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NASA Sci Files segment exploring the Wright Brothers' and how they solved the problems of flight.
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NASA Sci Files video containing the following thirteen segments. NASA Sci Files segment explaining how brainstorming works to help students think creatively and come up with solutions to solve problems....
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Portrait Sequences 1975:
Gary Schneider and Deborah Martin Kao
Tuesday 12 March, 2013
6 - 8pm, $0
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, Berger Forum
Join us for a fascinating conversation, with Deborah Martin Kao and Gary Schneider, marking the publication of Portrait Sequences 1975 (OneStar Press, 2012). The prints were originally exhibited at Artist Space in 1977. Schneider's portrait photography is discussed, a subject Deborah Martin Kao has extensively written about in the essay for his artist book John In Sixteen Parts (1996), and as the author of the catalog for his survey show Gary Schneider: Portraits at The Sackler Museum (2004) which also included the 1975 Portrait Sequences.
"In 1975 I began working on a film that looked at the body and face in close-up. I used a still camera to storyboard and soon realized that the sequences did not need to be made into a film. When exhibited they comprised as few as one image and as many as sixteen. Unlike cinematic linear progression these sequences could be read from left to right or the reverse or episodically. It was factual as well as metaphorical, and also dealt with a private exchange between my subject and myself, that could then be made public. These remain essential aspects of my work. For the book, Portrait Sequences 1975, I maintained the original size of the prints, restricting me to one per page. As a consequence the sequences often had to be reconfigured and this has breathed new life into the work itself."
Gary Schneider's early work in painting, performance and film remain integral to his explorations of portraiture and identity. His solo exhibitions include Artist Space, New York; The Musee de L'Elysee Lausanne, Switzerland; The International Center of Photography, New York; Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; the Sackler Museum, Boston; The Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego; and The Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland. He received an Eisenstaedt award from Life Magazine, a National Endowment for The Arts grant, and a Lou Stoumen Award. Some public collections that hold his work are The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Canada, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Whitney Museum, Yale University Art Museum, The Guggenheim Museum, Harvard University Art Museums and The Boston Museum of Fine Art. Schneider received his MFA from Pratt Institute and is an Assistant Professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. This event was organized with the help of Hannah Dumes at David Krut Projects in New York. Schneider is also represented by Stephen Daiter Gallery in Chicago, Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston and Gallery Françoise Paviot in Paris.
Deborah Martin Kao is the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Acting Head of the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Chief Curator at the Harvard Art Museums. She has organized exhibitions, published and taught on topics ranging from daguerreotypes to conceptual photography. Her major publications include Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times, of which she was coauthor with Laura Katzman and Jenna Webster (Yale, 2000); Gary Schneider: Portraits (Yale, 2004); and Instituting Reform: The Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903-1931 (Yale, 2012), co-authored and edited with Michelle Lamuniere. Kao is currently at work on a project that explores cross-cultural identity narratives in contemporary photography.
In its fifth year the program series An Art Book, initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni, is a celebration of the essential importance and beauty of art books. The events showcase book presentations and discussions by world renowned artists, critics, curators, gallerists, historians and writers.

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Scarlett Lewis lost her six-year-old son during the Sandy Hook school shooting. Now she's sharing the story of her son's final act of bravery as well as how she learned forgiveness in a book, "Nurturing Healing Love: A Mother's Journey of Hope & Forgiveness."
Lewis' son Jesse had urged his classmates to flee the school after seeing his teacher shot, investigators learned after gathering accounts from survivors. Six children escaped before 20-year-old Adam Lanza reloaded and shot Jesse.
"He shouted, 'Run!' before he was shot," Lewis told TODAY.
In the face of tragedy, Lewis said she learned to forgive the shooter, in part due to the final message Jesse wrote on their kitchen chalkboard: the words "nurturing," "healing" and "love."
"I knew that forgiveness was possible… It's taking your power back. Not forgiving doesn't feel good," she told TODAY.
Eleven students from Jesse's classroom, led by teacher Victoria Soto, survived. In the classroom led by Lauren Rousseau, only one child survived. Both teachers were killed.
A report on the Newtown shooting by investigators is due to be released soon, the Associated Press reported. Investigators have not disclosed a possible motive for the massacre that killed twenty students and six staff members Dec. 14, 2012.
In addition to the book, Scarlett recently began the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation, which promotes ways for communities to "choose love over anger, gratitude over entitlement, and forgiveness and compassion over bitterness."
"I believe that Jesse was put on this earth to do what he did… I'm proud of him. I believe he left a message for me: nurturing, healing, love."


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Ambassador Susan Rice: Libya Attack Not Premeditated
(NEW YORK) -- U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi was not premeditated, directly contradicting top Libyan officials who say the attack was planned in advance.
"Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous – not a premeditated – response to what had transpired in Cairo," Rice said Sunday morning on This Week.
"In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated," Rice said, referring to protests in Egypt Tuesday over a film that depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud. Protesters in Cairo breached the walls of the U.S. American Embassy, tearing apart an American flag.
"We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to the embassy to – or to the consulate, rather, to replicate the sort of challenge that was posed in Cairo," Rice said. "And then as that unfolded, it seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons… And it then evolved from there."
Ambassador Christopher Stevens, along with three other Americans, were killed in Libya following the assault on the American consulate in Benghazi, on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Rice said the FBI is examining the attack, saying their investigation "will tell us with certainty what transpired."
Rice's account directly contradicts that of Libyan President Mohamed Yousef El-Magariaf, who said this weekend that he had "no doubt" the attack was pre-planned by individuals from outside Libya.
"It was planned, definitely, it was planned by foreigners, by people who entered the country a few months ago, and they were planning this criminal act since their arrival," he told CBS News.
Rice said there were no Marines present to protect the consulate in Libya, saying the U.S. presence there is "relatively new" since the revolution that overthrew former dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
"There are not Marines in every facility. That depends on the circumstances. That depends on the requirements," Rice said. "Our presence in Tripoli, as in Benghazi, is relatively new, as you will recall. We've been back post-revolution only for a matter of months."
But Rice said there was a "substantial security presence" at the consulate in Benghazi, noting that two of the four Americans killed there were providing security.
"We certainly are aware that Libya is a place where there have been increasingly some violent incidents," Rice said. "The security personnel that the State Department thought were required were in place… It obviously didn't prove sufficient to the nature of the attack and sufficient in that moment."
"But the president has been very clear. The protection of American personnel and facilities is and will remain our top priority," Rice added. "That's why we've reinforced our presence in Tripoli and elsewhere."
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- Capital One Cup
Benitez refuses to blame blunder boy Ivanovic
Rafael Benitez opted not to blame Branislav Ivanovic or the officials for Chelsea's Capital One Cup semi-final first leg defeat to Swansea, insisting his team have to take their chances.
Ivanovic made two big errors to allow Michu and Danny Graham to set up a significant lead for the Swans to defend in the second leg on home soil.
The Chelsea defender was robbed of the ball for the first goal and then blindly passed to Graham for the second, but Benitez preferred to focus on his belief that Chelsea were the better side.
"It isn't important who makes the mistakes. The important thing for me was the team was doing really well," Benitez told Sky Sports. "There were a lot of chances, we made two mistakes and we paid for them.
"The team was attacking and creating chances. We made two mistakes and conceded two goals. It's something in football that can happen. If we play this game ten times, we will win nine of them."
Demba Ba, on for the ineffective Fernando Torres, had a penalty appeal waved away in injury-time at 1-0, and then saw a goal chalked off for a dubious offside decision. Benitez disagreed with both, but insisted Chelsea are not out of the tie.
"I saw the replay and he was level so it was a goal for me," the Spaniard said. "We can argue about the penalty or not, but obviously it was not a yellow card - that was clear for me.
"With Fernando and him (Ba), we have chances. We can score goals, we had 23 attempts and a lot of them very clear attempts. If we score, everything will change."


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I have a parallax scrolling single-page site that I am working on, and for some reason, when you scroll down to the section called "services" or below (3rd and 4th sections), the page has a constant flash effect occurring. The contact section has even more pronounced "flashing".
I have no idea what is causing the flashing effect, nor any idea what to modify to get the site to stop flashing.
The site is under development and is now on a dev server
By clicking on "SERVICES" in the navbar, the page scrolls down to the specific section and then the flashing begins.
It is a simple HTML file with jQuery and a few jQuery plugins.
I would copy code here, but I don't even know what to copy and I don't want to bore everyone with the entire code.
If someone can point me in the right direction as to what I should copy here, I'll add it. Otherwise, if someone has any idea what the problem is and how I can solve it, I'd really appreciate it.
FYI, using Firebug in Firefox and Web Inspector in Chrome and Safari, I was unable to find the problem. There are no errors or conflicts that I can find. The CSS is pre-processed using LESS and compiles without errors. The CSS is not minified and has debugging comments if that helps.
The plugins being used are:
Also using 3 web fonts (extensions not included in the list for simplicity of reading):
I uploaded a short screencast showing what I mean.
If you pause the video and advance frame by frame, you will notice that (around the 5s mark) there is a flash and it seems that the contents of the viewport gets momentarily hidden revealing the logo and company name from the very top of the page on a white background (but since the text is white, you can't read the text).


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Baltimore United?
Last April I posted on the possibility of DC United moving to Baltimore. Looks like rumors are heating up again. According to an article by The Washington Post, the MLS commissioned a survey in Baltimore to gauge interest in a soccer team through "expansion or relocation."
The state of Maryland, city of Baltimore and Maryland Stadium Authority have approached United about moving into a proposed venue in Westport, which is near Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium. The plan is still in the very early stages.
However, weve been saying this could happen, United President Kevin Payne told the Insider. This isnt a game. This is serious. This isnt a bluff. Part of it is trying to understand what that means for our business.
From our point of view, its just due diligence. You have to understand your options. Were trying to understand the depth of interest in Baltimore.
United has spent all 16 MLS seasons in Washington but club officials have said playing at 50-year-old RFK is not economically viable. Talks with D.C. officials have shown no signs of progress. Buzzard Point in Southwest D.C., near Nationals Park, has been the clubs primary focus. Previous negotiations, involving Poplar Point in Anacostia and then Prince Georges County in Maryland, collapsed.
I for one would love to see this happen. I played soccer and would love to follow a team, but I've never been able to follow teams outside of Baltimore. Obviously Kevin Payne (United's owner) probably hopes that the threat of moving to Baltimore will get him a new stadium in the greater DC area, but I hope he's really willing to move to Baltimore if this doesn't happen.
Re: Baltimore United?
Another recent article on the topic...
Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber says D.C. United might relocate to a different site in the Washington-Baltimore region next season because of high operating costs at RFK Stadium.
"We have to aggressively figure a solution out, and that solution needs to be figured out soon. And I am concerned about where this team will be in 2012," he said during a conference call Thursday.
"I'm shocked to say that I believe they could be paying more for their lease in RFK than any other team we have in the league, and there is no doubt in my mind that it is a stadium that is substandard to what soccer fans are able to experience in many other markets in the United States and Canada.""If that means that they can't get a new improved lease in D.C., they've got to move to another facility in the region. I will be supportive of that, and in fact will help them do that," he said. "And if it means they can't find a solution in Baltimore, then we'll have to go through a process as we did with San Jose to think about potentially moving the team. I believe that we'll have to go through that process, as well."
Washington Mayor Vincent Gray did not sound optimistic about a new stadium in a Twitter post Nov. 3.
"We value DC United & hope they stay in DC," Gray tweeted. "But District is in a challenging fiscal environment now & publicly funded stadium not possible."
Of course the real question is, if they moved to Baltimore, would 24x7 add a Baltimore United Forum to go along with the O's and Terps forums? :)


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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
From ConsumerWiki
The U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) investigates charges of employment discrimination.
The EEOC has jurisdiction over the following:
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967.
- Equal Pay Act of 1963.
- Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
- American with Disabilities Act of 1990.
- Sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which prohibits discrimination in the federal sector, affecting persons with handicaps.
If the EEOC finds that discrimination has occurred, it will attempt to conciliate the case. If the conciliation fails, the EEOC may litigate the case.
Complaint jurisdiction:
- Discrimination charges about employers, employment agencies, and labor organizations because of an individual's race, color, sex, religion, national origin, or age (persons 40 and older).
- Complaints about wage differentials between men and women employed in the same establishment performing jobs that require equal skill and effort, under similar working conditions.
- Charges about employer retaliation against employees for filing a charge of discrimination, assisting in a commission investigation, or opposing employment practices which are unlawful under Title VII, Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), or the Equal Pay Act.
Outside jurisdiction:
- Discrimination based on political affiliation, sexual orientation, citizenship, or union activities.
- Discrimination charges against the federal government or employers with fewer than 15 employees. (Note: Discrimination complaints filed against the federal government are governed by Commission Regulations in 29 C.F.R. 1613.205 and 1613.241. Title VII does not apply to non-competitive service employees of the Congress and its agencies (e.g. the Library of Congress), the Judicial Branch, or the Office of the President, however, since 1972, Title VII has applied to most federal agencies).
- Discrimination charges filed after the time limit for reporting incidents (usually 300 days after the alleged discrimination occurred).
US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
131 M Street, NE
Washington, DC 20507
(202) 663-4900
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Come hear the stories of your fellow students tomorrow night (Thursday, April 1) at the second Middlebury Moth
Where: The Gamut Room
When: 10:00-11:30pm
The Middlebury Moth brings you another unforgettable night of true stories told live onstage without notes.
This week's theme is
ON THE ROAD: Stories About Travel
and will feature hilarious, fascinating and heartbreaking stories from:
Professor Kit Wilson
Linda Schiffer
Michaela Lieberman '10.5
Ashton Coghlan '11
Cloe Shasha '11
Ben Wessel '11.5
Andrew Powers '11.5
Joey Radu '13
and the amazing Steve Small!
Don't miss it.
And don't forget to check out The Middlebury Moth podcast athttp://themothmiddlebury.mypodcast.com, or at the iTunes music store


text: With the crazed velocity that was MotoGP a wrap, we now bring you another sort of motorcycle spied at the big race. Getting around the pits is often as important as getting around the track. Shuttling tires, parts, and fuel around is often the task of the noble pit bike. Crew members spend countless hours in the off-season prepping their pit bikes for the show. Hustling among the pits are vintage Honda 50s, electric-powered contraptions, and few big ruckuses.


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Pepsi Max Campaign Enhances Brand's Role As The Official Soft Drink Of The NFL
December 29, 2010: Pepsi Max will continue to ingrain itself as the official soft drink of the NFL with two TV spots breaking on Jan. 2, 2011, that will feature New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez, Deion Sanders, Rich Eisen and Mike Mayock, along with the unnamed Pepsi Max driver.
The spots complete a trilogy of ads that began during Thanksgiving weekend with a spot, "Winning Formula," that saw Sanchez working out with the Pepsi Max driver in a series of drills in his effort to prove that he and the brand were ready for official NFL designation.
The second and third spots, "NFL Combine" and "NFL Draft," continue to follow the Pepsi Max driver's workout routine during these specific NFL events, again aided by Sanchez, and eventual coming of age when he is drafted into the NFL family.
Sanders, Eisen and Mayock recreate their real life roles as NFL Network and Combine and Draft Day analysts, commenting on how the driver's strength, endurance and desire mean that the "zero calorie, maximum Pepsi taste soda" is ready to perform its official NFL duties. The Pepsi Max driver also stars in a separate commercial in which he is confronted by the driver for rival Coke Zero.
Support includes Internet, POP and sampling at NFL venues. Lead agency is TBWA/Chiat/Day, Los Angeles.
The brand will have on-air presence during Super Bowl XLV as part of activation, along with PepsiCo sibling Doritios, that is the culmination of a "Crash the Super Bowl" effort that launched earlier this season directing consumers to upload 30-second spots to a dedicated Web site. Ten finalists will be determined by consumer voting and Pepsi judging beginning Jan. 3, five for each brand. The top three for each brand will air on Fox during the Super Bowl on Feb. 6 The overall entrant who receives the highest number of votes will be invited back to work on a future commercial.
Pepsi Max also is the title sponsor of the NFL's International Series.
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From MeritBadgeDotOrg
In Cub Scouting, the person who leads the pack is called a Cubmaster. The Cubmaster is responsible for the monthly Pack Meeting which includes all boys, leaders and parents from all dens. The Pack Committee develops and funds the pack program with the help of the Cubmaster and Den Leaders. It is the Cubmaster who conducts that program.
Everything the Cubmaster does is aimed at helping the individual boy. Securing strong leaders, planning den and pack activities, advising other leaders and adult family members—these are all ways in which the Cubmaster affects the kind of Cub Scouting each boy in the pack is offered. The Cubmaster directly influences the lives of individual boys by keeping in mind that boys can become better through Cub Scouting.
The Cubmaster's responsibilities are to:
- Conduct a pack program according to the policies of the BSA.
- Complete Cubmaster Fast Start Training and position-specific Basic Leader Training. Attend monthly roundtables.
- Plan and help carry out the Cub Scout program in the pack. This includes leading the monthly pack meeting, with the help of other leaders.
- Help the pack committee with a year-round recruitment plan for recruiting boys into Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouting.
- Know about and use the appropriate and available literature, including Boys' Life and Scouting magazines, Cub Scout Program Helps (2009, 2010, & 2011), and the Webelos Leader Guide.
- See that the pack program, leaders, and Cub Scouts positively reflect the interests and objectives of the chartered organization and the BSA.
- Work with the pack committee on:
- program ideas
- selecting and recruiting adult leaders, and
- establishing a budget plan.
- Guide and support den leaders. See that they receive the required training for their positions.
- Help organize Webelos dens and encourage graduation into a Boy Scout troop.
- Help establish and maintain good relationships with Boy Scout troops.
- Maintain good relationships with parents and guardians. Seek their support and include them in activities. Involve male relatives such as uncles and grandfathers so that Cub Scouts will have additional male role models.
- See that Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts receive a quality, year-round program filled with fun and activities that qualify the dens and pack for the National Summertime Pack Award. See the BSA Den Meeting Plans.
- Guide Cub Scouts in goodwill and conservation projects.
- See that the responsibilities specified for the assistant Cubmaster are carried out.
- Help the pack committee chair conduct the annual pack program planning conference and the monthly pack leaders' meetings.
- Work as a team with the pack committee chair to cultivate, educate, and motivate all pack leaders and parents or guardians in Cub Scouts.
- Take part in the charter review meeting and annual charter presentation ceremony.
- Request den chiefs for all dens and, after selection, see that they are trained. Recognize the den chiefs at pack meetings.
- Insure that dens are using the Denner program and conducting flag ceremonies (requried for rank advancement).
- Conduct an impressive graduation ceremony for Tiger Cubs.
- Meet with the unit commissioner, Webelos den leader, and Scoutmaster to establish plans for the Webelos Scouts' transition to Boy Scouting.
- Help plan and conduct impressive Webelos graduation ceremonies involving parents and guardians, the Scoutmaster, the Webelos den chief, the Webelos den leader, and the troop junior leaders.
- Conduct impressive Arrow of Light Award ceremonies.
- Encourage high advancement standards for all Cub Scouts.
- Help bring families together at joint activities for Webelos dens (or packs) and Boy Scout troops.
- Support the policies of the BSA.
- Encourage all leaders to meet the standards set in the Cub Scout Leader Awards.
Adult leaders must possess the moral, educational, and emotional qualities that the Boy Scouts of America deems necessary for positive leadership to youth. They must also:
- Abide by the Scout Oath, Scout Law, and Scouter Code of Conduct.
- Subscribe to the precepts of the Declaration of Religious Principle.
- Reside within the USA or a U.S. territory, or be a U.S. citizen residing outside the USA.
- Respect and obey the laws of the United States of America.
- Be 21 years of age or older for primary leadership positions.
- Be 18 years of age or older for assistant leadership positions.
- Complete Youth Protection training (YPT) before application is processed and renew training as required.
- Review the disclosure information related to the BSA's background check process and complete and sign a Background Check Authorization form.
- Take leader position-specific training.
- Hold only one position within the same unit. The chartered organization representative may multiple as the committee chair or a committee member.
The adult leader application process will not be complete until Youth Protection training has been completed and a criminal background check has been obtained. Does not need to be an expert in all Cub Scout activities but should be a leader who is able to communicate well with adults as well as boys. Should be able to delegate responsibilities and set a good example through behavior, attitude, and uniform. Should believe in the values and purposes of Cub Scouting. Preferably a member of the chartered organization. Selected and appointed by the pack committee with the approval of the chartered organization, and registered as an adult leader of the BSA.
Cub Master Award
The Cubmaster Award is available to Cubmasters who complete training, tenure, and performance requirements. This award is presented by the local council and requires the completion of Fast Start Training, Basic Leader Training for the position, Youth Protection training, and participation in roundtables or a pow wow or University of Scouting. Tenure used for one award may not be used for another. Assistant Cubmasters can earn the Cub Scouter Award
Cub Scout Expenses
In one weekend of Popcorn sales or other Fundraising, a Cub Scout can earn enough in his Individual Account for a year of adventures!
- $23 National registration, Boys' Life magazine, and Accident Insurance.
- $20 Program Materials: Tiger, Wolf, Bear, or Webelos book, rank patch, neckerchief, and slide.
- ____ Pack Expenses: Each Scout's fair share of Pack recharter, training, fees, equipment, etc.
- ____ Advancement: Awards, Belt Loops, patches, and more.
- ____ Activities: Pinewood Derby, trips, ball games, camping, and much more.
- ____ Camping: Day Camp, Resident Camp and Family Camping.
- ____ Equipment includes Uniforms, sleeping bags, tents, etc.
See also
|The Building Blocks of New Leader Training
| Youth Protection Training
Prior to submitting Application
|Capstone for Pack Trainers, Scoutmasters, and Chartered Org Reps
After completion a leader is Trained
|Before the First Meeting Taken Immediately
|First 30 Days Completed as soon as possible
|Position Trained Taken when familiar with position
- Den Meeting Plans: Tiger Cub, Wolf, Bear, Webelos Program: Webelos I, Webelos II
- Leader Awards: Cub Scout Den Leader Award (Tiger/Wolf/Bear/Webelos), Scouter's Training Award (basically all adult leaders but Den Leaders), Scouter's Key (Cubmaster), Den Chief Service Award (Den Chief)
- Program Helps: Recruiting, & CubTrax Spreadsheets
- Activities: Day Camp, Resident Camp, Whittling Chip, Guide to Safe Scouting
- Key Leaders: Denner, Den Chief, Tiger Leader, Den Leader, Webelos Leader, Cubmaster
- Training: Youth Protection, New Leader, BALOO, Webelos Outdoor, Wood Badge, Philmont, Den Chief Training
- Fundraising, Popcorn, and the importance of Individual Youth Accounts
- Nameplates: Official BSA Name plates for your uniforms
See the Cub Scout Leader Resources for the Pack Organization Chart and much more.
|Cub Scout Leader portal
|Cub Scout Resources
|New Leader Brochures:
|Applications & Reports:
|Youth Application
|Adult Leader Application
|Advancement Report
|Online Training:
|New Leader
|Youth Protection Training
|Safe Swim Defense
|Safety Afloat
|Safety Guides:
|Guide to Safe Scouting
|Safe Swim Defense
|Safety Afloat
|Climb On Safely
|Permission Slip
|Medical Exam Forms:
|Annual Health and Medical Record
|Age-Appropriate Guidelines
|More forms…


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Hart of Dixie Review: The Cougar Is InKate Brooks at .
On" Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me," we witnessed Zoe damage her relationship with Rose in order to insure that the high school football kicker, Max, would compete in a huge game.
Yes, Zoe was turned into the town "cougar."
This episode featured a bunch of fun silly elements that kept the tone of Hart of Dixie Season 2 consistent: it's been especially light and adorable. It was an enjoyable hour with obvious aspects that I didn't really buy into or enjoy that much. To wit...
For the first time, I could have completely cared less about Lavon and Ruby's storyline. If you can't see that this relationship won't last for much longer, you need to do a re-watch. That said, I still love Ruby and what her character is doing to everyone else.
I will admit that the last scene with the both of them was a good one. It was great to see this moment happen, considering how much it says about their characters in the series.They both are ready for a strong and solid relationship. What Lavon and Ruby share right now works for the show but in the long run, I don't see it surviving.
How come? Because my end game pairing is, of course, Lemon and Lavon.
Watching Lemon taking charge of her life and finding something she is really good at was extremely entertaining. Though I feel bad for Annabeth having to fail at what she wanted to do in order for Lemon to succeed. I guess you could say that in the end they both accomplished what they wanted to.
I was proud, however, for Annabeth sticking up for yourself!" It has been boiling up for two seasons now and it finally came out. Both actresses did such a great job in that scene and then one in George's office. Thank you ,writers, you did it right. I look forward to watching their catering business blossom as they become successful partners.
I'm so happy for Lemon finding something that she can make a career out of and I appreciate George for still being an amazing guy to her. Now... if Lemon and Lavon could get together and she could continue to be successful, then all my HoD dreams will come true. Is it too good to be true? I hope not!
Elsewhere, what was up with that flash mob? On one hand I thought it was silly, funny and creative, but on the other, come on. It was ridiculous. It tied together at the end when Zoe gave her big speech about bravery and what not, but I am still having a hard time deciding whether or not I liked it. Max was an adorable character and love-sick boy, so I have a hard time hating those moments.
How adorable were the duo of Rose and Tonya tonight? Like I've said before, I could be bias considering I was waiting for McKayla's guest spot, but it was a good scene. I'm happy to see more of Rose and Tonya's character provides it. She may have only had three lines, but I hope they give McKayla more to do when she comes back in an later episode, so we can see what she is capable of as an actress.
Of course, Rose got her "man" at the end of the episode and everything was resolved, which I didn't feel was forced or out of character. However,, is it bad that I was hoping Tonya would be at her side, judging and rolling her eyes? Maybe I'm just being bias again.
Then the ending came and we saw that Wade baked for Zoe. This has to be the most adorable thing he has ever done on this show. I even said, "awwwww" out loud. These two are headed for a relationship whether they like it or not, actually, they're basically in one right now. I am loving it and I am loving how Wade's character is right now.
Overall, I think this episode was pretty decent. It had a sweet and innocent theme that left me smiling. Hart of Dixie is one of the few shows that doesn't stress me out or cause me yell at my TV (I'm looking at you, Revenge). It's a feel good show and that is the kind of episode we received tonight.


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Mike Quade must hate this.
The guy from a Chicago suburb who worked his way up the Cubs' chain finally gets a shot at his dream job, and his best starter is an idiot.
A modified version of The Full Zambrano was on display in the
You got eight innings of one-run, seven-hit, seven-strikeout, no-walks pitching and you got the idiot taking two shots at snapping a bat over his leg.
To be clear here, the worst part of Tuesday was Carlos Marmol's disastrous outing, getting pulverized for six runs on five hits in the ninth inning, capped by Hunter Pence's three-run bomb. Marmol hadn't given up a home run in more than a year, so long ago that Zambrano was certifiably crazy.
But the story playing out is Zambrano going all Thor on his thigh.
The last thing the Cubs need is their best starter going on the the 15-day stupidity list. Half the roster is already hurt, and the Cubs already stink, sinking to the third-worst record in the league. Now they're betting the season on the likes of Rodrigo Lopez, which is Spanish for Doug Davis, and Tony Campana, who can't go on most of the rides at Six Flags without an adult.
So, it is too much to ask Zambrano to drive the mental speed limit?
Apparently so, and he doesn't care that his manager doesn't much like it.
"If he don't like it, he don't like it,'' Zambrano said. "What can I do?''
Well, you can not do it, that's what. See? Told you, Quade has the village idiot in his dugout.
But here's the bigger problem: Quade is pandering to it so much as to cede authority over anyone who hasn't been brought up from Iowa in the last two years. I wrote about it last year when Quade took over as interim manager of the kids only, it seemed. He wasn't about to sit down Aramis Ramirez for playing third base like it was a co-ed softball league, but Quade was going to give it to Starlin Castro but good.
Earlier this month, Cubs players clowned Quade in Cincinnati. It was embarrassing. The Cubs stunk on the field, Qaude called a meeting to let them have it, and then they stunk worse the next game. How do you like us now, Mr. Smart Guy Manager?
And now, Quade's pattern of appearing to serve as General Manager Jim Hendry's valet continues.
"I saw what was coming and I decided I was not going to pay attention,'' Quade said. "Just look elsewhere, in case.''
Fine leadership there. Can you feel the respect growing?
"I don't like that,'' Quade said. "He doesn't like that. I'm glad he's OK. . . . I get his frustration, but do something else. I cringe because he can hurt himself. Guys snap all the time, but that's a dangerous one.''
If Quade doesn't like it, then tell Zambrano to stop it, or maybe Quade's orders don't matter. And obviously Zambrano does like it because he did it and then said of Quade, "If he don't like it, he don't like it.'' So, Quade's orders apparently continue not to matter.
I don't know if the perception that Quade's just the designated driver here is the truth, but perception can be just as indicting as the reality of empty seats at Wrigley Field.
Even though this Zambrano incident seems a blip compared to previous Gatorade machine murders, it represents something perhaps more insidious. This type of verbal surrender seems an appropriate hood ornament for the Cubs' season where nobody's taking charge or responsibility.
There's an ill-conceived roster of unprepared or incapable players who started the season badly and have continued with ill-equipped place-holders from Iowa, Atlanta and, I believe, a shallow grave.
There's Hendry's cobbling together a baseball organization with the consistency and flexibility to fail with and without big-money players in uniform, accomplishing the unthinkable of losing two in a row at home to the worst team in the National League.
And there's organization-wide ineptitude that is clear to everyone except Tom Ricketts, who appears satisfied with his handful of magic beans.


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Ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich will need to find someone other than Illinois taxpayers to pay for his official state portrait if his successor agrees with state lawmakers.
Ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich will need to find someone other than Illinois taxpayers to pay for his official state portrait if his successor agrees with state lawmakers.
The Illinois Senate today approved House Bill 5109, which would not allow state funds to be used for his official Statehouse portrait. The measure now heads to Gov. Pat Quinn after clearing the House in March.
The vote was 52-1. Sen. Mike Jacobs, D-East Moline, issued the only "no" vote.
Jacobs said he thought if a governor was elected twice as Blagojevich did, they ought to get their portrait in the Hall of Governors.
"These are kind of frivolous matters, and unfortunately voters are too often in tune to," he said. "Therefore they don't see the big issue, which is this $12.5 billion budget (deficit) that seems to not even be addressed in the Legislature. Instead, we are talking about portraits of governors."
Senators gave the idea no discussion before easily approving it. Sen. Mike Frerichs, the Champaign Democrat who sponsored the bill, said the lack of discussion showed how unified people were on the issue.
"I've talked about it with constituents who say why should we be paying for a portrait of this governor - a person who was impeached, a person who misused his office," Frerichs said. "What the bill doesn't do is say they can't have a portrait. It's saying the taxpayers will not pay for it."
There was lively debate in the House a month ago when the measure was approved there. Some members thought it was an attempt to rewrite Illinois history, which Frerichs brushed aside.
"We're not trying to whitewash it, but for someone who misused the office, really abused the trust of the public, the public shouldn't pay for his portrait," he said.
Quinn spokeswoman Annie Thompson said the governor would review the measure.
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Christopher Robbins works on the uneasy cusp of art and community development, creating sculptural interventions in the daily lives of strangers. He uses heavy material demands and a carefully twisted work-process to craft awkwardly intimate social collaborations.
He built his own hut out of mud and sticks and lived in it while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa, spoke at a United Nations conference about his cross-cultural digital arts and education work in the South Pacific, and has lived and worked in London, Tokyo, West Africa, the Fiji Islands, and former Yugoslavia. He has exhibited at the National Museum of Wales, PERFORMA 07, Nikolaj Kunsthallen/ Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, and been awarded residencies/ fellowships from Skowhegan, MacDowell Colony, Haystack, Penland, and Anderson Ranch, among others.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles radio station has suspended right-wing talk show hosts John and Ken for "insensitive" comments on Whitney Houston's drug use.
The suspension for John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou took effect Thursday and will keep them off the air until Feb. 27, KFI-AM said in a statement. The station called the comments "insensitive and inappropriate" and said it "does not condone, support or tolerate statements of this kind."
The pair called Houston a "crack ho" before her death was announced Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Urban Informer Web site said that after her death they said she had been "cracked out for 20 years" and suggested surprise that she had not died earlier.
While Houston had a history of drug problems and prescription drugs were found in her hotel suite, officials have yet to determine a cause of death.
"We made a mistake, and we accept the station's decision," Kobylt said. "We used language that was inappropriate, and we sincerely apologize to our listeners and to the family of Ms. Houston."
The Grammy-winning singer died Saturday at age 48 in Beverly Hills, Calif.


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Douglas County resettlement farmsteads, Nebraska, May 1936: photo by Arthur Rothstein, Resettlement Administration/Farm Security Administration (National Archives and Records Administration)
The year 1928 does not seem far in the past, but since that time, as all of us are aware, the world about us has experienced significant changes. Four years ago, if you heard and believed the tidings of the time, you could expect to take your place in a society well supplied with material things and could look forward to the not too distant time when you would be living in your own homes, each (if you believed the politicians) with a two-car garage; and, without great effort, would be providing yourselves and your families with all the necessities and amenities of life, and perhaps in addition, assure by your savings their security and your own in the future. Indeed, if you were observant, you would have seen that many of your elders had discovered a still easier road to material success. They had found that once they had accumulated a few dollars they needed only to put them in the proper place and then sit back and read in comfort the hieroglyphics called stock quotations which proclaimed that their wealth was mounting miraculously without any work or effort on their part. Many who were called and who are still pleased to call themselves the leaders of finance celebrated and assured us of an eternal future for this easy-chair mode of living. And to the stimulation of belief in this dazzling chimera were lent not only the voices of some of our public men in high office, but their influence and the material aid of the very instruments of Government which they controlled.
No, our basic trouble was not an insufficiency of capital. It was an insufficient distribution of buying power coupled with an over-sufficient speculation in production. While wages rose in many of our industries, they did not as a whole rise proportionately to the reward to capital, and at the same time the purchasing power of other great groups of our population was permitted to shrink. We accumulated such a superabundance of capital that our great bankers were vying with each other, some of them employing questionable methods, in their efforts to lend this capital at home and abroad. it seems to me probable that our physical economic plant will not expand in the future at the same rate at which it has expanded in the past. We may build more factories, but the fact remains that we have enough now to supply all of our domestic needs, and more, if they are used. With these factories we can now make more shoes, more textiles, more steel, more radios, more automobiles, more of almost everything than we can use.
Soil erosion in the Rosebud Country, South Dakota, 1935: photographer unknown, Farm Security Administration (National Archives and Records Administration)
Evacuation sale, c. 1933: photographer unknown (Graff Collection/Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)
Abandoned mill, Alarka, North Carolina, c. 1933: photo by M.L. Wilson, Works Progress Administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)
Abandoned mining town, Logan, Illinois c. 1933: photographer unknown, Works Progress Administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)
Factories closed, c. 1935: photo by Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)
Tipple at Chickasaw Mine (abandoned), Carbon Hill, Alabama, c. 1933: photo by William C. Pryor, Works Progress Administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)
Skid Row, San Francisco, February 1937: photo by Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)
Jobless Men Keep Going: photo by Robert E. Allen, c. 1933 (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)
Unemployed men's shacks, New York, New York, February 16, 1932: photographer unknown (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)


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Rapper Ludacris is backing a campaign to help libraries in Louisiana re-stock their shelves as they continue to struggle in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Many of the public institutions in the city of New Orleans were destroyed in the 2005 disaster and are still unable to replenish supplies six years later.
Ludacris has signed up to support the Epic Book Drive and he has filmed a public service announcement (PSA) urging students to share their books, according to Allhiphop.com. He says, "I am proud to be a spokesperson for this initiative as it's in line with my dedication to empowering young people. The campaign is giving something as simple as a book to a student in a much needed area... so they can have the opportunity to read, communicate and be inspired.
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It's becoming an annual tradition: Spring rolls around, and while nobody is looking, Wall Street quietly lays siege to Washington and reaches a hand out to yank the last remaining teeth out of the government's financial regulatory head.
In the last two weeks, we've seen two major developments here. There was a wave of deregulatory bills that snuck through the House with surprisingly bipartisan support, and a series of regulatory decisions by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that will seriously weaken the already-weak Dodd-Frank reform legislation, particularly with regard to derivatives trades.
If a story about a wave of bills designed to prevent the meager derivatives reforms passed in Dodd-Frank from being enacted sounds familiar, that's because it is. I wrote almost exactly the same story a year ago, in the middle of May, 2012, when a herd of Wall Street-friendly congresshumans teamed up in the House Financial Services Committee to push through a wave of nine ambitious bills targeting derivatives reform. This is from last spring:
The nine bills being contemplated by Congress take a variety of approaches to gutting Dodd-Frank. Two bills, H.R. 1840 and H.R. 2308, are essentially stalling tactics, requiring regulators to undertake more of those sweeping cost-benefit analyses that result in lengthy delays. Another bill, H.R. 3283, is more substantive: Sponsored by Connecticut Democrat and hedge-fund industry BFF Jim Himes, it exempts foreign affiliates of U.S. swaps dealers from all Dodd-Frank oversight.
The rule, if implemented, would make the next AIG possible, given that AIG was undone by half a trillion dollars in derivative bets produced by such a foreign affiliate – its London-based financial products outfit, AIGFP. If passed, says Rep. Brad Miller, a Democrat from North Carolina, H.R. 3283 would leave a "massive, gaping hole" in Dodd-Frank. "It would be very easy to move those trades to whatever the most indulgent country would be," Miller explains.
After those bills escaped the House, most of them stalled on the way to the Senate, where of course the Democrats still hold a majority and are reluctant to openly scrap Dodd-Frank just yet.
But this is the key to understanding how financial lobbyists succeed in getting what it wants on the regulatory front: They never stop. It's not a war of ideas, it's a war of resources. You march up the Hill with some crazy idea about overturning a bill prohibiting bailouts of companies that engage in risky derivative trades, you get knocked down, and you march up again, then you march up again, and again . . .
With each successive attempt, you peel off a few more Committee members in the House, slowly but surely weakening resolve. And while you're attacking on the legislative front, you also file a series of lawsuits that tie up the process by targeting reforms in court, and then you also send armies of lobbyists to sit in the laps of regulators during the rule-making process, so that key new laws (like the Volcker rule, designed to separate risky trading from federally-insured depository banking) are either written in reams of industry-friendly language, or delayed altogether.
No matter how bad your ideas are, and how unpopular they are (or, rather, would be, if anyone in the general public understood them and/or cared enough about them to complain to their congressional reps), you can still score huge wins just by continually attacking and chipping away.
Which brings us to this month: A little while back, I got a call from someone in the House. "You wouldn't believe the shit they just pushed through the Financial Services Committee," he groaned. This person read off a list of bills, suggested I look them up, then specifically told me to look at how many Democrats voted "yea" on them.
"A lot of bad D votes on this one," was the editorial comment here.
Almost all of these bills turned out to be aimed directly at Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act, i.e. the derivatives portion. They included:
H.R. 992 would "repeal most of Dodd-Frank Section 716" of the Dodd-Frank Act. This section, also known as the "Lincoln Rule," was one of the hottest of hot potatoes during the negotiations for the Dodd-Frank bill (see here for more details).
That portion of Dodd-Frank began with a simple, bold statement:
"Notwithstanding any other provision of law," it read, "no Federal assistance may be provided to any swaps entity with respect to any swap, security-based swap, or other activity of the swaps entity."
In other words, no matter what other laws are written, the federal government doesn't bail out any "swaps entities" or "activities of the swaps entities."
This sounds great, except Congress then decided on an exception or two to that law – among other things, federally-insured banks would be permitted to engage in swaps trading, so long as it was for "bona-fide hedging" and "risk-mitigation efforts."
Put another way, so long as the bank is merely guarding against loss, such behaviors are okay and bail-out-able.
But we've already seen that banks call pretty much anything hedging. In the case of the infamous London Whale trades – which were the very definition of stupid, reckless, doubling-and-tripling-down on insane billion-dollar bets high-stakes gambling – Chase and Jamie Dimon tried to call that activity hedging. Later, of course, in the Senate, Dimon was forced to admit that the trades, er, maybe were not hedging at all.
The lesson of this is that no law that allows "hedging" as an exemption will have much teeth, because most banks can find a way to call almost anything they do hedging.
But apparently this wasn't enough. This new bill in the House baldly expands the universe of trading activities that we may later have to bail out. It's actually written that way – check out this summary of H.R. 992, the "Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act" (God, I love the names):
Declares the prohibition against federal government bailouts of swaps entities inapplicable to: (1) a foreign banking organization supervised by the Federal Reserve; and (2) an insured depository institution or a U.S. uninsured branch or agency of a foreign bank that limits its swap and security-based swap activities to hedging and similar risk mitigating activities (as under current law), non-structured finance swap activities, and certain structured finance swap activities.
In English, this just means that in addition to hedging, which we banks think is pretty much everything we do, we'd like to be eligible for bailouts when we engage in "non-structured finance swap activities and certain structured finance swap activities."
If you read the fine print, what they mean by "certain structured finance swap activities" are swaps of a type and quality "to which the prudential regulators have jointly adopted rules," i.e. to be determined later during the rule-making process.
So to sum up, we banks would like to remain eligible for bailouts when we engage in hedging, which we think is everything we do, and also additionally when we engage in "certain structured finance swap activities," which will mean whatever we tell the rule-makers it means after the bill is passed.
This bill passed by a vote of 53-6 in the Financial Services Committee. Only six House members voted against expanding the types of financial behaviors that we may later have to bail out. Go figure.
Also passing in committee:
H.R. 1062, the "SEC Regulatory Accountability Act," is the same bill as H.R. 2308 from last year, requiring the SEC to undertake a cost-benefit analysis of any new rule before it is adopted. These "cost-benefit analysis" bills are pure stalling tactics. They have absolutely no purpose other than to force the government to spend valuable time, effort and money engaging in pointless reviews of rules that already in some cases take years to craft, incidentally with the constant input of bank lobbyists.
Politically, these bills serve another function. They allow members that may have voted for a certain reform originally to recoup some status with the banks by left-handedly undermining the rule later on with these pointless cost-benefit delays. This one passed 31-28 in committee.
Then there was H.R. 1256, the "Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act," which:
. . . exempt[s] a non-U.S. person in compliance with the swaps regulatory requirements of a G20 member nation from U.S. swaps requirements unless the SEC and CFTC jointly determine that the regulatory requirements are not "broadly equivalent" to U.S. swaps requirements.
This is yet another leprechaun trick. What it basically means is that if you're Goldman or Chase and you have an office in some place like Mexico or Turkey or Russia or Saudi Arabia, you can do all the swaps business you want from there, undet whatever film of derivatives regulation exists in that country, without having to comply with U.S. swaps rules.
That is, unless the SEC and the CFTC make a joint determination that that country's laws are not "broadly equivalent" to our own.
This really just gives banks permission to go around the world regulator shopping. "It just makes it harder for the SEC to prevent regulatory arbitrage," is how one analyst put it to me. "That's all it does."
That one passed 48-11.
There are six more such bills, and who knows, the Senate might hold the line on all of them. But even if it does, nobody can stop regulators from backtracking on reform by writing crappy rules, which is also happening.
This past week, the CFTC released a series of new rules governing the swaps business. The rules are highly technical and basically unintelligible to people who don't work in these markets. But there are some basic concepts that can be understood.
To backtrack a little, the aim of reformers going into the Dodd-Frank debates was to do what FDR did with stocks after the crash of 1929: put them on open exchanges. That reform worked and has made the stock market a safe, thriving financial arena ever since. Today, when you go to buy a share of IBM stock, anyone can see what the price is, and there's constant data on bids and offers being that is made available to anyone who wants to participate.
But in the existing "over the counter" market for derivatives, the whole thing is a black box. There's no exchange where you can see with the price of this or that interest rate swap or credit default swap is.
"It's basically just a bunch of people on the telephone," is how Dennis Kelleher of Better Markets puts it. And when the five biggest banks control most of the derivatives market, the potential is there for all sorts of abuses.
The anemic Dodd-Frank bill halted well shy of forcing derivatives onto exchanges (coupled with the failure to break up the TBTF banks, it was the largest failure in the bill). Instead, it set up a structure of what are called "Swap Execution Facilities," or SEFs, which are a step somewhere between a completely opaque black box and an open exchange.
In the SEF model, participants can see some pricing data, but it's far from a system like the stock market, in which data from all trades is immediately and transparently posted. In fact, Wall Street has been fighting tooth and nail ever since Dodd-Frank passed to keep the activity in the SEFs as close to the old black-box model as possible.
There are two main avenues for preventing transparent swap trades. One is through something called an RFQ, or "request for quote," which allows participants in the market to pursue trading on an essentially private, person-to-person basis, without broadcasting the transaction to everyone. The other is through "block trades," which are trades so big that they can be done outside of the exchanges.
Without getting too far into the weeds, the new CFTC rules will significantly expand the use of both loopholes. "Wall Street and its allies fought to get as few RFQs as possible and to allow as many block trades as possible in the final rules," says Kelleher, adding that this was done to "prevent a level playing field, competition and transparency."
Essentially, the rules as written will keep the derivatives market functioning in pretty much identical fashion to the old "bunch of guys on the telephone" model. "It's pretty much the same system," sighs Kelleher.
Members of Congress, when they talk about having to vote on issues like derivative reform, express frustration about the political dynamics of this debate. When they go back to their districts, nobody is standing up at town halls and shaking fists about relaxing rules at Swap Execution Facilities.
On the other hand, when they return to Washington, they're inundated with bank lobbyists who offer extensive financial backing if they play ball on these votes, while simultaneously threatening to run primary candidates if they don't. Thus there are plenty of people in both parties who are extremely tempted to look the other way and accede to bank interests when it comes to the question of building the infrastructure for, say, the derivatives markets.
Moreover, the Democrats have become the victims of their own pusillanimity on these issues. The main Wall Street argument against these new rules is that they're excessive and onerously complicated. But they're only complicated because the Democrats didn't have the stones in the original Dodd-Frank debate to insist on simple concepts like putting all trades on open exchanges.
Instead, they built a system based upon a series of fiendishly complicated compromises. They keep adding more and more fine print to the infrastructural rules for things like Swap Execution Facilities and deriviatives clearing, and the more fine print there is, the more cracks and crevices Wall Street's lawyers can find to slither through.
Anyway, this is just a reminder that when it comes to getting transparency in the financial markets, this is what it takes. You have to fight the same fight over and over and over again. And again . . .


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Hepatic Safety of Currently Used Antiretroviral Regimens in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis Under Real Life Conditions
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01908660
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First Posted : July 26, 2013
Last Update Posted : November 11, 2015
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|Hepatic Safety of Currently Used Antiretroviral Regimens in HIV-infected Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B and/or Hepatitis C Under Real Life Conditions: The HEPAVIR HEPATIC SAFETY Cohort.
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Pre-treated or treatment-naive HIV-infected patients with chronic hepatitis B and/or chronic hepatitis C who change an existing antiretroviral regimen or who start a new regimen.
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What happened: In the spring of 2012, The William W. Backus Hospital joined Hartford HealthCare in an affiliation agreement that both sides said would change medical care and its delivery for thousands of people in the region. In July 2013, the agreement won state approval. It promises to provide Backus with a 10-year, $200 million commitment from Hartford HealthCare to implement a strategic plan and set up a $3 million replenishable fund for recruitment and retention of new medical staff. In September, Hartford HealthCare announced it had partnered with the prestigious Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, which will bring clinical trials of new treatments to Backus cancer patients.
Next steps: Backus posted a 9.2 percent operating margin in 2013, ahead of its reported 8.75 percent growth in 2012, with revenue over expenses equaling $25.4 million. But there was some tumult over the fiscal year as well, with 20 senior and middle managers in Hartford HealthCare�s east region that comprises Backus and Windham hospitals receiving layoff notices in November.
Quotable: �Our goal throughout this very deliberate process has been to create far more coordinated care at every level for our patients and their families. This is a giant step forward toward achieving that vision,� Backus president and CEO David Whitehead said in July of the affiliation.
Volatile industry: In November, Hartford HealthCare CEO Elliot Joseph said the merger strengthens Backus and other providers within the system from volatile industry changes that have threatened profits. �There�s a lot of noise in our industry, worse than any of us have ever seen in the past three decades, maybe longer. A lot of delivery systems have become frozen in place because of uncertainty about what the future will bring,� Joseph said during Backus� annual meeting in November. �But these two organizations never froze. We discovered that our vision is virtually the same, and that�s what began to build this partnership almost from day one.�


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This is my 95 GS about a week after purchasing it new. It is parked on the trail to Kaena Point Oahu. I wish it looked that clean now.
This is my 95 GS about a week after purchasing it new. It is parked on the trail to Kaena Point Oahu. I wish it looked that clean now.
Heeeeeeeerreeeeeeeeeee's Johnny!!
We are wondering if "100% Columbian" means arabica or robusta... oh well.
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The blue one is faster.
Had to add another Beemer to the family.
.....on the way....San Felipe ...Baja...2004...
This photo is actually from the dealer's web site. I bought the bike a week and a half ago. The roads up here in Edmonton are not what I would consider safe for riding so the bike is being stored at the dealer until probably the beginning-middle of April. When I pick it up, I will post a better picture.
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2010 Suzuki GSX1250SEA
ÔÇ£If you get in too far over your head, remember - full throttle and make it spectacular!ÔÇØ http://www.yearroundriders.com
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nice bike smokewagon, one cosmetic improvement you might consider making is removing that ugly can thats haning off the right side of the bike under the seat,
easy instructions here: Cannister Removal
it really cleans up the lines on the back end of an S:
I'm a k-bike owner but when I was making my decision, I personally was leaning very strongly towards the 1200RT. Only after the other half really hammered me with her input did I mosey over to the LT and ultimately choose it for its all around comfort and cruising abilities.
But, after seeing all these pics of the Rs, IÔÇÖm dyin.....maybe I need an RT in the garage too--or better yet, in the dining room, you know--for those days when the lady of the house is out and about on her own......
Thanks to all of you for sharing these great pics!
finally finished setting up my r1200rt
Pete, I'm digin' that brown saddle on the black RT. Very sharp! Looks like Rick Mayer's work (?).
Current Hottie: '00 R1100RT
Old Flames: '85 K100RT, '80 Yamaha XS850, '67 Triumph Bonnie, '66 Honda 90 Scrambler
good eyes, yes it's a rick mayer seat. i also had a vanson's perforated leather jacket made to match the saddle too.Originally Posted by alien_hitchhiker
Just picked the bike up today from Tampabay BMW. Love the bike. Alot more power than the 1150GS.
2004RT recent paint work.
Don't take life too seriously, You won't get out alive!
My GS in the Everglades
Rob,Originally Posted by rlitavecz
That's a real good looking RT. What or why was the recent paint job ? Looks like the system cases were painted. Yes? I just now finally bought a top case for my RT only without the optional pad hoping I could come up with something better than the BMW pad. What is that back rest looking thing on your top case ? Looks comfortable for a passenger.
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Tailored Solutions for Dental 3D Printing – BEGO Unveils Its Brand New Varseo 3D Printing System
In time for the IDS 2019, BEGO presents its new Varseo 3D printing system. In addition to the existing Varseo S, newly tailored 3D printing solutions and materials are being released. The big highlight is the compact DLP 3D printer Varseo XS.
BEGO Presents New and Improved Products at the IDS 2019
This year, visitors of the IDS 2019 in Cologne can once again look forward to discovering exciting new and improved products at the BEGO booth in hall 10.2, M20/N29. Highlights are the new Varseo 3D printers and the 3D printing material VarseoSmile Crown for permanent applications.
Ultimate Strength meets Outstanding Translucency – the new BEGO Zirkon ST
BEGO, the dental specialist from Bremen, is expanding its ceramic range with the supertranslucent zirconium dioxide BEGO Zirkon ST for large restorations.
VarseoSmile Crown – the First Varseo Material for the 3D Printing of Permanent Single Crowns, Inlays, Onlays and Veneers
At the IDS 2019, BEGO, the dental specialist from Bremen, unveils its first tooth-colored, ceramic-filled hybrid material for 3D printing of permanent single crowns, inlays, onlays and veneers – VarseoSmile Crown.
Now Available: the Mediloy® Cobalt Chrome and Titanium Milling Blanks with Improved Surface
BEGO, the dental specialist from Bremen, is expanding its portfolio of CAD/CAM materials. The Mediloy® milling blanks made of cobalt-chrome or titanium offer a wide range of applications for digital dental technology.
BEGO Introduces New Secondary Structures from Hybrid Production
As for now, the dental company from Bremen offers hybrid-produced secondary structures with the advantages of SLM and milling technology.
BEGO Presents Improved Casting Machines with New Attractive Features
At the IDS 2019, the dental specialist from Bremen is presenting its improved casting machines Fornax® T, Nautilus® T and Nautilus® CC plus with new attractive features.
Axel Klarmeyer becomes CEO of BEGO Dental
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Ancient Shadows is the fourth expansion for space strategy game AI War: Fleet Command. It introduces champions: These modular behemoths can be upgraded, gain EXP, and lend powerful aid to your main forces. But champions possess a unique power that sets them even further apart from other units: they can explore entirely new parts of the galaxy where the AI cannot reach. Splinter factions of humans, zenith, neinzul, and spire all dwell in those backwater nebulae. Some are hiding. Some are plotting. Some have gone totally insane. It is there, in the shadows, that your champion can find relics from the ancient race which constructed it. What power awaits? At what cost?
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Party in The Bathroom
party in the bathroom
Installation at The Montclair Art Museum
Noah Klersfeld is a video artist and architect living and working in New York City where he is a resident artist at The Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts. He earned BFA and BARCH degrees from The Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His exhibitions and screenings include The Montclair Art Museum (NJ), The Hunterdon Art Museum (NJ), The San Diego Art Institute (CA), The Islip Art Museum (NY), The Museum of Contemporary Photography (IL), The Bronx Museum of The Arts (NY), and The Center on Contemporary Art (WA). He recently completed a long-term video installation at The Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with collaborator Patty Chang and has installed public works in the Toronto subway system (TCC), The Calgary International Airport (YYC), and on the Manhattan Bridge (NY). Noah is a 2016 recipient of the Peter S Reed Foundation grant and his work is in a new book, Media Art and The Urban Environment: Engendering Public Engagement with Urban Ecology.
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There's a Sirius rivalry brewing between two of the satellite radio network's biggest stars.
Howard Stern went after Jamie Foxx earlier this week after he and his "Foxxhole" crew made remarks criticizing the shock jock and co-host Robin Quivers for comments they made about "Precious" star Gabourey Sidibe.
"The crew started in with me. I'm not… gonna sit here and take it and listen to some bulls***," Howard said on his show. "And quite frankly, I'm going to end it now, because, you know what, I got a s***load of stuff on Jamie, which isn't a lot of fun."
The radio host then questioned the "Valentine's Day" star's sexuality.
"It's interesting he chose the name Jamie," Howard said. "He seems to be into some bizarre thing where he wants to start in with me so he can get some attention for his channel on the 'Foxxhole' – which is an interesting name, too. I wonder which hole they're referring to."
The shock jock continued to riff on the subject, adding that Jamie is no longer his friend.
"I don't really care about Jamie Foxx," he said. "Jamie says he's a friend of mine, Jamie's not a friend of mine. I've had him on the show a couple of times. I don't consider him a friend anymore… I don't dislike the guy, he's a very talented guy."
Earlier, Jamie's "Foxxhole" crew went after Howard and Robin in response to Howard's controversial comments about Gabourey's weight.
"She has a lot in common with 'Precious,' she was overweight, she was once black," one crew member said of Robin. Later in the show, Jamie used the n-word with regard to Robin before stating that he hopes the beef gets the two shows publicity.
"I hope that this feud gets us hot, because Howard hasn't really made a big splash in a long time," Jamie said.
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In Which We Stop Feeling Sorry For Ourselves And Learn to Laugh Again
Some Of The Things I Find Humorous
by Molly Lambert
Phyllis Diller, Dave Chappelle, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, the This Recording YouTube channel, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bob and Ray, SCTV, Wanda Sykes, Susie Essman, Cheryl Hines
When people tell you how they're going to say "fuck it" to life and move to some other city or country and then you see them three months later at a party and they're all "o, hai," Alex's crush on Ayn Rand, when Alex threatens to make a list of "The top 10 Women Of All Time" and asks for help because he can't come up with 10, culture-bound syndromes, fanfic, Ernie Kovacs
"Lesbians" who backtrack and start dating guys and are all "I know, we'll talk about it later," when Alex says something genuine and heartfelt and then I realize he's just fucking with me, When Marky Mark goes to record the song in Boogie Nights, religions, tumblr, Keeping A Notebook, Mary Rambin, when I looked up "self worth" on thesaurus.com and this happened:
South Park, Stephen Colbert, Bill Murray, Mark Twain, Mindy Kaling, David Sedaris, Becca Wiener, Emily Gould, Rachael Bedard, the internet, monkeys dressed up like people, Super Grover, The Muppet Show, Mah Nà Mah Nà, Huga Wuga
Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles wrestling, Louis C.K. and Lucky Louie, Chunklet Magazine, Your Show Of Shows, Lindsayism, Chappelle's Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry and Jeff Garlin trying to keep a straight face in their Curb scenes with Susie Essman, Nichols and May, Doug Benson, Oh my car
Baby porcupines, capybaras, Narwhals, bears, giant pandas cubs, red pandas, cats, cats in outfits making faces showing you how much they don't want to be in an outfit, the hilarious hyrax:
The Cable Guy, Clueless, Safe Men, Heathers, Mean Girls, Night Of The Lepus, The King Of Comedy, Dick, Caddyshack, Animal House, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, Brain Candy (the cab driver, toast fucking, Cancer Boy, Happiness Pie, Dunk The Drug! "It was only a couple of Flipper babies!")
Chris! I thought you said the drug was ready! I'm confused.
When sidekicks are vastly superior to the person they're supposedly a sidekick to (Garth Algar, Luigi, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Cameron from Ferris Bueller), Andrew Lasken's videos, his love song to Riskay, his tribute to Daniel Powter's exposed brain syndrome, sloth babies, interviews with Quentin Tarantino where the interviewer can't get him to stop talking, The Best Show On WFMU, The Gorch, Philly Boy Roy, The Best Show recaps on Recidivism, The Erowid Vault, geoducks, Campus Ladies
Thinking about Biggie ghostwriting Hard Core for Lil' Kim and imagining him coming up with lines like "I used to be scared of the dick, Now I throw lips to the shit, Handle it like a real bitch", Lil' Wayne, Suga Free, Snoop's interest in country, Trick Daddy
Tina Fey, Amy Sedaris, Morgan Murphy, Jen Kirkman, Mo Collins, Chelsea Peretti, Laura Kightlinger and The Minor Accomplishments Of Jackie Woodman, Jessica Chaffin, Melinda Hill, C.J. Arabia, Natasha Leggero, Amanda Egge, Kat Dennings and her video blog, Mary Van Note, Charlyne Yi
Al Capp, Rube Goldberg, Edward Gorey, Jules Feiffer, B. Kliban, Quentin Blake, David Shrigley, Roz Chast, Charles Addams, Peter Bagge, Chick Tracts, Carl Barks, Lynda Barry, R. Crumb, Archie, Krazy Kat, Nancy, Little Lulu, Plastic Man, Julia Wertz
Daniel Pinkwater, Jean Shepherd, S.J. Perelman, Charlie Kaufman, David Sedaris, Woody Allen before he got creepy, The Marx Brothers (ranked) 1. Harpo, 2. Groucho 3. Chico, Mel Brooks, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Mae West, Buster Keaton
Bob Dylan, particularly as uber-indie a-hole circa "Don't Look Back," Will Oldham, R. Kelly, Mariah Carey, Pete Wentz's man-crush on John Mayer, John Mayer on Chappelle's show, Prince, Prince's desire to call Apollonia's group "Vagina 6", the Mary Jane Girls, Klymaxx and Bernadette Cooper from Klymaxx
Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, Godfather 3, all the comedies made by the Coen brothers and most of the dramas too, talking about Southland Tales and still not having seen it (although to be fair, I have watched long sequences on youtube, which seems like the way it was meant to be experienced), Santa's Village
The Tess And Molly Show, Gabe & Jenny, Kristen Schaal, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Missi Pyle, ONTD, fourfour and Rich Juzwiak, Flight Of The Conchords, The episode of The Sarah Silverman Show where Sarah tried to have a crush on Officer Tig Notaro, all the jokes on that show about Valley Village
Freaks and Geeks, Bill Haverchuck, Jason Segel's performances in the Apatow canon, especially as Eric on Undeclared, when Neal does the ventriloquism routine, Biff as Coach Fredericks, Dave 'Gruber' Allen as Mr. Rosso
Dorothy Parker, Kim Deal, Ellen Page looking super uncomfortable in a fancy dress on the red carpet, Frank Black shirtless, Pot Psychology, Emily Gould, Tracie Egan, when Moe Tkacik hasn't had sex in a while and she writes something really cranky and funny and awesome, picturing Nick Denton sitting on a cloud made of money like Zeus and laughing at all of us
Livia Soprano, Livia saying "Oh poor you," Paulie Walnuts and Silvio Dante, Christophuh and Ade, Janice "Parvati" Soprano
Max Silvestri, Human Giant, Showfriendz, Jerry Minor, Eugene Mirman, Katt Williams, the Chongalicious girls, Jane Lynch especially in Talladega Nights as Ricky Bobby's mom
Garry Shandling, The Larry Sanders Show, when Larry thought David Duchovny had a crush on him, when Hank's sex tape comes out and on it he's asking two girls if they want a "mouthful of Hank," everything Mary Lynn Rajskub does especially being on 24, and her deleted scene with Tom Cruise in Magnolia
Everybody on The (American) Office, but especially Toby, Meredith, Stanley, and Creed. Oh and also Angela, Kelly Kapoor and Phyllis, are my dream guests for a slumber party. When B.J. moved to New York and became a cokehead. The dinner party at Michael and Jan's house, Jan's scented candle business
The whole 30 Rock gang, especially Liz Lemon, Tracy, Jenna, Kenneth, and Jack, the Sheinhardt wig company. Everybody on How I Met Your Mother, especially NPH and Willow, T-Pain, Plies, rap beefs that don't end in death, Weird Al, novelty musical genres, Girls Aloud, kitten in a tissue box
Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, North By Northwest, Cary Grant, Warren Beatty in Shampoo and Reds, in Sullivan's Travels when they show the cartoon to the chain gang, Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye and California Split
Madeline Kahn, Carole Lombard, Diane Keaton, Joan Blondell, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Stanwyck, Katharine Hepburn, Bernadette Peters, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr
Tess Lynch, Tyler Coates, Alex Carnevale, Bridget Moloney, Danish Aziz, Sam Solomon, Mike Metzger, Lizzy Klein, Mike D, Amir Shoucri, Joni and Susanna , my parents, my whole family, my brother Ben Lambert and his Lambo drawings
another case of exposed brain sydrome
Jack White's hair, Britney Spears, Pete Doherty, Dov Charney, Hippies, Punks, Noise Music, Hipsters, Techno, the Hennifer Lopez taco-flavored keeses, Butters, Matt & Trey, Home Movies, Brendon Small, the many alt white people of Portland
Professor Klarvin and his lover Virginia
ABBA videos, David Byrne's dinner with Brian Eno, The Jonas Brothers and their purity rings, Sneakernight, Miley Cyrus lyrics ("if you text me, I'll delete it"), Disney's stable of child stars
Shitty serious teen films that come on the movie channels at 2 am and usually star Dominique Swain, Bijou Phillips, or some combination thereof, the all-time best/worst one of these; Havoc, starring Bijou Phillips, Anne Hathaway, Anne Hathaway's breasts, and Freddie Rodriguez as a cholo from the east side of LA, the fact that Havoc was written by Stephen Gaghan, who also wrote shitty/serious non-teen movie Traffic
Is Clueless really still my favorite movie ever? Yes. Yes it is.
Zach Galifianakis, Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, and Maria Bamford, the Comedians Of Comedy DVD, the part where they go to a Cracker Barrel, Puns on WALL*E, Puns on "He's Just Not That Into You," the compulsive inability to stop punning known as witzelsucht, Larry David as the "temp Beatle"
When white people pick one rapper to like and it's Lil' Wayne, when rappers pick one white people band to like and it's Coldplay, pan flutes, people who sexualize The Chippettes, the parts in Walk Hard with Tim Meadows, "I'm just so tired of all these Star Wars" Mr. Show's Monster Parties: Fact Or Fiction
Molly Lambert is the managing editor of This Recording.
Exuberance is beauty.
Legend of summer music.
Alex and M. Night.