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Men look capture outdoor team title for second straight season
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (May 9, 2013) – Championship season is upon us once again as the ETSU men's and women's track & field teams are set to compete in the 2013 Atlantic Sun Outdoor Track & Field Championships May 10-11 inside Hodges Stadium on the University of North Florida campus.
Things will get underway on Friday at 9 a.m. with women's heptathlon events including 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put and the 200m dash. Field events will continue throughout the day with the evening featuring multiple track events, ending with the men's 10,000m set to begin at roughly 9 p.m.
On Saturday morning, competition will kick off with men's decathlon events consisting of the 110m hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw and the 1500m. Track events will continue the day with the Championships brought to a close with the women's 4x400m relay set to begin at 8:45 p.m. The championship presentation will follow at 9.
The men's squad hopes to replicate last season's performance when they came away with a team championship. In the Championship's final event, a 4x400m relay event that literally came down to the last half of a second, the Buccaneers were able to edge their rival in the A-Sun Championships, Kennesaw State, to capture their third outdoor title since joining the league prior to the 2005-06 season. On the final leg of the event, relay anchor Desmond Pierce (Morristown, Tenn.) came from behind to beat Kennesaw State to the finish line by less than half of a second to earn second place and pass KSU in the overall points total by 2.5 points to capture the team title for ETSU. The narrow winning margin is the slimmest margin of victory in the 17-year history of the conference championship meet.
Though it does not have a team title to defend like the men, the women's squad has a lot to compete for this weekend as well. The task of snapping Jacksonville's streak of seven consecutive championships may seem daunting, but the opportunity is there to place in many events. In particular, ETSU is strong in the long jump and the triple jump this season with three of the top-marks in the long jump and the top-two marks in the triple jump. Junior Katerina Vodova (Humpolec, Czech Republic) ranks No. 1 in the conference this season in the long jump with a leap of 5.92m. The native Czech continues to inch closer to hitting a mark that will qualify her for the first round of the NCAA Championships.
Vodova is not alone in flirting with NCAA qualifying marks and ETSU school records that could be achieved this weekend. Freshman tosser Verena Tobis (Hechingen, Germany) will look to build off of her personal best mark of 44.81m in the javelin throw two weeks ago at the Highlander Invitational as she searches for that reachable NCAA qualifying throw. Vaulter Chris Winkle (Gray, Tenn.) will also look to continue the momentum generated at Radford with his personal best mark of 4.65m as he aims to break the ETSU school record of 4.66m in the pole vault.
After a week off from competition last week, the Bucs seem to be poised and well-rested for big performances the next few days during A-Sun Championship weekend at UNF.
Meet information, events schedules and heat sheets for the Atlantic Sun Outdoor Championships can be accessed by visiting AtlanticSun.org. Live results will be available through HalfMileTiming.com. A complete recap of ETSU's performances will be available following Friday and Saturday's events at ETSUBucs.com.
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John Haun was happy working for Memphis-based sports agent Jimmy Sexton.
While Sexton focused on representing clients in contract negotiations, Haun was responsible for lining up marketing and endorsement deals for the company's clients, including University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban.
Then Haun received a phone call that would end up changing his life.
John Haun, president of Flashlight Media Group, a Memphis-based full-service film and video production company.
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Representatives from Memphis-based Flashlight Media Group, a full-service film and video production company that had been producing a series of sports-based documentaries called "Defining Moments," approached Haun about producing a documentary on the legendary Alabama coach.
"I was very intrigued, because as a marketing representative you always want to bring your clients creative deals, and there was never a documentary done on an active coach and presented in theaters," Haun said. "I was also very apprehensive because (Saban) is an all-business kind of guy and focused on winning football games and nothing else."
"Nick Saban: Gamechanger" was released in 40 theaters and was the No. 1 movie in Alabama the week it was released. In the first three months after the film's release, it sold 15,000 DVDs.
"I really got to know a lot of about Flashlight in that process: their vision, the good things about their business model, the vulnerable aspects of their business model," Haun said. "I really learned a lot about them through that process."
The company started in 2000 as Flashlight Films before changing its name to Flashlight Media Group in 2007.
When Haun came on board as vice president in 2010, Flashlight was focusing almost exclusively on original content – video content the company funded, produced, directed, owned and even distributed.
Haun saw an opportunity for growth and implemented a major shift in the company's strategy, moving the company toward commercial production by making content for other individuals, groups or businesses.
That move opened the company up to a whole new world of possibilities.
"My vision was, let's take my experience with high-level customer service, combined with your experience in high-level production, and let's offer the most sophisticated commercial production service there is," said Haun, now serving as president of Flashlight Media. "We're not just creating content for ourselves, but we're actually creating content for other people. It's their vision, their project, and they're hiring us to create it for them."
While Flashlight still produces its own content, Haun said the vast majority of the company's business now is contract commercial production. The company produces everything from television commercials and Web clips to training videos and more.
One of Flashlight Media's major local clients is the FedEx St. Jude Classic golf tournament. Flashlight produces commercials for the annual event and films the tournament to produce videos in hopes of luring golfers and sponsors.
One of the videos produced for the golf tournament shows attendees having a raucous time with a band playing in the background. Suddenly, the now-famous "Hush Y'all" signs shoot out of the crowd before a voice asks people to "come play" at the golf tournament.
"We're huge fans of the event and for what that event means to the city. It is a huge privilege to be their exclusive video partner," Haun said. "It's very humbling and we do feel a responsibility to present this city well."
The company has also produced content for Collierville-based Pyramex Safety Products LLC, which specializes in protective eyewear, with distribution in the United States Canada, Europe, South America and Africa.
"We're thankful they gave us the opportunity to produce content that is viewed internationally," Haun said.
While the company has worked with a host of local clients, it found another growth opportunity by bringing production to Memphis from other markets.
"We're able to go to other major markets and bring production back to Memphis because we're able to provide a better service than they were able to find in their markets," Haun said.
For instance, Flashlight Media does all the production work for the Rivers of Hope Foundation, the charitable organization founded by San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers and his wife, Tiffany.
The foundation focuses on helping unwanted, abandoned and orphaned children find permanent homes.
"There's no shortage of service production providers in the area there," Haun said, "but they came to us to exclusively produce their video content."
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Black soldiers at Normandy: The Forgotten Ones
On War, Racism and American Exceptionalism
Almost everything Americans know about the history of US wars is what they learn from the movies and media cheer leaders who serve up heroic stories designed to promote patriotism in the populace. Hence it is in the nature of things that the average citizen's views on this question are shaped far more by propaganda – which attempts to selectively arrange the facts to show America in a positive light – than the work of historians who are committed to showing the good, the bad and the ugly. Hence it is no accident that World War II films are dominating the movie schedules on television.
This was the last war in which the US won a clear victory and the objectives were understood by the majority of Americans. The wars that followed were based on ambiguous objectives and the outcomes were unclear. We are still officially at war in Korea over a half century after the fighting stopped.Read After break below
Vietnam was by any measure a disaster. And whileOperation Desert Storm, directed by Colin Powell, was successful in its objectives it was not a full scaled war like Iraq and Afghanistan, and we seemed destined to leave these lands much as we left Vietnam.
It is no wonder that the nation concentrates so heavily on World War II in our search for serviceable war memories. In the war against the racist genocidal Nazi's there is no ambiguity about who the good guys were; the same is true of the Japanese fanatics and the Italian Fascist. This contrast is most clear in the minds of the rah-rah America crowd, the American Exceptionalists, who argue that the US is the polar opposite of Nazi Germany in every respect.
However the facts are quite different. Hitler got his basic racial theories from the American Eugenics movement, specifically the writings of Madison Grant in his 1917 tome "The Passing of the Great Race." In his book, "Defending the Master Race," historian Jonathan Spiro tells us: "Grant was also the leader of the eugenics movement in the United States. He popularized the infamous notions that the blond-haired, blue-eyed Nordics were the "master race" and that the state should eliminate members of inferior races who were of no value to the community. Grant's behind-the-scenes machinations convinced Congress to enact the immigration restriction legislation of the 1920s, and his influence led many states to ban interracial marriage and sterilize thousands of 'unworthy citizens.'"
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It is no wonder that a letter from Hitler turned up in Grant' papers, where Der Fhurer gushes: "Your book is my bible!" The Nazi racial laws, as well as their ideas about sterilization and euthanasia were made in America! Ironically, white Americans was discriminating against its own Afro-American soldiers under "master race" dogma while fighting against such ideas in Germany – even forcing black soldiers guarding German prisoners of war to do their toilet in the bushes, while allowing their white German enemies to use the same bathrooms as them.
Black soldiers sent for training in the South couldn't use their army issued meal tickets to have a meal, they were refused while in uniform while fascist POW's from the German and Italian armies were readily served. Black soldiers who protested this racist treatment were jailed and sometimes lynched.
The late Afro-American historian John Hope Franklin personally witnessed this discrimination against black soldiers in North Carolina. He recalls an humiliating incident in his autobiography, where he was packed into an overcrowded segregated train car with black soldiers, while German prisoners rode in comfort in a "Whites Only" car while pointing at them and laughing at the absurdity of their predicament.
There are many such instances of white Americans favoring German Prisoners of war over black American soldiers detailed in the 2004 book "Icons of Insult: German and Italian Prisoners of War in African American Letters during World War II, by the German scholar Matthias Reiss. American Exceptionalism indeed!
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Maclaren Stroller Recall
November 25th, 2009We have had several inquiries lately about the Maclaren stroller recall, so I thought I would weigh in on the topic and help shed some light.
The issue is with all 9 Maclaren stroller models, new and old.
The recall was voluntary and it was issued because 12 kids had their finger tips amputated when their little fingers got stuck in the side hinges during the stroller unfolding process. When it comes to child safety, we must all take caution. However, please keep in mind that this issue was caused during the folding and unfolding process, not while strolling. So, parents, take the appropriate measures to fix the issue, but please don't panic. Your stroller is fine, you just need to contact your retailer or Maclaren directly to have them send you a package of hinge covers.
Maclaren is providing all retailers and stroller owners with a package of 2 Hinge Covers. When installing them, it sufficiently covers/blocks the hinge area, preventing kids from getting their fingers caught.
Once you have these and install them, you are ready to roll again!
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NO. 1: 85th MLB ALL-STAR GAME
Details/TV: At Minneapolis, Minn., 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Ch. 11:
A well-intentioned lad at RantSports.com decided that he had five reasons to give us for why we need to watch this annual exhibition game that continues to mistakenly give World Series home-field advantage to the league that wins it. Reason No. 5: It's a major sporting event "that carries a social obligation to care." Not to get off on a rant here, but that just doesn't cut it. We'll give you that it's Derek Jeter's last All-Star appearance — the 40-year-old playing in his 20th season is making his 14th trip. But what if potential NL starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw faces AL leadoff hitter Mike Trout to start the game? And Trout launches a ball over the head of right fielder Yasiel Puig. And Puig leaps to try to make the catch — and hurts himself, allowing Trout to circle the bases, but Trout is called out because he didn't slide? And the replay reverses the call? And Bud Selig declares it a draw. That's a moment unto itself that's worth at least setting the DVR. This all assumes Puig plays in the game after the 29th MLB Home Run Derby (today, 5 p.m., ESPN), where there's plenty of possibilities available for him to pull a rib cage while trying to match longballs with Giancarlo Stanton, Jose Bautista, Yoenis Cespedes and Adam Jones. There's a reason why Trout, Miggy Cabrera and Jose Abreu aren't participating in one exhibition but will be there for the other.
NO. 2: GOLF: 143rd BRITISH OPEN
Details/TV: At Royal Liverpool in Hoylake, England, Thursday-Sunday, ESPN:
As Tiger Woods makes his first appearance in a major this season, ESPN has decided to air an exclusive broadcast on its ESPN3 online feed showing his every move. Thing is, most of the ESPN coverage each day (4 a.m. to noon the first two days, 6 a.m. to noon on Saturday and 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, with a three-hour condensed repeat coverage from noon to 3 p.m. on Ch. 7) will likely already be all over the three-time British Open champ, who last won this thing in 2006 when it was played on this plot of land far more ancient than the Beatles. ESPN golf analyst Curtis Strange isn't expecting any strange Woods surge to the top this weekend anyway. "I think it will be very difficult to expect a lot of him," Strange said. "One, he's had back surgery. He says he's pain‑free, which it looks like he is, but your body doesn't recover that quickly, so he's not 100 percent and can't be golf‑wise because of conditioning. He hasn't played but one tournament (since the surgery). How do you expect your body to swing and be as accurate and consistent as it is when you're doing it every day and you're perfectly healthy? And before he had the back surgery, he didn't play well. Now, some of that was from the injury, but he really didn't play very well at all. We haven't seen Tiger really, really play well in a while now. I don't expect him to be — I hope he makes the cut. I hope he hits solid shots. He hope he progresses. But I don't think you could ever expect him to be on the first page of the leaderboard come the weekend. And that's just from a player common sense."
NO. 3: MLB: DODGERS at ST. LOUIS
Details/TV: Friday-Sunday, SportsNet L.A. and ESPN:
The fact that the Dodgers took three out of four from the defending NL champs during their recent series at Dodger Stadium, including a Clayton Kershaw shutout to cap it off, gives the networks some storylines as they capture the second and third games of this meeting in St. Louis. The Cardinals are hurting with Yadier Molina on the DL with a bum thumb. The Dodgers, starting a nine-game roadie, have a league-best 29 wins away from home after the first half of the season.
The schedule:
5:15 p.m. Friday on SportsNet L.A.; 1:15 p.m. Saturday on FS1; 5:05 p.m. Sunday on ESPN
Details/TV: 2 p.m. Thursday, first post:
Some 50,000 will show up for the annual surf meeting the turf thoroughbred gathering on Jimmy Durante Boulevard that includes racing every day except Mondays and Tuesdays, has the Aug. 26 Pacific Classic, and runs right up until Sept. 3. On opening day, please wear a hat. It's fashionable.
NO. 5: MLB: ANGELS vs. SEATTLE
Details/TV: At Angel Stadium, Friday-Sunday, FSW:
In his first appearance back from the All-Star break, Mike Trout will be honored — if that's the right word — with a look-alike gnome statue giveaway. Last month, the Salt Lake Bees had a Trout Gnome promotion as well, putting him in one of their Triple-A uniforms. They are selling on eBay for as much as $100. No kidding.
The series:
7:05 p.m. Friday, 6:05 p.m. Saturday and 12:35 p.m. Sunday.
Details: Pasadena Central Library, 2 p.m. Sunday:
The inductions of Dizzy Dean, Rachel Robinson and Don Zimmer mark the 16th class for the non-profit Pasadena-based organization dedicated to making baseball a game for the fans. Zimmer, who passed away two months ago, will be represented by his widow and high-school sweetheart of 62 years, Jean, who married him at home plate at a ballpark in Elmire, N.Y., while Zimmer was playing shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1951. More information: www.baseballreliquary.org.
NO. 7: MLS: GALAXY vs. NEW ENGLAND
Details/TV: At StubHub Center, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, TWCS:
In the post-World Cup funk many kickball fans may be experiencing, this mid-weeker could draw in a decent crowd. When do the Premiere League matches start again?
Also this week: Galaxy at Sporting Kansas City, 3 p.m. Saturday, ESPN2
NO. 8: WNBA: SPARKS vs. WASHINGTON
Details/TV: Staples Center, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, TWCS:
After the Sparks wrap up a four-game road trip in Indiana (5 p.m. Tuesday, ESPN2), it's back home for a mystical adventure before the All-Star break. That's where Candace Parker gets to go to Phoenix for the Saturday exhibition and start for the third time in a row (12:30 p.m., ESPN).
NO. 9: ARENA FOOTBALL: KISS vs. SAN ANTONIO
Details/TV: Honda Center, 7 p.m. Saturday, CBS Sports Network
Can it already be the ninth and final home game for our indoor pyro technicians? For what it's worth, the Kiss declawed the talent-challenged Talons in the season opener, 41-38, and neither team has been the same since.
NO. 10: 23rd ESPY AWARDS
Details/TV: At the Nokia Theatre in LA Live, 6 p.m. Wednesday, ESPN:
It's convenient that the Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award show (as it's never called) will be back in L.A., hosted by the entertainer who simply goes by Drake, including plenty of new LeBron-going-back-to-Cleveland jokes — and includes plenty of exposure for the Stanley Cup champion Kings, who are in contention for Best Team and Best Game (that would be Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final) and Anze Kopitar is nominated for Best NHL Player. Also, UFC star Ronda Rousey is in contention for Best Female Athlete and Best Fighter. Anyone vote Kobe Bryant for Best NBA Player With Career-Threatening Injury?


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Eating Local: How and Why We Do It...And What My Sons Gain From It
Today is Cesar Chavez Day, a day to honor and commemorate the life of an important activist and community leader who spent his life focusing on fair rights for farmworkers, civil rights and environmental sustainability. The day is also celebrated by many as a day of service, and I often highlight simple service activities on my blog on this day. A great resource for service ideas is my Celebrating Acts of Kindness Pinboard and the Pennies of Time's Pinboard of Blogs About Service.
Inspired by the commitment Chavez had for environmental sustainability and access to healthy fruits and vegetables for all (especially for low-income families and farm workers), I decided this year to focus on how (and why) we eat local.
How We Eat Local...
1. By purchasing fresh eggs from a neighbor's chickens.
Even in urban communities, chicken raising is becoming more popular. Seeing if you can purchase eggs from someone in your community supports their chicken raising and is an affordable way to get farm fresh, free range eggs.
2. By supporting a local CSA (Abundant Harvest Organics is ours).
What does CSA stand for? Community Supporter Agriculture. A CSA makes farm-to-table vegetables and produce accessible and affordable by allowing individuals and families to "join" local farmers by committing to purchase a set amount of fruits/veggies straight from the farmers or farm-share group. Through it, our family eats a wider variety of fruits and vegetables than we normally would, and it means organic produce is affordable for my family, despite a limited budget.
I shared my Top 5 Benefits of my CSA over at Conveying Awareness.
To find out if there is a CSA near you, visit localharvest.org.
3. Through purchasing local honey.
I buy local honey from a 100% solar-powered honey farm not too far from us. The honey is certified organic and works wonders for seasonal allergies. (I've already seen this benefit with Caterpillar). It also doesn't cost anymore than most grocery store honey, and I recently learned that often honey carried at grocery stores is "blended," which means that as long as it is 51% honey, it can also be blended with high fructose corn syrup without any reference of that on the label.
4. By purchasing local dairy
Since I live in California, which produces lots of produce and dairy products, I try to purchase local milk and cheese, when possible, and prioritize local fruits and veggies when I'm supplementing my CSA box.
Find out what's locally grown, brewed, baked or crafted in your area and prioritize those items. Need helping finding local food, visit eatlocalgrown.com.
5. Through growing our own food
Confession: this one is a wish, not a reality yet. Wild Thing is really interested in gardening,
so I hope we can start growing some of our own veggies and herbs soon.
(I'm intimidated, though, so if you have gardening tips or suggestions of what foods to start with, please share them with me!)
Why We Eat Local...
1. Because the food is fresher, and fresh food just tastes better.
In fact, Caterpillar only eats tomatoes that come in our CSA basket. He doesn't like other tomatoes because the travel time and non-organic method of raising them changes their taste.
2. Because the food is healthier.
Local produce is picked at its ripest with a minimal travel time. This maximizes its nutritional value.
3. Because it reduces our ecological footprint/impact.
By minimizing the distance our food has to travel, we reduce pollution and the use of resources.
4. Because it supports fair treatment of workers.
Another reason I am proud to support Abundant Harvest Organics, my local CSA, is that I am supporting farmers who pay their workers fair wages and provide year-round work in a humane (and caring) work environment,
which is sadly not the norm in the food industry, especially with "Big Ag."
Often, individuals who work in the food industry, especially those who pick fruits and vegetables have to travel from various farms as seasons change. This is especially taxing on families as children often migrate with their parents.
5. Because it builds community.
Through purchasing local foods, I've connected with individuals in my community who sell goods that they raise and that also support the CSA. I also love that I'm building community by supporting my local economy. Win-Win.
What My Sons Get Out Of It...2 Big Benefits
1. Knowledge of where food comes from
Through buying local, my sons learn about where their food comes. They help feed the chickens that we get eggs from. They visit the honey farm and taste how honeys differ based on the plants and flowers the bees pollinate.
2. They try new foods and get more nutritional value from those foods.
Since supporting a CSA and buying local encourages us to purchase fruits and vegetables in accordance to what is in season, we don't get stuck in a "produce rut" and eat the same 2-4 fruits/veggies all the time. The boys constantly try new produce, and I know they are getting optimal nutrition from their produce. Plus, local honey really has worked wonders for my youngest son's allergies. His constant runny nose and itchy eyes are a thing of the past.
Do you have tips for eating locally? Do you celebrate Cesar Chavez Day? Please share!
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The U.S. Department of State says Canada's production of tar sands crude, which has a bigger greenhouse gas footprint than other types of oil, is unlikely to be affected by the controversial Keystone XL pipeline proposal.
That assessment came Friday as part of a massive environmental review by the State Department — the analysis fills 11 volumes.
"Approval of any single project is unlikely to significantly affect the rate of extraction of the oil from the oil sands or the refining of heavy crude on the U.S. Gulf Coast," says Kerri-Ann Jones, assistant secretary of state.
But this final version of the review also includes a caveat: Under certain economic conditions, the report says, the project could have a "substantial impact" on production of Canada's tar sands.
The agency's review culminates five years of environmental analysis of a broad array of potential environmental impacts, including an increase in greenhouse gas emissions and greater risks when this type of oil spills.
The final report focused on a nearly 1200-mile stretch of the pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta to Steele City, Neb. (A southern stretch of the Keystone pipeline from Cushing, Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast didn't face the same regulatory hurdles; construction was finished recently and oil started flowing through that section in January.)
The Keystone XL has been especially contentious because the kind of oil it would carry has a significantly bigger greenhouse gas footprint than conventional crude.
To produce heavy Canadian crude, companies scrape the tarry, sandy crude out of the earth with huge machines or inject steam underground to force it out. Then they process it and mix it with liquid fuel to get it to flow through a pipeline. Because of all the energy it takes to produce this oil, the new assessment says heavy Canadian crude has a greenhouse gas footprint 17% larger than the average crude refined in the United States.
The department's previous, more preliminary assessments of the project concluded that it would cause no substantial impact on the environment. In contrast, this final version acknowledged that there was significant uncertainty — and outlined various possible scenarios. Under each of these different scenarios, the additional greenhouse gas emissions projected from the project varied greatly.
The assessment leaves important questions unanswered, Jones says, including "the broader question about how this decision on this pipeline would fit with our broader national and international efforts to address climate change."
The assessment highlights many potential environmental effects of the pipeline, including the particular challenge that heavy Canadian Crude presents when it spills. The Kalamazoo River in Michigan is still being dredged 3 1/2 years after a pipeline burst and spilled heavy crude.
But the biggest issue is the impact of greenhouse gas — in July President Obama said the project won't be allowed to proceed "if it significantly exacerbates the problem of carbon pollution."
Some environmentalists criticize the agency for failing to acknowledge that Keystone XL would bolster production of tar sands by providing an outlet for 830,000 barrels a day.
But other environmentalists were encouraged by changes from previous analyses.
"The State Department is saying that the oil is both more toxic [and] more corrosive, as well as more carbon-intensive than conventional oil," says Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club. "And so this is a document that actually gives Secretary Kerry complete latitude."
Energy analysts say the assessment also keeps the door open for Kerry to approve the pipeline.
TransCanada, the Canadian company proposing to build the project, welcomed the review's findings.
"We're very pleased with the release and [with] being able to move to this next stage of the process," says Russ Girling, president and CEO of TransCanada. "It's been long in getting here."
Jones say Secretary Kerry will weigh other factors, such as energy needs and national security, as he works to determine if the pipeline is in the national interest of the United States overall. For example, pipeline supporters stress that Keystone XL would reduce dependence on oil from Venezuela and the Middle East.
There's no deadline for Kerry's decision.
It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Audie Cornish.
The proposed Keystone XL pipeline cleared another hurdle today with this assessment: There are a lot of environmental impacts associated with the crude oil from the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, but the pipeline would not necessarily make them worse. That's the conclusion of the State Department's final report on the environmental impact of the proposed pipeline. The Keystone would carry crude from Alberta to refineries in Texas. NPR's Elizabeth Shogren has been looking at the report.
ELIZABETH SHOGREN, BYLINE: The Keystone XL has been so contentious because the kind of oil it would carry has a significantly bigger greenhouse gas footprint. To produce it, companies scrape the tarry stuff out of the Earth with huge machines or inject steam under ground to force it out. The State Department says because it take so much energy to produce the stuff, in the end, this fuel releases 17 percent more greenhouse gases than the average crude. Still, Assistant Secretary of State Kerri-Ann Jones says rejecting the pipeline won't stop the oil from getting to market.
KERRI-ANN JONES: Approval of any single project is unlikely to significantly affect the rate of extraction of the oil from the oil sands or the refining of heavy crude oil on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
SHOGREN: That's because the oil could travel by rail or through another pipeline. This key conclusion is part of an environmental assessment that fills 11 volumes. There are other environmental impacts. The assessment says this heavy oil is harder to clean up when it spills. The Kalamazoo River in Michigan is still being dredged three and a half years after a big pipeline spill of this heavy crude.
But the big issue is greenhouse gases. President Obama has said the project won't go ahead if it significantly exacerbates the problem of carbon pollution. The assessment ends more than five years of environmental research. But Jones says it leaves many questions unanswered.
JONES: The broader question about how the decision on this pipeline would fit with our broader national and international efforts to address climate change.
SHOGREN: Environmental groups are scrambling to review the assessment. But they were encouraged by changes from previous ones.
MICHAEL BRUNE: The State Department is saying that the oil is both more toxic and more corrosive, as well as more carbon intensive than conventional oil.
SHOGREN: Michael Brune is the executive director of the Sierra Club.
BRUNE: And so this is a document that actually gives Secretary Kerry complete latitude.
SHOGREN: Secretary Kerry will also weigh other factors such as energy needs and national security to determine if the pipeline is in the country's interest. There's no deadline for Kerry's decision. Elizabeth Shogren, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Move over Madonna Lady Gaga No one! There's a new pop icon on the scene! The long anticipated and highly awaited crap music video by the one and only Countess has arrived!
The video of the classic "Money Can't Buy You Class" hit the web on Friday, and according to LuAnn de Lesseps of the Real Housewives of New York City, the video was "leaked."
LuAnn, 44, tweeted on Friday, "Well the cats out of the bag! Someone leaked my video!" Sure they did Countess. In the video, which was shot last month, LuAnn can be seen surrounded by a fleet of chiseled eye candy.
"There's not really dancing," said LuAnn of the video concept. "I just have very good looking men standing around. And it's about how money can't buy you class, so I'm taking money out of their pockets and throwing it onto the floor."
The exclusive and not heavily air brushed video of LuAnn is below! Enjoy at your own risk.


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Asus P5Q Pro Review
Intel's P45 Express chipset has taken the market by storm this year. It makes high end performance features available to mainstream consumers by providing support for the latest 45nm processors, up to 16GB of DDR2, Intel's Extreme Memory Profiles (XMP) and dual PCI Express 2.0 slots. Along with all these features, the chipset delivers Intel's Fast Memory Access, which optimizes available bandwidth while reducing latency. Also, Matrix Storage Technology affords faster access to data while providing greater protection against hard drive failure when using RAID and adds eSATA capability.
As one of the best bang for your buck platforms currently available, motherboard manufacturers have flooded the market with dozens of P45 models to choose from. Consumers are left with only one dilemma; which one should I get? Asus provides several P45 mobos ranging from mainstream to enthusiast models. Today, I'll be reviewing the wonderfully affordable and increasingly popular P5Q Pro motherboard. If you are shopping around for competitively priced board with performance that exceeds its asking price, you'll definitely want to keep reading this review to find out what this baby has to offer.
Closer Look:
The P5Q Pro comes in attractive packaging that highlights all of its features. The face of the box flaunts the board's notable features such as Drive Xpert, Express Gate, the use of solid capacitors and 8-phase power design. On the backside, you will find more details about the product just in case you wanted a quick reference of what the P5Q Pro had to offer.
Asus provides a small bundle to get you going. Compared to other boards at this price point, Asus provides more extras than you would expect. Along with common internal cables that accompanies almost every motherboard, there is an eSATA/1394 module, three piece Q-Connector kit, and an SATA power cable for two devices. I like the fact that Asus also includes the Q-Shield instead of the customary I/O plate. I'll cover the support CD's contents later in the review.


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Gajdzik's fall sealed the Crimson's victory over No. 14 Lehigh (OAC).
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Harvard wrestling team pulled off one of the upsets of the year Sunday afternoon, knocking off No. 14 Lehigh on its home mat, 25-16.
With the score tied at 16, 197-pounder James Fox came up with a 2-0 decision over John Bolich to put Harvard out in front by three, 19-16, heading into the final bout. From there heavyweight Nicholas Gajdzik did the rest, registering his third fall of the year against Max Wessell in sudden victory overtime to seal the victory.
"Today's match versus Lehigh was a great team effort," Jay Weiss, The David G. Bunning Head Coach for Harvard Wrestling stated. "Our guys wrestled hard for points and they battled hard the entire match. Lehigh always has a great environment and today was no different. I told our guys to let that atmosphere work to our advantage. We took a big step towards our goals today."
Harvard's (5-5, 3-4 EIWA) victory was its first against Lehigh (7-7, 3-4 EIWA) since 1998 and broke a streak of 14 consecutive losses to the Mountain Hawks, who placed eighth at last year's NCAA Championships.
Jeffrey Ott put the Crimson on the board early with a 10-0 major decision over Alex Abreu at 125 lbs. to get the day started. Lehigh took the next match via an 8-0 major decision to even the team scores before No. 13 Steven Keith picked his 99th career win via a 7-2 decision against Anthony Salupo to put Harvard back on top. The Mountain Hawks tied it up once again at 149 lbs. as No. 17 Shane Welsh snuck by Todd Preson, 8-3.
No. 8 Walter Peppelman gave Harvard a six-point cushion in team scores, 13-7, with his pin of Albert Woody at the 0:48 mark. The fall was his second of the year and the 29th of his career, ranking him third all-time in program history. Devon Gobbo followed Peppelman with a 5-4 decision versus Ben Haas, pushing the team score to 16-7.
No. 15 Nathaniel Brown and No. 3 Robert Hamlin pulled Lehigh back into the dual with a major decision and technical fall at 174 lbs. and 184 lbs., respectively, before Fox and Gajdzik put the victory away.
Harvard returns to Cambridge next weekend as it hosts Brown Saturday, Feb. 16 at 12 p.m. in the Malkin Athletic Center. The Crimson will then head over to Boston University later in the afternoon for a 6:30 p.m. showdown with the Terriers.
Harvard 25, No. 14 Lehigh 16
125 – Jeffrey Ott (Harvard) major dec. Alex Abreu (Lehigh) 10-0, 4-0
133 – Randy Cruz (Lehigh) major dec. Shay Warren (Harvard) 8-0, 4-4
141 – No. 13 Steven Keith (Harvard) dec. Anthony Salupo (Lehigh) 7-2, 7-4
149 – No. 17 Shane Welsh (Lehigh) dec. Todd Preston (Harvard) 8-3, 7-7
157 – No. 8 Walter Peppelman (Harvard) fall Albert Woody (Lehigh) 0:48, 13-7
165 – Devon Gobbo (Harvard) dec. Ben Haas (Lehigh) 5-4, 16-7
174 – No. 15 Nathaniel Brown (Lehigh) major dec. Ian Roy (Harvard) 13-1, 16-11
184 – No. 3 Robert Hamlin (Lehigh) tech fall. Josh Popple (Harvard) 20-5 (6:04), 16-16
197 – James Fox (Harvard) dec. John Bolich (Lehigh) 2-0, 19-16
285 – Nicholas Gajdzik (Harvard) fall Max Wessell (Lehigh) 7:55 (SV1), 25-16


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A performing arts program at Gadsden City High School was proposed Tuesday at the Gadsden Board of Education's meeting.
A performing arts program at Gadsden City High School was proposed Tuesday at the Gadsden Board of Education's meeting.
"It's to give a little more emphasis for those who want a career in the performing arts," Superintendent Ed Miller said. "It can be either technical or for performance."
The proposed program would be a joint venture with the Career Technical School and would give students specialized instruction in performing arts. The students could receive a fine arts add-on to any diploma upon completion of the program, with the goal of helping them further their goal of a career in the arts.
Students would be able to start the program at the beginning of their junior year. A 2.5 grade point average would be required to enter the program and students would have to maintain a 3.0 GPA.
There would be two different tracks within the program. Performance will give classes to help students hone their skills in theater, singing or playing a musical instrument. The technical track would help people learn how to work behind the scenes, with classes like electrical engineering to help them learn how to set up a stage for a performance.
Three similar programs at Gadsden City High started this school year, offering degrees with biomedical, computer information sciences and electrical engineering endorsements.
Miller said the program helps with the school system's stated goal of helping students succeed in athletics, academics and the arts.
"All areas of the arts have been important to Gadsden City Schools and will continue to be," Miller said. "It's a pretty unique thing in the state of Alabama."


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EASTON, Pa. (AP) — A northeastern Pennsylvania woman is using purple toilets to raise money to fight cancer.
The Express-Times reports (http://bit.ly/15elgmY ) Rebecca Szabo-Silfies and her two young sons have been leaving the commodes on lawns around Upper Nazareth Township as part of the "Flush Out Cancer" effort. She chairs Saturday's American Cancer Society Relay for Life event at Nazareth Area High School.
She stakes out a home, leaves a toilet and then waits for the homeowner to find it. The person can then pay $10 to have it taken away, $20 to send it to a friend or $30 to send it to a friend and guarantee it never comes back.
The two purple toilets have made 18 stops so far, raising $400. Szabo-Silfies says she found the idea on the Internet.
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Fisher Cats' struggles continue in shutout loss to B-MetsBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 11. 2014 10:14PM
MANCHESTER — Runs and victories have been in short supply for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats the last few days.
New Hampshire's losing streak reached six games with Friday night's 7-0 setback against the Binghamton Mets. The Fisher Cats (2-6) were limited to three hits and have scored two runs in their last three outings.
"I'm not really worried about the offense," Fisher Cats manager Bobby Meacham said. "I'm more worried about the pitching and the defense. I just feel like we're better than what we've seen. These guys are tentative and those aren't the kind of pitchers I saw last year, when they went after it.
"Defensively I already addressed a few things with our infielders about being aggressive. Offense is going to be fine. They haven't been tentative at the plate at all."
Third baseman Brian Burgamy hit two solo home runs for Binghamton (6-2), which stretched its winning streak to five games. Binghamton scored six of its seven runs in the final three innings against the Fisher Cats bullpen.
Binghamton starter Rainy Lara held the Fisher Cats to three hits in seven innings. Lara (2-0, 2.19) threw 78 pitches, 52 of which were strikes.
Lara beat Akron in his Double-A debut last Saturday. He allowed eight hits in 5⅓ innings that day.
"He was good — very good," Meacham said. "He was exactly what you're looking for. Not overpowering, but he was committed to each pitch he threw. Wasn't worried about it getting hit. Actually wanted it to get hit so he could get the ball in play, get outs and keep rolling.
"He did an outstanding job. You try to execute your pitches and whoever's better wins."
The Fisher Cats wasted a strong pitching performance by starter Scott Copeland, who held Binghamton to one run on two hits in six innings. He walked two and struck out one.
Binghamton's run against Copeland came on a home run by Burgamy, who hit his other home run against reliever Will Browning in the eighth.
The Mets also received a solo home run from designated hitter Matt Clark in the seventh. That home run came against reliever Tony Davis, who surrendered four runs (three earned) on three hits in the inning.
Binghamton capped its scoring with a run against Gregory Infante in the ninth.
Center fielder Kenny Wilson, second baseman Jon Berti and third baseman Ryan Schimpf — the first three hitters in the Fisher Cats' batting order — had New Hampshire's hits, all singles.
The teams will play the third game of their four-game series Saturday (1:35 p.m.). The scheduled starting pitchers are New Hampshire's Casey Lawrence (0-0, 6.25 ERA) and Binghamton's Hansel Robles (0-0, 0.00).


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- Carl Palmer: Saturday, April 13 at Brick by Brick, 1130 Buenos Ave., 7 p.m. 21 and up. $30. www.brickbybrick.com
Yes, Nancarrow is related to well-respected local television news anchor Loren Nancarrow. In fact, his son, Graham is frontman. The band Nancarrow is a terrific quintet playing a hybrid of country, folk and bluegrass. Still a relatively young band, Nancarrow took the local club scene by storm when it first emerged, earning a "Best Americana" nomination in 2012, less than a year after the band formed. Appearing at the Tiki House on April 17, the band plays honky-tonk country at its best, but also includes choice recast, unexpected covers, such as an excellent update of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here."
- Nancarrow performs at The Tiki House on April 17, 1152 Garnet Ave. 9 p.m. 21 and up. www.tikipb.com
Another in a long string of bands that have relocated to San Diego to be part of the local music community, Fish Out of Water performs at Café-Bar Europa on April 19. Originally from San Luis Obispo, Fish Out Of Water is the perfect band to kick off the weekend in Pacific Beach. Mixing reggae with funk and bits of acoustic rock, the band delivers a high-energy show that keeps crowds moving on the dance floor. Since 2000, the group has released four albums, but this is a group that needs to be experienced live.
- Fish Out of Water: Friday, April 19 at Café-Bar Europa, 873 Turqouise St. 9 p.m. 21 and up. www.theturquoise.com/wordpress
Call it roots music or Americana, country or folk rock with Southern leanings, but there is no doubt Sara Petite is the local queen of the sound. Appearing at The Griffin on April 19, Petite is poised on the verge of a national breakthrough. Petite is touring further afield these days, playing events like a benefit concert for Wings guitarist Henry McCullough held in Dublin, Ireland earlier this month. Her latest album, "Circus Comes to Town," is an excellent listen, but any chance to see her live with her band, the Sugar Daddies, is just about a guaranteed good time for anyone who want to kick up their heels.
- Sara Petite: Friday, April 19 at The Griffin, 1310 Morena Blvd. 9 p.m. 21 and up. $12. www.thegriffinsd.com
Grammy Award-winning multi-instrumentalist Francisco Loyo stops in at Dizzy's on April 21. Best known as keyboardist, composer, arranger and music director for Latin superstar Louis Miguel Loyo will be performing with his own group at this show, which also features Miguel's acclaimed percussionist, Tom Aros. Playing with Miguel to tens of thousands around the world is a far cry from his early days as a musician at Disneyland, but he's also penned or co-penned a slew of Miguel's biggest hits. Expect a mix of new originals and a few classics from his own songbook. You don't have to be a fan of Latin music to enjoy Loyo's well-crafted tunes.
- Francisco Loyo: Sunday, April 21 at Dizzy's, 4275 Mission Bay Drive. 7 p.m. $15. www.dizzysjazz.com


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Brotherhood of the Spirit Documentary
Beginning in a treehouse in Leyden, Mass., during the summer of 1968, the Brotherhood of the Spirit (later the Renaissance Community) grew to become the largest commune in the eastern United States. Founded by Michael Metelica and six friends, and infused with the spiritual teachings of Elwood Babbitt, the commune relocated several times during its first half decade, setting down at different points in Heath, Charlemont, Warwick, Turners Falls, and Gill, Mass., as well as Guilford, Vt.
Produced at UMass Amherst, this video (digitized from a 16mm motion picture original) provides a largely laudatory glimpse of commune life during the boom years of the Brotherhood of the Spirit, probably around 1973. Sound quality in the video is highly uneven, often poor, particularly in the first two minutes.
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While reading the Pioneer about the last council meeting something caught my eye that I can't let go by without making a comment and that is about the city attorney's contract.
One of the comments was Mr. Fugate's contract was "lifetime"– not true. Because if it was then the council would not vote on the contract on an annual basis would it?
According to the article the council wanted "a Board certified attorney in the city, ccounty and local government."
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SYCAMORE – The DeKalb County Board officially welcomed seven new members Monday, including four Democrats, resulting in a 12-12 split along party lines for the 24-member body that got off to a divided start.
The even split made it necessary for a bipartisan advisory group of County Board members to come to a compromise on how the chairmanship and committee leadership positions would be filled, but those agreements caused division among members that caused some heated debate.
Ken Andersen, R-Sycamore, and Jeff Metzger, R-Sandwich, were both nominated for chairmanship, which surprised Charles Foster, R-Shabbona, because he believed there was an agreement for Andersen.
"It's very sad, the lack of integrity involved in this," Foster said. "This is politics at its worst."
Metzger defended his decision to accept the other nomination despite criticism from his own party members, who said everyone agreed to support Andersen during the caucus meeting.
"The process is not over with until the vote has been taken," Metzger said. "There is no personal gain. It's a lot of work and little pay."
The board stopped the meeting to "stand at ease," and it divided into two separate groups to discuss agreements and talk off the public record for 10 minutes after there was some question about the legality of going into a full recess for private discussions during a public meeting.
After the group meetings during the "at ease" period, the board then nominated John Gudmunson, R-Somonauk, and Andersen withdrew his name. Metzger won the chairmanship 12-11 with all Democrats voting for Metzger. Paul Stoddard, D-DeKalb, won vice chair.
Andersen walked out of the meeting after the Metzger nomination.
The County Board was not the only government entity to receive a makeover as the county officially started its new judicial district.
County judges and legal officials were sworn in Monday to serve the newly created 23rd Judicial Circuit. The new circuit includes DeKalb and Kendall counties after both split from Kane County in the 16th Judicial Circuit.
The new circuit will allow DeKalb County to get through cases quicker because the courthouse will now have six full-time judges starting in January.
Kendall County Judge Tim McCann, new chief judge of the circuit, thanked those responsible for making the new judicial circuit a reality by writing rules and procedures and pushing for support of the legislation that allowed the split.
"This is a historic day ... and one that will never be repeated in our lifetime," McCann said. "We will be more responsive and efficient than we've been in the past."
Presiding Judge Robbin Stuckert said the split from Kane County was necessary because Kane grew much faster than DeKalb and Kendall and had different needs. She said the split would never have happened without the support and assistance from judges in Kane County.
"It's really a momentous day," Stuckert said. "This is something we've worked together on for a long time."
Both familiar and new names were included in the first class of government officials sworn into office Monday under authority of the new circuit. Officials such as Coroner Dennis Miller, Circuit Clerk Maureen Josh and Treasurer Mark Todd are back for another term, while State's Attorney Richard Schmack and Regional Superintendent Amanda Christensen started their first official day on the job.
Schmack will have no time to ease into his position because investigations into Northern Illinois University are ongoing, and major court cases such as the William "Billy" Curl trial are weeks away. While Schmack criticized former State's Attorney Clay Campbell for some of his tactics with NIU, he said he would continue to pursue investigations into the university when warranted.
"I'm not here to run NIU ... but we're going to be intimately involved," Schmack said. "We'll examine anything that happens there in an appropriate way."
New Board Members
Tracy Jones, R-Shabbona; Mark Pietrowski Jr., D-Cortland; Anthony Cvek, R-Sycamore; Misty Haji-Sheikh, D-DeKalb; Marc Johnson, D-DeKalb; Frank O'Barski, D-DeKalb; John Frieders, R-Sandwich.


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Today at the New Republic Lee Smith explains the trouble with talking directly with Syria and other rogue regimes. Given today's news that Jimmy Carter is planning to talk with the head of Hamas in Damascus, I asked Lee if he would expand on his column to address Carter's prospective coffee klatch in Damascus. He has graciously responded:
Next week Jimmy Carter is headed to Damascus to speak with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal. The former president is only the latest in a series of American legislators and policymakers, including Carter's former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzenziski, to have visited the Syrian capital to dialogue with parties responsible for targeting American civilians, soldiers and diplomats, US allies and interests around the Middle East. Carter's antipathy to "apartheid" Israel is well known and so it is hardly surprising he should make time to chat with the representative of an eliminationist movement. What's interesting about Carter's mission however is that it spotlights the curious habit of American statesmen to persist in their errors.
We have seen this in Syria time and again, not only with the stream of recent tourists, like Nancy Pelosi and Arlen Specter, who believe they are accomplishing something when the only obvious result of their engagement with Bashar al-Asad is to embolden the Syrian president to arrest dissidents. Former Secretary of State James Baker never learned the painful lesson Hafez al-Asad taught him in the '90s that Syrian diplomacy is maximalist, and so the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group advised the Bush administration to talk with Syria. During Colin Powell's tenure as Secretary of State he lost credibility with the Bush administration when he came back from Damascus humiliated by Bashar, who after promising to shut down the Iraqi oil pipeline and to close the offices of Islamic Jihad and Hamas, did neither. Perhaps out of fear of embarrassment, Powell insists to this day that his negotiations with Syria were fruitful.
But compared to these examples, Carter's trip promises to be an opera bouffe of blinkered diplomacy. Khaled Meshaal is not a Hamas "hardliner" ostensibly at odds with more "moderate" Hamas figures; rather he is the man who calls the shots. This is why chief of Egyptian military intelligence Omar Suleiman dealt primarily with Meshaal during the Gaza breakout in February, and not, say, Ismail Haniyeh. In Damascus, Meshaal gets his marching orders from Tehran, which means that the former American president, during whose tenure the US lost a pillar of its Persian Gulf security strategy to the Khoemeinist revolution, will effectively be talking to a representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Carter and his White House staff misunderstood the nature of the Khomeini government back in 1978 and it seems that he, like the incorrigible Brzenzinski, have learned little about Iran since then. It is, above all, a revolution and one of its goals is to overthrow the established order by routing the US and drive it from the region. In the Persian Gulf, Iran is bullying Washington's Sunni allies and, as General Petraeus's Senate testimony yesterday made plain, waging open war against the US in Iraq. In the Eastern Mediterranean it is fighting US allies in Lebanon and Israel and threatening Egypt, the largest Arab state and still in many ways the most influential.
Egypt's alliance with the US is the fruit of the 1978 Camp David accords, and the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt is the one foreign policy achievement the Carter White House can point to with pride: It secured the Pax Americana in the Eastern Mediterranean, and US hegemony throughout most of the Middle East. The Iranian project is to put an end to all that, and this is what lay behind Hamas's breakout in Gaza, to force Cairo eventually into a situation that would lead to it breaking the treaty with Israel. Unfortunately, it is difficult not to conclude that Jimmy Carter is unaware that the man he will be sitting down with is plotting to turn his legacy into dust.
If Barack Obama becomes president, we have to hope his diplomatic hubris will be checked by a Bush White House that seems to have understood how tempting Damascus must be for American statesmen eager to sit down with American enemies.
At Contentions, Noah Pollak adds a timely update on the Hamas-related Gaza saga.


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Skip to comments.Russia's Putin signs new treason law
Posted on 11/15/2012 7:57:39 AM PST by nuconvert
Russia introduced a new law broadening the definition of treason on Wednesday, alarming opponents who say Vladimir Putin will use it to silence his critics and that almost anyone in contact with foreigners will be at risk.
The legislation allows Russians representing international organizations to be charged with treason, as well as those working for foreign states and bodies, and expands the range of actions that can be considered treasonous.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Obegone is taking notes.
It's now treason in Russia to criticize Putin's good friend Obama.
Russia is taking the same measures to protect its national interest as the US should have taken.
Coming soon to a nation near you. I'm guessing the new world order will all sign off on this? They'll punish or kill the "lawbreakers" first in secret until the Left gets wind of it then they'll broadcast it on TV and take bets on who will get shots first or who'll last the longest all while eating popcorn and laughing giddily as they watch their TV screens. Morons...
Well, you don't see Sorors getting the run of that place. You don't see Obama getting the upper hand either.
And Russia is the one reason Israel has survived the attempts on it by Iran and the US, the EU and the UN.
I truly get amazed by the small flock of Putin butt-kissers on FR. And not amazed in a good way.
"And Russia is the one reason Israel has survived the attempts on it by Iran and the US, the EU and the UN."
Now I'm intrigued. Can you expand on that?
Lol. If I had to choose between Putin and Obama, I'd choose Putin anyday. If I had to choose between Putin and 999 out of a thousand American pols, I'd choose Putin. I'f I had to choose between Putin and a large majority of the American electorate, I'd trust Putin.
Too bad you made such an unforgivable mess of your country.
After the Beslan school massacre, Putin said he would get all those who were involved. And he did. Everyone who escaped was killed, as were a lot of those who supported them. Good job!
You have no doubt observed the Russian "help" given to Iran in its enrichment project.
The "help" has served at least two purposes:
1. To control what Iran actually does by sabotaging services which Iran has no other source for.
2. To keep tabs on Iranian capabilities in the position of a "trusted observer".
A good example of the Russian play with Israel is when Russia supplied Iran with advanced air defense systems, and at the same time sent the self-destruct codes to Israel.
Reminds me of the Cold War-era joke.
An American and a Russian were arguing about which country was better...The American started out by saying....."In my country, we can criticize the American President." The Russian then retorted, "We can do the same thing in my country as well, I too can criticize the American President."
One of my favorites was the Russian worker who said "They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work."
It is now treasonous for a Russian government worker to go to a foreign country and be critical of the Russian rulers.
Where have I seen that type of activity lately from Americans?
Jon Caray; The Hildabeeste; Obamugabe in Germany and Egypt.
The USSR were masters at using NGOs to penetrate and disrupt their enemy's. They did a masterful job on us. Its no suprise they understand what the real intentions of these organizations are.
The law is aimed at UN and foreign NGO subversion and insurrection very similar in Russia as it is in the US.
Putin is Russian, and it would be logical to see him take actions to protect RUSSIAN interests. He has no duty to protect Americans or anybody else, but his enforcement against Russian traitors is liable to expose their American partners.
Putin supports Obama because Russia is a competitor to America, and Putin wants the weakest possible leader for the competition.
They experienced socialism and know it as the curse it is. We are going to find out the hard way too.
Why do you think so many marxist-hollywood producers have RUSSIAN ACCENTED villains in every movie they make?
They will never forgive the Russians for dumping Karl Marx and his dehumanizing cult of death called socialism-communism.
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Nov. 15, 2012 11:06 AM
WARMINSTER, Pa., Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For summer 2013, W. Atlee Burpee, the country's leading home gardening company, offers a remarkable lineup of breakthrough vegetables, flowers, and fruits.
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The trailblazing new varieties will be featured in Burpee's 2013 catalog and on the company's website, burpee.com.
Founded in 1876, Burpee has introduced numerous breakthrough varieties in its 136 years, including the first white sweet corn, the 'Big Boy' tomato, the first white marigold, Iceberg lettuce and 'Sweet Seedless,' the world's first seedless tomato. George Ball, our Chairman and CEO, says these outstanding new varieties will make 2013 "a blockbuster summer in the garden."
Burpee's lineup of Superheroes for 2013 includes several exclusives -- one-of-a-kind varieties you won't find anywhere else.
'On Deck' Hybrid Sweet Corn -- Even veteran gardeners can regard growing corn as a challenge requiring space and effort. 'On Deck' – the first-ever sweet corn specially bred for containers -- makes growing corn easy, convenient and fun. Ever so tasty, this breakthrough bicolor variety is perfectly sized -- 4-5' tall -- for full-sun decks and patios: an incredible edible conversation-piece that produces 2-3 delicious 7-8"-long ears per stalk. 'On Deck' will transform the look of your patio -- and puts sweet, delicious corn at arm's reach. Supersweet (Sh2). A Burpee exclusive.
'SuperSauce' Hybrid Paste Tomato -- It's SuperSauce! The new tomato superhero. Tipping the scales at 2 lbs., a whopping 5.5" tall x 5" wide, SuperSauce produces gallons of luscious, seedless sauce from a single plant harvest -- one tomato fills an entire sauce jar. Easy-to-grow, semi-determinate, disease-free plants yield a summerlong supply of the exquisitely-flavored marinara, tomato gravy or meat sauce. A Burpee exclusive.
'Crimson Giant' Raspberry -- The world's largest raspberry ever! "Crimson Giant' weighs 4.5 grams -- fully 40-50% bigger than other varieties. Producing hefty yields of delicious, firm, bright-red, sugar-sweet berries, this new variety was bred by the berry experts at Cornell University. Season-extending, self-pollinating plants keep producing beauteous big berries from late September right into October, and even November.
'Mighty Sweet' Hybrid Grape Tomato -- Meet the new grape tomato loaded with big time nutritional oomph. The first-ever determinate grape tomato, the supersweet mini 2 oz. fruits are loaded with anti-oxidants and high in flavanoids, C, beta-carotene, lycopene and other phytonutrients. The prolific, beauteous plants, with their plenitude of delectable miniature marvels, are sensational in patio containers. A Burpee exclusive.
'Sun King' Hybrid Broccoli -- Here's the new, go-to broccoli for long, hot summers. This large delicious, blue-green variety, is a standout for heat tolerance. With heads 6-8" in diameter, 'Sun King' offers great leaf cover and abundant side shoots. A Burpee exclusive.
'Candy Apple' Hybrid Sweet Pepper -- This year, for the first time, we recruited the Burpee Army -- our large, loyal band of customers -- to submit names for a choice pepper variety. The name 'Candy Apple' was the winner, capturing the 5" pepper's luscious deep-red color and sugary sweetness. Large, early-maturing fruits excel in salads, as snacks, and when roasted, baked or sauteed. A Burpee exclusive.
'Blue Lagoon' Verbascum -- And now … the bluest of the blues. Introducing the world's very first true-blue verbascum -- with the very finest blue of any garden flower. Prizewinner in the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show, the plant's tall, erect stems are festooned with ever-so-blue saucer-shaped flowers and rosettes of clean green leaves.
To learn more, we invite you to talk to Burpee's experts. Address your questions about vegetables and herbs to Chelsey Fields (firstname.lastname@example.com) and your flower and fruit questions to Venelin Dimitrov (firstname.lastname@example.com).
To see a full list of Burpee's "New for 2013" varieties, please visit www.burpee.com/new-for-2013/
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Dean Stansel
Dean Stansel is an Associate Professor of Economics at Florida Gulf Coast University and the primary author of the Fraser Institute's annual Economic Freedom of North America report, which ranks the states and the Canadian provinces.
Prior to entering academia, Stansel worked for seven years at the Cato Institute, where he authored (or coauthored) more than 60 publications on fiscal policy issues, including op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Investor's Business Daily, and the Chicago Tribune. He also appeared on television and radio and testified before Congress and several state legislatures.
His academic research has focused on the impact of competition between local governments on fiscal and economic outcomes, the relationship between the size of government and economic growth, state fiscal crises, and a variety of other issues in the areas of public economics and urban economics. Stansel's academic publications have appeared in numerous journals, including the Journal of Urban Economics, Public Finance Review, Cato Journal, Review of Austrian Economics, and the Journal of Housing Research. It has been cited in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation and the Association of Private Enterprise Education awarded him second place in the 2010 Policy Communicators Contest for his paper entitled "Why Are Some Cities Growing While Others Are Shrinking?"
In 2011, Stansel was selected by the Economic Freedom Project to help publicize the findings of the various economic freedom reports and the virtues of economic freedom in general through a variety of media interviews (nearly 100 in 2013). In 2013, he published the first ever local index of economic freedom (www.economicfreedom.org/ 2013/07/18/economic-freedom-in-your-area/) and was chosen to be the primary author of the annual Economic Freedom of North America report. His first report was published in December 2013 (available at www.freetheworld.com/efna.html).
He and his wife, Robin (who he met while both were working at the Cato Institute), live in Fort Myers, Florida. They have two young children who they homeschool. Stansel earned a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Wake Forest University in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University in 2002.


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Bob Craven's first car was a 1954 Ford, and his sentimental favorite was a 1949 Ford flathead with "three (speeds) on the tree."
Barbara Craven knew what she was getting into when she married her husband, Bob, almost a half century ago.
"In 1965, when Bob and I were engaged, he gave me a Christmas present," Barbara Craven said. "It was a tachometer and engine gauge set."
If she didn't know it before, Barbara knew it at that moment: Bob had more than a passing interest in cars. Cars were part of his being.
"It's been love me, love my cars with Bob," Barbara Craven said with a smile.
"Mopar is my life," Bob Craven admitted.
A glance around the Cravens' property near Leeward Air Ranch in southeast Ocala leaves no doubt. There is a sprawling workshop on site where Bob fusses with classic muscle cars, some of which used to intimidate opponents and burn up tracks in his native Long Island.
Bob's first car was a 1954 Ford, and his sentimental favorite was a 1949 Ford flathead with "three (speeds) on the tree."
But Mopar cars — slang for the Chrysler brand of products — are his passion.
"I worked for 39 years at my stepfather's Chrysler Plymouth dealership, Brodlieb Motors, in Woodmere, N.Y.," Bob Craven said. "Then for 12 years I operated an independent repair shop, specializing in Plymouth and Mopar muscle cars.
"I would tweak the advance on the distributors and re-jet the carbs. I've resurrected many Mopars in restorations also," he said.
The couple relocated in 2007 to the southeast Ocala area, where the large detached workshop and garage are outfitted with a full-sized vehicle lift, Sun electronic diagnosis machine and glass cases filled with memorabilia of Bob Craven's racing and restoration days.
Bob Craven's racing scrapbook includes a picture of him with Don Garlits, shots of friends and fellow drag racers like Herb McCandless, and a group of distinctive 1970 Plymouth Super Birds taken at a Long Island track where Bob Craven raced.
High up on one wall is a life-sized cutout of NASCAR driver Ricky Craven, Bob Craven's cousin.
The centerpieces of the garage are three muscle cars from an era when horsepower was king.
There is an all-original super stock 1964 black Barracuda that Bob has owned since it was new; a restored 1970 lime-green Challenger with a 440-cubic-inch engine and a "six pack" or three two barrel carbs producing about 490 horses; and a like-new orange 1972 Road Runner with white highlights powered by a 400-cubic-inch engine rated at 320 horsepower.
Cars like the mid-1960s to early 1970s Mopars were high-horsepower machines that set new standards for performance "right off the showroom floor" and with a little modification could really shine at the drag strip.
So Mopar provided the performance, and Craven did the tweaking.
Craven ticks off the years, makes, models and engine sizes of the early muscle cars as easily as he recalls what he ate for breakfast.
"In 1961 and 1962 Chevy had the performance engines, and then in 1962 Plymouth came out with the 413 Max Wedge engine and things changed. In 1963, Plymouth introduced the 426 Max Wedge and Chevy came out with the 427 engine," Bob Craven said.
His allegiance to Mopar is absolute.
"Mopar guys relate to their cars. Mustang guys want to make noise and go fast, Mopar guys don't show off — they just go fast," Bob joked.
Bob Craven once owned and drag raced a 1963 Plymouth named "Gunsmoke." It had a 420-cubic-inch engine fueled by two four-barrel carbs which would cover the quarter mile in about 11 seconds.
"I call my 1964 Barracuda 'Baby,' " Bob said. "We have had the car since 1968 and made modifications which stepped the car up in class at the drags when we raced."
In 2010, Mopar Collector's Guide Magazine named the Barracuda to a national Top 10 list of collector's vintage Mopar cars.
Bob Craven said the Barracuda, with a documented track class record quarter-mile time of 14.63 in 1972, was on display at the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing.
"Our 'Cuda was in a display highlighting Super Stock cars from 1995 to 2001 at the museum," he said.
Bob said the cars in his garage also are part of his family's history.
"We've had lunch, dinner and gone to the drive-in with the kids in these cars; good memories," Bob Craven said.
And he's still making memories with his cars, Barbara said.
"He plays with those cars day and night," she explained.


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Obama cancels California trip to focus on Syria
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama has canceled a trip to California to focus on his administration's response to chemical weapons use in Syria.
Obama had been scheduled to visit California next week. The White House said Thursday that Obama will stay in Washington to work on a resolution Congress is considering to authorize a military strike in Syria.
Obama has been pressing skeptical lawmakers by phone while traveling this week in Sweden and Russia. His top officials also are lobbying Congress to vote yes.
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Aug. 4: Singer Frankie Ford is 74. Actor-comedian Richard Belzer is 69. Actor Billy Bob Thornton is 58. Actress Kym Karath ("The Sound of Music") is 55. Actress Lauren Tom ("Joy Luck Club," ″Men in Trees") is 54. Producer Michael Gelman ("Live With Regis and Kelly") is 52. Drummer Rob Cieka of Boo Radleys is 45. Actor Daniel Dae Kim is 45. Rapper Yo-Yo ("Miss Rap Supreme") is 42. Singer-actor Marques Houston of Immature is 32. "American Idol" runner-up Crystal Bowersox is 28. Singer Tom Parker of The Wanted is 25. Actors Dylan and Cole Sprouse ("Big Daddy," ″Grace Under Fire") are 21. "American Idol" runner-up Jessica Sanchez is 18.
Aug. 5: Actress Loni Anderson is 68. Actress Erica Slezak ("One Life to Live") is 67. Singer Rick Derringer is 66. Singer Samantha Sang is 60. Actress Maureen McCormick ("The Brady Bunch") is 57. Guitarist Pat Smear (Foo Fighters) is 54. Country fiddler Mark O'Connor is 52. Actor Jonathan Silverman ("The Single Guy") is 47. Country singer Terri Clark is 45. Cellist Eicca Toppinen of Apocalyptica is 38.
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Google has participated in JavaOne every year since 2004, and the person announcing the company's withdrawal, Joshua Bloch, from Google's Open Source Programs Office, has spoken at all JavaOne conferences, except for the first one held in 1996. Google's withdrawal doesn't surprise me considering Oracle's lawsuit.
"We're sad to announce that we won't be able to present at JavaOne this year," Bloch writes, "We wish that we could, but Oracle's recent lawsuit against Google and open source has made it impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source generally."
So, what is this? Sure, the lawsuit is the reason, but does that justify pulling out of the conference altogether? I mean, Java - and JavaOne - is larger than just Oracle itself, and it seems rather harsh to just punish the entire Java community because Oracle is
being a di is suing Google.
Java developer Fabrizio Giudici poses that Google could be doing this for any combination of the following three reasons. "I'd like Google to speak clearly," he begins, "Instead of saying 'We can't participate at JavaOne 2010', I'd like to read: a) Oracle is practically preventing us from speaking - b) Our lawyers told us that it would be risky for the corporate if we speak - c) We're boycotting JavaOne."
I would say it's a combination of all three. Oracle probably isn't too keen on having Google around at JavaOne, and at the same time, Google's lawyers aren't either. On top of that, if I were at Google, I wouldn't want to participate in an event to promote the technology of a competitor who's suing you.
As detailed at JavaWorld, this news could hurt the Java community more than it hurts Oracle, but alas, I find Google's decision completely understandable.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Without fast action by Congress, programs that help keep small and specialty farmers in Ohio afloat are at risk.
The current farm bill will soon expire, and with it go dollars to fund certain programs that benefit local, sustainable and small- to mid-sized family farms. Among them is the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program, which provided the training for Linde Collingwood of Solon to launch her small-market garden. She says these programs help her and other growers provide healthy food options for Ohioans.
"There's going to be more demand and more interest as people learn where their food is coming from, so we're going to need more local farmers and beginning farmers to provide these things. If the funding is cut, there's going to be a huge gap."
The Senate passed a farm bill in June, but the House Agriculture Committee passed a different version of the bill in July. Unless the House takes action, the current farm bill from 2008 will expire Sept. 30.
Another program that could lose funding is the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program, which Ron Meyer of Strawberry Hill Farm near Coshocton says has been a tremendous help to him. He fears losing the program, particularly after he's already lost nearly one-third of his yield this year, because of the heat and drought that have devastated farms across the Midwest.
"We've seen insects – insects that we've never seen before. We've had some disease problems we've never had before – and both of those are due to the weather this year."
While the House passed a disaster assistance bill for farmers earlier this month, the Farm Bill that outlines short-term and long-term farm policies remains stalled. Meyer is a member of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association, which advocates for policies that protect and benefit sustainable agriculture.