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New U.S. home construction rose in February and building permits climbed to the highest level in almost five years, adding to signs of progress in the housing market that's helping boost the economy.
Builders broke ground on 917,000 homes at an annual rate, up 0.8% from a revised 910,000 pace in January that was higher than initially estimated, the Commerce Department reported today in Washington. Building permits, a proxy for future construction, advanced 4.6% to 946,000, the strongest since June 2008.
Confidence is being restored to the housing market as property values stabilize, the employment outlook brightens and mortgage rates hover around record lows. An easing of bank lending conditions would help bring home ownership within reach of more Americans and stoke bigger gains in home construction.
"Housing continues to be a bright spot for the economy, and this is a good report," said Anika Khan, senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina, a subsidiary of the largest U.S. mortgage lender. "Permits definitely showed a big jump. As long as that is outpacing starts, we'll likely see another positive month next month."
Stock-index futures held gains after the figures, with the contract on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index expiring in June climbing 0.2% to 1,549.8 at 8:46 a.m. in New York.
The median estimate of 81 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for 915,000 starts. Forecasts ranged from 872,000 to 1 million. The prior month's figure was revised from a previously reported 890,000 pace.
Building Permits
Applications for building permits increased last month from a 904,000 annual rate in January and compared with a 925,000 median forecast. A higher level of permits compared with starts may be a sign that home construction will pick up.
Single-family building permits rose 2.7% in February to a 600,000 annual rate.
Construction of one-family properties climbed 0.5% to a 618,000 rate, the highest since June 2008, from 615,000 the prior month.
Work on multifamily residences such as apartment buildings rose 1.4% to an annual rate of 299,000.
Two of four regions showed gains in February starts, led by a 37.5% jump in the Midwest. New construction rose 18.4% in the Northeast. Starts decreased 7.2% in the West and 5.7% in the South. The drop in the South reflected fewer starts of multifamily units.
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SALISBURY | Big events or small deeds behind the scenes do not go unnoticed in Lexington.
SALISBURY | Big events or small deeds behind the scenes do not go unnoticed in Lexington.
Not only did Uptown Lexington Inc. receive an award in the category of promotion from North Carolina Main Street Program, but the City of Lexington event support staff was also one of 31 groups recognized as Main Street Champions at the annual awards reception and program on Thursday at the Meroney Theater.
Lexington obtained an award of merit for "best downtown special event or event series" from the effort with the BBQ Capital Cook-Off. The cook-off drew the attention of the Main Street Program for its positive influence on Lexington's economy.
"The NC Main Street program looks at the economic impact of an event on the uptown businesses as a benchmark for the award. Thanks to our wonderful volunteers who, over two days asked 3,451 attendees along Main Street and on the actual cook-off site, where they were from, we were able to document attendees came from over 140 different zip codes and one was even from Singapore," said Jo Ellen Edwards, executive director for ULI.
Before each award, coordinators of the awards reception created a mini video with the highlights of each nomination. As the BBQ Capital Cook-Off came on the screen, astonishment rippled throughout the theater hall at the crowd photos from the cook-off. The narrator said the economic impact of the 2012 cook-off was more than $1.2 million, eliciting "oh my's" and "wow's."
Lexington was one of 18 main streets to win an award at the ceremony.
"Main Streets are making a positive impact in their communities all across the state," said North Carolina Department of Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker. "Downtown revitalization efforts are contributing to the state's overall economic recovery and we applaud these community leaders for their hard work."
While a lot of pomp and circumstance went to the award winners, the North Carolina Main Street Program and its directors did not forget the workers behind the scenes.
"Main Street Champions are those individuals that lead by example. Whether they renovate a building, open a business, volunteer their services, or rally the troops, they step out in front and encourage others to follow. They are recognized for their dedication to their community that furthers the efforts of downtown revitalization," said Liz Parham, director of the Office of Urban Development at the N.C. Department of Commerce.
Edwards nominated the City of Lexington Event Support Staff, which includes the city's electrical department, street department and police department.
"We felt like the city gets recognized as a whole for its efforts but the individual departments don't get the recognition they deserve," Edwards said of why she nominated the three departments.
"They think of a lot of the little things at each event that we do not," Edwards added.
Tony Humphrey, supervisor for the city's electrical department, Phil Surratt, City of Lexington street superintendent, Melissa Price-Carter of the Lexington Police Department and Maj. Mark Sink attended the award ceremony to represent their departments.
"It's nice to see small towns recognized. A lot of people put in a lot of effort to make uptown Lexington beautiful," Surratt said.
Humphrey agreed the recognition was great for the city and its employees.
"This shows people recognize the good work our guys do," Humphrey said.
"These guys are great!" Edwards added. "They come to our rescue whenever we need them. They are our partners."
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Teresa Robinson's NH Runner: Tips for dealing with 'dread' mill
Despite the unseasonably warm (but welcome) temperatures in recent days, winter often sends some runners - myself included - seeking shelter. This means more trips to the gym and dates with the treadmill.
I used to affectionately call the contraption the "dread" mill. I disliked everything about it. I hated the stagnant air, the whir of the belt, the televisions flashing in a row at the front of the room, the endless chatter and distractions of the people around me.
But most importantly, it was boring. Really, really boring.
Treadmills somehow had a way of making three miles feel like seven. The thought of doing any of my longer runs on one made me want to poke myself in the eye with a stick. Each winter, I'd suffer through it on the coldest and iciest days. Hating every single minute.
Then something clicked for me. I dropped the word "dread" from my vocabulary and started a new treadmill approach made up of mind-games and training tips I picked up from others. Suddenly my disdain melted away a little. Don't get me wrong, there's still no love affair with the treadmill. But these things help me get through the long New Hampshire winter.
Play Games. One of the things I hated (and to some extent still do) about the treadmill is that it is so darn monotonous. There's no scenery to look at, nothing substantial to distract me or pass the time. I don't have to worry about routes or watching out for traffic. The miles just seem so long. Getting on the treadmill feels like a time warp. I'm convinced there must be a mileage conversion chart for treadmills, like dog years to human years. A mile on the treadmill must certainly be worth two miles on the road, at least when it comes to your state of mind.
I started to realize that it wasn't physically harder. In fact, it's actually easier, since you don't have wind, road resistance or hills. The problem was with my head.
So I started coming up with mind games to help me pass the time. I stopped using the set-it-and-forget-it strategy. Really, how often do we run outside at exactly the same pace for miles and miles?
The details of games change often but the rules are the same: mix it up. Play with the speed and the incline. A lot. I usually try to touch the treadmill controls every quarter-mile (if I'm not focused on a specific training drill). My favorite approach is to start slow and increase the speed by .1 miles per hour every quarter mile. Do this for a few miles and you'll be moving pretty quickly by the end. And, because you're so micro-focused on the quarter-mile increments, you'll won't even realize the miles are racking up.
Run With Purpose. A couple of years ago, while I was training with a coach for a marathon, I learned to use the treadmill as a tool. My training schedule had a weekly speed workout built in, and often the best way to effectively complete this was with the help of a treadmill. Yes, a positive place for the treadmill in your training.
My coach often told me that every run should have a purpose - a long run, a speed workout, a recovery run. Like each run is different, so are the tools to succeed them. For long runs, it's a varied, rolling route. For speed runs, it's the treadmill. My speed workouts vary from shorter intervals to longer tempo run (where I try to sustain a faster-than-usual pace over a longer time). Having that giant screen in front of my face during the run allowed me to accurately track (and adjust) the pace and precisely monitor my time. The bonus of all of this is that you will get faster.
Don't Peek. I've established that treadmill miles seem to pass slowly. There's no need to remind yourself of that during the workout. (Obviously, this advice doesn't work if you're playing the treadmill games or focusing on a certain workouts like I've described above). You can't entirely avoid the screen, conveniently placed right in front of your face, that ticks (slowly) through the minutes and miles. But you can cover it up. I usually face the treadmill armed with a towel or shirt to cover the entire screen. But I'll admit I do lift the towel to peek. A lot.
Get Outside. Last and certainly not least, remember to get outside sometimes. Winter running is wonderful and invigorating. There's nothing like fresh air and sunshine on your skin after being holed up inside. Invest in a few pieces of the right gear - like tights, base layers, gloves, hats and reflective gear - and you'll forget you ever thought it was too cold or dark to run outside in the winter. Save the treadmill for the coldest and iciest days or when it's not safe to run in the dark. Today seems like the perfect day to get outside. There will be plenty of days left better suited for the treadmill.
Teresa Robinson's NH Runner column appears every other week in the New Hampshire Sunday News. She can be reached at
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Collect.com and Antique Trader are teaming up to produce an online conference on Depression Glass. Hosted by expert Ellen Schroy, the conference is scheduled for 8 p.m. EST Nov. 5.
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Hydromys chrysogaster
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Hydromys chrysogaster É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1804
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|Taxonomic Notes:
|The population on Obi Island, Indonesia, may represent a separate species. There is also a distinct population on the Atherton Tableland, Australia that may represent a separate species (previously described as Hydromys longmani) (K. Aplin and K. Helgen pers. comm.).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Burbidge, A.A.
|Amori, G.
|Aplin, K., Copley, P., Robinson, A., Morris, K., Woinarski, J., Friend, T., Ellis, M. & Menkhorst, P.
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining at nearly the rate required to qualify for listing in a threatened category.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is present on Obi Island in the Moluccan Islands of Indonesia, the Kai Islands (Indonesia), the Aru Islands (Indonesia), the islands of Biak-Supiori and Yapen (Indonesia), it is found over much of the island of New Guinea (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea), on the D'Entrecasteaux Islands and the Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea), and ranges through parts of northern, eastern, south-eastern and south-western Australia, including the island of Tasmania and a number of offshore islands (e.g., Bernier Island, Western Australia). It ranges from sea level to 1,900 m asl.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Australia; Indonesia; Papua New Guinea
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|It is generally a common, but sparsely distributed, species. There have been some declines in parts of Australia.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species is associated with a wide variety of permanent aquatic habitats. It can be found in most types of freshwater habitats, including artificially irrigated sites, and can also occur in mangrove and estuarine areas (Flannery 1995a,b; Olsen 2008). Animals nest in bankside tunnels or logs, and while most food is taken from the water, they may forage in riparian vegetation (Olsen 2008). Females may annually have up to five litters (usually one or two) of three or four young (Olsen 2008).
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|Major Threat(s):
|There are no major threats to this species. In New Guinea, some populations are locally threatened by aquatic pollution resulting from mining activities. In south-western Western Australia, populations have declined likely due to increased salinity from clearing in agricultural areas. Extinction in the Montebello Islands (Western Australia) was probably due to a high density of introduced black rats (Rattus rattus) and cats.
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|It is present in many protected areas in Australia and New Guinea. Further studies into the taxonomy of this species are needed.
|Errata reason:
|This errata assessment has been created because the map was accidentally left out of the version published previously.
|Burbidge, A.A. 2016. Hydromys chrysogaster (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T10310A115097054. . Downloaded on 18 September 2018.
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text: Jamaa el Fna is a square and market place in Marrakesh's medina quarter (old city). The origin of its name is unclear: Jemaa means "congregational mosque" in Arabic, probably referring to a destroyed Almoravid mosque. "Fanâ" or "finâ" can mean "death" or "a courtyard, space in front of a building." Thus one meaning could be "the mosque or assembly of death," or "The Mosque at the End of the World". A more likely explanation is that it refers to a mosque with a distinctive courtyard or square in front of it.


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Federal and state nuclear experts will undergo questioning from Illinois' two U.S. senators at a forum in Chicago today.
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and Republican colleague Mark Kirk are hosting the public forum this afternoon at the Dirksen Federal Building. They say they want to see if there are any lessons from the nuclear crisis in Japan that can be applied to Illinois.
The state has six nuclear plants with a total of 11 reactors, more than any other state. Exelon Corp. owns the plants and says they're safe.
But the senators and watchdog groups say they're concerned that four reactors in Illinois are almost identical to those involved in Japan's crisis.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, Exelon and Argonne National Laboratory will participate in the forum.


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> XIII. The two Roosevelts
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XIII. The two Roosevelts
not wish to paint Roosevelt in one light only, and that the most favorable. Had no other been shed upon him, his Administration would have been too bland for human belief, and life for him would have palled. For his inexhaustible energy hungered for action. As soon as his judgment convinced him that a thing ought to be done he set about doing it. Recently, I asked one of the most perspicacious members of his Cabinet, What do you consider Theodores dominant trait He thought for a while, and then replied, Combativeness. No doubt the public also, at least while Roosevelt was in office, thought of him first as a fighter. The idea that he was truculent or pugnacious, that he went about with a chip on his shoulder, that he loved fighting for the sake of fighting, was, however, a mistake. During the eight years he was President he kept the United States out of war; not only that, he settled long-standing causes of irritation, such as the dispute over the Alaskan Boundary, which might, under provocation, have led to war. Even more than this, without striking a blow, he repelled the persistent attempts of the German Emperor to gain a foothold on this continent; he repelled those snakelike attacks and forced the Imperial Bully, not merely to retreat ignominiously but to arbitrate. And in foreign affairs, Roosevelt shone as a peacemaker. He succeeded in persuading the Russian Czar to come to terms with the Mikado of Japan. And soon after, when the German Emperor threatened to make war on France, a letter from Roosevelt to him caused William to reconsider his brutal plan, and to submit the Moroccan dispute to a conference of the Powers at Algeciras.
Instead of the braggart and brawler that his enemies mispainted him, I saw in Roosevelt, rather, a strong man who had taken early to heart Hamlets maxim and had steadfastly practiced it:
Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honours at the stake.
He himself summed up this part of his philosophy in a phrase which has become a proverb: Speak softly, but carry a big stick. More than once in his later years he quoted this to me, adding, that it was precisely because this or that Power knew that he carried a big stick, that he was enabled to speak softly with effect.
No man of our time better deserved the Nobel Peace Prize than did he. The fallacy that Roosevelt, like the proverbial Irishman at Donnybrook Fair, had rather fight than eat, spread through the country, and indeed throughout the world, and had its influence in determining whether men voted for him or not. His enemies used it as proof that he was not a safe President, but they took means much more malignant than this to discredit and destroy him. When the Big Interests discovered that they could not silence him, they circulated stories of all kinds that would have rendered even the archangel Gabriel suspect to some worthy dupes.
They threw doubts, for instance, on his sanity, and one heard that the Wall Street magnates employed the best alienists in the country to analyze everything the President did and said, in the hope of accumulating evidence to show that he was too unbalanced to be President. Not content with stealing away his reputation for mental competence, they shot into the dark the gravest charges against his honor. A single story, still believed, as I know, by persons of eminence in their professions, will illustrate this. When one of the great contests between the President and the Interests was on, he remembered that one of their representatives in New York had damaging, confidential letters from him. Hearing that these might be produced, Roosevelt telephoned one of his trusty agents to break open the desk of the Captain of Industry where they were kept, and to bring them to the White House, before ten oclock the following morning. This was done. To believe that the President of the United States would engage in a vulgar robbery of the jimmy and black-mask sort indicates a degree of credulity which even the alienists could hardly have expected to encounter outside of their asylums. It suggests also, that Baron Munchausen, like the Wandering Jew Ahasuerus, has never died. Does any one suppose that the person whose desk was rifled would have kept quiet? Or that, if the Interests had had even reasonably sure evidence of the Presidents guilt, they would not have published it? To set spies and detectives upon him with orders to trail him night and day was, according to rumor, an obvious expedient for his enemies to employ.
I repeat these stories, not because I believe them, but because many persons did, and such gossip, like the cruel slanders whispered against President Cleveland years before, gained some credence. Roosevelt was so natural, so unguarded, in his speech and ways, that he laid himself open to calumny. The delight he took in establishing the Ananias Club, and the rapidity with which he found new members for it, seemed to justify strong doubts as to his temper and taste, if not as to his judgment. The vehemence of his public speaking, which was caused in part by a physical difficulty of utterancethe sequel of his early asthmatic troubleand in part by his extraordinary vigor, created among some of the hearers who did not know him the impression that he must be a hard drinker, or that he drank to stimulate his eloquence. After he retired from office, his enemies, in order to undermine his further political influence, sowed the falsehood that he was a drunkard. I do not recall that they ever suggested that he used his office for his private profitthere are some things too absurd for even malice to suggestbut he had reason enough many times to calm himself by reflecting that his Uncle Jimmy Bulloch, the best of men, believed just such lies, and the most atrocious insinuations, against Mr. Gladstone.
Of course, nearly all public men have to undergo similar virulent defamation. I have heard a well-known publicist, a lawyer of ability, argue that both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln did not escape from what seems now incredible abuse, and that they were, nevertheless, the noblest of men and peerless patriots; and then he went on to argue that President Woodrow Wilson has been the target of similar malignity, and to leave you to conclude that consequently Wilson is in the same class with Washington and Lincoln. If he had put his thesis in a different form, the publicist might have seen himself, as his hearers did, the absurdity of it. Suppose he had said, for instance: In spite of the fact that Washington and Lincoln each kept a cow, they were both peerless patriots, therefore, as President Wilson keeps a cow, he must be a peerless patriot. One fears that logic is somewhat neglected even in the training of lawyers in our day.
The commonest charge against Roosevelt, and the one which seemed, on the surface at least, to be most plausible, was that he was devoured by insatiable ambition. The critical remarked that wherever he went he was always the central figure. The truth is, that he could no more help being the central figure than a lion could in any gathering of lesser creatures; the fact that he was Roosevelt decided that. He did use the personal pronoun I, and the possessive pronoun My, with such frequency as to irritate good persons who were quite as egotistical as heif that be egotismbut who used such modest circumlocutions as the present writer, or one, to camouflage their self-conceit. Roosevelt enjoyed almost all his experiences with equal zest, and he expressed his enjoyment without reserve. He was quite as well aware of his foibles as his critics were, and he made merry over them. Probably nobody laughed more heartily than he at the pleasantly humorous remark of one of his boys: Father never likes to go to a wedding or a funeral, because he cant be the bride at the wedding or the corpse at the funeral.
Ambition he had, the ambition which every healthy-minded man ought to have to deserve the good-will and approbation of his fellows. This he admitted over and over again, and he made no pretense of not taking satisfaction from the popularity his countrymen showered upon him. In writing to a friend that he wished to be a candidate in 1904, he distinguished between the case of Lincoln in 1864 and that of himself and other Presidential candidates for renomination. In 1864, the crisis was so tremendous that Lincoln must have considered that chiefly, irrespective of his own hopes: whereas Roosevelt in 1904, like Jackson, Grant, Cleveland, and the other two-term Presidents, might, without impropriety, look upon reelection as, in a measure, a personal tribute.
One of my purposes in writing this sketch will have failed, if I have not made clear the character of Roosevelts ambition. He could not be happy unless he were busily at work. If that work were in a public office he was all the happier. But the way in which he accepted one office after another, each unrelated to the preceding, was so desultory as to prove that he did not begin life with a deep-laid design on the Presidency. He got valuable political notoriety as an Assemblyman, but that was, as I have so often said, because he could not be inconspicuous anywhere. He took the office of Civil Service Commissioner, although everybody regarded that as a commonplace field bounded on three sides by political oblivion; and only a dreamer could have supposed that his service as Chief Police Commissioner of New York City could lead to the White House. Only when he became Assistant Secretary of the Navy can he be said to have come within striking distance of the great target. In enlisting in the Spanish War and organizing the Rough Riders, he may well have reflected that military prowess has often favored a Presidential candidacy; but even here, his sense of patriotic duty and his desire to experience the soldiers life were almost indisputably his chief motives. As Governor of New York, however, he could not disguise from himself the fact that that position might prove again, as it had proved in the case of Cleveland, the stepping-stone to the Presidency. On finding, however, that Platt and the Bosses, exasperated by him as Governor, wished to get rid of him by making him Vice-President, and knowing that in the normal course of events a Vice-President never became President, he tried to refuse nomination to the lower office. And only when he perceived that the masses of the people, the country over, and not merely the Bosses, insisted on nominating him, did he accept. This brief summary of his political progress assuredly does not bear out the charge that he was the victim of uncontrollable ambition.
Roosevelts Ananias Club caught the imagination of the country, but not always favorably. Those whom he elected into it, for instance, did not relish the notoriety. Others thought that it betokened irritation in him, and that a man in his high position ought not to punish persons who were presumably trustworthy by branding them so conspicuously. In fact, I suppose, he sometimes applied the brand too hastily, under the spur of sudden resentment. The most-open of men himself, he had no hesitation in commenting on anybody or any topic with the greatest indiscretion. For he took it for granted that even the strangers who heard him would hold his remarks as confidential. When, therefore, one of his hearers went outside and reported in public what the President had said, Roosevelt disavowed it, and put the babbler in the Ananias class. What a President wishes the public to know, he tells it himself. What he utters in private should, in honor, be held as confidential.
When I say that Roosevelt was astonishingly open, I do not mean that he blurted out everything, for he always knew the company with whom he talked, and if there were any among them with whom it would be imprudent to risk an indiscretion, he took care to talk for safety. With him, a secret was a secret, and he could be as silent as an unopened Egyptian tomb. Certain diplomatic affairs he did not lisp, even to his Secretary of State. So far as appears, John Hay knew nothing about the Presidents interviews with the German Ambassador Holleben, which forced William II to arbitrate. And he sometimes prepared a bill for Congress with out consulting his Cabinet, for fear that the stock jobbers might get wind of it and bull or bear the market with the news.
Before passing on, I must remark that some cases of apparent mendacity or inaccuracy on the part of a Presidentespecially if he were as voluble and busy as Rooseveltmust be attributed to forgetfulness or misunderstanding and not to wilful lying. A person coming from an interview with him might construe as a promise the kindly remarks with which the President wished to soften a refusal. The promise, which was no promise, not being kept, the suppliant accused the President of faithlessness or falsehood. McKinley, it was said, could say no to three different seekers for the same office so balmily that each of them went away convinced that he was the successful applicant. Yet McKinley escaped the charge of mendacity and Roosevelt, who deserved it far less, did not.
In his writings and speeches, Roosevelt uttered his opinions so candidly that we need not fall back on breaches of confidence to explain why his opponents were maddened by them. Plutocrats and monopolists might well wince at being called malefactors of great wealth, the wealthy criminal class. Such expressions had the virtue, from the point of view of rhetoric, of being so descriptive that any body could visualize them. They stung; they shed indefinable odium on a whole class; and, no doubt, this was just what Roosevelt intended. To many critics they seemed cruel, because, instead of allowing for exceptions, they huddled all plutocrats together, the virtuous and the vicious alike. And so with the victims of his phrase, undesirable citizens. I marvel rather, however, that Roosevelt, given his extraordinary talent of flashing epithets and the rush of his indignation when he was doing battle for a good cause, displayed as much moderation as he did. Had he been a demagogue, he would have roused the masses against the capitalists and have goaded them to such a pitch of hatred that they would have looked to violence, bloodshed, and injustice, as the remedy they must apply.
But Roosevelt was farthest removed from the Revolutionists of the vulgar, red-handed class. He consecrated his life to prevent Revolution. All his action in the conflict between Labor and Capital aimed at conciliation. He told the plutocrats their defects with brutal frankness, and if he promoted laws to curb them, it was because he realized, as they did not, that, unless they mended their ways, they would bring down upon themselves a Socialist avalanche which they could not withstand. What set the seal of consecration on his work was his treatment of Labor with equal justice. Unlike the demagogue, he did not flatter the horny-handed sons of toil or obsequiously do the bidding of railroad brotherhoods, or pretend that the capitalist had no rights, and that all workingmen were good merely because they worked. On the contrary, he told them that no class was above the law; he warned them that if Labor attempted to get its demands by violence, he would put it down. He ridiculed the idea that honest citizenship depends on the more or less money a man has in his pocket. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country, Roosevelt said in a Fourth-of-July speech at Springfield, Illinois, in 1903, is good enough to be given a square deal afterward. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
That phrase, a square deal, stuck in the hearts of the American people. It summed up what they regarded as Roosevelts most characteristic trait. He was the man of the square deal, who instinctively resented injustice done to those who could not protect themselves; the friend of the underdog, the companion of the self-reliant and the self-respecting. It is under this aspect that Roosevelt seems most likely to live in popular history.
So, from the time he became President, the public was divided into believing that there were two Roosevelts. His enemies made almost a monster of him, denouncing and fearing him as violent, rash, pugnacious, egotistical, ogreish in his mad, hatred of Capital, and Capitalists condemned him as hypocritical, cruel, lying, and vindictive. The other side, however, insisted on his courage; he was a fighter, but he always fought to defend the weak and to uphold the right; he was equally unmoved by Bosses and by demagogues; in his human relations he regarded only what a man was, not his class or condition; he had a great hearted, jovial simplicity; a far-seeing and steadfast patriotism; he preached the Square Deal and he practiced it; even more than Lincoln he was accessible to every one.
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taniaaust1 wrote:taniaaust1 wrote:Worldenterer1 wrote:Don't you think that's a bit arrogant? I mean, how would the universe have existed before humans then? (Assuming it did, which most evidence points too)
I too believe we are all Gods. When I say that.. I see us as not being "human" as such and hence being around maybe even before this universe existed.
Its not a belief in which I expect all to understand what I believe.
Maybe this world may be a world we are only dreaming.. made up by us .. just like our dreams are made up by us. A world that our waking human selves percieve as they do, just like the DCs think their world is real.
I actually believe what I do due to various experiences Ive had, tests of reality Ive done and I found that we can alter this reality and have it go to how we want.. just like we can with dreams.
eg I'd read about powerful lamas who just manifest their needs and believed in the stuff the book "The Secret" talks about (it was my belief system even before I read it.. like a knowing thing and also something i'd experiemented with a little.. just manifesting things I wanted here and there at times) but one day I was in this situation were I wanted to go interstate and do a course for a few days with my teacher who was coming from oversease.. but I had no money at all. So decided I'd actually try to "live" my beliefs.. and manifest ALL my needs like the powerful lamas do. This was the greatest test of my beliefs Ive done yet. My family thought i was crazy.. I only had money for the plane tickets (spent my normal grocery on them) and that was it. No money for anywhere to stay, no money for buses/trains, no money for food.. heading to a place where i didnt have any friends to back me up or anything.. yet I was determined to head interstate moneyless and live according to my "manifestation" beliefs to Manifest reality.
Anyway it worked out amazingly.. I had a great time away and all my needs were met... I manifested with my thoughts (just like we do in our LDs).. people then approached me and asked where I was heading.. when I said.. they go "well we are going that way too.. do you want to share our taxi". A guy out of the blue gave me his hotel room (he was only using it for 2-3 hrs to catch up on sleep during the day before he had to head off but had paid for a full night).... then next night I got given a room to stay in FREE for 2 more days where my course was .. someone had booked a room at the place but didnt show up and the room had already been paid for and with that room included the meals (I didnt end up sleeping on the street or going hungry at all.. instead I had all you can eat gormet meals in that room the whole time i was away .. better then what I'd got had I taken money with me).
Note.. I didnt do any begging or anything or even ask anyone for anything.. everything I got i just thought about and then out of the blue was offered to me. I even come home with several gifts..3 DVDs I wanted. Things got crazy.. I almost got some jewelry too.. a ring I really wanted I was offered one exactly like one I'd been looking at in a store window but I think it was stolen so I knocked it back (cause I didnt know how that karma would play out if I accepted a ring I'd manifested but was stolen by another..so I saw it as being contaminated).
Ive also had other experiences of things which arent meant to be possible in this world.
As i also remember past lives (well not all just some of mine).. I also know I have been other then human in some of those. I also have a vague memory of before I was ever human for the first time on this planet. I came here (not in human form) with another.
So what I advise is test out this reality to see for yourself (just as you create in a LD)..start off slow as if you have doubts it will block the manifestion from occuring. I started off with simple things.. a video recorder I needed, a tv...a surf board (another me in another dimesion helped me with that, my manifested surfboard is called "Dream Weaver).. manifesting things like that. Then a car.... and then finally those 3 days away manifesting ALL my needs. I personally do not do this often.. only when I have a very strong desire for something which I cant afford. (as I think karmic spiritual principles also may come into play and I dont want go and use up all my good karma).
I think my past experience in controlling my thoughts in LDs and manifesting there.. helped with all this.
anyway.. my beliefs come from my own experiences.
Im really confused on what you mean by manifesting my needs. When you say go manifest my need for say, a car, what are you talking about? Going out and buying a car, hoping a stranger will give it to you, or actually deluding yourself into thinking it will appear out of nothing? sorry if I seem a little critical but I dont really make any sense out of what you are saying, a bunch of people realised you had no money and shouted you a room and you think you have some sort of mental power?
One other thing I want to point out is, is it just us regular folk who live in developed countries who have this mental power to do whatever it is you are suggesting, or can people who are born crippled, mentally ill, or in severe poverty have this ability as well?


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As a voter, I take advantage of opportunities to learn more about the candidates asking for my vote. Yard signs and sensationalized TV ads don't tell me much, so I try to find ways to look a little deeper at those interested in representing me at local, state or federal levels.
One hope I held for my time in the wide-open spaces of Henry County involved the possibility of hearing a familiar cry.
It pleased and surprised me to no end to catch the whistled call of "Bob White! Bob White!" during a return visit to Olney, Ill., while showing my wife around where I used to live in the Prairie State.
In just about a month, voters in Kentucky will take center stage in America.
The entire country is watching the McConnell-Grimes senatorial race, and I hope we don't embarrass ourselves.
Sadly, voter turnout is notoriously low in parts of Kentucky, Henry County being no exception. If one-third of all registered voters actually make it to the polls, it is considered a strong turnout. I think we can do better than that.
In support of new community theatre
Last Friday night my wife and I had the privilege of attending the inaugural performance of The Theatre Downstream. This is Henry County's community theater, which uses the Henry County High School for performances.
The play, "Moon Over Buffalo," was fast-paced, full of humor and action and was wonderfully executed by a truly professional acting troupe.
Recognizing true leadership
As life continues to unfold and I find myself moving to new locations and taking on different challenges, I always take time to look back and evaluate where I came from and the impact those experiences have on who I am becoming.
The closest tie to Louisville I used to have in my youth came in the form of the long concrete path of Interstate 64, which hastened my journey to see family in Cincinnati through its connection to I-71.
As a child and passenger, the trip through Kentucky didn't mean that much to me — just a means to an end and a sightseeing tour chauffeured by my dad.
The older I get the more precious I find life and my relationships with others to be. Our time could be over at any given moment, without warning, and each day is a reminder to prepare for that unfortunate truth.
When I was in elementary school, my family moved from Whittemore Prescott to Gaylord, Michigan. We were building a home in a newly developed subdivision where there was only one finished house, and another being built across the cul-de-sac from us.
Harvest Showcase not about politics
Most firsts in life are unforgettable.
Your first pet. First kiss. First car. First job.
First, allow me to congratulate the committee who organized this year's Harvest Showcase for another job well done.
In just the last few weeks, I've decided the only real advantage that GPS on a mobile device can accurately claim over a map is you don't have to fold electronics after getting finished with them.
When I came to Henry County, I couldn't have been more excited. I had my first real job in my career and was moving to Louisville with my wife.
I wouldn't call myself a country music fan. I wouldn't really say I'm a huge music fan in general. Growing up, my parents would more often than not just drive in silence or have conversation, rather than listen to the radio or CDs.
My grandfather, though, listened to music constantly in the car. When he would pick me up from school, which he did, more than anyone else, we would listen to country music all the way home.
In my career as a reporter/editor, I tend to learn things organically, by visiting with people in the community and hearing their points of view.
After all, no person can know everything. Going to the sources, to the experts, and getting to benefit from the knowledge they've accumulated over the years can open a person's eyes in short order.
Have you seen those bumper stickers that say, "I farm. You eat."?
I started seeing them several years ago and thought it sounded like farmers were being a bit egotistical or self-important. But that was before I tried my hand at it.
Before I stopped working full-time about six years ago, I was an avid and loyal customer of the Henry County Farmers Market. Working as many hours as I did prohibited me from having my own garden, but I desperately wanted fresh local produce in the summer, especially garden-grown tomatoes.
Are you one of those people whose ears burn when others mention you in conversation? Does that same weird sensation extend to the times when you hear somebody talking about your locality?
In my case, somebody mentioning my birthplace of Evansville, Ind., can still perk up my ears, even after 20 years of being gone.
Have you ever been stuck in traffic? I don't mean that you were forced to go 55 in a 65. I'm talking about being really stuck. I mean, the car is parked, locked and you're out on the side of the interstate cursing your luck and calling your boss to beg his understanding.
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A few weeks ago the Local published a piece I wrote about the Russian power-grab of Crimea and its fomenting of unrest in Ukraine. With all the attention now ongoing in Iraq and Syria, I thought I'd try to explain what's going on, and why. (My first region of study in the military was the MidEast, and I deployed there twice my career. This is déjà vu all over again.)
McConnell at center of dysfunction
It isn't a surprise that Jon Park would take to the pages of this paper to distort and mislead residents of Henry County on Alison Lundergan Grimes' candidacy for U.S. Senate. After all, Park's candidate – Senator Mitch McConnell – has no record to run on at all.
But let's take a look at the unsubstantiated arguments made and the very important issues conveniently ignored.
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Redemption rematch: US soccer takes on Japan
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LONDON (AP) " A day before the Olympic gold medal game, players and coaches from the U.S. and Japanese women's soccer teams stood in front of reporters side-by-side, like buddies on the same squad, arms linked around each other's waists. The white warmup jackets of the United States alternated with the blue ones from Japan.
All that cordiality? It ends at kickoff.
"They snatched our dream last year," U.S. midfielder Megan Rapinoe said. "And still we have that respect for them."
No matter the result Thursday, the Olympic women's soccer tournament couldn't ask for a better finale. The teams from last year's World Cup final meet again at Wembley Stadium, with organizers expecting the largest crowd ever to watch women play the sport at a Summer Games.
For the players, of course, the result does matter. The Japanese are attempting become the first team to win World Cup and Olympic titles in back-to-back years. The Americans are bent on mending the heartache from a penalty kick shootout in Frankfurt 13 months ago.
"I've been hoping for this final," U.S. forward Abby Wambach said, "from the moment I stepped off the podium in Germany."
Few are more passionate about the need to scratch the World Cup itch than Wambach, who earlier this week gave an impassioned monologue that recapped the "nightmares" from last year's game " and all that has happened since.
"Every single player on this team, whether they're even here or not, even players that are left back in the United States, they've given us all an opportunity to train, to work, to dedicate, to sacrifice, every single day since the World Cup, so that we can have this one chance, the one more chance, the 90 more minutes," Wambach said.
"All of us have dreamt about it. We've had nightmares about it even, what happened last summer. This is an opportunity for us for not even redemption, but to prove ourselves, to let whatever happened last summer go " and be in a position to go after and take the gold medal because we believe that we've earned it. It's going to take 90 minutes of a great performance of the best team in the world, and that's going to be the team that's going to be sitting on the top podium."
Despite the second-place finish at the World Cup, the Americans came home to a hero's welcome last year, with fans enthralled by the come-from-behind cliffhangers and the engaging personalities. The kudos were nice, but coach and players were bummed out. Coach Pia Sundhage went home to Sweden and tuned out soccer completely for a while. Goalkeeper Hope Solo went on "Dancing With the Stars."
The passage of time helped a little. Winning the gold would do so much more.
The Americans are still ranked No. 1 in the world and are the two-time defending Olympic champions. They have the deepest, most talented team in the tournament. By contrast, Japan's World Cup triumph was stunning, and it provided psychological salve for a nation recovering from a triple tragedy of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown.
But Japan was worthy of the title, playing disciplined, tactical and savvy soccer. The savviness returned at the Olympics, when coach Norio Sasaki told his players to deliberately try not to score during a game against South Africa because a victory would have required extra travel. It's a tactic Sundhage said she would never try.
If Thursday's news conferences are any indication, Japan is the more relaxed team headed into the rematch. Sasaki and his players smiled and cracked jokes throughout. Through a translator, the coach introduced goalkeeper Miho Fukumoto as a "goddess." When asked to explain, he laughed and realized the word lost something from Japanese to English because he was trying to make a pun.
Sasaki acknowledged the Americans perhaps "have a greater incentive" to win after last year's result, so he said his challenge is to see "how much stronger we can make our incentive to have a win and beat the United States."
Here's a possible incentive: Maybe his players will get better seats on the plane ride home if they get the gold. The Japanese delegation was heavily criticized for putting the world champion women in economy while the men's soccer team " made up of younger, less accomplished players " flew business class on the way to London. Midfielder Homare Sawa said at the time that it "should have been the other way around."
Team captain Aya Miyama laughed off the subject Thursday, saying: "We're pretty small, so it doesn't matter." But then she added: "When I think about a more expensive cabin, it makes me feel good."
The Americans revived their flair for the dramatic on Monday with a last-minute win over Canada in the semifinals, and few would be surprised if the gold medal game is just as close " perhaps ending with penalty kicks once again. Sundhage said she learned a lesson from last year: The team that scores the final goal to force the penalty kicks is usually happier and more loose, something she didn't realize until she saw her more tense players fall flat in the shootout.
This time, she said she will step into the huddle and make sure the players' heads are in the right place.
"I will give them a big smile," she said, "and make sure that they enjoy the moment."
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By Emily Flitter
NEW YORK (Reuters) - FBI Supervisory Special Agent Richard Jacobs once had to go undercover as a "corrupt" stock broker to help catch scammers on Wall Street making illegal profits by manipulating penny stocks.
Jacobs had to live and breathe his new role.
"When you're talking to traders, there's a lot of slang," he said in a recent interview with Reuters. "I thought, 'Can I pull this off?'"
Without divulging too much about the case, Jacobs said he succeeded--but with careful planning.
He created a firm and a history for himself: He needed to convince the scammers he was so desperate to make a buck that he would help them sell shares in their fraudulent companies to unwitting investors.
That meant delivering a convincing story about his career as a broker and also creating a shady but realistic-seeming brokerage firm out of thin air.
Of course, Jacobs could not pull this off overnight. He spent six years as a banker at a major Wall Street firm.
"Just explaining a stock option to someone who has no background in finance can take a long time," he said.
Jacobs, 41, is the agent who was cited for his work on the WorldCom case in 2005 and supervised the investigation of former SAC Capital Advisors fund manager Mathew Martoma, who is charged with insider trading. At $276 million in alleged illegal profits, the Martoma case is the largest insider trading case ever brought and has rocked Steven A. Cohen's $14 billion hedge fund.
Jacobs said he draws on his real world experience frequently.
"When hearing about certain types of securities fraud, I was in a much better position to understand the details than people who had no experience," Jacobs said of his work on financial crimes investigations.
There are at least half a dozen other agents assigned to the FBI's three financial crime units in New York who, like Jacobs, left careers in finance to help chase down the bad guys on Wall Street. Their experience helps add depth and continuity to the policing of financial crimes by an agency with plenty of internal reshuffling.
Jacobs, who left Wall Street for the FBI in 1999, was recently promoted to a job overseeing the work of all three securities fraud bureaus in New York, a move that takes him a little further away from the day-to-day action. In recent months, the FBI's securities team in New York lost two of its most seasoned agents, B.J. Kang and David Makol, who led much of the early work in the federal government's long-running crackdown on insider trading in the $2 trillion hedge fund industry.
Makol and Kang both moved to federal law enforcement jobs in other cities. Kang, who may be best remembered making the highly publicized arrest of Ponzi king Bernard Madoff and Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, came to the FBI with a background in accounting.
The FBI relies on its agents with Wall Street pedigrees to help steer investigations ranging from insider trading to market manipulation and other frauds that often require a familiarity with spreadsheets and complex financial products.
Jacobs said people such agents interview are more open with them, more willing to talk. That's particularly helpful in approaching people about trying to get them to cooperate with an investigation, which requires people to rat out their friends and colleagues.
Lilian Perez, 33, who spent four years on an investment banking team advising on mergers and initial public offerings before joining the FBI eight years ago, said her work on Wall Street has helped her look at Ponzi schemes and market manipulation cases with a keen eye.
Sal Cincinelli, 34, two years ago walked away from a career as a credit trader with an MBA in quantitative finance to join the FBI. He said that for an investigation he's working on, he recently interviewed a person on Wall Street who specializes in collateralized debt obligations, bonds that are created from collections of corporate debt and sold to investors in slices.
He said the conversation lasted an hour and at the end of it the other agent who had accompanied him turned to Cincinelli and said, "I don't even know how I would ask those questions."
But making the switch from Wall Street, where seven-figure salaries are common, to much lower-paying government work isn't always easy.
"Some of my friends said, 'Are you crazy? Have you lost your mind?'" said Cincinelli, whose profile on LinkedIn shows he has held positions at Bank of America and Global FX.
Cincinelli declined to discuss his prior work and said his wife initially was furious with his decision to join the FBI. She was worried for her husband's safety and unhappy about the lengthy FBI training programs.
Jacobs and Cincinelli both said giving up their Wall Street careers meant giving up some friends too, so drastic was the lifestyle change.
Jacobs fondly remembers another thing from his Wall Street days: his Mitsubishi 3000GT, a powerful sports car that he bought with one of his last big paychecks.
He had been at the bureau just six months when the car was stolen. His insurance covered the loss in full, but Jacobs did not buy another sports car.
"I went practical after that."
(Reporting by Emily Flitter; Editing by Matthew Goldstein, Jennifer Ablan and Dan Grebler)


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It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
Mitt Romney speaks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Reno, Nevada today, and he's expected to call for a stronger military, as well as no cuts to the defense budget. He's also likely to criticize President Obama's policies on Iran and Syria. Yesterday was President Obama's day at the VFW convention, and NPR's Don Gonyea was there.
DON GONYEA, BYLINE: President Obama opened his VFW speech by talking about the tragedy in Colorado. He'd been in Aurora the day before, meeting with victims' families and with some of the wounded. At the VFW, he noted that of the 12 who died, four were veterans or active members of the U.S. military.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: These young patriots were willing to serve in faraway lands, yet they were taken from us here at home. And yesterday, I conveyed to their families a message on behalf of all Americans: We honor your loved ones. We salute their service.
GONYEA: The veterans seated in front of him added their own applause to the brief tribute. The president last spoke to the VFW in 2009, during his first year in office. He pointed to his commitment back then to end the Iraq war. Today, there are no U.S. forces there. He said Afghanistan remains, quote, "a tough fight," but that a transition is under way there as well. And he reminded the audience that he promised in 2009 to pursue Osama bin Laden.
Mr. Obama also used the speech to issue a warning to Syrian President Assad after the acknowledgment by Syria that it has chemical weapons, and it is considering using them.
OBAMA: We will continue to make it clear to Assad and those around him that the world is watching, and that they will be held accountable by the international community and the United States, should they make the tragic mistake of using those weapons.
GONYEA: The president also spoke of the political battles taking place in Washington. He raised a topic that has a lot of veterans concerned: potential deep cuts to the Pentagon budget. A deficit reduction deal worked out last year, with bipartisan support, would trigger automatic deep cuts at the end of this year, including to the Pentagon, if Congress doesn't come up with alternative cuts.
OBAMA: And there are a number of Republicans in Congress who don't want you to know that most of them voted for these cuts. Now they're trying to wriggle out of what they agreed to do. Instead of making tough choices to reduce the deficit, they'd rather protect tax cuts for some of the wealthiest Americans, even if it risks big cuts in our military.
GONYEA: Mr. Obama framed it as he has so many times on the campaign trail, even though this was not an official campaign event.
OBAMA: I will stand with our troops every single time.
GONYEA: Politically, veterans are a divided group that tends to favor Republicans. But after the speech, the reviews for the president were mostly very positive. Sixty-four-year-old Vietnam veteran Barry Hirshbein wouldn't discuss who he'll vote for this fall, and he was quick to add that he has serious disagreements with Mr. Obama, including over the withdrawal from Iraq. But here's what he said when I asked how he thinks the president is doing.
BARRY HIRSHBEIN: Putting aside the bigger economy issues and joblessness issues, I have felt all along that he's done very well on veterans issues. And I give him high grades for what he's done with respect to veterans.
GONYEA: In his answer, Hirshbein first mentioned the economy. Interviews with VFW members put that issue as their top concern. They mirror the national mood in that regard. And as such, veterans issues, while still important to them, are a bit down the list.
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April 3rd event
HANNIBAL — "Listening Sessions" designed to gather information to help the Missouri Department of Transportation determine priorities for Missouri's transportation system into the future are scheduled for April 3 in Kirksville and April 4 in Hannibal.
This public engagement effort known as "On the Move" is part of MoDOT's process to update its long-range transportation plan. Over the next several months, MoDOT will seek direction from Missourians in Listening Sessions, a mobile tour and virtual forums.
The Kirksville Listening Session April 3 from 4 - 6 p.m. will be co-hosted by Heidi Templeton, director of public relations for Truman State University. The session will be held at the college in the student union building.
The Hannibal Listening Session April 4 from 4 - 6 p.m. will be co-hosted by Todd Ahrens, president and chief executive officer of Hannibal Regional Healthcare System. The session will be held at Hannibal LaGrange University in the Partee Center.
Leaders in business, local government and community organizations will participate in the Listening Sessions as will the general public.
The Listening Sessions will feature information about the existing transportation system and will offer participants a chance to provide their views during small-group discussions. Paula Gough, the District Engineer for MoDOT's Northeast District, will give a short presentation.


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Hammocks hide in trees and chill out areas around the property giving you a place to relax and let all of your worries drift off to the mountains in the distance. Nimbin Rox is also a photographer's dream, with misty mountains, the majestic Nimbin Rock, wallabies, echidnas, friendly kookaburras and - if you're lucky - our resident elusive platypus.
Internet and Wi-Fi is available and if you need a few things from town we have a shuttle that runs twice a day (please note due to road closures we do not run the shuttle over the Mardi Grass festival) or you can walk to town in approx 15mins. Once you're re-energised our friendly staff can book you your next bed, bus, tour or adventure. Life's more than a beach so come and discover the Nimbin Rox YHA for yourself.
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EXCLUSIVE! Rihanna Runs Into Ex-Lover Matt Kemp At Drake's Post-Grammy Bash
How would you handle an unexpected run-in with someone you just stopped dating?
Awkward much? Leave it to Rihanna to still act like the queen of cool, even when faced with a potentially dramatic run in of the ex-boyfriend (hook-up, lover, etc) variety. Both Rihanna, 21, and LA Dodgers player Matt Kemp, 25, attended Drake's Grammy afterparty at West Hollywood club Guys & Dolls Jan. 31 – and spent the evening studiously ignoring one another.
But the gutsy songbird had enough of the childish high school behavior and crossed the room to briefly – and cordially – speak to her recent ex. "Rihanna actually approached Matt," an eyewitness tells HollywoodLife.com. "They spoke for about ten minutes before she went back to her table, but he didn't follow."
Maybe Matt didn't follow because he was intimidated by Rihanna's crew: Lil' Wayne, Beyonce, Drake and ESPECIALLY her protective big-brother figure, Jay-Z. Or maybe Matt's just a player through and through – which might be the case, given that the baseball star hit on another woman moments after speaking to Rihanna!
"Matt was rubbing on the backside of another female later on after his brief interaction with Rihanna," reports our source, who adds, "Soon after he made a beeline through the back exit to his car while Rihanna stayed and hung out with Jay-Z and Beyonce."
Way to go, Rihanna! Not just for being confident enough to face down your ex, but because you're definitely batting a thousand by knowing when to get rid of the losers in your life! (Cough, Chris Brown, cough)


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Former Sen. Bob Graham of Florida will participate in the presidential delegation to attend the state funeral for former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez, who died this week at age 81, the White House announced.
Graham, a Democrat who was governor of Florida before being a U.S. senator, will be joined by Ray Mabus, secretary of the U.S. Navy, and James Costos, U.S. ambassador to Spain. Adolfo Suarez was Spain's first elected prime minister after the Franco dictatorship. The funeral is scheduled for Monday.


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The Haiku project has reached a very important milestone. Bruno G. Albuquerque (bga) wrote the following note attached to a commit a few moments ago: "vnode_path_to_vnode() now returns B_NOT_A_DIRECTORY instead of B_NOT_ALLOWED as expected by POSIX programs. This allowed me to compile Haiku under itself without any hacks at all, so I guess this means that now we are officially self-hosting!" The official announcement can be found in the mailing list. In addition, there's a new Haiku alpha 1 status update.


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Skip to comments.Abortion foe urges 'Burn in Hell' protest
Posted on 10/27/2009 10:39:00 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) - Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry is calling on people to burn effigies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this Halloween, as part of a "Burn in Hell" video contest to protest the health care legislation in Congress.
Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, said Tuesday that the contest serves as a political and spiritual statement that "gives people a chance to peacefully vent their rage."
"If Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid force us to pay for child killing and they die unrepentant, they will burn in hell for this," Terry said in a telephone interview.
But House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., called the contest "unfortunate."
"I don't think appealing to people's anger and in effect inciting them to acts which either display or in any way project violent acts is consistent with rational discussion of very critical issues," Hoyer told reporters
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Ted Rall is an atheist who writes for the Washington Post and at the death of Ronald Reagan fantisized Reagan's soul roasting in Hell.
Hoyer can stuff it. Either all such language should be "off limits" or else take EVERYONE to task. Democrapweasel.
WE ARE WINNING. No time for this kind of tactic.
I agree with Hoyer. Why we should take DUmmie tactics and use them to turn people against us is beyond me.
Although your observation is correct, Randall Terry is not helping our side. (And I don't think he ever did.)
Heck, he has delusions of intelligence.
He's also the perfect representative of his PG County, Maryland constituency.
*Yes, really
I don't think this helps but I think Congressmen need to shut their pieholes and NOT dictate that this is "beyond the pale" when you have Democrats calling Republicans NAZIs on the floor of Congress.
Winning what? Turning the public completely against all healthcare reform legislation that would put us on the path to Socialism? What flavor is the bill this week?
Or winning in that we won't be funding abortion through whatever plan is implemented?
No...public support of Abortion is slipping.
I prefer a poster with Polosi lying in a bed with Kavorkian standing over her. Much more effectie.
Doggone it:
"Ted Rall is an atheist who writes for the Washington Post and at the death of Ronald Reagan fantisized Reagan's soul roasting in Hell."
And how many did he convert to his way of thinking with such vile stupidity?
I dont care what Hoyer's opinion is. However ...
Prolife activism is best and most effective when it channels peace and commitment to protection of all life.
Violent pro-life activism is contradictory.
Support may be slipping but Democrats are working to see that we all pay for it.
I read elsewhere that....
Randall Terry was last seen on a kill granny/kill babies tour, opposing health care reform, dressed as a doctor stabbing plastic baby dolls.
Either Terry is the victim of a sick smear campain of lies... or he needs a well deserved break.
And I say this as a proponnent of the Operation Rescue trucks that have made a difference over the years.
One missing balloon boy was a tragedy. 50 million aborted babies in America is merely a statistic.
"This will accomplish the sole purpose and mission that it was intended to: give Randall Terry the publicity he craves. "
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"One missing balloon boy was a tragedy."
A faux media stunt. A bit like what Randall Terry does.
" 50 million aborted babies in America is merely a statistic."
I attended a prolife event last week, and Gianna Jessen was the speaker. Her very existence is a rebuttal to those who want to treat the aborted as a statistic.
You have to remember, he represents the armpit of md. I know I'm stuck here.
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The pending release of the first alfalfa with a genetically engineered trait and environmental issues related to the "Queen of Forages" are featured components of the National Alfalfa Symposium to be held here Dec. 13-15.
"Roundup Ready alfalfa is likely to be released in 2005, so this is a good opportunity to examine the technology before it hits the fields," said Mike Ottman, program co-chair and University of Arizona alfalfa specialist.
Dan Putnam, conference program co-chair and University of California Cooperative Extension alfalfa specialist, said the conference is oriented towards a practical audience.
"We will have speakers on markets, production methods, forage quality and pest management," he said. "But speakers will also cover a wide range of current environmental issues, such as water use, recycling of wastewater, irrigation efficiency and pesticide runoff."
One speaker will address the issue of perchlorate contamination. Perchlorate is a chemical found in some fertilizers and irrigation water. It is taken up by plants and has been found in milk samples. Other speakers will cover water transfers and alfalfa's influence on wildlife and soils.
Recycling waste
A special "mini symposium" will be on the subject of recycling waste on forage crops, an idea that is of great interest to the state's dairy farmers and to municipalities in congested Southern California.
Alfalfa covers more than 23 million acres of American farmland, generates the third largest revenue among U.S. crops, provides wildlife habitat, sustains the livelihood of thousands of farmers and feeds millions of dairy cows, sheep, goats and horses. Even though it is often called an "engine of food production," few members of the general public recognize its importance in their daily lives.
The symposium includes an agricultural tour of the Imperial Valley Dec. 13, featuring December alfalfa production, winter vegetable production and water issues in one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. The tour ends with an evening barbecue.
A comprehensive commercial exhibit during the symposium will allow attendees to view exhibits of dozens of new and emerging technologies related to alfalfa.
The program for the national conference, which is combined this year with the California Alfalfa Symposium, was developed by the University of California Alfalfa Workgroup together with forage Extension specialists from many universities in the United States. It is the first national symposium since 2000, when about 700 farmers, pest control advisers, industry representatives and others attended the conference in Las Vegas. Translation to Spanish will be available.
Registration for the 2004 National Alfalfa Symposium is $150 prior to Dec. 1 and $180 thereafter. It will be held at the Town and Country Resort Hotel in San Diego. Room reservations for $85 per night may be made by calling (800) 772-8527 or (619) 291-7131. Program information and registration forms are online at http://alfalfa.ucdavis.edu. For additional information, contact Putnam at [email protected], or Nikki Clark, administrative assistant in the UC Davis Department of Agronomy and Range Science, at [email protected]


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Ex-State Lawmaker To Vie For Top Minn. GOP Post
ST. PAUL (AP) - A former state representative says he wants to be the next head of the Minnesota Republican Party.
Edina's Keith Downey told fellow Republicans on Wednesday that he'll vie for the party chairmanship in early April. Current chairman Pat Shortridge is stepping down.
Downey was a two-term House member before he tried to move up to the state Senate. He lost that race in November. Downey says the Republican Party is due for a turnaround with a critical 2014 election cycle looming. The governor's office, a U.S. Senate seat and many more key offices are on the line.
The party still faces hefty debt.
The other announced candidate so far is Marjorie Holsten, who has been chairwoman of her local Republican chapter in the southwestern suburbs.
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By Victoria Cavaliere
NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Newark Mayor Cory Booker cruised to an easy victory in New Jersey's special Democratic primary on Tuesday in the race to fill a vacant U.S. Senate seat that has long been in Democratic hands.
If he wins the general election in October, Booker would become the state's first black U.S. senator.
Booker, who had been widely expected to win after holding strong leads in public opinion polls, was declared the winner by the Star-Ledger newspaper on NJ.com and The Bergen Record on NorthJersey.com less than an hour after polls closed.
"As your United Senator the direction I'll be most concerned with will not be right or left, it will be moving forward," Booker told about 200 supporters and campaign staff outside Newark's Prudential Center, one of the most visible signs of the downtrodden city's rebirth under his leadership, an indoor arena where the Rolling Stones performed last year and the New Jersey Devils regularly play hockey.
"I'm going to the Senate the same way I came to Newark: Determined to be a positive force," he said.
With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Booker had 59 percent of the vote, far ahead of his closest competitor, U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, who got 20 percent.
In the Republican primary, Steven Lonegan, former mayor of Bogota, New Jersey and a Tea Party conservative, was declared the unofficial winner over Alieta Eck, a physician, for the party's spot in the October 16 special general election. Lonegan claimed 80 percent, compared with 20 percent for Eck, NorthJersey.com said.
A poll earlier this month showed Booker beating Lonegan 54 percent to 29 percent in a general election match-up.
Concern and controversy over the timing of the election emerged promptly after the Senate seat became open when Senator Frank Lautenberg died in June at age 89. The liberal Democrat had been elected to the Senate five times.
To elect a senator, Republican Governor Chris Christie called Tuesday's primary and set a special election for October 16, three weeks ahead of the November 5 general election, when he is seeking re-election.
To fill the seat temporarily, Christie named Jeffrey Chiesa, a Republican who said he would not seek the seat on a permanent basis.
Democrats charged that the two fall elections should have been scheduled for the same day but that Christie was trying to avoid being on the same ballot as Booker, who could attract strong Democratic and minority turnout.
Turnout was thin in Tuesday's primary, held amid the summer vacation season.
Also seeking the Democratic Party's nomination with Pallone were Representative Rush Holt and state Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver. But they found little traction against the well-funded and well-known Booker, considered a rising political star.
(Additional reporting by Barbara Goldberg in Maplewood, New Jersey; Writing by Ellen Wulfhorst; Editing by Eric Walsh, Dan Grebler, Lisa Shumaker and Mohammad Zargham)


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Kelly Clarkson: 'I've Never Been So Happy'
Kelly Clarkson is gorgeous in this new feature from Cosmopolitan's February 2013 issue, on newsstands January 8.
Here's what the 30-year-old entertainer had to share with the mag, which features cover gal Julianne Hough:
On fiance Brandon Blackstock: "Brandon's totally the one. I've never been so happy. We've known each other for years, but we didn't start talking until the Super Bowl last February. And this is the funniest/worst thing ever: One of my superhero idols is Whitney Houston, and the day she died was our first date. I was like 'This is a bad omen…' Six years I was single before this. I've never been truly loved like I am right now."
On her weight loss: "One magazine said I lost 40 pounds�"that's a small child, by the way. I lost 18 pounds. And I think that happens when you fall in love or date someone. If I'm going to be kissing or messing around, I gotta look good. There's not a fad diet. I was working with a trainer, and she said, 'You'd be amazed the amount of weight you can drop by halving your portions. I know it sounds crazy, but do it for two weeks and watch what happens.'"
On rumors that she's homosexual: "People think, "Oh, she's been single for too long." That's kind of an insult to the gay community. Being single doesn't mean you're gay. But I'm never insulted by it, obviously. I mean, I get hit on by the hottest girls ever. Oh, my god, if I were a lesbian, I would be so in luck. But it's just not my thing. I've always batted for the boys' team."
For more from Kelly, visit Cosmopolitan.com!


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Zelda series director Eiji Aonuma revealed that he thinks developers at Nintendo (himself included) are often too careful with game development and take too much time to get games out the door.
Better for the game to be polished at launch than to be an unfixable pile of crap.
There's a fine line between quality & quantity...Ninty need that balance.
If Naughty Dog can churn out The Last of Us in 3 years I'm sure Nintendo can do the same with Zelda.


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text: Student Profiles Micah McKay '09 Micah McKay '09 Hometown: Buffalo, New York Major: Art History Why did you choose to come to Bowdoin? All my family is originally from Maine and I have a handful of relatives that have attended Bowdoin, so I've been pretty familiar with the college from a young age. I knew it was a friendly, tight-knit community and that was definitely something I wanted to be apart of. In the sixth grade I went to Bowdoin hockey camp, believing it was the necessary first step towards making the team at Bowdoin. That didn't really work out, but I have no regrets. Bowdoin has been a great fit. Why did you choose your major? When I entered Bowdoin I really didn't have a clue what I wanted to major in. I was leaning towards history until I took Professor Linda Docherty's first-year art history seminar, Making Faces: The Art of Portraiture. The class was very inspiring and, believe it or not, I found that I really enjoyed giving presentations in front of works of art. I've always enjoyed history, but looking at images in art history provides a fresh and unique way of looking at the past. After a couple more classes in the department I was hooked. What has been a course you especially enjoyed at Bowdoin? ? My first-year seminar with Professor Docherty definitely stands out. Not only did the course spark my interest in art history, it also helped to further my writing and presentation skills. We studied the role of portraiture throughout history and I remember really enjoying the nature of the assignments and the class discussions. For our final project we wrote and gave presentations on prints and photographs from Bowdoin's collections. It was a great experience and Professor Docherty's passion for the subject made the course all the more enjoyable. What professor or professors have especially inspired you during your time at Bowdoin? Well, I'm a pretty big fan of Linda Docherty, in case you haven't picked up on that yet. She is energetic in the classroom, extremely knowledgeable, and eager to help her students succeed both in and outside of class. I remember going on a field trip to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston my freshman year and just being blown away by how much Professor Docherty could talk about almost every painting we passed in the museum. Her knowledge and passion for art seems endless. She's also been very helpful to me outside of the classroom. Whenever I've been stressed over courses or assignments she has helped me take a step back and put my college career into perspective. Professor Stephen Perkinson and Professor Doris Santoro also come to mind when I think of influential professors. The courses I have taken with Professor Perkinson have fueled my interest in art history and Professor Santoro's education classes were very inspiring. Micah and the Ultimate Frisbee team. What extracurricular or work experiences have you had at Bowdoin? The Ultimate Frisbee team, The Stoned Clown, has been a big part of life at Bowdoin. I have played on the team the past four years and have had a great time competing against college and club teams around New England. I've also been pretty involved with the music scene at Bowdoin. I help do the sound and set up bands and DJs on Thursday nights in Jack Magee's Pub. In addition, I've been very involved with WBOR 91.1 FM, Bowdoin's commercial-free radio station. Although my DJ skills are questionable, I've always enjoyed independent music and I'm glad I have had the opportunity to explore that interest through WBOR. Since my junior year I've been the concert director for the station. I'm in charge of contacting potential bands, drawing up contracts, and making sure the shows run smoothly. Last year we brought in Dr. Dog and this year we convinced Broken Social Scene to come up. Did you study abroad during your time at Bowdoin? I spent the spring semester of my junior year in St Andrews, Scotland. Surprisingly, I'm not much of a golfer but I still had a great time getting back to my ancestral roots. St Andrews is a beautiful town right on the coast and an excellent place to absorb some local Scottish color and history. While in Scotland, I also had the opportunity to travel around Europe and made it to London, Paris, Portugal, and all over Italy. Everywhere I went I was surrounded by the art and architecture I had only seen in textbooks. It was definitely a memorable experience. What have you done during your summers? I've spent all three of my college summers back home in Buffalo. After my sophomore year I landed an internship at Righteous Babe Records, Ani DiFranco's record label. She had just finished turning an old church downtown into a concert hall so it was great being able to work in the new space and learn the ins and outs of an independent record label. Last summer I stepped away from the music business and did an internship at the Albright-Knox, Buffalo's modern and contemporary art gallery. I worked with the head preparator and her team, helping them install new exhibits and maintain works throughout the gallery. Unfortunately, the art world doesn't like to pay college students for their labor, so I supplemented my income by moving furniture for a Habitat for Humanity ReStore and working at a cooperative garden center in my neighborhood. My main interests lie in music and art, however, so hopefully my experience at Righteous Babe and the Albright-Knox will open some doors down the road. Michah with some senior pals at a Portland SeaDogs baseball game. What is your best Bowdoin memory? That's a tough one. I think the Dr. Dog concert I organized the fall of my junior year would have to be up there. It was a struggle getting all of the funding and we were actually still looking for sponsors the week before the show. But the show went off without a hitch. Jack Magee's was packed with students, including a lot of my closest friends. It was awesome being able to bring in one of my favorite bands and see so many people enjoy a concert that I put a lot of time and energy into. What are your plans for after graduation? It's probably a good time to start figuring that out. At some point I'm hoping to combine my interests in both music and art, but I think I'd be happy doing a lot of different things. Hopefully something will come up. I am planning to go to Bonnaroo (The Boss, Phish, Wilco, etc.) in June. That should be fun. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience? Meet and involve yourself with as many different groups of people as possible. Going to a small school it can be easy to fall into a routine where you're just hanging around your main sports team or club or whatever. Don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zone both academically and socially. Everyone has something to offer. Story posted on March 12, 2009 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home