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The New York Islanders will finally have a better picture of what their defense will look like in 2013 as Lubomir Visnovsky's arbitration hearing is set to take place in just three days on September 4th. (Photo Credit: Bridget Samuels/Flickr)
As many of you know, Visnovsky filed a grievance with the NHLPA stating that the trade from the Anaheim Ducks to the Isles voided his No-Trade Clause and that the Ducks never approached him about the deal when they should have. However, the Ducks state that his NTC was used when the Edmonton Oilers dealt him to the Ducks in 2010.
If Visnovsky wins the decision, he remains part of the Ducks organization. If he loses, the trade stands and he is a member of the New York Islanders.
With all the talk about a possible lockout which could result in a shorten or even a cancelled season, there is one guarantee for the hockey season and that is the release of one of the best video games ever; NHL 2013.
Earlier this month the NHL 2013 ratings were leaked to Yahoo! Sports writer, Puck Daddy and he separated them into two posts, one being the Eastern Conference teams and the other for, you guessed it, the Western Conference teams.
Anyone who has played "NHL" knows how realistic the game can be. When looking at the ratings for the Islanders, there were some questionable choices made by EA Sports, but there were also some spot on ones. Let’s take a look at the ratings for the whole Islanders team.(Photo Credit: Yahoo/Puck Daddy)
The New York Islanders signed three players on July 1st, including defenseman Matt Carkner. His addition to the Isles will bring a new element of physicality and toughness on the blue line.
A big and strong crease clearing defenseman has been lacking possibly since Andy Sutton was traded a few years ago to the Ottawa Senators. Carkner's grit and willingness to stick up for his teammates will certainly make the Islanders a tougher team to play against.
Carkner and I had a chance to talk on the phone yesterday to discuss what he's been up to this off-season, what happened on July 1st and what he plans on bringing to the table one he puts on the orange and blue sweater.
The Islanders announced today the defense prospect, Ty Wishart has re-signed with the club on a one-year, two-way contract for the 2012-2013 season.
UNIONDALE, NY (July 18, 2012) – The New York Islanders announced today that Ty Wishart has agreed to terms on a one-year, two-way deal for the 2012-13 season.
Wishart, 24, scored 19 points (five goals, 14 assists) with the Islanders’ American Hockey League affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, during his fourth professional season. The Belleville, ON, native also appeared in one National Hockey League game last year with the Islanders.
The Islanders are just a day away from joining 29 other NHL clubs in the festivities of July 1st. To a lot of people, it is just another summer day to be enjoyed outside. For many others, it's a day meant for excitement or anguish which steals one's complete attention for TSN, Twitter and any other fast paced media outlet that will have updates on the opening of NHL Free Agency.
The Isles appear set to be parting ways with Mark Eaton, Steve Staios, Milan Jurcina and perhaps their most important free agent, PA Parenteau. The latter has served as an important member on the team's top line for the past two seasons and is coming off his biggest year, likely to command a long term contract and a significant pay raise on the open market.
The previously mentioned defenseman will not receive any grief for signing elsewhere. In fact, many Islanders fans will probably be overjoyed that they will have the opportunity to see aging veterans replaced by young, upcoming talent from within the organization.
After my freshman year of college my parents, just like everyone else’s, were on my case about getting a part-time summer job to get me out of the house. Of course I was looking around for jobs but I couldn’t find much, my sister on the other hand had been working for the Islanders in Game Ops and her boss at the time told her that he had an opening to be one of the Sparky the Dragons.
Say what you want about being a mascot, but it was so much fun and because I took that job that summer it enabled me to get the internship in Bridgeport and through these two experiences I have had to honor to meet many players, most who are great guys but some stand out more than others.
Here is my list of the top five players that were not only good hockey players but, they are guys that you want to root for.
You couldn't have been more wrong if you predicted the Islanders to take a forward in this year's draft. The Isles only selected defenseman out of all seven rounds of this year's draft. They also acquired the top four defenseman that GM Garth Snow has continuously talked about addressing in this off-season.
The first move came when NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced that the Islanders traded their 2013 second round pick to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for Lubomir Visnovsky, a 35-year old defenseman (he turns 36 in August) in the final year of his contract. Visnovsky put up six goals and 21 assists for 27 points in 68 games last year with the Ducks. The year before was even better as the Ducks d-man scored 61 points in 81 games. 2012 was a tough year overall for the Ducks, so there's reason to believe that Visnovsky can be an offensive weapon, especially on the power play.
The New York Islanders rounded out their defensive core on Friday when they traded a second round pick from 2013 to the Anaheim Ducks for defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky. Visnovsky will be entering the final year of his deal and will be possibly be a free agent when the 2013 off-season rolls around, but giving up a second rounder for a solid defenseman was worth the gamble for GM Garth Snow. (BridgetDS/Flickr)
Visnovsky provides the Isles with a veteran puck-moving defenseman and gives New York the top four d-man that they needed going into the 2012-2013 NHL season. Some might look at the trade with a furrowed eyebrow as the Islanders already had a puck moving defenseman in Mark Streit, but the move actually adds some depth to the defense and puts more accountability on a defensive group that isn't dominated by veterans such as Jurcina, Staios, Mottau, and Eaton. Much like Mark Streit, Lubomir Visnovsky is no stranger to play in the offensive zone as he has tallied 450 points in his hockey career, and 221 of those points have come with the man-advantage.
The addition of Visnovsky can definitely help the Islanders with their defensive woes as the defenseman can block his fair share of shots and throw his body around a bit as well. While Mark Streit handled the bulk of the power-play quarterbacking duties, Lubomir Visnovsky will take some much needed pressure off of New York's blue-liners, especially Travis Hamonic and Andrew MacDonald. It is yet to be seen how the Islanders will deal with up and coming prospects such as Calvin de Haan, Aaron Ness, and Matt Donovan, but the player( that might be recalled this season could learn a thing or two from the veteran defenseman. Visnovsky has a +32 rating for his career and doesn't seem to take too many penalties, so the trade makes sense from a variety of standpoints.
What is going on with the Islanders and their prospects? Rhett Rakhshani has signed a one-year deal with HV71 in Sweden, Justin DiBenedetto is on his way to Austria and Mark Katic is going to Germany. Granted Trevor Gillies also signed to play in Russia but he was never going to see the NHL again and I think we can all agree on that. What does this mean for the players and the Islanders as an organization?
Milford, CT is a typical blue-collared New England town. Like many, it has its’ green (the second largest in New England), a rich Revolutionary War history (Liberty Rock) and the strip malls, auto dealerships and struggling franchises that dot the Rte. 1 landscape from Maine to Florida. Milford is also the home of Schick, BIC, Subway, PEZ (actually nearby Orange, CT) and a guy named Jonathan Quick. It is also the winter home of most of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
In the photo (Wikipedia/Benutzer:makemake) you see an aerial view of the Milford harbor. The ubiquitous island, top center, is Charles Island, a bird sanctuary and well-known sight to most Sound Tigers players. The players often rent beach cottages along the stretch of beach facing the island during the winter months and for good reason. Many of these homes demand $1800 per week and more during the summer months, off-season these same homes are available for a small fraction of that amount. This is where they pool their resources and form what can best be described as ‘frat-houses’ where life long friendships are born. In April of 2010, after being abducted, I was given a personal tour of one. | <urn:uuid:6ef59862-9ec1-42d5-b70f-d99ec8c53dee> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://thecheckingline.com/blog/term/andrew-macdonald?page=7 | 2015-01-28T16:21:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422121983086.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175303-00102-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976802 | 1,966 | [
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When we heard that BD’s venerable Megamid (a standard-issue teepee on Outward Bound courses and a favorite ultralight shelter among mountain guides) was going out of production after nearly 25 years, we were downright upset. But when we found out it would be replaced with the Mega Light and weigh more than a pound less, we started planning test trips. What made the Megamid a classic was its ability to shelter up to four people for a low weight and price, thanks to a floor-less, pitch-anywhere design that’s rock-solid when properly staked out. That hasn’t changed. But now it’s made with 30-denier silnylon, which reduced packed size by 50 percent (and requires seam-sealing); it also features a superlight carbon-fiber center pole.
The always-open vent at the top minimizes condensation, always a weakness in teepees. And the 50 square feet of shelter is plenty for four. Our testers have pitched the Mega Light in Wyoming’s Cirque of the Towers, West Virginia’s Dolly Sods Wilderness, and on Mt. Rainier, and they report the new version “is the same, only lighter.” Cut 10 more ounces by using BD’s Pole-Converter, which lets you use trekking or ski poles in place of the center pole. Just remember: There’s no protection against bugs; use this shelter in mosquito-free zones and seasons. $260; 2 lbs. 5 oz.; bdel.com | <urn:uuid:b62a17ab-9457-462d-b089-b40f0ab87d3b> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.backpacker.com/gear/tents/gear-review-black-diamond-mega-ultralight-tent/ | 2015-01-28T16:30:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422121983086.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175303-00102-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92498 | 331 | [
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The 1015E-DS01 10.1" Notebook Computer from ASUS features a compact form factor and a stylish look, complete with a glossy black finish. The 10.1" HD widescreen LED-backlit display on this ASUS notebook has a 16:9 aspect ratio and a 1366 x 768 native resolution, supported by integrated Intel HD graphics.
The system is powered by a dual-core 1.1GHz Intel Celeron 847 processor. It also has 2GB of DDR3 RAM, a 320GB 5400rpm hard drive, a 4-in-1 media card reader, 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, an integrated webcam and microphone. There are also built-in stereo speakers with SonicMaster technology.
Windows 8 (64-bit) is the installed operating system. Windows 8 replaces the traditional Start menu with a redesigned Start screen. The Start screen features tiles, which provide notifications in real-time. Windows 8 also focuses more on cloud storage as well as apps, which can be downloaded from the Windows Store. Windows 8 provides a unique user experience that differs from previous versions of Windows.
- Dual-Core Intel Celeron Performance
- This ASUS notebook houses an Intel Celeron 847 processor. Its dual cores can reach a stock speed of 1.1GHz. With a dedicated 2MB L3 cache and 2GB of DDR3 RAM, you'll be able to multitask between applications quickly and efficiently
- 10.1" HD Widescreen LED-Backlit Display
- While smaller than traditional notebook screens, the display of this ASUS notebook doesn't sacrifice performance. The widescreen display features LED backlight technology, a 16:9 aspect ratio and a 1366 x 768 native resolution, powered by integrated Intel HD graphics
- Stay Connected
- For a reliable wired Internet connection, you can use the 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet RJ-45 LAN jack. If you want to stay untethered, you can use 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi to connect to the Internet wirelessly
- USB 3.0
- The USB 3.0 port on this ASUS notebook can transfer data up to 5Gbps, which is 10 times faster than USB 2.0. USB 3.0 is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0 so you will still be able to use your older USB-compliant devices
- The Redesigned Start Screen
- Windows 8 introduces a new Start screen, which has all the information you need in one place. The traditional Windows desktop screen has been replaced with a tablet style design featuring tiles. Tiles are customizable as well as update in real time. News, weather forecasts, sports, contacts, apps and more are available for you to use. It's all right there on the Start screen. If you prefer the traditional Start screen of Windows 7, you have the option to switch to it
- To the Cloud
- With Windows 8, when signed in using your Microsoft account, you'll have instant access to your personal Start screen, themes, language preferences, browsing history and browser favorites. You can also connect to services such as Microsoft Outlook, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and more
- Windows Store
- In the Windows Store, you can search for or browse thousands of apps. Choose from the featured apps or grab one of the most frequently downloaded apps to see what all the hype is all about. You can also see how other people rate apps. For certain apps, you can try it out before you buy it so you can make sure you absolutely want an app before you spend your hard-earned money on it | <urn:uuid:1f666edc-6191-4535-a98c-b0bc77b762fb> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/943487-REG/asus_1015e_ds01_10_1_notebook_computer.html | 2015-01-28T16:26:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422121983086.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175303-00102-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914875 | 754 | [
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While non-interactive in Grand Theft Auto IV, The Lost and Damned and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the driving range is available in The Ballad of Gay Tony for golfing; a Caddy and a Blade can also be found on the end of the range and at the docks next, respectively.
In The Ballad of Gay Tony, the player is given the opportunity to tee off at the driving ranges in the Swingers Golf Course.
Golfing in The Ballad of Gay Tony is available after completing "Practice Swing", after which it can be activated by accessing the front entrance of the Golden Pier's Swingers Golf Course; players can choose to play with an anonymous competitor, or play with any of Luis Lopez's friends.
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Re: Just out of curiosity...........
Well, I am not sure what kind of game or what bullet, but if you use a 178 AMAX at 3000 FPS at standard air it will have about 1500 FPS at 975 yards. That is also about 900 FPE.
Long range shooting is a process that ends with a result. Once you start to focus on the result (how bad your last shot was, how big the group is going to be, what your buck will score, what your match score is, what place you are in...) then you loose the capacity to focus on the process. | <urn:uuid:0e5e5c6c-fd06-431c-b042-7e1c687d9001> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f17/just-out-curiosity-1125/ | 2015-01-28T16:53:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422121983086.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175303-00102-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929022 | 123 | [
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KUALA LUMPUR: Former international Tan Kim Her has gone back to where he originally started – as a coach with the men’s doubles department.
After two months of serving as an assessor for the national team, Tan Kim Her will be back to coaching the men’s doubles. The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) decided yesterday that he was the right candidate to replace Paulus Firman ... for the time being.
Paulus quit BAM because of family problems.
Kim Her, who was head coach of the men’s doubles before he was appointed as an assessor under the new BAM management, will now work with Pang Cheh Chang to handle 24 pairs in the national team.
Yesterday, BAM’s Talent Management Group (TMG) acting director Tengku Tan Sri Mahaleel Tengku Ariff said that Kim Her will play a dual role – as an assessor and a doubles coach.
Previously, all assessors were strictly given the task of monitoring the coaches and assessing their performance and plans for their respective badminton players.
“Paulus (who was hired in January this year) has been good with us. He however has family problems. He has been very responsible and submitted all the reports and plans that were requested. He is leaving on a good note ... we are happy,” said Tengku Mahaleel.
“We do not have a shortage of coaches. We have council members who are coaches and now, we have four additional assessors, who are coaches with the states. With that, we are able to unlock Kim Her, who is a full-time employee with BAM to double up as a coach and assessor.
“Kim Her will help where there is a need in the men’s doubles department. We now have extra assessors to monitor the coaches,” said Tengku Mahaleel, who declined to reveal the four new assessors under the TMG team.
Earlier, the only other assessor on the team was former Olympic Games bronze medallist Razif Sidek but Tengku Mahaleel said that the latter serves on a part-time basis and he is subjected to different terms and conditions.
Yesterday, Tengku Mahaleel also announced several key people to strengthen the TMG programme. He has appointed Dr Koay Ban Hing as head of competitions and events and David Wee as the head of talent scouting.
“Dr Koay will look into strategic planning for the players. There are three levels of players – the national, back-up and potential players, whom we have identified as future world champions if they are given the right nurturing. He has laid out the plans for next year,” he said.
“As for David, he has a very big job of looking for talents – not only from within but also from the states. He will also look into how the other sports are doing.”
BAM’s secretary Ng Chin Chai will be responsible for linking up with all the states – to ensure that the national programmes are filtered from top to the lowest level.
Asked about the poor performance of the World Junior Championships team in Bangkok, where none made it to the semi-finals, he said: “There will always be ups and downs. We are only at the beginning stage of our five-year plan and there have been changes. I believe that we have put a good system into place and from now on, we will only be moving forward.” | <urn:uuid:f85c8b34-8955-49da-b6b1-14824f29769f> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.badmintonplanet.com/badminton-news/2502-kim-her-returns-to-coaching-doubles-pairs-pic.html | 2015-02-01T00:29:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115857200.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161057-00236-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981041 | 740 | [
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The land was scarred, forever scarred. The rain did not have the force to even touch the dry and barren earth. It was there, on that godforsaken land that my father built our house. It was the most lovely of houses in my mind. A small dwelling with a thin shingle roof and two rooms. One was the kitchen, the other the bedrooms. It was divided into sections, so that everyone had some sort of privacy. If you count paper thin t-shirts as privacy. I remember watching my father cry when the crop failed. And that man never shed a tear for nobody, but when his family couldn’t eat back in ’31 he cried. And oh man did he weep for days. I stayed silent, because if you annoyed my father when he was crying like that.. well your smart little behind would get whipped faster than the speed of light. So I kept my mouth shut. And helped my mother. She was a city girl from New York and had spent her younger days in the factories. Knew what it was to have nothing but there was always opportunity for her. My daddy was the most dashing bachelor then, I’m sure. Or at least that’s what my mother told me hundreds of times. He came to the city looking for work and found my mama. She was 19 at the time and her mother and father were long gone. They had left their little girl and sent money, but it was hardly enough to keep her alive some years. One day when they came looking for her she had left a note on the pair of lady’s bloomers she used as a door when she had to use the wooden one for firewood. Her youthful beauty soon faded, and her rosy cheeks turned gray like the land. My fathers eyes, once the color of the sky turned a sorrowful grey themselves. The color was gone from both their eyes, and their skin. All they got when I was growing up was a mighty good sunburn or two. Never again the color of happiness. And I remember when my father was going to give up, go to California because some silly man in a suit had given him a handbill and told him good luck you sorry Okie. He had hope in his heart, but lacked the common sense of a fly. On that trip to California, he drank too much one day. My mother broke into hysterics, and I their only child sat in the back of our rickety old car in my ratty dress with no shoes and didn’t utter a sound. Mama thought I was being mute, and shook me a few times but I didn’t know what to say. She sat in that car, and sulked like a child. She hated being the wife of a farmer, she hated being poor, and most of all she hated that her little girl would grow up to be just like her, a worthless Okie. It was then that the grey in my fathers eyes turned from their usual color to almost black. Almost like a storm cloud. He slapped my mother and told her to shut up and if she didn’t he was gonna shut her up. Bottle of beer in hand, he walked off into the blazing summer sun. I never saw my father again. He seemed to tip off the horizon and never came back. My mother and I found the nearest Hooverville and to this day I do not know how the hell we did it. We lived there till the depression was over, and my mama found a job. She remarried, but I don’t remember his name. He was absent in my life and we went up a few social classes because he basically took my mother as a charity case. She became a classy, fake woman and the courage that I once saw in her was never again present. Her eyes went from grey to a muddle of colors. Kinda like puce green or something. And I went to school, a strange place for a once poor girl. My mother never mentioned my daddy again. He was a dead man to her, though he was the father of her first child. Many years later I found that he had ended up in jail for multiple charges and died in prison. I can only write this from heaven because people don’t judge you in heaven. Its quite here, and I like it. I passed away at 94 years old. I lead a better life than my parents I suppose but my life in heaven has just begun. The land will always be a part of me I think as long as I’m here. My daddy is gone, my mother is gone. I was their only child and I did not lead a very honorable life. And yet here I am, somewhere in heaven. | <urn:uuid:ee90caa2-27f2-40d4-b625-96569338636d> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.teenink.com/fiction/historical_fiction/article/451564/Somewhere-in-Heaven/ | 2015-02-01T00:38:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115857200.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161057-00236-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992212 | 981 | [
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Musha Cay Resort is a beachfront villa in the southern Bahamas, the most luxurious private resort island in the world. There are more than 150 acres of sparkling white sugar-sand beaches, crystal-clear turquoise waters, and a beautiful, unspoiled tropical environment filled with exotic flowers, palm trees and abundant foliage. With 12 bedrooms and 13.5 bathrooms, a freeform pool, Jacuzzi and four hot tubs, this stunning villa has plenty to offer its guests. The private 10,000 square foot manor house sits on the crest of a hill. There is also a private thatched-roof beach house for guests that prefer a more exclusive and intimate retreat. Also on the grounds are two guest villas with two bedrooms, private outdoor Jacuzzis and beaches, or a five-bedroom beachside villa. There are plenty of options, accommodating up to 24 guests.
Musha Cay captures the romance and elegance of luxury island living of bygone eras. Distinguished English colonial-style architecture blends subtly into the tropical environment, while expansive terraces handcrafted of Mahogany offer breathtaking panoramic views of the island and the turquoise sea. The interior of each guest accommodation features beautiful West Indies-style design, with magnificent four-poster beds in each master bedroom. Exceptional amenities complete the experience. The property also features seven private beaches, your own private tropical oasis awaits. All of this can be yours; this villa can be rented from here.
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Global success follows a pattern
Richmond business capitalises on craft trendADAM ROBERTS
A Richmond business has capitalised on a global trend towards all things home-made and is now selling its clothing patterns online to eager customers in 26 countries.
Papercut Patterns owner Katie Brown opened her business in 2010, and still remains the only seller of clothing patterns for home sewers in New Zealand.
"In the world, there's probably eight," she said.
Customers can buy her patterns from the business' website, choosing from an array of collections designed by Ms Brown.
A self-taught fashion designer, she also studied at the Design and Arts College of New Zealand, in Christchurch.
She started the business after finishing her course and moving to Auckland. While working at a fabric store, she designed and made her own clothing patterns, attracting interest from her customers.
She realised she could market the patterns, selling them to customers, rather than following the traditional route of becoming a designer and selling completed clothing.
"To make a name for yourself is so hard as a designer because it's such a completely saturated market."
There had been a global trend towards handicrafts, particularly among young people, she said.
"Because I was working in the fabric store I saw how many girls were coming through wanting to make their own clothes, whereas it used to be sewing was this old lady thing."
Ms Brown runs the business out of a room in her home, designing clothes and printing out the patterns on a large-format printer which runs along an entire wall of the room.
The machine will soon be joined by another machine to automate the folding process, freeing her from a task that would take days and "sand" off her fingertips.
Ms Brown said 90 per cent of her sales were to overseas customers, with patterns shipped to the United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States, including locations as remote as Alaska.
Most heard of her patterns through prominent bloggers, rather than through established magazines, but her patterns were about to be featured in UK fashion magazine Glamour.
She is also poised to launch a new intiative, teaming up with New Zealand fashion designer Brooke Tyson, who will design a pattern to be sold exclusively through the site.
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Originally Posted by Berrymedic20
Folks I'm not trying to bash blackberry, nor do I want to pay for an additional email service. I also don't want to change my email address, especially when its with one of the most popular providers. My point is simply that I really do think BIS is in need of an overhaul and should take advantage of technology that is already out there.
I also like the blackberry two hundred times more than the treo, for everything BUT email. As I said, I'm making do with the BIS pop setup, but I'm wondering about their future.
Get a Yahoo account and forward through them it can't be more than $10 a year and you would get instant e-mail. Just spoof the e-mail addy and your recipients will never see a difference. | <urn:uuid:10199f6f-0ddd-44a1-a12f-b752c67d3194> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.blackberryforums.com/941625-post6.html | 2015-01-30T23:42:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115858727.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161058-00086-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979793 | 172 | [
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My real name is not Navam, however I have considered changing it one day, every time I use the name Navam it reminds me of who I am today. It also reminds me of who I was before.
I was a product of date rape, had a little brother who I watched drown at the age of five, had abusive parents ( mom verbally stepfather physical), married an abuser,( more than once), and had two of my children pass away.
Wow sounds bad, but not really, you see I decided sometimes life does bad things to good people, and sometimes choices I make cause bad things to happen. It was my choice to survive, it was also my choice to make changes in my life, and it was also my choice to take the lessons of bad things happening and turn them into positive things!
1st positive: Raise my children with honesty and love. Also educate my daughters (and sons) how date rape can happen and that protection needs to be used at all times. AND SONS NO MEANS NO!
2nd positive: Made sure my children had swimming lessons, defensive lessons, and made sure I kept an eye on them at all times, now did this work to protect them always no, but I knew I did the best I could to protect them and they knew they could always come and talk to me.
3rd positive: Never beat my kids and always talked to them as people (because that is what they are)Did this mean let them get away with things, no way this means to choose battles and teach them that all behavior has consequences good and bad. Let them know yes I am their mom and I love them but being their mom is my full time job! ( and I am sorry but you can't fire me!)
4th positive: Left my abuser! Got help and never looked back, started choosing people I did not want to change or feel sorry for. Started choosing healthy friends ( guess what they are out there) but most importantly started loving me first, I love myself enough that I decided I did n't deserve to ever be hit or verbally abused again.
5th positive:Life is short, value every waking moment! I cannot take anything with me when I die but I sure can leave a lot behind! The most important thing I can leave behind is the positive changes that I have made in other peoples life!
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Defense Secretary Welcomes Portuguese Minister to Pentagon
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 31, 2014 Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel today welcomed Portuguese Minister of Defense Jose Pedro Aguiar-Branco to the Pentagon, and expressed to the minister his appreciation for Portugal’s many contributions to international security, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a Defense Department news release.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, center left, meets with Portuguese Defense Minister Jose Pedro Aguiar-Branco, center right, at the Pentagon, March 31, 2014. The two leaders met to discuss defense-related topics. DOD photo by Glenn Fawcett
(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available.
The secretary specifically thanked Portugal for supporting NATO’s Baltic Air Policing rotation later this year, and Portugal’s support in combating piracy and maritime crime in the Gulf of Aden and off Somalia, Kirby said in the release.
Kirby said Hagel also thanked Aguiar-Branco for Portugal’s hospitality towards U.S. airmen at Lajes Field.
The two leaders “discussed the situation in Ukraine and reaffirmed both nations’ steadfast commitment to our collective defense obligations,” Kirby said.
Both men, he said, agreed on the need for Russia to begin discussions with the Ukrainian government, as diplomacy remains the only acceptable means of resolving this crisis.
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Book your room at Quest Waterfront Serviced Apartments
4-star motel in Hobart (Sullivan's Cove) near St. David's Cathedral
This motel is located in Hobart (Sullivan's Cove), close to Franklin Square, St. David's Cathedral, and Theatre Royal. Also nearby are Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens and Parliament House.
In addition to a restaurant, Quest Waterfront Serviced Apartments features dry cleaning/laundry services. Other amenities include laundry facilities and high-speed (wired) Internet access (surcharge).
All guestrooms feature jetted bathtubs, refrigerators, and microwaves. Other amenities include wireless Internet access (surcharge) and air conditioning.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Quest Waterfront Serviced Apartments
The motel offers a restaurant. Public areas are equipped with wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge). For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. This Hobart motel also offers tour/ticket assistance, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and laundry facilities. Limited onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis (surcharge).
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 34
- Number of floors - 5
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
- Laundry facilities
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( 20 USD )
Available in some public areas: Wired high-speed internet ( 7 USD )
- Air conditioning
- Complimentary newspaper
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Hair dryer
- Jetted bathtub
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Room service (limited hours)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Where to Eat
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
Quest Waterfront Serviced Apartments has a restaurant on site.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the “Special or Accessibility Requests" section of “Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- In-room accessibility
Check-in time starts at 2:00 PM
Check-in time ends at 9:00 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Parking at this property is limited. Guests driving to the property must contact the property at time of booking if they wish to request a parking space. Please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Check-out time is 10:00 AM
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Breakfast fee: USD 9.50 for adults and USD 9.50 for children (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 20 (rates may vary)
- Fee for high-speed Internet (wired) in public areas: USD 7 (rates may vary)
- Airport shuttle fee: USD 17.50 per person (roundtrip)
- Airport shuttle fee per child: USD 14.50 (roundtrip), (from 3 to 16 years old)
- Self parking fee: USD 8 per night
- Valet parking fee: USD 8 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 35 per night
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BEIJING, April 8 (Xinhua) -- James Cameron's blockbuster "Titanic" will return to Chinese screens with a new 3D version on Tuesday, said its distributor in China on Sunday.
The film, first released in 1997 casting Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, was screened in China in 1998 and registered a record box office of 360 million yuan (57.14 million US dollars) for 11 years in the Chinese market.
After 14 years, the re-release of the film will target young audiences who have not had the chance to watch it on the big screen, said Gu Guoqing, president of Huaxia Film Distribution Co. Ltd, the film's distributor in China.
"Also, those who have seen it and been deeply moved will have very different experience," he said.
This year is also the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the grandest liner ever built which sank on its maiden voyage with the loss of more than 1,500 lives on April 15, 1912 after hitting an iceberg.
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This is a cautionary tale for anybody with cats. We all have heard about hairballs and cats – right? The hacking they do to “cough up” a hairball is well known. I even recall an extremely humorous scene in Shrek 2! However, what can be confused as a hairball cough could actually be something much more serious. Here’s my story.
Last summer we started noticing one of our older cats, Zoe, coughing. We thought it was a hairball, as she was a fastidious groomer, with plenty of hair. So we shrugged it off. After awhile, I thought perhaps I should try to help this process and got her some Hairball Remedy. Zoe didn’t care much for this, but I tried my best to get her to take some of it each day. I also bought some cat food formulated for hairball prevention. We started brushing her often (which she loved). However, she continued to try to cough up a hairball…or so we thought.
As the coughing continued, we slowly…so slowly…noticed small changes in Zoe. First it was MORE coughing, then I started to realize there was in fact, never a hairball to be seen. This perplexed me, because surely, after all this, we would have seen a hairball SOMEWHERE. Then suddenly we noticed she seemed to have slightly labored breathing, along with what seemed to be an odd weight loss, although she still retained quite a lot of fat. This startled me into reality, and I took her to the vet immediately. Something was definitely not right. I thought perhaps this hairball issue had become stuck or clogged or something!
At the veterinarian’s office, Zoe was x-rayed and examined, and blood work done. The results that came back were less than encouraging, and there was definitely no simple hairball problem.
Zoe’s blood work was horrible – I cannot recall the exact details but things weren’t good. Her x-ray showed massive amounts of fluid in her chest. So much so that they couldn’t see much at all to see if something else like a tumor was in there. Her liver was 1/2 the size it was supposed to, along with a list of other problems. We were obviously quite upset. How long had this been going on? All this time we thought she had a simple hairball and it was something so much more serious! We promptly got Zoe on a diuretic, which helps decrease fluid in the chest. Our hope was that we could get it decreased enough to get another x-ray and see what was going on exactly.
Zoe seemed to perk up on her diuretic, and the coughing, while still there, seemed to lessen. She still had some slightly labored breathing, but all in all she seemed to be doing better. Suddenly though, in the span of about a week, she spiraled downward quickly and there was nothing we could do to help her. All we could do was send her to the Rainbow Bridge to meet up with her brother Porsche (who had, coincidentally, passed away only 3 months prior….).
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Members of the Michigan State, right, and Stanford football teams pose in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle during their visit to Disneyland on Dec. 26. They meet in the Rose Bowl today. / Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Still a glutton for punishment, Shawn? Still happy in your delusional little world in which the home team always wins for no other reason than they’re the home team?
Michigan State’s a good team, the best of a wretchedly bad conference.
But Stanford’s the best team not playing for the national championship. It played one of the toughest schedules in the country, and that supersedes the perceived indignity of losing two conference games. It has the most NFL-ready head coach in college football in David Shaw. It has developed a high-level competitive mind-set that belies the limits of its recruiting scope due to its academic restrictions.
■ Related: Why Shawn Windsor thinks MSU will win today
The Cardinal will defend its Rose Bowl championship from a year ago. It’s the better team, perfectly capable of matching the Spartans’ Big Ten physicality with more than a little touch of West Coast athleticism.
If there were a four-team playoff this year, I can assure you that the football selection committee would’ve taken Stanford over Michigan State for the fourth and final spot after Florida State, Auburn and Alabama.
A generation removed from its last visit to Pasadena, Michigan State is being asked to defend the honor of a conference that has lost nine of its last 10 Rose Bowl appearances. The odds aren’t in the Spartans’ favor. The Pac-12 is 6-2 in bowl games; the Big Ten is 0-2 (0-4 if you include the bowl losses of the 2014 conference newcomers, Rutgers and Maryland).
Not that you needed any more evidence of the Pac-12’s superiority over the Big Ten.
So tell me again, Shawn, why anyone should put faith in the Spartans halting the Big Ten hemorrhaging?
Middle linebacker Max Bullough’s loss due to a suspension for violating team rules certainly lessens Michigan State’s defensive strength, particularly against an opponent that is the Spartans’ physical equal.
But it’s bigger than that. Stanford has become the new Notre Dame, a private institution with the audacity of demanding that its athletes serve as students first. Despite that, Stanford regularly topples the highly ranked and has officially joined the nationally elite.
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A people must keep its powder dry
Arguably the most important issue raised in Mr. David Granger’s independence sojourn in New York was his statement of the kind of governance he would like to see developed in Guyana, and in my view, unless we want to unwittingly end up in an autocracy worse than any we have had so far, the Leader of the Opposition had better make his position much clearer and we had better pay attention to it. This is because I believe that when all is said and done, if this country is to progress, we must establish a more inclusive political framework.
We must not forget that we missed a good opportunity to establish or at least make a good political stand for more appropriate governance mechanisms during the constitutional process that took place at the turn of the last century. We did not then sufficiently appreciate that we were not living in a normal multi-racial society. Even Desmond Hoyte, then in charge of the PNC, only later come to that realization and so we proudly constructed all manner of constitutional commissions but left them in the same majoritarian mould.
Today we have to be careful that we are not on an even more utopian trajectory: focusing on even less important matters such as having the PNC give us assurances that they will not behave autocratically again! For my part, the PNC and the whole tribe of politicians can swear on the entire stack of sacred religious texts in Guyana and by all that is dear to them and I would not willingly put my life in their hands. If you value your freedom, the way to deal with this tribe is to pay no attention to their protestations of good intentions. In countries like Guyana where the political culture is undeveloped and the …..To continue reading, login or subscribe now. | <urn:uuid:f919b982-3554-42d8-93b9-f62dfb84d615> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.stabroeknews.com/2014/features/07/02/people-must-keep-powder-dry/ | 2015-01-30T08:18:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115926769.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161206-00174-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979433 | 364 | [
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My wife and I spent New Year's Eve at The Great George and I highly recommend it. It is located on Great George Street Historic District - National Historic Site of Canada. Canada's Founding Fathers walked up this street on August 31 and September 1, 1864 and even inquired about staying at this property known then as The Pavilion Hotel... More
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Scrap the Sacrosanct Salary Schedule
How about more pay for new teachers, less for older ones?
On what basis should we distribute rewards to salespeople?
It seems like a silly question, doesn’t it? First, “we,” meaning the public at large, don’t usually get to decide such matters. Second, there are obvious systems of rewards for salespeople already in place, foremost among them the system of commissions, which pays salespersons for the value they directly contribute to a firm’s operation.
Replace the word “salespeople” with “teachers,” however, and we move from the realm of silly questions to the arena of intense policy debate. Teachers are in most cases public employees. So we do, in theory at least, get to decide how they are paid. The commission model for teachers, variants of which have been proposed for many years, would involve compensating them for the value they provide to their school’s operation, that is, the degree to which they educate their students. Unfortunately, the amount of education a student receives in a given year is much harder to quantify than the total sales recorded by a clerk in a store. Measuring student growth has been made somewhat easier by recent advances in the tracking of student performance on standardized tests over time. But the notion of paying teachers on the basis of their ability to improve test scores, often termed “merit pay,” while earnestly debated by education policy researchers, is strongly opposed by teachers unions and is a political nonstarter in many parts of the country.
Lost in the debate over merit pay are some interesting, and to some extent disturbing, facts about the way we currently distribute compensation to teachers. Most districts reward teachers for their years of experience, advanced degrees, and in some cases special credentials such as a certificate from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). If every year of experience and every credential were strongly associated with a teacher’s ability to educate students, we could feel content that our system rewarded the ability to educate de facto. But the available evidence suggests that the connection between credentials and teaching effectiveness is very weak at best, and the connection between additional years of experience and teaching effectiveness, while substantial in the first few years in the classroom, attenuates over time. Though exact results vary from one study to the next, there is little doubt that credentials and additional years of experience (beyond the first few years) matter far less to teacher effectiveness than they do to teacher compensation as it is currently designed.
What if, rather than proposing a direct pay-for-performance system, we took the intermediate step of stopping the practice of paying rewards for credentials that have no established association with the ability to educate students? A simple case study, based on the teacher workforce in North Carolina, suggests that this policy change would return several dividends. Money currently spent on rewarding teachers for valueless credentials could be used to increase starting salaries, a policy goal espoused by nearly all interested parties, from education reformers to teachers unions. Shifting teachers’ lifetime compensation toward the beginning of their careers would make the profession more attractive to highly qualified college students. Finally, the age-earnings profile for teachers would more closely resemble the profile for other professions. Doctors and lawyers reap the full rewards of competence in their profession within 10 years of entrance. Teachers must wait three times that long, even though evidence suggests that they become fully competent in their profession just as quickly.
Pay for Effectiveness
Before we take the next step and introduce the “evidence-based” salary schedule, let’s review the basic details of teacher compensation in North Carolina. School finance is relatively centralized in North Carolina, to the extent that there is a statewide teacher salary schedule. Local districts are permitted to supplement the schedule, and almost all of them do. But the state’s salary schedule largely determines the rewards paid to teachers across the state. Moreover, the statewide schedule is typical of teacher compensation in most other public school systems nationwide.
On the North Carolina salary schedule, teachers receive rewards for experience, for attaining advanced degrees, and for becoming certified by the NBPTS. A master’s degree entitles a teacher to a permanent 10 percent increase in salary. Teachers with doctoral degrees earn a permanent 15 percent differential relative to those with bachelor’s degrees. Teachers with NBPTS certification receive a permanent 12 percent boost in salary. Finally, teachers accrue increments to their salary as they gain experience. At the top rung of the experience ladder, teachers with 27 or more years in the classroom earn 68 percent more than starting teachers with equivalent credentials.
Contrast this information with what we know about the relationship between credentials and classroom effectiveness, as measured by student test-score gains. Numerous studies, including several based on North Carolina data, show no significant relationship between advanced degrees and effectiveness, with the possible exception of high school teachers who receive advanced training in their field of specialty. An evidence-based salary schedule, accordingly, would pay no automatic premium for these degrees.
To a large extent, the jury is still out on the importance of NBPTS certification. Studies have shown that teachers nominated for this certification have a legacy of superior classroom performance, but there is less evidence that the process of certification actually improves their performance. Nonetheless, whether NBPTS certification improves teacher quality or merely identifies high-quality teachers, there is some evidence to support a premium for it. How large a premium? We’ll return to that question after discussing the returns to experience.
Teachers with more experience are automatically paid more in North Carolina, and in virtually every other public school system in the country. Research has shown that experienced teachers are more effective in the classroom. So the real-world salary schedule looks a lot like the “evidence-based” schedule, right? Not exactly. Consider the evidence in Figure 1. This chart shows two forms of returns to experience. The lighter bars track the returns paid out in the 2007–08 salary schedule, relative to the salary for starting teachers. The darker bars track the returns to experience in terms of teachers’ ability to improve test scores, based on a recent analysis of North Carolina secondary schools. The returns to experience are measured by tracking the performance of each individual teacher according to time in the profession.
These two forms of returns to experience look very different. Relative to a teacher just beginning in the profession, teachers with one or two years of experience raise test scores by an extra 5 percent of a standard deviation. They are paid, on average, 2 percent more than starting teachers. If the standard were to pay teachers an extra 1 percent of salary when they raise test scores by 2.5 percent of a standard deviation, then highly experienced teachers who post a 25 percent test-score advantage over rookies should be paid a 10 percent premium. Instead, their premium approaches 70 percent. Visually, the darker bars rise quickly at first, moving from left to right, but largely level off once a teacher has six years of experience. The salary schedule marches right along, providing continuously increasing rewards to teachers as they progress from 6 to 27 years of experience, even though their classroom effectiveness has barely improved.
The existing salary schedule rewards teachers too little for the substantial improvements they post in the first few years on the job, and too much for the later years of their career, when they show only incremental advances. An evidence-based salary schedule would alter this arrangement, focusing the rewards on the early rungs of the experience ladder.
Looking at Other Professions
Rewarding younger members of a profession for their rapid early gains in expertise is quite common outside of teaching. Consider the age-earnings profile of physicians. The opening figure shows earnings information taken from the American Community Survey of 2006. Young doctors in their late 20s and early 30s are paid relatively low salaries: 30-year-old physicians earn about one-third what their 45-year-old colleagues are being paid. But the ascent of the pay scale is rapid. Within 10 years, the 30-year-old physician can expect to reach the peak of the earnings distribution—a plateau, really, since doctors earn their high maximum salaries for a decade or more.
The picture is quite similar for lawyers. The average earnings of 25-year-old lawyers, fresh from law school, are a fraction of what 45-year-old attorneys are paid, possibly because many of the 25-year-olds are still trying to land a job. The ascent of the pay scale is once again rapid. By the age of 35, the typical young lawyer has attained a level of compensation that can be expected for the next quarter century, with a few years of extra-high earnings in the late 40s.
Contrast these market-driven age-earnings profiles with that of teachers, whose salaries are determined not so much by market forces but by collectively bargained agreements. Whereas the young lawyer can expect to reach peak earnings by age 35, and the young physician by age 40, the opening figure shows that the young teacher must wait until age 55 to attain that professional stature. What is more, the “plateau” in the young doctor or lawyer’s future is more of a true peak for teachers. Beyond the age of 55, average teacher earnings fall off rapidly, as many take early retirement once their pensions have vested.
It is true, of course, that the educational profile of the typical young doctor or lawyer is different from that of the typical beginning teacher. Teachers can usually begin work with no more than a bachelor’s degree, while doctors and lawyers must complete several more years of very costly specialized training. But the market is telling us something here: across professions, young practitioners spend a few years learning on the job; after this learning period, a 35-year-old practitioner is just as proficient as a 55-year-old. All our evidence suggests the same is true in teaching, yet the teaching profession has not established a pay schedule that reflects this basic fact.
Rational Teacher Pay
Looking at the opening figure, it is not difficult to understand why rates of exit from the teaching profession are high relative to rates in other fields. The 25-year-old teacher is not that much worse off financially than college friends who went into other professions. In addition, the teacher likely has less of a debt burden to bear. By the age of 35, however, the teacher’s compensation has declined precipitously relative to that of peers. Most economists would tell you that the teacher should have anticipated such an eventuality. But not every college student plotting out the future behaves as rationally as an economic model would presume.
So now we have some basic principles on which to build a better model: Reward characteristics associated with greater effectiveness; do not reward those that have no evidence linking them to effectiveness. To launch the system, all we need to do is pin down the increment of compensation for a given increase in effectiveness. There are several ways to do this, but let’s consider just one. Suppose that we reward a characteristic associated with an improvement in test scores of 1 percent of a standard deviation with a 1 percent increase in salary. This would make the height of the lighter bars in Figure 1 match the height of the darker bars. This rule also gives us a perspective to think about what the right increment would be for NBPTS certification. While new evidence could be helpful in determining the exact amount, it’s fairly clear that North Carolina’s 12 percent increase is larger than what evidence would support. For the purposes of this exercise, let’s set the premium at 5 percent. Here’s what would happen.
First, we would find ourselves with a fair amount of surplus cash. Although the rewards for the first few years of experience would increase, there would be dramatic decreases in the rewards for more time in the classroom. Eliminating the automatic salary increments for advanced degrees and reducing the premium for NBPTS certification would save still more.
What should be done with this extra money? One straightforward response, consistent with the goals of a wide range of advocates, would be to plow it straight back into teacher salaries, raising the base salary underlying these rewards. Increasing starting salaries in teaching has been advocated by, among others, the National Education Association, the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, and the authors of a heavily publicized 2007 report by McKinsey & Company on the characteristics of the world’s most effective school systems. Using data from the actual characteristics of North Carolina public school teachers, we can simulate just how much of a boost could be applied to starting salaries using the savings associated with the evidence-based salary schedule. As shown in Figure 3, this schedule features a starting salary of $37,000, about 25 percent higher than the current low rung on the salary schedule, which is less than $30,000. As expected, the returns to experience would be concentrated in the first years on the job. After just three years in the classroom, teachers would earn salaries above $40,000. Under the current salary schedule, it takes teachers with bachelor’s degrees 13 years to reach that level.
Common-sense reforms to teacher pension systems, such as those discussed in Education Next by Robert Costrell and Michael Podgursky (see “Peaks, Cliffs, and Valleys,” features, Winter 2008), would have a similar effect of making the returns to teaching more front-loaded. Under current pension systems, a teacher switching to a different career after five years leaves with virtually nothing in retirement savings. If school systems used modern 401(k)-style defined-contribution plans, early departing teachers could take their retirement savings with them, as many private-sector employees currently do. Old-fashioned pension plans discourage young college graduates not yet committed to a profession from giving teaching a chance.
The proposed salary schedule shown in Figure 2 is constructed to be expenditure-neutral. If we simply switched from one schedule to the other, the budgeted amount for teacher salaries would not change. A conversion to the evidence-based salary schedule could thus be seen as a means of boosting starting teacher salaries without increasing expenditures on education. Granted, the boost to starting salaries is not as great as some advocates would like—the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has called for starting salaries of $45,000—but remember that this new schedule is based on the arbitrary decision to reward credentials that improve test scores by 1 percent of a standard deviation with a 1 percent boost in salary. A further flattening of the salary schedule would permit a further increase in starting salaries, with no net growth in public expenditure.
The evidence-based salary schedule is not a win-win proposition; a switch from current schedules would create clear winners and losers. Beginning teachers fare better under the new system. On the current salary schedule, a starting teacher who expects to hold nothing more than a bachelor’s degree throughout her career will receive earnings over 30 years worth $620,000 in present value terms, discounting at a 5 percent rate. On the evidence-based salary schedule, this present value increases 11 percent, to $686,000. Even a teacher entering the profession with a master’s degree is better off under the evidence-based salary schedule, even though it pays no reward for the advanced degree. This is because the benefit of front-loading the returns to experience outweighs the lost 10 percent salary increment over the long term.
Older teachers would be harmed in a direct switch from the current system to an evidence-based salary schedule. It is too late for these teachers to reap early returns to competence, and depriving them of the present system’s rich rewards for advanced degrees and experience beyond the first few years would cut directly into their expected future earnings. Teachers with bachelor’s degrees and more than 20 years in the classroom would experience an immediate pay cut. Bachelor’s degree–holding teachers with at least 17 years on the job would see a decline in the present value of future earnings, if we assume a 30-year teaching career.
Academic institutions that grant advanced degrees to teachers would also suffer under this plan. Without the promise to teachers of a guaranteed salary increment, enrollment in master’s-level programs would undoubtedly decrease. Such a shock to the system of advanced teacher education could, however, lead to improvements in program quality. If postgraduate education makes teachers more effective, they should be rewarded for it. An evidence-based salary schedule would directly reward teachers when they demonstrate evidence of greater effectiveness. Teachers would thus enroll in advanced degree programs of their own accord if those programs were known to improve effectiveness. Alternatively, individual teacher education programs could be accredited on the basis of their demonstrated ability to improve teacher effectiveness. Graduates of accredited programs could then receive guaranteed increments. An ideal evidence-based salary schedule would be flexible in light of new evidence.
Political Reality Check
Given the losses to experienced teachers, and the likely opposition of those in the business of educating teachers, is the evidence-based salary schedule a pie-in-the-sky ideal with no chance of becoming reality? Not necessarily. Entry-level teachers will find it in their best interest to choose the new system, if given a choice. The relative benefits become even more obvious if they intend to stay in the profession only a few years.
Phasing in the system, applying the evidence-based schedule to new teachers while retaining the traditional schedule for those who wish to remain on it, would shift the burden from highly experienced teachers. Of course, this burden would not disappear. It would shift to taxpayers, who would have to finance higher levels of teacher salaries until the completion of the phase-in period, perhaps 20 years or longer. The costs of paying new teachers on the evidence-based schedule while keeping existing teachers on the traditional schedule would peak after 10 years, at which point savings associated with the flattened rewards for experience would begin to outweigh the costs of higher salaries to younger teachers. In North Carolina, the long-run transition costs would amount to about $1.6 billion, half of which would be incurred in the first dozen years after the transition. That’s equivalent to a one-time charge of $180 per state resident, or roughly $12 per resident per year if financed over a 30-year period. Relative to the more than $1,000 per capita the state government spends on education each year, this is a modest sum.
There are many other solutions to the three-way negotiation problem among new teachers, experienced teachers, and taxpayers. For example, experienced teachers could be guaranteed their current salaries, plus cost-of-living adjustments, rather than the original raises on the traditional schedule or the salary declines imposed by an evidence-based schedule. The 25 percent increment to starting salaries could also be reduced, or phased in gradually.
Should a family of four be willing to pay an extra $50 per year to finance a move to an evidence-based salary system? Since taxpayers would in the end reap benefits from the move by introducing a system that attracted more qualified teachers with no additional cost after the transition period, most observers would say yes. Taxpayers nationwide pay billions of dollars each year in salary premiums to reward teachers for credentials of highly questionable value. Fifty dollars a year is a small price to pay to reallocate this money in a manner that encourages highly qualified teachers to enter the profession and stay there.
Jacob Vigdor is associate professor of public policy studies and economics at Duke University and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Denyce Graves (b. 1964) is an opera singer.
Graves appeared on Sesame Street in season 29, singing an Operatic Lullaby (a version of "La Habanera" from Carmen) to Elmo (EKA: Episode 3697) , as well as a bug opera (EKA: Episode 3749).
She later sang "Sing" on a 2000 episode, with some penguins.
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So, all this time folks have been bashing British Petroleum when we should have been bashing ourselves. Not because of the consumption issues and
'green earth' politics, but because Rockefeller owns BP. We remember his early ventures with Standard Oil (the company that provided Germany the gas
it needed to bomb everyone). Here's a not-very-detailed ddescription of the Standard Oil umbrella.
Standard Oil Line (Rockefeller)
Imperial Oil (Canada)
Amoco - Owned by BP but was originally a Standard Oil subsidiary.
Arco (Atlantic Richfield with a subsidiary APTI -ARCO Power Technoligies Inc -that built HAARP, and was acquired by British Aerospace in 2003)
Standard Oil along with the 4 companies shown as an asterisk (*), were the 5 American companies that held 40% of control in BP
quoted below from www.morphcity.com...
In 1954 the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company changed its name to British Petroleum and became an international consortium that shared profits with Iran at a
50-50 split. The company was 40% owned by Iran, 40% owned by 5 American companies and 20% owned by Royal Dutch Shell and the French Petroleum Company.
No Iranians were allowed on the Board of Directors or to audit the company. The 5 American companies include Exxon, Gulf Oil, Mobil, Standard Oil and
Texaco; all of which were controlled, merged or or owned by parent companies affiliated with the Rockefeller family over time.
In 1979 the Ayatollah Khomeini broke all contracts and gave 90% ownership to BP oil and Iran retained a 10% interest. In 1998
Peter Sutherland was the non- executive chairman of BP for 13 years, until the end of 2009 and is an example of the the type of leadership that
rules the world. His "accomplishments" include being non- executive Chairman of Goldman Sachs, director of the Bank of Scotland (until it was taken
over by the UK government to avoid bankruptcy), former Director General of GATT (now the World Trade Organization), a chairman of the Trilateral
Commission and a UN Goodwill Ambassador. Sutherland was instrumental in the UK's immigration mess, negating Ireland's ban on abortion and is
reported to be on the steering committee of the Bilderberg group.
Judging from this quote, BP basically became the proprietary owner of Iranian Oil.
And from this link www.wetfeet.com...
we discover that:
Standard Oil evolved into what is known today as the world energy giant BP
Both 2008 and 2009 have been busy years for BP. In 2008, BP signed a deal with Enbridge to pipe Oil Sands crude from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast.
The same year, BP and Husky Energy teamed up to create an integrated North American oil sands business through two joint ventures: BP-Husky Refinery
LLC, operated by BP, and the Sunrise Oil Sands Partnership (SOSP), operated by Husky. BP also acquired 90,000 acres of natural gas assets in
Oklahoma’s Arkoma Basin Woodford Shale from Chesapeake Energy in 2008. It also purchased a stake in Chesapeake Energy’s Fayetteville Shale assets
In 2009, BP announced the discovery of a major oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil field contains 3 billion barrels of oil, which will boast
production 50 percent to 600,000 barrels per day.
And from an article on BPs own website www.bp.com...
Like most companies, Amoco started small. Unlike most companies, however, it had the backing of a big name in American industry, John D. Rockefeller.
Standard Oil of Indiana, as the company was officially known for many years, took shape in 1899
And from this link islammyreligion.wordpress.com...
Standard Oil of New Jersey (SONJ) – or Esso (S.O.) – renamed Exxon, now part of ExxonMobil. Standard Trust companies Carter Oil, Imperial Oil
(Canada), and Standard of Louisiana were kept as part of Standard Oil of New Jersey after the breakup.
Standard Oil of New York – or Socony, merged with Vacuum – renamed Mobil, now part of ExxonMobil.
Standard Oil of California – or Socal – renamed Chevron, became ChevronTexaco, but returned to Chevron.
Standard Oil of Indiana – or Stanolind, renamed Amoco (American Oil Co.) – now part of BP.
Standard’s Atlantic and the independent company Richfield merged to form Atlantic Richfield or ARCO, now part of BP. Atlantic operations were spun
off and bought by Sunoco.
Standard Oil of Kentucky – or Kyso was acquired by Standard Oil of California – currently Chevron.
Continental Oil Company – or Conoco now part of ConocoPhillips.
Standard Oil of Ohio – or Sohio now part of BP.
The Ohio Oil Company – more commonly referred to as “The Ohio”, and marketed gasoline under the Marathon name. The company is now known as
Marathon Oil Company, and was often a rival with the in-state Standard spinoff, Sohio.
Other Standard Oil spin-offs:
Standard Oil of Iowa – pre-1911 – became Standard Oil of California.
Standard Oil of Minnesota – pre-1911 – bought by Standard Oil of Indiana.
Standard Oil of Illinois – pre-1911 – bought by Standard Oil of Indiana.
Standard Oil of Kansas – refining only, eventually bought by Indiana Standard.
Standard Oil of Missouri – pre-1911 – dissolved.
Standard Oil of Louisiana – always owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil).
Standard Oil of Brazil – always owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil).
Other companies divested in the 1911 breakup:
Anglo-American Oil Co. – acquired by Jersey Standard in 1930, now Esso UK.
Buckeye Pipeline Co.
Borne-Scrymser Co. (chemicals)
Chesebrough Manufacturing (now Unilever, manufacturer of Vaseline)
Crescent Pipeline Co.
Cumberland Pipe Line Co.
Eureka Pipe Line Co.
Galena-Signal Oil Co.
Indiana Pipe Line Co.
National Transit Co.
New York Transit Co.
Northern Pipe Line Co.
Prairie Oil & Gas.
Southern Pipe Line Co.
South Penn Oil Co. – eventually became Pennzoil, now part of Shell.
Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Line Co.
Swan and Finch.
Union Tank Lines.
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Luke Worrall, the younger boyfriend of Kelly Osbourne, has changed his Facebook online relationship status to "engaged to Kelly Osbourne."
Engagement rumors have been busting for some time, but it wasn't until last week that Luke Worrall confirmed he and Kelly Osbourne are engaged. The Daily Mail was the first to report that matter upon learning that Luke has changed his Facebook online relationship status to "engaged to Kelly Osbourne."
Kelly, 24, and Luke, 18, have been dating since May this year. She sparked engagement rumors in July when she was spotted wearing a ring on her engagement finger. Neither Kelly nor Luke had ever commented on the engagement reports though.
And on Saturday, November 15, Luke leaked his engagement to Kelly on his Facebook account. His profile page has since been flooded with congratulation messages from family and friends.
According to Daily Mail, Kelly has yet commented on Luke's engagement confirmation. She, however, recently told the press, "Would I marry him? Yes, you never know. But I'm still really young so we'll have to wait and see. I really do love him, we get on so well."
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Mumbai: As Deepika Padukone and Siddharth continue to say that they are simply friends and not involved in any romantic way, Kevin Pietersen has exposed their relationship. The English cricketer has made this little “mistake” during the world cup match between India and England, played at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bangalore. Obviously, both Siddharth and Deepika were seen cheering the Indian team, together.
The alleged couple had a lunch with the English cricketer, enjoying themselves very much. Kevin was very pleasantly surprised by the hospitality of the two, and once returned to his home, he logged on his Twitter account and posted on how a wonderful time he had with ‘Sidhartha Mallya & his girlfriend Deepika Padukone.’
This did not come as a surprise for anyone in Bollywood or India, especially not for the fans of the actress. It may have been a surprise for Deepika and her beau, Siddharth, considering they always to the best they can to deny any rumor about their relationship.
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Wendy Williams recently went in on Nene Leakes for defacing her expensive Hermès Birkin handbag by writing ghetto quotes on it. NeNe just happened to be watching and responded:
“Wendy I am sure people think that I’ve done something to you, maybe we had a beef or I slept with your man but none of that is true!” Nene wrote. “I’ve actually only been nice to you! I gave you a beautiful black $3,200 Celine Phantom Bag to celebrate your 500th show but you haven’t spoken of that!”
“But what you have chosen to do is constantly speak negative of me and lie on me! What you need to do is stop spewing hate! When it comes to gossip you are the lowest of the low! I know you hate because I turned down the chance to come on your Talk Show and I am sure you’re scared I will take your place (I know you have heard! Ummhmm wink wink) BE SCARED!
I have a clothing line on HSN coming out in a few days and I know it must be hard for a black woman to support another black woman but you should try it sometime.
PS: My Birkin is being turned into a work of art to raise money for a worthy charity something you fail to mention on your show! I don’t have one Birkin I have five now run tell that WIG.”
Personally I think that is crazy to buy a bag at that price and then write all over it…but hell you paid for it so you can do whatever you want with it. Go NeNe with your rich ass!!…lol
RHOA star NeNe Leakes made her debut on Season 18 of Dancing With the Stars with her dance partner Tony Dovolani, doing the Cha Cha. The crowd and the judges were impressed giving them a score of 21 out of 30. What do you think after her first dance? Does she have what it takes to make it all the way through?
Dancing With The Stars” will return for its 18th season this month with a whole new start studded line up.
NeNe Leakes, Cody Simpson and Drew Carey are the biggest names joining the new season of Dancing With the Stars premiering March 24 on ABC.
The new twist is…everybody will switch partners! America will vote on the new pairings. How about that twist?
Here are the partners:
Billy Dee Williams & Emma Slater
Candace Cameron Bure & Mark Ballas
Charlie White & Sharna Burgess
Cody Simpson & Witney Carson
Danica McKellar & Valentin Chmerkovskiy
Diana Nyad & Henry Byalikov
Drew Carey & Cheryl Burke
James Maslow & Peta Murgatroyd
Meryl Davis & Maksim Chmerkovskiy
NeNe Leakes & Tony Dovolani
Sean Avery & Karina Smirnoff
Amy Purdy & Derek Hough
Peter Thomas from “Real Housewives of Atlanta” sat down with Sister 2 Sister Magazine and he explained the fight at NeNe Leakes’ Pillow Talk sleepover.
“All of that was so explosive. It happened so fast,” said Peter who inserted himself into the altercation between Brandon DeShazer and Christopher Williams to defuse the situation.
Instead, Peter’s actions just helped to escalate the tension and led to unprecedented “RHOA” messiness and violence.
“Apollo [Nida] got up to help me hold Brandon back while Gregg [Leakes] and Todd [Tucker] took Christopher the other way, but Brandon was so aggressive and so hype that he accidentally hit Apollo and that’s what made Apollo flip,” Peter explained.
Apollo admitted that his fight with Kenya Moore’s friend was “ridiculous” and that things just got out of hand once he was allegedly struck by Brandon.
“It’s really a shame. I never thought that someone would hit me, especially when I was kinda trying to defuse the situation,” Apollo explained to Phaedra Parks in a preview for an upcoming episode. “I just saw a lot of rage in his eyes. All I know, I got hit and I just got really carried away.”
Though Peter believes Apollo was initially just trying to help him restrain Brandon and break up the fight, he acknowledged that he probably would not have responded the way Apollo did.
“If I’m breaking up a fight and I accidentally get hit, I’m probably not going to react that way, but it wasn’t just the accidental hit,” Peter said. “You can hear [Brandon] say, ‘Oh, you wanna fight, too?’”
While viewers tried to guess what caused Apollo’s aggression toward Brandon, Peter said the two have no bad blood.
“They never had an argument or any kind of altercation,” said Peter. “They never had an argument or any kind of beef.”
Just about everyone who watched the bout has an opinion about who’s to blame, but Peter refused to point fingers. No matter how it began, he said everyone involved is upset about how it ended.
“No one is proud of what happened, including Apollo. Everyone is ashamed,” he said.
NeNe Leakes has had an amazing year last year into 2013…she sat down with Jimmy Fallon and confirmed what we already suspected. When asked if eh and ex-husband Greg are engaged she took her time then screamed out “YEEESSSS.”
NeNe Leakes stopped by the 5th hour of the TODAY Show with Kathy & Hoda…she talked about how the black community don’t support each other and says she deserved to be on the cover of Ebony more than anyone else.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes tweeted a photo of herself and her ex-husband, Gregg Leakes, celebrating New Year’s Eve together….then put this caption following the pic.
“My answer was Yes.”
So this begs the question is NeNe engaged to her husband again?
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kenya Moore has created a t-shirt line like many other reality show stars have. Moore launched “Gone With the Wind Fabulous,” a collection of long and short sleeve tees that feature her famous phrases on them. From “Hold on to Your Weave” , “Twirl” and “40 Plus and Fabulous…” the shirts are just under $25. Kenya isn’t too high on the popularity list so she might be the one only wearing her own shirt….lol
Rumor has it that NeNe Leakes was notified over dinner that her Bentley was about to be repossessed.
According to Hello Beautiful she quietly left and had a car cover over the vehicle. NeNe is making waaaaay too much money for her car to be getting repoed so this rumor, for us, has little merit to it. But you never know so we will wait and see what happens….because we all know “she’s rich bitch”
NeNe Leakes is “rich b*tch!!”…and she covers Ebony Magazine’s Money & Power issue. NeNe had mad the transition into Hollywood with recurring role on “Glee” and “The New Normal” and has been featured in Vogue, US Weekly, and now Ebony Magazine.
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Tuesday, Jan 20, 2015, 1:30 pm · By F. Amanda Tugade
Two dancers are raising hell at Casa Diablo, Portland’s famous “vegan strip club,” over what they say is wage theft and management's failure to respond to their complaints of alleged harassment.
Former Diablo dancers Matilda Bickers and Amy Pitts filed a suit on January 11 in the U.S. District Court. Bickers and Pitts are each seeking about $100,000 from the strip club’s manager, Johnny Zuckle.
In an interview with Willamette Week, Bickers claims Casa Diablo charged her and other dancers “for every 30 minutes they were late to work,” “missing a shift” or “not undressing quickly enough onstage.” Bickers says she ended up owing her employer about $500, which affirmed her decision to quit.
Tuesday, Jan 20, 2015, 11:00 am · By Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
Instead of the plodding turtle he's normally satirized as, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is all cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof about Trade Promotion Authority, better known as "fast track."
He said as Congress convened this month that he wants to fast track fast track. He intends to ’git ’er done so fast no one notices that with it, Republicans will provide, as McConnell put it, “an enormous grant of power ... to a Democratic President.”
Fast track is nothing more than Congress pulling a fast one on the American people. It’s a plan for lawmakers to abdicate their Constitutional responsibility to regulate international trade. With fast track, Congress shirks its duty to subject trade deals to lengthy line-by-line scrutiny, fulsome public hearings and amendment.
Saturday, Jan 17, 2015, 4:00 am · By Jonathan Rosenblum
On a windblown, gray Chicago day exactly 100 years ago today, Ralph Chaplin left his home on the city’s South Side for a raucous poor people’s rally at Hull House, the famed settlement house co-founded by Jane Addams. He asked a visiting friend he'd met organizing coal miners with Mother Jones to listen to the lyrics of a new tune he had been working on:
For the union makes us strong!”
The self-described Chicago “stiff” and “rebel editor” merely wanted to write a song that could be for workers what “John Brown's Body” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic” were for abolitionists. In fact, he borrowed the very melody.
Friday, Jan 16, 2015, 4:08 pm · By Mario Vasquez
Around 2,600 therapists, psychologists, and social workers represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers in California (NUHW) began a weeklong strike this Monday to protest inadequate care for their patients due to what they say is understaffing at Kaiser Permanente medical centers throughout the state.
They will be joined this week by another 700 Kaiser workers who report similar issues at almost three dozen strike locations where picketing will be taking place. Kaiser is the largest HMO in California and the state’s largest private provider of mental health care.
Thursday, Jan 15, 2015, 1:23 pm · By Micah Uetricht
After battling a brain tumor that took her out of the Chicago mayoral race, Karen Lewis says she will be returning to work as the president of the Chicago Teachers Union next week.
Lewis made the announcement at a CTU breakfast celebrating Martin Luther King's birthday with Cook County Commissioner Jesús "Chuy" García, who entered the race after Lewis dropped out and progressive groups around the city prodded him to run.
Thursday, Jan 15, 2015, 11:35 am · By Alexandra Bradbury
This story first appeared at Labor Notes.
I keep getting these emails from the Laborers union: “The Keystone XL Pipeline isn’t just a pipeline, but a lifeline to good, family-supporting jobs.”
In the labor movement we’re supposed to be for anything that creates more paid work. But here’s some heresy for you: I think we need less work.
Senators who voted against the pipeline in November, the union says, threw away a chance to “unlock millions of work hours,” and instead “killed thousands of jobs.”
Thursday, Jan 15, 2015, 7:00 am · By Roger Bybee
The chips are down in Wisconsin. Wisconsin employers’ war against union rights may be about to heat up again as Republican legislators weigh pushing for a “right-to-work” bill.
Wednesday, Jan 14, 2015, 1:15 pm · By Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
The jobs report Friday set off cheering: a quarter million positions added in December; unemployment declining to 5.6 percent. This good news arrived amid a booming stock market and a third-quarter GDP report showing the strongest growth in 11 years.
It’s all so very jolly, except for one looming factor: wages. They’re not rising. In fact, they fell in December by 5 cents an hour, nearly erasing the 6-cent increase in November.
Wednesday, Jan 14, 2015, 11:46 am · By Trish Kahle
Janette Belandres worked at Whole Foods Market in Chicago's Lincoln Park for more than three years. A small woman with a wide, pleasant smile, she was a favorite among coworkers and customers, and had a sterling work record. That is, until she was fired on December 28, 2014.
Wednesday, Jan 14, 2015, 6:00 am · By Flint Taylor
Outraged by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s statements concerning the killing of Eric Garner, Patrick Lynch, the longtime leader of the New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA), the NYPD’s officers union, recently made the outrageous assertion that the Mayor had “blood on his hands” for the murder of the two NYPD officers.
In Milwaukee this past fall, the Police Association called for, and obtained, a vote of no confidence in MPD Chief Ed Flynn after he fired the officer who shot and killed Dontre Hamilton, an unarmed African American; subsequently, the union’s leader, Mike Crivello, praised the District Attorney when he announced that he would not bring charges against the officer.
In Chicago, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), a longtime supporter of racist police torturer Jon Burge, is now seeking to circumvent court orders that preserve and make public the police misconduct files of repeater cops such as Burge, by seeking to enforce a police contract provision that calls for the destruction of the files after seven years. And in a show of solidarity with the killer of Michael Brown, Chicago’s FOP is soliciting contributions to the Darren Wilson defense fund on its website.
Such reactionary actions by police unions are not new, but are a fundamental component of their history, particularly since they came to prominence in the wake of the civil rights movement. These organizations have played a powerful role in defending the police, no matter how outrageous and racist their actions, and in resisting all manner of police reforms. | <urn:uuid:9047b444-1c45-4426-a6e7-9597c01c86f8> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://inthesetimes.com/working/add/ctj.org/huffington_post_big_business_dominating_tax_reform_tal./P10 | 2015-01-27T05:46:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115861027.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161101-00005-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946699 | 1,547 | [
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Maya 8 is the first release of the 3D suite since developer Alias was acquired by Autodesk. Announced today at the Siggraph trade show in Boston, it’ll be out to subscribers to the Maya Platinum Membership scheme tomorrow – and will ship worldwide within two weeks, according to Autodesk.
Despite persistent rumours to the contrary, Autodesk is continuing to support platforms other than Windows with Maya – releasing version 8 for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. The Windows release is available in 64-bit form, which boosts performance in workstations with more than 3GB of RAM. The software continues to be available in two versions: Complete and Unlimited.
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Eclectic Institute, Elderberry, 2 fl oz (60 ml)6 Reviews
Expiration Date: Oct 2018
Shipping Weight: 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
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- Package Quantity: 2 fl oz (60 ml)
- Dimensions: 1.5 x 1.5 x 4.5 in, 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Volume Discount
Combo Discount: -$2.95
- Herbal Extract
- A Dietary Supplement
(Shake well before using) Mix 15-30 drops in warm water and take this tea 1-3 times daily.
Dried, Elder (Sambucus nigra) berry. Filtered water.
ORGANIC grape alcohol content: 45%. Dry Herb Strength: 1:2.
Discontinue use if unusual symptoms occur. Consult your health care advisor regarding the use of herbs during pregnancy, with infants or with prescription drugs.
Keep out of reach of children
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This product has changed my life. I am no longer victim to all the colds and flus that go around. I keep some with me at all times. I highly recommend using this product as directed when you start to feel run down or when you are traveling or exposed to illness.
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What if you could go back in time and impart to your younger self all the wisdom you’ve acquired since those carefree, innocent days of yore? “In fifth grade, do not put marshmallows in the toaster oven, even though it seems like a good idea…Sophomore year: don’t leave your retainer in a napkin in the cafeteria–unless you want to wade through three spaghetti-and-meatball-filled garbage bins to find it.” Seventeen-year-old Devi gets her wish to reconfigure the past when she accidentally fumbles her cell phone into the mall fountain. Now it will ONLY call her fourteen-year-old self, who she nicknames “Frosh.” Devi has six kinds of big plans to right the wrongs of her high school life in this seemingly free cosmic do-over. But changing the past has all sorts of side effects on her present that she never expected. Like losing the TV in her room that was given to her by her ex-boyfriend, who she now never dated because she warned Frosh to stay away. And finding that her college acceptance letter keeps changing, sometimes for the better, but sometimes not, as Frosh struggles to stay on the militaristic study plan Devi has outlined for her. Soon neither Devi nor Frosh know whether they’re coming or going, and what’s worse, the defective cell phone battery is winding down and wearing out. What’s going to happen when Devi can no longer rearrange her boy-obsessed past to accommodate her college-obsessed present? Devi should probably stop messing with her past before it changes her future for the worse–PERMANENTLY! The brilliance of Sarah Mlynowski’s writing is her bright banter and breezy humor. Her fresh, dizzyingly fast dialogue always sounds exactly like teenspeak, and she never fails to bring me to giggles if not outright guffaws. This charming little story is no exception. A perfect beach book to squeeze in between all of those classics you were assigned for summer reading.
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Nov 24, 2014, 12:12 PM EST
Seager has emerged as one of MLB’s best all-around third basemen at age 27.
Nov 24, 2014, 11:50 AM EST
Presley has been the Orioles’ hitting coach since 2011.
Nov 24, 2014, 10:47 AM EST
Allen was the Triple-A pitching coach for the Rays from 2007-2014.
Nov 24, 2014, 10:15 AM EST
Perhaps not as weird as it may seem.
Nov 22, 2014, 5:25 PM EST
And the Giants are still in the mix, too.
Nov 22, 2014, 1:13 PM EST
Satin spent parts of the past four seasons in the majors with the Mets.
Nov 22, 2014, 12:12 PM EST
Blanco played for the Cubs from 2005-2008.
Nov 22, 2014, 11:14 AM EST
Yang won the Korean equivalent of the Cy Young award this season and the 26-year-old tops out at 92-95 miles per hour.
Nov 22, 2014, 10:15 AM EST
He figures to get a look as a backup outfielder for the Angels.
Nov 22, 2014, 9:10 AM EST
Boston is competing with San Francisco and San Diego for Sandoval.
Nov 21, 2014, 3:10 PM EST
Joyce has been a productive regular for the Rays since 2010.
Nov 21, 2014, 11:49 AM EST
And they want a lot for him.
Nov 21, 2014, 11:20 AM EST
Throwing problems forced a move away from third base.
Nov 21, 2014, 10:47 AM EST
Pittsburgh has done great work recently turning around the careers of pitchers.
Nov 21, 2014, 10:15 AM EST
Gutierrez posted a 3.96 ERA and 44/16 K/BB ratio in 64 innings.
Nov 20, 2014, 5:17 PM EST
Wheeler made his big-league debut this season when injuries wrecked the Yankees’ roster.
Nov 20, 2014, 4:46 PM EST
As recently as mid-September manager Walt Weiss was talking Nicasio up as a reliever for 2015.
Nov 20, 2014, 3:45 PM EST
Belisario served as the White Sox’s closer for part of this season.
Nov 20, 2014, 3:15 PM EST
Zeid underwent season-ending foot surgery in July.
Nov 20, 2014, 2:05 PM EST
Don’t bother unpacking.
Nov 20, 2014, 12:50 PM EST
Presumed front-runners may have changed their minds.
Nov 20, 2014, 12:14 PM EST
Zimmermann has just one season remaining until he’s eligible for free agency and the 28-year-old right-hander is in line for a massive payday.
Nov 20, 2014, 10:45 AM EST
For now at least there doesn’t seem to be a clear front-runner.
Nov 19, 2014, 4:46 PM EST
Haren exercised his $10 million option for next season to return to the Dodgers.
Nov 19, 2014, 3:30 PM EST
Francisco is arbitration eligible and projected to make about $2.2 million in 2015.
- Keith Law Ranks the Farm Systems: Yay for Chicago! Boo for Detroit! 0
- Great Moments in Media Arrogance: Marshawn Lynch edition 153
- Nationals sign former Blue Jays closer Casey Janssen 10
- Ichiro Suzuki’s deal with the Marlins is worth $2 million 33
- Orioles acquire outfielder Travis Snider from Pirates 36
- Not so fast on the Bud Selig Hall of Fame talk 50
- Blue Jays sign president and CEO Paul Beeston to extension through 2015 26
- Reds sign four-year contract extension with Devin Mesoraco 11
- Great Moments in Media Arrogance: Marshawn Lynch edition (153)
- Rob Manfred, new Major League Baseball commissioner, suggests ban on defensive shifts (118)
- Why “Deflategate” would never happen in baseball (94)
- The Yankees are going to try to get out of paying A-Rod his contract incentives (83)
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Police are continuing their search for a suspect armed with a handgun who allegedly robbed a Lewisville convenience store over the weekend.
On Friday at 11:15 p.m., officers were dispatched to the 1800 block of Interstate 35E after an employee of the store reported being robbed at gunpoint, according to police reports.
The suspect, police said, demanded cash from the register and fled with an undisclosed amount of money.
A search with a K-9 and multiple officers around the perimeter was unsuccessful and the suspect remains at large, police said.
600 block of Fort Worth Drive — Two men were arrested Monday evening after allegedly snorting methamphetamine inside a fast-food restaurant, police said. According to reports, a 43-year-old and 20-year-old were charged with possession of a controlled substance. In addition, the two had outstanding warrants, reports show.
7 a.m. Tuesday to 7 a.m. Wednesday:
Denton County sheriff’s dispatchers handled 746 service and officer-initiated calls and booked 37 people into Denton County Jail.
Denton police responded to 271 service and officer-initiated calls and posted 15 reports online.
Denton firefighters responded to seven medical calls and one traffic accident.
Argyle firefighters assisted one citizen. Argyle police assisted one motorist and responded to seven traffic calls.
Aubrey firefighters responded to six medical calls, one water main break and one traffic accident. Aubrey police assisted one agency and responded to one missing person report, two reckless drivers, one suspicious activity call, six traffic calls and one welfare concern.
Bartonville police responded to one traffic call and one welfare concern.
Corinth police assisted one agency, two motorists and responded to three disturbance calls, one medical call, two forgery reports, one ordinance violation, one suspicious activity call, two criminal mischief calls, two thefts, 27 traffic calls, six traffic complaints, one welfare concern, three traffic transport incidents and five animal complaints.
Double Oak police responded to 14 traffic calls, one domestic disturbance call and one animal bite report and assisted one agency.
Flower Mound police responded to one public nuisance call and one traffic accident.
Hickory Creek police assisted one agency and one motorist and responded to one illegal burn, 17 traffic calls, one traffic complaint and one traffic accident.
Justin firefighters responded to one medical call. Justin police responded to two disturbance calls and 18 traffic calls.
Krum firefighters responded to one illegal burn and three traffic accidents. Krum police assisted one agency and responded to one burglary, one disturbance call, one medical call, one welfare concern, one ordinance violation, two traffic calls and one noise complaint.
Lake Cities firefighters responded to four medical calls, one electrical fire, one illegal burn and one traffic accident.
Lewisville police made 14 arrests.
Little Elm firefighters assisted one citizen and responded to five medical calls and one unknown fire. Little Elm police assisted one citizen, made one arrest and responded to one assault, one burglary, one Child Protective Services referral, one criminal mischief report, one criminal trespass call, two disturbance calls, one harassment call, one missing person, two narcotics calls, one medical call, one prowler call, four reckless drivers, three suspicious activity calls, three theft calls, four traffic calls and four welfare concerns.
Northeast police responded to one assault, one suspicious activity call, four traffic calls and one animal complaint.
Northlake police responded to 29 traffic calls and assisted one motorist.
Oak Point firefighters responded to two medical calls. Oak Point police assisted one agency and responded to one disturbance call, one harassment call, one missing person report, one medical call, one welfare concern and one animal complaint.
Ponder firefighters responded to two traffic accidents. Ponder police responded to five traffic calls.
Pilot Point firefighters responded to one animal bite attack and one medical call. Pilot Point police responded to one assault, one criminal trespass report, five traffic calls and three traffic complaints.
Sanger firefighters responded to one illegal burn and seven medical calls. Sanger police assisted two agencies and responded to one loose livestock report, three suspicious activity calls, two welfare concerns and one animal complaint.
The Colony firefighters responded to 13 medical calls, one water leak, two gas leaks, one traffic accident and assisted nine agencies from May 1-5.
Trophy Club firefighters responded to one medical call. Trophy Club police responded to one suspicious activity call, one theft, one traffic complaint, one medical call and three animal complaints.
— Megan Gray
Denton County Crime Stoppers will pay a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest in these or other crimes. Callers will remain anonymous. Call 1-800-388-TIPS (8477). Reach the Denton police narcotics tip line at 940-565-5801. | <urn:uuid:b0d774ff-ec4f-4599-9a44-eb67ed9713f6> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.dentonrc.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20140507-blotter-police-seek-suspect-in-convenience-store-robbery.ece | 2015-01-29T12:25:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422118551401.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124165551-00162-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914704 | 1,002 | [
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NOTE: Faculty members are the only individuals who can place materials on course reserves.
The Houston Cole Library maintains a collection of course related, high-demand, high-risk, and librarian discretionary materials that are segregated, often temporarily, from the general collection and usually assigned restrictive loan periods so as to assure greater availability to library patrons, who may have need of the materials within a limited time period. Instructors, please use this form to request course reserves. See the Reserve Policy or our Reserve Questions Page for more information. Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*). If you have any questions, contact Reserve Personnel. | <urn:uuid:0ca1d7a3-b0ee-4c68-a62a-b47d766a7231> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.jsu.edu/library/forms/course_reserve_form.html | 2015-01-29T12:29:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422118551401.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124165551-00162-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920138 | 126 | [
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Artist Theresa Gooby is the founder of Beacon Open Studios.
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1 Schedule Spring 2008
2 Oher parts which we do not know the dates for are as follows:
3 The Watch List
5 Current TB Projects
6 Meeting Locations
7 Current Active Members (partial)
8 External Links
Schedule Spring 2008
Tap Week ? Feb 4-8
Monday ? Feb 4, 7 pm ? Tapping at the President?s House
Key building ? Feb 11-15
Sunday ? Feb 17, 3 pm ? History Lesson, IPTAY office in the Lettermen?s Room(?)
The Jungle ? Feb 28-29
Thursday-Friday ? Feb 28-29 ? The Jungle, Bobby?s (?) and The Tiger Den
Oher parts which we do not know the dates for are as follows:
Walk through the Quad
Go to Locker room for judging keys
Sounding of the Bells
50 yard line (jungle?)
The Watch List
?Basically, we want the voting slide for each candidate to be included in a binder (to be in the possession of the [Sundra Dass] and brought to all meetings) with corresponding written accounts of interactions had between the candidate and the membership. The written accounts of interactions will be placed in a plastic sheet protector behind the ?cover age? for each candidate, allowing for easy access to as many accounts as possible.? Becoming a Member Members are voted in after being on a Watch List of recommended students from Tiger Brotherhood members. Cubs are secretly watched. Voting for members are based on T.I.G.E.R. (?), their commitment to Clemson and the abstinence from greed, jealousy, envy and intolerance. Cubs are picked for ?their close attention even in the face of adversity.?
Cubs build ?keys? and then Tiger Brotherhood members attempt to destroy the cubs? keys. Cubs are observed and Tiger Brotherhood members look for the most vigilant and aware Cubs. Marshals were established in August 2006 after the Tiger Brotherhood was sanctioned by the University for violating Clemson's policy on hazing. The Tiger Brotherhood Marshall Training and Guide states ?Cubs will be informed and assured from the very beginning of the initiation process that at no time will they ever be in any physical danger and informed of several members who are directly responsible for total compliance with this dictum. ? ?The Marshal will be vigilant to observe the cubs until they are secure in their vehicles.? The Jungle and the Climactic Scene While physical abuse is specifically outlined in the Marshal Training and Guide, mental abuse is still used. At some point in the process, Tiger Brotherhood members accuse cubs of committing something horrible. ?Ask them what they were thinking, why did they do it, etc. Get the Cubs flustered, but hold back on the aggression. Once all of the Cubs are in the room, someone should get the Cubs to say that it wasn?t their fault. Now, get angry. ?Whose fault was it?? Rip on the Sundra Dass for doing a poor job. Rip on the advisor. Rip on the President. Rip on anybody. Have Tigers defend the accusations as they come and continue to shift blame. Then someone should shift the blame back to the Cubs, and let it get ugly. On the verge of breaking, someone should really defense for the Cubs. Let there be a visible divide in the room. Send the Cubs out and let them sit and imagine their worst. Then tell them that despite adamant protest by many, we will allow them to continue. ?
Tiger Brotherhood member are encouraged to talk to older Tiger Brotherhood members to preserve their history lessons.
Current TB Projects
Days and Traditions Calendar Too much info to type up yet?..
They are looking at the GA Tech online manual as a model. ?The hope is that the students will bring all of these groups who form their own, and decide upon a manuscript for a full manual to be posted on the web with the hope to answer honestly all possible questions a student could have in their career.? ? Verna Howell in e-mail to Jon Christiansen in November 2007
Student Advisory council for the accused, accused student report in packet given to jurors, 3 strike policy possibly out-lived, reevaluate the appeals process, allow the accused to face accuser especially an RA or RD, off-campus university jurisdiction, change judicial attitude amongst students. Verna Howell is discussing this issue with student members and is a member of TB. ?The first step of this process will involve the students getting a hold of the Judicial survey conducted by Student Affairs and see the results. We may be able to identify if it is a selected sample. Shortly after, students would like to build their own survey of those who have dealt with Judicial services in an unbiased manner and test those results. Based on those results, we may have leverage to bring forward to necessary parties (the President and the Board) and identify that what is going on is unfair and unjust, and that students should be afforded their rights back.? ?Tiger Brotherhood minutes, Jon Christiansen in e-mail to Tiger Brotherhood in October 2007.
Illuminating Tillman Hall
Verna Howell is discussing this issue with student members and is a member of TB.
Concerned with quality of rings.
Once a quarter clean-up.
Met with Chief Link. ?The campus police are really on the ball with improving the safety on campus. It seems now that the best role of Tiger Brotherhood is to be a resource to these authorities when a question of student safety comes up. Whe have already developed the relationship to continue to do so.? ?Tiger Brotherhood minutes, Jon Christiansen in e-mail to Tiger Brotherhood in October 2007.
Issues with how Parking Services treats guests of the university. ?The rules for visitors are very vague, and even when followed, visitors are still being ticketed. This is a concern, because that could easily ruin a visitors view of Clemson, and that in and of itself is not Clemson.? ?Tiger Brotherhood minutes, Jon Christiansen in e-mail to Tiger Brotherhood in October 2007.
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Felicia Merryman Livingston
Jessica M. Stoots
Mary Ann Pradar
Mary Frances Ross
Rita Bolt Barker
Suzanne Spaulding Turner
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The events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the incidents following that terrible day have brought our country to a point where all communities must plan for their responses to these and other types of terrorism. The focus of the planning must change to a more practical way of addressing the concerns of the...
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The events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the incidents following that terrible day have brought our country to a point where all communities must plan for their responses to these and other types of terrorism. The focus of the planning must change to a more practical way of addressing the concerns of the fire service and other public safety agencies.
There is no way anyone could remotely predict what happened in New York on that horrible day. The initial response was to a typical high-rise fire. Command posts were set up like they always were, and the brave firefighters who lost their lives responded just like they were trained to do.
This event, of course, became a mass-casualty incident (MCI) of a magnitude never seen in this country. Thousands of victims were killed and injured. In the following days, and weeks, many anthrax incidents literally closed down government offices and private-sector businesses.
Because of panic and an unfamiliarity in dealing with terrorism, especially involving biological and chemical events, hazardous materials teams and for that matter all fire departments were inundated with suspicious-powder calls that depleted the resources of even larger fire departments. Here in Miami, from Sept. 12 to Oct. 12, the City of Miami Fire Department responded to 2,700 suspicious calls. Some of these were credible threats, but most were just hysteria. The end result was the same - a depletion of usable resources in a short amount of time. Decontamination procedures never used in the past were not only time consuming, but equipment and manpower intensive as well.
I had the pleasure of attending a seminar on this very subject sponsored by the police department and other county agencies that was given by Dr. Henry J. Siegelson, MD, FACEP, of Disaster Planning International in Atlanta, who extensively covered the subject of community preparedness and response to the terrorist event. Some of the concepts mentioned here will be from that seminar. Siegelson looked at the whole community and stressed that a response to this type of event is not just the fire department and hospitals, but the community at large.
To plan for a terrorist event, the main concern is to focus on the plan, not the threat. In other words, a general plan should be formulated on how we will respond to ANY threat, not just a World Trade Center or anthrax type of incident. Most importantly, an MCI response should be the focal point of any response. This takes into consideration a potential large loss of life, and subsequent injuries as well. It encompasses the hospital response as well as the public safety response, and most importantly the complete community response.
Plan For The "Big One"
As a starting point we should look at the reaction to a terrorist event from all angles:
1. Psychology before the disaster. Until Sept. 11, 2001, and probably several months from now, a false sense of security will set in. "It won't ever happen again" will be the new thought as we get comfortable with a renewed sense of invulnerability. Another predominant thought is, "It won't happen to me." We have all seen this when fire departments ask for increases in their budgets, and the people say to themselves, "I won't have a fire in my house, I am too careful." Lastly, the thought will be, "It won't be that bad if it happens." But no one could imagined that four large jets would be hijacked and crashed into large important buildings. Even the Pentagon, the bastion of our national defense, was struck.
Now is the time to plan for the "big one," because it will happen again. It is not "if," it is just "when."
2. Psychology after the disaster. After the disaster, we concentrate on the attack itself - and like most humans, we close the barn door after the horse is gone. The concentration is how to prevent the attack and not how to address a new threat. We must look at the type of event in a new perspective, a "generic" threat potential.
A good way to start this process is to evaluate the threat potential in your community. Fire and police should meet collectively to check possible target hazards. All agencies should be involved. Fire department battalions can divide up into inspection territories and examine possible threat potentials. Fire prevention personnel, public service aides and other agencies can canvass the community and list what they think are possible threats. Building departments can look at their files and provide assistance to the above-named departments . Tax records can be used to search for potential targets. The indirect effect of this is a better familiarization of buildings and their inherent problems from a fire perspective.
Areas of concern should be municipal government buildings, chemical storage facilities, federal buildings, hospitals, power plants (especially nuclear), laboratories or biological research facilities, and places that store explosives. Military bases and National Guard armories should be examined as well.
Once a building or facility has been identified, certain information should be gathered. Are there any hazardous materials on the premises and where are they? Where are the air handling unit controls? Are there fire protection devices in place? Where are the entrance and exits to the facility? Are any ancillary security measures in place? What is the potential for life and property loss should something occur? What additional resources might be needed?
Once these facilities have been identified, plans should be formulated on how a response would be handled. Fire and police would be the main focus to initial response, but what is to be done for the many victims? The dead?
Of course, the usual response would be the hospitals. This is the logical answer, but if you throw the term hazardous materials victim, the equation drastically changes. Most hospitals want nothing at all to do with chemical contaminated or exposed victims. The majority of the hospitals in the Miami area have flatly said they would refuse any chemical exposed patients. That is a pretty bold statement if all of a sudden there are hundreds and possibly thousands of victims.
The reality is that the wealth would be shared by all hospitals in spite of their stated position. What will happen is that all victims will be sent to available hospitals, and police and fire units will respond to those emergency departments as well. Once there, they will attempt to control an orderly decontamination of all victims before they enter the hospital emergency department.
On the scene of an incident, it goes without saying that no paramedic or EMT should allow a contaminated victim to enter an ambulance unless decontamination has been completed. Recognize, however, that there will be a reluctance to remove one's clothes, especially among people who are asymptomatic.
On the scene of an incident the control of hundreds or thousands of panic-stricken victims is a pipe dream. They will all be running in all directions. There should be an orderly or at least a planned attempt to orderly triage these victims and decontaminate these people. Siegelson talks about a system of "adult triage." In this system several firefighters and or paramedics in at a minimum of Level B protection with respiratory devices in place will observe people exiting a facility or site and prioritize them into three categories. Decontamination of victims must be done quickly and immediately.
Priority 1: Non-ambulatory victims who have been exposed to product and presenting signs, symptoms and associated other injuries. Requires immediate removal of clothing and immediate access to shower, preferably soap and warm water, if possible.
Priority 2: Ambulatory, but presenting minimal or no signs or symptoms. These people can walk and talk, but were exposed to the product or were very near the product itself. Requires immediate dry decontamination (removal of clothing and donning paper gowns) to await decontamination shower. Send to secondary assessment center, if possible. If shower is available in building, they should use those facilities. Advised to use soap and warm water, if possible. If not, they should wait their turn behind Priority 1 patients. (In all honesty, these people will seek their own showers and will not wait.)
Priority 3: These patients will think they might have been exposed. These patients are called the "willing walking." They will present no signs or symptoms, will have no physical distress, and are just concerned people who will become the lowest of the priorities. They require dry decontamination. They should be given a paper gown and advised to disrobe and await their turn in the decontamination shower line. This will be the bulk of the presenting victims. These people will become impatient and will go home and shower there. They will almost all be perfectly fine. Priority 2 and 3 can seek other means of showering, including home or other secondary facilities in place. In categorizing these victims, secondary assessment centers (SACs) are identified as gymnasiums, auditoriums and facilities that have showers in place.
Making Tough Decisions
Considerations for on-scene operations are:
- Not all victims are viable. Those who have a viable chance to survive should receive priority.
- If a nerve gas is used and victims are symptomatic, the Mark 1 antidote kit should be administered within one to three minutes.
- Hard decisions will have to be made and extreme procedures followed in order to save as many people as possible. Triage of victims will take on new parameters. Instead of treating the worst cases first, those who are the most viable will be the ones prioritized in the red or critical first. Those who have no chance of surviving, i.e., cardiac arrest victims, must be tagged in the black or dead. This is almost the opposite of what is done during normal EMS operations, but there just isn't enough manpower or resources, with such large numbers of victims.
Since we have seen first hand how devastating a terrorist event can be, the time to plan for the next one is now. As stated before, it should be a community effort involving all resources. Logistics will be a nightmare and plans should be in place to store or at least procure on any emergency basis expandable items such as food for the rescuers, privacy kits for victims, additional Level B chemical suits, extra air bottles or masks, and additional resources from the local office of emergency management.
Proper documentation is paramount to properly track victims - where they were transported and other pertinent information. The health department will have to be actively involved in this process, and will become even more important if it is believed a biological weapon could have been used. Laptop computers will be invaluable in this documentation. Information such as signs and symptoms, how long they have been manifesting and where the victim has been recently will be items worth documenting. Because this information will be used primarily by the health department and eventually by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), perhaps the forms should be designed so it can be used most efficiently.
Experience here in Miami has shown that of all the agencies that are needed to coordinate a planning strategy, the health department has been the most reluctant to attend planning meetings, and this agency by far is one of the most important.
In summary, the planning for these incidents should be a team effort with all participating agencies providing feedback and information. Most importantly, the planning should begin now, so we will be ready when the next event happens, and make no mistake, it will happen again.
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Tactical Medics: Is There A Need?
In 1979, the City of Miami initiated its first tactical medic team (SWAT-Medic), one of the first fire-based tactical medic systems in the country. This was a very bold step forward, I like to think, that employed paramedic skills and the experience of the fire department, and combined that effort with the special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team of the Miami Police Department.
Today, Miami's tactical medic team survives, along with many others around the globe. It has not been easy, however, and traditional fire chiefs still do not support this program. In the years I have been with this program, I have had to justify its existence with every new fire chief who has been in office. There are many reasons for this duplication of effort.
This is a concept that goes against the grain of most fire chiefs. The comments I have heard include, "Why do the paramedics carry firearms? That is not their job." My usual reply is that the job of the firefighter/paramedic is to save lives and property, and this is just an extension of that credo. Granted, the risks are different - and there are risks, of course. There are risks also every time a firefighter enters a burning building, treats a patient who has a communicable disease, or rescues a person from a tall building or the ravages of a wildfire. The difference is that the tactical medic knows there are criminals out there who are armed, and that they will shoot you if they can.
It is important to understand what tactical medics do and their theater of operation. Their job is to provide medical support for police officers and civilians, and in some cases to the criminal involved in SWAT team operations. They are not considered part of the direct-assault force. They will, however, in most cases be part of the team making entry into a hostile environment, but do not use deadly force unless they are threatened, or a police officer or civilian is threatened by a criminal.
Part of the basic training of a tactical medic is the use of deadly force. This is reviewed several times a year, and every time the medic must qualify with the weapons he or she carries. This is very important, since most of the medics are not police officers and have no arrest powers. (Under a state statute, a police officer who sees the need for immediate assistance can deputize another person.)
I have had to address this issue at least a half dozen times in the past 15 years. Finally, after much pleading, the city attorney has stated that as long as the tactical medics are working under the direct authority of the police department, it is legal for them to carry firearms, if they are trained in deadly forcer and the use of the said firearms. Since we now have that on record, this issue has finally been to rest.
Another way of looking at this is, what potential for liability exists if tactical medics are placed in harm's way without the ability to defend themselves? This, of course, places a severe financial risk to the municipality that refuses to arm its tactical medics. There are several teams out there that operate that way. Probably the best way to address this issue is to certify all tactical medics who are firefighters as reserve or auxiliary police officers. These classes are given at most police academies at night and on weekends. Training can take from five weeks to nine months, depending on the certification sought.
Part of the problem of accepting the tactical medic concept involves unions - some embrace the concept, others do not. The International Tactical EMS Association, based in Farmington, MI, has attempted to organize tactical medics around the world and has taken a step in the right direction. The organization offers a wealth of information from its members. It also has held three annual conferences and all of them have been excellent and well worth attending. Further information is available by e-mail at [email protected].
It appears as though the need for this type of fire-based service is ever increasing, and in this writer's opinion those that have the ability to provide it and elect not to do so could be placing their municipality in a potentially volatile situation. The tactical medic concept is endorsed by the National Tactical Offers Association as well.
In the years since the Miami SWAT Medic Team's was created, only four new classes have been given. The attrition rate is literally nonexistent. In fact, I think I am the oldest living tactical medic on the planet. Whenever volunteers are sought for new classes, the response is overwhelming, and we usually have to turn people away. Most police tactical teams also like the concept because it adds a new element of protection for those officers.
Another question often presented is, why not train police officers as paramedics? This can certainly be done, but logistically how does a full-time police officer attend some 1,000 hours of medical training, not including emergency department time and riding an ambulance for a minimum of 160 hours? Most importantly, where will they obtain hands-on treatment experience?
Actually, it is easier and our experience shows that training a firefighter/paramedic in basic police SWAT tactics and team movements is much easier. Those medics also have ongoing experience in treating all kinds of traumatic wounds and understand the physiology of an injured person much better.
I know that several teams have police officers trained as paramedics. I also know that some teams have physicians who are certified reserve police officers and are considered operators on SWAT missions. Unfortunately, not all teams have that luxury.
In today's ever-increasingly violent society and the constant threat of domestic terrorism increasing, the tactical medic is here to stay as an important extension of the fire service.
—Michael J. Essex
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The perfect addition to any happy dollhouse, this set of Patio Furniture allows your little one's dolls to relax and enjoy the good life. Made of natural, sustainably harvested rubberwood, this set of three wooden patio chairs, a recliner, table, and gauzy beach umbrella will inspire your child to invent holidays, celebrations, picnics, and other excuses for her dolls to spend time relaxing outdoors and soaking up the sun.
- Recommended For Children 3 Years And Older
- Umbrella measures 7.1 x 7.1 x 6.7 inches
- Made of clean, natural, chemical-free, kiln-dried rubberwood accented with non-toxic water-based dyes
- Designed In Thailand By The Wonderful Folks At Plan Toys
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Cooler Master, DEEPCOOL, Noctua, and Thermaltake CPU Cooler RoundupWaco - January 20, 2013
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You'll notice as you read through this roundup that I've left price out of the equation. This is because I actually didn't even look up the prices until after testing and writing about each cooler. Sure, I had some notion of cost based on the different styles of coolers, but I didn't know for sure. Second, assuming you read through the review instead of jumping directly to this page, it allowed you to get a good idea of how the different heat sinks performed without pre-judging based on their price tag. That all said; some of the prices surprised me. The Cooler Master TPC 812 is priced at $64.99, the DEEPCOOL Ice Blade Pro V2.0 at $44.99, the DEEPCOOL Neptwin at $50.99, the Noctua NH-L12 at $69.99 and the Thermaltake Water 2.0 Extreme rounds out the pack at $129.99. Read on to see how that finalizes my opinion of each!
Cooler Master TPC 812
The Cooler Master TPC 812 is a nice cooler. Installation was straightforward, the fan clips are extremely easy to use, and the overall design works well. That said, the overclocked performance really doesn't live up to expectations based on the price tag. In stock testing it performed within a single degree of the much louder and more expensive water cooling units but when pushed with the overclocked heat load the TPC 812 was simply overwhelmed and fell to nearly the bottom of the rankings. The fan on this cooler, at full speed, produces a medium-pitch drone along with the sound of rushing air that is not inherently unpleasant but would probably be audible in most cases. For the price it works well at stock speeds and could be suitable for moderate overclocking on less power-hungry CPUs.
- Great performance at stock speeds
- Simple and effective design
- Reasonably quiet
- Can be overwhelmed with higher overclocks
- A bit pricey
DEEPCOOL Ice Blade Pro V2.0
At $44.99 the DEEPCOOL Ice Blade Pro V2.0 rings in as the least expensive cooler in this roundup. At $20 less expensive than the Cooler Master TPC 812 it delivered identical performance in the overclocked tests even though it didn't rule the roost in the stock tests. This lower cost comes at a price of a bit of ear sanity though, as the Ice Blade Pro V2.0 does have a bit more of an annoying whine to it when spinning at maximum RPM. I have the feeling that it would perform better on a larger CPU like a Sandy Bridge-E or a Bulldozer, because of the size of the base and how the heat pipes are positioned, but it still performed adequately on the relatively tiny Sandy Bridge i7 2600K. If you like blue lighting and don't want to spend an arm and a leg to keep your reasonably-overclocked CPU cool then the Ice Blade Pro V2.0 may be worth a look!
- Decent cooling at both stock and overclocked
- Small price tag
- Easy installation
- BRIGHT blue LED fan
- Somewhat louder than the other tower coolers
- Can't quite keep up at high clocks
The DEEPCOOL Neptwin is the real diamond in the rough here. At just $50.99 it beats all of the other air coolers in the roundup in the overclocked tests and best of all, it managed to do that without being obnoxiously loud! The twin fans were barely audible over the case fans in the Corsair 650D test case and as long as you don't have exceedingly tall RAM modules, you won't run into clearance issues in the vast majority of cases. If I had to pick a favorite purely in terms of price and performance, the Neptwin would be my choice. The focus on cooling efficiency over any kind of "bling" might not be to everyone's liking, but personally it appealed to me more because of that trait.
- Excellent performance at high clocks
- Reasonably quiet fans even at full speed
- Bare-bones styling
- Great pricing
- May not fit over tall RAM sticks
- Bare-bones styling may not be for everyone
The Noctua NH-L12 is a bit out of its element in this comparison. Being the only low-profile cooler as well as being one of the quietest coolers in the roundup it was at a distinct disadvantage. That said, for lower power CPUs and for light overclocking, it will certainly keep your CPU cool and safe without wrecking the silence of your office or living room. While I probably wouldn't choose the NH-L12 for a gaming computer, it would fit right at home in its target market: a micro-ATX or mini-ITX HTPC case. The price tag of $69.99 is a bit lofty compared to the other higher-performing coolers I tested, but at the same time, it will fit into almost any case (especially in single-fan mode) and carries with it an incredible six year warranty, just in case anything goes wrong. If you're building a smaller HTPC and don't want to hear a stock cooler droning away all day the NH-L12 demands your consideration.
- Reasonable cooling performance in near silence
- 6 year warranty
- Small stature will allow installation in almost any case
- Cools RAM and CPU VRMs
- Pricey in terms of pure performance
- Installation is a bit tricky
Thermaltake Water 2.0 Extreme
Last but not least, the Thermaltake Water 2.0 Extreme really lead the pack in terms of performance. That performance comes at a price though; at $129.99 the Water 2.0 Extreme is a a lot more expensive than the other air coolers it was compared to and even eclipses the cost of the Corsair H100 by $20. That $20 doesn't go to waste, however, as the built-in fan controller works admirably to tailor the sound profile of the Water 2.0 Extreme to your liking. Even at full speed (which matches the Corsair H100 in terms of cooling), it is substantially less loud than the H100. That's not to say it's a quiet cooler when cranked up to full throttle, but it is tolerable if you are in a noisy room or are wearing a decent headset. If you've been on the fence about jumping into water cooling and don't want to go for a full custom solution with all of the included headaches, then a self-contained system like the Water 2.0 Extreme may very well be exactly what you've been waiting for!
- Extremely good cooling at stock and overclocked speeds
- Reasonable noise levels at full speed, extremely quiet on the "Silent" preset
- Custom fan profiles using the integrated fan controller
- Zero chance for motherboard component interference with the pump
- Price tag
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Voice of America reported on October 22 that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced an Obama administration pledge to seek $2 billion annually in military aid to Pakistan over five years “to help that country defeat violent extremism.” The report stated that the pledge came at a bilateral dialogue held at the State Department attended by Clinton and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi (shown at a March meeting at left).
With less than two weeks left until the 2010 midterm elections, key senate races across the country are tightening. Both Democrats and Republicans who found themselves behind their opponents have revived their polling numbers and are now within striking distance.
The attacks on Rand Paul�s Christianity because of an alleged college school prank are similar to those on Christine O�Donnell�s presumed �witchcraft� of decades ago. Rand Paul's wife, Kelley, a deacon at the family�s church, has described the onslaughts as a �desperate, shameful attack on our family.� The couple and their three children have attended the local Presbyterian church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, for 18 years.
Earlier this week, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights announced their intent to release a report entitled, Tea Party Nationalism: A Critical Examination of the Tea Party Movement and the Size, Scope, and Focus of its National Factions.
Republicans are hoping to ride a wave of anti-Democrat, and specifically anti-ObamaCare, sentiment into control of at least one chamber of Congress. Not one Republican voted for ObamaCare, and the GOP has been making a big deal out of its desire to repeal, or at least defund, some or all of the new law. | <urn:uuid:36ae4e62-58dc-4379-b4a1-e0858213d408> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews?start=6292 | 2015-01-28T12:34:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122102237.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175502-00066-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965418 | 356 | [
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Space Cops to Enforce World Peace
Man-made satellite rocketships may soon revolve in endless orbits around the earth, policing our civilization.
By Frank Tinsley
NATIONS of the world are racing to send the first man-made satellite revolving in an endless orbit around the earth. In the hands of an agressor, such a machine might mean slavery for all mankind, but as a police unit of the United Nations, it holds a promise of world peace.
Back in the closing days of 1948, when Secretary of Defense James Forrestal disclosed the existence of an “earth satellite vehicle program,” the press and public reacted with a gasp of incredulous amazement. For the first time, responsible officials had dared to admit that they were seriously investigating the fantastic dreams of Sunday-supplement screwballs!
MAIL VIA ROCKET
A missile expert predicts rocket mail by 1965. Here are MI’s ideas on how the system could function.
By Frank Tinsley
IT’S Friday noon. In the home office of a giant New York corporation the final drafts of a secret merger are being signed. If they can be signed by the party of the second part in San Francisco and be back here in the office before the stock market closes—so that “buy” orders can be rushed to dealers throughout the country—a possible Monday financial slump can be averted. The atmosphere is tense. A micro- photo machine has been moved into the president’s office and a trusted operator inserts the sheets, one by one. Two tiny prints of each emerge, one for the files and one for mailing.
No, this article is not about a particularly ambitious band of paparazzi.
Photographing Stars with a Rocket
WILL science ever be able to take photographs of the spectra of the sun and other stars with cameras far outside the range of the earth’s atmosphere? Speculation on this possibility has been renewed by the recent experiments of Prof. Robert H. Goddard, of Worcester, Mass., in launching rockets of his own design powered with a secret liquid propellant which he invented.
Contrary to popular belief, Prof. Goddard has no intention of occupying one of his rockets on a fantastic journey to the moon. As pointed out by Dr. C. G. Abbott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, a close friend of Professor Goddard, the professor’s experiments are directed toward a scientific exploration of the upper heavens at distances now far beyond the reach of man.
Skyrocketing to Mars
Will Man Ever Reach the Red Planet?
Rocket machines operate more efficiently in the vacuum of interstellar space than in an atmosphere. Will science be able to harness this new force for interplanetary travel?
SCIENTISTS say that in the next few months we may see the first trials of man-carrying rockets, which will be shot off into space in an effort to land some intrepid adventurer on Venus or Mars! Visions of a Jules Verne voyage to another planet are actually nearing realization through the lessons learned from recent rocket tests made by Fritz von Opel and Anton Raab, two Germans who have made exhaustive studies of rockets as a means of propulsion.
LIQUID OXYGEN RUNS AMAZING AUTO
A daring attempt to drive an automobile with the terrific power of fuels like benzine burning in liquid oxygen succeeded at Berlin the other day. Shortly after, one of its two inventors was killed when he sought to repeat the feat.
Dr. Paul Heylandt, German liquid air expert, and Max Valier, builder of rocket cars, were in search of something more than merely a new kind of automobile. They were looking for a concentrated, lightweight fuel that might drive an airplane at tremendous heights across the Atlantic, or even send a projectile to the moon.
Future GIs to ride rocket troopship
Troop transport in 45 minutes to a brush-fire war anywhere in the world is proposed by Douglas Aircraft space engineers.
The 80-by-210-foot re-usable rocket shown at right would speed 17,000 m.p.h., carrying 1,200 troops and equipment. Landing upright, it would debark them by portable ramps, jet packs, and rope ladders.
It’s called ICARUS: Intercontinental Aerospace craft—Range Unlimited System.
Earthbound Play Spaceship Made From Aircraft Drop Tank
This earthbound rocket for outer-space-minded youngsters was made from a surplus aircraft fuel tank of the drop type, plywood, and miscellaneous switches and instruments of no value, for fake controls.
EXPECT HIGH SPEED OF ROCKET-DRIVEN PLANE
If their calculations are correct, a barrage of rockets will soon send a ten-foot model plane whizzing through the air. Maurice Poirier and Franklin L. Wallace, of Los Angeles, Calif., built the model and if it flies they will attempt to build a full-sized craft on the same plan. They predict that the rockets will give the model a speed approaching ten miles a minute.
10000 Miles an Hour!
Rocket flights of tomorrow will circle the earth in 3 hours—maybe.
WALK past almost any flowered field or meadow from Connecticut to California these fine summer afternoons and as likely as not you’ll see little knots of agitated men puttering with strange-looking contraptions which hiss and let off gaseous odors. Edge over to satisfy your curiosity and some of them will come running up warningly to shoo you away.
There’s a good reason for the presence of so many mysterious looking men. Rocketry is making tremendous strides in its development as an embryonic science. Over the past winter there have been many important developments in cellar and garret workshops everywhere. Under the clear skies of July and August tests are being made to ascertain their practical value. | <urn:uuid:c747b428-95d5-48f9-bf07-407a7ceac9d9> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://blog.modernmechanix.com/tag/rockets/page/2/ | 2015-01-30T20:01:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115861872.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161101-00246-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931792 | 1,228 | [
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100 Years Of Indian Cinema Celebration
South Indian film 100 years cinema celebration is happening in Chennai.
Today the Chief minister Miss.J.Jayalalitha has honoured some of the legendry film personalities including, Rajnikanth, Kamalhaasan,Sivakumar and actress like Simran,Meena and Trisha. She also honoured the legendry actor SS Rajendran, Sowkar Janaki, Saroja Devi, Manorama and others.
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Soren Kierkegaard - This man is a Danish philosopher of the nineteenth century.
Walter Lowrie - This man has translated such a large portion of the book Either/Or, which is a two-volume work that he is credited with having done the entire task.
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God - During the entire book it is evident that when this character is referred to as a human being, Jesus Christ is the entity in question.
The Narrative Character - This is the character that the author uses throughout the two main portions of the book.
First Love - This character is at once a relationship with another and an orientation.
Cain - This character is infamous for murdering his own brother.
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As the words hit this page there are 24 hours left to back the Kickstarter for Mercenary Kings. Tribute Games, the studio that brought us the unique Wizorb are winding down their funding for their 4 player local action shooter. If you're a fan of Contra, Gunstar Heroes, or Metal Slug you best be backing up this project because it is looking like an amazing action shooter.
The team has stressed that there has been a focus on co-op gameplay throughout their design process:
Mercenary Kings will have a strong focus on cooperative play. The initial version of the game will feature local 4 player cooperative play and will be available for PC. However, we are planning on supporting more platforms and online play if resources allow it.
If you followed our directions and played Shoot Many Robots earlier this year, you would know how fun it is to blast enemies away with three of your best friends. Mercenary Kings aims to re-kindle this love for bullets, buddies, and bad-assery. Better yet, the game features both a Gunsmith and a Knife Maker so I'm not too sure what more you could ask for. I'm pretty sure you can even take your custom knife and strap it to your personalized gun...
The rewards for backing the project are pretty standard, with the initial bar of $15 getting you the game. More money nets you more copies of the game, art books, clothing, and if you want to toss in $2000 or more Tribute Games will let you conceive a weapon from your brain that they will put in the game.
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Over the summer, Vulture ran a cheeky post titled “Lesbians Are Having the Best Summer Ever on TV.” Between the diverse, well-drawn characters of Orange Is the New Black and The Fosters, the singular butch runaway on The Killing, a newly bisexual man-eater on the ABC soap Mistresses, and a newly bisexual cop on Rookie Blue, TV lesbians were having a great summer. They’re now having a great fall. Mulan on Once Upon a Time recently revealed that she was in love with Sleeping Beauty. ABC’s Betrayal features a lesbian techie who is having sleepovers with the leading man’s daughter. The last ex of the attractive assistant on CBS’s The Crazy Ones was a woman. On NBC’s forthcoming Dracula, a boy-crazy Victorian flirt may actually be in love with her female best friend, and on Super Fun Night, a character who was initially coded as gay may or may not be in love with hers. The Bridge’s best and most competent character was a Latina lesbian reporter. Charlie Harper’s long-lost daughter on Two and a Half Men is gay—on last week’s show, she and Walden (Ashton Kutcher) even slept with the same woman at an orgy. Meanwhile, The Good Wife’s Kalinda remains as ambisexual as ever, Grey’s Anatomy’s Callie and Arizona are on the verge of breaking up, and Pretty Little Liars’ Emily just sent her long-term girlfriend off to Stanford.
There’s a lot to like about the surge of lesbian characters on television. First and foremost, it’s not boring. TV plots, especially romantic ones, repeat themselves over and over again. It’s not just that if you’ve seen one triangle you’ve seen them all, it’s that we have all seen literally hundreds of love triangles. There is very little that straight people can get up to, especially in the PG strictures of network television, that is new. (Masters of Sex has self-pleasuring with a giant glass dildo named Cyclops covered.) Even when lesbians are involved in otherwise rote story lines—the woman terrified of commitment learns to commit! The woman stuck in the friend zone doesn’t want to be!—it’s at least a new take on an otherwise tired plot point. (Just imagine how much better 2 Broke Girls would be if the long-term story was a slow-growing love affair between its two title characters, which I still think it should be.)
The preponderance of lesbians on TV is also progressive—representation is a good thing—but not nearly as progressive as it first appears. While the characters on Orange, The Fosters, and The Killing are fully developed, on shows likes The Crazy Ones, Dracula, Rookie Blue, and Mistresses, girl-on-girl dabbling is often presented as just another quirk of a sexually adventurous young woman, proof that she is fit to star in a straight dude’s fantasy, even if it’s also simultaneous proof of her emotional depth. (On Mistresses, Josslyn’s relationship with a woman was the most serious she’d ever had, while also being a kinky phase she could tease future boy-toys with.)
Shows like Mistresses, Rookie Blue, Betrayal, and Once Upon a Time put lesbians or bisexual women in supporting roles to signify their adult aesthetic. Lesbian story lines are to network television what nudity is to premium cable: a turn-on masquerading as proof of seriousness. There is at least an upside to this: Lesbians have become shorthand for sophisticated, steamy, romantic, intriguing. In the interest of titillation, television has banished the stereotype of the sexless lesbian.
But you only have to compare the prevalence of lesbians making out on television to the dearth of gay men doing the same to see that the medium is far from a bastion of open-mindedness. On television, women longing for other women may be hot, but men longing for other men is still decidedly not. TV’s gay men hardly ever get any action, and you will rarely see a bisexual guy falling for another man, and certainly never in a story line that could be described as swoony.
Other than the sweet first-love story between Kurt and Blaine on Glee, most gay men on television are non-sexual. (HBO’s Looking, about three gay men in San Francisco, will presumably do what it can to address this shortfall when it arrives early next year.) Modern Family’s Cam and Mitchell still don’t kiss much. Andre Braugher’s character on Brooklyn Nine-Nine is remarkable for being so stoically butch. Thomas on Downton Abbey is heartbreakingly isolated. And Sean Hayes’ character on Sean Saves the World gets less play than Will and Grace’s Jack did. It’s a great time for lesbians on television, but I eagerly await the romantic, sexy storyline about Prince Charming falling for Hercules. | <urn:uuid:cb9ca0d5-27b9-49af-a5d1-f28f04d14d4a> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2013/10/24/lesbians_are_having_a_tv_moment_where_are_the_gay_men.html | 2015-01-30T20:40:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115861872.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161101-00246-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946398 | 1,081 | [
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Scorpio (October 23-November 21): A trippy week full of dreams and illusions will come at you. It’ll be like a special effects spectacular, but more real than fake. Yes, that comfort zone of yours is going to get an overhaul and expansion is on the agenda. By the time you are fully able to comprehend the happenings, it’ll feel like the best party you have ever been to.
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Quarterbacks get most of the glory in victory, as well as the shame in losing. Yes, the pressure is on the QB to lead the team and be a superstar. Of course, not all quarterbacks are the same and through astrology, we can better understand how each sign takes on the competition to seize the win. Keep reading »
Scorpio (October 23-November 21): You’ll be feeling a rush of love and happiness for the people around you, with the ability to put your thoughts to paper or through your mouth accordingly. Gratitude will be pouring out of you like you’re on OWN, which will give you the sensation of rebirth you were looking for. New changes are working and soon you will be as free as a bird.
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Scorpio (October 23-November 21): A renewed feeling of hope is coming over you and the way this month started is far from how it’ll end. Good on you for sticking to your principles and pursuing you dreams — just keep going hard at it, because the momentum you are building will get you to finally claiming victory like no one ever has before.
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Scorpio (October 23-November 21): “The Hunger Games” is on this week. It’s a slaying of the beasts and a cleaning out of your archives. A new awakening is happening and you are the first one aboard. Yes, a cult-like devotion will sweep you towards a new obsession, but with a sunny horizon just over the way to follow, why not just accept the warmth? Do now, analyze later.
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Libra (September 23-October 22): Get to hunting for hearty meat that gives you satisfaction and sustenance. Picking at the bones is no way to live. So, when tables turn this week, exposing someone’s weaknesses, be okay with dropping the ball and letting them roll away into the gutter and out of your way. Not just practical, but sadistically fun to watch happen.
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Heather LaMarre, assistant professor of strategic communication at Temple University's School of Media and Communication in Philadelphia, says Republicans and Democrats are tapped into social media, where citizens are expressing their opinions on a platform unavailable during the last shutdown in the mid-1990s.
"You can be sure that both parties are closely monitoring the the digital public sphere, carefully measuring public sentiment and quickly adjusting their strategies in response to public perceptions," LaMarre says in a statement.
The longer the federal government shutdown goes on, the more the two political parties are stepping up their performances in a game of political theater that is risky for everyone involved, LaMarre says.
"The political posturing is getting stronger by the day as Democrats and Republicans try to win over public opinion, but if people begin to see that all essential services are still being provided and the government shutdown has not disrupted their daily lives, the Republicans stand to come out ahead, especially given the problems being experienced with the [Affordable Care Act] exchanges," LaMarre said.
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Missed Shots: Part 2 of 3
It's a Whole New Ballgame, and Maryland's Williams Isn't Playing
Friday, February 13, 2009
When Gary Williams considered Rudy Gay in 2003, the Maryland men's basketball coach saw his chance to win a second national title in a long and athletic forward who could help keep the Terrapins at an elite level after reaching back-to-back Final Fours.
When Gay considered Maryland, the emerging star at Archbishop Spalding High saw a group of players he had grown up rooting for, a new arena in which he could excel and a rabid fan base that might one day view him as an icon.
But when it came time to select a college after a fierce recruiting battle, Gay chose Connecticut, ignoring the dozens of signs posted at his high school urging him to sign with Maryland.
It was merely one player, one recruiting battle lost by Williams amid hundreds that coaches routinely lose throughout their careers. But those closely familiar with the veteran coach's recruiting say Gay's decision was a turning point. Gay's recruitment, so scrutinized that it appeared to be the impetus for an NCAA rule change in its aftermath, cemented Williams's belief that signing the most sought-after recruits in the current climate often depends on practices he is unwilling to undertake. As a result of that experience, they say Williams has steadfastly avoided pursuing relationships with many of the most influential power brokers in the recruiting world.
If he needs validation for such a stance, Williams can point to a display case on a concourse at Comcast Center that holds the 2002 national championship trophy. After all, it was won by Williams with a cast of players who mostly were unheralded out of high school.
"If [Gay] wanted to come here, and we recruited him, and we offered him a scholarship, why didn't he come here?" Williams said during an hour-long interview last week. "It had to be for another reason, right?"
Williams's detractors argue that it's still possible to follow NCAA rules and recruit successfully. They say his stance is one reason Maryland has regressed faster than any national champion in the past 18 years, according to NCAA records.
Said Curtis Malone, whose talent-rich D.C. Assault summer league basketball program garners national attention, "A guy like Gary, he is not a big AAU guy, and everyone knows that."
The AAU's Growing Influence
The recruiting scene has changed markedly since Williams began the second half of his 20-year tenure at his alma mater. Like today, shoe company-sponsored summer camps and tournaments were part of the landscape, but the ability to woo parents with promises of diplomas and strong education still mattered. As the money involved in basketball increased exponentially -- in 1999, CBS paid $6 billion for the rights to broadcast the NCAA tournament through the 2013 season, and shoe company endorsement deals can extend into the tens of millions -- the search for the next LeBron James has intensified the recruiting game, as parents and coaches aim to put players on a fast track for stardom. Recruiting analysts now rank 10-year-olds, and organizers conduct national tournaments for 8-year-olds, some of them so short their shorts reach their socks.
Long ago, summer basketball was under the auspices of the Amateur Athletic Union, and even today, many people use the term "AAU" to refer to competition by independent travel teams that are sponsored by major shoe companies. In reality, it has been well documented that the teams face no oversight from any national governing body and are free to behave almost any way they see fit. Many of the top teams are set up as nonprofits, whose financial disclosure rules are rarely policed, making it very difficult to uncover violations of NCAA rules on improper inducements to players.
In recent years, attempts by the NCAA to control the summer league teams have largely failed, and their power has only increased. In recruiting, the independent travel team coaches are now viewed as being more influential than most high school coaches. Without strong AAU ties, recruiting at an elite level becomes difficult, if not impossible, according to college assistant coaches.
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Last week, Colorado made history, becoming the first state to embrace the innovation of ridesharing while strengthening our commitment to consumer choice and safety. I was proud to lead this effort as part of a bipartisan group that understood what was at stake — our ability to pave the way for an emerging industry that will support technological innovation, expand transportation options, and support the development of thousands of new small businesses.
First of all, I’m a big fan of the technology. Pushing a button to get a reliable ride from anywhere in my city still feels like a luxury. But like all the Internet-enabled applications we can now barely remember life without, Uber and Lyft have become verbs. Secondly, I saw a need for a reasonable regulatory framework that would ensure safety without unnecessarily hindering innovation. I didn’t want to let Colorado take the wrong turn.
I know that California is now grappling with similar considerations now. And I want to share why we took the approach we did — it not only was an agreement that worked for tech companies but worked for the insurance industry.
Government is notorious for resisting change associated with innovation. Lawmakers cannot foresee the ways in which technology will develop, but we can move to make common sense change that flexes with the way our economy moves. As recently reported in the Denver Post, in 1964 the technology enabling the first self-service gas pump in the nation was used in my home state. Even though this model provided customer’s a less expensive and more convenient way to pump gas, a series of state laws around the country banning self-service slowed its acceptance. States were unfamiliar with the new technology, and pre-emptively passed laws restricting its use. Misinformation and scare tactics used by those fearful of change slowed progress. Almost all states overturned their bans once hindsight proved the short-sightedness of their decision.
The point is simple — creating laws out of the fear of new technology, and falling back with established incumbent interests, just doesn’t work. Take, for example, the current legislation proposed by policymakers in Sacramento — AB 612 and AB 2293. Both ignore the fact that new technology demands a new paradigm. This is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
Companies like Uber and Lyft connect riders and drivers in a new way, and allow drivers to experience the economic freedom to build their own business and riders to connect with a safe, convenient ride. Drivers that partner with the platform create their own small business, use their own vehicle, and create their own schedule. It works because it is different from the current taxi model, and as such, must be addressed in a new an innovative way.
So how did we do it in Colorado? We made sure there was a flexible option for the insurance industry to adapt to the ridesharing model. We made sure we didn’t force a nascent industry into a law that would be outdated by next year. And, we made sure that we took very seriously the protection of riders and drivers without inhibiting the growth of these technology companies.
The new ride-sharing law requires that by January 2015, insurance coverage while a driver is available must be provided in one of two ways: A driver can purchase a specific ridesharing endorsement from their personal auto insurance or the ridesharing company can provide primary insurance coverage at levels that are double the state required minimums. When a ride request is accepted, a $1 million commercial policy is in place until the remainder of the ride. Drivers must go through background checks, vehicle inspections, and a driving record review. This legislation was intentionally written to require that Colorado is doing everything to promote safe, reliable rides, without forcing ridesharing into an outdated insurance model.
This was a law that benefits everyone and we hope that other states — including California — take it into consideration.
As policymakers we all have a choice — we can set the stage for the future and send a message that your state supports new technology, innovation in business, and a forward-thinking approach, or can cater to traditional industries who want to keep the status quo.
We in Colorado want to demonstrate to tech companies and innovators that we are open for business and will not shut them down. We want to encourage innovation that improves our lives. And now, all eyes have turned to California to see how they treat their own home-grown innovators.
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« on: May 11, 2013, 05:11:37 PM »
For aerial video the Hero 3 is a good starting point. The video quality is ok especially for just playing around. The Hero 3 is not a good choice for aerial photos. I don't have a way to switch the camera from taking video to taking stills. With the Sony NEX 5N I can switch between photos and video from the ground with the flip of a switch on my transmitter, through an LED remote sitting in front of the camera. With the Hero I can grab stills from the video, but I can get a much higher quality photos from the APS C sensor in the Sony in both still and video modes. There is also a lot of fisheye with the hero that becomes distracting.
I believe putting a good quality camera in the air has some interesting possibilities such as real estate work, I've also does a few large group photos from the air. There is some question as to how legal it currently is in the US, but Obama has given a directive to the FAA to formally allow drones for commercial use in the USA by 2015. Currently most other countries around the world allow for drone use on commercial work. Many of the tv and movie shots are now being done using these types of small RC helicopters.
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Massive Disneyland Attraction Database
The Jedi Compliance Academy attraction, October 25, 1982, 7:46 a.m.
Jedi Compliance Academy
December 20, 1982
Avg. queue length:
Learn to act like a Jedi at the hands of a real Jedi retiree. Students will even have a chance to rehearse simulated target practice with the overpaid Tony Baxter!
- If traveling with someone trying to avoid the authorities, don't enter an attraction vehicle with someone you find annoying, because this attraction will definitely make it awkward.
Policies and Warnings
- Expectant grandparents can ride immediately after eating.
- This attraction was previously planned for the 1976 World's Streetcar.
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Justin Hodges has definitely been ruled out of the Broncos clash with the the Titans despite doubts by John Cartwright
- From: The Courier-Mail
- May 17, 2013
TITANS coach John Cartwright had his doubts but Broncos centre Justin Hodges will not play in tonight's local derby.
The Test veteran had been given only a slight chance of appearing at Suncorp Stadium after failing to finish training yesterday due to a rib injury.
While Cartwright suggested Brisbane may have been playing coy on Hodges' prospects, Brisbane assistant coach Kristian Woolf this morning confirmed the 30-year-old's withdrawal.
"Justin is not going to be able to play," he told Radio TAB.
"We were expecting it (the injury) to settle better than it did. Unfortunately he was unable to train yesterday so he's out."
Jordan Kahu will start in the centres with Lachlan Maranta winning a late recall onto the wing.
Cartwright had refused to believe Brisbane's best player Justin Hodges will be missing from their line-up until official team sheets are unveiled an hour before kick-off.
Hodges' loss spells danger for the Broncos.
Since Darren Lockyer retired at the end of 2011, Brisbane have won just one of 10 games played without Hodges, compared with 15 of 24 with the veteran centre in the side.
Hodges joins Scott Prince and Ben Hannant in the Broncos injury ward which would hold 658 games of experience.
Asked yesterday about the boost his team would receive not having to defend against Hodges, Cartwright smiled wryly.
"I've heard that one before," he said. "We have to assume he is playing and we will find out an hour before kick-off."
Titans co-captain Greg Bird also promoted the conspiracy theory prior to his exclusion.
"We have to prepare as if he is playing, but if he is not I guess that will be a little bonus for us," Bird said.
"He has been in career-best form really, carving teams up. He was good last time against us."
Broncos coach Anthony Griffin yesterday said while the latest injury to Hodges was minor, it made it difficult for him to play.
"I'd say, at this stage, he won't play but if there's something that can be done between now and then (game day) we will have a look at it," Griffin said.
"At this stage, he won't be there.
"He had painkillers this morning to train and obviously it didn't quite hit the mark."
Hodges' rib complaint is his third injury in 10 rounds this season, following hamstring and groin problems.
His inability to back up week-on-week casts doubt over his chances of lasting a gruelling Origin campaign for Queensland.
"I think he's got a little crack down there (ribs) in an awkward spot," Griffin said.
"It was an issue after the game that we thought would settle down but it hasn't come good."
Kahu moves into right centre for Hodges, with Maranta recalled to the right wing.
Kahu and Maranta have played 18 NRL games between them.
Debutant rake Jake Granville snags an interchange position, with Scott Anderson and Jarrod Wallace set to drop off the extended bench.
Hodges has already missed blockbusters against Melbourne and South Sydney this year.
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|Friday, Jun 1, 2012 - 9:00 PM
"Who Killed Cock Robin, Part 2"
Although all suspicions are aimed toward ex-con Stockard, Barnaby discovers there are others who have vengeful motives involving the victim. Part 1 of 2 G
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Employing a wide range of critical perspectives and new comparative contexts, Flann O’Brien: Contesting Legacies breaks new ground in O’Brien scholarship by testing a number of popular commonplaces about this Irish (post-) Modernist author. Challenging the narrative that Flann O’Brien wrote two good novels and then retired to the inferior medium of journalism (as Myles na gCopaleen), the collection engages with overlooked shorter, theatrical, and non-fiction works and columns (‘John Duffy’s Brother’, ‘The Martyr’s Crown’, ‘Two in One’) alongside At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman, and An Béal Bocht. The depth and consistency of O’Nolan’s comic inspiration that emerges from this scholarly engagement with his broader body of work underlines both the imperative and opportunity of reassessing O’Brien’s literary legacy.
Challenging the critical standard of O’Brien as a provincial writer, these essays reveal his writing as a space that uniquely complicates the old lines between stay-at-home conservatism and international experimentalism. Renegotiating O’Brien’s place in the European Avant-Garde alongside tensions closer to home – Republicanism, the Gaelic tradition, the Dublin literary scene – the collection reveals as outdated prejudice the dismissal of his talent as a matter of localised interest.
Finally, the contributors excavate O’Nolan’s oeuvre as fertile territory for a broad range of critical perspectives by confronting some of the more complex ideological positions tested in his writing. Employing perspectives from genetic criticism and cultural materialism to post-modernism and deconstruction, the essays gathered in this volume address with new critical rigour the author’s gender politics, his language politics, his parodies of nationalism, his ideology of science, and his treatment of the theme of justice.
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Blues' Geordie boss Lee Clark, a former Toon midfielder, is willing to take the French outcast to St Andrews.
Magpie maverick Ben Arfa, 27, has been dumped in the reserves after a fall-out with boss Alan Pardew.
The playmaker, in the final year of his contract, has vowed to fight for his place but faces a crunch decision over his future.
Former club Lyon have shown interest in taking him back to France and Turkish giants Besiktas have been strongly linked with a move.
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I’ve invested in hundreds of companies that have started from scratch and I’ve been though some crazy number of product launches, especially if you include all of the TechStars companies I’ve been involved with. These alphas, or betas, or v1.0 or v0.1 launches are exciting moments as they signify the transition from an idea to a product. And, it’s at that point that the real work begins.
Early in the life of your company you want feedback. From anyone. Of any kind.
It’s often hard to get this feedback. You spend all of your time trying to get some people to use your product. When they have problems, you try to fix them. But you are maxed out – with all the various responsibilities you’ve got and all the things you are trying to do to keep things moving forward.
Occasionally you get feedback. Sometimes it’s precise – a feature request, a suggestion for how to do something differently, or a description of something that’s not working correctly.
Reward this feedback with features. Fix the bug and then tell the person who reported it that you did and thank them for pointing it out. Implement the requested feature and tell the person that suggested it that you did it. Write a blog post about it and name the feature after the person. Be public about thanking the person for the suggestion.
In addition to making your product better, this does two powerful things.
First, it creates a feedback loop with your early users so they know they are specifically appreciated and valued. This will encourage them to give you more feedback, use your product more, and be part of your extended early community of fans.
More importantly, it builds a feedback loop culture into your business. You and your team will realize the feedback matters. You’ll show this through action. Your users will realize this. And they’ll value it, and you, more.
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A total of 5,000 copies of the Malaysia 1000 directory are circulated both to both local and international market.
It is distributed through the MATRADE offices worldwide and also BASIS's international affiliations such as Asiagate & Credit Alliance
partners who have offices in more than 100 countries worldwide.
A complimentary copy is also given to following:
MATRADE and all its offices worldwide (present in around 40 countries).
All the high commissions or embassies in Malaysia.
All the universities and colleges in Malaysia.
Major trade associations in the Malaysia.
Various libraries in the country.
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Struggling sports reporter Erik Kernan (Josh Hartnett) encounters a homeless man who calls himself "Champ" (Samuel L. Jackson) only to determine that he is the one-time boxing champion Battling Bob Satterfield. What begins as a story about resurrecting a once-great man becomes Erik's title shot. In his journey to uncover the truth, Erik has to reexamine his own life and his relationship with his young son.
"An engrossing, surprising and moving drama that will restore your faith in the power of movies to tell great human stories. Samuel L. Jackson has never been better. His brilliant portrait of a forgotten boxer well past his glory days should be remembered at Oscar time."
- Pete Hammond, Maxim
"Resurrecting the Champ is stunning, a powerful drama featuring a truly great Oscar worthy performance by Samuel L. Jackson. This is memorable drama and one of the year's best."
- Paul Fischer, DarkHorizons.com
"Samuel L. Jackson turns in an Oscar-caliber, knockout performance in a movie not to be missed."
- George Pennacchio, KABC-TV
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The roast of Saget, who starred on ABC’s “Full House” with the Olsen twins for eight years, will air Aug. 17 on Comedy Central.
John Stamos, Saget’s former “Full House” co-star, emceed – and took the first swipe at the 22 year-old moguls.
“The whole time Bob and I were doing ‘Full House’, he was also hosting ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos,'” he said. “His entire job consisted of saying ‘Take a look at this’ which is what he used to say to Mary Kate in her dressing room.”
Afterward, Stamos said he has no idea how the Olsen sister will react.
“I truthfully don’t know where their sense of humor lies these days,” he said. “I thought some of [the roast] was a little over the top.
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H. C. Leupold
Old Testament scholar and an authority on liturgics
BiographyDr. Herbert Carl Leupold, Columbus, Ohio, was born at Buffalo, N. Y., on July 23, 1891. He received his early education in the Lutheran parochial schools at Buffalo and later finished his elementary and secondary education in the Buffalo public schools. He received his pre-seminary and seminary training at the Martin Luther Theological Seminary at Buffalo, NY., which was discontinued when the Buffalo Synod became a part of the American Lutheran Church. Dr. Leupold graduated from the Martin Luther Seminary on June 24, 1914. Thereupon he served as pastor of a mission, Ascension Lutheran congregation in Buffalo, and at the same time held an assistant professorship at the Martin Luther Seminary until 1922. He served as professor of historical theology at the Martin Luther Seminary from 1922 to 1929. In 1929, when the Buffalo Synod dosed Martin Luther Seminary, Dr. Leupold was transferred to the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary at Capital University, Columbus, O., where he became professor of Old Testament Theology, in which capacity he is serving at the present time. He was elected secretary of the Theological Seminary faculty in 1941. Dr. Leupold received the Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Chicago Seminary in 1926 and the Doctor of Divinity degree from Capital University in 1935. Dr. Leupold has gained renown as an Old Testament scholar and an authority on liturgics. He has become a well-known lecturer and writer in these fields.
Works by H. C. Leupold
H.C. Leupold’s two volumes on Genesis I and II have been praised by scholars as being everything an exegetical work ought to be. Written in the early twentieth century, this two-in-one volume has been tried and tested for decades, and remains much loved and often used today. Leupold provides careful exegesis and theological comment. His writing is well researched, and still easy to read. Leupold provides an introduction to the background of the book of Genesis before he jumps into his analysis of the text in his careful and well-thought-out commentary. This is a must-read for any scholar of the first book of the Bible, or for anyone desiring a greater understanding of the text.
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So it's partly that, but it's also partly the fact that I do believe that the center-right is the prevailing worldview today in America, and I believe that the left and the liberal approach to government that was personified in this election by John Kerry has been rejected by a vast majority of Americans.
How do you define a conservative, politically?
Obviously, from my perspective, George W. Bush personifies that, which is to say a stout approach to our national security and winning the war on terror and a clear understanding of what that requires, an approach to government when it comes to domestic policy that tries to tear down barriers to entry.
... Look at what the president is doing in terms of encouraging home ownership, getting more people into homes: Under this president, the highest percentage of minorities own their own homes than ever in our nation's history. The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history. ...
At the same time, the president is the one who has put forward the greatest level of funding for historically black colleges and universities. He's tearing down barriers to entry when it comes to trying to allow for greater choice in education in the inner cities. [He's] tearing down barriers to entry for our health care by allowing for associated health plans, [allowing] small businesses to provide group insurance to their employees in the way big businesses do, and allowing for people to have their own medical savings accounts. [He's tearing down] barriers to entry to our retirement funds by allowing for personal retirement accounts with the Social Security system.
To me, that is what is most invigorating about the president's approach and where our party is today. When he talks about an ownership society, to me what that is, it is tearing down barriers to entry. …
So for years and years and years, in my understanding and awareness of political nomenclature, Republicanism was kind of synonymous with big business. ... How did it happen that Republicanism became something people could sign up for?
Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party. I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party. That is personified in their instance by people like [Fahrenheit 911 filmmaker] Michael Moore and others in the entertainment industry who seem to have a pretty healthy disdain for the broader electorate. ...
I don't believe we're the party of big business. I believe we're the party of small business. Again, the president [is] trying to tear down barriers to entry [for] more people and more entrepreneurs to get into small business ventures and ownership. ... This is the president who enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley bill, which I think you're seeing the benefit of today. These CEOs and corporate boards that were bilking American shareholders and employees out of billions of dollars, that's been stopped on this president's watch. Some pretty vigorous opposition to that by big business, but the president did what he knew to be right in our public interest.
... We are in favor of greater free markets. That doesn't mean unregulated; it means freer markets. We're in favor of not a laissez-faire approach, as perhaps was the case in the '30s. [We are] trying to help people and empower people and individuals to prosper. It's not just "If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day; if you teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime." Sometimes you need to provide a tax break for the reel, and maybe a government subsidy to buy the rod, and help bring that person into the process. ...
So how do you get that message [across to the people]? ... How did it happen? Tell me the story.
... I think it happened partly as a result of their party moving left. Politics swings like a pendulum. Our party may have swung too far right at various times. It swings back towards the center a little bit. Their party, the lessons they seem to have taken from a number of repeated electoral losses, is that they need to move further to the left, not back toward the center.
And I think that as they do that, they become a more elitist, more liberal, more angry party. The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election. As they get more elitist, more liberal, more angry, they get smaller. And as they get smaller, they get more elitist, more liberal and more angry. It seems to be a downward spiral. Bill Clinton tapped the brakes on that for two terms by appealing to the middle of the electorate, but he seems to have been an aberration.
So let's go back and join your personal political journey. ... What happens to you? What do you do on your journey to the top?
Well, I worked for Congressman Ireland. ... He was re-elected in 1984, part of the Reagan landslide. I wanted to be a press secretary and deal with the reporters. … I found an opening: a freshman member of Congress from Texas who was looking for a press secretary. And it turned out he was Congressman Dick Armey, who had just been elected. I worked for him for over 10 years, from his first month in office through the end of his first year as the first Republican majority leader in 40 years, and [I] did that in a number of capacities: I was the staff director of the Joint Economic Committee when he was the ranking Republican on that committee. When he became chairman of the House Republican Conference, a leadership position he won by four votes, I was the director of communications policy for him.
From that point, I helped write the Contract with America that [Speaker of the House] Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey spearheaded. I was in charge of selling the Contract with America as the communications director for the House Republican Conference. It was a House Republican document. ... Haley Barbour, who was then the RNC chairman, felt that I did good work and asked me to come over to the Republican National Committee in 1996 to be the director of communications in congressional affairs during the Dole campaign in '96, which we obviously lost. …
In 2000, I was working for [Ohio] Congressman John Kasich, who was the chairman of the House Budget Committee. He was considering running for president, but decided against it. ... It was at that time that I started to talk to the folks in the Bush campaign in Austin. My wife [Cathy Gillespie] had known Karl Rove. She's a political operative in her own right. ... She and Karl had worked on a campaign in Texas back in 1984. She introduced me to Karl, and he asked me to serve as an informal adviser to the Bush-Cheney campaign from Washington, which I did. And then Karen Hughes asked me to run the [program for the] convention in Philadelphia, everything you saw from the Pledge of Allegiance to Chaka Khan at the end of the night.
So I got to working with the campaign in Austin. They needed some help in the home stretch. In September, Karen went on the plane full time with then-Gov. Bush, and so I kind of held down the fort in Austin and worked on the campaign in 2000 for the president.
In 2002, I was general strategist for Elizabeth Dole's history-making Senate campaign in North Carolina. She was the first woman ever elected senator from that state. And not too long after that, the president asked me if I would lead the party in this cycle, which I was very honored to do, and [I'm] now wrapping up my tenure as chairman. …
… What's going on inside the Republican Party [in 1994]? What's the kind of turbo thrust that gets everything moving?
Well, there are a couple things. One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned. He didn't govern as a New Democrat. He allowed the congressional Democratic leadership to pull him to the left. If you look at what he did in that first term, one of his first actions was the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" [policy], which was a compromise, if you remember, from changing the policy towards gays in the military. A lot of people don't remember him campaigning on that. …
Then [he proposed the formation] of a government-run health care system, which was a shock to the system to a lot of people. But he really got gummed up in the summer of 1994 over the crime bill, essentially a gun-control measure, which hurt him with a lot of his own Democrats in rural parts of the country. And so there was a dynamic that "This guy's not governing the way he led us to believe he would govern; he's moved too far to the left." So there was some backlash building across the country. Democrats could feel it.
Democrats in tough districts and in rural parts of the country were distancing themselves from Bill Clinton by the beginning of 1994. But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.
And so we put forward these 10 items that had been ... bottled up from consideration in the House under 40 years of Democratic leadership. Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party. By the end of 40 years, it had become a very autocratic institution. They weren't allowing things to come up for votes that most Americans thought probably should have been considered: a balanced budget amendment; consideration of some welfare reform and some crime legislation and tax relief; institutional changes in the House, like a ban on proxy voting and term limits on committee chairs.
And so it was a very appealing, positive agenda. We put it together, and we called it the Contract with America, because we said, "We pledge that we will bring these things up for vote," but not pledge to pass them, because first of all, three of them were constitutional amendments which would require two-thirds of the House to pass. But also we knew that all you can promise when you're in control is to schedule these things in the first 100 days, and if we didn't do it, throw us out.
We signed this contract, and those were the terms of the contract. And it empowered people; it gave people a sense that they had leverage in the political process, which they [did]. ... And it really resonated. The Democrats miscalculated. They thought that it was a mistake. I remember Tony Coelho, who had been chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee, he said, "This is like manna from heaven." And they just didn't understand the wave that was building out there and how we had tapped into it and had used the contract as a catalyst for momentum for that wave.
... This seems to me to be a critical moment in an historic timeline. Is it?
It is. It's a major change, a major shift. The House had seemed out of reach for four decades for Republicans. To win back the House was a major shift in the political dynamics in this country. Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now. I think that this leadership and the leadership of the House has been very sophisticated and very responsive to the needs of their members. …
But when you look at all that has happened since then in terms of policy, in terms of welfare reform, in terms of anti-crime legislation, in terms of tax relief and national security policies, having the House in Republican hands for over a decade now has been a huge factor in the direction of our country.
... And in purely political terms, [it has been a major factor] in the culmination of the most recent reincarnation of the Republican Party: the seizing of the White House, the Senate, the agenda in effect, right? It had to start somewhere, and it probably started there.
It did start there, but again, Newt Gingrich, who is much maligned, deserves a lot of credit for understanding that we as a party could not just be an anti-government party. We had to be a party for the little guy, a populist party, an anti-big government party, but that we [also] had to have policies that we were for in government. And we had to be for an agenda that was positive in the views of the American people.
I think that President Bush has broadened that even [further]. His acceptance speech was a pivotal moment and a seminal moment in this campaign because he laid out a very detailed and specific and positive agenda of tax simplification and health savings accounts and more affordable health care and improving our high schools and the way we've been improving our elementary schools. So on education and health care and jobs and Social Security reform, retirement savings, a vigorous national security approach -- he put out an agenda that allowed us to run in the last two months of the election on his policies. That was important.
[What did you know about Karl Rove before you met him?]
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984. ... She was his first paid employee. She headed up Aggies for Barton. She was at Texas A&M, and Karl was the consultant for that campaign. Karl would call her at 6:30 in the morning at her college apartment. Her roommates would get mad at him because it was not a campaign headquarters; it was a college apartment at 6:30 on a Saturday. But Karl was in constant motion.
He had a great reputation in the state for being the premier Republican strategist. If you were a candidate, then you had Karl Rove as your consultant. So that was the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. I did not know him then; I just knew of him because I ran my boss's primary in Texas in 1986 when he ran for re-election. I was very involved in Texas politics as a press secretary for Dick Armey at the time. But Karl had a fantastic reputation as being very effective and [for] understanding the demographic changes that were taking place in Texas and how best to capitalize on those.
It wasn't long before he linked up with George W. Bush, who was an incredible talent. I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate. A lot of people talk about all of the nuts and bolts of "How did our side beat their side?" Well, it starts with the fact that our candidate beat their candidate. George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate. [He] worked very hard and very effectively, and really connected with people.
I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics. I don't know that firsthand, but I suspect that to be the case.
In my understanding of it, the shift of Texas from Democrat to Republican, even Yellow Dog Democrat to Republican, might be the bellwether for the shift of what happened [nationally]. ...
Well, if you remember, it was not so long ago that it was conventional wisdom that no Democrat could win the White House without winning Texas. It's why LBJ was on the ticket. It's why Lloyd Bentsen was on the ticket. [Now] the starting supposition for any Democrat is you cede Texas to the Republicans. ... Two generations essentially saw that change. Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
When do you come across George W. Bush? When do you get a sense that this guy has a political future? …
I first saw him when I was with Haley Barbour at the Republican National Committee. Haley felt we were a party of governors and was very inclusive of the governors as a national party chair. He was in many ways less focused on the congressional leadership than he was on the governors. So we did a lot of things with the Republican Governors Association.
I remember the first time when Gov. Bush walked in to a meeting with the other governors. A couple things I remember about it: He came in -- there was no flying wedge like you see with other governors; there was no trail of aides behind him. He walked in by himself. He went over and poured himself a cup of coffee and wandered over. But other governors started to gravitate toward him. He was a presence. He was a commanding presence. Big-state governors tend to be that way anyway. If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors. But he was very unassuming.
Then I met him in '99 when I went with John Kasich to the Governor's Mansion in Austin. John Kasich, with whom I was working at the time, and I had breakfast with Gov. Bush and Karl. Karl and I did not talk much. Not only did we not talk much to one another; we didn't talk much at the breakfast. It was principally John Kasich as chairman of the Budget Committee talking to Gov. Bush as governor of a big state about issues like Medicaid and things in the budget, and also about politics, and [they] kind of sized each other up a little bit.
Then the governor took Kasich and me through a little tour of the Governor's Mansion. He was very gracious and gregarious, and I just thought very impressive. I remember thinking then -- because he had not made up his mind to run for president; Kasich was considering it -- I remember thinking at the time, "I hope he doesn't." (Laughs.)
But John Kasich ended up not running, and one of the reasons was because once Bush got in, he just took all the air out of the room, stripped all the low-hanging fruit off the trees in terms of the money in the party. But then he proved himself to be a very strong candidate. …
And then when I went to Austin and worked on the campaign, I got to meet him. Someone asked me one time, a reporter said, "How does President Bush demand such loyalty from you all?" I said, "He doesn't demand it; he commands it." He doesn't tell you, "You've got to be loyal to me." You just don't want to let him down. …
When he calls Karl Rove "the architect," what does he mean?
... I don't want to speak for the president, but I think what he means, what I see in that, is that Karl conceived of an election that was designed to bring more people into our party, designed to increase our percentages in nontraditional Republican voting demographics, like Hispanic voters and women and African Americans, where we had a sizable gain, and at the same time enfranchise more naturally Republican voters and "lazy Republicans," as we call them in the parlance, into the process and get them out to vote, and do that with a bottom-up structure, a grassroots structure.
My predecessor from a while back, for the former President Bush, Lee Atwater, once said, "The sign of a good campaign is how many people it can absorb." And the Bush-Cheney campaign absorbed an incredible amount of people. Ken Mehlman deserves the credit for that: 1.2 million volunteers in 15 states. And I've got to tell you, those volunteers, they were not treated like volunteers; they were treated like full-time employees.
When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in. And if you were goofing off and you weren't doing it, then you weren't really volunteering, and we didn't need you. Our volunteers were incredibly dedicated. I spent the last three weeks of the campaign traveling to the phone banks and the volunteer centers around the country, and they were so energized. They were inspirational to me. They would work 25 to 30 hours a week on the phone bank, walking neighborhoods over the weekend on top of their 40-hour job. They were incredibly dedicated and committed.
But they were absorbed into the organization as though they were employees, and that is an incredible feat. It's something that's never been done by our party, and it is remarkable. Karl conceived of it; Ken implemented it. And Karl conceived of the idea, I think, of going into these growth areas, exurban areas, and bolstering and running up our numbers in some of those places.
On Election Day in 2000, where were you? How did you think it was going to turn out? How surprised were you by how close it was?
I was surprised by how close it was. We felt very good about the election going into Election Day and the weekend before. I was in Austin and on the phone quite a bit with the networks. I was the one who was talking to the "nets" about calling Florida, calling Pennsylvania, calling Ohio. Why were they waiting so long to call Ohio? They called Florida before the panhandle had closed and the numbers had come in, which is a Republican area. I was making the case that they needed to pull Florida down from being called.
So I was in fairly constant communication with all the broadcasting, cable networks. Cathy and I were out in front of the Governor's Mansion where all of the staff had assembled, waiting for the governor to come out to make his acceptance speech. We learned from Don Evans, I think at about 4:00 in the morning, that that wasn't going to come.
[We] went back to the hotel ... and wandered back to the campaign about 10:00 a.m. … And slowly, throughout the course of that day, it began to dawn on me that this was going to be a longer process than I had initially thought. I never envisioned it running 60 days, I guess it was. And then I went to a meeting right after lunch, and some of the lawyers were in there. And it's the first time I remember them talking about dimpled chads and swinging-door chads and pregnant chads. That was the first time I had heard chads, and I heard a lot more after that.
So that began a long process. I stayed in the campaign headquarters for a while. Tucker Eskew went down to Palm Beach County, which was where it really first started. And then [then-Gov. Bush's Chief of Staff] Joe Allbaugh asked me to go down to Florida about three weeks into it to link up with Ted Olsen, who was our attorney to file Bush v. Gore. And I was at the courthouse when we filed and had worked with Ted in briefing the media on the filing. I thought I was done at that point, after we filed. And I flew back home to rejoin my wife and children. They were very excited. And I was home for a day when Joe Allbaugh called me again and said that I needed to go down to Miami-Dade [County], that they were beginning a recount there.
And so I had a tearful good-bye to my children again, got on a plane and went to Miami for what I thought would be a couple days, ended up being a couple weeks. I finished out the duration [of the recount] on the ground at Miami-Dade.
And when the Supreme Court announcement came, where were you? What happened?
At that time, I had come home to Cathy and the kids. I think it was about two or three days before the Supreme Court announcement came. ... So I was home the night of the announcement.
It was just relief. It was less exhilaration. I remember we celebrated election night a year later here in Washington for a lot of us, because we never had that catharsis, that moment of exhilaration where "We won!" We had it, and it was taken away. We had it in the campaign headquarters on election night when President Bush was called the winner, but it was fleeting. And then we just got into a grind, and what was supposed to be the finish line of a marathon became another marathon. It was more a matter of relief than exhilaration. …
So when you rejoin the team, when the president asks you to go to the RNC, what's the plan, as you understand it? ...
Well, the plan was pretty clear. I said to Karl when I first got there, "What do you think is the most important thing the RNC chairman can do in the course of the next two years?" And he said, "Close the gap between registered Republicans and registered Democrats." And that's where I put my focus, along with being a messenger. ...
One of the things about working for this president is, you don't wake up every day and wonder, "What are we for today?" You know what this president is for. People would say, "Well, what's he for?" I would say, "Look at what he says." We all know what he's for. We know where the president stands when it comes to winning the war on terror. We know his view in terms of fostering democracy and freedom in the Middle East as central to reducing terrorist threats over the course of the future. We know where he stands in terms of tax relief and accountability in our schools. And we also know where he stands in terms of the tone. ...
Does it feel to you like you were part of what a lot of people talk about as an historic moment, that the shift has finally happened? [Now] at least as many people are identified as Republican as Democrat. Perhaps this is it for the Democrats as a major force for a decade at least, and maybe a generation.
I do believe this was an historic election. And we were very clear -- this was a "bright line" election. There were very clear choices for the American people. We had in John Kerry a classic liberal Democrat. People [will] say, "Well, that's a personal attack." It's not a personal attack. He is a Massachusetts Democrat who has a record of voting consistently for more government and higher taxes and against important weapons programs. [He has] represented the views of the people of Massachusetts for 20 years. That's a statement of fact.
The president is a conservative-right, or a center-right, Republican. That's a statement of fact as well. There are some things where he has pushed his party to the middle. On education funding, but with accountability, and in some other areas where we've seen in terms of Medicare, providing a prescription drug benefit, the president has governed in a center-right manner.
But I do think that this was a moment in time where the two parties were crystallized in their approach to government, and it was a clear choice for the American people, and the preponderance of them came down on the side of the center-right approach and rejected the left in this election.
Where were you on that afternoon of Election Day , where the exit polls are saying, "The president is in some trouble; Kerry is way up"? How did you hear about it? How did you deal with it?
I got an e-mail. I was in my office, and it was like a punch in the stomach, because ... I just felt like, "How could this be?" I always knew in the course of this campaign that we could lose, but I never felt we would lose. I always felt we would win. One of the greatest things about this campaign to me was that it felt the same when we were eight points down as it did when we were eight points up. I just had confidence that at the end of the day we were going to do well.
In fact, I had an e-mail exchange with Karl the day before where he and I had agreed that the president would win 51-48, get 286 electoral college votes, that he would win Iowa and New Mexico, probably lose New Hampshire and win Florida by five, and Ohio would be closer. I felt like we had a good handle on the nature of this race from the outset and at the close, so I was surprised.
But then when we started to hear some of the underlying data that didn't support the top line -- for example, they had the president losing the popular vote by two percentage points, but winning 42 percent of Hispanics. You can't do both. That was incongruous. They had us losing Wisconsin, but winning Catholics there by 10 percentage points. Look at the percentage of the population in Wisconsin that are Catholic voters; there's no way you can have that. That's a disparity that doesn't hold up. They had 68 percent or 58 percent of the electorate [listed as] women, which is too high a percentage of the electorate to be women voters.
So all those things started to give me pause and made me realize that they had been wrong when I did Elizabeth Dole's campaign in '02. The exit surveys had her losing by six percentage points. She won by nine, the highest margin in 26 years in North Carolina. In 2000, the exits had the president losing significantly to Al Gore. So this was the third cycle in a row where the exits were wrong and skewed against the Republicans.
And what was the mood when the exits were floating around before you knew the facts underneath?
Concern. Not quite despair, because I think there was a sense that, having been through it in 2000 and a lot of us in '02, because Elizabeth Dole's race was not an aberration -- they had Wayne Allard losing [his Senate race] by 10; he won by 10 in Colorado. There were a number of Republican senators who were down in the exits and won pretty big on election night, so we felt like early exits are often wrong anyway, and [we'll] wait to see. But it was dispiriting. …
Our reports from the field in terms of turnout in our key targeted precincts and how we were doing in early precincts gave me reason to believe we were actually going to do pretty well, and especially in Florida. The media should do what the political PACs do, which is actually look at where people are voting as opposed to a model and what people you select to talk to on the way out of the voting booth say. ...
This idea of metrics, by the way, is just fascinating. Has it always existed in politics?
It's always existed. You always have vote goals. … I don't think metrics have ever been so carefully measured and calibrated as they were in this election. The Bush-Cheney campaign had precinct chairs in counties in target states where we haven't had Republican Party chairs in decades. Ken Mehlman ran the president's re-election the way you'd run a city council race -- down to the precinct level. Like I say, it is a testament to Ken, the way he managed all of that. Ken is one of the greatest campaign managers I've ever seen.
Where were you that night when victory becomes apparent to you?
I was at the Reagan Center. It was where we had the rally and where the president was slated to speak, to give his victory speech. I was feeling pretty good by about 8:30. I felt like we had won. I was starting to get a little frustrated by 10:30. As I recall, we had a couple of networks that had called Ohio but not Nevada, and a couple of "nets" that called Nevada and not Ohio. Neither would put the two together, which would have put us over the top, which, again, I find frustrating. …
So what's the lesson in all of this? What have you learned? Where does everything stand now?
Well, I think there are a couple things. One, I do believe that the country has reached a point where we have the right mix of private and individual and government involvement. ... There's a comfort level there, and also an understanding of what we're going to have to do as a nation to prevail in the war on terror . ... It's not a war that we were looking for; it was a war declared on us. But it is a war. So I think there's a pretty clear consensus on where we are as a country, both in terms of domestic policy and our national security. I do think that the president, in his tone, in his approach, appeals to Americans. …
I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe. I think there are a lot of people out there -- obviously 48 percent of the electorate -- who voted for John Kerry. I don't believe 48 percent of the electorate want George Bush to fail. I think that they want the president of the United States to succeed.
I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man. Had John Kerry been elected, I would do everything I could in '08 to make sure he was defeated, but I would have hoped that he would make it tough for us. I don't have it in me. I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.
Are the president and Karl Rove looking forward, planning for [the future] of Republican Party [beyond the next midterm elections]?
Well, again, I don't want to speak for Karl or for the president. That's not my job as a party chairman -- certainly not as an outgoing party chairman, especially. But there is a sense among us, many of us who are in leadership positions in the Republican Party, that we have a unique opportunity, that we can build on the gains we made with traditionally non-Republican voting groups.
We increased our share of the Jewish vote from 19 percent to 24 percent. I think we can go further. We increased our share of the Hispanic vote from 35 percent to 44 percent. I think we can go further. We increased our share of the African American vote from 8.5 percent to 11 percent. I think we can go much further. I think we can double that here in a very short time frame. So I think the key for us is not only to continue to maintain energy amongst our rank-and-file Republicans, but to bring more people into the party. I believe the Republican Party today is the natural majority party. It won't always be.
Karl talks about a durable majority, not a permanent majority. The fact is, the two-party system serves our country well. I'm a strong believer in the two-party system. I think the Democratic Party makes us better as a party, and we make them better as a party. Having two major parties is a good thing. Coke makes Pepsi better; Pepsi makes Coke better, more competitive, more responsive.
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Spend time over winter break mapping out your future plans to go abroad. Jean Hayes, Shenandaoh’s Study Abroad Advisor, will be available via email at [email protected] during winter break to answer your questions.
Interested in study abroad opportunities? Here are some important application deadlines for 2013-2014:
Jan. 25, 2013: Irish-American Scholar Program
Feb. 1, 2013: ISEP fall semester 2013
Feb. 15, 2013: Hope Shines Rwanda, UCEL Spanish language Argentina, summer programs at Ewha and Dankook Universities in the Republic of Korea | <urn:uuid:9cb1fc9a-0a0b-4db7-ab76-b261767ef571> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.su.edu/blog/2012/12/09/make-plans-now-for-study-abroad-trips/ | 2015-01-30T09:24:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115862432.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161102-00234-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.812785 | 126 | [
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We now have an official Me.ga release date: It's Jan. 19, 2013. The Me.ga web site shouts that "on January 19, this button will change the world," which is on a big red button on the front of the web site. www.me.ga Kim Dotcom is looking for people who want in on the venture, his response to the Megaupload shutdown that happened this year.
The two biggest changes / improvements to the Me.Ga platform over what Megaupload offered is that 1) it's completely cloud-based and 2) there's no software install required. This will translate well into a quick and fast user experience for people to get at their files. It's also a clear change from what happened in the aftermath of the Megaupload shutdown, when servers were seized and a lot of innocent people storing files were shut out of access to their files. The aftermath revealed that a lot business and government employees were using Megaupload to hand off files to other people, or use it as an intermediary central storage accessible from home, work, or to other users.
The other big change here is that in response to the Megaupload trial, Kim Dotcom is launching Me.ga beyond U.S. borders (read: no .com or .net addresses) and will not involve any U.S.-based businesses. He's going international on the Me.Ga release and launch, maybe even being without a central country for business operations at all, but rather a mix of different locations across the globe.
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Friday: Thoughts on Stereofix Trying to Blow Minds at the Yost
|Christopher Victorio / OC Weekly|
|Stereofix's Ray Alexander gets bull-horny.|
But the real draw was the rubbernecking curiosity we have about Fountain Valley quartet Stereofix, which may just be Orange County's most baffling band.
Stereofix draws a different fan base, which is why they're sort of fascinating. At the Gypsy Lounge in February, their showcase ranked as one of the weird highlights of the Orange County Music Awards season: They crammed the place with chicks in low-cut baby doll outfits and boasted a contingent of dudes that belted out the words to the songs while donning doe eyes that reminds this writer of the awesomeness that was seeing Linkin Park at 13.
In this day in age, in this music scene, Stereofix's non-ironic use of eyeliner, bull-horns and smoke machines is hilarious--I've heard them referred to as "totally cheesy"--but, for that very reason, gutsy. No influence is hidden. Cherub-faced singer Ray Alexander has deep lungs and a broad, familiar voice that ranges from sounding like the Killers' Brandon Flowers to sounding like Bono, which is to say it doesn't range very far. That description applies to the rest of the band as well, from the Edge-aping guitar effects to the vaguely disco choruses to the way that nearly every song opens with moody keyboard samples before dropping into a thudding, KROQ-ready groove.
And to be sure, Stereofix, the last band to perform Friday, has found an audience. Although the Yost was emptier than it had been at any point in the two hours before, the second half of Stereofix's set saw a devoted clan of about 30 pressed close to the stage, bobbing heads and pumping fists.
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Mnemonics, Inc., B-290961, October 28, 2002 * REDACTED DECISION
B-290961: Oct 28, 2002
Agency improperly excluded protester's proposal from the competitive range [deleted] because protester's proposal was "not among the most highly rated. " where the agency's determination was based on an assessment of proposals' "strengths" "weaknesses" and "deficiencies" under the factors that the solicitation indicated would be evaluated on a "pass/fail" basis. Were based on the agency's application of unstated evaluation factors. BACKGROUND The RFP was issued on February 15. The value of the resulting contract is expected to be [deleted]. That technical factors were "of paramount importance.". Receive Capability The IBR shall have a cPCI [compact . (COMSEC will be determined by . The IBR must have an . internal power backup of crypto keys that . can provide a minimum of 24 hour backup. . | <urn:uuid:6d507794-c9d5-42cc-83cb-c37167a5395e> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://gao.gov/products/405338 | 2015-02-01T18:12:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422121478981.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124174438-00138-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964052 | 208 | [
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There is an effort underway to have Google crippled by the EU authorities for being an anti-competitive monopoly. One of the main groups behind this effort is called “Fairsearch”.
Fairsearch themselves claim to be all about forcing transparency and innovation on search, but basically they appear to be an anti-google group made up primarily of Google competitors (Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle as well as other smaller competitors). What they appear to want to do, is force Google to link to them for services Google themselves offer. (for example, maps, shopping etc.)
They also seem to be fairly liberal with the truth, such as claiming that it’s impossible to have any other search than Google in Android despite the fact that at least half a dozen android devices have been released that have Bing or Yahoo as their default search. One of those phones was locked onto the alternative search and couldn’t be changed. So clearly those claims are untrue. Read up before you believe anything they say. They do after all have a vested interest.
Hiding behind trade groups and lobyists and trolls/shills so as to smear a competitor without smearing yourself should be illegal in all of its forms. Facebook were busted for this sort of thing recently too.
Some reading on the subject:
So in summary, if you want to read an unbiased discussion about Google, asking their competitors is not the way to go about it. Likewise if you want to use a different search engine to Google, change the URL at the top of your browser to one of the others or go into the android settings and change it there too. Unlike Microsoft’s anti-competitive history, there is no lock in here, alternatives are just a web address away.
Of course since Microsoft are dead against locking competing products out of phones and browsers, I imagine they will add options for native Chrome to be installed in Windows Phone and RT? And they will change the Sky-drive integration in Windows 8 to allow Google Drive, Dropbox or one of the others? If that sort of thing is actually illegal, how have Apple gotten away with only allowing their users to access services that Apple themselves approve of? As far as I am concerned, if you change one you should change them all. So every change Microsoft wants made to Google should also have to be made to Microsoft search and phone products too. This post is to help people find out who is really pulling the strings against Google. Oracle have just been beaten in court by Google and are appealing it. Nokia is getting it’s behind handed to it in the smartphone arena by Google Android and are a very very close partner with Microsoft who are of course Googles biggest competitor. | <urn:uuid:8c316d8f-112d-47d2-a194-e9af1aa609c5> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://htmlfixit.com/?cat=19 | 2015-02-01T18:08:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422121478981.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124174438-00138-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966104 | 549 | [
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- Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Members of FUN (Families United in Newtown) met at Dickinson Memorial Park on Sunday, June 8, for the group’s final meeting of the 2013-14 academic year.
FUN was formed in the memory of Tyler Jones, the son of the program’s founders.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Families United in Newtown (FUN) is planning a night of music for Friday, May 9. The performance will start at 7 pm and will be at Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street.
The concert will feature tunes for all types of music lovers.
- Thursday, May 2, 2013
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Carerra introduces an expanding and contracting helmet that has an elastic fitting system that molds to the rider’s head.
Instead of finding bike helmets of different sizes, this expanding and contracting helmet from Carrera has an elastic fitting system that molds to the rider’s head, making it a perfect fit. Bless This Stuff reports that the foldable helmet design is inspired by the old leather pistard helmet and it features a flexible frame for improved comfort.
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Martial Arts After 40
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This is the first book on the market to cater to two growing populations, martial artists and baby boomers. Once a blood and guts sport for tough young men, martial arts is now touted by athletes, aerobics trainers, actors, super models and soccer mums as the number one way for adults to get fit and stay in shape. This book addresses important questions like: How old is too old start a marital art?; What type of exercises are best (and which ones are dangerous) for the over-40 martial artist?; What are the effects of ageing and how can martial arts combat them?; How can baby boomers keep up in a martial arts class full of gen-Xers?; What types of injuries are most prevalent after 40 and how can they be prevented? This book takes a positive and enthusiastic approach to taking up or continuing a martial art in middle age or later. Readers will be inspired, reassured and educated.
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Hamas Official Killed in Syria Car Bomb
By Inal Ersan
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - An official from the Palestinian militant group Hamas was killed on Sunday when a bomb exploded in his car in Damascus, Hamas spokesmen and witnesses said.Living Dangerously
Izz el-Deen al-Sheikh Khalil died when an explosive charge placed under the driver's seat ripped through his SUV car in the Az-Zahera neighborhood of the Syrian capital shortly after 11:30 a.m.
A spokesman for the militant Palestinian group in Gaza said the killing was "a cowardly crime by the Zionist Mossad," Israel's intelligence agency.
Israeli officials declined comment on possible Israeli involvement. "Some people lead dangerous lives," one of the Israeli officials said.
U.S. Air Attacks in Falluja Kill 15 in 24 Hours
By Fadil al-Badrani
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft struck at the rebel Iraqi stronghold of Falluja for a third time in 24 hours, targeting a meeting of suspected militants loyal to Jordanian mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.Just an ordinary Arab family outing gone wrong. I blame the evil Americans for working to destroy the foundations of the Arab family.
Saturday night's strike was aimed at about 10 militants meeting in the city center to plan operations, the U.S. military said. Eight people were killed and 17 wounded, Anas Ahmed, a doctor at a nearby hospital, said.
It was the third U.S.-described "precision strike" in 24 hours, raising to 15 the number of people killed and the number of wounded to 30, among them women and children, doctors said.
Israel Launches Strike at Gaza Refugee Camp
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli helicopter gunships destroyed a metal workshop in a Gaza Strip (news - web sites) refugee camp on Sunday, the latest attack in a cycle of violence threatening to complicate Israel's planned pullout from the territory.Living conditions improved in Gaza. Industrial site in residential area removed.
The missile strike in Khan Younis against what Israeli military sources said was a facility where the militant Hamas group made mortar bombs followed a ground assault on the camp that killed an elderly Palestinian and demolished homes.
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Dr. Randy Hudson, Extension Entomologist, The University of Georgia, Department of Entomology, Tifton, GA 31793
Damage: Both adult and nymphal silverleaf whiteflies feed on the lower surfaces of leaves by sucking sap with their piercing-sucking mouthparts. Chlorotic spots may appear around feeding sites on the upper surfaces of leaves. Whiteflies produce honeydew upon which sooty mold can grow; thus reducing light penetration; hence, reducing yield and quality. On squash they induce a condition known as silverleaf in which the foliage becomes highly reflective and the fruit is pale in color. On tomatoes silverleaf whitefly can cause a condition known as irregular ripening of the fruit, and they transmit viral diseases.
Life Cycle: The first stage upon hatching is known as the crawler (0.2-0.3 mm) that moves about searching for a suitable site to attach itself on the undersides of the leaf. Once becoming sessile, three more molts occur as a flattened, oval nymph. It requires as little as 18 days to develop from egg to adult under warm temperatures.
Control: On many crops, avoiding insecticide applications is one of the best alternatives economically. However, insecticides tank mixed with piperonyl butoxide or insecticidal soaps give fair to good control. Oil sprays are very helpful in reducing the potential for silverleaf on squash.
In: Roberts, P. M. and G. K. Douce, Coordinators. 1999. Sucking Insects. A County Agent's Guide to Insects Important to Agriculture in Georgia. Univ. of GA, Col. Ag. Env. Sci., Coop. Ext. Serv., Tifton, GA USA. Winter School Top Fifty Agricultural Insect Pests and Their Damage Sessions, Rock Eagle 4-H Ctr., Jan. 20, 1999.Contents ] [ Previous ] [ Next ] | <urn:uuid:d10ca86d-649f-41f3-a89a-c8c4cc7a2157> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.gaipm.org/top50/whitefly.html | 2015-01-26T20:26:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122191023.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175631-00042-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915357 | 397 | [
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Aw, your ol' fat Hickory is a speedy little guy! Those cones look like fun! Never underestimate the fat ones out of the pasture. They're full of piss and vinegar and can fly!!
Well I suppose I can join in on the sharing of the videos.
ALL my videos are on my YouTube Channel ravbeau's channel - YouTube
Red is not up to running speed yet (we're still really working on just plain loping!), so here's a few of his practices.
Speaking of pulling old fat horses out of the pasture ..... Last year I decided to bring along our Nokoto/Welsh mare, rather than making her stay at home all by herself. She's about 13.3 hands, and was 18 years old in that video, and is actually now living with a family with 6 kids.
She's getting some riding and lots of TLC and attention!!! But I brought her with to this show for the heck of it. She wasn't too keen on the flags though ..... I don't think we had taken her along to a show in a good 4 years. But she won me a ton of money in other events earlier that day!! (including bareback dollar race and the egg race) Still good at age 18, even with a bum scarred leg.
Hmm, forgot I had this one. Was one of those days during school that I wanted to procrastinate instead of study!!!
One of Beau's best runs and one of his best days! He earned me the high point adult that day and won me a buckle, out of 200+ contestants at a family rodeo.
And since you're bored and looking for entertainment, I love this video of the sack race. My mom's horse was out with a laminitis flare up, so I partnered with a local girl. The "pony" at the time was about 28 years old, and FAST. So we did a big horse, little horse sack race! We smoked it and won. | <urn:uuid:8f39b627-2b1e-4415-8fc1-6758b3c62239> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.horseforum.com/barrel-racing/i-wanna-see-those-runs-143098/page2/ | 2015-01-26T20:51:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122191023.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175631-00042-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980898 | 414 | [
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Some people read words. Others eat them. I do both.
Reading has been my favorite pastime since childhood, ever since Miss Thompson handed me my very first hardback in first grade. I was hooked. I can still remember the cracking sound that crisp, new book made - how it reeked of adventure and things beyond my small world.
I've never stopped reading. Or feeling some of that same excitement when opening a new book.
But here's where eating words comes in.
When the electronic books hit bookstores and readers' wish-lists, I turned up my nose. It seemed almost like cheating, this new fad of reading off a screen rather than a page. Books were meant to be held and pages turned. Bookmarks were, well, bookmarks, not buttons. Just as it dumbs down a book to read an abridged copy, wasn't an electronic book once-removed from the real thing?
Then my sons gave me an electronic book for Christmas. Not long after I started reading off of it, I had to eat my words.
Like it or not - and I begrudgingly admit I love my Kobo from Borders - electronic books are the future.
Since April 1, Amazon has sold 105 Kindle e-books for every 100 conventional books sold.
Digital books began outselling conventional books last July, which means that in just four years, this new way of reading has begun to take over.
Barnes & Noble has been struggling to stay in business for a while now, and it looks like it might be "saved" by corporate entrepreneur Ron Malone who, according to press releases this past week, plans to turn things around by concentrating on its Nook electronic reader.
I have to say, now that I think about it, most of my trips to a library anymore are either to look up something on their card catalogue system, use one of the computers to research, or to check out a DVD or a book-on-tape.
If I want a book, I don't even have to leave my easy chair. I can download it in seconds on my e-book.
It's too early to tell what impact this all has on writers, readers, classrooms and book clubs.
And I can't really see how Nooks and Kindles, Kobos or Androids can do justice to children's books and their wonderful illustrations, or coffee table and art books with their beautiful photographs and paintings, or textbooks that depend on visuals to pass on facts and other valuable knowledge.
But it's not a paperback or hardback you're likely to find people glued to in airports and tucked in suitcases for vacation. It's a Kindle, a Nook, a Sony Reader, a Kobo, an iPad.
Or, as Barnes & Noble executive Marc Parrish put it recently at the GigaOm Structure Big Data conference in New York, "The book business is changing more radically now, and quicker, than movies or music or newspapers have, because we're doing it in a matter of months. (The) next 24 months is when this business will totally shift."<0x00A0>
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As a highlight of the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) first Streetcar Conference, Administrator Peter Rogoff showcased Portland's Moody Avenue reconstruction project as an example of how well-planned and executed transit projects may serve as a catalyst for economic development. The two-day roundtable discussion was held to assist transportation planners from 13 cities around the country to learn how to best implement federally-funded streetcar projects in their communities.
In addition to greatly expanding transportation options in the area, the project unlocks development of Portland's largest piece of vacant land in the central city.
With new utilities installed and new streetcar, roadway, bicycle and pedestrian connections built, Moody Avenue will serve the planned development of a 43-acre site owned by Zidell Marine Corp., as well as Oregon Health and Science University's 18-acre Shnitzer Campus, home to the 480,000 square-foot Collaborative Life Sciences Building, which will integrate Moody Avenue Light Rail Station into its construction and development.
"The City of Portland and TriMet have hit a home run with this project and demonstrate the enormous economic benefits transit can deliver to a community," Administrator Rogoff said. "Two hundred-fifty people have been put to work converting a site that once was a toxic Brownfield into a thriving transportation and business corridor."
The Portland streetcar effort is a victory for the city and its residents and federal investments in streetcar systems across the country are reinvigorating an industry that until recently no longer existed in the U.S. for many decades. The streetcars will be manufactured in Portland by United Streetcar, a subsidiary of Oregon Iron Works, evidence of the industry's rebirth.
Rogoff also announced that the Portland area will now also have access to a $2 million grant to study the Southwest Corridor, which has been locally identified as the next corridor in the area for a major transit investment. The funds were originally announced in 2010. | <urn:uuid:9bee820f-a675-42cb-bbd3-a3f596451380> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.metro-magazine.com/rail/news/287739/fta-s-first-streetcar-conference-launches-in-oregon | 2015-01-26T20:32:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122191023.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175631-00042-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957625 | 387 | [
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Redskins Coach Mike Shanahan said Monday that quarterback Robert Griffin III is “ahead of schedule” in his recovery from knee surgery but he has “no idea” if Griffin will be ready to play at the outset of the season, Mark Maske of the Washington Post reports.
“Robert is doing well,” Shanahan said during a news conference at Redskins Park. “He’s getting some great work in here, working out a couple times a day, about six hours a day, seven hours. He is ahead of schedule according to Larry [Hess, the team’s head athletic trainer]. That means the muscles are stronger than they anticipated and he is doing everything he can to be ready for this season.
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Re: Teething questions - and any tips please!
and of course, nursing helps baby with the pain. so the up every hour could have been about nursing pain. we just got done with molars ... it was brutal for both of us! but it passes.
signs of readiness for solids: sitting up on her own, no more gag reflex of the tongue, developed a pincer grip for small foods. most babies have those right around 6 months, not many before, some a lot later.
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The Lubbock Women's Club will host `Celebrations from the Heart, An Afternoon of Window Shopping, Tasting and Memory Making," from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday at the club, located at 2020 Broadway.
The luncheon will feature local merchants offering table decorations, food and drinks.
Members of the club and guests are welcome for the luncheon.
Cost is $20.
Reservations are required by noon Wednesday.
For more information about the luncheon or to make reservations, call Ruedele Turner at 794-5780.
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|Forum topic by David Grimes||posted 10-16-2011 07:22 AM||989 views||0 times favorited||1 reply|
10-16-2011 07:22 AM
About 3 1/2 months ago, I reviewed a little sand paper holder from 3M (the Sandblaster) that I really like so much better for many sanding chores then the chunky clunky sanding block. You can read the review here if you’d like to: http://lumberjocks.com/reviews/2190
3M has the little packs of sandpaper for it that contains 8 sheets 2 1/4 by 5 1/2. I initially bought the holder and one pack each of 80, 120 and 220 grit paper for it.
I am using an inexpensive Fiskar paper cutter that I’ve had for years (and have used numerous times to cut 1/4 sheets for a sander).
That’s it. Cheap, ain’t I ? ;=)
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Lower than we ever imagined, apparently. Here he is paying a visit to the Trinity Broadcasting Network. This is fertile ground for the pablum he’s peddling, of course, as it is watched by millions of simpletons just dying to blame all the world’s problems on evolution and hear someone stand up for Gawd Almighty. But he hit rock bottom with these comments, which should be viewed as offensively stupid by anyone with an IQ above that of a turnip:
Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [i.e. biologist P.Z. Myers], talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed … that was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science — in my opinion, this is just an opinion — that’s where science leads you.
Crouch: That’s right.
Stein: …Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.
Crouch: Good word, good word.
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I just read her blog and was amused that she can't recall when we met and feels as if she's always known me. Which is so nice. Because when I 'met' her, I'd been bumping around as a newbie and had come across her on Myspace (oh, my god yes, Myspace) I believe. I'd also seen her the other places we writers tend to hang out and get to know one another. My first real contact with her was shyly asking her where in the world she got the calls for Alison Tyler's anthos. So...she told me! She gave me the contact info.
So, I'll clarify. She was established, having shorts in quite a few anthologies and even a book and I was brand spanking new. And she was so nice to me. So, there's my story :)
Tada! Yesterday's winner is....Donna! Donna, I have sent you and email to get your particulars. Congrats, and thanks for playing. Everyone else, don't despair, your name went in the big grand prize draw.
I'd like to point out that today we'll have TWO winners. So...woohoo! And without further ado: here's KW! Don't forget to leave your email addy in your comment in case you win! Good luck :)
Sommer in Spring
It’s fitting that my day to celebrate Sommer’s writing career is also the first day of spring. I adore spring—it’s a time of rebirth, new growth, flowers, sunshine, and, oh yeah, my husband’s birthday is in April and my birthday is in May, so spring is one big party around our house. As the mother of two little boys who don’t quite understand calendars and how time passes, we tend to wring every ounce of celebration from a holiday until the next one comes along. So this month of Sommer feels just about right to me.
I was wracking my brain trying to remember when (and how) I first “met” Sommer. I’ve lost some chunks of my memory over the past few years (see the two little boys above for the reason why) and interconnectedness of everyone on the internet makes it difficult to recall that first meeting, but I feel as if I’ve known her for her entire writing career. I do know I’ve liked her since I met her. Her writing is brilliant and heart wrenching and sexy and all kinds of honest that few writers can do. Of course, all that talent is because of her own personality—straightforward, kind, generous and so, so funny. I can’t count the number of mornings I’ve opened up my Facebook feed and read something snort-out-loud amusing from her.
Sommer inspires me. As a writer, she’s part Energizer Bunny (she just keeps going) and part Timex watch (takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’). On days when I’m feeling overwhelmed, lazy or just plain tired, I am motivated by writers who have real, complicated, busy lives and still manage to make the words happen. I need that kick in the pants sometimes—not as competition, but simply as inspiration. And I’ve learned one thing over the years: if it can be done, Sommer is doing it. She tells me it’s “smoke and mirrors. And wine.” but I know it’s so much more. It’s her stubborn determination, strong will and big heart.
I was going to talk about my books here, pitch them as I’m supposed to do as a writer. After all these years I still don’t have the hang of that, but really, this is, and should be, all about Sommer, so let me just say this: I’m honored to know her and call her a friend, even if it’s only in the digital world of Facebook and email. I’m also thrilled that after years of enjoying her work she’s written a few stories for my books. “Take it Off” is the first story in Bedded Bliss: A Couple’s Guide to Lust Ever After and I think it sets the tone beautifully for the whole book. “Soldier Boy” in XOXO: Sweet and Sexy Romance is sexy and intense in that undeniably Sommeresque way. And I have one more story of hers to be included in a forthcoming anthology that hasn’t been officially announced yet, but when I came up short on submissions that worked with the theme, Sommer delivered the most beautiful, intense, dirty story I could’ve imagined. She’s an editor’s dream and a writer’s motivation, but if you want to know the honest truth, here it is-- I look forward to reading Sommer’s work not with the eye of an editor or writer, but as a reader who knows I’m in for a special treat. Because she is that good.
And now I suppose I should offer up some treats myself. I have a copy of XOXO: Sweet and SexyRomance and BestErotic Romance 2014 up for grabs to TWO lucky commenters. Warning: don’t be a doofus like me and forget to include your email address when you comment!
I love spring and contemplating all that I want to accomplish, from the household cleaning/decluttering (ugh!) to vegetable gardening (at least until it gets too hot to even think about going outside) to new writing projects (I have a novel due…). But as my most favorite of seasons begins, it is lovely to be celebrating Sommer in Spring. Happy 9th to Sommer and Happy Spring to you all.
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TRENTON — The parents of Aakash Dalal and hundreds of supporters rallied in Trenton on Wednesday the length of Dalal's stay in Bergen County Jail on charges of planning vandalism and arson attacks on Bergen County synagogues, the Record reported.
Police arrested Dalal in 2012. In the culmination of a series of attacks, Dalal allegedly encouraged Anthony M. Graziano of Lodi to throw Molotov cocktails into the window of Congregation Beth El Temple in Rutherford.
Protesters chanted "We want justice" and listened to speeches for about two hours. They signed petitions asking Gov. Chris Christie to support bail reform, move the case outside of Bergen County and bring Dalal to trial quickly.
Dalal's parents say they mortgaged their home to bail him out, but bail rose from $1 million to $4 million after Dalal was accused of planning to kill Bergen County assistant prosecutor Martin Delaney.
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Throughout Canada, you will find a variety of haunted locations offering a wide-range of ghosts and eerie tales, including a murdered girl in Holland Landing and a man with a hunchback hailing from Selkirk. Other areas you will encounter, include Portage la Prairie and Whitby.
In Holland Landing, you will find Anchor Park, which is the site where a disturbing murder of a young girl took place. The body of the girl was found hanging across a swing on the swing set of the park. Witnesses claim to have experienced odd happenings when it is dark in the park. For instance, some say that the center of the swing chains will move back and forth, as if someone is swinging on the swing.
The Nurses Residence at the Old Manitoba School, which can be found in Portage la Prairie is believed to be haunted by a ghost who enjoys roaming the upper halls of the building. The ghost has been described as an attractive female with blonde hair with a haircut that is reminiscent of the old English days. She can be seen wearing a baggy, white sweater. She tends to be discovered in the sunroom, which can be found in the northern section of the building, as well as in some of the rooms in the upper floors.
In Selkirk, there are two sites that spark interest among paranormal hunters. A church can be located in the area, which is called St. Andrew's on the Red. A graveyard can be found in the back of the church. When night falls, there are many eerie sights and ghosts that are said to occur and haunt the area. A man in black and a woman in white have been known to make appearances. A ghost car has been spotted in the graveyard. Two small eyes have been encountered following various individuals who have entered the area. They are red in color and send chills up and down your spine. Those who have experienced the sightings of these ghosts are said to suffer horrible nightmares and dreams involving the rattling of the church gates.
Also in Selkirk, in the basement of 222 Manitoba Avenue, the Young Minds Program is held. Some of those who have entered the men�s bathroom claim to have sighted an old man with a hunchback, who appears to be hanging from the ceiling. If he catches sight of your eyes, he will stare into them, whispering, �get out,� as well as �leave now.� Some say that the ghost is of a homeless man, who once called the abandoned basement his home. He was forced to leave the premises because of scheduled construction, but hung himself before the repairs were made.
In Whitby, there is an old psychiatric ward that is believed to be haunted by patients that were once treated on the premises. Dangerous patients were often kept in the basement area. It is said that when entering the basement area, you may hear the screams of former patients coming from the cell area.
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So, the Ping truck was at nearby golf range and I decided to go and test their G15 3 wood, both shafts. I use a R flex. He only had it with the Aldila Serrano, Which felt good. For the TFC 149, he let me hit the K15. I hit both off the tee and off the deck. I was pleasently surprised with the Serrano. Both clubs were long, the balls exploded off the faces. I hit them both high too. YET, off the deck, most of my G15 shots went right. Not too far, and not a slice. With the K15, every deck shot was a laser, straight as can be where ever I aimed. I am sold on Ping. For woods. They make incredible stuff. Although I will never give up my forged Mizzy irons. Yet I never thought there would be 3 woods so easy to hit off the deck. So I just ordered my K15 this morning online. This is why it is always good to test before you buy. I was dead set on getting the G15, for looks, reputation and reviews. Yet hitting better shots with the K15, was the best thing for me. I made the mistake of buying the G10 driver on sale, yet lucked out that it worked out for me. The K15 is super GI, and doesn't look as good as the G15. Do I care? Not on your life, now that my shots will be dead acurate. And still long. So,.... now that my ranting is over, I suggest anyone wanting a 3 wood that is incredibly easy to hit off the deck, and tee, try this club.
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Ennis grad stresses quality
Ennis Daily News photo by Phil Banker / Dan Jordan, owner and operator of Thrifty Barn, stands outside his store with his intern, Charlisa Williams. The "upscale resale" store has been open for three and a half months, he said.
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Now, as the two men vie for a rare open state Senate seat covering portions of Tarrant and Dallas counties, that disagreement has hardened into a key philosophical divide that supporters on both sides say paints their candidate as the true conservative in the primary race.
Both men have long-standing ties to their House districts. Smith, of Euless, cut his teeth serving on his hometown City Council before advancing to the House in 1996. Hancock, of North Richland Hills, was elected to the House a decade later after 13 years on the Birdville school board.
Both hope to succeed state Sen. Chris Harris, R-Arlington, who is retiring after 21 years in the upper chamber. The winner of the primary in District 9, which leans Republican, will face Democrat Pete Martinez and Libertarian Dave McElwee in the general election in November.
“You’ve got two experienced campaigners with a following and the ability to raise money,” said Tarrant County District Clerk Tom Wilder, a Republican. “It’s just a shame they decided to run against each other. They’re both pretty conservative people.”
In 2009, Smith supported the Texas Local Option Transportation Act bill, which would have given some urban counties the option to ask voters to approve raising local taxes or fees to pay for new transportation projects. The measure failed amid opposition from anti-tax groups.
Years ago, Smith differentiated himself from other Republicans, including Hancock, when he proposed increasing the gas tax to better keep pace with the state’s transportation needs. He frames both stances as proof of his courage to make tough decisions despite the political costs.
“It’s always a can that can be endlessly kicked down the road, at least past the next election and there’s always another election,” Smith said. “I feel a moral responsibility to propose real solutions to these problems.”
Smith said he no longer supports an increase in the gas tax because the area is now covered in toll road projects, and increasing the gas tax would be like taxing his constituents twice.
“As we speak, northeast Tarrant County looks like a war zone … and when we are done, the people of northeast Tarrant County are going to get a bill on a monthly basis that will make them wish they had an increase in the gas tax,” Smith said.
Hancock opposed the local option measure, drawing rebukes from some area officials, but received praise from statewide conservative groups.
That same dynamic is emerging in the primary race, as conservative leaders including Gov. Rick Perry and Attorney General Greg Abbott are backing Hancock. Meanwhile, Smith has drawn support from dozens of local school board and city officials, including 12 mayors representing nearly the entire district.
Hancock dismissed Smith’s backers as not representative of the district’s voters.
“There’s obviously a connection with those who were looking to raise taxes with some of his endorsements,” Hancock said.
At a forum at a Grand Prairie church last month, the back-and-forth between the two candidates largely pivoted on how Texas should finance big-ticket needs like transportation.
Hancock said there is a reason he has received endorsements from the Texas Association of Business and major grass-roots conservative groups.
“There is a belief of mine that government needs to be run much more like a business,” he said.
Smith said that he did not support raising taxes during a recession but that the state needs lawmakers who have the political will to invest a future surplus in infrastructure rather than tax cuts.
“I am a conservative, but I am not someone who takes instructions from anyone else other than my own conscience,” Smith said.
The last word came from Hancock, who encouraged attendees to research both candidates online.
“I hope that you will become informed,” he said. “Find out that there are different definitions of conservative.”
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French battle Swiss in potential group decider
Thursday, June 19, 2014
RIBEIRAO PRETO, Brazil (AP) — Coach Didier Deschamps is trying to take the spotlight away from striker Karim Benzema heading into France’s potentially decisive clash with Switzerland today.
Whoever wins in Salvador will take a significant step toward clinching top spot in Group E and therefore avoid a likely match against Lionel Messi’s Argentina in the next round. France has a better goal difference and will surely put the Swiss out of reach with a win.
The Swiss will need to contain Benzema, who scored twice in Sunday’s 3-0 win against a Honduras side that was reduced to 10 men before halftime. With eight goals in the past seven games, he is enjoying the best spell of his international career at just the right time.
However, Deschamps is keen to quieten the hype surrounding the Real Madrid striker.
“I don’t want him to start thinking that he’s on a mission and that everything depends on him. That’s not a good thing,” Deschamps said. “Everyone believes in him, but he should just be himself and not think that it’s just down to him to make a difference.”
The Swiss opened with a 2-1 win against Ecuador, although Ottmar Hitzfeld’s team can play much better than in that scrappy game.
While the French had to watch their backs — literally — against a Honduras side repeatedly charging into the back of them, today’s match is likely to be more of a tactical contest between two well-organized and technically assured sides.
Deschamps picked Antoine Griezmann on the left against Honduras, dropping Olivier Giroud to the bench.
While France has slightly more individual quality in key positions — goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, midfielder Paul Pogba and Benzema are better than their counterparts — Switzerland has the advantage of playing together more.
“They’ve made a lot of effort in terms of developing their players since the 1990s. They were world champions at under-17 level, they were European Championship runners-up in 2011 at under-21 level, and some of those players are playing in this team,” Stephan said. “They’ve been working on a lot with young players and the national team is benefiting from that now.”
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Now two days removed, we’re still seeing some commentary on the Super Bowl as today Scott Key offers some thoughts on Ray Lewis and Ronald Urbach interviews a Senior Director of Marketing at Frito-Lay. On LXBN TV, Ted Koebel joins me to explain the HIPAA/HITECH Omnibus Rule. Total posts on the LexBlog Network today: 209.
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Welcome to Lagos Eko Project
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Message From The Coordinator
I have immense pleasure in welcoming you to the website of the Lagos Eko Secondary Education Project, a partnership between the Lagos State Government and the World Bank to enhance learning outcomes of the public junior and senior secondary schools. The Lagos Eko Project complements efforts of the State Government towards improving the overall standard of education.
The website details information about the Lagos Eko Project’s work areas especially its programmes and activities in the schools, community and the Education Districts. It is user-friendly and easy to navigate as its process of development took cognizance of the varying needs of our numerous stakeholders.
At the Lagos Eko Project, we believe we are striving for excellence in our public schools and I am happy to say that the results of the standardized assessments conducted and analysed over the years have shown remarkable achievements in terms of learning gains. Besides academic achievement, schools are now committed to inculcating in all its students, strong ethical values of integrity, health and environmental awareness, leadership and respect.
It is noteworthy to mention that we are already seeing positive changes in attitudes and values attached to education by school managers, teachers and students especially in school attendance and motivation to achieve better results. These we will continue to reward on a yearly basis through the Governor’s Education Award.
The website is yours so own it and feel free to contribute your comments and suggestions towards its development. Have a pleasant experience!
Ms. Ronke Azeez
Lagos Eko Project Coordinator
JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS
SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Through the Lagos Eko Project, the Lagos State government is revitalizing secondary schools by providing extra funds of between N2 to N3.5million directly to each of the Junior and Senior Secondary Schools including the State Technical colleges.
The development of Lagos Eko Project is a further manifestation of the high level determination by the present admionistration of Lagos State to achieve excellence in governance in all its ramifications and more so in the education of our children
From time to time, Lagos Eko Project, require the help of consultants and professionals to directly impact to each of the Junior and Senior Secondary Schools including the State Technical Colleges.
Our WAEC and NECO result since the beginning of Lagos Eko Project has been very impressive. Last session we presented 145 students for WAEC and they all passed English with merits. We had 100% success in 11 subjects including English Language. In the NECO exams, we also had 100% in 17 subject including Mathematics, English Language and Biology.
In the past three years of Lagos Eko Project, we have seen school leaders transformed from near despondency in the first year (when they thought Government did not care about their welfare) to cautious optimism and curious interest in the second year and in the third year, to passionate and enthusiastic leaders and learners, full of appreciation of Government's intervention in the education sector.
As a principal it is my responsibility to focus on the most effective tools for increasing the use of shared leadership to improve learning and teaching. Coaching, mentoring and team building are all key when leading a group of teachers towards achieving goal. Since I attended the Leadership Practicum in the UK, cultivating teamwork has become an even more important part of our school culture.
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Major news alert, guys!
Tom Daley has got himself a nifty frying pan and it’s got everyone in a tizzy.
The diver posted a picture on his Instagram of himself frying up an epic English breakfast.
The £70 utensil comes with several handy sections so you can sizzle up a storm.
His fans were amazed, delighted and a bit jealous – or maybe they were just hungry?
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The 'what is so' about my life and art.
Lin - I like this cropped - sort of focuses the eye better, If you are like me these lessons teach us a lot. Good workSandy
taI like the cropped one better also. The other one leads my eye out of the picture rather than focusing on this lovely landscape.
this is a lovely scene!! very calm and peaceful!great work Lin!
This is great. It really works better cropped. I love it when the light blub goes on and we can see what we need to do. Keep it up.
Your painting looks like it is of a happy, friendly place. It feels like the trees are very welcoming.
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In anticipation of our upcoming fourth annual Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Project Directors meeting , I'm happy to announce the publication of a new report [PDF] entitled "Summary Findings of NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants (2007 - 2010)."
It is hard to believe, but the Start-Up Grant program has just completed its fourth year. We thought it would be a good time to reflect on the 145 Start-Up Grant awards that have been made since 2007. This new report includes a brief history of the grant program, some charts and statistics about applicants and awards, and the results of a survey conducted by the NEH's Kathy Toavs with project directors.
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COMMITTEE: Teaching Grants
MEETING DATE: March 1, 2005, 3pm
PERSON PRESIDING: Harold Stone, Chair
REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE:
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE:
ACTIONS OF MEETING:
Agenda Item: Approve proposals for addenda to teaching grants review criteria.
Discussion: Committee members reviewed and discussed proposed addenda to teaching grant proposal criteria with the intent to clarify existing rules and to further ensure the integrity of the review process. The motions are votes were as follows:
Approved Addenda to the Teaching Grant Instructions:
1) Teaching grant committee members cannot submit proposal for consideration. (Approved 8 – 1)
2) Proposals cannot be submitted to both the Teaching Grant Committee and the Research and Creative Activities Committee in the same year. Submission to both funding sources will disqualify the proposer from evaluation in either grant. (Approved 8 – 1)
3) Grant recipients cannot receive funding for the Teaching Grant in any two subsequent years. (Approved 9 -0)
Tabled Addenda to the Teaching Grant Instructions
Teaching Grants proposals that are written primarily for course development will not be considered by the committee. This includes proposals written primarily for the creation of new courses that have not been approved by an undergraduate or graduate curriculum committee, or existing courses that are being redesigned.
The committee brainstormed some possible avenues to increase faculty awareness of the teaching grant process and criteria. These suggestions include:
v Provide examples of previous awarded teaching grants which could be put on the internet for review or presented in some forum by the awardees.
v Include an overview of Teaching Grants in new faculty orientation process.
v Conduct an orientation to the teaching grants proposal process prior to submission
v Develop a short overview of the teaching grants process and encourage faculty senators from various disciplines to disseminate the information.
NEXT MEETING: The next meeting will be called by Chairman Stone in the early fall
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The 0437-021 from axis is a Q1602 in 10-pack. AXIS Q1602 incorporates Axis’ revolutionary Lightfinder technology. Compared with any analog or network cameras, the Lightfinder technology will give more life-like colors, in low-light conditions. The focus assistant indicates when the image is in focus by the flashing front LED of the camera. Having performed rough focusing at the lens, the remote back focus capability of the AXIS Q1602 is conveniently used for fine tuning focus.
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When I founded Blue Street Capital in 2004, I wanted to create an amazing place to work that valued service to its customers and embraced the entrepreneurial spirit. I wanted a company that was focused on the growth of its employees, customers and partners. Having previously worked with another financing company, I quickly discovered gaps in the existing business model: too little focus on customers, lack of knowledge about solution providers and OEMs, and not enough insight into vendor partners. With Blue Street Capital, I had a clean slate and intended to rewrite the business model. Today I would like to think Blue Street Capital has done just that.
Blue Street Capital’s vendor focused financing model is unique to the industry. We have one focus – supporting our vendor partners.
Support is what Blue Street Capital is all about. We specialize in providing sales assistance for technology solutions providers and technology manufacturers through customized financing programs designed to benefit growing businesses. Simply put – we create easy to manage payment plans for companies to encourage and facilitate growth. The spirit behind this is simple: if we can make it easier for businesses to grow, our vendor partners can grow as well, and we grow. Everyone wins.
This is the way I think business should be done – quickly, efficiently, honestly, and beneficially. We focus on technology because that is what we know. We never make promises we cannot keep and we never settle for anything less than the best for our partners and customers; it’s that simple.
Welcome to Blue Street Capital, we’re happy you’re here.
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WHAT WE DO
Blue Street Capital is a privately owned financing company focused on pairing technology solutions providers with growing businesses. By working exclusively with technology manufacturers and IT solution providers we have helped thousands of clients receive the financial assistance they need for their businesses to grow.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two years after losing two scholarships as a penalty, Ohio State's basketball program continued to show improvement in the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate, with the numbers for 2009-10 released on Tuesday.
Every OSU program, along with every athletic team in the Big Ten, reached the benchmark needed to avoid penalties, while two MAC programs were penalized for low scores, with the Toledo men's basketball team losing two scholarships and Ohio losing one.
The APR is the way the NCAA measures the graduation progress of the athletes on a team in real time, with a score of 925 over a running four-year period needed to avoid potential sanctions. That works out to about a 50 percent graduation rate.
The most notable program socked with penalties on Tuesday was men's basketball national champion Connecticut, which will be docked two scholarships next season for an APR score of 893. UConn was already losing one scholarship because of NCAA violations, so the Huskies will be down to 10 scholarship players next season instead of the usual 13.
Teams can also be commended for high APR scores, and, for example, Ohio State's football team was one of five OSU teams so recognized when the high scores were announced last week. Overall, Ohio State's four-year APR score of 985 in football ranked second in the Big Ten behind Northwestern and was a 60-point improvement over the first APR scores from five years ago. Among BCS schools, Ohio State football ranked fourth behind Northwestern, Duke and Rutgers.
The OSU men's basketball APR was 952, an improvement from a low of 902 four years ago. That ranked the Buckeyes ninth in the Big Ten.
The high scores don't matter nearly as much as the low scores, however. The point is to avoid penalties. Overall, the number of programs penalized was 103 teams at 67 schools, down from 137 teams last year and 177 teams two years ago.
Eight teams were hit with the most serious APR penalties, a ban from postseason play. Three were football teams -- Idaho State, Jackson State and Southern -- and the other five were men's basketball teams -- Cal State-Northridge, Chicago State, Grambling, Louisiana-Monroe and Southern.
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