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Mitt-picking: Choosing Condi Rice a game changer
By Juan Williams
Washington's favorite gossip game– speculating about the vice presidential pick– now gets serious.Now that Mitt Romney has a lock on the GOP's 2012 presidential nomination, his next step is to introduce himself to America as a general election candidate. It will be tough. He begins with negative favorability ratings– especially compared to President Obama.
The ABC News/Washington Post poll shows 47 percent of Americans holding an unfavorable opinion of Romney with just 35 percent viewing him favorably. Obama has a 21-point advantage with a 56 percent favorability rating.
Romney is fighting the image created over the primary campaign in which he came across as an out-of-touch rich guy, pandering to the right wing by flip-flopping on the moderate Republican positions he held as governor of Massachusetts.
Romney also has to flip the script on the perception that he is "Your Father's Oldsmobile": a patrician, white Republican male with no sense of the changing racial make-up of America or the reality that women are now power players in the workplace and in politics.
The biggest move he can make to change his image is via an eye-catching pick for the number two slot on the presidential ticket.
A recent CNN/ORC poll asked Republicans and Republican-leaning independents to pick their preference for Romney's running mate. At the top was a surprise choice: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She attracted 26 percent support. Rick Santorum won second place with 21 percent support. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio were tied for third place with 14 percent each. At the meeting of state GOP chairmen in Arizona recently half of them told a National Journal reporter they wanted Romney to pick Rice.
Rice would be a political game changer for the 2012 race.
Yes, she would be the first African American woman to be on a major party's presidential ticket, at a time when the GOP is losing ground with minority and female voters.
But she is more than that because– unlike some other prospects– her selection can never be dismissed as racial tokenism. She is an experienced political player who has scars from previous battles; former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are still taking shots at her in their latest books.
And her expertise on foreign policy, as a former secretary of state, would compensate for Romney's lack of international experience. As a governor and a businessman, Romney dealt almost exclusively with domestic policy.
Keep in mind, Rice has a strong political spine. She flew in the face of anti-immigrant fervor from the GOP right wing recently by standing up for immigrants. She opposed individual states, beginning with Arizona, passing laws to increase pursuit of illegal immigrants. That position– politically daring in the modern-day GOP– will be a big help as the Romney campaign tries to win over Latino voters.
There is another critical reason why Romney should pick Rice. Over the last few months, she has partnered with Joel Klein, the former chancellor of the New York City public school system, to draw attention to the crisis in American public education. They co-chaired a Council on Foreign Relations panel that examined the failure of public education as a threat to America's national security.
They found that 75 percent of American young adults do not qualify to serve in the military because they have criminal records, are physically unfit or– the biggest reason– have inadequate levels of education. One out of every four American students fails to get the high school diploma needed to join the military.
This includes about half of the nation's black and Hispanic students, who drop out of high school. Even more disturbing is the report's finding that 30 percent of the young people graduating from America's high schools don't do well enough in math, science and English on the aptitude test to serve in the military.
The report also screamed out that the U.S. State Department is unable to find enough foreign-language speakers to serve as interpreters and translators.
"The education crisis may well be the greatest threat to our national security," Rice explained at a recent speech before the Heritage Foundation in Washington. "The crisis in K-12 is producing unemployable people who will ultimately be on the dole because they will have nowhere else to go."
In his election night speech in New Hampshire, Romney said he wanted to "stop the unfairness of urban children being denied access to the good schools of their choice."
Rice has exactly the right message to jump start the education debate.
By putting Rice on the ticket, Romney could reform his image and give the education reform movement a boost. And win or lose in November, he will have created a political legacy for himself and done his country a great service.
~Fox News political analyst Juan Williams serves has been the senior national correspondent for National Public Radio as well as author of the bestseller "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965." This essay from the Featurewell service originally appeared in the Washington newspaper called The Hill.Read more on: Condoleezza RiceMitt Romney
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"They found that 75 percent of American young adults do not qualify to serve in the military because they have criminal records, are physically unfit or– the biggest reason– have inadequate levels of education. One out of every four American students fails to get the high school diploma needed to join the military."
Is this statement true? If so the USA has grave problems. And after all that money being spent on education!
It used to be shameful to be ignorant.. now they give you a trophy just for showing up.
People who drop out of school should be inelgible for any wefare until age 25 or secure a diploma or GED.
Additionnly anyone who goes to jail should have to serve the entire sentence if they don't have a diploma (but the jails should have manadatory schooling avialable)
Part of the "entitlment" mentality of America is that people feel "entitled" to ignore their civic duty to be self sufficent. We provide a fre education, the least they can do is take advantage of it.
Good comment Mr Marshall. Reform is required. The school boards want more money but money wont help the problems created by the welfare state. The economics of poverty has enslaved the youth to the Democratic Party Machine.
@ Observer - I can state the opposite. the Republican Party Machine has so increased the number suffering poverty as to overwhelm our economics. most individuals would reach for the hand offering assistance of any kind rather than the hand ignoring you, or pushing you down.
I think Mr. Marshall's suggestions deserve discussion. but blaming the problems on one Party is why we continue to have no solutions to our problems. when a person (or delegate) stands with hands crossed stating things will only be done his/her way it's little different than a toddler repeatedly saying, "no, mine!". try that with your husband/wife/sibling and see if you solve anything.
Her work with the public school systems would be the only good thing about "Condi"
Her foreign policy credentials are a joke, she was on the war bandwagon with the rest of the "weapons of mass distraction" Bush cronies. Those wars drained resources and funding that could have helped aid our collapsed public school infrastructure.
And we are no safer, only weaker.
Remember this, we have the watches but Al Qaeda has the time!!!!
Republicans, Libertarians and Democrats all have a lot in common but there are substantial differences. Democrats definitely own the welfare state. Deny it if your embarrassed.
Condi, She is an attractive, highly accomplished black, woman and former Secretary of State. Who the hell are you to even evaluate her accomplishments. She has earned respect and trust as an honest individual.
A voter
Oh, hey Voter. Which welfare state do the Republicans own? Come on now..... you and I know there are two welfare states and if we do the math we will find that the Republicans own the more costly one.
Let's stop arguing and sing the middle class theme song, come on everyone it goes like this, "I'm a schmuck, your a schmuck, wouldnt you like to be a schmuck toooooooooooo."
Well lets see.
Democrats have the governmental wellfare for banks and too big to fail businesses. Ask Obama where his donations come from, or Geithner.
Democrats have the Department of Education
Democrats have Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac and Sally May too.
Democrats have the SnAP CARDS
Democrats have the Federal Reserve Bank
Maybe Republicans have the defense department? Thats big. But is it part of the welfare state?
Come on taxpayers, help out here.
This "essay" by Juan Williams is a prime example of how deteriorated his "thinking" has become, and why he now resides at Fox fake news.
The Council on Foreign Relations education "report" consists of a very healthy dose of tripe. Indeed, what can we expect, if the panel is headed by Joel Klein and Condaleezza Rice?
Joel Klein, one of the co-chairs of the report, perpetrates and perpetuates the myth that public education is in "crisis," and without serious "reform" "the U.S. economy will continue to suffer."
The "reform" pushed by Klein (and the Council report) is to impose the "business model" on public schools. This is the same "model" that led to big budget deficits, a ballooned national debt and a broken economy. Klein advocates more testing, merit pay through "value-added" evaluations, more charter schools and vouchers as "innovative" reforms. There is little or no research to support any of them.
Klein blames the current economic quagmire on public education. He writes that we used to "have a successful middle class," but "that's changed markedly since 1980." Klein says "we're rapidly moving toward two America's –– a wealthy elite and an increasingly large underclass that lacks the skills to succeed." His answer to the problem? The market, since "markets impose accountability."
Klein never makes any mention whatsoever, as he blames schools and teachers, of the supply-side economic policies pushed by conservative presidents, politicians and businessmen that are directly responsible for big budget deficits, millions of job losses, the most severe income stratification in the developed world, and our unsustainable national debt. He calls for "radical reform" of public education (more tests, merit pay, vouchers, etc), but says not one word about reforming the banks, and derivatives trading, and skewed tax system, and regulatory enforcement that are sorely needed.
Condaleezza Rice was George W. Bush's national security director before 9/11 occurred and during the launching of the war in Iraq, which she favored and supported. Rice helped to sell the American public the big lie of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, warning infamously that " we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." Journalists who covered her reported that she "made public claims that she knew to be false."
There's little doubt but that Rice (and her colleagues) ignored repeated warnings about imminent terrorist threats. After 9/11, she said (repeatedly) that no one could have predicted that planes might be used as weapons, despite the fact that there were at least a dozen documented warnings of it.
Initially, until public pressure forced the Bush administration to relent, Rice refused to testify before the 9/11 Commission. When she did, it wasn't pretty. She wiggles and squirms, and tries to obfuscate and evade answering questions about the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) of August 6, 2001. That PDB was titled "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US" and warned that Bin Ladin was "determined...to conduct terrorist attacks in the US," that he "prepares years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks." The memo noted "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks," and it warned that a group of "Bin Ladin's supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives."
Now just imagine that the physical and human dimensions of the Twin Towers and Pentagon and planes were converted into schools and schoolchildren. Would anyone seriously think that there had not been ample warning of an impending disaster? Would anyone think that any of those involved in ignoring the threat should NOT be held accountable? What Rice said in private testimony to the 9/11 Commission has not been declassified (it should be...there are likely some real "whoppers" in there). What she said in public testimony can be seen below. It ain't pretty.
The Aug. 6, 2001 PDB is here:
We know enough about the two people (Klein and Rice) who chaired the Council of Foreign Relations education task force to know that what it reports isn't worth much, if anything.
Finally had to read down to the last post here by democracy to find a proper debunking of Williams' dumb idea . Rice would be a complete disaster for the Republican ticket . Along with her incompetance,and untruthfulness she has the major flaw of no experience as a campaigning politician . Experminting with an untested political person by running her for VP is just a bone headed gimmick that would guarantee failure. Romney needs someone who has ran previously for high office and won . Huckabee,the Govs of Ohio or Virginia are the qualified type of candidates Romney needs to pick from .
And as National Security Advisor she ordered people tortured. She chaired the meeting that introduced torture to American detention policies. She takes credit for personally suggesting they adopt SERE program techniques like waterboarding. Even after her Counsellor Phillip Zelikow advised with a carefully reasoned legal memo that it is torture and we need to stop doing it,Rice still insisted she supports torture. Zelikow is here in Charlottesville--go ahead, ask him what happened to his memo.
When I ran the Outfit in Chicago , things were different.
You did your job, you did it right, and there was more than enough
For you and your family.
Just reading the last few comments by these cafones Is painful.
On and on with their self serving nonsense.
Torture...please...just reading some of those comments is torture.
Better they should have regular sex, makes everything else in life better.
Less to whine and complain about.
Remind me of people who would knock on my door ...only when they needed me of course.
"Mr. Giancana.....that kid keeps beating up my son at school....please help us"
"Mr. Giancana ...my wife was disrespected in the street yesterday....that's not right
...and my favorite...
"Mr Giancana , you were right my wife Angie didn't understand how expensive the new Caddy
would be ...who can we see about a quick loan...there're gonna take the car...."
Behind my back....a very different story ...no respect...
Who takes these people seriously?
Are they men of honor ...?
I am a simple man....just want to have a little citterio sausage and escarole .
Only so much nonsense I can take.
I think its comical how people who criticize the president are accused of being racist, yet when the left criticizes people of color in the republican party, that is never raised. Things like the idiocy of referring to Rice and the alleged "torture" issue, yet Obama continues to spike the football for getting Bin Laden due at least in part from information obtained USING THESE EXACT SAME PRACTICES!!! There's similar hypocrisy on the right also. I'm tired of all of it. Very few politicians want to solve problems of our country---its all posturing for political advantage and power.
I thought you might find this interesting, -- maybe even SICKENING!
The National Association of Realtors is all over this and working to get it repealed, -- before it takes effect. But, I am very pleased we aren't the only ones who know about this ploy to steal billions from unsuspecting homeowners. How many realtors do you think will vote Democratic in 2012?
Did you know that if you sell your house after 2012 you will pay a 3.8% sales tax on it? That's $3,800 on a $100,000 home, etc. When did this happen? It's in the health care bill, -- and it goes into effect in 2013. Why 2013? Could it be so that it doesn't come to light until after the 2012 elections? So, this is 'change you can believe in'?
Under the new health care bill all real estate transactions will be subject to a 3.8% sales tax.
If you sell a $400,000 home, there will be a $15,200 tax. This bill is set to screw the retiring generation, -- who often downsize their homes. Does this make your November, 2012 vote more important?
Oh, you weren't aware that this was in the ObamaCare bill? Guess what; you aren't alone! There are more than a few members of Congress that weren't aware of it either.
Rice has more intelligence and courage in here little finger that Obama and Biden put together.
The matrix has you.
It is one thing to be accused of being out of touch because you are "rich guy"..... it is quite another to actually be out of touch because you don't
have a clue......
@ WhoaNelly
Condaleezza Rice was George W. Bush's national security director before 9/11 occurred and during the launching of the war in Iraq, which she favored and supported. Rice helped to sell the American public the big lie of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, warning infamously that " we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." Journalists who covered her reported that she "made public claims that she knew to be false."
There's little doubt but that Rice (and her colleagues) ignored repeated warnings about imminent terrorist threats. After 9/11, she said (repeatedly) that no one could have predicted that planes might be used as weapons, despite the fact that there were at least a dozen documented warnings of it.
Initially, until public pressure forced the Bush administration to relent, Rice refused to testify before the 9/11 Commission. When she did, it wasn't pretty. She wiggles and squirms, and tries to obfuscate and evade answering questions about the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) of August 6, 2001. That PDB was titled "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US" and warned that Bin Ladin was "determined...to conduct terrorist attacks in the US," that he "prepares years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks." The memo noted "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks," and it warned that a group of "Bin Ladin's supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives."
What Rice said in private testimony to the 9/11 Commission has not been declassified (it should be...there are likely some real "whoppers" in there). What she said in public testimony can be seen below. It ain't pretty.
@Voter (is that you County Farmer?)
FactCheck.org has already debunked this nonsense:
"We've been flooded with queries about this one ever since the health care bill became law. At the last minute, Democratic lawmakers decided on a new 3.8 percent tax on the net investment income of high-income persons. But the claim that this would amount to a $15,200 tax on the sale of a typical $400,000 home is utterly false."
"The truth is that only a tiny percentage of home sellers will pay the tax. First of all, only those with incomes over $200,000 a year ($250,000 for married couples filing jointly) will be subject to it. And even for those who have such high incomes, the tax still won't apply to the first $250,000 on profits from the sale of a personal residence — or to the first $500,000 in the case of a married couple selling their home."
"The Joint Committee on Taxation, the group of nonpartisan tax experts that Congress relies on to analyze tax proposals, underscores this in a footnote on page 135 of its report on the bill. The note states: 'Gross income does not include … excluded gain from the sale of a principal residence'."
"And just to be sure, we checked with William Ahern, director of policy and communications for the nonprofit, pro-business Tax Foundation. 'Some home sales would see a tax increase under this bill, Ahern told us, 'but it would have to be a second home or a principal residence generating [a gain of] more than $250,000 ($500,000 for a couple)'."
You can easily look this up. Easily.
Or, for more, see "The flood of falsehoods about the health care law":
@ WhoaNelly and Voter
P.S. It can hardly be called "courage" to ignore repeated warnings about terrorist threats, lie about negligent behavior, start a war based on trumped-up falsified "intelligence" against a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and possessed no weapons of mass destruction, and refuse to pay for it.
The claim that the Affordable Care Act imposes a "tax" on all home sales came from an Internet email that has circulated rampantly on conservative websites. According to the Palm Beach Post,
"The email's original source appears to be an April 2010 blog post on www.gop.gov, which describes itself as 'the website of the Republican majority in Congress'."
Republicans today seem to specialize in lying. Take just two examples. Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Trickle-down economics. Our nation has already paid a terrible price for both. When will Republicans ditch the hypocrisy (and lying), take some personal responsibility for their failures, and make a commitment to honest discussions based on factual information?
Democracy...you're reputation precedes you. You rail constantly about anything republican. You're agenda is quite apparent, and it's getting old. My statement was in regards to her intelligence as compared to the bozo's presently in the white house. Why don't you give us one of your exposé's on Obama and his socialist connections, or his Islamic connections, or his energy policies that will eventually bankrupt us altogether....? Condi Rice won't bow down to Saudi kings.
Liberals, on the other hand don't see all of America as one. They pit the rich against the poor, black against white, working women against homemakers all in the name of votes to stay in power. The liberal policies for the last 40 years have brought this country to its knees, created more poverty, strangled industry and are reducing America to a nanny state bent on destruction. We have a president who blames everything and everybody but himself for his own failed policies. We have a vice-president who couldn't make a profit running a lemon aid stand and is the laughing stock on the world stage. Obama and his cronies need to go before we are reduced to a third world nation with the majority of our population dependant on government handouts.
Whoa there WhoaNelly...go back on your meds. Please.
Your latest rant is, once again, without foundation and substance. But that's not unusual.
I'll simply cite two instances of your unsubstantiated blather.
First, you write this gem: "Why don't you give us one of your exposé's on Obama and his socialist connections, or his Islamic connections, or his energy policies that will eventually bankrupt us altogether....?"
You've spent far too much time trolling right-wing websites and watching Fox fake news. Since YOU wrote this tripe, perhaps you could provide readers with ONE piece of factual information that details the president's "socialist connections," or that lays bare his "Islamic connections," or that sheds light on how "his energy policies" are going to "bankrupt us."
Then you pen this pearl of lunacy: "The liberal policies for the last 40 years have brought this country to its knees, created more poverty, strangled industry and are reducing America to a nanny state bent on destruction."
Obviously you fail to acknowledge –– as most conservatives do –– that the vast majority of debt piled up over the last thirty years took place under Republican presidents (Reagan, Bush1, Bush2) pursuing supply-side economic policies that benefitted the rich (and corporations) but eviscerated the standard of living for tens of millions of others. It was only under Bill Clinton that the economy provided prosperity for most Americans, and budgets were balanced (multiple times). Clinton actually shrank the size of the federal government, and he raised taxes on the wealthy without one single vote from Republicans in Congress (look it up). They claimed the tax increase would "ruin" the economy. They lied. You cannot escape it, WhoaNelly. You can't hide. The Republican Party today worships the supply-side policy of "the proliferation of the rich" based on "cutting upper-bracket incomes." It is that policy that broke the economy. It is an utter failure.
As Rex Nutting reported at MarketWatch recently, "Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an "inferno" of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children's future. Even Democrats seem to think it's true. But it didn't happen."
Nutting continues: "Over Obama's four budget years, federal spending is on track to rise from $3.52 trillion to $3.58 trillion, an annualized increase of just 0.4%...What people forget (or never knew) is that the first year of every presidential term starts with a budget approved by the previous administration and Congress. The president only begins to shape the budget in his second year. It takes time to develop a budget and steer it through Congress — especially in these days of congressional gridlock. The 2009 fiscal year, which Republicans count as part of Obama's legacy, began four months before Obama moved into the White House. The major spending decisions in the 2009 fiscal year were made by George W. Bush and the previous Congress...spending under Obama grew by about $200 billion over four years, amounting to a 1.4% annualized increase. After adjusting for inflation, spending under Obama is falling at a 1.4% annual pace — the first decline in real spending since the early 1970s, when Richard Nixon was retreating from the quagmire in Vietnam."
Now, I know you are terrified of facts, but I challenge you to read the article. I suspect that even you can understand the CBO-based charts.
P.S. Did you read the PDB of August 6, 2001? Did you watch Rice's testy testimony to the 9/11 commission? Are you ready to concede that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
All this banter is fascinating, divide and conquer is working on the small minds in america.
@ skin
All of us should be committed to equality and freedoms and justice for all citizens, should we not?
All of us should be dedicated to Abraham Lincoln's proposition of a government "of the people, by the people, for the people," don't you agree?
@ Democracy, don't take my word for these accusations, reading his book "Dreams of My Father" would be a good start for you.
@democracy "What people forget (or never knew) is that the first year of every presidential term starts with a budget approved by the previous administration and Congress. The president only begins to shape the budget in his second year. It takes time to develop a budget and steer it through Congress"
Well Obama has not been successful in guiding any budget through congress. It has been years since any compromise was agreed to. He just cannot get it done.
After considering democracy's arguments I definitely dislike Obama. Further I bet "democracy" is a cover name for one of the wanna-be Socialists Elite. You know socialism for everyone but he wants to be more than comfortable at the top due to his political position.
@ WhoaNelly: I repeat, since Since YOU wrote all the tripe in comments above, perhaps you could provide readers with ONE piece of factual information that details the president's "socialist connections," or that lays bare his "Islamic connections," or that sheds light on how "his energy policies" are going to "bankrupt us."
C'mon. Please back up your rhetoric with facts.
@ Voter (is that you County Farmer?): You don't seem to like facts any better than WhoaNelly. Did you read the MarketWatch (owned by Dow Jones) piece? And aren't YOU the very same commenter that posted (above) the nonsense about the Affordable Care Act's secret tax on home sales, a lie that originated with the Republican party?
@ WhoaNelly and Voter: I think that all of us should be committed to equality and freedoms and justice for all citizens. I believe in Abraham Lincoln's proposition of a government "of the people, by the people, for the people."
Your comments make it clear that the two of you do not. Perhaps you'll explain.
@ democracy You accuse me of things that are not true. You have no facts. Speaking of TRIPE, thats all you have.
Get real or get lost.
@ Democracy, I agree wholeheartedly with those quotes.
I would just like to see more voters taking in more information about this world than what comes out of Rush Limburger's yap. Or the crap that is spewed out by the popular internet.
It seems that some americans are so easily misled by the media when they look at one or two sources of information about an issue. Americans should look not only at the issues in america but how american policies and culture affect the rest of the world.
@ Voter
1. Ethanol
2. Medicare Advantage
Just two for starters, you wrap your head around those two and you will see where i'm comming from.
I used the wrong comparison when I indicated the two welfare states were divided between Democratic policy (poor) and Republican policy (rich).
There is really no difference between the two parties, it's all smoke and mirrors, the average Joe does not keep track of congressional voting records.
There's only a difference between someone who has access to public officials and someone who does not.
He needs someone from the center like Olympia Snow of Maine rather than Santorum etc.
But who would make the best VP choice for Romney ? Definately not Rice , she is a non starter . This Williams fellow is just creating mischief to suggest her or he is very poor at assesing politics . Who should Mitt pick to give him the best chance at getting elected ?
Olympia is retiring and she doesn't inspire anyway . Nice lady but . Doesn't Mitt need a pleasant conservative like Huckabee ,Rubio , Virginia Gov, N.J. Gov , or the Ohio Gov. that will ingnite the conservative base and church types .Mitt himself is moderate enough for the ticket balance .
@skin...good point. People who disregard Fox news and only get their daily news from the mainstream sources, miss allot of stories that are relevant to what's going on in the world. I watch them all and I am amazed at how the big three will ignore a big story for days because it does not fit their agenda.
If every voter in America would have read Obama's 2 books "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams of my Father" before the last election, he would not be our president now. "Spread the wealth around" was not just a catchy phrase of his; it is his primary agenda in life.
This president has no previous experience in anything; he got himself elected by the gift of gab. The problem he has now is that he has a record, and it is a dismal record. He can't run on that so this election will be all about tearing down his opponent much in the same manner that "democracy" tears down posters here and elsewhere.
@ WhoaNelli
The information you site is but a source, correct or not it is just one source of info.
Your opinion is to be valued and moreso if an informed opinion.
Obama and the democratic party are supposed to be just one part of the beauty of a democracy. Problem is, both parties members are in lockstep with one another and neither will yeild to the other parties good ideas. And believe it or not both parties do have good ideas.
They wont yield because the money behind each member of congress is directing which way things will go.
The american people deserve a govt that will act with the majority opinion in mind and/ or the best interests of the country as a whole.
I fear this will never happen except by armed force.
To quote T.J.
"The tree of liberty should be watered from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants"
Skin...I with ya' buddy. I can't see government ever being reduced to what it should be in my lifetime..
BTW, I do read and watch many sources, I think I am probably better educated in regards to politics than your average voter. The main stream media DOES have an agenda, they don't even really try to hide it anymore.
Hometown boy - Donald yrum
Hometown boy- Donald - trumps Romney on his big day
Will he be the VP ?


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The 2006 men's soccer team finished the season 9-8-2 and had three players make Skyline All-Conference. For the first time since joining the Skyline Conference, the Rams made the post-season tournament and faced the #6th ranked team in the nation, Stevens Institute of Technology. Despite the loss in the semifinals, this year's team finished with the most wins since the school joined the NCAA in 1999.
Junior transfer Andrew Whilby led the team in scoring with 13 goals and four assists for 30 points; the most points by a Farmingdale player in the past six seasons. He was followed by freshmen Ryan Paul and Marcos Cipra with five goals a piece. Paul had an impressive rookie campaign, finishing second in scoring with 13 points and was named Skyline Rookie of the Week on October 2nd.
Defensively, co-captains James Varicchio and Bryan Spencer controlled the backfield and helped hold opponents to just 1.63 goals per game during the regular season. Cipra, who also finished third in scoring, was strong in the backfield for Farmingdale. The Rams improved this year in goals per game, compared to 3.40 goals per game in 2004 and 1.81 goals per game in 2005.
The goal cage was occupied by freshmen Joseph Caccavale and Patrick Gubbins. Caccavale finished with 85 saves, a 2.01 GAA and a 6-6-2 record, including three shutouts. Gubbins finished the season 3-2 with two shutouts and a 1.65 GAA.
The team will return 18-of-19 players for 2007 as Head Coach Chuck Schimpf looks towards another appearance in the Skyline Conference Playoffs.

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Citrix Systems made a lot of noise by acquiring XenSource a few years back for a half billion bucks, but it still makes a lot of money from its NetScaler line of web application acceleration appliances. These include physical implementations (MPX), virtual ones (VPX) running inside of virtual machines, and the high-end ones for service providers (SDX).
The NetScaler appliances are based on two-socket Xeon 5600 servers in a 2U chassis with SSL encryption/decryption coprocessors plugged into their peripheral slots. The MPX versions just run one image of the NetScaler software on a single appliance: the Standard, Enterprise, or Platinum editions, to be precise. The SDX versions, which first debuted in May, are aimed at service providers and they use the company's XenServer hypervisor to carve up a single server into multiple, isolated virtual application acceleration and access control instances. The MPX and SDX appliances come with all of their hardware installed and Citrix dials up a certain level of bandwidth and SSL encryption/decryption capacity to create different models. Once you have one model, you can do a software upgrade on-the-fly to boost a NetScaler appliance's performance. The VPX virtual appliances can run on any server sporting a Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, or VMware ESXi hypervisor.
With companies freaking out about security on the Wild Wide Web, Citrix has beefed up the performance of the NetScaler MPX and SDX appliances so they can process 2,048-bit SSL encryption and decryption at an acceptable performance level. It's not that the existing NetScaler appliances can't do the 2,048-bit encryption, explains Greg Smith, senior director of product marketing for the Cloud Networking Group at Citrix, but the company had to add come more coprocessing oomph to do so at speed. At the top-end of the NetScaler line, the new MPX 21550/SDX 21550 can handle 90,000 transactions per second with those 2Kb key certificates, which is twice the oomph of the prior MPX 21500/SDX 21500 appliances and more than twice that of the nearest rivals, according to Smith.
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Smith says that on an existing NetScaler appliance without the extra coprocessors, switching from 1,024-bit to 2,048-bit SSL drops the transaction throughput on the appliance by 80 percent. Doing that extra math takes a lot more time.
The other big change with the latest NetScalers is that the virtual appliance count on the SDX appliance has been boosted from 16 virtual NetScaler instances with the SDX appliances announced in May. With the NetScaler SDX 17550, 19550, 20550 and 21550 appliances that were just announced, service providers can add up to 40 virtual NetScaler instances to the machines. Citrix is still using the XenServer 5.6 hypervisor inside of the SDX appliances, by the way, not the new XenServer 6.0 hypervisor announced a little more than a week ago. The SDX appliances can run different editions and release levels of the NetScaler software at the same time and can have specific amounts of memory, CPU, and SSL encryption/decryption throughput tied to each SDX image.
"We guarantee that no NetScaler instance will starve out any other and that is very important for multitenant service providers," says Smith. The only other way to guarantee performance would be to buy a separate hardware appliance for each customer, and that's not going to work in the cloudy era.
The base MPX 17550 appliance has 20Gb/sec of throughput and can process 44,000 transactions per second using 2,048-bit SSL encryption. It costs $145,000. The SDX 17550 has the same feeds and speeds hardware wise and has five instances of the NetScaler Standard Edition loaded up with the hypervisors. The other three appliances offer 35Gb/sec, 42Gb/sec, and 50Gb/sec raw throughput. The ability to upgrade through those speeds is called "pay-as-you-grow" by Citrix. ®
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Beginning Sept. 1, Yahoo users will be able to access a plethora of Saturday Night Live clips from the show's inception in 1975 to the present, according to a press release circulated late Wednesday.
The deal, first hinted at in Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's blog, was inked between the Sunnyvale-based Web giant and NBC Entertainment, which has broadcasted SNL for 38 years, according to Business Wire.
Users will have access to a "library" of show clips, some select musical performances, and will also be able to see some new episodes. There's also behind-the-scenes clips and takes from rehearsals, according to the news release.
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Radar Basics
To understand how radar detectors work, you first have to know what they're detecting. The concept of measuring vehicle speed with radar is very simple. A basic speed gun is just a radio transmitter and receiver combined into one unit. A radio transmitter is a device that oscillates an electrical current so the voltage goes up and down at a certain frequency. This electricity generates electromagnetic energy, and when the current is oscillated, the energy travels through the air as an electromagnetic wave. A transmitter also has an amplifier that increases the intensity of the electromagnetic energy and an antenna that broadcasts it into the air.
A radio receiver is just the reverse of the transmitter: It picks up electromagnetic waves with an antenna and converts them back into an electrical current. At its heart, radio is just the transmission of electromagnetic waves through space.
Radar is the use of radio waves to detect and monitor various objects. The simplest function of radar is to tell you how far away an object is. To do this, the radar device emits a concentrated radio wave and listens for any echo. If there is an object in the path of the radio wave, it will reflect some of the electromagnetic energy, and the radio wave will bounce back to the radar device. Radio waves move through the air at a constant speed (the speed of light), so the radar device can calculate how far away the object is based on how long it takes the radio signal to return.
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Radar can also be used to measure the speed of an object, due to a phenomenon called Doppler shift. Like sound waves, radio waves have a certain frequency, the number of oscillations per unit of time. When the radar gun and the car are both standing still, the echo will have the same wave frequency as the original signal. Each part of the signal is reflected when it reaches the car, mirroring the original signal exactly.
But when the car is moving, each part of the radio signal is reflected at a different point in space, which changes the wave pattern. When the car is moving away from the radar gun, the second segment of the signal has to travel a greater distance to reach the car than the first segment of the signal. As you can see in the diagram below, this has the effect of "stretching out" the wave, or lowering its frequency. If the car is moving toward the radar gun, the second segment of the wave travels a shorter distance than the first segment before being reflected. As a result, the peaks and valleys of the wave get squeezed together: The frequency increases.
Based on how much the frequency changes, a radar gun can calculate how quickly a car is moving toward it or away from it. If the radar gun is used inside a moving police car, its own movement must also be factored in. For example, if the police car is going 50 miles per hour and the gun detects that the target is moving away at 20 miles per hour, the target must be driving at 70 miles per hour. If the radar gun determines that the target is not moving toward or away from the police car, than the target is driving at exactly 50 miles per hour.
Police officers have been catching speeders this way for more than 50 years. Recently, many police departments have added a new sort of speed detector, one that uses light instead of radio waves. In the next section, we'll see how these cutting-edge devices work.


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Fresh Figs With Feta Cheese, Pistachio, And Honey
I love fresh figs, especially, the sweet Black Mission variety. The way I like to enjoy them is to pair the figs with salty Bulgarian Feta cheese, some raw pistachio, honey, and served with some wholemeal rusk. This is one of my favorite non-cook and no recipe needed appetizer. You can play around with the ingredients, perhaps, you may want to pair the figs with some goat cheese and walnut instead, or maybe serve with some dry toast, pita chips, or even flatbreads. Try it.
Fresh Figs With Feta Cheese, Pistachio, Honey, And Wholemeal Rusk
(Printable Recipe)
6 Fresh Black Mission Figs, washed and halved
Crumbled Feta Cheese (Bulgarian)
12 Whole Meal Rusk
Raw Pistachio, lightly chopped
Mint leaves, optional
Scattered some feta cheese on each Rusk and top with a fig half. Drizzle some honey, top with pistachio and garnish with mint leaves.
Makes 12 appetizers
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This is gorgeous! Would love to just take a bite!ReplyDelete
Great recipe!ReplyDelete
However I 'd like to point that Feta is protected by European Commission Law, through Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) legislation. This means that the European Commission has decided that only feta cheese made in Greece can now be referred to as Feta.
Fabulous! This sounds like my new favorite treat!! Now, if only I can find a market that sells figs in my town!ReplyDelete
I want to go out and buy the ingredients and make this for lunch. This sounds delicious!ReplyDelete
Lovely picture! I could even have had it for breakfast right now...ReplyDelete
Lovely picture! This is definitely my kind of a snack or light meal.ReplyDelete
Great, summer tartines and very nice pictures. Very fresh !ReplyDelete
My family loves figs. This sounds yummy!ReplyDelete
Oh wow. Now I have no excuse! I have to find some figs!ReplyDelete
I think you've included all of my favorite ingredients in one fantastic recipe. These pictures are wonderful and now I am craving figs. Just lovely!ReplyDelete


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Ordinary Love, a new song written for the upcoming movie Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, will be released in a 10-inch vinyl pressing to mark Record Store Day on November 29th. (UK and Ireland release, Monday December 2nd - participating stores here)
The sleeve artwork features a striking painting of Nelson Mandela by Irish artist and illustrator Oliver Jeffers. Oliver, along with Mac Premo, has also directed a lyric video for Ordinary Love which we'll carry on U2.com during November.
The band wrote the new song at the invitation of movie producer Harvey Weinstein and the b-side of the Record Store Day release will feature a second track, Breathe (Mandela Version).
We'll have copies of the vinyl release up for grabs in a competition next month.
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The sleeve artwork features a striking painting of Nelson Mandela by Irish artist and illustrator Oliver Jeffers. Oliver, along with Mac Premo, has also directed a lyric video for Ordinary Love which we'll carry on U2.com during November.
The band wrote the new song at the invitation of movie producer Harvey Weinstein and the b-side of the Record Store Day release will feature a second track, Breathe (Mandela Version).
We'll have copies of the vinyl release up for grabs in a competition next month.
Stay tuned...
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05 December, 2013
R.I.P. Mr. MandelaReceived my copy of Ordinary Love today in the mail, turned on the News and heard of his passing at 95 yrs. old, A long walk to freedom indeed, Free at last, We will celebrate your life in song and are forever indebted to you for the legacy you have left us. Thank You!! Mr. Mandela R.I.P.
24 November, 2013
Timely and TimelessThanks to the band for once again delivering wonderful music and a beautiful video. As always the band's message is timely and relevant, and its music melodic, hypnotic, and ethereal. The type of love epitomized by Mandela is so simple and ordinary, yet so rare in such a jaded and cynical age. As the US still grapples with endemic and institutional homophobia, I believe this song is an anthem for the Gay Rights movement and yet...its an anthem for the problems plaguing the world over. Transcendent. Haunting. Wonderful. I must have a new album and a new tour!!! God Bless you guys, you've scored my life since I was a 16-year old kid in Long Island, NY watching MTV, mesmerized by "Gloria".
21 November, 2013
"Education is the most powerful weapon wMy 11 years old boys went on the "International Town" field trip today in Denver, CO. As we were leaving, postcards were passed out with this written on the front of them: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela. Love the video.
15 November, 2013
Available in the NetherlandsEach year there seem to be one or more "special releases", but only in the USA... European fans never have a chance to obtain these unless they (we..) are able to pay hundreds of dollars on eBay. I think this is a shame, espacialy because U@ st5arted out in Europe ( Ireland, Holland Germany ....) before they were able to cross they "big puddle" to the US.. So i'd say : No more "USA only" releases ...
15 November, 2013
MercyWhen will you release Mercy?
12 November, 2013
Available in Ireland?Is this vinyl release available in Ireland , I heard its a US only release? Anyone know ?
08 November, 2013
MP3 download!!!The song is absolutely amazing I wish we could hear the whole thing
07 November, 2013
U2.com shopcould the u2.com shop sell it? apparently, u2 fans all over the world cannot get it, except the states?
06 November, 2013
Anything but OrdinaryWell, the speculation on Ordinary Love is rife, The great U2 machine has done it again, created mass fan hysteria and the promoters will milk it for all its worth. Don,t get me wrong i am a massive U2 fan and love all their songs but its just that - a song - admittedly I anticipate that it will be brilliant as always but just a song all the same. There are and I,m sure Bono would agree more important things going on in the world than whether you are the first to download Ordinary Love or whether you get it on vinyl. Come on folkes, calm down. PS can,t wait to get my copy...
04 November, 2013
Ordinary Love.Of course it should be available to subscribers! (one copy only, so we dont have to pay £100+ for it on E-Bay!)
04 November, 2013
Fanclub Pre-OrderPlease make this available to order on this website for fan club members. It makes sense.
04 November, 2013
MP3 Download for subscribers-only, NowNow !!!
02 November, 2013
Ordinary LoveI'm with Bryan264... i'm surprised the song isn't available to view with the release so near, and hopefully both songs will be on the Mandela album, as i won't hold out much chance of getting the 'limited edition' Vinyl. But it's great to hear something new, and the snippet sounds infectious!
01 November, 2013
Edge's PicksCan't get enough of this collection off of "From the Ground Up". "40" carries me out of this life of mine and to that other place.
01 November, 2013
No patienceHaving no patience I cannot wait until 29 November. A little bit of info from U2.com to advise when we can simply hear the full version of the song would good, their silence is frustrating!!
01 November, 2013
Pre order of vinylPre order of vinyl for europ and FRANCE
31 October, 2013
Larry's DayHappy Birthday, Larry!
31 October, 2013
ParryHappy birthday larry, you are amaaazzzing. Xxxxxxxx
31 October, 2013
Larry!!!!Happy B-day Larry, one of my best drummers. Love you in Side B of The Unforgettable Fire. Love you in all the ones in Raw, Rare and Remastered. Awesome in Breathe and Electric Storm. Thanks to you Sunday is a real hit!!! Thanks for existing in this life...and give us your music.
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31 October, 2013
available in IrelandAnybody know will this be available in Ireland?
31 October, 2013
Pre order of vinylAnyone can help me to pre-order this treasure? I failed on most websites of RSD shops. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease.
31 October, 2013
download mp3 to subscribers, Nowdownload mp3 to subscribers, Now
30 October, 2013
mp3we need the mp3 ¡ a month ? come on U2 share it ¡
30 October, 2013
Pre-ordered!I managed to pre-order this last night, from www.vvinyl.com :-)
30 October, 2013
Worldwide releaseavailable worldwide or just the States? Also any chance of hearing the song and not just the trailer clip?
30 October, 2013
OnlineI'll be travelling in the middle of the Australian outback on Nov 29 (no record stores out there), but as U2 and Mandela are two of my heroes, I'm desperate to get my hands on this vinyl! Anywhere I can order this online??
30 October, 2013
Fantastic SongWhere is the mp3??? Give us the mp3, please ;)
30 October, 2013
U2-ME2My ordinary love for unordinary U2. Love you, you're my soul.
30 October, 2013
Loveeed!!! It had to be U2!!The history of a person makes the difference to me, when think about the artist. I admire U2, admire Bono's actions and I think he's an example. Thank you, Bono! Thank you, U2! I first loved your songs, then I loved you guys so much more! About Mandela, it had to be with U2, for sure!! We've had angels on Earth and Mandela is one of them! And we have to thank Mandela for coming here, for living in this planet and for doing everything he did! By the way, wanna listen the whole song!! :)) From Brazil, Lilian
30 October, 2013
:)fantastic, nice artwork on the sleeve too, hoping we get an itunes or mp3 download somewhere too, cant wait to hear the full version.
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Two sources tell us that Criteo, a French-American online-advertising company, is close to hiring Rich Riley as CEO.
We asked Riley and Criteo for comment.
"I can't comment on any of the opportunities that I am pursuing or if Criteo is one of them, but would be happy to discuss if/when something is finalized," Riley told us.
"We don't comment on rumor and speculation," a Criteo spokesperson told us.
Riley was most recently a top advertising executive at Yahoo, running sales in the Americas region. He announced his departure in June after 13 years at the company.
This hire, if it goes through, will be interesting for several reasons.
One is that Criteo is a key player in the retargeting business, where ads essentially follow users around the Web based on past visits to online stores or other websites. It did an estimated $400 million in revenues in 2012, and may try to go public this year.
Hiring Riley, who has far deeper advertising experience than Criteo founder Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, would be a key step towards an IPO.
The other is the Yahoo connection.
Criteo already provides retargeting services for Yahoo and Yahoo Japan, an independent company in which Yahoo holds a large stake.
We had heard that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was considering whether to persuade him to return and become COO before she picked Henrique de Castro for that job.
And we've also heard that Criteo is one of the companies Mayer has considered buying to bolster Yahoo's advertising technology. (Another former Yahoo executive, Greg Coleman, is Criteo's president.)
So by hiring Riley, Criteo would simultaneously make itself more valuable to public investors, with a reassuringly experienced and well-connected CEO—and to Yahoo as an acquisition.
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It's been a while since I've posted a blog. Many things have come to mind, but not managed to intrude strongly enough to merit a full-blown discussion here. Thus, I simply offer some random, brief thoughts:
1. Storm chasers come in a whole spectrum of flavors ... don't believe that what you see on the Discovery Channel is representative of that spectrum. Reed Timmer has achieved fame and fortune. beyond doubt, but has yet to establish that he's contributed to science.
2. The science of meteorology offers few definitive answers. Forecasting is what justifies paying our salaries, but we're plagued with uncertainties as a natural outgrowth of the science as we understand it. If you want certainty, consult the arrogant or the ignorant (sometimes it's hard to distinguish between them). We can't predict the future with certainty. Can you, in your world?
3. Politics is a poor mechanism for dealing with reality. You're free to accept whatever you choose in the political spectrum, but to label your opposition with apostasy is not reality ... it's simply a mechanism for feeding your paranoia.
4. Formal religion is the haven for those who've stopped thinking and retreated into blind faith. And blind faith is a formula for persecution without hesitation, delusions about reality, and the acceptance of suppression of the rights of minorities.
5. If we praise God for touchdowns, shouldn't we give him credit for fumbles and interceptions, as well?
6. Perhaps we find predictions of apocalypse in 2012 based on Mayan notions of deep time (> 5,ooo years) to be amusing. If we apply the same skepticism to Christian predictions of the Second Coming, might it not be equally amusing? What are you doing to prepare for the winter solstice of 2012?
7. If global warming is about what you've personally experienced, do you have any idea of what a tiny sample of the climate you've actually sampled? From the perspective of climate change, a human lifetime is comparable to that of a mayfly.
8. Are your opinions about global climate change based on an equal foundation to those of the IPCC consensus?
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Evidence given to Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change regarding UK heat policy
Given the complete muddle of UK policy on heating and climate change, which is a much bigger problem than renewable electricity, I decided to submit evidence to the Select Committee as part of their investigation into renewable heat. The full text is here, abstract below.
This paper focuses solely on domestic heating. It shows that in order to meet the obligations of the Climate Change Act, and also the policy objectives for aviation by 2050, the UK's domestic heating has to be completely decarbonised. This can either be done by electricity, or perhaps using new technologies to synthesise methane or hydrogen using spare summer electricity. No other renewable resources, such as biomass or biogas, can make other than marginal contributions.
The fundamental problems are twofold – generating the required energy, and meeting the peak power demands. The solutions dwarf the challenge of decarbonising the existing electricity grid. Both of these problems are essentially intractable with current technology.
The problems can be alleviated by the extensive, and expensive, use of insulation and heat pumps – no other current technology will make other than a very marginal contribution. However even the most optimistic assessment of the potential savings leaves a new carbon free power requirement that is greater than the entire current generating capacity of the UK. European connection is unlikely to help.
There are ways to approach the solution, but they involve intense, well funded, research programs that consider the entire energy system as a whole unit – from power source to house thermostat. The market alone cannot deliver the degree of coherence needed – it will require substantial Government involvement and support.
There are also policy measures which could be implemented quickly and cheaply that would be more effective than the existing RHI and Green Deal in the domestic sector, and would help accelerate substantially the decarbonisation of heat.


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Come on though - the submarine Lotus was pretty cool
Probably the second choice of iconic Bond car is Roger Moore's Lotus Esprit Turbo – and you can get your hands on one of those for about ten grand, too.
This is how you make a car hard to see
Ignore the cynics who will tell you that it is possibly Lotus's worst car and that the name stands for Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious. Focus on how it looked nearly as good as Ursula Andress as it left the sea for the beach.
What of the other cars we've seen Bond drive? Most of the affordable Bond vehicles are those Bond stole, rather than ones issued by Q.
An Alfa Romeo GTV6, from Octopussy, might be within budget if you're feeling brave. They still look and sound amazing. You could even buy a BMW if you're of that persuasion – not the Z8 but probably a Z3 from GoldenEye or, even better, a 750i.
If you're feeling really poor you could probably still afford half a 2CV as driven by Roger Moore in For Your Eyes Only. And in fact the widely derided Octopussy, a low point even in the Roger Moore era, does surprisingly well on the car front. You could probably also lay your hands on a Triumph Stag, which had a minor role in Diamonds are Forever.
The name's Cooper, Mini Cooper
So what else could Bond have driven? For early era Bond the cars he should have driven are mostly available on celluloid in the original Michael Caine Italian Job – a far better film for motor buffs. There's an E-type, destroyed by the Mafia before the gang get to Milan, along with a DB4 convertible. It's got the Minis of course but also the great Italian police Alfa Giulias. The film even found a leading role for a Series II Land Rover. Admittedly it would probably have been difficult to put Bond in an Italian car, or indeed a Mini, although Austin Powers - far more a creature of the 1960s - would have had no difficulties.
The Land Rover is the most obvious of the cars missing from Bond's garage. Admittedly he did drive one, but not until the Living Daylights in 1987 – a bit late in the day. And Roger Moore does drive a Range Rover – another groundbreaking British car – in Octopussy. Bond missed other great British cars – it seems odd that he's never once driven a Jag, or indeed a McLaren. And we haven't even mentioned AC, Austin-Healey, Bristol, Jensen, MG or Morgan.
A somewhat less sophisticated drive
Setting aside the wistful might-have-been, it's the DB5 that's become synonymous with the Bond legend. What is it about this vehicle?
Your correspondent is nowadays working in classic car storage for a day job, we're fortunately in a position to find out.
I spent a sunny afternoon recently cruising the winding roads over the South Downs in the DB5 and I can report back that it was pretty bloody brilliant. The DB5 is comfortable and the big steering wheel gives you something to hang onto as it barrels round corners. The four litre, six cylinder engine is calmly and efficiently powerful without making a fuss about it. It's got electric windows, which is pretty fancy for a car of this age. It handles well for a motor from long ago, and although not the quietest car would be perfectly pleasant to drive a long distance.
The steering, gear change and brakes do require a bit of muscle but nothing excessive. And the Bond girl in your life will be glad to find that you can get out of it without showing your arse cleavage.
Also, it's a car everyone recognises and everyone loves. Should you end up taking a wrong turn and blocking a small country road while performing a nine point turn no-one will hate you – seriously, I tried it. Stalling at junctions? Same thing. Try that in a Lamborghini.
There are some cars which beg the question "how does anyone afford that?" But the DB5 doesn't create that response – it makes people smile.
For a fortysomething English man it is not really possible to be objective about this car. I had the Corgi model that fired Swan Vestas out of the front bumper, for god's sake. Even if I owned a real one I think it would be impossible to separate from its celluloid sister.
It is like being asked what you think of the Eiffel Tower – it just kind of is.
And driving it, however briefly and gently, doesn't make this any easier. I could tell you it was tricky to reverse into the garage but you wouldn't really care. Besides if you've got quarter of a million quid for one of these you're going to pay me to park it, aren't you?
Fate decreed the DB5 should become Bond's car and I'm inclined to agree fate got it right. And if - like Bond's current producers - you too buy into the DB5's iconic and special status, then you might be happy to learn that my brother-in-law has a lovely one, in silver-birch of course, for sale here.
You can also eyeball the original DB5 price list here (warning: PDF) for some comparison shopping. ®
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Throughout their 37-year career, KISS has sold 80 million albums, played in front of millions of people and become an integral part of American culture. Now, rock's most iconic band is unleashing another assault on North America with The Hottest Show on Earth tour starting on July 23. KISS will perform such classics as "Detroit Rock City" and "Rock and Roll All Nite" as well as hits that they haven't played in the US in many years.
The Hottest Show on Earth tour, produced by Live Nation, will trek through a mix of arenas and amphitheaters throughout North America. Tickets for shows produced by Live Nation go on sale to the general public in select markets beginning June 4 at LiveNation.com. Citi cardmembers can access presale tickets beginning Wednesday, June 2 at 10 a.m. local time through Citi's Private Pass Program. For complete presale details visit http://www.citiprivatepass.com/. KISS is also giving back to the United States Armed Forces by donating one dollar from each ticket sold to benefit the Wounded Warriors Project.
Dr Pepper is a proud sponsor of the KISS tour and will be offering exciting contests and prizes in tour markets. Watch and listen for the Dr Pepper Cherry and KISS TV and radio spots that will be back on the air in late June.
KISS has given some of today's now-legendary bands their first shot by opening for the band at sold out arenas and stadiums around the world — AC/DC, BON JOVI, RUSH, IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST and many others. Now, the legendary rockers are partnering with Guitar Center, the world's largest musical instrument retailer, for Guitar Center On-Stage, an unsigned band competition that will provide emerging artists the chance to open for KISS at 22 of the band's tour stops. In addition, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley will choose one grand-prize winner to receive a $10,000 Guitar Center shopping spree among other prizes. For more information, visit www.GCOnstage.com . Registration begins on June 1.
For the first time, KISS will host a live internet chat on Facebook via Ustream on June 1 to give fans an opportunity to speak directly with the band about the tour. Users can watch and interact by visiting the official KISS Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/KISS.
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Thu, Jul 24* Minot, ND North Dakota State Fair
Thu, Jul 29 Pittsburgh, PA First Niagra Pavilion
Fri, Jul 30 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Sat, Jul 31 Hershey, PA Hershey Park Stadium
Fri, Aug 06 Philadelphia, PA Susquehanna Bank Center
Sat, Aug 07 Boston, MA Comcast Center
Mon, Aug 09* Indianapolis, IN Indiana State Fairgrounds
Fri, Aug 13 Buffalo, NY Darien Lake PAC
Sat, Aug 14 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Sun, Aug 15 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion
Thu, Aug 19 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Fri, Aug 20 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Sat, Aug 21 Washington, DC Jiffy Lube Live
Fri, Aug 27 Virginia Beach, VA Virginia Beach Amphitheater
Sat, Aug 28 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Sun, Aug 29 Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion
Thu, Sep 02 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheatre
Fri, Sep 03 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Sat, Sep 04* St. Paul, MN Minnesota State Fair
Fri, Sep 10 Toronto, ON Molson Amphitheatre
Sat, Sep 11 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
Sun, Sep 12 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
Fri, Sep 17 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Sat, Sep 18 Dallas, TX Pizza Hut Park
Sun, Sep 19 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
Wed, Sep 22 Sandy, UT Rio Tinto Stadium
Fri, Sep 24 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion
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How does this medication work? What will it do for me?
Prazosin belongs to the family of medications called antihypertensives, specifically the group known as alpha 1-blockers. It is used to treat high blood pressure. It relaxes blood vessels, allowing blood to flow through them more easily.
Prazosin may be used alone or in addition to other medications to treat high blood pressure. Prazosin may start working within 1 day, but it may take up to 14 days.
This medication may be available under multiple brand names and/or in several different forms. Any specific brand name of this medication may not be available in all of the forms or approved for all of the conditions discussed here. As well, some forms of this medication may not be used for all of the conditions discussed here.
Your doctor may have suggested this medication for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. If you have not discussed this with your doctor or are not sure why you are taking this medication, speak to your doctor. Do not stop taking this medication without consulting your doctor.
Do not give this medication to anyone else, even if they have the same symptoms as you do. It can be harmful for people to take this medication if their doctor has not prescribed it.
What form(s) does this medication come in?
1 mg
Each capsule-shaped, peach, flat-faced with bevelled-edge tablet, scored and marked "APO P1" on one side, contains prazosin HCl equivalent to prazosin 1 mg. Nonmedicinal ingredients: croscarmellose sodium, D&C Yellow No. 10, FD&C Yellow No. 6, lactose, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, and polysorbate 80.
2 mg
Each round, white, biconvex tablet, scored and marked "APO" over "P2" on one side, contains prazosin HCl equivalent to prazosin 2 mg. Nonmedicinal ingredients: croscarmellose sodium, lactose, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, and polysorbate 80.
5 mg
Each diamond-shaped, white, biconvex tablet, scored and marked "APO" over "P5" on one side, contains prazosin HCl equivalent to prazosin 5 mg. Nonmedicinal ingredients: croscarmellose sodium, lactose, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, and polysorbate 80.
How should I use this medication?
The recommended adult dose of prazosin starts with 0.5 mg with the evening meal and is increased gradually until the desired effect is achieved. The maximum dose is 20 mg daily, taken in 2 or 3 divided doses with food. Prazosin may be used alone or in combination with other medications for lowering blood pressure.
Many things can affect the dose of medication that a person needs, such as body weight, other medical conditions, and other medications. If your doctor has recommended a dose different from the ones listed here, do not change the way that you are taking the medication without consulting your doctor.
It is important to take this medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor. If you miss a dose, take it as soon as possible and continue with your regular schedule. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular dosing schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one. If you are not sure what to do after missing a dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Store this medication at room temperature, protect it from light and moisture, and keep it out of the reach of children.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
Who should NOT take this medication?
Do not take this mediction if you are allergic to prazosin or any ingredients of the medication.
What side effects are possible with this medication?
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent.
The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people taking this medication. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your doctor if you experience these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
- abdominal discomfort
- constipation
- diarrhea
- dizziness or lightheadedness, especially when rising from a lying or sitting position
- drowsiness
- dry mouth
- headache
- lack of energy
- nausea
- nervousness
- unusual tiredness or weakness
- vomiting
Although most of the side effects listed below don't happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not seek medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
- blurred vision
- chest pain
- fainting (sudden)
- frequent urge to urinate
- loss of bladder control
- painful inappropriate erection of penis (continuing)
- pounding or irregular heartbeat
- shortness of breath
- swelling of feet or lower legs
Some people may experience side effects other than those listed. Check with your doctor if you notice any symptom that worries you while you are taking this medication.
Are there any other precautions or warnings for this medication?
Before you begin using a medication, be sure to inform your doctor of any medical conditions or allergies you may have, any medications you are taking, whether you are pregnant or breast-feeding, and any other significant facts about your health. These factors may affect how you should use this medication.
Drowsiness/reduced alertness: This medication can cause severe dizziness and lightheadedness. Avoid driving or operating dangerous machinery until you determine how this medication affects you. Speak with your doctor if you experience severe dizziness or lightheadedness while taking prazosin.
Kidney problems: If you have reduced kidney function, discuss with your doctor how this medication may affect your medical condition, how your medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Orthostatic hypotension: Prazosin has been known to cause severe dizziness and even loss of consciousness for people moving from a sitting or lying position to a standing position. This is known as orthostatic hypotension. It happens most commonly if the person is already taking another blood pressure-lowering medication, has just started treatment with prazosin, or starts treatment with prazosin at a higher dose.
To help prevent this, get up slowly from a sitting or lying position. Your doctor will also recommend slowly increasing the dose of prazosin.
Pregnancy: This medication should not be used during pregnancy unless the benefits outweigh the risks. If you become pregnant while taking this medication, contact your doctor immediately.
Breast-feeding: This medication passes into breast milk. If you are a breast-feeding mother and are taking prazosin, it may affect your baby. Talk to your doctor about whether you should continue breast-feeding.
Children: The safety and effectiveness of using this medication have not been established for children under 12 years of age.
What other drugs could interact with this medication?
There may be an interaction between prazosin and any of the following:
- dabigatran
- diuretics (e.g., furosemide, hydrochlorothiazide)
- linagliptide
- other alpha 1 blockers (e.g., doxazosin, tamsulosin, terazosin)
- other medications that reduce blood pressure (e.g., beta-blockers such as metoprolol and propranolol)
- rituximab
- sildenafil
- tadalafil
- vardenafil
If you are taking any of these medications, speak with your doctor or pharmacist. Depending on your specific circumstances, your doctor may want you to:
- stop taking one of the medications,
- change one of the medications to another,
- change how you are taking one or both of the medications, or
- leave everything as is.
An interaction between two medications does not always mean that you must stop taking one of them. Speak to your doctor about how any drug interactions are being managed or should be managed.
Medications other than those listed above may interact with this medication. Tell your doctor or prescriber about all prescription, over-the-counter (non-prescription), and herbal medications you are taking. Also tell them about any supplements you take. Since caffeine, alcohol, the nicotine from cigarettes, or street drugs can affect the action of many medications, you should let your prescriber know if you use them.
All material copyright MediResource Inc. 1996 – 2020. Terms and conditions of use. The contents herein are for informational purposes only. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Source: www.medbroadcast.com/drug/getdrug/Apo-Prazo


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On a daily basis, we need help setting up the breakfast/snack service and the lunch service and serving food at the Weddell drive site. If you can help, please sign up.
In addition, we try to avoid wasting uneaten food, so we would like it if someone can deliver the uneaten food to the local food shelter on a daily basis: Sunnyvale Community Services
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You will be taking on average 4 crates a day to the shelter and then taking 4 crates back to school to restock their crates for reuse the next day. We usually bring the crates back to Denali at pickup time or the next day at drop off time at the latest - Denali will need the crates for next day's service use.
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Announcement of System Verification Opportunities for First GNIRS Modes
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Dear Colleagues,
The Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph (GNIRS) is now installed in its new home on the Gemini South telescope and commissioning activities have begun. Therefore, we are happy to invite the Gemini community to propose System Verification programs for a subset of the GNIRS modes. You are receiving this because you are either Gemini staff, a member of the GNIRS instrument team, or a member of a National Gemini Office. Collaborations within the Gemini partner countries are highly encouraged as we have a limited number of observing nights and cannot do a large number of projects. Proposals submissions will be DUE no later than MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2004 (details below).
System verification is the final step of testing prior to general use of the instrument by the Gemini community. It is intended to be "end-to-end" testing, verifying the readiness of the entire system from observation definition to data reduction. It is also intended to exercise the various modes of an instrument and demonstrate to the community, through interesting and challenging science programs, the potential of the GNIRS instrument. The following summary is extracted from the Gemini SV web page:
"SV observations will be selected by SV team members and approved by the Gemini Director. They will span a wide range of targets and perspectives and the SV teams will be responsible for providing written, in depth assessments of SV observations and mode verification within two months of data acquisition. The data obtained during SV will be made available by ftp to the international Gemini community and the assessments will be published on the Gemini SV web pages. Community participation...will help ensure that Gemini [with GNIRS] is a success from the first date of scheduled observations."
As you may know, GNIRS is a complex instrument with several observing modes including long slit spectroscopy from 1-5 microns with two pixel scales and a range of spectral resolutions; cross-dispersed spectroscopy from 1-2.5 microns; integral field unit spectroscopy and spectral polarimetry. Initial commissioning will involve the long slit (single order) and cross-dispersed modes with the "short" cameras, specifically:
- long-slit spectroscopy, 1-2.5um, R~2000 and pixel scale of 0.15 arcsec/pix (low background)
- long-slit spectroscopy, 1-2.5um, R~6000 and pixel scale of 0.15 arcsec/pix (OH limited)
- long-slit spectroscopy, 2.5-5um, R=2000 & 6000, pixel scale of 0.15 arcsec/pix (thermal background)
- cross-dispersed spectroscopy, 1-2.5um, resolution R=2000 (also 0.15"/pix)
This "call" for SV proposals concerns these modes only. Commissioning of the IFU and the "long" camera modes (including R=18000) is planned for later in 2004A and 2004B.
Approximately 7 nights in the first half of March have been scheduled to conduct the SV observations. Programs will be selected to cover a variety of targets, wavelengths AND observing conditions. While we are interested in pushing GNIRS to its faintest limits, and we are hopeful for good weather on Cerro Pachon in March, we also need projects that do *not* require 50%-tile image quality and photometric skies. Programs for worse than average conditions will be greatly appreciated and are more likely to be executed. In addition, targets south of -30 degrees declination are easier to observe because they are out of the prevailing northwest wind.
For the long-slit observations, we are interested in both point sources and extended objects, thermal and non-thermal wavelengths and both the moderate (R~2000) and high (R~6000) resolution modes available with the short cameras.
For the cross-dispersed mode, only R~2000 observations will be considered. Both point sources and extended objects may be proposed, however the slit length in the cross-dispersed mode is approximately 6 arcsecs.
More information about GNIRS and its capabilities can be found in the instrument's web pages.
The pages will be updated as commissioning proceeds in January, so please check back occasionally. The sensitivity tables currently give our best pre-commissioning estimates. An Integration Time Calculator will be made available on the web sometime in early January.
To submit a program, you must use the 2004A Phase I tool and include observing constraints, target lists, and instrument configuration information. Export the program to an xml file and EMAIL THE XML FILE directly to firstname.lastname@example.com by MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2004.
Scientific justifications should be brief (1 page or less) and clearly state which modes are being tested. Technical justifications should be complete enough that feasibility can be assessed easily.
Early submissions will be appreciated. PIs will be informed of the results of the selection process in early February 2004, and Phase II files (using the Observing Tool) for selected programs will need to be returned by late February. Note that the recently released "wimbledon" OT has a GNIRS component which we encourage you to try out in advance.
Disclaimer: Submitting a SV program or even having a SV program selected as high priority does not guarantee that data will be taken. Selection for SV will also be based on the abilities of the proposers to reduce the data and return feedback within a reasonable time. The proprietary period for SV data is two months. PIs and their collaborators will need to provide reduced data for public release.
Please feel free to contact us with questions or comments-- we look forward to hearing from you and reading your proposals!
Bernadette Rodgers
GNIRS Instrument Scientist
Gemini Observatory


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TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona tribe that has long struggled with tiny, rundown jails is unveiling a new adult detention center Friday, but it won't immediately begin filling with inmates.
The new 132-bed lockup in Tuba City on the Navajo reservation instead will open in phases because the tribe lacks enough money to fully staff it, said tribal corrections director Delores Greyeyes. The tribe is looking for a solution that includes searching within its own programs for funding and asking the federal government for help. Greyeyes couldn't say Thursday exactly how much the tribe needs.
The Navajo Nation's Division of Public Safety received more than $38 million in stimulus funds for the facility that also will house the district court and law enforcement. The award was one of at least 70 across Indian Country to build or renovate correctional facilities that often are overcrowded and unsafe. The tribe chipped in nearly $20 million, partly from an increase in the tribe's sales tax in 2007.
Tribal spokesman Erny Zah said tribal officials were so focused on securing funding for the building that the staffing issue was overlooked.
"In there, some oversight was not enough time was given to looking at how the buildings would be manned once they were completed," he said. "What's worse than having a completed building that's unmanned is an incomplete building that can't be manned in the first place."
The former Tuba City jail was condemned years ago after receiving multiple environmental citations — plants had sprung up between cracks in the floor, and light was shining through walls and a hole in the ceiling. Other jails on the reservation have suffered from electrical problems, health code violations, poor living conditions and overcrowding, which meant that only 50 bed spaces were available.
The tribe set up four modular buildings in Tuba City to temporarily hold people brought in on charges such as public intoxication and breaking-and-entering, said Tuba City corrections supervisor Lt. Robbin Preston. Those convicted of more serious misdemeanor crimes had to be transported to jails elsewhere on the reservation, which took three hours or more to reach.
The new facility and others under construction are expected to ease jail woes across the reservation. Preston and others say they're hopeful repeat offenders and the public no longer will see the corrections system as a revolving door that allows for few inmates to serve out a full sentence.
"I hope (this) would put a little bit more accountability on them for the laws they break, knowing we have a long-term facility to hold them," Preston said. "I think it's going to take individuals to spend some time in this environment."
Preston said he has about 22 correctional officers for the juvenile and adult facilities in Tuba City but needs about 90 between the two. He said some vacancies are expected to be filled in the next couple of months as the tribe works with a workforce development group that is paying to have people trained at the jails.
The Navajo Nation operates its correctional system through a contract with the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. An agency spokeswoman did not respond to requests for information on how much money is provided to the tribe and whether it will increase with the opening of new jails across the reservation.
Another jail in Crownpoint on the New Mexico side of the reservation is expected to open next month. Tribal officials have plans for others in Pinon, Dilkon, Kayenta and Fort Defiance in Arizona, and in Shiprock and Ramah in New Mexico, Greyeyes said.
Tribal officials have said the reservation' lack of jail space has promoted a culture of fear. Prosecutors take cases to court uncertain of whether any punishment will result, and judges must weigh the available jail space against the severity of the crime.
The new Tuba City jail will be the largest and eventually include services for alcohol and drug abuse, traditional healing and GED certificates. By law, the tribe can hold people for up to a year on misdemeanor charges and impose a fine of up to $5,000. The federal government can prosecute those suspected of more serious crimes and send them to federal prison if they're convicted.
"Now, are we going to change the behavior they've been living over these years? No," Preston said. "But I'm hoping we'll open the eyes of some individuals to know they can change."
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Wednesday afternoon she was named to the Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division All-American Team. Kiihnl, a sophomore for the Lady Bisons, was named to the third team. It is the first time a Lipscomb athlete has earned All-American honors in the NCAA era.
"I'm not sure Whitney really understands how good she is right now," Lady Bisons coach Kristin Ryman said. "That is a good thing to some degree. She is so humble and modest in the way she handles herself."
Kiihnl's other firsts this season for the Lady Bisons' program include the Atlantic Sun Player of the Year and Atlantic Sun Pitcher of the Year Awards. She also became the first Lipscomb softball player to be named to the Louisville Slugger/NFCA Southeast All-Region First Team which qualified her for All-American consideration.
The 54 players named to the three All-American teams represent 35 different schools and 13 conferences.
"She has just reached the tip of the iceberg with what she is capable of doing," Ryman said. "I'm extremely proud because we are mid-major school and a lot of times even if you put up really good numbers you tend to get overlooked.
"The teams were so heavy with PAC-10 and Southeastern Conference teams. This really says a lot about what Whitney, and the other mid-major players who were in there, did all season."
Kiihnl, from Batesville, Miss., finished the season with a 33-5 record. Her 0.95 earned run average is ranked first in the nation. She is second nationally in hits allowed per seven innings with 2.78. She is ranked 12th in shutouts with 12 and 13th in strikeouts with 344.
"Whitney doesn't pitch in a big-time conference, but her numbers would be fairly close to where they are now even if she pitched in a bigger conference," Ryman said. "She works hard every day."
Ryman credits assistant coach Lexi Myers for her work in developing Kiihnl as a pitcher. Both coaches agree that Kiihnl can be even better than she is now.
"Lexi has worked tremendously hard with her and trying to develop her," Ryman said. "Whitney's raw talent is so good that a lot of times people don't see what she can improve on.
"There are things she can get better at such as her consistency hitting her spots and being able to put the ball exactly where she wants it at certain counts. Every pitcher is going to miss every once in awhile with some pitches and we know that. We think she can go up another notch."
She helped lead the Lady Bisons to a 50-13 record this season, the best in the history of the program. The Lady Bisons won both the Atlantic Sun regular season and tournament championships and made their first trip to the NCAA Tournament.
"Whitney took it up to the next level for us and made our team that much better," Ryman said. "She kept us in so many games. She gave our offense a chance to relax at the plate. And it may have taken our offense three, four or five innings to get something done, but she was able to keep us in those games."
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Add another name to the lengthy list of partners who help
the BSA deliver a great program to America's youth: the Professional
Association of Diving Instructors (PADI).
The two organizations made the alliance official last month
in a Memorandum of Mutual Support signed by BSA Chief Scout Executive Robert J.
Mazzuca (right) and PADI Americas Inc. president and CEO Drew Richardson.
Here's an excerpt from the memorandum:
"BE IT RESOLVED that PADI and BSA
will work cooperatively with each other, within the policies, procedures,
safety guidelines, and regulations of each organization, to establish and
nurture Boy Scout troops and Venturing crews so that boys and young men and
women may grow in character, citizenship, responsibility, and with the personal
fitness necessary to achieve their greatest potential."
Though the partnership has just begun, the two groups are
hardly strangers. The Scuba BSA program, a controlled introduction to scuba for
Scouts, already requires certification of instructors by one of several diving
organizations, including PADI.
The collaboration will simply allow the BSA to make even
better use of PADI's resources as it promotes the benefits of scuba to young
men and women in local councils nationwide.
For more information on PADI, click here. For
details on the Scuba BSA program, click here.