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On the day before all hell breaks loose, the worst day of the American occupation in Iraq thus far, Stephen Heering shouldn't even be making a run.
It's Thursday, April 8, 2004, and in the groggy haze of predawn, the clock reads "0500." The 34-year-old veteran truck driver has been in the country for almost four months now. Some much-needed R&R shimmers along the desert horizon. He's scheduled to fly back from Kuwait to his home north of Houston on April 22.
Normally, Heering says, Kellogg Brown & Root doesn't send guys out on convoy runs in the two weeks leading up to vacation. You never know what might happen out there, and if you got stuck at another base, you could miss your flight. Last night, Heering thought he was done. Thought that he could breathe easy. He pulled his stuff out of the truck and turned in the keys.
Then his KBR supervisor told him they were shorthanded and asked him to make one last drive up to Camp Anaconda, 70 klicks north of Baghdad, or about a six-hour drive on a very, very good day. If he pitched in, he could catch a flight down to Kuwait and have a little extra time on the beach. Pick up a few souvenirs for the wife and kids.
So that's why he finds himself back in the cab of his truck, buckled in, a Kevlar helmet on his head and a 40-pound steel-plate vest slung over his shoulders. He's got pictures of Crissy and their two boys next to the speedometer; his yellow Arabic taxicab sign (a "good luck charm") is sitting on the dashboard.
"In the mornings, I'd wake up, man, and I'd pray. I got sooo close to God when I went over to Iraq," he says. "You'd pray, 'Man, please let me just make one more mission, let me just make it back to the base.' "
For a month in the spring, God had seemed pretty attentive. Heering's former convoy, earlier christened the BBC, or Boom Boom Crew, for the frequency they took heat, had enjoyed a month of relatively smooth sailing.
"[We] started joking around, said, 'Man, but when we get it, we're gonna get it good,' " says Heering. "And, sure enough, we did."
The convoy commander knows that Heering shouldn't even be going out that day, so he gives him a good spot, second in line. Heering says that 90 percent of the time, the first five trucks will get through without any problems. Moreover, the first group of fuel tankers (typically 30 in all) carries JP-8 jet fuel; next in line is diesel; and bringing up the rear is "mo-gas," which is so flammable, one driver says transporting it is "like riding a big stick of dynamite."
The odds are stacked in Stephen Heering's favor -- as far as that goes hauling around fuel in a war zone -- but the morning starts out ominously. An explosive is spotted right outside their Camp Cedar 2 home base. Heering's never heard of one being so close to Cedar. He radios the commander: "Man, we're off to a bad start."
After a six-hour delay, they finally take off, heading north from near Al-Nasiriyah to Camp Scania, 180 klicks south of Baghdad. They refuel there and swap out military police, but the main supply route to Baghdad International Airport is closed because of explosives in the road. Heering's group must stay the night in Scania.
"We called it the Gates of Hell, 'cause once you passed [Scania], that's where you were at," he says of the dangerous stretch leading into Baghdad. He sleeps in his truck and has breakfast the next morning while the road is swept clean of mines. Another driver notices that, strangely, no Iraqis show up to the base that morning -- Friday, April 9 -- to sell goods to foreigners at the "Haji mart." At 0930, they push off for Baghdad.
When another explosive brings the convoy to a halt not far from the airport, the bullets start flying. A soldier likens the sound to golf balls pinging off metal drums, but it's small-arms fire, nothing unusual, and they escape without serious injury or damage. After checking tires, tankers and windshields, and punching in a report with coordinates, Heering says, the military escorts decide to proceed on to Anaconda. Getting into Baghdad is one headache; getting out is another.
Truck drivers speak in grim parlance about this road out of the capital. Officially, it's known as Highway 1. One driver calls it "the widowmaker"; another, "blood alley." When Stephen Heering finds his convoy on a stretch referred to as "the meat market" -- because of the slaughtered animals usually hanging along a roadside bazaar -- he tenses up. This road typically is choked with traffic -- "like drivin' in downtown Houston at rush hour," jokes Heering -- but today the area has cleared out. Something's not right.
Minutes later, outside a small town, the message comes across the wire: Seek shelter immediately -- convoys being ambushed. At this point, though, they can't turn back. It's quicker to get to Camp Anaconda.
Heering thinks he's the first one to get hit.
Someone tosses a grenade under the back of his trailer, and the explosion rocks his entire truck. Half the tanker is gone when Heering takes a second hit that blows out his tires and windows. There's the chatter of gunfire. More explosions. He jams down on the gas pedal, but the truck responds sluggishly, dragging the entrails of his tanker trailer. With flames licking the front of the cab, Heering flings open the door and jerks himself out. But the seat belt is tangled around his arm and the truck is still moving at about ten miles an hour. He lands awkwardly on his shoulder and pops back up.
There's smoke everywhere, so he can't tell exactly which way to run, but he sure as shit can't stand there in the road and risk getting run over. A group of ten or 15 assailants streams out of a nearby building, running right at him. When he turns to flee, it's either a rock or a stick or the butt of a gun that cracks him in the back of the head.
He falls. He blacks out for a moment.
When Heering pushes up off his belly, his vision is blurred and he feels a boot in his back and a gun pointed at his head. He hears them screaming at him in Arabic, and then his senses dull. There's a sharp sting in his shoulder and a loud ringing in his ears, and as the whole surreal tableau dims, there -- there is his little boy.
"In my head, it just got completely silent and I remember hearing my little boy, Tyler, and I heard him say, 'Daddy, come home.' " Pause. "He said, 'Come home now.' And I jumped up and started swinging."
It is a warm fall morning, six months later and more than 7,000 miles away, and about 100 people have lined up to become the next Stephen Heering -- which is to say, a KBR employee bound for the Middle East. The company facility sprawls out anonymously across several city blocks east of downtown, and a Friday job fair is taking place in a giant industrial warehouse with steel rafters. Grizzly-bear laborers and polo-shirt white-collar types elbow in at packed tables, filling out application worksheets. A short man with tasseled loafers, a cell phone snapped onto his belt and a KBR badge takes the microphone: "I'd like to welcome you here this morning to our overseas open house. Everybody is aware this is a job for overseas, right?"
No one gets up to leave.
The man explains that KBR's contract provides support and logistics for U.S. military installations around the world. If a recruiter offers any of them a job -- and nearly half are called up at the end -- they must pass a background check for felony convictions, a psychological profile, a drug screening and a health checkup, which includes a stress test for those over 40.
That would probably include a majority of the folks here -- a group that, like KBR's workforce already in Iraq, is mostly male.
The KBR speaker talks about a packing list that they'll receive if hired: "It does state you are not," his voice snaps drill instructor, "authorized to wear any military clothing or camouflage-pattern clothing. You are not authorized to carry a weapon. KBR is not hiring you to be a combatant."
That doesn't mean, though, that workers won't see action. The handout spells this out: "Weather is EXTREME During the summer time it can be as hot as 150 degrees Expect to be dirty a majority of the time. Sand and dust storms are VERY common and you will get dust and sand in your eyes, mouth and nose There is no escaping from the sand and dust! Sometimes you might take a shower by the same water bottle that you drank from The camps or bases can be potentially dangerous (example: random gun fire, rocket propelled grenades, mortar rounds and land mines)."
The KBR speaker adds in a monotone voice, "There's other hazards at those sites also. Like mice, snakes, scorpions, ticks, fleas, spiders -- big ones." He widens his hands to the circumference of a large frying pan. "Use common sense, don't mess with 'em."
Sure, common sense. As sales pitches go, it's neither a hard nor a soft sell. It's more unsell -- a deadpan depiction of Temple of Doom conditions in faraway lands. All of which can be yours for a very tempting price.
Halliburton, the parent company of KBR, has more than 35,000 employees and subcontractors in countries such as Kuwait, Afghanistan and, most prominent, Iraq. Although the company says it has more than 100,000 résumés on file, it gave no response to questions about whether recruiting has become more difficult as the security situation has grown more tenuous.
Other American companies have large contracts in Iraq, but they pale in comparison to Halliburton's. Fluor Corporation, based in California, has contracts worth at least $3 billion for 250 employees doing engineering and construction projects in Iraq. Washington Group International, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, also has contracts totaling around $3 billion, and they report having 100 employees directing 2,000 Iraqis in power- and hospital-reconstruction jobs. Neither company says it's had any worker deaths. The California-based Parsons Corporation has contracts worth an estimated $5.3 billion; it would not release any information on either the number of workers in Iraq or how many casualties it has suffered.
With most of the work in Iraq, Halliburton and its KBR subsidiary have been in the headlines a lot lately. Questions, allegations and insinuations have persisted -- from street-level protests to presidential debates -- about fraud, corruption, waste and war profiteering. Some of the main concerns include the award of a no-bid contract for Iraqi oil reconstruction at the outset of the war, overbilling for gasoline and meals, and the ethics of the company's relationship to former CEO Dick Cheney. According to Halliburton, the logistics and support contract alone is worth at least $8.3 billion.
"It's a question of accountability to taxpayers that's at question with some of these issues," says Charlie Cray, director for the Washington-based Center for Corporate Policy. Commenting on the civilian truck drivers in Iraq, he adds, "That's where they're taking a lot of risks as well. That's where these people are potential cannon fodder."
To date, 54 Halliburton employees have been killed in Kuwait and Iraq, in addition to countless others who have suffered injuries. Between 500 and 700 from around the country are shipped through Houston to the Middle East every week. Here, they undergo training at an abandoned department store at the dead end of a listless mall north of Beltway 8. The scope of the human assembly line is staggering. So, too, is the number of sterile acronyms thrown at them: It's a world of IEDs, MREs, MSRs, MWRs and, on Thursdays, NBCs.
That's when hordes of trainees line up in the department store to practice wriggling into yellow biohazard suits should they ever encounter an NBC -- a nuclear, biological or chemical attack. They duct-tape the suit flaps to each other's wrists and ankles, and an instructor sprays a substance into the mask vents to ensure protection from contamination. As with any large bureaucracy, there's also a lot of waiting for the wheels to turn, and many of the guys end up sitting around reading books or playing cards.
"I felt like a damn cow going through the slaughter, you know, just waiting in line," Stephen Heering says of the time leading up to his departure. "And that's what almost it is." Like most applicants, the reason he went to Iraq was simple.
"A lot of the people there were people just like me, making $30,000, have kids goin' to college, behind on bills, fixin' to lose houses," he says. "And this is a great way of making a ton of money and changin' their lives. And they know that and that's what they focus on."
Houstonian Sandra Howell, who, at 57, says she was the oldest woman she saw working in Iraq, had been laid off for five months before going over. She cried herself to sleep every night for the first month after she arrived. "Every day, I says, 'What am I doing here?!' And then I'd go, 'Cha-ching!' The money." She says that almost everyone else she met there had been unemployed.
Yearlong contracts like Howell's generally average upward of $80,000. Some nurture small, simple dreams with that sum. K.C. Hardcastle, another local still in Iraq, says that the proceeds from his contract will put him closer to one day opening a small hotel and dive shop in Mexico with his wife. Others are more strapped for cash.
One driver explains: "Toward the end of it there, we were getting guys that came over that only had a couple changes of clothes. And in talking with them, they were, like, one step away from livin' underneath a bridge." In that, the venture seems quintessentially American -- a kind of modern-day gold rush to the Wild West of the Middle East.
Some add that patriotism or a taste of adventure sends them into the fray. Mickey Moe Quintos, 46, who just signed on to become a driver, says he's doing it for the troops. He knows that, unlike civilian contractors, American soldiers can't just walk away from duty. "My family's pretty good," Quintos says of the decision. "But my neighbors, a few of them say, nah, I'm crazy."
Sara Neel, a 24-year-old KBR employee in Iraq whose husband is also there, says that her decision shocked the family.
"Emotionally, my family is absolutely torn. They're beside themselves," she says. "Some of them are really angry at me right now, and some of them just don't answer the phones. And some of them [cry] all the time.
"But I say, 'You know what? If I can't hang over there, if I can't handle it, don't worry, I'll come home.' And that is like this little bit of peace that they have. 'Okay, if she doesn't want to -- like the day she gets there, she doesn't want to, she'll come home.' "
As Hardcastle points out in an e-mail, "It is always easier to be the one going than the one staying behind."
Back at the job fair, a Q&A session is wrapping up. The KBR speaker offers a few candid thoughts for those who aren't unemployed or down on their luck.
"If you have a cushy job that pays great money and you're safe back here and you're warm -- you've got that warm, fuzzy " He trails off without smiling. "I wouldn't quit it.
"These are very harsh, very dangerous environments. When you come in for processing, you're coming in soon to deploy. And we're counting on each and every one of you for at least a year. Other questions?"
Stephen Heering wasn't much different from a lot of the civilians going over. A skinny guy with thin hair, the faint blond trace of a Marlboro Man mustache and blue eyes like limpid swimming pools, Stephen Heering went to Iraq to make a buck. The native Houstonian grew up in Missouri City and went to mechanics school straight out of high school.
"Then I realized you could make more money driving 'em than turning wrenches, and it's a whole lot cleaner," he says. During summers, Heering, a Little League umpire in Magnolia, would bring Tyler, his younger son, on the road with him to see the country. They'd bunk together in the truck at night and keep each other awake on long hauls.
Heering heard about the lucrative KBR gig through a friend, and his wife, Crissy, applied for him one day over the Internet. The lure of big money brightened a worrisome financial picture. Graduation was approaching soon for his older son, Travis, and Heering wanted to be able to send him off to the college he never had.
"He's 16 years old -- one more year of high school, college -- life just started hitting me, man," says Heering. "This was a way of making a bunch of money real fast." He had been averaging about $30,000 in his job -- "these days that's not a whole lotta bread" -- when he got offered a guaranteed $80,000 with KBR (which more than likely would've been closer to $120,000 by the end).
The turnaround last December came quick. He got the call at dusk one evening.
"I remember at the end of the phone conversation I said, 'Well, you know, when am I going to find out if I, uh, got the job?' [The recruiter] said, 'You had the job the second you answered the phone.' I said, 'Oh. Uhh. Wow.' "
With Heering having worked his whole life as a trucker, saying good-bye was a familiar routine. The family just looked at it like he'd be gone on a really, really long road trip, which, in a sense, was true. On the flight over, Heering says, six people got off at the airport in Ireland and never got back on. When the plane touched down in Kuwait, an announcement came over the loudspeaker.
"He said, 'Whatever you heard in Houston, forget about it, it does not apply here,' " says Heering. "I looked at Stacy [Clark, another driver from Houston], I said, 'Oh, my God, what did we get ourselves into?' And I thought this was just a greenhorn joke." In the first several days, he worried more about his family back home than he did about the desert terrain that stretched before him. What if someone broke into the house? What if someone murdered the whole family?
Christmas came and went. Depressingly. In all his years on the road, that had been the one holiday he never missed. This year, all he had was a sad tree in a soulless mess hall. He settled in at his home camp and worked days that lasted anywhere from ten to 17 hours. He found the relentless work an unlikely blessing. It made the time go by more quickly and meant that his mind was lonely and idle for only a little while after dinner.
His convoy faced attacks almost daily. Sandstorms would blot out sight lines as trucks vanished into sheets of dust not 20 feet ahead. Locals would throw rocks and fire guns at them, smashing and spidering windshields and blowing out tires.
"The gunfire -- it got to be where it was almost, you know, a joke, 'cause you'd hear the shells bounce off your tank and you'd be like, 'God dang! You know, 'nother day!' " Heering jokes. His second week in the country, he got popped with an IED (improvised explosive device) that splattered shrapnel upside his truck, scarring it with singed pockmarks and stinging his eardrums for ten days.
Two things probably kept him sane from December until April.
The first was that KBR had phones that allowed employees to make free calls to Houston area codes as much as they wanted. Stephen dialed Crissy just about every night, and she would pick up the phone in the morning here. Back home, Crissy was insulating herself from anything related to Iraq. The only news that mattered came when that phone call connected them.
"I never watched the news the whole time. 'Cause if I saw something, I'll be like, 'Oh, my gosh! Is that Stephen?' " she says. "I'd sit at work, 'Is that Steve?' Every time it rang: 'Is that Steve?' 'Is that Steve?' "
The second thing that kept Stephen Heering sane was brotherhood. Gordon Johnson, a "charter member" of Heering's BBC crew, explains that the danger brought the crew closer.
"We got to where we actually depended on each other for if anything happened. You know, if we got -- our truck got disabled, we were depending on those guys to pull us out," says Johnson. "And that was one thing my girlfriend had a problem with when I come back. When somebody would call that I knew from over there, I would just drop everything and talk to 'em. And I'd say, I told her, I says, you know, we got to be closer than family in a very short time." Put into military conditions -- without the weapons of a soldier -- they grew tight to survive both mentally and physically.
"Within two weeks' time, you were closer to guys than the ones at home you'd known for two years," says Perry Singleton of Victoria, Texas, another driver who was based out of Camp Cedar. "By the end of a month's time, Gordon and a lot of the other guys knew my life stories, I knew theirs. Knew the problems with our kids; problems with the ex-wife; problems with the wives. But you didn't really -- you stayed with your five or six guys."
Several drivers say that workers -- especially drivers -- quit in droves. It is anecdotal, of course. Halliburton officially claims an attrition rate of less than 2 percent. The BBC crew says the turnover was the reason guys got in cliques and stayed cool to newcomers.
"You didn't really want to get too close to anybody," says Heering. "You wanted to, but you really didn't 'cause you may be on an airplane tomorrow or you may be in a casket tomorrow.
"Or," he adds, "you may be diggin' me out of a truck all shot up."
The Heering home is set way up in the backwoods of Magnolia, a simple, warm, one-story house at the end of a long gravel driveway. After school one afternoon, Tyler Heering sticks his head out the front door and welcomes a visitor. He is a bright-eyed fourth-grader with smooth, tan skin and buzz-cut dark hair, and he's eager to boast right away about his apparition on April 9.
"My dad heard my voice say, 'Come home, Dad,' " he says proudly.
Whatever voice or vision appeared in Stephen Heering's mind at that split-second crossroads of danger, the effect got him off the ground, swinging and slapping his way out. He broke free and ran toward a truck that emerged from the pack. The frantic Heering hopped onboard just before it, too, took fire. They hauled it to safety at Camp Anaconda, where others were trickling in after some of the worst violence since the fall of Baghdad a year earlier. Heering says that among his convoy, several workers were wounded and about a dozen trucks were lost. That same day, at least four other workers in Iraq were killed as a result of attacks, in addition to the capture -- and subsequent escape -- of driver Thomas Hamill.
Heering made two visits immediately. The first found him in the medic's room, getting treatment for a shoulder injury that healed up after a few weeks. The second was to the HR office, where he asked for a one-way ticket back to Texas. Some things, though, you can't leave behind.
In the days following his return to the United States, Stephen Heering found himself jittery and on edge day and night. Sleep came sporadically. When he did manage to get any rest, he would thrash about and grab his wife if she leaned over to try to give him a kiss.
"I didn't wanna go to sleep," he says. "Every time I closed my eyes, that's all I saw -- was gettin' blown up back in the middle of it." He started worrying that he would hurt one of his sons if they came up and hugged him while he was asleep. At his birthday party, he flipped out and had to be held down when friends tried to give him a joke spanking. On the Fourth of July, his sons sent him running into the house with their firecrackers. Whenever speakers or machines make loud popping noises, he's gripped with immediate panic.
"I don't think," says Heering. "It's just a reaction." His brother, Charlie, says that though he's improved over time, he probably won't be all right for the rest of his life. Other drivers share some of Heering's problems.
"It took me almost two months just to get my head screwed back on straight just to go back to work," says Johnson. "I had a job when I came back and told 'em I actually didn't want to leave the house. I didn't want to leave the safety of the house. And from what I understand -- and this was from one of KBR's own insurance adjusters -- that probably 75 percent of the people that come back have to go under psychiatric care for a while." Johnson adds that he knew some guys that actually got sent back to the States because their nerves were so frayed.
Of course, the damage isn't just psychological. Norm Bigham, 58, a Beaumont resident who drove in Johnson's convoy, was hit broadside just past the meat market north of Baghdad and got flown back home because of injuries. He lost 80 percent of the hearing in his left ear and has steel plates and screws in his neck for two busted vertebrae. He continues to take nerve pills along with pain pills and muscle relaxants.
"I just thank the good Lord I'm alive," says Bigham. Of the lingering pain, he shrugs: "I figured it'd go away, but it hasn't." His grandson's fireworks scared the hell out of him, too.
"Those are some of the core symptoms of PTSD," says Dr. Paula Schnurr, deputy executive director at the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. "Having unwanted thoughts, nightmares, even flashbacks, which are rarer. Then avoiding reminders or being numb or kind of cut off from people. And lastly being hyperaroused, being jittery, being hypervigilant, having trouble sleeping."
She says that while researchers within the field have long studied PTSD in workers as well as soldiers, public awareness about the disorder's effect on civilians employed in war zones has come about only recently. What's more, the idea of having PTSD is stigmatizing enough that many avoid seeking the psychiatric care that could help them work through the aftermath.
"Of course, doesn't that make sense? If you've just been in Iraq, being on alert would be very adaptive," says Schnurr. "But you need to learn how to turn it off now that you're back home."
Stephen Heering has not sought professional help to sort out his condition. He projects anger onto KBR. He's supported the war 100 percent from the beginning and would gladly join the troops if called up in a draft and, this time, given a weapon. His confusion about why KBR workers endured daily attacks has been replaced by hardened feelings toward the whole situation.
"I don't care about any of 'em. None of them whatsoever. If they dropped a nuclear warhead on the middle of Baghdad right now, wouldn't hurt my feelings at all," says Heering. "I've never had so much hatred towards a human being since I've been back. And I hate being that way."
Beneath the tremors and beneath the bitterness, Heering is haunted, too, by guilt. He speaks little of it, not even to Crissy, but about a month before the ambush, he ran over a boy who he believed had a grenade.
The kid seemed to be about the same age as Travis.
"Man, that, that still haunts me to this day," he says. "I can still see his eyes."
Some of the alumni of Iraq say that KBR paints an honest picture of the danger. Stephen Heering just doubts that anyone who hasn't experienced it firsthand could ever know the whole story.
"I'm not telling anybody not to go over there. And that was never my intentions," he says. "I just want 'em to know, for a moment, don't think about the money. Don't think about what you can have or nothing like that. Think about what would your family do if you're not there, if you don't come home."
On the wall in the living room of the Heering home, just over the fireplace, Stephen has hung a few short articles he was in that came out right when he got back.
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"It's just for to remind me every day of what happened and that nothing's really that important," he says. Though it was money that lured him into the line of fire, he says now, "Money's not worth dyin' over." These days, he's back on the road again, hauling steel up to Dallas and bringing shingles back to Houston. I-45 traffic has probably never seemed sweeter.
On the night that he retells his story, the night that the news announces that another civilian has been beheaded, Heering has on a T-shirt that says, "Operation Iraqi Freedom." On the back of it, scrawled over a map of the region, it reads: "Been there. Done that. Got the shirt."
Sunsets in Iraq were one of his few pleasures. He thinks back fondly on those moments at dusk when the desert sun would cascade through bands of purple and orange and red -- a sign that he'd made it through another day.
The sun has gone down in Magnolia, and it is pitch-black on the gravel driveway leading out to the road. All is quiet. Having revisited the ambush in his mind, Stephen Heering probably won't sleep tonight.


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With a little dramatic music, the Senate's party-line rejection of the Paycheck Fairness Act on Tuesday could have easily doubled for two dueling campaign ads.
Democrats and Republicans weren't arguing with each other before or after the legislation fell short – with 52 votes for and 47 against, the measure came up short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP filibuster.
Instead, both sides blew right past each other, straight to the TV cameras. Democrats decried another front in what they allege is a Republican "war on women," while Republicans tried to turn the spotlight back to the economy.
On the left, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D) of Maryland led a phalanx of Democratic women in support of the measure outside of the Senate chamber, ripping the GOP for standing against "equal pay for equal work."
A White House fact sheet on the issue cites US Census statistics as indicating that "on average, full-time working women earned 77 cents to every dollar earned by men for equivalent work."
The Paycheck Fairness Act would offer several additional protections for women in the workplace, including an increased ability to pursue punitive damages for unequal pay claims; prohibit employers from retaliating against employees who inquire about payment practices or who disclose their own salaries; and require businesses to prove that differences in pay between genders were rooted in business requirements.
Republicans say the bill only opens a door to needless litigation.
Democrats even had a campaign commercial standby: the celebrity endorser. Women's rights activist Lily Ledbetter marched from the House to the Senate with a half-dozen House Democrats to give a press conference before the vote. Mrs. Ledbetter's name is affixed to the first piece of legislation signed by President Obama, a law that broadened the ability for employees to sue employers for pay discrimination.
There was obligatory goading of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, chiefly by majority leader Harry Reid.
"The only Republicans who are against our common-sense measure are the ones here in Washington," Senator Reid said. "Even Mitt Romney has refused to publicly oppose this legislation."
Romney's campaign has not commented on the subject to an array of news organizations.
That reticence was on display among the Senate GOP caucus on Tuesday. On the right, only a single Republican – Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada – came to the Senate floor to debate the bill. Indeed, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky took the unusual tack of declining to fire back at his counterpart Reid's pointed criticisms during McConnell's opening remarks both Monday and Tuesday.
When the Senate's Republican leadership did speak up for their weekly press conference, it was as if the Paycheck Fairness vote was happening in another reality. Instead, Republicans stayed glued to their myriad critiques of Mr. Obama – instead of arguing Paycheck Fairness, they were deep into their "Greatest Gripes with the Obama administration:"
• McConnell hit the President for a lack of leadership on student loans.
• Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona clocked Democrats for what he said was an inability to put forward proposals to head off spending cuts slated to hit on Jan. 1.
• Sen. John Thune of South Dakota mocked the Obama administration's handling of the economy, including a 2010 op-ed by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner welcoming America to a "recovery summer."
• Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming criticized Obama's healthcare reform law for increasing rates on health insurance plans offered by colleges and universities.
• Finally, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas pointed to new allegations of trouble in the gunwalking scandal along the Mexican border known as "Fast and Furious."
Asked why Republicans opposed the Paycheck Fairness Act, McConnell offered a terse response.
"This is issue is about rewarding plaintiffs lawyers for filing lawsuits," McConnell said. The Democrats' "view is America suffers from not enough litigation."
What's next for the legislation? For reasons of procedural arcana, Reid voted against the measure in order to be able to resurrect it at a later date if need be.
But principally, Tuesday's vote will be pressed into service by Democrats as a campaign weapon.
"I'm putting my lipstick on – and I'm combat ready," Ms. Mikulski said, swiping a red rouge across her lower lip at a press conference after the vote.
Later, she added: "We're not exactly sure where the battlefield will be, but the fight is going to continue."


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I have a lot of projects going on right now. A lot. I need to stop starting new things and wrap a few up! I thought I'd share a bit of what's in the pipeline. (And the scary thing is, this isn't everything!)
The string squares above are not for another string quilt. :-) I remember saying it'd be a LONG time (if ever) before I take a project like that on again. Well, ever since I saw these pillows from Ashely at Film in the Fridge, I knew I needed them for my couch! I've had an Arcadia jelly roll sitting here for just this purpose for a few months it seems. Well, I've started!
My husband's cousin asked me to make her son a quilt for his first "big boy" bed. Of course I would! She picked out Riley Blake fabric, mixed in some surfer prints, for an adorable twin quilt. I finished the top this week and am waiting for the backing fabric to come in the mail.
There is a quilt in the book Last Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts that I've adored since I purchased the book. Well, I decided since I didn't have ENOUGH other things going on, that this would be the right time to start it. LOL I'll be using fabric from Denyse Schmidt's Katie Jump Rope line. I actually have all the patterned fabric cut, but need to cut the white still.
And today, just for fun and instant gratification, I made my son some new reversible bibs. I just took one of his junky bibs and traced it with about 1/4" extra on all edges. I put a layer of batting in the middle and poof! Instant adorable bibs!
I still have that second MoMo Wonderland quilt pinned and waiting to be quilted, and have started this tutorial for an advent calendar. (That one has an obvious deadline!) So what are you working on?


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Today's Scrapbook Update guest blogger is Mike Hartnett.
Mike Hartnett, who has been a fixture in the crafts industry for over 30 years, is the publisher of the online crafts industry journal CLN Online. His extensive resume also includes being a former CHA board member and the publisher of Craftrends magazine.
I'd like to ask the Scrapbook Update readers for some help. I've been reporting on the overall "craft" business for 30 years, and chronicled the rise and fall of numerous trends – macrame, counted cross stitch, wearable art, dollmaking, decorative painting, and the list goes on. I edited two trade magazines and now publish an online business newsletter, Creative Leisure News. Scrapbooking has been, by far, the strongest, longest lasting trend in the history of the industry. Nothing comes close.
But like many trends, it inspired a number of enthusiasts to open stores. But too many were missionaries, not merchants, and when the initial fervor of the trend cooled, their stores were in trouble. Many closed, pulling down with them a number of small manufacturers who depended on sales to independent retailers.
So when you look around and see that a number of stores have closed, some manufacturers have gone out of business, and a couple of magazines have shut down, it's easy to conclude that the consumer's interest in scrapbooking is fading.
But is it? Consider:
1. Perhaps the market is only changing, that consumers have moved to other stores and the Internet.
2. Thanks to the economy, every category in the industry (jewelry-making, knitting, etc.) is seeing their hard core enthusiasts spending less. They're not crafting less, they're simply using up what we call their "stash." That's probably happening in scrapbooking, too. If consumers are scrapping as much as ever, just not buying as much, then won't they start buying again when their stash is depleted?


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Consumer confidence surged to 69.6 in February, up from 58.4 in January.
This was much higher than the 62.0 forecasted by economists.
"Consumer Confidence rebounded in February as the shock effect caused by the fiscal cliff uncertainty and payroll tax cuts appears to have abated," said Lynn Franco of the Conference Board.
From the Conference Board:
New York, February 26, 2013…The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index®, which had declined in January, rebounded in February. The Index now stands at 69.6 (1985=100), up from 58.4 in January. The Present Situation Index increased to 63.3 from 56.2. The Expectations Index improved to 73.8 from 59.9 last month.
The monthly Consumer Confidence Survey®, based on a probability-design random sample, is conducted for The Conference Board by Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and analytics around what consumers buy and watch. The cutoff date for the preliminary results was February 14.
Says Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board: "Consumer Confidence rebounded in February as the shock effect caused by the fiscal cliff uncertainty and payroll tax cuts appears to have abated. Consumers' assessment of current business and labor market conditions is more positive than last month. Looking ahead, consumers are cautiously optimistic about the outlook for business and labor market conditions. Income expectations, which had turned rather negative last month, have improved modestly."
Consumers' assessment of present day conditions improved in February. Those claiming business conditions are "good" rose to 18.1 percent from 16.1 percent, while those stating business conditions are "bad" decreased to 27.8 percent from 28.4 percent. Consumers' appraisal of the labor market was mixed. Those saying jobs are "plentiful" increased to 10.5 percent from 8.5 percent, while those claiming jobs are "hard to get" edged up to 37.0 percent from 36.6 percent.
Consumers were more optimistic about the short-term outlook this month. Those expecting business conditions to improve over the next six months increased to 18.9 percent from 15.6 percent, while those expecting business conditions to worsen declined to 16.5 percent from 20.4 percent.
Consumers' outlook for the labor market was more positive. Those anticipating more jobs in the months ahead improved to 16.7 percent from 14.4 percent, while those expecting fewer jobs decreased to 21.5 percent from 26.7 percent. The proportion of consumers expecting their incomes to increase rose to 15.7 percent from 13.5 percent, while those anticipating a decrease fell to 19.6 percent from 23.3 percent.


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Safer Alternatives for Pain Relief
Maylin Rodriguez-Paez, RN
About 75% of prescription overdoses are caused by opioids2 — a group of highly addictive drugs that reduce the perception of pain. Taking a high dose or using them along with alcohol or sedatives can stop your breathing and ultimately kill you.
But before you judge, please note that many of such victims aren't "druggies" or misfits. A lot of them are everyday people like you and me who've become addicted after taking them for chronic pain.
Luckily, alternatives do exist. In fact, nature has given us a number of safe, non-addictive herbs for pain relief. Below, we'll go over these along with a few non-herbal options as well.
Herbal Options for Pain ReliefPain can drastically impact a person's quality of life. It can be debilitating and even drive people to commit suicide.
Of course, we're not advocating that people should suffer needlessly from pain, but rather that safer methods should be at least considered for managing it.
In fact, some people have been able to reduce or quit pain meds altogether by making the right nutritional and lifestyle changes.
Here are some herbal options that have been clinically shown to alleviate discomfort safely:
1. Curcumin
The yellow spice, turmeric, has been used as a medicinal herb for thousands of years. Much of its benefits are attributed to curcumin, one of its key components.
In a clinical study, curcumin was more effective than a leading anti-inflammatory drug, diclofenac, for arthritic pain. After eight weeks of use, participants taking the curcumin had a 60% reduction in pain scores.3
How does curcumin work? Unlike opioid drugs, curcumin works on multiple levels to ease inflammation,4 a major cause of pain.
2. Capsaicin
Capsaicin is extracted from chili peppers. It's one of the most heavily studied extracts for the management of pain.
Research shows it's effective against multiple types of pain, including joint,5 sinus,6 nerve,7 and even post-surgical pain.8
In one study, post-surgical patients experienced significant pain relief with topical applications of capsaicin. They took significantly less opioids for pain relief.8
One thing to note about herbals is that they take a certain period of time before you'll experience significant pain relief. If you're going to try them, give them a couple of months to start working. In general, a good time frame to give them is between 2–3 months.
Safe, Behavioral Options for Pain Relief1. Yoga
A common reason that people take painkilling drugs is to treat lower back pain. This type of pain can literally cripple its victims. Fortunately, multiple studies show that yoga may help.
For example, researchers in Seattle conducted a three month study and found that yoga classes decreased back pain in chronic sufferers.9 The participants' back function also improved.
Of course, before you start any program, consult with your doctor first.
2. Sleep
In pain? Then definitely make an effort to catch more Zzzzzs.
Research shows that sleep helps to diminish pain.10 Why is this? Well, it may have to do with melatonin, a hormone that's released during sleep.
Researchers have found that melatonin is actually a natural pain reliever.11 It reduces pain-causing inflammation12 and it supports the release of endorphins,13 your body's natural painkillers.
3. Diet
As a first step, make it a point to avoid inflammatory foods as much as possible.
Diet is very important for managing pain effectively. Limiting foods that contain arachidonic acid, an omega-6 fat, may help to prevent inflammation and pain.14
This can be found in red meat, eggs, white meat, and peanuts.
Instead, incorporate the following foods into your diet, as they can help to ease inflammation:
- flax seeds
- walnuts
- pumpkin seeds
- oily fish
- seaweed
- green tea
- black tea
- tart cherries
- dark berries
- olive oil
- garlic
- grapes
- basil
Have herbs or diet and lifestyle changes helped you manage your own pain? If so, please tell us about it in the comments.
Who knows? You may be able to help others by sharing what's worked for you.
- Available at: http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/prescription-drugs/prescription-drug-abuse-results-in-one-death-every-19-minutes-in-u-s. Accessed December 5th, 2012.
- Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/rxbrief/. Accessed December 5th, 2012.
- Phytother Res. 2012 Nov;26(11):1719-25.
- Mol Nutr Food Res. 2008 Sep;52(9):1010-30.
- Rheumatology (Oxford). 2011 May;50(5):911-20.
- Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2011 Aug;107(2):171-8.
- J Peripher Nerv Syst. 2012 May;17 Suppl 2:22-7.
- Clin Drug Investig. 2011 Dec 1;31(12):877-82.
- Available at: http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/october2011/10312011yoga.htm . Accessed December 5th, 2012.
- SLEEP. 2012 December;35(12):1667-1672.
- Clin Rheumatol. 2000;19(1):9-13.
- Life Sci. 2009 Apr 10;84(15-16):489-98.
- Yao Xue Xue Bao. 2001 Jan;36(1):5-9.
- J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother. 2011;25(1):49-54.


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Responding to a report of a stolen Minnie Mouse bike, Officer Michael Kohr goes above and beyond
The world can always use more heroes. And in Oxnard, Calif., no one deserves that title this week quite like Officer Michael Kohr.
Responding to a report of child's stolen bike on Monday, Officer Kohr went above and beyond the call of duty – not just by lending a hand but by fixing the problem then and there for Nina Sanchez and her daughter Bella.
"On my way to take my daughter Bella on a bike ride, to our dismay we realized her cherished Minnie Mouse bike that Santa brought her had been stolen, along with our jogging stroller. To say we were heartbroken is an understatement," Sanchez wrote in a Facebook post that has gone viral.
"Through many tears and reassuring hugs I managed to call in a police report. This afternoon I received a call from Officer Kohr that he was on his way with a brand new Princess bike."
The policeman not only delivered the new bike but taught Bella how to ride it, added Sanchez, giving mom and daughter both a thrill.
"I can not fully express how grateful I am," Sanchez wrote. "He has left such an impression in our hearts, and am thoroughly impressed with his generosity. Thank you once again Officer Kohr."
The post has been liked almost half a million times, and the Oxnard Police Department is among those who are extremely proud of Officer Kohr's actions.
"We don't get emails/messages like this directly from community members often," the department wrote in reply to the photo Sanchez posted. "Thank you, Nina Sanchez for sharing! And, thank you Officer Michael Kohr for taking exceptional service to heart and going above and beyond!"


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Aleksandar Hecl started to draw at an early age and by 13 he was already called "The Wonderkid from Zemun" by newspaper Vreme. He broke off his studies in Fine Arts in 1951 to devote all his time to his career in illustration. During a period of more than forty years he created a great many illustrations, comics and paintings. He contributed to magazines like Pioniri, Mladost, Zmaj, Kekec and Yu Strip.
Among his comics were 'Zemljo, do viđenja', 'Letimo na Mesec', 'Otmica u vasioni' and 'Špijun na Radnagu', four science fiction stories written by Dragoljub Jovanović in the 1960s. His final comics work was the Serbian fantasy classic 'Faet' in 1984.


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Post Thanksgiving Report
by, November 30th, 2013 at 10:03 AM (1796 Views)
Happy post thanksgiving! Chowsh is here visiting and getting bossed around by yours truly! Swimming-wise, just maintaining this week and trying to stay in good to top condition through the New Years.
My times from our SCM meet were relatively strong - I now have 2 x #2 times, and 2 x #3 times, so what a bonus for 4 more TTs on my way to 200 lifetime TTs! I suspect they will hold in the top ten, but maybe move down a few places by the close of the season.
I will not be able to swim my big swim meet in December. I will be going to Pittsburgh, PA and Washington, DC for a memorial service 12/05 to 12/10.
Instead, I will use the DAMM relay meet as a tune-up to bridge the gap from Nov to my next swim meet, which who knows when that will be. I requested the 200 free, fly, back, and breast relays, and to put my in anything else. I won't wear my fast suit, but i'll take racing seriously and do my best effort. They have almost always used the electronic timing system, in the event another team wants to get times to count for USMS. I hope they do this year, so I can get my lead off or split time as a gauge.
I tried a quasi-race pace set, but in retrospect, the morning after Thanksgiving wasn't the best time to start! Yours truly felt like a beached whale whilst in the water, with peanut sized lungs due to overcapacity Thanksgiving food still making its way through my system!
The set I tried was
4 times through, 1 set each stroke:
100 straight swim, working on the turns;
4 x 25's race pace on :30
easy 50 in between; total time 3 minutes
The free wasn't too bad - 14 15 15 16
The fly was a complete fail 16 18 18 20
The back was off before the 1st 25 18 20 20 20
The breast was who knows 21 23 23 23
While we have done fast 25's on :30 for years, it's completely different when you go that elusive extra to go true race pace. Obviously I have a long way to go! And that's just 4 measly 25's!!!
Then I did "Rich Abrahams" starts - start with 4 strokes, 6, strokes, 8 strokes.
Then I did a 50 free fast
30 flat.
Well, i'd like to say it was Thanksgiving eating and playing host, but then again, there is always some handicap, and I haven't gotten any faster. How many times have I posted I did a :30? Ugh. Well, at least i'm not getting slower.


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So angry, his eyes regenerated and exploded again!
Tom Dyron, the Ultimate Angel of Something, has been defeated. Now the fate of all creation lies on the shoulders of it's greatest champion, Steven. Can he alone defeat Xeruel the angel of dark darkness where others have failed? Of course not. He gets punked out in half a chapter. And what did you expect, really? It's Steven. Falling down and being an arse is what he does. However, since there's still another seventy-three odd chapters to go, clearly we need someone else to grunt and thrust at Xeruel some more. Who will it be? The answer to this question, dear reader, won't shock you at all.
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This lime curd "cheese" cake is what I made for my beaus birthday. He doesn't really like cakes, more of a pie and tart kinda guy. I wanted to play around with his favorite color "green", and make something fun.
I used about 5 different recipes, this was the end result. Most recipes ask for Toffuti cream cheese, but I figured I could make a cream "cheese".
I made a lemon cheese cake for my brothers wedding "pre-vegan", and it was wonderful. Making the curd was the easy part, its getting the right flavor of the cheese filling that is difficult. So it was a taste, season, taste again adventure :)
Thinking about what to name a creation is fun, there are lots of memories linked to this particular recipe. I use to go to a restaurant in Vancouver...it was my favorite. Delilahs, the best martini's in the city! One of my favorites was called the emerald city.
When I was a kid I would always watch the Wizard of OZ, but it was always on around 8, and bedtime was around 9, so I never got to finish it. Usually I would get to the part where they fell asleep in the flower
fields ( because of the wicked witch), and it was time to brush my teeth. That is until I was an adult. A great film.
This is good, oh is it good...
Ginger Cookie Crust
2 cups vegan ginger cookies- crushed
1/3 cup earth balance margarine- melted
Combine cookies and melted butter in a medium sized bowl.
Mix until evenly coated with the margarine.
Press into a spring form pan, and bake for 7-8 minutes.
"Cheese" Filling
1 block tofu-medium
1 pkg silken tofu
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
1/3 cup organic icing sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 lime-zested
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 Tbsp cornstarch
1 Tbsp flour
1 tsp sea salt
In a food processor mix everything together ( I did mine in batches, because I have a little 4 cuper)
Lime curd
1 tsp agar agar
2 limes juiced
1/4 c. cold water
1/2 c. sugar
2 Tbsp cornstarch
2 tsp lime zest
Pinch of sea salt
On medium high heat, whisk everything together, continue whisking until thickens (3-4 minutes)
Once you have baked your crust, pour the cheese filling in.
Scoop tablespoons of lime curd over the cheese filling, and use a skewer to pull the curd through out the filling. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes. Let cool. Keep in the refrigerator.
Ruby Red Strawberry Sauce
2 cups strawberries- cored and sliced
1/3 cup water
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 lemon-juiced
In a saucepan, combine all ingredients. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, simmer for 5 minutes. Blend with a hand blender.


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The following information was proved by the Lenoir County Sheriff's Office and the Kinston Dept. of Public Safety:
On July 23, a representative of White Construction reported the theft of 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel from a construction site on County Line Road, La Grange. The fuel is valued at $3,500.
On July 24, a representative of Family Dollar on North McLewean Street, Kinston, reported someone attempted to steal three packages of cocoa butter soap valued at $5.28 (recovered). The incident was cleared by an arrest.
On July 24, a woman reported a stranger rubbed against her buttocks in a grocery store on West Vernon Avenue, Kinston.
On July 24, a man reported someone stole his scooter. The incident occurred at a residence on Harding Avenue, Kinston. The scooter is valued at $767.
On July 24, a representative of Carolina Environmental Contracting reported someone damaged the windshield of a tractor trailer with rocks. Damages were estimated at $300.
On July 24, a woman on Harding Avenue, Kinston, reported being assaulted by one of her children. No injuries were reported.
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On July 25, a woman on South Orion Street, Kinston, reported someone punched her in the face, grabbed her by the neck and harassed her via telephone.
On July 25, a representative of St. John's Village Apartments on East Highland Avenue, Kinston, reported someone damaged a glass door. Damages were estimated at $100.
On July 29, a restaurant on U.S. 70 West, La Grange, reported someone passed a counterfeit $10 bill. Prosecution was declined.
On July 29, a man on Tower Hill Road, Kinston, reported someone broke into a dwelling at his residence and stole the following: A Suzuki dirt bike valued at $3,000; a Scout Rokon ATV valued at $5,000 (recovered).
On July 30, a man on Tower Hill Road, Kinston, reported the theft of a John Deere lawn mower valued at $1,500.
On July 30, a man on Mary Ann Drive, Kinston, reported someone broke into his vehicle.
On July 30, a man reported someone attacked him on East Highland Avenue, Kinston.
On July 30, a woman on Hugo Church Road, Grifton, reported someone broke into her residence and stole the following: Farm/garden vehicles/implement valued at $1,200; a 1986 Nissan valued at $600; a 1979 Chevrolet valued at $950; a wireless router valued at $80; pots/pans valued at $500 and a financial card.
On July 30, a member of the Kinston Dept. of Public Safety reported the arrest of a suspect in possession of the following: A .380 caliber handgun valued at $150, two hydrocodone pills valued at $20; a wood pipe valued at $10.
On July 30, a man reported an acquaintance attempted to strike him with a vehicle. The incident occurred on the 600 block of Mitchell Street, Kinston.
On July 30, a woman on Mitchell Wooten Court, Kinston, reported an acquaintance threatened her via Facebook and text messaging.
On July 30, a woman on Rhem Street, Kinston, reported her boyfriend grabbed her by the neck and shoved her to the floor. Minor injuries were reported.
On July 30, a man on Tara Drive, Kinston, reported getting into a fight with his ex-girlfriend. No injuries were reported.
On July 30, a woman on Mitchell Wooten Court, Kinston, reported someone fired a gun into her vehicle. Damages to the vehicle were estimated at $300. A possible 9mm projectile was found at the scene.
On Aug. 2, a man reported someone shot him in the foot, shot into an occupied dwelling and shot into an unoccupied vehicle. Damages to a 2006 Hyundai were estimated at $5,000; damages to a 1994 Ford Crown Victoria; damages to two glass windows were estimated at $200; damages to two doors were estimated at $400.
On Aug. 2, a man on East Blount Street, Kinston, reported suspect(s) robbed and assaulted victim with a handgun. Severe lacerations were reported. A telephone valued at $25 was stolen.
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Kadikoy, once a separate village, these days quite a part of Istanbul...
A market: fish stand....
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hi Jerzy
Fosusing on the drops of water of the window and having the background blurred is a good idea; it's sometimes better to evocate than to show.
warm regards
bostankorkulugu (42748) 2013-09-30 11:29
beautiful yellow light, and that green t-shirt is the killer factor of this shot! ;) ...
Juzo (3686) 2013-10-03 4:41
Hi Jerzy,
Using the filter of the window lends a sense of impressionism, a painterly style. The colours and texture transend the scene, yet enhance it.
rigoletto (34279) 2013-10-09 13:53
looking through the tearful eyes of a dead fish?
now the asian side is under your lens. it must have felt like home :)
BennyV (28774) 2014-01-23 5:23
Another playful shot I missed while I was out. A festival of colours and shapes, with just the right amount of recognition in it.
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- Date Taken: 2013-09-22
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Sequestration was supposed to be a meat ax slashing large chunks of the federal budget, but Congress is poised to turn it into Swiss cheese.
The shortlist for the next round of possible sequester saves includes cancer patients, medical researchers, hungry seniors, poor people and pre-schoolers.
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"I'm looking at doing rifle shots on a lot of things, on Head Start programs, on elderly feeding programs," Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, told POLITICO.
( PHOTOS: How sequestration could affect you)
There are already more than a dozen pieces of stand-alone legislation introduced to address agencies, programs and accounts hit by sequestration. Whether any one proposal has a shot at becoming law requires a confluence of events. It needs bipartisan support and at least some semblance of a spending offset to cover the costs. Headlines showing Americans across the country feeling pain helps, too.
"I'll do it any way I can get it done," said Sen. Ben Cardin, the Maryland Democrat, explaining that he's "going to look for every opportunity" to help tens of thousands of federal workers in his state facing furloughs and budget cuts. "If I can get [the National Institutes of Health] the money it needs to continue its funding, I'm going to do it."
Harkin said his "rifle shots" would most likely come up during the fiscal year 2014 appropriations process. Aides to several other members said last week that their bosses are also looking for appropriate vehicles to hitch their bills on, singling out the Defense Department authorization measure as one prime candidate.
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An early House floor candidate is a bill from Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) that makes sure sequestration is no longer applied to Medicare's payments for expensive cancer drugs. An Ellmers spokesman noted the legislation has already won support of more than 65 co-sponsors, including conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats.
It should come as no surprise that the sequester debate has gotten to this point, with lawmakers scrambling to carve out special interest exemptions and undo budget cuts they created. The recent fixes for the Federal Aviation Administration and meat inspection programs were really only the beginning of what may become a summer-long string of attempted sequester do-overs.
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But critics of the one-by-one fixes to sequestration warn that only the most visible programs with the most powerful lobbies will be the ones that win. When FAA furloughs caused 7,000 flight delays, for example, Congress acted with lightning speed to offset the money and reopen closed control towers. Obama called the fix a "Band-aid" in his weekly radio address — but he signed the bill anyway.
Former President Bill Clinton said during last week's Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Fiscal Summit that he appreciated the FAA fix because it personally helped him avoid flight delays.
But he still said it was the wrong way to go because it meant cuts to another part of the agency's budget. "It basically is a metaphor, a minimetaphor for the choices made in the sequester," Clinton said. "Within the budget of the FAA, we're making it possible for all of us to fly with fewer delays and not investing in improving the infrastructure of regional airports. That's basically the constant choice we keep making if we just kick the can down the road; we choose the present over the future."


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The Georgia Southwestern baseball team split a Saturday afternoon doubleheader with Flagler College to win the Peach Belt Conference weekend series - two games to one - at Hurricane Stadium. GSW took the first game on Saturday, 7-6, before dropping the nightcap, 14-8.
Joining the Hurricanes on the field before game 1 was the Lee County Crushers t-ball team as part of the Hurricane Buddies "team of the night" program sponsored by McDonald's and The Americus Times-Recorder.
Southwestern took an early 4-0 lead after scoring a run in the first inning and three more in the second.
Flagler tied the ballgame in the fourth at 4-4. GSW regained the lead in the bottom of the inning with a two-run frame highlighted by Bud Long's RBI single.
The score would remain 6-4 until the eighth when Flagler tied the game with a two-run single.
The 'Canes scored the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth without recording a hit in the inning. Long reached base on a fielding error by the third baseman, advanced to second on a wild pitch, moved to third on a Chris Lingham ground out to first and scored on a Zack Stanton sacrifice fly.
Long finished the game 3-for-5 at the plate with a double, an RBI and two runs scored to lead GSW. Lingham collected two hits and two RBIs while Paschel Poston had a double, a single and scored a run.
Chris Carroll (2-0) earned the win with 1.2 innings of scoreless relief to close out the game. He surrendered five hits and tallied three strikeouts.
For the second consecutive game a FC relief pitcher took the loss without allowing and earned run. Saturday the hard-luck hurler was Tim Lappin (1-2), who finished with one inning pitched and one unearned run.
A five-run ninth inning by Flagler (18-13, 6-6 PBC) put game 2 out of reach for the 'Canes.
After Flagler jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning, Southwestern pulled ahead with three runs in the second, highlighted by Paschel Poston's two-run home run.
The Hurricanes added a run in the fourth on a one-out bases-loaded walk. The next two batters were unable to reach base and GSW ended the inning with the bases loaded.
GSW added another run in the fifth on a Trent Dooley RBI single to take a 5-2 lead.
Flagler stormed back with four runs in the fifth and three more runs in the sixth to jump back ahead, 9-5.
The Hurricanes pushed across a run in the bottom of the sixth on a Chris Lingham single.
GSW closed the margin to one run after scoring a pair in the seventh when Jared Allen belted his first home run of the season, a two-run shot to left field.
The Hurricanes left the bases loaded in the eighth and Flagler went on to put the game away with a five-run ninth.
Lingham, Poston, Dooley, Zack Stanton and Kevin Carroll collected two hits apiece.
GSW starter Tyler Daniel (2-4) went five innings, gave up seven runs (four earned), but allowed only four hits while walking three and striking out one.
Johnny Gaines (5-3) allowed six runs and 12 hits for Flagler in five innings of work, with four walks and five strikeouts.
The Hurricanes (18-8, 8-4 PBC) travel to Brewton-Parker on Wednesday.
Click here to view the Lee County Crushers "team of the night" photo gallery