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SONOMA, Calif. – Following a decade in the American Le Mans Series and coming off of a team championship clinching GTC class win in the final ALMS race at Road Atlanta, Flying Lizard Motorsports today announced that it would join the new TUDOR United SportsCar Championship with two cars to be run in the GT Daytona class for the 2014 season.
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Why did Hillary win?
BY Liza Sabater | Wednesday, January 9 2008
[Cross-posted from culturekitchen.]
I believe that Hillary Clinton won for 4 very important reasons :
1. The campaign was able to get as many registered Democrats to vote for her as possible.
2. Since most registered Democrats who came to vote were women, the "tear heard around the world" was successful in getting her the last minute sympathy vote from people who ...
3. would have otherwise voted for John Edwards.
I think it is clear that for Hillary Clinton to stay in the race she needs to beat John Edwards, not Barack Obama. Edwards ran a remarkable game in Iowa. Had he had as much money as Clinton, he probably would have beaten her by more than just 1%. I am not sure though that under the voting trends of Iowa, he would have been able to beat Barack Obama.
4. The Obama campaign has insisted in equating their "I am not a black candidate" campaign with a complete disregard for the colored blogosphere. Yesterday was the day that it showed how much that has cost them.
So let's look at the numbers, courtesy of MSNBC.com :
1. A lot of white women were fed up with the mainstream media's bashing of Hillary Clinton :
Total Voters by :
Female 57%
Male 43%
White 95%
Black 1%
Latino 1%
Asian 1%
Other 1%
Total Women by Candidates
Hillary Clinton 46%
Barack Obama 34%
2. Less voters from the "Hip Hop" generation voted:
Total 11%
Hillary 22%
Obama 60%
Total 7%
Hillary 37%
Obama 35%
Total 15%
Hillary 36%
Obama 36%
Total 23%
Hillary 44%
Obama 33%
Total 31%
Hillary 39%
Obama 30%
Total 13%
Hillary 48%
Obama 32%
I did say "Hip Hop" generation. Let me explain :
Hip Hop is not just a musical style. Hip Hop is a lifestyle, a way of being, and a way of consuming. Hip hop is marketed as a global urban culture that goes beyond class, ethnicity and obviously race.
This is important to keep in mind because it explains why in the United States the majority of consumers of hip hop are white and under 45 (although I could be talked into extending the trend back to people under 50).
The "under 45s" are from a generation exposed to multiculturalism in schools, in politics but more importantly, in popular culture. For good or bad, Hip Hop went from the Afrocentric rage of Public Enemy's "Fear of a Black Planet" to the middle-class iPod-wearing contentment of The Black Eyed Peas "Elephunk". Negritude as tool of protest has become with Hip Hop an expression of urbanism, cosmopolitanism and cool that is devoured by white hipsters, emos and young republicans alike.
Call it the "Bill Cosby-Will Smith-Sean Combs continuum".
Voters in Iowa by Age group
Total 17%
Hillary 10%
Obama 57%
Total 6%
Hillary 15%
Obama 57%
Total 18%
Hillary 36%
Obama 42%
Total 29%
Hillary 26%
Obama 29%
Total 9%
Hillary 34%
Obama 21%
Total 22%
Hillary 45%
Obama 18%
So even though I do agree that The Bradley Effect may have had a hand at the New Hampshire elections, I do believe that Iowans,
a. Voted for Obama not because they were afraid to be called a racist but because they are used to seeing black men in positions of power,
b. They recognize the transnational urbanism of Obama that will not make them feel "left behind" exactly because he has not chosen to run as a "black" President.
3. If you look at the New Hampshire numbers, more "party loyal" people voted for Hillary than Obama :
a. 52% of registered Democrats went to the polls. Of those 52%, 43% voted for Hillary compared to 34% for Obama.
b. On the other hand, 42% of voters were Independents. A sizable 40% voted for Obama whereas only a 34% voted for Hillary Clinton.
These numbers are extremely significant for the next 3 questions :
Regardless of how you voted today, which one of these candidates do you think would be most likely to beat the Republican presidential nominee in November?
Barack Obama 44%
Hillary Clinton 35%
Regardless of how you voted today, which one of these candidates do you think is the strongest leader?
Hillary Clinton 38%
Barack Obama 35%
Regardless of how you voted today, which one of these candidates would be most likely to unite the country if elected president?
Hillary Clinton 28%
Barack Obama 55%
More people think Obama can beat a Republican and unite the country even though they all see Hillary Clinton as the strongest leader. This is significant and I believe it does point to the fact that the Clintons were successful at neutralizing the independent grassroots vote by getting more registered Democrats to the polls.
Here's my two last proofs of the pudding.
4. John Edwards distant third proves that for Hillary Clinton to beat Barack Obama, she has to actually 'triangulate' the Edwards vote.
The "tear heard around the world" was received with a no-comment from Obama after it happened. Yet Edwards made a huge mistake by not showing any sympathy. It cost him.
White women went out in droves and gave Hillary the sympathy vote. Call New Hampshire's results "The Vagina Dialogues".
5. Last but not least, the Obama campaign has failed to recognize colored voters as the real swing voters in this election.
If MSNBC's exit polls are correct, not a significant number of colored people voted in New Hampshire. This is huge and problematic.
If we look at the numbers in Iowa, 7% of colored voters went out to play at the caucuses. A whopping 72% of Black and a 49% of "Other" voters went for Obama.
On the other hand, there are no numbers for colored voters in New Hampshire. Could this be a flaw of the polling? Are we to believe the pollsters didn't find any black or latino people to interview outside polling places?
Hillary Clinton won by less than 8,000 votes. I believe that if the exit polls are correct, then it shows that had Obama's campaign focused as hard on colored voters as they have with young white voters, Barack would have been the winner.
The truth is different, at least as it has been played out in the blogosphere.
The Obama campaign has refused forcefully to reach out to bloggers during the whole campaign process. I can understand Barack's reticence with the netroots after the infamous "Tone" post at Daily Kos and have said so in "The Audacity of Biracial Hope".
Yet the last year has seen an explosion of incredibly engaged and effective colored activists taking to the blogosphere. The proof is in the Jena Six, Don Imus and Fox News campaign waged by a growing "Afrosphere" of relatively unknown but incredibly well connected activists from across the country.
I have asked many of these bloggers if the Obama campaign has done any attempts to reach out the them and many have said no. And if they have done little to reach out to top Black bloggers in the country, they have done nothing to reach the already established Latino, Asian and Native American bloggers.
It is a tactical decision that is going to cost Barack Obama dearly. "The long tail" of the blogosphere is populated by most of the top colored blogs and bloggers in this country. And these are some of the most "on the gound" active bloggers in the United States.
In other words, they're the real grassroots.
Even if they had hit at entertainment and lifestyle blogs like Crunk and Disorderly, Vivir Latino and Sepia Mutiny, they would have reached hundreds of thousands of politically engaged colored people who are not at all participants of the netroots crowd.
And there, of course, is Perez Hilton. Never underestimate the power of a shout out by Mario. Had I been on the Obama online outreach team, I would have hit Mario hard because more than anybody he reaches out the 2 core constituencies that Obama needs in order to succeed.
But I can comfortably say that the Obama campaign has done relatively nothing to reach out to us colored bloggers as the links to the swing votes they will need to win the primaries.
Well, that tactical error is costing them dearly.
Not getting out the colored vote was all the Clintonites needed to happen in order to make their candidate win.


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Biggest Loser Liars: Did Dane Really Run A Marathon?
February 26, 2009 09:00 AM by Paulene Hinds
Rumor has it that last night's The Biggest Loser cast off Gregory "Dane" Patterson, is lying about coming home and running a marathon in just under four hours. Apparently an avid runner decided to call him on his achievement and did a little research to see if Dane indeed was able to run a mile in 8 minutes and 53 seconds as would have been the case if he finished the marathon in the amount of time that he stated on the show. Beloware the conclusions to the investigation and an apparentresponse from Dane's wife about the incident.
Gregory "Dane" Patterson did indeed run a marathon when he returned home from The Biggest Loser. The name of the event was the Desert Classic Marathon, which was held in Phoenix Arizona. Dane began the race with his wife, but apparently around the 17 mile mark they were picked up in a van and driven to the end of the course, where they were filmed by the Biggest Loser team crossing the finish line, with their family cheering them on.
The incident even caused one other runner, who finished the marathon,to give Dane the nickname the "Biggest Liar."
The Biggest Loser could have reported that Dane ran a half marathon, which would have been an incredible achievement, but they chose to stretch the truth and tell the world that Dane ran the whole event, in an incredible time to boot!
Dane's wife Carli Patterson has apparently found out that some one was taking her family to task for thelie and it looks like she has decided to come forward and write anexplanation and apology to the runner who outed her and her husband. Her explanation of the distance ran by her husbandhowever still doesn't seem to fit with what theother runnerhas reported.
Carli Patterson wrote, "Hi! I'm Carli Patterson wife to The Biggest Losercontestant Dane Patterson. I had heard about your post and wanted to give you an explanation of what happened. I am so proud of my husband and his accomplishments. This has been an amazing experience for our family and unfortunatly this marathon has been a little exaggerated." She continued, "In this industry you are always on a time frame and sometimes it is out of your control. We had stopped along the way to film at a water station and to make up for lost time our producers drove us ONLY 3 miles up the road.
Carli Patterson went on to apologize to the other runner stating, "I am sorry if this has offended you in any way, but we are still incredibly happy about the 23 miles we ran. We were not listed as completing the marathon. Dane is an honest LDS Dad and I hope that they do say he completed this marathon because had time allowed he would have!"
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AmyK Says:
February 26th, 2009 at 11:17 am
You ran 23 miles NOT a marathon and it seems questionable that you even ran 23. It doesn't matter what you think you could have done, you didn't finish. Instead you got in a car and drove to the finish, you are cheaters and liars.
srlopez Says:
February 26th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
If you get picked up in a van and driven 3 miles, this is against the rules. You get disqualified from the event for cheating. Which is exactly what happened (and why they are not listed in the results… they were reported and subsequently removed).
Additionally, there were severe editing shenanigans. He didn't run a 3:53. My team members who were at this race reported him coming in closer to the six hour mark, perhaps 5:53, which jibes with why Carli would be saying they had to hurry up. Maybe the camera team had to leave at the six hour mark.
This is insulting to the runners at this race and people who have been training for marathons in general. It is highly manipulative and finally, of all the "reality" manipulations that BL has done, this one is over the line. It involved real-world people who had nothing to do with the show.
hart277 Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 8:27 am
I don't even see his name on the results page for the desert classic in AZ for 2009.
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His most recent published work in the field includes the article The Psychosocial Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Persons with Disabilities and Independent Living Center Staff Living on the American Gulf Coast in the journal Rehabilitation Psychology, which received the 2011 Research Award from the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association and Emergency Management and Disability: A 2008 Scorecard in the Disability and Health Journal. He is a co-author of Assessing the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Persons with Disabilities by the Research and Training Center on Independent Living of the University of Kansas, which examined gaps in planning, communication and coordination between county emergency management offices and disability organizations in the areas affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
He has provided training and technical assistance in the area of emergency preparedness in several states, including Michigan, Iowa and Wyoming, and serves on the advisory committee of the Special Populations Analysis and Research Project at Temple University. Other recent presentations include Community Emergency Planning: How to Make It Happen at the 2010 conference of the Association of University Centers on Disability and Translating Research in Disaster Preparation and Emergency Response for People with Disabilities into Policy and Practice at the American Public Health Association.
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I have heard the phrase, "Can you please eat a cheeseburger or something?" more times than I care to recall, and it has always bothered me in a way I couldn't really put into words, until now.
My feeling of self-worth should have nothing to do with what I weigh, or the boobs or butt I do or don't have. The body I have does not define the woman I am.
There are plenty of people who have made it very clear (both to my face and on the Internet) that they do not believe I have any place at a magazine with the word "Curvy" in the title. In fact, I have even had people tell me they will completely discount every word I ever have written or will write about body image because I'm petite, and I must, therefore, have no idea what it's like to struggle with body image.
That assumption could not be further from the truth; I struggle every day to be okay with the flat chest, flat butt, and wide hips that I see in the mirror. Every once in a while, I'll come to a day where I can think, Yes. This is my body and I love it because it is beautiful, just the way it is. Far more often, however, I'll want to drape a sheet over my whole body, to hide the absolute lack of curves that so obviously mean, "I am a woman."
Enter my utter passion and enthusiasm for Curvy Girl Guide – our philosophy, our magnificent, outspoken, and beautiful writers and editors, and our push to help prove to those who have been so influenced by the media's horribly damaging message of "Thin = Sexy, period," that beauty comes in absolutely every shape, size, and stature.
This magazine and what we stand for (both together and as individual writers) have nothing to do with glorifying one body type over another, saying one is right and beautiful, and one is wrong and ugly. We stand for the belief that every woman deserves to feel beautiful and desirable because she is that way from the inside, out…not just because of what her body looks like.
This, my friends, is why such a small woman writes for a magazine with the word "Curvy" in the title, and why I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.


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Writers' Guild of Alberta
Programs & Services: Retreats
The Writers' Guild of Alberta offers three writing retreats each year - one in Banff in mid-February and two at Strawberry Creek Lodge (near Leduc) in June and October.
Treat yourself to renewal and writing May 6 – 10 at the Strawberry Creek Lodge at our 2015 Spring Strawberry Creek Retreat!
Registrations may be made online or by calling our office starting at 780.422.8174 (1.800.665.5354 toll-free Alberta). Click here to register online!
Registration fee: $577
Payments may be made via credit card or cheque. Only 11 spots are available! Register early to avoid disappointment!
This is a self-guided retreat is open to participants at any stage of their writing career. The time is yours to structure as you please. The group may wish to organize readings or social gatherings and is welcome to do so, bearing in mind that some writers come to write only and may choose to maintain their solitude by declining involvement in group activities.
Strawberry Creek Lodge is a spacious log building on the edge of a tranquil valley, about a half hour's drive west of Leduc. It's a natural setting for hiking, bird watching, and stargazing. We will provide a map on registration.
Visit Strawberry Creek Lodge's website for more information and photos.
Registration includes four nights' accommodation in your own room (with a desk) and all meals from Wednesday supper through Sunday lunch. All participants must be members of the Writers' Guild of Alberta. You may become a member following registration if you are not a current member.
The retreat begins Wednesday, May 6. Check in anytime after 3:00 PM. Supper is served at 6:00 PM. Try to arrive in time for supper—it's worth it! The retreat wraps up after lunch on Sunday, May 10.
Because of the unique nature of Strawberry Creek Lodge, not all rooms are the same. Rooms are assigned through a draw on the first day of the retreat. We do not guarantee room selection.
Cancellation policy:
Registrations with VISA or MasterCard may be made by phoning 780.422.8174 or 1.800.665.5354.
The 2015 Banff Retreat is sold out! Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com to be placed on a waiting list.
Registrations for the 2016 retreat will be launched in Fall 2015.
The annual WGA Banff Retreat is open for applications. This self-guided retreat is a great opportunity to connect with fellow writers and enjoy uninterrupted writing time at The Banff Centre, the world's largest arts and creativity incubator. Writers at any stage of their career or writing project are welcome to join in.
Our 2015 Writer-in-Residence is Tololwa Mollel, internationally recognized children's author, dramatist, storyteller and teacher. Tololwa will be on site at The Banff Centre to provide individual consultations. Visit his website at http://www.tololwamollel.com.
Tololwa Mollel
Tololwa M Mollel is author of over seventeen internationally published children's books. Among them are WGA award winners My Rows and Piles of Coins and Big Boy, Subira Subira, and the Governor General award-winning The Orphan Boy, and his latest, From Lands of the Night. Some of Mollel's books and adult stories have been translated into Korean, Serbian, Norwegian, Bengali, several South African tongues, and other languages. Increasingly of interest to him is writing for performance. He does two types of stories for performance, those he performs solo as a storyteller or theatrical story performer; and ones he works into theatrical productions in collaboration with a theatre director, actors and musicians and other artists. Through writing, storytelling and drama, Mollel hopes to empower the young and the old with the gift of story – to create, write, tell, share and enjoy stories; to mentor them as he too was mentored.
Prices (All prices are inclusive of GST):
Full and Half retreat fees include accommodation in a private room (with a desk), a meal plan, use of the Banff Centre amenities including complimentary access to the Sally Borden recreation centre, welcome and farewell receptions, evening readings and access to the Writer-in-Residence.
Wish to extend your stay further? Self-directed Writing Residencies run year-round at The Banff Centre and provide the time and space for focused work. Extend your stay before or after the WGA retreat by applying for a Self-directed Residency via www.banffcentre.ca/writing. Please note that access to the Writer-in-Residence and other WGA specific retreat activities e.g. receptions, readings etc is not included in the Literary Arts Self-directed Writing Residency offered by the Banff Centre.
How to Register:
Registration is first-come, first-served, so register early to avoid disappointment. To register with VISA or MasterCard, phone 780.422.8174 or 1.800.665.5354. Registration forms may be sent by mail, email, or fax. Please do not fax or email credit card numbers.
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The Writers' Guild of Alberta
Percy Page Centre
11759 Groat Road
Edmonton, AB T5M 3K6
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Fax: 780.422.2663 (attn: WGA)
If you have questions, please feel free to contact the WGA at 780.422.8174 or 1.800.665.5354 (toll free in Alberta) or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information about the Banff Centre, please visit http://www.banffcentre.ca/writing.
Extended Deadline for registrations is Wednesday, December 10
Cancellation Policy: Cancellations made prior to and on November 14, 2014 will merit a full refund less a $50 administration fee. Refund requests made after November 14, 2014 will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Refunds are not guaranteed. Requests must be made in writing to The Writers' Guild of Alberta.
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The 1,700 marines of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit will begin returning to North Carolina Thursday after more than 10 months away on duty in Northern Africa and Europe.
The 22nd supported operations off Libya, trained in Dijibouti, and also with Spanish and Romanian marines. Marines flying AV-8B Harrier jets will be among the first to return today to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, while amphibious landing craft are returning tomorrow to New River Air Station.
Hundreds of other marines will return Saturday and Sunday to Camp Lejeune.


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This is how you know you've thrown a heck of a beer festival: you forgo a closing party because even the hard-core bar-hoppers are pooped out by the end of the second weekend.
Seattle Beer Week (May 8-18) boasts 240 beer-dinner pairings, meet-the-brewer nights, contests and tasting events. After a similarly packed 10 days last year, "we realized that … everyone was kind of haggard. Everyone had one beer and wanted to go home," said Ian Roberts, one of the organizers of the sudsy extravaganza.
The beer event to end all beer events is back. Remember when Seattle Beer Week was a casual get-together among brewers and their friends six years ago? You stumbled to one Capitol Hill bar one day and hit another the next day and saw the same 50 people. About a dozen bars and breweries participated then.
Now brewers from across the country come to Seattle to sponsor tastings or parties.
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It feels more like the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) — overwhelming with events from morning to night, with venues on both sides of the bridge. Beer Week now has about a dozen events on the Eastside, along with festivities as far north as Mill Creek and as far south as Tacoma.
Restaurants such as Lloyd Martin, RN74 and Quinn's now host beer-pairing dinners. (Check the website seattlebeerweek.com under "Events" for complete listings.)
The best way to tackle beer week is to approach it the way movie buffs look at SIFF.
Study the lineup and figure out what you want to know more about or what you love to drink. Below are a few samplings of events.
6-9 p.m. Friday, May 9: Check out what those garage-size operations are brewing during Nano Brewery Night at Naked City Brewery, 8564 Greenwood Ave. N., https://nakedcitybrewing.com.
Noon-6 p.m. Saturday, May 10: One of the stars to emerge in our microbrewery scene last year, Reuben's in Ballard, 1406 N.W. 53rd St., hosts a Rye Beer Fest, www.reubensbrews.com.
6-11 p.m. Sunday, May 11: The first event to sell out last year: Pine Box, 1600 Melrose Ave., brings back its beer-pairing dinner, with acclaimed chef Scott Carsberg preparing a menu to go with beers from 10 Barrel Brewing. $135 per person, https://squareup.com/market/the-pine-box/barrel-carsberg-dinner.
2 p.m.-2 a.m. Monday, May 12: Here's the answer to all those who hate that Seattle Beer Week doesn't feature just local brews. Beveridge Place Pub, 6413 California Ave. S.W., hosts "This is Washington Dammit!" featuring 36 local beers for only $3 a pint, www.beveridgeplacepub.com.
5-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 13: On tap for the first time in the United States: Brasserie Du Bocq's Blanche de Namur during Meet the Brewer Night at Malt and Vine, 16851 Redmond Way, www.maltandvine.com.
Noon-8 p.m. Wednesday, May 14: Traditionally one of the most popular festival events, Elysian on Capitol Hill, 1221 E. Pike St., hosts "Firkin-Firkin" showdown, featuring 16 kegs competing for "Best in Show," www.elysianbrewing.com.
11 a.m.-11 p.m. Thursday, May 15: "Sourfest" at Brouwser's Café, 400 N. 35th St., returns, showcasing sour beers from across the country. Fans will come from as far as Everett and Tacoma for this event, http://brouwerscafe.blogspot.com.
4-7 p.m. Friday, May 16: "SoDo vs. Ballard" brings together breweries from two of the hottest microbrewery 'hoods in Seattle. Held at Downtown Spirits, 2300 Seventh Ave., http://downtownspirits.com.
2-6 p.m. Saturday, May 17: For parents who can't make those 21-and-over events, Barking Dog Alehouse, 705 N.W. 70th St., in North Seattle hosts a family-friendly venue with a children's play area with face painting and games for your kids while you throw down a few, http://thebarkingdogalehouse.com.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, May 18: One of the biggest parties, The Dray in Ballard hosts an annual barbecue in its parking lot. Expect lots of interesting and cult beers. Come early or carpool if you need a parking space, http://thedray.com.
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Overslept Saturday's run? Overindulging? Overwhelmed with all things SXSW? We get it.
Get over it and shake it off with Brooks and The Run Happy Tour — a morning fun run open to runners of all levels! With two routes—5k and 10k—to choose from, a DJ leading the pack, Brooks swag—including an exclusively designed, SXSW-inspired Brooks shirt—you're guaranteed #runhappy fun!
Register at www.brooksrunning.com/sxsw and show up to the Registrant's Lounge to snag that swag (while supplies last). Oh, and while you're getting laced up, be sure to check out Run Happy – Vol. 1 on Spotify for some running motivation!


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Mountaintop removal mining is an atrocity that threatens water, wildlife and people. Earthjustice is in court defending EPA's veto of a permit for one of the largest proposed mountaintop removal sites in history, the Spruce No. 1 mine.
Case Overview
The Mingo Logan coal company's Spruce No. 1 mine—one of the largest mountaintop removal mines ever proposed—would bury over six miles of pristine mountain streams in rubble and destroy thousands of acres of forest. Appalachian ally groups fought back against the mine from the beginning, and for more than a decade succeeded in stalling its approval.
Then, in January 2011, the EPA made history when it vetoed the Spruce mine—the first ever veto of a proposed mine—on the grounds that it would severely harm natural resources in an area where local, low-income communities are already overburdened by mining and its pollution. Industry challenged the veto. Earthjustice, with and on behalf of Appalachian groups, filed a friend-of-the-court (amicus curiae) brief to defend the EPA's historic action.
In March of 2012, the U.S. District Court overturned the EPA's veto, clearing the way for Mingo Logan and its destructive Spruce No. 1 Mine. EPA appealed the court's decision, and in April 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the agency's legal authority to veto the mine. Mingo Logan asked for a reconsideration of the ruling but was denied in July 2013. It has filed a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to rule on EPA's legal authority. While that petition awaits action, the rest of Mingo Logan's claims, including that EPA lacked sufficient evidence of harm, will remain on hold. Earthjustice and Appalachian Mountain Advocates continue to work on behalf of numerous regional and national groups in support of EPA's veto as the rest of this case proceeds.
Case Updates
Federal Court Upholds EPA Veto of Spruce Mountaintop Removal Mine
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Supreme Court Rejects Coal Industry Lawsuit on Mountaintop Removal Mine Permit
"The Spruce No. 1 mine is one of the largest and most destructive mountaintop removal mines ever proposed in Appalachia, EPA's decision to veto the dumping of waste from this mine was a decision to prevent the most extreme impacts of the most radical type of strip mining – the worst of the worst," said Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen. "The Clean Water Act, enacted with wide bipartisan and public support, gave the EPA broad authority to step in and stop this type of wholesale destruction and pollution of U.S. waters.
Supreme Court Rejects Coal Industry Attack on the EPA's Power to Protect Clean Water
Court Denies Coal Company's Request for Rehearing on Spruce Mine Veto
Appeals court backs EPA's veto of Spruce Mine
A federal court overturned a lower court decision that had denied the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to reject a permit for the Spruce Mine in West Virginia. The decision upholds the agency's veto power on permits for projects that pose a severe environmental threat and prevents that mine from aggravating Appalachian mountaintop removal. "Today's decision is a total vindication of the Clean Water Act and EPA's vital authority to protect all American communities from all kinds of environmental harm," said Earthjustice attorney Emma Cheuse.


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ENT145 Intro to Entrepreneurship
Evaluates the business skills and commitment necessary to successfully operate an entrepreneurial venture, and reviews the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship. Examines the role of entrepreneurial businesses in the United States and the impact on the national and global economy. F, W, Sp, Su
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ENT150A Planning Your Business 1
Begins the process of researching, developing, and writing a detailed business plan for a specific business. Develops the foundational product and service, plus management and organization sections of the business plan. First of a three-course sequence. F, W, Sp, Su
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ENT150B Planning Your Business 2
Continues the research, development, and documentation of the detailed business plan started in ENT15. Focuses on elements of marketing, including industry analysis, target market identification, market penetration, and product and service pricing. Prerequisite: ENT15 with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor. F, W, Sp, Su
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ENT150C Planning Your Business 3
Concludes the research, development, and documentation of the business plan. Focuses on financial management, including revenue, expenses, inventory, equity and debt, and financing through the use of integrated spreadsheets. Prerequisite: ENT150B with a grade of C or better; and basic mastery of Excel; or consent of instructor. F, W, Sp, Su
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ACROMOBILE CONNECTIONSA 360 degree view of your communities, customers, partners, and employees.
USER AUTHENTIFICATIONAllow your customers to securely store their user information (e.g. username and password tokens) allowing for convenient ongoing access.
- Support public and private content
- Provide personal profiles, registration and log-in functionalities
- Single sign on (e.g. OAuth for Facebook and Google apps)
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENTGain insight into what your employees need in order to help them succeed.
- Monitor employee progress and success
- Increase productivity
- Access information on multiple platforms
CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENTGain insight into what your customers "like," making it easy to build stronger, longer-lasting relationships.
- Understand customer preferences and activities
- Link to social media sites to know what your customers "like"
- Access real-time information on-the-go to make informed decisions
OPEN API ENTERPRISE INTEGRATIONSeamless and trusted interconnection with other websites and platforms establishing a user-friendly environment.
- Existing enterprise databases: SAP, Oracle
- Email markeing engines: VerticalResponse
- Payment gateways: PayPal, Cybersource
- Social Media: facebook, twitter
- Cloud: Salesforce


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Postgame Notes: UMass 82, No. 14/18 Dayton 71
Jan. 16, 2008
Recap | Box Score | Quotes | AP Gallery
UMass defeated a ranked team for the first time since Jan. 15, 2005, when the Minutemen knocked off No. 21 George Washington, 76-74 in overtime on the road.
The win was Travis Ford's first-ever against a ranked team. He was 0-14 overall with an 0-5 mark at UMass and 0-9 while at Eastern Kentucky.
Travis Ford is now 4-0 all-time coaching against Dayton's Brian Gregory, winning each of the last three years at UMass and once while at EKU.
UMass had five players in double-figures for the second time this season. The first was at Syracuse on Nov. 28.
Ricky Harris has scored in double-figures in every game this season with 22. He has more than 20 points in nine games this season.
Harris tied his career high in 3-pointers. He had five at Vanderbilt on Jan. 5.
Gary Forbes continued to match Harris by scoring in double-figures in every game this season and 20 in a row overall dating to last season. He finished with 16.
Dante Milligan had his fifth game this season with 10 or more points with 13. It was his ninth career game in double-figures. In just 16 games, with five double-figure games he has more than he had in all 32 games last season, four.
Chris Lowe scored in double-figures for the ninth time this season and 18th time in his career with 19.
Etienne Brower also reached double-figures with 11 off the bench for the first time this season. Brower has 10 games with 10 or more points this season.
Two of the A-10 top three scorers (Forbes - 20.9 ppg and Roberts - 20.1 ppg) were held to a combined five points in the first half.
UMass held Dayton's Brian Roberts (20.1 ppg) without a basket in the first half and just two points on a pair of free throws. UMass' Gary Correia played outstanding defense on him for a good portion of the half.
UMass jumped out big on the Flyers for the second year in a row, leading 15-3 until 12:21 was left in the half. Last season, UMass opened the game outscoring the Flyers 18-3 in the first 10 minutes.
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Would you live in the past, the future or stay living in the present? If you could travel in time but know if you left this time period, you could not come back and would leave everything and everyone, would you go? Explain you choice.
I really don't have any attachments here. I have faith in our future and really love technology. If I could leave I would and would travel 100 to 200 years into the future. By that time I figure many of our most important issues will be solved, technology will be fairly far advanced, including the fact that space travel might be fairly common for the average person. Also culture will probably not change that awful much that you would feel out of place.
I would love to be able to visit certain events in our past but I doubt I would want to stay there. Life was fairly rough up till maybe the mid 1900s. Advancements in medicine probably really did not get going till the late 1900s. I would think that living in the paste would be very challenging.


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Please read each of these sections. All users of the Hall must be made aware of these conditions prior to using the Hall
General Conditions
- There must be a Responsible Adult in charge on the premises at all times.
- No animals, other than guide dogs, shall be permitted within the premises, unless with specific prior approval.
- All areas in use must be left clean and tidy at the end of the booking period. Waste produced by sales/exhibitions/demonstrations must be removed by the exhibitors.
- All windows and internal doors are to be left closed on departure and the hall checked to ensure everyone has left the building and the rear door has been closed.
- All breakages must be reported and paid for.
- Any damage, or non-working of systems or complaints should be reported to Mr Graham Miller 01264 810895 if urgent. For non-urgent maintenance this should be entered in the maintenance book in the kitchen or reported to our automated phone number 01264 513299.
- Users of the Hall are responsible for their own public liability insurance for the activities they are undertaking.
- Some areas of the hall may be closed for building work or repairs from time to time. Notice of such changes will be given where possible.
- When the Porter and Barham Rooms are booked by separate users, and both users are undertaking activities open to the general public, the folding doors between the two rooms shall be open unless mutually agreed otherwise
- Regular users of the Hall may use the storage cupboards in the Barham Room by agreement free of charge subject to availability. However, if the Barham Room is booked for a use to which the general public do not have access, then access to the cupboards is also not available for the duration of that booking. Users of the cupboards will need to monitor other bookings and make arrangements to access the cupboards before or after the private booking
- All users shall use the Hall appropriately and treat other users with courtesy and respect
Booking and Payment
- An invoice will be emailed to you shortly after your bookings in any month and they must be paid within 14 days of their receipt. If invoices are not paid within this period a user may be de-registered and future bookings cancelled. Additional charges may be levied if required.
- Cancellations less than 28 days before the booking date will result in a charge of 50% of the rate and if less than 7 days the full charge will be made (unless another customer books the slot in which case there will be no charge).
- Charges are usually revised in April each year and invoices will reflect the price at the date of hire not when the booking was first made.
- The hire of the hall is timed in two hour slots: 8:00-10:00; 10:00-12:00; 12:00-14:00; 14:00-16:00; 16:00-18:00; 18:00-20:00; 20:00-22:00.
- Booked time must allow for setting up and clearing away after use.
- Weekend bookings by commercial customers must be for a minimum of 8 hours.
Safety Issues and Fire Procedures
- The entrance area and emergency escape routes must be kept unobstructed at all times. Limit display tables to the corner of the entrance lobby.
- All hirers must confirm that they know the emergency escape routes (see Essential Information page). They must explain the fire escape procedures to their staff and ensure that they or a nominated representative is present during their period of hire.
- When there is a meeting or performance the audience must be made aware of the fire escape routes.
- In the event of a fire, activate a fire alarm. The Town hall has heat and smoke detectors which may also sound the alarm.
- If the fire alarm is activated, evacuate the building immediately using the fire exits. The Hirer/Responsible Adult shall ensure that all areas of the building including toilets etc have been evacuated and all doors shut.
- The Hirer/Responsible Adult shall be responsible for calling the Fire Brigade.
- Do not re-enter the building until the Fire Brigade say it is safe to do so.
- Do not use the lift.
- Any person who cannot get down by the staircase should be kept in the designated refuge area (see plans) with the doors shut. The Fire and Rescue Service are to be told of this as soon as they arrive.
Signs and advertisements
- According to Borough Council regulations any advertisements displayed on the highway require planning permission. This particularly applies to advertisements displayed in other parishes. Test Valley Borough Council may take legal action involving a fine and will remove posters. The fine may be applied both to the fly-poster and to the Town Hall. We will recover the payment from any hirer who has ignored this warning.
- Brackets are provided on the front wall and west wall for the purpose of fixing posters/flyers. Signs or posters are not to be put on the glass windows at the front but on the sandwich board provided.
- Within the hall nothing must be fixed to any of the walls e.g. with Blu-tack, Sellotape, staples or drawing pins. Free standing posters may be placed in the corner by the main door. There are picture rails in the upper hall and picture hooks can be supplied if needed.
- Posters and advertising both inside and outside the premises shall be removed at the end of the booking.
Failure to adhere to General Conditions of Hire
- In the event of failure to adhere to any of the above Conditions of Hire the Management Committee reserves the right to cancel and/or refuse future bookings.


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Appropriators less dissatisfied with HUD budget justifications
After years of budget justifications that congressional staff have deemed inadequate, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has begun to improve its explanations, the Government Accountability Office says.
Appropriations subcommittee staff, the main users of the budget justifications that agencies submit annually to Congress, have said that HUD's justifications from fiscal 2008 to 2012 tended to rely on data tables to document their requests without narrative explanations, GAO says in a report (.pdf) released March 15.
HUD officials told auditors that they used data tables because "prior submissions with more detail did not prompt questions from Congress," the report says.
For fiscal 2012, Congress directed HUD to include detailed justifications for proposed workforce changes by program, project or activity. It also called for more details about salaries, travel and other expenses and told HUD to improve its resource management system.
Auditors say there are significant flaws in that system, which HUD uses to define workloads and estimate resources. HUD's program offices use it selectively, entering information inconsistently, and officials often don't use the system to inform their decisions, the report says.
HUD's fiscal 2013 budget justification was more detailed, the report says, and congressional staff have reported a general improvement. Some have continued to question the information's uniformity and reliability though. "As a result, these users do not feel that they have adequate, consistent information from HUD that justifies the budget request," the report says.
HUD agreed with GAO's recommendation that it consult with Congress to improve how its writes its budget justifications.
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- download the report, GAO-13-282 (.pdf)
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On-line version ISSN 1678-4464
GONCALVES, Carla Vitola; CESAR, Juraci Almeida and MENDOZA-SASSI, Raul A.. Quality and equity in prenatal care: a population- based study in Southern Brazil. Cad. Saúde Pública [online]. 2009, vol.25, n.11, pp. 2507-2516. ISSN 1678-4464. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0102-311X2009001100020.
This population-based study aimed to evaluate prenatal coverage according to family income in a municipality (county) in Southern Brazil. Data were collected using a questionnaire with mothers in the first 24 hours postpartum. Prenatal coverage, first prenatal consultation in the first trimester, six or more consultations, breast and colposcopic examination, routine prenatal laboratory tests according to the protocol of the Program for Humanization of Prenatal and Delivery Care (PHPN), and prenatal ultrasound increased proportionally with family income, and all were more frequent in women from the highest income quartile (p < 0.001). Despite these results, the prevalence of low birth weight did not show a statistically significant difference between the quartiles. The local health service appeared not to be very effective, since only 26.8% of the women were classified as having received adequate prenatal care according to the PHPN criteria, and care was unequal, since quality of care for women in the lowest income quartile was inferior to that of women in the highest quartile.
Keywords : Prenatal Care; Quality of Health Care; Equity in Health.


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Wolf brushes off attack ads in W-B visit
WILKES-BARRE — Gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf visited Mountain Productions during a campaign stop in the city Thursday, touting the company's business approach and his plan to create manufacturing jobs.
The Democratic nominee also dismissed attack ads from Gov. Tom Corbett as desperation.
"I think he needs to convince somebody he can make the numbers move appreciably. He can't do it with his own reputation, so he is going to have do it by trying to tear down mine," Wolf said, adding the Republican incumbent's negative strategy "is his only chance."
The latest Franklin & Marshall College poll had Wolf's support at 47 percent to Corbett's 25 percent. A Corbett campaign TV ad this month blames Wolf for new taxes proposed by former Gov. Ed Rendell on home heating oil, electricity and garbage, as well as a 1 percentage point increase in the sales levy.
Rendell proposed those levies in the 2007-08 budget year when Wolf was secretary of revenue in Rendell's administration.
"I was secretary of revenue, and secretary of revenue in a democracy does not raise or lower anybody's taxes," Wolf said Thursday.
The state Legislature didn't adopt any of the Rendell tax proposals.
"It is comical that Tom Wolf won't even accept video testimony of Tom Wolf advocating to raise taxes as proof that Tom Wolf does indeed want to raise taxes," said Chris Pack, communications director for the Corbett campaign.
Wolf and his wife Frances were at the Mountain Productions facility off New Frederick Street in Wilkes-Barre for more than an hour Thursday afternoon. The staging company sets up for more than 400 shows a year all over the country.
Mountain Productions President Jim Evans showed Wolf the company's operations during a tour. State Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski was also there.
"We have been involved in the last nine Super Bowls," Evans told Wolf.
"Rock 'n' roll has come a long way," Pashinski added.
Eddie Day was Pashinski's stage name as a rock-band front man. Mountain Productions was founded in 1979 and became the largest staging company in North America after a 1981 job as staging provider for Simon and Garfunkel in New York City's Central Park.
"We attempt to buy as much as we can from local vendors," Evans said, adding the company currently has 123 employees.
Wolf compared Mountain Productions to his business in York. Wolf is chairman of his family-owned business, The Wolf Organization Inc., a building-product company specializing in kitchen cabinets.
"I am coming to places like this to say we are really good at making things," Wolf said. "When you come here, you see what is their strength. They integrate design. They integrate the construction and fabrication of it and even installation of it, which is more than we do. Those are things that you find in manufacturing you can't do in the model that has the design in one country and the manufacturing somewhere else."
Wolf discussed his plan to create manufacturing jobs in Pennsylvania, which he said is modeled after a policy in Oklahoma. Under his proposal, manufacturing companies that generate at least $1 million in additional taxable payroll could receive a cash payment from the state of up to 5 percent of new taxable payroll the following year.
To qualify, the new jobs must be full-time with competitive health benefits and have an average wage that equals or exceeds the average in the county in which the company is located. The plan also has "a clawback provision" that requires the return of payments if companies do not maintain the new jobs for five years.
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In the Body of the World: A Memoir
by Eve Ensler
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hard to read at times, but a real insight to one's emotions when you have cancer
I cannot recommend this book enough. To survivors everywhere, not just cancer, but survivors of life.
Eve Ensler best known for her play, The Vagina Monologues, has penned a very moving and at times raw memoir of her experience with uterine cancer. Ensler explains how this fast-moving and not-quite-linear memoir is similar to a CAT Scan, a roving examination. The time-out-of-place juxtaposition of presents, pasts, friends, family, despair, and hope gives the pages depth and the use of strong words are at times painful but important to read through.
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From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection—to the body, the self, and the world
Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body—a disconnection brought on by her father's sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. "Because I did not, could not inhabit my body or the Earth," she writes, "I could not feel or know their pain."
But Ensler is shocked out of her distance. While working in the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body—pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that all distance is erased. As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fully—and gratefully—joined to the body of the world.
Unflinching, generous, and inspiring, Ensler calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world.
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LOS ALAMITOS, Calif – July 31, 2004 — USA Water Polo recently announced that the U.S. Olympic Committee has named the women of Team USA from USA Water Polo as its Team of the Month for June, marking the first time that the women's squad has captured the award.
Team USA won its sixth straight international tournament with a gold medal
finish at the first-ever FINA Women's World League Super Finals with a
thrilling shootout win over World Cup champ Hungary before 3,100 fans at the
Charter All Digital Aquatic Centre in Long Beach, Calif., on June 27. The
tournament featured all eight of the teams that will participate in this
year's Summer Olympics. The win gave the U.S. its sixth straight first place
finish in international competition. The last time that the U.S. missed out
on a first place finish on its home soil was the 2002 U.S. Cup in Chicago,
Since 1999, the U.S. has only failed to play for a medal in one
international tournament, taking a fifth place finish at the 2003 Thetis Cup
in Greece. Over that span, the U.S. took the top spot at the 2003 Pan
American Games and World Championships and silver at the 2002 World Cup and
2000 Olympics.
The team's performance at the World League Super Finals solidified the
team's billing as the gold medal favorite heading into the Athens Games.
The U.S. finished ahead of USA Softball in the Team of the Month balloting.


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But to address the issues you brought up, one thing I won't do is tighten up my points. I stated that this would be a long article, and I meant it. It's not like other quick pieces; this is more personal, without being fanboy-biased. I'll tell you one thing, if the ending wasn't so bad the article wouldn't be so long. And I still missed a few points. I can, however, make it a two-parter while also editing my formet, so thanks for bringing that to my attention.
As for the second... well, I give a spolier alert, so that takes care of that. Is there an editor here who has played it?
Why are people giving the ending a hard time? Well, why do people give bad movies like "The Room" a hard time? Because those movies suck, and this ending sucks. It's not like I want to nit-pick, the endings are incompetent and lazy, and not a measure of what BioWare is capable of. And I do not agree with you on how it was written. Sure, at times, it felt hodge podge and cliched, but the fact of the matter is, your character had a lot of say in how things played out. That created a unique connection between Shepard and player, giving weight to decisions not felt in games like Halo. So during a bad stretch of writing, the connection to the character uplifted the negative, but never made me blind to the faults. Yes, it could be hit and miss, but I was thoroughly impressed with how they weaved so many points together.
For the last point, no. Even if the game were bad, this would still be a terrible ending. Even if the writing was always trite, this is a lazy hash-up. Triple-A has nothing to do with it. If ME wasn't triple A, I'd still expect a more cohesive ending.
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KSDK is looking for interns for January 2014.
Our program may be different than other stations in town. But our responsibilty to each student, and our commitment, is different as well.
We highly encourage each intern to make a total commitment to the experience and stay through the conclusion of that semester's program. During the school year, we anticipate 20-25 in which you will spend at KSDK. We are also extremely flexible when it comes to a student's schedule. We work with each students to make sure that student is having a quality experience, getting school work done and spending enough time here to understand the business.
Each intern has tasks in a variety of areas on all of our platforms. The areas include the assignment desk, the sports office, the special projects area of the newsroom, our websites, the community relations office, the "Show Me St. Louis" team and a host of other options. Students apply to the program only, not a specific area.
Additionally, time is given to observation so a student can concentrate on an area of interest and meet with leaders inside the station.
We believe interns should be put on the right path for a career, so we try to help them prepare for the job market. Since its establishment in 1985, the program has had more than 800 students. Many are happily employed in the business.
Currently, we are employing 12 former interns in full time and part time jobs.
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An intern must receive academic credit and furnish a personal letter from a faculty advisor explaining the arrangement before the semester's work may begin.
Since each institution is different, we really have no requirement regarding college standing, except that a candidate must have finished at least one year in college.
The experience is unpaid, but we do offer a chance to work in one of the most exciting and successful network affiliates in the country, in a corporation that leads the nation in newsgathering and its commitment to its community and employees.
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Special Order
George Washington may be one of history's most underrated commanders. Overlooked in favour of his contemporaries such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Frederick the Great, Washington's achievements are arguably more impressive. Frederick and Napoleon inherited formidable militaries, and both had extensive military training and experience prior to assuming command of armies. Washington built his army from scratch, was self-taught, and had never commanded anything larger than a regiment before assuming command of the Continental Army in 1775. This new Command title will track the development of Washington's military career from his early missteps to his heroic efforts during the Revolutionary War that led him on the path to the presidency.
About the Author
Mark Lardas is the author of numerous books on maritime and Texas history. A longtime resident of Texas, he has maintained an interest in the Texas maritime history, including shipwrecks. With generous assistance from and in cooperation with the Institute of Nautical Archeology at Texas A&M University, and numerous museums throughout the state of Texas, he has pulled together a fascinating collection of images to illustrate Texas's maritime history as seen from its shipwrecks from Cabeza de Vaca's first shipwreck in 1528 through the 21st century.
Graham Turner is a leading historical artist, specializing in the medieval period. He has illustrated numerous titles for Osprey, covering a wide variety of subjects from the dress of the 10th-century armies of the Caliphates, through the action of bloody medieval battles, to the daily life of the British Redcoat of the late 18th century. The son of the illustrator Michael Turner, Graham lives and works in Buckinghamshire, UK.
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An active judiciary
Producers of child pornography, in an exercise in creative depravity, have turned to two techniques to get around federal child-porn laws: (1) Instead of using actual children in their porn pieces, they've used adults who only look like minors; and (2) they've tapped into the virtual reality capabilities of computers to generate sexually explicit images of "cyber-children." A year ago Congress passed the Child Pornography Prevention Act, aimed at stopping such attempts to skirt federal law. The act bans "any visual depiction" that "is, or appears to be ... a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct." On Aug. 12, a federal judge in San Francisco upheld the new law. Turning back a legal challenge from the ACLU and more than 600 producers and distributors of "adult-oriented materials," U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti ruled that, even if no actual children are used in the production of child porn, the "effect that such materials have on society ... merits the regulation of such images." The ACLU plans an appeal. A federal judge in Washington apparently is unconcerned about any effects of porn in prisons. U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin ruled Aug. 13 that a new law banning sexually explicit materials from prisons is unconstitutional. Three porn-seeking federal prisoners, with help from the ACLU and the publishers of Playboy and Penthouse, had filed suit against the law. In South Carolina, a state judge ordered Charleston County to remove a plaque of the Ten Commandments from a county government building. The order came in response to a suit filed by the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Overturning its own decision, California's Supreme Court voted to strike down a law requiring minors to get parental or judicial approval before having an abortion. The court said the law violates a teenager's right to privacy. Only a year ago, the state Supreme Court upheld the abortion-consent law, but two justices who supported that ruling have since left the court. The new court voted to rehear the case. Although on the books for ten years, the abortion-consent law had not been enforced due to legal challenges.
Home again
Two Russian cosmonauts, ending a trouble-plagued six-month tour of duty aboard the Mir space station, returned to planet Earth without mishap Aug. 15. During their time on Mir, the space station suffered a collision with a cargo drone, a malfunctioning oxygen generator, and an on-board fire. Just before leaving Mir, cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliev, assured by ground control that all was set for his return, replied, "Thank God."
Disaster strikes
A low-flying Korean airlines jumbo jet laden with summer vacationers and honeymooners slammed into a hillside Aug. 6 on the South Pacific island of Guam, killing 225 passengers and crew. Twenty-nine survived. The pilot of the Boeing 747 was attempting an early-morning landing during a rainstorm. Although the official cause of the crash hasn't been determined, U.S. air safety investigators say a programming glitch caused the airport's Minimum Safe Altitude Warning System to malfunction.
The good old summertime
President Clinton enjoyed summertime approval ratings rivaling Reagan's and Eisenhower's, but several developments during the congressional summer recess signaled a troublesome fall. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat on the committee investigating campaign fundraising abuses, had more tough criticism for the White House. In an Aug. 12 interview with Reuters, the Connecticut senator blamed both parties for the "collapse" of spending limits and full disclosure during the 1996 campaign season, but "the Democratic administration was part of that breakdown, was at the center of that breakdown." Mr. Lieberman also ripped White House and Democratic Party foot-dragging that led last month to a unanimous vote by the Senate committee to subpoena witnesses and documents for the probe. On Aug. 6, committee chairman Fred Thompson officially issued 39 subpoenas. Journalists turned up more fodder for the Thompson committee: On Aug. 5, AP revealed documents showing Vice President Gore made 44 fundraising calls from his White House office. Internal White House memos detailed an extensive effort by Mr. Gore's staff to block out time to make the calls. Two days later, Democratic National Committee officials acknowledged they prepared "call sheets" for Hillary Clinton, who said through a spokesman she had no recollection of making fundraising calls. The Senate investigating committee will call more witnesses in September, when Congress is back in session, but that isn't necessarily bad news for the president: The Aug. 9 CBS poll that gave Mr. Clinton a 61 percent favorable job rating also showed that less than one in 10 of those polled were following the fundraising hearings. California entrepreneur Johnny Chung, who gave more than a third of a million dollars to the Democratic National Committee between 1994 and 1996, revealed Aug. 4 that he contributed a previously undisclosed $25,000 to a private committee formed to smear a 1996 Senate investigation of the Clintons' finances. Mr. Chung's attorney gave details of the story and supporting documentation to the Los Angeles Times. According to the Times story, Mr. Chung, at the same meeting in which he was hit up for the money, secured a commitment from the head of the committee to arrange meetings for him with the U.S. ambassador to China and officials in the Commerce Department. Making those arrangements was Lynn Cutler, veteran Democratic activist and currently a White House aide, who headed the Back to Business Committee. Gifts to the organization do not fall under federal campaign disclosure laws. Nevertheless, White House officials confirmed the essence of Mr. Chung's account.
Pattern of conduct?
Merely delaying the "day of reckoning," as Paula Jones's lawyer Joseph Cammarata put it, lawyers for former White House aide Kathleen E. Willey postponed a scheduled deposition Aug. 14 about a reported sexual advance President Clinton made toward her in the context of job review in the Oval Office. Mr. Cammarata wants to question Ms. Willey under oath about the incident, and he hopes to discover evidence of a pattern of improper conduct by Mr. Clinton. Ms. Willey's lawyer argued his client should not be questioned because she knows nothing about what did or did not happen at the Little Rock hotel where Mrs. Jones says she was sexually harassed. Meanwhile, on Aug. 12, spokesmen for Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, state police, and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission confirmed that their offices received subpoenas July 29 from Mrs. Jones's lawyers. They plan to scour Arkansas state records for any evidence that might help in Mrs. Jones's upcoming case.
The nation in brief
**red_square** The nation in brief **red_square** A federal judge officially imposed the death sentence for Timothy McVeigh, the Gulf War veteran convicted two months ago of plotting and carrying out the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, the worst act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. Legal appeals are expected to postpone the execution for years. About 185,000 drivers, sorters, and loaders of United Parcel Service went on strike Aug. 4, creating headaches for companies and consumers around the nation who rely on UPS for package delivery. The U.S. Postal Service and other carriers went into high gear to help pick up the slack. The two main strike issues: The Teamsters Union wants thousands of part-time jobs converted to full-time; UPS wants to pull out of a union-administered pension program and set up its own pension plan. As the strike dragged on, Labor Secretary Alexis Herman persuaded the two sides to resume broken-off talks and urged them "to stay at the table until they reach a settlement." An Amtrak train hurtling through the predawn Arizona desert derailed Aug. 9 as it crossed a sagging wooden bridge over a rain-swollen riverbed. The accident injured dozens of the Los Angeles-to-Chicago train's 309 passengers. In Miami, a cargo plane crashed moments after takeoff Aug. 7, killing its four crew members. Hundreds of terror-stricken people on the ground saw the plane plunging from the sky and ran for cover. The DC-8 crashed into a field, skidded across an eight-lane road and came to rest in a shopping mall parking lot. **red_square** The depravity of man A New Jersey teenager charged with killing her newborn baby pleaded guilty Aug. 11 to manslaughter. Melissa Seaner, 17, gave birth May 26 and then discarded her baby daughter in a gym bag. In Indiana, someone tossed a newborn into an outhouse pit at a city park. An emergency crew rescued the 6-pound, 7-ounce boy after being alerted by a woman who heard the child making noises. Malcolm Shabazz, the 12-year-old grandson of the late black activist Malcolm X, was sentenced to at least 18 months at a juvenile center for setting the fire that killed his grandmother. Betty Shabazz died three weeks after suffering severe burns in the June 1 blaze. **red_square** Just the way you are Apparently trying to undermine the burgeoning "ex-gay" movement, the governing body of the American Psychological Association (APA) voted to restrict therapeutic techniques that help homosexuals become heterosexuals. A resolution, passed overwhelmingly at the group's annual meeting in Chicago, calls on psychologists to assure gay patients that homosexuality is not a mental illness and that "reparative" or "conversion therapy" has no scientific basis. Such therapy, promoted by the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), is used to great effect by Christian ministries such as Exodus International, which currently has 6,000 homosexuals in therapy. **red_square** Sowing and reaping Seizing on a seldom-used state law, a North Carolina woman sued her husband's mistress for breaking up their 19-year marriage. On Aug. 5, a nine-woman, three-man jury agreed with Dorothy Hutelmyer's "alienation of affection" claim and awarded her $1 million. "[M]arriage is a gift from God," said the now ex-Mrs. Hutelmyer, whose husband divorced her earlier this year. Most states no longer allow lawsuits for alienation of affection. In Ohio, a federal jury ordered a philandering husband who infected his then-wife with an untreatable sexually transmitted disease to pay her $275,000 in damages. The guilty husband, Charles Moffitt, heads the federal Drug Enforcement Administration office in Toledo. A 35-year-old elementary school teacher in Washington state pleaded guilty to child rape after giving birth to a baby sired by one of her sixth-grade students. Mary Kay LeTourneau faces up to seven years in prison. Her husband, who has filed for divorce, has taken their four children, ages 3 to 12, to live with him in Alaska. The 14-year-old boy who fathered Mrs. LeTourneau's fifth child is in counseling.
Out of our stupor
Just when you thought common sense had gone the way of the eight-track tape, along comes evidence that independent thinking, like lava lamps, may be back in style. It seems that Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala may lift a ban on federally funded needle exchange programs (NEPs) so that drug addicts can shoot up cleanly. "Experts" such as those at the American Medical Association and the National Institutes of Health insist that because dirty needles may carry the AIDS virus, giving away clean ones encourages public health, not drug addiction. But the public isn't buying, and the Family Research Council has just released a poll that may inject some sanity into the NEP debate. By wide margins, Americans believe that giving needles to drug addicts represents an endorsement of drug use, encourages teens to use drugs, and is a first step toward outright legalization. While the experts churn out position papers and scholarly studies from their uptown enclaves, inner-city families fear the worst if NEP bans are lifted. One New York anti-drug activist took a newspaper reporter to the Lower East Side Needle Exchange to chronicle what went on there. Without returning any old needles, the woman was given 40 new ones along with alcohol wipes and small metal dishes used for mixing drugs. She also got lessons in shooting up and even an ID card exempting her from arrest for possession of drug paraphernalia. The FRC poll shows that 56 percent of voters think such programs send the unspoken message that drugs are okay. And few believe that message will remain unspoken for long. Two-thirds of respondents said legalizing needle exchanges now will increase the chances of full legalization in the future. The experts who scoff at that idea have to rely on statistical models rather than actual history. Switzerland implemented NEPs in 1986, offering needles first in pharmacies, then in vending machines. Soon 15,000 needles were being distributed daily in the capital city alone, and heroin addiction reached the highest level in all of Europe. Moreover, violence skyrocketed as rival gangs fought for control of the lucrative drug trade around NEP sites. Next month, Swiss voters go to the polls to decide whether to legalize all illicit drugs in their country. The Swiss proved that there's no such thing as neutrality in the war on drugs. Most Americans, for the time being, have refused to follow their example in becoming comfortably numb.
Washington in brief
For your reading pleasure: Out of curiosity, IRS employees in 1994 and 1995 went snooping through 1,515 taxpayer files that had nothing to do with their work, according to an internal audit. Twenty-three employees were fired for it. Now, those who pry risk a year in jail and a $100,000 fine if convicted. The Taxpayer Browsing Act, signed into law Aug. 5 by President Clinton, makes such unauthorized inspections of tax returns a crime. Deporting the INS? The Immigration and Naturalization Service will be broken up and its responsibilities divided among other federal agencies under a plan drawn up by a federal advisory panel, The New York Times reported Aug. 5. Under the proposal, the Justice Department-under which INS is organized-would retain responsibility for controlling the border and removing illegal immigrants. But the State Department would reportedly oversee immigration services and benefits, and the Labor Department would be charged with enforcing laws governing the hiring of foreign workers. The FDA Aug. 4 approved a pacemaker-like brain implant to help people with Parkinson's disease and other tremor disorders literally cut off their uncontrollable shaking. The technique involves drilling through the skull to implant an electrode in the brain that emits customized electric shocks to block tremors.
At an impasse
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered to lift sanctions against Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza if Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat would take steps to crack down on Islamic terrorists. Instead, Mr. Arafat complained that the recently enacted Israeli sanctions were meant to "humiliate our people." After four days of shuttling back and forth between the two sides, President Clinton's special Middle East envoy Dennis Ross returned to Washington, having made little progress. Meanwhile, a Palestinian military court convicted three members of Mr. Arafat's bodyguard of "spying for the Israeli intelligence service." One of the three was sentenced to death. The two others will be imprisoned at hard labor.