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Lincoln Man Sentenced for Conspiracy to Distribute Crack Cocaine
|U.S. Attorney's Office April 15, 2014
United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on April 15, 2014, Markham Deshay Jones, age 46, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 77 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine base (crack cocaine) between January 2011 and February 2012. Following the prison term, Jones will serve six years on supervised release. He was also ordered to pay a $100 special assessment.
An investigation showed that Jones was responsible for the distribution of at least 28 grams (approximately one ounce) of cocaine base, also known as crack cocaine, in the Lincoln area between January 2011 and February 2012.
The matter was investigated by the Lincoln/Lancaster County Narcotics Task Force, which includes officers of the Lincoln Police Department, the Lancaster County Sheriff's Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department.


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Patrick paints a picture
"Let's paint a picture of that cornfield," says Aunt Emily to Patrick as they sit looking out from the shade of a tree. Patrick puts a yellow blob on his palette to paint the corn, but a red squirrel runs into the field; when he puts down red, a bluebird appears. Each page reveals a new color and a new creature--until Patrick's palette is filled with colors and the field with animals
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Core ethical value
Life sciences and biotechnology have given rise to significant public attention and debate. Promoting dialogue among stakeholders and organising public debates will accompany and guide the development of life sciences and biotechnology and ensure effective and responsible policies that are in harmony with societal values. Without broad public acceptance and support, the development and use of life sciences and biotechnology in Europe will be contentious. Our society should offer the necessary safeguards to ensure that the development and application of life sciences and biotechnology take place respecting the fundamental values of human life and dignity. Europe needs to achieve a common understanding among all stakeholders and policy makers and resolve diverging views. If biotechnology is to work for Europe, political leaders must make some tough choices to handle the ethical dimension and to harness biotech's potential so that it meets the needs and expectations of EU citizens.
EuropaBio's Core Ethical Values Charter is a pledge of responsible behaviour and all members of EuropaBio are bound by them. We believe that the swift and steady development of science and technology calls for rapid identification and clarification of the ethical aspects of this development. We want to anticipate and explore the impact of change and to discuss its effects with the scientific community, the public and their elected representatives. The well-being of humans and animals, and the quality of our environment are the major concerns of any civilised society. They are fully shared by all of EuropaBio's member companies. We support authorisation procedures for genetically modified organisms based on rigorous and science-based safety assessments that are coherent, transparent and predictable. We believe that both the scientific community and the industry should invest enough time and energy to work together with the public on addressing their concerns.
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Linda Holmes, of NPR's Monkey See blog, has a nifty post up today about the use of of endlessly receding spaces in Wally Pfister's "Transcendence," which opens on Friday. Among other things, it's a great example of what smart critics can do when they're freed from the format of a straightforward review (NPR has one of those, too), and a demonstration of how to spin multiple pieces out of the same subject without restoring to speculative filler.
As the directing debut of an Oscar-winning cinematographer, "Transcendence" naturally looks great, but Holmes isn't dwelling on how it looks so much as why it looks that way. (You could even say she's focusing on form.)
There's a fine line between a motif and a tic, and the corridors here are treading right on that line. But when they work, they create a sort of infinite space, while at the same time, you can imagine yourself becoming tinier and tinier until it you blink out in a dot and vanish into oblivion. (Hey, it's the inevitability of death! Also known as planned obsolescence for humans.)
Critics have mostly attacked "Transcendence" as being pretty but devoid of ideas, but it's important to remember that ideas can be expressed in visual terms as well as through dialogue and plot, and for critics of a visual medium, it ought to be second nature. Given that Pfister's career to this point has been almost exclusively as a maker of images, it stands to reason he'd be more at ease with them than with the newer demands of the top job. But most reviews of the movie treat it as a script with some pretty visuals sprinkled on top.
I wouldn't argue that "Transcendence" is a great or even a particularly good movie, but there's an interesting ambivalence in its visual language that surpasses the flat and simplistic terms of first-timer Jack Paglen's script. The story of a fatally wounded tech visionary whose consciousness is implanted into the artificially intelligent computer he's devoted his life to developing ends up as a technological cautionary tale, but Pfister's camera -- the photography here is by Jess Hall -- is constantly seduced by the gleaming banks of supercooled mainframes which, as Holmes points out, dwarf the human figures that traverse them. But they also suggest, for me, the untapped, and perhaps unknowable, depths of the human mind, which for all its added processing power is still the basis of "Transcendence's" A.I.
Pfister himself is something of a traditionalist, as one of the movie industry's most militant holdouts against the imposition of digital technology. And yet, as "Transcendence" goes on, the screen is slowly but steadily invaded by computer-generated effects, at which point the celluloid origin of what amount to glorified background plates starts to seem pretty well irrelevant. Some of the movie's most beautiful images are shot from the A.I.'s point of view, including a breathtaking rendition of the San Francisco skyline as an electronic waveform. You could argue, I suppose, that Pfister's just been seduced by the prettiness of the toys at his disposal, but it also adds a layer to the movie's Luddite fable that its script eventually rebuffs. (No spoilers, but suffice it to say that what seem to be the benefits of the A.I.'s progression turn out to be either double-edged or nonexistent.) None of this makes "Transcendence" good, exactly, but it does make it more interesting than many critics have so far allowed.


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Gretchen Rossi Slams Tamra Barney For Spreading False Rumors
April 23, 2014 02:00 PM by Stephanie Gustafson
The Real Housewives Of Orange County is back, but this season, Gretchen Rossi is nowhere to be seen. Tamra Barney (and pretty much everybody else) assumes that Gretchen was fired, but apparently, that's not the case — the reality star claims that she was asked to join this season but declined the offer!
Tamra Barney has been speaking ill of Gretchen Rossi ever since her ex-BFF claimed that the Barney wedding was simply a ploy to score a spin-off show. According to Tamra's latest allegations, Gretchen was fired from The Real Housewives Of Orange County. Of course, she's not the only one making this claim — several months ago, Vicki Gunvalson said the exact same thing!
Gretchen is sick and tired of the nasty rumors and eager to set things straight. Addressing Tamra in an angry Facebook post, the reality star explained that she'd declined an earlier request to return to the show, adding, "You don't know anything about our exit or what happened because you were not privy to those conversations."
Not only is Gretchen angry about Tamra's claims surrounding her departure from The Real Housewives Of Orange County, she hates how Tamra seems to think that she is unable to capture any media attention on her own. Gretchen suggested that Tamra use Google to see how much press she was receiving as a Real Housewives alum. She also advised her nemesis to log out of Twitter and "stop worrying so much about what we are doing."
Do you think Gretchen Rossi was kicked off The Real Housewives Of Orange County? Or did she leave voluntarily? Feel free to share your opinion in the comments section below!
Tamra Barney's Daughter Accuses Her Mom Of Lying About Their Relationship
Vicki Gunvalson Bonds With Shannon Beador
Tamra Barney Responds To Child Neglect Allegations
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Gloria Says:
April 23rd, 2014 at 7:48 pm
I feel that Gretchen is a pretty woman. But Does she have to use the blurrr lense on her photos, Like Andy McDowell has used for 20 Yrs on tv commercials? I can't stand it when young women under 40 insist on plastic surgery or blurred lenses. Who do you think you are kidding? Bing or Google will tell us how old you really are, lol.


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I am writing a program that requires a implementation of Medial Axis extraction, of which Delaunay triangulation is a step. External medial axis is unwanted so the corresponding external triangles are intended to be removed. Luckily I came upon a page with a lot of diagrams, also a hint of a method to determine internal and external Delaunay triangles ("based on the broken line perimeter"), but it's just a hint, without detailed explanation. Anybody know the algorithm?
EDIT: I forgot mentioning the initial points are sampled from the boundary of a closed polygon, my intention is to determine whether each Delaunay triangle is inside the polygon.


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A Florida pizza delivery man stands accused of having sex with a dog.
A hidden camera allegedly caught him in the act after the owner of the poor pooch became suspicious when it started limping and started behaving skittishly around humans.
Joshua Lee Werbicki, 22, has been charged with felony cruelty to animals and misdemeanour criminal sex act with an animal, reports WTSP.com.
Joshua Lee Werbicki
The dog, a German Shepherd mix, will remain in the care of Brevard County Animal Services until the case is finished.
Werbicki was arrested at the restaurant at which he works last Friday.
He is being held on $2,500 (£1,522) bail and is likely to be banned from owning animals in the future.
The family coming together is not always a good thing. Terry Antone Jenkins, 25, learned this the hard way in September, when he was involved in a three-way with his girlfriend and her cousin. The South Carolina man allegedly became enraged after he "finished" and the two kissin' cousins continued on with each other. Cops say Jenkins dragged his girlfriend off of her cousin by her hair before hitting and kicking the other woman. He was charged with domestic violence.
Here's an alarming development in the sexual world that happened in 2013: A robot that gives hand jobs.
It's possible this couple saw "screw aisle" and got confused. Emily Craig, 20, and 31-year-old Shaun Bowden were nailed laying some pipe inside a shed at a Home Depot in South Carolina in August. Craig pleaded guilty, but Bowden failed to show up at trial. He was tried and convicted anyway, and the court put a bench warrant out for his arrest.
If you long for horrible sex from bygone millenia, fear not! Dinosaur erotica is available. Earlier this year, Christie Sims and Alara Branwen published multiple tales of dino bones, sporting such titles as "Taken by the Pterodactyl," "Taken by the T-Rex," and "Taken at the Dinosaur Museum." Branwen spoke to the Huffington Post and told us some of the secrets of veloci-rapture: "Short arms are also why male T-rexes are the most voracious in looking for mates," she said. "They can't 'relieve themselves' by themselves, so they have to have someone "help them,' if you know what I mean."
A Welsh man who goes by "Hotcock" was convicted in September for sex with a Land Rover. Daniel "Hotcock" Cooper" was caught on surveillance video getting naked before grinding up against a blue 4x4 Land Rover Discovery. Later that day, he got naked again at a kebab shop and tried to get nasty with the counter.
Gerard Streator was actually caught having sex with a couch on the side of the road in 2012, but he pleaded guilty this year. His punishment for taking the term "love seat" too literally was five months in jail, plus being barred from possessing "pornography of any kind."
In February,documents came to light indicating that Texan Andrew Mendoza had sex with a horse because he "was trying to make the horse have a baby." In a signed statement wherein he graphically detailed his encounter with the horse, Mendoza went on to explain, "I was thinking it would have a horseman baby. I ain't going to lie, I blew a nut in the horse."
Edwin Tobergta is nothing if not faithful. In 2013, he was convicted of stripping naked in full view of several children and having sex with an inflatable pool raft -- the same inflatable pool raft he was arrested for shagging in 2011. He's not a strictly one-toy man, though. In 2002, he was arrested for allegedly diddling an inflatable pumpkin that was part of a Halloween display.
Reminds us of this chap from 2012...


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This is a darling little doll, 18" tall. She is made by Ideal in 1966-1967. She is a rare made in JAPAN Red Head. Her name is Giggles. When you pull her hands together her head rocks back and forth and her flirty eyes move from left to right, she vibrates, but doesn't sound like a giggle to me. So, I am selling her as SHE NO LONGER GIGGLES. She is too cute. She is wearing a replaced dress and panties made by her prior owner. She is wearing new white sandals with little pink, blue and lavender hearts on them. She has a hard vinyl/plastic body and a soft vinyl face. Her face is a lighter color than her body.She is marked on the back of her head 1966/Ideal Toy Corp/GG-18-H-77-JAPAN. She is marked on her right hip 1967/Ideal Toy Corp/GG-18/Made in Japan. I talked to a fellow Ebayer and was told that the Japan red head dolls were made primarily for Australia. These dolls are new to me and I am not an expert, so ask questions and I will try to find an answer. She is in very good condition. However, she has a bluish stain on the middle toe of her right foot and a small indentation on the heel of her right foot. Other than that she has a few very minor rubs, scrapes and nicks on her legs that are consistent with play and age. They are so minor, I did not photograph, but will send additional pictures if requested. PLEASE LOOK AT THE PICTURES CAREFULLY BEFORE BIDDING AS T ARE NO REFUNDS ON THIS ITEM. THIS IS A VINTAGE DOLL AND SOLD AS A COLLECTIBLE "AS IS" SHE HAS BEEN PLAYED WITH AND IS NOT A MINT DOLL. THE PICTURES ARE PART OF THE DESCRIPTION . I TRY HARD TO MENTION EVERYTHING I SEE, BUT MAY MISS SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO YOU, SO PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS AND LOOK AT THE PICTURES. International buyers, Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyers responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding/buying.


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Anyone have/use a plumb bob for bike fitting? If so.... where did you find yours?
I've been visiting hardware stores for months trying to find a small
one - keep finding these large to humongous ones (8-24 oz). Checked online and it seems Stanley makes a 4oz one for $5~$7 - but I can't find a distributor.
I noticed there are some that are "custom" for bike fit - but they are ridiculously expensive and I don't think there is anything "custom" about a plumb bob :rolleyes:
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I think I've become obsessed with every nuance of bike fit... and now want to see where my patella is relative to the pedal spindle (k.o.p.s. fit test) on all my bikes and see if I can tell a difference in injury aggravation with micro adjusting.
Any insight is greatly appreciated :)


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You can build them yourself, paint them plus sew the bags for $83, $73 for ISU students at the Workspace at the MU. Not a bad deal.
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May 2011
Dave Walker and Bob Bixby: National Fiscal Dialogue Needed
Today, Comeback America Initiative founder and CEO Dave Walker (former U.S. comptroller general) and Concord Coalition executive director Bob Bixby published an op-ed in POLITICO. They write that the nation has some very difficult fiscal choices ahead, and that the only way policymakers will ever truly be able to put the big ticket items on the table is if there is greater public understanding of the nation's fiscal challenges and the kinds of significant structural reforms we will need to make to solve them.
"Whether you agree with President Barack Obama's vision of the size and role of the federal government or the alternative put forward by House Republicans, both would require substantial changes in popular programs.
The status quo doesn't add up. This is not ideology. It's basic math.
Such sweeping reforms are likely to be politically difficult, so the American people's active involvement is essential. We need a real national dialogue about the massive fiscal challenge, related risks, possible options and the inescapable trade-offs among those options.
Without greater public understanding, elected officials are unlikely to break away from their comfortable partisan talking points to find sensible solutions."
One initiative CRFB has launched to help foster a national discussion is our budget simulator "Stabilize the Debt," which offers a simple way for everyone to get a sense of how big our problem is, the options we have available to fix it, and the necessary tradeoffs we as a country will have to face.
Click here to read the full op-ed from Bixby and Walker.
Biden Fiscal Working Group Holds First Meeting
The bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers hand-picked by congressional leaders had its first meeting today with Vice President Joe Biden to discuss a possible debt reduction agreement. In a statement afterwards, the Vice President said that the meeting was "productive" and that the working group will meet again on Tuesday, May 10.
With public debt quickly heading towards the statutory debt ceiling, coupling a debt limit increase with some form of debt reduction appears quite likely. The Biden group is well positioned to fast track such a debt ceiling agreement, which should happen quickly. As CRFB said in a statement this morning, adopting a debt limit increase along with enforceable debt and savings targets and specific debt reduction policies could be an appropriate compromise.
A budget enforcement mechanism, like a debt target, has emerged as a basis for a possible deal. While budget process can play an essential role in putting the country on a sound fiscal course -- the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform has put forth recommendations for making targets effective through triggers -- process alone is not enough. Concrete policies must be agreed upon as well. Accompanying targets with a down payment of specific and substantial debt reduction will demonstrate lawmakers' commitment that the targets are not a cop out.
Debt targets are critical, but they are a means, not an end. Including some tough choices in a down payment will give the public and markets greater confidence that the targets are not just an empty promise of future actions that will never happen.
CRFB Re-Estimates the Fiscal Commission's Plan
In the awesome world of budget baselines and budget options, we are graced a few times a year with updated budget projections from CBO. These updated projections give us an opportunity to get a better sense not only of where our country's finances are heading, but also to update estimates on what would happen if certain deficit reducing policies were put in place.
Since the Fiscal Commission's recommended spending, revenue, deficit, and debt paths were based off of an adjusted version of CBO's August budget projections, we can now roughly update these metrics for the Fiscal Commission's plan based on CBO's most recent March projections. CRFB recently ran through all these numbers for our analysis that compared the President's new debt reduction framework, the House Republican budget, the President's February budget, and the Fiscal Commission plan all on a comparable 10-year basis.
Why is it important that there are March budget projections? Well, a lot has changed in the budget world since August -- economic projections have been revised downward, lawmakers signed an $858 billion tax cut deal in December, and Congress and the President reached an agreement on fiscal year 2011 appropriations which included significant cuts in discretionary spending (which not only make spending this year lower, but have also been incorporated into the baseline for future years).
Click here for the CRFB re-estimate of the Commission plan.
Our updated estimates of the Fiscal Commission's savings (also found in the attached spreadsheet) judge the Fiscal Commission's recommendations from both current law and adjusted baseline projections, which will not be exactly the same as the Fiscal Commission's plausible baseline. We also updated several estimates for specific policies based on some new scores from CBO, and extrapolated savings out to 2021. These updated estimates give us the best reasonable projections of what deficits and debt would look like for the next 10 years under the Commission's recommendations.
We have estimated that the plan would now save slightly under $4.1 trillion over the 2012-2021 period compared to our adjusted baseline. Note that this appears as less savings than what the Fiscal Commission presented ($4.1 trillion through 2020). This is due mainly to the fact that some of the discretionary savings recommended by the Commission have been incorporated into our adjusted baseline either because the recent discretionary spending cuts have lowered the current law baseline (about $300-$400 billion through 2021), economic and technical estimates have changed the discretionary projections (about $100-$200 billion through 2021), or the fact that our baseline does not incorporate the President's FY 2011 discretionary request as the Commission did (about $300-$400 billion through 2021).
The actual levels of deficits, debt, spending, and revenues will also differ from original estimates for other reasons, largely because the 2010 tax cut deal and lower economic growth assumptions have significantly pushed down revenue projections. Under our latest estimates, we project the Fiscal Commission plan would hold spending to below 22% of GDP from 2014 on, and would gradually raise revenue to above 20% by 2020. As a result, deficits would fall from over 9% of GDP in 2011 to 2.6% in 2015 and 1.6% in 2021. Debt would decline from a high of 75% of GDP in 2013, to below 69% by 2021.
|CRFB Updated Fiscal Commission Estimates
Although debt would be higher than under the original projections -- largely due to the 2010 tax deal and lower economic assumptions -- the Fiscal Commission's recommendations would still save more than $4 trillion over the next decade, and would bring debt down to much more manageable levels. In our view, the Commission's plan still reflects the minimum standard of savings that lawmakers should work toward.
Click here for an excel spreadsheet of CRFB's re-estimate of the Fiscal Commission plan.
MY View: Martin Feldstein
An op-ed in today's New York Times by Harvard economics professor Martin Feldstein says that while reducing our debt will require more revenue, that doesn't necessarily mean higher tax rates. Feldstein proposes the idea of capping the amount that tax expenditures as a whole can save an individual taxpayer to a maximum percentage of their income. This reform would decrease the amount of revenue lost through tax expenditures without having to go through the politically difficult process of singling out specific tax deductions for elimination.
Feldstein developed and studied this reform with CRFB president Maya MacGuineas and Daniel Feenburg of the National Bureau of Economic Research. They published their findings in a paper released last month, Capping Individual Tax Expenditure Benefits, which projects that capping the amount that tax expenditures can reduce each individual's tax burden at 2 percent of their adjusted gross income (AGI) would raise $278 billion in 2011.
Click here to read the full op-ed.
Click here to read the full paper.
Martin S. Feldstein, a professor of economics at Harvard, was the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984 under President Ronald Reagan.
White House Takes on Excess Federal Property
First, there was the taxpayer receipt. Now there is a an excess federal property map. It seems the White House is doing a good job to get graphic with fiscal policy.
The excess property map comes as the White House is proposing a BRAC-like (Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission) commission for federal property. In addition, deputy OMB director Jeff Zients said that the administration would release the full list of surplus property and that they would push for the streamlining of rules that govern agency sales of federal property.
This is not the first time that President Obama and OMB have targeted excess property. Last year, OMB asked agencies to save no less than $3 billion by 2012 on real estate, which included not only getting rid of unneeded property, but also cutting building operating costs and being more energy efficient. The idea for a commission could presumably help that goal if it is passed and implemented quickly. Nonetheless, the BRAC-esque commission and the other proposed changes are a good way to remove some of the political and legal hurdles to selling excess property.
It seems that the Administration will have a lot of support for this proposal. On Capitol Hill, there are some proposals involving the sale of excess property. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), a sponsor of one of those measures, says that he supports the idea of a property commission.
In addition to property, there is the broader question of the sale of certain government assets, which we addressed on The Bottom Line last year. Of course, many of these assets would be more controversial to sell. But sales of assets lawmakers deem appropriate and the sale of excess property are good ways for the government to save a little.
Between the 'Line's: Limits, Meetings, Triggers, and Cloture
Bumping Up on the Debt Ceiling – On Monday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner sent a letter to congressional leaders saying that his department this week would begin the "extraordinary measures" necessary to stave off a U.S. default absent an increase in the statutory debt limit, which will be breached around May 16. On Friday, Treasury will suspend the issuance of State and Local Government Series (SLGS) Treasury securities. In the letter Secretary Geithner cautioned that the action "is not without costs; it will deprive state and local governments of an important tool to manage their outstanding debt expenses." While the letter also said that better-than-expected tax receipts mean that default can be delayed until around August 2, Geithner warned that delay could hamper market confidence in the U.S. and impact the economy. August should not be seen as the deadline for increasing the statutory debt ceiling; an agreement should be reached in a timely manner that increases the limit and includes concrete steps to improve the nation's fiscal outlook. CRFB co-chairs Bill Frenzel and Charlie Stenholm offered ideas in The Hill for a deal. While a comprehensive, multiyear fiscal plan along the lines of that being negotiated by the Senate Gang of Six would be ideal, there may not be time to enact it, making a "Plan B" consisting of statutory debt and savings targets enforced by triggers as proposed by the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform the best alternative. See CRFB's paper on responsible approaches to increasing the debt limit.
Biden Meeting Sets Stage for Debt Limit Negotiations – A Thursday meeting led by Vice President Biden will effectively commence talks over increasing the debt limit. Biden will meet with a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers hand-picked by congressional leaders. Democrats and Republicans agree that budget enforcement mechanisms like budget caps and debt targets will be key to an agreement. Republicans have also dropped demands on overhauling Medicare in order to focus on areas that can achieve bipartisan agreement, like cutting farm subsidies. While these signs are positive, getting to an agreement will still be difficult. The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein suggests sending in the Navy SEALs, but there may be a more subtle approach. Perhaps if the VP serves margaritas in observance of Cinco de Mayo, agreement can be reached quickly.
Triggers? Figures – With the increasing focus on budget process as a part of a debt limit compromise, budget enforcement mechanisms like debt triggers are receiving increased scrutiny. A Senate Finance Committee hearing on Wednesday addressed the subject where witnesses generally agreed that mechanisms like triggers can be part of the solution, but that they are no substitute for making the tough policy decisions required to get our fiscal house in order. See the Peterson-Pew Commission recommendations for making triggers work.
No Sense of Cloture – On Wednesday the Senate failed to invoke cloture on small business legislation (S. 493) that has become the vehicle for several fiscal measures, including amendments from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) that would reduce duplication in government and cut other spending. The fate of the legislation is unknown.
Senate Budget to Proceed – Senate Budget Committee Chair Kent Conrad (D-ND) says that he will mark-up a FY 2012 budget resolution next week, perhaps as early as Monday, in his committee. The proposal reportedly will reduce the deficit by some $4 trillion over ten years.
White House Wants to Sell Excess Federal Property Brick-by-BRAC – The Obama Administration on Wednesday proposed that Congress form a BRAC-like commission to oversee the sale of over 12,000 federal properties it has identified as excess, which it estimates could bring in some $15 billion over three years.
Corporate Tax Reform Awaits – The White House is gearing up to promote corporate tax reform, proposing to reduce the top rate to under 30 percent. The plan could be considered alone or be added to the 2012 budget or a long-term debt reduction deal.
Senate Finance Committee Discusses Enforcement Mechanisms
Since President Obama put the idea of a debt trigger in the public's mind, it has become a hot topic. Third Way recently put out a piece detailing different types of triggers, including the recommendation from Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform. And this morning, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on budget enforcement mechanisms.
At the Finance Committee hearing, Susan Irving of GAO and Paul van de Water of CBPP both were cautious about the effectiveness of triggers or other mechanisms. Specifically, when comparing Gramm-Rudman-Hollings (deficit targets and sequestration) and the Budget Enforcement Act (discretionary spending caps and PAYGO), they came to the conclusion that these mechanisms were better at enforcing an already-made agreement rather than forcing an agreement to be made. Former Sen. Phil Gramm, however, was more optimistic about the possibility of forcing an agreement, and for good reason: he is the Gramm in Gramm-Rudman-Hollings. He had a particularly colorful comment:
Our experience with Gramm‐Rudman showed clearly that if you hoped to deal with the deficit by building a four‐sided fort, pulling up the drawbridge and going back to sleep, you were going to be disappointed. Probably the best that any mechanism can provide is to help force action and tilt the process to encourage hard choices and compromise. At its best it can become a good stone wall to your back in a gunfight.
There was further disagreement on how an enforcement mechanism should be designed. Gramm said that spending sequesters/triggers/caps were the only way to go, because involving tax increases would somehow create perverse incentives for Congress to simply let the trigger be activated. Both Irving and van de Water disagreed with Gramm's view, saying that a spending-only approach ignored the other side of the equation and would be a poor way to budget, instead offering their support for a trigger that hits both spending programs and tax expenditures. However, while Irving supports the idea that the broader the trigger, the better, van de Water would prefer to exempt low-income programs from a trigger, specifically mentioning the Corker-McCaskill spending cap as a poor enforcement mechanism.
Even though the three had some disagreements about enforcement mechanisms, they did agree on one thing: enforcement mechanisms are useful budgetary tools, but they are not substitutes for the real policy decisions necessary to get our fiscal house back in order.
CRFB has long supported debt targets and triggers. In a paper we released last week, we explained the key considerations to make when designing a new debt trigger, including whether it should be a "forcing" or "enforcing" trigger and what should be hit versus what should be exempted if the trigger is pulled. CRFB believes the best course is to enact a forcing trigger as soon as possible, perhaps as part of a debt ceiling increase, to spur action on a budget deal, followed by enactment of an enforcing trigger with any subsequent budget deal to keep the plan on track. CRFB also supports a trigger that is as broad as possible, making adjustments to every category of spending and revenues, including tax expenditures.
MY VIEW: Bill Frenzel and Charlie Stenholm
In an op-ed in The Hill today, CRFB co-chairs Bill Frenzel and Charlie Stenholm propose a fiscally responsible approach to raising the debt ceiling. They recommend including a comprehensive fiscal reform plan along the lines of the Fiscal Commission's proposal as part of a debt ceiling increase.
The authors note, however, that it may be unrealistic to expect such a plan to pass before action on the debt limit is needed. Frenzel and Stenholm recognize that we may need a Plan B to start getting control of future deficits while also responsibly increasing the debt limit:
So, we need a Plan B to buy some time. Over the past two years, we have worked on the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform with a team of colleagues who have headed the Office of Management and Budget, the Congressional Budget Committee and the Fed, developing a plan for statutory debt and savings targets. These targets would commit policymakers to bringing down our deficits and debt as a precursor to agreeing on the specifics of a deal. Attaching these enforceable targets to the debt ceiling would allow us to take the first step to moving the budget in the right direction immediately.
Click here to read the full op-ed.
"My Views" are works published by members of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, but they do not necessarily reflect the views of all members of the Committee.
Concord Coalition Looks at Budget Process Reform Proposals
From the President's recent deficit-reduction framework to policy forums on Capitol Hill, budget process reform has recently become an increasingly popular issue in the world of politics. A recent release from the Concord Coalition offers insight into this issue and analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of several budget process proposals.
Among the proposals examined in the release is Red Ink Rising, a report released in December 2009 by the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform that lays out a plan to stabilize the debt at 60 percent of GDP. The proposal establishes specific deficit targets enforced by a trigger that would require automatic spending cuts if the targets were missed. The Commission continued its work on budget process reform with a second report released in November 2010 -- Getting Back in the Black -- that built upon the Commission's earlier work by detailing a specific framework to meet those fiscal targets.
Other proposals considered by the Concord Coalition are:
- McCaskill-Corker CAP Act: Starting in 2013, this bill would gradually cap spending over a 10 year period until it reached 20.6 percent of GDP, the historical average.
- Paul Ryan's Proposal: House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget proposal called for a binding cap on total spending as a percentage of the economy. The House budget resolution, which was based on Chairman Ryan's proposal, would reduce spending over 10 years to 20.5 percent of GDP and then to 19.9 percent of GDP by 2021.
- President Obama's Debt Failsafe Trigger: The "debt failsafe" proposed in the President's deficit-reduction framework would require automatic spending cuts if projections of the deficit-to-GDP ratio averaged more than 2.8 percent during the second half of the decade. Social Security, Medicare, and low-income programs would be exempted from the spending cuts.
- Bipartisan Policy Center's SAVEGO Proposal: This proposal calls on Congress to set annual savings targets to reach a specific deficit reduction goal. SAVEGO would require separate annual savings targets from each of three portions of the budget -- savings from a cap on discretionary spending, savings from health care programs, and savings from other mandatory spending, reductions in tax expenditures, and other increases in revenue.
The report goes on to further explore the "mixed track record" of budget process reforms, specifically noting the importance of putting everything on the table, setting realistic and bipartisan targets, and the danger of including exemptions and loopholes. It also states that the proposals from the Peterson-Pew Commission and the Bipartisan Policy Center "represent the most complete and thoughtful alternatives with the greatest chance for success."
Emphasized throughout the report, however, is the underlying theme that process reforms cannot replace tough policy decisions.
"To be effective, a process proposal must still be accompanied by an honest discussion of the policy changes that will be necessary to comply with the targets. Budget process reform is a useful starting point, but it is no substitute for these difficult choices. Whether it is the existing budget process or a new process, deficit reduction requires elected officials to lead by saying which programs will be cut and which taxes will be raised."
Click here to read the full release.
'Line' Items: Two Weddings and a Burial Edition
Wedding Vows and Vows Kept – Last week the royal wedding in England between William and Kate garnered a great deal of attention on this side of the pond. Meanwhile another union seemed to blossom in this country – the pairing of a debt limit increase with some type of trigger mechanism. Now, the word that Osama Bin Laden has been killed and buried at sea puts an end to the quest for the man most responsible for the 9/11 attacks and finally fulfills a promise to bring him to justice that spanned two administrations. The news comes amid a trend where the primary focus for Americans is shifting from foreign entanglements to domestic economic concerns and confronting what the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and others have called the greatest security threat to the U.S. – the national debt. Will the new avenue for compromise and foreign policy success spawn bipartisan collaboration to address the debt?
An Arranged Marriage – The debt ceiling (read the CRFB debt limit primer) has been looking for a suitable partner for some time. Failure to increase the statutory debt limit is not an option as it would have catastrophic consequences for the economy, yet many lawmakers want to take advantage of the opportunity to address the unsustainable fiscal policies that have brought us to this point by taking concrete steps to reduce mounting federal budget deficits and national debt. [Read the CRFB paper on responsible approaches to raising the debt limit.] With a wide divide among party leaders over how to reduce the debt and with time growing short before action on the limit is required (the Department of Treasury says it can stave off a national default no later than early August), coupling a debt ceiling increase with a budget enforcement process designed to ensure that the debt is brought under control has become the prime candidate for a compromise solution. Leaders in both the House and Senate support pairing a debt limit increase with a trigger mechanism, although there is no agreement yet on exactly what the trigger would look like. The growing interest in the concept was evident in a Capitol Hill briefing on triggers convened on Thursday by the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform that attracted a packed room of congressional staffers and many others. The commission (a project of CRFB) last week released a paper answering the types of questions that policymakers are now asking about how to make a trigger work and offering recommendations on how to create an effective trigger. Furthermore, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas wrote about the subject in a Washington Post op-ed. A trigger is a worthy suitor for the debt limit increase and this is one arranged union that could work.
Ganging Up on the Debt – The hats at the royal wedding sure were…interesting. Hopefully, we soon will be able to say 'hats off' to the bipartisan "Gang of Six" senators who have been busy working on a comprehensive debt reduction plan. Members of the group say they are close to a deal and it could be unveiled as early as this week. The group is eying a mix of spending cuts and revenue increases. Word is the group is also discussing a trigger mechanism to accompany the plan to ensure it stays on track once enacted. Once an agreement is reached, the focus will turn to the "Gang of 64" senators who signed a letter in March calling for leadership and bipartisanship on a comprehensive deficit reduction solution. These will be the senators most likely to support the plan. Another bipartisan group of lawmakers will meet at the White House on Thursday to begin talks led by Vice President Joseph Biden aimed at finding common ground. A plan from the Gang of Six could inform those talks.
No Honeymoon for Congress – Congress is back in session this week after a spring recess that featured scores of town hall meetings where the budget received more attention than Kate's wedding gown. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has promised to put the FY 2012 budget that the House passed just before the break to a vote on the Senate floor, where it very likely will fail. Republicans want to have a vote on the President's budget as well, to show that it also cannot pass. Committee hearings on the budget continue and the House hopes to begin mark-ups in the Appropriations Committee on spending bills this month. House leaders are keen to have an orderly appropriations process this year that produces all 12 spending bills, in order to contrast with the recent budget failures under a Democratic House. The Senate, however, is not likely to move quickly or go along with anything the House passes. Senate Budget Committee Chair Kent Conrad (D-ND) has been waiting on the Gang of Six, of which he is a member, to produce a plan before he marks up his budget resolution.
Panetta to Pentagon – Last week the White House officially announced that CIA Director Leon Panetta will be nominated to replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates when he steps down later this year. In addition to directing U.S. military strategy in a post-Osama world he will also manage the effort to streamline the Pentagon and find significant savings in the massive Defense budget. In addition to his experience at the CIA, as a former House Budget Committee chair and OMB director (and former CRFB co-chair for that matter) Panetta is uniquely qualified to administer organizational changes in the department's bureaucracy and budget and increase efficiency without damaging the military's missions.
Can Oil Subsidies Grease the Skids for Tax Reform? – Much was made of comments last week from House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), even though they were walked back some soon afterwards, that he would consider eliminating some of the tax breaks for the oil and gas industry. Other prominent conservatives like House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) have also expressed a willingness to eliminate tax subsidies like those for oil and gas in the context of a larger reform of the tax code. This is part of the growing momentum on both sides of the political aisle to eliminate and reduce tax expenditures as a part of fundamental tax reform and a comprehensive debt reduction plan. Read the CRFB paper on tax expenditures here and see more ideas for tax expenditure reform here and here.
Key Upcoming Dates
May 4
- Senate Finance Committee hearing on Budget Enforcement Mechanisms at 10 am.
May 5
- First meeting at the White House of the bipartisan talks led by Vice President Biden to seek consensus on reducing the deficit.
- Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on duplication in the federal government at 2:30 pm.
May 6
- April unemployment data from U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
May 16
- Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the statutory debt limit will be reached no later than May 16.
August 2
- Treasury Secretary Geithner says that the U.S. will default on its obligations by around August 2 if the statutory debt ceiling is not increased before then (revised).
Adm. Mike Mullen on Debt and Defense Spending
The Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, made some important statements recently regarding our national debt and defense spending (hattip to Gordon Adams over at Capital Gains and Games).
There are four main budgetary points he brings up:
- Our national debt is the largest national security threat our nation faces because we would have fewer available recourses for defense spending
- Defense needs to be on the table for fiscal readjustment, with defense health care costs exploding in recent years, eating up a larger and larger portion of the defense budget
- Defense spending has not been subject to significant scrutiny over the past several years
- We have reduced defense spending in the past
Admiral Mullen is completely correct on all of these points. Our fiscal situation requires us to act to prevent a fiscal crisis, one that would negatively effect our economy and standard of living, but would also decrease our ability to protect ourselves. We need to include defense in any fiscal plan and make sure that the defense budget we have is one that we need and can afford.
ADM. MULLEN: "...[T]he reason I talk about the debt as the single biggest threat to our national security is – it's basically not very complex math. I mean, I think the worst situation that we are in as a country fiscally, the likelihood of the resources made available for national security requirements continue to go down is very high. This is the third time I've been through this. We did this in the '70s. We did it in the '90s. And, actually, if you look at the data going back to the '30s, our defense budget goes up and down, and it does so on a fairly regular basis. So certainly this is not unexpected, from my point of view. What I've seen, though – and I've been in the Pentagon most of the last decade – with the increasing defense budget, which is almost double, it hasn't forced us to make the hard trades. It hasn't forced us to prioritize. It hasn't forced us to do the analysis.
And it hasn't forced us to limit ourselves and get to a point in a very turbulent world of what we're going to do and what we're not going to do. And so I see that on the horizon, and we need to be paying an awful lot of attention to that. I have said the defense needs to be on the table, and I'm comfortable with that. That said, I'm required to articulate our national security requirements and certainly advise the president and others, but particularly the president, about how we best can achieve them with the force that we have. And we find ourselves at a particularly difficult time for, let's say, our modernization in our Air Force. I mean, we are running out of life in those assets that we bought in the '80s under the Reagan administration, at a time where – I don't have to tell you or this audience – where our national security requirements continue to challenge us."
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Ever wondered what the future of golf will look like? Then check out the new "Mercedes-Benz Vision Golf Cart", an electric driven, battery powered cart that is continuously charged by a solar module integrated into the roof. The Vison Golf Cart will be controlled with a joystick mounted on the centre console, making it possible for both front seat golfer to drive at any given time.
To make it even more fun, the cart will use the latest technology such as a touch screen monitor to control virtually any aspect of the drive and a multimedia panel that includes a rotatable docking station for an iPad or iPhone and a USB interface. Nice!
Another great feature will be the head-up display which is integrated into the windscreen when the golf cart is stationary. Golfers will be able to check out the course layout, the current status of the game or weather information. The Vison Golf Cart will also feature Bluetooth technology to allow golfers to make calls via the loudspeaker system when on the move.
Instead of simply yelling out "fore" to warn other golfer of a stray ball, the Vision Golf Cart's "fore button" will now warn all surrounding golfers within the danger zone with the simply push of a button.
The design of the new Vision Golf Cart takes its cues from a Mercdes-Benz car with elegant and ergonomically shaped seats that are either heated or ventilated and can be controlled via controls on the side of the seat. The cart will feature amble storage space to fit two golf bags, a small fridge, a designated compartment for balls and another one for umbrellas.
The Mercedes-Benz Vison Golf Cart is only a design study, but it does make our imagination run wild.


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CFH for COY? Korie Lucious. Chris Colvin. Possible move up in big twelve over next weeks?
All random things id like to hear everyone's opinion on.
1. He's talen a gamble and proven we are a threat in the big12. Maybe a longshot.
2. Tooo excited to see what Lucious can do. He's crazy good. Should compliment Clyburn.
3. Wish we had Chris Colvin right about now. Where did he even end up?
4. Looking at our scedule i believe we can move up. We play OU, OSU, and then A&M at home. Now the top three teams have tougher schedules. Kansas has OU then at Mizzou and at Baylor. Baylor has at A&M at OSU and vs Kansas. And mizzou has vs Kansas, at OU, and vs Baylor. Hmmm moving on up?
Totally random things on my mind. Discuss!
I don't wish we had Colvin. He is a selfish idiot. He went to ASU. He has already gotten suspended there.
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
Are you serious about Chris Colvin??? He ended up at Arizona STate where he has been suspended twice already this year. THANK GOD, we don't have a cancer like him on this team.
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I think you people are hyping up Korie too much.
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I think you people are hyping up Korie too much.
I think it is big for him just to be a point guard that can start. Not having to play a SG at PG will help both positions do better.
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I love the Backstreet Boys. I loved them in the 90's and I have continued to follow their music career since then. Unlike their main competitor in the 90's - *NSYNC - BSB has continued to make music and tour as a group. Kevin Richardson left the group in 2006 after their album Never Gone, but the four remaining members, Brian Littrell, AJ Mclean, Howie Dorough, and Nick Carter have released two albums since then. The four men are currently touring with New Kids On The Block on the international leg of the NKTOBSB tour.
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In last night's premiere episode of Does Someone Have to Go, we were introduced to the people behind Velocity Merchant Services, a firm that sells credit-card processing machines.
The company employs more than 70 people and no two of them seem to be on the same page. When you ask an employee to point out the problem people you get a variety of answers. Shawn is a jerk. Mike talks too much. Zoe is a slacker. Or perhaps the problem lies closer to home - literally. VMS is a family business. CEO Dema has hired her husband, her mom, her brother and several cousins. This makes the non-family employees uncomfortable because they feel like they can't speak their minds.
What VMS needs is a wake-up call, so Dema turns the company over to the employees to sort out their own HR problems. At first, they're excited by the prospect but the excitement turns to anger and shame when they're forced to watch pre-taped, candid, peer reviews. Ouch.
The only thing worse than finding out your co-worker hates you, is finding out that he makes more money than you. The salary reveal was a huge eye-opener for everyone and not in the way you'd expect. Sure they were unhappy to learn that Shawn the jerk makes $70,000. But they were more disturbed to learn that lazy Zoe only makes $37,000 and chatty Mike only makes $25,000. Maybe they'd work harder if they were paid a better wage?
What everyone really wanted to know though, is what the family members were taking home. Dema's brother had the top salary of over $100,000 but he is the VP with six years invested in the company. The big surprise was cousin Tina only making $44,000 -way less than the marketing coordinator who's been with VMS for only two years.
The second highest wage earner is Dema's mother, Kout, who works only a few hours a week doing basic accounting.
The employees said that seeing the salary figures made it easier to vote for the bottom three, but only in one case. Surprisingly, the two lowest paid employees, Zoe and Mike, ended up in the bottom along with one of the highest -- Dema's mom, Kout.
Now, the three employees have to convince their boss and their remaining co-workers that they're worth keeping.
Who gets fired? To find out, we will have to tune in again next week for an even more disturbing round of begging, shouting and tearful pleas falling on deaf ears. Sorry, this isn't my idea of a fun way to spend the evening.
Does Someone Have to Go airs Thursdays at 9:00 on Fox at least until someone decides that it's the producers of this series that need to get the boot.
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An osteopathic physician-led accountable care organization (ACO) has been selected as the only one in New York City and one of 27 across the country to participate in Medicare's new Shared Savings Program. To qualify for this program, which rewards ACOs for delivering high-quality care under targeted savings benchmarks, the Chinese Community Accountable Care Organization had to demonstrate the ability to meet many criteria related to care coordination, data sharing and quality measurement, says the ACO's president, Lisa Eng, DO.
Established in concept by the Affordable Care Act, ACOs are voluntary networks of physicians intended to improve health care quality and reduce health system costs by enhancing care coordination. Made up of more than 200 physicians, including more than 100 in primary care, the Chinese Community ACO serves approximately 12,000 Medicare beneficiaries, a large proportion of whom are Chinese immigrants, in the boroughs of Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn.
"We are going to do what the Affordable Care Act asks us to do as an ACO—to take care of patients well while trying to reduce redundancy in over-ordering of tests," says Dr. Eng, an obstetrician and gynecologist. "We're going to share data and know more about our patients as a result. We'll be able to obtain some epidemiological information."
ACOs that take part in the Shared Savings Program, which began April 1, must report on 33 quality measures covering patient and caregiver experiences, care coordination, preventive medicine screenings and the management of patients at risk for several chronic diseases. Chinese individuals, according to Dr. Eng, are especially susceptible to diabetes mellitus and often don't undergo recommended cancer screenings, such as colonoscopies, mammograms and pap smears.
"Liver cancer is rampant among the Chinese," says Dr. Eng, who is also the president of the Association of Chinese American Physicians. "In addition, Chinese immigrants frequently feel a sense of isolation and suffer from depression. These are things that Chinese doctors are attuned to. We know what Chinese immigrants eat, so when we talk to them about food and diabetes, we have an edge from a cultural standpoint."
The Chinese Community ACO is still implementing its data collection and other protocols for the Shared Savings Program. "The data will be submitted to CMS at the end of the year," Dr. Eng says.
Altogether, the 27 Shared Savings Program ACOs serve an estimated 375,000 Medicare beneficiaries in 18 states. "We are encouraged by this strong start and confident that by the end of this year, we will have a robust program in place benefitting millions of seniors and people with disabilities across the country," said CMS Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner in a statement.
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SEASIDE LODGE No. 429 will hold a grilled chicken dinner fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 29 at the Swansboro Piggly Wiggly parking lot. Plates $8.
ROLLING THUNDER Chapter NC-5 hosts its annual Ron Relay Memorial Ride at 11 a.m. July 13 at New River Harley Davidson. Registration at 9 a.m. Cost $20 per bike. Visit rollingthundernc5.com.
MOREHEAD CITY Parks and Recreation free concert series every Saturday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Jaycee Park. Next concert on June 29 featuring Scearce&Ketner.
RETIRED Military Breakfast held June 29 at the Ball Center aboard Camp Lejeune. Social at 7 a.m., breakfast at 8 a.m. Call 910-938-1610.
ONSLOW COUNTY Animal Services offers a rabies clinic/rabies vaccination from 8 a.m. to noon June 29 at Deppe Park, 5472 New Bern Hwy. Cost $10 per shot. Call 910-455-0182.
INDOOR Rummage sale fundraiser for Onslow Pregnancy Resource Center from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 29 at First Baptist Church fellowship hall, 1985 Gum Branch Road.
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In recent weeks, congressional candidate Darcy Burner has touted her Harvard degree in economics when talking about the nation's financial crisis. But while Burner studied economics at Harvard, she doesn't have a degree in the subject.
In recent weeks, congressional candidate Darcy Burner has touted her Harvard degree in economics when talking about the nation's financial crisis and her opposition to the bailout package passed by Congress.
At two debates this month, she brought up her academic background in her opening statement.
"I loved economics so much that I got a degree in it from Harvard," the Democrat said at an Oct. 10 debate at KCTS-TV. "Now everywhere I go in this district, the only thing people want to talk to me about is the economy."
She made an almost identical statement at a debate on Oct. 8.
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But while Burner studied economics at Harvard, she doesn't have a degree in the subject.
She does have a bachelor's degree in computer science, the university said. And her academic transcripts show she took five economics classes, enough to earn an emphasis in economics within her computer-science degree.
Burner, who's challenging Republican Rep. Dave Reichert in the 8th Congressional District, said she's been upfront about her degree.
"What I have is a degree in computer science with a special field in economics," she said Wednesday. "All along we've been trying to be very, very clear."
In previous interviews with The Seattle Times, Burner's campaign spokesman was clear that Burner had a bachelor's degree in computer science and a "special field" — more or less a minor — in economics.
Burner's spokesman, Sandeep Kaushik, said students studying computer science at Harvard are required to complete a "concentration" in a related field. Burner chose economics.
She took five semesters of economics and two math courses that counted toward economics, Kaushik said. In addition, she took eight computer-science courses and two other math classes that counted toward her degree, he said.
Her campaign Web-site biography says: "she buckled down and studied twice as hard at school, while working two or three jobs at a time, to get accepted and then put herself through Harvard, where she earned a degree in computer science and economics."
The biography her campaign submitted for The Seattle Times' online-voters guide said she had a "BA in Computer Science and Economics."
Kaushik said she claimed to have an economics degree at the debates because saying she had an emphasis within her computer-science degree "doesn't exactly flow off the tongue."
Burner said explaining that her economics emphasis wasn't technically a degree "takes a whole lot of words" and because of limited time, "every word … mattered."
Questions about Burner's degree originated with the National Republican Congressional Committee. Burner said The Seattle Times was being "punk'd" by the Republicans, a reference to the MTV television series featuring Ashton Kutcher playing practical jokes on celebrities.
"This should be more than people playing stupid semantic gotcha games," Burner said.
The Reichert-Burner race has grown increasingly contentious recently. Wednesday, the Burner campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that Reichert's recent purchase of television ads on credit was effectively an illegal corporate loan. Reichert's campaign says it did nothing improper.
Both campaigns have become more negative as they respond to each other's claims.
On Wednesday, Reichert's campaign spokeswoman called Burner's statements about her degree "outrageous."
"It calls into question everything that she has said to this point," said spokeswoman Amanda Halligan. "It demonstrates an arrogance that she thinks she can say what she wants and that no one is going to learn the truth."
Pat Dyer, Harvard's supervisor of information services in the registrar's office, said Burner's records don't list the emphasis in economics. "The only thing it shows is that she got a bachelor's degree in computer science," Dyer said.
But she said a "special field" may not show up if she got it within the computer-science department.
Harry Lewis, a Harvard computer-science professor and a former dean who oversaw the computer-science department when Burner was a student, confirmed that Burner did study economics at Harvard. She graduated in 1996.
"She doesn't have a degree in economics," he said. "It's a specialty within the computer-science degree that she has."
Burner provided to The Seattle Times copies of her academic record that show she took five economic courses.
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Federal Funds At Risk If NMI College Issues Go Unaddressed
By Moneth Deposa
SAIPAN, CNMI (Saipan Tribune, Feb. 20, 2013) – Northern Marianas College (NMC) students face two potential grave impacts if the Commonwealth's lone community college loses its accreditation with the Accrediting Commission on Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), according to NMC president Sharon Y. Hart, Ph.D., yesterday.
First, students cannot obtain any federal financial aid because these grants for college programs are awarded and provided only to accredited institutions.
Second, a loss of accreditation will affect the ability of NMC students to transfer their credits since most universities and colleges honor and accept credits only from accredited institutions.
Hart disclosed to Saipan Tribune that about 80 percent of those currently attending NMC avail of federal financial assistance. These students may potentially stop their studies if federal grants stop coming.
NMC receives a significant amount of federal grants each year. In fiscal year 2012 alone, the college got $9 million in federal monies, not including funds from special federal awards such as the American Recovery Reinvestment Act, which pumped in $425,000 last fiscal year and about $3 million in fiscal year 2011.
Pell grants from the U.S. Department of Education provides the college a yearly grant of $4 million that finances the studies of about 80 percent of the college's enrollees.
The U.S. Department of Education's College Access Challenge Grant Program also provides NMC $1.5 million a year. This program helps native Pacific Islanders from low-income families to enroll, remain, and succeed in college.
Other programs using federal monies at NMC include the Adult Basic Education, CREES, and the University Centers for Education Excellence, among others.
ACCJC slapped the college anew with a severe sanction of show-cause status after it failed to address all deficiencies identified by a visiting accreditation team. It is required to submit a show-cause report and a closure plan on Oct. 15. The commission will then render a decision on NMC's accreditation at an assembly in January 2014.
Two reports
Hart said she has yet to know the final content of the closure plan, but stressed that the report will be submitted on time, along with other report.
She said it is their plan to aggressively address all team recommendations that deal with standards and is asking everyone to come together and work as a team for NMC.
"Everyone has to put aside political differences-the college, the community, the CNMI. We need to come together and focus on a positive direction to get that accomplished. As we all know, higher education is the vehicle that can help drive the economy of the Commonwealth," she told Saipan Tribune.
[PIR editor's note: Saipan Tribune earlier reported that NMC's self-reporting provided an inaccurate picture of quality at the college, and the action plan NMC formulated did not follow logically from the self-evaluations it presented to the accreditation team.]
Vacant posts
One of the notable recommendations of the ACCJC deals with the college administrative capacity. Vacant positions such as chief financial officer and some senior level posts were cited as critical to the college's operation.
Hart disclosed that NMC has failed to fill these hard-to-fill positions due to unattractive salary offers. She said NMC will reopen these vacancies with a higher salary package to attract more applicants. She said the target period for this effort is within this semester.
Meantime, Hart refused to comment on ACCJC's recommendation to remove honorary regents from the board.
"That's a board issue and the board has to deal with that appropriately. [But] the report is very strong in what needs to be done to reaffirm accreditation," she said, adding that the "CEO and the board" must adhere to every single recommendation in the report.
'Willing to serve'
Hart's two-year contract is expiring in July this year. The accrediting commission is concerned that the college has yet to decide whether to retain Hart or recruit a new college president.
Hart said she is willing to continue serving the institution.
"I am willing to help this college in everything and anything that it can to get our accreditation. But it's important that everyone-myself and the board-must work as a team," she said.
In the event NMC's accreditation is revoked, the institution has some options it may take, including appealing the decision, applying for accreditation with other commissions other than ACCJC, or total closure.
Hart pointed out, however, that appealing a decision is not always successful. Again, she said the college has no clear closure plans yet.
WICHE membership
Hart also clarified yesterday that the college's accreditation risk has no effect on its membership in the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, or WICHE, which recently accepted the Commonwealth as its newest member.
"NMI will still be a member of WICHE even if [loss of accreditation] happens.because WICHE is put together by governors of the state," she explained, adding that as long as the CNMI pays its membership dues, WICHE will remain committed to the CNMI.
Membership in the organization allows CNMI students to be eligible for reduced tuition rates in 15 member states. For undergraduate programs, the reduced tuition for NMI students is at 150 percent of the resident tuition of that institution.
To avail of these benefits, member institutions require proof of residency. CNMI citizens can physically attend courses of their choice or they could take programs online.
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TESCO's much-hyped bid to take on the scooter retailing establishment ended last week.
TEXT: All unsold bikes were pulled back to the central depot less than a month after the supermarket giant put 50cc machines on sale at 150 stores.
A spokesman said: "We have withdrawn early. We had a set number which have been sold." He declined to say how many bikes had actually been sold, but Tesco is believed to have started out with 2,000 scooters bought on the grey market from CIF International, the Spanish importer of Her Chee scooters from Taiwan.
Her Chee's official UK importer, Adly, claimed a victory over Tesco's grey market challenge. Marketing manager Ken Holford had urged Her Chee to remind CIF that it was in breach of its contract if it sold bikes outside of Spain or Portugal and thanked the manufacturer for its "support". He added: "Her Chee is obliged to support its UK distributor. We have a big reputation in the UK market."
The scooter sold by Tesco was a model dropped by Adly last year.
But Holford admitted that with so many scooter suppliers in the market, the superstore chain could eventually return to the market with alternative, if sporadic, supply sources.
Tesco's spokesman called the company's scooter venture a trial which was now complete and under review. He was unable to say if or when Tesco would continue to sell scooters or when the review would be completed.
Hometune, the mobile service arm of Kwik-Fit, which was contracted by Tesco to deliver, demonstrate and service its scooters at customers' homes, said last week that its service agreement was continuing and that it had no shortage of spare parts.


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Marbled Salamander
Ambystoma opacum
Photo by JD Willson
Description: The marbled salamander is a stocky, medium sized salamander. Marbled salamanders reach an adult size of 3.5 to 5 inches in length. They are gray to black in color with silvery white cross bands on males and grayish cross bands on females. The cross bands can vary dramatically between individuals with some individuals being striped or uniformly black. All marbled salamanders have black undersides. Recently metamorphosed individuals are brown or gray with light speckles. The larvae are dark brown or black with bushy gills and light spots the form a line on each side. They have a long dorsal fin from the tail to just behind the front arms.
Habitat/Range: Marbled salamanders range from the northeast United States down through Georgia and across the Gulf states to Texas. They are also found northward in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana. They live in woodlands near vernal pools where larvae develop. They may be inactive and underground during the hot summer months.
Diet: The marbled salamander feeds primarily on terrestrial invertebrates such as worms, spiders, snails, centipedes, and a variety of insects.
Reproduction: Mating takes place on land, and then the females will move to dried vernal pools or other soon-to-be flooded areas to lay eggs. The females guards the eggs in a nest under a log, leaf litter or other debris until the area fills with water and the larvae emerge from their eggs.
The shaded region represents the range of the marbled salamander in North Carolina.
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Like many other salamander species, large numbers of marbled salamanders may be captured if sampled during the breeding season.
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IUCN Red List process
- The IUCN Red List Process
- Guidelines for the appropriate use of Red List data (2009)
- The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria (version 3.1 second edition) is available in English, Français and Español
- Guidelines for using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria – this document provides further guidance on how to apply the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Please note that these guidelines are reviewed annually and users should check this web site to ensure that they have the current version of the guidelines before carrying out Red List assessments.
- Documentation Standards and Consistency Checks for IUCN Red List Assessments and Species Accounts - This document provides guidance on the documentation standards for Red List assessments and consistency checks that should be carried out before submitting assessments for inclusion in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. These guidance notes are particularly relevant to entering information into the IUCN Species Information Service (SIS) and should be used for reference when preparing Red List assessment accounts. Please note that this is a working document and will be updated - users should check these pages regularly for new versions.
- Criterion A examples workbook – This Excel file has two worksheets related to calculation of population reduction under IUCN Red List Criteria A1-A4. These examples are intended for use in conjunction with the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria (version 3.1) and the associated guidelines document.
- Generation Length workbook
- Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional Levels
- Classification schemes for habitats, threats and conservation actions In order to ensure global uniformity when describing the habitat in which a taxon occurs, the threats to a taxon, what conservation measures are in place or are needed, and whether or not the taxon is utilized, a set of standard terms (called Classification Schemes; formerly referred to as Authority Files) have been developed for documenting taxa on the IUCN Red List.
- The IUCN Red List Petitions Process
- Terms of Reference for Red List Authorities
The IUCN Red List Index
Red List Indices have been produced which chart overall changes in the threat status of the world's amphibians, birds, corals and mammals. These are based on the number of species that moved between categories as a result of genuine changes in threat status (excluding moves resulting from improved knowledge or taxonomic changes). The IUCN Red List Programme will improve the taxonomic coverage of the Red List Indices in the coming years as they are central to monitoring the progress of global efforts to reduce biodiversity loss.
- The IUCN Red List Index: Guidelines for national and regional use
- Measuring Global Trends in the Status of Biodiversity: Red List Indices for Birds (Butchart et al. 2004) - paper published in PloS Biology
- Using Red List Indices To Measure Progress Towards the 2010 Target and Beyond (Butchart et al. 2005) - paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Criteria review process
- Criteria Review Scoping workshop report (2-3 March 1998, London, UK)
- Marine workshop report(16-17 January 1999, Tokyo, Japan)
- Criterion B: Range Areas and Uncertainty Workshop report (3-5 May 1999, Sydney, Australia)
- Draft of the proposed changes and recommendations (article in Species issue 31/32, 1999)
Regional Guidelines process
- Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional Levels
- Analysis of the Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at the National Level: report from the ational Red List Advisory Group Workshop (21-26 January 2005, Venezuela) ( 481 KB)
- Use of the IUCN Red List Criteria in national threatened species listing: Original survey ; Survey report


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Press Release: FAMU
FAMU Honors its Founders During Annual Convocation
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida A&M University (FAMU) paid homage to its past and celebrated its future during this year's Founders' Day celebration.
More than 700 members of the FAMU community, including students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumni, gathered in Lee Hall Auditorium to commemorate the university's 126th anniversary.
"As we give thanks, let's not focus solely on the founding teachers and administrators, but let's acknowledge the students—for they were also the founders of this institution," said Narayan Persaud, university trustee and president of the FAMU Faculty Senate.
FAMU was founded as the State Normal College for Colored Students, and on Oct. 3, 1887, it began classes with 15 students and two instructors. Today, FAMU, as it has become affectionately known, is the premier school among historically black colleges and universities.
"I stand before you today to pay homage to our ancestors past, the founders of this great institution who braved the odds and became oddly brave," said FAMU Student Government Association President Anthony Siders. "I say oddly brave because they challenged their naysayers."
Former FAMU President Walter L. Smith served as the keynote speaker. He spoke of FAMU's previous leaders, athletes and students who went on to make monumental marks in the world.
"FAMU is so much and it has so much strength that you can't even imagine," said Smith, who is the founder of the Walter L. Smith Library in Tampa, Fla. "When you begin to look at all these great people, you say, 'Wow, that's FAMU history that grew from what these founders fought for.' I can't tell you how proud I am to be a part of the history of this institution."
He also encouraged all the audience members to "take what you find and make it better."
"We stood on the shoulders of giants," said Smith, who was presented with the President's Award by FAMU Interim President Larry Robinson. "People have open ladders and we have gone step by step by step. People have built bridges. It didn't just happen — it was made to happen."
Press Release: FAMU
WHAT: Florida A&M University (FAMU) Founder's Day Convocation
WHO: Keynote speaker, Former FAMU, President Walter Smith
WHEN: October 1
10:10 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.
WHERE: Lee Hall Auditorium
WHY: The convocation will include a wreath ceremony and birthday tribute to commemorate the founding of Florida A&M University. Former FAMU President Walter Smith will discuss the history of the university and next steps for today's generation of students. All classes are suspended to allow students to attend this event.
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Four plead not guilty to Seán Noctor murder
Four of the men charged with the murder of Seán Noctor have pleaded not guilty.
Harry Turney, 20, of Orion Way, Leighton Buzzard, Lahin Miah, 26, of Windsor Road, Leighton Buzzard, Benjamin Brooks, 21, of The Chilterns, Leighton Buzzardand Jordan Lewis Doyle, 21, of Kimberley Close, Luton, all denied one charge of murder when they appeared at Isleworth Crown Court on Friday.
A fifth man George Hay, 26, of Jasper Avenue, London, has also been charged with one count of murder and another count of violent disorder. He is due to appear for a plea and case management hearing at Isleworth Crown Court on Thursday, November 21.
Seán, 24, was a former St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School pupil in Langley.
He died at Wexham Park Hospital after receiving a single stab wound in Barry Avenue, Windsor, at 3.09am on Sunday, July 28 while returning home from a night out.


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By Chris Goldberg
Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 3/25/13
Garnet Valley sophomore midfield-attack Dylan Lee has made a verbal commitment to play Division I lacrosse at the United States Air Force Academy and begin the admission process.
Dylan Lee log:
High School: Garnet Valley High School
Graduation Year: 2015
Position: Midfield/Attack
College Choice: United States Air Force Academy
Club Affiliation: Duke's LC, HEADstrong LC
Major Lacrosse Honors: MVP Freshman Year for JV-A High School Team, Freshman Representative of the Lacrosse, Ambassador Award, 2012 FCA U15 National Championship Runner-Ups, Blue Chip 225 All-Star Rising Sophomore Division, Jake Reed Nike Blue Chip Rising Junior Camp 2013 selection
Academic Honors: Distinguished Honor Roll & Honor Roll, Academic Excellence, 14/368 Class Rank
What will you major in/study? Undecided
Why did you choose Air Force? "The Academy just seemed like the right place for me. Hearing about Air Force came with its uncertainty and doubts, but also with an open mind. Upon visiting and meeting the coaching staff and players, I fell in love. The lacrosse there is at a highly competitive level with a relatively young team, in addition to the outstanding and unparalleled education. It seemed like a place where I would thrive as a student, player, and person and will surely give me the best and most opportunities after graduation. Although it will be a challenge, attending the Academy is an opportunity I cannot pass up."
What is your HS team's outlook for next season? "Garnet Valley will definitely be missing the past seniors but many players now are filling their shoes. With a great bunch of talent, leadership, and camaraderie, I think my team will be highly competitive and can go very far in Districts and States if our minds are right."
Additional Comments: "I would like to thank my high school coaches: Frank Urso, Jim Snow, and Joe Kivlen for everything they have done and molding me into the player I am today, as well continuing to work with me for the rest of my high school career.
"Additionally, I want to thank my Duke's coaches Ebe Helm, Jason Christmas, and Matt Mackrides for their help, and my HEADstrong coaches Brian Neary and Michael Colleluori.
"Also, I want to thank my brother Christian.
"Finally, and most importantly, I want to thank my parents, especially my father. For they have tirelessly supported every game, scrimmage, and practice with love and care as well as pushing me into the person I am today, on and off the field."
Other schools considered: Fairfield, Brown, Villanova, Bryant, Williams College, St. Joseph's, UPenn, Ohio State
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Earlier today, Nippon Ichi Software released its second full-length promotional video for 「Disgaea Dimension 2」 — Laharl version. It features our first look at the game's opening sequence, new characters/classes from the D2 cast, the Item Sea, and battle system. You may view it for yourself after the cut.
Disgaea Dimension 2 is scheduled to be released in Japan on March 20th; [Pre-order Regular or Limited].
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