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ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO--The Hubble Space Telescope's infrared vision has been restored, and it turns out to be more sensitive than ever. At the American Astronomical Society meeting here, excited astronomers presented the first images taken by Hubble's NICMOS (Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph) camera after it was outfitted with a new cooling system in March. "It's absolutely fantastic that we now have infrared eyes back on Hubble," says NICMOS principal investigator Rodger Thompson of the University of Arizona, Tucson.
NICMOS was installed in February 1997, but the solid nitrogen used to cool the sensitive infrared detectors to 62 degrees kelvin (-348 degrees Fahrenheit) was depleted just 2 years later, much faster than anticipated. Now, with a new refrigerator-like cooling system, the camera should be back in business indefinitely. Observing in the infrared enables Hubble to peer into dusty star-forming regions and to study the extremely distant universe.
According to astronomer Daniela Calzetti of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, NICMOS is between 30% and 40% more sensitive than it used to be--thanks to a new coolant, it operates at a somewhat higher temperature, increasing the efficiency of the detectors. "This will enable us to look deeper, or to do the same science in less time," says Calzetti.
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Florida Senator Marco Rubio appeared on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday and was asked if he would accept a nomination for Vice President. Jeb Bush, Rubio's mentor, has said he hopes Romney will choose Rubio as his Vice President. When asked by CNN's Cindy Crowley, Rubio laughed it off and said, "that's very nice of Jeb and I hope he'll say yes if future President Romney asks him." He later declined to say whether he would accept the nomination if asked. He said he wanted to respect Romney's decision making process "Up to now it's all been theoretical, we have a nominee now, and our nominee, Mitt Romney, the leader of the Republican Party, has a vice presidential process in place," Rubio said. "And I think from this point moving forward, I think it'd be wise for all Republicans to kind of respect that process, myself included, and say moving forward, we're going to let his process play itself out."
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels appeared on Fox News Sunday and said he doesn't expect Mitt Romney to ask him to be his Vice President. "We haven't had the conversation, and I don't expect to have it… This is a hypothetical question that will probably stay that way." Daniels went so far as to say that if Romney did tap him to be his VP, he would demand he reconsider. "You will remember what William F. Buckley said when he ran for mayor of New York and was asked what he would do if he won. He said he would 'demand a recount.,' Rubio said. "I think I would demand reconsideration and send Mr. Romney a list of people I think could suit better."
Senator Joe Leiberman appeared on Fox News Sunday to talk about the ongoing Secret Service scandal. He assured he wasn't worried any of the agents leaked information during the party, but that potential enemies could use behaviour like this against them "The answer I'm going to give is not conclusive, but from everything I've heard up until this point, no evidence that information was compromised," he said. But if agents are "acting like a bunch of college kids on spring weekend […] then people who are hostile to the U.S., people who actually want to attack the president of the United States, will begin to take advantage of that vulnerability."
Leiberman, chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, also appeared on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday and said that he has launched an inquiry into the Secret Service scandal. He said he'll send a list of questions to Secret Service director Marc Sullivan, and when the Secret Service have finished their investigation into the matter, then they'll decide if they want to pursue it further. His main concern is whether the incident in Colombia was an exception, or if there is a pattern of poor behaviour:
Rep. Peter King told NBC's Meet the Press that, "anyone who's found to be guilty" will lose their job." King added that he, " would expect within the very near future to have several other Secret Service agents leaving the agency."
Rep. Elijah Cummings and Senator Harry Reid appeared on CNN's State of the Union to talk with Cindy Crowley. Reid said what the Secret Service agents did was stupid. "You don't necessarily change behavior, but you certainly set the tone of what you want," responded Cummings. "You can't legislate people not being stupid, but certainly you can uphold the high standards of this organization…" Both agreed more firings were on the way.
David Axelrod appeared on CNN's State of the Union to discuss close polling numbers between Obama and Romney. He told Cindy Crowley that people "don't know" Mitt Romney yet. Axelrod said that when Americans realize what Romney's ideas on the economy really are, they'll think "this seems familiar. We tried this. This was a big failure."
Axelrod also appeared on NBC's Meet the Press and made similar comments about Romney's economic policies. "I think that Governor Romney at the early stage gets a bit of an advantage because he has this moniker of businessman and people assume that because of that that somehow he'll bring some magic elixir to the economy,' explained Axelrod, before adding, "but when they get under the hood and see what he's actually proposing: more massive tax cuts for the wealthy, fewer rules for Wall Street, deep cuts in the things we need to grow – education, research and development, energy – I think people are gonna say, 'hey we've seen this movie before and it didn't work,'"


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- California will soon have the country's highest state income tax rate at 13.3% and red tape for almost every kind of business is strangling profitability.The high level of government spending, record pay and retirement benefits for government bureaucrats make Greece look conservative and California is spinning in the direction of the biggest bankruptcy of all time. Unemployment is among the country's highest, despite the world's best farm land, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. With this trainwreck of an economic calamity, why do people voluntarily still choose to live in California? The answer is the unbeatable fresh air, the flawless climate, the best weather in the world. I call this "air/climate/weather." In California you don't need to be worth $10 million to feel rich -- you only need a park bench and the open sky. There is no money in the world that can buy this air/climate/weather. You could be Donald Trump, but if you're living in New York, you're poorer than the poorest Californian when it comes to the air/climate/weather experience. Some will argue that California's signature industries -- Hollywood and Silicon Valley -- are the main attractions for living in California. This explanation, however, doesn't really answer the question of why those industries in turn are in California to begin with. If California didn't have the country's -- and the world's -- best air/climate/weather, chances are that those industries would do what their employees would do: swiftly locate themselves to places with lower taxes, less red tape and no looming state bankruptcy. With this as a background, please consider California's obsession to eliminate most regular gasoline cars from the sales column. According to the state government, over the next decade or so, the sale of regular gasoline cars will be curtailed in favor of "zero emissions" vehicles, such as electric cars and hydrogen fuel cell cars. In order to achieve this goal, the California government is forcing auto makers to produce and sell increasing quantities of currently primarily electric cars. These quantities have been modest until recently, but over the next couple of years, these required sales of various classes of electric cars ramps up materially: 1.5 million of them by 2025. This poses an obvious market problem: Imagine that the government mandated that for each restaurant McDonald's opens, it needs to also open five vegan restaurants where only tofu and rice cakes are served. Furthermore, for every beef burger sold, they would also need to sell five rice cake and tofu salads. How would you like that? How would McDonald's like that?
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Illustration by Smell of SteveThe day after U.S. soldiers hitched an armored personnel carrier to a giant statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad and then gunned the motor, Orange County Register reporter Gordon Dillow nearly got himself killed in a vicious firefight across town. Embedded with a company of Marines out of Camp Pendleton, Dillow had hitherto been a simple 52-year-old reporter, taking notes and writing occasional dispatches for his paper back home as the Marines raced across Iraq. But now his unit was in serious trouble. They'd charged into a section of Baghdad where narrow streets run between multistory buildings, hunting for a mosque where, intelligence said, Hussein himself was hiding. Instead the Marines found themselves in the middle of a textbook ambush. They took AK-47 fire from all directions. Rocket-propelled grenades slammed into every armored personnel carrier (APC) or "track." Marines scrambled for cover in the vehicle's cramped hulls to return fire. At one point, things got so hairy that a Marine gave Dillow a hand grenade–an outright violation of Pentagon rules for embedded journalists–and told Dillow to throw it if the Iraqis got too close.
"It was reassuring," Dillow recently told a Newport Beach audience. "But it had been 30 years since I had handled a grenade. And I had this vision of [accidentally] killing everyone in the track. I wondered how that would look."
The fight lasted four hours, and Dillow never had to use the grenade. It was nevertheless the most exciting event of Dillow's time in Iraq, and most people–including Register readers–don't know it happened. That's because the longtime Reggie columnist buried the incident in a mammoth, plodding April 20 feature called "The Men of Alpha Co."
From early March until April 15, Dillow traveled with Alpha Company of the 1st Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment, a frontline combat unit. During that time, Dillow saw more action than almost all the other embedded journalists combined.
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Dillow handled his embed assignment in a way that would make Pentagon officials proud–and in exactly the way media critics feared when military officials first described their program of permanently assigning some 600 journalists to various units.
Sent over to capture the war for the folks back home, Dillow was captured instead by the camaraderie and courage of the men he was supposed to cover. The result was a series of ponderous, irrelevant and ambivalent stories that made a brutal and controversial war safe for patriotic Americans. Dillow did small things like excising the jarheads' foul language. More important, he smoothed out rough ethical issues, downplaying, for instance, the killings of civilians. Always, Dillow made sure the Marines of the 1/5 looked good.
No one told Dillow to play propagandist. He chose the role himself. And he does not apologize.
"They always tell you not to fall in love with your subject," said Dillow, admitting that he violated the preeminent rule of reporting. "But I did. I fell in love with these guys. They were really great."
Dillow spoke recently in front of nearly 200 mostly elderly Newport Beach Republicans at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club in Corona del Mar. The event was one of former state assemblyman Gil Ferguson's breakfasts; he calls the gatherings "Principles Over Politics." Ferguson billed Dillow's appearance in the most grandiloquent terms, calling him "one of America's most famous and distinguished combat journalists" and "definitely one of the very best combat correspondents to cover any war."
Dillow delighted them. He told war stories. He bashed the Arab news network Al Jazeera, the BBC and the "liberal, anti-military media." He criticized other reporters for "overblowing" the post-invasion looting of Baghdad's museums (6,000 artifacts remain missing, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials).
But was it love of the common soldiers that transformed Dillow into a propagandist for the military? Or was it the crude politics of nationalism? You decide: when someone asked why U.S. and British forces had failed to find Saddam Hussein's supposed chemical and biological weapons, Dillow shook his head. "I never really thought we'd run into chemical warfare," he said. "I wish we would find some weapons. And I wouldn't object if [Defense officials] wanted to load up a C-130, put in some 55-gallon drums and fly them over there."
The audience cheered.
During the Second World War, reporters such as Ernie Pyle and Joe Galloway could simply hop on a truck or helicopter and head to where the action was. Pyle censored his stories to protect strategies and identities, but never to mask the often senseless carnage around him. The practice of allowing such independent reporting continued through Vietnam, where legions of independent reporters wandered the countryside without escort, listening to soldiers complain about inept leadership or whisper rumors of massacres and assassinations.
Searching to explain America's subsequent failures in Vietnam, conservatives drew precisely the wrong lesson: blame the media, they said. An unrestrained media might be great for democracy, might even be enshrined in the First Amendment, but it was antipodal to the progress of modern warfare. Too much information turned the public against war. And as totalitarian regimes had learned, a mobilized public opinion was a weapon every bit as powerful as bombs.
Tame the media, the thinking went, and you'll win wars. That thinking became policy in the 1980s. The British government is credited with limiting press access during its controversial Falklands War; a year later, the Reagan administration stalled reporters for six days while U.S. special forces seized control of Grenada; the first Bush administration was just as strict during the U.S. invasion of Panama. Two years later, media access to Gulf War troops was moderated through Pentagon officials hosting highly polished press conferences and cameras embedded in the noses of smart bombs.
Perhaps it was the smart bomb that inspired Defense Department officials to create the Iraq War's embedding program. Touted as a liberalization of press access rules, embedding was in fact a brilliant strategy to convert the media from massed skeptics into a rolling public-relations field force. Hundreds of wannabe Pyles would roam the battlefield with the troops; their natural instincts to protect the soldiers protecting them would rein in skepticism.
It's a miracle that Dillow–a predictable columnist who rarely strays from paeans to cowboys and cops–got one of the plum embed assignments of the war. He says Marines at Pendleton called the Reg last November and asked if they wanted to enter the embedding program. Dillow, who in 1971 served in Vietnam as a sergeant in the U.S. Army military police, leaped at the chance. Once in Kuwait, he said, he begged the Marines to hitch him to a combat unit from Pendleton. The Marines okayed his request.
So, while most reporters were assigned to rear-area cooking and cleaning units that never saw even a muzzle flash, Dillow found himself with Alpha Company of the 1/5, the first U.S. combat unit to enter Iraq. According to Dillow, the armored personnel carrier he rode in was the seventh vehicle in the U.S. invasion force to cross the border.
"They told the Marines we were to be treated as an 'adverse condition,'" said Dillow. "Some of the officers and most of the NCOs [noncommissioned officers] looked at us like we were snakes who crawled into their tents."
Dillow said the men eventually warmed to his presence, which should have provided his readers with an unparalleled view of the war. Yet the Register never ran Dillow's stuff on Page 1–they reserved the front page for Associated Press or New York Times war reports. Dillow's dispatches ran on Page 4, or even deeper, perilously close to narcotic stories on state budget issues.
It's easy to see that Reg editors made the right decision. Dillow's war journalism was olive drab. His first eight dispatches–all written from Kuwait–dealt with such topics as where to get a gas mask; the dos and don'ts of eating field rations; vaccinations; foxhole digging; and how to detect incoming chemical attacks. Even when the Pentagon unleashed the invasion on March 15, Dillow seemed stuck in the mundane. One March 30 dispatch began promisingly enough, with a quote from the company commander warning his men that an attack on their position was expected that night. But then the story meandered through a long discussion of how the men got some sleep in the meantime. The attack never came.
The problem wasn't that attacks never came, but that, when they did, Dillow dishonestly reported what was happening around him. The effects of being constantly surrounded–and protected–by the Marines had destroyed his objectivity. For over a month, Dillow ate, slept and joked with them, drank the same swimming pool-tasting purified water and shared space in an APC the size of a prison cell. But mostly he relied on them to save him from death or capture. The pressure to return the favor–in the form of favorable coverage–was enormous. And Dillow succumbed.
It's not so bad that Dillow passed his satellite phone around the company so the Marines could make their first calls home in over a month. The act was harmless, though it violated embedding rules. More important, Dillow admits he censored his own reporting to make the men of Alpha Company look better than they actually were. In a piece on embedded journalists that appeared in the May/June 2003 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, Dillow said he never published the fact that the Marines in the 1/5 so consistently used the term "Haji"–presumably the name of the turbaned Indian kid in Jonny Quest–as a derogatory slur for Arabs that he was unaware of it "about five minutes" after arriving in Kuwait. Dillow also said he bowdlerized the Marines' language. "The astonishing crudity of young men in wartime–your average Marine wouldn't say, 'I have to go on guard,'" wrote Dillow, "but rather, 'I fucking have to fucking go on fucking guard.' It wouldn't fly in a family newspaper . . . . The result was that the Marines sounded much more like choirboys in my stories than they really are." Most ominously, Dillow admitted holding back "some things [that] were simply too gruesome to describe in detail."
Though Dillow mentioned this self-censorship to the Bahia Corinthian crowd, he would not elaborate. But his stories suggest his handling of less-than-gruesome details. When Dillow reported on real fighting, he typically pushed the bloodiest events to the ends of his stories. We've already seen how he buried the Baghdad ambush in the back of his big April 20 feature. Buried within his March 27 dispatch "Days of Danger and Misery," Dillow described how Alpha Company Marines opened up on a van speeding toward their position. Three civilians were killed. Inside the van the Marines found not weapons of mass or even limited destruction, but a load of rice. The reason the van didn't stop at the checkpoint is unknown, left unexamined by Dillow, who reported the incident in eight spare paragraphs. He paid even less attention to the incident in his special April 20 feature on Alpha Company.
"There were incidents where civilians got killed," Dillow said at the Bahia Corinthian, trying to explain why he gave so little play to the killings. "And we told that [story], but we didn't lead with that. Too many were focusing on it. We put it all into context."
Context? Actually, Dillow trivialized the incident, treating it as just one of those things that happen when you put a bunch of young soldiers in a rough situation. But in a brutal New York Times Magazine piece called "Good Kills" published the same day as Dillow's Alpha Company feature, reporter Peter Maass told a remarkably similar story in a remarkably different way. Embedded with the Third Battalion of the Fourth Marine Regiment out of Twentynine Palms, Maass reported that Marines had blown away a van rushing a checkpoint. Rather than bury the incident as Dillow did, Maass dealt with it like a reporter–peered into the cars, looked at the dead bodies and listened carefully to passing Marines lament that they'd missed the action. He interviewed one of the snipers as he wrestled with the shooting, trying to convince himself there was nothing more he could have done.
What Dillow and Maass and all the other reporters saw was yet another ugly war involving basically good-natured American boys. But Dillow's response never approached even standard reporting techniques. He blinked. And when he didn't blink, he dissembled.
In journalism, failing to begin your story with the most dramatic revelations is called "burying your lede." It's about instinct and integrity, about knowing what constitutes real news and what's just background, about telling the truth rather than hiding it beneath the mundane. Burying death and brutality at the end of a story trivializes its significance. It's like your Aunt Martha cooking for three days straight after the death of her husband of 40 years; she's burying her pain in routine.
Dillow's judgments about how high to run information in his stories reveal his biases toward the men he was covering, his ambivalence about their actions, his anxiety about public opinion.
Almost hidden within Dillow's dispatches, for example, and all but totally ignored in his April 20 piece, was an authentic war story reminiscent of Pyle's best. It is the story of Noah Glanville, a 24-year-old Navy corpsman from Orange who had the macabre distinction of being the first medic in the invasion to face the death of a soldier he was treating. Yet Dillow once again completely missed the point, abandoning what might have been an award-winning profile.
The story begins shortly after the 1/5 crossed the border into Iraq. While attempting to secure an oil-pumping station, the Marines suddenly encountered heavy resistance. Soon Lt. Therrel "Shane" Childers, who commanded Alpha Company's 2nd Platoon, was shot. Glanville ran 20 yards to care for him.
"I was scared, because it was an exposed position, and that's the usual thing an enemy does, shoot a guy and then shoot the corpsman," Glanville told Dillow a few hours after the fight. "But it was my job. I got to him . . . and treated him for shock, all the things you're supposed to do. But it was bad . . . The only thing he said was, 'I got shot in the gut.' Those were the last words he ever said.
"It was funny, but I didn't even know who it was until I got his [flak] vest off and saw the lieutenant's bars. Then I looked at his face and saw it was my lieutenant. I know this sounds strange, but in a way, I wish I hadn't gotten to know him as well as I did. I've had three different platoon commanders since I've been with the Marines, and he was the best I ever had. I'm not just saying that 'cause he's dead, either. He really was. I did everything I could for him. I really did. I know I did."
The Glanville interview was Dillow's most compelling of his entire time in Iraq. All the elements of a great war story were there: brutality, sincerity, heroism, futility.
Yet once again, Dillow didn't recognize the significance of his story. He recoiled from the reality of a young man turning against George W. Bush's war, shoving Glanville's story to the last third of an otherwise drab March 31 dispatch. More appalling, Dillow completely omitted it from his April 20 omnibus feature, except for this elliptical reference at the very end of the article that would mystify any reader unfamiliar with his early reporting:
"I'd remember Noah Glanville, a thoughtful, serious young man from Orange, sitting in a fighting hole after watching Lt. Childers die and telling me how he'd realized, suddenly and too late, how much he hated war, any war."
To most reporters, it's incomprehensible that Dillow would hide so much good reporting. Where's the sense in risking your life to witness our species at its best and worst if you're just going to hide what you've seen at the back end of stories few people will ever find and fewer still will get through?
Dillow's recent admissions–at the yacht club and in his journal article–suggest an answer.
Think about the Baghdad firefight when the Marine gave Dillow the hand grenade. That fight occurred after Alpha Company charged off without good intelligence or planning. Dillow reported that, but didn't report that it was the Marines' own bravado that led them to act recklessly on the intelligence. And it cost them dearly: One dead and two dozen wounded. For a reporter unblinkered by love of subject, the story is this one: a bunch of cocky Marines charged into a place without adequate preparation and got sucker-punched. But Dillow couldn't tell that story. That tale would be too true, a personal betrayal of the Marines protecting him, the men to whom he'd grown so close.
The same is true of the rice van shooting. Did the Marines really do all they could to make sure civilians understood that they had to stop? Were barricades properly set up? Were good signs posted? According to Maass' reporting of an unrelated shooting, it was likely that U.S. forces in Iraq weren't trained to set up and manage checkpoints. But we'll never be sure about Alpha Company, because Dillow didn't pursue the matter.
Back home, Dillow has settled into the predictable paths he followed before the war. In one recent piece, he profiled Burt Pronin, a Democrat gathering signatures for the Davis recall. A week later, he wrote "Yes, Recall Could Open Pandora's Box," a column addressing readers who said the recall is misguided. "Don't I understand, they asked, what chaos a recall election could create in our already chaotic state?"
"Actually, I do," Dillow continued. "But like all journalists, I have a vested interest in chaos and mayhem of every sort. To boil journalism down to its ugly essence, there is no news value in planes that don't crash–or politicians who aren't in trouble."
Especially, apparently, when those politicians are Democrats.
Dillow's professed love of chaos didn't carry over to Iraq. On the battlefield, Dillow turned out to be terrified of chaos–or at least terrified of what battlefield chaos might imply: that soldiers make fatal mistakes, that war is brutal no matter what our politicians say, that lying to the American people about weapons of mass destruction is not only a forgivable error but a reasonable tactic for rallying the public behind war.
"The point wasn't that I wasn't reporting the truth," Dillow wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review. "The point was that I was reporting the Marine grunt truth–which had also become my truth."
Research assistance by Drew Farrington.
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Living With Wildlife Babies In DuPage County
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Coyotes are yellowish gray with bushy black-tipped tails and whitish throats and bellies. At 20 to 40 pounds they're larger than 8- to 15-pound foxes but smaller than wolves, which can weigh between 50 and 100. Because coyotes are extremely adaptable, they can survive in many habitats, including cities. They are considered nocturnal but are commonly active during the day. Their barks and yips can carry 2 or 3 miles and make two or three animals sound like six or more. Contrary to popular belief, they don't howl to announce a pending or successful kill.
Coyotes are vital to ecological balance because they help to keep populations of smaller animals in check. Over 90 percent of their diet is small mammals, but they will eat birds, snakes, insects, fish, fruits, and injured or sick deer.
Their breeding season begins in February and is the only time coyotes use dens, which are often in vacant fox or woodchuck burrows but can be under log or brush piles or in hollow trees or abandoned buildings. Litters are born in April and average six to seven pups. They're fed by their mother for about a month, but after that, both parents bring food to the den. Male coyotes will continue to care for weaned young even if their partners die.
Young are self-sufficient in six to nine months but remain with their families after they leave the den. Many first-year females stay with their parents through the following summer, picking up valuable mothering skills as they help with the next litter.
Sightings of families may contribute to the idea that coyotes live and hunt as wolves do in packs, but wolf packs can contain unrelated individuals. Coyotes remain in parent-offspring units and usually hunt alone or in male-female pairs; prey in DuPage isn't big enough to merit a group effort.
Some people believe that populations are on the rise, but there's no supportive data. It could be that people are seeing the same coyotes more often. During the first half of the year, sightings increase as year-old males start to look for territories to call their own. Year-round, if individual coyotes become more comfortable around humans, daytime activities — and sightings — can also increase.
Coyote or WolfSince 2000 there have only been 10 confirmed wolf sightings in Illinois, and none were in DuPage.
From a distance, it can be difficult to tell if an animal is a coyote or a wolf, but there are differences. Wolves can be twice as large as coyotes, as much as 115 pounds. (In winter, coyotes' thick coats can make them look larger than they really are.) Wolves have large, blocky snouts; coyotes' are smaller and pointed. Wolf ears are rounded, but a coyote's ears are pointed and are proportionately larger than its head. The ears on 30-pound coyote can be the same size as those on an 80-pound wolf.
Preventing ProblemsCoyotes avoid people when they can, but loss of habitat makes it difficult. You can prevent problems in your yard, though, by removing two main attractants: food and shelter.
Coyotes and PetsSurvival for coyotes is difficult, and some may instinctively see domestic dogs — their close canine cousins — as competitors or threats. This can be especially true if a dog is small (smaller dogs tend to be more aggressive toward larger canines) or if a dog's yard falls within a coyote's territory. In some cases, a coyote may try to eliminate a perceived threat or take a smaller dog as prey.
There have been reports of coyotes chasing or attacking dogs during the day, even dogs on leashes, but these confrontations are uncommon and are often initiated by the dog and not the coyote. Still, it's wise to take a few precautions.
Coyote EncountersLike domestic dogs, coyotes test their limits around humans and learn something from each exchange. Unless they associate people with negative experiences, such as loud noises, they can become comfortable walking down streets or sidewalks or near schools, basking in yards or parks, and shortening the distance between themselves and humans. A bold coyote does not necessarily mean an aggressive coyote, but a coyote that maintains its fear of humans will be less likely to cause problems.
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Public Health ConcernsThere isn't one documented case of a coyote biting a human in DuPage County. (Domestic dogs bite nearly 900 people in the county each year.) Most cases in other parts of the country occurred after people were feeding the animals.
Coyotes are not considered to be a significant source of diseases that can be transmitted to humans. They may carry rabies, but there have not been any recent reports in DuPage. They may carry distemper, sarcoptic mange, heartworm and other canine diseases, but transmissions are uncommon. Still, always keep pets' vaccinations current.
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Willowbrook Wildlife CenterIf you come across a wild animal and are concerned, leave it alone. Call Willowbrook Wildlife Center for advice at (630) 942-6200. The center is located at 525 S. Park Blvd. in Glen Ellyn and is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except select holidays. Recorded messages offer general information when the center is closed.


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- RANGERS: It's almost a shame that Major League Baseball doesn't allow teams from Texas to win the World Series, as this team is pretty talented
- RAYS: By toppling AL East powerhouses Boston and New York, Tampa Bay has become a cool team to root for and watch lose
- PHILLIES: Though the starting rotation consists of all-stars Roy Oswalt, Cole Hamels, and Roy Halladay, Jamie Moyer's 7,000.42 ERA has to be of some concern
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I am considering getting Breast Implants at a clinic in Mexico and the hospital said that it can be very dangerous to have surgery there, as there is no ICU. Is there an ICU at all plastic surgery offices in the US, or is it just hospitals?
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Cosmetic Surgery Tourism - A Fiesta and Breast Augmentation in Mexico
In the right hands a Breast Augmentation is extremely safe and I would NOT worry about finding an ICU in a Mexican facility.
I would worry about WHO would take care of any complications you may have there. Even the best of surgeons have complications. Should you have such complications, for medical reasons, you would have a very hard time finding an American Plastic Surgeon who may want to take up your care.
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Medical Tourism for plastic surgery: Inexpensive or cheap cosmetic surgery in foreign lands
ICU's are typically limited to hospitals. Generally this has little relation to an operating room.
The likelihood that you will have a morbid or near-morbid (fatal) event is low and therefore the concerns about an ICU are generally not warranted.
However, the possiblity that you will have a non-life threatening problem such as a wound infection, capsular contracture, implant deflation, breast implant asymmetry are more likely. Who will you go to answer or treat your questions? Will you go to Mexico for followup? If you want to treat a minor wound infection, who will treat you and prescribe antibiotics? Who will recommend post-opt exercises, etc?
Considerations for plastic surgery tourism
The compelling savings in cost have driven many to consider going out of the country for surgery. There are some excellent plastic surgeons around the world, and one way to check your potential surgeon out is to see if he or she is a member of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, www.isaps.org. They also have an accreditation process for the surgical facility. The issue isn't so much whether there is an ICU available, but how post-op care will be managed especially if there is a complication. These can occur during the flight home or afterward, and you may end up in a difficult situation. There may be a need for evaluation of long-term problems as well. Ultimately, what you need to decide is whether risking your safety and appearance is worth the savings.
ICU's have no role in cosmetic plastic surgery
Sometimes, an ICU stay is needed to monitor a microsurgical operation done in the reconstructive side of plastic surgery. There should be no role for an ICU in cosmetic plastic surgery. That said, where ever you have surgery, the facilities of a complete hospital should be available in case of any emergency. Traveling out of the country for plastic surgery is a bad idea for all of the reasons that have been explained in many answers on this forum previously.
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Be aware for pitfalls for out of country surgery
An ICU (intensive care unit) is used to take care of very sick patients. I do not see the need to have an ICU available for any elective plastic surgery, unless they are planning to make you very sick after your surgery!
Having surgery out of country has potential pitfalls, and you should research the surgeon carefully. Most likely, by the time you consider cost of travel, food, accommodations, etc. the cost is close or higher than here. This is, of course, assuming the surgery is performed by a well-trained and respectable plastic surgeon. Regardless, if a complication should occur while you are in the U.S., most surgeons will charge you a full service fee, since you are not a returning patient. Also, some surgeons may be reluctant to take care of someone else's complication.
Intensive Care Unit and Cosmetic Surgery
Cosmetic surgery is, for the most part, performed on healthy patients. All patients should be at their optimum health and any medical conditions should be well controlled.
The only issue concerns a pulmonary embolism. This is when a blood clot from a deep vein of the leg travels to the lungs. The consequences can be mild to catastrophic. However, with the appropriate precautions such a leg squeezers called venodynes applied before surgery and early mobilization after surgery this can be avoided.
Many surgeons operate out of surgery centers not associated with a hospital. Personally I operate at a hospital with an ICU. Complications can happen and I think it's safer to be at a hospital with physicians that can assist with these things.
No need for ICU with breast augmentation
Intensive Care Units (ICU) is not an issue for the breast augmentation. If you know of plastic surgeon outside U.S and you feel comfortble with his before and after surery care, then it is OK to travel overseas for surgery.
The main concern is the after care if there is complication. The medical and lgal systems are are different in other countries and make sure to find out about your rights post surgery.
ICU in plastic surgery
It is obvious to me you have already decided to go to Mexico for your surgery. So why would having an ICU matter to you? You are already taking a chance on going to an area without the quality controls we have in the US. Is it really that much less expensive? There are areas in the US where you can get saline implants from $3900 or even less. I'm sure in NJ you can find one. Or call Global Medical Tourism to get a quote for in US. Regards
Breast Augmentation is safe, ICU not needed
BAM is routine and safe procedure. It is done as an outpatient procedure. I do it in hospitals, and surgery centers without any ICU's. In 16 years of practic, and years of training, I have never seen a patient go to an ICU as a result of BAM.
If this hospital has a history of sending patients to an ICU after BAM -- you need to ask yourself what the heck you are doing?
I really can't strongly enough discourage you from cosmetic surgery tourism in a third world country. It isn't worth any money you could save.
Why have surgery outside the country?
An ICU is not needed for routine plastic surgery and breast augmentation in particular. I am concerned for you that the hospital is telling you that the breast augmentation surgery can be very dangerous and that they think you might need an ICU. Perhaps you might consider looking locally for a board certified plastic surgery to help you choose a safe and predictable way of enhancing your breasts.
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Justin Has His Priorities Straight
Justin Has His Priorities Straight
Justin kicked off his European tour with a show in Belfast last night. The pop prince has been saying some pretty egotistical things lately but when we see him in his element like this we understand why he's a little full of himself. At least he redeems himself with cute quotes like this one. He recently said, "My priorities are my relationship with my mom, my family, my peace of mind, my friendships and my career... In that order." Sounds like JT sure has his priorities right. Perhaps that's why he has become so successful in life.
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MANILA - Landslides buried two families in the Philippines as they sheltered in their homes from Asia's latest deadly typhoon, which killed at least 16 people and left more than a dozen villages flooded yesterday.
Typhoon Parma cut a destructive path across the northern Philippines Saturday but spared the capital, Manila. It headed out to sea, and late yesterday was hovering less than 60 miles off the coast, where it was expected to stay for the next three days, forecasters said.
That was close enough to Taiwan to cause heavy rain on the island, where troops were evacuating some villages and loading sandbags in preparation for possible flooding.
Loreto Espineli, senior superintendent of the Philippine Police, said a family of five, including a 1-year-old boy, died when their home in
Officials had earlier listed four people as being killed in the typhoon in the Philippines.
Parma hit eight days after an earlier storm left Manila awash in the worst flooding in four decades, killing almost 300 people. Saturday's storm dropped more rain on the capital that slowed the cleanup and made conditions more miserable.
Parma was churning over the South China Sea late yesterday and was interacting with another typhoon much father east over the Pacific that caused it to hook back toward the Philippines, chief government forecaster Nathaniel Cruz said. It was not expected to hit the coast again, but could cause heavy rain for the next three days, Cruz said.
In southern Taiwan, roads were clogged with military trucks and cars taking villagers away from their flood- and mudslide-prone mountain homes.
The Central Weather Bureau said Parma would likely miss the island but heavy rains could still cause major problems. Tens of thousands of Filipinos fled to higher ground as Parma bore down on the main island of Luzon on Saturday, packing winds of 108 miles per hour and driving rain, officials said.


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I have to give our coaching staff credit for hanging with all of the injuries and the horrible calls tonight. You could tell they were trying to roll with the punches and work with what they had left.
Knowing that even an additional point off of a technical could mean the end of the game, they kept their composure and did their best to manufacture a win. They sure took the game a lot better than I did watching it. I hope someone sends a tape of this game to the league office because someone owes us an explanation.


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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – South African manganese producer Assmang will make further output cuts at its operations, owing to reduced demand for steelmaking materials.
Jan Steenkamp, CEO of the ferrous division of African Rainbow Minerals (Arm), which owns a 50% stake in Assmang, said on Friday that it planned to continue running its ferromanganese smelters at the Cato Ridge operations at 60% of capacity until at least September or October.
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It would review the situation in September or October, he said, adding that conditions remained uncertain. However, the number three and four furnaces would not likely be started up again in the next 12 months.
Further, it was planning to close all the smelters at its Machadodorp operations for about three months during the 2009 calendar year. The number one and five furnaces were still currently producing.
Steenkamp confirmed that a number of jobs would be lost at both the Cato Ridge and Machadodorp operations, but he would not be drawn on the exact number, saying the company was still discussing the matter with unions.
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Whether it's ash, dove, silver or slate, a light gray men's suit lends itself to tons of occasions, from business meetings to breezy spring weddings. Just as the beauty of the classic gray suit lies in its versatility, there are many viable and fashionable options for shoes to go with it. No matter what style of shoe you choose, always coordinate your shoes with your belt or suspenders and make sure they don't clash with your shirt or tie.
Both black and gray shoes go with gray suits, but the best match depends upon the shade of gray you're sporting. Unlike dark gray suits, which look best with dark browns and black, light gray suits work with black or virtually any shade of brown. While the black-and-gray combo gives your ensemble a powerful, understated look, "GQ" sings the praises of brown, noting that it gives your gray suit "more potential in the patina department." Light brown shoes in shades of tan and ochre lend a more bold and casual flavor to your light gray suit, while contrasting dark brown shoes add a little more formality.
Traditional Styles
If you're going for a strictly business look, avoid business-casual shoes and stick with leather-soled styles. Shoe styles such as oxfords and loafers make your suit conservative and business-safe, no matter what shade of gray you're sporting. Rubber soles are acceptable for more casual wear, however, but it's best to stick with thin, unobtrusive soles whenever possible. For a springier and slightly more daring look, pair your light gray suit with loafers, moccasin-style dress shoes or wingtips.
Boots with a clean, dress shoe-like toe and thin sole can work with a suit, so don't count them out if you're expecting cold or rainy weather. Many light gray suits come in durable fabrics such as flannel, wool, corduroy or tweed. These sturdy materials give you the freedom to pair your suit with a tougher, higher boot. In this case, the right boots add a subtle element of ruggedness to your look. Lighter fabrics such as linen and cotton, as well as very light shades of gray, call for less-substantial boots such as ankle boots or Cuban heels, the latter looking particularly nice in black.
Taking Style Risks
As the clothiers at Beckett and Robb point out, "Style is written in pencil, not ink." You know the basics: Don't pair your light gray suit with shoes of an identical shade, don't mix and match accessory colors, and so on. Outside of the timeless rules, feel free to experiment with your shoes. Give your light gray suit the slightest touch of flair with cap toes, brown suede or monkstrap shoes. If you're feeling particularly bold, go Elvis-style and pair a cool gray suit with navy suede shoes and a matching tie. Try the sockless look in brown leather loafers at a summer event. Don't fear texture. Especially if you have a pair of brown shoes with fine detail, such as brown wingtips -- pairing texture with a lightly textured gray suit can look absolutely striking.


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Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model Two out of the three major indices are trading lower today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading down 5 points (0.0%) at 15,100 as of Thursday, May 9, 2013, 12:45 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,176 issues advancing vs. 1,742 declining with 136 unchanged. The Diversified Services industry currently is unchanged today versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.21. Top gainers within the industry include Air Lease ( AL), up 4.2%, Mercadolibre ( MELI), up 2.3%, HMS Holdings Corporation ( HMSY), up 2.0%, Western Union Company ( WU), up 1.3% and Paychex ( PAYX), up 0.9%. On the negative front, top decliners within the industry include LivePerson ( LPSN), down 34.04, Maximus ( MMS), down 1.31, Washington Post Company ( WPO), down 1.35, H&R Block ( HRB), down 1.12 and CoStar Group ( CSGP), down 1.26. TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 5 stocks pushing the industry higher today: 5. AECOM Technology Corporation ( ACM) is one of the companies pushing the Diversified Services industry higher today. As of noon trading, AECOM Technology Corporation is up $0.35 (1.17) to $30.25 on light volume Thus far, 240,068 shares of AECOM Technology Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 927,100 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $29.72-$30.31 after having opened the day at $29.76 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $29.90. AECOM Technology Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides professional technical and management support services for commercial and government clients worldwide. AECOM Technology Corporation has a market cap of $3.1 billion and is part of the services sector. Shares are up 25.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 6 analysts that rate AECOM Technology Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 4 rate it a hold. TheStreet Ratings rates AECOM Technology Corporation as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, good cash flow from operations and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins. Get the full AECOM Technology Corporation Ratings Report now. Exclusive Offer: Jim Cramer's 'go-to' small/mid-cap guru Bryan Ashenberg only buys stocks he thinks could return 50-100%. See his top picks for 14-days FREE.
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Suse 9.2 package selections seems smaller
Anyone notice that the Suse 9.2 pacakage selection on the DVD doesn't seem to have all the goodies that one is used to seeing?
I have to removable hard-drives bays 1 has Fedora and number 2 is now Suse 9.2, When I install it and get to the software selection. I choose package list and darned if I'm a bit amazed that it seems rather bare.
Gosh, look in the games and compare to suse 9.1 or fedora.
I never could find kopete or even ftp servers.
Just in general it seems like you don't get the choices for software and applications like you used to get.
I've not noticed a difference.
9.2 comes on a double layer DVD, 9.0 came on a two sided DVD. A few packages were removed because they were no longer supported by the devs or unnecessary duplicates of better programs, but that is a minor change. If any thing else is different, I'm unaware of it.
The public avl. DVD for 9.2 is a single sided .iso with limited programs. There are quite a few things I didn't find on the DVD.
Are you refering to the Purchase / Retail DVD of 9.2 being a Double-Layer DVD?
Yes I am. I forgot that the downloadable .iso would have to be smaller to fit on a single DVD. All the other packages you might need are on the mirrors, AFAIK. (Except the good version of mplayer and the codecs...)
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DG Technologies team to develop the OnStar TTY Interface Module (OTIM)
Beginning in 2007, General Motors OnStar began to offer in-vehicle services to deaf, hard of hearing, and speech-impaired subscribers through the use of a dealer-installed TTY interface module, developed and produced by DG Technologies.
This TTY interface, called the "OnStar TTY Interface Module (OTIM)" delivers OnStar services via TTY text messages. A dial pad also provides access to OnStar's Hands-Free Calling capability.
To connect to OnStar, simply push the OnStar button and a dedicated OnStar TTY Advisor will be ready to assist you. The OnStar TTY Interface Module (OTIM) is connected directly to the OnStar system before you leave the dealership so that your OnStar service is available as quickly and seamlessly as possible. Included with the system is a TTY device and dial pad for use in the vehicle.
Select model year GM vehicles are eligible for OnStar TTY services and equipment. This TTY equipment is currently available for reimbursement under the GM Mobility Reimbursement Program, so it's available at little or no additional cost to you. Also, customers who apply for and receive GM Mobility reimbursement for OnStar TTY equipment on one of the eligible GM vehicles listed below will receive two additional years of standard OnStar Service (after first year of included service) at no additional cost.
Once your TTY equipment is installed in your vehicle, OnStar services will be available to you based on your subscription plan (excluding OnStar Turn-by-Turn Navigation and Virtual Advisor). If you have the Directions & Connections subscription plan, driving directions and point-of-interest locations can be delivered via the TTY device. Please note, lengthy or intricate routes may be cumbersome.
For more information about obtaining this device, just click the logo below:
About OnStar
OnStar offers an unparalleled combination of safety, security, and convenience services to help keep you and your family safe while traveling. With 24/7 connectivity to a dedicated OnStar TTY Advisor, you have the peace of mind of knowing that when you need help, OnStar can pinpoint your location and quickly contact emergency services on your behalf.
About DG Technologies
DG Technologies specializes in the design and development of intelligent software and hardware protocol interface devices for the in-vehicle and controller area network markets.


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The Fortuna Fire Department will be the place to be on May 18 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. as local children come together to help one of their beloved role models in the community, Ed Houseworth.
The children with the supervision of adults who have come together as 'Team Ed Houseworth' are planning a dance. Ed's daughter Abby who attends Toddy Thomas has formed a committee of classmates to help plan the dance details. The dance will be for grades four through eight, from any schools.
The dance will have a cover charge of $5. There will be drinks, snacks, and glow sticks for sale throughout the evening. Music will be provided by Ed's high school classmates, and Mike and Tracy Benbow's seventh-grade daughter, Haley Benbow.
All proceeds will go to "Team Houseworth" to help with uncovered expenses for the family.
Ed is all about community and family and so this dance is themed about "date night" for families. Adults are encouraged to drop their children off to the safe supervised dance environment and go enjoy an evening out together.
If you would like to help out with the event, make a donation, or find out more information contact Team Ed Houseworth on Facebook or Jodi Cook at 499-1111.


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ACR folding stock for AK 47?
Nice drawing ;). But i think it won't be proportional as the stock is big. While the AK/ Draco body itself is slim. Just saying..
Oh btw, i noticed u posted the same threads in different categories? U don't need to do that though. As usually people reading this forum via the app or computer, can just go straight by clicking "new posts". Just saying.. ;)
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Here is audio of Rush Limbaugh today on his radio show where he interviewed Sen. Jim DeMint on the news that DeMint will leave the U.S. Senate to take leadership of the conservative Heritage Foundation.
One of the founders of the Heritage Foundation – Ed Feulner – was also on with Rush and announced DeMint as the new leader of the influential conservative foundation.
Rush Limbaugh Interviews Sen. Jim DeMint on News He Will Leave the Senate to Assume Leadership of the "Heritage Foundation" – Audio 12/6/12
BREAKING: Republican U.S. Senator from South Carolina, Jim DeMint, will resign from the Senate December 31 to take the helm of the conservative Heritage Foundation. . . .
Wow. WSJ reports Jim DeMint, two years into term, will leave Senate in January, head Heritage Foundation. ow.ly/fStUV— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 6, 2012
Sen. @jimdemint to Become @heritage's Next President! Details: herit.ag/11KQWA3— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) December 6, 2012
Breaking: Senator Jim DeMint announced that he will leave the Senate to become the next president of The Heritage Foundation-— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) December 6, 2012
A stunning development inside the GOP.RT @heritage Sen. @jimdemint to Become @heritage's Next President! Details: herit.ag/11KQWA3— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) December 6, 2012
TheDC's @mattklewis: Jim DeMint resigning from the Senate to run the Heritage Foundation – bit.ly/REnVEc— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 6, 2012
BREAKING: GOP U.S. Senator Jim DeMint to Resign from Senate and take the Helm of the "Heritage Foundation" – 12/6/12
In case you missed it, here is complete video of the GOP Presidential Debate that took place last night, November 22, 2011, in Washington D.C. The debate was co-sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, along with CNN. It focused on National Security, but also included some Economic and Domestic Policy Questions.
Also: Assessing Winners and Losers from the CNN GOP Presidential Debate – 11/22/11
Complete Video of the CNN GOP Presidential Debate – 11/22/11
The GOP Presidential Candidates will square off again tonight – for the 11th time – in a debate on CNN, and also sponsored by The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. The debate will be held in the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. The debate will focus on Foreign Policy and National Security issues, but not exclusively:
CNN: The Republican presidential candidates face off Tuesday night just a few blocks from the place they all hope to call home: the White House.
The candidates share the stage at DAR Constitution Hall, just down the street from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. CNN is teaming up with leading Republican-leaning think tanks Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute to host a debate that focuses heavily on national security and foreign policy issues, but which will also include top economic concerns, including the failure of the congressional super committee to find agreement to cut $1.2 trillion from the country's long-term debt.
The debate is the 11th major showdown between the Republican candidates and the first in 10 days.
It's also the first in which former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is firmly among the front-runners in national surveys, deadlocked with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the top spot in the nomination race. . . . Read More
Incomparable Conservative Bill Bennett has written a piece that previews tonight's debate, focusing on the new frontrunner status of Newt Gingrich:
CNN: Heading into Tuesday night's CNN debate, co-hosted by the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute, the revolving GOP presidential field has a new front-runner: Newt Gingrich.
Newt's rise has been a long time coming. Early on, his candidacy barely had a pulse. His campaign staff resigned en masse in June. The extravagant Tiffany's bills were easy fodder for his critics. And, worst of all, he attacked Paul Ryan on "Meet The Press," calling his budget proposal "right wing social engineering."
At that point, conservative commentators, including myself, were ready to write Gingrich off entirely. But since then, thanks to his own determination and energy (and intellect), Gingrich has rebounded admirably. He's become in his own way the spokesman for the GOP presidential field. . . . Read More
Republican Presidential Candidates to Debate Tonight on CNN; Focus to be on Foreign Policy, but Not Exclusively – 11/22/11
As we continue to approach the 100th birthday of President Ronald Reagan on February 6, here is a great video from the Heritage Foundation that reminds us through the words of Reagan that it can once again become "Morning in America."
Remembering President Ronald Reagan: It Can Once Again be "Morning in America" – Video
Here is another outstanding video from Heritage.org on the reform no one is talking about, but the one that is desperately needed: Welfare Reform.
Brandon Stewart at Heritage's, "The Foundry" blog, has all the information on how "Welfare Can and Must be Reformed." Great video!


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You could say Chrysler has the red, white and blues. Despite spending nine years under German ownership, Chrysler remains the most American-focused of Detroit's Big Three automakers. The company which was sold in August by Germany's Daimler to the private equity firm Cerberus for $7.4 billion is more dependent upon the U.S. market than either General Motors or Ford. Only 8% of Chrysler cars are sold outside North America. While, in decades past, that may have been a sensible strategy, this concentration is increasingly a liability as U.S. market growth has slowed, and competition from imports is revving up. Indeed, Chrysler's first half domestic sales were down 2.3% from 2006, a year in which it posted a $1.5 billion loss. "Given how competitive the U.S. market has become, for us to grow, we need to address that balance," says Michael Manley, the Detroit-based executive vice president who is steering Chrysler's international efforts.
That means going global. Chrysler is particularly looking to sell cars in fast-growing developing markets, notably China and Russia. But it also expects to increase sales in mature markets, including Western Europe and Japan. In Europe, for instance, it's adding 100 new dealerships to aid that effort. Chrysler executives say their minimum goal is to double foreign sales to 400,000 cars within five years. That's an achievable target, according to Jeremy Anwyl, chief executive of auto research website edmunds.com. "They're looking to double from a low base, so they're giving themselves a little wiggle room."
Early results are encouraging. Chrysler's non-U.S. sales jumped 10% in the second quarter of this year, and it anticipates selling 250,000 cars overseas by the end of 2007. Currently, Western Europe accounts for about half of Chrysler's sales abroad. That percentage will drop to 35% to 40% as it ramps up efforts in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Analyst Jay Nagley of consultant Spyder Automotive wonders why Chrysler even bothers with Western Europe, a very developed, tough market. It should, he says, concentrate on emerging markets. "At least in those countries, everyone is starting from scratch." But Chrysler's Manley says Western Europe is too large a market to ignore, especially since Chrysler has an existing dealership network in place there that it can build on. Back at home, ironically, the problem is too many dealerships. So the company is continuing to close some while increasing the number of its foreign outlets. The automaker has around 5,250 dealers, about a quarter of them overseas. Manley says the total number of dealerships will remain static, but the share of foreign showrooms will grow to 35%.
Chrysler's overseas push also includes making more models available globally. In the U.K., for example, 18 models will be on offer by next year, up from six in 2003. Nevertheless, Chrysler cars still reflect the company's domestic orientation. "They're built for American drivers and U.S. conditions," Anwyl says, which could limit their appeal in foreign markets. But Manley says Chrysler began addressing that problem in 2003, when it started taking international needs into account. It's tripling the number of cars available with right-hand drive, for instance, and quadrupling to 16 the number with a diesel engine option. It also launched its Dodge brand overseas for the first time last year with the introduction of the compact Caliber. This summer, two other Dodge models debuted worldwide: the Avenger, a midsize sedan; and the Nitro, a midsize SUV.
The positioning of Dodge as a global brand puzzles John Monks, a Detroit-based analyst with Autopolis, a consulting group. "Jeep is its only brand with real appeal." Manley admits that "a lot of people [overseas] don't know Dodge," which makes it harder to market. But Dodge is the only Chrysler brand producing small cars, which are popular in Asia and Latin America. Certainly the Caliber is so far doing well: its first-year overseas sales overseas should hit 35,000 to 40,000.
Chrysler's global plans also include licensing production to local carmakers in some developing countries, which it says is the fastest way to introduce products in overseas markets. China's South East Motors began producing Grand Voyager minivans in August under a licensing arrangement. And Manley says licensed production of Chrysler cars in Russia could begin "within the year." Jumping into emerging markets and using joint ventures are "very attractive propositions," Anwyl says, but "these things take time." But as foreign rivals increasingly put the squeeze on Chrysler on its home turf, it can't afford to take a leisurely scenic route to global success. Chrysler's biggest worry is it left it too late to put its international ambitions into high gear.