indies remained in firm control of the first Test against South Africa, even as just 36.5 overs of play were possible on day three. In a period of about 3 hours, the home side claimed six South African wickets to leave the visitors struggling at 130/6, still 413 runs behind on first innings.
It was a spirited display from the West Indies, helped by poor shot selection and approach by South Africa which caused the unexpected turn. Overnight and morning rain ensured that play did not begin until around 2:30pm, but it was well worth the wait for the local supporters.
Pedro Collins made the first inroad and wasted little time in doing so, getting Graeme Smith (2) caught behind in the third over of the innings. It was then Daren Powell's turn to make his mark, returning to Test cricket after a near 2-year absence.
The Jamaican pace bowler found pace and life on the dead Bourda track and used it to excite the spectators and lift his team with two crucial blows. First Powell got Jacques Rudolph (0) to edge his first ball low down to Ryan Hinds in the slip cordon, who took a good catch.
A couple balls after, the celebration was scarcely contained with the wicket of Kallis. The leading South African batsman attempted an ambitious hook shot to counter the second delivery he saw, and managed to drag the ball onto his stumps. Gone for a duck, he left the score at a stunning 16/3.
Things progressively worsened, as Gibbs (5) was trapped LBW on the back foot to Collins. The young de Villiers then went with the experience Mark Boucher to tea with 4 down.
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In his 85-ball stay, AB de Villiers looked far more assured than any of his the top order team-mates and remained positive with 7 fours. His one fault was a tendency to play at balls more fit to be left alone outside offstump. Irony ensured that to be his demise.
Andrew Hall took his guard and pushed Powell positively through the covers to get off the mark, but he then engineered his downfall against King. Pulling at a ball well wide off offstump, Hall was brilliantly caught low down by Pedro Collins at midon and the crowd erupted once more.
Continuing to stand firm was Mark Boucher (32 not out) and he found a worthy partner in Nicky Boje (21 not out), as the two batsmen took South Africa to stumps. Boje at times encountered low bounce even on the flat batting pitch, but weathered the initial uncertainty well.
The close of play came rather sooner than it should have, as Shivnarine Chanderpaul erred in decision-making for the second consecutive day. The debuting West Indies captain summoned the pace of Daren Powell in fading light which brought an immediate offer of bad light from the umpires, to the glee and acceptance of the South Africans.
Score Summary:
West Indies 1st innings
543/5 dec. (152.1 overs)
WW Hinds 213, S Chanderpaul 203 not out, RO Hinds 48
A Nel 3/93, CK Langeveldt 1/65, N Boje 1/106
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AB de Villiers 41, MV Boucher 32 not out, N Boje 21 not out
RD King 2/32, PT Collins 2/33, DB Powell 2/42
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He spent the next two years in Spain writing a novel, Don't Tell Anyone, a thinly veiled account of his life growing up gay and abused by his father. When the main character, Joaquín Camino, discovers his bisexuality, his upper-crust family and chauvinist father deny it; they even hire a hooker for him. But Joaquín drops out of school, tries cocaine, becomes a journalist, and eventually moves to Miami.
Don't Tell Anyone is still widely considered Bayly's best novel. It's a bawdy but angry book that reveals a racist, homophobic, and status-obsessed family threatened by a son's homosexuality just as Peru was shaken by popular unrest. It's also a window into Bayly's extreme loneliness and me-versus-the-world mentality. When his family members learned of the book, they pleaded with him not to publish it.
"That was the breaking point," he says. "Nobody was friendly or supportive. They were totally against me and at war with me."
After two years in Madrid with the novel still unpublished, Bayly ran out of money. He returned to TV in Lima, where he met a pretty, blond Peruvian-American woman named Sandra Masías at a nightclub. They moved to Washington, D.C., together and, with Masías pregnant and Bayly's tourist visa expiring, soon married. But the domestic tranquility existed only on paper. Bayly insisted on seeing other women... and men.
"She tried to make me a straight man," Bayly recalls of Masías. "But human nature, or my nature, is being in love with somebody but also allowing yourself the freedom to have sex with someone else if that is what is good for you. I've never believed in monogamy."
Still, his family provided newfound stability to Bayly's life. Don't Tell Anyone was finally published in 1994 and quickly became a bestseller in Spain, Peru, and much of Latin America. Of course, the tales of infidelity, incest, and drug abuse didn't sit well with Bayly's family members. Many still don't speak to him, even though emergency liver surgery in 2009 nearly killed him.
Standing in the plush lobby of Hotel Portón in Bogotá, Felipe Muñoz doesn't look like the head of the Colombian secret police. Instead, with dark, close-cut hair and chubby cheeks, the 40-plus-year-old looks like any one of the thousands of crisply suited bankers strolling the city's bustling streets. But Muñoz flashes his badge at Bayly and in hushed tones says he has a personal message from President Álvaro Uribe. "We believe that Hugo Chávez has hired hit men to kill you," Muñoz warns Bayly, referring to the bombastic Venezuelan president whom Bayly has lambasted incessantly since 1998. "For your protection, I advise you to leave Colombia at once."
"I'm dying in six months," Bayly replies, citing his liver problems. "So if Chávez kills me before then, he'll be doing me a great service. He'll save me some money on physicians."
It was early 2010, and Bayly was covering the Colombian presidential elections for Bogotá-based station NTN. He had jokingly dedicated his first episode in Colombia to Chávez, and he didn't buy the threat.
"I sensed that he was lying to me," Bayly says. "I was supporting the opposition candidate... So that was the reason the chief of the secret police tried to scare me."
Whether or not the plot to kill Bayly was real, it marked a turning point. The talk-show host had transformed from a flippant provocateur into a serious political player. The road there started in 1996, when he secured a job as an anchor for 24-hour news network CBS Telenoticias. Hundreds of thousands of people across the hemisphere began to recognize his handsome face.
Then in 2000, when Fujimori resigned in disgrace after scandals involving human rights abuses and bribery, Bayly left CBS and returned to Peru. It was an important moment for journalism as the country shook off a decade of censorship. And Bayly once more took full advantage. He started a new show on network Frecuencia Latina called El Francotirador ("The Sniper"). On it, he ridiculed the various candidates poised to succeed Fujimori. He also pushed the envelope of good taste, accusing front-runner Alejandro Toledo of refusing to recognize an illegitimate daughter. When he began to advocate policies including gay marriage and legalization of drugs, his tirades took on the character of stump speeches.
During the presidential election of 2001, Bayly ran a high-profile campaign urging voters to cast blank, protest votes. "The result was terrible," says Peruvian TV critic Patricia Salinas. "People were throwing eggs at him in the street." Even worse, only 3 percent of Peruvians cast a protest vote in the decisive second round. Toledo won comfortably.
"Bayly has always been very popular here but never loved," Salinas adds. "He achieves what he wants to — grabs people's attention, makes himself known — but he doesn't win over people. The proof is that for years, he never convinced people to support a single initiative of his."
Soon, Bayly grew tired of working in the Peruvian TV industry. From 2003 to 2005, he focused on writing, cranking out several more sex- and scandal-filled novels. Then in 2006, he began a three-year stint on Mega TV in Miami. The show, Bayly, drew steady ratings, but serious health problems and an on-air fight with the station's vice president led Bayly to quit in 2009. After recovering at his friend Shakira's house in Uruguay, Bayly moved back to Lima and announced he would run for president.
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Sin City's ubiquitous cheerleader made headlines when he threatened to go home Sunday night after waiting 20 minutes for an interview with Anthony Bourdain, host of CNN's travel show "Parts Unknown."
Bourdain was in town filming an episode. He responded via Twitter on Wednesday that he had not been late for the meeting with the former mayor at Oscar's Beef Booze Broads Steakhouse at the Plaza.
Both men denied a column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal that ran with a headline suggesting Goodman was "broiling" over the incident. Columnist Norm Clarke told The Associated Press that Goodman thought Bourdain was late and was grousing about it in front of reporters and hotel officials.
On Wednesday, Goodman said if he gave the impression that he was mad, it was only because he was three martinis in. He said he should not be held accountable for his actions after 5 p.m., and that at least he wasn't smoking crack, unlike a certain Toronto official.
"We were hugging each other like two long-lost soul brothers who hadn't seen each other for 30 years," said the mob lawyer come city official, who has a fondness for borscht belt jokes even before 5 o'clock. "I was hugging him because I was trying to stand up."
The long-lost brothers have still not cleared up the timing issue. Goodman said he was about to go home and have his fourth martini after showing up at 8 p.m. and waiting 20 minutes, but decided to stay after Bourdain's producers told him the host was delayed at Caesars Palace.
Bourdain said he doesn't mind being portrayed as a jerk _ using a more vulgar term _ but he doesn't like being called the kind of jerk who makes people wait.
The Food Network alum said he arrived at the agreed-upon time, and Goodman was making an honest mistake.
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"We can't wait," proclaimed the president on Monday, Oct. 24, announcing that in the absence of congressional action on his jobs plan, he'd be advancing orders on mortgages, school loans, opportunities for veterans, and more.
Republicans had a field day. "#WeCantWait to make @BarackObama a one-term president," tweeted Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus that day. A flurry of tweets followed. By Tuesday afternoon, the White House, which, notably, initially hadn't bothered making use of the tweet-friendly mantra as a hashtag, made an attempt to reclaim it. Tweeted the White House: "#WeCantWait for today's Office Hours" -- a reference to an online chat with economic advisor Brian Deese on Obama's new initiative. Minority Leader Pelosi tried her own spin. "#WeCantWait for GOP to stop blocking #AmericanJobsAct & #ChinaCurrency jobs bill," she tweeted, adding a kick at the end: "PS to GOP: #HashtagsArentAJobsBill." Oh, snap.
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Once the Dewey Decimal system of Twitter, hashtags are being embraced by the political class as an ideal way to snark.
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But having pointed fun with the hashtag is newer. "Until a couple years ago, anytime you used a hashtag, it was to group a conversation," says Democratic consultant Matt Ortega, who is known in political circles as a leading purveyor of the comedic arts. "But within the last year and a half or so, it's become a way to kind of use a subliminal message in a larger tweet." The New Yorker's Susan Orlean describes the result as sounding "like it's being muttered into a handkerchief." Says Ortega, "The way I and a lot of others approach it is the Jon Stewart-Stephen Colbert school of pushing a political angle or thoughtful comment using humor, like #HermanCainPizzaJams or #HipHopBBQActs" -- the points there being that, with the former, Cain is an unserious political candidate for signing a pizza song to the tune of "Imagine" and, with the latter, that FoxNation is dense on racial matters for using that phrase to describe a birthday gathering for Obama that featured black celebrities. Another example: "#ImRunningForOfficeForPetesSake" -- Mitt Romney's explanation for why his landscaping company couldn't hire illegal immigrants -- "feeds into the meme that he's inauthentic," says Ortega. "The best ones take a poignant political point and match it with humor."
Hashtags have become a way for politicians to, as Rick Perry might say, "bump" ideas. (That cringe-worthy debate exchange prompted its own warning hashtag: #cootiesarereal.) "Democrats follow Republicans, and Republicans follow Democrats," observes one Democratic congressional aide. "We're using the medium to push back, because members don't like to see things like [the jobs bill fight] go unchallenged." Recently, Hill Republicans and Democrats engaged in a low-grade fight over #Forgotten15 and #Faux15, two takes on fifteen bills that Republicans say are jobs plans in stalled the Senate and Democrats dismiss as job killers. There was even a meta aspect: "When it comes to #HashtagsArentAJobsBill," says the aide, "the frustration is that, as great as Twitter is, hashtags aren't going to help the unemployed."
For political types, the opportunity, of course, is to give the conventional wisdom a little nudge in the rear. And to do it for free. The left picked up on #PerryHistory to emphasize that the governor of Texas didn't know all that much about history -- after he placed the American Revolution in the 16th century. Sample tweet, from SparkyGirl13: "The US could only finance the Louisiana Purchase thanks to Brett Maverick winning a hand of poker. #PerryHistory" Often, hashtags open up a fascinating contest. The hashtag #rubiofamilyhistory picked up on the mini-controversy over the Florida Senator's roots. (Point: "Actually, my parents put me on a rocketship two years before the destruction of Krypton. #rubiofamilyhistory" Counterpoint: "I became a Senator, and then some Washington Post reporter wrote a BS article instantly refuted by the Miami Herald. #rubiofamilyhistory") The National Republican Congressional Committee has pushed #ScaryDemMovieTitles to prod along ideas about what Democrats are up to. Tweeted submissions from the public at large included "No Country for Small Businessmen," "Barack Obama and the Deathly Taxes," and, a jab at the Attorney General as "Holdergeist." Researchers call tags like these "micro-memes": tiny ideas that aren't a huge deal and also aren't entirely trivial, that can bounce along for days on end before flaring out.
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Antonio Cromartie has been a tweeting fool with some great Tweet-bytes the last couple of days. Recently, he put this tweet out about anyone who oposed Mark Sanchez or thinks he's not a great quarterback. Boom. What say you haters?
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never know what you're buying. It may look, smell, and drive like
an automobile, but there's more. In addition to the car, you're
buying something else, but you don't know what. You cannot drive
off in that new vehicle without paying the sales tax, and that means
that some of what you pay is going into the hands of nameless strangers,
to be spent as they see fit on projects you can't even imagine,
and certainly wouldn't support if you could. Possibly this annoys
a quaint idea, but perhaps the buyer should know what he's buying,
and not be forced to buy more than he wants, or worse, something
he doesn't want at all. In that case, of course, an automobile purchase
is a poor example, because the buyer is forced to buy a number of
things which he may not want: airbags, seatbelts, door-guard beams,
how about a work of art? A certain painting catches your eye, or
a statue. Not only is it beautiful (assuming it's not modern art),
but it may be a good investment, as well. So you decide to buy it.
Art can be very expensive, however. If your purchase is for $100,000,
for example, you will, in New York state, have to pay $108,250 for
your $100,000 object. The additional $8,250 is for New York to spend
on whatever it wishes. What could be more reasonable than that you
pay New York $8,250 because you want to own a $100,000 painting?
After all, had you bought a painting for a paltry $1,000, New York
would only have demanded $82.50, and in the case of the more valuable
work, it's obvious that the state deserves one hundred times as
much. Isn't it?
incredibly obtuse individuals would say "No!" They seek
to avoid the sales tax. That would seem to be easy: just buy in
another state. If I, as a Missourian, bought a painting for $100,000
in Illinois, could the state of Illinois demand a tax from me? What
jurisdiction does Illinois have over Missourians? Could Missouri
demand the sales tax? But I didn't buy the painting in Missouri.
of sales taxes on big-ticket purchases, such as art, is virtually
a tradition. And New York, for one, doesn't like it. Sales taxes
are its second largest source of revenue. The DA in Manhattan, liberal
octogenarian Robert Morgenthau, is thoroughly annoyed with the likes
of Dennis Kozlowski, head of Tyco International, for allegedly evading
about a million bux in sales taxes, by having purchases in New York
shipped to the firm's New Hampshire office. Once there, it is charged,
the purchases were then returned to New York. In a few cases, the
trip to New Hampshire was simply skipped altogether, it is charged,
except for the paperwork, which showed the art as being shipped
out of state.
is going to take Kozlowski, and others, it is rumored, to court.
Other states have inaugurated amnesty programs, according to which
they would not prosecute "offenders" who paid up the sales
taxes they had evaded – with interest. Of course, the legal
defenses in these cases will scrupulously avoid coming to grips
with the real issue: why should the state be entitled to anything
because A sells something to B? The idea seems to be that government
cannot exist without taxation, and taxation means taking citizens'
money, on virtually any premise whatever. But how about this
premise: why should government exist at all?
of the sales tax are referred to as "tax cheats." How
extraordinarily prejudicial! To attempt to keep, using the letter,
if not spirit, of the law, what is one's own, is "cheating."
On the other hand, the seizure by the government of another's money,
on the most ridiculous and flimsiest of excuses, is quite legitimate
and ordinary.
in fact, may be the problem: it is ordinary. We are so accustomed
to the predations of our rulers that we accept it as the ordinary
course of events, which, sadly, it has become.
some dealer with a valuable painting will give it away. He could
provide the recipient with a statement indicating that it was a
gift. The grateful beneficiary of this largesse could indicate his
gratitude by offering the dealer some token of appreciation –
an envelope, perhaps, containing a thousand paper chits each marked
"100." No sale; no sales tax.
mind: Mr. Morgenthau, if this occurred in his bailiwick, would naturally
assume that this maneuver, designed to avoid a sales tax, was itself
unlawful, and descend upon the individuals involved like an avenging
angel – or, more realistically, Al Capone seeking vengeance
upon those who failed to pay their protection money.
letter of the law, the spirit of the law, indeed, law itself, is
irrelevant. Laws apply to us, not the rulers. When they want their
tribute, they want it, and neither law nor reason is going to stand
in their way. As Bastiat wrote "When plunder becomes a way
of life for a group of men living together in society, they create
for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes
it, and a moral code that glorifies it." Morgenthau proves
the point.
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text: After two weeks of OTAs, only one thing has become clear in the critical battle for the New Orleans Saints' left tackle job. The competition is wide open. Rookie Terron Armstead took his turn as the first-string left tackle during this whole week of practices after newly-signed free agent Jason Smith spent all of last week as the first-stringer. Soon, fourth-year Saints veteran Charles Brown will probably get back in the mix as well. Brown returned to practice this week after suffering a minor injury in the weight room earlier this month. Source: The Times-Picayune


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It is looking like that. US government found in Rooswell crashed ship,
which was given to aliens who came directly to retrieve it for a piece
of technology. Apollo 19-20 found ancient old ship crashed on the other
side of the Moon, but since aliens knew about it and since there is alot
of gold, they come to the agreement to never to come back to Moon
again, instead the Mj12 was given more technology, which You see in
todays lifes. Its just reengineered and possessed from alien entities.
You dont need words or telepathy to understand, they give You a chip in
return for gold. ITs easy like that.
Even the kids know the aliens exist and we arent kids anymore. What about UFO's approaching ISS in single ships or with multiple ships in the background, appearing from nowhere and why NASA after such encounter on "ISS live stream" (Google), cuts video and replaces it with loops of previous videos or the inside of ISS? Why the MJ12 is still lying about bad small grey and white aliens with which they signed treaty making our animals and us all frogs for their experiments? And whats more important, when MJ12 with uncover all those technologies that were patented or ree-ngineered from spaceships given/found from aliens. And what about the miliards old spaceship on the other side of the moon, called "Mona Lisa" from the closed and confidential Apollo 19 and Apollo 20 footage? The ship is located in the small crater near Isaac crater and is almost 4miles long, where Russians and american astronauts have found human looking bodies of very old entities? Privately, once I saw an UFO, that was looking like a star, but brighter than Sirius and after some time I adapted myself to the night, the light changed direction West and splitted into 3 lights. In the opinion of the government it can be everything from baloon, to lantern or even supercar, but never UFO. After all of those decades of lies and the kill of J.F. Kennedy, they still lie, cause they are so good at it and they love secrecy.
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Published August 16, 2013
Until Thursday, the U.S. government had never publicly acknowledged the existence of Area 51—a remote spot in the Nevada desert that has long been associated with conspiracy theories, alien sightings, and talk of tiny spaceships.(See exclusive pictures from Area 51.)
But a newly declassified CIA document—which was written in 1992—shows a map labeled with the name of the remote land parcel, 75 miles from Las Vegas, used to test and develop top-secret U.S. military projects, including the U-2 spy plane. (Related: "How Area 51 Held Secret Craft.")
To learn more about Area 51 and the new information released by the government, we turned to Annie Jacobsen, an investigative journalist and the author of Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base.
What was in this massive 400-page document that was declassified on Thursday?
Very little of it is actually new information. Only one page out of the 400 pages is new information. The rest of the report has been declassified for years. And I know this because I used large parts of it to write about the different surveillance programs that existed at Area 51.
So what's actually new?
What's new is that the National Security Archive at George Washington University filed a Freedom of Information Act request on a page of the document and it was declassified.
It is a map that says Area 51 on it. That really is news—what it means is that a jealously guarded secret—the existence of an area called Area 51, which the government refused to acknowledge the existence of—actually exists.
How was Area 51 referred to in other documents?
Whenever it was described, the words "Area 51" were covered in black ink. No one in the government would talk about what everyone else already knew.
What's interesting is that these incredible spy programs happened out there. The CIA has been declassifying documents about Area 51 since the 1990s, but they have always been told or directed not to reveal the name.
Why do you think that is?
It is still a mystery. I maintain that the Atomic Energy Commission was doing programs out there that required a much higher level of security clearance and those programs had a much higher degree of classification. (Learn more about Area 51 on the National Geographic Channel.)
What's in the rest of the document—the part that was already declassified?
It discusses various programs that existed out at Area 51. One of the first CIA drones ever created was flown out of Area 51 in the 1950s. It looked like a giant eagle and was meant to spy on Soviet hydrofoils that were being hidden in the Caspian Sea.
Why did people think that Area 51 housed alien spaceships?
A lot of it was because of the U-2 planes program that started out of Area 51 in 1955. The U-2 planes were used extensively by the U.S. during the Cold War for reconnaissance missions. They flew at an altitude of 60,000 feet (18 meters)—considerably higher than any other plane in existence at the time.
As soon as test flights began, people wrote letters to their congressmen and to their local mayors saying, "I saw a UFO." But what they saw was the U-2 spy plane.
Why did they mistake the U-2 plane for a UFO?
Two reasons. One, it had an almost vertical takeoff. Anyone who happened to see it gaining altitude would have thought it was very unusual.
The second reason is that it flew so high. At the time, no one believed that airlines could fly that high. Commercial flights were flying 20,000 feet (6 kilometers) in the air. If you saw [a U-2 plane], you were going to think it was a UFO.
Why are we so fascinated with Area 51?
I call it the grassy knoll of Nevada. So many stories surrounded it. People clamor to read about it. It makes it exciting to report on.
It is looking like that. US government found in Rooswell crashed ship,
which was given to aliens who came directly to retrieve it for a piece
of technology. Apollo 19-20 found ancient old ship crashed on the other
side of the Moon, but since aliens knew about it and since there is alot
of gold, they come to the agreement to never to come back to Moon
again, instead the Mj12 was given more technology, which You see in
todays lifes. Its just reengineered and possessed from alien entities.
You dont need words or telepathy to understand, they give You a chip in
return for gold. ITs easy like that.
Interesting that reports from pilots and military servicemen were left out of the reports as to why people thought they saw UFO's. These weren't average people or people with really low IQ scores in the military of all three branches, they were officers. I'm sorry but until they provide ALL of the evidence I won't be convinced.
18 meters? Hmmm, that's why your multimillion dollar probes either fly past Mars or crash into the planet...
The mysterious I-Beams with the "strange" markings have been proven to be from a toy store in middle america, one of the lead scientists spoke of as he had picked up a child's toy set, and it is proven in a store catolouge... the identical material that was filmed in 1947 was shown in the same years catalouge. He needed to support a part of the spy mission balloons that were being experimented with at the time, which were very sophisticated if you were a hillbilly coming across al of this foreign, completely alien materials and technology, can you imagine if you barely understood how a toothbrush worked and you were presented with this!?!?!
A Área 51 foi citada em filme (Caso Roswell) e mostrava um OVNI sendo estudado por cientistas e militares.
We are not sure yet that aliens really exist, but I think it is possible. We might just have to keeping looking for real evidence.
Are the Spying programs over? I assume there would still be other unknown testing ground maybe spookily named AREA 52!
Mystery still lurks at Area 51
60,000 feet (18 meters)???
This is another 1 of these sloppily written articles by someone that's never set foot in the real world, traveled outside the US border and seen the other 95% of our planet.
Makes it really hard to accept anything stated in regards to aliens from beyond our planet.
60'000 feet is approximately 20 km
People seem to forget that most of the material related to captured alien vehicles is actually located at Area S-4...among other places (Wright_patterson AFB, Ohio; Fort Belvoir, Kansas, etc) and not necessarily at Groom Lake itself...although there could be stuff out there as well.
And now, we are finding out about "The Tall Whites", a race of extraterrestrials that are somehow "guests" of the ones in charge of keeping the UFO knowledge secret...and are living in an area that is part of the range.
So who knows what else is going on....that has gone on behind our backs for the past 50-60 years or more...??
This secrecy is bull****. For centuries, the world has been asking itself the same question, time after time: Are we alone in the Universe??
It sickens me to think that some few people in government..or some agency somewhere...knows the answer to that question, and isn't telling us.
Check out my historical website for the truth about the UFO phenomena: www.noufors.com
The evidence exists in many forms, including documents and eyewitness accounts by former military and civilian officials.
The time for the Truth is now...and let's get rid of the deception, secrecy and lies that we are being spoon-fed.
Either way, the truth as a way of surfacing...eventually!
God Bless!
Michel M. Deschamps
UFO Researcher, Historian and Archivist
It's declassified because they've moved all the alien carcasses to Area 52.
Doesn't "Area 51" imply the existence of at least 50 other "Areas"?
18 meters???
if people think that was an UFO, who will have advantages from that?
@T H chill it was just a typo... and 60,000 feet is 18.29 KM or 11.36 Miles.
@T H It's a simple typo, it rounds to 18 meters and the K was left off.
@T H It rounds to 18 km. They accidentally left out a k, and they will revise it.
@Craig Busse"Area 51" got it's name from the airspace grid location. As a pilot, we have grids that are all numbered. Area 51 is the airspace grid number that covers not only the Groom Lake facility, but areas around it as well. The name became a bit of a legend, when commercial, and private pilots were forbidden to fly in that particular air grid. There are others that commercial, and private pilots can't fly over (and will be chased out by F-16s) but those were all known military bases. Area 51 was the only one that wasn't a known base (technically, it's not a "base", but rather, a research facility run mostly by "Skunkworks" (Lockheed) and a few other private corporations, but, with government oversight, as the facility was used for the creation of experimental aircraft (as well as used to THOROUGHLY screw with the Soviets) What does that mean? Well, Soviet spy satellites would fly over, and we would hide our planes, but, their thermal imaging could see the cold area on the ground where the plane was, and get an idea of shape... so, we started painting weird aircraft designs on the tarmac, so their satellites would get strange designs of things that did not, and would not exist... the Russians would then spend countless rubles to try to copy these joke designs they thought we were building. There are hundreds of other areas, but, to see them all, you would have to look at an aviation "airspace map" from the 1950s or 60s, and you'll see all of the area grid squares, including Area 51 (which, in that respect, has always been on those maps) Oh yeah, and those who worked there tended to call it "Groom Lake", or "Dreamland"... only pilots, and conspiracy enthusiasts ever called it "Area 51".
@Lee Berg 18.26 Kilometers... seems they forgot a kilo or two...
Thanks for sharing.
@Lorraine Wagner @Richard Lantz @Craig Busse No worries...
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