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Ogden • When the Rev. Robb Trujillo officiates at weddings, he can legally marry a man and a woman but he cannot himself get married to his longtime partner.
Trujillo said same-sex couples have obstacles in raising families that could be resolved with legal recognition. He and his partner are raising seven children.
"In Utah, even gay couples have large families," said Trujillo's partner, Mark Dexheimer-Trujillo. "I feel like we're behind the curve when we hear politicians and other authorities say that somehow this Ozzie and Harriet world is breaking down, and somehow [same-sex marriage] is contributing to it, and I'm saying it's already happened," said Dexheimer-Trujillo, referring to the 1950s-era TV show "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
The OUTreach Resource Center held a panel discussion earlier this month concerning same-sex marriage, or marriage "equality," bringing a dozen people to talk about the topic from various perspectives.
As the U.S. Supreme Court begins hearings next month on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), gay nuptials are portrayed by opponents as an effort to rewrite the traditional rules of matrimony. Quietly, outside the courtroom spotlight, many gay couples are doing just that, according to OUTreach panelists.
Panelists said there should be a line drawn between civil unions and religious marriages. The first is recognized by the state and offers equal legal rights to same-sex couples. The latter remains within the scope of church officials, who could continue to just recognize traditional marriages of one man, one woman.
Attorney Shane Marx, of Salt Lake City, said many European countries have this two-pronged approach to marriage, keeping the legal and religious ceremonies separate.
"Ninety years ago, everyone was married by the justice of peace in this country," Marx said to the audience gathered at the event in the Weber County Library. "Then pastors were allowed to marry."
Marx said he's helping to raise a child with a lesbian couple, one who is the biological mother, which has caused legal issues concerning health insurance and taxes, among others.
"You can be a single gay parent and adopt in Utah, but you can't be in a long-term [same-sex] relationship [and adopt]," Marx said.
Love brought Dexheimer-Trujillo and Trujillo together, but they said they knew from the beginning that their bond would be created on their own terms, especially since they both had children from previous relationships. Their boundary-challenging gay relationship includes seven children.
Dexheimer-Trujillo was married to his former wife with children Mark, 27, Angela, 25, Laurel, 21, and Alexandra (who died at age 11). Trujillo has three children from a previous relationship: Lillie, 16, Bella, 14, and Dillan, 8.
And they have been raising Jordan Kersey, 20. All of the children's mothers are a part of the arrangement.
"There's extra rooms in each house, and a lot of time the lines would blur, but we had much of our dinners together," Dexheimer-Trujillo said. "I've always felt as a stepparent. Because our arrangement is so intentional, we have a way of dealing with it."
Jamila Tharp and Michelle Hastings, who are raising a daughter, agreed. The Utah couple were legally married in California before the Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage.
"It is sad that such a false statement was made that marriages like Michelle's and my religious marriage cause 'violence to the institution of marriage,' " Tharp wrote in an email. "That is simply not true. Religious marriage is decided by religious groups. Civil marriage that carries over 1,400 civil state and federal rights and protections ought to be available to all citizens."
Neca Allgood, a member of Mormons Building Bridges, said she would like a more inclusive approach to gay relationships.
"I want them to have the legal rights that we have," said Allgood, of Syracuse. "I believe loving families are a public good."
Allison Black, president of Ogden PFLAG: Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays, said she ended up leaving the LDS Church.
"If you stand up for your gay kids, then you're against the church," Black said. "I believe he [God] gave me gay kids for a reason."
In 2008, many Utahns were involved in Prop 8. The Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spent $189,004 on the "Yes on 8" campaign, while businesses and individuals from Utah contributed $3.8 million to the campaign, more than 70 percent of it in support of Prop 8.
However, this week, attorneys for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are in quiet discussions with leaders of Utah's gay and lesbian community, trying to hammer out language for a statewide ban on housing and employment discrimination that the church could support.
Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, opened a bill file on Thursday called Housing and Employment Amendments and will sponsor the legislation should an agreement be reached.
"In my personal and legal experience, I believe we all have a basic understanding of fundamental fairness, regardless of religion, gender or sexual orientation," attorney Marx wrote in an email. "This understanding comes from our shared experience as a human race and not necessarily from political or spiritual doctrines."
If traditional marriages are in crisis, panelists said same-sex couples wanting legal recognition are not the cause.
So while the legal fight over same-sex marriage plays out, gay couples said the real battle is making relationships last, especially if their answers defy the prevailing definition of marriage.
"We feel that love is what defines us," Trujillo said. "We deserve equality under the law."
Twitter: @rayutah
'Standing on the Side of Love' protest Thursday
P Same-sex couples and their allies will meet at 11:30 a.m. Thursday for what's being called "Standing on the Side of Love" for marriage equality. The protest will be held at the Salt Lake County Clerk's Office, 2001 S. State St. For details, go to marriageequality.org.


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Whyte's Sport Saddle offers nothing particularly exotic about construction or materials used but it's been music to this tester's derriere, if you catch my drift.
The cover is a sturdy weather resistant affair available in black, white or brown. Manufacturers sometimes cut corners where they cannot be seen but I was pleased to discover it neatly bonded and stapled to the base.
Faux hides were once leather's poor relation but radical improvements in synthetic technology achieves broadly the same aesthetic without creating moral dilemmas for strict vegetarians, or requiring the same levels of aftercare.
Subtle pressure-relieving channels, discreet logos and classic style wouldn't look out of place on a mid eighties classic with pencil thin tubing, although it's rugged enough to withstand being leant against coarse masonry, tethering to street furniture and similar rough 'n' tumble in daily service.
The base is a Velo branded dual density resin type available in three widths - 275 x 145mm as tested, a more feminine friendly 255 x 150mm and a generic "comfort" shape.
This along with the hollow rails is designed to afford moderate amounts of damping, overcoming rider fatigue without sapping power. Given the subtle zing and modest weight, I was surprised to learn the rails are hi-tensile, rather than cro-moly steel but, in my experience, failures are unlikely thanks to a chrome-effect powder coat finish that will look gorgeous for many seasons.
If you think the Whyte Sports saddle looks vaguely familiar, well, that's probably because it is very similar in shape to an old road.cc favourite, the Charge Spoon and indeed the Madison Flux… erm, and the Gusset R-Series. Similar but not the same. All of their basic diminesions vary by a few millimetres with the Gusset, for instance, being longer and narrower, and the Flux longer again, at 280mm but the same width.
All of them, so far as we are aware, come out of the same factory, and the Charge, Madison and Gusset in their basic guise are between five and 10 quid cheaper than the Whyte, although shop around and we're pretty sure that gap will close. Of course, short of pulling them all apart we can't say how similar the Whyte is to the others in anything other than shape and it does offer a choice of widths - the others don't - and it has a fancy top. The bottom line is that it works for this reviewer which easily justifies the price difference.
Having come straight from breaking in three traditional saddles in masochistic succession, the padding seemed a little soft around the base but that sensation evaporated after 50 miles with no hint of chafing.
Those supple rails and compliant top ensured my minute adjustments didn't evolve into irksome saddle surfing.
Well-made and capable perch for the rigours of daily use yet smart enough for your best bike too too.
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Whyte Sports Saddle
Size tested: Brown
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
"Lightweight construction, a really comfortable feel and a contemporary finish. Ergonomic shaping reduces pressure on sensitive areas for increased comfort over longer distances".
Has worked for me to date.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Faux leather cover, dual density resin base, thin pile padding, hi-tensile steel rails with chrome effect powder coat finish.
Suited me perfectly but then objectivity is the first casualty when talking about contact points.
Commensurate with what I've come to expect from this pricepoint rather than breathtakingly good value for money.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Whyte sports saddle has been a pleasant surprise proving extremely comfortable for long periods and in most contexts. A quick lick of Nickwax or similar proofing adds some additional water repellence but to date this hasn't been problematic-even in the foulest weather.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Nice aesthetics, reasonable price and bang on for my butt.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Nothing in particular-a version with more exotic rails would be nice though.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes.
About the tester
Age: 38 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
Citing Richard Ballantine and an Au pair as his earliest cycling influences, he is presently writing a cycling book with particular focus upon women, families and disabled audiences (Having been a registered care manager and coached children at Herne Hill Velodrome in earlier careers)


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Good Morning Your Honor,My name is Johanna Petit Chapman. Bill Petit is my brother and Jennifer,Hayley and Michaela were my sister in law and nieces.
I would like to thank you, Judge Blue, and your staff. Thank you to theprosecutors and their staff and thank you to the members ofthe jury. Thanksto all ofyou for your sacrifice and diligence in this case. The evil acts thatbrought us all here together should never have happened. And, as sorry as Iam that they did happen, I am sorry too that you have had to endure thewords and images that we, the family, have had to carry since July 23rd2007. Those images I carried with my brother Glenn after identifying thebodies. Steven Hayes reduced my beautiful sister in law and nieces tounrecognizable. Images so horrific that I never wanted another soul to haveto see them...partially, because they were so horrific and partially becauseothers seeing them made them real.
Steven Hayes thrust my children into an evil world that they should havenever been exposed to. He initiated them and all ofus into a club thatnobody wants to be a member of. By his selfish actions, he changed ourlives in ways that run far too deep and wide for words.
The defense team said that he is affected every second of every day becauseofhis actions. And while I fmd it loathsome to use their words...we, we areimpacted every second of every minute ofevery hour of every day of everyweek ofevery month of every year because ofthe heinous acts that hecommitted. He took the lives ofJennifer, Hayley and Michaela. He tookthem in such a cruel and tortuous way that we will be forever impacted. In away, he took my brother from me as well. The holes in our hearts are far toowide to ever heal.
Our lives have been impacted in every way- our work...means to make aliving, our health...emotional and physical, our marriage, our home life, ourholidays, our relationships with others...our ability to trust and feel safe, ourthoughts, our sleep, our dreams...our nightmares.
Celebrations and holidays ceased on July 23rd 2007. In September of2007there was a memorial service for Jen, Hayley and KK.. It fell on what should. have been a joyous and celebratory day for my family. It fell on September28th
•••the birthday that my two children share. We should have beencelebratirig their 13th and 16th birthdays...milestones. Instead, my 16-yearolddaughter spent the day at the memorial eulogizing her cousin, hermentor...her best friend, Hayley....or Haza or Hayes. But I just think ofher as Hayley now because he even took her nickname from her. I Can nolonger think of her by the name that her murderer has. My son spent his 13thbirthday seated with the rest ofus...sobbing.
Beyond the holidays...our every days have changed. We are startingbasketball season. Our family is huge fans ofbasketbal1. ..college hoops...UCONN hoops. I cannot even go into the Hartford Civic Center orGampel Pavillion without sadness. I still wait for Hayley to come throughthe door and flop onto our leather chair with a book and fall asleep. I stillwait for KK to shyly come in and check on the animals and the snack drawerbefore finding AJ. I still wait for Jen to call and ask if I want to ride togetherto see the girls play or go get a bite to eat. I am still tempted to call and askher what I should wear. I will forever miss talking to Jen. She was kind andcompassionate. She was always the first to give somebody the benefit ofthedoubt. The harshest thing that she would say about somebody who was meanor cruel was to call them a "baddy". That is how she taught her children.That is how she taught my children and all ofthe children who sheinfluenced.
With such a large family, it seemed as though we were always gettingtogether for something. It was always someone's birthday, anniversary,confrrmation, basketball game, play, concert, recital or holiday. So much so,that we actually took our closeness for granted. Jen and I would talk abouthow we never had any time because every weekend was spoken for. That allchanged on July 23rd 2007. How could we gather at my moms forThanksgiving and stand around the table hold hands and share what we werethankful for when there were three links missing? That first year after thegirls were murdered, we decided that we could not link hands atThanksgiving. We quickly learned, though, that staying alone and beingmiserable was no better than being together and being miserable. And werealized that so much had already been taken from us that we weren't willingto give up anymore. So now we get together, but, the joy ofthe holidays iselusive.. .it evades us. There has been no tree at Christmas. I want there to bejoy. I want there to be a tree...especially for my kids. I want them to riseabove the pain and adversity and have love and joy in their lives.
Funny thing about adversity. You can use it as a crutch as the defense teamfor Steven Hayes tried to do. Or, you can use it to strengthen yourself. Whenmy daughter was seventeen, she wrote an essay...and while it breaks myheart.. .it at the same time gives me hope. It gives me the hope that she willovercome. She wrote:
The Power to Overcome
With each passing day I wait for the pain to lessen, but it never does.Maybe because as time passes, I find it harder to remember the order ofherbooks stacked next to her bed, or the arrangement ofher postcards aroundher mirror. It's harder to hear Michaela's embarrassed laugh when I told herhow beautiful she was becoming. Their voices are slowly disappearing frommy memory. I can't quite get back the feeling ofjumping into the passengerseat ofher white car and immediately changing the radio station, on our wayto anywhere and everywhere. Perhaps the forgetting is what scares me themost.
On July 23, 2007 my Auntie Jen and two cousins Hayley and KKwere brutally murdered in a hostage home invasion. My uncle was beatenbadly, but survived. That day, not only was my second family taken fromme, but also I lost my best friend. At the age of fifteen I found myself thrustinto a horrific situation, one most people never experience in their wholelives. I didn't think this kind ofthing happened to people like me.(j).
Abandoned, I knew that no one could possibly understand how I felt.Everyone intellectually understood the magnitude ofthe loss- the loss oflife,loss ofhappiness, loss of family. It seemed to me what I lost was somethingmuch bigger. I lost my best friend and my idol. I lost the person I'd grownup with, the person I'd laughed the most with. I lost the person who wasalways there for me as my everyday confidant. I lost the person who alwaysknew what to do and always told me what to do. I lost the person who knewme better than anyone in the world. She's the reason I even considered anindependent education. I applied to Miss Porter's with the intention tobecome just like Hayley, and so this loss was the loss ofeverything I hadbased my life upon thus far and I wondered how I would continue on. As Istruggled to hold back the emotions, I wondered if eventually they would eatme away until I felt nothing.
As the days passed after the tragedy, I scrambled to hold onto as manymemories as possible. I saved the text messages from the days before andstared blankly at my cell phone's missed calls screen. I wanted to rememberevery freckle on her body, the way she moved, talked, wrote and laughed,and I struggled to remember the old innocently naive and happy me.
The Lights ofHope benefit found me in a disgruntled, upset moodand my gracious smile became harder and harder to uphold. As the comersofmy mouth curled towards the ground, the tightness in my chest becameunbearable. It seemed like the hundredth event I'd been forced to attend andshow my gratitude towards those trying to "help" us. What no one realized isthat nothing helped at all. I'd become an expert at masking the feelings thatate away at my stomach. The only thing that kept me from stomping off ininexplicable rage was the sight ofmy tormented uncle. Ifhe had the staminato make it through these events and continue breathing then so could I.
As I gazed at him in the comer ofthe room, I searched for the oldUncle Billy. The same one who would stay up late with Hayley and me,watching movies and eating popcorn; the one who brought us to UCONNgames and tried to make us cheer; the one who would toss me up as a littlegirl high over his head until I fell into his huge safe arms. Those same armslook defeated now, hunched over in sorrow. I felt another pang ofhurt sodeep that I wondered if hearts could stop beating from sadness.
I've certainly taken some lessons from this atrocity. I've learned toput life into perspective. Before, when I got a poor grade on a math test, Ithought it was the end ofthe world. Now, I know what it's like to experiencethe end ofmy world. No longer can I hear KK.'s laugh or feel Hayley's hug.I'll never again get to shoot hoops with Hayley in the backyard, or ask herfor help on French homework. Along with everything that "normal"teenagers deal with every day, 1am forced to face an unsolvable heartache.Now, 1 live each day for those who can't. 1 refuse to let the endless surge of .emotions stop me from living an active, successful life. Above all, 1 refuse tofall victim to this horrific tragedy. (conclusion).
Steven Hayes has no empathy for our family...as his defense team states. Hehas no remorse. The only thing that he is sorry about is that he got caught.Officer Martucci testified under oath that Hayes is a shrewd, manipulativeinmate...perfectly aware how his faked suicide attempts would affect thedeath penalty phase ofhis trial.
The defense team has thrown around terms like "bloodlust" and "mediacircus" ...they have blamed everybody from the media, our family, evenhave gone as far as to blame the jury....when there is only one person toblame...Steven Hayes. Steven Hayes murdered Jen, Hayley and KK. Hemurdered them in such a heinous fashion that the state ofCT w~s aghast.While horrified, they watched...they are still watching. They are fearful thatthis too may happen to them. But it didn't. .. it happened to us. StevenHayes had the money. Steven Hayes had the money and then decided to killJen and the girls. He could have let them live...and while it would havetaken years for them to heal from the torture and fear that they endured...1would have taken that choice any day. Life over death. No wonder thedefense team wants life over death. Hayes gave them death yet they ask forlife. It's absurd. Absurd because he does not deserve life. There are someacts and some people who are so evil that they do not deserve life andSteven Hayes falls into that category.
The only thing that my brother's family did was to go to sleep in their ownhome. They went to sleep on a Sunday night, like we all do. Unwindingfrom the week and recharging for the next. They had dinner together,watched mindless tv, talked and read the new Harry Potter book. None ofuswould know or could know, that it would be their last night. We will neverbe able to share their troubles or celebrate their triumphs. Three beautifullives taken...my brother's life destroyed and our life devastated because ofSteven Hayes's selfish evil acts.
.. • ~ I'Our family owes a great deal ofgratitude to the community at large. Theyhave helped to lift us daily. They have helped us to see light in the darknessand have given us hope that good can overcome evil. And, for that, I amgrateful. In search ofthat light and on behalfof securing a safer civilizedsociety, I ask that the court impose the death penalty on Steven Hayes.


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HRG vs. Nord-9 Months YTD 2012 Comparison
Always appreciated we now have an update from Chris Charlwood who has very kindly sent us this missive updating us on the current state of play over at High River Gold Mines Limited (HRG) which we hope that you find interesting and informative
HRG vs. Nord-9 Months YTD 2012 Comparison
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 19, 2012) -
To High River Gold Shareholders,
Both High River Gold and Nord Gold put out their Q3 financial results last week. Below is a comparison of the first 9 months of 2012:
HRG had production of 254.8koz. vs. Nord at 515.0k oz. - 49.5% of Nord's total.
HRG had revenues of $422.5M vs. Nord at 851.1M - 49.6% of Nord's total.
HRG had EBITDA of $208.8M vs. Nord at $349.2M - 59.8% of Nord's total.
HRG had cash flow of $179.2M vs. Nord at $71.0M - 252% of Nord's total.
HRG had a net profit of $137.0M vs. Nord at $123.2M - 111% of Nord's total.
At end of Q3, HRG had liquidity of $257.7M (including $89.4M third party stock (Detour Gold), $113.3M loans to Nord and $55M in cash). It had $10.3M debt owed to the 50% partner in Prognoz.
At end of Q3, Nord had $102.4M in cash and total debt of $523.2M.
Note: these numbers reflect 100% of both companies and do not deduct for non-controlling interests.
Without HRG, in the first 9 months of the year, Nord would have had negative cash flow of $108.2M, a loss of $13.8M and a negative cash balance of $10.9M. The EBITDA comparison continues to show the superior performance of HRG's assets over Nord's non-HRG assets. The cash flow and profit comparisons highlight the substantial debt that Nord is carrying.
There have been a few interesting events recently that are worth mentioning. Firstly, Nord has repaid $52.7M in loans to HRG bringing the total loans from HRG down to $113M. Secondly, in HRG's press release it says, "The Bissa project is on track to deliver first gold in H1 2013 and we now believe that production of gold at Bissa can be started in the earlier part of the announced period. " To remind you, a Morgan Stanley report dated Feb. 17, 2012 projects that Bissa will produce 95koz. of gold in 2013 and add $145M of EBITDA.
In regards to the Prognoz silver project, it is interesting to note that certain parties to the lock-up agreements (for the current offer) have some connection to both HRG and Prognoz via direct and indirect investments. Therefore, it would not be surprising if HRG/Nord and the other 50% partners in Prognoz come to some sort of agreement on settling legal disputes and bankruptcy proceedings next year. As I have stated previously, a spinoff of Prognoz would be beneficial to all parties - especially considering certain predictions that silver will play catch up to gold in terms of historic ratios. Prognoz is in the top ten silver properties in the world in terms of resources, but tops the list with grades.
Nord's most recent offer for HRG of $1.40 share is at a P/E of 7.3 vs. the industry average (for mid-cap gold producers) at a 25 P/E. Based on this average, Nord's cash offer should be $4.80/share. The share swap offer of .285 Nord share for each HRG share translates to 100% of HRG being worth 58% of Nord's total value. This is almost equal to the 59.8% of Nord's EBITDA contributed by HRG, however, this does not reflect HRG minority's portion of the $247.4M of HRG's net liquidity. When factoring this in, it brings 100% of HRG up to 70% of Nord's total value. This means HRG shareholders should have been offered 76M shares of Nord which works out to an exchange of .363 Nord share for each HRG share (calcs linked below). Even this number gives zero value for the Prognoz property.
Nord's offer expires in one week's time. To date we have collected confirmations from shareholders with approx. 90.2M shares (10.73% of total HRG shares and 43% of minority) that they will not tender to Nord's offer. This includes shares owned in funds managed by Eric Sprott (HRG's largest minority shareholder). Nord would have needed 90% of minority to tender to the current offer in order to squeeze the rest out. With 43% of minority indicating they will not tender, this should prevent this from happening on the Nov. 27th expiry date. Also, since those holding over 10% of total shares have indicate they will not tender, Nord will not be able to use an exemption eliminating the requirement for a majority of minority vote in a second stage transaction. To use this exemption they would have needed to own 90% of total shares. Therefore, if Nord wants to continue its buyout effort and acquire all shares and vote the shares tendered to this offer, it will have to announce a subsequent amalgamation offer and complete the transaction within 120 days of the expiry of the current offer. Nord would need to call a special shareholders meeting with proper notice, which puts the earliest possible meeting dates around Dec. 31 - Jan. 2 range - depending on mailing and preparation time. At this meeting, only those voting in person or by proxy count. If a majority of minority is required, we may already be able to win this vote with the 90.2M shares if Nord cannot get a greater number to vote in its favour. However, to be certain we will be able to block, it would be best if we collect another 14.6M shares to garner ultimate majority of minority (104.8M shares). As with Nord's take-over attempt in 2009, there are certain funds that will not confirm their share counts or intentions, but will vote with us anyway. Therefore, I believe our numbers to be greater than stated above.
If any funds owning HRG shares have not contacted me yet, I encourage you to do so. Confirming that we have support of majority of minority will send Nord the message that they need to up their offer significantly. If we defeat this offer outright, we could see a significant increase in HRG's share price. In 2009, when we defeated Severstal/Nord's offer, HRG's share price tripled within 5 months of the offer expiry date.
Link to HRG Q3 results
Link to share swap calculations
Disclaimer: I have received written or verbal confirmations of shareholder counts from those that will not tender. If any of these shareholders have changed their mind, since sold their shares, or not been accurate in their statements, it will change the share counts stated above.
Contact Information
Chris Charlwood
HRG Shareholder
Disclosure: Gold-prices have not sold any HRG stock.
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The information on the strokes below came from The Canoe Camper site and the animated GIFs were done by Michelle Stacheruk. I am indebted to them for their permission to reproduce this information as it is in my opinion a tremendous teaching aid for those learning the strokes
There is also an interesting video on paddle strokes HERE
J Stroke
This is an animated GIF of the J Stroke as seen from the front of a canoe and from above. This stroke is used to make the canoe go in a straight line when paddling solo. The paddle goes into the water, is pulled back, and turned, like a letter J, at the end of the stroke. .
Inside Turn with J Stroke
This stroke is a modification of the J Stroke used to turn towards the paddle side. To increase your turn, start the stroke out from the canoe and draw in towards the canoe before following through with the rest of the J stroke.
Indian Stroke
This stroke is also known as the underwater stroke. Some people call it the Canadian stroke, but in fact there's a stroke rather between the J stroke and the Indian stroke that is more generally called the Canadian. The Indian stroke is used for paddling a straight course and is very useful against strong winds or running rapids. As you move the paddle forward, rotate the grip of the paddle in the palm of your upper hand. Then you are ready for the next power stroke without taking the blade out of the water. If you do it slowly and carefully, there is no sound from the paddle, making it possible to sneak up on wildlife and get a close view.
Box-Stroke Pivot (away from paddle side)
The Box-Stroke Pivot is used to make a quick turn while the canoe pivots on the pivot point, using the basics, the stern draw and the bow pry. Starting in towards the canoe with a stern draw, you then knife the paddle through the water to the bow of the canoe. Then you continue with a bow pry (pushing the paddle away from the canoe), until the paddle is far enough away from the canoe in order to make another effective stern draw, after knifing the paddle back to the stern of the canoe. To turn towards the paddle side, reverse the direction of the steps and repeat until you are in the desired direction.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Enisha Donley (Loganviile, Ga.) of the Georgia College women's basketball team earned her second Bobcat Athlete of the Week honor while leading her team to an undefeated start to the 2013-14 season. Donley led the Bobcats to three more wins this week, giving Georgia College a nine-game win streak to start the season, the Bobcats' best in over a decade.
Donley averaged 17.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game over the three contests this week, wins over Anderson, Tuskegee and Limestone. In all three contests she either led or co-led the Bobcats in scoring.
Her best scoring effort came against Tuskegee, netting a season-high 22 points and pulling down nine rebounds. Donley shot 9-for-16 from the floor in that victory. Combining that with her 14-point performance against Limestone, Donley was named Stair South Inc. Holiday Classic MVP. Donley also co-led her team in scoring against Anderson with 15 points. She ranks 15th in the league in scoring at 15.6 per game and 10th in shooting at 55.0 percent.
The Georgia College women's basketball team will be back in action Thursday, Jan. 2 at UNC Pembroke for a 5:30 p.m. PBC tilt.


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You can begin or end your hike at hundreds of places between the Appalachian Trail's northern and southern ends. Here's what to expect in New York.
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Land Rover has spent its money wisely in continuing to update this Evoque. The engine range has come in for the lion's share of the attention recently and it's an investment that ought to keep the Evoque at the top of the class for some time to come. Thanks to Ingenium engineering, the car has become significantly more economical, yet it remains extremely capable, both on road and off. Just about the only thing that can really sink this model is for it to go horribly out of fashion. That doesn't look like happening any time soon, but just in case, Land Rover has concentrated on substance over style with the most recent revisions. In doing so, the brand has future-proofed its biggest money-spinner.
If rival manufacturers were hoping that the success of the Range Rover Evoque was about to let up, they've been disappointed. Land Rover has kept its premium compact SUV on top of its game with a whole series of significant updates - and these have come not so long after a previous series of changes that introduced the car's segment-leading nine-speed ZF auto gearbox. This time round, the Evoque's looking to stay on top of the pile courtesy of some styling updates, some fresh engines and a range of improved safety kit. Is it enough? Nobody's really got to within touching distance of the Evoque in terms of desirability in its division, so we're going to go out on a limb and say yes. It's really not that much of a punt.
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It's a brave new world at Land Rover right now thanks to a range of 2.0-litre Ingenium engines that look to put the company on a similar efficiency footing as the best of the Germans and Japanese. The Evoque gets the aluminium Ingenium diesel engine, built at the company's shiny new £500m Engine Manufacturing Centre in the West Midlands. This TD4 unit is 20-30kg lighter than its predecessor and delivers low levels of vibration and noise intrusion. It's offered to Evoque customers in two states of tune: 150PS in the economy-oriented eD4 front-wheel drive model, and 180PS if you prefer a bit more poke and can't do without all-wheel drive.
Should you want to go faster still, you can buy the Evoque with the punchy 240PS Si4 petrol unit, but we'd prefer the Ingenium 2.0-litre 190PS powerplant. This propels the car to 60mph in just 6 seconds, making it the fastest sprinting Evoque to date. The nine-speed ZF transmission is fitted to petrol models and shifts between gears so quickly that ZF reckons it's ""below the threshold of perception"". An adaptive shift programme quickly matches the driving style and includes a memory function. A Torque Vectoring by Braking feature further enhances agility and safety by redirecting torque to counteract understeer. Off-road ability is enhanced with the fitment of All-Terrain Progress Control. This function maintains a pre-determined speed - selected using the cruise control function - in forward or reverse gears between 1.1mph and 19mph, allowing the driver to concentrate on negotiating tricky terrain.
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Not many cars make it from concept Motorshow prototype to production reality without being significantly watered down - but this was one of them. We first saw what was then called the LRX in 2008 and the Evoque model it then became is as arresting to look at now as it was back then, whether you opt for this Five-Door bodystyle or the Coupe or Convertible three-door versions.
Inside, Glistening switches and dials from pricier Range Rover models are surveyed from beautifully upholstered sports seats which on plusher models are trimmed in perforated 'Oxford' ebony leather. Land Rover has delivered a state-of-the-art infotainment screen to its volume buyers. The 8-inch 'InControl Touch' display is clear, easy to navigate around and very informative. Plus the brand has also developed a larger 10.2-inch 'InControl Touch Pro' screen that's standard for Convertible Evoque buyers. In the rear, the shallow side windows create a bit of a 'hemmed-in' feel but overall, the space on offer is surprising when you consider the rakish roofline and the fact that this car is shorter than a Ford Focus. There's a 575-litre boot in the five-door version - or 550-litres in the three-door. When required, luggage capacity can be expanded to a healthy 1,445-litres in the five-door. The three-door manages 1,350-litres with the seats folded.
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As before, pricing starts at around the £30,000 mark and there's a choice of either a five-door bodystyle or the three-door 'Coupe', both derivatives equally priced (though the Coupe offers a slimmed-down model range). As for spec, well Land Rover trim levels have often chopped and changed with quite dizzying regularity, so it's good to see that the company has at last introduced some measure of consistency across models. Gone are the old Pure, Prestige and Dynamic models and in comes some trim levels aligned to match those of the Range Rover Sport: SE, SE TECH, HSE Dynamic, HSE DYNAMIC LUX and Autobiography. Even the base trim is well equipped, with the SE featuring an eight-inch InControl Touch touchscreen infotainment system. This allows users to swipe between screens just like a smartphone. If necessary, the six-speaker stereo system can be upgraded to include SD-card based satellite navigation, with DAB radio featuring as standard across the range. Step up to the HSE Dynamic or Autobiography models and you get InControl Touch Plus, which comprises HDD-based navigation, a rear-seat entertainment system complete with a pair of eight-inch video screens and wireless digital headphones, and an 11- or 17-speaker Meridian audio system.
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Bullish Signs for Stocks, Silver
There are a number of signs that suggest shorting stocks and silver is risky right now.
Since late April, stocks and silver have experienced significant declines. Stocks briefly flirted with bear market territory for a few hours. Silver has already experienced a 47% decline from its April high. However there are a number of signs that suggest shorting stocks and silver is risky right now.
The recently completed third quarter was the ninth-worst third quarter in U.S. stock market history going back to 1800. Here is what happened next with the top eight:
1801: Stocks went down 22% over the next eight months. However, stocks went up 73.5% over the next five years and two months from September 30, 1801, despite the inauspicious beginning. This equates to an 11.24% annualized return.
1807: Stocks declined by 20% over the next four months. But from September 30, 1807 to January 31, 1810, stocks were up 53% despite the initial drawdown. This equates to a 26.55% annualized return.
1837: Up 23% in October, then new lows.
1946: October 9 was a low, then a 14.7% bear market rally over four months.
1974: October 4 was the low, then a start of six-year bull market which took the S&P up 125%.
1990: October 11 was the low of a 19% correction and the bull continued for another 9.3 years.
2001: September 21 was the date of a tradable bottom (October 1 was the low in the fourth quarter). The market managed to go up another 13% over the next 3.2 months before the bear resumed.
2002: October 10 was the low and the start of five-year bull market which went up 101%.
So over the last 200 years, when the stock market has had a particularly nasty third quarter, there seems to be a sweet spot for buying stocks the first 11 days in October. Note the current low was on October 4. While this indicator does not tell you when to sell, it suggests that you should cover your shorts, go long stocks and worry about selling later.
Another problem for the bears is the put/call ratio has hit high levels day after day for over two months now. Past history suggests it is going to be difficult for the market to have a sustained downward move with the put/call ratios this high. While the put/call ratio was also high in October 2008, the market traded in a range until the put/call ratio was alleviated to a certain degree. Then the market had another leg down. While the market did manage to hit new lows in October 2011, it only spent about 24 hours below the August 9th bottom.
Finally, stocks have put it new lows as predicted by my August 9 (the exact day of the previous low) column Low RSI of Wilshire 5000 Says It's Time to Buy, Then Sell. The pattern since the August 8 signal (which is ranked #5 since 1980) is identical to the #1, #3, #4 and #6 readings of the indicator mentioned in the article. The market rallied significantly after the second low. The second highest reading (post 9/11) saw an initial multi-month rally of 23% which did not test the lows until many months later.
Going back to January 1986 (when the data starts), the small speculators in the Commitment of Traders Report are the 11th most bearish on silver in this weekly survey's history. This is the 99.2% percentile. The top 10 readings were all in 2001 and 2008.
Note all previous 10 readings were in the middle of stock bear markets. What is also interesting is that some of these readings were near starts of bear market rallies. For example:
March 27, 2001: 21% bear market rally from March 22-May 22, 2001
September 18 and 25, 2001: 24% bear market rally from September 21, 2001-January 7, 2002
November 18, 2008: 27% bear market rally from November 21, 2008 to January 6, 2003
The maximum silver drawdown in 2001 when the small specs were this bearish was 11.2%. The maximum drawdown in 2008 was 15.6%. The upside was big. Interestingly enough, if silver had a 15.6% drawdown from the date of the bearish small specs COT report, it would equate to $26.31 which was close to the $26.04 intraday low on September 26. So while a retest remains a possibility, this indicator in isolation would suggest it would hold for now. Silver has already had an 8% drawdown from the signal so perhaps it is already bottomed.
Another interesting indicator for silver is the Rate of Change. The 21 day ROC for silver on September 30 was -30.81%. This was the 99.89% percentile. This is not useful for telling whether or not silver will bounce now as sometimes it continued to collapse like it did in 1980 and mid August 2008. However, in both scenarios silver came back to the levels of which it was when the ROC was at -30.81%. In other words, silver could either rally here or crash. But if it crashes, it should bounce right back up to the low $30s on the ensuing rally.
On one hand, the small specs suggest limited downside for silver. On the other hand silver is still extremely overvalued by a number of metrics discussed at great lengths in earlier columns. One solution is to cover shorts in silver and stocks and invest the profits in stocks which are due for a rally. While silver may have an oversold bounce as well, stocks have an earnings yield of over 7%. This offers a margin of safety which silver just doesn't have.
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I used the gigastudio convo verb for quite some time, and imho, jconv is a far better result. The audio in jconv is really clean, and the app runs consistently, which builds confidence in working for lengths of time without the stress of collapse, or segfaults..
That wasn't my experience with GCV, quite the contrary. you had to talk sweetly to it, and beat it with a hammer occasionally. Not conducive to good karma for writing and recording.This was across a herd of gigastudio boxes. (5)


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The day after the election, CNN headlined, November 7th, "Analysis: Why Romney Lost," and Peter Hamby wrote that Republican operatives from around the country expressed awe at the skillfulness of the Obama campaign organization, and they admitted to have been shockingly outclassed.
Mitt Romney, who had claimed, throughout his campaign, that Barack Obama possessed no executive experience and was "just a community organizer," and who had bragged constantly about what a great CEO he, Romney, was, turned out to be instead a CEO dwarf next to the gigantic Obama.
For example, "Democrats showed decisively that their ground game — the combined effort to find, persuade, and turn out voters — is devastatingly better than anything their rivals have to offer. ... 'When it comes to the use of voter data and analytics, the two sides appear to be' not even comparable," said one expert.
"No party has ever had such a durable structural advantage over the other on polling, making television ads, or fundraising, for example," he said. "After the dust had cleared, the GOP field operation, which had derided the Obama operation, ... seemed built on a house of cards."
The next day, John Ekdahl, at his "Ace of Spades HQ," headlined "The Unmitigated Disaster Known As Project ORCA," and he, a web developer volunteer for the Romney get-out-the-vote operation, described Romney's astounding incompetence.
He opened: "What is Project Orca? Well, this is what they told us: 'Project ORCA is a massive undertaking – the Republican Party's newest, unprecedented and most technologically advanced plan to win the 2012 election.' Pretty much everything in that sentence is false. The 'massive undertaking' is true, however. ... And perhaps 'unprecedented' would fit if we're discussing failure." It was an untested technological monstrosity that was incompetently applied, but Ekdahl's repeated efforts to communicate upwards in the organization in order to warn them of problems he found in it went unanswered.
"No response. I continued to do this for six straight hours. ... I even tried to call three local victory centers. All went straight to voicemail." He closed: "The bitter irony of this entire endeavor was that a supposedly small government candidate gutted the local structure of GOTV [Get Out The Vote] efforts in favor of a centralized, faceless organization in a far off place (in this case, their Boston headquarters). Wrap your head around that." That's what stood at the base of what CNN's Peter Hamby was calling the Romney team's "house of cards."
Mitt Romney was massively incompetent as the CEO of a large and complex organization. He surrounded himself with sycophants, to such an extent he had no idea of any problems in his own organization. He was just a repeat of George W. Bush. Both were typical aristocrats.
It turned out that the braggart CEO Romney, lied just as much about his executive skills as he did about most other things. Obama had won political victories not only because he was the best political campaigner in modern times, but also because he hired the best people in the country to run his campaigns. Obama was a crushing opponent, a great manager of a large organization.
Romney wasn't in Obama's league, and never had been. Romney was just a well-trained buyer, stripper, and seller, of corporations, who knew how to game the system so as to rip off workers and business competitors, and how to play governments off against each other so as to evade taxes legally and leave the public everywhere holding the bags after everything was stripped by this predator.
Romney wasn't the libertarian mouth that politicians such as Ron Paul had been; he was the real thing, a John Galt character, a pure individualist: a functioning, and not just verbal, psychopath. That bully turned out to be simply outmatched by Obama's sheer skill.
Republicans' heads were now spinning; a new round of lying and faith would begin.
Also on November 7th, the Washington Post bannered "Life After Defeat for Mitt Romney," and Philip Rucker reported that Romney "tried not to cry" when meeting with his billionaire backers. "Some top donors privately unloaded on Romney's senior staff, describing it as a junior varsity operation that failed to adequately insulate and defend Romney."
("Defend Romney"? From himself?) The head of the staff responded, "Mitt never doubted his team." But amongst aristocrats, blame always goes downward; credit always goes upward. The aristocrats were blaming their hired workers, after all; but, whenever results turned out to aristocrats' satisfaction, they saw themselves as the "job creators," and their workers were just cogs in the machine aristocrats thought belonged 100% to themselves. It was a "heads I win, tails you lose" type of culture. These people weren't especially bright, but they had the advantage of being psychopaths whose focus was greed, so they were rich.
Theatlanticwire.com bannered, on the night of November 7th, "Rove's War with Fox's Nerds," and Elspeth Reeve recounted and presented video of the reluctance of Fox "News" to accept, and to report, the fact that Obama had won. Karl Rove and the rest of the Romney campaign refused to accept the fact. "When Bret Baier called Ohio and the presidency for President Obama, 'Fox phones lit up with angry phone calls and e-mails from the Romney campaign, who believed that the call was premature, since tallies in several Republican-leaning Southern counties hadn't been ... fully tabulated.'"
They didn't care that the same was true in Democratic areas of the state, and that all of the professional projections took all of that into account, on both sides. But Fox was the Republican Party's operation, and the Republican Party refused to accept Obama's win. So, Roger Ailes decided to have his beauty queen walk over to the office of the professionals, the nerds, and to be followed by the camera, to challenge those people on their calling Ohio for Obama.
A Fox "News" "insider" explained: "Anytime there's a chance to show off Megyn Kelly's legs they'll go for it." One of the reader-comments to this report noted: "The Romney campaign had a direct phone line to Fox News? Fair and balanced indeed." Another said: "Look at how often [Obama's man, David] Axelrod was on MSNBC last night," as if there were any equivalency there, or as if such interviews weren't appropriate in election coverage. The problem here was reality-denial, specifically at the sleazy operation of Rupert Murdoch and the Republican Party.
On November 8th, Murdoch's rag, the Wall Street Journal, headlined "How Race Slipped Away From Romney," and reported that "the lack of money earlier this year stalled his campaign, and he never really recovered." This propaganda-sheet said "Romney ultimately garnered some $800 million or more, putting him in close competition with Mr. Obama's robust fundraising effort."
But they said this money wasn't enough, because of "their slim bank account" earlier. In other words: Not enough aristocrats threw enough money fast enough into Romney's campaign coffers – they had needed to invest still more in this incompetent than they did. But the same day, the Columbia Journalism Review bannered "WSJ Gets Lost in the Weeds with the Romney Campaign," and called that "a seriously flawed story."
Whom were the agents of the aristocrats trying to fool now, and how would they go about doing it?
This WSJ headline and "news" report were also featured at Yahoo News, where most of the reactions were condemnatory of Democrats and/or democracy itself, such as: "The balance has tipped and we no longer have a free democracy. When almost 50% of an uninformed electorate is dependent on government handouts (i.e. taxes taken from the productive to give to the unproductive) you can no longer have free elections." Unless such fascist ("libertarian") ideology were to be discredited as the lies that it is, progress would be impossible.
Also on November 8th, the AP headlined "Obama Wins the Way the Campaign Predicted." But apparently, the aristocracy still didn't think that Obama possessed the CEO experience necessary for the job of U.S. President – they cried for their Romney-loss.
The Electoral College result (still not reported as late as November 9th, even after 100% of Florida's results were in) was 332 Obama, 206 Romney. Obama beat the 270 required for a win, and he did it with 62 votes to spare, which was far higher than even the election-forecasters had been predicting (and than the networks still were reporting). Most of the pre-election national polls (other than ABC, NBC, CBS, and Pew) had been way off (and Gallup was especially bad), collectively showing a tied contest (with a minuscule Romney popular-vote lead); the actual vote-count provided Obama with a 3% victory-margin in the popular vote. Obama won eight of the nine battleground states (all but NC).
Obama outperformed even the final election forecast from Nate Silver, of 313 Electoral College votes. Although all of the major election-forecasters had been predicting that Obama would beat the 270-vote mark required for a win, none had predicted he'd beat it by as much as he ended up doing. However, Romney was far less professional than the pros; basically, Obama outperformed all of the pros, and Romney underperformed them. CBS News headlined on November 8th, "Adviser: Romney 'Shell-shocked' by Loss," and reported "'He was shellshocked,' one adviser said of Romney."
Ann Romney broke down crying. And, "Running mate Paul Ryan seemed genuinely shocked, the adviser said. Ryan's wife Janna also was shaken and cried softly." All of these people who had been criticizing Barack Obama as being "weak" and "lacking in executive experience," were mashed into tears by him. Their lies had ultimately fooled even themselves, and not just their suckers – they were shocked.
On November 8th, Taegan Goddard at politicalwire.com headlined "Romney Planned Fireworks to Celebrate Victory," and linked to the Boston Globe story, and to the Boston Fire Department permit, issued November 5th, for a fireworks-display to be held on November 6th to celebrate Mitt's victory. (Obama did no such thing; he didn't need to do any such thing.)
Furthermore, instead of the Senate's passing back to Republican control as had initially been expected, Democrats won all but one of their seriously contested Senate seats, and Obama would now enjoy around a 55 to 45 Senate-majority backing, plus the VP in the event of any Senate tie. The House of Representatives was little changed from before.
Even after Citizens United, this was still Barack Obama's America, with his Republican friends controlling the House while representing the aristocracy publicly and unapologetically.
The conservatives' fantasizing would go on. November 8th offered two more good summaries of how bad it was. Politicalwire.com headlined "Rachel Maddow Has the Last Word," and Taegan Goddard linked there to her opening spiel the prior night, in which she strung together some of the major lies that conservative suckers believed about Obama. Huffingtonpost headlined "Jon Stewart Mocks Fox News' Election Night Meltdown," and Katia McGlynn linked there to video of the many Fox "News" reporters who had predicted a Romney/Ryan landslide, and who still refused to accept that they had been wrong.
Also on November 8th, thinkprogress.org bannered "Republicans Claim Obama Won Re-election Because Blacks and Hispanics Wanted More Handouts," and presented many examples of Republicans saying that greed by the poor and minorities was motivating the Obama-vote. For example, at 8PM on election night, Fox's Bill O'Reilly said: "The demographics are changing.
"It's not a traditional America anymore. And there are 50% of the voting public who want stuff. They want things. And who is going to give them things? President Obama. ... The white establishment is now the minority. ... You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming Black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break Obama's way. People feel that they are entitled to things, and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?"
Bill O'Reilly was the giant of cable news channels, he had twice the audience-size of anyone on any other cable network; he beat even some of the broadcast networks, and yet he was unabashedly a fascist. The Republican Party knew their market; they just ignored everyone who wasn't part of it. Elspeth Reeve at theatlanticwire.com on November 8th headlined "A Continuum of Post-Romney Defeat Meltdowns," and he quoted Ann Coulter: "We have more takers than makers." In other words: the fascists blamed Obama's victory on greed by not "the Jews" like Hitler did, but instead: women, Blacks, Hispanics, and the poor in general. The aristocrats who had made out like bandits in the 2008 economic crash that they had caused were not to blame, at all. Instead, the crash's victims were to blame, and were too greedy. And yet Obama was so conservative that he agreed with the fascists, on this (despite his rhetoric to the contrary). Blacks and the poor suffered the biggest declines of income and wealth under his Presidency, and the top 1% received 93% of the income-gains – the largest-ever top-1% gains-share.
But Obama's victims ended up voting for him, because the Republican Party so clearly hated and despised them. At least Obama was good on the rhetoric. Romney would have been a catastrophe in every way. Furthermore, Obama dwarfed Romney as CEO of a large organization. Romney was just an incompetent lying thug, and almost all poor people were terrified that such a person was supported by around half of the U.S. population.
The exit polls showed that, as usual, the Republican candidate was preferred by marrieds, seniors, white Christians (and especially by frequent churchgoers), upper-income, college-educated, and rural voters; and the Democratic candidate was preferred by unmarrieds, under-30s, minorities, less religious, lower income, less educated (and also Ph.D's and other post-college-degreed), and urban voters. For example: Under $30,000 income went for Obama 63%; $30,000-$50,000 Obama 57%; but Romney won each $50,000+ group by around 52% to 55%. The only education-group that went Obama by over 55% was "No high school diploma": it was 64%. Cities 500,000+ went Obama 69%; rural voters went Romney 61%.
On the issues: The key question was "Should taxes be raised to help cut the budget deficit?" 63% of voters said "No"; only 33% said "Yes." This indicated that unless Obama would use the bully pulpit to reverse those figures, his Presidency and the nation could well be fiscally destroyed. The basis for his succeeding at such bully-pulpiting was, however, indicated by the answers to: "Should income tax rates" "Increase for all" (13%), "Increase only on income over $250,000" (47%), or "Not increase for anyone" (35%). In other words, though the average person didn't know that taxes needed to be raised in order to help cut the budget deficit, the average person was strongly in favor of raising taxes on $250,000+ incomes, and there was a sizable minority (13%) who even wanted everyone's taxes to increase. Furthermore, 55% said the U.S. economy "Favors the wealthy"; only 39% said it's "fair to most Americans."
The public, in other words, favored tax-hikes to make taxes fairer, but opposed tax-hikes to address the federal debt. If Obama was serious about fiscal issues, he would educate the public that $250,000+ incomes needed to be taxed more not only for fairness but also because the Bush tax cuts had largely created the federal debt in the first place and thus needed to be reversed, at least on the rich. Furthermore, perhaps because of the obvious psychopathy of Mitt Romney, 38% of voters now self-identified as "Democrat"; only 32% as "Republican." So: the public was certainly educable on the tax-hikes issue – if Obama was willing. This would be the man's ultimate test.
Yahoo News and ABC headlined on the night of November 8th, "Tearful Obama Credits Staff," and showed video of "The morning after he won re-election, an emotional President Barack Obama credited his youthful staff of several hundred with running a campaign that will 'go on in the annals of history.' 'What you guys have accomplished will go on in the annals of history and they will read about it and they'll marvel about it,' ... Obama told his team Wednesday morning inside the Chicago campaign headquarters, tears streaming down his face."
Like any great CEO, he not only chose employees well, but he expressed well his appreciation of their superb performance. Regardless of whether Obama cared about the poor, he cared deeply about his paid staff and volunteers, who made his victories possible. They were his team, and he loved them like a father. However, remarkably many of the reader-comments to this came from Republicans, such as: "America is going down and it's in decay! From the simplicity of been thankful for a good harvest and thanking God for it, to legalizing marijuana, same sex marriage and having a Muslim, a liberal, open minded, a radical, a socialist and communist lover in the W. House." The market for lies from aristocrats and clergy still remained large.
On November 9th, huffingtonpost bannered "Murray Energy Corp. CEO Enters 'Survival Mode' After Obama Reelection, Announces Layoffs," and reported that Robert Murray, the man who had purchased judges in West Virginia in order to keep "justice" his way, issued a letter to his employees saying, "Lord, please forgive me and anyone with me in Murray Energy Corp. for the decisions that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build."
The author of the Crandall Canyon coal-mine collapse and other negligent homicides against his own employees was now laying off 160 miners allegedly because of Obama's re-election. One reader-comment was "Good for them. I am likely letting go of 5 people ( and making sure we choose liberals as they should understand who employs them)." The appeal here was purely "libertarian," or fascist.
Murray's letter to his employees condemned the American people: "We are a country in favor of redistribution, national weakness and reduced standard of living and lower and lower levels of personal freedom." Most of the reader-comments to that letter at the Wheeling News-Register were hostile towards Murray as being a "crook."
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered the White House in 1933, after decades of Republican misrule, he used the bully pulpit and condemned the conservatives, and he won a landslide re-election. When Barack Obama entered the White House in 2008, after decades of Republican misrule, he ignored the bully pulpit and praised the conservatives and was bipartisan towards them, and the only reason he was able to win re-election at all is that he was a phenomenally gifted political campaigner.
Barack Obama was certainly no FDR. Just what he was is something that wasn't yet clear, and was yet to be determined, by his actions. If he wouldn't suddenly become a fighter for the public against the aristocracy, he would become even more revealed as a fake than he already was widely suspected to be. Nobody really knew what or who he was (other than politically gifted).
Despite all of Obama's extend-and-pretend, the ideological/policy rubber would finally, now, inevitably hit the road, and Barack Obama's core would, at last, become manifestly clear to the American public.


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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Greg Toler brought back an interception 102 yards for a fourth-quarter touchdown, the longest return in franchise history, to seal Arizona's 31-10 victory over Detroit on Sunday, snapping the Cardinals' nine-game losing streak.
The Cardinals (5-9) intercepted Matthew Stafford three times, returning two of them for touchdowns and setting up a TD with the other, while sending the Lions to their sixth straight loss. Rashad Johnson brought back a pick 53 yards for a touchdown to cap Arizona's 21-point second quarter. Patrick Peterson's interception set up another score.
Another TD by Arizona came after Detroit (4-10) muffed a punt.
Detroit's Calvin Johnson became the first player in NFL history with consecutive 1,600-yard receiving seasons and tied an NFL record with his seventh straight 100-yard receiving game.


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Illegal Immigrants Released from Prison Ahead of Sequester
(WASHINGTON) -- The White House has announced that thousands of detainees who are currently facing deportation will be released from jails across the country in an effort to save money.
The announcement comes just as the nation's economy lurks closer to sweeping spending cuts scheduled to go into effect Friday.
ICE was ordered to review the number of detained illegal immigrants to make sure they fall within budget guidelines.
"Over the last week, ICE has reviewed several hundred cases and placed these individuals on methods of supervision less costly than detention," U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Gillian Christensen said in a statement. "All of these individuals remain in removal proceedings. Priority for detention remains on serious criminal offenders and other individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety."
Illegal immigrants were released in several border states, including California. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday, "We're doing our very best to minimize the impacts of sequester but there's only so much that I can do."
Napolitano added, "You know, I'm supposed to have 34,000 detention beds for immigration. How do I pay for those?"
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The History Show Sunday 2 February 2014
Bringing the past to life! Discover how our world was shaped as Myles Dungan and guests explore events ranging from medieval times to the recent past
TCD/UCD Centres for War Studies will co-present a workshop on Tuesday 6 February 2014 to be hosted at TCD at 14:30.
The Falklands/Malvinas War of 1982: Politics and Experiences
Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre in the Trinity Long Room Hub
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In the midst of the men of 1916 was the woman of 1916, Countess Markievicz – also known as Constance Gore Booth. Although dozens of women were involved in the Rising in one capacity or another, the image of the Countess in her uniform dominates our awareness of the female contribution to that pivotal event.
She would go on to become the first woman elected to the House of Commons and was an active participant in the War of Independence as the country's first female government Minister – the second was Maire Geoghegan Quinn in 1979!
We began our series of examinations of some of the icons of recent Irish history with Markievicz – who to this day, remains a controversial figure. For every fervent admirer she has an equally enthusiastic detractor.
Eoin Sweeney took to the streets to gauge public views on the Countess and to find out how much people actually know about her.
Our studio guests came from quite different perspectives on the Countess. They were historian, Shane MacThomais of Glasnevin Cemetery – where the countess is buried. And Ann Matthews, author of Renegades: Irish Republican Women 1900-1922 .
Countess Markievicz.....
Did she feed the families of the strikers or was she just someone who liked to give them impression that she was 'down with the striking classes'?
Did she become a motive force in the Irish Citizens Army or was she just a peripheral figure?
Ann Matthews has described the female equivalent of the Irish Volunteers, Cumann na mBan, as being 'led by a group of well off women who could pay nannies to mind their children and homes while they got involved 1916 and beyond' – was the Countess in that category, albeit a member of the ICA?
Was she more socially radical than the membership of Cumann na mBan?
She was second-in-command to Michael Mallin in the ICA unit tasked with holding the area around Stephen's Green – would she have had a part in the disastrous decision to dig trenches in the Green, thus exposing the command to snipers shooting from the many tall buildings around the Green?
What is the truth of her court-martial – did she insist on being shot or plead that 'you can't shoot me I'm a woman' ?
Did the intransigence of Republican women like Markievicz make it more difficult for Irish women to succeed in politics after the revolutionary period?
Did she die of TB contracted while doing charity work or of complications related to appendicitis?
You have to give Countess Markievicz full marks for style – apparently she attended her first meeting of Maud Gonne's Inini na hEireann – the Daughters of Ireland – wearing a satin ball gown and diamond tiara. She'd just come from a function in Dublin Castle.
On the 4oth anniversary of the publication of the Kenny Report, historian Niall Curran joined Myles to discuss how it proposed to tackle the soaring price of development land.
The background to this is that between 1963 and 1971, land values rose by 530% in the Dublin area. If Kenny's recommendations had been implemented, might we have avoided the Celtic Tiger property boom?
The Kenny Report - An opportunity missed to control the price of building land
by Niall Curran
Recent reports of a 15 per cent annual price rise in the average price of a house in Dublin have sparked fears of a new bubble in the housing market. Debate about the reasons for this price rise have focused on the limited numbers of houses for sale and how developers are leaving potential building land idle to create a scarcity which increases its value.
Forty years ago in January 1974, a similar debate occupied the nation, when the coalition government of Fine Gael and Labour published the Kenny Report. Its official title was the Report of the Committee on the Price of Building Land but it became known as the Kenny Report in honour of the committee's chairman, Justice John Kenny, an expert in constitutional law.
The committee was established in January 1971 by Bobby Molloy, the Minister for Local Government, to consider ways to tackle the problem of expensive building land which in the Dublin area had risen in price by 530 per cent between 1963 and 1971 compared to an increase in the Consumer Price Index of only 64 per cent. An editorial published in the Irish Independent at the time summed up feelings on the issue when it said "the price of building land has become such a public issue that people regard it as having moral significance"
The committee considered twelve possible schemes to control the price of development land and, after three years of careful deliberation on the legislative and constitutional implications of each, recommended the adoption of a 'designated area scheme' that would authorise local authorities to designate areas of potential development land which they could purchase at existing use price (usually agricultural value) plus a premium of 25 per cent. After purchase, the local authority could then lease the land when needed for private development.
Its recommendations were ignored, breaking an election promise "that speculation will be in ended in order to lower the cost of homes" included in the Fine Gael and Labour joint election manifesto of 1973.
Despite Justice Kenny's expertise and the committee's careful consideration of the legislative and constitutional changes necessary to implement the 'designated area scheme', it is often claimed that the Fine Gael and Labour coalition government's failure to implement the scheme was because it was unconstitutional.
This reasoning was never tested because it required the 'designated area scheme' to be adopted as legislation and then referred to the Supreme Court for assessment. James Tully, the new Minister for Local Government, told the press on the report's publication in January 1974 that this legislation would be introduced by the end of the year but his commitment was not honoured and the Kenny Report was quietly forgotten.
The government's failure to adopt the Kenny report's recommendations was likely due to the resistance of the vested interests in the construction industry such as the Construction Industry Federation, The Law Society and leading estate agents. Their opposition was principally based upon the disruption the new scheme would cause to the development land market which the Law Society claimed would "undoubtedly cause hardship to individuals and a limitation in the amount of building land becoming available". Their failure to outline the identity of these "individuals" suggests that it related to landowners rather than the ordinary house buyer whom the recommendations of the Kenny Report hoped to benefit by reducing the price of building land and the subsequent cost of houses.
The timing of its publication was also a factor as a few months before the report's publication, in October 1973, the oil crisis erupted, quadrupling the price of oil leading to a doubling of interest rates in the later half of 1973 and rampant inflation which slowed the economy and created a liquidity crisis that weakened the construction industry. But the housing market recovered quickly and by mid-1976 house prices surpassed the previous peak point that occurred before the oil crisis in October 1973.
Its publication also coincided with the introduction of capital taxation in Ireland for the first time. This was a long-held Labour policy but was unpopular with many within Fine Gael. Profits earned on land deals were now liable for capital gains tax when previously they incurred none. Introduction of the tax was opposed by the construction industry but it was introduced in 1975 and prompted much speculation that the burying of the Kenny Report was a political decision to appease the construction industry.
The recent criticisms of Fianna Fáil for overseeing spiralling land prices during the recent boom, although valid, must be considered in the context that forty years ago, Fine Gael and Labour had the opportunity to introduce a method to control the price of development land but ultimately lacked the courage to face down vested interests and implement a new land policy that may have assuaged the greatest excesses of the Celtic Tiger era.
Roger Casement issued a rousing plea in the first issue of The Irish Volunteer newspaper which was launched one hundred years ago this week. He was calling for volunteers to compete in the 1916 Olympics as Irishmen in their own right.
The Games which were planned for Berlin, of course, never did take place.
The Irish Volunteer which was first printed on the 7th of February 1914, marked an important milestone in the history of radical newspapers and military movements in this country. UCD historian, Conor Mulvagh joined Myles to discuss its objectives and impact.
The Irish Volunteer [newspaper]
By Conor Mulvagh
[Centenary of the first issue's publication is 7 Feb. 2014]
Origins and personalities
The idea of publishing a newspaper for the Irish Volunteers was mooted to its provisional committee in January of 1914 by William Sears, editor and one of the directors of the Enniscorthy Echo, an advanced nationalist paper with Sinn Féin links going back to 1907/8. The idea was accepted and a member of the Echo's staff, Laurence de Lacy, was appointed editor of the Irish Volunteer. Virginia Glandon notes that all proofs of the paper were submitted to the provisional committee of the Irish Volunteers – namely: Eoin MacNeill, L.J. Kettle, John Gore, and The O'Rahilly – in Dublin for approval. It should be noted that, in one of his many statements to the Bureau of Military History, Bulmer Hobson identifies Laurence de Lacy as having been a member of the IRB in this period. As such, de Lacy's editorship of the Irish Volunteer constitutes a further dimension to the IRB's infiltration of the Irish Volunteer movement in its early history. The paper became an important arm of propaganda, training, and communication for the growing Irish Volunteer movement in during 1914 and beyond.
Writing and printing the Irish Volunteer
The paper ran as a commercial entity and the first issue appeared on Saturday, 7 February 1914. It ran in this form until November of 1914.
The Irish Volunteer sided with Eoin MacNeill when the movement split in September 1914 over the question of participation in the war effort and enlistment in the British Army.
The relative unpopularity of Eoin MacNeill's faction after the split and the emergence of a rival Redmondite publication, the National Volunteer, in October, were two key factors in the Enniscorthy Echo's decision to cease publication of the Irish Volunteer.
This highlights that, above all else, the Irish Volunteer was a commercial publication, and decisions on its viability and continuance under the direction of the Enniscorthy Echo umbrella rested more on commercial than political considerations.
In addition, wartime censorship arguably played a part in reducing the profitability of the paper. Titles such as the Enniscorthy Echo and the Irish Volunteer came in for direct mention as 'extreme' newspapers in the report of the Inspector General of the Royal Irish Constabulary in September 1914 and in this climate they struggled to get their message out to the more advanced nationalist and republican sections of the reading public.
By virtue of being a specialist newspaper targeted at members of a private paramilitary organisation, the Irish Volunteer, its offshoots and successors, are a very rare and particularly important subset of Irish political newspapers from the revolutionary decade.
The function of the Irish Volunteer was not merely news or propaganda as was the case with other publications. It had a role in training the force and delivering messages and orders from headquarters to the battalions and companies nationwide.
The centenary of the first issue of the Irish Volunteer going to print on 7 February 1914 is an important milestone in the history of radical Irish newspapers and in the deteriorating situation and militarising trajectory in Irish society in 1914 that would bring the island to the brink of civil war on the eve of the First World War.
As a mobilising force in keeping Eoin MacNeill's volunteers united and active after the vast majority of the movement sided with John Redmond's policy of supporting the war effort in September of 1914, the Irish Volunteer played a leading role in preserving the movement that was the backbone of the rebellion in April of 1916.
Century Ireland will have a digitized version of the first edition of the Irish Volunteer from the 7th of February
Click here for Century Ireland
Next Sunday, we get in gear for St. Valentine's Day, as our Book Club discusses one of history's most fascinating love stories.
Napoleon and Josephine – An Improbable Marriage by Evangeline Bruce (Phoenix Giant)
Carefully researched by an authority on French history, this book provides a dual portrait of two intriguing, flamboyant figures illuminates their personal lives, the social and cultural context in which they lived, and the reversal of roles in their marriage.
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