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3. Gibson: Threat to "Artistic Freedom," Reagan Was Slow on AIDS
4. "If Hitler Had More Friends, CBS Wouldn't Have Aired It Either"
Nets Highlight Fears Conservative Pressure
The three broadcast network evening newscasts all ran full stories on Tuesday night about Viacom's decision to drop The Reagans mini-series from CBS this month and air it next year on its Showtime cable movie channel. The ABC and CBS stories featured a soundbite from MRC President Brent Bozell.
Though Brian Rooney's story alluded to conservative objections about how the movie made up derogatory things about Ronald and Nancy Reagan, ABC anchor Peter Jennings made it seem as if it just wasn't positive enough for conservatives, saying CBS cancelled it "when word got around that it may not have been as faithful to the Reagan story as some conservatives wanted it to be."
NBC's Mike Taibbi concluded by worrying not about CBS's misdeeds in producing such a disrespectful movie, but about how "industry observers are asking today, which program and which network will be targeted next?"
CBS's Jerry Bowen, after clips from Bozell and an RNC representative, turned his attention to a bunch of those upset by CBS's decision, including Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle who accused conservatives of using "intimidation," Martin Kaplan of USC's Annenberg School who insisted that "there's a well-organized conservative movement in this country that's in charge of its version of the truth, and they swing a big bat," and Jeff Wald, the manager for actor James Brolin who played Ronald Reagan, who charged: "We seem to be in a very oppressive era where they can censor something before they even see it."
Bowen then concluded by arguing that those disturbed by the Reagan portrayal are hypocrites since they didn't object to Showtime's September movie about President Bush, a production liberals saw as too positive toward Bush: "It's no small irony that the groups complaining now had no problems with another recent Showtime docu-drama that also used fictionalized dialogue, but that was a different President in a different time: President Bush in the days after September 11th."
But there's no hypocrisy since no one is maintaining that a docu-drama must avoid any fictionalized lines about events and views which match what really occurred, just that any production should not make up derogatory things in order to create a disrespectful and distorted portrait, which is what The Reagans seemed to do. As the MRC's Bozell said in ABC's story, "Every administration has its warts. Ronald Reagan had his as well. But what happened in this film was that the producers invented things about him."
The full text of the ABC, CBS and NBC stories from Wednesday night, November 4.
-- ABC's World News Tonight. Peter Jennings set up the final story of his broadcast: "Finally this evening, CBS and the Reagans -- and in fairness, it could have been any network that got itself into hot water -- when it decided to make a mini-series about the former President and Mrs. Reagan while he is still alive. And when word got around that it may not have been as faithful to the Reagan story as some conservatives wanted it to be. Well, CBS has pulled the plug."
Brian Rooney began from Los Angeles: "The two-part movie portrays the former President sometimes sympathetically, but also as callous, mean, or even childish."
-- CBS Evening News. Dan Rather introduced the story about his own network: "The CBS television network has been under fire for weeks from admirers of Ronald Reagan who labeled as unfair, a television miniseries entitled, 'The Reagans.' Today, CBS announced it will not air that series after all, it will be aired elsewhere. And that set off an uproar. Jerry Bowen has the 'Inside Story.'"
Jerry Bowen began, as taken down by MRC analyst Brad Wilmouth: "The four-hour miniseries, scheduled to air on CBS during this month's big ratings period, depicted Nancy Reagan as controlling:"
Mike Taibbi, in Los Angeles, began: "Scenes from the CBS movie, 'The Reagans,' that the real Reagans wouldn't want you to see: a controlling First Lady, Nancy."
CNBC's Williams on Ire Over Movie: "Dangerous"
Conservatives see themselves as upholding integrity and honesty in calling CBS on its distorted and derogatory portrayal of the Reagans, but CNBC's Brian Williams painted conservatives as the bad guys, an intimidating force which suppressed the free speech rights of CBS and the artistic community. He characterized CBS's decision, following the conservative complaints, as "dangerous" and a reaction to "extortion."
Williams plugged his Tuesday night The News with Brian Williams story by framing it around this question: "Did CBS cave to political pressure to cancel a controversial miniseries on the Reagans?" He later referred to "the mostly Republican pressure groups who've been saying it offers an unbalanced view of the former President. No one's seen the movie yet, mind you, but CBS has taken it off its schedule nonetheless."
Interviewing former Reagan adviser Michael Deaver, Williams demanded to know of what happened in CBS giving in to conservative concerns: "Is it dangerous?" Williams followed up: "People who make motion pictures regard themselves as working in an art form, and that's why I ask if this is good precedent or not?"
Next, Williams turned to Michael Wolff of New York magazine: "Do you believe what has happened here with this mini-series on CBS amounts to extortion?" Wolff agreed withe the sentiment: "Certainly capitulation." Williams proceeded to lament the supposed assault of free speech: "So is it hyperbolic to say, you know, when we give all these speeches about freedom in the United States, you can go ahead and stretch your artistic freedom, make a movie about whatever you wish as long as it doesn't cross a certain political or societal group?" Wolff: "Absolutely. If the group is well-organized and there is no group as well-organized as the right wing in America at this point in time, you're going to be in big trouble."
"Well-organized"? The MRC made its complaints on its own without consulting or working with anyone else.
And the left has a "well-organized" team: The movie and specials division of CBS Entertainment.
Williams also obsessed over the movie JFK, asking both guests about it. To Deaver: "How does this differ, Mike, from say, Oliver Stone's movie 'JFK' that was just a wholesale rewriting of that story in many ways?"
But JFK was widely criticized for its historic inaccuracies and distortions. And it didn't deride John F. Kennedy in its conspiratorial tales about the "intelligence community."
Williams teased at the top of his November 4 hour, as transcribed by the MRC's Brad Wilmouth: "The backlash over a movie no one has seen. Under pressure, CBS cancels its miniseries on the Reagans. Tonight, who gets to decide if a television network can air a movie or not? Did CBS knuckle under in the midst of a political fight?"
A later plug: "Still ahead, did CBS cave to political pressure to cancel a controversial miniseries on the Reagans? We'll have the background and be joined here by Mr. Reagan's former deputy chief of staff Mike Deaver and media columnist and author Michael Wolff. And now it has a name, 'Banner-gate.' Why won't the person who created and put up that sign step forward and take credit, or is it blame?"
Williams set up the eventual segment: "We are back, and what a story this is becoming. CBS says its decision not to run a miniseries on the Reagans, and to air it on cable instead, has nothing to do with the mostly Republican pressure groups who've been saying it offers an unbalanced view of the former President. No one's seen the movie yet, mind you, but CBS has taken it off its schedule nonetheless. It was scheduled to air during the November period when ratings are measured. Instead, the network received a harsh lesson in politics. It seems you don't mess with the man widely credited by millions of Americans with ending the Cold War and them some. Before we talk with media critic Michael Wolff and Reagan White House aide Mike Deaver, some background tonight from NBC's Mike Taibbi."
Following the same Taibbi story which aired on the NBC Nightly News (see item #1 above), Williams posed his first question to Deaver: "Mike, what do you make of all of this. If you could take your political hat off and view this purely as precedent, is it dangerous?"
Gibson: Threat to "Artistic Freedom,"
ABC's Charles Gibson on Tuesday morning approached the Reagan movie controversy from the assumption that those concerned about it were encroaching on "artistic freedom," he was befuddled by all the fuss over it given how other Presidents have been poorly portrayed in previous movies and he contended that while the exact quote credited to Reagan about AIDS may have been made up, it accurately conveyed Reagan's lack of caring about the disease.
On Good Morning America, Gibson asked Michael Reagan: "Your dad comes, came from the Hollywood community, and he knows what the issues of artistic freedom are. How do you think he'd react?"
Recalling past movies about Presidents, Gibson inquired: "Is a different standard being applied?" Gibson argued: "A lot of people feel, for instance, that your dad was slow to recognize the AIDS crisis, that it had festered for quite a period of time before he addressed it. So if you fictionalize that, is that necessarily wrong?"
Gibson set up the November 4 Good Morning America segment, as taken down by MRC analyst Jessica Anderson: "We're going to start this half hour with the fury of criticism that has erupted over 'The Reagans,' CBS's made-for-TV movie about the ex-President and Nancy Reagan, and this furor is continuing this morning. Now, recent films about former Presidents, like Nixon and Kennedy and Johnson, have painted portraits that many found unrealistic and unflattering. So why the uproar over this one? Here's ABC's Brian Rooney."
Rooney began: "The life and love of Ronald and Nancy Reagan is the stuff of legend, but CBS television got in trouble making the Reagans the stuff of fiction. People who have seen clips of the movie or claim to have seen the script say CBS portrays Reagan as a lightweight who was afraid of homosexuals and had a childish, puppy love for his wife. Advance word of the Reagan movie has made headlines in the entertainment press and raised the volume on conservative talk shows."
"If Hitler Had More Friends, CBS Wouldn't
One TV critic was quite disgusted with CBS even contemplating dumping its The Reagans mini-series after complaints from conservatives. In Tuesday's Washington Post, Philadelphia Daily News TV critic Ellen Gray grumbled to Post television reporter Lisa de Moraes: "If Hitler had more friends, CBS wouldn't have aired [its Hitler miniseries] either."
For de Moraes' November 4 column: www.washingtonpost.com
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• Who: St. Louis Rams vs. Detroit Lions
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There's no doubt Detroit is hurting in the secondary right now. Losing Eric Wright to Tampa Bay in free agency, cutting Aaron Berry for off-the-field offseason issues, Louis Delmas' lingering injuries ... they're all adding up to a big question. How will the Lions' defensive backs respond this season? Players like Bill Bentley and Jonte Green may provide some help, but it can be dangerous relying on all but the most top-flight rookies.
Thoughts from MLive readers on the issue:
• fudog2: One thing that irks me about talking about how bad the Lions secondary is, is everyone goes back to the last two games of the year - when there was virtually nobody left who was healthy. Heck, Rashied Davis was playing nickel by then!! Delmas was dinged, Houston was dinged, Berry was in over his head, Coleman was lost for the year, Speivey had the impossible assignment of covering Jimmy Graham - basically by himself all game long.
I just think you have to look at the entire body of work of the defense last year, and it wasn't that bad when relatively healthy. Outside of the two last games of the year, the offense failed to score over 20 pts in their other 5 losses. This defense is not built on completely stopping the other team. They're opportunistic and need the Lions offense to help make their opponent one dimensional. I think we should want track meet type games because that helps play into the Lions strengths.
They kind of remind me of NO and what made their D solid the year they won the SB was their offense. It forced the other team to try and keep up offensively because the Saints were so good at scoring. I'd rather have a prolific offense and bend-don't-break defense than a great defense and an offense that can't score. At least you always have a chance to win.
• blayne56: It would have to contend that there are issues of concern even if down played by the front office. Bringing in two DB's just prior to the season opener should raise some red flags. However, that being said, there is not much to learn when playing corner. Either you can cover the receiver of you can't. Hopefully the d-line can step up and get pressure.
• mfinder: Don't forget the linebackers. Levy and Durant have done a poor job in the past of covering tight ends and running backs. Thos chunk plays have killed us. They also have a propensity for commiting to the wrong gap (remember Ernie Sims?) on running plays and are not very good at shedding blocks.
• slippythumbs: The problem in 2011 was injuries and they are still an issue. Too many new faces and rookies to expect any real continuity. The loss of Wright, Berry and Smith's brain doomed any shot at experience being a strong contributor.
On the plus side, the rookies all look like keepers so far. Green needs some seasoning badly and Greenwood needs some health. Bentley looked really good in the preseason.
At safety Delmas has his chronic issue in early this year. Spievey seems to have got back on track after a bad offseason with a concussion. Wendling and Coleman really stepped up and they needed that badly with all the other issues.
In a nutshell, they will be far less effective at the beginning of this year than the start of last year, but they have a chance to be a nice core for the future by year's end.
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• Detroit is looking for another fast start to this season, just as they had last year, when the Lions were undefeated for the first five games en route to a 10-6 record and playoff berth.
• Ndamukong Suh has a lot of respect for St. Louis running back Steven Jackson, who has been remarkably consistent throughout his nine-year career, in spite of the injuries he's suffered.
• It's all or nothing, according to veteran defense end Kyle Vanden Bosch, who says if the Lions aren't leading the league in sacks, they're underachieving.
• Nate Burleson isn't playing coy about his appraoach to the NFL's replacement officials. The veteran wide receiver plans to push the envelope with physical play, believing for various reasons, they won't be anxious to throw flags as quickly as the regular officials.
• Remember how Sam Bradford returned to Oklahoma for his senior season to avoid being drafted by Detroit, which had the top pick in the 2009 NFL draft? Now with St. Louis, the third-year quarterback flatly denies there was any truth to that rumor. "None at all. I went back to school just because I felt I wasn't ready for the NFL."
• Despite his stature as the top young quarterback in the NFL, Matthew Stafford proves he doesn't take himself too seriously, by partaking in a self-deprecating new commercial for Monday Night Football.
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...since the CMP is out of the M1 Garand Rifle I see a drop off on many of the M1 Garand Boards. It looks like they have slowed down. I also see a pickup in info and data on the M14's. Do you guys think this is just a small dip and will not last long, or do you think that the sharks have had their run and many of the guys are cutting back?? Also I think another part may be funding is not there for the higher Garand prices??
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I was interested in picking up a Garand for awhile. Then I saw the ridiculous prices people were asking for a 60 year old surplused rifle, that had been arsenal refinished once or twice. I think in a few years you will see prices drop once the "Garand craze" passes. For younger guys like me the idea of spending that kind of money on a rifle of out dated design thats been out of service since before our fathers were born just doesnt fly. I am not trying to bash the Garand, it is just the inflated market price that doesnt set well with me.
I doubt you will ever see the M14 gain the same level of interest as the M1 had. There can never be a surplus maket of M14's obviously. Also they didnt have a long run in service, and only one company builds civilian legal copies that go for $1,500 just for a base model. Oh the current pricing and lack of 7.62x51mm doesnt help either. I sold my AR10 recently for just that reason. Shooting at $18 a mag is no good.
yeah and you can find the Norinco version of the M14 which is very nice but is starting to get pricey again..I have a M14A made by Federal Oradance with all US GI parts..You can find decent deals if you look..but if you are hell bent on a springfield:rolleyes: ..then yeah you will pay.....
I have to agree with the previous posters.
An old, refurbished rifle should not sell for the prices they ask.
The refurbished M1 carbines coming this month are priced as high as NEW M1
carbine clones made by IMI and others. Plus, they will have No sling, No oiler and NO magazines. What the...? For that kind of money I can buy an AK variant in 7.62 X 39 AND a Saiga .223 - and they come with oilers, magazines and are NEW.
CMP was a great idea way back when, but selling inferior refubished rifles at exorbitant prices is not going to improve many civilian "marksmen".
You guys can thank Ted Kennedy for the prices at CMP. Back in the mid-70's I ran DCM shoots. DCM gave you ammo, targets and rifles to shoot the course with. ALL FREE. Then came Mr Kennedy. He wanted the DCM shut down and the Dem's almost got the job done. They didn't get the votes needed to close the DCM BUT they got the funding from the US ARMY cut to ZERO. DCM had to change to stay alive. What they had to do was change into the CMP and had to fund the whole operation. Under the old DCM you could buy only 1 rifle in a lifetime at about 99 bucks. Well, CMP let you buy more then 1 rifle and had to keep raising the price to stay alive. You guys know that prices on almost anything has gone up, so the CMP had to raise their prices. Remember, CMP has done a great job in getting these Rifles into your hands.
Just think about it.
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And I agree that Mr Kennedy and the Democrats caused prices to rise on all firearms and accessories.
I am glad that the CMP stayed alive, and I pray that someday they can return to their original function. But as long as the BATFE runs roughshod over the Constitution with Democrat assistance, I cannot bring myself to pay huge prices for used, refurbished guns - that my ancestors tax dollars bought in the first damn place!
But you should know I am an old grump -
I still don't like that new-fangled M16.
Springfield Armory Incorporated. Still making M14 (M1A) rifles.
LRB Arms. Currently making M14's using hammer forged receivers.
Smith Enterprise. Currently manufacturing rifles using LRB receivers.
Armscorp. Stopped production 2007.
Smith Enterprise. Previously manufactured Cast Receiver rifles, and Bar Stock (forged) receiver rifles.
Federal Ordnance. Stopped production early 1990's.
There are a couple of other M14 manufacturers, including Norinco and Poly Tech, but those above will suffice.
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The average of all the major polls, as reported on RealClearPolitics.com, has Obama leading Romney by 3.5%. Obama leads Romney 237 to 191 in the Electoral College, and InTrade has Obama 57% and Romney 42%. Romney can't beat Obama and Ron Paul can.
Ron Paul's high rating in this national poll provides evidence for a compelling question the Delegates should ask at the Republican Nominating Convention in Tampa, Florida: Why nominate Romney if he can't win? The polls show, even after his massive media campaign, Romney is still losing to Obama and the polls show, with a media campaign, Ron Paul can beat Obama.
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A/R is Area/Radius. (as in divided by) These specs are on both the compressor and turbine housings, however, it is more important on the turbine housing and the compressor a/r spec is usually disregarded. Usually the bigger the #, the more flow it will cause the compressor to have, but at a cost of more lag. The smaller the number, the less lag, but go too small and it will cause the compressor to max out at some point and it will choke and not make power past that point. Common exhaust a/r's for say a T3/T4 turbo are .48, .63, and .82. .63 is a good one to use, but a .48 might work well on a 4 cylinder with less than 2 litres, wanting quick spoolup and not shooting for alot of power. .82 might be better for wanting a top end setup, at the cost of more lag obviously, but it will allow an engine to flow all it wants.Originally posted by lostyouth
ok, been searching and searching and cant find anything but domestic sites with explanations of the difference between turbochargers and superchargers
Would really like some questions explained or at least pointed in the right direction (link)
what exactly is A/R, what am I lookin for;
pros and cons to bigger and smaller a/r housings
inducer is just a term for the compressor wheel. there is also a major and minor inducer diameter. the major one is the bigger one nearest the center of the turbo, aka against the housing if you can get what im saying. the minor diameter will be the smaller one, nearest the "tip" of the wheel, nearest where the bolt that holds the wheel onto the shaft is.
maybe an explanation of inducers
same applies for the exducer, aka the turbine wheel.
lbs/min and cfm are just two different ways of telling the same thing, such as using english or metric system.
flow - lbs/min / cfm, Im guessing this tells you the turbos max boost??? maybe a way to guesstimate lbs min converted to boost
a good rule of thumb for alot of turboes is that lbs/min is usually an approximation of the max horsepower achievable with that turbo. (i.e. - Nissan T28 from Pulsar GTi-R is rated at ~310lbs/min, and most people using that turbo max it out around 300-320hp.)
i am not very educated on stages and what it is exactly, but i want to say it has to do with the degree/angle of the exhaust blades and the orientation/number of blades as well. i cant really answer this to the best of my ability, but i do know that a stage 5 will flow more than a stage 3.
and finally wheel stages
is this a standard form to all turbos?
what are the differences between a stage 3 and stage 5?
Corky Bell's "Maximum Boost" is a good source for learning about these specifications, check www.howstuffworks.com as well. i believe it has some basic definitions on them and some diagrams to show you how to measure a/r if you so desire.
ps - many times, the turbo housings will have the a/r's stamped into them. the trims might be too, but usually arent since if they are interchanged, it would be false information on the housings.


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Integrated water resources management (IWRM) is a holistic approach of understanding all the factors affecting the river system. Water quality modeling is part and parcel of IWRM and water quality models are needed to assess the impact of new pollution sources on the downstream reach or segment of the watershed. The usage of wasteload allocations and total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) in water quality management would allow for better decision-making such as the size of locations of wastewater treatment plants in a river rehabilitation project. This paper would discuss the modeling procedure, different water quality models and how the models can be used in IWRM.
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on 2/10/2014 12:26:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I am not sure why people hate this! The exterior is pretty with a red/black design, the plates never snag because they aren't fixed, they are like floating on these bubble things and there is also a heating option! I have had drugstore straighteners before that were okay but this iron is soooo much better. You can feel the difference in your hair and know you are using a professional product. I think the best thing is how soft my hair feels after this and how much the damage isn't obvious. I love this iron and will never ever go back to the drugstore brands ever. Definite repurchase. Only con I can think of is if you want your hair super duper duper straight you might have to go over the section 2-3 times instead of once, but I have a feeling you have to do that with other irons too.
on 6/11/2011 5:50:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Black
I love this I got this Iron to replace my CHI (because CHIs all die after a year...I've had 3)they all did...convinced I would find it inferior and return it as all my past attempts to find a lower priced CHI alternative have failed. I was wrong, the Avanti is amazing. Works as well or better than a CHI, quickly making my wavy hair smooth, straight and shiny with a look that lasts all day. As well, I have had my 2.5 years and it is just now starting to lose it's heat and speed. I am excited to get a new one, with the even higher temp! This time, i am not even looking for other irons. The Avanti is it. All I could want in a flatiron.
on 5/28/2011 9:56:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I have the avanti nanoargent tourmaline iron.
Ever since my CHI broke i got this and my hair started to get really damaged with this thing.
When this goes, Im getting a CHI and will not repurchase this.
on 4/9/2009 2:51:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
I'm not impressed. My mom got a cute haircut and started using my GAMA so I purchased this flat iron at Trade Secrets for around CAD $70, regular CAD $115.00. After one week of using it, the light burned out and the iron stopped heating up entirely. I brought it back to Trade Secrets where they only do exchanges or store credit (on this item anyway). So I got a second one. This is the one I'm using now.
PROS: I love the tourmaline and ceramic combo, and it *seriously* heats up. The cord is nice and long, which I love. And of course, it does what it claims to do: straighten the hair.
CONS: Major snagging! I don't know if it's because of the moving plates, but it pulls on my hair and rips it out. I tested both this and my GAMA and there is a noticeable difference. My GAMA does NOT yank the hair. If it weren't for this, it would be nearly perfect. The only other downfall is the dial. It's just one more mechanical piece that can go wrong. I always max out the heat setting anyway. If I wanted a low-heat straightening iron, I'd buy a Conair from Walmart.
I would not repurchase this, as a matter of fact, if I could return it I would in a heart beat and get another GAMA.
on 3/30/2009 10:17:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Tan, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
hot damn! never again will i go back to babyliss!!
brief description of this iron ;
* Ceramic and tourmaline plates, 1" width
* High heat up to 410� F (210� C)
* Korean ceramic heater quickly heats plates to a default temperature of 355� F (180� C). Temperature can then be adjusted between 210�F (100�C) and 410�F (210�C)
* Ceramic and tourmaline gemstones that are infused into the plates are natural sources of negative ions and far-infrared heat that promote healthy, shiny hair
* Surround heat offers endless styling options. Create shiny curls, waves or straight hair with the same iron
* Lightweight, sleek and ergonomic design makes this iron very comfortable to use
* Well-positioned temperature dial is strategically placed to prevent accidental use
* Temperature dial provides multiple heat settings for use on all hair types
* Ergonomic handle with textured surface is designed for a firm hold
* Multiple heat settings
* On/Off switch with indicator light
* 360� swivel cord
* AC 120V used in USA/Canada
* One year limited warranty
i got this for $90 canadian and it was damn worth it! it heats up super quick and is very professional quality. my hair does not get caught at the side of the plates unlike the babyliss pro. my hair glides through with absolutely no resistance or tugging! never had to go through the same piece of hair more than once. i'm so in love with this i will never look back at babyliss or conair (lol)
im so surprised there was no reviews on this on mua.
the cord could be longer and thats the only con i've ran into with this iron. it's definitely a steal, especially with the price!! i was hesitant to buy this cuz of the name, which i've never heard of, then i saw it was part of dannyco, which is also rep by babyliss.
my babyliss seems to die on me every 2-4 years and thats not even using it every day and my warranty was up so i had to get something, and im glad i chose this! i hope this doesnt die on me!!! i would recommend this to every and anyone!!!
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But for Jerry Natanine of Clyde River, Nunavut – one of two aboriginal communities that will ask the top court to overturn National Energy Board permits – the issue is a lot more visceral.
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If a dissident tree falls in an authoritarian forest, and no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound?
In the latest protest tied to the Beijing Olympics, Reporters Without Borders, the Paris-based press freedom group, says that it broadcast on FM radio in Beijing Friday morning a 20-minute call for greater human rights and an end to censorship. RSF (the group goes by its French initials) called the effort "the first non-state radio station to have broadcast in China since the Communist Party took power in 1949." Some might quibble with calling a single 20-minute burst a radio station, but let's be generous.
"The program, in English, French and Mandarin, was heard in on 104.4 FM in different districts of the Chinese capital," RSF said in its press release today. You can listen to what RSF says it broadcast on its Web site. Certainly plenty of Beijingers were up and taking their morning turn in the park, or on their way to work, at 8:08 AM, when RSF says it broadcast. But it's hard to tell whether any of them were actually listening.
The Wall Street Journal called stations in the city including Beijing Radio, Central Radio and China Radio International to see if they noticed this hijacking of the airwaves. It turns out that none of these stations broadcast on the 104.4 FM frequency. So would any listeners have been tuned into that frequency this morning?
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text: Charleston church to host forum on human trafficking By Paul J. Nyden October 13, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Unitarian Universalist Church on Charleston's West Side will host an evening to shine a light on sex trafficking, which endangers between 100,000 and 300,000 American children each year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.The main speaker at the forum, "U.S. Human Trafficking: Modern Day Slavery," will be Sister Anne Victory, who is education coordinator for the Collaborative Initiative to End Human Trafficking, based in the Cleveland and Akron, Ohio area.The group's mission is "to educate and advocate for the prevention and abolition of human trafficking" and to provide "services on behalf of trafficked persons."Mary Sullivan, a local member of Seneca 2, a local women's organization, said in West Virginia, a lot of human trafficking stems from drug problems."We have heard stories about mothers essentially selling their daughters to their drug suppliers. People need to be alert to what is happening," she said.Between 800,000 to 900,000 people are trafficked across national borders every year, according to the Collaborative Initiative website."Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery. Victims of human trafficking are subjected to force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor. Victims are young children, teenagers, men and women," the Collaborative Initiative says."After drug dealing, human trafficking is tied with the illegal arms industry as the second-largest criminal industry in the world today, and it is the fastest growing." Men who are victims of trafficking are most likely to be exploited for forced labor, while women are more likely to face sexual exploitation.When she spoke at Lorain Community College in Elyria, Ohio, earlier this year, Victory said victims coming to the U.S. are most frequently trafficked from countries in Central and South America, Asia and Eastern Europe."Many victims trafficked into the United States do not speak and understand English and are therefore isolated and unable to communicate with service providers, law enforcement and others who might be able to help them," said a report about Victory's speech on the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland's website.People who meet or come into contact with possible victims of human trafficking can call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center at 888-3737-888 or text "BeFree" (233733).Thursday's program will begin at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church, located at 520 Kanawha Blvd. W. in Charleston.The event is sponsored by Seneca 2. Their website states, "The women who organized the Seneca Falls Convention [in New York] in 1848 were the inspiration for Seneca 2 -- an activist organization formed in 2006 by a group of Kanawha Valley women."Like their Seneca Falls Sisters, Seneca 2 believes that 'liberty and justice for all' is the unequivocal hallmark of democracy." West Virginia FREE is also a co-sponsor of the program.Reach Paul J. Nyden at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5164. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Plans for all-ages venue rise in old bakery building 2 Body found in Kanawha River, near South Charleston 3 City of Milton tries to revive Morris Memorial property 4 Mitch Vingle: WVU's Lyons watching bombshell merger news 5 Man arrested after explosion in Kanawha City dumpster Greenbrier's historic Blue Sulphur pavilion Previous Story CAMC benefits cut won't affect 'Cadillac tax' Next Story


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Dr. Nathan is a new surgery faculty member developing a laboratory research program to elucidate cellular and molecular mechanisms of liver injury induced by the chronic administration of parenteral nutrition (PN), also known as PN-induced liver disease (PNALD). This is a very important cause of liver disease in infants who require PN support as neonates or during early life. While end-stage liver disease is a well-known consequence of long-term PN dependence, the cellular and molecular mechanisms that result in PNALD have not been well established, but have been proposed to be multifactorial. Dr. Nathan is currently developing a novel animal model of PNALD combining small bowel bacterial overgrowth/bacterial translocation with parenteral nutrition administration. To induce small bowel bacterial overgrowth, he established a surgical approach to create a small bowel self-filling blind loop, and preliminary analyses demonstrate significant bacterial overgrowth in the blind loop, substantial mucosal inflammation within the loop, and bacterial translocation to draining mesenteric lymph nodes. Mice also have histological and biochemical evidence of liver inflammation, and will serve as a basis for further studies to identify the mechanism by which small bowel bacterial overgrowth contributes to liver inflammation. Dr. Nathan anticipates that the addition of PN administration to the model of small bowel bacterial overgrowth will result in a more severe, and more clinically relevant, PNALD phenotype, and that this model will serve as the basis for further studies to elucidate cellular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of PNALD.
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By DAVID S. CLOUD and MICHAEL R. GORDON; Carl Hulse contributed reporting.
Published: December 19, 2006
A Pentagon assessment of security conditions in Iraq concluded Monday that attacks against American and Iraqi targets had surged this summer and autumn to their highest level, and called violence by Shiite militants the most significant threat in Baghdad.
The report, which covers the period from early August to early November, found an average of almost 960 attacks against Americans and Iraqis every week, the highest level recorded since the Pentagon began issuing the quarterly reports in 2005, with the biggest surge in attacks against American-led forces. That was an increase of 22 percent from the level for early May to early August, the report said.
While most attacks were directed at American forces, most deaths and injuries were suffered by the Iraqi military and civilians.
The report is the most comprehensive public assessment of the American-led operation to secure Baghdad, which began in early August. About 17,000 American combat troops are currently involved in the beefed-up security operation.
According to the Pentagon assessment, the operation initially had some success in reducing killings as militants concentrated on eluding capture and hiding their weapons. But sectarian death squads soon adapted, resuming their killings in regions of the capital that were not initially targets of the overstretched American and Iraqi troops.
Shiite militias, the Pentagon report said, also received help from allies among the Iraqi police. ''Shia death squads leveraged support from some elements of the Iraqi Police Service and the National Police who facilitated freedom of movement and provided advance warning of upcoming operations,'' the report said.
''This is a major reason for the increased levels of murders and executions.''
The findings were issued on the day Robert M. Gates was sworn in as defense secretary, replacing Donald H. Rumsfeld.
At an afternoon ceremony at the Pentagon attended by President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, Mr. Gates said he planned to travel to Iraq shortly to consult with military commanders as part of a broad administration review of Iraq strategy.
''All of us want to find a way to bring America's sons and daughters home again,'' Mr. Gates said. ''But as the president has made clear, we simply cannot afford to fail in the Middle East. Failure in Iraq would be a calamity that would haunt our nation, impair our credibility and endanger Americans for decades to come.''
Over all, the report portrayed a precarious security situation and criticized Shiite militias for the worsening violence more explicitly than previous versions had.
It said the Mahdi Army, a powerful Shiite militia that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal Al-Maliki has not confronted despite American pressure to do so, had had the greatest negative impact on security. It is likely that Shiite militants are now responsible for more civilian deaths and injuries than terrorist groups are, the report said.
But the report also held out hope that decisive leadership by the Iraqi government might halt the slide toward civil war.
While noting that efforts by Mr. Maliki to encourage political reconciliation among ethnic groups had shown little progress, it said that Iraqi institutions were holding and that members of the current government ''have not openly abandoned the political process.''
The Pentagon assessment, titled ''Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq,'' is mandated by Congress and issued quarterly.
The new report, completed last month, noted two parallel trends.
On the one hand, the Iraqi security forces are larger than ever, with 322,600 Iraqi soldiers, police officers and other troops, an increase of 45,000 since August. Iraqi forces also have increasingly taken the lead responsibility in many areas.
The growth in Iraqi capabilities, however, has been matched by increasing violence. That raises the question of whether the American strategy to rely on the Iraqi forces to tamp down violence is failing, at least in the short term.
The Bush administration has decided to step up substantially the effort to train and equip the Iraqi forces. A major question being pondered by Mr. Bush is whether that is sufficient, or whether more American troops are needed in Baghdad to control the violence and stabilize the city.
According to the Pentagon, the weekly average of 959 attacks was a jump of 175 from the previous three months. As a consequence, civilian deaths and injuries reached a record 93 a day.
Deaths and injuries suffered by Iraq's security forces also climbed to a new high, 33 a day, while American and other allied deaths and injuries hovered at 25 a day, just short of the record in 2004, when the United States was involved in battles in Falluja and elsewhere.
The increase in violence coincided with the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, when there had previously been a temporary spike in attacks, but also reflected the deeper sectarian passions that have flared since an attack in February 2006 on a Shiite shrine in Samarra.
According to Pentagon data used in formulating the report, there were 1,028 sectarian ''executions'' in October. That was a slight dip from July, when there were 1,169 executions, but a major increase since January, when there were 180. During this period, ''ethno-sectarian incidents'' have steadily risen, the report noted.


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2013 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible Unveiled Before L.A.
It was no secret, it had to happen and now it's here for you to look at: The 2013 Volkswagen Beetle convertible is out for all to see.
Set to make its official debut during the L.A. Auto Show in November, Volkswagen just dropped the virtual cloth. Like its coupe counterpart, the cabrio will come with three engine options. A 2.5-liter inline five-cylinder with 170 hp and 177 lb-ft of torque starts the pack, but there's also the same 2.0-liter turbocharged unit with 200 hp and 207 lb-ft. If gas isn't your thing, there's also the diesel model with 140 hp and a range-topping 236 lb-ft of torque on tap.
But better still, drivers will be allowed to choose between a six-speed dual-clutch or six-speed manual transmission neither of which are restricted to a particular fuel type, though the manual-diesel combo is said to make 41 mpg.
Just as the 2011-launched coupe did, this car takes the New Beetle that became an ironic misnomer by the end of its extensive lifecycle and gives it a much-needed makeover. In this case, that means a soft top that drops in 10 seconds and looks less like a rolled up carpet strapped on with bungee cords and more like a spoiler.
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Mitteleuropa: Between Europe and Germany (International Political Curren)
The end of the Cold War and German unification, the empirical evidence indicates, are not returning Germany and central Europe to historically troubled, imbalanced, bilateral relationships. Rather changes in the character of German and European politics as well as the transformations now affecting Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia point to the emergence of multilateral relationships linking Germany and central Europe in an internationalizing, democratic Europe.
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This article was interesting.
So was this: http://msn.match.com/msn/article.asp...id=6>1=26000
I am single because in order for me to incorporate a man into my life, it would have to be an upgrade. Right now, that would be pretty hard to do.
I think the whole "control freak" business is a major reason why women are staying single longer. Every woman I know who is single and 30- or 40-something calls herself a control freak.
I completely understand how that can happen - I was single 'til I was 30, then single again from 34-38. But sometimes you have to let go of that need to control everything and everyone around you.
NetG (and others),
I would recommend eharmony. After avoiding it for a long time, I am doing it again. And there are a lot of decent, professional men on the site. Lots and lots and lots of 30 and 40-something guys looking for love and obviously interested in settling down.
As for the one who made you weak in the knees, I'm sorry you let that one get away. Because a strong chemical reaction like that doesn't come around everyday, and if it is paired with other qualities you want (like intelligence, kindness, humour, etc..) then you really might have missed out on someone wonderful.
Anyway, just press on. Great to see you posting again, and sounds like you are meeting people and men at these concerts that you love. Very encouraging
One thing I've discovered is that online dating is NOT for me. I have fantastic instincts in person, which I lose trying to read online profiles. But I also have trouble seeing the profiles of men and seeing them as potential. I've tried, and realize this is just a truth about myself. I've dated guys and later found out I dismissed their online profiles! What I do whenever I feel it's been too long, though, is speed date. I date an average of three guys each time I do speed dating - and they're almost all good guys, who may not be right for me, but are still good guys. It's pretty cool!
I don't know if I missed out on my chance with that guy or not. I saw him last year and briefly chatted, and the interaction was such that a guy took a picture of our interaction, then found me in a crowd of 10,000 people to offer me the picture. So the chemistry is obvious to others.... The situation is more complicated than I want to get into here, but if we're meant to be, the situation will get less complicated, and it'll happen.
I've had two other guys with whom I've had that super strong instant reaction. One of them was in my class in college, and at our 10 year reunion I realized it was not there for me anymore. It was for him, though! There's another one who was out of town for months, and I think may be back in town now. I was talking to someone as he walked past the first time I saw him, and my instant reaction was to try to run after him and find out who he was. It took more than 6 months to even find out his name, and he's super shy, but we have tentative plans to hang out sometime when he's back in town.
I've just stopped worrying about it, though. If I meet someone, great. Because I'm emotionally in the right place, I think I will. But if not, well, I'll be ok that way, too!


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I'm currently working on this conceptual project for a research center at Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. It is a school project for Marcelyn Gow's vertical studio at SCI-Arc. Above are some images of the 3d prints that I made to describe and represent the work in progress at a schematic design level.
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FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. — Dwight "Doc" Gooden, the Tampa native, Hillsborough High standout and former Cy Young Award winner, faces trouble again after being arrested Tuesday and charged with driving under the influence of drugs and leaving the scene of an accident, according to Franklin Lakes police.
His 5-year-old son, Dylan, was in the car.
Gooden also was charged with child endangerment and motor vehicle violations, authorities said. They wouldn't release details, including the type of drugs.
In a brief interview with the Record of Bergen County, Gooden vowed not to let his arrest erase the progress he has made since 2006, when he served seven months in jail for violating the terms of his probation by using cocaine.
"I'm not going to let one day of bad judgment ruin four good years" of sobriety, he said.
According to the accident report, Gooden, 45, struck a 2009 Mercedes from behind Tuesday morning. The driver of the sedan, Ronald Schmidt of Franklin Lakes, was unhurt.
"I looked at him right away," Schmidt, 71, told the Record. "I'm an avid sports fan. I said, 'Dwight Gooden, right?' He shook my hand and I shook his hand. We introduced ourselves. It was just two people out of the car and just saying 'Hi' after the accident."
Gooden was driving a 2007 Chrysler Aspen sport utility vehicle registered to Carl S. Calise of Old Tappan, N.J. Calise could not be reached for comment.
Gooden was released on his own recognizance.
According to the Record, Dylan was not restrained in the vehicle and hit his head. The extent of the injury is not known.
A three-time World Series champion, Gooden's once-promising career has been blighted by drug abuse and run-ins with the law. He spent time in five rehabs and endured assorted legal woes tied to years of drinking and drug use.
PLAYOFF SCHEDULE TWEAKED: Major League Baseball made one slight change to the postseason schedule and held off on major revisions.
The awkward off day between Games 4 and 5 of the League Championship Series will be eliminated. Instead, there will be another off day between the division series and the start of the LCS, the commissioner's office said. The overall length of the postseason will not be shortened and the first round will remain best-of-five at least through 2011.
SIGN OVER WRIGLEY: Cubs owner Tom Ricketts isn't opposed to putting up a Toyota sign at Wrigley Field. The team has been working on a sponsorship deal with the troubled automaker that would place a sign over the leftfield bleachers.
CARDINALS: All-Star catcher Yadier Molina left the game against the Orioles in the second inning with a strained right oblique and will be reevaluated today. First baseman Albert Pujols returned after having an MRI exam and receiving an anti-inflammatory injection on his back.
CUBS: Right-handed reliever Angel Guzman had arthroscopic surgery to repair a career-threatening right shoulder injury.
D'BACKS: Rightfielder Justin Upton left the game against the White Sox in the second inning with a sprained left ankle. Upton, 22, the younger brother of Rays centerfielder B.J. Upton said he didn't expect to miss much time.
MARLINS: Outfielder Mike Stanton, 20, considered one of baseball's best prospects, was reassigned to minor-league camp.
METS: Shortstop Jose Reyes was back in camp and working out for the first time in 19 days after being sidelined because of a hyperactive thyroid.
RED SOX: Second baseman Dustin Pedroia said he was fine one day after landing awkwardly on his left wrist.
ROYALS: Left-handed pitching prospect Danny Duffy, 21, has left baseball, saying he wants to reassess his priorities.


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The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s has taken on the aura of a Boho Negro Garden of Eden, a vanquished utopia for politically forward, artistically and socially progressive black folk. It was a time and place where artists, politicians and intellectuals not only mingled under the same roofs, but where those vocational callings freely merged within the individual. It was the cultural moment that led Zora Neale Hurston to coin the phrase niggeratti, which was both a tribute to and a playful dig at the movements star participants: Alain Locke, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West, Countee Cullen and numerous others. And it was a time when black artistry was filled with what is still some of this countrys most radical thinking and speaking for, by and about black folk. Its understandable, then, that this moment in time has become swathed in romantic longing, a symbol of black autonomy and pure artistry.
While the Harlem Renaissance remains a high-water mark for American culture, the truth is that even when the phenomenon was in full bloom, it had little impact on the lives of the vast majority of Americans, black or otherwise. The politics of the participants were complicated, and members of the multigenre collective were viewed suspiciously by many of their own race. Some had to wrestle with being true to their vision without simultaneously alienating the white folk who were their patrons (and the bulk of their audience). They had to grapple with the artists eternal paradox: The truer you are to your talent, the more likely it is youll be ignored or lambasted.
The one thing that kept them going was the art, the work, says local singer-songwriter Shawn Amos, who titled his forthcoming album Harlem (Unbreakable) after being inspired by a museum exhibition dedicated to the Harlem Renaissance. There were no great financial incentives, you know. It was overcrowded, and a lot of them lived in squalor. Yet this greatness came out of it. And it was all rooted in the need to create, in the belief in yourself and that you have something worth saying. And if its useful for someone else, then thats icing.
In titling his latest album Harlem, Amos, 31, links himself not only to an artistic legacy but also to a pointed consciousness of race, politics and art and the ways they clasp together. Amos, the son of cookie mogul Famous Amos, and who used to perform around L.A. under the militant black-glam persona Whitey McFearsun, dubs his CD hillbilly soul, and -- save Neil Youngs Southern Man -- wrote all the albums songs, which tell the story of Miller (a Southern sharecropper) and his wife, Mattie (a housekeeper), who move north to make a better life for themselves. Racism and a host of internal demons make the trip with them, however, and the promised land doesnt ease the couples struggles; it simply presents them in a new, unfamiliar context. With influences as disparate as Langston Hughes, Elvis Costello, The Who and Marvin Gaye, Amos illuminates his words with mandolin, dobro, banjo and lap-steel guitar. Though hes been a professional musician for almost 10 years, he feels like this album (his third) is the closest hes come to capturing the hybrid of sounds that most affected him as a young music fan.
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Growing up, he says, I loved white British rock & roll. I wanted to be like Pete Townshend. I loved the literate nature of his lyrics, how they were angry but also incredibly sensitive and vulnerable. At the same time, I really loved black singers like Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin. So much of my life is about reconciling the whole black-white thing. As a child, I was often the only black kid in my class, the only black kid in my neighborhood. Music is definitely the thing that got me through my childhood. So all of that plays out in my art -- the identification with the outsider, the marriage of different cultural influences.
Daytimes, Amos is an A&R guy at Rhino Records, where hes putting the finishing touches on Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance, a box set hes producing for August release. Artists such as Alfre Woodard, Lou Rawls, Chuck D., Angela Bassett, Branford Marsalis and others will either read excerpts from the eras poetry, novels and essays, or perform music from that time.
It all comes together very nicely, Amos says. Mattie and Miller are moving up north to make a life for themselves, to have some control over their destiny that they didnt before. So my Harlem solo album is a very black or Afro-centric record lyrically, even though its the whitest-sounding record on Earth. He laughs. But coupled with [the box set], it really was a way for me to bump my love of pop music and Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance all up against each other. And it all makes sense.
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The aim of this non-interventional study is to evaluate data on quality of life in COPD patients in Germany in a real life medical setting. Evaluation is based on two COPD specific questionnaires to assess the patient`s health status over six months. During the study, socio-demographic data and cost-of-illness data will be recorded. Daxas (tablet) will be administered once daily. The study will provide further data on the safety and tolerability of Daxas.
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The first official day of spring is March 20th, but the effects of warmer weather and brighter days occur all month long. Go outside and hunt for signs of spring as part of your daily Green Hour this month. Here are some "spring things" to look and listen for: budding trees and flowers, spring peepers singing, crocuses, daffodils, newly arriving bird species, nest building, caterpillars, ducks flying overhead, rainy days, worms on the sidewalk, baby animals, people cleaning their yards, forsythia, magnolias, windy days, songbirds singing, blooming fruit trees, butterflies, people not wearing jackets.
What other signs can you find?
Explain to your child why "spring has sprung." You can say that at this time of year, our part of the planet tilts toward the Sun. This makes the day longer and the sunlight stronger. Ask your child how this increase in direct sunlight creates what we call spring. (The temperature grows warmer. Plants begin to grow and dress the outdoors in shades of green. Many animals have babies at this time of year, which means the young can grow up when there's a plentiful food suplly and the weather is less harsh.)
You see spring changes outside. Lots of people feel seasonal changes, too. Ask your child if his or her mood is different in spring. If so, how and why? On a warm, sunny day, ask your child to describe what spring smells like.


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I live in Georgia's newest city, which actually won't be a city for a couple of months yet. But we have to get organized, and so we have to elect a mayor and city council to get the city up and running. Last evening I attended a forum for city council candidates in my district. Much of the conversation focused quite appropriately on the bread and butter of local governance—police services, planning and zoning, parks and recreation, all in the context of promises of good stewardship and fiscal responsibility. The candidates are all thoughtful, decent people, deeply involved in the affairs of the community, coaching youth sports, working on PTAs, serving on the boards of homeowners' associations, and active in their churches. The audience consisted largely of people like them, willing to spend a couple of hours to hear out the candidates who aspire to be their public servants.
Oddly enough, however, the question (and answers) that got the biggest rise out of the audience was one that was at best peripheral to our most pressing concerns. Someone asked how the candidates would respond to an effort to post the Ten Commandments on the walls of our as yet non-existent City Hall. All four candidates said that they would resist such an effort, citing in more or less articulate ways concerns about the establishment of religion and sensitivity to the diversity of our community. Those responses elicited the only spontaneous applause of the evening.
Perhaps I've been blissfully unaware of the hordes of Bible-toting (or rather tablet-toting) theocrats just raring to invade and transform our little slice of, er, heaven. But my neighbors surely think it's important for our elected officials to stand against them. This is symbolic politics at its best (or worst).
Had there been the opportunity for impromptu statements from the floor (I'm really glad there wasn't), I might have explained to my neighbors that the issue was a lot more complicated than they (or the candidates) imagined. I would have cited the relevant Supreme Court decisions, which leave open the possibility that there is no First Amendment objection to posting the Ten Commandments, properly contextualized, on the wall of a public building, especially if the exhibit is donated by private citizens. (I would for the moment set aside my reservations about the contortions required by our current First Amendment jurisprudence.) And I would have wondered about the irony of their objections, given the fact that our meeting was taking place in a church sanctuary—the largest readily available meeting space in the neighborhood—whose appearance had in no way been altered to accommodate this particular event. If they were so worried about sending a message of exclusion, why meet here?
As I said, the question and the answers were all about symbolism. "We" are sensitive and tolerant, scrupulous about not marginalizing anyone. Except for those bigoted Bible-tumpers who live and worship somewhere else. I've got news for them: We're your neighbors too. And our new city bucket list really isn't any different from yours. What a "revelation" that would be.


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IT was somewhat ironic that the 2012 Chard Evening Cricket League enjoyed probably its best weather of the season on its final night.
A good crowd went to the sun-drenched Chard CC for the league cup final between Thorncombe and 3Cs on Friday night and they were able to enjoy an exciting match.
The direction of the game swung from one side to the other, but it was Thorncombe who emerged victorious by 13 runs to clinch the league and cup double.
Thorncombe batted first and reached 108-7 with Joel Seward scoring 32, while there were useful contributions from Gary Warren and Tom Wakeley.
But 108 did not look enough as 3Cs started well in reply with Jake Hayes scoring a quickfire 27.
But they then suffered two somewhat comical runouts and the introduction of man-of-the-match Seward with 3-20 saw the 3Cs all out for 95.
The trophies were presented by Steve Sowden, chief reporter of the Chard and Ilminster News, along with trophies for the league winners and runners-up.
Steve said: "It was an exciting cup final which could have been won by either side. It was only in the latter stages that you began to realise that it was going to be Thorncombe's night.
"I'd also like to offer my congratulations to Terry Sterland on his organisation of the league this year which must have been very trying because of the poor weather."


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- 80 percent of all school-aged students who live in our district attend our schools.
- More than 200 students who live outside of the Stillwater Area Public School District choose to attend our schools.
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Kai Ryssdal: This final note today on a Friday, a perfect chance to step back from the headlines and check in on the other news of the week, courtesy of Rico Gagliano, Brendan Newnam, and the rest of the Marketplace staff.
RICO GAGLIANO: Matt Berger, senior Web producer at Marketplace, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend?
MATT BERGER: Looks like I'm going to be talking about Wenlock and Mandeville, they're the new mascots for the 2012 Olympics in London.
GAGLIANO: I've seen photos of these characters, they look like guys dressed in spandex with eyeballs for faces. They're names are Wenlock and Mandeville?
BERGER: It's teletubbies gone bad is what it is.
GAGLIANO: I just feel like there are so many British symbols that they could use for this, you'd have a bobby throwing a javelin.
BERGER: Some fish and chips.
GAGLIANO: There should be two characters called fish and chips, one could kicking a soccer ball.
BERGER: The other one could be swimming in a giant pool of vinegar.
BRENDAN FRANCIS NEWNAM: Stacey Vanek-Smith, senior reporter for Marketplace, what's your story this weekend?
STACEY VANEK-SMITH: Well, in the Senate they're thinking about capping ATM fees.
NEWNAM: Something I can totally get behind. It would be amazing.
SMITH: I know, right, but not all of the senators understand it because apparently a lot of them don't really know how ATMs work. Senator Ben Nelson says he's never used an ATM machine.
NEWNAM: So these people who are supposed to regulate the banking industry, they can't even get $20 from a cash machine to pay for lunch?
SMITH: Brendan, they don't get cash out for lunch. That's what lobbyists are for.
GAGLIANO: Rob Schmitz, reporter and future China correspondent at Marketplace, what story are you going to be talking about this weekend?
ROB SCHMITZ: I'm going to be talking about a library book borrowed by our first President George Washington, and it was finally returned this week 221 years late.
GAGLIANO: What's the return fees on that?
GAGLIANO: Does somebody have to pay that?
SCHMITZ: Actually not, but the staff at Washington's home in Mt. Vernon, Va., offered to replace the book with another copy of the same edition.
GAGLIANO: So our nation's president would not tell a lie, but he would steal from libraries.
SCHMITZ: Exactly.
GAGLIANO: I think this calls into question the entire character of our nation.
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EPA finds widely used dispersant no more toxic than alternatives
U.S. EPA today released the results of its new tests on federally approved Gulf of Mexico oil dispersants, reporting that the product now used in copious amounts by BP PLC is not a significant endocrine disruptor and is no more acutely toxic than alternative products.
But the data did not appear likely to dispel concerns about the long-term consequences of massive dispersant use that have persisted among marine scientists and toxicologists since the start of the Gulf disaster. A senior EPA official described the results as an affirmation of the agency's strings-attached approach to BP dispersant use, while warning that a complete picture of the chemicals' broad effects requires more testing.
"Let me be clear: This is the first round of data," Paul Anastas, EPA assistant administrator for research and development, told reporters.
Anastas added that "we have additional testing to do" before asking BP to switch from its Corexit 9500 dispersant to another product, partially walking back a previous EPA order that the oil giant identify a less toxic option for use in the Gulf (Greenwire, May 20).
After BP fought that edict, asserting that other dispersants could degrade into a type of hormone-disrupting chemical, EPA began a new effort to compare Corexit with seven other products approved under the government's National Contingency Plan (NCP).
The earliest rounds of tests were performed on two marine species found in the Gulf, the inland silverside and the mysid. EPA used in vitro cells for a separate evaluation of dispersants' potential endocrine-disrupting characteristics.
Corexit ranked as the second-least acutely toxic dispersant in short-term tests on the inland silverside, with another product, JD-2000, emerging as the least toxic option. When the products' effects on the Gulf mysid were considered, Corexit ranked the third-most toxic and JD-2000 also came out orders of magnitude ahead of the field.
In the cellular testing, Corexit was not shown to induce human hormone-disrupting activity. One specific measure of cell health ranked it the second-most toxic dispersant, and another ranked it the fourth-most toxic.
"All the dispersants are roughly equal in toxicity and generally less toxic than oil," Anastas said. Later in his briefing with reporters, Anastas sought to contextualize the complex test information: "In the overall range of exposures, these are very similar as a group."
The newly released tests examine the dispersants alone; EPA's next evaluations are set to compare the acute toxicity of each product when mixed in varying concentrations with Louisiana crude oil, according to Anastas. More endocrine tests are also in progress.
Anastas defended the agency's success in policing the application of Corexit, about 1.4 million gallons of which have been used in the Gulf since the oil leak began. "The decision that EPA and the Coast Guard made to authorize the use of dispersants was a difficult choice, but one suited to this disaster," he said.
Anastas cited statistics showing that BP has complied with a May 26 EPA-Coast Guard order to reduce dispersant use from its previous peak but did not address a separate part of that directive requiring the oil company to avoid surface sprays unless required "in rare cases." Since May 26, BP has applied more than 272,000 gallons of surface dispersant (Greenwire, June 24).
In addition, Anastas did not take issue with a recent Environmental Defense Fund analysis that found there is no maximum limit on toxicity that would prevent a dispersant from being added to the NCP, which governs response to emergency events such as oil spills.
"The scale and magnitude of this event has raised important questions on how these previous regulations may need to be re-examined and revisited," he said.
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While installing Content Services 5.5 HFP1 admin tool DsSatSch.dll fails to register at the end of installtion.
Scheduling feature for bulk process and bulk modify does not work.
The DsSatSch dll looks for a dependency dll in IDM installation directory.
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Hello William, I did not want to be impolite or something :) I am just hunting all issues that prevent people form using pgaccess as what I notice is that many people do not send bugs or requests simply because first of all they can not make it run. In this line it was important to know if you have anything against running PostgreSQL with '-i'. Thank you very much for your reply - it was very helpful and a good feedback. I hope the Unix Domain sockets question will be answered soon. All best, Iavor > -----Original Message----- > From: William West [mailto:wwest(at)csc(dot)com] > Sent: Dienstag, 30. Juli 2002 01:06 > To: Iavor Raytchev > Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org; Preston Lord; pgaccess - > developers > Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] PGACCESS connection failure? > > '-i' works fine for me. I did not use it at first because I > did not know > that pgaccess needed it. > > Was only trying to be helpful to Preston. I have no particular reason > to be disturbed by pgaccess needing TCP/IP ... I just figured that > my TCL/TK did not have any Unix Domain support, and find it > acceptable to enable TCP/IP when needing the services of > pgaccess. > > It sounded like Preston's "BUT ..." could be the same thing I > ran into, needing to configure with '-i' when I did not expect to > need to do that, so I posted what I posted. > > But since you asked ... IS there a way to configure pgaccess > to use Unix Domain sockets?.
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Re "LAPD Chief Charlie Beck defends decision not to fire officer for lying" (April 2):
Los Angeles Police chief Charlie Beck has declined to uphold the firing of the son of a family friend even though he got into an eltercation at a bar, where he pulled a gun on a man and used racial slurs, and later lied about it in an LAPD internal investigation.
The problem here is how can Officer Shaun Hillman be trusted to give an honest accounting of the events in case he is ever involved in a questionable officer-involved shooting. The answer is he can't because he is a known liar. If Beck insists on keeping him on at the police department, he should be given a desk job. This man does not belong out on the streets with a gun.
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If it has to be stopped and you do not have the power to stop it and removing religious leaders is not going to stop the practice, what is your next move? You must have a next move, please tell me what is your next move to stop the practice of child sacrifice? What about punishment of the people who have sacrificed children? I did not ask you that question. Are you going to let these people off for free without any punishement? What is your take on punishing child-killers in our society?
How sick was that (of God)? Not very, it is your perception of events. It is far more sick for people to kill children as a sacrifice to some stone god. Try for yourself judging these child-murders and exercising judgement and justice. Consider how you would react if you heard a child-killer in your own community was given a slap on the hand and told not to do it again and was not punished.
You have lead me to ask more questions. I hope you will give me your answers.
All the best,