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2 pounds green tomatoes
1 pound onions
1 pound cooking apples
2¼ cups wine vinegar
1½ cups, 8 ounces golden raisins
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon chopped ginger
2 cloves garlic
Chop the tomatoes, peel and chop the onions, and peel, core and chop the apples. Place them in a non-reactive pan.
Add half the wine vinegar and other ingredients and simmer over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the chutney thickens, about 20 to 30 minutes.
Ladle the chutney into warmed, sterilized jars. Cover with a cloth and seal when cold. It will keep for up to 12 months.
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The Solomon Amendment conditions the receipt by universities of federal funds on their allowing military recruiters access to university students on campus. Elite law schools, deans and professors have strenuously resisted the Solomon Amendment. In 2003 they commenced litigation challenging the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment under the auspices of the Forum for Academic and Instituional Rights (FAIR). The litigation is now before the Supreme Court and will be one of the most important cases decided in the Court's new term. The Standard has posted my column on the Solomon Amendment litigation: "JAGs not welcome."
Among the good guys coming to the defense of the Solomon Amendment in the litigation are John Eastman and our friends at the Claremont Institute who have filed this amicus brief, and Dean Daniel Polsby at the George Mason University Law School who has filed this amicus brief on behalf of 32 law professors and 57 law students at over two dozen law schools. (Thanks to TaxProf Blog.)
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Mountain States Legal Foundation filed a brief on behalf of Richard Pombo, the lead sponsor of the Solomon Amendment, and 3 law students from the 3rd Circuit. MSLF was the only one filing an a.c. brief at the petition stage. MSLF's brief on the merits is available here.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Mar 2013 23:07 UTC
"A senior Samsung Electronics executive said Friday the launch of Windows 8 has failed to bolster demand for PCs and he does not expect the PC industry to rebound soon." Of course, Samsung and other OEMs could've, you know, built better computers. Just a suggestion.


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WASHINGTON — A U.N. Commission of Inquiry has found that crimes against humanity have been committed in North Korea and recommends that its findings be referred to the International Criminal Court, two people familiar with the commission's report have told The Associated Press.
The commission, which conducted a year-long investigation, has found evidence of an array of such crimes, including "extermination," crimes against humanity against starving populations and a widespread campaign of abductions of individuals in South Korea and Japan.
Its report, due for release Monday, does not examine in detail individual responsibility for the alleged crimes but recommends steps toward accountability.
An outline of the conclusions were provided to AP by an individual familiar with its contents who was not authorized to divulge the information before its formal release and spoke on condition of anonymity. A U.S. official, speaking anonymously for the same reason, confirmed those conclusions.
The three-member commission, led by a retired Australian judge, was set up by the U.N.'s top human rights body last March in the most serious international attempt yet to probe evidence of systematic and grave rights violations in the reclusive, authoritarian state, which is notorious for its political prisons camps, repression and famine that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the 1990s.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - It was the kind of work day few will ever forget at Roses.
"Yeah, it's crazy! Everybody, customers and employees, was freaking out," described Shala Covington, an assistant manager at the store.
Covington said she had just walked into the back office when she noticed something strange over her head.
"I noticed somebody was lifting some tiles up."
A quick call to the police, a 30 minute investigation, and a thermal imaging camera discovered the store had a man hiding in the attic.
"This is very uncommon for something like this to occur at one o'clock in the afternoon. This is primarily the type of crime we would see usually in the early morning hours," stated Lt. Sam Murdock of the Lexington Police.
"I'm thinking that dude was either trying to rob us or do something crazy," said Covington.
When police tried to get the man down he ran... kind of.
"We just heard a rumbling like up in the ceiling or whatever," described one shopper, who did not want to be identified, "Then all of a sudden the police just started screaming for everybody to get out of the store!"
Police say the man then fell several feet through the ceiling and into the store. He was injured, but still tried to get away forcing officers to use their tasers. One officer was injured, but police say it was minor.
"Everybody had this look on their faces like 'Oh my Gosh!'" said Covington after witnessing the man come crashing through the ceiling.
Police say their suspect is 47-year-old Paul Masters. He was taken to the hospital after busting up his face, but now he's in jail on burglary and fleeing and evading charges. They believe he got into the attic space after climbing through an access point in the bathroom.
"It's the stuff you see in the movies not something you see in real life," scoffed the shopper.
"I feel like I've got to watch everything and every little noise is going to make me nervous," added Covington.
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Not that there is anything wrong with grand halls..
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Chateau de Fontainebleau
Not that there is anything wrong with grand halls..
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Oh its all so lovely. and Yes IF it is half a delicious as that poster is it will be worth every wonderful moment. :)ReplyDelete
YES! An answer to a pray as you were wandering around the Fontainbleau - It is like a fairy tale come true--- fit for an American princess. What a delight Chateau Vaux le Vicomte is having their very own Salon du Chocolat while you are there and for the very first time. Image the eye candy photos you will snap (to share with PB's readers) and all the tasting you will get to do. The best for the last you will get to purchase very own favorites. Yum!
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Oooh, Cannot wait for La Salon!!!!ReplyDelete
I love those "graces' statues too. Hm. Makes my own little space a bit more humble...perhaps a trompe d'oeuil mural over my door....:-)
Good stuff, Ms. (Please Stay) Agog. We love this.
Beautiful, Carol! Sounds like you're taking full advantage of seeing all you can. Enjoy! Wish I was there instead of Reno. ;((ReplyDelete
You have a great sense of humor Paris Breakfast and are a connoisseur of the maccaron.ReplyDelete
If you are ever held prisoner at Chateau de Fontainebleau
I shall bake you a maccaron crocuembouche with a little watercolor paint hidden inside!
I voted, yes I did!!
Thinking of you.
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Just an FYI…ReplyDelete
The November/December issue of Departures Magazine has an entire article on Macarons, where to find them in Paris and in the States. Also, they've put a star next to the patisseries who are extra tasty and who ship fresh overnight (without breakage).
Possibly an ok alternative for those of us who are not in Paris (at the moment…)
beautiful pictures,great blog some how i found you when i was researching things on our sons birth defect esophageal atresia and other complications. i wish you nothing but the best. I was also wondering if there is anyway if i put your link on my site if you would be able to return the favor and add my ink on your sight, i again wish you the best.ReplyDelete
Can there be any doubt that you must go to Vaux for the chocolate festival? Yes, yes, I know, you've seen it all and done it all, but we're talking chocolate here.ReplyDelete
PS That confection on the Vaux poster is one of the most delectable things I've ever seen.....you must paint it!ReplyDelete
ahh, you are so lucky to have gone to all those wonderful places :):)ReplyDelete
I should have there!!Perhaps I should have stayed in Paris when I visited in Sept!!ReplyDelete


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Guild Wars 2 Lost Shores event schedule released
ArenaNet is still playing coy about its massive one-time Guild Wars 2 world event, The Lost Shores, but has at least provided a timeline.
In a forum post, community lead Martin Kerstein gave a spoiler-free rundown of the schedule:
- On Friday November 16 at noon PST (20:00 GMT) the weekend will kick off with an Event in Lion's Arch that you don't want to miss. This will trigger events in other parts of Tyria as well.
- On Saturday November 17 at noon PST (20:00 GMT), another phase will kick in.
You'll want to be on hand to witness the event, but if you can't make it, there'll be other content available after the starting time – although there is one exception which you absolutely should not miss.
- The event will culminate in a big Finale on Sunday November 18. This will be a onetime only event chain that will run multiple hours, and it will kick off at noon PST (20:00 GMT).
ArenaNet promises more details closer to the time, but wanted to give players time to rearrange their schedules so as not to miss these unique moments – although there wil be permanent content changes in the aftermath for those unlucky enough to be busy at the time.
The Lost Shores is Guild Wars 2's first major content update since launch.
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Rickrack Handbag
Added Oct 5, 2012
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I drafted this pattern myself, using some bag handles I had picked up from a $3 shop as the starting point. The rickrack was given to me by my aunty who recently passed away – and I thought this was a beautiful way of using it (instead of having it sit in a box in my room). I also thought the different sizes of rickrack was so unusual, I really wanted to use them all together.
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Second-hand peach material (unknown type), with white linen lining.
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Oct 5, 2012, 03.25 PMby janene
Great design. I have been thinking how to best use some bag handles I bought. Thank you for the inspiration
Oct 5, 2012, 03.03 PMby chichil
I'm in love with this bag, the way you used ricrac is genius! I'm sorry but I'm going to copy it :)
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Oct 6, 2012, 07.05 AMby froggypondd
No problem! Copying is the highest form of flattery… n_n
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The 24-year-old actress was joined by girl group YLA as they hit the stage to perform their hot track "$$$ex."
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Taylor Kinney & Jesse Spencer: 'Chicago Fire' Casts a Puppy!
Taylor Kinney and Jesse Spencer walk around the set of their show Chicago Fire on Tuesday (January 29) in Chicago, Ill.
The guys were joined on the set by their co-stars David Eigenberg, Monica Raymund, and Christian Stolte to film scenes for the NBC drama.
During this week's episode, a new dog named Pouch was introduced to the series and he will grow up on the show!
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Who Do You Think You Are? with Sarah Jessica Parker
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I was excited all day to finally be watching Who Do You Think You Are?. I had seen the previews and was all set when the show came on. I was already sort of down because I had found out this week that RootsTelevision and Ancestry Magazine had both decided to stop production. So, I needed something like this show to lift my genealogical spirits.
Who Do You Think You Are? did not disappoint me for many reasons. First, I love Sarah Jessica Parker. I have watched her grow up on TV and sort of felt a connection to her, moreso than an actress just coming on the scene. So, good choice. Her excitement seems genuine and she really wanted to know about her family. When doing my husband's line we also found a Salem ancestor; his 8th great grandmother was Elizabeth Jackson married to James Howe. She was also accused of witchcraft, but her fate was not as lucky as Sarah's ancestor. Elizabeth Howe was executed on Gallows Hill in Salem, Mass., 19 July 1692. So, I completely understood Sarah's mixed feelings tonite. Really touched me.
When working with others, so many times I hear what Sarah's mother said at the beginning, "Oh we just have German ancestry, that's all I've been told". So many people have not really delved into their past to know for sure, as Sarah, what lies beyond in their heritage. For most, it is a very exciting time to learn of one's ancestry.
I do agree with fellow Geneablogger and Genealogist, Thomas MacEntee;. I wish more had been shown on the actual process. For most of us, the document and research does not just appear because we flew to our hometown library. But, seeing her documents on her family was exciting. When I was watching how they solved the mystery of her ancestor who disappeared in 1849 to California, it was interesting to see them follow his story line. It has motivated me to read the Casefile Clues I have gotten behind on.
I was glad that Sarah Jessica Parker's mother lived to learn about her family. I realize how much time I am wasting not visiting my grandmother who is 87; getting her stories and sharing what I have learned with her. It was exciting to see the excitement on both Sarah and her mother's face as they discussed their heritage.
Another aspect I liked about the show is the different resources and places they used to research her family. It is so important for researchers, especially those just getting started, to realize not all family data is on the internet. It made me re-dedicate myself to think of ways I can locally research outside the bounds of my home and internet.
In conclusion, Who Do You Think You Are? has been a great motivational show for me. It is exciting to see that more episodes are coming and I look forward to watching them. Now is the time for those who do research, to share their passion with their friends, family, and co-workers. After watching the show, they might have questions that you may be the one who can answer it for them.
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Two Fingers' new album, Stunt Rhythms, will be released 1 October 2012 - pre-order and download "101 South" free HERE
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Amon Tobin marches to no one's beat but his own. In a career spanning over ten years he has been connected to but never belonged to a host of scenes and styles. He has consistently made the music he feels he needs to make, not what other people think he ought to make, always exhibiting a level of attention to sonic detail which makes his music more intensely textured, beautiful and brutal than almost anyone's out there.
Make no mistake – Stunt Rhythms is about beats and bass. The model for the album comes from Fools Rhythm (included here), one of the standout tracks from Ninja's 20th anniversary 'XX' Boxset, an infectious mixture of playground melody, sharp beat and thunderous bass.
Although Amon's love of the lower reaches of low end will undoubtedly cause people to reach for lazy comparisons with dubstep, Stunt Rhythms is in fact more accurately viewed as his love letter to hip hop – less the rampant consumerism of, say, G-Unit's "Stunt 101" than the early culture of innovation and freshness, of showing off simply that you're better at what you do than anyone else. So while tracks like "Snap" could be said to literally break down classic hip hop to its constituent components and put them back together in completely new shapes, the more uptempo tracks like "Razorback" come on like a whole new soundtrack for an as-yet-uninvented future pop-locking. If you imagine Mantronix as a Kenworth K100 truck, Two Fingers is what happens when the truck turns into Optimus Prime.
Uncompromising, muscular and powerful, the music of Two Fingers is also full of subtle touches, humour and a supple sense of rhythm. Which, when you think about it, is just showing off.
Stunt Rhythms is available to pre-order now at the Ninjashop.


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Senior golf winners
Here are the Turkey Creek senior golf winners from Thursday as 47 turned out.
Championship Flight — 1. Jim Batson, Denis Everhart, Homer Yowell and Don James, 60. 2. Bruce Hett, Larry Catherman, Gary Shaft and Galen Regeher, 63.
First Flight — 1. Jerry Alexander, Steve Prickett, Jim Geren and Dave Tyrell, 66. 2. Marty Redstone, LeRoy Weddle, Bill Unruh and Rich Heidebrecht, 67.
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The great Karl Lagerfeld once said "Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants." As true as this might be, once in a while, preferably on the weekends, especially on a hungover Sunday, we kind of like the idea of letting life take care of itself and just slob around in a pair of comfy Jersey Cotton sweat pants and matching sweater. Yet sometimes it's seems unavoidable to leave your own four walls, i.e. the fridge has to be filled or the doog needs to poop. Since the risk of running into Karl Lagerfeld is proportionally higher outside your appartment, you need to spice up that outfit of yours a bit. You don't wanna look like you're on your way to pick up your wellfare cheque and a bag of Doritos. Instead take a look at our suggestions and prove old Karl wrong.
Enswear – Sauvage 5-Panel Python Leather Cap Black
The problem with leather is, (this doesn't include bad-ass leather jackets though, which is the epitome of manliness) as soon as you have decided on getting these leather pants, that leather cap or even leather skirt (I'm looking at you Kanye), it's already out of style again. And since leather garb constantly oscilates between very very fashionable and appropriate for men to wear and downright weird – or as some people call it: gay – it is mostly reserved to individuals with a strong fashion sense – or as some people call them: gays. Anyway, don't listen to me, get that sweet Python leather cap by Enswear at Soto, and wear it with pride. At least until it's out of fashion again.
Acne – Cusack Bomber Jacket
The folks over at Acne did a great Job on reworking the classic bomberjacket, turning the already no-frills jacket into an even more minimalist piece. This lightweight jacket features a nylon shell and Viscose lining, a contrast zip closure, two zippered side pockets and a stand up collar. Get yours at Trés Bien.
Levi's – Original Crew Sweat
Do I really need to tell you guys to get a plain grey crew neck sweater? It should allready be hanging in your closet. Since like forever. If not, i would suggest to pay OiPolloi a quick visit and get the one above by Levi's.
Kris van Assche – White black tie Poplin Shirt
Turn that style-wise rather casual outfit up a notch with a smart dress shirt by Belgian Designer Kris Van Assche. He does a great Job over at Dior Homme (at least better than his predecessor now, who is busy ruining Yves Saint Laurent's legacy) and an even better at his own label. Just take a look at this immacuate dress shirt. It features a clean slimt fit, shirttail hem with side gussets, single-button barrel cuffs with buttoned sleeve placket, tonal stitching and topped off with zipper at armscyes, that allow for removable sleeves. Get it at Ssense.
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From zero to Guido, you might think now. Well, sweatpants are not what one would call the pinnacle of modern men's fashion – even the ones above by Italy's finest Gucci – yet they are super comfi and cozy. And isn't that the reason why we chose them in the first place? Get these at Mr. Porter.
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By Ewan Roberts
Tottenham took a gigantic step towards Champions League qualification last Sunday, beating last year's Premier League champions, Manchester City, courtesy of a delirious and frenzied seven minutes. A week on and they have, in typical Spurs fashion, taken two steps back again.
Despite taking an early lead against 18th-placed Wigan on Saturday afternoon, the north London club only scraped a point in yet another worryingly frequent last hurrah.
The Latics, battling against relegation, immediately cancelled out Gareth Bale's early goal before Callum McManaman rifled a shot past Hugo Lloris with the kind of venom and swerve that is usually seen from one of the Welshman's dastardly free kicks.
Despite controlling possession (61 per cent), Spurs, lacking in intensity, could muster only half-chances and blocked shots, while their goals were borne out of errors by Wigan, not brilliance from themselves.
At the very centre of Tottenham's problems is Scott Parker. The veteran midfielder, voted the club's Player of the Year last season, has become a laborious bubble of inactivity and indecision. When Spurs needed craft and vision to break Wigan down, he offered neither.
Of course, normally, in his role as an out-and-out defensive midfielder, Parker would not be expected to unlock the opposition defence. But, bafflingly, Andre Villas-Boas has been using the 32-year-old as a box-to-box player, inviting him to get forward while other players sit back and hold to accommodate his advances.
Such a position requires energy and athleticism, which Parker no longer possesses. Instead he ambles around the pitch, huffing and puffing after barely five minutes, with his decaying blood-and-thunder routine now more akin to a broken nail and a light shower.
The Jack-of-all-trades role requires Parker to affect the game at both ends but he has offered only passivity. He slows the game down, is incredibly reluctant to attempt penetrative passes and watching him try to manoeuvre the ball, taking touch after touch after touch, is like watching someone trying to eat rice with a single chopstick.
In attack, he has just one assist this year and no goals, while he frequently evidences his lack of predatory instinct. He conspired to miss an open goal against Basel, while against Wigan, when the ball fell perfectly into his path and with Robles stranded on the floor, he tried to take a touch when a first time shot was required.
His pass-completion rate in the final third is just 67% (for comparison, Mousa Dembele's is 86%), his accurate passes in the final third account for just 16% of his total passes, he has created a clear-cut chance only once every 1,141 minutes and boasts a staggeringly poor 11% shooting accuracy.
Defensively, he offers little protection. Spurs concede more often when he is the team (1.33 goals per game, compared to 0.96 with Dembele and 1.09 with Sandro), they keep fewer clean sheets (just one in his 16 league outings) and he is dispossessed more often than any other Tottenham midfielder (every 12 minutes).
If the stats are not evidence enough, then Spurs' constant improvement after he has been substituted should be. It took barely a minute for Villas-Boas's side to equalise against Everton after Parker had been withdrawn, all three goals against Manchester City were scored following his substitution, while Spurs did not find an equaliser against Wigan until he had gone off.
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Yet, curiously, he is still picked. Villas-Boas learned an incredible amount from failing at Chelsea but, perhaps, a hangover of his time in north London is an unwillingness to drop key characters in the dressing room.
Parker is a veteran, a leader, an experienced campaigner and one of the powerbrokers in the Spurs camp. Axing players of his ilk and standing is partly what lost the Portuguese his job at Stamford Bridge and there is a clear reluctance to drop a player who is underperforming. But pandering to Parker is hurting Spurs and undermining the meritocracy which Villas-Boas has sought to install at the club.
It may be ruthless to cut Parker, a bastion of valour and old school heartiness, but that is exactly what Spurs and their Portuguese boss need to be at this stage of the season.
Yet ruthless is exactly what Tottenham are not. They should have killed off Wigan as soon as they had the lead, choked them into submission as most other top sides would do - instead they switched off immediately and conceded within two minutes.
As a result, the north London side have now lost 23 points from winning positions – the second-worst record in the league behind Southampton (29). Should they miss out on the top four, the inability to hold a lead, or build on it, will be a major contributor – especially as Arsenal have dropped just four points when leading.
So Tottenham have four games to show their nasty side, to find the cold-blooded killer inside, and Villas-Boas can trigger that ruthlessness by an act of his own, by leading by example, by dropping the ponderous and passive Scott Parker.
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Age range: # of active voters # of PMIV* % of PMIV
18-25 30,051 14,182 47%
26-40 42,002 25,927 62%
41-60 69,870 51,181 73%
61-80 36,427 30,303 83%
80-plus 6,081 5,594 92%
Total 184,431 127,187 69%
*PMIV: Permanent mail-in voters
Source: Boulder County Clerk & Recorder's office
Active voters requesting mail-in ballots in Boulder County:
2008: 64 percent
2012: 74 percent
Source: Boulder County Clerk & Recorder's office
Percentage of mail-in voters by county:
Boulder: 69.2 percent of active voters
Arapahoe: 76.6
Denver: 67.7
Douglas: 77.7
Larimer: 73.5
Weld: 71.0
Source: Colorado Secretary of State's office
LONGMONT -- One of the great things about voting in Boulder County is you have choices.
You can cast your ballot the traditional way, at your local polling place on Election Day; you can go into a designated polling place and cast your ballot before Election Day; or you can exercise that same solemn right ahead of time, on the couch in your pajamas if you choose.
More people than ever are opting for the freedom of the couch or some version thereof. Seventy-four percent of active voters in Boulder County requested a mail-in ballot for this election, a 10 percent increase from the last presidential election cycle in 2008.
"I like to have my vote done early in the election process rather than waiting for Election Day," said Michelle Webb, a 53-year-old Longmont resident and mail-in voter. "I also like the privacy and convenience."
Webb, a 12-year resident of the city, said she's voted by mail every chance she's gotten since moving here.
Mike Stahlman, 33, moved to Longmont five years ago after having spent a year in Breckenridge and, before that, living in Washington state. Longmont is the first place he's lived that he's been able to vote by mail, said Stahlman, who attended college in Wisconsin.
He's a big fan of that method, he said, because it makes him feel like a more informed voter. If he's not familiar with an issue or candidate while he's filling out his ballot, he can simply go to his computer to get up to speed.
"I felt bad voting straight-line for my party because I didn't stand completely with either (party)," Stahlman said. "I literally take a half-hour or 40 minutes to vote. In the past, when I was at a polling place, I felt like I had to be in and out of there in minutes, and sometimes I would just vote the straight line. With mail-in, I just feel way more educated."
It turns out that, at least in 2008, those who chose to vote by mail were the most diligent about making sure their votes counted.
According to the Boulder County Clerk & Recorder's office, 96.5 percent of the active voters that received a mail-in ballot in 2008 filled them out and turned them in. That was much higher than the 85.8 percent who cast ballots either as early voters or voted on Election Day.
Mail ballot votes accounted for 67 percent of all votes cast in the county in 2008. That compares with the 16 percent of votes cast through early voting and the 17 percent that came on Election Day.
Not everyone is a fan of the process, however. Some have their doubts.
Suzanne Lainson, 64, of Boulder said she was a mail-in voter "for about a week."
She had signed up to become a mail-in voter this year but soon after saw a New York Times article about problems with mail-in voting in certain parts of the country. She quickly switched her registration back.
"You know, mail does get lost ... " Lainson said last week by phone from her home.
She said that she went in and voted early last week, and about half the people where she voted -- it was fairly crowded, she said -- were in there to drop off mail-in ballots they had filled out at home.
She simply feels more comfortable filling out her ballot in a polling place, Lainson said.
"When I went to vote they asked, 'Do you want the machine or do you want the paper ballot?' So I chose the paper ballot. I want my vote to count, so anything I can do to ensure that that happens, I will do that.
"I want the most glitch-free system possible. If you give me multiple choices to vote I'm going to choose the system that is least likely to malfunction."
Not counting overseas voting, Boulder County residents have three choices to vote: mail-in, early voting or going in the day-of. With more people opting for mail-in and early voting, that means long lines on Election Day are rare. But it also means the two dominant parties have had to alter their get-out-the-vote efforts locally.
"The campaign doesn't ramp up to the day of the election, it ramps up to the day the mail ballots go out," said Dan Gould, chairman of the Boulder County Democrats.
"A big pro (for mail-in) is it makes it easier for more people to vote," said Gould's counterpart with the Boulder County Republicans, George Leing. "Some people are unable to get there on Election Day. ... But that convenience does come with a cost (in the potential for voter fraud)."
Both campaigns say they keep an almost daily eye on data released by the Boulder County Clerk's office that shows who has voted early or turned in their mail-in ballot. That way they don't waste precious resources calling or knocking on the door of the already voted.
Neither side, at least at the local level, said they feel mail-in and early voting gave an advantage to one political party over the other.
"I don't think there's any settled conclusion about that," said Gould. "We just want people to vote."
Added Leing, "There's a lot that's been said about what party does (benefit more) or whatever, but I don't want to play that game. When you can get more people to vote that's a good thing. That's a good thing for our country."
With mail-in ballots having gone out Oct. 15, early voting running from Oct. 22 to Nov. 2, and then the task of making sure everybody who wants to get to the polls on Election Day does, it's a challenge for the parties just to keep track of everything, said Candace Bowie, field team leader for the Boulder County Dems.
"Voting has become a lot more complicated," she said. "It used to be that you just showed up at a certain place on a certain day, and it was basically the same place every year."
And with 400 people on the field team, as Bowie is coordinating this year, that means everybody has to be on the same page.
"It ends up being a pretty complicated message that we try to impart," Gould said.
Getting mail-in status is easy, but you have to ask for it
"There has been a trend across the country to have more and more ways of voting," said Kenneth Bickers, a professor and the former chairman of the political science department at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Early voting is one of those conveniences that didn't used to exist, for example. Another is the expansion of what Bickers calls "no excuse absentee voting" -- what we now call mail-in voting.
"In most states, the way absentee ballots worked, you had to more or less petition for an absentee ballot," Bickers said, adding that some states had a "stringent limit on excuses," while others would take virtually any excuse.
No excuse needed in Boulder County, although you do have to ask, said County Clerk Hillary Hall.
"You have to request it," Hall said. "Either as part of your registration form, or we have also done special mailings to people."
According to Hall's office, just over 69 percent of active voters in Boulder County have signed up to be permanent mail-in voters -- meaning they will receive mail-in ballots for every election as long as they remain active voters.
(Some elections in the county, such as the primaries earlier this year, are mail-in only for everyone.)
That 69 percent is actually on the low end when you look at surrounding counties. Almost 80 percent of Douglas County's active voters are signed up for mail-in only, and Weld is at 71 percent, according to the Secretary of State's office. Hall said she thinks that's for a couple of reasons: First, the county's population of students and young professionals just starting out are better off not signing up for permanent mail-in status because that requires re-registering every time there's a change of address. Second, a lot of other counties are more aggressive about getting people to sign up for mail-in only, she said. When a voter registers for the first time her office will send out a couple of notices letting them know that mail-only voting is an option, but if there's no response then the onus is on the voter to change their status if they want to.
However, one change this summer will likely add to the number of voters throughout the state choosing mail-in status, Hall said.
"It just changed this summer that when you go to the drivers license (bureau) you can check a box that will sign you up to vote by mail," she said.
Previously, such registration required an entirely separate form.
The future of voting
No matter how a ballot is cast, Hall said it's the job of her office to maintain the integrity of the voting process and making sure each vote counts.
When it comes to mail-in ballots, state law requires that each voter fill out and sign their own ballot, and that not occurring is one of the potential problems that the GOP's Leing referred to.
Bickers, for example, said his house received four mail-in ballots even though one of those active voters has since moved out of state.
"There are issues with the mail ballot that don't exist with the same-day option or even with the early voting," Bickers said.
Hall said that one of the safeguards her office has in place is a trained signature verifying team that compares the signature on a mail-in ballot with what is on that voter's registration form. Sophisticated handwriting recognition software -- made by Longmont-based Parascript -- aids in that effort, she said.
Further, she said, people can go online to verify that their ballot has been received by her office.
Asked her predictions about how voting might look in the future, Hall said it will always be a balance between taking advantage of technology while making sure every vote counts. Young people probably wonder already why they can't cast their votes on their smart phones, but the safeguards don't exist yet for that to happen, she said.
"You don't get a do-over with it, so how do you make sure everything works as it should?" Hall said. "You have to get them to vote and make sure that everything works as it's intended to."
Bickers notes that there are still states that don't allow even early voting, much less mail-in ballots. But, he said, that will likely change over time. It's just a matter of how long it takes that change to come.
"It's going to be generational," he said. "I think younger voters, younger people, they don't like to be told that they have to go to one place on one day, and they can only do it on that day."
That said, he added, "Some people like the ritual nature of voting, and that disappears. There was something nice about standing in line with fellow citizens and exercising your right of citizenship."
Tony Kindelspire can be reached at 303-684-5291 or at email@example.com.


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EDUCATION — Graduate, Brown Institute for Radio and Television, Minneapolis, 1966; bachelor's degree, history, University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1971.
EXPERIENCE — Chairman of the Atlantic Council and the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration Advisory Committee; co-chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board and member of the Defense Policy Board. U.S. senator, 1997-2009; president, McCarthy & Co., an investment banking firm based in Omaha, Neb., 1992-1996; president and chief executive officer of the Private Sector Council, a nonprofit business organization in Washington, D.C., 1990-1992; co-founder, director and executive vice president of Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. and chairman of Communications Corporation International LTD, 1985-1987; co-founder, director and president of Collins, Hagel & Clarke Inc., an international consulting, marketing and investment company involved in cellular telecommunications, 1982-1985; deputy administrator, U.S. Veterans Administration, 1981-1982; manager of government affairs, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 1977-1980; assistant to Rep. John Y. McCollister, R-Neb., 1971-1977; newscaster and talk-show host in Nebraska, 1969-1971; Army, including service in Vietnam, 1967-1968.
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Caine, Fleur du mal says
SallyStrange: Elite Femi-Fascist Genius says
Artificial uteruses, man. I keep saying. It's well past time.
anteprepro says
Shhh. Don't remind them that they need women! That just makes them even angrier!
jnorris says
Mars Needs Women!!!!
a3kr0n says
There's a woman for every man. In this case Heather LaCroix comes to mind.
ChasCPeterson says
Artificial uteruses, man.
Noted ventriloquist Paul Winchell invented the artificial uterus back in 1963.
It's the damn artificial placenta that's still holding up progress.
Stacy says
Heh. The ad that I got before I got to the comic was for Johnny Walker Blue: "For the man who deserves more than a gift."
What does that even mean? "For the rich privileged guy who's entitled to the best?"
ChasCPeterson says
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slowdjinn says
Gnumann+, something borrowed, something gnu... says
When they learn to reproduce asexually we'll be in real trouble…
… of course, learning isn't what they're good at, so I'm not too worried.
Serendipitydawg(rebel without paws) says
Bah humbug & season's greetings to all.
vaiyt says
So that's what all the woman control thing is about.
sambarge says
I've heard the argument that misogyny is based in "womb envy" since I was young but I never gave it much credence. I mean, as a "uterus-possesser" (can't stand the word womb) I couldn't imagine what all the fuss would be about.
On the other hand… I don't know but it's starting to make sense to me. Men can't reproduce without us and while we need you for the impregnation, frankly, you can be pretty superfluous afterwards. Plus, you don't really know the kid is your baby, the way the woman who just pushed it out of her vagina really knows it's her baby.
Yup, I'm slowly being won over to the "womb-envy" side of the question: What's wrong with women?
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This is why some republicans (e.g. Akin, Mourdock) want rape to be legalized or redefined.
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Not a joke. This quote from Sen. Lindsey Graham at the RNC Convention last year sums it up:
"The demographics race we're losing badly. We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term."
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I lol'd. Hard.
Artificial uteruses, man. I keep saying. It's well past time.
Look, I'll admit the Athosians are pretty weird and undoubtedly misogynistic, but they're not a tenth and bad as the MRAs and gun nuts, and that's a really unfair comparison.
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Most of the Athosians weren't angry, though the white might be there, but I believe they were introducing more colour variety for the next set of generations.
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PDC staffed its sales force with people with restaurant backgrounds, taken reps off commission and moved them to salaried positions. "That completely changes the playing field," notes Paré. "Their responsibility is to make sure they're helping customers grow their businesses and manage costs. When that happens, our business grows, too."
Tom Meyer, owner of The Q Shack, with one unit in Raleigh and a franchised unit in Durham, North Carolina, says PDC helped reduce his inventory, lower his food cost by 5 to 6 percent and increase gross profit on revenue by 6 percent. "They surveyed my operation looking for wasteful procedures, suggesting fixes throughout. They worked with me to find the right software to manage my inventory and sales—and then installed it, took it to operational status and trained my staff. They analyzed my costs and revenues and in many cases lowered acquisition costs while suggesting key price increases on my menu that have driven profitability gains," Meyer reports. "They re-educated me and my staff about how to look at food cost."
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But Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council also gave some ground by tacitly agreeing that the judiciary wouldn't thwart the drafting of a new constitution, the scenario Morsi had apparently been seeking to avert with his decree. The result is an untidy compromise that preserves a measure of independence for the judiciary while giving force to the will of the electorate that installed the Islamist Morsi in power.
The crisis began Thursday when Morsi abruptly issued the order removing from judicial review "constitutional declarations, laws and decrees made by the president since he took office." Lawsuits challenging Morsi's actions, according to the decree, "are annulled" and the president was now free to "take the necessary actions and measures to protect the country and the goals of the revolution."
Although Morsi said the decree would remain in effect only until the adoption of a new constitution and the election of a new lower house of parliament, its imperious language was reminiscent of the claims not only of Hosni Mubarak, the autocratic Egyptian president overthrown last year, but of tyrants the world over. The opposition figure and former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei, accused Morsi of becoming a "new pharaoh," protests erupted across the country, judges threatened to go on strike, and even Morsi's own justice minister raised questioned about the decree. The U.S. State Department, which had profusely praised Morsi for his role in achieving a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas just a couple of days earlier, reminded him publicly that "one of the aspirations of the revolution was to ensure that power would not be overly concentrated in the hands of any one person or institution." (Private comments were presumably more vociferous.) On Capitol Hill, Morsi's decree inspired new talk of withholding U.S. aid from Cairo.


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U.S. rail is poised to become the fast, affordable, green transportation of tomorrow—even as obstacles threaten to throw it off track
The week before his inauguration, then-President-elect Barack Obama made a whistle-stop tour on a vintage 1939 Pullman rail car from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. The historic trip mirrored the route his idol, Abraham Lincoln, took 150 years earlier before his own swearing-in.
The choice of transportation was an homage to the past, but it also was a nod to the future.
Obama had spoken of a renewed commitment to rail transportation during his campaign. His vice president, Joe Biden, had for 36 years taken Amtrak daily to Washington from his Wilmington, Del., home. These advocates for a seemingly old-fashioned form of travel were charged with finding answers to very modern transportation concerns: rising fuel costs, growing dependence on foreign oil and escalating environmental worries.
What was old suddenly had the opportunity to become new again.
"I think it is highly likely we will see big changes and improvements in rail travel in the United States under the new administration," says Alexander Kummant, a 1982 graduate of Case Western Reserve University's Case School of Engineering and former president and chief executive officer of Amtrak. "In the next five years, we will see capital flow and service get better. The challenge is to make it nationally coherent."
Modern rail travel in the United States, in many ways, begins with Amtrak. The nation's only provider of intercity rail travel has been known as a large and sometimes troubled organization. Created by the federal government in 1971—in response to a long decline in private passenger rail services—the national railroad today provides service to 500 locations via 21,000 miles of track.
Amtrak ridership is up—and growing. Although ridership was largely stagnant from the early 1980s to about 2000, for the year that ended in September 2008, it jumped 11 percent to 28.7 million riders. It was the sixth straight year of increases, according to Amtrak.
That's good news, but the company continues to struggle with a reputation tarnished by deadly crashes and a history of delayed service and funding crises.
In recent decades there has been a big push to wean the company off government payrolls. In the early 1990s Congress mandated that Amtrak work toward financial self-sufficiency—a goal that was never met. Then in October 2008, Amtrak scored a big coup when the Passenger Rail Improvement and Investment Act of 2007 was passed overwhelmingly by both the House and Senate (after facing threats of veto by President Bush), allotting $2.5 billion a year in federal funding through 2013. By comparison, the organization received just $1.6 billion in 2006.
Amtrak has had many friends in Washington over the years—Biden has been noted as one of Amtrak's biggest advocates in the capital, and his son Hunter Biden is a lobbyist and vice chairman of the company's board of directors—but the energy crisis of this century has been, perhaps, passenger rail's best friend. Rising gasoline prices have turned many to public transit, as have increasingly congested freeways and environmental concerns.
According to the Department of Energy, Amtrak is mile-for-mile 18 percent more energy efficient than commercial airlines; and per mile traveled, high-speed trains require one-third the energy of an airplane and one-fifth that of an automobile. A 2006 study by the Center for Clean Air Policy and the Center for Neighborhood Technology estimated the U.S. could save 2.7 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year if it built high-speed rail corridors across the country. The savings would come as people traded cars and airplanes for travel of about three hours or less.
"Sooner or later high-speed rail will become economically feasible," says David Zeng, Ph.D., department chair of civil engineering at Case Western Reserve. "Sooner or later this country will be forced to face the cost of unaffordable gasoline, as well as pollution generated by cars. For both factors, high-speed rail is a better solution than building highways or improved vehicle efficiency."
The creation of a high-speed rail system similar to those in Europe and Asia has emerged as a major topic of discussion among Amtrak advocates. Optimists envision a national network of long-distance rail competing with air and automobile travel, but most industry experts say that is too ambitious to be realistic.
"The real future of rail travel is in the 150- to 400-mile range," Kummant says. "Then you're competing with cars, as well as air traffic. We're flying far too many short hops, which is not productive for passengers, the country or airlines."
Zeng notes that the country's vast size and low population density away from the coasts may make little sense for a national system. But the highly populated zones are ripe for regional high-speed systems that would compete with the federally subsidized highway and aviation systems.
Corridors along the East Coast, in Florida and in Texas, as well as between Midwestern cities in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Ohio are, in fact, feasible, and are being considered now, says Frank Busalacchi, secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and chairman of the States for Passenger Rail Coalition—a group of 31 states that advocates for federal funding for interstate passenger rail.
"Intercity passenger rail systems are not going to take off unless the federal government takes it upon itself to say our transit system is not just about airlines and highways, but that the United States will be multimodal," Busalacchi says. "The federal government needs to fund rail like it funds highways–80 percent paid by the feds and 20 percent paid by the state. If we can get that, we can absolutely have a high-speed rail system in this country."
Most passenger rail systems around the world are government subsidized, with one unique exception. Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp., on which passengers can travel the entire 208-mile track from Taipei City to Kaohsiung City in 90 minutes, was funded entirely by a consortium of five private companies. Each day, trains traveling at top speeds of about 186 mph run 134 trips in both directions. The route can support 176 trips made by 30 trains daily. The trip by conventional rail would take 4.5 hours.
Each month more than 2.8 million people ride the railroad, which cost $15 billion to create. The company broke even financially one year after starting service in 2007, and executives say it will be profitable in 2009.
Chief Executive Officer Chin-der Ou, Ph.D., a 1972 Case Western Reserve civil engineering alumnus, said that while private-public partnerships are critical for such large projects, he believes it is possible for private funds to solely underwrite a high-speed rail line in the United States.
"More and more projects in Europe and Asia are under this kind of scheme," Ou says. "In our case, private funding made the process so much faster–you can have more flexibility and access the latest technology. If we can do that here in Taiwan, you can certainly do that in the United States."
The United States is not a total stranger to high-speed rail. Amtrak's Acela Express was built upon an existing track and has been traveling the Boston-New York-Washington, D.C., route for a decade. The train's top speed is 150 mph, but the average over the roughly 450-mile route is a less thrilling 88 mph due to certain infrastructure limitations and state speed regulations.
The latest and biggest example of high-speed technology is the 800-mile California project, which aims to link Los Angeles with San Francisco in less than 2.5 hours, as well as serve other cities including San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento and Fresno. The $45 billion project was approved by California voters in a November 2008 referendum, a measure that allowed a $10 billion state bond to be met with up to $12 billion in federal funding. The project is scheduled to begin construction in 2011 and be partially completed in eight to 11 years. The project's authorities say the train not only will be financially independent, but it also will create a $1 billion annual surplus. Critics, including various state lawmakers and taxpayer watchdog groups, argue that the initial costs will be much higher than these estimates, construction much longer, and the surplus smaller or nonexistent.
Zeng agrees that high-speed rail projects require much more than federal support–they need state, local and private partnerships. Cities, for example, need to extend their local bus, subway and street systems to accommodate large numbers of people embarking and disembarking from rail lines.
"In order to sell high-speed rail to the public, you need to consider how to feed passengers to the train station. Once people reach the train station, how will they reach their final destination?" Zeng says. New York; Washington, D.C.; Boston; and Chicago are already equipped with extensive subway and bus systems. If cities do not already have these networks, a high-speed train proposition becomes much less feasible, says Zeng. Kummant, however, says the new administration appears poised to support rail and all its complications, despite state budgets that are increasingly strapped.
"There is momentum for this," he says. "We did get budget legislation passed, and Congress is more together on rail than ever before."
Kummant pauses and adds a caveat: "But we're talking tens of billions of dollars, and even if it does get pushed through, this would be a very long process."


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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican who is seen as a possible presidential candidate for 2016, said Tuesday that he underwent a procedure in February to have a band implanted around his stomach in February in an effort to lose weight.
A look at the procedure, his decision, and what it might mean:
Christie says he decided around the time he turned 50 on Sept. 6 that he wanted to have the procedure. It was originally scheduled for November but pushed back to February after Superstorm Sandy hit his state.
The procedure is the least invasive of the major weight-loss surgeries, and it's reversible. An adjustable band is placed around the stomach to restrict how much food someone can eat at once.
Compared to other procedures, weight loss is relatively slow — no more than 1 or 2 pounds per week. Patients still have to eat healthy foods and get exercise for the procedure to be successful, doctors say.
Christie says he underwent the 40-minute procedure on Feb. 16, went home later that day and was back at work after two more days of rest.
Christie has struggled with his weight throughout his adult life, though he has never said publicly how much he weighs. He says that he has no other major health problems but knows that obesity is a risk for a variety of conditions.
"It's not a career issue for me. It's a long-term health issue for me. That's the basis on which I made the decision."
He said he wants to make sure he's there for his family and denied that he decided to have the surgery to advance his re-election campaign this year or a future run for president, if he decides to embark on one.
He said he presented the idea of the surgery to his wife and four children and they encouraged him to do it.
Christie says he told only a few staff members about the operation and did not intend to make a public announcement. "It's not anybody else's business but mine," he said.
But when he was asked directly by a New York Post reporter on Monday, he said he decided to acknowledge he had had the operation. He said the revelation was news to practically everybody, including his communications office and campaign staff.
Though Christie says he intended to keep his procedure a personal matter, The Post's article came out the same day as MSNBC personality Mika Brzezinski's book, "Obsessed: America's Food Addiction — And My Own," was released. The book features an interview with Christie about his struggles with his weight. It's a topic he has discussed in many national television interviews with questioners from Oprah Winfrey to David Letterman, and for years he has both joked about his size and said it's a serious problem that he's been working on.
While Christie says the surgery was a personal decision about his health — something he called "a hell of a lot more important to me than running for president," there could be political implications.
Some critics have suggested that Christie's weight could be a political hindrance.
"Gov. Christie's weight is an issue the same way that any candidate or official's health is an issue," said Michael Dennehy, a New Hampshire-based Republican strategist and veteran of presidential politics. "Anyone running for president will need to comfort Americans with an overall healthy picture for their future."
Christie says he's been working with a personal trainer four times a week for years, and is continuing now.
He says he has not been as hungry since the surgery and has eaten less.
While he appears to be a bit thinner, Christie would not say Thursday how much weight he as lost.


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In a sign they're concerned that Gregory Campbell and Daniel Paille won't be able to play against Los Angeles tomorrow night, the Bruins tonight recalled forward Zach Hamill from the Providence (AHL) farm club on an emergency basis.
Campbell missed practice today with a foot injury he suffered Saturday night in Columbus. Paille practiced today for the first time since he suffered a mild concussion last week, but still has to pass some tests to get game clearance.
Hamill was up with the Bruins earlier this season, and he recorded one assist and a plus-3 rating in two games.
In other news, winger Brad Marchand was finally fined for his slew-footing incident with Pittsburgh's Matt Niskanen last Monday. Marchand is now $2,500 lighter in the wallet — the maximum allowed for such an incident under the Collective Bargaining Agreement.


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CAIRO (AP) — Thousands of supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood are demonstrating in a Cairo square, waving pictures of ousted president Mohammed Morsi.
They're chanting anti-military slogans, calling the army chief a traitor. He led the military's removal of Morsi from office last week.
The unseating of Morsi followed demonstrations by millions of Egyptians against his rule. It was a bitter blow to the Brotherhood, which won a string of ballots, including Morsi's election as president.
One speaker at the Friday demonstration pledged to stay on the streets until Morsi is reinstated.
"We are ready to stay for a month, two months, a year or even two years," ultraconservative Islamist Salafi cleric Safwat Hegazi told protesters.
This week more than 50 pro-Morsi protesters were killed in a clash with the military.


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RNSG 2941 - Life Transitions VI
6.00 Credits
Generic Option – Thomasville – Fall Admit
Pre-requisite(s): RNSG 1911, RNSG 1920, RNSG 1931, RNSG 1940, RNSG 1950, RNSG 2910, RNSG 2920, RNSG 2930
Generic Option – Thomasville/Tifton – Spring Admit
Pre-requisite(s): RNSG 1911, RNSG 1920, RNSG 1931, RNSG 1940, RNSG 1950, RNSG 2910, RNSG 2920, RNSG 2930
Bridge Option – Thomasville – Spring Admit
Pre-requisite(s): RNSG 1911, RNSG 1931, RNSG 1960, RNSG 2910, RNSG 2930
Co-requisite(s): RNSG 2920
Bridge Option – Moultrie – Fall Admit
Pre-requisite(s): RNSG 1911, RNSG 1931, RNSG 1960, RNSG 2910, RNSG 2920, RNSG 2930
NOTE: Students enrolled in this course are required to complete the capstone level occupational work ethics course during the same term.
In this capstone course, students will be challenged to synthesize and incorporate knowledge of the nursing profession, and the roles and responsibilities related to associate degree nursing care into practice. The student is expected to apply knowledge accumulated throughout the associate degree nursing program in the care of diverse groups of clients in the practice setting. Information gained from a historical perspective along with current trends and issues in nursing will be incorporated throughout the course. Emphasis will be placed on assisting the student to make the transition from student to graduate nurse through virtual hospital, preceptorship experiences, and leadership opportunities. These reality -based practice experiences will provide the student with opportunities to provide and manage care while serving in the role of team member and team leader. Students will provide care to clients experiencing complex, acute, and emergency variations in health status related to the pathophysiological changes occurring with burns, organ failure, organ transplants, end-of-life issues, and disaster situations. The student will demonstrate critical thinking skills; utilize the principles of delegation; and exhibit communication and collaboration techniques in the management of a client caseload.


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Baileys – The Original Irish Cream
So, answer me this, what discussion about Irish Cream is complete without a brief mention of Baileys? I'm betting nearly every person who has a liquor cabinet has a bottle somewhere in the depths. I, oddly enough, did not, so thanks go out to my Mom for donating her bottle to the cause. Baileys is what most people think of when they hear the words Irish Cream. In fact in most people's vocabulary the terms are synonymous. And, I'll stick my neck out there to say that this is not due solely to the fact that it is the most common Irish Cream you'll find in the States. It's really quite good, not as good as homemade mind you (more on that later), but really quite tasty. I cruised over to their website and, not surprisingly, they have some cocktail recipes listed. Not being one to muck around with a good thing I decided to keep it simple this go round. I tried Baileys Shaken with Ice and Baileys Over Ice, about as pure an Irish Cream experience as one can get.
Baileys Shaken with Ice is really quite nice (Wow! I'm a freaking poet!). The ice dillutes the Irish Cream just enough to mellow out the richness which I really like. Only problem is, like a lot of the cocktails I've made, this one disappeared much too quickly.
The Baileys Over Ice preparation is good too, but not as good as shaken with ice. The problem I had was that the first few sips were very rich, too rich for me in fact. The ice began to melt at that point and mellowed the richness, and the middle few sips were perfect. However, the tables then turned the other way. The drink became watered down quickly, due to the room temperature liqueur, which was also not so pleasant. So, basically, you have a narrow window when this drink was just right for me. As such, the quick and dirty summary is this; if you're going to have a quick nip of Baileys I'd recommend shaking it with ice and straining in to a glass.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:
VeriFone Systems Inc., down $13.65 at $18.24
The electronic payments company's forecast disappointed due to the weak European economy and problems with big customers.
Safeway Inc., up $2.84 at $22.97
The grocery store chain's customer loyalty program is boosting market share, and its profit rose more than Wall Street expected.
Berry Petroleum Co., up $7.43 at $46.02
Oil and gas producer Linn Energy LLC is buying the drilling company in a stock deal worth about $2.5 billion.
Heckmann Corp., down 12 cents at $3.56
A Jefferies analyst downgraded the drilling services provider's shares, citing slower activity in the oil and gas fields where it operates.
Tesla Motors Inc., down $3.38 at $35.16
The electric car maker's loss deepened on higher production costs for the new Model S, but it predicted a small profit for this quarter.
HomeAway Inc., up $3.34 at $28.38
The vacation rentals website's revenue outlook for this year beat analysts' expectations and Raymond James upgraded its shares.
Rubicon Technology Inc., down 85 cents at $4.92
The maker of LED chips predicted a deeper-than-expected loss and lower sales in the current quarter due to dropping prices.
ParkerVision Inc., up $1.78 at $4.21
A Florida court sided with the company's interpretations of key terms in a patent case against mobile chip-maker Qualcomm Inc.


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Today the next chapter of the Nike Air Force 1 30th Anniversary Celebration will be released – a collaboration with New York skate brand Supreme.
Having become an icon on the street, the basketball court and even the skateboard, the Nike Air Force 1 remains to be one of the most celebrated sneakers to date. Made exclusively for Supreme, the AF1 sneaker features as part of this latest collaboration authentic NYCO fabric uppers, a material that is traditionally used to produce military outerwear. NYCO fabric is highly durable and water resistant, perfect for daily use, especially in the coming months. The Nike Air Force 1 will be available in three colorways, ensuring that the drop includes something for all tastes – subtle olive and black versions, as well as a more eye catching camouflage colorway. The classic Supreme red sets nice accents on the sneaker in the form of the logo tag and on the in-sole.
The Supreme Nike Air Force 1 NYCO Collection releases today at Supreme stores in Los Angeles, New York and London, as well as the Supreme online store.
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Federal-style Inlay: Bellflowers & Stringing
Small pieces transform your work from austere to awesome.
By Rob Millard
Pages: 49-53
From the August 2009 issue #177
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Signature features of Federal-style furniture include bellflowers and stringing that often adorn furniture legs, but are also found on table aprons and tambour doors.
Bellflowers have regional characteristics. There are Baltimore examples with three- or five-part petals, Boston examples with the flowers in three parts, and one-piece bellflowers associated with New York furniture. It's the New York design that is the focus of this article.
Despite being made in one piece, the combined effect of the sand shading, connecting loops and the teardrop pendants adds a stately look to the completed project.
From the August 2009 issue #177
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Airborne Warfare has always been one of my favourite subjects in military history. Its probably got something to do with the fact that my Granddad was a paratrooper and an Arnhem veteran, and – not surprisingly – I have read pretty much every book I can get my hands on about the great airborne battles of the Second World War. Or at least I thought I had. I've read about Bruneval, Sicily, Normandy and Arnhem, but only from the British and American (and Polish!) perspectives. But considering that the allies were relative latecomes to airborne warfare, its surprising to think that I have read virtually nothing about German paratroopers. Until now, that is.
Martin Poppel joined the German Fallschirmjaeger shortly before the start of the Second World War, and went on to see action in Poland, Holland, Crete, several stints on the Russian front, in Sicily and Italy, in Normandy and finally in Holland and north west Germany during early 1945. He was wounded three times (in Russia, Italy and Normandy). Initally serving as a junior soldier, he was eventually commissioned as an Officer, and ended the war as a Company Commander. He was captured when the allies crossed the Rhine in March 1945. Whatever the political direction of their masters, there can be no doubt that many Germans – especially the paratroopers – fought tenaciously throughout the war. After capture Poppel was taken to England and held in a Prisoner of War Camp in North East England, an experience he does not seem to have minded too much. He was finally released a year later in 1946. Fortunately, his family were in the US zone in Munich – many of his comrades families were in the Russian sphere.
Poppel's war diary is a fascinating read. We gain a unique insight into the daily life of the German soldier. Poppel gives us plenty of interesting snippets, about comradely relations, equipment, rations, attitudes to the Nazis and the war in general. Its interesting to note that the elite status felt by parachute troops was not limited to the allies – the fallschirmjaeger were very proud of their status. They seem to have preferred to jump into action (Poppel performed two combat jumps) towards the end of the war the paratroopers were used increasingly as a 'fire brigade' in order to reinforce weak points. Another interesting point to note is that Germany's airborne troops came under the command of the Luftwaffe rather than the Army, unlike the allies.
Its also interesting to note how Poppel refers to British soldiers almost completely as 'Tommy' or 'the Tommies'. Also, how dismissive the German troops were of British and American equipment, and their fighting prowess. However, for me the most interesting point was how Poppel – by his own admission a supporter of the Nazi party earlier in the war – began to see the Nazi ideology in different eyes as the war went against Germany. When returning to his unit after being wounded, his commander warned him that his negative attitude had been noted. But, interestingly, when in a Prisoner of War Camp Poppel remarked that, even though he was by no means an ardent Nazi, he still could not believe what had happened to Germany, and it took some time for the last vestiges of years of Nazi indoctrination to disappear. Evidence of just how politicised the youth of Germany were. No wonder they fought so doggedly.
I found this a fascinating and enlightening read. It has reinforced, above all, my feeling that very often fighting men on either side have more in common with each other than they do with their own generals, and definitely more in common than they do with their own politicians. And, no matter how unpleasant some ideologies might be, in many cases men simply did not have any choice but to fight. And if we are to curb extremism, we need to understand how it takes hold.
Heaven and Hell: The War Diary of a German Paratrooper is published by The History Press


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Powerful storm wreaks havoc in PortsmouthBy GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
June 17. 2013 5:52PM
PORTSMOUTH - Severe thunder storms rolled through the city Monday afternoon causing flash flooding, downed trees and some power outages.
Bridge Street was blocked by police shortly before 5 p.m. after at least one car got stuck in a massive puddle and had to be pushed out. At least one vehicle also got stuck traveling through high water on Islington Street.
A giant tree branch damaged a trash can and barely missed cars at the Bridge Street parking lot.
Flash flooding also occurred closer to Newington, making exit and entrance to Commerce Way nearly impassable during the worst of the storm.
The skies began to darken around 4 p.m. before heavy rain, some hail and winds blew through the area. The entire storm lasted only about 45 minutes.
Storm drains had difficulty keeping up with the amount of water pouring down, leading to pooling and flooding in many areas.
At around 5:30 p.m. Portsmouth Fire Lt. Mark Newport said telephone poles, wires and trees were down all over the place.? Many roads were closed including Pleasant Street, South Street and Woodbury Avenue by Boyd Street.
He recommended drivers stay off the roads if possible, and if traveling, to do so cautiously and to avoid downed wires.
Fire crews were busy responding, as were Public Service of New Hampshire crews.
He said the water started to recede, but with the skies still cloudy, there is still the chance of more rain to come.


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by Frank Matt
We are celebrating our three year anniversary in upstate New York.
We have had a great year. We have a great core group that continues to grow every couple of months.
We took a trip to Nancy Ault's dojo in Maine this past August and had a wonderful time.
We had two good workout sessions; Friday evening and Saturday morning.
After class we all had a small lunch and I brought my class to see the ocean, and a beautiful lighthouse.
After that excursion we went back to Scott Abbitonies family cabin on a beautiful pond and had a lobster bake.
It is great to belong to such a great organization as the G.K.K. that we can travel and train with each other.


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Rumor Alert: New Description of HBP Teaser Trailer
May 04, 2008
It's the start of a new month, and time for a new batch of rumors regarding a possible description of the teaser trailer for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." While there have been several floating around on the net in the past few weeks, TLC has received a description that is of some merit. The report says again that the trailer is still tentatively attached to Prince Caspian/Narnia on the 16th, and that the trailer will clearly show the darkening tone of the series, "with footage of the attack on the Burrow" as evidence of this. Reportedly, trailer shots will include a taunting Bellatrix, Draco on the train, Slughorn, Snape in a pivotal moment, Dumbledore in the cave, and clear evidence of the developing Harry/Ginny relationship. There are also quick glimpses of Quidditch, the Trio, and a bit of humor from Ron. Please note: As exciting as this sounds, please keep this very much in the rumor category for now. We are hopeful that WB will be releasing photos and more information on a trailer in the coming days, and will update with more on this when we can.


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Fall Colors
The Sierra Colors are in there most beautiful time. The weather has been holding with a little rain. We had a wedding party stay here at the Coyote Den and the wedding was outside. The wedding party had a great time and left happy with South Lake Tahoe. We have also had our groups and father and sons fly fishing. The weather has been good enough to even hike the rim trail. Our customers have enjoyed coming back and sitting in the hot tub after their day out. The sky has been so clear that the stars seem so close you could touch them.
Earl and I just came back from our vacation in Hawaii. It was a great trip and we really enjoyed ourselves. We could have stayed another week. It is never long enough. When we started our drive back up the hill from Sacramento, we both look at each other and said we live in one of the most beautiful places in the world. We were happy to call Lake Tahoe our home.
Ski season is going to be here soon and we look forward to see all of our return customers and find out what they have been doing over the summer. The families with children will return and the kids will have grown inches and will have new stories to tell. It will be a great season of new customers and old friends and we welome you back to the Pistante's Coyote Den. See Ya Soon! Earl & Lorraine