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As seen in Cosmo!
This cheerful little duck hides a big secret: powerful 3 speed vibrations! Just press his back to start your duckie buzzing. Use his body for all-over erotic massage, or let his shaped head and contoured tail to hit all those tight spots. Take this waterproof sex toy into the shower or tub to make bath time a whole lot of fun! A great vibe for beginners.
• I Rub My Duckie
• Discreet vibe looks like a shower toy
• 5" long x 3.5" wide
• 3 speed vibration: gentle, medium, intense
• Quiet motor for use anywhere
• Press back to activate
• Floats in water
• Waterproof
• 2 AA batteries (sold separately)
When's the last time you rubbed your duckie? With the I Rub My Duckie vibrator, you'll be able to get off discreetly in or out of the shower! This vibrator comes equipped with a powerful 3 speed motor that's perfect for sensual massage or intense clitoral stimulation. The motor's quiet operation lets you vibe wherever the mood strikes.
Get started by inserting 2 AA batteries (sold separately – add some to your order and be ready when this sex toy arrives). Screw the base of the I Rub My Duckie shut. Now just press his back to cycle through 3 vibration speeds. Keep your vibrator on gentle for foreplay and body massage, or switch to medium or intense speeds for focused pleasure. Try using the duckie's beak, tail, head, and body for different sensations.
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text: Well, I don't quite know how to put this, so I'll tell you the plans: My parents are seriously considering purchasing some (holiday) property in Spain; at the moment they are looking in Andalucia (Seville mainly) or around the Valencia area, their two favourite parts of Spain, having visited several times. They plan to buy an appartment or small-ish villa, and they've had a fair few viewings and liked some of the places they've seen. It'd be somewhere we could all go during summers and somewhere they may eventually retire to when the time comes. However, upon telling some friends the plans, the same things keep getting said; "don't buy in Spain, everyone is so racist there." Now, I don't know what to make of this; I've only been once, five years ago, to Barcelona, and noticed nothing. I should just tell you, both my parents are English - my mum is black of Brazilian descent, and my father is half English, half Japanese. They've said they've not really noticed anything to support what my friends (and others) have said, so really, if they're happy, it shouldn't be an issue, but I can't help but be a bit worried. I have an Arab friend who studied in Madrid for six months and he said he'd never been treated so badly, so consistently in his life - and made NO friends; and this guy is like the nicest, most personable dude goin. So I'm a bit Of course, I know problems like this exist everywhere, and that you can't paint everyone with the same brush - I'm sure they are racist people in Spain, just like everywhere else unfortunately - and that there are many, many who are not - and I'm sorry if this offends anyone - I just wondered if anyone had anything to say about this? Am I (and my friends) being totally hysterical over this (/unfair/exaggerating etc.) or is there a little bit of truth to it? Thanks.


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Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski has now been cleared by his independent doctors to play. We thought he had already been cleared by his team. Apparently not just yet. A league source has told Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio that the Patriots haven't decided if Gronkowski will actually play versus the Jets. They will make that decision Sunday morning.
Fantasy Analysis:
This report feels like it came straight from the mouth of Bill Belichick, wanting everyone to wait and guess until the last minute. For what it's worth, Gronkowski did travel with his teammates to New York and is still expected by many to be active. We will know for sure at around 11:30 a.m. Eastern on Sunday. If he plays, Gronkowski is no worse than a top-five fantasy tight end. I'm sure Tom Brady can't wait to welcome Gronk back and will be looking for him whenever he's on the field.


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Campus Classic volunteers are pivotal to the smooth running and success of the race. More than 250 volunteers are needed to participate in everything from the registration of runners and providing water and first aid to ensuring runners stay on course. Volunteers will be assigned where the need is greatest.
Parking is available at the ramps at the corner of West Michigan and North Dormitory Road or Lot 13. Cars must be moved after the race is ended or they will be towed or ticketed.
As a Campus Classic volunteer, you will receive:
- Free race T-shirt.
- Refreshments before and after the race.
- Eligibility to receive a $500 travel voucher to anywhere in the U.S. or one of 10 WMU parking passes. Passes awarded to WMU students only, who must be present at the drawing and have their Bronco Card ID with them. Passes are non-transferable.
- Must be available to work on campus generally between the hours of 7 and 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 8.
- Volunteers under 14 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.
- Some volunteers are needed for runner registration on Friday, Oct. 7, from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Student Recreation Center.
Community service hours
If you need a letter for community service credit, please tell us in the Comments field on the registration page. Include the name of the individual or agency and the address that the letter should be sent to, and it will be mailed within 10 business days following the race.
Volunteers may register in advance online or in person at 6:45 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at the volunteer registration desk in the Student Recreation Center. Use the Western Avenue entrance to the center. Online volunteer registration will close Thursday, Oct. 6, at midnight.
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Arsène Wenger makes nine changes from the side that beat Wigan for today's Premier League game against Fulham.
From that midweek victory, Laurent Koscielny and Jack Wilshere are the only two who keep their place in the side.
Bacary Sagna, Sebastien Squillaci and Gael Clichy return to defence with Lukasz Fabianski starting in goal.
Tomas Rosicky will captain the side and is joined in midfield by Samir Nasri, Alex Song and Andrey Arshavin.
Marouane Chamakh replaces Nicklas Bendtner and will lead the Arsenal attack.
Team in full: Fabianski, Sagna, Koscielny, Squillaci, Clichy, Song, Rosicky (c), Nasri, Wilshere, Arshavin, Chamakh
Subs: Szczesny, Walcott, Denilson, Djourou, Gibbs, Bendtner, Van PersieCopyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Ask my family and they'll tell you I've always been weird with my words. When I was about 8, I created "Molly's Expandatory Vocabularyistic". Basically just added extra syllables to every word to piss people off.
On a long road trip, I read the label on the seat belt and started calling my sister Porta Bebe for almost an entire year. (Sorry, sis)
I was that kid.
I am not one to swear, really. (Although, I'm completely convinced that comedy is way funnier with some wordy durds.) I do have a wide assortment of ridiculous things that I love saying.
Hot Mess
Holy Mother
Shart Ton
For Serious?
Anyone who looks like they should be working the corner. Or anyone (gay or straight) staring at my man. Or Rozlyn.
Sexy Beast
What I call the hubs GPS, who he named Ashley. I will, however, call anyone who crosses me that. Like my sister's, if they don't loan me their clothes.
What are your fav random words?


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I Wiggle
35395, Children's Songbook, Fun and Activity, I Wiggle, 271
I wiggle my fingers. I wiggle my toes.
I wiggle my shoulders. I wiggle my nose.
Now, no more wiggles are left in me;
So I will be still, as still as can be.
Words: Louise B. Scott, b. 1914
Music: Lucille F. Wood, 1915–1986
© 1954 by Bowmar Noble. Copyright renewed 1982. Reprinted by permission of Belwin Mills Publishing Cor. All rights reserved. MAKING COPIES OF THIS MATERIAL IS PROHIBITED.


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Littlears Auditory Questionnaire: Validation Study in CI Children (LittlEars)
This study has been completed.
Med-El Corporation
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Med-El Corporation
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: November 4, 2008
Last updated: March 4, 2016
Last verified: March 2016
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- How to Read a Study Record
The LittlEARS Auditory Questionnaire is designed to assess the development of the auditory behavior in children during the first two (hearing) years. The questionnaire has been validated on children with normal hearing whose native language is German. A comparison was made between North American English speaking children with normal hearing and found that it was consistent with the German data. This study is to validate the questionnaire in children with cochlear implants.
|Hearing Loss
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Littlears Auditory Questionnaire Validation Study in CI Children With LittlEARS My Diary: Language: North American English
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: nonsyndromic hearing loss
MedlinePlus related topics: Cochlear Implants Hearing Disorders and DeafnessU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Med-El Corporation:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- To validate the LittlEARS Auditory Questionnaire in hearing impaired children. The item analyses, scale analysis, analysis of expected values and minimal values have to be calculated, as it was performed with the US validation study. [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- To determine if there are differences in statistical parameters between normal hearing children and hearing impaired children [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
- Longitudinal assessment of cochlear implanted children over 24 months after first CI fitting [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
- To establish the first words understood by a child with a cochlear implant [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
- To establish the first words spoken by a child with a cochlear implant [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
- To establish a sequence of word development [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
- To compare words and word categories in different languages [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
|Study Start Date:
|May 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2016
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
cochlear implant
children less than 24 months at time of cochlear implantation
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 24 Months (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Children under the age of 24 months at time of cochlear implantation recommended by the cochlear implant clinic.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Less than or 24 months of age prior to implantation
- Cochlear implant candidate deemed by the clinic
- To be implanted with a MED-EL cochlear implant PULSARCI100 or SONATATI100
- English as the primary language at home
- Realistic expectations of guardians
- Willing and available to comply with all scheduled procedures as defined in the protocol
- Good general health status, as judged by Primary Investigator
- No contraindications for surgery, in general, or cochlear implant surgery in particular
Exclusion Criteria:
- Prior experience with any cochlear implant system
- Older than 24 months at time of implantation
- Severed or non-functional auditory nerve in the ear(s) to be implanted
- Cognitive and/or neurological dysfunction
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00785707
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00785707
|United States, Georgia
|Georgia Health Sciences University
|Augusta, Georgia, United States, 30912
|United States, North Carolina
|University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill/CCCDP
|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27713
|United States, Tennessee
|Vanderbilt University
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
|United States, Texas
|Cook Children's Medical Center
|Fort Worth, Texas, United States, 76104
|United States, Wisconsin
|Medical College of Wisconsin
|Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226
Sponsors and Collaborators
Med-El Corporation
More Information
Keywords provided by Med-El Corporation:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 23, 2017
Fisseni HJ. (1998) Lehrbuch der psychologischen Diagnostik, Göttingen, Hogrefe.
Kühn-Inacker H, Weichbold V, Tsaikpini L, Coninx F, D'Hease P. (2003) LittlEARS Hörfragebogen - Handanweisung. MED-EL Headquarters, Innsbruck, Austria.
|Responsible Party:
|Med-El Corporation
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00785707 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 4, 2008
|Last Updated:
|March 4, 2016
Keywords provided by Med-El Corporation:
sensorineural hearing loss
cochlear implant
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hearing Loss
Hearing Disorders
Ear Diseases
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
Sensation Disorders
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
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While Islander fans are struggling to come to terms with the awful new look their team is giving them, Sabres fans might just be looking at the return of their classic look. The 1996 "gang colors" look might be out the door as new owner Mark Hamister is now openly considering bringing back the blue and gold jerseys the team wore for its first 26 years. Mark, let me make this easy on you… DO IT!
Out with the new, in with the Blue (and Gold)
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Records should be kept on every deer harvested on the property. Basic record keeping begins with the total number of bucks and does taken from the property each year. Secondly, and just as important, are the ages of all animals in the harvest. Never guess at deer ages! One side of all lower jaws should be pulled, tagged and saved for inspection by a biologist. Wildlife Resources Division biologists can provide assistance for aging jawbones to landowners and hunting clubs upon request. If this is not possible, then club members should become proficient in aging 3 age classes: fawns (6 months of age), yearlings (1.5 years of age), and adults (2.5 years of age and older). Do not underestimate the value of aging all the animals in the deer kill especially yearlings. This is the single most important piece of information obtainable for your deer herd. The meaning of all other measurements of the deer herd, such as weights and antler measurements, depends upon accurate aging.
After aging, antler measurements are next in order of importance. Be consistent and thorough in your data collection. All measurements should be taken from the right antler unless it is deformed or broken. Antler diameter at the widest point (one inch above the burr) should be measured in millimeters with an inexpensive set of calipers, length of main beam from base to tip along the back of the curvature of the beam is measured with a tape in inches, total number of points (must be at least one inch in length), and outside spread is recorded. In addition to antler measurements, field dressed weights can provide very important trend data to monitor your deer herd and compare your records with those from other deer populations. Live weights can be used but are more difficult to compare with other deer herds. On clubs that do not restrict their buck harvest, data from yearling bucks is especially valuable since these animals reflect the condition of the entire population if the measurements are taken correctly.


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I bought this gun a while back planning to do some pistol play but I was never able to. The first time I aired it up it started leaking and I don't
have the o-rings to fix it, so I'm throwing it up for sale.
Marker: Tiberius T8.1
Condition: 8/10
Color: Black
Upgrades: None
Known Problems: Leaks out of the back but still shoots
Asking Price: $85 Shipped
Shipping Options: USPS
Trades of interest: Offer
Location of item: Port Lavaca, Texas
What is Included: The Gun, 2 mags. (one mag leaks)
If you want anymore pics please don't hesitate to ask
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In its ninth decade of use as a multi-sport fa-cility, Fetzer Field is one of the premier soccer domains in the nation and has been a site where many signature events in UNC athletic history have taken place over the years. Fetzer Field serves as the Home of the Tar Heels for men's and women's lacrosse and men's and women's soccer. The Irwin Belk Track at Fetzer Field is the home of the men's and women's track and field teams. The University of North Carolina women's soccer program is fortunate to call Fetzer Field its home stadium.
Fetzer was originally built in 1935 with extensive upgrades taking place from 1988-90. The facility has been host to the NCAA Women's College Cup semifinal and final games seven times in the history of the tournament.
A Fetzer Field record crowd of 7,212, at the time the most to ever see a women's collegiate soccer game, watched the No. 1 Tar Heels fall to No. 4 Notre Dame 1-0 in the 1995 NCAA semifinals.
The largest regular-season crowd in Fetzer Field lore witnessed the top-ranked Tar Heels' 5-1 victory over second-ranked Notre Dame on September 13, 1998 as 6,024 fans streamed through the Fetzer Field gates.
Large crowds are a regular part of UNC women's soccer history. Carolina led the NCAA in average home attendance five straight years from 1998-2002. Since the NCAA initially compiled attendance figures in 1998, Carolina has always ranked in the top five in average home attendance. Carolina ranked second in average home attendance in 2003 and 2004, stood third in the standings in 2005, 2007 and 2009, ranked fourth in 2008 and was fifth in 2006.
There is no college team in the country that can compare to UNC when packing a stadium. The Tar Heels played Notre Dame in the NCAA championship game on December 5, 1999 before a crowd of 14,410 in San Jose, Calif. That is the largest crowd in NCAA women's soccer history. On August 25, 2006, the Tar Heels played Texas A&M before a crowd of 8,204 in College Station, Texas. That marked the largest regular-season crowd to ever watch a game in NCAA women's soccer history. Given the success of the program it comes as no surprise that the Tar Heels have amassed one of the best home records in collegiate sports history. Carolina enters the 2010 season with a record of 295-12-6 at Fetzer Field. In those 313 home games, Carolina has outscored its foes by 1,264 goals. In those games, UNC has scored 1,413 times and its opponents have tallied 149 goals.
Named for former Tar Heel athletic director and track coach Robert Allison Fetzer, the stadium has been the home of Carolina's soccer programs since 1947, the first year that UNC sponsored a varsity men's team. The women's program was started in 1979 as one of the first varsity women's programs in the nation. Anson Dorrance has been the only head coach of the women's program in that time and only four men have served as the head coach of men's teams in games played at Fetzer Field since 1947.
Located in the heart of the Carolina campus directly adjacent to Carmichael Auditorium on South Road, also referred to as Raleigh Road, the playing field, track and grandstand was completed in 1935 as a Works Project Administration program during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the heart of the Great Depression, the building of Fetzer Field provided a plethora of much needed jobs to Tar Heel natives who were then suffering through economic deprivation. The facility's renovations over the years have made it one of the most beautiful all-around collegiate venues in the nation. Fetzer Field sits in a natural valley in the center of campus surrounded by Carmichael Arena, the Michael Hooker intramural fields, the Institute of Government, the Eddie Smith Field House, Henry Stadium, the Navy Field football and lacrosse practice fields, Teague and Carmichael dormitories and Kessing Outdoor Pool.
Beginning in 1988 and continuing over a period of two years, the playing field itself was reworked and leveled, the grandstand was refitted with new aluminum bleachers, a new track was installed, lights were added, two ticket booths were added to the front gate, a permanent concession stand was erected and a computer scoreboard/message center was installed.
Large crowds have been the rule at Fetzer Field since the inception of the women's program in 1979. The two largest crowds attended Tar Heel matchups against Notre Dame. The third largest crowd was in attendance for Mia Hamm's collegiate finale, A total of 5,721 fans were on hand at Fetzer Field as Carolina routed George Mason 6-0 in the NCAA title game on November 21, 1993.
The facility has been home not only to women's soccer NCAA championship rounds and ACC Tournaments, but also to ACC Track and Field Championships, the N.C. High School Athletic Association Track and Field Championships, the National Junior Olympics in track and field, men's soccer, men's lacrosse and women's lacrosse ACC Tournaments, men's soccer NCAA first and second round and quarterfinal action, NCAA men's lacrosse tournament action in first round, quarterfinal and semifinal games and women's lacrosse matches in first rounds and quarterfinals. In the summer of 1996, the facility was the home training site for the U.S. Track and Field Team as it prepared for the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
The Irwin Belk Track is an international-style track. This means the turns are European-style and are wider than most American tracks, resulting in broader curves and faster times, especially in the 200 and 400 meter races.
A brand-new Daktronic scoreboard that is capable of instantaneous results, was installed. The board is lined to the two Accutrak systems installed to record the times of the races so that immediately following the conclusion of the race, the six-best times will appear on the scoreboard.
Fetzer Field has been home to women's soccer NCAA and ACC Championships, the 1991 and 1993 ACC Track and Field Championships, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Track and Field Championships, the National Junior Olympics, men's soccer and men's lacrosse ACC Tournaments, men's soccer NCAA first and second round action and NCAA men's lacrosse tournament action in first rounds, quarterfinal and semifinal games. In the summer of 1996, the facility was the home training site for the United States Track and Field Team as it prepared for the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Some of the largest crowds to ever watch women's collegiate soccer games have been at Fetzer Field. In 1988, an estimated throng of 4,500 fans came out to Fetzer for the NCAA final between Carolina and N.C. State. That was, at the time, the largest crowd ever to attend a collegiate women's soccer match.
The 1990 NCAA Tournament drew an estimated 6,700 spectators to the stadium-2,000 to watch the quarterfinal round win over N.C. State, 1,500 for the semifinal round and 3,200 for the championship game.
Another 7,000 fans streamed through the Fetzer Field gates to watch the 1991 NCAA tournament games, which culminated in a title-game victory over Wisconsin.
In 1992, more than 3,500 enthusiasts braved a steady downpour as the Tar Heels crushed ACC rival Duke 9-1 in the national finals.
A year later, in Mia Hamm's collegiate finale, 5,721 fans were on hand at Fetzer as Carolina routed George Mason 6-0 in the title game.
In men's soccer, the largest crowd to watch a Carolina game at Fetzer Field turned out for the game on October 2, 1999. A school-record 3,825 fans watched the Tar Heels battle the Duke Blue Devils.


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A dog is truly a man's best friend.
If you don't believe it, just try this experiment:
Put your dog and your wife in the trunk of the car for an hour.
When you open the trunk, see who is really happy to see you!
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A dog is truly a man's best friend.
If you don't believe it, just try this experiment:
Put your dog and your wife in the trunk of the car for an hour.
When you open the trunk, see who is really happy to see you!
Bonnie and lap dog.
That's funny!
Here's another one for you:
Your wife is at the front door hollering to be let in, and your dog is at the back door barking to be let in. Which one do you let in first?
Your dog..................He'll shut up after you let him in!
Why'd you go and post that. :smt102
3Reds has read it, and that brought about old memories.
We went to Lowe's a couple of years ago in our car instead of our truck. I found some shelving I wanted and decided to buy it.
3reds promised me it wouldn't fit in the car (a pontiac Grand Prix).
I told her the seats would fold down and it would fit fine in the back end.
Well, turns out the shelving did fit in the car, but only if 3Reds lay down in the trunk, next to the shelving, which extended all the way to the front seat.
She says she had to find a "happy place" to make the trip home without panicking.
She did look a bit like a corpse in there. Laying face up with arms crossed and all.
As luck would have it we were having "scattered showers" that day.
I could see a downpour headed our way, about three blocks from our house as I turned down our street.
I raced the little cloud to the house, parked, popped the trunk and did a quick extraction :smt170 just as the showers hit.
She still hasn't forgiven me. :smt075
... and she still doesn't appreciate that I saved her from getting soaked when we got home. :smt017
I thought I should reply to this since I was the one in the trunk. He forgot to tell you that I offered to go home and get the truck. When he didn't think that was necessary, I offered to stay at Lowes while he drove home with the shelving and then hopefully come back to pick me up. He was just insistant that everything would fit I could just ride home peacefully feet first in the trunk next to the shelving. I had no idea it was starting to rain (you can't see much from the trunk) and was very suprised when the car stopped, the trunk lid popped open, and I was pulled out quickly and delivered to the garage. I think you're right, the dogs would have been happier to see Wandering Man
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On 14 Aug 1998, Joel Cannon wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to run mathematica 3.0 remotely (or if it is
> possible)? I am visiting
> a school which has mathematica on a couple of computers but not on any
> in my area. I have been unable to run mathematica on the remote
> machines (it doesn't find the fonts it needs) but have run it
> successfully using a small xterm.
> Can the fonts be loaded on clients without violating the license?
The fonts need to be in a directory that resides on the font path of the
X server of the machine where you are actually sitting. Section 4.5 of
the Mathematica 3.0 System Administrator's Guide addresses the issues
of fonts under X Window. Subsection 4.5.5 seems to indicate that a
local installation of fonts is permissible if it is for the purposes of
displaying an X client running remotely on another host. However, you
can also avoid the local installation through the use of a font server.
See Chapter 6 of the _X Window System User's Guide_ by Valerie Quercia
and Tim O'Reilly (ISBN 1-56592-015-5) for a good discussion of how to
handle fonts under X.
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I personally like the Galley being at the foot of the companionway. If I''m cooking I can just pass the food up to the helm. If I''m single-handed, or my crew (family) is asleep, I can hop down and grab something from the fridge or pour some coffee without being far from the helm. Also, the heat and moisture from the stove vents right on out of the boat. I wouldn''t have it any other way.
Now, I did have a Rhodes once, where the companionway was RIGHT in the middle of the galley (icebox and sink on the left, companionway in the center and prep surface and stove on the right, looking aft). That was a pain.
Off to the boat for a week''s cruise to St.Augustine...
Buying a 1st boat
I first started with lessons, then bought a small Beneteau...after two seasons I realized it was too small. Then a divorce which "liquidated" the boat. As retirement approached (then 5 years, now 3 out) I said I''m only here (on earth) once that I know of so I bought a classic Tartan for cruising. It was the best decision of my life. Like those above said, don''t wait too long.
Just as you learn a little, you learn there is a lot more to learn about boats and the sea. Once you commit to the lifestyle you become very hungry to learn.
LDCarpet...most galleys are near the companionway. Figure out just where you want to cruise and look at some classic plastic with relatively simple systems and a hull/rig design that meets those needs. Be patient and you''ll find a boat that''s right.
Buying a 1st boat
My husband and I are starting the process of selecting a crusing boat. We have been looking at a Catalina 36. It has a great layout, except the placement of the galley at the foot of the companionway is a bit scary. Does anyone have any experience or advice on this subject.
Buying a 1st boat
Your responce is exactly how I feel. I took my basic keel course passed with flying colors but only sailed about 2 times I tried to crew for races , but all you get good at is cranking a winch, and I would like to leisure cruise at the moment... but because I did not have boat or knew someone who did my sailing was non existent. . I''m how ever giving up my other pride and joy ( a 98'' Harley Davidson) and will take the plunge. After carefull reasearch I have come to the conclusion that a used boat, for the first boat is the best way to start. With any luck the Pearson 31 I''m looking at will mine to get experiance on.
I''m hoping to do just as you did , learn by doing ,and in a few years I will buy that 46 footerof my dreams and cruise the coastline and islands.
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Thank you all for your help. As far as what I plan to spend to make my dream come true, I dont feel 60K would be out of line for a home with a keel. Now that I have some advice on schools, I may change my vacation plans.
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While it''s a very open ended question, I still like the original intent. Sure, he''s going to need some solid education and all that, but let''s look at the BOAT.
Think about it, you''re 4 years off from retiring and you''ve been dreaming of going off into the sunset. Let''s honor the dream for a moment and give him some boats that he can search for in the back of Cruising World and on Traderonline without getting too bound with details.
Singlehanding around the world. While I won''t ever do it...what boat would I want if I were to make the jump?
Not too big, 30-35 feet maybe. Full keel. Used, as I''m would be retiring. Double ender perhaps? Cutter rig? I''m thinking a Leigh 30 would fit the bill. How about a Southern Cross 28? Or an Island Packet 29 (not a double-ender, but a nice boat).
I know... a Hans Christian 33, now there''s a heavy displacement, double-ending cutter that one could take out to the deep blue.
Other suggestions? Jeff?
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The only way you will learn to sail is to do it. The only way you will do it is if you have some experience.
Take an ASA or US Sail keel boat sailing class. Learn the basics.
Buy yourself a boat you will be comfortable with, and sail it. While you''re sailing it read everything you can get your hands on. It will make more sense if you can read and experience it at the same time. My first boat was a 28 footer, my wife wanted something she felt secure in and was self righting. We did not know a thing about sailing except we had chartered with a couple for a week in Lake Erie and loved it. We learned as we sailed. My second boat was a 25"11 foot racing boat. My present boat is the boat of our dreams a Morgan 384. In the middle we took sailing classes in flying Scots, and ASA classes in 40 footers. We took navigation classes, bisic coastal cruising classes. We learned in all of them. These classes are arranged to take you in steps as your experence grows.
But you need the experence. One of the most
frustrating things I experienced in one of my advanced classes was with a gentlemen who read extensively about sailing but had never experienced it. He had never been in charge of any size boat himself. Everything he did he related to "well the book says..." or "is this what the book ment by..." Very unnerving for a few on board offshore some 100 miles.
If your going to retire in four years I would assume your not 30 something so racing is not probably something you will be into, there for it will be much harder to catch many rides with day sailors or cruisers. You need to get as much time onboard as possible. That means buy a boat regardless of what it is. Some clubs will have smaller boats you can use to learn basics but they won''t get you cruising on weekends to learn. It is easier to invite experienced sailors to sail with you than to catch a ride with no experience.
My 2 Cents..
Buying a 1st boat
Some people may think that VIEXILE''s advice in this case is too flip, but I give him credit for pointing out that in the extreme, too much planning is to never do anything, which is often worse.
So, my modified advice:
1. DON''T rush so fast that you doom yourself to failure, poverty, and misery.
2. DON''T drag everything out so that all you do is talk, then die without experiencing your dream.
3. DO find that balance somewhere between those extremes that suits you.
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I agree with the previous comments pertaining to attending some schools and gaining time on the water.When I first started sailing,I attended two excellent schools...the first was "The Offshore Sailing School" at Captiva,Fla.,and the second was "The Annapolis Sailing School" in Annapolis ,MD.If you are close to either of these schools I think it would be well worth your time to attend one, or both.Once you get some experience on the water, and some schooling under your belt, you might want to look at charterng a boat or two. It will help you get the feel for how different boats handle which will be beneficial when you start the selection process for a boat.I''m planning on moving up to a larger boat in a few years, so I''m also trying to determine what is the perfect boat for me. I''ve been researching boats for about a year now.This site has a wealth of infomation (Jeff''s comments) and the boatcheck pages.As others have pointed out, what your plans are now may be totally different in 4 years.If you are going to be circumnavigating, your choice for boat will have a different set of criteria than if you plan on being a coastal cruiser.In the mean time,plan,research,save$$,and dream.Good luck!
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2013 draft picks: 1st round (24), 3(86), 4(121), 6(192), 7 (230, 254)
There's so much to be excited about if you are a Colts fan. Andrew Luck lived up to the hype and Indianapolis stunned the football world with a playoff season after winning only one game the previous year.
In preparing for year two with Luck the Colts made a handful of roster moves this off-season. They signed a quality veteran backup quarterback in Matt Hassellbeck. Former Raider first round pick Darrius Heyward-Bey is now in Indianapolis. Maybe a fresh start with Andre Luck will turn this speedster's career around. The Colts got some help in the trenches with tackle Gosder Cherilus and guard Donald Thomas.
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The Colts landed a solid corner in free agency in Toler but they need more help. At No. 24 in the first round could be the landing spot for Desmond Trufant. Now there's a chance he could be gone. If so, the Colts may have to wait it out and select a corner a little later. Their next pick is No. 86 in round three.
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Indy signed Franklin but they could still go after a nose tackle early. The Colts could be eyeing John Jenkins, Johnathan Hankins, or Jesse Williams. They may have a shot with Brandon Williams with their third round pick.
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The Colts have six picks and I would assume that despite the signing of Heyward-Bey they will still look to draft at least one receiver, maybe a player with some size at this position.
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Out of the boards listed I would go with the Proto to be able to do everything. That said it does have a bit more of a freestyle influence. The NS Cobra is is basically the all mountain Proto. Since you aren't really hitting too many park features this may be a better choice.
If you haven't yet I would tell you to take a look at boards with flat camber or positive camber all the way from past insert to past insert before hitting some rocker. An example of this would be the Salomon Man's Board. This is a board I would tell you to seriously consider.
The Rome Bosses are ok bindings. Not necessarily what I would go for but at $118 they will do the job.
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So iv'e been out of the loop snowboarding wise for a couple months now. Not really sure which board would be right for me.
I live in Ohio so for about 60 % of my season i will be hitting some basic rails, medium jumps and just pure fucking around. About 20 percent of my season i will be riding around various resorts on the east coast from Jay peak to Holiday valley. The other 20% of the season i will be out west in Jhole and Utah. There i will be riding pow as much as possible. Cliffs, Tree's, any natural features.
What im looking for in a board.
- good edge hold for east coast ice
- can handle jib. Not really to important but i enjoy a boardslide here and there.
- can handle jumps. medium size.
- Quick edge to edge. I ride a lot of tight tree's in the east.
- Can handle pow, natural features, etc.
I know i'm asking a lot out of a board but o well.
What iv'e narrowed it down to
NS Proto
NS Evo
Arbor Blacklist
Arbor coda
I'm open to any suggestions. Also need some help on bindings. Appreciate any responses.!
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You should be able to shoehorn something under the Buick, but I would definetly check with the company you buy it from and consult a profesional, to see how much work it will take.
Air shocks are readily available at any parts store or website. They also provide an awesome ride! Actually feels like you are floating on air. I have found the best set up is air shocks in the back, with heavy duty coil over shocks in front. You can then level the car or give it "the stance" just by filling up the rear shocks or letting some air out. Yes you can get a compressor and do that! But I am just a roughneck who likes going fast on gravel or through snow without draggin my gas tank on the ground.
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We've often gone over the Charney sensitivity constraint for the Last Glacial Maximum. There is information about the greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4 and N2O), reconstructions of the ice sheets and vegetation change, and estimates of the dust forcing. A recent estimate of the magnitude of these forcings is around 8 +/- 2 W/m2 (Schneider von Deimling et al, 2006). This implicitly includes other aerosol changes or atmospheric chemistry changes in with the sensitivity (or equivalently, assumes that their changes are negligible). So given a temperature change of about 5 to 6ºC, this gives a Charney sensitivity of around 3ºC (ranging from 1.5 to 6 if you do the uncertainty sums).
Hansen suggests that the dust changes should be considered a fast feedback as well (as could the CH4 changes?) and that certainly makes sense if vegetation changes are included on the feedback side of the equation. Since all of these LGM forcings are the same sign (i.e. they are all positive feedbacks for the long term temperature change), that implies that the Earth System sensitivity must be larger than the Charney sensitivity on these timescales (and for this current geologic period). So far so good.
Hansen's first estimate of the Earth System sensitivity is based on an assumption that GHG changes over the long term control the amount of ice. That gives a scaling of 6ºC for a doubling of CO2. This is however problematic for two reasons; first most of the power of this relationship is derived from when there were large N. American and European ice sheets. It is quite conceivable that, now that we are left with only Greenland and Antarctica, the sensitivity of the temperature to the ice sheets is less. Secondly, it subsumes the very special nature of orbital forcing – extreme regional and seasonal impacts but very little impact on the global mean radiation. Hansen's estimate assumes that an overall cooling of the same magnitude of the LGM would produce the same extent of ice sheets that was seen then. It may be the case, but it is not a priori obvious that it must be. Hansen rightly acknowledges these issues, and suggests a second constraint based on longer term changes.
Unfortunately, prior to the ice core record, our knowledge of CO2 changes is much poorer. Thus while it seems likely that CO2 decreased from the Eocene (~50 million years ago) to the Quaternary through variations related to tectonics, the exact magnitude is uncertain. For reasonable values based on the various estimates, Hansen estimates a ~10 W/m2 forcing change over the Cenozoic from this alone (including a temperature-related CH4 change). The calculation in the paper is however a little more subtle. Hansen posits that the long term trend in the deep ocean temperature in the early Cenozoic period (before there was substantial ice) was purely due to CO2 (using the Charney sensitivity). He then plays around with the value of the CO2 concentration at the initiation of the Antarctic ice sheets (around 34 million years ago) to get the best fit with the CO2 reconstructions over the whole period. What he ends up with is a critical value of ~425 ppm for initiation of glaciation. To be sure, this is fraught with uncertainties – in the temperature records, the CO2 reconstructions and the reasonable (but unproven) assumption concerning the dominance of CO2. However, bottom line is that you really don't need a big change in CO2 to end up with a big change in ice sheet extent, and that hence the Earth System sensitivity is high.
So what does this mean for the future? In the short term, not much. Even if this is all correct, these effects are for eventual changes – that might take centuries or millennia to realise. However, even with the (substantial) uncertainties in the calculations and underlying assumptions, the conclusion that the Earth System sensitivity is greater than the Charney sensitivity is probably robust. And that is a concern for any policy based on a stabilization scenario significantly above where we are now.
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Perched on an exceptional site with incomparable views over the Gironde estuary, in the center of a hundred-year-old park, Ducru-Beaucaillou is a majestic, Victorian-style castle, which has, over time, become one of the great symbols of the Médoc. Unusual for Bordeaux, it is built directly above the barrel cellars, enveloping its owners, who have lived here for over sixty years.
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2015 (Junior): All Big Sky Honorable Mention selection... Named Big Sky Player of the Week on Mar. 11... Posted a 15-6 record in singles, 9-2 in the Big Sky... Led team in wins primarily on courts four, five and six... Posted a six-match winning streak... Posted a 4-7 record in doubles, with a 1-1 record in the Big Sky.
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2013 (Freshman): Did not compete in the spring...1-2 singles record and 0-2 doubles record during fall 2012 play.
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LWV Voices Opposition to Harmful Legislation
This week, League Interns had the chance to hear the personal side of the effects of possible cuts and caps to Medicaid at the Don't Cap My Care rally hosted by the Center for Public Representation on Capitol Hill.
Tobie Whitman, founder and owner of Little Acre Flowers in Washington, D.C. is as passionate about her environmentally and socially conscious floral designs as she is about women's rights.
The next Supreme Court nominee, whom President Trump will nominate this week, will play a major role in the course for American democracy over the coming decades. That may seem like an exaggeration, but the Supreme Court is currently divided four to four on most major issues. The incoming justice will ultimately be the deciding vote on crucial issues that shape the direction of our country.
The League of Women Voters believes that any Supreme Court nominee should share his or her views on fundamental issues. We have three questions for the nominee:
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When Ruth Gresser first heard about the Women's March on Washington planned for January 21, she wanted to make sure Pizzeria Paradiso—her restaurant and a DC institution—would do its part on that historic day.
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"Voting is the foundation stone for political action."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
When Dr. King delivered those words in 1965, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, he was leading the voting rights campaign to confront the disenfranchisement of many African Americans across the south. His leadership, marked by peaceful protest, shined a light for all the world to see, exposing the racial injustice in our elections.
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Debate idea: candidates question the undecided voters
posted at 9:28 am on October 7, 2012 by Libby Sternberg
The vice-presidential debate is next on the agenda, but my thoughts keep drifting forward to the second presidential face-off: the October 16 debate between President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. This is the match-up with the "town hall" format. As previously noted, the participants in this debate are "undecided voters" chosen by the Gallup organization.
I've already stated my abhorrence for this format. Who is genuinely undecided at this stage of the campaign? I can only imagine it's the uninformed or those leaning in one direction who might need some shoring up. Saturday Night Live satirized them hilariously here (be warned: ad precedes clip, but it's still worth the watch):
Letting uninformed voters question the candidates is akin to a science teacher letting only the inattentive students in a class ask questions of Stephen Hawking during a visit to campus. Why should they be rewarded for their inattention? In such a case, it would be better for Mr. Hawking to question the slackers, probing the depth of their lack of knowledge and suggesting areas for improvement.
Come to think of it, perhaps that would be a better format for the Town Hall debate, too—the candidates get to question the participants, helping educate them on the role of government, what various programs can and can't do, the federal budget, the Constitution, why we're involved in different areas of the world. That might be something worth watching.
To be charitable, one can assume that many undecided voters simply have been busy with their own lives, neither news junkies nor obsessed with politics in general. Therefore, their focus will be on real, everyday problems that many Americans also face.
But just because these folks are undecided or don't identify with a particular party (partisan), doesn't necessarily mean they're non-ideological. If pressed, they might be able to give you a general sense of what they think government should be doing in their own lives. In that case, what you have is an undecided leaner, someone who leans toward or away from a particular theory of government. And if they haven't given a lot of thought to the role of government in their lives, there's a better chance they lean left than right. It's a multi-step process to get from "I want such-and-such in my life" to "but the government shouldn't have to give it to me." It probably takes more than the allotted debate time to be convinced of that philosophy or to reason that out.
The question remains: why do these folks get access to the president of the United States and his challenger on one of the rare occasions we get to see the candidates together?
I can understand the impulse behind the crafting of the town hall format. So-called "everyday Americans" are more likely to bring general macro policy discussions down to the micro level. But surely there are ways to probe the candidates' stances on issues at that level other than subjecting them—and those of us who have done our homework, studied and paid attention—to questions from folks who might not know their own minds, let alone the pressing policies of the day.
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In most traditional societies, there are no "helicopter" parents.
Aka Pygmy children in central Africa, for example, have access to the same resources as adults, unlike children in the United States, for whom many things alcohol, weapons, breakable objects are off limits, geographer Jared Diamond writes in "The World Before Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?"
Among the Martu people of western Australia, "the worst offense is to impose on a child's will, even if the child is only 3 years old."
Allowing children to explore and learn from potentially dangerous situations has its benefits, according to Diamond, who will be in Salt Lake City Nov. 14 to read at 7 p.m. in the Salt Lake City Main Library auditorium.
"Children grow into adults who are independent, self-confident and unneurotic," he said in a telephone interview.
Positive child-rearing techniques are among a number of things we can learn from traditional societies, according to "The World Before Yesterday," which recently was released in paperback (Penguin, $18).
Diamond, the author of five books, including "Guns, Germs and Steel," for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, in his newest book draws from five decades of experience studying the tribes of New Guinea.
He said he conceived "The World Before Yesterday" as an autobiography in which he intended to simply write how he has applied what he has learned from New Guineans to his own life. He soon realized, however, that the topic merited broader consideration, so the book also explores other researchers' observations of nearly 40 traditional societies.
Additional takeaways from the book when it comes to raising children?
"Never spank a child if you want him or her to grow up to be a self-confident individual," Diamond said.
He also advocates for practices he says are feasibly applied in modern society, such as transporting infants upright and facing forward rather than horizontally in a stroller, having far more physical contact, responding faster and more consistently to crying and encouraging parenting involvement from family members and friends.
Such practices, Diamond said, in addition to building self-worth, encourage precocious development of social skills.
"These are qualities that most of us admire and would like to see in our own children," according to his book, "but we discourage [their] development by ranking and grading our children and constantly telling them what to do."
Other things we can learn from traditional societies, according to Diamond, include:
Role of the elderly in society • How Americans treat the elderly is a "disaster area of our society," he said. Many seniors spend their final years lonely, devalued and disrespected. In contrast, many traditional societies value the elderly as storehouses of information, baby-sitters, advisers, administrators and teachers.
Health • Noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes are a scourge of modern society. If you don't want to die of one of these diseases, Diamond recommends adopting a traditional society diet free of salt and sugar. "It's very practical," he said. "Don't gorge and get fat. Eat a high-fiber diet and exercise."
What Diamond calls "constructive paranoia" • Modern society tends to exaggerate inappropriate fears, Diamond said. "We obsess about the wrong things terrorists, genetically modified crops, plane crashes instead of real dangers." For the elderly, for example, that can mean the real threat of slipping on stairs or in the shower. "I've learned to pay attention to real dangers and not obsess about things that are actually a very low risk."
"The World Before Yesterday" has its critics, who question whether Diamond's conclusions are too sweeping or make too little of evidence that doesn't support his premise.
Diamond said they are a small but vocal minority.
"True, there are a lot of things I don't discuss in the book," he said. "They should be grateful," otherwise the 500-page book would have been far longer.
Critics, Diamond said, can write their books about things he didn't include.
He wants readers to take "The World Before Yesterday" as he intended it. The book, he said, is an exploration of the vast number of solutions diverse cultures derive for aspects of human experience.
"My own outlook on life has been transformed and enriched by my years among one set of traditional societies," he writes in the book's conclusion. "I hope that you readers ... and our modern society... will similarly find much to enjoy and adopt from the huge range of traditional human experience."
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Jared Diamond to speak in Salt Lake City
Jared Diamond, author of "The World Before Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?" will read and sign copies of the book Nov. 14 in the auditorium of the Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South. The King's English Bookshop is the reading's sponsor.


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In just a few months, the Obama Pentagon is going to shed nearly all of its top leaders, up to and including Defense Secretary Robert Gates. And before the new team gets put in place, it's got to go through a Senate that'll be newly stacked with Republicans elected to hold the Obama administration in check.
And that's just the start of it. Expect big fights over just what the drawdown of troops from Afghanistan slated to begin in July 2011 will actually mean. Then there's the coming showdown over Gates' final budget: his attempt to save the Defense Department $100 billion over five years — and make a lasting mark on how the Pentagon does business. The next Senate is more likely to play ball than the House will be. But that's a relative measure, as Senators have their own ideas for how and where to cut the budget.
Congressional experts, insiders and operatives interviewed for this piece said they expected the Senate's next round of defense-related business to resemble the last congressional session — just more intense, as the Senate adds conservatives and sheds liberals. But just because the Democrats may not actually lose control of the Senate outright doesn't mean that the upper chamber of the legislature is going to be a rubber stamp. Welcome to Part Two of Danger Room's guide to the next Congress, where the tensions within the just-ended Senate session heighten.
To see why, check out the workload awaiting the Senate Armed Services Committee. It's going to be hit with several high-profile issues all at once in 2011. By February, Gates will release what's expected to be his final budget as Pentagon chief, his last chance to get the Defense Department's half-trillion-plus spending habits under control. At some point after the budget's out, Gates says he's going to retire. And Gates' farewell coincides with a number of anticipated Pentagon departures, including Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force chief General Norton Schwartz, and General George Casey, the Army's top general. While the committee's dealing with all that, the Obama administration's July 2011 deadline for starting to draw down troops in Afghanistan will roll around.
The committee's Democratic and Republican leadership, chairman Carl Levin and ranking Republican John McCain, have a track record of working together with the Pentagon to get nominees confirmed. Most recently: General James Amos, the new Marine commandant. Observers are split on whether that's going to continue once the Obama administration, recently embarrassed by disclosures from Bob Woodward about its uncomfortable relationship with the military, starts putting a new Pentagon team in place with a resurgent GOP on the Hill. Mackenzie Eaglen of the conservative Heritage Foundation doesn't "see any pushback on any potential choice," given that the committee's post-9/11 rapidity in confirming nominees. But a GOP Senate staffer who requested anonymity to protect his boss said that for Gates' replacement as secretary, at least, a smooth confirmation depends on how well the committee knows the nominee. (One oft-mentioned potential new secretary is actually on the committee: Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reed.)
Gates had the committee's nearly-unequivocal backing for the first two-and-a-half years of his tenure. Then came Gates' radical overhaul of the Pentagon arsenal. Gates earned vocal criticism from Georgia Republican Saxby Chambliss in 2009 after canceling the Air Force's F-22 fighter jet. Another Senator on the panel, Oklahoma's James Inhofe, said the cuts would "disarm America."
It's not a partisan issue. Gates' decision to close the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Va. enraged freshman Virginia Democrat Jim Webb, who accused the Pentagon at a hearing late last month of "stiff-arming" the Virginia delegation on the closure.
Even Levin, who rarely misses an opportunity to praise Gates, loudly supported funding the placement of a second engine in the all-things-to-all-troops Joint Strike Fighter, even though Gates pledged that Obama would veto a defense bill that had the engine money in it. (Gates won, for now.)
Gates' biggest ally committee in this overhaul is probably McCain. He's been dogged for nearly a decade in exposing cost-overruns and outright corruption on the Air Force's long-troubled attempt to replace its ancient fleet of refueling tankers. (The contract for the new tanker fleet will be awarded before the year ends, so expect the committee to take a look at that, too.)
McCain took shots at Levin for placing earmark spending in this year's still-unfinished defense bill. Whether or not he's chairman, McCain, one of the Senate's leading hawks, is likely to remain the panel's leading advocate for getting wasteful spending out of the defense budget, even if it means the occasional inter-Republican disagreement.
On Afghanistan and other policy issues within the committee's purview, McCain's support is less assured. Since December, McCain has hammered his former presidential rival for setting a date to begin withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan, a position that unites Republicans. Rarely does an Afghanistan hearing go by without McCain attempting to find daylight between Obama and the military on the rapidity of the drawdown. That's about to accelerate as July approaches and the first drawdowns loom. "Is General Petraeus allowed to get a single extra pencil, soldier, or dollar if he needs it?" Eaglen asks. When next Petraeus testifies before the committee, it's going to be the central question from the GOP side.
From the Democratic side, there aren't many advocates of rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan on the panel. Most of the Democrats on the committee who'll lose their seats will do so because they're filling out other politicians' terms (Roland Burris, Edward Kauffmann, Carte Goodwin), not because of voter repudiation. So expect the Democratic composition of the panel to stay where it is on the war: uneasy with its progress but unwilling to break with Obama over it. Levin gave a speech on October 1 none-too-subtly warning the military to make the post-July 2011 troop reductions meaningful and to accelerate the training of the Afghan security forces. That's likely to be the panel's main Democratic position during the next year.
For less continuity in personnel but more in substance, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense is the place to be. True, the subcommittee is going to shed retiring and unseated members. Republicans Sam Brownback, Robert Bennett and Kit Bond are out. So are Democrats Arlen Specter and Byron Dorgan, and Washington Dem Patty Murray is in a tough reelection fight.
But its leadership, Hawaii Democrat Daniel Inuoye and Mississippi Republican Thad Cochran — who also lead the full appropriations committee — aren't going anywhere. Make no mistake: typical of appropriators, these guys are all too comfortable with wasteful spending. Inouye threw $40 million in cash for the Aloha state — including $10 million for a library — into the 2005 war-funding bill. Cochran was the patron of an Arizona laser manufacturer that was more adept at making campaign contributions than souped-up ray guns.
But Inouye and Cochran have shown at least some willingness recently to stop larding the Pentagon with money, chopping $8 billion from the department's $658.7 billion request. That's not a lot of cutting. But the subcommittee presented those cuts as a down payment on future ones.
"[I]n recent years discipline in Defense budgeting has been lacking," the appropriations committee tut-tutted during in its official report last month introducing the fiscal 2011 defense budget. Pentagon leaders "have become complacent as record budgets have lessened the need for fiscal discipline." something that the committee warned can't continue in an economy as weak as this one.
Good news for Gates, right? Not entirely. The committee report said he "should be applauded" for trying to get costs under control, but then called out two of his major priorities as examples of undisciplined spending. The Navy got dinged for requesting a needless $600 million for its close-to-the-shore Littoral Combat Ship. And the Navy/Air Force/Marine Corps Joint Strike Fighter jet got put on notice for cancellation if it can't control its costs. (The panel also wants it to have a second engine, defying Gates and Obama.) Similarly, the committee added $2 billion to a program Gates has begged Congress to help him rein in: the $30 billion military healthcare system, which hasn't raised premiums in 15 years. "They don't want to mess with personnel benefits," says the GOP staffer.
Still, the subcommittee is likely to continue to "put real pressure on the Defense Department" to save money, says Dan Goure of the Lexington Institute, and make "more programs vulnerable" to the budget ax. It's not just projects like the Navy's experimental shoreline fighter, Littoral Combat Ship, and the all-things-to-all-troops stealth jet, the Joint Strike Fighter. Defense-budget masters told the Marines that their swimming tank would have one last chance to prove its value. The committee warned the Pentagon that the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization was being used as a slush fund to cover "unrequested and unjustified items which either are of interest to senior leaders or make up for shortfalls in amounts requested by the services." And it said it was sick of using commanders' walking-around money for Iraq and Afghanistan, known as the Commanders Emergency Response Fund, to foot the bill for "large-scale developmental programs" better funded by the State Department or the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Laura Peterson, a defense-budget expert with Taxpayers for Common Sense, urged caution on assessing the appropriators' agenda until the parties decide which new senators they're going to place on the subcommittee. But in his last year at the Pentagon, Gates is likely to find Senators he can do business with on the panel.
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