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Kansas Secretary of State Kobach says group trying to discredit voter ID law
A voter advocacy group claimed Thursday that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's 2011-2012 office calendar contains gaps and inconsistencies, suggesting that he spends too much time working on issues unrelated to his office.
But Kobach, a Republican, defended his work ethic and said the critics were simply misreading his schedule.
"My calendar principally just includes my appointments and scheduled interviews," he said. "The time that's not scheduled is the time like right now when I'm working on documents, reading court cases . The claim they are making is completely unsupported by the calendar."
In February, a coalition of liberal and voter-registration groups calling itself "Kansans Count" filed an open records request for Kobach's calendar. Members released the documents at a news conference, suggesting they showed an accumulated six unaccounted weeks in Kobach's work schedule in 2011 and early this year.
The calendar also shows more than 100 media interviews and appearances, said Louis Goseland with KanVote, a part of the coalition and a leading group contesting the state's new voter requirements.
Many of those interviews dealt with immigration and ranged from national media figures such as Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity to a speech before the Oskaloosa Rotary Club. The records also reflected prayer sessions in the office and staff and legislative meetings.
"He is not making our elections a priority," Goseland said. "Instead, what he's made a priority is establishing his political identity as a man who's tough on immigration. Well, immigration is not his responsibility."
The coalition stressed that it was not claiming Kobach had broken any law.
KanVote describes itself as a non-partisan organization "determined to adapt to, survive, and fight the voter suppression laws currently threatening democracy in our state." It has worked with liberal groups such as Occupy Wichita and the South Central Kansas Peace and Social Justice Center.
Kobach has worked on immigration issues in other states since taking office in 2011. But he maintains that he does that work in his off-hours or vacation time, and carefully separates that work from his secretary of state duties.
State law and rules allow elected officials wide latitude in determining their work schedules.
Kobach said the group's real aim was to discredit the state's voter ID law, which he helped write. Starting this year, Kansas voters must provide approved photo identification before casting a ballot.
"Their true purpose is to argue against voter ID and proof of citizenship," he said.
Beginning next year, voters must provide proof of citizenship before they can register in Kansas, although Kobach is trying to accelerate that part of the law.
But KanVote and other critics of the law said the state is ill-prepared to implement the photo ID requirement. Under the law, Kansans can get an approved photo ID free of charge, but KanVote argued that local authorities aren't prepared to provide those IDs — a failure they blamed on Kobach.
"When you push forward stringent requirements around voter ID, your priority should be to make sure that people are able to fulfill those requirements," Goseland said.
Kobach said his office is helping local jurisdictions implement the law. He said roughly 10 people applied for free photo IDs in January.
"I just think it's silly," he said, referring to the criticism of his calendar and work habits.
To read more, visit www.kansascity.com.


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Your primary care doctor is responsible for the day-to-day medical management of your diabetes . (This doctor is usually an internist or a family medicine doctor .) He or she also may coordinate your diabetes care. Or a nurse practitioner , nurse educator, or physician assistant may coordinate your care.
Your health professional will help you find the right oral medicine and possibly insulin to regulate your blood sugar (glucose) level. He or she also will help you adjust medicines as your diabetes changes. For this reason, be sure to tell your health professional if your symptoms change.
Most primary care doctors are excellent at managing diabetes. But if your symptoms get worse or if you have complications, you may need to see a specialist. This is a doctor who has extra training in a particular field. You should see some specialists, such as an ophthalmologist and podiatrist, regularly. These specialists provide care to prevent eye and foot problems from diabetes.
Other specialists are seen only when a problem occurs. For example, if you have a complication that affects your heart, you may need to see a cardiologist. For kidney problems, you may need to see a nephrologist. An orthopedic surgeon can help with bone, muscle, or joint problems. For some people who have diabetes, it is important to see these specialists at least once a year so they can monitor the complication.
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This doctor treats complex cases of diabetes with difficult-to-control blood glucose levels.
Sometimes regular visits, or as treatment problems arise, such as you cannot stay within a target range and hemoglobin A1c levels are higher than desired
|He or she treats problems related to kidney failure.
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These doctors monitor your eyes for diabetes complications and treats any vision problems.
|Regularly, at least once a year
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This doctor treats brain and nerve disorders, such as strokes and diabetic neuropathy .
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They help you monitor your feet and treat any problems, such as foot ulcers.
As needed for foot problems. Have your primary care doctor check your feet once a year.
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Other health professionals who may be involved in your diabetes care include:
- Mental health professional. Many people with chronic diseases have depression. A psychiatrist , psychologist , or social worker can help you deal with the mental challenges that may come with living with diabetes. Also, one of these specialists can help you learn to manage stress. (Stress can affect your glucose control.)
- Exercise physiologist. Physical activity is an important part of your treatment for diabetes. You may want to work with an exercise physiologist to develop an exercise program that suits your fitness level. Exercise physiologists work with people at all levels of strength and aerobic fitness. He or she can help you plan strategies for staying with your exercise plan.
- Registered dietitian. Your diet plays a key role in keeping your blood sugar levels within a target range. Registered dietitians have training in nutrition and can help people make meal plans and other changes in their lifestyle. Changing your eating habits may be the hardest thing for you to do to care for your diabetes. A registered dietitian can help you take small steps toward a balanced diet.
- Nurse educator. A nurse educator helps you understand your diabetes and its treatment. As your disease changes and progresses, your nurse educator can give you the information you need to adjust and change with it. He or she may also coordinate your diabetes care.
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This gluten-free asparagus quiche recipe is suitable for special occasions. You can prepare this quiche with pork sausage, leftover vegetables, and any cheese you'd like, or add shrimp to this dish for an elegant version.
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 2 hours
Yield: 6 servings
2 cups long-grain brown rice
5 cups water
1/4 cup (39 grams) sweet rice flour
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons olive oil
1 pound asparagus, ends trimmed
9 eggs
1 cup unsweetened soy, rice, or hemp milk
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease a 10-inch springform pan and set aside.
In a large saucepan, combine the brown rice and water. Bring to a boil over high heat.
Reduce the heat to low, cover the pan, and simmer for 35 to 40 minutes, or until the rice is soft.
Drain the rice if necessary. Cool for 15 minutes.
Add the sweet rice flour and 1/4 cup olive oil to the rice. Press into the bottom and up the sides of the prepared pan.
Place the pan on a cookie sheet.
Bake the rice crust unfilled for 20 minutes.
On a large baking sheet, combine the asparagus and 2 tablespoons olive oil and roll to coat. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the asparagus is tender.
Let the asparagus cool for a few minutes. Chop the stems finely until you reach 3 inches from the tip end. Leave the tips whole.
Arrange the chopped asparagus stems in the pie shell. In a large bowl, beat the eggs with the milk until smooth. Pour over the asparagus stems in the crust. Top with the reserved asparagus tips in a pretty pattern.
Bake for 45 to 55 minutes, or until the quiche puffs, turns brown, and is firm in the center.
Cool slightly, remove pan sides, and cut into wedges to serve.
Per serving: Calories 504 (From Fat 215); Fat 24g (Saturated 5g); Cholesterol 319mg; Sodium 114mg; Carbohydrate 55g; Dietary Fiber 5g; Protein 17g.


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Opinion: Jersey Political Jockeying
Columnist Kim Strassel on the New Jersey's Senate special election in October. Photos: Getty Images
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... I ... weekend ... Cory Booker the very popular mayor of new work ... it said he's been running for the open Senate seat ... Potomac watch columnist Kim straw stamp on the now from Washington can ... put up some numbers here at ... Cory Booker verses Rush Holt fifty three to ten percent core and upper versus what with Frank Pallone nine perspective ... but general election ... we got Cory Booker and fifty four percent and is closest Republican rival at twenty seven ... percent ... I didn't feel ... how he gets so popular that will transform you work or did I miss something can ... well I mean I think our government he's young he's very dynamic he has very carefully and very ... masterfully ... I ... have ... put out his profile made him self well known in the state he had the ... idea and on about doing some things in a new work that a lot of people that fall on all sides the aisle are interested in the least ... you get to focus on things like crime and education ... I in a city that has had a lot of problems and he's had ... some success in that area so that is certainly help them with his reputation let ... you know this guy's been in a bit of a rising star in the Democratic ... Party and sodium he's now he's also been letting people know who's making this for awhile so ... now that Senator Lautenberg has died he was out there right away saying he was going to get into this ever was or primed for a and and those two of the many mention a Democratic congressman ... the following in their districts that they're not anyway they don't have the star power Cory Booker for us to see a kid and just recalling the presidential race when Cory Booker came out against ... the demonization of private equity in the demonization of this this and I'm I'm wondering ... the Leafs took its in the Senate consists of New Jersey politics which is usually pretty left leaning ... more towards the sun ... what it depends on whether or not Mr. Booker could keep it that he did the follow up to that little anecdote he did he did come out ... he he complained and then he very quickly backtracked in and gave a BDO basically defending and some people call that the hostage video in the end ... of the candidate with the election period people felt as though he was ... working very hard to backtrack and make friends again with the Obama administration ... subprime it would depend on whether night you can down the scenes but also ... the House committee he is to them in if he actually win ... a cake goes with them and and and actually stick with them that's the unknown aspect of Cory Booker out there ... you can Governor Christie also plays in here because he decided to hold the special election for the Senate seat ... in October a great expense to the state the state's taxpayers ... it was that the right decision for Governor Christie who himself is extremely popular in any new looking to run free even higher office ... the FAA was certainly the right decision for Governor Christie ... I'm that has been a complaint out there you know that the argument here that Chris Christie wanted this to be held the month before his own reelection ... race which is going to be in November ... because he was very worried precisely because Cory Booker is very popular ... he can bring a lot of Democrats to the polls that might hurt Mr Christie in his own accounts to be reelected governor ... that the suspicion out there about the timing of this ... this my public consider frustrating to the Caliph I hate all those with an opportunity for him to put in maybe I'm ... a Republican caretaker for this the one who would hold it all the way until then the next election cycle ... given Republicans a chance to maybe get a better hold on if the Republicans have not had a Republican ... out with a victory in a Senate seat New Jersey since nineteen seventy to marry ninety seven and yet so you know me I worry any chance that may be Cory Booker is the best that New Jersey ... to do it maybe that's not so bad and Potomac watch columnist Kim straw soul ... thank so much for being on show ...


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WALTHAM, Mass. – Lee Russo's two goals powered Brandeis University to a 2-0 victory over MIT in a non-conference men's soccer game on Monday night. With the loss, the Engineers dipped to 4-2 on the year while the Judges improved to 4-1.
MIT senior goalkeeper Dylan Rankin (Providence, R.I.) denied Brandeis on its first attempt at net in the 11th minute. On a free kick from Joe Eisenbies just outside the box, Rankin made a diving stop to his right at the far post. Russo put Brandeis on the board when he headed in a cross from Sam Ocel in the 18th minute. Rankin kept the Engineers within striking distance as he turned away a pair of shots from Russo and then came out of nowhere to stone Tyler Savonen. Sophomore Jonathan Tebes (Hamden, Conn.) provided the Cardinal and Gray with its first shot on goal late in the frame but Blake Minchoff preserved the shutout.
The visitors almost got on the board in the 57th minute. Senior Zach Kabelac (Potomac, Md.) unleashed a strike but it was stopped by Minchoff. The rebound went across the goalmouth and was corralled by Tebes, but Minchoff made a diving save to thwart the scoring attempt. Both teams made charges at the net throughout the half, but it was the Judges who found success with 1.7 seconds left to play. With Rankin out of position, Russo lofted a high ball from midfield which bounced once and crossed the goal line before time expired.
Rankin finished the night with seven saves while Minchoff had four.
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Forget that sit-down with the hiring supervisor at Subway. When it comes to life-changing interviews for a teenager, you can't top the Eagle Scout Board of Review.
For some Scouts, the thought of answering a barrage of questions from adults is worse than a trip to the dentist. Turns out, though, that the boy often isn't the only nervous person in the room.
Here's what Kathy, a Scouter from the Northeast, told me:
I've just been asked to sit on the Board of Review for one of my students, since I've known him since he was in the second grade. If I'm to ask questions, can you give me some insight as to what's appropriate? I don't want to look stupid.
Kathy's certainly not the only one at a loss for words at a Board of Review. So I asked our Facebook friends for their go-to questions. (2014 Update: I also included some of my favorite questions left as comments on this post)
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20 40 to try the next time you're involved in this important final step on a boy's journey to Eagle:
40 Quality Questions for Eagle Scout Boards of Review
Each question is listed with the Scouter who submitted it. Of course there's no way you can ask 40 questions during an Eagle Scout board of review. But I've included this many in the hopes you'll find a few you hadn't thought to ask.
- What will you do as an Eagle Scout to give back to Scouting? (Mike J.)
- What do you believe our society expects from an Eagle Scout? (Andrea P.)
- Of all the patches on your uniform, which one means the most or which one of them are you proudest to wear? (Joan G.)
- If you could do it all over again, would you, and why? (David T.)
- What lessons did you learn from the Eagle process and how do you think those lessons will help you in your future endeavors? In other words, what will you take away from this experience? (Andrea J.)
- How would you describe the effort you have put into your Scouting career? Expected response: I did my best. (David L.)
- What advice would you give to a new Scout? (Diane S.)
- You are about to breathe your last breath. What is the one Scouting memory (beginning with Cub Scouts and going all the way through) that is going to put a smile on your face? (Donna C.)
- How do you balance accomplishments you are so proud of such as your Eagle with the peer perception that Scouting is uncool? (Dalton L.)
- What is the most pressing issue today? Why? (Kent M.)
- What point of the Scout Law do you think is the hardest for the youth of today to follow? Why? (Brian K.)
- Please stand up, give me the 12 points of the Scout Law, and tell me what each one means to you. (Michael M.)
- Tell me which is more important: earning the rank of Eagle or wearing it? (Ernie H.)
- Why should we declare you an Eagle Scout tonight? In other words, how have you demonstrated the characteristics of an Eagle Scout and what is our assurance that you will continue to use them throughout your life? (Pat S.)
- If you could talk to anyone throughout history, who would it be and what would you talk about? (Tom D.)
- If you could change one requirement for Eagle, what would it be? (Scott W.)
- If you could add one point to the Scout Law, what would it be and why? If you could remove one point from the Scout Law, what would it be and why? (Greg P.)
- What is something you found in Scouting that you can improve upon? (Andrew R.)
- What is the moment you knew you wanted to earn Eagle? (Brandy P.)
- There are 21 merit badges required for Eagle. If you had to add one more to the required list, which one would it be, and why? (Jen A.)
- With so many other activities competing for a young man's interest or attention and the fact that some young people see Scouting as "uncool," have you ever thought about quitting? And if so, what made you stick with it? (Mark D.)
- Did you ever have a Scout refuse to comply with a request to perform one of his duties? How did (or would) you react? (Bret F.)
- What outdoor experience have you had that you wish every Scout could have? (Bret F.)
- If you are awarded the Rank of Eagle, the charge requires you to give back more than Scouting has given to you. What are your Scouting plans from here and how will you fulfill this charge? (Bret F.)
- What did you learn about leadership from the Eagle Scout Service Project? (Jeffrey D.)
- How do you exemplify Scout spirit in you daily life? (Eric N.)
- What was your "good turn" today? (cwolfpack3)
- What is the difference between getting Eagle and being Eagle? (Robin L.)
- The first eight words in the Scout Oath are "On my honor I will do my best." What does honor mean to you? (Ed M.)
- What question were you worried we would ask you? (Bruce)
- Where do you see yourself with Scouting in the next five years? (L.W.S.)
- You're about to become a marked man for the rest of your life. What do you think that means? Are you prepared for it? (Charles F.)
- One day you may have a son of your own. When he reaches the age to join, what will you tell him about Scouting? (Amy)
- Who are harder to lead, youth or adults? (Amy)
- Out of the merit badges that you earned, which one gave you information that will be most helpful to you later in your life, and why? (Amy)
- Which of the merit badges that you have earned along the trail to Eagle has the most meaning to you and why? (Jeff M.)
- If you had to describe your entire Scouting experience with just one word, what word would you choose? Why? (Alex V.)
- When is the last time you went camping with your troop? (Tom B.)
- I do a last question. The last question of the Eagle Board of Review is a question asked by the prior candidate. I read the question which I have saved on my phone, and then once the question is answered, I ask the candidate what question he wants to ask the next candidate who sits in that seat. (Andrew C.)
- What is the significance of this date in Scouting history? (Blank stare occurs … so you answer for him) It's your Eagle Rank date. Congrats! (Matt C.)
What else do you ask?
What one question do you ask in every Board of Review? If you're an Eagle, what was the toughest question you were asked at yours? Share your thoughts below.
Related posts about Eagle Scouts
- Why are so many boys taking so much longer to reach Eagle Scout?
- You tell me: How would you define the term 'Eagle Scout'?
- Video: Eagle Scout Mike Rowe shares his Scouting story
- 100 Years of Eagle Scout painting unveiled (order your own!)
- How to request congratulatory letters for your Eagle Scout
- New study shows 46 ways Eagle Scouts are different
- Looking for Eagle Scout Court of Honor ideas? Read this
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg still owns 28.4% of Facebook despite the huge amount of money the company has raised, according to the company's S-1 filing.
That amounts to 534 million shares.
If Facebook is worth between $75 billion and $100 billion (we'll call it $87.5 billion), that's worth $24.7 billion.


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Sony executive Tim Schaaff, hired away from Apple in 2005 to help the Japanese electronics giant regain its footing in digital media, is retiring at the end of the year, the company announced.
We first heard he was out via a report from AllThingsD's Peter Kafka.
Andrew House, an executive who runs Sony Computer Entertainment, the company's video-game division, will take over his duties.
When Schaaff joined Sony, Businessweek called him the company's "renaissance geek." In 2010, he became president of Sony Network Entertainment, a unit which includes online music, video, and gaming services.
Based in San Jose, Calif., Schaaff oversaw the launch of Music Unlimited, a Spotify-like music subscription service, and also led the company's network entertainment unit through an unfortunate incident where the PlayStation Network got hacked, exposing users' personal information.
Here's an interview Business Insider did with Schaaff in 2011.


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Hill focuses on D.C. IRS official
A senior IRS official coming under increasingly close scrutiny by congressional investigators was aware in 2011 that the agency was inappropriately targeting tea party groups but blamed "inconsistency" and "miscommunication" for the failure to quickly stop the practice.
Interviews conducted by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and reviewed by POLITICO show Holly Paz, a former Washington-based manager in the IRS tax-exempt unit, knew that a handful of groups with ties to the tea party and other conservative causes might not merit the extra scrutiny they were being given when applying for a tax exemption.
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"I did see some that were really just lobbying organizations," she told committee staff in a recent interview.
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Most of the tea party groups were seeking 501(c)(4) status, which allows them to lobby without limits.
In September 2011, Paz instructed two employees to review the groups and they told her as many as 10 "could potentially be approved at the time." But the applications languished.
The release of the transcripts to some news outlets is likely to further fuel partisan tensions surrounding the investigation into the embattled IRS.
Republicans on the Oversight Committee say the narrative plays right into what they've been arguing all along: that Washington orchestrated the conservative group targeting. Democrats reject that notion and insist the practice was sparked by front-line employees at an IRS outpost in Cincinnati.
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"Another week, another leak from Chairman [Darrell] Issa of cherry-picked excerpts that show no White House involvement whatsoever in the identification and screening of these cases," said Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Oversight panel, in a statement to POLITICO.
Cummings spent the past week battling committee Chairman Darrell Issa, accusing the California Republican of cherry picking bits and pieces of transcripts for release to support his argument.
Cummings is threatening to release the transcripts of other interviews conducted by the committee. He's especially eager to make public an interview with a self-identified conservative IRS manager in Cincinnati who said employees there began scrutinizing tea party tax-exempt applications.
Issa has warned Cummings that a broad release of interview transcripts has the potential to hobble the committee's probe, but Cummings contends that it's "more reckless to leak cherry-picked excerpts that omit key details and hide the full truth."
The transcripts — and the fact that they were chosen for release — is a clear sign that congressional staffers are turning their sights to Paz.
New leadership at the IRS installed in the wake of the scandal replaced Paz as director of the rulings and agreements division earlier this month. The IRS didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
A GOP staffer told POLITICO the panel members might have her return to the committee for more questions because they think some of her testimony is inconsistent with what Elizabeth Hofacre, a former Cincinnati manager involved in the scandal, told them.
Paz told the Oversight panel that despite the nickname "tea party cases," IRS employees were instructed to review all political cases, including liberal advocacy groups.
But Hofacre told the committee she "was tasked to do tea parties" only and would throw any progressive groups into the general inventory rather than putting them aside them for extra scrutiny.
Paz is also being portrayed as a partisan, with many Republicans noting she donated $4,000 to President Barack Obama and the Democrats during the 2008 campaign.
The transcripts indicate she was aware that a Cincinnati IRS employee leaked confidential taxpayer information to ProPublica after the publication asked for a "huge" amount of information. An IRS official handed it over without realizing that about 10 forms in the stack were not yet ready for public viewing, she said.


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PLANO, Texas – Stalker Radar, the World Leader in Speed Measurement, recently announced the release of a high-capacity battery handle for its Stalker II hand-held radar guns.
In technical terms, the new high-capacity Lithium-ion battery is rated at 3.7 amp hours when compared to the 2.4 amp hour rating of the standard battery handle. Unlike older nickel-cadmium (NiCad) batteries, the Li-ion batteries have no memory effect, a slower loss of charge when not in use, and greater number of charge-discharge cycles during their lifetime.
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High-capacity charging circuitry upgrades are available for standard chargers and older model Stalker II radar guns to allow them to charge a new high-capacity battery in one (1) charging cycle. Standard battery handles will also charge in high capacity chargers and work in both types of radar guns, according to Jim Shaw, Stalker Radar / Applied Concepts Marketing Director.
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Afghanistan Economic Downfall Politics
This examination is intended to cover the political and financial history of Afghanistan. It will give an outline of the changes Afghanistan has experienced. What's more, it will reply to inquiries with reference to how Afghanistan's monetary position changes because of the high political effect on the economy side. What part do the worldwide groups play in conveying back Afghanistan to a feasible position? What monetary speculations will be appropriate for the advancement of little and medium endeavors? What challenges are there to overcome before moving into a free market economy?
This investigation will give an inside and out knowledge on whether Market Economy is the best decision for Afghanistan and if not what are the options. The exploration will be founded on built up hypotheses, yearly reports, contextual investigations and interpretive examination.
Afghanistan is one of the few nations where the solid information accessibility is exceptionally restricted. When discussing Afghanistan's economy, one can't separate it from its legislative issues. At whatever point one talks about Afghanistan monetary history, he needs to relate it with the political history else it stays inadequate. Afghanistan is landlocked yet deliberately situated in Asia where it could fill in as an intersection crosswise over Asia however in the previous couple of decades, the nation's financial potential hasn't taken its root. Afghanistan has been on the getting side of condition for as far back as 4 decades. Afghanistan depends intensely on the outer budgetary streams from the universal groups. The quickly changing nature and the relationship of legislative issues and financial matters have prompted an insecure and unpredictable political economy.
Afghanistan's destruction begun in the mid-eighteenth century when it turned into the cushion state between the two mammoths, Russia and awesome British Empire. The considerable contention of who will control Afghanistan proceeded for quite a long time. "The Great Game" at long last arrives at an end with the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. This pronounces Afghanistan as protectorate of the United Kingdom in the twentieth century. At the point when Afghanistan accomplished freedom from the British govern in 1919, Afghan pioneers began modernising Afghanistan in an extremely fast and uneven pace which, too much degree, wasn't going towards the correct bearing.
Afghanistan stayed unbiased exposed to the harsh elements war amongst Russian and United States, on account of Zahir Shah however Afghanistan's economy was generally interwoven with the frosty war. Zahir Shah forced a controlled economy modernising inside industrialisation and giving equivalent instruction and social measures for all. At the season of the icy was, Afghanistan being nonpartisan, the leader of Afghanistan Mohammad Daud Khan argue for money related help from both the United States (US) and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) trusting that without lively financial development, the nation will be isolated into disjoin political sections which will totally wreck the expectations of resuscitating an effectively broken country. Russia started supporting Afghanistan in 1950s.
They gave budgetary help to develop the financial framework of Afghanistan and generous military help. The helped went on for a long time and picked up the trust of the Afghan individuals. Taking a gander at Russia affecting Afghanistan, US began allotting their piece of the financial plan for Afghanistan which was later evaluated to be 30% of the outside guide Afghanistan got. Half of the remote guide was given by the USSR. In late 1970, Afghanistan confronted crawling emergency. Because of the dry spell years, the estimation of the cash essentially diminished. Fares diminished and imports expanded by awesome edges. Deficiencies of sustenance things were specifically, moving crosswise over fringes illegally. At the point when Daud Khan assumed control over the administration, the carried on modernising the general public and building up a greater government controlled economy. He changed the social welfare and extended instruction. Being an Islamic state, I wouldn't state it was an awesome change however nullification of Purdah was one of the changes Daud Khan got Afghanistan.
The legislature, under Daud Khan, increased more tightly control of imports and in addition of fare businesses. In 1977, the legislature needed to intercede to bring down the conversion scale as the cash gratefulness had debilitated to make many fares unrewarding. The financial framework in the 1970s was little and brought together, leaving areas with neither duty specialist nor spending plans. Expense incomes added up to around 7% of GNP in 1978. 66% of all duties were on remote exchange, subsequently outlining, in Rubin's words, "the degree to which the administration depended on its connects to the global framework as a stabiliser to its failure to [govern] or change the general public all in all". Though enhanced gathers in 1972-1976 took into account the expanded appropriation of higher-esteem money crops, sends out represented 15% of GNP in 1978, recommending just humble change in the nation's terms of exchange. By 1978 around 80% of the Afghan populace was reliant on the provincial economy and agribusiness represented 60% of GDP (figures which remain to a great extent steady to the present).
With just six miles of railways in 1933, Afghanistan's legislature has ceaselessly looked for universal help with building the essential foundation. A 1973 USD 200 million help assertion between the USSR and Afghanistan brought oil advancement, exchange, transport, water system, industrial facilities and interstate development.
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The New York Yankees don't always get their man.
Longtime pinstriper Andy Pettitte, who had been on the fence about coming back for a 17th season. The hurler has pitched for the Yankees his entire career, except for a three-year stint in Houston from 2004-06. The Yankees, who were already spurned by free agent Cliff Lee this off-season, were hoping Pettitte could come back to solidify a shaky pitching rotation.
The news came in a tweet from Yankee broadcaster and sports radio personality Michael Kay.
"I have learned that Andy Pettitte will officially retire tomorrow. More details to come....Michael," Kay tweeted.
Nick Swisher, Pettitte's teammate for the last two years, told mlb.com earlier this week he could understand the lefty calling it quits.
"In my opinion, if he chooses to ride off into the sunset, he's definitely earned that," Swisher said. "We would love to have him back, but if he's got to go, he's going with glory."
As late as last week, Pettitte, 38, was still working out, leading to speculation that he was leaning toward returning. He has a 240-138 career record and has started a record 42 games in the post season. He went 11-3 with a 3.28 ERA, but missed the second half of the season with a groin injury.
If he sticks to retirement, the debate over whether he deserves to make the Hall of Fame can begin. He would be eligible after being out of the game for five years. While his numbers are good and he has been on five world championship teams, Pettitte could be hurt by his admission that he used human growth hormone, a banned performance enhancer.
Pettitte earned more than $125 million over his career.
Selected Reading: USA Today, MLB.com, Baseball-reference.com.


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|Haskell, NJ
|High School:
|Lakeland Regional
2011: Enters her second season as a captain for head coach Kim Banner.
2010: Served as a junior captain...Tied for the team lead with five goals while starting all 19 games as a junior...Finished the season with 12 points...Scored game winning goal in opening contest of season, a 1-0 win over Army...Notched two goals in a 3-2 win over Binghamton on August 29...Supplied game winning marker October 10 at home versus Wagner.
2009: Started all 18 games for the red and white in her sophomore season...Led the Pioneers in goals, assists, and points notching 5 goals and 5 assists for 15 total points...Scored the game winning goal in a 1-0 victory over Stony Brook...Notched three points in Northeast Conference games against Saint Francis (PA) and Mount St. Mary's...Finished the season with 21 shots on goal and a .116 shooting percentage.
2008: Appeared in all 20 of the Pioneers games as a freshman, making 15 starts…Led all SHU underclassmen in points tallying two…Notched her first career point October 12 in a NEC matchup with Wagner…Finished the year with 18 total shots.
High School: Four year member of the soccer and track teams at Lakeland Regional…Served as captain of both soccer and track teams…All-Conference, All-County, and All-State selection in soccer…All-Conference and All-County selection for track…Named Passaic County Student Athlete of the Year in 2008.
Personal: Born: 9/6/90. Parents: John and Jessica Kee. Siblings: Jennifer and Daniel. Favorite Teams: New England Patriots and New York Yankees. Favorite Movie: A Knight's Tale. Favorite TV Show: So You Think You Can Dance. Favorite Food: Italian. Named to Dean's List and a member of Phi Eta Sigma as well as the honors program at Sacred Heart.
Yr. GP-GS G A Pts. Sh Yc-Rc GW
2008 20-15 0 2 2 18 1-0 0
2009 18-18 5 5 15 43 0-0 1
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If it takes work W to stretch a Hooke's-law spring (F = kx) a distance d from its unstressed length, determine the extra work required to stretch it an additional distance d (Hint: draw a graph and give answer in terms of W!).
I don't understand why the answer is not 2W since Force is proportional to x, or even how to begin using a graph to disprove why the answer is not 2W. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Exporters in Athens are the traders who sell goods and services of a country in the international market in a legitimate fashion. Exporters also provide goods & services of domestic producers to the foreign consumers.
Exporters generally follow two major strategies- Direct selling & Indirect selling.
Direct selling occurs through sales representatives, distributors, or retailers, located outside the exporter's home country. While indirect selling occurs through an independent domestic intermediary.


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Last Updated: July 2018
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This Privacy Policy sets forth the collection, nature, purpose, use, maintenance, protection and sharing of any personal data that identifies or can be used to identify you, users of the App, as well as non-personally identifiable data that we may collect whenever you interact with the App. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that is associated with offline activities, that you provide to or is collected by any applications other than the App or third parties that we do not own or control, such as Service Providers (as defined below).
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Welcome to the Library!
The Sauk City Library efficiently and effectively provides residents of Sauk Prairie equal access to materials, information and ideas:
- Ensuring children enter school ready to learn.
- Fostering feelings of community.
- Encouraging and enhancing participation in local, state, and national affairs.
- Promoting appreciation and understanding of personal heritage and the heritage of others in the community.
- Providing access to current materials and information that enrich resident's leisure time.


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They are doing it again this year. If you can't make it to RootsTech, you can still participate by watching these live-streamed talks. This is the wave of the future for conferences and I'm so glad that we can participate virtually. ** Please Note: The times below are Mountain Standard Time (MST) so be sure to recalculate for your local time zone.
RootsTech Conference Will Broadcast Select Sessions Free OnlineSALT LAKE CITY—RootsTech, a leading family history and technology conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, February 2-4, 2012, announced today that fourteen of its popular sessions will be broadcasted live and complimentary over the Internet. The live broadcasts will give those unable to attend worldwide a sample of this year's conference content. Interested viewers can watch the live presentations at RootsTech.org. The second-year conference has attracted over 3,000 registered attendees.
The free online sessions include the keynote speakers and a sampling of technology and family history presentations. Following are the fourteen broadcasted sessions and speakers. All times are in Mountain Standard Time (MST):
Thursday, February 2
- 8:30-10:00 am, Inventing the Future, as a Community (Keynote Address) by Jay L. Verkler
- 11:00 am-12:00 pm, Do I Trust the Cloud? by D. Joshua Taylor
- 1:45-2:45 pm, Effective Database Search Tactics by Kory Meyerink
- 3:00-4:00 pm, Twitter – It's Not Just "What I Had for Breakfast" Anymore by Thomas MacEntee
- 4:15-5:15 pm, Eleven Layers of Online Searches by Barbara Renick
Friday, February 3
- 8:30-9:30 am, Exabyte Social Clouds and Other Monstrosities (Keynote Address) by Josh Coates
- 9:45-10:45 am, Publish Your Genealogy Online by Laura G. Prescott
- 11:00 am-12:00 pm, Optimize Your Site for Search Engines by Robert Gardner
- 1:45-2:45 pm, Genealogists "Go Mobile" by Sandra Crowly
- 3:00-4:00 pm, Google's Toolbar and Genealogy by Dave Barney
Saturday, February 4
- 8:30-9:30 am, Making the Most of Technology to Further the Family History Industry (Keynote Address) by Tim Sullivan and Ancestry.com Panel
- 9:45-10:45 am Genealogy Podcasts and Blogs 101 by Lisa Louise Cooke
- 11:00 am-12:00 pm, Future of FamilySearch Family Tree by Ron Tanner
- 1:45-2:45 pm, Privacy in a Collaborative Environment by Noah Tatuk
About RootsTech
RootsTech is a new conference designed to bring technologists together with genealogists to learn from each other and find solutions to the challenges faced in family history research today. The conference's activities and offerings are focused on content that will help genealogists and family historians discover exciting new research tools while enabling technology creators to learn the latest development techniques from industry leaders and pioneers.


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For All Fathers of Daughters
Posted by E. Joyce on Sunday, June 20, 2010,
Posted by E. Joyce on Sunday, June 20, 2010,
Writer, Author, Producer, Arts Advocate and Activist
|E. Joyce Moore
|E. Joyce Moore, writer, poet, author of Gettin' to the Good Wood, Ramblings Through the Attic of Thought, I Like Brown, Princess Jahzzara, and is currently penning two other books: 'SHIPS (non-fiction) and Pretty (fiction). Joyce has contributed to numerous books and writing projects, including MoAD Stories Project, MoAD Stories Project: I've Known Rivers, What is the Purpose of a Banana? by Dr. Carlton Green, Chicken Soup for The African American Soul, Gumbo for the Soul, and more. Joyce is a member of the Chicago Film Producers Alliance, the founder of Alliance of African American Artists, and is an active fine arts advocate, curator and activist. Her book, Ramblings Through the Attic of Thought, was named 2009 Poetry Book of the Year and she was named Poet of the Year by S(RMAG an online magazine.


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Watercolor Bliss Collage (Collage)
A dreamy watercolor backdrop for blissful wedding memories. Choose your music, photo layout and color scheme. Email or post to Facebook with animation, or print. See coordinating invite, slideshow, thank you, and save the date.
Great for: a wedding collage, part of collection, printing 8x10
What is Smilebox?
At Smilebox we believe that how you share your photos should be as memorable as the photos themselves. So we've designed a new way to bring your photos and videos to life.
Our simple application lets you quickly and easily create slideshows, invitations, greetings, collages, scrapbooks and photo albums right on your computer. With more than 1000 customizable templates to choose from, you'll find inspiration around every corner.
Whether you want to drop a photo into an everyday greeting, put together a slideshow for your sports team, or create a special holiday keepsake book, the result is professional and one-of-a-kind.
And Smilebox gives you more ways to share: Facebook, email, blog, printing at home or to a store, and burning to DVD. Smilebox makes sharing photos with your family and friends easy, unique and memorable.


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Cedar Walton: True Piano Master At Dizzy's
While Mr.Walton's sets at the club are relatively short, the music of this maestro and his band is so rich and fulfilling that audiences depart sated and satisfied. Cedar Walton's music will do it every time.
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When the premier Jazz club in New York City features an artist for two consecutive extended appearances, it is a clear indication that the musician is a special talent. Such a person is Cedar Walton, jazz pianist extraordinaire.
Mr. Walton is undisputedly one of the most accomplished piano players in contemporary jazz. A veteran musician of international recognition and acclaim, Cedar Walton recently showcased his quartet consisting of Vincent Herring on alto and tenor sax, David "Happy" Williams on bass and Willie Wilson III on drums, at Dizzy's Coca Cola Jazz club. Needless to say, the music flowed like vintage wine.
With Central Park as its visual backdrop, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola is an absolutely ideal venue to enjoy great music, which the band certainly
delivered. With Mr.Walton, who literally tickles the piano keys, leading the way, the band worked their way through some standard compositions including an exotic arrangement of Stevie Wonder's "Shining star", which featured a scintillating solo by bassist "Happy Williams".
Mr.Williams, the Trinidad-born bassist has established himself as force on the Jazz scene by virtue of the fact that he has been Cedar Walton's bassist for the last several years. He certainly fires up the engine room of the band's rhythm section.
The saxist, Vincent Herring, delighted the audience with his sweet tones and harmonics especially on his solo ballad performance. Drummer, Willie Wilson, maintained a steady flow throughout the set with his intricate cadence and syncopation.
While Mr.Walton's sets at the club are relatively short, the music of this maestro and his band is so rich and fulfilling that audiences depart sated and satisfied. Cedar Walton's music will do it every time.
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Several weeks ago I wrote a post entitled "1808: Where was Your Family 200 Years Ago?" I wrote about my ancestors lives two hundred years ago, at least the ones that I know for sure who lived in Bavaria. This topic was inspired by the previous challenge from Lisa of 100 Years in America who asked us where our ancestors were in 1908 (read the summary here). I challenged other genea-bloggers to take up the challenge, and many did. Here are their wonderful responses:
In "1808: Residences of My Families" Lori at Smoky Mountain Family Historian tells us about her family all over the US, mostly in the South with scattered folks in New England, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. All of her ancestors were in the US 200 years ago! What impressed me the most is her distinctly American genealogy!
John at Transylvania Dutch uses a "Time Machine" to visit his ancestors in several countries including Lithuania, Poland, Transylvania, Canada, and England. Then, just in case the question is asked by other bloggers, he takes us back to visit his ancestors in New York in 1708, and back to Holland and England in 1608. Does he know where they were in 1508? Hmm, read his story to find out!
Jessica at Jessica's Genejournal asks "1808: Where were my ancestors?" She admits to being "not completely sure", but she's getting close with research back to the 1820s.
Thomas at Destination: Austin Family asks "1808: Where was my family 200 years ago?" Well, Thomas definitely knows the answer to that question: New York!
Randy at Genea-Musings knows where so many of his ancestors were in 1808 that he had to write two posts to tell the whole story. His Carringer side resided in many places, including the US, Canada, and England while the Seaver side calls Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and England home.
Becky at kinexxions asks "Where were they in 1808?" Rather than list all 59 ancestors on her mother's side and 23 on her father's, she gives us some interesting highlights. All but three of her ancestral families were already in the United States, and most were farmers. Becky shares some interesting stories about some of these ancestors in 1808.
"Where were they in 1808" is what Bill at West in New England explains in his post, which has quite a mix of both known whereabouts and elusive folks.
Craig at Geneablogie also asks "Where were they in 1808?" He writes about the importance of that particular year for many of his families: "1808 was a signal year…That was the year that Congress banned the Atlantic slave trade from the United States."
Tonia at Tonia's Roots Blog has many ancestors around in 1808, so she's writing a series of posts. So far, she recounts her "Butler Ancestors in 1808" "almost all of whom were in the western part of North Carolina, with a few in South Carolina and one in Virginia."
"Sharon" responded in the comments of my post about her Bavarian, Polish, American, and Dutch ancestors that all eventually wound up in Chicago.
Steve from Steve's Genealogy Blog writes "The Year was 1808" about his Polish ancestors who were scattered throughout the land including the "Przemyśl Powiat of Galicia, the Warsaw Departament of the Duchy of Warsaw, and the Vilna Guberniya of the Russian Empire." Steve adds a nice visual with "Map My DNA" to show us where these places are on the map.
Steve's fancy map was inspired by John at Anglo-Celtic Connections, who asks "Where has your DNA been?" John shows us his ancestors' whereabouts in both 1808 and 1908.
Blaine at The Genetic Genealogist also asks "Where Was My Y-DNA and mtDNA in 1808?" and proceeds to show us on the map! He presents this graphical challenge "Where was YOUR mtDNA and Y-DNA in 1808?"
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this challenge – it was fascinating to see how far folks can trace their ancestry and from what areas their ancestors originated. As someone with 20th Century immigrants to America on all sides of my ancestry, I was quite impressed with the number of fellow bloggers who have what I call "American" roots! It was equally fascinating to see the mix of countries that we are all researching. If anyone responded to my 1808 challenge and I didn't present your response here, please let me know or comment here – I tried to include all that I could find!


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Flickr Faves on Friday: Mirror Mirrors on the Wall
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Loving this wall from Flickr member kitschcafe (Drew, a graphic designer and blogger from Cincinnati). It shows you you can unify a group of items through color, and enliven up a piece that might be junk. Love the combination, love that red-orange, love the reflection, love the chairs. Thanks for sharing Drew!
Drew also has an etsy shop. In fact, I've bought from him before and the product and service was superb – I highly recommend stopping by for some browsing!
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The Real Estate sector in India has been undergoing a metamorphosis.
The four cornerstones of the sector – Regulation, Finance, Customers
and Technology have been experiencing changes in their own unique
The operating environment has been fairly dynamic, especially
over the last two years, with landmark reforms such as the Real Estate
Regulatory Act (RERA) and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) getting
implemented in quick succession.
The disruptions have not been limited to the operating environment, but
have percolated to the financing environment of the country as well. The
trickle down impact of the Demonetization drive, easing of FDI norms,
REIT guidelines, have resulted in global investors being bullish about
investing in India.
While the changes in regulation and finance are more due to the policy
thrust from the government, the changes in customer expectations are
reflective of the "evolving equations" in real estate. Consumers today
are not only aware of their needs, they also have a clear expectation
of their needs being met, all of which is getting refelected in the way our office, retail, residential and industrial spaces are being designed.
The fourth cornerstone – Technology has come into sharper focus more
recently. Moving away from times, where technology was only relevant
for specific sectors, today it is being used as an important tool to ensure
seamless integration with the other cornerstones of real estate (Regulation,
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At sundown Saturday, the area will begin a nine-day celebration of the arts -- the MoHu festival. It is a massive undertaking that includes 150 organizations and venues offering several hundred events throughout Albany, Saratoga, Renesselaer and Schenectady counties. The counties all border the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, and thus the name MoHu. According to Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill, the artistic director of Albany's Capital Repertory Theater, "MoHu is an opportunity to put on display the embarrassment of cultural riches that exists in our area." WMHT Television President and CEO Robert Altman, who serves as chairman of the festival's organizing committee, agrees. He said he has only lived in the area for about 3-1/2 years, and when he first arrived he immediately noticed two things. The first was the "vast amount of various and diverse cultural opportunities that are available all year long in our region." The other, and perhaps more to the point of MoHu, was that "the area seems to be broken into numbers of individual communities that do not behave regionally." Philip Morris, the chief executive officer of Proctors and Capital Rep, thinks MoHu is a step toward more collaboration and a way to brand the arts within the region. "This region can never behave like one place. We are four small cities, each with its own unique identities. But bring those cultural communities together and we have the same cultural opportunities that exist in larger markets." Though Proctors, the Palace Theatre, Cohoes Music Hall, The Egg, EMPAC and the Times Union Center are participating in MoHu, the festival's intention is not to focus solely on large, established organizations and venues. Nor is it exclusively a performing arts festival. There are several small galleries involved, like the Saratoga Arts Center, which on Saturday will open the new exhibit "Frame Story: The Narrative Within." A talk by the artists will take place at 5 p.m. that evening, with a reception for the artists from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibit runs through Nov. 12. Colleges are also participating in MoHu. On Saturday, Russell Sage College will present the musical revue "Songs for a New World" at the school's Meader Little Theatre (8 p.m., admission is $10). The same evening, Hudson Valley Community College will host the world-famous Harlem Gospel Chorus in the Maureen Stapleton Theatre on campus (8 p.m., admission is $10). Also participating during the nine-day festival are Skidmore College, the College of Saint Rose and State University at Albany. Though MoHu is scheduled for only nine days, Altman sees it as a long-term project. He said the spirit of collaboration displayed bodes well for the future. Troy Night Out, Albany's First Friday and Schenectady's Art Night have altered their schedules to offer their monthly arts night on Oct. 14, he said. Morris pointed to "The Capital District Sings" show at his theater Sunday, Oct. 9. At this event, the Albany Gay Men's Chorus, Chinese Community Center Chorus, Ne'i mah Jewish Community Chorus, The Electric City Chorus and Octavo Singers will join with Albany Pro Musica to present an unforgettable night of choral music. The event will be taped and later broadcast on WMHT, thus completing the circle of collaboration. MoHu is about more than presenting entertainment. It's also about public awareness and support of the arts. The organizers expect at least 50,000 people to attend the various events, thus sending a message to private businesses and government that support Mancinelli-Cahill's mantra, "Arts matter." For more information on MoHu and a complete schedule of events, go to
. For more thoughts on MoHu, go to Bob Goepfert's Arts Whisperer blog.


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A Vista teacher who pleaded guilty to having sex with her 17-year-old former student is pregnant with the teenager's baby, prosecutors said in court Wednesday.
Kelly Watson, 34, was sentenced to probation on Wednesday for sexually assaulting the teenage male student she met in her class at the New Haven residential school in Vista. Watson may also serve some jail time.
Last year, sex crimes detectives received a tip about possible inappropriate sexual conduct between Watson and her former student. After investigating, detectives determined the pair dated several months ago.
The school where Watson worked "serves adolescent boys with emotional and learning challenges," according to a statement issued by New Haven last year.
Watson worked as the boy's teacher for several semesters between September 2010 to August 2011.
Prosecutors revealed Watson's pregnancy during today's sentencing and said she is due in April.
According to Watson's defense attorney David Cohn, the romantic relationship between Watson and her former student began after Watson left the school.
However, Deputy District Attorney Mary Ellen Barrett says that doesn't diminish the seriousness of the situation.
"The fact is she was his teacher. She was his leader. She was his mentor. Especially in the school he was in, trying to help him out of a bad situation. And, instead, she allowed that line to be crossed," said Barrett.
Cohn insists his client is remorseful for what she's done.
"She's taken responsibility," said Cohn. "She wrote a very eloquent letter to probation regarding her responsibility and remorsefulness."
Still, despite the Watson's probation sentencing and possible jail time, Cohn says Watson and her former student-turned-baby's father plan to continue their romantic relationship.
Cohn says the student has expressed that he would like to continue their relationship once he turns 18 and help Watson take care of their baby.
The former student's mother seems to stand behind the teen's decision to pursue a relationship with Watson in the future. In fact, his mother wrote a letter to the court saying she supports their relationship and is happy about the baby.
A court date has been set for next month to review Watson's health.
Both the prosecutor and defense say her time served will be based on when the baby is born. As of right now, Watson will not have to register as a sex offender.


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Romney lands prize on Hill visit
Mitt Romney huddled privately with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Thursday and came away with a big prize: something close to an endorsement from the Senate's most outspoken conservative.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who backed Romney in 2008 but has remained on the sidelines this year as the former Massachusetts governor labors to win the nomination, said it's time the rest of the field consider bowing to the inevitable.
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"We all need to look at this presidential primary and encourage the candidates to do a little self-reflection here on what's good for our country," DeMint told reporters after a morning sit-down with the front-runner. "The sooner we can make a decision, the sooner we can focus on the real problem, which is [President Barack] Obama."
Saying he expects the prolonged and often heated presidential battle to end "pretty soon," DeMint added: "There's no need to drag this to a convention if it's pretty clear who our nominee is."
Without mentioning Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum by name, DeMint said that "the best thing they can do is maybe look at kind of throwing their support behind the one who might be our nominee. And that's beginning to look like Romney."
( Also on POLITICO: Mitt camp: Santorum helping Obama)
DeMint's warm words, which came on the heels of Jeb Bush's endorsement Wednesday, reflect a Republican Party that is both increasingly antsy to get on with the general election and reconciled to Romney as its standard-bearer. DeMint's realpolitik assessment of the state of the GOP race is especially important to Romney, whose campaign is stepping up efforts to convince Republicans and the press that resistance is futile. It's harder for Gingrich and Santorum to say that only the establishment is attempting to bring an end to the primary when a tea party leader like DeMint is making the same case.
Romney very much wants to create an aura of inevitability. Locking in more support from establishment Republicans to supplement his coffers will add to the sense that the party is falling in line behind his candidacy. And that's why the White House hopeful was in Washington.
Romney began his day in the capitol with a standing-room-only breakfast, raising about $400,000 and hobnobbing with the largest group of lawmakers he's drawn yet to a fundraiser event. The breakfast, which some of his congressional supporters helped raise cash for, included his Capitol Hill liaison, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), as well as Republican Sens. John Thune of South Dakota and Rob Portman of Ohio and senior House Republicans, such as Fred Upton and Dave Camp of Michigan, who are committee chairmen.
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David Shearer is set to shuffle Labour's pack. The beltway crew seem to think it's overdue, but they're missing the deeper problem
So, David Shearer's planning a reshuffle of his front bench and folk such as John Tamihere and, well, just about everyone, reckons it's about time. The carping has started, so the Labour leader had better get on with it. But what he needs to realise is a reshuffle is only the beginning. In many ways it's the smallest part of the job.
Labour's front bench isn't performing. That's hardly a controversial statement, more a natural observation such as recognising the sky is blue. Labour's personnel is failing to engage with the public on core issues that matter to our wealth and health.
While Hekia Parata's offered up two of the worst-handled policy launches in living memory this year, most voters wouldn't even know who Labour's education spokesperson is. (Hint: First name, Nanaia. Still no idea? ...Exactly).
Health Minister Tony Ryall may be the safest pair of hands since George Nepia, but when you can so easily quip that the Labour spokeswoman's claim to fame is that she wants to make it easier to die... well, the material writes itself. (No idea who I'm talking about? Street, Maryan Street. Hmmm).
And what about Welfare? Paula Bennett has gone beyond the manifesto with the "social obligations" on beneficiaries, and while Jacinda Ardern is scoring some points in the House, she's not scoring in anyone's home.
Those were the three singled out for criticism by Tamihere this weekend, but even the well-regarded deputy Grant Robertson is playing second fiddle to Russel Norman on the Kim Dotcom story.
The fact is that the poll trend for National is down, despite of this. So Labour's not under great pressure. Yet. But party members can hardly be delighted by what they're seeing, as Tamihere has suggested.
The best work for Labour has been coming from further back, mostly Phil Goff (who's back in the headlines today with a story that ordinary punters will take note of - welfare in Australia), Andrew Little to some extent on ACC (although that's been gift-wrapped for him) and Chris Hipkins (who helped expose Parata in one of her worst weeks).
So some promotions are in order, some egos will be wounded and Shearer will be a little less liked by some. So be it, amen.
But you know what? The personnel is what it is for the next two years and it's not the biggest problem.
For me, Labour's problem is not the who, it's the what. Never mind who's saying it, Labour just needs something to say. Oh, we hear there's a constitutional review going on (most voters would have fallen asleep before I even finished that sentence) and policy work going on behind the scenes. So far, so what?
What Labour's missing is ideas and, y'know, actual policy.
I thought the policy work went on in the Goff years so that when the party actually had more than a 5% chance of winning they were ready to front. I remember even a former National MP telling me how impressive Labour's policy work was... in 2010.
Two years on, where's the fruit of Labour's labour?
Classic example: David Parker has travelled the world talking about monetary policy, but where's a single concrete policy announcement that's come out of that? Something different? Russel Norman stayed home but has people talking bout quantitative easing because the Greens dared to have an actual opinion.
Labour's again in the shadows.
It's the same if you turn back to Welfare. Ardern can say what she doesn't like about Bennett's schemes, but when it comes to making a case for what she's taken to calling "social security" there's no substance.
Last term under Goff Labour argued there was little point putting out policy so far from an election; no-one pays attention until election year, and late in the year at that. That theory's daft, but the lesson seems to have gone unlearnt.
If you've nothing to say in the intervening years, why should anyone listen to you in a campaign? Labour needs to start a conversation, to earn voters' attention, to re-introduce itself to voters with more than waffle and negatives.
I find it hard to get enthused about any argument pro or agin David Shearer, because he's not the main problem. If the poor man actually had some policy to enunciate, he may not stutter so much. If his party had some stakes in the ground, he might be able to argue them with some apparent conviction.
This happens to parties that get a hiding at an election. Just ask Bill English. They're so scared of the polls and alienating the middle voters they need to win back that they end up saying nothing. At least, nothing with any conviction, anything you'd want to follow. The fear of offending some prevents them from speaking out.
The irony is that the only way to get the attention of the voters you need to win over and earn their respect is to actually stand. for. something.
And it's got to be real and relevant at the kitchen table. When your only new ideas in the public square are gay marriage, euthanasia and altering the Reserve Bank Act, you're not going to force a change of government
So Labour can reshuffle all it likes. And it should. But unless its MPs settle on some specific ideas and goals and give the new front bench something to say -- some core policy to espouse, some vision to inspire and some values to stand on -- it'll just be different faces, same result.


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March 24, 2012
Dear Fellow Virginians,
This Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will begin three days of hearings in one of the most important cases in the history of this country. As many of you have heard me say, liberty itself is very much at stake in this case.
Today I am writing to tell you about the analysis I will be doing this week available in The Compass. And I want to ask each of you to do me a favor: please forward this Compass to five of your friends or family and urge them to sign up for The Compass so they can get in on the inside scoop too.
I'll write a Compass every night analyzing the day's hearing and looking ahead to the remaining hearings. Then at the end of the week, I'll write a recap.
Compass readers will get it all first, so please encourage your fellow conservatives, Republicans, libertarians and others interested in preserving the first principles of this country to sign up for The Compass at www.Cuccinelli.com!
While I don't normally send around articles and this one is fairly long, the Wall Street Journal did a good job in their editorial below previewing the case, and I knew you'd be interested, so here it is...
Liberty and ObamaCare
The Affordable Care Act claims federal power is unlimited.
Now the High Court must decide.
Few legal cases in the modern era are as consequential, or as defining, as the challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that the Supreme Court hears beginning Monday. The powers that the Obama Administration is claiming change the structure of the American government as it has existed for 225 years. Thus has the health-care law provoked an unprecedented and unnecessary constitutional showdown that endangers individual liberty.
It is a remarkable moment. The High Court has scheduled the longest oral arguments in nearly a half-century: five and a half hours, spread over three days. Yet Democrats, the liberal legal establishment and the press corps spent most of 2010 and 2011 deriding the government of limited and enumerated powers of Article I as a quaint artifact of the 18th century. Now even President Obama and his staff seem to grasp their constitutional gamble.
Consider a White House strategy memo that leaked this month, revealing that senior Administration officials are coordinating with liberal advocacy groups to pressure the Court. "Frame the Supreme Court oral arguments in terms of real people and real benefits that would be lost if the law were overturned," the memo notes, rather than "the individual responsibility piece of the law and the legal precedence [sic]." Those nonpolitical details are merely what "lawyers will be talking about."
President Obama signing the health care bill at the White House on March 23, 2010.
The White House is even organizing demonstrations during the proceedings, including a "'prayerful witness' encircling the Supreme Court." The executive branch is supposed to speak to the Court through the Solicitor General, not agitprop and crowds in the streets.
The Supreme Court will not be ruling about matters of partisan conviction, or the President's re-election campaign, or even about health care at all. The lawsuit filed by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business is about the outer boundaries of federal power and the architecture of the U.S. political system.
The argument against the individual mandate—the requirement that everyone buy health insurance or pay a penalty—is carefully anchored in constitutional precedent and American history. The Commerce Clause that the government invokes to defend such regulation has always applied to commercial and economic transactions, not to individuals as members of society.
This distinction is crucial. The health-care and health-insurance markets are classic interstate commerce. The federal government can regulate broadly—though not without limit—and it has. It could even mandate that people use insurance to purchase the services of doctors and hospitals, because then it would be regulating market participation. But with ObamaCare the government is asserting for the first time that it can compel people to enter those markets, and only then to regulate how they consume health care and health insurance. In a word, the government is claiming it can create commerce so it has something to regulate.
This is another way of describing plenary police powers—regulations of private behavior to advance public order and welfare. The problem is that with two explicit exceptions (military conscription and jury duty) the Constitution withholds such power from a central government and vests that authority in the states. It is a black-letter axiom: Congress and the President can make rules for actions and objects; states can make rules for citizens.
The framers feared arbitrary and centralized power, so they designed the federalist system—which predates the Bill of Rights—to diffuse and limit power and to guarantee accountability. Upholding the ObamaCare mandate requires a vision on the Commerce Clause so broad that it would erase dual sovereignty and extend the new reach of federal general police powers into every sphere of what used to be individual autonomy.
These federalist protections have endured despite the shifting definition and scope of interstate commerce and activities that substantially affect it. The Commerce Clause was initially seen as a modest power, meant to eliminate the interstate tariffs that prevailed under the Articles of Confederation. James Madison noted in Federalist No. 45 that it was "an addition which few oppose, and from which no apprehensions are entertained." The Father of the Constitution also noted that the powers of the states are "numerous and infinite" while the federal government's are "few and defined."
That view changed in the New Deal era as the Supreme Court blessed the expansive powers of federal economic regulation understood today. A famous 1942 ruling, Wickard v. Filburn, held that Congress could regulate growing wheat for personal consumption because in the aggregate such farming would affect interstate wheat prices. The Court reaffirmed that precedent as recently as 2005, in Gonzales v. Raich, regarding homegrown marijuana.
The Court, however, has never held that the Commerce Clause is an ad hoc license for anything the government wants to do. In 1995, in Lopez, it gave the clause more definition by striking down a Congressional ban on carrying guns near schools, which didn't rise to the level of influencing interstate commerce. It did the same in 2000, in Morrison, about a federal violence against women statute.
A thread that runs through all these cases is that the Court has always required some limiting principle that is meaningful and can be enforced by the legal system. As the Affordable Care Act suits have ascended through the courts, the Justice Department has been repeatedly asked to articulate some benchmark that distinguishes this specific individual mandate from some other purchase mandate that would be unconstitutional. Justice has tried and failed, because a limiting principle does not exist.
The best the government can do is to claim that health care is unique. It is not. Other industries also have high costs that mean buyers and sellers risk potentially catastrophic expenses—think of housing, or credit-card debt. Health costs are unpredictable—but all markets are inherently unpredictable. The uninsured can make insurance pools more expensive and transfer their costs to those with coverage—though then again, similar cost-shifting is the foundation of bankruptcy law.
The reality is that every decision not to buy some good or service has some effect on the interstate market for that good or service. The government is asserting that because there are ultimate economic consequences it has the power to control the most basic decisions about how people spend their own money in their day-to-day lives. The next stops on this outbound train could be mortgages, college tuition, credit, investment, saving for retirement, Treasurys, and who knows what else.
Confronted with these concerns, the Administration has echoed Nancy Pelosi when she was asked if the individual mandate was constitutional: "Are you serious?" The political class, the Administration says, would never abuse police powers to create the proverbial broccoli mandate or force people to buy a U.S.-made car.
But who could have predicted that the government would pass a health plan mandate that is opposed by two of three voters? The argument is self-refuting, and it shows why upholding the rule of law and defending the structural checks and balances of the separation of powers is more vital than ever.
Another Administration fallback is the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause, which says Congress can pass laws to execute its other powers. Yet the Court has never hesitated to strike down laws that are not based on an enumerated power even if they're part of an otherwise proper scheme. This clause isn't some ticket to justify inherently unconstitutional actions.
In this context, the Administration says the individual mandate is necessary so that the Affordable Care Act's other regulations "work." Those regulations make insurance more expensive. So the younger and healthier must buy insurance that they may not need or want to cross-subsidize the older and sicker who are likely to need costly care. But that doesn't make the other regulations more "effective." The individual mandate is meant to offset their intended financial effects.
Some good-faith critics have also warned that overturning the law would amount to conservative "judicial activism," saying that the dispute is only political. This is reductive reasoning. Laws obey the Constitution or they don't. The courts ought to defer to the will of lawmakers who pass bills and the Presidents who sign them, except when those bills violate the founding document.
As for respect of the democratic process, there are plenty of ordinary, perfectly constitutional ways the Obama Democrats could have reformed health care and achieved the same result. They could have raised taxes to fund national health care or to make direct cross-subsidy transfers to sick people. They chose not to avail themselves of those options because they'd be politically unpopular. The individual mandate was in that sense a deliberate evasion of the accountability the Constitution's separation of powers is meant to protect.
Meanwhile, some on the right are treating this case as a libertarian seminar and rooting for the end of the New Deal precedents. But the Court need not abridge stare decisis and the plaintiffs are not asking it to do so. The Great Depression farmer in Wickard, Roscoe Filburn, was prohibited from growing wheat, and that ban, however unwise, could be reinstated today. Even during the New Deal the government never claimed that nonconsumers of wheat were affecting interstate wheat prices, or contemplated forcing everyone to buy wheat in order to do so.
The crux of the matter is that by arrogating to itself plenary police powers, the government crossed a line that Justice Anthony Kennedy drew in his Lopez concurrence. The "federal balance," he wrote, "is too essential a part of our constitutional structure and plays too vital a role in securing freedom for us to admit inability to intervene when one or the other level of government has tipped the scale too far."
The constitutional questions the Affordable Care Act poses are great, novel and grave, as much today as they were when they were first posed in an op-ed on these pages by the Washington lawyers David Rivkin and Lee Casey on September 18, 2009. The appellate circuits are split, as are legal experts of all interpretative persuasions.
The Obama Administration and its allies are already planning to attack the Court's credibility and legitimacy if it overturns the Affordable Care Act. They will claim it is a purely political decision, but this should not sway the Justices any more than should the law's unpopularity with the public.
The stakes are much larger than one law or one President. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Supreme Court's answers may constitute a hinge in the history of American liberty and limited and enumerated government. The Justices must decide if those principles still mean something."
The Monday hearing will address the Anti-injunction Act. I jokingly refer to it as 'the boring day,' but I will email you a Compass Monday night, and explain what went on that day, as well as its significance. We will also look ahead to the hearing on the individual mandate on Tuesday - the guts of the case.
See you then!


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