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Top Five Stocks Volume Watch List: Cellceutix Corp (OTC: CTIX), AMR Corp (OTC: AAMRQ), World Moto, Inc. (OTC: FARE), Amarantus Biosciences (OTC: AMBS), Southridge Enterprises (PINK: SRGE).
Cellceutix (OTC: CTIX) was having a strong morning in this holiday shortened week trading higher by 9% on over $3 million traded.
World Moto (OTC: FARE) was also doing well in in green territory after being higher by 17% at the 0.15 cent level on the stock. The volume on FARE has jumped up around the $2 million level at the halfway point today. We will continue to track FARE into next week to see if it can build on gains and the increased volume we are seeing.
AMR Corp (OTC: AAMRQ) remained on the volume focus list on Wednesday after trading north of $1 million before the halfway mark today. AAMRQ was higher by 4% after trading all the way back to the 0.80 cent level over the last few weeks.
Amarantus Biosciences (OTC: AMBS) was back on the volume watch list and having a strong days trading today. AMBS was higher by 19% on over $1 million traded.
Finally we have a new company that came into focus on the volume list today on the pink sheet market by the name of Southridge Enterprises (PINK: SRGE) which was higher by over 50% in trading on the pinks Wednesday on almost $1 million traded.
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Monday, September 5, 2011
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Today we meet the pious Dawn Meehan. Dawn is a 41 year old English Professor at Brigham Young University which means she's one of those freaky Mormons and probably related to an Osmond. When she's not grocery shopping with her sister wives and giving 10% of her income to her church, Dawn likes to bake bread and blog. Hey, me too! (not)
Dawn's pet peeve is brown grass and people who complain. As a professional complainer, I'm insulted. As someone who lives in a state that has had a brutal summer, my lawn is flipping her off right at this very moment. Dawn is the mother of 6 adopted kids, worships her husband in a disturbingly freaky manner, and is beginning to tick me off the more I read about her.
I'll be honest here, the second I read "Brigham Young" is the second my expectations went south. I am profoundly prejudiced against any group of people that believes gin is a bad thing and at the same time thinks it's perfectly normal to use the phrase "heavenly father" in everyday conversation. Let's check out her video and see if she's as annoying as I think she is:
Yup, she bugs me. It's the square-jawed, wide-eyed, freshly-scrubbed Mormon thing coupled with the fact that she told me a story about swallowing her own vomit at the precise moment I was taking a bite of my very late lunch. I'm worried she could pull a Crazy Pants (Holly) and we'll never get rid of her. Hopefully, the young guys will take one look at her and kick her to the curb at the first tribal council. We'll just have to wait and see. I'm not sensing any awesome Kristina Kell bitchassness in her, but who knows? *shrugs shoulders* Maybe a gin-free life of do-gooding has repressed her to the brink of a full blown hedonistic meltdown. Perhaps there's an evil sorceress just dying to get out of that shiny soccer mom exterior. Fingers crossed.
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- DiabolicalSeptember 6, 2011 at 8:30 AM
Hhhhhmmmmm I'll reserve judgement on this one. She's blancmange and I seriously doubt she's capable of bringing a bitchiness value to the game. Maybe she'll entertain in other ways while she prays to her God to get her through the challenges.ReplyDelete
oh what a horrid winter that was. Not a fan of BB Lala, Survivor only for me.ReplyDelete
"That Was So Special" - yeah, sooo glad Rob won. Actually I was kinda hoping the Purty Pony would be one of the return players - what a great story arc it would be for him to come back all schooled and cynical like...
Ok, glad yer back blogging the grandpappy of reality tv and here's a clink of gin filled glasses to a great season with some decent players we can cheer and boo and hiss etc
my favourite player is Cirie.
and Rob C.
oh this is new... you can post with a google account now? See last season it would only take me to the recaptcha screen if i selected the anonymous profile
ok try with google account...
Ugh, I can't stand her either; couldn't the moment I heard her. And she has Jay Leno jaw.ReplyDelete
I'm with Alisha. She is a train wreck and just BLECH! Wah snivel whine bugeye squinch face.... GO AWAY!ReplyDelete


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D.C. Alums Bowl with Special Olympiansby Rick Strasser '02 • November 7, 2005 Share:
While the Professional Bowlers Association won't be calling anytime soon, the National Capital Association of Wabash Men (NCAWM) served Wabash College well on Wabash Day by volunteering with Special Olympics D.C. during a bowling event with some 38 Special Olympics DC athletes.
As a part of the National Association of Wabash Men's first annual WABASH Day, the seven volunteers, including Greg Miklusak '74, Robert Kachur '87, Rick Strasser '02 and wife, Kristin, Scott Medsker '03 and girlfriend, Lauren Sealey, and Brock Medsker '05, enjoyed themselves as much as the Special Olympics athletes.
Spearheaded by Scott Medsker and Rick Strasser, the event seemed to strike up a strong interest amongst the volunteers with several pledging to get involved with Special Olympics D.C. on a more regular basis. The overall event was extremely successful, but the actual bowling by the Wabash volunteers was a different story. When asked about their performance as bowlers, most were silent. Scott Medsker said, "W.A.B.A.S.H. Day is not about winning or losing a bowling game, rather it's about giving back to the community and helping those that are less fortunate."
The NCAWM hopes to grow W.A.B.A.S.H. Day in the future and continue proudly representing Wabash College by serving the Washington, D.C.-area community.
In photo: Wabash alums (all in red) Brock Medsker '05, Scott Medsker '03, Rick Strasser '02, and Bob Kachur '87 with Special Olympic Athletes.


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Pollsters tell us that we voters are tired of personal-attack ads. More likely, we are exhausted by the practical impossibility of finding the time and the means to get at the truth of character issues in our culture of ubiquitous high-tech illusions.
If I say to myself, "It takes moral courage to admit that one has been had"—and if I keep repeating it—maybe I'll stop smarting quite so much about the Discovery Channel's mock-documentary, "Mermaid: The Body Found".(1) I was had, duped, conned, played, and hoodwinked: lock, stock, and barrel. I trusted in the channel's reputation (now forever sullied in my eyes) for presenting science rather than cheap entertainment. I was also won over by the considerable (and I will admit, even now, painstaking) degree of scientific detail and accuracy in the hoax. For instance, I believe it's correct that humans really are the only species that perspires, and most of us know that the human embryo has gills at a certain stage. I don't so much object to a clever producer's packaging the mermaid hoax as fact, furthermore, as I do to the network's offering the package without comment. Apparently there was one brief disclaimer at the outset of the show, which I missed. I can't say, therefore, if it was flashed on the screen in small print for two seconds or read in an admonishing sermon by James Earl Jones. It certainly wasn't repeated, in any form, between segments.(2)
This upsetting encounter with extreme gullibility has sent ripples through my thoughts. How much more of what we hear is theatrical claptrap? A documentary I saw about a year ago on the History Channel, I believe, concerning Extremely Low-Frequency (ELF) Waves… was that, too, a hoax intended as entertainment? Are those governments whose ambitions span the planet (Russia, China, and the US—the usual three elves) really toying with technology that could ruin another nation's climate, plunging it either into drought or monsoon? It seems to me that knowing the truth about these four transmitter-stations (we were said to have one in Alaska and one in Nova Scotia) would be a matter of immense public importance. How much do they cost, who authorized their construction, why do they exist, what are they actually doing, and what have they lately done? But then… maybe all of that was made-up to compete with Jersey Shore and American Idol….
Of course, people have a long history of being traduced into error by advanced communications media. A 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, colored by the incomparably dramatic tones of Orson Welles, resulted in sometimes-tragic panic as listeners scrambled madly to escape the Martians. And the public was alerted regularly, in this case, that the events were fictional! In our own time, the evolution of "photo-shopping" has reached such sophisticated levels that vivid sightings of UFO's or of Sasquatch seem to draw applause from viewers for their skill in fraudulence rather than alarm at "solid evidence" of threatening presences.
Why are we so insurmountably cynical about certain kinds of revelation, while about others we appear as gullible as toddlers on Christmas Eve? Any element of government cover-up, for one thing, has an instant aura of credibility for some of us—and I must include myself. As I continue to wade through Leon O' Broin's biography of nineteenth-century author and public servant Richard Robert O' Madden (written in Irish Gaelic: O' Broin's vocabulary is mercilessly large), I am struck by how efficient the British government was at suppressing any shred of awkward information.(3) O' Madden was a tireless crusader against the slave trade and, in an official capacity, often cried foul over the trafficking that proceeded openly in Havana. His integrity won him many permanent enemies. At his own expense, he became a star witness for the slaves aboard the Amistad, though he was advised by his government to stay out of the affair. Appointed to investigate in situ the rumors that British officials were similarly casual about policing the trade in West Africa, he named names so conscientiously to Lord Russell that he essentially lost his job. The fever he had contracted along the Gold Coast during his labors—virulent to the point of almost killing him—was alleged as having warped his perception of events! During a later appointment as a bank inspector, O' Madden found his way onto a "don't promote" list for the rest of his professional life. His infraction? Publishing anonymous articles that revealed the murderous ineptitude with which the British government addressed the Famine in western Ireland.
We call people like this "whistle-blowers", and we know well that their honesty procures them the brand of "trouble-maker" or "Judas" rather than the kudos of "selfless humanitarian". As a career academic, I've lived through enough such incidents myself to have memorized the procedure: remove dead bodies to empty storage closet, fumigate as prescribed under Faculty Handbook 14.2.d, direct all inquiries from off-campus to Public Relations by way of your departmental chair, and… above all, know that you speak out at grave professional peril. (These same intellects, mind you, grew up learning by rote the Progressive Church's catechismic curse upon Watergate and Iran-Contra!) Unfortunately, even the skepticism which such episodes inspire in people like me about the achievements of the powerful can become naïve. I believe that Herman Cain fell prey to ungrounded, malicious slanders when he was "borked" by a convenient sequence of "wronged women"… but many were less trusting. The narrative archetype that has the defenseless innocent being bullied by an unscrupulous autocrat is compelling, but some of the stories it informs are mere fictions. The real cynics in these cases are the people who know how to play the role of the innocent to maximum advantage.
On the other hand, Operation Fast and Furious was deadly-real. (Watergate, remember, was essentially a matter of breaking into a file cabinet.) Are we going to dismiss that outrage as a minor gaffe hyped by accomplished political propagandists? Careerist Democrat blather-sphincters like Bob Beckel respond with knee-jerk spontaneity, "The other side does it, too"… and then an inevitable X% of the public admits that it didn't see what it just saw. The deliberate and systematic distribution of hundreds of firearms to violent gangs, designed at the very highest levels of the Obama Administration as a means to undermine the Second Amendment, becomes the equivalent of a routine sting-operation. I am reminded of all the mass-shooting incidents (one of which—in the Wedgwood section of Fort Worth—occurred mere blocks from where I grew up) where survivors protest afterward that they thought the whole thing was being staged for a movie. When it really happens, we don't see it; and when we see something for sure, it didn't really happen.
In this slick new world of photons, the old epistemological problems of trees making or not making a noise when they fall in lonely forests is trumped by the presence—the abundance—of iTrees in e-forests. How can too many iTrees make you miss the e-forest when trees and forests are equally illusory? If a falling tree makes a noise, can you customize it with your drop-down "effects" menu? Of course you can—and the possible number of noises is limitless. That's the truth, the new truth: i.e., that anyone can now groom innumerable lies. We are constantly lied to not just by the usual hacks and shysters, but by our favorite amusements. Our elected representatives are mere extensions of the entertainment industry—playing saxophones, singing the blues, horsing around with Jay Leno, tweeting and twittering all the livelong day; so why should we view them as credible independent realities? Whether or not they actually tell lies is almost irrelevant. Why should they, rather, be viewed as three-dimensional beings rather than holograms? How could their very existence not be an illusion? How could they not be mere customized morphs of the dozen or so paradigms that Madden (not O' Madden, but the NFL game) or MLB the Show gives my son to construct new players?
The cardinal sin of the ingénue is to forget for an instant that all is illusion. We don't want that to happen to us; and so we greet every outlandish charge with worldly-wise acceptance, as long as it follows the template. Romney may well have any foible consistent with the Thurston B. Howell Template. He may have tipped his caddy a thousand bucks… or, contrastively, he may have cut off a company's resources so that he could buy its plunging stock and then turn the production spigot back on. But a drive-by shooting? Come on, man! Obama, on the other hand has sold himself through the Ghetto Template. Smoking weed and pimping for his Ivy League dorm? Sure—we've seen the movies built from those clichés. But Chris Rock as the Manchurian Candidate? Get real!(4)
Young people, naturally, are more enthralled to this kind of thought-suppression than older voters—but none of us really escapes the risks any more. We have reversed the poor sinner's plea to Christ, and we cry, "I don't believe—help me fight my belief!" We are constantly tricked by remnants of eye-witness testimony and "gut" feeling; so, with bruised egos, we swear that we will never believe anything again. Then, when some scoundrel is caught red-handed, we pig-headedly refuse to consider the evidence. Cozened by ourselves, once more—with a lot of help from expert handlers—we lose again.
Take the latest shootings: Colorado, Wisconsin… who doesn't wince and cringe at the ensuing assault on the Second Amendment, as sure to follow as the aftershocks of an earthquake? It isn't that we lack sympathy for the victims; but something in us cries, "Couldn't just one of you be packing a gun and shoot the bastard before this became the latest pretext to disarm law-abiding Americans?" And we wince, as well, until we receive positive confirmation that the shooter was not a Tea Party/NRA/KKK member with a long history of right-wing activism (as was first reported—always). In the present atmosphere of toxic distrust, some of us—and I again include myself—wouldn't be at all surprised to see Eric Holder promise some moron millions of taxpayer dollars to build up a ring-wing résumé and then go shoot up the NAACP convention—where, of course, several federal agents would just happen to be loitering who could ensure that the dupe made his exit in a body-bag.
I stopped listening to Michael Medved's radio program even before he called people like me idiots for not supporting John McCain in 2008. As I dimly recall, Medved used to devote one day of his broadcast each week (Thursday, I believe) to deriding and debunking conspiracy-theories. This, it seemed to me, was something of a conspiracy in itself, insofar as it left the impression that every conspiracy-theory is a canard. What are routine office politics if not minor conspiracies? What are the quid-pro-quo deals in good-old-boy contract negotiations if not conspiracies? Occurrences under the table are almost always at least as numerous and active as those above the table—and the differential only increases as the stakes rise and we graduate to national or international parleys. Medved, I am convinced, was conspiring with the GOP to ease all of us backwoods, redneck rubes out of the notion that Republicans no longer care about devolution of power and promotion of states' rights; either that, or he's an idiot.
Scott Rasmussen now tells us that most voters want the two presidential candidates to stop their exchange of personal attacks and get on with debating the real issues. Time flies; it may well be almost twenty years since I started hearing about the American public's being sick and tired of "negative advertising". Or it may be more than that. I've always dismissed the sentiment before as the squeamishness of voters raised on Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. The relevant factor should not be whether or not a message's content is "negative" (whatever that means: something that makes someone "feel bad", perhaps?); it should be whether or not said content is true. Or if it is negative and true but also trivial, then the voter may usefully add to his mental notes the observation that Candidate A is evading the major issues by harping on his opponent's adolescent speeding tickets. It would be important to know that Candidate B took a secret trip to Moscow during the Cold War, important to know that Candidate A completely lied about B's taking such a trip, and important to know that A really did think B's "disorderly conduct" arrest during a college fraternity initiation a matter of pressing national concern. Any responsible voter should be able to process all such data appropriately.
Yet we have now entered an era of political mermaids. Anything might be true—and everything might be false. Candidate A may have seduced a male intern, taken money from Castro, and lobbied for the overthrow of Zabumistan's government so that the oil in Zimbabistan (a large part of his stock portfolio) would soar in price. Candidate B may have appointed his mistress's uncle a federal judge, authored a bill whose grants richly profit his major donor, and reached a deal with a Mexican drug cartel to serve as his private "hit" squad. Practically anything is credible of practically anyone. There may just be a humanoid life-form on the ocean bottom that our secret experiments with sonar waves are destroying. There may also be extra-terrestrials involved in some kind of technology-for-resources swap with our government. Until we see indisputable evidence to the contrary, how can we afford fully to disbelieve any such story about these slithey toves we vote into office?
Yet what does indisputable evidence now look like? A person's face can be convincingly inserted into virtually any framework. Recordings can be made that fool the most elite experts. DNA can be planted. Documents can be created. The very people who pride themselves in being most skeptical may be coyly manipulated to disbelieve the truth for fear of seeming naïve.
When people speak of being exhausted by "attack" ads nowadays, I understand them in a new sense. What they mean, I think, is not that they are too squeamish to handle harsh realities, but that they have neither the time nor the skill to ferret out the truth of all the incessant allegations. Every claim requires massive research. Obama's minions can argue that the economy is actually improving; and people like me, though they smell a rat, would not really grasp the sort of "shell game" bookkeeping that generated the statement even if we had time to find an exposé of it online. One grows exhausted with it all, just as if, returned in a dream to one's student days, one were assigned a major test and a homework exercise in a new chapter for the next period's meeting. There isn't time to do the homework; and even if there were, too many new concepts have not yet been explained.
I took Herman Cain's protests of innocence at face value because the witnesses against him seemed too rehearsed and too easily produced from nowhere. I accepted Rick Santorum's explanation at face value when he defended his liberal votes as concessions to President Bush's leadership. I don't really care if Romney has cut a few corners on his taxes or not, because I don't crave another man's money nor do I think that people who pay no income tax at all (i.e., the most vigorous Romney-haters) are in a position to whine. But hard evidence, one way or the other? Where do you find it? Tax documents are probably almost as easy to fake as birth certificates. Where is the human being within these holograms? Who can read these people's souls? The ways of the soul, said Heraclitus, are an abyss—and in that abyss may dwell mermaids… or the Loch Ness monster. I'm tired of abysses.
Be as negative as you like, gentlemen—but confine it to your opponent's economic and social vision. If I were only going to vote for someone I trusted personally, I would write in Joe the Plumber.
1) The "documentary" first aired on Discovery's Animal Planet on May 25, 2012. See Neil Genzlinger's review at http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/arts/television/mermaids-the-body-found-on-animal-planet.html.
2) As luck would have it, the show was aired again as I was putting the last touches to this piece. No disclaimer of any sort appeared at the beginning; and at the very end of the scrolling credits appeared a paragraph containing the word "fictional" in some context that only a master speed-reader could have supplied. It truly seems to me that the film's creators and/or The Discovery Channel were suborning misinterpretation while keeping their vestigial tail fully covered within the letter of the law.
3) See Leon Ó Bróin, An Maidíneach (Baile Átha Cliath: Sáirséal agus Dill, 1971).
4) I think it entirely defensible to argue, by the way, that Mitt Romney would be better served by playing the Thurston Howell role (from the childishly cliché Gilligan's Island series) to its blue-blooded, snobby hilt. Inasmuch as the alternative is a stereotype from Tyler Perry's House of Payne, young voters, especially, might prefer a chairman-of-the-board figure in these hard times to a lovably bungling buffoon. At any rate, I strongly suspect that what young people find most off-putting about Romney is his very resistance to the Country Club template. They perceive it as disingenuous. I do not advocate his ceasing such resistance, I would stress. On the contrary, I think it bodes ill for our democratic republic that the way to win future elections is probably to manipulate dominant templates in the entertainment world. As Dobie Gillis would have said, we're doomed.


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UPDATE: The owners of the Lakota Ranch have released the following statement to Indian Country Today Media Network (the original news report follows it):
To my fellow Native Brothers and Sisters in Indian Country,
Lightning Medicine Cloud, a true spiritual blessing was born at the Lakota Ranch on May 12, 2011. He now has joined his earth father and our heavenly father, and Lightning's mother, Buffalo Woman, also went on to join her son one day after Lightning left the earth.
There is an internal investigation through Hunt County Sheriff and Homeland Security in process, and a $5,000 reward offered for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of those involved in the premeditated crime deaths of Lightning Medicine Cloud and his mother, Buffalo Woman. Thus far, the investigation has concluded that neither were killed by natural causes.
The Greenville Scholarship Powwow scheduled for May 11-12, 2012 will proceed as planned, and will continue to celebrate the birth of a rare, non-albino, white, male buffalo who was brought in by God, but taken out by hands of evil people. We welcome one and all to join us for the Traditional Scholarship Powwow that Greenville has hosted for the past 18 years, held at the Lakota Ranch in Greenville, TX.
It has been a heartache as we mourn the death of Lightning Medicine Cloud and his mother, however his legacy will forever live on through the message he brought as "The Hope of All Nations". Lightning was brought in as a spiritual blessing from God and left by the hands of evil people. This premeditated crime will NOT go unsolved, and there will be closure for us all, and consequences for those who did it.
May you all rest in peace, dearest Gentle Ben, Lightning Medicine Cloud, and Buffalo Woman.
You will be missed very much, but NEVER forgotten. It has been our honor to have taken care of you and shared in your greatness.
—Arby and Pat Little Soldier
According to a Fox News report, the extremely rare and sacred white buffalo born last year has been found dead and skinned along with its mother.
Lightning Medicine Cloud, born May 12, 2011 on a stormy night at the Lakota Ranch in Greenville Texas, was a natural white buffalo—an extremely rare occurrence, happening an estimated once per ten million births. In June, a naming ceremony attracted over 2,000 visitors to the ranch, and a report on the proceedings cited beliefs held by some Lakota that the calf was the third white buffalo ever, and the first male in 150 years. Such a white buffalo is tied to the story of White Buffalo Calf Woman, and is the most sacred animal, perhaps the most sacred thing on the planet, to the Lakota people.
In March, the discovery that a ranch in Hunt, Texas offered the chance to kill a white buffalo for $13,500 sparked outrage in Indian country. A day after the news broke, the owner of the ranch told Indian Country Today Media Network that he would cease offering the white buffalo hunt. The buffalo being killed at that ranch and others, like those being born on a ranch in Bend, Oregon, are not naturally-occurring white buffalo—as an expert told ICTMN in March, knowledge of genetics has allowed modern breeders to engineer white bison.
The annual Greenville Scholarship Native American Powwow, which was traditionally held in late January, had been moved to the weekend of May 11-12 and called (perhaps unofficially) the First Annual Lightning Medicine Cloud Powwow in the buffalo calf's honor. The event's flyer is below:


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This week the Obama administration's Department of Labor issued new rules extending minimum wage and overtime protection (beginning in 2015) to home care workers. These workers had been classified as the same as babysitters.
This is a big change for almost 2 million workers. Calling this "a victory on multiple fronts," In These Times says,
… this is more than just a labor issue—the intersection of gender, race and class makes it a victory on multiple fronts. Ninety-two percent of home care workers are women, more than half are people of color, and many are low-income and rely on government assistance like food stamps and Medicaid. Good news is hard to come by in labor reporting, so enjoy this one!
Yes, let's definitely celebrate!
So What Have You Done For Working People Lately?
There's something else the administration can do. Our government used to serve as an employment model, paying good wages and providing benefits. But because of privatization, the US government is now the single largest employer of low-wage workers. The US government employs more low-wage workers than even Walmart. This supposedly "saves money" but really pays huge CEO salaries. And these workers then have to come to the government for help with food, housing, medical care, etc. because they are paid at poverty level.
Demos, in Underwriting Bad Jobs explains the problem,
What most Americans don't know is that many of the workers keeping our nation humming are paid low wages, earning barely enough to afford essentials like food, health care, utilities and rent. Through federal contracts and other funding, our tax dollars are fueling the low-wage economy and exacerbating inequality. …
We find that nearly two million private sector employees working on behalf of America earn wages too low to support a family, making $12 or less per hour. This is more than the number of low-wage workers at Walmart and McDonalds combined.
President Obama could issue an executive order requiring that these workers be paid fairly.
The National Employment Law Project (NELP) issued a report, Taking the Low Road: How the Federal Government Promotes Poverty-Wage Jobs Through its Contracting Practices, saying "Washington does not keep an official tally of the number of privately contracted workers who help provide public services, but researchers estimate there are about two million." The extensive (click through) report continues, "To help reverse the trend toward an ever-widening income gap, we believe the federal government must renew its historic commitment to pursuing model policies that can influence and improve conditions in the public and private sectors. Making all federally contracted jobs good jobs is the place to start."
Good Jobs Nation wants you to click here to sign this petition that says:
President Obama –
Thousands of people work for you through private contractors, and the fact is that many are struggling to make ends meet on minimum wage or even less.
Mr. President, these companies are paying their CEOs millions each year. Please make sure that companies hired to serve the American people do right by them — make sure that federal contractors pay a living wage and respect workers' rights to join together and have a voice on the job.
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Water Research Symposium to Be Held at New Mexico Tech, Aug. 1, 2006
SOCORRO, N.M., Aug. 1, 2006 – Nearly 200 students and experts in water resources research will gather at the New Mexico Tech's Macey Center on August 15, 2006. Brief presentations will be made by those involved in water-related research topics. Speakers come from throughout New Mexico as well as Texas, Arizona, and Colorado.
Poster presentations will also be made throughout the day. Over sixty posters and oral presentations will be given on topics ranging from water conservation to hydrogeologic studies, water quality, the Rio Grande silvery minnow, water policy, arsenic removal, evaporation, drought, and many other areas of importance to the water future of New Mexico.
The symposium, held once a year in August at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico, provides an opportunity for scientists and other water experts to meet and share with each other their research ideas and findings. Participants include faculty and students from universities, water agency personnel from the federal and state government, and their colleagues from the private sector.
This year students will participate in a competition and awards will be made by the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) – New Mexico Section for the best posters and oral presentations.
The symposium is sponsored by the New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute in cooperation with Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission, U.S. Geological Survey, AWRA- New Mexico Section, and the state's major research universities.
The symposium program is available on the WRRI website at http://wrri.nmsu.edu/conf/tc06/program.html. The public is invited to attend and can register online at http://wrri.nmsu.edu/conf/tc06/regis.html. The registration fee is $20, which includes lunch and a notebook containing abstracts of all posters and presentations.
The New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute is a nonprofit organization that funds water-related research projects at all of New Mexico's universities.


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If Florence Welch, she of the kimono sleeves and the stratospheric voice, had begun to levitate Sunday at the sold-out Chicago Theatre, her fans probably wouldn't have been all that astonished.
Welch, who has released two best-selling albums under the name Florence and the Machine, has that kind of otherworldly quality associated with Victorian heroines and witchy seductresses. Hey, maybe she can fly too?
"It talks in tongues and quiet sighs and prayers and proclamations," she trilled on "All This Heaven and Too" – as good a way as any of describing her peculiar language, her attempts to float beyond the everyday. Twirling onto the stage and discarding her black high heels after a few songs, she was light on her feet and flexible of voice as she danced atop the notes.
But as this performance affirmed, there's more to Welch than wispiness and eccentricity.
A six-piece band put piano and harp – yes, harp – out front, bringing an Elizabethan or Celtic flair to several songs. Two drummers emphasized tribal thump and rolling rhythms, giving Welch's music some earthiness and drive. Her subjects inevitably involve rapture, transcendence, breaking on through to a different understanding of the world. There was the Gothic drama of "Seven Devils" (a "True Blood" song in waiting if there ever was one), the Alice in Wonderland fantasy of "Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)," the fervent wish to "Leave My Body."
"I'm not 7 foot tall … I'm not riding a chariot," Welch said, acknowledging that sometimes the personality she projects on her recordings isn't matched by her actual physical stature. But Florence brought her Giant Reverb Machine, and with two backing vocalists, she at times sounded like a choir at an Italian opera.
At 25, the U.K. singer has some clear precedents as an artist storming the charts from Planet Flo: the seductive weirdness of Kate Bush, the feminist fire of Tori Amos, the slow-burn swirl of Sarah McLachlan. But she adds a few distinctive touches all her own, most notably a powerhouse voice that for all its upper-register airiness can also get down and growl.
Tambourines rattled and she pogo-hopped to the beat, clapping hands until the venerable theater started to morph into a Baptist church. She dropped an unaccompanied vocal passage into "Lover to Lover" with the fervor of a gospel soloist, played give and take with her backing vocalists on "Leave My Body" and turned "Dog Days are Over" into a holy-roller rollercoaster ride, punctuated by a leap from the drum riser.
For all her playful kookiness, Welch is a soul singer at heart. She's got an untamed yowl that demands more of the world than it can sometimes possibly give. She can't fly. But her voice can.
Florence and the Machine set list Sunday at the Chicago Theatre:
1. Only If For a Night
2. What the Water Gave Me
3. Seven Devils
4. Cosmic Love
5. Lover to Lover
6. Leave My Body
7. All This and Heaven Too
8. Between Two Lungs
9. Dog Days are Over
10. Shake It Out
11. Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)
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- About Cisco IOS Software Documentation
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This chapter discusses the objectives, audience, organization, and conventions of Cisco IOS software documentation. It also provides sources for obtaining documentation from Cisco Systems.
Cisco IOS software documentation describes the tasks and commands necessary to configure and maintain Cisco networking devices.
The Cisco IOS software documentation set is intended primarily for users who configure and maintain Cisco networking devices (such as routers and switches) but who may not be familiar with the tasks, the relationship between tasks, or the Cisco IOS software commands necessary to perform particular tasks. The Cisco IOS software documentation set is also intended for those users experienced with Cisco IOS software who need to know about new features, new configuration options, and new software characteristics in the current Cisco IOS software release.
The Cisco IOS software documentation set consists of documentation modules and master indexes. In addition to the main documentation set, there are supporting documents and resources.
The Cisco IOS documentation modules consist of configuration guides and corresponding command reference publications. Chapters in a configuration guide describe protocols, configuration tasks, and Cisco IOS software functionality and contain comprehensive configuration examples. Chapters in a command reference publication provide complete Cisco IOS command syntax information. Use each configuration guide in conjunction with its corresponding command reference publication.
Figure 1Figure 1 shows the Cisco IOS software documentation modules.
Note The abbreviations (for example, FC and FR) next to the book icons are page designators, which are defined in a key in the index of each document to help you with navigation. The bullets under each module list the major technology areas discussed in the corresponding books.
Figure 1 Cisco IOS Software Documentation Modules
Two master indexes provide indexing information for the Cisco IOS software documentation set: an index for the configuration guides and an index for the command references. Individual books also contain a book-specific index.
The master indexes provide a quick way for you to find a command when you know the command name but not which module contains the command. When you use the online master indexes, you can click the page number for an index entry and go to that page in the online document.
The following documents and resources support the Cisco IOS software documentation set:
•Cisco IOS Command Summary (two volumes)—This publication explains the function and syntax of the Cisco IOS software commands. For more information about defaults and usage guidelines, refer to the Cisco IOS command reference publications.
•Cisco IOS System Error Messages—This publication lists and describes Cisco IOS system error messages. Not all system error messages indicate problems with your system. Some are purely informational, and others may help diagnose problems with communications lines, internal hardware, or the system software.
•Cisco IOS Debug Command Reference—This publication contains an alphabetical listing of the debug commands and their descriptions. Documentation for each command includes a brief description of its use, command syntax, usage guidelines, and sample output.
•Dictionary of Internetworking Terms and Acronyms—This Cisco publication compiles and defines the terms and acronyms used in the internetworking industry.
•New feature documentation—The Cisco IOS software documentation set documents the mainline release of Cisco IOS software (for example, Cisco IOS Release 12.2). New software features are introduced in early deployment releases (for example, the Cisco IOS "T" release train for 12.2, 12.2(x)T). Documentation for these new features can be found in standalone documents called "feature modules." Feature module documentation describes new Cisco IOS software and hardware networking functionality and is available on Cisco.com and the Documentation CD-ROM.
•Release notes—This documentation describes system requirements, provides information about new and changed features, and includes other useful information about specific software releases. See the section "Using Software Release Notes" in the chapter "Using Cisco IOS Software" for more information.
•Caveats documentation—This documentation provides information about Cisco IOS software defects in specific software releases.
•RFCs—RFCs are standards documents maintained by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Cisco IOS software documentation references supported RFCs when applicable. The full text of referenced RFCs may be obtained on the World Wide Web at http://www.rfc-editor.org/.
•MIBs—MIBs are used for network monitoring. For lists of supported MIBs by platform and release, and to download MIB files, see the Cisco MIB website on Cisco.com at http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/netmgmt/cmtk/mibs.shtml.
Within Cisco IOS software documentation, the term router is generally used to refer to a variety of Cisco products (for example, routers, access servers, and switches). Routers, access servers, and other networking devices that support Cisco IOS software are shown interchangeably within examples. These products are used only for illustrative purposes; that is, an example that shows one product does not necessarily indicate that other products are not supported.
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Examples use the following conventions:
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The following conventions are used to attract the attention of the reader:
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5 Beautiful Ways to Store & Display Headphones
If you recently purchased some audiophile headphones and are hard pressed to find a good place to store them, then I have you covered. These 5 headphone stands will prominently display your hi-fi head candy and keep your phones in place when you're not rockin' out.
Sieveking Sound: The Omega headphone stand from Germany employs bent wood and comes in a variety of finishes; Zebrano, Walnut, Cherry, and Makassar. These unique wood stands can be purchased through the US distributor for $179.00, Elusive Disc.
Klutz Design: This small company in Sweden builds the CanCans line of headphone stands. Available in a many colors, these exsquisite headphone stands sell for around $530.00 each and can befound at the Klutz Design web store. Check out the store for special limited finishes like leather (with stitching) and matte black paint.
ROOM's Audio: This is another German company that builds several wood headphone stands. Made with two pieces of bent wood, The ROOM's model FS provides easy access for hanging your precious cans. Starting price is $105.00 and are available from Thomann music store.
Woo Audio: Not sure if your headphones will fit the above stands? These all metal height adjustabe stands provide room for one or two sets of headphones. The HPS-R and HPS-T can be purchased directly from Woo Audio and sell for $69.00 and $79.00.
CA Electronics: This small dutch company produces the HS-1 aluminium headphone stand. The HS-1 is hand finished in either a black or white powder coat. These can be found online from Hi-Fi Damping and sell for around $95.00.
If you are inclined to make your own stand, check out our post: The Most Clever Recycled & DIY Headphone Stands.
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BRATTLEBORO -- If you're a Jack or Jane of all trades and have a year to kill, Fox TV is looking for you.
In Fox's new reality show, "Utopia," 15 people will leave behind all they know and love to create their own ideal mini-society, all the while being followed by hundreds of cameras. "Utopia" is based on a Dutch reality show of the same name, created by John de Mol, who is also responsible for "Big Brother," "The Voice" and "Deal Or No Deal."
In the third week of April, Jacqueline Topacio, a casting producer, will be in Vermont to interview prospective candidates who are crazy enough to want to build in one year a civilization from scratch.
"This is not an open casting call," said Topacio. "We need people who know what they are doing and are going to commit for a whole year."
But before she speaks with potential reality TV stars, they need to be 21 or older and apply at utopiatvcasting.com. To learn more about the show, visit www.fox.com/utopia. Those who think they have what it takes, need to apply online and upload a three-minute video explaining what their vision for Utopia is and why they should be chosen.
Topacio knows all about Vermont and the characters who populate the Green Mountain State. Most recently, she was here casting for National Geographic's "Building Wild" cabin-building show.
"Vermont isn't usually one of the main places to cast," said Topacio. "I pitched it and I was asked why Vermont? I told them it's a goldmine of great characters. When I was out there, I met so many people who didn't do just one thing."
Topacio met people such as a teacher who also sugared maple syrup, a veterinarian who is also a builder and a ski coach who also invented new tools for sustainable farming.
"Everyone in Vermont seems to do more than just one thing," she said, and those are the kinds of people she is looking for. "We need people who are smart and scrappy, who are comfortable on a tractor or a snowmobile."
Kristin Curtin, the show's supervising casting producer, is also familiar with Vermont. She was in Dover in the summer of 2013 filming an episode of Gordon Ramsay's "Hotel Hell." She said it wasn't too tough of a sell to convince her to expand the casting call to Vermont.
"People in Vermont are very resourceful and very inspiring," she said. "There is a wealth of people there we are excited to tap into."
Curtin said she and Topacio aren't looking for people you normally see on reality TV shows.
"We are looking for genuine, authentic people who are incredibly passionate," said Curtin. "This is their opportunity to build a society that is idealistic and completely new. This is their time and platform to tell America and all the viewers how society should be run."
"They could be farmers, carpenters, hunters, veterinarians, clergy, former military, police officers, inventors, college students; people who have the passion and determination to build a new society," said Topacio.
And, obviously, they're looking for people who aren't shy, because they will be under the watchful eye of remote cameras 24 hours a day.
Not only will there be a regular weekly show on Fox, but the cameras will be streaming the activities online, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, said Topacio.
The location is top secret, and the 15 participants will be given some rudimentary tools, shelter, livestock and seeds and will be expected to craft together a functioning society.
As in "Big Brother," the Utopians will select fellow participants for elimination in a process in which the viewers also vote. After the vote, three inhabitants land in the danger zone, and two aspiring new contestants arrive. But Topacio said it will be in the participants' best interests to always keep the most capable people around to insure their new society is a success. The rewards are also being kept secret, she said.
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While many for-profit clubs are shifting gears and trying to find their niche, university rec centers are branching out into new directions, too.
Funding for both public and private sectors is tight, but according to the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA), the rec center mission is moving forward.
"We are seeing facilities renovate and expand, but it's at a lesser rate than it was two years ago when we did our last facility survey," says Abe Drabkin, director of marketing for NIRSA. "The 2010 NIRSA Collegiate Recreational Sports Facilities Construction Report indicated that $1.7 billion in projects—including new construction, renovations and expansions—is slated at NIRSA institutions for 2010-2015."
Facility structural growth may be slower, but Drabkin says that universities are still finding new ways to engage students. One of the main focuses is increased health and wellness programming. Universities are using rec centers as a place to pass information on to students about how to set up healthy behaviors for the rest of their lives through educational programming related to food and nutrition, and by offering mind-body classes, such as yoga, marketed to both genders.
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"Our data suggests that when students use the rec center, they stay at that institution, they don't transfer, they graduate within four years," he says. "It improves their ability to deal with academic stress and obviously their fitness as well."
Stress relief and wellness also play a big role in programming for a specific student market—veterans returning to school on the GI bill.
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Along with promoting awareness of students' own well-being, Drabkin says that rec centers are helping students become more interested in working toward a healthier planet. Sustainability is a hot topic, from building LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) facilities to installing eco-friendly equipment, such as treadmills that push energy back into the grid.
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Later this week, more history will be made.
Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times reports Shannon Eastin will be part of the crew for Thursday's Green Bay at San Diego game.
Eastin, who has called college games in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, will be the first woman to work as an on-field official in any NFL game.
While there were some missteps last night, there wasn't the ridiculous show of ineptitude some expected. As we get deeper and deeper into the bench of the retired and tier-two (or three or four or five) officials, that may happen.
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So I belong to a pretty active childfree group on Facebook. It's completely private until you are accepted so people tend to be pretty honest and open on there. It wasn't too long on their discussions before I noticed the trend that while they aren't all atheists, a large number of members don't believe in god.
While this could just be a statistical anomaly (I am working with a study base of one group) I was wondering what other people have noticed. Once I saw that trend online I thought about my friends and realized that most of my childfree friends are either atheist, agnostic or apatheist. What's everyone else's experience with this like?
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I am in an odd situation as about 1/2 of my friends are child-free and probably over 70% of my friends are either atheist, agnostic, pagan or non-practicing. The few child-free ones that appear to be intending to have kids are mostly the religious ones. The ones with grown kids are mostly pagans.
I can surmise that non-religious people are less likely to feel "obligated" to have children, while those of certain religious movements ("quiverfull" especially) feel that they are, at the very least, not supposed to try to avoid having children. I would guess that we are more likely to be content to make our own impact on the world (or just enjoy our own lives) rather than worrying about creating "mini-me"s.
There also is a statistical correlation of more educated people having fewer (or no) kids and also one of more educated people being less religious. That could very well lead to a correlation between lack kids and lack of religion, so what you are seeing on that group could be representative of the general population. Whether correlation equals causation in this case is something best left up to some statistician willing to do one heck of a large survey. You may very well be onto something.
I agree with B-Girl. There is indeed a correlation between level of education, religiosity, and number of children/no children.
In addition, I'd like to bring up psycho-social connotations. Without the belief of an afterlife, all matters fall into the realm of reality. Anything that would, should, or could matter is tangible and present in the span of ones natural life. In short, there is nothing else to look forward to. With the removal of any fantastic forces administering ones life, is the increase of skepticism and realism about existence. The greater awareness about existence, and its limitations therein, may lead to a decreased desire to initiate this existence with another human being.
As B-girl was mentioning, these is less of an obligation. Once the fantasy has been removed, there is less of a need to fulfill ones needs by having offspring. One can be simply satisfied fulfilling ones own existence instead.
I am constantly appalled at how recently converted atheists hang on to their religious beliefs. That all members of society are to "go forth and procreate" is a religious mantra which has no foundation in the science of biology, it is strictly dogma. For me, recently converted atheists who cling to religious beliefs and are apologetic about them are the explanation for rationality not progressing at a significant pace in our society.
From a strictly NPOV, Homo sapiens sapiens' relationship to the earthly ecosystem is completely on par with a cancer. Any rational mind (or minimally scientifically aware mind) should be able to pick up on this biological reality. But so many atheists are hung up on eternal life, Humanism (values humans above all others), so many gnu atheists simply traded adulation of a celestial god, for the adulation of an earthly god... the one in the mirror, I don't see that as an improvement. In fact self-adulation is known to be a mental disorder... apparently this has not been picked up on by many people yet :)
Somehow I missed this discussion last June, but better late than never.
The connection between religion and reproduction is that both draw from a feeling of personal connection to some great and abiding continuum. Religions, without exception, enjoin their followers to regard their temporal lives as fleeting and short in comparison to the broader context of god/gods/nature/etc. Meanwhile, the lure of reproduction is that our genes and to some extent our character lives on and continues contributing to the human mix long after we ourselves are toast. Even those religions that condemn or at least strongly regulate sex, still insist on reproductive continuity. And even those pro-reproductive exhortations that are avowedly secular (breed more to strengthen the nation, to produce more cannon-fodder, to have more taxpayers to fund more retirees, etc.) really draw from a mandate that resembles religion: namely, a quest to transcend the merely personal and to partake of a great stream flowing into a rosy future.
To disavow reproduction is to assert a finitude of life. This can be from an environmentalist viewpoint (too many people chasing too few resources), a philosophically skeptical viewpoint (life is suffering, and less live means less suffering), a utility-maximization viewpoint (raising kids properly is too stressful and time-consuming, therefore one is better off not even trying it), or maybe something else. But the core idea is anti-religious. It denies the value of contributing to some great continuum, or that our present lives are inextricably tied to something before and after.
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In 2007 writer/directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez tried to bring back the classic drive-in grindhouse style with their movie Grindhouse. Sadly, this didn't turn out so great in terms of box office numbers, as the movie only managed to bring in $25 million during its 11 week run. But a cultural impact was definitely made.
There have been spin-offs, of sorts, such as Machete and Hobo With A Shotgun, and Rodriguez has already completed filming a Machete sequel, Machete Kills. Musicians have also taken a liking to the style, with bands like Queens of the Stone Age and The Black Keys using it for music videos like "3's and 7's" and "Howlin' For You," respectively. And now director Paul Schrader and writer Bret Easton Ellis have brought a touch of grindhouse to the advertising for their new film The Canyons.
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Juli Veee could make a soccer ball dance with his feet. Branko Segota could strike it so hard that a shot would ripple the net before anyone saw it. Steve Zungul could score a goal with a defender's arm wrapped around his throat.
They were the three most identifiable stars in the San Diego Sockers' phenomenal run of 10 indoor championships won over 11 seasons in the 1980s and early '90s.
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Sockers trainer Bill Taylor once dubbed "Quinnie" a "dirt dog, the kind of kid you want to have at your side in a fight." He wasn't the strongest or fastest or most skilled, but the stars of the Sockers in those days will tell you that they wouldn't have been the same without him.
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"You have to have your stars, and you have to have your worker bees, as well."
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And when he was done with indoor soccer, Quinn did something extraordinary. He became an American citizen, made the transition back to the outdoor game in his early 30s, and played 48 times for the U.S. national team. That experience capped a 16-year pro career that took him as a teen from the troubled streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland, to the sunny climes of San Diego, where Quinn, his wife of 33 years, Sharon, and their six children have remained for three decades.
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For all of his contributions to San Diego, which now include the development of hundreds of youth and college players through his coaching, Quinn, 52, will be inducted into the Breitbard Hall of Fame on Monday during the Salute to the Champions Banquet at the Town and Country Convention Center.
"Everybody who plays soccer in San Diego should try to meet Brian Quinn at least once," said Brian Halliday, who served as Quinn's agent during his playing years and remains one of his closest friends. "Whether you're (
"He's a shining example of how to make it in the game. He has skills and unbelievable knowledge, but his attitude is what makes him special. He's a special person and he's special to the game."
Quinn, who initially arrived in the States in 1981 to play for the NASL's Los Angeles Aztecs, came to the Sockers in 1983 when the team had already won two indoor titles. He immediately meshed with a squad that was the
"We never rested on our laurels," Quinn said. "We went after it every year. I remember in May it would be 80 degrees outside and the Sports Arena would be rocking. We continued to bring people down and win the crucial games."
In 1991, Quinn achieved his goal of becoming a U.S. citizen, and when the U.S. national team called, his Sockers career was over. Of missing his presence, Veee said, "Any dog can pass the ball. How you pass the ball makes a difference. His presence on the Sockers and U.S. national team makes a difference."
Quinn's U.S. debut was the stuff of movies. It came against Ireland at Foxboro Stadium outside Boston. The capper, though, was another game against Ireland, played in Dublin, with Quinn wearing the American captain's armband. His mother was in the stands.
"Honest to God, I think everybody who knew him in Northern Ireland was at the game that day," Halliday said.
The perfect ending would have been Quinn playing in America's first hosting of the
Quinn has poured his same love for the game into coaching. He is the director of the San Diego Soccer Club, assistant coach of the men's team at USD, and head coach of the varsity girls squad at Bishop's. He figures he spends about 340 days a year on a soccer field. He traveled to Spain last year to study methods that would lead to better coaching.
"He lives, eats and sleeps it," Halliday said. "And he always wants to be a winner."


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Jo Anne Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security, today unveiled an historical marker at the Candler Building in downtown Baltimore. The marker commemorates the Candler Building as the Agency's first home and honors the men and women who began the massive task of setting up and operating America's Social Security system.
"Since our program's inception, Social Security has been blessed by dedicated, hard-working employees," said Commissioner Barnhart. "Caring and compassionate people from across this nation joined together to undertake what was then called the largest bookkeeping operation in the world. Social Security's well-deserved reputation for delivering outstanding service has its origins right here in the Candler Building."
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, government planners started looking for a building to house the new program. Since a suitable structure was not available in Washington, D.C. at the time, Social Security chose the Candler Building which was able to house the volume of records and equipment needed to begin operations in October 1936.
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The historical marker was made possible by donations from the Social Security Employees' Activities Association, the SSA Baltimore Federal Credit Union, the American Federation of Government Employees, the Social Security Alumni Association and current and former Social Security employees.
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