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The odyssey of Abdul Aziz Naji has taken many terrible twists and turns since he was seized in Pakistan in May 2002, tortured at Bagram, then sent to Guantanamo, were he was formally cleared of any charges in a review of prisoner status last year. He was forcibly repatriated to Algeria on July 20, despite his fears of being harmed by Islamic forces or the government upon his return. Such forcible repatriation of a prisoner or detainee who fears persecution or worse is a violation of international law. This principle of non-refoulement, or non-return is specifically forbidden in the UN Convention Against Torture and Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
The Obama administration was cleared to effect the deportation against the prisoner's will by no less than the Supreme Court, who rejected a lower court order blocking the action. What hasn't been reported thus far is the role of Congress, who was mandated to have advance notice of the transfer.
According to the 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations, Interior Appropriations, Consolidated Appropriations, and Defense Appropriations Acts, all of which contain similar language on the subject, no funds are to be appropriated for the transfer of a Guantanamo prisoner to another state unless 15 days prior to release the President submit to Congress, "in classified form," a statement regarding any risks to national security or U.S. citizens, the name of the prisoner and country of release, and "the terms of any agreement with the country or freely associated state that has agreed to accept the detainee." (See PDF link.)
Congress Informed of Plan to Flout the Law
Both the offices of Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, confirmed to me that the 15-day notification did take place, meaning that requisite Congressional committees were informed of the deportation and the fact that it was not taking place on the basis of non-refoulement, and presumably, as the Obama administration has maintained, with "diplomatic assurances" from the Algerian government the prisoners would not be mistreated. The Washington Post said the administration took this to be good coin "because 10 other detainees have been returned to Algeria without incident." But we know that in a number of these cases, the former Guantanamo prisoners were subsequently imprisoned and put on trial. Moreover, numerous human rights organizations have decried reliance on "diplomatic assurances" of safety as not being reliable.
Human Rights Watch described the problem with such "assurances":
Governments that engage in torture routinely deny it and refuse to investigate allegations of torture. A government that is already violating its international obligation not to torture cannot be trusted to abide by a further "assurance" that it will not torture.
Then, too, there is fear that the government cannot protect returnees against being preyed upon by Islamic radical forces. As the U.S. 2006 State Department report on Algeria explained:
The country's 1992-2002 civil conflict pitted self-proclaimed radical Muslims belonging to the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) and its later offshoot, the GSPC, against moderate Muslims. During the year [2005] radical Islamic extremists issued public threats against all "infidels" in the country, both foreigners and citizens. The country's terrorist groups generally did not differentiate between religious and political killings.
A number of remaining Algerian prisoners fear return as well. One of them, Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed, who won his "freedom" via habeas appeal last year, was one of the prisoners whose deportation block was lifted by the Supreme Court at the same time as Naji. To date, he remains at Guantanamo. Andy Worthington describes the fate of the others, including Djamel Ameziane, a Berber who fled Algeria years ago and lived five years in Canada.
The action, or more properly, inaction of Congress in the face of the illegal return (by international standards and U.S. treaty) of Abdul Aziz Naji to Algeria is inexcusable. When asked to make further explanation on policy regarding non-refoulement in general, or in the case of Mr. Naji, both Sen. Levin and Sen. Feinstein's office declined to comment. We can only be left with the impression that they did not intend to stand in the way of this breaking of international law, and only a widespread outcry has assured, for the moment, that further such deportations have been delayed.
While, after a week's incarceration, and some confusion about his fate, Naji is now reported to be safe at his family's home in Batna, about 300 miles east of Algiers, it's not clear that his safety is assured. Naji had stated that he feared torture, or death, at the hands of either the Algerian government or the Islamic fundamentalist oppositions who have been fighting the government. Over 10,000 have died in this conflict since the early 1990s. As a July 25 New York Times editorial on the Naji deportation noted, U.S. State Department reviews have described the ongoing use of disappearances and the extraction of confessions through torture by the Algerian government.
Andy Worthington has described the case of Mustapha Hamlili, who was arrested with Mr. Naji in Peshawar. He was voluntarily repatriated from Guantanamo to Algeria in July 2008, but then "was subsequently charged with 'membership in a terrorist organization abroad and using forged travel documents.'" He was only cleared of charges and released last February. Others have faced charges against them over a year after the actual repatriation. Naji may be safe now, but as Worthington warns, "I hope that Abdul Aziz Naji is able to stay in contact with his lawyers, and that he can establish contact with representatives of human rights groups, to ensure that his appearance in the Algerian media is indicative of a new openness on the part of the Algerian government, as is not just a PR stunt, and also, hopefully, to avoid the farcical charges and long-winded trials to which all the other returned Algerians have been subjected."
The Hell that is Guantanamo
Naji's own incredible tale of his incarceration at Guantanamo, reported in the Algerian newspaper El Khabar, has not received a U.S. audience. British journalist Andy Worthington describes it, though, in an article late last week. Worthington is a fantastic reporter who also recently updated the U.S. rendition story in an article, "New Evidence About Prisoners Held in Secret CIA Prisons in Poland and Romania."
According to the July 28 interview with Naji, prisoners were tortured to give false confessions. Even more incredibly, they were forced "to take some medicines for three months to drive them crazy, loosing [sic] memory and committing suicide." Charges of drugging prisoners have been widespread, but have been difficult to verify. An Inspector General investigation on such drugging was initiated in 2008, but nothing further has been heard, save for an indication earlier this year that the investigation was still underway.
Naji also charges that "some detainees had been promised to be granted political asylum opportunity in exchange of [sic] a 'spying role' within the detention camp." Once released, they maintain their spying role, he charged. It is difficult to imagine that the U.S. has not tried to use some prisoners in this way. In fact, the suicide bombing at the CIA's Forward Operating Base Chapman, Afghanistan, which killed seven CIA officers and a Jordanian intelligence official last December, was undertaken by a Jordanian doctor who was supposedly "turned" after a short period of imprisonment (and likely torture or blackmail) by the Jordanians. One is reminded, too, of the attempts of Britain's MI5 to turn British resident and U.S. rendition prisoner Binyam Mohamed into an informer, while he was being tortured in a Moroccan prison in September 2002.
We cannot know for sure, but it may have been Naji's refusal to so turn informant that led him to be considered for forced repatriation by the Obama administration, as in all other cases since January 2009 the government had followed the Bush administration in not undertaking the forced deportation of any Guantanamo prisoner.
Naji's forced repatriation, his story of drugging and torture and coerced confessions at Guantanamo, and tales of deals with prisoners, swapping political asylum for spying, are all very disturbing. They reveal a side of the government's actions in what used to be called the "war on terror" that is rarely even mentioned in the press anymore. When any truth about U.S. military or intelligence activity does leak out, as when Wikileaks released tens of thousands of military reports from Afghanistan a few weeks ago, such attempts to unveil government actions have been met by official condemnation and even calls for extrajudicial action against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and China-like censorship of the Wikileaks website.
The United States exists today in a state of moral anarchism. The government gives lip service to the rule of law, but repeatedly and consistently shows its disdain for international protocols. As Shahid Buttar of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee pointed out recently, the FBI has been politically spying on Americans for ten years now, and wants the freedom to do even more. BORDC is one of 50 peace, environmental, civil rights, and civil liberties groups seeking "long overdue legislative limits to constrain the FBI" (PDF). Meanwhile, the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights are seeking "a federal court order restraining the Obama administration from killing [the son of Nasser al-Awlaki] without due process of law." The son, Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, is on a government assassination list.
Cases like that of Abdul Aziz Naji put a human face on the actions of the U.S. government. Organizations as diverse as Wikileaks, BORDC, ACLU, CCR and others are fighting to turn this nation back from its headlong plunge into militarism, torture, and assassination, all the deformations that result from substituting imperialism for democracy. But real democracy will not take place until serious, and far-reaching societal and institutional change takes place. This is the challenge of our generation, a challenge we dare not refuse to answer.
Originally published at Firedoglake.
Jeffrey Kaye is a psychologist living in Northern California who writes regularly on torture and other subjects for The Public Record, Truthout and Firedoglake. He also maintains a personal blog, Invictus. His email address is sfpsych at gmail dot com.
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Durango Film 2013 may be a wrap, but independent movies are a popcorn kernel's throw away in Durango year-round. Two local theaters make it possible to regularly see underground, award-winning films and documentaries.
These days, bringing independent films to the big screen takes hard work and money. The Back Space Theatre opened in March 2011 with that mission, but has struggled to catch up to the demands of the cinematic new world order. The onerous price tag of converting to digital projection could lead owner Doug Sitter to shutter the theater's doors and hurt the indie film scene that "makes Durango Durango," as moviegoer Richard Nobman put it.
"It would leave a huge void if it wasn't here," said Jim Mohle, a Back Space regular.
The theater has a lease that expires in August 2014, and Sitter is looking for a buyer to take over.
"It's not getting the amount of volume in there to keep up with the cost of running things," said Jane Julian, a former booking agent for the theater.
Like many other forms of media, cinematic production has converted almost exclusively to digital projection. Some theaters have caught up with modern times, some haven't, and some can't.
To get the latest releases, venues need digital capability. Movie houses such as Allen Theatres' Durango Stadium 9 and the Gaslight Cinema completed the digital transition in October. Back Space doesn't have it. And it's not cheap.
"It can cost $75,000, minimum, to convert a theater to digital," said Joanie Fraughton, executive director of Durango Film, the independent film festival. "We need an (indie) theater in town that's willing to make the leap to go digital." Back Space, the only exclusive indie movie house in Durango, shows its films on DVD and Blu-ray.
Independent houses such as The Back Space also must wait their turn when it comes to getting popular titles.
National and regional theater chains usually have right of first refusal on what gets shown when, and that includes independent films.
"We're not allowed to bring in a film until it's in other theaters," said Back Space manager Kaiya Toop.
Feature films have been a big draw for Back Space.
"These kind of movies have some meat to them," Nobman said.
Most recently, Oscar-nominated films such as "Beasts of Southern Wild" and "A Royal Affair" have drawn good crowds, White said. She said, as for documentaries, many have flopped.
Despite the uphill battle, The Back Space is not giving up. Its continuing to show films, and the independent feature "The Trouble with the Truth," starring Lea Thompson, will be shown weekends during March.
That's good news for viewers such as Catherine Adams. "I prefer feature films. Sometimes, documentaries can be a little exhausting," she said.
The Back Space also will continue to rent the space out for parties and other events.
Indie film junkies have other options, too.
Durango Stadium 9 offers Hump Day Movies every Wednesday, with two screenings of an alternative title. Once a month, moviegoers are invited to choose a film through Internet voting (emergingpictures.com.)
"It's been really good. Several people in the community have helped to get the word out," said Heather Gandy of Allen Theaters Inc. Demand has been high, and, at first, we showed one film each Wednesday. Now, there's an afternoon and an evening show."
The menu of films rotates between world cinema, American independent films and documentaries.
Julian, a local film enthusiast who is head of booking adventure sports films for Durango Film, said she enjoys watching indie films at Durango Stadium 9. Before last month's Academy Awards, she watched the Oscar-nominated shorts program and said she was impressed with the turnout.
"People are so grateful for what they get to see," Julian said.
The community has shown its interest in indie films by supporting Durango Film, which concluded its eighth year Sunday.
Fraughton said unlike the trend at The Back Space, it's the documentaries that draw the biggest festival crowds. She also said the presence of filmmakers at the festival helps, and enhances the film-going experience greatly.
And for some, indie films might bring something to the table that maybe mainstream movies just can't offer.
Dean Brookie, a local architect and indie film fan who watched "Bidder 70" at Durango Film, said he's looking for "creative stimulus" when he seeks out independent film.
"They're made by passion filmmakers, and they expose and bring issues to light," Brookie said.

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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 73 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
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We currently trade on ebay in the UK under the name of Pro-Bitz
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Dave Solomon's State House Dome: Home-schooler oversight snags school choice billBy DAVE SOLOMON
December 10. 2017 4:10AM
Opponents of SB 193, a Senate bill that would give parents state aid to send their children to private schools or for home schooling, may have some unlikely allies among the home-schoolers in New Hampshire, who are unhappy about accountability requirements in the bill.
"In a sense, SB 193 has become a backdoor to impose evaluation requirements on home-schoolers, which were repealed in 2012," said state Rep. William Marsh, R-Wolfeboro, whose children are homeschooled.
The bill passed the Senate last year but was retained in the House, where the House Education Committee made several changes and then voted that the bill ought to pass as amended. One of those changes was to subject home-schoolers in the program to the same requirements that face private school students who qualify for the state-funded Education Freedom Savings Accounts the bill creates.
That would mean a certified teacher or a teacher currently teaching in a nonpublic school, selected by the parent, would have to evaluate student progress based on a portfolio. The home-schooled student would also be required to take a nationally standardized achievement test and demonstrate "reasonable academic proficiency or satisfactory growth."
Failing that combination, the student would be evaluated using "any other valid measurement tool mutually agreed upon by the parent and the commissioner of education, resident district superintendent, or nonpublic school principal."
To Marsh and other like-minded home schooling parents, the changes would be similar to what is proposed in a home-school accountability bill filed by Rep. Robert Theberge, R-Berlin, HB 1263, which hit a buzz saw of opposition in the homeschool community before it was even assigned a bill number.
In fact, says Marsh, "SB 193 would impose more stringent evaluation procedures than HB 1263, as students would have to both be evaluated by a teacher and take one of the tests."
Marsh and others have made their concerns known, without much success. "We are under considerable pressure from the governor's office and Republican leadership to support SB 193 as amended," he said.
The Wolfeboro Republican is concerned that SB 193 as written will create two classes of homeschoolers - those who apply and qualify for the state per-student grant of about $3,600 a year, and those who don't.
"Given that this evaluation data would only be collected under SB 193, there would be a selection bias," he said.
"It will only be collected on people who want and need financial help. It's well known that lower socioeconomic groups do worse on school evaluations, so this could easily make the academic performance of home-schoolers appear significantly worse than in existing studies. I am concerned this will become a basis for further attacks on home schooling."
If Theberge's bill becomes law, the accountability requirements will apply to all home-schoolers, so the "selection bias" that Marsh worries about would not apply. But the prospects for HB 1263 are uncertain at best.
Rep. Rick Ladd, R-Haverhill, chairman of the House Education Committee, says House Education developed a consensus that home-schoolers should face the same eligibility requirements for the program as families who use the grants for private school tuition.
"We are putting the same requirements on anyone who receives these dollars from the state," he said. "If the home-schoolers don't like that, they can remain home-schoolers and live according to the law on the books from 2012. But if they want the money, they are going to have to be accountable. I think that's fair."
Talking tax reform
Gov. Chris Sununu joined 20 other Republican governors in a letter to Senate President Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday, urging them to get on with the tax reform bill now working its way through Congress.
The letter points out that Republican governors have enacted $62 billion worth of tax cuts in their states, and suggests the federal government do likewise. "We urge the two chambers to pass meaningful tax reform legislation and send it to the President's desk," the letter states. "We've proven in our states that you can cut taxes, create jobs and generate budget surpluses all at the same time."
If it can work in our states, it can work for America."
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President Obama and his foreign policy team appear genuinely surprised that their conciliatory approach to the world's dictators has been so unsuccessful. The latest case in point is Syria. At Commentary's Contentions, Noah Pollak explains:
Michael Young, the opinion editor of the Beirut Daily Star, has a fine column parsing the latest developments on Syria, Lebanon, and the Obama administration. He confirms the interpretation I made recently on this blog, that the administration is puzzled at the failure of its opening gambits and unsure of what to do next:
The problem is that Washington is of several minds over what to do about Syria…because there is no broad accord, and because the president has not provided clear guidance on resolving Mideastern problems, there is confusion in Washington. And where there is confusion there is policy bedlam, with everyone trying to fill the vacuum. That explains why the Syrians feel they can relax for now, and why the Iranians see no reason yet to fear an American riposte.
Young's worry is confirmed by this remarkable report from Foreign Policy's Josh Rogin:
As for why Syria seems to be playing such an unhelpful role, "that's the million-dollar question," the [Obama administration] official said…."We do not understand Syrian intentions. No one does, and until we get to that question we can never get to the root of the problem," the official said. "Until then it's all damage control."
This is quite simply amazing. The Assads, father and now son, have run the same foreign policy for decades. It is a very simple model, and one that gets discussed in detail on a regular basis: They are the arsonists who sell water to the fire department. The administration official should start his odyssey of discovery by reading Bret Stephens's 2009 Commentary essay, "The Syrian Temptation — and Why Obama Must Resist It."
Bashar is a promoter of a remarkable array of death and destruction in the Middle East: killing American soldiers in Iraq, murdering Lebanon's pro-democracy community into submission, killing Israelis, arming Hezbollah, hosting Hamas, and so on. This is intended not only to make Syria into a bigger player than it would otherwise be, but allows Bashar to maintain his illegitimate police state of a regime by constantly invoking foreign threats. And it ensures that the United States and other western powers will continuously drag themselves to Syria to beg for cooperation. "The road to Damascus is a road to peace," Nancy Pelosi famously declared on her visit in 2007, unintentionally confirming to Assad the wisdom of the mayhem he sponsors. This is like saying that the road to the brothel is a road to virginity.
I'm not sure whether Obama's problem is that he values ideological certitude above empirical reality, or that he is too ignorant of history to know what empirical reality is. Either way, his foreign policies have been ineffective at best.
Meanwhile, at The Corner, Michael Rubin recounts the State Department's effort to justify sending an ambassador to Damascus:
Increasingly, it seems the State Department is grasping at straws as it tries to explain why it needs to send ambassador to Damascus. … The latest is that the Syrian ambassador to Washington isn't passing accurate messages back to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, something the Washington Post hints at.
It's absolute nonsense — as other Arab diplomats based in Washington will acknowledge — that the Syrian ambassador isn't relaying messages. Ambassadors for authoritarian dictatorships relay information frequently and accurately. When the authoritarian dictators do not respect the seriousness of the administration nor do they believe that the White House will take any serious coercive action, they sometimes choose not to listen. …
We have an embassy in Damascus, and we can pass messages anytime we so choose. If the State Department seriously believes the Syrian ambassador in Washington doesn't report things back to Damascus (too busy, as he is, taking trips to Oklahoma and California), then Secretary Clinton can make clear to Damascus through other means that it's time Syria sent responsible diplomats. But the fact is that Bashar al-Assad wants an American ambassador because it would symbolize his rehabilitation. The only question that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama should answer is whether they think that rehabilitation is warranted at this point in time.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow was honored by his peers this weekend and in turn shared a few tips about his craft.
Chernow, 64, received the BIO award from the Biographers International Organization, a nonprofit established in 2010. During a lunchtime gathering Saturday at the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, Chernow spoke about some of his most famous subjects, from John D. Rockefeller to George Washington, and how their public reputations often concealed a far more interesting private person.
"Once upon a time, biography was a very formal, straight-laced affair," said Chernow, a Pulitzer winner in 2011 for his Washington biography. "But nowadays we all expect the enterprising biographer to ferret out that hidden self."
The BIO award is given for making a "major contribution" to the field of biography. Previous winners include Robert Caro and Arnold Rampersad.
A former business journalist who has written for The Wall Street Journal and other publications, Chernow said he learned a humbling lesson while researching "Titan," his 1998 biography of Rockefeller. Going through the oil baron's papers, Chernow had expected to unearth "sordid tales of collusion with the railroads, the bribing of entire state legislatures, the coercion of small retailers." Instead, he found only thousands and thousands of "cryptic little business letters" that avoided proper names and specifics of any kind, as if Rockefeller feared what he wrote would end up in the hands of "a prosecuting attorney or a Senate investigative committee."
Back home, he expressed his dismay to his wife, Valerie, who in response was "not only smiling. She was beaming."
"I said to her indignantly, 'What are you smiling about?'" he remembered. "And she said to me ... 'You were looking for a typical business tycoon, and what you've been given instead is a true original.' The lady, as always, was absolutely right. I was frankly pursuing a cliche. I was looking for this cartoon, whereas fate had handed me something much rarer and infinitely more interesting."
Chernow's advice: Prepare to change your mind. He confided that while working on "The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance," he had been charmed by Thomas W. Lamont, the suave counterpart to the volatile J.P. Morgan. A partner at J.P. Morgan & Co., and an adviser to presidential administrations of both parties, Lamont was regarded as a Wall Street liberal and an enlightened patron of the arts. Chernow said Lamont, a master of reinvention, had another, more troubling side: friend to fascists in Italy.
"By slow and subtle steps, he was being turned into a shameless apologist for Mussolini," said Chernow, who won the National Book Award in 1990 for "The House of Morgan."
Chernow, currently working on a book about Ulysses Grant, said the biographer was ideally a match for even the most evasive subject. Washington's austere facade, a facade that Washington himself had ably constructed, was upended by the letters and journals of close aides that documented their leader's seething temper. Correspondence between George Washington and Mary Ball Washington revealed that the father of his country was also an exasperated son.
Chernow came to know Washington, body and soul. He explained that Washington had just one tooth, a lower left bicuspid, by the time he became president and that the bicuspid fell during his second term. The tooth was gone but not forgotten. Washington's dentist kept it inside a glass charm that was attached to his watch chain. Centuries later, Chernow was allowed to see the tiny relic at the New York Academy of Medicine.
"In the final analysis," Chernow said, "as Washington's tooth shows, there are few, if any secrets carried to the grave. In the end, the truth always will out."


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NH Senate passes bill requiring car seats with 'restraints' for kids up to and including 7-year-olds
CONCORD -- Children up to and including seven-year-olds must be fastened in a "child restraint" car seat under legislation passed by the state Senate Thursday.
The Senate version of the House Bill 242 now must be reconciled with a different House version or the bill will die. The Senate version allows the option of a having a child 57 inches or more in height not ride in a car seat, regardless of age.
Current law requires car seats for any child up to and including five years of age and 54 inches in height.
The House passed a bill on March 20 that increased the requirement for a car seat to six years of age and 55 inches in height. The vote was 224-137.
The Senate version, which passed easily on a voice vote, bill adds six- and seven-year-olds, and those up to 56 inches in height, to the requirement.
The House now can either concur with the Senate change, ask for a committee of conference to work out a compromise, or "non-concur" without a conference committee, effectively killing the bill.
Sen. David Boutin, R-Hooksett, said the Senate increased the age and height requirement that had been in the House version "to concur with national best practice standards."
He said the Senate Transportation Committee, which had recommended on a 5-0 vote that the bill ought to pass, believes "this will protect our most vulnerable citizens."
He said his seven-year-old grandchild prefers sitting in a car seat, anyway, because he is able to have a better view out of the windows, Boutin said.
Pat Moody, spokesman for AAA of Northern New England, said last month that his organization preferred a version similar to the one passed Thursday by the Senate, although he had urged a House committee to also include a weight requirement, which is in neither version of House Bill 242.
After the House passed its version last month, Gov. Maggie Hassan's spokesman, Marc Goldberg said: "The governor supports measures to keep our children as safe as possible, including through the use of proper safety measures in vehicles, and she looks forward to hearing from stakeholders and fully evaluating the legislation to update current New Hampshire child safety laws."


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Fauquier Hospital will hold its annual Holiday Fair from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, November 22, in the conference center of the hospital, in the Bistro and outside the Bistro entrance.
The event is a community favorite and will feature vendors selling everything from homemade holiday crafts and decorations, to paintings and photographs, to jewelry. Area crafters will be well represented, selling specialty soaps, toys and colorfully stitched quilts, scarves and baby blankets.
It's a great opportunity to pick up some unique holiday gifts.
Vendor tables must be reserved by November 8, and may be arranged by calling Brenda Bohon at 540-316-3852 or Nis Russell at 540-316-5900. Spaces are limited.


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The British pound broke to a new high against the U.S. dollar (FOREX:GBPUSD) as expected after we identified the end of a corrective retracement at 1.5850. As such, we are now tracking a new impulse leg up, which can be wave C and the final part of a double zig-zag in wave E). If this is the correct count, then the rally from the July low is near completion. Ideally we will see a reversal down from around the 1.64-1.66 region.
We also are tracking a different count that shows a five-wave rally from the July low, but even this count is calling for a turning point as we see the pair in a five-wave up.
On the four-hour chart, the GBP/USD is in a pullback mode, which we think is a corrective move because wave (iv) is part of the incomplete wave C. As such, we expect a new high with a push higher in wave (v) into the 1.6500-1.6600 region. We may see a top formation of a triangle and the end of a big wave E) in that area. However, this only can be confirmed by an impulsive bearish reversal, so until then the trend remains up.


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USAToday.com reports the Boston Red Sox have agreed to terms with free-agent IF Tony Granadillo on a minor league contract.
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Some alleged fans on the Britney Spears discussion board are more in the nature of anti-fans, with barely concealed gloating over her rehab - "I'm a big fan and feel really sorry for the girl, but she's losing it. She craves the attention but then comes crying when the paparazzi hound her. I wish I had photographers chasing me. LOL!"
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A person who is not a fan of something, but can't help but be drawn to the subject. One who hates a band, form of music, movie, or movie series, politician, political party, car, TV series etc. so much that he/she likes to hate it. An anti-fan is very knowledgeable about the subject they love to diss.
Dude, Jeramy is such an anti-fan of saw, he owns all the DVDs and can't wait for Saw IV.
Mandy is such a Green Day anti-fan so much that she goes to their shows just to boo them.
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But he says the move would take federal approval and he won't include any provisions in the budget he's set to introduce next month.
Walker's administration is grappling with how to fund road projects as more efficient cars lead to dwindling gas tax revenue. He has ruled out raising that tax and creating full-fledged toll roads.


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President Barack Obama makes congressional Republicans the villains in the government's drama of lurching from crisis to crisis. But he also suggests Americans would "blame all of Washington" if there's a government shutdown or delays in Social Security benefits and other payments.
In his first news conference of the year and last of his first term, Obama said it's up to Congress, ultimately, to decide how to raise and spend money. "And if the Republicans in Congress have made a decision that they want to shut down the government in order to get their way, then they have the votes, at least in the House of Representatives, probably to do that."
Republicans control the House, Democrats the Senate.
Since Obama took office, gridlock on Capitol Hill has been the norm rather than the exception as one fiscal crisis has given way to another.
The government came close to defaulting on some of its obligations in mid-2011 when Republicans balked at raising the ceiling on the government's borrowing authority.
Congress now must again raise the debt ceiling for the government to keep borrowing money to pay its bills — or face a first-ever default as early as mid-February.
Both sides have dug in. Republicans insist raising the debt ceiling must be combined with big spending cuts. Obama counters he won't negotiate any deal linking the debt limit to spending cuts. It would be "short-sighted" and "profoundly damaging to our economy," he said Monday.
He was asked if he would let the government grind to a halt if he disagreed with spending-cut proposals put forth by Republicans — and if that happened, who'd be blamed?
Polls show voters are more inclined to blame Republicans than Democrats.
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InnoVision Directorate Develops 3D Thermal Site Models30 May, 2012 By: Nathaniel Ovans
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's research and development arm fuses thermal imagery with LIDAR data to provide a new view of buildings and scenery.
When National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) director Letitia A. Long announced that she wanted to "fundamentally change the user's experience by putting the power of GEOINT in the hands of the user," Todd Johanesen — the NGA senior scientist for photogrammetry — went to work.
Johanesen, a recipient of funding through the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tech Fellow program in 2010, developed a concept to build and evaluate new methods of fusing thermal infrared (IR) imagery with other geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) data sources to provide improved GEOINT data. He developed a 3-D site model that he could register thermal data to using traditional photogrammetry, transforming multiple datasets into one coordinate system. (Photogrammetry is the science of obtaining information from images using measurements and interpretation.)
The 3D Thermal Site Model (3D TSM) is a highly accurate 3D model of a given facility or scene that integrates spatial, engineering schematic or blueprint, and relative temperature information into a single, precise GEOINT product. The operational and intelligence uses for the 3D TSM are boundless. Accurately combining the different sources of information could help analysts perform infrastructure analysis for critical nodes, aid in planning and rehearsing missions, or even support personnel recovery, said Johanesen.
"One example is the ability to rapidly and accurately pinpoint a sniper while pinned in the sniper's line of fire," said Johanesen. "In this scenario, troops employ a simple thermal imager, pinpoint the sniper's thermal signature, register that to a reference light detection and ranging (LIDAR) point cloud, and deliver an accurate description of the sniper's 3D geolocation."
LIDAR is one of the many phenomenologies that NGA uses to create 3D ground terrain maps. NGA's Photogrammtery and Image Science Division (IBP) led research into the acquisition, fusion, and visualization of data to support 3D TSM generation. The TSMs combine known information from a photogrammetric site model with thermal data captured from handheld, airborne, and/or spaceborne perspectives. The key is establishing metadata elements of all sources, to include the thermal imaging system, to integrate additional data points such as temperature.
This figure depicts a registered thermal map overlay (colored area) on a LIDAR point cloud.
To investigate the potential, IBP acquired a highly accurate (photogrammetric) commercial off-the-shelf handheld long-wave IR camera and developed a sensor model for it. This sensor model supports current research on fusion of thermal data from this camera with LIDAR point cloud data. Scientists manually register datasets today, but IBP is researching automated methods of registering the datasets to support a more timely and automatic capability. This combination yields thermal data with predictive estimates of the data's absolute accuracy relative to actual position on the Earth and facilitates more accurate fusion with other data sources.
IBP scientists tested the data in the field, using an IR camera, an optical camera, and a terrestrial LIDAR system to image buildings of different materials and shapes, along with scenery. "The camera was easy to use compared to other similar sensors and is portable, it has UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) application, and the application of using the camera in an unattended mode looked promising," said Robert Lund, former Southern Command NGA Support Team deputy director.
Using the collected data, IBP was able to register a building's LIDAR point cloud with its thermal profile, creating a 3D TSM. IBP was also able to characterize an efficient collection system for gathering thermal data and incorporating it into a 3D TSM, as well as create a prototype software tool for 3D TSM creation and accuracy assessment. The prototype allowed IBP to make an initial assessment on the value of 3D TSMs, which became apparent when the model highlighted and georeferenced unseen building attributes.
This figure depicts a point on a thermal image (left) with its correspondence point and its accuracy noted on the 3D TSM (right).
IBP continues to explore the potential use of IR applications and the desirable attributes of the 3D TSMs used for reference data. The current focus is to broaden community awareness, increase collaboration, and conduct additional research. A key goal is to calibrate current operational IR sensors and develop sensor models so that scientists might use operational IR data to generate 3D Thermal Point Clouds to support time-phased analysis like change detection. Additionally the team will continue to explore the structure and content of photogrammetry-based 3D TSMs to increase the value of the GEOINT reference products used to fuel thermal fusion.
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in the March/April 2012 issue of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) Pathfinder magazine.
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With Bernard Seeger as the focal point, Cascade Locks City Council, with a new mayor and three new council members, decided Monday to continue its meeting to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 4.
Seeger, the city administrator for the past four years, indicated Tuesday morning that he is the subject of the ongoing executive session discussion pertaining to his separation agreement approved Dec. 30 by the previous city council.
Two citizens spoke out Monday against the separation agreement, under which Seeger is scheduled to step down Jan. 31 and receive three months' severance pay totaling $18,000.
Cody Steelman and Sandra Kelley said the council acted prematurely and illegally in approving the separation agreement drawn up by attorney Andy Jones.
Executive sessions are closed to the public, and while the media may observe it cannot report on the proceedings.
Council, guided by its new mayor, George Fischer, called executive session Monday to discuss employee discipline or dismissal and potential litigation.
The council will convene Jan. 4 in open session, and move into executive session unless Seeger asks it not to.
Contacted Tuesday, Seeger said "That's my assumption," when asked if his separation agreement was the closed-session topic.
Seeger was present for the regular meeting, attended by about 40 citizens, and the council asked him to leave the room for the executive session, which lasted about a half-hour.
Seeger said Tuesday that in accordance with state law, the council gave him the choice of whether or not the disciplinary matter will be discussed in open session.
Seeger said he is conferring with his attorneys on the issue and would decide before tonight's meeting at city hall.
"The record would be clear to the public (if held in open session)," Seeger said. "I don't think I've done anything wrong in negotiating a separation agreement. If you do it in executive session, there's a lot of things people can make up about what happens. This way (in open session) there would be less room for innuendos and half-truths."
The agreement reached was a revised one that gave Seeger one fewer month severance than he had asked for, and denied his request for accrued vacation.
The agreement was approved Dec. 30 by a vote of 4-3, with former councilors Randy Holmstrom and Kerry Jo Osbourn voting for it, along with former Mayor Brad Lorang, and Councilor Lance Masters. It was the last meeting for Lorang, Holmstrom and Osbourn.
"This thing stinks. It is not the way cities do business," Steelman said.
Kelley praised returning councilors Kevin Benson and Tiffany Pruit for voting against the agreement. Kelley said Jones' contact with Seeger on the matter before conferring with City Council was "an obvious breach of fiduciary duty" and called for Masters' resignation.
At that point, Fischer interrupted Kelley, telling her, "Please do not point out a particular council member. We are a council, and you need to address us as a council and not make personal attacks."
Fischer took the oath of office Monday, along with newly elected councilors Don Haight, Eva Zerfing and Tom Cramblett. (Cramblett is back for his second stint on council.) Justice of the Peace Cindy Mitchell administered the oath.
Tiffany Pruit was unanimously voted council president.
Later in the meeting, under Mayor's report, Fischer presented a one-page document lining out a vision, mission statement, and "rules of council" for his fellow elected officials to consider. He called it "a first take." Fischer asked if any councilors had comments on the document, and none was made.
The proposed vision statement reads, in part: "I believe the vision for the community of Cascade Locks should show that we the council is here to serve the community with courtesy, respect and professionalism at all times. Cascade Locks will be a safe, vibrant, full-service community. Cascade Locks will be a community of unity, pride and charm."
The proposed mission statement states that the city "is dedicated to providing excellent municipal services that will enhance the quality of life for our diverse community."
Proposed council rules include: "Choose to do what is right, just and moral at all times" and "Be responsible for your acts and omissions."
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Nintendo says they plan to begin offering mobile games (through its partnership with DeNA) & a new "platform" in 2016 called Nintendo NX. Much more to come in this area.
The Wii U has not kept market share & Nintendo agrees more has to be done even with the 3DS successes, but big news can't be expected in 2015.
They just announced a new game (from previous franchise) called Star Fox Zero for the Wii U system.
Their latest 2015 games announced for this year include:
- Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer,
Fire Emblem Fates,
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (3DS game),
Mario Tennis Ultra Smash (Wii U game),
Metroid Prime: Federation Force,
Skylanders (staying Bowser & Donkey Kong - via Activision),
Star Fox Zero (Wii U),
The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes (3DS game),
Xenosaga Chronicles X,
Yoshi's Wooly World,
and more...
...like Super Mario Maker, a create-your-own Mario Wii U game, which brings the company's in-house Mario-making software to consumers.
Nintendo says 2016 will be the year of big announcements. Register here & stay tuned at http://www.PublicGames.com for more news.


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The following is a Press Release from the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission:
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission set the 2012-2013 oyster seasons based on oyster stock assessments provided by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologists and comments received from members of the public, including the oyster industry.
The following opening dates were set for the upcoming oyster season:
The Little Lake Public Oyster Seed Grounds and the Vermilion/East and West Cote Blanche/Atchafalaya Bay Public Oyster Seed Grounds will open at one-half hour before sunrise on Wednesday, September 5, 2012.
All remaining public oyster seed grounds and reservations will open at one-half hour before sunrise on Monday, October 29, 2012, except for the Bay Gardene and Sister Lake Public Oyster Seed Reservations, which will remain closed. The area of the public grounds east of the Mississippi River and south of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet will be restricted to the harvest of market sacks only, and no seed oyster harvest will be allowed.
The oyster season in the west cove portion of the Calcasieu Lake Public Oyster Area (DHH Harvest Area 30) will open at one-half hour before sunrise on Thursday, November 1, 2012. The sack limit during this time period is set at 10 sacks per person, per vessel, per day.
In addition to closures in Bay Gardene and Sister Lake, the 2011 clutch plants in Mississippi Sound and California Bay and the 2012 cultch plant in Hackberry Bay will remain closed. The east side of Calcasieu Lake (DHH Harvest Area 29) and the Sabine lake Public Oyster Area will also remain closed for the entire 2012/13 oyster season.
Closure dates will be determined by LDWF Secretary Barham on an "as needed" basis, based on biological and harvest data, or if enforcement issues are encountered. The Secretary is also authorized to take emergency action to reopen areas previously closed if the threat to the resource has ended, and to open areas if substantial oyster resources are located.
Public notice of any opening, delay, or closure of a season will be provided at least 72 hours prior to such action, unless such closure is ordered by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals for public health concerns.
The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is charged with managing and protecting Louisiana's abundant natural resources. For more information, visit us at www.wlf.louisiana.gov, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ldwffb, or follow us on Twitter @LDWF.


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MANILA, Philippines — Angry residents beat a man to death and threw rocks at firefighters after a shantytown fire left thousands of people homeless, and another Christmas Day blaze in the Philippine capital left seven people dead, officials said Wednesday.
A resident was beaten to death by his neighbors after shouting that he started Tuesday's shantytown fire in suburban San Juan city, Senior Fire Officer Domingo Cabog said.
The man was reportedly drunk and was not responsible for the fire. Cabog said the fire started in a house where children were playing with lighted candles.
Some 5,000 people were left homeless and 13 people were hurt in the shantytown. The injured included two firefighters and a volunteer hit by rocks that were thrown by residents who were impatient and tried to grab fire hoses to save their own shanties, Cabog said.
As firefighters struggled to penetrate the narrow alleys, one of them was mauled by a mob and rescued by a police officer, Cabog said. Two fire trucks also were damaged in the violence.
"It's Christmas and many of the men in the neighborhood were drunk," Cabog said, adding that some residents brandished knives.
The homeless were given shelter at a gymnasium and in tents near a basketball court. Police were investigating the beating death but no one was immediately arrested Wednesday.
In Quezon City, another of the 16 cities that make up metropolitan Manila, a predawn fire Tuesday killed a veterinarian and six household members who were trapped inside a house, said arson investigator Rosendo Cabillan.
The blaze was suspected to be triggered by an overloaded electrical circuit, he said.
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Falling Skies: Season 3, Ray Donovan: Season 1, Crave, Star Trek: TNG, Frozen 3D update & more
All right, couple things for you today...
First, Doogan's checked in with his weekly Doogan's Queue update of all this week's new Blu-ray & DVD releases. You'll find that in his Gripe Soda column here.
Also today, Russell Hammond has updated the Release Dates & Artwork section with all the latest Blu-ray and DVD cover artMobius, and Amazon.com pre-order links.
In announcement news today, Warner Home Video and TNT have set Falling Skies: The Complete Third Season for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 6/3 (SRP $49.99 and $39.98). Extras on the Blu-ray will include numerous behind the scenes featurettes, 2nd Watch hosted by Wil Wheaton and much more. [Read on here…]
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Data breaches and hacks made headlines throughout 2012. As such, security will be a key segment for solution providers to focus on for their SMB clients.
"Some of our best clients are in that security vertical," Bier said. "Cognoscape, 100 percent an MSP, SonicWall, these are small intrusion detection and prevention devices. It's not all about the big [enterprise-level] ASA firewalls. In fact, we see more often than not that the appliances are more tailored to the small-business community. And, that's another example of how your small VARs are going to be working with it."


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NEW YORK (AP) — It's all about timing, we often say about relationships. Usually, we're talking about the moment we meet someone. They might be THE one. But are we ready?
But there's also the question of how fast each person in a relationship is moving through life. And if they're moving at different speeds, can they still move together? That's the question composer Jason Robert Brown explores in "The Last Five Years," which opened Tuesday in a poignant revival at the Second Stage Theatre, a decade after its first off-Broadway run.
The title refers to the marriage of Jamie and Cathy, two appealing, twenty-something New Yorkers who set out on their romantic journey full of hope, optimism and vigor. Obviously, things change.
But what stands out about this musical dissection of a relationship — call it a He-sang, She-sang love story gone sour — is the storytelling device Brown chooses. Both characters tell, or rather sing, the tale, but Jamie starts at the beginning and Cathy at the end. Their stories mesh only in the middle. And then they move off again.
The original production starred two rising musical theater stars: Norbert Leo Butz, who has since won two Tonys, and Sherie Rene Scott. This time it also features rising musical performers: a soulful and intense Adam Kantor as Jamie, and the sweet-voiced Betsy Wolfe. The composer, Brown, does double duty as director.
It goes without saying that this production comes with a lot of built-in good will, since "The Last Five Years," despite running only a few months, has developed quite a following in its afterlife, becoming a staple of regional and school productions. To sense the affection for it, one needed only to witness the curtain calls at a recent preview. As the audience cheered, a man called out repeatedly: "Thank you! Thank you!" Kantor responded: "You're welcome."
In the beginning, it seems a little unbalanced, as Jamie gets the energetic, life-embracing numbers, and Cathy the sad ones. She's mourning the end, as she tells us in "Still Hurting," but he's in the throes of love, of course — and this nice Jewish boy is thrilled that he's found his "Shiksa Goddess." The clever lyrics have him breaking his mother's heart — not to mention that "the JCC of Spring Valley is shaking and crumbling to the ground."
But it's not just newfound love that is making Jamie feel, thrillingly, like he's on a runaway train. His career as a novelist is also on fire. "The Atlantic Monthly's printing my first chapter," he gloats, in "Moving Too Fast."
Meanwhile, Cathy, an aspiring actress, is struggling to find herself. At a book-signing party, she sits next to a pile of his books. But at least, she tells herself, "Look what he can do. And I'm a part of that." She points to the inscription to her in Jamie's book. That's going to have to be enough.
Wolfe has a lovely soprano voice, and she shines in funny songs like "A Summer in Ohio," where she's missing Jamie and going slowly batty — "forty miles east of Cincinnati" — or in "Climbing Uphill," about the trials of auditioning with "two hundred girls who are younger and thinner than me, who have already gone to the gym."
As time goes on — or backwards — it's Cathy who becomes light and upbeat, and Jamie who is suffering the decline of their union. He's funny as he sings of the challenges of resisting temptation — i.e. the young women at all those book parties. But Brown's most painful songs for Jamie — the ones that hit home the most — are his darkest. First, an argument: "If I didn't believe in you," he sings, "We wouldn't be having this fight."
Even sadder: "Nobody Needs to Know," the song in which Jamie tries to rationalize an extra-marital affair. At first, since Jamie and Cathy never sing to each other, we think the bed partner he's addressing so sweetly is her. Then we realize it's someone else.
It's frustrating, sometimes, to never see the actors truly addressing each other. But of course, they were never on the same track in the first place. Their timing was, truly and fatally, off.
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Nov 2 (Reuters) - Alan Murray is leaving the Wall Street Journal to assume the role of president of the Pew Research Center, effective in January, the center announced on Fr iday.
Murray, 57, is currently the Journal's deputy managing editor and online executive editor. In his new role he will oversee the Pew Research Center's seven projects covering topics ranging from journalism to religion to social trends.
``I have watched in the last 30 years as trusted facts have become an endangered species,'' Murray told Reuters in an interview.
As part of the Washington-based Pew Charitable Trusts, the non-partisan Pew Research Center's mission is to inform the press, public and policy makers. Murray, in the statement announcing his appointment, described the Center as a ``rock of reliable information amidst a sea of supposition and spin.''
Before the taking the position at the Pew Research Center, Murray was considered a potential candidate to take the top job at the Journal, media observers said. His move paves the way for Deputy Editor Gerard Baker, whose name has also surfaced as a successor to Managing Editor Robert Thomson.
Thomson is widely considered the front-runner to lead News Corp's publishing company, which will consist of the Journal and its sister newspapers such as the Times of London and The Australian.
Dow Jones and News Corp declined to comment. Murray declined to comment about a successor to his Journal position. Baker and Thomson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Murray started with the Journal in 1983 and served in various positions, including Washington bureau chief. During his tenure the newspaper won three Pulitzer Prizes.
Known as a thought leader in the industry for digital news, Murray helped grow and expand the Journal's online operations, considered to be one of the industry's most successful.
In a note to employees, Thomson said of Murray that ``no words can capture the gratitude I have for his enduring contribution to the Journal and to journalism.''
Murray said he had been talking with the Pew Center since the summer but that his decision had nothing to do with the Journal's change of ownership from the Bancroft family to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
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Killing innovation: Hassan nominee opposes her agenda
Gov. Maggie Hassan claims to support charter schools, which are public schools freed from some regulations so they can be more innovative. "Innovate" was the theme of Hassan's campaign for governor and is her No. 1 buzzword. So why did she nominate the state's top anti-innovation in education activist to the state Board of Education?
Hassan has nominated Bill Duncan, New Hampshire's leading opponent of providing parents and children with opportunities to escape bad public schools. Duncan is a smart guy. He has become so prominent because he articulates the public school monopoly's anti-child position more effectively than anyone else in New Hampshire.
As Charlie Arlinghaus writes in his column, Duncan is the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging New Hampshire's educational scholarships for low-income children (which should automatically disqualify him from the Board of Education). He opposes such scholarships not just on religious grounds, but on principle. He claims (falsely) that they are an attempt to "privatize" public education. But his animosity to providing children with genuine educational options goes deeper than that.
Duncan disagrees with Hassan on the utility of charter schools. Hassan has called them "laboratories" that utlimately improve public education. She understands, or at least pretended to, that innovation in education (as everywhere else) comes from experimentation. Charter schools are free to experiment, and that ultimately improves our whole education system. But in experimenting, they necessarily compete with other public schools by offering alternatives those schools cannot or will not offer.
Duncan's view, expressed in his online blog posts, is that charter schools approved by local school districts to operate in full cooperation with the district are OK, but any charter school that provides competition to the local district is bad. That would include all charters approved by the state Board of Education.
As has happened in New Hampshire, local school boards sometimes refuse to approve charters because they fear the competition. That is why the Legislature granted the state Board of Education the power to authorize charter schools. Duncan would be a consistent vote against these state-approved charters.
Hassan cannot square Duncan's charter school position with her own previously stated support. She wants charter schools to be innovative, but he wants them to be wholly cooperative with local school districts. If he gets on the board, he will undermine her own innovation agenda. She should withdraw the nomination as inconsistent with her often-stated position on charter schools — and as inappropriate in light of Duncan's lawsuit against the state. Barring that, the Executive Council should reject it. Low-income children need advocates on the state Board of Education, not activists who will sacrifice them to the bureaucracy.


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Funny thing about literal translations: they're rarely very good at saying exactly what you mean, rather they tend to sort-of-in-a-general-way communicate a rough idea. And sometimes, they're downright misleading. Take judo, for example. The Japanese translates into English imprecisely to begin with: ju translates literally as "gentle" or "soft", while do is "way" or "path". Both of these concepts relate more to the philosophy of judo — conservation of energy and an emphasis on technique — than a description of the style and action. Ask anyone who's ever tried a few classes in the "gentle way", and they'll tell you that it's anything but. Any class that begins with learning how to fall down with minimal pain runs a significant risk of being brutal.
Judo was born in the late 19th Century by a Japanese jujitsu fella by the name of Jiguro Kano, known to his brodogs as "Da Jigumon". Kano had begun training as a result of being bullied growing up –a story that still rings true through time. At the time, "jujitsu" was something of a generic term for unarmed fighting, and schools varied wildy in technique, training methods, and instruction.Read More DIGG THIS


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In any case, the winner of the 2008 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction is Kathleen Kent, for The Heretic's Daughter, a fictional retelling of the Salem witch trials from the viewpoint of Sarah Carrier, young daughter of one of the first victims. More details on The Heretic's Daughter at the publisher website (Little, Brown/Hachette).
Elisabeth Payne Rosen received an Honorable Mention for her Tennessee Civil War saga Hallam's War, and Jack Fuller a Director's Mention for his multi-period novel Abbeville. Both the Rosen and Fuller are published in hardcover by Unbridled Books; the paperback of Hallam's War will appear from Berkley in August.
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European shares posted strong gains on Wednesday, helped by a successful bond auction in Italy and the U.S. Federal Reserve's defense of its asset purchases.
Almost all the major benchmarks in Europe closed higher on Wednesday, clawing back some of the previous session's sharp losses, after Italy managed to sell the top planned amount of 4 billion euros of 10-year bonds, as well as 2.5 billion euros of five-year bonds.
However, yields on the 10-year bonds reached their highest levels since October 2012.
France's CAC 40 and Spain's IBEX were among the top gainers on Wednesday, closing up around 1.9 percent, while Italy's MIB was up 1.6 percent.
Italian political parties are trying to find a way out of a stalemate situation after none of them won enough votes in this weekend's general election to have a parliamentary majority in the Senate.
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One of the best reads that I have found, Nance's Alterac Volley recently reached a point that took some effort but was nicely done, 60K gold.
I used to think that making gold in WoW was hard, but I quickly realized that it is just like in the real world, a mixture of effort and opportunity.
Making gold in WoW is not hard at all, there are various ways of doing it. It is a little of auction house play, lots of smart expending and well, questing or raiding.
You need to think of one of your toons as a work horse. If you only have one, then guess what one of its purposes is. I have found that the most lucrative of professions in WotLK is mining. Why mining? because of Elementals and Ore. The prices on those two things are always pretty consistent.
As far as crafting professions making you good consistent money, jewelcrafting is pretty excellent. So if you are just starting in the gold making business, a Miner-JC would be the way that I would go.
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Quest, Quest and then quest some more. Reason being that while questing you will find the good spots to mine what you need. While add ons are there to help out with this process, and you can look up the information online pretty easy, questing will show you the best routes for mining. That and killing mobs will get you drops that you can then turn around and sell in the auction house.
I do think a must have addon is auctioneer. It will help you decide quickly what you want to sell your stuff for.
There is really no excuse for being broke while playing this game if you are top level (right now 80). There are plenty of daily quests that will give you 10g. About an hour of dailies will make you 100g.
Now that I have told you the basics of making money, the key is how to make more and my answer is SAVE. Do not buy an upgrade to your gear as much as you are itching to. Save all your money until you have EPIC flying. Once you can move fast through the world, your money making will get tons easier and grinding will yield lots more.
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"Apple has touted itself as the innovator in OS software; it has suggested that all the new additions in Windows Vista already exist in the most recent Mac OS X, Tiger. Microsoft might take issue with that, but there's no denying that it has struggled somewhat with Vista, which has had features cut and seen a series of delays. To find out what people on the street make of it, we asked our Vista Views panel, made up of ordinary readers, this question: Which feature in Leopard would you like to see in Vista?"


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Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears (2-0) travel to Heinz Field in Pittsburgh to take on Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers (0-2) on "Sunday Night Football." Coverage begins with "Football Night in America" at 7 p.m. on NBC.
Calling Bears-Steelers is seven-time Emmy Award-winner Al Michaels (play-by-play), in his 28th season as the voice of the NFL's premier primetime package; 14-time Emmy Award-winner Cris Collinsworth, who has won the Emmy for Outstanding Event Analyst in each of his four seasons in the "Sunday Night Football" booth; and Emmy-winning sideline reporter Michele Tafoya.
"Football Night in America," the most-watched pre-game show in sports, is hosted by 25-time Emmy-winner Bob Costas, who will report from Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. Costas will be joined on site by Michaels, Collinsworth, and two-time Super Bowl winner Hines Ward.
Dan Patrick co-hosts "Football Night" from NBC's famed Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Patrick will be joined by Super Bowl-winning head coach Tony Dungy, two-time Super Bowl winner Rodney Harrison, Peter King of Sports Illustrated, Mike Florio of "Pro Football Talk" on NBCSN and NBCSports.com, and longtime NFL front office veteran and former NFL Executive of the Year Scott Pioli. Alex Flanagan will report from Candlestick Park in San Francisco on the Colts-49ers game.
In addition to "SNF" and "Football Night in America," NBC Sports Group's NFL coverage also includes digital content and social media extensions that are available online, as well as NFL-related shoulder programming on NBCSN.