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On the occasion of the 2011 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Ministerial Council Meeting (MCM), Leaders and Ministers assembled under the Chairmanship of the United States of America and the Vice-Chairmanship of Germany to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Organization and set the OECD on a path that will ensure its effective and influential role in an interconnected world.
The MCM deliberations benefited from the participation of Brazil, India, Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, and South Africa, as well as the Russian Federation, which is moving forward in the OECD accession process: Ministers look forward to further progress of the accession review of Russia in accordance with the 2007 roadmap.
A New OECD Vision
The Chair presented the Vision Statement [annex], which celebrates the OECD's history as a forum for policy development and dialogue and looks ahead to its important role contributing to better policies for better lives, implementing a new paradigm for development, and moving toward a global policy network. Ministers representing OECD Member States and the Russian Federation endorsed the Vision Statement and called upon the Council to determine concrete ways to put it into action.
For the past 50 years, the OECD has provided a unique setting where governments can come together to share policy experiences, identify good practices, find solutions to common problems, and collaborate on addressing global challenges. Ministers underscored that the OECD's core strengths are the high quality of its standards, the objectivity of its recommendations, fact-based mutual learning and its rigorous peer review process. Ministers welcomed the OECD's valuable contributions to the evolving global architecture, including the G20.
Ministers welcomed the Strategic Orientations paper presented by the Secretary-General, which sets out his strategy for increasing the Organization's impact, inclusiveness, and relevance going forward. They also congratulated him on his reappointment as Secretary-General.
Ministers welcomed the invitation for Russia to join the Working Group on Bribery, recognizing this as an important step towards acceding to the Anti-Bribery Convention, a prerequisite for OECD membership. Ministers looked forward to Russia's early adherence to the Convention and called upon all Working Group members to effectively enforce the Convention.
Ministers adopted the updated OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, which includes a new chapter on addressing human rights, and encourages enterprises to support cooperative efforts in the appropriate fora to promote Internet freedom. They also adopted the Recommendation on Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas.
Ministers also welcomed the establishment of a Center for African Public Debt Management and Bond Markets, supported by the OECD and the Government of South Africa. A Memorandum of Understanding establishing the Center was signed by the representative from South Africa and the Secretary-General.
The Current Economic Situation
The Chief Economist of the OECD presented the Economic Outlook in the public OECD Forum. Recovery from the crisis is proceeding gradually, with recent growth slightly stronger than anticipated. Growth is increasingly self-sustaining, with stimulus support diminishing and private demand picking up. However, challenges remain and new risks have emerged, including rising oil and other commodity prices, inflationary pressures in some emerging market countries, and the after-effects of the tragic earthquake in Japan. Global imbalances persist. The global crisis has left several countries in a position of low potential growth, high unemployment and large public deficits and debt. Ministers committed to maintain vigilance and to implement actions required to sustain recovery and minimize risks.
Ministers recognized that fiscal consolidation plans should be defined and implemented in earnest, taking into account country-specific conditions and the fragility of the recovery. Tax policy reform can play a key role in this effort. Structural reforms can elevate potential growth over the longer term.
Ministers expressed appreciation for the role of the OECD in assisting governments by providing policy advice, sharing best practices, and taking advantage of its expertise in structural reforms and multi-disciplinary analysis. They valued the OECD contribution to the G20, especially in the mutual assessment process, which is addressing the important issue of global imbalances.
Growth, Jobs, Innovation, and Skills
Ministers agreed that the OECD is positioned to play an important role in helping governments to 1) sustain and strengthen the recovery; 2) maximize the job intensity of growth; and 3) address the chronic challenge of growing inequality to achieve a more equitable and sustainable growth. For the OECD to effectively play its role in the emerging system of global economic governance, the OECD should continue its work in the Economic Outlook and Going for Growth to incorporate analysis of structural measures to promote innovation, regional competitiveness, skills development, and strategies to improve labor markets for the long-term unemployed.
The Ministers also acknowledged that while all countries must have plans for fiscal balance in the medium-term -- and some countries must deal with short-term fiscal crises -- some countries have fiscal room to support a stronger recovery with continued policy support until there is clear evidence of strong and sustainable employment growth and a healthier employment situation is in sight.
Ministers underscored the priority of job creation and inclusion and noted the need for employment and social policies, including active labor market policies and programs for disadvantaged groups and regions, including unemployed youth. Ensuring an adequate supply of skills and maximizing the use of those skills in the workforce are keys to boosting economic growth and promoting social progress and inclusion. In particular, women represent an underutilized resource and their increased and more productive participation in the labor force would promote growth and poverty reduction. Ministers welcomed the launch of the OECD Skills Strategy, which will provide a framework for identifying and disseminating good practices.
Innovation, supported by a strong intellectual property rights system, is fundamental to creating the industries and jobs of the future. Public policies and structural reforms can foster an environment conducive to innovation and entrepreneurship, which stimulates productivity and growth.
Green Growth
Ministers welcomed the Green Growth Strategy and provided guidance on future work. They agreed that green growth tools and indicators can help expand economic growth and job creation through sustainable use of natural resources, efficiencies in the use of energy, and valuation of ecosystem services. Ministers noted that innovation, supported by a strong intellectual property rights system, is a key to countries' abilities to achieve economic growth, create green jobs, and protect the environment.
Ministers recognized that the underpinning of the Green Growth Strategy is that economic growth, job creation, and environmental protection are not a zero sum game -- sustainable use of natural resources combined with environmental protection can improve the economy. Ministers encouraged the OECD to work further on indicators for green growth. They noted that green growth must resonate with countries at all stages of development and engage a broad range of stakeholders: private and civil sectors, the science community, women and youth. Ministers underscored that green growth policies should be considered within nationally defined contexts and priorities, and be applicable to economic actors of all dimensions, from small organizations to large corporations. Capacity development through education, skills training, knowledge sharing and innovation are essential to achieving green growth. Protecting dislocated workers is also important for the transition to a green economy.
Women's Economic Empowerment
The Ministers welcomed the Interim Report of the OECD Gender Initiative, and called on the OECD to continue its work in this area. They called for the Secretary-General to take appropriate measures to implement the Way Forward and complete the Gender Initiative by next year's Ministerial. The ministers also affirmed that women's economic empowerment is critical to stronger, fairer, economic growth. They called on the OECD to work with other willing international organizations to create a plan to make existing gender data more comparable and useful, and to identify a list of common indicators for future data collection. The Ministers also expressed support for an announcement that the World Bank and UN Women have agreed to work with the OECD on a joint plan for the November 2011 High-Level Meeting on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Korea.
A New Paradigm for Development
Ministers welcomed a new comprehensive approach to development across the OECD. They endorsed the Framework for an OECD Strategy for Development, which outlines a broader development strategy for the Organization. The goal is to achieve higher, more inclusive, sustainable growth for the widest number of countries. This will be accomplished by greater collaboration and knowledge sharing including sharing policy successes and failures and engaging in mutual learning, as well as deepening partnerships between the Organization and developing countries that want to engage.
Ministers affirmed the new approach will also identify strategies to ensure that the broader policies pursued by our governments are coherent with the desire to promote worldwide development. It will build on the OECD's rich experience with development cooperation, and incorporate best practices emerging from cooperation between developing countries, including South-South and triangular cooperation.
The OECD will strengthen its development work in areas where it responds to demands and needs of emerging and developing countries, has core competencies, contributes to, but does not replicate, the work of other international and regional organizations and donors, and leverages its multi-disciplinary expertise. Ministers commented that the Chair of the DAC and the Chair of the Development Center Governing Board should work closely with the Secretary-General in the design and implementation of the development strategy.
They agreed the OECD should focus its development strategy on the following areas: innovative and sustainable sources of growth; mobilization of domestic resources for development, including by fostering a favorable investment climate; good governance; and measuring progress for development. Corruption, a lack of transparency, and poorly functioning tax systems are major barriers to long-term growth in many developing countries. They welcomed the establishment of the OECD's Tax and Development Program, which will assist countries to develop more effective tax systems and combat offshore tax evasion.
Several Ministers suggested these strategic areas should be complemented by work on fostering agriculture and food security. Ministers agreed that recent hikes in food prices have highlighted long-standing challenges in food security and economic development. An increase in global food production and agricultural productivity, and improving the functioning of global agricultural markets and trade are essential. The OECD, in cooperation with partner organizations, is placed to provide analysis and key policy insights building on current horizontal work and on experiences and expertise in developing countries.
Ministers acknowledged that development aid remains critical to reduce poverty and leverage other resources for development. They reaffirmed their commitment to aid and the priority they give to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Ministers recognized that the OECD's new approach will contribute to establishing a broader and more substantive partnership among all nations and private entities and to shaping the new international development cooperation architecture to emerge from the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Korea, in November 2011. Ministers shared the view that governance reform plays a prominent role in supporting economic growth and development. The popular demands for freedom and economic opportunity in the MENA illustrate well the vital importance of achieving high standards in the formulation of policy, management of public finances, and the delivery of public services. Creating greater prosperity in the MENA region also requires creating better conditions for entrepreneurship and innovation. Ministers asked the OECD, based on its MENA program, to develop proposals for further work on this crucial issue with the goal of helping governments in designing, implementing, and coordinating corruption prevention measures and improving the investment climate in MENA countries.
Trade and Jobs
Ministers reaffirmed the importance of the multilateral trading system and that this strong, rules-based system is an essential source of sustainable economic growth, development, and job creation. They expressed deep concern regarding the difficulties confronting the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations, and emphasized the need to seriously review next steps given that the results of the DDA will set the terms of global trade for decades to come. Ministers also renewed their commitment to resist protectionism, and shared the view of the need to refrain from taking WTO-inconsistent measures in the aftermath of recent natural disasters.
Ministers welcomed the International Collaborative Initiative on Trade and Employment (ICITE) as a timely effort to tackle pressing policy concerns. They lent their support to its objective to understand better the mechanisms by which trade affects patterns of employment, and agreed that dialogue and conclusions need to identify policies designed to spread the benefits of trade broadly among workers. Ministers looked forward to an opportunity to consider the ICITE findings in the context of the Meeting of the Council at Ministerial Level in 2012.
In view of the importance of the service sector for domestic economies, and taking into account the prospect of economic benefits from services trade expansion for all economies, Ministers applauded OECD efforts to deepen research on services trade and develop a Services Trade Restrictiveness Index that encompasses key sectors and countries that are, or aspire to be, major services providers. They encouraged the Members and the Secretariat to work with the enhanced engagement partners to ensure they also become a part of this important undertaking.
On the 50th anniversary of the OECD, we, the Members, reaffirm our founding goals and set out our vision for the OECD's evolution to ensure its effective and influential role in a rapidly changing world so as to promote the well-being of our citizens. We are determined that the OECD will continue to help countries develop policies together to promote economic growth and healthy labour markets, boost investment and trade, support sustainable development, raise living standards, and improve the functioning of markets. This vision also underscores our resolve to make the OECD a more effective and inclusive global policy network.
Throughout its history, the OECD, whose origins lie in the Marshall Plan, has assisted countries in fostering good governance and reforming and improving their economic policies to generate greater economic growth. The success of these efforts helped build a wider consensus for market economies and democracy. The OECD is a world leader in designing structural reforms that promote growth and equity. Its committees of national experts, high-quality Secretariat, world-class data collection and analysis, robust peer reviews, and evidence-based policy recommendations help countries by benchmarking policies and disseminating best practices. Its collaborative work with regulators and policy makers, industry leaders, trade unions, and civil society brings key stakeholders together to share ideas and learn from each other, and to develop best practices, policy guidelines, and legal instruments.
The global economic environment has changed dramatically in recent years. The 2008-09 financial and economic crisis underscored the increased complexity and interconnectedness of today's world, the on-going central importance of growth and employment, as well as the need for more effective regulation of the financial sector and enhanced cooperation to address common concerns. Challenges related to still too high unemployment, public-sector debt levels, and generating sustainable balanced growth around the world have to be addressed effectively. The mobility of capital, technology, and people is increasing rapidly. New economic powers have emerged and integrated into the world economy, leading to global shifts in growth, wealth, and influence.
In this changing world, OECD Members continue to form a community of nations committed to the values of democracy based on rule of law and human rights, and adherence to open and transparent market-economy principles. The Organisation's essential mission is to promote stronger, cleaner, fairer economic growth and to raise employment and living standards. We rely on it to do so by identifying key economic, social and environmental policy challenges and designing policies to improve the well-being of people around the world.
Better Policies for Better Lives. The OECD will continue working to improve the functioning of markets and of governments, resist protectionism, encourage fair and efficient systems of taxation and investment, and create good jobs. Promoting the openness, propriety, integrity, and transparency of business and governments and fighting against corruption remain key activities for the Organisation. New challenges, however, demand new approaches. The OECD will incorporate the lessons of the recent crisis to help update economic thinking and analytical frameworks.
We will actively pursue strategies for growth and jobs by making the best use of OECD expertise in multidisciplinary analysis and structural reforms. Sustainable economic growth is a critical objective and future OECD strategies will promote green growth. The OECD will also provide countries with the tools to increase economic opportunity for women in education, employment and entrepreneurship. In order to increase growth in our economies, generate jobs and increase living standards, we look to the OECD to help spur private-sector innovation. The OECD will work to develop effective strategies to increase employment opportunities toward the goal of shared prosperity. It will also support high-quality education and skills, health, and social-protection policies, which are critical in the global economy to reduce inequality and support inclusive growth. The OECD will help governments respond to demographic challenges, including rising social protection costs as a result of ageing populations and youth unemployment.
Our New Paradigm for Development. Countries at varying levels of development contribute to the achievement of global sustainable economic growth. We can all prosper by learning from one another, generating ideas together, and coordinating and improving our policies, regulations, and standards, based on the principles of inclusiveness and flexibility. Broader interaction, beyond the provision of aid, supports economic growth, poverty reduction, and development. We commit to launch a new comprehensive approach to development across our Organisation entailing greater collaboration, including sharing policy successes and failures and engaging in mutual learning, as well as deepening partnerships between the Organisation and developing countries that want to engage. In addition, we will continue to identify strategies to ensure that the broader policies pursued by our governments are coherent with our desire to promote worldwide development as stated in the OECD Convention. This approach will build on the Organisation's rich experience with development cooperation, respect the different needs and challenges of developing countries, and incorporate best practices emerging from cooperation between them.
We reaffirm our commitment to aid as well as the priority we give to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. We will continue our efforts to make aid more effective by better aligning donor and partner priorities, empowering developing countries to build capacity and assume greater ownership for their own futures, and strengthening mutual accountability.
Towards a Global Policy Network. Over the past 50 years, the OECD has expanded its membership from the original 20 countries to 34, is currently in accession discussions with the Russian Federation, and has engaged more recently in varied and flexible relationships with countries and institutions around the world and at different stages of development. An increasing number of countries participate in our discussions, share data and best practices, contribute to the Organisation's Global Fora, join its committees and bodies and, in some cases, adhere to its standards. Their participation advances our common goal of learning from each other's experience in order to produce better outcomes for all people. We welcome these growing ties.
The OECD will continue to expand its network with new ideas and new partners while maintaining the high quality of its analysis, instruments, and standards, the objectivity of its recommendations, and its rigorous peer review process. We welcome collaboration with all those countries interested in sharing knowledge and expertise, promoting reform, and contributing and adhering to OECD standards. We, the OECD Members, will strengthen cooperation where there is mutual benefit with countries seeking closer ties, including possible membership.
Our cooperation with Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa since 2007 helps the OECD better address global economic, environmental, and social challenges. We, the OECD Members, will work together with each of them to develop new forms of partnership and collaboration with the aim of improving the well-being of all our citizens. We will continue to cooperate with other international organisations and stand ready to draw on the OECD's expertise to continue supporting the work of the G20 to help address the evolving challenges of the 21st century.
The OECD will also enhance its regional activities, including through partnerships with other international and regional organisations, such as regional development banks. We are committed to continue supporting and strengthening our policy dialogue with Southeast Asia, Latin America, Southeast Europe, Eurasia, and sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the Middle East and North Africa, where we will do all we can to provide support for economic and social reform initiatives.
As we go forward, the OECD will operate as a results-oriented, rigorous but flexible network based on high standards with the goal of developing effective and innovative policy choices for governments around the world. We will ensure the OECD embodies best management practices and continues to improve its own efficiency and effectiveness. The OECD will remain objective, inclusive, and responsive in pursuing this vision.


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Rhonda Hamilton Interviews Guitarist Russell Malone
May 1, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: audience, ballad, busy day, fcc, fortunately, great guitarists, guitarist, hefty fines, hotel room, Interviews, Jazz Alive, jazz host, jimmy smith, jokes, kenny burrell, lesson in music, midday, organist, rhonda, russell malone, those guys, wes montgomery
Rhonda Hamilton interviewed guitarist Russell Malone yesterday.
Fortunately, Russell didn't share any of his really colorful jokes with our audience. If he did, the FCC would level some hefty fines.
He did, however, talk at length about his experience with Jimmy Smith. When Russell met the organist in Atlanta, he asked to sit in with the band. Russell played everything he knew, trying to impress Jimmy. The audience went wild. Then, Smith called a ballad, "Laura," and Russell did not know the song. That humbling experience led to an all-night lesson in music in Jimmy Smith's hotel room. Smith had played with some great guitarists, notably Kenny Burrell and Wes Montgomery. He taught Russell Malone a valuable lesson - to put himself into the music, rather than trying to emulate those guys. Listen to the interview.

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Mortgage Insurer Is One Recession Away From Bailout, Critic Says
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The Federal Housing Administration , the government agency that has insured more than 30 million homes, would probably need a bailout if the economy keeps contracting, said Edward Pinto, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Recent changes to increase mortgage insurance premiums and improve underwriting standards are "baby steps" in the right direction, according to Pinto, but the health of the housing agency remains precarious.
"It will only take a run-of-the-mill recession in the next one to five years, and all of their projections will be thrown out of the window. They will face catastrophic losses," he said in an interview with TheStreet. "If the U.S. has a cold, the FHA gets pneumonia."
Pinto, who was a top official at Fannie Mae in the late 1980s, has been a long-time critic of the FHA, arguing that it has been irresponsible in its lending practices to working-class families and has racked up an extraordinarily high failure rate. His warning this time is more urgent as the U.S. economy unexpectedly shrank last quarter, hurt by a cut in defense spending and exports. A second quarter of the same would technically mean the U.S. is in a recession.
In a December study of 2.4 million loans insured by the FHA in 2009 and 2010, Pinto identifies 9,000 zip codes in which one in seven borrowers are projected to lose their homes.
"The government loves to say that the FHA has insured over 30 million homes over the last several decades. What they don't say is that more than 3 million FHA borrowers have lost their homes to foreclosure," he said.
The FHA declined to comment for this story.
Officials of the FHA have previously disagreed with the conclusions of Pinto's study , arguing that the vast majority of borrowers have succeeded and that the very mission of the FHA is to serve higher-risk borrowers who don't have access to private credit.
The FHA insures lenders against losses on mortgage loans that conform to their requirements. These loans are normally targeted at first-time home buyers and lower- to middle-income groups who can't afford a big down payment. FHA loans typically require a down payment as low as 3.5%.
The FHA has insured 34 million home loans since 1934, according to the HUD website.
The agency's market share zoomed in the aftermath of the crisis, when it stepped in to provide credit as private capital withdrew from the market. But in the process, the FHA took on risky loans that had a high default rate, as home prices steadily plummeted.
The FHA has taken steps to improve its default rate. It no longer backs loans where the seller finances the buyer's down payment, which it says was a leading cause for soured loans. It has also raised premiums and tightened underwriting standards.


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Distributed Repair of Digital Broadcasts
Husberg, Janne
Permanent address of the item is: http://URN.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201210051314
Publication type: Diplomityö
Issue date: 2012-10-03
University: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto - Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Tieto- ja sähkötekniikan tiedekunta – Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering
Department: Tietoliikennetekniikan laitos – Department of Communications Engineering
Digital broadcasts are a highly efficient way of transmitting data to a large number of receivers, but they are typically not designed for reliable transmission. In this thesis we attempt to design a fully peer-to-peer repair system that can operate on digital broadcasts that have no inherent support for reliability. We exchange hashed representations of the broadcasted stream between peers and use data differencing techniques along with majority voting to detect errors in the transmission with a high probability of success. We find that the theory behind the system is sound, but that transmitters in large broadcasting networks may slightly modify the transmitted data in such a way that extensive canonicalization is required for data differencing techniques to function properly. The presented system offers increased robustness compared to existing systems, but is significantly more complex
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ENO ProFly Rain Tarp
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The ENO® ProFly™ Rain Tarp offers protection from rain without being too bulky or cumbersome. The ProFly's six guy points give it a streamlined shape that is ideal for protection against sudden downpours, and the stitched and taped seams keep leaks at bay. This easy-to-setup, durable tarp is great for making a dry, worry-free basecamp.
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JXTA Micro Edition MIDP-2.0
By hamada on Jan 29, 2008
Last Wednesday (January 23rd), JXTA Micro Edition MIDP-2.0 was open sourced under http://jxta-jxme.dev.java.net. Up until now JXTA on mobile devices had been pretty limited in functionality, however with the introduction of this new binding, a mobile device can participate fully as an edge device on the network without the need of a proxy. So what does this mean you ask?
With this new binding, a mobile device can :
- Discover other devices and services
- Publish advertisements about it's own resources
- Establish direct connections to any other node
- Create/Join private virtual domains
- Exchange/Access content within the domain without the need of a central server(s)/service(s)
Imagine audio streaming from a home machine to a phone, or contact and calendar syncing within a virtual domain (home, office, and mobile), or true mobile-2-mobile gaming. Imagine no further, the networking foundation is now available to enable such capabilities.


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Issue Brief #3831 on United States Government
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January 17, 2013 | Issue Brief on United States Government
The United States Senate will soon hold confirmation hearings for the Obama Administration's nominees for three key positions: Senator John Kerry (D–MA) for Secretary of State, former Senator Chuck Hagel (R–NE) for Secretary of Defense, and White House Chief Counterterrorism Advisor John Brennan for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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A Crucial Region
The Middle East and North Africa are critical focal points for efforts to halt Iran's nuclear program and its export of terrorism, the war against al-Qaeda, and the uphill struggle for freedom in countries affected by the so-called Arab Spring. The region also contains almost two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves. In addition, important allies such as Israel, Iraq, Jordan, and the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council are cooperating in containing Iran, mitigating the destabilizing spillover effects of Syria's intensifying civil war, and fighting Islamist extremism and terrorism.
The Obama Administration, after reversing the hard-line policies of the Bush Administration in confronting state sponsors of terrorism, vainly sought to engage hostile regimes in Iran and Syria, only to be spurned. The Administration distanced itself from Israel, America's foremost ally in the Middle East, and tilted towards the Palestinian Authority in U.S.–sponsored peace negotiations, which quickly broke down after Washington unwisely elevated the issue of Israeli settlements. The Administration also withdrew U.S. troops from Iraq, failing to arrange for a small residual force as it had promised—a failure that has undermined Iraq's security, jeopardized its political stability, and contributed to the resurgence of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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Iran's Nuclear Challenge. Despite sanctions, Iran has accelerated its uranium enrichment efforts. This year Tehran is expected to cross a dangerous threshold to gain a nuclear breakout capability by producing enough weapons-grade uranium to build a nuclear bomb. It will finish the job unless it is persuaded that the costs of doing so exceed the benefits of attaining a nuclear capability. Sanctions alone are unlikely to halt Iran's nuclear program, just as they failed to halt North Korea's. U.S. diplomacy must be bolstered by the credible threat of military force or Tehran will run out the clock.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that Israel will be forced to take military action against Iran's nuclear program by mid-year if current trends continue. Strong and resolute U.S. leadership is necessary to resolve the nuclear issue before Israel is compelled to launch a preventive strike or Iran gains a nuclear capability. Also worrisome is Tehran's increasingly aggressive use of terrorism against Israeli and Saudi targets, including a foiled 2011 plot to bomb a Washington, D.C., restaurant to kill the Saudi Ambassador. The Obama Administration must apply maximum pressure to Tehran to deter it from continuing such terrorist acts.
Syria's Meltdown. The Obama Administration's naïve engagement of President Bashir al-Assad's barbaric dictatorship, as well as its wishful thinking about the possibility of inducing Assad to negotiate a political transition that would inevitably threaten his own survival has contributed to an increasingly bloody civil war. The outsourcing of policy on Syria to the U.N. Security Council has handed Russia and China a veto over U.S. policy and bolstered Assad's staying power.
U.S. passivity has contributed to a widening regional crisis. The Obama Administration must become more active in accelerating the fall of Assad, supporting the opposition, and working closely with Syria's neighbors to contain the destabilizing spillover effects and ease the suffering of Syrian refugees. It should identify key non-Islamist opposition leaders inside Syria who are worth supporting and provide them with effective economic aid, medical supplies, communications technology, and even covert arms aid if they can provide ironclad guarantees that the arms will not fall into the hands of terrorists.
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Al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremists have exploited the Arab Spring to expand their power. This has created direct threats such as yesterday's terrorist attack and hostage taking in Algeria and the September 11 attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. It also has enabled terrorists to carve out sanctuaries in Mali, Syria, Yemen, and Egypt's Sinai peninsula. Al-Qaeda also has staged a resurgence in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops and is poised to make a comeback in Afghanistan if the Obama Administration risks a precipitous drawdown of U.S. troops there.
Washington must undertake effective and responsible counterterrorism cooperation with as many states as possible to defeat al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, and other Islamist extremists. But in failed or failing states where the rule of law is nonexistent, the Obama Administration's law enforcement approach is dangerously ineffective. The Benghazi attack and the faltering investigation to identify and arrest the culprits has underscored the weaknesses of this approach, which also failed to protect Americans from the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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The Senate should use the confirmation process to question each nominee on the above mentioned issues. In particular, it should seek guarantees from Senator Kerry that he will:
The Senate should seek guarantees from Senator Hagel that he will:
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Stronger Leadership Needed in Second Term
Given the Administration's feckless record on Middle East policy in its first term, a more realistic and proactive approach is needed to confront hostile regimes in Iran and Syria while helping to protect U.S. allies in the region. Both allies and adversaries are uncertain about the Obama Administration's goals and resolve. The three nominees must convince the Senate, the American people, allies, and adversaries that they have a realistic understanding of how to protect America's vital interests in the volatile Middle East.
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Former Fat Girl Lisa Delaney helps a successful loser cope with her fear of gaining weight all over again.
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I am ridiculously addicted to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't. To give you a little perspective, I've already played this more than any other game in history.
Usually I get bored with games pretty easily, sometimes never actually completing them if game time lasts longer than eight hours or so, though there are a few exceptions.
With my first character, who I became dissatisfied with, I logged a little over twenty-five hours with. Twenty-five hours, only to abandon the character and make a new one, who I have spent a little over three hours on already.
I don't know about you, but twenty-eight hours of game time and counting is something I think most people would attribute to a MMORPG these days, or something like Baldur's Gate way back in the day. But, no, Oblivion is a single-player only RPG. Like an online casino game, you just play by yourself and hope for the best.
So how can I, a gaming cynic, love a game so much? I think a lot of it has to do with the sheer perfection in almost every aspect of the game. The graphics are gorgeous, you can view a few screenshots I have taken while playing on my system by clicking on the thumbnail above. The action is fantastic, a real joy to do battles this time around as opposed to how it was in Morrowind. The voice acting, again, stupendous. The quests and story lines? Convincing, imersive, and just wonderful.
I'm going to mention this aspect on it's own line because it's incredibly important: The music, and sound design, in Oblivion is to die for. I spent about fifteen minutes on auto-walk just trekking through the wilderness, lost in this sublime feeling of tranquility that was a result of the music combining with the peaceful sounds of my feet stomping through grass, the wind rustling the trees, and a few crickets and other bugs that I passed by.
I really don't know how they did it, but Oblivion is almost worth buying just to have as a wilderness simulator. Screw actually going outside, I can go camping in Oblivion and it's just as realistic, aside from the fact that I don't get attacked by rabid wolves and boars in reality. In fact I gained a lot of weight just sitting for hours playing this game.
I had to do something about it as I was really getting fat. As I do not like the gym or dieting I was looking for an alternative solution to trim some unwanted pounds and this is when I came across garcinia cambogia liquid, a totally natural dietary supplement.
The main quest is a bit on the short side, and is extremely linear. It's alright though, because there are several guilds with full story lines and quests to partake in. (The Dark Brotherhood quest line is actually leaps and bounds better than the main game quest, and would also be another buying point in my opinion. Maybe the other guild's quest lines are just as good? I will find out I suppose.)
There is not really much more I can say. I'll just summarize with a few feelings. I have never been quite so immersed in a game world before. This is really the first RPG where I actually feel like I am role-playing in some way. In most RPGs I have just been the guy who runs around and bashes things with his sword, there never seemed to be any pay off in trying to play anything different.
In Oblivion I am a stealth assassin, a member of the Dark Brotherhood who takes pride in working for the Night Mother; killing for my Dread Father, Sithis; and working with the other members of my Family. Even when I venture outside of the Dark Brotherhood story line, I still feel as if I am working for the Dark Brotherhood deep down. There is an eerie since of pride I have for my character and my actions in the game.
It's strange, but really amazing. I don't think you can find a game finer than this. Admittedly there are low points (third person view is retarded and useless, but who cares? graphics can lag even on an uber-system, but at least it's still better than having it on 360 and not being able to download user-made mods that fix some of the issues), but they are outshone by the excellence the rest of the game is soaked in.


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Topic: Modeling a schedule/appearance
I'm relatively new to rails and not a programmer by training. Something I've heard more than once in reference to Rails is that if it feels like Rails is fighting you, maybe you are doing something wrong. With that in mind, something that had been completely making my life miserable became cake after modifying my model. I'm curious what you guys think about the two approaches below.
The purpose of the app is to provide information about what services are available and who provides them, and when those people are available at a particular school. The Services bit is trivial, so I don't want to spend time discussing it. The fundamental information is a Provider at a School on a particular day of the week (like a college class schedule--MWF, or TuTh, or what have you).
Either way I approached it I use Schools and Providers. In both cases, both are has_many :through the third model. This model took two forms.
Initially, I chose "Appearances". I think one clue was how hard it was to even come up with a name for the model. My approach here was to have one record for each appearance. An appearance was defined as a Provider at a School on a Day of the Week. Multiple appearances are required to have a Provider at a School on more than one day. For MWF, there would be provider_id = 1, school_id = 1, day_of_week = 1, provider_id = 1, school_id = 1, day_of_week = 3, provider_id = 1, school_id = 1, day_of_week = 5. It conceptually seemed clean, and followed some of the approaches I've seen in various Rails bibles.
While it was easy to inspect appearances, it was quite difficult to edit them, primarily because Providers are the most likely to be editing their appearances. Since a provider could conceivable be at a different location every day of the week, that further complicated things.
The UI I envisioned for this was a series of checkboxes, like so: [x] Mon [ ] Tue [x] Wed [ ] Thu [x] Fri
In fact, I asked around (here, on IRC, on the local Rails list) and only got one person who could figure out how to do it, and it didn't really work. Even though we got the right blank checkboxes and such, I was going to have to loop through the response and look up the appearance given the school_id, provider_id, and day_of_week info in order to update or delete records. By then, I was totally out of gas and sick of beating my head against the problem.
I decided to try what seems to me to a much less "elegant" approach, which is to replace the Appearance model with a Schedule model (which is what I wanted to call the model all along). In this case, there's a boolean column in the table for each day of the week, which I called "day_1", "day_2", and so on. Using this, check_box pretty much "just works". I can even use the _form partial:
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<%= check_box("schedule", "day_"+i.to_s) %> <%=h Date::ABBR_DAYNAMES[i] %>
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I was about to write about how collecting the days a provider is at a school was challenging, but it's actually easier.
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In short: Nice course, a few organisational niggles, very busy in sections.In full: Firsty, this is a race which helps raise money for the RNLI, however there were a few niggles in the organisation. The course was flat with some muddy offroad, nothing too taxing, however some sections were extremely busy with both runners and public, particularly the last 2miles zigzagging through families, dogs, kids on bikes and runners coming the other way on the esplanade. Marshalling and signposting was just about adequate, the finish funnel was very slow to get through though, just glad it was a nice warm day. Having said that everyone was very friendly and enthusiastic and this would be a nice first half for beginners, the medal and goody bag were good too. Perhaps the entries need to be capped at a lower number though?Date of review: February 18, 2013
In short: Great fun, good value, not your average race!In full: This was a great race, 5 miles in the dark through the woods and by the water dressed up as Halloween Spooks with a few scares thown in along the way! Great value for money and the best medal I think I have ever received! This must have taken loads of organisation, with lots of marshalls and "scarers" along the route! I screamed like a 6 year old at one point! Made a nice change from chasing PB's all year. Hope this is staged again next year, I would certainly do it again!Date of review: November 3, 2012
In short: Great atmosphere but far too expensive!In full: A good course with huge PB potential if you don't get snarled up in the masses. The support and atmosphere is great, particularly if you are an inexperienced runner. However, £40 entry is just far too much for what you get - no changing or showers, a medal and basic t shirt. For serious runners there are loads of races out there which offer much better value, but having said that this and the other Bupa races provide a platform for an awful lot of money being raised for charity, which obviously has to be a good thing. Undecided if I will do it next year or not.Date of review: October 29, 2012
In short: A well-organised race with good PB potential but also a good first race.In full: Exactly what you want from a 10k really, good organisation and marshalling on a very flat and fast route. A good mix of runners from the very fast through social runners to people obviously trying their first race. Relaxed atmosphere and considering this was in the middle of a big city there were some nice quiet and fairly pretty parts of the route. One lap, no serious bottlenecks and plenty of room for overtaking. Not many opportunities for supporters to see their runners except at start and finish but at least there was a nice cafe for them to sit in at the race HQ. Unusual memento too, which was a nice touch. My only slight gripe was the water stations which were too early in the race and then another too late, would have been better with just one about half way in my opinion, but it was only 10k so not really an issue, especially on a chilly day. Will definitely be back next year!Date of review: June 11, 2012
In short: Slick organisation, great route, and raising money for charity!In full: The weather couldn't have been worse but it did nothing to dampen the spirits of the competitors, marshalls and volunteers. Organisation was better than some huge races I have done and the marshalls stuck out miles from anywhere in the driving rain and wind were happy and encouraging to the last! Great offroad route, I enjoyed the mud, and plenty of water and jelly babies! First Aid cover was brilliant and necessary as hypothermia was a real potential, a First Aider even came into the changing rooms just to make sure everyone was ok after they had finished! Tea, coffee and cakes available before and after the race, a free t shirt in the goody bag, and all raising money for a Hospice, so it really doesn't get any better! I'll be back next year for sure!Date of review: May 29, 2012
In short: Varied terrain, great views, well organised and friendly!In full: Well organised, really friendly and a proper off-road challenge. Great base in west wight sports centre with good facilities (no queue for the ladies loo!). The terrain is very varied, grass, pavement, shingle, and the route is challenging but very well planned with a potentially fast last few miles and some awesome scenery! Not one for PB's if you normally run on roads but a nice challenge for trail runners!Date of review: May 29, 2012
In short: A fun and muddy day out!In full: I did this race last year in the sub-zero conditions and didn't enjoy it. However, with the sun out this year, more muddy sections in the first half (the tracks were frozen solid last year!), a much better lay-out to the start and finish areas and people generally in a much more convivial mood I really enjoyed this years event!It's still a tough race and if you don't enjoy getting VERY muddy then don't consider it, but it's a good place to start if you are considering other events of this nature. On the practical side the signage of the course was good but I had concerns again this year at the lack of first aid available, although I only saw one person in difficulty so hopefully there were no problems. As others have mentioned it took ages to get out of the car park and onto the road but traffic was being well controlled. Goody bag was pretty good and included a nice medal and technical tee. I will probably be back for more next year!Date of review: November 30, 2011
In short: Not as tough as it says on the tin!!In full: I was expecting this to be a tough race but it was only the British weather that delivered on this front. Most of the distance is a moderate trail run with a few short sharp hills and two water obstacles near the end. As the course goes a long way out there are no spectators for most of it, just a few frozen cadets standing around in a few places (hats off to them by the way!). It was good fun but I saw a couple of people in difficulty near the end and there was very little medical help for them. There really needs to be just two big male and female changing marquees or something at the end for people to get out of their wet stuff, I was borderline hypothermic and so were many others. Great fun if you've never done anything like this before but doesn't come near the organisation and atmosphere of events like Tough Guy.Date of review: December 6, 2010
In short: Amazing scenery, hard course, bit pricy.In full: I did the 5km which had a lot fewer entries than the 10 but the single-track sections were still busy enough. I was doing it for fun but for a good time you needed to get to the front right from the start. 5km course was well signed with arrows but as previously mentioned there was a lot of potential for injury and no marshalls at all on most of the course. The scenery was amazing, the facilites at the National Trust Centre were great but a few signs to the event on the road for non-locals would have helped. The goody bag was good but the entry fee was steep. I'd do it again but think entries need to be more limited, or re-route the course on wider tracks.Date of review: October 18, 2010
In short: great venue, nice race for a fantastic cause.In full: I did the 5km which was organised with (literally) military precision and started bang on time! Nice race on woodland tracks with some tricky sandy sections and inclines but not too tough. Brilliant venue with cafe and abundant toilet facilities! Good for a family day out. Friendly atmosphere and raised money for an excellent cause through entry fees, while not being pushy about competitors raising extra sponsorship. This is how to organise a race - very well done!Date of review: September 26, 2010
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Mayville Residents Discuss How To Improve Village
MAYVILLE – Many Mayville residents enjoy where they live so much that they're willing to do their part to make it even better.
On Wednesday night, the Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency invited Harry Sicherman, noted community and economic development consultant, to the Chautauqua Suites Hotel and Exposition Center to act as mediator to a Mayville-area community development forum. Sicherman, who has 35 years of experience with revitalization efforts, is best known for assisting in the redevelopment of lower Manhattan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
"I was asked by the CCIDA to take a look at Mayville for the possibility of downtown revitalization … which tells you that downtowns are the most important thing to a lot of people in Upstate New York and that many are in at least a partial state of decay," said Sicherman. "Downtown is the center of government and community, and it's where it starts for a lot of (cities and villages). As many of you know, the big-box department store has contributed to the destruction of the downtowns of (municipalities) all across the state and country. Throw in social networking, television, et cetera, and you've drained a lot of personality away from the downtown model.
"When we sat down to talk about revitalization in Mayville, the first thing I said was, 'This doesn't happen in a vacuum,'" continued Sicherman. "I've helped to hand out (large) grants to communities to revitalize their downtowns, only to find out later that nothing has changed. If you want your downtown to become more robust, it needs to be a grassroots effort. The national trends – I can't lower gas prices and shut down the internet so people shop locally – but we can start from the bottom up. I can't tell you how much I dislike those $50,000 studies about the changes people want that only end up sitting on the shelf. In the end, those studies don't revitalize a community, the people who are sitting here tonight do. If there is no spirit of volunteerism here, then revitalization isn't going to happen. You can't pay someone to come in and fix everything."
As mediator, Sicherman emphasized that conversation should be led by residents, and that he was only there to keep the group on track. Though it took a small amount of encouragement to get the group going, those in attendance offered an outpouring of ideas on how to improve the downtown.
Several ideas became the topic of discussion, including school mergers, concerted efforts to shop locally and the county's perception of Mayville.
However, the topic which finally got the entire group engaging in discussion was how to better use the landscape Mayville already has to bring in more people, more specifically the institution.
The group focused on utilizing Mayville as a halfway point between the institution and the Lake Erie wine trails. Discussion moved into topics such as the impact a six-month season at the institution would have on Mayville and how utilizing snowmobile trails during the summer as equestrian trails would bring horse enthusiasts into Mayville. Everyone in the room agreed that Mayville's trails and its position between Chautauqua Lake and Lake Erie are some of its best assets.
Martin Bova, mayor of Mayville, generally agreed with the nature of the discussion.
"If you look at a lot of other communities in the county, you see a lot (of communities in) worse shape than we're in," said Bova. "Yes, we have some buildings downtown that are not being utilized, but they look nice from the streets and are available for use by entrepreneurs. We're probably never going to turn any community back to what it was in the 1960s, where if you wanted to buy a watch, you went to the local jewelry store. That's just not going to happen because the big-box stores have made those stores endangered species. If we're going to keep people coming in to Mayville, there is no doubt that we're a tourism-driven community. We rely on the institution and the lake, but there's got to be other things that will draw people in. We don't need to be a 12-month, crazy, can't-move-through-town village, but I think there's more that we can do to improve the community and bring more business to the shops that still operate here."
Those in attendance generally agreed with Bova that Mayville is already in good shape, but a few improvements in specific areas could help to make it a bonafide destination.
"That's the rule we always use: Build on your assets and mitigate your deficiencies," said Sicherman. "There's a lot Mayville is doing right, but it can do it better and it can do it more efficiently. There's a lot of fertile ground here, now it's just a matter of using it."


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This is a library created for the Arduino software designed for the $50 robot microcontroller board. It is provided along with the Arduino software as an easy alternative to AVR Studio 4. Note that the current version (1.00 as of 4/09/09) only supports the following programmers:
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Unzip the file at the bottom of this page. You may place it wherever you please (preferably not in the folder "Recycle Bin"). Inside the folder, 50DolArduinoVer000, you will find a big nice Arduino icon. Avoid the temptation to double click on the icon. Some set-up has to be done first. Open the "lib" folder. Inside you should see many files. Delete the file "preferences.txt". Don't worry, there is a backup. Now go into the "Preferences" folder. Inside there are folders for the supported programmers. Open the folder of the programmer you wish to choose. Inside there will be a file, "preferences.txt" that is suitable for your programmer. Copy and paste that back into the "lib" folder where you deleted the old "preferences.txt". SETUP DONE!
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (7 votes).
Date of review: February 17, 2013
In short: Good race, would prefer a medal to a mug!Date of review: February 10, 2013
Date of review: February 9, 2013
In short: Very good course, offering pb route, well organised and deserves bigger entryIn full: 10 and 20K races started 170m apart, which assisted the sort out. Good, friendly, well organised marshalls and water stations. Good effort to raise some charity cash too. Quick e-mailing of results. Mince pies and mulled wine flavour tea at the end welcome on a cold Christmastimeish day. Not impressed with memento, should have saved the cash for the charity. Tacky santa hat sprayed with the race logo will never see the light of day again os the only negativeDate of review: December 8, 2012
In short: Very well organised - good fun runIn full: Enjoyed this run a lot, very well organised by Martina and Catherine,the hill at the end is a real sod though ! well done all! Date of review: April 22, 2012
In short: great dayIn full: traveled down from the borders to see my brother and managed to talk the wife into letting me enter the 20k race. Fantastic weather & organisation. Marshall's & Miss race director (Martina) were brilliant. On the 1st lap the hill to the 10k (halfway point) line catches you off guard. But on your 2nd lap you know its coming and it sucks the life out of you. Plenty of support from the locals on route and at the end keeps your spirits up...overall a brilliant day Date of review: April 22, 2012
In short: Pleasant rural location & along quiet lanes, Excellent Organisation & Marshalling. Suits all levelsIn full: A good run (for charity) in an excellent country location at a sensible start time. Made better by the spring sunshine. Friendly atmoshere. OK for all levels. Mostly along public country lanes - all well marshalled with regular distance markers and clear warnings for drivers. No massive hills but the most severe is in the college grounds near the end so quite "testing". Date of review: April 21, 2012
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Phillip J. "PJ" Belote Sr.
Phillip J. "PJ" Belote Sr., 76, of 224 Lister Ave., Falconer, passed away Monday (Feb. 4, 2013) in UPMC Hamot, Erie, Pa.
Phillip was born May 18, 1936, in Eden, N.Y., the son of the late Leo and Grace Brunner Belote.
He enlisted in the United States Marines on Jan. 12, 1954. After his term in the U.S. Marine Corps he worked at Chautauqua Hardware, Sterling Worth and later by Falconer Plate Glass.
Phillip enjoyed gardening, hunting, fishing, golfing, bowling and collecting U.S. Marine memorabilia and steins.
Surviving are his wife Joan L. Belote, whom he married July 8, 1978; two sons: Phillip "John" (Cheryl) Belote Jr. of Charlotte Center, N.Y., and Monte (Jennifer) Belote of Ocala, Fla.; three daughters: Kimberly (James) Gardner of Belleview, Fla., Wilma Wilburn of Belleview, Fla., and Robbin (Guillermo) Novoa of Bradyville, Tenn.; a stepson, Micky (Cathy) Mata of Kennedy; 23 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; two sisters: Ruth (LaVern) Altenberg of Jacksonville, N.C., and Eunice Merchant of Jamestown; and several nieces and nephews.
Besides his parents he was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Jasmine Belote; a brother, Perry Belote; a sister Alberta Pollaro; and a nephew Tony Pollaro.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the Falconer Funeral Home. The Rev. Donald E. Ray will officiate. Burial will be in Sunset Hill Cemetery.
Friends will be received by the family from 5-8 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home.
Memorials may be donated to the Falconer Rescue Squad, Falconer, NY 14733.
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Area legislators gear up for presenting bills
NEW ULM – Area lawmakers are gearing up to present bills for the 2013 session of Minnesota Legislature, which started Tuesday.
Rep. Tony Cornish (R-Vernon Center) has two pieces of legislation based from recent controversies. He proposes arming teachers in Minnesota schools. He also want to give families more protection for their property rights in murder cases.
The legislation that would allow teachers and school staff to carry guns in schools has been a priority for Cornish since the school shooting in Newtown Connecticut in early December 2012. NRA chief Wayne LaPierre received widespread rebuke for presenting the same proposal last month, and Cornish has been criticized for his proposal by Democrats and Gov. Mark Dayton. Cornish has soldiered through the criticism and remained adamant about his proposal.
The specific legislation he plans to push allows the implementation of armed guards in schools, most likely through hiring police officers. He met with NRA and other gun groups Wednesday to coordinate press releases on some of his proposals.
On his proposal related to property in murder cases, Cornish said he will be working closely with family of murder victim James Nibbe, who was killed in August 2010 by his wife. He felt compelled to act after learning about the challenges Nibbe's family faced in regaining his property from the family of his convicted killer.
The proposed legislation will seek to establish a process to have the court take inventory of a victim's possessions at the start of a murder case. The legislation is aimed at trying to reduce legal wrangling by making ownership more clear and offering records in the event of the items being wrongfully sold or destroyed.
Rep. Paul Torkelson (R-Hanska) and Sen. Gary Dahms (R-Redwood Falls) are hoping to make an impact in the Legislature despite being in the minority party.
Torkelson is in the preliminary stage with many bills, but he might look at a bill on bee-keeping habitats. More generally, he plans to work on water quality and environmental issues.
Dahms might offer bills on increasing local control by working on the MAGIC Act and more specific legislation for communities in his district on issues like flood mitigation or environment.
Torkelson and Dahms will support a bill to prevent rural cities and counties from having to pay sales tax on the mandates ARMER radio equipment upgrade all emergency services needed implement. Both legislators said it was unfair that some metro areas dodged the sale tax, so they are seeking to have no municipal or county government in the state pay either.
(Josh Moniz can be e-mailed at firstname.lastname@example.com)


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Regina's Historic Rock Guesthouse
This Historic guesthouse was built in the mid 1850's. There was one large front room and behind that the kitchen with sleeping quarters upstairs. Much of the home remains original, but the present owners have done extensive remodeling so that all the modern conveniences are included. Regina's Historic Rock Guesthouse is located right on Main Street on a heavily treed lot. An old barn is located behind the house. Guest entry is thru a side door that leads into the full kitchen. There is a large refrigerator, gas stove, microwave and coffeemaker. Beautiful antiques are placed throughout the home. They include a weaving loom in the dining area and an old kitchen cupboard in the kitchen and sofas in the living room. An antique enthusiasts dream! When you visit Regina's Historic Rock Guesthouse, you visit an original Fredericksburg native rock home with a convenient Main Street location. Great for a ladies shopping trip or a family vacation.
- Main Street Location just a short drive to downtown
- Historic Native Rock Building
- Covered Front Porch
- Off-Street Parking
- Two Bedrooms- 1 Queen and 1 Full
- Bathroom with Claw Foot Bath Tub and Shower
- Breakfast Vouchers
- Full Kitchen
- Coffee Maker
- Microwave Oven
- Toaster
- Cable TV
- Antiques
- Central Heat and Air Conditioning
Rates & Restrictions
- Rates starting at $115.00 per night 1 or 2 guests
- $35.00 each additional person per night
- $30.00 per pet per night
- 2 nights required for All Event and Holiday Weekends
- Children Welcome
- Pets Welcome (Pet Rules)
- No Smoking
- Maximum Occupancy – 4
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