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When the Pentagon Papers were leaked in 1971, Richard Nixon initially wasn't all that concerned.
But that was before Secretary of State Henry Kissenger complained to the president that the leaks were compromising secret negotiations with the North Vietnamese.
And that could've jeopardized Nixon's re-election.
Dean says this is when Nixon began ordering break-ins. Dean learned about one such plan from an underling who had just come to him from former White House Counsel Chuck Colson's office.
"And he said, 'Chuck had asked me to firebomb the Brookings Institute.'"
"I said, 'What?'"
"He said, 'He thinks I should firebomb the Brookings Institute. When the fire department is responding it'll be a diversion. And I'm to send a safecracker in to break into the safe at the Brookings and get out the Pentagon Papers.'"
Dean thought the plan was absurd. And he also knew there was no point arguing with Colson. So he went straight to his superior and top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman.
"He was in San Clemente, I jumped on the next plane, flew out there, told him of this," Dean said. "And he simply picked up the phone, called Chuck Colson, and said, 'Young Counsel Dean is out here, doesn't think the Brookings plan is a very good one, Chuck. Cancel it.' Turned to me and said, 'Anything else, Counselor?' I said, 'No, that'll handle it.'"
As it turned out, Colson wasn't the originator of the idea.
"It isn't until years later when the tapes come out," Dean says, "That I learn the order for the break-in really came from Richard Nixon, who is at one point literally pounding on the desk, saying, 'I want a break-in! I want it yesterday, nobody's exercising, nobody's following through.'"
Dean's adamant that Nixon didn't directly order the Watergate break-in. But he also says that outbursts like that made it clear to the staff what was expected.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days (1976)
John Dean, the President's former counsel had been fired on April 30 and was now busily leaking stories all over Washington about the Watergate scandal. Some of them hinted that the President was involved in the cover-up. Dean seemed to have some record of White House misdeeds; he told Judge John Sirica that he had removed certain documents from the White House to protect them from "illegitimate destruction". Dean had put them in a safe-deposit box and given the keys to the judge. The New York Times, also citing anonymous informers, said that one of its sources "suggested that Mr. Dean may have tape-recorded some of his White House conversations".
William Sullivan, The Bureau: My Thirty Years in Hoover's FBI (1979)
"I suppose the Kennedys did that kind of thing with Hoover," Dean said. I told him truthfully that the Kennedys had been so wary of Hoover that they never used the FBI at all if they could help it. Dean didn't look as if he believed me. "What about Johnson?" he asked quickly.
Once again I answered truthfully. "Compared to Lyndon Johnson," I told him, "the current administration is spartan in its use of the FBI." Dean's tongue was practically hanging out of his mouth as I talked. I couldn't tell him about every one of Johnson's illegal uses of the FBI-DeLoach was the one who could - but I could tell him enough. I told him about the FBI surveillance I'd helped to set up on Madame Chennault. I told him how Johnson had praised Hoover and the FBI for keeping tabs on Bobby Kennedy at the Democratic convention in Atlantic City by tapping Martin Luther King's phone. I told him about the behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing done by LBJ, Abe Fortas, and Deke DeLoach after Walter Jenkins was arrested in Washington, and I told Dean that Johnson had asked the FBI to dig up derogatory information on Senator Fulbright and other Democratic senators who had attacked Johnson's policies. Of course, the FBI wasn't chartered to do that kind of work, but Hoover loved to help his friends - and those he wished were his friends.
Dean asked if I would write a confidential memo for "White House use only" detailing some examples of previous illegal political use of the FBI. He didn't tell me, and I certainly never guessed, that Dean would give the "confidential information I'd supplied to the Watergate prosecutors. I did realize, though, that I could be heading into stormy waters, so I told Dean I'd send the memo, but that I'd only write about events that I would be willing to testify to publicly. Dean readily agreed.
Then he sat back in his chair and said, "I'd like you to write a second memo after you've done that one. I'd like to pick your brains. You've been around Washington for years, and I'd like your opinion on how we should cope with the situation we have with the Plumbers."


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Right before the 27th Sao Paulo Biennial in 2006 the president of the biennial foundation, Manoel Francisco Píres da Costa censors SUPERFLEX by forbidding the curators from displaying the Guaraná Power soft drink as well as any references to the product. In order to bring attention to the struggle of the guaraná farmers, SUPERFLEX responded by self-censoring the label even more. SUPERFLEX not only removed the name of the product but added a black strikethrough on all text in the biennial reader related to SUPERFLEX and the project. In addition a huge Guaraná Power party was held the day before the biennial opening and the soft drink was distributed in the park outside the biennial building during the opening. In 2003, SUPERFLEX initiated a collaboration with a guaraná farmers' cooperative from Maués in the Brasilian Amazon in order to produce the Guaraná Power soft drink. The farmers have organised themselves in response to the activities of the multinational corporations XxXxx and XxxxxXx, a cartel whose monopoly on purchase of the raw material has driven the price paid for guaraná seeds down by 80% while the cost of their products to the consumer has risen.
Graphic design by Rasmus Koch.
Tuesday, October 3, 2006 Filed under: Art, Press release, Brazil , Press release from SUPERFLEX regarding their participation in the27th Sao Paulo Binnial: The Art work that Brazilians are not allowed to see at the Sao Paulo biennial The President of the Bienal Foundation, Manoel Francisco Píres da Costa censors an international well-known art piece for the Brazilian audience. SUPERFLEX was invited by the group of curators of the 27th Bienal of São Paulo to show their work and, in particular, was asked to present their internationally known work XXXXXXX XXXXX - a social and political work that deals with the curatorial concept of this biennial, "how to live together". However, the president of the Bienal Foundation, Manoel Francisco Píres da Costa, annulled the invitation made by the group of curators to show this particular work. Mr Píres da Costa stated that XXXXXXX XXXXX is not a piece of art but "a product whose foremost aim is commercialism" and therefore cannot be shown at the biennial. According to the definition of Píres da Costa, the work XXXXXXX XXXXX is not considered "artistic activity" and goes against the "purposes foreseen" in the laws of the foundation. The use of the word "guaraná" was even prohibited, arguing that it could upset possible "third party interests". "We have, however, not been able to get a clear answer as to which third party interests mr. Costa refers to and how those are linked to the biennial", says SUPERFLEX "It's a contradiction that the president of the biennial censors a political work that was originally created in Brazil and deals directly with a local, political and social conflict", says SUPERFLEX. XXXXXXX XXXXX has been shown at numerous important art institutions and international biennials. The work was first shown at the Venice Biennial in Italy in 2003 and has later been shown at, among other art institutions, the Stedeljlik Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Kiasma, Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki, Finland. The work has been discussed and critiqued in several art magazines and books around the world. The work XXXXXXX XXXXX uses global brands and their strategies as raw material for a counter-economic positioning. XXXXXXX XXXXX reclaims the Maués guaraná plant as a powerful natural tonic, not just as a symbol of a brand name. The XXXXXXX XXXXX softdrink is produced by a guaraná farmers cooperative in Maués in the Brazilian Amazon, in collaboration with The Power Foundation. The farmers have organized themselves in response to the activities of the Brazilian and multinational corporations XXXXX and XXXXXXX, whose xxxxxxxx xxxx position on the purchase of the raw material has driven the price of guaraná berries down 80%, while the income from the end products to the consumer has risen. XXXXXXX XXXXX contains original Maués guaraná for energy and empowerment. Although being censored from the São Paulo Bienal by Mr. Píres da Costa, a new version of XXXXXXX XXXXX is being produced in collaboration with Galeria Vermelho. It will be available for free for tasting at numerous events in Brazil during the coming months. But not at the biennial. "The censorship of XXXXXXX XXXXX is a censorship against the social and economic reality we all live in. Even presidents have to face reality." – Says SUPERFLEX Due to the ban by the President of the 27th São Paulo Bienal, SUPERFLEX will show three other works that confronts issues of copyrights, trademarks and intellectual property and the power embedded in these laws and how they affect society.
Author: Will Bradley, 2003

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Al Pacino's got a high-stakes poker game coming up – with Jack Kevorkian.
"He's invited me to Detroit to play poker. For Jack, I think I'll go do it," Al told Access Hollywood at the premiere of HBO's "You Don't Know Jack" on Wednesday.
In the television original movie, Al Pacino transforms uncannily into the doctor, without having ever even having met the real-life Jack. The pair finally came face to face on Tuesday, just before the premiere.
"I spent time just absorbing him," Al said of his preparation for the role, which illuminates the private life of the physician once dubbed "Dr. Death" for his role in a number of physician-assisted suicides. "It just shows you sometimes how … some people don't understand how to be in the public eye, how to deal with media and cameras, but [in this film], with a guy like Jack, you know him longer, you get a sense of who he is. He's totally funny and self-deprecating. Big-time smart."
And a big-time poker player, as the doc himself told Access.
"Anybody who plays poker can't be all bad," Dr. Kevorkian said of Al, noting that they'd be playing soon. "We will, in the future!"
As for Al's performance, Jack was impressed.
"It's unbelievable, I was shocked," he said.
"You Don't Know Jack" premieres on HBO on April 24.
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1 cup brown rice flour
1/2 cup + 2 tbsp sweet rice flour
1/4 cup rice bran
2 tbsp finely ground flaxseed
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup warm water
1/2 tbsp agave, or honey
1. Combine the dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Combine warm water and honey/agave in a measuring cup and add to dry mixture. You may need to add more sweet rice flour, use your judgement but also remember that it will absorb flour while rolling.
2. Heat a skillet to medium and add oil, distribute evenly with a spatula or heat-proof pastry brush. When oil is hot, turn down heat to low and wait about 7 minutes until the temperature stabilizes. Also have a plate beside the stove (you'll know why later).
3. Sprinkle sweet rice flour over a clean countertop, wet your hands with some warm water, rip off a small piece of the dough and knead it in your hands until it becomes nice and doughy, then form into a disc, sprinkle some more sweet rice flour on top. Roll as thinly as possible. Using a spatula, lift the dough off of the surface CAREFULLY, while also using your hands, put it in skillet.
4. Cook for 2 minutes or until golden brown on the one side. Using spatula, lift off of skillet and put on empty plate. Add more oil and brush with pastry brush to evenly coat. Put tortilla back in pan this time on the other side. Cook until golden brown or when you think it is sufficiently cooked through.
5. This is important: put cooked tortilla immediately into a large ziploc bag (this allows it to steam and become soft), as you make the tortillas add each one to this ziploc bag and this is how you can store them. The tortillas should stay in the bag for at least a few hours so they can really moisten up. You may notice that one side may be crackly, if you are using this for a wrap, roll with this side facing inside. Makes 8 tortillas.
|A wrap of avocado and tomato, you can see how flexible the tortillas are, not your ordinary gluten-free wrap!


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My second card today is one I created for Stamper's Dream. It also is my card for CPS Sketch #206 {which you are totally getting an early preview of because it won't be on the CPS blog until later this week}, and I used the color challenge CR84FN16 {light pink, medium violet, gray}. I added a neutral via vintage cream to make the card come together for me!! Here is what I created:
Can I just tell you how much I love that sentiment? And paired with the softness of the colors....{sigh}. It just warms my heart a little. Speaking of...I think I am going to go make a cup of hot cocoa and get a few more projects done. It is snowing, yet again...and I am feeling a little chilly. Might be time to throw on a sweatshirt too. I hope your day has been going well!! ♥♥♥


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Doc, Ryan Lead Sweep
Doc wasn't his sharpest but great pitchers bend but don't break. Ryan committed two errors in the first inning but doubled that in RBI and the Phillies left Denver with a three-game sweep.
For some reason, hitters starting an inning get on base against Doc, six times in his seven innings. That seems to happen quite often with him. What doesn't often happen, they don't score. Phillies are 19-4 in Doc's 23 starts this season.
Ryan is swinging a hot bat, .333 in last 12 games with six homers and 13 RBI. The Big Piece can certainly carry a club. His home run was the first off a LH pitcher this season.
Winning a four-game series means taking three games. That's not easy. And, it won't be in SF where the Phillies open a four-gamer against the Giants on Thursday night. Phillies haven't done well in ATT&T Park, 14-24.
With Madson away from the team and about to become a daddy for the fourth time, Brad got his first save opportunity. He went 1-2-3 for his 100th save with the Phillies, the fourth ever to reach that number: Mitch Williams (102), Steve Bedrosian (103) and Jose Mesa (112).
Dallas Green turns 77 today . . . Saturday's game will be a FOX national telecast . . . Phillies Insider climbed five spots to #25 among the MLB Blogs. Thanks for reading and not falling asleep . . . From the Daily News today: Phillies are 112-56 since August 1, 2010.
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Lehigh Valley was not scheduled . . . Reading wound up in a 1-1 game suspended after 8 innings by rain. RHP Austin Hyatt fanned 12 in innings, 3 hits, 1 run . . . Clearwater was also not scheduled . . . Lakewood scored 3 in the top of the 9th for a 3-0 win in Delmarva. OF Anthony Hewitt hit a 2-run homer (12th) and stole his 31st base . . . Williamsport was edged at Brooklyn, 3-2. CF Aaron Altherr, his 4th home run and 2nd in last 2 games . . . Gulf Coast League Phillies lost, 9-7, to Blue Jays. SS Carlos Valenzuela had 2 hits, boosting team-high average to .339.
Citizens Bank Park Numerology
Since the opening of the Phillies new home in 2004:
25,000,000+ Fans attending regular season games
3,878,238 Hot dogs sold
2,963,873 Bottles of water sold
2,274,600 Rally towels, regular season and postseason
1,886,552 Cheesesteaks sold
1,125,551 Peanuts sold
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125,956 Citizens Bank Park tours attendance
1,210 Times the grass was mowed
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3 NL East clinching victories
2 World Series
1 NLCS clinching victory . . . World Series championship
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The Friends of Westonbirt Arboretum charity supports Westonbirt, the National Arboretum with its 18,000 trees and 600 acres of woodland. Our vision is of a long and sustainable future of the site, for the good of the environment and people, with the mission to raise funds to support the arboretum, working alongside the Forestry Commission. Our membership scheme and fundraising projects fund ongoing maintenance and new developments, helping the arboretum to thrive.
Westonbirt Arboretum not only benefits local residents environmentally and as an educational resource, but also performs both national and international benefits such as training expert arborists and dendrologists who will help care for forests and woodlands across the UK, as we embark in climate change research for a broader environmental understanding.
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Marah runs regular Drop-ins at lunch times on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday in Stroud. We serve about 40 to 50 two course meals on Mondays and Wednesdays and give out hot toasties on Saturdays. All this is much appreciated by the clients who often ask for take-aways to cover the rest of the week.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cancellation of a security cabinet session on Iran following a media leak last week laid bare a conundrum long troubling Israeli strategists: could they count on any element of surprise in a war on their arch-foe?
Possibly not. Years of public speculation, much of it stoked by official statements in Israel and abroad, about the likelihood and timing of such a conflict have afforded the Iranians plenty of notice to fortify their threatened nuclear facilities and prepare retaliation.
Given the difficulties Israel's jets would face in reaching and returning from distant Iran, as well as their limited bomb loads, losing the option of mounting sneak attacks may seem to have put paid to the very idea of an attack launched without its ally the United States.
Yet experts are not rushing to rule that out. Some believe Israel is still capable of achieving a modicum of surprise, and that in any case it might hope a combination of stealth, blunt force and, perhaps, hitherto untested innovations can deliver victory - even if Iran is on high alert.
Israel, whose technologically advanced military has a history of successful derring-do, might place less importance on catching Iran completely off-guard and instead strike openly and with combined forces, causing disarray among the defenders in hope of delivering enough damage to a select number of targets.
"The probability of achieving surprise is low, but I think the Israelis will count on their technical competence in defense suppression to allow them in," said Walter Boyne, a former U.S. air force officer and a writer on aviation history.
He predicted the Israelis would mesh air raids with a swarm of strikes by ground and naval units, a view echoed by Lynette Nusbacher, senior lecturer in war studies at Britain's Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. She suggested Israel could also incorporate cyber-attacks to blind Iran as an assault began.
"There is no question that Israel can achieve tactical surprise if required," Nusbacher said, differentiating the short-term shock from Iran's long readiness for an attack.
"As long as the direction or timing or form of the attack is unexpected then surprise is possible."
Israel and its Western allies believe Iran is covertly seeking means to build nuclear weapons, while Tehran insists it wants only to generate electricity and medical isotopes. U.S. President Barack Obama says he hopes sanctions and diplomacy will deflect Iranian policy. But Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders have made clear they might soon resort to force.
Nusbacher indicated that pinpoint intelligence and planning might also help Israel overcome Iran's anticipation and counter-measures, making up for limitations on the element of surprise:
"Remember that while the Iranian nuclear facilities are each more or less defended, their locations are known to the meter," she said. "Precision can't entirely make up for surprise.
"But surprise isn't everything."
Israeli military planners chafe at their civilian compatriots' freewheeling and jittery discourse about a possible confrontation, worried that the Iranians could glean key warnings simply from monitoring Israeli news and social media.
If they do indeed contemplate a solo surprise attack, they may also be concerned that the United States, loath to see a war on the eve of a presidential election and while it still favors a diplomatic solution, could also be tipped off about a strike early enough to insist its Israeli ally stand down.
There were no such problems in 1981, when a squadron of Israeli fighter-bombers took off from the then-occupied Sinai desert to destroy Iraq's atomic reactor, nor in 2007, when Israel launched a similar sortie against Syria out of the blue.
By contrast, experts think Israel would need to dispatch many scores of jets and support aircraft against Iran, and possibly fire ballistic missiles, all difficult to hide from the public in a small country.
Though a media blackout would be allowed under Israeli emergency laws, such sudden and sweeping censorship would be so unprecedented as to telegraph what was meant to go unpublished - and in any event may prove impracticable in today's wired world.
Nonetheless, some other measures could limit exposure, such as choice of timing. The war on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip was launched on December 27, 2008, deep in the Western holiday season and on a Saturday morning, the Jewish sabbath, when Israel's own media pare coverage to a minimum and newsrooms are barely staffed.
Israel is also trying to restrict the circle of those in the know. The number of those privy to the details of Iran planning in the military and government has been kept very small, a depth of secrecy akin to that surrounding Israel's own nuclear program, which is assumed to include the region's only atomic weapons.
Netanyahu would be legally required to gain security cabinet approval for an attack on Iran. But after a newspaper reported on Wednesday that ministers on the panel had been presented with conflicting intelligence assessments about Iran, a leak that angered Netanyahu, at least one senior leader, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, called for the 14-member security cabinet to be shrunk in order to ensure more discretion.
For similar ends, Israel may go so far as to temporarily misdirect its own populace, away from talk of imminent attack.
Days before the Gaza blitz, Ehud Barak - defense minister then, as now - made an unusual and unannounced live appearance on a top-rated TV satire show, where he took a roasting with good humor and made sure to give every impression that starting a war could not be further from his mind.
In another deliberate feint intended to wrongfoot the gossips, Israeli generals summoned officers from garrisons around Gaza to a weekend retreat, with their families, at a countryside spa. All but the most senior of those invited commanders were then surprised to be woken up, that Saturday morning, and dispatched back to base for combat within hours.
Asked about such ruses, a senior Israeli official shrugged and told Reuters they were a legitimate tactic for military planners dealing with a democratic society: "Such things are kosher," he said, "when you have a free press and free speech."
And while certainly not advocating the kind of extensive public discussion seen lately in Israel on the prospects for a conflict, the same official saw a counter-intuitive benefit in that such perpetual talk might erode Iran's level of alertness:
"The more you brace to defend yourself, the more tired you get - or you make the mistake of writing off the threat as a bluff," he said. "Perhaps that's the case with Iran."
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Five years ago, a little Santa Cruz video on a bike web site debunked every skeptic's fear about the long-term durability of carbon fiber bicycle frames. Now we are doing the same for wheels. Santa Cruz Reserve wheels are built on the highest quality carbon rims on the market. Our confidence in the design and strength of our wheels is backed up by a lifetime warranty, just like our frames.
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We never want to miss a ride, and when you travel to remote places, it's impossible to bring a backup for everything, or all the special tools for all the different parts. We've always taken great pains to use readily-available, standard parts on our bikes, and our rims are no different. J-bend spokes, mechanical-lock nipples (that you can access without taking the tire and rim strip off), and hubs from DT Swiss and Industry Nine make building good wheels easier for us, and maintaining the wheels or finding spares a lot easier for you.
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text: I received this book from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.Spoilers and swearing follow.It has been a while since a book has earned a not so coveted position on my wtf is this shit shelf However, this book earned it by around page 30 In fact, the only reason I didn t DNF this book was train wreck syndrome A part of me kept hoping that it would get better de la Cruz is such a prolific writer that this book can t be this bad is what I kept telling myself Oh, my friends, it is that bad I ended up skipping about 60 pages in this book trying to spare my sanity , AND I MISSED NOTHING Literally I was able to figure out everything that I had skipped in about 10 pages Let s talk about why this book is horrible, shall we 1 It has ridiculously inconsistent characterization Shadow acts one way for half the book, then she magically changes into like an entirely different person No rhyme, no reason Her personality just changes on whims Cal, on the other hand, has zero personality Even in the chapters he narrates, there s nothing You could replace the character with a piece of wood and no one would notice the difference 2 So, this book is told in alternating perspectives Which I love I love knowing how both or multiple characters are feeling or what they are thinking What doesn t work is the fact that Shadow s chapters are told from first person POV and Cal s chapters are told from third person POV It is very jarring to immerse yourself in one character s thoughts or feelings and then to turn the digital page and suddenly be referring to the character de chapitre by their damn name Every time it happened, I was thrown out of my reading headspace and had to re acclimate myself And it happened a lot.3 The huge plot twist at the end of the novel Isn t a plot twist for anyone who s read a YA fantasy in the last 5 years Also, comparing this book to Maas work is an insult of the highest caliber 4 The love story between Shadow and Cal just doesn t work They have zero chemistry together Honestly, the story would have been a lot better it not be included and let these two be epic bffs or something 5 There s just something off about the entire novel The pacing is super weird ridiculously fast in some spots and then maddeningly slow in others There s random inserts of history and stories about Renovia in the middle of the novel that really throw off the pace really, de la Cruz, you couldn t have figured out a better way to work those in This book just doesn t work I know I m one of the first negative reviews on this book as it doesn t get published for another 6 months, but I know I won t be the last Look, I love cheesy YA fantasy love stories But there are better ones out there Save yourself the headache and stay far, far away from this one. I was given an advance reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review I think this book started off a bit confusing, but around chapter ten everything started to come together For a little while I didn t think I was going to like this book that much because of how slow it seemed to be going, but all of a sudden I was sucked in I could not put this book down I adored the characters, the world, the romance, and the twists and turns that kept the story so interesting This book was an emotional roller coaster and the end left me on a bit of shaken ground, which is why I am very eager for the next book hoping and assuming there will be one Overall, this is quite possibly my favorite book that I have read this year. THAT COVER I ve been burned by this author a few times so here s just hoping she actually finishes this newest series P Perfect For Fans Of Sarah J Maas And Red Queen, This Is The First Novel In A Sweeping YA Fantasy Romance Duet About A Deadly Assassin, His Mysterious Apprentice, And The Country They Are Sworn To Protect From NYT Bestselling Author Melissa De La CruzCaledon Holt Is The Kingdom Of Renovia S Deadliest Weapon No One Alive Can Best Him In Brawn Or Brains, Which Is Why He S The Guild S Most Dangerous Member And The Queen S One And Only Assassin He S Also Bound To The Queen By An Impossible Vow To Find The Missing Deian Scrolls, The Fount Of All Magical History And Knowledge, Stolen Years Ago By A Nefarious Sect Called The AphrasiansShadow Has Been Training All Her Life To Follow In The Footsteps Of Her Mother And Aunts To Become Skilled Enough To Join The Ranks Of The Guild Though Magic Has Been Forbidden Since The Aphrasian Uprising, Shadow Has Been Learning To Control Her Powers In Secret, Hoping That One Day She Ll Become An Assassin As Feared And Revered As Caledon HoltWhen A Surprise Attack Brings Shadow And Cal Together, They Re Forced To Team Up As Assassin And Apprentice To Hunt Down A New Sinister Threat To Renovia But As Cal And Shadow Grow Closer, They Ll Uncover A Shocking Web Of Lies And Secrets That May Destroy Everything They Hold Dear With War On The Horizon And True Love At Risk, They Ll Stop At Nothing To Protect Each Other And Their Kingdom In This Stunning First Novel In The Queen S Secret Series As someone who went through middle and high school reading the Blue Bloods series, to see this new book by Cruz waiting for me, I was immediately struck by the need to sit down and read it all the way through Which I absolutely ended up doing, and I don t regret at all Cruz has the innate ability to build a world that you have no trouble believing in, with romances that rock your world You need to see them live happily ever after right from the get go and yet she s prepared to make them suffer along the way in some of the worst ways possible The Queen s Assassin is no different, and honestly you can see how much the rest of her work has built up to this epic fantasy This was only the introduction to this world and this story, and she has so much left to unlock I hope I m reading this series for many years to come, because of how utterly captivating it all is Melissa de la Cruz, you ve snatched me up again, and left me feeling as forlorn and excited as I was every time I finished a Blue Bloods book as a preteen. From the blurband the country they are sworn to protect from 1 NYT bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz You know an author is prolific when people are sworn to protect the public from her. YA fantasy romance a deadly assassin a mysterious apprentice okay, fine, I m ready to be swoon away by this book Finally, a full synopsis, cover and release date D This is a fantasy novel as written by Mojo Jojo It is repetitive, reinstating the same point over and over Moreover, it is inconsistent, jumping POVs within a specific frame and not sticking to a particular point I tried I wanted to like this book assassins are, like, one of my favorite fantasy tropes ever But I think I ll give this book a hard pass I received a free copy of this book from Goodreads Giveaways, probably in exchange for an honest review That s how LibraryThing s giveaways work, so I m assuming this is the same.


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Earthworm casting creates maintenance nightmare
Earthworm casting on the surface of golf-course fairways rapidly is becoming one of the most challenging management issues for superintendents in the Pacific Northwest and other regions of the United States. I know firsthand that many superintendents are losing sleep over the earthworm-casting issue, and some fear losing their jobs as a result of their inability to control casting. Many golfers, club members, greens committees and board members feel the superintendents aren't doing enough to combat the problem.
Casting occurs when earthworms ingest soil and leaf tissue to extract nutrients, then emerge from their burrows to deposit the fecal matter, or casts, as mounds of soil on the turf surface (see top photo, page Golf 4). Extensive earthworm casting on fairways interferes with proper maintenance practices, the playability of the turfgrass and the overall appearance of the fairways. Affected turf can become thin and the playing surface can soften (see top photo, page Golf 6).
Superintendents urgently need management strategies that discourage earthworm casting and population growth, while at the same time maintain soil quality. At Washington State University and Oregon State University, researchers are working to develop a program that golf-course superintendents can use to reduce casting. The aim is to find methods that will reduce initial earthworm populations to a threshold level where the amount of casting is tolerable and to prevent these populations from returning to excessive levels.
Why is earthworm casting occurring? Earthworm populations can reach several million under golf-course fairways, with millions more in the roughs going unnoticed due to higher mowing heights. Unfortunately for superintendents, the basic cultural practices that produce excellent fairway surfaces also create optimal living conditions for earthworms. Earthworms feed on fairway clippings returned after mowing and on organic matter in the soil. They love the consistent, moist, fertile conditions that typically are present in fairway turf. In other words, earthworm casting is not an indication of a superintendent's inability to grow healthy turf. In fact, the opposite is true.
Populations can reach damaging levels on golf courses for several reasons:
* Fairways often are planted on fine-textured soils that receive regular irrigation and nitrogen-fertilizer applications, which provide optimal growing conditions and a continuous food supply for earthworms. * Earthworm activity is greatest when the soil moisture is near field capacity, which just happens to be the ideal moisture level for healthy turfgrass. * The turfgrass canopy also helps provide favorable temperatures by insulating the soil from extreme weather conditions.
Earthworms cast on the surface for two primary reasons. First, after they ingest organic matter, decaying leaf tissue and mineral soil, they must excrete the leftover material. Second, earthworms live in relatively permanent burrows. When soil fills the burrows (often after heavy rains), earthworms ingest the soil and move it up to the surface to perform "house cleaning." Researchers working with earthworms have estimated that they may bring 20 to 25 tons of soil per acre to the surface each year.
"Who" is responsible for the casting problem? More than 200 species of earthworms with varying behaviors and habitat preferences exist in North America. On Northwest golf courses, the primary species include Lumbricus terrestris, Aporrectodea calignosa and A. longa. Most species do not actually deposit casts on the surface. Many excrete material within the soil profile or not at all. Based on field observations, L. terrestris, familiarly known as the night crawler (see photo, page Golf 1), is the earthworm species causing severe casting damage on golf courses throughout the Pacific Northwest and in many other locations across the United States.
Night crawlers typically build permanent vertical burrows that vary in diameter from about 0.125 to 0.5 inch. In certain situations, these can extend up to 12 feet deep in the soil. However, due to regular irrigation and constant food supplies (clippings and other organic matter) on fairways, night crawlers tend to remain closer to the surface, migrating up and down in the soil with fluctuations in moisture content, soil temperature and atmospheric pressure. Peak earthworm activity and casting occurs during the cooler, wetter weather in the spring and late fall through early winter. Earthworms are generally intolerant of drought and frost conditions; they retreat to the bottom of their burrows during extremes in temperature and soil moisture, returning to the surface when conditions improve.
Night crawlers have long lives, with a reported average life span of 6 to 9 years (up to 20). They breed, on average, once every 2 weeks, producing up to 20 offspring with each cycle. Breeding activity is greatest in the cool, moist conditions of spring and late fall, which also results in increased casting activity as they surface to find a mate. Researchers report that one mature night crawler can produce several hundred offspring in one year. The young night crawlers can grow several inches per year and are sexually mature after the first year. Because fairways provide optimal living conditions, unlimited space and a constant food supply, it is easy to see how earthworm populations and casting can get out of control.
Control options for managing casts Currently, no pesticides are registered for controlling earthworms in the United States, which severely limits the ability of superintendents to manage this highly destructive problem.
At Washington State University (Puyallup, Wash.) and Oregon State University, we initiated a series of short- and long-term field studies in the spring of 1998 designed to reevaluate several cultural practices that other research has shown to be detrimental to earthworm activity in other regions of the world. These studies are evaluating soil-chemistry effects, the effects of clipping removal (alone and in combination with spring, and spring + fall, aerification), and sand topdressing at a rate of 0.625 inch of sand per year (alone and in combination with fertilizer treatments) to determine if sand effectively reduces casting.
Several environmental and cultural factors affect earthworm activity, populations, soil distribution and species. The most critical include an adequate food supply, moisture, temperature, soil texture and pH. Researchers have shown that certain cultural factors alter these critical properties so they are less conducive to earthworm activity.
* pH. Many researchers have reported declines in earthworm populations directly related to declining soil pH (increasing acidity). Consistent with this is the fact that earthworms are scarce in soils with a pH of 5.0 or less, and plentiful between 6.5 and 7.0. Thus, ammonium-sulfate fertilizers may be beneficial in this regard by increasing acidity. Similarly, you should avoid using excessive lime.
In the Pacific Northwest, one researcher reported no earthworm activity on plots of creeping bentgrass treated with sulfur. However, it is possible that instead of population reduction, acidity merely shifts species composition to non-casting earthworms that are more tolerant of acid conditions.
* Food. Earthworms feed on organic matter in the soil and decaying clippings returned to fairways after mowing, which provide a practically unlimited food supply. In turf, they often pull leaf clippings down into the mouth of the burrow, where the tissue softens for later consumption. The amount of food in the soil and on the surface can influence earthworm populations. One researcher found that nightcrawlers do not burrow deep into the soil profile if adequate food is available near the surface. Other investigators have reported that rates of casting were reduced when clippings were removed. Thus, it is possible that collecting clippings could reduce earthworm populations.
* Soil texture. Earthworm populations are highest in light- and medium-textured loam soils. Smaller populations occur in both heavy, poorly drained clay soils and coarse, abrasive, sandy soils. Researchers believe that the susceptibility of such soils to drought and the abrasiveness of sand particles can influence both species composition and overall earthworm numbers in the soil.
One researcher has observed that earthworm populations are low in soils that are compacted, puddled, overgrazed or contain heavy clays. Fairways often are established on heavy soils that are more prone to compaction, which forces Lumbricus terrestris to expel the majority of their castings on the surface instead of in the voids within the soil. This probably is one reason we often see more casting in the clean-up areas on the edges of the fairways.
In my own research, after a full year of evaluating soil acidity, clipping removal and sand topdressing, I have not observed a significant reduction in earthworm casting due to variations in these factors. Some authors have reported that the response to various soil factors is not the same for all earthworm species. From my observations, Lumbricus terrestris is a highly adaptable survivor able to persist in a wide range of soil conditions. Thus, I feel it is probable that the species of earthworms present in many of the research projects I mentioned above were not L. terrestris. In addition, most of the above studies required several years of treatment applications before the earthworm reductions were evident, and in most cases the reductions reported typically were only in the range of 20 to 50 percent.
New strategies for reducing earthworm populations To explore novel methods of reducing earthworm populations, we are working with several earthworm-harvesting companies in Washington and Oregon. A large demand exists around the world for the type of earthworm located under golf-course fairways, primarily for use as fishing bait. This demand makes earthworms a fairly valuable commodity. Currently, harvesting the worms involves bringing them to the surface by applying an irritant to the site (see bottom photo, facing page) and handpicking the earthworms when they emerge from their burrows. Obviously, this process is very labor intensive. Thus, we also are attempting to develop efficient methods for superintendents to bring the worms to the surface and remove them by mechanical or handpicked methods. We have currently assessed a core harvester, several turf vacuums and triplex brush units, but with limited success so far.
In evaluating the short- and long-term effects of physical removal, we have found that it significantly reduces casting in the short term, but it does not completely eliminate casts. A methodical, long-term approach of repeated harvests is necessary to continue to see measurable reductions. For example, an 18-hole country club in western Oregon hired a company to harvest all of their fairways in the spring of 1998. The final removal count over a 4-week period was 2.1 million worms. A second complete harvest in the fall produced about 750,000 additional worms. Although this seems like a lot of worms, this site still needs additional harvests to reduce casting to an acceptable level.
Tolerance and education The issue of earthworm casting is one that surfaces over and over again (no pun intended) in pro shops, clubhouses and board and green-committee meetings. Unfortunately, the issue is usually addressed without a complete understanding of the problem. At the heart of the issue is the quality of turf and how casting affects the type of lie a golfer has on the fairways (see bottom photo, page Golf 4). Fairway casting, when severe, can affect the implementation of summer and winter rules, with earlier winter rules initiated in the fall and a later start on summer rules in the spring. The golfers and club members who prefer to "play the ball down" year round tend to be the most vocal about earthworm casting.
For the record, I am an avid golfer. I understand the frustrations associated with soft fairways and thin turf caused by the soil deposits of casting. In addition, as an assistant superintendent at Everett Golf and Country Club in western Washington, I experienced firsthand the challenges of managing earthworm casting.
However, after studying earthworms for the last year and a half, I have gained a great deal of respect for their ability to adapt, survive and persist, even in less-than-optimal environments. Thus, earthworm casting is an issue that inevitably will require some tolerance on the part of golfers. It is unfortunate and unfair that there are superintendents around the country that face so much pressure over earthworm casting that they fear losing their jobs. After all, earthworms prefer the same conditions required to maintain healthy turfgrass.
I cannot over-emphasize that no products or pesticides are specifically labeled to control earthworms. This severely limits the ability of superintendents to manage this problem. Also, in most (not all) regions of the United States that experience heavy earthworm casting, the most severe casting tends to occur in late fall and winter when the recuperative ability of the turf is minimal. Fortunately, the number of rounds during these months typically is lower.
We must remember that earthworms provide far more benefit than harm to the soil/turf environment. The earthworm's burrowing and feeding activity initiates thatch decomposition, stimulates microbial activity, makes certain plant nutrients more available, increases soil aeration and, in general, improves overall soil quality.
Our research project will continue until we are able to develop an Integrated Management System for reducing casting. This is not an easy task. With time, we should have a better picture of how soil acidity, clipping removal, sand topdressing and other strategies affect earthworm casting after multiple years of treatment applications. We also will continue to look at new, untested strategies for earthworm-casting reduction. In the meantime, we must accept that few chemical options exist for earthworm control, and cultural strategies are not well understood. Golfer education and tolerance of casting are necessary for the time being.
Paul Backman is a research associate in turf management at Washington State University (Puyallup, Wash.).
No chemical is registered specifically for earthworm control in turf. However, several frequently used turf chemicals are fairly effective against them. If you incorporate such products into your maintenance regime for registered uses, you can obtain a measure of earthworm control as an added benefit.
Dr. Daniel Potter, an entomologist with the University of Kentucky, has investigated pesticidal effects on earthworms and found that two fungicides provide significant control-benomyl and thiophanate-methyl. Benomyl is no longer available for turfgrass use. However, thiophanate-methyl (available as Cleary's 3336, LESCO's Cavalier, Regal's SysTec and from Scotts under several brand names) is a fungicide that many golf-course operations already routinely use.
In addition, Potter identified two currently available insecticides that are effective against earthworms: bendiocarb (AgrEvo's Turcam) and, to a lesser (but still significant) extent, carbaryl (Sevin). Both of these are widely used products for turf pests. Thus, like thiophanate-methyl, they are easy to incorporate into a turf-management program.
Remember, you must never exceed label rates or apply a chemical to a site or crop not listed on the label. Further, some state regulations may be more restrictive than federal rules, so be sure to read any supplemental state labeling.
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|Two ingredients for the cake, angel food cake and crushed pineapple
|Mix the two ingredients together.
|Pour into a pan that had previously been sprayed with PAM.
|Make sure the batter has been evenly distributed and bake.
|This is what the Pineapple Angel Food Cake looks like when you take it out of the oven.
After I made the Pineapple Angel Food Cake, I decided to top it with 1/2 cup of coconut and a cool whip pudding icing.
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Adapted From: Dogwood Radiance
8 oz Cool Whip Free
1 small box vanilla pudding mix (dry)
In a large bowl, beat together whipped topping, and dry pudding mix until blended. Spread on cake.
Serves: 16; Points+ 3
|This was a new way to make icing, so I was nervous about how it would turn out. However it was delicious!
|Then I spread the icing on top of the cake.
|I topped it with 1/2 cup of coconut.
|For fun I added some mandarin oranges to make it look pretty.
|This cake was so good!
All together the cake with topping had 16 servings; 4 points+ per piece of cake.


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Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Katy Perry, James Franco. Everyone -- even the President of the United States -- has starred in a video for "Call Me Maybe." But there's only one official clip for Carly Rae Jepsen's song of the summer -- and it's up for a Video of the Year MMVA. Ben Knechtel directed it. (The Vancouver-based filmmaker's been behind all of Jepsen's videos -- all the way back to her 2008 clip, "Tug of War.") Here, Knechtel tells Dose.ca about how he made the video that inspired a gajillion lip-dubs.
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Dose.ca: Everybody knows how "Call Me Maybe" has exploded in the last few months. (It's currently No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, some weeks after topping the chart here in Canada.) Has this led to anything new for you, because so many people have seen the video?
Ben Knechtel: It's just cool! I remember calling my mom when it hit a million views on YouTube. I was like, 'Mom! I created something that has a million views!' and now it's nearing a hundred million. It's just really cool to be a part of something that's a pop culture phenomenon, you know?
Dose.ca: I was hoping you could tell me a bit about the idea behind this video. When you started, what kind of concept did you go in with?
BK: When I first heard the song it was last summer, last August, and I knew it was going to be a big song, but obviously, you can't anticipate it blowing up worldwide like it has. But the initial idea was her washing her car, but instead of the usual sexy take on it -- that, you know, pop culture always does -- I wanted to have Carly look and feel more cute and awkward than sexy and edgy -- even though, I mean, Carly's definitely a beautiful, sexy woman. That's just kind of the vibe I wanted for the video.
Dose.ca: The video all comes down to a twist ending.
BK: Yeah!
Dose.ca: Was that something you always wanted to do, right off the bat?
BK: Absolutely. I wanted the ending to be a twist because, I mean, I didn't want to do a cookie-cutter pop video for Carly, I wanted this one to have some sort of creative merit, and for me, that came with the twist ending.
Dose.ca: Did you play with any other twists before coming up with the one in the video?
BK: Ha! Not really. I mean, originally -- and I don't know if I should even be saying this -- but originally, we wanted to have two guys kiss at the end and that was the big reveal. But we wanted to keep it a bit more safe, and I think it works better with the hot dude giving Tavish [Crowe], who is Carly's guitar player, the number. I just think it's funnier that way.
Dose.ca: How did you decide who was going to get the number?
BK: Well, Carly's band is -- they're all so close. Carly and her bandmates are great friends and Tavish -- he's kind of Carly's right-hand man as far as music goes, he plays guitar for her live. And it's hard to describe without you knowing him, but he's just a funny dude in general. He delivered the perfect shocked face, which is exactly what we needed for the video.
Dose.ca: So what you're saying is there was no need for auditions.
BK: Yeah, he was it. Tavish is a very awkward, funny guy. That's a direct quote.
Dose.ca: When did you shoot the video? It's a summery theme, but you can definitely see some fall colours on the trees.
BK: Yeah, exactly. I wrote the treatment when I heard the song -- so last August -- and we didn't end up shooting the video until the very end of October. I think it may have been the day before Halloween. It was super cold. Like, summer was very, very far away at that point and it was in Vancouver, so it's just the way things work sometimes. I'll write like a summery video and we don't end up shooting until the fall and it's freezing cold outside -- especially when Carly has to wear little short-shorts and a tank top while washing a car. She was freezing cold, so after I'd yell cut, we'd have people standing by to run in with a coat to cover Carly, and towels. The crew was wearing winter jackets and parkas and stuff and Carly had to stick it out the hard way.
Dose.ca: And you also had her crashing off that car. How was that to set up?
BK: She fell off the car three times, and the first time, she fell and kind of bumped her knee a bit and she had a bruise from that, I believe. We had, basically, couch cushions laid down behind the car, so she would just hit those and roll off. … We knew we needed something soft, but we didn't have a legit crash pad.
Dose.ca: Couch cushions: that's how indie this video was.
BK: Yeah, yeah. I'm proud of this video because it's up for Video of the Year, against, like, Marianas Trench and Hedley videos which are bigger in budget, maybe, but I think this video has a lot of merit in the twist ending. It's the little video that could, in my opinion.
Dose.ca: It's a little video that's generated hundreds of other videos, too -- not just the official one.
BK: Yeah, yeah. Oh man, so good! I just watched the Obama mash-up. So funny. Actually, people are doing covers of the song, too. Like I just watched the band fun. -- they did one. At a radio station they covered "Call Me Maybe," and, you know, it's pretty crazy to see the support. This song is going to be an entire year for Carly, you know.
Dose.ca: All the lipdubs: what was the first one you noticed?
BK: It had to be the Justin Bieber one where he's partying with his friends and stuff -- that had to be the first one I really noticed. It's just crazy. I was with Carly yesterday and she actually got a letter from John Mayer, because apparently she mentions him in a few press things and he took time to write her a little letter of encouragement and that was pretty rad. Carly's everywhere now, it's crazy. She deserves it, she's such a sweetheart. She honestly deserves this success.
"Call Me Maybe" is nominated for Video of the Year. The 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards air on MuchMusic Sunday, June 17 at 9 p.m. ET. For more MMVA coverage, check out Dose.ca/MMVAs.


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Janelle won the Best Reality Star and she was in attendance and accepted the award onstage. Will was there, came with her and sat next to her! WINELLE is SO STILL ON!!!!!
VH1? WTHeck is this? I know I'm gonna feel stupid, but please tell me!!
Was that Beau right behind them in the gren shirt?
I'll keep you all posted of any information or updates on WINELLE!!!Heard that after the VH1 party, Will hung out in Janelle's hotel room!Rumor has it but not confirmed that Will and Erin are kaput!Yes, Rudy, they are a cute couple and need to get on with it!
Rudy VH1 is a network http://www.vh1.com/
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(CNN) - Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain took a moment Monday to clarify his position on Libya: He needs more information.
After an uncomfortable eight-second pause to collect his thoughts, the GOP contender explained that he would need to know more before he could unequivocally agree or disagree with President Barack Obama's actions in the conflicted country.
Cain was meeting with the editorial board of the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel when Libya came up.
"Okay, Libya," he responded when asked whether he agreed with President Obama's actions in the region. Eight seconds later, after looking up, biting his lip and blinking repeatedly, Cain asked, "President Obama supported the uprising, correct?"
"I just want to make sure we're talking about the same thing before I say 'Yes, I agree' or 'No, I do not agree."
But just as Cain, a former conservative talk radio host, started to respond to the question, he then changed his mind.
"I do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reasons - um, no, that's a different one," he said, before uncrossing and crossing his legs, shifting position in his seat, and adjusting his jacket.
"Let's see, I've got to go back, see," he continues. "(I've) got all this stuff twirling around in my head."
"Are you asking me did I agree or not agree with Obama?"
Cain finally settled on a response after hearing the question rephrased a second time.
"It's not a simple yes/no because there are different pieces and I would've gone about assessing the situation differently, which might have caused us to end up at the same place, but I think more could've been done was, what's the nature of the opposition?"
He explained that he would have gotten more information on determining who the opposition was, but said, "I'm sure that our intelligence people had some of that information." Although he declined to criticize the president, Cain said he didn't think enough was done.
And before he was challenged on the clarity of his response, Cain asserted, "I'm not trying to hedge on the questions, it's just that's my nature as a businessman, I need to know all of the facts, I would need to know all of the alternatives."
"It's not a clear yes/no," he said again. "Because of all those things I think that should have been assessed… I don't know that they were or were not assessed."
"I didn't see reports of that assessment."
Campaign spokesman J.D. Gordon described the video of Cain's awkward moment as "out of context in some measure."
"He just had to think about it," Gordon said, because the candidate "had been getting a lot of briefings on the subtleties of the Arab Spring."
Gordon pointed out that Cain had been fielding questions from several editorial board members for 45 minutes and "skipping around from every topic from A to Z."
Cain's popularity fell 11 points in a CNN/ORC International Poll released Monday, falling to third place behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Cain's candidacy has been plagued by allegations of sexual harassment in recent weeks, which he has said are not true.
And he had a simple explanation for his apparent stumble at an event in Wisconsin late Monday: "I mean, they asked me a question about Libya, and I paused…so I could gather my thoughts," he said. "You know, it's really complimentary when people start documenting my pauses. You know it's one thing to document every word. It was a pause. That's all it was. Good grief."
–CNN's Steve Brusk contributed to this report.
So cute how Republican'ts so desperately cling to Obama's "57 states" slip-up, and now they have...TWO! Yes, the US has 57 states and territories, and yes, Hawai'i is in the Asia Pacific region (and he was at an Asia Pacific conference in Hawai'i). Pretty minor misstatements if you ask me...certainly not on the level of "Mission Accomplished" or "the HPV vaccine causes mental retardation" or "China has the capacity to develop nukes" or "Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan" or "John Wayne was from Waterloo" or "We've got to stand with our North Korean allies" or "Death Panels" or "You're working hard to put food on your family." or etc. etc. etc.
All of you Cain haters being condescending couldn't hold a candlestick next to his intelligence. And CNN has NO BUSINESS reporting this is a "Big Stumble". What is wrong with you people? Seriously, sad.
This is my favorite comment ever!!! "you are a totol ingnorant "
Maggietag, you will know when the libs have influenced your GOP primary when we force you to nominate that unelectable tool, Mitt Romney, instead of that sure winner Cain. Let's see, hate-filled statements; that would be like "Communist" or "squalor and decadence." I like that last one: both at once? A decadent squalor? How would that even work? Disgusting luxury? Are they living in solid gold tents?
When is someone from the GOP going to pull him aside and tell him that he is now just making a fool of himself and a laughing stock of the GOP in general for supporting him?
Zeke, you left out "Paul Revere rode out to warn the British that WE were coming," with a press conference the next day insisting that Revere was pro-British.
Georgia? You sure he's not from Texas?
"I disagree with everything the president has done, has ever thought about and ever will do." Come on Cain, your party-line on all things Obama is pretty easy to remember. What's the problem. He's never done anything right, and cannot possibly do anything right so long as he is the obstacle to the GOP taking more from the poor and giving it to the rich.
The GOP is so opposed to Mitt Romney, they will continue to let this clown be in contention. Seriously, is this the best they have to offer. Even his pizza was lousy. This fool did the one thing no one in politics should ever do; take your self seriously and start believing your own hype. He is no Horatio Algers. There was a silver spoon in his pocket in the form of stock given to his daddy from Mr. Woodruff (Coca-Cola). If I was Morehouse College I would ask for my degree back. Obviously, he did not study too hard. Oh well, guess "black walnut" is melting away, slowly but surely. Take a hike Hermie and all your foolish too. If you are not to careful, no one will buy the rest of those lousy books.
To Paqrat137: I agree with you – assuming some knowledge of the events being discussed, one should be able to cough up some notions on 1.) what an ideal outcome would be, and 2.) what that person would have done to try to obtain #1. It would be clear that every utterance is largely conjecture, and therefore not worth the air it is stapled to.
I believe Cain was being asked to critique or advocate President Obama's performance, hence my stated reservations – that any critique or approval is essentially worthless as it's foundation is largely conjectural – and only serves to invite a flood of vitriol which is equally worthless (but entertaining?).
There is considerable backlash on this page to the notion of "gotcha"-questions. I do not condemn them, nor do I advocate them, I simply acknowledge that 1.) they do exist and 2.) attempts to answer them are ultimately useless – meaning, self-defeating. The notion that you can use hypotheticals to accurately measure a candidate – in any dimension other than their patience – seems silly to me.
And finally, I would like to make one additional observation: opinions of candidates are almost entirely irrelevant. Being elected President does not allow the President to act on his opinions/feelings/notions/etcetera. Above it has been posited that some candidates are perhaps less intelligent and less moral than might otherwise be desired (I am not asserting that I believe these things to be true). Assume the worst is true, and won the Presidency – what then? Lawless anarchy? The destruction of civilization? Worst case, pundits observe from the side-lines, fuel the engine for the next election cycle, and give someone else a shot four years later.
For the record: President Obama may be the single most intelligent, well-educated human being to ever occupy the office. Note the amount of resistance he has met at every decision point: who, realistically, could do a better job, and how? This is (or should be) the substance of the argument, sans the furious hand waving and teeth-gnashing. Frame workable (policy) questions, pose them, survey the answers, pick your guy. Enough games.
When did it become wrong to stop and think about question and what your going to answer? Its so funny how every one is ready to attack someone and try to point out faughts were ever they can because thier afraid Obama want get elected again.
wow, I would think that a presidential candidate would be kept up to date on current events. Now just imagine that response behind the desk in the oval office. This guy needs to stick with pizza, then again godfathers isn't that good
These republican candiates are interviewing for the job of President of the United States, they really need to step up their game


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RHS Student Takes an Inside Look at Global Health
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Allie Silber, a senior in the College of Education's rehabilitation and human services (RHS) program and co-president of the RHS Student Organization, traveled to South Africa in summer 2013 to learn about global health and best practices from those in the community.
Silber, who is also part of Penn State's global health program, a minor designed to expose students to health issues around the world, joined a community health group in Limpopo Province, South Africa.
During her experience, Silber spent most of her time in various clinics observing and talking with nurses. She also shadowed nutrition students from University of Limpopo and learned from two traditional healers.
Silber added that she observed consultations and the distribution of medicine and learned about the healthcare system, education system and the communities she visited.
Silber said the trip was more about learning from the people over there than going to a foreign country and "saving" it.
"I am continuing to reflect and learn from my time there and how it can help me in my career," Silber said. "South Africa is collectivist, and the people have such a sense of community and helping."
Silber, a native of State College, Pa., said that during her college career she has dedicated her time to many hometown causes. She also became involved with the RHS Student Organization to make an impact on the State College community and meet fellow RHS students.
One of her favorite community service activities is wrapping gifts for the Toys for Tots Foundation, a nonprofit organization that collects and distributes toys as Christmas gifts to less fortunate children in local communities.
"The greatest thing you can give is your time," Silber said. "[Volunteering] doesn't take money or significant resources. It doesn't have to be life consuming—just a bit of your life to help people and places in need."
Silber also volunteers as a hotline counselor at Community Help Centre, a nonprofit organization that provides services, resources, education, training and information to people in need of support. She has assisted members of the community with basic needs, short-term counseling, crisis intervention, drug/alcohol abuse, emergency food and more.
"It's been one of the best preparations for entering the field because it has shown me how to treat each client as an individual and be empathetic towards their needs," Silber said about her experience at Community Help Centre.
Silber will graduate in May 2014 and has secured an internship at the Centre County Youth Service Bureau working with the outreach and prevention department and the Youth Haven shelter for teens. She plans to become a mental health and addictions counselor.
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North Idaho's premier taxidermist. Specializing in big game, birds and life-size taxidermy.Listing added on 04/16/17
Travel America Plaza / Conoco
468800 Hwy 95 Sagle, ID Listing added on 04/16/17
Troy's Mini Storage
20 Chevy Street Sagle, ID
Stationary storage, fenced, paved and lighted. Office located on-site. Sizes range from 5x4 to 10x25. Big red storage facilty right off the highway in Sagle!Listing added on 04/16/17
U-Haul Co - Sagle
17 Walker Wy Sagle, ID Listing added on 04/16/17
United Educational Services
Listing added on 04/16/17