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Veteran choreographer Twyla Tharp has been making dances to the Frank Sinatra songbook for more than 30 years, so it was no surprise she turned again to Ol' Blue Eyes for her latest foray onto Broadway. "Come Fly Away," a wordless musical that follows four couples in and out of love, is currently playing at New York's Marquis Theatre.
"Come Fly Away" is a joyous evening in the theater, fueled by a company of virtuoso dancers whom Tharp has prodded into delivering performances that sizzle. The action unfolds in a nightclub, with an 18-piece live orchestra, and occasionally a female vocalist, warbling along to Sinatra's recorded voice. Although the plotlines are familiar – and inconsequential – the moves of the dancers are not. Tharp manages to roll together ballroom dance, hip-hop, modern, and ballet technique into choreography as expressive of emotions and frustrations as the whispered repartee between lovers.
"I look at it as a silent movie," she says. Tharp first used Sinatra songs for "Once More Frank" (1976), which she performed with Mikhail Baryshnikov at an American Ballet Theatre gala. "I hoped we could get him [Sinatra] to sing. It was a fundraiser. We both thought he was terrific. If you're going to go popular, why not go with the best?"
Her introduction to Sinatra came early, through her mother. Back in the 1950s when Twyla was 8 years old, she worked at her mother's drive-in theater in San Bernardino, Calif. "The cars had individual speakers. During intermission my mother would pipe through music. I'm sure Sinatra was part of the mix because he was her favorite vocalist."
"Checking on cars sneaking into the drive-in and bagging the corn," as she describes her childhood assignment, was an unlikely beginning to a distinguished career in contemporary dance that has ranged from running her own company (1965-88) and creating 135 dances for that troupe and many others across the globe to providing dance for four films and directing on Broadway. Her most successful show, "Movin' Out" (2002), ran for three years in New York, in addition to several national tours. The cascade of her awards has included 19 honorary degrees, a MacArthur "genius" fellowship, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007.
Popular dance has been a constant thread through Tharp's choreography from the start, even though she was trained intensively in ballet as well as modern dance. Several years after "Once More Frank," Tharp began to research historic styles. She fell in love with the pre-World War I ballroom couple Vernon and Irene Castle. Watching them on film, she remembered Sinatra's affinity to romance and "began to listen to all the Sinatra I could get my hands on," she says.
The result was "Nine Sinatra Songs," a suite of duets for her company (1982), in which she also performed, and "Sinatra Suite," distilled into a work for American Ballet Theatre two years later. But then she moved on to classical scores for works commissioned by ballet companies, other contemporary dance assignments, and the Broadway shows: "Movin' Out" set to music by Billy Joel, and "The Times They Are a-Changin' " (2006), based on Bob Dylan's songs, which closed in less than a month.
Broadway offers a wider audience for Tharp, as it did for her friend, Jerome Robbins, who also moved back and forth between commercial theater and the ballet stage.
Tharp had no thoughts of Sinatra in mind when three cast members from "Movin' Out" called on her after the show had closed and said they wanted to dance. "I told them, sorry, no dancing happening at the moment. They said, 'Come on.' So I agreed to give them technique lessons. After I left to do a new work and returned, I was surprised that they came back. I told them to bring in some partners. I started to work on new material: how people interact with gravity between them. And then I began to think about duets. 'Oh yes, Sinatra,' I thought."
In the interim, Tharp was reading Proust. "It was that book that led me to revisit the relationships of the Sinatra duets.... As Proust does in the last volume, he comes back to the cultural climate he had known in the past and how it had aged. This was confusing to me because dancers don't age. It's not like I could return to my original cast but to the essence of the original. I'd be doing it with the next generation."
Tharp knew that there would be critics accusing her of having "been there, done that. I'm not stupid," she says. "I know you get your head cut off and handed back on a plastic tray. I said that's not enough reason for me not to do a project." Then she thought of modern dance pioneer Martha Graham, with whom she had studied for a year. "She went back to the House of Atreus, over and over again. They were her folks."
She wanted another challenge, not just a series of couples waltzing in 3/4 time. "Come Fly Away" is a full evening work, with a large cast of dancers and musicians. Even though she's recycled material, she has recast the Sinatra songs into the backdrop of narrative, "a blend, to reference those earlier pieces as a launching pad for this one."
Tharp says she doesn't discuss the "many projects on the burner because they always change," but she admits to thinking ahead to 2015, which will mark her 50th anniversary as a choreographer. "My program with the 50th would be to bring back work that is not being seen. You just keep working," she says.


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Tom Cotton to run for Senate
Rep. Tom Cotton plans to announce a Senate bid in Arkansas next week, challenging incumbent Democrat Mark Pryor in a state that is considered a top pickup opportunity for Republicans, a source confirmed to POLITICO on Wednesday.
The freshman congressman, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is a star among neoconservatives and could serve as a major counterweight to the more libertarian voices of the Senate, including Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.
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Arkansas is one of a handful of Republican-leaning states represented by Democrats — Louisiana, North Carolina and Alaska are others — that are critical to the GOP's chances of flipping the Senate next year. The party needs to net six seats to capture the chamber. But Democrats say history is in their favor, noting that only three of their incumbents have lost in the past decade.
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Cotton, a military veteran with two Harvard degrees and a stint consulting for McKinsey & Co. under his belt, is a favorite of some Republicans, especially hawkish types, many of whom have been hoping he will run for Senate. He will face off against Pryor, a two-term conservative Democrat, in the deep-red state. When asked to confirm his Senate bid, his campaign offered details about a barbecue Cotton will hold next week at a community center in Dardanelle, Ark.
"On Tuesday Tom is inviting his hometown and all who have supported him along the way to hear about his fight to represent Arkansas's values in DC," his campaign wrote in an email. "He looks forward to sharing his plans to continue that fight in the coming year."
Cotton has been vocal on foreign policy and defense issues, and before he was even sworn in, he took to the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal to hammer Chuck Hagel, who was the Defense Secretary nominee, over Iraq, Iran and defense spending. Ahead of his November win, Cotton was the subject of glowing profiles in National Review — "Tom Cotton is a Republican's dream, and, for many Democrats, a nightmare," read one lead — and The Weekly Standard.
In an interview Wednesday, Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard and a vocal champion of Cotton, praised the lawmaker's brief tenure in the House.
"He made more of a difference in six months than a lot do in six years or 16 years, and I think he'd have the same kind of impact on the Senate," he told POLITICO. "I have talked to him on and off, and I do think he's thinking about where he can make the most difference."
Kristol noted that Cotton does subscribe to a "strong on defense, strong America" belief system but said he didn't expect that foreign policy would be Cotton's sole focus if he joins the Senate.
"If he just wanted to sort of represent one wing of the party, he could do that in the House," Kristol said. "He has a real energetic, populist, free-market conservative [approach]. He'd be a real contributor to domestic policy, making sure the Republican Party is the party of Main Street, not Wall Street, and taking on crony capitalism."
But Kristol also noted that on the House floor last week, Cotton delivered a rousing defense of National Security Agency programs and cited that as just one example in which the congressman has "made his mark on national security."
"I think that George Bush largely did have it right," Cotton told POLITICO earlier this year. "That we can't wait for dangers to gather on the horizon, that we can't let the world's most dangerous people get the world's most dangerous weapons and that we have to be willing to defend our interests and the safety of our citizens abroad even if we don't get the approval of the United Nations."

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Verizon isn't the only US carrier pushing out the dual Nokia Amber and GDR2 updates today, as T-Mobile has begun giving users that coveted new OS and firmware.
On the discontinued but popular Lumia 810 and the budget-conscious Lumia 521, users seeing the update when they check under Settings > Phone Update > Check for Upates.
The update is a two-step process (at least) that involves Nokia's new firmware, which brings two-tap to wake, flip to silence and other improvements and enhancements. Likewise, Microsoft's OS update (GDR2, build 10327/8) adds FM radio and numerous bug fixes including one for the Other storage problem. Both updates will come over-the-air via Wi-Fi and users can now force-check that the update is available via their Setting menu.
We haven't verified ourselves if the Lumia 810 is getting the update (OS build 1326), although Nokia's support page does list it as does T-Mobile's support page. It also verifies our earlier report that T-Mobile was indeed testing the update for that phone.
Currently there is no word on when AT&T will being pushing out their updates, though we assume it's not too far off.
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Make the Most of Your Alaska Cruiseby Paul Motter | 08.13.12
See the best of everything this great state has to offer on your Alaska cruise.
|Claving glaciers are just one of the many attractions in Alaska
I am currently aboard the Holland America Oosterdam sailing from Seattle to the Alaska Inside passage, an itinerary taken by thousands of cruisers every summer on several different cruise lines and ships. Since we arrived in Seattle on Friday we have seen two Celebrity ships, two NCL ships a Princess and a Holland America ship. Many more ships sail to Alaska from Vancouver.
Alaska is a very different cruise experience than the Caribbean because much of it takes place within close proximity of the shore, close enough that you can stand on deck and actually watch the landscape going by on both sides of the ship. This starts as soon as you enter the Inside Passage which stretches down through Alaska Panhandle, a series barrier islands which hugs the western border of Canada.
The Inside Passage was given its name during the famous the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1800s. It is such a calm stretch of water that most of the prospectors built their own boats out of local timber to navigate the waters up to the Klondike gold strike, near what became the city of Juneau, capitol of Alaska today.
Navigating the Inside Passage on a modern cruise ship today you can sit on deck and enjoy the scenery on both sides of the ship. The picturesque shoreline is rife with forested islands where one may spot the occasional bear or bald eagle. On most ships a professional guide from the National Park Service is onboard to give a narrated description of the scenery passing by, pointing out the bears, eagles, sea lions and other local wildlife most of us would miss if left to our own devices.
But this scenario points out an important aspect of an Alaska cruise - there are riches of experiences awaiting you in Alaska- but you have to be prepared to make the most of your Alaska cruise to experience those riches. You need the help of experienced locals to get you there and to show you where to look.
Alaska has natural scenic beauty in its landscapes, impossible to miss, especially when a cruise ship pulls into a fjord and stops within proximity of a glacier so you can witness the glacier calving - breaking apart into gigantic shards that go crashing into the sea water. There are majestic mountains to be seen from the ship, the upper reaches of what become the Rocky Mountains in the lower 48.
Alaska also has immense riches in its wildlife as one of the favored summer feeding grounds of the mighty humpback whale. If you are lucky you can even see pods as large as 10 to 15 whales all coordinating their quest for food in an almost ritualistic trapping procedure known as "bubble net feeding."
While "bubble net feeding" the whales trap large schools of small fish far below the surface. Using verbal cues the pack leader coordinates the pod to swim around the school of fish in circles while blowing air out to create a "net" of bubbles with the fish trapped inside. Once the bubble net is complete the whales then swim below the trap the fish inside as the bubbles and the fish rise towards the surface. Once the tiny fish hit the surface they get crushed together in a big mass. At that point the whales open their mouths and swim straight up to break through the surface of the water, each one gulping down as many fish as possible. The observers see about a dozen whale heads breaking though the surface of the water, mouths wide open and teeth glaring. They stay suspending that position for a few seconds before they close their mouths and then slowing arc their backs and dive under water again, blowing huge gusts of seawater out of their blow holes and ending with a flourish of the their "flukes" (their tails) waving goodbye. It is an amazing sight.
We watched whales bubble-feeding in Alaska a few years ago, but that was on a on an expedition cruise line called Innersea Discoveries where the "ship" (some would call it a boat) only carried 50 passengers. It was an amazing trip, but not inexpensive. In fact, although the accommodations were much less plush than what we have now on the Holland America Oosterdam, the cost of the cruise was four times more expensive. The difference was the personalized, up-close access to nature, something a large cruise ship just can't offer. But that does not mean you cannot have a similar experience on a regular Alaska cruise.
A regular large ship Alaska cruise must stay on a schedule, and even if the captain sees whales he cannot change course and follow them. We are now on a cruise with scheduled ports of call in Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan and days scheduled to visit various glaciers like Hubbard (largest in Alaska) and Tracy Arm fjord.
The key to regular Alaska cruises is to plan to take wildlife shore excursions in port. I have a six hour whale watching excursion scheduled on a small boat in Juneau. My hope is that we will have an experience close to what we had before - up close and "personal" with the whales. I do know you don't have to travel far from Juneau to get to popular (with the whales) feeding grounds. So I have high hopes. I will be letting you know more as this trip progresses.


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Dan Walters: Fierce battle over school money masks bigger issue
As chronicled here and in other venues, there's a fierce battle underway between competing factions over how to spend billions in extra state school funds to improve the education of poor children.
The education establishment is demanding "flexibility" in rules being considered by the state Board of Education, while civil rights and business-backed reform groups want more specificity and tighter monitoring.
A subset of the larger conflict is how the targeted students are being defined, because their concentrations govern how much extra state money school districts would receive.
The new law defines them as those eligible for free or reduced-price school meals, "English-learners" and foster children, and by offering big bonuses, the state is creating a financial incentive for districts to beat the bushes to qualify as many as possible.
The big numbers are kids who qualify, due to low family incomes, for the cheap meals underwritten by a federal program. It's estimated that nearly 60 percent of the state's 6 million K-12 students are eligible – a startling number, when you think of it.
The state is requiring districts to recertify those kids through paperwork submitted by parents every year, rather than just relying on pre-existing federal qualification, and that mandate is creating a backlash.
Last month, the huge Los Angeles Unified School District complained publicly about the state's strict requirement. It and other districts are likely to press the Legislature to lift the annual certification requirement – part of their push for "flexibility" – but doing so could create the opportunity for manipulation.
The skirmishing over implementation masks the larger issue – whether spending more money will, as Gov. Jerry Brown and other advocates claim, have a material impact on poor kids' educational achievement.
An eye-opening Associated Press account of what happened in Sanger lends complexity to that issue. The San Joaquin Valley town's schools were overwhelmed with poor Latino kids, many of whom didn't speak English, and had one of the state's lowest levels of academic prowess.
However, beginning about a decade ago, Sanger's parents and educators decided to do something about it within existing resources. By 2012, the AP reported, 94 percent of its Latino students were graduating from high school.
"Key to change was a model requiring collaboration among teachers, data to track students and holding teachers accountable to each other," the AP's Gosia Wozniacka wrote.
The district created its own tests, teachers analyzed results to judge teaching techniques, and new methods were tried out.
School money is obviously important, but it's not the only factor, as Sanger's experience demonstrates, and the money feeding frenzy now underway should not overshadow that fact.


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"American Meat" Screening and Panel Discussion
Event Date:March 10, 2012 - 2:30pm
Location:Museum of Science, Boston
Let's Talk About Food - Meaty Matters
As part of its ongoing Let's Talk About Food series, the Museum of Science, Boston is examining the dynamics and implications of industrial meat production in the United States. "Meaty Matters" will explore the real difference between organic foods and their traditionally grown counterparts when it comes to nutrition, safety, and price. Join us at 2:30 for a screening of the documentary "American Meat," and a subsequent panel discussion featuring Worldwatch's Danielle Nierenberg and representatives from the Organic Renaissance Food Exchange, Westminster Meats, Whole Foods Maret, and Siena Farms.
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Boston, MA 02114
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text: Add Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter (and possibly a few of his less famous co-workers) to the list of folks who believe that Nintendo has not yet shrugged off the "core" gamer. According to a report from Gamasutra, Pachter has weighed in on Nintendo's E3 showing, saying "We think that Nintendo focused upon building upon its formidable lead with the mass market, and do not consider the lack of major hard core game announcements to be an abandonment of its core." The "core" may still be hanging its head, waking up in cold sweats to the sound of Wii Music clanging through their heads, but that doesn't mean Nintendo isn't doing spectacularly on the financial side. Pachter figures that the Big N will pull in some $3.9 billion for the quarter, adding up to a $17.7 billion take for the entire year. If Nintendo has indeed abandoned the core, who could blame 'em? That's "fuck you" money, right there. Pachter: Nintendo To Report $3.91b In Q1 Sales, Hasn't Abandoned Core [Gamasutra]


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Bruins' Nathan Horton Out for Rest of Stanley Cup After Gruesome Hit
BOSTON -- Nathan Horton will miss the rest of the Stanley Cup finals with a severe concussion and Canucks defenseman Aaron Rome is finished too after the NHL suspended him for four games Tuesday for his blindside hit on the Bruins forward during Game 3.
Horton had just passed the puck early in the first period when Rome lowered his shoulder and left his skates to flatten him, delivering what the Bruins saw as the kind of hit the league has tried to eliminate after several players sustained severe concussions.
The NHL wasted no time stepping in, either, quickly announcing Rome would not return to the series.
"Two factors were considered in reaching this decision," Mike Murphy, the league's senior vice president of hockey operations, said in a release. "The hit by Rome was clearly beyond what is acceptable in terms of how late it was delivered after Horton had released the puck and it caused a significant injury."
The 26-year-old Horton, the right wing on Boston's top line, apparently was knocked unconscious by the collision, hitting his head on the ice and staying down for several minutes while medical personnel attended to him.
He left Boston's 8-1 victory on a stretcher and was taken to a hospital.
"He's been a great teammate for us all year," said forward Mark Recchi, who scored two goals in Game 3. "It's tough to see your teammate down on the ice. We know it was late, but we're not in control of what the league does."
If the Stanley Cup is awarded before Game 7, the NHL said Rome's suspension will carry over to the start of next season.
The Bruins updated Horton's condition in a release Tuesday morning.
Horton has eight goals and nine assists this postseason for Boston, which trails 2-1 heading into Game 4 on Wednesday night. He's second in the NHL postseason with plus-11 rating, and he already became the first player in NHL history to score a game-winning goal in a Game 7 twice in the same postseason run.
He skates alongside center David Krejci and Milan Lucic on the Bruins' top line. Boston coach Claude Julien hadn't yet decided how to replace Horton after the Bruins' victory Monday night.
Horton has been a hero in the postseason for Boston, which is in the Stanley Cup finals for the first time in 21 years. Horton scored the winning goal in overtime in Game 7 of the first round against Montreal -- and again in the Eastern Conference finals, getting the only goal in Boston's 1-0 victory over Tampa Bay late in the third period.
Horton is in his first career postseason after spending his first six seasons with the woeful Florida Panthers. The former No. 3 overall draft pick has 168 goals and 180 assists in 502 games.
Horton was Boston's second-leading goal-scorer this season with 26, finishing fourth on the team with 53 points.
While Horton is a key offensive player for the Bruins, the 27-year-old Rome is a depth defenseman for the Canucks, usually playing in their third pairing. He has one goal and 37 penalty minutes in the postseason.
Vancouver already lost defenseman Dan Hamhuis to an undisclosed injury in Game 1 of the finals, but the Canucks are deep on defense, with veteran Keith Ballard sitting out the first three games as a healthy scratch.


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Wow, this is getting personal.No.No.No.
Honestly I'm not huge on rap or hip-hop, but probably "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys. I know, boring choice.
1. ever done drugs?2. ever smoked a cigarette? 3. ever drank a beer? 4. what's your favorite rap song?
Jeremy Blackman: How awkward was it seeing The Master with your sister?
Pubrick: Have you read the script or watched the 4 min clip yet? That clip is spoilerific. oh, BTW cockatoo island is happening this wednesday. If you don't go, we are gonna spoil the scene where Dodd eats a baby for sustenance.
This is for whoever: Have you had to defend The Master to anyone outside of xixax yet?? I feel like I've had to explain 'why it's good' ever since the first teaser came out. Last night when I brought it up as one of the things worth going to the movies for my bud was like " That Movie is insanely mediocre, overlong and pointless " and I just couldn't fucking disagree more. He's entitled to his opinion, but I find it really disconcerting that people can dismiss it like that so easily. I shit on movies when I don't understand them, too. I like how it splits people down the middle, though. Another one of my faves, Punch Drunk Love, had that effect as well. I guess it speaks to why we go to the movies and what we're expecting to get out of them, and I'm glad that films like PTA's are always at the forefront of that debate.Please SPOILER TAG your responses where necessary.


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Hi fellow kiters,
I'm sorry but I don't speak any portugese (I'm from Holland). I'm planning to travel around in portugal for a couple of months. Of course I take my kite gear with me. I find it really hard to find any reliable wind statistics of portugal.
On this forum you can find the beaches allright, but info on the wind is not as abundant as I hoped for. Can you locals give me any information about the wind? Best of course are really statistics of a spot.
Any information about any spot is ok, because I want to visit a lot of them.
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Rik Jonker


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Page Prank: The Best Online April Fools' Day Jokes
The first day of April often sneaks up on us. It isn't until you sit on a whoopee cushion that you realize it is, indeed, April Fools' Day. But whoopee cushions and ketchup-covered "severed fingers" are pranks of the past. Over the last decade, the Web has become an increasingly popular place to play April Fools' Day pranks, tricks, and hoaxes.
Though there have not been any War of the Worlds-type freakouts from these Web jokes, it's often easy to be fooled. Companies like Google, YouTube, Hulu, and Funny or Die are known for their yearly April Fools' Day tricks. ThinkGeek posts products—a Tauntaun sleeping bag or the iCade, an arcade for your iPad—that leave us wanting them for days after. Sometimes, the joke's on them as many of the products have received so much interest that they're actually produced and made available to buy. Even non-tech companies like Whole Foods and Starbucks have punked the Internet. (We were taken in by venti-delivering baristas on scooters.) But Google is the king of April Fools' Day hoaxes, providing more than a solid decade of Aprils with gesture-based Gmail, name changes (to Topeka, no less), and a lunar research center.
We've picked out nine companies that have either done a very good job at pulling the wool over our eyes or have presented their April Fools' Day jokes in a hilarious way. Did you or a co-worker pull a side-splitting stunt at your company this year? Please share your antic in the comments section below.
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2 YouTube
3 Hulu
4 Funny or Die
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29th INFANTRY DIVISION - Blue and Gray
Activated 3 Feb 1941 • Entered Combat 6 Jun1944 D-Day• Days of Combat 242 • Casualties 20,620
Commanding General
Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord (Feb 41 - Jan 42)
Maj. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow (Feb 42 - Jul 43)
Maj. Gen. Charles H. Gerhardt (Jul 43 - inactivation)
Normandy (6 Jun 44 - 24 Jul 44)
Northern France (25 Jul 44 - 14 Sep 44)
Rhineland (15 Sep 44 - 21 Mar 45)
Central Europe (22 Mar 45 - 11 May 45)
The 29th Infantry Division trained in Scotland and England for the crosschannel invasion, October 1942-June 1944. Teamed with the 1st Division, a regiment of the 29th (116th Infantry) was in the first assault wave to hit the beaches at Normandy on D-day, 6 June 1944. Landing on Omaha Beach on the same day in the face of intense enemy fire, the Division soon secured the bluff tops and occupied Isigny, 9 June. The Division cut across the Elle River and advanced slowly toward St. Lo, fighting bitterly in the Normandy hedge rows. After taking St. Lo, 18 July 1944, the Division joined in the battle for Vire, capturing that strongly held city, 7 August. Turning west, the 29th took part in the assault on Brest, 25 August-18 September 1944. After a short rest, the Division moved to defensive positions along the Teveren-Geilenkirchen line in Germany and maintained those positions through October. (In mid-October the 116th Infantry took part in the fighting at the Aachen Gap.) On 16 November the Division began its drive to the Roer, blasting its way through Siersdorf, Setterich, Durboslar, and Bettendorf, and reaching the Roer by the end of the month. Heavy fighting reduced Julich Sportplatz and the Hasenfeld Gut, 8 December. From 8 December 1944 to 23 February 1945, the Division held defensive positions along the Roer and prepared for the offensive. The attack jumped off across the Roer, 23 February, and carried the Division through Julich, Broich, Immerath, and Titz, to Munchen-Gladbach, 1 March 1945. The Division was out of combat in March. In early April the 116th Infantry helped mop up in the Ruhr area. On 19 April 1945 the Division pushed to the Elbe and held defensive positions until 4 May. Meanwhile, the 175th Infantry cleared the Klotze Forest. After VE-day, the Division was on military government duty in the Bremen enclave.
Date Activated is the date the division was activated or inducted into federal service (national guard units).
Casualties are number of killed, wounded in action, captured, and missing.
The dates after the campaign name are the dates of the campaign not of the division.
The Army Almanac: A Book of Facts Concerning the Army of the United States; , U.S. Government Printing Office. Army Battle Casualties and Nonbattle Deaths in World War II, Final Report, 1 December 1941 - 31 December 1946. US Army Center of Military History at http://www.history.army.mil/ Various divisional histories


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npv708 wrote:Question for both EPP and Geezer:
What do you think could possibly come out of an open Senate hearing (chaired by a Democrat, who just happens to most likely be the next Secretary of State...) on Libya with Clinton that hasn't been brought up in the individual Senate meetings with Ambassador Rice and the Senate and House hearings with Burns (Deputy Secy of State) and Nides?
If you've read the report released and watched the hearings, you're hearing many of the same talking points that have already been detailed to death. The State department did not properly handle security requests from Libya and it resulted in the death of 4 Americans.
Here's the big question: What would Hilary Clinton actually have to hide from? Seriously, do you think some massive revelation that her and Obama teamed up and intentionally left the consulate unprotected and then covered it up?
Be serious now, you guys haven't been happy with what Rice, Burns, and Nides have said, why would that change with Hilary?
Likely nothing . The answers I want deal with the lack of a military plan, why the security group(can't remember the name; it covers several agencies/departments) wasn't convened during this and who was calling the shots during this attack? She might not legitimately know some of those things. I'm not aware of any answers provided by anyone sent by the administration. Most of them didn't know much which made me wonder why they publicly pretended to fire 3 employees.
The one question that's been totally avoided is why there wasn't an air defense attempt. My understanding is that there are spectre gunships within a 1/2 hour flying time. One of these would have scattered the attackers after a few shots.Any not choosing to leave would've been dead in short order. The Americans on on of the roofs were even laser targeting attackers weapons;obviously expecting help that was never sent. I don't know if that was a failure of the CIA ,military ,state department,white house or a combination screw up.
But there were blunders of omission and commission and apparently no one will be held accountable.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Apple Inc. shares fell in the extended session Monday after the Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant's outlook and iPhone sales left something to be desired even though quarterly results topped the Wall Street consensus.
Apple AAPL, +0.54% shares fell 7.6% to $508.90 on heavy volume after the company forecast sales of $42 billion to $44 billion for the fiscal second-quarter, while analysts surveyed by FactSet expect revenue of $46.12 billion. Also, iPhone sales fell short of analyst expectations.
For the fiscal first-quarter, Apple reported earnings of $14.50 a share on revenue of $57.6 billion, while analysts expected earnings of $14.09 on revenue of $57.47 billion. WhisperNumber.com, which aggregates unpublished estimates, expected earnings of $14.67 a share.
Apple shares had closed up 0.8% at $550.50 on the regular session, and had been down about 5% after hours when the Apple conference call with analysts began. Read MarketWatch's Live Blog of Apple's conference call.
The share decline also hurt exchange-traded products that have a significant stake in Apple after hours. The Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund XLK, +0.20% fell 1.1%, the Vanguard Information Technology ETF VGT, +0.09% declined 0.8%, and the PowerShares QQQ Trust QQQ, -0.19% slid 0.8%. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF SPY, -0.03% was also off by 0.1%.
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Sanmina Corp. SANM, +0.60% shares rose 7.1% to $15.85 on moderate volume after quarterly earnings topped Wall Street estimates.
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Hurray, patch 3.0.8 is finally here, and with it comes new toys!
First up is Titanium Plating, which is made by a Blacksmith. As currently listed on WoWHead, they require exalted with either Horde Expedition or Alliance Vanguard and can be made with 4 Titanium Bars and 4 Eternal Shadow.
Grants +40 Shield Block Value which is very nice!
In addition, a new Bracer enchant is being added as well.
Formula: Enchant Bracer – Major Stamina – Permanently enchant bracers to increase Stamina by 40. Another very nice level 80 tanking enchant!
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In 1930, there were 123 million Americans.
At the height of the Depression in 1933, 24.9% of the total work force or 11,385,000 people, were unemployed.
Will unemployment reach 25% during this current crisis?
I don't know. But the number of people unemployed will be higher than during the Depression.
Specifically, there are currently some 300 million Americans, 154.4 million of whom are in the work force.
Unemployment is expected to exceed 10% by many economists, and Obama "has warned that the unemployment rate will explode to at least 10% in 2009″.
10 percent of 154 million is 15 million people out of work – more than during the Great Depression.


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A 51-year-old Fitchburg man was killed when his car collided with a tractor-trailer on Route 2 yesterday morning.
The man�s name has not been released by state police, pending notification of family, a spokesman said yesterday afternoon.
He was driving a 2001 BMW eastbound on Route 2, east of Exit 31 near Route 12.
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Sunday Sweets: Like Buttah
Buttercream icing, that is.
Yep, here's another fondant-free installment for you purists out there. I've got nothing against fondant per se, but I do agree that all-icing decorations are much yummier. Besides, it's nice to see what cake artists can come up with when they're limited to non-fondant options.
First up, Alison B. of Town Lake Cakes certainly knows where the wild things are:
Alison, will you tell us your secret to drawing such perfect characters? I'm guessing you used either a stencil or possibly hand-drawn chocolate transfers - am I close? Of course, whatever you used, I love the result.
Speaking of love, I am gaga for the bright colors and glass-smooth icing on this Abby Cadabby cake Shelly M. got for her daughter's birthday:
Isn't it adorable? And you'd really never know it wasn't fondant, the lines are so clean. The bakers over at The Cake Stand in McKinney, Texas clearly have some mad skilz.
You know how we're always getting down on grocery-store decorators? Well believe it or not, not all of them are illiterate goofballs; some of them are real artists. And a few of these artists are determined to change my mind on the horror of CCCs. Yeah, like that's gonna happen. [eye roll]
However, I will grudgingly admit that this Squidward CCC is darn impressive:
The decorator in question whipped this up for a customer on the spot at the grocery store where s/he works, but asked to remain anonymous. For those of you not up on your Sponge Bob characters, here's a reference shot of Squidward:
Nice, huh? Or at least, it looks like him. ;)
And lastly, Jody H.'s creation - also a Cupcake Cake, and also all buttercream - is flatly astounding:
Wait, wait, wait. A CCC...with airbrushing... and it's NOT a WRECK?!? I think my head may implode: clearly we've entered some kind of parallel universe here.
Oh, and if you don't recognize Jose, the famous "Jalapeno on a Steeck", watch this:
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Teaching includes studio-based projects, one-to-one tutorials, lectures, seminars, practical field trips, skills workshops and demonstrations. You will work in small groups of approximately 28 students, led by subject-specific tutors.
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CARRIER ETHERNET APAC 2012 – Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: VTSS), a leading provider of advanced IC solutions for Carrier and Enterprise networks, announced availability of a new Network Interface Device/Ethernet Access Device ( NID/EAD) reference design delivering carrier-class networking for delivery of cloud-based business services. Based on Vitesse's CEServices software and Serval™(VSC7418) Carrier Ethernet switch engine, the NID/EAD platform is designed to significantly reduce time-to-market and development cost for Vitesse customers. It exceeds MEF CE 2.0 requirements today, including line rate support for essential service creation and assurance features such as RFC2544, Y.1564, multi-operator OAM and Hierarchical Quality of Service ( HQoS). The reference design also integrates Vitesse's VeriTime™ timing synchronization for mobile access deployments. "This reference design delivers a proven path to future-proof IP Edge and cloud networks for real-time service delivery," said Uday Mudoi, product marketing director at Vitesse. " Service-awareness and manageability are key to guarantee the security, performance and access required for business cloud services. Vitesse remains committed to advancing carrier-class networking for IP Edge and cloud computing." Vitesse at Carrier Ethernet APAC 2012 Vitesse CTO, Martin Nuss, will participate alongside industry experts from Telkom Indonesia, Vertel Australia, Adva Optical Networks and Accedian Networks in the "What is the business impact of CE 2.0 for mobile backhaul" panel. The panel is scheduled during the "Mobile Backhaul" stream on Wednesday, December 5, 2012, starting at 3:00 p.m. local time. Vitesse will showcase this new reference design, as well as its VeriTime portfolio, at Carrier Ethernet APAC 2012, Stand #9. Vitesse customer Pulsecom's new SuperG Ethernet NID platform will also be available for viewing at Vitesse's stand. Carrier Ethernet APAC 2012 will take place December 3-5, 2012 at The Mira, Hong Kong. Learn more about the show at carrierethernetapac.com. About Vitesse Vitesse (NASDAQ: VTSS) designs a diverse portfolio of high-performance semiconductor solutions for Carrier and Enterprise networks worldwide. Vitesse products enable the fastest-growing network infrastructure markets including Mobile Access/IP Edge, Cloud Computing and SMB/SME Enterprise Networking. Visit www.vitesse.com or follow us on Twitter @VitesseSemi. Cautions Regarding Forward Looking Statements All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release, other than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are forward-looking statements that are based on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our business and industry, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "predicts," and similar terms, and variations or negatives of these words. Examples of forward-looking statements in this release include statements about the Company's NID/EAD platform product attributes. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and the Company's actual results may differ significantly from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors and uncertainties that could affect the Company's forward-looking statements include, among other things, the Company's products not performing in accordance with management's expectations. These and other risks are more fully described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, which should be read in conjunction herewith for a further discussion of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Airesis je otvoren za sve
Airesis is a project based upon a free and open-source software. You can contribute to its development:
- Using the platform and doing bug-checking
- Giving comments and suggestions about usability and platform UI
- Programming the platform server-side (REQUIRED: knowledge of Ruby and/or C++ language, or will to learn it with the help of other volunteers)
- Supporting us with a donation or raising founds
- Spreading the word about the project and managing its communication
To help us coordinate our activities we use these tools. You can start from here:
Kako možete pridonijeti
Anyone can help in the open-source project Airesis: you do not need to be a programmer, since there are a lot of activities to do anyway. In the project we are all unpaid volunteers, sharing the will to help citizens organize transparently and participate in the making of a top notch democracy.
To report your availability please fill this form, or contact Nicola Giulietti - - cell. 380 2931955 in case of doubts or you want more information.
Here is a list of volunteers that we need:
The developer is the person who actually writes the code of Airesis.
He follows the specifications and guidelines agreed upon by the team. The developer will write new modules in Ruby when there will be new features to be added, or HTML pages, using also CSS and Javascript in case of UI functionalities.
New applicants will be helped and guided by the head programmer in their first steps to easily start their jobs.
He is the conjunction ring between users and the development team.
He collects feedbacks from groups and citizens and gives the development team all the required documentations to develop new functionalities or improve existing ones.
He elaborates algorithms, as well as pros and cons of each feature, and its possible impropriate uses.
First-level tester
The first-level tester is a person available to test the system without necessarily have to provide any technical feedback about the code.
The first level tester is required to know about how to run the system and be able to use an internet browser or social networking system but it is not required to know any programming language.
Feedback from a first-level tester will then be about unexpected occurrences from the system and bugs.
Second-level tester
Good knowledge of programming is required to become a second-level tester. He is asked to perform more stringent and detailed tests than the first-level tester. A second-level tester works on complex issues and is able to push the whole system under stress, to discover hidden problems.
Grafički dizajner
The graphic designer draws the user interfaces and gives their drafts to the development group. He improves the usability and comprehensiveness of the texts in the software (eg: user guides...)
He is in charge of looking for new volunteers willing to help in this project, testers, as well as groups available to use the software for their needs. He engages groups of people that are not represented by the development group (women, people with low informatic skills, etc...) so that the software can be attractive even and foremost to them, basing on their feedbacks.
Menadžer komunikacije
He manages press contacts, promotes the software looking for new users, technical aspects such as linkback and SEO (Search Engine Optimization), viral marketing (eg. creating interesting proposals), videos and informative documentation. He updates social networks and media, represent the external referent-spokesman.
He is in charge of the software translation. He contacts and coordinates foreign translators.
(P.S.: it is not required to posses any programming skill)
Help us spread the word about this e-democracy tool
Our project needs to be known by all those who care about the future of our democracy. Help us spread it in blogs and forums, on Facebook, on social networks and wherever there is a desire for democracy.
You can use our link or our banner on your site or in friends', associations' or organizations' ones that share the goals of the project. In order to display the banner or link on your website, copy the code found below and insert it in the code page of your site, at the point where you want it to be displayed:
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If you choose to publish your banner it will be of great help to the project. Thank you.


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Triage Time Bomb
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Donna L. Washington, MD, MPH; January 2004
A triage nurse instructed by a physician to immediately bring a febrile child, who was possibly dehydrated, to the treatment area is stopped by the charge nurse, citing overcrowding. The parents seek treatment elsewhere; upon arrival, the child is in full arrest.
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Should operations be regionalized? The empirical relation between surgical volume and mortality.
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Luft HS, Bunker JP, Enthoven AC. N Engl J Med. 1979;301:1364-1369.
This study evaluated nearly 1500 hospitals to determine the relationship between their mortality rates and surgical volume for 12 selected procedures. Results include detailed tables of data and illustrative graphs for each procedure, suggesting a number of clear trends. Mortality associated with open-heart surgery, vascular surgery, transurethral resection of the prostate, and coronary bypass decreased with increasing volume at a given hospital. For other procedures, the mortality curve flattened at lower volumes, and some showed no relationship between volume and mortality. Although the authors recommend caution in interpretation and provide explanations for findings, they conclude that regionalization should warrant consideration for certain procedures.
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The vanishing nonforensic autopsy.
Shojania KG, Burton EC. N Engl J Med. 2008;358:873-875.
Autopsies are rarely performed, despite a wealth of literature demonstrating that diagnostic errors are still frequently detected postmortem. The authors discuss the implications of this problem and potential solutions, including the establishment of regional high-volume autopsy centers.
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The Leapfrog Group is a consortium of private and public employers who collectively purchase health care for more than 30 million Americans. Leapfrog recommends four evidence-based practices for implementation by hospitals: computerized provider order entry, intensivist coverage of critically ill patients, evidence-based hospital referral for high-risk patients, and adoption of the National Quality Forum's safe practices. This study found that hospitals that reported implementing at least one patient safety practice also provided slightly better care for myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure (as measured by publicly reported quality data), but not for pneumonia. The authors note that as the Leapfrog recommended practices are not directly tied to improving care quality for these specific conditions, implementation of Leapfrog patient safety practices likely indicates an overall commitment to providing higher-quality care.
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Infrequent physician use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators risks patient safety.
Lyman S, Sedrakyan A, Do H, Razzano R, Mushlin AI. Heart. 2011;97:1655-1660.
This study found evidence of a volume–outcome relationship for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) placement. Physicians who performed only one or fewer ICD implantations per year had a significantly higher risk of complications.
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Relationship between patient safety and hospital surgical volume.
Hernandez-Boussard T, Downey JR, McDonald K, Morton JM. Health Serv Res. 2012;47:756-769.
Studying the relationship between hospital volume, surgical volume, and clinical outcomes, past research in part led to recommendations for volume-based referral as a safety practice. However, the volume–outcome relationship may be limited to selected surgical procedures, suggesting that systematic volume-based referral is unnecessary. This study further examines these relationships by evaluating the impact of hospital surgical volume on preventable adverse events. The latter were measured using the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), which have noted limitations as measures of safety. Nevertheless, investigators found that hospital volume for abdominal aortic aneurysm, coronary bypass graft, and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass were inversely related to PSI rates. Additional research to further evaluate the structural and process differences between outcomes and hospital volume may help identify potential safety solutions.
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Doctors were alarmed: would I have my children have surgery here?
Gabler E. New York Times. May 31, 2019.
Pediatric cardiac surgery is highly technical and risky. This newspaper article reports on a poorly performing pediatric cardiac surgery program, concerns raised by staff, and insufficient response from organizational leadership. Lack of data transparency, insufficient resources, and limited program capabilities to support a complex program contributed to poor outcomes for pediatric patients.


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Rigell on Why He Didn't Renew Norquist Tax Pledge
Rep. Scott Rigell (R, Va.) joins The News Hub to explain why he could not renew Grover Norquist's tax pledge.
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... I ... the June ... EU Dean signed ... Grover Norquist's pledge to never raise taxes correct ... three ... three a half years ago I did um ... and I signed it in good conscience of Roff I mean if you have asked me Scott how you feel about the ... in our country's fiscal situation I can look to ride the ire often said look we have a spending problem not a revenue from and ... and it is true Roth ... to this day that overwhelmingly what threatens the Foundation The Fiscal foundation of the Republicans ... is of unprecedented increases in spending ... of the bizarre got this I walk ... oh well ahead of privilege that to serve got elected ... my first term first elected office on the Ford dealer ... from Virginia Beach Norfolk Virginia you know when to go to Washington for the first time I started looking at this of our overall budget situation ... and and that's were I realize wait a minute ... on ... and over time we have more more data that came and a couple years more data about two-and-a-half years worth of ... information that came and ... and right now for example ... are standings around well north of twenty four percent somewhere that range ... twenty three cents or more in there ... and then our overall yield right now is somewhere in the low fifteen ... percent again that your points as expresses personable Press Master product ... so ... when ... you're speaking with tongues when we are speaking with ... your colleagues of a lot of them ... I would see suppose the vast majority them and have also signed ... that pledge ... but that's ... probably have also ... done similar math or or believe that leave the euro mass is is probably are theoretically correct ... so what one is that ... was the reaction you here ... in pride ... from some of your colleagues about this ... well I've actually received a lot of of the support of most of that right only to your point drop of ... Saints got a letter of the ladder ... I agree with you ... know I I can't say that it's the majority the conference and ... and what I did the approach I take on this our office I refer to Mauritz's Craddock not that I said look here's the data ... here's the conclusion I've come to ... but you tell me what conclusion in a what how can you come to another conclusion I'm ready to have that ... the spirited debate really within a member ... I tell my Democratic friends look you gotta help us reduce of ... entitlements are standing here and an overall standings don't is demonize our effort she got to work with this on this ... and the same thing to my Republican colleagues I think this position that we've taken ... presently is a ... the enemy philosophically I think some of them say that taxes are you really shouldn't all I want taxes to go up ... but ... we have to pay for the level of spending that we ourselves of authorized and about to force Republicans and I think the data indicates that we've fallen short of that on that ... Congressman last question ... do you expect ... a deal ... today ... to be worked out in and then I guess on Sunday you you FOIA you folks are expected to be ... he says did you hear expected to stay in Washington do you think they'll be a deal that yes ... Raul ... I'd say it's just that it is truly a conundrum that really ... can be ... precisely calculated I know they're meeting this afternoon ... I always think that ... that's a good thing I respect the speaker all those who are meeting today with the present I'd ... look we're Americans first and and I hope that they're able to put together something that ... can pass the Senate also come to the house and have a majority of Republicans vote for ... um I think it sent a courageous leadership on the part of all ... that a Lolita president as it relates the the the urgent need for us to reduce federal spending ... over time and I hope it leads in that ... and I hope that if that happens that of our Republican ... conference will will take a IIa ... amicus over ... and done well and ... empirically driven approach to ... the need for the release of the open to some modest increases in revenue through tax reform ... and also in all ways to growth ... that is important ... well it's it's it's rude for refreshingly honest opinion YouTube brought honor to thank you so much for joining us Congressman


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A federal trial heard by a single, unelected judge seeking to overturn the judgment of 7 million California voters is now in its second week. The voters supported Proposition 8 which simply defined again that marriage is between a man and a woman. Plaintiffs seek to establish that the voters' only possible motivation was prejudice against homosexuals and thereby strike-down Prop. 8 on the basis of equal protection. See this excellent report at National Catholic Register for background on the case. As the trial progresses, it appears more and more that the possession of religious belief itself is in the dock.
The following report on court proceedings this week was sent out by Bill May who is chairman of Catholics for the Common Good in San Francisco (not to be confused with a similarly named organization in DC) UPDATED BELOW this report:
Trial Drags on Tediously
Religion Bashing Increases
Keep Prayers Coming
The second week of the trial about traditional marriage and those that support it recommenced on Tuesday, January 19, with more emotional testimony and issue advocacy that would be more proper to a legislative hearing or to a campaign than to a law trial. Alliance Defense Fund lawyer, Austin R. Nimocks provided perspective reminding us that, " jurors are regularly instructed [by judges] to dismiss and put aside emotional appeals. Cases are decided on the facts and the evidence, not on how someone feels about this or that." The question is, will Judge Vaughn Walker be influenced by these appeals. The outcome of a decision made by 7 million California voters depends on one judge, appointed for life.
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders took the stand to discuss how he came to reverse his position on same-sex "marriage." In emotional and at times tearful testimony he described his close relationship with his daughter who announced that she was a lesbian and subsequently "married" another woman in a ceremony in Vermont. He acknowledged that he had harbored prejudice against gays in the past and now feels that anyone who opposes same-sex "marriage" for whatever reason, must be prejudiced. It was obvious that he had been coached and was extremely intent on advocating what became apparent on cross examination as an unreasonable position.
The next witness for the plaintiffs was Lee Badgett, research director of the Williams Institute at UCLA and same-sex marriage advocate. He testified that same-sex "marriage" in the Netherlands has had no impact on marriage between a man and a woman. Through long and tedious cross examination by lead defense counsel, Charles Cooper, Badgett acknowledged indisputable facts that out of wedlock births and the number of single parents have increased dramatically since same-sex "marriage" was legalized there.
Catholic Doctrine on Trail Again
On Wednesday, Day 7, the focus on religion of supporters of Prop 8 increasingly took center stage with a fair amount of Catholic bashing. It will be interesting to see where the plaintiffs' counsel goes with this as the trial progresses.
Remember, supporters of Prop 8 are on trial as being haters and bigots in an effort to overturn their vote to preserve traditional marriage. If the court were to accept the arguments presented in this testimony, I agree with the point Andy Pugno made that it would be like saying that people could not consider their religious beliefs when voting on any moral issue.
The day began by bringing a man from Colorado to the stand who was bitter about an experience with "homosexual conversion therapy." It was hard to imagine why this man was there and what his testimony had to do with Prop 8. This seemed to be part of the plaintiffs' effort to demonstrate that homosexuality is an immutable trait like sex or race, and it provided another opportunity for more religion bashing. Plaintiffs' counsel Davie Boise used the witness to bring up what was portrayed as "faith-based" discrimination against women and blacks, and actually tried to link violence against gays to doctrine of the Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention.
The next witness, Gary Segura, a Stanford University political science professor was called to provide support for the plaintiffs contention that homosexuals need special protection and argued that they are politically powerless, giving defeats on initiatives and legislation as examples. The logic throughout his testimony was so transparently flawed. The subject of religious discrimination came up again and as ProtectMarriage.com General Counsel Andy Pugno summed it up, "according to his logic, gays and lesbians must be given special legal protection by the U.S. Constitution against religion itself."
When the day ended, Segura was still on the stand. More cross examination will follow when the trial continues on Thursday. I continue to be very impressed with the preparation and the skill of the attorneys representing supporters of Prop 8. They are methodically building a strong record if needed for appeal.
I will not report on Thursday and Friday until the end of the weekend. We are preparing for the a major marriage advocate Leadership Summit in San Francisco for the valiant team of CCG County Co-Chairs from all over California. More than seventy are expected at the summit.
Please pray for the summit and these leaders. They are building a campaign to restore a marriage culture in California called Stand with Children. The same-sex "marriage" issue is merely a symptom of what the plaintiffs describe in court as the "evolution" of marriage. The word should really be "devolution" because indoctrination redefining marriage, the family, and human sexuality is influencing children and is touching just about every family. Our children are being taught that marriage is nothing but a committed relationship for the benefit of adults and that it is incidental to children and family.
We continue to be overwhelmed by the expressions of prayer and fasting for the trial. This is a spiritual battle and we are all reminded and buoyed by the communion we share through Our Lord, Jesus Christ as we stand in solidarity with the common interest that every child has in the marriage of his or her mother and father.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, please pray for the Prop 8 supporters who may be called and attacked as witnesses to the truth about marriage as part of God's plan for creation.
For the Common Good,
Bill May
Chairman, Catholics for the Common Good
UPDATE - Catholic League president Bill Donohue also weighed in today on the proceedings this week in San Francisco:
The voters in 30 states who have taken up the issue of gay marriage have voted 30-0 to affirm marriage as a union between a man and a woman; Proposition 8 did exactly that in California. Attorneys David Boies and Theodore B. Olsen, however, are contesting this issue in court.
Yesterday, the judge allowed Boies and Olsen to submit e-mails they obtained between the director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the bishops. Allowing such communication in a trial is unusual enough, but the purpose was even more invidious: to show that Catholics played a major role in passing Proposition 8. The lawyers did the same thing to Mormons, offering more e-mail "proof" of their involvement.
Now some will reply that it should not matter what the adherents of any religion say about public policy issues. After all, the First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion and freedom of speech. Unfortunately, this misses the point the lawyers want to make.
Their goal is not to contest the First Amendment rights of Catholics and others—their goal is to put religion on trial. What they are saying is that religious-based reasons for rejecting gay marriage are irrational, and thus do not meet the test of promoting a legitimate state interest. That is why they have trotted out professors like Gary Segura of Stanford and George Chauncey of Yale to testify to the irrationality of the pro-Proposition 8 side. Chauncey was even given the opportunity to read from a Vatican document that rejects homosexual marriage.
Society cannot exist without families; families cannot exist without reproduction; reproduction cannot exist without a sexual union between a man and a woman; and every society in the history of the world has created an institution called marriage to provide for this end. In short, it is nothing but irrational to challenge such a timeless verity. No matter, what is going on in the courtroom smacks of an animus against religion.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Federal Agency Charges Mississippi Health Care Center Fired Nurse Because of Her Epilepsy
GULFPORT, Miss. -- LHC Group, a national health care company, violated federal law by discriminating against a field nurse because of her disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. The EEOC alleged that LHC Group, doing business as Gulf Coast Homecare in Picayune, Miss., denied Kristy M. Sones a reasonable accommodation and then fired her because of her epilepsy. LHC provides home care, hospice, telehealth, private duty and long-term acute care through home and facility-based services.
The EEOC alleged that Sones informed Gulf Coast Branch Manager Jennifer Taggard that she had a history of one seizure prior to being hired as a field nurse in 2006. Sones had annual physicals during her employment, disclosed her epilepsy and the medications she was taking to her employer. After performing successfully as a field nurse, Sones was promoted to a team leader position in March 2009.
Two months later, Sones experienced a seizure at work, her first since 2005. She was subsequently seen by her physician, who gave her new medication and released her to return to work. Less than a month after Sones returned to work, Gulf Coast fired her on June 24, 2009, claiming that her seizures made her a "liability" to the company. Sones' health insurance was also immediately terminated.
Disability discrimination violates the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), which protects employees and applicants from discrimination because of their disabilities. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. LHC Group Inc., Case No. 1:11-cv-00355-LG-JMR) in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi after an investigation was completed by the EEOC's Mobile Local Office and after the agency first attempted to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The suit seeks monetary damages, including back pay, compensatory and punitive damages, and injunctive relief.
"This lawsuit should remind employers that the ADA and its amendments prohibit them from making employment decisions based on negative stereotypes or fears about individuals with disabilities," said EEOC District Director Delner Franklin-Thomas. "The Commission is committed to full enforcement of the ADA."
EEOC Regional Attorney C. Emanuel Smith added, "This case is a perfect example of a valuable employee being discarded after one manifestation of her disability, regardless of her ability to do the job. This type of discrimination is a violation of federal law."
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. The EEOC's Birmingham District has jurisdiction over Alabama, Mississippi (except 17 northern counties) and the Florida Panhandle. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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A Welcome to St Wulfram's.
It's good to welcome you to St Wulfram's website. St Wulfram's is an ancient site of prayer and pilgrimage with a living heritage today.
Here are a few things which might be helpful for you to know about us: We're a diverse congregation of all ages and from all backgrounds. As Jesus welcomed all people, so we too welcome all people regardless of their background. We're a place where all your senses will be fully engaged in the worship of God. You may smell incense, hear beautiful music, experience silence and stillness and see people using gestures as a way to express the inexpressible during our services. We're a place exploring how to serve our parish and neighbourhood with acts of compassion along with expressing justice locally and globally. We're friendly, we will make every effort to welcome you, but we will try to respect your space. Thank you for choosing to explore our website, and we hope to see you in St Wulfram's very soon.
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WFExec123 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 89 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Logo is for Trump the Slump, logo should set itself apart from rest of site layout, the logo is not a business logo. Read design brief for what I envision.
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That is using the fonts available for posting the contest, so I do not expect literal copying, I want the shape of the letters to form a "slump" or valley type shape as indicated above. PLEASE DO NOT COPY THE DESIGN ON THE SITE ABOVE, I DO NOT LIKE IT! I would like creativity with font selection and am open to color changes, however I would like to see each design in black in addition to other colors. Thanks
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The Board of Supervisors of the County of Inyo, State of California, met in regular session at the hour of 9:10 a.m., on Tuesday, January 8, 2001, in the Board of Supervisors Room, County Administrative Center, Independence, with the following Supervisors present: Chairperson Julie Bear presiding, Linda Arcularius, Ervin R. Lent, and Carroll M. Hambleton, Jr. Supervisor Michael Dorame was absent. Supervisor Lent provided the Invocation and Supervisor Hambleton led the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Dedicated, determined, devoted, enthusiastic, fervent, passionate, vehement.
That's you, isn't it?
And I just want to take a little blog-space to thank all of you who have stuck with me in this year's A-Z Challenge. Your comments have been a delight to read, and I am very happy to know that you have found my posts so useful.
Now, let's get out there and be zealous about our genealogy! :o)


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SAT is NP-complete even if we promise that it has an even number of solutions (by introducing a new dummy variable). However, USAT (when the promise is that it has exactly one solution) is not known to be NP-complete (except if we allow randomized reductions). What if we promise an odd number of solutions? The complexity must of course lie between the above two but can we prove that it is deterministically reducible to USAT or that SAT is deterministically reducible to it?
Remark. Of course I mean that we promise an odd or zero number of solutions. Or, another related problem would be, to find a solution under the promise. For related results see the excellent "survey" answer by Ryan.


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Dead Spin Blog 3/16/13
At 81, Don King Is Still A Crazy Sleazeball Isaac Rauch
Inspired by former Mizzou linebacker and current boxer Ryan Coyne's acrimonious business relationship with Don King, St. Louis's River Front Times recently caught up with the American legend and Prince Hall Freemason, insofar as you can catch up with someone that refuses to talk to you. As it turns out, Don King is as crazy, exploitative and intractable as ever, and though his boxing empire is crumbling, he's still pretty good at ruining lives for an octogenarian.
Boxing is the rare sport where a manager or promoter can make money by signing clients to onerous contracts and then ignoring them for months, sometimes years at a time. King perfected the art of playing fighters off against each other and waiting until they were desperate for any kind of pay-out, and throughout the piece, one is struck at how effective a sleazeball he is–con men don't achieve world renown without a clever approach to ripping people off. John McCain introduced a bill in the Senate essentially designed to stop Don King. It passed, became law, and failed to stop Don King.
Boxing was a […]


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