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With the national political conventions over, American voters get to choose between stark and starker
Now that the two major political conventions have wrapped up, the U.S. electorate has its choice of stark and starker.
The Republican campaign offers a program for economic recovery based on Nixonian Keynesianism, while the Democratic campaign has chosen to believe that no economic recovery is necessary. Nixon famously said "I am a Keynesian now," as he stepped off the gold standard, confident in the security of fiat money. As a result of the skillful flexibility of smart money managers ever since, one dollar today buys as much as 18 cents did in 1971.
The Romney/Ryan plan offers the hope that by slowing down the redistribution of wealth from the producers to the non-producers ever so slightly, the red ink will slow to a trickle over the next fifteen years, other things being equal, including the American appetite for a touch of fantasy.
The theme of the Democrats and Barrack Obama's program is choice--so long as the government decides which choices, from a narrow menu, will be available to the members of the collective. These choices will ensure fair redistribution of the wealth from those who earned it to those who support the regime. "It's the right thing to do," as the President says over and over again.
So if you don't like the Republicans' establishment fantasy, you can opt for the Democrats' full-blown hallucination.
The metaphor of Hurricane Isaac heading towards both conventions but passing them by for now, just for now, seemed to be missed by both conventions. The Democrats were completely oblivious to the event of the National Debt Clock rolling over to $16 trillion during the jam-packed week, with over $5 trillion of that racked up in four years by the Bringer of Hope and Change, the leader who believes that billions in government spending can create jobs.
The Democrats also ignored the announcement by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that jobs created during August were only 96,000, about half the number needed. And unemployment, defined as those currently seeking jobs, remained steady but only because 386,000 of the unemployed were discouraged and no longer seeking work and were no longer counted.
The only solution the Democrats offered was to grab by the ankles those millionaires and billionaires not paying their fair share, turn them upside down, and shake them until all the coins in their pockets are disgorged. It's not enough that greedy millionaires and billionaires pay only 90 per cent of income tax collected by the U.S. Treasury. The government wants more cash.
But if all the golden eggs laid by the millionaire geese were collected and made available to government entitlement programs, and the goose cooked for Sunday dinner, the result would be but a pittance. The real money will be taken from our children and grandchildren. They will pay not within the framework of an orderly economy. Rather they will have a decent life ripped from them by financial chaos.
That's why the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte decided to emphasize social issues and soothing syrup rather than face economic realities. The Democrats declared that "government is the only thing we all belong to." Then, like dancing the Hokey-Pokey, they first took God out of the platform, and then they put Him in. Then they took Jerusalem out of the platform and then they put it in. To stave off a threatened national uproar, the chairman made the angry delegates opposed to God and Jerusalem vote to put them back three times, losing all three times. Finally, in the spirit of progressive "guided democracy," he simply declared that the chair had won. Not surprisingly, the delegates booed the return of both God and his Holy City.
Listening to speaker after speaker promoting abortion rights, it sometimes seemed as though this was the first political convention being held in utero. National polling consistently has shown that U.S. voters are deeply conflicted on this issue and the majority of them, women included, are either opposed to abortion or want it restricted. Hard-boiled party planners should have figured out long ago that the Democrats have already bagged the militant feminist vote and the real battle is for the handful of swing-state voters still uncommitted and likely to be turned off by extremism.
But when the President himself is on record in favor of abortion, sensitivity on this issue is lost. The President, while in the Illinois legislature, repeatedly voted to deny rights of basic care to any child born alive in a botched abortion. He is on tape referring to the victim as "a fetus outside the womb."
The convention hailed the pioneers of women's rights, including the all-stars, the late Ted Kennedy and the always-late Bill Clinton. But they ignored the role of feminist martyrs to the cause, such as Mary Jo Kopechne, Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones.
The whole convention seemed more like the meeting of a cult rather than of a rational political organization. The whiff of extremism filled the air, like pot hurriedly hidden, as they sought to fulfill the fantasies of self-categorized victim groups, united only by the common worship of government.
These tendencies were capped by the astonishing speech of Barrack Obama as he accepted the nomination and adulation from the crowd. He could have been the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh holding audience with his trance-like followers. But, no, there was nobody on view except the new Democatic Party. The Washington Post once tagged Christian conservatives as "poor, uneducated and easily led." The Post no doubt regretted that characterization because of all the grief it got; but then maybe they really thought it was correct. However as the cameras in Charlotte panned the delegations, desperately clinging to their union badges and their political collectives, it was clear the Post had it right, but the wrong venue. Only Joe Biden seemed like an old-fashioned garrulous Democrat.
Although most reviewers thought the President's performance was underwhelming, it was good enough and then some for the crowd inside the hall. His very voice seemed to drive them into paroxysms of delirium, tears running down their cheeks and ample bosoms palpitating. He held up to them a Tinker-Bell-like vision, a vision which would come to life only if they all held hands and believed:
"If you believe that new plants and factories can dot our landscape; that new energy can power our future; that new schools can provide ladders of opportunity to this nation of dreamers; if you believe in a country where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules, then I need you to vote this November."
The President's words were very scarce on how this dotting of the landscape actually would be accomplished. On the one hand he said he was presenting "a set of goals;" on the other hand, it was "a real, achievable plan that will lead to new jobs, more opportunity." He claimed that we could cut our oil imports in half by 2020 and support more than 600,000 new jobs in natural gas alone. Presumably he, the President, would go so far as to quit blocking the gas fracking process and the construction of pipelines.
"We're offering a better path, a future where we keep investing in wind and solar and clean coal," he said. He might even invest in genome technology to facilitate the mating of humans with flying horses, so that intelligent Pegasus herds could solve all our transportation needs. This would be an alternative to dependence on flying carpets imported from the Middle East.
He boasted that, under his watch, the United States had created a half-million new jobs, and he would create a million more by the simple expedient of "rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America." Without the government's wisdom, those companies would never have thought of that! He would help big factories and small businesses double their exports--enterprises that doubtless are holding back only because they are not getting government help. After all, they didn't build those businesses, the government did.
With rising crescendo, President Obama set forth his vision. General Motors is alive! Solyndra is dead! [Oops, strike that last sentence.] There would be jobs, good jobs, available for all. The shuttered steel mills would be replaced by smelters in every back yard producing steel, good steel, for our recovery, while on the front porches neighbors would gather together to make windmills as a sign of good citizenship. There would be a castle in the air for every voter and tons of fairy dust for the asking.
Under Obama's next term, every victim group would receive redress. The lame would walk at last because of healthcare for all. The blind would have their eyes opened and all would have their coffers filled. Education would be a birthright, although the actual right to birth would depend on a mother's choice. Every child would be given a Ph.D. attached to a birth certificate skeptics could consult, and grade school could become a graduate seminar on positive interpersonal relationships! The President said he would recruit 100,000 new dues-payers for the teachers' unions to teach these new seminars.
And this was his jobs plan: The poor little girl from the slums would get a free college education and become the next Steve Jobs, even without a sex-change operation. Just believe! Believe! Believe, brothers and sisters! And elect me for four more years.


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Connor Shaw solid as South Carolina squashes Georgia to stay unbeaten
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- In a career of special moments, Steve Spurrier added another one in South Carolina's 35-7 victory over fifth-ranked Georgia on Saturday night. And there may be some even bigger ones ahead for the Gamecocks and their ball coach.
Connor Shaw threw two touchdown passes and ran for another, Ace Sanders had a dazzling 70-yard punt return touchdown and South Carolina's defense dominated Georgia.
"If we play like this, maybe we have a chance for a real big year," Spurrier said. "Maybe."
Spurrier's caution is well placed. After all, this is the Southeastern Conference.
The Gamecocks (6-0, 4-0 SEC) head to angry LSU, the defending league champions who lost for the first time earlier Saturday, next week, then go to Florida -- the undefeated Gators beat LSU -- for a game that should decide the Eastern Division.
South Carolina sure looks ready for the challenge.
"We definitely sent a message out to the whole country," Gamecocks tailback Marcus Lattimore said. "It's not the old South Carolina. We can play with y'all. We can play with anybody."
The Gamecocks won their school-record 10th straight game with a performance that certainly marked them an Eastern Division frontrunner -- and maybe showed they're capable of even more.
"This was a special one," said Spurrier, who has a national title on his impressive resume from his time with Florida. "It really was."
South Carolina grounded "Gurshall," holding Georgia's stellar freshmen Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall to 76 yards combined. The Bulldogs (5-1, 3-1) finished with 224 yards, less than half their season's average coming in.
"First of all, the bad news is we took a whipping. The good news is we all took it together. It was a team loss," Georgia coach Mark Richt said.
Lattimore finished with 109 yards and a touchdown, the third straight time he's gone past the century mark on the Bulldogs. Coincidence the Gamecocks have posted their first-ever three game win streak in the series that began in 1894?
The Gamecocks' 10th straight victory surpasses a school best set with their 9-0 start in 1984. That team reached No. 2 in the country and were poised for the top spot when No. 1 Nebraska lost, but South Carolina fell to Navy to lose perhaps its best-ever shot at a national champion.
This South Carolina team showed the brand of championship defense usually found on the SEC's best teams.
Georgia came in with a league-leading 48.2 points and 536 yards per game of offense -- and where shut down by the Gamecocks.
Gurley and Marshall kept pounding the line to little effect, held scoreless after combining for 294 yards and five TDs in last week's win over Tennessee. Aaron Murray was 11 of 31 for 109 yards. He was sacked twice and threw one interception.
The game figured to be a matchup of Georgia's explosive offense against South Carolina's impenetrable D. The Gamecocks showed early it was no contest, holding the Bulldogs to just 111 yards of offense in the first half and taking control of the game.
South Carolina's offense set the tone at first, Spurrier once again showing there are few better at calling plays. Damiere Byrd outfought Georgia's Bacarri Rambo for a 42-yard catch on the game's second snap. Two plays later, Shaw hit a wide-open Bruce Ellington for a 20-yard TD catch that sent the record crowd of 85,199 into a frenzy.
They had more to celebrate moments later when Kelcy Quarles tipped Murray's pass high in the air and safety DeVonte Holloman made a diving interception. Shaw cashed in again for the Gamecocks, ending a 69-yard sequence when tight end Rory Anderson came open in the end zone for a 14-yard touchdown.
South Carolina used special teams -- typically a Georgia strength -- to extend the lead a few plays later after a three-and-out by the Bulldogs. Sanders bobbled the punt, got the ball back, broke several tackles and outrun the punter to the left pylon for a 21-0 lead with less than nine minutes gone.
The Gamecocks defense took control after that.
Georgia "didn't move it very far when they were out there," Spurrier said with a grin.
South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney sacked Murray for a loss of 6 yards to stall one series. Gurley and Marshall were continually swallowed up for minimal gains. The Bulldogs looked as if they'd found their footing right before halftime, Murray converting three third-down passes to get to the Gamecocks 4. But on fourth-and-goal, Rantavious Wooten was stopped shy of the end zone after catching a short pass by D.J. Swearinger and Shaq Wilson.
First-year defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward thought his team could put on a show against the high-powered Bulldogs. "I believe in the young men that I coach every day, I believe in the system that we run and I believe we can play with anybody," he said.
The biggest drama of the second half was whether Georgia would leave with its first shutout since a 31-0 loss to Alabama in 1995. Spurrier kept his defensive starters in, yet the Bulldogs drove 75 yards to score on Ken Malcome's 3-yard TD run with 1:55 to go.
Malcome finished as the team's top rusher with 45 yards, all on Georgia's scoring drive.
"We hoped to make a play to change momentum but they never allowed us to," Richt said.
Game Information
2023 Southeastern Conference Standings
Team | CONF | OVR |
Georgia | 8-0 | 13-1 |
Missouri | 6-2 | 11-2 |
Tennessee | 4-4 | 9-4 |
Kentucky | 3-5 | 7-6 |
Florida | 3-5 | 5-7 |
South Carolina | 3-5 | 5-7 |
Vanderbilt | 0-8 | 2-10 |

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CO2 myth busted: Why we need more carbon dioxide to grow food and forests
Sunday, March 31, 2013 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles…) |
(NaturalNews) If you talk to the global warming crowd, carbon dioxide — CO2 — is the enemy of mankind. Any and all creation of CO2 is bad for the planet, we're told, and its production must be strictly limited in order to save the world.
But what if that wasn't true? What if CO2 were actually a planet-saving nutrient that could multiply food production rates and feed the world more nutritious, healthy plants?
CO2 is a vital nutrient for food crops
As it turns out, CO2 is desperately needed by food crops, and right now there is a severe shortage of CO2 on the planet compared to what would be optimum for plants. Greenhouse operators are actually buying carbon dioxide and injecting it into their greenhouses in order to maximize plant growth.
The science on this is irrefutable. As just one example, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food says:
CO2 increases productivity through improved plant growth and vigour. Some ways in which productivity is increased by CO2 include earlier flowering, higher fruit yields, reduced bud abortion in roses, improved stem strength and flower size. Growers should regard CO2 as a nutrient.
If you want to understand why CO2 is an essential nutrient for food crop growth, check out this informative slide show. It explains that "CO2 may be repidly depleted during crop production" daylight hours, because the plants pull all the CO2 out of the air and use it in photosynthesis.
The CO2 found in modern-day atmosphere is 340ppm. But food crops would grow far faster if the concentration of CO2 were closer to 1000ppm, or roughly 300% higher than current levels. In fact, most greenhouse plant production causes a "CO2 depletion" to happen, shutting down photosynthesis and limiting food production. As the "Carbon Dioxide in Greenhouses" fact sheet explains:
Ambient CO2 level in outside air is about 340 ppm by volume. All plants grow well at this level but as CO2 levels are raised by 1,000 ppm photosynthesis increases proportionately resulting in more sugars and carbohydrates available for plant growth. Any actively growing crop in a tightly clad greenhouse with little or no ventilation can readily reduce the CO2 level during the day to as low as 200 ppm.
Thus, greenhouse plants are "running out" of CO2. They are starving for it. And when you add it to food crops, you get higher yields, improved taste, shorter flowering times, enhanced pest resistance and other benefits.
Why we should pump carbon dioxide into greenhouses
This brings up an obvious answer for what to do with all the CO2 produced by power plants, office buildings and even fitness centers where people exhale vast quantities of CO2. The answer is to build adjacent greenhouses and pump the CO2 into the greenhouses.
Every coal-fired power plant, in other words, should have a vast array of greenhouses surrounding it. Most of what you see emitted from power plant smokestacks is water vapor and CO2, both essential nutrients for rapid growth of food crops. By diverting carbon dioxide and water into greenhouses, the problem of emissions is instantly solved because the plants update the CO2 and use it for photosynthesis, thus "sequestering" the CO2 while rapidly growing food crops. It also happens to produce oxygen as a "waste product" which can be released into the atmosphere, (slightly) upping the oxygen level of the air we breathe.
This is a brilliant solution because humans want to live on a world with low CO2 that supports frozen ice caps in order to keep ocean water levels low, but they want to eat a volume of food that requires high CO2 for production. The answer is to concentrate CO2 into greenhouses where food production is multiplied by CO2 nutrition.
I'll bet you've never heard Al Gore talk about CO2 as "nutrition." He declares it a pollutant and wants to tax you for producing it. But CO2 is actually a key nutritive gas for food crops. Without carbon dioxide, we would all have starved to death by now.
Shutting down power plants to destroy America's power infrastructure
The U.S. government's solution to power plant emissions, however, is to just shut down coal-fired power plants, causing rolling blackouts across the USA, especially during hot summer days. The EPA has forced hundreds of power plants to shut down across the USA, achieving a loss of power infrastructure that vastly exceeds what would even be possible by an enemy invasion of high-altitude warplanes dropping bombs.
The EPA, under the excuse of "saving the planet," is destroying America's power infrastructure and leading our nation into a third-world scenario where power availability is dicey and unsustained. It seems to be just one part of the overall plan to gut America's economy, offshore millions of jobs, put everybody on welfare and destroy small businesses.
But what if we harnessed coal-fired power plants instead of shutting them down? What if we used them as "CO2 generators" that fed CO2 into vast greenhouse operations that produced organic, high-growth foods that could feed the nation? Coal-fired power plants can produce both electricity and food nutrition at the same time.
Better yet, if you combine this concept with aquaponics, you get simultaneous production of plants and fish while using no soil, no GMOs and one-tenth the water of conventional agriculture.
See, the solutions to all our problems already exist. The only reason we are suffering as a nation is because political puppets try to brainwash us into believing complete falsehoods like, "carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant" or "the people don't need healthy foods; they need medications and vaccines." When societies believe falsehoods, they crumble and collapse.
That's where America is headed, of course. And it's all being accelerated by deceptive bureaucrats who want to convince you that growing real food is bad and we should all be punished for exhaling carbon dioxide, an essential nutrient for food crops. Carbon dioxide is not the enemy it's been made out to be. It's actually plant nutrition that helps regrow rainforests, food crops and wetlands. In fact, higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere would make the planet more lush and abundant in terms of plant life, forests, trees and food crops.


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What are tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) and esophageal atresia?
About tracheoesophageal fistula
Tracheoesophageal fistula is an abnormal connection in one or more places between the esophagus (the tube that leads from the throat to the stomach) and the trachea (the tube that leads from the throat to the windpipe and lungs). Normally, the esophagus and the trachea are two separate tubes that are not connected.
Tracheoesophageal fistula is also known as "TE fistula" or simply TEF.
TE fistula is a birth defect, which is an abnormality that occurs as a fetus is forming in its mother's uterus.
When a baby with a TE fistula swallows, the liquid can pass through the abnormal connection between the esophagus and the trachea. When this happens, liquid gets into the baby's lungs. This can cause pneumonia and other problems.
About esophageal atresia
TE fistula often occurs with another birth defect known as esophageal atresia. The esophagus is a tube that leads from the throat to the stomach. With esophageal atresia, the esophagus does not form properly while the fetus is developing before birth, resulting in two segments; one part that connects to the throat and the other part that connects to the stomach. However, the two segments do not connect to each other.
Since the esophagus is in two segments, liquid that a baby swallows cannot pass normally through the esophagus and reach the stomach. Milk and other fluids cannot be digested if the esophagus does not connect to the stomach.
If a TE fistula is also present, liquid that a baby swallows can pass through the connection between the esophagus and the trachea and go into the lungs. This can cause pneumonia and other problems.
What causes tracheoesophageal fistula and esophageal atresia?
As a fetus is growing and developing in its mother's uterus before birth, different organ systems are developing and maturing. The trachea and the esophagus begin developing as one single tube. At about four to eight weeks after conception, a wall forms between the fetus' esophagus and trachea to separate them into two distinct tubes. If this wall does not form properly, TE fistula or esophageal atresia can occur.
How often do these problems occur?
About one in 3000 to 5000 babies in the United States is born with one or both of these problems.
Which babies develop tracheoesophageal fistula or esophageal atresia?
These two problems are not thought to be inherited. However, they are often seen when a baby has other birth defects, such as:
- Trisomy 13, 18 or 21
- Other digestive tract problems (such as diaphragmatic hernia, duodenal atresia or imperforate anus)
- Heart problems (such as ventricular septal defect, tetralogy of Fallot or patent ductus arteriosus)
- Kidney and urinary tract problems (such as horseshoe or polycystic kidney, absent kidney or hypospadias)
- Muscular or skeletal problems
- VATERL syndrome (which involves Vertebral, Anal, Cardiac, TE fistula, Renal and Limb abnormalities)
Up to one-half of all babies with TE fistula or esophageal atresia have another birth defect.
What are the symptoms of TE fistula or esophageal atresia?
The symptoms of TE fistula or esophageal atresia are usually noted very soon after birth. The following are the most common symptoms of TE fistula or esophageal atresia. However, each child may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include the following:
- Frothy white bubbles in the mouth
- Coughing or choking when feeding
- Vomiting
- Blue color of the skin, especially when the baby is feeding
- Difficulty breathing
- Very round, full abdomen
Other congenital malformations might be present, such as the ones mentioned in the previous section.
Symptoms of TE fistula or esophageal atresia may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Please consult your child's physician for a diagnosis.
What tests are usually done to diagnose the problem?
Along with a physical examination and medical history, imaging studies are usually done to evaluate whether a baby has TE fistula or esophageal atresia. X-rays are taken to look at the chest and abdomen.
A small tube may also be placed into the mouth or nose and then guided into the esophagus. With esophageal atresia, the tube usually cannot be inserted very far into the esophagus. The tube's position in the esophagus can also be seen with the x-ray.
Treatment for TE fistula or esophageal atresia:
If your baby has TE fistula or esophageal atresia, the baby will need surgery to fix the problem. The type of surgery depends on the following:
- Type of abnormality
- Overall health of the baby and medical history
- Opinion of the surgeon and other physicians involved in the baby's care
- Expectations for the course of the condition
- Your opinion and preference
When TE fistula is repaired, the connection between the esophagus and the trachea is closed in surgery. Repair of esophageal atresia depends on how close the two sections of esophagus are to each other. Sometimes esophageal atresia requires more than one surgery. Your baby's surgeon and other physicians will decide when it is best to do the operations, based on your baby's condition and the type of problem.
Could my child have problems in the future?
Some children born with esophageal atresia have long-term problems. Swallowing food or liquids may be difficult due to:
- Problems with the normal movement of foods and liquids down the esophagus (peristalsis)
- Scarring that can occur in the esophagus after surgery as the wounds heal, which can partially block the passage of foods
Sometimes, a narrowed esophagus can be widened or dilated with a special procedure done while the child is under general anesthesia. In other cases, another operation may be necessary to open up the esophagus so food can pass to the stomach properly.
About one-half of children who had esophageal atresia repaired will have problems with GERD, or gastrointestinal reflux disease. GERD causes acid to move up into the esophagus from the stomach. When acid moves from the stomach into the esophagus, it causes a burning or painful feeling known as heartburn. GERD can usually be treated with medications prescribed by a physician.
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(a) Power of Commission
The Commission may investigate any facts, conditions, practices, or matters which it may find necessary or proper in order to determine whether any person has violated or is about to violate any provisions of this chapter or any rule, regulation, or order thereunder, or to aid in the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter or in prescribing rules or regulations thereunder, or in obtaining information to serve as a basis for recommending further legislation to the Congress. The Commission may permit any person to file with it a statement in writing, under oath or otherwise, as it shall determine, as to any or all facts and circumstances concerning a matter which may be the subject of investigation. The Commission, in its discretion, may publish in the manner authorized by section 825k of title 16, and make available to State commissions and municipalities, information concerning any such matter.
(b) Determination of adequacy of gas reserves
The Commission may, after hearing, determine the adequacy or inadequacy of the gas reserves held or controlled by any natural-gas company, or by anyone on its behalf, including its owned or leased properties or royalty contracts; and may also, after hearing, determine the propriety and reasonableness of the inclusion in operating expenses, capital, or surplus of all delay rentals or other forms of rental or compensation for unoperated lands and leases. For the purpose of such determinations, the Commission may require any natural-gas company to file with the Commission true copies of all its lease and royalty agreements with respect to such gas reserves.
(c) Administration of oaths and affirmations; subpena of witnesses, etc.
For the purpose of any investigation or any other proceeding under this chapter, any member of the Commission, or any officer designated by it, is empowered to administer oaths and affirmations, subpena witnesses, compel their attendance, take evidence, and require the production of any books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, contracts, agreements, or other records which the Commission finds relevant or material to the inquiry. Such attendance of witnesses and the production of any such records may be required from any place in the United States or at any designated place of hearing. Witnesses summoned by the Commission to appear before it shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States.
(d) Jurisdiction of courts of United States
In case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey a subpena issued to, any person, the Commission may invoke the aid of any court of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such investigation or proceeding is carried on, or where such person resides or carries on business, in requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, contracts, agreements, and other records. Such court may issue an order requiring such person to appear before the Commission or member or officer designated by the Commission, there to produce records, if so ordered, or to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof. All process in any such case may be served in the judicial district whereof such person is an inhabitant or wherever he may be found or may be doing business. Any person who willfully shall fail or refuse to attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry or to produce books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, contracts, agreements, or other records, if in his or its power so to do, in obedience to the subpena of the Commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than one year, or both.
(e) Testimony of witnesses
The testimony of any witness may be taken at the instance of a party, in any proceeding or investigation pending before the Commission, by deposition at any time after the proceeding is at issue. The Commission may also order testimony to be taken by deposition in any proceeding or investigation pending before it at any stage of such proceeding or investigation. Such depositions may be taken before any person authorized to administer oaths not being of counsel or attorney to either of the parties, nor interested in the proceeding or investigation. Reasonable notice must first be given in writing by the party or his attorney proposing to take such deposition to the opposite party or his attorney of record, as either may be nearest, which notice shall state the name of the witness and the time and place of the taking of his deposition. Any person may be compelled to appear and depose, and to produce documentary evidence, in the same manner as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify and produce documentary evidence before the Commission, as hereinbefore provided. Such testimony shall be reduced to writing by the person taking deposition, or under his direction, and shall, after it has been reduced to writing, be subscribed by the deponent.
(f) Deposition of witnesses in a foreign country
If a witness whose testimony may be desired to be taken by deposition be in a foreign country, the deposition may be taken before an officer or person designated by the Commission, or agreed upon by the parties by stipulation in writing to be filed with the Commission. All depositions must be promptly filed with the Commission.
(g) Witness fees
Witnesses whose depositions are taken as authorized in this chapter, and the person or officer taking the same, shall be entitled to the same fees as are paid for like services in the courts of the United States.
1970—Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 91–452 struck out subsec. (h) which related to the immunity from prosecution of any individual compelled to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, after claiming his privilege against self-incrimination.
Effective Date of 1970 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 91–452 effective on sixtieth day following Oct. 15, 1970, and not to affect any immunity to which any individual is entitled under this section by reason of any testimony given before sixtieth day following Oct. 15, 1970, see section 260 of Pub. L. 91–452, set out as an Effective Date; Savings Provision note under section 6001 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
Study and Report on Natural Gas Pipeline and Storage Facilities in New England
Pub. L. 107–355, §26, Dec. 17, 2002, 116 Stat. 3012, required the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in consultation with the Department of Energy, to conduct a study on the natural gas pipeline transmission network in New England and natural gas storage facilities associated with that network, and submit a report on the results to Congress by not later than 1 year after Dec. 17, 2002.


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Saudi Arabia's Date Palm Industry: Key Figures and Global Impact
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During the International Dates Council's third session in Riyadh, attended by global agricultural leaders, Al-Fadhli revealed annual date exports from 40 countries reach 1.8 million tons, worth $2.3 billion.
He announced the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's endorsement of Saudi Arabia's initiative to declare 2027 the International Year of Date Palm, aiming to spotlight the sector's role in sustainable agriculture and food security.
Al-Fadhli concluded with optimism for impactful resolutions to strengthen the council's governance and effectiveness.
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HESSI (the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager) is NASA's newest mission built to study the Sun. Specifically, HESSI will study solar flares. Solar activity like flares can have a huge effect on Earth. Particles released during a solar flare can reach Earth causing strong geomagnetic storms, aurorae and electrical power blackouts. So, it's important for us to understand solar flares. HESSI will help us do just that!The total cost of the HESSI mission is $85 million. This does include the spacecraft, launch vehicles, mission operations and data analysis. So, this costs covers all expenses from when HESSI was still on the drawing board to when the mission ends. Still, it would be an awful lot of money to throw away!
When it turned out that the Pegasus rocket designed to boost the X-34A hypersonic vehicle went out of control on June 2nd and had to be blown up, NASA got a little nervous. You see, HESSI was suppose to be launched June 7, 2001, aboard a Pegasus rocket. The Stargazer L-1011 aircraft was to take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida carrying HESSI and its Pegasus rocket booster into the air. The aircraft would release the rocket which would boost HESSI to its circular orbit about 373 miles above Earth. NASA engineers want to make sure there isn't a generic problem with the Pegasus booster rockets before sending HESSI off into space. HESSI's launch has been delayed until at least June 20, 2001. The X-34A investigators are working hard to determine whether it's safe for HESSI to take-off aboard its Pegasus rocket.


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Rogue. Libertine. Rake. Lord Courtenay has been called many things and has never much cared. But after the publication of a salacious novel supposedly based on his exploits, he finds himself shunned from society. Unable to see his nephew, he is willing to do anything to improve his reputation, even if that means spending time with the most proper man in London.Julian Medlock has spent years becoming the epitome of correct behavior. As far as he cares, if Courtenay finds himself in hot water, it's his own fault for behaving so badly—and being so blasted irresistible. But when Julian's sister asks him to rehabilitate Courtenay's image, Julian is forced to spend time with the man he loathes—and lusts after—most.
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Julian pursed his lips as he gazed at the symmetrical brick façade of his sister's house. It was every bit as bad as he had feared. He could hear the racket from the street, for God's sake. He pulled the brim of his hat lower on his forehead, as if concealing his face would go any distance toward mitigating the damage done by his sister having turned her house into a veritable brothel. Right in the middle of Mayfair, and at eleven in the morning, when the entire ton was on hand to bear witness to her degradation, no less. Say what one wanted about Eleanor—and at this moment Julian could only imagine what was being said—but she did not do things by halves.
As he climbed the steps to her door, the low rumble of masculine voices drifted from an open second story window. Somebody was playing a pianoforte—badly—and a lady was singing out of key.
No, not a lady. Julian suppressed a sigh. Whoever these women were in his sister's house, they were not ladies. No lady in her right mind would consort with the sort of men Eleanor had been entertaining lately. Every young buck with a taste for vice had made his way to her house over these last weeks, along with their mistresses or courtesans or whatever one was meant to call them. And the worst of them, the blackguard who had started Eleanor on her path to becoming a byword for scandal, was Lord Courtenay.
A shiver trickled down Julian's spine at the thought of encountering the man, and he could not decide whether it was from simple, honest loathing or something much, much worse.
The door swung open before Julian had raised his hand to the knocker.
"Mr. Medlock, thank goodness." The look of abject relief on the face of Eleanor's butler might have struck Julian as vaguely inappropriate under any other circumstance. But considering the tableau that presented itself in Eleanor's vestibule, the butler's informality hardly registered.
Propped against the elegantly papered wall, a man in full evening dress snored peacefully, a bottle of brandy cradled in his arms and a swath of bright crimson silk draped across his leg. A lady's gown, Julian gathered. The original wearer of the garment was, mercifully, not present.
"I came as soon as I received your message." Julian had not been best pleased to receive a letter from his sister's butler, of all people, begging that he return to London ahead of schedule. Having secured a coveted invitation to a very promising house party, he was loath to leave early in order to evict a set of bohemians and reprobates from his sister's house.
"The cook is threatening to quit, sir," said the butler. Tilbury, a man of over fifty who had been with Eleanor since she and Julian had arrived in England, had gray circles under his eyes. No doubt the revels had interrupted his sleep. "And I've already sent all but the—ah—hardiest of the housemaids to the country. It wouldn't do for them to be imposed upon. I'd never forgive myself."
Julian nodded. "You were quite right to send for me. Where is my sister?" Several unmatched slippers were scattered along the stairs that led toward the drawing room and bedchambers. He gritted his teeth.
"Lady Standish is in her study, sir."
Julian's eyebrows shot up. "Her study," he repeated. Eleanor was hosting an orgy—really, there was no use in pretending it was anything else—but ducked out to conduct an experiment. Truly, the experiments were bad enough, but Julian had always managed to conceal their existence. But to combine scientific pursuits with actual orgies struck Julian as excessive in all directions.
"You," he said, nudging the sleeping man with the toe of his boot. He was not climbing over drunken bodies, not today, not any day. "Wake up." The man opened his eyes with what seemed a great deal of effort. "Who are you? No, never mind, I can't be bothered to care." The man wasn't any older than Julian himself, certainly not yet five and twenty, but Julian felt as old as time and as irritable as a school mistress compared to this specimen of self-indulgence. "Get up, restore that gown to its owner, and be gone before I decide to let your father know what you've been up to." As so often happened when Julian ordered people about, this fellow complied.
Julian made his way to Eleanor's study, and found her furiously scribbling at her writing table, a mass of wires and tubes arranged before her. She didn't look up at the sound of the door opening, nor when he pointedly closed it behind him. Eleanor, once she was busy working, was utterly unreachable. She had been like this since they were children. He felt a rush of affection for her despite how much trouble she was causing him.
"Eleanor?" Nothing. He stooped to gather an empty wine bottle and a few abandoned goblets, letting them clink noisily together as he deposited them onto a table. Still no response. "Nora?" It almost physically hurt to say his childhood name for her when things felt so awkward and strained between them.
"It won't work," came a low drawl. "I've been sitting here these past two hours and I haven't gotten a response."
Banishing any evidence of surprise from his countenance, Julian turned to see Lord Courtenay himself sprawled in a low chair in a shadowy corner. There oughtn't to have been any shadows in the middle of the day in a bright room, but trust Lord Courtenay to find one to lurk in.
Julian quickly schooled his face into some semblance of indifference. No, that was a reach; his face was simply not going to let him pretend indifference to Courtenay. He doubted whether anyone had ever shared space with Lord Courtenay without being very much aware of that fact. And it wasn't only his preposterous good looks that made him so . . . noticeable. The man served as a sort of magnet for other people's attention, and Julian hated himself for being one of those people. As far as he could tell, the man's entire problem was that people paid a good deal too much attention to him. But one could hardly help it, not when he looked like that.
OMG, this series. (As an aside, it really needs to be classified as a series, Ms. Sebastian–it'll be much easier to say, "You really need to read that ___ series by Cat Sebastian" instead of "You really need to read those interconnected m/m Regency romance books by Cat Sebastian…they're called The Soldier's Scoundrel , The Lawrence Browne Affair , and The Ruin of a Rake." Because OMG I want to tell everyone to read them ASAP.)
(Just sayin'.)
I have no idea how she does it, but Ms. Sebastian once again gave us a group of characters here that I absolutely dare you not to fall hard and fast for. Admittedly, at first I wasn't too sure about these two–the labels "prickly and difficult" doesn't even begin to describe, well, both of them, to an extent and at various times–and I honestly don't even know when it is that I went from thinking, Ugh, these two… to thinking, Oh! These two… 🙂 but at some point I just knew they had to find a way to be together or….I don't know what. It wasn't going to be pretty, though. Fortunately, both Ms. Sebastian and her heroes came through for us on that one, and she did it with style.
Favorite line:
"Missing you is profoundly inconvenient, I'll have you know. I have things to do and places to be, and all the while I feel like I've mislaid a piece of my soul and I won't get it back until I see you again. That can't be normal."
See? Sigh…
So now I'm left anxiously awaiting whatever Ms. Sebastian writes next, and seriously contemplating a binge-reading of all three books, just so I can enjoy the interconnected awesomeness of these characters and their stories.
Rating: 4 1/2 stars / A
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
Cat Sebastian lives in a swampy part of the South with her husband, three kids, and two dogs. Before her kids were born, she practiced law and taught high school and college writing. When she isn't reading or writing, she's doing crossword puzzles, bird watching, and wondering where she put her coffee cup.


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A November 16 Washington Post article revealed that Post assistant managing editor Bob Woodward testified under oath November 14 that in June 2003, a "senior administration official" told him that former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV's wife, Valerie Plame, worked at the CIA. Special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald is investigating possible violations of the law in connection with the leak of Plame's identity and has to date obtained the indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, on charges of perjury, obstruction, and making false statements. Media Matters for America has identified numerous instances in which Woodward -- without disclosing his involvement in the Plame affair -- criticized Fitzgerald's investigation and questioned whether an actual crime had been committed. Woodward's comments, some of which are inconsistent, raise questions about his conduct.
According to the Post, Woodward learned of Plame's identity one month before Libby allegedly disclosed Plame's identity to New York Times reporter Judith Miller. Woodward reportedly failed to disclose his involvement in the Plame controversy to the Post until last month and testified under oath on November 14. The Post further reported on November 16, in an article by staff writer Howard Kurtz, that Woodward apologized to executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. "for failing to tell him for more than two years that a senior Bush administration official had told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame," noting that Woodward "held back the information because he was worried about being subpoenaed by Patrick J. Fitzgerald." According to the Post: "Downie said Woodward had violated the paper's guidelines in some instances by expressing his 'personal views.' " Kurtz wrote further: "Woodward said today that he 'had a lot of pent-up frustration' about watching Fitzgerald threatening reporters with jail for refusing to testify, while 'I was trying to get the information out and couldn't' because of his agreement with his administration source."
While Kurtz refers to "some instances" in which Downie said Woodward violated the Post's guidelines, there were in fact numerous appearances on television and radio in which Woodward attacked Fitzgerald's investigation, defended reporters, or downplayed the significance of the alleged conduct of administration figures. Woodward described the investigation as an assault on First Amendment protections of the press. On the July 11 edition of CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports, Woodward claimed Fitzgerald's investigation was "just running like a chain saw right through the lifeline that reporters have to sources who will tell you the truth, what's really going on," and was "undermining the core function in journalism." He also warned: "We better wake up to what's going on in the seriousness on the assault on the First Amendment that's taking place right before our eyes." On the July 17 edition of CNN's Reliable Sources, Woodward said, "[T]he idea of the government and special prosecutors monkeying around with the relationship that reporters have with sources is a very, very bad thing."
Woodward's criticisms of Fitzgerald's "assault on the First Amendment" were primarily in response to the jailing of Miller for contempt of court after she refused to reveal who divulged Plame's identity to her. For example, during a taped interview on the July 13 edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country, Woodward said: "Judy Miller should not be in jail. I think the judge and the special prosecutor in this alleged CIA leak case made a mistake. It's really vital to have confidential sources. I think Judy Miller is doing the right thing. And I think she should be freed and they should reconsider this."
On the October 17 edition of CNN's Larry King Live, Woodward said of Fitzgerald: "And there's a lot of innocent actions in all of this, but what has happened this prosecutor, I mean, I used to call [Newsweek investigative correspondent] Mike Isikoff, when he worked at The Washington Post, the junkyard dog. Well, this is a junkyard-dog prosecutor, and he goes everywhere and asks every question and turns over rocks and rocks under rocks and so forth." At no point did Woodward disclose that he, too, was a "rock" he did not want Fitzgerald to turn over.
Woodward also defended syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak, who originally made Plame's identity public in a July 14, 2003, column but has since refused to identify his source. Woodward was quoted in a December 1, 2004, Editor & Publisher article saying that "Bob Novak has taken a stand that is supported by many in the press," adding, "He is protecting his sources. He has done nothing that is illegal or improper."
At no point in making these comments did Woodward note that he had a specific and personal interest in Fitzgerald's inquiry: Even as Fitzgerald was subpoenaing reporters, Woodward knew that his testimony, in which he too would presumably be forced to reveal his sources, would have been significant to the investigation.
On several occasions, Woodward dismissed the controversy as much ado about nothing or opined that he saw no evidence of a crime -- again, without disclosing that he had a personal interest in the course the investigation took and in an ultimate determination that it was, in fact, "much ado about nothing." On the July 7 broadcast of National Public Radio's Fresh Air, Woodward said: "There was no national security threat. There was no jeopardy to her life. There was no nothing. When I think all of the facts come out in this case, it's going to be laughable because the consequences are not that great."
On the July 17 editon of CNN's Reliable Sources, he said:
WOODWARD: Again, I'm not sure there's any crime in all of this. The special prosecutor has been working 18 months. Eighteen months into Watergate we knew about the tapes. People were in jail. People had pled guilty. In other words, there was a solid evidentiary trail. I don't see it here.
Well, it may just be politics as usual. I mean, [White House senior adviser Karl] Rove's defenders say, look, the evidence is, and the evidence is, that he was saying Joe Wilson, who was criticizing the administration on weapons of mass destruction really had an ax to grind and got his job because his wife had worked at the CIA and recommended him, so there's fuzziness to this.
As Media Matters has repeatedly documented, the assertion that Wilson "got his job because his wife had worked at the CIA and recommended him" has been disputed by senior CIA officials. More significantly, Woodward's claim that he saw no "solid evidentiary trail" was highly disingenuous, as it is now clear that he himself potentially withheld evidence by not disclosing he had discussed Plame's identity with a senior administration official. And Woodward's comment on what "Rove's defenders" claim was his motivation in disclosing Plame's identity leaves open the question: what was Woodward's source's motivation?
On the October 27 Larry King Live, he said:
WOODWARD: Now, there are a couple of things that I think are true. First of all, this began not as somebody launching a smear campaign that it actually -- when the story comes out, I'm quite confident we're going to find out that it started kind of as gossip, as chatter, and that somebody learned that Joe Wilson's wife had worked at the CIA and helped him get this job going to Niger to see if there was an Iraq/Niger uranium deal.
For Woodward to say he "thinks" that Plame's identity arose through gossip is highly misleading because, as it turns out, he is in a unique position to "know" if that is in fact what happened.
Woodward has not always been consistent in describing the seriousness -- or lack thereof -- of the Plame matter. His comments on Reliable Sources and Fresh Air dismissing the seriousness of the Plame leak, and his defense of Miller and Novak for refusing to reveal their sources, stand in stark contrast to earlier remarks in which he played up the "risk" involved in outing Plame as a reason for journalists not to protect their sources. According to an April 2005 Columbia Journalism Review article:
Bob Woodward, perhaps the preeminent investigative reporter of his time, believes in supporting journalists who are protecting sources. Yet he sees the use of confidentiality in this case -- to hide the sources who identified Valerie Plame -- as a weak reed to lean on. "I use confidential sources more than most anyone," Woodward concedes, "but it has to be worth the risk involved. I don't think outing Plame was worth the risk."
Moreover, in the same edition of Reliable Sources quoted above, Woodward acknowledged the possibility that Plame's outing was a crime: "That they were involved in what? Involved in criminal disclosure of this woman's identity or involved in this free interchange? I admit, no one knows the answer to this. I don't even think the special prosecutor knows the answer to this." Woodward's disingenuousness in asserting "no one knows" if a crime was committed is now apparent: He had evidence then that would have contributed to a determination of whether a crime had in fact been committed.
Media Matters had previously documented other false and contradictory statements by Woodward regarding the Plame matter. On the July 31 edition of the syndicated Chris Matthews Show, Woodward baselessly claimed that Wilson's 2002 report to the CIA on the purported sale of uranium from Niger to Iraq contradicted his July 6, 2003, New York Times op-ed, in which Wilson claimed it was unlikely such a transaction occurred. On the October 27 Larry King Live, Woodward claimed that the CIA completed a "damage assessment" of Plame's outing and found that no serious harm had been done, only to be contradicted two days later by his own paper, which reported that the CIA has done no formal damage assessment.