text:
Image: Washington, D.C.
Cheap flights to the nation's capital from select cities in Nov. to Dec. – but hurry.
Sample JetBlue fares – one-way prices:
- Washington DC – to Boston from $55
- Washington DC – to Ft. Lauderdale from $55
- Washington DC – to Orlando from $55
- Washington DC – to Tampa from $55
Book by tonight, Tues. Nov. 12. Travel on Tues/Wed only from Nov. 19 to Dec. 18. Blackout dates: Nov. 26-27. See JetBlue for all restrictions. See FareCompare for more flight deals.
Listen: Airfare expert Rick Seaney reveals Best Day to Shop.


text: The Young Entrepreneur Council is an advocacy group dedicated to fighting youth unemployment and underemployment by helping young people build successful businesses and offering alternatives to traditional career paths. Its members include successful young entrepreneurs, business owners and thought leaders. It was founded in New York in 2010 by serial entrepreneur Scott Gerber, author of the forthcoming book, Never Get a 'Real' Job.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Welcome to the Curriculum Council Homepage!
"Education is more than preparation for life, it is life itself"
~John Dewey
|Vision Statement:
Minutes of Curriculum Council meetings:
Minutes can be accessed through Lotus Notes - Curriculum Library
Comments, Concerns, Suggestions?
Contact a building representative with questions/suggestions about staff development, summer work, 11 month work, curriculum mapping and alignment, data analysis, etc...
Browse related articles, literature,etc...


text:
Free personalized radio that
plays the music you love
C.W. McCall
Fries signed on as the art director for an Omaha advertising agency in the early '60s, and it was there that he created the character C.W. McCall as a selling tool for an area bakery. A trucker for the fictional Old Home Bread company who spent much of his time in a diner called The Old Home Filler-Up-an'-Keep-On-a-Truckin' Cafe, the McCall character was a huge hit with viewers, and the radio campaign won Fries the advertising industry's prestigious Clio Award. In 1974, Fries decided to cut a record under the McCall moniker, and the single, a monologue with country backing titled after the aforementioned cafe, was a Top 20 hit. A follow-up, "Wolf Creek Pass," was even more successful.
In 1975, McCall released the album Black Bear Road; the single "Convoy" hit number one on both the pop and country charts, and a national craze was born. The song proved so successful that it influenced the famed filmmaker Sam Peckinpah to direct the 1978 film Convoy, starring Kris Kristofferson. By the time of the film's release, however, McCall's career was largely over. He released two more LPs, 1975's Wolf Creek Pass and 1977's Roses for Mama, which did spawn a major hit in its title track. But shortly after the latter album's release, McCall turned his back on the music industry to focus on the burgeoning environmental movement and moved to the small town of Ouray, CO, of which he was elected mayor in 1982. An attempt at a comeback in 1990 proved unsuccessful. ~ Jason Ankeny
Selected Discography
Track List: The Best Of C.W. McCall
Track List: Greatest Hits
Track List: The Real McCall - An American Storyteller
Similar Artists
Bill worked with Chip at the ad agency and the story goes that Chip was the C in C.W. and Bill is actually William. The McCall came from a McCall magazine that was on the desk when they were coming up with the ads. I know Bill and am proud to call him my friend. You can mail him at Bill Fries P.O. Box E Ouray, CO 81427 Send him a card and let him know what his music meant you or just a card of saying thanks for the music.
Mannheim Steamroller was originally from the Fort Collins
So when you hear Convoy, think about those great Mannheim Steamroller Christmas albums, and remember how C.W. McCall made it all happen.
Loved listening to CW, Red Sovine, Jerry Reid, along with all the other greats I have no room to fit them all.
Both stacks blowing black as coal.
Kicking the cat, popping pills, ah walking the dog, keeping the left door shut.
Don't have a Pandora account? Sign up
Already have a Pandora account? Log In


text:
Alm An ESnet Differentiated Services Allocation System
Award Information
Small Business Information
Aldea Communications, Inc.
2380 Camino Cida Roble, A, Carlsbad, CA, 92009
Principal Investigator
Phone: () -
Business Contact
Phone: () -
Research Institution
AbstractNot Available This program proposes to investigate and demonstrate novel low cost approaches to 3D Carbon-Carbon (C/C) manufacture. These novel processes will result in composites with at least the required properties and exhibit a uniform density with size capability of at least 6 x 6 x 10 inches. They will allow considerable cost and performance flexibility, e.g. modifications such as the substitution of higher performance fibers, altering the spacing array and/or fiber tow size, addition of densification process cycles, etc. will enable the manufacture of higher grade multidimensional C/C. Carbon fiber preform fabrication and densification currently account for 50% and 25% respectively of the cost of multidimensional C/C so they will be the major focus of cost reduction efforts. Recent programs at FMI have resulted in substantial incremental reduction in the costs of these processes. The proposed program will depart from traditional processing techniques in addition to building on the results of these programs. Phase I efforts will demonstrate the considerable cost benefits of these novel processes and confirm the C/C produced meets the mechanical and thermal properties required by the solicitation. In Phase II the novel processes will be automated and low cost and high performance composites will be fully characterized.
* information listed above is at the time of submission.
An Official Website of the United States Government


text:
25 September 2009
The Pope in Oxford
"Have you heard the news?" said Sheffield; " I have been long enough in college to pick it up. The Kitchen man was full of it as I passed along. Jack's a particular friend of mine; a good honest fellow, and has all the gossip of the place. I don't know what it means, but Oxford has just now a very bad inside. The report is, that some of the men have turned Romans; and they say that there are strangers going about Oxford whom nobody knows anything of. Jack, who is a bit of a divine himself, says he heard the Principal say that, for certain, there were Jesuits at the bottom of it; and I don't know what he means, but he declares he saw with his own eyes the Pope walking down the High Street with the priest. I asked him how he knew it; he said he knew the Pope by his slouching hat and his long beard; and the porter told him it was the Pope ..."
Happy days, when Jesuits were sinister figures of subtle intrigue. BTW, the old Jesuit church of S Alyoggers, taken over by the Oratorians a few years ago when the Js became defunct, is looking very much the better for the change. A spectacular makeover is under way, and the Relic Chapel - also the seat of our Lady of Oxford - is going to look splendid. I hope Professor Ratzinger will have time to drop in there and admire the fresh paintwork.
4 comments:
- Joshua said...
I really must reread that novel; it was very amusing, and I'll wager when published its humour was even more to the point.
- 25 September, 2009
- Independent said...
Some Oxford college, perhaps Oriel, should make Professor Ratzinger a Fellow.
One hopes however that he will also visit Cambridge which has done so much for his cause in maters of history in recent years. While there he could bless Dr Dawkins.
- 25 September, 2009
- Patricius said...
J.R.R Tolkien sometimes went to Mass at St Aloysius church. I wonder if the Holy Father knows this? When he comes to my parish, I shall have to inform him myself. I hope he visits Merton College Library.
- 25 September, 2009
- johnf said...
Great news Father. The Pope at Oxford - it does have a certain pre-reformation ring about it.
Joshua - I bought the novel Loss and Gain through Amazon after Fr H's last recommendation.
I enjoyed the book, but it's the only book I have have ever seen without page numbers
- 25 September, 2009


text:
Items in Cart:
The Last Station
The Last Station is a powerful portrayal of the intense domestic drama that played itself out in the final years of Leo Tolstoy, the iconic Russian writer. Directed by Michael Hoffman, the movie is a convincing adaptation of the novel of the same name by Jay Parini.
Christopher Plummer (Captain Von Trapp of 'The Sound of Music') lives up to his reputation as the spirited Count Leo Tolstoy, while Helen Mirren gives a sweeping portrayal of the Countess Sofya, Tolstoy's wife of 48 years, who while loving him passionately, is at odds with him regarding his decision to hand over his estate to the Russian people for the 'common good'.
Vladimir Cherykov (Paul Giamatti) stars as Tolstoy's right hand man, brainwashing him to stick to the ideals he preached. From Sofia's perspective, he is the villain of their matrimonial peace, the man who eggs her husband on to belong to "the world" rather than to her.
Valentine Bulgakov (James McAvoy) enters the scene as a spy posted by Cherykov. As the movie proceeds, we realise that he plays a pivotal role, bringing to life, the perplexities that the movie contends with. A devotee of the Tolstoyan Movement, which preaches celibacy among other things, Bulgakov is torn apart between his ideals and the sexual attraction that he feels for a farm hand, Masha. The confusion that he encounters during the course of the movie directs and reflects the audience's frame of mind.
While the movie convincingly portrays the chaos ensuing from the clash between starry-eyed idealism and pragmatism, it is more than just that. It is eventually a story about love, a sweeping, often subversive emotion that cannot be contained by ideologies, principles or values.
The Last Station shows how a man of celebrity status who started a religion of sorts cannot find the answers in his ideologies as he walks the tightrope of societal expectations and the demands made by love. Above all, it proves the profundity of a statement from Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' with which the movie begins: "Everything I know I know only because I love."


text:
CANADA STOCKS-TSX opens higher, set for 9 pct gain in 2013
TORONTO, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index opened higher on Tuesday, boosted by gains among a broad swath of companies including banks, railways and energy companies as investors look optimistically ahead to 2014. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index was up 9.75 points, or 0.07 percent, at 13,591.14 shortly after the open. It is on track for a gain of more than 9 percent for 2013.
© Thomson Reuters 2017 All rights reserved.


text:
Blog Post
First Apps Contest Winners [Extended]
Download this episode
An extended look at the First Apps contest winners for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
Available formats for this video:
Actual format may change based on video formats available and browser capability.
Related episodes
Addressing Password Security in Windows 10
Windows 8 Install (or Server 2012) Using Dual Boot to Native Boot To VHD (Boot2VHD)…
Installing Windows Server 2012 Step-By-Step (or Windows Client)
Be Indie Now 9: Awesome Zombie Sniper
Windows 10: Toast Notifications and the Action Center
Improving Healthcare with MDLIVE and Windows 10
Segoe: A Font Story - An Inside Look at the Typeface Behind Microsoft
my app in 60 seconds: Yummly
my app in 60 seconds: Discovery News
The Discussion
Great stuff, looking forward to having the opportunity to put something in the store from over here in the UK!!
I am excited to complate my app and publish to World thx Microsoft for app store is nıce thing
Comments closed
Comments have been closed since this content was published more than 30 days ago, but if you'd like to send us feedback you can Contact Us.


text:
© 2002-2017
Encyclopaedia Metallum
Best viewed
without Internet Explorer,
in 1280 x 960 resolution
or higher.
Meanstreak was a thrash metal band who released one and only one full-length album in the late 80's then a demo in 1989 and another one in 1992. Forgive me if I don't know much about the back story, but it can't see any good reason for a band with such a strong debut album quitting the scene. The same fate hit another great thrash metal band known as Morbid Saint. Both band released masterpieces as their debut album in 1988 and disappeared just as them came. Morbid Saint's Spectrum of Death seems to get all the recognition it deserves. It is praised as one of the best thrash metal albums ever released by quite a few metalheads. Meanstreak's Roadkill kind of stayed of the radars a lot. These girls get a little attention every once in a while because of the relationships between some of the musicians of the band with musicians from Dream Theater and also because it's an all female band. These little trivialities seem to shadow the actual work put on the record. First of, Dream Theater doesn't have anything to do with this record and should therefore never be mentioned when discussing the actual musical content. Second of, the fact that this is an all-women band should in no way affect the listener's perception of the music because these women proves with their musicianship and quality song-writing that they don't rely on sexual factors to be successful. Forming the band with just women in the line-up doesn't feel like a commercial move as what you would find with bands like Kittie.
These trivilialities aside, we can now jump into the music itself. This album is absolutely insane! It's not just great, it's an underrated classic. Which just brings back the same question in my mind : "Why did Morbid Saint stood out so much and not Meanstreak ?" Well, like I said before the fun facts about the band may have shadowed the actual work. The title track kicks in with a solid drumline and tight as fuck guitar riff. Bettina France's vocals set the tone after just a few seconds of what is to come with this record. As the second riff kicks in, the powerful vocals, strong thrash metal guitars, dirty low bass and heavy drums are leading this record 120mph toward a successful record.
The other tracks all follow-up perfectly from there, and with enough uniqueness and creativity in every single one of them to keep the listener interested throughout the whole album. Searching Forever for example is slower-paced track that comes in right after Roadkill. Less focus on the guitars here... they play a cool rhythm riff to support the vocals. Which is great, really. Bettina France's vocals are powerful and do not need much support to shine. Having variety in which musician takes the front of the stage throughout the album makes the album Roadkill even more of a great album.
With the exception of Snake Pit, which I think is the weakest track on the album, the tracks are all memorable enough for me to consider this album a thrash metal classic. Nostradamus, It Seems to Me and the sublime Lost Stranger all have enough hooks, great vocals, great lead and rhythm guitars leading you through hard hitting and well written choruses and verses. The drums keep punching right at the perfect places, bringing great support to the whole album especially during the chorus of It Seems to Me :
"Lost inside - lost inside your mind
When you find yourself you're a million miles away
Lost inside - lost inside your mind
After all these years you know there's nothing left to say"
The highest point of the album comes with Lost Stranger. A fast-paced and quite short track that pretty makes the listener realise by then that he or she has just found a forgotten gem.
Falling a little short under 35 minutes in length, this album is a little too short. Especially with such aggressive, well-produced, well-written and so fucking well-performed trash metal effort, you are just left there craving for more. Roadkill is the kind of album that makes you want to take out all of your old-school thrash metal and hard rock records and go back in the 70's and the 80's. Meanstreak's girls managed to retain both the great elements of late 70's hard rock and make them fit in with old-school thrash metal riffs. As thrash metal legends Metallica were releasing ...and Justice for All, and Megadeth, So Far, So Good...So What! this little piece of work know as Roadkill went pretty much unnoticed. It sure didn't help that the band only released one full-length album. But it is now time to spread the word so forgotten old-school metal classics can be rediscovered by younger metalheads.
Metal is often derided as being a chauvinistic style of music, despite all of the examples to the contrary going back to its height in popularity in the late 80s. But Meanstreak present the strongest refutation of this false sentiment by going into probably the nearly all men's sub-genre of thrash metal and actually end up doing it somewhat better than several of their competitors. Their efforts yielded this lone studio offering "Roadkill", which garnered some short term interest, but had since become an afterthought in the minds of most amid some gradual realignment going on in the genre and the very old school, USPM tendencies it has. But some interest has returned in recent years, which may eventually result in a reissue, we can only hope.
From a purely stylistic perspective, this is heavily informed by the mid 80s sound of Overkill, Flotsam And Jetsam, and to somewhat of a lesser extent, Metal Church. The songs range from being high speed to moderately up tempo with an archaic, melodic sense amongst the riffs and melody that is more informed by the NWOBHM influences still being carried by those bands, as opposed to the extreme chromatic tendencies of Slayer and the gritty punk tendencies of Anthrax (though some comparisons could be made to their first 2 albums). It's performed quite well in spite of being maybe a year or two behind the cutting edge of the genre's evolution, and features a quality vocal display that walks a fine line between Belladonna's squeaky clean approach and Blitz Ellsworth's maniacal howl.
While a bit old school, the amount of options available in this style are actually a bit greater given a lack of slavishness to speed and sheer aggression, and Meanstreak fully capitalizes on this from one song to the next. The opening title song is a proto-typical speed monster with a few gang choruses here and there, almost as if Anthrax and Overkill got together and decided running down Debbie Gibson fan-girls for a few laughs. "Snake Pit" mixes in some Mid-Eastern influences, including some auspicious guitar references to "The Snake Charmer" melodic that come in and out, and largely grooves at a mid-paced crunch not all that dissimilar from "Shout At The Devil". There are even some more Iron Maiden-like melodic gallopers in "Nostradamus" and "Searching Forever", and also a more Motörhead oriented speed rocker in "The Warning" for those who liked the mix approach typical to middle of the road bands in the Metal Church vain.
In spite of a few east coast thrash outfits being able to hold on through the changing musical landscape of the 90s, this band was not able to keep up the their output and disappeared after a couple of demos failed to garner further interest. Today this is a band that is sought after by old school fanatics, but often pigeonholed as being that band that has members married to guys in Dream Theater. While a bit on the short side, this is an album that does more than simply getting the job done, particularly with the impressive lead displays and versatile songwriting. It's time to start tearing apart those backwater CD exchanges again, and with this quarry will come the added delight of shutting up a few politically correct pansies who think that metal is only for testosterone-heavy teenaged males.
Originally submitted to (www.metal-observer.com) on February 23, 2011.
The first time I heard the debut Roadkill from New York's all female street thrash outfit Meanstreak, I admit I thought that the members of Overkill had stepped through some strange gender bending machine and emerged as lethal vixens, so similar is the sound, but when you really dig deeper, small differences begin to emerge. For example, vocalist Bettina France's style often veers more into the territory of Eric A.K. Knutson of Flotsam & Jetsam, with the exception that she's got a better chance at an effective range. The guitars also take the occasional tangent, as you can hear both a classical and classic rock influence in the playing of Marlene Apuzzo and Rena Sands.
For the most part, though, the initial half of the record bounces between two poles: Overkill and Flotsam & Jetsam. The album's title track opener sounds like it could have appeared on Taking Over, with a savage burst of violent speed, France's vocals just as much reminiscent of an asylum escapee as Bobby Blitz. The guitars pack in some decent fills, and though the bridge at times seems sloppy, the lead itself is magnificent while it lasts. "Searching Forever" strides down a mid-paced power metal path, drawing slight comparisons to an Omen or Fates Warning, while "Snake Pit", despite the occasional unwanted clutter, reminds one of "Hard On You" or some other rock influences piece from Flotsam's "No Place for Disgrace". "Nostradamus" teases at some sorry ballad, but then turns around and delivers another solid, pumping power metal atmosphere with some thrash breaks.
After this, Meanstreak suddenly begin to broaden their horizons. "It Seems to Me" brings in a Maiden influence, especially the verses that dance in and out of the initial, melodic thrust, whereas "Lost Stranger" is almost pure Judas Priest or Steppenwolf worship, with a rock groove in the verse and extremely basic chord composition. "The Warning" dives back into the power/thrash mayhem, fusing it with a straight up metal attitude. The rhythm section works hard here, the bass of Lisa Martens Pace popping off and Diane Keyser's fills a real highlight. Closer "The Congretation" takes yet another turn, opening with a volley of technical thrash and then surging to what might be the most aggressive riff on the entire album. The middle of the track slows to some grooves and unusual percussion like gongs and woodblocks, and judging by the 7 minute length, this was obviously the 'epic' of the record.
Meanstreak is rarely spoken of anymore, despite the buzz they once had here on the East Coast as perhaps the first 'serious' all girl thrash metal band. Obviously the gender played into their popularity, since the genre was so male-dominated (always has been), but let's make no mistake about it, this is no gimmick band. Girls can give the thrash as good as they've gotten it, and Roadkill is but one shred of evidence. The debut isn't perfect, and in truth it can feel a little scatterbrained. It's also pissed off, serious and shows a wealth of potential despite the obvious sources that have influenced the style. Sadly, the band is best known now for the three members that married guys from Dream Theater. Judging by how wussy they make their husbands' music seem by comparison, I think we all know who is on top wearing the pants.
On the surface, "Roadkill" could so easily be another entry in the seemingly never-ending list of American thrash albums that made a bit of an impression before seeing the band go nowhere. After all, Meanstreak disbanded after this album and a bit more. Of course, that's only the surface. As with so much in this world, it's what you don't see at first that's quite interesting.
Firstly, all the members of Meanstreak were women. In this day and age, that's perhaps not so surprising, with no end of women fronting metal acts and plodding away on keyboards behind them. In terms of 80s thrash, though, it's a point of reasonable difference, as female singers or musicians tended to be used more as gimmicks than as legitimate musicians or singers at the time (plus ca change, I'm sure some of you are thinking right now). The key difference here, though, is that these girls were actually talented at what they did, rather than simply being thrown together because they could bash out a few riffs and didn't look too bad in a pair of tight jeans.
The second interesting point - and for me, at least, the reason I hunted this album out in the first place - is that three of these girls went on to marry members of Dream Theater. Indeed, Meanstreak apparently supported Dream Theater way back when, which I'm sure would have made for quite an interesting concert experience for fans of either straight-up thrash or prog. It's quite an unusual experience to be able to hear both halves of a musical marriage - and since I have the deepest respect for the husbands in these partnerships, I had to at least give the wives a listen.
So what's the album itself like? Well, as I said earlier, it's straight-up thrash metal with a good helping of melody and occasional (as another reviewer has suggested) NWOBHM influences. In short, every track has moments of being catchy as hell, and the overwhelming majority of the riffs are nicely-crafted ones. Listen for "Snake Pit", which begins with that memorable melody that every single film uses when the action is taking place anywhere from about Egypt to Bangladesh.
The only real drawback is that the songs are all (with the exception of "Congregation", which becomes ever so slightly an NWOBHM mini-epic) very short, generally around the 3-minute mark. On the one hand, this means nothing on this disc outstays its welcome, which is something of a lost art these days. Of course, on the other hand, with tracks this catchy, it's a real shame that we only have about 30 minutes of music to enjoy.
This is, I'm told, one of the rare gems of the 1980s. I can safely add my voice to those calling it that - if you find it, get your hands on it.


text:
Peptide immunization of guinea pigs against Chlamydia psittaci (GPIC agent) infection induces good vaginal secretion antibody response, in vitro neutralization and partial protection against live challenge
Volp, Kym M., Mathews, Sarah A., Timms, Peter, & Hafner, Louise M. (2001) Peptide immunization of guinea pigs against Chlamydia psittaci (GPIC agent) infection induces good vaginal secretion antibody response, in vitro neutralization and partial protection against live challenge. Immunology and Cell Biology, 79(3), pp. 245-250.
|PDF (62kB)
Immunization of female guinea pigs with a chimeric peptide consisting of variable domain IV (VDIV) and a region known as GP8 from the major outer membrane protein of Chlamydophila caviae, formerly Chlamydia psittaci guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis strain, was performed to assess whether humoral immune responses could be elicited in the reproductive tracts of immunized animals. The C. caviae strain is able to cause a sexually transmitted infection in the guinea pig that closely parallels C. trachomatis infections in humans. The best anti-VDIV antibody response in vaginal secretions was achieved by intraperitoneal priming with subsequent intravaginal boosting (P < 0.001). Dot-blot analyses of vaginal secretions confirmed that these anti-VDIV antibodies, produced against a linear peptide, were able to recognize and bind to whole conformational C. caviae elementary bodies. Following live intravaginal challenge with C. caviae, a significant reduction in the intensity (P = 0.01) and an apparent reduction in the duration of the infection was evident between the guinea pigs immunized with VDIV-GP8 and non-immunized controls.
Impact and interest:
Citation counts are sourced monthly from Scopus and Web of Science® citation databases.
These databases contain citations from different subsets of available publications and different time periods and thus the citation count from each is usually different. Some works are not in either database and no count is displayed. Scopus includes citations from articles published in 1996 onwards, and Web of Science® generally from 1980 onwards.
Citations counts from the Google Scholar™ indexing service can be viewed at the linked Google Scholar™ search.
Full-text downloads:
Full-text downloads displays the total number of times this work's files (e.g., a PDF) have been downloaded from QUT ePrints as well as the number of downloads in the previous 365 days. The count includes downloads for all files if a work has more than one.
|ID Code:
|Item Type:
|Journal Article
|Additional Information:
|The contents of this journal from 1982 to 2002 can be freely accessed online via the journal's web page (see hypertext link).
|Chlamydia psittaci (GPIC), partial protection, peptide immunization, vaginal secretion antibody
|Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Faculty of Science and Technology
|Copyright Owner:
|Copyright 2001 Nature Publishing Group
|Copyright Statement:
|Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
|Deposited On:
|26 Sep 2007 00:00
|Last Modified:
|09 Jun 2010 12:46
Export: EndNote | Dublin Core | BibTeX
Repository Staff Only: item control page


text:
I first dreamt of visiting Africa in 1994, after watching the movie, "The Lion King". As I first saw Masai Mara in 2011, the title song from the movie was still running in my head. It was all that I had imagined and more. The first word needless to say was "Wow!". I was spellbound by the landscape. The beautifully sunlit savannas across the horizon and the acacia trees standing as lone soldiers add to an experience beyond words.
The Masai Mara, known by the locals as "The Mara". The word "Mara" in Maa (Maasai language) means "spotted". It's an apt description for the acacia trees, bushes, savannas, the dark clouds and mountains that mark this landscape.
The Mara, is a land of wonders. Bright sunlight with clear skies can change instantly into dark clouds and rain, changing the landscape into an unbelievable myriad of colors. A rainbow from horizon to horizon adds even more color to this vibrant scape.
Each year, this magic kingdom attracts more than a million wildebeests which are in search of fresh pastures. The wildebeest come from the Serengeti plains in Tanzania and cross the Mara river into Masai Mara in Kenya. One of the most dangerous encounters on their journey are the crocodiles which wait at the river to hunt them down while crossing the river. This group of wildebeest have been lucky to spot the crocodile in advance and avoid the crossing.
And for the period that the wildebeest migrate into Mara, the landscape of Mara is dramatically changed.
With the wildebeest on the move, the other animals also migrate to Mara in search of food and water.
The Topi, an antelope is one among them.
Elephants, known to migrate large distances are also on the move constantly in search of food and water.
When food and water are available in abundance, one tends to get playful. These young Zebras blossoming in the Savannas are no exception.
This amorous Waterbuck couple has slightly different priorities, courtship it seems is first on the list.
With so much food around and lionesses doing most of the hunting, its not surprising that the African Lion rests most of the day, sometimes as much as 20 hours. Even the sight of food to this Lion is hardly appealing.
Occasionally they do lift their eyebrows a little to satisfy their curiosity of surrounding world, but not for too long.
The Lion has its pride do most of the work, the other predators aren't as lucky. The Leopard which hunts alone, has to come down its lofty abode to hunt
Leopards are mostly ambush predators and in the thick Savannas it's extremely difficult even for the trained eyes to spot them at times.
While there are those who hunt and work hard for their food, the White backed vultures of Mara are on among the scavengers. They wait carefully near a kill and when the hunters are done with the meal, they take over.
The hunters are not always hunting for themselves. Some have families to feed. Like this Cheetah mother and her four cubs. The little fur-balls almost get lost under the mother's belly.
Feeding hungry calves can be quite demanding. This mother has to keep herself well-nourished so she can provide for the young one well.
Feeding the young ones though is a tough job, the hardest task is to keep them safe from other animals. The Olive Baboons, are among the more vigilant parents in the animal kingdom.
As the sun starts to set in the Mara, more stories unfold. A lone wildebeest goes in search of its herd
A Secretary bird gets back to its nest on the acacia tree
And a Thomson Gazelle keeps a look out on the horizon
As the day ends, I wonder to myself about the life of the amazing Masai tribe that have made this place their home. The Masai tribe showcases a rich cultural heritage which they have long protected and preserved.
Though most people in the village can speak English, their way of living still remains same and thereby sustainable. They rear cattle, which provides them food and clothing. And the houses are still made of mud, sticks and cow-dung
The Mara men were once famous for killing Lions. Killing of a Lion was a pre-requisite to getting married to a girl. Now those practices have been put to a stop by Park authorities. The hunting has almost completely stopped, but the attire remains.
The Masai Mara is among the most diverse, rich and fragile ecosystems of our planet. Like all ecosystems that face threats today, the Mara has also been under severe pressure from increased human settlements. The ungulate population has been reported to have been decreasing. The Mara Conservancy has been a great collaboration that has had some amazing success in curbing poaching in the area. The Black Rhino which was almost pushed to the verge of extinction is now slowly making its way back. While we face many threats to our ecosystem everyday, such stories can only fill us with hope.


text: Ford's new electrified vehicles are equipped with innovative technologies that are designed to help win over both novice and experienced hybrid owners while giving them coaching tools to be more efficient drivers.SmartGauge ® with EcoGuide, for example, provides in-vehicle customizable displays, including instantaneous fuel economy readings and coaching functions to help drivers understand and optimize their fuel efficiency. EV+ combines the built-in GPS of Ford SYNC ® with proprietary software algorithms developed by Ford engineers to learn frequent destinations. As a result, vehicles give drivers more drive time in electric-only mode. EV mode allows a driver to switch vehicle operation between three modes: all-electric, normal hybrid operation and conserve battery power for later use mode. This new feature debuted on the C-MAX Energi and will be featured on Fusion Energi. More information about C-MAX Energi can be found here. About Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F), a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 172,000 employees and 65 plants worldwide, the company's automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford and its products worldwide, please visit http://corporate.ford.com. About Eaton Eaton is a diversified power management company providing energy-efficient solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power. The company is a global technology leader in electrical products, systems and services for power quality, distribution and control, power transmission, lighting and wiring products; hydraulics components, systems and services for industrial and mobile equipment; aerospace fuel, hydraulics and pneumatic systems for commercial and military use; and truck and automotive drivetrain and powertrain systems for performance, fuel economy and safety. Eaton acquired Cooper Industries plc in 2012. Eaton has approximately 100,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit www.eaton.com. About SunPower SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) designs, manufactures and delivers the highest efficiency, highest reliability solar panels and systems available today. Residential, business, government and utility customers rely on the company's quarter century of experience and guaranteed performance to provide maximum return on investment throughout the life of the solar system. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., SunPower has offices in North America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia. For more information, visit www.sunpowercorp.com.


text:
Development may be stalled along the Gowanus Canal, but at least one type of housing stock is booming.
Twenty-five new brightly hued birdhouses now line the 1.8-mile canal, thanks to the efforts of a foursome of North Carolinians who hatched the initiative, called the Canal Nest Colony. The project started two years ago with just five shelters.
The bad news? Birds are just as picky about their homes as the humans who shun living alongside a famously polluted canal, recently named a Superfund site. Indeed, this project is suffering from a case of the empty nest syndrome.
"The birdhouses aren't being used yet because it takes a while for the birds to get used to them," explained Hans Hesselein, a South Slope landscape architect who helped found the initiative along with college friends Thomas Ryan, David Moses, and Andrew Nicholas.
Moreover, the birds require a habitable environment beyond their wooden homes, and for now, the canal just isn't cutting it, he said.
Collaborators, who began to receive sponsorship from the not-for-profit Gowanus Canal Conservancy last year, said their ultimate goal is to lend a hand in returning the canal into a sustainable ecosystem.
"The birdhouses are providing something attractive to look and at the very least suggest that there could be a viable wildlife habitat here some day," Hesselein added.
In 2008, the foursome created the colony, the product of an Architecture League of New York design competition whose aim was to "make a difference in 48 hours."
Back then, the group installed the five yellow birdhouses along the canal's fetid banks, a neon and steel burst of life along the otherwise putrefactive waterway.
Clusters of birdhouses for Eastern bluebirds, the state bird of New York, as well as America kestrels, the smallest falcon in North America, are located above Fifth Street and Second Avenue.
Just above Third Street and Second Avenue are bat-boxes for a species called a little brown bat — a mouse-eared summertime godsend, as it dines on mosquitoes and other insects. More bat-boxes are planned in the future, said Nicholas, a South Slope graphic designer.
The group next plans to install five, 15-foot-tall structures resembling chimneys, to attract chimney swifts, a small bird said to resemble a flying cigar. The structures will stand at the end of Second Avenue and Seventh Street.
And when a roof is installed atop a shipping container currently used as a storage shed on Second Avenue and Sixth Street — near a Department of Sanitation salt pile — it will act as a rainwater collection system that will feed a plant nursery.
The plants — which include sweet pepperbush and viburnum, a flowering shrub — were chosen less for their beauty and more for their toughness.
"They have to be tolerant of polluted soils, drought, and salt," Hesselein said. "They have to be able to withstand a lot."
To learn about the project go to http://www.thiscityismine.com/gowanus.
©2010 Community News Group
By submitting this comment, you agree to the following terms:
You agree that you, and not BrooklynPaper.com or its affiliates, are fully responsible for the content that you post. You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening or sexually-oriented material or any material that may violate applicable law; doing so may lead to the removal of your post and to your being permanently banned from posting to the site. You grant to BrooklynPaper.com the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part world-wide and to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.


text:
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
COWEB's online tools create licensed collectibles as well as a wide range of original custom figurines that can be personalized and 3D printed in full color, using uploaded photos. When integrated into 3D Systems' powerful Cubify hosting platform, these capabilities enable creative collaborations like the one previewed earlier in the week at CES between CBS's Star Trek franchise and 3D Systems, which invites Star Trek fans globally to personalize their favorite Original Series character, 3D print it in the cloud in full color and have it mailed right to their homes.
"COWEB's creative approach to delivering unique products to a growing consumer audience matches up perfectly with the Cubify platform. We look forward to welcoming the COWEB team to 3D Systems' Cubify where fans and consumers alike can actually co-create new and unique, one-of-a-kind products," said Sarah Stocker, Senior Director, Consumer Solutions Business, 3D Systems.
LOS ANGELES, CA – Eleven individual screenwriters and one writing team have been shortlisted for the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowshipsin Screenwriting.
September 13, 2016
NEW YORK — Viacom recently named Jim Gianopulos chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures. He succeeds Paramount's former chairman, Brad Grey, who departed in February.
March 28, 2017
BURBANK – GPL Technologies, a leading supplier of technology and IT support to the entertainment, gaming and advertising industries, has moved its corporate headquarters to a new, freestanding facilit ...
October 4, 2016


text:
Just got my MOW JP yesterday and I'm anxious to get started on it. I have searched the threads for the correct (or close) paint scheme for painting my JP in the ESB colors. can anyone provide the paint list needed to do this?? is the base green Panzer Olive green??? is it mustard yellow??? and what color is the Red?
Ben. :fettesb


text:
Both the UK's Guardian and the U.S.'s New York Times are starting crowdsourced efforts to capture information on schools. The former will try to map school data while the latter is more about collecting and organizing data about different regions of New York City.
Two San Francisco projects are throwing public energy at making the libraries stock of Sanborn and old photos more usable. Maptcha asks the pulic to help geocode Sanborn maps while Old SF has users geotag the photos.
The City of New York on Sunday launched a website, powered by Google Maps, for Greater New York area residents to map tales of Hurricane Irene-related destruction.
I see Ushahidi, actually CrowdMap, in use!
- PC Mag


text:
First-choice keeper Neil Sullivan is doubtful for Saturday's Championship opener against Norwich with a dead leg.
So 32-year-old Warner has been taken on as a standby goalkeeper and could even go straight into the team for the game at Elland Road.
Warner began his career at Liverpool and also played for Millwall and Cardiff before joining Fulham, initially on loan, in 2005.


text:
Skip to Content
Home > Care & Treatment > Cancer Care Institute > Cancers We Treat > Prostate Cancer > Signs & Symptoms
Although we don't completely understand the causes of prostate cancer there are several risk factors that may be linked to the disease. Prostate Cancer is more common in:
Prostate Cancer can often be found early by testing the (PSA) prostate-specific antigen in the blood and by having a (DRE) digital rectal exam (feeling the prostate through the rectum) by a doctor. These tests are recommended yearly beginning at age 50 to men who are at average risk of prostate cancer. Testing may be recommended earlier for men at high risk.
Early prostate cancer does not usually cause symptoms. Some advanced prostate cancers can cause an increase in urinary frequency, or a slow or weakened stream of urine (non-cancerous diseases of the prostate can also cause these symptoms). Some advanced prostate cancers may lead to blood in the urine, impotence and symptoms related to spread of the disease to the bones or spine.
It is important to tell your doctor if you have any symptoms so that the cause can be found and treated.
Genesis Cancer Care Institute now has an online class providing general information about treatments and support services for cancer patients and families.
Start the class today!
View Additional Section Content
For more information about our cancer services, please contact:
View More
1351 West Central Park
Pavilion 1, 1st Floor
Davenport, IA 52804
1228 E. Rusholme St.
Medical Office Building #1, 2nd floor
Davenport, IA 52803
Do you or a loved one have cancer? Let our Cancer Nurse Navigators guide the way. Call us today.
Learn More


text:
Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Klamath County Records Inventory
Probate Registers
Series records the actions taken by the county's probate court. Information includes case numbers, estate or deceased's name, administrator's or executor's name, dates and types of papers filed, and memoranda and court orders listed by dates of appointment of administrator or executor. Series may also be referred to as probate journals, dockets, or records of actions. Over the years probate jurisdiction has been transferred from the county court to the circuit court in most counties. However, the county courts in Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Malheur, Sherman, and Wheeler Counties continue to hear probate cases. In 1986 circuit courts with probate jurisdiction began recording basic case information on the Oregon Judicial Information Network (OJIN). This network functionally replaced probate dockets and journals previously maintained by the courts. The transition to full use of OJIN by all circuit courts in Oregon took approximately two years. Contact the trial court administrator for access to OJIN. Portions of these records may be restricted.
Klamath County joined the Oregon Judicial Information Network (OJIN) in 1988.
Records at the Klamath County Courthouse, Room 17, Circuit Court Basement Storage
Probate Journal [title varies], vol. 1-68, 1882-1965 (68 volumes);
Probate Register and Index Closed Estates, 1920-1932 (1 volume);
Probate Register and Index [title varies], vol. 1-8, 1882-1943 (8 volumes); vol. 12, 1953-1955 (1 volume); vol. 14, 1959-1961 (1 volume); vol. 16-26, 1963-1983 (11 volumes);
Probate Register and Index, vol. 9-11, 1943-1953 (.75 inch of microfiche); vol. 13, 1955-1959 (.35 inch of microfiche); vol. 15, 1961-1963 (.35 inch of microfiche);
Small Estate [Register of Actions], 1984-1988 (2 binders);
Small Estates Register [title varies], 1973-1983 (2 volumes).
Records at the Klamath County Courthouse, Room
[Circuit Court Journal-includes Probate Journal], 1965-1982 (100 reels of microfilm);
Old Files [Probate Journal], vol. 4-38, 1915-1956 (13 reels of microfilm).
Records at the Klamath County Government Center, Clerk's Basement Storage
[Probate Ct.-Court Journal], vol. 1-4, 1882-ca.1920 (1 reel of microfilm); vol. 38-39, 1956-1957 (1 reel of microfilm).


text:
Real Life "Be Like" Memes #HotTopicTuesday
For this week's Hot Topic Tuesday, listeners had the chance to express what they don't like about the opposite sex. "I hate when Dudes be like I'll Be there in 5 Minutes!" Check out some of the funniest real life "Be Like" Memes inside.
I know many of you can relate to the opposite sex doing way too much! Many women and men both do things that seem to aggravate who ever they're with. Many questions seem to come across the mind about this subject like, why do men lie over the dumbest and smallest things? Or… why do women scream "Long hair, don't care" when they know its weave?
Dudes be like "That's just my sister" when he knows that "sister" is his side chick or dudes even be like "My phone locked just in case I lose it" when they just don't want you to look at the dirt they doing!
Listen to what listeners said about things that dudes do that makes them mad!
Chicks be like…
Chicks be like "I'm a model" when the only modeling they have ever done was on Instagram or chicks even be like "I only have guy friends because I don't trust girls" when they only have guy friends because they messing with all of them!
Listen to what listeners said about things that chicks do that makes them mad!
What gets you aggravated about the opposite sex?


text:
Hi Everyone!
Today's Romance Author interviewee is Sarah Makela!
Stop by and read an excerpt from her latest release, Captive Moonlight! (It's HOT!)
Also, this past Sunday I shared six more sentences from Christmas Hope!
These six continued from last week and you can view the post here:
Happy reading!


text:
FACTBOX: U.S. holiday shopping 2009 forecasts
(Reuters) - U.S. consumers are expected to head back to the malls beginning the Friday after Thanksgiving, giving at least a short-term boost to retailers in advance of the holidays.
Retail insiders cite still-pressured consumer spending by shoppers who are wary of opening their wallets, but forecast an improvement over last year's disastrous results. Here are holiday shopping outlooks from a variety of trade groups and research firms.
* Expects a 1 percent drop in total 2009 U.S. holiday sales to $437.6 billion, compared with a 3.4 percent decline in 2008. The trade association expects that shoppers will spend 3.2 percent less on holiday gifts this year than last due to persistent worries over unemployment and the economy.
* Says U.S. holiday sales should rise 1 percent to 2 percent, and expects same-store sales, a key measure of retail strength, to be up 1 percent in the November and December period.
* The retail research company sees a 1.6 percent rise in retail sales during the holidays, but a 4.2 percent decline in shopper traffic to stores. That compares with a 5.9 percent sales decline in 2008 and a 15.4 percent fall in total U.S. foot traffic last season.
TNS RETAIL FORWARD Continued...


text:
Drug linked to previous mass shooting despite Washington Post declaring it "safe" Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com September 19, 2013 It has been confirmed that Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis was on the anti-depressant drug Trazodone, providing yet another example of a connection between psychiatric drugs and mass shootings. In verifying that Alexis was... »
Archive for September 19th, 2013
Confirmed: Navy Yard Shooter Was On Anti-Depressant Trazodone
Bank of America Closes Silver Short, Says Bearish Precious Metal View Was "Incorrect"
by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 09/19/2013 Yesterday it was Goldman capitulating on their near-term gold, er, capitulation reco (expectedly so after gold ripped over $75 in the span of 24 hours). Now, it is Bank of America's turn to close their silver short. To wit: "The Wednesday Bullish Candlestick formations (Bullish Engulfing Candles) in gold... »
Druckenmiller Blasts "The Biggest Redistribution Of Wealth From The Poor To The Rich Ever"
by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 09/19/2013 Reflecting on exactly what was said yesterday, Duquesne's Stanley Druckenmiller is initially perplexed as Bernanke explained 'financial conditions' – not interest rates – have prompted the decision to forestall any taper. His confusion is that financial conditions are actually slightly better than they were in June and "a stock... »
GOLDMAN: The Stage Is Set For A Gold Rally
MATTHEW BOESLER BusinessInsider.com Sep 19, 2013 Goldman Sachs precious metals analysts Damien Courvalin and Jeffrey Currie are out with an update on gold prices following the Federal Reserve's surprise decision to refrain from announcing a tapering of quantitative easing yesterday, which sent gold soaring. Courvalin and Currie are bearish on the metal, but say... »
ALBERT EDWARDS: Bernanke's Easy Money Train Is About To Crash, But The Fed's Too Scared To Jump Off; UBS: They Are Going To Regret It
Investmentwatchblog.com September 19th, 2013 ALBERT EDWARDS: Bernanke's Easy Money Train Is About To Crash, But The Fed's Too Scared To Jump Off "I?'ve read quite a lot overnight about the Fed backing off on its tapering of QE," wrote Edwards. "I think the excellent Gavyn Davies who writes in the FT nowadays had it... »
Schools Are Indoctrinating Children to Accept Gun Confiscation
Dave Hodges The Common Sense Show September 19, 2013 Rather than honoring the United States Constitution and teaching students the proper place for guns in our society as intended by the Founding Fathers, as further expressed in the Second Amendment, students are being increasingly indoctrinated to believe that individuals should be never be allowed... »
WARNING – LAW ABIDING CHRISTIANS Sep 25TH -Oct 31ST – MARTIAL LAW
Investmentwatchblog.com September 19th, 2013 Martial law. Sep 25th thru Oct – Senator Warns America We are about to have martial law.. Senator shaeldon r songstad warns america of coming martial law on american soil may be planned. Martial law will begin sometime around oct 1st. We need to do what we can to stop... »
BIS: The Most Powerful Bank In The World Announces The Crash
Investmentwatchblog.com September 19th, 2013 The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is the current situation on the financial markets as worse than before the Lehman bankruptcy. The warning of the BIS could be the reason why the U.S. Federal Reserve decided to continue indefinitely to print money: Central banks have lost control of the debt-tide... »
Fed Disaster To Destabilize Markets & Send Gold Soaring
KingWorldNews.com September 19, 2013 On the heels of the historic Fed decision not to taper QE, today 42-year market veteran John Hathaway warned King World News this would destabilize financial markets and continue to send gold soaring. Hathaway also discussed the dire situation the Fed and Western central planners face, as well as how... »
FED Says No Taper – We Need A War, Gun Confiscation And Control Of Internet First
Investmentwatchblog.com September 19th, 2013 The FED is not ready to taper. All bank and other financial institutions were making cases that the FED was going to taper and they didn't. Before the FED tapers the US government needs to continue with the propaganda that the economy is getting better, they will do this until... »


text:
Check Out Scotty McCreery Decked Out In His Halloween Costume [PICTURE]
Scotty McCreery has to live the life. He's a massive celeb after winning American Idol, but he's still living a normal life, going to college in North Carolina and hanging out with his buddies (and dressing up for Halloween) during the week while he's not out on the road on the weekends.
This year, the "See You Tonight" singer channeled his inner Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor. And of course, what is The Tool Man without his trusty assistant, Al Borland?


text:
Candidates are required to take the NAT-1E/ NAT-1CS test for admissions at IST. Please note that NAT-1E is acceptable for admission in all undergraduate programs offered by IST whereas NAT-1CS is acceptable only for admission in BS Space Science.
The test is conducted by NTS in all major cities of Pakistan. Interested students are required to visit NTS website i.e. http://nts.org.pk/Products/NTSNAT/nat-howto-register.php or contact NTS to get desired information related to the registration procedure for NAT-1E/NAT-1CS, test dates and centers etc.
Those students who will appear for NAT-1E/NAT-1CS on July 24, 2016 or July 31, 2016 are required to take a print of their result card from NTS website as soon as results are announced and upload with online application form on or before 08 August 2016.


text:
HOHME : Reload the Sun (Savoy x Sebastian Ingrosso x Tommy Trash x Heather Bright)
May 29, 2013
Mitch LJ & HOHME team up to produce their new original Panman. They put the Killer's vocal on it just to test the track out at their gigs but got such strong crowd reaction, they decided to release it like this! Make sure to check out the rest of my friend HOHME's music on his Soundcloud, too — he has a great ear for producing tracks. Big things to come for him.
DOWNLOAD ⇨ MITCH LJ & HOHME vs. The Killers : Panman vs. Mr. Brightside


text:
Scott Phillips, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Teaching & Learning
EB-240K, 901 13th Street S., 35294-1250
Dr. Scott Phillips is available for individual faculty consultation at the Center for Teaching and Learning. Appointments are encouraged, but walk-ins are also welcome. He is also available to meet with departments, faculty groups, and others as requested to discuss and train faculty on the practice of teaching in the classroom, active learning methods, course design and assessment, pedagogical principles, learning theory, effective employment of the IDEA evaluation, use of technology in education and other topics.


text:
Sautéed Collard Greens with Roasted Peanuts
Chef Sean Brock's quick and easy sautéed collard greens are bright and lemony, with a bit of heat from dried chiles and crunch from chopped roasted peanuts.
- Total Time:
- Servings: 4
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 2 bunches tender young collard greens (1 1/2 pounds)—stems and ribs discarded, leaves thinly sliced
- 2 cups packed baby arugula (2 ounces), finely chopped
- 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 4 dried arbol chiles, crumbled (2 teaspoons)
- Kosher salt
- 1/2 cup roasted peanuts, chopped
How to make this recipe
In a very large skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil. Add the garlic and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the collards and arugula in large handfuls, letting each batch wilt slightly before adding more. Cook, tossing frequently, until the collards start to soften, 5 to 7 minutes. Add the lemon zest, lemon juice and crumbled chiles, season with salt and toss to evenly coat the greens. Remove the skillet from the heat and stir in the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Transfer the greens to a serving platter, top with the peanuts and serve.


text:
How to Stay Sane When The World is Crumbling Around You
I'm currently homeless. It's really not a good look when women ask me where I live. I've set foot in six countries so far this year and it's only January 10th. Wtf, I ask myse...Read More
5 Steps To Optimizing Your Sleep
Recently I interviewed a sleep expert on the best ways to optimize sleep and was blown away by how much I didn't know about this topic. As entrepreneurs we tend to take the "I'll sleep when I'...Read More
Enjoy The Journey So That You're Not DEAD On The Way There!
I understand the title of this article is a little intense. That's my point. Now that I got your attention, let me start by sharing a personal story hoping to inspire you to focus both on the journe...Read More
How to Work 24/7 and Still Get 8 Hours of Sleep
People who have been in meetings with me have probably heard me say, "Let's move on." That's how I tell people they're on the verge of wasting my time. If they're l...Read More
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Good Sleep
Despite centuries of study, science doesn't fully understand why humans, or other animals, need to sleep. Though there's little to no explanation as to why we need to lose consciousness for a thir...Read More


text:
Tags: fields
Mission Critical: Agriculture: Mission Critical
AUVSI is proud to present the fifth edition of a new electronic quarterly publication, "Mission Critical." Each issue will examine a different…Standard / 8.25" x 10.75"Print + Digital: $9.60
Morning Mist: Morning Mist
Morning Mist is a small collection of photographs taken in the early morning. It was damp, foggy, and the sunlight was peaking through the early…Standard / 8.25" x 10.75"Print + Digital: $6.50 Digital: $5.50


text:
It took great courage to start fresh in this new, untamed country. My grandfather picked beats in the frozen fields of chilly Alberta. My grandmother cared for her 7 children in a small, rat infested shack in the middle of winter and hoped for better days.
I always felt a great connection with my ancestral homeland and we have visited the Netherlands a number of times. But, sad to say, I had no idea who my family was or what cities they hailed from. Never the less, one year we happily toured Holland by boat, slowly traversing the canals and waterways in search of some feeling of connection with my family from times past.
But, things are looking up. I now know my great, great, great, great, great grandfather, Willem Jans was born in Doezum, Groningen in 1711.
This is the church in Doezum........
I am so excited that there are long lost family members in Holland who have taken the time to set our family tree up on-line. I'm thankful that my Uncle John has faithfully kept us all in his archive and generously added EVERY ONE of us, which is an enormous job! We Dutch people of Reformed backgrounds tend to procreate rather vigorously. It's in our GENES.
But I am most thankful to Opa Willem Jans for the passing on of the Reformed faith which he taught my great, great, great, great grandfather who then passed it on to his son and so on. What an amazing gift to have shed upon the many generations of Vandermolen's who have come and gone.
The Lord has blessed my great, great, great, great, great grandfather Willem Jans with many generations of families who have embraced the gospel of grace, teaching them to work hard, pray hard and praise our heavenly God for the greatest blessing of all, the metamorphosis of our sinful nature into children of God! That is something truly wonderful.
Now, I'm off to check on more of my family history to figure out where I got my innate charm and easy going personality from. They tell me I take after my mother.......
Now, don't forget to check out Between Naps on the Porch for lots more METAMORPHOSIS going on out there in blog land. You'll love all the exciting things going on out there!


text:
Befores and currents:
Other direction.
- Floor stripped, sanded, and re-finished.
- Closet hardware removed.
- Closet wall and ceiling replaced.
- Ceiling primed and painted.
- Walls primed and painted ("Barraud House Blue" and "Tyler Stone Medium").
- Trim primed and painted.
- Baseboards cut to fit modern registers.
- New registers installed.
- New light fixture installed.
- New three-prong outlets installed (x3).
- New light switch.
- New closet organizer installed.
That's really not much of a list. It really shouldn't have taken so long.
Still to Come:
- Window coverings (x2).
- Ceiling vent replacement.
- Door painted and replaced.
Really looking forward to it.


text:
There is a passage in rudyard kipling which exactly describes my mother's state at this time.
rudyard kipling of the nineteenth century has sung of "things as they are."
Mr. rudyard kipling would perhaps shudder at the thought, but it is evident—is it not to his credit?
rudyard kipling was born at Bombay on the 30th of December, 1865.
They passed the word from rank to rank, "There's rudyard kipling!"
It was the fault of no less a person than Mr. rudyard kipling.
When rudyard kipling is dying with pneumonia seven seas listen to his breathing.
I seem to have heard tell of Mr. rudyard kipling in the newspapers.
Would you mind handing it to rudyard kipling with the enclosed note?
rudyard kipling was, and is, a notable example of this broad and just policy.


text:
Patriots WR Randy Moss finally emerged to discuss his performance after Sunday's 17-10 win at Buffalo.
Moss' effort was in question last week after Panthers players Chris Gamble and Chris Harris criticized it, and former players Cris Carter and Jerry Rice said they thought Moss was loafing on the Patriots. New England coach Bill Belichick and QB Tom Brady both defended Moss, but the receiver stayed quiet.
On Sunday, Moss had five catches for 70 yards and a TD and drew a big pass interference penalty that set up his score.
After the game, Moss made a succinct appearance in the interview room:
"Now you all had two weeks to do y'all's talking, let me do mine.
"It's been really a tough couple of weeks, but you move on. That's the nature of the game. I'm happy that we've got this victory. I appreciate all the support from my true fans -- the players, the coaches, my family and loved ones.
I've been in this league 12 years man, and I've been through a lot. And these shoulder that I have on my body, you could put the earth on it. So just to let you know, I bounce back."
Moss took no questions. But the questions about his effort should be put off for another week. He joined Rice on Sunday as the only receivers to record 10+ TDs in nine consecutive seasons. -- Sean Leahy
Nate Davis is a reporter, blogger and editor who's been at USA TODAY since 2000. He has covered the NFL since 2005. No, he did not play quarterback for Ball State. Davis' succession of our esteemed colleague Sean Leahy at The Huddle is considered a Brady-for-Bledsoe swap by most "insiders."More about Nate


text:
With the gun control movement running for the hills nationwide,
opponents of the Second Amendment have taken comfort in the fact that many of America's largest cities remain solidly in the anti-gun camp. In such places, it's not uncommon
for local government officials to initiate so-called gun buyback
programs where police purchase weapons citizens bring in, no questions
Basically no one who studies firearms policy believes
these initiatives actually work to reduce crime or take guns away from
criminals. Research
by the DOJ and even Harvard University have discounted the
effectiveness of buyback programs. Just a few months ago, the liberal
Boston Phoenix alternative newspaper ran an article
that contended they enable criminals to afford newer, more deadly
weapons. Most of the time, the bulk of residents selling their guns are
older, as are their firearms--not exactly the kind of people you'd see
engaging in armed robbery.
All of this information
can be easily found on the internet. Surely the District of Columbia,
which hosted a buyback program over the weekend, was aware of it. One
would hope that at least one person at the Associated Press or the Washington Post
knew that gun buyback programs don't work, or that they'd at least have
the journalistic inclination to look into how effective such
initiatives are. But hard-hitting, thoughtful local reporting isn't
exactly in high supply in America's newspapers today, to say nothing of
research critical of liberal shibboleths.
Had both reportorial
skills been in higher supply in the D.C. media, perhaps the Post and
the AP would have been able to write something more than a press
release for the local government--supposedly something they're against
when it comes to President Bush. As it is, neither outlet saw fit to
interview a single critic of the buybacks or cast any kind of doubt on
them. The Post even went so far as to headline writer Allison Klein's piece, "Residents Cash in Guns for Piece of Mind."
Here's an excerpt from Klein's "report." As you can see, a lot of local toughs were in attendance:
Francinina Jones grabbed her husband's long shotgun, the one he
became attached to during years of hunting, and marched straight to the
police station in Southeast D.C.
"I wanted the gun out of the
house," said Jones, 55, who lives in Southeast and traded the firearm
for a $50 payment from the city. "There's too much killing, all these
young people have guns."
Jones and hundreds of others got cash
for guns as part of the police department's gun buyback program, which
yesterday netted 337 firearms and paid area residents about $16,700.
who turned in guns at one of three District police stations tended to
be middle-aged or older people who had firearms lying around the house
and no longer had a use for them. Many said they did not want them to
be stolen or involved in an accident.
"You're not going to get
the guy going around robbing people on the street turning in guns,"
said Cmdr. Joel Maupin, who is in charge of the department's 7th
District in Southeast.
If police can reduce the number of guns in
homes, they can cut down on the likelihood they will make it to the
street, Maupin said.
The department paid for the weapons with
$250,000 it received as part of the emergency crime bill the city
passed in July in response to a spike in homicides, robberies and other
crime. [...]
Taft Wallace, 71, showed up with a .38-caliber pistol and a
.25-caliber semiautomatic. They belonged to his brother-in-law, a
retired police officer who lives in Southeast, he said.
"He's got
grandchildren floating all over the house," said Wallace, who had just
gotten $200 for the weapons and was being escorted to his car by an
officer. "He wants them out." [...]
Yesterday, several people said the guns they sold to the city were inherited.
Greene sold a .38 Special and a post-World War I Italian derringer. He
got the derringer from his late mother, who he said "had it around the
house." Greene, 58, who lives in Southeast, said he heard about the
program on TV and decided to come in.
Another woman, who declined
to give her name, said she was uneasy driving to the District from
Wheaton with her late father's shotgun and rifle. She had them wrapped
in a quilt, and asked an officer to go to her car to retrieve them
because she didn't want to handle them.
The woman said her father, who died two years ago, had lived in the Eastern Shore and used the guns for hunting.
"I didn't want to carry them around," said the woman, 42. "I was nervous all the way over here."
Update 19:32. Eugene Volokh links to this post and a Boston Globe editorial criticizing buybacks:
Nearly every study done on buyback campaigns shows that they are an
ineffective way to take the guns police are after off the streets. The
commissioner who presided over Boston's legendary drop in crime, Paul
F. Evans, said years ago that, dollar for dollar, cop for cop, buybacks
aren't the way to go. In Boston's 1993 buyback, almost 75 percent of
the guns turned in were pre-1968 firearms, a Harvard study found.
have a made-for-TV appeal that's hard to resist: One gun, one life. A
decade ago, they took off with an almost game-show popularity: Guns for
food, guns for therapy, and in one Illinois town, buns for guns, where
the prize was a free table dance at a strip club. Now buybacks are
making a comeback, not just in Boston but in a few other cities as well.
any gun off the street is a worthwhile goal. And buybacks can serve an
important function to galvanize neighborhoods, giving ordinary people a
chance to own the problem and build trust with police. But with limited
resources and a balance of power that seems dangerously tilted toward
the bad guys, it's clear that the money and man-hours involved could be
put to better use in other, more proven strategies.
Volokh also takes some issue with my AP critique. I actually wasn't initially going to include them in my post but a look at the last graf of the AP report made me think that it was at least something of an attempt to provide some context for the buybacks. A short sentence about how "some experts question the effectiveness of buybacks" would have sufficed.
I doubt that the police department was giving sermons on the virtues of buybacks, however, the entire event was staged which means that simply reporting it without some sort of critical information is not good journalism in my opinion.
Update 23:28. While buybacks are bad from a policy standpoint, they're pretty good for gun owners and collectors wanting to pick up a bargain from unwitting boobs or unload defunct weapons. David Hardy gives details here.


text:
I just reload whatever I need ,I got about 20,000 large primers after that I'll shoot 9mm and 40S&W til I run out of small primers
This is a discussion on Where did all the 45 auto ammo go? within the Defensive Ammunition & Ballistics forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Mine gets ammo in every tuesday and friday. I have right at 1,000 rounds of .45. I mainly got it all to use the brass ...
Mine gets ammo in every tuesday and friday. I have right at 1,000 rounds of .45. I mainly got it all to use the brass when I'm done.
I just reload whatever I need ,I got about 20,000 large primers after that I'll shoot 9mm and 40S&W til I run out of small primers
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,"
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC .
I think we have another verse for Pete Seeger:
Where have all the .45's gone. Long time passing
where have all the .45's gone. long time ago.
God is love (1 John 4:8)
Well, I ain't buying it. So I don't know where it went, but it didn't go here. Not at todays prices. Luckily, I stocked up beforehand, becuase if I could find it, I couldn't afford to buy it today. That's becoming the case with .40 cal as well.
The only centerfire handgun ammo I can afford to shoot is the puny ole 9mm. Except for the stuff I reload myself of course.
When you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts & minds will follow. Semper Fi.
I started buying up ammo back in early 2009 when Chairman Obama was sworn in. Since then I have horded almost a case and 1/2 o 45 and a half case of 38 special. Here in Westchester virtually impossible to buy ammo. I literally called shops within a 50 mile radius. Surprisingly there are some shops in Long Island and in Dutchess County. And many of those shops are limiting to 2 box purchases. Additionally I have seen the prices go up. Prior to the Annoited One being sworn in I could have picked Eagle Ammo or 13-15. Now I am paying 21.95 in Dutchess and 24.00 in Long Island. I say to call buy up what you can.
I have also read that in The Wall Street Journal that Ammo manufacturers are increasing their operations to meet the demand. Hopefully things will stabilize. This much for sure, once that Idiot Chairman Obama gets defeated in 2012 things will normalize. We need a real leader who respects the 2nd amendment our overal Constitutional Rights.
EM1(SS) Retired
For freedom is never free someone else just picks up tab.
Kimber Custom II
Kimber Eclips Pro II
Marlin Camp Rifle .45acp
A 9mm may expand but a .45acp won't shrink
Remember there are only two types of Ships in the Navy, SUBMARINES and Targets!


text:
Gettysburg, PA, USA < change city >
Caterers (9)
DJs (7)
Cakes (6)
Florists (6)
Bands (4)
Wedding Day Beauty (4)
Limos (4)
Wedding Fashion (3)
Officiants (3)
Bartenders & Beverages (2)
Photo Booths (2)
Coordinators (2)
Favors (2)
Rentals (2)
Videographers (1)
Ceremony Sites (23)
Reception Sites (14)
See All Vendors >
Chris Laich Music Services
Vienna, VA, USA
DJs, Bands/Live Entertainment
3 ratings, 4 reviews, 4 weddings
Hiring Chris Laich to be our wedding DJ was the best investment that we made for ...
State College, PA, USA
Bands/Live Entertainment
2 ratings, 2 reviews, 2 weddings
Amazing band that plays bars, big events, weddings, etc. Great to work with, kept...
Mutual Fun Band
4055 Hunt Ave
Ellicott City, MD 21043, USA
Bands/Live Entertainment, DJs
1 rating, 1 review, 1 wedding
They did an awesome job coordinating the timeline and playing music that everyone...
Burning Spear Entertainment
2721 clearsprings blvd
york, pa 17406
DJs, Bands/Live Entertainment
1 rating, 1 review, 1 wedding
Gerry and his son both came to our wedding and did a fantastic job. They went abo...
Master Classical Ensembles
2905 Evergreen Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21214, USA
Bands/Live Entertainment
1 rating, 1 review, 1 wedding
Kathryn Master (via Gigmasters) played flute, her musical partner, Jan, played ha...
Birdhouse Productions
237 Sayford Street
Harrisburg, PA 17102, USA
Videographers, Bands/Live E...
1 rating, 1 review, 1 wedding
Threw an awesome party and played requests from the guests.
It's Showtime! DJ Entert...
513 Deer Run Road
Lititz, PA 17543
DJs, Bands/Live Entertainment
1 rating, 1 review, 1 wedding
Absolutely LOVED Chris. He and his staff did an awesome job! We opted for the liv...
Chesapeake Strings
West Hill Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21230, United States
Ceremony Musicians, Bands/L...
1 rating, 1 review, 1 wedding
Chesapeake Strings worked out great! They are a younger group which means great p...
Zambelli Fireworks
2 C West Frederick St.
Walkersville, MD 21793, United States
Bands/Live Entertainment, C...
1 rating, 1 review, 1 wedding
Kris Lindberg with Zambelli Fireworks Productions is among my favorite vendors th...
Grooveline Entertainers
Hummelstown, PA, USA
Bands/Live Entertainment
1 rating, 1 review, 1 wedding
Pedro and Simone are spectacular! I highly recommend them! People are still talki...


text:
New Video from Five Finger Death Punch
Here at 103GBF we love and support the guys in Five Finger Death Punch. Not only do they make great rock, but their drummer Jeremy is from Boonville,IN! Their newest single "Remember Everything" is doing great on the national airplay charts and is destined to be one of the band's biggest hits yet. Check out the video that is heavy laden with a message.


text:
Proud-Aid is a distinctive formulation to aid in the prevention and treatment of Proud-flesh
It also aids in the treatment of scratches, wire cuts, mud fever, skin irritations and other skin disorders in horses.
Proud-Aid is a smooth textured paste that is easy to apply and is non irritant to the horse.It helps protect from gross contamination and invasive dirt from entering the wound. Proud-Aid dries rapidly, stays in place and can be used without bandaging.
Proud-Aid the front line in First-Aid.
Phone: (07) 3868 0333
Fax: (07) 3868 0344


text:
Retail Sales Clerk Job Description
Retail Sales Clerk Job Profile and Description
A Retail Sales Clerk plays a significant role in the day-to-day functionality of a store. A person in this position is required to conduct all functions relating to billing, packaging, bookkeeping, and inventory management. A retail sales clerk typically assists sales associates in their tasks and is also commonly referred to as retail sales associates or customer sales associates.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Helping store customers in locating products in the store.
- Giving product demonstration and details to the clients.
- Ensuring that the displayed products in the store comply with all company standards
- Following standard operating procedures of the store.
- Completing all tasks assigned by the sales manager.
- Maintaining cleanliness and proper display order of products in the store.
- Assisting the customers in billing and packaging process at checkout.
- Coordinating and synchronizing work with other department of the store.
- Maintaining all records of sold inventory and filling order forms for new store purchases.
- Reporting loss and damage of products, customer feedback and complaints to the sales or store manager.
Skills and Specifications
- Should possess good written as well as verbal communication skills.
- Should have good interpersonal skills for interacting with customers and understanding their requirements.
- Should have the ability of working in a team and meeting assigned targets.
Education and Qualifications
- High school degree, diploma or GED equivalent qualification from a certified college.
- Bachelor's degree, diploma or an associate's degree in retailing, merchandise management, sales and marketing, bookkeeping or any other related field of study.
Category: Retail Job Descriptions


text:
In 2005, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued two decisions related to the Commission's work.
State v. Jerrell, 2005 WI 105
On July 9, 2005, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that custodial interrogations of juveniles must be electronically recorded where feasible, and without exception when the interrogation occurs in a place of detention. 2005 WI 105. With the decision, Wisconsin became the third state with some form of judicially-mandated recording. Other states, including Illinois, New Mexico, Maine, and Texas have already addressed the issue through legislation, and more than a dozen other states will be considering such legislation this year.
State v. Dubose, 2005 WI 126
On July 14, 2005, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that eyewitness evidence obtained through use of a show-up is inadmissible unless conducting a show-up was necessary. 2005 WI 126. Show-ups will be deemed unnecessary unless police lacked probable cause to arrest or other exigent circumstances prevented conducting a lineup or photo array.


text:
Archived and Closed
This conversation is no longer open for comments or replies and is no longer visible to community members. The community moderator provided the following reason for archiving: Community clean up
In response to @clarastraimer on Twitter: http://twitter.com/clarastraimer/stat...— clarastraimer September 7, 2012
Automated #feedback and voting tool to keep the discussion focused?! Great stuff! Easy way to have a focused discussion @getsatisfaction


text:
The polling station was a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Durham, North Carolina. Acting as a runner from Democratic campaign headquarters downtown, I quickly saw we had a problem.
The lead official, a sour-looking matron, was denying promised voter data for our get-out-the-vote operation to the (black) Democratic observer; the Republicans were getting theirs.
I went up to her: "Ma'am, you know you have to give us those names — do I have to call our lawyers?" "I can't do that, sir," she replied — Southern civilities maintained through gritted teeth. I dashed out to find a payphone.
That was 1990, polling day in a contest between black Democrat Harvey Gantt and veteran Right-wing Republican Senator Jesse Helms. It taught me the grittiness, urgency and hope bound up in big US campaigns.
Whatever the shortcomings of the political system that we see in the Obama-Romney race — shallow attack ads, low likely turnout, a total cost of $2.5 billion — this is democracy played out on a vast canvas.
Yet despite the volume of British coverage of the election, its full cultural impact doesn't quite translate. It's like Britons' views of America generally: we're lulled by the shared language and the familiarity of US popular culture, while sneering at the brashness and earnestness of it all.
True, the flag-decked rallies and stump-speech sincerity fit many American stereotypes. Yet they also serve to emphasise just how foreign the United States remains. And part of that foreignness is the centrality to the place of democracy and elections.
There's an epic quality to American democracy. It's the size of the country and its kaleidoscopic electorate: like the great American novel, it tends to make its British equivalent look a bit piddling by comparison.
But it feels foreign too because the US has never been just a country: it's an idea. A settler nation founded on "self-evident truths", America is about optimism and taking control of your future — through democracy — in a way that has simply never been true of Britain.
Gordon Brown's fussing over Britishness only ever delivered tepid platitudes. And Conservative patriotism doesn't hold a candle to the US variety: not only because even true-blue Tories don't fly the nation's flag outside their homes, as plenty of Americans do, but because in the popular imagination Britain just doesn't stand for any particular principle.
This optimism is seductive — especially as lived by some of the friendliest people in the world (Americans' generosity to strangers remains one of the most striking impressions for visiting Brits). As an immigrant in North Carolina, I quickly grew deeply attached to my adopted home. I'd start to tear up listening to Emmylou Harris's Green Rolling Hills ("The green rolling hills of West Virginia/are the nearest thing to Heaven that I know.") I began to think of myself as British-born rather than British. Yes: I bought into the American dream.
None of which is to say that US election campaigns — this one included — aren't bitter and dirty. Both sides, especially the Republicans, have lied in ads and spin. The level of bile in the blogosphere, notably from the Tea Party Right, is shocking.
Yet in part that's because Americans take it all so seriously: politics isn't a point-scoring game as it has become here. This election is ultimately still an argument about American ideals. And as such it doesn't necessarily break down into neat European definitions of Left and Right.
I saw the Pittston Coal strike in Virginia in winter 1989, where striking miners and their families wore camouflage fatigues as a sign that they were at war. Their determination would have warmed the heart of Arthur Scargill.
Yet they weren't Left-wing as such. I've still got a camouflage United Mine Workers T-shirt emblazoned: "UMWA: In God we trust". Indeed one man told me of the hated bosses: "They gotta be communists — 'cos that's how the communists behave in China, right? Stomping over people's rights." These are some of the swing-state, working-class Americans whose votes will decide tomorrow's race.
And then there's the patriotism. When I worked at the United Auto Workers in Detroit, every day I walked past US and PoW/MIA flags in the lobby. A high proportion of fortysomething auto workers back then were Vietnam veterans, and they saw no contradiction at all between patriotism, pride in their military service and hard-headed trade unionism.
Likewise the time I flew into an icy Iowa one winter's day to interview a leader of a particularly militant UAW local at a digger plant. I liked the man, a warm, thoughtful Midwesterner.
Then I noticed a picture over his desk: his younger self, M16 in hand, beside some Vietnamese children and an Asian river. I gestured: "So you were in the 'Nam?" "That's right, man, Air Force." I was puzzled: "But aren't those Army fatigues?" "Uh, yeah, well … I volunteered for some stuff …" he trailed off and we moved on: he'd squared his service with his politics and I felt I should too. I'll bet he's campaigning for Obama.
Now polling day is almost here. That day back in 1990, I felt I'd seen some of the worst of American democracy after a series of Republican dirty tricks both small and large — such as an effort in Raleigh to suppress the vote in some poor black precincts. Yet that evening I saw some of the best of it too.
At a high school in the suburbs, voting machines had broken down: they got out the emergency paper-and-pencil ballots (I never did understand the American disdain for these). People queued patiently in the dark for hours to vote. I was impressed by their quiet sense of civic duty.
Gantt lost that day. I hope Obama wins tomorrow. But American democracy still works, despite everything — despite the deadlock in Congress, the lobbyists clogging Washington and two presidential candidates who, for different reasons, have proved less than inspiring. I believe a Mitt Romney victory would be bad news for America. Either way, though, I won't give up my faith in that democracy — and neither should the world.Reuse content


text:
Media reporting on McCain-Obama dispute over Iraq ignore previous McCain statements on Iraq as a potential "base for Al Qaeda"
Research ››› ››› MATT GERTZ
Numerous media outlets have reported Sen. John McCain's criticism of Sen. Barack Obama's recent comments about Iraq and Al Qaeda, but they have neglected to report that McCain himself has made comments similar to those he criticized.
During the February 26 Democratic presidential debate, Obama said that as president he would act if "Al Qaeda is forming a base in Iraq" after U.S. troops are withdrawn. In comments that were widely reported, McCain mocked Obama, saying: "I have some news. Al Qaeda is in Iraq. It's called Al Qaeda in Iraq."
But, notwithstanding McCain's mocking comment, Obama did not say that Al Qaeda currently has no presence in Iraq. He was speaking of the future, saying: "[I]f Al Qaeda is forming a base in Iraq, then we will have to act in a way that secures the American homeland and our interests abroad."
And, in fact, McCain himself has frequently spoken in such terms, most recently on December 8, 2007. So, not only did McCain attack Obama for something he didn't say; he attacked Obama for saying something similar to what he himself has said on many occasions:
- A December 8, 2007, Concord Monitor (New Hampshire) article about a meeting McCain had with "a group of Monitor reporters and editors" reported that McCain "is unflinching in his belief that a stable Iraq is vital to U.S. interests going forward," and quoted McCain's assertion, "Compared to Saddam Hussein, compared to having it be a base of al-Qaida operations, which Gen. [David] Petraeus said it would be if we left, it's a success."
- During the November 28, 2007, CNN-YouTube debate, McCain asserted, "If you read [Abu al-] Zarqawi, if you read [Osama] bin Laden, if you read [Ayman al-] Zawahiri, read what they say, they want to follow us home. They want Iraq to be a base for al Qaeda to launch attacks against the United States."
- A September 13, 2007, Quad-City Times (Iowa) article about a McCain campaign event in Des Moines reported that McCain said, "We cannot set a date for surrender, which would be a date for withdrawal from Iraq," and that "[i]f we leave under those conditions, you will see chaos, genocide in Iraq, and we will be back. And we will be back because it will become a base for al-Qaida activities."
- During the June 5, 2007, CNN-WMUR-New Hampshire Union Leader Republican presidential debate, WMUR's Scott Spradling asked McCain, "If our top military commander in Iraq, General Petraeus, reports back to Congress this September that the surge hasn't significantly improved the situation on the ground, what then?" In his response, McCain asserted: "I am convinced that if we fail and we have to withdraw, they will follow us home. It will be a base for Al Qaeda."
During the February 26 MSNBC Democratic presidential debate, Obama stated:
OBAMA: Now, I always reserve the right for the president -- as commander in chief, I will always reserve the right to make sure that we are looking out for American interests. And if Al Qaeda is forming a base in Iraq, then we will have to act in a way that secures the American homeland and our interests abroad. So that is true, I think, not just in Iraq, but that's true in other places. That's part of my argument with respect to Pakistan.
I think we should always cooperate with our allies and sovereign nations in making sure that we are rooting out terrorist organizations, but if they are planning attacks on Americans, like what happened in 9-11, it is my job -- it will be my job as president to make sure that we are hunting them down.
Among the print media outlets that reported McCain's February 27 criticism of Obama without noting McCain's earlier statements were the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
From the February 27 AP article:
McCain criticized Obama for saying in Tuesday night's Democratic debate that, after U.S. troops were withdrawn, as president he would act "if al-Qaida is forming a base in Iraq."
"I have some news. Al-Qaida is in Iraq. It's called 'al-Qaida in Iraq,' " McCain told a crowd in Tyler, Texas, drawing laughter at Obama's expense. He said Obama's statement was "pretty remarkable,"
Throughout the primary season, McCain has repeatedly attacked Obama and Hillary Clinton for saying they would withdraw troops from Iraq.
"And my friends, if we left, they (al-Qaida) wouldn't be establishing a base," McCain said Wednesday. "They'd be taking a country, and I'm not going to allow that to happen, my friends. I will not surrender. I will not surrender to al-Qaida."
From the February 28 Los Angeles Times article:
Asked if he would reserve the right as president to send U.S. troops back into Iraq to quell an insurrection or civil war, Obama replied: "As commander in chief, I will always reserve the right to make sure that we are looking out for American interests. And if Al Qaeda is forming a base in Iraq, then we will have to act in a way that secures the American homeland and our interests abroad."
Reacting Wednesday morning in Tyler, Texas, McCain taunted: "I have some news: Al Qaeda is in Iraq. ... It's called 'Al Qaeda in Iraq.' " Some in the town-hall audience laughed.
"If we left ... they wouldn't be establishing a base," the Arizona Republican said. "They'd be taking a country, and I'm not going to allow that to happen, my friends."
From the February 28 New York Times article:
Mr. McCain, the likely Republican nominee for president, previewed a possible general election contest with Mr. Obama, the Democratic front-runner. Seizing on a comment from Tuesday night's Democratic debate, Mr. McCain said that Mr. Obama's plan to withdraw American troops rapidly from Iraq would leave the country in the hands of Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
In that debate, Mr. Obama had said in response to a hypothetical question that although he intended to withdraw American forces as rapidly as possible, he reserved the right to send troops back in ''if Al Qaeda is forming a base in Iraq.''
Mr. McCain pounced on the remark. ''I have some news,'' he said at a town-hall-style meeting in Tyler, Tex. ''Al Qaeda is in Iraq. It's called 'Al Qaeda in Iraq.' My friends, if we left, they wouldn't be establishing a base. They'd be taking a country, and I'm not going to allow that to happen.''
From the February 28 Washington Post article:
Despite McCain's war-hero status and years of foreign policy experience, Obama made it clear that he will not back down from such a fight, issuing a quick rebuke of McCain that linked him to President Bush and the war in Iraq.
The spat began when McCain seized on a comment by Obama that he would reserve the right to return to Iraq after withdrawing troops "if al-Qaeda is forming a base in Iraq."
"I have some news," McCain told voters at a rally here Wednesday morning. "Al-Qaeda is in Iraq. Al-Qaeda is called 'al-Qaeda in Iraq.' My friends, if we left, they wouldn't be establishing a base. ... they would be taking a country. I will not allow that to happen, my friends. I will not surrender."
McCain has pledged to keep U.S. forces in Iraq as long as it takes to create stability, form a unified government and defeat terrorist groups. He favors adding more troops, if necessary, to achieve those goals.
From the February 28 Wall Street Journal article:
Yesterday, the Arizona senator opened a town-hall meeting by criticizing Mr. Obama for comments he made during a Democratic debate the night before. In the debate, Mr. Obama responded to a question about whether he would invade Iraq again if al Qaeda resurged after he withdrew troops. "If al Qaeda is forming a base in Iraq, then we will have to act in a way that secures the American homeland and our interests abroad," Mr. Obama replied.
Mr. McCain fired from Texas: "I have some news: Al Qaeda is in Iraq ... It's called al Qaeda in Iraq. And, my friends, if we left they wouldn't be establishing a base ... they'd be taking a country."
That prompted a reply from Mr. Obama as he campaigned in Ohio. He said he knows al Qaeda is in Iraq and that is why he plans to continue to strike at the terrorist group. He quickly went on offense.
- Posted In
- National Security & Foreign Policy, War in Iraq
- Network/Outlet
- Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press
- Stories/Interests
- John McCain, 2008 Elections
Instructions for signing up and claiming your comment history are located here.
Updated rules for commenting are here.