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2 different reactions to the State of the Union: What's your take on the president's speech?
Washtenaw County's two representatives in the U.S. House had different reactions to Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night.
U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, released a short statement after the president's speech, expressing some disappointment in what he heard.
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"We need to build a healthy economy to help hardworking taxpayers by making government live within its means and pursuing tax reform to encourage small business job creation and bring jobs back to America."
U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Dearborn, released a much longer statement, saying Obama spoke to core principles that will help build the middle class and grow the economy.
"As we prepare to address once again the fiscal cliff, we must be wise in cutting spending, but must also invest in the areas that will keep us on pace with the rest of the world," Dingell said.
"I believe that those who have the most among us must pay their fair share. Tax reform that is fair and balanced will reduce the burdens on our working folks and help provide revenue to cut our deficit and fund government programs that work."
What did you think? Which parts of the president's speech did you or didn't you agree with? Leave your thoughts in the comments below. Take our poll, too.
And just in case you missed it, here's the speech.
Ryan J. Stanton covers government and politics for AnnArbor.com. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 734-623-2529. You also can follow him on Twitter or subscribe to AnnArbor.com's email newsletters.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 3:14 p.m.
It may be a sluggish economy but I've never made more money in my life with the markets way up and business doing good. Don't do anything!
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 3:10 p.m.
Lots of Righties got up early today.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 3:02 p.m.
Many of us were saying spending is to high when Pres Bush spent $4.9 trillion more than we had. According to http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/NPGateway , President Obama spent , $5,814,646,595,637.10 more than he had in 4 years. One act does not justify the other. Each pearson in this country owes about $53,000 in federal debt. When will anyone attempt to stop the overspending. The real budget issue is baseline budgeting. Under baseline budgeting federal spending goes up every year based on projected growth in population and inflation. Currently that rate of growth is about 7% a year. Since few people understand baseline budgeting, maybe AA.com could do a story on baseline budgeting.
Ed Caldwell
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 2:35 p.m.
I have yet to find a liberal who acutally believes any of this rehotoric is working, has worked, or is making any difference. Oh right I forgot it's the GOP's fault, 8 years of the GOP's fault except for that time when the house was lead by Pelosi-remember that? Someone please, explain to me the difference he is making and leave out your worship of him in the process.
Superior Twp voter
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 3:02 p.m.
"Worship" is certainly the right description. "God-like" reverberation to follow as the Bamster speaks.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 2:15 p.m.
I think Rep Walberg needs to take econ 101. Demand creates jobs, not tax cuts. If tax cuts created jobs we would have unemployment in the 3-4% range, federal taxes being at their lowest in 50-60 years. President Bush and the GOP controlled congress passed multiple tax cuts, when Mr Bush left office unemployment was 7.8%.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 3:05 p.m.
If I do not have any money, I cannot spend it to create demand.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 2:09 p.m.
So amusing to read the comments from The Haters. It was not long ago many of these people were telling me to support our president while he fought a war. Back then, when the GOP president was borrowing $4,901,104,747,205.59 we were told "Reagan proved deficits don't matter". We were also told that we were either for the president or with the terrorists. Zip forward a few years...now we have a guy that either "lacks leadership" or is a Tyrant. How can he be both? We have calls for secession, calls for violent uprising because he dared pass mandated health insurance...in a CHRISTIAN NATION!! How dare he!? We need to rise up and throw off the yoke of this Tyrant, because Obama agrees with Reagan on gun control! (but, lets name a building after Reagan, shall we? He was the Great One) We also have more and more people calling for Austerity, how is that working over in Europe?
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 2:08 p.m.
Tim Walberg is the dictionary definition of a big disappointment. No wait, he's more like a definition of "failure on a monumental scale".
Hesh Breakstone
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 2:40 p.m.
Well said SMAIVE! Walberg is so very far to the right and out for himself, only... that his congressional record over the past two year will indicate that he has produced nothing, absolutely nothing. This congress is constipated.... and representatives such as Walberg who are hell bent on obstruction only are clearly the reason why... Who knew that tea causes constipation....
Top Cat
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:25 p.m.
$5 trillion in new debt, the worst economic recovery since the Depression and all he calls for is more of the same.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:59 p.m.
Where were you when the GOP president spent 5,000,000,000,000 from 2000-2008? Where were you when the unemployment rate went from 4.6% to 7.8% from 2000-2008? Where were you when gas went up to $4.29/gal in 2008? Cheering on the GOP and voting for their president? Do you think that maybe, just maybe, the worst recession since the Depression might be followed by a slow recovery? Of do you think a president should snap his fingers and make everything alright for you? If he did that, would you support him or call him a Tyrant?
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:21 p.m.
My post about Ted Nugent's infamous statement of: "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year." I was just looking for an update on which way he's leaning (dead or jail), and my comment got pulled. A question about someone who ATTENDED the SOTU and had made an incredibly stupid statement. So which of your guidelines did this supposedy violate?
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 3:09 p.m.
I'd like to see an answer to Brad's comment - here, not just tucked away on another wall. I think many of us have been left wondering about certain deletions.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:19 p.m.
Let's see President Obama said that the Affordable Health Care Act would bring down the cost of health care, funny my provider added $63 per family member to my bill this year to cover a mandate from the federal government from the act. The note on the bottom of my bill said there were going to be 4 more increases this year and next as the federal government added more fees to keep my health care. So, excuse me if I don't trust the government when they tell me something is fully funded or not going to cost more. From toilet seats to hammers, to health care to social security - government estimates and promises all seem to be made of smoke and mirrors.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:55 p.m.
Since 1990 , when have your health insurance premiums gone down?
music to my ear
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:17 p.m.
the raise the mim wage was a good idea ,however it is going to hurt businesses, and may seek employers to hire more illegal immigrants just to stay afloat,they will work for 7.40 an hour in a minute. and honestly I am not a hater of these people, but I already know of some employers who are already doing this.and of course as we are writing ,stores are already marking up .
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:11 p.m.
Obama spoke about controlling expenses, nothing on making reducing the national debt any further a prioity or passing a bill to require a balenced budget. Guess that would take real leadership and guts. Talk is very cheap.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 2:21 p.m.
Which GOP president got a balanced budget amendment passed? Has one made it out of the House yet?
In doubt
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:09 p.m.
Pretty words that are totally empty. He doesn't have a clue what to do to help this country, only a clue about his socialist agenda. He is right on target with that. God help us all.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 4:01 p.m.
fascism (f?sh`?z?m), totalitarian philosophy of government that glorifies the state and nation and assigns to the state control over every aspect of national life. Characteristics of Fascist PhilosophyFascism, especially in its early stages, is obliged to be antitheoretical and frankly opportunistic in order to appeal to many diverse groups. Nevertheless, a few key concepts are basic to it. First and most important is the glorification of the state and the total subordination of the individual to it. The state is defined as an organic whole into which individuals must be absorbed for their own and the state's benefit. This "total state" is absolute in its methods and unlimited by law in its control and direction of its citizens. A second ruling concept of fascism is embodied in the theory of social Darwinism. The doctrine of survival of the fittest and the necessity of struggle for life is applied by fascists to the life of a nation-state. Peaceful, complacent nations are seen as doomed to fall before more dynamic ones, making struggle and aggressive militarism a leading characteristic of the fascist state. Imperialism is the logical outcome of this dogma. Another element of fascism is its elitism. Salvation from rule by the mob and the destruction of the existing social order can be effected only by an authoritarian leader who embodies the highest ideals of the nation. This concept of the leader as hero or superman, borrowed in part from the romanticism of Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm , 1844–1900, German philosopher, b. Röcken, Prussia.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 3:53 p.m.
Clownfish you are correct, he is not a typical sociaist. However since WW II it is politically incorrect to use the correct label. Pres Obama is not a capitalist since he does not beleive in a free economy, and in one of his books described private enterprise as the enemy. He seems to believe in governmnet by regulation vs. passing laws in congress, EPA regulation after congress did not pass cap & trade, higher CAFE standards by mandate, executive orders instead of legislation. He believes in rewarding his friends and destroying his enemies. There is a term for this behavior, but using it is politically incorrect.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:54 p.m.
Which industries have been nationalized under Obama? Industrial production quotas? Which agricultural land has been turned over to the Proletariat? Do you know what Socialism really is or are you just copying what you hear from a media source? Definition of SOCIALISM 1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods 2 a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:09 p.m.
What I would like to see is an amendment that says if the Country does "NOT" have a balanced budget the President, the Cabinet, House Members or Senator's in Washington DC, would "NOT" get a "pay check!" Maybe than these people would not make it a career of working for "themselves."
In doubt
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:10 p.m.
Judy, I wish I could vote for your post a billion times!
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 12:44 p.m.
Any update on whether Ted Nugent is going to jail or going to be dead? Only 57 more days left, Ted. http://countingdownto.com/countdown/176293
Unusual Suspect
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:09 p.m.
Gitmo closed yet?
sandy schopbach
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 12:07 p.m.
I find it disappointing that all the Republican reactions focus on the budget. It's as if they were told beforehand to do that. Given "catch phrases" to use. It's the same practice Alec uses to "reform" state laws. The things President Obama talked about could have been said by President Eisenhower... and Lord knows they were neither of the same generation, the same color or the same political party. One thing that rang particularly true with me, given that I've spent half my life in France, is the warning the President gave of America no longer being a world leader unless some investment is put back into the country. Into education. Into infrastructure. Into research and development. We were once the first in atomic energy (sadly); we created the internet! Now we're falling behind. France, for instance, has high-speed internet via fiber optics, and a healthcare system that covers everyone yet affords a choice of doctor and reasonable costs and state-of-the-art technology. This is the country I know the most about, but it isn't the only example. Germany, which has far less sunshine than almost all of the U.S. (sorry, Fox News, you got it wrong), is a leader in solar energy. Holland has wind power. Both these countries have had to free themselves of the oil cartel, not having resources of their own. America is inventive. America was a leader. If we aren't careful, we will become citizens of a second-class country. And it would be relatively easy to avoid that, if we could only work together. Is that too much to ask?
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 12:23 p.m.
Sandy, you say it so well, because you have seen it. So many Americans have no idea because they have neither seen how the rest of the world works nor thoughtfully read about it. Instead they listen to slanted news and tv which are designed either to entertain or to push a particular economic view.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 11:46 a.m.
The GOP needs to put the nation first by working with the president and keeping GOP partisan goals second. The GOP talking points are so transparent and tiresome (the president needs to lead, he just wants to throw taxes at everything, etc.) that they have no effectiveness with thoughtful people. Mitch McConnell and his group failed to meet their objective of making Obama a one term president, and the majority of voters endorsed Obama's plans for his second term. And speaking of failure to lead, where is the Republican plan for the budget, or for dealing with other issues, including Syria or Iran? The fact is that we have a leader who has plans, he was rehired for four years by the nation, and Republicans need to work with him to get things done.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 11:43 a.m.
" You can fool all of the sheeple some of the time, some of the sheeple all of the time , but ( hopefully ) you can't fool all of the sheeple all of the time " lord knows they try though......
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 11:34 a.m.
The most important thing he said was "they deserve a vote". Yes all legislation brought to the floor of the House or Senate should get a vote up or down. No one should be able to use "procedural rules" to block a vote on anything. Let those elected go on the record as to whether they approve of disapprove of a bill. Was it not "procedural rules" that were used to stop people from exercising the right to vote? I would like a little more for my $174,000 a year + benefits that I help pay to each member of Congress
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 12:26 p.m.
Amen! And bills as a rule shouldn't have 'amendments' and 'earmarks' and 'perks' in the fine print.
Unusual Suspect
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 5:40 a.m.
When do we get a definition from liberals for "fair share?" Will it be enough when you get 50% of what they earn? 75%? 90%? Wat exactly does "fair share" mean? For those mathematically-challenged out there, taxes work on a percentage system. That means it grows proportionately with income. When people make more money, they pay more taxes. They already pay more, even though Obama wants you to believe his lie that they pay less. That's how percentages work.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 3:58 p.m.
This is for aabikes: I think there's a flaw in your formulation--who defines 'when your needs are met'? Whom would you allow to tell you when your needs are met? Of course we can all agree that the definition of 'needs that must be met' would probably cover food, shelter, and clothing...but what food? What shelter? What clothing? Does anyone need more than a change of clothes, a place with four walls, a roof , and basic utilities, and 2000-2500 calories' worth of simple food a day? As soon as you accept the premise that the concept of 'needs' is not subject to strict definition, you undercut claims such as the one you began your post with, it seems to me. But maybe you live like Mahatma Gandhi and therefore have some room to talk. I don't, and I don't actually want to, though I don't like wretched excess either.
Unusual Suspect
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 3:09 p.m.
So what you're saying is removing yachts from rich people (check that - the evil rich people) isn't enough. You must remove more from them. I think I see where the real greed is now.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 2:40 p.m.
Here....another assignment. "utility" Once your needs are met, your resource loses value to you. A "fair" tax is not fair because it removes bread from the tables of the poor but only yachts from the harbors of the rich. Yeah, that's fair. The importance of one dollar is not the same across incomes.
Unusual Suspect
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 2:09 p.m.
Judy and Barry, thank you for letting me know I'm not the only one around here with his or (her) head on straight.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:51 p.m.
Yeah, you should look up how the tax rates work. Key word: Marginal.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:25 p.m.
Flat tax would be "Fair" for "Everyone'!
Unusual Suspect
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:08 p.m.
Thanks Loopy for that comment - twice, even - but I don't use Twitter.
Barry Soetoro
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 6:56 a.m.
Exactly U.S. These liberals don't get it and probably never will. Its very entertaining to watch a Liberal turn to a Conservative when they start making real money and see the real taxes they pay. Isn't it a joy to carry six degenerate lazy Americans on your back with three Illegal's on their backs all over your back? This is Obama's America!
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 6:37 a.m.
Unusual Suspect gets all the talking points from Sarah Palin's Twitter feed.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 6:06 a.m.
It's more complicated than that. First, you don't seem to understand the concept of marginal tax rates. Second, you don't seem to understand that FICA taxes max out. Third, you don't acknowledge anywhere that there are tax loopholes that don't hit everyone evenly. But let me simplify things for you. When Warren Buffet pays a lower rate of taxes than his secretary, it isn't fair.
Unusual Suspect
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 5:36 a.m.
I'll provide the translation from libspeak. "But must also invest in the areas that will keep us on pace with the rest of the world" Translation: increase taxes. "I believe that those who have the most among us must pay their fair share." Translation: increase taxes on those evil, hard-working, successful people. "Tax reform that is fair and balanced" Translation: increase taxes. "Provide revenue" Translation: increase taxes. "Fund government programs that work." Translation: increase taxes.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 3:28 p.m.
@Peregrine - You say, "Now when you have all these things that cost money and you don't bring enough money in, you have a choice -- raise revenues or push the costs onto our children and future generations." Sorry false dichotomy there. We have other choices too. Namely: 1) stimulate the economy in order to retain and attract business. More business means more incomes which means a larger tax base. 2) decrease spending. Both of these things seem to be anathema to the left. Instead they demonize success and profit and try to blame all our fiscal problems the evil 1%. "And now you see why a balanced approach involves increasing revenue. And yes, that means increasing taxes on some." What has been balanced about what the democrats have done lately? What meaningful cuts have they made? Obama has been running trillion dollar deficits 4 years in a row. And his solution is to tax the rich. Here's a news flash. Taxing the rich is a red herring. Read this: http://www.newsmax.com/Rahn/Obama-tax-hike-Romney/2012/07/18/id/445771 Even if Obama got all the tax increases he ever asked for on the rich it would pay for a grand total of 8 days of gov't spending. Or to look at it another way, the AFTER TAX income of all the millionaires and billionaires in the US is about $709 billion (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444138104578030860906863262.html). So even if you just flat out taxed everything the evil 1% made you'd still be $400 billiion short of covering Obama's deficits. The current democrats are completely insincere on this point. Let's be honest about what a balanced approach means. First, it means serious spending cuts. Second it means increasing taxes on everybody across the board. No more cartoonish scapegoating business for all our problems. The top 1% already pays around 37% of all income taxes. How much do they have to pay before they are paying their fair share according to liberals?
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:47 p.m.
Good Thing the Messiah Ron Reagan never did any of that!! Oh, oops, he did! And he spoke from a ...teleprompter, and refused to call a bombing terrorism. He must surely have been a Marxist.
In doubt
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:18 p.m.
I would rather see our tax dollars fund OUR military than our enemies, which is what he is doing. Since the election he is sending fighter jets to Egypt, promised China 6 billion for their green energy program, and 147 million to Hamas. Who promises 6 billion when their they are broke themselves? Oh......maybe the Hollywood buddies will send it to them......?
Unusual Suspect
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:06 p.m.
"That's very one-dimensional thinking." Yes, it is. That was my point.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 9:50 a.m.
Well said. By others reactions, they must have sipped the Kool Aide.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 6:35 a.m.
Sounds like you've been following Sarah Palin's tweets.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 6:25 a.m.
That's very one-dimensional thinking. Let's broaden things a bit. The best military in the world -- it costs money. Infrastructure that supports commerce and many other useful pursuits -- it costs money. A safety net for Americans when they get older -- it costs money. First responders -- they cost money. Scientific research -- it costs money. Wars in Iraq and Afganistan -- money is just one of the sacrifices our nation made for them; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War . Now when you have all these things that cost money and you don't bring enough money in, you have a choice -- raise revenues or push the costs onto our children and future generations. Now look at this graph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Effective_tax_rates,_US_high-income.png . It comes from this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States . And now you see why a balanced approach involves increasing revenue. And yes, that means increasing taxes on some.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 5:17 a.m.
Tim blames the budget problem on Obama while the Republican majority in the House who originate all money bills won't compromise on anything and hindered even the most obvious of bills, the funding for Sandy relief. By the way Tim, demand in the economy creates jobs, not tax cuts for the rich. Your party needs to get the Farm Bill out of committee, the Jobs bill out of committee, and another no brainer, the Violence Against Women bill.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 3:48 p.m.
clownfish the sandy bill would have passed without a hitch had it not been for all the fat added in that would have done nothing to help the sandy victims.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 1:45 p.m.
Carole, the president cannot just send money, the congress has to pass a bill to allow the spending. If Obama did otherwise the howls of outrage would be non-stop.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 11:41 a.m.
In my opinion, Obama has done nothing to help this country period. There is no leadership, and the house and senate need to get with it as well. RE: Sandy, the most obvious thing I saw in that bill was the add ons that had nothing to do with helping all of those individuals who needed a great deal of help and had to wait an extremely long time to get assistance. And, this was after the President promised aid immediately to them before the storm hit.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 9:49 a.m.
Obama, as the leader owns this problem. He needs to quit blaming others for his lack of leadership. Go figure!
Ryan J. Stanton
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 5:14 a.m.
As we inevitably get into a discussion about the federal budget here, keep in mind the president prefaced much of what he said Tuesday night with this: "Tonight, I'll lay out additional proposals that are fully paid for and fully consistent with the budget framework both parties agreed to just 18 months ago. Let me repeat — nothing I'm proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime. It's not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in broad-based growth." He also said this: "Over the last few years, both parties have worked together to reduce the deficit by more than $2.5 trillion — mostly through spending cuts, but also by raising tax rates on the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. As a result, we are more than halfway towards the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction that economists say we need to stabilize our finances." Of course, feel free to agree or disagree with what he's saying and please do debate the merits of what he's proposing.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 2:31 p.m.
All politicians lie though.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 2:07 p.m.
"...Both parties have worked together..." I call BS right there. Our two parties are a nightmare, with my bias of course being against the Republicans who have publicly made it their goal to make Obama's 4, now 8 years, a failure. What a bunch of mean-spirited folks, to take 8 years of everyone's lives and make it their goal that nothing change, nothing get better. There's so much that's wrong with our society (I know there's a ton that's good too, and I'm glad I live here as opposed to, oh you know, Somalia or Iraq or Afghanistan).
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 5:22 a.m.
I wish I had the confidence in the President's honesty to debate. I just don't believe him. I do, however, appreciate your summary and questions.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013 : 5:02 a.m.
God Bless the President - but produce a budget; produce a plan to pay for things; show discipline.


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POLI 387 Africa and the World (1)
Colonialists, politicians, aid workers, peace corps volunteers, missionaries, human rights advocates, scholars and many others have asked, "How can we save Africa?" This class critically interrogates this question, its motivations, and the ways in which people have answered it by examining international efforts to "save" Africa, as well as African liberation struggles and social movements. Focusing on texts by African and Pan-African authors, we will study the ways in which international relations and the colonial legacy shape contemporary African politics. Special attention will be given to the politics of "tribes," ethnicity, race, class and gender, as well as ideas about culture, tradition, and modernity. We will focus on the international dimensions of violent conflicts in Africa, the dilemmas of humanitarian intervention, and efforts to promote peace, justice and reconciliation. We will investigate the historical roots of "underdevelopment," African contributions to the development of Europe and the Americas, and contemporary development and aid projects. Case studies include Rwanda, Maasailand, Darfur and South Africa.

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Beaming up from peaceful negotiations, Kirk, McCoy, Uhura and Scotty find themselves on a militaristic Enterprise in a less than peaceful alternate universe. We are through the looking glass when we put "Mirror, Mirror" in the Mission Log.
Mission Log #31 – Episode 031 – Mirror, Mirror
I don't know about clowns, but I have been to a universe where there is nothing but shrimp.
You guys rock. Smart without being socially awkward about it. The format is a winner too.
In a rare slip, I think you missed a vital and cool bit of trivia on this one.
The Halkan leader is a rare on-camera appearance from Vic Perrin.
Vic performed a few authoritative voices on Trek. Arena to name one. "We are the Metrons"
He also voiced a lot of 60's animation and was Dr. Zin on Jonny Quest….their only reoccurring villain.
His most famous voiceover gig? I'll give you a clue:
"There is nothing wrong with your Television Set. We are controlling transmission"
I think your listenership would find that pretty cool. I do.
I enjoyed the mirror voiceover 🙂
Regarding the links between the universes, I don't think it was suggesting that killing a person in one universe kills them in the other – for example it said Pike had been killed in the mirror universe when Kirk took command, but in the regular universe he's still alive


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Preliminary data collected from game checking stations across the state indicate deer hunters in West Virginia harvested 56,173 bucks during the two-week buck firearms season, which ran Nov. 19 to Dec. 1.
According to Frank Jezioro, Director of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, that total was seven percent less than the 2011 harvest of 60,157.
The top 10 counties for buck harvest were as follows: Preston (2,108), Greenbrier (1,907), Randolph (1,792), Mason (1,667), Jackson (1,662), Hampshire (1,570), Monroe (1,563), Ritchie (1,518), Wetzel (1,496) and Hardy (1,435).
This year's buck harvest is slightly less than last year, with decreases occurring in four of the six DNR districts. The largest percent decreases occurred in the western and central counties of the state. The harvest was 27th among all recorded antlered buck firearm seasons. This year's preliminary buck harvest remains seven percent below the previous five-year average of 60,236.
Wildlife biologists and wildlife managers collected age-specific biological information at checking stations in 24 counties this year and preliminary analysis indicate antler development was good. The dry weather was good for hunter participation this year but made moving in the woods noisy.
Deer densities that were more in balance with the habitat in many areas, combined with the better-than-average acorn crop that allowed deer to frequent open fields less frequently, made this year's deer season challenging for many hunters. Residual access problems associated with Hurricane Sandy, such as downed trees blocking forest roads, may have hindered the ability of some buck hunters to reach their favorite hunting spots, especially in some of the high mountain counties.
Wildlife biologists will analyze data from the combined 2012 deer seasons (i.e., buck, antlerless, archery and muzzleloader) before making appropriate recommendations for next year's deer hunting seasons. These recommendations will be available for public review at 12 regulations meetings scheduled for March 18-19, 2013. Meeting locations may be found at www.wvdnr.gov
Several days of deer hunting opportunity still remain for 2012. The traditional antlerless deer season in selected counties on public and private land is Dec. 13-15. The Youth, Class Q/QQ and Class XS deer season (antlerless deer only) will be open Dec. 26-27 in any county with a firearms deer season, and will be followed by the reopening of Class N/NN antlerless deer season Dec. 28-31 in 48 counties or portions of counties.


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LAFAYETTE — An early morning bomb threat closed the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for most of the day Wednesday, as police officers and bomb-sniffing dogs swept the campus in a search that found one package made to look like a bomb.
The package, found in a trash can in Girard Park just off campus, did not contain explosive materials, State Police Master Trooper Brooks David said.
"It was made to look like an explosive device, the way it was built and the way it was packaged," David said.
Reports of a second package possibly being found on the grounds of UL-Lafayette were unfounded, David said.
The entire campus was evacuated, and the disruptions rippled out to affect much of Lafayette. Some of the city's main roads near UL-Lafayette, which sits in the center of the city, were closed. The thoroughfares closed included sections of Johnston Street, St. Mary Boulevard, South College Road, West Pinhook Road, University Avenue and roads going through Lafayette's Oil Center near Girard Park.
The bomb threat was called into Lafayette television station KATC at around 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, and UL-Lafayette officials sent an alert to students and faculty a little after 7 a.m. The emergency alert told faculty and commuter students to stay away from the university and asked students in on-campus dorms to stay inside. The dorms later Wednesday were evacuated. Some of the dorm students were moved to Lafayette City Hall while the search continued.
"I found out at the Cajun Field bus stop," said Kim Kennedy, a junior majoring in visual arts. "It was very wise of them to evacuate the whole campus, considering they might have had several threats."
UL-Lafayette spokesman Chris Welty said 5,500 students are registered for classes in the current summer session.
Welty said 400 pre-college students were also there, attending an on-campus orientation. Some were staying in dorms and were moved to an off-campus hall while police searched for explosives. Other high school students were staying in dorms while attending summer programs.
"It went well. We didn't have anybody screaming or anything," said Christian Chenet, a junior at Jeanerette Senior High School who attends Upward Bound, a college preparatory program.
"We were very calm about it," Chenet said. "We just sat there and waited for updates on whether it was safe to come back to campus."
Ryan Guidry, a 20-year-old UL-Lafayette nursing student helping with the Outward Bound program, said university officials and police handled the threat well, but it "was very hectic ... It was very rough."
David said nine bomb-search teams combed the UL-Lafayette campus, from the main campus off Johnston Street to the complex along and near Cajundome Boulevard.
Hazardous materials teams from State Police and the Lafayette police and fire departments examined and disposed of the fake bomb found in Girard Park, David said.
The search turned up no explosives.
By 3:30 p.m., the UL-Lafayette campus and the roads leading to and through the campus were reopened, Lafayette Police Department spokesman Sgt. Kyle Soriez said.
All classes and other on-campus activities were scheduled to resume Thursday, Welty said.
Charles Spencer, an FBI agent who is part of a terrorism task force, said federal law enforcement agencies, too, are looking into the phoned-in threat. He said anyone with information can call (337) 232-TIPS or (800) CALLFBI.
As bomb squad personnel were dealing with the package found in a trash can at Girard Park on Wednesday morning, a bomb-sniffing dog with about eight police trailing it was seen running into a parking garage at the corner of Taft Street and East St. Mary Boulevard.
Some residences and offices in the area, including the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, were emptied while the search continued. A postal worker with undelivered mail was turned back by police, as was a backpack-wearing student headed to class before noon who apparently didn't hear the news.
Welty said UL-Lafayette sent out its emergency alert at a few minutes after 7 a.m., but there were reports of some faculty and students not receiving the information. Welty said he would check the validity of those reports.
He said the university communicates through a variety of platforms: Facebook, text alerts, emails and the school's website.
Advocate correspondent Seth Dickerson contributed to this report.
Editor's note: This story was modified on Thursday, July 17, to correct the time that KATC-TV 3 received the call. It was made at 5:30 a.m., not 5 a.m. The Advocate regrets the error.


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Freshwater Discharge and Sediment Dispersal on the Alaskan Beaufort Shelf
David Ralston, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Rocky Geyer, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
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2011 Funded Project
We propose a field investigation of the dynamics of river outflows into the Arctic Ocean, specifically in the shallow waters adjacent to a river mouth where the outflow impinges on ice. The study is motivated by the rapidly warming climate of the high Arctic, which may be increasing the delivery of sediment and organic matter to the ocean via Arctic rivers. Arctic river deltas are distinct from their lower latitude counterparts due to the presence of sea ice in the receiving waters during the spring freshet. The sea ice reduces the velocity of the outflow, disconnects the plume from mixing by the wind, and impounds fresh water. As a result, sediment carried by the river outflow deposits and accumulates near the river mouth. The sediment trapping and minimal remobilization by tides and wind make Arctic deltas much shallower than deltas in ice-free environments. During the short but intense spring floods that deliver sediment to the coastal Arctic, the ice at the river mouth is rigidly attached to the shore, or landfast, and the outflow goes both under and over this 2-m thick sheet of ice.
Our scientific goal is to characterize the buoyant plume and associated suspended sediment flux as the river outflow enters the coastal ocean and disperses. To accomplish this goal, we propose a novel measurement array that samples water properties in the river plume both above and below the landfast ice by extending sensors above and below the ice surface. To link the near surface river plume to the underlying oceanic water, we will collect high-resolution profiles of velocity and acoustic backscatter (used to quantify suspended sediment transport) from a bottom mounted tripod over the full water column below the ice. The instruments will be deployed in the late winter and recovered in late summer, if they survive the river flooding and ice break-up. The data from all of the instruments will be telemetered via the Iridium satellite link back to our lab to ensure maximum data recovery. We will also survey the delta region via helicopter during the tumultuous period of ice break-up, to characterize the spatial structure of the river outflow and provide context for the moored time series.
Our field site is the Colville River estuary and nearby coastal region of the Alaskan Beaufort Shelf. The Colville is the biggest river draining Alaska's North Slope, and among Arctic rivers it may be particularly susceptible to changes due to warming because its entire watershed is in the zone of continuous permafrost. Compared with mid-latitude and tropical rivers, this type of river system has low sediment yield and limited transport of particulate organic carbon. However as the permafrost melts, the loading of sediment and organic matter is expected to increase dramatically. Our study of the mechanisms of river outflow and sediment dispersal across sea ice addresses one the critical processes that will affect our understanding of how the Arctic responds to shifting climatic conditions.


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Whitecaps FC were in the Emerald City on Saturday to take on Sounders FC. With another road match comes another Road Report, and another supporters profile. This time we meet the hardcore supporters groups of Seattle Sounders FC, affectionately known as Gorilla FC and Emerald City Supporters (ECS). Watch as 'Caps videographer Zac Ratcliffe gives you an inside look at Gorilla FC and ECS:
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Skip to comments.'UFO Galaxy' Spotted by Hubble Telescope (NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on)
Posted on 04/12/2012 2:55:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
The Hubble Space Telescope has found a UFO, but this one is filled with stars instead of little green men.
The iconic space telescope snapped an amazing new photo of the "UFO Galaxy" a galaxy 35 million light-years from Earth that is officially known as NGC 2683.
"NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on, giving it the shape of a classic science fiction spaceship," NASA officials wrote in a recent image description.
The galaxy was originally discovered on Feb. 5, 1788 by famed astronomer William Herschel. It is located in the Lynx constellation in the northern sky. But it was astronomers with the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory in Cocoa, Fla., that dubbed NGC 2683 a cosmic UFO.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on, giving it the shape of a classic science fiction spaceship. / ESA/Hubble & NASA
HubbleSite Gallery - Spiral Galaxy
Hubble Spies a UFO
Barred Spiral Bares All
Knowing how common planets are, just looking at a photo like this just has me imagining the trillions of worlds and civilizations that must reside in this one image.
The galaxy captured in this image, called UGC 12158, certainly isnt camera-shy:
this spiral stunner is posing face-on to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes Advanced Camera for Surveys, revealing its structure in fine detail.
Looks about like other spiral galaxies we see. Perhaps a little more 'dusty' than usual. Could be a smoke screen to hide their mother ship!
Wow that's an awesome pic! Almost looks like CGI or something.
What's all that brown stuff?
Thanks KoRn. An "extra, extra" ping to the APoD list members.
Thank You, Norm's Revenge!
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Deutsche Bank Energy Trading LLC on Nov. 5 said it was protesting FERC's proposed penalties of $1.6 million for alleged misconduct during early 2010, saying the agency's legal position is "radical." The agency is punishing JPMorgan for producing incorrect documents in a manipulation investigation.
A spokeswoman for JPMorgan, which has apologized for what it has said was an inadvertent mistakes, said it is reviewing the decision and its next steps.
"This is a novel use of FERC's authority over market-based rates and is unsupported by FERC's own regulations," Jennifer Zuccarelli said in an e-mail.
While the violations during the Enron era involved traders using illegal practices to drive up prices which led to blackouts, the commission has seen a different type of manipulation violation in recent years, in which traders try to "play one market off the other," Wellinghoff said.
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Traders might take a loss in the physical energy markets, where electricity is bought and sold, in order to make money on financial exchanges "without any legitimate hedging purpose," he said. FERC alleges that this is what happened in the Barclays case. Wellinghoff said energy companies also are reporting misconduct by calling an agency telephone hotline.
"We're getting substantial information from other market participants" who may be losing money at a competitor's expense, he said.
Even though Wellinghoff denied FERC is targeting financial companies, the investigations are evidence that Wall Street firms have the savvy to game the system, according to Tyson Slocum, director of the energy program at Public Citizen, a Washington-based consumer group.
"It appears as though Wall Street is playing a significant role in exploiting overly complex market rules," Slocum said in an interview. Regulators should revoke energy-trading privileges for all companies accused of alleged market manipulation, he said. "That's the most significant club that FERC can wield."
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Separately, the California Independent System Operator complained to the FERC yesterday that the JPMorgan unit, which controls electric generators in Huntington Beach, is using its stake to block changes to plants that will be needed by the state next year.
The grid operator is seeking the FERC's permission to move ahead with the project, by removing JPMorgan's right to object to the changes. Asked about the filing to FERC, Zuccarelli in an e-mail today said: "J.P. Morgan's goal is to work cooperatively to help to find an economic and efficient way to make generation available in California."
Wellinghoff said he expects market-manipulation violations to decline as traders realize that the agency's enforcement division is operating at "full speed."
"The message is going to transfer through the industry that if you engage in this kind of activity you're going to get caught," he said. "If you get caught you're going to pay."
Wellinghoff said the FERC plans to "go after" individual traders as well as specific companies. And he's not concerned about whether this may spook the financial sector.
"Have you ever met any traders?" he said to reporters after the commission's monthly meeting yesterday. "Very few of them are scared or intimidated by anything."
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Miranda Kerr & Orlando Bloom Welcome Baby Boy! Congratulations!
The actor and supermodel are the proud parents of a bouncing baby boy!
Orlando Bloom and his supermodel wife Miranda Kerr welcomed their first child, a baby boy, in Los Angeles on Jan. 6. A source close to the couple confirmed the birth to USmagazine.com, though at this time the name is not being released.
The 33-year-old actor and his 27-year-old wife were wed in a secret ceremony in early July.
Miranda has stated she plans to continue her modeling career after the birth and Orlando is rumored to possibly be starring in Peter Jackson's upcoming adaptation of The Hobbit.
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Intelligence-gathering efforts by the U.S. have helped prevent more than 50 terrorist attacks in more than 20 countries, including one planned at the New York Stock Exchange, government officials said.
Surveillance of communications between a known al-Qaeda extremist in Yemen and an individual in the U.S. allowed the FBI to "detect a nascent plot" to bomb the exchange and arrest those involved, Sean Joyce, deputy director of the bureau, told the House intelligence committee today.
Khalid Ouazzani, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Morocco, pleaded guilty in federal court in Kansas City in May 2010 to providing material support to terrorists.
Asked if it was a serious plot, Joyce said, "I think the jury considered it serious since they were all convicted."
The NSA tomorrow will give documents to House and Senate intelligence committees in a classified setting describing more than 50 other "potential terrorist events" thwarted by surveillance programs since Sept. 11, 2001, said General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency.
"These programs were approved by the administration, Congress and the courts," Alexander told members of the intelligence committee.
The disclosure of NSA programs collecting data on telephone and Internet communications by Edward Snowden, a technology contractor working for Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp., has sparked a criminal inquiry by the Justice Department as well as a review by U.S. intelligence agencies of how the leak occurred.
Snowden, 29, fled to Hong Kong last month before revealing himself as the source, and U.S. lawmakers said they want to know more about what led him to act.
Protection Playbook
"This widespread leak by a 29-year-old American systems administrator put our country and our allies in danger by giving the terrorists a really good look at the playbook that we use to protect our country," Representative C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger of Maryland, the intelligence committee's top Democrat, said.
Monitoring of foreigners' Internet activity also aided the discovery of a plot to bomb the office of a Danish newspaper that published cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, Joyce said.
That plot involved David Headley, a Pakistani-American who was arrested in 2009 for helping to plot the 2008 shooting and bombing attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people. Headley was convicted in January in a U.S. federal court for his role in the attacks.
Government officials last week said surveillance allowed the U.S. to disrupt a plot to bomb the New York City subway system.
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Roorkhee Chairs, Day 1 (Then What?)
Most classes I teach end up being a "dovetail death march" (in a good way). There is a lot of traditional joinery, late nights, sore feet and little hope of finishing the project in five days.
But this class on Roorkhee chairs at Kelly Mehler's School of Woodworking promises to be different.
If we don't get too drunk tomorrow at breakfast, we should have these chairs done inside of four days. So we'll get to mess around with making a stool (the kind you sit on; not the kind you leave) and who knows what else.
This year I have been trying to push students into implementing their own designs in my classes. So we spent an hour reviewing many of the Roorkhee forms than have been cropping up during the last 110 years. Then I asked them to design their own legs — they could be Scandinavian modern, pure 1897 or something else.
The cool thing is that many of the students took the bait and didn't just design a chair that looks like the original one I showed last year in Popular Woodworking Magazine.
This class also represents several "firsts" for me. This is the first time I've taught turning in a classroom setting. Thanks to the Easy Wood tools most of us are using, the transition from furniture maker to turner was a quick one. I've been using these tools since I bought my set three years ago. While I like my traditional turning tools, I adore my Easy Wood Tools. (No, they don't pay me to say this. Or give me free tools. Or a discount. Or even a free pencil.)
The other first: I think I am going to get to teach some finishing. This chair uses my favorite mahogany finish – garnet shellac and a black wax.
And leather work. And riveting. And shotgunning a beer. Pole dancing. Marmoset gelding.
So stay tuned.
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Study: Family dinners help prevent teen drug use
Sitting down with children a way to keep them, families healthy.
Dinner is over and the plates have been cleared.
If you've eaten together as a family, chances are that your teens are less likely to experiment with alcohol and other drugs.
Based on a new report launched by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, the parental engagement fostered during frequent family dinners is an effective tool to help keep America's kids substance free.
And there are statistics to back that up.
The report finds that teens who have infrequent family dinners (fewer than three per week) compared to those who have frequent family dinners (five to seven per week) are more than twice as likely to say that they expect to try drugs in the future.
According to the report, The Importance of Family Dinners VI, nearly three-quarters (72%) of teens think that eating dinner frequently with their parents is very or fairly important.
Compared to teens who have frequent family dinners, those who have infrequent family dinners are:
twice as likely to have used tobacco
almost twice as likely to have used alcohol and 1 1/2 times likelier to have used marijuana
"The message for parents couldn't be any clearer." said Kathleen Ferrigno, CASA's marketing director who directs the Family Day—A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children™ initiative
During an interview Tuesday, Ferrigno said the family day initiative began after CASA officials realized a relationship between the frequency of family dinners and the number of teens who say they don't use tobacco or drugs.
With the recent rise nationally in the number of kids age 12 and older who are using drugs, Ferrigno said it's more important than ever to sit down to dinner and engage children in conversation about their lives, their friends, school.
"Just talk," she said.
Ferrigno suggests asking questions and really listening to their answers.
"The magic that happens over family dinners isn't the food on the table but the communication and conversations around it," she said. "Of course there is no iron-clad guarantee that your kids will grow up drug free, but knowledge is power and the more you know the better the odds are that you will raise a healthy kid."
If dinner doesn't work, Ferrigno said it's very important to carve out time during breakfast, driving to and from school or on weekends for parents to connect with kids.
"Making time to come together sends the message that parents love, care and are there for their kids," she said.
Open communication lines then set the stage for more difficult conversations about drugs, sex or other issues, she said.
Ferrigno points to the report that also reveals that teens who have fewer than three family dinners per week are twice as likely to be able to get marijuana or prescription drugs (to get high) in an hour or less. Teens who are having five or more family dinners per week are more likely to say that they do not have any access to marijuana and prescription drugs (to get high).
Interestingly, she said the trends this year shows that 60% of teens report having dinner with their families at least five times a week which is a proportion that has remained consistent over the past decade.
"Parents play a powerful role in prevention," Ferrigno said.
In addition, teens who have frequent family dinners are less likely to report having friends who use substances.
Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA founder and chairman and former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, said it's been long known that the more often children have dinner with their parents the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs.
"In today's busy and overscheduled world, taking the time to come together for dinner really makes a difference in a child's life," Califano said.
More information is available on CASA's website which is www.casacolumbia.org.
Readers might also pencil in the fourth Monday in September for next year.
That date has been declared "A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children™."
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About Florian Slotawa
Florian Slotawa's works are an extension of his interest in the fluid boundaries between everyday and art objects, between things that belong in private and public spaces. Slotawa works primarily in assemblage, sculpture, and installation, using items from his home or commonly found goods from hardware and furniture stores. He has installed the contents of his own home in a gallery, misassembled Ikea furniture into monumental sculpture, and constructed unlikely combinations of objects. He is known for his orderly sensibility, revealed in geometric compositions and repetitive sequencing. In the late 1990s, he made his best-known series of photographs; titled "Besitzarbeiten" and "Hotelarbeiten", they presented neatly organized inventories of his own home and of hotel rooms, respectively, that were disassembled and returned following the project's completion.
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NH doctor agrees to lose license for 5 years
Doctor accused of prescribing teen 2,000 pills
NH doctor agrees to lose license for 5 years
Doctor accused of prescribing teen 2,000 pills
A New Hampshire pediatrician who disputed allegations that he prescribed large amounts of oxycodone pills to patients and that his conduct with patients was questionable has agreed to have his license revoked for five years.
Earlier this year, the New Hampshire Board of Medicine suspended the license of Dr. Mark Weinreb of Franklin. He was accused of prescribing a teenager more than 2,000 pills over 11 months. Weinreb said he prescribed two a day and the teenager did not have all the pills at once.
The board said another patient was prescribed more than 1,200 pills over 10 months. Weinreb said he prescribed one pill a night.
The board also accused Weinreb of unprofessional conduct with patients on Facebook, which he denied.


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Policy makers need to know the views of ordinary people. This lively video reports on a global event in September that proves biodiversity is a priority of citziens all over the world. From CEC member Bjørn Bedsted, coordinator of WWViews.
World Wide Views on Biodiversity is a unique global project that on September 15, 2012 brought together members of the public in 25 countries around the world to discuss biodiversity and choices related to policy and action to attain the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
In each country roughly 100 randomly selected citizens attended day-long meetings to learn about biodiversity, debate with other citizens and consider their views about the options facing us, before casting their vote on a set of predefined questions.
The initiative is a part of the UN Decade on Biodiversity and the efforts to reach the strategic Aichi Biodiversity Target 1, namely raising awareness about the values of biodiversity and the steps to conserve and use it sustainable. It is a ground-breaking project and a unique opportunity for policymakers worldwide to learn about the views of ordinary citizens on different policy initiatives to stop the decline in biodiversity.
Some important messages from the citizens are:
- The establishment of new protected areas should be given higher priority than economic aims
- More protected areas should be established in the High Seas
- All countries should pay for protecting biodiversity in developing countries
The results of the citizen meetings were presented at two events at COP11 in Hyderabad in India 2012. All results are available on http://biodiversity.wwviews.org and you can download a results report here:
World Wide Views on Biodiversity is initiated by the Danish Ministry of the Environment, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Danish Board of Technology.
Partner countries:
Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Maldives, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestinian Territory, Philippines, Saint Lucia, South Africa, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Uganda, USA, Vietnam and Zambia.
For more information, contact Bjørn BEDSTED, Project manager and WWViews coordinator, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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What makes us American? What defines us and sets us apart? In honor of the Fourth of July, I assembled a list of novels to help us discover the essence of America, help us probe the heart and soul of our great country.
It may seem easier to read traditional histories like "1776," "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," "Walden" or anything by Doris Kearns Goodwin or Bruce Catton, but if we really want to get America, we have to read American fiction. It is the fiction writers who have their ears to the ground, who find the truth beyond the dry dates and places.
My red, white and blue sampler evokes different eras, various cultures, several wars and some of the iconic events in our 237-year history. These novels help us find the common ground between the Boston Brahmin and the North Carolina tobacco farmer, the Maine fisherman and the Florida mobster — and the glorious differences among them all.
Here are more books than you can read in a summer. Pick a few out of the picnic basket and enjoy.
Start with "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. The author taps some of the bedrock themes of American life: a boy coming of age, adventure out on the great Mississippi, racism in the South and friendship, American-style. The setting, the regional language, the humor and the characters are particular to America.
Then move on to the war stories, from "The Red Badge of Courage" to "Gone With the Wind" to "Catch 22" to "From Here to Eternity" to "The Thin Red Line" to "The Bridges of Toko Ri" to "The Things They Carried." I recently wrote about Kevin Powers's novel "The Yellow Birds," saying that if you want to know what happened in Iraq, forget the news accounts and read this piece of fiction. One can say the same for the best novels that came out of the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam.


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NL Capsules
Jun. 06, 2013
CINCINNATI (AP) — Carlos Gonzalez tied his career high with three of Colorado's six homers, and Troy Tulowitzki went 5 for 5 with a pair of homers Wednesday night, powering the Rockies to a 12-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
The Rockies hadn't hit six homers in a game since they had that many against the Marlins on July 4, 2008, according to STATS LLC.
Gonzalez got Colorado's splurge going with a solo shot and a three-run drive off Pedro Villarreal (0-1), who was roughed up by one of the NL's top offenses in his first big league start. Tulowitzki tied his career high with five hits, including a two-run homer and a solo shot.
Todd Helton also homered as the Rockies piled up a season-high 20 hits, the most allowed by Cincinnati since 2009. The Reds came in with the second-best earned run average in the NL.
Jon Garland (4-6) gave up four runs — all in the first — and lasted six innings.
The Rockies took the last two games of their series, ending a streak of six straight losses against Cincinnati.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt hit his second grand slam in five days for Arizona, and Wade Miley bounced back from his two worst outings of the season.
Arizona has won four of five. St. Louis, with the best record in the majors, dropped back-to-back games for the first time since April 28-29.
Goldschmidt became the first Arizona player with two slams on the same road trip. He hit one in a 12-4 win at the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.
Miley (4-5) gave up three runs and 11 hits over 6 2-3 innings. He had given up seven earned runs in each of his previous two starts.
St. Louis' Joe Kelly (0-3), making his first start of the season, gave up one earned run in 5 2-3 innings. Matt Carpenter had four hits for the Cardinals and pushed his career-best hitting streak to 14 games.
ATLANTA (AP) — Julio Teheran carried a no-hitter into the eighth inning, leading Atlanta to the win.
Pinch hitter Brandon Inge singled to left with two outs in the eighth for Pittsburgh's only hit of the game. Teheran then received an ovation from Braves fans, who also cheered after the inning ended on Starling Marte's popup.
Teheran (4-2) set a career high with 11 strikeouts in eight innings in the Braves' fifth straight win, including a sweep of the three-game series. David Carpenter pitched a perfect ninth.
Evan Gattis and Gerald Laird hit back-to-back homers in the sixth.
Pittsburgh's Wandy Rodriguez (6-4) left with tightness in his left forearm after recording only one out in the first inning. He gave up two hits and a run and hit Freddie Freeman with his 14th and final pitch.
The Pirates have lost three straight and five of six.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jason Marquis took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and the Padres rebounded after dropping the first two games of the series.
Marquis (7-2) had his no-hitter broken up when Skip Schumaker doubled to deep center field with two outs in the sixth. Adrian Gonzalez followed with a RBI single that trimmed San Diego's lead to 3-1.
Earlier in the inning, Padres right fielder Kyle Blanks temporarily preserved Marquis' no-hit bid with a diving catch and slide on his belly that robbed pinch-hitter Jerry Hairston Jr.
Marquis left after Scott Van Slyke homered with one out in the seventh. The right-hander allowed three hits, struck out six and walked two while improving to 6-0 with a 3.28 ERA in his last eight starts.
Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw (5-4) struck out nine over six innings and was charged with three runs and seven hits. The left-hander gave up at least one hit in each of his innings.
Jedd Gyorko hit a solo homer and a sacrifice fly for San Diego.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cole Hamels had a season-high 11 strikeouts in seven dominant innings, Domonic Brown hit another homer and the Phillies completed a three-game series sweep.
Hamels (2-9) allowed one run and four hits to snap a personal six-game losing streak.
Jimmy Rollins hit a go-ahead RBI single with two outs in the seventh off A.J. Ramos (0-2). Ryan Howard followed with a two-run triple, diving headfirst into third.
Then Brown went downtown to make it 6-1. Brown has 10 homers in the last 12 games and leads the NL with 18.
The Phillies (30-30) have their first four-game winning streak and will try to go above .500 for the first time when they open a four-game series at Milwaukee on Thursday night.
Marlins starter Jacob Turner allowed one run and four hits in six innings.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Marlon Byrd maintained his mastery of Dan Haren with a pair of home runs, and the Mets snapped a four-game losing streak.
The win put the Mets above .400 and the Nationals below .500 — a succinct reflection of the mixed fortunes of both clubs — and also dropped preseason favorite Washington to third place behind Philadelphia in the NL East. The Nationals trail division-leading Atlanta by eight games.
Byrd hit a two-run homer in the second and a solo shot in the third, making him 10 for 18 in his career against Haren (4-7).
New York's Dillon Gee (4-6) allowed one run and nine hits over seven innings in his second consecutive solid start after his spot in the rotation had been put in doubt by a series of short outings.
David Wright, in a 1-for-18 slump entering the game, also homered for the Mets in the third inning.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bartolo Colon won his fourth straight start and Brandon Moss hit a three-run homer to power the Athletics to the victory.
Oakland has won 16 of its last 19 games. Colon (7-2) gave up a run and eight hits in seven innings.
Colon is among more than a dozen players whose names have been tied to a now-closed Miami anti-aging clinic under investigation by Major League Baseball. The right-hander missed the end of last season when he was suspended 50 games after testing positive for synthetic testosterone.
Milwaukee left fielder Ryan Braun, who has also been linked to the clinic, did not play because of a lingering thumb problem.
Yovani Gallardo (4-6) allowed five runs and six hits in six-plus innings to lose for the fifth time in his last six starts.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — R.A. Dickey allowed two hits in 8 1-3 innings and sparked a four-run fifth inning with an RBI double, helping Toronto to a split of the two-game series.
Mark DeRosa added a two-run single and Adam Lind had three hits for his eighth multihit performance in the past 12 games.
Barry Zito (4-4) was done in by the one big inning and lost at home for the first time since last August. The defending World Series champion Giants have lost 11 of 18 games heading into a nine-game road trip.
Dickey (5-7) bounced back from a pair of rough starts in which he allowed six runs each to Baltimore and Atlanta. He shut down the Giants thanks to his dancing knuckleball that helped him record five strikeouts.
Zito allowed four runs, seven hits and three walks in six innings to lose at home for the first time since Aug. 2, 2012, against the Mets.


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By Elaine Lies
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's internal affairs minister and more than 100 other lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Friday and China responded by accusing Japan of undermining ties and trying to overturn the post-World War Two order.
The visits, marking an autumn festival, came a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made his third ritual offering to the shrine since returning to office last year, though he did not visit it in person.
Abe has stayed away from the shrine in central Tokyo, where war criminals are honored along with other war dead, to avoid further straining ties with China and South Korea, both victims of Japan's militarism before its surrender in 1945.
"The Yasukuni Shrine is a symbol and spiritual tool of Japanese militarism," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a news conference in Beijing.
"It consecrates monstrous crimes committed against Asia's victimized peoples, including those in China, by 14 Class A war criminals ... This is a major matter of principle bearing on the foundation of Sino-Japanese relations."
The visits, she said, were another attempt to whitewash Japan's history "and challenge the end result of World War Two, as well as the post-war international order".
As well as Japan's war dead, Yasukuni also honors Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal, making it a painful reminder to nations that suffered from Japanese aggression in the 20th century.
Internal Affairs Minister Yoshitaka Shindo was the most senior of about 160 lawmakers to visit the shrine to mark the festival, which runs until Sunday. A deputy chief cabinet secretary also went.
"I visited the shrine in a private capacity," Shindo said, noting that his grandfather is honored there. "I do not think this should become a diplomatic issue."
Sino-Japanese ties have been overshadowed for years by what China says has been Japan's refusal to admit to atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in China between 1931 and 1945.
Memories of a brutal Japanese occupation also remain strong in South Korea, where the Foreign Ministry repeated its view that Japanese lawmakers should stay away from the shrine.
"We urge Japanese politicians to show speech and actions based on humble introspection and reflection of the past that will help build trust with its neighboring countries," the ministry said in a statement.
Japan's deputy chief cabinet secretary Katsunobu Kato told a news conference he also visited in a private capacity.
"I think that it's only natural to pray for the repose of the souls of people who have given their precious lives for the nation," Kato said.
Ties with China have been fraught for months because of a territorial dispute over islets in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.
Japan's relations with South Korea have cooled over a separate territorial dispute.
Abe is seen as a hawkish nationalist with a conservative agenda that includes revising the post-war pacifist constitution, strengthening Japan's defense posture and recasting wartime history with a less apologetic tone.
He has said he regretted not visiting the shrine when he was prime minister in 2006-2007.
(Additional reporting by Antoni Slodkowski, Christine Kim and Megha Rajagopalan,; Editing by Paul Tait and Ron Popeski)


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John Gehring : Pope Francis shakes up Catholic Church by focusing on peopleBY JOHN GEHRING
March 18. 2014 4:37PM
The Vatican thinks in centuries. Formal and glacial of pace, the epicenter of global Catholicism is anchored in the deep waters of tradition and ancient ritual. Change is an unsettling visitor, especially when he shows up with sensible shoes and a plan.
Enter Pope Francis.
The first pope from Latin America, the first from the Jesuit religious order and the first to take the name of the most beloved saint of the poor, Francis has emerged as a spiritual troublemaker with a disarming style.
A year into his papacy, it turns out the Francis Doctrine isn't really much about doctrine at all. His vision to build a church "for the poor" and efforts to broaden the Catholic conversation beyond the flash points of sexual theology have lifted the spirits of many weary of culture-war Christianity. When the world's most visible religious figure warns the faithful that "small-minded rules" hurt the church, people sit up and take notice, for good reason. "We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards," Francis said.
Catholic bishops and other Christian leaders would be wise to take a page from the Francis playbook. The old models of leadership are failing. One in 10 Americans is a former Catholic, and one in five Americans no longer identifies with a religious denomination, according to Pew Research. This is even more true for the "millennial generation," those between ages 18 and 33. In his vision for a church that is "bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets," Francis provides a better road map for reaching the disaffected.
Preaching the Gospel's radical message of solidarity and sacrifice is countercultural. But Francis has proved that joy, mercy and even a sense of humor are undervalued tools for evangelization. "We must always consider the person," he says, in what could be described as a distillation of his pastoral approach. Doctrine has its place, but Christians should "fascinate the world" and convey the "freshness and fragrance of the Gospel." For Catholics who want everything "clear and safe," he said, faith only becomes "an ideology among other ideologies."
Some liberals are frustrated that the pope has not lifted the ban on women's ordination to the priesthood or overturned the church's teaching that contraception is an "intrinsic evil." Conservatives point to the same issues as proof that Francis is on their side. Both camps talk past each other and miss the big picture: The Francis revolution is first a project of profound spiritual renewal.
"We always need time to lay the foundations for real, effective change. ... The first reform must be the attitude," Francis told Antonio Spadaro, editor of a Jesuit magazine and a Jesuit priest, in a lengthy interview.
The pope's turning of the ship also has implications for the future of the Catholic Church and secular political debates.
In his efforts to reform the Vatican bureaucracy, Francis is looking beyond Rome for new insights. Only one of the eight cardinals he has named to a new council charged with restructuring church governance is a Vatican official. Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, the lone American on the council, is a Franciscan known for his modest living and focus on the poor. Last summer, Francis removed top officials at the scandal-ridden Vatican bank in an effort to address allegations of money laundering.
Francis has also called for a high-profile meeting of bishops in October that will address difficult family questions, including that of divorced and remarried Catholics who are denied communion unless they go through an often cumbersome annulment process. In preparation, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri directed bishops around the world to distribute a questionnaire asking Catholics about their views on contraception, cohabitation before marriage, same-sex unions and other hot-button topics. This solicitation of feedback is a sign that Francis values dialogue and consultation.
Along with his efforts to drive church reforms, he is already having an impact on political debates. This will only intensify in the run-up to his expected visit next fall to the United States, a year before the 2016 presidential election. Already, Congress has issued an invitation to the pope to address a joint session in 2015.
The pope has taken aim at what he calls an "economy of exclusion and inequality" at a time when President Barack Obama has described inequality as the "defining issue of our time." In sharp words that knocked many conservatives back on their heels, Francis said "trickle-down" economic theories have "never been confirmed by the facts" and express "a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power."
His description of abortion as part of a "throwaway culture" that devalues life should not be ignored by progressives and will undoubtedly be raised if, as expected, several Catholic abortion rights advocates run for President in 2016.
Francis can't change the church or elevate political debates to a higher plane alone. The real test in the months and years ahead will be whether Catholic bishops, clergy and those of us in the pews get the new memo from Rome.
John Gehring is Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, an advocacy group in Washington. You can follow him on Twitter @gehringdc.


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Here Is a Preview of Adele's Skyfall Theme
Adele goes a little Shirley Bassey on us, and we're okay with it.
Because there is no such thing as a traditional release date in music anymore, a clip from Adele's much-ballyhooed theme to Skyfall has leaked to the Internet, and it's ... well, it's an Adele song for a James Bond movie, so it's more or less what you were expecting. It's got shades of Shirley Bassey, which is to say it's sexy, cinematic, and relies on some very dramatic strings. Ask your parents what they think when your aunt forwards them the link in about six to eight weeks.


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University of Vermont
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Complex Systems (Certificate of Graduate Study)
The Certificate of Graduate Study in Complex Systems requires fifteen graduate credits, including two core courses, one course on core complex systems methodologies, and two approved and related complex systems electives. It may be earned either in conjunction with or independent of a UVM graduate degree program.
Additional information on the Certificate of Graduate Study in Complex Systems is available from the Complex Systems Center in the College of Engineering and Mathematics.
- Colleges and Schools: College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Graduate College.


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International students applying to Canada middle schools should begin planning early. Requirements or assessment tests vary from middle school to middle school, and the more time you give yourself to prepare, the easier your application, acceptance and overall process will be.
Personal preparation can be equally important, and there are a number of things you can do.


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People who are at higher risk for developing latex allergy include:
- Health care workers and others who frequently wear latex gloves
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