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American idol: An interview with Andrew Bacevich
Could ending our adoration of oil be the key to a peaceful future?
Has the idea of American exceptionalism finally run its historical course in the big muddy by the Euphrates? A persistent critic of the Iraq invasion and an ongoing skeptic of U.S. military adventures pretty much anywhere, Andrew Bacevich is too much a scholar of history to believe that Americans have permanently lost their taste for foreign entanglements.
Still, this conservative gadfly of neo-conservative policies entertains some hope that the United States might be ready now to devote more time to fixing problems at home than to creating new ones overseas.
A retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, Bacevich has been attacked from conservative corners since he first challenged the presumptions of the war on terror. He argues that his limits-to-power perspective most closely resembles true conservativism, although he's content to leave the labels behind.
"I'd like to see us have a politics of principled progressives and principled conservatives, arguing out the fundamental issues of public policy related to social justice, fiscal responsibility, and sensible foreign policies," he says.
"I think that creative tension could produce the kind of policies that actually might be in the long-term interests of the country."
You frequently criticize the notion of "American exceptionalism." Could you define that for us?
It's the idea that as a culture and a country we in the United States are different, that we have a God-given mission to the rest of the world. It's the presupposition that American values are indeed universal values.
The vast majority of Americans more or less unthinkingly subscribe to this belief. We know we are special. We know we are called upon to do great things.
This faith in our cultural exceptionalism is not unique to Americans. There are and have been other nations and societies that view themselves as the chosen people. But I think in our case that concept of chosenness, married to great power, makes American exceptionalism globally significant and dangerous. For all I know, the Finns think they're the chosen people, but they can think that all they want and most of the world wouldn't notice.
How did that faith in our national exceptionalism contribute to our experience in Iraq?
When George W. Bush became president, he did not in particular have a well-developed worldview or any particular principles related to foreign policy that he felt passionate about. He was kind of a soft realist. He talked about wanting to have a humble foreign policy. He was dismissive of nation-building.
But I think that he underwent a conversion experience on 9/11, and he came away as somebody who was converted to the Church of Woodrow Wilson. Bush now genuinely believed that as a nation we were called upon to remake the world in our own image. But unlike Wilson, he believed that the best way to achieve that was through unilateral action.
Now the idea of transforming and democratizing the greater Middle East as a national duty aligns neatly with the notion that a stable Middle East, dominated by American power, would be a place to reliably extract energy resources in order to sustain our way of life. But I don't think the decision to invade Iraq was necessarily cynical. I think Bush really believed invading Iraq was the right thing to do, and I think many of the people who supported his policies genuinely believed it.
Today that project has not fared too well, and I'm not sure too many people are willing to sign on to a crusade to democratize the Middle East any longer.
That doesn't mean that the idea of American exceptionalism is dead. I think it probably ebbs and flows, and it will no doubt come back because it is somewhere near the core of what makes Americans American. I say that with considerable regret.
Most Americans accept that our vast military capability is maintained for defensive purposes. Would you say that's a fair assessment?
The events of 9/11 alone suggest the extent to which defense as such doesn't figure as a priority for the so-called Department of Defense. The entire eastern seaboard was essentially left defenseless that morning because we had different priorities overseas.
The reality is we devote enormous energies into figuring out how to defend, let's say, Seoul, but nobody thought about defending Manhattan. So Manhattan was left naked to this very crude, primitive attack, which ended up causing so much devastation and destruction.
Indeed we've created an entirely different national security apparatus called the Department of Homeland Security that now assumes responsibility for the actual defense of the United States of America. So we have a department of defense that we don't call the Department of Defense, and this thing we call the Department of Defense, which should be called the Department of Power Projection.
This reflects a view that has evolved at least since the early days of the Cold War that advancing our vital national security interests is best accomplished by projecting American power "out there," and that's still the focus. Pentagon security strategists are far more concerned about what goes on in Baghdad or Kabul than they are about protecting Chicago or Los Angeles.
Why do we commit so much of our resources to conditions "out there" in the Middle East?
Oil, of course. Were it not for the existence of large reserves of oil and natural gas in that part of the world, we wouldn't care about it any more than we care about Uruguay.
The Middle East moved to the front rank of importance when it became evident decades ago that we no longer had the capacity to generate the oil necessary to sustain the American way of life as we have defined it. To this day the only way to sustain that way of life is to find a way to guarantee uninterrupted access to oil reserves abroad.
At the same time, our focus there is not completely about oil either. The Islamic revolution in Iran was tremendously significant. It deprived the United States of a valued ally, the Shah of Iran, who seemed to be a guarantor of regional stability. In his place it introduced a regime that was virulently anti-American, that had aspirations that were hostile to the status quo, and that challenged stability. Throw in the Soviet encroachment in Afghanistan, and the region begins to move up the list of strategic priorities.
Finally in 1980 President Jimmy Carter identified the Persian Gulf as a region that was vital to U.S. strategic interest and that if necessary we would use force to protect our interests there, what became known as the Carter Doctrine. Now we have a specific war planning responsibility focused on the region.
We create military exercises and begin to rotate U.S. forces into the region. We negotiate fly-over rights with regional powers. We build a massive military presence in staging areas like Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, and most significantly, beginning with Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm in 1990-91, we launch large-scale military operations.
What you end up with is a pattern of increasing interventionism in the region with the expectation that this is going to produce stability. But it hasn't.
Why does our response to such challenges seem to rely so heavily, if not completely, on military force?
The perception in Washington is that "soft power" alternatives have too many significant limitations. For example many say that the problem of Islamic extremism really is a problem of underdevelopment; it's just poverty breeding resentment. So what we really need to do is to focus on development and economic assistance, and we can eliminate the factors that create alienation.
I'm personally very skeptical about that approach because it seems to me that it's a lot easier said than done. We have invested serious amounts of money in various parts of the world, and I think it's mostly been money down a rat hole. It has not produced significant improvements.
U.S. popular culture does have an allure, certainly, but that cuts both ways. It also is something that is viewed as blasphemous and profane. You don't necessarily win friends by sending Britney Spears on a tour of the Islamic world. And the American government doesn't control American culture. Soft power is hard to manage.
But even accepting soft power's weaknesses, why should military power become the preferred alternative?
After the conclusion of the Cold War, people in Washington came to believe that our military dominance was so great that the American military was basically unstoppable. Operation Desert Storm was an overwhelming success. Then with Operation Allied Force, we stopped ethnic cleansing in Kosovo without the loss of a single allied soldier. How much better can war get than that?
Pentagon brass believed that our high-tech approach made war efficient, effective, controllable, predictable. Force was no longer a blunt instrument, it was a precision tool, so war making had a much greater utility than it did back in the bad old days when nuclear weapons seemed to be the dominant expression of military power.
This was a deeply defective conception, but it had enormous influence in Washington and helps to explain why people like President Bush and his chief lieutenants could imagine that we could easily topple Saddam Hussein, establish American military supremacy, and acquire leverage that we could then use to transform the rest of the region.
Certainly events since 2003 have pretty much demolished that notion. I don't think too many people are still coming out of think tanks in Washington arguing that war can be a predictable undertaking.
Does the Catholic tradition offer any help in making foreign policy?
The just war tradition is tremendously useful, and it's too bad that in recent American policy making it appears to have been discarded. Force is supposed to be a last resort and only for defensive purposes. I'm afraid the Bush Doctrine of preventive war rendered those notions obsolete.
War should be a last resort: That's a useful moral notion, but it also makes a lot of political sense. History demonstrates time and again that war tends to be very unpredictable. It's hard to control. There are all kinds of unintended consequences.
I think that the whole concept of the seamless garment of life is tremendously useful because that becomes a way of thinking about self-interest in the broadest sense, to get to an enlightened definition of national self-interest.
When people talk about culture of life they're usually talking about abortion and end-of-life issues and capital punishment, but it seems to me that also raises environmental questions that are of vital interest to the United States of America. If the planet sustains terrible damage through climate change, then freedom as we know it is going to be compromised, and the well-being of future generations is going to be deeply damaged.
All issues that relate to energy-what kind we use, how we use it, and where we get it-if informed by that larger consideration of preserving the planet, would lead us to practical, specific near-term actions that would be different than those that we've pursued with regard to the Persian Gulf and the Middle East over the past 30 years.
Was there a moment in our political past where we might have made a different choice?
Jimmy Carter's infamous "national malaise" speech in 1979 is an illustrative moment. Carter was trying to define a new energy policy that would reduce our dependency on imported oil, but he also said: "This crisis is not simply about oil. It's about the meaning of freedom. We are at a crossroads and the choice is a fundamental one: How do we intend to organize American society?"
He was exactly right.
It was very clear what Carter was proposing in terms of national sacrifice and a new direction on energy policy. But in the next election Reagan was offering "morning in America." And we, the people-don't blame Washington-we, the people, made a choice. It was not the choice that Carter recommended, and we're living with the consequences.
We decided that freedom didn't mean freedom from dependency on Mideast oil, it meant driving a gas-guzzler at 85 miles per hour and living 50 miles from where you work. If we had made a different choice in the way we organize society and get our energy, it could have meant vast changes in what we're experiencing today.
But we keep electing people who give us what they think we want. And what do they think we want? They think we want a society that is built around a conception of freedom that emphasizes conspicuous consumption and self-indulgence. And that has meant embracing an increasingly militarized model of U.S. foreign policy. And the truth is, that's being done in response to a whole set of demands or expectations that we collectively have generated.
Do you think we're ready for the malaise speech now, that we're ready for the end of exceptionalism?
I doubt it. Politicians don't exactly want to engage in that kind of serious introspection. Near-term requirements essentially always trump long-term perspectives in American politics.
The accepted near-term requirement now is to get the economy going again, and in order to do that people have to consume again-a lot.
I'm a little skeptical when people identify the current economic crisis as another turning point. I would like it to be at least a cultural moment of introspection, a moment when we would as a people ask: "What does freedom really mean? What might I sacrifice for it?"
There are powerful forces that impede the kind of cultural examination of conscience that we deeply need.
How do you think the Obama administration is going to fare in confronting these issues?
Even if Obama gave sort of a "Malaise II" speech and combined it with a practical platform for change, I don't think he'd get a much better response than Carter did back in 1979.
I say that with regret.
As to the Obama administration's approach to war-making, it remains to be seen whether it will affirm the Bush Doctrine of preventive war or revive just war principles. I would hope for the latter. But the president's eagerness to deepen the U.S. military commitment to Afghanistan and his willingness to expand U.S. air attacks within Pakistan are not promising signs.
You don't believe that we should be engaged in the "long war," a broad conflict with the Islamic world.
Muslims are trying to find a way to reconcile their beliefs with modernity, the contemporary world of democracy, capitalism, and scientific inquiry. That is the environment from which Islamic radicals emerge.
The Bush administration thought that we could facilitate that reconciliation through transformation by force: We'll come in and we'll make them all into liberal democrats who worship Allah. That's not going to work.
We need to recognize that an Islamic reconciliation with modernity, if and when it happens, will happen because Muslims figure out how to do it-just as we Christians underwent a difficult, centuries-long process of reconciling Christianity with modernity. We more or less stumbled our way through that, and it was also a quite violent process.
The alternative to the "war on terror" rhetoric is to see the enemy realistically. Bush compared Al Qaeda to Nazi Germany. They are not Nazi Germany.
Terrorist entities like Al Qaeda pose a serious threat, but not an existential one. We should view that threat as akin to an international criminal conspiracy, like the Mafia informed by some religious convictions. As with the Mafia, the best response is a sustained and properly resourced international police effort-with the CIA and the FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies working collaboratively with parallel enforcement entities in other nations.
That approach attempts to identify and root out these elements within the Islamic world that mean us harm. It does not require us to invade and occupy other countries. It does not require us to defeat this enemy in conventional military terms, but to contain a threat, just as we did so successfully with the Soviet Union.
That sounds a little more patient than we're used to in foreign policy.
Muslims are going to have to figure out their own path; we can't force them down one of our choosing. The best we can do is try to protect ourselves from the extremism that may emerge from that process, and that's why we need to reinvent the strategy of containment.
We don't do that by creating a new NATO. We do that by denying the extremists the resources they use to promote their cause. And we give them those resources every day by sending billions of dollars to oil-producing regimes. Some of that money gets siphoned off to the Islamic extremists.
In a real sense the key to a strategy of containment is a serious energy policy in this country. And a serious energy policy in this country is going to require us to make some important changes in the way we live.
This article appeared in the June 2009 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 74, No. 7, page 24).


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Ataube I plan to climb kili around mid sept. the full moon is on sept 19( I really want to summit during that) sept is supposed to be one of the better times weather wise also! I will be by myself and am looking for some amazing people to venture with! I will be in South Africa for two weeks before kili:). If anyone wants to try and travel together let me know!
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Community Missions host biannual event with YWCA
Community Missions of Niagara Frontier and the YWCA of Niagara are joining forces to host an upcoming art auction on Friday, June 7, at the Sheraton at the Falls in Niagara Falls. The event will raise money and awareness for the marginalized populations both agencies serve in Niagara County.
The evening will begin at 6 p.m. with a preview of the artwork, hors d'oeuvres, a chocolate fountain, a cash bar, a basket auction, a 50/50 raffle, a live auction, door prizes, and a wine tasting from Long Cliff Winery.
Basket and auction items include art supplies, wine, car detailing from Northtown Auto, an overnight stay at Sunny's Roost Bed and Breakfast, a pet basket, and much more.
Following the preview hour, Marlin Fine Auctions will auction off more than 100 pieces of art in all media and price ranges. Artists represented in previous years included Chagall, Dali, Picasso, Rockwell, Tarkay and Warhol.
Proceeds from the event will benefit both agencies and their many programs. Donations and sponsorship opportunities are still available and greatly appreciated. Current sponsors for this year's auction include Brooms by Karen Koch, Blackwinds Pet Supplies, Niagara County Community College and the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute. Any contribution made will be recognized in the event program and can be considered tax deductible.
For more information on how to purchase tickets or become a supporter of this event, contact Andrea Gray at 716-285-3403, ext. 2225, or [email protected]. In addition, stay connected via Facebook and Twitter for event updates and news.


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Do you remember what you got for your fifteenth birthday? I do, I got a new BMX bike. Of course, I was hoping for a 1962 Impala instead. You might be wondering why anyone would want a car at fifteen when they would not be able to drive it legally until they turned sixteen. Well, let me explain; my plan was to fix up the car for the whole year before I was going to turn sixteen and then on the day I got my license, I was going to bust out my "new" car and be the envy of all my friends. Unfortunately for me it did not work out the way I had planned, but it did for Noe Hipolito, Jr., or "Junior," as his friends and family know him. When Junior turned fifteen, he was given the 1948 Chevy Fleetmaster you see in the accompanying photos by his dad Noah "Gumby" Hipolito. Junior was like many born into Lowriding, so the '48 was the ideal gift for someone who is just about driving age.
Junior's Lowriding pedigree is strong as his father, Noah, has been Lowriding and wrenching cars since the 1960's. Noah has already had cars featured in Lowrider Magazine, so he certainly knows his way around classic Chevys. Noah taught Junior early on how to work on cars and how to build a clean and classy Chevrolet, lessons which have clearly paid off. Alongside his encouraging father, Noah worked on the car and the duo completed it within a year's time. At 16 years old, Junior was behind the wheel of the '48 with his first plaque in the window. That is quite a feat for a young man, but not surprising considering his lineage.
After owning the Fleetmaster fifteen-plus years, it is still a head turner and show winner. Junior is now president of his own club, Redemption Car Club, and is out every weekend with his club attending cruise nights and car shows. Junior credits his dad, Noah, with his start in Lowriding and would like to thank him for the help with the build. He also wants to send that thanks to his uncle, Hector Hipolito, who also lent a helping hand to the project. Junior would also like to thank his wife, Terri, his children, and his club brothers for their love and support. We here at Lowrider would like to thank Junior for his contribution to Lowriding as a second generation Lowrider. Nice work!
Tech Specs
"Redemption 48″
Owner: Noe Hipolito, Jr.
Vehicle: 1948 Chevy Fleetmaster
Club: Redemption Car Club
City/State: Norwalk, California
Paint: Noah Hipolito, of L.Duran Auto Body & Paint, in Azusa, CA., prepped the '48s body for paint. He then sprayed the Dupont single stage two-tone Gunmetal and Dove Grey on the body. Danny D, in Baldwin Park, CA., added his fine lines to the classic Chevy body.
Interior: Tony, from Roman's Upholstery, in La Puente, CA., used a combination of light and dark grey materials throughout the interior of the Chevy. Noah Hipolito took care of the woodgrain restoration in the cab and made sure the dash and window frames looked as good as they did back in 1948. Junior installed the audio system in the Fleetmaster. He started with a Kenwood head unit, which pushed the tunes out of JL Audio & Rockford Fosgate speakers. Rockford Fosgate amplifiers power the system.
Engine: Junior rebuilt a 1958 Chevy 283ci engine at his dad's shop, L.Duran Auto Body & Paint, in Azusa, California. He fabricated custom engine & transmission mounts. Junior converted the factory three-speed transmission to automatic. He also added plenty of dress up items to the engine and finished it off with a straight pipe exhaust system. Universal Chrome Plating took care of all of the chrome plating on the car.
Suspension: Junior just wanted to be able to raise and drop the front and rear of the car. He had Felipe from Old Memories car club custom-fabricate a two-switch air bag setup for the Fleetmaster. The frame was restored to factory fresh and left unaltered.
Wheels: Factory Chevrolet 15-inch wheels with Original Chevy 15-inch hubcaps.
Tires: Coker 15-inch with 2-1/4 white walls.
Accessories: Fulton Visor, AAA Compass, Flashlight, Trico Fan, Front & Rear Wraparounds, Cigar Ashtray and Cigarette Holder.


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Troopers: Woman charged in deadly hit-and-run
Troopers: Woman charged in deadly hit-and-run
South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers have charged a woman after a deadly hit-and-run in Spartanburg overnight.
Troopers, fire and EMS crews responded to the area of Lake Forest Drive at Torino Drive at 4:30 a.m.
Troopers said a pedestrian died in the hit-and-run.
The coroner identified the victim as 23-year-old Jacquelyn Cara White of Spartanburg.
According to the coroner, White was pronounced dead at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center at 5:21 a.m.
According to Lt. Bill Rhyne of the SCHP, Colleen Casey, 25, of Spartanburg is charged with leaving the scene of an accident with death.
Casey has been booked in to the Spartanburg County Detention center, said Rhyne.
The accident is still under investigation by the South Carolina Highway Patrol.


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ELF is the abreviation for Execute and Link Format and is the binary format used by most Linux and UNIX systems today. Originally invented for the System V the format has superceeded prior binary formats such as a.out and ECOFF and is today's defacto standard binary format. Linux/MIPS uses the GNU ELF variant supported by GNU Binutils.
inside binutils also known as trad-elf or by the full name of the ELF variants as elf32-tradbigmips, elf32-tradlittlemips, elf32-ntradbigmips, elf64-tradbigmips, elf32-ntradlittlemips or elf64-tradlittlemips is what Linux/MIPS is using. See MIPS ABI History for details.
Old binutils used to default to IRIX ELF instead of ABI ELF. IRIX ELF has a number of subtle differences to ABI ELF. In general these don't cause any problems however modutils for Linux 2.4 and older kernels assume ABI ELF and as the result may throw error messages as the following:
somemodule.o: local symbol gcc2_compiled. with index 10 exceeds local_symtab_size 10 somemodule.o: local symbol __gnu_compiled_c with index 11 exceeds local_symtab_size 10 somemodule.o: local symbol __module_kernel_version with index 12 exceeds local_symtab_size 10
If you get these, it's really time to upgrade to newer binutils.
See also
- ELF Documentation Generic and MIPS-specific ABI and ELF Specifications
External links
- ELF at Wikipedia
- Linux Standard Base archive, ELF Specifications and Linux extensions


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Two Contradictory Paths In The UK When It Comes To Copyright Issues
from the which-one-is-more-reasonable dept
And yet, while all of this was happening, there was also the Hargreaves Report, which was a very reasonable look at copyright issues, which listed out a bunch of pretty tame recommendations (so tame that creating a "fair use" policy was seen as too controversial). Of course, it also was pretty clear that the UK should stop its faith-based copyright regulating, and no more changes should be made to the laws without solid economic evidence.
So guess which process is getting attacked? You guessed it. The latter process, as Member of Parliament (MP) Peter Wishart apparently went on the attack against the Hargreaves report and the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) that commissioned it. Peter Bradwell, over at the Open Rights Group, hits back by noting that it's pretty ridiculous to question the IPO while ignoring everything going on with the Digital Economy Act, which came out of a different part of the goverment: the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Bradwell's article breaks down the differences here:
Yeah, but being open, transparent and relying on actual evidence isn't just hard work -- the big content gatekeepers don't like it when that happens. And we have to support them at all costs, apparently...
So to caricature the two departments: one is asking for evidence and consulting widely and openly. One has spent the past few years consulting narrowly, opaquely, and with no evidence or analysis to speak of.
The IPO come under fire in Peter Wishart's speech for being sloppy with evidence and ignoring the creative industries. DCMS' proposals are to be 'got on with'. He calls the IPO 'a bureaucratic front to devalue the people whom it is supposed to support' which the Government must 'get to grips with'.
That is slightly strange. The issue of policy making for copyright involves managing a complex mix of evidence, principle and opinion. Disagreement, and the management and channeling of that disagreement in the formulation of policy, are two separate things. Whatever position one takes on the substance of this debate about IP, there is a right way and a wrong way to make public policy. It has to be democratically legitimate, open, transparent and involve proper debate. Over the past 12 months, the IPO has beaten DCMS hands down on that metric.


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Harassment of apartment neighbors leads to arrest
A Linwood Avenue man accused of pouring Krazy Glue into the keyhole of a neighbor's door, leaving empty beer bottles and cans in front of her apartment and leaving a partly consumed submarine sandwich in front of a second neighbor's apartment was arrested late Saturday, Buffalo police reported.
Gregory Rick, 43, who lives in Apartment No. 511 in the Linwood Avenue building, is accused of pouring a fast-acting adhesive into the keyhole of No. 513, leaving the empty bottles and cans in front of No. 513 and leaving the remains of the sandwich, in part of its wrapper, outside the door to No. 512.
It wasn't too hard to trace the items back to Rick, police said, because officers found the same brand of beer and the other part of the sandwich wrapper in his apartment.
The neighbors also say Rick has threatened to kill both of them. Rick is charged with second-degree harassment.


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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns says he strongly opposes any effort to extend the current farm bill beyond 2007, saying it might send a signal to the WTO that "we are waiting for them to write our farm bill."
Keeping the farm bill in place for another year or two – a move that appears to appeal to many row crop farmers, particularly in the South – would also be a waste of an opportunity to provide new direction to American agriculture, the secretary said.
"I have said many, many times that the 2002 farm bill was the right policy for its time, but times have changed, which brings me to the question some have raised about extending the farm bill," he said. "I firmly submit to you that such an extension might be the wrong course for rural America."
His remarks came during the opening session of USDA's annual Agricultural Outlook Forum in Arlington, Va. A record 1,600 persons registered for the conference.
Johanns said his comments should not be interpreted as any sign of declining enthusiasm on his part for completing the current round of WTO negotiations, which began in Doha, Qatar in 2001.
"It's quite the opposite," he noted. "I want to be very clear about my commitment to bringing the Doha Development Round to a successful conclusion. It's right for the world, it's right for the United States and it's right for American agriculture and for rural America."
At a press conference following his speech, Johanns said he believes USDA is "well-positioned" to discuss the future of farm policy after conducting 52 farm bill listening forums in 2005. Johanns personally moderated 20 of the sessions.
House hearings
He noted that the House Agriculture Committee has now held two field hearings and that Sen. Saxby Chambliss, chairman of the Senate Ag Committee, has said it will hold hearings after the first of the year.
"So I feel very strong that any idea that we simply re-package the farm bill and extend it for a year or two works against all the good effort that is out there and the ideas that have been brought forth," said Johanns.
A one-year extension of the current law also raises questions about how determined the United States is to bring the Doha Development Round to a conclusion, he said. "I feel very strongly we should stay the course and concentrate on good farm policy."
Johanns made his first expression of opposition to a one-year extension in response to a question posed by Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., at a House Agriculture Appropriations subcommittee hearing Feb. 15, the day before the Outlook Forum.
Emerson said many of her farmer constituents favor such an extension because they want to make sure the U.S. government "doesn't unilaterally disarm" its farm programs before the Doha Round is completed.
She said there's a suspicion in the farm community that some government officials think the priorities of the European Union and the WTO process "are more important than they are."
At the press conference at the Outlook Forum, a reporter asked Johanns if he thought Congress would have to adjust the farm bill if a new law is passed before the Doha agreement is completed?
"I believe very strongly that we can do good farm policy," said Johanns. "We know what trade is about, and we know how important trade is. And we're going to know about the prospects for the Doha Round here pretty quickly. If this doesn't all fall together by spring the Doha Round is going to be in jeopardy."
Facing deadline
Political analysts says Johanns and U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman, who also spoke at the Outlook Forum, are working against a deadline of July 2007 for completing the trade pact.
That's the expiration date for the Trade Promotion Authority that allows the president to submit trade agreements to Congress for an up and down vote with no opportunity for amendments. Analysts say the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which passed the House and Senate by only a handful of votes, served notice of how difficult it will be to renew the TPA.
In their meeting in Hong Kong last December, WTO trade ministers set an April 30 deadline for completing an agreement on modalities for reforming farm subsidies and a July 1 deadline for reducing tariff barriers. They said they would attempt to reach a final Doha Round agreement by the end of 2006.
But Andrew Stoler, a former WTO negotiator in the U.S. Trade Representative's office and a speaker at a Outlook Forum session on global trade, said a recent survey conducted by Australia's Institute for International Business, Economics and Law found that less than 2 percent of WTO members expect to meet that timetable.


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Hi guys !
Once again my server is behaving strangly..... It started when this SEAMEWE3 backbone problem ..... we were unable to receive emails and i thought its normal as the backbone is down so obviously we would have encounter the same problem..... but from last 2 days i saw there were mails on server which are stuck there over and over no matter when i process the remote queue same mails were in queue and they are there from last three days...... I noticed the that one of the mail is 1 MB while one is 2 MB rest are small mails. But the problem is not these mails i saw that when i close my proxy server and shutdown the mail server still my modem is sending and receiving data..... so i used netstat to see the active connection and i saw there were more than 200 ports open and some other connection were there (epmap connections.) I thought something fishy there so i scan my system with NORTOn and you know what i encounter 4 different types of virus among them i was able to delete only 3.
The 3 rd virus is still there and its running as windows service i couldnot remove it.... the name of the file is rtftp.exe its at c drive root. Now i need your help to remove this.
OS. WIndows 2000 service pack 4.
Mail Server MDaemon.


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The sporty rear-drive FR-S coupe arrives in Scion showrooms in spring 2012 with a sticker price well north of $20,000.
Toyota/Scion coupe specs reach the Internet
October 30, 2011
Specifications for the Toyota FT-86 and Scion FR-S coupes have leaked on the Internet via scanned images of the training manual, posted at www.ft86club.com.
If the site's translations are correct, the 2,667-pound coupe will use a 2.0-liter flat-four engine that makes 197 hp at 7,000 rpm and 150 lb-ft of torque at 6,600 rpm.
It looks as if the FR-S will come in two trim levels: a higher-spec variant that features a limited-slip rear differential in both manual and automatic versions of the car and a lower-spec model that has only the limited-slip diff with the manual transmission.
High-spec models will also have a leather-wrapped steering wheel, LED accent lighting, a six-speaker audio system, sport pedals, white-faced gauges and bigger wheels.


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by bungfullajung May 24, 2016
to sit down in a stall adjacent to an already occupied stall in the bathroom. deemed especially rude when there are other open stalls NOT adjacent to the occupied stall.
dude.. i was taking a dump and some guy side carred me!
by chrysanthalbee June 06, 2007
A cocktail invented around 1918 in either London or Paris. To make it, you take eight parts brandy or cognac, mix with two parts orange liqueur (Cointreau, Grand Marnier, or another triple sec), and one part lemon juice. To serve, you mix the ingredients in a shaker half-full with ice, then strain and serve in a sugar-rimmed glass, and finally garnish with a strip of lemon rind. You can also use vodka, bourbon, or gin in place of the brandy and/or cognac
Man, the bartender at that restaurant made the best damn sidecar I ever had.
by Your Testicles September 20, 2011
When you are out with a friend and a group of his friends, who you aren't well acquainted with. This put's you in the sidecar,(as in motorcycle sidecar) your friend is driving and you are awkwardly along for the ride. with nothing to control or keep you occupied... (beside your nerdy cell phone). And the subject of the group conversation turns to something you have no clue about, (Inside jokes, Old school/work stories) It's hard to look cool in the sidecar.
Man! I went to a party with Mike last night, there was a bunch of his old highschool buddies there.
Mike and his buddies started talking about their favorite rugby teams, I have no clue about rugby. I got put in the sidecar!
Mike and his buddies started talking about their favorite rugby teams, I have no clue about rugby. I got put in the sidecar!
by 21dreams September 10, 2010
technique of manually stimulating the female genitals with two fingers in the vagina and slipping a pinky into the anus
While Jane was enjoying the dexterity of my index and forefinger I slipped in a sidecar for the win.
by mamamomash March 20, 2003
by Netch July 15, 2004
Anyone who is in a relationship/partnership who is clearly not wearing the metaphorical trousers, or in more extreme cases, only worked with/dated by the other for superficial reasons I.E - money or looks, and while everyone else can see this, they cannot.
Good looking woman walks into a crowded bar and pushes her way to the front, and without asking the small nerdy guy on HER arm what he wants, she orders the drinks.
ONLOOKER 1: "woah check out that blonde!"
ONLOOKER 2: "...check out the sidecar"
ONLOOKER 1: "woah check out that blonde!"
ONLOOKER 2: "...check out the sidecar"
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Adventure Dress
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by melonhead
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DescriptionI designed and hand drafted this dress using my own measurements. The dress was made from a printed linen fabric. The fabric was pre-printed for a circle skirt, but I thought the pattern would make a unique dress. Each pattern piece was specifically placed on the patterned fabric. Because the print on the fabric is so detailed I wanted to keep the dress design simple, focusing primarily on placement of the pattern and the fit of the garment. The skirt is pleated with 2.5 inch pleats all the way round the skirt. There is an invisible zipper in the back with a placket of fabric covered buttons on top of it.
If you'd like you can check out more on my blog :) http://esther-fromthesticks.blogspot.com/2013/02/what-adventures-may-come.html
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Linen, invisible zipper, thread, buttons, glue.
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Feb 25, 2013, 04.47 PMby Mary Athey
This is gorgeous on you, amazing fabric x
Feb 25, 2013, 01.06 PMby chased-away
This dress is beautiful- it's flattering and the placement of the fabric is interesting and really special. And of course, your pictures are stunning! <3 Did you just have a boat lying around? ;)
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Aw thank you so much! Haha, well I had part of the boat just laying around, but the sails took some time to put together ;) Cardboard and tulle is not always my best friend.
Feb 25, 2013, 07.08 AMby avjames
I hope many adventures are to come.
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Thank you, I hope so as well!
Feb 25, 2013, 05.33 AMby michelle ><><><
Again gorgeous! I really want this one!!!! <><, michelle
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Thank you Michelle! :)
Feb 24, 2013, 09.39 PMby YellowWay
Very unique, I love it :)
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Myths about suicide abound in the therapeutic setting. They often inhibit the ability of clinicians (and families) to assess the severity and magnitude of a patient's suicide risk. This special report discusses some of those myths. In Why People Die by Suicide,1 I argued that a kind of fearlessness is required to face voluntarily the daunting prospect of one's death, and that doing so necessarily involves a fight against ancient, ingrained, and powerful self-preservation instincts. In Myths About Suicide,2 I used the framework developed in the previous book to contend that death by suicide is neither impulsive, cowardly, vengeful, controlling, nor selfish.
Impulsivity myths
The tragic death of a Florida television news reporter in 1974 illustrates the fallacy that suicide is an impulsive, spur-of-the-moment whim, much like casting off peanut shells at the ballpark. In July of that year, the reporter was covering the story of a shooting that had happened the day before. When the reporter called for the news station's video footage of the scene, the tape jammed. She shrugged and stated, "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first—an attempted suicide." She extracted a gun from beneath her desk and shot herself behind the right ear. She was rushed to a local hospital, but died 14 hours later.
The usual reaction to this tragic tale beyond shock and horror was to dwell on the seemingly impulsive nature of the act and ask, "How could the reporter have known that the tape would jam?" However, the reporter's behavior leading up to her suicide dispels the idea that she acted impulsively:
• For years, she openly told her family that she felt depressed and suicidal
• Four years before her death, she attempted suicide by overdose and frequently discussed the incident subsequently
• Weeks before she died, the news station granted her request to cover a story on suicide; and during one interview, she asked a police officer for details on self-inflicted gunshot wounds
• One week before, she told a colleague that she had bought a gun and joked with him about killing herself on the air
• On the day of her suicide (or possibly even before), she had put the gun in a bag that she brought to the set daily
• Finally, she had prepared news copy for a fellow reporter to read about her suicide after the fact
The news reporter's death illustrates that her suicide was premeditated. Death by suicide is extremely fearsome and daunting, and thus requires considerable thought, planning, and resolve. To consider her death impulsive is to assign primacy to that spur-of-the-moment decision as to precisely when to pull out the gun, instead of focusing on the many factors that led up to that planned moment.
In the book An Unquiet Mind,3 Kay Redfield Jamison discusses her own experience with suicidal behavior and describes how it actually works: ". . . for many months I went to the 8th floor of the stairwell of the UCLA hospital and, repeatedly, only just resisted throwing myself off the ledge. . . ." Contemplating suicide is a signature of serious suicidal behavior. Jamison's months-long thought process and behaviors counter the notion of spontaneous death by suicide.
The suicide of President Bill Clinton's childhood friend and White House adviser Vince Foster was of this sort. Despite wildly irresponsible speculation to the contrary, Foster died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Foster snuck a gun out to his car in an oven mitt; he drove to a secluded area of a park, and he shot himself. To imagine that Foster's death was impulsive is to ignore all of the facts in what was by far the most investigated suicide in history (multiple Congressional inquiries and forensic investigations were conducted). It is also to ignore the character of Vince Foster; he was a well-organized, thoughtful, and deliberate person. No one who knew him would have described him as impulsive.
Foster's friends and family were stunned by his death; it seemed "out-of-the-blue." However, death by suicide can both shock loved ones and be planned for weeks, months, or even years. This is because of the human capacity, quite spectacular in some cases, for privacy and secrecy. Except in works of fiction, I have never encountered a death by suicide that was truly impulsive. Many clinicians have mistakenly deemed suicidal deaths impulsive merely because they seemed to be "out-of-the-blue."
Suicide note myths
Foster did not leave a suicide note, a factor that spurred conspiracy theories on cause of death. To my knowledge, no study has reported a rate of note leaving among suicide decedents to exceed 50%. Moreover, most studies find rates between 0% and 40%4; a reasonable average rate would be approximately 25%.
Why are suicide notes so rare? Some have reasoned that because impulsivity is involved in suicidal behavior, suicidal persons often kill themselves before they have a chance to write a note. There are problems with this viewpoint, however. A major problem is that it draws on the distinct myth that dying on a whim is common. Another problem is the lack of empirical support that compares those who leave notes with those who do not. If it were true that note leavers are much less impulsive than those who do not leave notes, then this distinction should be easy to demonstrate in forensic studies that examine the lives, characteristics, and personalities of decedents. This difference has not been clearly demonstrated.
The relative rarity of suicide notes reveals the state of mind of those about to die by suicide. To say that persons who die by suicide are lonely at the time of their deaths is a massive understatement. Loneliness, combined with alienation, isolation, rejection, and ostracism, is a better approximation. Still, it does not fully capture the suicidal person's state of mind. In fact, I believe it is impossible to articulate the phenomenon, because it is so beyond ordinary experience. Notes are rare because most decedents feel alienated to the point that communication through a note seems pointless or does not occur to them at all.
1. Joiner T. Why People Die by Suicide. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 2005.,
2. Joiner T. Myths About Suicide. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 2010.
3. Jamison KR. An Unquiet Mind. New York: Alfred A. Knopf; 1995.
4. Joiner TE, Pettit JW, Walker RL, et al. Perceived burdensomeness and suicidality: two studies on the suicide notes of those attempting and those completing suicide. J Soc Clin Psychol. 2002;21:531-545.
5. Cleckley H. The Mask of Sanity. St Louis: CV Mosby Co; 1941.
6. Van Orden KA, Witte TK, James LM, et al. Suicidal ideation in college students varies across semesters: the mediating role of belongingness. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2008;38:427-435.


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This is the tale that began in 2006 in my first year of beekeeping in Atlanta, GA. ...there's still so much to learn.
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I began this blog to chronicle my beekeeping experiences. I have read lots of beekeeping books, but nothing takes the place of either hands-on experience with an experienced beekeeper or good pictures of the process. I want people to have a clearer picture of what to expect in their beekeeping so I post pictures and write about my beekeeping saga here. Along the way, I've passed a number of certification levels and am now a Master Beekeeper Enjoy with me as I learn and grow as a beekeeper.
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Beekeepers Creeping in the Middle of the Night
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Yes, any time you move a hive in the night, you want to help the bees realize that they are in a new location. If there's "stuff" on the landing, then they reorient before they leave since the hive looks different to them than it did the day before.ReplyDelete
Nice pictures, moving bees at night is the way to do it. Look forward to reading more of your blogs. Great content.ReplyDelete
I'm not sure I understand your questions. The bees should thrive in the new location. As they do wherever a hive is located, scout foragers will be looking for nectar and bringing word back through dance to the other foragers in the hive so that the forager bees can collect nectar and honey. In the process, as bees do everywhere, they will pollinate flowers, trees and crops that they use as sources of nectar and pollen. The nectar flow in Atlanta starts in April so they have plenty of time to collect nectar for honey in the new location....exactly the same amount of time they would have had in the old location.ReplyDelete
There's something so uncanny about driving with a hive in one's car, isn't there?ReplyDelete
So, the sound and vibration of the staple gun don't bother the bees? (We use masking tape.)


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This month�s column is going to be a bit different than usual � a lesson learned recently from personal experience.
This month�s column is going to be a bit different than usual � a lesson learned recently from personal experience.
You see, I�m a business owner and I coach other business owners. I�m expected to be congruent with what I teach. I work hard to help others get the life they enjoy by having a business that supports what they want to achieve.
Sometimes that means saying something that pushes them past where they stop on their own. This past year my business growth was flat. So my coach says to me, �Your skills and knowledge have gotten you to this point. If you want your businesses to grow then you�re going to have to wake up and do something about your skills and your knowledge.�
Hmmm. Guess who is working on ramping up his skills and knowledge?
Let me ask you, who do you have in your life that will tell it to you straight? Who has the courage and cares for you enough, to sift through all of the political correctness and tell you what you NEED to hear?
Whether it is in your personal life or your business, it is an absolute must that you have someone who will be honest with you � realizing they are doing it for your own good, not theirs.
I have a coach who told it to me straight � concise, direct and exactly what I needed to hear.
OK, so you find someone who cares about you enough to tell it to you straight. Now what?
Are you going to take the advice and do something about it?
Or are you going to smile and listen and then keep doing what you are doing? The choice is yours. But your decision makes all the difference.
Now it doesn�t make any difference whether it is your family, your business or your friends. Having someone willing to tell it to you straight means you have a great relationship with the person.
And life is all about relationships. With your family, your team, your community, etc. The most important thing in your life is not what tangible items you have, but rather what relationships you have.
So, let�s assume you want someone to be honest with you and tell it to you straight. What do you need to build the relationships that will lead to that? Here are three things to consider:
1. Invest time in building relationships
2. Ask people to tell it to you straight. Give them permission
3. Take action on their advice �listen and then do something.
Action Tip of the Day: The Language of Business
Warren Buffet is a smart guy. That�s how he got to be the second richest man in the US.
He has a quote I love. �Accounting is the language of business.� In other words, the numbers are crucial to understand so that you know the score.
Think of playing a game as a kid. If you didn�t keep score, the game ended quickly because you couldn�t monitor progress. In business, if you don�t know your numbers then you don�t know the score.
If you don�t know the score, you can�t tell whether you are winning or losing. As a business owner, you need to be winning.
Some key numbers you need to understand: Break even, cash flow (statement of cash flows), fixed vs. variable costs, margins and client acquisition cost. Get out there and learn these numbers. Knowing them will help you make the right decisions.
Take Action on this today and then go run a lap. Business is Fun.


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The Verona Motor Bike Expo may not be the largest motorcycle show in Italy, but it certainly attracts some of the most beautiful bikes to be found in the country shaped like a boot. Of course only one bike can be crowned as the very best on display, and with some help from our friends at OmniMoto.it, we can share with you that this year's honor goes to the spare-no-expense-on-the-chrome-budget build of Viareggio-based Garage 65 and its Stargate custom.
The Tuscan tinkers are no strangers to winning bike build-offs, having won last year the Italian section of the World Constructors Championship with their Kosmodrive motorcycle (we're sensing a theme here), and have again collaborated with Domenico Moretti to build the Stargate's unique steel/aluminum frame.


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Watch Postcards from Buster on PBS Kids GO!
SHRUTI: I am just getting ready for my dance class.
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SHRUTI: This is my dance costume. And these are my jewelry.
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No surprise that David Fincher's latest mind-bender, "Gone Girl," is number 1 this weekend. Its post-New York Film Festival premiere reception about a week ago, was mostly strong, by audiences and critics alike. So one could only assume that it would carry that momentum into its opening theatrical box office. And it most certainly did, earning a healthy $38 million, beating out its fellow newbie, "Annabelle," the unnecessary and weak sequel/prequel to one of the best horror films I've seen in recent years, "The Conjuring." It came in a close second, earning $37.2 million.
Both films bumped last week's number 1 film, the Denzel Washington/Antoine Fuqua reteaming, "The Equalizer," which landed in 3rd place this weekend, with a box office cume of $64.5 million, after 2 weekends in release.
In terms of new films opening this weekend, covered on this blog, the Nas documentary, "NAS: Time is Illmatic," has done quite well thus far, considering that it's playing on just 2 screens nationwide, and, has earned $109,000.
And there's also "The Good Lie," the Reese Witherspoon starrer, about refugees of the second Sudanese Civil War, in the USA, and the *nice white American woman* assigned to help them adjust.
That the project comes from the executive producer of "The Blind Side" should be of some indication of what to expect from this. As I've said before about the film, while I'm certainly pleased that the 3 young men who star in the film. will get to star in what appears to be a rather high profile Hollywood project, and that the 3 real-life young men whose story inspired the film, will get to see their lives reinterpreted on the big screen, I'm just no longer interested in this particular kind of story, or representation of Africans on screen, which we've seen in a variety of movie incarnations over the years.
Hollywood seems to revel in stories like this that present limited and overwrought depictions of Africans, especially when there's an opportunity to insert a white protagonist, if there isn't already one in the original "based on" narrative. If Reese Witherspoon's character was a black American woman, would the executive producer of 'The Blind Side'" be interested in seeing it adapted for the screen?
When will that story be made into a film by Hollywood producers?
The so-called "lost boys of Sudan" have been the subject of a handful of documentaries over the last decade, since the signing of a peace treaty that was to end what was the 2nd Sudanese civil war, in 2005. I'd suggest you take a look at those films first, before watching this one – that is, if you plan to. "Lost Boys of Sudan," and "God Grew Tired of Us," are two of the more popular titles.
Playing the 3 refugees are Ugandan-born actor Arnold Oceng ("My Brother The Devil"), South Sudanese actor, model and social activist, Ger Duany (himself once a child soldier), and Emmanuel Jal, a South Sudanese musician and former child soldier as well.
Again, I can't make an argument for why this film shouldn't exist (and I'm not suggesting that it shouldn't) – after all, it's based on real-life stories. But I can encourage Hollywood to embrace other stories about Africans (whether in Africa or in America – and there is an abundance of stories) beyond those tiny few extremes (war, poverty, famine, disease, corruption, or as simpletons) that sadly reflect views that are likely held by much of America.
Let's recall author Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie's Ted Talk titled "The Danger of a Single Story," which we've shared on this blog many times.
"The Good Lie" is produced by Imagine's Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Karen Kehela Sherwood, along with Black Label Media.
By the way, the Idris Elba/Taraji P. Henson thriller, "No Good Deed," has managed to eek out over $50 million at the box office, despite lackluster reviews. It's certainly earned its $13.2 million budget back, and just might wrestle its way to close to $60 million, which won't at all be bad, again, given its budget. Another *win* for producer Will Packer, who's certainly been on something of a roll lately, with recent hits like "Think Like A Man," its unnecessary and poor sequel, "Ride Along," and more.
This week's top 10 box office wins below:
|Gone Girl
|The Equalizer
|The Boxtrolls
|The Maze Runner
|Left Behind (2014)
|This is Where I Leave You
|Dolphin Tale 2
|Guardians of the Galaxy
|No Good Deed (2014)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dominique Morisseau's "Detroit '67" on Monday won a theater award honoring the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, one of the largest prizes given for dramatic writing.
The Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History honors a new play or musical that explores the United States' past and deals with "great issues of our day." It comes with $100,000.
The jury unanimously picked Morisseau's play, the first in a three-play cycle about her hometown Detroit. According to the jury, the play "explores an explosive and decisive moment in a great American city" and has "compelling characters struggle with racial tension and economic instability."
"Detroit '67" received its world premiere at The Public Theater in New York City in March and was presented in association with the Classical Theater of Harlem and the National Black Theater.
The prize was established by Kennedy's sister Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith in consultation with playwright Tony Kushner.
Morisseau's play beat out four other works, including the musical "Fun Home" by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, "Party People" by the company Universes, "Appropriate" by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and "the road weeps, the well runs dry" by Marcus Gardley.
The jury this year included playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, lyricist Susan Birkenhead, and composer and lyricist J. Michael Friedman.
Last year, Dan O'Brien's "The Body of an American" and Robert Schenkkan's "All the Way" shared the inaugural award. It is given every February 22, the anniversary of the late senator's birth.
Kennedy died of cancer in 2009.
Online: http://kennedyprize.columbia.edu


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BEIJING (AP) — Family members have been able to see Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng's nephew for the first time since he was detained nine months ago after his uncle's escape from house arrest.
Chen Kegui was convicted of attacking officials during the raid, though supporters say the prosecution was retribution from local authorities angered by his uncle's escape.
"I asked him if he was tortured. He said there was no torture, but there has been deception and coaxing," his father, Chen Guangfu, said Friday, a day after the visit, adding his son felt he was deceived into declining family-appointed lawyers during his trial.
Just two days earlier in Washington, Chen Guangcheng stood next to Richard Gere and addressed an audience that included American lawmakers as he received a human rights award. He also visited Disneyland with Batman star Christian Bale. In December, he was named GQ magazine's Rebel of the Year.
Chen has repeatedly called for public attention to his nephew's case, saying the prosecution of his nephew has trampled the rule of law.
Chen's bold escape from house arrest in eastern Shandong province in April embarrassed China. He fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, setting off a diplomatic tussle between China and the United States. China subsequently allowed him to go to the U.S. to study law, and he has become something of a celebrity in his new life.
Chen Kegui was convicted in November of attacking officials who stormed his house looking for his uncle and sentenced to three years and three months in prison. Chen Guangcheng says his nephew acted in self-defense after officials barged into his house at night and beat him.
Family members were barred from his hurried, suddenly announced trial.
Chen Guangfu said that he, his wife and daughter-in-law met with his son Thursday at a prison in eastern Shandong province. "He appeared to be in good spirits, he was a bit emotional," said Chen Guangfu. "He felt deceived and he was angry. He had conflicting feelings."
The father said the family was notified in early January of the arranged visit. When Chen Guangfu, his wife Ren Zongju, and Chen Kegui's wife Liu Fang met the 33-year-old, they were told their conversations would be monitored, but that no topic would be off-limits.
Chen Guangfu said he asked his son why he had not used lawyers chosen by his family for his trial.
"He said he didn't understand the details very well and was told that outside lawyers would not work and that if he would use court-appointed lawyers, he would get the minimum sentence," Chen Guangfu said.
"I also asked him if anyone had told him the family wanted to appeal on his behalf. He said he wasn't informed of this."
Chen Kegui said he lashed out at the officials during the night of the raid on April 26 only because they assaulted him.
"Kegui said he only fought back when he could not stomach it anymore," Chen Guangfu said.
Chen Guangfu said they took along Kegui's 6-year-old son Chen Fubin to the prison, but in the end decided not to let him see his father.
"He is too young. He is waiting for his father to be home for the Chinese New Year. He said it's time to set off fireworks and that he can do that when his dad is home," he said.
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DOVER, Del. - Wesley College's Dakevis Howard (Wilmington, Del./Concord) and Tim Putman (Garnet Valley, Pa./Garnet Valley) earned the Wolverines 2011 Spring Outstanding Defensive and Offensive Player of the Year Awards at the conclusion of spring practice.
Howard missed the majority of 2010 due to injury, but was an All-Atlantic Central Conference performer in 2009, when he intercepted three passes and broke up 10.
Putman was named All-ACFC as a sophomore in 2010, his first as a starter at center on Wesley's offensive line. He was also named a team captain for the 2011 season.
The duo will look to help the Wolverines continue their run of six straight NCAA appearances, including four trips the NCAA Division III Semifinals.
Last season, Wesley finished 12-1, winning a ninth ACFC Championship. The team advanced to the NCAA Division III Semifinals and won the Lambert Meadowlands Trophy and the ECAC Team of the Year Award.


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High Plains cotton farmers can add one more item to the list of problems they face.
Infestations of reniform nematodes (Rotylenchulus reniformis) have shown up in Floyd, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry, and Hockley counties. The highest levels of infestation are in Lubbock and Lynn counties.
"Unfortunately, distribution of this pest is on the increase," says Terry Wheeler, plant pathologist with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at Lubbock. "Once reniform nematodes get established in a field, they cannot be eradicated."
These nematodes survive in soil for years and are easily spread by cultivation. They can be carried to other fields in soil clinging to farm equipment, vehicle tires, and footwear. Drainage water also can spread them.
"Symptoms of reniform presence include plant stunting and reduced yields. However, these symptoms also can be the result of nutritional deficiencies and other problems. Therefore, only examination of soil samples by a properly trained person can confirm the presence or absence of reniform nematodes," Wheeler said.
"If producers want to get a good estimation of the extent and severity of their nematode problem, they must take a sufficient number of soil samples in an acceptable manner. I recommend the following procedure:
Sample anytime from June through the following April.
Do not sample if air temperature is below 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Take samples from a minimum of three areas within each 120 acres.
Go into the first area and dig a hole 4 to 12 inches deep adjacent to a plant. (The later in the season, the deeper the sampling should be as nematodes migrate downward as the soil gets colder.)
Take a handful of soil within two inches, or less, of the taproot and place it in a bucket.
Take about 20 paces within the area and repeat the sampling procedure.
Repeat these steps until 15 to 20 samples from the first area have been taken.
Thoroughly mix the soil in the bucket, remove about one quart of soil and seal it in a moisture-proof bag to prevent drying.
Label the sample appropriately and immediately store it in a cool place.
Repeat the above procedures in areas two and three.
As soon as possible take the three samples to A and L Plains Analytical Laboratories in Lubbock or to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (1102 East FM 1294, Lubbock, TX 79403).
"Yearly chemical treatments and every-other-year rotations with sorghum, corn, or peanuts can increase lint yields substantially," Wheeler said. "The reniform nematode reduces yield by approximately 50 percent in a good year and 80 percent to 90 percent in a bad year. Chemical control with Temik 15G, Vydate, or nematicide seed treatments may return only about 10 percent of that yield loss. Crop rotation should improve yields much more than chemical control, except for fumigation. Fumigation provides the best yields.
"Telone II (a fumigant) applied at 5 gallons per acre has given us good reniform control. It should be injected approximately 20 inches deep in the center of the seedbed and the slit covered immediately.
"Temik 15G gives good reniform control at 3.5 to 5.0 pounds per acre. But for this chemical to work properly, the soil needs to be moist as the nematodes must contact the nematicide in solution in the soil." Wheeler said.
Vydate is a liquid systemic insecticide normally used in conjunction with a preplant application of Temik 15G or a nematicide seed treatment. It is generally applied to plants at the pinhead-size-square growth stage and two weeks later if nematode infestation is quite high.
"Nematicides for seed treatments include Avicta Complete Pack and Aeris. These are more expensive than Temik 15G (at 3.5 pounds per acre) and are not always as effective. But they are more convenient, and less hazardous to handle," Wheeler said.
Wheeler has some encouraging news. "Genes for resistance to reniform nematodes have been transferred from an exotic cotton species into upland cotton lines. Within a few years acceptable reniform-resistant varieties should be available."


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It sounded like a can't-miss proposition: Buy the winners, drop the losers.
Developing countries from Brazil to China are expanding much faster than aging economies in the U.S. and Europe, where borrowing during the boom years has been a drag on growth. So the smart money bought stocks in emerging markets, expecting that rapid economic expansion there would provide better rewards. This year, that bet hasn't worked out.
The broadest measure of U.S. stocks, the Standard & Poor's 500 index, is down just 0.4 percent this year. Markets in Brazil, China and the like have lagged far behind, even though their economies are still growing faster than the U.S.
"If you were anywhere in the world other than in the S&P 500 this year, you got crushed," said Greg Peterson, director of research at Ballentine Partners, an investment advisory firm.
The main reason emerging market stocks have suffered deeper losses isn't because their economies are suddenly sluggish. Analysts say it's because people have been worried about the European debt crisis and a possible recession in the U.S. It may seem unfair, but when fear of another financial crisis strikes money managers, they tend to flee emerging markets and stay closer to home.
This summer, panicked money managers dropped the most risky investments first. That meant bonds from deeply indebted countries like Italy and Portugal, small companies in the U.S and emerging market stocks got hit the hardest. Even gold, an asset normally considered safe, dropped as traders shifted money into dollars.
"There was a globalization of fear," says Nathalie Wallace, a senior portfolio manager at Batterymarch Financial Management.
The same thing happened when the U.S. financial crisis hit in 2008. The S&P 500 fell 38.5 percent for the year. But the MSCI Emerging Market index, made up of countries where the banks didn't peddle subprime mortgage bonds, plummeted 47.3 percent.
"Anytime you see risk and fear coming, you see emerging markets get hit a bit more," Wallace says. "It doesn't mean the underlying fundamentals of the economy have changed."
Consider the collection of emerging-market rising stars known as the BRICs, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China. All have economies whose growth exceeds the U.S.
_ Brazil: The economy has expanded 3.1 percent over the past year. The benchmark Bovespa has lost 15.3 percent.
_ Russia: Economic growth of 5.1 percent. The Micex has dropped 11.1 percent this year even after a 10 percent rebound in the past month.
_ India: Economic growth of 7.7 percent. The BSE Sensex index is down 14.4 percent.
_ China: Economic growth of 9.1 percent. The Shanghai Composite has slumped 10 percent this year.
By contrast, the U.S. economy has expanded 1.6 percent over the past 12 months. That's sluggish compared to the developing world's stars. And worries that the U.S. could slip into a recession, or that Europe's debt crisis could tip it into one, have weighed on investors for months. Even after those fears dragged down stocks nearly 20 percent in a month, the S&P 500 outshines indexes in nearly all of the world's fastest growing economies.
In fact, if you rank the U.S. against emerging markets this year, it places ahead of 20 countries and behind just one, Indonesia.
China and other emerging markets long relied on shipping toys, timber and other goods to consumers in the U.S. and Europe. Trade helped them grow. But that has a downside, says Tim Morris, a portfolio manager at J.P. Morgan's asset management unit. When a small country hitches its fortunes to U.S. shoppers, it's bound to suffer when the U.S. economy slows down.
A related problem for many emerging market countries is that they're dominated by energy and material producers, the type of companies most vulnerable to a global slowdown. Todd Henry, an emerging markets equity specialist at T. Rowe Price, points to Brazil, a country that isn't as dependent on exports for growth. "It's a relatively closed economy," Henry says. "But commodity and energy companies make up a large part of their stock market. So if the world is slowing down, that gets priced in."
The largest company in Brazil's stock index is the oil giant Petrobras. When the U.S. economy looks weak, the price of oil falls and the companies that sell oil fall, too. That pushes down Petrobras, which tugs on the Bovespa. In other words, when the U.S. has the sniffles, Brazil's stock market still catches a cold.
"Americans tend to think our problems are limited to the U.S.," says Richard Bernstein, chief executive officer of Richard Bernstein Advisors LLC. "But our problems are their problems, too."


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I can still remember being a nervous eighth grader, auditioning for the Pop Choir, and trying to sight-read a piece of music for Alicyn Ehrich. That's right, I am one of thousands of choral students that learned from Alicyn Ehrich in her tenure at Brookfield High School. Now, after 30 years on the job, Mrs. Ehrich is handing off her baton and will enjoy the retirement she has worked so hard for.
I can still remember being a nervous eighth grader, auditioning for the Pop Choir, and trying to sight-read a piece of music for Alicyn Ehrich. That's right, I am one of thousands of choral students that learned from Alicyn Ehrich in her tenure at Brookfield High School. Now, after 30 years on the job, Mrs. Ehrich is handing off her baton and will enjoy the retirement she has worked so hard for.
Alicyn Ehrich graduated from Northwestern High School at Mendon and attended the University of Missouri. She graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in 1982. From there, she was hired at Linn County R-1 where she taught for 10 years. Alicyn attained her Master's Degree from what is now Truman State University in 1987.
"I enjoyed each of the 10 years that I spent at Linn County and the opportunity to teach some of the children of those students in the last few years," said Ehrich. "That first year I was blessed with the opportunity to teach some very talented young ladies and gentlemen, and I taught with some wonderful people during those times. I am very proud to now call many of those teachers, staff and students my friends, and I wouldn't have traded my years at Linn County for anything."
But a call from Dr. Ted Davis of Brookfield R-3, combined with a desire to work closer to home, brought Alicyn Ehrich to Brookfield in 1993.
"When I received the phone call from Dr. Davis in the summer of 1993 that the elementary teaching position in Brookfield was open, it was a very hard to leave R-1," admitted Ehrich. "I had attended the Missouri Music Educators Conference with Sondra Johnson several times, and knew what a great program she had at Brookfield Elementary."
While she started as the Elementary Music Teacher, Mrs. Ehrich would climb the ranks, and eventually would take over for the legendary Jane Chick as the High School Conductor.
"There are three fellow music teachers to whom I am very grateful, the first being Ida Mae Wombwell," began Ehrich. "Ida Mae stepped in and substituted for me at Linn County R-I after both of my oldest sons were born. Jane Chick then welcomed me into my current position as choir director at Brookfield in 1994. She served as my mentor, my accompanist and my head cheerleader, supporting both me and our program every step of the way. Then in the fall of 2006, Joyce Markle substituted the entire second quarter of that school year upon the arrival of our youngest. Each of these ladies have been an inspiration to me, and I so admire and appreciate them all."
Ehrich continued: "I have been so blessed through the years to have tremendous support from parents, fellow teachers and administrators, but I am particularly grateful to two others who have played a tremendous role of support for my program through the years, and that is my accompanist, Suzan Stephenson and our Maintenance Director, Farron McCollum. Along with the blessing of having so many talented students throughout the years, these two special people are among those that have enhanced many of our performances through the years, and I owe them a great debt of gratitude."
Alicyn Ehrich always enjoyed music, and knew that her life would be spent creating and enjoying it. An early decision in college shaped just how she would impact the art of music as a whole.
"When I first went to college, I had big aspirations of majoring in Music Performance," said Ehrich. "But then I realized that what I really loved about music was creating it with other people, so why not help that become a reality for future generations. You know there is an old saying that 'those who can - do, and those who can't - teach.' Well, I don't know how much value I give to that thought process, but if that's how some people look upon music educators, then so be it - that's who I am! I have absolutely loved teaching young people to perform to the best of their ability and wouldn't trade my career as an educator for anything in the world."
Through the course of her career at BHS, Alicyn Ehrich has taught thousands of choral students. She has led 19 ensembles and 41 soloists, involving 137 students (including me a couple of times) to qualify for the State Music Festival in Columbia.
"Seeing the excitement on the faces of the students that have worked so hard to receive that "I" rating at districts and then many times also at state has been an extremely rewarding experience for my students," said Ehrich. "I have had the joy of experiencing that satisfaction along with them. But quite honestly, most of my greatest memories are when I help students who have really struggled with singing, find "their voice"! I know it is really difficult for a lot of people to understand, but it is so exciting to be next to a student who goes from matching just a few notes in a very narrow range, to being able to sing a solo in a concert - it's truly exhilarating!"


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User talk:Charles
My name is Charles. People call me... Charles
Contributions by Charles
Major Page Creations
MediaWiki:SpamBlacklist a site holding the local URL blacklist for Erfwiki SPAM prevention.
The Spamming of Erfwiki a Banon making fun of a real battle against SPAM on Erfwiki.
Sly the Barbarian a Fanon of an old but powerful warlord referencing Conan and others.
Speewah a Fanon Australian themed Side.
Animu a Fanon Anime/Manga themed Side.
Dwop Bear a Fanon Unit type based on Drop Bears.
Rolladuck a Fanon Unit type based on the Duckroll meme.
Dwarfy a Fanon Natural ally created by another but heavily edited by myself.
Main Page Control
Sand box with the main page code on User:Miment/Main before making changes... But be careful! The content for the main page comes from the above templates, not the main page code itself.
I'd love to do more to combat spam, but all I can do as an admin is block bots and delete edits. Only User:Harknell can. You'd have the best chance of finding him on the Forum. If the situation doesn't get some attention, I'll PM Balder about it. Miment 04:32, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Just an update, I talked with Rob about it a bit on IRC. He knows, and he's telling Harknell.
[15:02] <RobTitan> Primary problem is with new pages being created, then? [15:03] <Miment> Yes [15:04] <Miment> Disabling new pages would be an OK temp fix, but requiring a proper captcha on edits with new external links should stop basically any type of spam. [15:07] <RobTitan> I will quote you on that directly to Harknell in this email I am composing.
Miment 23:16, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
If you want to clear the spammer category out of banned users, that's be fine with me.
The Spamming of Erfwiki
This page is so much! You should list it special under your user contributions!
A style point
Using the {{spammer}} template rather than [[Category:Spammer]] takes a smidge less typing, and serves the same function. Your choice. Abb3w 20:33, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
... on the promotion. =)
Abb3w 04:20, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Every page edit has (in the oft-ignored fine-print) "You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see ErfWiki:Copyrights for details)." Some manner of official Word-of-God legalese is clearly needed for stating overall copyright policies of the Wiki itself; it would seem to make sense for such a page to also discuss the underlying Erfworld copyright status and the extent that Creative Commons licensing applies. Abb3w 09:27, 23 May 2011 (EDT)
Cheerleaders and MediaWiki
The bots seem to generate random spelling mistakes for canned remarks, to make the remarks slightly less recognizable. Given there are 119 misspellings of any six-letter word, barring individual spelling mistakes seems epic-grade futile as an approach. There look to be perhaps a dozen or so (correctly spelled) underlying remarks. Blocking each expression as a whole with more complicated RegEXs should be possible, but I'm not sure the best way to go about that. Abb3w 01:16, 26 May 2011 (EDT)


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Dust Storm Could Hinder Hurricanes [Video]
Who knew that stuff my wife is always complaining about could be such a huge hindrance in the formation of hurricanes. That stuff is dust and if you look at my house it's everywhere. Hurricanes don't like dust. Dust gets in the way of their formation by effectively "drying" up the atmosphere. It also hinders the ability of sunlight to warm the sea surface.
Where would that much dust come from? The dust comes from the same place a lot of the hurricanes come from. Many hurricanes this time of year are born as tropical waves that roll of the west coast of Africa. This storms feed on the warm waters of the tropical Atlantic Ocean and then spin up into tropical cyclones. The dust comes from just a little bit north of where the tropical waves come from. If you look at your map of Africa you will see the Sahara Desert. Trust me that is a very dusty place.
Does this mean good news for the remainder of hurricane season? We can't say for the remainder of the season because that will last until the end of November. Forecasters are saying that for at least the first week of August this dry dusty atmosphere over the tropical Atlantic should reduce the opportunity for any tropical cyclones to form and strengthen at least in those waters.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police are investigating allegations that a teacher at a Northern California preschool tied up a 2-year-old girl for refusing to take a nap and later showed the photos to other teachers.
Workers at Centerpointe Presbyterian Church in Pleasanton, which operates the preschool, contacted the state's community care licensing department last week, saying that a teacher had tied the child's wrists and ankles with masking tape, church spokesman Tim Hunt told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Church officials didn't know about the incident until the teacher — who left the school earlier this year — showed cellphone photos of the child to her former colleagues during a March 1 gathering of current and former teachers, Hunt said.
One of the teachers who saw the photo was the child's mother, who went to the Pleasanton police and told school officials three days later, Hunt said.
The 2-year-old is the only alleged victim at this time, Pleasanton police Sgt. Kurt Schlehuber said Tuesday.
Both police and church officials said it happened a few months ago. Both also declined to name the teacher allegedly involved and why she left the school.
"We are appalled and shocked that such an incident, if proven to be true, took place," Centerpointe Pastor Mike Barris said in a statement. "Every human person made in the image of God, all of the children in our care, deserves the highest degree of respect and protection from any action that dehumanizes them."
The school also will suspend preschool classes next week, while the staff undergoes training and reviews its operating procedures and state regulations, Hunt said.
Schlehuber said that the church has been "extremely cooperative" as it understands the severity of the allegation.
"We are in the middle of an active investigation," Schlehuber said. "We believe that the allegation is against one teacher as there is nothing leading us to believe that there are any others involved."
In response, church officials have informed parents of the violation by sending them a detailed letter of the alleged incident at the preschool and invited them to a parents-only meeting Tuesday night at the school to answer questions.
On Monday, the church released a three-page statement detailing past violations. This included a teacher leaving diluted bleach spray within reach of children discovered during an unannounced site visit in October, and improper supervision of a school-aged program in January.


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PHOENIX -- A couple of characters from Sesame Street put smiles on the faces of kids Friday at Maricopa Medical Center.
Elmo and Grover visited patients at Arizona Children's Center. Many of the kids there are getting ready for surgery, or are recovering from surgery. They range from routine, to more serious operations.
But the Sesame Street visit was a nice break from treatment.
"I think it goes a lot to healing," said Kyla Mohney, child life coordinator at Arizona Children's Center at Maricopa Medical Center. "Just anything we can do to lift their spirits and bring smiles to their faces helps to heal them."
Elmo and Grover also went to the burn unit at the Arizona Burn Center to entertain kids there too.
"It's a huge impact, especially as characters they can relate to and it's something they've seen on TV," said Mohney. "Just the smiles they've brought has been amazing to watch."


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TUSCALOOSA | The Stillman College baseball team completed its three-game sweep of Benedict College with a 13-2 route on Saturday.
With the win, the Tigers improved to 15-13 overall and 7-2 in the Southern Intercollegiat Athletic Conference, while Benedict falls to 17-6 and 8-4 in the SIAC.
The Tigers used an 11-run first inning and tough defense to stifle Benedict.
"That was a big shutdown inning for us," Stillman coach Donny Crawford said. "Our guys hit the ball extremely well and never let up. We knew we were going to need some runs because we were unsure of who we were going to pitch. It's a credit to our guys for doing what it took to get the win."
Dakota Todd earned the win for Stillman after 12⁄3 innings of work. Todd faced seven batters and had one strikeout. Christopher Lail took the loss for Benedict. Lail struggled on the mound, giving up eight runs with seven errors. Lail threw multiple wild pitches and hit two pitchers.
The Tigers finished with 10 hits while holding Benedict to only four. Eight different Stillman players scored a run while six players were able to get hits off Benedict pitchers.
"The key to this game is confidence and if you come in and learn and play with confidence, you can do anything," Crawford said. "In the last five or six weeks, our guys have found a way to lose games.
"Hopefully, this will give our guys confidence and will learn from this and understand that you can't get complacent."
This win comes on the heels of a doubleheader Friday in which the Tigers blitzed Benedict 14-3 in game one and grinded out a 7-5 victory in game two. Despite the sweep, Crawford said he feels the team can play better.
"We're going to give the kids the day off (today) and get back after it on Monday," Crawford said. "We had some success, but there are a lot of little things we need to work on. We have a lot of things that need to be fixed in a short amount of time. We got about three or four weeks left and hopefully we can turn it around."
The Tigers travel to Rome, Ga., to face Shorter College on Tuesday before returning home to battle North Alabama on Wednesday. First pitch for both contests is scheduled for 2 p.m.
Stillman completes sweep of Benedict
TUSCALOOSA | The Stillman College baseball team completed its three-game sweep of Benedict College with a 13-2 route on Saturday.


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Deckadance 1.31.3
Deckadance is a DJ mixing application that works either as a standalone program OR as a VSTi plugin inside your favourite host.
Deckadance itself can also host any VST compliant softsynth or effect.
It comes in House & Club Editions for both PC & Mac.
The House Edition can control Deckadance using most (if not all) existing midi controllers & the Club Edition adds full Timecoded Vinyl Control (which controls most existing vinyl systems).
Image-Line, the company behind Deckadance, has more than 10 years of experience in writing and managing audio software such as FL Studio. In developing Deckadance, we didn't just bring in some consulting DJs to tell our software engineers what they wanted. Deckadance was written by DJs ... for DJs, so we are confident that it will take your DJing to the next level.


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I've officially taken down my mammoth collection of coats from the top shelf of my wardrobe so I don't know what Wiley is doing releasing 'Summertime' now, but to be fair he does a lot better job of ripping off Daft Punk than Kanye ever did.
It's a '90s-tastic video which reminds me of Positive K's epic song 'I Got a Man'. It features clothes by cult menswear label Jaiden rVa James and styling by SUPER SUPER magazine… Fashiontastic!
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Records Relating to State Prison Commission | State Archives Catalog
Soon after its establishment, the Board of State Charities and Corrections confided work on the design of a new state prison and the purchase of land for the prison to a Board committee. In 1874, the General Assembly passed a resolution appointing a State Prison Commission to undertake the overall management of construction. At the end of their work, the Commission's final report (1879) described their responsibility, as they had understood it:
"The Commissioners were to build not simply a State Prison for the confinement of convicts serving long sentences, but were also to build a State or County Jail, a House of Detention for debtors, witnesses and persons awaiting trial, and for the imprisonment of offenders against municipal ordinances…. All were come to under one system of management and control." Rhode Island. State Prison Commission. Fifth and Last Annual Report of the State Prison Commission. Made to the General Assembly. January 1879 Session.
The Commission's membership consisted of the Chairman of the Board of Inspections of the State Prison, the Chairman of the Board of State Charities and Corrections as well as three gubernatorial appointees. The commission was closed in 1879, as the prison's construction was nearing completion. The work of the commission is mainly recorded in the commission's annual reports, which are appended to the General Assembly's Acts and Resolves. Meanwhile, the General Assembly had relieved the members of the Board of State Prison Inspectors of their duties in 1877. Rhode Island. Acts and Resolves, January 1877, the Inspectors having been merged with the Board of State Charities and Corrections.