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A new Hope College course through which students will work with schools in inner-city Los Angeles is part of a developing relationship that organizers Hope will make a lasting difference on many levels.
The three-week May Term course, "Hope Comes to Watts," will engage students with the two charter elementary and middle schools that are part of the Watts Learning Center in South Los Angeles. Running Tuesday, May 7, through Friday, May 24, the course is designed to immerse the students in living the challenges, needs and rewards that are part of working with children in a culturally diverse urban setting.
"This is an incredible and unique experience for our students," said John Yelding, who is the Susan M. and Glenn G. Cherup Professor of Education and one of three Hope faculty developing the program. "It's clearly inner-city, it's highly diverse, and it will expose them to cultural experiences that most of them have never had before."
"It's something that we think our students can build on the rest of their lives," said Yelding, who has been developing the course with Hope education colleagues Nancy Cook and Madeline Kukla. "It could be something that really influences their sense of career choices and sense of calling, whether they're students that are in education or not."
A total of 11 Hope students will be participating in the May Term during its inaugural year. The mix includes not only students who are seeking to become teachers, but also students interested in social work, psychology and communication. Their activities will reflect their range of interests, from assisting teachers in classroom placements, to working with a school social worker, to shadowing a principal, to assisting the Watts Learning Center with its web site and developing a video. All of the Hope students will also work with the children through after-school programs at the two schools.
While the focus of the May Term is on providing a meaningful learning experience for students, Yelding noted that it has developed as part of a larger vision for how both the Watts Learning Center and Hope can benefit from working together.
"We see it eventually as a relationship that doesn't just exist for three weeks in May but is ongoing," he said.
Longer-term, for example, Yelding envisions the elementary and middle schools potentially serving as an option for semester-long student-teaching experiences, and perhaps even for teaching positions. "We have students who are very interested in teaching in high-needs areas," he said.
He also noted that the Watts Learning Center has long been interested in developing a partnership with a college or university with an education program whose faculty could in turn serve as a resource. For example, he said, "It gives them someone to turn to as they have questions and as they consider decisions about curriculum, procedures and policies."
At the same time, Yelding said, he and his colleagues—like the college's students—are approaching the experience and future as learners who want to help.
"We do not go in there with the attitude that we're the experts by any means," he said. "We do go in with the desire to help in any way that they invite."
The Watts Learning Center, which emphasizes preparing students for college, opened in 1997 as K-5 elementary school and was one of the first three independent charter schools approved in the Los Angeles Unified School District. It expanded in 2009 to include a middle school, which now serves grades six-eight, at a separate campus. Today the two schools enroll a combined total of approximately 625 students.
"It's a successful school," Yelding said. "The elementary school took students who were scoring in the bottom 10 percent of the California state test and they now score consistently at or above the state average in every area."
"The middle school started with students with similar challenges, added one grade a year, and has just moved into a new building," he said. "The middle school's enrollment jumped from 140 to 350 this year, and they have a wait list to get in."
Yelding noted that the two schools are about five minutes apart. He said that more than 90 percent of the students enrolled in the elementary school are African-American, with most students commuting from elsewhere in the community. At the middle school, he said, more than 50 percent of the students are Latino, and most live within walking distance.
The Watts Learning Center was founded by Gene and Sandra Fisher, both of whom continue to be actively involved in the institution. Gene Fisher, who is president of the Watts Learning Center Board of Directors, is an environmental scientist who has held positions addressing environmental and health needs in the U.S. and Africa. Sandra Fisher, who is executive director of the Watts Learning Center, has also served as a teacher and principal with the Los Angeles Public Schools.
The partnership between Hope's department of education and the Watts Learning Center has been developing since 2011. Cook, who is professor of education and director of student teaching, and Kukla, who is director of national accreditation and special programs for the department, paid an initial visit to the center's two schools that summer, with Kukla and Yelding visiting in the summer of 2012, and Cook and Yelding returning in February of this year to finalize details for the May Term. Gene and Sandra Fisher visited Hope in January 2012 and discussed the Watts Learning Center through a campus address, "An Exciting Educational Partnership: Embracing the Challenge of Disbelief," presented through the college's annual Darell and Mary Schregardus Diversity Lecture Series.
Hope's department of education prepares teacher candidates to teach in elementary and secondary schools. Each year, the department annually recommends approximately 150 graduates to the State of Michigan for teacher certification. The department currently has 12 full-time faculty.
The program is nationally accredited through the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC). In 2012, the program was one of only two in the state to earn a 70, the highest score possible, on the newly released 2010-11 Michigan Department of Education Teacher Preparation Institution Performance Scores. Hope has consistently ranked as one of the state's top programs, receiving an "Exemplary" rating, in the annual listing since the report's inception in 2005.
The teacher-education program at Hope provides prospective teachers with a blend of classroom instruction and field experience. Teacher candidates participate in field placements beginning with their first course in the program, Educational Psychology. This model continues through the teacher candidates culminating semester of student teaching. The student-teaching placements are available not only locally but also through off-campus programs including in Chicago, Illinois; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. An on-going relationship with Interaction International has also provided student-teaching opportunities in nations including India, Kenya and Thailand. Teacher candidates also have the chance to gain additional experience through activities by volunteering with local organizations that work with children, such as the Children's After School Achievement (CASA) and TRIO Upward Bound programs based at Hope.


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Green River College offers free tutoring resources to currently enrolled Green River students.
- Math Learning Center: Provides assistance with math. Location: Cedar Hall, CH 313.
- Public Speaking Center: Provides one-on-one assistance with oral presentations. You can make an appointment for your practice time on the Public Speaking Center web page. Location: Holman Library, HL-150.
- Tutoring and Resource Center: Provides assistance with all subject areas except math. Location: Holman Library, 2nd floor.
- Writing & Reading Center: Provides assistance with writing. Location: Rutkowski Learning Center (RLC) in RLC 173.


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Factiva has discontinued its service to all alumni associations worldwide. The Haas Alumni Network is exploring other vendors that might offer similar services to Haas graduates. However, no other company has stepped forward to offer alumni associations a group subscription to all the information that was available from Factiva.
Any new services that may be offered to alumni will be announced in our BHAN newsletter that is emailed to all Haas alumni.
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The Colossus is Created!
New York City Sculpture artist James Tyler completed his fifteen foot tall ceramic creation for the Union Plaza park. The Colossus, a giant brick head, consists of more than 300 individually shaped bricks stacked in concentric circles, layer upon layer, and used over ten tons of red clay.
Lincoln will be home to one of the largest free standing ceramic sculptures ever made. Union Plaza will not be completed until 2011, however installation of The Colossus may come as early as Fall of 2010! Keep your eyes peeled for the masterpiece in the middle block of Union Plaza, between "P" and "Q" streets. Be sure to check out Tylersculpture.com for more information about The Colossus and the talented sculpture artist, James Taylor.


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A quiet revolution has been taking place in the planetarium world – from "starfield and pointer" shows to immersive, action-film adventures of the full-dome digital theater.
As of this spring, there are more of these full-dome digital video theaters than IMAX theaters. And the Burke Baker Planetarium has led the way – we were the first in the US to premiere a full-dome projection system here in the fall of 1998.
Have you ever wondered how we fill the dome with images – especially since a dome is so much bigger than a movie screen? The next time you visit us, look around for the big projector cage that once dominated the center of the dome. It's gone – replaced by six high resolution, high brightness video projectors, each filling a portion of the dome with a specific part of a giant fisheye movie.
Over eight million pixels are delivered to the dome thirty times each second to create the full dome movie experience. Audiences must learn to turn around and enjoy the motion that surrounds them – and try not to get dizzy in the process.
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To make the planetarium magic, six computers play their different parts of the giant fisheye movie at exactly the same time and rate. All six must be blended perfectly at the edges and all six projectors must be so alike in color and brightness that it looks like a continuous moving full-dome image.
The second trick of full-dome production is to use the dome experience to its fullest. We are now completing the scenes for the upcoming Ice Worlds show, opening on July 4. It is most important to put the visitor in the middle of the action – flying through the icy ringlets of Saturn, landing on the ice moon, Europa, even having a polar bear paw land on your head.
If you haven't visited the Planetarium recently, it's time to join the adventure and experience the action.


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Money from the health care law, the 2009 stimulus bill and fiscal 2011 dollars helped the loan-repayment and scholarship program grow.
A government program that helps medical professionals cover the cost of their education if they practice in underserved areas has nearly tripled in size, federal officials announced on Thursday.
The National Health Service Corps, which received $1.5 billion in funding from the 2010 health care reform law, has increased from 3,600 clinicians in 2008 to more than 10,000 this year. Significant funding from the health care law, the 2009 stimulus bill, and fiscal 2011 dollars helped increase the size of the loan-repayment and scholarship program.
"When you don't have access to primary care, small health problems grow into big ones," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on a conference call. "Most of these providers graduate with tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans, and it is very difficult to pay off while doing this important work."
Since 2008, HHS has awarded 5,418 loan-repayment awards, totaling $253 million, and 247 scholarships, which cover tuition, totaling $46 million. HHS estimates that the increase in the program will deliver care to an additional 7 million Americans.
Even with the growth in the program, Health Resources and Services Administration chief Mary Wakefield said there are underserved areas of the country that qualify for National Health Service Corps members, but there is not enough money to fund providers there.
"It is a significant challenge," Wakefield said. "We have more sites that are designated or eligible than we have clinicians. We also have, on the flip side, more students applying to National Health Service Corps than we have availability" of funding, Wakefield said.
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text: Chlorella ellipsoidea Gerneck (ATCC® 30404™) Strain Designations: UTEX 20 [CCAP-211/1a] / Depositor: UTEX / Biosafety Level: 1 General Information Characteristics Culture Method History Documentation Print Email Share Share this product Facebook Twitter Google+ Permits and Restrictions View Permits Deposited As Chlorella saccharophila var. ellipsoidea Strain Designations UTEX 20 [CCAP-211/1a] Application Biofuel production Biosafety Level 1 Biosafety classification is based on U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that their facilities comply with biosafety regulations for their own country. Isolation Freshwater, (?) Product Format freeze-dried Storage Conditions Frozen Cultures:-70°C for 1 week; liquid N2 vapor for long term storageFreeze-dried Cultures:2-8°CLive Cultures:See Protocols section for handling information Type Strain no Comments photosynthetic Medium ATCC® Medium 847: Algal proteose agar Growth Conditions Temperature: 25°C Culture System: Axenic Cryopreservation Harvest and Preservation Harvest cells from a culture that is at or near peak density by centrifugation at 800 x g for 5 min. Adjust the concentration of cells to 2 x 106 - 2 x 107/mL in fresh medium. While cells are centrifuging prepare a 10% (v/v) solution of sterile methanol in fresh medium. Mix the cell preparation and the 10% methanol in equal portions. Thus, the final concentration will be 106 - 107 cells/mL and 5% (v/v) Methanol. The time from the mixing of the cell preparation and methanol stock solution to the beginning of the freezing process should be no less than 5 min and no greater than 15 min. Dispense in 0.5 mL aliquots into 1.0 - 2.0 mL sterile plastic screw-capped cryules (special plastic vials for cryopreservation). Place the vials in a controlled rate freezing unit. From room temperature cool at -1°C/min to -40°C. If the freezing unit can compensate for the heat of fusion, maintain rate at -1°C/min through the heat of fusion. At -40°C plunge into liquid nitrogen. Alternatively, place the vials in a Nalgene 1°C freezing apparatus. Place the apparatus at -80°C for 1.5 to 2 hours and then plunge ampules into liquid nitrogen. (The cooling rate in this apparatus is approximately -1°C/min.) The frozen preparations should be stored in either the vapor or liquid phase of a nitrogen refrigerator. Frozen preparations stored below -130°C are stabile indefinitely. Those stored at temperatures above -130°C are progressively less stabile as the storage temperature is elevated. Vials should not be stored above -55°C. To establish a culture from the frozen state place an ampule in a water bath set at 35°C. Immerse the vial just to a level just above the surface of the frozen material. Do not agitate the vial. Immediately after thawing, do not leave in the water bath, aseptically remove the contents of the ampule and inoculate a 16 x 125 mm screw-capped test tube containing 5 mL of ATCC medium 847 broth or to the surface of ATCC medium 847 agar plate (20 x 100 mm Petri plate containing 20 mL of ATCC medium 847 agar). Incubate the culture on a 15° horizontal slant at 25°C with the cap screwed on loosely (loosened one-half turn) and incubate under a 14 hour light (~50 µEinsteins/m2/s irradiance)/10 hour dark cycle. Alternatively, add the entire contents of the thawed ampule to the surface of a 20 x 100 mm Petri plate containing 20 mL of ATCC medium 847 agar. Spread the material evenly over the plate with a sterile cooled spread bar. Incubate in the same manner as the test tube culture. Name of Depositor UTEX Chain of Custody ATCC <-- UTEX <-- E. Kessler/C. Soeder (1962) <-- M. Winokur (1948) <-- . . . <-- E.G. Pringsheim References Starr RC. The culture collection of algae at Indiana University. Am. J. Bot. 51: 1013-1044, 1964. Permits These permits may be required for shipping this product: Customers located in the state of Hawaii will need to contact the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to determine if an Import Permit is required. A copy of the permit or documentation that a permit is not required must be sent to ATCC in advance of shipment. Basic Documentation Product Sheet Certificate of Analysis SDS


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Working with the well known models of cutaneous immune hypersensitivity and immunity, Dr Askenase discovered the series of steps from challenge with antigen, in a sensitized host, to the entry of T cells into the site of challenge. This work uncovered a previously unrecognized roles of: B-1a B cells, NKT cells, IL-4, complement, serotonin and mast cells.These findings are relevant to the diagnosis and therapy of allergic and autoimmune diseases, as well as cancers and transplantation.
Current work in the Askenase lab centers on the very exciting newly discovered exosomes that are nanoparticles released by all cells sending RNA functional messages to each other. We work on these is models of allergy, multiple sclerosis, neurodegenerative diseases and stem cell therapies.
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…was when George W. Bush got elected. John Wixted at Back Talk has a great post titled Americans Hate Their Fabulous Economy. Wixted has plotted the Gallup Poll tracking Americans' perceptions of the economy over the last decade:
He then plots the objective data relating to GDP growth, unemployment and inflation. Suffice it to say that the data paint a very different picture from the polls. Why do you suppose that could be?


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Newly appointed Afghan War commander Gen. Joe Dunford stepped up to the plate in Afghanistan and, according to Foreign Policy's Gordon Lubold, promptly whiffed when Afghan President Hamid Karzai "threw a curveball."
Dunford, who took over command of the International Security Assitance Force (ISAF) from Gen. John Allen Feb. 11, was in command less than two weeks when Karzai issued a statement excoriating and evicting special forces from the Warduk province.
Since the announcement, ISAF has been deadly quiet about its special forces getting the boot.
It started Karzai's statement, issued Sunday:
"[A]rmed individuals named as US special force stationed in Wardak province engage in harassing, annoying, torturing and even murdering innocent people. A recent example in the province is an incident in which nine people were disappeared in an operation by this suspicious force and in a separate incident a student was taken away at night from his home, whose tortured body with throat cut was found two days later under a bridge."
Karzai's eviction notice came with a two week buffer, giving the teams time to make their exodus. In the meantime, Dunford's ISAF just gave Lubold a statement today saying, in essence, that it takes allegations seriously and that it intends to conduct a full investigation.
The ISAF spokespeople kept mum about whether or not the troops were actually leaving, essentially claiming "operational security," meaning they don't discuss troop movements. The statement is both elusive and understandable.
The announcement with regard to special operations forces comes on the heels of Obama and Karzai's joint announcement that the pace of turnover in Afghanistan will be "accelerated."
Again, not quite silently noted is the how the difficulties Obama faces in getting a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) factored in to the decision to accelerate the process. Among other things, the SOFA maintains immunity for foreign troops fighting in the Afghan War.


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I can't believe it's Friday again! On the other hand the weeks can't go fast enough, but on the other hand the weekends come around so fast. Have you noticed this too? I'm really looking forward to a couple of days off though!
I made this quinoa seed bread earlier this week and I was quite excited about how it turned out. I always have a variety of seeds in my pantry and I love sprinkling them on salads, breakfast porridge and other dishes. I also love seedy breads and I was desperately craving one the other day so decided to make my own version of it. This is such a simple loaf to make and if you haven't tried quinoa flour yet then now is the time! It's high in protein and adds a lovely nutty flavour to breads and cakes. I've used kinako (soy bean flour) to add to the nuttiness and it also gives this loaf a beautiful scent. Satisfaction guaranteed! :-)
Preheat oven to 180C and prepare a medium size loaf tin. Mix the dry ingredients together, then in a separate bowl, whisk the eggs with the milk. Add the egg mixture into the dry ingredients and fold well to combine. Pour into the prepared tin and bake for about 30 minutes or until a tester inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Leave to cool on a wire rack.


text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) --When you're "Too Big To Fail," you're also too big to make good credit decisions, judging from third quarter data published last week by Keefe Bruyette & Woods. KBW covers more than 200 U.S. banks, but the four Too Big To Fail lenders, Bank of America ( BAC - Get Report), JPMorgan Chase ( JPM - Get Report), Wells Fargo ( WFC - Get Report) and Citigroup ( C - Get Report) collectively showed up on "10 worst" lists in 23 different categories, while appearing on "10 best" lists just twice. JPMorgan, for example, showed the third-highest rate of credit deterioration, with a 2.2% increase in net new problem loans in the third quarter versus the second. While only 0.4% of its new loans are classified as problematic--generally meaning they are more than 90 days delinquent, had to be restructured, or have been written off entirely--more than 200 banks somehow managed to do better. Consumer and residential loans were a particular problem for JPMorgan and other TBTF lenders as well--not surprising since big lenders are presumably better at analyzing, understanding and perhaps muscling companies than they are at dealing with individuals. JPMorgan has the second-highest ratio of non-performing one to four family loans at 14.18%--up from 13.09% in the second quarter and 11.85% in the third quarter of 2011. All four of the TBTF banks made the top 10 list for non-performing home equity loans. The worst of the big four in this category was Citigroup, with 4.35% of its home equity loans classified as non-performing, up from 4.02% in the second quarter and 2.28% in the third quarter of last year. While credit is improving overall in the banking industry, and some of these bad numbers may be the result of acquisitions of troubled institutions, the data still serves as a reminder that mass-produced products--whether clothes, furniture, or --yes, even loans--are often lower in quality than those that are the result of a more careful process involving a greater degree of individual attention. -- Written by Dan Freed in New York. Follow @dan_freed


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Rollovers in IESeptember 19, 2003
To: anyone finding that image-based CSS rollovers 'blink' in Internet Explorer, traditional or Pixy method:
Tools > Internet Options > General > Temporary Internet Files > Settings
Move the radio button from 'Every visit to the page' to 'Automatically'. Remember? You turned that on to clear up IE's caching problems? Most users don't, so you and a handful of other developers are the only one experiencing the blink. Rejoice.
From: someone who was in the same boat until a particularly frustrating evening of testing many moons ago.
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Aaaaahhhhhhhh………! The light just came back on. Thank you for that.
*ACK* man, i've been wondering about that damn 'blink' in IE for ages… could never figure out why it did it, yet others said they didnt get a "blink" in IE.
thanks man! now i feel dumb…. :)
Holy cow! That's amazing. I actually thought I hadn't set that (I use meta tags to force refreshes) until I tried out Pixy's example - and gagged at how awful it looked… then I checked the setting. Dang. Mezzoblue doesn't strobe the header on me either now. :-)
Hmm.. I posted a comment but it is now… Gone!
Anyway, Dave and Matt, maybe it's my ISP, maybe something else, but I get flicker on both Photomatt and now on Mezzoblue - even when I set to 'Never'.
We used to have that problem on our site, but it disappeared after we switched hosts (to one in Vancouver, no less). While searching around though, I found that there was mention of some sort of IE bug.
Am I the only one seeing this still here?
Hmm.. I posted a comment but it is now… Gone!
Anyway, Dave and Matt, maybe it's my ISP, maybe something else, but I get flicker on both Photomatt and now on Mezzoblue - even when I set to 'Never'.
We used to have that problem on our site, but it disappeared after we switched hosts (to one in Vancouver, no less). While searching around though, I found that there was mention of some sort of IE bug.
Am I the only one seeing this still here?
Sorry for the double - seems it's one of those days…
Has anyone tried this method posted here http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/30707
You change the .htaccess file on your server so it doesn't run into that caching problem.
I haven't tried that .htaccess method yet but it is illuminating and could help in an Apache environment. Thanks for sharing.
I have to concur with what Mike (comments 3/4) suggested about this being an "ISP" issue. It actually seems to be determined by some setting on the server, or perhaps a certain firewall setting, or maybe something else even more arcane.
Right now, I have the same exact web site (exactly the same files) on two different Windows, IIS servers which are on two completely separate networks which I am both accessing via the internet. The site on one of the servers exhibits the "flicker" while the same site on the other server has no flicker at all. Both servers in question are remote to my workstation (meaning: separated over the internet), but a third, development server on my local network does not display the flicker in IE either. Of course, the flicker does not occur in Mozilla on any server.
I am just guessing here, but I don't think that this is a bandwidth or even a processing speed issue on either the client side or the server side. I think it has to do with how the client is instructed to "cache" (or not cache) certain items through "document headers" sent by the server.
By "document headers" I am not referring to <meta> tags in the <head> tag of an HTML file. Document headers are not in the source code of a web page or something that is stored inside GIF or JPEG files either. They are little bits of code that a device which is loading and displaying a file being downloaded (a device such as a web browser) can use (or ignore) to "figure out" how to best display the file, as well as whether or not to cache it, or any other number of things.
So, perhaps one of the two remote servers in my case is somehow sending a document header that IE is interpreting as, "Do not cache this file". IE therefore caches the files from one server, but not from the other. The server whos files are not getting cached exhibits the flicker.
I need to find a tool that will allow me to examine the document headers being sent by an IIS web server.
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How many of those parents who lost children in the Connecticut shooting are christian?
If you pray over their bodies after this then in my opinion you disrespect their memory, where was your bloody god when they needed him most!?
I had a long cry after seeing the story, but I'm not forgetting we are still killing children with drones, oh do you want me to feel sorry for your loss?, I feel sorry for the children NOT you!
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Must you drone on and on about the same subject..?
Next time, at least try to be a little bit original in your criticism. Like, American school children lighting candles for Pakistani drone victims:
We've been hearing about kids dying in Africa and in war torn countries for decades, we're numb to it. It's like watching a murder on a tv show, we just blink through it now. But when it happens in our own back yard in such a quiet little place at such a tragic time, it's different.
You're right. And our numbness is important. It helps perpetuate the status quo. Even what happens in our own backyard can be ignored. I already ignore the drug violence in my city quite easily. Every now and then something so heinous occurs that is jolts us out of our stupour. Maybe people will react differently to this crime--to change things--but I remain skeptical.
Bryan Fischer, on his Christian radio show, as well as Mike Huckabee on "Fox News," said that the reason the children were killed was that prayer is not allowed in schools - that God wreaked his vengeance by allowing these children to die. Could this BE a stronger indictment of religion? For that matter, could it be stronger indictment of the callousness of Fischer and Huckabee?
+1...And also that makes the murderer god's prophet.
Mike Huckabee, my former governor, is a stereotypical white conservative fundamentalist wacko. He has no valid answers to events like this.
Statements such as those made by Huckabee (and many others) are callous in the extreme. To believe what he apparently believes does indeed make the shooter the "scourge of god". In Huckabee's view, this should elevate the shooter to sainthood.
Indeed! This is just one more piece of evidence that there is no such thing as an omnipotent, omniscient, OMNIBENEVOLENT God. Let's hear it, Christians. Explain again how YOUR GOD let this grotesque horror happen. Was He just impotent to prevent it? Or was He, like the Old Testament Yahweh, uncaring?
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In a Friday, Oct 24, letter, Brandon Newton states "Republicans ready to make a difference." I would submit that Republicans have already made a big difference and not for the better.
The Republicans have fully controlled South Carolina for more than 10 years and the nation, directly or indirectly, for most of the last 22 years. The Democrats have only had full control at the national level from 2008 to 2010, after Bush had to lay down his veto pens and before the Tea Party took over the House.
Jerry Holt is exactly what we need for probate judge. He served his country in the Marine Corps, became a successful executive for IBM and now he's been very active in Lancaster County, working for veterans groups and in the United Way. He also serves on the county planning commission.
Tom Holland's recent letter in the Oct. 1 edition of The Lancaster News, against the Republican candidate for solicitor Randy Newman, is not just sour grapes, but indicates arrogance and lack of loyalty to the Republican constituency.
His very lack of respect for the voter is shown by his slogan, "It's the experience, stupid." I do not believe the people who voted for Newman are stupid.
Allison Meadows laments ''Who is in charge of probate court," in her opinion article the Oct. 26 edition of The Lancaster News.
I am shocked that in this information age, Ms. Meadows was unable to determine the name of our sitting probate judge. I sorta wonder wherein lies the fault?
Some holders of public office work day in and day out, quietly doing the job we elected them to do.
Elected officials serving multiple terms must be doing something right or they would be booted out.
I went through probate with an estate in 2011. It took only a month or two to complete. Sandy and her court closed it quickly.
Sandy Estridge is excellent in her skills about the law and knows what needs to be done. I trusted fully in her judgment.
She believes in her job. She loves her job. She is very proficient.
I've seen her work many hours beyond the normal hours. I've seen how she tries to make the best decision for families.
I have known Sandy Estridge for over 20 years. I am writing this letter in support of her candidacy for probate judge here in Lancaster County.
I was disheartened to hear the tone taken by her opponent in the recent forum in Indian Land, and even more disappointed in his letter to the guest column and advertisements he has used in recent editions of this paper.
He has stated several times that our probate court ranks in the bottom one-third and that it takes 41 percent longer to settle an estate than the state average.
Public offices require someone with a history of public service. I'm voting for Jerry Holt for probate judge because he has a long history of serving our country and Lancaster County.
He served in the Marines and has been active in Lancaster County on the planning commission and volunteering for veterans service groups.
Mr. Holt's business experience and education mean he will be able to run the probate judge's office like a business, saving time and money.
As an Indian Land Elementary School teacher, I come in contact with and are affected by politics on a regular basis. The support, concern and effectiveness of our political leaders are a key part to our jobs and personal lives. My home was burglarized in 2012 and it was a frightening and emotional experience for my family.
I have known Randy Newman and his wife, Jill, for about five and a half years through the church we both attend. He seems to be a great guy, so does his wife and little boy.
Mr. Newman has run a clean campaign. He has not said anything negative about his opponent. He stands on the work he has done in the years that he was the assistant under Doug Barfield. William Frick has made mention of backlogs, reduced sentences by Mr. Newman, but this started a long time before Mr. Newman took over the job.
I feel that Randy Newman is the best choice for the 6th District solicitor for the following reasons:
Randy worked his way through college, sold his house to go to law school and knew that he wanted to be a prosecutor.
Randy clerked for Judge Goldsmith before going to work in the solicitor's office. When Randy decided to go to law school he left a job that paid more than he is making now which shows me how much passion he has for the job. I would also like to speak about experience. All of Randy's experience is as a prosecutor.
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+3 votes Tim Engstrom › January 17, 2011
This is absolutely the worst-designed course I have ever encountered. There are times you throw into park traffic and/or campsites. Seriously.
+0 votes Jared "Preemo" Olson › September 8, 2014
Terrible layout, nothing marked, post to identify the hole is blank and extremely close the the very small and basically insignificant pad. Was lost from the start and even with the Udisk app map I still found myself throwing at the wrong basket. The + in the rating is out of pity.
+0 votes casey slaikeu › June 4, 2016
The course has been completely redone. Very nice layout minus one hole that goes down a road. I would tell everyone to give it a shot.


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Yes, if you continue to insist on imposing your wrong assumption of what is physically happening there, you will continue to come to wrong and inconsistent results.


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Conference Technology from beyerynamic for the town hall in Schorndorf
Meetings in the town hall of the Daimler city of Schorndorf are held using the wired MCS 50 conference system from beyerdynamic.
Meetings in the town hall of the Daimler city of Schorndorf are held using the latest conference technology from beyerdynamic.
The listed Baroque building, which was constructed in 1730, was converted into a modern administration building in 2012. While converting the boardroom the technology was also renewed. The oak coloured furniture and the mess of cables of the microphone system between the tables were removed. White tables and a discreet conference system were installed. The wired MCS 50 conference system from beyerdynamic allows an unobtrusive permanent installation. The technology is completely hidden under the table. Only the gooseneck microphone and a silver button with an LED ring of the microphone unit are visible.
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G'day guys, Just wondering if anyone has had a try of the new Naish Momentum and for a bit of feedback on it. Im Particulaly interested in its wakestyle abilities and its Upwind ability. I generally ride in small waves. Any size recomendations or info comparing it to other boards listed below would be greatly appreciated.
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On May 7th, the National Geographic channel premieres a new reality show called simply Polygamy USA.
Frankly, I think this group is not all that different from Warren Jeff's FLDS; I've always thought of Centennial Park as the Australia of the FLDS. Isn't it populated by the men who, for whatever reason, left or were drummed out of the FLDS and formed their own group? And like Colorado City/Hildale, there is absolutely no diversity in its population, but something tells me the viewer will not get a "Why some of my best friends are..." or "I've always had the highest respect for the..." excuse. You can tell by the man featured in the video that he is thinking "No rappers or long haired surfer dudes gonna mess with my Daughters of Zion!" And what's the deal with the boot?
Anyway, the series starts on May 7th. To get better acquainted with these 'folks', here are two short videos, and a companion background piece on Centennial Park.
I don't think the Brownhead fans are going to like this series.
This link will take you to the National Geographic's website where you can view the videos: Polygamy USA
About Centennial Park
How This Community Differs From Others
By Patrick J. Kiger
Centennial Park, a tiny community of less than 1,500 people residents nestled on the edge of Colorado City in Mohave County, Ariz., isn't a place that stands out in most ways. The median household income of around $45,000 is a little below the statewide average but still respectable. The typical Centennial Park inhabitant is 38 years old, commutes to a white-collar job in a neighboring town, and lives in a household with children.
But there is one striking difference between Centennial Park and most of the rest of America. Almost all of its inhabitants are members of a breakaway Mormon sect that still practices polygamy, or plural marriage, in which one man generally has simultaneous relationships with multiple wives.
"I'll just come out and tell you, I feel very blessed--this lifestyle is wonderful," one of Centennial Park's residents, a businessman with three wives, told TV reporter Lisa Ling in 2007. "We bring these women into the home and they are treated incredibly. They have every convenience and every single thing that can be provided for them. So it's a very mutual relationship."
Richard's wives, Ling discovered, turned out to be in agreement. ""It's our choice. We wanted to," explained one, who noted that nothing prevented them from leaving if they became unhappy. And the three were so comfortable sharing a husband that they had become close friends. So close, in fact, that if Richard ever died, they "probably" would simply search for a new husband for the entire trio.
They aren't alone in their enthusiasm for plural marriage. Even though marrying more than one woman is technically illegal, researchers at Brigham Young University have estimated that between 30,000 and 50,000 Americans live a polygamist lifestyle, according to a 2010 Public Radio International story.
The polygamists in the Centennial Park community are a separate group from FLDS. They broke away from the main polygamist community in the 1980s after a leadership dispute, and resettled on land outside of Colorado City. For the past several decades, the two factions have lived side-by-side but pretty much avoided contact, according to a 2012 thesis by Southern Utah University graduate student Michael K. Ault, who spent extensive time interviewing families in the Centennial Park group.
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Jared Estes had every right to be angry after a drunk driver, 45-year-old Louis Kebert, driving a Porsche on Kellogg Ave. in Wichita, rammed into the back of his car, killing his wife of six months, Paige. The car exploded upon impact, leaving Estes with severe burns on his upper body and head after a stranger pulled him from the burning vehicle. Two other women in the car also were severely injured.
The accident happened in March 2005, and in June 2006, Kebert, who had two previous DUI convictions, was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
Estes told his story April 23 to about 50 people who attended a county town hall meeting at Centre High School sponsored by the Marion County Substance Abuse Council.
"I'm not here to give you advice," he said. "But I have some stories and lessons I've learned that I want to pass on to you."
Paige was his high school sweetheart, and when Estes learned two weeks after the crash that she did not survive the accident, he lost all desire to live. It was one of his darkest moments.
"It was like somebody scooped out your insides," he said.
He resolved to visit her grave someday, and that gave him the motivation to bear months of excruciating pain and heavy medication.
Estes saw what the accident did to his family and Paige's family — the sadness, the heartbreak. His parents moved from his hometown of Bucklin to Wichita and spent seven months there to be near him.
Sometimes, upon returning to his hospital room after one of many difficult surgeries, Estes was greeted by members of Kebert's family, who expressed their sorrow and apologized for what had happened to him and his wife.
Another dark moment came when Estes finally was able to visit his wife's grave. It didn't turn out as he had planned during those long, agonizing days in the hospital. He couldn't kneel down; he couldn't use his hands to place flowers on her grave. At that moment, he looked at his life as futile and without purpose. He felt it would have been better for him to have died in the accident. He wanted to give up.
Then he met his wife's young siblings when his mother-in-law coincidentally brought flowers while he was at the gravesite. They looked so much like Paige, reminding him of her, and he realized she would have wanted him to live and be happy.
"I realized I was being selfish," he said. "I decided I wanted to come back for them."
During the sentencing phase of the court trial that found Kebert guilty of murder, family members on both sides were allowed to express how they felt about the sentence — why it should be more lenient or more severe. Estes said when the defendant's family spoke, he noticed they were more sympathetic to himself than to the defendant.
Afterward, he heard Kebert's 19-year-old son say, "Well, Mom, he finally did it. He finally killed somebody."
The boy's statement touched his heart as Estes realized that not only his family but also the defendant's family had been coping with a difficult situation for a long time and had been deeply hurt by what had happened. At that point, the anger that had built up inside of him dissipated.
"I wasn't angry anymore," he said.
Last November, Estes quit his job as marketing director for Hartman Arena in Wichita to be a fulltime inspirational speaker. He calls his presentation, "Fire Back."
"I'm thankful I'm here," he said. "We all have struggles in our lives and need to help each other. It's important to reach out to friends, family, and faith to get out of our darkest moments."


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What might it look like to read and interpret church architecture theologically? In "Between City and Steeple" (Chapter 5 of Everyday Theology) Premkumar Williams invites us to pay attention, or read, the messages communicated by our church's architecture—to engage architecture as a "cultural text" laden with messages.
Buildings introduce themselves by their sheer physical presence. Their size and scale, materials used, and sense of proportion and unity can draw our attention, bore us, or even repel us. Once past the initial 'introduction,' interesting buildings invite us to engage in a meaningful 'conversation,' holding out the promise of richer experiences embedded in their symbols and spaces (p. 127).
This is not a conversation I hear many people having.
Questioning Architectural Messages Though Williams focuses here specifically on megachurch buildings, one could presumably apply these tools for theological interpretation to any church structure, no matter the size. Regarding the "how" of reading church structures, consider the following questions for developing an architectural "literacy":
Creation – Do our church buildings have anything to say about divine providence and stewardship of creation? Williams questions whether "inward looking spaces, closed to the outside and artificially giving a sense of nature, are detrimental to our spiritual well-being if they are the places where we cannot worship God as Creator."
Culture – What does our church architecture say about the relationship between church and culture? For example, in many third world nations church services are carried out in open air buildings that "encourage us to sing our songs amid the world's cacophony." Most sanctuaries in which I have worshiped use windows for utilitarian purposes only and not strategically to invite reflection on the world outside the church walls.
Community – What do our church structures say about the level of value we place on community? Regarding the auditorium alone (not often called a "sanctuary" any more), most Protestant ones are designed to direct the congregation members toward the stage so that the sermon is most efficiently communicated (not surprising considering the Reformation focus on the spoken Word).
Most church members have little say in the building process of new structures, and others worship in faith communities unable to build new spaces or significantly remodel their existing one. Is applying a theological hermeneutic to church structures only an academic exercise? I don't think so. Though many cannot influence their church's architecture, they can be more intentional regarding the ways their faith community uses their existing structures – as limited as those buildings might be. They can also become more aware of how their participation in the existing space has formative potential. That is, how does this space form their perception of the church, of their relationship to God, and to their community, nation, and world?
Related to church leaders, when given the opportunity to remodel or build will you consider the theological and liturgical significance of church architecture? And what will be the streams of influence that shape architectural decisions? Will those streams of influence be modern or ancient? Corporate or communal? Theological or pragmatic?
Any thoughts on this? What cultural messages does your church building communicate? How does its architecture contribute to the worship of your community – or does it conflict?


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By Dave Carew
"Sound as ever" was a valediction Gram Parsons used when closing letters to family and friends. It's an obscure reference—you basically have to be a Gram freak (like me) to get it, and to, hence, get the connection between Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and this outstanding debut album by the Nashville-based band The Burritos.
Twenty years from now, when music historians pose the question: "Who, in Nashville during the early 21st century, most kept the musical legacy of Gram Parsons alive?" I will—if still kicking around—answer unequivocally: Chris James and Walter Egan, both of whom now are members of The Burritos. Among the many things each man has done to keep GP's flame burning has been to play and/or host numerous Gram Parsons Tribute shows. Chris also has written at length about GP in his much-loved music magazine Shake! And Walter frequently has graced his recent shows with the song "Hearts on Fire"—which also appears on this record—which Walter gave to Gram in the early 1970s and which later appeared on Gram's second solo album, Grievous Angel.
What really counts, though, is how much The Burritos, on this record, delve into the mystic richness of the legacy and use it to create new musical gold. Song after song on Sound as Ever is an absolute gem of the "Cosmic American Music" genre. The unforgettable songs just keep on coming—with "Beggar's Banquet," "Angeline," "The Hundred Year Flood," and "Song and Dance Man" being particular examples of writing that is—by turns—emotive, country-soulful, and just damn way-cool.
I can offer no higher compliment than this: If Gram Parsons and the original Flying Burrito Brothers could have warded off the demons and produced a great follow-up to their classic The Gilded Palace of Sin, it may very well have sounded like this fantastic new album.
David M. (Dave) Carew is writer/editor of "Underground Nashville" and the author of the novels "Everything Means Nothing to Me: A Novel of Underground Nashville" and "Voice from the Gutter." He also is a freelance book editor, publicist, and advertising/marketing/public relations writer.


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League of Independent Theater's Meet the Candidates Forum
The League of Independent Theater
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM (PDT)
Event Details
Members of LIT will get to vote on the candidates they think will best serve the indie theater territory. LIT's Political Research and Outreach Committee has created the Performing Arts Platform below. Candidates from every city race are being invited to participate. 2013 is an important year in terms of New York City elections. We hope you will be able to attend this event. Your attendance and passion can have an impact.
As a pro-performing arts elected official, I will work to:
1. Create access to low-cost and/or no-cost Community Facilities Spaces that are currently available and remain unused throughout the City through the creation of a Community Facilities Space Database.
2. Create access to empty and unused City property to be re-purposed as temporary rehearsal, office and (if appropriate), performance space.
3. Include non-profit performance venues in the favorable electricity and utility rates enjoyed by religious institutions and the VFW.
4. Implement a proposal that would reduce or eliminate property tax assessments for those non-profit organizations that have an artistic mission and/or rent performance space to similar non-profit performing arts groups with artistic missions of their own. This proposal was unanimously ratified by all twelve (12) Manhattan Community Boards.
5. Secure affordable permanent low-cost housing for working artists. In addition, work to provide access to affordable healthcare for these artists, depending on the status and reach of the Affordable Care Act at the time of negotiations.
6. Support the commission of an economic impact study for the independent theater territory.
7. Work with the Department of Cultural Affairs to expand the Cultural Institutions Group to include the independent theater sector's anchor venues.
8. Install plaques at sites of historical import and rename streets after the founders of the independent and Off-Off Broadway community.
Tickets will be released at 6:45PM, so make sure to be checked in or in the Will Call line by 6:45.
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The Players NYC
16 Gramercy Park South
New York,
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM (PDT)
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The League of Independent Theater ("LIT") is the only 501(c) 6 advocacy organization for the independent theater and performing arts population of New York City, serving over 50,000 independent performing artists, 86% of whom vote regularly. LIT will endorse candidates in every City race, and work to form alliances with other cultural advocacy organizations in the City that will foster an all-out "Get Out The Vote" effort on behalf of those candidates selected. LIT's endorsement will not be based on a "LITmus" test, but rather on the individual candidate's willingness to enter into a substantive and serious conversation with us on the above performing arts platform.


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Incredible footage emerged from downtown Oakland last night - not of basic law enforcement efforts to maintain public "health and safety" as the police have been claiming - but of a war zone in which police shot tear gas, bean bags, wooden dowels, flash grenades, and rubber bullets at protesters.
Rather than using the weaponry once in a final effort to subdue the crowd, officers reportedly used them over and over again in what @OccupyOakland describes as a "relentless" assault on the thousands of activists gathered near City Hall.
"The city remains committed to respecting free speech as well as maintaining the city's responsibility to protect public health and safety," Oakland police said in a statement Tuesday.
The "safety" concerns are the usual complaints levelled at the Occupy movements: sanitation issues, improper food storage, graffiti, litter, and vandalism, although OPD added accusations of fighting, assaults, and "threatening/intimidating behavior." Yes, you read that correctly. OPD is accusing the protesters of using "threatening/intimidating behavior."
The police claim they were ever-so-distressed that they couldn't get medical responders through to attend to the wounded protesters, and they ultimately expressed this concern by shooting the remaining activists with tear gas and rubber bullets. Reportedly, activists retaliated by "throwing paint" on police officers.
Oakland Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan said that a total of 102 arrests have been made so far, but as of last night that number was still increasing. Eighty-five of those arrests were made early Tuesday when officers raided the Occupy Oakland encampment at Oscar Grant plaza along with an annex in Snow Park near Lake Merritt.
During the assault, police dressed in full riot gear as if preparing to battle a zombie horde or terrorist cell (photo by @garonsen).
Footage of the flash grenades and tear gas being used against protesters:
A steadier version of more or less the same thing:
Terrifying footage that allegedly shows a veteran who suffered a head wound from a rubber bullet. The cameraman can be heard screaming, "medic!" as he desperately tries to get the man to say his name.
Photo of a protester allegedly shot by a rubber bullet (@OccupyOakland)
Protesters speaking with some OPD after the very first raid in which eighty-five individuals were arrested. Here, a police officer expresses he was just following orders.
And I could go on. This kind of stuff keeps rolling in every five minutes on Youtube. As always, it's important to remember that regardless of police accusations, the charges against protesters listed above (sanitation issues, graffiti, etc.) are relatively minor offenses given the nature of this police retaliation in which OPD turned downtown Oakland into a war zone.
These are the consequences of citizens exercising their First Amendment rights. It's no wonder the culture of activism remained dormant in America for so many decades.


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Mitt Romney, in the latest permutation of his "pander-to-win" campaign strategy, has declared that he wants to take America back to the Age of Enron. Remember Enron? "The Smartest Guys in the Room"?
Mitt Romney, just in time for Super Tuesday, says he wants to take us back to that. Well, not in so many words. Romney actually pledged to repeal the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) — which would leave nothing to prevent another Enron disaster, and almost guarantee a repeat of the scandal.
Mitt Romney pledged during a campaign event Saturday to repeal the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate accounting overhaul.
After Mr. Romney vowed to repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law, a voter in the crowd asked whether his list of repeals would include Sarbanes-Oxley, as well.
"Yes," Mr. Romney said. "People who have spent their life in Washington in many cases … don't understand that when they write a piece of legislation what kind of impact that's going to have in the private sector, how many people's lives will be affected by it."
Mr. Romney's 59-point economic plan offers a more modest proposal to deal with the law. It includes a line item to amend the law "to relieve mid-size companies from onerous requirements."
This latest tactical (not ideological) shift pretty much marks the demise of the 59-point plan Romney introduced in September of last year — just six months ago. It's also the latest stage in the Romney's metamorphosis from "Massachusetts Moderate" to a candidate now within spitting distance of positioning himself to the right of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. (In fact, with this latest tactical/ideological transformation, Romney has caught up to Gingrich, who said back in December that — with the help of the Republican majorities his supporters will elect to Congress — he would sign the repeal of Sarbanes-Oxley on Inauguration Day.
Let's back up a minute, and answer the obvious question: What is Sarbanes-Oxley? According to the "Sarbanes-Oxley For Dummies" cheat sheet:
Enacted in the wake of corporate mismanagement and accounting scandals, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) offers guidelines and spells out regulations that publicly traded companies must adhere to. Sarbanes-Oxley guidelines offer best-practice principles for any company, especially those providing services to other businesses bound by SOX.
If that's not clear enough, Wikipedia says that it covers everything from "board responsibilities to criminal penalties, and requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to implement ruling on the requirements to comply with the law." Basically, SOX brought some standards of governance to "U.S. public company boards, management and public accounting firms," where the standard-operating-procedure rivaled the mythic lawlessness of the "wild west."
Seriously. To understand the importance of SOX, you have to first understand that in 2002 it passed the House by a vote of 423 to 3, and passed the Senate by a vote of 99 to 1. In other words, 10 years ago, there was almost no one in Washington, Democrat or Republican, who didn't want this thing passed. That's because a spate of "corporate wilding" made clear the need for "a new sheriff in town."
2002 was the year of the corporate scandal—as company after company was revealed to have claimed "assets" to their stockholders and stakeholders that were actually nothing but vapor. A major corporate reform bill, Sarbanes-Oxley, passed as a result. What have we learned? Not much. Now it's banks like Citigroup writing down phantom assets. When conservative failures infect the government, it's always corporations gone wild.
As mentioned before, there was Enron — the big one, credited with giving birth to SOX. In truth, SOX had many corporate criminal fathers, including: Tyco International, Adelphi Communications, Qwest, Peregrine Systems, WorldCom, and lots more. It was a painful birth for countless people who lost their livelihoods, retirement savings, and with them any hope of economic security.
SOX was born to help keep the the one percent from engaging in fiscal shenanigans that wreak havoc on the 99 percent, or at least keep them from getting away with it. And, while it's not perfect, SOX works.
Cast your mind back. The scandals erupted in some of the purportedly best, most recognizable companies in America. Enron and WorldCom were the two biggest names and the two biggest failures. Tyco and Adelphia were in the second tier. But there were appalling accounting disgraces at HealthSouth, Rite Aid and Sunbeam. Waste Management and Xerox barely survived theirs.
Today, there are certainly debates about stocks and their valuations — and some questionable accounting — but no company that finds itself under scrutiny now is anywhere near as large, respected or publicized as those were then.
Something else characterized those dark days: the frauds often lasted and lasted. Investors known as short-sellers, who make money when stocks collapse, waged battles for years over certain companies. Today, accounting disputes are finished before they start. An accounting scandal at Groupon, the online coupon company, came and went in a matter of weeks back in the fall — resolved by the regulators before the company went public.
…The main criticisms of the law haven't panned out. Corporate earnings have soared, and no company has ever missed a quarterly estimate because it was spending too much on its accounting and internal controls.
Critics railed that it would cost small companies too much, which it may have, though the evidence is debated. They also argued that it would hurt initial public offerings, which it didn't. Yet, there remains vestigial criticism from the right; Newt Gingrich called for its repeal the other day on the campaign trail.
That, of course, explains why conservatives want to do away with it. It amounts to a return to the "bad old days" because, as with health care and financial reform, conservatives are long on "repeal" rhetoric and short on solutions that will "replace" the reforms they want to erase, and address the problems that revealed the need for and gave rise to those reforms.
That's because there are some problems conservatives don't want to solve, don't believe should be solved, and don't even recognize as problems in the first place. In the conservative mind, corporate wilding that costs hard-working Americans their livelihoods and their retirement "nest eggs" isn't the problem. Reforms that prohibit corporate executives from engaging in fraud and theft to further line their pockets at the expense of the other 99 percent is a huge problem.
Whether Mitt Romney believes this or not is anybody guess. Mitt Romney believes he should be president. Thus Romney's pandering grows more obvious with each passing day. He says whatever he thinks he needs to say to get his party's nomination, and thus get his shot at the Oval Office.
Even many Republicans don't care if he believes it nor not. As Grover Norquist says, at bare minimum they need a president with opposable thumbs, who can hold a pen and sign what they pass. Thus it matters to the rest us, whether Romney believes it or not, if elected conservatives will expect him to practice what he pandered to get elected, and put his name on whatever they pass.
So, if conservatives manage to repeal Sarbanes-Oxley, President Romney will sign it if he wants to keep his job. And the days of Enron will be upon us once more.


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