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The United States is being overwhelmed by an epidemic of addiction to prescribed synthetic opiates such as OxyContin, hydrocodone, Percocet, Lorcet, Lortab and Vicodin. What should be done? The quick answer: Take the profit out of pain.First, there should be additional pain drug education for all doctors and a whole new curriculum for any doctor who would be allowed the privilege of prescribing potent, addictive pain medicine. Second, health education in middle school should pound home the message that just because a doctor prescribes a drug, does not mean it is "safe." Furthermore, the fact that perception of pain is a matter of mood and context must be taught. (Childbirth pain, for example, will be experienced differently by supported mothers when the baby is wanted compared to isolated single moms who are unhappy to be pregnant.) Third, scientific research for promising nonaddictive pain medications should be funded, and when effective reasonable cost substitutes for the synthetic opiates are found, the addictive medicines should then be banned. In March 2007, for example, ScienceDaily.com reported that scientists came up with UFP-101, which "avoids many of the side effects of morphine, currently the 'gold standard' in pain reduction." Given that drug firms will not even admit - until circumstances force them to - that their drugs are addictive, banning an existing pain-relief drug will be a tall order. Fourth, drug companies which market addictive medications must be required to package them in the least addiction-creating ways possible (e.g., time-release patches rather than pills) and in ways that are difficult for criminals - who would repackage the active ingredient in a way that will create addiction - to tamper with. Fifth, allow practitioners of effective alternative pain treatments to practice. Three proven alternatives are acupuncture, hypnotism and micro-electronic implants. Of course, any practitioner of anti-pain arts should have to prove, to some extent at least, that their practices do indeed work. But, having provided such proof that should be it - no further barriers to practice (promoted by now- mainstream practitioners) should be allowed. Sixth, encourage skepticism about the (mostly for-profit) pain- industrial complex. Scientists may love to split hairs about what "really" constitutes addition, but for-profit drug companies have no bottom-line reason to cooperate. Indeed, addiction obviously increases sales. Doctors can keep many patients content by merely prescribing "happy pills," and established detox and treatment centers do not want to close their doors. There are combined approaches to manage problems with addictive substances that society has decided should be legal. Cigarettes and liquor, for example, are subjected to advertising and age-use restrictions. There are a variety of programs to counter illegal addictive substances, such as crop eradication and border guards to interrupt smuggling routes. Now, without question, alcohol and nicotine kill and incapacitate many, many people, and black market cocaine and heroin activities flourish. But, however expensive or ineffective such prevention efforts may be, they do exist and they are scrutinized and evolving. By contrast, so far, efforts to control synthetic opiates have been limited to reclassifying some of them as Schedule II drugs (Schedule I being the most dangerous). There is, in fact, no multifaceted approach to handle this ballooning problem. Such reclassification, welcome as it may be, is not nearly proportionate to the problem. Recently the Gazette reported that Toyota was reluctant to expand in West Virginia because those whom they might employ would be addicts. It was also reported that West Virginia ranks high in births of babies whose mothers were addicted to prescription drugs. PainMedicationAddiction.org reports that unintentional deaths from prescription opioid analgesics now outnumber such deaths from cocaine and heroin combined. That was not so a decade ago. Palmer is a retired business and economics professor.
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THE TASTE, Los Angeles Times' annual celebration of the Southern California culinary scene, returns to Paramount Pictures Studios over Labor Day weekend. Each of THE TASTE's five events reflects The Times' coverage of the Southland's best chefs, restaurants and food trends. Named BizBash's top food, wine and hospitality event in 2011, THE TASTE is again cooking up a locally-focused, internationally-flavored menu of offerings with featured chefs and special guests Thomas Keller (Bouchon, The French Laundry), Nancy Silverton (Mozza, La Brea Bakery), Ludo Lefebvre (LudoBites), Susan Feniger (STREET), Roxana Jullapat (Cooks County), Nyesha Arrington (Wilshire), Jason Kim (Forage), Bricia Lopez (Guelaguetza), Kris Yenbamroong (Night + Market), Ricardo Zarate (Picca, Mo-Chica), Judy Han (Mendocino Farms, Blue Cow), Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark (Cooking Channel) and many more. Unlimited food and drink tastings from more than 40 of the area's top restaurants, cooking and mixology demonstrations, wine seminars and panel discussions will be featured at each event.
The weekend will kick off with Field to Fork on Saturday, hosted by Times Food Editor Russ Parsons and Chef Ray Garcia (FIG). The event will include cooking demos, a conversation with local farmers and a challenge between chefs David LeFevre (Manhattan Beach Post) and Garcia to create a winning dish using a basket full of local produce. At Saturday evening's Cocktail Confidential, guests can sample drinks by mixologist Alex Day and watch as top bartenders match jiggers and muddlers in a mix-off, which will be judged by Times Food & Nightlife Writer Jessica Gelt, Times Restaurant Critic Jonathan Gold and mixologist Julian Cox (Rivera, Playa).
On Sunday afternoon, Gold and chef, author and host of KCRW's "Good Food" Evan Kleiman will host Flavors of L.A., which will focus on authentic dishes from around the world from the area's best restaurants. Chefs Ludo Lefebvre, Susan Feniger, Kris Yenbamroong and Ricardo Zarate will present a variety of cooking demos. Sunday evening's Dinner & Drinks, hosted by Times Deputy Food Editor Betty Hallock and The Beer Chicks, Hallie Beaune and Christina Perozzi, will feature pairings of chefs' signature dishes with craft beer, custom cocktails and fine wine. The Cooking Channel's Alie & Georgia will also be on hand for a special beer cocktail demo.
Rounding out the holiday weekend will be the Labor Day Picnic Presented by Target hosted by Times Test Kitchen Director Noelle Carter and Chef Zoe Nathan (Milo & Olive, Huckleberry). The event will bring together world-renowned chefs like Thomas Keller and Nancy Silverton, local firehouse gourmets, and backyard burger champs to share their common love of good food and cooking.
Tickets are $65 in advance, $75 at the door. The full program schedule, list of participating restaurants and tickets are available at latimes.com/thetaste.
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Roll Tide and Go SEC!!
Dec 2, 2012 Blog
Sorry for the lack of posting yesterday guys, but I had a pre-game party, a four hour game and a post-game party, which didn't leave much time for basketball, LOL. There's only 2 games on the schedule today, so I'll be back posting on Monday.
Congrats to the Tide and if anyone has any cheap tickets to the BCS game in Miami that they want to get rid of, let me know. Roll Tide and Go SEC!!
Roll Tide! Defense Wins Championships
Jan 8, 2010 Blog
Alabama 37 – Texas 21! What an ending to a great season. Heisman Trophy and BCS Title in the same year and a 14-0 record. I wish there was some kind of defensive award that could be given to the team, but I guess that crystal football will have to do. Same for coaching. Nick Saban totally outcoached Mack Brown in this one.
What really saddens me though is the critical reviews the game received today from sportswriters. I guess they forgot about the thumping Alabama put on Tim Tebow and the Number 1 Florida Gators. Is McCoy/Texas any better than Tebow/Florida? I see no reason to take anything away from the Crimson Tide just because Colt McCoy got hurt. We beat Florida with Tebow and we would have beaten Texas with McCoy. Yeah, it's unfortunate he got hurt, but that's the game. Actually, I think we let up on Texas after McCoy went down and that's why the game was even close. Had McCoy stayed, Alabama's focus would have been sharper and their play much better for the duration of the game.
Unfortunately, Alabama conservatively coasted to the finish and the nation didn't get to see the best of the Crimson Tide. Instead they saw a complacent team playing out the second half with a big lead. Sportswriter's reviews criticizing and playing 'what-if' is merely a pointless exercise to have something controversial to write about and sell papers.
If they really want to play the 'what-if' game, I didn't see Texas crying when Sam Bradford got knocked out in the first quarter of the Texas-Oklahoma game, which Texas barely won 16-13. If Bradford plays, maybe Texas doesn't even make it to the BCS Title game. Consider it karma, Texas, it all evens out. If I was a Texas fan, I'd be more angry with the coaching than I would be with losing my QB.
I'm guessing that Mack Brown won't be calling any quarterback option plays into the teeth of the nation's best defense for awhile. This isn't Kansas State or Baylor there Mack, it's Alabama, loaded with 300+ pound defensive linemen that have been pounding other SEC teams all year. Terrible decision to put McCoy in that position to get hurt. You didn't see Alabama running Greg McElroy into the middle of the Texas defense did you? If you gamble with running your franchise QB into 300 pound linemen, then you have to accept the consequences. Don't leave your king unprotected.
Or how about that shovel pass call deep in your own end with 15 seconds to go in the half and an inexperienced, scared to death, freshman QB in the game? That has to be the worst coaching ever. Nothing good is going to happen in that situation, so why gamble? Did Brown really think he was going to bust off a 70 yarder up the middle on this defense in the last 15 seconds of the half? Come on. The only thing that was going to happen in that situation was going to be something bad for Texas. He gambled foolishly and lost. Just take a knee, go to the locker room down 11 and regroup. At least give your team a shot in the second half. Instead, you go to the locker room totally demoralized and down 18 with your starting QB out of the game. Horrible coaching.
And how about the Texas play calling? Same vanilla play after vanilla play all game long. Talk about making it easy for our defense. Why not throw in some trick plays, some misdirection to slow the Tide defense down? Maybe a reverse here, a halfback pass there, maybe a fake punt or flea flicker. Anything to slow the defense. Instead they just kept running the same running play and 5 step drop back pass. There's a reason that Anders caused the fumble at the end of the game – he had nothing else to worry about other than just going after the QB. Texas gave him nothing else to worry about or any other responsibility.
As for the criticism of Saban's decision to try the fake punt at the beginning of the game, it's totally unwarranted. Saban is aggressive. He won the toss and took the ball to start the game. He wanted to jump on them from the opening whistle. Now, the whole point to a fake is the element of surprise. Was there any other time when he could have better maximized the surprise element of a fake? Probably not. Raise your hand if you even considered a fake in that situation. Yeah, that's what I thought. The Bama coaches saw a weakness on the game films and they attacked (the coverage was terrible in this situation and the receiver was 5 yards behind the defender, but the pass was terribly underthrown). If anything, the Texas defender should have been better coached to simply knock the ball down rather than picking it off. What really happened was a 25 yard interception, which is the exact same result as a 40 yard punt with a 15 yard return. That wasn't a horrible game changing result for Bama.
I'm not sure why sportswriter's hate Alabama and the SEC. Maybe they just despise the SEC winning the last four, and five of the last seven, national titles. Or maybe it's just to have enough content to meet their quota. Who knows. All I really care about is that crystal football trophy sitting proudly in the Paul W. "Bear" Bryant Museum in Tuscaloosa.


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I just finished reading the article in the June issue of American Atheist by MJP Campbell titled, "PZ Myers: Can We Raise the Standard Please?". I was confused as to what the author's actual point was, but I think it was all about "tone". I am an avid reader of both PZ Myers' and CFI's blogs, but if there are two things PZ does not take lightly, it's accommodationism and complaints about "tone". Nowhere in this article did I read anything about the actual arguments that PZ made in refuting De Dora. It was all about name-calling, and fundamentalist Atheist dogma (whatever that is) and irrationality vs. rational discourse. I went back and re-read De Dora's original article and everything that followed and, despite PZ's tone, his argument is still sound, in my view. I for one appreciate PZ's willingness to not pull punches and the forceful nature of his arguments. Alliterative name-calling aside, I interpret PZ's tone to stem from the ongoing frustration he must feel at continually having to refute accomodationist nonsense, especially from someone who ought not to be an accomodationist.
Additionally, equating new-Atheism with fundamentalist religion is patently false and has got to stop. In my opinion, this idea comes from people fearful of religion itself. They want the rest of us to shush so as not to draw the attention of anyone close by that might be religious. In my experience, new-Atheism simply refers to those Atheists willing to actually speak up and be vocal, to actually criticize religion and its ideas, hopefully changing minds in the process, and not afraid to stand and self-identify as an Atheist.
Campbell closes with the ridiculous argument that somehow this exchange between PZ Myers and Michael De Dora has possibly ruined for him any hope of there ever being a feel-good secular society. Well, fine. The rest of us will keep fighting and forge on ahead. But you'll always be welcomed.
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Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - France
The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
Dictionnaire Etymologique des Noms de Famille et Prenoms de France
A book by Marie-Therese Morlet.
French and Spanish Records of Louisiana: A Bibliographical Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sources
A book by Henry Putney Beers.
French Canadian Sources: A Guide for Family Historians
A book by Patricia Kenney Geyh.
French Colonists and Exiles in the United States
A book by J. G. Rosengarten.
French Historical Studies Magazine
Save 42% off the cover price.
Permanent Parisians: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of Paris
A book by Judi Culbertson.
Pioneers of France in the New World
A book by Francis Parkman.
A book by Cornelia Schrader-Muggenthaler.
A book by Daniel A. Willis.
The Foreign French: Nineteenth Century French Immigration into Louisiana, Volume 1
A book by Carl A. Brasseaux.
The Foreign French: Nineteenth-Century French Immigration into Louisiana, 1840-1848
A book by Carl A. Brasseaux.
The French in Early Florida: In the Eye of the Hurricane
A book by John T. McGrath.
Find a book from which you would like a lookup and click on the submitter's code at the end of the entry. Once you find the contact information for the submitter, write them a polite request for a lookup. Be sure to follow the Tips for making a request
Livres anciens, épuisés et d'occasion. Librairie. French used books.
Downloadable shareware program for Windows. The latest version contains English, French, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, German, Dutch, Polish, Icelandic, Russian, Slovak, Afrikaans, Czech.
Filiatus - Le biographe de vos ancêtres
French software for creating books and pamphlets based on your family history.
Windows. Download the latest version for windows, includes program and help files. Disc available in English, Polish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Slovak, Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Afrikaans & Icelandic. Fzip is a user friendly, but professional program which can display your family tree in any of 24 different report styles.
Gatewayed with the fr.comp.applications.genealogie newsgroup, for the discussion of genealogy software used by French genealogists.
Genealogical.com - France/French
The online store of Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. & Clearfield Company.
A book by Winston De Ville.
A book by Winston De Ville.
A book by Winston De Ville.
Memoir Concerning the French Settlements and French Settlers in the Colony of Rhode Island
A book by Elisha R. Potter.
Genealogie Memodoc | Sommaire | Livres, Cd de genealogie, heraldique, origine de noms de famille, noblesse, heraldique, ordres de chevalerie
Editions et librairie en genealogie, heraldique, noblesse, histoire des familles, regionalisme, ordres de chevalerie... Mémoire & Documents SA : 70 rue des Chantiers, F-78000 VERSAILLES.
Unix and Windows 95/98/Nt. In French, Dutch, Swedish and English versions.
An easy to use Windows based family tree record keeper.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]
GENTREE Genealogical Navigation Software
Genealogy shareware for Windows9x. French, English, German, Italian, Catalan versions.
The best selling genealogy program in Europe with many innovative features not seen in other programs. Website is in English. Data Entry is one of the Heredis strong points. You can synchronize your files on several devices: a PC or a Mac but also with your iPhone or your iPad or on external media such as USB flash drive or external hard drive.
Histo.com - Monographies villes villages de France. Achat livres histoire. Librairie d'histoire locale
A collection of books for sale with Monographs of the towns and villages in France.
Publisher of books in genealogy and heraldry.
Librairie Guénégaud | Sommaire | régionalisme, généalogie, chasse, venerie, équitation, noblesse
Edition et vente de livres neufs et anciens concernant la genealogie, l'heraldique, la noblesse, le régionalisme, les ordres de chevalerie
Librairie L'écho des vagues, Rouen, Normandie, Archéologie, Histoire
The bookshop 'librairie l'echo des vagues' established in Rouen, (Normandy, France) is specialised in books and reviews about Normandy and Maritime heritage. We specially put emphasis on genealogical, historical and archeological norman books, therefore proposing nearly all the academic and historical norman reviews.
Logiciels de genealogie Ramses - RamsesGen / Ramses Software of Genealogy
Logiciels de genealogie: RamVille la recherche de communes, codes postaux et numeros insee; RamCal le calendrier perpetuel universel; COL le calendrier universel en ligne. A universal calendar and a parish dictionary.
France » Publications, Software & Supplies
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See also: Cyndi's List Genealogy Bookstore
A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.
A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.


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- 8W (http://forix.autosport.com/8w/bdb.html) speaks of 'Lemaitre' for Paris-Rouen, 1894.
- Team Dan (http://www.teamdan.c...3/1899.html#sud) speaks of Georges Lemaitre and Lemaitre for the 'Nice-Castellane-Nice' and 'Pau-Bayonne-Pau' of 1899
- GrandPrix Winners 1895-1949 by Hans Etzrodt (http://www.kolumbus....ellman/gpw1.htm) talks only of Albert Lemaitre for the 'Nice-Castellane-Nice' and 'Pau-Bayonne-Pau' of 1899.
- Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia....aître_(motorist)) is only a secondary or tertiary source for George Lemaitre.
Does anybody know if they were two people? Were they related? or is Georges Albert Lemaitre slithering down the cracks and vagaries of French history?
Many thanks in advance.
Peter Knight
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Annual, perennial herb, shrub, generally hairy, generally taprooted
Stem prostrate to erect
Leaves simple to pinnately compound, basal or cauline, alternate or opposite; stipules 0
Inflorescence: cyme (generally raceme-like and coiled) or flowers solitary
Flower bisexual, generally radial; calyx lobes generally 5, generally fused at base, generally persistent, enlarging in fruit; corolla generally deciduous, rotate to cylindric, lobes generally 5, appendages in pairs on tube between filaments or 0; stamens generally 5, epipetalous, filament base sometimes appendaged, appendages scale-like; ovary generally superior, chamber 1, placentas 2, parietal, enlarged into chamber, sometimes meeting so ovary appears 25-chambered, styles 12, stigmas generally head-like
Fruit: capsule, generally loculicidal; valves generally 2
Genera in family: 20 genera, 300 species: especially w US; some cultivated (Emmenanthe, Nemophila, Phacelia )
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to be included in an expanded Boraginaceae (also including Lennoaceae) [Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 1998 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 85:531553; Olmstead et al. 2000 Mol Phylog Evol 16:96112]
Annual, perennial herb, generally glandular-hairy, tap-rooted or from ± thick caudex
Leaves generally alternate, simple to 2-pinnately compound, generally ± reduced upward
Inflorescence: cyme, generally dense, coiled, generally 1-sided; pedicels generally short
Flower: corolla rotate to bell-shaped, white to purple, tube base with scales free or fused to filaments; stamens generally attached at same level, equal; ovary chamber 1 (or 2 below middle), placentas parietal, enlarging and meeting in fruit, style 2-lobed, generally hairy below lobes
Fruit oblong to spheric
Seeds 1many, oblong to spheric, generally brownish; back generally pitted or cross-furrowed
Species in genus: ± 175 species: Am; some cultivated for ornamental
Etymology: (Greek: cluster, from the dense inflorescence)
Reference: [Halse 1981 Madroño 28:121132; Heckard 1960 Univ Calif Publ Botany 32:1126; Lee 1988 Syst Bot 13:1620]
Bristly hairs may cause severe dermatitis. CA pers often hybridize, difficult to separate. Biennial and perennial herb species by Richard Halse.
Annual 1545 cm
Stem decumbent to erect, weak, generally branched, sparsely stiff-hairy, glandular above
Leaf 2590 mm; blade > petiole, ± ovate, generally compound, segments crenate to lobed
Flower ± sessile; calyx lobes 35 mm, 57 mm in fruit, unequal, linear to oblanceolate, long-hairy; corolla 36 mm, narrowly bell-shaped, pale blue to lavender, tardily deciduous, scales ovate; stamens 410 mm, glabrous; style 712 mm, glabrous
Fruit 2.53.5 mm, elliptic, generally sparsely short-hairy
Seeds 24, 1.52 mm, pitted
Ecology: Uncommon. Chaparral, oak/pine woodland
Elevation: 10001600 m.
Bioregional distribution: Peninsular Ranges
Distribution outside California: Baja California
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With five games left in the 2012 campaign, the Baltimore Ravens' 9-2 record is a textbook testament to never quitting and having some special, battle-tested leaders who stare down adversity undaunted — and never, ever become unnerved.
Somehow, someway – even on 4th & 29 – Joe Flacco can manage to walk into a huddle, call nothing but go routes and still throw a check down and the other 10 guys in the huddle including Ray Rice can buy in on saving the game with some kind of miracle. Once you've seen that play work, there's a little part of you that believes that all things are possible for this beleaguered group of purple warriors.
Eleven games into this journey, there's still a legitimate debate about the merits and quality of this year's team. And on a play-by-play, drive-by-drive basis it's almost inexplicable that this team could be 9-2 and holding an almost insurmountable three-game lead in the AFC North. Almost every facet of the Ravens' production on the field has come under scrutiny or provided some inefficiency, ineffectiveness or failure at some point.
But there they are at 9-2 and still in the throes of possibility regarding home field advantage throughout the postseason.
Week after week the Ravens seem to be on the ropes. And week after week I enter the post-game press conference watching John Harbaugh try to explain how the team won another game when the previous 60 minutes of football looked like a sloppy box of chocolates in the sun.
You never know what you're doing to get.
Clearly, no one wants to play the Ravens in Baltimore. The home field advantage in The Purple Crabcake is now the best in the football. Is that the noise of the fans? Is it home cooking? Is it the comfort level of Joe Flacco and the offense for play calling? Is it the visiting team(s) coming into M&T Bank Stadium knowing the odds are long simply on reputation?
We don't have the answers to this Jekyll & Hyde act. We merely witness it and remain alternately flustered and floored after yet another unlikely victory.
It's almost like watching the Baltimore Orioles this summer – you don't question how it gets done, you simply enjoy the result. Just smile and hold on…
Other than knowing that over the history of the NFL home teams have always dominated and are always given three points in Las Vegas just for walking out of the home locker rooms, the Ravens' bi-polar domination at home and sleepwalking on the road remains an unsolved mystery in progress.
On the road, the Ravens are an ugly bunch – a scuffling, stumbling, punting and yet more-times-than-not still victorious bunch. From Cleveland to San Diego, from Pittsburgh to Kansas City, the Ravens have been on the ropes and could've easily perished in the 4th quarter of all four games.
And 5-6 would look, smell and taste a whole lot different than 9-2.
But what we saw on Sunday was an all-timer.
The Ray Rice "Hey Diddle Diddle" 4th & 29 in San Diego will go down in history as one of the most amazing plays of this generation. (And we're still not even sure if it really was a first down? And we're pretty sure Anquan Boldin could've been flagged for a block to the back and unnecessary roughness. He still might hear from Park Avenue after that one.)
But when Flacco, Rice and Torrey Smith aren't create miracles, they're walking off the field far too often on the road frustrated after another failed 3rd and something. Or going 130 minutes at a clip without scoring a road touchdown.
The same offense and personnel that is so fluid in Baltimore routinely sputters on the road.
The defense, which over the years has earned a legendary status led by Ray Lewis, Ed Reed and Terrell Suggs, has been hit hard this season by a myriad


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For the 10th straight year, the Red Road for American Indians in Recovery will hold a Sobriety Powwow behind the Dighton Town Hall from June 15 to 17, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
For the 10th straight year, the Red Road for American Indians in Recovery will hold a Sobriety Powwow behind the Dighton Town Hall from June 15 to 17, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
"The theme of the powwow is about sobriety," said Don Manidoogekek, of Red Road. "The disease of addiction has no discrepancies, so we welcome everybody. We welcome everybody to our meetings, and we welcome everybody to our powwow."
"There's a component about the disease of addiction — the disease not only affects the individual; it affects our family, our friends and our community," Manidoogekek added.
The three-day event is meant both to promote sobriety and provide support and encouragement to those struggling to free themselves of their addiction.
"This shows other people that may be on the fence of whether they want to get sober, whether they're wondering if they have an addiction or it they're newly sober, we show that there's a life in sobriety," Manidoogekek said. "The power of the powwow is the power of example. It's a tool… There is help out there, but you have to want it. There's people out there that want it, but just don't know where to go. We could be the tool to show people where to go."
In addition to sponsoring this annual powwow, Red Road also holds two annual meetings in Massachusetts each year to provide support for those recovering from addiction, among other events.
This year's powwow will feature Native American traders; traditional and contemporary Native American music performed by award winning musicians Joseph FireCrow, Timbered Lake and Jody Gaskin; and a special staking ceremony.
"What we're using for the staking ceremony is something that the Native Americans have done years ago," Manidoogekek said.
During the ceremony, people will be given a stake with four colors — red, white, yellow and black — that they will plant in the ground outside of a circle they form. In the circle, those gathered will share stories about their life and struggles with addiction.
"We're staking ourselves to make a one year commitment, and we're making a commitment that we're going to stay sober, we're going to better ourselves, we're going to provide service work to the community and we're going to help others," Manidoogekek said. "(The stake) reminds us that we made a commitment, and it reminds everybody else what road we're on — we're on the red road to sobriety."
Since he has struggled with problems with alcohol in the past, Manidoogekek knows firsthand the struggle to overcome addiction and how much support events like the Sobriety Powwow can help.
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While the powwow will run all weekend, the free concerts will begin on June 15 at 6 p.m. and June 16 immediately following a feast and sobriety meeting at 7 p.m.
Manidoogekek said he encourages anyone struggling with drugs or alcohol addiction to attend, along with their family and friends.
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Cello solo performed by professional cellist Matt Constantine (Trinity College of Music, London) Bosendorfer Grand Piano (2 pianos) performed by Derek Gibbons
This piece is perfect as a romantic, relaxing, or mournful accompaniment to Film/TV work, presentations, ballets, weddings, radio plays or any setting requiring a royalty free recording of this piece. The work is intending to imitate a serene gliding swan (the cello part) with the swan's legs moving under the water doing the work (the piano).
Le cygne, or The Swan, is the 13th and penultimate movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.
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Lt. Governor Simon reduces office budget by 12 percent over last two years
SPRINGFIELD, IL – With the Governor's budget address set for next week, Illinois Lt. Governor Sheila Simon announced that she is voluntarily requesting a 3 percent cut in her fiscal year 2014 budget. Simon, who voluntarily cut the current fiscal year's budget request by 9 percent, will achieve savings by reducing personnel and administrative costs.
"Illinoisans are doing more with less, and state leaders need to do the same,†Simon said. "Over the past two years, I've cut my own pay and reduced the office budget by more than $250,000. We can all do our part to preserve funding for vital services such as education and public safety.â€
For the second consecutive year, Simon is reducing her office's headcount to achieve savings. She will continue to return one day of pay per month to the state and require her senior staff members to take four furlough days within the year. She is also eliminating her grant-making authority, which will save taxpayers up to $50,000 a year and brings her total cut to 5 percent in fiscal year 2014.
Simon's office will continue to purchase equipment through Central Management Services (CMS) master contracts, which offer discounted prices on office supplies. Though constitutional offices are not required to follow CMS master contracts, Simon instituted the policy after her inauguration in 2011 to save taxpayer dollars. Printing and equipment expenses are also being reduced.
Despite cutting her office budget by 12 percent since fiscal year 2012, Simon continues to be a state leader in education and ethics reform. She recently released a report on game changing practices that will make college more affordable for students, and helped draft legislation that would create the strongest financial disclosure law for public servants in 40 years. Simon also chairs the Governor's Rural Affairs Council, key river and military base committees and advocates for domestic and sexual violence prevention.
Lt. Governor Simon submitted the reduced fiscal year 2014 spending plan to Governor Pat Quinn in advance of his March 6 budget address. Simon is making the lowest appropriation request for the Office of the Lt. Governor since at least 1992.


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Can Romney Stay The Course As The CEO Candidate?
Mitt Romney's front-runner status in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination took a hit this week, with national polls showing that he has been eclipsed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Perry's quick ascent — he officially announced his candidacy only two weeks ago — has put pressure on the former Massachusetts governor and venture capitalist to tweak his consistent I'm-the-CEO-you've-been-waiting-for campaign theme.
But, for better or worse, race-watchers say, Romney's success in the private sector remains his most persuasive argument for why he, and not Perry or the rest of the lagging GOP field, should be the Republican who takes on President Obama next year.
"His accomplishment with Bain Capital and with helping turn around the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002 are the primary strengths of his candidacy," says Dale Buss, who has written extensively about business leaders and CEO politicians.
"Given the deteriorating state of the economy, a lot of Americans are looking for economic competence, for economic understanding," Buss says.
That includes former Obama supporter Mort Zuckerman, the billionaire real estate developer and publisher, who this week bemoaned what he characterized as an economic "competency crisis" in the White House.
In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece on Thursday, Zuckerman said he longs for a "triple-A president to run a triple-A country," though he did not mention Romney.
Strategists say that if Romney veers from his CEO message to try to move to the right of the conservative Perry, an evangelical Christian and Tea Party favorite, he risks muddying the argument that he is uniquely qualified to lead during a time of national economic crisis. Because Romney's moderate past on legal abortion, gay rights, gun control and expanding health care coverage already makes him a suspect commodity with the party's base, his best bet is to stay the business leader course.
Romney, however, is discovering that his CEO personality and corporate success, including personal wealth estimated at $250 million, can present on-the-trail pitfalls and fodder for his opposition, especially in a general election.
Democrats pounced on his Iowa State Fair comment that "corporations are people." He had to weather recent reports that he plans to tear down his $12 million California beach home to build a much larger one.
He dismissed with a "no harm, no foul" comment criticisms of a secretive and short-lived political action group, founded by a former Bain colleague, that gave his campaign $1 million.
And this week, while in New Hampshire, he shushed an aggressive questioner by saying, "You're not the boss of me."
Nature Of The Business
CEO politicians like Romney, says J.P. Donlon, all have the "instinct and drive to accomplish things."
"But when you're running a corporation, everyone by definition is to be pulling in the same direction," says Donlon, editor-in-chief of Chief Executive magazine. "In politics, you have to have the patience to deal with all the conceits that politicians have to undergo and suffer through."
"Why do you think Jack Welch and Lee Iacocca didn't run?" he said, referring, respectively, to the former heads of General Electric and Chrysler who were both urged to seek political office.
"Mitt Romney, however, has already dealt with these issues for a number of campaign seasons," says Donlon.
Romney-watchers like to refer to the candidate this time around as Romney 2.0, a CEO who has learned from his political experiences — a successful run for governor in 2002 and his unsuccessful campaign for the GOP presidential nomination four years ago.
Romney founded Bain Capital with two associates in 1984. It now has nearly 400 employees, 10 offices including those in Hong Kong, Mumbai and London, and boasts that it is "one of the world's leading private, alternative asset management firms" managing about $65 billion.
Romney left Bain in 1999 to head the Salt Lake City Olympic Games Organizing committee.
Romney has been credited with rescuing the scandal-plagued Olympics, which, once mired in graft and disarray, ended up a success. In an interview with The New York Times during his last presidential run, Romney characterized the experience as preparing him for public life.
"Romney understands the basics of growth — private investment and capital formation," Donlon says. "That's what it's all about."
It's clear why Romney is running as a CEO, Donlon said: "What's most important to the country right now is to create an environment that creates jobs. As long as jobs remain the single greatest priority, he's obviously going to leverage his experience in getting the nomination."
While there have been successful CEO candidates, like three-term New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, there are plenty of examples of those who have come up short — even when money was no object.
Former eBay chief Meg Whitman lost her GOP bid for governor in California last year, and ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina fell short in her effort to oust California Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Democrat. Former Goldman Sachs CEO Jon Corzine, a New Jersey Democrat, won a term in the U.S. Senate and another as governor but was ousted last year by Republican Chris Christie.
Perry Peril
Perry has benefited, Buss says, from leading a business-friendly state but "has not had really any experience in the private sector."
One-third of jobs created nationally since 2009 have been in Texas, driven, many analysts say, by the state's oil and gas boom. Another analysis this week by the San Antonio Express-News found that government has also played a significant role in job growth in Texas, noting that 1 of every 4 jobs created since Perry became governor has been in the government sector — a stat that Perry's opponents are hoping might not go over well with small-government GOP voters.
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Romney's trick as the Republican primary season approaches, Buss says, will be to rely on his business credentials while "tapping into what people are feeling about government spending — that seems to be more on their minds than antipathy toward Wall Street."
And he has to do a better job of it.
"I just don't hear him packaging what he's done [in a way] that would speak to people about the experience he brings," Buss says. "The conversation between CEOs and the government is getting increasingly important and visible."
On Thursday in New Hampshire, Romney attempted to sharpen his message, saying he would give Obama a "triple D" rating on the economy.
Former Bush administration adviser David Frum this week suggested on his website that despite Perry's surge in the national horse race polls, the Texas governor's lead is fragile, and the candidate vulnerable.
National polls before the primary season often have limited long-term predictive value. In June 2007, Hillary Clinton held a "solid lead" over Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards in the race for the Democratic nomination, and Rudolph Giuliani still led on the GOP side. Giuliani eventually dropped out of the race after failing to win any primary contests.
In Perry's case, Frum says, his opposition to Social Security and Medicare could pose problems.
In his book, Fed Up! published last fall, Perry posits that Social Security is unconstitutional, a "Ponzi scheme," and a failure. Last week Perry's communications director said he'd never heard Perry call Social Security unconstitutional and said that the book should not be viewed "in any way as a 2012 campaign blueprint or manifesto."
Perry's vulnerabilities, Frum asserts, "will come under intense scrutiny during his stint in the spotlight."
And that could play to Romney's advantage, if he continues to double down on his economic bona fides.
Says Buss: "It's still his to lose."


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Westport's Meyer on assisted suicide: 'It's a choice issue'
The General Assembly is considering the difficult question of whether a dying person should be allowed to legally take his or her own life with the help of a doctor.
And prominent among the speakers at a Wednesday hearing in Hartford was Bill Meyer of Westport, a Representative Town Meeting member well known for his local civic activism, who also gained note more than two decades ago when he helped his terminally ill father commit suicide.
The assembly's Public Health Committee on Wednesday listened to hours of testimony -- mostly in opposition -- to a bill that would allow physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.
"This is a ticket to murder," said John Kelly, director of Second Thoughts, a Massachusetts group that last year helped defeat a similar law in the Bay State.
"This amounts to a government recommendation that sometimes death is the best answer. Doctors make mistakes. Under this bill, a diagnosis can become deadly," Kelly said.
Connecticut's bill proposes strict rules.
A terminally ill patient would have to submit a written request to their physician for life-ending medication and have less than six months to live. The patient also must be certified as mentally competent.
A pill would be prescribed and only the terminally ill patient could take the medication.
New Jersey and Vermont are now considering similar physician-assisted suicide bills, and Oregon, Montana and Washington state already have laws on their books.
While many speakers opposed the bill, there was support, perhaps most dramatically expressed by Meyer.
"In 1991, my father was 88 years old and had five cancer operations. He said, `I want you to help me take a life,' " said Meyer, who has told his story on "60 Minutes" and other news programs.
"My father's doctor said, `You have six months to live.' On July 23, 1991, I put a plastic bag over my father's head and the next day the police came and declared it a suicide," said Meyer, who has publicly described holding his father's hand while he died.
Meyer said his father loved life, but after numerous operations he did not want to face a slow, painful death. He told of his father's civic involvement in West Hartford, and how active and happy he had been.
Meyer was later charged by police with aiding in his father's death and was sentenced to two years of special probation.
"I think it's for a few people. It's a choice issue," Meyer testified. "My father's doctor said it's not for everyone. I have just as much respect for people who do not want to do this."
State Sen. Edward Meyer, D-Guilford, a sponsor of the bill, said the legislation is loaded with protections to make sure only the terminally ill person can make the decision.
"This is intended to have a great deal of safeguards and must have safeguards to be effective. This allows people to die with dignity and ensure a physician is never accused of aiding and abetting a murder. This is a tough bill, and we can make it even tougher," Meyer said.
Lenore Snowden, a Fairfield doctor, said assisted suicide is wrong and is often requested by lonely and depressed patients.
"Seeing a patient through this process is our duty as physicians. Bringing about an unnatural death is not," Snowden said.
"It is not of our purview to be given the green light by any entity to allow us to violate our Hippocratic Oath," said Michael Opalak, a Bridgeport doctor.
Still, the Rev. Joshua Pawelek, of the Unitarian Universalist Society in East Manchester, said the bill would provide terminally ill patients with an option.
"The heart of the matter is, providing aid in dying under the strict conditions contained in this bill preserves human dignity," Pawelek said.
"I am 58 years old and I have Lou Gehrig's disease," Sara Meyers told the committee.
"It is killing me right now, piece by piece. This appearance will take me several days to recover from. But it's worth it and I want to see this bill passed, whether I use it or not," Meyers said.
Tory Lamore, a New Britain resident, saw it differently.
"There is no dignity in state-sanctioned suicide. Surely, we are capable of more. To give up on any person in this way, rather than provide the necessary support to cope with the array of end-of-life issues, is profoundly sad and disturbing," Lamore said.
"There are plenty of people who outlive a six-month life expectancy," said Gregory Wilmot of Pomfret.
"The former pastor of my church was diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer and given a year and a half to live. He had the surgery, declined chemotherapy or radiation, and lived almost six more years. I do not support physician-assisted suicide in any way," Wilmot said.


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California Department of Transportation
Date: January 15, 2014
District: Los Angeles/Ventura
Contact: Judy Gish
Phone: (213) 897-3487
THOUSAND OAKS –Long-awaited improvements are now underway at the heavily-used U.S. Highway 101/State Route 23 interchange in Thousand Oaks that will ease traffic congestion and improve safety for more than 170,000 motorists who travel through the area daily.
"Caltrans is pleased about the improvements made at the 101/23 interchange," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. "This project will help commuters get to their destinations sooner and safer with less stress," he said.
The project will add one new lane in each direction to U.S. 101 between the Los Angeles/Ventura County line and Moorpark Road, a distance of about four miles. It will also build a new lane on ramps connecting 101 and SR-23; widen bridges at Hampshire Road, Conejo School Road, and Moorpark Road; realign the Moorpark Road ramps; and construct soundwalls and retaining walls throughout the project limits.
Caltrans, the Ventura County Transportation Commission, and Thousand Oaks are partners on the $43 million project, which is scheduled to be completed by the spring of 2016. About $10 million of the project's funding comes from Proposition 1B, a 2006 voter-approved transportation bond. In total, more than $17 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been put to work statewide for transportation purposes.
Caltrans currently has 117 projects valued at more than $2 billion underway in Los Angeles and Ventura counties alone. Collectively, these projects are making a real difference. Caltrans is repairing rough pavement, providing new carpool lanes; enhancing highway safety; and hundreds of additional large and small fixes are improving conditions for motorists.For more information about the U.S. 101/SR-23 Interchange Project, visit: www.dot.ca.gov/dist07 or www.toaks.org/10123
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Law Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants Imagine passing the state bar exam but not being able to get your license to practice law in California. That's been the reality for Sergio Garcia of Chico while he waited for Governor Jerry Brown to sign legislation allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain professional licenses in California, which he did this past Saturday. Garcia joins us to explain what the signing of the bill means for his law license, and how the new law could affect the rest of the nation.
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Concussions and Brain Injury UC Davis pathologist Bennet Omalu will appear in a PBS Frontline documentary titled "League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis." The two-hour report explores how the league worked to refute scientific evident that violent collisons suffered during a game ar linked to early-onset dementia and catastrophic brain damage. Dr. Omalu was the first pathologist to identify and describe Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy as a disease entity in football players and wrestlers. For years, his work and research was denied by the NFL, but he has testified twice before the United States Congress on the issue and provides testimony as an expert witness in federal courts and state courts across the US. We'll talk with him about his work.
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Oysters Rockefeller
Judy Gelman and Peter Zheutlin, authors of The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook, adapted this recipe for Oysters Rockefeller from a 1977 edition of The Grand Central Oyster Bar and Restaurant Seafood Cookbook. Over the years the Rockefeller recipe used at the storied Oyster Bar has changed but this one is that would be the closest to the ones that Don and Roger enjoyed.
Reprinted with permission from The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook by Judy Gelman and Peter Zheutlin. Copyright © 2012. Published by Smart Pop Books. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
- Yield:makes 24 oysters (about 4 servings)
- Active time: 45 minutes
- Total time:45 minutes
- Rock salt
- 2 dozen large (or 3–4 dozen small) oysters, opened and on the half shell
- 1/4 cup minced shallot
- 1 small stalk celery, minced (about 1/2 cup)
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley, minced
- 3/4 cup (1 and 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened and divided
- 2 cups fresh spinach, coarsely chopped
- 1/3 cup soft bread crumbs
- 1 to 2 drops Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- Pinch of cayenne pepper
- 2 tablespoons Pernod or Anisette
Preheat oven to 450°F. Fill 4 pie or cake tins (or a baking dish large enough to hold oysters) with rock salt, but no more than half full (use just enough salt to keep the oysters from rocking back and forth). Place the tins in the oven briefly to warm.
Prepare the topping: Saute the shallots, celery, and parsley in 4 tablespoons of butter in a heavy skillet for approximately 5–7 minutes. Add spinach to the skillet and allow it to wilt for a minute.
Pour spinach mixture into a blender. Add the remaining butter, bread crumbs, Worcestershire sauce, salt, peppers, and Pernod or Anisette. Blend for a minute at medium speed. Top each oyster with about 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon of the mixture, depending on the size of the oyster.
Remove the tins from the oven and embed the oysters firmly in the hot salt. Return pans to the oven and bake for about 4 minutes, or until the butter is melted and the spinach is lightly browned on top. Serve oysters right in the tin.


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Article 28 Amendments to this Convention
- Any Party may propose amendments to this Convention. Such amendments will be considered by the Conference of the Parties.
- Amendments to the Convention shall be adopted by the Conference of the Parties. The text of any proposed amendment to the Convention shall be communicated to the Parties by the Secretariat at least six months before the session at which it is proposed for adoption. The Secretariat shall also communicate proposed amendments to the signatories of the Convention and, for information, to the Depositary.
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Installing the driver setup to your computer you need to look out for your HP Driver Soft5ware. You can install the setup to your computer and perform scan option. The purwpose of installing the driver setup to your computer, you can perform the scan option in a advanced manner.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama, facing daunting domestic challenges, may have another tough battle on his hands: maintaining the United States' growing popularity throughout the world.
President Obama delivered a speech to the Muslim world this summer in Egypt.
And the spotlight will focus on global issues this week.
On Tuesday, Obama meets with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders separately and then jointly. He will also meet late that day with Chinese President Hu Jintao and speak to the Clinton Global Initiative meeting.
The president meets Wednesday with Japan's new prime minister and addresses the U.N. General Assembly. Later, he will meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev -- their first face to face meeting since Obama's decision to scale back U.S. missile defense plans in the Czech Republic.
Later Friday, Obama will take part in two G-20 meetings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, focused on the global economy. Watch more on Obama's busy week ahead »
Coming up with a plan to deal with the worldwide recession, experts have said, will be a key challenge for Obama.
"When it comes to the global economic crisis, publics around the world tend to see the U.S. as having a negative impact on their own economies right now," said Richard Wike, associate director for the Pew Global Attitudes Project.
His organization recently completed a survey on Obama's image abroad. It found significant support for the president still throughout Africa, Europe and Latin America -- places that he and other top U.S. officials have visited.
The survey, taken in late summer, found that the United States' image has improved "markedly in most parts of the world, reflecting global confidence in Barack Obama."
"In many countries opinions of the United States are now about as positive as they were at the beginning of the decade before George W. Bush took office," the report found.
But Wike notes that Obama's popularity doesn't always mean support for his foreign policy decisions.
"So he has a tremendous amount of personal popularity in France, Germany and in several other countries. That doesn't always translate into agreement with his policy positions," he said.
Wike said expectations for Obama are high on issues like climate change.
And one of the stickier areas facing Obama is the Middle East -- where concerns include Iran's nuclear capabilities, the U.S. presence in Iraq, and settlement issues between Palestinians and Israelis.
Foreign Policy magazine's Steven Rosen said that Obama's diplomatic offensive in the region could face serious challenges going forward.
Rosen, who has served for 23 years as foreign policy director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said September 19 in the magazine that Obama's Mideast moment is coming.
"Now the world waits to see what kind of U.S. president he wants to be," Rosen wrote. "The White House is facing tough prospects. ... All that fantastical thinking about the transformative power of diplomacy is now headed straight for the iceberg that is the Middle East."
Since Obama took office, attitudes toward the United States have improved in some mainly Muslim countries that held extremely negative views when George W. Bush was president.
Over the summer, Obama gave a major speech to the Muslim world in Egypt that many hailed as a significant moment in repairing the United States' image.
In Israel, the survey found attitudes toward the United States are slightly less positive than during the previous administration, but about 70 percent of Israelis still view the U.S. favorably.
Rosen noted that that far from achieving transformative success, Obama "will be lucky if he can just keep negotiations alive for more than a few weeks."
Another area of concern for Obama is Afghanistan. Critics have questioned whether he's deploying enough troops, or whether his strategy can contain rising violence and a resurgent Taliban.
Recently, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, warned that more troops are needed there within the next year or the nearly 8-year-old war "will likely result in failure," according to a copy of a 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post.
Bob Woodward, who wrote the Post's article, called it "a striking thing for a general to say to the secretary of defense and the commander-in-chief."
McChrystal "really takes his finger and puts it in their eye -- 'Deliver or this won't work,' " Woodward told CNN's "American Morning" on Monday. "He says if they don't endorse this full counterinsurgency strategy, don't even give me the troops, because it won't work."
Obama has been considering the assessment of troop levels completed by McChrystal over the summer. However, a review of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan won't be driven "by the politics of the moment," Obama said Sunday. Watch a top Democratic senator discuss Afghanistan »
But the Afghanistan issue, coupled with the international economic situations, might hurt the president's image abroad in the future.
CNN chief national correspondent John King contributed to this report.
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Late Alice in Chains Bassist Mike Starr to Be Honored at Seattle Memorial Show
Leading up to the second anniversary of late Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr's death, friends and family in the Seattle area are banding together to stage a memorial show to celebrate his life and legacy.
Starr's sister Melinda, along with several fans and friends, spearheaded the effort to put together a show where everyone can celebrate the bassist's work through never-before-seen pictures, memorabilia and music performances. The event will take place at Seattle's Studio Seven this Thursday night (March 7).
The bill for the evening features Blacklist Union with Tony West, the Alice in Chains tribute band Grind, Sin Circus, Amanda J. Hardy, Garden of Eden and Steal Beans, plus a number of surprise guests.
Starr was a founding member of Alice in Chains, appearing on their 'Facelift' and 'Dirt' albums, as well as the 'Sap' EP. He eventually split from Alice in Chains in 1993. His substance abuse problems were documented on TV's 'Celebrity Rehab' and 'Sober House.' In 2011, Starr had begun playing with Travis Meeks of Days of the New and had begun prepping for a tour. However, he passed away on March 8 before the touring began.
In addition, Starr's Facebook page will be giving away some limited edition stickers and first and second anniversary guitar picks to mark the occasion as a way of keeping Mike Starr's memory alive. Tributes and memories of Starr can be left on a pair of Facebook sites, here and here.
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With the starting gun fired for the Paralympics in just five days time, the Royal Opera House welcomed the Paralympic flame onto its stage early this morning for a photoshoot and filming session.
A meeting of an iconic Paralympic symbol and an iconic London location, the torch was lit on the Covent Garden stage in preparation for photographs with actor Eddie Marsan. Eddie played Dr Ludwig Guttmann in the BBC Two drama 'The Best of Men', Guttmann being the pioneering neurologist who founded the Stoke Mandeville Games. Watch Eddie talk about the role on BBC News.
The torch's arrival was quite a sight as it entered the building with an entourage of around twenty including police runners and flame handlers. Also present were the backup of small lamps holding the 'mother flame'.
After the snaps, a short filming session featured Eddie running on Bow Street, to turned heads from passers-by. The session was wrapped and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) team seemed thrilled. I even managed to get a photo with Eddie and the torch myself!


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For all of you stuck in the middle of this crappy April showerama, wondering, like Creedence before you, "Who'll stop the rain?" here's a partial answer. That is, here are 10 umbrellas we have covered over the past year or so. Surprisingly, not all of them are lightsaber-themed.
1. A projector in an umbrella, so you can collide with even more people than usual
2. This one glows different colors to tell if it's raining or not, in case you couldn't already tell
3. Is there an umbrella with a built-in MP3 player? Why, of course there is!
After the jump, you get seven more.
4. Another inevitability, an umbrella that's Made for iPod TM
5. Aerodynamic umbrella makes you the Lance Armstrong of walking in rain
6. Nanotech means one shake and it's dry
7. Umbrella for uncomfortable-looking couple
8. Umbrella for uncomfortable-looking dog
SW freaks, you've been very patient. So here you go:
9. Lightsaber Umbrella Number One
10. And finally Lightsaber Umbrella Number Two
There you go. Happy puddle jumping!
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Just inside the entrance to the U.S. Treasury, on the other side of a forbidding array of guard stations and scanners that control access to the Greek Revival building, lies one of the most beautiful interior spaces in all of Washington. Ornate bronze doors open inward to a two-story-high chamber. Chandeliers line the coffered ceiling, casting a soft glow on the marble walls and richly inlaid marble floor.
In this room, starting in 1869 and for many decades thereafter, the U.S. government conducted many of its financial transactions. Bags of gold, silver, and paper currency arrived here by horse-drawn vans and were carted upstairs to the vaults. On the busy trading floor, Treasury clerks supplied commercial banks with coins and currency, exchanged old bills for new, cashed checks, redeemed savings bonds, and took in government receipts. In those days, anyone could observe all this activity firsthand—could actually witness the government and the nation's bankers doing business. The public space where this occurred became known as the Cash Room.
Today the Cash Room is used for press conferences, ceremonial functions, and departmental parties. And that's too bad. If Treasury still used the room as it once did, then perhaps we'd have more of a clue about what happened to the billions of dollars that flew out of Treasury to selected American banks in the waning days of the Bush administration.
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How do you keep your sanity when traveling kids whine, "Are we there yet?" Here are 3 ways to keep them occupied, so they travel more patiently and pleasantly.
Today I had to lay still for half an hour for a simple medical test, but couldn't see a clock. To pass the time (and distract myself from moving) I played an old mind game, Count the Music, which I played with my kids on long road trips.
Try this, plus two more ways to keep your own kids occupied as you drive:
Way#1: Count the Music
Consider that most songs on the radio are 3-4 minutes long. In your own head, take the number of minutes you expect it to take to reach your destination and divide by three. Tell the kids "We'll be there in 7 songs," (or whatever). They can keep track of the number of songs on their fingers.
While listening to music during my medical test, I'd calculated that would hear eight or nine songs. I only heard three, so must have dozed off while counting and focusing on the music. It tends to work the same way with kids–they either get into the music or fall asleep. It also gives them a sense for how much time is passing if they can't grasp what "half an hour" is nor tell time.
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Arsenal Help Local Bakers Live the Sweet Life
As part of National Small Business Week, the Missouri Credit Union Association is highlighting local credit unions and the small businesses they have assisted. We'll be sharing these stories here on the website, on Facebook and on Twitter. Today's story comes from Arsenal Credit Union and a local "Cupcake Wars" champion, the Sweet Divine.
It's been a whirlwind year for Jenna and Jason Siebert, owners of the Sweet Divine bakery and food truck. At this time in 2012, the couple was settling into the business' first storefront on busy South Kingshighway. Since then, they've won the Food Network's hit reality competition "Cupcake Wars" and served countless cupcakes from the window of the Sweet Divine's signature pink food truck. They have even relocated to a new shop in Soulard that was showcased recently on KSDK's "Show Me St. Louis."
While Jenna says she keeps waiting for life to slow down a little, she's thrilled with the multi-talented bakery's recent successes–and with the help she and her husband have received from Arsenal Credit Union's business services staff.
The Sieberts, who resided in rural Jefferson County when the business started, were consumer members of Arsenal who quickly turned to the credit union for their business deposit needs. Soon they found the perfect space in Soulard, but realized it needed extensive work. They consulted Arsenal as well as other financial institutions for a loan. Arsenal's business services department, led by Assistant Vice President Andrew Dodge, worked creatively to help the Sieberts quickly obtain financial backing. Jenna says Dodge and his colleagues turned the loan around within a day, allowing construction to start immediately on the Sweet Divine's next big phase. The Soulard location of the Sweet Divine opened April 20, 2013.
"We were able to do everything we wanted with this space," Jenna says. She and Jason continue to consult Arsenal's business services staff regularly as they look toward the shop's future.
"It's great," she says of Arsenal's assistance. "We really do feel like family."
Article submitted by Mary Poletti, marketing specialist for Arsenal Credit Union.
Pictured: Jenna and Jason Siebert stand next to their signature pink dessert truck.
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