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ROME, April 12 - The cardinals electing a successor to Pope John Paul II are facing unusual popular pressure to declare him a saint, with some cardinals responding through deft messages, press leaks and internal lobbying. The canonization campaign may even be playing a role in the succession politics.
Calls for sainthood began almost immediately after the pope died on April 2 and reached a peak at his funeral on Friday, when mourners in St. Peter's Square held banners saying, "Santo Subito," or "Saint at Once," and chanted, "Santo, Santo." Reports of miraculous cures through his intervention poured in.
Several Italian newspapers reported that the Vatican had quietly been collecting messages from people attesting to healings attributed to him.
Luigi Accattoli, one of the most respected Vatican reporters, wrote in the Milan daily Corriere della Sera that a petition had already been circulated among the cardinals seeking signatures for a fast-track canonization process for John Paul. The usual process involves years of careful investigation, and it sometimes takes centuries for the final declaration.
Several cardinals confirmed that the idea of rapid canonization was discussed the day after the pope's funeral at their daily meeting.Continue reading the main story
If John Paul is canonized, he will be only the fourth pope to be so honored in 900 years.
According to some, an early hint of the effort came when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany closed his eulogy at John Paul's funeral. He said, "We can be sure that our beloved pope is standing today at the window of the Father's house." Two Italian cardinals made similar statements in recent homilies.
While to some ears the phrase was typical of a Catholic eulogy, Vittorio Messori, an Italian writer who collaborated on the pope's 1994 book "Crossing the Threshold of Hope," said it was evocative of sainthood. "If he is in paradise, he is a saint," Mr. Messori said.
Cardinal Francesco Marchesano evoked the idea of miraculous healing. He said that when he had been in the hospital for an operation on his carotid artery and lost his voice, John Paul caressed his throat and said: "The Lord will give back your voice. You will see. I will say a prayer for you."' Cardinal Camillo Ruini spoke of "the certainty of his new, mysterious and luminous presence."
The death of a pope often has prompted calls for canonization, but what is striking now is their volume and rapidity, and the fact that cardinals are stepping forward so quickly. "All the cardinals want to wrap themselves in the mantle of John Paul II," said Christopher M. Bellitto, a history professor at Kean University in Union, N.J. "Putting forth his name for canonization is one part of that."
The movement for canonization may be tied to pre-conclave maneuvering. According to this interpretation, it is an effort to build a consensus of like-minded cardinals, or even to position one of John Paul's inner circle as the best successor. The theory is that only someone of great weight, like a Cardinal Ratzinger or Cardinal Ruini, someone close to the pope or his thinking, could follow a man of such spiritual magnitude.
Emphasizing canonization is an effort to show that "only continuity is allowed in the succession of John Paul," said Alberto Melloni, a historian of Vatican conclaves.
Hans Kung, a prominent Swiss theologian who has been at odds with the Vatican, said a move to push for sainthood was a means of pressing the cardinals to choose a successor in line with the pope's conservative thinking.
He was quoted on Monday by Reuters as saying, "A campaign for Pope John Paul's beatification, inspired and engineered by the Vatican, is in full swing, and it will try to smother all internal criticism." Beatification is a major step toward canonization.
According to Mr. Accattoli, the Corriere reporter, the cardinals are divided about pushing for sainthood, with some arguing that it would be better to show prudence and let the canonization process run its normal course.
During the cardinals' meeting on Saturday, Cardinal Ratzinger, dean of the cardinals, called on Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, who headed the Vatican department in charge of creating saints under John Paul.
Cardinal Saraiva Martins noted there was an ancient custom of allowing sanctification by public acclamation. But he said church rules now held that five years must pass before a candidacy can begin. He noted that the next pope could speed up the time frame, as John Paul had done for Mother Teresa.
John Paul made more saints, 483, than all of his predecessors put together.
Moving to canonize popes is a tricky business, because it gives rise to comparisons among them, casts attention on parts of papal legacies that raised debate -- like Pius XII's record regarding the Jews in World War II -- and can be interpreted as the seal of approval for their policies.
Since about 1100, only three popes have been canonized: the 13th-century Pope Celestine V, the 16th-century Pope Pius V, and Pope Pius X, who died in 1914, according to "Making Saints" by Kenneth L. Woodward.
John Paul beatified the 19th-century Pope Pius IX, as well as Pope John XXIII. A group of cardinals, during the Second Vatican Council, which Pope John had set in motion, campaigned to have him acclaimed a saint shortly after his death in 1963 as a way to seal his efforts to modernize the church, but they were turned down by Pope Paul VI.Continue reading the main story


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Dr. Everett Worthington, Jr., professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, will present the address "Personal Christian Faith, Research, and Changing the World" as the 11th annual Pew Faith and Learning Lecture at Hope College on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 11 a.m. in the Maas Center auditorium.
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Worthington specializes in the psychology of forgiveness and reconciliation. He is the author or editor of 25 books, as well as more than 200 scholarly articles and numerous conference papers. He is the founding editor of "Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal," and has served on the editorial boards of the "American Journal of Family Therapy," the "Journal of Psychology and Christianity," and the "Journal of Counseling Psychology." He organized the Conference for Research on Forgiveness, sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, held in 1997 at Hope College.
He has been with Virginia Commonwealth University since 1989. He was previously a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and Hong Kong University.
Worthington has an undergraduate degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee, a master's in nuclear engineering from MIT, and a master's and Ph. D. in psychology from the University of Missouri. He has held grants from, among others, the Fetzer Institute, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the John Templeton Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and received both the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Humanities and Sciences.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Michael Hunter scored 16 points and Mark Kelley had 15 points to lead UC Irvine to a 70-52 victory over UC Santa Barbara on Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the Big West Conference tournament.
Nic Campbell added 12 points for the Anteaters (15-17), who will face Long Beach State in Friday night's semifinals.
Alex Harris, the Big West's leading scorer, had 22 points for the Gauchos (18-11), who shot a season low of 31.6 percent from the field. Glenn Turner added 10 rebounds.
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A friend recently sent me a link to this wonderful take on the wall garden; it uses a packing pallet and looks amazing. If you decide to try this project yourself, be sure to find a pallet that's stamped HT for "heat-treated." You shouldn't grow your edibles on a pallet or any wood that's been treated with pesticides.
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There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that baseball fans tend to favor the broadcasters they hear regularly. The radio announcer, especially, becomes a season-long guest. Almost part of the family.
There's little doubt that the late Bill King became that sort of fixture in the Bay Area while calling Athletics games for a quarter of a century. Ken Korach makes a convincing case in "Holy Toledo" that King's ability and influence transcended geography even though he wasn't well known outside the Oakland and San Francisco markets.
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that baseball fans tend to favor the broadcasters they hear regularly. The radio announcer, especially, becomes a season-long guest. Almost part of the family.
There's little doubt that the late Bill King became that sort of fixture in the Bay Area while calling Athletics games for a quarter of a century. Ken Korach makes a convincing case in "Holy Toledo" that King's ability and influence transcended geography even though he wasn't well known outside the Oakland and San Francisco markets.
Korach was King's partner in the booth for 10 years and makes no pretense of objectivity. Korach clearly admired his subject, and that's all right, because he manages to celebrate the subject and humanize him all at the same time.
The title refers to King's catchphrase when something out of the ordinary happened. But the most telling clue to this book is the subtitle. "Lessons from Bill King: Renaissance Man of the Mic." This was one unique individual.
Start with King's appearance, the devilish goatee and the mustache that, on at least one occasion, convinced a passerby that she had come face to face with Lucifer himself.
King had a passion for Russian literature and the opera and the North Beach jazz clubs. King was an expert wine collector who enjoyed fine dining, but he also craved the most outrageous concoctions. Onion and peanut butter tortillas? Pats of butter? King traveled the world and loved to sail. He read widely. He was well-to-do and dapper but favored shorts and flip-flops whenever possible. He hated to drive, but when he had to, his old clunker had a hole in the floorboard.
Late in life, King took up painting and became so proficient that some of his works were shown in a gallery. One, a view of the San Francisco skyline from Sausalito across the Bay, graces the back cover of the book.
King also was a master of three sports. Before being hired by the Athletics, he was an acclaimed voice of the NBA's Warriors and the AFL/NFL Raiders. In basketball, King is well-remembered for hollering an obscenity at the referees into an open microphone. In football, part of his famous Holy Roller call was inferring that the officials had told coach John Madden to "get your big butt off the field."
Still, baseball was King's first love. And his quirks didn't overshadow his talent, which was, in part, the result of dogged preparation. No matter how long King had done it, no matter how many honors he received, he never slacked off. And he made a smooth transition from keeping voluminous hand-written notes to the computer age with the help of Jay Alves, who worked for the Athletics at the time.
"Bill King was the most prepared, most organized broadcaster I've ever been around. He was amazing," said Alves, who is now communications vice president for the Colorado Rockies.
Korach documents some of King's best calls and carefully explains what made them so good.
King also had a generosity of spirit that can be rare in a profession that easily inflates egos. King didn't throw his weight around even though he was clearly the star.
Before their first Spring Training together, King and Korach had dinner together. For most of the evening, it was a convivial affair. Then, toward the end, King turned serious and announced there were some things that his new partner could never do. Korach braced for the "worst."
No. 1. "Don't ever thank me when I throw it to you for your innings." King felt this little ritual was trite and sounded phony. "If they don't know who we are, well then there's not much we can do about that," King said.
No. 2. Never say "grand slam home run." It was redundant -- a grand slam is a home run -- and a major King pet peeve. When King heard another announcer say it, it was like the sound of fingernails dragging down a chalkboard.
No 3. Never use the term "early on." This also drove King nuts, since he felt the "on" was "superfluous."
Korach exhaled in relief.
That willingness to share, the disinclination to big foot those he worked with, is a recurring theme here. Korach informs us that the ninth inning is a "trophy" for baseball broadcasters. While it's not unheard of for the lead announcer to demand the microphone at significant moments, King never did. One example came in 2002, when the Athletics were on their way to history with a 20-game winning streak. King declined to cancel previous plans to take the Labor Day weekend off. As a result, Korach's calls in the games leading up to the record-breaker were a prominent part of the movie "Moneyball."
In the final chapters, the author turns advocate. Korach argues that King should have long ago won the Ford C. Frick Award given annually to a broadcaster who makes "major contributions to baseball." Korach assembles an impressive array of endorsements. After reading this book, it would be difficult not to conclude that he's made a compelling case.
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By Steve Horn • Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 03:25
America's Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) - the public relations arm of the oil and gas fracking industry - has released its 2012 Internal Revenue Services (IRS) 990 form, and it's rich with eye-opening revelations, some of which we report here for the first time.
Incorporated as American Natural Gas Alliance, Inc., ANGA received $76.7 million from its dues-paying members for fiscal year 2012. Not strictly a lobbying force alone at the state-level and federal-level, ANGA has pumped millions of dollars into public relations and advertising efforts around the country and hundreds of thousands more into other influence-peddling avenues.
The Nation Magazine's Lee Fang revealed in a recent piece that ANGA gave $1 million in funding to "Truthland," a pro-fracking film released to fend off Josh Fox's "Gasland: Part II."
On its website, "Truthland" says it is a project of both industry front group Energy in Depth and the trade association, Independent Petroleum Association of America. The "Truthland" website was originally registered in Chesapeake Energy's office, Little Sis revealed.
Fang also revealed ANGA gave $25,000 to "ASGK Strategies, a political consulting firm founded by White House advisor David Axelrod," as well as "$864,673 to Edventures Partners, an education curriculum company that has partnered with ANGA to produce classroom materials that promote the use of natural gas."


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ATLANTA -- A month remains in the regular season, and the Marlins find themselves in a position very few outside of the organization thought would be possible.
Four weeks to the finish, and the Marlins are in the National League Wild Card mix. Granted, they're a long shot, but the fact they're even in the playoff conversation shows the tremendous strides the club has taken since dropping 100 games in 2013.
This time last year, there were so many unanswered questions -- especially around an offense that ranked last in the Majors in runs scored. Where would the production come from? And could the young pitching, the bright spot in an otherwise dim year, continue to progress?
The proof is in the standings. As startling as it may sound, Miami will be playing meaningful games in September.
"That was the goal," president of baseball operations Michael Hill said. "We've said from Day 1, we were looking to improve our offense. We always felt like we would be strong with our pitching. If you pitch well and get timely hitting, you've got a chance to win."
Time is running out, but the Marlins (65-67) are clinging to a playoff chance. They start a three-game set at Atlanta on Friday after going 2-4 at the Rockies and Angels.
What's next? Hill assesses the state of the team heading into the final month. Here's a checklist of five things the front office is weighing.
Is a last-minute trade possible?
It's doubtful. The waiver Trade Deadline is Sunday night, and Monday is the first day that rosters can be expanded.
The team is monitoring the market, but any additional help will likely come from within.
"If there was an area that we felt like we could add, we'd look into it," Hill said. "Obviously, we're always looking for ways to improve our roster. But I would say, what you see is what you get, and hopefully we can get some guys healthy."
Relief help on the way?
The bullpen took a hit when it was revealed on Tuesday that Bryan Morris returned to Miami to get his right hip examined.
The prognosis is encouraging. Morris has a groin strain, and he shouldn't miss extended time.
Relievers Dan Jennings (concussion) and Carter Capps (right elbow) are expected to return early next month.
"We hope they will be nice adds for a September run," Hill said.
Winning now vs. evaluating?
With each game being crucial to the standings, the Marlins' emphasis is on results over giving playing time to either prospects or young players.
"The whole year is part of that evaluation process," Hill said. "For us, I think it's a little bit different in that we're trying to win up here. We might not to be so inclined to go young or give innings or at-bats to a young guy, because we're competing for a playoff spot. From that standpoint, [September] changes a little bit, because we are trying to be one of 10."
Andrew Heaney an option?
If a starting pitcher is needed, lefty Andrew Heaney could be an option. But he doesn't sound like a priority. The Marlins' top prospect did get a taste of the big leagues, and the 23-year-old struggled in four starts before he was optioned to Triple-A New Orleans in July.
Unless Heaney has a clear role and could help Miami reach its postseason goal, it is doubtful he will get the September call.
"It's going to depend on what we think his usage is going to be," Hill said. "If we don't see an opportunity for him to pitch and get what he needs to help his continued development, then it might be a case where we just start him on his offseason program and get him bigger and stronger and have him ready for go for Spring Training."
How many callups to expect when rosters expand?
Just because rosters are eligible to expand on Monday doesn't mean Miami will bring up an excessive amount of players.
Foremost, the team is looking at players who can help it win now. So expect roughly three or four early callups. Typically, an extra catcher is included. So backstop J.T. Realmuto is a likely to join a few relievers.
"It will be nice to have some extra bodies here," Hill said.
Joe Frisaro is a reporter for MLB.com. He writes a blog, called The Fish Pond. Follow him on Twitter @JoeFrisaro.


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Javorsky Endowed Scholarship in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering Founded, Oct. 18, 2006
by Kathy Hedges
Right: Donor Charles Javorsky is flanked by (right) Dr. Deidre Hirschfeld, chair of the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering and (left) Cheryl Pulaski, Director for Advancement.
SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 18, 2006 – Charles A. Javorsky, a retired metallurgist from Los Alamos National Laboratory, has endowed an undergraduate scholarship at New Mexico Tech for a student in the field of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering.
According to Javorsky, "I liked the fact that New Mexico Tech concentrates on science and engineering. When I was a student, I was very lucky to get help along the way. I thought this would be a good way to help students complete their education."
Javorsky has transferred stock to New Mexico Tech, which will be used to fund scholarships for undergraduate students in the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering. The scholarships will go to students who have at least a 3.0 GPA, and will be administered by the Office of Financial Aid.
According to Dr. Deidre Hirschfeld, chair of the department, "We are very grateful to Mr. Javorsky for endowing these scholarships. This scholarship will financially help and recognize outstanding Materials Engineering students."
New Mexico Tech is a state-supported science and engineering research university located in Socorro, N.M.


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Taunton police and the Bristol County District Attorney's Office have three suspects - two men from Taunton and one from Brockton - behind bars and a possible motive in Friday night's murder of 17-year-old Tigan Hollingsworth.
Taunton police and the Bristol County District Attorney's Office have three suspects behind bars and a possible motive in Friday night's murder of 17-year-old Tigan Hollingsworth.
Etnid Lopez, 17, of 7 Paull St., and Erving Cruz, 24, with addresses in Taunton and Brockton, were ordered held without bail at their arraignment on murder charges Monday in Taunton District Court.
Etnid's brother and roommate, Jean Carlos Lopez, 19, is also being held on $10,000 bail for a charge of witness intimidation, a charge that police said related to his lying about events prior to the stabbing.
According to numerous witness accounts and surveillance video, an altercation between several males began at about 11:40 p.m. outside Grampy's all-night convenience store on High Street. Etnid Lopez and Hollingsworth appeared to exchange words before Lopez chased Hollingsworth around the parking lot, circling the gas pumps twice before following him down Weir Street.
Etnid Lopez and Cruz, also known as "Burd," were seen chasing Hollingsworth and yelling, "That's the (expletive) right there, get him," witnesses said. Hollingsworth managed to elude Lopez and Cruz until he was apparently grabbed by Lopez behind 148 Weir St.
"Do you have him? Do you have him?" Cruz allegedly yelled. To which, Lopez replied "I got him, I got him," police said.
A witness told police he heard slapping noises and one of the men saying "Did you get him?" Followed by, "Yeah, I got him."
A neighbor called 911 and EMTs arrived to find Hollingsworth lying in a pool of blood.
Police stated Hollingsworth suffered 13 stab wounds: 11 on his back, one to the abdomen and one to the head.
He was pronounced dead later that night at Morton Hospital and Medical Center.
Etnid's girlfriend, Kayla Lawrence, was at the convenience store and told police Etnid and Hollingsworth had a long-standing grudge since their days in middle school when the two had an incident at the Taunton Boys and Girls Club.
Hollingsworth's father, Nicholas Hollingsworth, was also at Grampy's during the altercation and, knowing Etnid Cruz had a knife, told his son he could not fight Cruz fairly since he had no weapon, police said.
During questioning by police Saturday, Cruz admitted chasing Hollingsworth along with his nephews, Etnid and Jean Carlos Lopez, along Weir Street.
Contrary to the video surveillance and witness reports, Jean Carlos Lopez told police he grabbed his brother while at Grampy's and drove off in a green car with friends before the stabbing, police said.
He was subsequently charged with witness intimidation for lying and misleading police detectives, officials said.
The courtroom was a fairly chaotic scene Monday with several emotional moments, which included the mother of the one of the suspects passing out and being taken out in a gurney. Two women were also ushered out of the courtroom in handcuffs shortly after the hearing.
During the arraignment, defense attorney Daniel Rich argued that Jean Carlos Lopez "had no involvement whatsoever" in the crime.
Etnid Lopez and Cruz did not show their faces when they were brought into the courtroom, instead standing behind a wall.
Citing unspecified "concerns," the district attorney's office would not release mug shots of the suspects.
Defense attorneys did not contest District Attorney Garrett Fregault's request for a denying bail.
Both will be back in court for a probable cause hearing on July 29.


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Raspberry Pi
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 What is Raspberry Pi
- 1.2 Installing Arch Linux ARM
- 1.3 The first operation
- 1.4 Installing programs and environment
How mature is Raspberry Pi (RPI). A brief overview.
What is Raspberry Pi
It is a minimalist computer built for ARMv6 architecture. More information about this project and technical specification.
Installing Arch Linux ARM
In this manual will describe only essential moments for different RPI. Other procedures are the same instructions for ArchLinux. The only exception is the basic initialization and installation of equipment. It is further assumed that the configuration is performed on a machine running Archlinux.
Backup Cards
If you own an official card provided with your RPI (for example) recommend before installing Arch ARM Linux to backup using
dd. The path must be specified to the device
/dev/sdX not for another partition
# dd if=/dev/sdX of=$HOME/backup_RPi.img
Installation is similar to backing card. Download the image file from Arch Linux ARM
# dd bs=1M if=/path/to/archlinux.img of=/dev/sdX
After inserting the card into the slot on the PPi should boot the base system Arch Linux ARM.
The downloaded image file is approximately 2 gigabytes of which is /boot 94 megabytes and / 1.8 gigabytes. If you used a larger card to 2GB, so I recommend the rest of the card to connect as /home (or /usr). Clearance must be formatted using the example Gparted. At the first possible opportunity (after booting RPI or after mounting the card in the computer) need to be adjusted
# sudo vim /etc/fstab
For example, add
/dev/mmcblk0p3 / home ext4 defaults 0 0
The first operation
Summary of the official procedure:
Remote SSH access
If you do not use the HDMI output RPI and you will access the device using SSH, the following applies.
Root pasword is:
root. I recommend to perform key exchange SSH_Keys.
$ ssh email@example.com (Use your Ip RPI)
# vim /etc/locale.gen
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and
en_US ISO-8859-2
generate localization files
# locale-gen
Setting the time and date using OpenNTP
Setting the time and date manually
Changing the root password
After the first start RPI is native root password to root. It is therefore necessary to change it. Executed after power command
# passwd root
Adding another user
adduser to add the user.
# adduser
# sudo visudo
add the line "USER ALL = (ALL) ALL" below the line root ALL = (ALL) ALL
Installing programs and environment
Below is a brief overview of the basic packages and procedures that are initially desolation RPI could come in handy.
To search for files and folders on the disc serves mlocate.
# pacman-S mlocate
after installation, you must restore the database
# updatedb
For work I recommend zsh.
# pacman-S zsh
$ chsh
and set
Graphical environment
You need to install X server xorg:
# pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-server-utils xinit xterm xorg-xinit
# pacman -S mesa
Video card drivers xf-video
# pacman-SYF xf86-video-fbdev
Which is connected with gamin and dbus
# pacman-S dbus gamin
Graphical environment LXDE:
# pacman -S lxde
further into the set
~/.xinitrc add the following line:
$ vim ~ /.Xinitrc (if they do not root)
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startlxde
Running LXDE environment
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C++ Comma Operator
Uses of C comma operator
I am not new to C++, but this is the first time I see the following code:
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int b=(a=2,a+1);
That is C++ code. Can you tell me what is going on here? And how variable b gets value 3?


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What a Rick Perry Comeback Strategy Won't Look Like
The other storylines are spent: Newt Gingrich surging, Herman Cain maybe dropping out, Mitt Romney hanging in there, still, while being hated by his political party. But about our man Rick Perry? Sure, he's a terrible candidate who screws himself over each time he does anything in public. And his campaign's funding has mostly dried up, although he still has a modest stack of summer cash in the bank. How will he come back, even though he probably won't? It is a three-part strategy.
- Reshuffle some deck chairs, hope that the new deck chairs somehow make him less of a moron. Perry has hired a new campaign manager and top strategist and shifted his previous top aide to focusing on New Hampshire, a state that Rick Perry will not win. The new top people, we guess, will be charged with tackling him on stage whenever he's saying something, at either a debate or a major speech that videocameras are filming. But what if that — literally tackling your candidate whenever he starts talking — is against the rules, or generally frowned upon by the public? Then it's not clear how new campaign strategists could help Rick Perry.
- Bring in a famous anti-Mexican wingnut from Arizona to convince people that Rick Perry doesn't love all illegal immigrants. Rick Perry has won the coveted endorsement of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio! Arpaio's role is to convince the nuts that Rick Perry doesn't actually like Mexicans, even though he allows children of illegal immigrants in Texas to receive in-state college tuition. How's that working out?
But Alice Bury of Amherst, who said her grandchildren are considering attending college in Texas, told Perry she was troubled by what she views as "a double standard" for out of state students and illegal immigrants who would be eligible for in-state tuition. Perry defended that policy in a debate earlier this year by saying that Americans who would begrudge that benefit to children brought to the United States "by no fault of their own" didn't have a heart. [...]
After the event Bury she was surprised by Arpaio's endorsement of Perry and that his answer was unsatisfactory. "He did not appear to be open to rethinking [his policy]," said Bury, adding that Arpaio probably would agree with her view. "You don't give one group of people a break in tuition – I don't care who the group is – it's just not democracy."
- Alice Bury of Amherst: She's just not convinced.
- Ignore voters between 18 and 20 years old, tell other voters to vote on the wrong day. Amazing no one had thought of this yet: "At a town hall meeting at the Institute of Politics at New Hampshire's Saint Anselm's College Tuesday, Rick Perry asked that all of the college students in the crowd who will be 21 by Nov. 12 support his bid for the presidency." We think he got this mixed up with his plan to drink with some college students during the first Monday Night Football following next year's general election.
Well, the new plan checks out to us. Hang in there, fella!
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Have you ever been scared to use the restroom because you're terrified something's going to pop out of the toilet and grab your arse? The Interactive Toilet does that to your children. Sort of.
From the looks of it, this toilet-seat mod is meant to potty-train and encourage kids by promising them a reward after they've done their business. The prize? The happy song, a high five, and some toilet paper! Frankly, this toilet would terrify me even at this age. I also have to wonder, won't this potty produce some sort of Pavlov's Dogs-esque side-effect? Hopefully when he's older, the kid won't poop his pants whenever he hears, "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands!" [Engadget]


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Key Votes
S Amdt 3816 - Derivatives Regulation Modifications - National Key Vote
Related Legislation
- S Amdt 3826 - Consumer Financial Protection Division Within The FDIC
- S Amdt 3839 - Termination of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Conservatorships
- S Amdt 3938 - Study on Ending the Conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
- S Amdt 3760 - Federal Reserve Audit
- S Amdt 3962 - Home Loan Regulation Modifications
- S Amdt 3955 - Establishing New Mortgage Underwriting Requirements and Eliminating a Risk Retention Requirement
- S Amdt 3991 - Credit Rating Agency Board
- S Amdt 3832 - Establishing Bankruptcy Process for Non-bank Financial Institutions
- S Amdt 3989 - Debit Card Fee Regulations
- S Amdt 3987 - Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Termination
- S Amdt 4051 - Prohibiting Funding of State and Local Governments to Prevent Defaulting on Debt
- S Amdt 4034 - Federal Preemption Over State Consumer Financial Laws
- S Amdt 4071 - Amending State Authority to Enforce Consumer Financial Regulations
- S Amdt 4114 - Credit Default Swap Regulations
- S Amdt 4072 - Inspector General Appointment Modification
- S Amdt 3746 - Allowing States to Limit Credit Card Interest Rates
Issues Related to S Amdt 3816
Stage Details
Amendment -
Amendment Rejected
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May 12, 2010(Key vote)
See How Your Politicians Voted
Title: Derivatives Regulation Modifications
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt an amendment to S Amdt 3739 to S 3217 that makes various modifications related to regulation of derivatives.
- Requires any person that effects a transaction in a non-security based swap to report the transaction through a derivatives clearing organization or through a non-security-based swap data repository registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and provides that if no registered repository accepts the swap, the person must report the transaction directly through the Commission (Sec. 726).
- Requires each transaction report to disclose whether the transaction is a 'bona fide hedging swap transaction' (Sec. 726).
- Allows the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to require that particular non-security-based swaps (or groups/types of swaps) must be cleared if (Sec. 723):
- Both counterparties are swap participants;
- The transaction was entered into after the establishment of applicable swap clearing rules or the effective date of the requirement, whichever is later; and
- One counterparty directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the other counterparty.
- Requires each swap participant to register with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, unless it is exempt pursuant to a rule or order that exempts swap participants that engage primarily in security-based swap transactions and are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission or all of its outstanding swaps transactions are cleared swaps, in which cases it must file a notice registration (Sec. 729).
- Defines a 'swap participant' as a person who engages in the business of purchasing or selling swaps for such persons account or for others, a person who is making a market in swaps, or a person who engages in transactions in swaps (Sec. 721).
- Exempts swap end users from the definition of 'swap participants,' thus exempting them from requirements that apply specifically to swap participants (Sec. 721).
- Defines a 'swap end user' as a person with swaps of a gross aggregate notional value that includes the following (Sec. 721):
- 5 percent or less of outstanding swaps that do not qualify as 'bona fide hedging swap transactions'; or
- 7 percent or less of outstanding swaps and security-based swaps that do not qualify as 'bona fide hedging swap transactions', provided that the aggregate notional value of such swaps that do not qualify as 'bona fide hedging transactions' and were executed in connection with the person's commercial transactions is 2 percent or more of the gross notional value of outstanding swaps.
- Specifies that the term 'swap end user' shall include investment companies registered under 15 U.S.C. 80a-1 et. Seq. and employee benefit plans as defined in 29 U.S.C. 1002 (3), and specifies that the term shall not include entities defined in 12 U.S.C. 4502 (20) or investment funds that would be investment companies (in accordance with 15 U.S.C. 80a-3) but for paragraph (1) or (7) of 15 U.S.C. 80a-3(c) and are not partnerships, entities, or subsidiaries that are primarily invested in physical assets directly or through interests in partnerships or limited liability companies (Sec. 721).
- Defines 'bona fide hedging swap transaction' as a purchase or sale of a 'bona fide' swap that is 'economically appropriate' to the reduction or offsetting of risks arising from one of the following (Sec. 721):
- The potential change in the value of assets that the person owns, produces, manufactures, processes, or merchandises (or anticipates doing any of the aforementioned things);
- The potential change in the cost or value of liabilities that the person owns or anticipates incurring; or
- The potential change in the cost or value of goods or services that the person provides, purchases, or anticipates providing or purchasing.
- Removes a provision that allows a commercial end user (a person who as its primary business activity owns, uses, produces, processes, manufactures, distributes, merchandises, or markets goods, services, or commodities individually or in a fiduciary capacity, and excluding specified financial entities) to elect not to clear a swap or to choose which derivatives clearing organization shall clear a swap, if the swap is being used to hedge commercial risk (and replaces this provision with new provisions on this subject which are discussed in previous highlights) (Sec. 723).
- Removes a provision that provides incentives for 'whistleblowers' who voluntarily provide information to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that leads to the 'successful enforcement' of an action relating to a violation of this Act that results in monetary sanctions of more than $1 million, and specifies that the aggregate amount of the incentives shall be no less than 10 percent and no more than 30 percent of what has been collected of the monetary sanctions (Sec. 748).
- Removes provisions which require the following entities to designate individuals to serve as chief compliance officers (Secs. 725, 728, 731, 732, 733, 763, and 764):
- swap data repositories;
- swap dealers and major swap participants;
- futures commission merchants;
- swap execution facilities;
- derivatives clearing organizations;
- security-based swap dealers;
- registered clearing agencies;
- security-based swap execution facilities; and
- security-based swap data repositories.
Amendment - Introduced (Senate) - May 12, 2010
Title: Derivatives Regulation Modifications
- Clarence Saxby Chambliss (GA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX - R) (Out Of Office)
- Robert F. 'Bob' Bennett (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Christopher S. 'Kit' Bond (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Thad Cochran (MS - R) (Out Of Office)
- John Cornyn (TX - R)
- Michael D. 'Mike' Crapo (ID - R)
- Judd A. Gregg (NH - R) (Out Of Office)
- Mike O. Johanns (NE - R) (Out Of Office)
- Mitch McConnell (KY - R)
- Charles Patrick 'Pat' Roberts (KS - R)
- Richard C. Shelby (AL - R)
- John R. Thune (SD - R)
- David B. Vitter (LA - R) (Out Of Office)


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I wish I had started using fold3 sooner in my quest for family information. Not only does it provide city directories, it also has military records and newspaper articles.
Using city directories, I have been able to determine not only where individuals lived but also their occupations. When I trace someone through the years, I can plot their journey on a map and also see when a business was established.
Military records also contain quite a bit of biographical information. Pension requests contain information not readily available from other sources. For instance I knew that my Ferguson family was from Charles Parish, York County, Virginia, but it was in John Ferguson's pension application that I found out that he was actually born twelve miles below Little York. I also now know that Little York is also known as Yorktown further helping me understand the geography. Knowing that the family spent the years 1811 to 1813 in Green County, Ohio will possibly help me unearth more information on the Fergusons.
Between using the old newspapers and city directories I was able to determine which of the two John Burbachs who died in Milwaukee, WI between 1892 and 1895 was the son of Herman and which was the son of John. One of the boys was her brother who drowned in the Milwaukee River and the other was her cousin. Newspaper articles helped me flesh out the story that began with a chance phrase I found when I googled the name "Burback" in HeritageQuest's old books area. The phrase "Burbach's boy drowned today" appeared in the personal diary of a Milwaukee policeman,
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Geneabloggers Tuesday Tip - Using fold3
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Eric Ward needs no introduction to anyone reading this blog, and most of you should know his involvement with AdGooroo. He has helped develop their link research tool called Link Insight, and I'm pleased to have found this demo video. The software is a tool for finding those quality, related links and gets rid of the spam sites so you don't have to worry. The guidelines have been developed around Eric's strict link finding principals, so you know you're going down the right road with this web app. The feature I like best is it lets you know when you've lost a link, something more tools should have these days. Take a few minutes to watch the software in action, and if you've used it already, let us know here what you thought.
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For Sale
Nice large saw cut piece of a MG34 receiver, mid section, note out of my personal collection that I will not need. Note the brp dummy section on top is not for sale. That looks good on a part kit that I have.
2nd pic shows the cut off ejector rail (sold without ejector) that I'll include with the mid section. The cut rail is not the same length as the cut off and missing area.
Price $105.00 shipped here in the US of A or $100 picked up at my store or gunshoot or gunshow that I'm at.
Payment Check or MO not using paypal at this time.
First "I'll take it" posted or pm received. I go by time on pm or email or post.
I'll post some more stuff when I get a chance.
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2018 Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues Call for Proposals due April 30: Keynote, KaeLyn Rich
Women and Gender Studies (WMS) is one of several Rochester-area college programs leading the Sixth Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD): "Race and Intersecting Feminist Futures," October 19-21, 2018, Gould Hotel, Seneca Falls, NY.
The 2018 SFD Keynote and Women's Institute for Leadership and Learning (WILL) recipient is writer, speaker, and rad activist KaeLyn Rich, adjunct faculty in Women and Gender Studies and Assistant Advocacy Director for Chapters of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), the New York affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). KaeLyn is featured in "Her Voice Carries, Prelude" on display at the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery (MAG).
The Biennial Dialogues are a collaborative effort to reinvigorate Seneca Falls as a site of feminist activism and intellectual exchange. We invite students, activists, community members, artists, and educators to propose group-led sessions that involve active audience participation and focused discussion. Proposals should indicate how organizers will present information, pose questions, and facilitate activities and conversation. Dialogues are welcome to address the themes listed here. While this list is not exhaustive, we are looking for sessions that integrate the conference theme of race into the proposal. A focus on pedagogy is valued but not essential.
• Intersectional Resistance and Activism
• Black Lives Matter
• Immigration, Refugees, and Border-Crossing
• Indigenous Sovereignty and Activism
• Queering Racial Justice
• Transfeminisms
• Race and the Legacy of Seneca Falls
• Digital Spaces
• Popular Culture and Representations
• Feminism, Race, and the Arts
• Women of Color on the Margin of Traditional Feminist Movements
• Constructions of Disability
Proposal Deadline: April 30, 2018.
Conference participants will be invited to submit essay versions of their dialogues for inclusion in the on-line Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal. See links below for additional information about the SFD and the SFD Journal. The call for proposals and proposal submission link are accessible via the Seneca Falls Dialogues website linked below.
The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal and the Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues are a collaborative effort sponsored by The Women's Institute for Leadership and Learning (WILL) in collaboration with Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Monroe Community College, The College at Brockport: State University of New York, St. John Fisher College, the University of Rochester, Friends of the Women's Rights National Park, the National Women's Hall of Fame, the Town of Seneca Falls, and the Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women.
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Interactive Television: Facebooking the BET AwardsPosted in Media Coverage, Uncategorized on June 28th, 2009 by admin – 1 Comment
So often, if the television set is on, I'm watching it alone. That's not a problem. It's just the way it is. I typically don't have my computer on at the same time. But now that I finally have a wireless router, I can use my laptop anywhere in my home. When, the 2009 BET Awards came on, I just happened to be on Facebook and quickly realized that I was not alone. There was a group of about twenty of us critiquing the show from start to finish in real time. Many were watching the entire show for the first time or for the first time in years. After all, the show was a partial tribute to the late Michael Jackson. I forced myself to write the word "late. "
With record numbers of communication using Twitter and Facebook not to mention email and text as people shared the news of the King of Pop's passing, we all must take a pregnant pause long enough to really understand the impact of the seismic shift in media usage and consumption. We know people are not passive and that they want information any time, any place, and any way they want it. We know more people have mobile devices than computers. And we know that there are more than 200 million people on Facebook.
As more and more people joined the conversation about the BET Awards, from the opening number featuring New Edition including Bobby Brown, I slowly realized what was about to transpire. I didn't have to watch the show alone or make a phone call. I didn't have to text. All I had to do was remain on facebook and participate. I thought about how ideas spread, a notion Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell and others discuss at length. I reflected on the power of peers. I even pondered the First Amemdment, the notion of Free speech as the folks at BET bleeped inappropriate language so many times, I truly lost count. The key here is that I'm thinking about how to facilitate and improve the way that we interact. And, thanks to crowdsourcing, I don't have to think alone. I posed this question to those who were on Facebook watching the Awards show:
Hey, before everybody goes. Tell me about your experience discussing the Awards show on FB. Have you done this watching any show before? About how many people in your network are participating? What does this mean? How can we innovate, build apps and do thing(s) with this tool in the future? I will post comments to my blog using first names only.
Tonya said:
"Actually, I think there needs to be a better way to respond multiple discusson threads…I have been corresponding with multiple ppl, and I have to keep scrolling back, click on the notifications (which are sometimes delayed) and must keep refreshing 'cause the network keeps freezing…"
Colleen said:
"when I saw one particularly fun FB friend commenting quite a bit about the show, I tuned in to watch, even though I wouldn't normally and even though I was supposed to working. I enjoyed the experience. And one other FB friend was also commenting about the show, so that was interesting to compare their comments. I wanted to somehow get them to communicate w/ each other."
Mardell said:
"I didn't do it the entire time like you all did but had fun when I did. I was checking to see what you all were saying even when I wasn't participating. I had only one more person in my network comment."
Angie said:
"I had fun commenting the entire awards show. It was great to see what others had to say and the comments that were discussed. It was funny because many people were thinking along the same line. I did get a good laugh."
Based on these responses and my insight, here are some suggestions for media, marketing and many people who want to maximize their opportunities virtually.
Any event can be interactive. You can live blog using coveritlive. You can cover the event live on your website using sites like livestream or ustream. You can add a Twitter feed, just use the # (hashtag) and the word and you've created a separate strand through which to communicate. You can record interviews on Skype by using Jing or Snapz Pro. The possibilities are truly infinite in many ways. Just take the time to think and to experiment.
Be tuned into your audience. There were audio difficulties throughout the show. The producers seemed to be aware of them, however, if an associate producer or even an intern can monitor social networking during live taping, it would be a wise use of resources.
Allow your audience to interact in real time. I know this is a terrifying proposition but with all of the new media tools, a show could Skype some people in just like Oprah Winfrey does on a regular basis now. She is saving thousands, if not millions of dollars by not having to bring in all of the guests and not to have to purchase satellite time. You have to have Twitter and Facebook available at all times.
Just like the Open Source movement which allows computer programmers, designers and others to compete on different projects because the source code for the actual computer program is free and available, any show can post a rundown on their website and get ideas from the audience about how to improve the show. It's called shared control. You still have the final say as the producer, howver, you have many more ideas from the audience. Only a few people will typically contribute. You'll see the cream rise to the top and may be able to recruit future employees this way as well. Transparency is beyond essential in the virtual age.
Learn how to create and build applications for platforms like Facebook and the iPhone.
Know that people will stumble onto your site or show because their friends are there. That means you need to have extra information for people who are less familiar with the show, product or information.
Always offer additional online resources, on the Awards site there are plenty of extras.
Let me say, that the highlight of the show was Janet Jackson. I was absolutely stunned yet beyond happy that she appeared. She looked absolutely beautiful and spoke just as well. She was the best representative. The second highlight was the O'Jays. They sang and danced marvelously.
Last words, don't worry about anything or anyone else, be original. I wanted to get this written before I fell asleep. Please excuse any typos. Like Jamie Foxx on the Awards show, I'll make a shameless plug, if you need help, I'm happy to help by doing a seminar, workshop and/or consulting session. Just email me at email@example.com. THANKS!


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Internal Heat Drives Jupiter's Giant Storm Eruption
Detailed analysis of two continent-sized storms that erupted in Jupiter's atmosphere in March 2007 shows that Jupiter's internal heat plays a significant role in generating atmospheric disturbances. Understanding this outbreak could be the key to unlock the mysteries buried in the deep Jovian atmosphere, say astronomers.
Understanding these phenomena is important for Earth's meteorology where storms are present everywhere and jet streams dominate the atmospheric circulation. Jupiter is a natural laboratory where atmospheric scientists study the nature and interplay of the intense jets and severe atmospheric phenomena.
An international team coordinated by Agustin Sánchez-Lavega from the Universidad del País Vasco in Spain presents its findings about this event in the January 24 issue of the journal Nature.
The team monitored the new eruption of cloud activity and its evolution with an unprecedented resolution using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii, and telescopes in the Canary Islands (Spain). A network of smaller telescopes around the world also supported these observations.
According to the analysis, the bright plumes were storm systems triggered in Jupiter's deep water clouds that moved upward in the atmosphere vigorously and injected a fresh mixture of ammonia ice and water about 20 miles (30 kilometers) above the visible clouds. The storms moved in the peak of a jet stream in Jupiter's atmosphere at 375 miles per hour (600 kilometers per hour). Models of the disturbance indicate that the jet stream extends deep in the buried atmosphere of Jupiter, more than 60 miles (approximately100 kilometers) below the cloud tops where most sunlight is absorbed.
For additional information, contact:
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
Carolina Carnalla-Martinez
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif
Agustin Sánchez-Lavega
Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
NASA, ESA, IRTF, and A. Sánchez-Lavega and R. Hueso (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain )


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Our Women's Night Out Celebrity Is …
You've waited and waited ... and waited some more. Now, the time has come. We are ready to announce our celebrity appearance for Women's Night Out 2013!
We are thrilled to announce our celebrity for Women's Night Out 2013 is renowned fitness expert, author and television star Bob Harper!
You know Bob from seeing him since 2004 on "The Biggest Loser," among many other television appearances he has made.
Here is his official bio:
"Fitness expert, television star and New York Times #1 Best-Selling Author, Bob Harper, is arguably the most renowned fitness and lifestyle expert in the world. His meteoric rise as the heart of NBC's worldwide hit "The Biggest Loser," now in its 14th season, has afforded him the incredible platform to exemplify his passion and vigor as a highly in-demand fitness specialist. Harper is the brilliant force behind countless triumph stories of overweight individuals who previously gave up on helping themselves, or had been written off as "helpless" by others. The success of the show has led to the creation of Harper's online fitness club, publishing deal with Random House, DVDs, fitness equipment, as well as motivational speaking engagements and personal appearances including his work with Michelle Obama and her Let's Move initiative.
Harper has certifications from the American Fitness Training of Athletics Association, the Aerobic and Fitness Association of America, Kettlebell Concepts, Level 1 CrossFit, and CrossFit Olympic Lifting. With his breadth of expertise, Harper has developed his trademark brand of fitness and nutritional integration that leads to lasting lifestyle transformations -- becoming an authority on wellness through motivating others by applying his "Inside Out" philosophy.
Harper's "Inside Out" Method is a raw challenging integration of mind, body and spiritual fitness that aggressively pushes the mental and physical capacity further than ever before to reach a greater sense of accomplishment that empowers a better body and overall life.
With personal appearances ranging from "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Larry King Live," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," to being a regular on the Oprah Winfrey-approved show "The Dr. Oz Show" as a member of Core Team Oz, Harper's optimistic outlook, practical advice and gregarious demeanor is unmatched. He has graced the covers of Men's Fitness and Costco Connection, while being featured in magazines such as O Magazine, Men's Health, Entertainment Weekly, US Weekly and People Magazine.
For more information about Bob Harper, follow him on Twitter at @mytrainerbob and visit www.mytrainerbob.com and www.facebook.com/mytrainerbob."
You can come see Bob in person and even meet him at Women's Night 2013 on Thursday, April 4 at Harvey Convention Center in Tyler. Join us from 4 to 9 p.m. for a night full of shopping, food and tons of fun!
In addition to our celebrity appearance, there also will be a prom + bridal fashion show from The Glitz Boutique in Longview and a men's swimwear show by Dillard's with special guests from LaBare.
Tickets are on sale now! General admission tickets are $15 and VIP tickets are $100. VIP tickets include a private pre-party and meet and greet with Bob Harper, food, drinks and preferred seating at the front of the stage.
We'll see you April 4! In the meantime, use this nifty thing right here to purchase your tickets now before they sell out!


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GOP's Paul places 3rd in Iowa, looks to NH
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa - Texas Rep. Ron Paul rode a current of youthful discontent to third place in Iowa's Republican presidential caucuses Tuesday, promising to take his outsider bid for the GOP nomination into independent-minded New Hampshire.
"This momentum is going to continue. This movement is going to continue, and we're going to continue scoring, just as we did tonight," Paul told cheering supporters at a hotel in a northern suburb of Des Moines. "We will go on. We will raise the money. And I have no doubt about the volunteers. They will be here."
The libertarian-leaning Paul challenged Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum for the top slot in the leadoff nominating contest, cobbling together an enthusiastic and diverse coalition of college students, veterans and tea party activists in a sign of the divided GOP's struggles ahead.
"There were essentially three winners," Paul told the crowd as it chanted "Doctor Paul, Doctor Paul."
Paul's top-tier performance was a marked improvement on his fifth-place finish four years ago. But Paul waged a far more structured campaign in his second bid for the nomination, raised more money and advertised aggressively on television, attacking former House Speaker Newt Gingrich throughout November.
Paul rose steadily in Iowa polls late last fall as Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain, the Georgia businessman who quit the race in December, all struggled to sustain early curiosity as potential outsider challengers to establishment candidate Romney.
Paul's calls for strict spending cuts and the abolition of the Federal Reserve are popular rallying cries for conservatives, while his opposition to foreign military intervention and desire to close overseas military bases appeal to younger voters.
However, his opposition to a military strike against a nuclear-armed Iran prompted sharp attacks from Santorum, who was locked in a tight race with Romney, and Bachmann, who fought Paul for tea party supporters.
Undeterred, Paul recommitted to the positions that have prompted questions about whether he will run as a third-party candidate if he is not nominated, a move he has said he does not want to make.
The 76-year-old physician-turned-congressman has become an iconic figure for angry conservatives and strict constitutional constructionists fed up with government overreach.
And despite his rise among Iowa Republicans, he was viewed in the same polls as among the least likely to be elected, demonstrating the divide in the GOP between an ideological favorite or one viewed as a more viable challenger to Democratic President Barack Obama.
It was clear from the Paul campaign rally in Ankeny, after the results were in, which option they preferred.
The crowd, far from the typical Republican establishment activists, cheered wildly for the low-key, humble Paul as he took the stage in the hotel ballroom.
"There's nobody else that has people like you working hard and believing in something," Paul said. "That is all the difference in the world."
While several candidates had begun attacking Paul, one who didn't was Romney, who emerged from Iowa a top-tier candidate despite not campaigning as aggressively as he did four years ago.
Romney aides had said a strong finish by Paul was not a concern because they did not feel the Texan had the financial and organizational strength to wage a months-long battle for the nomination.
Paul echoed the point Monday on his last full day of campaigning, noting in an Associated Press interview that he needed big turnout in Iowa's caucuses and the next-up New Hampshire primary, and that the path beyond the early states was "a challenge."
Paul also said Monday that he didn't necessarily envision himself as president, and said his odds of winning were slim.
Still, Paul's campaign dug in even during the closing hours of the campaign, launching an automated telephone message campaign questioning Santorum's commitment to opposing abortion rights.


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Betty Goodwin
Canadian, 1923–2008
How Long Does it Take any One Voice to Reach Another, 1988
steel, galvanized metal, oil
64.8 x 79 x 54.7 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with the assistance of The Winnipeg Art Gallery Foundation Inc. and the Canada Council Art Bank
Sculpture, Canadian Contemporary (1980-present)
Throughout her extensive and impressive career, Betty Goodwin's poetic and aesthetic concerns have been consistent, reflecting her preoccupation with the manifest or implied presence of the body. This sculpture expands upon this concern by playing upon the tension between human presence and absence; that is, sender and receiver. The work emphasizes aspects of dissociation and discontinuity by referencing corridors and enclosures. This barrier between the speaker and listener evokes a frustrating emotion of disconnection, unrealized potential, and even isolation.
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TMC wrote:And Paul Rogers... I still remember his first game when he signed for Madrid, something like 17 points and 14 boards... while the rest of the season averaged 4 points and 2 boards... He definately sucks more than any other Aussie I've ever seen... I'm sure you're better off with a younger player in his place.
Paul Rogers started his career as a real good player and was actually the starting Center for the Boomers but he won the MVP in our national league, went to Spain I think it was and made alot of money and then just didn't give a shiit! That guy had such talent and then got comfy and never wanted to be good again! He should be shot


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March 10, 2010
Dear NCTE Members,
Join a Discussion
NCTE members are discussing the first public draftof the Common Core StateStandards for K-12 EnglishLanguage Arts
A year ago, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) convened a group to draft a Common Core of State Standards in math and English language arts for College- and Career-Readiness. These standards were designed to "define the knowledge and skills students should have to succeed in entry-level, credit-bearing, academic college courses and in workforce training programs" and were meant to represent consensus around "fewer, clearer, and higher" standards, leaving room for local innovation and approaches to advance student learning. The release of the College- and Career-Readiness Standards was followed-up by an effort from the same organizations to create K-12 standards in English language arts, and a public draft of these standards will be released today, March 10. To date, 48 states, two territories, and the District of Columbia have signed on to the effort to adopt these K-12 Common Core Standards. In fact, all state applications for federal stimulus funds submitted to the Department of Education have been required to demonstrate alignment with a common core of standards.
Last summer, NCTE was contacted by the organizations coordinating this initiative to provide comment on the draft of the College- and Career-Readiness Standards. While NCTE had not been involved in any way to craft these standards, NCTE's Executive Committee authorized providing critical, informed feedback because they reasoned that withholding expertise and comment from this effort would be inconsistent with NCTE's mission and could further isolate teachers from a process which might profoundly influence the conditions of teaching and learning. And so, NCTE appointed the first of two blue ribbon panels -- to respond to the July draft of the College- and Career-Readiness Standards. In November 2009, NCTE was again contacted by the same organizations to provide comment on early drafts of the Common Core State Standards for K-12 English Language Arts and the second blue ribbon panel was convened to respond to the December, January, and February drafts of the Common Core State Standards for K-12 English Language Arts. Each panel based its responses on NCTE policies and positions, substantiated by research and also on a growing understanding of what it means to educate all students for productive life in the 21st century -- a world very different from that for which we've educated students in the past.
Both panels that represented NCTE were comprised of literacy leaders from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. Though I was not involved with the review of the College- and Career-Readiness Standards, as chair of the K-12 review panel, I cannot begin to express how impressed I was at the knowledge, rigor, and dedication that all members brought to the review task. As literacy teachers who understand the complexities of the reading process, the intricacies of writing development, and the diverse nature of language acquisition and development, we had a strong conviction to strive for clarity through the revision process and we know that our efforts were not futile -- there are numerous places in the current draft where our advice appears to have directly influenced the evolution of the document towards language and clarity that will have positive impact for both teachers and students.
Throughout this process of review and response to several drafts of the standards, representatives from CCSSO and the NGA Center engaged in dialogue with NCTE, taking time to discuss our reviews with us, and weighing our input with that received from other organizations. While we acknowledge that the effort to build a consensus around core standards has been arduous and is somewhat contentious for many entities, both within and outside of NCTE, we believe that the coordinating organizations have carried the task out with vigor and good faith. Nevertheless, NCTE has always maintained the stance of an independent critic throughout this process and continues to believe that we best serve our members and literacy learners by focusing efforts on helping teachers meet the challenges they face in the classroom rather than offering a summary judgment of these or other standards.
In her letter to members on August 17, 2009, Kylene Beers pointed out what still stands as true today,
I know that some of you would have preferred that this update be one to offer a particular stance NCTE will take regarding the Common Core State Standards. We each bring to the table our own beliefs concerning such a document. Some of us acknowledge the importance of commonly held standards that could serve as high goals for all in this nation; others of us resist any standards that are not created by individual classroom teachers for their individual classrooms. And many of us fall somewhere along that continuum . . . And all of us -- no matter our personal positions on common standards -- find a place and space at the National Council of Teachers of English.
NCTE recognizes that no standards document in and of itself will change instruction or student learning; teachers will. And so, with the release of the Common Core standards, we are renewing our commitment to teacher learning communities -- collaborative, local efforts to support teachers in making complex judgments about how to best advance students as engaged literacy learners. Such sustained efforts are the real key to making progress towards improved literacy learning and for providing the foundations for enjoying the rich gifts of literacy across a lifetime.
As mentioned earlier, NCTE has provided three different responses to the K-12 drafts and each was bound by a confidentiality agreement that extended until today, when the first public draft of the Common Core State Standards for K-12 English Language Arts was released. These reports are now available to members: the December draft of the Common Core State Standards for K-8 English Language Arts, the January draft of the Common Core State Standards for K-12 English Language Arts, and the February draft of the Common Core State Standards for K-12 English Language Arts. I encourage you to read these reviews, as well as the Standards documents themselves, and to join a discussion on the NCTE Ning about the Common Core State Standards in relationship to your classroom. More importantly, you should consider responding directly to the CCSSO and NGA Center, using the online survey on the Common Core Standards website. Just make certain to do so by the April 2 deadline.
Jeff WilliamsK-12 Literacy CoachSolon City Schools, Solon, OHAssistant Chair of Elementary Section and Executive Committee MemberChair, NCTE Review Team for the Common Core State Standards for K-12 English Language Arts
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One more for the road!
Finnish industrial-metal act PENTATONIK, active from 2002 to 2007, rises for the grave briefly with a theme album that is distributed for free in the Internet. Album is called Lopullinen Ratkaisu (Final Solution) and it paints a gloomy picture of dystopian future under tyranny.
The material on this new album was recorded during the last months of the group and due to discontinuation of the band, left unpublished. Now several years later the entire package has been remade, with new sounds and new arrangements.
Pentatonik is best remembered by it's songs Mustaksi Muutan, Kelvoton and their cover of Finnish 70's hit song Tahdon olla sulle hellä.
Lopullinen Ratkaisu is the last album from Pentatonik and it is distributed without charge in the Internet as a token of appreciation to the band's long-time friends, supporters and to its former members.
The album is available at http://www.lopullinenratkaisu.com
"Olet puolellamme tai olet meitä vastaan"


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Brief Intervention to Reduce STDs in ER Drug Users (SAFE)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01379599
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : June 23, 2011
Last Update Posted : December 20, 2016
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|Condition or disease
|Sexually Transmitted Infection
|Behavioral: brief motivation intervention
|Phase 3
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|1030 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Double (Participant, Investigator)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Brief Intervention to Reduce STDs in ER Drug Users
|Study Start Date :
|November 2004
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|May 2009
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|May 2009
Experimental: Brief motivation intervention
Brief motivation intervention was implemented with enrollees identified with heroin and cocaine use who were allocated to the experimental group. The aim was to test the ability of a peer-delivered intervention to reduce risk of HIV and STIs related to sexual behaviors (condom use and sex while high on drugs.
Behavioral: brief motivation intervention
Brief motivation intervention consisting of brief psychosocial counseling (20 minutes at the time of an ER visit)
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No Intervention: control group
Care as usual.
- unprotected sexual acts [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- sex acts while high on drugs [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 54 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- registered ER patient
- English and Spanish speakers
- 30 day use of heroin and or cocaine
- DAST score=>3
Exclusion Criteria:
- severity of medical illness
- suicidality
- police custody
- residential substance abuse treatment
- ability to provide contact information
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01379599
|United States, Massachusetts
|Boston Medical Center
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02118
|Principal Investigator:
|Edward Bernstein, MD
|Boston Medical Center
|Responsible Party:
|Edward Bernstein, Professor of Emergency Medicine BU SOM; Professor of Community Health Sciences BUSPH, Boston Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01379599 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|June 23, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|December 20, 2016
|Last Verified:
|December 2016
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
|Plan Description:
|de-identified may be shared on request
Keywords provided by Edward Bernstein, Boston Medical Center:
brief motivational intervention
voluntary testing and counseling
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Virus Diseases
Genital Diseases, Male
Genital Diseases, Female


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Tournament Monitoring Program
The Department has been summarizing tournament catches of black bass since 1977. These data have been provided by event organizers or club officers primarily on a voluntary basis. Fisheries biologists use the data to understand relative abundances and length frequencies of bass in these impoundments. This information can be used in addition to their standard sampling data to help evaluate management activities.
The Department encourages tournament organizers to voluntarily provide their tournament results. Please download an online copy of the "Kansas Bass Tournament Log" to record your results and submit them to the tournament monitoring coordinator.
To submit your "Kansas Bass Tournament Log," you may do one of the following:
1. Mail it to Attn: Tournament Coordinator, Emporia Survey and Research Office, PO Box 1525, Emporia KS 66801
2. Fax it to (620) 342-6248 or
3. Leave a message on "Contact the tournament monitoring coordinator" to receive an email address to send your results as an email attachment.