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all my party animal friends for taking the time to come over
and share your wonderful links each week!
flea finds,
table settings,
related to feathering your nest is welcome!!
Great features Courtney! Thanks for hosting:-)ReplyDelete
GHreat features this week. Thank you so much for hosting. Have a wonderful weekend.
Those are some great features. Look forward to visiting them all. Thanks for hosting and have a great weekend.
Thanks for hosting, Courtney!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for featuring my Spring Mantel. Have a wonderful weekend. thanks for hosting!ReplyDelete
Thank you for hosting Courtney! And congrats on your feature and cover in Romantic Homes! I bought the magazine the other day, just beautiful!
Thank you The Fancy Shack!! :)
Thanks for hosting such an inspiring party every week, Courtney. Have a great weekend.ReplyDelete
Hello Courtney - looks like a beautiful week has been had at your home - just love the Ranunculus...wonderful features - I do appreciate you hosting,
Beautiful features! Thanks for hosting!
Thank you for hosting! Wishing you a pretty weekend! Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouseReplyDelete
Love the features! Thanks for hosting!...hugs...DebbieReplyDelete
Happy Friday, Courtney! And thank you for the party!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for hosting Courtney...love Debra's mantel.
Thanks so much for hosting, Courtney!
Have a fabulous week.
Mary Beth
So many lovely features. Thank you Courtney for hosting.
The French Hutch
I LOVE your bench with the ranunculus!! I keep checking the floral shop for some of those...so far no luck though. Thanks so much for hosting. Hope you have a good weekend! xoReplyDelete
Thanks so much for hosting! Those fresh flowers make me long for Spring! Life to the full, MelissaReplyDelete
Thanks for hosting. Your outdoor Spring mantle is to die for!
Beautiful features and I love your blue bench Courtney! Have a fantastic week. Thanks for hosting and for joining me at Home Sweet Home!
Thank you for hosting! :)ReplyDelete
That clock table is truly a work of art! Thanks for hosting, Courtney.ReplyDelete
Beautiful inspiration Courtney! Thank you so much for hosting!
Thanks for hosting! I love your ranunculus. They are one of my favorite flowers! Have a lovely week.
Great Features Courtney! Thanks for hosting!
Hello Courtney: Thank you for hosting the party today--such pretty spring-y features!ReplyDelete
Courtney, I love your pink bouquet on the faded blue bench - perfection!
Thanks for hosting
Love your chippy bench!ReplyDelete
The French Writing desk is breathtaking. Have a wonderful weekend. -KReplyDelete
Thank you for hosting, Courtney..Happy Thursday..JudyReplyDelete
Thanks for hosting! I love your parties ;)
Jamie www.somuchbetterwithage.com
Thank you so much for hosting!! Your ranunculus are gorgeous! Happy Friday. :)
Thanks so much for hosting! Have a wonderful evening : )
Hi lovely lady.
Thanks so much for hosting your linky party. I hope you have a wonderful week with your family.
XXOO Diane
Thanks so very much for the party Courtney!!
Great party again this week, I am so happy to be linking up!
Thanks so much for hosting, I hope you have a fantastic weekend!
Really pretty features this week, Courtney! Thanks so much for hosting!ReplyDelete
Your photographs always draw me in! Thanks ever so much for another inspiring party.
Liz @ Quirky Vistas
Thanks so much for hosting! Great features!ReplyDelete
Thanks for hosting! I've been enjoying your beautiful pink flower pics this week! Little BitReplyDelete
I love your roses and bench, so beautiful! Thanks for hosting again this week, LauraReplyDelete
Lovely photos and features, thanks so much for hosting every week!ReplyDelete
Hi, Courtney! This is my first time linking up at Feathered Nest Friday, and I'm so glad I found your beautiful blog! Thank you so much for hosting!
~Abby =)
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Thanks for hosting... I joined the party this week instead of cheerleading from the sidelines!
Great features this week. Love your roses on the weather worn turquoise bench. Very romantic. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for hosting.
Thanks Courtney - happy Friday!ReplyDelete
Courtney, thanks for hosting another beautiful party! Have a blessed weekend.
Linda and Jeannie at The French Hens Nest
Wow, so many great, beautiful things to see. Ill be here for hours! Thanks for hosting, and love your bouquet, beautiful.
Thanx for hosting Courtney!ReplyDelete
Wow, it's a popular party over here!!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for hosting Courtney!! Happy Friday :)
xo, Tanya
Love the features. You must have quite a time deciding which ones to feature. The talent is awesome! Thanks for hosting Courtney!
Such a great party and so many participants...you're a gracious hostess, Courtney! Gotta go see those features (missed a couple from last week).ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for hosting!
Love that chippy blue bench!
Thanks for hosting Courtney! Have a great weekend : )ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for pulling out my china cabinet and sending your wonderful readers over! Honestly, I was shocked! But am seriously and humbly grateful ...
:) Linda
Thanks for hosting. I'm also hosting a link party and you're welcome to join in and link up at http://thepinjunkie.blogspot.com/2013/02/friday-link-party-7.htmlReplyDelete
Thanks for hosting, Courtney! Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
Fabulous features as always, I love that blue desk and the old turquoise farm bench
thanks for hosting just for us
I'm always so inspired week after week Courtney! Thank you so much for hosting, I love visiting and linking up when I can! MarciaReplyDelete
Well, I'm afraid my project this week isn't very French or very country (I could see it in a cottage though!) but it's been so long since I could post something I had to join in. Thanks as always for the opportunity. Have a great weekend.
As always, thanks for hosting! Happy Friday:)ReplyDelete
those flowers!!! on that bench!!! swooning!ReplyDelete
Thank you for hosting! You have a lovely blog. We would love to have you join us at our party, and share some of your beautiful ideas. It is a weekly Thursday party. We hope to see you there!
Have a wonderful week!
Joye & Myrna (The Busy Bee's)
Just linked up my most recent find! It's good to be back blogging again! Love your features this week! Have a great weekend, Courtney!ReplyDelete
you find the most gorgeous flowers, courtney! thanks for hosting us, and have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
Thank you for hosting, and for sharing that beautiful teal bench...with hot, bright pink flowers--PERFECT! ~ZuniReplyDelete
Some really great features here- Off to check out a few of them- thanks-xo DianaReplyDelete
I really love the features this week. Wow. And thank you for hosting the party! :)ReplyDelete
Thank-you so much for the feature Courtney -- what a surprise! And as always, thanks for hosting such a great party. I look forward to it every week!ReplyDelete
Thank you for hosting...always fun here!
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An interesting happening will take place on March 29th; the VFX Online Townhall Meeting where an "open discussion of a visual effects industry in transition" will take place online as a free, virtual meeting. Already the interest is very high in the community, and signups are happening at a rapid pace.
This panel is set up by Lee Stranahan, a former visual effects artist and writer for The Huffington Post who posted a hugely popular article a while back: Open Letter To James Cameron: Fairness For Visual Effects Artists. His views on how the VFX industry is working hard to attain proper recognition and acceptable working conditions in a world where digital effects movies top the box-office stirred many conversations. The recent abrupt closing of two highly respectable digital studios, Image Movers Digital in San Rafael and C.O.R.E. Digital in Toronto has kept this topic a hot subject.
The panel will feature Chris deFaria -Vice President, Warner Bros. Pictures, Jefferey A. Okun – Visual Effects Society Chair and visual effects supervisor and Scott Ross – Co-Founder of Digital Domain & former CEO of Industrial, Light and Magic.
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A Simscape™ model of an aileron actuation system that performs well in desktop simulation is reused for HIL testing. The model includes a motor, motor driver, analog circuitry for the speed and current controller, and a three-dimensional mechanical model of the aileron, all within the Simulink® environment. The configuration steps include enabling the Simscape local solver, verifying speed and accuracy of the fixed-step simulation, and converting to C code. Simulink Coder™ is used to convert the model to C code, and Simulink Real-Time™ is used. When the model is running on the real-time target, values of Simscape run-time parameters are modified directly on the target without regenerating C code.


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"A pimp is a loyal person who pimps out girls of so called hoes meaning he makes them go have sex with guys for money and if the hoe doesn't listen she will get slapped or backhanded. Practically the pimp makes the profit."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit declined to the lowest level in almost two years as exports rose to a record high, a gain that is not expected to last given the global economic slowdown.
The Commerce Department says the trade deficit narrowed to $41.5 billion in September. That is 5.1 percent below the August deficit and the smallest imbalance since December 2010.
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Jackson Pollock Retrospective in Eighteen (18) Parts
Part #13
"With experience
it seems
to be possible
to control
the flow of paint,
to a great extent,
and I don't use
I don't use
the accident
I deny
the accident. . .
it's quite different
from working,
from a still life
where you set up objects
and work directly
from them.
I do
a general notion
of what I'm about
and what the results
will be.
I approach painting
in the same sense
as one approaches
that is,
it's direct."
– Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. Pollock was best known for his unique style of drip painting, never making contact with the canvas. This method has inspired many to try to do their own 'Pollock', more to honor than to copy.
Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and was infamous for his notoriety. The major artist of his generation and a recluse, with an erratic personality. He was more than an alcoholic. I conjecture, he suffered from shifting moods. Hypothesis: he was always skating on the edge of bipolar. At least, that is the appearance. Knowing inside what happens outside, I would say the alcohol was a way of self-medicating to remove the haunting darkness.
In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became his grounding force. She tried to go with what he needed but his temper was hurtful and cutting; and during his life while married to Krasner, the most difficult behavior for her to bear was his involvement with younger women. So when he wasn't being a good husband and friend, he was like Greta Garbo, "I want to be alone" or I need to escape from everything. All the while, I would expect, he thought most about getting back to work while feeling he was always being pulled away from it. His soul needed to express what poured forth from the creative forces all around him. He needed to paint.
***In August 1949, Life Magazine ran a leading headline that invoked the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" Already famous in the New York art world, Pollock's artistic reputation was widely known. He was American's first "Art Star"—with his daring and radical style of painting continuing to change the path of modern art. Pollock was tormented. It plagued the artist throughout his life. I would estimate his tortured soul was driving him toward his obsessive need to paint, a way to express what communed with his soul. It helped orchestrate his wildly passionate innovative art—but still the darkness haunted him. He struggled with self-doubt; and became engaged in a lone battle between needing to express himself and shutting out the world. Pollock was in a downward spiral. It threatened to destroy the grounding his marriage provided with Lee Krasner, his gifted career, and ultimately his life. It ended with Pollock wanting to abandon the world in what appeared to be on a calm and clement summer night in 1956.
During one of his drunken episodes while out drinking with some young women, he was feeling wild inside while driving exceedingly fast, the top down. With a liquor bottle in one hand, he intentionally aimed his car off the road, crossing a field into what appeared to be a maze of trees. There was a crash. Pollock was killed. He was only 44. Cause of his death was declared to be an alcohol-related single-car accident when he was driving.
After Pollock's death, there were retrospectives created by MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) and The Tate of London. One four months after his death in December 1956, and then some forty years later in 1998 and 1999. His paintings sell now in the nine figures, ex. $140,000,000 for one painting in a relatively recent acquisition. It's amazing how artists reap the riches for the wealthy investor, whether they enjoy the works they purchase, it really is an investment to appreciate their already obscene fortunes. And we, as a government in the USA [the RePubs], deign to support the arts, wherever they should be found. How screwed up is that? Let the artist suffer. The art will be improved. The message is clear the artist, whether painter, poet, writer, film maker or other forms of art (there are so many forms in which to express art). It scares the shit out of those who think they are the power center. Power is their illusion. The artist, inside, sees the truth, even if it's not always clarified in the beginning. Meaning grows with its filtering in the minds of those who can see or try to see. Eventually the light shines upon its ever changing interpretations of Truth. – j.kiley


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Augustana Peace Prize Forum scholars Thad Titze (Watertown, S.D.) and Michael Seeley (Spencer, Iowa) were in Oslo, Norway, during last week's terror attacks. In an interview with KELO-TV, they recalled the experience and recounted what life has been like in the shaken city since.
Tracy Riddle, Associate Dean of Students, Dies at 54
"Today we mourn the loss of a dear friend and colleague who touched the lives of countless students, families, faculty and staff members with her passion for life, tenacious spirit and gentle compassion," said Rob Oliver, president. A memorial service and celebration of Riddle's life is planned for 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 26, at Augustana's Chapel of Reconciliation.
Augustana Announces Opportunities to Host International Students
As more than 60 new international students get set to start classes here in the fall, Augustana is seeking Sioux Falls-area families who are interested in learning about new cultures, languages, traditions, faiths and global perspectives to participate in a pair of welcome programs for students from other countries.
Alexander-Alton Article Published in National Physics Journal
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Augustana's Northlanders Jazz Band to Perform at JazzFest
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Tupper Honored by Campus Law Enforcement Association
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Forums to Discuss Energy, Vision, Confessions and Border Control
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Four Receive Sophomore Honors Awards
Rising juniors Kimberly Homan, Hannah Kuelbs, Brennan Olson, and Erika Zetterlund have been selected to receive the prestigious Sophomore Honors Award, an honor that recognizes outstanding achievement, scholarship and character.
Undergraduate Research Participation Jumps 54 Percent
This summer, 92 Augustana students are working alongside faculty members and mentors throughout the U.S., exploring and researching everything from platelet-biogenesis to the impact of ultrafast laser pulses on molecular fragmentation – an increase of 54 percent from last year.
Augustana Finishes Third in Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Standings
Augustana has finished third in the 2010-11 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings, a program best and the year's highest finish for an NSIC institution. During the 2010-11 season, the College also won the U.S. Bank/NSIC All-Sports Award and captured seven conference crowns.


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By @les (on 14/07/2012 @ 11:07:19, in Recordings)
We continue our collaboration with Simone Stella, now with the monumental edition (in six albums) of the complete organ works by Dietrich Buxtehude. Simone is definitely at home with both this incredible variety of music and the king of the instruments, the organ. His rich choice of colours gives extra value to the just unexceptionable rendition which is also fresh, rhythmic, solar...
The recording is 100% natural, with no additional effect added, nor equalisation. The sound gives the right detail and balance to the instrument without being too dry. In a word: a great collection!
È online il bando del concorso pianistico organizzato dal pianista Gianluca Luisi che si svolgerà dal 29 agosto al 2 settembre nella cittadina di Osimo (Ancona).
Il concorso è aperto a molteplici categorie dai bambini agli adulti; il bando è consultabile qui. Da quest'anno la partecipazione sarà internazionale con varie giurie a seconda delle categorie.
I premi sono interessanti e avrò l'onore di essere ospitato fra la giuria.
I pianoforti saranno offerti dalla ditta Fabbrini di Pesaro.
By @les (on 03/03/2012 @ 10:49:46, in Press releases)
Ecco il recente articolo a cura di Franco Fayenz apparso sulla rivista Amadeus (Marzo 2012 N. 268). Ne riportiamo un breve estratto.
Il disco può essere acquistato ora anche fisicamente facendone richiesta direttamente alla pagina facebook di Marco Fumo: https://www.facebook.com/marco.fumo (copia e incolla il link sulla barra degli indirizzi).
By @les (on 01/03/2012 @ 09:47:09, in Announcements)
Yes, you may now find our prods of Bustijn and Buxtehude (harpsichord works) on physical support thanks to the international label Brilliant Classics.
They are well known worldwide for applying very low prices on very good musical products. Their vast catalogue (see now Buxtehude) is massively distributed everywhere in shops and internet, both on CD and as "liquid". Now the choice of whether to download the album here or buy it from them is only yours!
We are proud that such an important label has decided to publish our recordings and hopefully this is a good indicator for you to trust our efforts.
The recording of Bustijn, a world first release in a original performance by our founder Alessandro Simonetto, has been recently published at onclassical.com.
The recording attracted the immediate interest of international label Brilliant Classics who acquired the rights in co-exclusive with OnClassical. Since April 2011, in fact, the recording is also part of their catalogue.
In the meantime a first review compares at musicweb-international.com, the prestigious UK review. Musicologist Byzantion Sardegno describes the recording by Alessandro Simonetto as the one to get in spite of (non complete) recordings by Bob van Asperen (Sony Classical Vivarte 46349, 1991), and by Jacques Ogg (Globe 5101, 1993)!
The disc has been nominated as "Bargain of the month" and also obtained the 'Classic' award from the original reviewer's website). We are very proud of it!
The disc may also be downloaded in high quality here.
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Dear customers,
(ZIP files) - OnClassical is currently working to ensure faster album downloads by uploading zip files on our servers. Each file will include all the tracks of an album, so that you will have one file to download rather than many files. Only a few days and our team will be done!
(HD tracks) - Many of our customers are asking to make our master recordings available, rather than CD-quality files. This would be possible, and it was OnClassical's original intention. OnClassical was the first label in Italy to make .wav files available online, so why not be the first label to sell HD tracks? Our current server would allow us to do so, and in the very near future our customers will have some of our hi-fi recordings in 88.2 kHz x 24 bit to download as well.
(Hi-res covers) - Once more, we regret not to have published the cover art-work, but our limited production time only allows us to produce the cover image. However, all covers are made with care by using high quality images purchased within the public domain resources (high resolution images have a cost nonetheless, even when the images are free). For our customer's greater satisfaction, all our covers will soon be available in 1440 x 1440 pixels x 300 dpi (print quality), and will be available as you access each recording's profile.
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We at OnClassical hope that you will enjoy the improvements we have made to our website!
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We continue our collaboration with the organist and harpsichordist Simone Stella, this time with the harpsichord works by Dietrich Buxtehude in four releases. These works, recorded only a few times in the history of music, include the vast majority of the Suites for harpsichord and the six Arias with Variations, plus some minor works and five "manualiter" organ works.
Simone Stella enriches his interpretation with a refined and charming phrasing and a gentle touch. The harpsichord is exploited in all its combinations of registers for a more coloristic variety.
We start from the 4th album. Coming soon Nos. 1, 3, 2.
By @les (on 13/04/2011 @ 09:37:59, in Announcements)
Starting April 2011 all productions signed OnClassical will be distributed in more than an hundred online stores like iTunes, Amazon, Virgin, real, last.fm, emusic, Mondadori, fnacmusic, musicload, MediaMarkt, 7digital, mp3.de, vodafone, AOL, Spiral Frog, InProdicon, beatport, MTunes, Telefonica, Cellfish, Nokia, Deejay store, DR, musicnet, musicmatch, mobiVillage, Napster, Telecom, Rhapsody and many other.
This will be possibile thanks to the partnership signed with one of the largest distributors worldwide.
Latest news!
We are happy to announce that an agreement has just been signed for the licensing of the Complete Opera by Chopin performed by Roberto Poli. The twelve-volume opera will be published and physically distributed by a newborn English label which comes under the artistic direction of the international label, Brilliant Classics.
The first release is scheduled for next April.
Soon new details.
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Count Dooku - Chapter 6
Walkthrough - Count Dooku - Chapter 6
Chapter 6 - Legacy of Terror[edit]
There'll be a locked door ahead, and you need to build two sets of blocks onto it to gain entrance. First look to your left and use the Force to build a colorful staircase. Climb the staircase with a Clone and grapple onto the hook ahead. Run up the new bridge and your morbidly overweight character will make it collapse. Switch to your Jedi and slash the new blocks on the ground. Finally, use the Force to manipulate the loose pieces onto the door. Halfway done!
Next, take your Clone commander and rally up your troops that are hiding in the front-left area. Have them fire at the gold stack of blocks on the right. You'll then be able to use your Jedi to wall jump up to the top.
Once you're at the top, begin by slashing the blocks that are blocking the statue's checkerboard path. The loose pieces will then be jumping with anticipation, so use the Force to place them on the path. Then, Force the statue off the cliff. Slash the remnants of the statue and you'll then be able to Force those on the wall as well. The door should now be unlocked, so head on through.
Run all the way through the hall until you find the cracked wall with a grapple hook. Naturally, you'll need to switch to a Clone and tear that wall down. Continue through and you'll be stopped by another wall. To switch things up, you'll need to take this one down with a Jedi.
Make your way through the next hall until you hit another dead end with a statue. Destroy the items around the purple stand to the right (make sure to throw your lightsaber at the stuff hanging from the ceiling. Then, use the Force to create a replica of the statue to your left. Doing so correctly will open a manhole for you to fall into.
When you land, you'll notice enemies will be spawning from your left and right. You can easily put a stop to this by manipulating the pillars next to their caves. The pillar on the right can be moved with the Force while the pillar on the left can be grappled with a Clone. After plugging both entrances, the wall in the center will crumble and you'll be able to advance.
Run through the hall until you arrive at an open area and trigger a cut scene. Your lightsabers will be taken from you, so you'll need to devise a plan to get them back. (Your lightsaber is your LIFE!) To begin, use the Force to mess with the pillar to the left of Queen-Slug-For-A-Butt. She'll get upset and begin to projectile-poop objects at you. Dodge them until she starts excreting purple ones. When she does, use the Force to move those purple...objects...onto the wall on the right and you'll be able to use them as stairs.
Hop up to the top, face your lightsaber thieves and press the Attack Button. You'll unleash a burst of Force power and you'll be able to retrieve your sword. Next, interact with the Jedi insignia to peel the bark from the tree next to you. You'll be able to break the pillar with the Force, which will upset the Slug-Butt further.
She'll start tossing silver feces at you. As well all know, silver poop explodes, so roll the object to the stack of silver blocks on the left to help damage that wall. You should then have room to perform a wall jump. Interact with the Jedi insignia up top and destroy the resulting pillar like before.
Finally, a Jedi insignia will appear before the slug, so interact with it to get her out of your hair. You're not done yet! You'll need escape before the Death Star explo---before the hordes of enemies catch up to you. Follow the stud trail and continue running until the final cut scene triggers.


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NRA, gun industry aim at same target
WASHINGTON -- The National Rifle Association and the firearms industry are locked and loaded in a mutually beneficial financial relationship that funnels millions into the NRA's coffers, yielding legislative triumphs on Capitol Hill that boost gun sales.
The NRA's "Ring of Freedom" corporate donors list on its contributions website (www.nragive.com) reads like a Who's Who of gun, ammunition and ammunition magazine manufacturers, shooting-accessory providers and retailers.
Among them: Sturm, Ruger & Co., of the Southport section of Fairfield; Smith & Wesson, of Springfield, Mass.; and Beretta USA, a subsidiary of the Italian arms manufacturer.
The website shows that since 2005, corporations have given between $19.8 million and $52.6 million -- the vast majority of that from the firearms industry. Ruger said in a news release in April that it had donated $1.2 million to the NRA in the past 12 months.
An updated corporate donor list appeared on a plaque at the NRA's annual meeting in St. Louis last April. Captured in a photo obtained by the Violence Policy Center, an NRA opponent on gun control, the list includes Colt's Manufacturing Co., of West Hartford, and The Freedom Group Inc., whose Bushmaster plant in Ilion, N.Y., makes the brand of semi-automatic rifle used in the Newtown school shooting on Dec. 14.
Dollar totals for corporate donations on the updated list range between $22.2 million and $63.1 million.
"This program is geared toward your company's corporate interests," the NRA says in an online solicitation to corporate donors titled "The Future of Freedom" and signed by NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.
Dues still represent the lion's share of the NRA's income. In its 2010 tax return, available online, the NRA reported total revenue of $227.8 million, with $100.5 million coming from membership dues and $71.1 million from a catchall category, "Contributions, Gifts, Grants and Other Similar Amounts."
The NRA is hardly alone among membership organizations that seek out alliances with corporations whose interests parallel their own.
But in the wake of rising gun sales and mass killings such as those in Newtown and Aurora, Colo., last July, gun control advocates and others are becoming more vocal in questioning the NRA's motives: Has the 4-million member group shed its traditional identity as defender of Second Amendment rights and promoter of safe firearms use and instruction in favor of a new one as gun-industry political front?
"The bottom line is the NRA is becoming a subsidiary of the gun industry," said Josh Sugarmann, Violence Policy Center executive director and principal author of last year's "Blood Money: How the Gun Industry Bankrolls the NRA."
"The NRA is in bed with the industry for love and money," he said.
Indeed, the NRA's chief lobbyist in 1996, Tanya Metaksa, told the Wall Street Journal: "The gun industry should send me a basket of fruit -- our efforts have created a new market."
NRA Public Affairs Director Andrew Arulanandam did not respond to an email request for comment. But NRA defenders say that links between the NRA and firearms companies are the norm for advocacy organizations and industry players.
"Gun manufacturers are proud of their product," said David Kopel, research director of the Independence Institute in Denver and an NRA member. "They believe they make good product which in the right hands can be wholesome for sporting purposes or life saving in the hands of police. So of course they will give money to organizations that support ownership of firearms by law-abiding persons."
He compared the NRA-industry relationship to book publishers promoting literacy or opposing censorship.
Organizations such as the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife benefit from contributions by companies such as Patagonia, retailers of outdoor apparel and gear. And AARP, which represents the interests of millions of senior citizens, has a lucrative licensing agreement with United Healthcare for Medigap health insurance.
But Sugarmann insisted comparisons to AARP and other organizations are irrelevant because "it's certain their corporate sponsorships are not killing 30,000 Americans a year" -- the number of gun-related deaths in recent years, whether by homicide, suicide or accident.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry's main trade group based in Newtown, has also been active in promoting gun-rights issues. But it only opened a Washington office in recent months.
The group named a Capitol Hill veteran, Patrick Rothwell, in August as its government relations director.
In an interview last summer, NSSF vice president and general counsel called the NRA "the 800-pound gorilla in the room."
So it is hardly a surprise that the NRA has led the charge on Capitol Hill on gun rights versus gun control, yielding a string of mostly victories that coincides with a spike in gun sales.
In the last five years alone, gun and ammunition sales have grown at a rate of 5.7 percent annually, according to a research report by IbisWorld.
Though the NRA lost its battle to block California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein's 1994 assault weapons ban, it was instrumental in seeing that Congress let it expire in 2004.
Other NRA victories that have helped the industry include:
The 2003 Tiahrt amendment, named after former Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kansas. It hampered the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in releasing information on gun traces, making it more difficult for advocacy groups to detect gun-trafficking patterns and link purchases of guns used in crimes to particular gun dealers.
Legislation in 2005 that immunized the gun industry from product liability lawsuits for guns used in homicides and other crimes.
The McClure-Volkmer Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986 loosened restrictions on licensed firearms dealers and unlicensed individuals selling weapons at gun shows, and lowered barriers to interstate sales of guns, as well as ammunition through the mail.
Anecdotally, firearms dealers nationwide have reported a run on weapons by customers fearing new gun control measures in the aftermath of the Newtown shooting. Among the most popular items: The Bushmaster .223 AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, the one used by Adam Lanza in the Newtown shooting before he took his own life.
Gun dealers reported a similar sales spike after President Barack Obama won re-election, an event that LaPierre earlier this year warned would spell the end of "all of what we know is good and right about America."
Kopel said NRA and gun industry fears of gun control are, in fact, justified.
"When someone is trying to destroy you, you have to improve your defensive capability, or you lose," he said.


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A number of interesting points have been brought up by a number of people. Richard has suggested naming the updated version as -outreg2-. This seems like a good idea. If John Gallup ever comes back, as Nick has mentioned, he can pick up where he has left off. I think I understand the program well enough to make small adjustments as necessary. I have worked with parsing and tokens before. I am not offering to do a major overhaul at this point. If you are asking me if I will hold everyone's hand who comes my way, I have not done it before and I probably will not do it like Nick has. I'm not a nice guy like Nick. But I will offer enough support to keep the program going in the near future. The primary reason I have offered to update -outreg- is because no one else has offered to do so, despite the obvious need and the frequent requests to do so during the past couple of years. It might be the Bambi speaking here, but I always thought -outreg- is a nice piece of work. Just like Steve, I like to use it for its ease of use. It's a write-and-forget command that I don't have to worry about. One drawback of -estout- (it's a well-written program, by the way) is requiring the user to actively manage the estimates. The added layer of control let you doing things, but it comes at a cost. The users are required to name each estimate, and then call them up under the -estout- command. I plan on further testing -outreg2- this weekend. If you are interested in helping me with testing (with your own data), please contact me privately and I will email the beta version to you next week. Roy Wada Nick wrote: You've already done the most dangerous and daring thing, tell Statalist that you have gone inside the code of -outreg- and made some tweaks. Now you are the most obvious authority in the Stata community on -outreg-, and it seems to me that the main decision is yours, not anybody else's. Richard wrote: It seems like (a) making a good faith effort to reach the author, or (b) calling it outreg2, would be options. outreg is one of the most downloaded programs, so whoever wrote a new version could be opening themselves up to lots and lots of questions about it, which might be especially bad if you mostly just know the new tweaks and not the old stuff. Steve wrote: While everything that can be done by outreg can also be done by estout, I find one advantage to outreg is that I rarely need to look at the help or syntax diagram when using it. Just "outreg [varlist], using filename [append] [replace]" and some easy to remember options on formatting will get you where you need to go. Since I often use outreg when I am running many regressions to check specifications, there is an advantage to having an easy to memorise command. These days, I then switch to estout to produce my final tables since it gives you more control over the end product. Jann wrote: none. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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Kochs claim no role in efforts to kill health care law
- Koch Industries sent letter to Senate to address %27false information%27 about role in budget stalemate
- Koch%27s top lobbyist said company has not lobbied to tie defunding Obamacare to temporary spending bill
- Heritage Action%2C key group in health care fight%2C received %24500%2C000 from Koch-affiliated group
WASHINGTON — Koch Industries, the conglomerate run by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, has not taken a position on Republican efforts to defund President Obama's health care law as a condition of reopening the government, a top company official said in a letter sent Wednesday to senators.
Company officials believe the 2010 health care law will increase deficits and taxes and "lead to an overall lowering of the standard of health care in America," but they have not "lobbied on legislative provisions defunding Obamacare," Philip Ellender, the company's top lobbyist, said in the letter.
However, the CEO of Heritage Action, a leading group pushing the effort to strip money to pay for the Affordable Care Act from the budget, said Wednesday that his group had received $500,000 from the Kochs. Michael Needham said the donation was not the largest contribution to the organization, and he declined to identify other contributors.
"I'm not going to talk about who my donors are," Needham said at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor. Later, Heritage Action spokesman Dan Holler said the money came from Freedom Partners, a Koch-supported group that handed out $236 million to conservative organizations last year. Its donation to Heritage Action had previously been disclosed on Freedom Partner's IRS tax filings.
Rob Tappan, a Koch spokesman, said neither Koch brother has personally donated to Heritage Action, which does not have to publicly disclose its donors.
Heritage Action, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation think-tank, is part of a coalition of conservative groups that helped craft the legislative strategy that made derailing the health care law a condition of approving a continuing resolution to keep the government running. The group organized activists in nine cities during the congressional recess in August to challenge Republican lawmakers to defund the law as part of any stopgap spending measure.
Wednesday, Needham said addressing the health care law should be a condition of any stopgap spending bill that ends the partial government shutdown that began Oct. 1.
"The only acceptable way out of this is some sort of deal that funds the federal government without funding Obamacare," he said.
He rejected the notion that a repeal of the health law's 2.3% medical-device tax could be an acceptable compromise for conservatives who want dismantle the Affordable Care act. He called it a "laughable suggestion that shows the extent of cronyism going on in this town."
In his letter to the Senate, Koch's Ellender said the company wanted to address "false information" after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took the floor Tuesday to criticize the Kochs. Reid complained about "very rich people in America who don't believe in government" and have used the health care law "as a conduit to shut down the government."
This week, Obama also blamed the shutdown on the influence of deep-pocketed "ideological extremists" who he claims have skewed American politics.
Needham dismissed suggestions that the shutdown was caused by pressure from outside groups.
"The reason that we are currently in a government shutdown over Obamacare is not because we spent a couple hundred thousand dollars on Obamacare," he said. "It's that there are millions of Americans out there who actually stood up and went to town halls and had their voices heard."


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Yu-Gi-Oh! Dungeon Dice Monsters for Nintendo Gameboy Advance/GBA is a Puzzle game published by Konami.
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Release Date: April 16, 2001
Genre : Puzzle
Publisher: Konami
Region : JPN
Languages: Japanese
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Union Pacific Railroad Trains Alert Drivers during Sugar Cane Season
Spring, Texas, September 23, 2013
Union Pacific Railroad engineers will begin sounding train whistles at all railroad crossings between Livonia and Avondale during sugar cane season, an effort that resulted in zero collisions involving trains and sugar cane trucks last year. The precautionary measure begins October 1 and concludes December 31.
The Federal Railroad Administration requires railroads to sound train whistles at all public crossings. Most of the railroad crossings along sugar cane fields lead to private properties, which do not require engineers to sound the whistles.
This is the second year engineers will sound train whistles at all railroad crossings during sugar cane season, which affects Union Pacific's line that runs through southeast Louisiana. The three-month effort includes crossings located in Addis, Plaquemine, Donaldsonville and Luling.
"The number of trucks crossing the tracks increases during sugar cane season and sounding train whistles at these crossings will help us alert drivers of approaching trains," said Roger Lambeth, Union Pacific superintendent - Transportation Services. "We hope the heightened awareness reminds drivers to use caution when they approach the railroad tracks and leads to another safe sugar cane season."
Sugar cane farmers and railroads are a vital part of southern Louisiana's economy. Union Pacific offers the following rail safety tips that can keep drivers and pedestrians safe throughout the year:
- Always expect a train and look both ways before crossing railroad tracks.
- Wait for trains and do not attempt to beat approaching trains.
- Do not stop your vehicle on railroad tracks.
- Avoid distractions such as loud music, texting or talking on cell phones while crossing railroad tracks.
- Pedestrians should cross the tracks only at designated railroad crossings.
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Nathan MacKinnon's new number: 29
Well, I guess Eric Messier won't be getting his number retired, and I guess Matt Hunwick didn't want to give up No. 22.
While I don't know for sure about the latter, Nathan MacKinnon will not wear his former number 22 – currently worn by Hunwick – with the Avalanche his rookie season.
MacKinnon announced on his Twitter feed today that he'll wear No. 29.
The last Avs player to wear that number was Ryan Stoa. Prior to that, Scott Parker wore it for one season, in 2007, and before that, the only other Avs player to wear the number, was Eric Messier.
I'll go out on a limb right now and predict MacKinnon becomes the highest-scoring player in Avs history to wear No. 29 when all is said and done. Then again, maybe he'll get 22 back when/if Hunwick moves on. But for now, get ready to see a lot of the number 29 on the backs of Avs fans soon.
*I forgot one other player who wore No. 29: Daniel Tjarnqvist.


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President Barack Obama summoned congressional leaders to a White House meeting three days before a year-end deadline to avoid $600 billion in spending cuts and tax increases as lawmakers gave little sign they intend to act together on a budget plan.
Obama, who had been negotiating one-on-one with House Speaker John Boehner, will meet Friday with Republicans Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, both Democrats.
The President returned early from his holiday in Hawaii yesterday as lawmakers disputed which party would be responsible for missing the deadline for a debt deal, a failure that could hurt the U.S. credit rating and cause an economic recession. The meeting will be held at 3 p.m. Washington time.
"We'll see what the President has to propose," McConnell, of Kentucky, said on the Senate floor Thursday. "Hopefully there is still time for an agreement of some kind that saves the taxpayers from a wholly preventable economic crisis."
On Capitol Hill, pessimism was the prevailing mood as the deadline for the so- called fiscal cliff approached. The Republican-led House called an unusual Sunday session for the evening of Dec. 30, though the leaders didn't say what action they planned to take.
Markets pared losses following the announcement of the House return on Sunday. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index had fallen as much as 1.3 percent on mounting concern that no deal would be reached.
In today's meeting, Boehner will "continue to stress that the House has already passed legislation to avert the entire fiscal cliff and now the Senate must act," Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said in a statement late yesterday. Senate leaders took to the chamber's floor to accuse the other party of refusing to compromise on legislation aimed at trimming the debt.
"We wanted an agreement, but we got no takers. The phone never rang," said McConnell. "We have nobody to work with, to compromise," said Reid of Nevada. "I don't know time-wise how it can happen now."
If Congress does nothing, taxes will go up in 2013 by an average of $3,446 for U.S. households, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington. Tax filing for as many as two-thirds of U.S. taxpayers could be delayed into at least late March. Defense spending would be cut, and the economy would probably enter a recession in the first half of 2013, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Tax cuts enacted during George W. Bush's presidency are scheduled to expire Dec. 31, though the effects of the higher tax rates and federal spending cuts would accumulate over a matter of months. Congress could reverse them by acting retroactively in 2013. With the calendar closing in, Obama may be aiming for a deal in early January, said Joe Minarik, a budget aide in President Bill Clinton's administration.
If the President "has the sense that there is a deal that can be struck, he will probably try to glide by the end of the year as smoothly as possible and not send any troubling signals," Minarik said. "That would seem to be the best option in terms of the effect on the economy."
Asked whether he expected Obama to push a specific proposal at the meeting, Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said, "He came all the way back from Hawaii, and I'm sure it isn't just to share a cup of tea."
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, who announced plans for the Sunday session, said the House may meet through Jan. 2, the day before the next session of Congress will convene. The House held a brief pro-forma session Thursday although most members weren't in Washington. The House last convened on a Sunday on March 21, 2010, to vote on Obama's health care legislation. The House has met on 16 Sundays since World War II, according to records of the House clerk and historian's offices.
"We are coming back primarily in the hope that we can fix this," said Representative Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican. "The House is waiting on the Senate to act."
Reid said the House should back Democrats' plan to extend tax cuts on income of married couples up to $250,000 while letting the tax cuts expire for income above that level. Republicans oppose raising tax rates on any income level.
The S&P 500 dropped 0.1 percent to 1,418.03 at 4 p.m. in New York, after earlier falling as much as 1.3 percent. Trading in S&P 500 companies was 8.4 percent below the 30-day average at this time of day. The benchmark Treasury 10-year note yield declined two basis points, or 0.02 percentage point, to 1.73 percent at 4:32 p.m. in New York, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices.
"I'm neither optimistic nor pessimistic," Vice President Joe Biden told reporters while leaving the Capitol after swearing in new Democratic Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, who succeeded the late Senator Daniel Inouye.
Obama called Reid, McConnell, Boehner of Ohio, and Pelosi of California late Dec. 26 to receive an update on the negotiations, said Amy Brundage, a White House spokeswoman.
?Obama's administration is considering options on the budget and other expiring legislation such as extended unemployment benefits, Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the second- ranking House Democrat, said at a news conference. The House passed a bill in August that would extend the expiring tax cuts for all income levels, and another bill Dec. 20 to replace the automatic spending cuts with other reductions. The House hasn't addressed some expiring provisions, including a scheduled pay cut to doctors under Medicare and expanded unemployment insurance.
The Senate voted in July to extend income tax cuts for one year for individual income up to $200,000 and income of married couples up to $250,000. During talks with Boehner earlier this month, Obama offered to raise that threshold to $400,000. The U.S. will reach the $16.4 trillion debt limit Dec. 31, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said yesterday. Treasury can take so-called extraordinary measures to finance about $200 billion in deficits in 2013. Typically, that would be enough for two months. Geithner didn't set a specific deadline because of the lack of certainty about tax rates and spending. The Senate bill is S. 3412. The House bills are H.R. 8 and H.R. 6684.
—With assistance from Roxana Tiron, Hans Nichols and Richard Rubin in Washington. Editors: Laurie Asseo, Robin Meszoly


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Meeker Massacre forced Utes from most of Colorado, but the attack was a backlash
Nathan Meeker was meant for greatness. Failure kept getting in the way. A run from shame and a mountain of debt drove him into the White River Valley in 1878 to manage the mountain Utes, so that Meeker, the man who founded the plains town of Greeley, could pay off the daughters of the man who gave the town its name. And after being kicked down and kicked down by disappointment, a man can push too hard if he thinks his chances have run out.
Because of that, Nathan Meeker. in his final attempt at immortality, sealed his place in American history. The Meeker Massacre — America's last major Indian uprising — and provided a violent context to force most of the Utes from Coloado onto reservations in Utah and 12 million acres for settlement, mining and safer passage.
The massacre occurred three miles west of the Rio Blanco County seat that today bears Meeker's name. He and 11 of his men were slaughtered by Utes there, as the Indian agency was torn to pieces. Meeker's wife and daughter, along with other women from the outpost, were taken hostage.
Born in Ohio, Meeker was a 52 years old in 1869 when he came west, giving up his job as agriculture editor of the New York Tribune four years after its publisher, Horace Greeley, wrote an editorial popularizing the quote, "Go west, young man, and grow up with the country."
With Greeley's financial and editorial support, Meeker lured 700 share-holding settlers to the Union Colony, a Utopian religious farming cooperative that showcased the albeit expensive potential for irrigation ditches on the Colorado territory's arid plains. "Meeker worked tirelessly on the project, but lacked administrative skills," notes the Denver Public Library, which holds a collection of Meeker's correspondence from the 1870s. "Although Greeley invested heavily in the colony, Meeker could not make it a financial success."
When Greeley died by the end of November after losing his wife, control of his newspaper and the presidential election in 1872, his daughters called in loans their father had made to Meeker, about $1,000. Rather than declare bankruptcy for a third time in his life, Meeker, who had little, if any, experience with native Americans, sought an appointment as the Indian agent to the White River Ute reservation in 1878, when he was 61 years old. The job paid $1,500 a year and offered other money-making benefits. His wife, Arvilla, operated the agency store, and their daughter, Rose, became the agency's school teacher.
Connections, not qualifications, helped Meeker land the appointment as the Indian agent for the Utes at the White River Agency in 1878. He was 61, and it's believed the Bureau of Indian Affairs granted the request largely because Meeker's son, Ralph, was a journalist for the New York Herald who had exposed corruption in the bureau and embarrassed the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, who had defeated Greeley in the 1872 presidential race. (Twelve days after his father's death, Ralph Meeker was appointed a special agent to Colorado by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and paid a $3 per day per diem to come to the state and settle his father's affairs.)
The Utes saw Nathan Meeker as an authoritarian figure who followed the suffocating presence of white mountain men, miners and settlers who put up fences and poisoned streams that weren't theirs to spoil. Meeker was determined to leave his mark by turning the Utes from warriors, hunters and gatherers into Christian farmers and cattlemen, despite his naked disdain for them.
"They are savages, having no written language, no traditional history, no poetry, no literature . . . a race without ambition, and also a race deficient in the inherent elements of progress. Vermin abound on their persons," Meeker wrote in an article published in the American Antiquarian newsletter, an article that helped seal his appointment as Indian agent, according to author Peter R. Decker in in his 2004 book, "The Utes Must Go!": American Expansion and the Removal of a People."
Meeker got off to a bad start, locating the agency headquarters in a lush valley along the White River known as Powell Park, a special site to Utes, who had pastured, bred and raced their prized ponies there for generations. But the Utes stubbornly refused to give up hunting and fishing for farming and cattle, despite Meeker denying violators their government food rations, Meeker saw the horse-racing track as a symbol of their defiance and made his last, fatal mistake when he plowed under the track for farm rows in September 1879.
"This argument appears to be the final insult as far as the Indians were concerned, as their ponies were their wealth and they believed the reservation was theirs," according to the Rio Blanco County Historical Society. "The Utes, were further upset because Meeker sent a telegram to Washington D.C. and they could not get Meeker to tell them the content of the message."
Meeker's telegram stated he had been insulted, assaulted and forced out of his home by the Ute Chief Douglas, before he was rescued by his employees. It is not clear whether any of that was true. Nonetheless, Meeker called in the army to deal with the troublemakers (though the approaching army's intention was to relieve Meeker of command).
Outraged, Chief Douglas and a group of warriors killed Meeker and his men on Sept. 29, 1879. Meeker's wife and daughters were taken hostage in the war path, and the Utes ambushed Major Thomas Thornburgh and his troops at Milk Creek 25 miles north of Meeker. Thornburgh and nine of his men were killed. The Indians eventually fled when Buffalo Soldiers and hundreds of cavalry from Wyoming arrived and outnumbered them.
In the meantime, peaceful Ute Chief Ouray interceded on the hostages' behalf and they were surrendered peacefully on Grand Mesa 23 days after the massacre. The Utes' fate was sealed, however.
Ten weeks after the massacre, Rose Meeker wanted more than land. She wanted bloody vengeance.
And there, in his death, Nathan Meeker managed his most personal failure. He had come west to be a social reformer and a Christian missionary; he opposed capital punishment.
"Now we Colorado people are getting somewhat tired of this farce," Rose Meeker wrote to in a letter to editor of the Denver Tribune on Dec. 17, 1879. "And we invite the miners, the 'cow boys' and all other good people to see to it that these Indians never leave Colorado soil alive by simply putting a rope necktie around the necks of each, which is to fit close and snug, thereby relieving these murderers and their fiends at Washington of any further anxiety."
The history of Colorado and the West is paved with the failures of Nathan Meeker.


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