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Whether you're going to a wedding or just want to look polished for work, this twist-braid hairstyle has you covered. Celebrity hairstylist Travis Speck, a stylist at Sally Hershberger's Downtown Salon in NYC, breaks it down for Cosmopolitan.com just exactly how to create this updo.1. Smooth your strands. Grab a flat iron and smooth your hair first, and then hit it with a shine spray to minimize any flyaways. Try Sally Hershberger Salon Smooth Fix Styling Spray.
2. Braid two sections. Split your hair in half, and leave the left section to the side. Separate the right half of your hair into two and twist the right piece around your finger twice, then cross it over the left piece of hair to create a rope braid effect. Then repeat with the piece of hair that's now in your right hand. Keep repeating until you reach the end and secure with a hair tie. Then repeat on the left side.
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A version of this article appears in the May/June 2005 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
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There are a few hurdles to overcome in retrofitting historic homes, such as staying out of the way of visitors, but the effort can lead to greater energy efficiency, greater comfort, and better protection for precious artifacts.
Reducing the amount of energy used in historic homes has two big benefits. First, it can help government agencies or private conservators to stretch tight budgets. Second, and almost as important, the efficiency improvements may extend the lives of important historic properties and can help to maintain a better indoor environment for the artifacts housed within them. The Road to Galena Visitors to a historic home probably don't think first about saving energy. Yet that was the first thought on the mind of a team who visited three historic homes in Galena, Illinois, in the early summer of 2003. The Illinois state energy office, which is housed within the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, working with the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, wanted to learn whether the tools and methods of home energy ratings were applicable to historic buildings. Two years earlier, these tools and methods had been successfully applied to older homes in Quincy, a historic Illinois community along the Mississippi River. Now John Marley of the Illinois energy office wanted to see what energy rating could offer in state-owned historic homes. &...
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — As the U.S. renews its effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, it will soon begin reconsidering the fate of prisoners such as Mohammed al-Shimrani.
The 38-year-old Saudi is in a special category among the 166 prisoners at Guantanamo — one of nearly 50 men who a government task force decided were too dangerous to release but who can't be prosecuted, in some cases, because proceedings could reveal sensitive information. While the rest of the prisoners have been cleared for eventual release, transfer or prosecution, al-Shimrani and the others can only guess at their fate.
"The allegations against my client are no more serious than many, many Saudis who have been sent home," New York-based attorney Martha Rayner said of al-Shimrani. "It just baffles me."
The Pentagon says the men in the indefinite detention category are held under international laws of war until the "end of hostilities," whenever that may be. As a group, they are one of the chief hurdles to President Barack Obama's attempts to close the detention center on the U.S. base in Cuba.
For the most part, they have been accused of being al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, couriers and recruiters. After more than a decade, their lawyers say it's time to let them go.
Their lawyers recently began receiving notifications that intelligence officials from "various U.S. government agencies" would begin reviewing the detention of their clients to determine whether it was still necessary to hold them. A Defense Department spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Joseph Todd Breasseale, said the date for the first hearing hasn't been set.
Details of how the panels will be conducted, whether, for example, lawyers for the men will be allowed to be present or can only appear by videoconference, have not been disclosed.
Rayner, a professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York, said she is hopeful because her client has family to receive him back in Saudi Arabia, and a government capable of providing any security assurances the U.S. might need.
"I am going into this with an open mind," she said.
Many who have long pushed for the closure of the prison say the U.S. needs to act fast because the legal premise for their indefinite detention will evaporate when the U.S. pulls its troops out of Afghanistan in 2014, effectively ending the war that prompted the opening of Guantanamo in January 2002.
"Our credibility is strained to begin with, but whatever is left is going to be sorely harmed if we continue to detain people after the rationale has expired," said Morris "Moe" Davis, a retired Air Force colonel who served two years as the chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo military commissions.
The men in the indefinite detention category include three Saudis, al-Shimrani among them, who were held back as dozens of fellow citizens were sent to a rehabilitation program in their country. It also includes two Kuwaitis, Faez al-Kandari and Fawzi al-Odah, who have been accused of being part of a terrorist group and are being held even though Kuwait has built a rehabilitation center for them that sits idle. Also on the list are several Afghans, who officials have said are possible candidates for a prisoner swap with the Taliban involving an American POW, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl of Idaho.
Al-Shimrani worked as a teacher in Saudi Arabia and was accused of training with al-Qaida and fighting against the Northern Alliance and possibly being a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden. Rayner argues there is no longer any legal or security justification for holding him.
Most of the government's court filings on him are sealed. In general, however, the reason the government often opted not to prosecute men on the indefinite list was because their capture involved aid from foreign governments that did not want their assistance disclosed or because U.S. authorities used technological capabilities they did not want to publicize, said Davis, the former chief prosecutor. "It wasn't that there wasn't good evidence; it was an inability to use that evidence," he said.
Air Force Lt. Col. Barry Wingard, a military lawyer for al-Kandari, who is accused of producing al-Qaida propaganda, insists there is a lack of evidence. "If the government could successfully prosecute these guys they would," he said. "But they can't and they won't."
The U.S. began using Guantanamo to hold "enemy combatants" in the chaotic early days of the war in Afghanistan. Al-Shimrani, captured in Pakistan after fleeing Afghanistan, was among the first arrivals, a core group who it was thought would yield valuable intelligence about al-Qaida. He was eventually interrogated at least 88 times, according to court documents. The prison, meanwhile, grew to a peak of about 680, with Afghans and Saudis the two largest groups by nationality.
Amid global pressure, Obama vowed to close the prison upon taking office but was thwarted by Congress, which enacted legislation that prohibited the transfer of prisoners to the U.S. and made it harder to send them abroad.
An administration task force divided the prisoners into three, somewhat fluid, categories in January 2010: those who should be considered for trial; those who should be transferred overseas or released; and those who should be held indefinitely under the laws of war. At the time, there were 48 on the indefinite list but two have since died. The number may also grow since some of the two dozen designated for prosecution currently can't be charged because Congress has prevented them from being tried in civilian courts and an appeals court ruling found they couldn't be charged by military commission.
Meanwhile, the government is fitfully moving ahead with military trials for some of the men whose cases were deemed fit for prosecution. Defense Department officials were returning to Guantanamo Bay on Sunday for a weeklong pretrial hearing for five prisoners facing charges that include murder and terrorism for planning and aiding the Sept. 11 attacks. The trial is at least a year away. The exact number of prisoners who can be prosecuted will depend on pending appeals of court decisions and other factors.
The U.S. has also made some progress on the nearly 90 prisoners approved for transfer or release, recently naming a new State Department envoy to lead the effort and approving long-stalled transfers for two Algerians.
That leaves the fate of the indefinites up to the intelligence officials on Periodic Review Boards. In the early years of his captivity, al-Shimrani was disdainful of a military panel weighing whether he should be held as an enemy combatant, sending a defiant note that said "judge me the way you like."
Some of that defiance may have worn off. Rayner describes him as "troubled" by his open-ended incarceration.
"You know indefiniteness is quite cruel, it really leaves someone psychologically at sea," she said.
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The East Central University softball team will wrap up their Spring Break with four Great American Conference games against Southern Arkansas, March 22-23 at Lady Tiger Field. The teams will play double-headers each day, with Friday's (March 22) slated to start at 2 p.m. and Saturday's (March 23) set to begin at noon.
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Fans who can't be at the game can find links to live stats, live video (if available) on ECUTigers.com. Go to the softball schedule page.
Scouting Southern Arkansas
The Lady Muleriders are 16-14 overall and 8-6 in the GAC after splitting a series with Henderson State last weekend. This weekend's games will mark just the sixth through ninth games at an opposing school this season for SAU, in which they are 1-4.
The Lady Muleriders have a .271 batting average and are allowing a .267 mark for the season. They are close in all the statistical categories, including ERA 3.32 to 3.59 and hits 204 to 210.
Sarah Higginbotham is the team's top producer at the plate with a .446 average. She has 41 hits, including five home runs and 19 RBIs on the year. Kelci Garza is next on the team with a .382 average on 29 hits and 14 RBIs.
SAU has three pitchers that have seen action, but one that is the clear go-to thrower. Hanna Gill is 12-6 in the circle, with a 2.63 ERA and .242 opponent batting average. She has thrown 119.2 innings and recorded 112 strikeouts. Taylor Clifton has seen the most time behind Gill, with 60.2 innings of work. She has a 4-8 record, 4.15 ERA, 38 strikeouts and a .288 opponent average.
Against the Lady Muleriders
Last year the Lady Tigers went 1-4 against SAU, including a loss in the GAC Championship Tournament.
Sophomore Chelsea Patterson leads the returners against the Lady Muleriders with a .357 average on five hits and an RIB. Senior Ali Manship adds a .250 average, with four hits and an RBI. Manship also went 1-2 in the circle, allowing 21 hits, 11 runs and striking out four batters.
Mackenzie Spanko is the top returner for SAU, with a .583 average on seven hits and 1 RBI. Hanna Gill went 3-0 in the circle with 19.0 innings of work and 11 strikeouts. She allowed 17 hits and seven runs.
Striking Out the Competition
In the six games that ECU played from March 12-16 the pitching staff combined for a 6-0 mark and 39 strikeouts. Sophomore Brianna Nunley started the strong week off with 10 K's against Oklahoma Baptist (March 12) and freshman Lacey Paulk continued the run with 11 against Ouachita Baptist (March 15).
Simmons Earns Player of the Week Honors
ECU senior Shelby Simmons was named the GAC Player of the Week for March 19 after helping the Lady Tigers to a 6-0 record over the week.
The North Richland Hills, Texas, native hit .591 for the week, with 13 hits in 22 at-bats. Simmons scored five runs, added four RBIs, had a double and triple and a slugging percentage of .727.
Leah Leaping Forward
Freshman Leah Tigert had a standout weekend for the Tigers at Southwestern and earned GAC Player of the Week honors for her efforts. The Hennepin, Okla., native hit .636, with seven hits and six RBIs. Tigert came up big with a double and a game-winning double in the seventh inning of the fourth game with the Lady Bulldogs.
Finishing Early
So far this season the Lady Tigers have played 28 games, winning 22. Of those 22 wins ECU has earned the victories at the end of the fifth inning in 10 games, with the run rule.
Home Run Fever
The Lady Tigers had a case of home run fever in the Tarleton State Tournament, with 12 total home runs, including seven in the second day.
Senior Ali Manship led the team with five home runs, junior Gina Mengwasser added three, and senior Shelby Simmons, sophomores Lauren Bancroft and Lacey Williams and freshman Jordynn VanPelt all garnered one.
Mengwasser Picking Up Recognition
Junior transfer Gina Mengwasser made an immediate impact for the Lady Tigers in her first games. The Edmond, Okla., native tallied four hits, including a home run and a grand slam. She tallied 10 RBIs and a .786 slugging percentage. For her efforts she was named to the 14-member St. Mary's All-Tournament Team as the catcher.
All-Tournament Honors
Four members of the ECU softball team earned a spot on the 12-member Tarleton State All-Tournament team. Junior Gina Mengwasser, senior Shelby Simmons and sophomore Lacey Williams were named to the team as the catcher, short stop and outfielder, while senior Ali Manship was named the co-MVP of the tournament.
Mengwasser has a .385 batting average, with three home runs, four RBIs and a 1.077 slugging percentage. Simmons finished the four games with a .500 batting average, a double, home run and four RBIs. Williams tallied a .455 average, with a double and home run. She also added an RBI, .818 slugging percentage and 2-2 in stolen bases. Manship earned a win in the circle and recorded a batting average of .600. She tallied five home runs and nine RBIs, with a 1.600 slugging percentage.
Manship GAC Pitcher of the Week
Senior Ali Manship also had a strong showing in the opening weekend of action and was named the first Great American Conference Pitcher of the Week for the 2013 season. The honor is the first for the Harrah, Okla., native.
Manship picked up the win in all three of the Lady Tigers victories at the St. Mary's Invitational. She threw a shutout and two complete games. She struck out seven and registered an ERA of 1.47 for the weekend. As a batter, she hit .429 (6-for-14) with four runs scored.
GAC Preseason Poll
The Lady Tigers were picked to finish third in the 2013 Great American Conference Preseason Poll, as voted on by the league's head coaches. ECU received 35 points.
Arkansas-Monticello earned the top spot, with 43 points and four first-place votes. Southeastern was second, with 39 points and two first-place votes, with Southwestern and Southern Arkansas each earning the final first-place votes and finishing fourth (34 points) and fifth (30 points), respectively. Henderson State (17 points), Arkansas Tech (13) and Ouachita Baptist (13 points) round out the poll.
Up Next
After their eight-game home stand the Lady Tigers will hit the road for 10 games from March 29-April 6. The first stop on the trip will be a four-game GAC series at Southern Nazarene (March 29-30).


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In 2005, Grameen Foundation launched the Growth Guarantee (GG) program to help microfinance institutions (MFIs) establish credit relationships with local banks and build critical access to local currency financing.
The GG program was initiated to address a lack of capital supply for MFIs in the face of substantial unmet demand for microfinance loans. Where capital was available, 92 percent of the funding was denominated in hard currency (USD or Euro), which created excessive foreign exchange risk at the MFI level. The GG program was designed to address both of these issues by opening up new local sources of capital, effectively offering both a "credit introduction" for the MFI and a "credit enhancement" for the local bank in the form of a letter of guarantee.
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Fifth Judicial District Attorney Bruce Brown announced this week that he will intensify the charges against a Dillon Valley East man accused in January of striking his significant other in the head with a hatchet.
Brown said that he will seek to prosecute Michael Newcomb, 43, on several felony and misdemeanor charges, including: Attempted second-degree murder, a felony that could carry a prison sentence of 10-32 years; second-degree assault with a deadly weapon, a felony that would carry 10-32 years; two counts of menacing, a felony that could result in up to 6 years in prison; and third-degree assault, a misdemeanor that could carry up to 2 years in county jail.
On Jan. 31, the Summit County Sheriff's Office responded to a domestic dispute. The incident was initially reported to 911 by a neighboring couple who heard a "scuffle" in the condo below and the victim's cries for help.
Investigators say that Newcomb struck his female companion in the head with a hatchet. The woman was transported to St. Anthony Summit Medical Center. She suffered a six-millimeter fracture to the back of her skull, investigators say. Additionally, the victim was struck in the front of the head with a metal pipe that the couple used as a type of doorstop. This blow caused an injury that required several stitches.
Newcomb was scheduled to have his first court appearance today. His bond has been set at $7,500, according to a news release from the district attorney's office.
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The independent watchdog agency that oversees Maryland's Department of Juvenile Services recently released a report showing the state made important progress last year toward improving conditions for youths held in its three largest juvenile detention facilities. That's good news given the years of problems the system has encountered with overcrowding, incidents of violence, high staff turnover and aging facilities. Now the state needs to build on those gains by replicating the successful programs at its largest institutions in smaller facilities statewide.
DJS Secretary Sam Abed appears to have taken to heart criticisms that the state fills its detention centers with far too many nonviolent juvenile offenders who don't need to be there. In the past, that contributed to serious overcrowding at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center, the Cheltenham Youth Facility in Prince George's County and the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School in Baltimore County, where youths whose cases had already been adjudicated often waited for weeks or months before a bed in a state residential treatment facility became available. Time spent in the state's detention centers does not count toward completion of a treatment program.
Mr. Abed has argued, rightly in our view, that many of those youths could be better served by alternatives to detention such as home detention supplemented by GPS monitoring, home visits by DJS staffers, and daily and evening reporting requirements. Another alternative is sending youths in detention facilities to smaller, community-based treatment programs. Over the last year, with the support of an Annie E. Casey Foundation grant, these approaches have been tried at all three of the state's largest youth detention facilities, and data compiled by the independent Juvenile Justice Monitoring Unit suggests they are producing results.
Overall levels of violence and injuries associated with youth assaults on other youths or staff have declined, as have group disturbances. So has the use of physical restraints to control unruly youths, such as the ones that led to the 2007 death of a boy at the now closed Bowling Brook Academy in Carroll County. Mr. Abed can also point to some successes in reducing contraband and incidents of suicidal behavior among youths in DJS facilities, though progress in this area remains uneven.
The agency still faces significant challenges, however, particularly in regard to providing residential and treatment programs for girls of the same quality as those for boys. The state's only treatment program for girls is housed at the Carter Center on the Eastern Shore, which lacks many of the regular athletic and vocational opportunities available to boys and whose location far from the metropolitan regions many girls come from makes it harder for families to support and participate in their treatment.
The physical plant at the Carter Center is also an impediment, in that it was originally built as a detention facility, not as a treatment center. As a result, its design doesn't complement the institutional mission for which it is now being used. "Generally, female youth in the juvenile justice system are 'disproportionately high need and low risk,' which makes individualized, effective treatment of female youth difficult to achieve when they are subject to the nature of confinement in a hardware secure facility," the report notes. It goes on to warn that such conditions can exacerbate symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder girls may have experienced, and they run counter to current best practices regarding trauma-informed care.
Mr. Abed took over a Juvenile Services Department in 2011 that was deeply troubled and mired in seemingly intractable problems that had been decades in the making. There are no quick or easy solutions that will magically turn the agency around. But the approach he has adopted at the largest detention facilities, which focuses state resources on the most serious youthful offenders while aggressively pursuing alternatives to detention for those who pose little or no danger to public safety, is a model for similar institutions statewide.
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1. General economic trends affecting the forest and forest industries sector (brief description)
2. Policy measures taken in the country over the past 18 months, which might have a bearing on trade and markets of forest products or forest management. The UNECE/FAO Forest Products Annual Market Review, 2012-2013 is a background document for the Market Discussions.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I know it's a day late, we had a full day yesterday! Lots of great people and yummy food. I had a cute little plan of making a cake that looked like a turkey for Thanksgiving. But after three weeks of colds, strep, and then the flu just before Thanksgiving it just didn't happen! There's always next year. Awhile back I saw some mash potateo cupcakes I used those as inspiration to create these Thanksgiving meal cupcakes.


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|USCF Goes to DC for After School Alliance Event
|February 11, 2013
US Chess Federation President Ruth Haring and Marketing Director Robert McLellan went to Washington, D.C. last week to participate in the After School Alliance's After School for All Challenge event.
In America today, 15.1 million children are alone and unsupervised in the hours after school. Afterschool for All brings together individuals and organizations from across the nation who support the vision that all children and youth deserve access to quality, affordable afterschool programs.
At this year's event some 300 people from across the nation, including Hawaii and Alaska, gathered to work on such diverse topics as how to implement Common Core State Standards into after school curriculum, how to address initiatives by many state agencies to more strictly define what constitutes a quality after school program. We also brainstormed practices and ideas for growing programs while dealing with increasing competition for financial resources.
USCF was proud to be a sponsor. The event program included an evening screening of the film "Brooklyn Castle" which After School holds out as a model of how after school and in school day programs can work together. Assistant principal and chess program coordinator at IS 318 John Galviin received this year's National After School Champion Award. The film is bringing unprecedented attention to chess in education, while John continues to tirelessly promote chess and after school programs in the media and at festivals and conferences across the nation. Later this month he returns to DC to participate in a panel at the America's Promise Alliance conference, the nation's largest partnership working for youth, founded by General Colin Powell and his wife.
John's award was presented at a breakfast event in the historic Kennedy Caucus Room on Capitol Hill. The event was attended by after school education leaders as well as Senators Barbara Boxer, Lisa Murkowski, and Sheldon Whitehouse, and other elected officials. Afterwards John joined other delegates from New York to meet with staff members at Senator Gillibrand's office and several New York state congressional leaders.
While time in DC was short, Ruth made a point to visit with executives from one of our new affiliates', Chess Challenge in DC. She also visited one of their after school programs at Brent Elementary, a school very near the Capitol. Chess Challenge Executive Director Suzy Hirsch and Coach Dave Byrd soon put Ruth to work with the kids practicing Rook and King vs. King checkmates.
Brooklyn Castle is now available on video on demand and iTunes across the nation. USCF is continuing to work with the film's distributors to find ways to present the film to community leaders and education officials across the nation. If you would like to host a screening, contact them at [email protected]


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CNN's GUT CHECK | for January 14, 2013 | 5 p.m.
– n. a pause to assess the state, progress or condition of the political news cycle
BREAKING: GEITHNER SENDS DEBT LIMIT LETTER TO CONGRESS… "Treasury currently expects to exhaust these extraordinary measures ('to avoid default on the nation's obligations') between mid-February and early March of this year. … Congress should act as early as possible to extend normal borrowing authority in order to avoid the risk of default and any interruption in payments. If the extraordinary measures were allowed to expire without an increase in borrowing authority, Treasury would be left to fund the government solely with the cash we have on hand on any given day. As you know, cash would not be adequate to meet existing obligations for any meaningful length of time because the government is currently operating at a deficit."
DEVELOPING: OBAMA SAYS GUN LOBBY STOKES FEAR OF FEDERAL ACTION… The gun lobby is "ginning up" fears the federal government will use the Newtown shooting, exactly one month ago, to seize Americans' guns, President Barack Obama said on Monday. At least part of the frenzy is little more than marketing, the president inferred. "It's certainly good for business he said," responding at a news conference to a question about a spike in weapons sales and applications for background checks following the Connecticut massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 26 people, 20 of them children. – Michael Pearson
OBAMA HINTS AT EXECUTIVE ORDER … "I'm confident that there are some steps that we can take that don't require legislation and that are within my authority as president. And where you get a step that has the opportunity to reduce the possibility of gun violence, then I want to go ahead and take it," Obama said. FULL TRANSCRIPT
Gun owners under assault - #WhiteHouse and #NewYork politicians declare war on the #SecondAmendment washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/…—
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IMMIGRATION BEING CROWDED OUT? OBAMA MENTIONS IMMIGRATION, BUT NO QUESTIONS ABOUT TOPIC … "We have got to create more jobs," Obama said in his opening remarks. "We have got to boost the wages of those who have worked. We've got to reach for energy independence. We have got to reform our immigration system. We've got to give our children the best education possible. And we've got to do everything we can to protect them from the horrors of gun violence."
In a one hour press conference, #Obama makes only a passing reference to #immigration. The agenda is getting crowded—
Brian Bennett (@ByBrianBennett) January 14, 2013
What #Obama didn't address in his press conference: the looming #immigration reform debate ow.ly/gNGAK—
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ORAL HISTORY: JUSTICE THOMAS SPEAKS; SILENT TRADITION BROKEN ON THE BENCH… It was just a few words, and a humorous aside at that, but Justice Clarence Thomas broke his seven-year long silence and spoke at oral argument Monday. His comments made fun of lawyers from Yale, his law school alma mater. Thomas made a joke about the competence of Yale lawyers when compared to their Harvard colleagues, according to two witnesses. The official transcript released by the court does not capture the flavor of the colorful exchange. After that aside, Thomas kept to his silent routine for the rest of the public session. – Bill Mears
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Which governor won the presidency only three years after declaring bankruptcy?
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What caught our eye today in politics
How many different ways can people in Washington say "I won?"
From President Barack Obama to Speaker John Boehner and his House majority, the news cycle is being driven by conflicting and accurate claims to political power.
At a news conference on Monday, Obama claimed that his electoral victory in November proves that the American people agreed with him on the way to reduce deficits.
"We just had an entire campaign about it," Obama said. "And by the way, the American people agreed with me, that we should reduce our deficits in a balanced way that also takes into account the need for us to grow this economy, and put people back to work. And despite that conversation, and despite the election results, the position that's been taken, on the part of some House Republicans, is that, 'Nope, we got to do it our way. And if we don't, we simply won't pay America's bills.'"
Obama continued: "Well, you know, that - that can't be - that can't be a position that is sustainable over time."
Yet, as Obama was speaking, CNN's Dana Bash and Deirdre Walsh filed a story from Capitol Hill that said it all, "House GOP: No one's blinking"
It reminded us that the same American electorate that gave President Barack Obama another four years also left the House in Republican control for the 113th Congress. It is currently split this way: Republicans 233, Democrats 200, and 2 vacancies. Boehner still has the speaker's gavel and the negotiating power.
So, perhaps the debate over the Second Amendment will be joined this spring by a discussion of Article 1 of the Constitution, in which divided government starts with a simple sentence: "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives" and ends in divided government.
Buckle up.
No better example of how this plays out than in our divided media culture. Moments after the news conference ended, some reporters ran to their corners to proclaim the headline that would most directly rally their respective bases. Huffington Post blasted Congress: "PAY YOUR BILLS!" Drudge admonished the president: "I HAVE EXECUTIVE POWERS OVER GUNS..."
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Leading CNNPolitics: Decisive action or imagery: Gun control and the power of political symbolism
The pictures told the story: Vice President Joe Biden looked solemn, patrician and in control as he sat at a long table in the White House, flanked by people on both sides of the gun control issue. The images conveyed a sense that the White House was in command on this issue. And that's the point. Historically, presidential administrations have used symbolic imagery—at times coupled with marginal actions—to shift public opinion or affect larger political or social change. – Halimah Abdullah
Leading Drudge: White House To Miss Budget Deadline; Breaks Law
The White House has informed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that it will miss the legal deadline for sending a budget to Congress. Acting Budget Director Jeff Zients told Ryan late Friday that the budget will not be delivered by Feb. 4, as required by law, a House aide said. – Erik Wasson
Leading HuffPo: Obama's Job One: Middle-Class Employment Problems Loom Over Second Term
On election night in Chicago two months ago, President Barack Obama triumphantly pledged to fight for a middle class he'd appealed to relentlessly - and successfully - on the 2012 campaign trail. The central challenge of Obama's second term is whether he can keep that founder's "promise" to working Americans. It won't be easy, and in an era of divided government and amid cries for austerity and budget cuts, it does not seem likely that the president will offer sweeping new proposals to do so. The administration has said that its top two priorities at the outset of its second term are immigration reform and gun control. Despite an ongoing jobs crisis, creating quality jobs seems to have fallen a few slots on the president's to-do list. – Dave Jamieson and Arthur Delaney
Leading Politico: Obama press conference: No 'ransom' for raising debt ceiling
President Barack Obama on Monday repeated his call for deficit reduction but warned against the potentially catastrophic effect on the economy by tying cuts to raising the debt ceiling. "While I'm willing to compromise and find common ground over how to reduce our deficit, America cannot afford another debate with this Congress over how to pay the bills they've already racked up," Obama said in the East Room of the White House at what aides have billed as the final news conference of his first term. "To even entertain the idea of this happening, of America not paying its bills, is irresponsible. It's absurd." – Jennifer Epstein
Leading The New York Times: Both Sides in Gun Debate Agree: Punish Background-Check Liars
Nearly 80,000 Americans were denied guns in 2010, according to Justice Department data, because they lied or provided inaccurate information about their criminal histories on background-check forms. Yet only 44 of those people were charged with a crime. The staggeringly low number of prosecutions for people who "lie and try," as it is called by law enforcement officials, is being studied by the Obama administration as it considers measures to curb gun violence after the Connecticut elementary school shootings in December. – Michael Schmidt
The political bites of the day
- Republican ask for seriousness in response to Obama's combative news conference -
SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL IN A WRITTEN STATEMENT: "The president and his allies need to get serious about spending, and the debt-limit debate is the perfect time for it. I do know that the most important issue confronting the future of our country is our deficit and debt. So we are hoping for a new seriousness on the part of the president with regard to the single biggest issue confronting the country and we look forward to working with him to do something about this huge, huge problem."
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE JOHN BOEHNER IN A WRITTEN STATEMENT: "The American people do not support raising the debt ceiling without reducing government spending at the same time. The consequences of failing to increase the debt ceiling are real, but so too are the consequences of allowing our spending problem to go unresolved. Without meaningful action, the debt will continue to act as an anchor on our economy, costing American jobs and endangering our children's future. The House will do its job and pass responsible legislation that controls spending, meets our nation's obligations and keeps the government running, and we will insist that the Democratic majority in Washington do the same."
- Bloomberg, O'Malley team up on guns, hold summit –
MARYLAND GOV. MARTIN O'MALLEY: "There is a sickness in our country and that sickness is gun violence. … We need a comprehensive approach that puts the focus on the practical, common sense things that we can do together to save lives. There may not be, perhaps there is no way to completely prevent the next Newton tragedy, but then again, perhaps there is."
NEW YORK MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: "This is not about ideology, it is about human dignity, the dignity of every individual life, the dignity of every one of those little kids in Connecticut, the dignity of every child and every person in the United States of America. … Enough is enough. It's time for Congress and the White House to put public health above special interest politics."
- No scalping inauguration tickets, says Schumer -
SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ABOUT THE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION: "Some people are going to use these tickets as a chance to make a quick buck. So let me be clear, the tickets are free and must remain free it says here on the ticket 'not for sale' right on the back. Now we've asked the online dealers in these tickets not to sell them. Stubhub has cooperated but today I'm asking Craigslist and eBay not to sell inaugural tickets for money."
- Lonely Obama -
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AT A WHITE HOUSE NEWS CONFERENCE: "The nice thing is that now that my girls are getting older, they don't want to spend that much time with me anyway, so I'll be probably calling around, looking for somebody to play cards with me or something, because I'm getting kind of lonely in this big house. So maybe - maybe a whole bunch of members of the House Republican caucus want to come over and socialize more."
- I have more joy in my life outside of Congress, thank you -
FORMER FIRST LADY OF SOUTH CAROLINA JENNY SANFORD IN A WRITTEN STATEMENT: "I have decided not to run for Congress at this time. I enjoy private life and find the work I am doing in business and charitable endeavors and particularly my time as a mother are all more rewarding, important and productive than serving in today's US House."
What stopped us in 140 characters or less
Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDCNN)
OBAMA INTRO sum: We can't solve deficit w/ spending cuts alone + debt ceiling is no bargaining chip. Alternately: Feb. is going to be UGLY.
Wolf Blitzer (@wolfblitzer)
Very strong @BarackObama language on debt ceiling. He says he will not negotiate "with a gun at the head of the American people."
Tom Price (@RepTomPrice)
In 2006, then-Senator Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling. That was more than $8 trillion in debt ago. http://bit.ly/g8rcPl #tcot
Josh Levs (@joshlevscnn)
Obama: Those who oppose "common sense measures" have "pretty effective way of ginning up fear" of government taking guns away
The Fix (@TheFix)
Here's what Obama is admitting: No way the whole package Biden proposes on guns will get through Congress.
David A. Graham (@GrahamDavidA)
How about Rafalca? #HorseDancingWithTheStars RT @thehill: Ann Romney turns down 'Dancing with the Stars' http://j.mp/X8UhDz by
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Truman looks up at the statue of the President in the #Jefferson Memorial #onthisday in 1946: http://ow.ly/gNflZ #TDiH
TRIVIA ANSWER from @DanMericaCNN
Even future commander-in-chiefs, at times, can hit a financial rough patch.
While serving as governor of Ohio in 1893, future President William McKinley cosigned on a friend's business loan. When the business failed, the bank came after McKinley and he was forced into bankruptcy.
In total, McKinley was in the red for about $130,000 before friends helped him right this financial hardship.
Politically, however, the ordeal didn't hurt the governor. Just three years later, in 1896, McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan and swept into the White House.
McKinley is not the only president to be forced into bankruptcy. Two of America's most famous leaders, President Abraham Lincoln and President Thomas Jefferson, also filed for bankruptcy
As a young man, Lincoln tried many occupations, including buying a general store in New Salem, Illinois, in 1832. Lincoln and his partner began purchasing other stores' inventories on credit, but their own sales were dismal. As debt mounted, Lincoln sold his share, but when his partner died, the future president became liable for $1,000 in back payments. The bank came after him, took away his horse and some surveying gear, but Lincoln continued paying off his debts until well into the 1840s.
Jefferson filed for bankruptcy several times, including after leaving office, possibly because he spent an enormous amount of money on food and wine.
In Friday's Fantasy Politics feature, we asked whether Gary Hart or George H.W. Bush would win the 1988 presidential election had Hart won the Democratic nomination. One of our best responses, from former Hart adviser Thom Serafin (@ThomSerafin), came in right after we published, but we enjoyed reading it so much, we wanted to share it with everyone.
Serafin writes: "No doubt in my mind that Gary would have beaten the former CIA Director and Vice-President George Bush.
"I have always believed that Governor Dukakis lost the election, rather than The Vice President winning it.
"Gary Hart was, and continues to be, one of the brightest Democratic minds in the country. The focus during those times had much to do with Foreign Policy and, contrary to conventional wisdom (for Democrats,) Gary Hart had a progressive and enlightened world view; he was ahead of his time. He had a very good relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, and authored a very progressive outlook on the world, called 'Enlightened Engagement'!
"No doubt he would have won the general."
You can read the entire WCOE here.
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Congratulations to Greg Dean (@gregdean11) and Peter Sonneveld on Facebook for correctly answering today's Gut Check Trivia question.
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All conservatives please repost this every chance you get:
biggest welfare states by % per capita
15) Oregon 84 million
14) PA. 247 million
13) MI 380 million
12) RI 54.7 million
11) Indian 107 million
10) New Mexico 58.87 million
9) Washington 266 million
8) MN 107 million
6) DC 18 million
5) VT 31 million
4) MA 296 million
3) TN 91 million
2) Maine 62 million
1) and of course illegal alien california leads with 3.28 BILLION
Source Source: National Conference of State Legislatures
Well going to prison for defending myself. Enjoy the continuation of the republics destruction via latest dictators use of unlimited power. Thanks for the 3hots and a cot vacation taxpayers my back needed it.
so what that we are a deadbeat nation? chalk it up to racism, republicans and anything else Obama needs to cling to.


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Welcome to my new website
Welcome to my website and the home of Kate Gallagher, a spunky, slightly chunky TV journalist-turned-sleuth who stars in my Fat City Mystery novels.
Available now! Fresh Kills, a collection of original short stories by the authors of the popular literary blog The Kill Zone. These killer tales vary from the paranormal to the chilling to the just plain scary. Each delivers a finely crafted tale that will keep you clicking through the pages. Download to your Kindle or PC from Amazon today, or to your laptop or device from Smashwords, Scribd, and other online locations.
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Recent Game Informer cover game Dishonored is a first-person stealth game set in a mysterious, malleable world that is bent by player choice. That's about all I know.
Our own Joel Johnson is currently in Texas today and has played the game there, at QuakeCon 2011. He knows more and will tell us what the deal is with the game. Until then, I ask you readers, what's the deal with this image? It was the most striking of a batch of Dishonored shots offered by the game's publisher Bethesda today. I want your best theories as to why what's happening is happening.
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The Rumors of Manufacturing's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
"US manufacturing grows for 13th straight month" is the headline of an AP newswire story posted around noon today. This statistic doesn't surprise me, since I've been following developments in U.S. manufacturing for many years now, and have published analyses of public data that refute the myth of deindustrialization and manufacturing decline.
With the exception of the recession of 08 – 09, when all U.S. economic sectors took a hit, U.S. manufacturing has been breaking its own record, year after year, with respect to output, value‐added, profits, returns on investment, exports, and imports. U.S. factories are the world's most prolific, accounting for 21.4% of global manufacturing value added in 2008 (China accounted for 13.4%).
But I bring the AP headline to your attention for one reason: so that you can judge for yourself who has any credibility on Capitol Hill, within the executive branch, in the media, among organized labor, in industry, in the think tank world, and within the international trade bar, as Nancy Pelosi tries to stuff a ruinous anti‐China trade bill down our throats in the name of supporting our floundering manufacturing base. Look for the columns, the op‐eds, the press releases, and the floor statements between next week and November.
Who among them will continue to cite our suffering manufacturing sector as the justification for protectionism? They should never again have any credibility.


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Humility in Pope Francis' First Hours
John Stoll reports from Rome discussing the first day in the papacy of Pope Francis. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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The Atlantic hurricane season is once again upon us. It's time for preparation… and a little history.
Some of the most famous storms in the annals of hurricane history made landfall in Florida. The Sunshine State is certainly not alone in suffering from tropical weather; Hugo, Gilbert, Katrina, Mitch, and Sandy immediately come to mind.
We remember the devastation from Andrew, Charley, Donna, Jeanne, Francis and many others, but what about the lesser known hurricanes in Florida history? This series of blog posts takes a look back at lesser known hurricanes and other tidbits concerning tropical weather in Florida history.
Today, we take a look back at the Jupiter Inlet Hurricane of 1696 as described by Jonathan Dickinson.
On September 23, 1696, a hurricane of unknown strength impacted South Florida. Jonathan Dickinson, a Quaker merchant, and several of his traveling companions aboard the bark Reformation fell victim to the high seas whipped up by the storm. Tossed and battered by persistent wind and waves, the Reformation wrecked on a sandbar near what is today known as Jupiter Inlet. Dickinson survived the ordeal and wrote a journal about his experience. Below is an excerpt from his account describing the hurricane and subsequent shipwreck:
"About one o'clock in the morning we felt our vessel strike some few stokes, and then she floated again for five of six minutes before she ran fast aground, where she beat violently at first. The wind was so violent and it was very dark, that our mariners could see no land; the seas broke over us that we were in a quarter of an hour floating in the cabin: we endeavored to get a candle lighted, which in a little time was accomplished.
"By this time we felt the vessel not to strike so often but several of her timbers were broken and some plank started. The seas continued breaking over us and no land to be seen; we concluded to keep in the vessel as long as she would hold together. About the third hour this morning we supposed we saw land at some considerable distance, and at this time we found the water began to run out of the vessel.
"And at daylight we perceived we were upon the shore, on a beach lying in the breach of the sea which at times as the surges of the sea reversed was dry. In taking a view of our vessel, we found that the violence of the weather had forced many sorts of seabirds on board our vessel, some of which were by force of the wind blown into and under our hen-cubs and many remained alive. Our hogs and sheep were washed away and swam on shore, except one of the hogs which remained in the vessel.
"We rejoiced at this our preservation from the raging sea; but at the same instant feared the sad consequences that followed: yet having hopes still we got our sick and lame on shore, also our provisions, with spars and sails to make a tent."
The party encountered local Native Americans known as the Jaega soon after reaching dry land. Over the next two months the survivors endured an arduous journey along the Florida coast. In early October they were captured by the Santa Luces, a band of Ais Indians who lived in modern-day St. Lucie and Indian River counties. Dickinson's descriptions of Jaega and Ais ceremonies are similar to other captivity narratives and offer tremendous insight into the customs and rituals of indigenous Floridians.
Eventually, the tired and weary travelers were escorted to St. Augustine. There, the Spaniards arranged for passage to Charleston (then known as Charles Town) and thence to Philadelphia, their original destination. As suggested by the title of Dickinson's journal, he attributed their survival to "God's Protecting Providence."
To learn more, see Evangeline Walker Andrews and Charles McLean Andrews, eds., Jonathan Dickinson's Journal, Or God's Protecting Providence… (Yale University Press, 1945).


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Common Respiratory Symptoms and Illnesses: A Graded Evidence-Based Approach, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics, Volume 56-1
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This issue of Pediatric Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Anne Chang, reviews the topic of Common Respiratory Disorders of Childhood. The articles in this issue approach the topic from an evidence-based management perspective. The first half of the issue offers symptom-based articles addressing respiratory noises, cough, exercise intolerance/dyspnoea, chest pain and chest wall deformity, and recurrent upper and lower respiratory infections. The second half of the issue offers disease-based articles on topics including upper respiratory tract infections and ear infections, asthma, bronchiolitis and croup, congenital airway lesions and lung disease, bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis, aspiration lung disease, pneumonia and other respiratory infections, sleep disorders, neuromuscular disease and other chronic respiratory failure, and children on ambulatory oxygen.
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The Brunch Dish: Shakshuka and More at Mimi's Hummus
Brunch menus to do your weekend right.
While I'm not usually one to hop on the subway for brunch, I make an exception for Mimi's Hummus, on Cortelyou Road in Ditmas Park. Well-lit and comfortable, the smell of sizzling olive oil and warming pita wafting through from the open kitchen, friendly waitresses refilling water and coffee, it's always lively but rarely too packed—one perk of being this far out in Brooklyn. If Mimi's were in the West Village, there'd be an hour-plus wait on weekends.
You'd expect a shakshuka (Middle Eastern egg-topped stew) on the menu, but Mimi's has three—a traditional tomato pictured at top, one that adds merguez, and the green shakshuka ($12) pictured above. A skillet of Swiss chard braised with tomatoes and cumin makes for a hearty (and somewhat wholesome) morning meal, with properly cooked eggs whose yolks stay runny even as they're sitting on your table in the searing hot skillet. But the best part are loose clumps of Bulgarian cheese on top. Soft and sheepy and a little funky, they don't melt completely but puddle into soft clumps just waiting for a pita-swipe. You've got a choice of white or wheat; no complaints about the former, but the bigger surprise is the latter, the grain adding genuine toasty flavor rather than just a brown speckle. If it's all a little mild, an oily red pepper condiment waits on the side. Refreshment comes with an Israeli salad that's heavy on the herbs and, thanks to the summer tomatoes, just a little bit better in August than at other times of year. Like everything here, it's simple but done right, the vegetables cut precisely, olive oil balanced with acid, every element crisp and fresh-tasting.
That said, it's hard to go to Mimi's and not get their silky, impossibly creamy hummus, delicious whether topped with olive oil and chickpeas, or stewed mushrooms, or the spiced ground beef (pictured at top) I can't get enough of. With so many choices and generous portions, I often find myself over-ordering, but that's not really a problem—hummus and pita keep perfectly for a few hours, and make for a perfect lazy Sunday dinner once the stomach starts grumbling again.
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Although you can't visit Tournament House during Rose Parade season, you can make plans to stop between February and August. Here are a few of the highlights you won't want to miss. The furnishings throughout the entire house are not original, although they appear authentic to the period, courtesy of a recent do-over by the Pasadena chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers.
To the right of the door is an Aeolian player pipe organ. Its 1,500 pipes are hidden in the staircase and its bellows is in the basement (which is not on the tour). There are more than 250 music rolls for the organ.
While in the entry, look up at the ceiling. It looks like it is embellished with Lego blocks.
What makes this room unique is its lush Philippine crotch mahogany wood paneling. It also has a marble fireplace and a ceiling made of mortar. The table and chairs in the dining room belonged to the Wrigley family and were transferred here from Catalina Island. Wood said the furniture did not do well in the salt air.
The living room has Circassian walnut pocket doors at the entry and a matching door leading to offices. Ada Wrigley loved the panels and thought they represented — top to bottom — mind, heart, body and soul, Wood said. Natural designs are created by the darker hues of the wood. This room also has a Florentine marble fireplace with details such as angelic children's faces and a wolf centerpiece along its mantel edge. A 15th century French tapestry hangs above it. The house's only photograph of Ada Wrigley is in this room.
This is the largest room downstairs and is used for meetings, dinners and other special functions. A painting of Ada Wrigley hangs in the entry to this space.
In 1963, former president Dwight D. Eisenhower served as grand marshal of the Rose Parade. While in the Tournament House prior to the event, he was locked in the bathroom when its pocket door fell off its slider. Someone heard his cries for help and was able to unlock the outer bathroom door and put the pocket door back into place with Eisenhower's help. He made the parade in time.
The office has an Oxford box ceiling with a spectacular pattern.
The room adjoining Wrigley's office was originally an open porch where Ada Wrigley played bridge with her friends. Back then, in the early 20th century, you had to yell into the phone to be heard on the other end of the line, and Ada tired of her husband's calls interrupting her games. She had a telephone room —with a door that closed — built for him next to the office.
The solarium looks out on the garden, where most of the trees are 100 years old. Especially beautiful is the Morton Bay fig, which stands nearly 100 feet tall.
The wallpaper features birds flitting through tree branches and perching on a porch amid Asian vases. It is made of canvas-backed foil and there is similar wallpaper in every one of Wrigley's six homes because "He wanted to remind his family that they made their fortune one stick of gum at a time," Wood said.
There is a display of crowns worn by various rose queens in a glass case in the hallway. Due to the value of the original pieces, some are reproductions, but no less spectacular.
Here the walls are lined with photographs of all the grand marshals from every Rose Parade. Shirley Temple Black was the only person to be grand marshal three times — in 1939, 1989 and 1999. The only two brothers to share the honor were Walt Disney in 1966 and Roy Disney in 2000.
This was William and Ada Wrigley's bedroom. It is believed Ada sat by the corner windows to watch the parade. Its adjoining sleeping porch now serves as the Football Room. In the adjacent bathroom the tub does not have clawed feet, which was unusual for the time period. The tub was delivered through the bathroom window for installation. The curved coffered ceiling gives it a basket-weave look.
This room is designed for comfort, resplendent with plump chairs. The bathroom has been remodeled with extra stalls and mirror space to better accommodate the court as they prepare for their more than 150 appearances each year.
This simple room contains a large table surrounded by comfy office chairs.
A streamlined conference table is surrounded by leather chairs. In one corner, a Bohlin saddle (one of three at the house) is on display. It is silver and black with an Indian chief design and is surprisingly big and heavy.
Like a museum, this space boasts trophies in cases, as well as footballs, helmets, photos and other ephemera recounting the history of the Rose Bowl game. Tours generally end in this room so people can take their time to look through everything.