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House plan to cut cancer research money keeps moving
The House plan to wipe out $50 million for cancer research programs, including one at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, cleared the budget committee today.
That money comes from a portion of the additional $1 tax on a pack of cigarettes. The legislature passed the extra tax in 2009, with the justificiation that a portion of it would go for cancer research.
Last year Moffitt got $10 million from the program. The James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program and the William G. Bankhead Jr. and David Coley Cancer Research Program got $20 million each.
Now, the $50 million would be used instead to cover the state's Medicaid match under the committee bill led by Rep. Matt Hudson, R-Naples.
The vote was along party lines except for two Republicans on the House budget committee, representatives Bill Proctor and Marti Coley, the widow of David Coley.
House Democratic leader Ron Saunders said using the money for a purpose other than its original intentions justifies the public's disenchantment with government. He said he voted for the 2009 tax only because of the money for cancer research.
"I think this bill is a very good example of why the public should not trust the Florida legislature," he said.
Hudson argued that he had to find the money in a tight budget year and that it "is a relatively small piece of their budget."
Coley said she would keep working with Hudson to improve the bill but she could not vote to move it forward. "I just can't bear it," she said.
Moffitt, which has an overall budget of $770 million, uses that funding for 115 jobs — from biostaticians to researchers and nurses — who work on personalized cancer treatment.
If the bill ends up approved by the legislature, lawmakers would have to pass another bill if they wanted to restore funding in a future year.
It isn't the only state funding that Moffitt is trying to get. Another bill in the works with Tampa sponsors would increase the portion of another pot of cigarette tax revenue that Moffitt receives. The plan is to use that money — an estimated extra $10 million on top of the $5 million Moffitt now gets — to help finance construction of new research and clinic space at its 30-acre campus off Fowler Avenue in Tampa.
Moffitt last year also got about $10.9 million in higher education funding for training medical students and residents. Gov. Rick Scott proposed wiping out all that money. A Senate proposal would cut it in half, and a House plan by about 12 percent.

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Chris Cleave is setting the Gold standard with new novel
Chris Cleave speaks exclusively to Metro and reveals his hands-on approach to writing new novel Gold and how growing up in Africa affected him later on in life.
It was when he found himself 130km from home, in tears, with no idea how to get back, that author Chris Cleave's cynicism regarding the Olympics started to lift.
'I was going to write a novel that followed the money trail, to see who was getting rich,' he explains as we sit in London's Royal Festival Hall, just downriver from Seb Coe's curvaceous stadiums, swollen shopping malls and red, steel-crayon sculptures. 'It was going to be a novel about London. But then I put myself through intensive training on the bike: 20 hours a week. And I understood for the first time what people go through to operate at that level. I thought, if people are trying this hard, there has to be a theatre for them to express that result.'
Cleave, author of the 2008 Costa nominee The Other Hand (set to be made into a film starring Nicole Kidman ), approaches the writing of a novel the way Method actors might approach a part. In order to get inside the minds of his two female protagonists in new novel Gold – both cyclists, best friends and set on competing at London 2012 – Cleave trained so hard he wrecked his immune system and had to go to bed for a year. The experience gave him time to contemplate the way sport throws our obsession with health and decay into high definition.
'Sport is about the opposite of death,' he says. 'All those optimal human beings, at the other end of the scale to the stuff we're scared of: degeneration, entropy, disease. I realised if I wanted to tell a story about health I had to weave in a story about illness. If you can see both opposites, you can see both more clearly.'
Making his readers 'see' is Cleave's modus operandi. He deals in smack-you-over-the-head stories about endurance and suffering. His novels are shaped around blunt ethical questions: the conflict between ambition and maternal love in Gold; the extent to which the chattering classes acknowledge the semi-invisible world of asylum-seekers in The Other Hand.
The plots are propulsive and designed to wring out maximum emotion. Gold switches between the cycling track and the bedroom of a child with leukaemia – Cleave admits he 'auditioned' illnesses to find the one most likely to pull on readers' heartstrings.
'My job as a storyteller is to go to these extreme edges of human experience and report back,' he says. 'There's a school of British fiction that talks about individual lives lived on an intimate scale whereas I want to make reality as entertaining as reality TV.'
Reality came crashing down on Cleave in spectacular fashion in 2005. His first novel, Incendiary, imagined a terrorist attack on Arsenal's Emirates Stadium and was published on July 7, the day four real-life bombs tore through the London transport system, killing 52 people. The book was withdrawn from sale. He fully accepts the decision.
'I'm writing in this contested space, in the hiatus between when newspapers stop examining a story and historians start, and sometimes you have to acknowledge that reality is more important than you are,' he says. He adds with a grin that it was 'stupid' to follow Incendiary with what he thought would be an equally contentious novel in The Other Hand. 'I thought I'd get it in the neck from the Home Office,' he says – The Other Hand is pretty uncompromising in depicting life for asylum-seekers in Britain. 'I always hope my books will be the starting point for a bigger conversation.'
In person, Cleave is so mild-mannered you might mistake him for nervous. He was certainly nervous as a child: he spent his early years in Africa before moving to Hillingdon and suffering culture shock in the playground. 'If you've grown up with hummingbirds and your new friends have grown up with their favourite football team, then it's pretty hard to fit in,' he says.
He now lives in Kingston, Surrey, with his wife and three children but the childhood anxieties remain.
'I've always had that sense of looking from the outside and wanting to describe to myself how the social machine works,' he says almost shyly. 'I'm interested in writing about people because I don't really understand them.'
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ASUNCION, Paraguay - The odds are against Paraguay's president-elect even before he takes office today: Fernando Lugo says his impoverished nation "could go up in flames" within months.
The former Catholic bishop has made history by ending 61 years of authoritarian one-party rule, but his first task is to avoid political chaos and civil unrest, even as elements on the left and right challenge his authority.
Just last week, the sandal-clad Lugo couldn't find fuel for his diesel-powered SUV. Supplies of medicine have run out in public hospitals. And landless peasants who have been seizing private property are threatening a much larger wave of invasions in the hours after Lugo is sworn in before a host of foreign leaders.
Lugo's team suspects that the outgoing government is trying to undermine his presidency even before it begins, by letting critical supplies disappear and provoking confrontations.
"Distribution is deficient; there are absolutely no reserves. They haven't even done public bidding for health supplies. Imagine taking power Aug. 15 and finding no medications or diesel fuel. It is a country that could go up in flames within two or three months. This is why we say there is a kind of conspiracy to leave state institutions nonfunctioning," Lugo told reporters from Argentina and Paraguay's leading newspaper ABC Color after he stopped at an empty gas station.
Incoming interior minister Rafael Filizzola suspects that at least one land invasion was financed by Lugo's right-wing opponents. "There are backward-looking factions within this party who aspire to come back to power early and not democratically," Filizzola said.
Outgoing president Nicanor Duarte promised this week that he "will not sabotage Fernando Lugo nor create a climate of hostility during his term."
But he also criticized Lugo's cabinet choices and insisted that his conservative Colorado Party will continue to be a strong force throughout the country despite losing the presidency.


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Yokozuna Hakuho was all business on Monday, easily racking up his ninth win on the ninth day of the 15-day Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan.
After watching two championship rivals barely stave off defeat in the previous two bouts, Hakuho was in imperial form as he retained his sole lead, one win ahead of ozeki Kisenosato and No. 5 maegashira Ikioi, both at 8-1.
In the day's final match, sekiwake Tochiozan exploited an off-balance charge by struggling new yokozuna Kakuryu to slap him to the surface. Kakuryu fell to 6-3, while Tochiozan collected his sixth win.
Kisenosato won a see-saw match with Yoshikaze (3-6) that raged across every inch of the ring. Although pushed back on the initial charge, Yoshikaze fought back with a ferocity that seemed to take the ozeki by surprise. The komusubi controlled the center of the ring and nearly pinned Kisenosato back on the ring's edge twice only to see him slip away.
The komusubi's full-throttle effort finally took its toll on his energy. Yoshikaze crumpled to the sandy surface but earned a raucous applause for his efforts.
The spirit of upset remained thick in the air and energized No. 5 maegashira Shohozan, who repeatedly had yokozuna Harumafuji on the ropes. But like Kisenosato, Harumafuji (7-2) was able to keep his balance at crucial junctures and walked off a winner.
Hakuho, however, did not give young gun Endo (4-5) enough time to even consider more fireworks. The yokozuna overpowered the No. 4 maegashira on the tachiai and rammed him out of the ring in a tour de force.
Ikioi also remained a win off the pace when the No. 5 maegashira defeated fellow rank-and-filer Aminishiki (5-4).
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For most of his adult life, Friedrich Nietzsche cast himself as the intractable enemy of Christianity. He famously declared the death of God in the late 19th century, and as he slipped into madness at the end of his life, he titled one of his final books "The Antichrist."
Sympathetic readers have given him the benefit of the doubt, attributing his vitriolic attacks to a type of hyperbole – especially since religion, in all its myriad forms, continues to flourish around the globe, more than a century after he died under his sister's care.
What complicates matters even further is how he wrote. His engaging aphorisms intentionally defy systematic analysis, sounding as lyrical as they do philosophical.
And as Giuseppe Fornari shows in his groundbreaking work "A God Torn to Pieces," Nietzsche wanted "to go beyond all ethics and every normative and objective vision of reality." He thus wrote from a normative subjective point of view, using his personal anguish to diagnose the ailments of fin-de-siecle Europe.
To make his case, Fornari, professor of the history of philosophy at Bergamo, Italy, thrusts us into the complex, deceptive and ultimately dispiriting world of Nietzsche's psyche: his lifelong crisis to combat his rivals (writer David Strauss, operatic composer Richard Wagner, his absent father) – a lifelong crisis to reconcile what he knew he was in himself and what he yearned to become.
This crisis, Fornari tells us, was "not psychological or theatrical, but religious." And religion for Nietzsche meant one thing only: the tension between "the god that he invokes more than any other, Dionysus, and the god that he detests more than any other, the biblical God, especially the God of the Gospels."
We can see from just this sliver of Fornari's provocative study that he relies on a method that many American scholars would balk at: reading into a thinker's writings his unwitting state of mind, interpreting psychologically what may not always be present on the page.
Indeed, the process that Fornari attributes to Nietzsche has to be unconscious to be effective.
That Nietzsche ended his life in madness is well documented. The cause remains hotly debated, however, alternating between the debilitating effects of syphilis, which he supposedly contracted as a young man, and a more active breakdown from his vision of a godless Europe headed toward the gulags and concentration camps of the 20th century.
Fornari offers a third alternative: that Nietzsche's insanity was a "psychic suicide," a spiritual self-destruction. Because he could not become the god he wanted, Dionysus, and because he could not destroy the god he detested, the biblical Creator, he sacrificed himself as their victim, his mind torn to pieces.
What lends Fornari's analysis its compelling force is that it constitutes a nearly textbook example of Rene Girard's theory of mimetic rivalry, which posits sacrificial violence as the origin of human culture, and Christianity as the antithesis of such violence.
In the end, "A God Torn to Pieces" presents a fascinating, original interpretation of one of the most misunderstood thinkers in the history of philosophy.
Fornari's book may be overwritten for American audiences, and his psychologizing may border on the ad hominen at times, but there is still a persuasiveness to his case: the tragic necessity of Nietzsche's death, and the intriguing possibility that he sought to be forgiven in the midst of his madness.


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New Evidence That Flight 370 Was Diverted To US Military Base
US Navy Cargo Ship Only Used To Carry People Or Bodies
Further evidence has emerged which may support the theory that Malaysian jetliner MH370 and its 239 missing passengers and crew were taken to the US military base of Diego Garcia, located to the south of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean.
On 31 March 2014, the US Navy was looking to obtain the services of 'one dry cargo vessel in support of operations between Singapore and Diego Garcia', according to the Fed Biz Opps website, which could be used to transport people or dead bodies.
The site adds that the US Navy's Military Sealift Command is looking for -- or 'soliciting' -- contractual tenders for 'Transportation, Travel, & Relocation services' under the title of 'Diego Garcia Re-supply'.
In normal circumstances, this would not be unusual. However, in the light of other information that has recently emerged indicating that flight 370 may have been somehow diverted to the US airbase there, it may have more sinister overtones.
As one anonymous commentator put it:
"OK, this is pretty creepy. Normally, Diego Garcia calling for an empty container ship to move ammo, or whatever, wouldn't be too alarming. But notice the classification of the request. [V. Transportation, Travel, & Relocation services'] I did some time in the Navy. The wording of the classification makes it sound like they will be transporting people."
For 'people', we could also read dead bodies. The contract has almost certainly been arranged at short notice as many of the details are 'TBD' -- 'to be decided':
Contract Award and Solicitation Number: TBD
Contract Award Dollar Amount: TBD
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Contract Award Date: TBD
Contractor: TBD
Adding to suspicions is the fact that a cargo ship, which may have taken up the contract -- the Ocean Shield -- left Perth harbour, Australia on the date of the request, 31 March 2014, but has since failed to update its position as would be expected.
Alternative researchers have focussed on the US's secretive airbase as the final location of flight 370, which went missing on 7th March without trace, since Neon Nettle reported that the Kremlin believed that the flight had been captured and diverted to the US base in the Indian Ocean.
This has been supported by new information which emerged in recent days. According to freelance journalist Jim Stone, one of the American passengers, Phillip Wood, a technical storage executive at IBM, sequestered his iPhone 5 in his anus and took a photo, after the Boeing 777 was hijacked by military personnel while on route to China.
The authenticity of any new information could easily be checked if the US mainstream media reported on them and provoked the US government and army into disclosing any potential information they hold about the missing flight.


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In the last couple of weeks I have been really thinking hard on getting a mommy make over. I am a mother of 6 and I want my body back. I am 138 lbs, height 5 '7 my figure looks great , but my boobs and tummy looks like a very age old woman, I am 32. My husband is very old fashion and says that he hates the ideal and if I get it we are over. He said that I don't care about his feeling towards the surgery and I should not get it. Anytime the conversation comes up we argue over it or he just says nothing. I am trying to gradually get him to understand, that this what I want and it's not about want just make him happy. He says he has no problem with how I look, but I just want to look my best ! I have my mind already set that this is what I want and going to get. Have anyone gone threw this type of dilemma if so what was the out come?


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I just got my ND tickets, and I am starting to look at the Pacers now. Have TPTB of PD decided on a date yet for the forum gathering?
If not, any idea what the time frame would be so I can see what games I might want to catch while I am making my trip?


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Never has it been more important than now to support K–12 education.
Those who fail to graduate, we're told, will be lost in the new normal years ahead, where employers will be seeking high school graduates with at least one year of post-high school education.
Experts are telling us that by the year 2018, 78 percent of all jobs in Minnesota will require post-high-school education.
During Gov. Mark Dayton's summit conference on jobs last week, one of the key messages is there are jobs available but there is a shortage of people with the correct skills to fill those positions.
Tom Gillapsy, state demographer, said this state graduates 75 percent of its students compared to 98 percent in the past. Minnesota is dead last in rate of graduations for African Americans.
He said already there is a huge difference in skills needed for the next four years.
All of this is a backdrop for the Tuesday, Nov. 8 elections across Minnesota when voters will be making critical decisions for the students in their communities. Every student should have the same opportunity for a quality education as every other student in the state.
This is not the case in Minnesota, where students in the "have" communities have an advantage over students in the "have-not" communities.
A student's opportunity for having equal educational opportunities should not depend upon where he or she lives.
For example, in the seven-county Twin Cities metro area, the range in revenues for the average student goes from $7,847 per pupil to $13,503, with the average at $10,546.
One reason for this inequity is that many school districts have these extra operating levies because their residents voted for them. Their students have more revenue which gives them the potential for a higher quality education.
This year the Minnesota Legislature has granted $5,174 in state basic aid per pupil unit. That, however, does not mean that this is the revenue per student in reality, primarily because most school districts have approved their operating levies which gives more money per pupil.
The Legislature in its wisdom gives more state aid per student where there is a determination of high poverty, mainly in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
In addition, school districts get unequal federal aid, mainly for special education, and from local property taxes.
The bottom line is there is no greater community obligation than providing the best education for their students. — Don Heinzman, ECM Publishers
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New lenses for Afi, does that mean they are still making/supporting the bodies? Does anyone use the Rollei 6008AF?
Yes and yes, I use the 6008AF. Here's a sample of the bokeh possible with that system:
Graham,Which lens?
Graham, Nice image.Is there anything about the 6008AF that bothers you? It seems like a very well designed system and I've heard people rave about it. It's features and ergonomics seem pretty amazing. Is there anything about the system that is a problem for you?
why does the 1/125 flash sync bother you so muchif you can afford the top back, you should be able to afford the top flash/strobe (Broncolor, etc)
some people liked the Rollei's 3 Blades aperture, again its a matter of preference
The flash equipment is not the issue - if you want to use any flash whatsoever in a photo and you are restricted to 1/125 then clearly some shots are not going to be possible. I was shooting at 1/500 a lot yesterday in the sun, just to get the correct exposure at in bright sun at f2-f2.8. If I wanted to add any flash to that image, it would not have been possible with a camera with 1/125 flash sync.
Just to add a bit to your post and correct one thing. Definitely bokeh is subjective and each will have their own preference. IMHO the leica and zeiss rendering of hard edges as doublets really makes the image a photo visually. Meaning the viewer knows its a photo and not an illusion just like a tattoo on a female model forces the viewer to read the time as current. That's why I prefer the schneider (and the zeiss 110/2 that Graham posted a shot from which does a lot less of it than other zeiss). And as far as I know, the only rollei lenses with 3 blade apertures were for 35mm format.
I kinda get your pointbut you can step down, lower the ISO to 50or use a ND filter to retain the aperture (thats when the very strong flash comes in)
why does the 1/125 flash sync bother you so muchif you can afford the top back, you should be able to afford the top flash/strobe (Broncolor, etc)with strong enough flash, 1/125 and 1/500 flash sync is a very minor difference (not that I found 1/800 any useful on my Hass H3)if you get the mamiya and ignore their lens entirely, then you might as well skip that system and think of something elseif flash sync means so much to you, get the Hass H, it isnt really THAT bad, I am a big bokeh guy but I still use itI also believe the AFi is good overall, but still, if you are spending that much money, I rather get a system with reliable support and future
Quote from: DeeJay on April 07, 2011, 09:13:48 AMNew lenses for Afi? does that mean they are still making/supporting the bodies? Does anyone use the Rollei 6008AF?Yes and yes, I use the 6008AF. Here's a sample of the bokeh possible with that system:
New lenses for Afi? does that mean they are still making/supporting the bodies? Does anyone use the Rollei 6008AF?
Thanks for all your input. I'm considering an IQ180 so wanting to review systems. Find the Phamiya particularly uninspiring and I'm not a major fan of their lenses. ove the Contax but the 125th second flash sync is a killer. Don't like the H Series. Have been using a V System very happily with a P65 but as others have said it has an aperture that isn't round so thought I'd investigate other options. I have heard wonders about Rollei.
As a digital solution, yes. The flash sync cable from camera body to digital back is a pain. And the lack of EXIF, etc. The original battery system is not good either but can easily be upgraded (see http://www.graham-mitchell.com/blog/?p=72 ). Then there's the issue of having nowhere to rent lenses or accessories for the system, so you need to own everything. It's not very weather-proof either. In a perfect world there would be just one rectilinear lens wider than the excellent 40mm. (Maybe the long talked-about 35mm will make it to production some day.)Apart from that, I love the fast and sharp lenses with really solid smooth manual focus operation, extension rings, viewfinder options, rotating back between portrait and landscape rather than rotating camera, up to 1/1000th flash sync, remote control with mirror release
Yes and yes, I use the 6008AF. Here's a sample of the bokeh possible with that system:Slight clarification--it is not clear whether new bodies are being made or simply sold from existing stock. A small point until/unless stock runs out--because it is not clear whether DHW retains the rights to continue manufacturing the body or not. My feeling is that none of this really matters, but I wanted you to be aware so you would be able to decide for yourself.With that being said, new lenses are being developed and made for the system and the bodies and lenses are indeed still supported.Interesting, as I arrived at exactly the same conclusions regarding the Phamiya system, the H, the V and the Contax. I liked the V system so much I ended up on it twice (second time with a 203FE for faster glass and CFV-39 to eliminate the sync cable). But I do tend to use longer lenses and natural (continuous) light, and shutter vibration from focal-plane shutter cameras turned out to be problematic. This is the main reason why I ended up leaving the Contax and the 203FE. In your case, it sounds like you may be using strobe, so this wouldn't be an issue.Between the two (V and Contax), I'd recommend the Contax (no sync cable, smoother bokeh, AF, wider wide angle), plus an adapter for the V lenses you can't live without (eg. 110/2), assuming you can live with the slow flash sync, and aren't a waist-level finder shooter shooting in portrait orientation.Overall, though, it does seem that a Rollei system would be best suited to cover your needs, both for bokeh and sync speed.Additional info: IQ180 is not available in any Rollei mount -- If you wanted 80MP in Rollei, you would have to pick up an Aptus-II 12 (and an AFi/Hy6--the Aptus is not available in 6008 mount).
if you are not worrying about costabsolute best bokeh is if you get a MF camera with focal shutter planethen use Movie lensesI used to do that with Mamiya, can no linger do with my Hass and I miss that bokehthe next best thing should be the Contax, Rollei, and Hass V systemMamiya is harsh even though there is some fast lens (fast doesnt always mean good bokeh)
What is interesting (to me, anyhow) about this thread is that the discussion has largely centred around MF camera systems that are now defunct (Hasselblad V-System, Contax 645, Rollei 6000), or of uncertain status (the HY6). Hardly anyone has said that, gosh, the Blad HC lenses are fabulous or that the Phase/Mamiya glass is brilliant. Well, perhaps some of them are brilliant, but nobody has said so. I know that it is no use bewailing the past and what might have happened, but it seems to be the very height of irony that we have the most sophisticated digital capture devices ever made (albeit very expensive) with the new 60 and 80 MP backs, but we now have only two remaining current MF camera systems to mount them on. One of which (the Phase) does not qualify as a system at all in terms of finders etc, and the other, the H-System, is closed. So that is hardly a system, either, because you can only use one film.John
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Why does the Republican minority hate the Constitution?
It's a fair question and the answer is actually rather simple. The Constitution is a prescriptive and proscriptive document that's designed to specify the obligations and responsibilities of government and to limit the exercise of power. As such, the Constitution is in conflict with the interests of individuals, who currently identify themselves as Republicans, to enjoy the exercise of authority and to reject the obligations and responsibilities on which that authority is based. You could call them the ultimate "free lunch" cohort. That their sense of self-importance seems to sprout out of their heritage of a privileged social status is probably not a coincidence, either. Indeed, social status that's based on merit and achievement is anathema to their interest, acquired rather than inherent.
On Immigration "Reform"
Declaring a person legal or illegal is not very different from categorizing some people as non-persons or 3/5 of one. In other words, the United States has a long history of making arbitrary distinctions that violate the principles of the Constitution.
Being humor deficient
doesn't mean I don't appreciate it. If I'm not mistaken, this actually comes out of Florida.
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The inability to accurately track what happens before and after results in illogical thought–a condition that's particularly bothersome in the age of the computational accuracy. Last Sunday's examples:
****** Bush inherited 9/11 from Clinton (Mary Matalin)
****** Since the taking office, Pres. Obama has refused to work with Republicans (Newt Gingrich)
****** Republicans have been right to oppose Pres. Obama, but they have been bipartisan anyway (William Kristol), though every single one of them opposes health care (Mitch McConnell)
****** Politically, health care reform is going to be the best thing the GOP could have dreamed of (Matthew Dowd)
****** Republicans need to have a positive alternative vision (Newt Gingrich) and should run on repealing health care reform (Newt Gingrich)
****** The health care reform bill is a monstrosity that we Republicans tried to kill (McConnell) but I won't say whether we'll run on repealing it (McConnell)
****** Health care reform is unconstitutional (DeMint) but I won't commit to filing a lawsuit against it if it passes (DeMint)
The powerful versus the powerless
The framers of the United States Constitution seem to have had a more realistic conception of where power lies and whence serious injury is likely to issue than do many contemporary political leaders and thinkers. That is, the framers of the Constitution were obviously aware, a perception with which I concur, that mayhem is more likely to issue from organized groups and associations than from persons acting alone. And that's why the powers of public bodies or political subdivisions were to be limited from the outset–i.e. before any action is undertaken–rather than waiting until after an injury has been perpetrated or occurred, as the criminal law demands.
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There was no content in this post for yesterday because in looking up the "airpower summary" for December 25 it turned out I had mistaken the bombing of 2008 for 2009. Either the air war has lessened or the reporting has gotten lax, after having been relocated several times. I hope it's the former.
Of Deprivators and Democrats
While having more than two political parties–i.e. groups with enough members and support to actually elect public officials–might be a good thing, the designation of Republicans and Democrats as supporters of different governing strategies is misleading. Other than having a different linguistic heritage (Republic = Roman; Democracy = Greek), the meaning of the words is essentially the same–i.e. the affairs of the public or deme, a grouping of individuals. Which, at a minimum, suggests that the practice of collapsing and encapsulating the public interest into the will of a single ruling individual, as the proponents of a unitary executive aim to insure, is a contradiction of what's being claimed.
Republican power fix
Republicans are for control. Period. But, since they don't know what self-control is and fear it might hurt, they aim to put the hurt on someone else first.
The object of control is power and power, to be felt, has to hurt. It's consistent with their inability to distinguish between cause and effect, for Republicans to think that inflicting hurt is a sign that they're in control.


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Diab performed with the Lebanese artist Melissa and the tickets were divided into four categories the highest at 500, the second at 300, the third at 200 and the last at 100 American dollars.
Diab performed for two hours and was accompanied by a group of 16 musicians. The same celebration also included various dancing performances and musical performances by European groups.
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|Within the last couple of years, the competence centre for e-learning and multimedia at the Freie Universität Berlin (CeDiS) established a manufacture like production process for e-learning content, which is primarily targeted to large projects, i.e. projects with several authors and an arbitrary volume of content to produce. The most important cornerstones of the production process are an XML document format and an authoring tool for this document format. Unfortunately both were designed only to meet the requirements of two nation-wide projects, which were lead-managed by CeDiS.The work described in this paper is dedicated to the generalization of that manufacture like production process, especially the development of an adaptable XML document format for e-learning contents and the corresponding editor. The document format SCDL (Sharable Content Description Language) we specified as XML Schema, is a general document format for modular e-learning content. Besides common features like multimedia integration, it provides a mechanism for deriving project specific document formats from the general format by restriction and not by extension. This mechanism shall prevent that software solutions have to be adapted for any derived document format. Furthermore it fosters the possibilities of re-using and exchanging content.Based on Microsoft InfoPath we are developing an authoring tool for the SCDL document format. The currently available prototype already provides a comfortable user interface for the authors, which shows a structural, semi-WYSIWYG view of the document. The features implemented so far are sufficient for simple applications, but important components like mathematical formulas and special media elements are still to add.
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A very pleasant Manchester eaterie - Ikan has a modern feel, wooden floors and industrial pipework décor, and a bathtub in the middle with goldfish in it. (makes a change from a tank containing the poor lobsters that are going to end up as someone's dinner!) In the evening, twinkling lights in the windows and candlelight help to make it feel like a place for an intimate dinner for two. Incidentally, the name is pronounced eekan, or that's how they said the name when I rang to make my booking. It's at the UMIST end of Sackville Street, tucked away above the Spar there. The Thai menu offers a different range from some of the Oriental restaurants I have been used to. We chose seafood tempura (lightly battered prawns, kalamari, and vegetables), and prawncakes, for starters. Then sea bass, which was served whole with a delicious nutty topping, and prawns and cashews - all very good. There is a reasonable selection of vegetarian dishes, with, for example, tofu stir fries. I love the names of some of the dishes - Geo grab wontons sounded intriguing - maybe I'll try those next time. It can be a bit pricey if you go for the a la carte, as we did. But there's a 'happy hour', which is very attractive, and at reasonable times as well (between 6.00 and 8.00 pm early in the week), where a 3 course meal is £7.90. You wouldn't be able to have things like the sea bass, but the choices looked very good, so you could probably avoid having to pay the a la carte prices. There's also an "all-you-can-eat" lunchtime buffet, which runs between 12.00 and 2.30, and costs a mere £5.50. There are dozens of Chinese and Thai restaurants in Manchester offering this kind of deal, but I'd say this is as good as any. It would have been better if the dishes had been served on one of those hotplates, that you often get in Chinese and Indian restaurants, as it would keep the food warm for longer. <
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class CCmdTarget : public CObject
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Key framework classes derived from CCmdTarget include CView, CWinApp, CDocument, CWnd, and CFrameWnd. If you intend for a new class to handle messages, derive the class from one of these CCmdTarget-derived classes. You will rarely derive a class from CCmdTarget directly.
For an overview of command targets and OnCmdMsg routing, see Command Targets, Command Routing, and Mapping Messages.
CCmdTarget includes member functions that handle the display of an hourglass cursor. Display the hourglass cursor when you expect a command to take a noticeable time interval to execute.
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"I think Europe proved its capacity for action on a major issue, at the same time working to protect euro stability and demonstrating solidarity towards a country in difficulty," Merkel told reporters as she arrived for the second and last day of an EU summit in Brussels.
"For all of us it is important that our common currency... remains stable and that's why yesterday was important for the euro," said Merkel, who helped broker the deal with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
EU leaders agreed late Thursday, after weeks of negotiations, to come to the aid of Greece with an unprecedented offer of bilateral national loans coupled with help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The deal marked the first time the IMF, the international lender of last resort, has been pulled in to rescue a eurozone nation since the common currency came into being in 1999.
The euro rose slightly early Friday following the EU deal, pulling away from previous 10-month lows against the dollar. The euro was at $1.3339 in early London deals, up from $1.3277 in New York late on Thursday.
The German press on Friday hailed Merkel for winning over other EU leaders to her position on Greece, but said that the victory left behind an unpleasant aftertaste.
"Angela Merkel triumphs, the eurogroup has accepted an emergency plan for Greece on her conditions," Der Spiegel magazine said on its website. Although she has played hardball in Brussels before, "she was always ready to compromise before. But this time she did not bend to the others, she even hardened her position," the weekly said.
"But the price is high: for her EU partners, 'Miss Europa' has turned into 'Frau Nein'. We are threatened by huge damage to our image."
The Handelsblatt business daily said that Merkel's "verve" was reminiscent of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but that she had scored a "bitter victory."
Calling her the "iron chancellor" - as Germany's no-nonsense first Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century was also known - the paper said Merkel won "but she had to break a lot of china doing so."
There is now "little hope" that Merkel will be able to persuade other leaders to adopt tougher checks on eurozone countries' deficits or that chronic fiscal sinners can be expelled from the 16-nation club, Handelsblatt said.
The Financial Times Deutschland agreed, calling the EU rulebook "obsolete" and saying that changes are so important "that they cannot be buried in a working group."
"The compromise means the Greek patient is out of danger for the time being," the FTD said. "But the undeniable result is that someone else is now in intensive care: the currency union as a whole."
The Frankfurter Rundschau, meanwhile, said that Merkel's "biggest mistake" had been to listen to people "who never liked the euro" and political opinion polls.
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Monday, Aug. 26, 2013 | 11:22 a.m.
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The state is asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to hold its potential hearings about the licensing of Yucca Mountain as a high level nuclear dump in Las Vegas.
The state Attorney General's Office and the Agency for Nuclear Projects submitted their request Friday to the regulatory commission, which has been ordered by a federal appeals court to resume hearings.
"The state is affected by this proposal and the hearings should be in Las Vegas," rather than in Rockville, Md., where the federal agency is located, Senior Deputy Attorney General Marta Adams said.
She said the previously abortive hearings were conducted in Las Vegas, where the regulatory commission had set up an office.
The state asks in its petition that the same panel of three administrative judges hold the hearings rather than a new group being appointed. Adams said the state "doesn't want to be educating a new bunch."
This panel will make a recommendation to the full regulatory commission.
In its petition, the state also asks the regulatory commission to "reconstruct the electronic database" that contains the documents of all parties in the suit. Adams said that will be expensive for the nuclear commission, but it will give the opponents and proponents of the nuclear dump a chance to see all the documents filed in the proceedings.
Adams said a ruling by the federal commission on the petition is not expected until October or later.
A decision has not yet been made about whether to ask for reconsideration of the 2-1 appeals court decision to resume hearings or to request that the full U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., hear the case.
The deadline to make the request to the federal court is Sept. 27.
In the appeals court case, the court ruled that the commission had violated federal law by not continuing the hearings on the licensing of Yucca Mountain. The commission has $11 million left to conduct the sessions, but the cost is estimated to be $99 million or higher.
The states of South Carolina and Washington, which filed the suit, have nuclear power plants, and high-level waste is piling up in those locations.


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I bought this dress based on the reviews and the awesome price. I must admit, I am pleasantly surprised. I look forward to wearing it this fall! Very nice fabric and style! Thank you Spense...please keep bringing us more of your wonderful dresses!
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I bought this dress in a medium. I normally wear a small to medium, so it runs a bit small. However, it is so soft, and easy to wear! The color is very rich. Easy care, just wash and hang to dry, which I love, you don't even have to iron if you smooth it out while it is drying. The only con, is that the belt is very small for where it hits you on the body. I just changed the belt to a black skinny belt I already had, and it was fine. Again, lots of compliments on this one. Love it!
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Kyle Wood (So, LHP) vs. ISU's Will Headean (So, LHP)
Weather Forecast for Normal, Ill.
Tuesday: 61 degrees, 60 percent chance of rain
Wednesday: 52 degrees, 30 percent chance of rain
Series History
All-Time: Purdue leads 16-14
All-Time in Normal: Tied 7-7
Purdue Under Doug Schreiber vs. ISU: Purdue leads 9-7 (Since 1999)
Last Meeting: Purdue 3, Illinois State 2 (April 2012 in Normal)
Last Win by the Home Team: Purdue 5, Illinois State 4 (April 2008 in West Lafayette)
First Meeting: Purdue 25, Illinois State 0 (1946 in West Lafayette)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue baseball begins its seven-game road stretch Tuesday with a midweek date at Illinois State, its final nonconference road game of the season.
First pitch at Duffy Bass Field in Normal, Ill., is set for 7 p.m. ET. With rain in the forecast for Tuesday, there's a chance the game could be moved to Wednesday at the same time.
The road team has won each of the last six Purdue-Illinois State games dating back to 2009. Last year's game in West Lafayette was rained out and not rescheduled. The Boilermakers' 5-4 victory at Lambert Field in April 2008 marked the last time the home team won.
Purdue (11-29) has compiled a 3-5 record against teams from Illinois this season while playing games in Carbondale, Champaign and Chicago. The Redbirds (29-12) have split a pair of meetings with common opponents Butler and Illinois and swept a three-game home series against common opponent Southern Illinois this past weekend. All three games vs. SIU were decided by one run and the first two games went to extra innings.
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Thanks to a two-run homer from Kevin Plawecki and some quality pitching, No. 13 Purdue baseball found a way to win in a game in which it committed three errors and grounded into five double plays, holding on to defeat Illinois State, 3-2, Tuesday afternoon.
Illinois State enters the week riding a season-best seven-game winning streak, but two of the seven wins have come against non-Division I opponents. Four of ISU's 29 total wins have been against foes from the lower divisions and don't count towards the RPI. The Redbirds have been good at home this year though, winning nine of their 11 games at Duffy Bass Field. New Missouri Valley Conference foe Dallas Baptist is the only road team to win in Normal, taking two-of-three the first weekend of April.
With Illinois State expected to start left-hander Will Headean on the mound it will mark the 11th time in the last 13 games that the Boilers have faced a southpaw. The sophomore has struck out 42 in 34 1/3 innings while surrendering only 27 hits.
Kyle Wood is one of the 12 Illinois natives on Purdue's roster, all hailing from the Chicagoland area. Wood is slated to make his first start on the mound since the finale of the Rice series Feb. 23. He has made three relief appearances over the last 25 games, working four innings of one-run ball. At the plate, the lefty was a team-best 5-for-12 with a sacrifice bunt, a hit by pitch and no strikeouts in the Ohio State series. He delivered the walk-off single in Friday's 13-inning victory and had three hits Sunday. Wood has reached base safely in the last 21 games in which he has batted.
Led by power hitter Paul DeJong (.380, 27 XBH, 8 HR, 39 RBI) and the speedy Sean Beesley (27-of-36 on stolen bases), Illinois State is one of four Missouri Valley teams with a strong record that has put itself in a position for an at-large NCAA Tournament berth. Evansville (28-14), Illinois State (29-12), Indiana State (29-13) and Dallas Baptist (28-15) all continue to chase the regular-season league title. Assuming one of those four wins the MVC Tournament, one or two others are likely to be in the discussion for at-large bids to Regionals.
As a 2.93 team ERA suggests, pitching has really been ISU's strength for much of the season. Over the last 11 games the Redbirds have not allowed more than three runs in a contest.
Catchers Sean McHugh and Mike Hollenbeck are the only actives players that saw action in the last Purdue-ISU game, a 3-2 victory for the Boilers in April 2012. McHugh is the only Boilermaker that has started all 40 games this season, extending his consecutive games started streak to 61 dating back to April 2013.
Purdue resumes its storied rivalry with No. 11 Indiana this weekend in Bloomington. The weekend series marks the first time the Boilermakers and Hoosiers have met in the regular season since May 2011. Purdue has won seven straight against IU dating back to 2010 and 11 of the last 14 going back to the 2008 Big Ten Tournament.


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Chapel Series: Divine Imagination and God's Story of Redemption
Trinity CommunicationsNovember 09, 2012
Throughout the chapel sessions of this academic year, undergraduate students will be engaging with the topic of the Divine Imagination. Each chapel message is centered on a specific image as the speaker addresses a biblical passage or passages in which the image is found.
University Chaplain Scott Samuelson said the idea for this series came out of a desire to engage biblical truths by looking deeper at the rich images of faith found throughout God's story.
"I love the story of how God has created, loves, and is redeeming us and this world. It's in the context of this story that faith makes sense," Samuelson said.
The speakers for this series include many members of Trinity's campus community: Carolyn Williford, Tony Beckham, Katherine Knitt, William Washington, Laurie Matthias, Graham Aitken, and others. Including members of Trinity's community was intentional, according to Samuelson, so that students would get to know them in deeper and more intimate ways through the sharing of images from Scripture.
"Ultimately, we want students to encounter Scripture and create space for the Spirit to work through Scripture to affect transformation in our lives. That is paramount. The image not only leads us into the story as found in Scripture, but it often lends itself to the sharing of our own stories and the unique ways in which the power of that image has shown up in our lives," he said.
Samuelson went on to describe two main goals for the Divine Imagination series, with the first being to immerse the campus community in the images of God's stories in such a way that aspects of God's character are seen for the first time or on a deeper level. Samuelson also hopes the series will engage the imagination of each student so that they might open Scripture with fresh eyes and talk about the ways in which they are part of God's story with creativity and authenticity.
Life Together Groups (LTG) are also using the Divine Imagination as a curriculum this year, and the majority of Monday chapels are centered on this series. Students have the option to choose how they would prefer to engage Monday's image, either through preaching or discussion in the context of an LTG.
"In my experience, not only do I need to be challenged by good preaching, but I need space to wrestle with topics alongside other believers with whom I trust," Samuelson said.
While Samuelson has received encouraging feedback about the series opening up areas of faith and aspects of God's character that were neglected, students have also expressed a difficulty in building on the broad images in LTG from week to week. Samuelson said that feedback has been helpful, and he hopes over the entire academic year this series will paint a rich picture of God's character and the life of faith. This series will hopefully also bring the role of art in the church into conversation.
"We'd love for this series to whet our appetites for the role the arts can play in leading us into truth, giving expression to our experiences, thoughts, and feelings, and telling God's story in ways that words sometimes cannot. Our hope is to use images and art to come alongside our speakers as they explore the themes of the Divine Imagination. We've done this in some small ways but could do better," Samuelson said.
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) and Trinity Graduate School (TGS) students have been engaging with God's Story of Redemption series in their chapel services, studying God's story of salvation in human history and through individual stories.
Samuelson said while working the Chapel Advisory Committee, they found that many pastors are hesitant to preach theology in a focused and intentional way through a series.
"Perhaps [they were] thinking that such a series would be dry and more lecture than preaching. Yet our conviction was that the preaching of a theology rooted in Scripture focuses the eyes of the believer upon God, directs the work of our hands, and refreshes our souls," Samuelson said.
The series covers the breadth of the biblical story, such creation, fall, covenant, law, kingdom, incarnation, Christ's ministry, life in the Spirit, the church, and renewal of creation. Samuelson said they used the TEDS Introduction to Biblical Theology course to shape the series, with each theme rooted in a biblical passage.
Samuelson hopes the series demonstrates a preaching of theological themes in life-giving and pastoral ways, that are rooted in the Bible, consistent with expository preaching and reveal more about God and his character.
"Another goal is that our life together might be shaped by a common story, God's story of redemption, that transcends our differences and unites us as the family of God," Samuelson said.
Students have given positive feedback about the series thus far.
"Our preachers for the series have been especially pastoral in their approaches, unpacking the significance of each theological theme in the context of our desire to live faithfully for Christ," Samuelson said.


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Hammers and Saints share spoils
Southampton came from behind to rescue a 1-1 draw at 10-man West Ham and prevent Sam Allardyce's side pulling clear at the top of the Championship.
Jos Hooiveld scored a 75th-minute equaliser at Upton Park to keep the visitors just one point behind their opponents. West Ham played with 10 men since the 18th minute when Matt Taylor was dismissed for a clash with Billy Sharp after the Saints striker had conceded a penalty with a foul on Mark Noble.
Noble himself then dispatched the spot-kick low into the net, but the Hammers could not held on as the visitors eventually made the extra man count.
Cardiff beat Peterborough 3-1 in the Welsh capital to go third and move to within three points of Southampton, while Blackpool won 3-1 at relegation-threatened Doncaster to sit one place and one point further back.
Cardiff scored three times in seven first half minutes to kill off Posh before the break. Peter Whittingham fired home in the first in the 34th minute, Rudy Gestede added a second and Haris Vuckic, on loan from Newcastle, netted his first for the club to make it three. Paul Taylor pulled one back at the death for the visitors, but it was far too little too late.
Blackpool climbed into fourth after Gary Taylor-Fletcher scored twice in the first half against Doncaster to set Ian Holloway's side on their way to a 3-1 win before El-Hadji Diouf gave the hosts hope from the penalty spot two minutes before the break.
But Nouha Dicko sealed the points with a third in the 72nd minute as Rovers dropped to the foot of the table.
Birmingham dropped to fifth as they were held to a goalless draw at home to Hull.
Reading replaced Hull in the final play-off place with a 1-0 win at Derby, Noel Hunt on target just after the hour mark.
Middlesbrough boosted their top-six hopes with a win at home to struggling Nottingham Forest.
Marvin Emnes put the hosts in front on the stroke of half-time and Lukas Jutkiewicz doubled their lead a minute after the break. Substitute Joel Lynch halved the deficit, but the visitors could not find an unlikely equaliser.
David Nugent scored twice, but Leicester still went down 3-2 at Watford. The former England international netted in the 11th and 18th minutes to turn the game on its head after Adrian Mariappa's early opener.
But the Foxes were pegged back by Sean Murray's leveller just after the half-hour mark and Craig Forsyth won it for the hosts 10 minutes from time.
Cash-strapped Portsmouth had little relief from their off-field problems as they were beaten 1-0 by Ipswich at Fratton Park. Michael Chopra's early goal sunk the crisis-hit club.
Leeds and Brighton slipped further out of the play-off picture with disappointing results.
Managerless Leeds conceded an injury-time winner as they went down 2-1 at Coventry. Gary McSheffrey scored twice from the spot either side of a Ross McCormack equaliser as Coventry moved off the bottom to within six points of safety.
Brighton needed an 88th-minute leveller from Kazenga LuaLua two minutes after he came on to draw 2-2 at home to Millwall. Andy Keogh and Liam Feeney had twice put the Lions ahead either side of a first Brighton equaliser from Sam Vokes.
Brett Pitman scored twice, including a 90th-minute equaliser, as Bristol City came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 at home to Crystal Palace. Wilfried Zaha and Darren Ambrose with a penalty had put Palace in control.
Elsewhere, Burnley beat Barnsley 2-0 thanks to goals from Jay Rodriguez and Charlie Austin.
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District considers clinic contract with Community Hospital
School District 51 and Community Hospital are a final contract and School Board approval away from a partnership that would create an employee clinic for people insured through the district.
The district, which is self-insured, decided to explore an employee clinic after medical insurance claim costs for the nearly 3,200 people the district insures increased 19 percent last school year compared to the prior school year. At the same time, the number of visits people insured through the district made to physicians' offices declined 30.6 percent.
District 51 Executive Director of Support Services Melissa Callahan DeVita said the district requested proposals for employee clinic scenarios from health care providers this fall to see if there was a way to make it more affordable for people to visit the doctor. She told the School Board during a presentation Tuesday night she suspects employees are seeking medical attention less frequently because the district increased premiums and deductibles this year to help cover the increased cost of claims.
If that pattern continues, DeVita said, she worries premiums and deductibles will only increase more to pay for higher claims as people end up with more expensive treatments because they didn't seek medical attention before a medical condition became serious. That may turn into a vicious cycle of higher costs for the district and employees, she said, which is why the district is considering an agreement with Community Hospital that would allow those insured through the district to visit Community Hospital-related providers for a co-pay of $25 for office visits and free annual health risk assessments, lab work for common conditions and procedures, and prescriptions for common generic drugs.
School Board member Jeff Leany said he is concerned the low cost of the program may lead to some people over-using the system and costing the district more. District 51 Risk Manager Sheila Naski said that is a possibility, but the district will track numbers and find ways to limit abuse.
School Board President Greg Mikolai said the board can cancel the clinic agreement if the district finds there is an abuse of the clinic system.
Board members also re-adopted the 2011-12 budget at Tuesday's meeting. The budget was adjusted to include $228,973 less revenue for the general fund because the district was down 320 students this October compared to October 2010, a decline of 120 more students than originally projected by the district. The state funding formula assigns general fund funding to Colorado school districts based largely on the number of students in a district.


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Wyclef Accuses Electoral Commission of 'Trickery'
Wyclef Jean's bid to run for president of Haiti was denied last Friday (Aug. 20) when his name did not appear on the official list of approved candidates.
The 40-year-old musician has not taken the ruling lightly, and in addition to announcing plans to appeal the decision, Wyclef is now accusing Haiti's electoral commission of using "trickery" to exclude him from the race. "Even before our work began friends in Haiti and abroad had warned me that much trickery would be used to block me," Wyclef said in an audio message to the Haitian media. "The result: CEP has proved it true."
In the message — which was recorded in Creole — Wyclef reportedly asks local supporters to "mobilize" their efforts to combat the council's decision. "The Provisional Electoral Council has proven that they have violated the Constitution for the benefit of their mistresses and their friends leading a life of luxury with the people's money," he said. "I do not think it's our choice to live in such a state, in such a condition."
CEP Director of Communications, Pierre Thibaut, has frowned on Wyclef's decision to appeal the ruling, explaining that the former Fugees singer has no more options since "the final decisions rests with the council." Before handing down their official decision, the CEP cited Wyclef's residency issues as a possible reason for his disqualification. All presidential candidates are required to have lived in Haiti for at least five consecutive years — a requirement that the singer did not meet.


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Gascoigne, 38, was sacked on Monday but said he was actually axed because he would not run the team as Ladak wanted.
"I had a double brandy before one of the games, but it used to be four bottles of whiskey a day - it's not now," Gascoigne told Sky Sports News.
"I had a glass of wine after one game and told him to stay out of the team."
Ladak says he had no choice but to sack Gascoigne as manager because the former England star was "under the influence of alcohol".
He told BBC Radio Five Live: "If you are a recovering alcoholic there is no reason to drink but Paul thinks it is OK.
"He feels I should have done more - but I have had conversations with him he can't remember because he was drunk."
Ladak believes the 38-year-old needs to get help before he considers returning to the game.
"I thought football was what he needed, but being a manager has pushed him the other way," added Ladak.
"Only Paul can help Paul. No friends or counsellor can do it for him and when he is ready to help himself he will.
"This is the most difficult decision I've had to make in my life. I would have loved to have sorted him out but I felt I would have been gambling with the club."
Gascoigne now says he wants to buy out Ladak's stake in the Poppies and move the club forward, despite Kevin Wilson's re-appointment as manager.
"He's not the chairman, he's Imraan the doctor," added Gascoigne. "I'm Paul Gascoigne and I take charge of this club.
"I'm a multi-millionaire and I'm angry. I've tried to buy him out already. I told him it was the fans and Paul Gascoigne against a doctor - who will win?
"I know that the supporters, the players and the staff of Kettering Town are all behind me, not him.
"Two years ago I would have given in but not now. I'm a genius and I know what's going on the football field."


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The project called for a renovation of the current library in the university. As it is, it lacks proper ventilation, organization of reading and multimedia areas, and proper lighting. To make a more efficient design, I proposed separating the reading spaces from the bookshelves. With a better design, the bookshelves would hold a greater amount of books, which would give the library more space for new collections. For the lighting and ventilation problems, I designed indirect rooftop lighting and a series of louvres covering the facade.
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Crock-Pot Chicken Divan
I have not made Chicken Divan in 8 years or so! Let alone in the Crock-Pot. The family loved it!
- 12 Oz. pre-cooked grilled chicken breasts (I used 2 bags of Tyson brand; found in the refrigerated section)
- 1 Whole yellow onion (Diced)
- 10.5 Oz. cream of chicken soup (1 can)
- 1/2 Cup mayonnaise
- 3 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 16 Oz. frozen broccoli florets
- 1 Cup celery (Chopped small)
- 1/2 Teaspoon paprika
- 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
- 12 Oz. egg noodles
- In a mixing bowl mix all ingredients except noodles (noodles will not be placed in crock-pot).
- Pour into lightly greased crock-pot (I always use a liner!).
- Cover and cook on low for 7 hours.
- Or high for 2 to 3 hours.
- Right before serving cook up the noodles on the stove top, and serve the sauce and chicken on top of the noodles.
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Paulson Delivered Inside Information on GSEs to Cronies
Bloomberg News, quickly becoming the leading muckraker of the financial markets, has another blockbuster story today, on the heels of its release of information about Federal Reserve bailouts. Here they have former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson essentially aiding and abetting an insider trading scheme while in office, as far as I can tell:
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson stepped off the elevator into the Third Avenue offices of hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management LP in Manhattan. It was July 21, 2008, and market fears were mounting […] amid tumbling home prices and near-record foreclosures, attention was focused on a new source of contagion: Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac, which together had more than $5 trillion in mortgage-backed securities and other debt outstanding, Bloomberg Markets reports in its January issue […]
On the morning of July 21, before the Eton Park meeting, Paulson had spoken to New York Times reporters and editors, according to his Treasury Department schedule. A Times article the next day said the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency were inspecting Fannie and Freddie's books and cited Paulson as saying he expected their examination would give a signal of confidence to the markets.
At the Eton Park meeting, he sent a different message, according to a fund manager who attended. Over sandwiches and pasta salad, he delivered that information to a group of men capable of profiting from any disclosure.
Paulson told the dozen hedge fund managers in attendance – in a nice detail, Bloomberg mentions that at least five of them previously worked at Goldman Sachs, where Paulson was the longtime CEO – that he wanted to put Fannie and Freddie into conservatorship, which is what ended up happening in September. He even detailed how the common stock would get wiped out. These were 12 of the most likely people to profit from this disclosure, several weeks before it happened, on the advice of the Tresaury Secretary himself.
Bloomberg could not dig up any evidence of acting on trades, though there was all kinds of short action on the GSEs throughout this period. While Bloomberg tries to soft-pedal the crime committed, finding law professors to say that nothing illegal transpired, it's pretty obvious that what happened was at least unethical, and a clear example of crony capitalism at work. The bigger problems is how hard it is to determine what's actually legal:
"The bottom line is that senior-level people in Washington, in the name of keeping in touch with their stakeholders, are tipping their hands," says Adam Zagorin, a senior fellow at the Project on Government Oversight, a Washington watchdog group. "You can't prosecute them for insider trading if they didn't trade the shares. You may not be able to even reprimand them. What the hell are the rules?"
Paulson's spokeswoman referred Bloomberg to Paulson's book about the financial crisis, which makes no mention of the meeting. And that's probably where it ends. It takes a journalist outlet to uncover these sordid details, rather than an investigative entity. The flurry of insider trading prosecutions apparently do not extend to a former Treasury Secretary allowing hedge fund cronies to steal from the government.
This is tied into the burgeoning questions around insider trading in Congress, which also doesn't have a whole lot of restrictions attached. Now that 60 Minutes has told a (somewhat poorly rendered) story about it, Congress has leapt to action to protect its reputation. Even Spencer Bachus, accused of insider trading in the report, scheduled a hearing on the legislation. There's a more populist sentiment against this kind of behavior in Washington. It remains to be seen whether that will extend to Paulson.


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30-Day Essentials for Marriage
For most people marriage is a source of great fulfillment and yet, for many of us, sharing a life with a partner can present challenges. Whether your relationship is easy or difficult, the 30 Day Essentials for Marriage can help you improve your life together.
For those just starting a marriage, it is important to establish good patterns right away. A new marriage, like a young plant, can be trained and molded. The 30 Day Essentials for Marriage will help you establish those qualities and habits that will make your life together happy and fulfilling. Those who have been married for some time need ways to keep their relationship from growing stale and routine. This book will be a road map into areas you may not have gone before.
Spend a few minutes reading through this book to get an idea of where you are heading. Then, take one day at a time and work on the quality for that day. You may want to stay with one quality for a longer time or return later to develop it further. Each day ends with a simple, concrete "action" item. Try them!
While an individual can use it, the book is designed to be a way for couples to work together. Merely reading it together can be a great help for you and your partner. But if you actually use it as a guide it can transform your life together. It is simple and fun. But the effects can be profound.
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Plenty of my friends are looking
for one too. Find a pet to adopt.
I am already spayed, housetrained, up to date with shots, good with kids, good with dogs, and good with cats.
Rose Blossom was not even 3 month old when our street team witnessed her getting hit by car. The car didn't stop! The driver didn't care to check on her! She surely was lucky that we were around to come to her aid that day.
She wasn't used to the human touch and quite fearful at first. You can see in her rescue video she held her breath and barely moved. She was taken to the vet immediately and diagnosed with sarcoptic mange and a fractured leg. Luckily, one of our great foster moms stepped up to the plate and said she will show Rose Blossom what it means to be loved and cared for. Within no time Rose Blossom was cleared of the mange and came around quickly. She now does not want to leave her foster mom's side and is eager to please.
She loves all people and gets along great with every dog that crosses her way. Her foster mom said that Rose did ok with her cat but if the cat was to run from her then Rose would chase it too. She is house & crate trained and sits by the door if she needs to go potty. She is still a puppy but has learned quickly to take her business outside.
Unfortunately, her foster mom travels quite often for work and Rose Blossom will have to go into boarding if we cannot find her another place to go to soon. The kennel is not a place for a fragile puppy that is just learning to enjoy live. It will crush her having to sit behind bars all day.
Can you be her rescue angel and let her enjoy being a puppy? A puppy that gets to do all those wonderful things it is supposed to do. Let her nap on your lap, play with toys, possibly even play with other furry sibling and let her spend time in your yard trying to catch butterflies. She surely would love to spend the nights in a comfy dog bed, safe and sound with you around. Instead of having to be in a cold kennel all by herself.
**This dog is with Corridor Rescue in Houston, Texas but is available for transport to most major US and Canadian cities via United Airlines PetSafe for an additional $275. A customs fee may apply at Canadian airports. Ground transportation to Colorado is available for $75, and several locations in the northeastern US for $175.
We are a street dog rescue in Houston, Texas seeking to place rescued dogs in loving homes across the US and Canada. Our region has more homeless animals than homes, so we look outside of our area for adopters.
Rose Blossom's adoption fee of $250 covers spay, microchip and current vaccines.
Please apply to adopt or foster Rose Blossom online at www.corridorrescue.org.
Direct inquiries to: email@example.com.
Thank you for considering a rescued former street dog for your next family member!
Rose Blossom, a Seattle Labrador Retriever puppy was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Labrador Retriever for sale in Seattle, or seeking a Labrador Retriever puppy from a breeder in Seattle.


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Summer car care tips
Wed, 23 May 2012 08:08:35 GMT —
The summer months are heating up and drivers want to make sure their cars can handle the change in seasons.
AAA has some basic car care tips that car owners can use before hitting the road for their summer travels. According to AAA, drivers should check their battery because the extra heat can drain the power.
"Heat evaporates battery fluid, damaging internal plates and speeding up corrosion. So when the mercury reaches 90 or higher, and temps under the hood reach 140 degrees, watch out. Electronic devices such as satellite radios, GPS systems or portable DVD players simply make matters worse, increasing the demand on stressed batteries." AAA officials say on the company's website.
Drivers should also make sure their cooling system is working with good coolant so they don't end up overheating.
"Older coolants used to require changing every two years or 24,000 miles, but most modern formulations are good for at least five years and 50,000 miles."
For more car care tips check out AAA's website.
Is your car ready for summer? Leave a comment below about how you get your car in shape for the hot months.


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BUFFALO, NY - With just over a week to go before the start of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, a local expert on security is continuing to express concern over safety and threats of trouble.
Russia is mounting a massive security operation for the Olympics, deploying more than 50,000 police and soldiers amid threats of attacks.
On Wednesday, the chief organizer of the games described the city where the games are being held as "the most secure venue on the planet".
That is still not enough to allay the concerns of Steven MacMartin, who is the director of the Homeland Security bachelor's degree program at Medaille College, who has held those concerns for some time.
"Someone once asked me the question of whether they made a mistake planning the Olympics in Sochi to start with... and I believe there was. I don't know I how people couldn't have looked and said the situation is going to be a problem," said MacMartin, who retired after 32 years as a U.S Homeland Security agent in 2011.
MacMartin told WGRZ-TV that it is not as if the Russians aren't particularly efficient when it comes to homeland security.
"If you look at it historically, the Russians are very good at homeland security…but they may not be so good at dealing with terrorism," he said, adding his belief that the region where the Olympics are being held is fertile ground for such activity.
"That area of Russia is under such political flux, and they're having such a problem with the revolutionary movement there that it provides a nightmare of security problems for them."
MacMartin believes the athletes themselves and the venues where they will compete will be relatively secure.
"Their problem is going to be with their lack of control as you get farther and farther away from that event, in areas where people are transiting and staying outside of the Olympics," he said.
When asked, if he had a relative competing in the games, whether he would go, he replied, "I don't know that I'd go. It depends if there would be another time, or if this would be the one chance they would have to compete."
However, MacMartin also noted that his response to that question is based on being fairly confident that he could provide for his own security given that he had decades of experience in law enforcement.
As for others who might not have those credentials, he said, "It's a tough call….but my advice would be to think long and hard about not going…I think there's going to be problems over there."
Click on the video player to watch our story from 2 On Your Side Reporter Dave McKinley and Chief Photojournalist Andy DeSantis.
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William Donaldson
Paul Solman discusses the ongoing investigation into corporate misconduct in the mutual fund industry and efforts to protect investors with Securities and Exchange Commission head William Donaldson. Continue reading
President Bush on Tuesday selected longtime Wall Street executive William Donaldson to serve as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and to help restore confidence in markets shaken by a wave of corporate financial scandals. Continue reading


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Camp Loopy 2012, Project 1 Cast On Date: 5/27/2012 Finish By: 6/27/2012
Tubular cast on 274 sts while taming a twisting beast was tricky, but so far, so good! Worked through the 2-1/2" bottom ribbing and have started to work the body.
Coming along nicely! Working up the body. I've opted to do my own cable panels up the fronts only. The rest is stockinette.
6/12/12: Done! Have 1 full skein + .50 left of the yarn.
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ESSEX fast bowler Reece Topley says he can help the Eagles reach t20 Finals Day despite an injury plagued campaign.
The 20-year-old has been in and out of the side with injuries this year but has still made ten appearances in the competition, claiming nine wickets.
However that is down on the previous two years, where he took a total of 38 wickets.
And the 6ft 7in bowler says it has been difficult to maintain any sort of form all the while he is struggling with injuries.
"It is hard to find a level of continuity whilst you are in and out of the side with injuries," said Topley.
"But after this season I will move forward and be able to progress as a cricketer.
"I played a lot of cricket last summer so it will be nice to go away this winter and rest and recuperate.
"It is a case of getting through to the end of the season and I am still young so I will be back – and back better than ever.
"Saying that, I still believe I can contribute to success this season.
"If I do well and the team does well it will be a beautiful day but if I play badly and the team wins that will be ok as well!"
Topley's best figures this season came against Middlesex, where he claimed 3-26, but says the Birmingham Bears also possess a strong line-up, which features the second highest wicket-taker of this year's competition, Jeetan Patel.
"They have a decent bowling attack," he said. "(Rikki) Clarke is a very economical bowler and we know all about (Varun) Chopra at the top of the order and Patel. We know they are strong competitors but we need to play to our strengths.
"It is important that we hit some form this weekend after some disappointing recent results, but we will look at the tables and our form overall in the competition and take great confidence from that.
"All the positives we have taken from this year's competition mean we approach this one in a confident mood."
Topley's positive start to his Test match career, in which he had an average run-to-wicket ratio of 23.55, drew praise from former England captain Michael Vaughan, who described the bowler as 'a future Test star'.
And his statistics this season are even more favourable, at an average of 20.08, but the 20-year-old is not getting ahead of himself.
"I get told about England from time-to-time but all I want to do is play. If I stay fit and bowl well then hopefully it will lead to bigger and better things."


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Step into Summer Shoes!
Summer is coming, so it's time to shed those tights, socks, boots and trainers, and step into some summer shoes. Make sure you have a pedicure first (cracked heels in sandals – never a good look) and then choose from an array of summer shoes, perfect for holidays, work, BBQs and festivals – well, okay, perhaps wellies are still the best festival choice!
Flats are a great summer choice – easier in the heat, when feet can get tired. Schuh's tropical themed summer brogues are amazing. H&M's lace ballerina pumps are elegant, and an excellent choice for a summer wedding.
Clockwise, from top left: Lace ballerinas, £9.99, H&M, tropical Leillani brogues, £36, from May, gold and black sandals, £40, both Schuh, pink metallic heels flats, £20, white sandals, £18, both BHS, floral sandals, £35, Schuh
Wedges are the perfect summer shoes – easier to walk in than heels, they are great with maxi, midi and mini lengths. And the best bit is they come in all heights – towering wedges for the brave, lower for the rest of us!
Clockwise, from top left: Brown and blue wedges, £39.50, Red Herring @ Debenhams, patterned wedges, £25, BHS, blue wooden wedges, £55, Schuh, polka dot wedges, £29.99, New Look, black wedges, £29.99, H&M
Gladiator sandals were a huge trend a few years ago, and they've never gone away. Perhaps that's because they look and feel fantastic. They're the staple summer shoes – who doesn't have a pair in their wardrobe? Those Romans and Greeks weren't daft, you know! Choose from tgraditional gladiators, knee-length styles, or different takes on the tradtional gladiators.
Clockwise, from top left: Silver sandals, £12.99, H&M, Tektonic sandals, £28, blue sandals, £40, both Schuh, print gladiator-style sandals, £39.50, Red Herring @ Debenhams, pink and blue detail sandals, £45, Crew Clothing, zip gladiators, £40, Schuh, knee-high gladiators, £39.99, New Look
This season's big trend is, well, ugly shoes. Big old chunky heels on sandals, chunky block heels – that's the kind of thing you should be wearing if you want to be on-trend with your summer shoes.
Clcokwise, from top left: White chunky sandals, £29.99, New Look, daisy print chunky heel sandal, £45, Schuh, silver chunky sandals, £45, Faith @ Debenhams, black sandals, £39.99, New Look, yellow block heel sandals, £19.99, New Look
Heels will never go away. Summer shoes for parties and weddings, there are some gorgeous high heels around for summer. Try metallics and whites and creams for a subtle summer look, or bright, bold on-trend prints for a statement shoe.
Clockwise, from top left: Metallic sandals, £55, Schuh, tassel sandals, £29.99, H&M, tribal print sandals, £50, Schuh, white platform sandals, £22.99, New Look, metallic sandals, £39.50, Red Herring @ Debenhams, white heel buckle shoes, £50, Call It Spring @ Debenhams