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By Joseph Yates
By Jon Park
I recently read a post on Facebook that basically said there are those who are willing to sit out the election next November, if their candidate does not win the primary.
And that is how we ended up with four more years of Barack 'I have a pen and a phone' Obama, and 'Get Over It' Beshear.
In the last gubernatorial elections, there were those who did not care for, then, Sen. David Williams' demeanor, and sat home.
I have an affection for Henry County and most know it.
Growing up here and having family here, I have enjoyed the trust and confidence from many in the county that an outsider may not immediately get.
By Nick Hawkins
Next to being a husband and a father, serving our county as a Magistrate has been one of the great honors of my life. I have strived to make decisions based upon my faith, solid principles and the belief that an elected official should always vote for what they feel in their heart is right; even in the face of strong opposition.
By Joe Yates
Those of us that have grandchildren are lucky. Those of us that have grandchildren and write a column for our local newspaper are doubly lucky. Why? Because we not only get to bore our friends, and sometimes complete strangers in person with stories of how smart and funny our grandchildren are, I get to tell you about mine in the newspaper. Ha!
There is no doubt the campaign season is under way in Henry County.
Back in November, the Henry County Local ran two stories on page one regarding the Henry County Sheriff. One on a "contentious" meeting regarding the sheriff's budget, and the second regarding a questionable audit from the state auditor's office. Interestingly, the similarly minor dings the Democrat-led judge-executive's office received in the June 2012 audit were not reported.
I don't always act my age, but this recent cold snap sure has me feeling my age.
I have been reluctantly edging closer and closer to middle age, much to my chagrin. Proof of that is beginning to be irrefutable.
It is too loud.
I would really like for you to go back inside and put on some decent clothes, young lady.
I have no desire to see your underwear. Please pull up your pants.
When leaving the house for any reason, I have an overwhelming urge to get home before dark.
My predictions starting with January 2014 will include 'Duck Dynasty' patriarch Phil Robertson, in an episode that was recorded before his infamous GQ interview, announces that he is converting to Islam. Before anyone could say "Allah Akbar!" the folks who had signed the petition demanding that Phil not be suspended from the show lit up the switchboards at the A&E television network to say that, on second thought, never mind, we're cool with A & E's initial decision. Facebook immediately goes dark.
By Jon Parks
Did you see the video of the airline that set up a kiosk for their boarding passengers, and asked them what they wanted for Christmas? The airline took note and then ran out to buy those gifts: everything from socks and underwear to big screen televisions. When the passengers arrived at their designation, presents with their names came out on the carousel as they were waiting for their baggage. The airline gave them what they had asked for.
As I look back on my favorite Christmas memories, I have discovered something.
I have to admit, I've had a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit this year.
Typically I am that annoying person who starts playing Christmas music the day after Thanksgiving while I put up the tree and decorate the house. Usually, I've started Christmas shopping in October and would be pretty much done before Dec. 1. By now my coworkers and friends would be tired of the baked goods and yummy snacks I would have inundated them with on a daily basis.
But this year is not typical for a number of reasons.
Today everything is dark gray. It is the time of year when the sun, mostly veiled by clouds, attends to us for a few short hours each day and quickly disappears. The snow and the frozen stuff came, as predicted; winter's first pall covered the ground a bit early.
By John Logan Brent
Today's article will be the last in the series of county updates. Hopefully you have learned a few things about county government that you might not have known.
For this final article, I want to talk about the county budget. As far as I am concerned, putting the budget together and then monitoring it is the most important responsibility that my office and the magistrates have. There aremore than 210 line items in this year's $5.9-million budget.
Tuesday was the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
During the first few days of July 1863, Union and Confederate soldiers converged on Gettysburg, Pa., and fought a horrific, bloody battle that saw more than 50,000 deaths in just three days. That is almost as many deaths as in the entire Vietnam War. The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil War. This war tore the nation and its families apart.
By 'Average' Joe Yates
Our small community is losing the publisher of its weekly paper and I, for one, think it's a big loss. That, and because a recent column in which I blamed local TV news for taking the kids from our streets is fresh in my mind, has caused me to reflect on the state of today's media.
By Joe Yates
It seems odd to write about baseball at Thanksgiving, but I blame the proximity of that holiday to the end of the modern baseball season. When I was a kid if your team had the best regular season record in its league it went to the World Series, and it was all over by early October.
Memorial Day is the day we honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Those, who paid for our freedom with their lives. On Veterans Day, we honor those courageous men and women, willing to give all, who have stepped up when called, who have served our nation, protected our freedom, and returned home to their families, as Ronald Reagan said, "Champions of a noble cause."
Oh, Pleasureville.
I can't say after Monday night's meeting that I'm surprised, really.
Disappointed, but not surprised. And that, in itself, is a fairly sad commentary on what happened.
You see, you had a chance to do something good. You had a chance to do something that really matters. You had a chance to lead the way in Henry County.
But you sat on your hands, looking quietly and somewhat awkwardly at the table while the motion to approve a fairness ordinance died for lack of a second.
By John Logan Brent
Henry County Judge-Executive
Like most rural Kentucky communities, Henry County's local economy is very diversified. Agriculture, construction, retail, and industry make up the bulk of our private sector economy. The state of Kentucky and a majority of counties, including ours, have economic development programs in some form. Though the state and counties use the term "economic development" in a broad sense, it almost always means the recruitment and expansion of industry.
This was written during the autumn of 1988.
At times over the past several years, I've attempted to square up the rounded corners of my life, to clean up the accumulation of broken, dead limbs in the yard, the coating of dust on the top of the door that never gets wiped off.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
Writer and women's rights activist Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in New England. Her family were writers and social reformers. She gave birth to her first child in her mid 20s, but soon after she experienced what she later called 'a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia - and beyond'. She sought help from famous neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia, who treated her with his celebrated rest cure. Gilman responded rapidly and gained weight quickly. Mitchell advised her to return to her family, focus on her responsibilities as wife and mother, and stop trying to be a writer. Instead, Gilman divorced her husband, moved to California, and wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, a chilling short story about the rest cure.
Gilman spent her life working with feminists and social reformers. Her non-fiction, notably the bestselling Women and Economics (1898), earned international acclaim. She wrote fiction as well as non-fiction until her death in 1935 - she committed suicide with an overdose of chloroform after fighting breast cancer for several years. Gilman remains celebrated by feminist writers and artists worldwide. The Yellow Wallpaper was later adapted for radio, television, film, stage and dance.
Related Themes and Topics
Related links
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J Allen, The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Sexualities, Histories, Progressivism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009)
S M Gilbert and S Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979)
The study of the functions, anatomy and organic disorders of the nervous system.

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Mass. Boy Pleads Not Guilty to Killing Teacher
A 14-year-old Massachusetts boy has pleaded not guilty to murder, aggravated rape and armed robbery charges in the killing of his high school math teacher.
Philip Chism is accused in the Oct. 22 death of Colleen Ritzer, a popular teacher at Danvers High School. Ritzer's body was found in woods near the school with her throat slit and a note reading, "I hate you all."
Chism had already pleaded not guilty in district court, but the case was moved to Superior Court after he was indicted last month. His attorney agreed Wednesday to a prosecution request that he remain held without bail.
Chism had recently moved to Massachusetts from Clarksville, Tenn.
Police haven't released a motive for Ritzer's killing. Chism's attorney has declined to comment. Ritzer's family was in court Wednesday.


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Wizd on Gentoo
This article is based on the original Wizd for the Kuro Box page at http://jhue.users.sonic.net/. This article is still under construction.
Preparing for Build
First download the version of wizd you would like to install. In this example, we are going to use version 0_12h_pvb_19 from http://www.geocities.com/flipflop7146/wizd.html. Unzip this file. If you don't have unzip, you will need to emerge app-arch/unzip.
# unzip wizd_0_12h_pvb_19.zip
Since this was originally built for Cygwin under Windows, let's reorganize the directory structure and delete unnecessary files.
# rm -f wizd_0_12h_pvb_19/wizd.exe wizd_0_12h_pvb_19/cygwin1.dll # mkdir /usr/local/src/wizd_0_12h_pvb_19 # mv wizd_0_12h_pvb_19/source/* /usr/local/src/wizd_0_12h_pvb_19 # rmdir wizd_0_12h_pvb_19/source # mkdir /usr/local/bin/wizd # mv wizd_0_12h_pvb_19/* /usr/local/bin/wizd
Wizd requires the jpeg library, and the libdvdread library in order to compile properly. We can download and install these through portage.
# emerge media-libs/jpeg media-libs/libdvdread
Modify the Makefile
We will need to make some small changes to the original Makefile in order to compile properly.
# cd /usr/local/src/wizd_0_12h_pvb_19/ # nano Makefile
replace LDFLAGS += -static -L/usr/local/lib -ljpeg -ldvdread with LDFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -ljpeg -ldvdread -ldl -lm
Compile Wizd
Now that we've created the appropriate directories, and updated our Makefile, we can go ahead and compile Wizd.
# make . . . # mv wizd /usr/local/bin/wizd
Modify the Configuration File
You will need to update your configuration file to tell Wizd where to find your media files, etc.
# cd /usr/local/bin/wizd # nano wizd.conf
Add Wizd to Runlevel Default
If you want Wizd to start automatically after boot, you will need to add Wizd to your default runlevel. Here is a sample script written by a member of the I-O DATA USA FORUM, with a few modifications (Original post: http://www.iodata.com/usa/forum/showthread.php?t=422#post2398)
# cd /etc/init.d # nano wizd
#! /bin/sh # # Start/stop the Wizd daemon. # cd /usr/local/bin/wizd; start() { /sbin/killall -s KILL "/usr/local/bin/wizd/wizd" > /dev/null 2>&1 echo -n "Starting Wizd: " /usr/local/bin/wizd/wizd } # # Stop the Wizd server processe. # stop() { echo 'Stop services: wizd' /bin/killall "/usr/local/bin/wizd/wizd" > /dev/null 2>&1 } # # Usage statement. # case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart) stop start ;; *) echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 ;; esac
# chmod 755 wizd # rc-update add wizd default * wizd added to runlevel default * rc-update complete.
Run Wizd
You can reboot your system to make sure Wizd starts at runlevel default, or you can start it manually.
# /etc/init.d/wizd start
Any time you make any changes to the wizd.conf configuration file, Wizd will need to be restarted.
# /etc/init.d/wizd restart


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Today, Gravitards has been finally released for Windows Phone 7.
"Gravitards is a skill-based game with amazing graphics and real physics, where you have to drive a ball through many different levels, reaching the end zone (or "gravitard"), without dropping it, while collecting rings distributed all around. You´ll find obstacles, moving parts, force fields, guillotines, ramps, jumps, and even a pinball table to play with. Test yourself by controlling the ball with your device's accelerometer, with on-screen buttons, or with the keyboard, and get the needed practice to complete all the levels."
You can download Gravitards directly to your Windows Phone 7 using the following Zune link.
Some other videos and pictures:
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The seasons in Los Angeles are a bit ambiguous in the conventional sense, so I think of them more in terms of "when all the flowering trees bloom" or "when it rains." Right now it's "when all the berries and stone fruit are ripe and cheap." I already had a wealth of blueberries thanks to the largesse of the Trader Joe's gods. Man these berries were good. So with all the loot from the movie, I had a holy f*@kload of blueberries.
One of the only items I actually had to purchase for the BBQ was thyme (for the sliced heirloom tomatoes. Oh yeah!). Since you never need even half the quantity of herbs you purchase, I had plenty of that left. I still do, actually. More thyme than I know what to do with. I decided maybe the blueberry jam needed thyme. I googled it, and of course someone else on the internet had tried it already, so I figured it must be ok. That's a good way to judge if something's a good idea, right? I used this recipe, rather unfaithfully, added thyme, and remarkably, it set up perfectly despite my lax attention to procedural concerns with the sugar and pectin.
Not content to make only one kind of jam, I combined a holy trinity of drupes: nectarines, peaches, and apricots. I considered adding plums, but it just didn't feel right.
Why mess with that color?
I pretty much followed the directions on the pectin box for this one. I used the lo-no sugar pectin, so I was able to add a small fraction of the sugar most jam recipes call for. The idea was to keep the fruit tasting like itself. I'm pleased to say it did, and the peacotarine jam set up nicely as well.
All told, I made 6 pints of jam. That's 12 cups. Oh snap!


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Game On! Sports Schedule for January 16, 2013
The Miami Heat and the Golden State Warriors square off tonight in the marquee matchup in the NBA.
Earlier this season, the Warriors shocked the Heat in Miami, squeaking out a 97-95 win, so you know the Heat have revenge on their mind, while the Warriors are out to prove it was no fluke.
Here's a look at tonight's schedule of games. All times Eastern:
Chicago Bulls at Toronto Raptors 7 p.m.
Brooklyn Nets at Atlanta Hawks 7:30 p.m.
New Orleans Hornets at Boston Celtics 8 p.m.
Denver Nuggets at Oklahoma City Thunder 8 p.m.
Houston Rockets at Dallas Mavericks 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Memphis Grizzlies at San Antonio Spurs 8:30 p.m.
Washington Wizards at Sacramento Kings 10 p.m.
Cleveland Cavaliers at Portland Trail Blazers 10 p.m.
Miami Heat at Golden State Warriors 10:30 p.m. (ESPN)
NCAA Men's Basketball Top 25
Richmond at (13) Butler 7 p.m.
North Carolina State at Maryland 7 p.m.(ESPN2)
UNLV at (15) San Diego State 10 p.m.
(16) Kansas State at TCU 9 p.m.
Georgia at (17) Missouri 8 p.m.
(18) Michigan State at Penn State 7 p.m.
(19) New Mexico at Boise State 9 p.m.
Seton Hall at (25) Marquette 9 p.m.


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(Brachylophus vitiensis)
When Fijian crested iguanas first hatch from their eggs they are dark green, but after several hours their skin becomes bright emerald green and narrow white bands can be seen along their body. Their distinctive crest is also present from birth and can grow up to 1.2cm long. Juvenile crested iguanas look just like miniature versions of their parents. Females are the same in appearance as the males. Adults grow to 70-80cm and weigh 300-350 gms.
Crested iguanas are a rare species restricted to the rain shadow forests of a few scattered islands in the Fiji Island group, including the tiny island of Yadua Taba. The Fijian crested iguana on Yadua Taba Island is the only protected population in the world. Due to the small size of each island population, the species as a whole is extremely vulnerable. Their life is spent mostly off the ground amongst the branches and leaves of their forest home.
A Fijian crested iguana's diet is mainly herbivorous, eating a wide variety of leaves, shoots and fruits from trees and shrubs. They will also eat small insects from time to time. Their favorite food is from the Vau tree which bears sweet hibiscus flowers and is also the species of tree they spend most of their time in.
Mating season for the Fijian crested iguana is from March through to April. They have the longest incubation period of any iguana in the world - up to nine months. The eggs are white and leathery, with the average number of eggs in a clutch being four. A couple of weeks before hatching, a brown oval mark appears on the surface of the egg. This marks the spot where the baby crested iguana's head will pop out of the shell. It can take up to a whole day for the baby iguana to completely hatch.
Fijian Crested Iguana Profiles
Sex: Male
Kermit is one of our gorgeous Fijian crested iguanas. He was born in 2005 and you have to admit, he is an absolutely amazing looking animal.
We are very fortunate to have these iguanas here at Australia Zoo, especially given they are amongst the most critically endangered lizards on the planet. They are only found on three islands in the west of Fiji.
Kermit is great, he loves coming out for walks around the zoo and loves to have his photo taken. So much so, Kermit is often featured in our Australia Zoo calendars.


text: Beans and Cotton Gain Acres, but Rationing Needed June 24, 2013 02:29 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Fran Howard AgWeb Contributing Writer Email With rain stalling or preventing planting this spring, analysts expect USDA to lower its planted acreage forecast. Analysts expect projected planted acreage for corn and wheat to decline as producers shifted rain-drenched acres into last-minute soybeans or didn't get anything planted at all when USDA releases its much-awaited Acreage report Friday, June 28. USDA's planted acreage estimate is based on a survey of producers taken during the first two weeks of June. Too Wet for Corn USDA could reduce corn acreage by 2 million acres, according to forecasting firm Informa. Informa's estimates are based on a survey adjusted for weather. The Swiss-based forecaster now puts planted corn acreage at 95.3 million acres, compared with USDA's latest estimate of 97.3 million. McHenry, Illinois-based Allendale expects USDA to decrease corn acreage by nearly 3 million acres to 94.364 million. If realized, Allendale's estimate would still reflect the second largest corn acreage in the past 50 years. Forecasts by the Linn Group in Chicago are in between at 95.2 million acres. "All the rain in May did not allow farmers to get into the fields, so some acres shifted to soybeans and others didn't get planted," says Jerrod Kitt, director of research for the Linn Group. The Linn Group expects USDA's quarterly Grains Stocks report, also released June 28, to show corn stocks of 2.771 billion bushels. "It's tight, tight, tight for soybeans and corn," Kitt says. "We have to ration to single bushels at this point." Kitt notes that last year's corn and soybean harvest was early, which is not going to happen this year based on this season's late planting. Thus, new-crop supplies will not be available like they were in August of last year, making rationing all the more crucial. Shift to Beans Soybean acreage is likely to increase. Informa now estimates planted soybean acreage at 77.8 million acres, up 700,000 acres from UDA's latest estimate of 77.1 million acres. Allendale expects a much larger increase in soybean acreage of 2.114 million acres to 79.24 million. "Late corn and spring wheat planting, and a change in corn/soybean profitability is responsible," Allendale says. "This is a record soybean planting." The Linn Group's estimate for soybean acres comes in below both Informa's and Allendale's at 77.4 million acres. The Linn Group's estimate for quarterly grain stocks for soybeans of 453 million bushels means exports might have been too aggressive this year. "We will have to throttle back the crush," Kitt says. Spring Wheat Suffers Randy Martinson, executive vice president of Progressive Ag in Fargo, N.D., expects USDA to lower acreage on spring wheat by 750,000 acres and on durum wheat by 500,000 due mainly to reductions in North Dakota. Durum wheat acres will also likely decline. "Only 40 percent of the durum wheat acres in North Dakota are in," says Martinson. "The reduction in spring wheat acres will help tighten supply of the U.S. wheat crop." Informa anticipates an even larger decline in spring wheat acreage to 11.8 million acres, a 900,000-acre reduction from USDA's latest projection of 12.7 million acres. Allendale is a bit more bullish on spring wheat putting projected acreage at just above 12 million acres. Cotton Acres Increase Cotton acres could also increase, based on Informa's recent survey that put cotton acres at 10.4 million, up 400,000 from USDA's 10 million acre projection. The Linn Group is even more optimistic, putting cotton acres at 10.7 million. A share of the cotton acres in the drought-stricken southern plains, however, will likely be abandoned. Back to news


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Eero Ettala On BC #1 Trip:
Again my first time doing something. First time on a heli! Me, Danny Kass and Torstein Horgmo had a big mission of hitting POW jumps in Pemberton BC. It was such a cool and motivated crew to ride with. The snow was pretty shallow on some spots and I hit like 3 rocks on my trip and hit a big ass tree with my leg.
We also found some really good jumps a bit lower in the woods and got some tricks! I was super stoked to just be out there scoping and building jumps and finally trying to get my powder legs back on. Our crew stayed at this crazy lodge on the mountain for 8 days. And Torstein even set up his own barbers shop and cut my super crazy hair. That was a funny shoot for sure.
And we had a huge help from the Backcountry Snowcats drivers that helped us build jumps with badass snow cat, kind of cheating but saved as a lot of hours, ha-ha!
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Vegetable-and-Bean BurritosMonday, July 1, 2013 18:00
Just the word "burrito" conjures up thoughts of high-calorie, high-fat fare that has no place on a blog about healthy eating. But, burritos should, quite frankly, be a staple on every healthy menu. It all depends what you stuff inside that tortilla. First, choose your wrap — there are so many healthy wraps to choose from: regular flour, whole-grain, low-carb and even wheat-free tortillas made with grains like quinoa. Next, you can choose a bounty of fresh and wholesome ingredients to cram inside before you roll up. Burritos aren't deep fried and not necessarily baked (though you can bake them as I've done below). That means they make quick and easy meals for any day of the week. In fact, I often make burritos with leftovers from the fridge (cooked rice, veggies, fresh salsa and cooked chicken or steak). I like baking my burritos because it melts the cheese and lightly toasts the tortilla, giving the outside a bit of a crust and a lot more flavor.
This recipe below is the perfect starting point for all future recipes. Swap out or add your favorite veggies, chicken, shrimp, tofu or steak. You can also change up the beans; pinto, navy and white beans are good too. Lastly, you can skip the baking part too – for warm tortillas, simply heat them in the microwave for a few seconds. Have fun!
Note: To save time, I used Uncle Ben's brown basmati rice that cooks in just 90 seconds.
Mixed Vegetable-Black Bean Burritos
Cooking spray
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
1/2 cup chopped white onion
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 cup diced or shredded carrots
1 cup shredded zucchini (about 1 medium)
1/2 cup frozen white or yellow corn, thawed
15-ounce can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 cup cooked brown rice or brown basmati rice
2 tablespoons picante sauce or salsa
4 (burrito-size) flour tortillas, regular or whole grain
8 tablespoons shredded Mexican cheese blend
4 tablespoons light sour cream
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray.
Heat the oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion, jalapeno and garlic and cook for 3 to 5 minutes, until the onion is soft and golden. Add the cumin, chili powder, salt, and pepper and stir to coat. Add the carrots, zucchini and corn and cook for 3 minutes, until the vegetables are tender. Stir in the beans, rice and picante sauce and remove from heat.
Arrange the tortillas on a flat surface. Spoon and equal amount of the vegetable filling onto each tortilla (right down the middle). Top the filling with the cheese (2 tablespoons each). Roll over one side of the tortilla to cover the filling. Fold in the ends and then roll up completely. Arrange the burritos, seam side down, on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes, until warm and golden. Top each burrito with sour cream and cilantro before serving.
Serves 4
Nutrition Info Per Serving
Calories: 415
Total Fat: 14 grams
Saturated Fat: 6 grams
Total Carbohydrate: 59 grams
Sugars: 5 grams
Protein: 15 grams
Sodium: 618 milligrams
Cholesterol: 18 milligrams
Fiber: 8 grams


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A green card allows the holder to legally reside, work and study in the United States. They have more permanency to them than visa, but don't allow full voting rights like a US citizen. This is why they are referred to as Permanent Residence, and their status is valid for a period of 10 years. There is also a conditional residency that is only valid for 2 years. There is currently a quota system that restricts the number of individuals that are permitted to receive a green card. They classify groups of individuals by profession, marital status, age, and a number of other factors. There are however some shortcuts to obtaining a green card.
Family Status:
One shortcut to obtaining a green card is through family relationships. Keeping immediate families together is a stated goal of the US immigration policy. If you are a child, spouse, or parent of the US citizen or green card holder than obtaining your own green card is significantly easier. It it virtually impossible to obtain a green for a more distant relative. Citizenship through family members remains the quickest and most efficient method to become a US citizen.
Employment based green cards are another option. As a rule they are reserved for individuals with special skills. This is not generally an option for most workers, unless they their set of skills is in a shortage in the USA. This option is also available for those who are highly educated. To receive this option can be difficult because the employer is required to sponsor and apply on your behalf, which can take along time and be burdensome.
Political asylum and Refugee:
Political asylum seekers and refugees are eligible to receive a green card after residing in the USA. They must be able to prove they have fear of persecution in the home country. Showing that that have received threats or damage to property of themselves increases their changes of obtaining a green card. A refugee must wait one year to apply for a green card and be granted political asylum and a green card.
Keeping the Green Card:
Once the green card has been obtained it eliminates the worry of visa status and leaving or returning to the USA. However, a care must be taken to follow the rules that come with a green card. An address must be maintained in the USA. Next, the majority of time must be spent within the USA, if you leave for 6 months there will likely be questioning when you return. Additionally, the green card must be carried on you at all times, domestically and internationally. If not, you can be fined domestically and have serious problem reentering if you go abroad.
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(The following article first appeared in the Winter 2005 edition of Impact.)
History offers powerful examples of officials who were unwilling or unable to think imaginatively. They resisted innovation and could not perceive what would later be obvious.
Consider the battle of ideas between U.S. Secretary of War Newton Baker and U.S. Army General Billy Mitchell. In 1921, Mitchell proposed to prove the effectiveness of airpower by sinking old battleships through aerial bombardment. Although it's hard to imagine today, the early proponents of airpower were believed to be crackpots by many, and Baker thought Mitchell a nut. Baker even stated, "That idea is so damned nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while that nitwit tries to hit it from the air."
Mitchell, however, was confident in his vision and knew that a successful demonstration would firmly establish the effectiveness of airpower. His bombs found their mark on that historic day, and the ships sank quickly. Baker, who had reconsidered his boast and watched from a safe distance, suffered damage only to his reputation and his ego.
History honors Mitchell as a visionary. Baker, however, is remembered differently.
Now think about recent advances in public policy, and consider today's "Newton Bakers." They have disparaged reforms in welfare policy, vilified tax cuts and belittled school choice. They inexplicably remain the moribund proponents of big government.
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|Jeffrey Cross
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OG Loc
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Big Smoke
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- For the mission, see OG Loc (mission).
Jeffrey Cross, better known as OG Loc, is a character in the 3D Universe who appears as a supporting character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. He is a rapper and member of the Grove Street Families. He is voiced by Jonathan Anderson.
Character history
Early life
Jeffrey Cross was born in the poorer neighborhoods of Los Santos, presumably in Ganton, where he later owns a home. Cross did well at school and had planned on going to college, being encouraged to do so by friend and Grove Street Families leader Sweet, but instead decided to pursue his dream of becoming a successful rapper. He chose the nickname OG Loc and began to commit various crimes in order to imprisoned, to boost his career by making himself appear to be a criminal. He mainly committed traffic violations and, sometime prior to 1992, was arrested by the Los Santos Police Department and sent to prison. He was imprisoned with Freddy, a member of the Los Santos Vagos, who later implies that he raped Loc, who denies it and says that he had stolen his rhymes.
In 1992 he is released from prison and met by Sweet, Big Smoke and Carl Johnson, who mock his appearance and his previous idea of attending college. Loc, however, decides to prove to himself to them and get revenge against Freddy. The four drive to Freddy's home in East Los Santos, with Carl deciding to stay with Loc. Freddy leaves his home and gets on to a motorcycle, fleeing from the angry Loc while also taunting him, saying that he no longer needed him for sex. Loc and Carl chase him down and kill him, before Carl drives Loc to his new job at the Marina branch of the fast food restaurant chain Burger Shot, given to him upon his release from prison.
Working at Burger Shot
Loc later discovers that he is the sanitation technician, or cleaner, at the restaurant and reluctantly does his job, being visited by Carl on numerous occasions. On the first occasion, Loc asks Carl to steal a sound system in the back of a van, which Carl achieves. Carl again visits to find Loc rapping in the restaurants toilets, with a patron telling him that he 'sucked'. Carl suggests getting a writer to help him with lyrics and Loc asks him to steal Madd Dogg's rhyme book from his mansion, which Carl does.
Carl visits him once again and this time meets the manager, initially not knowing 'Loc' but later tells him that Jeffrey had been promoted to Appliance Technician. Loc, upon meeting Carl, tells him that he has been blackballed by Alan Crawford, Madd Dogg's manager, and asks him to kill him after he leaves an awards ceremony in Vinewood. Carl manages to get one of the vehicles in the motorcade carrying Crawford and, after he enters the vehicle, Carl locks the doors and drives the car off a pier in Verona Beach, bailing out at the last second.
Rap career
After Carl had killed Crawford, Loc quits his job as a janitor and violates his probation, deciding to hold a house party before he is sent back to prison. Carl later attends the party and meets Ryder, who both mock Loc's rapping and lyrics. Carl, Ryder and Sweet, also in attendance, are later forced to enter Grove Street to fend off a Ballas attack and are disappointed that they missed the start of the real party, which had begun after Loc had stopped rapping.
Loc continued to perform on the underground circuit and, after the downfall of the Grove Street Families, former member Big Smoke became rich quickly through his involvement in the drugs trade and used his money to get Loc a contract with Blastin' Fools Records. Loc, despite his squeaky voice released his first and only album, Str8 From Tha Streetz, using Madd Dogg's rhyme book. Shortly afterwards a clothing line, Loc-Down (referring to his time in prison) is brought out and is sold by the Victim clothing company.
Loc is also interviewed by Lazlow on his Entertaining America show on West Coast Talk Radio, where he criticizes Lazlow for mispronouncing his name. Loc is also openly supported by Big Smoke, who states that Loc is a real gangster while also saying that he is a philanthropist trying to stop the use of drugs in the city, so that "either way, you can feel good about yourself listening to this music!". Loc's public relations team also attempted to cover up his poor rapping voice by stating that he used "a whole new style of hip hop, fusing dancehall reggae, nursery rhymes and straight gangsta into a str8 bundle of energy and hatred".
Fall from grace
Loc's successful rap career came to an end when Madd Dogg, after almost committing suicide, recovers from depression with the help of Carl Johnson, not knowing of his involvement in the events leading to his depression. Carl later helps Madd Dogg to locate Loc, with the two chasing him using hovercrafts around western Los Santos. They eventually chase him into the Blastin' Fools Records building, where they meet Loc's manager Jimmy Silverman who, after learning that Loc was in possession of Madd Dogg's rhyme book, threatened to sue him.
Loc is later dropped from the label and loses the support from Big Smoke, following his death in his hideout in East Los Santos at the hands of Carl Johnson. Loc, whose album was poorly received, 'disappeared without a trace' according to Big Smilky, who also states that many view him as the worst rapper in history. Loc then faded away and did not release another album.
Mission appearances
- GTA San Andreas
- The Introduction
- OG Loc
- Life's a Beach (Boss)
- Madd Dogg's Rhymes (Boss)
- Management Issues (Boss)
- House Party (Boss)
- Cut Throat Business
Murders committed
- Freddy - (is killed by OG Loc and Carl Johnson for stealing his rhymes and spreading rumors about him)
- Alan Crawford - (employes Carl Johnson to kill Alan Crawford by driving him in a limo off a pier, in order to ruin Madd Dogg's career)
- Str8 From Tha Streetz, the only album released by OG Loc, can be found in Grand Theft Auto IV in Niko Bellic's safehouse in Bohan and in The Ballad of Gay Tony in Luis Fernando Lopez' safe house in Northwood and in the DJ area of Bahama Mama's.
- The beta name of OG Loc was Jeffrey Martin, while his rap name was to be MC Strap.
- When Madd Dogg asks CJ on "how does an idiot like Loc make it in the rap game", CJ replies that "it's all showmanship and dance routines", referring to the early 90s trend of pop rap by MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice and others, although Loc states on Entertaining America when asked to dance "I ain't down with that shit, it ain't gangsta!".
- OG Loc is also a mocking parody of Ja Rule, although Ja Rule was not famous until 1999, seven years after the setting of GTA San Andreas. Both men are named "Jeffrey", portray themselves alike, and Ja Rule was also accused of stealing rhymes and other style notes from frequent collaborator DMX. Rumours circulate that he was a parody of Ja Rule due to Rockstar Games' attempts to have 50 Cent voice Carl Johnson, as 50 Cent was involved in a rivalry with Ja Rule at the time.
- When listening to some radio shows featuring OG Loc, his voice is much deeper and doesn't break. He most likely edited his high pitched voice for the radio to sound more appealing.
- Oddly, even though OG Loc is a member of Grove Street Families, he sports a pair of purple jeans, the color of their arch rivals the Ballas.
- OG Loc has his own clothing company named "Loc Down". A Loc Down tee can be found at Victim.
OG Loc in his Burger Shot uniform.
OG Loc's CD in Grand Theft Auto IV (top right)
OG Loc's rap song


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Her first book of original poetry in English, Talk Shows, was published in 2007 by Switchback Books, followed by Public Domain (Roof Books) in 2008. Her book The Happy End/All Welcome is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2016.
She coedited, with Michael Wiegers, the collection Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2002) and is also the coauthor of the book Appendices, Illustrations, & Notes (Smart Art Press, 2000) with artist Terence Gower. She edited and translated the volume Poems by Gerardo Deniz, and has translated numerous other Spanish-language poets.
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The report, "Results of the 2012 Medical School Enrollment Survey(members.aamc.org)," was prepared by the AAMC's Center for Workforce Studies and represents the ninth iteration of the annual effort.
Specifically, first-year medical school enrollment is projected to reach 21,434 by the 2017-18 school year, which is a 30 percent increase compared to 2002 enrollment numbers. The report projects an even sharper increase in osteopathic medical school enrollment; first-year enrollment is expected to reach 6,675 in 2017, which represents a 125 percent increase since 2002. Combined first-year M.D. and D.O. medical school enrollment likely will reach 28,109 by 2017 compared to 19,456 in 2002.
In an AAMC press release(www.aamc.org), AAMC President and CEO Darrell Kirch, M.D., says he is pleased to see medical school enrollment increasing at a time when many health care analysts are predicting severe physician shortages. But, he adds, Congress needs to increase the number of federally funded residency training positions.
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- Results of the 2012 AAMC medical school enrollment survey show that first-year enrollment at U.S. medical schools and schools of osteopathic medicine is increasing.
- Medical schools are implementing policies and programs to increase medical student interest in primary care specialties.
- Increasingly, medical schools are worried about clinical training opportunities for students.
"Increasing enrollments show that medical schools are doing their part to avert the shortage of more than 90,000 primary care specialty doctors this nation faces by 2020," says Kirch. "However, this will not result in a single new practicing physician unless Congress acts now to lift the cap on residency training positions."
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The capability of GMOS on Gemini to perform Nod & Shuffle operations is not one of the observing modes for which the instrument was originally designed and developed. The capability was proposed, developed, implemented and tested as an enhancement to the existing GMOS-N instrument from late 2001 to September 2002 by the GMOS Nod & Shuffle Commissioning Team. Below we give a brief overview of the Nod & Shuffle concept - for more information please see "Microslit Nod-Shuffle Spectroscopy: A Technique for Achieving Very High Densities of Spectra", Karl Glazebrook and Joss Bland-Hawthorn, 2001, PASP, 113, 197.
Nod & Shuffle allows the accurate subtraction of night sky emission by frequently nodding the telescope pointing between an object position and a sky position while simultaneously shuffling the charge on the CCD detectors between science and storage (unilluminated) regions. This is similar to the common practice in near-infrared astronomy of nodding or beam-switching, with the difference that the detector is not read out after each nod as is the case for background-limited near-infrared observations which do not suffer from read noise. The resulting image produced by the Nod & Shuffle technique contains two spectra obtained quasi-simultaneously through each slit in the focal plane mask - one of the object and one of the sky. Although these spectra are stored in different regions of the CCD detector, they were obtained with exactly the same pixels through identical optical paths. The effects of pixel response (flat-field), fringing, irregularities in the slit, and temporal variations in the sky cancel out when one subtracts the sky spectrum from the object spectrum. For long exposures, one can realize a factor of 10 improvement in the systematic uncertainties associated with subtraction of bright sky lines, especially in the red (600-1000 nm) where such errors typically dominate over photon or read noise. There is a trade-off, however: the noise in sky-subtracted Nod & Shuffle spectra is higher (by up to a factor of sqrt(2)) compared to classically sky-subtracted spectra using a very long slit. Thus Nod & Shuffle is not for every GMOS spectroscopy program.
Because with Nod & Shuffle one no longer derives the sky from regions adjacent to the object, one can use significantly shorter slits than in classical MOS spectroscopy which typically uses 5-10 arcsec long slitlets. In the limit where the slits have the same length as the object size (or the seeing disk), the density of these "microslits" can be 5-10 times higher than in the normal MOS mode. This can be particularly advantageous when performing MOS spectroscopy of crowded fields. However, because part of the detector is used for charge storage and therefore can not be illuminated, one necessarily loses between half and two-thirds of the GMOS field of view with Nod & Shuffle, depending on the Nod & Shuffle layout and shuffling mode selected. A further disadvantage of Nod & Shuffle observing is the increased overheads, described elsewhere.
The spectral images produced by Nod & Shuffle are, naturally, different from those produced by classical MOS spectroscopy and the data reduction is also different. Additional tasks to handle the reduction of Nod & Shuffle spectral data are included in the current releases of Gemini IRAF scripts, so these should not be considered a disadvantage.


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I've watched two episodes of the dub on adult swim and I'm massively disappointed. I think Michael J Tatum is a horrible adaptive script writer.
I won't get picky. I'll just mention the one thing that I personally just hated the most.
It's just that Mikasa never cussed ever in this show on Crunchyroll's subs. I'm weird, I'm not fond of cuss words and it's one of several reasons I liked Mikasa. Yet in two episodes into the show, Michael J Tatum has turned this character into someone else entirely for me. I hate it.
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1.34 million for episode one, then 1.46 for episode two, so the word of mouth is good. (For comparison, most Toonami shows in that time slot get around one million viewers.)
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Opinions are mixed.
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Well English dub....Well I must say it's better then some out there and I've only seen some dialogue changes but the first thing I noticed was armins voice.....now because eren looks older and is not as much as a wuss you'd expect him to have a deeper voice sadly no....anyways the 3rd episode I had some hope I was at comic con that day and met jeans English dubbed voice actor and asked some questions but you know I got home waited and episode 3 came on....it was better since the voices weren't horrible but that's when episode 4 dubbed came in now in the series Annie is my favorite female character (honestly mikasa is a little cliche) well I was surprised at the voice and I was like..."Well she does have a bit if a different past so it does make sense...." anyways overall if you can mind the voices and dialogue changes its the same anime we watched with English subtitles
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A: How badly phrased the english dub is such that what they are saying doesn't make sense in either english or japanese and would not be phrased that way in either language.
English dub: "And just like that, everything changed. At that terrible moment, in our hearts, we knew... "home" was a pen... and humanity, cattle."
What kind of obscure metaphor is that? Have you ever heard anyone talk in short phrases like that? Not even when building up suspense do you do that in this way. Just like what? It's the fucking beginning of the series, we don't know what he's referring to! It's like something's already happened, but the titan doesn't come through until a few secs later.
Who the fuck is talking in the present tense? No characters have been introduced yet!
Sub: "On that day, humanity received a grim reminder... the terror of being ruled by the titans.....and the humiliation of being kept in a cage."
Much better. The thoughT-phrase idea makes REALISTIC SENSE like this. 3 distinct points. Notice this is in the past tense not the present, which makes it more realistic as we are seeing a top view of the city not a in person view.
The whole Hannes saying because he was scared makes no sense in the dub as to why that would make Eren cry instead of shout while it did in the sub.
Home was a pen? The way he says it makes it seems like my house can be stir-fried which makes no logical sense until skips the 'was a' and goes straight to cattle. That is NOT a expression in the english language.
People, are a pen (WTF?). The forum, PAPER. (PFFT HERE IN AMERICA WE JUST SAY PEOPLE POST ON THE FORUMS AND MOST PEOPLE FIND THAT TOO OBSCURE TO UNDERSTAND ANYWAY)
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It seems the 2nd season was announced during Animagic 2014 in Germany. According to the article, the anime is in "pre-production phase".
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The Levi spin-off "No Regret" is getting an anime adaptation. 1st OAV comes in december, and 2nd OAV comes in april
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Magic Choreography Helder Guimarães
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Music by Pedro Marques
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Derek DelGaudio is a Los Angeles based artist and magician whose work ranges from intimate and conceptual sleights of hand to grand-scale public interventions. He co-founded the experimental performance art duo, A.Bandit, with artist Glenn Kaino in 2010. Since then, A.Bandit has staged its psycho-spatial interventions at Soho House in Los Angeles, Art L.A. Contemporary in Santa Monica, LA>
HELDER GUIMARÃES (Performer)
In 2006, at the age of just 23, Helder became the youngest ever World Champion of Card Magic. He was awarded the title after his performance in a triennial competition left both the judging panel and over a thousand other performers utterly baffled. Since then he has used his background in acting and theatre to create, perform in and tour three one-man-shows — The No-Show Show, This is Not Normal and Incomplete. Helder has also worked as a magic consultant for several TV projects including The Tonight Show, as well as theatrical productions such as Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. He is also the author of Reflections, a book for professional conjurers. Helder's work has been widely recognized by his peers; most recently, he was awarded the title of Parlor Magician of the Year by The Academy of Magical Arts, Hollywood.
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Sen. Mark Begich, (D-Alaska), and Sen. Mark Warner, (D-Va.), both supporters of the president's 2010 reform law, are behind the new idea. Sen. Warner's office declined to provide details as the idea is still in the planning stages.
The Wall Street Journal also reports that Aetna (NYSE:AET) and Cigna (NYSE:CI) have backed the proposal.
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Currently the only comparable coverage to what would be a copper plan on the exchange is catastrophic coverage. This plan is available for those under age 30, and is significantly less expensive. Premium costs for the average American for a mid-tier silver plan, pre-subsidy, are about $328 a month.
Subsidies are available under the ACA for those making up to 400% of the federal poverty level—about $45,000 for an individual and $94,000 for a family of four.
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Since open enrollment period began on Oct. 1, 3.3 million Americans have selected plans on both state and federal exchanges. Twenty-five percent of these enrollees are between the much-needed ages of 18 to 34.
Under the ACA, every individual in the country has to have insurance by the end of open enrollment period or they will face a fine of $95 a year or 1% of their annual income for failing to comply.
"This would cut out benefits that people don't want to pay for, and be a powerful inducement for people sitting on the fence," he says.
And while the ACA does mandate that every plan cover 10 essential health benefits—from ambulatory services to prescription drug costs—some say a copper plan would go against the law's main goal. Since the ACA became law, more than 6 million Americans have lost their old plans because they did not meet the law's new standards.
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"User fees, at least through the rest of this administration, will continue to be an issue of concern," Graves said. "So, the industry and Congress must continue to work together to show the president and others in Congress that additional aviation user fees are a non-starter. As far as the tower closures and air traffic controller cutbacks, Congress has granted the administration the flexibility needed to move funds around in order to comply with the sequestration budget levels."
Q: Why do you feel general aviation has such strong, bipartisan support in the House of Representatives, as evidenced by the record number of members in the House GA Caucus?
"General aviation touches every congressional district in some way," Graves said. "Whether it is general aviation airports, aviation manufacturers, or — most importantly — our pilots across the country, GA activities contribute greatly to our economy and that is why support of GA in the House is so overwhelmingly bipartisan."
Q: What changes would you most like to see in the current legislative environment to better support general aviation?
"If we can get our fiscal house in order without increasing the burdens on general aviation, then we should work on policies that actually help to promote this vital industry," he said. "When the government needs more money to balance its books, it goes in search of new revenue. That is why we continue to see the threat of increasing aviation user fees offered by the president and his allies. However, 223 members of Congress sent a letter to the president this year reminding him that user fees are a non-starter in the House, and it was great to see such broad, bipartisan support on this issue."
Q: Along those lines, what are some of the most significant "victories" for GA that you've seen and been a part of over the past few years?
"The user fees letter was a very significant victory because we were able to get 223 members to sign on opposing user fees," he said. "This helped take user fees off the table as a potential source of revenue in budgetary talks this year.
"Also, we got a lot of things done in the long-overdue FAA reauthorization that I was proud of, such as through-the-fence agreements, the Block Aircraft Registration Request and a commitment to develop an alternative fuel that works for the entire fleet," he continued. "But there is always more that could be done to protect and improve the regulatory and legislative climate for general aviation, and we're working hard to look out for GA."
Q: Please describe why it is personally important to you to attend NBAA2013, and what you hope to accomplish through your participation at the show.
"The key to educating members of Congress on issues of importance to the general aviation community is having those from the industry talk to their elected officials about the economic benefits of GA and the impact Washington has on their ability to operate businesses," he said.
"I co-chair the House General Aviation Caucus, and recently we announced that over half of the members of the House have joined this group. That's a major victory for raising awareness of GA and keeping our issues at the forefront, but people on Capitol Hill still need to hear from participants at NBAA2013 and other conferences who are invested in the future of GA.
I think it's important for me to bring that message directly to the conference and encourage everyone to maintain relationships with the senators' and representatives' offices in Washington. I also enjoy getting to see everyone at events like NBAA2013 and having the opportunity to talk about how important GA is to our economy, while also continuing to learn from other pilots and experts."
A lifelong aviation enthusiast, Graves has championed for the industry since his election to Congress in 2000.
Along with Rep. John Barrow (D-12-GA), Graves co-chairs the House GA Caucus, a leading voice on behalf of general aviation, and one of the largest and most active of the congressional caucuses. Earlier this year, the House GA Caucus achieved a record 223 members, comprising a majority in the House and demonstrating the wide scope of industry support among lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
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