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Wow! If you wanted some WordPress.com blog bling bling, we've covered a lot, haven't we? I've shown you how to add graphics and photographs and video, lines and smilies, fonts, blockquotes, social bookmark links, blogroll bling and sidebar widgets, and…have I forgotten anything?
Ah, yes. How to display code bling in your WordPress.com blogs, and most importantly, "how the heck does she do that fancy signature and tag thing at the bottom of every post!"
Let's start with the signature and tag bling.
Adding a Signature and Tags to Your WordPress.com Blogs
Many people love the signature I add to each of my posts. You can add a similar signature, graphic, logo, or any image you would like to your posts at the bottom.
I explain in great detail how I do this using a browser bookmarklet script in "A Technorati Tag Bookmarklet for WordPress and WordPress.com Users". Basically, I use the bookmarklet to create a list of site search tags for each article, along with a format that includes my signature and the 9Rules logo. When I'm done writing each post, before publishing, I type in the keyword tags into the bookmarklet and copy and paste it to the bottom of my post.
Here is a summary of how it works.
- Create a signature graphic or logo using a graphics program or scanner.
- Upload it to your WordPress.com blog and save the file location address.
- When you are finished writing a post, copy and paste the graphic link and/or tags, or use the bookmarklet you customized with your new graphic, into the last line of your post.
- Click Save and Continue Editing or Publish and it's there.
You can feature a signature, custom logo, favorite photograph, picture of yourself, or whatever you want to customize and create a unique sign-off on your blog posts. It can also include a biography, credits, copyright statement, comment policy, or any information you would like to feature at the bottom of your blog posts.
Just remember, if your WordPress blog uses full posts on the front page or other multi-post page views of your blog, the signature will be repeated on every post on the screen. I recommend you keep the signature block small and comfortable on the eye.
You can use the Tag Bookmarklet to just add tags to your WordPress.com blogs without having a graphic image or signature, too. Keep it simple or use your creativity to make your WordPress.com blog be your own.
What Do You Use to Create the Related Articles List?
At the bottom of many articles I write, I feature a list of related articles. While there are WordPress Plugins which do this for you automatically on full version WordPress blogs, no such luck with WordPress.com. This is done manually.
I keep a record of the links for all the articles on my blog in a text editor file. When a new one comes out, I copy the link and paste it into a link list under the appropriate category of links in the text file, such as articles about comment spam under the "Comment and Comment Spam" section. By grouping like articles together, it makes it easier to create my Related Articles list.
I also use the search form on my blog to search for keywords related to the article I'm about to publish. Sometimes I'll miss an article or two that applies to this new article. I add them to my Related Articles list.
I use the

 heading to start the list, and then add a bulleted list of the related posts below it. It basically looks like:

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It's hard work, and can be time consuming, but bringing you the most helpful information on this site is important to me. If this post doesn't have the answer, maybe one of the related articles might.
No tricks. No WordPress Plugins. Just manual labor and coding.
Posting Code Bling
While not considered blog bling, posting code in your WordPress.com blogs is a typical visual effect many bloggers want to add to their blogs. Posting code in WordPress.com can be a bit complex as WordPress wants to strip or convert your code, making it a mess.
There are two HTML tags you can use on WordPress.com blogs to showcase programming code or languages so they look more "typewriterly", as a friend describes it. They are
 and
Both tags make the text look like it was written with an old fashioned typewriter in a font typically known as "Courier". However, each HTML tag handles the text inside of it a little differently.
 works within paragraphs to change the look of the text in a sentence for emphasis. It also can work in its own paragraph and allows the lines of code to wrap when necessary on spaces.
 HTML tag looks like this:
Using the  HTML tag, what I type will wrap around to a second line depending upon the width of the column. With the
 HTML tag, the text will not wrap unless I hit the return key and force a new line.

 HTML tag doesn't work within paragraphs. It forces the text within the tags into their own paragraph. The formating is "forced" and will be formatted exactly as posted.
This is what the same code looks like using the

 HTML tag:
Using the  HTML tag, what I type will wrap around to a second line depending upon the width of the column. With the
 HTML tag, the text will not wrap unless I hit the return key and force a new line.
Notice a difference in the look of the two HTML tags? Some WordPress Themes have a design style for each different tag. On my blog, the PRE tag features a colored background. When using the CODE HTML tag for more than a line or two of code, I put a horizontal line before and after the programming code to separate it from the rest of the content.
Check your own WordPress Theme to see what these will look like.
Colorizing Code
Many people want to color code or sections of code to highlight a specific instruction or bit of code. Using a little font bling, you can add color or emphasis to your code in WordPress blogs.

<?php the_content(__('(more...)')); ?>
The above code highlights the
the_content() WordPress template tag in red. The code is surrounded with a font HTML tag:
<?php the_content(__('(more...)')); ?>
You can use different colors to emphasize different bits of code or to make code sections stand out.

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?>

<?php _e("Filed under:"); ?> <?php the_category(',') ?> — <?php the_author() ?> @ <?php the_time() ?>
<?php edit_post_link(__('Edit This')); ?>

Converting Code to Publishable Code on WordPress Blogs
While the two HTML tags make the code resemble typewriter text, WordPress.com changes code symbols and characters.
By default and for security reasons, WordPress.com blogs convert codes into characters, otherwise the code would perform as code. You want it to display as code, not act as code.
WordPress.com changes codes such as
<, >, &, ", and
' into characters. For example, if you type:
<? php the_content(); ?>
It will be completely erased from your blog when you save the post. Or it will try to turn the codes into character entity codes, which can really mess some things up. Not much help, is it?
To make this WordPress template tag code appear, the code must be converted into character entities:
<? php the_content(); ?>
Another problem WordPress.com blogs have when reproducing lines of code is the "pretty" quote and apostrophe marks. When people copy the code with pretty quote marks, the code will not work when pasted into a WordPress Theme template file or programming file. Quote and apostrophe marks must be converted into a text format in order to be "read" by the programs.
For example, the following code is written with no regard to the quote marks:

<a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>">
<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>

<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>

Notice how some of the quote marks and apostrophes slant? If you copy and paste that code into a WordPress template file or any other programming script, it will break it. The quote marks and apostrophes must be turned into "text", non-graphic marks.
If I replace all the quote marks and apostrophes with their character code, then the code looks like this:

<a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>">
<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>

<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>

See the difference?
Under the hood, the properly encoded code looks like this:

<a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>">
<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>

<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>

It looks like a mess to us, but your browser and WordPress.com recognizes all this gibberish and converts it to something the reader can read as well as copy and paste into their own template files or code scripts.
There are several utility programs that will help you change code into something that WordPress.com blogs can display properly, though not all will convert quote marks and apostrophes.
- WordPress Encode HTML Entities
- HTML Code Converter
- Tamba2's Simple Code Converter
- HTMLizer Data
- FoxInternet – Keyboard HTML Character Entities Converter
- Forret HTML Character Entities Converter
Using a text editor, you can manually search and replace character codes into something browsers will reproduce accurately.
Here is a list of the most common character codes (character entities) used in HTML/XHTML, PHP, and other programming languages:
"– Quote Mark "
'– Apostrophe '
©– Copyright symbol ©
:– Colon :
;– Semi-colon ;
<– Less than <
=– Equals sign =
>– Greater than >
?– Question mark ?
@– Commercial at @
#– Number sign #
÷– Divide ÷
÷– Divide ÷
!– Exclamation mark !
#– Number sign (pound) #
$– Dollar sign $
%– Percent sign %
&– Ampersand
&– Ampersand
(– Left parenthesis (
)– Right parenthesis )
*– Asterisk *
+– Plus sign +
,– Comma ,
-– Hyphen –
.– Period (fullstop) .
Displaying Character Entities to Display Character Entities in Code
Let's take this another step forward.
In the above example, I wanted to show you the character codes that display the symbols. Because WordPress.com and your browser converts these character codes into symbols, how do I display the code that makes the code?
A character code is made up of ascii symbols such as an ampersand, number sign, numbers, and a semi-colon. To reproduce these on a WordPress post, you must convert the symbols into character codes.
To reproduce the quote mark as
", you need to turn the ampersand (
&) and number sign (
#) into character codes. So the character code for a quote mark inside your post which turns into
" is actually divided up into the three elements, the ampersand (
&), number sign (
#), and numbers with the semi-colon at the end (
34;). The end result is written as:
It's not easy, but if you are trying to convey code on your WordPress blog, it takes some work to get past the text conversion filters.
For more information on writing code on your WordPress or WordPress.com blog, see Writing Code in Your Posts in the WordPress Codex.
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These are just a few of the many blog bling things you can do to your WordPress.com blogs. Now, I'd like to hear what blog bling things you've come up with to decorate your WordPress.com blog.
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'"Realizing when you have to lock in defensively really has been the key," Ruff said. "It's about making a higher-percentage play instead of going after the low-percentage offensive play when you've got the lead and you're in the last 10 minutes of a game. I think our team is finally starting to catch on that we don't have to get five or six goals — we can win games 2-1 or 3-2."'
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text: (NEWSER) – After a teen with Down syndrome was allegedly raped in Detroit, residents felt police were acting too slowly—so they took matters into their own hands. Using a baseball bat, several neighbors pursued and beat a man whom the victim's family and other locals accused of the sexual assault, CNN reports. He hadn't been charged, but they knew who he was based on posters around the neighborhood. A relative of the victim had posted the story on a community list-serve.


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Anyone got any results so far from tonight please?
Anyone got any results so far from tonight please?
I only know the Tillery Combat results from mc ricky wright on twitter!
Dai Jenkins lost decision
Joe Orrey won arm bar first round
Mr pink lost decision
any other results ,,,,how did the flyweights ,,laurence vs handley and gayle vs bunford fights go
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gayle won first round gnp i heard
ahhh i just noticed ,i knew i had seen you two where fighting on shock n awe but for some reason thought it was this one.
its gonna be a good fight .
congrats to owen .
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joe is a tough lad looking forward to that one but i gotta face james macallister equally a tough lad
not too sure at the moment , yeah james and joe are both good fighters both will be exiting fights .
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That's too bad the SBCenter respring deletes the stats. I don't change my themes or tweaks in Winterboard very much so this shouldn't be a problem for me until I do.Unfortunately no. The respring function in SBCenter kills the battery stats. Currently "Activator" is the only application whose respring doesn't kill the stats. Though, it seems that even the "Activator" method of respring kills the battery stats from within WinterBoard. There's no way to back out of WinterBoard without using its own respring method which kills the stats. . So without a way to keep the stats after making a change in Winterboard the whole thing seems like a waste of time. Because it's in Winterboard where I need to respring most of the time.
Once again, I have a unique situation. I haven't had to deal with the brightness dimming after a respring. What I noticed is sometimes, with or without a respring, the brightness slider in the switcher app automatically slides towards a brighter setting and stops. I can actually see it move as if my phone is possessed. This doesn't happen in the stock brightness setting and I do have it set to auto. What's even funnier is that if I slide the knob to a dim setting, it slides back up after several attempts and then it realizes I'm the boss and stays where I set it. Weird and spooky.Bottom line-iOS 6 changed the way the caches get cleared whenever Respring happens. So all of the developers are going to have to rewrite their respring methods to stop the battery stats erasure and this brightness issue that we've been having which is also a function of respring caches being changed in iOS 6. Though there's a great tweak out now that solves the brightness dimming issue after respring.
I'm not sure if having a jailbroken device can cause this or if its a bug in the app so I haven't reported this finding to the Starbuck's app developer yet.
Either my phone is possessed, needs more coffee or both.
It's the next step you mentioned that I don't experience. When I go into brightness setting and move slider - the slider moves smoothly left to right. No snapping behavior that you were talking about as the bugginess. Did I misunderstand your bug experience?


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Global Warming Contributing to Texas Drought
This blog is co-written by Jay Gulledge
Recently, President Obama quipped about GOP presidential candidate and Texas governor Rick Perry: "You've got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change." While this type of election jousting risks further politicizing an issue that should be totally non-partisan, it raises a legitimate question: Is climate change increasing the risk of drought and wildfires in Texas?
|Drought through October 4. (Top) Drought through October 11. (Bottom) Source: US Drought Monitor
Our Center has favored a risk-based approach to the linkage between climate change and extreme weather. As we have written previously, the question of whether climate change caused a singular weather event cannot fully be answered, and the correct question is whether climate change has increased or decreased the risk of extreme weather. In answering this question it is important to disentangle natural cycles from climate change, both of which are risk factors. The 2011 Texas drought offers an interesting case study.
Texas is enduring its worst one-year drought on record and has experienced the hottest summer (Jun-Aug) ever recorded in any state in the union. This extreme heat has made the drought worse by drying out grasses, trees, and soils more than the lack of rain alone would do. Unfortunately, in spite of some much needed rainfall over the Columbus Day weekend, the National Weather Service says, "widespread significant improvement in the ongoing drought is not expected," although some parts of Texas and Oklahoma will likely be upgraded from the "exceptional drought" to the "extreme" or "severe" categories. In Dallas, which received almost four inches of rain over the weekend, this year is still on track to be the driest on record by two inches.
So what are the risk factors for drought in Texas? Natural variations in sea-surface temperatures in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans influence temperature and precipitation in Texas. Since the ocean temperatures affect atmospheric circulation, particular patterns of sea surface temperatures increase or decrease the risk of various weather events. These natural patterns occur in cycles, so that their contribution to weather risk goes up and down over time, but would not contribute to long-term trends in any one direction. At the moment, warmer water conditions in the Pacific and Atlantic happen to both be conducive to drought in Texas.
The influence on risk from different sources of climate variability is additive, so global warming could present a new risk factor added on top of the natural ones that have always been with us. Although we don't know yet how global warming affects the risks of some types of weather events, like tornadoes, there is strong evidence that it increases the risk of drought and wildfires in the western United States. Over time, natural cycles will wane, but global warming won't and its contribution to risk will only increase over time. The question at hand is whether global warming has affected the risk of extreme drought in Texas.
Recently, Texas State Climatologist and Texas A&M atmospheric science professor, John Nielsen-Gammon, tried to disentangle various climatic factors contributing to the Texas drought. He made a few rough calculations aimed at determining how much of the excess heat this summer can be explained by natural cycles and by global warming. Nielsen-Gammon found that natural factors alone did not explain the full intensity of the excess heat but adding global warming to his statistical model resulted in good agreement with observed temperatures. He concluded that "the impacts of the drought were enhanced by global warming." Global warming was not the major contributor, but it was a necessary piece.
Considering that global warming is just getting started, it is worrisome that it is probably already contributing to very extreme weather patterns. In Nielsen-Gammon's own words, "warmer temperatures in Texas are extremely likely in the future, and based on temperatures in the first eleven years of the 21st century, those days are already here." The implication is that the risks of extreme heat and drought have already begun to rise and will continue to rise as long as global warming continues.
Nielsen-Gammon's analysis provides useful insights into the extreme heat/drought story in Texas and puts in place some of the building blocks that are needed for a risk analysis. As he described himself, his work is more of the "back-of-the-envelope" type analysis that would benefit from further refinements. A full risk assessment would resolve the entire risk profile, including uncertainty around each of the risk factors involved. Nonetheless, Nielsen-Gammon's results demonstrate that global warming is one of the risk factors that must be included to evaluate the present-day risk of extreme heat and drought in Texas.
As temperatures continue to increase,, global warming's influence on the risks of extreme events will increase. Nielson-Gammon's analysis indicates that climate change is already increasing the risks of extreme events that are causing record economic losses. If we want to avoid the escalation of these costs in the future, these risks must be analyzed, reduced and managed and the contribution of global warming must be factored in.
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Yesterday, Craig Ferguson announced that he will be leaving The Late Late Show in December. He said that he wanted to quit before he stopped enjoying what he was doing. Despite his assurances that he was going to quit before the David Letterman retirement announcement, I don't think that is probably what happened. I think what kept him going was the thought of getting that coveted time slot and when that didn't happen he didn't want to be around any longer. So, now that leaves an opening for Chelsea Handler again. Chelsea met with CBS and they said it was only to discuss a daytime slot and then Netflix has been mentioned as a possible landing spot for Chelsea. I don't think the Netflix thing would be good for Chelsea. Lots of people have Netflix, but nothing compared to the reach of a network or even E! for that matter.
I think CBS brought in Chelsea when Craig told them he was going to be leaving and being assured that he was going to receive his $5M for being passed over for the earlier slot. I guess if you are a network and you are going to make changes to your late night lineup that you might as well make changes to both at roughly the same time. Since Craig is leaving in December it will give a huge boost to the new Late Late show host to have Letterman's final few months and very high ratings be a boost for the new host.


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FONTANA - The city has received a $900,000 Federal Highway Safety Improvement Program grant for improvements on Foothill Boulevard from Oleander Avenue to Cypress Avenue - a key thoroughfare in the city.
"This is the maximum amount that may be awarded to any recipient, and we are thrilled the federal government has recognized the crucial need to construct these safety improvements in this critical corridor," Mayor Acquanetta Warren said.
The grant is about 50 percent of construction costs, said Senior Engineer Noel Castillo, add that the balance comes from a mixture of local and state funds.
The construction along Foothill Boulevard from Oleander Avenue to Cypress Avenue consists of a raised median and new decorative traffic signal at Oleander Avenue. The intersection of Foothill Boulevard and Oleander Avenue has been No. 1 on the city's list of intersections in need of a traffic signal for several years now, Castillo said.
Foothill Boulevard is a major corridor through the city of Fontana and this project will provide better traffic flow. There are several commercial areas and residential developments along the project limits, and the improvements will better serve the residents, commercial developments and businesses, Castillo said.
"The raised median should help reduce rear-end collisions from people slowing down to make left-hand turns," he said.
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Just hours after the executive director of the Arizona Police Association appeared on The Radio Factor to voice opposition to an Arizona immigration bill that would make it a crime to be an illegal immigrant, Bill O'Reilly asserted on his television show that "the cops know" the bill would provide "a good tool for law enforcement to have."
Just hours after the executive director of the Arizona Police Association appeared on the April 19 broadcast of Bill O'Reilly's nationally syndicated radio show to voice opposition to an Arizona immigration bill that would make it a crime to be an illegal immigrant, O'Reilly asserted, on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, that "the cops know" the bill would provide "a good tool for law enforcement to have." O'Reilly also ignored law-enforcement opposition to the bill while accusing Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D), who cited such opposition as a rationale for vetoing the legislation, of "playing politics." As The Arizona Republic reported on April 13, numerous law-enforcement officials in Arizona opposed the bill because they "don't have the resources to enforce it. They also say it will lead to racial profiling, and it will stop Hispanics from reporting crimes or acting as witnesses."
In addition, O'Reilly misrepresented the bill itself, claiming that the law "would give law enforcement a tool they need to get the bad illegal immigrants," such as those who are "dealing heroin on the streets" or "molesting children," rather than to target the "regular working" person who had entered the country illegally. In fact, the law would have criminalized being in Arizona illegally for any reason.
Both houses of the Arizona legislature passed the bill, SB1157, "Trespassing by illegal aliens," on April 12. The bill would reportedly make it a misdemeanor, and then a felony for repeat offenses, "for immigrants to enter Arizona illegally." The bill would give officers the authority "to question the immigration status of anyone they have lawfully detained" and to "[o]btain the fingerprints of any person arrested under the new law." Napolitano vetoed the law on April 17, citing, among other concerns, law-enforcement objections and the bill's "likely" unconstitutionality. In her letter explaining the veto, Napolitano stated:
Although I agree with several components of this bill ... I cannot agree with the basic premise of this bill that all persons here [illegally] should automatically be deemed criminal trespassers under state law. Among other things, this provision of the bill likely is unconstitutional. ... It is unwise, to say the least, to divert Arizona's law enforcement resources away from the investigation and prosecution of violent felonies in order to pursue misdemeanor cases. For this and other reasons, virtually every major law enforcement group and leader in the state opposes this bill."
In suggesting on The O'Reilly Factor that "the cops know" the bill would provide "a good tool for law enforcement to have," O'Reilly ignored not only reported remarks from police officials and Napolitano, but his own guest from the same day's Radio Factor broadcast, Arizona Police Association Executive Director Dale Norris. On the show, Norris explained that the bill would "impose[] a duty ... for police officers to make inquiry into somebody's immigration status ... solely on the basis of reasonable suspicion," which he argued would remove law-enforcement officials' ability to use discretion in such cases. Norris said the bill would force officers to go "beyond [their] investigation of why [they] stop[ped] them." When O'Reilly scoffed at the suggestion, Norris offered the following illustration of what the law would require:
[Y]ou most frequently use your reasonable stop [for], let's say, I'm responding to a robbery call. And there's a description of a vehicle that fled the scene. I see a vehicle that matches the description. I pull the vehicle over. I quickly realize now that that vehicle wasn't involved. But now, under this law, I have a duty to make inquiry into the immigration status of that person.
Norris also expressed concern over the financial burden the bill would impose on law enforcement, asking, "without any additional manpower, what laws won't we enforce to enforce this law?"
At least 16 law-enforcement agencies and officials wrote Napolitano to express similar opposition to the measure. Among those urging the veto, in addition to the Arizona Police Association, were the Associated Highway Patrolmen of Arizona, the Arizona State Fraternal Order of Police, and the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police. As reported in an April 13 Arizona Republic article, the president of the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association stated:
We don't have enough cops on the streets to handle the problems we've got today and now they want us to go into the back of Filiberto's and arrest the poor dishwasher while somebody is getting carjacked in the middle of the street?
The article continued, noting other civil-rights and safety concerns:
Other complaints are that the bill amounts to racial profiling that could lead to costly lawsuits and that it would adversely impact crime-fighting efforts.
Critics say illegal immigrants would stop reporting crimes and cooperating with police as witnesses, as would legal immigrants who could fear being caught without their papers. Even legal residents could find themselves having to prove they are U.S. citizens.
From the April 19 broadcast of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: "Unresolved problem" segment tonight, the governor of Georgia, Sonny Perdue, has signed a bill that would penalize Georgia businesses if they hire illegal workers. The Mexican government has condemned that bill. And an Arizona governor, Janet Napolitano, has vetoed a bill that would have given Arizona law enforcement the right to arrest illegal aliens on trespass charges. With us now, Allan Wernick, an immigration attorney who teaches at Baruch College here in New York City. Let's deal with Arizona first. You know, look, I believe that the governor of Arizona is playing politics with this deal. She wants on one hand to be tough. She sent some National Guard to the border. We can't find out what the Guard is doing down there. She won't tell us. Then she turns around after the legislature passes a law that would give law enforcement a tool they need to get the bad illegal immigrants, not the regular working.
WERNICK: That's not really what it says exactly, though.
O'REILLY: Doesn't matter what it says. You know discretion. You know in law enforcement that they have discretion. And I am so angry. Say an illegal alien is dealing heroin on the streets of Phoenix, Arizona. OK? It's hard to make a case. It takes months and months to make a case. But the cops know. If this bill were passed, and I hope they override the veto, they could grab that guy today, if he's illegal, and hand him over to ICE. And that is a good tool for law enforcement to have. Where am I going wrong?
WERNICK: Well, I mean, I think the first problem, and I don't want to be too lawyer-like about this, but you know, the courts have been very uncomfortable with these kinds of state enforcement laws because what the courts have said generally, is that this is a job for the federal government. They know what to do. So you know.
O'REILLY: But let it go through the process. I understand what you're saying. The federal law overrides the state law, I understand, but let it go through, because Arizona is under siege. The federal government doesn't help them. And they're saying, look, we need to protect the folks here. And we have to give the law-enforcement officials another tool in which to do that. And this is a tool where they can round up the bad guys and hand them over to ICE right away, and let the courts sort it out. What's wrong with that?
WERNICK: Well, what's wrong with it is that, I mean, to me, the big problem is that, first of all, I don't think it would work. So you know, and I really -- let me just say I think one of the big problems in the immigration debate now in the United States is that it's all about politics. As you said, it's all about making points. And unfortunately, neither -- that the legislature, the federal legislature, has not been willing to sit down and really try to figure out solutions.
O'REILLY: But I'm living in the real world.
WERNICK: We -- well, I'm saying -- that's what I'm saying. Well, that's why I'm looking for real-world solutions.
O'REILLY: But this is easy. I'm going to give you the last word.
WERNICK: I want to answer your question about -- OK.
O'REILLY: I'm going to give you the last word. We only have a minute left. This is easy. I'm a cop. I know an illegal alien selling drugs or molesting children. I don't have to have a five-month investigation.
WERNICK: Well.
O'REILLY: I can grab the guy right away and get him out of there.
From the April 19 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor:
O'REILLY: Then that -- and the legislature in Arizona, rightly so, said federal court won't do anything. They haven't done anything for 40 years and they're not gonna do anything now. So we in Arizona are gonna protect ourselves by making a state issue.
NORRIS: And we don't have a problem in enforcing any law that provides us with both the resources and additional funding to handle these issues.
O'REILLY: All right. But, but look, I understand all that. Now let's cut through the fog. You, as a law enforcement officer, have discretion in what investigations you undertake, in what action you undertake. For example, if I get pulled over in Arizona and I'm speeding, I don't have to get a ticket. The guy could give me a warning. So you have discretion. And all I'm saying to you is this: that the governor was wrong to veto the bill because this would've given you guys another tool to get bad guys off the street. Where am I going wrong?
NORRIS: Well, you're a little incorrect with regard to what this bill imposes on us. Part of the bill imposes a duty, and that's the word they use in the bill, for police officers to make inquiry into somebody's immigration status solely on the basis of reasonable suspicion -
O'REILLY: But, but again, you don't have to do it. You're not compelled to stop people.
NORRIS: No, it, it says that -- no, it says the duty. What it says is if you come in contact with any person on the basis of reasonable suspicion that they have committed a crime --
O'REILLY: Aha, aha! Reasonable suspicion they've committed a crime. What's wrong with that?
NORRIS: Nothing. No -- actually police officers do that every day, Mr. O'Reilly.
O'REILLY: Right. So what's the problem?
NORRIS: Well, the problem becomes when I now have a duty to go beyond my investigation of why I stop them. And, and for law enforcement officers, it, it, it really creates a couple of huge issues when you take this type of duty and impose it upon them. In other words, take their discretion away. One of them is this: where you most frequently use your reasonable stop is let's say I'm responding to a robbery call. And there's a description of a, a vehicle that fled the scene. I see a vehicle that matches the description. I pull the vehicle over. I quickly realize now that that vehicle wasn't involved. But now under this law I have a duty to make inquiry into the immigration status of that person.
O'REILLY: Oh, come on. You have the -- look if it's a grandma driving a car with two in the back seat, you can just let them go. Come on. You're taking this literally and no law-enforcement agents in the country take the law literally. They can't. They can't. They have to make decisions. Now I'm gonna ask you one more question and this is a very simple question because as you know um, Mr. Norris, I am a very simple man. All right. If you have this law on the books in Arizona, does it not make it easier for every single Arizona police officer to take bad guys they know are bad, but they can't get them off the street. Does it not make it easier, sir?
NORRIS: I suppose in some sense it could.
O'REILLY: Thank you. Because that's all I'm saying. This is a greater good issue. This is just another um, bullet in your chamber so to speak, to protect the good people of Arizona.
NORRIS: And you know what? That's what we're all about.
O'REILLY: Right. So therefore I know I've changed your opinion on this and I know you're gonna go back and tell all the guys to, to tell the governor, to tell the legislature to override the governor's veto. And, and, look, all I want is what's best for you guys, number one, 'cause you know I'm on your side. I'm looking out for every law-enforcement agent in the country who's honest, and the good people of Arizona. And if you have illegal immigrants here committing crimes, doing bad things and you know it, you know how difficult it is to make cases against drug dealers, you know how difficult it is to make cases against child molesters, you know the pain that you have to go through to make those cases. If you have this law, you can get them on trespass and get rid of them. I'll give you the last word.
NORRIS: Um, I, I agree with you to, up to a point. Um, our, our problem remains um, the fact that what laws won't we enforce? Uh, because this is going to take manpower to do this. So without any additional manpower, what laws won't we enforce to enforce this law? And I'll, and I'll, I'll just emphasize the, the strongest point we made to the governor uh, from, from the very first day we began uh, our discussion. We want every resource possible focused on the border.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Gov. Pat McCrory's campaign is purging cash tied to a second man facing criminal charges related to Internet sweepstakes cafes, one of a growing number of such donations that have been identified as going to North Carolina politicians.
McCrory spokeswoman Kim Genardo said Tuesday the Republican governor's campaign will give $2,000 to charity, offsetting an Oct. 19 check from Sherry Upchurch of Ramseur. Her husband, Richard Upchurch, was indicted in Ohio in May on charges related to allegations of laundering money from an illegal gambling operation.
McCrory's campaign earlier disgorged $8,000 from Chase and Kristin Burns, an Oklahoma couple who are among 57 people indicted in Florida related to a chain of sweepstakes cafes affiliated with Allied Veterans of the World. Prosecutors said only about 2 percent of the $300 million raised through the charity actually went to help veterans.
McCrory received another $8,000 in October from John Patrick Fannin and his wife, who live in Little River, S.C., according to records reviewed by The Associated Press.
Fannin is also among the sweepstakes operators indicted by Florida prosecutors in the Allied Veteran's case. Genardo said McCrory's campaign will review those donations, too.
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Albany, N.Y. - Junior Demmianne Cook (Nesconset, N.Y.) scored six goals, junior Claire Petersen (Wantagh, N.Y.) posted two goals and four assists, and freshman Michelle Rubino (East Setauket, N.Y.) added two goals and three assists to lead the Stony Brook women's lacrosse team to a 16-5 win over Albany Saturday at John Fallon Field.
The win improves Stony Brook's record to 12-4 overall and 4-1 in America East. The Seawolves have now clinched the No. 2 seed in the upcoming America East Championship and will make their first appearance in the tournament since 2007. Albany falls to 9-5 overall and 2-3 in America East, leaving the Great Danes in a three-way tie for the final spot in the America East Championship.
Cook's six goals mark her 11th hat trick of the season and the fifth time she's posted six goals or more in a match. She came into the game second in the nation in goals per game and now has 63 goals for the year.
Petersen continues pacing the nation in points with her 11th game of five points or more. She now has 36 goals and 50 assists for the year.
Senior Abby Ford (Baltimore, Md.) and sophomore Emily Mercier (Rocky Point, N.Y.) each scored two goals. Freshman Amber Kupres (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) and junior Janine Hillier (Farmingdale, N.Y.) lit the lamp once.
Besides the strong offensive performance, Stony Brook's defense was on display, holding Albany to just 16 shots total and only 12 on goal. Rubino caused two turnovers and controlled four draws. Cook also caused a turnovers and controlled five draws. In net, junior Hannah Perruccio (Rochester, N.Y.) stopped seven shots, including three on free position attempts.
Albany was led by Amanda Pollock's two goals and one assist.
"The success we had today was a direct reflection of the type of effort we put in at practice this week," Spallina said. "It is no surprise that a good week of practice leads to a good game. We have to use this as a building block and continue to improve on a day-in, day-out basis.
"Hannah played a tremendous game today. She stepped in and showed that she can play at a high level. We're happy and not surprised with her effort today."
Albany won the opening draw and scored two and a half minutes into the game on Jess Antelmi goal, but it was all Seawolves after that. Cook quickly answered the Albany goal with one of her own on a pass from Petersen at 25:54 to tie the game. That sparked a five-goal outburst that included two from Rubino. Hillier scored at 11:06 to make it 5-1.
Mercier scored goals twice in the final 7:19 of the first half to help send Stony Brook into halftime leading 8-2.
Cook opened the second half of the game with a goal. She won the ensuing draw control, and less than 10 seconds later, Petersen found Ford open for a goal to make it 10-2.
After Rachael Burek scored for Albany, the Seawolves scored the next four goals to put the game away. Ford scored on a Hillier pass, Petersen connected on a free position shot and Cook added her fourth and fifth goals of the game to make it 14-3.
Cook scored her sixth goal with 4:31 remaining to finish off the scoring for the day.
Stony Brook will close out the regular season next Saturday against New Hampshire at LaValle Stadium at 1 p.m. The team will honor its outgoing seniors, who will play their final home game as Seawolves, in a pre-game ceremony.


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Green is the word for JoAnne Brown's students at Olympus Junior High as they participate in the Lexus Eco Challenge. Their accomplishments include recycling nearly 800 water bottles and getting rid of 786 pounds of trash.
"I see them truly empowered to make a difference," Brown said. "It's a neat experience for me and especially for them to take learning into their own hands."
Brown, a science teacher, began the project with her classes in 2007. The Lexus Eco Challenge is a nationwide competition for secondary-school students to implement and execute plans that will better the environment.
The competition consists of two initial challenges, where up to 16 teams can win $10,000 in grants and scholarships. Winning teams advance to a final stage to vie for one of two $30,000 grand prizes.
"In 2007, my classes decided to build an outdoor classroom," Brown said. "It was expensive, so I was looking for grants to help pay for it."
Brown thought the Lexus Eco Challenge would be a great way to get grant money and educate her students about environmental issues. It seemed perfect also because the project they wanted funding for the outdoor classroom consisted of a garden that features native plants and uses minimal watering.
The first year her students participated was a success. Three teams placed first, and the school earned $30,000 for its outdoor garden among other cash prizes. To date, excluding this year, students have won $230,000. More than 500 students participated.
"As a whole, the quality of projects that I've seen this year is better than I've ever seen," Brown said. "The enthusiasm is incredible from the students."
This year, two of her seventh-grade teams won in the land/water competition, each earning $10,000. They will compete for the $30,000 prize in February. The air/climate judging is ongoing.
Brown said she's also impressed with the perseverance shown by her students, who had to work hard to reach out to different parts of the community.
"It can be frustrating because they work in big groups, and sometimes they have to call 15 people and still don't get an answer, but they come out of it with just this look on their faces," she said.
This year, 33 groups of Brown's students completed projects to submit to the Lexus Eco Challenge. One team collected more than 1,700 VHS tapes to recycle. Other projects included cleaning parks and planting trees. "Two groups convinced the Granite School District to start a districtwide recycling program," Brown said.
Brown had been trying to get the district to do so for 10 years, so she told the students to try another project. To her amazement, the district was on board and even asked her students to be a part of the planning.
"We're thrilled to be one of the first schools in the district to do it," she said.
Ninth-grader Ryan Hilton's team worked on spreading awareness about water conservation. He and his friends created a blog and a Facebook page to further the cause.
"It was pretty successful; we got 1,500 views on Facebook," he said. "I felt like I was making a difference."
Classmate Olivia Hoj participated in a group that collected old cellphones, which, if not recycled, can contribute to pollution because they contain toxins like lead, mercury and beryllium.
"Old cellphones have many precious metals in them," she said. "If we don't recycle them, we don't get [the metals] back."
Hoj's team donated to a company called Hope Phones, which uses the monetary value of the recycled phones to supply health-care technology worldwide.
"It's a big deal to us," Hoj said. "We made an impact on our community, which is important to us."
Brown's students actively participated in the Lexus Eco Challenge since 2007, but everything halted when Brown was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2010. She underwent chemotherapy and returned to teaching last year. She let her students do the challenge for extra credit in 2011, but everything returned to full swing this year.
"This is absolutely special," Brown said. "My school was so supportive through the cancer stuff."
Even more remarkable is the fact that these ninth-graders she teaches now were the seventh-graders she had when she was diagnosed with cancer. Brown said it's a unique experience for them and her to go through together.
"It's so nice to have this be the focus instead of thinking about cancer all the time," she said. "It seemed like [cancer] was what everyone thought of instead of 'She's the crazy one who does all those environmental projects.'"
Environmental issues affected Brown early on. She lived in the northwest United States, where logging was a popular industry. "All the beautiful forest got cut down all the time," she said. "I never felt like I could make much of an impact."
Now that her students are achieving goals that might go a long way to better the planet, Brown said she is highly satisfied.
"I think of all the small things we can do," she said. "They add up to big things."
Although the cash rewards are beneficial, Brown said she hopes her students will gain knowledge and inspiration.
"The impact is exponential. They'll be in college and in their careers and they'll remember what it feels like to go out and do these things."
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By the numbers
4,700 • Cumulative volunteer hours
786 • Pounds of trash collected
772 • Plastic water bottles recycled
111 • Cellphones donated to Hope Phones
5 • Parks cleaned
2 • Trails tidied
1 • Lake picked up


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[AN]The_Stuff, on Apr 27 2007, 11:01 AM, said:
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