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Daniel Taylor
January 19, 2013
Reality is often complex, and our current situation with regards to gun control is also complex. With the hindsight of history, we can reduce the problem to a simple equation; When a disarmed people falls to tyranny, untold numbers of lives are lost. There is, however, a back-story to each case. Cycles of history have played out. Human nature ran its course.
Will a ban on guns reach the root of our problems?
Who has the moral authority?
"I wish somebody would shoot this Alex Jones guy in the face."
This is a statement made by a Twitter user in response to Alex Jones' gun debate with Piers Morgan. Another reads, "I hope Alex Jones gets taken by terrorists who shoot his arms and legs off…"
"I would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, our esteemed Republican leaders, to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun control…" These are the words of Donald Kaul, writing in the Des Moines Register.
The New York based paper The Journal News recently published the names and addresses of gun owners in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties. As a result,criminals now know which homes to target. As Fox news reports, Ex Burglars are stating the obvious; You just made our job a lot easier.
Meanwhile in Pakistan, nearly 900 civilians have been reported killed since 2004 from drone attacks, many of which have been under Obama's watch. During this quiet drone war, largely ignored by the general public, 176 children have been reported killed.
In 2011 it was revealed that the ATF intended operation Fast and Furious to be used to make a case for tighter gun control. The operation involved the government placing weapons into the hands of Mexican gangs and allowing them to "walk". These weapons have been found at the murder scenes of U.S. Border patrol agents. Attorney General Eric Holder, who says he was "unaware" of the fast and furious operation, made the statement in 1995 that government needs to "…really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way."
The institutions of our society are increasingly seen as morally bankrupt. This perception is not without merit, but its impact on society is multifaceted. Certain groups will attach themselves to the power structure in a life mission to "restore order" by any means necessary. This scenario has happened many times before, and it always leads to revolution.
Gun control is a focal point for all of our society's woes. The second amendment represents an inherent right to self defense. It is a natural right that is not given or taken. It is innate. It is a right that upstanding people hope to never invoke, but it is there as a safeguard against such times as these.
Can a society steeped in decay and rotting foundations resolve its problems without trial? History provides the answer.
The surveillance state, which has grown dramatically over the last decade, thrives when mistrust abounds. Are there real threats? Of course there are. The world is dangerous. However, when a healthy society exists these threats are dealt with but social cohesion and trust remains. Despotism needs broken families and broken community.
The system – in its mechanized, wicked desire to perpetuate itself – has convinced many of us that we will be protected and rewarded for following its directives and turning our neighbors in to the authorities, but the truth is that we all lose when this happens. Evil will feed evil.
The Tao
"No vice of the human heart suits it [despotism] better than egoism: a despot will be quick to forgive the people he governs for not loving him, provided they do not love one another." – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835
Humanity has been given a conscience. It is present in every human being – in the absence of mental illness – regardless of race color or creed. We have the capacity to recognize evil, denounce it, and reach for a higher standard. All of us have the free will to follow it or not to follow it.
C.S. Lewis, writing in his 1947 book The Abolition of Man, reminds us that there truly exists a phenomenon called natural law, or the Tao as Lewis calls it. Natural law has been recognized for as long as history has been written. To deny it takes the conscious effort of a normal human being. The idea of inalienable rights – the foundation upon which the United States Declaration of Independence was written – springs from natural law.
The individuals who have rebelled against the Tao have risen in the ranks of power. They constitute what has been called a pathocracy. These parasitic groups have formed in every civilization that has existed on earth. In the end, they wage war against the people of the host nation. This group feeds the evil side of humanity, and when it is expressed in all its horror it is used to further erode our liberties.
Within the field of political science is a study called political ponerology, the study of evil applied to politics. Every time a society falls into the hands of a brutal dictator, nearly identical patterns can be observed. Andrew M. Lobaczewski's ground breaking 1998 book entitled Political Ponerology discusses in depth the nature of psychopaths and their exploits when in positions of power.
"The actions of [pathocracy] affect an entire society, starting with the leaders and infiltrating every town, business, and institution. The pathological social structure gradually covers the entire country creating a "new class" within that nation. This privileged class feels permanently threatened by the "others", i.e. by the majority of normal people. Neither do the pathocrats entertain any illusions about their personal fate should there be a return to the system of normal man."
"Thus, the biological, psychological, moral, and economic destruction of this majority of normal people is a "biological" necessity to the pathocrats."
Our very human fiber is being targeted. Every day more people are coming to mirror the demoralized and decadent elite. This is not by accident.
We must be able to defend ourselves against these people when they take hold of the reigns of power. A well armed people with their hearts set on goodness and filled with righteous indignation is the only fail safe against them, and it brings me no pleasure to make that realization.
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Another British bank, termed a "rogue institution," is in the crosshairs of the New York Department of Financial Services, which has warned bank that it could be suspended from doing business in the state over charges that it violated money-laundering laws in dealings with institutions in Iran that are subject to U.S. economic sanctions.
Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Standard Chartered, a London-based bank with U.S. operations headquartered in New York, was warned in 2006 by its U.S. head that the bank's actions could expose it to "catastrophic reputational damage." However, the reply he received from a superior in London categorized U.S. employees with an obscenity, according to the order issued by the regulator.
The order quoted that reply saying in part, "Who are you to tell us, the rest of the world, that we're not going to deal with Iranians?" According to the regulator, the bank conducted $250 billion in transactions with Iranian banks in seven years, violating federal laws against money-laundering.
Nearly 90% of Standard Chartered's profit and revenue comes from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
In a statement, the bank said that 99.9% of its Iran transactions were in compliance with U.S. Treasury regulations, and that the total value of transactions that failed to comply totaled less than $14 million. It also said it "strongly rejects the position and portrayal of facts" made by the state regulator, run by Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky.
Standard Chartered is far from the first London-based bank to be hit with charges for violating money-laundering laws. Barclays, a unit of Lloyds and HSBC just last month were accused of proscribed transactions.
"It really seems as if they are perfectly prepared to flout whatever sanctions, rules and laws anybody tries to impose on them," said Sherrill Shaffer in the report. Shaffer, formerly a senior economist for the New York Fed and now a banking professor at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, added, "It starts to convey a picture that London-based banks have decided that they're not going to pay attention to U.S. sanctions with regard to their U.S. operations."
Should Standard Chartered lose its New York banking license, Royal Bank of Canada analysts said it would take a heavy toll on the bank's ability to process dollar payments. Patrick Lee, an RBC analyst in London, said in the report, "These are very serious penalties. Standard Chartered's U.S. headquarters are in New York, so a revocation of its license would have potentially major implications on its ability to conduct business in the U.S."
Lee added, "Similarly, its U.S. dollar clearing operations, the seventh largest in the world, according to Standard Chartered, would potentially impact its core business trade finance business model." The regulatory order said Standard Chartered handled transactions involving such Iranian entities as Bank Saderat, Bank Melli and the Central Bank of Iran. It also said similar transactions with other U.S.-sanctioned countries, including Myanmar, Sudan and Libya, are under investigation.
The order also cited consultants from the accounting and consulting firm Deloitte's financial services and advisory group, according to Reuters, for "intentionally omitt[ing] critical information" in a report to regulators. The firm had been retained as part of a legal agreement with New York regulators, said the order, following other money-laundering compliance failures, and cited an e-mail saying that Deloitte had provided a "watered-down" version of the report because "this is too much and too politically sensitive for both Standard Chartered Bank and Deloitte."
Cormac Leech, an analyst at London-based Liberum Capital, said in the report that the bank's cost may rise as high as $5.5 billion in fines, lost revenue and reduction in share price. After the news hit, its stock was down as much as 14% in London trading; on Tuesday it suffered its largest decline in nearly 24 years, losing 23% in morning trading in London. Until Monday the stock was up 11% for the year.
Leech was quoted saying, "It's unclear whether senior management will resign for the alleged shortcomings given that they have been in their current roles for much of the relevant period, raising the risk of kitchen-sinking on arrival of new management."
The bank's Iran office was opened in 1993, and in 2003 the bank said that "cross-border trade flows with markets like Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran appear to be growing and offer potential to us." While it halted all new business in Iran in May 2007, it did not completely exit the region until May of this year.
From 2001 to 2007, the agency's order said, Standard Chartered executed 60,000 wire transfers involving $250 billion through its New York branch during a period in which the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) required U.S. banks to identify and filter all dollar-clearing transactions that involved any financial institutions in U.S.-sanctioned countries, even if those transactions were handled by a third-party bank.
Standard Chartered, however, "repaired" any orders for wire transfers that involved its New York branch, so that they contained no reference to Iranian bank involvement. This went on for seven years—until OFAC revoked such third-party transfers in 2008. But, said the order, the bank hid its actions even after transfers stopped.
The regulator alleged that the bank hid its conduct from bank supervisors for nearly 10 years, saying that it operated as a "rogue institution" that intentionally kept back information on its Iranian client transactions.

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In the previous post, I discussed the importance of well-written documentation and uncomplicated APIs suggesting that poor documentation and negligence should be considered as silent threats.
Almost a year ago, I reported the following issue to the Node.js Connect's maintainers. To me, this is a perfect example of the risks of an incomplete API documentation that doesn't clearly warn the user of potential side-effects. Please note that in the recent releases of Express, connect-csrf is now called csurf and methodOverride is now method-override. Different names, same API.
Disclosure timeline
This issue was reported to Senchalabs on 07/25/2013. Despite my requests to add a warning in the online documentation, there's still no indication of potential side-effects in Connect MethodOverride. On 09/07/2013, this advisory was also published by the NodeSecurity community. Unfortunately, I don't think that the issue raised the adequate level of attention as suggested by the many vulnerable applications that I've encountered.
Technical details
Connect's methodOverride middleware allows an HTTP request to override the HTTP verb with the value of the _method post parameter or with the x-http-method-override header. As the declaration order of middlewares determines the execution stack in Connect, it is possible to abuse this functionality in order to bypass the standard Connect's anti-CSRF protection.
Considering the following code:
... app.use express.csrf() ... app.use express.methodOverride()
Connect's CSRF middleware does not check CSRF tokens in case of idempotent verbs (GET/HEAD/OPTIONS, see csurf/index.js). As a result, it is possible to bypass the security control by sending a GET request with a POST MethodOverride header or parameter.
GET / HTTP/1.1 [..] _method=POST
The workaround is clearly to disable methodOverride or make sure that it takes precedence over other middleware declarations.
Adam Baldwin made an eslint plugin that you can use to identify this issue.
Update 06/04: Douglas W. pointed out that it's probably a good idea to move to method-override version 2+ (https://www.npmjs.org/package/method-override#readme). The documentation has been updated with a reference to this issue.
Update 06/04: Douglas W. pointed out that it's probably a good idea to move to method-override version 2+ (https://www.npmjs.org/package/method-override#readme). The documentation has been updated with a reference to this issue.


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The Fast5 Ferns topped off a perfect day with a hard fought 47-31 win over defending champions England at the World Netball series.
The result means that New Zealand, with four wins and one draw, were top qualifier for Sunday's semi finals and will meet fourth placed Jamaica. England will face the Proteas from South Africa in the other semi-final.
England, who were the only team with a 100 per cent record after the first day, were expected to provide tough opposition and duly delivered.
The Ferns led 13-10 after the first quarter, 18-14 at half-time but trailed 28-27 after a sensational third quarter where Jo Harten shot two six pointers (England had the power play), including one right on the buzzer. The home used their power play in the final quarter and that extra advantage was enough to ensure the victory, as they outscored their opponents 20 points to three in that six minute stretch.
On the evidence so far, the Ferns will start as favourites tomorrow but are taking nothing for granted.
"We are taking it game by game because these matches are really unpredictable", said captain Laura Langman. "Things can change in the second half, especially with power plays, so we don't count our chickens before they hatch. You don't really look at the score you just stick to your guns and get on with it. England are especially dangerous; they have grasped the game really well and their three point shooters are hot to trot."
Earlier the Ferns had enjoyed a huge 52-19 victory over South Africa and a comfortable 44-24 win over Malawi.
Against the Proteas coach Wai Taumaunu again took the opportunity to use her full lineup, with second stringers including Bailey Mes and Anna Thompson starting the match and getting plenty of court time.
The Ferns were too strong across all areas of the court and two long bombs from Maria Tutaia - much to the crowd's delight - in the powerplay quarter took New Zealand past the half century mark.
In their earlier match New Zealand demolished Malawai 44-24, with Tutaia again the standout with several outstanding long range shots from distance.
The African side were expected to provide a tough test, especially after their convincing victory over the Australia on the first day but struggled against the height and reach of the home side.
In other results on day two Australia, whose team of rookies have been the flops of the tournament, crashed to two more defeats, 28-27 to South Africa and a 34-33 reverse against Jamaica.
The Jamaican win sealed their place in the top four, while South Africa beat Malawi (48-34) in the penultimate game of the day to grab the final playoff spot.
New Zealand:
(13-10; 18-14; 27-28; 47-31)
World Netball Series day two results:
* England 39 - Jamaica 28
* New Zealand - 44 Malawi 24
* South Africa 28 - Australia 27
* Malawi 27 - England 23
* New Zealand 52 - South Africa 19
* Jamaica 34 - Australia 33
* South Africa 48 - Malawi 34
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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
On-line version ISSN 2078-5135
Print version ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.100 n.12 Pretoria Dec. 2010
Des Dall (10 july 1936 -29 august 2010)
Des Dall died in Hermanus on 29 August 2010 after a long battle with cancer of the oesophagus.
Des was a giant in every sense of the word, and made a major contribution to orthopaedic surgery, not only in South Africa, but also internationally. He qualified at UCT in 1959, and followed up with an FRCS (Edin) in 1964, and MCh (Liverpool) in 1968. His interest in hip replacement led him to work with Sir John Charnley in 1969, who pioneered hip replacement surgery.
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The Associates of the Jersey Company was founded by a group of proprietors in 1804 with the intention to purchase property at Paulus Hook. It was the idea of Alexander Hamilton of New York, the first US Secretary of the Treasury under President George Washington. Hamilton believed in the future of manufacturing for the American nation and looked over to New Jersey for a location suitable to fulfill that goal. He convinced other New Yorkers of this idea. They, like him, were Federalists who had lost out in American politics with the election of Thomas Jefferson and other Democratic-Republicans in the election of 1800.
Anthony Dey, a lawyer, purchased land at Paulus Hook with ferry privileges from Cornelius Van Vorst. The property was surveyed, laid out into streets and blocks before the transfer of title to three prominent Federalists: Colonel Richard Varick, a lawyer and former New York City mayor, 1789-1801, and Dey's cousin; Jacob Radcliff, a Justice of the New York Supreme Court and later mayor of New York City, 1810-1811; and Dey, a large real estate holder. They each held 100 shares in the Company and were to receive an annuity from the rental of the lots and the ferry at Paulus Hook. There were also 31 share owners of lesser amounts, such as four New Jersey governors--Joseph Bloomfield, Aaron Ogden, William S. Pennington, and Isaac H. Williamson--as well as Alex C. McWhorter, Elisha Boudinot, John C. Coles, and Samuel Pennington. Hamilton initially acted as attorney for the group and drew up the charter of incorporation. It was approved by the New Jersey Legislature on November 10, 1804. Hamilton, who was killed in a duel with New York rival Aaron Burr in Weehawken in July of that year, did not live to guide the organization he helped found.
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In 1816, Colonel Richard Varick purchased lots 20, 22, and 24, on the north side of Essex Street, and built a brick house known as "Prospect Hall," overlooking the Hudson River. The property was landscaped with lawns and gardens to the waterfront. Major General Marquis de Lafayette visited his former Revolutionary War comrade Col. Varick at Prospect Hall, while touring America in 1824 for special Fourth of July celebrations. Varick lived at Prospect Hall until he died on July 30, 1831. The building was altered over time and became tenement housing. Eventually the structure was demolished.
The overall project planned by the Associates of the Jersey Company was not successful, and investors, such as the Jersey Steam Boat Ferry Company, failed. This was due to several factors. The State of New Jersey and the City of New York continued to claim control of land and coastal water to the New Jersey shore at Jersey City. This discouraged investment by those who wanted lots on the waterfront for commercial purposes. In June 1804, Hamilton and his law partner, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, challenged New York's claim, but press coverage over the controversy kept investors away. Also, the shareholders of the Associates of the Jersey Company required a rental charge to cover the annuity approved in its Articles of Agreement. Additionally, the Associates, who owned the land, had municipal governing rights to make regulations for the tenants or residents on the property.
The boundary dispute between New York and New Jersey was clarified in the Treaty of 1834 and with it the purchase of the Van Vorst mortgage by Colonel Varick and an agreement to sell the lots in full. According to the treaty, the rights of New Jersey to the land under the water of the Hudson River were conceded by the State of New York. However, by this time, the impetus for the Associates of the Jersey Company's plans and the original leadership were lost.
While the prospects of the Associates of the Jersey Company did not live up to expectations, it made a contribution to the founding of Jersey City. In 1819, the Jersey Company applied to the New Jersey Legislature to incorporate the Town of Jersey. The legislature enacted "An Act to incorporate the City of Jersey, in the County of Bergen" on January 28, 1820. The City of Jersey became "Jersey City" due to the use of the expression in the body of the legislation. Under the provision, five freeholders were to be chosen as "the Board of Selectmen of Jersey City," thereby establishing the first governing body of the emerging municipality. Also, the legislation included nothing that might impede the work of the Jersey Company. In 1829, the city's name was formally changed to "Jersey City" under a second charter of incorporation.
Winfield, Charles H. A Monograph of the Founding of Jersey City. New York: The Caxton Press, 1891.


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pens_CT wrote:murphydump55 wrote:pens_CT wrote:murphydump55 wrote:At least he's Canadian...that's a big step for Shero.
Better than the American Trash Tangradi.
I just think Shero focuses way too much on US, and US program players. It's just my own personal opinion and think it's one of his downfalls. He needs to open up to Europe and Canada even more.
Not sure the data supports your claim. He hasn't drafted an American in the last two drafts and has drafted more euros in the last 3 drafts than Americans.
Between him and Craig Patrick, there has just been a bit more focus on American players whether being drafted, traded for, signed etc.
I'm not saying they're all bad decisions, but I just think we should be looking to Europe and Canada a bit more. A quick look at our blueline over the last while shows the American influence. (Shero and Patrick combined)
Gill, Whitney, Martin, Scuderi, Eaton, Orpik, Lovejoy, Niskanen, Strait, Goligoski, Leopold for example.
As for the drafts, you're right about the last two years for sure, but it just seemed before that he was going after quite a few Americans (Rust, Sneep, Strait, Samuelsson, Hanowski, Velischek, Rogalski, Agostino) I was actually mistaken and thought there were quite a few more....my bad.
I'd still like to see him focus a bit more in Europe like the Red Wings do, or even a bit more in Canada.


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Straight Up Conversation: Fla. Supe Tony Bennett on the Indiana School Grading Furor
Since Monday afternoon, a furor regarding Indiana's school accountability system has engulfed Florida state chief Tony Bennett (who was formerly the state chief in Indiana). The brouhaha centers on e-mails that Bennett and his staff penned regarding an Indiana charter school. The school, Christel House, initially received a "C" grade under the Indiana grading system in 2012. That occasioned a flurry of e-mails, and ended with Christel House receiving an "A". Added fuel to the fire is the fact that Christel House's founder Christel DeHaan had been a contributor to Bennett's campaign and to that of other Indiana Republicans. A typical headline from Monday and yesterday was that over the Huffington Post story. It read, "Tony Bennett... Changed Top GOP Donor's School's Grade." Having long been a friend and admirer of Bennett's, I was interested in hearing his take on the situation. We spoke yesterday afternoon, and here's what he had to say.
Rick Hess: So, Tony. You know that the story here is disconcerting at first look. Can you offer any more context or backstory that we should know?
Tony Bennett: The backstory is simple here, Rick. In our first run of the new school calculations in Indiana, we turned up an anomaly in the results. As we were looking at the grades we were giving our schools, we realized that state law created an unfair penalty for schools that didn't have 11th and 12th grades. Statewide, there were 13 schools in question had unusual grade configurations. The data for grades 11 and 12 came in as zero. When we caught it, we fixed it. That's what this is all about.
RH: And Christel House is one of those 13?
TB: Because Christel House was a K-10 school, the systems essentially counted the other two grades as zeroes. That brought the school's score down from an "A" to a "C".
RH: The media coverage features the flurry of e-mails specifically around Christel House. Why did that provoke such a sharp reaction?
TB: Someone gave me a great analogy. I'm a track and field guy. I run, I try to keep my weight down at about 190. Christel has been a track-performing school for a number of years. If I get on the scale one day, am doing everything the same, and am still wearing my same clothes and they fit, and the scale suddenly reads 215, I am going to question what's going on. So when we ran these grades, it became apparent that we had done something incorrectly. Christel House was a high-performing school with a track record, but when they stepped on our scale they were a "C". So we suspected there might be something that was being weighed incorrectly by our grading system. That school was the catalyst for us to review the program and implement changes that wouldn't penalize other schools with different grade configurations.
RH: Did other school grades change?
TB: I think grades changed for all 13. All 13 didn't have 11th or 12th grades the way our system would recognize them, so they were all being calculated at zero for those particular measures.
RH: From the e-mails, one of the quotes that has come to particular attention is you telling staff that you needed solutions that would ensure you hadn't been telling "repeated lies" during the previous six months. What did you mean by that?
TB: You know, I have been an ardent supporter for accurate school accountability, and have always stood strong on that issue. Week after week, month after month we'd been saying that our system would correctly identify "A", "B", "C", "D", and "F" schools. And all of a sudden, we realized that we had a system that didn't do that fully. So, you know, I said two things. One, Christel House was a good school that had been historically performing as an "A". Two, I had said that we'd provide a system that would correctly identify schools. My e-mail said, "Listen, I've been steadfast in saying that our system would be accurate, and we aren't going to roll out a system that compromises that integrity."
RH: Some observers have noted that this is coming to light just after the Florida state board opted to adjust the Florida grading system. That was already a controversial decision. Is there any relationship between the two?
TB: It's interesting. This kind of system has to make sense for the end user, in this case, the family. Here in Florida, the grading system needed to make sense, so we made a recommendation that the state board approved. It said that, because of different calculations we've put into the system, we needed to stabilize the transition to new assessments and standards. We wanted to maintain that integrity. Back in Indiana, we were trying to build a new system. It's an interesting parallel. My recommendation to the Florida board was, "If your system doesn't fully make sense, then how do you defend it?" If the results come out suspect, then, in the end, you can really question the integrity of the system. What I had to do in Florida was maintain the integrity of the transition going forward. So it's a parallel of helping a more mature system in Florida advance versus paying close attention to any glitches as we started up a new system in Indiana.
RH: When the legislation was passed in Indiana, did you anticipate problems would emerge or did this situation catch you by surprise?
TB: We had numerous discussions about issues that could spring up. When we were beginning to plan this stuff, we had a number of public school superintendents bring us issues that they thought would unfairly penalize their schools. When you're building an accountability system, you want to make the foundation as solid as you can, but we understood from all the feedback that we would still have to spend time adjusting as the system was implemented. I believe in Indiana we got the fundamental foundation right, but we ran into some issues implementing it. As we transition here in Florida, we'll need to make adjustments. Accountability should be a continuously improving process, so it's wasn't a great surprise we had found something we needed to improve.
RH: Christel is obviously a longtime supporter of Republican candidates, including yourself. How do you respond to concerns that you reacted as you did to the Christel House results for political reasons?
TB: It's unfair to characterize Christel as only a donor to Republicans. If you look into it, you'll find that she's donated to both parties. She's a champion for underprivileged children. Her work around the world and in Indianapolis is an inspiration to me. It's absurd that anyone would believe that I would do any of this for a donation. In fact, if you talk to some of my friends, they'll tell you that I maybe pay a lot less attention to this politics stuff than I sometimes should.
RH: One sidelight here. Given the division among Florida Republicans over the Common Core, and your role as a staunch supporter of it, I'm curious whether anyone who might normally come to your defense is taking a pass.
TB: I haven't even thought about it. I've just been overwhelmed by e-mails over the past 12 hours from people who stand up for school accountability and appreciated the work we did in Indiana, saying, "We know Tony, and we know he wouldn't change a grade for a dollar."


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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — After months of talks, irrigators in the Upper Klamath Basin and the Klamath Tribes inked a water-sharing agreement in principle on Dec. 2.
While details remain to be worked out over the coming weeks, the pact includes various restoration projects, stipulated in-stream flows and the permanent retirement of 30,000 acre-feet of water for restoring fisheries, said officials who were involved in talks.
The agreement involved federal and state negotiators and was a result of work by the Klamath Basin Task Force, which was assembled this summer to address the fallout from water rights calls by the tribes and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
The task force set up by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Gov. John Kitzhaber had hoped to reach a deal by September, but lingering water and power issues and the October partial shutdown of the federal government slowed the group's negotiations.
"I'm very pleased that we've come to this point," said Don Gentry, the Klamath Tribes' chairman. "There is work to be done, but I can say this is a critical positive step in moving forward with negotiating a final settlement."
Linda Long, a rancher in Modoc Point, Ore., who was involved in some of the talks, said the pact's elements involve "some give-and-take" on the part of irrigators and the tribes.
"We still have the final agreement to do and a lot of the details will be in the final agreement," she said. "I think if we can get our water back, it will never be the same but it'll be hopefully something that everyone can live with. The tribes and the irrigators can work through it together."
If finalized, the agreement would be parallel to the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement and its companion proposal to remove four dams from the Klamath River, which has been adamantly opposed by some farmers and ranchers in the region.
"It's really positive that some of the parties … that weren't included in the KBRA are now a part of this process," Gentry said.
Once a final deal is reached, Wyden will propose a bill in Congress to authorize its parameters, Gentry and Long said. Also, federal legislation is needed by February to provide irrigators outside the Klamath Reclamation Project with immediate, lower-cost power from the Bonneville Power Administration, offering some relief from electricity costs that have risen significantly since 2006.
The talks began after the Klamath Tribes and the federal government made calls on their water rights in June, forcing tens of thousands of acres in the drought-stricken Upper Basin to go without surface water irrigation this summer.
The agreement that parties signed at the Oregon Institute of Technology here seek to support the Klamath Tribes' economic development issues while providing stability for agriculture and restoring and managing riparian corridors along streams that flow into Upper Klamath Lake, the tribes explained in a news release.
Part of supporting the tribes' economic outlook is to bring fish populations back to harvestable levels, Gentry said.
"An important component for the Klamath Tribes is support for economic development," he said. "All of this is couched in doing the work necessary to restore our fisheries."


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Behold, the Hitachi DH50MRY. Part drill, part jackhammer, it can eat up concrete like balsa wood without killing your arms. Our friends at PopSci cut one open to show how it works.
It's the first drill of its kind to feature a counterweight strong enough to cancel out what is undoubtedly some pretty serious recoil. I still think it would take all the counterweight in the world for this not to shake my spaghetti arms out of their sockets in two, maybe three seconds. But that picture—can't take my eyes off it. More at: [PopSci, photo by John Carnett]


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Celebrate Dr. Espanola Jackson Day on her birthday, Feb. 9, with the San Francisco Bayview Hunters Point community. We take this opportunity to honor the memory of Espanola as a community leader during Black History Month. For details of the event, which will be held in the Alex Pitcher Room at the Southeast Community Center, go to the Facebook and register your RSVP online with Eventbrite. All are welcome. Spread the word.


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Who doesn't want to spend every night between the sheets with the Doctor? Now you can, if you get the winning eBay bid on this astounding Doctor Who murphy bed (complete with a lights, sounds and a replica phone).
Go bid on this handmade Doctor Who bed right now over at Trade Me. Constructed by an ingenious New Zealand father for his son. The TARDIS bed includes a talking telephone (it says 4 different Doctor Who sayings) lights — at night it projects the southern cross sign on the ceiling — a 1970s lock, pulsing LED lights, and more. So yes, you need this.
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No. 16 Lady Vols rip No. 22 North Carolina 102-57
Meighan Simmons scored a career-high 33 points and exceeded the 1,000-point mark for her career Sunday as No. 16 Tennessee trounced No. 22 North Carolina 102-57 for its sixth consecutive victory.
Simmons shot 12-of-22, including 9-of-11 in the first half. She scored her 1,000th career point by sinking a pair of free throws with 11:44 left in the first half, becoming the 37th Lady Vol to reach that plateau.
Isabelle Harrison added a career-high 18 points to go along with 11 rebounds for the Lady Vols (6-1), who now have two weeks off before returning to action Dec. 16 at No. 13 Texas. Cierra Burdick scored 15 points, Bashaara Graves had 11 points and Taber Spani added 10 points.
Xylina McDaniel scored 19 points and Waltiea Rolle added 13 points for North Carolina (7-1).
North Carolina headed into the day allowing only 54.3 points per game, but the Lady Vols nearly reached that mark by halftime. The Tar Heels hadn't given up more than 64 points in any of their seven wins.
Tennessee outplayed the Tar Heels in every phase of the game.
North Carolina owned a height advantage over Tennessee and had averaged a plus-9 rebound margin for the season, but the Lady Vols outrebounded the Heels 54-40. North Carolina committed 30 turnovers. Tennessee shot 37-of-77 from the floor and 6-of-14 from 3-point range while North Carolina was 21-of-61 overall and 1-of-11 from beyond the arc.
Simmons was the biggest difference maker.
The 6-foot-3 junior thrived on the fast pace North Carolina prefers. The biggest indication this was simply her day came with 4:06 left in the first half when her jumper hit just about every side of the rim before falling through.
Tennessee pulled ahead for good in the opening minutes with an 8-0 run that broke a 2-2 tie. The Lady Vols led by double digits for the last 33: 57 of the game. North Carolina briefly made a run that sliced an 18-point deficit to 10 with 6:07 left in the first half, but Tennessee went on an 11-0 run later in the half.
North Carolina scored eight straight points early in the second half to cut the lead to 16 as Tennessee cooled off, but the Tar Heels got no closer. Tennessee went on a 12-0 run later in the second half and never looked back.


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You hear that? That's the sound of your afternoon plans evaporating. Alaska's Katmai National Park has teamed up with explore.org to bring you live, high-definition footage of brown bears hunting for salmon at sites throughout the park, and it's probably the coolest thing you'll see today.
"It takes a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money," said Roy Wood, chief of interpretation for Katmai National Park and Preserve, in an interview with the Associated press, but "the webcams will make it accessible to anyone with access to a computer, a smartphone, a tablet device."
I've had two separate live streams open in separate windows for the last couple of hours, and so far most of the activity I've seen has been at Brooks Falls. They appear to have people manning the cams, as well, so you always get the best shots possible of the bears. In the last ten minutes alone, I've managed to watch two separate bears snag salmon out of mid air. It's absurdly addictive, and incredible to watch, even when the massive predators aren't catching anything. Go check it out.


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Bankers Form SuperPac for 'Surgical' Strike at Industry's Enemies
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A group of state associations, led by Utah, has developed an electronic, anonymous survey bankers complete after each exam. The survey is already helping the industry pinpoint points of agreement and discord between banks and their examiners.January 18
In 2008 the Democratic nominee raised far more money from Wall Street than John McCain. But for 2012, the financial industry is favoring Mitt Romney over the incumbent president.August 29
Though Democrats scored a big political victory in passing regulatory reform, many are already paying for it as the financial services industry directs more of its contributions toward Republicans and moderates who tried to pare back the revamp.September 3
Frustrated by a lack of political power and fed up with blindly donating to politicians who consistently vote against the industry's interests, a handful of leaders are determined to shake things up.
They have formed the industry's first SuperPAC — dubbed Friends of Traditional Banking — that is designed to target the industry's enemies and support its friends in Congress.
"It comes back to the old philosophy of walking softly and carrying a big stick," says Howard Headlee, the president and chief executive officer of the Utah Bankers Association. "But we've got no big stick. And we should. We have the capacity to have one, we just aren't organized."
Think of it as an Emily's List for bankers and their allies.
"Congress isn't afraid of bankers," adds Roger Beverage, the president and CEO of the Oklahoma Bankers Association. "They don't think we'll do anything to kick them out of office. We are trying to change that perception."
Unlike traditional banking PACs, which target hundreds of House and Senate races, the SuperPAC instead is focusing on making a big difference in just a handful of close elections.
SuperPACs are the latest campaign finance innovation, made possible by two 2010 court decisions. They are officially known as "independent-expenditure only committees" because they are not allowed to coordinate their activities with candidates. SuperPACs are attractive because there are no limits on contributions or expenditures.
With a regular political action committee, like the American Bankers Association's BankPAC, an individual may donate no more than $5,000 a year. Then the PAC may contribute up to $10,000 to any one candidate in an election cycle — $5,000 for the primary and another $5,000 for the general election.
But Friends of Traditional Banking can direct as much money as it can raise to certain races without such restrictions. Matt Packard, the SuperPAC's chairman and president and CEO of $670 million-asset Central Bank in Provo, Utah, views the SuperPAC as a complement to BankPAC.
"BankPAC is much broader and covers lots of different candidates. This is much more surgical," Packard says. "If someone says I am going to give your opponent $5,000 or $10,000, you might say, 'Yea, okay.' But if you say the bankers are going to put in $100,000 or $500,000 or $1 million into your opponent's campaign, that starts to draw some attention.
"That's why I think this is much more instrumental than BankPAC in a close race."
Friends of Traditional Banking will ask contributors to pledge from $150 to $500 to two congressional races each election cycle. An advisory council will research races and select the candidates to be targeted. A board of directors will sign off on the selections, and then information will be sent to those who pledged funding explaining how to donate to a particular candidate.
The SuperPAC itself will not touch the money. Unlike Emily's List, which raises money for female candidates, Friends of Traditional Banking will merely point its supporters toward the races and the candidates considered key to the future of traditional banking.
If 10,000 supporters sign up at the minimum pledge level — not a high bar considering 2.1 million people work in the banking industry — Friends of Traditional Banking would be channeling more than $1 million. That's enough to make a difference in a tight race.
"My short-term goal is to get to the $1 million mark," Headlee says. "I have a lot of confidence that once we get there we will get way beyond there. People will see how effective it is and they will jump on board."
SuperPACs are considered pretty cutting-edge, which is not a place a lot of bankers feel comfortable. Headlee says the first question most bankers ask him is, "Is this legal?" Friends of Traditional Banking got Federal Election Commission approval last September and federal banking regulators have been briefed on the effort.
But SuperPACs are still relatively rare. As of early April, 407 had been formed and just 18 had raised more than $1 million.
"It would be nice to sit on the sidelines or sit on our hands and say, 'Oh we don't get involved in that stuff,' but that just means you get run over," says Don Childears, the president and CEO of the Colorado Bankers Association. "We need to get more deeply involved as an industry in supporting friends and trying to replace enemies."
Childears says he's seen SuperPACs in action, citing a credit union that donated $50,000 to an independent expenditure committee and defeated a candidate in Colorado. "Regretfully that is our world these days," he says. "Everyone from the Realtors to the credit unions to the consumer groups are playing more hardball. It would be nice not to have to engage in that, but we do."
[The Credit Union National Association, the industry's largest trade group, does not operate a SuperPAC. But it does accomplish many of the same goals by marshalling both institutions and their customers to donate to specific races. PACs are allowed to make these "independent expenditures," or donations that are not coordinated with a campaign, and according to the Center for Responsive Politics, CUNA's PAC spent $837,000 to influence six tight races during the 2010 elections.]
The ABA's BankPAC has spent $1.146 million so far in the 2011-12 election cycle, which ranks it 9th overall, just behind CUNA at $1.184 million, and well behind the second-ranked National Association of Realtors at $1.629 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. BankPAC expects to raise $3.5 million during this election cycle.
Gary Fields, BankPAC's treasurer, says it will contribute to 380 House races and virtually all the Senate races this year. Fields says the ABA is considering an effort that would parallel Friends of Traditional Banking loosely dubbed the "Chairman's Club."
"For those bankers who want to do more than just contribute to the PAC, Howard has his Friends of Traditional Banking and we're looking at something, the Chairman's Club, which would be a pledge program that would complement Friends of Traditional Banking," Fields says. "But it's only on the drawing board and nothing has been rolled out to the public on that yet."
Fields, however, sounds more focused on the traditional PAC. Asked if he is excited about the prospects for Friends of Traditional Banking, Fields says, "I'm more excited about the ABA BankPAC… What we would like to see is more bankers participate in the PAC."
Why isn't ABA, the industry's broadest trade group, or the Independent Community Bankers of America, the group devoted to Main Street banking, involved in Friends of Traditional Banking?
"We didn't ask the ABA or ICBA to participate," Headlee said. "I don't think they want to have any kind of control over this because we may piss some people off inside the Beltway. We fully intend to. They have to work back there."
ICBA President and CEO Cam Fine is enthusiastic about the effort.
"I am for any PAC that is going to defeat our enemies," Fine says. "I agree with Howard on this. More power to him. I hope he raises a lot of money and hammers these guys."
Beyond Utah, Oklahoma and Colorado, the advisory council currently includes members from eight other state associations: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey and Vermont.
Headlee and the other state association leaders see Friends of Traditional Banking going beyond bankers to tap shareholders and customers and anyone else who sees the value in preserving Main Street banking.
"Clearly there are Members of Congress who have absolutely no reservations about kicking traditional banks in the teeth, and we are tired of it," says Headlee. "We've got to be able to defend the folks who have the courage to stand up for us as well."
The vehicle now exists. The potential is there. It's up to bankers to make it happen.


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BEIJING, April 15 (UPI) -- China's economic growth in the first quarter of this year cooled a bit to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in the previous quarter, data released Monday showed.
The National Bureau of Statistics said first-quarter gross domestic product totaled 11.89 trillion yuan or $1.9 trillion.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the quarterly rate, though weaker than the previous quarter, still remained above the 7.5 percent growth the government has set for all of 2013.
For all of last year, the annual growth was 7.8 percent, the weakest since 1999.
"The data has continued a stabilizing growth trend that took shape late last year, showing that the new government does not put pursuing growth as its No. 1 task," said Wang Jun, an economist at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges.
In other data released Monday, China's industrial output grew 9.5 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2013, down from the 11.6 percent in the same period of last year.
The growth of fixed-asset investment, a measure of government spending on infrastructure, remained unchanged at 20.9 percent during the period compared to a year earlier.
Retail sales, a key indicator of consumer spending, increased 12.4 percent in the latest quarter, down from 14.8 percent a year ago.


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Caprese Salad with Apricots
Caprese Salad with Apricots
(original recipe by Rand, adjust amounts for the number of servings you need)
sliced tomatoes (smaller tomatoes will match the size of the apricots better)
apricots, pits removed and cut into slices
slices of fresh mozzarella
basil leaves, washed and dried
extra virgin olive oil
best quality balsamic vinegar
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Slice tomatoes about 1/2 inch thick and arrange on serving platter. Place a slice of apricot on top of each tomato, cut side up. Put a slice of fresh mozzarella on top of the apricots, with a couple of fresh basil leaves on top of the mozzarella. Drizzle olive oil and balsamic vinegar over, season with salt and fresh ground black pepper, and serve.
This would be a great salad for phase two or three of the South Beach Diet, but consider the apricots when you plan your meals for the rest of that day. Three apricots have 12 carbs, of which 9 grams is sugar, and are considered a medium food on the glycemic index.


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California police crack nationwide electronics shoplifting case
TORRANCE, Calif. - Four Chicago residents have told detectives here they are part of a Gypsy family from Poland responsible for shoplifting crimes at electronics stores across the United States, stealing about $3 million in property over the last year.
The suspected thieves arrested March 8 are believed responsible for 17 crimes at Apple stores in southern California, as well as thefts at Best Buy, Costco, PetSmart, Sam's Club, Sports Authority and Wal-Mart, said police Sgt. Robert Watt.
In addition, the group allegedly victimized businesses in Colorado, Washington and Florida, Watt said.
"This is more than just shoplifting," Watt said. "This is an organized group that has targeted electronics stores for a long period of time and stolen a large amount of property that's well into the millions of dollars," he said.
Police identified the suspects as Ausra Bauzinskaite, 34; Adeliya Nassybullina, 30; Lukasz Karasinski, 37; and Przemyslaw Skiba, 31, all of Chicago. They were being held without bail, under a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold.
The District Attorney's Office has charged them with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit commercial burglary and grand theft; each pleaded not guilty March 12 in Torrance court.
Torrance detectives identified the group as suspects following a March 2012 crime at a MacMall. Surveillance cameras captured the group on video, Watt said.
During the crime and others like it, the men would stand in a position to block employees from seeing the women behind them. The men selected items from shelves and passed them to the women, who would hide them in their oversized dresses and overcoats, or in purses, Watt said.
The group targeted various items, but focused on hard drives available on store shelves, he said.
"They are only in the store for about two to three minutes," Watt said. "They are conspiring together. ... They all appear to have some kind of role. "
After investigating for four months, detectives learned the group had flown into Southern California from Illinois on March 7 for a court appearance in Santa Monica related to an earlier theft.
"Torrance investigators conducted surveillance and observed the subjects commit additional thefts at Apple stores throughout both Los Angeles and Orange counties," Watt said. "Upon completing the thefts, the subjects attempted to mail the stolen property to various out-of-state locations."
Once the suspects were arrested, police recovered more than $20,000 worth of Apple products, Watt said.
During interviews, group members identified themselves as a Gypsy family from Chicago that originated in Poland and admitted to shoplifting so they could pay off a $2 million debt their family had incurred several years earlier, Watt said.
Detectives described the group as a "retail theft ring" and said the arrests might lead to more evidence, suspects and victims. Investigators are working with police agencies throughout the country.
A store manager at the MacMall in Torrance said he recalled the theft and watching the video. The suspects took some high-end Thunderbolt external hard drives which sell for $600 to $700.
Since then, employees have kept a closer watch on the merchandise and customers, the manager said.


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Timothy Hird of Winder, Georgia was so sick of people pushing around hybrid drivers he attempted to race a non-hybrid Honda Civic to "prove how fast his Prius could go." The stunt landed the beleaguered Prius owner in jail.
It happened last week near Braselton, Georiga when the Prius driver was leaving a Publix supermarket. According to the police report, the driver of the Civic pulled out in front of Hird. This was the last straw for the Prius driver. He sped up to meet the Civic and yelled "Watch this!" at the Civic's female passenger and started harassing them by tapping on the brakes and blocking their car. Eventually, the Civic driver tried to pass the hybrid and nearly wiped out into a police car.
Both drivers were promptly arrested and charged with reckless driving, though the Prius driver probably would have been happier with a speeding ticket. (Hat tip to Zach!)


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There are other similar Tutorials on DIC - which you may prefer, I don't mind! I wanted to create a, hopefully, simple version, but with a little more detail. (Or, at least, an alternative version.)
The shortcut-keys are for the VS Express version, followed by the VS (full), or alternative, shortcut.
Here is the VB.NET Console Application code that I will be using.
Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim numbers() As Integer = {10, 20, 45, 50, 80} Dim total As Integer = 0 For x As Integer = 1 To 5 total += numbers(x) Next Console.WriteLine("The total is {0:D}", total) Console.ReadKey() End Sub End Module
If I run this I receive the following error message:
If you press Break at this point you are already beginning the debugging process!
[Spoiler: The solution is For x As Integer = 0 To 4 because array-indexing starts at zero.]
When debugging you can step-through your code one line at a time, observe what happens to your variables, jump to specific lines, etc., etc. To START THE PROCESS you can:
1. Choose the Debug menu and Step Into (or press the F11 or F8 function key).
Continue to press F11, stepping through your code one line at a time.
Point your mouse over any variable (and other values) and a pop-up will display its current value. If it is, for example, an array then you can click on the plus sign that appears within the pop-up to expand it, showing more details that you can navigate through.
This works for object-references, etc., as well, and you can navigate through entire structures!
As you are stepping through there are two other options on the Debug menu: Step Over (F10 or Shift-F8) and Step Out (Shift-F11 or Ctrl-Shift-F8).
Step Over: If you are about to call another function or method, just run through it without pausing, returning to the current code block.
Step Out: If your code has called (moved into) another function or method then complete this without pause, returning to the previous (calling) code-block.
You can also drag the yellow arrow on the left up or down to skip, or re-execute, lines;
You can right-click a line and choose Run to Cursor (Ctrl-F10).
You can abandon debugging at any point by pressing the red square (Stop Debugging) (Shift-F5 or Ctrl-Alt-Break). Or press the Start button, which now says Continue (F5) to run the rest of your code. (Generally it is better to let the code run to completion, particularly for more complex applications, so that all object-references are correctly disposed of.)
2. Click to the far left of a statement to create a Breakpoint (F9) - repeat to remove the breakpoint (this is available from the Debug menu as well). Press Start and the code will run until it reaches the breakpoint and then pause for you to step through.
You can set a number of Breakpoints - Ctrl-Shift-F9 removes all breakpoints.
Refer back to point 1. for details of what you can do while stepping through.
3. Right-click an executable line (not a comment) and choose Run to Cursor (Ctrl-F10) - my favourite method! The code will run all the way until it reaches this line (assuming, of course, that your code will actually encounter this line).
Refer back to point 1. for details of what you can do while stepping through.
4. In VB you can type the word Stop on a line and then press Start; it will run to this line and then pause/stop and you can continue stepping-through. This is useful if you know that you will probably need to test the same section of code many times, and over several sessions. (Don't forget to delete the word Stop when you've finished!) Generally, though, you might prefer to use a Breakpoint rather than Stop.
Refer back to point 1. for details of what you can do while stepping through.
Locals Window
The Locals Windows will display the values of all (currently in scope) variables, including arrays, lists, etc. Once you have started debugging choose the Debug menu, Windows, Locals (Alt-4).
Note The Debug, Windows menu option only shows a limited number of windows until you actually start debugging - then many other windows become available to you. Investigate the Immediate, Watch and Call Stack Windows.
The Locals window appears as a separate tabbed panel (usually to the bottom-left of the screen) alongside the Output and other windows.
MSDN: I've linked to the VS 2010 version, rather than 2012, to avoid the distraction of any Metro features.


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Nation's educators encourage lawmakers to help ensure safe and secure learning environments for all students
NEA president urges Congress to put politics aside and do what's right for students
WASHINGTON - January 30, 2013 -
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on gun violence today. The hearing entitled, What Should America Do About Gun Violence?, featured testimony from individuals and organizations on addressing the gun violence epidemic in America. The National Education Association, along with a host of other organizations, submitted written comments for the record. Calling the hearing an important step forward in developing a comprehensive plan to address preventing gun violence, NEA issued the following statement from the president of the Association, Dennis Van Roekel:
"Today's Senate hearing is an important first step for Congress to take necessary action on ensuring our nation's schools are safe and secure and addressing our national epidemic of gun violence that has taken far too many lives, including the children and educators of Sandy Hook. We strongly believe there must be a comprehensive approach based on input from communities and educators that includes expanding and improving mental health services, investing in infrastructure and critical programs in schools and campuses and commonsense gun safety measures like universal background checks for gun purchases and a ban on military style assault weapons.
"Moving forward, we encourage our elected leaders to put politics aside and work together to help prevent the further senseless loss of life and ensure America's students have the safe and secure schools they deserve."
To read more about NEA's position and read our letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, please visit: http://bit.ly/XQ7gtZ
Three Keys to School Safety and Gun Violence Prevention: http://www.nea.org/home/54092.htm
The National Education Association is the nation's largest professional employee organization, representing more than 3 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators and students preparing to become teachers.
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Local officials hope to change the way the national government will count deployed soldiers in the upcoming 2010 Census.
Soldiers are counted as residents of their "state of record" rather than counted as residents of the local area in which they are living at the time they deploy, confirmed Lauren Lewis, Partnership Specialist. Therefore, an estimated 14,000 soldiers assigned to Fort Stewart and who live in Hinesville and surrounding communities will not now be counted as part of the local population when they deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan.
"This is how it is done nationwide," Lewis explained. She said military personnel who will be serving overseas when the Census is taken will be added to their home states' population figures.
Lewis oversees a 10-county area that includes Bryan, Liberty, Effingham, Tattnall, Glynn, Evans, Chatham, Long, McIntosh and Toombs counties.
Officials from Liberty County, Hinesville and other local cities have signed and sent a letter to U.S. Rep.
Jack Kingston and U.S. Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson requesting their support in changing the way the Census currently counts active duty service members. Community leaders continue to stress the impact population has in determining the amount of money the federal government distributes to states, and states, in turn, apportions to counties and cities.
Jeff Ricketson, director of the Fort Stewart Growth Management Partnership, said a dialogue began last week at a partnership meeting about the Census and how deployed military members are counted. Ricketson said local leaders are concerned their cities and counties – particularly Hinesville and Liberty County – will be financially penalized over a 10-year period based on the Census count.
The letter, he said, was sent to Georgia's Congressional Delegation. The partnership includes the counties of Liberty, Bryan, Long and Tattnall, and the cities located in these counties.
-Read more in the Bryan County News.


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"Mourn The Illusion", a brand new solo track by Jamey Jasta of HATEBREED and KINGDOM OF SORROW, can be streamed at ARTISTdirect. The song, which is now available for purchase on iTunes, comes off Jasta's solo album, simply titled "Jasta", which is scheduled for release on July 26 via eOne Music. The CD will be made available in Europe one day earlier through Century Media Records.
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Six months after the introduction of the Verizon iPhone, Verizon's customer base appears to be shifting away from Android devices towards the iPhone. The data comes via online advertising network Chitika, which monitors the OS and device breakdown across its ad network to spot trends in device usage. According to the firm, Verizon's share of the Android market in the US has dropped nearly 10 full percentage points between March and August, while AT&T's share of the Android market has gone up, indicating that more users are using iPhones through Verizon now that the option is available.
When Chitika looked at its numbers in March, it noted that Verizon's share of the Android market sat at roughly 51.4 percent, with Sprint grabbing 25.3 percent, T-Mobile grabbing 16.8 percent, and AT&T a mere 3.6 percent. Since then, however, the numbers have changed dramatically. When analyzing the numbers again for this month, the only two networks to see significant changes were Verizon and AT&T—coincidentally, the only two networks in the US to offer the iPhone 4. Verizon's share of the Android market dropped to just 41 percent while AT&T's increased to 8.7 percent in August.
Since the other networks appear to be fairly consistent in their numbers and Verizon still offers some of the most popular Android devices, the best explanation is that a significant number of Verizon's vast user base is switching to the iPhone 4 as many predicted before the launch. A survey conducted just before the Verizon iPhone's public release revealed that more than half of Verizon's Android and BlackBerry users were mulling a switch to the iPhone when it became available on their network, and it looks like those changes are now beginning to filter down.
Chikita seems to agree with that reasoning, too.
"While Verizon still has four of the top five Android smartphones (Droid X, HTC Droid Incredible, Samsung Fascinate, Droid), its market share is clearly down. In contrast, AT&T's share of the Android phone market is increasing, with devices such at the HTC Inspire gaining significant popularity among smartphone users," Chikita wrote on its website. "[ ] Verizon's share of iPhone traffic continues to increase, but it seems that Verizon is gaining market share in Apple's prominent smartphone at the expense of its other, Android-running devices."
It's also worth noting that Chitika's page showing the current iPhone balance between AT&T and Verizon has shifted quite a bit as well. When we wrote about the breakdown back in February immediately after the Verizon iPhone launch, AT&T held 97 percent of the US iPhone share while Verizon held three percent. Today's numbers look quite different: AT&T is currently at 76.7 percent while Verizon is at 23.3 percent. It's clear that Verizon's customers are indeed buying the iPhone in increasing numbers, and at the expense of Android.


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As you patronize businesses, please know that hours and operations may look different than normal. Reach out to businesses in advance to learn about their expectations, safety precautions and changes.
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