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When I went to a flea market two men were rude.
In the future, these are people who I hope to elude.
When I wanted to buy some of their items, they ignored me.
I was shocked and irritated by their stupidity.
Because of their behavior, they both lost a sale.
Their rude behavior was mean and it does repel.
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In this report, APC reviews what worked well and what didn't at the 2015 IGF held in João Pessoa, Brazil. The overall theme of the IGF was "Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development". After a decade of active engagement with the forum, read our critiques, and recommendations looking forward to this year's IGF.
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Between 14 and 18 December, I joined my colleague Tarakiyee, from APC, in Beirut, along with a dozen activists and human rights defenders from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with a focus on internet rights.
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2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). It is also the anniversary of a multistakeholder experiment that helped bring the WSIS to a successful conclusion: the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). This book reflects on WGIG's procedural and substantive contributions to the evolving global Internet governance dialogue and institutional ecosystem.

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John Clark, owner of Reggio's Pizza (The only Black Owned Pizza manufacturing Company in the world) spoke at our Monday meeting of United American Progress Association and Black Wall Street Chicago while one of his employees, Martha Lowery, gave out samples of pizza. We discussed the boycott of "Target" stores that won't stock Reggios pizza. He also informed us that CVS and Walgreens refuse to stock his Pizza. Hear a statement from John, the Reggio pizza man!
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Nursing & Health Job and Internship Fair has proven to be an excellent way for top regional healthcare organizations to meet and evaluate prospective students and candidates for full-time or internship positions. Over 150 students and alumni are expected to attend.
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Welcome to SportsNation! On Tuesday, ESPN Stats & Information's Ryan McCrystal stops by to take questions on his Heisman Predictor.
Currently, the predictor has Trent Richardson from Alabama in first place, followed by Andrew Luck, Stanford; Robert Griffin, Baylor; and Case Keenum, Houston. McCrystal's system has correctly picked eight of the last nine Heisman winners.
Send your questions now and join McCrystal Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET!
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Ryan McCrystal (1:00 PM)
Hey everyone, thanks for stopping by. We've got a wild Heisman race on our hands, so let's dive right into the questions...
Jacob Zander (Reno)
Whose candidacy depends the most on their performances the next upcoming games?
Ryan McCrystal (1:04 PM)
Definitely Robert Griffin because his candidacy is tied to his stats. He needs to keep up his pace over his final two games and put some distance between himself and Luck in the statistical categories (mainly total touchdowns)
Ryan McCrystal (1:05 PM)
Luck and Richardson don't need to do much other than win this weekend, and then hope for some help. Neither Bama nor Stanford controls their own destiny in their conference race, so neither is guaranteed another game after this weekend.
Andrew (Houston)
Do you think Heisman voters look to the next level or truly at whom has performed the best during their season?
Ryan McCrystal (1:08 PM)
Typically I think they focus solely on what happens on the field. We've seen plenty of Heisman winners in recent years with very little chance of NFL success (Jason White for example). But I do think it's a factor with Luck this season. It may not consciously factor into their vote, but it has been a factor in terms of how much attention he's received in the media - which indirectly impacts the voting.
Aaron (Oakland)
Why does Case Keenum get no respect? If he played in the SEC or Big 12, he'd be in first.
Ryan McCrystal (1:10 PM)
If he posted these numbers in the SEC or Big 12, you're absolutely right. But no one believes he would... He's a great college quarterback, and I'm certain he would be successful in the SEC. But it's tough to imagine him replicating these numbers against an SEC schedule, or even a Big East or ACC schedule for that matter.
Ryan McCrystal (1:10 PM)
Keenum will factor into the Heisman race though. He's a very safe bet to finish in the top 10, and probably the top 5.
John (Austin)
Ryan, what's the single biggest factor that will affect the race from this point of the season on? Realistically, can RG3 make up the ground needed?
Ryan McCrystal (1:14 PM)
The race is so close it's almost impossible to narrow it down to one factor... Griffin is absolutely in the mix, however. If Bama and Stanford are left out of their conference title game, that gives him a significant advantage. His stats are hard to argue with, and the fact that he's doing it for a traditional college football doormat counts for a little something extra.
Jim (KA)
Who was the Heisman winner you didn't get right?
Ryan McCrystal (1:16 PM)
In 2009 Mark Ingram won in a very close vote. Our formula had Colt McCoy as the winner. That year was somewhat similar to this season in that we had multiple candidates with a strong case but no one really stood out as an obvious choice.
John (Austin)
If Luck doesn't win will people say "_____" won the Heisman or will people remember Luck lost the Heisman? It was his to win all year, right?
Ryan McCrystal (1:18 PM)
That's a great question. I think most people will still remember the winner. The fact that Luck is here with a chance to win, after all the expectations that have been heaped upon him, is impressive enough. The Heisman winner is very rarely the person tabbed as the clear-cut favorite before the season.
David (TITLETOWN extends to Madison)
Shouldn't Montee Ball or Russell Wilson getting more consideration. Given the fact that Ball has 30 TDs and Wilson is leading the nation in pass efficiency?
Ryan McCrystal (1:22 PM)
That's a fair question. If not for two hail marys (vs MSU and OSU) I think its safe to say both would be in contention. However, team success means a lot to Heisman voters. Richardson and Luck lost to LSU and Oregon, respectively. Ball and Wilson lost to a 6-5 Ohio State team. That hurts a lot.
Paul (San Francisco)
Thanks for the chat. To what extent, if any, does the quality of the supporting cast factor in when considering a candidate?
Ryan McCrystal (1:25 PM)
Typically it plays a minor role, but I do think it factors in this season. I believe both Luck and Griffin benefit from the perception that they're winning without much of a support cast - even if it isn't entirely true. We just don't see Heisman candidates from Stanford and Baylor very often, so there's a certain novelty to it. This probably isn't a variable that any voter will use as a deciding factor, but it's something they'll consider in such a close race like this.
Scott (ATL)
It seems like the voters aren't very fond of Collin Klein, why is that?
Ryan McCrystal (1:29 PM)
Players like Klein have a very steep hill to climb, even when they have a legitimate case as I believe he does. With nearly 1,000 Heisman voters there's a wide range of college football knowledge among them. As a result, the edge always goes to the players who enter the season as household names. And even when a player does come from no where, he typically plays for a traditional power or a national title contenders (such as Ingram in '09 or Newton last year).
Scott (ATL)
Realistically, is it possible for a player from a team with 2 or 3 losses to win?
Ryan McCrystal (1:30 PM)
It hasn't happened often in recent years, but it definitely could this season. Griffin has the stats and the 'Heisman moment' against Oklahoma to make it happen.
Scott (ATL)
How many people do you think The Heisman will invite to NYC this year?
Ryan McCrystal (1:33 PM)
As I explained in this weeks Heisman Predictor article, I think we have three clear front runners (Luck, Griffin, Richardson). And since there are only three spots on the ballot it will be difficult for anyone else to earn an invitation. For someone else to enter the mix, maybe Case Keenum or Matt Barkley, Griffin probably has to falter down the stretch.
Ryan McCrystal (1:34 PM)
This year's voting has the potential to look a lot like it did in 2008 when Bradford, McCoy and Tebow appeared on nearly every ballot and were the only three finalists.
Chris (Los Angeles)
Where is the love for Matt Barkley? He did what no one else, including Andrew Luck, has been able to do in Eugene for years (not to mention an outstanding regular season)
Ryan McCrystal (1:38 PM)
Barkley's a tough candidate to figure out. Normally he'd be in the mix, but USC has been out of the spotlight this year due to the fact that they're not eligible for postseason play. I think this hurts him two ways... First, some voters may intentionally penalize him for the fact that USC is ineligible. Second, he can't play in the Pac-12 title game would which have been his chance to make a run... I wouldn't rule him out as a possible finalist, however.
Scott (Georgia)
Looking forward to next season, who is your preseason top 5 canidates?
Ryan McCrystal (1:40 PM)
Tough to say right now, but anyone who finishes among the top 10 in the Heisman voting and returns for the following season is always a front runner. They get a 10 point bonus in the Predictor formula to account for the fact that they enter the year as a 'household name' and receive more attention early in the season. A few possible candidates: Barkley, Collin Klein and David Wilson from Virginia Tech.
Bryan (Springdale, AR)
A good, rationale explanation for why Tyler Wilson is not on the Heisman ballot and I will leave you alone!
Ryan McCrystal (1:41 PM)
I can't give you a good reason as to why he doesn't deserve to be in consideration, but I can explain why isn't...
Ryan McCrystal (1:43 PM)
Arkansas' biggest game of the year came all the way back in September (a loss vs Bama) before the Razorbacks were considered title contenders. As a result, no one really started paying attention to Wilson as a possible candidate until the past week or two. If he leads ARK to an upset of LSU he has a chance to finish in the top 10, but it's too little too late to win.
Scott (Georgia)
Every Heisman winner has their "moment" that stands out throughout the season, have any of the canidates really had that moment yet?
Ryan McCrystal (1:44 PM)
Griffin absolutely had one against Oklahoma, but other than him? No.
Ryan McCrystal (1:46 PM)
The Predictor accounts for these 'moments' by awarding points for performances against top-10 teams. The Heisman winner almost always has 5-10 points in this category. This year, however, Richardson has 0, Luck has -2, and Griffin has 8. Without those points, Griffin isn't even in the conversation.
Tommy (the big easy)
Heres an idea for the heisman how bout give it to the best player this year not whose the bigger name or what team has the best record just the best player?
Ryan McCrystal (1:48 PM)
I agree this is a problem sometimes, but I have to say the Heisman voters are probably going to get it right this year. You can make a very strong case that Luck, Richardson or Griffin is truly the "most outstanding" player in college football.
Joe (Atlanta)
Will Aaron Murray be in contention next year?
Ryan McCrystal (1:49 PM)
Murray's 2012 Heisman campaign starts in two weeks in the SEC Championship game...
John (Dallas)
So if Griffin wins the Heisman should he be thanking Stoops for the timeout call?
Ryan McCrystal (1:52 PM)
Who knows what would've happened if not for the timeout... but if you believe that won the game for Baylor, then absolutely. Without that win over Oklahoma, Griffin is not a viable contender.
Matt (Madison, WI)
Can you explain how Richardson is "more outstanding" than Ball this year? More carries, less yards, less touchdowns, fewer receptions, and fewer receiving yards!
Ryan McCrystal (1:55 PM)
Ball has a strong case, I absolutely agree. But you also have to factor in level of competition, performance in meaningful games, etc. I won't say that Richardson is definitively better than Ball, or the other way around. But I do know the voters care about team success, and Richardson has Ball beat easily in that category.
Ryan McCrystal (1:55 PM)
If you think that's an unfair tiebreaker, well, a lot of people would probably agree with you. But history tells is it's the tiebreaker used most often by the voters.
Scott (Georgia)
I know this is far in advance, but would you say Collin Klein and Sammy Watkins should be leading the pack for next year's Heisman race?
Ryan McCrystal (1:58 PM)
Klein will definitely enter the season as a contender. As for Watkins, that's a tough call. He's an elite player, but receivers have a very steep hill to climb to become a legitimate contender. And playing in the ACC - a conference typically ignored by Heisman voters - doesn't help.
Ryan McCrystal (1:59 PM)
Well that's all we have time for today. Thanks for all the questions. Have a happy Thanksgiving and enjoy another great weekend of college football!
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Skip to comments.McCains Old Age Worse Than Rudys Divorces?
Posted on 02/17/2007 4:59:08 AM PST by areafiftyone
Could John McCain's unprecedented old age (he would be 72 when elected) be more problematic for his presidential run than Rudy Giuliani's rocky marital life (he has been married thrice) in 2008? The latest USA Today/Gallup Poll seems to suggest this might be the case.
The new survey asks voters what they think about certain presidential candidate quirks.
USA Today/Gallup Poll. Feb. 9-11, 2007. N=1,006 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.
"Between now and the 2008 political conventions, there will be discussion about the qualifications of presidential candidates — their education, age, religion, race, and so on. If your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be [see below], would you vote for that person?" Trend includes slight variation in wording. Yes No Unsure % % % Catholic 2/9-11/07 95 4 1 5/30 - 6/1/03 93 5 2 2/19-21/99 94 4 2 2/3-8/37 60 30 10 Black 2/9-11/07 94 5 1 5/30 - 6/1/03 92 6 2 2/19-21/99 95 4 1 1/4 - 2/28/97 93 4 3 7/10-13/87 79 13 8 7/21-24/78 77 18 5 4/19-24/67 53 41 6 9/10-15/58 38 54 8 Jewish 2/9-11/07 92 7 2 5/30 - 6/1/03 89 8 3 2/19-21/99 92 6 2 9/10-15/58 63 29 8 2/10-15/37 46 47 8 A woman 2/9-11/07 88 11 1 5/30 - 6/1/03 87 12 1 2/19-21/99 92 7 1 7/10-13/87 82 12 6 7/21-24/78 76 19 5 4/19-24/67 57 39 4 9/10-15/58 54 41 5 1/27 - 2/1/37 33 64 3 Hispanic 2/9-11/07 87 12 1 Mormon 2/9-11/07 72 24 4 2/19-21/99 79 17 4 4/19-24/67 75 17 8 Married for the third time 2/9-11/07 67 30 3 Seventy-two years of age 2/9-11/07 57 42 1 A homosexual 2/9-11/07 55 43 2 2/19-21/99 59 37 4 4/29 - 5/2/83 29 64 7 7/21-24/78 26 66 8 Atheist 2/9-11/07 45 53 3 2/19-21/99 49 48 3 9/10-15/58 18 77 5 . Asked of those who answered "yes" to each appropriate item above:
"Would you be completely comfortable voting for a qualified presidential candidate who was [see below], or would you have some reservations?" Combined results, based on total sample.
Would Not
Vote For
Unsure % % % %
Black 2/9-11/07
84 9 5 1 A woman
2/9-11/07 78 10 11 1
Mormon 2/9-11/07 58
14 24 4 Married for the third time
2/9-11/07 54 13 30 3
Seventy-two years of age 2/9-11/07 43
15 42 1
Voters are more comfortable with an anonymous thrice-married candidate than an anonymous seventy-two year old candidate? Most serious pundits (including yours truly) have long dismissed the notion that McCain's old age would harm his presidential prospects. This doesn't necessarily spell doom for the elderly McCain, and the results might be different if Rudy's name went along with the thrice-married tag and McCain's with the 72-year-old tag, but these results do pose some interesting questions about what qualities the American electorate requires from their Commander in Chief in this especially trying and weighty era of history.
There was no question about "Brainwashed by Russions while a POW"
It's not McCain's age, it's his "foot in both parties lack of conservatism" that bothers me. I'd vote for RUMSFELD in a heartbeat!
I couldn't care less about Rudy's divorces and I don't even know how old McCain is. I wouldn't vote for either one of them because they're both RINOs. End of story.
McCain's military service is the no no for me! I will not vote for him under any circumstances.
I am nor supporting any one at this point, just know who that I will NOT support.
Amen to that.
Why is anyone making a big deal about Rudy Giuliani being divorced? Reagan was divorced. Newt Gingrich was divorced. Being divorced by itself doesn't make a person evil!
So you'll be happy if we got President Hillary?
It is not McCain's age that worries me, it is his mental status.
His mental instability frightens me more than his age. As well as the times the 'maverick senator' has used the media to stick one in the party's back.
Don't you think it would be a bit of a stretch to make such an assumption? I wouldn't be happy with either of the three. I can't see that there is much difference, except that McCain probably looks better in a dress than Hillary.
Frankly, if we can't do better than these three, I won't waste my time voting.
For me Divorce means nothing. Sometimes it takes a few times to find the right person. We are all human..
I'm not a Romney fan (and I'm Catholic), but nevertheless I find it embarrassing that such a significant portion of those polled would not vote for a Mormon.
Yes. I believe he is too unstable for the presidency.
May 3, 1992
Memorandum for: Vice Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Prisoners of War and Missing in Action
From: John F. McCreary
Subject: Possible Violations of Title 18, U.S.C., Section 2071, by the Select Committee and Possible Ethical Misconduct by Staff Attorneys.
1. Continuing analysis of relevant laws and further review of the events between 8 April and 16 April 1992 connected with the destruction of the Investigators' Intelligence Briefing Text strongly indicate that the order to destroy all copies of that briefing text on 9 April and the actual destruction of copies of the briefing texts plus the purging of computer files might constitute violations of Title 18, U.S.C., Section 2071, which imposes criminal penalties for unlawful document destruction. Even absent a finding of criminal misconduct, statements, actions, and failures to act by the senior Staff attorneys following the 9 April briefing might constitute serious breaches of ethical standards of conduct for attorneys, in addition to violations of Senate and Select Committee rules. The potential consequences of these possible misdeeds are such that they should be brought to the attention of all members of the Select Committee, plus all Designees and Staff members who were present at the 9 April briefing.
2. The relevant section of Title 18, U.S.C., states in pertinent part: Section 2071. Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally (a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 795)
3. The facts as the undersigned and others present at the briefing recall them are presented in the attached Memorandum for the Record. A summary of those facts - and others that have been established since that Memorandum was written - follows.
a. On 8 April 1992, the Investigators' Intelligence Briefing Text was presented to Senior Staff members and Designees for whom copies were available prior to beginning the briefing. Objections to the text by the Designees prompted the Staff Director to order all persons present to leave their copies of the briefing text in Room SRB078. Subsequent events indicated that two copies had been removed without authorization.
b. On 9 April 1992, at the beginning of the meeting of the Select Committee and prior to the scheduled investigators' briefing, Senator McCain produced a copy of the intelligence briefing text, with whose contents he strongly disagreed. He charged that the briefing text had already been leaked to a POW/MIA activist, but was reassured by the Chairman that such was not the case. He replied that he was certain it would be leaked. Whereupon, the Chairman assured Senator McCain that there would be no leaks because all copies would be gathered and destroyed, and he gave orders to that effect. No senior staff member or attorney present cautioned against a possible violation of Title 18, U.S.C., Section 2071, or of Senate or Select Committee Rules.
c. Following the briefing on 9 April, the Staff Director, Ms. Frances Zwenig, restated to the intelligence investigators the order to destroy the intelligence briefing text and took measures to ensure execution of the destruction order. (See paragraph 3 of the attachment.) During one telephone conversation with the undersigned, she stated that she was "acting under orders."
d. The undersigned also was instructed to delete all computer files, which Mr. Barry Valentine witnessed on 9 April.
e. In a meeting on 15 April 1992, the Staff's Chief Counsel, J. William Codinha, was advised by intelligence investigators of their concerns about the possibility that they had committed a crime by participating in the destruction of the briefing text. Mr. Codinha minimized the significance of the documents and of their destruction. He admonished the investigators for "making a mountain out of a molehill."
f. When investigators repeated their concern that the order to destroy the documents might lead to criminal charges, Mr. Codinha replied "Who's the injured party." He was told, "The 2,494 families of the unaccounted for US Servicemen, among others." Mr. Codinha then said, "Who's gonna tell them. It's classified." At that point the meeting erupted. The undersigned stated that the measure of merit was the law and what's right, not avoidance of getting caught. To which Mr. Codinha made no reply. At no time during the meeting did Mr. Codinha give any indication that any copies of the intelligence briefing text existed.
g. Investigators, thereupon, repeatedly requested actions by the Committee to clear them of any wrongdoing, such as provision of legal counsel. Mr. Codinha admitted that he was not familiar with the law and promised to look into it. He invited a memorandum from the investigators stating what they wanted. Given Mr. Codinha's statements and reactions to the possibility of criminal liability, the investigators concluded they must request appointment of an independent counsel. A memorandum making such a request and signed by all six intelligence investigators was delivered to Mr. Codinha on 16 April.
h. At 2130 on 16 April, the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee, convened a meeting with the intelligence investigators, who told him personally of their concern that they might have committed a crime by participating in the destruction of the briefing texts at the order of the Staff Director. Senator Kerry stated that he gave the order to destroy the documents, not the Staff Director, and that none of the Senators present at the meeting had objected. He also stated that the issue of document destruction was "moot" because the original briefing text had been deposited with the Office of Senate Security "all along." Both the Staff Director and the Chief Counsel supported this assertion by the Chairman.
i. Senator Kerry's remarks prompted follow-up investigations (See paragraphs 4 through 9 of the attachment) and inquiries that established that a copy of the text was not deposited in the Office of Senate Security until the afternoon of 16 April. The Staff Director has admitted that on the afternoon of 16 April, after receiving a copy of a memorandum from Senator Bob Smith to Senator Kerry in which Senator Smith outlined his concerns about the destruction of documents, she obtained a copy of the intelligence briefing text from the office of Senator McCain and took it to the Office of Senate Security. Office of Senate Security personnel confirmed that the Staff Director gave them an envelope, marked "Eyes Only," to be placed in her personal file. The Staff Director has admitted that the envelope contained the copy of the intelligence briefing text that she obtained from the office of Senator McCain.
3. The facts of the destruction of the intelligence briefing text would seem to fall inside the prescriptions of the Statute, Title 18, U.S.C., Section 2071, so as to justify their referral for investigation to a competent law enforcement authority. The applicability of that Statute was debated in United States v. Poindexter, D.D.C. 1989, 725 F. Supp. 13, in connection with the Iran Contra investigation. The District Court ruled, inter alia, that the National Security Council is a public office within the meaning of the Statute and, thus, that its records and documents fell within the protection of the Statute. In light of that ruling, the Statute would seem to apply to this Senate Select Committee and its Staff. The continued existence of a "bootleg" copy of the intelligence briefing text - i.e., a copy that is not one of those made by the investigators for the purpose of briefing the Select Committee - would seem to be irrelevant to the issues of intent to destroy and willfulness; as well as to the issue of responsibility for the order to destroy all copies of the briefing text, for the attempt to carry out that order, and for the destruction that actually was accomplished in execution of that order.
4. As for the issue of misconduct by Staff attorneys, all member of the Bar swear to uphold the law. That oath may be violated by acts of omission and commission. Even without a violation of the Federal criminal statute, the actions and failures to act by senior Staff attorneys in the sequence of events connected with the destruction of the briefing text might constitute violations
of ethical standards for members of the Bar and of both Senate and Select Committee rules. The statements, actions and failures to act during and after the meeting on 15 April, when the investigators gave notice of their concern about possible criminal liability for document destruction, would seem to reflect disregard for the law and for the rules of the United States Senate.
John F. McCreary
Good morning.
Has the Spamorama started yet?
I willingly confess that I cannot support Rudy in the Republican primary because he failed a test in his personal life that I have applied to candidates in primary elections ever since I began voting in 1972. Its not an issue of multiple marriages and divorces for me, but one of faithfulness in marriage.
All things being nearly equal, any candidate with an extramarital affair in their personal life does not have my support in the primary. For me, its an issue of trustworthiness and honor and the implications for other aspects of their public lives. It may be old fashioned in modern culture, but I take marriage vows extremely seriously.
My standard for faithfulness in marriage certainly served me well to steer me away from further consideration of Bill Clinton before the election in 1992 after he essentially admitted to extramarital affairs in a CBS 60 Minutes interview. We all know what an immoral reprobate and scoundrel Clinton turned out to be. This is not to say that Rudy is in the same category as Bill Clinton for his very public extramarital affair while married to his second wife; certainly not!. Clinton is in a class by himself (a very low class) and deserving of the title Caligula of the Ozarks.
In any election you can vote four ways.
I will vote against Hillary and yes, she would be 100 times worse than any RINO for this reason:
A President-elect brings with him/her a huge human caravan that will become the new administration, with all its regulatory and enforcement powers.
How could any (and I do mean any) Republican's caravan be just as far-out left-wing extremist whacko as Hillary's is guaranteed to be, and rabidly ready to change the entire culture and our way of life?
Please don't stay home on Election Day!
There, that is much more accurate.
I despise McCain to the point I won't care.
Just how much more can Hillary damage the country than McCain already has done though his legislation?
McCain - Feingold
Gang of 14
Just to name two
I don't think you get it. The Free Republic Code is: R equals good, D equals baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. Please get with the program.
In contrast to y'all, my favored ticket right now is McCain/Giuliani.
Two strong candidates capable of taking votes from whomever the Dem candidate is. Both men remain heroes, in my opinion, and both will fight a strong war against the Islamists.
I know this is a minority opinion around here, but that's where I stand based on both principles and pragmatics.
Obama is a strong candidate capable of taking votes away from Democrats too. The problem is, he's one of them. The same can be said for McCain and Giuliani. I would rather vote for a Democrat that honest enough to admit to being a Democrat rather than one that lies and claims to be a Republican.
Electing a Democrat is bad for the country.
Electing a RINO is bad for the country and for the GOP.
There was a time, not too long ago, "R" meant CONSERVATIVE.
Today, I think it means gutless, feckless, sellout RINO
Well, my goodness, we really really disagree. The only Democrat I could vote for at this point would be Joe Lieberman, and then only if he ran on a Republican ticket.
Believe me, if Hillary or Obama get elected, and as you witness their total surrender in the war against Islamic totalitarianism, we'll all see the differences between Dems and people like John McCain or Rudy Giuliani.
Is that you Sean Hannity? Glen Beck?
I would never vote for Lieberman, even if he had an R next to his name.
McCain and Giuliani are Democrats too, but you're willing to vote for them.
I found it interesting that it's not even mentioned in the article but IS included in the poll. On the other hand at 72% the Mormon beats out age and divorces......
LMAO, love it!
McInsane is NO friend of the Constitution of the United States, and his unconstitutional McPain/Foolsgold legislation proved it.
Those people who kept on sneering about Reagan slipping into Alzheimers in the latter part of his second term?
They ain't seen nothin' if President McCain is placed in charge of the strawberries in the White House Kitchen!
McCain and Giuliani are not Democrats. That's weak sophistry at best. Both men are good solid Republicans in my book with strong conservative credentials on the issues that matter to me most.
I'll vote for any good man or woman on the GOP ticket who believes that fighting the war against Islamicism is our nation's top priority.
Yes. The Giuliani groupies are in spam warp overdrive mode already.
I expect a thread anytime breathlessly informing us that a poll of Armenian podiatrists in Poughkeepsie shows that they favor Giuliani over all other candidates by a six to one margin.
I do understand that many here will disagree with me. But I do see McCain as a man of high principle. His principles may not always be the same as yours or mine, but he does stick to them. He says what he's going to do, and then he does it.
I fixed your post.
McCain of the two actually has a good record on voting conservative, except for those major RINO issues like McCain - Feingold and such other party destroying legislation
Don't do that to my words. I'm hitting abuse.
I do not undstand how you can say that after he put McCain Feingold on the record as law.
But to each his own.
Thanks for saying that! I wanted to say the same thing but I refuse to post to anything to that dishonest poster for reasons that I won't go into here. The spamming by the Rudybots and propaganda they've been spewing out daily is unbelievable. I'm surprised Jim has allowed his forum to be used by these propagandists trying to get conservatives here to vote for a liberal rEPUBLICAN, if you can call him that. Jim's a much better man that I am. Good post my FRiend!
A wh0re should be judged by the same criteria as other professionals offering services for pay,
such as dentists, lawyers, hairdressers, physicians, plumbers, etc.
Is she professionally competent?
Does she give good measure?
Is she honest with her clients?
It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers.
And enormously higher than that of professors.
Go right ahead.
You must have some pretty thin skin
I disagree with John on that. His purpose was to fix a problem he saw regarding the way we run campaigns in this nation. He was following a different principle, and probably leaning more toward pragmatism. This is no sin to me. So far as I can see, we still have free and spirited political campaigns.
Ronald Reagan thought McCain was a pretty good guy. So do I.
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In Lawson v. FMR, LLC, No. 12-3, 2014 WL 813701 (U.S. Mar. 4, 2014), the Supreme Court of the United States, in a 6-3 decision reversing the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, held that the whistleblower protection provision in Section 806 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, 18 U.S.C. § 1514A ("SOX"), protects employees of publicly traded companies and employees of privately held companies that are contractors or subcontractors for a covered publicly traded company. In reaching this decision, the Supreme Court has clarified the definition of "covered employee" under the whistleblower provisions of SOX and expanded the scope of SOX.
Petitioners in this action were former employees of privately held companies that contracted to advise or manage mutual funds, which were publicly traded companies with no employees. Petitioners each brought separate actions in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, where they alleged unlawful retaliation by their employers in violation of the whistleblower protections of Section 806 of SOX. Section 806 provides, in relevant part, that "[n]o company with a class of securities registered under section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 . . . or any officer, employee, contractor, subcontractor, or agent of such company, may discharge, demote, suspend, threaten, harass, or in any other manner discriminate against an employee in the terms and conditions of employment because of any lawful act done by the employee . . . . "
Petitioners' privately held employers moved to dismiss the claims, arguing, in part, that petitioners were not "covered employees" within the meaning of Section 806. The district court denied the motions, ruling that the SOX whistleblower protection in Section 806 extended to employees of private agents, contractors and subcontractors to public companies. On appeal, the First Circuit reversed, holding that the whistleblower protections of Section 806(a) do not extend to an employee of a contractor or subcontractor [see blog article here]. The Supreme Court granted certiorari.
The Supreme Court (Ginsberg, J.) reversed. In its review, the Court looked first to the ordinary meaning of the statute. The Court held that "nothing in [SOX's] language confines the class of employees protected to those of a designated employer [and] absent any textual qualification, we presume the operative language means what it appears to mean: A contractor may not retaliate against its own employee for engaging in protected-whistle blower activity." Thus, "based on the text of [SOX], the mischief to which Congress was responding, and earlier legislation Congress drew upon, that [SOX] shelters employees of private contractors and subcontractors, just as it shelters employees of the public company served by the contractors and subcontractors."
In reaching this decision, the Court chose to disregard the titles and headings within SOX, some of which lend credence to respondent's arguments, because, the Court explained, SOX "is attended by numerous indicators that the statute's prohibitions govern the relationship between a contractor and its own employees; we do not read the headings to 'undo or limit' those signals."
The Court found further support by reviewing the underlying purpose of SOX — namely, to prevent "another Enron debacle." The Court held that the desire to prevent another Enron debacle was reflected in the legislative record of SOX, a record which focused on the role that contractors had in facilitating the Enron fraud. Given the extensive legislative record, the Court concluded that "one can safely assume that Congress enacted [SOX] aiming to encourage whistleblowing by contractor employees who suspect fraud involving public companies with whom they work."
Finally, the Court rejected the dissent's view that the Court's ruling was "all too inclusive" and could open the floodgates to SOX litigation. The majority argued that the dissent's view that the floodgates would open was simply hypothetical as the "DOL's regulations have interpreted [SOX] as protecting contractor employees for almost a decade."
In light of the Supreme Court's ruling, the definition of the term "covered employee" has been clarified and broadened, and it is now clear that the group of persons potentially covered by the protections of Section 806(a) of SOX include not only employees of publicly traded companies, but also employees of privately held contractors and subcontractors who provide services to the publicly traded companies.
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The conflict over the innocuously named Housing and Urban Development Bill is the more poignant because the landowners see the reform, which will give leaseholders the right to buy the freehold of their homes, as attacking the right of private ownership. Yet to extend this right is one of the Government's aims.
Wealthy landlords who will be affected, such as the Duke of Westminster, have been generous contributors to the Conservative Party. Tory peers cannot understand how the Bill, which has gone through its Commons stages, came about in the first place. They see it as a socialist-style attempt to extend home ownership to the smaller householders while withdrawing it from the larger landlords, in order to give 750,000 flat-dwellers the right to buy their homes.
It is a substantial blow for the Duke of Westminster, who owns 100 acres of Mayfair and 200 acres of Belgravia, which he regards as the 'jewel in the crown' of his holdings. That is why he resigned this month as Conservative Party Association chairman in Chester, a post he has held since 1977.
The duke has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for the party since 1977 by hosting fund-raising dinners, and is the man who was reportedly once given as a gift a Monopoly set on which he owned all the properties.
The Bill has been described by Sir George Young, the Housing Minister, as 'an essential part of our policy on extending home ownership'.
Leaseholders believe it will tackle problems associated with bad management of flats and the difficulties of selling short leases.
But John Barnes, of the London School of Economics, a specialist in British government, says: 'The Conservatives are now finding a tension between their decision to try to extend ownership to more people and the principle of ownership itself.'
On Friday, Earl Cadogan, who owns Sloane Square and 90 acres of Chelsea, announced that he was withdrawing financial support from the party.
Lord Howard de Walden, who owns 120 acres of Marylebone, accused the Tories of theft and hinted he might switch allegiance to Labour, adding: 'Why the Conservatives should bring this Act leaves me gasping. It's nothing but confiscation.'
Other Conservative peers are unhappy about the Bill. Lord Brougham and Vaux summed up their reaction: 'I think it's rather anti-Conservative.'
The Duke of Devonshire, who made headlines when he abandoned the Conservatives for the SDP in 1982, agreed: 'I would have thought it was more suitable for a Labour government.'
The Earl of Dudley said: 'I see it as an excuse for people to be able to acquire freehold property at below the market price.' Lord Forbes said: 'I can't think it's right to take away someone's heritage and let others have it.'
Rail privatisation and army cuts and the lack of strong leadership are also causing ripples among politically-minded peers.
Whether the Duke of Westminister's resignation is of much significance is disputed.
Professor Frank O'Gorman of Manchester University, a historian of the modern Conservative Party, believes the party should be 'very worried indeed - the Grosvenor connection with Chester goes back to the 17th century: it has always been a very proud aristocratic constituency'.
But Professor John Ramsden, of Queen Mary and Westfield College, London University, says dismissively: 'What has the Duke of Westminster resigned from? The presidency of Chester Conservative Association. He held a purely honorary title in one of 650 constituencies.'
Many previous conflicts between the aristocracy and the Conservative Party have been over policies which hit their pocket and their estates, but there have been few resignations.
Most recently, the Marquess of Salisbury resigned from the Cabinet in 1957 over the speed of decolonisation.
It is ironic that the actions of the duke and the earl mean Labour stands to profit indirectly from a Bill that mirrors its own 1967 Leasehold Reform Act, introduced by Harold Wilson.
That aimed to give leaseholders the right to buy freeholds, but excluded leaseholders with higher rateable values after heavy lobbying by landowners.
In 1986 the Duke of Westminster led an unsuccessful challenge against it in the European Court of Human Rights. The Act forced him to sell 80 houses, for pounds 2.5m.
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Nutritional factors can have profound influence on immune defense, but the mechanisms linking dietary nutrition to immunity are poorly understood. Work performed under the proposed project will establish the relationship between nutrition and defense from physiological and genetic perspectives, and will ultimately identify genes contributing to individual-specific alteration in immunity due to diet. The project will make use of the model insect Drosophila melanogaster, which has metabolic and immune systems that are highly conserved with homologous systems in vertebrates.
In Aim 1 of the project, D. melanogaster provided with diets of varying nutritional composition will be evaluated for resistance to bacterial infection (measured as immune system activity and suppression of bacterial proliferation) and tolerance of infection (measured as the ability to sustain health while infected). The experimental diets to be evaluated will vary in protein, sugar and fat levels.
Aim 2 of the project will test the hypothesis that specific immune and metabolic signaling pathways are linked during infection, such that activation of the immune system causes altered metabolism and energetic utilization. The IMD (immune system), JNK (stress response), and insulin-like (metabolism) signaling pathways will be genetically disrupted to test for cross-communication between processes during the early stages of an infection.
Aim 3 of the project will conceptually link the first two Aims in a study of naturally occurring variation. It is known that individuals in natural populations are genetically variable for both immune-related and metabolic traits. Experiments to be performed under Aim 3 will determine the degree to which resistance and tolerance phenotypes are determined by genotype-specific effects of diet (termed genotype-by-environment interaction). These interactions form the conceptual basis of personalized medicine, and understanding them will be crucial for advanced clinical therapeutics. Analysis of known polymorphisms and unbiased genome-wide association mapping will be employed to identify genes responsible for genotype-specific immunological alteration with diet. The data collected under all three Aims will provide novel and broadly comprehensive understanding of dietary effects on defense quality, with critical implications for clinical and evolutionary biology.
It is intuitively appreciated that dietary nutrition can influence resistance to infection, but the mechanisms connecting nutrition to defense are poorly understood. The proposed study will evaluate the impact of dietary nutrients on immune defense, will determine the genetic mechanisms linking nutrition and defense, and will identify genes contributing to individual-specific alterations in immunity attributable to diet. The work will contribute to understanding disease resistance and susceptibility in evolutionary and clinically relevant contexts.
|Howick, Virginia M; Lazzaro, Brian P (2014) Genotype and diet shape resistance and tolerance across distinct phases of bacterial infection. BMC Evol Biol 14:56
|Chambers, Moria C; Jacobson, Eliana; Khalil, Sarah et al. (2014) Thorax injury lowers resistance to infection in Drosophila melanogaster. Infect Immun 82:4380-9
|Short, Sarah M; Lazzaro, Brian P (2013) Reproductive status alters transcriptomic response to infection in female Drosophila melanogaster. G3 (Bethesda) 3:827-40
|Del Campo, Marta L; Halitschke, Rayko; Short, Sarah M et al. (2013) Dietary plant phenolic improves survival of bacterial infection in Manduca sexta caterpillars. Entomol Exp Appl 146:321-331
|Galac, Madeline R; Lazzaro, Brian P (2011) Comparative pathology of bacteria in the genus Providencia to a natural host, Drosophila melanogaster. Microbes Infect 13:673-83
|Short, Sarah M; Lazzaro, Brian P (2010) Female and male genetic contributions to post-mating immune defence in female Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Biol Sci 277:3649-57
|Fellous, Simon; Lazzaro, Brian P (2010) Larval food quality affects adult (but not larval) immune gene expression independent of effects on general condition. Mol Ecol 19:1462-8


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I awake in blackness.
I can't tell if it is
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or standing?
Am I?
Am I?
Am I?
I suffer
then die
then I am born as a
then I am eaten
and my
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dog's bark or
a hot breath or
the energy it takes to lift a remote...
I become insignificant
yet with more purpose
then I have now.
If it isn't too late to choose,
I'de like to come back as
a mountain.
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Pursuing the steps can achieved the loose of ten pounds weekly which translates to losing 20 pounds by 50 percent weeks in the event the same rate is maintained. It starts with having the calories consumed.
It is very important know the volume of calories consumed each day. This is easily obtained by calories charts that indicate the calories possess by different meals. You should consume only exactly what the body may use. Monitored consumption of calories improves the body's ability to wear out fat because it strives to meet any additional energy requirement. Metabolism of fats reserves may be the fast key to weight reduction.
The second step is maintaining an everyday diet. There are a few believes that fasting could be the efficient to weight loss. However, fasting achieves quick weight loss to the fast few days. And then short while of about three days, the body metabolism mechanism adjusts and starts reserving fat to use during skipped meals. The complete goal is gaining back the dropped a few pounds. It really is practicle lose 10 lbs by eating regularly and avoiding skipping meals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FcmJ1KCFJs
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I'm in the process or moving, far too slowly as it happens, to Cardiff – or Caerdydd to give it its native tongue name – capital of Wales, the land of my mother's fathers, the land of song.
So, MySpace Exploration will be a short orbit this time.
There's nothing scientific in MySpace, this won't prove anything about the health of the music scene in Europe's youngest capital; people lie about their locations in cyberspace. Since I've set up my page numerous spammers have offered me tricks to boost my profile views and song plays, so all I can do is ramble at random around that tough little port city.
Doctor Watson started the Sherlock Holmes canon by describing London as a cesspool for the British Empire into which all the loafers eventually drained. In some ways Cardiff serves the same purpose for Wales, still overwhelmingly a rural country.
Cardiff, or Carediv to give it its local pronunciation, has an accent all of its own, is a football city in a rugby country and is tough and blue collar capital of the South Wales valleys in a country best known as a dreaming, poetic land of misty-eyed melancholics.
A good place to start is the home of The Loft Studios; they're based in the city's snazzy new Bay, a regenerated docklands packed with restaurants and bars, the stunning Millennium Centre concert hall and the Senate that houses the centre of devolved Welsh government.
There's an ever-revolving selection of the acts they've worked with – including a fair smattering of Welsh language acts.
My current favourite there is the dreamy psych-pop of Mesa, whose "Aikon" is a thing of great beauty.
Singing in Welsh is a political act; it's commercial suicide in a way but the survival of the mother-tongue in Wales has been a hard-fought battle and plays a huge role in the idea of Wales' independent national identity.
The neighbours haven't always been friendly and even into this century wiping out the language was a policy – my Nain and Taid (grandmother and grandfather) grew up when it was commonplace for children to be beaten by teachers for speaking their first language in school.
Sadly, I don't speak more than a few words but it is a beautiful, mellifluous tongue, and Mesa's dream-pop showcases its musicality.
Now, I haven't listened to drum and bass for quite a long time now – the rattling was too much, but in High Contrast I round some I could really get along with very nicely; he hasn't neglected the tunes you see. "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" could sit very nicely on any gangster soundtrack with its cleverly manipulated vocal sample. "Eternal Optimist" lives soulfully up to its title and while this is dance music, it is indubitably listenable dance music.
I've already translated a little Welsh and I don't know if the term Blim has any meaning to an American audience – in the UK it's a little bit of what you fancy, if what you fancy is a little bit of weed.
Now, The Blims, of Bridgend, will certainly bring a smile to your face too. It's a real gem of a band that seems limited to gigging on the local scene at the moment. They shouldn't be limited; their sunny, good-humoured sound showcases song-writing skills that deserve a wider audience. "Fuck Off And Leave Me Alone" is a classic to these ears. Nice T-shirts too.
YPP, or Your Popular Pariah, stretch my definition of Cardiff to Newport – but so much of South Wales really is a conurbation, so sod yer yer pedant. I'm sure John Frum isn't the first and I'm sure he won't be the last to sample the work of the legendary, sadly late and very great Bill Hicks' work. His use of the 'positive drugs story' and 'it's just a ride' fits the mood perfectly, features a compelling beat and some nice, suitably wibbly synths. This politically-inspired DIY artist is definitely worth a listen.
Already winning a following and good press are post-rockers Stray Borders, or is it math rock? I neither know, nor to be honest care, it's good rock: slow burning, heavy duty and building and dare I say it intelligent – yes, I guess I do dare, don't I? Godspeed You! Welsh Emperor, as an unimaginative reviewer might write.
Traveling a more mainstream path, but none the worse for it, are big tuned fellows Lucent, who do the power trio thing to a very nicely honed t and all of whose tracks are up for free download.
There's a whole load more musical going on in and around Cardiff, but take a look out there, it's a whole world in MySpace.Powered by Sidelines


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He was admitted to hospital after eating so much bran on a regular basis that it had set as a solid mass inside his bowel - and had to be cut out by surgeons.
National consumption of bran has shot up over the past decade, largely because of health messages that the dietary fibre may help to prevent bowel cancer, but doctors are now warning that they may have to set a limit on how much people should eat.
"Public awareness is at an all-time high with regard to healthy eating and current advice seems to encourage as much bran as you can palate. But we now have to think whether we should modify the advice," says Ken Shute, consultant surgeon at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, who reports the case of the bran addict in the archives of the Royal College of Surgeons.
After the operation, the patient confessed to doctors that he had become an addict as a result of publicity surrounding bowel disease and the beneficial effects of bran. "He was a well-educated man and he was admitted to the hospital with an acute small-bowel obstruction, and a large amount of solid plant matter was removed. The mass appeared to have formed as a direct result of over-consumption of bran," Mr Shute says.
One of the problems with eating too much bran is that it contains phytobezoars, large conglomerations of vegetable fibres which are probably very useful to some animals but indigestible in man where it can build up and cause obstructions in the bowel.
It is not known how many people have fallen victim to over-eating of the substance, but the likelihood is that in many cases the bowel has managed to cope with the problem.
Mr Shute and his colleagues say that it may now be time for vegetarians and the elderly, considered to be the two groups most at risk, to be given new advice on how much to consume.
"Is it safe to continue with the current philosophy where 'the more the merrier' appears to be the general medical consensus?" he asks.
Nutritionists also point out that fibre can be obtained from a variety of sources, particularly green vegetables and fruit.
Carol Sinclair, author of the IBS starch-free diet, says that there are other disadvantages with bran. "It contains phytic acid which blocks the absorption of calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, copper and vitamin B6. And because it comes from the outside skin of the grain, usually wheat, it contains a high percentage of the chemicals sprayed on the crop," she says.
The Royal Gwent patient apparently recovered without mishap - but his passion for bran, which was meant to keep him out of hospital rather than put him in, is said to have waned.
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