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Amid ribboncutting banter, the serious arrival of Draper Laboratory in Tampa Bay
As ribbon cuttings go, this morning's ThankYouFest at the new Draper Laboratory "multi-chip module" (MCM) facility off Gandy Boulevard in St. Petersburg wasn't bad theater. Draper, the MIT spin-off based in Cambridge, Mass., held a 10 am ceremony recognizing all the various partnerships, federal and state legislators, states, counties, cities and economic development groups that played some part in greasing the wheels to get Draper to open two facilities in Tampa Bay. The second facility, 10,000 square feet (soon to double in size) is a bioengineering operation literally inside a University of South Florida building off Fowler Avenue in Tampa. That ribbon cutting takes place at 2pm.
Here's a short synopsis of the morning ceremony, which was handled by master of ceremony Len Polizzotto, the "face" of Draper in Florida thus far, an apparent rock and roll drummer in his rare spare time and the closest thing to a nanotech-stand-up comic I've encountered -- granted, a slim category. When Polizzotto, who is short, was about to introduce St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker, who is tall, Polizzotto climbed a step ladder behind the podium to be on equal footing. The quick mayor responded by bounding to the podium -- on his knees. (See photo above, by Cherie Diez of the St. Petersburg Times.)
We may have witnessed a Guinness Book of World Record in the frequency of "Thank You!" expressed by the following speakers:Draper's Polizzotto, Progress Energy Florida CEO Vince Dolan, Rep. Bill Young, Mayor Baker, Pinellas County Commission chairman Calvin Harris, USF president Judy Genshaft, Pinellas County economic development director Mike Meidel, St. Petersburg Downtown Partnershhip chief Peter Betzer and Draper CEO James Shields. (See photo, left)
As Shields deadpanned: "If you were looking for the pitcher with a 95 mile-per-hour fastball, I am not that James Shields" -- referring to the Tampa Bay Rays starter.
Jovial banter aside, Draper's now operating from a building, complete with a "clean room" for high-tech manufacturing, once owned by Oerlikon. Draper bought the building and, with upgrades, spent more than $10 million. "Multi-chip modules" or MCMs are miniaturized chips that Draper makes for -- to use the company's words -- "its sponsors" which pretty much means Homeland Security and Defense Department clients. It was also pointed out that in Draper's history, it was a key factor in guidance systems to get men on the moon, and Draper technology is a fundamental in our ballistic missile system.
We'll be hearing more from Draper, for sure. And thanks for asking.
-- Robert Trigaux, Times Business Columnist


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Matt Jones Faces Drug Charges: She Don't Lie, She Don't Lie, She Don't Lie...July 10, 2008
... (everybody, now!) Cocaine.
Well, if anyone was looking for a reason as to why many feel Matt Jones is a little lazy and unmotivated, doing white lines in the back of 4Runner after midnight in an unlit parking lot in Fayetteville may be a good place to start.
Former Arkansas QB and current Jacksonville Jaguar Matt Jones was arrested earlier this morning on felony drug possession charges in the backseat of a Toyota 4Runner. Cocaine and marijuana residue were found in the vehicle along with two other men—former Arkansas TE Jared Hicks was in the driver's seat, and Ben Cook was in the front passenger seat.
Here's a copy of the police report. Umm, without saying anything too specific, can anyone see potential problems regarding the fact that they've posted this type of information for the whole world to see?
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The Rightwing Roots of Bush's Foreign PolicyNews Abroad
Polls show that Americans have grown increasingly disillusioned with President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq. Most people view this as a product of the Bush administration's hubris or mistakes rather than a failure of its ideology. Yet what is particularly striking is how much the problems in Iraq stem from longstanding conservative and neoconservative policies and strategies. Pre-emptive war, unilateralism, a disregard for international treaties, contorted legal interpretations, and the manipulation of intelligence reports, have characterized not merely President Bush's efforts, but more than a half century of conservative thinking and leadership.
When President Bush proclaimed his doctrine of pre-emptive war at West Point in June, 2002, commentators described this as a bold departure. But many conservatives had long advocated an aggressive strike-first policy in its foreign affairs pronouncements. As early as 1950, James Burnham, one of the most influential fathers of modern conservatism, advanced a theory of "preventative war," arguing that in the battle against the Soviet Union, it might be necessary for the United States to launch a war in order to secure peace. The notion remained at the core of conservative thinking as an alternative to Cold War policies of containment and détente. Throughout the lengthy and ominous confrontation with the Soviet Union, "preventative war" inspired relatively few adherents outside of the radical right. President Bush and his neoconservative advisers, however, resurrected it in the aftermath of September 11 and employed it as the primary basis for the Iraq invasion.
Conservatives similarly preached the virtues of unilateralism and aggressive military strength as the keys to foreign policy. This included not only the deep-seated hostility to the United Nations displayed by President Bush in the buildup to the Iraq war, but an imbedded suspicion of all international alliances and treaties. The Bush Administration has balked at enforcing even such basic agreements as the Geneva Conventions that govern the treatment of prisoners of war. The Justice Department, under John Ashcroft, sought and developed questionable legal opinions that would absolve the United States from applying the principles of the pact, leading in no small part to the disgrace at Abu Ghraib.
This legal manipulation to evade international standards also has a clear precedent in conservative thinking. In supporting Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), conservatives bristled under the constraints of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. The ABM Treaty specified that "Each party undertakes not to develop, test, or deploy ABM systems or components…that are space-based." On the eve of the 1985 Geneva Summit, Reagan's first meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, conservatives suddenly introduced a new "broad interpretation" of the pact. Hardliners in the Reagan administration now claimed that the ABM Treaty, despite its specific language barring space-based applications, left open the possibility of developing systems based on new technologies not in existence in 1972.
This "broad interpretation" constituted not only a rejection of the ABM accord as it had been generally understood for over a decade, but an unprecedented assertion that the executive branch could independently reinterpret any longstanding international agreement. State Department legal adviser Abraham B. Sofaer claimed that an examination of the original ABM negotiation transcripts, which remained classified, supported this conclusion. A congressional investigation of the documents, however, and subsequent testimony by Sofaer himself, revealed that the transcripts in no way endorsed a "broad interpretation." The entire affair had been a legal subterfuge to evade the ABM Treaty and create a loophole for the development of SDI.
Perhaps most striking are the parallel abuses in intelligence gathering in the 1970s and 1980s and those leading up to the Iraq invasion. The Bush administration, as we now know, ignored intelligence reports that failed to support their contentions that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and was linked to Al Qaeda and seized upon any evidence, no matter how questionable, that supported its position.
In the mid-1970s, neoconservatives united under the banner of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), charged that the CIA had grossly underestimated the Soviet military and nuclear threat. At CPD urging, CIA Director George H.W. Bush created an "independent" Team B, several of whose members belonged to the CPD, to reassess Soviet capabilities.
Not surprisingly, Team B concluded that the Soviet Union had achieved military superiority over the United States. Its findings became the basis for the massive Reagan-era defense buildup. When in the mid-1980s the CIA determined that Team B estimates had wildly overstated Soviet defense spending, the Reagan administration refused to acknowledge the more accurate assessments. Similarly, when the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research questioned Soviet involvement in world terrorism, a core conservative belief, administration officials rejected the reports.
The disastrous missteps and deceptions of the George W. Bush foreign policy team thus represent not an aberration, but a continuation of principles and practices inherent among the dominant faction of modern American conservatism. In part this is true because many of the same people—Vice President Richard Cheney, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and others—remain at the center of the decision-making process. But given its track record, and the broader foreign policy assumptions of the Republican leadership, the time has come for Americans to question not just the personnel of the current administration, but its bedrock philosophy and values. The debacle in Iraq has laid bare the shortcomings of the conservative worldview. Americans must recognize this if the nation is to reconstruct a viable foreign policy for the post-Iraq era.
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Peter K. Clarke - 10/9/2007
Ephraim, your well-written English is better than that of most people for whom it is the first language. But, I think you are overly optimistic about the long-term international attention-span of most Americans.
Furthermore, even if there had been a strong enduring public commitment in the U.S. after 9-11 to, for example, spend $100 billion a year for twenty years to remake Iraq, wouldn't the support have been even stronger for, and the money even better spent on, forcing reform on Saudi Arabia and Pakistan instead? The Iraqis might then have even found a way to topple Saddam themselves. Instead we had possibly the all-time most extreme gamble of American foreign policy history conducted at the hands of one of the least competent leaders ever, giving us all the lies about WMD, the stupid insults to the world community, the looting of a whole country while we stood by helpless, followed by terror bombings, the Abu Ghraib horrors, and Osama -or his 100 Iraq-inspired successors (now probably)- laughing in his/their cave.
As for your German and Japanese analogy, I fear you are misinformed. The victims of (turned victors over) German and Japanese aggression treated them after 1945 much better than those victims had been treated by Germans and Japanese before 1945. That lesson in optimistic generosity was far more powerful and has yielded vastly greater benefit to American security and international democracy than the highest paid and best trained Halliburton mercenaries and all the solitary wonders of ten thousand internet cafes
Peter K. Clarke - 10/9/2007
The "conservative worldview" postulated here is largely an artificial and unhistorical construct. George Bush Senior, for example, pursued what by most commonly understood standards was a "conservative" foreign policy. His "New World Order" reflected a desire to preserve many features of U.S. Cold War policy even after the collapse of the USSR (which his administration had little to do with): support for NATO, the UN, the EU, and adherence to traditional diplomacy and arrangements with other countries. The purpose of the Gulf War was simply to restore the status of Iraq and Kuwait ex ante by using a cautious and carefully multilateral build-up to military involvement in line with the "Powell doctrine". No regime change, no doctrine of preventative attack, no wild experimentation with waging war on the cheap, no confused conflating of war with terrorism, no arrogant thumbing of the nose at the UN. A typical "liberal" world view would have been somewhat different, however - contemplation of more sweeping changes in NATO after the fall of the Iron curtain, for instance- and would not have been as deaf to the human rights violations in Yugoslavia, and Iraq (suppression of the Shia and Kurd uprisings after the Gulf War).
Junior Bush's foreign policy has been opposite in many ways to that of his pappy. Traditional conservative caution has been thrown out the window along with the Powell Doctrine. The manifestation of suicide terrorism (nothing new) has been cynically used to rationalize an unworkable, unconservative and wasteful attempt to conduct an unwinnable so-called "war" on evil. 50 years of American bipartisan foreign policy has been ignored, and typical conservative values of prudence, respect for tradition, and limited government have been made a mockery of.
Peter K. Clarke - 10/9/2007
"Self-defense" when applied to countries of millions of inhabitants is a dubious concept with a notorious past.
I doubt whether any self-described conservatives today would want to praise the "regard for self-defense" thunderously claimed by Germany in 1914 and 1939, or the USSR in Hungary (1956) or Czechoslovakia (1968). Nor do I recall the term being used by notable conservative minds such as Burke or Goldwater.
Peter K. Clarke - 10/9/2007
Ephraim, you are out to lunch on a far desert isle.
Chivalry, fencing, and chess are not the issues here. The issue is whether the Bush administration's policy and actions fundamentally reflect some kind of "worldview" consistent with a "half century of conservative thinking and leadership". As outlined above, this is basically a crock. It represents a convenient but unworkable ploy by lazy, self-styled "progressives" to avoid doing their historical homework.
My critiques of the administration are manifestly NOT "based on how they (and many others) define a threat" or how they "define conservatism", or even how they abuse and insult conservatism. My critiques, and those of thousands of liberals, moderates, conservatives, (and atheists, theists, blondes, brunettes, redheads, rednecks, red meat lovers and vegans) are based instead on the Bush's administration's manifest ineptitude, and its arrogant inability to listen to sound advice, admit errors, and get a clue as to the long term interests of the country.
For selfish political reasons -to try to shore up a weak and lackluster presidency, and deflect attention from its manifold screw-ups in failing to prepare for, or even sanely respond to, the biggest disaster ever on American soil- Bush chose to squander the international solidarity which followed 9-11, and to ignore the advice from conservatives and others re going into Iraq multilaterally, and with a realistic and workable long term plan for nation-building (which Bush had said, in an earlier more honest moment that he would not (i.e. could not) do). He and his arrogant, crooked cronies instead sent our young men and women in as cannon fodder, using a non-strategy of winging it, gambling foolishly on some new pro-American "strongman" emerging in Iraq, and committing blunder after blunder to boot. America will being paying the price, for years to come, of having put its foreign policy into the slippery hands of these chickenhawk neophyte phony-imperialists.
Deposing Saddam was an improvement over merely containing him with sanctions, air patrols, and inspections. Doing so in such a grossly incompetent manner as to spawn hundreds of Bin Ladens (Sadrs, etc) in the process is a big long term setback for America's security.
Peter K. Clarke - 10/9/2007
Ephraim, your double negative "lost focus" is lost on me.
As for the (obviously rhetorical) diverse and sundry laundry list of those criticizing Bush for his practical failures rather than his supposed ideology (in my previous comment): This was (I thought not too obscurely) a semi-sarcastic comment reflecting my general disgust at how the American news media in general, and this website, and this article, in particular, are foolishly addicted to the ridiculous practice of trying to jam every public policy question into an archaic and largely useless "liberal vs conservative" or even more semantically stupid "left-right" straitjacket.
To the substance then, of your last comment. In a very roundabout way, you seem to be saying that my criticisms of Bush's foreign policy are weakened by my not describing a clear alternative. Well, I am not giving up my day job to run for president, but as one important element of such an alternative, consider the now jettisoned "Powell Doctrine". As I recall this philosophy (articulated by the then articulate general, who is now an incompetent and disgraced bootlicking Secretary of State) held that America should not go to war without (1) a clear objective, (2) a clear exit strategy, (3) very strong popular support, and (4) using overwhelming force that guaranteed victory. W. Bush in Iraq was not as clear as he could have been on (1), muffed (4) pretty badly (not enough troops to, for example, keep Sadr from getting mortars and the mosque), and all but ignored (2) and (3). His reasons for doing so -beyond his incompetence- were, I think, mainly a forced result of an equally serious shortcoming: no workable strategy for what to do AFTER toppling the Baathists.
Any objective policy analyst worth a damn was saying very clearly in 2002 that it would take years, if not decades, and a massive American commitment in order to not have Iraq revert to something almost as bad if not worse than Saddam, if he were forcibly overthrown by America. A sensible and competent U.S. president following an sensible and pragmatic foreign policy would have (a) exhausted the alternatives to invasion (armed inspections, armed distribution of food and medicine, indigenous rebellion etc.) thereby gaining international support, (b) built a case for invasion on human rights grounds (e.g. Saddam's undisputed past war crimes), (c) anchored a position of regime change in Iraq within a credible overall Mideast strategy, and then (d) either waited for a suitable provocation or delivered a carefully packaged unfulfillable ultimatum. (Read the history books that the C-average history student president failed to read for copious past examples of how to start a war without looking like the bad guy). Under such an approach there would have been at least a decent chance of fulfilling prerequisites (2) and (3) above. With or without Saddam still in power, America would then be safer and stronger internationally for the coming decades than it is with the lasting mess Bush has created.
E. Simon - 8/26/2004
E. Simon - 8/26/2004
Thanks Peter, I appreciate that. This has been engaging.
I think we're getting around to addressing opportunities. Saudi Arabia certainly plays an unhelpful role and occupies an unhelpful position in our foreign policy, but modifying energy policy will take a very long time to effect the changes necessary to provide us the kind of leverage we current lack with Bani Sa'ud. Pakistan, too - a problem area with a large population and a strong infrastructure of terrorist cells, but to some degree this has to do with the too-long institution of Afghanistan as al Qaeda's safe haven, a country with which it shares a very porous border. This set-up applies to both pre-war and post-war situations. Should Musharraf liberalize? I doubt the time is right socially given the internal strength of al Qaeda's sympathizers. Further, you have to place Musharraf's position in the context of Pakistan's political history. Typically military coups are not a good thing, but the previous regime was seen as overly corrupt, in a way in which the current regime is not. Musharraf is arguably our most useful (and helpful) foreign leader in the larger war on terror, and I doubt that any antipathy on his part against political liberalism is deeply-ingrained, ideological or pathological. I think there is just too much power, instability and support for terrorism in the country's religious institutions right now for democratization to set the agenda.
Iraq, for better or for worse, held the opportunity that the previous two examples lacked. The people were ready to junk the regime, and its leader's actions toward us provided the legal rationale that we were ready to capitalize on as a legitimate basis for conflict. (There already was quite a bit of uncondoned and conflagrating activity coming from him against our aircraft in the no-fly zones, and worse). The fall-out from France's untimely withdrawn position, initially supporting use of force (I think this is called a chapter 8) for 1441, was certainly not expected, and Powell the commited diplomat took personally his lost face over the issue. Had it not been for that comparatively tiny technicality there would have never been this row over inconsistencies in our interpretation of international law. By then our military build-up of over 300,000 troops in the gulf had forced Saddam to cave, but we could no longer afford to look the paper tiger willing to build-up troops for such measly ends as allowing the inspections he was obligated to authorize in the first place, despite his prior behavior to the contrary. Someone had to blink first and it wasn't going to be the U.S.
Displaying generosity is certainly an incredibly important aspect of any successful attempt at nation-building. We are becoming better at sorting out the terms with which generosity will apply to the likes of people such as Sadr, for instance, with initial offers of amnesty to be followed by military decapitation should he refuse to reciprocate. In the meantime, this back and forth will afford the general populace an opportunity to learn which political and military actors are truly on their side, and commited to a vision of Iraq that will work best for them. There should be less of a disconnect between our real improvements in infrastructure and the reception with which they've been met - and this is an important point of criticism. However, structural and economic improvements will continue to become more tangible as the polity matures, and oil revenues will make financial assistance obsolete within a few years. Physical improvements in infrastructure are slow, but clearly visible.
I never really bought into the WMD thing. I looked at the political and geopolitical (and [Bush's] personal) picture from the beginning. I realized by fall of 2002 that he was determined to do it and accepted that as long as he was, there were definitely some positive things that could come out of it in the long run. But that doesn't change the fact that France legitimately did (buy the WMD thing), the UK did, the US did, the Israelis did, etc. Certainly the Bush administration, incompetent or not, did not have the power to control multiple foreign intelligence bureaus.
Arnold Shcherban - 8/21/2004
Peter amd Ephraim,
Instead of playing that obsolete (for the whole world
outside the US) partisan blame-game, you, as HISTORIANS, have to admit that the core of the US foreign policy
has always been(and continue being) the strife for world
economic, ideological and political supremacy, sometimes
maskaraded (by the "strategical" interests, national security interests, support for "democracy and human rights", etc.), often in open violation of international laws and agreements, or specifically designed interpretation, i.e. misinterpretation of the latter.
I'm talking about any White House administration, Republican or Democrat, alike, over the last century
of the foreign policy.
This country has never been suspending its strife for
the above mentioned supremacy, and AGAINST DEMOCRATIC
national movements in other regions of the world.
Walter X. McElligott - 8/19/2004
It did not take a poll to show me "Americans have grown increasingly disillusioned with President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq..." Like most people who have awakened to find they have been lied to, not G. W.
Bush personally, but by "the Bush administration's hubris or mistakes..."
as well as "a failure of... "conservative and neoconservative policies and strategies..." of the Reagan, & both Bush administrations. Most disgusting is that "[p]re-emptive war" would be a post-[s]election centerpiece of the cadre of Bush II puppetmasters.
Was it not embarrassing that 48% of American voters supported the conservative leadership that brought us 9/11/01 & active terrorist acts to our shores. Of course, no one predicted "unilateralism, [&] a disregard for international treaties would bring destruction to so many & so much on a mass scale, but apparently Bush II thought that ignoring the effect on us of the rest of the world's problems would make them go away.
We tried that as kids & closing our eyes did not make us invisible to friends, nor did Bush's ignorance of world events protect us from those who hate us. The result: 3000 dead on 9/11 & nearly 1000 murdered in an unnecessary war wanted by a small number of conservative war mongers. My sympathy goes out to all families ripped asunder by george bush's twisted thinking.
After the 9/11 tragedy, Bush's Justice Department, under Ashcroft, an ex-GOP senator needing a job we were blessed by "contorted legal interpretations, and the manipulation of intelligence reports... not merely Bush's efforts, but more than a half century of conservative thinking and leadership..."
Bush & Co. then preached the virtue of "aggressive military strength" as one of the keys to his foreign policy, which included "deep-seated hostility to the United Nations displayed... in the buildup to the Iraq war, [&] an imbedded suspicion of all international alliances and treaties..." Yet, when rank & file soldiers adhered to the (apparently
new) Bush Administration shift in "enforcing... basic agreements as the Geneva Conventions..." they find themselves scapegoats to "questionable legal opinions... leading in no small part to the disgrace at Abu Ghraib...."
Where was the otherwise omnipresent judicial activism that ignored Florida voting irregularities & put Bush II in the White House when the supreme court justices who owe their lifetime appointments to conservative republicans saw the occurrence of obvious "legal manipulation to evade international standards...." Or, was the "clear precedent in conservative thinking... of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative..." sufficient for this court to collectively be adorned with the blindfold worn by Lady Justice?
Hopefully, voters will recognize that the Bush kingdom has outlived its existence, in that both george's seem to have a problem dealing with "intelligence reports that failed to support their contentions..."
whether "Hussein possessed [WMD or] was linked to Al Qaeda..." "[A]ny evidence, no matter how questionable, that supported [Bush's] position was good enough to present to the nation & the world as a truthful reason for America's first 21st century preemptive invasion of another sovereign nation.
In the mid-1970s, ((George H.W.) Bush I as the "CIA Director created an "independent" Team..." that overassessed Soviet capabilities, & "concluded that the Soviet Union had achieved military superiority over the United States..." findings which "became the basis for the massive Reagan-era defense buildup...." If Bush II saw how his father "in the mid-1980s... had wildly overstated Soviet defense spending... [for] the Reagan administration [that] refused to acknowledge the more accurate assessments." We need freedom from the "core conservative belief" now evident in officials who ran both Bush administrations Americans must be able to belive what our president says & not reject out of hand reports arising from the White House rather than the "disastrous missteps and deceptions of the George W. Bush foreign policy team..."
We must discontinue "principles and practices inherent among the dominant... modern American conservatism..." by emptying DC officialdom of "many of the same people... Vice President Richard Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, and others... at the center of the decision-making process."
The "track record, and... broader foreign policy assumptions of the Republican leadership..." have taken America to a "time... to question...the current administration... bedrock philosophy and values... laid bare [by] the shortcomings of the conservative worldview... to reconstruct a viable foreign policy for the post-Iraq era."
Walter X. McElligott
E. Simon - 8/18/2004
Make that "precedent of sorts" in the last paragraph. I am certainly not arguing that this strategy, and certainly not that these tactics, should be necessarily repeated.
E. Simon - 8/18/2004
This is much more substantive. I agree with you on the nearly useless distinction between right and left, or at least the prevailing obsession with which it is pursued in most pedestrian analyses. The Powell doctrine is a tight prescription that can certainly ensure success better than almost any other military recipe, but I think Saddam's monopolizing the international agenda for over a decade speaks to the fluidity between military and political perspectives. Was the first Gulf war a military success? By almost any measure. But the ability of Casa Hussein to monopolize the international agenda for nearly 10 years later by politically exploiting our "containment" of it was indicative of a longer-term political failure. Starving Iraq's children was not gaining us any allies in the regoin where we needed it and was often cited by the rejectionists as proof of why they felt their hatred of us, and acts of terror against us, were justified.
The Iraqi adventure was pursued in a manner that can understandably be criticized as slipshod, without a doubt. Politically and military things don't necessary look all that good right now, I accept that. But I doubt that the medium and long-term picture won't make up for the current shortcomings. As far as the long-term commitment goes, I think it is quite unlikely that things could be worse than before, and much more likely that they will be better. The (un)fortunate thing about the having a guy like Hussein in power for 30 years is people develop a very clear understanding of what they don't want. Internet cafes sprouting up throughout Baghdad are not the answer to everything, and building a functioning democracy doesn't take place overnight, but I believe that the proliferation of vehicles of mass communication and networking are a tremendous boon to accelerating the pace of democratization in any society.
It was hard to predict how to go about the aftermath. Much of it, I'm sure, has been played out as the events developed. But the opposition to the former regime was and remains willing, and they are getting stronger. In contrast to the German and Japanese occupations, we don't have the burden of needing to erase years of brainwashed indoctrination into an unquestioningly accepted nationalist mindset. The overall Mideast strategy which you await (which is commonly understood to employ a significant deviation from denying democracy and stabilizing dictatorships) will be much easier to understand and more clearly pursued once this precedent has been successfully concluded.
E. Simon - 8/17/2004
Both my geographical proximity to, and my serious interest in, the same heavily populated areas shared by other potential American victims of terror, do not prevent me from subjectivizing this discussion to a point of lost focus.
While your anger with regards to Bush's "missteps" I find legitimate, your arguments overall come across as at least as muddled as the policies you derail. Although politics may make for strange bedfellows, I am quite certain that your complaints with Bush do not line up perfectly with every one made by those "thousands of liberals, moderates, conservatives, (and atheists, theists, blondes, brunettes, redheads, rednecks, red meat lovers and vegans)" to whom you refer. "(A)rrogant, crooked cronies" aside, I'm not sure if your response is meant to convey more than rhetoric. If your argument is that the "improvement" made by deposing Saddam has been reversed by creating "hundreds of Bin Ladens (Sadrs, etc)" - [the two are actually NOT the same, and the Bin Ladens are not home-grown but outsiders attempting to vie for influence in a society that doesn't want them and won't accept them], then I would have to disagree. I'm not sure where you're trying to go with the "strongman" thing. Do you honestly think that the current Iraqi government, and its successor(s), will divide and rule according to previous example? Allawi and al Yawer must merely be stronger than the Sadrists in order for them and the people of Iraq to succeed. Or is that too strong for you?
Controlling security during a reconstruction is easier when your adversaries have been decimated in battle - (see WWII). The rejectionists (with whom I'm assuming you don't find common cause) are more numerous *because* the war was won so quickly. Again, I'm not discounting missteps by the administration - (again, you COULD afford to be a little bit more precise in defining them and exploring them fully), but I think this fact, as a principle contributor to the insurgency, is underappreciated.
The solidarity which you so miss was based on having been victimized. If we need 9/11's to gain "international sympathy" then they can take it back. I am not interested in a worldview that uncritically resents the mere use of the power that others lack as a form of arrogance, and conflates the absorption of targetted mass casualties with a necessary humiliation and a precondition for goodwill.
You had me with the last paragraph, Peter. But the previous four, while far from "lackluster," make me wonder exactly what kind of a strategy you're trying to campaign for. I sense some genuine points hidden here and there beneath the speech. A little more prose, perhaps...
E. Simon - 8/17/2004
They lived in a different world where threats were less easily defined. Was this instance, shall we say, a bit "proactive...?" You bet. Much moreso than would have been accepted before. But let's make one thing clear about Hussein: The man was a threat. His presence further destabilized the least stable and most threatening region in the world. Even Clinton believed that all-out conflict with Hussein would ultimately be unavoidable. Your disagreements with the administration are, therefore, based on how they (and many others) define a threat, and not with how they define conservatism.
I'm sure addressing threats before they are acted out may seem less chivalrous vis a vis the traditionally understood concept of defense, but I have trouble accepting the argument that old rules still apply in a post-9/11 world. Before the initiation of conflict, there is such a thing as posture, and we need to take the stance and intents of an adversary as seriously as we would direct actions. Emboldening an adversary's posture with empty words is a bit too risky these days in my view.
So I'd have to put it this way: Chivalry is all fine and dandy -- for fencing. But when your chessboard continues to lose pawns, it's time to throw chivalry out the window and make use of a broader strategy.
E. Simon - 8/16/2004
I would not buy any argument that paints "unconservative" a regard for self-defense in higher esteem than any of the values you mention.
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Serious im having a hard time playing anything else since the beta and i feel kinda stupid for feeling this way i mean its just a game and ive never felt this way about a game in my life and its getting to me i don't like this i feel alone and this kinda scares me. Ive read other post on this same subject im very passionate about gaming but never to this point its almost as if im depressed. I hope im not alone any feedback would be very appreciated. And yes im serious about this so please be considerate...THANKS
GET FVCKING BUMPED M8s
i actually went back to playing Spider-Man: edge of time......damn
I had the same exact problem, everything else just wasn't fun. I started out with exploration games open world that reminded me of destiny then worked my way back.
You need some bewbs
it sucked if you played the alpha then had to wait for the beta... then it sucks again waiting for the 9th
I've been trying to speed run Outlast on Insane difficulty. Also, I've been grinding away at The Last Of Us Remastered on Grounded Mode. I still can't wait to see EVERY single difficulty trophy pop in one go. It's what I live for.
I'm getting by.. somehow. Borderlands 2 for loot. Diablo 3 for better loot. Minecraft for.. well it's Minecraft :) Terraria for all of the above. Skyrim for.. why do I still play this.. Ugh.. 9/9 is a long way away... Eerrgg
Yeh serious withdrawals. I even rocked Pokemon on the game boy color to keep me busy for alittle while hahahahaha
For me I have been trying to play games for completely different reasons than why I played Destiny. I played and love Destiny because I craved its every unique aspect, it simply is the best game ever made. In the meantime I've been trying to play older games for nostalgia so it really isn't even associated with the awesome level that Destiny is on.
You're definately not the only one feeling this way! I myself can't wait to play :-)!
R.I.P Robin Williams
Maybe cuz we played non stop for three days, and had it ripped from our hands. Any coke/crack/heroin junkie is gonna tell ya, this ain't the way to stop. Lol
It doesnt have an official name but i call it PDBD(post destiny beta disorder) Its going to be a [b]long[/b] month for me
My fellow guardians your the best
This shit is krazy!
Since beta I played resident evil 4,5 code veronica, devil may cry 1. Playing devil may cry 2 now.
Destiny beta messed me up. I was playing skyrim and i tried to summon a sparrow.
I knew that feel. Hopeless, alone, bored to death, but then I played legend of dragoon. Ps1 legend of dragoon did it for me. Its a great game. Its just fun light hearted and it is an rpg. Im still waiting on destiny but maybe because destiny is so much better than current games you need something retro to break its strangle hold. It reminded me of how much I loved games back then
Me and my little brother have been unable to talk about anything else ever since the beta. Luckily, I'll be getting destiny at launch since it comes out right by my birthday :)
hmm. maybe bungie put subliminal messages in their alpha and beta to subconsciously influence you to need destiny. XD
You're not alone. The majority of us has had trouble playing anything else since beta ended. Not even Skyrim (my all time favorite) holds my interest for more than an hour.
I've been reeling from the effects as well. Thankfully there are free games on the XB1 to keep me occupied and plenty of fun things to do in the mean time. I will say. I miss the adventure and camaraderie of my clan clashing with the wilds and with fellow Guardians in the crucible. Soon. Soon….
Same here. But i started playing the last of us yesterday. Is a good scary game with zombies:)
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I'm currently watching all the avatar seasons in chronological order = 3-5 days of runtime. After that I'm moving to 24 never watched it before but I'll give it a shot. And yes I agree every other game feels flat to me as of not exiting enough. But once destiny releases, time is gonna go by real fast, with all these other games coming out month after month. Right now everything is slow, it's like a moods wing of time. One moment it's slow and one moment it's too fast. Next I'm looking forward to AC unity, Witcher 3, advanced warfare, dragon age, I wish this game would come with offline


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The Evening Post January 2nd 1888
The SS & A Co's ship Invercargill left London on the 15th October and Gravesend the next day, and was off the Lizards on the 18th; crossed the Equator on the 7th November, and arrived off the Heads on Saturday night about 10 o'clock, after a smart passage of 77 days. Experienced about the average run of weather during the voyage. The Invercargill was towed in by the Dispatch yesterday morning, and anchored in the stream at 7:30. She brought 16 passengers, who have arrived in good health, and speak very highly of the attention paid to them by Captain Muir and his officers.
Messrs Turnbull & Co are agents for the ship.
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With Dianas in hand, the Lomography Gallery Store Los Angeles gang climbed up the hills to one of the most picturesque views in all of Los Angeles!
The bright and beautiful afternoon started off with some experimentation with the Diana Multi Pinhole Operator around the iconic building. Nestled in the hills high above the city, it proved to be a great location for dreamy pinhole landscapes as well as portraits! Once we walked past the facade and around the observatory, we were treated to a gorgeous view of the entire city. Come take a look at what we captured!
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For the week starting Friday, Jan. 28. Times are E.S.T., subject to change.
Broadway Revue (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC-TV and Du Mont). A new variety show.
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Edward G. Robinson and Linda Darnell in The Woman in the Window.
Your Show Time (Fri. 9:30 p.m., NBC-TV). Stevenson's Sire de Male trait's Door.
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Die Walküre, with Helen Traubel, Max Lorenz and Rose Bampton.
Living1949 (Sun. 4:35 p.m., NBC). Documentary on humor, with Fred Allen.
Electric Theater (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). The Enemy, with Helen Hayes.
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). The Late Christopher Bean,...


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Prolonged and continuous menstrual bleeding is not common in healthy women from the time of their first menstrual period until the start of menopause! Such prolonged bleeding is likely to be uncomfortable, so it's important to get it under control! on! Any Suggestions here?
Of great concern is the amount of blood that a woman loses during her period, particularly if the period is prolonged. Bleeding profusely can cause a woman to Source:http://www.ehow.com/about_5340654_prolonged-bleeding-menopause.html
You'll experience menstrual bleeding during that week. A newer It's possible to prevent your period with continuous use of any birth control pill. Is there an advantage to waiting a few months after stopping the pill before trying to conceive ?
it all depends on the woman, some are heavy, and some are light, theres really no answer to how much you should bleed Source:http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_should_you_bleed_during_your_period
that's how you know that your starting a period Source:http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_you_bleed_during_your_period
i had a problem with ALOT of bleeding .. they did plenty of tests too, but they sayed it was perfectly fine and put me on different birthcontrols to straiten it out.. so. go ask a doctor you you wanna birth control , because they do work, D… Source:http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_is_too_much_bleeding_during_period
Heavy bleeding for one day a week before period is due bleeding? I bled, and now it appears to, could this be weird implantation have stopped. I am well aware of what implanta
Did your doctor tell you that taking Alesse will stop your period?? I never heard of that and from what I read, that doesnt seem like the case! When you take birth control pills, it stops you from ovulating (releasing the egg), but it doesnt stop your period which is your bodys way of removing the uterine wall lining which is made of blood when theres no fertilized egg in your uterus! It is not normal not to have a period actually! Having a period is your bodys way of cleansing out your reproductive system, so it is good!If you have unusual spotting or bleeding though from taking the pills, you need to see your doctor! Herere some side effects of Alesse you can read about:http://www!drugs!com/sfx/alesse-side-effects!htmlm
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Mary A. Peterson, 86, of North Branch, died Saturday, March 9, 2013 at Ecumen Villages North Branch.
Mary was born in Hinckley April 30, 1926 to parents William and Lillian (Cameron) O'Donnell. She was raised in Hinckley and attended Hinckley schools, where she graduated in 1944. After high school, Mary attended beauty school in Minneapolis. She worked a short time at the Arsenal before she married Adrian Peterson Oct. 17, 1952. Mary started her own beauty shop and worked out of her home as well as helping her husband Adrian at his clothing store in downtown North Branch. Later on, she worked for Ball Manufacturing before she retired.
Mary will be remembered for her cooking and baking. She was known for her rolls and buns that she made; family and many friends enjoyed her cooking and baking. Her daughters and grandchildren were the most important part of her life, as she was always there looking out for them. Mary loved gardening, bowling and golf. She will also be remembered for her Irish heritage.
Mary is survived by her daughters, Jody (Martin) Johnson, of Almelund and LeeAnn (Doug) Studer, of Marenisco, Mich.; her five grandchildren, Kenzie (Phil) Engen, Tyler (Kelly) Johnson, Lynsey (Christian) Gausman, Trent Johnson and Kelsey Johnson; her one great-grandchild, Sullivan Johnson; as well as several nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, Adrian on Oct. 3, 1999, sisters, Ellen and Elizabeth, and great granddaughter, Britta Grace, on May 12, 2011.
Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at Trinity Lutheran Church in North Branch with Rev. Gary Guptill officiating. Deb Aulich and Jon Ekstrom will provide music. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at church Wednesday. Interment will follow at Trinity Lutheran Cemetery in North Branch.
Arrangements are under the direction of Grandstrand Funeral Home in North Branch. Condolences maybe left at www.grandstrandfh.com.


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Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2185, USA
Annu Rev Biochem 73:657-704. 2004..We discuss the mechanisms conserved across the three kingdoms of life as well as the important divergences that have taken place in the pathway...
- Yeast initiator tRNA identity elements cooperate to influence multiple steps of translation initiationLee D Kapp
Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2185, USA
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Over the past 16 years Marco Music Group has left its fingerprints on many national and regional hit records. Working in the capacities of radio promotion and club promotion, Marco has proven itself as a driving force behind getting music heard by the consumer.
Artists whom have been a part of Marco's hit list include: Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, The Dixie Chicks, Reba, Taylor Swift and Steel Magnolia. Independent artists and labels are also an integral part of Marco's client roster. We have proudly assisted in furthering the careers of artists including Rhonda Vincent, Danielle Peck, The Road Hammers, Neal McCoy, Jack Ingram and Darryl Worley.


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Should cursive be required in school? Tennessee Bill would make it so
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Students in Tennessee could soon be required to learn cursive handwriting.
According to WREG, a proposed bill that was brought before the Tennessee House this week, House Bill 1697, would require all public school students in Tennessee to learn how to read and write in cursive, usually in or by the third grade.
Tennessee State Rep. Sheila Butt, R-Columbia, wrote the bill when parents told her their children could not read handwritten notes. The House was scheduled to vote on the legislation this week, but that vote has been pushed back a week.
Rep. Butt believes half or less of elementary school students in Tennessee are still taught handwriting. Is that a problem? Would you like to see a similar bill proposed in Colorado? Click here to let us know on Facebook.


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NBA Season On Hold
The "Frog Days of Fall" are filled with an overlap of sports, from Major League Baseball playoffs and the World Series to college football, NHL Hockey and the NFL. But, it won't have NBA basketball to overlap for a while.
The "Frog Days of Fall" are filled with an overlap of sports, from Major League Baseball playoffs and the World Series to college football, NHL Hockey and the NFL. But, it won't have NBA basketball to overlap for a while.
The "Frog Days of Fall" are filled with new TV shows. Some last, others don't. One show that has lasted for the past 36 years is "Saturday Night Live" on NBC. In fact, the very first SNL debuted on this day, October 11, 1975 with comedian George Carlin as the first host.
The "Frog Days of Fall" are heating up this weekend as the Major League Baseball League Championship series gets underway. And, who'd thought it would come down to these four teams?
Now that the leaves are changing color, and the "Frog Days of Fall" are here, we may be in more of a contemplative mood. What? So, here's a question that Men's Health magazine dealt with recently...heroes.
Will the Yankees advance to the American League Championship games? That's the question we want answered during the "Frog Days of Fall". We'll find out tonight when the Yankees are back home to host the Detroit Tigers in the final game five of the AL Division Series, broadcast on TBS at 8 p.m.
We may not know who's going to the World Series yet, but we know who will be singing the national anthem at game one - Scotty McCreery. Game one will be played on Wednesday night, October 19th at the National League champion's ballpark beginning the Fall Classic during the "Frog Days of Fall".
We're really moving through the "Frog Days of Fall" big time, as here we are in the first full week of October. The leaves are changing color and falling, just waiting to be raked and raked and raked, and raked again (I think I keep raking the same leaves that just blow back from the road). So, now that's this October edition of "Greg's Grill" is history, here's some food for thought.
Now that we are in the "Frog Days of Fall", we realize that 2011 is winding down...only three months left. So, I got thinking, did you ever want to remember what day of the week your birthday was on 20 years ago, or what day did Christmas fall on the year you were born?
Each year during the "Frog Days of Fall", Fire Prevention Week is observed, and it takes place this week October 3rd through 9th. At Big Frog 104, we salute firefighters throughout central and northern New York who put their lives on the line every day for our safety.
Whether you're an avid baseball fan or not, this time of year during the "Frog Days of Fall", baseball gets very exciting! Today, the Major League Baseball American League Division Playoffs get underway. The first game features Tampa Bay at the Texas Rangers at 5:07 p.m. , with the New York Yankees hosting the Detroit Tigers tonight at 8:37 p.m.
There are lots of celebrities celebrating birthdays during the "Frog Days of Fall", and today it's Fran Drescher's turn. Best known as TV's "The Nanny", Fran Drescher celebrates her 54th birthday on this day.
Now that we're into the "Frog Days of Fall", we can enjoy the fall foliage and ponder more warm thoughts for the day. Usually, we end our "Greg's Grill" request hour with some food for thought, and here's today's.


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gunsmithing schools
I was wondering how many of you guys have been to a gunsmith school? I have been looking at going to one since I have been out of the service. right now the one I think I might go to is the colorado school of trades. I got the information from them and talked to the person in charge of talking to the applicants, it seems like a good school. I was wondering what schools any of you have been to, or would recommend? thanks guys.
I went to CST, graduated in '98. My house is about ten minutes away and I drop in once in a while to do engraving demos and such. I'm very happy with the education I got there even though I only do a bit of 'smithing now. The school does help with job placement if you are wanting to work for someone else.
Shoot me an email if you want to talk more about it.
I talked to sunny there sor about two hours, when I first got out of the service. she was very helpful with everything. I was working at a body shop for a while, trying to get my truck paid off but I dasnt making enough money to do that let alone move halfway across the country and flop down first and last months rent. so I moved down here to virginia and got a jobe where they are gonna send me to school for machinist, or to be an electrition. which ever I decide to choose. I would love to go now that the bills are paid off and I've got some money set a side. but I make a good living here. if I could turn 50,000 I would. but im not sure that is really feasible, can I make that much?
There is potential to make that much and maybe more....but it will take time. Even after you get out of school there is still a lot to learn and employers know that so you won't start out any where near 50k. Maybe 30k in the right area with the right company. Even if you go into business for yourself, it takes a several years to get your skills and reputation up to the point where you can make good money.
JoeDS, I noticed that every one of your posts keep referring to the same website.
May I suggest that if you are trying to sell a product, that you register as a vendor?
To post like you have makes you look like a spammer to me.
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Bobby Di Cicco is an American actor best known for his roles in the Robert Zemeckis movie "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", the Steven Spielberg comedy "1941" and the 'Samuel Fuller' war film "The Big Red One".
Throughout the 1980s Di Cicco continued starring in such diverse films as "Night Shift" and "Splash" - both directed by Ron Howard - the John Carpenter-produced "The Philadelphia Experiment", the horror film "The Supernaturals" and alongside Patrick Swayze in the drama "Tiger Warsaw".
Di Cicco continued acting until the mid-1990s.
He has two daughters, Jessica DiCicco and Katie Di Cicco.
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The Mill Valley City Council adopted new building and fire codes Monday.
The updated construction codes, which require new buildings to incorporate automatic fire sprinklers and noncombustible roofs as well as a vegetation management plan, were unanimously approved to keep in line with updated state standards.
City officials said the process takes place about every three years as model codes, prepared by the International Conference of Building Officials, are reviewed.
Stephanie Moulton-Peters said she was pleased with the outgoing City Council's final decision before she and other newly elected council members were seated.
Moulton-Peters, the biggest vote-getter in last month's election, was sworn in along with Ken Wachtel and Garry Lion to assume seats vacated by Mayor Christopher Raker and council members Dick Swanson and Anne Solem.
"You could call it a positive, rather joyful feeling in the council chambers," she said, noting applause for outgoing council members "for all they had accomplished and the many hours they put in."
"Now you have a new council ready to step up to be the new voices and be up-and-running," Moulton-Peters said.
Councilwoman Shawn Marshall was elected mayor and Councilman Andrew Berman was elected vice mayor.
Mill Valley city codes will incorporate new state construction rules for electrical, plumbing, mechanical, building and fire codes including:
- Fire sprinkler systems in new construction, new second units and substantial remodels; extended sprinkler coverage for added or remodeled areas of buildings.
- Noncombustible roofs for new construction and extensive remodels.
A city ordinance will include:
- The International Urban-Wildland Interface Code.
- Tighter definition of ignition-resistant construction.
- An urban-wildland "interface zone" within the city, with requirements for construction access and water supply.
- Vegetation management plans for new construction and maintenance requirements.
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Analysis of Ken Lay Charges
Crime and Federalism, the blog that studies the intersection between federalism and federal criminal laws by a third year Pepperdine law student, has declared this week Ken Lay week. The author begins with some very complimentary words for Lay's lawyer, Michael Ramsey, and some criticism for the AUSA in the case. Mostly, the criticism is directed at the media coverage and spin.
Unfortunately, I learned that the press accounts are garbage. The "legal commentary" has mostly consisted of pop culture slogans and references to acts not charged in the Indictment. "He ruined the company and must pay," for example. Well, unless there is a federal crime for "ruining a company," and unless this crime is charged, such lines do not belong in any discussion of the Ken Lay case. We will have none of that here.
So here's what will be happening at C&F during Ken Lay Week:
My discussion will be based exclusively on the law and facts of the case. I hope you enjoy this feature. Please scroll down for the first entry - The Indictment. On Tuesday you can read Conspiracy. On Wednesay, Wire Fraud. Thursay will bring Securities Fraud. Finally, on Friday, we will discuss the Bank Fraud (the so-called Reg. U crimes).
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Rascal Flatts??
I'm a fan of theirs and I can't wait for their new album to come out. Should be pretty sweet. My buddy just told me that you can watch the music video for their single "Here Comes Goodbye" on myspace. So if you like Rascal Flatts or are interested in finding some new music you should check em out. Here's where I watched the video:
Rascal Flatts - Here Comes Goodbye - Official Video Video by Rascal Flatts - MySpace Video
Great video. Rascal Flatts is my favorite country band. :cool:
I hate Country Music, but their name sounds familiar. Are they from Cleveland, or did they win on Star Search? Just rings a bell with the name. If neither, I have heard a similar name for same reasons.
Country sucks.
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Doug Terbeek, executive director of the Prevention Team, sees the need for continuing substance abuse education in the county.
October is National Substance Abuse Prevention Month.
The attention garnered by such a declaration is welcome by The Prevention Team, but members of the Ticonderoga-based drug education and prevention program know their work is an on-going effort.
"The drugs of choice seem to ebb and flow," said Doug Terbeek, Prevention Team executive director. "Every generation needs to be taught about the dangers of substance abuse. It's a never-ending battle."
It's a battle The Prevention Team has been waging for 27 years. Terbeek has been at its helm the entire time.
"It's funny how things change, but really don't," he said. "We used to have a heroin problem, but that faded.Now we're seeing heroin again. Cocaine seems to be coming back, too."
With eight full-time employees, The Prevention Team is a non-profit agency providing education and prevention services for Essex County. It has educators and counselors in Elizabethtown-Lewis, Crown Point, Ticonderoga, Moriah, Minerva, Newcomb, Westport, Willsboro and Lake Placid schools.
"We try to make contact with every student at least once a year," Terbeek said. "Obviously we can't see every kid every day and there are some students we see more often than others."
The Prevention Team is also active with adults, having formed partnerships in several communities to combat substance abuse. It sponsors a drinking-and-driving education program, trains servers and merchants about alcohol sales and operates an alcohol-awareness program for court-referred teens.
This past year the Prevention Team also played a lead role in efforts to ban synthetic marijuana, also know as K2, in New York State and lobbied the county board to prevent alcohol sales at the annual county fair.
"We do a lot of different things," Terbeek said. "A lot of our programs are opportunistic; when we see a need we step in."
In the past years the Prevention Team has conducted Walks Against Drugs, Youth to Youth programs, SAFE HOMES, Natural Helpers, Reconnecting Youth, FAST, Coaches and Captains, Boquet River Theatre Festival, Reality Check, Teen Institutes, Connecting Youth and Communities (CYC), One Second Exhibit 2008-2009, Prevention Team/Vermont Voltage Soccer Camps and BEST Walks.
Terbeek is pleased with the progress made in substance abuse prevention, but realizes more work needs to be done.
"We've made great progress on smoking (tobacco)," he said. "We have more restrictions and taxation on tobacco than ever and it's working. Fewer people are smoking.
"We still have a lot to do on alcohol; that's our top problem," he added. "We need to educate people about the health-related issues and point out the tragedies associated with alcohol — the accidents, domestic violence."
Terbeek said the same effort that has made smoking "socially unacceptable" has to made on alcohol abuse.
"It's harder to smoke than it is to drink," he said. "The price of cigarettes keep going up because of higher taxes. Alcohol taxes are lower today than they were in 1965."
It's not practical to expect people to stop using alcohol, Terbeek said.
"We don't promote abstinence from alcohol," he said. "We try to help people understand that they can drink responsibility; that they can have a good time without alcohol."
The Prevention Team has no special events planned for National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, although it will observe Above the Influence Day on Oct. 18 and Red Ribbon Week Oct. 23-31. Red Ribbon Week honors the memory of Enrique (Kiki) Camarena, a federal agent killed by Mexican drug dealers in 1985.
President Barack Obama has issued a proclamation declaring October as National Substance Abuse Prevention Month.
"By providing strong support systems for our loved ones, and by talking with our children about the dangers of alcohol and other drugs, we can increase their chances of living long, healthy, and productive lives," the president said. "During National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, we celebrate those dedicated to prevention efforts, and we renew our commitment to the well being of all Americans.
"The damage done by drugs is felt far beyond the millions of Americans with diagnosable substance abuse or dependence problems countless families and communities also live with the pain and heartbreak it causes. Relationships are destroyed, crime and violence blight communities, and dreams are shattered. Substance abuse touches every sector of our society, straining our health care and criminal justice systems.
"For all these reasons, my administration has made prevention a central component of our National Drug Control Strategy, and we have developed the first ever National Prevention Strategy. These strategies, inspired by the thousands of drug free coalitions across our country, recognize the power of community based prevention organizations, and suggest that prevention activities are most effective when informed by science, driven by state and local partnerships, and tuned to the specific needs of a community."


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The School of Management offers professional education applicable to the fields of management, finance, human resource management, international business, marketing and travel industry management to individuals interested in entering industry or government.
The program prepares graduates to meet the complex problems of the technical, economic and social environment and to enable them to provide imaginative and responsible leadership to industry and government.
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Heads up on today's Gaines Adams piece
I assume there are some readers of the blog who are not necessarily readers of the newspaper, so I wanted to point out today's Gaines Adams feature that I made reference to on Wednesday.
In a nutshell, it's about how Adams has overhauled his diet to get in better physical shape while really hitting the weight room hard. Before now, he admits he had a consistent diet of junk food from McDonald's and other fast-food joints. You can already see a major difference in his physique, so the changes have had an impact.
And, just to be totally clear, this is not a rip job on Gaines. In fact, I say kudos to him for recognizing he was doing himself a disservice and committing to making changes. That's a sign of maturity and another reason why I think he'll be a pretty formidable player for a long time. He certainly looked quick and agile in last week's open practice and that's what his coaches hope to see on the field this fall.
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I have had the great pleasure of learning with Reb Zaslow at the Annual Jewish Men's Retreat in upstate in New York . Reb. David is also an unabashed supporter of Israel. This book is long overdue and hopefully will be a healing for both Jews and Christians alike.
The book "Jesus: First-Century Rabbi" published by Paraclete Press is based on top notch scholarship that shows that the historical Jesus lived his life as a religious Jew, and whose teachings were solidly rooted in what would in later centuries be called Rabbinic Judaism. The book repudiates replacement theology and anti-Semitism, and at the same time honors the unique features of Judaism and Christianity. Although the theological Jesus of the Church may seem different than the historical, religiously Jewish Jesus, understanding history can only serve to confirm one's faith. You can order the book from your local bookstore, and it is available online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Christianbooks.com and from Paraclete Press. The book was written by Rabbi David Zaslow with Joseph A. Lieberman.


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Punch Out!! - Wii
No thread for this game? :/
The game just got released in France. We bought it and, even if I still haven't played to it myself yet, it's awesome.
The game is beautiful even on our big TV. I love the animations and voices (Glass Joe speaks in french, haha XD)
I am currently watching my father who's playing to it right now (and even if he played to the original game, he has some difficulties right now XD)
I will try it myself later :)
From what I heard and read, it seems this game is really great :D 8/10 on Gamekult who is know to be one of the most severe french website about video games ! So I will buy it tommorow even if I can't play to this game for the moment (too much work :heh:)But, as soon as the holyday come, I will clearly enjoy it to the fullest :D
*watch the video*
I want this game now O_o ! But I can't play to thus game now O___o !....T____T
The music/sounds/voices are so awesome :heh:
Punch Out isn't Punch Out without its official theme song
The more I watch these videos, the more I want the game :heh: I'm torturing myself :heh: And thanks for the vid HayashiTakara :)
This video should seal the deal.
So, for those of you that have played this game, do you think it is better than its predecessors Punch Out and Super Punch Out for the NES and SNES, respectively? I'd like to hear your thoughts. :)
I really do want this game, but with much bigger things coming out in a week's time, I'm wondering if this really is worth the $50.
i really love this game ever since it was released on SNES..
I have this in the US and while it is truly an incredible game, I would say the price tag should be more around $35 or $40US for the amount of game content.
I felt like crying when I lost to Title Defense Glass Joe. x.x I never thought I would lose to him of all people.
To answer someone earlier's question, this game is more enjoyable than NES PO and Super Punch-Out, and has a difficulty level on par with the original (In Title Defense anyway)
Is that Macho Man Randy Savage doing the voice of Super Macho Man?
The game is quite polished too (musics, graphics, sounds, voices, cutscenes, animations etc.)
If this game doesn't deserve to be sold at $50, then a lot of games on the three consoles don't deserve it either (and there are a lot of games that are not as good as this one).
So far, I will only complain about a few things :
- The two players mode could have been better.
- The balance board support is crap.
- I don't play Online, but I guess that some people will complain about the lack of online modes. No leaderboards either for your Times.
Leaderboards are pointless when all boxers have a set minimum time that they can be beaten at. All of the top times would be that, except for cheaters of course.
But yeah, there are a lot of games on other consoles that dont deserve the top retail price tag *COUGH HEAVENLY SWORD COUGH*
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Los Molinos High School senior Chantal Narez has received the 2014 Coca-Cola Scholars Scholarship.
The scholarship is in the amount of $20,000, and Narez is one of only 250 high school students from across the United States to earn this rare honor.
Actually, she is one in 24 students from California and the only student north of Roseville to be recognized.
In December, Chantal was notified that she was a regional recipient for the Coca-Cola Scholars Scholarship. On Feb. 7, Chantal was interviewed, via Skype, to become a national recipient.
She was then notified on Feb. 13 that she was in fact a National recipient and would have a chance to participate in the Scholars Weekend. Scholars Weekend is April 3-6 in Atlanta, Ga., where she will be honored at the Coca-Cola Scholars Banquet the evening of April 3rd at the Georgia World Congress Center.
In addition to the banquet, the weekend will be filled with Coca-Cola Scholars Leadership Institute seminars, tours of local landmarks in Atlanta, seminars by alumni and staff, and a community service project.
The objective of the community service project is to leave a mark on Atlanta as a member of the Coca-Cola family, as thousands of other Coca-Cola Scholars have done before her. This service activity is voluntary and Narez is excited to be a part of it. In addition to this, she will have the opportunity to receive an additional $10,000 scholarship.
The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation was announced in 1986, according to its website.
"As we celebrate the Foundation's 25th Class this year, we acknowledge that is has been our good fortune to have invested more than $50 million in 5,250 students who represent the most promising qualities of American youth throughout this country: academic excellence, positive leadership and a dedication to service," the website states.
Narez is one of those students. Just this year alone, she has been actively involved in her school and community.
She is the captain of the golf team and she played on the 2013 volleyball team, which captured both a Five Star League championship and a Northern Section CIF Division V title. Narez is the FFA Regional Vice President, President of the Block LM Athletic Club, Vice President of her senior class, FFA Chapter Secretary, CSF Vice President, Secretary of Purple & Gold Spirit Club, a ballroom dancer and is a member of the Kiwanis Key Club, AVID and ASB.
Chas Konopka, Narez's AVID teacher and volleyball coach, said, "Chantal is a very articulate, positive, detail-oriented and charismatic leader.
She is the first in Los Molinos school history to receive this award and is very deserving of this scholarship."
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The number of people visiting food banks across the UK this year has more than doubled, partly because of government delays in paying benefits, the poverty charity the Trussell Trust has said.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have attended the premiere of a film that celebrates African wildlife and will raise funds for the Tusk Trust, a conservation charity of which Prince William has been the patron of since 2005.
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2NE1's Minzy and Sandara Park Celebrate 2NE1's 3rd Anniversary
May 17 marked 2NE1's third year anniversary since making its official debut and some of its members have expressed their joy and gratitude online.
On May 17, Sandara Park posted on her me2day saying, "2NE1's third year anniversary of its debut! A real big congratulations! This is a special cake reflecting 2NE1 and Black Jack's third year! This cake was custom made! We love you Black Jack! Let's go together Black Jack Forever Black Jack! Black Jack jjang!."
The included picture showed a pink and purple, two-layered cake. Along with white winged hearts on the side, figurines of the 2NE1 members adorned the top of the cake. On the cake was written, '2NE1 3rd. Forever with Black Jack.′ Black Jack is the name of 2NE1′s official fan club.
Minzy also tweeted her thoughts on the same day writing, "2NE1's third year. I'm truly grateful. We will always love our Black Jack."
Minzy included a picture of 2NE1 during the group's filming for Scream.
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The Legend of Madoc
"Hidden History"
Joe Guy
In the year 1170, a ship named the Gwenan Gorn left the coast of Wales. It was commanded by a Welsh prince, Madoc ap-Owain Gwynedd, and held a group of fellow Welsh adventurers. Madoc was the last of the 17 sons of King Owain Gwynedd, and after the death of his father Wales erupted in war between Madoc's brothers. Having no desire to fight with his family, Madoc decided to travel to a distant land, far to the West over the ocean, a place it is believed he had visited before. The following year, it was recorded in Welsh history that Madoc's ship had "ventured far out over the Western ocean never to return", and so it was assumed that Madoc and his friends had been lost at sea. But a legend remained that Madoc had not perished, but had found a distant land after all.
Three hundred years later, Christopher Columbus was a swash-buckling mercenary sailor known as a corsair. He had heard about Madoc in his travels between Iceland and Portugal, and Columbus was intrigued by the legend. This information was part of the reason Columbus petitioned Queen Isabella to fund the historic voyage on which he "discovered" America. Columbus, on his second voyage, saw old wrecked ships of European design in the area of the West Indies, and wrote on his map that "These are Welsh waters".
Then there is Quetzalcoatl. Quetzalcoatl was an Aztec Indian god who was pictured as a White man with a yellow beard. When Hernando Cortes invaded present day Mexico in 1520, he learned of the "white god" legend, and that Quetzalcoatl had visited the Aztecs many years before and had promised one day to return. Cortez pretended to be the fabled Quetzalcoatl, and thereby overthrew the Aztec Indians. There are those today who connect Quetzalcoatl with Madoc.
In 1810, former Tennessee Governor John Sevier recorded a conversation he had had many years earlier with the famed Cherokee Chief, Oconostota. While conducting a military operation against the Cherokee in 1782, Sevier saw several strange-looking stone fortresses in the area of present day Chattanooga. He inquired of Oconostota of their origin, to which Oconostota replied: "It is handed down by the forefathers that the works had been made by the white people who had formerly occupied the country now called Carolina (Tennessee)." When Sevier asked who the white people were, the Chief answered that "he heard his father and grandfather say that they were a people called Welsh, and they had crossed the great waters and landed first at the mouth of the Alabama River near Mobile and had been driven up the heads of the waters until they arrived at Hiwassee River." In 1854, Benjamin Bowen recorded an Indian who spoke of ancient White people who once lived on Conasauga Creek. Even today, stone fortifications remain at places such as Old Stone Fort in Manchester, Tennessee, Desoto Falls on Lookout Mountain, and Fort Mountain in Chatsworth, Georgia. Archaeologists and historians remain puzzled as to who actually built these sites.
Other stories remain of early hunters encountering Indians in the Appalachian region who had light skin and blue eyes. In many Indian cultures are stories of whites who had come to them long ago, long before the Spanish, "wolf" in Cherokee is "waya", in Welsh, it is "wayman". Shawnee words such as glass, father, old, water, and dance match the Welsh words almost exactly. Ancient Roman coins have been found in Mobile Bay, Louisville, Kentucky, and as far west as Missouri. Were they left by a twelfth-century band of Welshmen who were eventually absorbed by Native American tribes? Or is there some other explanation?
Today, in Alabama's Mobile Bay, is a marker placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution commemorating the landing of Prince Madoc at Mobile Bay in the year 1170. While the legend remains, evidence is thin. But in this piece of Hidden History is the possibility of white Welshmen who saw the beauty of East Tennessee three hundred years before Columbus set sail.


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Regarding the Jan. 23 Kyodo article "U.S. won't breach 'mixed treatment' medical insurance rules in TPP talks": It would seem to me that the Japan Medical Association (JMA), which consists of mainly nonhospital physicians, should seek the opinion of citizens and hospitals before making pronouncements on mixed-treatment restrictions. The health ministry could easily control and approve a process for hospitals wishing to provide such treatments.
Many patients seeking access to cutting-edge and proven technologies not yet approved in Japan are denied options in which the cost is split between national insurance and out-of-pocket payments. The all-private payment or all insurance payment regulation (no commingling) is severely restricting patient choice.
Regardless of the discussions over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, if the JMA and health ministry are concerned about cash-strapped hospitals going under, perhaps advocating exemptions for hospitals from consumption tax increases and the planned 17 percent increase in electricity rates is a better strategy than blocking the latest medical advances except for the super-rich.
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Though foreign policy has been largely overshadowed by economy talk at the RNC, Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff talk to Romney adviser Vin Weber, a former Minn. congressman, as well as former Sen. Norm Coleman about how the nominee would approach the crisis in Syria, negotiating with China, plus President Obama's track record. Continue reading
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Rachel Zoe has a message for her unborn baby: No appearances before Oscar night! The celebrity stylist, who is is eight months pregnant with a baby boy, is busy getting Academy Awards co-host Anne Hathaway ready for the big night and has made it clear she doesn't have time to give birth until after the awards.
"I have conversations with him on a daily basis, like, 'You cannot go anywhere until after [the Oscars],'" Rachel told AccessHollywood. "I have a lot coming up so he's not allowed to go anywhere yet!"
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THOUGH we are now several chapters into the movie memoirs of the world's most popular young nerd, the DOAWK franchise remains as broadly entertaining (for the eight-to-12s) and bearable (for their parents) as ever.
This third instalment was shot back-to-back with last year's second salvo Rodrick Rules, so no one involved is looking any older. Or behaving any wiser.
It is the summer holidays, and series mascot Greg (Zachary Gordon) is having his temperature raised by the sheer prettiness of classmate Holly (Peyton List).
To ensure he keeps basking in her beauty - and shucks, maybe even ask her for a date or something - Greg keeps sneaking into the posh country club where Holly hangs out.
Meanwhile, Greg's dreaded older bro Rodrick (Devon Bostock) has his own designs upon Holly's older sis.
He knows what Greg is getting up to, and will spill the beans to their clueless parents (Steve Zahn and Rachael Harris) unless he can sneak into the country club as well.
It would be fair to say the writers of this formulaic fare did not exactly break a sweat when it came to plotting Dog Days.
Nevertheless, the film is smart enough to pitch plenty of scenes the way of its comic-relief heavy-hitters Rodrick and Rowley (Greg's dumb, loyal and lovable best bud, played by Robert Capron).
While both characters get thrown under the bus repeatedly for the sake of sight gags and slight gags alike, they are still yet to wear out their welcome.
As for Greg, well, he is becoming a bit of a whiny dullard when things aren't going his way. Particularly when the ridiculous Rodrick isn't around to keep him on his toes.
-- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days [PG]
- Two and a half stars
- Director: David Bowers (Flushed Away)
- Starring: Zachary Gordon, Devon Bostock, Robert Capron, Peyton List, Steve Zahn
-- No bark, no bite, still fetching
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Ionizing radiation can do scary things to a cell's nucleus, shuffling or deleting large chunks of DNA in ways that can turn cells cancerous. Radiation that misses the nucleus and hits only the cell's cytoplasm, however, has seemed harmless. But a study in tomorrow's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests ionizing radiation can stir up chemical changes in cytoplasm that lead to DNA damage.
For most people, the risk of absorbing excess ionizing radiation comes mainly through breathing radon, a gas released by uranium and thorium in soils. It may cause up to 21,600 cases of lung cancer each year in the United States. For decades, experts thought the alpha particles released by radon didn't affect the cell's cytoplasm. Then, in the early 1990s, scientists noticed that when they blasted cells with alpha particles, mutations cropped up even in cells that had not been directly hit. Called the "bystander effect," the findings led to speculation that the radiation was creating some agent in the cytoplasm--an unidentified chemical--that then damaged nuclear DNA.
Now scientists have homed in on what seems to be happening. Columbia University's Tom Hei and collaborators dyed hybrid human-hamster cells so they could see the nuclei, then sent a microbeam of alpha particles only to the cell's cytoplasm. Tests showed that the DNA of the cells was damaged, but that the mutations were smaller than would be expected with a nuclear hit--resembling spontaneous mutations. Hei's group suspected that the radiation creates reactive oxygen species that somehow damage DNA. And indeed, adding a solvent to the cells that scarfed up oxygen prevented the mutations.
This kind of injury might be more dangerous than direct nuclear damage because a higher fraction of cells survive, so more cells could eventually turn cancerous, Hei says. But the results don't necessarily mean that radon is any more dangerous than previously estimated. That's because the risk level is set using studies of cancer rates among people exposed to radon--not cellular studies.
"It's an interesting paper. Thought-provoking," muses Helen Evans, a radiation biologist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. But she's baffled by how free radicals--which have very short lifetimes and travel short distances--could reach the nucleus of even adjacent cells in time to inflict DNA damage.


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Release Date: 1967 |
Album Rating: 4.0Asked for my joke Muse review to be deleted so did this little one to hit the 50 again. Great album check it out if you like 60's psych.
Section 43 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6MKfmjCDkU
Bass Strings - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjoSM4uDcGM
yesssss, menawati is back
"inventive organ melodies throughout " Okay this has got me tempted.
Congrats on the 50......Again :P
Digging: Steven Wilson - To the Bone
Oh man, it's been some time since I've heard this band. Very underrated group from the 60's California scene. Good work on the review Menawati, this definitely needed one.
Album Rating: 4.0Thanks, too short I know but at least it has got a rev now ;]
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Album Rating: 4.0Good review Menawati. I've been trying to listen to this since forever and wow it's really good, thanks for the reminder!
Album Rating: 4.0thankyou guys
Great review. Pos'd hard.
Digging: Brockhampton - Saturation 2
gonna have to check this. pos'd hard
sounds amazing so far
love the twinkles, man
Album Rating: 4.0porpoise mouth, what a sweet song
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