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Honor planned for 'vulture' capitalist
Obama campaign co-chair cited for closing factories but saving jobs
He's a venture capitalist whose company laid off hundreds of workers from Del Monte Foods in closing down a California plant, fired hundreds more from Birdseye Foods and even more from Solo Cups.
But the work of Obama campaign co-chair Federico Pena, a partner at Vestar Capital, actually saved other workers' livelihoods, kept the companies in operation and, through those accomplishments, continues to generate tax revenue for the United States.
This all is according to Jon Caldara at the Denver-based Independence Institute, which promotes a debt-free government, flat and transparent tax policy, respect for property rights, choice in education, health care freedom, limited federal intrusion and an end to corporate welfare.
"We believe in capitalism," he writes in a recent commentary about the work of Pena, a onetime Denver mayor and secretary of energy and transportation under Bill Clinton.
"That means there are winners and losers in the marketplace. But competition makes all players more efficient, which is great for customers. Failing businesses need to radically change how they do things to become competitive again, or they go out of business."
He said venture capitalists are those who have the courage to make the tough decisions, reorganize companies to prevent bankruptcies and end up providing workers with jobs, investors with income, customers with services or products and the government with taxes.
He said Pena is one such man, and that's why he wants to honor him with a full-page ad in the Denver Post talking about his accomplishments. Caldar's group is raising money to try to collect the $23,000 estimated that the ad would cost.
"I believe this is a story worth telling. But the media in Denver, including the paper of record, the Denver Post, won't touch it. I am asking for your help in celebrating the venture capital success of Pena by helping raise the funds needed for a full-page announcement in the Denver Post. If we can raise $23,000 we will run a full-page 'thank you' to the national co-chair of the Obama re-election campaign and help educate the hundreds of thousands of Post readers to the importance of capitalism."
Caldara explained, "Through his venture capital company, Vestar Venture Capital, this man was part of a team that closed a Del Monte Foods plant in California, sadly displacing hundreds of employees … but today Del Monte is still alive and thriving."
"His venture capital firm laid off hundreds of workers at Birdseye Foods … but hundreds are still employed because Birdseye did not fail," he continued. "His venture capital firm closed three domestic factories with the Solo Cup Company costing hundreds of jobs … But Solo Cup is still in business, supplying real jobs."
Caldara's commentary didn't include any references to the current headlines about venture capitalism: the harsh criticism handed to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his years at Bain Capital.
Forbes earlier this year headlined a John McQuaid article, "Romney's Vulture Capitalist Problem," and he explained that would be that "the arc of his success through the world of management consulting in the 1980s and 1990s was all about real changes in the economy – changes that made businesses vastly more efficient, and men like Romney rich, but often came at the expense of workers and those hallowed expectations that presidential campaigns are built on."
Forbes continued, "Romney knows all about the real world, and the real economy." But it faulted him for a "cognitive dissonance" in explaining his experience to Americans.
Democrats this year have accused Romney of shipping jobs overseas, shutting down an Indiana plant and in one ad that proved highly deceptive, of being linked to the cancer death of a steel worker's wife.
That ad featured Joe Soptic, who was laid off from a GST Steel plant in Kansas City. He claimed Romney's closure of the plant was followed by his wife's sudden cancer death.
"When Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my healthcare, and my family lost their healthcare. And a short time after that my wife became ill. I don't know how long she was sick and I think maybe she didn't say anything because she knew that we couldn't afford the insurance, and then one day she became ill and I took her up to the Jackson County Hospital and admitted her for pneumonia and that's when they found the cancer and by then it was stage four. … There was nothing they could do…"
However, the facts of the issue revealed that the closure of the plant and Soptic's wife's death were separated by years, and she had had her own health coverage in the interim.
Asked specifically about Romney and Bain, Caldara told WND only that those who "take great risks to try to create wealth … shouldn't be vilified."
That's why he's anxious to honor Pena, one of a couple dozen co-chairs for Obama's campaign. Others include Judy Chu, Bill Daily, Russ Feingold, Caroline Kennedy, Rahm Emanuel, Kamala Harris and Deval Patrick.
"I don't think most people understand the incredible amount of risk people like Federico Pena, a partner in a large firm, take," Caldara said.
WND calls to obtain comment from the Obama campaign and to Pena's office in Denver were unreturned.


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Funds to be raised through Tennis and Golf Classic
SNOW HILL � Sponsors will take up their tennis rackets and golf clubs Thursday through Sunday to help raise money for Greene County students attending LCC.
The annual tennis tournament was started by Greene Ridge Racquet Club owner Bobby Taylor 31 years ago, and in 2003 Taylor began his partnership with the LCC Foundation. Over the last 10 years, the tournament, which added a golf component in 2011, has raised an average of $10,000 a year to assist Greene County residents in their pursuit of an education at LCC.
Money from the event can be used either for paying tuition at LCC or taking continuing education classes, said Jason Miller, Director of LCC�s Greene County Center.
Jeanne Kennedy, LCC�s director of institutional advancement, said the goal of the tournament and other fundraising events is to help assist any student with a financial need.
Kennedy said there is a gap between the number of scholarship requests and the number that can be awarded. Last year, the foundation received 450 requests, but was only able to give out 186 scholarships.
The tournament helps address the need of students living in Greene County.
�This tournament allows us to give more scholarships to students from Greene County,� Kennedy said.
Partnering with Cutter Creek Golf Club to add a day of golf to the agenda was a joint effort by Taylor and the foundation to increases the amount of money brought in by the event.
�I wanted to make it bigger and better, and raise more money for the foundation,� Taylor said.
Sponsorships can be given in one of four different brackets ranging from $100 to $1,000.
Noah Clark can be reached at 252-559-1073 and firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @nclark763.
2013 Snow Hill/ LCC Foundation Tennis and Golf Classic
For more information, contact Bobby Taylor at 252-526-2970 or Jeanne Kennedy at 252-233-6812

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The constitutional convention proposed by the Compact for America Initiative would pose an unacceptably high risk of damage to the Constitution.
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July 4, 2013. Chartered planes carrying delegates from all 50 states touch down in Dallas, Texas. Thirty-eight states are being represented by their governors with the remaining states represented by one to three state-appointed delegates. These delegates have arrived en masse at the Lone Star State for a historic one-day convention whose sole purpose is purportedly the perfunctory proposal of a balanced budget amendment (BBA) to the Constitution.
Upon arriving at the designated site, the delegates and their retinues settle in around the extraordinarily large conference table and make small talk while taking in the impressive view of the Dallas skyline.
"Ladies and gentlemen," the designated chairman announces, "thank you for coming to this historic meeting and for being willing to stand up to the federal government's runaway spending that is ruining our Republic."
"As you all know," he continues, "we have 24 hours to accomplish the one item on our agenda: the proposal of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, as already pre-ratified by 38 (three-fourths) of the state legislatures."
With that brief restatement of the publicized and promised purpose of this high-powered confab, the chairman retakes his seat, awaiting one of the governors to move for a vote on the BBA and another to second that motion.
"Point of order, Mr. Chairman," declares a popular southern governor endowed not only with charisma, but appeal to the powers-that-be in national political circles.
"I certainly agree that this is a historic meeting which is being held to rein in an out-of-control federal government that is ruining our republic. Furthermore, I would remind the chairman that our Founders envisioned just this situation in the Declaration of Independence when they stated:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
The popular southern governor continues: "The key part of this quote is, 'That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.'
"Since the Founders agreed on this right of the People to alter or to abolish our government, and to institute new Government, they provided a procedure for holding a convention for 'proposing amendments' to our Constitution in Article V of the Constitution itself.
"Today we are gathered here as the duly appointed representatives of the People in just such an Article V constitutional convention. Based on the Right of the People to alter or to abolish our government, and to institute a new government, and in light of the longstanding out-of-control spending by the federal government, I move that the rules previously agreed to by state legislators in our states be set aside and that a new slate of rules for this convention be considered by the body. This new slate of rules would permit any amendment proposals that delegates believe would improve our government in such manner as they believe seems most likely to effect the Safety and Happiness of the People of the United States of America."
"Second the motion," comes the immediate reply from the ambitious governor of a western state.
"Gentlemen, the governor's motion is out of order," the chairman says, rising from his seat.
"With all due respect, Mr. Chairman," says the southern governor confidently, "I have made clear that my motion is entirely justified by the inherent Right of the People as clearly proclaimed in our nation's founding documents, the Declaration and the Constitution."
"I object to this railroading of the rules and will not be a party to it," the chairman demands. With that, the chairman and four likeminded governors walk demonstratively out of the conference room.
"The question has been put and seconded," says the southern governor without delay.
"All those in favor, say aye. All opposed, nay. The ayes have it. The body will adjourn into a committee of the whole for consideration of new rules and new proposals for amendments to the Constitution of the United States to be deliberated and adopted by this body."
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Some will say that this introduction is nothing more than a melodramatic doomsday scenario that could never happen. Sadly, they are wrong. This fiction could become fact very soon if a group of conservative activists gets its way.
This month, a group known as the Compact for America (CFA) Initiative will begin lobbying state lawmakers to propose in their respective legislatures a measure that would make that convention of delegates from 50 states gathered in Dallas a reality on July 4, 2013. Thirty-eight (or more, depending on how many states adopt the CFA legislative package) governors along with state-appointed representatives from the remaining 12 (or fewer) states would be delegates to a constitutional convention (con-con) supposedly called for the sole purpose of proposing a balanced budget amendment (BBA) to the Constitution. The problem is, there is no way to make sure the assembled delegates representing the People wouldn't exceed that mandate to propose a BBA, and even if they did adhere to the mandate, there is no guarantee that the CFA's Balanced Budget Amendment would improve America's financial prospects.
Overview of the Compact for America Initiative
The CFA Initiative is composed of three parts: First, there is a multi-state compact petitioning Congress to convene a con-con with state governors of member states serving as delegates and notifying Congress that members of the compact have pre-ratified the BBA called for and defined by the CFA; second, there is a balanced budget amendment as defined by the CFA that would be added to the Constitution; and third, there is a congressional resolution that would call a constitutional convention when and if 38 states join the CFA compact, and then would automate the steps required to add the BBA to the Constitution upon receipt of a certified copy of the BBA evidencing that the convention has approved the BBA for ratification.
The "Compact for America Timeline" at the end of this article shows how the CFA leaders expect these three components to work together to amend the Constitution by adding a BBA.
A fair analysis of the three-pronged proposal of the CFA Initiative reveals the formation of a modern-day Trojan Horse that could sneak the opportunity to make radical changes to our Constitution right past the protections of federalism put in place by our Founders to prevent unwise and unnecessary changes to our Constitution and the liberties guaranteed by it.
Here is how the CFA website describes its goal:
The Compact for America Initiative (the "Initiative") is a non-partisan effort to promote and seek the passage of legislation by the states and the U.S. Congress to ratify a balanced budget amendment into the Constitution of the United States in a way that has never been done before. The Initiative includes educating elected officials, citizens and residents of the United States and the several states of the novel use of an interstate compact agreement and the counterpart federal legislation to coordinate the use of Article V of the Constitution of the United States by state legislatures to originate and ratify a specific constitutional amendment that would require Congress to operate under a balanced budget.
Why the CFA Initiative's Balanced Budget Amendment Won't Work
Although calls for BBA con-cons are nothing new, the CFA Initiative is particularly frightening because of the ingenuity and insidious nature of the method proposed by its creators to alter the Constitution.
Before state legislatures vote for an Article V con-con proposal that could cause real and radical damage to our Constitution, they should first consider whether a balanced budget amendment is necessary and whether it would actually steer our Republic away from the fiscal problems we are facing.
The fact is that determined citizens and state legislators could rescue the United States from its financial peril without resorting to opening up the Constitution to tinkering by 38 or more governors and a sprinkling of state-appointed delegates, many of whom would be bought and paid for by special interests and corporations.
Thomas Jefferson wrote: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free … it expects what never was and never will be." A fundamental requirement of vigilance is holding elected representatives' feet to the fire by compelling them to honor their oath of office and not exceed the limits of their power as set forth in the Constitution.
Furthermore, there is no historical proof that a balanced budget amendment would drive Congress back to within its constitutional corral. Even the most conservative estimates indicate that about 80 percent of expenditures approved by Congress violate the U.S. Constitution. That fact wouldn't change by adding an amendment to the Constitution.
Whether these bills spend our national treasure on unconstitutional and undeclared foreign wars, billions sent overseas in the form of foreign aid, expanding the so-called entitlement programs, or redistributing wealth via corporate and individual welfare schemes, none of these outlays is authorized by the Constitution.
And don't forget, a committed, concerned, and constitutionally aware citizenry can balance our budget more quickly than any balanced budget amendment and without the danger of letting the wolves of special interests and their political puppets into the constitutional hen house.
Equally important to anyone considering the CFA's proposal is the fact that rather than forcing Congress to adhere to spending money only in those areas specifically permitted by the Constitution in Article I (something the Constitution already does), the Compact for America's Balanced Budget Amendment does nothing to restore the concept of enumerated powers because it allows Congress to spend money on anything, no matter how unconstitutional, so long as the amount does not exceed the limits set in Section 2 of their BBA. Thus, the CFA's BBA does nothing to break Congress of its unconstitutional spending habits.
Under the CFA's budget-balancing scheme, Congress could continue spending on projects and programs not authorized by the Constitution. In fact, Section 3 of the CFA's BBA explicitly authorizes an increase in the federal debt limit to 105 percent of the actual debt level on the effective date of this amendment. That hardly sounds like a balanced budget.
Beyond the initial five-percent increase in the national debt permitted by the CFA's BBA, Congress could increase the national debt under the BBA at any time if it could get the approval of a simple majority of the states. Given that many states have their own debt problems and are dependent on the federal government for large portions of their budgets, finding 26 states to approve an increase in the national debt might be much easier than the CFA's proponents think.
Perhaps most perplexing of all the fiscal failures of the CFA's Balanced Budget Amendment is the fact that although it does require a two-thirds vote in both Houses of Congress to raise taxes, it does not prohibit Congress from doing so. Higher taxes, loopholes for increased federal spending, and no requirement that expenditures conform to constitutional limits on congressional power are a powerful one-two-three combination that could K.O. the American middle class, all in the name of balancing the budget.
A Trojan Horse
But before the CFA's Balanced Budget Amendment constitutional convention would begin, at least 38 state legislatures would need to join an interstate compact calling for the convening of the con-con in Dallas.
In a video posted on the CFA website, CFA Board Member (and Goldwater Institute Director of Policy Development and Constitutional Government) Nick Dranias explains the pincer strategy planned for the BBA multi-state compact and the congressional resolution.
The Compact for America "consolidates the entire Article V process in two pieces of legislation: one state compact and one congressional resolution."
Described by Dranias as analogous to a "house loan closing," the two measures would work together to construct a Trojan Horse. At first blush, many state legislators determined to stand up to Washington would likely welcome the Compact for America and the state compact it offers as an ally in that battle. In fact, the CFA is so thorough that the state compact contains "all the legislation necessary for the Article V process to work." Therein lies the principle defect of this program.
As harried and overworked as they are, would all state lawmakers legitimately enlisted in the war against federal despotism understand that by joining the CFA they would also be agreeing to set in motion a constitutional convention that could quite possibly throw the baby of the Constitution out with the bathwater of out-of-control federal spending?
The bottom line is that the outcome of the Dallas con-con could range from a textbook following of the CFA script for proposing a BBA and nothing else, all the way to a runaway convention based on the right of the People in convention to revise their government when it becomes destructive of the ends of securing our God-given rights. This is the crux of the argument against convening an Article V con-con, no matter how loudly the proponents of such a convention assure us that they can limit the number of amendments and/or the content of the amendments that would be considered.
Over the past 30 years, most state legislators have wanted no part of an unlimited con-con, and have accordingly voted no on most new con-con proposals. In fact, over the past 24 years nearly 20 state legislatures have gone further and voted to rescind all previously passed Article V con-con calls still on their books.
If the Dallas con-con envisioned by the CFA were to become a runaway convention as portrayed in the opening paragraphs of this article, many dangerous amendments could be proposed. However, con-con proponents assure us that we do have a safeguard against dangerous or harmful amendments. Following the precedents of our original Constitutional Convention in 1787 and the provisions in Article V of our present Constitution, the Dallas convention would only propose amendments that would then be submitted for ratification by the states, either by state legislatures or state conventions.
Nonetheless, this safeguard has not been effective in stopping all bad amendments. For example, three-fourths of the states ratified the 16th (establishing the income tax), the 17th (establishing the direct election of senators), and the 18th (establishing the prohibition against alcoholic beverages) amendments. Most constitutionalists believe all three amendments were harmful, yet all three were duly ratified.
In fact, American history reveals that a convention called for nothing more than offering amendments to the existing national charter can quickly become a convention scrapping the old constitution and replacing it with something completely different, despite the restrictions set by state legislatures on the authority of the attendees.
Article V: Runaway or Restrained?
Attempting to refute the remarks of The John Birch Society and other constitutionalist organizations, the CFA Initiative contends that the constitutional convention held in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 did not exceed its mandate. In fact, based on the undeniable success of the constitutional convention of 1787, the CFA Initiative claims that the con-con they plan on convening on July 4, 2013, can accomplish just as much good, can be confined to considering only the balanced budget amendment, and can be kept from becoming a "runaway convention" that could result in a new constitution, one that doesn't resemble the current one.
The Compact for America Initiative claims that the historical record of the convention of 1787 proves that it was not a "runaway convention" and that a modern-day convention could be carried out without exceeding a very limited purpose.
Unfortunately for the CFA Initiative, their account of those seminal events is not completely accurate. A core premise of the CFA's conclusion is that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia did not exceed their mandate. In an earlier report published by the Goldwater Institute, the claim was made that, "48 of the 55 delegates [to the Philadelphia Convention] had instructions which allowed them to go beyond amending the Articles of Confederation."
To assert, then, that the Constitutional Convention was not "runaway" with regard to those 48 delegates is arguably true. However, what of the seven delegates whose commissions expressly forbade them from ratifying, or even participating in, any proposal calling for the dismantling of the government created by the Articles of Confederation? What of the states represented by those delegates? Yet after ratification of the Constitution crafted in Philadelphia, the citizens and governments in those states were considered to be equally bound to abide by the terms of that contract.
Furthermore, as discussed above, regardless of any state or congressional legislation requiring them to consider only a balanced budget amendment, the assembled delegates in Dallas would possess unlimited, though not unprecedented, power to propose revisions to the existing Constitution, based on the inherent right of the People in convention to alter or revise their government.
The prospect of a convention endowed with power of this magnitude, populated by politicians (many of whom would likely be bought and paid for by powerful lobbyists and special interest groups) determined to tinker with the precision gears that give movement to works of our mighty Republic, is frightening and should give pause to everyone considering supporting the Compact for America Initiative.
The Compact for America and the Threat to the Constitution
The material presented by CFA lists 208 existing interstate compacts as evidence of the commonality and usefulness of such agreements.
That such agreements exist and function is true. In many instances, interstate compacts are the grease that allows the gears of federalism to drive the engine of the various commercial interests of the several states.
How, then, CFA adherents would ask, is the Constitution threatened by passing another multi-state compact?
The primary difference between the agreements listed by CFA and the one they propose as a vehicle for the passage of a balanced budget amendment is that the former do not impact the Constitution. None of the 208 compacts CFA lists changes one letter of the existing Constitution. They primarily deal with matters relating to the behavior of the states that are parties to the agreements, leaving the Constitution — including its checks, balances, and separation of powers — unchanged. The same can't be said of the interstate compact proposed by the Compact for America Initiative.
In several sections, the balanced budget amendment proposed by the CFA endows Congress and the president with new powers not already granted them in the Constitution.
For example, in Section 4, the president is given the authority to:
enforce said [debt] limit by publicly designating specific expenditures for impoundment in an amount sufficient to ensure outstanding public debt shall not exceed the authorized public debt. Said impoundment shall become effective thirty (30) days thereafter, unless Congress first designates an alternate impoundment of the same amount by concurrent resolution, which shall become immediately effective. The failure of the President to designate or enforce the required impoundment is an impeachable misdemeanor.
This provision of the CFA's BBA would grant the president new, sweeping authority over the budget-making process. Furthermore, giving the president the right to "designate" any spending request is tantamount to giving him the power to rewrite laws passed by Congress, which would amount to rewriting both Articles I and II of the Constitution. Article I of our current Constitution explicitly places "all legislative power" in Congress.
Next, Section 3 of the BBA offered by the Compact for America allows Congress to increase public debt if a simple majority of state legislatures sign off on the measure. This is part of the CFA's decentralization strategy: Taking power from Washington and giving to the states. That is a proposition that appeals to all constitutionalists, but it begs a question.
Why is such a scheme necessary when states already possess the power to prevent federal excess? By ratifying the Constitution, states did not cede their sovereignty to the federal government. In fact, the continuation of our Constitution and our Republic requires states to assert themselves and to reject any act of Congress that goes beyond the narrow scope of authority granted to it by the states in the Constitution.
The Remedy: Enforce the Constitution, Don't Change It
In support of their position, bloggers, pundits, and politicians advocating for the adoption of the Compact for America plead with fellow constitutionalists (the Eagle Forum and The John Birch Society, specifically) to "get on board before we no longer have a country and a Constitution for you to protect."
While an anxiety for the salvation of our Constitution and our constitutional republic is laudable and never to be dismissed, the author of that last warning fails to take into account other remedies for the cancer afflicting our body politic.
To begin with, rather than expose the Constitution to the whims of special interest groups, political action committees, corporations, and the politicians they pay for, why not enforce the Constitution as written?
For example, there is not a single syllable in the Constitution providing for foreign aid ($74 billion spent from 2010-2011), undeclared wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (nearly $4 trillion spent since 2001), or the 185 federal welfare programs (nearly $2 trillion spent from 2010-2011). In the past decade, based on just those three examples alone, Congress has authorized the spending of over $6 trillion for unconstitutional purposes! Wouldn't the country's economic outlook be improved by forcing our federal representatives to obey the limits on their power as provided by the Constitution, rather than allowing the delegates to a CFA con-con in Dallas (and the powerful interests many of them would be financially beholden to) to hold a new constitutional convention that not only would do nothing to restrain the federal government, but could potentially rewrite our Constitution? The certain risks associated with a CFA con-con far outweigh the promised benefits of a BBA.
Fortunately, there is another way for states to exercise their collective authority on the federal government without resorting to a constitutional convention. It is the concept described by Thomas Jefferson as the "rightful remedy" for any and all unconstitutional acts of the federal government: nullification.
Simply stated, nullification is a concept of legal statutory construction that endows each state with the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal measure that a state deems unconstitutional. Nullification is founded on the assertion that the sovereign states formed the union, and as creators of the compact, they hold ultimate authority as to the limits of the power of the central government to enact laws that are applicable to the states and the citizens thereof.
In the Virginia Resolution of 1798, Madison reaffirms this fundamental principle of constitutional construction:
Encroachments springing from a government, whose organization cannot be maintained without the co-operation of the states, furnish the strongest excitements upon the state legislatures to watchfulness, and impose upon them the strongest obligation, to preserve unimpaired the line of partition.
With these facts in mind, it would seem that our nation's fiscal and political well-being is better served by governors jealous of their states' sovereignty and their rightful role as "shelters against the abuse of power," signing into law state bills nullifying unconstitutional federal measures (including those that have propelled our national indebtedness into the stratosphere) than by governors uniting at a constitutional convention with unchecked power to amend our Constitution out of existence in the name of balancing the budget.
What's more, by seeking out and electing federal representatives committed to never voting for a single spending bill that violates the enumerated powers of the Constitution and refusing to reelect those members of Congress that do vote for such measures, the federal budget would be balanced — by following the Constitution, not "fixing" it.
Enforcing the Constitution and demanding that states stand up to their would-be federal overlords accomplishes the same goal as the CFA's balanced budget amendment without putting the Constitution so close to the shredder that an Article V convention could become.
To its credit, the Goldwater Institute, one of the organizations behind the CFA Initiative, recognized in one of its previous efforts to call a constitutional convention that "abuses of the Article V constitutional amendment process are possible." Given the ready availability of the remedies of (1) election of representatives committed to controlling spending according to the already existing constitutional limits, and (2) nullification, there appears to be no argument persuasive enough to convince state or federal lawmakers to suffer the potentially Constitution-threatening side effects that would accompany swallowing the pill of the Compact for America's constitutional convention scheduled for July 4 this year.
All Americans and state legislators who stand united in their resistance to unconstitutional federal spending and the ever-increasing tax burden that supports it that has bankrupted our nation, must also unite in their opposition to the Compact for America Initiative. This includes refusing to support passage by the state legislatures of the interstate compact and the balanced budget amendment it proposes. The states and people must also forcefully reject the Article V constitutional convention called for by the CFA Initiative, a convention that would be beyond the control of the people or their representatives, one that could result in the proposal by the assembled delegates of potentially fatal and irreversible alterations to our Constitution that could very well end up being ratified.
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Compact for America Timeline
This timeline is based on information published by the Compact for America Initiative at http://www.compactforamerica.org.
• December 2012: Six to 12 governors agree to having their states join the CFA Compact.
• December 2012-January 2013: CFA sponsors are identified in the 50 state legislatures.
• January 2013: Lobbying teams begin working in the 50 states to promote passage of legislation to join the CFA Compact.
• January 2013: Lobbying teams are in place to push passage of the CFA's Omnibus Resolution in the U.S. Congress.
• April 2013: CFA's Congressional Omnibus Resolution is passed by Congress.
• January-May 2013: States join the CFA Compact, with the 38th state joining by the end of May, triggering the provisions of the compact to go live.
• June 2013: Thirty-eight state applications for a balanced budget amendment (BBA) constitutional convention are delivered to Congress and an Article V constitutional convention is called pursuant to the provisions of the CFA's Compact and the CFA's Congressional Omnibus Resolution.
• July 4, 2013: A 24-hour convention is held in Dallas, Texas. The governors from at least 38 states and state-appointed representatives from the remaining states assemble as delegates and vote to propose the CFA's BBA as an amendment to the Constitution.
• July 7, 2013: Congress is notified of the proposed BBA, and the proposed amendment is automatically submitted to the states and ratified pursuant to the terms and provisions of the compact and the Congressional Omnibus Resolution.
• July 31, 2013: The Archivist of the United States is notified of the ratification of the BBA by the 38 member states, and shortly thereafter, the archivist certifies the incorporation of the BBA into the Constitution of the United States.
(Contact your state legislators in opposition to any Compact for America legislation to bring about a con-con.)
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Can anyone review my code? This is exercise 1.28 from SICP.
"Exercise 1.28: One variant of the Fermat test that cannot be fooled is called the Miller-Rabin test (Miller 1976; Rabin 1980). This starts from an alternate form of Fermat's Little Theorem, which states that if n is a prime number and a is any positive integer less than n, then a raised to the n-1-st power is congruent to 1 modulo n. To test the primality of a number n by the Miller-Rabin test, we pick a random number a < n and raise a to the n-1-st power modulo n using the expmod procedure. However, whenever we perform the squaring step in expmod, we check to see if we have discovered a "nontrivial square root of 1 modulo n," that is, a number not equal to 1 or n-1 whose square is equal to 1 modulo n. It is possible to prove that if such a nontrivial square root of 1 exists, then n is not prime. It is also possible to prove that if n is an odd number that is not prime, then, for at least half the numbers a < n, computing a^n-1 in this way will reveal a nontrivial square root of 1 modulo n. (This is why the Miller-Rabin test cannot be fooled.) Modify the expmod procedure to signal if it discovers a nontrivial square root of 1, and use this to implement the Miller-Rabin test with a procedure analogous to fermat-test. Check your procedure by testing various known primes and non-primes. Hint: One convenient way to make expmod signal is to have it return 0."
Here is my code:
(define (square x) (* x x))
(define (expmod base exp m)
(define (expmod-iter a base exp)
(define squareMod (remainder (square base) m))
(cond ((= exp 0) a)
((and (not (= base (- m 1)))
(not (= base 1))
(= squareMod 1))
((even? exp)
(/ exp 2)))
(remainder (* a base) m)
(- exp 1)))))
(define (miller-rabin-test n)
(define (try-it a)
(= (expmod a n n) 1))
(try-it (+ 1 (random (- n 1)))))
(define (fast-prime? n times)
(cond ((= times 0) true)
((miller-rabin-test n)
(fast-prime? n (- times 1)))
(else false)))
Did I follow the exercise? Is this correct? Are there bugs? Thanks for any feeback!
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Roadside vendors occasionally have signs advertising their sale of mayhaw jelly. There are even Mayhaw festivals in Hull-Daisetta, Texas (May 2-4 2013); El Dorado, Ark.; Marion, La.; Starks, La.; and Colquitt, Ga. What's all the fuss about?
Mayhaw is the name given to a group of fruit species common to wetlands throughout the southern U.S. You can find them growing in the moist soil in river and creek bottoms under hardwood trees. The name "mayhaw" was given because the fruit ripens in late April through May. Lots of mayhaw fruit is also found in bayous around the Texas-Louisiana border and around Caddo Lake. Some folks use boats to collect the sought-after berries out of the water.
The mayhaw looks like a small crabapple or cherry. The tree is a Hawthorne with its fruits ranging in color from yellow to pink to dark red. The average size of the fruit is 1 inch or less in diameter. Orchards can be found that grow "improved" mayhaws. This beauty is gaining popularity with foodies all over the nation. It has made its way from the swamp to cultivated fields and commercial orchards in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. The mayhaw is normally a large shrub or a small tree growing 20-30 feet at maturity.
The mayhaw has clusters of white flowers on its canopy in the spring. They like our slightly acidic soil. Give your mayhaw a location with lots of sun and a minimum of weeds or grass. Add compost or manure and loosen the soil to 8 inches or so. As with any tree, plant in a hole two times larger than the root ball. Backfill the hole, mulch, water two to three times a week, but make sure the soil is draining well.
There is a Louisiana Mayhaw Association that was formed in 1995 to promote a positive image and wider acceptance of mayhaws and mayhaw products. They are doing a bang-up job. You can contact them at mayhaw.org to enter cooking contests or for information on the plant. They would be able to steer you to a stellar mayhaw jelly recipe. Consider using mayhaw as flavoring, butter, jam, sauces, pie filling, coffee cakes, ice cream and wine, according to the association. Good eats.
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I like Petrovic, but he is not a "star potential player", more of a physical second pairing type.This is probably the most realistic return for what the Canucks could get from Florida, one that I would be happy with. Petrovic definitely fills a need on this team, not to mention he is a right sided, right shot defenseman and big and tough as nails and decent skill set.


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I'm taking a week off to do some plein air painting in "Group of Seven Country", so while I'm gone, I'll share a few scans from another Grumbacher Library "How to" book I found earlier this year at a thrift shop.
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I'll be adding a few more pages from this 1975 Grumbacher book as time allows this week.
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Congress is threatening stalemate again, and this time the effect would be felt by millions of average Americans.
Congress is threatening stalemate again, and this time the effect would be felt by millions of average Americans. Here is what's at stake if lawmakers fail to stitch together some deal to keep alive jobless benefits, the payroll tax cut, and the "Doc fix" patch. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
Roughly 1.8 million Americans will no longer be eligible for federal unemployment insurance benefits if Congress fails to extend legislation beyond its Dec. 31 expiration date, according to the advocacy group, the National Employment Law Project. Federal unemployment insurance goes to workers who have exhausted state benefits, which typically max out at 26 weeks. This is where the federal unemployment insurance benefits step in to provide anywhere from an additional 34 to 73 weeks of extra checks. It has become an important financial stopgap for the long-term unemployed, or anyone out of work for at least 27 weeks. Macroeconomists also overwhelmingly approve of the benefits because they inject much-needed cash into the fragile economy, and usually, it's money that's quickly spent, boosting consumer demand. PAYROLL TAX CUT
The payroll tax rate will jump from the temporarily reduced 4.2 percent back to 6.2 percent on the first of the year. That means most workers will see the effects of Congress' failure to reach a deal when they receive their first paycheck in 2012. Last year, lawmakers approved a one-year, 2 percent break on payroll taxes to help funnel more cash into the economy. About 160 million workers benefitted from that $110 billion in tax relief, according to the White House. The average worker earning about $50,000 received a $1,000 break this year. Many economists have warned that allowing the benefit to expire could hurt the already struggling economy. DOC FIX
Nearly 50 million Americans on Medicare might face longer wait times to see their physicians. The 27 percent pay cut that the "Doc fix" patch addresses wouldn't happen immediately. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services can and has delayed payments to doctors as Congress struggled to pass bills preventing large cuts in Medicare reimbursements. In June 2010, CMS stopped processing Medicare physician claims for nearly three weeks as Congress worked to pass a doc fix bill that prevented a more than 20 percent pay cut. While that means doctors won't see their incomes drop right away, it does mean long delays in getting government reimbursements. That's something that could lead some doctors to slow down their appointment schedule.


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Wisconsin Supreme Court selects chief judges
Madison, Wisconsin - June 29, 2012
The Wisconsin Supreme Court today selected circuit court judges from Jefferson, Vilas and Wood counties to serve as new members of the Committee of Chief Judges, effective Aug. 1.
The Court also re-appointed judges from Brown and Kenosha counties to continue serving on the committee, which along with the Supreme Court, helps oversee administrative matters in circuit courts statewide. The Committee of Chief Judges consists of 10 chief judges, one from each of the state's 10 judicial administrative districts.
Deputy Chief Judge Randy R. Koschnick, Jefferson County Circuit Court, was appointed as the new chief judge of the Third Judicial Administrative District. Koschnick replaces on the committee outgoing Chief Judge J. "Mac" Davis, Waukesha County Circuit Court. As of July 31, Davis will have completed the maximum three, two-year terms on the committee, including a year as its chair. Davis remains on the bench in Waukesha County.
Koschnick has served as deputy chief judge of the Third District since 2008. He was elected to the Jefferson County bench in 1999 and re-elected in 2005 and 2011. He served as an assistant State Public Defender from 1985 to 1999. He is a graduate of UW-Stevens Point and Hamline University School of Law.
The Third Judicial Administrative District encompasses Jefferson, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha counties.
Deputy Chief Judge Neal A. "Chip" Nielsen III, Vilas County Circuit Court, was appointed to replace on the committee outgoing Ninth Judicial Administrative District Chief Judge Gregory E. Grau, Marathon County Circuit Court. Grau, a former deputy chief judge, has served as the district's chief judge since Sept. 8, 2008. Grau remains on the bench in Marathon County.
Nielsen was appointed to the Vilas County bench in 2003, was elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2010. He worked as a corporate attorney from 1999 to 2003 and in private practice from 1981 to 1999. He serves as chair of the State-Tribal Justice Forum, which works to promote and sustain communication, education and cooperation among tribal and state court systems.
The Ninth District encompasses Florence, Forest, Iron, Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon, Menominee, Oneida, Price, Shawano, Taylor and Vilas counties.
Deputy Chief Judge Gregory J. Potter, Wood County Circuit Court, was appointed chief judge of the Sixth Judicial Administrative District. He replaces on the committee Chief Judge John R. Storck, Dodge County Circuit Court. Storck will have served the maximum of three, two-year terms as of July 31. Storck previously served as chair of the committee, and prior to becoming a chief judge, served as deputy chief judge. Storck remains on the bench in Dodge County.
Potter was appointed to the Wood County bench in 2001, elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2008. He served as Wood County District Attorney from 1987 to 2000 and was in private practice from 1984 to 1987. Potter is a graduate of Gonzaga University Law School in Spokane, Wash., and the UW-La Crosse.
The Sixth District encompasses Adams, Clark, Columbia, Dodge, Green Lake, Juneau, Marquette, Portage, Sauk, Waushara and Wood counties.
The Supreme Court also re-appointed two chief judges.
Chief Judge Donald R. Zuidmulder, Brown County Circuit Court, will continue as chief judge of the Eight Judicial Administrative District. Zuidmulder was elected to the bench in 1997 after a 22-year career in private practice. He was re-elected in 2003 and 2009. Zuidmulder also served as Brown County district attorney, and as an assistant attorney general.
The Eighth District encompasses Brown, Door, Kewaunee, Marinette, Oconto, Outagamie and Waupaca counties.
Chief Judge Mary K. Wagner, Kenosha County Circuit Court, was re-appointed chief judge of the Second Judicial Administrative District. Wagner was first elected to the Kenosha County bench in 1991, and re-elected in 1997, 2003 and 2009. She served in the state Assembly from 1978-82 and as Kenosha County clerk from 1976-78. She also has served as a deputy chief judge in the Second District and was a teacher from 1971-76. District Two encompasses Kenosha, Racine and Walworth Counties.
Working as a team with a deputy chief judge and a professional court administrator, chief judges manage the flow of cases, supervise personnel, develop budgets, and meet monthly as a committee to work on issues of statewide importance. With the exception of Milwaukee County (First Judicial Administrative District), where the chief judge is a full-time administrator, chief judges and their deputies maintain court calendars in addition to handling administrative matters.
Districts range in size from one county to 13 counties. A chief judge can serve up to three, two-year terms, which are staggered.


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Category 2: Build an original GreenLanternmobile. What would Hal Jordan think of when he thinks of a cool set of wheels to zip around town in to attract all the ladies? What would he think of making to chase down the bad guys? Make it green or prepare to lose. Winner of this category will receive the Green Lantern promotional minifig.
Just so that there's no confusion: a Batmobile and GreenLanternmobile is considered a vehicle with no more and no less than four wheels. No tanks or hovercrafts. There must be a driver's seat; no autopilots.
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Global Wage Gap Continues to Widen
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Advocates of globalization point to rising standards of living and the cross-cultural exchange of ideas, but stark global wage trends highlight the less optimal results of economic liberalization.
A dual gap has opened in global wage trends. The wages of most workers are falling more and more behind those of top earners, even as average wages are failing to keep pace with labor productivity growth.Wage trends are heavily influenced by globalization and the economic crisis that caused the ranks of the unemployed to swell from 169 million in 2007 to 198.4 million in 2009, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). Although the number temporarily dipped to 193.1 million in 2011, a preliminary estimate for 2012 indicates it was back up to 197.3 million.
Cumulatively, from 2000 to 2011 global real monthly average wages grew by just under a quarter. But global figures hide considerable regional differences. Wages almost doubled in Asia, whereas they increased by 18 percent in Africa and 15 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Wages in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region (which includes Russia) nearly tripled. But this surge came on the heels of economic collapse after the fall of communism, which led wages to contract severely. In Russia, the subsequent growth only returned wages to what they had been at the beginning of the 1990s. In the Middle East, the limited wage data available suggest stagnation during the last decade. In industrial economies, wages increased by a comparatively tiny 5 percent, albeit from a much higher base than in other parts of the world.
Data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the manufacturing sectors of 34 countries illustrate the tremendous wage differentials around the world. Countries with the highest hourly compensation are primarily found in northern and western Europe; Norway had the highest reported compensation at $64.15 per hour in 2011. Japan and the United States are in the middle of the field, while southern and eastern European countries, most of Asia, and Latin America all have lower compensation. The Philippines has the lowest rate of the 34 countries, at $2.01.
Although not directly comparable due to data gaps and methodological differences, BLS also offers estimates for China ($1.36 per hour in 2008) and India ($1.17 in 2007). The estimate for India covers only the country's formal manufacturing sector, for example. People who work in the informal manufacturing sector account for some 80 percent of India's total manufacturing employment, but they earn substantially less than workers in the formal sector.
Since the 1980s—long before the world economic crisis of 2008—wages in many countries stopped keeping pace with improvements in labor productivity. Trade globalization, the expansion of financial markets, and declining trade union membership combined to erode the bargaining power of workers, and thus less of the wealth produced globally is going to labor compensation while a rising share is going to profits. According to the ILO, average labor productivity in industrial countries increased more than twice as much as average wages did between 1999 and 2011.
Average wage figures mask extremes of wage inequality. There is in fact a growing gap between top earners and the rest of the workforce, especially those in unskilled or low-skilled, temporary, precarious jobs.The ILO finds that especially in English-speaking countries there has been a sharp increase in the salaries and compensation of top corporate executives.In the United States, the top 1 percent of wage earners saw their annual earnings go up by 156 percent between 1979 and 2007.For 90 percent of U.S. workers, in contrast, wages advanced by a much smaller 17 percent during the same period.
The gap between wages and labor productivity and the rising inequality of wages are developments that raise fundamental questions of fairness in the economy. The extremely unequal distribution of income and wealth that has emerged worldwide has profound consequences, determining who has an effective voice in matters of economics and politics, and thus how countries address the fundamental challenges before them.
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Mariana Monteagudo is a Venezuelan artist who has been working on various series of Muñecas (Dolls) over the last decade. Muñecas is the generic term Monteagudo uses to describe her creations since 1998. She has received several awards, and her artwork has been featured in solo, group shows and fairs in Madrid, Miami, Chicago, Aruba, Caracas, New York, Sao Paulo, and other venues. Monteagudo's striking and unusual pieces have attracted the attention of many critics and her work is part of the MOLAA Museum in California, Everson Museum, NY, Cesar Gaviria Trujillo Collection, Columbia, among other contemporary art collections.
In my latest 2012 series, Goddesses & Subdits, I wanted to make an interpretation of the power of beauty and femininity over others. These goddesses, queens and princesses are at the top of their society. They look over their shoulders and watch us from another dimension. They are powerful, magnetic, proud, coquette, dominant and they know how to cast their spell....
~~~Mariana Monteagudo
Mariana Monteagudo lives and works in Miami, Florida. Her artwork is on display at JustMad Mia art fair, Soho Studios at The Wynwood Convention Center, Miami.
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Goddesses & Subdits
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Lori Franklin has a lot in common with James Dyson. She isn't an inventor like the founder of Dyson Ltd., a British company that has designed some of the world's best-selling vacuum cleaners. The mantra that Mr. Dyson repeats in the company's commercials, however, could be hers as well: She just thinks things should work properly. Ms. Franklin is chief operating officer and controller at OverDrive Inc., which distributes e-books, audiobooks and other digital content through libraries, schools and retailers. The role suits Ms. Franklin, who oversees the Valley View-based company's accounting, human resources and administrative departments. The desire to make things run more efficiently is "at my core," she said. "I like fixing things. I like improving them," she said. Since she arrived at OverDrive 10 years ago as a part-time financial consultant, Ms. Franklin has formalized the process the company uses to recruit employees and overhauled its payroll system, which among other things now lets employees manage their own benefits via the web. The 1989 Strongsville High School graduate also has pushed OverDrive to implement several software programs designed to make employees more productive. For instance, though the company's sales team for years had been using Salesforce.com's customer relationship management software, now nearly 100 of OverDrive's 160 employees use it.Her latest project is a biggie: She is managing OverDrive's effort to build a new headquarters in Garfield Heights. Ms. Franklin helped line up the incentives the company will receive from the state, Cuyahoga County and the city of Garfield Heights, and she keeps in touch with the contractors who are building the 95,000-square-foot structure. She also conducted surveys to figure out what employees wanted in the new headquarters, which will include two indoor basketball courts, among other features. The two amenities on which she insisted reflect her focus on improving processes. First, she wanted the bathrooms to have soap dispensers attached to the sinks. If employees don't need to reach for soap, they won't get water on the countertops, she said. She also wanted the bathrooms equipped with Dyson Airblade hand dryers, which blast users' hands with room-temperature air, drying them in about 12 seconds. "I don't ask for a lot," she said with a laugh. Mike Vantusko, chief financial officer for OverDrive, described Ms. Franklin as "a hard-working, industrious executive who really understands what it takes to grow a business." That's evidenced by how she became chief operating officer. Though her first job at OverDrive was to manage the company's books, when new tasks came up, she often volunteered to take them on, Mr. Vantusko said. "We kept giving her more and more work," he said. Work, however, doesn't define Ms. Franklin, who earned a bachelor's in business administration and accounting from Bowling Green State University in 1993 and a master's in business administration from Baldwin-Wallace College in 2000. She stays balanced with the help of religion (she attends Royal Redeemer Lutheran Church in North Royalton) and running (she's done a few marathons). She also enjoys spending time with her kids, ages 15, 13, 7 and 4, and takes them on trips to their cabin on Atwood Lake, which is southeast of Canton. "It's important to make sure you step back and take time out to enjoy life," she said.
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Serves 2
The notion that a green banana is a good banana is a grave mistake.
Brown spots on the skin are not a sign of spoiling, but a sign that
the bananas are ready to be consumed. Green bananas, on the other
hand, are rather hard to digest because they are unripe.
This dish is meant as a dessert, but it also makes a good snack
in-between meals. Do not make this dish with bananas that are not
fully ripe.
Cooking Instructions
1) Combine brown rice vinegar, grated ginger, nigella seeds, and
green cardamom together in a bowl and stir.
2) Bake the bananas in the skins for 15 minutes in a 400° F (200°
C) hot oven.
3) Arrange each banana on a plate and slice both bananas open
lengthwise while still in their skins. Pour the rice vinegar/ginger
mixture over the openings in the skins and serve the bananas
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With all this news about the new Cataclysm expansion coming in little dribs and drabs, a lot of our thoughts wander to what it will be like.
Will I still be playing?
Will I still be in this guild?
Will I still be <insert class here> when Cataclysm is finally out and in full swing?
Maybe you're getting a little bored of the class that you're playing now. Maybe a bit of variety's just what you need. Maybe you saw a warrior charging, intercepting and intervening around a boss fight like a pinball on crack and you thought to yourself, "damn, now that's what I want to be doing when Cataclysm's out!"
For a bigger in-game decision such as this one, there are a couple of things that you should know first off before taking the plunge.
Tanking is…different. I know that that's something that everyone says about the role they fill and the class they play but if all you've ever done is deal damage or heal, tanking can be a little interesting to wrap your head around. It's a little more unsettling if you've never really played as a melee class before, simply due to the restricted viewpoints of all of the fights. As a caster, you're generally free to zoom out pretty well and can get a good sense of the entire battlefield as a whole where if you play in melee range, the majority of your time as well as screen real estate is taken up by the boss itself.
It takes a little bit of getting used to.
On another note though, is what kind of tank would you want to try being? If your aim is to simply tank for a group of friends on their daily heroic dungeons and such, there's a lot less need to strive for perfection than if you were planning to be the main tank for a progression guild on your server.
The old adage you hear? About how it's always the tank's fault if someone dies? While it's not really true, a lot of people still act that way so if you have a thin skin, if criticism (both the well meant or the snotty kinds) stresses you out and bothers you overmuch, in all honesty, tanking is probably not something that you want to get into. It's a little hard to enjoy yourself playing a game when everyone blames you for the wipe or the death of a party member.
That's not to say that there aren't any perks to tanking though. A dedicated and reliable tank, whether it's for 25 man raids or just a daily dungeon here and there are often awarded for their service with profuse gratitude and respect. If you're good at what you do, people will notice and remember that and as such, tanks and healers have an easier time forming connections and a bit of a social network that's required to end up main tanking for a raiding guild (if that's your goal). And on top of that, even if raiding isn't something you want to do, being on the short list for competent healers and DPSers around your server can never really be a bad thing.
So give it some thought. If you have an alt or a spec that can tank for a while, all the better to experiment with it now while everyone waits for the expansion to see if you can get a feel for it, if you find it challenging or even if you simply enjoy it.
If you're dead set on giving it a try, maybe even levelling a specific class to do it for the expansion, I'll be back next week to share with you the difference between the various tanking classes and how to pick one that would best suit your play style and temperament.


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His impressive show during the recently concluded limited overs cricket series in Sri Lanka has taught Irfan Pathan to "enjoy each and every small moment of success" that comes his way.
"After being out for two years due to injury, this is one thing I have learnt. I need to enjoy each and every small bit of success that comes my way. I have to seize happiness from each and every moment on cricket field," Pathan told PTI in an interview today.
"I have realized that whatever has happened in the past is history and I can't afford to look too ahead towards future. But I can control my present and work hard to make things happen. That is exactly what I am trying to do. Grab each and every moment," the 27-year-old, who won two man-of-the-match awards said.
"A good delivery like the one that swung into Dilshan and I got him bowled in the T20 match is certainly satisfying but at the same time my innings of 34 not out is also equally significant as it was very important in the context of the match. These are little successes that I have started enjoying. It lifts your morale."
The Lankan series has by far been the best one for Irfan where he got a five-for in one of the ODIs, had couple of cameos as well as a match-winning performance in the one-off T20.
On whether he has now cemented a place in the Indian team, he said, "You can never say you belong to a certain place. I believe that only if I perform, I will be a part of that dressing room. I will have to keep contributing in whatever little way I can."
Having tasted the flavour of Test cricket (he already has a double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets from 29 Tests), he wants to get back into white flannels in near future.
"I have my own set of dreams and playing Test cricket is certainly on top of that list. I want to perform well in the limited overs version so that when Test cricket comes calling, I am up and ready for it," the all-rounder said.
Having played at the Premadasa Stadium during the ODIs, Pathan is confident that Team India will do well during the upcoming World T20 Champiopnship starting from September 18.
"We now have a fair idea about the Premadasa strip. It's a good batting wicket but obviously dew will be factor during the evening matches," Pathan assessed.
The cricketer, who is taking a short break, plans to travel to Bangalore to train at the NCA provided the weather in Baroda is not conducive for outdoor practice.


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The style you wear tells a lot about who you are . It should be something you identify yourself with , and something you feel as true as wearing your own personality .
Here's a piece of my closet . Since a little girl I've been introduced to great bands such as Led Zeppelin , Pink Floyd or The Doors , and since then I've been growing with rock , punk and metal background songs .
There's nothing wrong with grabbing some of your old clothes and giving them a new look , so from time to time , instead of buying new things , I get my old stuff back and change it .
I've been bleaching a pair of old denim pants I have , giving them a new grunge and trashy style .
From time to time , once I get the money , I buy S sized male metal tshirts and cut their sleeves off , making them look more "metal styled" and sloppy . I wear them either with skinny or baggy ripped jeans , black , denim or bleached , and sometimes with with black ripped glass tights and shorts .
I alway wear these pair of clothes with either army boots , black all stars , or classic squared vans .
With all of these I either wear a black leathered jacket , or denim jacket , with a black or gray cotton coat underneath .
What tells a lot about who I am is my hair .
I don't every wear make up , but every month I dye my 75cm straight hair with a different color from leaving it bleached to every color in the rainbow .
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Prostate cancer statistics
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among Canadian men (excluding non-melanoma skin cancers). It is the 3rd leading cause of death from cancer in men in Canada.
To provide the most current cancer statistics, researchers use statistical methods to estimate the number of new cancer cases and deaths until actual data become available.
Incidence and mortality
Incidence is the total number of new cases of cancer. Mortality is the number of deaths due to cancer.
In 2017, an estimated:
- 21,300 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer. This represents 21% of all new cancer cases in men in 2017.
- 4,100 men died from prostate cancer. This represents 10% of all cancer deaths in men in 2017.
- On average, 58 Canadian men were diagnosed with prostate cancer every day.
- On average, 11 Canadian men died from prostate cancer every day.
New cases
Incidence rate (for every 100,000 males)*
Death rate (for every 100,000 males)*
5-year net survival (estimates for 2006–2008)
*Age-standardized to the 2011 Canadian Standard Population. Age-standardization is a statistical method that removes the effect of age on the calculated rate. It allows rates to be compared over time or across provinces and territories.
Trends in prostate cancer
In Canada, the incidence rate of prostate cancer peaked in 1993 and again in 2001. Each of these peaks was followed by a decline. These peaks are compatible with two waves of intensified screening activity using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. Since 2001, the incidence rate has generally been declining.
The mortality rate for prostate cancer has been declining since the late 1990s. The decline likely reflects improved treatment.
Chances (probability) of developing or dying from prostate cancer
It is estimated that about 1 in 7 Canadian men will develop prostate cancer during his lifetime and 1 in 29 will die from it.
For more information, go to Canadian Cancer Statistics publication.
What's the lifetime risk of getting cancer?
The latest Canadian Cancer Statistics report shows about half of Canadians are expected to be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime.