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As skirmishing with pro-Russia separatists continued in eastern Ukraine, billionaire Petro Poroshenko was sworn into office Saturday as the fifth president of post-Soviet Ukraine.
The 48-year-old chocolate magnate offered a peace plan to resolve the bloody conflict, but he warned that Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula was unacceptable, a point he also made Friday in France during a brief meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Russia occupied Crimea, which is and will be Ukrainian," Poroshenko said at the solemn inauguration ceremony in parliament, prompting a standing ovation from lawmakers and guests. "Yesterday during the meeting in Normandy, I said exactly that to President Putin, that Crimea belongs to Ukraine."
Poroshenko, holding his right hand on a 16th century New Testament, took the oath in the presence of dozens of foreign dignitaries, including U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.
"I know that peace is the main thing the Ukrainian people want today," he said. "I don't want war. I don't want revenge, despite the massive casualties sustained by Ukraine's people.... I want peace, and I will achieve Ukraine's unity."
Poroshenko offered amnesty for pro-Russia militants, provided they "do not have the blood of Ukrainian soldiers and peaceful residents on their hands, and those who were not involved in financing terrorism."
More than 200 people have been killed in the last two months in heavy fighting between government troops and separatist gunmen in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of southeast Ukraine, according to officials.
Poroshenko also offered to create "controlled corridors" for the evacuation of Russian fighters back to Russia, after which a peaceful dialogue would be possible with newly elected regional and local authorities.
Poroshenko did not directly lash out at the Kremlin, perhaps because of the brief meeting he had with Putin at the D-day memorial ceremonies in France. Instead, he blamed ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and his clan, who are now living in Russia, for backing the separatists.
Poroshenko spokeswoman Irina Friz wrote on her Facebook account Friday that Poroshenko and Putin agreed to work toward a peaceful solution and "to take joint action to close the border in the area of military conflict and prevent constant Ukrainian border crossing by Russian militants."
Russian Ambassador Mikhail Zurabov, who had been absent from his office since February, returned to Kiev and attended the inauguration. Zurabov is expected to initially represent Russia in talks with Ukrainian officials expected to begin Sunday, said Volodymir Fesenko, a Kiev-based political scientist.
"Zurabov is ideal for this role as he and Poroshenko have long been very good friends," said Fesenko, director of the Penta Center for Applied Political Studies. "Even Putin himself now understands that the prolongation of the violent conflict in Ukraine is not in his interests either, and now that the legitimacy of Kiev authorities is hard to dispute, the Kremlin has to work together with Kiev to find a way to stop the bloodshed."
Putin on Saturday ordered the Federal Security Service to strengthen protection of Russia's border with Ukraine to prevent illegal crossings, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
In his inaugural address, Poroshenko rejected the idea of the federalization of Ukraine, proposed by Russia. He pledged that Ukraine would remain a single state with the Ukrainian language the only official tongue.
But he guaranteed a place in Ukraine for Russian and other languages, and he gave a portion of his speech in Russian, specifically addressing residents of the volatile Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Poroshenko has promised to sign an association and trade agreement with the European Union as soon as possible, saying Ukraine is united around European integration. Yanukovich's rejection of an EU economic agreement in favor of closer ties with Moscow is what led to months of protests and his eventual ouster.
"We, the people who were torn away from our great motherland — Europe — are returning to its fold," Poroshenko said.
After his address, Poroshenko met at the Presidential Administrative Building with Biden, who said the U.S. was committing an additional $48 million in assistance to his government on top of a previous $1-billion loan guarantee and $73 million in security and crisis-response aid.
"There's a window for peace, and you know as well as anyone, that it will not stay open indefinitely," Biden said at the session.
"America's with you," the vice president added. "That is not hyperbole."
Poroshenko — who won a majority of ballots in all regions of Ukraine except Donetsk and Luhansk, where separatists interfered with the May 25 presidential polling — "enjoys enough popular trust to break the situation, resolve the conflict and lead Ukraine to Europe," political scientist Fesenko said. "But he needs to act fast."
"People have such high expectations of Poroshenko after everything we have been through in recent months," said university student Sergey Denysenko, 22. "He will not be forgiven if he fails."
"I understand we are at a war and he has to handle it," said pensioner Yevgeniya Karpenko, 67, "but he was elected for the whole term, and I expect him to handle social and economic problems as well.
"I am not complaining, but I think everybody here would like to live better. There is so much potential in this country, so many opportunities."
Poroshenko promised to provide jobs and "decent wages as the first guarantee of internal peace and national security."
As the new president spoke of peace and economic reform, mortar fire struck a power station near the town of Slovyansk, the epicenter of the fighting, prompting the evacuation of technical personnel and cutting off electricity to some areas, the UNIAN news agency reported.
Two Ukrainian soldiers were reported wounded Saturday morning as pro-Russia gunmen attacked a government checkpoint near Slovyansk, Dmitry Tymchuk, head of the Kiev-based Center for Military and Political Research, said on his Facebook page.
Special correspondent Butenko reported from Kiev and Times staff writer Loiko from Moscow.


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THUMBS UP: There's a lot of synergy going on up on North Highland Avenue, where construction has begun on Highland Regency House. Synergy is, of course, the combination of two or more factors or entities that add up to more than the sum of their parts.
The 50-unit independent living residence is located next to the new Martin Luther College Early Childhood Education Center, where MLC?education students will be working with preschool kids. The residents will have plenty of opportunity to volunteer or be part of the program as they wish. It's always a good time when you can get old folks and kids together, and when you throw in young adults like the MLC?students. It is also close to the MLC?campus, where the opportunities for cultural events, athletic events and worship will be close at hand.
While the idea for Highland Regency has its origins with MLC, the college has pulled back from actual ownership or management of the residence, but it is still planning on being there for the residents. That's a win-win-win situation for all.
State of education
THUMBS UP: Gov. Mark Dayton was excited, and rightly so, on Thursday when the 2013 National Report Card came out, posting math and reading scores for fourth- and eight-graders in the country. Minnesota fourth-graders scored tops overall in the nation in math, and 10th in reading. More important, the disparity between white and non-white students shrank noticeably. Minnesota's black fourt-graders posted the fourth-highest math scores among all black students in the country, after being 22nd in 2011. The gap is narrower, but it is still there. Minnesota still has progress to make at the 8th grade level.
The report card shows there is still a long way to go for the nation's students to achieve basic skill levels. But the results in Minnesota are encouraging.
Supporting schools
THUMBS UP: It was an off year election this week, but there were plenty of important issues in some communities in the state.
In 57 school districts around the state, districts were asking voters to approve tax levy referendums, and in 50 of those districts, voters said yes. That's an 88 percent approval rate.
We're sure there are as many reasons for success as there are districts, but it is apparent that schools have been taking a hit for a long time, and in many districts voters were convinced that the extra tax support was necessary.


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When the English immigrated to America, their Bulldog came with them. A few dedicated bulldog fanciers formed the Bulldog Club of America in 1890 and it was incorporated under the laws of the State of New York on November 29, 1904. The purposes for which the club was formed were well stated by the framers of its Constitution. Specifically:
The BCA was one of the first breed clubs to become a member of the new regulatory registry and show-approval organization, The American Kennel Club. Although BCA was originally composed of a small group of men in the northeastern United States, membership in the group began to spread across the country and the structure of the Club was reshaped in 1950 to recognize that fact. At that time, the two-tiered structure of the club - sectional groups united in a strong national organization to serve the best interest of the breed - was adopted.
Since one major goal of BCA's reorganization was to guarantee representation in all areas of the country, the club structure was organized in a form similar to our national government - a National organization composed of Divisions comprising groups of states. Although the National organization sets policy and governs the organization, each of the Divisions is responsible for BCA activities within the Division's territory. Information about the Divisions and local clubs can be found under Local Information.
The Bulldog Club of America is committed to the preservation of our noble breed by maintaining a standard of excellence for the guidance of breeders, owners, and judges. We seek to improve the breed by encouraging efforts aimed at producing sound and healthy dogs with the degree of excellence established in the Standard for the Breed. We also seek to encourage interest in the competitive public showing of bulldogs in conformation and performance events under the auspices of the American Kennel Club. BCA works for the general good of breeders, owners and exhibitors of bulldogs.


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NASCAR Looks to Future, Celebrates the Past As NASCAR Sprint Media Tour Concludes
The 32nd annual NASCAR Sprint Media Tour came to a close on Thursday with NASCAR'S announcement of a new championship format to conclude its season. Putting a greater emphasis on winning, the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship has expanded its field to 16 drivers with a new round-by-round elimination format that ultimately pits four drivers in a winner-take-all race at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the season finale.
"Everything about this is focused around winning, and that's exactly what our fans want," said Brian France, NASCAR chairman and CEO. "We have millions of fans and some very loud and passionate fans, especially when we change anything. The vast majority of the fans that we communicated with really love this because they don't like points racing. Being the best down the stretch is most important and this is going to elevate the opportunity for more drivers to have those moments."
The top 15 drivers with the most victories over the first 26 races will earn a spot in the NASCAR Chase Grid (as long as they have finished 30th or better in the standings and have attempted to qualify for every race). The 16th Chase spot will be rewarded to the points leader after the final race at Richmond International Raceway, if he or she does not have a victory.
For instance, should there be only 14 winners, then the final two spots will go to the two drivers with the most points without a win, and so on. Should there be more than 16 winners over the course of the first 26 races, the only winless driver who can earn a spot in the Chase would be the points leader after 26 races.
"I've been an avid fan for 50 years, and there've been times in my career in NASCAR I've had to take my avid fan hat off to make tough decisions," said NASCAR President Mike Helton. "This decision and where we're going with the grid is exciting to me officially, but it's even more exciting to me as an avid fan."
Once the Chase qualifiers have been determined, the points will be reset and the top-16 will move on to the Challenger Round, which will be competed over three races at Chicagoland Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway and Dover International Speedway. The top-12 in points after Dover will move on to the Contender Round (at Kansas Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway), where the points will again be reset. The top-eight after Talladega will then move on to the Eliminator Round (at Martinsville Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway and Phoenix International Raceway), where the points will be reset yet again. The top four after Phoenix will compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway in a winner-take-all race that will determine the champion based on whoever of the four has the best finish. There will be no bonus points for leading a lap at Miami.
A win by a championship-eligible driver in any Chase race automatically clinches the winning driver a spot in the next Chase round.
Drivers who are eliminated in the Contender and Eliminator rounds will have their points reset to the Chase-start base of 2,000 (with any regular-season wins bonus points), plus the additional points earned in the Chase.
In addition to the changes to the Chase, NASCAR announced its 2014 Drive for Diversity class. Selected from a pool representing 14 states and Mexico, the drivers will compete in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series and the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East.
The class includes Ryan Gifford (Winchester, Tenn.), Daniel Suarez (Monterrey, Mexico), Jay Beasley (Las Vegas, Nev.), Sergio Pena (Winchester, Va.), Devon Amos (Rancho Ricardo, New Mexico), Paige Decker (Eagle River, Wisc.).
HISTORY HONORED AT NASCAR HALL -- The 2014 NASCAR Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony capped off Wednesday's activities on the 32nd annual NASCAR Sprint Media Tour hosted by Charlotte Motor Speedway. Drivers who comprise the five-person class include Tim Flock, Jack Ingram, Dale Jarrett, Maurice Petty and Fireball Roberts. The five inductees came from a group of 25 nominees.
Flock won two NASCAR premier series championships in four years (1952 and 1955). His 18 wins in 1955 were a NASCAR premier single season record until Richard Petty won 27 races in 1967. Flock is the only driver to win in every division at the Daytona Beach and Road Course (Strictly Stock, convertible and modified stock). He finished his career with 39 wins and 38 poles in 187 premier series starts. Flock died on March 31, 1998.
"Boy, this is like being at the Super Bowl of racing tonight," said Flock's wife, Frances. "I bet my darling and all the past drivers are having one huge race up in heaven tonight. I can almost hear them telling them stories, especially Tim telling the story about Jocko."
Ingram has five NASCAR championships, including three straight Late Model Sportsman (1972-1974) and two NASCAR Busch Series titles (1982, 1985). He earned the nickname "Iron Man" after running 1,750 miles in six races in five days in five states over Labor Day weekend in 1973. Ingram scored 31 wins and five poles in 275 NASCAR Busch/Nationwide Series starts.
"I'm honored to be here tonight, beyond words," Ingram said. "This is a major lifetime achievement for me. While I was driving the car I had plenty of help and support along the way otherwise I wouldn't be here tonight."
Petty is the first engine builder elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Engines built by Petty won seven championships and more than 200 NASCAR premier series races including seven Daytona 500 victories. Petty was also the winning crew chief of the 1970 Daytona 500 with driver Pete Hamilton.
"Who would have thought growing up that there would be four of us out of a small, rural country community in the NASCAR Hall of Fame," Petty said. "I want to thank my wife Patricia for taking care of the children, looking after them, taking care of the home, paying all the bills and supporting me allowing me to work and accomplish the things that I did. I want to thank all the people who worked for Lee, Richard and me at Petty Enterprises including Dale Inman. We were one of the most successful teams in NASCAR history."
Roberts is considered by many as the first superstar of NASCAR. He won seven times at his home track, Daytona International Speedway, including the 1962 Daytona 500. He started only 10 races in 1958 but won six of them, including his first of two Southern 500 victories. Roberts won 33 races and 32 poles in 207 premier series starts. He died on July 2, 1964.
"We are proud that our grandfather, who sacrificed his life to racing, is being honored by NASCAR; the organization that set the scene for a life well lived," Roberts' grandson said during the induction ceremony. "Thank you to all of those on the nominating committee and voting panel. I'm sure that our grandfather would be pleased to know that he was part of such a wonderful class of inductees."
Jarrett won the 1999 NASCAR premier series championship with four wins and 29 top-10 finishes in 34 starts. Among Jarrett's 32 premier series victories are three Daytona 500 wins (1993, 1996 and 2000) and two Brickyard 400s (1996 and 1999). He and father Ned and Lee and Richard Petty are the only father-son combinations to win NASCAR premier series championships. Jarrett scored 32 wins and 16 poles in 668 premier series starts.
"As I've thought about being inducted with these four superstars of our sport - Tim Flock, Fireball Roberts, Maurice Petty and Jack Ingram along with the 20 individuals before us, I realize that I may have the most unique perspective of this entire group of Hall of Famers," Jarrett said. "You see, I watched and lived around many of them as a kid while my Hall of Fame father was racing against them. I later had the opportunity to race with many of them, drive for some of them and certainly learn valuable lessons from most of them - that was on and off the track."
VICKERS EAGER TO GET BACK BEHIND WHEEL - After being sidelined with recurring health issues last season, Michael Waltrip Racing's Brian Vickers said he can't wait to get back behind the wheel in 2014.
"I'm cleared. I'm ready, off blood thinners. I've never been more ready in my entire life to get back in a race car," he told media at the NASCAR Sprint Media Tour hosted by Charlotte Motor Speedway on Thursday.
Vickers' latest three-month hiatus provided him the opportunity to take his wife on a honeymoon and relax a little, but also served as a reminder of how much he misses races.
Moving forward, Vickers said, managing his health is just a matter of being aware of warning signs and
"That's really all you can do," Vickers said. "My last incident was a provoked incident. I had to wear a boot for a month. In those situations, we've got to be more mindful of it, but that's really all you can do."
Team owner Michael Waltrip said he's optimistic looking ahead to 2014. Several sponsors, including Peak, Five Hour Energy and Aaron's will be back on board with Vickers and teammate Clint Bowyer, and the team has added Kansas Strong to the lineup as well.
"We are as prepared as we have ever been at this point in the season," Bowyer said. "We are poised and ready for battle. It's been a great off season, but I'm ready."
EXCITEMENT TO SPARE AT JOE GIBBS RACING— No news is good news for the Joe Gibbs Racing team, and they are excited to continue the momentum of 2013 into the 2014 season. The unofficial tally of the word "excited" in reference to the upcoming season reached 34 before drivers discussed the sport's changes in breakout sessions.
After a tough 2013 season, Denny Hamlin, driver of the No. 11 FedEx Toyota Camry, believes that the NASCAR winner-takes-all championship format plays into his history of success at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
"I think it's great for me. That's for sure. I think that every kind of format that I've heard about the Chase and everything really benefits me a lot," Hamlin said before NASCAR outlined the rules changes Thursday afternoon. "There's the whole thing of win a Chase race and move on. I know it's all good stuff. Knowing that I've got Martinsville before Homestead, if I win Martinsville then I'll automatically be part of Homestead's championship picture. All that seems great for our team in particular. Homestead is one of our best race tracks, no doubt about it."
Matt Kenseth, driver of the No. 20 Dollar General Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing, also trusts NASCAR to make the right changes for the sport and is more concerned about making those changes work for him.
"I don't spend a lot of time thinking about that unless I get my opinion asked," Kenseth said. "They're way smarter than I am, and they're going to figure out what's best for the sport all the way around from rules package to format changes to whatever it may be. It's our job to figure out how to take advantage of that, make it work for us and try to succeed in that environment. That's really more what I'm worried about."
Hamlin and Kenseth's teammate, Kyle Busch, had a slightly different opinion on the changing format, but is ready for whatever happens.
"We all expressed our reasons of making some slight changes to it and seeing if they would bite on any of it, but they didn't, of course," Busch, driver of the No. 18 M&Ms Toyota Camry, said. "It was already said and done, and what's coming is coming."
"I'm not even a really good driver and I got more than that."
Michael Waltrip, in response to Michael Waltrip Racing driver Clint Bowyer saying he only has one pole in his career.


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Cooking meat at high temperatures is known to create toxins called heterocyclic amines, which have been linked to some cancers. Marinating lowers the risk by preventing the formation of the toxins. But one ingredient that makes a big difference is rosemary. Studies show that adding it to ground beef and other types of muscle meat before grilling, frying, broiling or barbecuing significantly reduces heterocyclic amines.
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Scientists attribute this to specific antioxidants in rosemary: rosmarinic acid, carnosol and carnosic acid. Another study two years ago compared several marinades and found that the one that was most protective was a Caribbean mixture, which, they wrote, "contained considerable amounts" of the same three antioxidants.
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If you said the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California High-Speed Rail Authority, pat yourself on the back. Given their poor records, if these agencies were looking for executive talent, one would assume they'd bring in an outsider with a strong history of oversight and independence – someone willing to stand up to the bureaucratic forces of inertia.
But then that's what the agencies would do if they were honest about their records. Instead, inexplicably, both the pension giant and bullet-train shepherd think they're doing a great job. And so it was no surprise to learn this week that the rail authority has hired CALPERS' acting chief financial officer, Russell Fong, as its CFO. How tidy.
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I'm not sure which is worse: Dead "Lips" the Clown or Homicidal Horned Boo-Boo here. On the plus side, I'm guessing any parent who serves these will never have to buy circus tickets for the kiddies ever again. Of course, that benefit might be slightly offset by all the therapy those kids are going to need...
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Nicholas Wieme loved making short films when he was growing up in a small town in Minnesota, a theatrical passion that would lead him to Chicago.
On Wednesday evening, the 23-year-old climbed onto the roof of the InterContinental Chicago hotel, with its famed onion-shaped dome, to take photographs when the night went terribly wrong.
Wieme fell into a smokestack and became wedged, beginning an elaborate, hourslong rescue attempt by firefighters that ultimately proved futile.
Friends and family mourned Thursday a young man they said was a creative force, an aspiring comedian and improv actor who had so impressed his coaches at iO Chicago, an improv theater, that they made him a regular on a team.
"He was a force to watch. He was a terrific artist," said Matt Higbee, Wieme's coach at iO Chicago for the last eight months.
Wieme, who lived on the North Side, had been dining with a friend at Michael Jordan's restaurant in the Michigan Avenue hotel when, police said, they decided to "explore" the building. Wieme and the woman took an elevator to the top floor and walked onto the rooftop deck, a restricted area, through an unsecured door, officials said.
Firefighters later learned that Wieme had fallen down the smokestack, according to Fire Department spokeswoman Meg Ahlheim.
Firefighters wrapped ropes around a structure in the roof dome and lowered a single man, a firefighter/paramedic, to Wieme's aid, and determined he was unconscious.
Crews used an electric handsaw to drill through the quarter-inch steel duct on the 39th floor, stirring up dust from insulation and soot from years of chimney buildup. They secured two wooden planks that would stop Wieme if he fell further, officials said.
"It turned very precarious because two feet after where we made the hole was a drop that would have went 42 floors to the basement," Special Operations Chief Michael Fox said. "So it took us a little time to cut the hole in the right spot and shore it up so when we brought him out he would not fall into the basement."
The paramedic in the chimney secured Wieme to a rescue board attached to a rope, and firefighters slowly lowered him to crews on the 39th floor. He was pulled out of the chimney just after 4:30 a.m. and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. There, he was pronounced dead at 5:15 a.m. An autopsy will be conducted Friday.
Raymond Vermolen, general manager of the hotel, released a statement saying InterContinental "holds the safety, comfort and well-being of our guests and employees as our top priority and concern. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the guest at this difficult time. The hotel staff will continue to cooperate fully with authorities in their investigation. All further questions should be directed to the Chicago Police Department."
Friends and family recalled Thursday how Wieme had long wanted to be a performer and later a director, and started making his own films when he was 16. Wieme grew up in Pipestone, Minn., a small town near the South Dakota border, the son of a radio announcer. There he worked in the town's movie theater.
"I think that's what sparked him," said his aunt, Linda Wieme, of Balaton, Minn.
Linda Wieme said his comedy reflected his character.
"He was a bubbly kid. I don't think I ever saw him upset," she said. "He always had some joke or something to lift your spirits. ... That's the reason he was a comedian, he was a very happy-go-lucky kid."
His brother Jamie Wieme said Nick "began taking up the hobby of stand-up comedy" while at Minnesota State University in Moorhead. Comedy led to acting, which led to Chicago and the improv scene, his brother said.
"Those that watched him perform often attested that Nick had a way of unintentionally stealing the show," his brother told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Wieme had fierce loyalty to his family and friends and would do anything for anyone, he said.
Higbee said he first noticed Wieme when he was affiliated with iO as a student and saw him earn a coveted spot there as a performer.
"He had such a joyousness," Higbee added, "and you couldn't help but watch him."
Wieme is survived by his parents, two brothers, a sister-in-law and a niece.
Tribune reporter Jeremy Gorner and Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Paul Walsh contributed.


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Billionaire immigration push slows
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, billionaire Michael Bloomberg and Citigroup exec Carlos Gutierrez gave immigration reform firepower last year when they lent their money or names to the cause.
But roughly two months before Election Day, the three groups the business titans helped launch are all but silent on the campaign trail. None of the three has purchased airtime for ads on immigration reform this fall.
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Their virtual absence comes as Senate Republican candidates in battleground states are launching attack ads against Democrats accusing them of supporting "amnesty," leaving pro-immigration reform candidates even more vulnerable and immigration reform even less likely to happen.
( Also on POLITICO: DNC chair: O'Malley right on 'certain death')
Gutierrez's group, Republicans for Immigration Reform, has no plans to launch a counteroffensive. Despite being billed as the GOP rainmaker on immigration reform, the group has struggled to make inroads with big GOP donors.
"With the problem at the border and the president's rhetoric on executive action have totally poisoned the well," said Charlie Spies, who helped organized Republicans for Immigration Reform. "I don't think anybody believes anything can happen this year."
They aren't alone. While American Action Network was heavily invested in pushing immigration reform when legislation was under discussion in the Senate, the multi-issue conservative group isn't active on the ground or on TV trying to make an example of House Republicans who have blocked similar efforts in that chamber.
Bloomberg's Partnership for a New American Economy also has no plans for major network or cable TV ad buys on immigration reform.
( Also on POLITICO: Ryan the Betrayer)
Zuckerberg's FWD.us could go up with ads later this fall, but doesn't have any time reserved as of yet.
Representatives from the groups cite a variety of reasons for not playing an active role in the election — everything from immigration reform not being a top issue this cycle to trying to save limited resources for when the legislative environment in Congress becomes better.
Still, it's a stark contrast from earlier this year when immigration groups, GOP operatives, unions and others were putting a full-court press on House Republicans with ads, private meetings and in district lobbying to engage on the issue.
Some groups fed up with Republicans became aggressive last year. Kica Matos, a spokeswoman for the Fair Immigration Reform Movement said earlier this year that it was time to "switch tactics from persuasion to punishment."
( Also on POLITICO: Pols on Ferguson: Sound of silence)
Many hoped the big outside groups would pick up that mantle.
Sill, Republicans have moved increasingly to the right on the issue of immigration, following the dramatic surge of illegal immigrants on the Texas border. And they aren't afraid to show it. Attack ads have aired in Arkansas, Michigan and New Hampshire — key states for which party will control the Senate. Failed Alaska tea party Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller, who was vying to become the GOP nominee, went so far as to send out a mailer that depicted illegal immigrants as gang members.
President Barack Obama has signaled he will use executive actions regarding immigration reform in mid-September. When he does, it's expected to incite the barrage of criticism on the campaign trail from Republicans even more.
The Latino Victory Project is trying to provide a backstop for Obama. The group, which was supported by actress Eva Longoria and Democratic megadonor Henry Muñoz, is launching cable TV ads in English and Spanish to run in Washington through the beginning of September that criticize House Republican leadership's failure to act on immigration reform. The group also plans to run digital ads in Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King's district.
Not everyone is waving the white flag.
Latino Victory Project's Cristobal Alex said they decided to go up with the ads because there was a "vacuum" on the pro-immigration reform side, and expects to do another round of ads once Obama takes executive action on the issue.
He praised the other pro-immigration groups activity so far, but said it would be "unfortunate if they pulled back at this moment."


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This is without a doubt my husbands all time favorite dish. I got this recipe from his sister, and made just a few tiny adjustments to it. It is a very mild Mexican dish, and pretty much fail proof. I don't make it often enough though, specially if you ask my hubby. He would like to have it at least once a week. Problem is, he eats one pan full on his own, most often in one sitting, and that is just not good for him, other people in the house or the budget! :o)
Enchilada Lasagna
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
1 lbs chicken breast, chopped to bite pieces
5 cups of mexican blend cheese
1 can of cream of celery
1 can of cream of chicken
1 1/2 cups sour cream
1/4 cup canned and chopped green chillies (drained)
small corn tortillas
1 tsp cumin
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
Brown chicken in a pan on 2 tbsp of oil. Season with salt and pepper.
In a bowl combine cream of celery, cream of chicken, sour cream and green chillies.
Prepare the dish you will assemble the lasagna in. Put 1/2 cup of cream mix on the bottom of the baking dish and spread. Layer a row of tortillas followed with cream mix, chicken and cheese. You should be able to make 3 layers like this. Last layer doesn't need chicken, just a ton of cheese. :o)That is the best part!
Count on getting at least seconds, it really is that good!
Quick update...and thanks to J + P for reminding me!
It seems that I forgot to put instructions down for actually baking this amazing dish. Yaaay me!
I preheat the oven to 425 degrees and let it bake for about 20 minutes or until cheese is nice and melted and golden brown on top...
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This paper focuses on the practical significance of visual tools in Knowledge Management (KM) and Information Systems (IS) development in the context of the development of MaKE, a KM method. Visual tools are used extensively in KM and IS. However, this paper identifies a dilemma in the use of visual tools and examines how this dilemma was addressed during the development of some visual tools in MaKE. A brief description of MaKE is provided before visual tools are presented and discussed. The visual tools are called the Knowledge Targets Pyramid, Knowledge Tree, Knowledge Block, and the Linking Overview which are used to help present outcomes. They were reviewed and analysed in workshops in a major UK Fast Moving Consumer Goods manufacturer. The authors suggest that the findings of this research are relevant to visual tools used as part of KM methods and frameworks and that if certain guidelines are borne in mind, visual tools are very helpful for understanding and communicating, in a short time frame, relatively complex phenomena. Within the context of MaKE the Knowledge Targets Pyramid, Knowledge Block, and the Linking Overview do this more effectively than the Knowledge Tree.
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Known as the First, the last, and as the Seventh in the mouths of sailors, the Astral Sea is equal parts myth, legend, lies, and something more than can be expected.
The Astral Sea is a mysterious and nearly impossible to find body of water. Entrances to this sea can be found predominantly in areas of open ocean, well beyond the sight of land. On rare occassions, such entrances can be traversed by accident on rivers, lakes, underground seas, or any other body of water large enough to float a ship or raft. The challenge is that none of the locations are fixed, the Astral sea flows and ebbs with a tide not goverened by things like the moon.
The Astral Sea is often a place of thick fog during the day, as well as doldrums that can leave sailing ships dead, or nearly dead in the water. The fog has a eerie other-worldly presence to it, and is at the very least unnerving. There are many dangers to be foud in this ancient and starlit sea. Their are true leviathans here, beasts the size of mountains, and as long as rivers move through the depths. Whirlpools can burble to the surface to pull ships down to the most unimaginable of destinations.
Crossing the sea requires a steady hand and concentration. As oars splash in the water, or what meager winds push against the canvas, the helmsman must keep a steady destination. Ships that are left rudderless, or fall to despair are almost certain to never be found again, to add their slowly rotting timbers to the other hulks that have been lost to the sea, yet not taken by whirlpool or leviathan. Regardless of propulsion, be it by many oared trireme, or a hand paddled raft, crossing the Astral Sea takes six days, no matter the destination, no matter the speed of the ship.
The destination could be a port a few hundred miles away,or a mad dash for where home might have been, or the voyagers could find themselves on the shore of a strange and new world. And of course, going home is never quite as simple as just turning around and going back the way they came.
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For almost as long as RPGs have been around, the Astral Plane has served as a continuum between the planes. This sort of cosmology, tied with our modern understanding of planets and physics creates a rather cold and sterile place that seems very much out of sorts with the usual grim and vigor of genre fantasy. At its very core, the Astral Sea serves the same purpose as the Astral Plane, a continuum between various planes of existance without delving into often munchkinish planar mechanics, or a discussion that leaves everyone without a degree in quantum physics either baffled or nursing a headache.


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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
* Homemade Personalized Ballet Shoe Bag
My sweet little "C" (age 4) is starting her very first ballet class this week.
She's SUPER excited, her mama kinda is too!
(Back story: I studied ballet/jazz/tap/toe for 11 years and did a bit of dancing in high school and college
Her daddy and I are taking Latin and Salsa dancing this summer)
We went on a special shopping trip to the store
to pick up her leotard, tu-tu, shoes, and tights.
Every little dancer needs a special bag to keep her clothes and shoes in
and my little "C" is a "purse girl."
and my little "C" is a "purse girl."
I made one of these 5 years ago when her big sister took her first dance class -
she quit after a year but it was fun while it lasted.
I still have her cute little bag and some adorable photos for my scrapbooks!
First, we needed a good photo of "C" wearing her special ballet costume,
with a neutral background.
We did a mini photo shoot in the hallway against a white door and tried a couple of poses.
We picked her favorite pose, then printed it out on T-Shirt transfer paper.
Because we were planning to use a dark pink bag, I ironed the image onto some white muslin
(so it wouldn't be too dark.)
If you are using a lighter colored bag, you can save yourself a step
and iron the picture directly onto the bag!
Ironing on the kitchen granite works like a charm with the transfer film.
Out-of-focus, close-up photo of the "Ironed-On-Muslin Ballerina."
Sorry, it was a bad camera day
Then, I carefully trimmed the ballerina and used
Fabric Fusion glue because I didn't feel like sewing it onto the bag.
After she was glued down,
I hand-sewed on a bit of pale pink tulle to make a little 3-D tu-tu for her.
(Sorry about the side-ways photo!)
On her sister's bag, I even added a silver glitter glue tiara
but because C's hands were over her head, there wasn't enough room.
Then, I found some pale pink satin ribbon in my stash, it reminded me of my toe-shoes
so I tied a big fluffy bow and hand-sewed it to the bag so it wouldn't come un-tied.
Another view of the ballerina so you can see how her skirt is attached.
Voila! The finished ballet bag, and my little ballerina ready for our first class.
I have a dance teacher friend from college who is expecting her first daughter soon,
I'm thinking she's going to need one of these little bags too!
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It all began at a friend's birthday party more than a decade ago. After a few too many drinks, Jane Lipsitz and Dan Cutforth began talking about starting their own production company.
"I can't remember who suggested it to who, but the other person said, 'Yeah, I've been thinking about that too,'?" Cutforth recalled as he and Lipsitz sat for a joint interview recently in their Hollywood-based Magical Elves shingle.
The company, officially launched 10 years ago, has been behind some of reality TV's most popular skeins, including "Top Chef" as well as "Work of Art," "The Real L Word" and "Braxton Family Values." On the theatrical side, Magical Elves reached out to the teenage girl crowd with "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never."
Since they joined forces on VH1's "Bands on the Run," Cutforth and Lipsitz have developed and produced shows for an array of broadcast ("Last Comic Standing" and the upcoming "Fashion Star") and cable nets ("Project Greenlight," "Top Design" and "Dance Your Ass Off").
"I never could have gotten through these last 10 years without having Dan as my partner," Lipsitz says of Cutforth, whom she met while she was an exec at VH1 overseeing and producing such shows as "Pop Up Video" and "The List."
The partners finish each other's sentences so often that they originally considered calling the company Twin Talk. They agree that their partnership is similar to a longterm relationship.
"In a marriage you produce children and here we produce television," Lipsitz says. "Our productions are our children. There's a lot of conversations about how do you manage the kids, how do you make the television shows better."
When they launched Magical Elves, the partners worked side by side and tried to do everything in tandem, but as they started to produce more shows, they were forced to split primary responsibility with certain series. Cutforth is now more directly involved in the day-to-day of Bravo's "Top Chef" franchise while Lipsitz is focused on Showtime's "The Real L Word," launching "Fashion Star" for NBC and taking the lead in development.
"It's definitely like a male-female thing," Lipsitz says. "Dan is very good at organization, structure and seeing how formats come together as part of a big picture. I spend a little more time on developing the emotional side of storytelling. We can definitely see the yin-yang working. We balance each other out."
Lauren Zalaznick, chairman of NBC Universal Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media, first worked with Lipsitz back in 1996 when both were at VH1. By the time Zalaznick came to Bravo in 2004, Magical Elves had begun its stellar run and the executive has watched as Lipsitz and Cutforth continue to display extraordinary teamwork.
"They have truly a perfect team with a near-perfect relationship," she says. "Like a perfect emotional relationship or marriage or business partnership, they understand each other's brand and essence and passion and drive and craziness."
With a full roster of reality shows that have many unpredictable elements, the Elves team often find itself reacting to a logistics problem, a budget situation or creative issue — sometimes all at once.
"We have all these different hats we have to wear in the space of a day, and multitasking on that many levels is really hard," Cutforth says. "You're trying to drive five cars at the same time. You drive one car for a little bit and then you stop, get out and run back to where the other cars are. Then you drive another one for a little bit, stop, get out of that and maybe drive the first one for a bit more. I feel like we do a decent job of driving all those cars."
Having a sense of humor has helped.
"What has characterized our relationship from day one is that in times of great crisis, we usually find a way to make it funny," says Cutforth. "We literally end up laughing about it and then we figure it out. First we freak out, then we laugh about the fact that we freaked out. Then we fix it."
NBC reality topper Paul Teledgy says there are good reasons why Magical Elves productions are in demand, whether they have created a show themselves or are asked by a network to produce it.
"Dan and Jane really know what they are doing and they care deeply," he says. "We know what we are buying when we buy a Magical Elves show. Because they are 100% owners of the company, they march to the beat of their own drum creatively and from a business point of view."
Producer David Nevins, who worked with Lipsitz and Cutforth on "Treasure Hunters" on NBC in 2006 and more recently on Showtime's "The Real L Word," says the Magical Elves team brings something very rare to the reality show table: "They have the instincts of real documentarians and real sophistication in how they approach their subjects."
Nevins hopes they remain a unit for at least another 10 years.
"They have relentless creative minds and they work really well together — pushing each other," he says. "Reality television is a medium that changes really fast and there's a constant hunger for the next thing. They are smart enough that they will stay on the cutting edge as long as they want to."
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STATE OF THE ART: Virginia Crossroads
Taubman Art Museum : Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - Saturday, February 23, 2013
The nine regional artists featured in this exhibition present works, varying greatly in medium and materials, which subtly address an array of broad cultural issues including technology, domesticity, and climate, presented in artistic languages that are both representational and abstract. This selection of paintings, sculptures, and photographs was conceived by Ray Kass, the museum's Adjunct Curator of Southeast American Art.
In the work of some of the artists, concepts of beauty, space, and color are expressed through materials often assembled with eclectic items found at flea markets. Many of the artists demonstrate a special interest in tangible materials. Arbitrary items like frames, vintage dolls, broken wheels, and animal bones are transformed from detritus to coveted subject matter. The sculptural forms beckon closer observation, provoke the viewer to ask questions, and follow the artist's path to ascribe new meaning to their presence.
Other of the artists allow their work to form intuitively from inspirations discovered in their immediate environments. Their compositions comment on both natural and man-made landscapes, specifically recognizing the exploitative relationship between humans and the environment. Many of these works grapple with ideas of change and nostalgia, functioning as channels to cope with a society that constantly develops yet simultaneously becomes obsolete.
Within each of these works, traditional mediums such as oil, pastel, and encaustic are implemented in unconventional ways. Canvas surfaces are multilayered and then manipulated to generate fragmented perspectives that speak to aging and isolation. In addition, photographic prints found in the exhibition are altered during the post-editing process to enhance the mystery found within each.
For many of the artists in this exhibition their work has consistently focused on storytelling. The show serves as a bustling intersection of mature thought and creativity.
Participating Artists:
- John Clingempeel - Roanoke, Virginia
- David Freed - Richmond, Virginia
- Ann Glover - Roanoke, Virginia
- Charles Goolsby - Emory, Virginia
- Reni Gower - Richmond, Virginia
- Chris Gregson - Fredericksburg, Virginia
- Sam Krisch - Roanoke, Virginia
- Taliaferro Logan - Salem, Virginia
- Robert Sulkin - Roanoke, Virginia
This exhibition has been sponsored by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, National Endowment of the Arts, and the Friends of the Taubman Museum of Art.


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February Films: 'Anatahan,' Andrzej Wajda, 'I Am Not Your Negro,' Paz Encina
The strangest release of the young year, The Lure—a first feature by Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska—is a disco musical concerning a pair of carnivorous mermaids who come ashore in late Communist Warsaw. The movie is uneven and the allegory meanders but it is a remarkably assured debut, often quite funny and with some truly startling images. Opens February 1 at the IFC Center.
An even more exotic hot-house flower than The Lure, Josef von Sterberg's final film—and arguably his most personal—Anatahan (1953), an independent production made in a Japanese studio, returns in a new DCP, playing at the Metrograph (February 3-9). Inspired by the stories of Japanese stragglers, unaware that World War II had ended and holding out on Pacific islands, Sternberg conjured up a mysterious jungle in which the soldiers wage their own struggle for possession of the island's only woman.
The most universally admired documentary shown at the last New York Film Festival, I Am Not Your Negro, by the Haitian director Raoul Peck, is an exemplary and moving film-essay that draws on James Baldwin's life and writings—mainly his unfinished manuscript Remember This House, a reminiscence of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, and his book on American movies, The Devil Finds Work. Opens February 3 at Film Forum.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center, which is also screening I Am Not Your Negro, has organized an eleven-film tribute (February 9-16) to the great Polish director Andrzej Wajda, who died at age ninety late last year. In addition to the local premiere of Wajda's last film, Afterimage, the show includes his best-known films—the harrowing existential drama Kanal, the harbinger of the East European new wave Ashes and Diamonds, and his portrait of a Stalin-era model worker, the Polish Citizen Kane and political event, Man of Marble (1977)—as well as his 1960 youth film Innocent Sorcerers, with Zbigniew Cybulski; and the bruising, quasi-autobiographical Rough Treatment (also known as Without Anesthesia) from 1978, and its pastoral follow-up, Young Girls of Wilko (1979).
A younger political filmmaker, Paraguayan director Paz Encina will be showing her work at the Museum of Modern Art (February 10-12). Rather than coaxing a narrative from a documentary situation, her willfully primitive, conceptually rigorous Paraguayan Hammock (2006) uses voiceover and editing to impose one. Her new films, Memory Exercises and Sorrows of the Struggle, are also assemblages—juxtaposing archives kept by long-time dictator Alfredo Stroessner with the testimony of Stroessner's victims.


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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2013 Chilmark Community Center
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013 Harbor View Hotel, Edgartown
Dir. Dawn Porter | Documentary | U.S.A. | 2013 | 96 min.
Discussion with director Dawn Porter to follow
Meet three young public defenders, part of a group of idealistic lawyers in the Deep South, as they challenge the assumptions that drive our criminal justice system to the breaking point. Backed by mentor and charismatic leader Jonathan "Rap" Rapping, head of the Southern Public Defender Training Center (now known as Gideon's Promise), they struggle against long hours, low pay, and staggering caseloads. Even the most committed often give up in their first year. Fifty years since the Supreme Court ruling Gideon v. Wainwright established the right to counsel, these courageous lawyers try to revolutionize the way America thinks about indigent defense, to make "justice for all" a reality.
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Our volunteer counselor position is a leadership program for young adults (15+ years old) interested in working at summer camp, changing children's lives, and gaining real-life job experience. Because this is considered a training position and not a camper program, the applicant volunteer should be responsible for communication and following through with the application process. Applications must be received by June 15 to be considered. Volunteer counselors are strongly recommended to attend summer camp open house and child abuse prevention training prior to assisting camp weeks.
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June 29th, 2019 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm
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With just 38 days to go before the opening of Obamacare insurance exchanges, public ignorance about those marketplaces remains sky-high, threatening the very goal of offering affordable health care to the uninsured, several studies show.
And according to a troubling conclusion in at least one study earlier this year, awareness about the new health-care law had declined among some groups more than three years after Obamacare was signed.
But whether knowledge is slipping or stagnantly low, health-care advocates are now in crunch mode as they work to spread the word about exchanges, whose success is dependent on large consumer participation.
Just 22 percent of adults ages 18 to 64 had heard "a lot" or "some" about the insurance exchanges, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study in June. But 45 percent said they knew "nothing at all about them," according to the study.
Perhaps most alarming is the number of young adults who appear particularly clueless about the Affordable Care Act exchanges that are due to open Oct. 1 and begin coverage on Jan. 1. A whopping 73 percent of adults between the ages of 19 and 29 are unaware of the marketplaces, a separate Commonwealth Fund study this week found.
"If you continue to see that very low level of awareness even as you get toward October, that's a sign that we may not be getting the enrollment, and the exchanges are going to be at a bit of risk from that," said Commonwealth Fund report co- author Sara Collins.
"You want a broad, healthy diverse risk pool in the marketplaces. It's really important that young, healthy people come into the market," said Collins, noting the danger of premium hikes from having a disproportionate number of older, sicker people in insurance plans.
Even if they know about the exchanges, a surprising 68 percent of people with pre-existing health conditions—who potentially have the most to benefit because the law now will bar denial of insurance in such cases—say they are unsure if they will buy the plans there, according to a separate report this month from InsuranceQuotes.com. That same report found that 14 percent of such people with health conditions said they actually would not buy insurance.
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FRIDAY, Feb. 10, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding reduces the risk of obesity in children born to mothers with diabetes during their pregnancy, a new study indicates.
Researchers followed 94 children of diabetic mothers and 399 children of non-diabetic mothers from birth until age 13.
It's known that children of diabetic pregnancies are at increased risk for obesity. The Colorado School of Public Health researchers wanted to assess how breast-feeding affected the growth of body-mass index (BMI), an indicator of childhood obesity.
The study found that children of diabetic pregnancies who were breast-fed for at least six months had a slower BMI growth as they grew older than those who were breast-fed for less than six months. The study found similar results in children of non-diabetic pregnancies.
The study was published online recently in the International Journal of Obesity.
"Breast-feeding support represents an important clinical and public health strategy to reduce the risk of childhood obesity," study author and epidemiologist Tessa Crume said in a University of Colorado Denver news release.
The findings offer another reason to encourage and support mothers to breast-feed for at least six months, the time recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the release said.
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Mental Age (MA)is an intelligence test score, expressed in units of chronological age for which a given level of performance is average or typical when compared to people of the same age.
How mental age is derivedEdit
After taking a standardized test, an individual's mental age is divided by his chronological age and multiplied by 100, yielding an intelligence quotient (IQ). Thus, a subject whose mental and chronological ages are identical has an IQ of 100, or average intelligence.
Louis Leon Thurstone was among prominent critics, stating "the mental age concept is a failure in that it leads to ambiguities and inconsistencies."
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As the White House prepares to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next Monday, President Obama has ratcheted up his language on Iran in an attempt to show Israel that the U.S. has "got their back."
In an interview with The Atlantic, Obama told Jeffrey Goldberg that Iran should take the United States' threat of action against the country seriously, if they do not halt their nuclear program.
"I think that the Israeli government recognizes that, as president of the United States, I don't bluff," Obama said. "I also don't, as a matter of sound policy, go around advertising exactly what our intentions are. But I think both the Iranian and the Israeli governments recognize that when the United States says it is unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, we mean what we say."
The president will meet Netanyahu next week and have what will likely be a tense discussion over Iran's nuclear program. He plans to urge Israel from holding off on military actions and has stressed that premature military action could actually help Iran.
"At a time when there is not a lot of sympathy for Iran and its only real ally, [Syria,] is on the ropes, do we want a distraction in which suddenly Iran can portray itself as a victim," he told the Atlantic.
Already, Israel has made it abundantly clear that it is contemplating using force against Iran in order to curb its nuclear program.
Though the president remained decidedly pro-Israel in the Atlantic interview, he did seem to voice frustration over criticisms that he is anti-Israel.
"Every single commitment I have made to the state of Israel and its security, I have kept," he said. "Why is it that despite me never failing to support Israel on every single problem that they've had over the last three years, that there are still questions about that?"
Obama was also asked about the potential public backlash of Americans, to a strike by Israel that could result in Iranian action against American targets, to which he responded: "I think we in the United States instinctively sympathize with Israel."
Read the full interview in The Atlantic.


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