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Mills River has undergone "major changes" since it incorporated 10 years ago next week, Town Manager Jaime Laughter said.
Mills River has undergone "major changes" since it incorporated 10 years ago next week, Town Manager Jaime Laughter said.
"The town has built the town hall, the Mills River branch of the library and developed about half of the park to be used by citizens," she said. Mills River Park curently includes a multi-use trail, dog park, picnic shelter, playground and tennis courts.
Mills River became an incorporated town June 23, 2003.
"Being a new town meant starting from scratch regarding facilities," Laughter said. "The town has leveraged over a million dollars in grants and donations to build the park and also to fund a sewer line along Jeffress Road that has allowed Ingles to build their new store."
Laughter recalled that when she first came aboard as a town official in 2006, residential development was booming.
"But after the housing market downturn, we are now seeing a shift with more commercial and industrial interests," she said, citing Sierra Nevada's East Coast brewery and distribution site due to open in the fall, the planned Legacy at Mills River retirement community and The Lodge at Mills River, a 50-bed skilled nursing facility currently under construction.
"Early on after incorporation, the town was also fortunate to be able to add Pepsi, the FedEx facility and Volvo Equipment to the list of major developments," Laughter added. "We have also seen the birth and growth of the Mills River Farm Market and The Mills River Business Association," which was formed 10 months ago and now has nearly 70 members.
"The town participates in the Henderson County Partnership for Economic Development," Laughter said. "That partnership is critical to strengthening our area's competitiveness in the economic development arena. The town is fortunate to have industrially zoned vacant land that is well-suited to economic development. On top of that, we have a low town tax rate and high quality of life. Those are our greatest selling points when marketing for new business."
HCPED President and CEO Andrew Tate agreed that an abundance of industrially zoned open land was key to attracting new businesses, but he attributed the town's ultimate success to "the foresight of local leadership ... to make economic development a priority."
"They had the foresight to protect and preserve the community's character," Tate added. "They chose to closely manage and chart a course for opportunities that came along instead of letting others manage those decisions for them.
Ultimately, incorporation "has allowed a voice within the Mills River community on how development takes place and what facilities the residents want for their specific community," Laughter said. "The park and library were ranked highly on a citizen survey in 2004, and that helped drive those priorities."
Roger Snyder, a farmer who has served as mayor since the town's incorporation, says one of his goals has been to add a full-time post office to the town, something he's determined to make happen. It can be tricky trying to balance agricultural, residential and industrial uses, he said.
"We know that luring good family- and community-orientated companies will be the success of the Mills River community, not only in providing jobs for the Mills River residents, but also helping the smaller businesses already here," he said.
The town has been able to attract new businesses like Sierra Nevada "by keeping our tax rate low, making our ordinances and regulations as simple as possible, showing them that we cared and were willing to work with them through the process," Snyder said.
Sierra Nevada spokesman Ryan Arnold said Mills River has a natural beauty that drew the company to the area.
"The brewery site often gives us pause," he said. "One glance at the mountains and there's no doubt this will be a special place to share. After the bottomless warmth Mills River has shown us, we're ready to give back with great beer and a venue that celebrates the natural beauty of the town."
"Mills River has changed in many ways, but the thing that doesn't change is the people here hold dearly to their heritage," Laughter said. "This will always be a community with deeply planted roots and a sense of community that feels more like a family than a government."
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eagles wont be here for the weekend so if you're offering a trade to philly, vm/pm me.
Tyreke Evans and Isaiah thomas are on the block. looking for a starting SF or PF.
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eagles wont be here for the weekend so if you're offering a trade to philly, vm/pm me.
Tyreke Evans and Isaiah thomas are on the block. looking for a starting SF or PF.
looking for a starting SF. pm/vm offers
For anybody looking for a starting Point Guard, Darren Collison is on the block.
Louis Williams, Taj Gibson, Spencer Hawes, 2 2nds all available.
Offer up so far have gotten a couple good offer on hawes and Louis but want to see what else is out there..
VM or PM me or saddy
iight we've discussed and decided..
Manu and Al Horford are officially on the block. So anyone interest hit us up with your best offers and if you come offering junk and don't get a response well you already know why.
Legit offers only we wouldn't mind doing a downgrade and a big upgrade at another position or something.
NOT REBUILDING-Just wanted to make that clear, so please don't come to a pool party without your best swim wear.
Taj Gibson can be had everyone basically except for Grant freaken Hill :facepalm:
Al horford on the block get your last minute offers in he should be gone by tonight if you can blow our mins he's all yours
Barbosa, Beasley and Jameer NElson are finally available hit me up with offers
Barbosa, Beasley, Artest, Nelson are on the block.
we're also willing to include one or two of them in a deal for either Horford or Ginobili, but in that case it must be an upgrade at PG/SG or C/PF.
msg me or eaglesbaby4lyfe if interested.
f--k it...
everyone on the block. interested in seeing the deals we get.
Like he said everything and anything can go.
In any sorta package everything can be had. No garbage offers though please.
Horford, Manu, Taj, Beasley, etcc get at us


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2011 Volleyball
Volleyball announces 2011 schedule
Head Coach Steve Yarnell announces 2011 Volleyball Schedule
January 31, 2011
Bluffton volleyball fans will point to road matches at defending co-HCAC champions Mt. St. Joseph and Transylvania University as a key to the Beavers title hopes in 2011.
Bluffton will entertain Presidents Athletic Conference defending champions Thomas More College in Founders on September 13. Later that week the Beavers will travel to Springfield, Ohio, to compete in the Great Lakes Regional Challenge hosted by Wittenberg University. Bluffton will play Alma College, defending MIAA co-champions Hope College and defending NCAC champion Wittenberg over the course of the weekend.
The Beavers then kick off HCAC play at Mount St. Joseph on September 21 before competing in the OAC/HCAC tournament at Ohio Northern University on September 23 and 24.
A trip to Manchester College and a home match against Anderson University round out the month of September.
The Beavers will cap off regular season play with home contests against HCAC foes Defiance and Franklin, as well as the College of Wooster.
Coach Yarnell commented "We have prepared a schedule that I hope will prove to challenge a team that is hungry to compete for an HCAC title. In the 2010 season we found ourselves battling for our conference title and landed in all three regional polls. In an effort to strengthen our schedule, we have gone out in search of playing quality competition. While in the process of improving our strength of schedule, this will also prepare us for the rigors of HCAC play."


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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is spreading throughout the United States and the world.
It is captivating media attention in the United States in a way no left social movement has in recent history. Regular reporting of public anger at business elites has led some to compare OWS to the Tea Party with regard to both forces' "insurgent," "revolutionary" themes and their support for "rebellion" against the status quo.
Questions about how both the Tea Party and OWS are portrayed in the mass media are still emerging, however, considering the freshness of OWS in American politics. Better understanding how both OWS and the Tea Party are discussed in popular dialogue and media should remain a major focus of those concerned with promoting bottom-up notions of grassroots democracy.
Considering the freshness of OWS, many questions still remain with regard to whether it is a real social movement. From our limited experiences participating in OWS thus far (in New York, Illinois and Iowa), it certainly appears to have many of the basic prerequisites of a movement, in terms of participation across a wide number of demographic groups, regular protests in towns and cities across the country and the world, strong resistance from much of the political-economic establishment, and in terms of OWS's strong opposition to co-optation by national Democratic Party elites. Most starkly, OWS protesters' extended willingness to occupy public spaces in solidarity with one another suggests that OWS is solidifying into a serious social movement, likely one of the most important since the civil rights era.
Whether the group will further develop and sustain a mass activist base in terms of regular planning meetings and mass marches, and whether it will coalesce around a specific set of demands that differ from those of the corporatist Democrats, remains to be seen. OWS appears to be in the process of fleshing out many of its demands and still overwhelmingly relies on a very general anger with the state of the economy. It is not an electoral force with a specific list of demands, and it has not sought to take over the Democratic Party or form a third party to date. These realities, however, may represent a major strength of OWS, as it enjoys the potential to remain independent of the corruptions that increasingly define the major parties. OWS's ultimate success may be in its potential to change the political-cultural values for the masses on a more general level. Such a success by OWS could force major political change without the movement being co-opted into the major party system.
- According to one theme that quickly became popular in academic and mainstream media circles this fall, OWS's spread from New York City's financial district to more than 800 locations by mid-October of 2011 is the left-wing version of the Tea Party. One variant of this tale referred to OWS as the Democratic Party's version of the Tea Party. The storyline drew on a number of obvious and undeniable parallels. Like the Tea Party phenomenon, which broke out in the late winter and spring of 2009 and significantly influenced US politics on behalf of the Republican Party at the federal and state levels in the mid-term elections of November 2010, OWS:[1]
- Opposes the federal government's massive bailout of the nation's leading financial institutions.
- Speaks in loud and angry terms and populist, anti-establishment language on behalf of "the people" against arrogant and greedy elites.
- Inveighs in stark and dramatic terms about the subversion of American democracy, freedom, and prosperity by concentrated power and tyranny, and calls for taking America back from the agents and forces of subversion.
- Is disproportionately white (Caucasian) in composition.
- Expresses the sense that something has gone fundamentally wrong in America and that fundamental changes are required to restore balance, decency and democracy.
- Appeals to a rising mass of Americans who feel that "the system no longer works for them" and who complain that they are getting nowhere despite playing by all the rules and working hard.
- Is driven by "anxiety about the economy [and] belief that big institutions favor the reckless over the hard-working" (New York Times reporter Kate Zernike).[2]
- Advances grievances that seem "inchoate and contradictory" (Zernike) to many observers.
- Conducts demonstrations, protests and rallies against designated tyrannical targets beyond and between candidate-centered elections.
- Claims to be independent, partisan and leaderless, beyond the control of the dominant two establishment business parties (the Republicans and the Democrats).
- Posts themselves as legitimate expressions of "'the people"' over and against dreaded and demonized others.
- Expanded quickly thanks in large part to outside sponsorship and excited media coverage. This final point is one of the most important that we track in this essay, with regard to explaining the rapid proliferation of OWS.
Beneath and beyond these easily noticeable similarities, however, deep and fundamental differences significantly undermine the core equivalence and parallels that are commonly posited between the Tea Party and the Occupy movement. As we showed in our book, "Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics" (Paradigm, 2011), the conventional, quickly entrenched and mainstreamed media description of "the Tea Party" as a refreshing, independent-nonpartisan, anti-establishment, insurgent, grassroots, populist and democratic force that constituted a leaderless and decentralized popular social and political protest movement was deeply inaccurate - every bit as false as Tea Partiers' fallacious claim that Barack Obama, the Democratic Party and the nation's dominant corporate media are part of the "radical socialist Left."
"Crashing the Tea Party" exposes an ugly, authoritarian and fake-populist pseudomovement directed from above and early on by and for elite Republican and business interests such as the right-wing billionaires Charles and David Koch and the longtime leading Republican operative Dick Armey. Its active membership and leadership are far from "grassroots" and "popular," far more affluent and reactionary than the US citizenry as a whole and even than the segment of the populace that purports (at the prompting of some pollsters) to feel "sympathy" for the Tea Party.
The real Tea Party phenomenon, we discovered, is relatively well off and Middle American (not particularly disadvantaged), very predominantly white, racist, militaristic, narcissistic, hostile to the poor, deeply undemocratic, profoundly ignorant and deluded, heavily paranoid and overly reliant on propagandistic right-wing news and commentary for basic political information. Many of its leaders and members exhibit profound philosophic contempt for collective action, a disturbing and revealing uniformity of rhetoric across groups, cities and regions, a stunning absence of real and deeply rooted local organizing, and a predominant prioritization of Republican electioneering over grassroots protest of any kind.
The Tea Party, we discovered, is not a social movement at all, in fact; rather, it is a loose conglomeration of partisan interest groups that is set on returning the Republican Party to power. It is astroturf and partisan-Republican in orientation. It is not an "uprising" against a corrupt political system or against the established social order. Rather, it is a reactionary, top-down manifestation of that system, dressed up and sold as an outsider rebellion set on changing the rules in Washington. Far from being anti-establishment, the Tea Party is a classic, right-wing, and fundamentally Republican, racist and victim-blaming epitome of what the formerly left political commentator Christopher Hitchens once called "the essence of American politics": "the manipulation of populism by elitism."
In terms of social movements, everything the Tea Party pretended to be and wasn't, OWS displays the potential to be. Unlike the Tea Party, which was launched top down from the arch-Republican heights by Republican-operative groups like FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity and Tea Party Express, OWS really did spring up from outside and from beneath the political establishment. It emerged from the dedicated activism of anarchist and other radically democratic activists acting on an extremely clever and powerful suggestion on the part the Canadian anticonsumerist magazine Adbusters - to occupy the belly of the world capitalist financial beast in New York City's financial district on the model of the revolutionary Egyptians who seized Cairo's Tahrir Square in early 2011.
Unlike the Tea Party, OWS really is a leaderless phenomenon, making decisions through a militantly democratic and decentralized process embodied in its nightly General Assembly process. OWS really is populist at a grassroots level, targeting the nation's leading economic institutions and modern capitalism's extreme concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the "1 percent": the unelected dictatorship of money that controls both of the nation's major political parties and so much more. OWS really does appear to be a genuine social movement, with demands, slogans, tactics, philosophies and practices regularly percolating up from the grassroots, not from the top down (that is, from the billionaire arch-reactionary Koch brothers, Armey's FreedomWorks and Fox News).
At this point in its development, OWS is far more independent of establishment partisan politics, refusing to embrace candidates of either the Democratic or Republican Party. It has seen recent significant efforts at co-optation from Democratic Party officials, although protesters at the rank-and-file level have bitterly complained about such co-optation in light of the refusal of the Democratic Party to reconsider its corporatist, pro-Wall Street orientation.
As the 2012 campaign heats up and large majorities of voters share OWS's hostility toward concentrated wealth and power, the Democratic Party is predictably trying to position itself to draw strength and gain electoral advantage from OWS. It hopes to turn OWS to its benefit in the same way that the GOP benefited from the Tea Party in 2010. But it is not likely to succeed in that endeavor. OWS articulates a social movement and direct action orientation that rejects the candidate-centered electoral extravaganzas that big money and media masters stage for the populace every two and four years, saying, "That's politics - the only politics that matters."
A recent survey of OWS protesters in New York finds that most disapprove of Obama and are strongly disillusioned with the Democratic party in light of its establishment, pro-Wall Street politics. Ninety-seven percent say they disapprove of Congress. A plurality of OWS protesters claim to identify with no political party, while 11 percent identify themselves openly as socialists and another 11 percent identify as Green Party members. Most are significantly to the left of center in describing their ideological orientations (80 percent claim to be liberal, 40 percent very liberal), compared to the increasingly center-right Democratic Party.[3]
OWS activists get it that, as the late, great radical American historian Howard Zinn used to say, "It's not about who's sitting in the White House. It's about who's sitting in." As Arun Gupta has noted, "It is difficult to imagine a Michele Bachmann or Eric Cantor emerging as a standard-bearer of the Occupy Wall Street movement." And, Gupta adds, "given their reliance on Wall Street money, as well as radical demands from many protesters, the Democrats will find it almost impossible to channel 'the 99%' into an electoral tidal wave next year, the way the Republicans rode the Tea Party to victory in 2010."
Unlike the Tea Party, OWS is no adjunct of the dominant party system and does not focus ultimately on electoral objectives. Its targets go deeper than partisan politics, reaching down to taproot national and global capitalist financial institutions and corporations that hold leading national parties, policies and governments hostage to the profit interests of the wealthy few.
It really is an independent-nonpartisan, anti-establishment, insurgent, populist force that actively and fluidly represents longstanding majority public dissatisfaction with concentrated wealth and power. This is no small part of why it has inspired hundreds of sympathetic copycat movements and occupations not only across the United States, but also (in a significant contrast with the white nationalist Tea Party phenomenon) around the world.
As a corollary to these core differences, the Tea Party and OWS have received considerably different responses from government authorities and the dominant corporate media. As a pseudomovement that is strictly aligned with existing dominant domestic and global hierarchies of class, race and empire, Tea Party activists have faced little if anything in the way of state repression. They pose no threat whatsoever to the existing corporate, military, sexist, eco-cidal and structurally racist state, and, therefore, operate largely free of government harassment, surveillance, arrest, violence and incarceration.
Things are very different with OWS. Its genuinely radical-populist and democratic character and its basic opposition to the aforementioned hierarchies have meant that it has repeatedly been subjected to arrest, brutality and surveillance from state authorities.
Interestingly, media coverage of OWS has been quite varied, depending on the media outlet, but, generally speaking, it has been strongly sympathetic. In terms of variation, some media outlets are strongly supportive, while others are fiercely opposed. In the opposition camp are the right-wing Fox News, The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal, among other news organizations. The Washington Times' editors dismiss OWS protesters as little more than "whiners" and "crybabies" who are "desperate to blame others for their poor life choices" - "Wall Street occupiers represent the problem, not the solution."[4]
Similarly, the editors of the reactionary Wall Street Journal lament the protests as out of step with the American public's anger, which the editors (falsely) claim resides exclusively "a few hundred miles south of Wall Street" in Washington DC.[5] That a plurality of Americans agreed with OWS protesters (over their Tea Party competitors), and that most blame both government and Wall Street for failing the American people, seems largely irrelevant in the paternalistic scolding expressed in The Wall Street Journal.
Much of the commentary in the Wall Street Journal amounts to little more than vulgar propaganda and distortion. The same editorial which criticizes OWS would have Americans (and the world) believe that the primary causes of the economic crisis today are:
- Obama's mildly populist rhetoric (in early 2009) as directed against the banks and their reckless lending practices (criticisms which he quickly retracted after an outpouring of Wall Street rage);
- The extremely mild government reforms as directed against Wall Street (personified in the Dodd-Frank legislation) which legally required toxic derivatives investments (which helped cause the global 2008 economic crisis) to be the subject of federal regulation; and
- Talk among Democrats of a very modest increase in personal income taxes for the wealthiest 1 percent - as personified in Obama's proposal to increase the highest tax bracket to 39 percent (from the current 35 percent) for that portion of individuals' yearly income that exceeds $379,150. This mild increase translates into a return to the Clinton era's (also admittedly mild) levels of taxation. Ignoring right-wing fearmongering is the reality that even Clinton-era tax law amounted to a dramatic scaling back of previous top tax bracket rates (of 90 percent) during the 1950s, Eisenhower's golden era of capitalism.
Propaganda masquerading as informed comment does not stop with the above comments. The Wall Street Journal also lends credence to a widely discredited "study" by right-wing pollster Douglas Schoen, who argued (inaccurately) that a "large majority" of OWS protesters support "radical redistribution of wealth" and express "opposition to free-market capitalism."[6] A closer look at Schoen's own survey results finds that only very small minorities of OWS protesters express support for these views, despite Schoen's brazen misrepresentations of his data.[7]
Despite the propaganda, fearmongering and hate expressed above, much (perhaps most) of the reporting on OWS was strongly sympathetic in two ways.
First, OWS is receiving a significant amount of attention in terms of volume of coverage and salience as an issue. A study by the Pew Research Center finds that coverage in early October 2011 reached 7 percent of all media coverage, at a time when protests were picking up steam. This compared quite well to the Tea Party national protests, which also received 7 percent of all news coverage during mid-April 2009.[8]
In contrast, Tea Party coverage was even more extensive in September to November of 2011, accounting for 13 percent of all media coverage - a full 5 percentage points more attention than that directed at OWS in October 2011.[9] Our own research finds mixed evidence of favoritism in terms of volume of coverage. As the data chart immediately below suggests, five out of seven major American news outlets actually devoted more attention to the OWS (October 2011) protests than to the Tea Party (April 2010) protests, when measured in two-week increments following the beginning of each group's rallies.[10]
However, volume of coverage heavily favors the Tea Party when comparing coverage of OWS (October 2011) and the Tea Party in the two weeks prior to and after the November 2, 2010 election. Extensive coverage of and favoritism toward the Tea Party in this later period is likely due to media outlets magnifying the importance of the Tea Party as it was being embraced wholeheartedly as an integral part of Republican Party politics during a major election.
Quality of content was also quite mixed in terms of reporting, although media outlets were visibly biased in favor of the Tea Party. Editorially speaking, there was quite a bit of support for OWS in the elite liberal press. The New York Times, for example, sympathized with the OWS message:
At this point, protest is the message: income inequality is grinding down that middle class, increasing the ranks of the poor, and threatening to create a permanent underclass of able, willing but jobless people. On one level, the protesters, most of them young, are giving voice to a generation of lost opportunity.... The protesters' own problems are only one illustration of the ways in which the economy is not working for most Americans. They are exactly right when they say that the financial sector, with regulators and elected officials in collusion, inflated and profited from a credit bubble that burst, costing millions of Americans their jobs, incomes, savings and home equity. As the bad times have endured, Americans have also lost their belief in redress and recovery."[11]
Columnists at The New York Times such as Paul Krugman agreed, as he remarked that, "we may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea Party, is angry at the right people [Wall Street]."[12]
Other elite outlets such as The Washington Post followed suit. For example, op-ed writer Greg Sargent appeared quite sympathetic to OWS when he asked "whether the energy unleashed by the movement can be leveraged behind a concrete political agenda and a push for change that will constitute a meaningful challenge to the inequality and excessive Wall Street influence highlighted by the protests."[13] In another piece, Sargent argued in the Post that "a plurality of Americans agree with Occupy Wall Street's diagnosis of what's wrong. Despite a relentless effort from the right to portray the movement as radical and extreme, a plurality says it reflects the views of mainstream America."[14]
Counted under such agreements were opinions (revealed in national polling) suggesting that a majority of Americans agree with progressive proposals such as increasing federal aid to states in order to avoid public-worker layoffs, payroll tax cuts for the working class in the name of stimulating the economy, increased government spending on improving the nation's infrastructure and increased taxation on the wealthiest one percent in the name of reducing the budget deficit.
Systematic analysis finds that OWS receives quite sympathetic coverage in general, although the Tea Party receives even more sympathetic coverage. The data in the table below suggest that, examining the two-week periods following both the April 2010 Tea Party protests and the October 2011 OWS demonstrations, in six out of seven news outfits, reporters were more likely to classify the Tea Party (as compared to OWS) as a genuine, grassroots movement. In our comparison of reporting on the October 2011OWS rallies to Tea Party reporting in the two weeks prior to and following the November 2010 election, stories were also more likely to favor the Tea Party .
The relative favoritism directed toward the Tea Party represents a sort of double bias, considering that our findings already suggested that the Tea Party is not a genuine social movement, while OWS (at least in its early stages) appears to exhibit many of the classical characteristics of a movement. Still, OWS does quite well for itself (at least standing on its own) in reporting, considering the strong support it received in elite papers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, and in light of the fact that a majority of news stories in five of the seven outlets examined refer to OWS as a genuine social movement.
The above findings should be of no surprise to critical media scholars. Movements (and even false movements) traditionally receive significant attention and sympathetic coverage when they are embraced (or at least rhetorically supported) by major political parties. Conversely, movements that go against the establishment-political grain are typically ignored and vilified (on the rare occasions when they are reported). The above findings (in terms of sympathetic OWS coverage, but even-more-sympathetic Tea Party coverage) could have been predicted considering that the Democratic Party is at least rhetorically embracing and attempting to co-opt OWS, while the Tea Party has long been courted, celebrated and thoroughly absorbed into Republican establishment politics.
In other words, the Tea Party's relatively greater partisan support accounts for its relatively more favorable coverage. Tea Party supporters may challenge the depiction of their group as "establishment-oriented," although a mountain of empirical evidence - documented in our forthcoming book, "The Rise of the Tea Party: Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama" - suggests otherwise.
Supporters of OWS should look to sympathetic media reporting as an opportunity to expand the movement to new segments of the American public. As with the Tea Party, favorable media reporting appears to be creating positive impressions of OWS among the public. Recent data from the Pew Research Center suggests as much. Pew's October 2011 survey finds that increased public attentiveness to the political debate and media reporting on OWS is correlated with increased public approval of the group. Those following OWS "fairly closely" or "very closely" are more than 2.5 times more likely to support the group, compared to those following OWS "not too closely" or "not at all closely."[15]
The American left has long been distrustful of the mass media, which regularly ignore progressive social movements due to their lack of usefulness to those who hold political power. OWS represents one of those rare opportunities where the Democratic Party and the state-reliant mass media claim to be sympathetic toward its rhetoric and demands. This, no doubt, is due to the electoral value that OWS retains for Democrats seeking to get re-elected next year. The challenge for the left will be to continue to garner sympathetic media coverage and attention, while also finding ways to challenge Obama's corporatist, pro-Wall Street agenda.
Walking this tightrope is no easy task, but it may be the only path toward building a movement that is able to reach out to the masses while also offering serious progressive and democratic change.
1. In thinking about these parallels, we have consulted (among other sources) Arun Gupta, "Where OWS and the Tea Party are coming from," Salon (October 21, 2011); John Avlon, "Tea Party for the Left?" Daily Beast, 10 October, 2011.
2. Kate Zernike, "Wall St. Protest Isn't Like Ours, Tea Party Says," New York Times, 21 October 2011.
3. Douglas Schoen, "Polling the Occupy Wall Street Crowd," Wall Street Journal, 18 October 2011; Marjorie Connelly, "Occupy Protesters Down on Obama, Survey Finds," New York Times, 28 October 2011.
4. Editorial, "The Wall Street Whiners," Washington Times, 18 October 2011.
5. Editorial, "What's Occupying Wall Street?" Wall Street Journal, 17 October 2011.
6. Schoen, "Polling the Occupy Wall Street Crowd," 2011.
7. Judd Legum, "Douglas Schoen Grossly Misrepresents His Own Poll Results to Smear Occupy Wall Street," ThinkProgress, 18 October 2011.
8. Project for Excellence in Journalism, "Coverage of Wall Street Protests Keeps Growing, Gets More Political," Pew Research Center, 10-16 October 2011.
9. Project for Excellence in Journalism, "The 2010 Midterms: A Tea Party Tale," Pew Research Center, 11 January 2011.
10. Our data is drawn from an analysis of Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street print stories and television transcripts, as made available via the LexisNexis academic database.
11. Editorial, "Protesters Against Wall Street," New York Times, 8 October 2011.
12. Paul Krugman, "Confronting the Malefactors," New York Times, 6 October 2011.
13. Greg Sargent, "Next Up: 'Occupy Congress'," Washington Post, 19 November 2011, 25(A).
14. Greg Sargent, "The Morning Plum," Washington Post, 26 October 2011.
15. Pew Research Center, "Public Divided Over Occupy Wall Street Movement," Pew Research Center, 24 October 2011.


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I think Ms. Hunter is, perhaps, overstepping if she is in fact "insisting" that her daughter be in the wedding party. That being said, the grandparents of the bride are definitely overstepping if they insist that the little girl not be there. No matter what the circumstances, the child is the bride's half-sister and that relationship can be honored if the bride feels it appropriate to do so; it isn't the child's fault, after all.
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Hopefully everyone is still energetic as the second week of school has now passed!
Hopefully everyone is still energetic as the second week of school has now passed! By now, the campus has settled down as the students find their niche and remember how to be students after relaxing all summer long. The Freshmen here at Burroughs High School are acclimated to their new high school environment, the Sophomores are well-practiced at acting as if they have known high school all their lives, the Juniors are basking in the glow of having the title of Upperclassmen, and the Seniors are two weeks closer to graduation.
With the start of school comes the traditional back-to-school activities. During the All-Class Assemblies, Mr. Auld reminded the students of what is expected of them, and emphasized to the seniors what role models they are to all the grades beneath them. Mrs. Cracraft and Ms. Paxton also presented the new online library to the students. Now, students can check out e-books online any time they want after creating a Destiny account in the library.
Also, Back to School Night opened this past Tuesday with a fantastic performance by Burroughs' orchestra and choir, which was led by Mr. Mark Hatter. The parents then had the opportunity to experience what it is like to be a student at Burroughs by touring campus while following their students' schedules to each of the classes. Just like with a regular day, the parents were subjected to the school bell and a passing period, and ASB helped with directing them where to go.
For all student drivers or those who will be driving by Dec. 1, the Parking Lot Auction is starting Sept. 4. This year, the parking lot auction rules have changed slightly. Students sign up for the spots they would like to buy, and only bid on them if another student would like the same spot. The rest of the spots will be sold for a flat rate. This is one of the biggest senior class fundraisers, so be sure to come participate as well as get a fantastic parking spot for the entire school year.
Finally, be sure to come cheer on our Burroughs football team on at their first football game against Palmdale on Friday, August 30th! This day is also a spirit day: BHS Pride Day. All students should be sure to dress out in black, white, and green in order to color our campus and show our school pride!


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POLICE are searching for answers after seven people were injured in a head-on collision in Bacchus Marsh yesterday afternoon.
The crash occurred about 1.30pm on Bacchus Marsh Road about one kilometre east of Woolpack Road.
Police believe a red Ford sedan was travelling east when it clipped the rear of the vehicle in front and then veered onto the wrong side of the road.
The Ford then hit a white Holden sedan head on, which was carrying a 58-year-old Bacchus Marsh woman and a 44-year-old Narre Warren male passenger.
A Newport family of five was travelling in the Ford and all were taken to hospital, including three children aged between four and nine.
The occupants of the car that was initially clipped were not injured.
Police were unable to talk to the driver believed to be responsible because he was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
He was not kept under police guard.
Sergeant Justin Johnston from the Bacchus Marsh Police Station said it was lucky no one was killed.
"Any time a vehicle is travelling on the wrong side of the road there's going to be some peril and danger," he said.
"It comes back to people not concentrating while they're driving."
Sergeant Johnston said it was fortunate the crash occurred on a section of road with a 60km/h speed limit.
"It doesn't appear that speed was an issue because obviously if speed had of been an issue we may well have seen some fatalities or even more serious injuries than we did.
"That was one fortunate thing, that it didn't happen on a freeway or a higher speed zone."
Police said the crash comes as a timely warning to motorists ahead of the holiday season.
"Slow down and pay more attention with your driving," Sergeant Johnston said.
"Especially now with school holidays and the festive season not far away, we'd ask people to take care with driving and avoid distractions like mobile phones."
Anyone who may have witnessed the collision or with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.


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More abuse allegations at brain injury center | News
TAMPA, Florida -- UPDATE: A regulatory counsel for FINR, Jay Adams sent this comment via email to the 10 News Investigators:
"This complaint is without merit. FINR has always allowed Florida Disability Rights immediate and unlimited access to investigate abuse allegations. It has also been the practice of FINR that when an advocate from Florida Disability Rights requests to see or speak to a patient, unrelated to an abuse investigation, that they make an appointment 24 hours in advance so that we can assure that the patient is available at the time the advocate comes. FINR has always cooperated fully with regulatory agencies, as well as Disability Rights Florida and it is unfortunate that they have filed this unsubstantiated complaint rather than focusing their resources and efforts on the health and well-being of Florida's disabled."
A new federal lawsuit was filed Monday by Disability Rights Florida against the Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation, which is in Wauchula about 50 miles South of Tampa.
DRF is, according to the group's website, a statewide protection and advocacy system for individuals with disabilities. The suit alleges more abuse at FINR.
The suit says DRF received two recent complaints of abuse. One complaint was that a resident was being inappropriately restrained. The other complaint involved a resident being physically abused by two staff members. Also, according to the suit, when a Disability Rights Florida representative went to investigate the two complaints, she was denied complete access to the facility, which she is allowed by law, and was asked to leave when she wanted to conduct more interviews.
Disability Rights Florida senior advocate investigator Christine O'Brien was there looking into the complaints just two days after the 10 News Investigators were there to get answers to allegations of abuse patients and family members of patients had raised. In our earlier story, undercover video showed one patient being abused by two caretakers, who were arrested.
We also talked to former patients who said they were abused, and family members of former patients who died while in FINR's care.
FINR admits some employees crossed the line, but said the policy of the organization is to treat patients with dignity.
During Ms. O'Brien's interview with the two FINR residents, she was told that other residents wanted to come forward to tell her about the abuse they had observed, according to the suit. Ms. O'Brien was informed that FINR, after speaking with its attorneys, was denying her further access, and she was asked to leave.
A status conference is set for October 11, at 2 p.m. at the federal court in Tampa.


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Many woodworkers would object to the word "enjoyable" ever being used is the same sentence as "sanding". So when Festool says in its tool catalog that it delivers, "tools that make the task of sanding faster and more enjoyable," you might be tempted to take it with a grain of salt. But you're more likely to agree that the term "faster" queues in on the next best thing – as long as the desired results are achieved.
Just about everything has its tradeoffs, and power sanding is no exception. And the either/or choice here historically has been between sanding speed and sanding "accuracy". But with at least a couple of their premium quality sanders, Festool has gone a long way towards offering the best of both worlds.
Traditionally, a belt sander has been the tool of choice for fast material removal. And it's a good choice: given a powerful enough unit and a coarse enough belt, felling trees is arguably within the belt sander's range. But the drawback is that the tool can be far too aggressive and difficult to control for exacting work. A belt sander is great for quickly flattening out major surface irregularities or getting rid of an unwanted surface coating, but when it comes to sanding out a smooth, consistent finish, most woodworkers reach for a tool with a lighter touch – like an orbital or random orbit sander.
On the other side of the coin, random orbit and orbital sanders may be the perfect tool for the final stages of surface preparation, but aren't widely known fro their ability to tear through wood at blinding speed. That's too bad, because a great many sanding project require a degree of care that leaves the belt sander out, but are at the same time substantial enough to call for tool that means business - and that's where Festool's Rotex RO 150 steps in.
In fact, it's possible to look at Festool's two-hand version of the random orbit sander as a sort of hybrid incorporating the best features of the all business belt sander and the more surface friendly orbital and random orbit sanders, as reviewer and professional carpenter Aaron Telian does in the October, 2007 issue of The Journal of Light Construction: "[The Rotex] combines the aggression of a belt sander with the control and finesse of a random orbit tool, opening up new possibilities for what can be done with a hand-held sander."
The aggressive performance Telian praises owes to the Rotex's 6 amp motor (more than twice the juice of a typical random orbit sander). But the Rotex is more than just an extra-muscular version of the same old design. Instead, it's really no exaggeration to call it a one-tool sanding system. With a rotational / eccentric motion setting for course sanding and polishing that changes with a flip of a switch to a random orbital motion for fine sanding, the Rotex RO 150 covers every phase of most sanding projects, from quick and dirty material removal to putting the final sheen on the finish.
Still other features set the Rotex RO 150 apart, along with its slightly scaled down little brother, the RO 125: These tools cover a full range of sanding and polishing operations, and Festool offers a number of base pads, each designed to cover a specialized task. Anticipating that you'll need to change pads frequently as you move from stage to stage throughout the life of a project, Festool has designed a unique "FastFix" system that lets you change from one specialized pad to the next in a couple of seconds - as opposed to the usual hunt for a screwdriver and frustrating 10 minute sanding pad R & R.
As with all of the tools in the Festool system, you'll enjoy the company's typical thoroughgoing and thoughtful design practices. A fully enclosed gear box, for example, prevents dust from entering the gear and bearings and causing premature failure of the tool (an archetypical weak point of random orbit sanders). There are more than a few basic amenities thrown in as well. Notably: a positionable, detachable edge protector that lets you sand right up to adjacent materials fearlessly, a detachable cord that can easily be replaced, and detachable dust extraction channel that you can snap off for added maneuverability in operation where dust collection isn't an issue.
Finally, The Rotex sanders employ a particularly innovative application of Festool's renowned dust extraction system. To the typical hole pattern in the sanding pad used to draw up sanding dust, Festool adds an additional center hole, which is vented to the outside of the tool. This simple upgrade keeps dust collection air current moving from the center of the pad outward to the dust collection holes, preventing suction from building up under the pad, and keeping the center area of the abrasive disc – which is usually the first to clog up – just as clean as the outside edge.
When coupled with any of Festool's high performance dust extractors, the superior dust collection that typifies Festool handheld tools is even better realized. Apart from being some of the quietest and most powerful vacuums available, Festool dust extractors let you adjust the level of suction to achieve a perfect balance between dust collection power and free, easy movement of the abrasive disc.
The Rotex RO 150 and RO 125, and all of the other, more specialized Festool sanders stand out as cornerstones in the Festool premium handheld power tool system. And that makes sense: Festool, for all practical purposes, invented both the orbital and the random orbit sander. Along with the other members of the system, they exemplify Festool's philosophy that a handheld power tool can be every bit as much of a precision woodworking tool as the best stationary equipment.


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Council discusses sales tax increase
The Petersburg City Council discussed raising the sales tax cap from $1,200 to $1,700 at a work session Thursday evening.
Citywide sales for the fiscal year 2012 were $95,570,231.29 and after exemptions the total sales were $2,752,594.84, which is an increase of over $200,000 from fiscal year 2011. Sales for the fiscal year 2011 were $90,427,154.48 with exemptions in the amount of $47,404,716.97
"Assuming sales generated are above the proposed $1,700 will generate an additional $353,000 in sales tax revenue," City of Petersburg Finance Director Jody Tow said. "But this is just an estimate of what could possibly be brought in by this increase."
Tow also explained that this increase would not affect anyone differently that doesn't buy in excess of $1,700. "It will be the big ticket items and large sales that will be affected by this change," she said.
Sales of over $1,200 come in at $14,152,152.89 with a tax exemption total of $849,129. Currently, taxable purchases within the city in excess of $1,200, are charged a maximum of $72 in sales tax.
"With an increase to $1,700 the sales tax will be $102," Tow stated. "That is an extra $30 per sale."
This increase will be placed on the City Council agenda for Monday, Aug. 6. A proposed ordinance for this rate change will have to be passed Aug. 6 and then twice more by the meeting of Aug. 20 in order for this to be placed on the ballot to go before the voters.
"The tax cap needs to be raised to keep up with inflation," Petersburg City Manager Stephen Giesbrecht stated. "But we don't want to raise it so much that it runs business to other sources."
Some items that are now exempt from sales tax are salaries and wages received by an employer, casual and isolated sales that are not made in the regular course of business, that part of a sale of goods over $1,200 when all items purchased or delivered at the same time or within a 24 hour period, that part of a sale of services over $1,200 for a specific job or task, sales of insurance and bonds, fees for medical, psychological, dental, hospital and veterinary services, all drugs and medicines prescribed by a physician and dispersed by a registered pharmacist, city services such as electric, water, sewer and refuse collection, child day care, charter services by air and all sales of good outside the city.
"The exemptions for the out of town sales are a little tricky," Giesbrecht stated. "Anyone living outside the city can call a store and have goods delivered and they are exempt from sales tax."
Giesbrecht explained that Petersburg does not have a point of sale sales tax, whereas the goods or services are taxed at the point of sale.
"That is a change Petersburg could explore as well," Giesbrecht said.
Other sales tax revenue lost for Petersburg could be attributed to the recent tax-free day. "Our total sales tax revenue lost for the tax free day totaled just over $13,000," Tow stated.
The uses of these funds are important to any city. They enable the council to construct, operate and maintain school facilities, plan, design and construct any permanent public works, pay principal and interest on any general obligation bonds and provide for general government operations.


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Hey M Girls,
We had a blast chatting with Conor Maynard! He spilled deets about his album Contrast, the craziest thing he's done to get a girl's attention, and the celeb he ran into on a plane! Check it out below!
How has your time in the U.S. been? Have you had any crazy fan encounters?
I think it's been amazing! We rode this big bus with my face on it! That was really fun. I performed on the Today Show for my debut TV performance, so fans were outside waiting for that, even though they should have been in school already. So that was really cool. It's been amazing so far. I think for me, every time I come here I get to see the progress firsthand because I go away and come back there are new fans I get to meet, so it's really cool! I think it's the random body parts I've been asked to sign is the weirdest! They never seem to have any paper that I could just sign! They say they haven't got anything on them and I'm like "oh god." Elbows are always weird!
So where did your album title "Contrast" come from?
I think people expect quite a young, poppy kind of album. I think for me, I'm offering something a little different - something more R&B and more mature. The contrast between what people were expecting and what was to come, that was one of the reasons I called it Contrast. Contrast within the album - there's the big upbeat dance songs and piano ballads and I've always enjoyed doing that. And contrast with what's already out there. I don't think there are quite any records or artists that sound like it right now. So that's another difference and then another reason about Contrast points out the contrast in my life from before I was signed to now. It's so different.
Where would you want to live if you lived in the U.S.? Vegas, LA?
I do love New York. New York is up there as on of my favorites. It's like a bigger version of London. It kind of reminds me of being at home. I shot the "Vegas Girl" video in New York, so I have incredible memories in New York as well. LA's amazing - we shot the "Turn Around" video in LA. I certainly had a crazy time there.
Click here to watch his "Turn Around" music video!
What is a "Vegas Girl"? It's just someone who loves to party, someone who has fun. When I meet a girl, the one thing I love is when they love to just have fun and let go and party. I think Vegas is sort of the party central of the world, and I think when someone can party when they're in some random place nowhere near Vegas it's cool.
So was the song and the music video inspired by someone or a real situation? I think that's kind of mild stalking in the video! You know, taking a picture of her and trying to find her. That was, I suppose, an exaggerated version of when you meet someone and you think they look like a whole lot of fun and you wish you could spend more time with that person.
Click here to watch his "Vegas Girl" music video!
What is the craziest thing you've done to get a girl's attention? I think sometimes you go out of your way to do weird stuff and it's like "oh, we're walking to the toilets for a third time, what're the odds" kind of thing where you know what you're trying to do and she probably does too, but she might've been creeped out. But sometimes I think you need to do some weird stuff to get someone's attention or if you plan to be somewhere at a certain time. I mean sometimes I'll walk down a corridor of my school when my class isn't there because I know some girl is going to be walking down there at the same time.
What would you say is the most personal song off your album? "Just in Case". It's a song I wrote towards the end of creating the album about a relationship I was in. It kind of ended because I was too busy and I couldn't really give her what she wanted in a relationship. I think for me, I look back and I'm like "oh wow, I wish things were different." It's called "Just in Case" because she's with someone new now and just in case he messes up, just in case things go wrong with him, I'm still here. Please know that I'm still here. I didn't leave you because I wanted to - I left you because I had to.
I saw you're going on tour soon! Are you excited? Yeah, definitely! Touring is literally my favorite thing to do. It's always so fun and there's always so many people that I get to meet and fans I've never seen before. Fans always bring weird stuff. They have massive banners and t-shirts. It's nice to see all the creativity of the fans. It's fun to see all the fans and to hear them sing along to the album. They have the album now, so they can have a more interactive experience with the songs. So I hope they enjoy it!
So do you have any crazy celeb connections or friends that someone would be surprised to find out about? I've worked with some incredible people on the album. I was texting Niall from One Direction the other day. I'm quite good friends with him. Ed Sheeran is really cool as well. I bump into him, he's really nice to talk to. One crazy experience happened recently. I was on a plane on the way back to London from LA and I was kind of sitting in my chair and I heard a tap on my chair and I turned around and it was Rihanna. She was just like "congratulations on everything!" and walked off. I kind tried to say thank you, but all that came out was "dsjfsdk"! That was a crazy crazy experience!
Can you tell us three random facts about yourself? I like to beatbox. I enjoy beatboxing I have a mole under my eye that my friends call Cocoa Pop (that's what they call Cocoa Puff's in the UK!) and I appeared in a TV show when I was thirteen called Dream Team.
Thanks for chatting Conor!
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The 16th annual Cross Cultural Leadership Retreat (CCLR) for Ithaca College students will be held on November 10-12, 2017. This two and a half day retreat presents the opportunity to explore various aspects of diversity and their relationship to leadership. During the retreat, the entire group will participate in a series of educational sessions and discuss issues as a large group, as well as in smaller, informal conversations.
Who is this retreat for?
All Ithaca College students belong to a multitude of different cultures including areas of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, socio-economic status and many more. Therefore, we are looking for a group of people that come from many different cultural backgrounds, including those in the "majority." Every Ithaca College student is eligible to apply and highly encouraged to do so.
What are the logistics of this event?
CCLR is held off-campus at a retreat center. Lodging, meals, transportation and retreat materials are provided for all attendees; there is no cost to participate. CCLR begins on Friday morning and concludes on Sunday afternoon. All participants must travel with the group and must attend the program in its entirety. This retreat counts as 3 Leading in a Diverse World sessions toward that track in the Student Leadership Institute.
How do I know if I've been selected to
After the final application deadline, the CCLR team will meet in to review all of the applications and select the participants. Those individuals not selected will be placed on an "Alternate List" in case spaces open up. Following the selection process, all applicants will be notified by e-mail of their application status before Fall Break.
How do I apply?
Click here for the CCLR 2017 application.
Applicants must complete and submit the application before midnight on Saturday, September 30 to be considered for CCLR. There is no fee to apply or attend the event. We recommend reviewing the application and carefully considering your responses to the essay question before submitting it. We ask you to provide demographic information about how you identify in a variety of cultural categories, so that we can create diverse teams within the pool of selected applicants.


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Legal scholar and former U.S. Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork tells Newsmax he doesn't believe court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's assertion that she is "entirely governed by law," as he believes she should be. In an exclusive interview, he also said Sotomayor, who's going through confirmation hearings before a Senate panel, should be disqualified from consideration because of a statement she made. And Bork stated that the Roe v. Wade decision has been the "most dangerous" the Supreme Court has ever made because it has "embittered our politics." See Video: Judge Robert Bork discusses Sonia Sotomayor and the Senate hearings -...
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Ginsburg was the head attorney of the ACLU when Clinton nominated her. I was pretty surprised that there wasnt even a modicum of outrage about Ginsburgs recent comments that it was common knowledge way back when that abortion served the purpose of getting rid of the undesirables - now isnt that sweet of her to straighten that out. Margaret Sanger is their hero, and she was all about eugenics for the poor and the minorities. The spineless Repubs didnt give Ruthy any problems in her hearings, and Sonia is just fiddling while Lindsey and company go thru the motions. Geez, what has happened to Tom Coburn? He is coming across like a total moron these days?
Robert Bork, of any man in the USA, should be the most disgusted by the proceedings that have put both Ginsberg and Sotomayor on the SCOTUS.
Both are lightweights who will, and have, relied almost entirely on their staffs to give cover for their inability to articulate the law based on the Constitution of the United States.
Bork, on the other hand, was simply brilliant, and as a result, ultimately fatal to the liberals. He was collateral damage in the runup to our current collectivist Kenyan president, and his sycophantic socialist fellow travelers in the Senate and the House.
Oh, how the mighty nation has fallen from within.
Ironically he was Bill and Hillarys professor at Yale
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can you imagine what Bork, and even Justice Thomas must be thinking when they watch Graham and Cornyn fawning over Sotomayor? Bork and Thomas were essentially terrorized and humiliated by the Democrats, and THEY were qualified. Her apparent racism aside, this woman is not qualified to sit on the court
It makes my blood boil when I think of our young men and women overseas dying for our country, and watch these spineless Republicans speak well of an ultra left wing woman to whom our freedom and Constitution mean nothing.
And when asked what he believes has been the "most dangerous" Court ruling, Bork answered:
"I think it's proved to be Roe against Wade. We have very bitter politics over abortion.
"I understand it's different in Europe, where the issue is not nearly as explosive or as divisive, the reason being that in Europe by and large the issue is decided by legislatures. Each side fights it out, arrives at some kind of a conclusion, a compromise, and they go home deciding they can try again next year.
"Here, by contrast, voters and political parties are just told to shut up, and that makes them furious. So Roe against Wade, whatever else its demerits are, has really embittered our politics in ways that are most unhealthy."
Giving free rein to murder. What could be more dangerous???
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Bork could run rings around this racist bitch. Damn shame he was not confirmed.
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It's time to see who joined the first challenge of the Blogger Burger Club and rated the Green Chile & Cream Cheese Burger from an episode of Man vs. Food.
4 Stars = Loved! Will make often.
Bob of Cooking Stuff gave it 3 stars. And says "It probably could have had four with bacon. Heh."
He also says " The cream cheese balances out the heat of the peppers and the flavors go really well together. Next time I'm going to do half and half green chilies and jalapenos, I bet that would be a good time."
Debbi of Debbi Does Dinner…Healthy & Low Calorie rated it the highest rating with 4 stars. Her kids renamed the club "Build a bountiful, bedazzling, beautiful blogger burger club."
Debbi really loved the cream cheese on it "I know many people put mayo on burgers. I'm telling you, skip the mayo and just use cream cheese. Seriously it tastes so much better and it creates a similar texture."
And she raves about the burger itself. "This is a fantastic recipe on so many levels. I know it's just a burger but really, it's awesome."
Daphne of Food Junkie From Texas also rated it 4 stars. She grilled her patties, used home-made buns and roasted poblanos. She says its "Yummo!"
Barbara of Barbara Bakes rated it 2 stars. She liked it but wouldn't make it again.
Her boys "liked the peppers on the burger. Their only complaint was they didn't care for the cream cheese."
Barbara liked it and "thought the cream cheese was a good balance to the spiciness of the chilies. I did feel like it needed something more though."
I rated the burger 3 stars. I really liked the coolness of the cream cheese with the chiles but felt like it needed more too. A tomato for some acidity and bacon like Bob suggested would be delicious and would round out the flavors further.
I averaged out the ratings and the Green Chile & Cream Cheese Burger gets an overall rating of 3.2 out of 4. It's somewhere between "Will make again" and "Loved! Will make often."
Thank you all for participating!
I'll announce the next burger challenge tomorrow night! Here's a hint: it's award-winning and caused a little bit of controversy over whether it was a 'real' burger or a sandwich.


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Kids Gingerbread Holiday Party: Village Nursery School invites you and your toddler to a morning of gingerbread-themed activities and crafts from 10-11:30 a.m. at our school located at 40 Poor Farm Road, Harvard, as we celebrate the holiday season. Children can use a range of art materials, listen to a story, and enjoy exploring one of our large, open rooms with a variety of activity centers; a great alternative on a chilly day. The event is free. RSVP by Dec. 5, 978-456-3993, www.villagenurseryschool.org.
Household hazardous waste center open: 9 a.m., Cook Street, Devens. Please see below for information.
Hildreth House Improvement Committee: 4 p.m., Hildreth House.
Municipal Affordable Housing Trust: 7 p.m., Old Library fireplace room.
School Committee Enrollment Decline Subcommittee: 7:30 a.m., Bromfield School conference room.
School Committee: 8:30 a.m., Bromfield School teachers lounge.
Board of Health: 7 p.m., Hildreth House.
Sewer Commission: 9 a.m., Town Hall.
Community Cable Access Committee: 7 p.m., Old Library, downstairs.
Zoning Board: 7:30 p.m., Town Hall.
Republicans to meet: The Harvard Republican Town Committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. at Hildreth House.
Harvard Energy Advisory Committee: 8 p.m., Old Library fireplace room.
Ski club registration extended to Dec. 10
There has been a lot of interest in the ski club program and therefore the registration period has been extended to Dec. 10. There is currently a waiting list for the bus and we are hoping to secure a third bus if there is enough interest. We will let you know shortly if we are able to secure a third bus. There are applications for the ski club at the Bromfield office, town hall and library. Contact Anne Hentz at firstname.lastname@example.com or Tracy Adams at email@example.com
Camp Sunshine, Dec. 12
If your child will be 16 years old by June 30, they may be interested in volunteering at Camp Sunshine -- a retreat for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families in Casco, Maine. Come to the meeting for parents and students on Wednesday, Dec. 12, from 7-8 p.m. at Bromfield's Library. We will have a questionnaire for your child to fill out and you will be hearing from others that went in years past.
Questions, contact Anne Marie Rowse at email@example.com.
Center on the Common
Due to the positive response from our community, The Pilot Project has transformed into The Center on the Common!
We are a nonprofit 501c3 organization dedicated to fostering cultural, artistic and educational development for community engagement. Rooms at The Old Library are still available to rent.
Please direct inquiries to Paige O'Brien, email@example.com or 617-515-9637.
For availability and class information please visit centeronthecommon.org and for the most current updates "like" our Facebook page: The Center on the Common.
Thank you so much for your support. We wouldn't be here without you!
Household hazardous waste collection
Harvard residents may bring hazardous materials for disposal to the Devens Regional Household Hazardous Products Collection Center at 9 Cook St. (rear) on the first Wednesday and following Saturday of each month (Dec. 5 and 8), from 9 a.m. to noon, except for holidays and weather-permitting.
The cost for residents is $20 for up to five gallons or five pounds of material.
Businesses must pre-register.
Go to www.devenshhw.com for information or call 978-501-3943.


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Susan King to host chamber coffee
The Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly Chamber Coffee at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011 at the Sweetwater Country Club and will be hosted by State Representative Susan L. King, whose office is located at 401 Cypress, Suite 101 in Abilene. Rep. King is currently serving her third term in the Texas Legislature. She represents Taylor and Nolan Counties and began serving the two counties in January 2007.Susan Lewis King was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2006 and is now serving her third term representing District 71, which is comprised of Taylor and Nolan Counties in West Central Texas. King, a native of Houston, has lived in Abilene for more than 30 years. Her Texas political roots connect her to the family of Francis R. Lubbock, 9th Governor of Texas.King attended The University of Texas at Austin and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing with Honors. Upon graduation she returned to Houston and assisted renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley at the Texas Heart Institute. King eventually became Co-Director of Surgery at St. Luke's Episcopal, Texas Children's Hospital and Texas Heart Institute, the largest surgical unit in the country at that time. Rep. King is co-owner and co-director of Elm Place Ambulatory Surgical Center in Abilene, where she is a practicing surgical nurse alongside her husband Dr. Austin King.King serves on the House Appropriations Committee, Appropriations Article II Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, Appropriations Subcommittee on Current Financial Condition, Public Health Committee and House Administration Committee. Additional legislative memberships are the Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force, Texas Family Impact Advisory Committee, the House Research Organization Steering Committee, and the Rural, Republican, Tourism and Sportsman's Caucuses.Community service includes fundraising and volunteer nurse for the Boy Scouts, and former board member of the Abilene Philharmonic, Abilene Ballet Theatre and Abilene Community Theatre. Additional memberships are the Abilene Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Abilene Chamber Military Affairs Committee, Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce, the National Rifle Association and the Farm Bureau. King and her family are members of First Central Presbyterian Church where she has taught Sunday school, Bible study, and serves as an Elder. Before serving in the Texas Legislature, Rep. King was elected to the Abilene Independent School District Board of Trustees, where she served from 1998 to 2006 including two years as board president.Rep. King's interests include musical theatre and scuba diving. She is a graduate of Jeff Cooper's Gunsite Training Center located in Gunsite, Arizona and currently holds a Concealed Handgun License.Recent awards consist of the Outstanding Service to Career and Technology Education by the Career and Technology Association of Texas, the Texas Association of Business' "Fighter for Free Enterprise Award," the Texas Hospital Association's 2009 Texas Hospital Advocacy Tribute award, being named "2009 Legislator of the Year" by the Texas Rehab Action Network, and receiving the 2009 Inaugural Champion for Nursing Award from the Texas Association of Deans and Directors of Professional Nursing Programs.King and her husband are parents of three grown children and have three grandchildren. They are owners of Windy Bluff, a ranch in Taylor County with a small cow-calf operation.


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25 Sep 2008 12:50:50 PM
Exclusive: Sean O'Connell Breaks Down the 'TUF' Experience
(Photo courtesy of TheCageNews.com.)
When Sean O'Connell made his MMA debut in April of last year, he had no fight training outside of a few cardio kickboxing classes. Somehow, he knocked out his opponent in 36 seconds. Then, he knocked out his next two opponents, both early in the first round. By November, O'Connell was 5-1 and had earned the heavyweight title of the Ultimate Combat Experience, a local promotion in his native Salt Lake City. It was then that Sean decided he should probably join a gym.
Just being picked as one of the 32 hopefuls for The Ultimate Fighter 8 would be enough of a success story for the up-and-coming fighter — even if he did get eliminated in his first match by Shane Primm. But for Sean, his brief brush with the Octagon is only one stop on his journey as a fighter, of which there are many more to come. We recently chatted with Sean to find out what it's like being on TUF, from the audition process to the moment when Dana White asks you to please get the fuck out.
How did you become involved in mixed martial arts?
I was a football player in college, and after I graduated I felt like I needed something to keep me in shape and keep me competing — I didn't want to just be done and get fat like everyone else does when they stop playing sports. What really got me interested was probably the first season of The Ultimate Fighter. I'd seen UFC fights before, but that's what turned me on to how intense the training was, and how much went into it. So I followed it for a few years, and then I decided to try my hand at it. I wanted to prove to myself that I was as tough as I thought I was.
I got in touch with the Ultimate Combat Experience, which does a show here every weekend, and they set me up with an opponent. I went in and knocked the guy out, so I figured I'd keep going. But I didn't really join a gym officially until after my sixth fight. I got a sponsor to pay for my training at Jeremy Horn's Elite Performance, and from then on I've been training with Jeremy and trying to make my game a little more well-rounded.
How did you come to the attention of the UFC?
One of the guys who trains at our gym, Nick Rossborough, was on the season before as a middleweight. He was still in contact with the producers and put in a good word for me, because the buzz was they were going to do a season with light-heavyweights. I felt like, hey, maybe I'm ready to do this, so I sent in the highlight reel of my fights, and I went out to the live audition in Boston after having several phone conversations with the Spike TV producers. I went through the process and ended up getting selected.


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Relais Foch – Downtown
French Brasserie
A French restaurant in the heart of Beirut with a Lebanese twist.Write a Review
Starters, salads, fish, meat, sandwiches, ice cream and desserts.
Serves alcohol.
147 Saad Zaghloul Street, Foch district, Downtown
Call them
Phone Number: 01 99 97 87 or 01 96 20 11
Website: www.relaisfoch.com
Opening hours
Mon - Sun: 8:30 am - 12:00 am
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147 Saad Zaghloul Street, Foch district, Downtown
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Le relais de l'entrecôte - Ashrafieh(29 votes)
One of the best steak restaurant in town
The Jasmine Room - Zalka(21 votes)
Chinese and Japanese cuisine
Il Sorrentino - Antelias(10 votes)
Refined Italian restaurant in a classical and grandiose decor.
From The Tree(2 votes)
Non-fat Frozen Yogurt
La Cafette - Ashrafieh(2 votes)
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Bethlehem keeps me busy with its retail churn and prospects.
Its downtown already houses an interesting mosh of retail from cafes to boutiques and hotels. The newbie in the crowd is Roey's Paintbox Parties in the lower level of 453 Main Street. The colorful shop relocates Roey Ebert from her space in Center Valley.


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Posted on September 24, 2012 in Miscellaneous Strings
As the resident product-video-girl I am regularly in front of the camera, focusing on different products that we have (specifically strings and bags!). Recently I did a whole bunch of string videos for your informational pleasure, so you can understand best what you're playing with and putting in your racquet.
I'm working my way through covering all the strings that we have here at the Warehouse, in no particular order, so if you have any strings you want to see or have any questions, make sure you always contact us and ask!
Wilson's Champions Choice String (we playtested this and did a review on it, which you can check out here).
Pacific Prime Natural Gut string (made in my homeland of New Zealand!)
Luxilon Big Banger TiMO string
Gosen Sidewinder string
Dunlop Silk string
Make sure to comment if you have any questions, I, or anyone else on the team will be happy to help.


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New York State Research - 2013 Update
July 25, 2013
Free New York Legal Research Resources
People researching New York law have a number of free databases at their disposal. Primary authorities, including the state constitution, statutory codes, regulations, and many cases, are freely available from state government websites. But there are also many other helpful resources online: forms, directories, legal news and other ways to stay on top of your practice. Check them out!
Primary Source Materials
New York State Constitution: Maintained by the New York Department of State. It provides links directly to the text or a PDF of the New York Constitution. The document is current as of January 1, 2013.
Legislative Material
New York State Assembly: Published by the New York State Legislature, the site contains up-to-date collections of the consolidated and unconsolidated laws of New York, along with a searchable database of NYS Legislative Bills and Resolutions.
Judicial Opinions
New York State Unified Court System: Provides links to recent decisions from all of the courts and official reports from the highest court, the Court of Appeals, to the lower Trial Courts, as well as specialty courts like the Commercial Division. The site also contains links to the uniform court rules.
Administrative Materials
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR): The NYCRR contains state agency rules and regulations adopted under the State Administrative Procedure Act (SAPA). The twenty-three titles include one for each state department, one for miscellaneous agencies and one for the judiciary. The site does not link directly to the NYCRR. Instead, the site provides a link to the unofficial NYCRR powered by Westlaw. The weekly New York State Register provides information on recent rule adoptions that have not yet been published in the unofficial online NYCRR.
Opinions of the Attorney General: Official website of the Attorney General of New York. The site provides links to the opinions of the Attorney General spanning from 1995 to the present, as well as significant briefs submitted by the Attorney General's office in state and federal courts. The opinions are indexed by year, subject, and statute.
Listing of State Agencies: Provides a link to each state agency's official website. Agency websites are often excellent sources of administrative rulings, policy documents, and forms.
Secondary Source Materials
New York State Bar Association (NYSBA): Provides downloadable forms for many different practice areas. While some forms are available for purchase only, the NYSBA also offers many free samples, as well as other valuable information on Continuing Legal Education and other tools for lawyers.
New York State Unified Court System: Also provides forms for a variety of practice areas, including for matrimonial, criminal and family court matters.
LexisNexis Communities: (formerly LexisONE) offers hundreds of free forms for New York and other jurisdictions.
Legal Directories
New York State Courts – Attorney Search: Allows searching of all registered New York attorneys by name; provides information on law school attended, contact information (where available), and year of bar admission.
New York State Courts – Judicial Search: Before you step into court, search for the presiding judge. This directory provides information on each judge's education and professional background, judicial appointments, publications and civic activities.
Current Awareness
The New York Law Journal: The paper of record for the New York legal community.
For a more comprehensive research guide to print and electronic resources, please consult William Manz's Gibson's New York Legal Research Guide (2004). This book is a great source for information on all-things related to New York legal research, including specialized sources for individual practice areas. Good luck!


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Shares of Facebook ( FB) soared 9.42% to $21.73 as the lockup period for company insiders expired, unleashing some 800 million shares available for trade. This is the second lock-up expiration that Facebook has dealt with since going public in mid-May. The first lock-up was up in August, releasing some 270 million shares. Facebook also announced a social jobs app in conjunction with the Department of Labor, described as "a new tool that will make it easier for people on Facebook to find and share employment opportunities."
Apple ( AAPL) shares are slightly lower, off 0.06% to $542.57 as one of its key component suppliers, Samsung, has denied rumors of a 20% price hike. A Samsung official commented to a South Korean newspaper that rumors of a 20% price hike on application processors (AP) are untrue. The anonymous official said prices are set at the start of the year, and changes to the pricing structure are not easy to do. Interested in more on Apple? See TheStreet Ratings' report card for this stock. -- Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York >Contact by Email. Follow @Commodity_Bull


text: The Southborough Education Foundation's annual spelling bee, postponed by bad weather last month, has been rescheduled for Saturday. While it is too late to register to participate in the competition, spectators are welcome to root for their favorites, buy raffle tickets, and donate to the foundation as part of next weekend's festivities at Trottier Middle School, 49 Parkerville Road. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the spelling bee begins at 7; admission is $2 for adults, $1 for children, and $5 for families. There is also a silent auction taking place online at www.southboroughed.org until Saturday night. For more information, e-mail Kathy Cook at email@example.com.


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Before state legislators give their inevitable second approval to allow casinos in New York and the issue goes to the public for a final say, those who believe that this will be an unqualified success need to study the numbers coming from the new racino at Aqueduct in Queens.
Before state legislators give their inevitable second approval to allow casinos in New York and the issue goes to the public for a final say, those who believe that this will be an unqualified success need to study the numbers coming from the new racino at Aqueduct in Queens.
As reported this week in The New York Times, the slots at Aqueduct rang up $630 million in revenue over 12 months. The people who took mass transit or drove in were not going to Atlantic City, where revenue has dropped steadily since a high in 2006, or to Foxwoods. The other casino in Connecticut, Mohegan Sun, once a shiny example of the unlimited potential for gaming success, said last week it would be laying off another 328 workers because of slow business blamed in part on Aqueduct.
The new gaming operations in the Poconos are doing better than these older establishments, but all would provide competition should New Yorkers approve the creation of casinos. And should one of those casinos be located in New York City, which is a certainty, then those who still hope that gambling will be the economic engine that drives the resurgence of the Catskills will need to come up with better proof than they have now.
We already have two clear bets on what casinos will mean for the region. The people who are hoping to return the Nevele to its former prominent place have ambitious plans that all hinge on not only making casinos legal but also locating one there. If not, they will go away and nature will quickly reclaim the golf course, as it almost did once before.
The investors who are planning a large-scale family resort on the site of the old Concord are not waiting for changes in the Constitution.
They say they will be able to renovate and build, to attract families for a water park and golfers for a nostalgic and challenging round or two on the Monster, no matter what happens in Albany.
If all they can have are slot machines and horse racing, that will be enough, they say. They make the case that they have studied the market and that this will work, even if it might work better with a full-fledged casino.
Those who will be guiding the state's official decisions need to follow the lead that these two groups of developers have offered. If the state is going to thoroughly consider the ups and downs of allowing casinos, somebody in Albany needs to do the same kinds of market analysis.
If the troubles in Atlantic City and Mohegan Sun are merely the result of the economic downturn, then there should be some way of demonstrating that. If a casino in New York City will pull in business from a wide area, than the state needs to avoid putting another casino in a location that will be doomed to failure.
The Catskills might not be far enough from New York to be safe, especially considering the long-held beliefs that the people who will be sitting at the table games will have come up Route 17.