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July 23, 2004, 05:25:49 PM »
all of the examples of PSs that i have read try to do the same thing -- to "capture" the reader with an striking first sentence. i have to admit, i have pretty much finished mine and have tried to do the same thing. i also have to admit that some of the examples on the web -- including some of the edited examples on essayedge -- have failed to capture my attention.
does anyone think that this strategy is a bit cliche? i wonder if adcoms joke amongst themselves wondering what kind of first sentence the next application will present.
certainly, "i have wanted to be a lawyer since..." type beginnings are played out. but does anyone believe that starting a personal statement with something conservative along the lines of "i seek admittance to your law school, and feel that i would be an excellent fit because of x,y,z," and then expounding on those reasons in the essay a bad idea? i know there are no set formulas to these things, but the trend of the examples i have seen seem to suggest to show, not tell.
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July 23, 2004, 05:31:55 PM »
Showing and not telling is the advice par excellence of every first-year composition course. (It's the mantra of the rhetorical mode known as description.) I think you're right that this strategy is transparent by now, but the example you gave would put fatigued ad comms right to sleep.
Your best bet, I think, is to grab the reader in the first few lines, steering way clear of cliches and platitudes. Descriptive language is one effective way to do this, but there are others. If you're not "telling a story," at least say something provocative (not necessarily controversial, but that can work, too). Then again, I'm having a hard time striking this balance, so who the hell am I to talk?
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July 23, 2004, 05:38:28 PM »
what are you, a @#$% english prof?!?
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i remember now
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July 23, 2004, 05:45:07 PM »
I do play one on TV.
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July 23, 2004, 06:03:00 PM »
I am not a English Prof, and I don't play one on TV. However
I dress up as one when I am alone.
Question: I see a lot of slang in PS's, a big no no as far
as I am concerned.
Your thoughts?
I mean on the slang, not my dressing up.
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July 23, 2004, 06:22:44 PM »
to me it's a question of consistent tone. if your subject matter is all straight-up serious, then your grammar and syntax need to reflect that. if your ps is more playful, colloquialism can be ok at certain times and add to your effect. you have to have a light touch with it.
i'm sure this will get followed by 7 "oh noooo slang, what are you, crazy?" posts, but i think a more casual tone done well always outshines a ps that's overwritten or stiffly formal, plus it lets the real you come out and play a little more
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July 24, 2004, 08:43:00 PM »
Hey casino. I know what you're talking about - the 'shocker' first sentence describing something off the wall. While I agree with you that such blitzkrieg tactics are probably not endearing to adcoms one need not resort to blitzkrieg to be compelling in the first paragraph.
Along the lines of what EnglishToLaw gets at I use my first paragraph to describe an interesting work setting in which one of the actors in the 'story' is exhibiting leadership ability. I don't ever say "man X is doing leadership stuff", rather i give concrete examples of actions, expounded upon in 'story' fashion, which any reader would clearly recognize as a demonstration of good leadership.
After the first paragraph I never explicitly mention that "man X" is myself, but the implication is clear - that man is none other than myself.
I think this, and similiar tactics, are a good way to begin one's PS. Everyone likes a good non-blitzkrieg story. And if you tell an honest an interesting story of yourself there is truly no underhanded 'tactic' at work and adcoms will recognize this. Further, if you can accomplish the second goal I set for myself I think your story is especially non-invasive. That is, i set up a description of a situation in which there is a clear hero, but I then never explicitly say to the audience (adcoms) "Now, that hero leader type guy you read about in the first paragraph - that's me. Cool huh? That's me! I really did that cool leadershipt stuff in the first paragraph!".
I think by not actually declaring I am the hero of the story I, in a certain way, honor my audience by not stating the obvious and allowing the audience to conclude for themselves I am said hero. Further, if they deduce this themselves it is much more powerful than were I to tell them and ruin the mystery.
Anyway, I really do think you can begin you PS in attention grabbing 'story' fashion yet still be creative and not seem like you're giving into to the typical blitzkrieg gimick. Try out a couple experiments. That fact that you've identified the blitzkrieg gimmick is itself indicative that you've got a keen eye as to what's going on here. I'm sure with a few attempts you can find an honest and intriguing way to begin the story of your PS.
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PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — In the days after a wildfire killed 19 members of an elite firefighting team, the Arizona city where they were based banded together in a series of moving public memorials and tributes, overwhelmingly united in its support of the men and their families.
That unity quickly has faded since residents learned Prescott is not paying fulltime benefits to all of the families of the firefighters who died June 30.
Now, leaders of the city nicknamed "Everybody's Hometown" are receiving emails that range from vicious to complimentary for not letting emotion get in the way. Grieving widows have lashed out at city leaders in public meetings, news conferences and national TV appearances.
"I was really proud to live in Prescott because you saw people coming together, and now it's just embarrassing," resident Julie Abel said.
The source of the dispute is the fact that 13 of the firefighters were classified as temporary employees and their families are not entitled to full survivors' benefits. As a result, they receive smaller death benefits than the families of the six firefighters classified as fulltime.
The widow of fallen firefighter Andrew Ashcraft brought attention to the issue by making public pleas to city officials, saying her husband worked fulltime hours, was promised a fulltime position and deserved the more lucrative benefits.
"There were 19 men that perished in that fire and for whatever reason, there are people that feel that some of them don't deserve to be treated in a way that the others do," Juliann Ashcraft said at a news conference outside the courthouse.
Division Chief Darrell Willis of the Prescott Fire Department issued a statement Tuesday saying he made no such promise to Andrew Ashcraft and that promotions cannot be based on a verbal commitment by supervisors.
From the city's point of view, the law is clear. The 13 firefighters were not classified as fulltime, and the city said changing the rules after the fact would be illegal and also cost Prescott millions of dollars over the lifetime of the firefighters' dependents.
"It's easy to get emotional and everybody wants to do the right thing, and the city absolutely," said city spokesman Pete Wertheim. "But what is the right thing? Well, for the city it's limited by the law. And we're fully complying with it."
Juliann Ashcraft's attorney, Tom Kelly, said the city of Prescott is oversimplifying legal issues related to Andrew Ashcraft's employment status. Andrew Ashcraft had filled a leadership position that previously was fulltime, and he was making a salary similar to other fulltime employees.
"It's not simply an emotional plea, and it's not simply — from the city's standpoint — a cut-and-dried issue," Kelly said.
Last year, President Barack Obama made federal health insurance benefits available to thousands of temporary wildland firefighters and their families after a South Dakota-based Hotshot crew petitioned for the change. That benefit did not extend to the Granite Mountain Hotshots because the crew was employed by Prescott.
In Arizona, House Speaker Andy Tobin has said he'll introduce a bill in the upcoming legislative session to provide benefits retroactively to the Granite Mountain Hotshots and any emergency responder who dies on state lands in the future.
Somewhat lost in the emotion of the debate is that benefits for all the families of the Granite Mountain Hotshots also will include private donations.
Each of firefighters' families will receive a tax-free $328,000 lump sum from the federal government, Social Security benefits, workers compensation and free tuition for their children at Arizona universities. The families of the six fulltime employees also get health insurance, an increased life insurance payment and the men's annual salaries.
Outside organizations and community donations have been filling the families' immediate needs.
The 100 Club of Arizona paid out a minimum of $15,000 in cash to each of the men's families and covered remaining burial expenses and associated travel costs. Of the $3 million the group has taken in so far, more than $1.5 million has been spent, said marketing specialist Ciara Franklin.
The group has paid credit card debt for the lone survivor and can pay the fallen firefighters' bills. Franklin said it is focusing now on compiling a list of needs for the families and covering health insurance premiums for at least a year.
The total raised for the firefighters' families is unknown, but donations haven't ceased.
Fliers in the community highlight barbecues, banquets, a running race and a concert to benefit the men.
Residents struggled with the idea of providing for families whose loved ones risked their lives. None of them factored in the firefighters' benefits packages when they donated food, money or time to help the men's families. With payments from state and federal agencies and donations, "they'll have quite a bit, it sounds like," John Warner said.
Gloria Purce and Abel have written letters to Mayor Marlin Kuykendall expressing their anger over the city's position. The women said he has gone back on statements he made at the firefighters' memorial when he declared the city's everlasting support for men he referred to as sons.
"To disgrace 19 families over money — hold them up in such high regard — then act like penny-pinching fools, it's sad, just really sad," Abel said.

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Last night's Democratic debate marked the first time a number of candidates have spoken sanely and frankly about the Cheney-Bush design for a world war. Tim Russert asked each candidate to "pledge" to prevent Iran from developing the capacity to make a nuclear weapon. A mindless and demagogic request, and an attempt to corral the Democratic party into the militarism which holds the Republican candidates (with the exception of Ron Paul) captive and cheering. Russert was out of line and someone should have told him so. Yet the responses were instructive. Hillary Clinton vowed to do all she could to prevent Iran from acquiring a weapon; when that proved not ripe enough for her questioner, she made it clear she would not please him by upping the ante. What he was after was a pledge to initiate a war by bombing Iran.
Joe Biden explained to Russert that the Middle East holds perils more ominous than the possible attainment of a nuclear weapon by Iran some years from now. Biden did not mention Israel's 200 nuclear weapons, or its second-strike capacity from submarines. He did bring up Pakistan: another nuclear power, and one whose upheaval would have consequences the U.S. cannot possibly reckon. By his answer, Biden was contributing to the education of the public. They surely hadn't heard before a sober comparison of Pakistan with Iran, whether from Tim Russert or his colleagues at ABC or what remains of CBS.
The education continued with a fine response by John Edwards that addressed the Cheney-Bush pattern of saber-rattling against Iran. Edwards showed how the pair were following the same protocol that created a stupefied popular consensus against Iraq in 2003. He also used the word "neocon": a word that many of his listeners might have a broad idea of; more of them, probably, a dim and faint idea. The mere mention of this faction constitutes of a public service, now that they are running not only the president's foreign policy but the policy apparatus of four Republican candidacies (Giuliani, McCain, Romney, Thompson). Next time, Edwards ought to give a name or two, and connect it with a policy. For the individuals he has in mind are as persistent and remorseless as they are destructive. Their previous field of exercise was Nicaragua.
Chris Dodd offered a vivid recollection of the disaster of Iran-Contra when he recalled his part in negotiating a diplomatic end to the artificially induced civil war in Nicaragua: a war that was begun in America's name but funded and commandeered in defiance of the law. If Dodd alludes to Nicaragua again, he might mention that the earlier war was fought by American proxies with the tactics of terrorism; that it was a war that ripped apart a society and by its end had killed 30,000; and that it was run from the department of state by the same reckless functionary, Elliott Abrams, who pulls the levers now on American policy in the Middle East. The next time you hear (Dodd could easily say) about an assassination that heats up civil strife in Lebanon with profit to no party in Lebanon, or the latest speculative charge against Iran by the White House, or reports of advanced armaments suddenly in use by Fatah militias, or an Israeli bombing of a supposed nuclear site in Syria, where no evidence is given and no radioactive residue appears--be forewarned that you are seeing the handiwork of Elliott Abrams. This is an administration that has everything to fear from the diffusion of facts. But the facts need to be recited slowly, and the history needs to be recounted with patience.
Dennis Kucinich spoke the word impeachment. Whatever the Democrats may do, it is an idea the party would be irresponsible not to consider. No one who has read the Constitution through the minds of the founders, and followed the history of the past seven years, can doubt that the vice president and the president have committed impeachable offenses. The violation of FISA and the development of a secret policy for circumventing the FISA court are only the clearest instances. The withdrawal of the U.S., in secret, from the Geneva conventions, embodies the same insolence and arrogation. The power of inspection by the Senate and the claim of impeachment have long been understood as the indispensable checks against abuse of power by an ambitious executive.
Against impeachment, there is this to be said, that the majority apparently lack the votes to make it succeed. Yet Nancy Pelosi showed a remarkable absence of political mind when, as the leader of a new majority in a critical time, facing a president out of control, she declared that impeachment was not an option. You don't reassure an opponent--especially an opponent who understands nothing but the language of force--that the one weapon he rightly fears has been taken out of your arsenal. Besides, there are powers of inspection short of impeachment, which the Democratic Congress has been inexplicably backward in using. Dick Cheney has never held a press conference, and has seldom been asked to answer a question. His chief of staff, David Addington, is unknown on Capitol Hill. Why have they never been called to testify? Say by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (for misconduct in the control of post-invasion Iraq)? Or the Senate Intelligence Committee (for the slanting of estimates on Iraq in 2002-03, on Iran in 2006, on Syria in 2007)? Or by the Judiciary Committee (for overturning in secret the constitutional ban on torture and the legal restrictions on domestic surveillance)? When one thinks of the public education on the war in Vietnam that was supplied by the Foreign Relations Committee under Senator William Fulbright, nothing except timidity and a failure of self-respect can explain the omission of such hearings today.
The preferred way in to a world war, as Alastair Crooke pointed out in a recent and disturbing article, may not be a direct attack on Iran, but a "back door" through any of the potential flash-points the vice president has been preparing in the region. It may come from Lebanon, or from the Kurds, or an alarm set off by Israel and the argument that we have to cover what Israel "had" to do. All fanatics are dangerous; and not all of them know this about themselves; but the fanatics of this administration and their propagandists, do indeed know it, and they have begun to turn "dangerous" into a term of praise. They truly believe the surest way to reform the Middle East is to revolutionize the entire region through the engineered collapse of several governments at once, or in close succession. A much larger war triggered by accident, and a mounting series of escalations, would also bury their responsibility in the confusion, chaos, and desolation that followed.
But to carry it off they need the American people to be their accomplices. And that is where the salutary shadow of impeachment may matter. Even if it remains a discussion only, the threat could remind the public, and give notice to TV presenters innocent of political knowledge, that there is an unpleasant smell, a suspicion probably worth exploring, about the familiar crooked path to the next war. There is something finally neither admirable nor laughable about the men who have done these things to our country.
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Wow. Jeffrey Neely, the former head party planner at the General Services Administration, didn't have much to say yesterday when members of a congressional committee grilled him about the more than $800,000 team building boondoggle he organized on the taxpayers' tab.
Neely took the Fifth more times yesterday on Capitol Hill than I did when touring the Jameson factory in Dublin a few years ago. Here's from the NYT:
One by one, committee members took aim like heat-seeking missiles at the witnesses, although one — Jeffrey Neely, the official who helped plan the Las Vegas event, which cost more than $800,000 — repeatedly refused to answer questions, even one confirming his job title, citing his Fifth Amendment rights. Lawmakers criticized the officials for the huge expenditures; for a bonus received by Mr. Neely, a regional commissioner at the agency, even after the event came under scrutiny; for general outrageousness; and, in one case, for the nerve of giving revelers commemorative knickknacks made in China.
The lavish spending, which came to light last month, seemed almost like a parody of taxpayers' worst nightmare of their dollars at work: parties, glad-handing and drinking toward no apparent end. The agency's inspector general conducted a yearlong investigation of the four-day conference, in which 300 people were flown to the M Resort Spa and Casino.
As part of the Las Vegas "event," Neely hired a mind reader to entertain the federal flunkies and other miscreants. A mind reader would have come in handy during the congressional hearing yesterday. You would think that at least one of those on the panel would have liked to ask: "What was on your mind when you said OK to all this?"
In fairness to Mr. Neely, the answer is probably nothing. Oops. I digress.
Well, let's have Dana Milbank do the heavy lifting this morning in his WaPo article, "What was the GSA's Jeffrey Neely thinking?":
You knew government bureaucrats were living large when they hired a medium.
And this mind reader who helped government workers communicate with the dead was just the beginning of the scandal involving the General Services Administration's $823,000 spending spree in Las Vegas.
There was also the $75,000 bicycle-building exercise, the clown show, 1,000 sushi rolls at $7 a pop, $6,325 spent on commemorative coins, $8,130 for souvenir books and 300 helpings of "Boursin Scalloped Potato with Barolo Wine Braised Short Ribs" at $5 each.
The official responsible for the 2010 soiree — Jeffrey Neely — said he wanted his conference to be "over the top." By all accounts, he achieved his goal — and now the party's over.
Neely was hauled before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Monday afternoon for the first of several congressional hearings about the GSA scandal. He listened as lawmakers and former colleagues denounced his activities — Indefensible! Intolerable! The gall! — and then answered by taking the Fifth.
"Mr. Neely, what is your title at GSA?" asked Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).
Neely, who had demanded "theatrical talent" at his conference, got to demonstrate his own. "Mr. Chairman, on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege."
"Mr. Neely, did you attend the 2010 Western Regional Conference in Las Vegas?"
"Mr. Chairman, on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege," repeated the witness, who sported a lavish gray mane.
Issa continued to press, assuring Neely "just a few more" questions, as though he were a dentist completing drilling on a patient. He excused the witness and asked him to "remain for the remainder of the hearing" in a back room. But Neely had no interest.
Instead, the witness slipped out a back door — and reporters and camera crews gave chase. A CBS soundman, tangled in wires, fell and was taken to a hospital with a head injury. Fox News's Chad Pergram and other reporters followed Neely into an elevator and, ignoring his lawyer's demands that they disperse, continued to pepper him with questions. Among them: "Will you apologize?"
"No comment" was all Neely said.
He had rather more to say when planning the conference. According to e-mails discussed at the hearing, Neely had offered to pay for personal friends to come have a "blast" on the government's dime. "I know. I am bad," he wrote. "But Deb [his wife] and I say often, why not enjoy it while we have it and while we can. Aint going to last forever."
He had that right. "Well, Mr. Neely, it stops now," thundered Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.), the committee's ranking Democrat, who was particularly offended that Neely's wife, a private citizen, "ordered thousands of dollars' worth of food at taxpayer expense."
Committee Democrats and GSA officials portrayed Neely as a bad apple (albeit one who received a $9,000 bonus after his conference contretemps). Cummings said the episode gives government workers "a bad name."
Meanwhile, Republicans labored to turn what happened in Vegas into an administration-wide scandal. They distributed documents with titles such as "GSA spending skyrockets under Obama administration" and GSA "convention spending soars under Democrat control."
"As I look through this, there's no wonder that the American people have lost faith in their government," harrumphed Rep. Mike Kelly (Pa.).
"I want indictments!" bellowed Rep. Trey Gowdy (S.C.). With a preacher's fervor, he compared the bureaucrats unfavorably with their biblical forbears. "The tribes of Israel sent 12 scouts into the Promised Land before they decided to invade, and GSA has to send 15 to Las Vegas to check out a hotel? Do you not see the outrage?"
This outrage was undercut by a fellow Republican, Rep. James Lankford (Okla.), who argued that "there was something that was happening that was very unique" at the Las Vegas event.
Indeed, it is not every government event where the "artisanal cheese" is $19 per person and the commemorative coins cost $20 apiece. Or where they make a rap video joking about what their congressional overseers would have to say about their excess (the rapper, summoned before the committee, apologized profusely).
Why did they do this? Neely, who once boasted that he "wanted to make a statement" with his soiree, wasn't talking. And none of his GSA colleagues wished to speak for him.
"I have no idea what Mr. Neely was thinking," said one witness.
"I don't know what Mr. Neely was thinking," said another.
"I do not know what he was thinking," said a third.
Maybe they should hire a mind reader.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A century of laws and rules curbing political activity by tax-exempt organizations has left us with this: One statute says to qualify, groups must engage "exclusively" in social welfare projects while a regulation eases the threshold to "primarily."
Confused? So are President Barack Obama, the Internal Revenue Service and members of the very Congress that has been enacting contradictory laws on the subject for decades.
"We have not done a good job, I think, of putting out guidance on even how to figure out what 'primarily' means," Steven Miller, IRS acting director until Obama recently replaced him, told the Senate Finance Committee last month.
The puzzlement over the requirements, which Obama recently called "a bunch of ambiguity," is one sub-plot in the outcry over the IRS' heavy-handed treatment of tea party and other conservative groups that sought tax-exempt status from 2010 to 2012.
No one defends how the IRS purposely looked for conservative groups and demanded details about donors, website postings and other queries that the agency has conceded were inappropriately intrusive. Yet tax experts, former IRS officials and others agree that the rules governing political activities by tax-exempt groups — including a welter of vague government regulations — are maddeningly hard to follow.
"It's good for lawyers, it's hard for organizations" trying to qualify for tax-exempt designation, said Abby Levine, who advises scores of liberal groups as legal director of the Alliance for Justice.
Part of the confusion stems from Congress' reaction to New York University Law School's entry into the noodle business — but more on that later.
In the spotlight is a revenue code section that has become increasingly attractive to many organizations, 501(c)(4), which grants tax-exempt status to so-called social welfare groups. Many organizations targeted recently by the IRS sought that designation.
Over the years, such groups have been allowed to participate in overt election campaign activity as long as they focus mostly on social welfare — one of many broadly defined terms in this arena. While many groups engage seldom or never in politics, those who do, enjoy a valuable benefit: Donors can remain anonymous.
After the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision allowing unfettered political spending by companies and unions, campaign expenditures by social welfare groups mushroomed. Between the 2008 and 2012 elections, it tripled to $254 million, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
The IRS received 3,357 applications for Section 501(c)(4) status last year, nearly double the number in 2010, according to the Treasury Department.
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The story behind the confusion began in 1913, when Congress enacted legislation laying the groundwork for the modern income tax.
Exempted from the corporate income tax were nonprofit organizations, including those "operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare." An IRS history says it is assumed that provision was requested by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Urged on by President Harry Truman, Congress passed a law in 1950 allowing some nonprofits to keep unrelated businesses if they paid income tax on them.
But that left a contradiction: a 1913 statute saying groups must operate "exclusively" for social welfare purposes and the 1950 law saying they could do unrelated things, as long as they paid taxes on the profits.
"So 'exclusively' couldn't mean 'exclusively,' because later law acknowledged these organizations could engage in other activities" if you tax them, said Ellen Aprill, a tax law professor and expert on tax-exempt organizations at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
The government soon faced another issue — a 1954 revamping of the entire federal tax code. Feeling a need to overhaul tax regulations, the Treasury Department issued new ones in 1959.
The new regulations addressed the two laws defining nonprofits by, for the first time, saying groups need only be "primarily engaged in promoting in some way the common good and general welfare." The rules permit "direct or indirect participation or intervention in political campaigns" for or against candidates, as long as that isn't the group's principal activity.
"Congress made no effort to harmonize those statutes," said Marcus S. Owens, a Washington tax attorney who spent the last decade of his 25-year IRS career heading its tax-exempt organizations division. So the government adopted the "primarily" approach "as the only methodology they could think of to harmonize the statutes," Owens said.
Despite decades of IRS rulings and court cases refining the rules, definitions remain hazy for terms like "primarily," ''social welfare" and "intervention in political campaigns." Many lawyers, for example, say "primarily" means such groups can devote up to 49 percent of their resources to campaign activity, while others are more cautious.
"Social welfare" can include political issues if the work doesn't clearly support or oppose the election of a candidate. That is a blurry distinction in an age when sophisticated political ads tie politicians to specific viewpoints without explicitly calling for their defeat or re-election.
Mark W. Everson, IRS commissioner from 2003 to 2007, said there's a "virtue to vagueness," a view shared by many. "It's difficult to say you should write regulations or statutes that can contemplate all possible events."
The ambiguous wording serves another purpose too.
The IRS has removed tax-exempt status for groups supporting each major political party, including the conservative Christian Coalition and the Democratic Leadership Council. But the imprecision of the regulations makes that hard to do and makes it easier for groups to wade into politics, benefiting Democrats and Republicans alike, analysts say.
"Congress was pretty happy leaving it up to the IRS to enforce this case-by-case," Owens said. Because the IRS had dealt with groups that clearly overstep the boundaries, "there's been no incentive for Congress to dabble there" with additional fine-tuning, he added.
Owens said he's unaware of any congressional efforts to clarify the rules over the decades.
To this day the IRS investigates each group to see whether it is engaging in political activity, using tests such as whether an election is approaching or whether the group gives opposing candidates equal opportunities to participate in events. If it is, the agency determines whether politics is the group's primary activity — a difficult judgment that can involve measuring money, time spent by workers and other factors.
"Congress put the IRS in the position of being the gatekeeper," said Gregory Colvin, a San Francisco attorney who has helped advise numerous nonprofit groups. He said that forces the agency to do "a huge job with an inadequate staff."
Colvin said he would prefer to see political activity restricted to an "insubstantial" part of their work, perhaps 15 percent.


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How to become a Veridican--what do you think?
RE: How to become a Veridican--what do you think?
(22-01-2013 06:29 PM)GirlyMan Wrote:I want to save my self and all of human kind too.(22-01-2013 03:17 PM)Vosur Wrote: Good times.
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22-01-2013, 07:00 PM (This post was last modified: 22-01-2013 07:08 PM by GirlyMan.)
RE: How to become a Veridican--what do you think?
(22-01-2013 06:49 PM)fstratzero Wrote:(22-01-2013 06:29 PM)GirlyMan Wrote: And yet he continues to wander around aimlessly looking for a lifeboat in a sea of sand. And when he can't find one he makes one out of mesquite and tumbleweed. After sitting in it for a while and going nowhere he turns it upside down so he can hide from the glare of clarity. When he gets hungry he ventures out and repeats the whole goddam silly dance again. Sure as hell ain't gonna follow some quixotic fool like that, but he is a shitload of fun to watch.I want to save my self and all of human kind too.
hehehehehe ... This is why I miss the Prophet of the Gwynnies so much. ... "Save Yourself Bob, I'll Hold Them Back." ... hehehehehe
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RE: How to become a Veridican--what do you think?
(22-01-2013 04:03 PM)Mr Woof Wrote:(19-01-2013 01:12 AM)Egor Wrote: Yes, you are, or you wouldn't be here. An atheist who doesn't believe, also doesn't give a damn about being an atheist. They just live their lives out. You are in here for the soul purpose of debating with theists in hopes that one will be able to show you something that can give you back your faith. Cuz you used to be one, didn't you? A Christian.What utter crap!
What Woof said!
RE: How to become a Veridican--what do you think?
Ive had a wander over to your site Egor (im bored and cant sleep) today and see that you now have three accounts on your forum.
There is Egor. Edward and Edward Gordon.
Can you give an explanation why you have three? With all of your talk on here within the last month of different forums you have been on and your admittance to sockpuppeting them I can only wonder if you do it here???
I feel so much, and yet I feel nothing.
I am a rock, I am the sky, the birds and the trees and everything beyond.
I am the wind, in the fields in which I roar. I am the water, in which I drown.
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(22-01-2013 07:27 PM)bemore Wrote: Ive had a wander over to your site Egor (im bored and cant sleep) today and see that you now have three accounts on your forum.
He's a Trinity. Duh.
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RE: How to become a Veridican--what do you think?
Like the old song, I ain't got nobody that I can depend on, just me myself and I ...or in his case egor, Edward and Edward Gordon...
Godless in the Magnolia State
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(18-01-2013 03:43 PM)Egor Wrote: This is a statement I intend to release on my site. What do you think of it?Hey Egor remember when you hated Christianity?
Mark 3:28-30: "Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven all their sins and all the blasphemies they utter. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin. He said this because they [the Pharisees] were saying, 'He has an evil spirit'."
Yup you are stuck with us now for all eternity.
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RE: How to become a Veridican--what do you think?
It's all right. He has become Christ now. What he says defines truth, and he is not constrained by what previous Christs have said.
Give me your argument in the form of a published paper, and then we can start to talk.
RE: How to become a Veridican--what do you think?
(21-01-2013 12:41 PM)kingschosen Wrote: Hey Ed, correct me if I'm wrong with this analysis:
Hey K.C.,
I'm going to answer this here, and also post it in my forum under defining Veridicanism, but I will come back here to comment or there, wherever the comments are. It's just a good question that fits both places.
I have thought about this a great deal, and at this time, I'm leading the Veridican Church by fiat (which I hate), so it is up to me to answer this question definitively for you.
I realize in the future this may change. In 2113 there may be war fought over it, who knows. But Edward Gordon, living in 2013, believes that Veridicanism is a Christian religion based on an interpretation of the Scripture. Even the Veridican Gospel of Jesus Christ is a synthesis, it's not some newly dreamed up prophecy. It is derivative in nature. It includes the Gospel of Thomas, but even that inclusion was done for fundamentalist reasons, not for some new age, Gnostic reason.
The Gospel of Thomas was not discovered until the 1940's. I read a thesis on it, and the conclusion was that the only reason it wasn't included in the Bible is because it probably wasn't known to exist. A study of that Gospel reveals that it is less Gnostic in nature than the Gospel of John. And as a "sayings" Gospel—it really should be part of the Christian Canon, but it's not.
Even worse: In 2005, when I penned the VGJC, I used various versions of the New Testament for comparison. Each one of those translations was carefully constructed over years by hardcore theologian scholars who took their work very seriously. But that wasn't the case with the Gospel of Thomas. I learned about it in the 1990s and at that time there was only one translation I ever found, by 2005, everyone with a computer was translating it. The entire work is literally being lost to careless translation. There aren't monks and scribes and theologians carefully preserving the text over centuries. The last document was in a cave in Nag Hammadi. It has no protection. So I saved it.
I saved it by taking the four Gospels, four of the best translations of Thomas, and synthesizing them all into one Gospel, and I did this under the direction and interpretation of the Holy Spirit.
How do I know it was the Holy Spirit? All I can say is God has talked to me since I was nine years old. God has sent me precognitive dreams and given me original arguments for His existence. God showed me proof of His existence to the point where I don't even believe in Him anymore. To say I believe in God would be like saying I "believe" my wife exists. He gave me certainty. He led me to be a writer; He led me to be a Christian; He showed me the mysteries of the Gospel, and then He showed me the Gospel of Thomas, and I followed his command to write a Gospel of Jesus Christ.
There was the Old Testament. There was the New Testament, now there is the current testament. In my opinion, they should all be in one book, because I still use the Bible every day.
The interesting thing about Veridicanism that I never realized until recently is that it doesn't interfere with any other denomination. It seasons them, or they season it, however you want to look at it. I was baptized Lutheran as a child. I'm still a Lutheran—I also happen to be a Veridican. And every one of the Articles of Faith of Veridicanism can be supported by New Testament Scripture. In other words, Veridicanism has its ordination through the Word of God.
So, other denominations may reject Veridicanism, but Veridicanism doesn't reject other denominations. Unfortunately, therein lies a hard reality: One may have to endure the rejection of their denomination if they profess a Veridican belief. Even sadder, by the time the atheists get done shredding traditional Christianity, it may not matter what the other denominations do. If they were smart, they'd incorporate Veridicanism, because atheists can't touch it. It slays them where they stand.
Can one be a Veridican and also a Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, denominational or Non-denominational Protestant? Of course they can. Actually, I would expect they would be. If Edward Gordon is a Lutheran and a Veridican, I would say the answer to your question is a definitive, "Yes."
Thanks for asking it.
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Oh no, I be slain! The unimpeachable argument of "God's been talking to me in my head since I was 9 so I know he's real" has devastated my mental landscape and destroyed my belief in rationality, logic, and not eating poo! Alas! I am no more!
HURK! *dead*
E 2 = (mc 2)2 + (pc )2
614C → 714N + e– + ̅νe
2 K(s) + 2 H2O(l) → 2 KOH(aq) + H2 (g) + 196 kJ/mol
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How come Styris is no longer a fixuture in the NZ ODI set-up?
As per some statistical work done by cricinfo favorites are Pak, but the way NZ has played the last 2 games there is no way Pak can walk in thinking its an easy ride. NZ still has a great bowling attack and Pak has a weak batting side....if NZ bats first and posts a good total they can really trouble Pak.
So as a Pak supporter, i hope that the wicket is a bit on the batting side, and we win the toss and bat first....if its a green top...........you know what to do....
Be VERY AFRIDI!!
If we win, it will be due to the bowling attack.
Predicting a pretty low scoring game here. Both sides easily have their bowling as their strength.
NZ need to draft ins and unsecure places (like Broom) to make at least 20s to support hundred(s) from senior-ish players like Taylor, Elliott, Guptill and (really unlikely knowing the player) McCullum.
Pakistan paceman Umar Gul in new cheat probe | Mail Online
Pakistan were at the centre of another ball-tampering row after it emerged New Zealand, their opponents in today's Champions Trophy semi-final, will be monitoring their fast bowler Umar Gul following renewed whispers of sharp practice.
The Kiwis were convinced Gul had lifted the seam during a searing match-winning spell of five wickets for six runs that bowled Pakistan to victory in the World Twenty20 semis at the Brit Oval in June.
The private grumbles were never proven, but Sportsmail understands the Pakistanis were berated by match officials earlier this week after allegedly fiddling with the ball during their last-gasp loss to Australia.
A source said: 'It's very frustrating. The Pakistanis were caught messing with the ball against Australia but everyone was too scared too do anything about it. The match referee and umpires said they will be watching them like hawks in the semi, but unless an official goes public, the Pakistanis won't give a damn.'
Now New Zealand, who have played Pakistan in six one-day semi-finals and lost five of them, are considering altering their videoanalysis programme to track the path of the ball in case it begins to reverse-swing as violently as it did during the World Twenty20.
Sounds like BS to me. One unnamed source. Everyone is supposedly afraid of making an issue about it. Either prove it with evidence or STFU.
I hope there's no incident in this semifinal.
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^ lol here we go again.. lol this time before losing the match to Pakistan lol hha..
I watched the highlights of that 20/20 game and only saw his wicket taking deliveries. They reversed but not violently. Perhaps the other deliveries that they didn't show on the highlights moved more.
One person had a theory that he has fallen under the radar of the NZ selectors by saying that he wasn't available for test matches. He also is getting long in the tooth so the selectors have been picking younger players.
But seriously though it is because our selectors suck. Hopefully with Dan a selector now things will change. But Turner is still in charge so I don't see much changing.
i am predicting something here.. Pakistan would beat New Zealand and Asif and Gul would destroy the NZ bating line up with figures such as this..
Asif 5-10
Gul 4-25
Vetterie would come up and accuse Asif for illigal action and gul for ball temparing..hahaha..
Seriosuly **** this thread if its going to turn itno a bitchiness thread tonight.
Yeah obviously the NZ team think there was something suspect in that 20/20, rightly or wrongly. But the game hasn't even started yet, lets see what happens shall we?
Because if Gul takes a wicket and comments are as follows "filthy cheat" or "stupid kiwis gonna call us cheats?" then I can't be bothered reading the thread.
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C'mon guys, i checked that link, the site which published it, just used word SOURCES
it's fraud, it's just to creat a controversy
as far as i know newzealand, once they know last time Gul wasn't found tempering with the ball, they won't try it again, specially after getting spirit of the team award i guess, if i'm not mistaken
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Roughly 58 percent of respondents cited business agility as the main benefit of core systems replacement, according to the study, which surveyed 141 insurers, more than a third of which have more than $1 billion in annual premium.
The benefits of increased underwriting efficiency through workflow, rapid product design and improved customer service are clear, according to Celent, but it says that many firms fail to act on this knowledge because it is a big job and the quantifiable monetary benefits are hard to accurately forecast.
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"Should the business need to drive on the autobahn at 200 mph, the engine should be ready to go that fast," the report noted. "This flexibility is what is missing from most great engines in the insurer. As such, restrictions are placed on what the business is able to execute. Current engines may allow the insurer to speed up, but not too fast, and certainly not to execute any emergency braking."
The biggest challenges of legacy systems, according to respondents, were inflexibility of applications, inflexibility of data models and difficulty of integrating with other systems.
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Nine Ten Again
Phil Condon
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Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It
Maile Meloy
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Three recent books of short stories feature complex but credible characters in relationships tingling with tension. Even as they play on well-worn themes -- unrequited love, marital discord, moral weakness -- the stories in these collections are full of provocative plots and unexpected finales.
The majority are told by or about men. In Nine Ten Again by Montana writer Phil Condon, working-class men struggle with war-induced stress, homelessness and painful decisions. The men in Maile Meloy's Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It mostly crave what they can't have: a wife and a mistress, grandma's money, the truth about a murder. Many of Kevin Canty's male narrators seem to be on their way out of ennui-infested marriages in Where The Money Went.
The title piece of Montana author Canty's collection is a potent short-short story in which a man sits at his kitchen table evaluating the events and decisions that drained his finances: the big house with a swimming pool, the cars, high-end bicycles and skis, vacations, private schools, and, finally, the lawyers. In other stories, a parade of men from Montana to Arizona brood over their relationships. Often, frustration and anger ("Sometimes it seems to me that anger is the engine of a marriage, the power that drives all the other parts") propel them into risky behavior: sex with a friend's wife, drunk driving, ignoring dangerous weather conditions.
As "The Boreal Forest" unfolds to a queasy ending, Canty's narrator sits under a tree, waiting out a snowstorm. He thinks about the possibility of dying, and it puts his pathetic human drama into perspective. "That was the joke:" he thinks, "all the rest of it, Maria (his lover), Catherine (his wife), even Ellie (his young daughter), we had made it all unreal. And this was real, this mountainside, this storm, and it wanted to kill me."
Dicey weather and convoluted relationships also compel many of Meloy's characters in Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It. The title story (whose name is taken from a poem by A.R. Ammons) expresses the sentiment directly, but the men in some of the other stories also want it "both ways." In "O Tannenbaum," for example, Everett invites the wrath of his wife and scares his young daughter during their annual Christmas-tree-cutting outing when he offers a ride to Clyde and Bonnie, a couple stranded in the woods. Although his neck prickles when they offer their names, Everett's decision is motivated by the fact that "this wasn't country where you left people in the snow" -- and by lust. The young woman is "the kind of blonde who (holds) sorority car washes." Just his type.
In "Two Step," a brilliantly crafted anecdote about a menage a trois, Meloy places a pregnant wife and her husband's mistress in the couple's kitchen while the husband races toward home. Alice cries, telling her "friend" about the agony of suspecting an affair without knowing the identity of the other woman. Or does she? "The Children" leaves the reader wondering if Fielding will abandon his beautiful and talented wife for a woman just a few years older than their daughter. As in most of Meloy's work, these stories show that the core of this California novelist's prodigious talent is her ability to tantalize, revealing small but crucial details at critical moments.
Similarly, Condon's skill with nuance enables him to tackle complex social and moral issues that might derail a writer with less finesse. Nine Ten Again features stories about workingmen and their challenges, including war. Chad, the Vietnam veteran who narrates "A Country Voice," knows that his furniture-building therapy, a suggestion from his "VA head-bender," is like trying to eradicate an acre of dandelions with a screwdriver. Terrors from the past -- where his buddies disappear in "a giant red sneeze in the jungle" while he fights for a government that "like(s) to start wars, but not to finish them" -- saturate his present. Duck, the born-again bricklayer in "Cakewalk," touches his Bible but doesn't open it. His decision to keep quiet about the cause of a co-worker's death makes "him wonder if he should ever open it again."
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Knitted lace has a huge visual impact–intricate arrangements of fine threads building up areas of positive and negative space add a "wow" factor to garments, home décor items, and heirlooms. Viewers rightly admire the final outcome, but knitters often see lace as frightening. It's so complicated! How do you make those fancy stitches? What happens when you're done knitting?
If you want to knit lace, either as a beginner or as a connoisseur of doily and edging patterns, our latest collection has it all. Mary Schiffmann used to teach classes working from easiest to hardest lace projects, so this book is arranged in the same way. Mary Schiffmann's Lacy Knitting includes 21 patterns along with Mary's teaching notes, edited by her friend Nancy Nehring.
You'll see that lace doesn't feature many (or any) new stitches: knit, purl, yarnover, increases, and decreases appear in combinations that look complex. The actual knitting isn't difficult, since knitters over the years have re-created patterns simply by inspecting the final product. Once, Mary developed a written pattern from a single viewing of an edging.
Small projects such as edgings are a perfect way to master lace knitting, as you repeat the same series of stitches over and over. When you're ready for 4 needles, the Star Doily will get you going. Soon you'll be tackling Mary's most complex doily patterns without trepidation.
As for finishing, you can block in the traditional way or borrow Mary's technique of ironing. Nancy suggests alternatives to Mary's preferred cotton yarn that will also iron easily.
Let Mary's time-tested approach guide you into the beautiful world of knitted lace, whether you're entering for the first time or have already ventured inside.


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The largest infrared space telescope ever launched has run out of cryogenic coolant, permanently ending its science operations.
|Update: On June 17th mission controllers sent Herschel into its "disposal" orbit. The bon voyage marks the mission's official end. Read more in this ESA announcement.
Herschel launched May 14, 2009 with the Planck satellite and was the first space observatory to cover far-infrared to submillimeter wavelengths, its observations spanning 55 to 672 microns. Both spacecraft went to L2, the second Lagrange point in the Sun-Earth gravitational system where a small mass can basically "hover" without being pulled this way or that.
Herschel's 3.5-meter primary mirror worked with two cameras (both with spectroscopic abilities) and a high-res spectrometer, all of which were cryogenically cooled by superfluid liquid helium to a couple of degrees above absolute zero, -271°C (-456°F) — as least until Herschel ran out of coolant.
Mission planners estimated that Herschel would exhaust its helium supply in late March. It lasted one month beyond that projection. But without coolant its science operations are now impossible.Herschel's main objectives were to study the formation of stars and early galaxies, the universe's molecular chemistry, and the chemical composition of solar system atmospheres and surfaces. Observing in infrared is key for this work: infrared wavelengths reveal stuff a few tens of degrees above absolute zero (such as nebulae) and also pass through the dusty clouds enshrouding young stars. In addition, cosmic expansion has shifted visible light from the early universe to infrared wavelengths, meaning studies of that era must be conducted in infrared. (Incidentally, that's why the infamous James Webb will focus on infrared, too — the infrared range is possibly the most information-heavy of the entire electromagnetic spectrum.)
For far-infrared observers, Herschel was a major upgrade from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which has a primary mirror only 0.85 meters wide and observed from 3 to 180 microns while it had coolant. (Spitzer is still working in "warm mode" and observes at 3.6 and 4.5 microns — i.e. it only sees the toastier stuff now.)
Herschel allowed astronomers to zoom in on the formation of massive stars, those that will someday cataclysmically die to form neutron stars and black holes. Its observations revealed that these stars grow on the margins of rapidly expanding bubbles in the interstellar medium, where the expanding bubbles squeeze surrounding gas. In the distant universe, Herschel detected evidence that galaxies' star formation spiked within the first few billion years, and that it's the availability of gas, not the fireworks of galaxies crashing into each other, that fuels such bursts.It also revealed that the water ice of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 has the same hydrogen-deuterium ratio as Earth's water — a much-sought data point for those who argue Earth's water comes from comets. However, Hartley 2 is the only comet with the right ratio, and other data suggest that the comet is actually not such a great match to Earth's composition after all. Increasingly, astronomers are arguing that Earth formed with its water and didn't need alien delivery.
Another water discovery came in late April from Herschel: the detection of water in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, left there by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994. Even though it's been nearly 20 years since the comet smashed into Jupiter, Herschel's observations show more water in the southern hemisphere (where the comet hit) than in the north and suggest that 95% of the planet's current water comes from that comet.
Using Herschel, astronomers found out that what they'd long thought was a dark cloud hiding star formation next to the reflection nebula NGC 1999 is actually a hole in space. While black in visible light, the purported cloud should have shown up in infrared — and it wasn't there. Instead, nearby stars somehow blew out that section of gas.
I could make a long list of Herschel's work, but hey, the ESA has already done that for me: check out the full list of Herschel press releases, which go back even before its launch. You can also read the ESA obit for Herschel, which provides a nice wrap-up.
With its usefulness ended, Herschel will have to leave L2. The mission team will send the spacecraft into a "no-return heliocentric orbit," which means it will take at least 300 years to return to the Earth-Moon system's gravitational playground. Maybe by then, space retrieval systems will be so good that astronauts will grab it and bring it back for 24th-century children to gawk at in the Smithsonian.


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The supermajors are the six largest non-state owned oil companies, formed during the consolidation of the oil industry during the mid-1990s:
In the middle of the 20th century, the world's most powerful oil companies were known as the "Seven Sisters". On March 11th, 2007, the Financial Times named a "New Seven Sisters" (most of which are state-owned):


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A glut of government-subsidized wind power may help accomplish a goal some environmentalists have sought for decades: kill off U.S. nuclear power plants while reducing reliance on electricity from burning coal.
That's the assessment of executives and utility experts after the U.S. wind-energy industry went on a $25 billion growth binge in 2012, racing to qualify for a federal tax credit that was set to expire at year's end.
The surge added a record 13,124 megawatts of wind turbines to the nation's power grid, up 28% from 2011. The new wind farms increased financial pressure on traditional generators such as Dominion Resources Inc. and Exelon Corp. in their operating regions. That's because wind energy undercut power prices already driven to 10-year-lows by an abundance of natural gas.
"Right now, natural gas and wind power are more economic than nuclear power in the Midwestern electricity market," Howard Learner, executive director of the Environmental Law and Policy Center, a Chicago-based advocate of cleaner energy, said in a phone interview. "It's a matter of economic competitiveness."
Wind-generated electricity supplied about 3.4% of U.S. demand in 2012 and the share is projected to jump to 4.2% in 2014, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
The wind power boom has benefited consumers in regions where wind development is fastest, contributing to a 40% wholesale power-price plunge since 2008 in the Midwest, for example. Yet the surplus is creating havoc for nuclear power and coal generators that sell their output into short-term markets.
'Perfect Storm'
The impact is greatest in the capacity-glutted Midwest. There, Richmond, Virginia-based Dominion is closing a money-losing reactor and selling coal plants, Exelon warns of shrinking nuclear margins and an Edison International merchant coal-plant unit has gone into bankruptcy.
"It's a perfect storm," said Charley Parnell, a Chicago- based spokesman for Edison's Midwest Generation unit, in a phone interview. Pricing, already under pressure from cheap natural gas and the lingering effects of recession, now has a wind factor. "Wind absolutely plays a part in that," he said, "especially in the off-peak hours."
Atomic-power providers complain that the upheaval is an example of government subsidies distorting the market -- to the particular detriment of nuclear which provides 19% of the nation's electricity, is clean and has proved safe despite perennial concern by activists that it poses a danger to public safety.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The man who gunned down radio and TV personality DJ Megatron in New York City will spend 21 years in prison.
The Staten Island Advance (http://bit.ly/12htitY ) says William "Billy" Williams was sentenced Wednesday.
He pleaded guilty to manslaughter in January.
Authorities say DJ Megatron was shot in the chest while resisting robbers near his Staten Island home in March 2011.
The 32-year-old disc jockey worked on cable TV network BET's "106 & Park" music countdown series. He also did on-camera work for the show and for BET's website. His given name was Corey McGriff.
Louvenia McGriff said at the sentencing that her son lived to help others.
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|View Poll Results: Suzumiya Haruhi (2009) - Episode 04 Rating
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|8 out of 10 : Very Good
|7 out of 10 : Good
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|5 out of 10 : Below Average
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|2009-07-03, 02:11
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Still, it's fun to throw out that thought, given the hellish timeloop that's going on.
For all the anger and disappointment though, you have to hand it to the studio. The episode is BEING TALKED ABOUT. Sure, it's mostly cursing the decision to continue with the time loop, but people are forgetting that any kind of publicity is good publicity.
|2009-07-03, 02:15
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|2009-07-03, 02:26
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I still had a blast watching this episode. I'm enjoying that each scene to the degree that it covered the same events had subtle differences that were pronounced. I especially preferred Kyon's reaction this time to hearing Koizumi with Mikuru over the phone, yelling at him as he affirmed he'd meet them and was leaving right that moment.
The reactions on this forum have been interesting to say the least. KyoAni is certainly proving who the fans of the show are for what the show does and who are not for one reason or another. One attempting to be creative is no guarantee of success that the creative output will be well executed is certainly true. But equally true is that viewers are a fickle lot and go into a show with preconceived notions, biases, and expectations. Nobody including KyoAni can be expected to win over everybody universally, and that there had been many people they have not won over is no indication that they have failed in a proper execution according to their intentions and in a way that pleases people whom they had hoped it would please.
Personally, I do like how the episodes are in a certain sense effectively keeping the interest of novel readers, if not all of them then those who do find value in these episodes offering something fresh by not letting those in the know know when they'll have the resolution that they're anticipating. To some degree I can sympathize with viewers who haven't followed the novel and don't quite get what's happening. But I consider the Endless Eight arc to be a very well articulated and truly heartfelt love letter to faithful fans of the novel series, among which I count myself. Thank you KyoAni for taking me into consideration, even if at the consequential preclusion of others.
|2009-07-03, 02:33
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Wow, part the third, huh? I have no idea why, but I laughed throughout this episode. Maybe its a combination of insomnia and tylenol. Then I saw the Youtube clip of Hosaka and completely went mental. Just catching my breath.
Hopefully there won't be a huge gap inbetween seasons again, because if we have to wait another three years for "Disappearance", then it'll be a long, long wait. Oddly, though, I am enjoying myself with this arc. I'd love to see how far Kyoani takes this...or perhaps not. It's a pickle, I tell ya.
Got to admit though, its got people talking. I bet that's the point of this.
|2009-07-03, 02:40
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Even though there's slight progression throughout each cycle of the time loop thing... I seriously can't stand it anymore... This is getting so repetitive. MAKE IT STOP ;-;
Other than that, the animation and change of outfits was pretty good as usual.
|2009-07-03, 03:01
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You know...I'm a pretty casual Haruhi fan. I havn't read the light novels. So I should be quite literally pissed off right now but I'm laughing so hard at what Kyoani just pulled off here. Only Haruhi could get away with doing something like that not once but twice.
So much epic fail yet so much awesomeness just for the aftermath insanity and the lawl factor that ensued alone and it may not even end in the next episode. But nothing takes my interest in an episode and lays a smackdown on it quite like the repetition displayed here did. Literally, I think my brain completely shutdown (or came close to that point) part-way through this episode as I became unable to spot any real differences anymore outside of the altering of a few lines and scenes and the last part.
Feeling of "Deja vu." Well Kyoani certainly has succeeded in driving that thought process through my head watching this arc.
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|2009-07-03, 03:34
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Should I be praising or chastising KyoAni for violating the Rule of Three? I honestly am not sure. They caught me off guard, for certain. In fact, they've caught me off guard twice. That's impressive, since I usually am pretty keen on things that like.
I'm not going to rate this episode, since I'm torn between 9 and 1, and neither a four or 5 would reflect my opinion.
|2009-07-03, 03:43
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My reaction after this episode was seriously like this :
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I don't think the episode was bad, but if they wanted me to get frustrated they totally succeeded indeed.
What upsets me the most isn't that it repeats iteself like this, but more the fact that they could use those episode to do something ELSE.
Rated 4/10, under normal circumstances it would probably have been 6 or 7.
|2009-07-03, 04:07
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If this wasn't Haruhi it would have been the last episode I would ever bother watching my reaction at the end was a mix of frustration and disgust - The rule of three is pretty solid and writers violate it at their peril; I wonder how many new viewers who haven't read the novels are going are going to abandon the series now.
On the plus side, I'm starting to like the new OP song but the animation is still too much "superheroes to the rescue" for my taste and I loved Yuki in the green bathing suit - extremely kawaii.
|2009-07-03, 04:13
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I gave this episode a terrifically high rating simply because it caused me to feel such emotion. This time, the anguish I felt as Haruhi slipped out the door and the loop was allowed to restart was exponentially more powerful than it was in the last episode. And it's very, very rare that any movie, book, or tv show can make me feel that strongly about anything.
I think this episode was completely necessary in order to cause the viewer to empathize with Kyon in those final seconds so much more than they would have if we had simply had a single episode of loopage.
However, I understand why some would get a little heated over this. Most tv shows wouldn't dare to make their audience feel some emotion other than a positive one.
|2009-07-03, 04:16
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That's why I'm hesitant to rate this episode - they've clearly succeeded in making me very angry. But is that a good thing, or a bad thing? If they were aiming for it, then do they get a good rating, or a bad rating?
|2009-07-03, 04:22
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It's bacon!
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|2009-07-03, 04:36
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I wasn't trying to say that, just because their deviating from the books, it's no good. I'm trying to say that they've created a fundamentally experience that is, to me at least, not an artistic success. What they are obviously trying is to make us feel Yuki's growing frustration at the constantly repeating two weeks. However, the show is from Kyon's perspective, so we should be looking at Yuki through the lens of Kyon's ignorance instead of feeling like we actually are Yuki.
If you are the kind of person who likes the Theater of the Absurd or that movie "Funny Games", then I guess we can boil it down to a simple difference of taste. But I just want to point out that yes, I get why they're doing it and why it might be seen and clever and experimental, but no, I don't think it succeeds as art and definitely not as entertainment.
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|2009-07-03, 04:38
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My opinion of this chapter can be resumed in 4 words!
Fucking painful to watch!!!
I didn't even bothered to watch the chapter entirely i just saw first if the ending was different, but hell no...Kyon gave up again.
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Tim Wilson's Other Truck is a 1965 C10
"Being in the asphalt construction business looking at orange barrels on the road for days on end, I had plenty of time to think about how I wanted to build this truck." Considering how well the 1965 Chevy C10 turned out, we would recommend Tim Wilson's strategy to anybody planning a project.
What Tim decided was to build something simple, traditional, and fun. "To take something old and turn it into something I could drive between the barrels." He bought the truck in November 2007, after spotting it on eBay, despite the fact that he already had a 1965 Chevy pickup at home. He'd been driving that one since his high school days 25 years earlier and it carried a lot of sentimental value, which was his excuse for not redoing it. "I was afraid that if it was too nice, and some fool offered me enough money, I would sell it—and I don't want to sell it." Building another one was the practical solution.
The eBay 1965 was a pretty good driver, but needed some repairs and a cosmetic overhaul. The gold metalflake paint was out of date. The stock 283 engine wasn't making a lot of power and the two-speed Powerglide's best days were behind it. The rocker panels were falling off and, on a cruise to the ice cream shop, Tim's wife Kim could watch the pavement rushing past through the holes in the floor.
Tim decided to tear the truck apart and brought it into his backyard shop to begin the five-year build. Once he had everything apart and the body had been sent off for repairs, Tim turned his attention to the chassis. The stock frame was powdercoated and reassembled with new components including a Fatman Fabrications Mustang II-style frontend. The '65 rearend runs the stock 3.73:1 gear ratio and is narrowed 3 inches. Bumps in the road are ironed out by Bilstein coilover shock absorbers mounted in the front and rear, and braking is accomplished by Baer disc brakes with 14-inch rotors all around. A 20-gallon gas tank from Rock Valley Antique Auto Parts was located beneath the bed. Jason Smith from Hot Rod Garage in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, routed the steel fuel lines and brake lines, in addition to installing the shocks and air conditioning.
The fender openings are filled with 20×10 and 18×8 Legacy 2 wheels with spinner caps from Billet Specialties. A set of 265/50ZR20 and 235/50ZR18 BFGoodrich g-Force radials were mounted on the vintage-style rims.
The 283 and Powerglide that had lived in the C10 for 40 years were evicted in favor of an updated powertrain. Now the C10 moves under the power of a 2002 6.0-liter LS1. Mark Campbell from Street & Performance provided a lot of help during this portion of the build; the engine is fed by a Street & Performance throttle body and Weiand intake manifold. S&P headers pipe the exhaust to a pair of Borla mufflers. An 2002 GM 4L80E transmission with a Lokar floor shifter is the perfect backup for the LS1 engine.
As the chassis and other parts of the pickup were being built, the body sheetmetal was being repaired and straightened at Shady Point Body Shop in Shady Point, Oklahoma. The rotten rockers and holey floor were fixed as well as the cab corners. When every panel was straight, Shady Point painter Adam Costello covered them in DuPont silver and white paint over a white base (Tim says that in direct sunlight it can appear white). Omar Dunn spent hours wet-sanding and buffing to make the finish look as perfect as possible. All-new glass for the truck came from J&J Auto Glass in Poteau, Oklahoma, where the Wilsons live. The bed floor wood was replaced with pine, installed by Tim.
The silver and white of the exterior, and black and chrome and polish of the engine compartment is dramatically contrasted by the interior. The custom bench seat was constructed by Chuck Rowland at CAR Upholstery in Tulsa, then stitched up in yards of tomato-red leather. Matching door panels and carpeting were chosen to complete the effect—and even the Budnik steering wheel (on an ididit tilt column) got the treatment. The stock dash was modified with electronic instruments from Dakota Digital. Vintage Air A/C controls the cabin temperature. The Clarion stereo and Memphis Car Audio amp and speakers provide the soundtrack. Tracey Morris and Keith Davis handled the wiring, made simpler with a Painless Performance kit.
The C10 was finished in October of 2012, just in time for its big debut at the Goodguys Lone Star Nationals. After five years of building, a week of cleaning and detailing for the show, and a five-hour drive from Poteau to Fort Worth, bad luck struck when the front bumper got bent as the truck was backing off the flatbed trailer. A cleaning rag, meant to look like it was casually left on the bumper, was carefully placed to hide the damage. Tim almost got away with it, until CUSTOM CLASSIC TRUCKS contributing photographer Joseph Dowling walked up to talk about shooting a feature story—but not with a bent bumper.
Suddenly Tim was in a one-man reality show, on a hunt for a '63-66 C10 front bumper somewhere at the Texas Motor Speedway—with the clock ticking. As luck would have it, vendor H&H Classic from Bentonville, Arkansas, found one socked away in the back of their truck. Tim bought a few tools from another vendor and was able to finish the bumper swap before Dowling came back to take these photos.
The success of this '65 Chevy has given Tim the incentive to rebuild his high school C10. With a 468 big-block, dual four-barrels, and a six-speed, he promises "It'll really be nice."


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By Will Roseliep & Danielle Dreilinger
Mar. 20, 2012
BOSTON — Violent crime across the U.S. has gone down in recent years, but in major metro areas it's remained persistent. Boston has been no exception — a fact brought home this week as jurors in a Mattapan quadruple-murder trial struggled to decide on a verdict. And within the span of one week last month, Boston saw an acute spike in violence that culminated in three deadly shootings.
In an effort to change what he calls "a culture of violence," Boston Ten Point Coalition founder Rev. Jeffrey Brown brought faith leaders, law enforcement officials, and policy makers together on Mar. 12-13 for a summit in Washington, D.C. The initiative is called RECAP: Rebuilding Every City Around Peace and it has a particular focus on gang and youth violence.
The idea behind the conference was to discuss how clergy and police could work together to curb crime, and Brown saw promising signs. 25 cities were represented, with police executives from 11 of them. "They're looking for ways in which they could really in some ways move forward — fresh new ideas around anti-violence strategies and to work more closely with the community in order to make this happen," he said.
Boston has seen some success recently by making law enforcement more visible in the community. Randall Halstead, deputy superintendent with the Boston Police Department, said the department has joined forces with clergy and community members to help cut down on drug trafficking and violent crime.
He's noticed a huge change in police attitude and procedure from when he first joined the force in the 1980s.
"The frame of mind then was to go out and arrest, arrest, arrest," Halstead said. "What I find now that we changed our format and our proactive approach, since we know that the majority of the criminal activity is carried out by the same 1 to 2 percent of individuals, while we're on patrol we stop and we speak to them. And they get to know us, we get to know them."
It's work sorely needed. "In my entire high school career I only went to one funeral," Brown said — two kids who died in a car accident. "Now you have people who in their ninth-grade year will look forward to going to at least a dozen funerals … of people in their neighborhood who have been killed by violence."
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