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The University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux dominated the St. Lawrence University Skating Saints in last night's politically incorrect Ledyard National Bank tourney championship matchup in Hanover. UND prevailed 4-2, courtesy of Ryan Duncan's third period five-on-three power play goal and his empty net goal as time expired. Congratulations to the Fighting Sioux for their tournament victories over Dartmouth and SLU.
Duncan copped the tournament's MVP honors, but if you've been following this story, you know to whom those honors rightly belonged. They belonged to Dartmouth's athletic director, the Outlaw Josie Harper, who apologized last month to Dartmouth's Native American Council for the pain inflicted by the thoughtless invitation she had extended to the Fighting Sioux to participate in the tournament. No person can have been more responsible than she for UND's outstanding performance in the tournament. Today she ought to be thinking about apologizing to the Dartmouth men's hockey team for pumping up the Big Green's first-round opponent.
Looking back on Friday night's UND-Dartmouth matchup, reader Richard Thiel writes:
I watched the Sioux victory over the team from Hanover which now bears a team nickname consisting of two adjectives evidently in search of a noun. The Big Green "somethings" were defeated even though the Sioux were without three top players who are currently playing in the World Junior Championship tourney in Sweden. The webcast of the game was shown on CN8 as [was last night's] championship game.
The Golden Gophers athletic director recently stated that the University of Minnesota will not schedule the Fighting Sioux in any sport other than hockey because of the nickname. Wow, that's really taking a stand since they haven't played any non-hockey game for over 20 years. A cynic might surmise that the Gophers aren't willing to forego a lucrative full house for hockey which the Sioux game attracts and thus the Gophers administrators (budget watchers) are only slightly or partially offended by the UND nickname.
The Gopher pinheads may also want to take a harsh look at this "hostile and offensive" symbol or the derivation of Ski-U-Mah prominent in the Minnesota Rouser school song. And I'm sure that next on the Gophers' p.c. agenda will be consideration of a boycott of high school students from Dakota County [hockey country just south of St. Paul] preventing their enrollment at the holier-than-thou University of Minnesota. There is seemingly no end to the amount of work yet to be done by the p.c. review committees.
Following the Dartmouth-Fighting Sioux controversy has been more than amusing and maddening as participants and comments reached as high as the North Dakota Office of the Governor. I thought you might find my letter to Joe Malchow yesterday to be topical…
Joe has posted Thiel's letter here at Joe's Dartblog. Reader Kent Dahlberg also takes a look back at Friday night's UND-Dartmouth matchup:
I did not attend Friday night's sold-out hockey game in Dartmouth's Thompson Ice Arena, but I live a half-mile from it. Our neighborhood streets serve as "overflow parking" during particularly big events held in Thompson. What I can confirm is that in 13 years of living in this neighborhood, Friday night was by far the most parked-in I have ever seen our surrounding streets — with lines of cars stretching almost to our home's location (something that NEVER happens).
Unless a lot of those cars belonged to protesters incensed that Dartmouth allowed the "Fighting Sioux" to play, Friday's UND vs. Dartmouth game was a blockbuster success in terms of attendance.
There may be a message in the game's 4-1 outcome for Dartmouth's PC-sensitivity mongers. If so, I suspect that message will be lost on them. People whose sense of their own moral superiority is premised on projecting concern for the victim status of others are wont to give that up, least of all to those (like the good-spirited UND folks) whose sense of identity is built of healthier stock than cultivated feelings of inferiority, grievance and being perpetually offended.
Cheers, and a blessed New Year to you all.
We know that the crowd Kent Dahlberg observed was not attributable to protestors. Our last look at Friday night's game comes via a Valley News sidebar on the protest mounted outside Thompson Arena. The protest, I am tempted to say merely to annoy her, was manned by an army of one — Dartmouth senior lecturer in English Shelby Grantham. The Valley News reports that Professor Grantham stood outside the arena holding a sign advising spectators: "American Indians are people not mascots." Heavy!
Professor Grantham presents us with a case study. Her faculty profile helps explain why the study of literature at Dartmouth has fallen on hard times. Once upon a time, the English faculty boasted such stellar scholars and teachers as James Cox, Peter Bien, Noel Perrin, Richard Eberhart, Jeffrey Hart, Peter Saccio and Alan Gaylord. In the classroom they conveyed a love of literature with brio and humor. Now comes Professor Grantham, whose approach to teaching is long on politics and short on literature:
I teach writing. It's the second-best way I know to figure things out–such as what to do about racism, how to make non-violence a national priority, why so few students think they can make a difference, what poetry is good for, when and how to resist injustice, ways to share the planet with other species, and what gender has to do with anything. Seeking words to make such questions ring and their answers sing is what my English 5 sections [the required first-year writing course] are about.
Remember: Professor Grantham in on the English faculty at Dartmouth. She teaches writing. Professor Grantham's ability to think deeply and make those deep thoughts sing is evident not only in her mind-numbing profile and in the Dartmouth Review's compilation of her deep thoughts, but also in the sign she thoughtfully exhibited for all to see outside Friday night's game.


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Speaking of bounties, I have one: a lifetime (mine, not yours) subscription to LaPolitics Weekly for a photograph of Bobby Jindal and Edwin Edwards shaking hands. No Photoshop, the real thing.
Speaking of bounties, I have one: a lifetime (mine, not yours) subscription to LaPolitics Weekly for a photograph of Bobby Jindal and Edwin Edwards shaking hands. No Photoshop, the real thing.
The two were no more than ten yards apart Friday night at the American Legion Hall in Baton Rouge, scene of the 61st annual Gridiron Show, where the governor sat at a front-row table facing the stage. In the pre-opener skit, the Jindal character discussed with aides what monumental, ground-breaking pledge he could make at his second inauguration. They ran through a few jokes before the curtains parted and out stepped Edwin and Trina Edwards. Looking to the Jindal character, the former governor suggested, "You should campaign in Louisiana more."
The governor laughed. The audience roared. On with the show. As for the photo op, maybe next year.
The picture of those two would be the Louisiana equivalent of Nixon meeting Mao. The latter-day pair contrasts not only in philosophy, but they also represent different eras, personalities and styles of leadership. Where they compare is results, in their total control of state government, unmatched by any governor in between.
Edwards thrived on the give-and-take of interpersonal politics, whether he liked whom he dealt with or not. He made a point of returning every legislator's phone call, even most reporters'. Supplicants arriving at the Mansion were ushered to various rooms near his den office, so he could make his rounds like a doctor.
Most came away with most of what they wanted, after giving Edwards what he wanted. If he could not help you, he would tell you, but would remember to try to help next time. All this took up a lot of time, but what else was there to do? Read briefing papers?
During Edwards' first two terms, his apex of power, discipline, especially public rebuke, rarely was necessary. The few Republicans or killjoy Democrats around were not put in leadership positions where they could do harm to themselves or others. Bipartisanship meant dividing the spoils between friends in North and South Louisiana.
These days, Gov. Jindal treats phone calls from legislators equally, by returning practically none of them. Lawmakers are summoned to hear what he has to say, or, if they are asked to speak, it usually is on a subject he chooses.
Trading projects and other favors for legislative support still occurs when the administration needs it, according to lawmakers, though the governor's team maintains that decisions are based on merit.
The social scene at the Mansion went dark when the Jindals moved in. About the only parties thrown there are birthday celebrations for the kids. The governor and First Lady rarely accept social invitations. On his frequent out-of-state trips, he's often home for bedtime stories. What happens in Vegas ... well, he wouldn't know.
Like Edwards, however, Jindal understands the importance of control, but goes about it differently. There was not much cause for discipline in his first term, because he tackled so few controversial issues requiring hard votes.
In this term, he has the benefit of Republican majorities, who are accustomed to falling in line. His idea of bipartisanship is to share just enough power with Democrats to have something to threaten to take away. An early example was made of Rep. Harold Ritchie, a Franklinton Democrat, who was vice chairman of the Insurance Committee before he voted the wrong way in committee on one of the governor's education bills. Ritchie was not punished by Jindal, of course, but by Speaker Chuck Kleckley, whom Jindal anointed.
Democrats were appalled, but they got the message. When the school choice bill passed, of the 12 Democrats who voted yea, 11 were chairmen, vice chairmen or the speaker pro tem. Of the eight Republicans who voted nay, only one was a vice chairman.
Some Republicans grumble that the Democrats have too much. But if Jindal takes care of a dozen or so of the minority party, he doesn't have to depend wholly on the majority, who can't box him in. As long as the two parties fight each other, he controls them both. And they say Edwin was slick.
Though not always the same as real power, this governor has nearly full control, which is why we don't have that picture.
John Maginnis is a statewide political writer and author of "The Last Hayride." His website is www.lapolitics.com.

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On Fox, Court Ruling Ensuring All Ohioans Have Equal Access To The Polls Described As Obama Attack On Military Voting
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Fox News is now mischaracterizing a court ruling requiring the state of Ohio to allow in-person early voting during the last three days before the election as unfair to members of the military.
On Friday a federal court adopted an injunction preventing Ohio election officials from implementing new restrictions on in-person early voting. The ruling came in response to an Obama campaign lawsuit that sought to overturn a 2011 statute that halted early voting access in the three days leading up to the election except for members of the military and their families. The Obama campaign sought to restore access to the polls for all Ohio residents during that period.
The court agreed, finding that allowing both military and non-military citizens to equally participate in early voting "places all Ohio voters on equal standing." Indeed, the ruling has no impact on military voters and their families, but simply provides all other Ohioans with the same access to the polls they were scheduled to enjoy.
But during the September 3 edition of America Live, Fox News host Megyn Kelly and Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund portrayed the ruling as an insult to the military and an "obstacle" to their access to the polls.
FUND: So what Ohio said is for the last three days before the election we will let military voters vote, but everyone else will have to vote before the three day period. The district judge said, "That's unfair," and said, "You'll have to extend early voting right up until Election Day." It now goes to a federal appeals court. And I think it's pretty clear that the military vote can have a separate designation and can be treated separately because they are different from every average voter.
KELLY: Yeah, they are special. And this was an interesting case we talked about it prior to the ruling because it pitted the Obama administration against military families and voters.
FUND: The National Guard [Association], the Marine Corps Association, all of them said, "This is outrageous what you are trying to do."
KELLY: They said, "There is a justification for treating us differently. And it's not -- you don't get to say that everybody is the same as the military."
FUND: We have enough obstacles in the way of our military now we don't need to create others.
Fund -- who also lambasted early voting in general as "out of control" -- is the latest right-wing figure to invoke the canard that allowing civilians equal access to the polls somehow constitutes an "obstacle" for members of the military who wish to vote.
Among right-wing news outlets, Fox News has taken the lead in characterizing calls for the restoration of early voting days for civilian voters, which were cut by the Ohio Republican-controlled state legislature in 2011, as anti-military.
During the August 3 edition of Special Report, guest host Shannon Bream falsely stated that "President Obama is challenging a law that gives members of the military special voting privileges," ignoring the fact that restoration of early voting days for civilians does not modify how members of the military may vote. Sean Hannity similarly lied during the August 6 edition of Hannity when he claimed that the lawsuit to restore early voting sought to "limit the number of days armed service members can vote."
These characterizations of what the lawsuit sought to achieve are demonstrably false. And to the contrary the district court held that the current voting system -- which restricted civilian voting days -- violated "a constitutionally protected right to participate in elections on an equal basis with other citizens in the jurisdiction."
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DeFUNIAK SPRINGS� The Gospel of the Kingdom Church was uncharacteristically quiet at service time Sunday morning.
DeFUNIAK SPRINGS� The Gospel of the Kingdom Church was uncharacteristically quiet at service time Sunday morning.
The small building, only about 2,500 square feet, was empty. The parking lot was a ghost town. The only sounds were the trucks whizzing along the highway in this rural area several miles north of the city.
Tragedy struck the small congregation on Saturday morning when one of the church�s vans wrecked on the interstate. Two young girls, Maliya Chrishon, 8, and Micah Goldsmith, 11, and one woman, Patricia Baker, 58, were killed. Several more were injured.
The accident sent shockwaves through a tight-knit community where families have been living for generations.
�These are people who are extremely embedded in our community,� said Carlene Anderson, school superintendent of Walton County. The two girls attended nearby elementary schools. �This is a very small community and a very tight community. The people involved, I taught their parents, I hired people in their families, I know these names. This will have a huge impact on everyone.�
Services were called off on Sunday as most of the congregation visited the injured passengers in the hospital or offered support for those who lost loved ones.
The church�s Facebook page posted a photo of �the Gospel of The Kingdom Angels that lost their lives yesterday.�
�Please keep their families and our church family in your prayers,� the page said.
The church van carrying at least 10 people was headed to Tallahassee when a rear tire blew out on Interstate 10 near Chipley.
The driver lost control and the van rolled over several times, throwing several passengers from the vehicle, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Micah�s aunt, Akiba Goldsmith, who lives in Paxton, said Micah was a sweet little girl who always had a smile on her face and that she would do her very best to protect anyone who needed it.
She said Micah�s grandmother, mother and baby sister were in the van as well.
Her mother Akyra Eiland, 30, was taken to Bay Medical Center in Panama City in critical condition. Her condition was unknown on Sunday.
�As a community, DeFuniak Springs is pretty small,� Goldsmith said. �Everybody knows everybody. When one hurts, everyone hurts. It was a tragedy for everyone and they will be missed."
Anderson said the families who were affected are good people.
�I hate that there is tragedy in their lives right now.�
Daily News Assignments Editor Wendy Victora contributed to this report.


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Sunday, April 19, 2009
I remember sitting on the stone stoop outside the kitchen door, a week after school was out when I was eight or nine, wearing shorts and nothing else, eating toast with butter and brown sugar sprinkled on top.
I remember the arduous task of taking off wet snow clothes in the basement - layer by layer, first jacket and then snow pants, and then jeans, all the way down to my long underwear - and hanging them up on the line in the furnace room, and the smell, like wool and rags and little-kid sweat and snow all mixed together.
What do you remember?
(This is all spurred on by my reading artist Joe Brainard's odd little masterpiece, I remember. Rustle up a copy for yourself, you won't be disappointed. And I was shocked at how many things I remembered that hadn't changed in the 20 years between our two childhoods.)
The Swedish verb for the day is att komma ihåg, which means to remember.
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- JLundell said...
Mars bars, baby. Not, of course, the later ones, but the ones with whole almonds embedded in the chocolate. All gone now....
Charleston Chews were best frozen, though I wasn't generally a big fan of frozen candy bars.
There were some real stinkers, too. Clark bars spring to mind. Yuck. Oddly, Chicken Dinner, despite the name, wasn't all that bad. Made by Pearson, whose Salted Nut Roll, though not chocolate, was one of my favorites.
- lynneguist said...
You got a lot more candy for your money if you avoided chocolate completely--which we did, because we were going for volume. We had a neighborhood 'club' whose only purpose was to earn money (usually by selling cups of Kool-Aid to passers-by on the street) in order to buy candy at Woolworth's. Best value for money: Necco wafers, Pixy Stix, and those wax bottles with sugary water inside. I hated Necco wafers but bought them anyway, put a half-slip on my head in order to play a bride or a nun (depending on my mood) and played 'church' in which my neighbor would solemnly hold up a Necco wafer and say 'Body of Christ' before depositing it on my tongue. But never the black ones; they were just too disgusting.
- sue18 said...
I'm a bit older than you. Coke came in 6 oz. bottles in the mid-forties. The theme song for Pepsi was "twice as much, just a penny more." And there was a penny deposit on bottles.
- steph said...
I remember the girly girls with their every color flair pens clipped to the outside of their assignment notebooks and the watermelon Jolly Rancher candy they ate.
I remember the freedom to get lost in the ravines when I was supposed to walk between jr. high and the library. And I remember getting caught trying to slip a copy of Mad magazine into my bag on one of those trips.
I remember the first 45 I bought was in a bin from Woolworths - Elton John, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
- Lee Wind said...
Loved those images. And yeah, the smell of little kid sweat and snow and wool is kind of a Proustian Madeleine, isn't it?
I remember showering in the morning before school and (because I never really dried my hair very well) icicles would form into crunchy rows on my head while I walked to the bus stop.
Fun to remember the cold when it's so hot outside today.
- Francis S. said...
Steph - where and when did you grow up? It sounds frighteningly - from the flairs to the jolly ranchers to the ravines - like where I grew up, in the 70s, in Highland Park, Illinois
- steph said...
That's because it was. Confession: I saw your jr. high post. I landed here via Andy in Amsterdam, who I used to work with, one day when I was blogroll surfing earlier this year. I moved to San Diego after 7th grade. I don't think I know you though, or if I did I don't remember. I would have been class of '81.
- Robin Shadowes said...
I miss the old classic coke bottles from my younger days in the 60's and 70's. Wasn't it designed by either a swede or a swedish immigrant? Was it plastic that made it obsolete? Sorry for drifting away from topic.
- Francis S. said...
Whoa. Small world this is, Steph! I was class of 1979. So... you would've been the same age as maybe my neighbor, Debbie Dioszegi? Ring any bells? (And, well, Francis Strand is a pseudonym...)
Reading these entries makes me feel wet behind the ears. I was a kid when Britney Spears first came out.
I'm surprised to hear Francis Strand is a pseudonym. Though I suppose that's foolish of me. If I were to write a blog about my life I would want to maintain my privacy.
- steph said...
Perhaps a tinkle? I was pretty flabbergasted when I stumbled in here too, I mean, what are the odds? The only neighbor I can think of two grades older than me is maybe Laurie Becker or maybe Nancy or Dorrie Saltzman. The Saltzmans used to babysit us so maybe they were older than that. Laurie never liked me because...
I remember getting chased out of the neighbor's wooden playhouse the day we moved into our to our new house because I didn't know where our back yard ended and theirs started so I didn't know the playhouse wasn't mine.
- Francis S. said...
Lori Becker... yep, she was my age. She used to claim to be my cousin, because we both had red hair. This is definitely a bit freaky.
- Golden Grain Farm said...
Did you know that Canadian children boycotted chocolate bars when the companies first put them up above a nickel? The boycott made quite a splash until the propagandists got to the parents, convincing them that the children were being influenced by "red" Communist politics, and the parents made the kids end their boycott.
Sorry I can't tell you more about it; just that it was a long time ago.
- Kate
- Pia K said...
Nice post. It's weird how easy it seem to be to remember a lot about childhood sweets, perhaps that is just because us Swedish kids got sweets just on Saturdays and it was kind of sacred...? I must admit I can't recall the names of every candybar back then (some still around, others not. The ones still around is sadly of lesser quality than they use to be) but what I do remember is that you really got a whole lot of candy for just about nothing moneywise. And how fun it was to stand at the kiosk and decide on exactly what sweets you were going to get in your "lördagsgodispåse" this time...:)


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I thought this book was really good because on every page something new and exciting happens. I really, really liked it because it is full of mystery and action. I think I relate to Jonah because he will help a friend even when he doesn't feel like it, and I will help my friends when they need me. My favorite part in the book is when Jonah, Chip, and Katherine all go on a hike at an adoption meet to find the 26 kids who they need to find, but when the hike leads them into a mysterious cave, they all get trapped inside the cave.
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On Tuesday, Secretary Bryson and other U.S. government officials had a valuable conversation with senior European Union (EU) leaders on ways to cooperate and achieve the Obama administration's National Export Initiative (NEI) goals. Since the EU is America's largest trading partner, they are key to meeting the ambitious goal of doubling exports by the end of 2014.
The economic relationship between the EU and the United States is the largest and most dynamic in the world. The combined gross domestic product accounts for more than $30 trillion – roughly 40 percent of global GDP – and more than 800 million consumers. In 2010, bilateral trade in goods and services surpassed $873 billion. With this relationship so vital, in April 2007 the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) was established to provide Cabinet-level political guidance for implementation of specific work programs like intellectual property rights protection and regulatory cooperation.
Tuesday's discussions made it clear that both the United States and the EU recognize innovation to be the main driving force for continuing this economic success and creating more jobs. In his comments, Secretary Bryson noted that the innovations created through the partnerships of American and European companies can be a greater catalyst for new jobs than innovation done without such collaboration. The Commerce Department is currently working tirelessly in that vein, developing transatlantic links between companies and research centers.
The TEC discussions also highlighted the need for bilateral efforts to avoid the creation of unnecessary regulatory and standards barriers to trade in emerging sectors that hold the most promise for U.S. exporters. Small- and medium-sized enterprises describe diverging regulations and standards as one of their biggest challenges to innovation. The Commerce Department recently requested views from the private sector on what needs to be done in this area and were told that more work needs to be done on key emerging technologies. Ultimately, both the EU and the United States will develop ideas for hurdling such barriers to trade and will continue to work with their respective private sectors to come up with the information needed to regulate in a way that continues to encourage the kind of innovation and entrepreneurship that will drive economic growth and job creation.
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CHARLESTON, S.C.- The Georgia Ports Authority wants to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging the $650 million deepening of the Savannah River shipping channel saying its contractual and economic interests are at risk.
The authority also asked a judge to block South Carolina's Savannah River Maritime Commission from entering the suit, saying that would expand the action and simply bring in extraneous issues.
The authority wants the river shipping channel deepened to handle larger ships that will be routinely calling when the Panama Canal is deepened in 2014. It filed the motions on Wednesday and U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel on Thursday gave the other parties in the case until Aug. 6 to respond.
The lawsuit filed by environmental groups contends the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers needs a South Carolina pollution permit before the deepening work can begin. The suit alleges toxic cadmium from river silt will be dumped in a dredge spoils area on the South Carolina side of the river.
The suit was brought by the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of the Savannah Riverkeeper, based in Augusta, Ga., as well as the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League and the South Carolina Wildlife Federation.
The motion says the Georgia Ports Authority has the right to enter the lawsuit and if not permitted to do so "its ability to protect its interests could be impaired because the environmental groups and the Maritime Commission, if it is permitted to intervene, seek to alter, delay and/or stop" the river deepening.
In answering the lawsuit itself, attorneys wrote that while there will be naturally occurring cadmium in the dredged material, "no adverse impacts" will occur.
The South Carolina Maritime Commission should be blocked from the case because it "will be burdening the parties with extraneous issues," the motion said, adding that letting the commission in "would have parties stake out positions and advance arguments concerning the commission's own authority which may ultimately be determined by the South Carolina Supreme Court."
If the commission is allowed as a party, it should only be able to address the permit issue before the court, the motion said.
The commission, in seeking to enter the case, wants Gergel to rule that in the deepening project, the Corps of Engineers must obey South Carolina environmental rules and "must comply with South Carolina law, including orders, rulings, decisions, and opinions" of the state's Supreme Court, Administrative Law Court and the commission.
Environmentalists have also sued in state court, alleging a water quality permit for the deepening approved by the Department of Health and Environmental Control last year is illegal because the commission, not DHEC, has authority over activities on the river.
The state Supreme Court has not yet ruled in that case but Chief Justice Jean Toal said during a hearing that DHEC broke state law when it left the commission out of dredging negotiations and "rubber stamped" an agreement with Georgia officials.


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The Wanted star Max George has brushed off fresh reports suggesting he's dating Lindsay Lohan.
The British boyband hunk has been linked to Lohan since November, when a night of partying in New York with the "Mean Girls" actress ended in her arrest on suspicion of assaulting a fellow club-goer.
The troubled star even visited George in his hometown of Manchester, England, earlier this month and met his parents after ringing in the New Year in London, and she fueled speculation they were more than just friends by showing off a photo of the pair goofing around on her Instagram.com blog on Monday.
However, the singer insists there is no truth to the romance claims.
In a brief Twitter.com post, he writes, "Rumors … That's all …"
Lohan struck up an unlikely friendship with George after attending a number of The Wanted's U.S. concerts last year, and he claimed he was proud to have kept the actress "out of trouble" following the highly-publicized nightclub clash.


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Obama re-election energizes environmental agenda
The 2012 election, especially President Obama's victory, suggests the nation's energy and environmental agenda will largely continue in the same direction — not great news for many Romney supporters.
Voters supported an eco-minded measure to ban fracking for natural gas in Longmont, Colo., but rejected one to require boosting wind and solar energy in Michigan. A split verdict for the environment?
Perhaps, but the 2012 elections and especially President Obama's victory suggest the nation's energy and environmental agenda will largely continue in the same direction -- not great news for backers of former GOP governor Mitt Romney.
"Obama's re-election will have a huge impact," says David Kreutzer, an energy expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "We'll see the continuation, and perhaps the acceleration, of anti-fossil-fuels regulations," he says, citing Environmental Protection Agency rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Stock prices for coal companies, which could be affected by the rules, have fallen since the election.
Kreutzer expects Obama to reject the revised northern leg of the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL pipeline, which Romney supported, and to push for renewal of tax credits for utility-scale wind producers, which Romney opposed.
More: USA TODAY environmental news
"We're kind of back to where we were," he says, noting that Congress remains split between a GOP-led House of Representatives that has balked at Obama's efforts and a Democratic-controlled Senate that often can't muster the 60 votes needed to end filibusters.
Yet environmentalists expect gains on Capitol Hill, citing the Senate victories of Democrats Martin Heinrich in New Mexico, Sherrod Brown in Ohio and Jon Tester in Montana. The wind industry hailed the Senate election of Independent Angus King, a former governor who became a wind project developer, in Maine.
"This will absolutely embolden the Senate," says Heather Taylor, director of the NRDC Action Fund, the political advocacy arm of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group. She says oil and gas interests spent hundreds of millions on campaign ads but have "nothing to show for it."
Her camp cites other victories, including the gubernatorial win in New Hampshire of Democrat Maggie Hassan, who backs her state's participation in a nine- state cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Hassan's GOP opponent, Ovide Lamontagne said he'd pull New Hampshire out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, known as RGGI.
In the Boulder suburb of Longmont, Colo., nearly 60% of voters supported a grassroots measure to ban hydraulic fracturing or fracking, the process by which natural gas is extracted from shale deposits.
But in Michigan, nearly two-thirds, or 63%, of voters rejected a ballot that would amend the state's constitution to require that 25% of its electricity come from renewable sources by 2025.
Kreutzer says they voted against "higher electricity bills," but Taylor says exit polling shows they rejected the measure mostly because they didn't want to amend the constitution for it.
Whatever the reason, both sides are pushing their ideas. Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, called on Obama this week to expand domestic oil and natural gas production. Unlike Romney who supported opening all federal lands to drilling, Obama has opened some but not all.
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The environmental activist group 350.org will hold another White House rally on Nov. 18 to pressure Obama to block a revised northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Other environmentalists are calling on the EPA to finalize rules limiting carbon and soot pollution from new power plants as well as industrial or commercial boilers. They cited Obama's victory speech early Wednesday when he talked about a future that would not be "threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet."


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I love playing around with different grains. When I saw the Amaranth Flour from Bob's Red Mill in the supermarket, I bought it without hesitation. There was very little information about amaranth flour in my bread books on hand. Luckily I found a formula on whole grain sourdough in MC's blog. MC is a devoted blogger on bread who shares so much information about her SFBI workshops and passionately visited and introduced to us different bread bakers in her blog where I've learnt a lot. Do visit her site (though I guess many of you already know her). 🙂
Back to amaranth flour. It is gluten-free as it is not wheat and is produced from amaranth grain. It has a smell of grass and raw carrots. The formula in MC's blog was suggested by Safa Hamzé who was the instructor the SFBI workshop and has developed techniques working with whole grains. You can find some of the information in an article in "Whole Grain Mania" in Baking Management.
Hence this bread is made of 20% amaranth starter. The starter smelt less "grassy" when ripen but did not smell as sweet as starter made of wheat.There was no amaranth flour in the final dough and so overall amaranth flour was abot 9%. When baking the bread gained color pretty quickly and turned into beautiful reddish-brown. Safa mentioned in the Baking Management article that amaranth kept moisture well which I agree from my result this time. The crumb of my bread was nicely moist and did not stale as quickly on the next day. The crumb was also open and color was yellower. However I could not taste the slight lactic flavor as mentioned in the article. I could not taste the "grassy" flavor from the amaranth neither.
I am happy with the result of this time and agree with Safa that bakers can consider adding amaranth flour to their breads in order to help extending shelf life of the bread. Safa has suggested overall gluten free flour should remain under 15% in overall formulation, and I will try playing around with 15% of amaranth flour next time.
This bread will be submitted to Yeastspotting. Let me know if you have more ideas or other information about amaranth or whole grain sourdough. 🙂
|Bread flour
|5.5g (approx)
|Amaranth Starter (100% hydration)
|Instant Yeast
|1/8 tp (approx)
*I baked at 220C for first 25mins, the bread gained much color that time. Then I lowered to 200C for another 10mins, and kept the bread in oven for another 5 mins with oven turned off.


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Both men are backed up by the two most organized oldest powers and groups in Egypt : The Muslim brotherhood and the NDP with its roots in the Egyptian country side and history
Both men are considered the worst candidates , the ugly ducklings among the top candidates to the level that it took two weeks for Egyptians to wake up from the shock they found in front of them after announcing the results of the first stage of presidential elections.
Both men got PhDs and both men are related somehow to Outer Space !!
Oh yes Outer space … !!!
|Young Mohamed Morsi
The claim that Muris used to work in created a little problem for Morsi because according to NASA rules , only American citizens are employed there and thus that would mean either he is an American citizen or if the Muslim brotherhood lies.
Up till now there is no proof that he used to work in NASA nor that he did not work there but there is possibility that he did some studies in University years for NASA as part of a team or that NASA used in California State university.
|Young Ahmed Shafik
Strangely we do not have a National strategy for Space because simply we do not have a real space program.
Of course I will not comment about the strange Arabic translation that made confused for weeks because the philosophy of Space is too damn complicated for someone like Shafik with my due respect !!
Now I wished that the strange flying object that turned to be Russian Missile that appeared in Levant's skies last Thursday to be some Alien race UFO would pay a visit to Egypt in order to abduct both Dr. Morsi and Dr. Shafik in order to save Egypt and Arab world.