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Dover woman admits to bank robberies in two statesBy TIMOTHY BUCKLAND
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December 12. 2013 9:57PM
PORTLAND, Maine — A New Hampshire woman pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Portland to being part of bank robberies in New Hampshire and Maine, according to a news release.
Brianne Mone, 27, of Dover, N.H., served as the getaway driver for the robbery of a Citizens Bank branch in Somersworth, N.H., on Aug. 21 and the Ocean Communities Federal Credit Union in Sanford, the release said.
She faces up to 25 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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'Uyyala Jampala' strikes gold for Nagarjuna
Chennai, Jan 4 (IANS) Actor Akkineni Nagarjuna-produced Telugu romantic-drama "Uyyala Jampala", which released Dec 25, minted Rs. 6.25 crore in its first week in Andhra Pradesh, thus being declared a hit by trade pundits.
The film was reportedly made under a budget of Rs. 2 crore.
"It's a big hit for a film starring a host of debutants. In its first week, it netted approximately Rs. 6.25 crore and it continues to do well at the box office. It still has one more week of uninterrupted run before the Sankranti releases come out," trade analyst Trinath told IANS.
Newcomers Avika Gor and Raj Tarun play the leads in the film which was directed by first-timer Virinchi Varma. It's a love story of childhood sweethearts set against a village backdrop.
Nagarjuna said that the success of the film made him believe in his judgment.
"The only good thing that happened in my life in 2013 is the success of this film, which increased my faith in my own judgment. I wish to do only different films going forward as much as possible. I'll try my best in this endeavour," Nagarjuna said recently at the success meet of "Uyyala Jampala".
Last year, Nagarjuna's career took a beating after two of his films "Greekuveerudu" and "Bhai" slumped at the box office.


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Hope that twin goals of saving land and lowering tax bills can dovetailBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 19. 2013 12:39AM
Massabesic land has 4 biddersOne of four bidders will likely end up owning some 7,200 acres of forested watershed that surrounds Lake Massabesic. They are:
• The Concord-based Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests has applied for a $2.2 million grant from the Department of Environmental Services to acquire the land. Grant proceeds would also be used for staff time, title work, property management and other costs associated with the purchase. The Forest Society said it isn't interested in non-conservation uses of the land — including Water Works structures such as dams and buildings, the commercial property and utility easements — and wants them stripped from the package.
• Green Crow, a company based in Port Angeles, Wash., with an office in Auburn, is the only for-profit company to put in a bid. It would acquire title to the land and transfer a conservation easement to a non-profit organization such as the Forest Society. Green Crow would treat the land as a working forest. It valued the land between $55,000 and $1.49 million, depending on the intensity of logging that would be allowed.
• The Deerfield-based Bear-Paw Regional Greenway is trying to construct a green corridor that includes towns around Bear Brook to Pawtuckaway state park. The organization controls about 4,000 acres now and said a price would be determined by an appraisal; it would need two years to raise the money. It is mostly interested in Water Works land north of Route 101, including Tower Hill and Clay ponds.
• The Exeter-based Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire, which said it has conserved 9,000 acres in southeast New Hampshire and owns 19 preserves. It has applied for a $1.06 million DES grant as well as a $200,000 Open Space Initiative grant. Even if it received the grants, it would have to undertake a fund-raising campaign to acquire the Water Works lands, the organization said.
MANCHESTER — Four organizations have put in bids to acquire 7,200 acres of forestland that surround Lake Massabesic, land that Manchester Water Works says it must relinquish after owning and managing it for more than a century.
Interested buyers include the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, two other land trusts and a Port Angeles, Wash., company that specializes in timberland investment and management. All four would have to agree to numerous deed restrictions, including protection to the Lake Massabesic watershed and access to the land by Water Works.
Manchester Water Works Director David Paris said the sale is needed to avoid property tax bills that amount to $670,000 a year to the towns of Auburn, Hooksett, Chester and Candia. Tax bills shot up in the late 1990s due to "feature values" such as the view tax, he said.
New Hampshire courts have ruled against efforts by Water Works to value the land as conservation land for tax purposes. Water Works has been unable to change tax laws to allow for the substantially lower valuations, Paris said.
"We're very reluctant going forward with this. We feel we've been great stewards for the last one hundred years of this watershed," Paris said. But he said the tax burden is difficult to justify when Water Works can sell the property to a buyer who will agree to preserve it in perpetuity.
The land sale will involve thousands of acres of well-known conservation located east of Manchester. It includes land with recreation trails around the lake, the Little Massabesic area and Tower Hill Pond.
The sale involves land used by a number of organizations and businesses — Massabesic Yacht Club, Sandy's Variety and Bonsai Restaurant at the Massabesic Traffic Circle, St. Peter Catholic Church and Fairhaven Baptist Church. Also included: two lakefront vacation homes, gravel pits, boat launches and a police shooting range.
According to the Water Works bid documents, bidders are encouraged to seek a water supply land protection grant from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services.
Deed restrictions would allow Manchester Water Works to retain much control over the property. For example, any subdivision and sale of land would have to be approved by Water Works, and Water Works would be able to access the property and its lakes and streams whenever it deemed necessary.
Also, it would have final say on forestry practices, and revenues such as timber harvesting would be shared with Water Works.
But Paris said some decisions, such as continuing leases and public access to the property, will be out of Water Works' hands. He noted that several of the organizations seeking to purchase the land have a commitment to access for recreational purposes.
"Down the road, what we're trying to accomplish is preservation of Massabesic in perpetuity," he said. "We understand selling the property means we'll no longer be able to make all the decisions on the property."
One of the potential buyers, the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, keeps nearly all its forestlands open for public access, said spokesman Jack Savage. He said the Massabesic purchase would allow the organization to demonstrate its mission of sustainable forestry in the state's largest urban area.
"It's one thing to practice forestry in the hinterlands," Savage said. "At some point, it becomes important to demonstrate that work right where the people live."
Paris does not expect a decision will be made until the fall or early winter. Both the Board of Water Commissioners and Manchester aldermen will have to approve the sale.


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NEMA Addresses Pros and Cons of 2015 budget proposal.
Press Release Summary:
Responding to 2015 budget proposal submitted to Congress by President Obama, NEMA offered positive and negative feedback. NEMA President and CEO Evan R. Gaddis said having federal budget in place "gives manufacturers targets to incorporate in their long-term financial and operational plans." Alongside several positive budget aspects, Gaddis cited such negative points as potential repeal of last-in, first-out (LIFO) accounting rules and absence of any relief on medical device tax.
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NEMA Supportive of Efficiency and R&D, Concerned about LIFO and Device Tax in 2015 Budget
ROSSLYN, Va.—In response to the 2015 budget proposal submitted to Congress by President Obama, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) offers both positive and negative feedback that reflects the interests of its members. While the president's priorities make clear the importance of energy efficiency in our domestic energy economy and the role of federal leadership in implementing energy efficiency policies, more can and should be done to maintain support for the manufacturing sector of the economy.
"I'm pleased to see Congress and the administration moving toward a budget deal," said NEMA President & CEO Evan R. Gaddis, adding that the stability of having a federal budget in place "is a benefit to our members because it gives manufacturers targets to incorporate in their long-term financial and operational plans."
Positives in the budget include a proposal to make the commercial building tax deduction a permanent part of the U.S. tax code. This is the best option in lieu of comprehensive tax reform that would eliminate all credits and deductions and lower rates. The provision allows a deduction to a taxpayer who owns, or is a lessee of, a commercial building and installs property as part of the commercial building's interior lighting systems, heating, cooling, ventilation, and hot water systems, or building envelope. This would give certainty to building owners that would make this very effective tax policy even more so.
Other plusses in the budget proposal include requests to boost funding for the Department of Energy. Priorities include increased support for Smart Grid and energy storage research and development, as well as building technologies with a focus on building code compliance.
NEMA also appreciates proposals to develop a more resilient infrastructure and create an Energy Efficiency and Grid Modernization Race to the Top program, even if the amounts proposed for each would be difficult to achieve in the current budget environment.
The major negative in the proposal is a potential repeal of the last-in, first-out (LIFO) accounting rules. Absent a larger package to repeal all deductions and lower rates, LIFO is the preferred accounting method for manufacturers because it more accurately reflects the fact that inventory depreciates over time. Accounting alternatives such as first-in, first out (FIFO) and cost averaging are much more appropriate for perishable items and bulk commodities, the inventories for which are maintained in a completely different fashion than non-perishable manufactured goods like electrical equipment and medical imaging devices. It is unclear whether or not the budget would institute the LIFO rule retroactively.
Another disappointment for NEMA members is the absence of any relief on the medical device tax. The tax, which applies to qualified medical devices sold after December 31, 2012, is being absorbed by manufacturers and has had the impact of decreasing innovation and causing layoffs for the members of NEMA's medical division, the Medical Imaging Technology Alliance (MITA, www.medicalimaging.org).
NEMA is the association of electrical equipment and medical imaging manufacturers, founded in 1926 and headquartered in Rosslyn, Virginia. Its 400-plus member companies manufacture a diverse set of products including power transmission and distribution equipment, lighting systems, factory automation and control systems, and medical diagnostic imaging systems. Total U.S. shipments for electroindustry products exceed $100 billion annually.
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NEW YORK-The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has agreed to "take another look" at a controversial proposal to reduce consumption mandates for corn-based ethanol and other biofuels next year, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin said.
However, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy stopped short of making any commitments to alter the proposal, now under final review, as she met on Wednesday with Harkin and 15 other U.S. farm-state Senators to discuss the controversial rule.
"I think the most we got from Administrator McCarthy is that they're going to take another look at it. They're going to review it," Harkin said during a weekly call with Iowa journalists.
"They're going to reassess it. It's not a final rule, it's a proposed rule," he said.
In a controversial move that took biofuel supporters by surprise, the EPA recommended in November to reduce the requirement for how much corn-based ethanol and other biofuels should be blended with petroleum-based fuels next year. The recommendations are now undergoing a comment period, with a final decision expected in mid-2014.
Despite Administrator McCarthy's assurances, some experts are skeptical that the agency is likely to change its mind as it finalizes the rules.
"As far as I can tell, they almost never change the proposed rules in going to the final, so I'm not persuaded that what's going on right now means much," said Scott Irwin, an agricultural economist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Still, the meeting marks a clear sign of the political backlash sparked by the Obama administration's proposal to reduce the biofuel mandates. For years, the administration had supported steadily increasing them but backed down this year due to concerns over the country's ability to consume all the ethanol required under a 2007 biofuel blending law.
A spokeswoman for the EPA said the agency "very much appreciates the Senators' time, interest and viewpoints" as it seeks input on how to put the biofuel blending program on a "manageable trajectory."
The trouble stems from the steep increases in biofuel consumption that Congress mandated under the 2007 law. Assuming that gasoline consumption would continue to rise, Congress grew the biofuel blending mandates from 9 billion gallons in 2008 to 36 billion by 2022.
In 2014, the law requires 18.15 billion gallons of biofuels to be blended with petroleum-based fuels, including 14.4 billion of corn-based ethanol.
But thanks to rising vehicle fuel efficiency standards and the effects of the economic downturn, gasoline demand has fallen. That has given the rising quotas an increasing share of the gas tank faster than expected.
With 134 billion gallons of gasoline demand forecast for 2014, the 14.4 billion quota for corn ethanol would represent more than 10 percent of gasoline consumption.
Oil refiners have been reluctant to cross that 10 percent threshold - nicknamed the "blend wall" - due to fears over engine damage that higher ethanol blends can cause in many cars on the road today.
Manufacturers of motorcycles, boats and small-engine equipment like chainsaws and lawn mowers are also concerned about damage from the higher ethanol blends, and have sided with refiners in lobbying against the mandates.
Refiners have also raised concerns about the lack of infrastructure-such as pumps at gasoline stations-available to sell gasoline blends higher than 10 percent without risking misfueling.
To address those concerns, the EPA proposed reducing the 2014 corn ethanol blending quota to about 13 billion gallons. That's down 800 million gallons from this year and about 1.4 billion less than the 14.4 billion required by the 2007 law.
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who also attended the EPA meeting, said in a statement that "the blend wall is a result of Big Oil's obstruction to higher ethanol blends, and EPA's proposal rewards its obstruction."
The meeting was attended by 10 Democratic Senators and six Republicans, according to a list released by Harkin. Several big corn-producing states were represented, including Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska, which each had two Senators in attendance.
Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, who Chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, was also in attendance, along with Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's second highest-ranking official.
It is unclear whether the lawmakers will be able to sway the EPA. But Harkin made clear that the political pressure is bound to continue.
"We'll see what happens, but I hope they get the message that we're not going to stand still for this kind of a rule that takes us in the wrong direction," he said.
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He writes (emphasis added): As Democrats campaign for the Nov. 6 midterm elections, they have plenty of legitimate criticisms to level at President Trump and Republicans who control the House and Senate. But Democrats were hurt in recent days by amazing and disgusting comments made by Hillary Clinton and former Attorney General Eric Holder. As a Democrat, I want my party to win as many seats as possible in the House and Senate and to capture as many governorships and other state offices as it can. But the Clinton and Holder remarks do not advance that effort – they hurt it. Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Clinton said Tuesday that "you cannot be civil with" the Republican Party because it "wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about." She added that "if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's when civility can start again." But even worse than Clinton's comments were those of Eric Holder, who said at a recent campaign event in Georgia that Democrats should abandon the advice of former first lady Michelle Obama, who said at the 2016 Democratic National Convention that her party and mine should respond positively to negative attacks from the GOP. Mrs. Obama said that "when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don't stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high." Holder argued just the opposite, saying: "When they go low, we kick them. That's what this new Democratic Party is about." He later said he wasn't advocating violence – not literal kicking. I beg to differ with both Clinton and Holder. The only way the Democrats can regain the majority in either or both houses of Congress is by being civil, and pointing out the differences between Democrats and Republicans on the issues. This is the real issue that should govern elections. Rather than the politics of popularity, one needs to consider policy points and which side offers points that are actually achievable, believable, concrete, desirable and specific. Calling President Trump and his administration names does not offer any constructive dialogue on policy matters. CLICK HERE to Support The Duran >> Conservatives and Trump supporters know this and it is precisely because of this that Donald Trump won the White House. While the mainstream media (and here we can include Fox News largely) tried every possible way to ridicule Donald Trump's candidacy, the people that actually listened to what he had to say found him very impressive on policy as much as his ability to speak as the voice of the people. The recent hysteria around Brett Kavanaugh's nomination and confirmation to the Supreme Court was hysteria up front, driven by real policy fears from the deep core of liberals, as they know that this Justice is likely to form an effective wall against liberals ramming their agenda through the courts since their efforts fail legislatively so often. Mr. Schoen continues: As a centrist Democrat, the issue that strikes me most is the degree to which the national debt and the deficit are now out of control. America faces uncertain and unstable times financially. Yet we are seeing a Republican-controlled Congress that has largely failed to do anything besides provide tax cuts for major corporations and the wealthiest individuals. This is by no means certain to have fundamentally altered the path of the economy or to provide economic growth. Put another way, what the Trump administration has failed to do is to fix health care and cover pre-existing conditions more fundamentally; lead America in a fiscally responsible way; and pass tax cuts that help the average American. The Trump tax cuts have driven up the national debt and endangered funding for programs that benefit millions of people in our country. So, here are policy points. Now we can begin to have a debate. Is Mr. Schoen right, or wrong in his information? This is far different than name-calling! Democrats have long argued the need for a centrist agenda that focuses on: Providing health-care benefits – whether private or public – to all Americans to cover expansively all pre-existing conditions. Protecting the environment from the policies of the Trump administration that have only encouraged –and I dare say exacerbated – environmental degradation and climate change. Promoting a pro-growth, inclusive agenda that seeks to put working people first, and the interests of Washington insiders and economic elites second. President Trump claims that he is doing this – he calls it "draining the swamp" – but this has not happened. There is no justification for the angry rhetoric of Clinton and Holder, which only feeds into Republican claims that Democrats are an angry mob that can't get over Clinton's loss to Trump two years ago. And Holder looks particularly bad because he was once the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, yet now sounds like he is effectively advocating what appears to be either illegal activities, or metaphorical initiatives that run counter to our traditions and our politics. Hillary Clinton has said she won't run for office again, but Holder has said he may run for president in 2020. Whoever the Democratic candidate turns out to be needs to be a responsible and respectable opponent – not one who calls for kicking the GOP or for incivility. We should have learned from the Senate confirmation hearing for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that resisting for the sake of resisting doesn't work. In fact, Democratic attacks on Kavanaugh may well have backfired, recent polls show. The Democratic Party itself is lost now, without a message, a direction, a strategy, or agenda to confront a Republican Party that is seen as in many ways as having let the American people down. We need change – but it must be constructive change. This Democrat believes that the comments that Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton made are wrong, counterproductive, and deserve to be rejected by the leadership of the Democratic Party. Perhaps Fox News ran this opinion piece because Douglas Schoen is the first rational Democrat contributor to say anything in some time. However, it also appears that Mr. Schoen is a minority in his own party. It is a greatly logical approach to argue policy, as he has and as anyone who really understands American government should. But it is unclear as to whether the bulk of the Democrat Party even has reasonable people remaining. If they do, it may well be that they are being betrayed by their party's increasingly leftist and radical positions. The Party apparatus seems focused, but it also seems to have left people like Mr. Schoen behind. Who knows? Maybe that will bring them into the Trump camp. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Kavanaugh circus displayed how radicalized the Left is in America Media begins to indicate concern for life-threatening acts of political outrage, as Alinsky-esque radicalization around Kavanaugh dominates. Published 1 week ago on October 8, 2018 By Seraphim Hanisch On Saturday, October 6, 2018, Brett Kavanaugh officially became Associate Justice Kavanaugh of the United States Supreme Court. His accession to the Court marked two extremely significant events in American history. The first is the return of the Court to what is being called a "conservative majority", where five of the justices are actually strict constitutional constructionists that accept the US Constitution as it stands without trying to "adapt it" to the present whims of society. The remaining justices are reputed to do precisely this, through their language of the Constitution as a "living document" that implies malleability. In short, it appears that the days of imposing things, like legalized abortion and homosexual marriage through the manipulation of the Court System rather than through the passage of legislation, are probably over, or at least significantly hampered. We need one more liberal judge to retire or die for President Trump to seal the deal, but this is the first time the court has had a conservative majority in at least fifty years. The second significant event is actually very interesting because its existence was largely brought on by the prevalence of the activist Court over these last fifty years. That is the extraordinarily aggressive and activist Left, which, rightly sensing their immediate doom, came out in droves and did everything possible to block and destroy Judge Kavanaugh's chance at nomination. CLICK HERE to Support The Duran >> It should be known that they did have successes: Breitbart.com, The New York Post and other sources on October 2 noted that Judge Kavanaugh will no longer be teaching at Harvard Law School. This came about after a reported "outcry" from hundreds of alumni: Hundreds of alumni signed a letter calling on law school Dean John Manning to "rescind" Kavanaugh's position as lecturer and prohibit him from teaching a three-week class titled "The Supreme Court Since 2005" this winter. "We believe that Judge Kavanaugh's appointment as an HLS lecturer sends a message to law students, and in particular female students, that powerful men are above the law, and that obstructive, inappropriate behavior will be rewarded," says the letter, which the newspaper said is available online. "Judge Kavanaugh is not leadership material, and he is not lectureship material. HLS would be tarnished to have him on campus in any position of authority." The Crimson reported that the letter had 700 signatures by Monday, including alumni who graduated from as far back as 1959. The media attacks were no doubt very disturbing to the Judge's children, as they were to his wife. Judge Kavanaugh said as much in his testimony at the special hearing, saying among other things, this very direct charge: "I understand the passions of the moment. But I would say to those senators, your words have meaning," he said. "Millions of Americans listened carefully to you. Given comments like those, is it any surprise that people have been willing to do anything, to make any physical threat against my family, to send any violent email to my wife, to make any kind of allegation against me and against my friends, to blow me up and take me down." But the liberals also ran a significant risk of overplaying their hand. Indeed, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson of Fox News stated as much in their commentaries one can see by clicking the above linked names. However, the question that is presently unanswered about American politics is "how deep does this go?" We have seen blatant, outrageous and some would say, mindless, displays of leftist radicalism in regard to Judge Kavanaugh. For the first time, we even saw conservative leadership speak back with force, as done several times by Senator Lindsey Graham, who promises to continue to drive his points home about this. See his anger here: And indeed both Democrats and Republicans claim that the Kavanaugh controversy has energized the voters as the final month before the November Congressional midterms approaches. At the present time, the GOP side appears to be enjoying the larger boost in voter interest and committment, but there is still a full month to go. That means that there is a great deal of time for the liberal activist side to cook something up to try to discredit and dissuade GOP and Trump supporters while at the same time ginning up the liberal / Democrat base. However, the level of unhinged radicalism on display through the Kavanaugh proceedings was very high, and honestly, untested for its approval among the average American voters. The media was all for it with comments coming from late night show writers like Ariel Dumas, who writes for the Stephen Colbert program: Writer for the Colbert Show just deleted this tweet. This is all they cared about from the beginning. "So how did our politics get so poisonous?" – Colbert pic.twitter.com/PaOqTgH4aK — Sam (@Sam_5thEstate) October 7, 2018 This is only one sample. All of Hollywood went in against Kavanaugh, feminists did, many deluded men (probably cowed into it by the feminists in their lives; for more on that read Paul Craig Roberts' opinion piece here) and women who appeared to use their own real or perceived traumas as the basis for some sort of attempt at a logical argument against the judge, whose allegations proved 100% uncorroborated. The craziest thing about this is that the allegations and ensuing circus got very far indeed. What is not known yet is if this is strong enough to make it to the ballot boxes in November. If it does, then the notion of "innocent until proven guilty" has been swept aside by the court of public opinion, or more honestly speaking, the mob. Mobs are fickle. A mob greeted Christ and wanted to make him king, only to be successfully turned against him five days later, screaming for his crucifixion. Mobs destroyed books in Hitler's Germany and in the early days of the Communist Revolution, and manipulation of the masses sent hundreds of thousands of people, even tens of millions, to the death camps and to the grave. It is easy to say it cannot happen in the United States, but there is plenty of evidence to show that it not only can happen, but that it is presently happening. It may look civilized now, but death threats are often followed up, and there have been plenty of these going around lately. Rush Limbaugh was asked months ago about how he thought these midterms would go, and his response at the time was to say that the issue that determines the outcome of the midterms had not occurred yet, so he didn't know. Last week on Mr. Limbaugh's radio program, the talk-show host noted that he believed the Kavanaugh issue was in fact that determining issue: I just need to ask if any of you remember who it was who's been saying all these months that the issues that would decide the midterm elections hadn't happened yet. That would be me back in April, May, June, July, August. That's right, Mr. Snerdley. That would be me. Now, here is Harwood. I think… Folks, I think just based on the way I'm watching liberal reporters talk about this today, I'm getting a sense of a bit of panic setting in. I really believe that they thought that no matter how this Kavanaugh thing went, they would win. I think they thought they'd persuade people Kavanaugh was a reprobate and if he got confirmed it was really firepower their base that a mugger and a rapist and all this stuff's on the court. If they lost it, ditto, same thing. I think the one thing they didn't count on is rejuvenating and reviving the Republican base they think is happening, they think it's happening. Here's Harwood. He went out and talked to some voters, and this is that report. He also noted that the level of threats against Senators supporting Kavanaugh's confirmation have been relentless: I have been made privy to some of the comments, not just on social media, but to the offices that many Republican senators are getting. They are being deluged, their entire families are being threatened. Their grandchildren are being threatened. Their wives, their husbands, barmaids, everybody they know being threatened. It's enormous; it is never ending; the phones don't stop ringing; the threatening emails and tweets do not stop arriving; it is unhinged; it is vile, and it is evil. And it's not just Flake and Collins and Manchin. It's all the Republicans are hearing. It is one of the most disgusting things many of these people say they've ever seen. In that regard, Jeff Flake and Susan Collins, I think they have to be credited for doing the right thing. …It's unhinged. Much of it is insane and deranged and is made up of the psychological disorders that I believe constitute now the mainstream of the Democrat Party. The protesters are paid. Their signs are all the identically manufactured, the same phrases all over them. And these people… I don't know if you've received threats and I don't know if you've been barraged by them, but if you have and if you believe them, they can unnerve you. There is still a whole month to go, and only patience and dedication will win the day. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Paul Craig Roberts: The White Heterosexual Male Has Been Renditioned To The Punishment Hole Female accusation of male abuse is now a powerful political, social and personal weapon. Published 1 week ago on October 6, 2018 By Paul Craig Roberts Authored by Paul Craig Roberts: American feminists have finally broken the spirit of the American white heterosexual male. I have been watching for some time the American male, or what little is left of him, meekly accept feminists' definitions of words and male behavior. First the feminists turned the male respect for, and politeness toward, women, respect inculcated into my generation, into "sexism." Today men no longer stand when a woman enter's a room, and they don't open doors for them unless it is an elderly and feeble relative. Feminists insisted on getting women off the pedestal and into the rough and tumble world of men. Feminists also pushed the sexual revolution, especially Cosmopolitan magazine, until women became as sexually promiscuous as men. As sex became casual and as the constraints on male behavior toward women were discredited as "sexist," boundaries became blurred, and there is plenty of room for confusion. University student sex codes acknowledge the confusion. We see it in the requirements that the male must ask permission for each piece of female clothing he removes from his willing partner. All of this was entirely the work of feminists. But today it is the feminist redefinition of words and their substitution of feelings for factual evidence that catch men off guard. What convinced me that the era of the male is over is what just happened to University of Massachusettes football coach Mark Whipple. On paper Whipple does not have the profile of a whimp. He was a NFL assistant coach. He led UMass to five winning seasons, elevated the team to the highest level of Division I, and garnered for UMass a Division I-AA national title. Last Saturday he unknowingly undid himself when outraged by what he saw as a non-penalty call on pass interference that he thought cost UMass the game, he said: "we had a chance and they rape us." All hell broke lose. Whipple was publicly denounced by UMass athletic director Ryan Bamford, a male trained to jump through feminist hoops: "On behalf of our department, I deeply apologize for the comments made by head coach Mark Whipple on Saturday after our game at Ohio. His reference to rape was highly inappropriate, insensitive and inexcusable under any circumstance." Whipple groveled: "I am deeply sorry for the word I used on Saturday to describe the play in our game. It is unacceptable to make use of the word 'rape' in the way I did and I am very sorry for doing so. It represents a lack of responsibility on my part as a leader of the program and a member of this university's community, and I am disappointed with myself that I made this comparison when commenting after our game." http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24853120/umass-suspends-coach-mark-whipple-one-week-pay-rape-reference What are we to make of this? Have feminists appropriated the definition of rape to mean only what they say it means: male sexual abuse (undefined) of women? If a male uses the word in any of its other senses, why does he have to grovel and beg forgiveness? Whipple is a football coach, not an English professor who could have come up with a word better fitting Whipple's outrage. Nevertheless, "rape" has meanings other than forced sexual penetration of a female. For example, the Oxford English Dictionary gives this meaning: "The wanton destruction or spoiling of a place: the rape of the countryside." There are a number of book titles that use "rape" in the sense of "ruin," "despoil." For example: The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art by Roger Kimball Are we now to expect scholars Lynn Nicholas and Roger Kimball to grovel like Whipple in the face of feminist tyranny? I suppose so. Compare Whipple's public rebuke by his boss, his abject apology, and his temporary suspension from his job for using correctly a word with no intention of offending anyone with Georgetown University associate professor Christine Fair, who intended to offend the Senate Judiciary Committee with her tweeted outrage about Kavanaugh: "Look at this chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist's arrogated entitlement. All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes." There are a number of sources for this extraordinary quote: https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/01/georgetown-christine-fair-white-men-swine/ https://www.dailywire.com/news/36532/georgetown-professor-says-white-republicans-should-joseph-curl https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgetown-professor-says-white-gop-senators-deserve-miserable-deaths-after-kavanaugh-hearing https://www.thecollegefix.com/georgetown-professor-calls-for-white-male-republican-senators-to-suffer-miserable-deaths-and-be-castrated/ https://bigleaguepolitics.com/georgetown-wont-discipline-professor-who-wants-to-castrate-corpses-of-white-men-and-feed-them-to-swine/ Did professor Fair get sent to sensitivity training? Of course not. Georgetown University quickly rushed to her defense on freedom of speech grounds. In universities, free speech is only denied to heterosexual males and football coaches. Linger a bit with Professor Fair. A professor is supposed to be a scholar with respect for facts and evidence, but all Christine Fair is capable of is an outburst of blind hatred. She has no way of knowing who is telling the truth. Clearly the charge is a political one even if true. The Senate Judiciary Committee permitted Kavanaugh's accuser to present her case. To protect the female accuser from being questioned by male senators, the committee hired a female attorney to question the accuser. The female attorney concluded that Kavanaugh's accuser did not have a case that could be prosecuted. What does this tell us about Christine Fair. It tells us that the only reason that a person who relies on emotion instead of evidence is a tenured member of the Georgetown University faculty is that she is female and was hired in place of several dozen better qualified males to fill a female quota. As I have written so often, the American population is insouciant, and that word is an euphemism. They have no awareness of what is happening in front of their eyes as they are eased into a mindset that accepts as fact that the male/female relationship is one of male abuse of the female. Try to imagine what it is like for a male to have a female boss who has been brainwashed by feminism. Try to imagine what it is like for a male to have female subordinates (or colleagues). His very survival depends on many things, such as having the Human Resource Department evaluate the females' job performance. Even at this distance, most likely the task would have to be performed by a female. Female accusation of male abuse is now a powerful political, social and personal weapon. We currently have a porn star accusing President Trump of having consensual sex with her. Why is she doing this? She has already been paid off. Are her ratings dropping? Is this for notoriety? Is she being paid as part of the military/industrial complex/Democratic Party/feminist attack on Trump? Look at what has happened to Judge Kavanaugh once he was nominated to the Supreme Court. A woman appears. She partially remembers an incident of three or four decades ago in an unchaparoned home where teenagers were drinking, what house and where it was she does not remember, but she remembers a drunk Kavanaugh throwing her on a bed and tussling with her fully clothed. She wasn't raped. She wasn't injured. The question totally uninteresting to feminists is: "What was she, a 15-year old, doing there?" By the 1980s teenage females in unchaperoned houses with teenage males with harmones on full boil and alcohol present were assumed to be sexually available. Why else were they there? Were her parents uninterested in her whereabouts? Did she lie to her parents about where she was going? But to raise such obvious questions is proof that you are a misogynist. Females bear no fault. Only males. The main problem with feminism is that it is so totally unscientific that it must assault science. At the University of Durham in the UK, where I was once in distant times interviewed for an appointment, a male has been punished for re-tweeting an article that states that females do not have a penis. https://www.rt.com/news/439797-icymi-get-woke-grandad-rules/ Such a factual statement goes against the feminist ideology that there are no differences between women and men—not even physical differences. In Sweden a professor is being investigated for saying in a lecture that there are anatomical and biological differences between men and women. A feminist student objected, and so a professor of neurophysiology is being held accountable for stating a scientific fact. https://www.rt.com/news/439797-icymi-get-woke-grandad-rules/ Anyone who does not realize that feminists are crazed far beyond the meaning of the word crazy, should read this: "A Swedish university is investigating a professor for 'anti-feminism' and 'transphobia' after he said there are biological differences between men and women. He is being urged to retract his comments." https://www.rt.com/news/438638-swedish-professor-biologically-different/ In the assault on Kavanaugh, we are witnessing an Identity Politics assault on the White Heterosexual Male, an assault whose purpose is less to block Kavanaugh than to discourage white heterosexual males from standing for office as it is so easy for feminists to ruin a man's reputation. The plan is to put the "victim groups" of the white male in office so that retribution can be handed out to white males in keeping with feminist professor Christine Fair's agenda of killing them, castrating their dead bodies and feeding them to swine. Perhaps white males have understood this. You see them increasingly with Asian and Hispanic women, not with white women who are increasingly seen with black men. In another generation or two, perhaps the white ethnicities will have disappeared. Then to whom will Identity Politics assign the hated role? Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading JOIN OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL Your donations make all the difference. Together we can expose fake news lies and deliver truth. Amount to donate in USD$: 5 100 Validating payment information... Waiting for PayPal...Validating payment information...Waiting for PayPal... 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But that's easier said than done. Many people think that Fields will eventually become the starter this season which is crazy to think about. If Head Coach Kirby Smart does decide to go that route than Fields better be the next Deshaun Watson. Starting out the freshman in a tough SEC is a risky move to say the least.
Heading into this fall, the Wildcats' quarterback unit is by far the worst in the conference. Now before all you Kentucky fans come after me understand this: I'm not saying it will be that way during the season.
The Wildcats simply don't have a single quarterback with even a second of playing time in Division I football. No other team in the SEC can say that. However, even with that lack of experience everything isn't all doom and gloom Lexington.
The competition is between Terry Wilson and Gunnar Hoak who are both talented. Wilson is incredibly fast and is a good runner, while Hoak may be the more polished pocket passer.
However, both had inaccurate springs and neither separated. Not having a truly good quarterback has held back a very talented UK squad, and it will do so again this fall if neither Wilson or Hoak can prove to be consistent.
Remember how I said that Stidham was debatably the most pro-ready quarterback in the SEC? Well that debate exists because of Missouri's Drew Lock. Lock set the conference on fire last season, and he also carried a mediocre Missouri squad to a winning season.
Expect more of the same this year as most of the offense around him returns. Lock is a prototypical pocket passer with his great size and arm strength. However, like Fitzgerald he needs to work on his accuracy as he only completes 57% of his passes.
If he becomes more accurate, then I think it's very possible the Tigers could finish second in an SEC East that's wide open after Georgia. This guy might just be the No. 1 overall pick next spring if Missouri has a breakout year.
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Jake Bentley had mountains of hype heading into his sophomore season after he showcased a lot of talent in his first year in Columbia. The results were pretty average as he led the Gamecocks to a much improved 9-4 record.
Now that South Carolina has proved they are a good team in the SEC, they need to take that next step into becoming a great team. That begins and ends with Bentley. If he can take that next step and have a Drew Lock-type of season, then the Gamecocks will make some serious noise this fall.
If he stays at around the same level he is at now, then expect another season like last year for the Gamecocks.
After a truly terrible season last year the Volunteers are turning the page with a new head coach and possibly a new quarterback. Graduate transfer Keller Chryst comes over from Stanford to bring assistance to a passing attack that badly needs it.
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January 12. 2014 8:18PM
Plan Pinardville 'fiasco' fuels bid to limit Goffstown board's powers
By SUSAN CLARK
Union Leader Correspondent
— Two petition articles calling for increased safety on one town road and another restricting the Board of Selectmen's authority will appear on the March ballot.
About 50 registered voters signed a petition article asking voters to rescind the selectmen's authority to apply for, accept and expend unanticipated money from state, federal government or private sources.
The intent, said resident Gaetane Benner, is to prevent funds such as grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, from dictating the types of housing that can be developed in Goffstown.
"Right now, the selectmen have the authority to accept grants and donations, and it doesn't go to voters and that's what got us in trouble with accepting the $50,000 grant for Plan Pinardville," she said.
Benner said the Ready, Set, Go program could also be a threat to the town. The program promotes economic development in several areas across the state and the country, according to
"We don't want another fiasco like Plan Pinardville," Benner said.
She said 224 acres near the women's prison is zoned commercial/industrial, and could be a prime location for low-income housing, a type of development Benner and many other residents voiced their objections to during the Plan Pinardville project.
"It's county land and if the county wants to make money, it could sell it for development after the women's prison moves to Concord," Benner said. "It could be low-income housing and it'll make our taxes go up."
Benner said she hopes the petition article will prevent similar programs from Goffstown.
"That would be a good thing so people can vote on what our selectmen and boards are doing beforehand. We want to be involved. I care and I'm afraid our town will eventually go bankrupt," she said.
The other petition calls for reducing the speed limit on Tyler Drive from 30 mph to 25 mph. The petition has been signed by about 30 registered voters.
Tyler Drive resident Michael Pelletier said he is concerned about the safety of the 15 children who live on the street.
Tyler Drive is a cul-de-sac and only about one-third of a mile long, with about 30 homes.
"What raised my concern was what happened in Pinardville, when that boy was struck by a car," he said, referring to Alex Reed, the 10-year-old who was struck by a car while walking across Mast Road on Oct. 16. "Similar streets like the spice streets are at 25 mph."
He said attempts have been made to reduce the speed limit on Tyler Drive but to no avail.
"If I needed 100 or 200 signatures I could have easily got that. I hope the selectmen take a neutral stance or support it because efforts over the past 15 years have been unsuccessful. I'd like to know why the highway safety committee considers 30 mph safer than 25 mph," Pelletier said. "It's old-fashioned democracy at play here, and I hope the leaders of our town would take a more active leadership role in safety. I'm just looking for safety on my dead-end street."


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My profile featured on B2B Big Plays by Kimon Lycos in Marketing Magazine.
On 27 June 2013
B2B Marketer spotlight
Name: Walter Adamson
Position: GM Victoria
Company: KINSHIP digital
When did you get into B2B marketing?
Your biggest B2B marketing high?
Past: Winning first big B2B Contract with Tata Steel India, more recently winning Enterprise Social Network contract with Telstra.
A forgettable marketing moment? (Or someone else's!)
Admitting our own inbound marketing was not working especially well when attempting to sell them a digital marketing / social strategy for improve their inbound sales!
What 3 challenges do you have as a B2B marketer?
- Making the complex sell resonate the the simplest way.
- Creating messages and themes which are as simple as possible but no simpler.
- Getting past the education stage of how powerful social business intelligence and sales can be for B2B.
What is the most useful book you have ever read?
Predictive Analytics by Eric Siegel because he described with clarity and humour what "big data" can and cannot do and it reminds me of my past when I spent 7 years as a consultant in computational statistics.
If you were a brand, which one would you be?
SAP – a rising B2B brand star, and in my core domain of mobile, cloud computing, social and big data.
When not marketing, what else do you do?
I give a little time to Berry Steet which provides a refuge and family and children services and which awarded a "Friend For Life" certificate for 30+ years continuous support. Spend as much time as possible with my 3 year old daughter. Keep fit – Bodybump, Spin, Bodyweight exercises, Spin.
Your big B2B marketing prediction for the next 12 months?
More B2B organisations will become painfully aware that a lack of brand awareness, brand articulation, and social presence is holding back their sales as decisions are made more widely across and organisation and with more outside influencers appearing in the buying process than the previous single department or business unit.
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VIDEO: Kyrie Irving sits down with TNT's Craig Sager to talk all things Cavs
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — This is what happens when you try to outsmart the system without the right parts, when you think you've come up with a formula for an equation that doesn't actually have one.
All of the lottery picks, risky free agent acquisitions, financial flexibility, spread sheets and advanced statistical and analytical data on the planet won't save a NBA executive or coach from that wicked reality when the bill is due.
Cleveland Cavaliers general manager Chris Grant found out the hard way today when he was relieved of his duties and replaced, at least on an interim basis, by his former assistant and now "acting general manager" David Griffin. The Cavaliers are a mess, one of their own making, and Grant — despite keeping a low public profile by GM standards — found himself on the firing line, and rightfully so. Organizational and institutional arrogance will get you every time.
And there is no quick fix, no easy way out of this tire fire for the Cavaliers. There is only the painful and very public walking of the plank for Grant as Griffin, and whoever succeeds him, tries to salvage whatever they can from the wreckage that is the past four years and steer the franchise back onto solid ground.
You can't blame All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving for being anxious about the direction of the franchise after yet another season goes sideways before Valentine's Day. He's not the one who chose Mike Brown, who had already been unceremoniously dumped in his previous stint with the franchise because he couldn't get the franchise over the championship hump, to usher in the new era of Cavaliers' basketball. He didn't draft Dion Waiters or Anthony Bennett when everyone in the league would have gone elsewhere with those top picks. He didn't sign Andrew Bynum or engineer any of the other moves that have come post-The Decision. Whether it was his call or not (most anyone with a lick of wisdom about this situation knows that Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert's voice was heard on each and every decision), Grant owns all of those moves.
Trading for Luol Deng was a nice move, but it didn't happen soon enough. It came after the air of inevitability about this particular Cavaliers team, a woeful 16-33 in a depressed Eastern Conference that they were expected to make a playoff statement in, was already established.
Gilbert made his intentions for the immediate future clear in a statement released by the team:
"This has been a very difficult period for the franchise. We have severely underperformed against expectations. Just as this is completely unacceptable to our loyal and passionate fan base, season ticket holders and corporate partners, it is also just as unacceptable to our ownership group. I can assure everyone who supports and cares about the Cleveland Cavaliers that we will continue to turn over every stone and explore every possible opportunity for improvement to shift the momentum of our franchise in the right direction. There is no one in our entire organization who is satisfied with our performance, and to say that we are disappointed is an understatement. We all know the great potential of our young talent, seasoned veterans, as well as our recent all-star addition. We believe a change in leadership was necessary to establish the best possible culture and environment for our entire team to flourish.
There is no move, nor any amount of capital investment, we will not make if we believe it will improve our chances of competing and winning in this league for both the short and long term. The fans of this great city have invested too much time, money and effort for the kind of product we have recently delivered to them. This must change," concluded Gilbert.
This is the latest example of a franchise assuming that there is a template for the type of success enjoyed by the likes of the San Antonio Spurs translating to every other market. It takes stars, superstars usually, and just the right fit to launch an outfit from the lottery to the upper echelon of the league. The players come first, then the success. That's the way it's always been and always will be. Assuming that some set infrastructure is supposed to come first is where the Cavaliers went wrong.
They were spoiled during the LeBron James years. They foolishly assumed their fabric had as much to do with those teams making deep forays into the playoffs year after year as James did. Maybe they realize now that there is no chicken and egg debate here. You either grow your superstar and surround him with the right pieces to reach his potential or you make mistake after mistake — the Cavs, before and after Grant joined them (he was an assistant GM first) made plenty of those while LeBron was on his way up — and eventually watch things come apart at some point down the road.
James didn't depart his native Northeast Ohio because he hated snow or tired of the comforts of home. He went to Miami to win and because the Heat, and Pat Riley, offered a surefire path to the one thing all of the all-time greats covet most, and that's a Larry O'Brien trophy.
I knew where this thing was headed the moment Gilbert's now infamous post-Decision promise that the Cavs would win a title before James and the Heat was unearthed to the public.
The risky move to sign Bynum over the summer, when the Cavs were one of a handful of teams with cap space and assets to make big moves, was one that alerted the players already on the roster that Grant and his staff were grasping for anything to make a splash.
It turns out that the Bynum signing was every bit the useless play I thought it was. All it did was increase the tension in an already fragile relationship between Irving and Waiters. The Cavaliers' locker room culture wasn't strong enough to absorb and force a cat with Bynum's baggage to conform, the way he'll have to in Indiana now if he wants to stick around with a contender for the remainder of this season.
Their Central Division rivals to the north in Indianapolis are a shining example of what the Cavaliers could have and should have been able to do during the time that has passed since LeBron's departure. They took risks in drafts, free agency and trades and in hiring Frank Vogel as their coach to manage what has become one of the most complete and balanced rosters in the league.
It certainly helps to have Larry Bird, Donnie Walsh and Kevin Pritchard at the helm while going through the rebuilding process. But that's still no excuse for the Cavaliers taking such a cavalier attitude towards conventional wisdom over the course of the past five or six seasons.
In a results-oriented business, the Grant-led Cavaliers simply never showed enough to warrant him making it to the final year of his contract. And now that same mess he inherited will be passed along to Griffin and whoever else follows. Whether or not Irving, Deng and any of the other players acquired on Grant's watch will be around to see this thing to the finish is anyone's guess.
But there are some certainties involved in this process, no matter how many perceived assets the person calling the shots is working with. You can go off on your own and decide to reinvent the game if you want, you can take players that don't fit and squeeze with all your might to try to make it work. You can look past fresh new faces in the coaching ranks in an attempt to right a past wrong or what have you, but you can not and will not circumvent the system. It just doesn't work.
If you don't believe it, ask Gregg Popovich how that all would have worked in San Antonio if he didn't have Time Duncan to build around; or Sam Presti in Oklahoma City without Kevin Durant.
The superstar players come first, then the structure around them. And it all has to fit together.


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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's tourism industry has bounced back after the Great Recession with tourism spending reaching a record $16.5 billion, according to figures released Saturday by the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism.
"We're pretty well back now," said Duane Parrish, director of the state agency. The numbers released to the Associated Press show that, during 2011, tourism spending was up almost 10 percent and has surpassed the previous record $15 billion of 2008.
"I think pent-up demand is part of it," Parrish said "People get to the point where they either feel better about the economy or decide they are in a new economy but they are going to travel anyway."
The release of the figures, from the U.S. Travel Association, generally lags about a year behind the year in which they were compiled. The numbers show that the industry in 2011 provided 111,000 direct jobs statewide. The data also indicate that about 53 percent of tourism spending that year came from visitors from other states and 5 percent from international travelers.
From 1990 to 2008, the state tourism industry enjoyed average growth of about 4 percent a year. The recession started in late 2007, but the impact wasn't immediate, and 2008 was a record year for the industry. But in 2009, tourism was off 8 percent.
Now the industry seems to have recovered, growing in 2011 even faster than before the 18-month recession, which officially ended in June 2009. But Parrish said he isn't sure the current rate of growth can be sustained.
"I don't know that we will continue at 10 percent each year," Parrish said. "But I think things will be on the positive side and we will have steady growth the next two or three years."
Brad Dean, president and CEO of the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, called lower gas prices a good sign but added that "many consumers are still faced with economic uncertainty and increased payroll withholding."
Myrtle Beach is the heart of the state's tourism industry, where an estimated 14 million visitors a year flock to the area's beaches, 100-plus golf courses and 1,700 restaurants.
"Myrtle Beach has seen an increase in tourism in the last few years in large part to more promotion and new air service," he said. "Despite continued economic uncertainty, consumers are still traveling, and affordability is the key."
During the past two weeks, new direct flights between Myrtle Beach and Philadelphia, Baltimore and Toronto have started. Earlier this year, Myrtle Beach opened a larger and renovated $113 million airport terminal.
Parrish said that while overall tourism spending is at a record level, a key tourism indicator - revenue per available hotel or motel room - still has not quite reached pre-recession levels. But he said he expects that will happen this year.
The news in recent months indicates that the industry is continuing to grow. Last summer's PGA championship on Kiawah Island had an estimated impact of $92 million and brought worldwide publicity for the state.
South Carolina State Parks had record revenues of $21 million last fiscal year, and last fall, Charleston was named the top tourist destination in the world by readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine.
In addition, the state tourism department this year launched a $2.5 million advertising campaign to attract visitors to what it is calling undiscovered South Carolina.
More than 20,000 people from as far away as Seattle and Santa Fe, N.M., flocked to one of those "undiscovered" places last month: the small tobacco town of Lake City. There, the ArtFields festival featured 400 works of art in public venues and in businesses around town.


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Movie marathons are tricky business. Equal parts foresight, improvisation, impulse decision-making, and nostalgia that you really don't have all that much control over in the long run. You can plan ahead all you want but the energy of a room can turn a slow-burn pee-pants fest into annoying background noise in no time. Add a holiday on top of things, say for example Halloween, and you got more problems than that Jay-Z character.
It's been a hot minute since we heard anything about "Ouija" but according to the producers the film, based on the classic board game, is moving ahead swimmingly and may even hit theaters next October if all goes according to plan. I sounded really cool there for a second with my hip lingo right? "Hot minute". I'm like Eminem or something. I think I may have ruined it with "swimmingly" though. Old people say that.
Fox has dropped word that they'll be putting out a gaggle of new Blu-Ray releases next week, most notably for this sassy news writer is the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" which will be available at the rock bottom price of $13. The disc will hit shelves on September 11 and I'm not 100% sure what sort of special features will be available but if I was to guess, the $13 will get you the movie, a trailer and if you're lucky a DVD case. The last one might be pushing it though.
If there was ever a movie that didn't need a sequel it's "I Spit On Your Grave" but it looks like "Saw IV" writer Thomas Fenton has been tapped to pen the script for just such a film. No word as of yet on what the plot of the second installment of the "guys do awful things to a woman and then she kills them" flick but I can't imagine anything good will come from it. I would be nice if there was some actual spitting on graves though.
A while back we talked about Award Pictures and their quest to make an "Evil Dead" sequel without Sam Raimi or anyone else giving their sweet approval. Well after some paddling and what I assume was some pretty hefty lawyer bills it looks like Raimi has officially shut down production on the film. So I'm sorry folks. You will not get to see an "Evil Dead" that Sam Raimi has had nothing to do with and there is no chance of Bruce Campbell popping up in. I'm sorry.
Hot pockets kids! Looks like there's a film in the works based on the Matterhorn rollercoaster ride at Disneyland. Currently titled "The Hill" the film will focus on a group travelers who head to the top of a mountain and encounter a bunch of Yeti's on the way down. Then their lap bars hit them in the nuts and they walk around funny for the rest of the day. I added that part but it would make it really authentic to the ride experience so I'm pretty sure they'll include it.
Because the teat isn't completely dry the good people at Lionsgate will be putting out a special 25th anniversary edition of Sam Raimi's
"Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn". In all fairness it'll be on Blu-Ray and it'll have a boat load of new interviews and commentaries but honestly at this point what more can you say. "Oh hey I never noticed that chair in the corner of the room before. Let's talk about that".
Steven Spielberg and Stephen King are teaming up with Showtime to create a new series based on King's 2009 novel "Under the Dome". The story focuses on a group of vacationers in Maine who begin battling after a strange force field appears over their town. Wasn't that the basis of "The Simpsons Movie"? I hope this one is funny too and makes a lot of doughnut references.
Looks like Amy Adams is being eyed by Warner Bros. to take the lead in the upcoming remake of "The Orphanage". Nothing's been confirmed yet but Adams would play the role of a woman who takes over the orphanage where she was raised only to find that the imaginary friends her son is playing with are out to get her. I don't know who played that part in the original and honestly I don't care. There's no way she was as adorable as Amy Adams. Once again the USA makes things better.


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Bangladesh sentences 152 to death for 2009 mutiny
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 152 people to death for their actions in a 2009 border guard mutiny in which 74 people, including 57 military commanders, were killed.
Dhaka's Metropolitan Sessions Court Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman also sentenced 157 others, mostly border guards, to life in prison while 271 people were acquitted. The extensive case involves 846 accused, and Tuesday's announcement has yet to be completed.
The mutiny on Feb. 25-26, 2009, took place two months after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took office. The influential military was unhappy over the response of the government, which did not allow troops to attack the border guards' headquarters in Dhaka where military commanders were killed.
Human rights groups have criticized Bangladesh for such a mass trial, saying it will not ensure justice.
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What do you care about? Take the time to discover what is the most important to you. Then express these feelings to your family and care-givers so they can help you give birth in the way you desire.
Care about your baby and your baby's health. Don't make decisions without information. Always weigh the benefits and the risks, choosing the course of action that does the most to promote a healthy outcome.
Surround yourself with people who care about you and your baby. Their love and support will carry you when you don't think you have the strength to go on.
Care about the details. It is the details that make up the whole. Don't allow anyone to convince you that what you care about is unimportant. You care about it for a reason.
Doing things with care means doing them slowly and with much thought. It means never jumping for the fast or easy way out, but ensuring that you are acting in the best way. When you care you remember that the journey affects the destination.
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Is anyone here interested in participating in a reading group this summer? The idea arose on another forum, but I thought I'd see if any of you fine contubernales would join.
The thing is just getting started, but I created a Google Group for it today:
We'll decide on some prose and/or poetry to read, and we can do segments every week, posting translations, questions, comments, etc. I'm currently advocating some Cicero and Vergil, but I'm open to suggestions.
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No official decisions have been announced with regards to J.A. Happ's immediate future. But you definitely got the feeling today that the Phillies are going to err on the side of caution and send him down to the minor leagues. They could apply for an extension to his rehab stint. But Happ has options remaining, which means they can just as easily activate him and send him down to continue pitching every five days.
"From the sound of what they are telling me, it sounds more like he might still need some work," manager Charlie Manuel said.
Happ thinks he's ready. And he showed some real signs of progress last night at Lehigh Valley, particularly with regard to his velocity and arm speed. If the Phillies had an obvious candidate for removal from the rotation, you have to think they'd stick Happ in there and let him iron out whatever issues he still has while also pitching in the big leagues. But in the fourth inning last night, his velocity dropped a couple of clicks, and he struggled to find the strike zone, and rather than take a chance on him scuffling at the big league level, the Phillies sound like they are looking for him to prove that he is ready before they bring him back to the big league roster.
Pitching coach Rich Dubee said that, in his opinion, activating Happ and putting him in the bullpen would be counterproductive.
Chase Utley returned from his hip surgery in 2009 quicker than expected. And it sounds like he is determined to do the same this season with his surgically-repaired thumb. The Phillies said they think eight weeks is a realistic timetable. But Utley sounded convinced he could get back a week ahead of schedule.
"It takes about five weeks for that ligament to heal back up properly, another week or so to get the movement back in your hand and then, as far as a baseball standpoint, 2-3-4-5 games to get back in shape that way," said Utley, who had his surgery on Thursday. "Obviously, were going to have to see how it goes. But at this point I'm pretty optimistic."
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When scanning Iliad 1. 201 there is an extra syllable, or so it seems. The third to last syllable, the omicron of prosheda needs to be ignored for the meter to work out. The West scanned text seems to have left it out. I guess the question I have is should it be left out? If so, why does it not count towards the meter?
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Going through back issues of The Chronicle, it's been fun to reminisce a little about some of the stories that made headlines and the memorable photos that have captured moments.
This week marks my 10th month of living and working here and after helping put together the Top 10 news and sports stories for Okanogan and Ferry counties, I thought I'd put together a list of my 10 favorite events that I covered.
These weren't necessarily the biggest stories of the year — they were events that were entertaining or kept me interested more than just for the sake of my job.
Here they are, in no particular order:
• The World-Famous Suicide Race. I wrote a column about the Suicide Race in August after seeing it for the first time, and I still believe it's the event that puts Omak on the map. Of course it wouldn't exist on its own without the Omak Stampede, but the Suicide Race is what makes the rodeo stand above dozens of other rodeos across the Northwest.
It's a sheer thrill and a display horsemanship unlike anything else I've ever seen.
• "The Nutcracker" presented by the Children's Dance Theater. Until this winter, I think it had been 20-some years since I'd last seen "The Nutcracker," so I didn't really know what to expect — especially with the "country-themed" caveat of this particular performance. However, I was pleasantly surprised that the country theme didn't overwhelm the classic story and it was a great event to photograph.
• The Low Rider Races at the Okanogan County Fair. Racing wiener dogs. Need I say more?
• The Wag 'n' Run Dog Splash. I tend to have a soft spot for dogs, but man's best friend just so happened to be the stars of two events I covered this year. And both, in their own way, were great opportunities for photos. Where the Low Rider Races featured only small dogs, the splash at the Omak pool was a free-for-all with mutts of all sizes and shapes enjoying a swim.
• Halloween events. From the Zombie Fun Run to the pie-eating contest at Civic League Park to the Hallelujah Carnival and the Haunted Scaregrounds, I thought the Halloween events in the area were a great fun.
• "Spamalot" presented by the Okanogan Valley Orchestra and Chorus. I laughed more at "Spamalot" that at any movie I've seen in at least the past year. Even months after the seeing the performance, I will catch songs getting stuck in my head.
• Fourth of July at East Side Park. With hundreds of people all simultaneously lighting off fireworks pointed in who-knows-what-direction and youngsters running every which way, it's truly a testament to common sense and sheer luck that Omak's Fourth of July extravaganza goes off as smooth as it does.
• The OK Friendly Car Show. I went to a number of car shows in the past 10 months, but after a while, you start seeing many of the same vehicles. The one that stood out to me was the OK Friendly Car Show, just for its sheer size and variety, as well as the swap meet.
• Veteran's Day. This wasn't a specific event, but I sat down for an hour or so with World War II veteran Doug Hull two days before Veteran's Day for an interview. Something like that may not be as fun as a car show or a horse race, but it's truly an honor to be able to tell the stories of veterans that served our country — particularly those that fought in World War II so that piece of history can be preserved before it's too late.
• The Animate Objects Circus. Circuses are not my favorite events in terms of entertainment value, but every time I watch one, I'm amazed at the amount of talent the performers have — and how much time they must have put into perfecting their craft.
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European leaders meeting today to discuss ways of boosting economic growth should press ahead with plans for a financial transaction tax (FTT), Oxfam said.
The international agency's call comes as a fresh assessment by the European Commission of the effect its proposed FTT would have on the European economy adds to a growing body of evidence that it would be positive.
Oxfam is part of the international Robin Hood Tax campaign calling for a financial transaction tax to raise money to help poor people at home and abroad hit by the economic crisis and to combat climate change.
More than 200 organizations have written to European leaders this week urging them to adopt a Robin Hood Tax (example of letter -sent to Angela Merkel- attached).
Nicolas Mombrial, Oxfam's EU policy adviser, said: "A Robin Hood Tax would raise billions to fight global poverty and help protect Europeans from the mess created by an out of control financial sector.
"The claims of the UK government and other critics that an FTT would hurt growth have been exposed as a self-serving sham. If now is not the time to ask the financial sector to pay its fair share towards global recovery, then when will it be?"
"An FTT just for EU investments and debt reduction, with no substantial share to fight poverty and climate change, would be a terrible waste of an historic opportunity. We are watching François Hollande as he promised to spend part of the FTT cash for overseas aid."
The European Commission's assessment shows that implementing an FTT would lower growth by an average of just 0.004 per cent per year in the coming decades (-0.28% by 2050) and that if a significant portion of the revenue was invested in "growth enhancing public investment", the overall effect would be positive.
Leading economists Stephany Griffith Jones and Avinash Persaud recently published a paper (pdf) showing that an FTT would increase European growth by a minimum of 0.25 per cent by 2050.
The EC's latest estimates correct its previous assessment which estimated a negative effect on growth of 0.53 per cent by 2050 but was based on the false assumption that all investment is financed by issuing new shares and ignored the benefits the revenue could bring. The UK government and financial sector lobbyists have used the assessment to falsely claim that an FTT could curtail growth by 1.76 per cent.
The UK, ironically home to the largest existing European financial transaction tax its 0.5 per cent stamp duty on share transactions, is fighting a rearguard action against the FTT. By contrast the tax is supported by Germany, France, Spain, Italy and a number of other European countries.
More than 1,000 leading economists, including Joseph Stiglitz and Jeffrey Sachs, as well as Bill Gates and George Soros, have also expressed public support for an FTT.
This week's letter to European leaders signed by 200 organizations representing European civil society said:
"The FTT is an idea whose time has come; a tax that will boost growth, help to eradicate poverty and fight climate change, and invest in a fairer society for the next generation. A legacy of which you and all of Europe's leaders could be proud.
"As well as curbing destabilising speculation in financial markets, and raising much needed funds for social spending in Europe, an FTT could help overcome the injustice faced by poor families who are still suffering from an economic crisis that was not of their making."
This week: Campaigners in over 35 countries calling for an FTT – Brussels rally today at 5pm
Pressure is also building beyond Europe's borders with a total of 35 countries taking part in a Robin Hood Tax global week of action. In the US, thousands of activists gathered in Chicago to call on President Obama to back at FTT. In Brussels, Robin Hood will join a rally, organised by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), today (23 May) from 5 to 6pm at Rue de la Loi (Rond-Point Schuman) which will gather around 200 people.
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** The nine countries that asked the Danish EU Presidency to press ahead with an FTT represent 90% of Eurozone GDP and 67% of EU GDP and include four of the five biggest economies in the EU. A tax on transactions by these countries alone, even if just implemented on equities and derivatives, would be a very significant step and has the potential to raise €38 billion every year.
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Dow hits 14,000 on strong U.S. dataReuters
February 01. 2013 10:38PM
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks extended gains on Friday, with the Dow Jones industrials trading above 14,000 for the first time since October 2007, as jobs and manufacturing data pointed to a stronger U.S. economy.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 133.89 points or 0.97 percent, to 13,994.47, the S&P 500 gained 12.09 points or 0.81 percent, to 1,510.2 and the Nasdaq Composite added 24.44 points or 0.78 percent, to 3,166.58.
The Dow hit a session high of 14,000.97, a level not seen since Oct. 17, 2007, up more than 1 percent on the day.


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