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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The company behind plans to build a scientific ghost town says it is pulling out of a deal to develop the make-believe city near Hobbs.
Pegasus Global Holdings in May announced with much fanfare its selection of a 15-square mile site in Hobbs and Lea County near the Texas border for development of the Center for Innovation, Technology and Testing. Officials said they had hoped to break ground by the end of June.
GENEVA (AP) — To cheers and standing ovations from scientists, the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle Wednesday, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs boson — popularly known as the "God particle" — that helps explain what gives all matter in the universe size and shape.
"We have now found the missing cornerstone of particle physics," Rolf Heuer, director of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), told scientists.
Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher plan to announce that they've gathered enough evidence to show that the long-sought "God particle" almost certainly exists.
Bomb Squads from across the U.S. wrangled their bomb squad robots at the sixth annual Robot Rodeo beginning Tuesday, June 19 at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Eight teams participated in the three-day competition that featured 12 events. The Laboratory — along with Sandia National Laboratories, the Region II International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, REMOTEC, U.S. Technical Working Group and QinetiQ — sponsor the Robot Rodeo. This year's winner, the Doña Ana County Sheriff's Office.
Microsoft unveiled the Surface on Monday, a new tablet computer that's expected to compete with Apple's iPad. The Surface is 9.3 millimeters thick and works on the Windows RT operating system.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that a supercomputer called Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was ranked the world's most powerful computing system.
Clocking in at 16.32 sustained petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second), Sequoia earned the number one ranking on the industry standard Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers released Monday at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC12) in Hamburg, Germany. Sequoia was built for NNSA by IBM.
An expert in the study of aeromonas bacteria, found in water, says the organism is common but rarely fatal. A grad student in Georgia, Aimee Copeland, is fighting for her life after the bacteria entered her body through a gash.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The mayor of Hobbs, N.M., says his city has been chosen as the site for a $1 billion scientific ghost town where researchers will be able to test everything from renewable energy innovations to intelligent traffic systems and next-generation wireless networks.
Mayor Sam Cobb confirmed to The Associated Press that the southeastern New Mexico community was selected prior to a news conference Tuesday with Gov. Susana Martinez and the investors developing the Center for Innovation, Technology and Testing, or CITE.
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Talking Economics: Global growth down again, but inflation pressures build
Schroders economists cut their global growth forecasts for 2015, while reflecting on concerns surrounding the Federal Reserve interest rate policy and how it might impact global investment.
Global growth cut
We have cut our 2015 global growth forecast to 2.5% from 2.8%.
Lower growth has not led us to lower our inflation projections as oil prices have firmed and we see inflationary pressures building in the US where interest rates are expected to rise in September.
Elsewhere though monetary policy is set to remain loose, or ease further in the case of China.
Our updated scenario analysis reveals continued concerns about deflation, but an increasing focus on the risks around Federal Reserve (Fed) policy.
We have cut our 2015 forecast for global growth from 2.8% to 2.5%, primarily as a result of a downgrade to the US where the economy stalled in the first quarter.
We now expect growth of 2.4% in the US (3.2% previously). We have also downgraded Japan and the UK following a weaker-than-expected start to the year.
We have marginally upgraded the eurozone forecast whilst that for the emerging markets is little changed.
For 2016, global growth is forecast to pick up slightly to 2.9% led by better performance in the emerging markets and further recovery in the eurozone and Japan.
Inflation steady but low
Global inflation is expected to remain low in 2015 at 2.8%.
We still expect the Fed to raise rates this year and forecast the Fed funds rate to be 1% by end-2015 and then peak at 2.5% in 2016, in response to rising inflation that we expect to come about as a result of stabilising oil prices and an ageing economic cycle.
Elsewhere, we believe the Bank of Japan will keep the threat of more quantitative and qualitative easing on the table, but will let a weaker yen support the economy and refrain from further loosening.
Meanwhile, deflation concerns in the eurozone are likely to ease as the depressing effect of lower oil prices drops out of the index in combination with the weaker euro.
We expect the European Central Bank (ECB) to implement quantitative easing through to September 2016 and leave rates on hold, whilst for the UK, we now expect the first rate hike in February 2016.
China is expected to cut interest rates and the reserve requirement ratio further, and pursue other means of stimulating activity in selected sectors.
Scenarios: Fed tightening concerns
There are two new scenarios this quarter which reflect widespread concerns about Fed policy tightening.
"Fed behind the curve", sees the Fed leaving rates on hold until September 2016; then reacting more aggressively in response to higher inflation.
While this is reflationary in the short-term, growth will start to slow in response to tighter policy but inflation will react with a lag, so stagflation is the ultimate consequence of this scenario. The second new scenario,
"Tightening tantrum", sees global bond markets sell off as tightening begins in September, capital flows back into the US and the dollar strengthens.
In terms of the balance of risks, the scenarios are still tilted toward deflation with four ("Secular stagnation", "China hard landing", "Eurozone deflationary spiral" and "Tightening tantrum") producing weaker growth and lower inflation than in the baseline.
The combined probability of a deflationary outcome is now 20%, higher than last quarter.


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The current generation Explorer made its debut in 2006 and has coasted along with minimal changes. The engines were carryover, although a 6-speed transmission was added for V-8 models. The Cologne V-6 that powers base Explorers has been doing that job since the model's initial launch back in 1991 and is well past its expiration date. The Explorer's V-8 is the base engine in the F-150 and has been around for a long time as well.
The Explorer can seat seven, is offered with four-wheel drive, and has some towing capability. But its aging engines, truck-like ride, and unimpressive fuel economy make it a hard sell, especially with an all-new model around the corner.
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Explorer Eddie Bauer get gold front and rear bumpers, XLT Sport models get a black grille, and Limited models get body-color bumpers. Wheel choices range from 16-inchers on XLTs to optional 20s on Limited models.
The Explorer can seat up to seven thanks to an optional third row. However, this last row will be a tight fit for larger passengers. Maximum cargo space is 85.8 cubic-feet.
The Explorer's dated 4.0-liter V-6 makes a mere 210 horsepower and 254 pound-feet of torque while getting worse fuel economy than the V-8. That engine makes 292 horsepower and 315 pound-feet of torque. A six-speed auto comes with the V-8, V-6 models get a five-speed. Explorer V-6 models can pull up to 5,375 pounds, V-8 models up to 7,115 pounds.
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Sony's SmartWatch 3, its first smartwatch that will run on Google's Android Wear software, isn't a fitness device per say. But based on what we've heard, it seems like avid runners will love it.
The waterproof watch (€229 or roughly $300) comes loaded with sensors including an accelerometer, compass and gyroscope for tracking your motion.
This is common for most smartwatches, but the built-in GPS is part of what makes Sony's device stand out. An integrated GPS could prove to be particularly useful for runners and joggers looking to track their routes.
Sony also claims the SmartWatch 3's 1.6-inch display will be visible in bright sunlight since it's transflective, making it optimal for outdoor use.
Like Sony's other recently announced wearable devices, the SmartWatch 3 is designed to work with the company's LifeLog platform. LifeLog is an app that tracks your daily activity and presents it in a digital timeline, telling you where you were when you took a particular photo, hit a certain fitness goal, or played a specific game.
The watch will launch in black and lime this fall, but Sony says that pink and white wristbands will be available soon thereafter.
Sony is one of several tech companies to announce an Android Wear-based watch. Android Wear is Google's version of Android specifically designed for smartwatches and other wearable gadgets. It's meant to provide contextual information at a glance, similar to how Google Now already works on your phone.
Sony's smartwatch maintains a square design that's nearly identical to its previously released smartwatches, while other manufacturers like LG and Motorola are experimenting with round touchscreen displays. It's unclear if Sony's traditional design will be enough to capture consumer interest with so many competing devices entering the market, but the outdoor-friendly display and built-in GPS are nice touches. We'll find out how well Sony's Smartwatch 3 resonates among consumers this fall.


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MIAMI — Heat fans filed out of American Airlines Arena and tried to reason their way through what they just witnessed.
"But the Nuggets are horrible …" said one.
"You're a jinx," said a man to a lady who might be hard-pressed to get a return trip to a Heat game.
But then there was the only one that would have made sense to the Nuggets
"They just came here to win," that fan said, shrugging.
And win the Nuggets did.
Against the odds and the two-time defending NBA champion Heat, the Nuggets built a 16-point lead in the second half and held on for a 111-107 victory. The Heat now has lost five of its past six games.
They say this city is a distraction to road teams that come in and soak up all of the fun it has to offer and then suffer through not having enough energy in the tank to win a game. Only, it was the Heat playing distracted, disinterested basketball Friday night.
The Nuggets took full advantage in what power forward Kenneth Faried called their biggest win of the season.
"This is the number one win of our season," said Faried, who led the Nuggets with 24 points and 10 rebounds. "To come here, and they say it's a trap here, and for all of us to have fun and come out and play hard and do what we need to do and take care of business, it's great. It's number one."
The win was the Nuggets' second straight on the road, making it the first time the team has won consecutive road games since early December with victories over Philadelphia and Washington. It was the team's first win in Miami since 2009.
"When we play together and we play the right way, we can play with anybody," Nuggets coach Brian Shaw said. "Tonight was proof. To come here on their court and win in the manner that we did, we can play with anybody. Just trying to get them to understand that, realize that and bring that kind of energy and effort and complete team effort from everyone."
The Nuggets built their big lead while playing before a stunned, disbelieving crowd. But when LeBron James (21 points), Dwyane Wade (19 points) and Chris Bosh (11 points) are on your side, you never think any game is unwinnable.
And so the Heat pecked away. And pecked away. And with 2:15 left in the game, Denver's lead was down to five. And with 16.7 seconds left, its lead was only three.
But the Nuggets saw it through.
"It's tough," Shaw said. "You saw their intensity ratchet up as it got down to winning time. That's where a lot of teams start playing not to lose instead of to win. I thought that our guys continued to play to win.
"We have a young team, and it's something that we can build on."
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Spotlight on Paul Millsap: A former late second-round pick of the Utah Jazz, Millsap has been a key component for the Hawks after signing a two-year, $19 million contract with Atlanta in July. The former Louisiana Tech standout is averaging a career-best 17.6 points per game this season, almost five points above his career average. He's been a much-needed inside presence in the absence of all-star center Al Horford, who tore his right pectoral muscle Dec. 26.


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Finally, there's some news about Jamie Leigh Jones, the former Halliburton/KBR employee who was gang-raped by co-workers and then held in a shipping container so she couldn't report it, that won't make any reasonable person weep.
On Tuesday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Jones's rape and false imprisonment were not, in fact, job-related — meaning the mandatory arbitration clause in her employment contract with KBR is unenforceable where those charges are concerned. You might recall that after the Department of Justice declined to bring criminal charges against Jones's rapists, that contract forced her into closed-door arbitration with KBR — and an arbitrator they hired — rather than a civil suit. After 15 months of getting jerked around, Jones decided to fight the arbitration contract and now, 2 years later, she's won that battle decisively.
Writes Stephanie Mencimer at Mother Jones
One of the judges who ruled in her favor, Rhesa Hawkins Barksdale, is a West Point grad, Vietnam vet, and one of the court's most conservative members, a sign, perhaps, of just how bad the facts are in this case. It's a big victory, but a bitter one that shows just how insidious mandatory arbitration is. It's taken Jones three years of litigation just to get to the point where she can finally sue the people who allegedly wronged her. It will be many more years before she has a shot at any real justice.
But finally, she has that shot. And maybe so do the other women who have come forward with allegations against KBR since Jones went public, but were just as hamstrung by the arbitration clause. As of February 2008, there were at least 38 of them.
Court rules that KBR employee's gang rape wasn't a personal injury 'arising in the workplace' [Think Progress]
Earlier: Iraq Sexual Assault Victim: "I Felt Safer On The Convoys With The Army Than I Ever Did Working For KBR"
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DETROIT – Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard didn't want to play anywhere else and the organization felt the same way.
Howard and the Wings are "really, really" close to agreeing to an extension that will keep the netminder in Detroit for the next six seasons.
"First thought for me was providing for my family and to have that security blanked for them means the most," Howard said Thursday morning at Joe Louis Arena when asked if he had considered testing free agency. "I wanted to be here. I get along great with everyone here. I believe in this organization and I think we're going to get the job done."
Both sides have agreed on the length of the deal, which will be worth around $5.3 million a season, according to Howard, who hopes the deal can be signed by this weekend.
"Pretty much all the little stuff (is left)," Howard said. "It feels good, I mean I've worked really, really hard, paid my dues in the minors and really became a professional. To see it payoff here shortly is a good thrill for my family and I."
Howard, 29, was drafted by the Wings in 2003 (second round, 64th overall) and the team spent time grooming him in the minors before bringing him up when he was out of options.
"Howie has worked hard and the organization has confidence in him," Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "It's important for us. We need good goaltending. Just how much parity there is, we need him each and every night and he's been excellent for us."
Howard has helped keep the Wings in the playoff race this lockout-shortened year after they lost so much this offseason, going 16-12-4 with a 2.41 goals-against average and a .917 save percentage. He has two shutouts this season.
"He's more consistent," Babcock said. "In anybody's game there's things he can work on. He can always work on his puck-handling and he's been working on that. To me, what he's done is become a guy you can count on. That's what you need in this league. The bottom line for us is we hope this gets done so we can get on with winning games."
Over this career he's 126-65-23 with a 2.41 goal-against average, .917 save percentage and 13 shutouts.
Howard, who's in the final year of a deal that paid him $2.25 million a season, will now be the 10th highest paid goalie in the league according to CapGeek.com. Nashville's Pekka Rinne is No. 1 at $7 million a season.
The last time Howard, whose salary ranked 27th amongst goalies to start the year, was in the final year of a contract (2010-11 season) he admitted it became a distraction for him on the ice.
That wasn't the case this time around.
"To be honest it really hasn't (been a distraction), like last time when we went through this, it really did more," Howard said. "With it being such a condensed schedule and so many games being played in such a short amount of time, I haven't really had much time to think about it."
The Wings don't have much depth in goal in their system.
Jonas Gustavsson, who has been used sparingly since returning from a groin injury, has one more year left on a $1.5 million deal.
Petr Mrazek and Jordan Pearce are next on the depth chart.
In each of Howard's first two full seasons in Detroit he recorded 37 wins, becoming the only goalie in Wings history to win at least 35 games in each of his first two seasons. He struggled in his first postseason with the team, but then rebounded the following year in the playoffs, which coincidently was the same season he worked out a new two-year deal with the team.
"I like that he's a workhorse," Wings general manager Ken Holland said recently of Howard. "He's a guy we can put in net night after night. We drafted him, we developed him and we watched him grow as a goaltender. His prime years are ahead of him."
Howard finished second to Buffalo defenseman Tyler Myers in the Calder Trophy race as the NHL's top rookie.
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The impacts of climate change are already being felt by both people and the environment around the world and they're set to get a lot worse. Sea levels are rising, threatening island nations and coastal areas, storms are becoming more violent bringing floods and landslides, and droughts are intensifying.
While richer nations can try to 'buy' protection in the form of engineered solutions, poorer people in developing countries who are bearing the brunt of the impacts urgently need a proven, accessible and affordable option. One such option already exists—conserving and managing nature.
Conserving and managing nature can help people adapt to climatic changes. Mangroves and wetlands can form physical barriers against extreme weather and help to regulate floods. These natural buffers are often less expensive to maintain and in certain cases, can be as effective as built structures such as dykes or concrete walls. Managing agricultural land using local knowledge of crop varieties and maintaining diverse landscapes can help ensure food supplies in uncertain conditions. Healthy ecosystems provide a range of other natural services that people rely on, among them, the provision of food, clean water, shelter, fire wood, fibre and medicine.
Sustainably managing, conserving and restoring ecosystems so that they continue to provide the services that allow people to adapt to climate change is known as Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA). This approach builds on traditional knowledge, generates a range of social, economic and cultural benefits and helps to conserve biodiversity. In the run-up to the UN climate change meeting in Copenhagen in December, IUCN and its members are working to ensure that the new international climate change agreement recognizes the role of ecosystems in enhancing human well-being in the face of climate change.
In the second part of our three-month focus on climate change, we look at how communities around the world are boosting their resilience to changing conditions with natural infrastructure at the forefront of their efforts. We see how lessons learned on the ground are being fed through to international policy to ensure that nature-based solutions are central to international efforts to combat climate change.


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A slight warm-up this weekend may be a good time to prepare for another blast of colder than normal temperatures � and another possibility of snow.
A slight warm-up this weekend may be a good time to prepare for another blast of colder than normal temperatures � and another possibility of snow.
Meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Newport, which includes Onslow and Carteret counties in its forecast area, said the long-range forecast is calling for a chance of snow by the middle of next week.
�Some snow showers are in the forecast, pretty much Tuesday night into Wednesday, but it�s too far in advance to say what we�ll see,� said meteorologist Lara Pagano.
Pagano said there are still a lot of inconsistencies in the forecast models, and it will likely be late in the weekend or Monday before the snow forecast becomes clearer.
�Once we get into Monday there should be more confidence in the model,� she said.
But snow or not, the bitter cold temperatures will be returning early next week.
Wilbur Parker of One Accord Firewood in Jacksonville said he�s noticed the cold in the amount of business he�s seen so far this winter.
�We�ve sold more wood this year, almost double of what we did last year,� he said.
While few of his customers use firewood as a primary source for heating their homes, Parker said they are using fireplaces to supplement other heating sources.
�When the weather gets down to around 20 degrees your average heat pump can�t keep up,� he said.
Wood-burning fireplaces can also provide heat in the case of an emergency, power goes out or other heating sources are lost.
With the persistent cold temperatures he recommends keeping wood stocked.
�I�d advise anyone using wood-burning source of heat to keep enough wood on hand to hold them for 3-5-7 days,� he said.
There are also a few steps area residents can take to keep their car maintained in the extreme cold.
While coastal car owners may not think of doing so as often, they should check the antifreeze and make sure it doesn�t need to be replaced.
Car batteries can also be affected by the cold.
Beverly Garten of the service department at National Volkswagen said batteries weaken as they age and it�s best to replace them as they get older and to keep the terminals clean.
�Those are the two big things to think about,� she said.
She said it also helps to make sure windshield wipers are turned off when you turn your car off. If not, the wiper blades can get stuck to the windshield by frost and ice and make it difficult for the motors that run the wipers.
Onslow County Emergency Services Director Norman Bryson said Friday that they are monitoring the forecast and the possibility of snow in the area.
He said snowfall, unless it brings icy conditions that cause widespread power outages, typically impacts travel more than anything else.
�For the most part, if you are talking about snow, it affects transportation and the roadways and people getting out,� he said.
That doesn�t mean people shouldn�t be ready for inclement weather. Having an emergency supply kit is important at all times. Keeping water, batteries, flashlights, nonperishable food, medications and other necessities at hand keeps families prepared year-around in case of weather events and disaster.
�People should have a disaster preparedness kit in case of hurricane, tornado, cold weather or any event that may happen,� Bryson said.
Joy Branham of the Red Cross is looking forward to the possibility of a coastal snowfall. She enjoyed six inches of snow just after arriving in Onslow County from the foothills of North Carolina in 2003 but has missed seeing more than a flurry or two since.
�I�m holding out for double digits,� she said.
It may be too soon to know if she�ll get her wish but it�s not too early to prepare, she said.
She said having food and supplies and activities for the kids can help prepare for being indoors and plan for appropriate attire if heading outside for an extended period of time.
�Wear layers of lightweight clothing, and wearing gloves and hat help prevent you from losing body heat,� Branham said.
If traveling, keep a full tank of gas in the car, a blanket and emergency supply kit with you.
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Obama sends U.S. planes to aid Iraqi refugees, threatens Islamic State with air strikes
The United States early Friday took direct action for the first time to counter the Islamic State's advances in Iraq, dropping humanitarian supplies to tens of thousands of people who'd fled their homes when the extremist group captured the city of Sinjar in northern Iraq.
In a nationally televised address, President Barack Obama said he also had authorized targeted airstrikes "to protect American personnel" if forces from the Islamic State advance on the city of Irbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, where the United States maintains a large consulate, a recently expanded CIA station and a military Joint Operations Command Center.
But Obama indicated that such strikes had not yet been made and stressed that he did not intend a massive military campaign.
"I will not allow the United States to be dragged into another war in Iraq," he said.
He said, however, that the United States could not stand by idly as thousands of Iraqis faced "certain death" and that the move was intended "to prevent a potential act of genocide."
"The United States cannot and should not intervene every time there's a crisis in the world So let me be clear about why we must act, and act now," Obama said. "When we face a situation like we do on that mountain -- with innocent people facing the prospect of violence on a horrific scale, when we have a mandate to help . . . and when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, then I believe the United States of America cannot turn a blind eye."
The Obama administration has been studying what options it might take to thwart the Islamic State since the radical group seized control of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, in early June, then swept across north and central Iraq in a campaign that saw the Iraqi army dissolve in disarray. Until Thursday, however, U.S. officials have offered no hint of what steps they might take to assist the Iraqi government, whose army has yet to be able to mount a successful counterattack to reverse the Islamic State's gains.
A statement from the Pentagon distributed shortly after the president spoke said one C-17 aircraft and two C-130s had dropped a total of 72 bundles of supplies to the thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority who had fled to mountains near the city of Sinjar after Islamist extremists seized the city. The supplies included 5,300 gallons of fresh drinking water, the statement said, an especially needed commodity in Iraq's 115-degree summer heat.
Two F/A-18 fighter jets accompanied the cargo planes, but no ground troops were involved, the Pentagon said. All of the aircraft had left the area of the drop by the time the president spoke, the statement said. There were not reports of hostile fire.
U.S. officials briefing reporters said the mission was completed shortly before the president spoke, -- 9:30 p.m. Thursday in Washington, but early Friday in Iraq. Planning for the airdrop began last Saturday, the officials said, after Islamic State forces launched what was described as a "swift and effective" attack on Sinjar and other locations in northern Iraq.
But the impetus for action built after Islamic State attacked towns near Irbil late Wednesday, the officials said. Obama spoke with National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and then twice with his national security team before authorizing the action.
The announcement of the mission came after a tumultuous day that saw the Islamic State capture a string of towns that brought its forces to within minutes of Irbil. Kurdish peshmerga militia rushed to set up a defensive line in near the town of Kalak, about 25 miles northwest of Irbil, as Kurdish officials pleaded with the United States for direct military support and supplies.
Early Friday morning, a resident of Kalak told McClatchy that she had heard a jet aircraft overhead and had heard explosions from behind Islamic State lines. But the aircraft was Iraqi, not American, according to Kurdish reports and American officials.
The United States' move to drop supplies to the Yazidis came at the request of the Iraqi government, Obama said. The Yazidis, who have been targeted for years by Muslim extremists who consider their religious beliefs heretical, had fled with little more than the clothes on their back. Reports from the city in the days since indicate that Yaazidis who remained behind have been executed, tortured and raped.
Dozens of those who fled reportedly have died in the mountains.
Obama suggested that the U.S. commitment to protect the Yazidis was open ended, saying that he had also authorized the U.S. military to launch strikes against Islamic State forces if they move against the refugees -- a pledge that could last weeks or even months since the area is isolated and the Islamic State controls the approaches.
The U.S. intervention was almost certain to ease tension in Irbil, which was on edge Thursday after the Islamic State announced in an Internet posting that it intended to capture the city.
Until this week, the Kurdish region had been considered so secure that the United States had chosen it as one of two Iraqi locations safe enough to transfer staffers from the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. But a sense of dread fell over the Kurdish capital on Thursday as the magnitude of the Islamic State threat became clear.
Western oil companies based in Irbil shut down operations and restricted their employees' movements out of concerns for safety, while makeshift shelters popped up in public parks and churches in the Ain Kawa neighborhood to accommodate hundreds of people who'd fled the newly occupied towns. There was a noticeable increase in the presence of the Kurdish peshmerga militia in the city, and there were reports that hundreds of residents flooded the airport in hopes of buying tickets to elsewhere.
A refugee camp at Kalak that only two days ago was filled with tens of thousands of refugees who'd fled Mosul when it fell to the Islamic State was empty Thursday as the area became a new front line.
The peshmerga appeared to be preparing to make a last stand at Kalak. Several hundred regulars in uniforms with well-maintained light weapons and heavy machine guns, backed by a few armored vehicles and a single Soviet-era T-55 tank, were digging in with earth movers along a string of desolate desert hills to prepare for what a top security official called a "very serious test."
"The Americans keep saying they will help us," said Rosg Nuri Shawess, a top Kurdish military commander who was overseeing the defensive preparations. "Well, if they plan to help they had better do it now."
From Kalak, about 25 miles northwest of Irbil, the front line of the Islamic State, which everyone here refers to as "Daash," an Arabic acronym, could be seen slightly more than a mile away.
"Daash is testing our defenses," said Shawess, who is a member of the Iraqi government's national security council, pointing to two towns that fell Thursday to the Islamic State, Qaraqosh and Bartella, that were visible in the distance. "And if we don't show them we are strong here, then we have lost Irbil."
Shawess said his men were confident and well trained, a claim reinforced by the professional demeanor of his uniformed men. But the peshmerga will face Islamic State fighters armed with advanced U.S. weapons with just a handful of 12.7mm Soviet-era heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
"We need better weapons and help," Shawess said. "They tried to attack this morning but were just testing us."
Shawess said those attacks recalled the first Islamic State moves in Mosul before that city fell to the Islamists June 9.
"These tests are critical," added Shawess. "When they first attacked Mosul I don't know if they planned to take it, but when there was no resistance they acted quickly. We have to show them here they can't take Irbil."
He was hardly exaggerating. The 25 miles from this new front line to the outskirts of Irbil _ barely a 30-minute drive _ remained virtually undefended beyond the occasional cluster of peshmerga fighters on hilltops and another single T-55 tank sitting in an intersection about halfway down the road.
The Kurds have a long, proud history of military prowess, and civilians and retired peshmerga were turning out in force to support their uniformed compatriots. But while they were enthusiastic in their traditional Kurdish clothing, they seemed far more interested in recounting the history of previous victories than in preparing for a soon-to-come onslaught. Their weapons were a motley assortment of family firearms, some modern, many antique. Some men, old and portly or young and untrained, manned a series of checkpoints closer to the capital, with an eye for Arabs driving cars with Mosul plates. Some merely stood around.
"I have come to defend my country," said Yassin, 60, who wore traditional tribal clothes and carried a Russian-made Dragonov sniper rifle, missing its scope, rendering it basically useless except for close-quarter fighting. "All Kurds know how to fight."
But despite the positive attitude, word from the various fronts around Kurdistan was grim.
The Mosul Dam had fallen to the Islamic State, U.S. and Kurdish officials confirmed. It is the largest such structure in Iraq and controls a major Iraqi watershed, amid fears that the Islamic State could unleash a torrent of water and inundate hundreds of square miles of Iraq.
The link between Irbil and the Iraqi city of Kirkuk to the south, which fell under Kurdish control when Iraqi soldiers fled in June, also appeared in danger, with reports that the Islamic State had taken at least partial control of Makhmour, a town that lies along the primary highway between the two cities.
Falah Bakir, the foreign minister for the Kurdistan Regional Government, said in an interview with CNN that the Kurds faced disaster and needed immediate assistance. "We are left alone in the front to fight the terrorists of ISIS," he said, using an acronym for the Islamic State, which used to call itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
"I believe the United States has a moral responsibility to support us, because this is a fight against terrorism, and we have proven to be pro-democracy, pro-West and pro-secularism," Bakir said.
"I now know that the towns of Qaraqosh, Tal Kayf, Bartella and Karamlesh have been emptied of their original population and are now under the control of the militants," Joseph Thomas, the Chaldean archbishop of Kirkuk and Sulaimaniyah, told the Agence France Presse news agency. The fall of those villages represented the loss of the largest Christian communities in Iraq.
Kurdish officials repeatedly have claimed that the United States and the Iraqi government in Baghdad have refused to send military aid and that they have only Saddam Hussein-era weapons and limited ammunition to counter Islamic State forces that are armed with advanced American weaponry.
A statement attributed to the Islamic State posted Thursday on the Internet said that the Islamists would target Irbil as retaliation for Kurdish officials' agreement earlier this week to coordinate operations against the Islamic State with the central government in Baghdad.
"We are pleased to announce to the Islamic nation a new liberation in Nineveh province, teaching the secular Kurds a lesson," the statement said.
The United States has long been seen as the Kurdish region's protector. After the first Gulf War ended in 1991, the U.S. imposed a no-fly zone over the region to prevent Saddam's air force from attacking. The Kurdish zone became a rare outpost of economic development in an era when harsh trade restrictions were imposed on the rest of Iraq. After U.S. forces toppled Saddam in 2003, the region enjoyed enormous autonomy and was largely free of the sectarian warfare and chaos that plagued the rest of Iraq during the American occupation.
Prothero, a McClatchy special correspondent, reported from Irbil, Kumar, from Washington. Mark Seibel and Nancy A. Youssef in Washington contributed to this report.


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The Spring flower season in the Cape is a spectacle not to be missedSeptember 16th, 2011
The Spring flower season in the Cape is a spectacle not to be missed
When it comes to the annual Spring flower season in the Cape wishes, it seems, do sometimes come true.
Earlier this year I asked Bernard van Lente, park manager of the Namaqua National Park, what it would take to deliver a phenomenal flower season - not the desultory display nature put on last year - and he said:
"We need soaking Winter rains in early May and June and good follow up rains with showers roughly every seven days throughout July and into August."
Well, guess what? That's exactly what we got. And it's still raining as cold front after cold front sweeps in from the South Atlantic, battering the Western seaboard and dropping their precipitation payload over the country's arid western regions.
The upshot has been one of the remarkable Spring flower displays flower enthusiasts have seen in a long time.
Talk about feast and famine! Whereas last year there was hardly a bloom to be found, this year there's a veritable cornucopia of flowers carpeting the entire countryside from Alexander Bay in the north to Cape Town.
Better still, the prolonged rainfall has virtually ensured that this year's flower season will last longer than most as the delicate blooms replenish themselves from the moisture-laden soil.
Probably one of the most spectacular flower sightings to be had this year is in the Skilpad Wild Flower Reserve, which forms part of the larger Namaqua National Park. Orange Namaqualand daisies, for which the park is world famous, blanket the ground as far as the eye can see with a burnt orange colour so intense it almost hurts your eyes to look upon it for any length of time.
The nearby villages of Kamieskroon, Garies and Leliefontein have also dressed up especially for the occasion. As they try to outdo themselves with the variety and colour range of wild flowers they have on offer, tourists on their way through to the Northern Cape town of Springbok just stop and stare, their mouths agape. Once their initial awe-inspiring first impressions eventually wear off, they invariably rush for their cameras to record the moment for posterity.
The northerly towns of Nababeep and Okiep are once again boasting delightful shows of orange Namaqualand daisies while the more westerly regions around Soebatsfontein and Sarrisam have vivid patches of orange and yellow daisies which contrast dramatically with the lush green fields they grow in.
Further south, acknowledged flower expert, Hendrik Van Zijl, of Nieuwoudtville says the town is enjoying a spectacular flower season with the surrounding countryside clothed in a riot of colour of wild flowers of every description, particularly around Papskuilfontein. He says long term farmers in the district have told him that they can't remember when last the annual Spring flowers looked so good.
Meanwhile, not to be outdone, the renowned Biedouw Valley East of Clanwilliam, which habitually puts on a good flower show, has not disappointed either. It probably tops the pops for the sheer variety and profusion of wild flowers it has on offer this year - especially prolific are Namaqualand daisies in various shades of white, pale yellow and deep orange.
However, for all the wonderful spectacles to behold, nature, being as whimsical as it is, has occasioned some let downs too.
Early on in the season the Flower Report website noted that the flowers in the Goegap National Park were looking particularly good this year. But when we eventually got there the flowers were a big disappointment. An obliging park ranger explained that only the week before an icy cold wind had blown in off the Atlantic for four days solid, shriveling the nascent blooms on their stems.
There's a lesson in this for all us aspirant flower viewers. That is, no matter how splendid the flowers are in any particularly season it never pays to be too complacent. When it comes to things as delicate and fragile as wild flowers, things can change suddenly and dramatically and, apparently, frequently do.
It looks like this year's spring flower season is going the last until at least the end of September. So get there and take in the spectacle while you still can.


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|Six Contemporary Artists Who Use Maps in Their Work
Guillermo Kuitca looks upon maps as metaphors for human relationships. He routinely uses maps of individual and communal spaces as starting points for his paintings. Over the years, Kuitcas has incorporated maps of all kinds into his work including floor plans for houses, stadiums, apartments, and prisons; seating arrangements of theaters; street plans of cities; and even family trees or genealogical charts into his work. While Kuitcas paintings have an abstract appearance, they always have a psychological, political, or social reference.
In his series of paintings titled People on Fire, Kuitca brings together a community of faceless names together as one might do in a genealogical chart. These are anonymous individuals with no personal significance to Kuitca or to the viewer. We read the names as we might headstones in a cemetery. Names are color-coded by gender: male-orange, female-pink. Some spots are left blank which Kuitca sees as symbolic of the people unknown yet connected to the whole. These blanks may evoke no special feeling in the casual viewer. Yet to anyone aware of modern Argentine history, the missing names stand for the Desparecidos, the thousands of the artists countrymen and women who disappeared during the reign of terror brought by the military junta that ruled Argentina in the 1970s.
To learn more about Guillermo Kuitca and his work, read the following reviews:
Kuitca at Sperone Westwater
Artist Finds His Place in the World
Lordy Rodriguez
Using mostly pen and ink, Lordy Rodriguez redraws existing maps in order to create imaginary compositions that appear both familiar and strange at the same time. His maps typically consist of misplaced cities and fictional states alongside recognizable landmarks and familiar sites. In reading these images, the viewer must suspend the popular notion of a map as an accurate and factual document (until proven otherwise). In describing his work, Rodriquez says he attempts to "create a map based on a fantasy of the perfect city or where I'd like to go, but can't get there."
Rodriquezs maps are often about places hes been, and longs to return to. His family moved to the United States from the Philippines when he was only three years old. They lived in Louisiana, then Texas, and made frequent trips across the country to visit relatives. Rodriquez himself now resides in Brooklyn, New York.
In State of Quezon, Rodriguez maps a fantasy Quezon City that he left early in his life but never really knew well. In another project titled States, Rodriques set out to remap the entire United States and incorporate five uncharted states of his own creation (consisting of Hollywood, Disney World, Territory Statewhich includes parts of the Philippines, Samoa, and Puerto RicoThe Internet, and Monopoly) into the familiar outline of the real fifty states.
To learn more about Lordy Rodriquezs work, read the following review:
by Lordy Rodriquez
Kathy Prendergast
As a sculptor and a draftswoman, Kathy Prendergast transforms commonplace items such as maps, bits of clothing, human hair, and household objects in order to draw our attention to issues of identity, political power, and individual experience. In 1992, Prendergast began work on an enormous project called City Drawings in which she set out to draw maps of all the worlds major capital cities in pencil. Each map consists of delicate lines that depict the main thoroughfares and streets of a city as though they were the veins and arteries of a human body. When complete, there will be some 180 drawings in this series.
Prendergasts Lost Map appears at first to be a straightforward map of the United States with the familiar topographical information about mountain ranges, lakes, and state borders. Yet, on closer inspection, this computer-generated map reveals that all the names of places have been removed from the map except for those that begin and end with the word lost (e.g., Lost Creek, Lost Island, and Lost Canyon).
In describing Lost Map as well as her plans for an impending project, Prendergast writes: For the last few years I have been researching place-names with the idea of producing an Emotional Atlas of the World. This atlas would show all the places in the world which have names connected with emotions, i.e., Lost Bay, Lonely Island, Hearts Desire, etc., rather than the conventional atlas which shows places of importance. The map Lost in the exhibition is a variation on this theme, showing all the lost places in North America. Until quite recently maps and atlases were produced by hand. Within the last few years new atlases have been produced using digital technology. It is the combination of this technology, the place-name information on the Internet and my idea that has made my project possible.
To learn more about Kathy Prendergast, see: Kathy Prendergast @ the Kerlin Gallery
Alighiero Boetti
Although Alighiero Boetti had no formal art training,
he became one of Italys most celebrated contemporary artists.
Throughout his artistic career, Boetti focused much of his work on revealing
the absurdity of imposing abstract human concepts upon the natural world.
This impulse is evident in his best-known series titled "Territori
Occupati' (Occupied Territories) which consists of a number of woven
world maps. Boetti commissioned these embroidered tapestries from Afghanistan
and Pakistan master weavers he befriended during numerous trips to Afghanistan
during the 1970s on. Boetti decided on the arrangement for each mapincluding
its symbols, mottos, and textand then left it up the weavers to
decide on the coloration of the map and to finish it.
In Mappa del Mondo (Map of the World) 1989, areas of each continent are filled in with national flags where space is allowed. The embroidered border contains phrases in Farsi and letters selected by the artist from the Roman alphabet. For Boetti, the flags represent the arbitrary nature and ultimate fragility of global politics. Countries rise and fall daily and alliances are built and broken. Furthermore, the time and collective effort it took to create the tapestry is meant to signify the will power and harmony required to achieve a common goal, even a fragile one. [ View related work ]
Boeitti once said about the map series, "To my mind, the work of the embroidered maps represents supreme beauty," he said. "For these works, I made nothing, selected nothing, in the sense that the world is the way it is and I have not drawn it; the flags are those that exist anyway . . . Once the basic idea is there, the concept, then everything else is chosen."
Boetti explored the idea of maps from 1971 until his
death in 1994. To learn more about Alighiero Boetti and his work, read
the following review:
Marlene Creates
Since the late 1970s, Marlene Creates has focused much of her artistic practice on investigating the relationship between human perception and occupation of land. For Creates, . . . land is not an abstract physical location but a place, charged with personal significance, shaping the images we have of ourselves.
Creates frequently uses a combination of personal interviews, photographs, spoken text, hand-drawn maps, and found objects to document the memories and viewpoints that people impress upon a local landscape. In Places of Presence, for example, Creates discovered the connections between ancestral land and her own personal sense of place and identify. The 1989-1991 series is based on the artists visits to Newfoundland to explore the practical and emotional history of the land where her grandmother, grandfather, and great grandmother were born. During her time in Newfoundland, Creates interviewed and photographed relatives; had them draw memory maps of the places they grew up in; and then followed these maps to see the places they had described, taking photographs and collecting natural found objects along the way. All of this research led to the final installation of Places of Presence that consisted of three groupings of black and white photographs on a wooden shelf, memory map drawings, text panels, and natural souvenirs collected on site.
To learn more about Places of Presence,
read Marlene Create's description:
Joyce Kozloff
Joyce Kozloff became widely recognized in the 1970's as a leader of the Pattern and Decoration and Feminist movements. Although originally known as a painter, much of Kozloffs work in the 1980s involved the construction of large mosaic and ceramic tile public art installations for public transportation facilities in cities across the U.S. Her more recent work has included mixed media collages, assemblages, and gallery installations.
Since the 1990s, Kozloff has devoted her attention as an artist to exploring issues of cultural identify through the mapping of diverse cultures. Her interest in different cultures and the forces of cultural change has been inspired by the experience and knowledge that she gained through travel to cities all over the world.
Kozloff typically uses maps (actual or imagined) in
her work which she combines with various decorative and cultural elements
such as motifs, symbols, lettering, quotations, cinematic images, and
other visual references that serve her purposewhether it be revealing
the ethnic histories of a city or exposing matters of conquest and control.
For example, on the panel representing Changchun, the film capital of China, Kozloff has included raised pagodas to designate the locations of film studios whereas on the panel representing Mankato, Minnesota, decorative patterns are intended recall the beadwork of the woodland and plains Indians who lived in or passed through the area. As characteristic of all of her public art work, Kozloff deliberately incorporated a lot of detail into each panel in order to . . . give people a lot of things they can discover over time."
In her recent Knowledge series (which she began in the summer of 1998), Kozloff created a number of 8 x 10-inch frescoes based on inaccuracies she found in early maps dating back to 150 AD. In extending this series further, Kozloff transformed standard Rand McNally globes by covering them with plaster and then painting frescos onto the surfaces that recall maps from the 10th to the 15th century. Each globe includes pictorial motifs that Medieval and Renaissance cartographers used to embellish their maps as well as various figures and creatures that represent the accepted cosmology of the time.
In one of her latest gallery installations titled Targets (2000), Kozloff created a huge walk-in globe that stands nine feet tall. The interiors walls of the globe are covered with painted military maps that are based on areas around the world that have been targeted by U.S. aerial attacks since World War II.
For more recent work by Kozloff, see BOYS' ART and other works at the DC Moore gallery (2003).
For more information on artists who use mapping, see Uncharted Territory: Subjective Mapping by Artists and Cartographers, a 2004 group exhibition at the Julie Saul Gallery.


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Humour is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humors (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), control human health and emotion.
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|Statutory Declaration (cover), 1959
In October 1959, Joseph Philippe made a statutory declaration about Fred Belair's name.1 I suspect it had to do with my grandfather wanting to collect his Canadian federal pension. (Joe was Fred's nephew, being the son of his late sister Angélina.) My grandfather Fred would turn 70 years old in a couple of months, the age at which he could begin receiving his Old Age Security pension. Since he was baptised "Jean-Baptiste Ménésippe" in December 1889, but used "Fred" (or "Frederick") most of his adult life, he probably had to prove who he was to the federal government before he could collect his $40 per month.
|Statutory Declaration (text), 1959
(Note: Preprinted portions of the declaration are in plain text, while the filled-in typewritten portions are shown underlined.)
Dominion of Canada
Province of Ontario
In the Matter of JEAN BAPTISTE MINISIPPE BELAIR, also known as FREDERICK BELAIR
I, Joseph Alfred Philippe
of the Town of Timmins in the
District of Cochrane, Miner,
Do Solemnly Declare that 1. I have known JEAN BAPTISTE MINISIPPE BELAIR, also known as FREDERICK BELAIR, for the last 43 years.
2. THAT when I first knew Mr. Belair, he was known under the name of MINISIPPE BELAIR or FRED BELAIR
3. THAT JEAN BAPTISTE MINISIPPE BELAIR and FREDERICK BELAIR is the one and same person.
And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing it to be true and knowing that it is of the same force and effect as if made under oath, and by virtue of the Canada Evidence Act.
DECLARED before me at the Town
of Timmins
in the District
of Cochrane
this 6th day of October
[Signed] Joseph Philippe
1. "In the Matter of Jean Baptiste Minisippe Belair also known as Frederick Belair", statutory declaration, dated 6 October 1959; Demoskoff Family Papers, photocopy held by Yvonne (Belair) Demoskoff, British Columbia, 2013.
Copyright © 2013, Yvonne Demoskoff.


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While Matthew Perse was getting ready to head to boot camp, his neighborhood was planning a special way to honor the young Marine.
Neighbors on Lexi Circle in the Broadlands decorated trees in their neighborhood with red, white and blue bows and posted congratulatory signs out their lawns to see him off in patriotic style.
The ribbons first went up near the beginning of November, but many are still wrapped around neighborhood trees as Christmas approaches.
"It was just such a nice thing to do," said Nancy Perse, Matthew's mother.
Dawna Cornejo, Perse's neighbor, said she wanted to surprise the family with something to show their support for Matthew's decision to join the Marines.
"We just wanted to show them that we appreciated the commitment he was making. We watched him grow up on this street," she said.
Cornejo gathered the ribbons and distributed them to about 20 neighbors, along with a letter explaining her plan. One by one, every house adorned a tree with a ribbon. Many wrote cards and letters for Matthew, and some even made handwritten signs to add to the decorations on their lawns. Those with flag poles flew their American flag.
Cornejo secretly tied a similar bow on the Perses' tree and left a sign on the lawn wishing him the best from all his neighbors.
She also gathered all of the neighbors' letters and cards, including drawings from children on the block, in a decorated box full of cookies. She left the package on the Perses' stoop, rang the doorbell and ran back to her house.
Nancy Perse said she noticed the bows slowly appear around the neighborhood, but didn't know the gesture was meant for her son until she heard whispers from neighbors. Then, the package appeared to explain everything.
"It was so close to Veterans Day, so I thought people had decorated for that," Perse said. "Once (Matthew) heard about the hoopla, he thought it was awesome. He felt very supported."
In the Perses' tight-knit neighborhood in the Broadlands, the little things make a big difference, Perse said. Neighbors eat dinner at each other's homes and see each other regularly. Most moved into the neighborhood at the same time in the late '90s just after the subdivision was built.
Working together as a neighborhood was key to getting the surprise to work, Cornejo said.
"I watched Matt grow into a fine young man, and my kids, who are younger than he is, literally and figuratively look up to him," she said.
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Feb 12 (Reuters) - LeBron James' red-hot shooting hit record level on Tuesday as he became the first NBA player ever to score 30 points while shooting 60 percent in six straight games.
James tallied 30 points, nine assists and six rebounds to lead the Miami Heat to a 117-104 victory over Portland Trail Blazers on a night he reached unparalleled efficiency in front of his home crowd.
The three-time league MVP made 11 of his 15 shots and is shooting an incredible 71 percent from the field over his last six games.
Only Adrian Dantley and Moses Malone had previously achieved the 30-point, 60-percent mark in five consecutive contests.
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Bill Belichick's Wes Welker replacement plan is coming together nicely. After signing Danny Amendola to take over slot duties, the New England Patriots have agreed to terms with Leon Washington to take over return duties.
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Washington, who was cut by the Seattle Seahawks this week, often crushed the Patriots while he was a member of the New York Jets. He fits the Patriots' profile as a guy who can help in a variety of areas.
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The General Assembly finished its legislative session late last week, ending nearly three months of work that will have a positive impact for years to come.
Highlights range from a plan to overcome a large budget deficit to significantly revising the tests that determine how well our schools are progressing. We covered a lot of ground in a short amount of time, especially when considering that this was a "short" session – so named because it is half as long as those in even-numbered years.
In these difficult economic times, more Americans are turning to non-profit and charity organizations for assistance. From local soup kitchens and homeless shelters to major philanthropic organizations, like the Red Cross and Goodwill Industries, charities across the nation are reporting an overwhelming increase in demand for their services. However, due to a short-sighted provision included in President Barack Obama's budget blueprint for fiscal year 2010, some charities may be unable to continue to respond to the needs of our communities.
The U.S. Labor Department recently released the unemployment numbers for February. More than 650,000 jobs were lost last month, pushing the national unemployment rate to 8.1 percent, up from 7.6 percent in January.
Since the recession began in December 2007, 4.4 million jobs have been cut. February's report further underscores the importance of creating and protecting American jobs.
It is through this framework that we must examine President Barack Obama's budget blueprint for fiscal year 2010.
The 2009 Regular Session – which wraps up on Friday this week – will long be remembered for several reasons. During this time we overcame a large budget deficit, overhauled the state testing system for our schools and set in motion nearly $2 billion in road improvements. We also sought to slow our skyrocketing prison growth by providing more substance-abuse treatment to those whose addiction has led to an arrest.
There were quite a few other bills about to become law, though, that in ways large and small will make a difference in our lives.
This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, he led a modest life, worked hard, and went on to become the 16th President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860 as the candidate of the newly formed Republican Party. He led our nation through one of the most devastating periods in our history - the Civil War. He is considered by many to have been the greatest American president.
Spring has arrived, and I'm pretty happy about that — except for one thing.
Spring, as you know, is when most livestock give birth. Each year we have mares that are bred to foal in March, April or May, and that makes me extremely nervous. Being a stay-at-home wife, I am the designated lookout. Somehow it is my job to keep an eye on the mares and make sure that everything is going okay, should they foal.
We the members of the Henry County Concerned Citizens would like to advise all Henry County Residents of how our lawsuit regarding mandatory garbage is progressing.
There will be a scheduled hearing at 9:45 a.m., April 28, on the 10th floor of the Jefferson County Judicial Center at 700 W. Jefferson Street. The Appellate Court will hear oral arguments at this time. The court of appeals will hear only about 20 percent of cases put before them.
Well this is that time of year again- spring, cookouts, horse racing, etc. Not only is it one of these three things but one big thing that bothers me day after day. This is a subject I have written about in the past and hasn't really changed at all. It is the continued speeding in our subdivision. This has angered me more as the weather began to change and more when nothing is being done about it either. I realize and have been told that speed bumps are not an option right now due to potential to build houses in our neighbor subdivision, Arbor View.
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Since 2004, thousands of children in the District of Columbia have had scholarships worth up to $7,500 to attend a private school of their choice as part of the DC Opportunity Scholarship program. Currently, more than 1,700 low income children are benefiting from this opportunity. Unfortunately, language in the current $410 billion spending bill, which was signed by President Obama, eliminated the scholarship program.
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In 2008, the Second Wind Dreams published a letter of thanks to those individuals who made possible a wish granted to the residents of Homestead Nursing Home in New Castle. Once again, we want to continue the list and the dream, and the ones who granted those wishes.
The Hussey Copper Relay For Life team hosted a dance on Feb. 28 at the Eminence Community Center. The band, Leo and the Moonlighters played from 7 to 11 p.m. The community came out and supported a wonderful benefit. This was our first big event this year and I think everyone enjoyed themselves and we enjoyed everyone being there.
In the present economy, why are homeowners being taxed more while property values have gone down? According to the latest news reports, property in the U.S. has declined 27 percent. Henry County is no different than the rest of the United States. Is this another example of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer?
Back in the 1960s, tattoos were not the popular body art that they have become. In the upstate New York town where I grew up, I knew of no one who had a tattoo; that is, until my boyfriend – now my husband – got one in the Marines. I was shocked. How could he mar his body with something so permanent? He thought my efforts to persuade him to have it removed were nuts. The tattoo stayed, I got used to it and married him in spite of the large off-kilter anchor on one arm.
Roads and NASCAR were the twin highlights of a busy time in the Kentucky House of Representatives last week, as we raced toward the final few days of the 2009 Regular Session.
Speed bumps are a traffic control device that is specifically regulated by statute. There are many illegal speed bumps within the city of Eminence. The city officials know they are illegal. The city attorney knows they are improperly installed. they are there because the "people wanted them," just as in Pleasureville. The city attorney for these two towns (the same person) should make the city officials aware of the statutes and ensure that the cities comply with what is legal.
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An important birthday passed Monday, and I'd be remiss if I didn't say a little something about it.
Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel would have been 105 on March 2. Geisel's impact has been felt across generations now, instilling a love of reading into countless children — and I count myself among those.
Although final details are still pending, Kentucky got a much clearer picture last week of what it can expect from the federal stimulus package that Congress recently passed. Even with quite a few strings attached, it should still provide a substantial lift right when we need it most.
According to Governor Beshear, we will get a little more than $3 billion over the next 28 months, which doesn't include direct stimulus payments Kentuckians may receive from such things as tax cuts or boosts in Social Security payments.
I know most insurance companies are reliable and that sometimes a reasonable increase in insurance premiums is justified. I don't like it when it happens, but I understand that it can happen. Even the most reasonable person would agree, however, that three increases over a six-year period, cumulatively totaling more than a 100 percent hike in premiums, would be unjustified, harmful and unconscionable.
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Bonefish Grill Charity Night
We previously posted about all of the great new additions coming to La Centerra. Now, Bonefish Grill will be celebrating their grand opening Charity Night with an evening of fabulous food, wine, spirits and fundraising with 100 percent of the evening's proceeds to benefit the Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center.
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Miley Cyrus + Liam Hemsworth Make Everyone Think They Are Already Married
Miley Cyrus and her fiancé, actor Liam Hemsworth, shared photos from their Christmas morning celebration. Big deal, right? Actually, yes.
The couple and the images got everyone talking, since Cyrus appeared to be wearing a gold band on the ring finger of her left hand, suggesting that they had already gotten married and were revealing the huge news in coy fashion. In the photo below, Liam is also sporting a band on his left hand.
At one point, there were rumors floating around that Cyrus, wearing leopard print, footed PJs and Santa hats and beards in the photos, was planning not one, not two, but three weddings to Hemsworth. While she shot that story down, we would never believe that she'd get married in secret and not share the photos of the beautiful dress or the good news with the world. At the very least, she would post photos of her dogs as the rings bearers and flower girls at the ceremony, since she is cray cray about her canines.
Speculation ran rampant, though, given the bling in the photos. Perhaps Cyrus and Hemsworth were having a little fun at the expense of the media and of their fans.
Maybe they just like wearing gold rings before they actually swap vows. It's good preparation for when the big day finally arrives.
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LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) - Quarterback Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears offense struggled enough against Carolina to elicit boos from Soldier Field fans, and receive an unpleasant review of their inconsistency a day later from coach Lovie Smith.
Cutler got sacked six times in the first half and has been sacked 11 times in two games, while the running game bogged down in the second half after a fast start Sunday against a Panthers team with one victory.
Cutler had only 80 passing yards heading into the fourth quarter before coming on to hit 12 of his last 14 passes for 106 yards.
The slow start was startling because of the emphasis the Bears placed the previous week on starting fast.
After their game in Tennessee on Sunday, only one more game is against a team currently with a losing record.
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