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Iain Neill Reid Appointed as Head of STScI Science Mission Office
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has appointed Dr. Iain Neill Reid as Head of the STScI's Science Mission Office (SMO).
The SMO is responsible for maintaining the science infrastructure required to support research by STScI staff, for oversight of science policies and for acting as an interface between the Hubble Space Telescope and the broader user community. Among other activities, SMO manages the Hubble telescope time allocation process, the Space Telescope User Committee, and the Hubble Fellowship program. SMO is also responsible for STScI's Giacconi Fellowship Program, the Caroline Herschel Visitor Program and the John Bahcall Lecture Series. Reid joined STScI in 2001. His SMO appointment is effective July 5, 2008.
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Most of you out there probably don't speak Chinese, so we'll allow the guys at the East Windup Chronicle to explain what's going on in this video:
La New Bears SS Lin Zhi-Shen completely losing his mind after a close play at first in this Friday night's 5-5 tie with the Brother Elephants, charging the first base umpire at full speed from the dugout for about 40 feet and clobbering him with his shoulder and forearm. The Umpire, no small fellow, went down straight away, and Lin had to be restrained by teammates before inflicting and further damage. Later on several more La New players would go on to get ejected from the game. No word yet on what kind of punishment Lin will face, or what got him so riled up to begin with.
Aren't Taiwanese baseball players supposed to have more peaceful ways of settling their differences?
Toro! Toro! La New's Lin Zhi-Shen Flips Out, Clobbers Umpire [East Windup Chronicle]

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Introducing The Class of 2011
SOCORRO, N.M. May 19, 2011 – New Mexico Tech held Commencement on Saturday, May 14, on the lawn north of Macey Center.
About 200 students walked, out of the 340 graduates who have finished degrees since the 2010 Commencement. The Class of 2011 includes 2 associate's degrees, 205 bachelor's, 117 master's and 16 Ph.D.'s.
- Average GPA of the graduating bachelor's students is 3.145.
- 60.5 percent have GPA's of 3.0 or greater.
- 4.9 percent have GPAs lower than 2.5.
- 41 percent have received at least one F.
- One person is graduating with a perfect 4.0 GPA. (Cramer Award winner David Burkhart of mineral engineering.)
- Youngest graduate: 21 years old
- Oldest graduate: 54 years old.
- Male-to-female ratio: 2.42 to 1.
Over the institute's 122-year history, New Mexico Tech has awarded 6,994 bachelor's degrees, 2,583 master's degrees and 370 Ph.D's.
More than 60 percent of the undergraduates hail from New Mexico. The Class of 2011 includes representatives from 23 states, 20 countries and Puerto Rico. The most well-represented country is India, with 16 graduates.
The Official Class of 2011
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry
Justine Kombarakkaran (September 2010)
Premchendar Nandhikonda (September 2010)
Eric Scot Osantowski
|Registrar Sara Grijalva and her staff organize the event.
|International students often wear sashes with their country's colors.
|Students mill around prior to the ceremony.
|Colleen Guengerich of the Advancement Office presented certificates to the Class of 1961.
|Dr. Fred Phillips hoods Dr. Marty Frisbee.
|Dr. Jeshwanth Rameshwaram poses with president Dr. Daniel Lopez after being hooded by Dr. Michael Heagy (left).
|Graduates walked through a receiving line formed by faculty members, administrators and regents.
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
Mohammad Thuail Alotaibi
Doctor of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science with Dissertation in Geochemistry
Lara Bevan Owens
Doctor of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science with
Dissertation in Geology
Laura Rosales Lagarde
Amanda Rowe
Jesus M. Velador (July 2010)
Doctor of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science with Dissertation in Geophysics
Jonathan Kane MacCarthy (February 2011)
Doctor of Philosophy in Earth and Environmental Science with Dissertation in Hydrology
Marty Dale Frisbee (July 2010)
Jason Elliott Heath (December 2010)
Hugo Alberto Gutierrez Jurado
Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering
Jeshwanth K. Rameshwaram (December 2010)
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics with Dissertation in Astrophysics
Abhirup Datta (February 2011)
Danielle Marie Lucero (March 2011)
Urvashi Rao Venkata (July 2010)
Master of Engineering Management
Milton Lee Harris (December 2010)
Master of Science in Biology
Seth Michael Daly (December 2010)
Master of Science in Chemistry
Enoch Agbesi Adogla
Master of Science in Computer Science
Ashish Koirala (March 2011)
Miguel A. Provencio (March 2011)
Master of Science in Computer Science with Information Technology Option
Manoj Cherukuri (September 2010)
Boga Sai Krishna Kalyan (March 2011)
Ashish Mishra (December 2010)
Ashok Chaitanya Nallamothu (March 2011)
Komal Sudan (December 2010)
Cynthia K. K. Veitch
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Nicholas Walker O'Connor (July 2010)
Justin Lee Goza
Theodore Lyman Schuler-Sandy (July 2010)
Master of Science in Environmental Engineering
Gaye Gul Bulut
Gowtham Chilakapati (July 2010)
Jose B Gallegos
Mrudula Ravada (October 2010)
Gideon Sarpong (December 2010)
Master of Science in Geochemistry
Matthew Allen Earthman (July 2010)
Master of Science in Geology
Colin Thomas Cikoski (September 2010)
Christina Charlotte Forbes (July 2010)
Master of Science in Geophysics (Solid Earth)
Shoba Maraj
Pamela Ann Moyer (December 2010)
Christine Joy Ruhl (September 2010)
Master of Science in Hydrology
Brian Dodd Cozzens
Catherine J. Goetz (December 2010)
Carlos Fernando Ramirez Torres
Andre Bleu Ocean Ritchie
Diana Carolina Romero-Suárez (July 2010)
Sophia Carmelita Sigstedt (October 2010)
Master of Science in Materials Engineering
Isiaka Adeniyi Agbaje
Clay Douglas Beevers (October 2010)
Scott Robert Brownlow (October 2010)
Xian Cao (September 2010)
Dick Charles Engbrecht (March 2011)
Jacy Nicole Gansz
Mekan Ovezmyradov
Colin M. Pelletier
Drew Michael Prichard (August 2010)
William Ricci
Jinnan Zhang (September 2010)
Master of Science in Mathematics
John P. Korbin
Master of Science in Mathematics with Specialization in Analysis
Robert C. Jones (September 2010)
Jason Earl Kooi (August 2010)
Master of Science in Mathematics with Specialization in Industrial Mathematics
Timothy Nathan Deines (July 2010)
Daniel J. Irving (October 2010)
Nicholas M. McCarthy (September 2010)
Master of Science in Mathematics with Specialization in Operations Research & Statistics
Robert A. Aumer
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Rufus H. Cooksey III
Byron L. Morton (December 2010)
Stephenie Ann Sterbling Drauschak
Walter Anthony Kruse
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering with Specialization in Explosives Engineering
Jason J. Phillips (October 2010)
George Shane Rolfe
Joel Sutton Williams
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering with Specialization in Mechatronics Systems
Daniel Gregory Ericson
David Kukhalashvili (December 2010)
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering with Specialization in Solid Mechanics
Naitram Amit Birbahadur
Master of Science in Mineral Engineering
Carlos Alonso Vargas Zuniga
Master of Science in Mineral Engineering with Specialization in Explosives Engineering
Allen Bruce Kinney (October 2010)
Thomas B. Moser (October 2010)
Master of Science in Mineral Engineering with Specialization in Geotechnical Engineering
Prosper Felli (July 2010)
Frank Lloyd-Mills (February 2011)
Haruna Salifu
Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering
Omole Oludare Adebanjo
Olatokunbo Olabode Akanni (December 2010)
Magsud Aliyev
Rohan Ramdev Gudgila (March 2011)
Adam Michael Horbaczewski (August 2010)
Oppong Kwame (July 2010)
Weiwei Li (December 2010)
Shanker Muraleedharan (October 2010)
German Chaves Narvaez
Albert E. Ofori (April 2011)
Tyler Allen Robbins (August 2010)
Corina Teresa Sedillo
Dnyaneshwar Bharatrao Shinde (October 2010)
Akapak Srichumsin (April 2011)
Obinna Vincent Uzoh (February 2011)
Barani Krishnan Venkataraman (March 2011)
Garrett Alan Wilson (August 2010)
Master of Science in Physics
Crystal Nicole Anderson
Jorge Alberto Cisneros
Daniel Jonathan Lyons (July 2010)
Michael Stock (August 2010)
Satomi Sugaya (August 2010)
Master of Engineering Management
Victor J. Apodaca
Patrick Patton Clingman
Rodrigo Azevedo Lopes
Matthew J. Majors
Camden Mullen
Jake E. Scarbrough
Master of Science for Teachers
Fru Vitalis Akuma (November 2010)
Kimberly Anne Berlat (August 2010)
Susan Elizabeth Berry
Matthew Peter Sebastian Byrne
James Sullivan Carlton
Colin DeGroot
Jerry Lawrence Esquivel
Carrie E. Gongaware (August 2010)
Dominic Daniel Hoy (March 2011)
Dawn Jones (August 2010)
Heidi Jill Karr (April 2011)
Laura B. Konopka
Anthony Terence Launey
Linda L. Marchiondo (December 2010)
Susan R. Pecastaing Miller
Stephanie Perry Mitchell (April 2011)
Adam Ovesen Peterson
Elizabeth Marie Richardson
Gerardine A. Rodriguez (August 2010)
David E. Shriver (August 2010)
Kathryn S. Smith (February 2011)
Huong Thi Tran (August 2010)
Olga M. Vazquez
Laura Susan Williamson (July 2010)
Karen S. Yarin (December 2010)
Bachelor of General Studies
Nicole M. Brown (December 2010)
William C. Dixon
Anthony James Gudmunson
Catherina R. Hatch (December 2010)
Weston L Horpedahl (December 2010)
Robyn Raye Lynch
Holly C. Priestley
Bachelor of Science in Basic Sciences
Evangelina Megan Anaya (Minor in Literature)
Ariana Rosario Manrique (December 2010)
Shichun Pak Moser
Eli Seifert (December 2010)
Kate Adelia Theisen (Minor in History) (December 2010)
Bachelor of Science in Biology
James E Browning
Connor T. Cameron (December 2010)
Lomeli Rose Carpio
Sean Chester
Justin Reichert Clements (December 2010)
Janice M. Easley (Minor in Psychology) (December 2010)
Katrina Marie Lepthien
Mica Caitlin McCarty-Glenn
Amber J. Ortega (Minor in Chemistry) (December 2010)
Katharyn M O'Toole (December 2010)
Whitney Louise Thomas
Jessica Marie Warton (December 2010)
Bachelor of Science in Biology with Environmental Science Option
Kathryn E. Hayden (Minor in Environmental Engineering)
Stacey Marie Kemp (Minor in Psychology)
Jaimie L. Wharton (Minor in Chemistry) (December 2010)
Bachelor of Science in Biology with Environmental Science Option and Psychology
Kimbra LaRae Brown (December 2010)
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Leah E. Dale
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
Eric Michael Benner (Minor in Chemistry)
Victor Paul Briseno (December 2010)
Aaron Thomas Caudill
Justine Marie Davidson
James Robert Fallt (Minor in Chemistry)
Jacy Nicole Gansz (December 2010)
Stephanie Gonzales
Sarah Mae Kilmer
Lee Taylor Massey
Paul Ortiz
Mason Risley
Joel Robert Saddoris
Thomas M. Sudan
Brady Sullivan (December 2010)
Amanda Jane Trujillo
Lee Tu (Minor in Chemistry)
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
Rachel Marie Clements
Kenna Vance Jackson
Katrina Marie Lepthien
Marcus H. Moeller (Minor in Biology)
Ryan T. Shea (Minor in Mathematics)
Jedediah D. Tratechaud
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
Ronald Amiri Alexander
Royce Robert Beaudry (December 2010)
Andrew Francis Brenner
Sehin Damtew Faris
Zachary Donald Friedland (December 2010)
Emiliano M. Martinez (Minor in Mineral Engineering) (December 2010)
Kelsey R. McCaslin
Julio A. Sanchez
Samuel Martin Shull (Minor in Mineral Engineering)
Jacob Paul Smith (Minor in Mineral Engineering) (December 2010)
Kyle R. Sparks
Roosevelt Ferdinand Theodore (December 2010)
Elyce Hayashi Yates
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
William C. Aitken (December 2010)
Johnathan D. A. Ammons (December 2010)
Joshua F. Aragon (December 2010)
Corey Brown (December 2010)
Thomas Stephen Coppi
Jacob Hopkins (December 2010)
Lance M. Leyba (February 2011)
Aaron Andrew Lovato (December 2010)
Kyle John McCready
John Aden McCloud
John Mark Steenson (Minor in Mathematics) (December 2010)
Bachelor of Science in Earth Science with Geology Option
Douglas Anthony Berlier
Santiago L. Flores (December 2010)
Niranjan Kaur Khalsa
Julie Erin Vann
Bachelor of Science in Earth Science with Hydrology Option
David Lee Butler
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Edward Ray Acree III (Minor in Technical Communication)
Jason Robert Boyer
David E. Breen (Minors in Mathematics and Physics)
Matthew Frederick Duro Brown
Chuck Dahl
Bradley Walter Finkbeiner
Thomas R. Hall
Garrett L. Holt (Minor in Mathematics)
Ryan L. Jackson (Minor in Mathematics)
Luis Marquez
Blaine J. Martinez (Minor in Mathematics)
Marcus Mayfield
Dylan M Paiton (Minor in Optical Science and Engineering)
David Jonathan Park
Jerry S. Quiroga
Austin Ray Silva (December 2010)
James Albert Smith
Ross T Terrill (Minor in Optical Science and Engineering)
Alejandro S. Valdivia (Minor in Biology)
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering
Ashley Kristin Arrossa (December 2010)
Melissa Dai Fetman
Sean Menk
Travis Andrew Peacock
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science with Biology Option
Elizabeth D. Burton
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
Emilio D Campos
John Joseph Franks V (Minor in Technical Communication)
Adam Daniel Troemner (December 2010)
James Curtis Wernicke Jr.
Bachelor of Science in Management
Ryan Lee Del Curto (Minor in Psychology) (Sept 2010)
Jessica Jolais Stringfield (December 2010)
Gavin Michael Torres (September 2010)
Wesley Walterscheid (September 2010)
Bachelor of Science in Materials Engineering
Anna Elizabeth Breiner
Peter Thomas Dickens (Minor in Polymer Science)
George Komai Egert
Zahra Nicole Ghanbari
Cory Gibson (December 2010)
Kathryn Mireles
Brendan Laverne Nation (September 2010)
Richard Pavlik
Alaina Lee Schade
Christopher Jacob Skinner
Taylor Marie Wilkinson (December 2010)
Bachelor of Science in Materials Engineering with Metallurgical Engineering Option
Ryan Marshall Cook (September 2010)
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
Travis C. Barnette (December 2010)
Henry T. Horton
Shichun Pak Moser (Minor in Education)
Gary Quezada II (December 2010)
Robert Henry Rayas (February 2011)
Margaret Anne Snell
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Alexyia Marie Barraza
Marco E. Berry (December 2010)
Alicia Billy (Minor in Biomedical Engineering) (December 2010)
Tyler S Bushnell (Minor in Philosophy)
David B. Conrad (December 2010)
Benjamin S. Cooper (Minor in Aerospace Engineering)
K. Maxwell Crowning
Scott Keegan Davidson
Aaron James Dawson (December 2010)
Carla Marina Dozal (December 2010)
Ricardo Carlos Echeverria
Nicholas Robert Falcone
Meliton Lee Flores (December 2010)
Anselmo Gallegos
Richard A. Garner (December 2010)
Kyle Cohen Gleichmann (December 2010)
David Jesus Griego (December 2010)
Timothy P. Haines
Jason Paul Hebert
Bryce A. Hinderer
Daniel Allen Hoff
Derek Michael Lucero (September 2010)
Ian Robert Luders (December 2010)
Lee Hunter Martin
Russell Martin (December 2010)
Daniel John Meisner
Joshua Eloy Mendoza
Jose M. Mercado-Graciano
Matthew Connell O'Keefe (Minor in Mathematics) (December 2010)
Cory James Pelletier
Alex William Plonczak
Amanda Posadas
Kevin Ryan Powledge
Nicholas S. Provencher
William Robert Pat. Reiser
Felicia Raye Romero
Michael G Romero (December 2010)
Brandon S. Runnels
Nicholas Harp Schafer (Minor in Electrical Engineering)
Michael Scott Shattuck
Waylin Daryl Sieler (December 2010)
Dana Richard Sills (Minor in Mathematics)
Matthew E. Swanson
Matt Matson Tibbetts
Kendra Ann Valdez (December 2010)
Daniel Martin Vickers (December 2010)
Micah T. Wild (September 2010)
Bachelor of Science in Mineral Engineering
David R Burkhard (December 2010)
Kameron Frederick
Priesnitz-Ray (December 2010)
Bachelor of Science in Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering
Allan Philips Abraham
Ronald Olusegun Adegoke
Matthew B. Higgins (Minor in Biology)
Kanayo Anthony Monye
Tom Shimura
Gael Tawatieu Yota
Diego F. Teran Merino
Bachelor of Science in Physics
Daniel Laurence Breen
Kyle Nathan Jaffa
Orson N. John, III (December 2010)
Patrick Cole Leahy
Nicholas Michael McCarthy (September 2010)
Sarah Elizabeth Stanley
Devon Ray Turner (Minor in Mathematics) (December 2010)
Bachelor of Science in Physics with Astrophysics Option
Andrea Christina Gallegos (Minor in Mathematics)
Daniel Robert Rodeheffer (Minor in Mathematics)
Genevieve Isabelle Vaive (Minor in Mathematics)
Bachelor of Science in Psychology
Sara S. D'Arcy (Minor in Biology)
Felycia Desirae Gutierrez
Ryan W Johnson
Amber J. Ortega (December 2010)
Margaret Anne Snell
Sarah Elizabeth Stanley (Minor in Mathematics)
Nida Marie Stewart (December 2010)
Bachelor of Science in Technical Communication
Jessica Elizabeth Behles
Penny Lee Bencomo
Rebecca L. Birch (Minor in Philosophy)
Heather Mattax
Patrick A. Smith
Associate of General Studies
Roger Lucas Blatchford (December 2010)
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Reviewed by Sierra T. (age 8)
This book is funny because Henry becomes smarter than his teacher. Henry is smart like me. I liked this book because it made me laugh. My favorite part was when he was at school and he ate too many books. The words became all mixed up and Henry couldn't answer the questions correctly. This book reminded me of time the words in my head were all mixed up.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes to "devour" books!


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"Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
Gusts and foul flaws to herdsmen and to herds."
—W. Shakespeare, from Venus and Adonis
Customs planes flying over the Kimberley area thought Kris was having some trouble because he wasn't using his two main sails, just the mizzen, and there's a low pressure in the area. The message he gave them was to "contact the sailboat's owner and arrange to tow the sailboat back to Darwin." I was a bit of a basket case, of course…my imagination took over and worried the hell out of me! Yesterday a plane managed to deliver a satellite phone to Kris, and they spoke to him.
He's fine, plenty of food and water still, but with the strong winds (blowing in the wrong direction) he's reluctant to use the boat's sails. These have been rotting inside the boat for several years, and might blow apart. Also, the boat is taking on a little bit of water that, so far, the bilge pumps have been taking care of. Now that the monsoons are starting up and it will be raining more often, Kris is worried that the solar panels that charge the bilge pumps will stop charging, and then the boat will start to fill up with water. On top of this, the monsoon winds, once they are established, will be against him, anyway. It's taken him a whole week to make 100 nautical miles…a distance that, with good winds and a good boat, you'd normally do in just over a day.
My guess is that, on the whole, Kris figures the best way to avoid this whole thing ending in tragedy (i.e. loss of White Bird) is to just tow the boat home. The sailboat, White Bird, had been sitting in Bali for years—unmaintained—after its owner died there. Our local bar manager, John, purchased the boat, and Kris was asked to sail it back to Darwin because it hasn't got an engine.
John and some other guys will be heading out there with another sailboat tomorrow (or that was the plan last I spoke to him, though he also said he'd call me this morning and hasn't). If they do go, it will probably take three days to get there, then they have to actually find him, and another 4 days coming back.
Was up at 6, and there was a vivid red sunrise quietly bleeding its way across the sky. It was so gorgeous that I fumbled for my camera just seconds after waking up, and photographed it while still half asleep. I thought of the old weather forecasting rhymes about red skies: "Red sky at morning, sailors take warning; Red sky at night, sailors delight." *groan* I just want him home, safe and well. But I have no say in these matters, so I try to keep my mind on other things.
I started a painting, based on a magazine pic that I have always wanted to use. Basic lines are in, but if I keep going in this way, I will end up with just a pretty picture of two pretty girls, like the magazine photo. So today's job is to fearlessly change what I've done…to kill my attachment to this pretty and conventional image, and do something brave and fun to the drawing. To make this canvas my own.


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It's November. Mercury is in retrograde. Giants won the World Series, Obama won the president race, US drones are getting shot out of the sky, stores are ready to sell you EVERYTHING for Black Friday sales, and I don't think Santa is bringing me anything for Christmas this year. Whew, but back to Free Fridayz. Last week there was a decent turnout of drawings but not that many votes, which led to a tie. Which led to an official tie breaking decision by me. The winner of last weeks Free Fridayz goes to #16 by Solange who has won themselves a TShirt by Mel Kadel. It was a nice drawing and quite witty. Way to go.
There are some pretty nice entries this week. I had to keep a few out because they weren't in .jpeg format, didn't go with the theme or lacked blood, sweat and tears. Free Fridayz is transcending to the next dimension. To go where no drawing has gone before, which makes me think about space tourism. Over here in SF, the tourists are a bunch of bobble heads that block the sidewalk staring at food menus and store front pastries. Crowding shopping malls in their last chance to get a pair of denim. And they are all photographers now. A bunch of Ansel Adams. I pray to the Universe that if we ever have space tourism in this life-time, that these tourists travel with much more dignity and respect to the culture and places they visit or perhaps just start now. -Joe
The next theme is Tourists. ~~ And remember, Have your homies log-in to vote!!!
This Week's Theme: Weekends
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#3 - Matt Caputo (Jersey City, NJ)
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#5 - Dirk Hogan (Salt Lake City)
#6 - Eduardo Castagneda
#7 - Evan Farrow (Rocky Mount, NC)
#8 - Federico De Prisco (?)
#9 - Ishi (Melbourne, AU)
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A trio of the Senate's leading GOP defense hawks have a message about cuts in military spending, slated for Jan. 1: Under no circumstances can America sustain them – and Republicans are willing to give up sacred ground on taxes to make sure they don't occur.
"We are willing to compromise," said Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona, who as a Vietnam War hero was given a roaring welcome in Norfolk, Va. – the heart of the US congressional district with the largest concentration of military installations. "We are not wedded to any one position because there is too much at stake. So I am asking you to get into the fight."
Senator McCain was joined by fellow Republicans Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, a threesome that has frequently taken to the floor of the Senate to decry the impact of $55 billion in looming defense-spending reductions. The area's member of Congress, Rep. Scott Rigell (R), was also in attendance Monday evening.
The town hall was the third stop in the trio's "Preserving America's Strength" tour, which included earlier discussions in Tampa, Fla., and Fayetteville, N.C. On Tuesday, the group was to hold a final meeting in Merrimack, N.H. In Norfolk, they were greeted by some 200 listeners who were largely older and affiliated with the armed services.
Many said they came to the speech because they fear what the defense cuts would mean for their community.
"These are our Fortune 500 companies," said Lynne Uher of Virginia Beach.
One defense-industry-funded study showed roughly 1 million jobs at risk if the cuts happen, although Virginia and Florida were the only states on the "America's Strength" trip to make the Top 10. The Sunshine State was fourth with more than 49,000 potential job losses. Virginia was seventh with some 37,000.
The cuts are part of the sequester – Washington shorthand for the automatic spending reductions mandated by the Budget Control Act, which ended last summer's debt-ceiling fight. McCain voted for the bill; Senators Ayotte and Graham joined 17 other Republicans in voting against it.
Both parties say the cuts – in both defense and discretionary spending – are abhorrent. But a special committee of 12 lawmakers from both chambers couldn't find a formula for offsetting the planned reductions. As such, they're slated to hit the economy in the new year.
The town halls – part educational events to explain the sequester and part grass-roots rallies to generate awareness – demonstrate the uncomfortable intermingling of policy and politics that has led to so much gridlock on Capitol Hill ahead of November's elections.
On one hand, the Republican senators laid out the impact of the cuts in stark and evocative terms, citing numerous officials from the Obama administration and the military who have characterized the cuts as leading to a "hollowed out" US armed services. They also attempted to drive home just how much the cuts would affect military-dominated southeastern Virginia, with Graham saying sequestration would shackle the area "for a generation."
On the other, they attempted to lay blame for the issue at the feet of President Obama, on a tour landing in four key swing states for November's elections.
"At the end of the day, we have to make this a political campaign, and we have to challenge the president to call John [McCain] and say, 'John, let's fix this one thing before the election,' " Graham said.
Representative Rigell emphasized that without presidential leadership, nothing would get accomplished.
"There's only one commander in chief. I'm not the commander in chief; Senator McCain isn't," Rigell said in a subsequent interview. "As commander in chief, your chief of naval operations, is saying, 'Sir, if this goes through, there will be severe and permanent [damage],' full stop. As POTUS, [he should say], 'Not on my watch.' "
McCain dismissed a question as to why the commonwealth's two senators, Democrats Mark Warner and Jim Webb, were absent from the event, saying they were invited but that "their schedules or desires were otherwise."
Considering their background and public statements on the matter, those senators, as well as Sen. Bill Nelson (D) of Florida, are the least likely to need public pressure to support a deal on the sequester. In fact, they look to be key allies for McCain, Graham, and Ayotte in any sequester negotiation.
"Senators Ayotte, Graham, and McCain could be making better use of their time by working across party lines to avert arbitrary cuts to defense programs instead of appearing at staged events in three or four swing states for obvious political reasons," said Senator Webb, who has one of the lengthiest defense résumés of any Democratic lawmaker, in a statement.
"I am well aware of the implications of sequestration for our nation's defense and industrial base. Once these politically motivated, staged events run their course, I am looking forward to beginning a bipartisan effort to achieve a responsible solution to our pressing fiscal challenges," he said.
Senator Warner has been a tireless advocate for a large, bipartisan solution to America's debt problems. Plans proffered by Warner-led groups have outlined as much as $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade, a level of fiscal responsibility that would more than alleviate the need for the sequester.
Likewise, Senator Nelson sent a letter to the Republican group stating his support for their aims.
"You can count on my bipartisan cooperation," he concluded in the letter.
If bipartisan negotiations come to pass, McCain, Graham, and Ayotte are set to advocate a one-year fix to be agreed upon before November's elections, thereby allowing the new Congress to settle the issue in 2013. And if negotiations begin, it is this core of Republican senators who will probably form the bulwark of support on the right for a deal.
Graham has argued that heading off the sequester could be done in the same way that the president's commission on debt, known as Bowles-Simpson after its authors, proposed fixing America's long-term debt situation: about $1 in higher tax revenue for every $3 in spending reductions.
Such an approach cuts directly against Republican orthodoxy embodied in the vaunted Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which north of 90 percent of congressional Republicans have signed in a promise to never raise taxes.
"I know it's uncomfortable for Republicans to talk about revenues the way I'm talking about it, and I know some Democrats get nervous about cutting some social programs. But you know what, on our worst day, this is nothing compared to what our men and women are doing," Graham said. "How many battles have we fought?
It's vital to make a deal before the elections, the group argued, because once the cuts take shape, the strain they put on businesses will be irreversible.
The main problem?
"Long story short, we're miles apart right now," Graham said. "Somebody's got to break this gridlock; and if we don't get this right, all hell is going to break out throughout our defense community."
What that might look like stared the trio in the face on Monday evening.
"Sequestration infuriates me," said Mark Stet, a retired Navy officer from Virginia Beach, during his time to question the senators. "Why it infuriates me is because my son died in Pakistan."
Staff Sgt. Mark Stet Jr. was killed in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province by an improvised explosive device Feb. 3, 2010, according to a release from the Department of Defense.
Mr. Stet argued that a Congress that allows sharply reduced defense spending would be putting more of America's service members at risk – and that the onus is on both sides to stand up and get a deal immediately.
"My son didn't die for the crap that you people are doing in D.C.," he said. "Do you understand me?"


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Cisco's contact center business is on a roll, as companies of all types and sizes embrace Customer Collaboration at an ever-increasing rate to forge deeper, more proactive relationships with their clients.
Today's press release showcases three such companies– CareCore National, Skowhegan Savings Bank, and AAA of Western and Central New York–who, although very different, are all transforming and growing their business with Customer Collaboration.
These companies highlight the widespread applicability and benefits of Customer Collaboration, which combines proven, traditional contact center technology with the power of social media, video, web 2.0 agent workspaces, and network-based recording to allow businesses to closely interact with customers in ways that were never before possible.
Each of these companies is different, with its own unique requirements for interacting with customers. But Customer Collaboration from Cisco offers something for all of them—a way for Skowhegan Savings Bank to connect with existing and prospective clients via Cisco SocialMiner and Cisco Unified Contact Center Express, a platform including Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise and Cisco MediaSense for CareCore National to deliver a better support experience for its physician clients, and an integration of Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise with workforce and quality management solutions for AAA of Western and Central New York to connect more efficiently with its growing customer base.
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Doctors warn of spread of communicable diseases through direct contact with skin; poses far greater risk to public health than statistical chance of being a victim of terrorism
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Now that the TSA's new pat down procedures include reaching inside people's clothing and directly touching their skin and genitals, communicable diseases are set to soar, with doctors warning of a new wave of infections that will pose a greater risk to public health than any statistical probability of being a victim of terrorism.
The TSA's new pat down procedures threaten to unleash an epidemic of communicable diseases, presenting a threat more deadly than the radiation travelers will be exposed to if they pass through a naked body scanner. This will undoubtedly lead to thousands of deaths of people with weak immune systems in the long term.
The controversy again highlights the fact that the body scanner and pat down procedures, through the spread of infectious diseases like flesh-eating bacteria, will kill more people than they will protect through the speculative prevention of any terror attack.
Necrotizing fasciitis, commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria, can be spread from one person to another through close contact or inadvertently touching the wound of a person who is infected. The likelihood of this occurring now that the TSA have been given free reign to directly grope passengers under their clothing has greatly increased. The disease can be spread through contact with weakened skin, like a bruise, blister, or abrasion, or merely through minor openings in the skin such as a paper cut or a pin prick.
Cases of flesh-eating bacteria are on the increase and the disease has a 20 per cent death rate.
Syphilis, lice, gonorrhea, ringworm, chlamydia, staph, strep, noro and papilloma viruses are also going to be readily transferred to travelers since TSA agents do not change gloves between each pat down. Now that screeners are literally touching genitalia, the risk of transmitting sexual diseases will skyrocket.
While people are told to wear flip-flops in the gym or at the swimming pool to prevent infections transmitted via bare feet, the TSA makes people remove their shoes and walk through areas loaded with germs with no protection.
"There is no doubt that bacteria (staph, strep, v.cholerae etc.) and viruses (noro, enteroviruses, herpes, hepatitis A and papilloma viruses) can be spread by contaminated vinyl or latex gloves," Dr. Thomas Warner of Wisconsin told World Net Daily.
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A pulmonary critical care physician from Connecticut added, "That doesn't make sense that they're not changing gloves."
"Anything can be transmitted. If there are open wounds and they [TSA agents] are not aware, there's syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, chlamydia, lice, ringworm."
"As screening procedures get stricter and more passengers opt for pat-downs instead of graphic X-rays, the likelihood of bacteria being spread increases, Patrick Schlievert, a microbiology and immunology professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, told MSNBC.
Charles Gerba, a microbiology professor at the University of Arizona, found norovirus, MRSA and influenza virus on the trays that travelers handle before they are subject to pat downs, while self-checkout kiosks were also loaded with germs from thousands of people pushing the same buttons every day.
The TSA and the Centers For Disease Control has failed to respond to growing concerns about TSA gropers spreading infectious diseases.
As we have previously highlighted, the menace of global terrorism has been labeled the greatest threat to western civilization since communism and yet swimming pools, peanuts and lost deer kill more Americans every single year.
As Ohio State University's John Mueller concludes in a report entitled A False Sense Of Insecurity, "For all the attention it evokes, terrorism actually causes rather little damage and the likelihood that any individual will become a victim in most places is microscopic."
Americans are not only sacrificing their liberty when submitting to invasive and humiliating grope downs at the hands of the TSA, they are in fact putting themselves at a greater health risk statistically of catching a fatal disease than they would ever face from being a victim of terrorism.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America's most listened to late night talk show.
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The one thing that Lindsey Vonn says could end her relationship with Tiger Woods is sex with his ex-wife, Elin Nordegren.
Nordegren has given her blessing to the couple before, reportedly, and Vonn has been spotted with their children.
Even still, Vonn says that she does not think Nordegren would be above breaking up their relationship behind her back to get back at her ex-husband.
"Lindsey is convinced that Tiger still has feelings for Elin and, if he got the chance, he would dump Lindsey in a flash and get back together with her," a source said.
Woods' cheating history aside, Vonn had said she would never get married again divorcing her first husband.
"I'm not an idiot; I try not to look, but I see what people say about me on Facebook," Vonn said. "I see other things written. But I don't care. I learned a while ago from my divorce that my happiness is the most important thing. That's all I can control. And right now, I'm happy."


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Oracle Beehive provides an integrated set of communication and collaboration services built on a single scalable, secure, enterprise-class platform. Beehive allows users to access their collaborative information through familiar tools while enabling IT to consolidate infrastructure and implement a centrally managed, secure, and compliant collaboration environment built on Oracle technology.
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MONTGOMERY — Auburn's internal review into allegations by former players of academic fraud before the 2010 BCS championship game found no evidence of wrongdoing, athletic director Jay Jacobs said on Monday.
MONTGOMERY — Auburn's internal review into allegations by former players of academic fraud before the 2010 BCS championship game found no evidence of wrongdoing, athletic director Jay Jacobs said on Monday.
Jacobs posted in a letter to fans on the school's Web site the results of a review by his department and the university's Internal Auditing department, which he said refuted a report by former New York Times and Sports Illustrated reporter Selena Roberts.
Auburn worked with the NCAA in investigating the academic fraud, said Jack Smith, the athletic department's director of strategic communications.
Meanwhile, former Tigers coach Gene Chizik called the allegations "ludicrous" in an interview on WJOX radio in Birmingham.
"I'm here because I care about my reputation, I care about the integrity of who I am and what I do," Chizik said. "I'm simply giving out the facts, because I'm 100 percent confident that we did it right."
Jacobs had disputed Roberts' report in an earlier statement but said Auburn would review them.
He made a point-by-point rebuttal to a number of charges made by former players, including defensive back Mike McNeil, who pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery on April 8.
Roberts cited three players who said the team was informed that as many as nine were ineligible for the BCS championship game against Oregon in January 2011, including tailback Mike Dyer.
Jacobs said that six players were academically ineligible and none made the trip to Arizona.
McNeil had alleged that he had a failing grade changed to a 'C' to make him eligible for the title game. Jacobs said the internal review found that all university policies for grade changes were followed and that McNeil provided a medical excuse for absences.
He said Dyer passed nine hours during the 2010 summer semester and 15 hours during the fall — nine more than are required by the NCAA — and ended with a 2.8 grade-point average.
"There is no evidence academic fraud occurred," Jacobs said.
Former Auburn receiver Darvin Adams also said in the report that he was offered money to stay for his senior season, which he skipped to enter the NFL draft..
"No booster offered him anything to play at Auburn, and no booster or coach offered him any money to stay at Auburn," Chizik said. "That is simply a bogus allegation."
He likewise said Auburn never paid 2010 Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton, whose father attempted to solicit money during Mississippi State's recruitment. The NCAA eventually cleared the player and Auburn, and Chizik said he is "absolutely sure that there was absolutely nothing going on."
"It started out as a Mississippi State problem, became an Auburn problem, and really and truly, from there, we really can't figure it out," Chizik said. "Because it without question has to be the most scrutinized program in the country. I still go back to what are the facts? The NCAA's been in there almost two years. They found no major violations. So I still stick to the facts."
Jacobs also said on the site that President Jay Gogue has formed a committee to review the athletic department on everything from rules compliance to on-the-field success for a program that had abysmal seasons in both football and men's basketball and then was the subject.
Jacobs said the panel will conduct "a top-to-bottom review," including the leadership's effectiveness.
"There is no question that this has been a tough year for Auburn Athletics," Jacobs said. "We all expect better, and we know we have to win. As disappointing as this year has been, rest assured we will bounce back. We always have."
The Tigers finished last in the SEC in both football and men's basketball.
Auburn fired Chizik after the team went 3-9 and didn't win a Southeastern Conference game in an unprecedented fall two years after winning a national title. It was the Tigers' worst season in 60 years.
Men's basketball coach Tony Barbee is returning after the Tigers went 9-23 and 3-15 in SEC play. They lost 16 of their last 17 games and set a program-high for losses.
Gogue's committee includes former Mississippi athletic director Pete Boone, former California-Berkeley AD Dave Maggard, ex-LSU administrator Judy Southard and businessmen Mac Crawford and John Irwin, along with former Auburn player Quentin Riggins.
University spokesman Brian Keeter said outside experts sometimes help with reviews of academic departments and called this move "the responsible thing to do."


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So there's good news and there's good news. First, the good: I'm going to be doing two more appearances baking from In the Sweet Kitchen on Cityline this fall! The first will air Monday November 1, the second airs Wednesday December 8. Hooray! Look for early Christmas things… I feel cookies coming on….
The second good thing is totally related, and I'm so tickled to have discovered it I could die. In the course of planning the first appearance, for the Monday (Around-the-House Day) show, I was emailing with Cityline's intrepid Monday producer, Kate Moore. And we're talking cookies and she writes that she wonders if I would mind wearing one of these aprons they're hoping to feature on the show that day, to promote the start of their Holiday Cookie Swap.
Now, I don't generally wear aprons when doing demos on TV, mostly because they make me look a bit like a potato. Also, the plain white ones make me look as though I work in a restaurant, which I definitely used to, but haven't in forever, and I'm always worried about giving people the wrong idea. I know – I've thought way too much about this. Really, they're just supposed to keep goo off your dress. Right?
Kate sends me this terribly deferential note along the lines of "If you REALLY wouldn't mind… yadda yadda yadda…. VERY pretty aprons…. yadda yadda… Check out the website…. here are some I though would look great on you…." And my first reaction is, Ok, if I like them, well, maybe; and if they're too, um, potatoey, then I'll politely decline.
The company is called Sugar Baby Aprons, which is already a promising start. So I click on over to the site, and it takes me all of one second to realize that not only are they not tuber-like, they're FAB! They're divine. They're so sexy and sweet, they're more like sassy little demi-frocks than aprons. Instantly, I wanted ALL of them, which, I know, is perhaps a tad unreasonable. Though don't pretend for a second that I didn't very quickly mentally justify possibly buying one of each. But then I'd need matching shoes, and nail polish, and it just starts to get out of hand.
The thing is, they actually sell shoes… (I KNOW, RIGHT?) so the jury's still out on the whole buying the lot deal.
I did, however, abuse the English language just a tad in my haste to write a note back to Kate saying, HELLS YES I'd love to wear one one the show, and if at all possible, could it be the full leopard print one? Because really, I have a bit of a thing for leopard, and honestly, once I saw that they even made one in leopard, there was no other choice.
So for those of you still here, on my site, I'm absolving you of your sense of loyalty. You don't have to finish reading this. GO – go now, buy aprons. Buy the flirtiest one there, and when it arrives, put in on with your highest heels and your most encouraging undergarment, and bake something! Make cupcakes, make a pie, make chocolate chip cookies and eat the dough right out of the bowl. Because baking is supposed to be like this: sexy, full-bodied, and fun.


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The 18th Annual Wabash College Moot Court competition ends with tonight's final round argued before a panel of prestigious judges. This year's topic is the constitutionality of the new healthcare law. The Finals Round will be argued at 7:30 p.m. in Salter Hall in the fine Arts Center.
Student advocates for the Finals Round include Petitioners Tim Markey '12 and Andrew Dettmer '15 and Respondents Steve Henke '12 and Michael Carper '13. Last year's champion, Donovan Bisbee, is the First Alternate. This year's Moot Court problem involves the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act's requirement that individuals must purchase health insurance. Specifically, does that requirement violate the Constitution's "Commerce Clause" permitting Congress to regulate interstate commerce?
Moot Court is just one aspect of Law Week at Wabash, which begins Monday. Alumnus Frederick Whitmer, a partner at the New York City office of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, will present a lecture on Wednesday entitled, "Arming Yourself for the Litigation Battlefield: the Liberal Arts Education as Ammunition" in Hays Hall 104.
Read more about this year's Moot Court case.
This year's Moot Court will be available for viewing via live stream video.
"As usual, the problem was drafted by Rick Pitts '83," said Rhetoric Professor Todd McDorman, who coordinates the on-campus competition. "Rick had to really work at this one since there are more than 20 different cases involving the constitutionality of the health care act. He waded through more than 800 pages of decisions to construct a problem that reflects the complexities of the health care law and yet is concise and focused in a way fitting for our undergraduate competition."
The problem is primarily drawn from two Circuit Court of Appeals Decisions—Thomas More Law Center v. Obama (6th Circuit) and State of Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services (11th Circuit).
Thirty-two students began the competition on Saturday with approximately 20 alumni attorneys and two faculty members assisting in the judging. The competitors are a mix of veteran participants and newcomers; nine participants made the 12-person semi-finals last year. There are also nine freshmen in this year's Moot Court.
While McDorman manages the on-campus coordination, he's assisted by a cadre of Wabash attorneys, including Scott Himsel '85 (also a visiting assistant professor of political science), Matt Griffith '89, Jon Pactor '71, Pitts '83, Brad Johnson '71, and Seamus Boyce '03.
The alumni coordinators encourage student participation, recruit alumni and finals round judges, write the annual problem, and support the program in other ways. The competition is co-sponsored by the IAWM and the Rhetoric Department
In Moot Court, teams of two students represent the litigants of the case. In this instance, two students will represent the petitioners who are challenging the legitimacy of the health care law and two other students will represent the United States in advocating on behalf of the law's constitutionality. The student advocates are peppered with questions from alumni and faculty who serve as the appellate judges during the competition.
In the preliminary rounds of the competition each student will argue in two rounds, once on each side of the issue. Twelve students will then advance to semi-finals on Monday and four will compete in the finals Tuesday evening.
The Finals Round judges include the Honorable Edward W. Najam, Jr. of the Indiana Court of Appeals, the Honorable Elaine B. Brown of the Indiana Court of Appeals, Frederick L. Whitmer '69, who is a partner in the New York City office of the international law firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, and Wabash Professor of Economics Frank Howland, who is teaching a Health Care Economics course this semester.
"The Wabash College Moot Court is a wonderfully challenging competition that pushes our students and builds relationships among students, alumni, and faculty," said McDorman.


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In lieu of kitschy turkey paintings I decided it would be fun to collect a few vintage images of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The earliest of these was taken in 1931, and the newest in 1975.
The tradition started in 1924, tying in for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States along with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has been a staple of New York life since the late 20's; the popularity grew as the parade started to get televised in the 1950's. Till' this day, there's nothing more iconic than the giant balloons that stroll across the city during this time of the year.
Until 1980-90's the balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade came in two varieties. The first and oldest is the novelty balloon class, which fit on the heads of the performers. The second, and most famous, is the full-size balloon class, primarily consisting of licensed pop-culture characters.
On behalf of the B/D team, we want to wish you all a very happy thanksgiving. May you spend this day with your loved ones, and yummy food!
(Images via Daily News & Huff Post)


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A lot (dozens) of people have emailed me or left comments about two semi-related articles.
One concerns author Jonathan Franzen, and his comments about ebooks.
The other is a UK article about the supposed ebook bubble.
Franzen's thoughts, and the whole "bubble" idea, amuse me. But let me assure ebook authors everywhere that there is nothing to be alarmed about.
One of Franzen's quotes is:
"Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I do."
Good for him. But his opinion is hardly universal. Amazon supposedly sold 6 million Kindle Fires in the last three months.
The grand literati concept of "Story" with a capital S has nothing to do with the media that delivers it. The story doesn't exist on paper. Or as e-ink, or screen pixels, or even mp3 audio compression.
The Story exists in the reader's/listener's head.
I anticipated this reaction of Luddites and paper fetishists two years ago.
Franzen could have saved himself from looking silly by reading my blog. But the same can be said about scores of writers, agents, and publishers, and it is my flawed conceit that logic, common sense, and hard data can change people's minds.
"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." - Jacob M. Braude
It is worth noting here that I was once, pre-Kindle, 100% against self-publishing. I changed my mind as new data came in.
But I digress.
As for the ebook bubble, I put this meme to bed and rocked it to everlasting sleep a year ago:
So what have we learned, other than the fact that I'm eerily prescient?
1. People fear change. When change happens, they dig in like ticks and try to defend their long-held and closely-cherished beliefs. (BTW, another term for long-held/closely cherished belief is prejudice. And prejudice ain't good.)
2. The same memes about ebooks keep getting circulated again and again and again because folks are too lazy to do any kind of simple research to inform their opinions.
3. Ebooks are going to follow the examples set by the music, movie, and TV industries. The future is digital, and anyone who disagrees with that is seriously out of touch with reality.
So all you ebook self-pubbers out there: ignore the alarmists. There are always doomsayers and Luddites and nostalgia whores who bitch and moan when new technologies take over. But they don't matter. Because new technologies don't care if some folks resist them--they take over anyway.
Now go get some writing done and self-publish the hell out of it. Trust me. I'm right a lot.*
*(Actually, you should trust no one, and figure this shit out for yourself with research and experimentation.)
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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WASHINGTON — With President Obama insisting on higher tax rates for affluent Americans and winning public support for the idea, Congressional Republicans find themselves in an increasingly difficult political spot and are quietly beginning to look for a way out.
Senior Republican leadership aides say they are contemplating a fallback position since a standoff over expiring tax rates will be portrayed by Democrats as evidence that the opposition is willing to allow taxes to rise on the middle class to keep taxes from rising on the rich — and their intransigence could mean taxes go up on rich, poor and middle class alike.
The leadership officials now say that if no deal can be struck to avert the automatic expiration of all the Bush-era tax cuts and the onset of deep, across-the-board spending cuts, they could foresee taking up and passing legislation this month to extend the tax cuts for the middle class and then resume the bitter fight over spending and taxes as the nation approaches the next hard deadline: its statutory borrowing limit, which could be reached in late January or February.
"There's always better ground, but you have to get there," said Representative Michael C. Burgess, Republican of Texas, who made it clear he does not support allowing any taxes to rise.
Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, who is retiring, joined a handful of other Republicans on Tuesday suggesting that Congress should pass the middle-class tax cut extensions now, then leave the fight over taxes and spending until later. Americans, she said, "should not even be questioning that we will ultimately raise taxes on low- to middle-income people." Congress could take that off the table "while you're grappling with tax cuts for the wealthy," she said.Continue reading the main story
But any move toward compromise with Democrats on fiscal issues quickly comes under attack from conservatives as a surrender and unsettles the rank and file.
It is a dynamic that has haunted Speaker John A. Boehner throughout the 112th Congress, as he has repeatedly been caught between the imperative to govern and the need to satisfy the restive right. Mr. Boehner, of Ohio, has drawn fire this week for removing a handful of House Republicans who have defied the leadership from their preferred committee seats, a step he took to enforce party discipline.
Mr. Obama made clear on Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg News that he was not going to budge on raising tax rates on income over $250,000. "We're going to have to see the rates on the top 2 percent go up," Mr. Obama said in his first interview since his re-election, "and we're not going to be able to get a deal without it."
Allowing an extension only of the middle-class tax cuts is just one possibility, and Congress may never get to that point if an agreement can be reached or if another alternative can be found. And it would be a bitter pill for Republicans to swallow since they have repeatedly called for an extension of all the expiring tax cuts, saying any increases could harm the economy.
But Republicans also know they have a problem: many liberal Democrats are more than willing to return to the Clinton-era tax code, and to allow across-the-board spending cuts to take effect, which disproportionately affect the military, rather than compromise too much with Republicans after the strong Democratic showing in the elections.
"It's a terrible position because by default, Democrats get what they want," said Representative James Lankford, Republican of Oklahoma, who admitted his party is boxed in.
In the debt ceiling fight, the tables might turn. Many conservative Republicans say they are willing to let the nation default if Congress refuses to cut spending. If the tax rate fight is resolved by the time the debt limit increase is needed, Democrats will find themselves without the leverage they now have with the expiration of the lower tax rates a certainty unless Congress acts affirmatively.
That is why in his opening bid to end the fiscal standoff, Mr. Obama proposed a permanent policy change to let the president raise the nation's borrowing limit on his own — and why Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, reportedly laughed out loud at the idea.
Popular opinion seems to be running against the Republicans. Most Americans support higher taxes on the rich, and a poll by The Washington Post and the Pew Research Center released Tuesday found that 53 percent say Republicans in Congress would and should be blamed if Washington fails to reach a deal before January. Just 27 percent said Mr. Obama would deserve more blame, while 12 percent say both sides would share the blame equally.
Most Republicans do not want tax rates to rise on anyone, and such national polls have little sway over House members in districts drawn to favor one party over the other. In November, 204 Republicans — 88 percent of the House Republican Conference — won at least 55 percent of the vote, according to David Wasserman, a House analyst at The Cook Political Report. Thirty-five of them won at least 70 percent.
Speaker Boehner took as much fire from conservatives as from Democrats after proposing a deficit-reduction plan that would raise $800 billion in tax revenue over 10 years. Conservative advocacy groups and conservatives on Capitol Hill were united in their condemnation.
"One party proposes 800 billion in tax increases. In an effort to counter them and continue to be the 'low tax, small government' party, the other party's leadership proposes ... wait for it ... 800 billion in tax increases," huffed Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, on his Facebook page.
Given the difficulty of compromise, a fallback may emerge as a top option. Republican leaders could take up legislation already passed by the Senate to extend tax cuts on income under $250,000, attach a deferral or cancellation of the automatic spending cuts, and give Mr. Obama nothing else, denying requests for increased infrastructure spending, help for homeowners to refinance their mortgages, and extensions of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance.
Then Republicans would demand deep concessions on spending and changes to Medicare and Social Security as a price to raise the debt ceiling a few weeks later. Republicans say any such decision to follow that course is still a ways off.
There are significant problems with this possibility, starting with the estate tax. The Senate tax bill was silent on the federal tax on inherited estates, which means if the House passes that legislation at the last minute, estate taxes would rise to Clinton-era levels, with inheritances over $1 million taxed at 55 percent. Currently the value of estates over $5 million is taxed at 35 percent.
John Engler, a former Republican governor of Michigan who is president of the influential Business Roundtable, told Bloomberg News on Tuesday that Congress should raise the debt ceiling high enough to take the limit off the table for five years.
But Republicans are not about to give up that cudgel.
"Our ground is on spending, and the president intends to continue to spend more than he has coming in," said Representative Austin Scott, Republican of Georgia. "For conservatives like me, we don't want to see any debt ceiling increase without spending cuts to match."Continue reading the main story


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Published in The Patriot Ledger April 8, 2014
Recently, as Obama sharply criticized Putin's moves towards Ukraine and the world worried about a renewal of the Cold War, American astronaut Steven Swanson and two Russian colleagues were launched together to the International Space Station, leaving Earth-based politics behind. In the early days of the Cold War, the space race was the most visible form of competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Today space is one of the few areas where America and Russia truly work together in a cooperative fashion.
Swanson and the Russian cosmonauts were launched by the Russian Soyuz rocket, the only provider of transport of people to the space station since the U.S. Space Shuttle program ended in 2011. Russia charged us $71 million to include Swanson in the launch. The Soyuz was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, site of the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, the 1961 launch of Yuri Gagarin, and many other space firsts. Kazakhstan, formerly part of the Soviet Union, is now officially an independent country but remains the center of the Russian space program.
Prior to its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union had maintained space stations of its own for many years, most famously space station Mir, which set numerous space records. The U.S. had a short-lived space station called Skylab in 1973-1974, but in 1984 President Reagan announced plans for a more substantial space station, with participation by U.S. allies. Congress eventually became unsupportive, Russia had its own financial problems after the Soviet Union dissolved, and in 1993, the Clinton administration announced the merging of the U.S. and Russian programs into the International Space Station (ISS).
The ISS is modular in design, and was constructed in orbit largely by assembling modules launched there by Russia and by the U.S., with most of the U. S. modules carried into orbit by Space Shuttles. Today two U. S. private companies, SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, launch spacecrafts to carry cargo to and from the ISS, and SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft is designed to eventually carry people there as well.
The ISS has now been continuously occupied for over 13 years. It usually maintains a crew of six, with individual stays in orbit typically over a month. When Steven Swanson and his Russian colleagues arrived at the station, they were greeted by the three already there – one American, one Russian, and one Japanese. More than twenty nations participate in the ISS, and half have had astronauts in orbit. Notably missing is China.
The U. S. has not invited China, and China has constructed and launched its own station, making them only the third nation to orbit a space station. Their station has so far been manned for only a few days, but China has plans for longer missions. And those who saw the movie "Gravity" know that the Chinese space station has already played a huge role in helping Sandra Bullock return safely to Earth.
While in orbit in the ISS, the astronauts perform experiments in a wide variety of scientific areas. And the astronauts are scientific experiments in themselves, since one purpose of the station is to study the effects on the human body of living in space, including long-term weightlessness. When they are not doing research, the astronauts exercise, read, play cards, and can look out the windows of the ISS to see the beautiful Earth 200 miles below. And, since they orbit the earth every hour and a half, they can see fifteen sunrises and sunsets every day. Of course now the Russians and Americans can also entertain themselves by debating the Russian takeover of Crimea.


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — If Dwight Howard is really trying to put his checkered recent past behind him, he has a strange way of making it happen.
The Houston Rockets' All-Star center has jilted fan bases in Orlando and Los Angeles (Lakers) in each of the past two seasons, bolting for what he believed to be a better situation in each instance. But he still wants to feel the love in both places. After staying silent for weeks while he was orchestrating exists from both places, Howard is finally opening up about how things went down.
The break-up in Orlando was about him not trusting the folks in charge to have his back after he and Stan Van Gundy's routine head-butting on certain things went public during that infamous post-shootaround scene where Van Gundy told reporters that he knew Howard had asked that the Magic fire him.
When the Magic fired Van Gundy in May 2012, Howard's mind was already made up. He was gone. The trade to the Lakers ended in disaster as well, with Howard being unable to co-exist with Kobe Bryant and his misgivings after the franchise hired Mike D'Antoni to replace Mike Brown instead of Howard's preferred choice, Phil Jackson.
Howard explained his thought process to Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel:
"There were some things that I missed about Orlando," Howard said. "There's a lot of situations that nobody really knows that I kept on the inside, but there's some things about Orlando that I missed. I'd say that getting out in the community and doing a lot of stuff that I did, I miss doing that stuff in Orlando and the relationships that I built with a lot of people over there in Orlando. I miss that.
"But I have no regrets. I'm happy everything happened the way it happened. Even though I got hurt in the process and I had to go through a tough time, it made me a better person. I'm more mature now. I know how to handle situations different than I did back then."
Howard views the Rockets as a championship contender.
He thinks Houston has similar talent to the 2008-09 Magic squad he led to the NBA Finals.
On Tuesday, Howard compared Rockets small forward Chandler Parsons to Hedo Turkoglu and Rockets shooting guard James Harden to Courtney Lee but also added that Harden has more scoring ability. He compared Rockets point guard Patrick Beverley to Rafer Alston and Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin to Anthony Johnson.
Howard said he was disappointed that, last February, after the Magic acquired Tobias Harris in a trade, the team granted Harris' request to wear No. 12, Howard's old number.
"I just think that despite whatever happened, there was a lot of things that I did and that we did as a team, and that number was special down there," Howard said. "And I was a little bit upset about that."
What Howard may not realize is that Harris is wearing No. 12 to pay tribute to a close friend who had died of leukemia at 17 years old.
Simply put, Howard can't have it both ways. He can't depart the way he did and expect anyone in Orlando to hold him in the same regard they did before the bottom fell out.
The Magic might change their tune some day, years from now when the sting of the divorce wears off a bit more. And Harris will rock that No. 12 jersey well. He was one of the biggest and most promising surprises for a Magic team that struggled mightily last season in their post-Howard existence.
Clearly, this drama is not going away, no matter how many times everyone involved tries to make it so. Howard will have to relive and rehash these things every time he sets foot in Orlando and Los Angeles. And maybe that's the ultimate burden he'll have to bear, the eternal venom from fan bases scorned (Magic fans will at least admit they were torn to shreds when he left).
Howard says he has no regrets … time will tell!


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Taylor Swift Wins Top Billboard 200 Album for 'Red' at 2013 Billboard Music Awards
Shortly after delivering a fun live performance of '22' at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards tonight (May 19), Taylor Swift took home the award for Top Billboard 200 Album for last fall's release of 'Red.'
The singer was up against some extremely tough competition, including Adele, Mumford and Sons and One Direction, but despite competing against the band featuring her ex, Harry Styles, she accepted the award humbly and graciously in a stunning sapphire mini.
Swift also won in the following categories tonight: Top Female Artist, Top Billboard 200 Artist, Top Digital Songs Artist, Top Country Artist, Top Country Album and Top Country Song. Nothing can stop this talented songstress!


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Life of a ladies' man: Leonard Cohen with lover and muse Marianne Ihlen
In the late 1960s no student's room was complete without Leonard Cohen's first two albums. His gloomy ruminations about fleeting or broken love affairs, with a strong undertone of maudlin religiosity, found a keen audience among that generation's angst-ridden adolescents; most of us can probably still sing a fair few of them off by heart.
It is interesting to learn from Silvie Simmons's exhaustive biography that Cohen was much more popular in Britain and, naturally, his native Canada than he ever was in the United States. Perhaps his ingrained pessimism was just too much for the Americans, essentially an optimistic people. The British music press swiftly dubbed him "the bard of the bedsit" and then, as his albums became ever more introverted and melancholic, "Laughing Lennie".
In common with many of his Sixties contemporaries—those who didn't die young from drugs overdoses, at any rate—he is still laughing, all the way to the bank. Now 78, he continues to tour the world, playing to packed houses. He sings the old songs and a few new ones that have also become instant standards, his voice a couple of octaves deeper, his polished routine backed by an excellent band, a far cry from the anguished loner who once hated to go on stage.
Cohen grew up in a wealthy Jewish home in Montreal: his father ran a successful clothing business (Leonard inherited his love of a good suit) but died when his son was only nine. Leonard's mother, Masha, who was born in Russia, had an artistic streak, and her son remained devoted to her for the rest of her long life: on the face of it, the classic basis for a nice Jewish boy to be unable to form lasting emotional attachments of his own. Cohen has always been a zestful pursuer of women, without committing to any of them for more than a few years: indeed the title of one of his best-known albums is Death of a Ladies' Man. It is a reminder that Cohen, as Anthony Powell's General Conyers was wont to say, has been a keen guardian of his own myth: Death of a Womaniser doesn't have quite the same ring. Simmons, who appears more than a little smitten herself by her subject, lovingly catalogues as many of Cohen's liaisons as she can, but he would always ditch them if they got too close. "He had his own rules and needed his freedom," explained one. Most of them have, however, stayed on good terms with him, which speaks to Cohen's good nature, if not his constancy.
Long before he became a rock star, Cohen was a noted poet, garlanded in his home country for his first collection, appropriately entitled Let Us Compare Mythologies, published when he was only 21 in 1956. But he had always been musical, being taught the rudiments of the guitar by a young Spaniard who committed suicide after their third lesson, a suitably Cohenesque touch. Cohen never forgot him. His great hero was Federico Garcia Lorca: he even named his only daughter after him.
His songs are, of course, poems set to music, and it is fair to say that he is a poet of considerable ability. He has the priceless asset of simplicity, and the ability to set out the most complex thoughts in language that is pared to the bone. Take the poem "Not A Jew": "Anyone who says/I'm not a Jew/is not a Jew/I'm very sorry/but this decision/is final".


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KABUL, Afghanistan, March 12 (UPI) -- Members of Afghanistan's Parliament Monday demanded a public trial of a U.S. soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghans in a shooting spree.
About 120 Afghan lawmakers quit parliamentary proceedings to condemn the Sunday killings of civilians, including women and children in the Panjwai district in southern Kandahar province, Khaama Press reported.
The Parliament members demanded a public trial and called for the setting up of a commission to investigate the shootings, the report said.
U.S. officials have warned of reprisal attacks over the shootings, which came just three weeks after the inadvertent burnings of Koran, the holy text of Muslims, at a U.S. base, the report said.
The Koran burning triggered deadly protests.
The Taliban have vowed to avenge Sunday's killings, the report said.