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sooo awesum n think i saw silly sketches in da bg while u were colorin it lol :p luv assassins creed tho n how well u drew ezio/his out here;fav n collect :))
whoa this is cool you've done really well on the shading - cool!!
Awesome :D 5h!!!
nice work :) i love your coloring style; keep up the good work!
I don't play Assassin's creed, but this drawing is still cool. Nice work!
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That's awesome! Love the shading and all the details! But above all I liked the fangirls XD (joking) 5/5. Good job!


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President Obama is set to sign into law, as the first legislation of his tenure, the so-called Lilly Ledbetter Act. It changes the rules for bringing lawsuits for alleged pay discrimination, enabling plaintiffs to bring stale claims, as Ledbetter herself attempted to do.
It is fitting that this law will be the first legislative product of the Obama presidency, for it is based on a lie. I demonstrated this last year in a post called "Lilly Ledbetter, Living a Lie."
The Lilly Ledbetter lie is today peddled in this Washington Post story, which suggests that she had no idea she was the victim of pay discrimination until she supposedly received an anonymous note tippling her off. So is the White House. (Hat tip, Openmarket.org.)
In honor of the occasion, I have re-posted my piece on Lilly's lie:
Lilly Ledbetter, the unsuccessful plaintiff in an equal pay case that went to the Supreme Court, has become ubiquitous this political season. She spoke at the Democratic National Convention, has testified in congressional hearings, and appears in an ad for Barack Obama. Congress is considering legislation that bears her name. The Washington Post, in a piece by Matthew Mosk, reverentially described her as "the Alabama woman whose fight for equal pay led her to the United States Supreme Court and inspired. . .fair pay legislation."
Not since the equally alliterative and industrial-sounding Rosie the Riveter, has a working woman become such a folk hero. But like Rosie, the Lilly Ledbetter being presented for public consumption is largely mythical.
The real Lilly Ledbetter worked for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company from 1979 until she retired in 1998. After she retired, she sued Goodyear under Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964 for alleged pay discrimination.
Ledbetter's pay discrimination claim went to a jury which found in her favor. However, the court of appeals reversed this verdict on the grounds that she did not file a charge of discrimination with the EEOC within the required statute of limitations period.
In her appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ledbetter raised the following issue:
"Whether and under what circumstances a plaintiff may bring an action under Title VII. . .alleging illegal pay discrimination when the disparate pay is received during the statutory limitations period, but is the result of intentionally discriminatory pay decisions that occurred outside the limitations period."
Ledbetter framed the issue this way because she did not claim that the relevant Goodyear decisionmakers acted with discriminatory intent during the limitations period. Instead, she asserted that the paychecks she received during this period were unlawful because they would have been larger if she had been treated in a nondiscriminatory manner prior to the limitations period.
In other words, the alleged intentional discrimination had occurred years earlier, outside of the limitations period. But Ledbetter felt its ongoing consequences every time she received a paycheck, until the end of her career, because her pay never caught up to where she believes it would have been absent the early discrimination. An employee's pay at any given point in time is typically a function of years of pay decisions.
The Supreme Court agreed with the court of appeals that Ledbetter's challenge to pay decisions that pre-dated the limitations period was time-barred. In doing so, the Court correctly applied three decades of its own precedent in cases where Title VII plaintiffs have attempted to rely on the current effects of past discrimination to defeat a statute of limitations defense.
The Court also emphasized the common sense proposition that stands behind these decisions: in discrimination cases "the employer's intent is almost always disputed and evidence relating to intent may fade quickly with time." Thus, an employee who waits until years after the underlyng alleged intentional act of discrimination to sue, as Ledbetter did, undermines the ability of the justice system to conduct a fair trial. For example, by the time Ledbetter brought her case to trial, the supervisor whose decisions formed the main basis for her pay discrimination claim was dead.
There is, of course, nothing novel in the Supreme Court's reasoning. Statute of limitations period exist precisely to prevent the injustice inherent in situations where a plaintiff "sleeps" on his or her rights for years.
Ledbetter and her Democratic fan club argue, however, that the result in her case permits hidden discrimination. They would have the public believe that the Ledbetter decision leaves plaintiffs who don't discover concealed discrimination for many years unable to overcome the statute of limitations defense, and thus unable to remedy wrongdoing.
This is nonsense. For decades the Supreme Court has recognized that the limitations period in a Title VII case can be extended or tolled in such circumstances. Tolling is available where, among other situations, the plaintiff has no reason to suspect discrimination at the time of the disputed event.
But Ledbetter did not argue that the limitations period should be tolled in her case, and for good reason. Ledbetter testified that she knew by 1992 that her pay was out of line with her peers. In 1995, she spoke to her supervisor about the problem, telling him that "I knew definitely that they were all making a thousand at least more per month than I was and that I would like to get in line." Yet Ledbetter waited until 1998 to file her EEOC complaint.
This delay is particularly difficult to understand given the fact that, in 1982, she had filed a sexual harassment complaint with the EEOC. That dispute was settled without litigation shortly thereafter. Had Ledbetter followed the same course with her pay claim, she would have had her day in court, and Goodyear would have had a fair chance to defend itself. That this did not occur is Ledbetter's fault.
Prevented by the facts from arguing in a real court that she didn't have enough knowledge about her pay situation to bring a timely EEOC charge, Ledbetter (and those who seek political advantage through her) now raise this false claim in the court of public opinion. For example, Ledbetter claims that "the only way that I really knew [about the pay discrimination] was that someone left an anonymous note in my mailbox showing my pay and the pay for the three males who were doing the same job, just on different shifts." According to Ledbetter, "when I saw that note, it just floored me. I was so shocked at the amount of difference in our pay for doing the same exact job. And I went immediately to EEOC."
This claim, of course, cannot be reconciled with her sworn testimony that three years before allegedly receiving the "anonymous note," she told her supervisor that she definitely knew that she was making thousands less than her male counterparts for the same work.
Lilly Ledbetter is living a lie, one that Barack Obama hopes will help propel him into the White House.
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Telangana fallout: Seemandhra ministers firm on resignations
The power blackout spread in Seemandhra as TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu brought the issue to Delhi by beginning a hunger strike against what he condemned as the Congress' attempt to "play politics" through the state's bifurcation.india Updated: Oct 08, 2013 10:15 IST
The Telangana statehood issue remained in the spotlight on Monday.
The power blackout spread in Seemandhra as Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu brought the issue to Delhi by beginning a hunger strike while a defiant Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy of the Congress declared that he would neither resign from his post nor allow the creation of a Telangana state.
And to add to the UPA government's difficulties, four union ministers from Seemandhra offered their resignations to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in protest against the union cabinet's nod to the splitting of Andhra Pradesh.
In Seemandhra, the power blackout in five districts spread to all 13 districts of the two regions that comprise it as striking electricity workers refused to withdraw their agitation against statehood for Telangana for the second day running on Monday.
The silver lining was that the violence that erupted over the weekend subsided on Monday with minor incidents in the worst-hit Vijayanagaram town of Seemandhra.
The curfew and shoot-at-sight orders imposed in Vijayanagaram on Sunday remained enforced on Monday, with district authorities announcing an hour's relaxation from 7am-8am on Tuesday.
While Seemandhra simmered, TDP chief Naidu began his hunger strike in protest against what he condemned as the Congress' attempt to "play politics" through the state's bifurcation.
Naidu, however, was non-committal on statehood for Telangana. "As a father if I have three children, I will treat all the children equally," he said, referring to Telangana, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema. "We have to do justice for both areas (Telangana and Seemandhra), discuss with people of both areas, resolve the problem amicably. If there is a new government, we will resolve it within six months," he claimed.
Naidu began his fast after a visit to Rajghat. Though he was reportedly denied permission to fast at Andhra Bhawan in central Delhi, he was there in the evening, continuing his fast.
Slamming the Congress, Naidu used the Italian word 'immobilismo', meaning standstill, to describe the Andhra situation. "The government in Delhi understands the Italian language. It is more appropriate for the government in Delhi and Congress party also," he said.
In a related development, four union ministers from Seemandhra met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi and requested him to accept their resignations.
HRD minister MM Pallam Raju, tourism minister K Chiranjeevi, minister of state for commerce D Purandeswari and minister of state for railways Surya Prakash Reddy also decided not to attend office in protest against the cabinet's decision to create a Telangana state.
Singh told them he will look into their request.
Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy Congress ruled out the possibility of the creation of Telangana before the Lok Sabha and assembly elections next year.
Reddy said he would not resign and as chief minister would continue to fight for a united Andhra Pradesh.
"My post is not important. It is not permanent. But the state is permanent. We must keep that in mind before taking a very important decision like bifurcation of a big state like Andhra Pradesh," Reddy told CNN IBN.
Video: Seemandhra MPs ask PM to accept resignation
Full Coverage: Telangana, a troubled state
Full Coverage: Telangana, a troubled state
READ: Congress MLAs to vote against Telangana bill Power crisis continues in AP as anti-Telangana protests enter 4th day
Congress MLAs to vote against Telangana bill
Power crisis continues in AP as anti-Telangana protests enter 4th day
Here are select quotes from TDP chief Naidu's press conference in Delhi
Naidu says he will use the Italian word "immobilismo to explain the situation in Andhra Pradesh because the Centre has failed to understand the severity of the crisis in the state.
Naidu says coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema are "immobilismo." "Things are at a standstill. Total standstill," he says in a dig at Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who is of Italian origin.
Seemandhra is burning for the last 70 days; nothing is moving: Naidu
I did my best to avoid Telangana's formation: Naidu
People have lost confidence in political parties: Naidu
Telangana decision muddled and opportunistic thinking of the Congress: Naidu
Congress has put self-interests over common interests - they wanted more seats, more votes and they're willing to sacrifice anything: Naidu
Congress is treating the Telangana issue as an internal matter of their party: Naidu
Congress released Jaganmohan Reddy so that he joins hands with them later: Naidu
Whenever there is an issue concerning society, political parties need to cooperate: Naidu
Common man in Seemandhra has lost confidence in govt, political parties: Naidu
What is happening in Andhra Pradesh - there is chaos, people have lost confidence in elected representatives: Naidu
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Fun.'s 'We Are Young' Tops Hot 100
Fun. is no longer the little band that could — it's the little band that has. Thanks to a bit of help from 'Glee,' the group's single, 'We Are Young,' has hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
The song, which is the first single from the band's sophomore album, 'Some Nights,' has successfully dethroned Kelly Clarkson's 'Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You),' bumping it to the No. 2 spot. It is the first track of the New York band's to have debuted on the chart.
According to Billboard, fun. is the first rock group in over a decade to have their debut single shoot to No. 1 on the Hot 100. The last multi-member band to accomplish this feat was Nickelback, who debuted with 'How You Remind Me' in December 2001/January 2002.
Congrats are also in order for Janelle Monae, too, who lends guest vocals to the catchy anthemic tune. Since its cover on 'Glee,' the song has been used in a Chevrolet commercial, which aired during the Super Bowl, and has been certified double platinum. This is fun. and Monae's first No. 1 single.
'We Are Young' is available now on the band's 'Some Nights' LP, which was released on Feb. 21.
Watch the fun. 'We Are Young' Video Feat. Janelle Monae


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The cover for "A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel," adapted and illustrated by Hope Larson.Link
Hope Larson adapted and illustrated Madeleine L'Engle's novel, "A Wrinkle in Time." (Farrar Straus Giroux)Link
A page from "A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel," adapted and illustrated by Hope Larson. (Farrar Straus Giroux / Margaret Ferguson Books)Link
A page from "A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel," adapted and illustrated by Hope Larson. (Farrar Straus Giroux / Margaret Ferguson Books)Link
A page from "A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel," adapted and illustrated by Hope Larson. (Farrar Straus Giroux / Margaret Ferguson Books)Link
A page from "A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel," adapted and illustrated by Hope Larson. (Farrar Straus Giroux / Margaret Ferguson Books)Link
A page from "A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel," adapted and illustrated by Hope Larson. (Farrar Straus Giroux / Margaret Ferguson Books)Link
A page from "A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel," adapted and illustrated by Hope Larson. (Farrar Straus Giroux / Margaret Ferguson Books)Link
A page from "A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel," adapted and illustrated by Hope Larson. (Farrar Straus Giroux / Margaret Ferguson Books)Link
A page from "A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel," adapted and illustrated by Hope Larson. (Farrar Straus Giroux / Margaret Ferguson Books)Link
It's been 50 years since Madeleine L'Engle's heroine Meg Murry first lay awake in her attic on "a dark and stormy night" in the pages of "A Wrinkle in Time." The novel, which followed Meg on a fantastic journey to save her father, became a touchstone for several generations of young readers enchanted by the idea of using a "tesseract" to travel through space and time. A new adaptation from graphic novelist Hope Larson brings L'Engle's story to life in gorgeous black, white and blue comic panels in "A Wrinke in Time: The Graphic Novel" — out today from Farrar Straus Giroux imprint Margaret Ferguson Books. Larson, best known for her middle-grade graphic novels "Mercury," "Chiggers" and "Salamander Dream," is signing books on Friday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m. at Secret Headquarters in Los Angeles. Hero Complex caught up with Larson to talk about the book.
HC: I'm sort of amazed. The book is beautiful. And it's nearly 400 pages.
HL: It's a beast. It's long. It took about two years. A couple of months to write the script, six months to do a rough draft of all of the art, and then like a year and a half to draw the whole thing.
HC: How did this project come about?
HL: It's actually pretty crazy. I just got an email out of the blue from Margaret Ferguson. She became my editor on this book. And she asked me if I'd be interested in adapting "A Wrinkle in Time" — which is not an email I ever expected to receive, and I had to read it a couple of times to make sure I was actually understanding it, because it didn't seem like it could be true. My theory is that because the Farrar Straus Giroux offices are down the hall from the First Second offices, I know a few of the First Second people, a few of the editors, and they're sort of aware of me.
HC: Were you a fan of the book growing up?
HL: Oh, yeah. It was definitely an important book for me. All of her books were important for me — the rest of the Time Quartet. It's one of those books that I've gone back to again and again throughout my life. I don't know if it's 'cause I read it at the right point in my life, that those images, like IT (the brain) and tessering, all that stuff just stuck in my head, and I went back to it, or if it's more. But there's something about her writing that just really gets me. And of course, the character of Meg is so wonderful. She's so angry and kind of a mess, and I can really relate to that.
HC: The black and white and blue is gorgeous. Why'd you decide on blue?
HL: Thank you. Blue, I feel like it's a pretty safe one. It's a cool color, so it sinks back into the field of vision or whatever, as opposed to like a pink or something, which would pop out more. It feels more versatile and less distracting to go with a blue.
HC: Did you work digitally? What was your process?
HL: The way I did this book was I did a rough-draft version of the book. I did the lettering first in Illustrator, and then I printed that page off on like printer paper, and then I did a really loose sketch of that page, and then scanned it back in. And we edited that draft of the book, the rough draft, and after we'd edited, I blew up all of those pages on the computer to 11 x 14, and printed them off in blue line and inked on top of them with brush and ink.
HC: So it really is hand-drawn. Many artists now work primarily in Photoshop or Illustrator.
HL: It's getting more common. I've never really done that. I'm just really attached to the tactile nature of drawing comics.
HC: Did you have to read the novel over and over as you worked on your adaptation?
HL: I really just read it the once, and I wrote the script. Because everything's in the script. I didn't cut anything, so I just read write through it and wrote the script at the same time.
HC: What images came to you first? Was there a part of the novel that you immediately envisioned and knew how you were going to draw it?
HL: When I'm drawing something, the first thing that I always do is work on the character design. Meg's the heart of the story, so I started with her. Figuring out what her glasses would look like and what her face would look like and her hair, and all of that stuff.
HC: "A Wrinkle in Time" has such a memorable opening scene, with Meg alone in the attic, and your first page captures that so well.
HL: The house that I illustrated on those pages is based on Madeleine L'Engle's actual house, Crosswicks I think it's called. So I read somewhere that the Murrys' house was basically supposed to be that house, so I found a picture and based it off of that.
HC: Did you have to do a lot of research like that?
HL: Not really a ton because most of the book doesn't take place on Earth, so you're off the hook. But the stuff that does take place on Earth, I treated as a period piece. I got Sears and Roebuck catalogs so I could look at the hair and the clothes and stuff from 1962, which is when the book came out. But it's really only the first 100 pages or something that are in the real world.
HC: Why do you think "A Wrinkle in Time" still holds up 50 years later?
HL: At least when I read it growing up, it felt very contemporary. I wasn't really even aware that it was a story that was published in the '60s. It has this freshness to it. And all the science and everything, it just doesn't feel like it has aged all that much. It feels that way more now, because we all have cellphones and we all have computers, but in the '80s and probably the '90s, you wouldn't sit down and think, "Oh this takes place like 50 years ago."
HC: I guess Meg's mother is sending letters to her father.
HL: Yeah, it's letters, and some of the slang. Like Calvin will call somebody "sport." Nobody's going to call anyone "sport" now. But it's cool.
HC: The novel is full of fantastical characters like Mrs. Whatsit and Aunt Beast. How did you go about deciding how to illustrate them?
HL: I just tried to pull out all of the details that are actually in the text about what they might look like and include as many of them as I possibly could, and base my designs off of that.
HC: Did you reference any of the old book covers?
HL: I didn't. I don't know if many of those illustrators actually even read the book. I always wonder about that. Don't you? I don't know. I've never done cover illustration. But there are a lot of just really weird ones for this book.
HC: It must have been a challenge to draw characters that communicate telepathically. Like Aunt Beast, whose communication is felt, not heard.
HL: I don't feel like that part of the book was especially tough. At that point, I had just been rolling for quite a while. I remembered the scene where she sings to Meg being something that my editor and I talked about, because music is not really something that you can portray visually very easily, and there's this one page, where she's just sort of doing the singing, and it's just sort of like surreal. There's this speech balloon that's coming out of Aunt Beast that's got a picture of Meg inside of it. It's just sort of this amorphous thing.
HC: Were there are any other parts that were particularly challenging?
HL: The dark thing was tough, because it's just supposed to be this creeping dread. It's like depression, basically. It's more of a feeling than a visual thing. So it was tough to come up with a way to represent that that wasn't just a monster.
HC: Had you ever done an abridgement before?
HL: No, this is my first adaptation.
HC: Would you be open to doing more adaptations? Or do you prefer to write your own stuff?
HL: I really miss doing my own things. I don't think I would do it again. I would consider it, but probably not for a comic. Basically, what I'm saying is I wouldn't do it, but you never know. I don't want to say that I would never work with another writer again, but I'm more drawn to writing my own stuff.
HC: How is the process different between doing original work and doing adaptations?
HL: It's not really that different because I write a script for the books that I write for myself, so when I actually sit down to draw, it's like a different part of your brain comes into play, and it feels basically the same. I mean, you're more concerned about getting the intent of the words across when it's something you haven't written yourself, because if you did write it yourself, you could be like, "Oh, well this isn't really working. I'm going to try something else here." But I couldn't do that.
HC: Did you work very closely with L'Engle's estate? Did they request any major changes to your work?
HL: The estate was actually really lovely, and I know that they basically instigated this whole project, which is pretty cool. So I didn't work directly with them. They were communicating with my editor, and she was relaying everything to me, and I never had a problem. They were delightful, which is not what I was expecting, because you always worry. You hear horror stories about people's estates, and that was just not the case at all.
HC: What will kids get out of your graphic novel that they can't get from the original novel?
HL: My hope is that kids who are intimidated by the novel may try the graphic novel. And if they can get through the graphic novel, they'll basically have read the novel already because almost all of the text is in there. Most of it's dialogue. So if they can get through the graphic novel, it should be a piece of cake for them to go back and read the novel.
HC: What else do you have coming up?
HL: I have another graphic novel coming out in I think April, called "Who Is AC?" and it's original. I wrote it, but I did not draw it. It's drawn by Tintin Pantoja, who is amazing, and it's a middle-grade fantasy sort of book. I always pitch it as Sailor Moon versus the Internet. It's fun, it's light and hopefully it will be a series. We will see. And aside from that, I'm finishing a short film that I wrote and directed, which is called "Bitter Orange," and that will be on the Internet at some point. It's a '20s period piece, set in L.A., and I don't really want to say much more than that. It stars Brie Larson and Brendan Hines and James Urbaniak.
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14 mailboxes damaged in Burlington, teens arrested
14 mailboxes damaged in Burlington, teens arrested
Three teens have been arrested on suspicion of damaging more than a dozen mailboxes over the holiday weekend.
Evan Taylor Steelman, 18; Aaron Blake Howard, 18; and Steven MacLean Nix, 17; all of Burlington, were arrested in connection with incidents reported Saturday and Sunday.
Nine mailboxes were damaged Saturday in the 300 block of Collinwood Drive, and five others were damaged Sunday in the 200 block of Coachlight Trail, Burlington police said.
Total damage was estimated at $500.
Steelman and Howard were both charged with 14 counts of injury to real property, while Nix was charged with five counts of injury to real property.
All were held in the Alamance County Jail under secured bonds ranging from $500 to $800.


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Sales of previously owned U.S. homes increased in January, showing more momentum for the industry coming off its best year since 2007.
Purchases of existing houses, tabulated when a contract closes, increased 0.4% to a 4.92 million annual rate, figures from the National Association of Realtors showed today in Washington. The median forecast of 79 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 4.9 million pace. The number of available properties slumped to the lowest level since 1999.
A sustained pickup in housing will depend on faster progress in the labor market, fewer foreclosures and easier access to credit. Mortgage rates close to all-time lows and the prospect of firming prices are luring buyers at the same time the inventory of homes shrinks and limits bigger gains in sales.
"It's a good start to the year," said Carl Riccadonna, senior U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in New York, who projected a 4.9 million rate. "Incomes continue to rise, interest rates are low and inventory is lean. The outlook is improving."
Stocks held losses after the figures on concern Federal Reserve policy makers will scale back economic stimulus. The S&P 500 decreased 0.5% to 1,504.74 at 10:27 a.m. in New York.
Estimates in the Bloomberg survey ranged from 4.7 million to 5.1 million. The prior month's pace was revised to 4.9 million from a previously reported 4.94 million.
Last Year
Today's report includes the Realtors group's annual revisions to sales and months' supply data from 2010 through 2012. Some 4.66 million previously owned houses were sold last year, the most since 2007.
Other data showed more Americans filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, returning to levels seen prior to the holiday period and indicating little change in the pace of firings. Jobless claims increased by 20,000 to 362,000 in the week ended Feb. 16, the Labor Department reported today in Washington.
The agency also said that its consumer-price index was unchanged for a second month in January. The so-called core measure, which excludes more volatile food and energy costs, increased 0.3%, the most in more than a year and pushed up by gains in clothing, hotel rates and airline fares.
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The National Corn Growers Association says its Revenue Counter-Cyclical Program proposal would provide farmers with safety net protection when they actually need it at a cost of only $500 million above the Congressional Budget Office baseline.
The latest edition of the NCGA's proposal for revamping the farm bill was delivered at a March 28 hearing of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management. The subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Bob Etheridge, D-N.C., is expected to write the commodity title of the 2007 farm bill.
"Most producers agree that the commodity support programs in the 2002 farm bill have served them well," said Ken McCauley, NCGA president and a farmer from White Cloud, Kan. "Extending these programs, though, would do nothing to address the flaws NCGA has noted since the summer of 2002 or the solutions we have recommended.
"Too many farmers have learned the hard way that today's farm supports may be effective when the price is low, but the income protection available when yields are low has proven to be less than adequate."
Briefing reporters on the proposal before the hearing, McCauley acknowledged higher prices would seem to make the safety net less of an issue for corn growers. USDA's latest forecast for 2007 has farmers planting 90.5 million acres of corn — an increase of 12.2 million from last year — to meet the rising demand for ethanol.
The renewable fuels phenomenon has created a "whole new plateau for corn prices," he said. "But we all know the next problem for our farmers could be just around the corner."
Problems with drought and low yields in some parts of the Corn Belt led the National Corn Growers Association to begin taking a critical look at the current farm bill not long after President Bush signed it on May 13, 2002.
Producers have found that higher corn and wheat prices resulting from crop shortfalls precluded the 2002 farm bill's counter-cyclical payments for the grains and farmers could not receive loan deficiency payments for corn and wheat they didn't grow.
"Although projections of higher commodity prices, alone, present a strong case for a revenue-based farm program, it is producers' experiences with drought and other adverse weather conditions in isolated areas that have drawn our attention to what some economists have referred to as a hole in the safety net," McCauley said at the hearing.
"Under these circumstances, growers have been unable to fully benefit from higher market prices and cannot depend on counter-cyclical payments at a fixed target price to reduce the adverse impact of lost income."
Higher corn prices in recent years have meant USDA has not made counter-cyclical payments for corn, soybeans and wheat for most of the life the current farm bill. Cotton producers, on the other hand, could receive an average of $74.22 per acre in CCP payments for 2006-07, according to the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute.
McCauley said the National Corn Growers' Public Policy Action Team spent two years developing the Revenue Counter-Cyclical Program, drawing on state corn grower associations and Iowa State and other universities for analysis of the program's features.
The RCCP, which is the basic premise of the NCGA's National Farm Security Act, would make changes that would help ensure better protection against volatile commodity prices and significant crop losses and would provide permanent disaster assistance.
The RCCP has already undergone one major alteration, the removal of the base revenue protection feature contained in the initial Corn Growers' submission to its state organizations last summer and fall.
Under BRP, payments would have been triggered when net farm corn revenue fell more than 30 percent below the previous five-year Olympic average of per-acre net corn revenue on the farm. Per acre net revenue would have been based on farm yields, a national price and regional variable cost estimates.
The program was designed to allow the United States to report BRP payments to the World Trade Organization as "Green Box" support.
Critics said BRP, which, when combined with the Revenue Counter-Cyclical Program, could have cost 43 percent more than the current policy, might not have passed muster for placement in the WTO's Green Box.
The NCGA's latest proposal does not mention Base Revenue Protection. Instead, it focuses on replacing the existing counter-cyclical program, loan deficiency payments and the non-recourse marketing loan program with more comprehensive and cost-effective risk management tools.
Those would include a combination of Revenue Counter-Cyclical Program payments and federal crop insurance. Direct payments, meanwhile, would continue to provide a foundation of support.
"Rather than target low prices, the RCCP would make payments when a county's realized crop revenue is less than a crop's trigger revenue," said McCauley. "When the actual per-acre revenue falls below the per-acre trigger revenue, producers would be compensated for the difference.
"I need to emphasize that a farm's total payment would equal the per-acre payment multiplied by planted acres rather than base acres as is the case with today's price-triggered program."
The county-based program is similar to Group Risk Income Protection, a product developed by Iowa State University that is currently offered through the federal crop insurance program. Similar to GRIP, the proposed RCCP trigger revenue for a county would equal the product of RCCP coverage level, the expected county yield and the projected price level.
The harvest price and a crop's actual county yield reported by USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service would determine the actual county revenue. But RCCP would not include a Harvest Revenue Option, which can increase payments if the harvest price is greater than the projected price.
In an example provided by the Corn Growers, a county with a 145-bushel per acre corn yield and a February insurance price of $2.83 per bushel would have expected county revenue of $410 per acre. An actual county yield of 158 bushels per acre and a season average price of $2.05 per bushel would equal realized county revenue of $325 per acre.
Subtracting the $325 per acre from the 95-percent trigger level envisioned by the Corn Growers for the RCCP — $389.50 per acre in this example — would provide a Revenue Counter-Cyclical Payment of $64.50 per acre.
"In most years, RCCP payments would be triggered by the same events that lead to the great majority of crop insurance indemnity payments: droughts, excessive or inadequate heat, excessive rain or widespread disease-related losses," said McCauley. "Hail, wind damage or local flooding may also cause losses at the farm level, but not enough toward county losses to trigger RCCP payments."
He said the Corn Growers recognize the potential for overlapping coverage with RCCP and crop insurance. "Consequently, NCGA proposes to integrate RCCP payments with the federal crop insurance program to create a more effective and cost efficient farm safety net."
Corn Grower leaders believe that by providing a first line of revenue protection and reducing the price risk and production risk now borne by private insurance companies, the latter could provide individual revenue insurance at higher coverage levels.
Farmer-paid premiums of buy-up revenue insurance policies, which appear to be much more widely used in the Midwest than the Sun Belt, would drop significantly through the re-rating of insurance products by the Risk Management Agency, according to analysis provide to the NCGA.
The Corn Growers' RCCP proposal adopts and alternative approach that offers the advantage of providing savings for farmers wanting to purchase crop insurance while reducing the financial risks of the private insurance industry, says McCauley.
"We believe this change offers the potential of further strengthening the private-public partnership by making sure that most private insurance companies survive even through the heavy loss years," he notes. "Another advantage to this direct approach is that it would provide a standing disaster program for farmers who grow program crops.
"Unlike the uncertainty and protracted delays that are now the norm for agriculture disaster assistance, RCCP would automatically provide payments to all farmers in counties that suffer low revenue."
A county-based RCCP modeled after the Group Risk Income Protection insurance policy would provide permanent disaster assistance less costly than the ad hoc disaster aid programs that have averaged near $1.8 billion on an annual basis, says McCauley.
"Assuming a level of 75 percent buy-up individual revenue insurance, a county revenue guarantee at a coverage level of 95 percent of the projected price and a two-year implementation delay of a five-year farm bill, the annual cost of the NFSA is projected at about $500 million above baseline."
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The observance of Old Home Day has been a long-standing Londonderry, New Hampshire tradition. Londonderry will be celebrating their 119th; one of the oldest consecutive celebrations in the State. Londonderry is one of a handful of communities that have faithfully observed Old Home Day on the third weekend in August. Started in 1899 by Governor Frank Rollins as an effort to remedy the decline of the small farming town by inviting former residents, friends and family back to the Granite State.
Since September 2017, the Town's volunteer Old Home Day Committee has been actively planning Londonderry's 119th celebration, an event that attracts over 10,000 people. The event has grown in popularity with the addition of activities which peak the interest of young and old alike. This year's Old Home Day Celebration is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 and ends Sunday, August 19, 2018.
The five-day event promises to provide some good old-fashioned fun for past and present residents of all ages. Events and activities include band concerts, kidz and movie night, fireworks, a parade, a 5k road race, a baby contest, Londonderry Sings, and children's games. Old Home Day offers a family orientated atmosphere which makes this a special home town celebration.
The Londonderry Old Home Day Committee is a group of volunteer citizens that successfully organize and plan the event each year. They hold monthly meetings from September to August on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm in the Sunnycrest conference room at Londonderry Town Hall. There is always a need for more committee volunteers. If you want to get involved in your community, this is a great committee to join. Funding for Old Home Day is a partnership between the town and the local business community. The Committee successfully raises over $10,000.00 each year.
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BUNDAMBA MP Jo-Ann Miller has been thrown out the Queensland Parliament for the second straight day yesterday after accusing the Speaker of "vilifying" her.
The outspoken Labor MP has now been ejected from the house four times in four months and faces a hearing before the parliamentary ethics committee.
Opponents last night labelled her a "disgrace", but Mrs Miller insisted she would continue to hold the "soap opera" LNP government to account.
Her first ejection came in August when she described Premier Campbell Newman as a "dill" and two weeks ago she was ejected once again for failing to bow to the Deputy Speaker - the position held by Ipswich's LAP MP Ian Berry.
On Tuesday's late sitting of Parliament Ms Miller was "sin-binned" for an hour following a spat with Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie.
She took offence to comments Mr Bleijie made about the former Labor Government's work with youths.
She had previously been warned for her interjections and was swiftly removed.
Yesterday's incident erupted when Mrs Miller asked how the State Government could govern Queensland "if they couldn't govern themselves"?
Speaker Fiona Simpson ordered Mrs Miller to rephrase the question, prompting the MP to accuse the Speaker of vilifying her.
Before she could then reword the question Mrs Miller was ejected for an hour, after which she returned to the chamber and apologised to Ms Simpson.
But it wasn't enough to prevent her conduct from being referred to the ethics committee for further investigation.
Ipswich West MP Sean Choat watched the scenes and described Mrs Miller's behaviour as "disturbing".
"Her behaviour has been nothing short of a disgrace and as an experienced MP I expect better. We all have passion, I think that's part of the job," he said.
"The member for Bundamba has let down her electorate by seemingly juvenile and disrespectful behaviour.
"I think the member for Bundamba should reflect on today, being ejected again and having now been referred to the Parliamentary ethics committee."
Mrs Miller could not comment on yesterday's events, but defended her disciplinary record.
"I am an MP of conviction and I fight for what's right for my constituency and my fellow Queenslanders and if I must pay a personal price at times, then I will," she said.
"This is part and parcel of holding the LNP and it's out of control, soap opera of a government to account.
"I will continue to work hard to hold the Government to account which has had serious questions of integrity and accountability raised in its handling of a range of issues."
Meanwhile, Ian Berry was yesterday promoted to chairman of the legal affairs committee in place of Dr Alex Douglas, who has been critical of the LNP's decision to build a cruise terminal on the Gold Coast.
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Senator Ben Nelson's (12-26-12) letter to The Times is acknowledgement of the beginning of the end of an era. A recognition of diminishing ability for traditional Democrats to remain in the "Democrat" Congress. Nelson has witnessed the decline of bipartisanship, writing "Sadly...the word 'compromise' has become a dirty word." My response is the same as I wrote (02-08-12) after Mary Kay Quinlan of Nebraska News Service asked in a letter "When did compromise become a four-letter word?"
It was Jan. 23, 2009. Three days after taking office, President Barack Obama responded to Republican objections against some provisions of his economic stimulus package. "I won. So I think on that one, I trump you." This statement got very little media coverage. After nearly two years of Democrat partisan plunder and ramming through freedom killing legislation like Obamacare, a statement by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (10-23-10) about making Obama a one-term president, is still being used by the media as the definitive example of partisanship and even racism.
Nelson's letter also acknowledged his success in getting federal funding for worthwhile state projects. He shares this effort with most politicians whose roles have been reduced to those of beggars. We send our representatives to Washington, D.C. in an effort to recover some of the money that the federal government has stolen from our state. I don't fault Sen. Nelson for this. It took over 200 years to get here.
For all citizens to be represented, both sides need advocates expressing their positions. I have voted for Sen. Nelson because I believe that he truly does care about Nebraska and approached most issues with common sense. We have disagreed on more than several issues over the years, but he impressed me by being the only representative who responded to my letters and emails personally (not form letters). Usually he would rationalize with "it's a good start" while I opposed there being a "start." In our disagreement he never tried to deceive me about his intentions.
At a "town hall" in Kearney during the healthcare debate, he told me he would never vote for a bill that included taxpayer funded abortion. That was not my primary concern because taxpayers already fund it through Title X, but I accepted that answer because I knew the progressives/socialists would never throw Planned Parenthood out of the bill. I can only imagine the pressure Obama's Chicago mob brought down on him (the "rack" and nailing of knees to the floor come to mind).
He eventually capitulated and voted for the bill. He went from hero to zero. The scourge of Obamacare may be impossible to rescind at this point and possibly forever. Voting for it was a bridge too far and Nelson was on the wrong side when the bridge collapsed. That being said, overall I think Sen. Nelson has been a good public servant because in essence he is a good man. There are far too few of those in Congress these days.
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Carla Elaine Harvey died Feb. 28, 2010, in Vancouver, Wash., where she resided after brain cancer surgery in February 2007.
Carla was born Feb. 22, 1950, in Red Cloud, Neb., and moved with her family to Hood River, Ore., in October 1955. She attended schools in Hood River, graduating high school with the class of 1968.
Carla lived and worked in Portland, Ore., for most of her adult life, with a long career with Cellular One phone company.
Carla was always eager to make crafts as gifts, and there are many families who received handmade blankets and baby bibs as a result of Carla's love and generosity.
Carla continually strived to help others around her in any way she possibly could, a trait inherited from her mother, Ruth Harvey.
Carla never married and had no children.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Ruth Harvey, and is survived by her father, Bud Harvey and his wife, Vada, of Hood River; sister Liane Harvey, of Tigard, Ore., and her children Trista and Aaron Starks; and brother Dennis Harvey and his wife, Julie, of Hood River, and their son, Patrick.
Carla was fun-loving and by nature had many friends growing up in Hood River. The Harvey household was a buzz of activity in and around our home on Eliot Road, and seemed never a dull moment. Life was filled with everything that kids and friends bring with them.
A constant in all that we knew, Carla will be dearly missed by everyone who was touched by her giving spirit.
At Carla's request, no memorial service will be held.
Upon cremation, her ashes will be laid to rest in the valley where she was raised and grew up.
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BOSTON (AP) — Jamal Crawford hit a pair of 3-pointers 23 seconds apart to help the Clippers pull away in the last 3 minutes and former Celtics coach Doc Rivers won his first game back in Boston when Los Angeles beat the Celtics 96-88 Wednesday night.
Crawford came off the bench to score 21 points and Chris Paul had 22 points, nine assists and seven rebounds. Blake Griffin scored 18 points for the Clippers, who won for the seventh time in 10 games.
Jeff Green scored 29 points against his former coach, who was traded to Los Angeles last summer for a first-round draft pick. Jordan Crawford had 20 points and nine assists, and Brandon Bass had 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Celtics, who lost their second in a row.
Boston lost to the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night, kicking off a reunion week of sorts by facing former Celtics Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. One night later, Rivers returned to the TD Garden, where the banner for the franchise's unprecedented 17th NBA title hangs from the rafters.
The Clippers continue his reunion week Thursday night when against Garnett and Pierce in Brooklyn.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Curry made a pull-up jumper with 3 seconds remaining to cap a sensational fourth quarter, rallying Golden State from 18 points down to beat Dallas.
Curry scored 16 of his 33 points in the final period. He finished with nine assists, four rebounds and another big shot in a young career already full of them.
With the clock winding down, Curry dribbled on the perimeter, came off a screen and faked a shot to send Shawn Marion jumping past him. Curry then made a 19-footer to give Golden State the lead for good.
Jose Calderon heaved a desperation shot at the buzzer that was never close.
Harrison Barnes scored 17 points, David Lee added 15 points and 11 rebounds, and Andrew Bogut grabbed a season-high 18 rebounds to help the Warriors overcome 18 turnovers and a sloppy start.
Monta Ellis and Dirk Nowitzki each scored 21 points, and Calderon had 18 as Dallas finished 2-2 on its road trip.
NEW YORK (AP) — Carmelo Anthony had 30 points and 10 rebounds, and New York pulled out the victory over Chicago after blowing a 23-point lead.
Amare Stoudemire made the tiebreaking jumper with 2:35 left and finished with 14 points and nine rebounds for the Knicks, who ended a two-game losing streak but made it harder on themselves than necessary with some sloppy second-half offense.
Mike Dunleavy Jr. scored 20 points for the Bulls, who have lost three straight and five of six. They are having a dreadful time scoring, topping out at 75 points in their previous two games and barely surpassing that in this one.
Joakim Noah had 12 points and 11 rebounds in his return after missing a game with a bruised right thigh, but Luol Deng missed his third straight game with a sore left Achilles.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kevin Love had 26 points, 15 rebounds and five assists, and Minnesota rallied from a 19-point deficit to beat slumping Philadelphia.
Ricky Rubio had 21 points, seven assists and five rebounds, Nikola Pekovic added 20 points and 10 rebounds, and Robbie Hummel hit a couple of big shots for the Wolves in the fourth quarter to key the comeback.
Spencer Hawes had 20 points and six rebounds for the Sixers, who led 39-20 after a tremendous first quarter and still held a 13-point advantage at halftime. But they turned the ball over 26 times and shot 14 free throws to Minnesota's 29.
Hummel scored all 10 of his points in the fourth, including a 3-pointer that started the deciding 13-3 run.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Richard Jefferson scored 20 points and Utah halted a four-game skid by cruising past Sacramento.
The Jazz led by 24 points heading into the fourth quarter, five points more than their previous largest lead after a quarter this season.
Derrick Favors and Gordon Hayward scored 17 points apiece for the Jazz, who established season highs for assists (35) and points scored. Utah, which has the NBA's worst record (5-20), shot 54 percent and scored more than 100 points for just the sixth time this season.
Alec Burks had 15 points and rookie point guard Trey Burke added 11 points and nine assists for Utah.
DeMarcus Cousins had 17 of his 21 points in the second half and added 11 rebounds for the Kings, who had their two-game winning streak snapped.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Russell Westbrook scored 27 points and Kevin Durant added 18 to lead Oklahoma City over Memphis.
Reserve guard Jeremy Lamb added a career-high 18 points to help the Thunder to their fourth straight win and 12th in 13 games. Neither Westbrook nor Durant played in the fourth quarter, when the Thunder maintained a double-digit lead.
Mike Conley had 20 points for the Grizzlies and Zach Randolph and reserve Jon Leuer scored 17 apiece.
Memphis ended a season-long six-game homestand with the loss.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ryan Anderson shook off an unusually poor shooting night from long range, hitting two clutch 3-pointers in overtime that carried New Orleans past Detroit.
Jason Smith scored 22 points and grabbed a career-high 16 rebounds for the Pelicans, who snapped a two-game skid while handing Detroit its third straight loss. Anderson finished with 22 points on 6-of-18 shooting, including 4 of 12 from 3-point range. Jrue Holiday added 19 points and Al-Farouq Aminu had 11 points and 14 rebounds.
New Orleans native Greg Monroe had 28 points and 10 rebounds for Detroit, which led by 3 points early in overtime before Anderson's first 3 of the extra session tied it. Brandon Jennings added 25 points and Rodney Stuckey 20.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Tim Duncan had 21 points and 16 rebounds while playing just 24 minutes and Tony Parker added 15 points in San Antonio's rout of Milwaukee.
San Antonio had lost three of its last six games after starting the season 13-1, but dominated from the opening tip, scoring the first nine points. An 8-0 run extended the Spurs lead to 27-10.
The Bucks pulled within 41-30 in the second quarter, but the Spurs responded with a 10-0 run. The Spurs led 63-40 at the half and extended it to 92-54 entering the final period.
Kawhi Leonard scored 13 points, Marco Belinelli added 11, and Danny Green and Cory Joseph had 10 apiece for the Spurs, who shot 52.3 percent, despite making only 4 of 17 3-point attempts.
Rookie guard Nate Wolters led the Bucks with a season-high 18 points.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jameer Nelson had 12 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter and Orlando snapped a six-game losing streak by beating Charlotte.
Glen Davis added 17 points and 12 rebounds and Nikola Vucevic chipped in with 12 points and 14 rebounds. Arron Afflalo had 16 points.
Nelson came up with a big 3-pointer late for the Magic, and also had seven rebounds and six assists while outplaying fellow point guard Kemba Walker.
The Bobcats shot 37 percent from the field to see their two-game win streak come to an end.
Al Jefferson led Charlotte with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Walker, who had 31 points against Stephen Curry on Monday night, was held to 10 points on 4 of 18 shooting.


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Craig's Lust
Slate editors squabble about the Idaho senator's bathroom arrest.
When the news of Sen. Larry Craig's arrest and guilty plea for lewd conduct broke Monday evening, it set off a vigorous e-mail squabble among Slate editors. Some of us thought the arrest was justified, others were appalled, others were amazed by the arrest report; others were merely baffled. Usually we try to wait until our ideas are fully baked before we publish them, but in this case, we thought the half-baked (and quarter-baked) arguments would interest readers.
Dahlia Lithwick: "Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, was arrested in June at a Minnesota airport by a
plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men's public restroom, according to an arrest report obtained by Roll Call Monday afternoon."
John Dickerson: Yes, I've been trying to e-mail everyone the story. It's quite detailed about the signals men apparently send in bathrooms.
Will Saletan: "Craig tapped his toes several times and moved his foot closer to my foot. I moved my foot up and down slowly." Is moving your foot up and down a signal of encouragement? Somebody must have a web site that explains the code.
Jacob Weisberg: Shouldn't we stick up for the poor guy? I can't believe it's a crime to tap your foot on the bathroom to signal that you want to hook up, as opposed to actually having sex in the bathroom.
By the way, isn't this what they got the LBJ aide Walter Jenkins on? Though I think it was in flagrante in that case.
June Thomas: Amen, the police are forever entrapping guys in public restrooms for peeing while gay. Or rather, peeing while wearing nice loafers.
Dickerson: I agree it seems ridiculous, but isn't it the public nature of the thing that's the problem? You don't want the full blown act, as it were, happening where toddlers are being changed out of their pull-ups?
Saletan: Can someone explain the mechanics of how two people are supposed to commit a sex act in a stall where legs are visible from the knee down? Do people just walk in and not notice that four legs are in the stall?
Bill Smee: Just one of several privacy challenges that must be overcome.... At least the roller bag at the front of the stall blocks any direct walk-ins on the conjugal commode.
Dickerson: I'm a fan of someone sticking up for Craig. There's more inappropriate airport behavior in the security pat down line.
Jack Shafer: I'm all for sex. Straight. Gay. Solo outings. Orgies. But I can understand why there are laws against "lewd conduct" in public places such as bathrooms and why they're enforced. I'm not going to stick up for Craig.
Plotz, my cubicle-mate, asked why Craig would want to have sex in an airport. Then, channeling Saletan, he said, "Oh, it was a layover."
David Plotz: Having just read the arrest report, I am unimpressed. Craig didn't disturb anyone, made very subtle signs and only touched the guy in response to a positive signal from the cop. If they want to stop disturbing and disorderly conduct, they need to find more disorder than this.
I understand why they want to stop a bathroom from becoming a den of blowjobs, but this seems pathetic. Also—there is little deterrent effect in doing this generally. It is an airport, so by definition it caters to people in transit, who aren't going to know that it has become a police target.
Dickerson: Seems to me you should have to go a bit beyond tapping your toes.
Shafer: He pleaded guilty to lewd conduct.
Plotz: Jack, for a libertarian such as yourself to say that a guilty plea is the last word is crazy. You, of all people, know the power of the state to bully and coerce in the enforcement of its laws. This is the case of an excessive law and a frightened arrestee.
Shafer: So all guilty pleas are bogus? I don't follow your logic. I also don't think the arrest qualifies as entrapment under the law. Would you be persuaded to change your position if you learned that the lav in question was a well known anonymous sex refill station?
Plotz: Of course not. He is guilty—but of a fake crime. The fact of the guilty plea does not somehow end discussion. He pleaded guilty because he was scared and embarrassed about the public revelation. The problem—my libertarian friend—is that the government has put on its books a law that serves very little public purpose, and has given the police free rein to enforce it with heavy hands (and tapping feet). You should be objecting to the excessive power of the state being harnessed to create and enforce laws that serve so little purpose.
Weisberg: I'm sure it is a pickup spot—which is why a police decoy was there trolling for weary travelers. And I have no problem with the cops arresting people for having sex there—or for standing at the door 24/7 to discourage it. But I don't think propositioning someone should be a crime.
Of course you plead guilty in this situation to minimize the publicity, whether you think you're guilty or not. The punishment is a fine—vs. what would have been a much bigger national scandal.
Chadwick Matlin: Has anyone gotten a comment from Minneapolis' airport police about the previous complaints in this stall? How frequently were wide stances disrupting travelers' routines?
Shafer: The lavatory in question was so busy that airport authorities had to use air traffic control computers to queue users to their seats.
Dickerson: But apparently the bathroom was not so busy that a guy could peer through the crack in the stall door for two minutes without someone saying, "Move along, buddy." I'm devolving into dorm room hypotheticals here, but if a guy looks into a stall for two minutes and the person being spied upon doesn't say "shove off," isn't that presumably the initiating signal for the peeping tom to start the toe tapping?
Thomas: But remember, the cop's been in the stall for 13 minutes. He's sitting there waiting to be propositioned.
Weisberg: Look, there's a cop sitting on a john in a smelly airport bathroom and he only gets to leave when he arrests somebody. I'm saying if he can't make it sound any worse than that, it really wasn't that bad.
Shafer: June, so you're saying a cop shouldn't police lavs?
Thomas: I'm saying we should focus on finding Osama Bin Laden in Waziristan. I think there are laws policemen take way too much pleasure in enforcing, and this one is right on top. How many people challenge (much less win) charges like this?
I can think of no less enticing a place for cottaging than an airport restroom at noon. For one thing, we all know that there are cameras everywhere in airports. I have no expectation of privacy anywhere in an airport. We're all taking the policeman's statement to be entirely truthful—and I'm not so sure of that.
Shafer: I'm fine with public lavs being no-sex zones and for police to enforce such bans. Just because you think some cops like to enforce this law isn't an argument against enforcing it.
There's a whole culture of anonymous sex by men who don't identify as gay, which I assume is the senator's case. They don't want to go to gay bars or other places to meet men because they're married, they're hung up, they're priests and don't want to be found out. They crave the anonymity. (When I ran City Paper we did a big feature on the culture of anonymous sex in public places in the District.)
Thomas: I'm sure you're right about the senator not identifying as gay.
Personally, I think cottagers are out of their minds (such is the damage caused by homo-hating, societal and internal), and I have no brief for harassment of bathroom-users who simply wish to use the facilities or can think of no other place they'd rather hang out for a couple of hours when in the airport.


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½ tsp five-spices powder
½ tsp ground white pepper
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- Arrange chicken wings on a microwaveable plate or bowl, cook uncovered on high for 5-7 minutes depending on the amount of drumlet and the size.
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Ben Affleck - 'Argo' Wins Big At The SAG Awards!
Ben Affleck and Bradley Cooper look dapper while taking the stage at the 2013 Screen Actors Guild Awards held at the Shrine Exposition Center on Sunday (January 27) in Los Angeles.
The actors both presented their films, Argo and Silver Linings Playbook respectively, for the Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture – which went to the cast of Argo!
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Earlier that day, Ben was on daddy duty as he took his adorable daughters Violet and Seraphina shopping at the farmer's market in Pacific Palisades.
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Eindhoven: DIAMANT/EIDMA minicourse on Lambda Calculus and Term Rewriting Systems16-2-2009 - 20-2-2009
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NWO, following a shortlist provided by the DIAMANT board, has decided to award 3 PhD positions to young DIAMANT members: Dion Gijswijt (TU Delft), Jan Steffen Müller (RUG) and Arno Kret (UvA).
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The funding of all four mathematics clusters has been continued by NWO. For the coming two years 85 kE will be available in each cluster.
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A capset in a finite dimensional vector space over the field with 3 elements is a subset that contains no 3-term arithmetic progressions. Dion Gijswijt (TU Delft) and Jordan Ellenberg have independently obtained a bound on the size of a capset that for the first time improves substantially on the trivial bound 3^n. Read more in Terence Tao's blog about these developments.


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John Ray Ryan, 63, passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, at his residence. John was born on Sept. 21, 1950, at Coldwater, the son of John and Marie (Goyen) Ryan.
John graduated from the Fairfield High School in Langdon in 1968. John enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1969. He served during the Vietnam War, and was honorably discharged in 1979 as a sergeant. In 1979 John began working for Continental Telephone Company and he advanced in his telecommunication career until 2008.
John married Robin on June 19, 1999 in Branson, Mo. She survives, of the home.
Other survivors include children, Traci Burrow and husband Rusty of Forsyth, Mo., Troy Ryan and wife Enza of St. Louis, Mo., Corey Ryan of Round Lake, Ill., Kathleen Lancaster and husband John of Bella Vista, Ark., and Misty Arnold of Hutchinson; 11 grandchildren; sister, Pat Story and husband Ralph of Hutchinson; and Aunt Jean and Uncle George Woods of Gravois Mills, Mo.
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Five people – including four teenagers – were arrested in Georgetown early Sunday morning after robbing two men at a Lewes-area motel, according to police.
Five people – including four teenagers – were arrested in Georgetown early Sunday morning after robbing two men at a Lewes-area motel, according to police.
The robbery occurred in a room at the Anchorage Motel in the 18000 block of Coastal Highway about 12:30 a.m., Delaware State Police spokesman Sgt. Paul Shavack said.
The two male victims – ages 19 and 20 – were inside the rented room with three teenage girls, who police say planned the robbery, when Milford residents Derrick J. Legree, 25, and Antonio Peay, 17, reportedly barged in, ordered the two men to floor and demanded money at gunpoint.
The 20-year-old victim managed to flee the motel room on foot, while the 19-year-old escaped by jumping through a glass bathroom window, Shavack said.
Legree, Peay and the three girls – 19-year-old Milford resident Alycia M. Peay, 15-year-old Millsboro Skyy Waters and 15-year-old Millsboro resident Chazna B. Halliday – then stole the victim's backpacks, which contained an undisclosed amount of cash, before fleeing in a silver PT Crusier, he said.
At about 1 a.m., an officer with the Georgetown Police Department stopped a PT Cruiser matching the description of the robbers' vehicle and arrested all five occupants after finding evidence linking them to the motel robbery, Shavack said.
Legree, Peay and the three girls each are charged with two counts of first-degree robbery, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, home invasion, assault and conspiracy. Legree also is charged with possession of a deadly weapon by a person prohibited.
Legree, Anontio Peay and Alycia Peay are being held at the Sussex Correctional Institution in Georgetown on an undisclosed cash bond.
Waters and Halliday were committed to the Stevenson House Detention Center in Milford on undisclosed cash bonds.
Shavack said the 19-year-old victim was taken to an unidentified hospital where he was treated for lacerations he suffered while jumping through the glass window.