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All military services, including their reserve components, met their recruiting goals for fiscal 2008, marking one of the strongest recruiting efforts in four years, senior Defense Department officials announced today.
This is the strongest recruiting year weve had overall since fiscal year 2004, said David S.C. Chu, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.
Notably, the Army and Marine Corps had raised their recruiting goals for fiscal 2008, as both services continue to grow their ranks to meet the demands of the wars on two fronts. In fact, the Army was the sole active-duty service to exceed its goal by a full 1 percent, recruiting 517 more soldiers than its 80,000 target.
And the service increased the overall quality of its recruits, its top recruiting officer said, and put more recruits into the pool waiting to join in fiscal 2009.
Ive never seen a better Army, Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, the commander of the services recruiting command.
Only 20 percent of recruits joining the Army in fiscal 2008 required a waiver for medical or conduct reasons, Bostick said. The Army granted only 372 waivers to allow recruits with felony convictions to enlist, down from 511 in fiscal 2007, he added.
Also, the Army increased its percentage of active-duty recruits who hold high school diplomas to 83 percent, up from 79 percent in fiscal 2007.
DoDs goal is that 90 percent of those enlisting have a high school diploma. All other active-duty and reserve services met or exceeded the 90 percent goal, except for the Army Reserve, which came in at 89 percent. All recruits must have a high school certification to join.
The other active-duty services weighed in at 100 percent of their fiscal year recruiting goals, and each exceeded its goal by at least a few dozen recruits.
The Navy came in at 38,485 accessions, 66 above its goal of 38,419. The Marine Corps came in at 37,991, 24 above its goal of 37,967 and the Air Force recruited 27,848 new airmen, 48 above its goal of 27,800.
Retention was strong for the active-duty Army and Navy, as each exceeded its fiscal 2008 target. The Marine Corps did not reach its goal for retaining first-time recruits, and its retention rate dropped to 95 percent.
Air Force retention suffered in a tumultuous year for the service, although officials did not release specific numbers. Part of the problem, Chu explained, was that the Air Force was drawing down its force at the start of the fiscal year, and therefore did not have strong retention incentives in place.
The Air Force stopped its reduction in strength about mid-year, but it was too late to stop the flow of airmen leaving the service, Chu said. He added that those retention rates are expected to rebound for fiscal 2009, which began Oct. 1.
The reserve forces had a strong recruiting year, as the Air National Guard came in at 126 percent of its recruiting goal, recruiting 2,200 airmen above its goal of 8,548.
The Army Reserve recruited 106 percent of its 37,500-soldier goal, bringing in 39,870 new recruits.
The Air Force Reserve finished the year at 105 percent, with 7,323 accessions, 360 above its goal of 6,983.
The Army National Guard closed out the year at 103 percent, with nearly 2,200 recruits over its 63,000 goal.
The Navy and Marine Corps reserves both came in at 100 percent of their recruiting goals, with 9,134 and 7,628 accessions, respectively.
Retention numbers were not released, but officials said losses were within acceptable limits.
Chu said that DoD begins this recruiting fiscal year in a stronger position than last year. Also, he said, the strength of the all-volunteer force is shown in the overall quality of the recruits.
We aim for the typical person to be above average, he said.
More than 92 percent of recruits hold a high school diploma, contrasted with 75 percent of the general U.S. population in the same age range.
Nearly 70 percent of new active-duty recruits came from the top half of those in the United States testing highest in math and verbal aptitude, and about three-quarters of new recruits come from neighborhoods that are at or above the U.S. median annual household income of about $50,000.
[It] is a great tribute to the qualities of Americas youth today, their willingness to step forward, and their willingness to serve, Chu said. The fact that we are getting some of the best and brightest in our society is a great tribute to the spirit that young people put into the notion of public service today.


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- Mrs. Martha A. Thompson and Mr. George Edmondson were quietly married last Sunday.
- Madames M.C. Wade, S.K. Ridley and George M. Jordan were in the city last week visiting relatives and friends.
- Miss Mary Cartwright has joined Miss E.M. Perry's class in instrumental music.
- Mrs. Ellen C. Elliott, surrounded by a host of friends left for Hot Springs Sunday night feeling much refreshed by her two months' vacation.
- Miss Ellen Baker has gone to the city to spend a few weeks.
- News of the death of Mrs. Mary Mason, of East Nashville, formerly of this place, has been sadly received.

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Biggest Employers Manage 1% Gain
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Orange County's biggest employers grew their collective work force by 1% in the last 12 months, falling just short of overall job gains locally.
The 60 biggest employers here added 1,477 jobs in 12 months through October, according to this week's Business Journal list. It was the second consecutive year of jobs growth after two years of declines.
Overall, OC added 20,500 jobs in the same span in a 1.5% increase from a year earlier, according to the state Employment Development Department.
The companies on this year's list have an estimated 228,545 employees, representing 16% of OC's total work force of about 1.4 million people.
Seventeen listed companies added employees, 16 shed jobs and six reported employee counts that were even with a year earlier. Twenty-one other companies on the list were ranked by Business Journal estimates.
Burbank-based Walt Disney Co. maintained its title as the county's largest employer, adding 3,000 jobs in a 14% increase from a year earlier.
"The growth is mainly attributed to positions supporting the new attractions, entertainment and offerings created with the expansion of Disney California Adventure," Disney spokesperson Suzi Brown said.
An increase in attendance and extended operating hours at California Adventure also contributed to the gains, she added.
The $1.1 billion Disney California Adventure expansion included a new 12-acre Cars Land area, opened in June. The project was part of a larger effort to attract visitors to the Disneyland Resort, which includes California Adventure, the Disneyland theme park, three hotels and the Downtown Disney dining and retail district.
No. 2 on the employers list is University of California, Irvine, which added 509 jobs for a total 21,800 positions in a more than 2% rise from a year earlier. The third-ranked employer, St. Joseph's Health, went in the opposite direction with a 3% downtick to 11,679 employees after a reorganization of some of its operations at four hospitals.
No. 4 Chicago-based Boeing Co. shed 863 jobs to 6,873 people, down 11%. The aerospace and defense giant has slashed more than 3,000 jobs here in the last four years amid a military shift away from big weapons and systems to stealth warfare and an ongoing consolidation in Southern California.
The Business Journal recently reported Boeing plans to slash $1.6 billion in expenses by 2015 through management cuts and property sales. The company plans to sell two buildings in Seal Beach that are part of its St. Louis-based Defense, Space & Security unit.
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Dubai mall developer Majid Al Futtaim Holding (MAF) is looking to raise at least $500 million from the issue of a hybrid debt sale to finance its buyout of French hypermarket chain Carrefour's stake in a regional venture.
MAF, sole franchisee of Carrefour hypermarkets in the Middle East, said last week it was buying out the company's 25 percent stake in the joint venture for $680 million.
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In an investor presentation seen by Reuters, MAF said it had enough liquidity at hand to finance the purchase.
"However, we are looking at a sub-ordinated security issuance as a pro-active and conservative measure to preserve debt capacity for organic growth, and to ensure no risk to credit rating," the presentation said.
The issue size is expected to be benchmark, typically at least $500 million for investment-grade borrowers.
The hybrid issue will contain both debt and equity characteristics, and as a result, investors would expect to be paid a higher interest rate for the additional risk, than for a secured, senior bond issue.
The security will be ranked as deeply subordinated and unsecured, and carry no fixed maturity date with an initial call date after five years, in 2018, the presentation said.
MAF is rated BBB by Standard and Poor's and Fitch Ratings, and is one of the only investment-grade privately held companies in the region to issue globally-marketed bonds.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc and HSBC Holdings are structuring advisers on the deal, and are joined by Bank of America Corp , JPMorgan Chase & Co and Standard Chartered as join lead managers.
Investor meetings kick off on May 26 and will cover Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
On Saturday, Chief Executive Officer Iyad Malas said the company foresaw capital investments of up to $1 billion this year, not including the Carrefour purchase.
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivers his concession speech during his election night rally in Boston. Those who have been through defeat advise getting rest and spending time with family.
By Vidya Rao, TODAY staff
After two years as a star on the world stage with dogged confidence that he would win, the curtain call on Gov. Mitt Romney's six-year quest for the presidency is a loss few of us can fathom. Defeat has a deeply personal impact on candidates, who, a scrutinizing public can often forget, are actual people with families and feelings.
Romney didn't lose by a landslide, but that can provide him little comfort.
"It's both easier and harder when it's close," said Stanley Renshon, a political psychology professor at CUNY. "There are lots of ways you can adjust the narrative — you can say a certain group turned on you, you can blame outside factors. On the other hand, you struggle with having come so close, and you replay what you could have done differently."
Story: The last days of Romneyland
The kind of people who choose to run for office are out-of-this-world driven, competitive and ambitious, Renshon explained, so losing hits them hard. A friend of Al Gore, who gained weight and grew a beard after losing to George W. Bush in 2000, told the New York Times recently that, "I doubt he'll ever be totally-every-day-at-peace with losing in 2000."
George McGovern, the Democratic candidate who lost to Richard Nixon in 1972, was asked in a 2005 interview how long it took him to recover from the disappointment. "You never fully get over it," he responded. "But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time." The exchange made its way into his obituary last month.
One consequence for candidates, particularly challengers, is the worry that they'll fade into obscurity. "It's a tough pill to swallow when the phone just doesn't ring anymore," said Renshon.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, a man whose name has become synonymous with loss (so much so that some Romney detractors labeled him the Dukakis of this election), after being defeated by a landslide for the presidency in 1988, says he's since made peace with it, but was long haunted by his campaign missteps. He still asserts that he could have won against George H.W. Bush if he had responded to the famous Willie Horton attack ads that painted him as soft on crime.
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1988 presidential candidate Michael Dukakis waves to a cheering audience. While he thinks about mistakes he made, he says he's made peace with being defeated.
"I made a big mistake," he told TODAY.com. "But ultimately, you can't dwell on that.
"I didn't have a lot of time to feel sorry for myself," Dukakis, now a professor at Northeastern University in Boston, said of having to finish out his term as governor during a tough recession. And he stressed the importance of his family's support.
"My wife was absolutely critical — I never could have done it without her," he said in reference to the campaign and the defeat.
Romney will turn to his family for solace as well.
"Romney's large, close family is clearly very involved," said Renshon. "You have a group of friends and family saying that it's not your fault. That's a saving grace."
Story: Whoops! Romney's 'transition' website spotted by blogger
When Bill Clinton lost the Arkansas gubernatorial election in 1980, he hit a "period of immense depression and he was disconsolate for months," said presidential historian William H. Chafe, who studied the couple's relationship for his book, "Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal."
No matter the issues in their marriage, much of his comeback was owed to his wife Hillary, who got him focused and reorganized to campaign and win the position back in 1982 and eventually head to the presidency in 1992.
"Hillary came to the rescue," said Chafe."It was the first instance of many that she saved his life. It made him aware of how much she strengthened him and compensated for his weakness."
In general, said Renshon, relationships can become stronger.
"What happens when people go through this high tension, they bond together — it almost reminds me of Stockholm syndrome," he explained.
Tipper Gore helped her husband through the tough times after defeat, and he went on to focus on environmental issues, winning a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in 2007. While the couple survived the storm, they divorced 10 years later.
Spouses can and do serve as a source of strength, but how does defeat affect them?
"I am hiding my head like an ostrich," wrote Barbara Bush in her 2003 memoir about the "painful" experience of campaigning and losing in 1992. "It hurts too much to see George and the children so lied about."
That sentiment is a common one, and, can lead family members to feel an odd sense of relief after election day.
"The run is very painful, watching your loved one being mocked, ridiculed and criticized," said Carl Mumpower, a psychologist and Republican who lost a 2008 bid for Congress. "They're disappointed for you, but happy for the family. I guarantee you Ann Romney is breathing a sigh of relief — she gets her husband back."
The daughter of George W. Bush and granddaughter of George H.W. Bush shares a few of her memories from her father and grandfather's presidential campaigns and White House terms, saying election night is "hard" on candidates and their families.
Then there are the 24 members of the 112th Congress who lost their seats Tuesday. With no time to lick their wounds, they must go back and finish their lame duck session — in a basement.
Because their offices need to be prepared for new members, they turn in their keys and are moved into a cubicle in a cafeteria, where they'll serve the remainder of their term.
"Those members leaving only have couple days to get packed up and moved out," explained Peter Weichlein, CEO of the non-profit U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress. "From a psychological perspective, it's really quite a process they're going through after the electorate has told them they're not coming back."
Weichlein's organization runs a "Life After Congress" program, connecting members with other former congressmen to help them get through the emotional and logistical transition — which, like any job loss, involves establishing healthcare, deciding whether to move their families and finding work.
These candidates now also feel responsible for the fate of their staff, which is often comprised of bright, idealistic young people who were hoping to jump-start their careers.
Marking her grandfather's 88th birthday, TODAY's Jenna Bush Hager interviews the nation's 41st president, who admits it was painful to lose his bid for a second term in the White House.
When Rep. Connie Morella, a Republican representing a suburban Maryland district, lost her run for her ninth term in Congress in 2004, staffers were at the front of her mind. Many of them, she told TODAY.com, were overwhelmed by the outcome. The following morning, the Washington Post featured a picture of Morella consoling a volunteer in tears. In her thank-you notes, she used a Winston Churchill quote: "Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."
Patrick Murray, a congressional candidate who ran in 2010 and again this year against Democrat Jim Moran in Northern Virginia, told TODAY.com that after his first loss, he entered a recovery stage. He had spent months on his feet for hours at a time, eating unhealthy food on the run, with little time to exercise. The week after his loss, he rested. "It was just trying to get some sleep really," he said. Murray lost this year's bid as well on Tuesday.
But it's hard to keep a good candidate down. Many dust themselves off and get back to running for office. "I recently talked with someone who lost the congressional primary in September," recalled Weichlein. "He's already very excited to come back; that's how much he loves public service."
Others feel a sense of relief that the ride is over, and, like Gore, use the time to explore other passions.
"Yes, it's disappointing, but it's like a bad tooth being pulled out. There's a hole there, but at least you don't feel the pain anymore," said Mumpower, who is now a conservative columnist in Asheville, N.C.
Dukakis found his passion in encouraging young people to get involved in public service, and lent his support to the successful campaigns of Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.
NBC's Peter Alexander reported Tuesday night that Romney told him he plans to "return to a very special life surrounded by loved ones," and that's exactly what Dukakis says he should do.
"Try to decompress, spend lots of time with family and think about what you're going to do with the rest of your life after taking a few months to figure it out," he said. "Romney is relatively young and bright; he should get involved in things he cares about.
"We all know it's very competitive," Dukakis said. "You know going into it that only one can win, and you hope you're not the one to lose. After all that, just being home with my family at night was pleasant. And now, I'm supremely happy with what I do."
Eun Kyung Kim contributed to this report.
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Valerie Mullin ("Deception used for single payer," Nov. 27) gives your readers a wedgie.
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Word is that our basketball-playing President Obama has fallen in love with golf.
He tries to get out on the golf course once a week. He says that playing golf makes him feel "almost normal; ... it's the only time I'm outside."
His critics find this diversion unseemly, charging that he is fiddling while Rome burns. The Tea Party site Obamagolfcounter.com tracks how many rounds he has played while in office. At last view, it registered 192.
I am, by any contemporary definition, a political liberal. No other approach seems to me both practical and morally justifiable.
But I've got enough journalistic skepticism to know that not all the liberal truths are really true. And not seeing the truth, in all its nuances, can be dangerous for any political philosophy. (See pre-World War II isolationism; or "We can bring democracy to the Mideast by invading Iraq.")
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In what he said is a victory for consumers, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has authored legislation that will allow Americans to switch wireless carriers while keeping their cell phone or tablet.
The process, known as "unlocking," affords consumers more freedom to choose the wireless carrier and mobile device that best suits them.
On Friday, President Obama signed the legislation, formally titled the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act.
WEYBRIDGE/WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday evening as local writer Julia Alvarez sat chatting with Michelle Obama at the White House, she tried to snap a photo of the First Lady to send to her family.
"I felt like a little hick with my eager little iPhone," Alvarez recalled with a laugh back at her Weybridge home on Tuesday.
There is a notable and unacceptable convergence this Memorial Day: a flood of news about the commitment of American soldiers abroad and of news about the mistreatment of our soldiers once they come home. It is impossible to reconcile America's decisions to send men and women abroad to fight so that fragile nations can find their footing in a free world against America's own failure to care for its wounded.
During President Obama's first term, the Justice Department defended the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court proceedings brought by same-sex couples seeking to have their relationships treated equally by federal agencies.
In her new book, "Forcing the Spring," Jo Becker, a reporter for The New York Times, recounts how Obama changed his position on marriage equality and directed officials in the Justice Department to drop their defense of DOMA.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate on Tuesday passed a farm bill that emerged from a conference committee two weeks ago, ending more than two years of gridlock over the omnibus piece of legislation.
Both of Vermont's senators voted for the bill.
MIDDLEBURY — A little piece of Vermont will be rolling through President Barak Obama's second inauguration this week.
A limited-edition wooden toy limousine produced by Middlebury's Maple Landmark is being sold by the official inauguration committee to defray the costs of the week's activities in Washington, D.C.
The six-inch-long wooden car with wheels that turn is painted black, gray and gold and features the inscription "57th Presidential Inauguration, January 21, 2013." It also has a small American flag on the fender.
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text: Cattle Trails Wheat and Stocker Cattle Conference set July 29 June 13, 2014 09:46 AM Tweet The Cattle Trails Wheat and Stocker Cattle Conference will be held July 29 in Wichita Falls, Texas, jointly hosted by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension and the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service. © Wyatt Bechtel TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By University News Release Email Southern Oklahoma and North Texas continue in the grips of a multi-year drought and no one knows what the environmental conditions hold for the area, but agricultural producers optimistically plant crops and raise cattle, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economist said. Stan Bevers, an AgriLife Extension economist at Vernon, said forecasts for El Nino development offer some hope for this fall's wheat planting conditions and the potential for fall grazing of stocker cattle. In an effort to bring new research and technology based on these conditions to producers, the Cattle Trails Wheat and Stocker Cattle Conference will be held July 29 in Wichita Falls, jointly hosted by AgriLife Extension and the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service. Bevers said the conference offers the most up-to-date information on topics and tools that might help producers reach the conference's slogan, "driving your cattle to profits," although he said the last couple of years have made it tough to generate any profit. The conference, which alternates between Texas and Oklahoma each year, will be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Multi-Purpose Event Center, 1000 5th St., Wichita Falls. Registration is $25 per person and includes educational materials, a noon meal and refreshments. Producers are encouraged to preregister by contacting their local AgriLife Extension county agent, their Oklahoma Cooperative Extension county educator, or by contacting Allison Ha at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Vernon at 940-552-9941, ext. 225. The keynote speaker for the event will be Joe Outlaw, co-director of the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M University and AgriLife Extension economist from College Station. Outlaw frequently interacted with members of Congress during the recent farm bill debate and during its implementation across the country, Bevers said. His discussion will focus on the farm bill, the policy center's software decision aid, and how the new farm bill impact will influence area wheat producer's income. The program will also include the following speakers and topics: - Bevers, expectations for the wheat and stocker cattle markets. - Chris Richards, Oklahoma State University department of animal science professor in Stillwater, Oklahoma, nutrition and health of stocker cattle. - Mark Gregory, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension agronomist from Duncan, Oklahoma, update on wheat forage and varieties. - Tom Hairgrove, a veterinarian and AgriLife Extension animal health specialist and program coordinator in College Station, stocker cattle health management and the use of antibiotics in food animals. Industry sponsors also will have their products on display during the event. For more information on the event, go to http://agrisk.tamu.edu Source: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Back to news


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Sage Kotsenburg wins 2014 Mammoth Grand Prix slopestyle #5, gets spot on US Olympic team
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There couldn't have been more pressure on Park City, Utah's Sage Kotsenburg heading into today's final Olympic qualifying slopestyle. Not that he'd ever tell you that. Sage approaches most things in his life with a laidback manner, as evidenced by how relaxed he looked while taking his runs today. But make no mistake—there was a lot at stake, even if Sage wasn't letting the situation affect him. The heat got turned up for Sage on Thursday when Anchorage, Alaska's Ryan Stassel pulled out a win at the first Mammoth Grand Prix slopestyle, leaving Sage in second. Only the two best scores count from the five-stop US team qualifying series, so the win gave Ryan a slight lead in the standings over Sage. Despite Sage placing second three times during the qualifying series, that one win by Ryan moved him into third on the team standings and Sage into fourth. With the exact number of US slopestyle riders going to Sochi still undetermined, fourth was a dangerous spot to be in.
All that to say Sage had to win today if he wanted to totally secure a spot on the US Olympic team. Shaun White was absent since he already locked down his position on the team, so Sage's task was made just a little easier, but he still had to deal with Brandon Davis and Kyle Mack who also needed to win. And then there was Ryan and Chas Guldemond who would have both been happy with a win to really solidify their spots.
But it only took one solid first run from Sage to start deflating the situation. He made some change ups for the rail line he did Thursday, adding a gap backside 270, 270 out and half-Cab 50-50 to backside 360, but on the jumps he put down a familiar line of frontside 900 nose grab, Cab 1260 double cork, and backside 1080 double cork nose to tail grab. That gave him a score of 95.40.
Pulling out all the stops on his second run, Sage went for a backside 1260 Holy Crail grab on the last hit but couldn't quite put it down. Although Sage landed a Cab 1260 Holy Crail at the 2013 Beijing Air & Style, today would have been the first time the backside version was landed in competition. But with X Games Big Air coming up before Sochi, Sage is still hoping to land one there.
Though none of the other riders held anything back, they still couldn't touch Sage's score even after their second runs and Sage finally collected his much needed win.
"It's a lot of stress taken off," Sage said of his win. "Everyone else was putting so much pressure on it, not towards me, but you know, it's the Olympics, it's the first time for slopestyle. It's cool just to be going to Olympics, it's going to be a crazy experience."
Sixteen-year-old Kyle Mack got second place with a run that included a backside 1260 but the result was bitter sweet for him as he had recently found out that he didn't have enough FIS points to be eligible for the Olympics.
"With a bunch of FIS rules, and FIS points and things, I actually ended up not getting enough points to be eligible, because of all the World Cups that got cancelled," Kyle said. "But I'm glad that I was able to land two runs, two days in a row that put me on the podium."
Ryan Stassel picked up third place with a replica of the run that got him the win on Thursday including a frontside 1080 and backside 1260, but today it wasn't enough to beat Sage again.
Jamie Anderson picks up another win, Karly Shorr, Jessika Jenson, and Jordie Karlinski battle for third and fourth US team spots
Jamie Anderson continued her winning streak this afternoon but the real battle was for the third and fourth spots on the US team. Like the guys, it's currently not clear how many quota spots the US will actually get for slopestyle—it all depends on how international riders place at the FIS World Cup taking place at Stoneham, Quebec this weekend. In the event that four women can go to the Olympics for the US, top contenders Karly Shorr, Jessika Jenson, and Jordie Karlinksi were all looking for the final two slots behind Jamie and Ty Walker. With Jamie taking the win today it was impossible for any of the other riders to get enough points to steal Ty's second place spot, so even though Ty ended up in fifth she would still be going to Sochi.
It was Karly Shorr who got second with a run that included a switch backside 540 and a huge backside 360 japan. Jessika Jenson found her way into third with a backflip, backside 540 and Cab 720 on the jump line. Jordie Karlinksi, who picked up two second place finishes on Thursday, finished fourth today.
In the US team rankings, today's results bumped Karly into third and Jessika into fourth and the two are currently looking good to represent the US at Sochi if four women end up going for slopestyle.
Stay tuned as the official US Olympic slopestyle and halfpipe teams are announced tomorrow.
See what happened at the rest of the Mammoth Grand Prix Olympic qualifying series here
Top Four US Olympic Team Men's Slopestyle Qualification Standings
Combined points from two best scores after all Grand Prix slopestyle stops
1. Shaun White: 2,000
2. Sage Kotsenburg: 1,800 (Tie breaker next best result: 800)
3. Chas Guldemond: 1,800 (Tie breaker next best result: 400)
4. Ryan Stassel: 1,600
2014 Mammoth Grand Prix Finals #5 Men's Results
1. Sage Kotsenburg
2. Kyle Mack
3. Ryan Stassel
4. Brandon Davis
5. Eric Beauchemin
6. Chas Guldemond
7. Nik Baden
8. Spencer Link
9. Ian Thorley
10. Brett Moody
11. Justin Morgan
12. Gabe Ferguson
Top Four US Olympic Team Women's Slopestyle Qualification Standings
Combined points from two best scores after all Grand Prix slopestyle stops
1. Jamie Anderson: 2,000
2. Ty Walker: 1,600 (Tie breaker next best result: 1,000)
3. Karly Shorr: 1,600 (Tie breaker next best result: 800)
4. Jessika Jenson: 1,400
2014 Mammoth Grand Prix Finals #5 Women's Results
1. Jamie Anderson
2. Karly Shorr
3. Jessika Jenson
4. Jordie Karlinski
5. Ty Walker
6. Pheobe Novello
7. Kirra Kotsenburg
8. Julianne Brackett
9. Serena Shaw


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Finland became a member of the United Nations in 1955. During this Cold War era, acceptance as a member strengthened the international position of a small country. From the very beginning, the United Nations became an important part of Finland's foreign policy. In light of her historical experience, Finland felt it important to support an international system based on multilateralism and the Charter of the United Nations.
During the 50 years of membership, Finland's role in the UN has been more significant than her size might lead one to expect. Early participation in peacekeeping, which began in 1956, earned Finland the title of a peacekeeping superpower at one point. Finland has also participated actively in the development of public international law, multilateral disarmament negotiations and multilateral development cooperation, among other issues.
Finland became a donor country in development cooperation towards the end of the 1960s, and the UN goal of spending 0.7 percent of Gross National Income on Official Development Assistance (ODA) was reached for a while in the 1980s and 1990s. The present Government will ensure the advancement of appropriations that will take Finland towards the UN target.
Finland has twice been a member of the Security Council of the United Nations - in 1969-1970 and again in 1989-1990 – and has already announced its candidature to the Council for 2013-2014. At the turn of the millennium, Finland assumed an important role as the Co-President of the Millennium Summit, a position held by President of the Republic of Finland, Ms. Tarja Halonen. Subsequently, former Prime Minister of Finland, Mr. Harri Holkeri, became President of the 55th Session of the General Assembly in 2000-2001.
In 2004, for the first time Finland assumed the presidency of the ECOSOC, a role held by Ambassador Marjatta Rasi, Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations. This was also the very first time a woman has led the ECOSOC. Deputy Permanent Representative, Ambassador Jarmo Sareva, chaired the First Committee (disarmament and international security) of the 58th General Assembly.
Several Finns have also held important positions in the United Nations Secretariat. The first high-level nomination for a Finn was that of Ambassador Sakari Tuomioja in 1957 who for three years worked as Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva. Following, Mr. Tuomioja acted as the Personal Representative of the Secretary-General in Laos. In 1964 he was called to mediate the conflict in Cyprus.
As the Assistant Secretary-General, Helvi Sipilä helped place the issue of women's rights on the UN agenda. Ms. Sipilä was the first woman ever to achieve the position of UN Assistant Secretary-General (1972-1980).
Former president of Finland, Mr. Martti Ahtisaari, held several high level positions, including that of Under-Secretary-General for Management and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General in Namibia.
Also important for Finland was the election of Ambassador Erkki Kourula, Doctor of Laws, as Judge of the International Criminal Court for the term 2003-2006. In January 2006 Kourula was re-elected to the ICC for another 9-year period.


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MIDDLEBURY — Peter Welch is running in more ways than one. The four-term Democrat took some time out before a jog in the Middlebury area last week to discuss some foreign and domestic issues during his run for another two years as Vermont's lone representative in the U.S. House.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In what he said is a victory for consumers, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has authored legislation that will allow Americans to switch wireless carriers while keeping their cell phone or tablet.
The process, known as "unlocking," affords consumers more freedom to choose the wireless carrier and mobile device that best suits them.
On Friday, President Obama signed the legislation, formally titled the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act.
Recent headlines tell the story of Congressional Republicans fighting with Democrats over highway funding. Republicans, who control the House, are holding funds to the states hostage in the hopes of forcing reductions in spending — or, at least, transferring more of the cost onto states. (How that helps taxpayers we're not sure, but Republicans could at least claim they reduced federal spending.)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on Thursday announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing next month on a proposed constitutional amendment in response to the Supreme Court's recent campaign finance decisions.
The failure of foreign aid and the damage caused by corrupt governments are highlighted in Paul Theroux's latest book on Africa, "The Last Train to Zona Verde."
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The "social welfare" mission for tax-exempt nonprofit groups certainly covers issues about government spending, government debt, federal taxes, "how the government is run," the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
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Those educational efforts are within the letter of the tax law and the IRS code, tax pros say.
So why did the IRS zero in on nonprofit applicants with the words "Tea Party" or "patriot" in their names for doing just that, rejecting their tax-exempt status for educating the public on issues that affect all taxpayers?
Why did the IRS start applying a new political test in January 2012, according to the Washington Post, for these "social welfare" groups that apply for tax-exempt status?
Did the IRS also do a deep dive of left wing groups with the words "progressive" or "move on" in their names, as Rep. Daryl Issa (R-Calif.) asks?
"Unfortunately, it appears as though the IRS looked only at conservative groups applying for the exemption, an inexcusable mistake," The New York Times now says.
The Tea Party News Network tells FOX Business the IRS gave it a hard time, putting it through multiple hoops, demanding donor names, events, and drilling down into the detailed list of guests at these events.
The IRS is not some mindless, denatured, acultural thing, like a sewing machine. It's populated by human beings prone to political pressures. It's a bureaucracy as powerful and as secretive as the FBI or the CIA, and it's the only agency where taxpayers are guilty until proven innocent. The IRS's nasty history shows what to expect from coming hearings (see below).
These are just some of the issues the IRS will likely have to address at Congressional hearings, as politicians from both sides of the political aisle are clamoring to put agency officials on the docket. The story also shows once again that one of the country's most powerful agencies is also the most underreported on.
To date, there has been no indication or evidence presented that the White House knew about this targeting.
President Barack Obama said: "If IRS personnel engaged in practices reported on and intentionally targeted conservative groups, that's outrageous and there's no place for it. They have to be held fully accountable."
Despite the fact that Lois Lerner, head of the division on tax-exempt organizations, already issued a formal apology, noting the agency's actions were "absolutely incorrect" and "inappropriate."
Rep. Dave Camp, (R-MI), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI), ranking member of Ways and Means, announced that the committee will hold a hearing on the IRS this Friday.
Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) also said in a statement: "The IRS should be prepared for a full investigation into this matter by the Senate Finance Committee."
The so-called 'dark money' flooding into campaigns via nonprofits after the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision will likely come up.
According to OpenSecrets.org, a watchdog division of the Center for Responsive Politics, even before the SCOTUS decision, the seven top GOP candidates had raised a combined $254 million by the end of 2007—but Democrat contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton raised even more, $318 million.
Subsequently, more money was spent on TV commercials in the last presidential race by 501(c)(4) social welfare nonprofits than by any other type of independent group, says ProPublica.
The number of groups seeking tax-exempt status as 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations has doubled since the SCOTUS decision, estimates show. The Citizens United decision may be cited as the reason that the IRS is justified in stepping up its questioning of non-profits.
The problem is, the IRS itself is restricted in talking about IRS scandals like the one breaking open now, due to confidentiality laws enacted after IRS scandals under the Nixon Administration.
To give its side of the story, the agency likely will have to get waivers from taxpayers themselves—which would either more fully show its complicity or exonerate it.
Still, despite the more than half a dozen committees that oversee it, Congress has historically been lacking in oversight, too, with a small number of Congressmen doing the heavy lifting.
Former Democratic Senator John Glenn, who orbited the Earth alone in a space capsule, once said he commonly flew solo at IRS hearings, noting after one hearing in the '90s that he sat "up there taking testimony all by myself."
The latest controversy is all the more alarming given the fact the IRS must now help oversee the enforcement of health reform.
The law now carries 47 new taxes and regulations, says the Government Accountability Office, including the individual mandate tax, plus potential new "1099"-type forms taxpayers must fill out disclosing details about their health insurance.
The loose structure of the IRS has historically left it prone to all sorts of meltdowns and scandals. The IRS' Cincinnati office is the central office where all tax-exempt applications are reviewed, and it is where the current apparent abuses took place.
IRS nonprofit chief Lerner reportedly had ordered IRS workers to broaden the focus on all applicants beyond just conservative groups, after she had heard about Tea Party applicants being singled out for review through keyword searches in applications. But that order apparently went unheeded.
Top IRS officials were made aware of the push nearly two years ago but nothing was said about it.
What is happening now at the IRS veers close to political abuses of the agency, political abuses at the IRS which date back to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and allegedly continued through President Bill Clinton.
The problem was, early in the 20th century, the federal government willy-nilly rubber-stamped tax exemptions, giving this tax-free status to practically anyone or group who wanted one, including several dozen groups that bruited their ties to the Soviet Union and communism in the '30s.
In the '30s, the IRS began audits of "subversive organizations" that were an extension of the FBI's efforts to target extremist groups, at the direction of J. Edgar Hoover. Senate hearings in Those probes grew after 1969 disclosed allegations that nonprofits were engorging themselves at taxpayers' expense as they raised tax-free money for their causes.
That led to the IRS's "Special Services Staff," which collected information on Vietnam War protestors, many of whom refused to file tax returns in protest of the war.
Complicating the history, too, is the fact that what was then called the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax division, (now called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) was part of the IRS until 1972.
That meant the IRS oversaw a federal law enforcement unit that made it easier for elected officials to enlist the IRS to do all sorts of politically charged probes of taxpayers, including combating "racketeers and communism in the 1950s, organized crime in the 1960s, and narcotics as well as the enemies of the Nixon administration in the 1970s," a memo from former John F. Kennedy's IRS chief counsel Mitchell Rogovin said.
Later, Freedom of Information Act disclosures revealed a nasty history of the IRS probes into taxpayers, which included wiretaps in the '50s and '60s, even in public phone booths at the IRS, planting informants, the use of omni-directional microphones and infrared binoculars, the use of two-way mirrors in IRS offices, even opening mail.
The IRS's past also includes the launch of secret operations that targeted American citizens, secret programs with names such as Operation Leprechaun, Project Southwest, Operation Snowball, Projects Haven and Tradewinds, the Kennedy's Ideological Organizations Project, President Nixon's enemies list and his IRS Special Services Staff, regrettably nicknamed the SSS, IRS documents show.
As FOX Business has reported, the Kennedys systematically used the IRS to muzzle both right-wing and left-wing groups, and the auditing was done at the behest of politicians, not the professionals at the IRS. This reporter covered White House political audits and IRS targeting, including under the Nixon, Kennedy and Clinton administrations, while at the Wall Street Journal.
FOIA documents also show the Kennedys randomly used the IRS to audit whomever they pleased—for example, John F. Kennedy was miffed that taxpayers on a boat adjoining his in Cape Cod were so noisily interrupting his vacation time, he had the IRS audit them, FOIA documents show.
The political audits were kept secret by the Kennedy administration. "If the president is interested in a particular program, you would certainly in some instances give attention to some area he's interested in," Mortimer Caplin, IRS commissioner under President Kennedy had said. "I am comfortable with that as a commissioner, though you prefer to be left alone. But if the president should call, and you feel that he has a reasonable request, you will be compliant."
Both right wing and left wing groups, even non-partisan groups, were caught up in the Kennedys' dragnet. President John F. Kennedy urged the IRS "to go ahead with [an] aggressive program on both sides of center," according to a penciled note on an IRS memo. "The thinking was, the further we reached out, the more neutral the program would be," Caplin had said.
The list of audit targets included groups like B'Nai Brith, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Zionist Organization of America (later deleted from the list). President Kennedy's IRS program also audited Lee Harvey Oswald's group, Fair Play for Cuba Committee, already under investigation by the FBI and CIA. "We recognized the sensitivity of just going after [the] right wing, so we wanted to add both left- and right-wing groups for balance," Caplin had said. "It's unclear who selected these groups, though."
Caplin also had said: "Many left-wing groups had already been given a difficult time during the Eisenhower years. They had already been audited. So, we scraped the bottom of the barrel to find groups that had not already been audited."
IRS memos show that President Kennedy was delighted with the program, which broadened to potentially target 10,000 groups and lasted until the early years of the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration. The LBJ White House continued to grant Congressional committees access to any "tax returns for the years 1948 to 1967," IRS memos show.
Under LBJ, the IRS targets included businessmen, union officials, religious figures, entertainers or sports figures. Much of this information is also supported by ground breaking research done by Franklin & Marshall academic John Andrew, author of "Power to Destroy: The Political Uses of the IRS from Kennedy to Nixon."
The Nixon administration's abuses of the IRS took place between 1969 and 1973, where it pressured the IRS to audit and harass opponents of the administration or its policies. But disclosures show the Nixon White House never managed to gain complete control of the IRS because ultimately IRS officials stopped it.
For example, one IRS document shows that President Richard Nixon proposed auditing all Democratic senators running for re-election in 1970. "What we cannot do in a courtroom, the IRS could do by administrative action," reads one White House memo. But the IRS refused.
White House aide John Ehrlichman complained to then IRS commissioner Randolph Thrower to stop the IRS from probing President Nixon's brother Donald, due to alleged underreporting involving political donations and kickbacks arising from his connections to the billionaire Howard Hughes and Nixon friend Bebe Rebozo, IRS research shows.
IRS veteran and Democrat William Loeb, then a deputy IRS commissioner, stymied White House aide G. Gordon Liddy's dreams to have "hundreds of additional agents" working outside normal IRS reporting channels on behalf of the White House, IRS documents show.
Frustrated with the IRS, President Nixon sent aide H.R. Haldeman an "eyes only" memo in March 1973, asking: "What happened to the suggestion that the IRS should run audits on all members of Congress?"
But President Nixon did get his way, as the IRS launched its "Special Services" Group in 1970 which initially probed, often at the behest of the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, war tax resisters and communist sympathizers. Later this list grew to 11,000 taxpayers and groups.
However, IRS commissioner Donald Alexander stepped in and stopped the SSS in 1973, and ordered a probe, IRS research shows. Still, Congress held no separate hearings on the SSS or these IRS audits. Watergate investigations later revealed that two-thirds of all SSS probes had nothing to do with tax compliance, IRS research shows.
However, President Nixon's enemies list of 767 taxpayers targeted for IRS audits included Shirley MacLaine, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Lucille Ball, and future President Ronald Reagan. Often at the urging of the FBI, the IRS audited nonprofits and taxpayers, such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference under Martin Luther King, Jr, the Ku Klux Klan, and Howard Hughes, as well as Jimmy Hoffa.
An internal IRS document in August 1972 showed that the IRS's own review of SSS files found that about 37% of the 767 taxpayers targeted "were not worthy of staff consideration.
The Clinton Administration was alleged to have reactivated targeted, political IRS audits against at least 50 nonprofits thought to be engaging in political activities, mostly conservative groups, that opposed President Clinton's policies, including churches. The list includes the Heritage Foundation, Judicial Watch, Citizens Against Government Waste, and the National Rifle Association, including individuals like Gennifer Flowers, Juanita Broaddrick, and Paula Jones.
IRS documents show that the then IRS commissioner made a rare offer not allowed under the confidentiality laws enacted after the Nixon controversy: Give Congress confidential tax return information in order to challenge "inaccurate and misleading" allegations that the IRS was abusing taxpayers for political reasons. But the IRS never followed through, sources indicate.


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I've had peanut butter on my mind lately. I've mixed it through my oatmeal and used it in these granola bars. That is not even to count the times in between I've it spread on a slice of warm toast to accompany some tea. I love its comforting familiarity…its unfancy goodness. Peanut butter…really…sometimes one need not look far afield for gastronomic treasures.
I was chatting online with my friend M (lovely M of the Moomin chopsticks) and she mentioned that she had made peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and everyone at her workplace loved it. Just take your favorite peanut butter cookie recipe and add chocolate chips she said. Shamefully, I had no such favorite peanut butter cookie recipe.
That had to change.
Flush in peanut butter love, I searched the web for a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe and this is what I came across. I'm so glad I did.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
(from Canary Girl)
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3/4 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- a pinch of salt
- 1 cup chocolate chips
– Cream butter and both sugars until creamy, then add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth.
– Add the peanut butter and continue to beat until combined.
– Add flour, baking powder, and salt and stir to combine.
– Add chips and stir again.
– Drop small spoonfuls of dough onto parchment (you should get a dozen per sheet).
– Bake in a pre-heated 375F oven on a parchment-lined cookie sheet for 12 minutes. Remove from oven and let them rest on the cookie sheet for one minute before removing to cool on a wire rack. Do not over-bake them. They may seem a little underdone but they will continue to cook outside the oven.
As you can imagine, peanut butter being so well loved, a marriage between it and chocolate chips would most likely be exponentially wonderful. It is. There are a lot of recipes out there but what I like about this one, aside from it's deliciousness, is its simplicity. It is a snap to make and yields so much more than the efforts you put in. I recommend you have them freshly baked when they are still soft and warm at their centers, and a glass of cold milk alongside is all you need to reach some sort of childhood-food nirvana. Like Reese's peanut butter cups in cookie form. They are still good the following days although a bit crisper around the edges. I used sweet & creamy peanut butter and I think this made my batch a tad too sweet. I'll stick with regular creamy next time. You can use any type of peanut butter you prefer, so if you like crunchy go ahead and use that. I am a strictly creamy peanut butter girl 🙂
I'm wondering if I may soon reach the end of my peanut butter rope. Will I wake up one day to find I've tired of my old friend? I sincerely hope not! It's such a dependable pick-me-up and never fails to improve my disposition. Whoever said you can't buy happiness was in looking in the wrong jar 😉


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I haven't posted for months. I apologize. My guilt level is high. In January I had emergency surgery and all my plans for 2009 took a backseat. In the past month or so I've started back into family history research on a more than "here and there" level.
My most recent "Monroe snooping" is attempting to trace the descendants of James A. Monroe (s/o Johnson Monroe and Jane Ann McClanahan) m. ~1854 Elizabeth Stevens (d/o Job Stevens and Martha _____). James A. was born in Kentucky and Elizabeth in Indiana. All their children (Frances Emeline, David Johnson, Alexander T, John B, Elizabeth, James M, Jobe D., George Sylvester, Ida M and Lou) are born in Wayne Co., Illinois.
Chris Wilkins is also working on these lines and together we are making progress. There are still avenues to explore but for now we are both totally stumped on what happened to Alexander T. Monroe and his wife after the 1900 Wayne Co, IL. census. His wife in 1900 is Elizabeth Garrison. They married in Wayne Co. IL in January 1900. Elizabeth had a previous marriage to a Mr. Osborn and I believe the two children listed as Monroe's on Alexander's 1900 census are actually Osborns. From cemetery records I believe Alexander T. had a first marriage to Malinda C. ____. Her stone in Cincinnati Cemetery in Wayne Co., IL gives 22 Oct 1867 - 15 Feb 1898 and says "wife of A. T. Monroe". I have not yet confirmed this marriage or Malinda's maiden name. I do not know if Malinda and Alexander had children. They may have. This is one of those times one really, really wants to see the 1890 census that burned.
If anyone reading this blog knows anything about James A. Monroe m. Elizabeth Stevens and their descendants I would very much appreciate hearing from you.
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Carolita Blythe
About the Author
CAROLITA BLYTHE was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in New York City. A graduate of Syracuse University, she currently resides in Los Angeles, where, when not writing novels, she works behind the scenes on popular television shows. Her debut novel was entitled The Cricket's Serenade. She has also published travel articles and short stories. An avid traveler, Carolita is a New Yorker at heart, who spends summers worshiping the Yankees and autumns pulling for the Jets.


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Katie Moore
As Deputy Vice President, Conservation and Animal Welfare, Katie is responsible for developing and directing IFAW's animal rescue vision and planning together with the VP of Programs and International Operations, animal rescue team, country offices and program staff. She identifies, develops and oversees the implementation of strategies to globalize animal rescue programs and establish IFAW as the premier animal rescue and relief organization worldwide.
Before taking on her current role, Katie was manager of IFAW's Marine Mammal Rescue and Research team of six scientists and responders and more than 350 volunteers. Previously, Katie had led the Cape Cod Stranding Network (CCSN), since its inception in 1998 until the organization merged with IFAW in 2007.
Under Katie's leadership release rates for stranded marine mammals on Cape Cod went from 14 percent to more than 70 percent because of the team's constant efforts to improve health assessment techniques and supportive care, and reducing response time by using highly trained volunteers. Katie led the team in developing techniques for preventing mass strandings, resulting in a 70 percent success rate overall and a 96 percent prevention rate for Atlantic white-sided dolphins.
In Madagascar, Katie used those techniques in the efforts to attempt to move over one hundred melon headed whales from an estuary. She also provided guidance in gathering data to try to determine the cause of the incident. Katie was a member of the team of experts called to Argentina to investigate a series of southern right whale mortalities and has served as on-site coordinator during other marine mammal unusual mortality events.
Manager Marine Mammal Rescue and Research, IFAW
Official Responder, Southern Right Whale Stranding Response, Argentina
On-site Coordinator, Unusual Mortality Event -Whales in the Gulf of Maine, National Marine Fisheries Service, USA
Acting Regional Marine Mammal Stranding and Disentanglement Coordinator, National Marine Fisheries Service, USA
Executive Director and Lead Scientist, Cape Cod Stranding Network (now IFAW MMRR)
South East Region Stranding Network Area Representative, National Marine Fisheries Service, USA
Area Representative, Marine Mammal Stranding Network, National Marine Fisheries Service, US
Member, Society of Marine Mammalogy
Cape Cod Red Cross Adult Animal Hero Award
NOAA Northeast Region Stranding Network David J. St. Aubin Award for Excellence
ICS Certification: ICS 100, 200, 300, 700
Masters of Environmental Management, Duke University, USA
Bachelor of Arts, Environmental Studies, Wheaton College, USA
Selected Publications
- Moore, K.M.T. and S.G. Barco. 2013. Handbook for Recognizing, Evaluating, and Documenting Human Interaction in Stranded Cetaceans and Pinnipeds. U. S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum, NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-510, 102p.
- Moore, MJ, van der Hoop, J, Barco, SG, Costidis, AM, Gulland, FM, Jepson, PD, Moore, KT, Raverty S, McLellan, WA. (Editors) (2013). Criteria and case definitions for serious injury and death of pinnipeds and cetaceans caused by anthropogenic trauma: underwater entrapment, chronic entanglement, sharp and blunt vessel, and gunshot. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 103: 229–264.
- Dennison, S., Moore, M., Fahlman, A., Moore, K., Sharp, S., Harry, C., Hoppe, J., Niemeyer, M., Lentell, B. and Wells, R. (2011). Bubbles in live stranded dolphins. Proc R Soc B 2011 : rspb.2011.1754v1-rspb20111754.
- Cassoff R, Moore KM, McLellan WA, Barco, SG, Rotstein DS, Moore MJ (2011) Lethal entanglement in baleen whales. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. Vol. 96: 175–185, 2011
- Bogomolni AL, Pugliares KR, Patchett K, Herzig SM, Harry CT, LaRocque JM, Touhey KM, Moore MJ (2009) Mortality Trends of Stranded Marine Mammals on Cape Cod and Southeastern Massachusetts between 2000-2006. Diseases of AquaticOrganisms. 88:143-155.
- Moore M, Early G, Touhey K, Barco S, Gulland F, Wells Rehabilitation and Release of Marine Mammals in the United States: risks and benefits Marine Mammal Science 23:731-750.
- Montie EW, Schneider GE, Ketten DR, Marino L, Touhey KM, Hahn ME. 2007. Neuroanatomy of the subadult and fetal brain of the Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) from in situ magnetic resonance images. Anatomical Record 290:1459–1479.
- Pugliares, K., Bogomolni, A., Touhey, K., Herzig, S., Harry, C., Moore, M. (2007) Moore. Marine Mammal Necropsy: An introductory guide for stranding responders and field biologists. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report. WHOI2007-06. 133pp.
- Bogomolni A, Ellis J, Gast1 B, Harris R, Pokras M, Touhey K, Moore M (2006) Emerging Zoonoses in Marine Mammals and Seabirds of the Northeast U.S. Oceans'06 MTS/IEEE-Boston, Massachusetts, September 18-21, 2006 - ISBN: 1-4244-0115-1.: 9pp.
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Halestorm's Lzzy Hale Discusses Ronnie James Dio, Her Metal Upbringing + New Album Progress
Lzzy Hale and her cohorts in Halestorm recently covered Dio's 'Straight Through the Heart' for the new Ronnie James Dio 'This Is Your Life' tribute album and the band had a chance to perform their rendition live at the 3rd Annual Ronnie James Dio Awards Monday night (March 17) in Los Angeles.
Loudwire had a chance to speak with Lzzy for a few minutes on the red carpet and she told us about the band's love for Ronnie James Dio and how she was introduced to his music by her parents. She also gave us updates on the early stages of their next album and her ScissorHappy line of clothing and accessories. Check out our interview with Halestorm's Lzzy Hale below.
First off, thanks for letting us have a chance to debut your awesome cover of 'Straight Through the Heart' at Loudwire.
Yes, thank you so much.
So how does it feel to be involved with all this love for Ronnie James Dio?
You know, it's such a tremendous honor to be here. We're all just huge fans of no only Ronnie, but everybody that he touched and all the great music that he put out. He greatly influenced us as kids and thank god we had some cool rock 'n' roll parents that showed it to us.
I'm a little humbled by being here. We're definitely the new kids on the block and probably the least hardcore here, regardless of the baseball bat (as she references the album artwork backdrop on the red carpet). But I think it's an amazing thing that we're all able to get together for this cause and just to celebrate Ronnie's legacy and his life you know.
And you mentioned having such great parents to raise you on this music. Can you talk about your first memories of hearing Ronnie?
Well, 'Holy Diver,' the record, which has 'Straight Through the Heart' on it, was the first record my dad showed me of them. And from there we went to the Sabbath years then with Dio and then backward in time to Rainbow and Elf. I mean what an amazing catalog. It was probably around '89 or 1990 or so the first time I really remember listening to that stuff.
Then when my brother and I were in middle school, when we started the band, my parents were like, "Here, here's all our records, here is what you're listening to." And I'm just so glad they did because I still remember trying to convince all my friends in middle school, 'cause when I was in middle school everyone was listening to Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls and I was trying to get them to listen to Dio. They're like, "No, I don't think so." And I'm like, "C'mon! It's great!," much to my little friends' chagrin.
This lineup tonight is amazing. Are you just living the dream performing alongside some of these people?
I'm fans of all of these people and the fact that I'm able to share a stage with them and call some of them friends now, I just think that's the wonderful thing about the rock community and especially people that were a part of Ronnie's life, is that part of his legacy was just being such an amazing person. He would just take people under his wing and I think that rubbed off on a lot of these people.
We feel like that tonight. We're new kids on the block and everyone's like, "Hey, this is how it's done. Let me show you some tricks." So we're just having a great time with everybody tonight.
Speaking of being taken under the wing, every time I look up I see you doing a song with David Draiman, rocking a stage with Myles Kennedy, Slash or Tom Keifer. How cool is it to have these opportunities and be kind of the go-to girl for these collaborations?
It's awesome and something that I never expected to happen. It's weird cause you'll have these moments like, you go out to eat with David Draiman and I remember when 'The Sickness' came out and my brother and I loved that record and ate it up. And it was like, "We're never gonna meet David Draiman," and then I'm actually having lunch with David Draiman and talking and as you're walking away, you're like, "I just had lunch with David Draiman." It's the same thing tonight. I just had a conversation about guitars …. Oh, it's so cool. I'm a fan girl right now.
And at this point, I know Halestorm is starting to think about a new album. How are things coming along?
You know it's the beginning stages and we just started writing for the next record. It's our third record and what a cool thing it is to make it to that point in your career. We're chasing the song dragon and we're chasing after whatever gets us excited at this point. I think we're starting to crack the code of what we have to do on this record.
Third album always seems to be the big one for a lot of bands.
I know, right? We've been looking back at some of the classic third records and oh my god, there's a little bit of pressure there. But as long as we keep focused on what we have to do I think it'll be okay.
And one last thing, I wanted to give you a chance to talk about your fashion line.
I launched a fashion line and it's called ScissorHappy by Lzzy and it's just a launch line, a test line right now, but you can go to ScissorHappyByLzzyHale.com and check some of the stuff out. It's just beginning now and it's kind of like starting the band all over again. It's like, 'Okay, what are we going to do next?' So I'm excited about that.
And how much of an input do you have?
Everything is done in-house and I'm working with a couple of very talented people. Basically, I make all the prototypes myself and I bend and I break things and I do stuff in the back of the bus and then I'll send the prototype to these people. And for whatever reason they find things to put it together or they duplicate it exactly and the only difference is mine have all the rough edges that could hurt you. [laughs]


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Summer hats too often take on an overblown Kentucky Derby vibe that is a little off-putting.
I like how this hat is sun effective and yet still city chic.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Summer hats too often take on an overblown Kentucky Derby vibe that is a little off-putting.
I like how this hat is sun effective and yet still city chic.
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beautiful! amazing hat and shoes
great shoes!!
So chic and casual. I love it.
and her shoes are rather fierce as well!
Love LOVE her shoes
I agree with you and her shoes are awesome!!!
Love the shoes :p
Thank you for sharing <3
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the hat and the bag ;D
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Really like the outfit.. Chic yet relaxed, effortless!
I love the overblown Kentucky Derby vibe! The bigger, the better.
Love the hat, but the shoes! Ah the wedges are making me swoooooon, haha.
mew mew
she looks fantastic
Does anybody know the brand of these lovely nude shoes? Perfect for a garden party!
Wow… I love the shoes and bag combo!
Those are Gap Design Edition wedges from last year. Of course now I wish I'd bought them. lol
Cool look.
So urban and elegant. Love it.
I agree that this is a great look, but I must admit that I am a big fan of the "overblown Kentucky Derby vibe." As we say here in Texas, "go big or go home."
love her off shoulder blouse and wedges
the colours are just great!
2 thumbs up for truckin' it in wedges that high.
So Chic! XOXO, http://www.NatalyasCloset.com
Let's call her Whitney;
withering on Houston Street;
nearing the Broadway corner–
she sees the Hollister store
,the surfer models by the door–
and longs for a seat
on the Hamptons Jitney.
greats pics,amazing job.
The bag is so chic! What brand is that?
Love this photo! what an amazing shoes!
Never mind the hat – what about those shoes!
ok look.
Oh yea the bag is Tila March, Love it! http://www.tilamarch.com
Seriously? I think that hat is awful. It's just a bucket hat with a bigger brim. Since when is that either "city" or "chic"?
I really love this shot Scott: the movement, the colors, the volumes, the wedge shoes are amazing and she really knows how to wear that hat, I agree. Simply insiprational!
what a beautiful combination of colours! somehow i feel like i haven't quite seen it before! and love the fact that the dark colours are at the top. usually this look would be 'balanced' with black shoes but her gorgeous nude wedges definitely make this original.
Nice outfit. Can I humbly suggest more posts on casual hat-wearing? I come from Australia, where hats are pretty essential for anyone with fairer skin who doesn't want to look 40 when they are 30, yet there is little guidance on how to pull the hat off without looking too "sun smart" (ie, like you are taking on board government advice about how health far more important than fashion).
In general, love the blog. Well done.
Oh, man. How long and lean do your legs have to be to pull off those shoes? I can't even imagine. But she is definitely pulling them off.
Beautiful unposed (or is it?) shot!
women are so cute with that hat.
I have no idea why, but I love this! It's so hard to find a nice hat that actually protects you
Is that like an oversized fisherman hat? Anyways, this totally works, and I love the whole outfit!
her heels look like they're having a ball
Love that look – laid back but soo chic :)
Love this, it looks so laid back, such summer chic! It doesn't even disturb me that the wedges and the bag are matchy-matchy. Also, I'm still a sucker for neutrals, even though bright colours and colour blocking is such a big trend now. Still find this a lot chicer.
what an outfit!!!
the colour-combination is hilarious….
Love this look. Not sure I'd carry off the hat, but I'll try out a similar look for myself.
beautiful picture, adorable outfit.
does anyone know what hat it is?
Love those shoes too!
Enchanting photo. I am all for sun protection and like how she did it here….the entire look is great.
I love the rather Japanese colors of this photo – the grayish blue, black, tans, and the tiny bit of orange at her feet and the small bit of ochre color on the right side in the fence. Gorgeous!
Yes, i want this shoes!!! :))))
I can't sleep now… all the time i see this shoes… really… :)))))))))
I'm actually loving that whole look. At first glance I wasn't so sure but I really love it! Especially the shoes!!!
Love this! Love how the majority of the outfit is dark and floppy, and then she's got these lighter structured leather pieces as accents. So very cool
Lovely palette. Who makes the bag?
Now, where can I get my hands on that hat? Anyone?
Love this outfit. Black with dark blue is a winner!
love the mix of colors. simple and chic = perfection.
but why are her heels so red?
Gorg shoes! And love the color choices!
very chic
cute simple urban weekend look =D
Something very retro about her entire ensemble …
classic, chic, edgy….it's not easy to pull off, but done well here!!!
The colour palette is exquisite! Love the subtle matching of the bag and shoes…
really chic and casual look!!!
(exotic skin handbags)
I really like this, so natuaral
love the hat
Love the colour combo!


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Ninnekah Woman to Serve 24 Months in Prison and Pay over $227,000 in Restitution for Embezzlement from Employer
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – Pamela D. Mills, 53, of Ninnekah, Oklahoma, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Court Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange to serve 24 months in federal prison for embezzlement from her employer, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. In addition, Mills was ordered to pay $227,015.07 in restitution to her former employer.
According to court records, Mills was employed by Gerald Welding Fabrication and Construction Company for approximately six years and was responsible for handling the accounts payable and receivable. Although she was not authorize to sign the company checks, Mills prepared checks for payment of the company bills, including the payment of credit card bills. From December of 2008 through August of 2012, Mills prepared checks for her manager to sign which included checks to Capitol One for the payment of her personal credit card statements.
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