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An old latin phrase, literally translated as "Athanasius against the world". Athanasius of Alexandria (not to be confused with Athanasius Kircher) was a Christian Bishop in the 4th Century who defended Christianity, often supposed as using techniques compared to the modern mafia, against the 'threat' of Arianism.
The phrase, "Athanasius contra mundum" can then be taken as an expression of the need to defend one's ideas, no matter the cost. I don't want to be Athanasius contra mundum here, but something has to be done about our corrupt local government.
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The term used to describe Athanasius, the 20th Pope of Alexandria, who is considered one of the doctors of the early Christian Church. He was called "athanasius against the world" because he successfully and repeatedly defended church dogma against the Arian heresy, which at times would become very popular. Damn dog, you got your girl to let you buy a motorcycle?! You straight busted an athanasius contra mundum and shit!


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Alviro Petersen constructed an invaluable, unbeaten century to help South Africa to 262 for five at stumps on the first day of the second test against England at Headingley in Leeds on Thursday.
Opening batsman Petersen ended the day on 124 not out off 266 deliveries with 16 fours after England had won the toss and elected to bowl after omitting off-spinner Graeme Swann from their line-up in favour of a four-pronged pace attack.
Petersen's innings was not without incident and he was dropped by Alastair Cook at second slip when he had scored 29 while he earned another reprieve when he was given out leg-before off a delivery from paceman Steven Finn (1-78) only for the decision to be overturned after a video review with replays showing that the ball would have gone over the stumps.
The 31-year-old Petersen reached his fifty off 78 deliveries but he was a lot more circumspect in scoring the next 50 runs as his fourth test century came up off 215 balls.
Petersen showed wonderful application on a pitch which started off relatively benign but offered up a lot more swing and movement later in the day as the cloud cover built up.
Graeme Smith and Petersen gave South Africa the perfect start to the day with a 120-run opening stand off 37.2 overs with Smith scoring his 33rd test fifty in making his way to 52 off 93 balls.
But Smith's innings was not without incident as he was caught in the slip cordon off the bowling of Finn when he had scored just six only for the umpire to call a dead ball after Finn had broken the stumps at the non-striker's end with his knee during his delivery stride.
Finn had trouble with breaking the stumps during the early part of the day and he had done it three times before Smith and Petersen complained to the umpires that it was disturbing their concentration.
Finn was told by the umpires that if it happened again a dead ball would be called with that warning eventually resulting in Smith's reprieve.
Smith finally departed when he flicked a leg-side full toss from seamer Tim Bresnan (1-68) straight to Ian Bell at backward short leg.
Smith's departure heralded the start of a mini-collapse for the tourists who proceeded to lose three wickets for 37 runs to slide from 120 without loss to 157 for three.
Hashim Amla (9) was run out after a terrible mix-up with Petersen after both men hesitated before setting off for a third run and Amla was unable to beat Bresnan's accurate throw from deep extra cover to keeper Matt Prior.
Jacques Kallis played a few entertaining shots in scoring 19 with four fours but he lost his wicket when he attempted to cut a short ball from swing bowler James Anderson (1-42) only for an edge to fly to Cook at second slip with the fielder taking a very sharp catch inches off the ground.
A rain delay saw 70 minutes play lost either side of the tea break but when play resumed AB de Villiers and Petersen set about rebuilding the innings with a 97-run fourth-wicket stand.
De Villiers made his way to 47 but he was undone by the second new ball when he tried to pull out of a defensive stroke to a Stuart Broad (1-55) delivery only to inside edge the delivery back on to his stumps.
Nightwatchman Dale Steyn (0) did not last long before he was bowled neck and crop by Finn before Jacques Rudolph (1 not out) helped Petersen steer the Proteas to the close of play.
ENGLAND – Andrew Strauss (capt), Alastair Cook, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, James Taylor, Matt Prior (wk), Stuart Broad, Tim Bresnan, James Anderson, Steven Finn.
SOUTH AFRICA – Graeme Smith (capt), Alviro Petersen, Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers (wk), Jacques Rudolph, JP Duminy, Vernon Philander, Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel, Imran Tahir.


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When Sion Kim Harris, a Harvard Medical School substance abuse researcher, visits high school classes to talk about marijuana and other drugs, she does not hang up a "Just Say No" banner or talk about how a drug charge can stain a student's criminal record.
Harris instead talks about cannabinoid receptors and brain development, about how regular marijuana use may affect performance on a test now, or 10 years from now. As states loosen their laws around limited marijuana use, raising concerns that it could cause an increase in use by teenagers, recent studies have found that marijuana dependency among teens can change their brains for the long term.
I speak to teens about marijuana and they do use the fact that is medically prescribed as rationale that it is not harmful. They also say marijuana is not like crack or alcohol to justify using it.
As long as society proscribes something that some find enjoyable, there will be many rationalizations as to why it's okay. Certainly they're right when comparing it to harder drugs and alcohol. Rationalizatons don't make it okay, of course, but negative exaggerations seriously weaken the other side of the discussion.
I'm not sure we have the tools to prevent teens from smoking marijuana or drinking alcohol. Scare tactics will not work on teens because they consider themselve invulnerable. Some marijuana smokers losing a few IQ points isn't likely to be an effective argument.
Maybe instead of speculation, we should study how approval of medical marijuana influences the USE of marijuana by teens. This article is about attitudes, which makes it next to useless in the real world.
We've already decriminalized the use of marijuana and it seems to me that fact would influence attitudes more than allowing medicinal use, but decriminalization is ignored by this article.
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Fuel cell technology could be under your car bonnet by 2017
Carbon Trust has given a £1 million boost to four UK fuel cell pioneers. According to the Trust, their cutting-edge technology could be used under the bonnet of mass-produced hydrogen-powered cars as early as 2017.
"Major manufacturers have already built hydrogen-powered fuel cell cars, but the real challenge is to bring down the costs and, in the global race to do this, UK technologies are now in pole position," says Carbon Trust.
To fuel this push by UK industry and having identified an opportunity to combine innovative technology from Runcorn-based ACAL Energy and Sheffield-based ITM Power, Carbon Trust is providing £500 thousand of funding to the companies to develop a new hybrid high-power, low-cost fuel cell design.
Carbon Trust is also backing a project based at Imperial College London (Imperial) and University College London (UCL) with £500 thousand to develop a fuel cell that could offer significant cost savings by using existing high-volume manufacturing techniques employed in the production of printed circuit boards.
The funding comes from the Carbon Trust's Polymer Fuel Cells Challenge (PFCC) which was launched in 2009 to support the Department for Energy and Climate Change's objectives to develop lower cost fuel cells and coincides with the recent launch of the Government's UKH2Mobility project to ensure the UK is well positioned for the commercial roll-out of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
"The UK's home-grown automotive industry hasn't been the runaway success story many would have hoped for, but British technology is in pole position to be under the bonnet of a next generation of mass-produced hydrogen-powered cars. After a lot of hype, fuel cell technology is now a great growth opportunity for the UK," explains Dr Ben Graziano, Technology Commercialisation Manager at Carbon Trust. "The funding that we have received from the Department for Energy and Climate Change has enabled us to support the development of some truly world-class British technologies that could slash the costs of fuel cells and transform how we all get about; by 2017 British fuel cell technologies could be powering your car."
"It is excellent news that automotive OEMs are committed to the launch of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles in 2015 timescales, and that the UK will be among the early adopters. However it is clear that continuous efforts to reduce cost will be necessary to ensure that H2FC vehicles are affordable for mass markets. This funding from the Carbon Trust PFCC is perfectly targeted to ensure that British innovation can be at the forefront of the process to get the economics of the technology right," says Amanda Lyne, VP of Strategic Business Development and Marketing, ACAL Energy Ltd.
Carbon Trust's Polymer Fuel Cells Challenge aims to speed the UK towards world-beating fuel cell solutions that can grab a significant share of a market that the Carbon Trust has estimated to be worth $26bn in 2020.
Carbon Trust, which has already supported ACAL Energy and ITM Power in de-risking their unique technologies, saw an opportunity to combine these innovations to demonstrate a fuel cell that could be far cheaper to manufacture, more efficient, produce the required power and be compact enough to fit under the bonnet of tomorrow's cars.
ACAL Energy brings a revolutionary new design of fuel cell inspired by the human lung and bloodstream that is highly durable, virtually platinum-free and also significantly cheaper to produce. ITM Power brings a unique membrane technology (which has been evaluated by several global companies), proven to produce world-beating power density (widely recognised as the single most important factor in reducing fuel cell costs), which could be in fuel cell cars by as early as 2017.
ITM's current order book for delivery in the current financial year is £0.5 million. The company has recruited seven staff in the last 12 months and is currently seeking to recruit ten more. ACAL Energy has raised £6.1 million of investment since March 2010 and its staff is set to increase from 25 at that time to 35 by April 2012.
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PUTTING the clocks back one hour this Sunday will be much more than a two minute job for an Evesham jewellers.
Manager of F Hinds, Andrew Whittington, has been busy all week adjusting about 200 clocks and watches in the shop on Bridge Street in time for the weekend.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY (Day 32) : LOST IN THE 80s
Film, TV and Radio with their roll call of ready made stereotypes and lazy clichés - would have you believe that the early eighties music scene was a period populated almost exclusively by frilly shirted New Romantics, Flock Of Seagulls fright-wiggers or Brideshead Revisited meets Roxy Music pseudo-smoothies
If you were there at the time (and I'd imagine there's a solid core of VV readers that were) you'll know this of course a nonsense perpetuated through lazy off-the-peg imagery and pop culture compression. Compression where, retrospectively an era's peaks and dynamics become condensed creating a composite of clichés and grotesques, leaving an approximation that lacks depth any of field, widescreen horizon or actual essence of the time as it was. It's the very same process that's led to the seventies routinely being Abbafied.
Getting back to the eighties though, the key period for me is the post-punk, pre-Live Aid years (Live Aid being the moment where any Rock dinosaurs who had weathered punk's ice age could re-enter the mainstream arena). A time where musically and stylistically almost anything and everything was up for grabs. Several posts on my PM blog are based around a local club of the time Crocs - not that it was somewhere especially sensational, more that it was just somewhere so typical of that time.
A place where - scooter boys, psychobillies with (Carmel look-a-like girlfriends ), Numanoids in skinny ties, electrics in pegged trousers, wedges or raincoats, Bunnymen fans in macs, Ant fans in kilts, bovver-boy skinheads, Boys Town/Hi-NRG types, Mohican postcard punks, Proto-Goths in Bauhaus Tee's, or suede tassel jacketed types - would bounce or flap around on the dance floor (obscured by clouds of dry ice) to a potential pick 'n' mix playlist that may have ranged from obscure electro 12" mixes, Bowie or glam anthems to Nina Simone, Louis Jordan, The Stray Cats, Northern Soul stompers and even on occasion songs from The Jungle Book...
In attempt to rebalance the received eighties vision and retromania – I've rattled up a sixty minute mix of tunes from the time, into a virtual C-60 cassette pet (two sides of thirty minutes) that hopefully captures an underground sound of the crowd that seems to have been lost in the eighties…
Side 1 – Sound Of The Crowd
Soft Cell – Memorbilia
Simple Minds – I Travel (remix)
Pete Shelley - Homosapien
Divine – Love Reaction
Human League – Empire State Human
Cabaret Voltaire – Nag Nag Nag
Fad Gadget – Back To Nature
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Side 2– Creatures Of The night
Gina X - No GDM
The Bollock Brothers - The Bunker
The Cramps – Human Fly
Bauhaus - Largartija Nick
Tuxedo Moon – No Tears
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Spellbound
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23 comments:
- piddy77 said...
Just excellent!...can't really say anymore...it took me back to the heady days of dj'ing, poppers on the dance floor, catching your hands in a wannabe siouxsie hairdo whilst flinging around wildly, sticky night club floors and dry ice machines that choked all the punters ....*sighs*
- 8:17 am, June 02, 2009
Great stuff- looking forward to listening to this tonight.
- 8:57 am, June 02, 2009
- drew said...
brilliant tunes Mondo.
Agfa tapes - a lifespan of about 2 weeks or a dozen plays. - 9:00 am, June 02, 2009
- Ishouldbeworking said...
This is a treasure trove, Mondo. I love it. And you're so right, the Eighties was a vibrant, creative, exciting time for music - right up until Live Aid re-established the dinosaurs and set the clock back.
Most of the really good stuff has been buried beneath endless predictable footage of Lady Di and Black Lace (though the legendary clips of her singing Agadoo have been placed in a vault under Buckingham Palace).
More please! - 9:36 am, June 02, 2009
- Planet Mondo said...
Piddy 'poppers on the dancefloor' forgotten all about that (wait for the headache) and the sort of dancing that would've led to even more holes in your string-vest style mohair jumper (jumpers at clubs - why??)
Thanks Adam why not get some of your original 80s clobber to really get in the mood
Drew - and what about those TDK C 120s the Russian Roulette of portable music - how long until it snaps or snarls up in the tape heads..
ISBW - That's exactly it the guff (power ballads, mullets, brat pack anthems) get remembered in favour of the good stuff (Bauhaus, Soft Cell, early Human League). Bit of Crocs comp isn't it. Did you ever go to The Castle pun in Brentwood?
Word verification = mentl (!?!) - 9:48 am, June 02, 2009
- Simon said...
Those agfa tapes - why did the labels always fade?
Great mix matey. I always thought the 80s finished with Live Aid. Acid house was the 80s and I loved it, but somehow it seems like another decade. - 10:12 am, June 02, 2009
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- 12:59 pm, June 02, 2009
- Planet Mondo said...
Live Aid is the demarcation line between alt.80s and awful 80s Simon
- 3:10 pm, June 02, 2009
- The Warden said...
Terrific idea, superbly executed.
- 3:56 pm, June 02, 2009
- dickvandyke said...
Ahh PM.
The slightly aging, yet thoroughbred lothario.
The team stalwart. The Mr Versatile libero who can still get from box to box, act as sweeper, or come on as an impact player from the bench.
His talents know no bounds.
Pint of cold pear cider please PM. - 5:56 pm, June 02, 2009
Am now listening to this dressed as instructed by Mondo. Have gone for black polo neck, with open paisley shirt, 501s with turn-ups and dm shoes. Am sweating cobs. Thanks.
- 6:18 pm, June 02, 2009
I absolutely share PM's views on the pre-Live Aid 80s and suffered a worrying flashback as I read his words. Up here in Scotchland at the time you could add to any 'alternative' discolist The Waterboys "A Girl Called Johnny" and Simple Minds "The American". Staples.
And did you ever see Divine "live" then ? - ouch.
But, but, but .... to dismiss the post-Live Aid 80s so easily can't be left to lie. There was some great stuff in the later 80s and I might just beg of JC the opportunity to try to prove it at some future date. And we're not just speaking The Roses here. Great as they were at the time.
To end can I ask if anyone else tried poppers and Live Aid? Now that was a sore head. - 7:52 pm, June 02, 2009
- Planet Mondo said...
DVD - should they ever revive 'The Good Old Days' (and it's the only bloody thing left to revive) you really must audition for the Leonard Sachs MC role
Swiss Adam - that is the 'Camden Lock' look from the anywhere in the 1980s
JTK - I managed to avoid Divine live(although do have more 12"s than I should), but did see an early doors Dead or Alive, down on their luck Damned, Lords of The New Church - and even gigged (support only though) with Danielle Dax, Zodiac Mindwarp, Dr and The Medics, Ghostdance and Flesh For Lulu what a role call of goth 'n' roll monsters.. - 8:29 pm, June 02, 2009
- dickvandyke said...
Well PM dahling - now that dear, dear Danny La Rue has sadly shuffled off Mother Kelly's doorstep down Paradise Road, I feel that there may be a gap in the market for an experienced showbiz all-rounder such as your good-self.
- 8:47 pm, June 02, 2009
- JC said...
JtK has only said that to out me.....he knows fine well that I saw Divine play live at Level 8, Strathclyde Yooni Students Union circa 84/85.
- 9:43 pm, June 02, 2009
- Davy H said...
Just to say I've still got two Agfa tapes from 1979 and they work fine. We luvs ya Mondo x
- 9:46 pm, June 02, 2009
- Planet Mondo said...
Bless the lot of you - and you're all on the invited over to my first ever Disco post this Friday
Divine won't be on the playlist though - no, not my 12" of Twisting The Night Away or Walk Like A Man
Are BASF still going? And Pete Murphy advertising Maxell - how 80s? - 10:27 pm, June 02, 2009
- Pawn said...
I am still stuck musically in my head about 1983...lol
love the blog it inspired me to create my own which is becoming popular
http://puttheneedleontherecord1-v.blogspot.com/ - 10:35 pm, June 02, 2009
- Dirk said...
Actually I used to tape John Peel's Music on BFBS on BASF - cassettes mainly ... some 120's as well: all of the ~ 300 I have still work fine .. after nearly 25 years: amazing, isn't it?
- 7:22 am, June 03, 2009
Danielle Dax - sigh..... ZM - not half as good as he liked to think. D&tM - so bad I thought they might be good live - I was wrong. FfL - happy times. Ghost Dance - I don't recall ever seeing (unless they were a support somewhere down the line).
I got offered the role of singer in a goth band once. I could have supported Indians in Moscow if I'd said yes. And could sing. Or even talk deeply. Don't think I've revealed that to the Villain before. We don't tend to talk about the goth years. - 6:43 pm, June 03, 2009
- JC said...
No Jtk....you havent.
But having seen some old pics, I can see why the offer was made - 7:59 pm, June 03, 2009
- Planet Mondo said...
Oh and Skeletal Family too
JC- any chance of blogging those pics and an associated tune from the time? - 11:21 pm, June 03, 2009
- JC said...
I've seen the photos...sadly I dont own them.....
I would share them with you if I could... - 11:43 pm, June 03, 2009


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Lord Krishna, arguably Hinduism's most popular divinity, was said to be a nature lover who is forever associated with the Yamuna, worshipped Goverdhan hill and saved forests. But his birthplace (Janamasthami was celebrated last week) has turned into an urban disaster today.
The boom in the construction industry has badly impacted the ecology of what is still known as Krishna's 'Leela Bhoomi', the Uttar Pradesh towns of Mathura and Vrinadavan and their surrounding areas, about 135 km from the national capital.
Critics say that touch and go pilgrims from near and afar have patronised a comfort- backed theology that has brutally transformed the original Mathura and Brindavan. The forests of Braj Mandal and the ghats of the Yamuna where Krishna and his beloved Radha frolicked have made way for concrete monsters.
"The mass invasion of Vrindavan, Goverdhan and Mathura by pilgrims on a short visit combining weekend pleasure with spiritual engagements is a cause for concern," Jagannath Poddar, convener of the Friends of Vrindavan group, told IANS.
In Vrindavan, multi-storeyed buildings and sprawling ashrams of gurus have polluted the ambience of the once serene and tranquil region that was earlier surrounded by dense green cover.
"The Yamuna river is already dead. And so are the numerous forests of Braj Mandal. Colonisers and so-called developers are on the rampage," environment crusader D.K. Joshi told IANS.
Joshi has filed petitions in the Allahabad High Court to highlight the damage done to the ecology of the area.
In recent years, the Krishna lore with its accent on love and bhakti has drawn lakhs of new followers.
Many lovingly bear the physical discomfort, go through the 21 km parikrama, or walk, in Goverdhan without any visible signs of stress despite mounds of dirt and garbage.
In Vrindavan's dirty bylanes, hundreds of widows constantly seek alms.
The former Mayawati-led state government drew up ambitious schemes worth several hundred crores of rupees to restore old ponds and forests and streamline civic amenities for the pilgrims in Mathura and Vrindavan.
The Akhilesh Yadav government has accorded priority to the development and beautification of the area. There are indications that an international airport could be set up in Mathura, close to the newly opened Yamuna Expressway.
"This will further impact the ecology of the region," warns eco-activist Shravan Kumar Singh.
Land grabbers appear to have annexed every bit of prime property in Mathura, Vrindavan and other smaller towns in the circuit. But infrastructural facilities are underdeveloped.
The road from the national highway to Vrindavan has imposing edifices, built by both the new age gurus and corporates plus film stars.
The parikrama route in Goverdhan is being usurped by colonisers to build multi-storey buildings for wealthy pilgrims.
With ever-increasing human settlements and influx from outside, the sensitive ecology of the area is under threat.
Frenetic house building is eating up all the green cover and open spaces in Vrindavan, which has more high-rise buildings and apartments than Mathura, the district headquarters.
In neighbouring regions, the mining mafia carries on illegal dynamite blasting and quarrying of stones from hills that once formed part of the Krishna folklore.
"Where is the space for greenery and a pollution-free ambience for which Krishna killed the poisonous Shesh nag?" asks Bankey Lal Maheshwari of Sri Nathji Nishulk Jal Sewa.
"The divine kunds (ponds) have all but disappeared; only a few are now being restored."
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Ninety-two years too late.
The giveaway here is the "Finland Station."
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Has anyone claimed credit? Perhaps this is the dawn of the age of "public service vandalism?"
This apparently is no April Fools joke, even if it looks like one.
The Finland Station is a railway station, not subway, hence not on metro maps. It was at this station the great usurpator returned from hiding out in Finland, and gave an inspired speech to his supporters, to re-ignite his bid for power.
And yes, it is indeed 92 years too late.
If it really isn't one, then it is even cooler. I'm no supporter of vandalism, but blowing the hind end off of a statue of Lenin on April Fool's day is pretty incredible.
They had to know it would invite skepticism when it was reported on, too. These pranksters are amazing.
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Take the N59 west toward Clifden. Drive through Oughterard, and Maam Cross to Recess (about 58km or 37 miles). Turn right onto the R344 and drive through the Inagh Valley (12 Bens on your left, Mauumturk Mountains on your right) about 17km (11 miles) until the N59. Turn left on the N59 and drive about 9km (5.5 miles) past Kylemore Abbey to Letterfrack. The Bards Den is in the centre of Letterfrack village, on the left if you're arriving from Kylemore Abbey.
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All I gotta say is there is no pasta like NYC. going to this restaurant was one of the worst restaurant experiences we have had. The Server got my order wrong; I ordered pene ala vodka, without the sausage ( who makes their pene vodka with sausage anyway?) I got the dish, what i thought was going to be prosciutto, turned out to be sweet sausage. I didn't eat the dish and shared my wifes plate whuch was not much better. She ordered Pene with marinara sauce, she played it safe, so we thought. The pasta was a little hard, the sauce was like an open can of heated crushed tomato. They tried to mask it by throwing oregano,basil and some herbs. The sauce was also way too sweet. At the end of the dinner the server tried to convince me i bit a piece of prosciutto. I told her to bring the plate back and I would show her the piece of sausage i chewed. They took it off the bill, but the damage was done. We ended eating a couple of slices at: Palumbo Pizza & Subs located at 104 N 2nd St. Right next door.
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The Office went out with a bang with its big series finale this week, packing in plenty of emotional moments — including Dwight and Angela's wedding! The event was a little unorthodox (and so was the bachelor party), but we couldn't see it any other way for two of Dunder Mifflin's quirkiest employees. Not only did the wedding include a very special guest, but it also rekindled a romance between one of the show's most memorable couples. Take a look at all the pictures from the wedding!
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Between parties for magazine covers, royals playing polo, the launch of an exciting new collaboration, and the Cannes Film Festival, the style set has been out and about a lot this week.
Model Doutzen Kroes attended the Le Passé premiere in Cannes, with Cara Delevingne and Hanneli Mustaparta also in the mix at the Calvin Klein-hosted Women in Film party. Stateside, supermodel Iman helped Kerry Washington celebrate her stunning June cover of Elle magazine at a party attended by everyone from the magazine's editor, Robbie Myers, to Olivia Chantecaille. Designers Jason Wu and Valentino Garavani both showed up at Prince Harry's charity polo match in Greenwich, CT, where models Karolina Kurkova and Jessica Stam were also spotted.
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New Zealand is strongly committed to creating a Marine Protected Area in the Ross Sea region.
New Zealand and the United States came together to present a joint proposal for the Ross Sea region during this year's annual Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) meeting in late October in Hobart.
CCAMLR is part of the Antarctic Treaty System and manages the marine living resources in the waters of Antarctica.
Consensus agreement on the New Zealand-United States proposal (PDF 440KB) was not reached by all 25 CCAMLR members at the 2012 meeting. But CCAMLR has agreed to hold a special meeting in July 2013 to further consider the issue.
If successful, the joint proposal would be the largest MPA anywhere in the world.
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Lawmakers give final approval to General Fund budget, send it to governor
The Alabama Legislature gave final approval Thursday to the state General Fund budget for fiscal 2014, sending the $1.75 billion spending plan to Gov. Robert Bentley.
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Ala. budget chairman: End state liquor stores
State Sen. Arthur Orr, the powerful chairman of the Senate's General Fund budget committee, is looking for ways to save money, and his liquor store legislation stems from that. He said that if Alabama kept its same taxes and fees on liquor, but eliminated the 169 retail stores and their 600 employees, it would free up $46 million for use by other state agencies.
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Panel to take hard look at changes to Medicaid
Alabama's General Fund appropriation to Medicaid - which makes up the single biggest portion of the budget - topped $600 million in the current year.
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Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging 2013 General Fund budget
A judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that claimed this year's $1.68 billion General Fund spending plan violated state laws that require balanced budgets.
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Alabama voters provide 2-1 approval of referendum to shore up General Fund with cash from trust fund
Alabama voters on Tuesday agreed to transfer more than $437 million over three years from a state trust fund to the state General Fund, which supports courts, prisons, Medicaid and other non-education areas of government.
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Voters will head to the polls today to decide whether to approve a three-year, $437 million transfer of funds from the Alabama Trust Fund to the General Fund, which pays for most noneducation services in the state.
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Alabama's chief public health official said Medicaid will be in deep trouble if voters do not approve a Sept. 18 referendum to take more than $437 million from a state trust fund and use it to prevent huge cuts in spending on state programs for three years.
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Want a more robust, long-term look at your state's fiscal health, beyond the budget? There are two parts: Click here for the FY2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report compiled by the state government, and click here for information on the state's pension liabilities.
Alabama is required to pass a "balanced budget." The Constitution of 1901 has numerous amendments addressing the call for a balanced budget. Of particular note is Amendment No. 26, ratified in 1993, which calls for a proration of state funds when the revenues actually received are less than the obligations appropriated by the legislature and approved by the governor. Moreover, the law calls for the fine and imprisonment of anyone violating this provision. Section 41-4-90 of the State law charges the Governor with watching drafts from the various state funds, and is mandated to restrict disbursements if they would cause an overdraft or a deficit. Alabama law forbids the carrying over of a deficit from one year to the next.
Individual major funds include: General Fund, Alabama Trust Fund, Education Trust Fund, Public Road and Bridge Fund, Public Welfare Trust Fund, and Alabama Medicaid Fund. The State budgets three funds: the General Fund, the Education Trust Fund, and the Earmarked Funds. It is not clear what is included in "Earmarked Funds." The Budgetary Comparison Schedules are missing several pieces of information needed for analysis, such as the net transactions, beginning balances, and ending balances. [from the Institute for Truth in Accounting]
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HEADLINES: Alabama
RSA wants teacher benefits plan revised by Alabama Education Department
An Alabama Education Department proposal to save money long-term calls for requiring new teachers to have 30 years of experience to retire, up from 25 years.
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HEADLINES: Alabama, Kansas, New York, South Carolina, Virginia, Wyoming, Louisiana
Highlights of State Pension Reform in 2012
Six of the seven states that enacted major legislation in 2012 had already undertaken pension reform in the past three years. This multi-year wave of reform is intended to address the long-term funding issues of public pension plans.
HEADLINES: Alabama
Financial health of Alabama's two largest pension funds lags
Key measures of the financial health of the Retirement Systems of Alabama's two biggest pension funds have fallen 11 straight years, RSA records show.
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Solutions: Alabama
A Small Price to Pay for Public Pensions
If state and education employees really want fairness, they can certainly keep more of their monthly paychecks, reduce contributions to their retirement and switch to a sensible defined contribution plan like the lion's share of Alabamians.
Solutions: Alabama
Charter Schools in Alabama
Charter schools are independent public schools authorized through a charter agreement with a
sponsor--usually a school district, state governmental body, or university. Unlike traditional public
schools, charter schools are overseen by a governing board of parents and members of the local
Alabama, Kansas, New York, South Carolina, Virginia, Wyoming, Louisiana
Highlights of State Pension Reform in 2012
Six of the seven states that enacted major legislation in 2012 had already undertaken pension reform in the past three years. This multi-year wave of reform is intended to address the long-term funding issues of public pension plans.
Financial health of Alabama's two largest pension funds lags
Key measures of the financial health of the Retirement Systems of Alabama's two biggest pension funds have fallen 11 straight years, RSA records show.
A Small Price to Pay for Public Pensions
If state and education employees really want fairness, they can certainly keep more of their monthly paychecks, reduce contributions to their retirement and switch to a sensible defined contribution plan like the lion's share of Alabamians.
Chapter 9 Weighed in Pension Woes
The stakes are high for taxpayers, public workers and bondholders, as concerns escalate about whether governments can pay their debts.
BLOG: Higher Education, Spending
Who is the highest paid state employee in your state?
Time to add a new diagram to the state budget and policy playbook--your state's highest paid employee is probably a football or basketball coach.
BLOG: Medicaid
Medicaid expansion won't yield quality health care
The bombshell Oregon Medicaid study released this week should give all states pause as they consider plans to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. States must now ask what the point of Medicaid is in the first place.
BLOG: Budget Gimmicks, Budget Processes and Systems, Measures to Balance Budgets, Spending, State Debt
Let's Put Privatizing Municipal Services Back on the Table
BLOG: Unions
Airing Out the Smoke-filled Rooms: Bringing Transparency to Public Union Collective Bargaining
To help prevent union strong-arming that fleeces taxpayers, we should know precisely what public union officials are demanding and what government employers are offering in any collective negotiation about employment terms and conditions.
BLOG: Budget Gimmicks, Budget Processes and Systems, Budget Transparency, Federal Government Impact, Federal Government Impact, Measures to Balance Budgets, Pensions, Revenue, Spending, State Debt
Yes, Your Paycheck is Smaller...And it May Get Worse
And it isn't just individuals who must reconfigure budgets, the states are looking at smaller "paychecks" as well.
BLOG: Revenue
U.S. Government Accountability Office tackles tax exemptions
Just as state spending should identify performance outcomes, tax preferences should as well.
OPINION: Pensions, Revenue
States, municipalities must make pension reform top funding priority
State and local politicians may think they can relax as third quarter tax revenues showed 12 consecutive quarters of growth year over year. But that would be a mistake in light of pension investments that again failed to erase any of more than $5 trillion owed to government workers.
BLOG: Federal Government Impact
Monday Map: Federal Aid to State Budgets
This map looks at state government budgets - specifically, how much of each state's budget comes from the federal government. Mississippi tops the list with 49% of its general revenue coming from Washington; Alaska, by contrast, gets only 24% of its general revenue from the feds.
OPINION: Pensions
New 'issue brief' ignores government pension 'pathology'
A National Insistute on Retirement Security brief on proposals to freeze local and state defined benefit pension plans in a shift to defined contribution plans that limit taxpayer risk ignores is what protections are needed against endemic public pension corruption and offers no explanation of who is going to sacrifice to pay this massive hidden debt.
OPINION: Pensions, Revenue, State Debt
New 'State of the States' fiscal crisis study recognizes reality
The "State of the States" report released this week puts hidden state and local debt at $7.3 trillion, stating: "States do not account to citizens in ways that are transparent, timely or accessible." If state and local governments fail to act decisively now, cities, towns and counties will go bankrupt, and states could fall beyond a fiscal event horizon into perpetual debt.
BLOG: Revenue
Revenue crisis? Citizens should have such a revenue crisis
The U.S. Census Bureau today released its Annual Survey of State Government Finances for 2011, and it shows the "revenue crisis" politicians have been blaming on the Great Recession is false.
BLOG: Spending, Pensions
Public employee compensation 6.2% higher than private sector
Warped accounting standards aren't helping the public pension crisis, but it is also not the only source of the problem. Another factor contributing to the pension crisis is total compensation paid to state employees. -
OPINION: Pensions
Note to Morningstar: Municipal and state pension hemorrhage accelerating
From Fiscal Years 2007 through 2011, politicians and government pension fund managers blew all the money taxpayers and government workers contributed. All of the $611 billion that was supposed to be invested is gone. So is the $609 billion earned on investments. According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau Annual Survey of Public Pensions: State-and-Locally-Administered Defined Benefit Data, more than $1.22 trillion came in to the pension plans and more than $1.29 trillion went out instead of growing to pay guaranteed future benefits. Those promised benefits grew by about $1 trillion over the same period.
OPINION: Pensions
Government pensions fix may take time, but time has run out
Members of a state and municipal workers organization recently got a dose of reality on pension reform at a gathering of public workers who have benefited from defined contribution plans for 40 years. A key fact from the presentations was stated by Ken Parker, city manager of Port Orange, Florida: "Note: the only way a governmental entity can truly fix its cost related to retirement is to change from a Defined Benefit Plan and adopt a Defined Contribution Plan."
OPINION: State Debt
Hurricane Sandy, tsunami scare expose state catastrophe debts
Of all accounting frauds state leaders commit to push devastating costs onto future generations, the worst is deluding citizens about the security of so-called catastrophe insurance funds. Hurricane Sandy and a tsunami scare in Hawaii at the same time should be warning enough for governors to start paying the premiums.
OPINION: Pensions
Milliman government pension report exposes magnitude of catastrophe
When a "premier global consulting and actuarial" firm proves in its first Public Pension Funding study that those government pensions are doomed, it is past time for action. Milliman's study showing a 33 percent increase in pension debt over official numbers from a minute change in accounting should be enough to spur reform.
OPINION: Pensions
GASB government pension message not even false
No matter what the Government Accounting Standards Board says or how grossly state and local politicians pervert new guidelines to continue looting workers' pension funds, reality will triumph when the real reckoning comes. Just ask the National Association of Bond Lawyers, municipal bond rating agencies and actuaries who do the calculations.
OPINION: Pensions
New book on public pensions only missing 1 thing: Reality
Anyone interested in the state and local government pension crisis - and all Americans should pay attention to this hidden $4.6 trillion hidden black hole in our economy - must read Alicia H. Munnell's new book, "State and Local Pensions: What now?" It is the best primer on this complex issue except for one missing factor: Reality.
OPINION: Pensions
'Dysfunctional' pension plans need radical fix now
When a widely recognized world pension expert refers to current defined benefit and defined contribution plans as "dysfunctional," it is time for politicians to stop their lying and denying that this fiscal catastrophe is spiraling out of control.
OPINION: State Debt
Public workers pay taxes with taxes paid by private workers
When State Budget Solutions started looking at real total state debt, just the staggering size of the numbers alone did not tell the whole story. So how to get a fix on the real burden taxpayers must bear in each state? Per capita is the usual way. But even that does not tell the whole story.
OPINION: Pensions
Latest data show public pension death spiral locking in
The worst news is that earnings on investments were a negative $14.2 billion, a $66 billion decline from the same quarter last year. These pension funds paid out $53.4 billion in the second quarter, putting a year-over-year hole of at least $68 billion in capacity to pay future benefits.
OPINION: Pensions
When it comes to cutting public pensions: Yes you can; you must!
If current state and municipal workers and retirees refuse to accept their fair share of sacrifice on retirement benefits, the looming taxpayer backlash will sweep away a century of progress. Workers must act voluntarily now because politics and law never will resolve this crisis before the money runs out, and legal protections they are counting on may be as false as politicians' promises.
OPINION: Pensions
The only thing governors move forward is intractable debt
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley told Democratic faithful gathered at the national convention Tuesday that "Democratic governors are balancing budgets," when he knows that is a lie, especially in the Old Line State. Twenty Democratic governors account for about 53 percent of total state debt, according to a study released last week by State Budget Solutions.
OPINION: Pensions
Ryan, Christie should check Dutch public pension cuts
Vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie put on cheery faces for the faithful this week at the Republic National convention, but both know the catastrophe states are hurtling toward because of hidden debt.
OPINION: Pensions
Chump public workers still feeding pension thieves
They just keep on letting politicians pick their pockets. Latest official public pension data - the most optimistic available -- compiled by Census show investments administered by states fell short more than $1.2 trillion even by their own trick accounting from Fiscal Year 2007 through 2011. Yet managers scraped off at least $45 billion in "Other Payments" to enrich a handful of insiders.
OPINION: Pensions
State lawmakers finally hear the 'U' word on pensions
"Unsustainable" is the word state officials heard from experts for the first time at their annual National Conference of State Legislatures gathering here, where one of four sessions on the pension crisis drew a standing-room only crowd of more than 300.
BLOG: Federal Government Impact
Sacrifice of state sovereignty on display at NCSL
When U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois tried to fire up a ballroom full of state legislators here Tuesday morning, he used the phrase "states rights." It popped up a few other times as the National Conference of State Legislatures met to its annual "Build Strong States" summit. The only problem: There is no such thing as "states rights."
BLOG: Pensions
State lawmakers sink deeper into denial on pension catastrophe
We're going to pay enough for 2,000 "Curiosity" Mars rover missions, but the money will produce no government services or benefits of any kind. Yet, nowhere does a state legislative directive on pensions approved Tuesday mention how states are going to pay this debt.
State lawmakers get warning about muni bond bind
National Conference of State Legislatures members meeting here ended their first day with even more bad news about municipal bonds, debt interest that takes more than 20 cents of every dollar they spend each year and that pays for essential public works, among other things.
OPINION: Pensions
SEC report reveals house of bonds turned into den of thieves
The word "taxpayer" appears only 14 times in 165 pages of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Report on the Municipal Securities Market released Tuesday. Only two of those mentions in the body of the report refer to looking out for our interests.
BLOG: Pensions
Pension actuaries claim 80% does not equal 100%
Question: When does 80 percent of something equal 100 percent? Answer: Never, except in the fantasy world of public pension accounting. The American Academy of Actuaries Tuesday sent a letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, puncturing that fantasy in a committee report he released six months ago.
BLOG: Pensions
Taxpayers, workers can probe their public pensions now
Push past the spin. Most public workers covered by defined benefit pension plans - and taxpayers stuck with the tab - don't have to wait years to find out what's happening to their money. They can get quarterly reports from the Top 100 funds representing 89.4 percent of "financial activity."
OPINION: Pensions, State Debt
Cities and states bleed out while politicians dither
If our states and municipalities were trauma victims, they would be bleeding out while doctors argued about injuries. Even as financial gurus Paul Volcker and Richard Ravitch studied the municipal and state fiscal crisis for a report released this week, public pension debt alone grew to an untreatable $4.6 trillion, according to analysis released Wednesday by economist Andrew Biggs for State Budget Solutions.
OPINION: Pensions
Public pension infinite amortization puts taxpayers in debt forever
Anybody who doubts whether public pensions can push state and local governments beyond a fiscal event horizon into a black hole of perpetual debt should read an auditor's note in Montana's latest annual report: "The Unfunded Actuarial Accrued Liability amortization period is infinite ...."
BLOG: Unemployment Insurance, Federal Government Impact
Will the Real Unemployment Numbers Please Stand Up?
It may be equally as worrisome to know that the Department of Labor is also engaging in the practice of publishing one set of rosier numbers, only to amend them to the real numbers days later, thereby avoiding dissemination of the worst numbers.
OPINION: Pensions
Local, state pensions fall another $1.5 trillion short so far this year
Public pensions just keep falling further and further behind. In fact, they have fallen so far they never can get up again. The local and state pension crisis got at least $300 billion worse in the first quarter of this year compared to 2011, according to analysis of latest data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. That added at least $1.5 trillion to the shortfall -- calculated at $800 billion to more than $4 trillion as of 2010 -- future taxpayers must make up on top of all other taxes and rate hikes.
BLOG: Budget Gimmicks, Budget Processes and Systems, Budget Transparency, Federal Government Impact, Measures to Balance Budgets, State Debt
States' Rainy Day Funds Fall Short on "Rainy Days"
Despite the obvious need for maintaining these funds, many state lawmakers deplete or insufficiently fund the reserves to cover costs elsewhere, leaving constituents to fend for themselves during bouts of extreme weather.
OPINION: Pensions
Public pension liars and deniers just lower their standards
Now, 70 percent equals 100 percent. The people crashing municipal and state pension plans into a bottomless fiscal abyss just released a "study" they claim finds them "solidly funded" despite irredeemable losses in the recession and lagging growth since. They did it by lowering their standards. No problem, they expect taxpayers to make up the difference.
COMMENTARY: Fiscal Reality wins a victory in Wisconsin
Maybe average Wisconsin voters didn't consciously know each household must pay $1,563 in extra taxes every year for the next 30 years just to fund public pension shortfalls. But they probably realized they don't have a pension anymore, even if they have jobs. And any lucky enough to have jobs know that before Scott Walker became governor, they were paying higher taxes while working harder and longer at lower pay with slashed benefits.
OPINION: Pensions
COMMENTARY Study calls for 'drastic reform' of public pension regulation
Politicians are forcing public pensions to take more risks with taxpayer money and public workers' retirements. Recent accounting reforms actually will make the crisis worse, according to a study just released by three economists. They call for "drastic reform." Congress actually has the power to impose something drastic now.
BLOG: Budget Processes and Systems
Haste makes (or covers) waste
Alabama lawmakers hastily passed the state budget last week, failing to allow adequate time for lawmakers and citizens alike to review the state's spending plan.
OPINION: Pensions
Taxpayers get crushed when pensions and bonds collide
This all boils down to who gets to pick taxpayers' pockets first, public pensioners or municipal bond investors? More people are waking up to the hard reality that when it comes to state and local government, somebody has to lose money over the next few decades. The National Association of Bond Lawyers is worried enough about it to issue "Considerations" for advising clients who think they're getting safe investments.
BLOG: Pensions
COMMENTARY: Municipal, state pension reform message gaining momentum
Despite an organized campaign to stop public pension reform, reality is beginning to break through. One recent report outlines a possible path to long-term solutions and another details the necessity of states and municipalities finding their own way because federal bailout is impossible. And Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel released a plan that could have been based on both reports.
OPINION: Pensions
Public pension 'best practices' omit 1 thing: How do we pay benefits?
Hey, young public employees, what are you going to do when your pension checks bounce after you paid in for decades? That is what will happen in many - maybe all - states and municipalities sooner or later if they do not reform right now. If you want to see the future, just look at Illinois. One citizen there did, and came up with a real reform plan that might work.
OPINION: Pensions
COMMENTARY Municipal, state workers should take their pension money and run, fast
Public employees should take their pension money now and run to avoid risk of getting reduced benefits - or nothing - in the future. It's the best deal for them and for taxpayers. A growing chorus of credible voices including the Government Accountability Office, a Federal Reserve bank and now the Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government confirm state and local government finances are "spiraling out of control" and even draconian reforms only make it "more likely" that future benefits will paid in full.
BLOG: Pensions
COMMENTARY: This plan could save municipal, state workers' pension checks
Hey, young public employees, what are you going to do when your pension checks bounce after you paid in for decades? That is what will happen in many - maybe all - states and municipalities sooner or later if they do not reform right now. If you want to see the future, just look at Illinois. One citizen there did, and came up with a real reform plan that might work.
BLOG: Pensions, Federal Government Impact
COMMENTARY: Fed screams softly in warning about public pension crisis
This is what it sounds like when the Federal Reserve Bank screams: "Much has been written about the various headwinds restraining economic activity over the near term. However, our economy also has other headwinds to confront over the medium- to-longer-term. ... the finances of some state and local governments are also under stress and in need of serious adjustments." - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Sandra Pianalto
States get down to the nitty-gritty
States are getting down to the nitty-gritty of budget cuts as they hack away millions of dollars in order to salvage their shortfalls. While some states are managing to balance their budget woes, others are still deliberating their budgets for the next fiscal year.


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The Specter of defeat
It didn't have to be this way.
His 2004 intra-party tormentor, Club for Growth President and former Rep. Pat Toomey, initially opted out of a rematch. But Specter's EFCA support and anemic poll numbers seem too much for Toomey to resist, and he's crept ever closer to a rematch for a primary that is just 11 months away.
Did I say Specter's poll numbers were "anemic"? I should've said "catastrophic." A Quinnipiac University poll conducted March 19-23 had Toomey leading Specter 41-27 percent among Republicans. To compare, Quinnipiac had Specter leading Toomey 52-37 in early April 2004, about four weeks before Toomey came within 1.6 percent of a major upset — and that was with the entire conservative apparatus and its most prominent voices, including President George W. Bush and hyper-conservative Sen. Rick Santorum, backing Specter. Bush and Santorum are now gone and discredited, while the rest of the conservative machine has no use for Specter — after all, the GOP base believes it is losing elections because Republicans aren't conservative enough.
Pennsylvania's primaries are closed, so the 239,000 defectors suddenly loom large —Specter survived his 2004 primary by just 17,000 votes. No longer Republicans, those likely Specter voters are shut out of the primary.
But Specter had an ace in the hole. He could switch parties and intensify the already enthusiastic support of organized labor, while earning the support of Gov. Ed Rendell and his political machine. The Democratic primary would be cleared of any serious candidates, and in a general election versus Toomey, Specter would walk to a blowout. A tough choice, but a winner's choice.
Instead, Specter decided to flip his EFCA vote to "no" in the hope that it would earn him a reprieve from his right flank, but the hard right is not a forgiving bunch.
"Specter enjoys being the center of attention," snorted former Rep. Ernest Istook, chairman of an anti-EFCA group. "There has probably been more money spent to influence his vote on this issue than on any other vote, from any other senator, at any other time. He wants to continue enjoying the attention and the fundraising opportunity." The anti-union National Right to Work Committee issued a statement that tepidly proclaimed, "While we certainly welcome Sen. Specter's reconsideration of his past support for Big Labor's number one legislative goal, it should be met with some skepticism." Toomey himself dismissed his opponent's EFCA switch as an unprincipled reaction to "a threat in the Republican primary," while redirecting fire to Specter's stimulus vote.
Specter's chances in his primary are just about nil. But assuming, for the sake of argument, that he survives, he will face an increasingly progressive general electorate and an energized labor movement out for revenge.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire?
Either way, Specter's going to get burned.
Moulitsas is founder and publisher of Daily Kos (www.dailykos.com).


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Posted by K'Shema Francis on 01/09/2011 at 1:16pm
The nominees for the 16th annual 2011 MOBO Awards have been announced!
Alborosie, Damian Marley & Nas, Jah Cure, Khago and Mavado are the entertainers vying for the coveted best reggae act title.
Khago who is currently in England, tells Music News that he's elated for the recognition.
The MOBO nominations were announced in London recently. The ceremony itself will be held in Glasgow, Scotland on October 5.
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