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A faithful friend
"There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." Proverbs 18:24
suggested further reading: Proverbs 27:6–10
You have a friend, have you? Yes; and he keeps a pair of horses, and has a good establishment. Ah! but your best way to prove your friend is to know that he will be your friend when you have not so much as a mean cottage; and when homeless and without clothing, you are driven to beg for your bread. Thus you would make true proof of a friend. Give me a friend who was born in the winter time, whose cradle was rocked in the storm; he will last. Our fair weather friends shall flee away from us. I had rather have a robin for a friend than a swallow; for a swallow abides with us only in the summer time, but a robin cometh to us in the winter. Those are tight friends that will come the nearest to us when we are in the most distress; but those are not friends who speed themselves away when ill times come. Believer, have you reason to fear that Christ will leave you now? Has he not been with you in the house of mourning? You found your friend where men find pearls, "In caverns deep, where darkness dwells;" you found Jesus in your hour of trouble. It was on the bed of sickness that you first learned the value of his name; it was in the hour of mental anguish that you first did lay hold of the hem of his garment; and since then, your nearest and sweetest intercourse has been held with him in hours of darkness. Well then, such a friend, proved in the house of sorrow—a friend who gave his heart's blood for you, and let his soul run out in one great river of blood—such a friend never can and never will forsake you; he sticketh closer than a brother.
for meditation: God offered us the hand of friendship when we were his enemies (Romans 5:10)—it cost the Lord Jesus Christ his life to make us his friends (John 15:13–15). How much do you display your side of the friendship in a world which has no time for the cause of Christ (James 4:4)?
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[1] Spurgeon, C. H., & Crosby, T. P. (1998). 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 1) (p. 74). Leominster, UK: Day One Publications.


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The 911 GT3RS. The 959. The Carrera GT. People usually associate the name "Porsche" with incredibly fast sports cars with wild handling and lively steering. And then there's the 924. It was originally a Volkswagen. It barely had 100 horsepower. It had a van engine. And it sold like hotcakes.
With over 150,000 built from 1977 to 1988, surely the 924 can't be all bad, despite its reputation. And it wasn't, at least not for the standards of the day. Okay, yes, if you bought one now you would potentially be a hazard on the highway while desperately waiting for your "Porsche" to reach anything like cruising speed. But it's got tight handling, power comparable to any contemporary muscle car, and you can get one now for less than five grand. Surely having that badge up front should help you on dates (it will not).
Part of the reason the 924 is met with such derision among Porsche enthusiasts is its origins. Like a few Porsches before and since, it started out as a project from Volkswagen. Unfortunately, VW decided they would throw in their EA831 four-cylinder engine, which came from a van. And with only 110 horsepower on tap, and mated to a three-speed, yes three-speed, automatic transmission, it wasn't exactly quick.
Which may explain Porsche's marketing campaign here. You can't really sell it on speed, but hey, it got pretty good gas mileage. So when somebody now complains about the Porsche Cayenne diesel not being a "true Porsche," whatever that is, just remind them that over 30 years ago, Porsche made a front-engined, four-cylinder, drum-braked, three-speeded car.
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Opinion analysis: Legislator's vote not free speech
Reaffirming more than two centuries of law, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that a legislator's vote on pending bills, and arguments made during debate on such measures, are not a form of free speech that is protected by the First Amendment. Although the Court was unanimous in overturning a Nevada Supreme Court ruling conferring First Amendment protection for legislative actions, two Justices voiced some reservations about potential implications of the ruling. The case is Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan (docket 10-568). [Disclaimer: John Elwood, a regular contributor to the blog, serves as counsel to the petitioner. Although Amy Howe, the editor of the blog, served as a judge on one of John's moots before the argument, Goldstein, Howe, & Russell was not otherwise involved in the case.]
Rules against legislators' voting on issues in which they have a private, personal interest have been in existence since 1789, and yet the Supreme Court never before had given such restrictions constitutional sanction. It did so in the case of a Sparks, Nev., city councilman who voted on a development project in which his friend and campaign manager had a direct interest. The Court's main opinion, by Justice Antonin Scalia, said that legislators' act of voting and debating is not something "personal to the legislator but belongs to the people." The legislator, Scalia added, is entrusted with that authority as an agent of the sovereign voters.
The decision specifically upheld — at least in part — a Nevada state law that orders public officials in the state not to vote on or advocate the passage of policy measures in which they have a private interest that might put a cloud over their impartiality. The Court, however, rejected only one constitutional challenge to that law: that it was too broad in its reach. The Court did not resolve other challenges — including one that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, in a separate concurring opinion, suggested was a stronger one. That claim is that such a recusal law might well intrude upon the political relationship that leads voters to favor and vote for a specific candidate, and leads legislators to respond by voting as the supporters had wanted.
Whether that issue remained open for review when the case is returned to the Nevada courts was somewhat unclear, since the state Supreme Court apparently had simply ignored that issue. Another challenge that might remain open was that, as worded, the catchall portion of the Nevada law was so vague as to be invalid under the First Amendment.
Still, the fact that the Court had dealt with only a single constitutional objection did not in any way diminish the importance of the ruling. That came in its flat rejection, by at least seven of the nine Justices, of the argument that action in the legislative arena by an elected lawmaker is shielded by the First Amendment. (Members of Congress, under the Constitution, cannot be legally questioned outside the halls of Congress for their "speech or debate," but that is a separate issue from whether they are shielded by the First Amendment for how they vote or what debating positions they take in committee or on the floor.)
Justice Kennedy, while joining in the Scalia opinion in full, said he would be seriously concerned if laws such as Nevada's recusal statute were used to intrude upon the give-and-take between legislators and the voters who support them. If such laws impose "unjustifiable burdens on speech or association protected by the First Amendment," or operate "to chill or suppress the exercise of those freedoms by reason of vague terms or overbroad coverage, " Kennedy said, they are invalid. At a minimum, those comments appeared to assure that the claims of associational freedom and protection against vagueness might still work, at least for Justice Kennedy, as challenges to such conflict-of-interest laws.
Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., speaking for himself, agreed that the Nevada Supreme Court ruling in the case should be overturned, but his separate opinion argued that restrictions on legislators' voting were, in fact, restrictions upon legislators' speech. To illustrate his point, Alito recalled historic acts of "profiles in courage," including John Quincy Adams' loss of his Senate seat because he had voted for an embargo law in 1807, and Texan Sam Houston created a furor in the South in 1854 when he voted against a law that gave citizens in territories the right to decide whether to accept slavery.
Those legislative acts, Alito said, spoke "loudly and clearly to everyone who was interested in the bills in question," and so had "an expressive component." The Scalia opinion expressly denied that voting or debating in legislative halls had such expressive content.
Monday's ruling came in the case of Michael A. Carrigan, a city council member in Sparks, Nev., who took part when the council debated and voted in August 2006 on a permit to develop a hotel and casino project, the "Lazy 8," in the city. Carlos Vasquez, a consultant who included that project among his business clients, had been Carrigan's campaign manager and was a long-time friend. Before voting on the permit (which he supported with his vote), Carrigan consulted the city attorney, who told him he would not violate the state's conflict-of-interest law if he disclosed publicly his relationship with Vasquez. He did so, and voted for the permit, although it failed by a 3-2 vote. Carrigan later was censured by the state commission that enforces the recusal law. His censure was overturned by the state Supreme Court as a violation of Carrigan's First Amendment rights of free speech.
In taking the case on to the Supreme Court, Carrigan asked the Justices to decide what constitutional test to use in judging the recusal measure's validity. The Court, in its ruling Monday, did not decide that question, because it concluded, simply, that legislative voting and debating is not protected free speech under the First Amendment.
"Voting by a legislator," Justice Scalia wrote, "is different from voting by a citizen." A voter's casting of a ballot is a personal right, but that of the legislator in considering or passing a bill is no more than the lawmaker's "apportioned share of the legislature's power" to pass or reject a proposed measure.
Aside from Justice Kennedy, joining in full in the Scalia opinion were Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Clarence Thomas.
Recommended Citation: Lyle Denniston, Opinion analysis: Legislator's vote not free speech, SCOTUSblog (Jun. 13, 2011, 10:39 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/06/opinion-analysis-legislators-vote-not-free-speech/


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Romney: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Will 'Remain an Unsolved Problem'
While most have focused on the "47 percent" comments from Mitt Romney's leaked fundraiser video, the full footage released today includes some very blunt words about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In the video, Mitt Romney says that the conflict will "remain an unsolved problem," because the Palestinians are "committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel."
I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway, for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say there's just no way.
These comments undercut Romney's ability to say he has any sort of solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — and to criticize Obama's policy, as former U.S. deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage pointed out.
Romney characterizes the conflict as inevitable, and he likens the U.S. government's role to "kick[ing] the ball down the field."
You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that this is going to remain an unsolved problem. And we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.
He also seems somewhat disinterested in solutions, noting that when a former U.S. secretary of state told him about the possibility of a settlement after Palestinian elections, Romney's response was, "Really?" The secretary of state said, "Yes, I think there's some prospect," but Romney "didn't delve into it."
Palestinian Liberation Organization representative Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat condemned Romney's "complete ignorance of facts and realities."
Romney's allegations that Palestinians are committed to the destruction of Israel are baseless given the fact that Palestinians have expressed support for the two-state solution, and repeatedly recognized Israel's right to exist. The best way the Republican nominee can help in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is by adhering to long-standing U.S. policy regarding an acceptable solution that will lead to the end of military occupation of Palestine, peace, and security.
The White House has said that Romney's perspective is the "wrong approach," and that President Obama will continue to work toward a peaceful resolution.


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Endangered Whooping Cranes Winding Down Unusual Year
AUSTIN — It's been an unusual year for whooping cranes in Texas and the endangered species' spring migration is the latest example. Researchers report several whooping crane families initiated their spring migration nearly a month earlier than usual, with some birds having already reached South Dakota.
Texans are asked to report sightings of these large white birds as they progress along their migration route northward from the coast through Central Texas and the Wichita Falls area.
After a winter distribution that surprised biologists and kept birders enchanted with unprecedented sighting opportunities for one of North America's most ancient bird species, the unusually early start of the migration to nesting grounds in Canada does not surprise Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologist Lee Ann Linam.
"This winter seemed to produce a 'perfect storm' of mild winter weather, reduced food sources on the Texas coast, and crowding in an expanding whooping crane population, which led whooping cranes to explore new wintering areas," Linam said. "Those same conditions have likely provided the impetus for an early start of their 1500-mile spring migration."
Texas provides wintering habitat for the only self-sustaining population of whooping cranes in the world. Traditionally, whooping cranes spend December through March in coastal wetlands on and near Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, between Rockport and Port Lavaca. In recent years whoopers have slowly expanded their winter range—usually using coastal marshlands adjacent to already occupied areas.
However, in 2011-12 whoopers made significant expansions southward and westward of Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, and one whooping crane apparently spent the winter with sandhill cranes in upland habitats near El Campo. Even more significantly, nine whooping cranes, including six adults and three chicks, spent most of the winter near Granger Lake in Central Texas, and one family group of whooping cranes only traveled as far south as Kansas before heading back north to spend most of the winter in Nebraska.
The unprecedented shifts may be indicators of both bad news and good news for the Texas flock, which is thought to now number about 300 birds, according to Linam. "We are concerned about the health of our coastal estuaries and long-term declines in blue crabs, one of the traditional primary food sources for this population of whooping cranes," she said. "At the same time, these cranes seem to be showing adaptability as the increasing population may be causing crowding in traditional habitats and drought may be producing less than ideal habitat conditions. I think it's a good sign that whooping cranes are exploring and thriving in new wintering areas."
This winter, birders and wildlife watchers in Texas have helped the state track some of the movements of whooping cranes, and Linam is asking Texans to be on the lookout for whoopers during the spring migration, which may extend through mid-April in Texas.
Whooping cranes are the tallest birds in North America, standing nearly five feet tall. They are solid white in color except for black wing-tips that are visible only in flight. They fly with necks and legs outstretched. During migration they often pause overnight to use wetlands for roosting and agricultural fields for feeding, but seldom remain more than one night. They nearly always migrate in small groups of less than 4-5 birds, but they may be seen roosting and feeding with large flocks of the smaller and darker sandhill crane.
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It turns out that his hobby 9to5Mac.com blog was always his favorite and in 2011 he went full time adding his Fortune Google followers to 9to5Google.com and adding the commerce component 9to5Toys.com gear and deals site. In 2013, Weintraub bought one of the Tesla's first Model S EVs off the assembly line and so began his love affair with the Electric Vehicle and green energy which is now electrek.co.
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Both sides on the same-sex marriage question have run an all-out blitz to convince voters in four states today on whether gays and lesbians should be allowed legally to marry.
Three of the states, Maine, Maryland and Washington, could make history as the first state or states to extend marriage rights to lesbians and gays by popular vote, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Minnesota's ballot measure would amend the constitution to deny marriage to gays and lesbians; if it fails, it would be a first for a state.
The campaigns have been marked by boycotts of Starbucks and General Mills. The giant coffee maker expressed support for the Washington ballot measure and the cereal maker expressed opposition to the Minnesota amendment.
The National Organization for Marriage said Friday that it was "launching a major push to reach and mobilize 10 million voters" with a $500,000 campaign of robocalls to households in Maine, Maryland, Washington State, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The group said the calls "feature prominent advocates for traditional marriage and family, including Dr. James Dobson, Senator Marco Rubio and former Governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Calls will be placed in both English and Spanish, targeting voters across the political spectrum who favor retaining the definition of marriage, which has characterized society for centuries."
NOM president Brian Brown called the campaign "the largest national mobilization of traditional marriage voters in history…We are proud to work with state- and national-based partners in the four states that have marriage referenda on the ballot – states where we believe the polls are trending in our favor – and in three presidential swing states, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, that many pundits are surprised to find now in play."
The ACLU has staff working in all four states. The pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign said it has spent $20 million and two years "for our largest mobilization effort ever to ensure that 2012 is a year of milestone victories for LGBT equality," supporting pro-marriage Democrats and the pro-marriage referenda.
HRC said the four ballot campaigns have placed "more than 4 million phone calls and knocked on more than one-half million doors, setting up one-on-one conversations with more than 1 million voters," including more than 300,000 volunteers, donations from more than 110,000 people, and 2,000 endorsements from local faith, business and civic organizations.
Here is the language of each ballot measure via Reuters:
MAINE: Do you want to allow the State of Maine to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples?
MINNESOTA: Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to provide that only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Minnesota?
MARYLAND:Establishes that Maryland's civil marriage laws allow gay and lesbian couples to obtain a civil marriage license, provided they are not otherwise prohibited from marrying; protects clergy from having to perform any particular marriage ceremony in violation of their religious beliefs; affirms that each religious faith has exclusive control over its own theological doctrine regarding who may marry within that faith; and provides that religious organizations and certain related entities are not required to provide goods, services, or benefits to an individual related to the celebration or promotion of marriage in violation of their religious beliefs.
WASHINGTON: The legislature passed Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6239 concerning marriage for same-sex couples, modified domestic-partnership law, and religious freedom, and voters have filed a sufficient referendum petition on this bill. This bill would allow same-sex couples to marry, preserve domestic partnerships only for seniors, and preserve the right of clergy or religious organizations to refuse to perform, recognize, or accommodate any marriage ceremony. Should this bill be: Approved (OR) Rejected
So far, six states and the District of Columbia have approved same-sex marriage through the courts or legislatures. Thirty states have banned same-sex marriage by constitutional amendment, and California blocked it with the Prop 8 referendum now under court challenge. The Maine measure would roll back its 2009 referendum blocking same-sex marriage.


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Oklahoma inmate extradited to face murder charge
MILFORD, Conn. (AP) — A 53-year-old man serving time in a federal prison in Oklahoma has been extradited to Connecticut to face murder charges.The New Haven Register reports Luis Rodriguez was presented in Superior Court Wednesday morning, charged in the May, 2001 strangulation of 28-year-old Kelsey Monahon.Monahan, who was one month pregnant, was found bound, gagged and unconscious by her husband in their Milford apartment on May 25, 2001.She died three days later at Bridgeport Hospital.Prosecutors identified Rodriguez as a suspect in 2011, but he was already behind bars, serving time in Oklahoma on an unrelated weapons charges. They have not said what led them to Rodriguez.He was extradited to Connecticut on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear if he has obtained an attorney.


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Throughout the United States, water and sewer systems have deteriorated to the point where delaying system-wide improvement programs is not an option. So how will our cities and utilities pay for all of this repair and growth? This is the goal of Water Finance & Management: to bridge the gap between out-of-sight, out-of-mind thinking and the need for a large amount of work to fix our underground infrastructure. Water Finance & Management is a professional journal that focuses innovative technology, successful management practices and the latest in public finance for water systems and sanitary and storm sewers. Contributors offer insight and information on security issues, regulatory matters, operation and maintenance practices, and crisis management.


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This tutorial will explain how to convert code that uses DCOP for its interprocess communication (IPC) to D-Bus. D-Bus is the new IPC system for KDE 4.
The most direct replacement of DCOPClient are QDBusConnection and QDBusConnectionInterface. The convenience method QDBusConnection::sessionBus() usually replaces all occurrences of KApplication::dcopClient().
The methods in DCOPClient that are related to listing existing applications on the bus are in QDBusBusService (which you can access with QDBusConnection::sessionBus().interface()).
DCOPClient has a "call" method that takes two QByteArray's containing the data to be transmitted and the data that was received. The most direct replacement for this is using QDBusMessage and QDBusConnection::send or call. You most likely don't want to use that.
Instead, drop the QByteArray and QDataStream variables and use the dynamic call mode (see next section).
The direct replacement for DCOPRef is QDBusInterface. The replacement for DCOPReply is QDBusReply.
However, there are some important differences to be noticed:
Sample code in DCOP:
DCOPRef kded("kded", "favicons")
DCOPReply reply = kded.call("iconForURL(KUrl)", url);
QString icon;
if (reply.isValid())
return icon;
Sample code in D-Bus:
QDBusInterface kded("org.kde.kded", "/modules/favicons",
QDBusReply<QString> reply = kded.call("iconForURL", url.url());
return reply;
Things to note in the code:
D-Bus also supports multiple return values. You will normally not find this kind of construct in DCOP, since it didn't support that functionality. However, this may show up in the form of a struct being returned. In this case, you may want to use the functionality of multiple return arguments. You'll need to use QDBusMessage in this case:
QDBusInterface interface("org.kde.myapp", "/MyObject",
QDBusMessage reply = interface.call("myFunction", argument1, argument2);
if (reply.type() == QDBusMessage::ReplyMessage)
returnvalue1 = reply.at(0).toString();
returnvalue2 = reply.at(1).toInt();
/* etc. */
There is no direct replacement for DCOPObject. It's replaced by a normal QObject with explict registering. You may use this new QObject with or without an adaptor. So, in order to port, you need to follow these steps:
public Q_SLOTS:
Q_SCRIPTABLE void methodName();
Note that the Q_CLASSINFO macro is case-sensitive. Do not misspell "D-Bus Interface" (that's capital I and D-Bus has a dash).
In order to register the object, you'll need to do:
QDBusConnection::sessionBus().registerObject("<object-path>", this,
Normally, "<object-path>" will be the argument the class was passing to the DCOPObject constructor. Don't forget the leading slash. Another useful option to the third argument is QDBusConnection::ExportScriptableProperties, which will export the scriptable properties.
DCOP had broken support for signals. They were public methods, while normal signals in QObject are protected methods. The correct way to port from DCOP signals is to refactor the code to support signals correctly.
Adaptors are a special QObject that you attach to your normal QObject and whose sole purpose is to relay things to and from the bus. You'll generally use it to export more than one interface or when you need to translate the call arguments in any way.
You'll declare it as:
class MyAdaptor: public QDBusAbstractAdaptor
Q_CLASSINFO("D-Bus Interface", "org.kde.MyAdaptor")
MyAdaptor(QObject *parent);
void signal1();
void signal2(const QString &argument);
And the implementation will look like:
MyAdaptor::MyAdaptor(QObject *parent)
: QDBusAbstractAdaptor(parent)
/* alternative syntax:
connect(parent, SIGNAL(signal1()), SIGNAL(signal1()));
connect(parent, SIGNAL(signal2(QString)), SIGNAL(QString()));
In the class using the adaptor, do this:
new MyAdaptor(this);
QDBusConnection::sessionBus().registerObject("/<object-path>", this,
Things to notice:
DCOP had the capability of doing transactions: that is, delay the reply from a called method until later on. QtDBus has the same functionality, under a different name.
Unlike DCOP, with QtDBus, you need to declare that your class may want to do transactions. For that, you must make your object derive from QDBusContext as well as from your your normal inheritance. This will provide you with a few extra methods in your class. You will want to call setDelayedReply to notify QtDBus that the reply will come at a later point in time. You also want to keep the original connection object and message so as to be able to send the proper reply on the proper connection.
Sample DCOP code:
class MyClass: public QObject, public DCOPObject
DCOPTransaction *xact;
DCOPClient *client;
QString myMethod(const QString &arg1)
client = callingDcopClient();
xact = client->beginTransaction();
QTimer::singleShot(0, this, SLOT(processLater());
return QString(); // reply will be ignored
public Q_SLOTS:
void processLater()
QByteArray replyData;
QDataStream stream(&replyData, QIODevice::WriteOnly);
stream << QString(QLatin1String("foo"));
client->endTransaction(xact, "QString", replyData);
The equivalent code with QtDBus would be:
class MyClass: public QObject, private QDBusContext
QDBusMessage reply;
QDBusConnection connection;
public Q_SLOTS:
Q_SCRIPTABLE QString myMethod(const QString &arg1)
// connection(), message() and setDelayedReply()
// come from QDBusContext
connection = connection();
reply = QDBusMessage::createReply(message());
QTimer::singleShot(0, this, SLOT(processLater());
return QString(); // reply will be ignored
void processLater()
reply << QString::fromLatin1("foo");


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LaHood's status: 'Nothing to report'
The parlor game of speculating about Ray LaHood's future has gone on too long for some DOT-watchers.
Many had expected to see the transportation secretary announce his departure ahead of President Barack Obama's second term. But with just days to go before the Inauguration, LaHood hasn't gone anywhere — or even said definitively whether he's leaving or staying.
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"I get asked almost daily what I think Ray LaHood is going to do," said Janet Kavinoky, the top transportation lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "And Ray LaHood has said he doesn't have any answers for us."
That holding pattern has essentially been in place since the fall of 2011, when the Chicago Tribune reported, without a direct quotation, that LaHood said he would be "staying in that job for one term only." The Chicago Sun-Times picked up a similar theme Tuesday, citing a "top Obama source" to report that LaHood is "definitely" leaving office, perhaps in the next few months.
LaHood has long been privately telling people that he plans to leave at the end of Obama's first term, sources tell POLITICO. But with the president's Inauguration taking place Monday, LaHood will almost surely miss that deadline.
Neither the White House nor the Department of Transportation is offering any answers in public.
"We're just not really getting into speculation on personnel announcements or discussion of internal decision making," a White House official said, directing further inquiries to DOT.
DOT in turn pointed to comments LaHood made to reporters in December, when he said he and Obama had agreed after the election "to continue talking." Reached by email on Monday, LaHood said simply, "Nothing to report."
Though he has grown visibly tired of fielding endless questions on the topic, LaHood isn't doing much to assuage reporters. At an event at a Washington public school Friday, LaHood referred to that same post-election chat he had with Obama, but was again vague about his future.
"I did have a good meeting with the president after the election, I sure did," he told several reporters. "We talked a lot about what we've been doing the last four years and talked about high-speed rail. So we'll see where it takes us." LaHood declined to give a timeline on when he will make a decision.
But LaHood, who's typically outgoing and friendly with reporters, might be under a gag order when it comes to breaking news about the future of DOT's leadership. "I think it's very clear that the White House is controlling the timing," said a transportation source who knows the secretary.
Many observers had expected that after addressing the fiscal cliff and nominating the top tier of Obama's new Cabinet — Defense, State and Treasury — the administration would pivot to filling out the next level of top advisers, including the transportation secretary.


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FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2012, file photo, St. Louis Cardinals' Chris Carpenter wipes his face with a towel in the dugout during the fourth inning of Game 6 of baseball's National League championship series against the San Francisco Giants in San Francisco. Carpenter is unlikely to pitch for the Cardinals this season and his career may be over because of a nerve injury that kept him out most of last year, general manager John Mozeliak said Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)


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AUSTIN — The Texas attorney general has launched an Internet ad campaign inviting New Yorkers who feel their state's new gun laws are too restrictive to move to Texas.
Anyone accessing a variety of media sites from Manhattan or Albany starting Wednesday may be confronted with two pop-up ads.
One reads, "Is Gov. Cuomo looking to take your guns?" Another says, "Wanted: Law abiding New York gun owners looking for lower taxes and greater opportunity."
Paid for with Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's campaign funds, the ads reference the nation's toughest gun control law. It was signed Tuesday by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The ads link to a Facebook site proclaiming, "Keep your guns, move to Texas."
The site says Texas has no income tax and created more than 275,000 jobs in 12 months.


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There was a time, not long ago, when assembling a viable dungeon party was more challenging than clearing the dungeon itself! Then the Dungeon Finder happened, and now finding a party in the World is easy-peezy. But then we thought, if it works in the World, then why not try it in real life? We present to you the Dungeon Finder collection. Wear your role proudly, and it just might help you find a party!


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Q: What can I do to maintain my lakefront property?
John – Beltsville, MD
A: Ahhh … waking up to the sun rising over your slice of a tranquil lake sounds divine—and it makes sense that you'd want to keep that piece of heaven pristine.
So what can you do to maintain it?
If you live by a large lake, pond dye may not be a feasible way to beautify your shoreline. But here are a few things you can do to help promote a healthy lakefront.
- Use Natural Bacteria: You can apply beneficial bacteria, like those found in Pond Logic® MuckAway™, to shoreline areas to promote muck removal around your dock or beach. The bacteria consume the accumulated organic debris, improving water clarity and eliminating smell.
- Install Circulators: Dock-mounted or float-mounted circulators , like the Kasco Circulator with Horizontal Float, can help speed up muck decomposition and guide muck away from a boat well or shorefront by moving the water and adding oxygen to it.
- Control Weeds: If pesky phragmites grow on your lakefront, you can spray them with aquatic herbicides and cut them back with a weed cutter, like the Weed Cutter. Weed control will discourage critters and mosquito populations from moving in.
What's the Catch?
Well, the catch is that treating a lakefront property is trickier than treating your private backyard pond or lake. Because you're affecting water that you share with wildlife and other homeowners, you will need to contact your local environmental quality department for permission to treat the area with bacteria or chemicals. Once you get the OK, you can treat away!
Another option is to hire a licensed herbicide applicator in your area. These businesses can assist you with the permit process—and some can even be hired to maintain the area for you so you can spend more time lounging by the lake.
Pond Talk: If you live lakefront, what have you done to improve your beach or shoreline area?
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What magic? Ever get tired of typing :D, only to find ( ^^ ) staring you down once you hit submit? Or how about :X becoming ( >^< )? Are you wondering how I managed to type up that example without its own point thwarting me? Well, here's the secret:YES! IT IS THAT SIMPLE!
Now, all of you, stop whining that dA stole your ability to use your favourite smiley. There's no longer any need for your complaining.
ostit: Note: You could also use , , , or even . Any closing-tag-dependent HTML tag would work.
Is that all this is good for? Absolutely not! Just look around! You can use this method to get around just about any code that deviantART's parsing system renders differently.
For example: my, well, examples! How did I get "" to render that way?Want to type a URL without it becoming "[link]"?http://www.example.com
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
Spinal Stretch
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And soon the promise of portable and affordable pain relief will be available to millions of Americans suffering from lower back pain.
Ads will run on back pain related sites such as webmd.com spine-health.com, spineuniverse.com. The target demo is broad (back pain sufferers) and generally over the age of 40.
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When: Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 2:00pm - Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 10:00am
Where: Learning Link 1.002, South Street, Murdoch, Australia
Who: Murdoch IT Society
Murdoch IT Society (MITS) is hosting the 22nd instalment of MITS LAN. This event is OPEN TO EVERYONE, and there will be a $5 ENTRY FEE for this event.
This event is being held the weekend prior to the Humans vs Zombies game, and this some preparation and training is in order. And Left 4 Dead 2.
THE INTERNET WILL BE AVAILABLE, however please note that it is only being provided for game authentication purposes and won't be suitable for any online-only games. We are currently working on getting a proper internet connection for our events.
Don't forget to bring a long network cable, a powerboard & extension cord and of course your PC or laptop. And Nerf guns. Lots of Nerf guns.
Energy drinks, soft drinks, Chupa Chups, chocolates and packets of chips will be available for purchase for fund-raising purposes.
Posters, prizes and more info coming soon.
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Everyone has noticed that ammo cans have been harder to find and that when you do find them they cost more. Lots of folks are asking why, and lots of rumors are flying.
First, to dispel the biggest rumor, there has been no executive order or directive that all ammo cans be crushed. Now some are being destroyed, but it is do the incompetence of government workers, no an executive order. But more on that later.
The first thing causing prices to rise is that the Army changed how they issue 5.56 ammo stateside. It used to be that when a unit went to the range they drew ammo that was packed just like "go to war" ammo- it was in stripper clips, bandoleers and and .50 cal ammo cans. That meant that every day lots of cans were opened, the ammo used, and the cans went to be sold. Someone saw that this was wasting money, and they changed so that 5.56 training ammo is now issued in cardboard boxes. The result is that the taxpayers are saving a lot of money, but there are a lot fewer surplus cans sold.
The second thing is that more and more national retailers are starting to bid on the cans, and that drives prices up. Chains like Northern Tool have found that they can get $15 or more for a 50 cal ammo can. This drives prices up further.
Lastly, you have typical government bureaucrat idiocy. First, somewhere somebody decreed that all ammo cans sold must have the lids removed. Why? Who knows. I guess they are scared to death that some of that evil ammo might be in it. Of course, that same ammo is available to anyone outside the military, but logic does not matter here. So they pay a government employee to sit there and take all the lids off so nobody finds a .223 blank out there.
What happens then? They put them all on a pallet. And they sit exposed to the elements for months before they get sold, letting water pool up in them, causing the insides to rust.
And then those typical government employees strap them down to the pallet. But what happens when you take the lid off an ammo can? It loses it structural integrity. So what do you do when you are a government employee who doesn't care if he damages government property? You take the ammo cans that are easily bent and strap them down to the pallet so hard you bend them.
And the top ones are badly bent, as you see. But the bottom layers will be bent as well, and it only takes a slight bend before the can won't shut or seal properly. You can figure at least 20% of the cans on the pallets are now good for little more than scrap. And for no other reason than the folks at the ASP and DRMO are lazy and don't care.
So, add all these together, and the end result is that fewer cans are sold, many of the cans that do get sold are junk, and there are more people bidding for that. That all comes together to drive ammo cans prices higher.
All of us in the military surplus business are used to seeing the stupidity that comes with the way the government manages it, but I figured folks out there might like a glimpse into the factors that affect price and supply.


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Diamond is Unbreakable
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: The Middle Way
It's claws seem to suffice for physical weapons.
EDIT: Damn, didn't get the page...
|2012-01-14, 06:55
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
Ah, I remember. It was used to deflect Houki's katana alright, maybe those simply has very little offensive effect and mostly used for defense (just like Cecil & Char's tiny blade).
As for Special shield issue, it was true.
|2012-01-14, 07:04
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That one guy
Join Date: Nov 2011
@eras: Laura is supposed to be the subject/issue Clarissa is dealing with in Clarissa's arc focus.
The skin technically doesn't toughen up. I'm no med student or dermatologist but from my experience its more like the skin is abused and the living skin cells become dead cells. The dead skin normally peels off but in this case too much skin is already dead and not able to peel off. That or the body senses a need for new layers of skin cell is needed. In this case the exterior dead skin harden/toughens as it loses nutrients required from the body. It's like adding more skin over skin you already have.(all just based from my experience)
the rapid fire seems to be a weakness to me because you need to get consecutive shots off in a single spot to break through. IE Ichika taking the fall for Houki's ********. The energy blast makes sense but it seems to require a lot of charge time, well relatively since they can cross a 100 meters in the blink of an eye.
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
Would they even deny? Probably Rin though... maybe Cecilia and Houki too, but I knew all of them are happy about this. XD
@ Demi
The explanation by demi about skin was right by the way.
Also, I limit the overpower issue by the fact that Gospel could only deliver a single salvo while moving and had to stop if wanted to fire a burst/ bombardment sequence.
|2012-01-14, 07:10
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That one guy
Join Date: Nov 2011
Yes, she does. You could say Ichika becomes her first friend.
It would be fun if there's a scene where she's thinking about getting into a relationship with Ichika but Laura notices Clarissa from afar staring intently at Ichika with a blush. XD
|2012-01-14, 07:13
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Wait, why does Clarissa like Ichika here? Is it because he helped Laura?
@ Senpai - Thinking of a plan: How odd would it be if one of the kids was a tomboy who dresses in gender neutral clothes? No, it's not Charles or Shouta:/
|2012-01-14, 07:17
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
@ Demi - Does Tabane like him? Also, does the other harem have no reaction to these people living at his house?
@ Senpai - I mentioned two males in the first chapter. Yu (Houki's) and Charles (Charlotte's). if I need to, maybe I can say that Ichika thought she was a boy due to her short hair and masculine way of dressing.
|2012-01-14, 07:21
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That one guy
Join Date: Nov 2011
@zero&eras: can you give me any ideas on how Clarissa would fall for Ichika?
@eras: Of course Tabane likes him XD, always has since the beginning, same reason as the daydreams I gave you(mostly because I'm too lazy to think of a new one). In the older harem scenario, Ichika has never met Cecilia and Charles. Probably wouldn't meet Laura either if it weren't for Clarissa. He's no longer the 1st male IS pilot or an IS pilot for that matter. The only ones who'd care are Houki, Rin and Ran.
|2012-01-14, 07:26
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
@ Senpai - Wuldn't it be creepy if one of the kids likes the other? That'd be half incest.
@ Demi - Clarissa liking Ichika? Maybe it's because he's dependable and one of the few guys she knows that doesn't take away her manga?
Also, how does Ichika not have anything happen to him considering the fact that a lot of the people in that house are perverts?
|2012-01-14, 07:32
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
Can't blame them, there's a trope about that, and no, it wasn't really creepy as long as it's innocent crush that the kids would outgrown it as they started puberty and learn a crush that is sexual in nature.
Actually, Chifuyu and Yoshi's relationship are started like this, except they never outgrown it and well... another trope that is inherited by their miniature counterpart
|2012-01-14, 07:37
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
@ Demi - Responsible adult my ass She wants to get Ichika just as much as the others do.
@ Senpai - Chifuyu's daughter (Unnamed. Any suggestions) likes Shouta (Maya's son). Apparently, she's at the stage where she likes cute things
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The following is a summarization and commentary by me on the book "The Science of Fear" by Daniel Gardner. I'd love to hear your comments on the topic.
Mankind now lives in a society where the number of ways to meet ones end are more numerous than they have ever been before. Whether it's the toxins in our diet, illicit drugs, terrorism, malfunction in transportation, pollution, obesity, disease, war, famine, nuclear radiation, failure of gravity, bad karma, large predators, riding with Ted Kennedy, falling out of a roller coaster, the failure of gravity, asteroids, cancer, sleep apnea, choking on a McNugget, being Jewish, voting for a Democrat, voting for a Republican, listening to Michelle Bachmann speak, gangrene, spontaneous combustion, riots, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, reality TV, zombies, crack, anthrax, Saddam Hussein, sleeping with a woman of disreputable character, sleeping with a man, gun violence, Viagra overdose, alcohol, Tourettes Syndrome, serial killers, or even being smited by one of three thousand deities; YOU ARE IN DANGER!
Or are you?
The average lifespan of a human being has on averaged increased steadily over time. Even though we find ourselves in the midst of more and more ways to die expectedly or unexpectedly, we find ourselves living longer than we ever have before. This is especially true in western civilized nations. The things that we fear are legitimate. The probability of meeting your end in many of these situations is minute.
Thanks to the advances in medicine, we live longer than we have before even in spite of the increased dangers we face. Of chief concern to many western people is infectious disease, cancer, toxins, and terrorism. While these issues do have a legitimate capacity to kill, the irrationality of fear has poisoned society.
Infectious disease is a legitimate threat to your health. Every surface in your environment is coated with organisms that in the right conditions will decimate your body and destroy you from the inside. Ebola virus, AIDS, SARS, the West Nile fever, bird flu, and swine flu have caused a cultural shock. In reality, all of these represent little statistical threat to kill you. The common influenza virus is much more likely to kill you and it never generates the type of hysteria that these diseases do.
The number of cancer cases has increased per capita steadily. Is it because of air pollution, water pollution, pesticides, or bad karma? Again, the answer is no. The simply fact is that if a person lives longer, they are more likely to get cancer. If I told you that in 20 years the lifetime rate of cancer would reach 100% you might be terrified. If I also told you that in 20 years, the average lifetime span would be 100 years, this would be a cause for celebration. When compensated for the rate of smokers and the longer average lifespan, the cancer rate has not really increased at all even in spite of the increased toxicity of our environment.
What about toxins? Many would point out that toxins are present in our drinking water, in our food, in our air, nearly everywhere and everything we encounter now is polluted with toxins. This is simply a misnomer. There is no such thing as a "toxin". Every substance known to man is a "toxin". What differentiates them is the amount that enters your body. Radioactive Uranium is a substance that is persistent throughout our environment. It is a natural substance that was formed during the creation of our galaxy. Your body right now has trillions of atoms of it unleashing radiation upon you. If CNN were to publish this information, mass hysteria might ensue due to the perceived "toxicity" and the large number. In reality, this number is minute compared with the number of atoms in your body and the amount of radiation to which your cells are subjected in negligible. Drink enough distilled water and your blood cells will explode. Eat enough table salt and your cells will implode.
What about terrorism? While the lives lost are emotionally tragic and the murder of unsuspecting civilians should be loathesome, your chances of dying of a terrorist attack are far lower than your chance of dying of influenza. After the 9/11 attacks, people were so afraid of flying (chance of death negligible) that they started driving to destinations in situations they would normally take an airline. The result: More people on the roads, more death. The chance of dying in an automobile accident in your lifetime is 1 in 75. Considering how long this fear of flying persisted, the fear of terrorist acts like 9/11 and the subsequent switch to automobile travel killed more people than the actual terrorist attacks.
While every single risk mentioned above is a legitimate risk, the amount of fear spread by biased media, rumor, politics and advertising is completely unjustified. This is not to say that society should forego developing risk aversion strategies. Society should look to use resources wisely in risk aversion, rather than rely on biased sources and the resulting hysteria.
So what are your thoughts on the inherent risks of life and the fear that we place in them? Which risks are justifiably worrisome and which aren't?
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I believe you pretty much have captured the essence of fear. My concern is still terrorism. If al-Qaida had been able to sabotage 3-4 more airplanes after 9-11 -- as in stinger missiles -- the country would have shut down -- according to some? expert. Also the feasibility of a dirty nuclear device in a large city could be disturbing.
On the other hand since I have no influence on these possibilities I just don't get emotional about them.


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Jordan Morgan's last-minute layup helped No. 8 Michigan run off with a 64-63 win over Illinois in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals.
Nik Stauskas had 19 points and Glenn Robinson III added 15 with seven rebounds for top-seeded Michigan (24-7), which has won six in a row. The team now awaits the winner of the Ohio State/Nebraska matchup for Saturday's semifinals.
Tracy Abrams and Rayvonte Rice each had 11 points for ninth-seeded Illinois (19-14), which advanced to this game with a win over the No. 8 seed Indiana on Thursday. The Illini, who were vying for their first Big Ten title since 2005 and 13th semifinal appearance, fell for the just second time in their last seven games.
Both losses came against Michigan. The Wolverines cruised to an 84-53 win in Champaign on March 4, but this one wasn't quite as easy.
After trailing by as many as 13, Illinois grabbed its first lead since the early stages when Rice's jumper made it 59-58 with 4:36 to play. Kendrick Nunn's reverse layup put the Illini up three, but Derrick Walton Jr tied it at 61-61 with a 3-pointer.
After Rice gave the Illini a two-point lead, Stauskas made 1-of-2 free throw attempts to trim the deficit to one with 55 seconds to play. Abrams missed a three at the other end, though, to give the ball back to Michigan with 19.1 ticks left.
Morgan made the most of the opportunity as he and Stauskas worked a perfect pick and roll to put the Wolverines ahead. Abrams had a shot at the other end, but his runner in the lane was off the mark.
Michigan won the very first Big Ten Tournament title back in 1998, but later had it taken away due to NCAA sanctions. The Wolverines are just 10-14 all- time in the event, and that '98 appearance was the only time they reached the championship game.


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It was a good day to bake bread: drizzly, cold, overcast, and too miserable to be outdoors. The recipe turned out to be ideal for making while I was getting some other stuff done. Like many breads, you get it started; then it sits around, like overnight, while you do something else, like sleep; then you add flour or knead it, then it sits around again for a while as you wash dishes, take out trash, or read email; then you make it into loaves, and wait yet again while it rises, and so on. It takes a long time, but you don't have to watch it every minute.
LeonNa Gilbert, who reads this column online in Fayettevilla, Arkansas, had written to say, that while she had a lot of bread recipes, she was missing one for Tuscan bread, which she likes, and buys at her grocery store, but would like to be able to make for herself. So I asked, and you responded.
Barbara Elward of Mattawamkeg wrote to say how much she likes this bread because it is salt-free and she has to watch her salt intake.
One explanation for no salt is that Tuscans use this bread with all kinds of savory and salty foods like prosciutto and sausages, and that they like to dip it in spicy stews, so it is perfectly unobtrusive. I asked Mediterranean Diet Cookbook author Nancy Harmon Jenkins, who lives in Camden and in Tuscany, what she thought, and she replied that Tuscans are proud that their bread has no salt, for which there may be several explanations. "My own explanation is that Tuscans are like New Englanders in their sobriety, and they leave the salt out because the bread lasts longer, and can be used when it is raffermo (meaning firmed up, rather than stale) for any number of soups (ribollita), and brushette, (which we call crostini), and other thrifty practices–panzanella, Tuscan bread salad."
Barbara Elward had turned to the King Arthur Flour company website for her recipes, and Barbara Kelley in Orland did, too. If you don't know about it, and like to look online for baking recipes, you will love this website: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/. Charles Veeder in Old Town sent me instructions he found in Carol Field's The Italian Baker.
Flour, water, and yeast are all you need. My yeast is a little weak-kneed at the moment, so I doubled the amount in the sponge, and used less in the second step. Otherwise, trust the recipe: it really doesn't need more than one-quarter teaspoon of yeast. The sponge is a kind of yeast garden where you grow more. Additionally, the yeast works on the gluten to improve the texture. Try to get organized enough to set it up for an overnight rising; or start very early in the morning before you go to work.
Keep it sticky when you knead it; I use a dough scraper to scoop it up off the board, so I don't have to use so much flour. Somebody once told me that well-kneaded dough should feel like a baby's bottom. I also do a poke test: jab my finger in it, and if the dough springs back, I figure it is sufficiently kneaded.
For the final rising, I put the loaf on a baking sheet sprinkled with cornmeal. You can use a baking stone, if you have one, and a peel, if you are deft enough to slide it on without deflating the loaf.
It is wonderfully crusty as long as you observe the advice to spray a mist of water into the oven during the first bit of baking time. I have also tossed an ice cube or two on the floor of the oven to achieve the same effect. Since we now have a loaf of Tuscan bread in the house, and it is a big one, I think I will let it get raffermo and try out one of the things to do with old bread. I'll share it with you next week.
Tuscan Bread
¼ teaspoon dry yeast
2/3 cup warm water
1 1/3 cups flour
Dissolve the yeast in the warm water and let stand for about ten minutes. Add it to the flour, beat for a minute, then cover and let it stand overnight, or at least six to seven hours.
1 ¼ teaspoon yeast
1/3 cup warm water
1 cup room temperature water
3 ¾ cups flour
When you are ready to assemble the loaf, dissolve the yeast in the warm water as for the sponge. Add it plus the room temperature water to the sponge, and beat well together. Add the flour, and mix until all the flour is absorbed. Turn out on a very lightly floured board, and knead until it is smooth and elastic. Turn into an oiled bowl, and let rise for an hour or until doubled in size.
Turn it gently onto a lightly flour board, but do not punch it down. Form a round loaf by tucking the edges under the loaf all around the perimeter until is perfectly smooth on top. Sprinkle a baking sheet with cornmeal, and place the loaf on it; or, if you use a baking stone, put the loaf on a piece of parchment paper sprinkled with corn meal.
When the loaf is doubled, after about an hour, preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Slash the top with a razor or very sharp knife in a tic-tac-toe pattern. Put the loaf into the oven and mist with water about every five minutes during the first fifteen. Reduce the temperature to 400 degrees and bake another twenty-five minutes. The bread is done when it is evenly golden and sounds hollow when you tap it.
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LOS ANGELES -- Judy D. Olian, chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. and dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management, today announced the finalists of the 2011 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Winners in the 13 competition categories will be announced at the 2011 Loeb Awards dinner on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, at Capitale in New York City.
Winners will be selected from among the following finalists, which were chosen from over 500 entries.
Large Newspapers Category Finalists
- Bryan Bender for "From the Pentagon to the Private Sector" in The Boston Globe
- Ben Casselman, Russell Gold, Douglas A. Blackmon, Vanessa O'Connell, Alexandra Berzon and Ana Campoy for "Deep Trouble" in The Wall Street Journal
- Julia Angwin, Nick Wingfield, Scott Thurm and Yukari Iwatani Kane for "What They Know" in The Wall Street Journal
- Robert O'Harrow Jr. for "Alaska Native Corporations" in The Washington Post
Medium & Small Newspapers Category Finalists
- John Fauber for "Side Effects" in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt for "Hounded -- Debtors and the New Breed of Collectors" in Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Ralph Cipriano for "The Billion Dollar Boondoggle" in Philadelphia City Paper
- Aaron Kessler and Joaquin Sapien for "Contaminated Drywall Cover-Up" in Sarasota Herald-Tribune with ProPublica
- Michael J. Berens for "Seniors for Sale" in The Seattle Times
- David Nicklaus and Tim Logan for "Edifice Complex" in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Magazines Category Finalists
- Frederik Balfour and Tim Culpan for "Inside Foxconn" in Bloomberg Businessweek
- Amanda Bennett and Charles R. Babcock for "End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It" in Bloomberg News
- Don Van Natta Jr., Jo Becker and Graham Bowley for "Hack Attack" in The New York Times
- Matt Taibbi for "Invasion of the Home Snatchers" in Rolling Stone
- Michael Lewis for "Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds" in Vanity Fair
Commentary Category Finalists
- Andy Grove for "How to Make an American Job" in Bloomberg Businessweek
- Kevin Drum for "Capital City" in Mother Jones
- Paul Krugman for "Paul Krugman Columns" in The New York Times
- Froma Harrop for "Froma Harrop Columns" in The Providence Journal
Breaking News Category Finalists
- Justin Hyde and Greg Gardner for "Toyota Sales Freeze" in Detroit Free Press
- Andrew Jacobs, Miguel Helft, John Markoff, Keith Bradsher, David Barboza, David E. Sanger and Brad Stone for "Google in China" in The New York Times
- Louise Story, Gretchen Morgenson and Joe Nocera for "S.E.C vs. Goldman" in The New York Times
- Tom Lauricella, Peter A. McKay, Scott Patterson, Jenny Strasburg, Robin Sidel, Carolyn Cui and Mary Pilon for "Flash Crash" in The Wall Street Journal
- Susan Pulliam, Michael Rothfeld, Jenny Strasburg, Gregory Zuckerman, Steve Eder and Chad Bray for "On the Inside" in The Wall Street Journal
Beat Reporting Category Finalists
- Daniel Golden, John Hechinger and John Lauerman for "Education Inc." in Bloomberg News
- Keith Bradsher for "Green China" in The New York Times
- Paige St. John for "Florida's Insurance Nightmare" in Sarasota Herald-Tribune
- Russell Gold and Ben Casselman for "Deep Trouble" in The Wall Street Journal
News Services Category Finalists
- Justin Pritchard for "Toxic Cadmium" in Associated Press
- Amanda Bennett and Charles R. Babcock for "End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It" in Bloomberg News
- Cam Simpson and Alan Katz for "Gold's Affliction" in Bloomberg News
- David Evans for "Profiting From Fallen Soldiers" in Bloomberg News
Explanatory Category Finalists
- Mitch Weitzner, David Faber, James Segelstein, Bob Waldman, Clem Tayler and Jonathan Dann for "Goldman Sachs: Power And Peril" on CNBC
- Kevin Drum for "Capital City" in Mother Jones
- David Nicklaus and Tim Logan for "Edifice Complex" in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Julia Angwin, Nick Wingfield, Scott Thurm and Yukari Iwatani Kane for "What They Know" in The Wall Street Journal
- Alan Prendergast for "You're in Bad Hands" in Westword
Online Enterprise Category Finalists
- Jim Lynch, Pam Shermeyer and Pat Murphy for "Abandoned Michigan Industrial Toxic Sites" for The Detroit News
- David Leonhardt, Bill Marsh, Kevin Quealy, Shan Carter, Matthew Ericson and Amanda Cox for "You Fix the Budget" for The New York Times
- Aaron Kessler, Joaquin Sapien and Jeff Larsen for "Contaminated Drywall Cover-Up" for Sarasota Herald-Tribune with ProPublica
- Julia Angwin, Emily Steel, Scott Thurm and Wall Street Journal Staff for "What They Know" for The Wall Street Journal
Blogging Category Finalists
- Kara Swisher for "Liveblogging Yahoo Earnings Calls in 2010 (They're Funny!)" for All Things Digital
- Loren Steffy for "Reinvention of the Airlines" for Houston Chronicle
- Catherine Rampell for "Economix Blog" for The New York Times
Personal Finance Category Finalists
- Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt for "Hounded -- Debtors and the New Breed of Collectors" in Minneapolis Star Tribune
- David Segal for "A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web" in The New York Times
- Ron Lieber for "Student Debt" in The New York Times
- Jason Zweig for "The Intelligent Investor" in The Wall Street Journal
Television Enterprise Category Finalists
- Brian Ross, Joseph Rhee, Asa Eslocker, Mark Schone, Rhonda Schwartz and Megan Chuchmach for "Brian Ross Investigates: Better Business Bureau - Pay to Play Scandal" on ABC News
- Brian Ross, Matthew Mosk, Vic Walter, Rhonda Schwartz, Mark Schone and Megan Chuchmach for "Brian Ross Investigates: Make-A-Wish Swindle" on ABC News
- Mitch Weitzner, Scott Cohn, Jeff Pohlman, Emily Bodenberg and Steven Banton for "Remington Under Fire: A CNBC Investigation" on CNBC
- Darren Gersh and Michael LaBella for "Dollars for Docs" on Nightly Business Report (PBS)
- Mark Smith, Billy Bryant and Byron Harris for "Bitter Lessons" on WFAA-TV
Business Book Category Finalists
- Sebastian Mallaby for "More Money Than God" published by The Penguin Press
- Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera for "All the Devils Are Here" published by Portfolio
- David Kirkpatrick for "The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World" published by Simon & Schuster
- Michael Lewis for "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" published by W.W. Norton & Company
For more information about the Loeb Awards, please visit the Loeb Awards website, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or call the Loeb Awards office at (310) 825-4478.


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The Urban Economic Forum at Barnard College is the first of a multi-city series designed to connect urban entrepreneurs and business owners to discuss ways to enhance their success.
Dance historian quoted in The Washington Post.
Theatre professor and Global Symposia fellows to visit Sangli, India, where a collective of sex workers uses performance to fight AIDS and stand up for women's rights.
New collaboration between U.S. State Department and Seven Sister Colleges prepares next generation of women leaders for careers in public service.
Economics professor debunks the standard neoliberal arguments in favor of central bank independence.
Barnard junior writes about the history and significance of Storm King Art Center for the NRDC's OnEarth blog.
Art history professor sheds new light on the renowned painting "Young Woman Drawing."
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Review by Elyssa D. Durant
In Amazing Grace: The lives of children and the conscience of a nation, (1995) Jonathan Kozol paints a vivid picture of the conditions in the poorest sections of New York City. During the early to mid 1990's, Kozol made several visits to Mott Haven in the South Bronx. As he describes in Amazing Grace, the South Bronx is one of the most severely segregated and poorest Congressional Districts in the United States.
The members of this community have been segregated into a hell plagued with sickness, violence and despair. Kozol argues that this strategic placement serves to isolate the rich from the realities they have thrust upon their fellow man. New Yorkers do not stroll through the streets of Mott Haven, and taxicabs take no short cuts through Beekman Avenue. Many taxicabs will not even venture past East 96th Street. Out of sight is out of mind.
As I was reading Amazing Grace, I remember thinking back to my days living in Manhattan, coincidentally around the same time Kozol conducted his interviews in the South Bronx. I lived in what Kozol refers to as Manhattan's "Liberal West Side," an area that was undergoing rapid transformation and gentrification at the time Mayor Rudolph Giuliani took office.
There is no excuse for the conditions in which these people must live. No person should be forced into an apartment that has a higher ratio of cockroaches and rats than human beings.
In 1995, the American Sociological Association (ASA) held its annual conference in New York City. Prior to that meeting, they sent out a fact sheet that may be of interest to ASA members. In this sheet, they too described the same social conditions and asked their members to take note of the changes that occur at 96th Street. I can assure you that the conditions Kozol describes in his book were not exaggerated.
These children are desperately in need of the best schools, yet we give them the worst. They have few libraries, few safe havens, few doctors, and few role models. They have every reason to believe that they are throwaway children and we have certainly not shown them anything else. The social services we have provided are a bureaucratic nightmare. People in need are treated as sub-human, and made to feel ashamed of being poor.
These are among the sickest children in the world. Americans claim to be dedicated to the children and fool ourselves into believing that we are doing them a favor by providing them with medical care, public education, and public housing. Yet, the quality of their neighborhoods speaks volumes of our sentiment and intentions.
Shortly after Amazing Grace was published, managed care rapidly moved onto the New York scene. Around the same time, the Mayor announced he would be closing some of the hospitals that served the poorest of the poor because of financial problems associated with payment and large trauma departments.
Kozol makes the point that people could attempt to gain admissions at a better hospital than Bronx-Lebanon; yet, the privatization of Medicaid has now made this completely impossible. Further restrictions on medical care are inevitable as the result of Medicaid managed care. The law is not designed to protect these people, and this was made obvious in a recent conversation I had with a friend who practices medicine in New York.
My friend John works as a board certified trauma physician at a private hospital on the Upper East Side. The last black patient he treated at Beth Israel was famed rock singer Michael Jackson. I asked him if he ever gets any asthma patients in his ER. He knew immediately of whom I was speaking. "You mean the kids from the South Bronx?" he asked. He told me that they know better than to show up at Beth Israel. "But if they do?" I asked, and he replied, "We ship them back."
This is the reality. The best doctors treat the wealthiest patients rather than the sickest. Schools educate the best students rather than the neediest. It is no wonder that these children perform poorly in school. By every measure, these children are destined for failure. Their home life is less than enchanting, and they do not benefit from enriched environments and educated parents. Certainly, there are many dedicated parents who care about their children, but is that enough? When I was in school, children frequently asked the teacher, how will this help later in life. In my class, there was an unequivocal reply, but it could be argued that what children in the South Bronx need to learn couldn't be taught in the classroom.
There is no doubt that the prevalence of violence in urban neighborhoods affects the ability of children to perform well in school. There is a large body of empirical evidence that demonstrates the effects of chronic stress on memory and the learning process. Rather than taking the children out of these communities, we have constructed prison like buildings for them to attend school. They routinely have gunfire drills reminding them that danger is never far behind.
Children cannot learn in this environment. This constant stress triggers "hot-memory." Hot memory can be thought of as learning with your heart and not your mind. It is no wonder children perform inadequately in this environment.
It is bad enough that children live in such conditions, must we educate in them too? If we want underprivileged children to learn and grow spiritually, we must create an environment that allows their cool memory systems to take over.
It is only under these conditions that children will permit themselves to learn and develop their intellectual strengths. We have failed to create a safe home environment for urban children, but we can give serious thought to creating a school environment outside of the community so they have fewer fear-driven hours each day.
Studies consistently report lower academic achievement in urban neighborhoods like Mott Haven in the South Bronx. Children growing up in urban neighborhoods have a much higher incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Most researchers believe this to be the direct result of living in stressed communities plagued with street crime and violence. The potential impact of chronic stress on academic performance and achievement is not known, but reading scores in neighborhoods like Mott Haven certainly seem to indicate some type of causal relationship. There is virtually no research on looking at the long-term effects of this inflated incidence of PTSD among urban populations. It is important to develop an understanding of the effects of fear on the academic performance of urban adolescents so we can begin to dismantle the myths regarding school performance and minority children.
Under these conditions, it is not surprising to learn that students also report pervasive feelings of fear and do not feel secure despite the added presence of security personnel on school grounds. For these students, school is a mere extension of the violent communities in which they live.
Since urban communities have many different sources of stress, it is important to examine how school policies contribute to the learning environment in public schools. The quick response has been to install weapons detectors and hire school security for urban schools. The presence of school security certainly affects the climate of American public schools by establishing school environments that focus more on student behavior than student achievement. Together, the urban public school and the community it serves are a constant reminder of the poor living conditions and social reality of urban America.
The secured environment is an indication of the roles students are expected to play later in life. This is a lesson they will not soon forget.
Kozol makes it quite clear that there are several exceptional children in this community. There are probably as many exceptional children here as every other community around the country, yet, so few of them will make it out of the South Bronx. Kozol is careful not to dwell on the exceptional cases of children who successfully navigate their way into the main stream of society. Kozol does this so we do not develop a false sense of hope. If we cling to a few exceptional cases, we may come to believe that what we are giving enough to children like Anthony or Anabelle. Clearly, we can do more. Failure should be the exception-not the rule. Success should be the norm, and until it is, we should not give up hope for these children.
America claims to be dedicated to equal opportunity, yet equality is not sufficient in a community like Mott Haven. These kids need more. We need to think about equity, not equality. It is not enough to hide them away. These are visions we should never forget.
Welcome to America. The Wealthiest Nation in the World.
Reference: Kozol, Jonathan. (1995) Amazing Grace: The lives of children and the conscience of a nation. New York: Crown Publishing.
Book Review: Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol