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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Paul Ryan Fact-Checks Republicans On Obamacare Job 'Costs' — At least one Republican is setting the record straight on what the Congressional Budget Office actually said this week about Obamacare and its effect on jobs. — House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) explained in a Wednesday hearing …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Liberal Values, Liberaland, The Baffler, Daily Kos, Fox News and Washington Monthly
ThinkProgress: Conservatives Seize On Report To Argue Obamacare Is A Job Killer — But The Author Says They're Wrong
Ron Chusid / Liberal Values: CBO Director States Affordable Care Act Will Reduce Unemployment; Paul Ryan Corrects Republican Misinformation
Joan McCarter / Daily Kos: Paul Ryan has momentary lapse into truthfulness
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
CBO director: Obamacare will reduce unemployment — As noted here yesterday, Republicans went mad with glee at the new Congressional Budget Office report on deficits and the Affordable Care Act, with multiple GOP officials claiming it showed the law will kill over two million jobs. That was false.
Discussion: Ross Douthat, JustOneMinute, Liberaland, The New Republic, Economix, Mediaite, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, PostPartisan, Paul Krugman, The Dish, Hullabaloo and ThinkProgress
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic: Obamacare Is Not a Job Killer
Jared Bernstein / Economix: A Report's Real Message: It Wasn't About Health Care
Joan McCarter / Daily Kos: CBO director: Obamacare won't kill jobs, it'll create them
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: 'Obamacare Bailout' Does Not Exist, Confirms Government; House Republicans Demand Its Repeal Anyway
James Downie / PostPartisan: Republicans' newest debt-ceiling farce
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish: Obamacare's Economic Check-Up
Thereisnospoon / Hullabaloo: If people who were just working to keep health insurance don't have to work anymore …
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Congressional Budget Office sends death blow to ObamaCare — The Affordable Care Act, a k a ObamaCare, became law almost four years ago. It became operational last Oct. 1. Yesterday, Feb. 4, 2014, the ACA may well have been dealt its death blow.
Ryan Cooper / The Plum Line: On jobs, conservatives are completely full of it
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway: ObamaCare Will Push 2 Million Out of Work! And That's a Good Thing!
Scared Monkeys: Contrary to what Americans were Told ... The CBO Says Obamacare Is Slowing Growth & Will Kill …
Scott Johnson / Power Line: Theory of the new leisure class
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Nancy Pelosi Promised Obamacare Would Create 4 Million Jobs. Um, About That...
New York Times:
Freeing Workers From the Insurance Trap — The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Tuesday that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers by 2.5 million over the next decade. That is mostly a good thing, a liberating result of the law.
Ed Rogers / PostPartisan: The Insiders: Obamacare discourages work
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo: New York Times Editorial Board Tells It Like It Is On That CBO Obamacare Report
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: NY Times Calls CBO Report Showing Obamacare Will Reduce Workforce By 2.5 Million Jobs A "Good Thing," "Liberating"...
Noah Rothman / Mediaite: NY Times: CBO Report Shows Obamacare 'Liberating' People from Fulltime Work
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: In the News — Here is some stuff in the news today!
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute: Slacking Equals Success
Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine: CBO Political Dynamite: OCare Job Losses
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post: A Lot Of Media Outlets Botched The CBO's Obamacare Report
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: What the CBO report on Obamacare really found
Chris Cillizza / The Fix: The worst headline for Democrats this year
Wall Street Journal:
The Jobless Care Act
The Jobless Care Act
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Business Insider, NewsBusters, Betsy's Page and The White House
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters: 'Mad Man' Sam Stein's Hilarious Response To Calamitous CBO/Obamacare Report
Betsy Newmark / Betsy's Page: Cruising the Web
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obamacare's scorekeepers deliver a game-changer
Obamacare's scorekeepers deliver a game-changer
Discussion: The Week, TPNN, americanthinker.com and National Review
Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com: Elitist lipstick on the CBO pig
Jim Geraghty / National Review: Obamacare, a.k.a, 'The War on Work'
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Government will pocket $8B profit from ObamaCare 'bailout' program, CBO says
Government will pocket $8B profit from ObamaCare 'bailout' program, CBO says
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly and Mother Jones
Dylan Howard / RADAR:
Hurley's Ex-Lover Caught On Bombshell Audio Recording Revealing Ex-Prez's White House Sex Romps Behind Wife Hillary's Back — As Hillary Clinton prepares to run for President in 2016, RadarOnline.com has uncovered bombshell new information that could torpedo her White House dreams …
Discussion: NY Daily News, National Review, CANNONFIRE, The Daily Caller, Lawyers, Guns & Money and PerezHilton
Rachel Maresca / NY Daily News: Elizabeth Hurley denies reports she had affair with former President Bill Clinton
Jim Geraghty / National Review: The Soft Underbelly of Hillary Clinton's 2016 Bid
Betsy Rothstein / The Daily Caller: Bath Time — Liz Hurley denies year-long affair with President …
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money: It's Out There! — The NRO launders some slime about Bill Cinton by going meta:
Perez Hilton: Bill Clinton Accused Of Having A Secret Sexcapade With Liz Hurley & You'll Be Shocked When You Hear Where Hillary Was!
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Biden's one reason NOT to run for President — (CNN) - As he considers another run for the White House, Vice President Joe Biden laid out one reason why he wouldn't want to be the nation's next chief executive. — "Everybody wants to know whether or not I'm going to run for president.
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
Scott Wong / Politico: Joe Biden's Corvette bummer
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller: Joe Biden reveals why he may not run for president in 2016
Jake Tapper / The Lead with Jake Tapper:
John Kerry a no on 2016: This is my last stop
John Kerry a no on 2016: This is my last stop
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico, Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo: Some People Actually Thought John Kerry Might Run For President Again
DefendWallSt / Weasel Zippers: John Kerry Will Not Run For President In 2016
Kathryn Davis / The Center for Media and Public Affairs:
Study: Leno's Top Joke Target Was Bill Clinton
Study: Leno's Top Joke Target Was Bill Clinton
Discussion: Mediaite, TheBlaze.com and CNN
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Christie's 'High School' Attack On Wildstein Has One Big Flaw — An article published Tuesday by The Bergen Record called into question the accuracy of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) attack against the character of former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive David Wildstein.
Discussion: Firedoglake and NorthJersey.com
Steve Strunsky / New Jersey Online:
Port Authority eliminates 'director' job created for Wildstein
Port Authority eliminates 'director' job created for Wildstein
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Capital New York, Mediaite and Daily Kos
Dana Rubinstein / Capital New York: Cuomo and Christie push reform, unequally
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Is Chris Christie Being Treated Unfairly?
Is Chris Christie Being Treated Unfairly?
Discussion: Washington Monthly and nbcnewyork.com
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
A reporter jumps to conclusions, and hilarity ensues.
A reporter jumps to conclusions, and hilarity ensues.
Discussion: Instapundit, americanthinker.com and ABC News
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit: JAMES TARANTO: 'Evidence Exists': A reporter jumps to conclusions, and hilarity ensues.
Rick Moran / americanthinker.com: Gov Christie will survive because his enemies are just plain 'loco'
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News: Christie Administration Out With New Memo Attempting To Move Past Bridge Scandal
Alicia Dennis / People.com:
Dylan Farrow's Brother Moses Defends Woody Allen — Dylan Farrow's Feb. 1 open letter to The New York Times detailing sexual molestation she says she suffered at the hands of her father Woody Allen reignited a controversy that has divided their family bitterly for more than 20 years.
Andrew Pulver / Guardian: Moses Farrow defends Woody Allen over child abuse accusations
Chez Pazienza / The Daily Banter: Quote of the Day: Moses Farrow Breaks His Silence, Defends Woody Allen and Slams Mia Farrow
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite: Moses Farrow: 'Woody Allen Did Not Molest My Sister'
Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post: Woody Allen May Respond To Dylan Farrow In New York Times Op-Ed
Ann Althouse / Althouse: "I think my sister is missing a great deal in life in not reconnecting with her father, who had always adored her."
Jana Banin / Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Woody Allen's son refutes Dylan Farrow's claims of molestation
Bostonboomer / Sky Dancing: Tuesday Reads: Military Scandals, Hollywood Problems and Perversions, and Other News
House GOP could tie doc fix to debt bill — House Republicans, having trouble finding votes for a debt ceiling hike, are considering attaching a nine-month patch of the reimbursement formula for doctors who treat Medicare patients. — That the so-called "doc fix" — known more formally …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Don't Go It Alone, Obama — The president's new unilateral approach is bad politics
Don't Go It Alone, Obama — The president's new unilateral approach is bad politics
Discussion: The Dish
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish: Executive Power Politics
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Hoyer backs CBC on judicial nominees
Hoyer backs CBC on judicial nominees
Discussion: CNN and ThinkProgress
Chad Terhune / Los Angeles Times:
Obamacare enrollees hit snags at doctor's offices — Many consumers faced hurdles signing up for Covered California health plans. Now they're having trouble finding in-network doctors. — Maria Berumen uses a device to manage the pain from bone spurs on her spine.
Discussion: Right Turn, Hot Air, americanthinker.com, National Republican …, National Review and Shakesville
Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn: Questions no red state Democrat wants to answer
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Video: ObamaCare disincentivizes work ... by doctors
Rick Moran / americanthinker.com: Can't keep you doctor under Obamacare? Try simply finding a doctor in CA
Andrew Clark / National Republican Congressional …: ObamaCare Fan Admits Now She "Can't Sleep At Night" Because Of The Law
Katherine Connell / National Review: Obamacare Fan: 'Now I Can't Sleep at Night. I Can't Imagine This Is How President Obama Wanted It to Happen'
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Single-Payer Healthcare Now
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Sandra Fluke forgoes congressional bid to run for state Senate — President Obama and Sandra Fluke wave at a campaign event at the University of Colorado in Aurora. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press / August 8, 2012) — Democratic attorney and activist Sandra Fluke has decided …
Meteor Blades / Daily Kos: Midday open thread: No more cigs at CVS, Fluke won't run for Congress, Warner not a '#Belieber'
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Sandra Fluke Changes Mind On Congressional Bid, Will Run For California State Senate Instead...
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: SANDRA FLUKE Foregoes Congressional Bid - Will Run for State Senate Seat Instead
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Sandra Fluke Won't Run For Congress After All
Rebecca Ballhaus / Washington Wire: Sandra Fluke Won't Seek Waxman's Seat in Congress
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Woman Who Can't Afford Her Own Birth Control Switches to Run for California State Senate
Andrew Johnson / National Review: Fluke Not Running for Congress
Emily Cahn / Roll Call: Sandra Fluke Decides Against Congressional Bid
Democrat And Chronicle:
Russia won't let Chobani yogurt in Sochi for Olympics — A shipment of New York-made Greek yogurt waiting in a New Jersey airport might just go to waste. — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has sent a letter to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and International Olympic Committee head Thomas Bach urging …
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Talking Points Memo, CBS New York and The World's Greatest …
Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed: Russia Won't Let Team USA Receive Its Shipment Of Chobani Yogurt
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Schumer Wants Russia To Let U.S. Olympians Have Their Chobani Yogurt
Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
CVS to stop selling cigarettes by Oct. 1 — Pharmacy chain CVS said Wednesday it will stop selling tobacco products at its 7,600 locations across the United States, a move that public-health advocates hope will become a watershed and pressure other large drug store franchises to follow suit.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: CVS Caremark will halt selling cigarettes by Oct. 1
Hayley Peterson / Business Insider: 6 Reasons Why CVS's Tobacco Ban Won't Put A Dent In The Cigarette Business
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: CVS to stop selling tobacco products
Stephanie Strom / New York Times: CVS Plans to End Sales of Tobacco Products by Oct. 1
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online: Why CVS Isn't Selling Cigarettes Anymore
Taylor Berman / Gawker: CVS Will Stop Selling Tobacco Products by October
Matthew Yglesias / Slate: CVS Won't Sell Cigarettes Anymore
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Smoker's Ghetto Gets a Little Smaller
Seth Fiegerman / Mashable: CVS to Stop Selling Cigarettes, Other Pharmacies Not So Much
CVS Caremark to Stop Selling Tobacco at all CVS/pharmacy Locations
CVS Caremark to Stop Selling Tobacco at all CVS/pharmacy Locations
Rebecca Catalanello / New Orleans Times-Picayune: CVS' plan to end tobacco sales cheered by local and national health leaders
ThinkProgress: Why You Should Care That CVS Will Stop Selling Cigarettes, Even If You're Not A Smoker
American Pharmacists Association: CVS announces move to discontinue cigarette sales in its pharmacies
Jon Walker / Firedoglake: CVS to Stop Selling Tobacco Products
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Email: IRS's Lerner, Treasury Department secretly drafted new rules to restrict nonprofits — The Obama administration's Treasury Department and former IRS official Lois Lerner conspired to draft new 501(c)(4) regulations to restrict the activity of conservative groups in a way that would …
Discussion: American Spectator, FreedomWorks blogs and The PJ Tatler
Mark Meckler / American Spectator: Maybe Just a "Smidgen of Corruption" at the IRS?
Lheal / FreedomWorks blogs: Why I Submitted a Comment Objecting to the IRS Proposed Rule Targeting 501(c)(4) Groups
Jonathan Strong / BREITBART.COM:
BOEHNER, UNDETERRED, MOVES FORWARD ON IMMIGRATION — Speaker John Boehner isn't ready to let the dream die. — On Tuesday, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell told reporters immigration is just not in the cards in 2014. Last Thursday, rank-and-file House members sent a loud message …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Gateway Pundit, Speaker.gov and The Daily Caller
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo: Boehner: We Already Have 'Amnesty' And Our Immigration Plan Fixes That
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller: Boehner pushes for more foreign workers
Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
Is Boehner's Gavel on the Line?
Is Boehner's Gavel on the Line?
Discussion: ThinkProgress, TPNN, Daily Kos, Poynter and Post Politics
ThinkProgress: Rep. Labrador: President Wants Immigrants To 'Suffer' Because He Will Only Accept Comprehensive Fix
Matthew Burke / TPNN: Speaker of the House Raul Labrador?
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Roll Call explains why it corrected Raúl Labrador story
Raf Sanchez / Telegraph:
Barack Obama's 'hard-working American' is actually a London Overground commuter — New advert by Organising for Action, an Obama campaign group, accidentally features footage from a British train — President Barack Obama's political action group, Organizing for Action …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Oopsie: "Hard-Working American" In New OFA Ad Is Actually a British Commuter...
Caroline May / The Daily Caller: OFA minimum wage ad features British commuter as hard working American
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Jesse Ventura hiding from drones — Former wrestler and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura says he has gone "off the grid" in Mexico to avoid drones knowing where he is. — Ventura spoke with CNBC's "Closing Bell" from an "undisclosed location in Mexico" on Tuesday, prompting the hosts to ask him where he was and why he was there.
Discussion: The Verge, Talking Points Memo and The Huffington Post
Adi Robertson / The Verge: Jesse Ventura: I move around in Mexico so drones can't find me
Matthew O'Brien / The Atlantic Online:
Everything You Need to Know About the Emerging-Market Currency Collapse — Money poured into developing economies after the financial crisis, and now it's starting to pour out. How much should we worry? — Here we go again. — First, money poured into emerging markets when it looked like they offered juicy returns.


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BANGKOK - Thailand's film censors have banned a documentary about the country's long-running border dispute with neighboring Cambodia as a threat to national security, the filmmaker said Wednesday.
"Boundary" tells the story of the Thai-Cambodian conflict through accounts of an ex-soldier who lives near the border, as well as villagers from the two countries. It also touches on other conflicts in Thailand, including the 9-year-old insurgency in the south and the political divisiveness that led to a deadly military crackdown on protesters in 2010.
Director Nontawat Numbenchapol said the Culture Ministry's film screening office informed him that the movie's content "is a threat to national security and international relations." He said he will appeal the ban.
The border dispute has its roots in a 1962 International Court of Justice ruling that the 1,000-year-old Preah Vihear temple stands in Cambodia. Thailand's government argues that definitive boundaries have never been drawn in the area around the World Heritage-listed site.
The dispute has become a rallying point for many Thai nationalists, who don't recognize the court's ruling and say the area, including the temple, belongs to Thailand and they have pressured politicians to keep pressing the issue.
The Thai and Cambodian armies have repeatedly clashed in the disputed area in recent years, including in April 2011, when 17 soldiers and a civilian were killed and thousands near the temple were displaced.
In 2011, the court in The Hague created a demilitarized zone around the temple but troops were not withdrawn until a year later.
The court is currently hearing testimony from both sides after they asked it to clarify its original ruling.
According to Nontawat, the film and video screening subcommittee said some of the claims in the documentary, including accounts from the Cambodian side, were "groundless."
The censors also said some information presented in the film was still being deliberated by the court and had yet to be formally resolved.
Nontawat said he was stunned by the decision.
"I made this movie to create the space for people living near the border to speak their mind," he said. "Now I have to work harder not only to let people know about the border issue, but also about freedom of expression."
Thailand's censors target a wide range of political and social issues. They blur out cigarettes and alcohol on television and crack down on any perceived criticism of the monarchy.
Last year, the film board banned a Thai adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," saying it has content that causes divisiveness among the people. In 2011, the board also banned a movie called "Insects in the Backyard" about a transgender father struggling to raise two children, citing scenes it deemed immoral and pornographic.
"In the U.S., a movie like `Bowling for Columbine,' which boldly criticized the president, can still be shown. It sparked constructive arguments and made the country more developed," Nontawat said. "In Thailand, the more you censor things, the more you make the country more outdated."
"Boundary" premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February and received financial support from international movie funds.


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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne received a special Tony Award for distinguished achievement in the theater for her one-woman Broadway hit Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music which opened to rave reviews in 1981 and played to capacity audiences there for 14 months before going on tour. She reached that pinnacle of her 50-year-career via a road that started in the Harlem of the 1930s and was bombarded with stormy weather.
In the early days, she was referred to as a "cafe au lait Hedy Lamarr" and a "chocolate chanteuse." Even after she achieved stardom as a singer, she was refused a room at the hotels where she was performing--even in New York City as late as 1942--because she was black. In the Hollywood of the 1940s, she says she was invited to parties only with the unwritten understanding that she provide the entertainment.
But Lena Horne fought back--and she fought her way to the top of her profession. When Horne was a child, her parents were divorced, and her mother, an aspiring actress, took her south and boarded her with various families while she attempted to find work. By the early 1930s, she returned to New York with her re-married mother and briefly entertained the idea of becoming a teacher, a dream the depression helped to shoot down. She quit Girls High School in Brooklyn and took her first steps into show business as a dancer in the chorus at Harlem's famous Cotton Club, where blacks entertained a strictly white clientele. If the performers' relatives or friends tried to gain admittance, they were bounced. Although she was not allowed to sing, she did get to meet and observe such renowned artists as Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Ethel Waters, and Billie Holiday.
When her stepfather was physically abused by the club owners for pushing the idea of her singing there, she decided that she "had to get out."
After a brief marriage at the age of 19 to Louis Jones, the college-educated son of a minister, during which she lived in Pittsburgh and had two children, Gail and Teddy (Teddy died in 1970 from a kidney ailment), Horne returned to New York and jazz and the Big Band sounds. She began singing with Noble Sissle's Society Orchestra, honing her distinctive vocalizing style and elegant manner as she toured amidst applause and racism, having to sleep in tenement boarding houses, the bus, and once in circus grounds in Indianapolis.
In 1940, she became the first African American to tour with an all white band, Charlie Barnet's outfit, a move she considers to be the real beginning of her success as a singer. She was the featured singer.
It was while she was singing at a New York nightspot that an MGM talent scout caught her act and arranged a screen test for her which landed her a contract to the studio, where she faced more hurdles.
She recalls serving, however, as "window dressing" in such films as Panama Hattie, Thousands Cheer, Two Girls and a Sailor, and Duchess of Idaho, after having refused to try to "pass as a Latin" because of her light coloring.
She starred in two memorable black musicals : Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. The studio sent her on a tour of its theaters to promote the films in song. As a result she became one of the top nightclub and theater box office attractions in the country.
While entertaining the troops during World War II, Horne got into another battle of her own. She refused to sing for segregated audiences or to groups in which German POWs were seated in front of African American servicemen. She also became the pin-up girl for thousands of African American G.I.s. She was later to take her fight for integrated audiences out of the war zone and onto the nightclub and theater stages.
Her second marriage, to musical arranger Lennie Hayton, took place in 1947 but was not announced for three years because he was white, which offended both blacks and whites to the extent that the couple received hate mail and threats of violence.
Horne admitted that she married Hayton not because she loved him, but because "he had more entree than a black man." But as their married years went by--and there were 24 of them before his death in 1971--she "learned to love him because of how good he was to me and patient."
She had become a ranking international star playing to SRO audiences throughout the world, sharing the stage with the likes of Count Basie, Tony Bennett, Billy Eckstein, Vic Damone, and Harry Belafonte.
She also starred in musical and television specials with such giants as Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra.
Long before her triumph in Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, for which she also won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award, the distinctive star tested her soon-to-become formidable talent on the Broadway musical stage in Blackbirds of 1939. She later scored a major triumph in Harold Arlen's Jamaica.
Horne has also always found time to devote to the causes in which she truly believes, and starting with the civil rights movement in the 1960s, she had company in her battles for equality.
Her paternal grandmother, a suffragette and activist, enrolled her in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People when she was two, and she has worked with it and with such organizations as the National Council of Negro Women, the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and the Urban League, speaking at rallies and singing at demonstrations.
In 1978, Horne returned to films as Glinda the Good Witch, in The Wiz.
One of the achievements about which she is proudest is an honorary doctorate she received from Howard University in 1980. "I had been offered doctorates earlier," she said, "and had turned them down because I hadn't been to college. But by the time Howard presented the doctorate to me, I knew I had graduated from the school of life, and I was ready to accept it."


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|By John Ryan
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|July 5, 2009 08:30 AM EDT
Having used both sites for about two weeks, there is still a great deal I am learning to do with both Ulitzer and Ning, but a reader asked if I would do a quick comparison, so I will.
The obvious point for me is that the sites have two different objectives for the writers. For Ning, the writer is trying to be involved in a niche social network from scratch. For example, I have built my own social network for marketers and salespeople called BuyerSteps. I created BuyerSteps as a way for other professionals to join in a conversation around the 21st century buyer. So, Ning represents a way to build a community.
In the case of Ulitzer, as a writer I am focused on getting readers from within an existing audience. There are already thousands of readers coming to the Ulitzer site, so if they are interested in my topics such as marketing, they will find my articles as well as others. Ulitzer allows the writer the ability to set up a feed coming from another site, so it can be a write once, publish twice strategy. You just have to give Ulitzer a couple of hours to upload a new article you wrote on a different site.
Ning allows you to very easily construct the framework for a community for free with Lego-like ease of use. You can easily blog, post presentations, videos, photos, invite friends, contribute to forums and manage your experience. As the website's administrator, you can restrict certain people who don't fit your profile and set it up so that you must approve all blog posts. What amazes me the most is how easy it is to add videos and additional boxes for almost any kind of content. The site is very web-smart from an application standpoint.
What I have also done is added a widget from Twitter and LinkedIn's Question and Answer section. In a very short period of time, you can have a robust set of capabilities up and running for all of your members.
Using premium services that are offered, Ning allows you to turn off Adwords for $24.95 a month as well as rename the site to whatever URL you want for $4.95 a month which I do. The website administrator can also remove the Ning promotion link for $24.95 a month. Until you have thousands of users, there is little financial reason to spend another $50 a month to turn off Adwords and the Ning promotion link.
Ning also makes it easy for you to have Google Analytics track your website. Ning has over 150 applications that the user can add to their experience with the largest group being games.
You can also define your user profile questions and modify the site's appearance. As a community tool, there's not much to complain about on Ning except that the administrator needs to work at building their own audience. Just like Twitter, unless the community builder already has a large following and presence from an outside source, it will take patience and discipline to get your thoughts in front of a lot of people.
According to Quantcast, 7.5 million users a month go to Ning which certainly speaks to the needs of the long tail of community. Any small business or affinity group that wants to build a community site without spending a large amount of time or money can be using the Ning platform for free in less than an hour.
This is a terrific site for tapping into existing readers. Ulitzer doesn't force me to drive users to the site since the core value of the site is that many authors are contributing. The core value of the site is not to build a social network, but to provide pithy content to an information-hungry audience which at this point seems pretty technology-based. In just over ten days, I had thousands of readers of my articles mainly on marketing and sales. It would be nearly impossible to get that at Ning in ten days for a new community site.
The site's functionality is solid for a writer in regard to posting an article and then choosing which topics it should go under. It seems the biggest challenge for Ulitzer will be how they handle editorial control. If I am the editor of a topic, it's not clear to me that I control the editorial content. When I go to some of the topics, I know there are stories that fit under the topic better than what I am seeing, but I'm not sure what to do about that.
In the management panel of the experience for the writer, I can edit my story and view my story prior to it being posted. From a pure housekeeping standpoint, I hope they add the ability to delete my story from the management console at some point. Ulitzer doesn't publish the story unless I submit it, but I would still like to take it off of the console. Facts change and it would be great to kill a story if the writer could. For instance, I started one story and decided not to publish it because I changed my mind. That story is still sitting in the management console because I can't delete it.
What I really like about Ulitzer are the internal analytics. I can see which of my articles is getting the most views. Not only does it make me feel good when I see the number, it allows me to do research my own articles in regard to what the readers like. This helps guide the writer for future articles which is good insight.
I think the author description area is feature-rich. It makes it easy for the author to describe themselves, add a bio and choose tags for their stories. You can also pick your favorite topics and submit your stories to those topics to help readers find them. Finally, you can add your Google Adsense number if you want to make Adsense revenue, but I find this business proposition less than compelling.
If one of your goals is to get found through the search engines, it appears Ulitzer has a better case than Ning based on my limited analysis. When I searched for a few of my articles using a few words out of the title, it was Ulitzer and its group of publications that presented the same articles I had placed on Ning. So if exposure and the ability to be found is important to you, Ulitzer seems to be the superior site.
Ulitzer is early in its growing usage and doesn't see anywhere near the overall traffic that Ning does. However, if you have just decided to start writing and are looking to grow as a writer while Ulitzer's audience does, this looks to be a good place to post your articles. It should be pointed out that writing on Ulitzer is free once you are approved. I think Ulitzer is on to something and as a contributing writer, I hope it can continue to grow.
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LOCATION!!! This Meadow Cove 1 bedroom 1 bathroom condo is striking distance to EVERYTHING! Steps from the free county bus & across the street from a coffee shop, bar/restaurant, liquor store, and pizza parlor! Keystone is a few miles away, it's right off the paved bike path, after a 90 second walk, you can cast a fly line into the river and it's only little bit farther to kayaking or standup paddle boarding in Lake Dillon! This condo would be perfect for a weekend warrior, investor or local!
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Come experience the magic of the Colorado high country and fall in love with the town of Dillon. Perfectly situated on the scenic shores of the Lake Dillon Reservoir with recreation, entertainment, relaxation, and pure fun all at your doorstep. Dillon is a great getaway close to Breckenridge, Keystone, Arapahoe Basin, Copper Mountain, Vail, Beaver Creek and Denver. Aside from being an excellent, central location for embracing Summit County's winter activities, Dillon bustles with summer events for all ages, from the Thursday Nature Nights series and Friday morning Farmers Markets to the popular weekend concerts at Lake Dillon Amphitheatre. Spend an afternoon at the Dillon Marina where rental boats, guided sailing tours or sailing lessons are available, or visit the School House Museum and historical park where relics from the mining days come to life. World-class lodging, dining and shopping are within minutes.
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The Department of Interior's Business Center (IBC), which manages financial systems for 17 separate federal agencies, maintains an exhaustive set of tests to ensure those systems meet performance standards related to quality, accuracy and timeliness. A scorecard helps evaluate how each line of business is progressing.
A primary lesson for IBC and similar organizations that manage large shared services operations is that not every application is a good candidate for a sharing, according to IT services experts. For a shared service to work, they say, it should be something that most agencies need yet isn't a core competency of any of them – functions like human resources, payroll, financial management and procurement.
Although there may be slight differences in the way agencies run these services, there are enough similarities that it makes sense to standardize on one process throughout one or more agencies and to supply a common instance of an application to them. These utility-type services are also good candidates because it can be difficult to find enough skilled workers for service continuity on an agency-by-agency basis.
While these services are the most popular shared services offerings in the federal government, there are others that may also make sense, said Carlos Otal, managing partner for the global public sector at Grant Thornton, an independent advisory firm. Otal has spent much of the past 25 years implementing and advising agencies on shared services.
"Take grants management,' he said. "Not every agency does grants, but enough do that there is no reason for them not to be looking at how they can share in solutions and reduce the overall cost to the government and to themselves."
Otal also sees departmental management and data analytics as ripe candidates for shared services. "When you look at the big picture of shared services beyond financial management, you can have an agency that has USDA's National Finance Center as the payroll provider, Treasury HRConnect as the HR provider and DOI as the financial systems provider," Otal said.
In fact, the scenario may set up a new role for shared services altogether, he suggested. With their data in different places, agencies may require new services to perform the management analytics to understand their costs and their spend across multiple departments. "There is a real opportunity in the enterprise data warehousing management area for more common solution," Otal said.
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A&E has given the go-ahead to "Those Who Kill," a scripted drama that will star "Big Love" alum Chloe Sevigny and "Hitchcock" star James D'Arcy, the network said Tuesday.
"Those Who Kill," which has been given a 10-episode order, will star Sevigny as Catherine Jensen, a freshly minted and incredibly smart police detective who tracks down serial killers. Struggling with the suspicion that her stepfather may be a serial killer and the disappearance of her brother when he was a teen, Jensen enlists forensic psychiatrist Thomas Schaffer (D'Arcy) to help provide insight into the minds of serial killers, Jensen also attempts to draw Schaffer into her personal investigation involving her family.
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The drama, which is based on a Danish series and comes from Imagine Television and Fox21 and will premiere in 2014. Brian Grazer and Francie Calfo are executive producing for Imagine. Glen Morgan of "The X Files" and "Millennium" renown wrote the pilot and will serve as executive producer/showrunner. Joe Carnahan ("The Grey") directed the pilot. Miso Films' Peter Bose and Jonas Allen are also executive producing.
While serial killers seem to be the thing these days on television (see: "The Following," "Hannibal"), A&E Network and BIO Channel president and general manager Bob DeBitetto said that "Those Who Kill" will offer a different take on the budding mini-genre.
"'Those Who Kill' is not a crime procedural about serial killers – it's a deep serialized character portrait of two compelling yet damaged individuals coming together through the revelation of their dark past," said DeBitetto. "We are thrilled to have such an incredible cast and crew signed on to this project and the result should be an absolutely riveting series."
The series is the latest in A&E's effort to build its scripted roster, following such projects as "Longmire" and "Bates Motel."


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Liberty News
Gift will help LU students attend medical school
An $800,000 bequest to Liberty University will make it possible for more LU students to afford to attend Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM), a medical school in Blacksburg that specializes in medical missions.
The announcement was made by LU chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. at Wednesday's convocation. The money comes from the estate of Pauline T. Harbaugh.
According to a letter from a Mesa, Ariz., attorney, Harbaugh's husband, Duward, "was unable to attend medical school due to financial reasons and had always hoped that this gift to Liberty University could be used, at least in part, to assist needy students with their dreams of becoming physicians."
Early last week, Falwell had scheduled for John Rocovich, an attorney in Roanoke who is also the founder and chairman of VCOM, to speak at this Wednesday's convocation. On Friday of last week, he received the letter.
"The timing was nothing short of miraculous," he said.
Rocovich was joined by the VCOM's president, James Wolfe, and Dean Dixie Rawlins at Wednesday's convocation.
Rocovich said the announcement caught him by surprise but will be put to good use.
"So many of the students will say to me, if I could get my loans paid off I could go [to medical school] and go to the mission field," he said. "We have students who come there with a heart for missions. … I'm telling you, after you go hug a few of those AIDS children in those orphanages or see those little malnourished children … you want to do it if you can do it. You cannot come back without being a different person."
VCOM, which began in fall 2003, graduated its first class in June.
Falwell said Liberty made an agreement with the school four years ago, to help LU graduates transition to the medical school. He said interest earned from the endowment each year will be distributed amongst the LU students who decide to attend VCOM. Currently there are about 16 students there who are Liberty graduates.
Rocovich said the school is the only medical college in the United States to offer residency training in missionary medicine. Its focus is on the rural and medically underserved areas of Virginia, North Carolina and the Appalachian region and on providing scientific research to improve the health of all humans.
To learn more about the scholarship, e-mail email@example.com. For more information about the medical school, go to www.vcom.vt.edu.


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The Veterans Oasis Center
The center is a place solely for veteran students to study, relax, and meet other veteran students. You can use the computers to prepare for classes, watch a movie on the large screen TV or enjoy a cup of coffee before class. You can participate in programs and services that will help you access supportive veterans' programs through State and Federal agencies to encourage success in the academic setting.
Veterans Task Force
Asnuntuck cares about its veterans. The Task Force is comprised of faculty, staff, and student veterans who want to ensure the needs of our students are being met.
Student Veterans Society
Get involved! Meet and work with other veterans to create programming and events geared toward veteran students. Advocate on the behalf of student veterans at the institutional, local, state, and national level.
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Asnuntuck New Veterans' Checklist
Please use the above link for step-by-step directions to become a veteran student at ACC.
Please complete and submit this form each semester and return to Beth Egan to be certified.
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Asnuntuck Veterans Coordinator/Certifying Officer
Beth Egan, Financial Aid Office 860.253.3030
Student Veterans Society
Jim Wilkinson, Faculty Area A 860.253.3181
Department of Veterans Affairs
888.442.4551 www.gibill.va.gov
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Veterans' Info Line 866.9CT.VETS (866.928.8387) www.ct.gov/ctva
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The payment of 100% of tuition (General Fund courses) shall be waived for any veteran having served on active duty in time of war as defined in section 27-103(a) of the General Statutes, provided that the veteran was honorably discharged or released under honorable conditions from active service in the armed forces; and, is a resident of Connecticut at the time of registration. A (DD 214, Separation from active duty), or
(DD 215, Separation from active duty amended) is sufficient proof of separation status. Documentation must be presented to Beth Egan in the Financial Aid Office.
Connecticut National Guard Tuition Assistance – CT National Guard members will need to file an application with their unit before the beginning of each semester. The Certificate of Eligibility that is issued from the CT National Guard must be on file in the Financial Aid Office before the registration process can be completed.
Note: Tuition waivers are not provided for Summer Session, Winter Intersession, or Credit-Free Courses.
Veterans' Educational Programs/Benefits
For returning active duty, National Guard and Reserve Service members, visit the Department of Veterans Affairs website at www.gibill.va.gov for specific information regarding VA Education Programs, Chapters 30, 31, 32, 33 Post 9/11, 34, 35, 1606, and 1607. Register to "Ask a Question" on Right-Now-Web if you are unable to find your answer in the general information section. Most VA Forms for students concerning educational assistance, including the initial Application for Benefits, can be downloaded from the education form section of this website. Or, call the toll-free telephone number 888.442.4551 (at prompt hit 1 to indicate touch-tone and then hit 0) to reach an Educational Case Manager.
A search engine for approved, in-state, residential training programs is at www.ctdhe.org and a search engine to find all training facilities which have approved programs can be found at www.gibill.va.gov.
General inquiries about VA Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment services should be addressed to 800.827.1000. Information and the application can be obtained from the VA website at www.gibill.va.gov. Applications should be sent to the local office at VA Hartford Office, P.O. Box 310909, Newington, CT 06131-0909.
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Statement to the World Trade Organization General Council by Deputy U.S. Trade Representative and U.S. Ambassador to the WTO Michael Punke
World Trade Organization
November 26, 2013
*As Delivered*
"Thank you, Director General, for your report today – as sobering as it is – on where we stand. We join others in appreciating your efforts in attempting to facilitate a deal for the upcoming 9thMinisterial Conference in Bali.
"I must say it is with a great deal of sadness that I deliver this statement today. Like others, at 10 p.m. Sunday night we were hopeful that eight-weeks of round-the-clock toil by Members could lead to the first multilateral trade deal in two decades – the first multilateral trade deal in the history of the World Trade Organization. But by 7 a.m. Monday morning, it appeared that the deal was no more. Today, we're worried – alongside so many in this room – that a once-in-a-generation opportunity may have slipped our grasp.
"A local friend of mine who lives nearby but doesn't know anything about international trade told me last week that he had 'noticed lately that it seemed like the lights were on a lot more at the WTO.' I thought it was a great metaphor.
"I've been in Geneva for three and a half years, and many times last week it was striking to me how alive this institution felt: bustling hallways; excited clusters of conversations swapping rumors between meetings; empty vending machines – even the ones that sell really bad coffee; Room W with text up on the big screen and negotiators filling every seat. It felt like a place where things happen. It's the first time I've felt that way during my tenure in this town.
"Equally striking is the interest of global stakeholders in what we're doing. They are calling and emailing, skeptically at first to say, 'Is a deal really possible?' Later with cautious hope, often after learning about particulars of the deal, to say, 'Good luck – this would be good for the multilateral trading system.'
"The United States is among that vast majority of WTO Members who have worked hard to have a deal for Bali. We care about this institution. We seized this chance to keep the negotiating rooms busy; to earn the attention of stakeholders around the world. It has been, if not always a pleasure, a privilege to work shoulder-to-shoulder with distinguished colleagues over the last several weeks and months. By now, we know each other very well. We particularly appreciate the efforts of the many in the waning moments who worked together to bridge the gaps, to consider creative options for resolving issues, to bring us closer together rather than finding new ways to drive us apart. I appreciate the wise and generous remarks of the distinguished Chairman of the Africa Group. I send my thanks right back to Omar [Morocco], thanks Wayne [Jamaica], thanks Syafri [Indonesia], thanks Shanker [Nepal], and Wafaa (Egypt). And thanks to so many others.
"Despite all this effort and good faith, we're not there yet. In an organization that operates by consensus, a small handful of Members can keep the majority from achieving success. The least common denominator can become the de facto highest common denominator. Sadly, that's what appears to be happening.
"We're skeptical that those who appear to be refusing to reach agreement can now be convinced by another long night of negotiation. Indeed, we agree with the assessment of the Director General that the Geneva process has run its course. Further work here, even if there were time, would run the risk of yet more hostage-taking.
"Nor do we agree with those who expect magic solutions to emerge though negotiations by Ministers in Bali. How would that work? Are we really proposing to put texts up on the screen and ask a plenary session of our 159 Ministers to find words where we could not? Would the Membership accept a Green Room, where thirty Ministers cut a deal while 129 wait outside in the hallway?
"Having learned the hard way from previous ministerials, all of us have said for months that Bali cannot be a negotiating session. Nor should this body contemplate rewarding the intransigent few with new concessions. We took the Director General seriously when he said that we've been in the end game – and we left our best offer on the table. In pursuit of an agreement with our trading partners here, we demonstrated our flexibility on tough issues including Section 2, and in that case, with willing partners, we all found agreement together.
"People in this room know that the United States negotiated hard, but it did so in a spirit of problem solving, making principled compromises when necessary to help solve a puzzle that has blocked negotiating progress for a decade. And having made those tough compromises, the United States stands by the deals we reached together.
"I have heard some suggestions of taking a couple of weeks after Bali to tie up negotiations. But I think we all know that won't work. We have known for two years that Bali would be a moment of reckoning. What we cannot decide by then will not fall suddenly into place in the weeks thereafter.
"Like others in this room, we're not sure about the path forward. Like others, we will use the next few days to consider carefully the next steps.
"After having a taste of the potential of this institution when we work together, after holding actual texts in our hands – it seems hard to contemplate going back to the quiet, dark hallways of the old WTO. But that is a prospect that is present again and we know it all too well.
"The United States will look for answers with those who are working to keep the lights switched on."
DATE: November 24, 2013
This evening, chief negotiators for the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership countries have reported significant progress after six days of intensive meetings in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Working with key subject-matter experts, the lead TPP negotiators resolved a substantial number of outstanding issues across the talks, including with regard to intellectual property, cross-border trade in services, temporary entry, environment, market access, state-owned enterprises, investment, financial services, sanitary and phytosanitary issues, government procurement, labor, e-commerce, legal issues, technical barriers to trade and rules of origin.
The work of the chief negotiators this week has significantly narrowed the number of issues to be addressed directly by the TPP Ministers at their upcoming meeting in Singapore.
Discussions among TPP negotiators will continue in the coming days to further set the stage for a productive meeting among the TPP Ministers in early December.
Q: When was the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center (ITEC) established?
A: On February 28, 2012, the President signed Executive Order 13601 establishing ITEC to enhance enforcement of U.S. trade rights and domestic trade laws.
Q: What is ITEC's mission?
A: ITEC is charged with fighting for American workers, farmers, ranchers, and businesses by bringing a more aggressive "whole-of-government" approach to addressing unfair trade practices around the world. ITEC will be supported by the Departments of Agriculture, Homeland Security, Justice, State, and the Treasury, as well as the intelligence community. The personnel from these agencies will enhance U.S. trade enforcement capabilities and facilitate increased engagement with foreign trade partners at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and elsewhere through the creation of an expanded team of language-proficient researchers, subject matter experts, and economic analysts. ITEC is designed to help leverage and mobilize resources and expertise across the federal government to develop trade enforcement actions that will address unfair foreign trade practices and barriers that could otherwise imperil our nation's export promotion and job recovery efforts.
Q: How is ITEC different from existing trade enforcement programs?
A: ITEC is unique in that it constitutes a more dedicated "whole-of-government" approach to addressing unfair trade practices and trade barriers. This new approach will provide a primary forum within the federal government to bring together experts from executive departments and agencies to coordinate trade enforcement. ITEC will permit a sustained focus on particular issues not possible previously.
Q: Doesn't the U.S. government already have the capacity to address unfair trade practices and trade barriers?
A: A priority of the Administration is to better leverage the government's trade enforcement activities by focusing its existing resources to address unfair trade practices and foreign trade barriers more effectively. ITEC will link, leverage and align both existing and new resources more efficiently across the executive branch and with stakeholders. The key here is efficiency. ITEC's goal is to build upon existing capacity to give U.S. companies, workers and producers every chance to compete on a level playing field in today's global marketplace.
Q: How many people will be working at ITEC at any given time?
A: By October 2012, ITEC had more than a dozen full-time and part-time staff and that number should increase substantially by the end of FY13. These figures are subject to change as issues, priorities and available funding change.
Q: How do you determine the issues for priority attention and action?
A: The Director and Deputy Director, along with the various offices within USTR, and in cooperation with other agencies will examine various trade issues and will establish priority projects for investigation. As is currently the case, a variety of factors will be taken into account in setting those priorities, including economic impact of the issue, systemic impact of resolution on international trading practices, ability to document and demonstrate the problem, available resources, and broad trade goals.
Q: Is ITEC's purpose to bring more trade remedies and WTO cases against Chinese products?
A: ITEC's purpose is to help ensure that all of our trading partners play by WTO rules and abide by their obligations, including commitments to maintain open markets on a non-discriminatory basis, and to follow rules-based procedures in a transparent way.
Q: What countries will ITEC be working on?
A: ITEC will be addressing trade enforcement issues originating in a variety of regions across the globe. It is USTR policy not to discuss publicly cases that it is developing to avoid giving advance notice to governments overseas.
Q: What will the role of ITEC be in administering domestic trade laws?
A: The Department of Commerce has statutory responsibility for administration of the antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) laws and will continue to administer them. The International Trade Commission (ITC) will continue to make injury determinations with regard to all AD/CVD investigations and sunset reviews. ITEC was not intended to duplicate the efforts that are assigned by statute to particular agencies. ITEC will be looking for areas where it can add value to the work already being done.
Q: What will the role of ITEC be in dealing with circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duty orders?
A: Import Administration's Customs Unit and U.S. Customs and Border Protection will continue to take the lead on issues related to circumvention of antidumping and countervailing duty orders. Deliberate evasion of AD/CVD duties by providing false information in a customs declaration constitutes customs fraud, and is a breach of U.S. law, punishable by fine or imprisonment. In addition, the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (NIPRCC) plans to step up enforcement of commercial fraud laws related to evasion of antidumping and countervailing duties.
Q: Will ITEC be involved in "self-initiation" of antidumping or countervailing duty cases?
A: Antidumping and countervailing duty investigations may be initiated as the result of a petition filed by a domestic interested party or at the Secretary of Commerce's own initiative. Self-initiation of such investigations has been a very rare occurrence. However, should the Secretary of Commerce request ITEC assistance in such a self-initiation, ITEC will provide support as appropriate.
Q: How will ITEC engage with the NIPRCC and the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC)?
A: The NIPRCC's focus is on the law enforcement response to IPR theft, primarily coordinating investigation and prosecution of IPR infringers under the criminal laws of the United States. The NIPRCC also is a key participant in international cooperation on criminal enforcement activities involving various other partner governments and international police organizations such as Interpol and Europol. ITEC's focus is enforcement of U.S. rights under trade agreements across a wide set of issues – including intellectual property. ITEC has and will continue to coordinate with the NIPRCC and the IPEC.
Q: Will ITEC serve a rapid response function, including with respect to identifying subsidies in overseas markets?
A: ITEC will be focusing on enforcement of U.S. rights under trade agreements which require some time to investigate, develop, and coordinate. However, to the extent ITEC becomes aware of issues requiring a rapid response through its monitoring or outreach functions, it will bring such issues to the attention of that part of USTR or another agency best positioned to take more immediate action.
Q: How will ITEC help small and medium-sized enterprises? What is the difference between what ITEC does and what the Trade Compliance Center at the Department of Commerce does?
A: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are encouraged to continue to report their specific market access problems to the Trade Compliance Center (TCC) at the Department of Commerce. If the TCC is unable to resolve an issue, especially when it has noted a trend, the TCC will report the problem to ITEC. By leveraging the expertise of the TCC, ITEC will have a head start on dealing with trade issues that are affecting SMEs. Small and medium-sized enterprises may also work through their associations to bring industry-wide problems to the attention of ITEC.
Q: How will ITEC interact with other parts of USTR that may already be engaged in working on an issue of concern to certain companies or industries?
A: ITEC is in close contact with the various offices within USTR. USTR sector experts and negotiators are aware of ITEC activities and vice versa to ensure full coordination. Parties which have been working closely with USTR offices on issues of concern should continue to do so.
Q: What role will ITEC play in section 301 cases?
A: Interested persons may file petitions with USTR under section 301 of the Trade Act. Depending on the nature of the petition, ITEC may be involved in doing additional research during the 301 investigation phase. It is important to note that, although USTR can initiate a section 301 investigation itself, USTR does not need to do so in order to initiate WTO dispute settlement action. With regard to the majority of WTO dispute settlement actions, we anticipate that ITEC will be doing some of the same types of research that outside parties would typically do themselves in order to file a 301 petition.
Q: What role will ITEC play in section 201 cases?
A: Section 201 investigations will continue to be carried out by the International Trade Commission, which has statutory responsibility for implementing this section of U.S. trade law. Although it is a historically rare occurrence, the President or USTR can request the ITC to conduct a section 201 investigation. ITEC may have a role in providing information that can be used to inform the decision as to whether the President or USTR should make such a request.
Q: Will ITEC monitor the new free trade agreements to ensure that trading partners are not erecting new non-tariff barriers that would limit the benefits U.S. companies are supposed to gain from the agreements?
A: While ITEC will monitor certain issues, it does not have the staff to monitor every aspect of every FTA. ITEC continues to work with other offices within USTR to ensure compliance with FTAs and will continue to request that industry and companies bring problems to ITEC's attention.
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Colombia is an important market for U.S. textiles and apparel. The U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement opens new market access opportunities for U.S. textiles and apparel manufacturers and strengthens customs enforcement mechanisms to verify claims of origin and deny illegal customs circumvention. Qualifying U.S. textile and apparel exports to Colombia would receive duty-free treatment immediately upon implementation of the Agreement.
Tariffs: Colombian textile and apparel tariffs currently average 18.3 percent. Qualifying U.S. textile and apparel exports to Colombia would receive duty-free treatment immediately upon implementation of the Agreement.
Textile Specific Safeguard: A special textile safeguard mechanism will provide for a temporary return to MFN tariffs if a surge in imports under the Agreement is shown to be causing or threatening to cause serious damage to domestic industry.
Rules of Origin: The Agreement contains a "yarn-forward" rule of origin, meaning that qualifying textile and apparel products must be produced using U.S. or Colombian yarns and fabrics. This rule of origin ensures that the benefits of the Agreement accrue to U.S. and Colombian producers.
Elastomeric Yarn Requirement: Consistent with other free trade agreements, elastomeric yarns must be sourced from the region for textiles and apparel products to qualify for duty-free entry.
Streamlined Processes to Address Commercial Availability: A special commercial availability ("short supply") determination process will help yarns or fabrics that are deemed not commercially available in the region to be used in the production of apparel.
Customs Enforcement: Specific textile customs cooperation language will help prevent transshipment and circumvention of the rules of origin of the Agreement.


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IN 1998, John Shelby Spong, then the reliably controversial Episcopal bishop of Newark, published a book entitled "Why Christianity Must Change or Die." Spong was a uniquely radical figure — during his career, he dismissed almost every element of traditional Christian faith as so much superstition — but most recent leaders of the Episcopal Church have shared his premise. Thus their church has spent the last several decades changing and then changing some more, from a sedate pillar of the WASP establishment into one of the most self-consciously progressive Christian bodies in the
As a result, today the Episcopal Church looks roughly how Roman Catholicism would look if
Yet instead of attracting a younger, more open-minded demographic with these changes, the Episcopal Church's dying has proceeded apace. Last week, while the church's House of Bishops was approving a rite to bless same-sex unions, Episcopalian church attendance figures for 2000-10 circulated in the religion blogosphere. They showed something between a decline and a collapse: In the last decade, average Sunday attendance dropped 23 percent, and not a single Episcopal diocese in the country saw churchgoing increase.
This decline is the latest chapter in a story dating to the 1960s. The trends unleashed in that era — not only the sexual revolution, but also consumerism and materialism, multiculturalism and relativism — threw all of American Christianity into crisis, and ushered in decades of debate over how to keep the nation's churches relevant and vital.
Traditional believers, both Protestant and Catholic, have not necessarily thrived in this environment. The most successful Christian bodies have often been politically conservative but theologically shallow, preaching a gospel of health and wealth rather than the full New Testament message.
But if conservative Christianity has often been compromised, liberal Christianity has simply collapsed. Practically every denomination — Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian — that has tried to adapt itself to contemporary liberal values has seen an Episcopal-style plunge in church attendance. Within the Catholic Church, too, the most progressive-minded religious orders have often failed to generate the vocations necessary to sustain themselves.Continue reading the main story
Both religious and secular liberals have been loath to recognize this crisis. Leaders of liberal churches have alternated between a Monty Python-esque "it's just a flesh wound!" bravado and a weird self-righteousness about their looming extinction. (In a 2006 interview, the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop explained that her communion's members valued "the stewardship of the earth" too highly to reproduce themselves.)
Liberal commentators, meanwhile, consistently hail these forms of Christianity as a model for the future without reckoning with their decline. Few of the outraged critiques of the Vatican's investigation of progressive nuns mentioned the fact that
But if liberals need to come to terms with these failures, religious conservatives should not be smug about them. The defining idea of liberal Christianity — that faith should spur social reform as well as personal conversion — has been an immensely positive force in our national life. No one should wish for its extinction, or for a world where Christianity becomes the exclusive property of the political right.
What should be wished for, instead, is that liberal Christianity recovers a religious reason for its own existence. As the liberal Protestant scholar Gary Dorrien has pointed out, the Christianity that animated causes such as the Social Gospel and the civil rights movement was much more dogmatic than present-day liberal faith. Its leaders had a "deep grounding in Bible study, family devotions, personal prayer and worship." They argued for progressive reform in the context of "a personal transcendent God ... the divinity of Christ, the need of personal redemption and the importance of Christian missions."
Today, by contrast, the leaders of the Episcopal Church and similar bodies often don't seem to be offering anything you can't already get from a purely secular liberalism. Which suggests that per haps they should pause, amid their frantic renovations, and consider not just what they would change about historic Christianity, but what they would defend and offer uncompromisingly to the world.
Absent such a reconsideration, their fate is nearly certain: they will change, and change, and die.
An earlier version of this article misstated the date of an interview an Episcopal Church bishop did with The Times. It was in 2006, not 2005.


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ASOT 550 anthem: the 'Invasion' has started!
Last year, five A State of Trance characters landed from another dimension, to unite the world with music. This year, they are back for A State of Trance 550, and they brought an army... Their friendly invasion is all about spreading the love for music. Their mission: to make this global happening and milestone a grand success. Geared with passion and love for music, they travel to 6 different cities to celebrate 11 years of Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance show! Their fuel? W&W's 'Invasion', the official ASOT 550 anthem!
W&W's 'Invasion' was chosen by listeners of the A State of Trance radio show to be the official theme for this global happening. And for good reason! 'Invasion' is the energetic anthem, giving sound to no less than 6 events. With a strong hook, energetic drive and furious bassline, 'Invasion' will keep you going, celebrating a highlight in trance music and the career of the one and only Armin van Buuren.
You can now check out the official music video of the ASOT 550 anthem, and see how the ASOT friends get their master plan into work. Two of them accidentally bring the entire mission in jeopardy, when they loose some essential gear on their way to planet earth. Will our friends be in time to save the day and meet you on the dance floor?


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Portal 2's Wheatley did not win an award at the Spike VGAs. Mildly disappointing, but then, given the Spike's themselves are mildly disappointing, I'm not losing much sleep over it.
Eeexxcccceeepppptttt for this. Being a virtual character, Valve had to make his acceptance speech in advance. Just in case he actually won. He didn't, but the speech exists, and here it is.
If Wheatley Had Won [Rock, Paper, Shotgun]