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To give you a sense of scale -- boxes of ammo may be 50-100 rounds (take someone else shooting, and you're probably going to go through 300 rounds), but many shooters buy cans (or bags) that come in 500 or 1,000 rounds bulk. So this maniac had enough ammo to go shooting 3 or 4 times with each gun. And dynamite fishing only once. Or as they'd say in Texas or Arkansas upon hearing of that stockpile, "Bubba's running a little low on ammo".
To give you a sense of scale -- boxes of ammo may be 50-100 rounds (take someone else shooting, and you're probably going to go through 300 rounds), but many shooters buy cans (or bags) that come in 500 or 1,000 rounds bulk. So this maniac had enough ammo to go shooting 3 or 4 times with each gun. And dynamite fishing only once. Or as they'd say in Texas or Arkansas upon hearing of that stockpile, "Bubba's running a little low on ammo".
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== Barack Obama (D) Ex-President==
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When it comes to knowing guns, I've never see a pro-gun control legislator or activist with a clue about how guns work. Finding one is my white whale.
The purpose of this article isn't to malign everyone who supports gun control: I'm sure there's some sincere and intelligent folks out there. Maybe even a few that know the basics of guns. I hope to meet one. If I find more than one, I'll dedicate an article to them. But this article is about the majority of gun-controllers, and how it's the 99% that give the rest a bad name. And this isn't about "gotcha" type gaffes, this is fundamental failure to understand what they're talking about. If you don't know how to hold a gun, what the parts are, proper terms, usage, history, or function, then they sure don't know how to make legislation to make things better. The results are what you'd expect if a primitive Melanesian tribe member (of the cargo cult fame), was elected to congress and put in charge of Airline Safety. But that's not really fair for Melanesian's, as at least they would be advocates for more cargo, and the congressional anti-gun folks are luddites preying on an even dumber constituency.
Now that's not to say they can't be intelligent and functioning human beings in other aspects of their lives. They might be quite smart and accomplished, as long as you don't touch the emotional hot-button topic of boomsticks (then their brains turn off). These are just a few of the many examples that cause informed gun owners such frustration.
NOTE: some people may think these are just technicalities, but they show proficiency and understanding. Would you trust your life to a doctor who didn't know what a stethoscope was, or what part went in his ear? I certainly won't trust laws that limit my liberty to nitwits that don't know the basics of how a gun operates or basic terminology.
- 1 Arthur Acevedo (D), John Marshall Law School, Chicago tribune
- 2 Jennifer Barringer (forensic expert)
- 3 Joe Biden (D) Vice President
- 4 Michael Bloomberg (D) NYC Mayor
- 6 Diana DeGette (D) Colorado Congresswoman
- 7 Kevin De Leon (D) - California Senator
- 8 Patricia Eddington (D) NY Assemblywoman
- 9 Diane Feinstein (D) Senator California
- 10 Whoopi Goldberg (D)
- 11 Jesse Jackson (D)
- 12 Gersh Kuntzman (D)
- 13 @Jennifer4130
- 14 Carolyn McCarthy (D) - NY Congresswoman
- 15 Terry McAuliffe (D) Governor of Virginia
- 17 Barack Obama (D) Ex-President
- 18 Nancy Pelosi (D) California Congresswoman
- 19 Bonnie Schaefer (D) DNC Platform Committee member
- 20 Louise Slaughter (D) - NY Congresswoman
- 21 Joe Salazar (D) Colorado State Representative
- 22 Sandy Sheedy (D) California councilwoman
- 23 Shannon Watts (D) Activist "Moms Demand Action"
- 24 Leland Yee (D) California State Senator
- 25 Washington Post
- 26 References
Arthur Acevedo (D), John Marshall Law School, Chicago tribune
Arthur Acevedo made a statement that any fact checker would have caught as moronic, if only the Chicago Tribune had any. And the school this activist professes for, should be shamed in proxy for not demanding a public apology for saying something so insultingly stupid. What did he say that was so dumb? "For safety: the first bullet in every cops gun should be a blank"
Um, a blank can not operate a semi-automatic weapon.
These guns are balanced based on gas pressure or reactive force, which only happens because the bullet is in the way (as it's being pushed down the barrel), which causes back pressure or gasses, which you can use to slide or bolt back -- and that ejects the spent shell, and then a spring slides it forward to re-chamber a new round).
So ignoring that the guy doesn't understand how a gun works, we still get to the point where there are cases where the cop would have to shoot twice, while the criminal would only have to shoot once. This would end up with many cops dead. He may be willing to sacrifice cops lives, but I suspect they might disagree.
Plus, all cops would just learn to double-tap (shoot twice really quickly), because they know they can't trust the first round. That habit would transfer to other shots. Once that skill (muscle-memory) is burned in, you'd have MORE bullets fired, not fewer.
This does nothing to help public safety, the safety of cops, and you get dumber by just listening to the proposal.
- http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-bullet-police-laquan-mcdonald-perspec-1126-20151126-story.html
Jennifer Barringer (forensic expert)
2016.07.09 ~ the smartest democrat they could find, "forensic expert Jennifer Lee Barringer" embarrassed herself on multiple places (Tru TV, Fox News, HLN, CBS and CNN) with absurd gun claims:
Fake claims included:
- You can guns at grocery stores in Texas - you can't
- Ban scopes, hunting rifles, and adapters - why?
- "Can add adapters to make the rifle shoot faster" - where can I get one?
- "rifle has a clip" - proper terminology is "removable magazine"
- "where your bullet doesn't have to be ejected between, like a single action rifle" - this is too dumb to explain. All bullets have to be ejected, almost all rifles are single action (single action means the trigger can't cock itself, then fire, it can only fire if the spring for the hammer is already cocked).
Joe Biden (D) Vice President
Vice President Joe Biden made this statement in an interview with Field & Stream's Anthony Licata, "Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door". Someone's been watching too many cowboy westerns: it isn't going through a modern solid door, and you'd be breaking the law by doing it.
He later repeated it as a double barrel .12 gauge, and just fire two shots in the air. Only a few problems with this
- If you shoot the 2 shots with a double barrel, you are out of ammo and you can't shoot the intruders
- shooting randomly into the air is unsafe
- shooting a warning shot may get you arrested and jailed (illegal in most cities)
- if there are 3 or more intruders (and you only have a double-barrell), you may not have enough rounds even if you haven't fired indiscriminately into the air
- A 12 gauge may be too powerful for the person, an AR-15 or some other gun is easier (safer) to control (what know-nothing Joe was recommending against)
Michael Bloomberg (D) NYC Mayor
Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, Billionaire, Gun-Moron, who always has 5 armed bodyguards around him, shows he doesn't know the difference between Assault Weapon (invented term by gun controllers to confuse people (basically a regular semi-auto rifle that looks like an assault rifle) and Assault Rifle (fully automatic banned military hardware since 1930's). He goes on to show he doesn't know anything about rifles, pistols, or hunting. This is only one of hundreds of times he's demonstrated complete lack of understanding on the topic of guns, how they work, human nature, laws, the Constitution, and so on. I'm sometimes amazed he can operate dining room utensils without hurting himself.
CNN explains to us about guns for ants -- a .223mm is mighty small. (about 1/128th of an inch) -- it's either a .223 Caliber (how much of an inch across it is), or it's a 5.56mm. They also got wrong .9mm (9mm) and .22mm long rifle (22LR).
I think they only tried to add the "long rifle" to the slide because it sounded "scary". In truth, the 22LR is the weakest common rifle (or pistol) round you can use, though it sometimes comes in a 22-short variant for targets (that was popular decades ago), which is the only reason why they differentiate. But again, if CNN had fact checkers, they would have caught that.
To give you a sense of scale -- boxes of ammo may be 50-100 rounds (take someone else shooting, and you're probably going to go through 300 rounds), but many shooters buy cans (or bags) that come in 500 or 1,000 rounds bulk. So this maniac had enough ammo to go shooting 3 or 4 times with each gun. And dynamite fishing only once. Or as they'd say in Texas or Arkansas upon hearing of that stockpile, "Bubba's running a little low on ammo".
Katy Tur
Doesn't know the difference between automatic and semi-automatic. Which is fine, if she knew she was ignorant and didn't pontificate on it so much.
- https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2018/02/15/katy-tur-still-doesnt-know-what-semiautomatic-means
Diana DeGette (D) Colorado Congresswoman
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colorado) made this comment during an April 2 gun control forum in Denver confirming what gun owners already suspected: She doesn't know what she's talking about. Bullets go in magazines, they don't magically come from them. This wasn't just a gaffe, this is totally misunderstanding how everything works.
"If you ban (high cap magazines) in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available."
Kevin De Leon (D) - California Senator
California Senator Kevin De Leon rambles on about Ghost Guns, and rambles on all sorts of stuff he gets wrong:
- A rate of fire no gun has: 3o round magazine that can be shot within half a second
- 30 caliber clip: actually, it's .223 caliber
- 30 magazine clip: actually, it's a 30 round magazine, that gun doesn't have a clip, and no gun holds 30 of them at the same time. Videos mocking him.:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJmFEv6BHM0&feature=youtu.be
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REdjjLBaiOs&feature=youtu.be
Patricia Eddington (D) NY Assemblywoman
Former Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington (D-NY), "Come on. This is crazy. … But some of these bullets have an incendiary device on the tip of it, … which is a heat seeking device. So you don't shoot deer with a bullet that size. If you do, you could cook it at the same time"
Diane Feinstein (D) Senator California
Feinstein at a press conference. This photo is infamous in Gun-Advocate circles. Here's dimwit Diane, doing something that everyone who has any training on a gun, knows is bad, "Never put your finger on the trigger until you're ready to shoot".
You see this in Hollywood movies, and by people that have never used guns in real life (or have poor training or a lack of respect for those around them) -- they put their finger on the triggers. So Diane is blathering about how dangerous guns are, while behaving without callous disregard for those around her, and failing to follow the first rule of gun safety ("Trigger Discipline"). And if you know her background (about getting a Conceal and carry permit, while being an opponent of them for everyone else), it just makes it worse.
Diane's famous photo likely inspired this meme. A guy is shot/grenaded, and he still knows to keep his finger off the trigger until you're ready to shoot. Something no gun controller posing for the cameras seem to understand.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun control, basically claiming her proposed semi-automatic weapons ban would finally make it illegal to hunt people. I think I know what she was trying to say, but that was a polemics lie that was even worse. So she's not just an insulting liar, but she's to dumb to do that right.
"We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines."
Feinstein was arguing with Ted Cruz and she got destroyed:
Cruz asked, "would she consider it constitutional for Congress to specify that the First Amendment shall apply only to the following books and shall not apply to the books that Congress has deemed outside the protection of the Bill of Rights?"
She went off tantrumed back:
There's two views to that exchange, the ignorant folks that thought her visceral emotional rant carried the day. And the logical and informed folks that saw Cruz's point go unanswered, and an outclassed dimwit argue with a constitutional lawyer and the author of the very ruling she was trying to tell him supported her view, while he was patiently trying to explain that it most definitely did not.
During 1994 Feinstein authored the Clinton-Era Assault Weapons Ban and claimed it didn't go far enough in restricting firearms:
"If I could have banned them all -- 'Mr. and Mrs. America turn in your guns' -- I would have!"
Feinstein explaining how when she dealt with threats on her life, how she was scared so she got a concealed permit and she carried all the time because she was going to shoot them before they shot her. But she wants to make sure we never have that same sense of security.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQMwpbSjC1A
- http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/12/19/flashback-dianne-feinstein-s-own-conceal-carry-permit-story/
Whoopi Goldberg (D)
Don't get me started on these klatch of dim-wits on The View. But they're a good example of people in NY and Hollywood talking about shit they don't know the first thing about. Things like Whoopi saying "She Wants Automatic Weapons Banned"... only fully-automatic weapons have been banned since 1934. And if you don't know the difference between fully-automatic and semi-automatic guns, you shouldn't talk about either. Just avoid guns in general, since you'll just demonstrate a strong opinion based on complete ignorance of the topic.
- http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/01/07/whoopi-says-she-wants-to-ban-automatic-weapons-watch-when-rand-tells-her-theyre-already-illegal/
Jesse Jackson (D)
2016.07.10 ~ Jesse Jackson: AK-47's in Texas, 'can bring down airplanes'
The dumb is strong with this one. Box cutters brought down 4 airplanes, should we outlaw them? While it might be theoretically possible if it was landing, and you got an impossibly lucky shot, to date, no commercial airplane in the U.S. has ever been brought down by small arms fire. Ever. The only practical way that's happening is if you got one on-board, and used it to shoot the pilot, and that is already a few kinds of illegal.
Gersh Kuntzman (D)
2016.07.14 ~ Gersh Kuntzman fired a weapon and had a literary meltdown about how scary it was, and exaggerates (to comical levels) everything to do with the gun and his experience. Here's the serious piece (that reads like satire to the informed) that shows everything wrong with gun controllers and scare-mongers:
Key points:
- It felt to me like a bazooka, the recoil bruised my shoulder
- it sounded like a cannon. The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary form of PTSD
- The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face
- The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick
- Forty nine people can be gone in 60 seconds
- you can get a military-styled weapon in seven minutes in this country
Every one of those claims is laughably false. Here's counter-points to his delusion:
- Children fire the AR-15 because it has a spring loaded slide weight that absorbs the energy and makes it easier to shoot than many pistols.
- People fire it off their nose or genitals, and 9 and 10 year old girls can fire the gun with giggles and smirks.
- There is no such thing as "temporary PTSD" and you don't get PTSD from firing a gun in a controlled environment
- These guns intentionally direct shells away from your face (not near them)
- And the reason 49 people died in Orlando wasn't because it took 60 seconds, but because the police waited 3 hours to go in while 30-40 of those folks bled to death
- These are not military styled weapons (they aren't fully automatic), they're hunting rifles made in plastic to look/oerate like military weapons with accessory rails
So this guy became the butt of jokes and meme's by anyone with a clue who has ever shot the most popular sport and hunting rifle in the U.S. (the AR variants).
- http://theresurgent.com/my-10-year-old-daughter-is-tougher-than-gene-kuntzman-author-of-the-stupidest-thing-on-the-internet-today/
When Kuntzman was shown that he was stupidly lying, instead of being mature and apologizing for his ridiculously embellished story that would have embarrassed Bryan Williams, Kuntzman doubled-down and claimed he was justified , and anyone that disagreed was just a gun-nut, and that he was the victim (instead of the perpetrator of an absurd set of lies).
This is an Internet (Twitter) celebrity "Jennifer Mom" who became popular in 2014 with #GunSense #NotOneMore hashtag campaigns. She's so dumb, it's hard to tell if she's a troll or not -- but her followers seem to take her seriously -- so even if she's not dumb, her followers appear to be buying it.
Her tweet about filing down the firing pin to make a gun fully automatic is classic Jennifer. All that would really do, is mean is that your gun can't fire at all. So either she's be trolled and is repeating something she heard or found (and is "uninformed"), or she's trolling people who are buying it (and are "easily led astray"). But the fact that so many people believe that she could be a sincere gun-control advocate sort of proves the point -- her lack of information both amuses and infuriates the gun-rights folks, while her followers dutifully retweet her drivel.
Carolyn McCarthy (D) - NY Congresswoman
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) has no clue what a "barrel shroud" is, although she wants to regulate it and the term is in her legislation. She was questioned about it, and the hest she can do is "it's a shoulder thing that goes up." It isn't (I think she's talking about a folding stock). A barrel shroud is a small plastic/wood/metal cover that surrounds the barrel to prevent burns when it heats-up under high rates of fire).
Her ignorance started some mocking memes:
Terry McAuliffe (D) Governor of Virginia
The day after the Virginia Baseball shooting of Steve Scalise (et al), Terry McAuliffe got out there and made a plea about the "93 million Americans every day to gun violence". He repeated it. Then when challenged, he corrected it. Sorta. His numbers are out of date, and he's throwing in gun suicides (despite guns have no noticeable effect on suicides), defensive uses, legitimate police shootings, and so on.
There are so many to choose from. I've never heard one of their commentators get virtually anything right about gun operation or gun control. It's not that each of them makes a slip now and again, it's that none of them have ever gotten the basics right.
Chris Matthews
So much dumb in one place. From using Everytown for Gun Safety fraudulent numbers, to not knowing about NRA gun safety programs, to ignoring all the plans the other side has offered but been ignored on, to not knowing the basics of gun control laws we have. He's either ignorant, retarded, a liar, or some degree of all of the above.
- https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2018/02/16/delusional-matthews-spews-fake-news-fearmongering-guns-wild
Lawrence O'Donnel
This dimwit makes Matthews look like a rocket scientist. He claims:
- the rate of fire on a handgun is less than 15 rounds per minute. They have the same rate of fire, or sometimes faster. (About 3-5 rounds per second, is easily achievable in a pistol).
- 1100 fps is not quick enough to kill someone with an AR-15, because rifle bullets are 3x faster. The facts are that teachers with handguns have already stopped shooters. And historically, civilians have better scores than cops on this. (Mass shootings stopped by civilians are quicker, fewer death tolls, less accidental casualties, and so on).
- Imagine you're a teacher, and some kid is shooting people. Do you want to have a tool (gun) to defend yourself and your students or to wait for the cops to arrive, and get out from behind the cars and come in... 8-20 minutes later. He seems to think you would rather die, than use a pistol to defend yourself, just because the cops hid outside and waited for the bloodshed to be over before entering.
- https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/02/26/msnbc-host-handgun-bullets-are-ineffective-in-stopping-school-shooters-because-t-n2453904
- http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/23/msnbc-handguns-are-too-slow-to-stop-a-school-shooter/
Barack Obama (D) Ex-President
Obama says utterly retarded things like, "And then there's a reality that there are neighborhoods around the country where it is easier for a 12 or 13-year-old to purchase a gun, and cheaper, than it is for them to get a book"
Has he ever heard of Amazon.com? How do you download a gun off the Internet?
Of course if it was true, it would only show the failure of gun control, since those neighborhoods would most likely be ones in Chicago and Detroit, where they have strict gun control. He's arguing against gun control, and isn't bright enough to realize he's saying, "It's not working, we need more of it!".
- http://www.dailywire.com/news/2453/obama-easier-and-cheaper-teenagers-buy-guns-books-robert-kraychik
There's a whole Obama Gun Quotes section devoted to dumb things he's said.
I decomposed just one of his speeches at Obama fact-check on Guns, and frankly, got bored correcting all the lies, errors and a fraction of the omissions, just 1/4th of the way through it. If their best speaker, with the entire resources of the President, can't do better than this crap, then it's no wonder the informed ignore the gun-control advocates.
Nancy Pelosi (D) California Congresswoman
Nancy Pelosi, when asked about gun rights, Nancy Pelosi explained,
"We're talking about no further sales of assault weapons. What is the justification for an assault weapon? No further sales of those, no further sales of the increased capacity, 30 rounds in a gun. We're re talking about background checks which is very popular, even among gun owners, and, hunters. We avow the First Amendment. We stand with that and say that people have a right to have a gun to protect themselves in their homes and their jobs, where, and that they -- and the workplace and that they, for recreation and hunting and the rest. So we're not questioning their right to do that."
Ignoring that she confuses the 1st and 2nd Amendment and seems confused as to what the term "avow" actually means, the statement just gets dumber and more offensive:
- She says background checkers are popular among gun owners and hunters, they're not. And if they are, let's have them for voting or getting social services
- She wants to outlaw Assault Weapons... something that's already illegal
- She meant to say "Assault Rifles" (a made up term by progressives that means low powered rifles that look like Assault Weapons) -- but you can't outlaw assault rifles according to prior Supreme Court rulings, because those are the exact kind of arms that the 2nd was written to protect. She wouldn't be "avowing" the 2nd, she wants to violate it.
- And her blather about increased capacity doesn't make sense -- magazines are cheap to make and buy. You can print plans for your 3D printer. So what does outlawing them do?
In the end, everyone that listens to Pelosi gets dumber by proxy. And this wasn't in the top-10 of dumbest things said on the topic.
- http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/02/10/pelosi_confuses_first_amendment_and_second_amendment.html
Bonnie Schaefer (D) DNC Platform Committee member
A Democratic National Platform Committee member (Bonnie Schaefer) said that no one should own a gun, "I really don't personally think anyone should have a gun, I mean that's just my own — you know — philosophy. Nothing is ever solved when you have a gun in your hand, except the worst possible scenario". Yup, the worst possible scenario is you weren't raped, murdered or assaulted while waiting for the cops to arrive.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbshPA3M0Tw
- http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/06/10/clueless-dem-sparks-firestorm-questioning-american-gun-350496#ixzz4BE7CNQVW
Louise Slaughter (D) - NY Congresswoman
13-term congresswoman Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-New York) blamed the Second Amendment for violent crime, saying "Americans aren't safe anywhere" and gun control "has to be done" to protect citizens from themselves and their constitutionally guaranteed individual right to own a firearm.
Then she made one of the dumbest quotes since Maxine Waters learned to speak:
The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?
Joe Salazar (D) Colorado State Representative
Rep. Joe Salazar with regards to why women on campus shouldn't use a gun to stop rape:
"It's why we have call boxes, it's why we have safe zones, it's why we have the whistles. Because you just don't know who you're gonna be shooting at... And you don't know if you feel like you're gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone's been following you around or if you feel like you're in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop ... pop a round at somebody."
I'm OK with a woman shooting someone trying to rape her. In fact, I'm sort of a fan of it. It would likely cut down on rapes more than whistles and call boxes.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCvng-jSp60
- http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_22624957/rape-comment-by-rep-joe-salazar-reaps-viral
Sandy Sheedy (D) California councilwoman
Sandy Sheedy, a city councilwoman from Sacramento, seems to believe that you can be shot by an unloaded gun.
Shannon Watts (D) Activist "Moms Demand Action"
Head of Moms Demand Action (Shannon Watts) explains: https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/statuses/396363030277414912
"An assault weapon enables humans to shoot 10 rounds in one minute."
There were guns in the 1600's that exceeded that rate of fire, by a lot.
Leland Yee (D) California State Senator
Democrat State Senator from California, Leland Yee Talks about not having Assault Weapons in the Hands of the People, right before he gets arrested for illegal arms trafficking (selling both illegal guns and rocket launchers, from an Islamic Terrorist organization).
Washington Post
WaPo gets caught in many lies about Gun Control. Here's just an example: they spin a yarn about how 1/24th of kids witnessed seen a shooting, when any editor or fact checker would not have let that fraud through.
- http://www.beattheend.com/top-10-dumbest-gun-quotes-politicians/
- http://buzzpo.com/even-clue-10-dumb-quotes-anti-gun-politicians/
- Trigger warning — sarcastic example of what gun controllers sound like to the informed: https://www.facebook.com/MattWalshBlog/videos/1388304541202652/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED
- Clips of famous gun-controllers blabbing about things that are unintelligible to gun owners, "Assault ammunition clips": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNjdlJxanmQ&app=desktop


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Some of Sandusky's jurors hoping for life sentence
Jerry Sandusky should be sent to prison for life when a judge sentences him Tuesday, according to several of the jurors who convicted the former Penn State assistant coach of molesting several boys over a period of years.
None of the jurors interviewed by The Associated Press said they have had second thoughts about their June verdict, and several plan to attend the sentencing.
"There isn't a sentence that I believe is harsh enough for what he has done and how it has affected the university," said Joan Andrews, a juror who has worked for Penn State for 41 years and held football season tickets since 1969. "I don't think there's been one individual in this entire campus that has not been affected by this."
Four jurors said they plan to be in the courtroom when Sandusky, 68, learns the penalty for sexually abusing boys he met through a charity for at-risk children. Sandusky's own attorney expects his client to be handed a long sentence from Judge John Cleland after conviction on 45 counts.
Although a list of jurors has not been released by Cleland, the AP was able to contact five of them. They said they recently received a letter from the court informing them about the sentencing and offering to have a court official meet them outside the courthouse.
A court system spokesman said the jurors are guaranteed a seat but won't necessarily be sitting together.
Only one of the five, retired Penn State soil sciences professor Daniel D. Fritton, said he would not attend.
"I'd just like to stay out of the limelight, for one thing," Fritton said. "I figure I could read in the paper what happens."
Gayle Barnes, a homemaker and former school district employee, said she thinks a lot about the victims, particularly the eight who testified against Sandusky and provided what she considers the critical evidence of guilt. She said he deserves life in prison.
"I do still feel good, what we as jurors did," Barnes said. "I didn't go there saying off the bat he's guilty. I needed to listen to every single thing that was said."
Barnes said she has been in touch with a fifth juror and an alternate juror who also plan to attend the sentencing.
High school science teacher Joshua Harper, who has bachelor's and master's degrees from Penn State, said that he takes pride in having served on the jury, and that the guilty verdict was not a close call. He wants Sandusky "put away for the rest of his life, really."
"This is what prisons are for, you know," Harper said. "I mean, I don't think you let a guy loose like that."
He also felt the victim testimony was pivotal.
"It was such a consistent pattern of behavior," Harper said. "It was just so solid. The defense was just so thin. There was no evidence that these kids were lying. Even the minor inconsistencies that the defense tried to bring up - and did bring up - that made it more convincing."
Through a relative, juror Ann T. Van Kuren said she also plans to attend.
Barnes and Harper both said they hoped to learn more about what Penn State officials did or did not do in 1998 and 2001 after getting complaints about Sandusky showering with boys. That was a major theme of the report issued to Penn State this summer by Louis Freeh, the former FBI director, and is likely also to arise during civil litigation by Sandusky's victims against the university.
"We don't know the whole story to this whole thing yet," said Barnes, a Nittany Lions fan who felt so strongly that Joe Paterno's statue should remain in place that she went to the scene outside Beaver Stadium the day it was removed in July, about a month after the verdict. "I just felt like they jumped ship, they didn't do the right thing, that they needed more information. What's going to happen if Curley and Schultz are found not guilty?"
Tim Curley, the school's athletic director on leave, and Gary Schultz, a retired vice president, are awaiting trial on charges they did not properly report suspected abuse and lied to the grand jury that investigated Sandusky. Paterno, the school's Hall of Fame coach, was fired after Sandusky was arrested in November and died of lung cancer in January.
The names of Curley, Schultz and even Paterno did not come up in deliberations, Andrews said.
"I don't know what to think about Curley and Schultz," she said. "I think Joe Paterno was and is and has been falsely accused of many things. I don't think the man was informed of the detail for him to understand how serious this was."
Sandusky's sentencing on Tuesday will begin with Cleland determining whether he qualifies as a sexually violent predator, a status that would require lifetime registration if he is ever paroled.


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Stardust/Source Code
- 1 Installing Git
- 2 Downloading the Source Code
- 3 Building Stardust
- 4 Troubleshooting
- 5 Binary Distribution
- 6 Compliance
Installing Git
To checkout the source code you need to install git first. You have different options:
- git scm installs a minimal environment to run Git. It comes with a Bash,a Perl interpreter, the Git executable plus dependencies.
- msysgit installs a build environment for Git on Windows. It includes git scm.
After installtion you can open a git shell to run git commands (git bash or git-cmd.bat).
Downloading the Source Code
- Create a new folder where you like to download the sources (e.g. C:\stardust\git)
- Create a new file, e.g. cloneStardust.cmd, and copy the following commands
git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.build.tools.git build.tools git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.components.git components git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.deploy.jee.git deploy.jee git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.documentation.git documentation git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.engine.git engine git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.examples.git examples git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.ide.git ide git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.ide.simulation.git ide.simulation git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.ide.wst.git ide.wst git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.git org.eclipse.stardust git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.product.git product git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.reporting.app.web.git reporting.app.web git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.reporting.rt.git reporting.rt git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.reporting.ui.git reporting.ui git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.repository.git repository git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.ui.common.git ui.common git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.ui.web.git ui.web git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.ui.web.git ui.web.mobile
- Save the file
- Go to your git installation and open git shell (e.g. execute git-cmd.bat on windows)
- Change to your just created download folder and execute cloneStardust.cmd
If you run git clone behind a HTTP proxy specify proxy details first.
git config --global http.proxy http://<user>:<password>@proxy:port
Building Stardust
Build Tools
After check out as described above you can build Stardust source code. You need Apache Ant and Apache Maven. If you do not already have those tools installed please download them from their official website and install them accordingly to their installation instructions in a location of your choice, later called ANT_HOME and M2_HOME. We suggest Ant 1.8.4 and Maven 3.0.4, but other similar versions should work as well. After those preparations are done perform the following steps ( also see the readme.txt in the product folder).
Environment-specific Changes
Make sure your environment variables ANT_HOME, M2_HOME and JAVA_HOME are set correctly. Also add ant and maven to your %Path% environment variable. Create a file called private.properties in the folder [your stardust git dir]/build.tools/etc. Modify the file with a text editor and add the following content:
java16.home=[your java home path] m2.home=[your maven home path]
for instance:
java16.home=C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_32
If you don't want to use the preconfigured Maven settings file [your stardust git dir]/build.tools/conf/m2/settings.xml then you have to specify the path of the actual settings file in your [your stardust git dir]/build.tools/etc/private.properties file, e.g
mvn.settings=C:/Program Files/Maven/conf/settings.xml
Make sure that you use forward slashes in property files!
Maven ConfigurationIf you don't want to use the preconfigured maven settings.xml file in [your stardust git dir]/build.tools/conf/m2/settings.xml then you have to add some credentials in your settings file (this can be e.g. your settings file in your user home\.m2 folder or in maven_home\conf folder). Open your settings file in an editor and add this entry in the<servers> tag:
<server> <id>stardust-3rdparty-repo</id> <username>stardust.contributor</username> <password>\{DESede\}BKab8uCs+3KRLHy/l2AeHQ==</password> </server>
Running the Builds
Make sure your machine is connected to the internet, open a command line in your build folder and then execute these two commands replacing [build_tools_home] with the absolute path to your build.tools sub folder:
set MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx768m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m
mvn -f product/components-pom.xml -s [build_tools_home]/conf/m2/settings.xml -Pipp-build -Dbuild.tools.home=[build_tools_home] install
For instance:
mvn -f product/components-pom.xml -s c:/stardustbuild/build.tools/conf/m2/settings.xml -Pipp-build -Dbuild.tools.home=c:/stardustbuild/build.tools install
Depending on your connection speed and other factors the completion of the second command can take up to several hours.
After build of components finished successfully, you should find the resulting artifacts in your local maven repository at [build_tools_home]/build/m2-repo.
Now the eclipse p2 repository with the Stardust eclipse plug-ins can be built. Run the following command replacing [build_tools_home] with the absolute path to your build.tools sub folder:
mvn clean install -f product/pom.xml -s [build_tools_home]/conf/m2/settings.xml -Pfull-build,force-overwrite,ipp-build -Dbuild.tools.home=[build_tools_home]
for instance:
mvn clean install -f product/pom.xml -s C:/stardustbuild/build.tools/conf/m2/settings.xml -Pforce-overwrite,ipp-build -Dbuild.tools.home=C:/stardustbuild/build.tools
This will trigger the build of the p2 repository.
The above mentioned commands assumes that you're using the Maven settings file which is located in [build_tools_home]/conf/m2/. If you like to use the one of your user home folder or the one of your Maven installation folder (in this case please add the mvn.settings property in [build_tools_home]/etc/private.properties which is described above) then you can remove the "-s [build_tools_home]/conf/m2/settings.xml" parameter from the build commands.
After the build has finished successful, you will find the repository in the sub folder :
[your stardust git dir]/repository/org.eclipse.stardust.modeling.repository/target/repository/
and zipped as an update site:
[your stardust git dir]/repository/org.eclipse.stardust.modeling.repository/target/stardust-offline-site-9.9.9-SNAPSHOT.zip
Where to go from here?
Now you can use the build result, a local eclipse update site, to install Stardust. Follow the instructions in the section Local Eclipse Update Site (offline)
Next check out the resource in the Stardust Knowledge Base, especially the Getting Started section. You may also want to check out the Forum to post questions or just exchange thoughts with the community.
If you experience any problems downloading the source code or building Stardust then please contact us via the Forum.
Error retrieving BIRT Runtime
If you get the error below or something similar while running the p2 repository build (step 2) then this is caused by an instabilty of the connection with the Eclipse server. Retrying the same build command at a later point in time should resolve the issue.
[ivy:retrieve] Server access Error: Read timed out url=http://download.eclipse.org/birt/downloads/drops/R-R1-2_6_2-201102191842/birt-runtime-2_6_2.zip
Errors fetching Dependencies
If you encounter errors during the build that indicate missing dependencies which could not be fetched from the repositories then try cleaning the ivy cache folder .ivy in your user.home (e.g. C:\Users\your.name\.ivy, if it exists) and the maven repository (check settings.xml in M2_HOME/etc and/or user.home/.m2 to determine the location).
If your are using Maven 3.0.4 behind a proxy please see here on how to fix the issue.
Binary Distribution
All Stardust source code has been submitted to the Eclipse git repository. A complete binary distribution requires libraries which are still pending approval by Eclipse legal, hence no binary distribution is available yet. One will be available for download form the project website as soon as the libraries have been approved.
- The products libraries have been reviewed for license conflicts.
- Dependencies that did not comply with the Eclipse Public License (EPL) have been replaced
- The source has been submitted to the Eclipse foundation where it was reviewed with regards to intellectual property rights and licensing.
- The source was refactored. All package names were change to the eclipse package names.


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Earlier this week, VideoGamer.com revealed that a new version of Disney Infinity is due to be released every year, with each new version containing the data required for the following 12 months' worth of content.
However, some of that content, Disney tells VideoGamer.com, could be related to future or unannounced movie releases, and therefore open to being exposed by hackers data-mining the disc.
"That's something that we've made the film-makers aware of," Disney Infinity's executive producer John Vignocchi tells VideoGamer.com.
Could this mean we could finally have a sequel to The incredibles? :)
I'm glad their honest that their gonna milk this franchise to death and make people pay for on disk DLC. Refreshing!
It sounds like they're literally asking people to find the content on the disc...
I may be 20, but if we get an Incredibles sequel, I will squeal like a 5 year old.


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William Dudley Discusses U.S. Growth Rate
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley tells WSJ Chief Economics Correspondent Jon Hilsenrath why his long-term forecast on the U.S. economy remains unchanged, with growth coming in around 3%, enough to generate payroll gains.
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... I ... Yeary updating your forecasts ... for ... growth and inflation ... unknown planet the Fed's next policy meeting ... this month ... how was your forecast change ... well the little bit more weakness in the very near-term even the weather and the date of my longer term for this isn't the Chamberlain to me we I think we're ... well life isn't a great time is probably on us for a three percent with growth trajectory which is enough to generate should be enough to generate payroll gains that the lead to continued improvement graduate who in the labor market ... up my assessment is that the labor market though still has quite a bit of excess life ... so ... we of a long time ago before when we ship to think about the raising short-term rates in my opinion ... let's talk a little bit about ... the policy so ... the Fed has said since December twenty twelve that ... it won't ... even entertain about rate hikes until the unemployment rate hits six nap percent ... we're getting closer to that ... what I what communication framework ... do you prefer ... once the six nap percent threshold is crossed ... and how close is the Fed to ... meetings update that change ... welcome to lunch or a different means in this August tell you in mind the is ... um this is the percentage is already ... will the obsolete in the sense that were really close to it ... most people think that the Fed is not going to be ... to raise short-term rates until the inquiry distance or with below six percent ... so my Pursell to use its ever Senate would provide a lot of value right now in terms of our communications ... so my my my Pursell uses this is probably raised in time to revamp the statements of take out that six nap percent threshold ... does not only providing any great value I really do it ... before I reach that threshold and then that resulted was a will you do know that they've reached the threshold ... I'd rather do before we reach the threshold rather than after announcing Friday ... or or might ... affect ... you when we when we can do the ... right ... of generally I think the the bacon Elance approach as it is a very good approach ... who is qualitative Rowden quantitative than the others they were putting in specific ... numerical conference ... I think that's appropriate in the US to live where we'll have to look a broad set of labor market conditions rose to one single indicator ... the only one realizes is ... difficult winter for right now because ... when rates come down for a lot of good portion of that decline in employer a ... Tuesday due to a drop in for just a charades ... and some of the top of the disgraced or is due to demographics this or that the flipper to space rate probably due also to people or discouraged workers ... as we would expect that some of discouraged workers are to come back into the workforce as little more to improve but we don't really have a ... really good sense of home watch ... fits in that in ... which category home with the decline in the space of demographics ... versus how is the decline of suspicion as discouraged workers ... so I think that they did tell it is yet to look in a broad array of of of indicators and is focusing ... on the inquiry ... they like about the data goes approach is that they did talk about what what the above photo of a longer term ... what not not not just focusing on the top twenty of us off ... but also what happens after that ... and as you recall the bacon really made it clear that they thought that the to do to some degree in the review which we should rise to the relatively gradual ... and the reason I rise vertically high-level because I think that their view was that there are to be persistent headwinds are to be so restraint economy ... so a neutral interest rate in the current barman this to me lor ... that neutral interest rate has been historically I think that that that same rationale ... applies here in us I think that ... the the equilibrium real interest rate associate with a neutral monetary policy regime ... today has ... been considerably lower ... than what has been historically so ... if you're a wuss for job of the the the the your expectations about the whole forecasts for a raise ... not because ye certainty about that I was in the world to change and ... the new information ... what are ... your expectations about the four passes for to raise get somebody in current stock prices and bond yields and so that's an important point ... in terms of how financial conditions is that ... the financial conditions are everywhere because that's the really the transmission mechanism through which might recall the words of ... the more affirmation of the Fed can give about ... what how we're thinking about things going for the better ... of market produce but ... our corporate discuss the sauce and ... therefore financial conditions can be said of the appropriate level


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The Next Level
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from The Next Level by David Gregory (WaterBrook Press).
Chapter 1
Looking for a job was the last thing Logan Bell wanted to be doing that morning. Playing video games, hiking, body-surfing, sleeping in—he could think of a hundred preferable alternatives.
But none paid the bills, and none provided an answer the next time his dad called and said, "So, Son, found another job yet?" That, perhaps, was his greatest motivation: having an answer. Any answer.
His dad, he had to admit, was right. Walking out on his first job after college, even if the boss was a complete jerk, didn't look good on Logan's résumé. Better to get another job immediately than take a much-needed break—especially a job at a leading software company. Logan's undergraduate business degree might never land him where his dad was, near the top of a major high-tech company. But working for one would count for something.
Or so Logan thought as he pulled into the massive parking lot of Universal Systems Inc. "I'm here to apply for a job," Logan told the first-floor receptionist. She smiled and pointed to a bank of elevators on her left.
"You need to see the Director. Fifth floor."
"Is it true that you have to apply here in person?"
"Yes. You need to see the Director. Fifth floor."
"The Director? Director of what—human resources?"
"No, the Director of the company."
"You mean the CEO? The CEO sees people who just walk in off the street?"
"Is there someone a little lower down I could talk to? I'm not looking for an upper-level job."
"No. The Director personally interviews all job candidates."
Logan couldn't imagine how the CEO of an organization so large could interview all applicants. Universal Systems occupied the entirety of an immense circular building with five unusually tall stories. Behind the receptionist, in all directions, stretched the first floor as far as the eye could see. It was filled with employees sitting at desks and in cubicles.
There seemed to be no point, however, in further discussing whom he should talk to. He stepped toward the elevators, then turned back to the receptionist.
"Where do I go once I get to the fifth floor?"
"You go to the Director's desk."
"And where would that be?" Based on what he saw on the first floor, he could imagine wandering for hours trying to find the Director's desk.
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He turned and walked toward the elevators, unsure how her answer could possibly be true.
A few moments later the elevator doors opened to another expanse. Like the first floor, the fifth extended as far as the eye could see. There were no walls to impede one's view of its massive length and breadth, just desks stretching forever. In fact, unlike the first floor, this one was almost bereft of people. In the distance, a group sat around a conference table.
Beyond them, Logan noticed a man sitting at a desk. He walked in that direction. The man behind the leather-topped oval desk looked to be about forty. He was dressed in a brown business suit with a blue tie. The nameplate on the desk read simply "Director." He rose from his chair and extended his hand.
"Welcome to the fifth floor. What can I do for you?"
"My name is Logan Bell. I came to apply for a job."
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Logan sat in a leather captain's chair in front of the desk. "I'm…I'm a bit surprised to be directed to you. Do you really interview all applicants?"
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"Do you have any openings? I've heard that this is the place to work."
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"You will be."
"What do you mean? You don't know what I do."
"All our job classifications are always open," the Director replied.
This had quickly become the strangest interview Logan had ever experienced. Not that his experience was that extensive: a couple of summer jobs in high school, one all four summers of college, and his first post-college position.
"You mean, you are always hiring for all jobs?"
"Universal Systems must be growing by leaps and bounds."
The second Logan said it, he cringed. That sounded so…juvenile, and it betrayed the fact that he hadn't bothered to do a lick of research on the company before arriving.
The Director, however, didn't seem to react adversely. "Yes, we are always growing." He leaned back slightly in his chair. "So what is it you would like to do, Logan?"
"Well…" Logan couldn't believe he was being asked such an open-ended question in an interview—assuming this really was a legitimate interview. "My degree is in business management. In my first job out of school, I was a human resources generalist at a chemical plant. But I'd like to work for a company like yours. My father is a senior vice president at Vescon Technologies, so…I figure high-tech is a good direction."
"Why don't you go to work there?"
"I just don't know if that would work out so great, long term."
"I understand."
"So do you have any HR jobs available?"
"Of course," the Director replied. "But let me ask you a question. Did you enjoy human resources?"
"Well, I realize my first job was entry level, and I would naturally be advancing into positions that would be more…"
He stopped. It was all BS, he knew. And something about this place and this man told him he could drop the BS. "No, not really."
"Then there's no point in having you do that, is there? What do you enjoy doing?"
Most of what he enjoyed doing, Logan figured, would be of little use to a company. But within his field of study, he found one topic especially interesting. "I really like OD—that's organizational development." He hesitated. "I suppose you know that. Anyway, I like to examine how a group or an organization works and figure out ways it can work better."
"Then let's have you be an organizational analyst. We've needed someone to do that kind of assessment here for some time. You sound like just the man."
"Are you sure? I mean, I don't have any real background in that. I just liked it best in
"That's good enough. You'll learn more on the job."
"Do you want to see my résumé?"
"No," the Director replied. "You strike me as a bright, capable young man. I'm sure the quality of your work is fine."
"Should I bring it for my second interview?"
"There is no second interview. You're hired."
"Just like that?"
"Just like that. I always trust my first instinct."
Logan stared at him, dumbfounded. The Director leaned forward in his chair. "Do you wish
to accept the job or not?"
"Yes. Absolutely. I mean…I just can't believe…" He shut up while he was ahead.
"So," the Director continued, "let me further explain your job to you."
Logan was to start on the first floor. An HR person named Kyle would set him up. He was to assess operations on that level—talk to employees, attend meetings, observe processes. Kyle would arrange access to everything he needed. He was to determine the biggest problem on the floor and report back to the Director.
"Wouldn't it make more sense to assess the organization as a whole rather than level by level?" Logan asked.
"In most organizations that would be the case, but in this one the various levels operate independently. Each division of the company occupies a separate floor. They don't have much interaction."
"Maybe that's a problem."
The Director smiled. "Yes, I've considered that."
He wrote something on a Post-it note and handed it to Logan. "You can simply e-mail me. Nothing long and complicated. Just your basic observations. You don't have to impress me with your report-writing ability."
It all sounded simple. His job was to hang out, see how things worked, and determine what the problems were. Nothing could be easier. If he had written a dream job description himself, it wouldn't have been this good.
"Do you have any questions?"
He hated to interject anything uncomfortable into the discussion, but certain issues hadn't been addressed.
"You haven't mentioned salary…"
"I'll let Kyle go over that with you. I'm confident you'll find the pay acceptable."
"And benefits?"
"Ours are top notch. Kyle will review them with you."
"And who will be my supervisor?"
"You'll report directly to me."
"To you? Always?"
"Yes. You'll be my right-hand man, so to speak. My eyes and ears in the organization."
"What would be my opportunities for advancement? That's pretty important to me."
"I understand. If you successfully analyze each of the first four levels, you will have the option of joining me here on the fifth. If you do"—he nodded toward those at the conference table—"you will be in pretty exclusive company. You will be rewarded commensurately, of course. But first you must succeed at your assignment."
"So all I need to do is tell you the biggest problem on each level."
The Director nodded. "Correct. Things around here are pretty simple, aren't they? But don't expect it to be easy." He stood and extended his hand across the desk. "I am pleased to have you with us."
Logan shook it. "Thank you, sir. I hope I can live up to the trust you've placed in me."
"Come back and talk to me anytime," the Director replied.
"Tell me how things are going. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to come up."
"Who should I contact to set up an appointment?"
"No one. Just come up to the fifth floor."
"Your secretary doesn't screen people?"
"I don't have a secretary. Just drop in. I'll be here."
"Okay…thanks. I mean, thank you, sir."
Logan turned around, hiked past the conference table to the elevators, and descended to the first floor. He didn't have the nerve to ask what he was really wondering—why the Director had the entire fifth floor virtually to himself. It seemed an awful waste of space, a problem he might note at a later date. But that wasn't his concern at the moment. He was just glad to have a job—and a better one than he had ever imagined.
From The Next Level. Copyright © 2008 by David Gregory. Used by permission of WaterBrook Press, Colorado Springs, CO. All rights reserved.


text: Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton will headline the inaugural Watershed Music Festival this weekend. The three-day festival begins Friday (Aug. 3) at the Gorge Amphitheatre near George, Wash. Bentley will perform on Friday, along with Dwight Yoakam and Kix Brooks. Lambert will headline Saturday's show, following sets by Tracy Lawrence, Sara Evans and Uncle Kracker. Shelton's set will conclude the festival on Sunday, after performances from Brantley Gilbert, Thompson Square and Thomas Rhett. Many more local and national artists will appear at the festival. Three-day tickets are available for $150.


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It's very hard for meteorologists to write about weather across the entire country because weather is not something that happens nationally. It happens to you—in your backyard, or on your commute, or better yet, at your local ski area. For this reason, I'm not a huge fan of providing a snow overview for the entire United States because inevitably I'll miss something that's important on a local level.
But this week, the national weather map is pointing to just one area of focus, which not only makes my job a little easier but also brings good news to a state that begins with an "M." No, I'm not talking about a freak late-season snowstorm for the hills of Missouri. Rather, it's all about Montana (and to be fair, Idaho as well).
As a slow-moving storm heads into the United States from the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, it will take aim at the northern half of Idaho and western Montana. Sometimes storms will just zip right along the jet stream, bringing snow for only 6 to 12 hours. However, this storm is going to "hang out" for a while and provide snow to this area from Wednesday night through Saturday morning.
The snowfall forecast from Wednesday through Sunday by the American weather forecasting model, called the GFS. While snowfall is one of the hardest types of weather to predict, this slow-moving storm seems very likely to deliver some pre-weekend powder to parts of Idaho and Montana.
The snow forecast map shows the expected accumulations from Wednesday through Sunday, and it doesn't take a meteorologist to figure out where the snow will fall (or which way the wind is blowing—thanks Bob Dylan). Accumulations of over a foot are possible from [R87R, Brundage], Idaho up to [R217R, Lost Trail Powder Mountain], Idaho (only open this weekend). Just a bit further east, [R48R, Big Sky], [R81R, Bridger Bowl] and [R1512R, Moonlight Basin], Mont. should also do quite well with a foot or more possible.
After a break from the snow on Sunday through early next week, another storm may bring snow to most of the west coast from California all the way to Washington. But this is over a week away, and long-range forecasts at these lead times just aren't worth getting excited about, as the computer models will always change their mind. So until the track of the "next-next" storm becomes a little clearer, enjoy the snow in Idaho and Montana!
Meteorologist Joel Gratz is the creator of opensnow.com and is based in Boulder, Colo.


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What would you say to someone who told you they hated talking on the phone? They screen every call before they answer, already irritable because the sound of the phone has made them jump. What about avoiding invitations to parties and get-togethers? Or going and then hoping to blend into the scenery, reluctant to chat or make eye-contact. Would you tell them they were just shy, to get over, get out there, meet some people? Or would you stop & consider they might be socially phobic?
It's taken my husband 11 years to concede that I could be socially phobic. I think the millionth, "Why are you calling? Why can't you text, for the love of all that's holy?" finally got to him. He's slowly comprehending how much my anxiety takes out of me, and the cost of 'functioning as normal'. He's your textbook good guy, a decent human being that would never want to see his loved ones in pain, but if it's taken him long to 'get' this, how much do others suffer?
My social anxiety manifests itself in interesting ways. I don't struggle with shopping, mostly because I do it online. I've been known to mutter frequently, "I hate people". I have worked from home for 5 years now, because I am safe in my own space, behind my wall of screens, connected by the internet. On the rare occasions I have to do face time with clients, I psych myself up, practice everything I need to say, plan everything down to the last detail, and lay off the caffeine. But if there is any deviation from plan A, I have plans B, C & D. Is this time-consuming and exhausting? You betcha. But it's the only way I know how to cope, and a darn sight better than the overwhelming sense of apprehension, nausea, clammy hands and gut-churning panic attacks that I used to have. What a rush, said no sufferer, EVER.
I'm the chica in the corner, on the fringe, at the edge. I'll never be the person with my back to the door, or sitting in the middle of a restaurant. My anxiety gives me the strength to ask for a corner spot! Or it is my hyper-vigilance? I don't discriminate in my anxiety; my husband has been on the tail end of my temper if he stands behind me for longer than 1.6 seconds. I've never been in active combat, so I don't know why I am this way.
Many psychiatrists and psychologists believe, as with many mental health conditions, social anxiety disorder is most probably the result of a combination of genetic and environmental factors. However, the exact nature of the relationship between genetics and learned behaviour is uncertain. The parenting you experience may influence whether you will develop social anxiety disorder. If you have worried or anxious parents, it can often affect your ability to cope with anxiety during childhood, adolescence and adulthood.
People with social anxiety disorder often describe their parents as:
- overprotective
- not affectionate enough
- constantly criticising them and worrying they may do something wrong
- overemphasising the importance of manners and grooming
- exaggerating the danger of approaching strangers
Biologically, social anxiety disorder is currently thought to be related to abnormal functioning of brain circuits that regulate emotion and the "fight or flight" response centre. There is no cure for SAD. There is medication, which I don't enjoy, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which seems to be working slowly. I'm working on identifying unrealistic beliefs & behavioural patterns. I want to de-sensitise myself to certain triggers, and question certain gut-reactions.
I want to be the person that can just say YES to adventure, to sit in the middle of a cafe and look strangers in the eye. Most of all, I want to stop planning and start living.
Wish me luck!!


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Global Hyperloop Train Market: Overview
With rapid urbanization across the world, the need for quick and yet efficient modes of transportation is escalating. The concept of hyperloop train may be the answer to the increasing travel demands, as it promises to achieve speeds up to 800-mile-per-hour via transportation tube concept which was first introduced in 2013. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has been developing this concept for past few years and the stocks of Elon Musk's hyperloop high-speed transportation system are now available in AECOM. Due to never ending demand for transportation and travel across developed as well as emerging economies, several investors are coming forward with their financial might to make the concept of hyperloop train a reality in near future. Consequently, the global market for hyperloop train is expected to expand at a rapid rate during the forecast period of 2017 to 2025.
Global Hyperloop Train Market: Key Trends
Support from several governments is the primary driving factor of this market. For instance, Slovakia has recently sealed an agreement with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to build the concept in Europe, connecting the Vienna in Austria and Budapest in Hungary with the capital city of Bratislava. If everything falls into place, the travel to Vienna to Bratislava would only take 8 minutes while Budapest to Bratislava can be covered in 10 minutes. In a car, these two journeys currently consume an hour and two hours respectively. This significant time-saving is expected to encourage several other European countries to invest in the concept of hyperloop train and thereby augmenting the demand in the market for the same.
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Global Hyperloop Train Market: Market Potential
Though Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is yet to open for traditional funding, CEO and founder Dirk Ahlborn has revealed that more than 600 institutional investors are willing to provide financial support. With donations worth more than US$600 mn in the form of wind chambers, land assets, and other engineering tools, hyperloop train market is expanding its horizons, also gaining support from several governments in Asia Pacific and the Middle East. According to Ahlborn, first few passengers to travel via hyperloop test train would be in 2018 or 2019 in the U.S.
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Owing to substantial finances required for the realization of the concept, the market for hyperloop train currently has most of the demand coming from the developed regions of North America and Europe, although the country of Middle East is also adamant of improving their infrastructure and is expected to invest financially as well as allot land for hyperloop train during the forecast period. Co-founder and COO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Bibop Gresta, says that six more countries in Middle East and Asia are ready to announce the adoption of the hyperloop train market in the next few months.
Global Hyperloop Train Market: Competitive Landscape
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is currently the only company working on the concept, although given its usefulness, several other technology and construction companies are expected to jump on the bandwagon during the forecast period.
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... to help make a child's wish come true, we go home with a feeling of SUCCESS.
Gloria, Toys"R"Us
The store door closes behind Adan after a whirlwind shopping spree. Suddenly, Toys"R"Us seems a bit quieter. But the cheer and optimism he brought into the store with him lingers long after he's left.
The Toys"R"Us team members who helped grant his wish know Adan faced an ordeal that few will ever understand or experience. And they know he faced his liver transplant with poise, determination and unfailing cheer.
Being part of his wish touches the hearts of Gloria and her team members at Toys"R"Us in Ventura, California. Together, they share Adan's joy as he celebrates the triumph of his recovery … and his happiest birthday ever.
Gloria later wrote to Make-A-Wish® to share her experience during Adan's visit. She explained how this visit made every team member feel more connected to their community.
"When any welcoming team member gets the opportunity to help make a child's wish come true," Gloria writes, "we go home with a feeling of SUCCESS."
Since 1995, the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund and Toys"R"Us, Inc. have supported Make-A-Wish, providing more than $1.8 million to help grant the wishes of kids like Adan.
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Hey Adan!! Cool wish!! I'm 17 and I have cystic fibrosis and I did my wish last April, and mine was a shopping spree too. I went to Toys R Us also, and I went to Best Buy. I hope you enjoy all your fun stuff!!! Get well soon!! Jesus loves you!! Abi :)
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Hey man I jus turned 17 and got a make a wish to these people are amazing how they can change something so easily I had a shopping spree to best buy GameStop and foot locker , anyways I wish u best of luck little soldier God bless you
July 26, 2012 - 3:37 AM
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I had turned 17 March 3rd, and i also have Cystic Fibrosis. I'm wondering if i could have a wish but dont know what to wish for. But Good Luck!!!
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The Mapleson Cylinders - Program Notes
Among the previously unpublished cylinders were four recordings by the Metropolitan Opera rehearsal pianist Carl MŘller. Three of them are dated March 1902, and the other probably comes from the same time. All reproduce convincingly at the speed that brings the known music in Bands 9 and 10 into correct keys. (One of the touching passages in the Glackens/Bishop notebook concerns these cylinders, the sound quality of which clearly impressed the auditioners: they wistfully speculate, "Could this MŘller by any possibility be Mahler?")
Improvisation on themes from Paderewski's Manru
Carl MŘller, piano
March 1902 (?)
[By inference from Bands 11, 12, and the time frame of the Manru performances: Glackens 5 undated.]
MŘller, who presumably worked on the musical preparation of the Manru performances, here improvises on two pieces from the opera. The first melody is that of Manru's aria from Act II, Scene 6. "Wie im Sonnenscheine kŘhler Winde Kosen" (which was recorded in Italian by Giuseppe Anselmi for Fonotipia a few years later, under the title "Come al sol cocente"); then he makes a transition to the "Gypsy March" from Act III, Scene 2.
Improvisation on "Am stillen Herd" from Wagner's Die Meistersinger von NŘrnberg
Carl MŘller, piano
March 1902
[Slip; Glackens 14 undated.]
When he reaches the Abgesang of Walther von Stolzing's autobiographical aria from Act I of Die Meistersinger, MŘller incorporates references to the song of the Rhinemaidens, and then runs out of time before finishing the aria.
Improvisation on an unidentified theme and on the theme of Schumann's Romance in F-sharp major, Op. 28, No. 2
Carl MŘller, piano
March 1902
[Glackens 10 or 22.]
Improvisation on an unidentified theme in E minor
Carl MŘller, piano
March 1902
[Slip; Glackens 10 or 22.]
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Outlet malls another American concept that may not work in Japan
This weekend marks the grand opening of Mitsui Outlet Park Kisarazu, a so-called outlet mall in the coastal city of Kisarazu in Chiba Prefecture. So far the mall has 171 stores, including 21 retailers that have never before participated in any Japanese outlet mall. Mitsui Fudosan, which developed and manages the facility, says it hopes to eventually have 250 stores in the mall. Its sales target for the first year is between ¥32 billion and ¥34 billion, which would make it the biggest money-maker of the 12 outlet malls the company operates.
Mitsui isn't the only developer staking its future on the success of American-style suburban shopping complexes. In Japan there are now 39 outlet malls, which are characterized by stores that are directly owned and run by manufacturers. In principle, that means cutting out one or more middlemen and offering greater savings on name-brand goods. According to the most recent statistics we could find there are more than 1,600 "shopping malls" in Japan, though most of these are urban complexes that vary significantly in style and form from the classic American-style shopping mall.
Nevertheless, over the past decade or so, the number of shopping malls has increased in suburban areas as more traditional shopping arcades (shotengai) have declined in number or even vanished. The main features of these suburban shopping malls is one or two large "anchor" retailers, usually a department store and/or major supermarket chain, and, most significant for Japan, the fact that they aren't located near train stations, where land is more expensive. That means they target motorists and feature the sort of enormous parking lots that are ubiquitous in the United States but which, until recently, were unheard of in Japan.
Outlet malls don't always incorporate major department stores or supermarkets, but they do cater to people with cars. This aspect is particularly noteworthy in the case of the new mall in Kisarazu, which is the eastern terminus of the Aqua-Line bridge-and-tunnel route that connects Chiba's Boso peninsula to Kanagawa Prefecture over Tokyo Bay. When this very expensive, 23-km highway was completed in 1997, one of its main purposes was to encourage visits to Kisarazu and the rest of Chiba by residents of Tokyo and Kanagawa, which includes the very large cities of Kawasaki and Yokohama.
That didn't happen. Most of the traffic actually went the other way, if it went at all. When it opened, the toll was an intimidating ¥3,000 each way. As part of his election campaign platform, current governor Kensaku Morita promised to persuade the land ministry to reduce the toll, and now it's only ¥800 one way (as a "test discount" that appears to be permanent), but still the tourists weren't coming to Kisarazu. Instead, they went to the restaurant and retail complex built in the middle of the Aqua-Line. The Aqua-Line itself became the attraction, not the cities on either end of it.


text: Show Hide image Politics 24 January 2013 Nothing makes me want to break fingers more than a dud television show Nicholas Lezard's "Down and Out" column. Sign-up Sunday evening and I am packing the kids off quickly because I want to get back home in time for the new Blandings series on the telly. We don't watch much television at the Hovel – Laurie is actually under the impression that we don't have one but it's there, right in the corner of the living room, gathering dust when it is not being pressed into service as a vehicle for watching DVDs on. It's not a matter of ethical principle – it's just that there's no point in turning it on to see if anything good's on, because there won't be. Such stuff as I do watch I tend to catch up with on iPlayer, which rules out all the commercial channels, of course, and then I only watch University Challenge and Doctor Who, even though the latter is beginning to try my patience. I mean, we all know their Christmas specials are rubbish but the latest one was rubbish in the extreme. When Stephen Moffat signed the contract to help with the script to the appalling Tintinmovie, was one of the conditions of payment that he would have his brain removed? It's the only explanation I can think of, for he used to be wonderful. Anyway, the list of shows that I don't watch is a long one. Clive James said he gave up on 24 once he realised that every time Jack Bauer's phone went off it meant his daughter had been kidnapped again, and I think episode 12 of the second series of 24was when I thought to myself: You know what? I don't actually have to watch any more of this at all. This epiphany applied across the board and across every part of the schedules. It is a truism that freelance journalists spend their days eating biscuits and watching daytime TV but we don't really; if we did our brains would turn to mush and we wouldn't be able to do our jobs. You might not think those jobs are that demanding in the first place but they do require us to be able to put one word after another, and the last time I checked, daytime TV put you in a place where even that was impossible. The worry is that evening TV is starting to go the same way. I started watching the latest series of I'm a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! on the grounds that (a) everyone's allowed one guilty pleasure, (b) watching Nadine Dorries's political career go down the dunny was a civic duty and (c) there was little harm in watching a bunch of self-selected freaks demean themselves for publicity. In the end I only managed about four or five days of it – I was wrong about (c) after all. I do not think the producers of the show would be that offended if I said that there was little more they could do with the format to make it look original. Even Ant and Dec were making jokes about that and it wasn't really a good sign. But there is a time when TV is an innocent balm and, what with one thing and another, it had been a trying week and I had pleasant memories of Fry and Laurie as Jeeves and Wooster. One look at the publicity pictures for the new series, though, had given me cause for misgivings – as far as I recalled, Lord Emsworth was a rangy, scraggy figure of an earl and not even the most flattering members of Timothy Spall's entourage would call him that. Still, he is a fine actor and I have a soft spot for Jennifer Saunders. Above all, though, I have a soft spot for P G Wodehouse and his Blandings stories, which is what should have kept me away from the television that Sunday evening. The curious thing when TV people muck something up is not that they do it at all, for we have come to expect this of them, but that they do it so spectacularly. I have never wanted to work in TV – and even when I've stepped in to do a spot of TV reviewing when a critic has been away, I've ended my stint feeling as if I had walked though a bemerded field in plimsolls – but how it manages to summon up such contempt for the creative process and the public is quite impressive. We have a perfectly good television critic of our own who can explain just why and how bad the show was, and my job is only to pass on to the reader my sense of rage and bitterness, but I really would like someone to tell me what goes on in the meetings where travesties like this are commissioned. I would also like to find the people responsible and break their fingers, so they can't sign anything off, or write any more scripts again. The bastards ruined Sunday for millions. And me. Nicholas Lezard is a literary critic for the Guardian and also writes for the Independent. He writes the Down and Out in London column for the New Statesman. Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 21 January 2013 issue of the New Statesman, The A-Z of Israel SUBSCRIBE More


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Germany's largest cable operator today said it has delivered download speeds of 4.7Gbps in a field test that blows away the 300Mbps FiOS speeds Verizon has been crowing about.
But, of course, Verizon's speeds will be available to real-world users (in the limited number of communities FiOS is deployed in). Kabel Deutschland (KD), the German ISP, delivers up to 100Mbps to its customers today, but said the 4.7Gbps field test in the city of Schwerin is an attempt to future-proof its network. The test required channel bundling techniques and 12 modems, so the actual speed may be "only" 392Mbps per modem.
"The Schwerin field test shows that an 862MHz upgraded cable network is able to broadcast download speeds of up to 4.7Gbps," the company said in its announcement. "Using this speed, a DVD could theoretically be downloaded within eight seconds. Current standard laptops or modems cannot even process these high speeds. It will take many more years until users find online services and web content that need a download speed of up to 4.7Gbps."
The field test was conducted in a school using "already available standards, technologies, and hardware," including the EuroDocsis 3.0 standard, a dozen cable modems, and a cable modem termination system from the networking vendor, Arris, KD said. While the company claimed to be "the first cable operator in the world" to hit 4.7Gbps in a field test, the news site ISPreview notes that speeds of 40Gbps were deployed in a home in Sweden in 2007. It also turns out Verizon hit 10Gpbs both upstream and down in a field test two years ago. While these numbers are jaw-dropping, plenty of us are still doing just fine with about 20Mbps.


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September 26, 1924 - July 3, 2013
Washingtonville, NY
Ruby O. Dyall, a former Nanny in Long Island and a resident of the area, died on Wednesday, July 3, 2013, at Highland Avenue Rehab & Nursing Home. She was 88.
The daughter of the late Charles and Doris Burnman, she was born September 26, 1924 in Barbados, West Indies. She was the widow of Clyde S. Dyall.
She was a member of the Vails Gate United Methodist Church in Vails Gate, NY and the Ladies Auxiliary of Beulah Methodist Church in New York, NY.
Survivors include her daughter, Norma Nicholson of Washingtonville, NY; her grandchildren: Laura Nicholson of Washingtonville, Randall Nicholson, Philip Callender, both of New York, NY; her great-grandchildren: Jordan, Candace, Kendall, Kyle and Kamren. She is further survived by her brothers: Keith and Carlos.
Visitation will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. on Friday, July 12th, at the Vails Gate United Methodist Church,
854 Blooming Grove Turnpike (Route 94), Vails Gate, NY. Funeral Services will be held on Friday from 6 p.m., at the church. Burial will be held on Saturday, July 13th, at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.
Arrangements are by Ralston-Lippincott-Hasbrouck-Ingrassia Funeral Home, Inc., Middletown, NY 10940, 845-343-6023 or www.ocfuneralhomes.com


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CPTV to air special tonight on retired Connecticut doctor turned award-winning composer
A Connecticut Public Television special Thursday night spotlights a retired doctor from Connecticut who left medicine in 1986 to compose music, even though he knew little about reading or writing music.
Sounds like a bad idea, but all Alby Hurwit did was compose an award-winning symphony by 2009, a story told in the new national special "Lifecasters" on CPTV at 9 p.m. (repeat Sunday at 10 a.m.).
Hurwit, from Hartford, is profiled in one of three segments in the show, called "The Gambling Man," says CPTV, which helped produce the segment.
The 80-year-old had always heard music in his head and, while he played a little piano, had no formal music training.
He was trained in medicine at Harvard and Tufts Medical School, which took him to 1986, when he began using computers, software programs and synthesizers to translate that music he heard into written work.
The result won a blind competition caled the 2009 American Composer Competition and has been performed in this county and internationally.
The other two segments of the program also chronicle the lives of people who pursued art later in life, Adam McKay and Shira Piven.