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Before Vice President Joe Biden squared off against Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan in Thursday night's debate, it was Biden, not Ryan, who'd been billed as the man with superior foreign policy experience.
During Thursday's debate, Vice President Joe Biden and GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan spar over the Obama administration's foreign policy.
Biden, after all, has spent the past four years as an intimate observer at the highest level of government and, before that, had served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
But it was Ryan who energetically waded deep into a ten-minute of discussion American policy in Afghanistan – seemingly making the case for the United States continuing to station troops there for a prolonged, undefined period of time.
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Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan during the vice presidential debate on Oct. 11, 2012 in Danville, Ky.
The basic idea Ryan was expressing was simple and plausible – as he said at the outset of the lengthy Afghanistan debate segment: "We don't want to lose the gains we've gotten. We want to make sure that the Taliban does not come back in and give al-Qaida a safe haven" – as that country was in the years leading up to the Sept. 11, 2011 attack on the United States.
Analysis: Joe Biden and Paul Ryan made their points in the only vice presidential debate but no clear winners as voters await the next presidential clash.
But it was Biden who probably aligned himself better with American public opinion, asking Ryan crisply at the end of his sparring match with him on the issue: "You'd rather Americans be going in, doing the job instead of the (Afghan) trainees?"
Ryan answered, "No. We are already sending Americans to do the job, but fewer of them. That's the whole problem."
Biden shot back: "We're sending in more Afghans to do the job."
Whether those Afghan trainees and soldiers can in fact "do the job" and whether they define "the job" to be done in the same way Biden and Ryan do were issues left to be debated another day.
But it seemed a questionable strategic choice for Ryan to portray himself and Republican presidential candidate Romney as the men who wanted to commit U.S. soldiers and Marines to an open-ended deployment in Afghanistan.
According to a Gallup poll in March, nearly three out four Americans think the United States should either get its troops out by the end of 2014, as the Obama administration has pledged to do, or even sooner than that. Only 21 percent said the U.S. should stay as long as it takes to accomplish its goals.
Ryan – whose strength is his knowledge of entitlement programs and budget matters – seemed to want to display his military and foreign policy savvy, at one point lecturing Biden and the TV audience on the meaning of "fighting season."
He said, "Let me try and illustrate the issue here, because I think this – it can get a little confusing. We've all met with Gen. Allen and Gen. Scaparrotti in Afghanistan to talk about fighting seasons. Here's the way it works. The mountain passes fill in with snow. The Taliban and the terrorists and the Haqqani and the Quetta Shura come over from Pakistan to fight our men and women. When it fills in with snow, they can't do it. That's what we call fighting seasons."
He dove even more deeply into a discussion not only of the Pakistan-based Haqqani insurgent network and the Quetta Shura Taliban group, also based in Pakistan – but of Taliban soldiers and their allies who he said were "still coming into Zabul, to Kunar, to all of these areas ... ."
Later he brought up the need for U.S. forces in a part of Afghanistan called "R.C. East" (which refers to Regional Command East) – not explaining to viewers what that was, where it was, or why it was strategically important.
It might have been clearer to viewers if Ryan had been able to use a map and a pointer.
Ryan tried to connect these exotic far-off places with direct threats to attack Americans inside the United States – but his point may have gotten lost in the blizzard of place names and the sheer length of time wrangling with Biden.
Ryan's discourse on Afghanistan also seemed to play into Biden's purpose of trying to portray Ryan and Romney as trigger happy, as the vice president did earlier in the debate when the topic was the Iranian regime's efforts to build nuclear weapons.
"All this bluster I keep hearing, all this loose talk, what are they talking about?" Biden wondered about Ryan and Romney. He asked Ryan at another point, "What are you – you're going to go to war? Is that what you want to do?"
"We want to prevent war," Ryan replied.
Preventing war by maintaining a robust military is the Romney-Ryan position – but some viewers may have primarily gotten the message from Ryan of a prolonged commitment in Afghanistan.
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More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.


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Released 8/25/11 – Nike unveiled the new Oregon Pro Combat football uniforms today. They will be worn against LSU in the Cowboys Classic in Arlington, Texas. The game will be played in Dallas Cowboys stadium (JerryWorld) on Sept. 3, 2011 and will be shown on prime time ESPN. College GameDay will be on hand for the first week of college football as well. Below are some pictures of the new uniforms, which are similar to what Oregon wore in the BCS National Championship game. The uniforms are again really light helping keep players cool, and they also feature Teflon, the same material used in bullet proof vests. Again the "BLUR" yellow makes appearances on the helmet, gloves, jersey and shoes, which are all new. The undershirts are Nike dry-fit and sport the players numbers on the sleeves.
UPDATE 12/15/10 – Nike recently released new Nike Pro Combat football uniforms for Oregon to wear in the BCS National Championship game in Glendale, Arizona on January 10th, 2010. The new uniforms are similar to the ones that the Ducks have been wearing this season, with a few notable differences. The uniforms were unveiled at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, with NFL players as models. Here is a picture of what they will be wearing:
*EDIT* To see the exact uniforms that were worn in the BCS National Championship game, scroll down to the bottom of this post.
These new uniforms are similar to the all whites worn against USC this year, with the carbon fiber helmets that were worn during the Portland St. game (yellow O's on the sides). The numbers are also outlined with the bright yellow that matches the socks and the back of the shoes. The material of the uniform is the newest and best material which is way lighter than the previous uniforms.
June 2009
Nike has kept these new uniforms a big secret around town, but finally released Oregon's new football uniforms for the upcoming season. They are similar to the "winged" all black uniforms that Oregon broke out for the Arizona game last season. A few thing to note about the new uniforms.
*All new material – 25% lighter than previous uniforms
*No longer any yellow pants or yellow helmets.
*A new "silver" color is added to the uniform combinations, along with a "carbon fiber" helmet. (down the middle of the helmet it says 'go hard. go oregon. go ducks')
I am interested into hearing what others thinking about the new uniforms?
Attached first is a picture of last seasons jerseys, followed by a few pictures of the new ones, along with a link to a slide-show of the new jerseys.
Last seasons uniforms:
NEW 2009-2010 Oregon Football Uniforms:
(Players pictured: 2- Ward, T.J., 39- Tukuafu, Will, 6- Thurmond III, Walter, 7- Costa, Nate, 83- Dickson, Ed)
Click on the link below to view more pictures in a slide-show format on the University of Oregon's athletic website.
Photo Gallery: New Football Uniforms – GoDucks.com The University of Oregon Official Athletics Web Site
*All photos courtesy of goducks.com*
Here is a look at what Oregon wore in each of their games during the 2009-2010 season. What combination is your favorite?
2009-2010 Season Uniforms:
*Oregon At Boise St. 09-03-2009 (White, White, White) – Jeremiah Masoli
*Oregon Vs. Purdue 09-12-2009 (Green, Green, Green) – Kenjon Barner
*Oregon Vs. Utah 09-19-2009 (White, Green, Grey) – Walter Thurmond III
*Oregon Vs. California 09-26-2009 (*RETRO* Yellow, Green, Yellow) – Ed Dickson
*Oregon Vs Washington St. 10-03-2009 (Black, Yellow, Black) – LaMichael James
*Oregon At UCLA 10-10-2009 (Green, White, Green) – Nate Costa
*Oregon At Washington 10-24-2009 (Black, White, Black) – LaMichael James
*Oregon Vs. USC 10-31-2009 *Halloween "Fright Night"* (Green, Green, Black) – Offensive Unit
*Oregon At Stanford 11-07-2009 (Green, White, White) – Jeff Maehl
*Oregon Vs. Arizona St. 11-14-2009 (Black, Black, Black) – LaMichael James
*Oregon At Arizona 11-21-2009 (Green, White, Black) – Ed Dickson
*Oregon Vs. Oregon St. 12-03-2009 (*RETRO W/NEW "O" Yellow, Green, White) – LaMichael James
*Oregon Vs. Ohio St. 01-01-2010 ROSE BOWL (White, Green, White) – Kenjon Barner
2010-2011 Season Uniforms:
*Oregon Vs. New Mexico 09-04-2010 (Black, Black, Gray) – Kenjon Barner
*Oregon At Tennessee 09-11-2010 (Green, White W/Green, White) – Cliff Harris
*Oregon Vs. Portland St. 09-18-2010 (Carbon Fiber W/ Yellow O, Green, Gray) – Darron Thomas
*Oregon At Arizona St. 09-25-2010 (Green, White W/Silver, Green) – Kenny Rowe
*Oregon Vs. Stanford 10-02-2010 (Green, Green, Green) – Eddie Pleasant
*Oregon At Washington St. 10-09-2010 (Black, White W/Green, Black) – LaMichael James
*Oregon Vs. UCLA 10-21-2010 (Black, Yellow, Black) – Darron Thomas
*Oregon At USC 10-30-2010(White, White W/Green, White) – Jeff Maehl
*Oregon Vs. Washington 11-06-2010 (Black, Black, Black) – Brandon Bair
*Oregon At California 11-13-2010 (White, White W/Green, Green) – Cliff Harris
*Oregon Vs. Arizona 11-26-2010 (Green, Green, Gray) – Kickoff Team
*Oregon At Oregon St. 12-04-2010 (Carbon Fiber W/ White O, White W/Silver, Gray) – Josh Huff
BCS National Championship Game
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LOCATION: Geisinger Holy Spirit Hospital
DEPARTMENT: Emergency
WORK SCHEDULE: Days/Evenings
WORK TYPE: Full Time
Responsible and accountable for performing a wide range of patient care tasks. The performance of tasks allows the care team to provide quality care. Meets the qualifications to provide care for patients in the specific age range on their assigned clinical area.
Performs duties to provide the highest level of patient care and maximize patient satisfaction in accordance with the goals and objectives of the Geisinger Health System.
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President Trump announced Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired on Tuesday morning in a tweet that followed a year of frequent tension between the two leaders.
Trump said he is nominating CIA Director Mike Pompeo as Tillerson's replacement, which requires confirmation by the Senate.
"Rex and I have been talking about this for a long time ... we got along quite well, but we disagreed on things," Trump told reporters at the White House. "We were not really thinking the same ... with Mike, we have a very similar thought process."
State Department officials, on the other hand, said they were caught off guard.
"The secretary had every intention of remaining because of the tangible progress made on critical national security issues," said Undersecretary of State Steve Goldstein. "He established and enjoyed relationships with his counterparts. He will miss his colleagues at the Department of State and enjoyed working together with the Department of Defense in an uncommonly robust relationship."
Continued Goldstein: "The secretary did not speak to the president this morning and is unaware of the reason, but he is grateful for the opportunity to serve and still believes strongly that public service is a noble calling and not to be regretted."
Later Tuesday, Goldstein was also fired, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Goldstein both confirmed to NPR's Tamara Keith.
A senior administration official says White House chief of staff John Kelly called Tillerson on Friday and notified him that he would be replaced and "that he was being asked to step down. It was made clear that it was imminent." The official added that Kelly and Tillerson had a follow-up conversation on Saturday.
"He was asked to step down," the official said, and he didn't.
Trump and Tillerson have been described as talking often but sometimes appeared quite out of step on major foreign policy decisions.
A White House official says the president wanted to have a new team in place in advance of upcoming talks with North Korea and ongoing trade negotiations.
Tillerson, who was traveling in Africa last week, was caught flat-footed when the surprise announcement came that Trump had accepted an invitation to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Just a day earlier, he had told reporters that negotiations were a long way off.
Trump has named Gina Haspel, Pompeo's former deputy and a CIA veteran, to take the helm of the spy agency.
Haspel did not require Senate confirmation to serve in her deputy role but will to serve as the full-fledged director of the agency. Her hearing could exhume many CIA demons about the torture of terror suspects and the secret detention program that followed the 2001 terror attack.
Democrats blasted what they called the nonstop chaos of the Trump White House, which they said meant it cannot focus on conducting business seriously.
"The instability of this administration in just about every area weakens America," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
But another sometime-opponent of Trump's, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said he would move as quickly as possible to convene a confirmation hearing for Pompeo to run the State Department.
"I had a very good conversation with Director Pompeo this morning and look forward to meeting with him soon," Corker said. "As I shared with the president, the committee will consider his nomination as expeditiously as possible."
Slow burn
Tillerson said at the State Department on Tuesday afternoon that he was grateful for the chance to serve in government and he thanked the foreign service officers and others who work on behalf of the United States abroad.
Tillerson said he wants to arrange an orderly transition to Pompeo, whose Senate confirmation hearing is expected in April and appears to have the support to move into the State Department job.
Tillerson said he has begun delegating responsibilities from his office to that of Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan.
A former boss of Exxon Mobil, Tillerson didn't know Trump before 2016, and their relationship seemed to rupture after months of disputes over policy, embarrassing leaks and a few public humiliations by the president himself.
Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he and Tillerson had always gotten along and that he was a "good man," but their friction over tough issues such as the Iran nuclear deal had been what compelled Trump to replace him.
The campaign may have been in the works for some time. A Nov. 30 report by The New York Times revealed the existence of a secret plan by Kelly to force out Tillerson and replace him with Pompeo.
Trump would then nominate Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., to replace Pompeo, according to the Times. As it happened, Cotton is not getting the nomination to lead the CIA, after all.
The report took care to say that the plan was "tentative" and that Trump hadn't yet approved it.
That story followed other evidence that the relationship between the president and the nation's top diplomat was barely functional.
Tillerson earlier said he would not resign in October after an NBC News report said Tillerson had called Trump a "moron" in July after a tense meeting at the Pentagon. Tillerson declined to deny it publicly, and Trump retorted to Forbes magazine that he was ready to compare "I.Q." tests — "and I can tell you who's going to win."
Trump also undermined Tillerson's efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the situation in North Korea. As Tillerson kept up support for talks with Pyongyang over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Trump said on Twitter on Oct. 1 that Tillerson was "wasting his time."
"Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!" Trump wrote.
It was about five months later that Trump agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Tillerson had also distanced himself from what critics have called Trump's equivocation between neo-Nazis and counterprotesters, who clashed over a Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Va.
Tillerson appeared Aug. 27 on Fox News Sunday and was asked by host Chris Wallace about the way the international community views the United States following Trump's controversial comments about the protesters and counterprotesters in the wake of deadly violence in Charlottesville.
"We express America's values from the State Department," Tillerson said. And later: "The president speaks for himself, Chris."
Tillerson's departure makes him the latest member of Trump's inner circle in the administration to step down — following a series of White House aides, starting with national security adviser Mike Flynn and continuing on to chief strategist Steve Bannon, press secretary Sean Spicer, chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief economic adviser Gary Cohn — who have left their posts amid administration turbulence.
In September, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was ousted over a travel expense scandal.
Tillerson leaves behind a State Department that critics have called a shadow of its former self because of Tillerson's disconnection from the department and the White House's antipathy toward appointing or keeping top talent in the nation's diplomatic ranks.
Some ambassadorships as well as top jobs at the department's Washington headquarters remain vacant.
And speculation has swirled for so long that Tillerson might quit that this isn't the first wave of discussion about prospective replacements. A previous go-round centered on Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and former governor of South Carolina. The New York Times reported there was tentative talk that Trump might appoint his daughter, Ivanka, as Haley's replacement at the U.N.
For now, Haley remains in her post in New York and the Ivanka narrative appears to have cooled.
Tillerson's tenure as America's top diplomat was unlikely. Trump interviewed more conventional candidates, including 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, but he ultimately gave the nod to the Texas oilman Tillerson based on a recommendation from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Tillerson told interviewers early on that he hadn't been looking for the job and was "stunned" to get Trump's offer — but his wife, Renda St. Clair, sold him.
" 'I told you God's not through with you,' " as Tillerson recounted his wife's remarks.
Tillerson had no government experience; he went to work in 1975 for Exxon Co., as it was then known, as an oil production engineer. But having risen to become CEO of the descendant Exxon Mobil, he effectively served as a kind of head of state — not only running the energy behemoth, but also conducting its foreign policy around the globe where it drilled or refined or conducted other operations.
That work brought Tillerson into contact with all manner of leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, who awarded him Russia's Order of Friendship in 2013. Trump and Tillerson met with Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Germany in June, and then Tillerson continued follow-up negotiations with Russia until his departure from office.
As secretary of state, Tillerson belonged to a cadre of leaders who sometimes preceded Trump on international travel to assuage allies' concerns about him. Or they returned after his visits to try to smooth things over.
Tillerson, Vice President Pence, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and others emphasized conventional points about American commitment to allies and to international norms and other longstanding points — often after Trump appeared willing to flout them.
At the same time, Tillerson stayed in lockstep with the president on many matters of policy. He defended to the State Department press corps, for example, the realism that he said underpinned the administration's new strategy focused on Afghanistan, which amounted to the new goal of playing to a draw.
"I think the president was clear this entire effort is intended to put pressure on the Taliban to have the Taliban understand: You will not win a battlefield victory. We may not win one, but neither will you," he said.
At the same time, however, the new Afghanistan strategy will remain one of Tillerson's most significant elements of unfinished business. It depended upon a broad new diplomatic campaign across South Asia involving pressure on India and Pakistan to help with a good outcome in Afghanistan — even though, at the time, the United States did not have active ambassadors in India or Afghanistan.
Today began with a bang - or rather, a tweet. President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Trump later explained that it was because of a lack of chemistry and disagreements on policy. Trump plans to nominate current CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We were not really thinking the same. With Mike, Mike Pompeo, we have a very similar thought process. I think it's going to go very well. Rex is a very good man. I like Rex a lot. I really appreciate his commitment to this service.
SHAPIRO: In an administration that has already seen many departures, Tillerson had long been rumored to be on his way out, yet today's announcement was still abrupt. We'll hear more about Tillerson's likely successor, Mike Pompeo, in a few minutes. First, NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith joins us from the White House. Hi, Tam.
TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE: Hi, Ari.
SHAPIRO: Let's start with how this all went down. The tweet came at 8:44 Eastern Time from @realDonaldTrump. What's led up to that?
KEITH: Well, there's something of a mixed description of how it all went down. The White House casts it one way. A senior State Department official casts it another way, though their accounts are not mutually exclusive. Let me try to explain. A White House official tells me that Chief of Staff John Kelly called Tillerson on Friday and told him that he was being asked to be - being asked to step down, that he would be replaced. There was a follow-up call on Saturday.
But State Department Under Secretary Steve Goldstein said in a statement this morning that Tillerson had no intention of leaving, hadn't spoken to the president and didn't know why he was being dismissed. So in other words, Goldstein was implying that Tillerson wasn't going to jump, he was going to have to be pushed and as a result was fired by tweet. We now know that Trump and Tillerson did ultimately talk, but that didn't happen until around noon today. Also Goldstein has also now been fired.
SHAPIRO: Yes. Now, we've reported on a lot of the conflicts over this past year-plus between Trump and Tillerson. Remind us of the history there.
KEITH: Yeah. So they were often at opposite ends on various issues, including the Paris climate accord - President Trump wanted to pull out - the Iran nuclear deal - President Trump wants to break it apart, Rex Tillerson wanted to stay in - on negotiating with North Korea - they never seemed to have their message straight and were in different places - on the timeline for moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and even on how to talk to Boy Scouts. After President Trump attended a Boy Scout jamboree and said some wild political things, Tillerson reportedly described him as an expletive moron...
SHAPIRO: Yeah.
KEITH: ...And then never really denied it after reports came out that he had said that.
SHAPIRO: You've reported on the record levels of turnover in the Trump administration, and Tillerson is the highest level figure to depart. Put this into context for us. How does it compare with other presidencies?
KEITH: You know, in recent history, most secretaries of state have served a nearly full term with the president. Tiller's tenure is the shortest. He's followed by Alexander Haig in the Reagan administration who lasted about a hundred days longer. Looking at data going back to President Carter, no president has had this many Cabinet vacancies to fill so soon. Just as a reminder, Trump has had three health and human services secretary. Tom Price was forced to resign. John Kelly moved from Homeland Security secretary to chief of staff when Reince Priebus was fired. And now there's Tillerson. And today, President Trump indicated he may not be done.
TRUMP: I'm really at a point where we're getting very close to having the Cabinet and other things that I want.
SHAPIRO: OK, in the last moment, Tam, a wild card - the president's body man also left. His name was John McEntee. Who is this, and why is his departure significant?
KEITH: Yeah, and that's sort of the equivalent of a personal assistant who is always by the president's side. The White House won't say why he is gone. The campaign says they've hired him. But there are a lot of reports that he had trouble obtaining a permanent security clearance. And he is not the only one with security clearance problems in this White House. And Congress is investigating. They say that so far, the White House response to their questions about these issues has been inadequate.
SHAPIRO: NPR's Tamara Keith, thank you.
KEITH: You're welcome. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency goalkeeper Marco Carducci was recently named the Canadian Soccer Association U-17 Player of the Year.
This marks the fifth straight year a Whitecaps FC player has captured the honour.
Whitecaps FC head of player development and U-15 & U-16 head coach Craig Dalrymble credits the program's great development system.
"I think our program speaks for itself," said Dalrymble.
"We find the players. The players we recruit try and hunt us down as well. We've done the right thing the last four or five years and given the players the best chance to reach their full potential and realize their dreams."
This season, Carducci backed the U-16 Whitecaps FC Residency squad to the United States Soccer Development Academy (USSDA) Northwest Division championship in the teams' inaugural season.
"2012 was a really good year for me," said Carducci. "It was definitely a huge year for me in terms of development. I had opportunities to train with the [Whitecaps FC] first team, which was massive for me as well because obviously it's my goal as a player to push onto a first team."
Getting a taste of what it's like to play with the big team only motivated the player of the year even more.
"In the next two or three years if I can push for a spot on the Whitecaps first team, that would be awesome."
A big part of Carducci's award winning year came with the Canadian U-17 national team.
"It's a huge opportunity to represent your country. Every time I got that chance I made the most of it. They were great learning experiences," he said.
Carducci played in eight international matches with the U-17 Canadian team, highlighted by shutout victories over Costa Rica and Panama (a game which he was also player of the match). Carducci also captained the Canadian squad for many of these games.
"To be able to play with the national team and to be able to captain the team a few times was huge for me. All the training, all the travelling, it was a great learning experience for me as a player. Now I want to use this award as another stepping stone, another thing for me to look at and motivate me to be a better player and work even harder."
While Carducci does have lofty goals, his coach feels he has all the tools reach them.
"It's still early in his career, he's very ambitious, he wants to become a professional and he is obviously going in the right direction," said Dalrymble. "His daily work ethic, attitude and approach to his development is second to none. Obviously it's a great honor [the award] and a great recognition for Marco and what he has done."
Though Dalrymble is happy with his player's accomplishment, he is not in any way surprised by it.
"He's been on the national program for a year, he's one of their top prospects. I'm not surprised he got this recognition. I hope it's the first of many accolades for him."
For more stories on youth soccer in British Columbia, visit http://beaconnews.ca/vancouver.


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Hollywood white chicks are outrageous! Paris Hitlon has posted a lost dog sign outside her LA home with a picture of Lindsey Lohan telling people have they seen her lost dog.The poster reads 3 in dog years, anorexic, and freckled. This shit is hilarious!
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Tracking Snow Geese
North Dakota spring light goose hunters can track general locations of geese as birds make their way through the state.
Hunters are able to call 701-328-3697 to hear recorded information 24 hours a day. Migration reports are also posted on the North Dakota Game and Fish Department website, gf.nd.gov. Updates will be provided periodically during the week as migration events occur, until the season ends or geese have left the state.
North Dakota's spring light goose season continues through May 5. Season information, including licensing requirements and regulations, are also available by accessing the Game and Fish website.


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Clarence Earl Gideon was 50 when he was convicted of burglary in 1961.
If you've heard of Clarence Earl Gideon at all, it's probably because of a movie you had to watch in school. He deserves better, though, because 50 years ago Monday he fundamentally changed the American legal system and your rights if you are accused of a state crime.
In Gideon v. Wainwright, a unanimous Supreme Court declared on March 18, 1963, that the states were required to provide legal counsel for defendants in felony cases who could not afford an attorney. In doing so, it accepted the reasoning of a poorly educated Florida gambler and ex-con who wrote out his habeas corpus petition to the court by hand.
Federal courts had been required to provide counsel for indigent defendants in felony cases since 1938. But over the next 25 years, the Supreme Court let several opportunities pass by to impose the same rule on state courts, which had discretion to develop their own ways to ensure a fair trial in cases that didn't involve the death penalty.
"If an obscure Florida convict named Clarence Earl Gideon had not sat down in prison with a pencil and paper to write a letter to the Supreme Court, and if the Supreme Court had not taken the trouble to look at the merits in that one crude petition among all the bundles of mail it must receive every day, the vast machinery of American law would have gone on functioning undisturbed," Robert Kennedy, then the U.S. attorney general, said in an address in Boston later that year (.pdf).
"But Gideon did write that letter," he said. "The court did look into his case. He was retried with the help of competent defense counsel, found not guilty and released from prison after two years of punishment for a crime he did not commit. And the whole course of legal history has been changed. I know of few better examples than that of a democratic principle in action."
Today, indigent defendants are legally guaranteed representation across the U.S. But in the 50 years since the decision, the quality of their representation has been called into doubt. In a new book timed to mark the anniversary, "Chasing Gideon," author Karen Houppert argues that "we have not delivered on the promise of Gideon."
"These public defenders I talked to were looking at 200 felony cases or 225 misdemeanor cases for a single attorney," Houppert, a former staff writer for The Village Voice and media fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said.
"As a result, they're forced to persuade people to plead guilty without investigating what actually happened, without talking to a single witness in the case," she said. "There are thousands of people languishing in jail without a lawyer — and thanks to budget constraints, people aren't really getting their day in court with a lawyer standing there defending them."
A court looking for an opening
Clarence Earl Gideon, 50, was arrested June 3, 1961, after about $5 in change and some beer and soda were stolen from a pool room in Panama City, Fla. Representing himself because the trial judge rejected his request for a court-appointed lawyer, Gideon was convicted Aug. 4, 1961, of breaking and entering with intent to commit petty larceny. He was sentenced to five years in prison.
While in prison, Gideon read up on the law, and he became convinced that the federal requirement to provide counsel had to apply to the states through the 14th Amendment, which courts have long held extended the Bill of Rights to the states.
Hitting a roadblock when he sought help first from the FBI and then from the Florida Supreme Court, Gideon — probably with the assistance of his cellmate, Joseph Peel, a lawyer who had been convicted of killing a judge's wife — mailed a handwritten five-page petition in January 1962 to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed to hear his appeal.
(The case has gone down in memory as Gideon v. Wainwright, thanks to the book "Gideon's Trumpet" by Anthony Lewis and the 1980 TV movie of the same name starring Henry Fonda. But right up until the court reached its decision, it was actually called Gideon v. Cochran — Louie L. Wainwright became famous as the respondent only because he replaced H.G. Cochran as director of the Florida Division of Corrections after the court heard arguments on Jan. 15, 1963.)
Bruce Jacob, the assistant state attorney general who argued Florida's side, believed the court was looking for a chance to overturn a 1942 case called Betts v. Brady, in which it declined to impose an absolute rule requiring legal representation for every indigent criminal defendant in noncapital cases, he wrote in a 2003 paper for the Stetson University Law review on the 40th anniversary of Gideon.
Read the full paper by Bruce Jacob (.pdf)
His goal, he wrote, was to limit the scope of whatever new standard the court came up with.
"We hoped ... that the new rule would not be made retroactive, because we did not want such a decision to result in the release of large numbers of prisoners from the state penitentiary who had been convicted without counsel," he wrote.
If there was any doubt about the court's objectives, it was likely erased when the justices appointed Abe Fortas, one of the most prominent lawyers in America, to represent Gideon. Fortas was Vice President Lyndon Johnson's personal lawyer and was appointed to the Supreme Court just two years later.
In a 1969 letter to the Harvard Law Record, Jacob wrote that it was "obvious, during the argument, how deeply the court was committed to the overthrow of Betts v. Brady and its progeny":
Never in the eighteen cases which I had previously argued in the Florida Supreme Court and other appellate courts had I encountered anything like the zeal and emotion that emerged in the questioning. Anger seemed to characterize my most relentless questioner. ... Florida's position was obviously hopeless; my ten months of work devoted to the case were of little avail.
The decision came down two months later, written by Justice Hugo Black, who had been on the losing side of the 1942 Betts decision.
"From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law," Black wrote. "This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him."
Five months later, Gideon was retried, this time with a court-appointed lawyer. The new jury acquitted him after only an hour of deliberation.
'He had the guts to say: "That's not fair"'
Clarence Earl Gideon died of cancer in 1972, apparently without ever again running into serious trouble with the law.
As a result of Gideon v. Wainwright, more than 4,000 Florida inmates got retrials or were simply released, Florida corrections records show. (There's no reliable record of how many retrials ended in acquittals.)
Jacob wrote in his 2003 law review article that even though he was on the losing side, it was clearly the right decision. Jacob went on to a distinguished legal career — which included stints as a public defender and as an advocate for legal reform. He taught at several law schools, including Harvard's, and served as dean of the Stetson University College of Law in DeLand, Fla.
Forty-seven of the 50 states now have statewide public defender offices, according to the National Center for State Courts (individual counties serve that function in Alabama, Maine and Utah).
Even if they're not always effective, those offices are a monumental legacy to Gideon, Houppert said.
"It's incredibly moving to read Gideon's letters — he was making such a good and sincere argument. And it's touching to me that he was somewhat illiterate — it's full of spelling mistakes and handwritten in pencil," she said.
"As Americans, it's moving to us to see someone take a stand against the big guys, that he had the guts to say: 'That's not fair. I'm an American, and this isn't right.'
"It's incredible, because he was nobody."
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Orwell's Nation
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I was reminded today of Wat Tyler, by a fantastic essay written by Dave Semple, which made me think of a narrative that ran through my thinking when I was starting to find my political feet; how do I operate an understanding of nation set with my increasingly internationalist outlook, and if I count the Peasant's Revolt among my idea of what I like about my country, does this inform a nationalism or patriotism?
I grew up in Basildon, which runs close to Billericay (a restaurant of which is mentioned in Orwell's Down and Out – just to point to a tenuous link) which was part of the trail to Blackheath, where John Ball, Wat Tyler and Jack Straw and the other Kentish rebels sparked the first protests. My early school life paid homage (I'm not using words synonymous with Orwell for nothing here) to the revolt by constantly taking trips to the local country park, aptly named Wat Tyler country park – a hot spot for soft drugs, and ones elementary encounter with contrarian thought. My flag-waving, ex-military, monarchy loving (yet) left of centre parents (as well as an influential Trade Unionist, Christian, Daily Mail reading socialist Grandad), along with a basic mistrust of the middle classes informed by Wat Tyler introduced me to a wacky world of socialism and patriotism (the former of the two being because, though slightly cherry-picked to suit, I felt inspired by some of the palatable elements of British history).
Some good eggs in the SWP encouraged me to read what I considered to be inharmonious socialist materials on this subject; namely Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, two books one on Cuban history one on Russian, and then Orwell's said essay. I've still not fully recovered, and I still haven't entirely made up my mind. I buy into Anderson's basic premise that nation is a false border, but then it's weak on the realistic need for borders. He's right about the arbitrariness of political blocs based on muscle, but it's a dated premise when we start to look at European capitalism, labour exchange and borders. But is it possible to hold patriotic views as a socialist? Yes, provided you buy into the arbitrariness of borders, realise that though necessary, they have come about in history partly from empire and imperial muscle, and that you mix generously nationalism with internationalism where appropriate.
Orwell avowedly wrote that nationalism
It does not necessarily mean loyalty to a government or a country, still less to one's own country
which suits me, because it is first and foremost a style of governance that informs my political outlook, and this transcends borders, but there is a feeling of indebtedness to a country you can call your own and to which you identify many positive aspects, and for me Wat Tyler is embedded in that fabric, but I should, too, acknowledge that I am more informed by my politics than an unceasing love of my nation – which could at any time collapse, and I think is politically a weak element anyway.


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Carve a pumpkin to take home for Halloween at our beautiful DeLano Farm, and enjoy a tractor-pulled wagon ride! KNC will supply the tools and pumpkins. You'll also learn how to make healthy treats from pumpkin leftovers, with some to take home. Fee: $12/Member, $15/Non-member. Registration/pa
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Giant black holes
A giant black hole is quite probably lurking at the centre of most galaxies, including our own Milky Way.
From observations at radio and infrared wavelengths, astronomers know that the heart of our galaxy is a site of violent activity. At gamma-ray energies, its behaviour is even more extreme.
Arching up from the centre of the galaxy is what appears to be an enormous cloud of anti-matter. It is glowing brightly with gamma rays, created as the antimatter annihilates its normal matter counterparts. Integral will pursue this investigation into the astrophysical processes at work near the heart of the Milky Way.
The violence in the centre of some other galaxies can be even more dramatic. Such a place is called an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) and there are various types. Regardless of their classification, however, all AGNs emit a wide range of radiation that varies in intensity over timescales ranging from a fraction of a day to several months.
Most astronomers now believe that it is matter falling into a very massive central black hole that powers an AGN. High-energy emission, in the form of gamma rays and X-rays, is generated as the matter swirls around the black hole in a disc, waiting to be pulled inwards. Narrow jets of matter shoot away from the black hole but how these jets are formed and what makes them so narrow is still not understood.
There are AGNs so bright that they outshine their host galaxy. These are known as quasars and are some of the most luminous objects in the Universe. However, they are difficult to observe because most of them are millions of light years away.
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would u guys want the knicks to sign him (just to play defense on LBJ)
would u guys want the knicks to sign him (just to play defense on LBJ)
I would sign him just to piss off Lebron. Can u think of the Garden chants about him effing his mother!? That's got to be worth a vet minimum salary!
This dude don't cut it.....
friggin nut-case...
nah we dont need drama!
No, he's pretty awful. Even when he was with Lebron, and all he had to do was knock down shots and occasionally bring the ball up the floor, he sucked. Definitely not.
would you guys chill out, how would you feel if someone that you [seemed] close to slept with your mother, that alone is awful. lebron may be a bad guy but thats just pushing it
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Why don't we just get Frank Williams and then problems are solved
Red = Sarcasm
"The Knicks are back" - Amare
Heard he wants to join his stepson LeBrain
West would be an awesome signing...I kinda want to trade Douglas if we're gonna sign West.
Trade Douglas/Chandler for Rudy Fernandez and Bayless
We'll look like
nah, lebron is gonna have fire in his eyes for any team that picks up west.


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Florida prosecutors are investigating the voter registration of Donald Trump's campaign chief, though a local election official said there appeared nothing obvious in the record that suggested fraud, NBC News reported.
Miami-Dade County election officials confirmed that the local state attorney's office requested Stephen Bannon's voter records last week.
Rosy Pastrana, executive assistant to the county's election supervisor, told NBC News Bannon had not voted in Miami-Dade since registering there in April 2014.
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"There is nothing here that I see that he did wrong," she said.
Bannon, who lived in California for many years, had no immediate comment.
A person registering to vote in Florida must swear that they are a legal resident in the county where they register. The Guardian newspaper reported last week Bannon was registered at a Miami home that he rented for his ex-wife.
Prominent Trump supporter A.J. Delgado told NBC News she visited Bannon there, but an owner of the home said it had been empty for months.


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I've been a fan of this ban.do headband ever since I saw it on Cup of Jo. It reminds me of candy and all things wonderful. Needless to say, I was super excited when Tweet My Style asked me to be a part of their collaboration with ban.do. The best part: anyone who uploads a photo to Tweet My Style will be entered to win one of several headbands. You have until tomorrow, so get to it!
Outfit Details:
headband: courtesy of Heart by Ban.do
dress (worn as top): H&M
skirt: reconstructed from an 80s dress
heels: thrifted
Love love,
Keiko Lynn
p.s. Kim took several pictures of me hacking up my lungs between poses. I told her I would put up one of the pictures, but I decided to spare you all. Sorry, Kim!


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Will Having Alcohol Treatment Improve Functioning? (WHAT-IF)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01245647
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 22, 2010
Results First Posted : February 27, 2014
Last Update Posted : May 7, 2018
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Alcoholism
|Drug: Naltrexone, 50mg, once per day for 4 months Other: Sugar pill, 50mg, once per day for 4 months
|Phase 2
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the acceptability and effectiveness of a treatment program for hazardous drinking, delivered within HIV-clinic outpatient settings, that involves oral naltrexone. The central hypothesis is that women randomized to the treatment program will have decreased rates of hazardous drinking and improved clinical and behavioral health outcomes that are associated with hazardous drinking. The investigators have formulated this hypotheses based on the existing literature, the preliminary data and the clinical experience. The investigators hypothesize that women randomized to receive an alcohol treatment intervention will be less likely to have hazardous drinking behavior 6-months after enrollment, compared to women who received similar assessments but no formal treatment intervention. The investigators hypothesize that 4-months after enrollment, women randomized to receive an alcohol treatment intervention will have improved adherence to HIV antiretroviral therapy, improved CD4 cell counts, reduced HIV viral load, and reduced risky sexual behavior, compared to women who receive similar assessments but no formal intervention.
The investigators will recruit 90 women from 3 different sites in Florida, Washington DC and Chicago. Of those 90 women 60 will receive naltrexone and 30 will receive placebo. Study participants will take the medication for 4 months but the investigators will follow them for 7 months. At baseline, 2 months, 4 months and 7 months, the investigators will administer study questionnaires and assess their liver enzymes, CD4 count and viral load. The investigators will also follow them up at month 1 and 3 to reinforce the medication intake and to assess for any possible side effects.
New treatment options are available, but their impact on hazardous drinking has not yet been evaluated among HIV-infected women, many of whom are poor, minorities, or who have associated mental health or substance abuse problems. Delivery of therapeutic interventions must be improved in order to reduce hazardous drinking in women with HIV/AIDS. The proposed research is significant because the therapy will be offered within HIV clinic settings and will potentially improve the health of a population that is significantly undertreated. In addition to determining the effectiveness of an alcohol treatment intervention, the investigators will also identify key barriers and facilitators associated with adherence to pharmacologic treatment for alcohol in women with hazardous drinking. The findings will directly impact the type and quality of care for hazardous drinking in this subset of HIV-infected individuals and will inform both primary and secondary prevention efforts
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|19 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Pharmacotherapy for Hazardous Drinking in HIV Infected Women: Randomized Trial
|Study Start Date :
|November 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|October 2012
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 2012
Placebo Comparator: Sugar Pill, 50mg, once per day for 4 months
Placebo: One third of the participants will receive placebo pills that look the same as the active comparator but are really just inert pills. Each study participant will take a single pill once a day for 4 months.
Other: Sugar pill, 50mg, once per day for 4 months
Placebo: One third of the participants will receive placebo pills that look the same as the active comparator but are really just inert pills. Each study participant will take a single pill once a day for 4 months.
Other Name: Inert sugar pill
Active Comparator: Naltrexone, 50mg, once per day for 4 months
Naltrexone: Two thirds of the total study participants will receive the medication naltrexone. Each study participant will take a single pill once a day for 4 months.
Drug: Naltrexone, 50mg, once per day for 4 months
Naltrexone: Two thirds of the total study participants will receive the medication naltrexone. Each study participant will take a single pill once a day for 4 months.
Other Name: Naltrexone
- Number of Drinks Per Week [ Time Frame: Month 4 ]Average number of standard alcohol drinks per week, as measured by timeline follow-back. A drink typically contains about 0.6 grams of alcohol, and generally represents 1 12-oz beer, 1 5-oz glass of wine, or one shot of liquor.
- HIV Medication Adherence (95% or Better) [ Time Frame: Month 4 ]Medication adherence was measured on a visual analogue scale ranging from 0 - 100, and indicating what percentage of the persons' HIV medication was taken on schedule over the past week (self-report). A score of 95% or better was considered adherent, and we report the proportion of persons who were adherent in each group.
- Risky Sexual Behaviors [ Time Frame: 4 months ]Risky sexual behavior was a dichotomous outcome for each participant at each time point, defined as having any non-condom-protected sex with a males who have an unknown/negative HIV status in the previous 30 days.
- HIV Viral Load Suppressed [ Time Frame: 4 months ]Viral load was classified as either suppressed (HIV viral load <50 copies/ml) or not suppressed (HIV viral load >50 copies/ml). We report the proportion of participants who had a suppressed viral load (higher number is better)
- CD4 Count (Mean) [ Time Frame: 4 months ]Results from CD4 cell count result obtained either as lab specifically for this study, or from lab results that were collected at the same time point for a different study or clinical indication.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Hazardous drinking: defined by the NIAAA as either of the following:
- binge drinking (4 or more drinks per occasion at least twice monthly), (NIAAA 2005) - OR
- high quantity-frequency (>7 or drinks per week)
- Age 18 or over
- Female
- HIV-infected documented by a rapid HIV test or any licensed ELISA test kit and confirmed by a repeat ELISA, Western Blot, HIV-1 culture, HIV-1 antigen, plasma HIV-1 RNA viral load or a second antibody test by a method other than ELISA at any time prior to study entry.
- Able to understand and comply with planned study procedures.
- Willing and able to provide informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Contraindications to treatment with naltrexone: current physiologic opiate dependence; current daily prescription opioid medications; positive urine drug test for opioids; allergic to naltrexone; significantly abnormal baseline liver enzymes (AST or ALT ≥ 5 times normal); on dialysis for renal failure
- currently taking oral medications for tuberculosis.
- Currently pregnant or positive pregnancy test.
- currently breastfeeding.
- Currently taking an alcohol treatment medication (disulfiram, topiramate, naltrexone, acamprosate).
- currently homeless, unable to provide mailing address, or has plans to move from area within next 7 months.
- Unable to communicate in English.
- Research coordinator assessment that participant cannot comprehend the study or consent procedures
- Has current prognosis of less than 1 year to live
- Abnormal vital signs at enrollment visit
- Currently on treatment for Hepatitis C (HCV) infection
- Prisoner status
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01245647
|United States, District of Columbia
|Women's Interagency HIV Study
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20007
|United States, Florida
|University of Florida Health Science Center
|Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32209
|United States, Illinois
|Women's Interagency HIV Study
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|Principal Investigator:
|Robert L Cook, MD, MPH
|University of Florida
|Responsible Party:
|University of Florida
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01AA018934-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|November 22, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|February 27, 2014
|Last Update Posted:
|May 7, 2018
|Last Verified:
|April 2018
Alcohol-Related Disorders
Substance-Related Disorders
Chemically-Induced Disorders
Mental Disorders
Alcohol Deterrents
Narcotic Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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If only I loved poor children as much as I hate Christians…
I take pleasure in announcing another great victory for the movement towards full equality. We are now depriving third world children of shoes!
Recently, entrepreneur and TOMS shoes founder Blake Mycoskie appeared at a speaking engagement sponsored by the anti-gay, anti-choice, "Focus on the Family". I'm pretty sure these people don't believe in dinosaurs, actually. Focus on the Family is so evil that they must not be allowed to do good. In fact, if they try, we should prevent them from doing good.
Here's all you need to know about Focus on the Family. They oppose gay marriage, just like half of the country. They oppose abortion, just like a slim majority of the country. They don't believe in evolution just like 61% of Americans. And they're VERY much on the fringe. They're not hip, they're square. They're basically the mothership of the Christofascist movement. Focus on the Family also sponsors an annual "Day of Dialogue" in which they encourage students to talk about "God's plan" for sexuality. The day is scheduled to coincide annually with the pro-gay National Day of Silence. Personally, I don't really care about "God's plan" for my dick. I care about my plan. In any case, the National Day of Silence is a time for people to shut up. The name of the day is very clear. They want dialogue and we want SILENCE!
When word got out that Mycoskie was associating with the likes of Focus on the Family, the shit hit the fan. The feminists went berserk, and so did the sodomites. The gay blogosphere was abuzz with vitriol for TOMS. I immediately ran to my shoe closet to see if I owned a pair. After searching through the seventy pairs of shoes I own, I found that in fact, I DO own some of TOMS shoes. They're pink and they have sequins on them. I ran to the deck and hurled them out into the ocean just to show my disgust for Mr. Mycoskie and his company.
Ms. Magazine immediately started an online petition asking TOMS shoes to drop any relationship with Focus on the Family. LGBTQXYZ people and their allies alerted each other via facebook and twitter to get over there and sign the petition. It didn't take more than a few minutes before the handsome man got back on the right side of things. Let's face it, we homos have POWER! We just have to pretend that we don't so that we can continue to perpetuate the myth that we're poor, downtrodden victims, abused by society. We're nothing of the sort.
Irene Carmon of Jezebel.com explains her thinking in regards to TOMS shoes and Focus on the Family:
"There's nothing inherently political about distributing shoes to African children, of course. In theory, it's a good thing for Focus to spend less time trying to police sex and more actually helping people, but they've not really cut back on the former. And Focus On The Family isn't the only group TOMS could have turned to for collaboration, nor is it the only Christian group involved in charitable missions. It carries significant cultural and political baggage, for good reason. TOMS is at major risk of alienating a constituency that has enthusiastically adopted their product, including yours truly."
I couldn't agree more. For years, I've said that "Christian" groups like Focus on the Family should spend more of their time and effort trying to feed and clothe the poor and less of their time worrying about sodomy and baby-killing. When I phrase it that way, it sounds like a zero sum game, as if they can't do both. Every time you say that homosexuality is wrong, another child dies in a third world village. It's just one of many schemes I've come up with to shut people up. It makes them feel like a "bad Christian" for opposing my agenda, and that's what I want them to believe.
The truth is that the Christian groups that I hate so much DO perform lots of acts of charity to the poor. That really pisses me off. So when they actually take my advice and do what I think they should be doing, I get pretty upset about that too. I'd rather the kids not have shoes if hateful, hate-mongering haters are going to have anything to do with it.
Mr. Mycoksie quickly distanced himself from the far-right hate group with an official apology:
Had I known the full extent of Focus on the Family's beliefs, I would not have accepted the invitation to speak at their event. It was an oversight on my part and the company's part and one we regret…Furthermore, contrary to what has been reported, Focus on the Family is not a TOMS giving partner. So there is no misunderstanding created by this mistake, let me clearly state that both TOMS, and I as the founder, are passionate believers in equal human and civil rights for all. That belief is a core value of the company and of which we are most proud.
Nice apology, I suppose. I went down to the waterfront after I read that to see if I could fish my pink shoes out of the ocean, but it appears they are gone. I'll check again at low-tide.
Mycoskie stressed that Focus on the Family will NOT be part of the "One-for-One" program that gives shoes to children in the third world. For each pair of shoes you buy, TOMS donates one pair to needy children. Mycoskie learned the value of shoes during his trips to Argentina, where he sometimes encountered people who had none. TOMS explains on its website why shoes are so important:
1. Many children in developing countries grow up barefoot. Whether at play, doing chores or going to school, these children are at risk:
2. A leading cause of disease in developing countries is soil-transmitted diseases, which can penetrate the skin through bare feet. Wearing shoes can help prevent these diseases, and the long-term physical and cognitive harm they cause.
3. Wearing shoes also prevents feet from getting cuts and sores. Not only are these injuries painful, they also are dangerous when wounds become infected.
4. Many times children can't attend school barefoot because shoes are a required part of their uniform. If they don't have shoes, they don't go to school. If they don't receive an education, they don't have the opportunity to realize their potential.
TOMS also partners with other organizations in order to further its mission. From a video on their website:
"We partner with humanitarian and health organizations around the world. They can help us give shoes year after year, providing shoes to the same children as they grow.
But they won't partner with Focus on the Family and I'm glad for that. If that means that thousands of kids will have to go barefoot and get communicable diseases and other icky stuff like that, then I suppose that's the way the cookie crumbles. If that means that they can't go to school and get an education, I'm fine with that too. If their little feet get cut up and infected, that's just too damned bad. I'd hate to think that somewhere in Somalia or Myanmar there's some kid walking around with a pair of shoes on his feet that were paid for by a homophobic American pastor. So it's better this way. A lot better.


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WEST WINDSOR - It's a bad sign for a football team when by the time you get your first first down of the game, the opposition has already scored 33 points.
That is the situation West Windsor-Plainsboro found itself in during its first-round Central Jersey Group IV playoff game against Middletown South. And while the Pirates recovered and played the visiting Eagles even the rest of the way, they had dug too deep a hole and dropped a 40-8 decision on Friday night.
'We just got physically dominated at the line of scrimmage, and that was our fear coming in,' said WW-P South coach Todd Smith, whose team finished the season 8-2. 'Our kids hung tough and played tough but we can't make up for the mistakes we made in the first quarter and the first half.'
The Pirates turned the ball over four times in the first half and Middletown South scored on five of its first six possessions to race out to a 33-0 lead. The Eagles scored on the opening drive of the game when Jake Ripnick scored the first of his four touchdowns to cap a 12-play, 58-yard drive.
After a three-and-out by the Pirates, Middletown South struck quickly and scored in five plays, capped by another Ripnick touchdown run to make it 13-0. After a Pirate turnover, the teams traded punts before Ripnick scored again to make it 20-0. WW-P South fumbled the ensuing kickoff and the Eagles scored on Ripnick's fourth touchdown run of the game. After the Pirates fumbled the kickoff again, Middletown South quarterback Kyle Brey scored on a 9-yard run to make it 33-0.
'We only touched the ball three or four times in the first half with the fumbles,' Smith said.
The Pirates did put together a nice drive right before the end of the first half when Brian Schoenauer carried the ball six times for 39 yards to set up a 33-yard touchdown pass from Andrew Schoepfer to Nick Benfer to cut the lead to 33-8.
The Pirates moved the ball better in the second half and limited the Eagles to just one touchdown but could not get any closer. Schoenauer finished with 158 yards rushing to unofficially go past the 5,000-yard mark for his career.
'I am very proud of our kids,' Smith said. 'We don't like to talk about it and we do go around preaching to the fact that we only have 28 kids on the team. I am just proud of these kids. We have to battle week in and week out just to get through practice. And they show up every week and play competitive football.'
This time, the Pirates just ran into a team that was able to dominate in the trenches.
'(Middletown South) has a lot of movement up front, which gave us fits. We were really concerned about their two interior tackles giving us trouble up front and they gave us fits.'
The loss brings to a close the careers of a strong senior class that made two straight trips to the playoffs. The team went 17-4 over the last two seasons.
'It is a special group,' Smith said. 'They all started as sophomores and we went 4-6. Last year we were 9-2 and this year 8-2. I can't ask for a better bunch of kids.'


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Lending to family members and friends can seem like a good idea at the time. But if there's a misunderstanding about the terms of the loan there can be breakdowns in relationships with those whom you care most about.
It seems there are a lot more informal loans between family members and friends than is usually appreciated. Research by the Commonwealth Bank released in 2012 estimates Australians borrow $1.6 billion a month from family and friends.
The Commonwealth Bank's numbers showed that from among informal lenders, the "Bank of Mum" firmly tops the list as the preferred source of funds. Children are more likely to ask their mums than their dads for a loan.
Most of these loans are undocumented, which increases the likelihood of disagreements and breakdowns in close relationships.
Life lessons
Phil Hopper has borrowed money from his parents to use for his business, which brands fleets of cars, trucks and trailers with signage. He's also lent money to his children over the years.
In the past he has used a spreadsheet to keep track, which he admits can be a little "ad hoc".
The 44-year-old Sydneysider is now using a new online tool called Credi, which turns informal agreements into manageable and formal ones that are stored online.
He receives reminders that repayments are due. Credi helps keep track of the loan and if there is ever disagreement over the amount of interest or other terms of the loan, the agreement is readily available to both parties.
"I could get a loan contract together with a lawyer for a healthy fee, but the real value to me is that I can go to one spot and find it all there," Hopper says.
With Credi, which is believed to be the first product of its type, lenders and borrowers negotiate the terms of the loan, agree and sign it electronically.
There is a legally binding record of loan agreements and repayments. Reminders are sent to the borrower that repayment is due and the lender is notified when the repayment has been made.
Credi is free to the public for loans under $10 million and will stay free, other than for advanced options that may be offered in the future.
Tim Dean, the founder of Credi, says parents are sometimes happy to give money but want to structure it as a loan to give their children some life lessons.
"We want to educate them about money and meeting their obligations but we probably want to let them off [repayments of the loan] after they have shown you that they are taking their financial responsibilities seriously," Dean says. "That's what happens with my kids."
With Credi, lenders can choose to send a notification to the borrower to forgive the remaining debt.
Formal documents
People often don't formalise their agreements or they email or call to communicate their wishes, which can lead to misunderstandings.
At best, many people simply download a loan template document that they pass between themselves, but documentation is often not understood or properly completed.
Ian Macleod, from RP Emery & Associates, a publisher of legal documents, says lending to family and friends is risky without proper documentation.
"The reality is most people enter into these loan arrangements on a hug and a handshake, but the terms and conditions are often unspoken or inferred," Macleod says.
"A verbal contract is binding on the parties, but without a written agreement the parties will find it difficult to prove the terms of that contract."
Laura Menschik, a financial planner and director of WLM Financial Services, says if it is parents lending money to their children it is important that the loan be noted with their estate planning documents to avoid any disputes with siblings over who gets what if the parent should die before the loan is repaid.
Michael Harris, a senior associate, commercial litigation at Slater and Gordon, says if it is a loan and not a gift it definitely should be documented.
"Otherwise, if there's a dispute, the borrower will sometimes say it was a gift," he says.
Harris knows of cases where a loan was made by a parent to an adult child and their partner to help buy a property. The couple splits up, the house is sold and the partner takes half of the proceeds of the sale of the house, leaving the lender's son or daughter to repay the debt.
Harris says that's why it's important for the lender to have some security over the property.
"The security on the loan can be just as important as the documentation," he says.
For real estate, an interest called a "caveat" can be lodged with the lands and titles office of the state or territory in which the real estate is located. The caveat alerts a potential buyer of the property that someone else has an interest in the property.
However, that can only happen if the loan agreement contains a clause that specifically allows the lender to lodge a caveat over the property.
Business lending
Menschik says it is particularly important to document financial agreements when the loan is for a business purpose.
"That's especially for larger loans and even more so when the loan is for someone to start a new enterprise, such as a business or purchasing a vehicle to earn income, for example."
Menschik says the risks of lending for a business are much greater than lending to someone to put a deposit on a house.
"I have seen parents made almost bankrupt because they wanted to help their children and their children's businesses have failed," Menschik says. "When lending for a business there is usually no collateral and while property can go down in value at least there is collateral."
Like with caveats over property, lenders can register a "chargeable interest" over an item of property, such as a motor vehicle, whether for business or personal use. That is an obligation, restriction or condition on the sale of the good.
An interest in a motor vehicle, for example, can be registered on the Australian Government's Personal Property Securities Register and noted in the loan agreement.
Harris says if the loan is to help a friend or family member with a business start-up, the loan agreement could specify that the lender receives equity in the business rather than cash, for example.
Risks for guarantor
If a lender is not willing to give a loan to a person, it may ask for a guarantor.
Parents and friends should think carefully before guaranteeing a loan, WLM Financial Services financial planner and director Laura Menschik says.
It really means that you are a co-borrower. And, if the person for whom you are guarantor does not keep up their repayments the lender may come calling on the guarantor to repay the loan.
There can also be implications for the guarantor's credit record if something goes wrong, making it harder, or perhaps impossible, for the guarantor to obtain credit.
Menschik says it is better to only guarantee a part of the mortgage, up to a certain amount, where the guarantor would be able come up with the cash if required.
However, that is likely to be difficult for most parents given the size of the deposit needed for Sydney and Melbourne properties.
A recent survey of parents, conducted on behalf of Stockspot, finds less than one in three families could afford to lend or give more than $30,000 towards their children's first home.
Writes about personal finance for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.


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It's a "make or break" decade for humanity's addiction to fossil fuel.
Carbon-dioxide emissions created by the combustion of oil, coal and natural gas account for 90 per cent of human-caused CO2 emissions each year. Without a determined effort to curtail or contain those emissions, the global warming implications could be dire.
In Canada, where energy is a primary export, the federal government has yet to jump off the oil bandwagon. But along with the government of Alberta, it's funding work by independent scientists to develop and refine technology that could reduce or eliminate the amount of carbon released in industrial processes such as power generation and gas processing.
Researchers are looking for ways to refine existing technology such as the carbon capture and storage (CCS) methods pioneered a decade ago in Weyburn, Sask. — piping CO2 from an industrial plant in North Dakota and then pumping the gas underground, hopefully for good, at Weyburn.
The whole world is watching that project — it could show that it's possible to develop a quick, practical fix for CO2 emissions while developing cleaner energy systems.
Removing CO2 from industrial emissions — for example, trapping it in smokestack filters at a coal-fired power plant and permanently burying it underground — isn't a panacea, but it's an important tool. Ultimately, more than one solution will be necessary.
For example, one research group funded by Carbon Management Canada is developing a method of crystallizing carbon dioxide into a frozen "hydrate." Another is looking at containing it in a fluid, sort of like CO2 bubbles in a can of soda, and pumping it underground to support oil recovery while achieving a sort of balance between the CO2 coming out and the CO2 going in. The carbon dioxide would add bulk to the fluid, or slurry, making it cheaper to use.
Several groups are doing vital work to refine existing carbon capture methods — for example, developing more discerning and durable tools that would go down into underground carbon wells and do long-term monitoring to make sure the wells are leak-proof.
Others are farther out on the frontier.
"The ultimate goal is the same, but you can arrive by a different vehicle, if you will. You can do quite a significant amount of game changing in these kinds of situations," said Sushanta Mitra of University of Alberta.
Mitra is one of the lead researchers on a project that is looking at feeding nutrients to the colonies of microbes that live in underground coal seams so that they produce commercial volumes of methane, or natural gas. The advantage is that you don't ever mine or burn the coal, which produces more CO2 than methane — and there's a possibility that such a source of gas could be sustainable, unlike a natural gas well.
"You are reducing the net CO2 emission. There are some rough calculations that show we can have a potential of 25-per-cent reduction or more," Mitra said. "We are not doing any re-engineering of the bugs. The bugs are all there. We can augment the process, make them more productive in some sense."
But cutting back on oil, coal and gas consumption would work best to slow global warming.
Shahin Dashtgard of Simon Fraser University noted it could be cost effective to deal with, and even profit from, CO2 emissions from large-scale industrial sites. But for a much larger number of smaller sites, cheap containment will be the answer.
A petroleum geologist, Dashtgard is working with a group looking to overcome the cost of long-distance piping of CO2 for industrial processing by converting the gas to a stable frozen "hydrate" suitable for storage in the small, shallow spent wells that are scattered throughout northern Alberta. It's an innovative idea, and also a possible solution to the worldwide problem of cost-effective sequestering of smaller amounts of CO2.
"The long-term answer to CO2 sequestration is going to be just reducing the amount of CO2 that's produced," Dashtgard said. "In the medium term ... if people aren't injecting it underground and making money off of it, no one is going to do it unless they're forced to. With smaller source areas, smaller sites of CO2 production, it's not economic to capture that CO2 and ship it somewhere."
A United Nations report last month warned that annual fossil fuel consumption is growing rapidly and there is increasing pessimism that the trend will be reversed.
Organizations such as the International Energy Agency are trying to stay cool, as it were, by encouraging development of less-polluting resources such as wind and solar power.
The IEA has also issued what it calls a "technology roadmap" for global development of carbon capture and storage technology.
But governments must act quickly to avoid dumping greater costs on future generations, the IEA says, indicating that a relative handful of large-scale carbon capture projects today must expand to over 3,000 by 2050.
"The next decade is a key 'make or break' period for CCS; governments, industry and public stakeholders must act rapidly to demonstrate CCS at scale around the world in a variety of settings," the IEA says.
It's a relatively good investment, the agency adds.
"Without CCS, overall costs to reduce (carbon dioxide) emissions to 2005 levels by 2050 increase by 70 per cent."
Carbon Management Canada, incorporated in January 2010, started with an initial $25 million from Canada's Centres of Excellence program. Alberta matched the money from Ottawa, and the oil and gas industry has contributed $2.5 million in direct sponsorship.
"It's a wide range of kinds of research, located right from Memorial University to University of Victoria, all the way across the country," CMC managing director Richard Adamson said.
"We can't just come up with technical solutions that cost hundreds of dollars per tonne of CO2. It's not going to fly. So in addition to solving the technical problems, we have to be solving the problems around how we either reduce the cost of things or how we generate by-products that have value so we can improve the overall economic process."
The expensive part is the disposal of captured CO2, according to University of B.C.'s John Grace, who leads the Recovery research teams engaged in building carbon capture systems.
"In terms of risk, putting it under the ground is the more risky part of it," Grace said. "There really has to be a combined effort by the engineering community and the earth sciences community, and that's in a sense what we're doing here."
Peter Wild, director of University of Victoria's Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, leads a CMC research project working on sensors that would operate underground to monitor CO2 storage wells, sometimes in extreme conditions over the long term to ensure the gas is not leaking back out into the atmosphere.
"You want to know, once you pump it into the ground, what it's doing," Wild said. "It does have to be cost effective. It also has to be applicable over a fairly widely distributed area. You can't just go to one spot.
"We're at the stage now where we've got the very first early prototype of a sensing system that's working in the lab under highly controlled conditions, but we fully recognize that we're a long way from having something that we are going to be able put down-hole and expect it to make reliable measurements over the long term."
Japan Trivendi of University of Alberta, is a principal investigator on a team looking at injecting CO2 microbubbles into a thick fluid that would be pumped into spent gas wells and, at least theoretically, overcome the inherently leaky character of many wells so that the greenhouse gas is securely contained.
"What we are saying is, let's change the process of injecting CO2 altogether. The overall stability is higher than CO2 alone. It is very premature to say that it is 100-per-cent safe, but it is better than existing technology."
Steve Larter, Carbon Management Canada's chief scientist, noted that recent UN predictions about rising global temperatures are "getting a bit scary" and believes the world needs to be spending significantly more money to manage its CO2 emissions.
"The reality is the amounts of money we're spending, Canada's spending, the world is spending, are too low by orders of magnitude," Larter said.
The total National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada budget, encompassing all government funding of university-based research, is about $1 billion out of Canada's $1.4 trillion GDP.
"If you look at what was spent on the atomic bomb, or the Apollo project, these kind of technologically game-changing programs, you've spent one to two per cent of GDP, something like that."
At a rough guess, two or three per cent of Canada's GDP might be accounted for by the money Canadians spend on Christmas, he added.
The Canadian government is one of the bigger funders of public research out of the G20 group of wealthy countries, Larter said, adding that "big oil and gas companies, they are not big spenders on R&D. I think there's still a mismatch between the talk and the walk. But we're trying to do bit anyway."
Simon Fraser University energy economist Mark Jaccard, who is preparing a series of studies for CMC, agreed that the global pace of carbon management research is too slow.
"Unfortunately, most of the anticipated carbon capture and storage projects have not happened," Jaccard said. "The government is showing no leadership in the desperate global struggle to prevent catastrophic climate change, and because of the time lags we are almost too late now. I am extremely frustrated with Canada's federal government especially.
"Globally, we are going to rocket past the 2 C temperature limit and more likely increase temperatures by 6 C in this century. We cannot be expanding oilsands or coal or natural gas today. This is a simple truth, but no one wants to believe it."