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Toxic relatives: no known antidote
- Written by Washington Poison Center
Do these characters sound familiar?
The Guileless Gourmet —
Your younger sister is hosting the holiday meal for the first time and has overestimated her abilities: undercooked turkey, giblet bag left inside, and food left out for hours because she thought the turkey would cook faster.
Happy-Go-Lucky Grandparents –
Grandma packs Grandpa's medicines in a plastic baggy with the dog treats. Grandpa's hypertension goes untreated and the dog is taking more than a power nap.
Reckless Ralph –
Your childless uncle leaves his cigarette butts and a glass of whiskey on the coffee table.
Now, the toddlers are lethargic and vomiting.
The Gift Miser –
You asked for a cashmere sweater from your husband and place the wrapped gift he gave you under tree, only to have the dog tear into the package and eat the dark chocolate Santa he really bought.
Anxious Annie –
After a day of listening to your mother nag about her parenting skills, your wife inadvertently learns of the adverse interactions of anti-anxiety medication and spiked eggnog.
Halitosis Harry –
You crumble the mistletoe into the catnip to avoid kissing the eligible bachelor with bad dental hygiene that your Grandma is trying to set you up with.
Now the cat is puking instead of purring.
If you answered 'yes' to these scenarios, reach out and feel the love of your Poison Center Specialists this holiday season.
Give Uncle Ralph our number for the holidays, 800-222-1222 and keep it handy for yourself.
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Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) - Jonathan Toews' late second-period goal proved to be the game-winner as the Chicago Blackhawks snapped a three-game winless streak by topping the Edmonton Oilers 5-3 on Sunday.
Marian Hossa registered a goal and one assist on his 35th birthday, helping Chicago sweep the season series against Edmonton. The Blackhawks scored five goals in all three meetings.
Antti Raanta allowed two Edmonton goals on 20 shots and was on the bench for a delayed penalty when the puck wound up in the vacated net.
Ales Hemsky had one goal and a helper for the Oilers, who have dropped six of their last eight games. Devan Dubnyk was beaten five times on 41 shots.
"We made it pretty easy on them. Against a team like that, they're going to make you pay," said Edmonton forward Taylor Hall.
The Oilers, already down a man, were going to be assessed another penalty when Patrick Kane's errant pass went off the boards and down the ice into the empty cage. Boyd Gordon was credited with the short-handed goal that tied the game at 2-2 with 8:31 remaining in the second period.
Chicago bounced back from the miscue to score twice before the end of the frame. Hossa lit the lamp on the ensuing 5-on-3 power play 29 seconds later and Toews slipped a backhander through Dubnyk's legs with 2:28 left.
"(I) just thought a point man was there and it seemed to just keep catching speed and went in the net, but it was good that we got it right back," Kane said.
The Oilers trimmed the deficit to 4-3 when Justin Schultz dished the puck to Hall in the slot for an easy tap-in goal with 5:17 gone in the third.
Brent Seabrook, however, restored Chicago's two-goal advantage with 5:41 remaining.
Hemsky opened the scoring 6:08 into the contest, but Ben Smith countered for the Blackhawks with 5:34 to go in the first period. Chicago moved ahead on Andrew Shaw's tally at 2:36 of the second.
Game Notes
The Blackhawks improved to 10-0-4 against Pacific Division teams this season .. The Oilers have lost four straight and five of the last six meetings to Chicago.


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Getting Governance & Accountability Right in Not-for-Profit
Speech – New Zealand Government
Hon Peter Dunne Minister of Revenue Speech Getting Governance and Accountability Right in the Not-for-Profit Sector Conference Rutherford House, Victoria University 1.30pm, Friday 23 November 2012 I am delighted to have been invited to address you …
Hon Peter Dunne
Minister of Revenue
Getting Governance and Accountability Right in the Not-for-Profit Sector Conference
Rutherford House, Victoria University
1.30pm, Friday 23 November 2012
I am delighted to have been invited to address you on a sector that plays an increasingly significant role in our society and which is of particular importance to me.
The success of the not for profit sector is something that I personally am deeply interested in, so when I began to think about my remarks today I focused on two questions.
First, why exactly should the Government, through the tax system provide support for the not-for-profit sector?
And, second, how can we be confident that the support mechanisms devised are the best ones?
The work that the not for profit sector does goes beyond the immediate recipients of your services so the Government has a direct interest in the sector being as productive as possible.
At the outset, therefore, I would like to thank you for the very good work you do for your communities and for New Zealand.
In so many areas, your input is increasingly critical to the development and delivery of quality services, so much so that the sector has become a vital component of our whole approach to the delivery of social services.
To answer my two primary questions, I will talk today about how tax policy is developed and how the not-for-profit sector can engage in and influence that policy formulation.
And I will also discuss current tax policy work and work coming up in the future, as it relates to the sector.
But first I want to talk about the support that the Government already provides through the tax system.
In recent times we have seen a steady increase in demand for your services to the community and you have always responded.
In my view, that demand and respect for the services you provide will only but grow in the future.
It arises from both a philosophical recognition of the power of community based agencies in community development, and the reality that in so many areas not for profits are as well, if not better, placed than official agencies to provide a quality, responsive and professional service.
In turn, that is why successive Governments have sought to respond with measures that have been beneficial to the sector.
Support through the tax system
One key way that Government has always supported the sector through the tax system is of course, financially, with:
• Income tax exemptions
• FBT exemptions
• And, of course tax incentives for charitable giving
These forms of Government support have been based on the concept that the services that not-for-profit organisations provide are complementary to the programmes that the Government provides as part of its social objectives, and assist in furthering those objectives.
Therefore, aside from the obvious benefit and encouragement to individual donors subsidising not-for-profit organisations through the tax exemption ensures that those members of society who do not donate to charitable organisations but who nevertheless benefit indirectly from them, contribute through their general tax payments.
In the past seven years, during my stewardship of the Revenue portfolio it has been of tremendous satisfaction to me to see a number of tax initiatives designed, developed and delivered which I believe are of lasting value to the sector.
In that time, under both governments, I have been able to deliver key elements of UnitedFuture's own policy to promote the not for profit sector and boost a culture of giving in our society, and I am very proud of that.
Recent policy reforms
There have also been a number of major tax policy initiatives introduced in the last few years to support the activities of charities and other non-profit organisations, after the introduction of the Charities Act 2005.
As you know, the Charities Act established the Charities Commission (now the Department of Internal Affairs – Charities) and a process of registration and monitoring of charities in New Zealand from 1 February 2007.
It also introduced the requirement that a charity had to be registered with DIA-Charities in order to be eligible for the charities-related tax exemptions.
Since the introduction of the Charities Act, providing a seamless service for registered charities has been a key goal for both Inland Revenue and DIA-Charities.
Joint initiatives have been or are being established in the areas of relationship management, information sharing, communications and monitoring and compliance.
While I believe this arrangement is working well, there are some legislative improvements that can be made to help streamline the administration of charities further – such as clarifying the tax consequences for charities that have deregistered – but I will say about this later.
Obviously when you bring in such a huge reform like Charities registration – there are likely teething problems.
So to help charitable organisations transition to the Charities Register we introduced:
• transitional tax rules for charities who had not completed the registration process before 1 July 2008; and
• an explicit tax exemption for overseas recognised charities from 1 July 2008;
These changes allowed organisations more time to register with the Charities body and also helped clarify their tax obligations.
And, in 2009 because of the increasingly global nature of charitable work, the sector asked for information on the criteria and process for becoming a recognised overseas donee organisation.
A set of guidelines was duly developed, to help charitable organisations determine whether they meet the criteria to be added to Schedule 32 of the Income Tax Act 2007.
Inclusion on Schedule 32 is a carefully considered process which involves amending the Income Tax Act, so the guidelines give organisations information about the kind of questions that are asked when they seek overseas donee status, and to promote self-evaluation before they ask the Government to amend the law on their behalf.
Other recent reforms also helped to encourage a "culture of charitable giving in New Zealand" through:
• lifting of the caps on the tax incentives for charitable giving in 2009;
• the introduction of Payroll giving from 1 January 2010; and
• clarifying the tax rules for reimbursement payments and honoraria from 1 April 2009.
And in 2011, we removed gift duty on gifts made to a charity or donee organisation.
These latter measures were all specific parts of the UnitedFuture policy programme for the sector, and I was delighted to be able to steer them through to successful implementation.
Success of these measures
It is easy of course, to feel self-satisfied about putting such measures in place, but one has to reflect on their effectiveness.
Since the removal of the capped amount in 2009, reported donations increased to $578.7 million in 2009 and $590.8 million in 2010.
Since January 2010, payroll giving uptake has been steady, and is comparable to uptake in similar jurisdictions overseas.
Payroll giving donations have now reached $8.1 million.
Some 1955 employers have offered payroll giving to their employees and around 12,500 employees have chosen to give through this system.
It is a fast, convenient and above all, flexible way to give, allowing one-off donations.
Where Payroll Giving really came into its own was immediately following the earthquakes in Canterbury.
And just on the earthquake, in 2011, over 2000 donors responded by giving their tax credits to the earthquake appeal, raising over $400,000 through this means alone.
This exercise was repeated this year.
I find it heartening that far from forgetting about Christchurch, New Zealanders are still redirecting their tax credits to the appeal.
In the year to date, a further $300,000 has been donated.
This is impressive and it was all made possible by the fact that tax incentives for charitable giving are in place.
So have they been successful?
Well perhaps I might now turn to my second question.
How can we be confident that the support initiatives that Government develops will actually be of use to the sector?
Tax policy process
The simple answer is that we have a framework for policy development, which ensures that policies are sound, workable and fit for purpose.
It is a well-established, proven process for tax policy development known as the Generic Tax Policy Process (or GTPP) and this is simply an acknowledgement that Government cannot develop tax policy in isolation.
In assessing the merits of individual policy options relevant to the not-for-profit sector, consideration is given to the effect they would have on the growth of the charitable and non-profit sector in New Zealand and the resulting benefits to New Zealand.
The policy options should also be fair.
Obviously, a policy that provides financial support represents a cost to the taxpayer and Government.
The costs of different policy measures that need to be considered include:
the cost to businesses, community and voluntary organisations and individuals of the costs of complying with the tax rules;
administrative costs, that is, the cost to the Government of administering the tax rules, and
what can be termed deadweight costs – the costs that arise from the effects of the tax system on decisions to produce, consume, work, save and invest.
Consideration of these benefits and costs will inevitably lead to policy trade-offs being made.
These are increasingly important considerations.
In times of economic adversity, it is necessary to ensure careful fiscal management and also to ensure that Government revenue is protected because certain Government services and functions must continue – preferably without having to borrow to fund them.
Maintaining a stable revenue stream is absolutely critical in retaining international confidence.
But maintaining such a stream is not simply a matter of gathering as much tax as possible – the focus has been on making changes at the margin within our current framework to make it fairer and more efficient.
These themes have been an ongoing feature of our Budgets since the GFC began, if not before, and were well illustrated in this year's Budget handed down in May.
That Budget included measures that through a combination of better enforcement and collection will collect over a billion dollars in additional revenue over the next five years, without one tax rate being raised.
We are aiming for the best possible tax system designed by the best possible policy and supported by the best possible tax administration.
A tax policy proposal is only good if it is workable and reflects the will of the people and is finely focused on its objectives.
I therefore urge you to take advantage of opportunities to comment where tax policy proposals affect your work.
To be good policy, it must be practical and fit for purpose and the best way to achieve that is through proper public consultation, a key feature of the GTPP.
I would like to give you two examples of GTPP as it is intended to work.
In October 2006, the discussion document, Tax incentives for giving to charities and other non-profit organisations was released proposing a range of options.
This followed months of engagement between Inland Revenue and representatives from the community and voluntary sector to explore the tax policy implications.
The representative group was particularly interested in being used as a reference group to test policy ideas and to assist in developing a consultation strategy for a forthcoming discussion document and encourage the sector to provide feedback.
The agreed strategy included a series of information workshops in Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton and Auckland and were well attended.
These workshops allowed participants to thoroughly examine the now-released discussion document, but also many participants learnt about the existing tax rules.
There was huge support for the initiatives proposed in the discussion document.
Feedback from consultation was that the proposals relating to increasing the tax relief on charitable donations did not go far enough.
Government listened to the feedback.
For example, feedback strongly supported removing the current caps altogether as this would provide a stronger incentive for people to give more and would align the New Zealand tax treatment of donations with other OECD jurisdictions.
The Government agreed, and the current limits were removed with effect from 1 April 2008.
The feedback received, helped the Government to prioritise which options should go forward; which should be explored further; and which may not work in a New Zealand context.
This led to the tax changes outlined above, as well as two further discussion papers containing proposals for:
• clarifying and simplifying the tax law on how reimbursements and honoraria paid to volunteers in the non-profit sector are to be treated
• exploring whether New Zealand should introduce a pre-tax payroll giving scheme.
Proposals in both documents received overwhelming support from a wide range of people and organisations, and were seen as a positive step towards the development of and support for the charitable and voluntary sectors in New Zealand.
Both initiatives were included in the Taxation (International Taxation, Life Insurance, and Remedial Matters) Bill, which was introduced into the House in July 2008.
All in all, a very positive example of Government working closely with the sector.
The key here was the very high level of engagement.
Of course it helped that the objective of the tax policy proposals was to the advantage of the not-for-profit sector.
My other example is slightly less so.
Earlier this year, Inland Revenue released an officials' issues paper, Recognising salary trade-offs as income.
A proposal in that paper suggested that currently untaxed non-cash benefits provided by an employer to an employee, such as an on-premises car park or benefits provided to an employee of a charitable organisation, should be taxable.
The paper, I should point out was not directed solely at charities: a range of different employers and employees were potentially affected.
In October, following consideration of submissions on the proposals, I released a media statement announcing that Cabinet had decided that a wider set of car parks provided to employees are to be taxed, through the Fringe Benefit Tax rules.
Crucially for charitable organisations, after weighing up all considerations, Cabinet decided that tax should be applied fairly, but without imposing undue compliance costs.
And this meant that as far as charitable organisations were concerned, there would be very limited change:
• the FBT exemption for cars would not change;
• the car park changes will not apply to charitable organisations unless of course FBT currently applies, such as when benefits are provided to employees of businesses run by charitable organisations and those businesses are outside of their charitable purpose;
• there would be clarification that the charitable organisations' FBT exemption will not generally apply to vouchers, such as grocery or petrol vouchers.
• employees of charitable organisations will not, however, be exempt from the changes proposed for all employees in relation to social assistance. Explicit salary trade-offs involving vehicles and car parks, as well as vouchers, will be included in the definition of income used when calculating social assistance entitlements and obligations.
This is a good demonstration of why we use GTPP for policy development.
The initial wider proposals were good ones from a purely policy point of view, reflecting the Government's objectives for the tax system.
It is right that everyone pays their fair share of tax.
It is right that people on equivalent incomes pay a similar amount of tax and receive a similar amount of social assistance, whether they receive their remuneration in cash or in non-cash benefits.
However this needs to be balanced against other considerations, such as the practical costs of doing so, and public feedback is vital in drawing out and gauging the merits of concerns with proposals.
And the Government listened to that feedback, and I want to acknowledge particularly the quality and depth of the submissions we received from the charitable sector on this point.
They were extremely influential.
The message for you is that the Government cannot develop tax policy in isolation and I urge you to take every opportunity that arises to comment on upcoming tax policy issues affecting the sector.
The reforms I have outlined to you here today have been part of major Government-wide reforms.
Now, after five years of major changes we want those changes bedded in and are not looking to make further large scale tax changes in the future.
Upcoming policy work
Work will instead focus on a package of technical measures aimed at improving the overall integrity and coherence of the charitable income tax exemption and the tax incentives for charitable donations.
These measures would include:
• Clarifying the tax consequences where a charity has been deregistered. Charities that have been deregistered or declined by the DIA-charities face tax consequences that can be unclear or complex; and
• Resolving a number of technical problems relating to donee organisation requirements. The donee status requirements are different from those for charitable entities, and this has given rise to confusion and compliance costs for charities and donors; [1]
• Dealing with transactions where there has not been a "true" gift. We have seen some schemes that allow charitable donations tax incentives to be claimed in circumstances when there has not been a "true" gift.
• Improving the Schedule 32 process for approving overseas-focussed charities. Donee organisations that send funds overseas or that carry out charitable purposes overseas pose specific risks. There is increased opportunity for serious wrongdoing through fraud and money laundering and it is more difficult to verify whether the charities are actually carrying out charitable purposes overseas.
• Clarifying the tax calculation for charities that apply their business income overseas.
The intention is to ensure the charitable income tax exemption and incentives for charitable donations are appropriately targeted and that policy intentions are being met.
The proposed timeline for this work could see policy solutions available for inclusion in a tax bill in 2013.
Inland Revenue and the Treasury will lead this work.
While work in the pipeline may not be on the same scale as we have seen in the past, it is still in the interests of everyone in the sector to acquaint themselves with any proposals, consider the implications and if necessary, make submissions.
With the Generic Tax Policy Process, you have a voice and I, as Minister of Revenue, am keen that that voice is heard.
By doing so you are contributing to the development of sound, practical tax policies affecting this very important sector of New Zealand's society.
Charities Act review
A piece of work that will not go ahead at this stage as I am sure you are aware, is the review of the Charities Act as announced last week by the Hon Jo Goodhew, Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector.
As the Minister said, the decision to not proceed with the review was not one that was taken lightly.
It reflects the competing considerations that Government has to weigh up which I have touched on.
I am aware this has been a disappointment for the sector, but I am afraid that in our current fiscal environment, such a review is not justifiable at this stage.
Government does value the contribution that the not-for-profit sector makes.
The important thing, I think, is to focus on ensuring that reforms recently introduced by the Government, including the regulatory regime for charities work as intended.
Over the last few years the Government has demonstrated the value it places on the sector by introducing tax incentives to provide financial support for the sector and simplifying policies to facilitate charitable giving.
In devising tax policy, the Government is keen to ensure continued support for the sector, but must balance that with the various considerations that come into play.
That intention to provide support still remains, I assure you, but tax policy work in the foreseeable future is more modest in its scale compared to what has gone before.
To ensure that tax policies continue to support the sector, the Government relies on the sector to express its views on tax proposals.
For my part, I am keen to continue the positive working relationship we have established over the years to update and modernise our tax system, to make sure it reflects better the needs of our increasingly dynamic not for profit sector.
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[1] Donee organisations that have overseas charitable purposes must be listed on Schedule 32 of the Income Tax Act 2007 in order for their donors to be eligible for the tax incentives for charitable giving on the donations they make to these organisations.
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A recent study (abstract here) published in the journal Geology is getting a lot of attention for conclusions it draws about whether oil and natural gas drilling is causing earthquakes. In particular, the study examines the biggest quake in the history of Oklahoma, a 5.7 shaker that hit the tiny town of Prague on Nov. 6, 2011. Ripples from the earthquake were felt across 17 states.
According to the study's authors, the culprit isn't the actual drilling itself but the injection of wastewater back into the ground afterward. Even though wastewater had been injected into old wells around Prague since the early 1990s, the authors argue that as crevices previously containing oil filled with water, from 2001 to 2006, the amount of pressure needed to keep pushing water underground rose tenfold, or 1,000 percent. The resulting pressure change triggered a "jump" in a nearby fault line known as the Wilzetta fault, and then—boom, earthquake. The well the study examined was not drilled using the controversial hydraulic fracturing techniques, commonly known as fracking. …
… Fracking proponents tend to argue that the evidence is still inconclusive, and that to limit fracking would carry economic consequences far greater than the damage a few earthquakes might do. In an online debate posted in December by Tufts University, Bruce McKenzie Everett, an associate professor at Tufts's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a 20-year veteran of ExxonMobil (XOM), argued: "If we stopped right now, or placed a moratorium on new fracking, the price of natural gas would go up. This means electricity prices would go up, heating prices would go up."
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Rotary to celebrate 75 years with scholarship dinner
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The Mount Vernon Rotary Club will celebrate its 75th Anniversary with a dinner November 16 to raise money for motivational scholarships. The club has provided scholarships to 136 students since 2000
and has spent more than $360,000 on tuition and fees. This will be the only fund raising event for the scholarship program this year. See the October 24 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald for more information about the event.


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On one hand, reaction to the Supreme Court's majority opinion in Hobby Lobby was much ado about a modest decision, but on the other hand, the opinion — by implication — may have opened the door to ending our culture war and thereby saving the nation from permanent distemper and political dysfunction.
The majority opinion really broke no new ground about women's rights. Since the Harris vs. McRae opinion of 1980, no woman has a fundamental personal right to have the government pay for her abortion.
So when the majority in Hobby Lobby ruled that a woman does not have an actionable claim on another private individual to pay for her decisions as to prevention of pregnancies, it was not stepping very far at all from the cost-allocation principle first enunciated in Harris vs. McRae.
Hobby Lobby was a case about who must pay for expressions of personhood when two private parties differ deeply about the values associated with such expressions. It did not deny women their fundamental right to have control over their reproductive options, holding only that they can't impose the cost of living by their values on other citizens having very different values.
Here the opinion teaches us a very important lesson — one so far overlooked by nearly every commentator on the right and on the left: There are two kinds of rights, one more profound than the other.
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The first kind of right, the very fundamental kind, is usually called a positive right. Such rights can also be called natural rights, since our jurisprudence considers them to arise without the aid of government as pre-existing in our humanity itself.
These are the rights of life, liberty and property that John Locke praised and that entered our politics through the Declaration of Independence as "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" — humanity's trio of inalienable rights. They function as private powers and prerogatives, fenced off from harm caused by government. These rights permit a person to act in the world as he or she believes to be right and can so afford.
These positive rights can also be considered rights of opportunity. They guarantee no outcomes.
The classic list of such rights is found in the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution. It includes such rights as freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom from police coercion, freedom to bear arms, freedom to petition the government, and freedom to live and to use personal liberties and for property to be untrammeled in the midst of society.
Each individual must pay for the exercise of these rights. We have no claim on our government to buy guns for us, pay for our political activities or support our churches.
Then, a second class of rights was invented by the Jacobins during the French Revolution. These were enjoyments created and paid for by the state, such as education, employment, retirement benefits, home mortgages and health care. These are called negative rights in that one person is entitled to the enjoyment, while another has a duty to provide it.
These negative rights became the jurisprudential justification for the modern welfare state. They are subsidized aids to the enjoyment of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
With the advent of the baby-boomer culture war after the 1964-65 success of the civil-rights movement, a new set of such negative rights was proposed to better empower an individual's psychosocial personhood. These were status demands for communal recognition and accommodation of individual identity based on the person's views of his or her gender, age, disability, race, ethnicity, sexual preferences and so on. Duties were assigned to some citizens that others might benefit.
Many such negative rights were duly created by legislatures — and by the courts following legislative lead — usually under the public-policy goal of removing unjust "discriminations."
Thus, the right to civil marriage for same-sex couples is a social convention agreed to or not by the body politic and so became another battleground in the culture war.
More recently, demands for censorship of other private citizens based on standards of political correctness fueled advocacy for another negative right — a duty imposed on some not to speak so that others might more securely enjoy their personhoods.
Imposition of duties to give others their negative rights did not sit well with many whose values did not privilege the benefits associated with those rights. So the culture war broke out in the 1970s between religious conservatives who did not want to vindicate — or pay for — personhood preferences that conflicted with their values and those who sought to live happily in opposition to those conservative social and cultural conventions.
The gist of our culture war mostly has been a religion-light values conflict over negative rights associated with personhood — the positive right to an abortion being the very large exception to this observation.
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When the Hobby Lobby majority opinion used free exercise of religion — a positive right — to shield one set of personal values from another, it unwittingly opened a door to ending the culture war.
The opinion urges us to convert negative rights to positive ones using the principle of religious liberty and the related liberty of conscience that we should live free of too-intrusive value claims of others.
As a citizen, I have no constitutional duty to you to pay for or otherwise support how you live your life in line with your core transcendental beliefs. And, reciprocally, you as a citizen have no constitutional duty to me to pay for or otherwise support my living out my beliefs.
I may not like what you believe or do pursuant to your beliefs, but that is my problem to suffer through as long as you leave me alone with my views. And the same for you. I am to leave you alone with your beliefs.
And government is to be neutral, neither establishing your religious values on me nor mine on you.
My positive right is simply to get along without demanding that you fully affirm my personhood as it appears privately to me (though I may always hope for your good will). And you have a similar positive right to live without making a corresponding demand on me.
In our respective spheres of private rights, our values may never intersect. But in the public square, we owe each other a measure of respect for each other's freedom of belief and its related sense of personhood. Civic virtue rises above the centrifugal pull of disparate religious points of view.
The culture war thus can end with both sides winning. Neither gets to trump the values of the other. The terms of the nonaggression pact are that no denigration, deconstruction, marginalization, sarcasm toward or psychic oppression of any other in the public square is justified. We have to learn to live and let live. We will have to find the strength of character so to do.
As much as possible, therefore, negative rights must be converted on our individual parts into positive rights. Henceforth, as we search for happiness in which our chosen personhood can flourish, we must shoulder the burden of reaching our goals by ourselves for ourselves.
By enhancing private rights of autonomous personal responsibility and so reducing our claims on the public, we minimize the social frictions arising from our many conflicts over deeply held values.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Apr 2012 13:37 UTC
"RIM, the troubled maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, is in talks to hire a financial adviser to help it weigh strategic options, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. A decision to work with at least one bank could come in the next few days, said one of the people, who asked to remain anonymous because the deliberations are private. RIM would prefer an agreement to license its mobile-phone software, and its next choice is a strategic investment, one person said. RIM doesn't plan to sell itself, the person said." So, anyone interested in licensing BlackBerry OS? Anyone...? What if they throw in a free beer...?
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RE: I wouldn't put it past Sony
by RichterKuato on Tue 17th Apr 2012 20:51 UTC in reply to "I wouldn't put it past Sony"
If they have a penchant for going in their own proprietary direction then it would be stupid to license a competitors (or any 3rd party) platform. The whole point of having your own proprietary platform is exclusivity. Then there are the obvious concerns about RIM's phones being superior to all other BBOS devices.
If anything such a company would out right buy the company or just all the IP rights for the platform.


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Sioux City Cop Shooter Caught in Texas
A 22-year old who is wanted in connection with the shooting of a Sioux City police officer April 29th has been apprehended by authorities in Texas.
Officer Kevin McCormick has been on the job for 15 months and sustained injuries to his right eye, but will be OK.
Jamal Dean is accused of firing eight bullets through McCormick's police cruiser windshield. A $15,000 reward had been offered for information on Dean's whereabouts.
Dean is being held by U.S. Marshals on a charge of attempted murder in connection with the shooting.
Dean's picture is below.


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I came back to work 2 weeks ago when my baby (#1) was 12 weeks old. I LOVE being a mom. Until I went back to work, everything was going really well. We had some breastfeeding issues early on--my daughter was in the NICU for her first week which made establishing breastfeeding challenging but all of her health issues are resolved and the nursing is going pretty well.
My husband is home with our baby during the day until she starts daycare across the street from my office in 2 months. I am working from home 2 days per week which has gone pretty well. My husband brings baby to me when she is hungry and sometimes she naps on my nap while I work at the computer which is really nice . On the days I'm in the office I am pumping in the morning and afternoon and usually my husband is bringing baby to my office at lunch and we nurse then. Otherwise I will pump a third time at lunch. I have really flexible hours so I can wait until she nurses one last time in the morning to leave for work and return home at the end of the day when she wakes up from her nap so that she never gets a bottle 1/2 hour before I get home.
I have the logistics of getting out the door in the morning, have my whole pumping setup pretty streamlined, and by all measures I have a VERY flexible work arrangement relative to most working moms. I feel bad then when I say that I just don't think I can do this. I was SO committed to breastfeeding, we worked incredibly hard at it, seeing lactation consultant twice a week to get back to exclusive breastfeeding after a period of supplementation and lots and lots of pumping.
I can do the pumping, I don't mind, but the reality of it is that I'm not getting any work done at work. I sit at a computer all day doing research and every time I get really deep into something it's time to drop everything and get up and pump again. Being a little short on sleep and missing my baby makes it more difficult than usual to focus and pick up where I left off. I share an office with several other people so I can't pump at my desk while I work. The lactation room at my workplace is on the other side of a huge building and I find that by the time I walk over there (the trip involves waiting for 2 elevators), get set up, pump and get back to my desk, I have usually spent 40 minutes. I'm thinking about getting set up to pump on my 30 minute commute, at least on the way there, which might save me one trip to the lactation room, so that might help.
After two weeks of this I just can't see how I can do my job and continue to breastfeed at the same time. I can't quit my job because I am the sole breadwinner, and I can't even imagine looking for a different job--I would never find one more flexible than the one I have. And I LOVE my job and I have dug deep a few times and realized that I don't want to stay at home over the long run (although it's all I want to do right now).
So I come to work every day and find myself crying in the lactation room feeling like this is so unsustainable. I think I'm slowly coming to the realization that I just can't do this and I'm mourning the loss of this wonderful breastfeeding relationship I have with my daughter which I value so much. At the same time, giving up breastfeeding is not an option for me, and neither is quitting working. But I've accomplished almost nothing in my two weeks back, I mean, my productivity is probably 1/10th of what it was. That's not going to keep me employed for very long.
I feel so stuck. I don't see any good solution here but the only plausible one I see is to give up breastfeeding. I am so frustrated that I can't make this work when I don't even know anyone with as good a situation as I have for working with a new baby. I feel like a big drama queen for even talking about it like this. But mostly I'm just so sad.


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|2 years 33 weeks ago
|It doesn't work. Do yourself
It doesn't work. Do yourself a favor and set it to extend by a half hour or hour instead. Found out the hard way myself.
|3 years 28 weeks ago
|The account isn't real
The account isn't real apparently: https://twitter.com/nickbaumgardner/status/530387209287761921
|3 years 29 weeks ago
|Huh? He was THE hot
Huh? He was THE hot coordinator for years at a bunch of major schools (Arkansas, Tulsa, Auburn when they won with Cam), then he head coached for 1 year at Arkansas State before returning to Auburn. He's been a big name for quite awhile
|3 years 30 weeks ago
|Did anyone read the article?
"The San Francisco 49ers returned from their bye week on Monday and held a light practice at their facility that ended with a team photo of all the players who earned degrees wearing their respective college colors.
And yes, coach Jim Harbaugh had on his Michigan colors underneath his 49ers fleece."
Everyone was doing it. It's a non-story.
|5 years 26 weeks ago
|Why not get upset at Dave
Why not get upset at Dave Brandon? Michigan is incredibly important to the Big Ten as the co-biggest ticket item with OSU. That means Michigan has a boatload of leverage on things like this, and Brandon did nothing.
|5 years 27 weeks ago
|Great stuff. His pocket
Great stuff. His pocket presence is remarkably good. Also, I'd kill for Denard to scramble as much as Gardner does.
|5 years 28 weeks ago
|I don't have any complaints
I don't have any complaints about the charting of Gardner. I don't think there's any argument that he had a good enough day passing, but not an exceptional one. However, for his first ever start after playing WR all year, I am mentally "rounding up" a bit.
Really though, Gardner's willingness to scramble is what made him more effective IMO in the passing game than Denard. Denard just doesn't scramble, he just doesn't. His worst throws tend to come on plays when he absolutely should be scrambling, whereas Gardner is perfectly happy to tuck and just run somewhere. That's the best way to minimize risk in the passing game really. So to me, that makes Gardner more effective as a passer and makes me optimistic for next year as I think he's a much more natural Borges fit than Denard - Borges will probably be more comfortable next year calling plays with Gardner since passing with Gardner is a bit less risky since he's so willing to just run. I don't think it's dumb for this game to make us optimistic at the thought of a whole spring camp with nothing but Gardner getting reps in an offense Borges is better at managing.
However, there's no doubt that Denard really does an amazing job at masking our terrible, terrible running game. Gardner can't do that - he isn't the natural runner that Denard is. We're just a totally different team with each QB. Saying Gardner should be our starter over healthy Denard is still stupid.
|5 years 29 weeks ago
|Logged in just to say this is
Logged in just to say this is the worst comment I've seen on this board in a long time. I see he has -899825 MGoPoints. My only question is, why isn't it lower? Surely that calls for at least -1million right? Just another thousand or so is needed.
|5 years 33 weeks ago
|I'll be much more bummed if
I'll be much more bummed if we miss out on him than Green or anyone else. It's been way too long since we've had a true elite WR.
|5 years 33 weeks ago
|Got it, thanks. Complaint
Got it, thanks. Complaint redcated then.
|5 years 33 weeks ago
|If Saban can produce some
If Saban can produce some concrete data that shows injuries increase as tempo increases, then I'd be ok with considering something like this. I strongly suspect that will not be possible though, so definitely no, it should not be regulated.
|5 years 33 weeks ago
|Why is Thorin a mod here? I
Why is Thorin a mod here? I don't post much, and the first time I tried to blockquote I messed it up. I edited it, fixed a few, then went back to fix the rest and he locked it so I was unable to edit it. Just seemed so childish, but whatever. Now we're losing a very cool UFR feature because he's whiny.
|5 years 34 weeks ago
|I will say, despite how
I will say, despite how frustrating Borges is with the Denard offense, I am at least encouraged about what things will look like in a few years with Shane Morris slinging the ball downfield to big receivers sprung open by Borges Sorcery. I do believe he'll be a good coordinator once the right personnel is in place, but this stopgap time with such a unique player at QB is so frustrating.
|5 years 34 weeks ago
|Good stuff. I'm especially
Good stuff. I'm especially interested to see Morgan's progression from last year. He struggled a lot last year, but he was the Least Terrible at the weakest position on the field. He seems far more comfortable out there, and he's become a respectable starter now in his 2nd year. This gives me a lot of hope for the upsides of Bolden, Clark, Ross, etc. I feel like the individual position coaching upgrade under this regime is just as noticeable as the scheme upgrade.
|5 years 34 weeks ago
|I'm stepping into
I'm stepping into dangerous territory bringing this up, but did anyone else watch the Oregon/Arizona game and get an enormous sense of deja vu? NOT trying to bring up old debates, and yes I know it's his first year and all that, but I just thought Arizona's performance looked really familiar. In the first half especially they moved the ball at will against Oregon and just couldn't score. I think they were something like 0/6 in the red zone, including weird turnovers, special teams gaffes, failed 4th down conversions, crappy fumble recovery luck, etc. I remember watching the first two drives and being envious of the offense design and thinking how familiar it all looked, and then I saw the repeated collapses and continued lack of points and remembered how familiar that felt too.
I don't know, it was just interesting. I'm vaguely interested in seeing how he does there, but NO please don't schedule Arizona. Please.
|5 years 35 weeks ago
|I can't believe Brian hasn't
I can't believe Brian hasn't seen that and mentioned it.
|5 years 35 weeks ago
|Please, please, please some
Please, please, please some NFL team hire Chip Kelly. I'm dying to see him take a crappy team and try to go all-in and see what happens.
|5 years 35 weeks ago
|I've seen no evidence to
I've seen no evidence to suggest spread punts get blocked more often...
|5 years 36 weeks ago
|Heiko keeps transcribing the
Heiko keeps transcribing the bubble screen banter and insisting it's happening, and we keep seeing videos uploaded without that question present. I keep envisioning the press conference ending and Borges running back to the video guy and slipping him a $20 to make sure the bubble screen stuff gets cut out of the video just to troll us all. I KNOW THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING.
|5 years 37 weeks ago
|I don't think any amount of
I don't think any amount of rationalization will really make me feel better. The only thing that will do that is results against non-Alabama teams.
|5 years 37 weeks ago
|Not sure what happened. I
Not sure what happened. I fixed some of them and tried to fix the rest and now I can't edit it. Oops.
|5 years 37 weeks ago
|I don't know, I read it, and
I don't know, I read it, and sure you're entitled to your opinion, but my opinion is you're wrong. The main issue here is this statement:
The glaring thing is from reading these things you've written, it's pretty obvious your level of knowledge is below Brian's. That's totally fine. However, it doesn't give you great credentials to make that statement. Second, if you're going to say it, it needs to be backed up intelligently. Paragraphs like this:
That's a total mess. Problems with this paragraph alone:
1) It implies Smith is a better runner than Denard and Denard only gets his yards off constraint plays. That is ludicrous.
2) Denard got most of his yards off scrambles/improvisation in this game and not runs. So I'm not even sure where you're getting this point from.
3) The constraint thing is just not even true. What was the defense cheating against exactly?
This is yet another example of a statement that is kind of crazy. Also, your whole premise for this statement was that Alabama was bigger & faster and THAT'S why it didn't work, and therefore that's why it doesn't work in the NFL... Um, in the NFL the teams are pretty much equals. Make up your mind which it is ;). Finally:
|5 years 37 weeks ago
|So relieved to hear Lewan is
So relieved to hear Lewan is fine. Could use some good news.
|5 years 38 weeks ago
|Did you miss the 10k+ words
Did you miss the 10k+ words Brian has written the last few days? Little bit of an unusual week here.
|5 years 38 weeks ago
|This actually reads so much
This actually reads so much like Brian's writing that I assumed the disclaimer at the top meant Brian wrote it but Ace posted it for him. From seeing these comments though it sounds like I'm wrong. Or maybe I'm just whooshing really hard right now.
|5 years 38 weeks ago
|I don't see why missing a
I don't see why missing a game is an absolute necessity as a measure of integrity or something. I get the feeling that around here, the purpose is to maintain a bit of a superiority thing because we feel hypocritical after bashing MSU/ND for letting kids off on similar things. To me, this is a nonstarter. Policy should not be determined by what other schools do, so strike that out immediately.
Anyways, like somebody said, there are more punishments than missing a game. We have no idea what his is. I'm expecting he'll miss the game and I'm 100% behind Hoke if he sits him, but I'm not going to get all self-righteous if he plays either. Hoke has earned my trust to make the right decision here.
|5 years 38 weeks ago
|I cheat and take the easy
I cheat and take the easy way out. If Ohio is in a similar big nonconference game, I just watch without rooting for one team or the other. I try to watch it academically instead. I then conjure up my internal optimist and look at the outcome as a win-win. If Ohio wins, I grit my teeth and look at it as a badly-needed boost for the B1G. If Ohio loses, YESSSS OHIO LOST.
In the end though, my preference is always that Ohio plays really well and just barely loses at the very end of the game, preferably as painfully as possible. That way they lose (I'm happy) but the B1G team still "showed up" which spares us the embarassment we've gotten in recent years. I don't think there's really a right answer though.
|5 years 38 weeks ago
|One request - if using the
One request - if using the jump to break up articles is going to become a normal thing, is it possible to make the "read more" link jump to the spot you were reading? That's how most sites work, but this always returns me to the top, and I have to scroll or ctrl+f to find my place again. It's a minor thing so I don't care that much, but it would be a nice feature.
|5 years 39 weeks ago
|It sounds like this is
It sounds like this is against protocol, but it's been brought up here, so I'll ask. Can I get a brief explanation of who he-who-shall-not-be-named is and what he's done to gain so much infamy? Yes I plugged his name into the search bar and all I got was a bunch of threads where people were scolded for talking about him. Much appreciated.
|5 years 41 weeks ago
|Nobody wants Kovacs?
Nobody wants Kovacs?


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My entry for CCC X in the forest life category. I had trouble picturing this one because I could'nt find my camera stand and the pictures were always blurry But I found the stand and I am happy because the pictures are good I hate to work without a stand, it's a pain in the megablock
The MOC is a small hut where the forestmen can rest after a hard day of work.
More pics here http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/345806
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>>>Athlete of the Week Archive
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Sophomore Enisha Donley (Loganville, Ga.) of the Georgia College women's basketball team (4-3, 2-0 PBC) was named the Bobcat Athlete of the Week for the week ending Dec. 16, the GC sports information office announced Tuesday.
Donley led the Bobcats to start the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) season 2-0 this week, taking down Georgia Southwestern State University and Francis Marion University. The sophomore tallied 17 points with three boards and two assists in the win over the Hurricanes Tuesday, one of two Bobcats in double-figure scoring. Against the Patriots Saturday, Donley put in 18 points with four rebounds and two more assists. She now has double-digit scoring in three of the last four contests.
The Bobcats will be back in action after the holidays when they host the Stair South Classic Dec. 30-31. After UNC Pembroke battles Coker College Dec. 30 at 4 p.m., the Bobcats will host Tuskegee University.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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by Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg
Oracle is evil!! Java and open source are doomed! The standards body is a zombie! .NET is going to eat our lunch. Larry's planning on turning you into pet food for his Velociraptors. You've all heard these types of comments and many Java developers feel out of the loop and powerless to make a difference. This session will explain why these Interesting Times represent the best opportunity in Java's history for passionate developers to get involved and help to steer Java's open course as the premier VM and platform for software development. If you've been frustrated by shortcomings in Java standards then this is the place to come and throw fruit at us! As your newly elected community representatives to Java's executive committee our mandate is to reform and streamline the standards process and make it accessible to you, the Java developer.
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text: Appalachian Highlands Morning Edition on Wednesday at 8:50am: THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY The Southern Appalachian Highland Conservancy has protected 50,000 acres in North Carolina and Tennessee over the course of 38 years. Pam Bunch talks to Executive Director Carl Silverstein about the challenges of saving resources of Western North Carolina, working to conserve the Highlands of Roan, Mt. Mitchell and farmland as well. On Thursday, May 17, SAHC will celebrate this 50,000 milestone with a special event at Highland Brewing Company in Asheville. Find out more at www.Appalachian.org.


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Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013 at 2pm
UC Santa Barbara vs. Seattle (5-7)
at The Thunderdome
All-time Record vs. Redhawks: 1-1
Last Time: L 60-55
Radio: KZSB AM 1290
Online Audio: UCSBgauchos.com
Live Stats: UCSBgauchos.com
Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 at 6pm PST
UC Santa Barbara vs. Utah (2-4)
at Jon M. Huntsman Center
All-time Record vs. Utes: 17-4
Last Time: W 52-44
Online Audio: UCSBgauchos.com
Live Stats: UCSBgauchos.com
One at Home, Three on the Road
The Gauchos will host their final home game of the 2013 calendar year on Saturady against Seattle. The team will look to end a season-high four game losing streak while also seeking its first win in the Thunderdome since Nov. 26. After that match up, the team will embark on a three-game road starting in Utah on Dec. 30.
Join the Club
UCSB hosted two competitive opponents last week in Utah State and Nevada. The Gauchos dropped both matchups, but Nicole Nesbit did reach the 1,000-point milestone against the Aggies. The senior's 11 points made her the 25th Gaucho to score that many points, and she will have the rest of the season to increase her mark and join the ranks of some of the program's all-time greats. She enters this week with 1,023 points, 23rd most in UCSB history.
Charging on Offense
This year's Gaucho team has been Carlene Mitchell's most offensively productive group since she took the helm in 2011. The team has averaged 67 points per game so far, easily beating out UCSB's 50.8 and 51.5 averages it held at the same point in the previous two seasons.
On Target
The Gauchos lead the Big West by shooting 42.5 percent from the field this season. They also pace the conference by averaging the fewest turnovers with 14.4 per game. While handling the ball well on offense, UCSB has limited its competition on defense, as it has allowed 69.8 ppg (fourth fewest in the league).
More from Morrison
Last week, Kendra Morrison has put up back-to-back performances of seven or more rebounds for the first time in her Gaucho career. She has started most contests for UCSB and has become an integral part of the team as a forward. She was just two rebounds shy of her first double-double when she put up a 12-point, eight-rebound effort against Utah State.
Senior Workload
UCSB's senior class has carried the offense through the first four games. With Nicole Nesbit (17.1), Destini Mason (13.8), and Melissa Zornig (13) all averaging double digits, the senior guards have scored over 65 percent of the team's total points. All three are among Big West's top-15 scorers: Nesbit (3rd), Mason (11th), and Zornig (13th).
Fantastic Freshmen
Though only freshmen, Onome Jemerigbe and Mi'Chael Wright have stepped up and played productive minutes for the Gauchos this season. At point guard, Jemerigbe has been a starter in all but one of UCSB's games this season and is tied for the team with 14 steals. As one of the team's true post players, Wright is the team's most efficient shooter, as she has made 66.7 percent of her shots.
Zealous Zornig
Melissa Zornig has become a well-rounded player this season, as she is among the top-three Gauchos in points, rebounds, and assists. She averages 13 ppg (third), 5 rpg, (second) and 3.5 asg (first). Her 2.5 assists/turnover ratio is the third best mark in the league. The senior has come close to recording her first double double on two occasions this season. First at St. Mary's, she poured in a team-high 19 points while also dishing out nine assists. She then came up just one rebound shy at Pepperdine with 18 points and nine boards on her stat sheet.
Taking on Seattle
The Carlene Mitchell era opened with a matchup against Seattle. In 2011, the game was played in Washington with the Redhawks picking up the 60-55 win. This week, Seattle will be playing with two of its starters from the 2011 game in Kacie Sowell and Ashley Ward who have both become premiere players on the team. Sowell currently paces the roster with 13.8 ppg, while Ward is third with 11.8. They are coming off a narrow 55-53 loss to Cal State Fullerton and will be playing in their third stop of a five-game road trip on Saturday.
On to Utah
Utah is rolling on a four-game winning streak going into Monday's game, including three straight wins at home. Their only loss at home this season came against then-No. 15 Nebraska in a 75-69 decision. Michelle Plouffe leads the team with her double-double average of 19.6 ppg and 11.4 rpg. Freshman guard Emily Potter has quickly become a key member of the roster as she is second on the team with 11.9 ppg and 6 rpg.
Big West Preseason Poll
In the the conference's preseason media poll, the Gauchos were selected to finish fifth in the Big West, receiving 100 total votes. The defending champion Cal Poly was selected as the No. 1 team in the poll with its 17 first-place votes. Hawai'i will be entering its second season as a member of the Big West and was picked to finish second.
2012-13 Recap
Last season, UCSB played in the postseason for the 16th time in the past 17 seasons by competing in its fifth WNIT. The Gauchos finished the season overal 16-17 and 11-7 in Big West play, qualifying for the fourth seed in the conference tournament. Senior Sweets Underwood and junior Nicole Nesbit were both recognized by the Big West for their standout play on the floor, as Underwood was named first-team all-conference while Nesbit was an honorable mention. Underwood finished the season with a team-high 401 points and became the 24th player in program history to score 1,000 or more career points.


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First there was the "Girls of Happy Valley" calendar...
Our favorite part of the site (besides the pictures, of course) was the really bad porno music playing the whole time (as opposed to really good porno music?). Using the "Fingernail Test," I'm going to go out on a limb and say most of these girls aren't PSU students. Them there is stripper-length fingernails (I'm just saying). No wonder they call it Happy
Endings Valley!
On the more wholesome end of the calendar scale was the Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) of Ole Miss entry brought to our attention by MZone reader Erik...
God, I love the south. And note the fingernails, people.
Me thinks the BCS brackets are now complete.
Finally, speaking of our Girls of TOSU post, Peter at Burnt Orange Nation emailed the pic below asking how the hell we could have missed one of the girls posing with a cop! Our bad, Peter. Our bad.
Best of all, look closely at the what jurisdiction in Ohio a cop posing with scantily clad women is from: Put-in-Bay ("You said 'put in.'"Insert Beavis and Butthead laugher.)


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It has been almost three decades since the U.S. last set out to develop an all-new combat-aircraft engine, but more than 50 years since the turbojet gave way to the turbofan. Now the U.S. is embarking on development of a new generation of fighter engine with an architecture it considers as fundamental an advance as the turbofan was over the turbojet.
Being part of a research effort that could produce the dominant combat-aircraft engine of coming decades is critical for industry. So General Electric and Pratt & Whitney are breathing easier after being selected by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for the Adaptive Engine Technology Development (AETD) program to mature fuel-efficient, high-thrust powerplants for post-2020 upgrades to the Lockheed Martin F-35 and future "sixth-generation" combat aircraft.
AETD is a follow-on to AFRL's $524 million Adaptive Versatile Engine Technology (Advent) program under which GE Aviation and Rolls-Royce North American Technologies will demonstrate engines in 2013. Selection for AETD is a coup for Pratt, which in 2007 lost out to GE and Rolls in the Advent competition, but a blow for Rolls, which did not receive the nod for the follow-on program.
"When we were not selected for Advent, we did a lot of our own rig work," says Jim Reed, Pratt & Whitney's director of advanced engine programs. "But that only mattered if we were selected for AETD. We had to build a strong proposal." At stake is the potential development of fuel-efficient engines to upgrade the F-35 after 2020 and to power future Air Force and Navy air-dominance fighters that could enter service around 2030.
The last time the U.S. embarked on development of an all-new combat engine was in the early 1980s with the launch of the Joint Technology Demonstrator Engine (JTDE) program, which led to Pratt & Whitney powering both the Lockheed Martin F-22 with the F119 and the F-35 with a further development of that engine, the F135.
Having succeeded in killing the GE/Rolls-Royce F136 alternative engine for the F-35, Pratt's supporters in Congress threatened to cut funding for AETD, fearing it was a backdoor maneuver to a competitive engine. But Air Force reassurances that its goal is to mature technology and not to develop an engine—coupled with the selection of Pratt over Rolls—should defuse criticism of AETD.
"We will not produce a prototype engine, but run core engines," says Tim Lewis of AFRL's Propulsion Directorate. "All three proposals were technically acceptable, but funding drove us to select two of the three," he says. Rolls states that it is "disappointed by this decision but . . . continues to work with the Air Force Research Laboratory on important programs such as Advent and HEETE [Highly Energy-Efficient Turbine Engine]."
Where Advent is demonstrating high-pressure-ratio core and adaptive-fan, variable-bypass, low-pressure system technology to reduce combat-engine specific fuel consumption (SFC) by 25%, AETD will fully mature adaptive engines for possible early entry into engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) after 2020. As with Advent, there will be "significant" cost sharing by the contractors, says Lewis.
Advent and AETD are developing and maturing technology for engines with a "three stream" architecture. In addition to the high-pressure core and lower-pressure bypass streams of a conventional turbofan there is a third, outer flowpath that can be opened and closed. For takeoff, the third stream is closed off to reduce the bypass ratio and route more of the airflow through the core to increase thrust. In cruise, the third stream is opened to increase the bypass ratio and reduce fuel consumption.
The third stream can cool the cooling air used for thermal management of the engine hot section, the fuel used as a heat sink for aircraft systems, and the walls of the augmentor and nozzle. The architecture can also reduce aircraft drag. Inlets are sized for maximum airflow on takeoff, but capture more air than the engine needs in cruise, resulting in spillage. The third stream can bypass the extra air, reducing spillage drag, and the additional flow can be used to fill in the aircraft boat-tail, reducing base drag.
AFRL calculates adaptive technology will improve engine fuel efficiency by 25% over the F135 powering the F-35, increasing aircraft combat radius by 25-30% and persistence by 30-40%. The engine could also help address the anti-access/area-denial challenges posed by a potential conflict with an near-peer adversary such as China, says AFRL. This could be achieved via increasing supersonic-cruise radius by 50% and reducing the aerial-refueling tanker burden by 30-74%.
Under the 48-month AETD program, GE and Pratt will design engines with 25% lower SFC, but 5% more military (dry) power and 10% higher maximum (reheat) thrust than the F135. "We will take that engine through preliminary design review," says Reed. The engine must be sized to fit the F-35 with "only modest modifications," he says.
AETD will take adaptive engines to "robust" technology and manufacturing readiness levels (TRL/MRL 6) in wait for a future EMD program, says Lewis. "Engines lead airframe development by several years and we need to be ready if and when they launch the next aircraft EMD," he says.
"The time is now for sixth gen," Reed says. "We may be 15 years away from needing an engine, but we have to start reducing risk now, because come 2020 we will need to begin an EMD program."
Manufacturers expect future fighters to require more thrust, better fuel economy and thermal management, and more electrical power generation. "But we don't know exactly what the transformational requirement will be for sixth gen, says Reed. "Adapatability may be the missing piece."
Phase 1 of the AETD program, which runs through mid-fiscal 2015, includes preliminary design of the engine and testing of annular-combustor and high-pressure compressor rigs. Phase 2, which will conclude in fiscal 2016, consists of fan-rig testing and an engine core test, allowing for a notional first full engine test as early as 2017.
"There will be additional focus on augmentor and exhaust technology that is not part of Advent," says Lewis. This will include developing an exhaust system that enables the low-pressure third stream to mix effectively with the higher-velocity core and bypass flows. "We will integrate an exhaust that produces thrust from the third stream," he says.
In parallel, studies with the airframers will identify potential applications of the common core beyond 2020. "We will conduct quantitative assessments of AETD-derived propulsion systems," says AFRL's Lewis.
GE, meanwhile, will begin high-pressure core tests this week under the Advent program. Rolls-Royce's LibertyWorks will begin testing its core in late November/early December, says Matt Meininger, AFRL's Advent program manager. GE's full engine is "75%-plus" complete and will go to test in July 2013, he says, while Rolls's engine is 90% complete and scheduled to begin tests in October next year. Pratt will deliver an adaptive-fan test rig—developed largely with company funds—to AFRL in February/March "to jump-start us [on AETD]," says Reed. Although Pratt lost the Advent competition, Meininger says AFRL was able to come up with more funding to help it modify an existing rig by adding a third stream to a two-stage fan, putting the company on a "fast track" to compete for AETD.
For Rolls, there was some consolation this week when it began tests of a high-pressure-ratio compressor demonstrator under AFRL's HEETE program, which aims to demonstrate technology to reduce specific fuel consumption by 35% for embedded engines in future subsonic transports and unmanned aircraft. GE has also delivered a HEETE compressor rig to AFRL, with testing expected next year.
Demonstration of a high-pressure core—compressor, combustor and turbine—is planned for 2016 under HEETE, with tests of a highly efficient turbine engine planned for 2019. Reducing SFC by 35% would increase transport-aircraft range by 50% and payload by 25%, and double the loiter time of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance UAVs, estimates AFRL.
Although funds are not available, the Air Force Research Lab would like to find a way to keep Rolls working on adaptive engine technology. "Each of the three companies has a unique architecture concept for the third stream," says Jeff Stricker, AFRL Propulsion Directorate chief engineer. "They have three approaches to adaptive fans and how to vary the third stream with the two main flows."
"We believe three-stream is the architecture for the next generation of aircraft," says Lewis. "Of course we would like to keep all three approaches available to us."


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NJDOT and NJ Transit are conducting the "Another Train Coming" pilot program at Plauderville Station to test the effectiveness of the signs and determine whether this type of system may be used on other grade crossings in the NJ Transit rail system. The Volpe Center, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, is participating in the evaluation and analysis of the warning sign's effectiveness under an agreement with the Federal Railroad Administration.
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As Congress faces the impact of sequester cuts and debates budget priorities, an education program that began at Selfridge Air National Guard Base and spread across the country faces extinction as the Senate tries to craft a new Defense Department bill this week.
The STARBASE program, which teaches fifth-graders about science and technology within the backdrop of high-tech aircraft and vehicles at military bases, is targeted for elimination by a budget amendment proposed by Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
Students receive 25 hours of instruction over a 5-day period. At Selfridge, the curriculum is incorporated into base operations, so the STARBASE students over the years have connected their classroom learning to Air National Guard F-16 and A-10 aircraft, Coast Guard helicopters and a NASA shuttle simulator.
Rick Simms, director of Selfridge STARBASE, said the intent was to encourage student interest in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math — commonly referred to as STEM curriculum in today's vernacular.
"STARBASE has been supporting that before it had a name," said Simms, who has a staff of three full-time educators and six part-timers. "This is all hands-on. We show them the practical applications of what they've learned."
In Washington, in order to win approval for his amendment, McCain will have to outmaneuver the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin.
After the Selfridge STARBASE program began in 1991 through a Kellogg Foundation grant, Levin took the program under his wing and secured federal funding for the program starting in 1993.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Tech's women's golf team will get to play at one of the game's most storied venues this week as it takes part in the 2012 Pinehurst Spring Challenge.
After opening the spring season with a strong showing at the BSC Ann Rhoads Invitational in February, the Golden Eagles will return from a month-long break on Monday at the event, which is hosted by College of Charleston.
In their season-opening tournament, the Golden Eagles finished second in a 16-team field and were led by Brandy VanEtten, who finished 10th out of more than 80 golfers.
The tournament will be played at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, N.C., a course which has played host to a number of prestigious tournaments over the years. Pinehurst has hosted the U.S. Open twice (1999 and 2005) as well as the U.S. Amateur (2008), the Ryder Cup (1951) and the PGA Championship (1936). The course will once again host the U.S. Open and the U.S. Women's Open in 2014.
The 2012 Pinehurst Spring Challenge will take place on course No. 6 and will begin Monday with two 18-hole rounds. Shotgun start is set for 8 a.m. CDT. A final 18-hole round will be held Tuesday with a shotgun start slated for 7:45 a.m. CDT.
The course will play to a par 72 and is 5,993 yards in length.
In addition to Tennessee Tech and host College of Charleston, the field will consist of East Carolina, Elon, Georgetown, James Madison, Marshall, Maryland, Middle Tennessee State, North Carolina State, UNC Greensboro, UNC Wilmington, Old Dominion, Penn State, Richmond, Samford and Western Michigan.
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