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Each tier was to have three straw mattresses, one for each prisoner. In reality, two or more slept on each mattress, 6 to 9 prisoners on each tier. "To sleep, to sit, and keep his belongings, each prisoner was now provided with 'private' space that amounted to the surface dimensions of a large coffin or the volume of a shallow grave."* Originally built for Soviet POW'S, these barracks were later to become part of the woman's camp. For example, Block 2 with 234 triple bunks and 702 mattresses; 1193 prisoners "lived" in it.
Survivor Charlotte Delbo wrote: "A brick has come loose from the low wall separating our cell from the next where other larvae sleep, moan and dream under the blankets that cover them - these are shrouds covering them for they are dead, today or tomorrow what does it matter... We feel that we teeter on the edge of a dark pit, a bottomless void-it is the hole of the night where we struggle furiously, struggle against another nightmare, that of our real death."**
* Deborah Dwork & Robert Jan van Pelt (1996). Auschwitz 1270 To The Present. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 265-6.
** Charlotte Delbo (1995). Auschwitz and After. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.


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If you're looking for a way to brighten a room or revive an old piece of furniture, a whitewashed finish may be just the thing. Follow this simple how-to for best results.
In contrast to a regular paint job, whitewashing refreshes the look of wood surfaces while allowing their natural grain to show through. It may not be to everyone's taste, but in dark or sterile-seeming rooms, the light color and pleasingly imperfect aesthetic of whitewashing can make the space appear larger, friendlier, and more comfortably lived-in. Although its results are out of the ordinary, whitewashing differs only slightly from run-of-the-mill painting. Here's how it's done!
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– Sandpaper (or power sander)
– Broom and/or vacuum
– Cloth
– White paint
– Paint thinner
– Paintbrush
– Polyurethane sealer
Whitewashing works best on raw wood. That being the case, it's critical that you remove as much of any existing finish—be it paint, stain, or varnish—as possible. Do so by thoroughly sanding the surface you intend to whitewash. Sanding by hand is one option, but it's far quicker and easier to opt for a power sander. (If you don't own one, you can rent one from your local home improvement center.) Before continuing on to the next step, it's important to clear all sawdust and debris created in the course of sanding. Sweep or vacuum the area, if appropriate; otherwise, use a damp cloth to wipe the surface clean.
Now formulate the whitewash. Rest assured there's no complicated recipe to follow; rather, making whitewash is a simple matter of diluting regular white paint. Dilute water-based white paint with water and dilute oil-based white paint with turpentine. The precise ratio of paint to thinner depends on the look you wish to achieve. For thicker coverage, use a mixture of two parts paint to one part thinner. Reverse that ratio if you'd prefer a thinner application. Before you whitewash the entire surface, first experiment with the mixture in an inconspicuous spot. Be sure you like the way that it looks before committing. After all, it's easy to add coverage but more challenging to take it away.
Apply the whitewash with a paintbrush, using long strokes in the direction of the wood grain. Because the finish dries quickly, it's wise to complete one small section at a time. Should you prefer the wood grain to show through more than it does, use a cloth to wipe away excess whitewash before it has the chance to dry completely. Doing this should result in an attractive, washed-out look.
Let the first coat dry completely, then determine whether a second or third coat is desired. So long as the whitewash is dry (allow several hours), you can use fine-grit sandpaper to play down any coverage that you think seems thicker than ideal.
Bring the project to completion by coating it with a clear polyurethane sealer, applied with a brush as evenly as possible over the surface. Once sealed, your whitewashing should remain looking fresh for years to come.

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Mar 26, 2014
HIGH POINT, N.C. --- Lees-McRae senior Evan Webb continued his impressive stretch while he was tabbed Conference Carolinas Men's Field Athlete of the Week for his performance at the Power Sox Invitational Saturday, the conference announced Wednesday morning.
Webb (Salisbury, N.C.) cruised to an individual title in the men's pole vault after clearing 4.90 meters. The mark was good to put him on the national's qualifiers list.
The senior crushed his competition while the closest finisher was nearly a meter behind him (3.95).
Webb is no stranger to success while he was tabbed CC Indoor Field Athlete of the Week twice in 2014.
LMC returns to action this weekend when it participates in the Winthrop Invitational in Rock Hill, S.C.


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A mysterious tide of California sea lion pups (Zalophus californianus) have been washing ashore in recent months, prompting one rescue facility to declare a state of emergency.
The Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach (map) has more than 80 sea lion pups in their care, an "alarming" number, the organization said on their website. On March 9 the facility took in 12 pups, the highest number of rescues recorded in a single day in the center's history.
Wired reported that as of March 13, 517 pups had been admitted to five Southern California rescue centers.
Most of the sea lion pups are severely malnourished, dehydrated, and underweight, requiring major intervention to get the mammals healthy enough to be released back into the wild.
"The last time we had this many sea lions this early in the year was 15 years ago," director of animal care Michele Hunter said in a statement.
In 1998, an El Niño weather pattern warmed the waters off the California coast, causing fish to migrate farther from shore and adult sea lions to swim farther in pursuit—making it harder for moms to care for their babies, Reuters reported. (See "Octopus vs. Sea Lion—First Ever Video.")
"Animal rescuers believe adult sea lions are again foraging deeper into the ocean this year, but the reasons are unclear," according to Reuters.
"We are seriously concerned about the pace at which animals are stranding, and having the resources to keep up," Hunter said. (See pictures of threatened marine species.)
Don't Chase the Pups
Whatever the cause, anyone who sees a stranded sea lion pup in California should call the Pacific Marine Mammal Center immediately, executive director Keith Matassa said in a statement.
"We have had a higher number of people chasing the animals back into the water this year, which is the worst thing that can happen to a sick animal.
"These pups are coming ashore to get warm and rest, and are hauling out of the ocean to survive."


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Biographies and Legends of the New England Indians, Volume 3
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» The NCAA will release its findings on Oregon football tomorrow. The Ducks paid a law firm $208,991.48 over a 24-month period as part of their internal investigation into violations.
» Ed O'Bannon's lawsuit against the NCAA is still awaiting potential class-action certification, but it's already prompted Moody's to revise the organization's credit long-term outlook to negative.
» Both the Holiday and Kraft Fight Hunger Bowls will now be tied to the Pac-12 and Big Ten. The Holiday Bowl will pick from the Pac-12 after the Alamo and Rose Bowls; the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl will pick after that. The Big Ten did not announce any locks into certain selections. Continue reading "Pac-12 links: NCAA to announce Oregon resolution Wednesday" »


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Our entire house from 3 feet down to the floor looked like a crime scene. It was disgusting and impossible to stay on top of to get off the walls. I kept searching the forum to look for help on a little bit of everything including treatment of the dog and cleaning of the house.
What I did find was a lot of posts but no real good information in just one post so I kept a copy of all the posts that applied to "Happy Tail". I was hoping this could help me but now I hope it could help the next bloody victim.
Our solution was a layered approach. We visited the vet, but she too could not keep the bandage on the tail either!
Wrap & Re-Wrap, air, shave the tip of the tail, *spray* version of Liquid BandAid, we also tried a large syringe over the end of the tail but that just hurt 'us'. It finally just healed.
To get the blood off the walls, doors, furniture, etc. my favorite solution was the Mr.Clean Magic Eraser. If you have walls with flat paint or old paint, often the eraser will cause the paint to come off a little and remove the hidden dirt on the wall and show you a lighter color. If you do use them, you will need a whole box... they really work, but you will a lot of back up. The blood really goes everywhere!
Liquid band-aid?
What to do… What to do
Happy Tail Anyone??
Happy Tail?
UGH. Happy tail, aka, bloody tail
How long do you wait on happy tail til you dock?
Bleeding tail tip
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OFFICIAL ear cropping/tail docking debate thread
These are quotes from e-mails I had with 2 people, and one from one random post.
They used a thumb brace on the tip of the tail like this one minus the wrist part...
Yeah, the vet wrap is great stuff, but hard to work on tails. When you wrap it, instead of wrapping it in tight spirals up the tail, try wrapping in large thin layers (so that the edges are overlapping a little, but not a lot). Then do several layers up and down. I'm thinking that a tighter "weave" (as in more layers - a higher thread count, if you will) may be a little more difficult to wag off. Does that make any sense at all??? Also, we usually put surgical tape at the top to help keep it on, so it's half on the vet wrap and half on the tail. They still come off half the time... those tails are like whips!
We ended up having Kayleigh's tail amputated We just couldn't get it under control! Our house looked like a crime scene. It broke my heart to do it, but after so long and no healing it was really the only alternative. Some dogs heal up just fine from happy tail with just bandaging, but if it's an ongoing problem it might be the way to go. If you do have to go that route, or if you want to know more, let me know! And good luck; tails are a bitch


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Cut 4, 4" circles using the Cricut machine.
Place each circle into the embossing folder. Place the folder between A plate and 2 B plates. Crank it through machine and repeat with each circle.
Peel and stick eyes onto each snowman.
Dunk ink onto foam pads and lightly rub onto circles for the cheeks. Cut out carrot noses and attach to circles with glue dots or tape runner.
Peel and stick 4 to 5 half round pearls onto each circle for the mouth.
Cut a 2' section of bakers twine. String the snowmen onto the baker's twine. Make a loop on each end for hanging.


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Monday, January 24, 2011
A "strawman" scarf
I don't know if you have ever heard the term "straw-man argument"? Loosely, it means arguments that are aimed at a problem that doesn't really exist. It's a classic debating technique. You make up an extreme version or caricature of your opponent's argument (the "straw-man") which is all the easier to knock apart.
So, the expression "but you're straw-manning me!" is a fair and useful term in some contexts (I have used it myself). It helps you point out and defend yourself against unfair criticism, and it helps you pass the rhetorical trick right back at your opponent as, by taking aim at the premise of their argument, it can be reasonably hard to think of a come back.
But the term can be overused. Sometimes what looks like a deliberately rhetorically constructed straw-man is simply a misunderstanding. It's accidental. In fact, it might even be the fault of the person claiming they've been straw-manned. If someone doesn't understand your position, maybe you didn't made yourself very clear in the first place?
Closing an argument with a call of "straw-man!" for a bit of oneupmanship in a debating chamber be all part of the fun, but if the aim is mutual understanding, I'm not convinced it's productive. I'd much prefer people took an interest in why they have been misunderstood/ are being misinterpreted. A lack of understanding can be a chance for everyone to learn: a chance to continue debate, not end it.
Having seen the term once too many one evening, I decided to exorcise my grumpiness the best way I know how: knitting.
I thought about knitting a small straw-coloured toy, like the voodoo doll I made in a moment of whimsical annoyance at the structures academic admin a few years back.
But a doll's pretty useless - as much of my annoyance with the term phrase was that it's not productive, it seemed a bit silly. So, instead, I made a small straw-coloured scarf with a man symbol embroidered at one end. The stitch pattern is from My So Called Scarf, which I thought brought out a straw-y texture (see ravelry project page for full details about yarn, etc).
I've now posted it to a friend who was at the receiving end of some particularly unhelpful "you're just straw-manning me" bit of rhetoric last year. Because debate should be about sharing with others, not keeping the prizes for yourself.
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Nice idea - love the stitch pattern too :)
- Monday, January 24, 2011
- Julie said...
what a gorgeous scarf! the texture is amazing, and the embroidery on it is very cool. You did an awesome job.
- Monday, January 24, 2011
BRILLIANT!! I MUST make one of these.
- Tuesday, January 25, 2011
- Custom Patches said...
Nice idea putting on the vodoo doll as an accent to the scarf. It adds beauty into the simple design.
- Sunday, January 30, 2011
- knittingoutloud said...
Beautiful stitch pattern!!!
- Wednesday, February 16, 2011
- annmarie said...
I can't speak to the 'straw-man argument', but *your* strawman puts me in mind of a petroglyph! :)
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Our public housing system in Massachusetts is a conglomeration of 240 local housing authorities charged with providing a place to live for 130,000 of our most vulnerable residents � including the elderly, people with disabilities, low-income families and veterans.
For too long, living conditions for these families and individuals have depended on the capability and leadership of the local housing authority. In most cases, these local entities have capably met the needs of their residents working with sometimes limited public resources. But in other cases, some high-profile and some subtle, housing authorities have been unable to overcome their limitations and inefficiencies, leading to high numbers of vacant units, slow repair times and in some cases poor recordkeeping and management accountability.
Our friends and neighbors who depend on this affordable housing should have the best possible system in place to enhance their quality of life.
Gov. Deval Patrick has proposed to modernize, transform and professionalize operations of the state�s housing authorities by consolidating the 240 separate authorities into six regional housing authorities.
My 30 years of working in the housing industry has taught me that the two most important principles of successful affordable housing are that it is developed and governed in partnership with local communities; and that it has professional, responsive and highly efficient property management. Combined, these principles result in a system that will best serve residents, local communities and the commonwealth. The governor�s legislation recognizes these best practices by including provisions that preserve local control over land-use decisions, ensure highly professional operations and resident services, and generate cost savings that can be reinvested in public housing.
Best practice is also built on highly responsive and personalized services to residents, and on the purchase of local goods and services that typically offer the least costly and most timely option. In the governor�s plan, Regional Housing Authorities (RHAs) will employ local site staff in every community to provide face-to-face services to residents, collect rent, clean common areas, maintain the grounds and make routine repairs. Site staff will be backed up by experienced regional staff that will provide supervision, guidance, management, and innovation. Also, the RHAs will be able to purchase modern equipment, technology and systems for use in every community.
Local government will remain strong partners and have control over land use and development decisions, and can opt for a locally appointed Local Housing Board. Local communities play a vital role in shaping affordable housing and that is why the governor�s legislation strengthens this critical role. Local control means having control over decisions that impact local communities, not about control over which accounting or payroll system to use.
Besides improved services for tenants the regional housing authorities are projected to save the commonwealth upward of $10 million annually that can be reinvested into housing by consolidating administrative functions such as accounts payable, procurement and human resource management; utility savings through combined rate negotiation and bulk purchasing; and regionalizing capital project management practices including the purchase of expertise, materials, equipment and services to maintain units.
Equally important, with the broad range of expertise available to all housing authorities in the region, more timely preventative maintenance will head off costly capital repairs and vacant units will be able to be turned around quicker allowing those units to be rented to qualified families.
Change can be difficult, but modernizing and reforming our system will make government work better. The majority of our housing authorities do the best they can with what they have: good intentions but limited resources; inadequate staff capacity; antiquated systems; and dedicated boards that often lack training and technical assistance.
Whether our fixes are targeted at those housing authorities that are well-intentioned but still struggling, those that are just getting by, or at those that are plagued by mismanagement � public housing tenants, local communities and the commonwealth deserve more. We can and must do better.
Aaron Gornstein is undersecretary of housing and community development for Massachusetts.


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Angelic Hierarchical Planning
Jason Wolfe, Stuart J. Russell and Bhaskara Marthi1
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency FA8750-05-2-0249 and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency FA8750-07-D-0185 (subcontract 03-000219)
To make effective decisions in realistic environments, an agent must cope with huge search spaces and very long decision horizons. Humans seem to do this quite well, intelligently choosing the trillions of primitive motor commands that constitute a life. We manage this in large part by imposing hierarchical structure on our behavior, ranging from (billion-step?) high-level actions such as writing a conference paper down to (hundred-step?) motor programs for typing characters and saying phonemes. The principle benefit of using high-level actions seems obvious: high-level plans are much shorter, and should be much easier to find. In order to capture this benefit, however, an agent must be able to assess the quality of high-level plans. Doing so requires models for what high-level actions do, an issue that has not been satisfactorily addressed in the literature. The goal of this project is to rectify this omission and thus develop general-purpose algorithms for automating effective high-level reasoning. Last year [1] we proposed an "angelic semantics" for high-level actions (HLAs), which correctly models the effects of a high-level plan by its sets of possible outcomes. This year [2], we extended our approach to include action costs. This extended semantics allows us to generate bounds on the costs of abstract plans, and thus compare, commit to, or discard them without first refining them down to the level of primitive motor commands, enabling the development of novel algorithms that do abstract lookahead with HLAs. First, in the offline planning setting, we developed Angelic Hierarchical A*, one of the first algorithms able to generate and commit to provably optimal abstract plans. In the online setting, we developed Angelic Hierarchical Learning Real-Time A*, which combines hierarchical lookahead with learning to efficiently choose good actions given very limited computation time. Future work will consider extensions of our approach to concurrent, probabilistic, and partially observable settings, as well as applications to real(istic) problems such as robot control or real-time strategy games.
Figure 1: Left: a 4x4 "warehouse world" problem instance where the goal is to have On(c,t2) and On(a,c). This problem cannot be solved using fewer than 50 primitive actions. Right: Informal description of our HLAs for this domain. An optimal high-level solution for the problem at left requires only six applications of the Move HLA.
Figure 2: Total cost to the goal (in log scale) for two real-time search algorithms as a function of the allowed computation per environment step, averaged over three instances of the warehouse world domain. Algorithms are ordinary (non-hierarchical) Learning Real-Time A* (LRTA*) and our Angelic Hierarchical generalization, AHLRTA*. Whereas LRTA* does lookahead at the level of primitive actions, AHLRTA* does abstract lookahead using both primitive actions and HLAs. As can be seen, this enables it to choose very good actions with only very limited computation time, whereas even given 10 times as much computation time, LRTA* is still performing an order of magnitude away from optimal.
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- Bhaskara Marthi, Stuart Russell, and Jason Wolfe. "Angelic Semantics for High-Level Actions." In Proc. ICAPS, 2007.
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- Bhaskara Marthi, Stuart Russell, and Jason Wolfe. "Angelic Hierarchical Planning: Optimal and Online Algorithms." In Proc. ICAPS, 2008.
1MIT/Willow Garage Inc.
More information: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jawolfe/angelic/index.html


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Essential Health Benefits (EHB) Comments
The ACA requires an EHB benchmark plan be established for each state. In accordance with the act, the benefits in the benchmark plan must be included in all non-grandfathered plans sold in the individual and small group markets, both inside and outside of the exchanges, beginning in 2014. Self-insured group health plans, grandfathered plans, and health insurance coverage offered in the large group market are not required to cover the EHB.
The act also requires each state's benchmark plan to include all items and services within the following 10 benefit categories:
- Ambulatory patient services,
- Emergency services,
- Hospitalization,
- Maternity and newborn care,
- Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment,
- Prescription drugs,
- Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices,
- Laboratory services,
- Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management, and
- Pediatric services, including oral and vision care.
- The three (3) largest, by enrollment, small group insurance plans
- The three (3) largest, by enrollment, state employee health benefit plans
- The three (3) largest, by enrollment, national federal employees health benefit plan options, or
- The largest, by enrollment, commercial non-Medicaid HMO operating in the state.
In the event the benchmark plan chosen by a state does not contain all of the items or services required in the 10 EHB benefit categories, the state must also select services from other eligible plans to complete the benchmark. States must defray the cost of benefits required by state law in excess of essential health benefits for individuals enrolled in any plan offered through an exchange.
If no EHB benchmark plan is selected by the deadline set by HHS / CCIIO, the default benchmark plan for South Carolina would be the largest small group plan by enrollment, and HHS / CCIIO would select the additional services required to complete the EHB plan.
The South Carolina plans that may be considered for the benchmark, along with additional information related to the state's selection of the EHP plan, are linked below.
All comments and correspondence should be emailed to the South Carolina Department of Insurance no later than noon on September 25, 2012. Once the comments are reviewed and the additional information we requested from HHS / CCIIO is received by our agency, we will finalize the analysis.
Thank you for your feedback!
Documents for Review
- Essential Health Benefits Bulletin - December 16, 2011
- FAQs on Essential Health Benefits Bulletin
- EHB: List of the Three Small Group Products by State
- South Carolina Mandates
- Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan (FEHBP) - Standard & Basic Options
- SC Health Plan
- Government Employees Health Association, Inc. Benefit Plan
- BlueChoice Carolina Advantage Plan
- BlueChoice Primary Choice HMO
- BlueCross BlueShield of SC Business Blue
- BlueCross BlueShield of SC Business Blue High Deductible Plan


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Serena cruises into second round at French Open
Paris, France – Serena Williams put last year's early exit at the French Open behind her by dominating her first-round match on Sunday in Paris.
Williams, the top seed and 2002 women's champion, lost to France's Virginie Razzano in the first round of this tournament in 2012. It was the first time Williams was defeated in the opening round of a Grand Slam event.
The 31-year-old American started this year's French Open with a 6-0, 6-1 rout of Anna Tatishvili of Georgia on the famed red clay at Stade Roland Garros.
Williams owns a career-best 25-match winning streak with titles in each of her last four events -- Miami, Charleston, Madrid and Rome.
Sara Errani, the No. 5 seed, started her run for another title appearance with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Arantxa Rus.
Errani fell to Russian superstar Maria Sharapova in last year's French Open title match.
Ana Ivanovic, the 2008 champion, got past Petra Martic 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the No. 19 seed, outlasted Andrea Hlavackova 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.
Meanwhile, Yulia Putintseva defeated Ayumi Morita 6-2, 6-3, Petra Cetkovska beat Olga Puchkova 6-0, 6-2 and Mallory Burdette downed Donna Vekic 6-4, 6-4.


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The internationally acclaimed Minneapolis Guitar Quartet will perform at Hope College on Friday, Jan. 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
One of the world's leading guitar ensembles, the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet plays a wide repertoire ranging from Renaissance and Baroque to Spanish, Latin American and Romantic. The group previously performed at the college in 2005 - a well-received concert that made scheduling the quartet for a return engagement a natural choice.
"Their 2005 appearance at Hope College was highly praised," said Derek Emerson, director of events and conferences at Hope. "We have been looking for an opportunity to have them back and are excited about this performance."
The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet has released three critically acclaimed recordings. The group has toured extensively throughout the United States and made concerto appearances with the Minneapolis Orchestra, DuPage Symphony Orchestra, Northwood Orchestra, Iowa Arts Festival Orchestra, and the UCLA Orchestra. The quartet has also been heard on the nationally syndicated "Saint Paul Sunday," and on National Public Radio's "Performance Today."
"The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet has cemented its stature as one of the guitar world's foremost ensembles," "Soundboard Magazine" has said. "The ensemble playing is impeccable."
"Classical Guitar Magazine" has called the quartet "Flawless, musical, and witty."
More information about the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet can be found on the group's website at www.minneapolisguitarquartet.com.
Tickets for the Friday, Jan. 13, concert are $10 for the general public, $7 for senior citizens, and $5 for children 18 and under, and are on sale at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located facing Fairbanks Avenue between Ninth and 11th streets. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.


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What happens when you live in a big, crowded, traffic-filled city, but the thought of using public transportation with all the other smelly poors makes you throw up in your mouth a little bit? You need a city car!
Owning a car in the big city can be rather tricky and expensive, to say nothing of the abuse that it tends to pile on said car. If you're gonna do it, you need the right one. Ideally that will be something small, easy to park, and reasonably good on gas, but more avant garde choices can work as well.
That's our question of the day: What's the greatest city car of all time?
I'm partial to the Mini Cooper myself, but I'm a little biased because I own one. It's great for navigating tight city streets and I can park it anywhere, plus it's actually fun to drive when I get out of the city. The classic Cooper is even better as a city car since it's so much tinier than the newer ones.
Your turn. What car works best in a big metropolis?
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Dorm Report: The coaching carousel goes round and round
Philadelphia, PA – Every offseason there is a slew of fresh faces roaming the sidelines of major universities across America, but the head coaching turnover in the Football Bowl Subdivision has been especially busy heading into the 2013 campaign.
Thirty-one teams, or about one quarter of the FBS schools, will enter the upcoming season with a new head coach. Whether it be turning around a struggling program, or continuing the success of his predecessor, the following coaches are about to embark on their new adventure with the highest of expectations.
BRET BIELEMA (Arkansas) - The Razorbacks had lofty goals heading into last season following an outstanding 11-2 mark in 2011, but they finished their one and only campaign under John L. Smith a disappointing 4-8. Enter Bielema, who stewarded an impressive program at Wisconsin over the last half-decade (68-24), including three straight Rose Bowl appearances from 2010-12. Leaving a rock-solid situation in the Big Ten seems like a big risk, but the potential glory in the SEC was too much for Bielema to pass up.
GUS MALZAHN (Auburn) - It's hard to believe that the Tigers are just a few seasons removed from winning the BCS National Championship (2010), as they endured one of the worst seasons in school history last fall (3-9, 0-8 SEC). Malzahn, who was the offensive coordinator for the 2010 championship squad, had great success in his only season at Arkansas State in 2012, winning the Sun Belt Conference as well as the GoDaddy.com Bowl. The Auburn faithful hope that the return of his up-tempo style of offense will help turn around the storied program.
TOMMY TUBERVILLE (Cincinnati) - Tuberville, the longest-tenured and most successful head coach on this list, has racked up 130 wins over his 17-year career manning the sidelines at Ole Miss, Auburn and Texas Tech, including seven bowl victories. Now he'll take his spread offense up north to Cincinnati, a talented team that has gone an impressive 19-6 over the past two seasons. In a winnable Big East, Tuberville hopes his brand of coaching will be enough to challenge conference-favorite Louisville.
MARK HELFRICH (Oregon) - No coach in college football has bigger shoes to fill this season than Helfrich, who takes over for current Philadelphia Eagles head man Chip Kelly. The Ducks were spectacular in Kelly's four seasons, going 46-7, winning the Pac-10/12 title each year and claiming a pair of BCS bowl wins. Although Helfrich has never been a head coach, he has plenty of familiarity with this team, having served as the offensive coordinator for the past four seasons, which is the same role Kelly filled at Oregon prior to his promotion in 2009.
DARRELL HAZELL (Purdue) - Once a perennial power in the Big Ten, the Boilermakers have been mired in mediocrity in recent years, having failed to win more than seven games in any of the past five seasons, and Hazell will try to turn around Purdue's fortune. After spending more than 20 years as an assistant at various institutions, he finally got his chance at a head coaching gig with Kent State in 2011, and just a year later he led the Golden Flashes to an 11-3 record and a berth in the Mid-American Conference title game.
SCOTT SHAFER (Syracuse) - Former Orange head coach Doug Marrone had an up-and- down four seasons at Syracuse (25-25), but the momentum gained from his impressive 2012 campaign, where he went 8-5 and won a share of the Big East title, allowed him to land the coveted position as Chan Gailey's successor with the Buffalo Bills. Syracuse now turns the keys over to Shafer, who had been the team's defensive coordinator since 2009 and will surely bring a fresh philosophy to a locker room formerly privy to Marrone's mostly offensive- minded schemes.
BUTCH JONES (Tennessee) - The Derek Dooley experiment in Knoxville did not end well for the Volunteers, as he went only 15-21 during his three seasons and underachieved greatly in the past two years in particular, winning just one of his 15 SEC matchups since 2011. Jones takes over after displaying sustained success as the leader of Central Michigan (27-13) and then Cincinnati (23-14) over the past six seasons, but it's safe to say that the MAC and the Big East aren't quite on the same level with the mighty SEC, and he will surely have his hands full early on in his tenure.
KLIFF KINGSBURY (Texas Tech) - Following Tuberville's abrupt departure from Lubbock, the Red Raiders turned plenty of heads by hiring their former quarterback Kingsbury to fill the void. At just 33 years old, he is the second-youngest coach in the FBS, but his brief coaching resume' has been outstanding thus far, which includes a stint as the offensive coordinator for Texas A&M in 2012 as the mastermind behind Heisman-winning QB Johnny Manziel's record-setting campaign.
GARY ANDERSON (Wisconsin) - With the departure of Bielema, the Badgers looked to the lower rungs of the FBS for their replacement and came away with Utah State's Gary Anderson. After starting his head coaching career with a 4-8 record in 2009, Anderson improved all the way to 11-2 in 2012, winning the Western Athletic Conference as well as the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl over Toledo (41-15), and in the process he gave Utah State its first consecutive winning seasons since 1979-80. The question of whether Anderson can keep his head above water in the more challenging Big Ten remains to be seen, but the former Utah defensive coordinator has the correct mindset to be successful in the hard-nosed league.
BOBBY PETRINO (Western Kentucky) - Petrino's career trajectory has been a strange one. He was outstanding at Louisville from 2003-06 (41-9) before landing the head coaching gig with the Atlanta Falcons, but he left the team before his first NFL season was complete to jump back into the college ranks, taking the coveted position at Arkansas. He then built a top-tier program, going 11-2 in 2011, only to lose his job following an April 2012 scandal. Now Petrino has to reboot his career in the Sun Belt Conference, as he attempts to improve a Hilltoppers squad that went 7-5 a season ago.
OTHER NOTABLE NEWCOMERS: Steve Addazio (Boston College), Sonny Dykes (California), Mike MacIntyre (Colorado), Paul Haynes (Kent State), Mark Stoops (Kentucky), Skip Holtz (Louisiana Tech), Dave Doeren (NC State), Rod Carey (Northern Illinois), Ron Caragher (San Jose State), Todd Monken (Southern Miss), Matt Rhule (Temple), Willie Taggart (South Florida).


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- Atletico title hopes take a hit in shock loss09:24 | 24/02/2014
Osasuna pulled off one of the shocks of the Primera Division season as they thrashed title-chasing Atletico Madrid 3-0 in Pamplona.
Atletico were much changed but still expected to cast Javi Gracia's men aside and draw level with city rivals Real Madrid – who they host next weekend – at the top of the table.
Instead they were three down inside a breathless opening half as they were stunned by goals from Alvaro Cejudo, Emiliano Armenteros and Roberto Torres.
All of the goals were preventable and while Atletico improved marginally after the break, a deserving Osasuna had already inflicted too much damage.
Coach Diego Simeone's decision to make five changes from the team that won 1-0 away to AC Milan in the Champions League in midweek therefore appeared to backfire, although he did still include top scorer Diego Costa alongside David Villa up front.
It was in defence, however, that Atletico were most obviously laboured and, after a fourth defeat in their past six games in all competitions, Simeone has work to do ahead of a Madrid derby next weekend that has now taken on even more importance for his side.
Atletico will go into the match three points behind Real, who end the weekend clear at the top after Barcelona also suffered a surprise defeat, 3-1 at Real Socieded on Saturday.
Both Barca and Real had already failed to win at Osasuna this season, despite Gracia's side sitting only just above the relegation places, and Atletico were quickly on course to join them.
Osasuna took just six minutes to forge ahead when Atletico's entire defence was fooled by a training-ground corner routine.
Cejudo was allowed to ghost into the area and volley home at the back-post completely unmarked after the away defence were drawn into marking the dummy runs that provided him with an embarrassing amount of space in behind them.
Atletico may have still been expected to recover, but were 2-0 down on 21 minutes thanks to a cracking Armenteros 25-yard drive that flew in off the post.
There was little Atletico goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois could do about it although his defence were culpable after Armenteros latched onto a poor clearance before taking two touches and pulling the trigger.
Osasuna's dream opening 45 minutes was then complete just before the break when more ponderous defending allowed Torres to head Abella Damia's left-wing cross in at the near post.
The midfielder did not have to jump to get on the end of the delivery as the static Atletico defenders watched on.
The expected Atletico fightback never materialised after the break with Osasuna goalkeeper Andres hardly tested as he kept a memorable clean sheet.
Substitute Raul Garcia volleyed wide from an acute angle before forcing the goalkeeper to make a brave block at his feet, but otherwise Osasuna ably kept their more fancied rivals at bay to move up to 12th place and seven points clear of the bottom three.
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Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is firing back at President Donald Trump after he denied he called Haiti, El Salvador and African countries "shithole countries," saying that the president's denials "are not true."
"In the course of his comments, [the president] said things that were hate-filled, vile and racist," Sen. Durbin told reporters during an impromptu press conference on Friday. "I cannot believe in this history of the White House, in that Oval Office, any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday."
Durbin was among several lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in the meeting during which Trump reportedly referred to Haiti and African nations as "shithole countries," according to the Washington Post.
"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" The Washington Post quotes Trump as saying.
"The most disheartening thing to me is my belief that that was the first time words that hateful had been spoken in the Oval Office of the White House," Durbin added.
Durbin said the comments arose out of a discussion about immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti who have been granted a temporary protected status in the U.S. thanks to disasters and political upheaval in their home countries.
"He said, 'Haitians? Do we need more Haitians?' And then he went on when we started to describe the immigration from Africa that was being protected in this bipartisan measure. That's when he used these vile and vulgar comments, calling the nations they come from 'shitholes,'" Durbin told reporters. "The exact word used by the president, not just once, but repeatedly."
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) tweeted that the comments were "abhorrent and repulsive" while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Trump's comments were "appalling."
The Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan (R-Wis) responded to Trump's remarks during a Q&A session at the University of Milwaukee saying the comments were "very unfortunate," and "unhelpful" to
The U.S. Ambassador to Panama resigned his post a day after Trump's comments, writing in a resignation letter that he can no longer serve the administration.
"As a junior foreign service officer, I signed an oath to serve faithfully the President and his administration in an apolitical fashion, even when I might not agree with certain policies.
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On the wall behind her desk is a picture that perfectly captures the past and future for Hollis Budd.
In the picture, local entrepreneur and philanthropist Max Farash stands among four presidents of the University of Rochester, a group of leaders that spans decades. The picture reminds Budd, a longtime UR fundraiser and friend of Max Farash, of the important work she now does as a steward of the Farash fortune.
Budd was named director of the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation in late 2010. She started Jan. 1, 2011, taking over after the death of Max Farash, when the foundation added close to $200 million in assets he had amassed through his real estate empire.
Budd, 58, has the task of leading the foundation as it uses those funds to benefit the community. She also leads the growth of an essentially new non-profit with a small but expanding staff.
And over her shoulder the entire time is the reason for the work-fulfilling the wishes of Max and Marian Farash.
"It's really all about honoring the memory of the exquisite philanthropy of a well-loved couple," Budd says.
Her path
For Budd, Rochester was only supposed to be a stopover.
She moved to the area in 1979 when her husband started a medical residency at Strong Memorial Hospital, and she did not envision staying long.
"I thought we would be here for three years," she says. "Now this is home and I can't imagine living anywhere else."
Budd has enjoyed a long, varied career at UR, with roles in everything from cancer research to the nursing school to central administration. She also became the university's first female vice president.
"It was fun reinventing myself in all those different roles," she says.
It was through her work at UR that Budd came into contact with Max Farash, first meeting him in 1988 when she moved from working in the nursing school to the Simon School of Business.
The Farash Foundation also was established in 1988 and, before the death of Max Farash, held assets valued at $3.5 million to $4 million. After he died his assets escalated the foundation's assets to more than $200 million.
Several factors made Budd the right fit as the organization's director, board members say. She had spent many of her 31 years at UR working in fundraising for the Simon School. She was also a board member of the Farash Foundation and understood the transition that would take place once the couple's assets were given to the foundation.
"The community board was constituted in 2007, and part of the trust that governed us said that a member of the Simon School faculty or administration had to hold a seat," Budd says. "So I represented the Simon School from 2007 to 2011, and our role was to prepare for the day when the foundation would go from a relatively small entity to a major enterprise."
Because the foundation was going to have a rapid transformation, the board and Chairman Nathan Robfogel opted to appoint Budd as director without going through a search process. The board decided it could not pass up the opportunity to bring her experience to the foundation on a full-time basis, Robfogel said at the time.
Budd was successful at UR because of her ability to build relationships, notes Daniel Meyers, president of the Al Sigl Community of Agencies.
"She had just about every job possible at the University of Rochester and understood that complex organizations like universities run on relationships," Meyers says. "She had sterling relationships all along the way, which is why she kept getting tapped for more jobs and bigger responsibilities."
It was that networking ability that also led to her transition to the Farash Foundation, Meyers notes.
"It was like she was in the incubator all those years, waiting to take over and unleash this great benefit on the community," Meyers says.
The transition also had some growing pains.
Terms of Max Farash's will called for control of both the foundation and his company to rest with Max and Marian's daughter, Lynn Farash, along with a favorite relative, Matthew Aroesty. A lengthy legal dispute ensued, along with criminal charges and the appointment of a guardian.
Last year the parties came to a final settlement, just before a state Supreme Court trial was to begin. Both Lynn Farash and Aroesty returned to the board of trustees.
The transition
Part of the transition after Max Farash's death involved preparing to go from a trustee-managed foundation to a professionally staffed organization. Budd and the others involved in the process found there was much to do.
"At one point we didn't even have anything like a website or logo, so doing all that was a major focus during that time frame (after Max Farash's death)," Budd says.
Becoming a professional organization meant adding employees. Within its first few months the foundation hired five employees, with a sixth added recently.
Budd says the organization is unlikely to become larger.
"In 2010, after Max's death we did a great deal of benchmarking nationally to compare organizations of the approximate size that the Farash Foundation was about to become," she says. "Depending on the nature of the organization, the staff would be anywhere from six to 20, but we felt as though six to eight would be the perfect size for us."
Another part of the foundation's growth was an overhaul of the board. It grew to 11 members and added committees for investments, grants, governance and auditing.
Budd took over as director as the biggest change took place. After years of grants worth $150,000 to $200,000 a year, the influx of assets allowed annual grants to grow to $7 million to $8 million.
Determining the grantmaking procedure took some work, but Budd says the foundation had the help of an intuitive software program that made the process transparent and user-friendly.
"Having this software system is not only user-friendly for potential grantees but also helps the foundation track every step of the way," Budd says. "We wanted to make that process as seamless as possible for the grantees."
But the process is far from an automated endeavor free from human input, Budd says.
"Not only do the staff read the requests, but we have a very hands-on grants committee that have brought in many industry experts in various areas to help with grant reading and scoring and awarding the grants," she says.
As it grew, the foundation moved into a new office on East Avenue in one of the properties owned by Farash's real estate company. It moved into what was at first an empty, unused floor and spent the first months working in a small cordoned-off area with plastic on the carpet while the rest of the floor was renovated.
Now the Farash Foundation has moved into a long corridor office while some still-empty space is used by a non-profit group supported by the foundation, Full Circle Home.
The new office space allows Budd to catch a glimpse of her other passion-movies. The building is across the street from the Little Theatre. Although she says she is a movie buff, Budd has not had much time to see one recently.
Aside from movies, Budd enjoys reading and golfing but puts family activities first. She has a daughter who lives in the area and is about to have her first child. Budd's father recently moved from Chicago to live with the family.
Areas of focus
The foundation's direction already was known when Budd took the reins. Grants would be directed toward the areas where the Farashes donated during their lives: education, entrepreneurship and Jewish causes.
There was still much work to be done to determine how funding would be given within those areas, however.
When Budd became director, she began working with Isobel Goldman, who came from the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester to serve as the foundation's director of gifts. Together the two met with community members to help determine funding priorities.
"We had a listening tour and met with close to 100 people in the Greater Rochester community," Budd says. "We just spent our time listening to what they felt were the biggest needs of the community, and all the time we were thinking of how it could connect with the goals of the foundation in education, entrepreneurship and Jewish life."
The foundation is required to spend 50 percent of its grant money on Jewish causes and the other 50 percent on secular causes, and trustees picked the areas where Max and Marian Farash traditionally donated.
After a year of meeting with representatives from Monroe and Ontario counties, foundation officials in late 2011 decided on five funding areas: Jewish life, education, entrepreneurship, arts and culture, and human services.
Education was picked as the initial area of focus in the foundation's first year of full funding. For Budd, it was a perfect fit.
"Having been in higher education for more than two decades gave me a great perspective in that area," she says.
There was immediate interest from the non-profit community, Budd says. In the first year more than 150 requests were made for education funding, totaling more than $20 million.
There already have been some major initiatives from the foundation. In late 2011 it announced a $100,000 contest for social entrepreneurship, following Max Farash's lifelong support of innovation.
"We were extremely proud of that because not only does it remember Max as a very successful entrepreneur himself but also marries what Max and Marian wanted to do and his amazing vision for identifying opportunities," Budd says. "What the prize does is identify individuals for innovative approaches to society's most pressing problems."
The foundation also introduced the First in Family scholarship, a $3.5 million fund that allows students from Monroe and Ontario counties to attend and graduate from college free of debt.
"The students who received those scholarships aren't just getting money," Goldman says. "They also completed community service projects, and the nine colleges that participated worked closely with the students."
Other funding areas reflected specific initiatives Max Farash supported. One is a fund that helps non-profits in need of emergency funding for items such as a broken water heater or a damaged roof that needs an expedited grant process.
"Being in real estate, if someone needed a repair Max was often there to help, though he didn't make a big deal about it," Budd says. "To honor that quiet giving, we established the emergency repair fund."
The future
Budd foresees a shift in the foundation's strategy.
The community has been waiting so long to benefit from the philanthropy of Max and Marian Farash that a transition is necessary, she says, one that will make more transformative gifts.
"Our goal is to become a strategic philanthropic organization," she says. "We will make fewer gifts but do them at larger levels, providing seed money for new programs and leveraging our gifts."
Foundation officials saw within the first year what an impact larger gifts could have, Budd says. Education was the first category to open, and the foundation intentionally did not put many parameters on funding requests.
"We made awards from $5,000 to $100,000, but moving forward we see that we need to be more strategic," she says. "To have a larger impact, the prevailing thought is that we need to do fewer gifts at a higher amount."
Though the main areas of focus will remain the same, Budd says the foundation's board and committees will be looking to the community for input on priorities within those areas.
Budd herself has some adjusting to do in her work with the foundation. Once a member of several non-profit boards, she resigned those positions to avoid any conflict of interest.
She may have been working in the same realm at UR, but her duties at the Farash Foundation have shown her a different side to philanthropy.
"For more than 20 years, my main responsibility at the University of Rochester was to ask people for money," Budd says. "Now people ask me what it's like to be on the other side, and it's very challenging. There are far more needs than the foundation ever will fill, and even distributing $8 million a year is not enough."
Hollis Budd
Position: Director, Max and Marian Farash Foundation
Age: 58
Education: B.S. in medical technology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1976
Residence: Rochester
Activities: Going to movies, golfing, reading
Family: Husband James; daughters Erin and Elizabeth
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After the Peterson Brothers' video parody, "I'm Farming and I Grow It," went viral, it seemed like the public could not get enough of the farmer-made YouTube videos portraying life on their farm.
The Peterson Brothers — Greg, Nathan, and Kendal made their video a year ago to raise awareness about how hard farmers work to feed the nation. However, Peabody farmer Derek Klingenberg was ahead of the curve. He uploaded his first video, "Bumble Bees in the Hay," five years ago, "just for fun," he said, and has been creating videos ever since, including his newest addition "Walking around the T-Bone Steak," a "Rocking around the Christmas Tree" parody.
The video was posted on Dec. 11 and depicts the hassle of cooking the perfect T-bone steak. He said he does not expect it to go viral like "What Does the Farmer Say?" which currently has almost 4 million views, but it was fun to make.
Klingenberg's video fame has won him national recognition via Fox News, the Los Angeles Times, and an upcoming feature on CNN special about this year's viral videos.
Now the Kansas Department of Agriculture has jumped on the bandwagon with their video "From the Land of Kansas (YMCA parody)" created in conjunction with the Peterson brothers. The video already has 180,000 views, and features the musical talents of the three Peterson brothers.
"We developed a relationship with the Peterson brothers as they were performing at many of the events where we also were," Stacy Mayo, From the Land of Kansas director, said. "Through that interaction, we realized their goals for agriculture advocacy and promotion of Kansas aligned with our focus for the re-launch of the new From the Land of Kansas trademark program."
The video was created to describe the KDA's new program by the same name. The program's goal is to help Kansas businesses that grow, produce, process, or manufacture products in Kansas and promote those products and help businesses develop and market those projects. Members also include restaurants that serve Kansas products or agro-tourism destinations.
"Our goal was to create a fun, entertaining way to promote the re-launch of the new program," Mayo said. "We are utilizing multiple communication vehicles and tools to promote. This video was one of our approaches."
Mayo said the KDA would consider doing similar videos to promote programs in the future.


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Hey guys!
I remember that on the old ompf there was post about a cool procedural geometry tool. What I know, that it had a nice c/c++ interface, it had a simple scripting language that allowed you to generate geometry simple. I remember some nice images on their front page (using cubes to generate some tentacle like stuff) mostly rendered using ambient occlusion.
Does anyone remember the library? I used google for an hour or two during the weekend but couldn't find the thing, and also I haven't been able to get a "recent" backup of the old ompf.
Looking for a procedural geometry library
Show-off, reference material & tools.
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I believe you're referring to Structure Synth:
Click here. You'll thank me later.
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Yes! That one.
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Buzz, no bucks for some super PACs
Big buzz doesn't always translate into big bucks.
Many of the new super PACs that generated tons of media attention this year — complete with Sunday show appearances by the founders and several stories in national publications — have raised only a few thousand dollars, if any money at all.
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Some blame it on the off-election year and donor fatigue after the bank-breaking 2012 campaign. The proliferation of super PACs and tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organizations also means there's competition for dollars at a time when donors are more reluctant to give.
But the fact is some groups have not been able to capitalize on their first 15 minutes of fame. It hasn't mattered if they're run by big names like Karl Rove, or if they're targeting big fish such as Mitch McConnell or Hillary Clinton.
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Republicans for Immigration Reform, started by former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and GOP rainmaker Charlie Spies, launched with much fanfare at the end of 2012. Gutierrez described it as "something real that could have an impact on the outcome of the election," and he was dubbed the " GOP's pro-immigration moneyman."
But by the end of June, the super PAC had brought in about $190,000 even though immigration has been a hot issue all year. It received contributions from some big-name donors, but like many other GOP super PACs, it ultimately brought in a not-so-impressive haul.
Spies, treasurer of the super PAC, told POLITICO that Republicans for Immigration Reform has made an impact despite bringing in a modest amount. It hasn't had resources to fund TV ads, but Gutierrez has done several interviews in the past few months and fundraising did pick up in July — the month after the Federal Election Commission filing deadline, he said.
"I'm never satisfied, but I'm convinced that we're having an impact," Spies said, pointing to an open letter calling for legal status for the 11 million undocumented immigrants, which was signed by more than 100 GOP donors and sent to Congress by the super PAC.
He also said that because the stated mission of the super PAC is to protect Republicans who vote in favor of immigration reform and GOP primaries are months away, donors haven't felt pressed to give yet.
Republicans for Immigration Reform is still doing better than Rove's Conservative Victory Project, which reported raising $5,660 — all of which was transferred from another Rove-affiliated super PAC American Crossroads.
Conservative Victory Project launched with a story in The New York Times, and its goal, to get involved in GOP primaries to make sure fringe candidates don't make it to the general election, was criticized by tea party and right-wing groups for weeks and was expected to spark a civil war within the party.
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Jonathan Collegio, a spokesman for the group, says CVP hasn't kicked off fundraising yet, but it's started a discussion that will in itself serve the GOP. "The announcement sparked a critical conversation about the importance of candidate quality, which we believe will pay dividends in 2014 and beyond," he said in an email.
He also added that the super PAC didn't release any sort of fundraising goal when it launched and it's still ironing out what role the group will play.
"CVP's biggest initial concern is making sure that candidates are vetted, because a number of candidates in recent cycles were not properly vetted or researched, and that clearly cost seats," Collegio said. "CVP also sought to start a dialogue with other groups that are involved in primaries, to make sure that vetting information is shared, which hadn't happened previously. Those types of efforts don't require large budgets."