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A Great Success for MAHAA Great Success for MAHA
MAHA's booth at the automechanika '08, the most important exhibition in the automotive branch, measured 1,000 square meters. Never before in the company's history had its presence at an exhibition reached these dimensions.
4,680 exhibitors from 146 nations and 80 countries informed over 166,000 exhibition visitors from across the globe about innovations and future visions.
MAHA presented innovative new and ongoing developments from all the various companies departments. One of the definitive highlights was the newly developed scissors lift DUO UC 4.5/5.0 W which has a patent pending.
The particle measurement device MPM 4 – a new MAHA development to measure the particles in combustion motor exhaust, was already recognized in advance by expert customers and the renowned Fraunhofer Institut or System and Innovation Research. In August 2008 it received an important award- membership in the "Green Directory". This award certifies, in particular, innovation and environmental contributions such as a substantial contribution to environmental protection, responsible management of energy, reduction of material or noise emission and efficient utilization of raw or working materials.
And the fully newly developed MAHA workshop concept took on special meaning at the automechanika:
Together with our participating partner companies, DAG, BUTZBACH and GRAEFF a real daily workshop situation was created in the outdoor arena.
Measure for Success
In order to evaluate exhibition participation as positive, numerous prerequisites must be fulfilled.
In a world full of open channels to gather information what are the reasons then for visiting specialized trade exhibitions?
Survey results show that the number one reason given by visitors by a large margin is the ability to receive direct information onsite about new innovations. This is the case for over 50% followed by another 20% declaring the desire to maintain good business contacts as a reason to visit. Other exhibition visitors see it as a way to gather additional information before making planned investments and finally others use an exhibition visit for general market orientation. It also offers a good platform to establish business relationships.
When survey respondents were asked about how to generate interest in the exhibition and draw the greatest number of visitors, the extreme importance of company image and the factor of company recognition were underscored. A personal invitation to the exhibition was also rated very highly.
The booth personnel is an important factor for the success of exhibition participation. This starts with the visual appearance and should not be underestimated. You only have one chance to make a first impression. The Corporate Clothing of the MAHA booth personnel presents an absolute positive image. The atmosphere and the optical design of the booth are also evaluated. The availability of the booth personnel, its competency, the quality of information dissemination, the behavior of MAHA employees in conversation, the friendliness and style of product presentation; all these parameters had an approval rate of over 80% with MAHA!
This impressive positive result is most certainly thanks to the unique team building measures undertaken by MAHA's marketing director, Mr. Gorbach. Every exhibition evening ended with an unforgettable event organized by Mr. Gorbach at a different location attended by the entire MAHA exhibition team!
They celebrated together – and this positive mood carried over into all the stressful exhibition work days. The all important feeling of togetherness and belonging was created. Team meetings were held every morning before the doors opened and the sales and quota kings of the previous day were crowned adding an additional impressive thrust to the motivation ladder.
The fun and joy factor had a positive effect on the economic results.
An important success factor is that 58 % of the booth visitors were first-time MAHA exhibition booth visitors, 42% were the socalled "regular visitors". The aver - age time spent at the booth was over half an hour, to be exact 36.44 min. And the number of those visitors who engaged in a personal consultation was high: 63% were interested in a de tailed conversation about products and services from MAHA.
In all respects, automechani ka'08 was a positive success for MAHA. But as the saying goes, after the exhibition is just before the next one. The next automechanika already takes place in 2010. And MAHA has set its sights very high.
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Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Early Restoration
Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) is a legal process whereby trustees represent the public interest to ensure that natural resources injured in an oil spill are restored. The trustees assess the injuries to our natural resources from a spill, develop restoration plan(s) and implement those plans in order to compensate the public for the injuries incurred.
Making the environment and public whole includes both restoring injured resources to the condition they would have been in had the spill not occurred as well as compensating for the temporal loss of natural resources, and the ecosystem services they provide, from the time of injury until the time they are fully restored.
Typically, in the NRDA process, the trustees will develop a restoration plan or series of plans to compensate for those injuries after the injuries are assessed and the scope and scale of those injuries is determined. However, plans for early restoration projects may be developed prior to the completion of the injury assessment, when opportunities arise, to achieve restoration faster.
On April 21, 2011, the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) trustees reached an agreement whereby BP committed $1 billion to fund early restoration projects. These funds will be divided among the trustees pursuant to the early restoration allocation agreement. $500 million will be split equally among the Gulf State Trustees (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas); $200 million will be split equally among the Federal Trustees (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department of Interior); and $300 million will be used to fund state sponsored restoration projects based upon impacts. Louisiana first made the request for BP to fund early restoration in July 2010 and laid the groundwork for this negotiation.
The State of Louisiana is currently engaged in the process of selecting potential early restoration projects, as are other impacted state and federal trustees.
For the past year, Louisiana has worked with coastal stakeholders through a variety of public outreach and coordination efforts to build a master list of potential projects for both early and long-term restoration of the State's natural resources that were injured by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Through the combination of a concerted stakeholder and public outreach effort and the State's Regional Restoration Planning Program, Louisiana has compiled a list of over 300 restoration project candidates. These projects reflect the ideas and input of a variety of coastal stakeholders. Click HERE to view the current master list.
Louisiana continues to accept restoration project submittals. Project proposals may be submitted online at http://losco-dwh.com/.
Projects received through June 25, 2011 will be analyzed by the State's natural resource trustees for potential inclusion in an early restoration plan. Projects submitted after this date and those not selected for the initial phase of early restoration planning will be considered for future stages of both early and long-term restoration.
The State of Louisiana remains committed to outreach and engagement efforts and will continue in those efforts throughout the NRDA process. In addition to our regularly scheduled monthly coastal stakeholders meetings, we will also hold a public meeting to solicit early restoration projects on June 20, 2011 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm in Room 110 in Weinmann Hall at Tulane University School of Law.


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The Wolves today announced the team's three-game preliminary round schedule for the NBA Summer League 2013 in Las Vegas. Minnesota will play the D-League Selects on 7/13, Phoenix on 7/15 & Miami on 7/16. Through the new championship tournament format, each team is guaranteed to play at least five games.
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Texas Legend=Mavericks Affiliate
Posted 17 August 2010 - 10:39 AM
Posted 24 August 2010 - 08:35 AM
Texas Legends to Host "American Idol" of Basketball.
2010 Player Try-Out Registration Form
Player Release & Eligibility Form
Background Check Disclosure Form
Background Check Authorization, Acknowledgement, & Release
Posted 24 August 2010 - 08:36 AM
Mavericks Minor League Team to Host Tryouts September 10-11.
August 19-September 8, 2010: Pre-Registration
September 10, 2010
5 pm: Registration at Frisco Fieldhouse USA (6155 Sports Village Lane, Frisco, TX 75034)
6-9 pm: Session 1
September 11, 2010
8 am: Court available for warm-ups
9 am noon: Session 2
2-5 pm: Session 3
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Sitting in the first chair: Nancy Lieberman.
"From a tactical standpoint, please tell me about the Nancy Lieberman coaching philosophy.
I don't think it's applicable to the NBA Development League. There will be things that are applicable -- whether they're quick hitters, whether it's some continuity -- but you're dealing with different elements. You're dealing with the 24-second shot clock, getting the ball over half court in eight seconds, with the defensive three-second rule. This changes a lot of the strategy defensively and offensively that you don't encounter internationally, in the WNBA or in college basketball. I've learned more about the NBA style of basketball in the last six months. I know a lot about basketball -- it's been my life. But I've sat down with everyone from Vinny Del Negro to Alvin Gentry to Phil Weber to Mike Brown to Larry Brown to Rick Carlisle because it's very important to me as I go forward to make sure to learn and see what other people do, and then establish what my philosophy is going to be. Right now, I don't have any players. I don't know if I'm going to have athletes, or pure shooters, a legit big. Most cases in the D-League, those 7-footers aren't plentiful. So I'll be glad to share my coaching philosophy once we know what we're working with. "
Posted 24 August 2010 - 08:39 AM
Sport Court DreamCourt Dedicated by Basketball Hall-of-Famer Nancy Lieberman and Dallas Mavericks Jason Terry.
Posted 24 August 2010 - 08:40 AM
Court Dedicated by Basketball Hall-of-Famer Nancy Lieberman and Dallas Mavericks Jason Terry.
Posted 24 August 2010 - 10:36 AM
Exclusive Interview with J.r. Slagendorff: Is he the brains behind the Texas Legends franchise?
J.r. Slagendorff, 1% owner of the new Texas Legends franchise.
Posted 24 August 2010 - 10:40 AM
Warren Strickland.
Texas Legends Examiner....."Warren Strickland IV is currently employed with Bank of America. His current role includes being editor of Bank of America's intranet website. He has an extremely strong passion for sports and also has more than 20 years of experience playing and studying the game of basketball. Warren is currently combining his passion for sports and love for writing to bring you the latest news and updates on the Texas Legends. Contact Warren with your comments and questions."
Posted 26 August 2010 - 04:09 AM
Exclusive Interview with J.r. Slagendorff (Part 2): Is he the brains behind the Legends franchise?
"J.r. Slagendorff-you learned a little about his hog farming background. You also learned about his incredible invention of Spam.
Where would the world be without Spam?"
Posted 26 August 2010 - 04:13 AM
Posted 27 August 2010 - 08:26 AM
Texas Legends To Participate In 2011 Expansion Draft.
The complete list of players available in the Expansion Draft is below.
Keith Clark----F 6-8 245 Oklahoma
Joe Crawford---G 6-5 210 Kentucky
Michael Fey----C 7-0 270 UCLA
Ryan Forehan-Kelly G/F 6-6 195 California
Gabriel Hughes-C 7-0 240 California
Lawrence McKenzie G 6-2 190 Minnesota
James Peters---F 6-8 215 UNLV
Ray Reese------F 6-5 210 Tulsa
Frank Robinson-G 6-4 220 Cal-State Fullerton
Diamon Simpson-F 6-7 230 St. Mary's (CA)
Dar Tucker-----G 6-4 205 DePaul
Rodney Webb----F 6-7 240 Florida Atlantic
Horace Wormely-G 5-7 160 Vanguard
James Wright---G 6-1 185 Colorado
Posted 27 August 2010 - 08:28 AM
Texas Legends to Participate in D-League Expansion Draft.
"August 26, 2010, FRISCO, TX - The roster for the inaugural Texas Legends season, which tips off in November, will begin to take shape by way of an Expansion Draft, it was announced today.
The 14-player expansion draft pool is made up of solely of the returning players from the 2009-10 Los Angeles D-Fenders, which will be on hiatus for the 2010-11 season. Included in the pool are guard Dar Tucker and center Michael Fey, two of the 30 players invited to the 2010 NBA D-League Elite Mini-Camp, held in June in Chantilly, VA.
Tucker has impressed fans in Dallas once before, winning the 2010 NBA D-League Dream Factory Slam Dunk Contest by leaping over 6-11 Brian Butch for his winning duck. Legends coach Nancy Lieberman and owner Donnie Nelson both witnessed Tuckers impressive show.
This is another step towards our inaugural season, Legends Owner Donnie Nelson commented. The D-Fenders had a number of very talented players who have a real chance to develop into NBA athletes. The opportunity to draft their rights is the first step towards forming our team.
Fey, 7-0, averaged 12.8 points and 6.4 rebounds per game last season for the L.A. D-Fenders, and also made half of his three-point attempts.
Other players that stand out in the pool are guard Joe Crawford and forward Diamon Simpson. Crawford earned a GATORADE Call-Up to the New York Knicks in March 2009 and Simpson started 30 games last season for the D-Fenders, averaging 15.5 points and 9.6 rebounds per game.
Also in the expansion draft pool is forward Ryan Forehan-Kelly, a two-year veteran of the NBA D-League, and 7-foot center Gabriel Hughes. Forehan-Kelly led the D-Fenders with 14.7 points per game last season, hitting 82 3-pointers in only 50 games.
Guards Lawrence McKenzie, Frank Robinson, Horace Wormely and James Wright and forwards Keith Clark, James Peters, Ray Reese and Rodney Webb fill out the preliminary pool.
In addition to these initial 14 players available in the expansion draft, the Legends can seek out local talent. The Legends are hosting open tryouts on September 10-11 (contact Assistant Coach Scott Flemming at email@example.com).
Once the Legends select their desired players, the players must sign with the D-League in order to truly be Legends.
The Texas Legends have sold more than 20,000 tickets for their historic inaugural season. To reserve your tickets today, call 1-214-469-0822 or email email@example.com."
Posted 30 August 2010 - 05:06 AM
Posted 01 September 2010 - 04:33 AM
10 players claimed in Mondays expansion draft by the D-League Texas Legends.
F --Keith Clark, 6-foot-8, 245 pounds, 7/16/1987 -- Oklahoma
G --Joe Crawford, 6-5, 210, 6/17/1986 -- Kentucky
C --Michael Fey, 7-0, 270, 5/29/1983 -- UCLA
F --Ryan Forehan-Kelly, 6-6, 195, 1/14/1980 -- California
C --Gabriel Hughes, 7-0, 240, 12/16/1980 -- California
F --James Peters, 6-8, 215, 5/24/1981 -- Nevada-Las Vegas
G --Frank Robinson, 6-4, 220, 6/1/1984 -- Cal-State Fullerton
F --Diamon Simpson, 6-7, 230, 9/8/1987 -- St. Mary's (CA)
G --Dar Tucker, 6-4, 205, 4/11/1988 -- DePaul
G --James Wright, 6-1, 185, 6/26/1981 -- Colorado
Posted 01 September 2010 - 04:35 AM
Posted 01 September 2010 - 10:03 AM
J.r. Slagendorff introduces the Texas Legends secret weapon. (Video)
Posted 01 September 2010 - 10:11 AM
There are less than 3 months until the season kicks into gear for the Texas Legends! From a new website, try-outs coming up, and events all over the community, the Legends are making headlines all over the news!
Sun, Nov 21 Legends @ Vipers @ 5:00 PM.
Posted 10 September 2010 - 03:27 PM
Greg Ostertag Attempting Comeback in NBA D-League.
Joakim Noah, Chicago Bulls, Carmelo Anthony, Denver Nuggets, trade rumors,...
In The News:
Kansas Greg Ostertag Attempting Comeback.
Ostertag playing in D-League?
Posted 13 September 2010 - 06:12 AM
Help wanted: NBDL's Texas Legends want PA, play-by-play and other help.
Posted 13 September 2010 - 06:19 AM
Former Jazz center Greg Ostertag may land job with Frisco NBDL team.
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The Pi has been called many things (cheap, small, hackable, educational), but people seem to shy away from calling it "plug and play." That's because the Pi is not a consumer device as such, even though it's pretty easy to get something up and running on you TV. That's where our Raspberry Pi Starter Kit comes in: we've sourced all the proper peripherals and add-ons to get you up and running in all sorts of maker applications.
The board was developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of bringing low cost, easy to program computers to young people all over the world. Once you get the "Raspbian" operating system loaded onto the kit's SD card, you can start programming right out of the box. The kit's selection of prototyping tools will also help you use the input and output capabilities of the Pi from your onboard programs.
You'll still need to add your own USB keyboard and mouse, but otherwise, the Raspberry Pi Starter Kit includes all of the necessary cables (USB and HDMI), Adafruit's Cobbler GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) breakout, a custom enclosure, a 4GB SD card, a breadboard for electronics prototyping, and plenty of common components to get you started.
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London Welsh have announced that loosehead prop Franck Montanella has penned a new contract at the club.
Montanella has been in outstanding form so far this season and has been a mainstay of the club's formidable scrum having played in eleven Premiership games since signing from Bourgoin in the off-season, scoring two tries for the Exiles.
Recently named in the Aviva Premiership team of the season at the halfway stage by Premiership Rugby, Frank was described as epitomising the club's "warrior spirit", and has quickly established himself as a firm favourite with the club's fans.
Montanella began his professional career at Narbonne and had two seasons with Stade Francais before joining Bourgoin in 2011/12. He gained his only cap as a replacement when France played New Zealand at Eden Park in 2007.
'I am very happy to sign for the next two seasons with London Welsh,' said Montanella.
"I had other opportunities but I decided to stay as I share the same vision as head coach, Lyn Jones, - to secure the long term future for London Welsh in the Premiership - and I am 100% focused on that goal. I love the club, the spirit and the supporters; there is a real family feel. Right now I am happy and proud to be a Dragon!"
Commenting of Frank's contract extension, Head Coach Lyn Jones said: "It could have proved a testing time for Franck adapting to English rugby, but he's taken to the challenge and showed himself as a genuine Aviva standard player.
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My county's DFCS office is now open just three days a week.
Sorry, the state says, we don't have the money to keep the office that serves needy families and protects the elderly and children from abuse open for a full work week. Our hands are tied by the budget.
My county's school system has had $3.2 million in "austerity cuts" from the state in the last four years. That's the equivalent of 12 mills here.
Sorry, but we just don't have the money in the state coffers to fund poor, rural school systems like we used to.
State funding for paving roads, infrastructure improvements, and public safety has also dried up in recent years for counties across the state.
Safety, schmafety. Local taxpayers need to pick up the tab. The state doesn't have the money anymore.
Scholarships for private school students?
Sure, the state says. We've got money for that.
Georgia's state legislature is currently considering House Bill 140, which would raise the annual cap for tax credits that go to student scholarship organizations (SSOs). Currently, Georgia law allows for $51.5 million a year to be claimed under this program. HB 140 proposes making the annual cap $80 million.
In 2008, our state legislature passed House Bill 1133, which created the SSOs. Under this law, individuals and corporations can make donations to an SSO and receive a dollar-for-dollar tax credit. The SSO then provides scholarships to private schools for students previously "enrolled" in public schools. Since the law was enacted, more than $170 million in Georgia tax dollars have been set aside for this purpose. That means, $170 million that would have been in state tax coffers has been diverted for these private school scholarships.
When the original law was proposed, it was sold as a way for poor children to escape underperforming public schools. Has that happened since the legislation became law?
Uh, no. Or maybe.
See, these scholarships have no transparency or accountability – no public documentation of who is receiving the scholarships, if they come from low-income homes, how the scholarship money is spent, if they put all that money in a bonfire and set if aflame – nothing.
Then, there's the reason I put "enrolled" inside quotation marks.
According to a story in the New York Times, published in May, the legislation uses the term "enroll" instead of "attend" as an intentional loophole, where private school parents can "enroll" their children in a public school (but not attend) to be eligible for the scholarship.
"I'm telling you, we deliberately put the wording in there for that," said a state legislator, Rep. David Casas, in remarks caught on YouTube.
Oh, by the way, Rep. Casas is a co-sponsor of HB 140.
There have also been complaints of private schools using the scholarships as a slush fund to recruit star public school athletes to private schools.
HB 140 would further change the requirements for a private school scholarship by dropping the "enrollment" wording in favor of having it apply to all students "eligible to enroll" in a public school. Meaning, all current private school students would be eligible.
In a nutshell, this is a scam.
The $80 million a year (or $170 million for that matter) these legislators want to spend on these private school scholarships could be spent on clearing the waiting list for little kids wanting to attend Pre-K. It could be used to supply more public safety officers for our schools. It could be used to properly fund our public schools, of which 90 percent of our state's school-age children attend. It could be used to keep our DFCS offices open five days a week. You know, the Department of Family and Children Services – the agency that investigates claims of sexual and physical abuse of children. It literally could be used for a million things more vital to our state and its citizenry.
What kind of people are we, what kind of state do we live in, where we can find state funding for a corrupt private school scholarship program and not for protecting the most vulnerable of our citizens?
I understand the budget process is complicated, and that it's not as easy as trading one pot of money for another. What I don't understand is how good people can support such a measure that affects so few when there are more dire needs that affect so many.
I'm contacting my state legislators about HB 140, and I hope you will as well. You can find contact information for them online at www.legis.ga.gov.
Poor children – the most obvious victims of these shenanigans – don't make campaign contributions. You are their only voice. Please utilize it.
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The editors at Rolling Stone can kill themselves
Rolling Stone are the kings of printing irrelevant lists. While the publication was once a bastion of hard rock, drugs, counter-culture and, well, MUSIC, Rolling Stone has long since devolved into a hyper-capitalist shitheap, force-feeding its readers vapid pop culture trends and manufactured 'artists' who are little more than corporate sub-brands. To surmise, they have become the mouth-piece of the bloated and archaic mainstream music industry; a sickening orgy of money grabbing fads and sensationalist bullshit that is essentially totally irrelvant to the actual ART of music.
With their latest irrelvant list "100 Best Songs of the Decade" Rolling Stone has once more proven that the magazine Hunter S. Thompson once called home is long dead and buried.
Let us quickly sample their top 25 songs on the past 10 years:
1 | Gnarls Barkley — "Crazy"
2 | Jay-Z — "99 Problems"
3 | Beyoncé — "Crazy in Love"
4 | Outkast — "Hey Ya!"
5 | M.I.A. — "Paper Planes"
6 | The White Stripes — "Seven Nation Army"
7 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs — "Maps"
8 | Amy Winehouse — "Rehab"
9 | U2 — "Beautiful Day"
10 | Eminem — "Stan"
11 | MGMT — "Time to Pretend"
12 | Eminem — "Lose Yourself"
13 | 50 Cent — "In Da Club"
14 | Missy Elliott — "Get Ur Freak On"
15 | Johnny Cash — "Hurt"
16 | The Strokes — "Last Nite"
17 | Bob Dylan — "Mississippi"
18 | Kelly Clarkson — "Since U Been Gone"
19 | Kanye West — "Jesus Walks"
20 | Justin Timberlake — "Cry Me a River"
21 | OutKast — "B.O.B."
22 | Amerie — "1 Thing"
23 | Rihanna — "Umbrella"
24 | Radiohead — "Everything in Its Right Place"
25 | Missy Elliott — "Work It"
Yes you read correctly. This past decade of music has apparently been dominated by mindless pop R&B pap, simplistic garage indie rock and neutered gangsta-rap.
Here's a few quick stats:
- Outkast, Missy Eliott and Eminem all have 2 songs in the top 25 - in other words, in Rolling Stone's opinion those three 'artists' account for 24% of the top 25 songs of 2009. Right.
- 5 songs in the top 25 are spelt feature SMS lexicon ("In Da Club", "Get Ur Freak On", "Last Nite", "Since U Been Gone", "1 Thing").
- Jay-Z is a fag.
- Gnarls Barkley is an irritating fag.
- Bono is a preaching fag.
- Jack White is a talentless fag.
- Meg White may be the worst drum player on earth.
- 50 Cent got shot multiple times and is still a fag.
- Missy Elliott is more than likely a dude (a dude who is a fag).
- Kanye West is a meglomaniac AND a fag.
- Justin Timberlake wants to pretend he's Michael Jackson, which I guess makes him a pedophile AND a fag.
- All members of MGMT, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Strokes are fags and represent a pathetic de-evolution of rock.
- Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash are certainly NOT fags.
Honestly I can't even be bothered writing anymore. Let it be suffice to say that Rolling Stone is a bloated capitalist shitheap and a stain on the music industry (well... essentially the entire mainstream music industry is the stain). I can only pray that this publication will fall hard in the very near future alongside all the archaic record labels who promote image-driven, vapid, mindless, Orwellian synthetic pop bile and then pretend to be confused when the value of their releases seem to be undermined.
Record Executive Jerk: "Hey guys! I've got a business problem for you to consider:
We release loads of lowest common denominator, overproduced, purposefully generic music driven by image rather than substance - and we manage to charge exhorbarent amounts of money for an album of which the physical pressing costs amount to less than $2 (how's a 15,000% mark-up sound?)!
We also like to stress the short life-cycle of our pop stars and their pop songs - so we can quickly create and crank out the next one for a quicker and quicker buck!
But things aren't all good in our world.... For some reason people are starting to DOWNLOAD our music - for FREE! They STEAL it! They are refusing to pay $30 for a perfectly good Lady Gaga album!"
A Person With A Brain: "So you purposely stress the disposable nature of your product to create quicker replacement lifecycles while continuing to invest more and more into brand marketing and image than the actual substance of the music - you greatly inflate production costs with multi-million dollar film clips and production work and then still attempt maintain a lucrative margin from inflated product retail prices?"
Record Executive Jerk: "Yeah!"
A Person With A Brain: "And you're surprised that people are now refusing to fork out for such a disposable product, who's value has been consistently and actively undermined and bastardised by the very business model upon your organisation promotes?
Perhaps now is the time to re-consider your business model - especially in light of new technologies like the internet which is re-defining consumer choice and empowerment and creating entirely new distribution models which are far sleeker and low-cost?"
Record Executive Jerk: "Nahhhhh...... I know; we'll sue the people who download for $40,000 per MP3 track!"
Can anyone else see what's wrong with this picture? Just please fucking die mainstream music industry. You a bloated hyper-capitalist fucks that have long side bastardised music into a pre-packaged commodity for 13 year old girls. Kill yourselves.
Go here if you are a sucker for punishment and want to read the full list: Rolling Stone's Top 100 Songs of the Decade.
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It's time to put up our Angel Memorial Display. It's a wonderful way to remember our loved ones, especially during the Christmas season.
A new Angel is $20 for the first year, and $10 for the year after. All proceeds from the Angel Memorials help pay for the beautiful lights that adorn our town during the holidays.
For more information call Lockhart Town Hall at 864-545-2103 or Lori Brannon at 864-545-2112.
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The Town of Lockhart and the Lockhart Christmas Parade Committee invites you to participate in the Annual Christmas Parade on Dec. 2 at 3 p.m.
For anyone wishing to decorate floats we will be judging. All floats need to be at Lockhart School no later than 1:30 p.m. to be judged. We will give out three plaques for floats, one for each of the following categories: Most Attractive, Most Original and Best Theme. Keep these in mind while decorating.
For the benefit of the children attending the parade we are asking that no one dresses as Santa in any entry. We will be providing Santa for the end of the parade. D.A. McCloud will be our Parade Marshall this year.
If you plan to participate please call one of the following numbers: Barry Canupp at 864-429-7051, Bernice Canupp at 864-545-2346, Jeanie Belue at 864-251-0555, Connie Porter at 864-545-6652, Lockhart Hall at 864-545-2103. Thank you.
A Call From Kosovo
I had a really nice surprise phone call Tuesday night ( 4:25 p.m.).
Russ Bentley called from Kosovo, he's one of Lockhart's National Guards. Well I mean he's from Lockhart and in Union National Guard. I had his brother in law in the chair at the time and his sister was coming in at 5 p.m. ( Randall and Deanna Burns ).
He might not have wanted to talk to me that long, but you know my mouth. I need to find out everything. It was 10:25 a.m. over there.
I promised him I would continue to write my newsletter until he comes home or I'm fired. What he was telling me is this is a part of home, and they are reading and keeping up with us on the Internet. So see it's very important for all of you to give me a little news about you so they don't have to always read about me. It doesn't have to be anything big, just some little something, that's all. After all I just rattle on about nothing anyway. It's easy!
After participating in the Veterans Day celebration in Union, hearing from Russ was just a continuance of it.
Do we let them know how special they are for giving up their everyday life with family and friends to take care of other people and countries so far from home and for so long. When they come home do we shake their hands or give them a hug and tell them how appreciated they are, because if we were being attacked here in the USA they would be taking care of us too.
The Parade
I had never been in the Veteran's Day Parade before and didn't know I was going to be in this one. I thought Ailene and I were just going to watch it. But there we were.
All of the children were sitting on the curbs waving their flags. Every school was there, and the sidewalks were crowded and everyone knew what the day was about. The program was wonderful. And the Lockhart fans were out sitting in the street in front of the stage (the school children) for the program and if Lockhart was mentioned in anyway they cheered. Some of the children from each grade won in the essay or poster contests. And received a certificate. All in all it was a very moving ceremony and I don't plan to miss anymore of them.
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My Father was in the Army during World War II. He was just a boy of 17 and fought in the Philippines, New Guinea, and Australia. He used to say that he'd like to retire in Australia, but instead he came to South Carolina from Michigan to retire.
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I was in Arthur State Bank today and Penny told me that today, Nov. 14, Wednesday, is Louise McCutcheon's birthday. So by the time this comes out in the paper I want to say Happy Belated Birthday to you.
Gem and Louise were so good to me, as I was a struggling single mother, trying to start a business. They rented the lot my shop is on for little of nothing, since they knew I didn't have any money. When I needed a car, they sold me one that they probably could get much more cash for if they sold it to anyone else. When business was slow, Gem would give me a pep talk, like, after the fair he reminded me that everyone spent their money at the fair, and everyone's business was slow. After the Christmas Holidays, he'd give me the same talk.
I never had homemade hash until I tasted Gem's and Louise's, after they stopped it was really hard to find any that took its place. Louise would come into Gem's Store on her lunch time from the Power House and cook for him and anyone else that wanted something from the grill. She would come back after work, and help in the store also. She never seemed to tire and always thought of Gem first. She's a loving and beautiful person.
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Happy Birthday to Tommy Denton on Nov. 22, ( Thanksgiving Day). Happy Birthday to Tracy Gene Rash on Nov. 20. Nicole McMurray on the 23rd. Megan Duncan on the 24th. Scott Smith's birthday is on the 25th.
Happy Anniversary to Mitzi and Jimmy Bennett on the 20th of November.
If I missed your birthday or anniversary it's just that I didn't get a call from you or one of your loved ones.
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They said they would be here on Thursdays, but sometimes miss that day, and the next, etc. But eventually they come. If they miss you all together, please call the town hall at 545-2103 so Brenda can give them a call.
What I do is drag my trash can (which they've torn the lid to bits ) down my hill, which is kind of slick and steep, so sometimes I fall on my behind, so I try to do it at night when no one can see me. Well anyway, on Wednesday I put it out by the road, so it's available for Thursday, Friday or Saturday. And if I have another bag of trash I just drag it to the can and throw it on top of the rest. AND they did not pick up my trash at the shop this week. I do pay for two places. But there is hope, maybe they will get it this week.
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After receiving the umpteenth late-night communication from a business associate in Asia, I grumbled to my son, "Don't ever work for a global company!" A reservist, he said, "I already do. It's called the U.S. Army."
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Well it's time to say good night. It's raining out right now and I have a metal roof and metal awnings so you know what I'll be listening to, tonight. I love to fall asleep when it's raining.
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The first big political push for an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws in more than five years holds out some promise for employers who have long complained that the current system inhibits hiring.
For farmers who cannot find Americans to pick their crops and technology firms that need more engineers from abroad, the bipartisan plan from eight U.S. senators announced on Monday offered solutions like a "workable" program for seasonal farm labor and a commitment to "attracting and keeping the world's best and brightest."
"We are encouraged by the momentum on these important issues," said Microsoft general counsel and executive vice president Brad Smith.
Companies and business groups of all types have come out in favor of immigration reform, hoping to tap the immigrant labor force that has long been a key to U.S. economic growth.
But Smith said Microsoft needs to see the details of the legislation, which has not been crafted, and that it hopes the reform will expand the so-called H-1B visa system for highly skilled workers.
The government now offers a quota of 65,000 H-1B visas per year, a number usually met in a few weeks of applications and far fewer than the U.S. technology sector says it needs to innovate and remain competitive.
The eight senators said any immigrant who receives an advanced degree in the United States in science, technology, engineering or math (collectively known as STEM), should be given a green card, shorthand for legal residence and work permit.
"It makes no sense to educate the world's future innovators and entrepreneurs only to ultimately force them to leave our country at the moment they are most able to contribute to our economy," the senators said.
The proposal from the senators, who include Arizona Republican John McCain and New York Democrat Charles Schumer, goes so far as to offer a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. Schumer said he hoped a bill would pass Congress as early as mid-year.
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A one-step process in which the employer enters data and awaits a government approval "could be a very effective system," said Eleanor Pelta, head of immigration law at the Washington law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.
Several high-profile companies, including burrito chain Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., have been investigated after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) audits turned up problems with their employment paperwork. ICE started investigations at nearly 4,000 workplaces in fiscal 2012.
Chipotle moved to E-Verify almost two years ago after ICE audits revealed it had hired hundreds of illegal immigrants. Company spokesman Chris Arnold said that mandating a similar system would be "pretty much moot" for the 1,300-restaurant company.
While passage of the proposal into law is far from assured, farm organizations may have most reason to be encouraged, given its emphasis on meeting the needs of the agriculture industry.
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NEW HOLLAND, Pa. When she joined a craft club at Garden Spot Village, Gladys Ziegenfus never imagined that she might someday be part of an international enterprise.
Ziegenfus is part of a group of residents at the Villages Mountain View personal care community who make soap, press flowers and do other handicrafts, including tea bag folding. The group recently made a connection with Ten Thousand Villages and has a meeting scheduled this month with Melissa Hand, a buyer for the global fair trade retailer, to talk about folded paper designs for a group of women in Bangladesh.
The Mountain View craft group is becoming a kind of idea development workshop for Melissa and the paper-making workshops in Bangladesh, said Deborah Fast, director of volunteer services at Garden Spot Village. Prior to joining theteam at the retirement community a year ago, Fast worked for Ten Thousand Villages as a buyer and as creative director.
For the past few years, the group has made soap to sell at the annual Garden Spot Village Fall Festival and Country Auction, which benefits the Garden Spot Village Benevolent Fund. Recently, they began offering soaps in the VillageStore. Available in four scents, the soaps quickly sold out, and the store has placed additional orders. The group is working on a limited-edition scent for Valentines Day.
Residents help make the soap and then wrap it and decorate it using flowers we have pressed during the summer, said Diane Pechart, activities director at Mountain View.
Ten Thousand Villages offers handmade paper items crafted by women in rural Bangladesh, who rely on such sales to feed their families. The Mountain View crafters plan to order paper from the paper-making workshops to wrap the soaps.
Currently, the women are learning the art of tea bag folding from Mickey Adams, a future resident.
These are intricate small folds to make a huge variety of designs, said Fast. The folded paper is then glued to greeting cards. The crafters are using samples from the Bangladesh paper makers to develop folded paper designs, which they would share with Hand and the women in Bangladesh. The goal is to develop designs products that could be sold in Ten Thousand Villages stores across the United States and online.
This is a very significant outreach on the part of Mountain View, said Fast. This group, with Mickeys leadership, provides enormous potential.
The group will meet with Hand early in January to learn more about the papermakers in Bangladesh and to review the folded paper designs.
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Within Rouleur Seventeen
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The most recent issue of Rouleur contains two different views from inside the European pro peloton. The first, from Rapha Condor Sharp's own Tom Southam tells the tale of racing on home soil at the Tour of Britain.. And though a broken elbow during the Lincoln GP cemented the fact that Southam would not join his teammates this week at the Tour of Japan, come September he will be ready to tackle the familiar routes once again. Here is to wishing Tom the speediest of recoveries.
An excerpt from Tour of Britain:
I always feel like something is slightly out of place at the Tour of Britain, like someone has photoshopped an image of a bike race on top of a picture of the British countryside. Even though I have ridden the race four times now, I am still a little confused by the feeling of the party being at my house. Even the lengthy transfers take on a slightly surreal feeling: I am on the M4, where I often am, but what is the Katusha bus doing here?
The second piece that appears near the back of issue Seventeen is from Michael Barry and Camille McMillan's recently released Le Metier. Chronicling his life on the road as a Professional Cyclist over the past few years.
McMillan's photos provide an eerie accompaniment to the writing as the majority of them feature Barry in cycling kit, and on the bike, but rarely do we see his face, having the effect of echoing the thoughts of the man on the bicycle.
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14th May 2010 01:22pm
I had a chance to talk to Tom when the Rapha Condor Sharp team was laid up in the states and came out to ride North of Boston. He has a great attitude and gave me some really interesting insights about what it's like to be pro bike racer - particularly about the motions they must go about traveling on the road. We tend to think of pros as automatons that magically appear at start lines all over the world. It was interesting to get the human perspective from him. I look forward to checking out this new issue!
Pierre Vanden Borre
14th May 2010 01:23pm
And bummer about the elbow!
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See this? According to Twitter, this is my most popular piece of Art.
It's a hastily thrown together half assed response to this. 35$ Crap Flag
Do you know how depressing that is for me as an artist? Look at it. It's crap. I didn't even sign it, much less develop the idea. I've said it a million fuggin' times and I still mean it. I don't care about publicity...sales yes...but publicity no. I haven't even bothered to fix the website links in months. All I've ever wanted to do is express myself in the best way that I can. That's what matters. The quality of the work. If it's good enough, it'll sell it self.
Apparently crap sells too. Sure, I say it all the time, but as a self depreciating joke.
Until now. Now I'm so depressed I'm going to change my style to stick figures. 24/7.
I bet I could talk Fox into at least 12 episodes.


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Firm pulls plans for green energy plant (From Bicester Advertiser)
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PROPOSALS for a green energy plant in Sutton Courtenay have been withdrawn.
FCC Environment was hoping to build an anaerobic digestion facility on land off the Appleford Road, currently a landfill site.
The proposal was due to be discussed at a planning committee meeting on Tuesday but was withdrawn the day before.
Recommending refusal, planning officers at Vale of the White Horse District Council said: "The environmentally friendly recycling process to generate electricity through the use of the anaerobic digestion facility is welcomed and the 'green' sustainability credentials are acknowledged.
"However, the protection of the rural environment is also important. The proposal would result in the industrialisation and cumulative build up of non-essential buildings, structures, storage, plant and machinery within an open countryside setting where there is no genuine need or wider environmental benefit other than the short-term benefit to the landfill operator business."


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Post-2015 process
Calling for recognition of ageing at the UN
This week, we are taking part in the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (OWG) in New York. The OWG is the group of UN member states leading the post-2015 process.
We are there to call for a new development framework which includes social protection mechanisms, such as pensions and universal healthcare for all people throughout their lives.
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Age Demands Action for Rights
To mark World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on 15 June, older
campaigners took part in our Age Demands Action for Rights campaign, which calls for a convention on the rights of older people.
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The Sysadmin's Daily Grind: Arpalert
Corporate policies prohibit the unauthorized connection of hardware to the company network, threatening dire consequences in the case of non-compliance. Fair enough, but how do you actually go about catching somebody trying to plug an illegal laptop into your Ethernet?
My choice for a faithful watchdog is Arpalert [1]. Arpalert creator Thierry Fournier recommends the following incantation to send the beast off into the wild: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install This series of commands puts the C program in /usr/local/sbin and the arpalert.conf configuration file in /usr/local/etc/arpalert. No Place Like Home For my initial experiments, I decided to use a network that gives me excellent visibility, such as the network in my home office. It's the weekend, and my wife has gone down to the local library, so I shouldn't have more than four of five computers on the network. I did the following to launch Arpalert: /usr/local/sbin/arpalert
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Vendor D-Wave scores big with a sale to NASA's Quantum Intelligence Lab.
Mageia Project Announces Mageia 3 Linux
Many package updates and Steam integration highlight the latest from the Mandriva-based community Linux.
FSF Outs the World Wide Web Consortium over DRM Proposal
Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
Debian 7.0 Debuts
The new release supports nine architectures, 73 human languages, and zero non-Free components.
Alpha Version of Fedora 19 Released
Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger's Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
ack 2.0 Released
ack is a grep-like, command-line tool that has been optimized for programmers to search large trees of source code.
SUSE Studio 1.3 Released
New features in SUSE Studio 1.3 include enhanced cloud integration, VM platform support, and lifecycle management.
Xen To Become Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
The Linux Foundation recently announced that the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
RunRev Releases Open Source Version of LiveCode
Open source version of LiveCode is now available for developing apps, games, and utilities for all major platforms.
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Imagine answering the phone to hear an anxious young women who's found her 82-year-old father unconscious after dinner. He's not breathing and you have to coach her through CPR-could you keep your cool?
The B.C. Ambulance Service is putting out a call for a new class of 20 new emergency medical dispatchers for its Vancouver centre and it needs people who can withstand the pressure.
"It's not just somebody that says, 'hey, what's your address?' We'll be right there_ the person on the end of the line is going to be your lifeline and is going to help you provide a zero minute response to your loved one," explained Gordon Kirk, director of dispatch centre operations.
There are 240 dispatchers in B.C., 125 of which are in Vancouver. The recruitment drive will help replace shuffled staff who have filled new positions at the dispatch centre. With 20 new recruits, the centre can also service an increasing amount of calls.
"There's a greater proliferation of cellphones. So, as a result_there may be more calls related to the same incident. Every single one of those need to be triaged," Kirk said.
Corinne Begg has trained new recruits for over six years, and took the helm as provincial dispatch training officer last year. "It is an exciting career," Begg said.
While EMDs are armed with provincial maps with logged addresses and specific scripts for emergency calls, they need to be well-trained professionals. Every minute counts and could be the difference between life and death for the people at the other end of the line.
But the hardest and most crucial part of the job is learning to keep information straight, she explained. "[It's] really trying to help them learn how to organize chaos."
Kirk said new employees need to think quickly, listen closely and understand the emergency. They have to be prepared to make some crucial decisions. "It's a young, fast paced environment, so it's always changing. No day is the same."
The training program lasts four months in total, Kirk said. And even before their first day of training, potential EMDs are expected to have CPR, level 2 of occupational first aid, great typing skills and know their geography.
"If I call you up and say there's an accident on the Second Narrows Bridge and you don't know where that is, we could have some trouble," said Kirk.
Begg provided a 15-minute run through of a course that's actually meant to last three weeks. A few simulations showed how dispatchers need to keep calm, even in the face of major trauma or death.
"This is a lot of information for them to know, so it can be overwhelming. We try to keep their spirits up and inspired," she said.
The career isn't for the faint of heart. Those interested in applying to be an emergency medial dispatcher are asked to apply on the B.C. Ambulance Service website at bcas.ca.
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Phishing Trojans that try to remain below the radar are still prevalent, but a number of files coming through Threat Research point to a disturbing trend: Several new variants of existing malware families are taking a scorched earth approach to infected computers, rendering the PC unbootable (just check out the batch file at left for just one egregious example) once the malware has retrieved whatever data it's trying to steal, or deliberately crashing it, repeatedly, if you try to remove it.
Since the middle of last year, we've seen a sprinkling of malware that also wipes out key files on the hard drive, sometimes preventing a reboot, after an infection. This isn't hostageware, which overtly threatens to delete the contents of the hard drive if you don't pay up, but something more sinister.
In some cases, the crashes we saw were the result of poor coding by the malware author. But increasingly it appears that this behavior is deliberate, and occurs without warning. And this unfortunate trend appears to be getting worse, leaving a raft of perplexed, angry victims unable to use their computers in the wake of an infection.


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Episode 5
Greetings to the December slideintomyhand podcast, where the snow is falling outside and everyone is getting the Xmas feeling. Oh wait, you mean everyone is getting pissed off with not being able to leave the house and soon there will be mass murders? Maybe I should just have done a Nick Cave themed podcast to theme it all, or just put up The Road soundtrack.
But anyway back to the important matter of new music, hope you enjoy all, or at least some, of the tracks on this here podcast as I've painstakingly spent hours listening to new music to make sure you only get the best. Leave comments if anything inspired pops into your head.
I apologise for the couple of ruffles on the mic during the podcast, hopefully in the new year I will get a proper microphone set up to do the podcast but for some reason the laptop one was playing up a little and I didn't realise till too late.
I mention a couple of other websites in the podcast, first there is Scrawls and Bawls, you can email him your top 5 tracks of the year for a festive 50 countdown. And Aye Tunes is also doing a bunch of lists for the year as well.
Will be doing a special Xmas episode so see you again before Santa comes. Sxx
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Terrorplex's 5th Anniversary, "5 Years of Fear!"
Terrorplex offers 4 haunted attractions and other Dark Amusements including a Fiji Mermaid Sideshow for the 2012 season starting September 21 - November 3. Our haunted attractions include Midnight Manor (Haunted Victorian Mansion, Renovated/Updated for 2012), the Manor is full of spirits and unexplained occurrences related to Dr. Morbid and all of his experimentation and ghastly treatments of his patients and workers; Infected (NEW in 2011), this military compound has experienced a virusoutbreak, will you be part of the solution? or become a flesh eating zombie and part of the problem? The Circus of the Dead (New 2012), come see what horrible things Dr. Morbid has done to the Zamora Family Circus to help relieve his fear of the circus and clowns; and Limbo (New 2012), Terrorplex's NEW outdoor maze winding through a field where you will turn every which way trying to find your wayout!. We have an improved festival area with music, psychic reader, Gore Store, concession area, etc... Come spend and evening with us and we promise it will be a night to remember, in your nightmares that is!!!
NEW to Terrorplex Screampark in 2012 will be our use of QR CODES throughout the complex. Use your phones to scan our QR Codes (bar codes like the one to the right) at various places in our que lines and these codes will bring up stories or videos related to each of our attractions, as well as, features about Terrorplex's various ICON characters. If you go on your phone to where you download Apps,search for "CODE READER" and download the App. Once you're at Terrorplex, start scanning the bar codes and become part of the action. We can help you on site also. Scan the QR code on this page and see how it works.
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Senate has the votes to pass Violence Against Women Act
Seven Republicans say they will support the latest version of the bill
Topics: domestic violence, Violence Against Women Act, Patrick Leahy, Louise Slaughter, House Republicans, Politics News
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Friday that the Senate has enough votes to pass the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, with the Senate to begin consideration of the law next week.
Leahy tweeted:
JUST TOPPED 'magic number' of 60 bipartisan cosponsors of my #VAWA legisl.; We're moving briskly toward Senate vote on the Leahy-Crapo Bill
— Sen. Patrick Leahy (@SenatorLeahy) January 31, 2013
In a statement, Leahy said: "I am pleased the Senate will next week turn its focus to reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. The Leahy-Crapo VAWA bill seeks to protect all victims of domestic and sexual violence, including tribal women, immigrants, college students, and members of the LGBT community."
Along with 53 Senate Democrats, seven Republicans have also committed to supporting the bill's reauthorization, giving it the 60 votes it needs to break a potential Republican filibuster. Those Republicans include Mike Crapo, Idaho, who co-sponsored the bill with Leahy, along with Kelly Ayotte, N.H., Susan Collins, Maine, Dean Heller, Nev., Mark Kirk, Ill., Jerry Moran, Kan., and Lisa Murkowski, Alaska.
VAWA stalled and expired for the first time ever in September, 2011, and over the course of last year House Republicans blocked it from passing several times. The Senate's latest version of the VAWA carves out protections for LGBT women, undocumented immigrants, and Native American women, and strips out a provision that House Republicans used as a way to mount procedural objections to the bill last time around.
So far there's been mostly silence from House Republicans on whether or not they'll take it up after the Senate, but reportedly Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., who chairs the House Republican Conference, is a potential leader on the issue.
Jillian Rayfield is an Assistant News Editor for Salon, focusing on politics. Follow her on Twitter at @jillrayfield or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com. More Jillian Rayfield.


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