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The left's political methods make Gov. Christie look like Little Bo Peep.
There haven't been so many reporters chasing a story in Trenton, N.J., since Washington crossed the Delaware. But compared with the methods the Democratic Party is using now to take down its opponents, Chris Christie looks like Little Bo Peep.
Gov. Christie's hyper-political aides ordered traffic jams in neighborhoods near the perpetually backed-up George Washington Bridge to annoy the mayor of Fort Lee. And they may have canceled meetings with the mayor of Jersey City because he wouldn't endorse Mr. Christie. Oh my....


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A second life for Christmas trees
After you take your Christmas tree down, recycle it for a second life.
In your own backyard, recycle your tree by placing it near a bird feeder. The tree's branches shelter smaller birds. Throw unsalted, unbuttered popcorn into the branches as free-form birdfood. Branches also provide a good place to hang pinecones smeared with peanut butter and rolled in birdseed.
When it's time to say goodbye to your tree, both Anne Arundel and Calvert counties will chip it — and natural garlands and wreaths — into mulch.
In Anne Arundel County, Christmas trees are picked up on your regular day for recycling, yard waste and trash. In Calvert County, drop off Christmas trees at any convenience center or the Appeal Landfill thru January 31. There is no charge.
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Date 7th February 2002. Total time: One hour and twenty minutes * Attendance: listening quality was too poor for this note-taker to hear full list of attendance. If anyone can help me to reconstruct this, it would be appreciated. * Agenda item: FTF meetings schedule. Next FTF is slated to take place 8th - 9th April (Monday and Tuesday) in Amsterdam. Third FTF will be 1st and 2nd of July, no location has yet been specified - Boston, Stanford and Bristol are the candidates. The date for the last ftf will be announced shortly. Planning is for end of September or beginning of October. Efforts are being made to conduct 2 in Europe and 2 in North America, with both coasts represented (the east coast has already been the site of the first ftf). Co-locating with other conferences is important for some many members, and getting to Europe for some residents of North America is difficult without such co-location. * Agenda item: Review of previous actions and the results to date. ACTION: Finin to complete use case on ubiq. comp - DONE. ACTION: Buswell to complete design Use case - DONE. ACTION - Obrst to help find ontology partitioning - review and refine Req - DONE. ACTION - Pat Hayes to send Jeff a couple of sentences on referring to vs. committing to ontologies - DONE. ACTION: Tim Finin to send Jeff a pointer to the FIPA language req. document - DONE. ACTION - have unwritten parts in the D+O vs OWL document (Mike, Dan, Ian) - DONE. -- follow on ACTION - Mike D. to document what OWL reqs not covered by D+O, and what D+O features currently not used in addressing our reqs - promised to be done over next week ACTION Jim/Guus will send to mailing list a proposed list of documents/outputs expected of the working group (tied to calendar if possible) and ask people to express interests in particular w/respect to those issues - Due: Feb 14 * Next item: discussion of requirements document. Mostly complete. Ubiquitous computing use case is lacking in Heflin document. Should we cut and paste from original Web Services document, or can we do better? Ora volunteers to help with this, and will also speak with Tim about it. Frank in Amsterdam asked a question about merging results from Mike's document into this document. Some back and forth about our charter vis a vis RDF, which is a W3C standard, and D+O, which OWL is intended to replace, ensued. It was finally decided that everyone in the group will first be given an opportunity to read the documents and comments will be solicited. Milestones: Comments due by 13th February, taking into account that attendees at DAML conference may wish to discuss the comments. Even if one believes that the document is good as is, please send that as a comment. Content comments are to be posted to the group as a whole, spelling and grammar directly to authors. The target is to have publication within about a fortnight, 22nd February. * Next item: DAML+OIL vs. requirements. Document is unchanged since last week. Action Item: Document by next Wednesday to be revised in line with tele-con discussion on features and reqs. * Next item: OWL language development document promised by early next week (Tuesday) Analysis of requirements document and D+O document are needed for further work on language development - Dan volunteered to begin working on test cases and infrastructure, which was welcomed by all. * Next item: Layering of OWL on top of RDF. Full discussion of the layering issue delayed to next tele-con after people have had a chance to read the longer version. Peter and Dieter are both pleased with what they have produced, a pleasant surprise. It may become a conference paper as well as a note of the working group. * Due to the travelling surrounding the DAML conference, next week's tele-con is likely to be cancelled, and will include only editors. Decision on this matter to be sent to all members during the coming week.Received on Thursday, 7 February 2002 13:33:32 UTC
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A five-year budget forecast for the City of Lincoln indicates that despite the City's excellent bond ratings and strong financial reserves, action will be necessary to either curtail City services or increase revenues. The City Finance Department presented the forecast at today's budget meeting of the City Council.
The five-year forecast is a projection of expenses from the 2005-2006 fiscal year through the 2009-2010 fiscal year. It includes the estimated cost of current City services plus possible additions, such as more police officers and firefighters, capital maintenance and improvement projects and other future needs.
"The forecast gives us a picture of our fiscal needs and our projected revenues as we begin preparing the next City budget," said Mayor Seng. "It is clear from the forecast that, as we warned last year, the City will need to control spending or face the consequences of deep cuts if the revenues do not keep pace with the growth of the community. This will be a year of tough choices, difficult cuts and lean spending."
Sales tax revenues, which fund 44 percent of City's operating budget, are below projections, Mayor Seng said she will direct City Departments to begin looking for savings and to work with the City Council on possible service cuts to reduce the next City budget, which will be adopted next summer.
"The forecast shows many community needs, and departments are requesting numerous bond votes over the five-year period," said Mayor Seng. "That is a clear sign of the backlog of needs that accumulate in a growing city. The real question is what we as a community can afford."
The property tax provides only 28 percent of the City's operating funds. During the past ten years the City property tax rate has been cut 42 percent, from 51 cents per $100 of assessed value in 1991 to its current rate of 29.5 cents. Of the total property taxes paid by property owners, less than 15 percent goes to the City, and the other 85 percent goes to other City and County government agencies.
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Treasure Chest Thursday - Stage Coach
A Treasure Chest item "in the making" - from the 1980s and 1990s, mostly purchased at craft shops at Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO, created by Oklahoma craftsman. This is one of 6 different pieces in our collection... different building, accessories, etc. This one has Blacksmith shop and Stage Coach.
I can just see Grandson Alex on the 2060 version of Antiques Roadshow talking about how he remembered it being on the shelf at Grandpa and Grandma's cabin in the Ozarks... and "now it sits on my shelf, all these years later... it brings back many memories," he says.
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The University Residential area is made up of suites, apartments, and townhouses ranging from 630 square feet to 1,550 square feet. In total, Housing Operations maintains 903,557 square feet of interior residential space, which houses 3,250 residential students.
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Is Google TV What Indies Have Been Waiting For?/
Scott Macauley tipped me to NoFimSchool's post on Google TV. It, along with all the excellent links in the comments there, have picked up my spirits. Now with a little SEO strategy, maybe everyone can get a bit closer to having their work seen. Maybe soon they can even make some money from that and pay off this expensive hobby we have!
If you prefer to get your news from a major source, here's how the LATimes are covering it. It's true that with all the myriad of options, we need better search tools. I just wish that people would offer more filters. It's one thing to be able to find what we are looking for, but we still need to know what it is that we want -- particularly if we want to make other work that that which is justified by a huge marketing spend.
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The international football star said he looked forward to building a world-class team, as yet unnamed, during a Miami press conference alongside MLS Commissioner Don Garber and the mayor of Miami-Dade County.
"I have worked for some of the biggest clubs in the world, and some of the greatest players in the world, and this is a dream," said Beckham, dressed in a dark suit and tie to address a large media audience at a gleaming new bayfront art museum in the south Florida city.
"This is an exciting time … for myself, exciting time for my family and friends and partners, and something we are really looking forward to bringing to Miami," Beckham added, to chants of "We're going to MLS," from a group of fans calling themselves the "Southern Legion."
Beckham signed a shareholder agreement on Tuesday evening with his two partners, the British TV producer and creator of American Idol Simon Fuller, and Bolivian-born billionaire Marcelo Claure, founder of Miami-based Brightstar Corp, the world's largest wireless distributor and the provider of global services to Apple Inc
"We have a deal. We are three partners, David, myself and Simon, as of last night," Claure said.
Garber called the franchise decision a "historic day … for football in America," noting that Beckham, 38, was the first former player anywhere in the world to become the owner of a top league football team in modern times.
Beckham's commitment to MLS, dating back to 2007 when he joined the Los Angeles Galaxy, has had "an incredibly powerful impact on our sport and our league in this country," said Garber.
His influence had set the stage to "tell the world that United States and Major League Soccer can compete with the rest of the world," Garber added.
He went on to praise Beckham for his work ethic, as well as his charity work as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and for the group Malaria No More.
He noted Beckham was headed to the Philippines next week for UNICEF to help with the relief effort after November's Typhoon Haiyan.
Beckham arrived in Miami fresh from having attended Sunday's Superbowl in New Jersey, TV coverage of which featured an agile and scantily clad Beckham in an underwear commercial.
The former Manchester United and Real Madrid star retired as a player last May and holds a $25 million option in his MLS contract to start a new franchise.
The option was officially exercised shortly before it expired on December 31, Garber confirmed to Reuters.
A final deal to grant the franchise to Beckham's investment group could be several months away though, sources close to the negotiations said, with a stadium location and financing still requiring approval from the MLS board for his team to become the 22nd club of the top U.S. professional football league.
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said negotiations for the stadium started last week. "We know we have to get rolling on it," he said.
Beckham is already in discussions with Miami-Dade County to possibly lease county-owned land for a 25,000-seat stadium.
Beckham's investment group has narrowed its stadium search to five possible sites in and around downtown Miami, officials say, including a 25-acre (10-hectare) waterfront lot next to the port of Miami's cruise ship terminals, potentially putting the new team at the forefront of Miami's tourism landscape.
MLS has stressed the importance of having a final stadium deal, along with a business plan, before it will approve a new team.
Beckham's group is not looking for public financing, but may need to negotiate site plans with the county, such as leasing the port location, to help build a privately financed stadium.
"We want to create a football team, a football club, that is the people's club, as simple as that," Beckham said.
The famously tattooed football star later had to abandon a planned photo opportunity at a youth football facility when the field was rushed by hundreds of fans, media and paparazzi. He was due to kick the ball around with the children, but had to be escorted from the field due to security concerns.
Beckham has toured Miami twice in recent months with Fuller and Claure, and says he feels at home in the heavily Hispanic city.
He picked up some Spanish while playing in Madrid for four seasons and on Wednesday fielded questions in Spanish from some media.
"The fact that I have played for teams like Real Madrid, AC Milan, PSG (Paris-Saint Germain FC), has given me that different kind of culture. I understand the people here in Miami and this part of America. They are very passionate about their teams," he told Reuters.
He is mulling over possible names for the team, and also plans on creating a youth academy to nurture local talent.
A list of possible players had been drawn up, he said, though he released no names.
Beckham is now looking for a pad in Miami, although the London home he shares with his wife of 14 years, former pop star-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham, and their four young children, will remain the main family home.
"Our children's education is the most important thing to us and they are educated in London and our home is in London. But I will personally be spending a lot of time here in Miami," he said.
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Local Indian men are cutting stone on the outskirts of Jaipur, India.
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A lot of fuss is currently being made in the sailing world about the question how to make sailing events more attractive to spectators and media.
One thing everybody is talking about at the moment is the so called "Stadium Racing Format" or similar constructions. Artemis Sailing Team Coach Andrew Palfrey described the recent races of Act 1 of the Extreme Sailing Series as "held right up by the shore and the course constructed more for the spectators' benefit than the sailors."
Well, we here at IKA are not quite sure if we should sacrifice fair racing for the sake of spectator entertainment, however bringing the action closer to the audience is certainly something one should do anyway - and which is done since the very beginning in kiteboard racing with great success.
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With courses set within meters off the shoreline, grandstands build for the spectators and a wide variety of etertainment on the beach for racing addicts and visitors coming just to have a good time at the event site, kiteboard racing is surely leading the pack in terms of event setup and integrated entertainment ideas to attract not only the special interest audience, but also the general interest visitors.
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Kiteboarding as well as our friends from the windsurfing community always had a focus on giving the crowd a show WHILE conserving fair racing for the competitors. We rather have developed spectator-friendly formats, be it course races with short, multiple laps and finishing times of only 15 minutes to ensure action close to the beach, or the elimination knock out format "Kite Cross" where competitors are racing in heats and are cheered down the course by their fans along the shoreline.
Looks like the boardsports community can provide a lot of ideas to the sailing world that would please the requirements of the IOC for more media and spectator attractivity. Having the most spectator and media friendly formats it remains a mysterium why these exciting and different formats have been pitched against each other in the slate for the Olympic Sailing Competition. Lets hope that common sense prevails in the end.


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University Professors Awarded 2014 Eccles Prize
What is the best way to lift up India's poor population? In their recent book, Why Growth Matters (PublicAffairs, 2013), Columbia University Professors Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya argue that economic growth encouraged by liberal government policies is the way. For this work, the two have been awarded the 2014 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing. They will be recognized on Monday, May 12, from 7-9:30 p.m. with a ceremony and live Q&A. The event will be held in the Faculty Room in Low Library on Columbia's Morningside campus.
George S. Eccles '22 initially established the prize at the School over 25 years ago to foster interest in and spur public discussion of economic theory, practice, and issues. Between 1986 and 1993, it was awarded annually to esteemed figures such as Henry Kaufman, Maryann Keller, and Paul Krugman, for their works bridging theory and practice. It was given again in 1998, when Bhagwati, then of MIT, was recognized for his book, Stream of Windows (The MIT Press, 1999).
In 2010, the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation inaugurated an annual research award in finance and economics for Columbia Business School faculty members and reestablished the prize for economic writing. Last year, Paul Tetlock, the Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Finance, was honored for his research on the impact of investors' collective attention on stock prices. Also in 2013, Professor Daron Acemoglu of MIT and Professor James A. Robinson of Harvard took the Excellence in Economic Writing Award for their book, Why Nations Fail (Crown Business, 2012); Henry Kissinger received the award in 2012 for his book, Henry Kissinger on China (The Penguin Press HC, 2011).


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It's Too Late to Compromise on Climate
La Paz, Bolivia, where I was born and spent my first 18 years, "could perhaps be the first large urban casualty of climate change," according to The New York Times. I've been tracking the melting glaciers that supply water to the La Paz metropolis for the last few years. Each year the pace of melting has outstripped prior predictions in dramatic fashion. As a kid and a teenager I used to visit Chacaltaya, the emblematic glacier mentioned in the Times article. It is now gone. Extinct.
Scientists speculated that it would be gone by 2020; it formally disappeared this year. The crisis is no longer a futuristic prediction. It has arrived. The human impact stands to be incredibly stark. Margarita Limachi Álvarez, a Bolivian woman living in a village impacted by receding glaciers was quoted in the Times article saying, "A lot of us think about not having kids anymore. Without water or food, how would we survive? Why bring them here to suffer?"
Let's transpose that experience to a U.S. context: Lake Mead, which is a major source of water for LA, San Diego, Las Vegas, Tucson, and Phoenix, has a 50 percent chance of being completely dry by 2021. That is only 11 years from now. Major urban centers in southwestern United States are going to suffer dramatic decreases in water supplies within the next decade.
Tens of millions of lives are at stake in Copenhagen and beyond. Literally. Our profit- and growth-based economy has pushed the planet's life systems to the brink. Hence the motto on the streets of Copenhagen this week: "We need Systems Change, not Climate Change." It's way too late for compromises.
Compromises are no longer viable, unless you are of the mind that some communities and populations are disposable. At this point, compromises mean the eradication of entire island states. Compromises condemn entire swaths of the African continent to death from drought and severe climate dislocation. Compromises point to massive displacement and repression for immigrants and poor communities of color in the U.S. in an era of intensifying resource scarcity. I'm not willing to settle for compromise. In my personal life, compromise may well mean the depopulation and implosion of my hometown as a "major urban climate casualty."
No Fairness, No Deal
Equity is the only way to break the climate stalemate between the Global South and the North.
The core of our current conundrum is pretty simple, really: Wealthy corporations and national elites created the carbon problem and must fix it. My 5-year-old, Maya, gets it. She understands the basic Kindergarten notion of, "If you break it, you pay for it." She understands that social harmony, trust, friendship and true teamwork depend on some key values: sharing instead of hoarding, and being accountable when an injury is committed, whether it was intended or not.
That's the planetary moment we face. The U.S, Canada, Europe, Japan and Russia account for 70 percent of the historic CO2 emissions on the planet. Yet communities in the Global South, like folks in my Bolivian city of birth, stand to pay for the broken dishes with their lives and livelihoods. So we must share the responsibility for emissions reductions and the coming economic transition in a fair and accountable way.
Once upon a time, I remember candidate Obama inviting us to move away from a 'me society' and into a 'we society'. Well, Copenhagen gives him the opportunity to walk the talk. Business as usual is a dead-end deal, in the very real sense of the word "dead." As in, 50 percent of all species extinct by 2100 if we remain on the current growth and profit treadmill. As in, 70 percent of the world's arable areas suffering from drought by 2025 if we stay the course. What will it be, Mr. President? Rhetoric or reality? When the U.S. government's chief climate negotiator, Todd Stern, refuses to acknowledge our country's historic "climate debt" to the world, he is defending business as usual.
To successfully weather the current climate transition, the world really needs:
- Greenhouse gas emission targets that are real, binding, enforceable, verifiable, and in line with the science; targets that reduce emissions at the source.
- Agreement that industrialized nations must pay for the damage they have done to the rest of the world over the last 200 years—they must pay their "climate debt" and fund mitigation and adaptation efforts throughout the Global South.
- A transparent, democratic funding mechanism to administer payment of the climate debt.
- The recognition and protection of the rights of all peoples in all aspects of climate policy.
Bolivia's current president, Evo Morales, made the following insightful observation upon arriving in Copenhagen yesterday: "The current United States defense budget is $687 billion. And for climate change, to save life, to save humanity, they only put up $10 billion. This is shameful. The budget for the Iraq war, according to the figures we have, is $2.6 trillion ... Trillions of dollars. But directed towards paying the climate debt, $10 billion. This is completely unfair."
President Obama, the whole world is waiting. Act now, while we still have room to breathe.


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Justin Bieber has reportedly landed in a wheelchair after suffering a knee injury in a basketball game, TMZ reports.
While there was some initial confusion as to what Bieber was doing in the wheelchair — the site originally claimed that it appeared he was using it as a ruse to cut lines at Disneyland — the singer's camp told the site that he was using the chair to rest after hurting his knee in an earlier basketball game.
The site also reports that Bieber wouldn't even need to use the wheelchair to get ahead of lines at the theme park, since security would privately escort him in and out so he wouldn't get mobbed.
Still, one lucky fan managed to greet a wheelchair-bound Bieber at the Happiest Place on Earth and taped the sweet interaction, which shows the pop star being nothing but gracious as he slowly wheels away.
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Before he showed up in late 2009 for his face-to-face interviews with Cleveland Metroparks leaders as a candidate to replace longtime executive director Vern Hartenberg, Brian Zimmerman, 39, already had done more than the usual due diligence. He toured about three-quarters of the park system's reservations and golf courses before his interviews.
That extra effort impressed his interviewers.
"Our first impression has been a lasting one," said Mayor Bruce Rinker of Mayfield Village, a member of the three-person board that runs the 22,000-acre park system.
The graduate of the University of Wisconsin's School of Turf Management grew up on a farm, so his commitment to green grass and fresh air came naturally. But an interest in golf pulled him into golf course management.
Soon, he was managing Washington County Golf Club, a public course north of Milwaukee. Next he headed north to be a course superintendent in Michigan's Upper Peninsula before returning in 2002 to Milwaukee to run the 16 golf courses operated by the Milwaukee County Parks. In 2007, Mr. Zimmerman became the park system's operations manager, the No. 2 job that managed 156 neighborhood parks and the lakefront, in addition to its golf courses.
Since arriving in Cleveland with his wife and 8-year-old son in spring 2010, Mr. Zimmerman has been moving ahead with a master plan that anticipates a greater role for the Metroparks system on the lakefront, including linking its existing parks and the Towpath Trail now under construction along the Cuyahoga River with the lakefront.
Mr. Zimmerman said he believes the system is setting a high standard for lakefront parks with the transformation of its Huntington Reservation in Bay Village into Lake Erie's first Blue Wave-certified beach. The Clean Beaches Coalition of Washington D.C., created the Blue Wave designation to encourage the development of clean and safe beaches.
When Mr. Hartenberg retired, Mr. Zimmerman thought he was ready to step up, and he believed Cleveland was the right move.
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You can get picky about which podcast episodes — and even which parts of audio books — should be copied to your iPod during synchronization. When syncing an iPod touch that already has Apple's iBooks app installed, you can also choose which electronic books to sync and use with iBooks.
Clicking the Podcasts tab presents options for choosing podcast episodes to include. (You can include audio podcasts to sync with an iPod shuffle, but not video podcasts.)
Connect your iPod to your computer, and click the iPod button. Then click the Podcasts tab of the sync pages. The Podcasts sync page appears. Click the Sync Podcasts option at the top.
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Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has claimed rival Manchester United's runaway Premier League season is down to good fortune.
Mancini insists that Sir Alex Ferguson has been blessed with so much good fortune this season that it has left United in a false position at the top of the table, the Daily Mirror reports.
The Italian, who has confessed to being extremely superstitious, is also refusing to give up on his team's chances to retaining the title.
Mancini said until now, United have been really lucky with everything, adding they have won a lot of games in the last minute like against us when they really didn't deserve to win.
Mancini added he doesn't think the gap between United and City is correct at this moment, adding they are doing better than them this season, for sure, but they have lost points in games they deserved to win, when they just couldn't score.
The former Inter Milan boss added for this reason, he would say this is the difference, adding last year Man City scored a lot of goals up to this point, and maybe they are missing 10 goals and maybe seven or eight points.
City face Chelsea at the Etihad on Saturday and Mancini's experience of how a title race can turn means he is unwilling to concede the championship to United.
Last season, the Blues overturned an eight-point deficit in the space of four games to pip United by goal difference on the final day of the season, and five years ago, his Inter Milan side almost blew a 14-point lead before clinching the Serie A title thanks to a Zlatan Ibrahimovic double at Parma in their last game. (ANI)
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Best team in football?
Only now, at the cusp of a new year, has its identity become clear.
The team tied for the best record in the league, just shut out the defending Super Bowl champions. Right?
Am I disrespecting the Falcons? Only a little.
So it's gotta be Denver, no? Peyton Manning is playing like it's 2006. Difference is, he's got a better defense than 2006. Actually, he's got a better defense than he ever had. The Broncos have a mere nine-game winning streak, the latest of which came on the road, at an erstwhile bastion for a formerly fashionable pick.
No, it's not the Broncos either.
It's those guys who can't beat the Rams.
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In this year of the freshman quarterback, Jim Harbaugh decided -- three quarters through the season -- to start a sophomore. These gambles don't always work. His brother just fired his offensive coordinator. Again, how'd that go?
You know about the defense. Safeties who hit like linebackers. Linebackers who hit like superheroes. Lineman who hit like ... well, OK.
They're better than they were last year. Last month. Last week.
Seven days ago, the Patriots became the consensus team to beat when they overwhelmed the Texans. That was in Foxborough, where they lost last night.
It's not just that the Niners beat the team that beat the team. It's the way Colin Kaepernick outplayed Tom Brady. On the road. In just his fifth start.
Seven touchdowns, two picks, a passer rating over 100. More than 7 yards a carry. Very RG3-ish.
Remember Michael Crabtree, the bust? Last three weeks? One hundred yards a game.
A few weeks back, I said Harbaugh "better be right" in his decision to bench Alex Smith for Kaepernick.
Maybe he is.
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text: Blog Historical Preservation Organizations May 2, 2016 Doing research on historic preservation, whether it's for your own project or want to simply know about the process, is essential to ensuring that the integrity of the building is upheld based on the architectural standards of the building's age. One of the first things you want to do is find your local historic preservation organization. In our area, the Historical Preservation Office and the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs and Baltimore's Commission of Historical and Architectural Preservation are great places to start digging. However, there are also a number of national organizations that are great resources as well. Be sure to check out:The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) is an independent federal agency that focuses on preservation of historic sites around the country. They promote multiple organizations who are in the fight to save important landmarks and buildings through historic preservation.The Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation (AHLP): This organization focuses on the historic preservation of landscapes. They are involved with a range of locations including cemeteries, battlefields, agriculture and various rural districts.The American Cultural Resources Management (ACRA): The ACRA are advocates for cultural resources protected by State and Federal laws. They are known for halting laws with the ability to hurt historic preservation around the country. The biggest cause they fight for is the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA). ACRA is known for their involvement in state and tribal historic preservation throughout the country.The National Alliance of Preservation Commissions (NAPC): With a focus on education, the NAPC are active in federal, state and local governments to create local preservation commissions. Through local commissions, the correct education about historic preservation is taught through forums. Each local commission has the opportunity to voice their needs and issues, resulting in NAPC's assistance to achieve those goals.National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO): As a non-profit corporation consisting of preservation officers and associate member tribes, NATHPO focuses on historic preservation of native culture and tradition. NATHPO is involved with various projects, from Native American veterans to the Lewis and Clark Trail.Society for American Archaeology (SAA): The effort of SAA is put towards the appreciation and historic preservation of archaeology. With the goal of creating an interest for archaeology throughout the Americas, over 7,000 members work to prevent looting of sites, allow public access to various sites and nurture the research of archaeology through schools, museums and government sectors. If you are starting to renovate a historic home, visit our Pella Showroom in Gaithersburg, or call 202-810-6722, for assistance in your historic preservation project. Back to Blog


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Osama Bin Laden is dead. Not exactly a new story, but now President Obama's telling it people are finally believing it is true. Bin Laden was reported dead in 2001, and then again in 2006, and then again in 2007 (twice), as well as on a few other occasions. Virtually nothing has been heard of him recently, with the media preferring to cover the likes of Anwar Al-Awlaki and Adam Gadahn - both Americans. There are, of course, the usual doubts and theories as to who Awlaki and Gadahn really work for and what they represent. One story in particular has Awlaki dining at the Pentagon within months of 9/11:
You can read an extract from FBI documents on this story here. Awlaki was supposedly invited to dinner as part of an 'outreach program' to 'moderate Muslims', though I would guess that most people's memory of the immediate post-9/11 period was one where all Muslims were branded potential terrorists. As such, this excuse for Awlaki going to dinner at the Pentagon doesn't make much sense.
So, how did Osama Bin Laden die? The details aren't clear. He was apparently holed up in a 'compound' in Abbotabad, Pakistan and was tracked to there by US intelligence in the last few days. They launched a dual operation with Pakistani special forces, and somehow Bin Laden died. According to the BBC, a strike team carried out a forty minute assault against the 'compound' and Bin Laden was shot during the fight. A different BBC story says he was 'shot in the head while resisting'. They note how:
At some point in the operation one of the helicopters crashed, either from technical failure or having been hit by gunfire from the ground. - BBC
So they don't tell us whose helicopter crashed, or when, or why. Remarkably, The Sun (a journalistic entity with far less reach and reputation than the BBC) were more certain:
An American helicopter crashed during a brief firefight at the complex involving Navy Seal Team Six, an elite counter-terrorism unit, and bin Laden's body was carried away on foot. - The Sun
This implies that in fact Bin Laden's body was in the helicopter when it went down, and was recovered and taken away. There are many other reports to this effect. The Chinese English language news service had different information:
At about 1:20 a.m. local time a Pakistani helicopter was shot down by unknown people in the Sikandarabad area of Abbotabad. The Pakistani forces launched a search operation in the nearby area and encountered with a group of unknown armed people. A fire exchange followed between the two sides.
When the fire exchange ended, the Pakistani forces arrested some Arab women and kids as well some other armed people who later confessed to the Pakistani forces they were with Osama Bin laden when the fire was exchanged and Bin Laden was killed in the firing. - Xinhuanet
As per usual with these sorts of heavily-promoted events, the reporting is at best a bit sloppy and contradictory, and at worst a total sham. Was the helicopter Pakistani or American? Was it shot down early on, which then caused a search and rescue operation, or was it shot down during the firefight? Were forces drawn to the area by the helicopter crash or had they been tipped off by an informant? Was Bin Laden shot in the head while resisting, or was he killed as part of the lengthy firefight? Was it even Bin Laden? The BBC casts a bit of doubt citing the AP:
It says CIA experts analysed whether it could be anyone else but they decided it was almost certainly Bin Laden. - BBC
Only almost certain? But according to the Telegraph and others, Bin Laden was identified via DNA taken from his sister's brain (she died of brain cancer a few years ago). This does pose the question of how did they get a DNA match so quickly. Again, the officials have cast doubt on the evidence, according to ITN:
US officials say that initial DNA results prove that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead.Indeed, we have only one decidedly dodgy picture of a dead Bin Laden, being widely used by the mainstream media as part of the story. See for yourself:
The officials said the test showed a "very confident match" that it was bin Laden who was killed in the US special forces raid at a luxury compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan. - ITN
The Defense Dept has apparently admitted that this picture is a photoshopped fake that has been around for a while. A Telegraph article confirms this, linking to a composite of the images used to fake the Bin Laden image above.
Casting further doubt, it has been unanimously reported that the US dumped Bin Laden's body at sea, supposedly in accordance with Islamic rites requiring burial of the dead within 24 hours. This seems to be a ridiculous decision. Islamic scholars are already saying that a burial at sea is a violation of Islamic practices, and if Bin Laden was the mass murderer they claim then why pay him such respect? After all, this is a man they admit to summarily executing without any sort of trial whatsoever. The decision to dump the body makes much more sense if this whole thing is a deception operation of some kind, as there would be a need for a cover-up.
The media also unanimously referred to the location of the firefight as a 'compound'. The video of the building suggests otherwise:
It appears to be nothing more significant than a large house with a wall running round the outside, not unlike many wealthy peoples' houses.
The word also has echoes of the state-sanctioned murder of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, in February 1993.
As noted in this documentary, the use of the word 'compound' helped militarise the situation, making the state's massacre seem more justified. The celebratory speech by Barack Obama admitted that:
A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body. - Obama Speech in FullDespite admitting to extra-judicial murder, and in a foreign sovereign state no less, he claimed:
On nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al-Qaida's terror: Justice has been done. - Obama
It is worth watching Obama's speech, embedded below, alongside Paul Bremer's 'we got him' moment when the US said they caught Saddam Hussein, and Bush's speech on the same.
Notice the difference in management styles - the Neocons openly vainglorious and self-congratulatory, the Neolib Obama deferential and authoritarian. As appears to be the Modus Operandi of the Obama military PR strategy, here the celebrating was done by apparently ordinary people.
Just as in the 'Twitter revolutions', it was the microblogging site that first broke the news of the assault on the house in Abbotabad. You can read the tweet about a helicopter hovering overhead here. Citizen journalism, or planted information? You decide. Within minutes of the news reaching America there were hundreds of citizens demonstrating in New York and Washington, at the former site of the WTC and outside the White House. In each case the crowds were large enough to make for good TV, but not so large that they were too obviously a rent-a-mob. Whether these were spontaneous demonstrations or not, they helped ensure the feelgood factor.
As did the details from Obama that there were no civilian casualties, and no US military casualties, in the forty minute firefight. This only begs further questions. If it was that easy, why did the firefight last for forty minutes? If they didn't kill anyone at that stage, including Bin Laden, who were they shooting at for nearly three quarters of an hour? If there were others around, protecting Bin Laden, then what happened to them? Did they just decide to give up? Did they run out of ammunition? Were they also killed and this was studiously unreported? If it sounds too good to be true then it's probably horseshit. From a PR point of view, this couldn't have gone any better. If they are capable of fomenting 'spontaneous' uprisings in the Middle East then they're more than capable of doing it in the comfort of home.
Nonetheless, they haven't pushed the good news too hard, as the story has come with rumours of revenge attacks by Islamists and another round of hyping the terror threat. British PM David Cameron gave a much briefer statement than Obama, and almost exclusively focused on the 'negative vibe' of the possibility of terrorist reprisals, and the victims of the wave of terrorism supposedly inspired and directed by Bin Laden.
So what is going on here? Is this all just electioneering PR to give a boost to a vastly unpopular president? This is without doubt the finest point of Obama's administration so far. It also comes only days after the defense reshuffle that saw head of US forces in Afghanistan David Petraeus (a man predicted to run against Obama in 2012) moved over to head the CIA, and Leon Panetta move to replace the retiring Bob Gates as Secretary of Defense. Was this a move to placate Petraeus and give a boost to US defense policy? One must wonder, of course, at why Obama would choose this week of all weeks to make such big changes in the leadership of key institutions, when the US was supposedly involved in its most important covert operation for decades.
There may be more at stake. The execution of a public hate figure is a popular but illegal move, and it is only due to its popularity that its illegality is largely overlooked. We saw this only hours before the Bin Laden news came in, with word that NATO strikes against Libya had resulted in the deaths of one of Col Gaddafi's sons and three pre-teen grandchildren. This was not just the extra-judicial assassination of a terrorist, but the premeditated murder of innocent people in the name of 'protecting civilians'. Opposition to the Libya 'intervention' has been swift, cutting and on a large scale, and then along came the biggest victory, at least in terms of public perception, that the Western powers could ask for. So, was this news a vain attempt to curry favour with a disillusioned public, so as to shore up a failed, corrupt foreign policy?
There is a yet wider possibility. Since at least 1979 the NATO pact have been encouraging, financing, training and facilitating militant Islam as a force of destabilisation and mercenary terrorism. While groups like Al Qaeda have overtly been targeted as a designated enemy, they have covertly been prodded and manipulated in the furtherance of geostrategic goals. It appears with the Libya intervention that this process is being accelerated, and more openly admitted to. 'Revelation of the method', perhaps. Early on in the Obama administration the term 'war on terror' was dropped in favour of phrases like 'the struggle with violent extremism' - a much broader concept, even harder to define. This struggle has so far taken the form of increased special forces operations (death squads), increased drone strikes against terrorist bases (murder of civilians) and now the decapitation of the major enemy network.
In fact, even the notion of Al Qaeda as a network has been dropped, it is now a 'franchise' or just an 'ideology'. Perhaps the controlled demolition of Osama Bin Laden is a key step in the redrawing of the lines of sight in this battle. After all, if there's no Bin Laden and Al Qaeda is a decentralised loose-knit bunch of crazy Muslims, then it is a lot easier to justify sponsoring this or that particular group of crazy Muslims for this or that particular goal. As the double deal that is the war on terror becomes ever more apparent to an ever largening number of people, simple denial won't wash. By redefining the enemy as less a paramilitary entity - Al Qaeda - with a general - Bin Laden, and more as an ideological confluence led by Awlaki and the like, the double deal becomes more palatable and acceptable.
Recall the words of Graham Fuller, former National Intelligence Council member:
The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against [the Russians]. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia. - Fuller
With the great Muslim bogeyman now officially out of the way, this policy can be more fully endorsed and enacted. Consider that the lines between 'us' and 'them' are now so blurred that various newscasts accidentally reported that in fact Obama, not Osama, had been killed.


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The 2012 Denver County Fair boasts more contests, ribbons and fun
The second Denver County Fair — happening Aug. 10-12 — is mere weeks away and the schedule has been set!
If you thought last year's inaugural installment of this event was a hoot, just wait until you hear about this year's even more ambitious program.
In addition to last year's Fair Pavilions at the National Western Complex, this year includes the new Geek Pavilion and Kids' Pavilion, along with an Indoor Carnival. Vendors are still needed for the Pavilions.
So if you've got something you'd like to share with the community, now is the time to snatch up your booth. Click here for more information about booth rental.
If you're simply looking to enjoy the show, this year's schedule is crazy and jam-packed! Featured events include a Colorado Beer Garden, the return of the Freak Show, an Animal Interaction stop, and ¡Viva Denver!


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Though John Oliver is English, he's probably best known now for being part of an American cultural institution -- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He served as the show's "Senior British Correspondent" for seven years before he was tapped to guest host last summer. Stewart went off to shoot a documentary, and Oliver filled in as host for eight weeks, to great critical acclaim.
It was an audition of sorts, and Oliver got the part. He was offered his own weekly show on HBO, which began airing just a few weeks ago. Last Week Tonight provides Oliver his own platform to talk and joke about everything from the death penalty to climate change to the Indian general election.
He joins us to talk about his love for American positivity, his tone and approach for Last Week Tonight, the unique challenges of doing news satire and the signature field pieces of The Daily Show, and the romantic story of how he met his wife at the Republican National Convention.
Oliver's show Last Week Tonight airs on HBO Sunday nights at 11pm. He also co-hosts The Bugle podcast with Andy Zaltzman.
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Ricky Camona and Rhea Butcher of the movie podcast Wham! Bam! Pow! join us to talk about two of their all-time favorite movies, both about how individual people, their actions, and the universe are all tied up together.
Ricky recommends the ambitious 2012 adaptation of Cloud Atlas. Rhea recommends a movie that didn't need to reinvent the wheel to be successful -- the sequel Back to the Future Part II.
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If you're an actor, you know this: Getting cast in your first role is a huge challenge. But even then, it's sometimes YEARS before an actor lands a role that really gets their career moving in the direction they'd like. That's The Part.
When Tim Simons moved to LA to pursue acting, he auditioned a lot. He went in for movies, TV shows, commercials. He read his scripts and character descriptions very carefully -- and maybe stuck to the script just a little too much. But around that same time he also had a gig behind the scenes at a commercial casting company. While on the job, he saw a lot of other people audition and realized that the successful people were comfortable being themselves. They didn't always need to shoehorn themselves into the words on the page.
Simons talks to us about making acting choices and the creative freedom he's experienced as a result.
His character Jonah has a new job and story arc on this season of Veep. It airs Sunday nights on HBO.
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When it came to late night television, Arsenio Hall changed the game. In 1989, he took over a talk show contract originally given to Joan Rivers, and brought new life and new faces to the late night scene.
The Arsenio Hall Show had a spontaneous, fun-filled, party atmosphere, interview guests from Tupac to Madonna, and a signature audience chant. But in 1994, Hall ended the show, and he was mostly out of the spotlight for almost twenty years.
Hall returned with a new incarnation of the show last fall, and it's just been picked up for a second season.
Hall talks about how he decides to ask "that question" of interview guests, how a dinner party appeal from Diddy helped inspire his comeback, and finding a new place for himself in the late night arena.
You can find out when The Arsenio Hall Show airs in your area on the show's official website.
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This week Jesse shares a beautiful, charming song that you probably haven't heard before. It's tough to find on CD; but, that's ok because we're going to play the whole thing for you.
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On the same day it released, with much fanfare, the new version of the iPad, Apple also quietly released a new tool designed to allow organizations to manage large deployments of iPhones and iPads.
The free tool, Apple Configurator, showed up on iTunes and, Apple says, "makes it easy for anyone to mass configure and deploy iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in a school, business, or institution."
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Configurator lets admins set and maintain standard configurations on the devices, install apps and data, and update up to 30 devices at a time, reported The Next Web, which first came across the app.
It "can be used by larger organizations and businesses to set up new devices, install enterprise apps, and enroll each device with a Mobile Device Management solution for remote management by an IT administrator," Apple said.
The company, which has been making a strong push for using iPads in schools, seems to be touting Configurator mostly for use in educational settings. But it also could be used by government agencies, which have been adopting Apple's mobile devices in increasing numbers.
Agencies such as the Veterans Affairs Department have adopted policies for allowing iPhones, iPads and Android devices in its enterprise, and the Air Force just signed a contract to buy up to 18,000 iPads to replace paper flight manuals and navigation charts.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently said it would be switching from BlackBerry devices to iPhones and iPads.
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What's still, perhaps for a lack of a more accurate and lesser term, called broadcast journalism has surpassed the absurd stage. It's now in free-for-all.
Two Fridays ago, a Chicago jury convicted William Balfour, former brother-in-law of singer Jennifer Hudson, of triple homicide. In 2008 Balfour murdered Hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.
The next morning, ABC's national news telecast began its report on the verdict with publicity photos of Hudson.
Then ABC News sent it to Chicago for a live stand-up from correspondent Alex Perez, who reminded viewers that there was no pop-culture angle in this horror story; this was about the murder of three innocent humans.
"Good morning," said Perez, heard in a somber voice and seen in an unsmiling face, "Jurors insist that this case was not about Jennifer Hudson; it was about a man whose jealous rage became deadly."
Got that? Got it.
Yet, the moment Perez finished that sentence — and that most significant message — ABC News cut to music videos performed by Hudson. Good grief.
At least, in this case, ABC News wasn't able to add that Hudson will soon be appearing on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."
What's now presented and passes as news from ABC and its local affiliates is similar to confusing credit card come-ons and mortgage refinance flyers with mail.
Last week, WABC's lead New York anchor, Bill Ritter, solidified his position as the city's top ABC shill when he reported that Nik Wallenda, of the Flying Wallenda Family, has been cleared for an attempt next month to tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.
And then Ritter, to the surprise of no one who has been watching WABC News plummet, got to the meat of the matter: Wallenda's attempt is scheduled to be seen live in prime time on ABC.
WABC News, with Ritter assigned to steer, is also the local leader in helping viewers understand stories right after they're reported. A report on a fire that leaves victims homeless, for example, is followed by an anchor making tsk, tsk, then, for those who wouldn't know better, adding that this is "a sad story."
Last week, with Liz Cho anchoring, WABC aired street surveillance video of a man brandishing a knife toward a young mother and her 4-year-old daughter in Springfield, Mass.
The mother ran, leaving her daughter with the assailant. The mother eventually returned and the man eventually fled, leaving mother and child uninjured.
And then Cho, as if the video didn't speak for itself, helped us out: "A very disturbing story," she said.
But Cho soon brightened to report that the latest on "Dancing With the Stars" was just ahead on WABC News!
Although last week was a particularly busy one in sports — NBA and NHL playoffs, baseball, Roger Clemens perjury trial, et. al., ESPN, ABC's Disney sibling and "The Worldwide Leader in Sports," devoted its morning drive-time radio broadcast to — ta-da! — "Dancing With the Stars. "
In an ongoing, forced and mostly unfunny cross-promotion, morning co-anchor Mike Greenberg "auditioned" — and that was enough to stop everything, and over several days, to build up and act out.
Apparently it didn't much matter that drive-time radio audiences have a difficult time watching someone dance. What mattered was that ESPN again was primarily serving ABC, not its audiences.
While Greenberg's "DWTS" inclusion was unofficial, it's worth noting that three previous ESPNers — Kenny Mayne, Emmitt Smith and Erin Andrews — had appeared as official contestants.
And on at least two occasions, Disney Channel programming stars were selected as contestants for the show, which is a steady WABC News newsmaker!
What a relief, last week, for those who switched to Ch. 4, WNBC News — just in time to learn who won, the night before, on NBC's "The Voice."


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Aid workers recount ethnic killings in central Sudan
JUBA, Sudan — The Sudanese army appeared poised Thursday to launch a ground offensive in central Sudan, spiking fears of another violent crackdown on a non-Arab ethnic group.
Aid workers fleeing South Kordofan state told harrowing tales of Nuba tribesmen being gunned down in the streets of the region's capital, Kadugli, and of women and children seeking refuge in the Nuba Mountains.
"Those coming in are saying, 'Whenever they see you are a black person, they kill you,'" according to one aid worker who recently left the area, but asked not to be named because she hopes to return.
The special envoy to Sudan, Ambassador Princeton Lyman, said the U.S. government, which brokered a 2005 agreement to end decades of civil war in Sudan, doesn't have enough information on the ground to call the campaign "ethnic cleansing."
But he said the fighting is continuous and that the Sudanese government effort to seize control of the area ahead of the July 9 division of the country into two threatens U.S. promises normalize relations with Sudan and remove it from Washington's list of terror sponsors of if the northern government allows the division to go forward.
Under the peace agreement, Sudan will be divided into an Arab-ruled state in the north and an African-ruled one in the south. The Nuba region, which was sympathetic to the south throughout the civil war, falls north of the new border line.
Aid workers who recently left the area said that so far most of the violence has occurred in major towns now controlled by government forces, while the rural Nuba Mountains are still controlled by a former rebel Nuba force known as the Sudan People's Liberation Army. If the outgunned SPLA forces fold under a full-fledged military assault, however, they fear that an ethnic slaughter could spread across most of the Nuba-populated areas.
A total of 280 military vehicles were seen pouring into Kadugli from June 12-15, according to confidential military situation reports prepared by the United Nations mission in Sudan and obtained by McClatchy. These new deployments are in addition to a continued buildup of troops in the days and even weeks before.
Most of the vehicles were Toyota Land Cruisers carrying troops, while others were ammunition trucks and artillery guns, according to the reports.
"Preparations for a major ground offensive against SPLA in SKS (South Kordofan state) are increasingly becoming clearer," warned a dispatch from the U.N. base in Kadugli dated Wednesday. "The situation is likely to deteriorate further over the next few days."
A Nuba aid worker who said he was in Kadugli at the start of clashes on June 5 described what he said was a planned campaign of ethnic cleansing. The Sudanese army and Arab militias descended on the homes of known Nuba opposition sympathizers and executed them on the spot, he said. Bloodbaths unfolded in the Kadugli streets, he said, as Nuba were shot as they attempted to flee.
An Arab militia member told him they had been given orders to "just clear," his account continued. He asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation.
Other aid workers said that women and children in SPLA-controlled areas leave their homes at night to sleep in the mountains to avoid any assault launched at night.
They said the Nuba flooding in from Kadugli and other towns wear expressions of horror and exhaustion, and many show signs of malnutrition after days of walking with little or no food.
Heavy bombardment by Sudanese military aircraft has targeted both SPLA and civilian areas in towns and the mountains, and helicopter gunships have chased fleeing Nuba, according to the aid workers' accounts.
The humanitarian situation could soon worsen, as the Sudanese government appears to be blocking aid as a war tactic, refusing to allow aid flights into the Kadugli airport and bombing a key aid airstrip in the SPLA-stronghold of Kauda on Tuesday.
Over 60,000 have fled already from the conflict, most from Kadugli itself, according to the U.N., which reported in a public humanitarian statement on Tuesday that "a growing sense of panic" is gripping the civilians trapped. Half of those are believed to be children, according to Save the Children.
An estimated 8,500 Sudanese have gathered outside the U.N. peacekeeping base on the outskirts of Kadugli, seeking protection and aid. Of those, nearly 2,700 have sought medical treatment for diarrhea and over 1,600 for acute respiratory infections, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday.
Some 30,000 Nuba have fled into the SPLA-controlled mountains for safety, according to a ground assessment by aid organizations there earlier this week.
The Nuba, who are religiously diverse, were similarly targeted by the Sudanese government in the early 1990s, when hundreds of thousands are thought to have died.
(Boswell is a McClatchy special correspondent. His reporting from Sudan is supported in part by Humanity United, a California-based foundation that focuses on human rights issues).
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'Santa, I want one of those …'
Santa turned heads on a recent morning, as he tooled through the Danville Livery & Mercantile parking lot in a slick silver Mercedes.
Several excited female shoppers pulled out cameras and tried to hail Santa down. Alas, the big guy left them behind with just a glimpse of his red suit and his "O Santa" license plate.
— Denis Cuff, Staff
Past Times
Dec. 21, 1960 Top stories of the Pleasanton Times
Headline: "The Angels (on Angela) Will Resort to Deviltry if Anybody Starts Widening Their Street"
Angela Street may have angel-like residents occupying those score of cottages right now, but the angels will turn to devils breathing fire if the City of Pleasanton tries to convert that quiet residential strip into a busy thoroughfare.
That is the feeling of a majority of Angela Street residents who have made their sentiments known to the City Council, its engineer and its planners.
They do not mind children from Pleasanton Heights using Angela as a main route to school, and they can even walk on the grassy boulevard strip to keep them off the traffic lanes.
There might even be some Angela street property owners prepared to go along with "a little pathway of some kind within that boulevard strip" to keep the wee ones' feet dry of a wet winter morning, BUT … Angela street residents will oppose, fight and sue if the city attempts to widen the present 32-foot traffic route east from Third street by so much as an inch.
Headlines: "City Would Extend Plan Area … Will Not Extend North Beyond Highway 50"
The Pleasanton Planning Commission has taken steps to expand the city's master plan, and at the same time the City Council has made it clear there is no policy calling for annexation or growth north of Highway 50.
The council made its declaration to "put at ease those San Ramon Village residents who apparently believe Pleasanton wants to annex that development."
Mayor Warren Harding made it clear "city planning and annexation policies, insofar as we can envision, do not include going north of Highway 50; we certainly have no thoughts of annexing San Ramon Village."
As for San Ramon Village and/or Dublin, there are now sufficient residents in that area north of the highway to require a vote of the people to permit annexation to another city, or incorporation of a new city within that area.
At the Movies: The Vine, Livermore — Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor and Noël Coward star in "Surprise Package."
Groceries: Safeway — Manor House turkey, 43 cents a pound for hens, 39 cents for toms. Dubuque canned hams, 6 3/4 pounds, $4.59; Lucerne egg nog, 59 cents a quart; pumpkin or mince frozen pies, three for $1.
Trivia question: What is the official flower of Pleasanton?
Answer to last week's question: "Surprise Package"
Contact Louise Hartman at lhartman@bayarea- newsgroup.com or follow on Twitter at Newsie1195.


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Obama: 'A jury has spoken'
President Barack Obama on Sunday waded back into the racially charged Trayvon Martin case, making clear that he accepts a jury's acquittal of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Martin's death and calling for calm reflection.
Zimmerman's acquittal has sparked new calls — from members of Congress to civil rights leaders — for the Department of Justice to intervene and possibly pursue charges. A statement from the Department of Justice late Sunday afternoon said federal prosecutors will evaluate the evidence and decide whether intervention is warranted. But in a statement released nearly 18 hours after the jury's verdict, Obama made no mention of the Justice Department.
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"I know this case has elicited strong passions," the president said. "And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher. But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken."
( PHOTOS: George Zimmerman trial)
Obama's unusual statement at the conclusion of a murder trial illustrates just how inflamed the feelings over Martin's killing have become. The case has sparked a national debate over profiling, civil rights and the Florida Stand Your Ground law, with conservatives praising the outcome as a just verdict and many civil rights leaders vowing to continue to make their case in court.
A short time after Obama released his statement, the Department of Justice also weighed in, saying prosecutors would continue to evaluate the evidence.
"Experienced federal prosecutors will determine whether the evidence reveals a prosecutable violation of any of the limited federal criminal civil rights statutes within our jurisdiction, and whether federal prosecution is appropriate in accordance with the department's policy governing successive federal prosecution following a state trial," a department spokesman said.
( Also on POLITICO: Ben Jealous says NAACP president wants a civil rights case)
Zimmerman was acquitted Saturday night in a state trial of the fatal 2012 shooting. The Constitution forbids retrial under the same charge, what is known as "double jeopardy," but courts have ruled that federal and state prosecutions are distinct and, therefore, permissible.
In the hours following the reading of the verdict, NAACP President Ben Jealous started a petition calling on the department to open a civil rights case against Zimmerman, who shot unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin as he walked through the Sanford, Fla., gated community where he was staying.
( PHOTOS: Trayvon Martin rallies)
"The most fundamental of civil rights — the right to life — was violated the night George Zimmerman stalked and then took the life of Trayvon Martin," Jealous wrote in the petition addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder.
"It feels so often that our young people have to fear the bad guys and the good guys, the robbers and the cops, and the self-appointed community watch volunteers," Jealous said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared Sunday: "This isn't over with."
"I think the Justice Department's going to take a look at this," Reid said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "And I think that's good. That's our system. It's gotten better, not worse."
The racial element to the case – Martin was an unarmed black teenager who was shot by Zimmerman, a white Hispanic — could make the path to formal Justice Department charges, Jealous suggested.
"Federal criminal charges under the James Byrd hate crime bill. What you're going to have to do there is show that race was a factor in his decision making, and there seems to be plenty of evidence that suggests that race was a factor," Jealous said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "He called 911 a lot about a young black man that he suspected of being dangerous."
Race was rarely mentioned at the Florida trial, despite the furor over race relations that the case sparked.


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Girl meets boy in a bar. With a few touches on her mobile phone, she gets a good idea of his background, his financial assets and even his criminal record. If things look bad, she ducks out the fire exit of the building.
That's the idea behind DateCheck -- a new mobile phone application launched this week at Demo Fall 2009 in San Diego.
The iPhone app will run a name or phone number -- landline or cell -- against a number of public databases. In just a few minutes, you can find out if that perfect guy is really as great as he seems.
"Sleaze Detector actually will go run a criminal check. That background check includes a summary of offenses like assaults, DUI, drug offenses, sexual offenses and a bunch of other serious convictions," said DateCheck CEO John Arnold.
The app can also give you insight into whether Mr. Right already has a Mrs. Right. The program is free, but searches can cost money, depending on which databases are being searched.
The application was launched by Intelius at the technology seminar held at the Sheraton Harbor Island earlier this week.