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AFGHANISTAN – "There was blood down my leg after I got shot," recalled Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Ethan Burk, who was present during the Sept. 14 insurgent night attack on Camp Bastion in Helmand province.
Burk, a hazardous materials management coordinator with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), was on his way to work when he heard the first rocket-propelled grenade explode behind him.
Avoiding the giant fireball from the explosion, he had driven straight into an ambush of heavily armed insurgents firing at his four-wheeled tractor, which had no armor to stop the barrage of bullets striking all around him.
"I could see the muzzle flashes from the corner of the compound," said Burk, a Milford, Texas native. "That's when I realized they were all aiming at me. I felt something hit my arm, but I thought I had just banged it on something. Then I rolled out of the [tractor] and ducked. When I reached for my rifle they started shooting at me again, and that's when I realized they had a lot more firepower than I did because they were firing too fast for just regular AK-47s."
Maneuvering behind a barrier, Burk could only see and judge the insurgents' movements in the darkness by their muzzle flashes. So he pressed on, trying to use the flight line's light to see where the insurgents had holed up so he could get the drop on them.
After moving to a covered position, one of his friends and the only other Marine in the area, Lance Cpl. Kevin Sommers, a cryogenics technician, jumped over a barrier and almost landed on top of Burk. The two Marines waited for the insurgents to try and flank them. When they didn't, the pair climbed over concrete barriers to get better firing points at the enemy.
"Once we realized they weren't coming after us, we jumped over the T-walls and cleared out the area behind the barriers. At that point the British [quick reaction force] showed up, and the [helicopters] were shooting from their main guns at the insurgents fighting position right overhead," Burk said. "We flagged the soldiers down with a light and yelled 'Marines, Marines, Marines' to let them know the situation. The guy in charge of the British QRF told us to go get my arm checked out because he saw the blood on my uniform."
After Burk and Sommers checked in for accountability, Burk went to a corpsman and found out he had been shot in the elbow by one of the insurgent's machine gun rounds.
"After I had it X-rayed, they found two pieces of the bullet still lodged in my arm and they had to surgically remove it," Burk explained. "After the whole ordeal, they asked if I wanted to go home because I was injured, and I told them I just got here, why would I want to go home?"


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Goal: get people to go to our website and join our association
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The logo on a white background uses blue and black. If you want to put the logo on a black background, the logo would be blue and white. You can add any other colors to the postcard design, but you cannot change the logo colors, other than as I mentioned.
Font choice is up to you, but please use a standard font.
Since this is the advertising industry, I'd like to see something a bit edgy. But remember that this for business people.

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MP Mahmoud El Khodiary of Freedom and Justice Party was elected as the head of the legislation committee in the parliament. The famous reformist judge has been from those judges who headed the movement of independent judiciary in time of Mubarak. He is widely respected.
MP Sobhi Saleh of FJ party was elected as the undersecretary of the legislation committee. Saleh was from the members of the committee that supervised the constitutional amendments referendum and earned that fame because of his controversial statements.
MP Abbas Mokhamiar of FJ party heads the National security committee, it was not a big surprise that this particular committee to be headed by a member from Freedom and Justice 'The majority party" with a military background. We do not know nothing about Mokhamiar except that he is a former Lt.General in the Egyptian army.
LT.general can't be an old member of the MB and reaches to that military rank as the Egyptian army does not allow any political activity for its officers , it is a well known rule. Mokhamiar won a List seats in Sharkia governorate. The lists of the Freedom and Justice coalition included independent members like Wahid Abdel Magid and Kamel Abu El Eita.
MP Essam El Arian of FJ Party is elected as the head of the foreign affairs committee in the Parliament. MP El Arian has been from the famous faces in the Muslim brotherhood when it comes to the foreign relations. He was among the spokespersons of the brotherhood with foreign media for year.
MP Wahid Abdel Magid, the famous political analyst as well Wafd party member "Despite the Wafd party members claimed that they are boycotting these elections" and MP Gamal Hishmat of Freedom and justice party were elected as the under sectaries of the foreign affairs committee. Ironically Hishmat lost the seat of his district for NDP MP Mostafa El Faky who headed that committee.
MP Mohamed El Sayid Idris of the Karama party has been elected as the head of the Arab affairs committee. Idris, a famous writer is considered from the founders of the Egyptian movement for change "Kafya"
MP Mohamed Abdel Moneim El Sawy of Al Hadra Party was elected as the head of the culture , tourism and media committee. Mohamed El Sawy served as minister of culture in February 2011 in Ahmed Shafik's cabinet before the cabinet's resignation under public pressure. He faced a lot of criticism and accusations from some intellectuals who accused him of being conservative despite founding one of the most important privately owned cultural center in Egypt , the El Sawy Culture center.
I will be lying if I say that this man and his cultural center did not contribute in the cultural scene in Egypt in the past 10 years.
MP Akram El Shaer of Freedom and Justice Party was elected as the head of the health committee in the parliament. Dr. El Shaer , a veteran member of parliament before the revolution was active in rising health issues in the people's assembly. El Shaer has been a member in the Egyptian doctors' syndicate's board since the mid 1990s. He is the father of Dr. Mosaab El Shaer , one of the most famous and outspoken revolution's injured.
MP Mohamed Anwar El Sadat of Reform and Development party was elected as the head of the human rights committee in the parliament.
MP Mahmoud Askar of Freedom and Justice Party was elected as the head of the religious committee. Sheikh Mahmoud Askar is from Al Azhar.
MP Shabaan Ahmed Abdel El Alim of Al Nour Party has been elected as the head of the education and scientific research committee in the parliament. Now I am extremely worried in a way you can't imagine it not only because there is a conservative control but we got Al Gama'a Al Islamiyya member Sheikh Gaber El Gahlan of Gerga in Sohag, Upper Egypt
I do not know if he was convicted before in the terrorism years but I am so damn worried.
MP Sabry Amar of Freedom and Justice has been elected as the head of the transportation and traffic committee.
MP Tarek Dousky of Nour party has been elected as the head of the economic committee. We do not know the economic views of Nour party to be honest , it is not clear as the FJP whose economic views are just like the Free Egyptians "Liberal as you can imagine". It is worth to mention that Nour party had a meeting with EFG-Hermes from two weeks ago in one of the famous hotels in Giza.
MP Saber Abou El Fatouh of FJ party was elected as the head of the labor committee. MP Kamel Abu Eita, the famous labor activist and member in the Freedom and Justice alliance was elected as the undersecretary of the labor committee.
MP Osama Yassin of Freedom and Justice Party was elected as the head of the Youth committee.
On the other hand the Wafd party members in the parliament have announced that it has boycotted the parliamentary committees' elections for what they considered a monopoly by the Freedom and justice party in the elections. MP Mostafa Al Naggar of El Adl party has announced that he was going to boycott the parliamentary committees' elections as well. There have been rumors that Nour party stood against the women's nomination in these committees.
You know I had plans for more posts about today's sessions of the parliament but after what happened tonight at the parliament between the youth of Muslim brotherhood and the protesters who headed to the parliament today , I lost all the interest to write anything.


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text: KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - United Nations forces and the Congolese army attacked rebel positions with helicopter gunships, armored personnel carriers and a phalanx of ground troops Wednesday, ramping up the U.N.'s engagement in the latest rebellion to roil this country's tormented east. The fighting was some of the fiercest in the week since the newly created U.N. intervention brigade went on the offensive, and one Tanzanian peacekeeper was killed after the rebels aimed artillery fire at their position, the U.N. said in a statement. Seven other troops were also wounded, U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said. 'I am outraged by today's killing of a United Nations peacekeeper from Tanzania by the M23,' said Martin Kobler, the special representative of the secretary-general in Congo, who heads the peacekeeping mission. 'He sacrificed his life to protect civilians in Goma.' The fighting is taking place nine miles (15 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Goma, a city home to nearly 1 million people that was briefly captured by the M23 rebels late last year. The U.N. involvement in the latest flare-up of violence is in sharp contrast to November, when the U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as MONUSCO, stood by as the rebels overtook Goma because their mandate was only to protect civilians. The stepped-up U.N. intervention brigade, created by the Security Council in March, is authorized to take the offensive against the rebels. 'It's already changing the equation. For now, I would shy away from calling it a game changer. It's certainly unprecedented not only for Congo, but for peacekeeping itself and the U.N. at large,' said Timo Mueller, a Goma-based researcher with the Enough Project, an advocacy group active in eastern Congo. Even as forces pounded the rebels, U.N. officials continued to send mixed messages about the extent of their involvement, repeatedly saying they were merely 'backing' or 'supporting' the Congolese military, rather than leading the offensive themselves. 'The main engagement is by the (Congolese) forces,' said Siphiwe Dlamini, a spokesman for the South African military, which contributed troops to the brigade. 'We are retaliating and going on the offensive.' Lt. Col. Felix Basse, the military spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission, also emphasized that U.N. forces were fighting alongside the Congolese army. However, the president of the M23 rebel movement, Bertrand Bisimwa, who spoke by telephone, said the U.N.'s intervention brigade was on the frontline of Wednesday's fighting. 'It was the U.N. that was shooting directly at us, from their helicopters. It's the Tanzanian and South African (United Nations) troops that are on the frontline. It's them that we see first,' he said. As the U.N. mission takes its strongest steps yet to protect Congolese civilians, observers note the intervention brigade faces high expectations. It is already facing backlash from residents who say their heightened efforts still aren't enough to protect civilians from an onslaught of mortar fire. Last weekend, scores of Goma residents took to the streets in anger after a barrage of mortar shells rained down on residential neighborhoods and killed several civilians. A U.N. car was set ablaze, and in the melee two protesters were killed. 'Given this outburst of frustration during these demonstrations, MONUSCO might feel pressured to take on M23 and be sucked into an active conflict, into active warfare,' Mueller said. 'There might be a momentum building up where MONUSCO has to prove its legitimacy and its effectiveness and has to show the population that it's actually doing something.' In a recent open letter, the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, also expressed concern about the mission's simultaneous mandate to 'aid, protect and fight' in Congo. The U.N. vigorously defended its mandate, saying it could not 'fold our arms and allow armed groups to kill the population.' In addition to seven U.N. troops wounded Wednesday, three others already have sustained injuries since the U.N. brigade began directly engaging rebels last week. One South African and two Tanzanians were hit by shrapnel Saturday, South Africa's military said in a statement Wednesday. Angelo Izama, a Uganda-based analyst who runs a regional security think tank called Fanaka Kwawote, cautions though that failure to unseat the M23 from their current strongholds overlooking Goma would be a psychological blow to the Congolese military and its U.N. allies. He said it was highly unlikely that the U.N. brigade would sustain the offensive if more and more of its troops were killed or wounded in combat. 'If they come under sustained attack, the U.N. will have no appetite for war,' he said. 'They will call time out.' --- Krista Larson reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press writers Rukmini Callimachi in Dakar; Rodney Muhumuza in Johannesburg and Peter J. Spielmann in New York contributed to this report. --- Follow Krista Larson on Twitter at https://twitter.com/klarsonafrica.


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Pension costs are an enormous problem - for companies and governments alike. Money dedicated to covering pensions is money that can't be spent on government services.
But taking on pensions is difficult, legally and politically. The law is clear that existing pensions for government workers can't be touched. And proposals to create less costly retirement benefits for new government workers have been easily defeated by unions who argue that such reforms are attacks on popular public employees: teachers, police officers and firefighters. When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger offered such a proposal in 2005, he was accused of bullying cops and firefighters -- and suffered a rapid drop in popularity.
Which is why the above sketch from this weekend's Saturday Night Live was jarring. Public employee pensions would seem to be the kind of subject that comedians would avoid. But by airing this sketch, the folks at SNL made the calculation that public employees and their benefits are now ripe for public ridicule. If true, this may be the moment to take another swing at pensions.
A January poll from the Public Policy Institute of California bears that out. The percentage of Californians who view money spent on public employee pensions as a "big problem" is up to 41 -- that number has grown by 10 points over the past five years. And two-in-three Californians in the PPIC survey favor changing the pension system for new public employees to a 401(k) style plan—with defined contributions, rather than guaranteed benefits as in a pension plan.


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Big data is a term that describes the large volume of data – both structured and unstructured – that inundates a business on a day-to-day basis. But it's not the amount of data that's important. It's what organizations do with the data that matters. Big data can be analyzed for insights that lead to better decisions and strategic business moves.
While the term "big data" is relatively new, the act of gathering and storing large amounts of information for eventual analysis is ages old. The concept gained momentum in the early 2000s when industry analyst Doug Laney articulated the now-mainstream definition of big data as the three Vs:
Volume. Organizations collect data from a variety of sources, including business transactions, social media and information from sensor or machine-to-machine data. In the past, storing it would've been a problem – but new technologies (such as Hadoop) have eased the burden.
Velocity. Data streams in at an unprecedented speed and must be dealt with in a timely manner. RFID tags, sensors and smart metering are driving the need to deal with torrents of data in near-real time.
Variety. Data comes in all types of formats – from structured, numeric data in traditional databases to unstructured text documents, email, video, audio, stock ticker data and financial transactions.
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Variability. In addition to the increasing velocities and varieties of data, data flows can be highly inconsistent with periodic peaks. Is something trending in social media? Daily, seasonal and event-triggered peak data loads can be challenging to manage. Even more so with unstructured data.
Complexity. Today's data comes from multiple sources, which makes it difficult to link, match, cleanse and transform data across systems. However, it's necessary to connect and correlate relationships, hierarchies and multiple data linkages or your data can quickly spiral out of control.
Sports data analytics company SciSports has developed a camera system called BallJames to capture big data from all the players on the field who don't have the ball – an extension of traditional approaches. This real-time tracking technology automatically generates 3-D data from the video of 14 cameras placed around the stadium to record every movement of the players. BallJames generates player data such as precision, direction and speed of the passing, sprinting strength and jumping strength – that's a lot of big data.
The importance of big data doesn't revolve around how much data you have, but what you do with it. You can take data from any source and analyze it to find answers that enable 1) cost reductions, 2) time reductions, 3) new product development and optimized offerings, and 4) smart decision making. When you combine big data with high-powered analytics, you can accomplish business-related tasks such as:
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With large amounts of information streaming in from countless sources, banks are faced with finding new and innovative ways to manage big data. While it's important to understand customers and boost their satisfaction, it's equally important to minimize risk and fraud while maintaining regulatory compliance. Big data brings big insights, but it also requires financial institutions to stay one step ahead of the game with advanced analytics.
Educators armed with data-driven insight can make a significant impact on school systems, students and curriculums. By analyzing big data, they can identify at-risk students, make sure students are making adequate progress, and can implement a better system for evaluation and support of teachers and principals.
When government agencies are able to harness and apply analytics to their big data, they gain significant ground when it comes to managing utilities, running agencies, dealing with traffic congestion or preventing crime. But while there are many advantages to big data, governments must also address issues of transparency and privacy.
Patient records. Treatment plans. Prescription information. When it comes to health care, everything needs to be done quickly, accurately – and, in some cases, with enough transparency to satisfy stringent industry regulations. When big data is managed effectively, health care providers can uncover hidden insights that improve patient care.
Armed with insight that big data can provide, manufacturers can boost quality and output while minimizing waste – processes that are key in today's highly competitive market. More and more manufacturers are working in an analytics-based culture, which means they can solve problems faster and make more agile business decisions.
Customer relationship building is critical to the retail industry – and the best way to manage that is to manage big data. Retailers need to know the best way to market to customers, the most effective way to handle transactions, and the most strategic way to bring back lapsed business. Big data remains at the heart of all those things.
Oliver Schabenberger, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at SAS, describes the characteristics of a modern analytics platform. He cites the diversity of data management and analytics challenges such a platform must handle – for small data as well as big data. The modern analytics platform, he says, should be able to process structured and unstructured data and accommodate simple analytics to complex machine learning problems.
It's important to remember that the primary value from big data comes not from the data in its raw form, but from the processing and analysis of it and the insights, products, and services that emerge from analysis. The sweeping changes in big data technologies and management approaches need to be accompanied by similarly dramatic shifts in how data supports decisions and product/service innovation.
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This category includes data that reaches your IT systems from a web of connected devices, often part of the IoT. You can analyze this data as it arrives and make decisions on what data to keep, what not to keep and what requires further analysis.
Social media data
The data on social interactions is an increasingly attractive set of information, particularly for marketing, sales and support functions. It's often in unstructured or semistructured forms, so it poses a unique challenge when it comes to consumption and analysis.
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Cattaraugus County Museum, Railroad Songs, June 2015, Lockport Library, Civil War Songs, July 2015, Traditional Music & Dance Week, Pinewoods Camp, Plymouth MA, staff, August 2015, Hoag Library, Albion, Civil War Songs, November 2015, Wheatland Historical Society, Railroad Songs, February 2016
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The Flint Hill Folk have been staff musicians at the Genesee Country Village restoration in Mumford NY for over 30 years. The group includes up to eight members, performing on fiddle, guitar, banjo, hammered dulcimer, mandolin, concertina, and vocals. Performances are in 19th-century costume, and feature restored period instruments. Repertoire includes folk and popular songs of the 19th century/Civil War era, with emphasis on New York composers, and regional themes such as the Erie Canal, Civil War, women's suffrage, The group can perform in numbers from three to six, depending on individual requirements. A subset of the Flint Hill Folk can provide period dance calling and instrumentation. In addition to regular work at Genesee Country Village, group has performed at the Museum of Trades & Industry (Seneca Falls), Brighton Town Concert Series, Salt Museum (Sytacuse), Hamlin Beach State Park, 'Battle of Lain's Mill' Civil War re-enactment (Canisteo), Granger Homestead (Canandaigua), Geneseo Summer Concert Series, many other venues.
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|Songs of Irish Immigration
Music drawing on the Irish experience, mainly as emigrants from Ireland and new settlers in America. Selections include songs of departure (Muirshin Durkin, Off to California), of immigrant experience in the US (Paddy On the Canal, Paddy Works On the Railway), discrimination and adjustment (No Irish Need Apply, When McGinnis Gets a Job). Familiar songs of the jukebox Irish canon (When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, My Wild Irish Rose) are used to highlight the assimilation of Irish immigrants and their nostalgia for the old country. Mixed in are Irish melodies of all eras, from O'Carolan harp tunes, dance jigs and reels, Irish rebel songs, and many sing-alongs. Accompaniment on guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica and concertina. Very suited for St. Patrick's Day season. Performed at New England Folk Festival, Hazard Library (Poplar Ridge NY), Wide Awake Club Library (Fillmore NY).
|$201- $350
|Songs of the Railroad
Songs from the 19th and 20th centuries, describing the construction, operation, and history of America's railroads. Main repertoire source: N. Cohen, The Long Steel Rail, U.of Chicago Press, 1982. Examples: Drill Ye Tarriers, John Henry, Wabash Cannonball, Casey Jones, Wreck of the Old 97, Paddy Works on the Railway, Life's Railway to Heaven, etc. Accompaniment on acoustic stringed instruments (guitar, banjo, Autoharp, etc.). History and background is given for all songs. Presented annually for the Brighton schools for 13 years; and recently performed at the Strong Museum (Rochester), Heritage Square Museum (Ontario), Cattaraugus County Museum, New England Folk Festival (Mansfield MA). Performed at Cottrell Mem. Library in Atlanta NY, 2011. Many opportunities for audience participation (chorus singing).
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|Songs of the Erie Canal
Canal songs, performed in 19th-century costume and using period instruments (guitar, banjo, concertina, etc.). Songs about the construction of the canal (1816-1826), about canallers' lives and work, and about the folklore of the canal. Examples: The Meeting of the Waters of Hudson and Erie, Oh That Low Bridge, Paddy On the Canal, Buffalo to Troy, Ee-ri-ee Was Risin', Trip On the Erie, Low Bridge, etc. Also includes information regarding canal and Western New York history. May include Mark Twain poem The Aged Pilot Man. Performed frequently in the Rochester area, and at folk festivals in New York & New England. Performed at libraries in Lockport, Lyons, Albion, Big Springs Museum (Caledonia), historical societies in Greece, West Sparta, etc. Also NY State Button Society convention (Owego), April 2011.
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|Songs of the Civil War
Music of the Civil War era, from both North and South, performed in costume and on period instruments (guitar, banjo, concertina etc.). Historical background is given for each song. Selections include partisan rallying calls, songs of nostalgia, soldiers' parodies, and songs of triumph and defeat. Examples: The Bonnie Blue Flag, Tenting Tonight, Just Before the Battle Mother, The Faded Coat of Blue, Marching Through Georgia, We Are Coming From the Cotton Fields, etc. This program has been performed at museums, libraries, folk festivals, and historical societies for the past decade. Includes audience participation (chorus singing). Performed at libraries in Fairport, Watkins Glen, Odessa, Albion, Lockport, Penfield, as well as various regional festivals and Civil War re-enactments.
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|Annie & Al On the Erie Canal
Performing Arts- Storytelling
Storyteller Fran Carlisi-Paxson joins Allen Hopkins to re-enact Erie Canal days. Fran plays "Annie," a canal boat cook, while Allen is an itinerant 19th-cehtury musician. Fran recounts several "tall tales" from the canal tradition, while Allen sings songs collected from NY State sources, pertaining to the history and social life of the canal. Program is given in period costume, using antique instruments, and features dialog and byplay that outline some of the lesser-known historical facts of the canal era. The program takes a humorous perspective on many facets of 19th-century Erie Canal life. This program has been presented at Spencerport Canal Days, Livingston County Historical Museum, Greece Historical Society, and elsewhere.
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The big ISPs and wireless carriers keep promising to build out their networks, which we all want. But while they make those promises with one side of their mouths, they talk to Congress and the regulators in Washington, D.C., with the other, pushing for policies that discourage more investment in their networks.
Yeah, you've heard some of this before. But before you tune out, consider this: The less money the carriers and ISPs invest, the more congestion users at home and at work will experience. That's the risk we face.
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You're already facing data caps and data throttling when you fire up your smartphone or tablet. On the wired broadband side, few people have more than a couple of choices of providers, and the backbone is controlled by a handful of companies with the potential to decide what type of content can move across their networks. Telecommunications policy can be snore-inducing, but it affects us all in what we do every day.
What prompts me to give this little lecture is a research paper by profs at the University of Florida and Notre Dame offering solid proof that when providers are allowed to favor one type of content over another -- the opposite of Net neutrality -- they have little incentive to invest.
"ISPs would profit from a congested Internet in which some content providers will be more than willing to pay an additional fee for faster delivery to users," say the authors, Hsing Cheng and Subhajyoti Bandyopadhyay of the University of Florida, and Hong Guo of Notre Dame.
More congestion equals more profits
To understand their logic, consider this thought experiment: Imagine that you own a freeway -- say, Highway 101 through Silicon Valley -- and you had the power to pluck a car from a traffic jam with a helicopter and deposit it on a clear stretch of the road. Naturally, drivers who could afford the service would be happy to sign up.
"That highway is like the Internet, and the individual cars are the packets of data. The ISP is essentially the gatekeeper that controls the flow of cars on the highway. If the ISP is allowed to snatch any car from the back of a very long line and put it in front of everybody else when the driver of the car pays a priority delivery fee, would the ISP have an incentive to keep the road congested or to expand the road capacity?" they wrote.
The answer is pretty obvious: If you can make more money by keeping your network congested, why would you invest money to make it less crowded?
How the researchers prove their conclusion is complex. In essence they built an economic model based on game theory that compared industry returns under two conditions: one in which Net neutrality is mandated and the other when it is not. That may sound abstract, but game theory has become a well-accepted tool of researchers in economics and business.


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Thereafter wondering at what stage i wud pour a drink and swallow a sliver of lead crystal. It hasn't happened yet. cheers Paul S.
I have heard that the problem of lead leaching out of the glass is limited, only really affecting the glass molecules closest in contact with the liquid. My knowledge of chemistry and physics is limited but I was under the impression that several 'fills' of a decanter with booze would reduce contamination to minimal levels. I do not know how long you would have to leave the whiskey in there or how much you must throw away without drinking.Sacrilege! So Max is spot on.John.
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Sick: Scams prey on 'Obamacare' confusion
If a stranger claiming to be from the government calls to offer you an "Obamacare card" or threatens to throw you in jail unless you buy insurance, hang up the phone. It's a scam.
Fraudsters are poised to take advantage of widespread confusion over the Affordable Care Act – also known as Obamacare – to steal Americans' credit cards, Social Security numbers and other personal information, consumer advocates and government officials say.
"This is the huge, new government program. There's no doubt in my mind that the fraudsters view it as an opportunity to rip people off," said Lois Greisman, associate director for the Federal Trade Commission's division of marketing practices.
The FTC already has issued a consumer alert about one telemarketing scheme, in which impostors claiming to be from Medicare told consumers they needed to hand over their personal or financial information in order to continue eligibility because "change is on the horizon."
But nothing in the Affordable Care Act threatens existing benefits for Medicare enrollees, Greisman said. The official-sounding calls were just a ploy to steal consumers' identities and money.
The FTC received more than 1,100 complaints about similar scams in May alone.
Another typical rip-off involves fraudsters who contact consumers by phone or email and say, "I'm with Obamacare. I need your information to send you your new Obamacare card," said John Breyault, vice president of public policy for the National Consumers League, an advocacy group in Washington.
Some scammers try to sell consumers very poor coverage or coverage that isn't even real.
The callers then request bank account routing numbers, or credit cards, or ask for cash directly through a wire transfer, he said.
"Scammers usually say you have to join. 'It's the law now, so you have to give us money,'" Breyault said. ". . . It's typically using scary language like 'the government requires you to do this' or 'you're going to lose your benefits unless you send us money.'"
Consumer groups first noticed a spike in complaints about Affordable Care Act swindles after Congress passed the 2010 law. Now, as the Oct. 1 deadline to open health care exchanges approaches, health care scams are on the rise again.
"We are starting to get a few complaints that people are receiving unsolicited calls that say they can provide insurance," said Nanci Gonder, spokeswoman for the office of Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster.
"We plan to issue some kind of alert in the future to make sure consumers watch for any calls that could be scams, that could be people trying to get their personal or financial information," Gonder said.
Scammers prey on consumers' uncertainty about the new law and how it will affect their lives.
A recent Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found that four in 10 Americans don't know that the Affordable Care Act remains the law of the land. That ratio was even higher for people earning less than $30,000 a year, 60 percent of whom couldn't say whether the law was being implemented.
The FTC's Greisman worries that some scammers will exploit the government's efforts to better educate consumers by pretending to be certified "navigators." The administration has announced $54 million in grants for navigator groups, which will be tasked by law to help uninsured Americans sign up for benefits in the exchanges.
All navigators must be impartial, certified and trained, said Richard Olague, spokesman for the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Some states may require fingerprinting or background checks, Olague said.
"What we're very likely to see is (fake navigators saying), 'For an upfront fee we can help you,' but there shouldn't be an upfront fee, it should be free," Greisman said.
She said her agency had been waiting for the Department of Health and Human Services to finalize rules for the navigators before advising consumers on how best to distinguish real navigators from fake ones. The agency announced Friday that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had finalized a 145-page regulation that outlines standards for navigators.
With less than three months to go before exchanges open, the clock is ticking.
"The closer we get to registration in October, the greater the odds that the con artists are going to be looking for weaknesses in the emergent new systems and they will be probing. And you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be some fresh and interesting new scams," said James Quiggle, spokesman for the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, a nonprofit based in Washington.
So far, Quiggle's group has documented swindles related to the Affordable Care Act in at least half of the 50 states. But consumers can easily fight back, he said.
"Simply close the door, or hang up the phone the moment someone starts probing for your sensitive financial information," he said. "Do not allow them to try to sweet talk you and engage you because some of these people are very trained and very good at slowly easing you into giving up your information."
Consumers should report suspected scam artists to the Federal Trade Commission, state insurance departments and state attorneys general.
"That's the only way these guys will be put out of business," said Breyault of the National Consumers League.


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The First Music Video Filmed Entirely Using Instagram
(SAN FRANCISCO) -- We've all heard a picture is worth a thousand words. So how much is a music video created entirely out of still photos worth?
Yes, you read that correctly.
Mexico City-based Indie band The Plastics Revolution created a music video for their song, Invasión, using only still photos taken on Instagram, the popular photo sharing app that lets you create stunning images directly through your smartphone.
"The use of Instagram — it's something some people don't believe in as a social media tool or as a photography application, but I think this project shows if you really use something you can really get something out of it," said Julio Gudino, who does guitar and lead vocals for The Plastics Revolution.
The four-minute video took about five months to produce from start to finish, and is comprised of still images entirely produced through Instagram by San Francisco photographer Arturo Perez.
"The initial idea came because I really like Instagram. I think it's a way to be creative all the time," said Perez. "No matter if you're going to the grocery store or the park with your friends, there's always a way to be creative."
Gudino said the six members of the band, who are also close friends, wanted to work with a photographer they personally knew well.
"We met Arturo in 2009 and last year we started talking about a collaboration together," said Gudino. "The idea to use Instagram was totally his idea. He was really excited with the idea since the beginning and insisted we start working on it."
Perez described it as "a total eureka moment."
The Production Process
To save money, the band worked long-distance to produce the video. Perez shot the photos in San Francisco on a high end SLR camera and then imported the photos onto his computer and eventually onto his iPhone. Then each photo was sent through Instagram to add various filters and edits. Finally, the photos were streamed and edited together to produce the stop-motion cinema effect.
"Literally, until I finished it I didn't think we were going to do it. It was a lot of work, more work than I anticipated," said Perez. "We took over 45,000 photos and going through 45,000 photos to tell a story is a nightmare."
What made the process more challenging was creating the video spanning miles and miles of distance.
"We actually never sat down with Arturo. We emailed, Skype and called," said Gudino. "We needed to start processing the pictures — downloading them, uploading them and sending them back to him [Perez] in San Francisco."
The video took five months to produce, using 1,905 still photos to create an aesthetically pleasing stop-motion music video.
Perez said each photo went through a seven-step process from when it was shot to when it was uploaded to the final product.
"It was a passion project I worked on every night since June," said Perez. "But the whole collaboration was a total team effort."
Aside from photography, Perez also works as a writer and director in the Bay Area. In what he calls his "'day job," Perez works as a creative director for Swirl in San Francisco.
The band members first met Perez in 2009 when he shot their music video "Day of Light." Perez was working for La Blogotheque, a music blog based in Paris, at the time. Since then the band and Perez have remained friends.
Now the question lingers: Will Instagam music videos be an insta-trend?
Perez thinks so.
"People love video, so I think it's the next step," said Perez. "Instagram would have to adapt and make it easier for people. Right now it's too much work and no sane person would do it."
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Real Estate: Online giant to open studio on Westside.
It just doesn't stop: Yet another tech giant is moving into Santa Monica.
Seattle online retailer Amazon Inc. is negotiating a lease of at least 75,000 square feet in the beachside city for its online entertainment production division and other corporate uses, according to sources familiar with the size requirement.
It would be the latest in a long roster of tech industry behemoths to take a significant amount of space in the Westside's growing Silicon Beach area, now bursting with startups and established firms such as Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
"Amazon is trying to grow their entertainment production business," said Andrew Jennison, partner at Santa Monica real estate brokerage Industry Partners who is familiar with Amazon and creative space on the Westside. "They are growing that piece of the business fairly rapidly so they need to accommodate that growth and they want to be on this side of town because of the talent and resources."
Amazon is close to inking the deal at the Water Garden, a 1.2 million-square-foot office complex at Colorado Avenue and 26th Street, with landlord JP Morgan Chase & Co. Terms of the deal could not be determined, but real estate data provider CoStar Group Inc. reported asking rates at the complex of $3.85 a square foot. That would value the deal at about $3.5 million a year.
IA Interior Architects, which has designed Amazon's offices nationwide, was said to be designing the Water Garden space.
Representatives of Amazon and JP Morgan did not return requests for comment.
The lure of the Westside, from Santa Monica south to Playa Vista, has been in large part due to the flood of development of original online content as tech firms build off the existing Hollywood infrastructure and talent in Los Angeles.
Microsoft, Netflix Inc. and YouTube LLC have all opened Westside offices as they aggressively pursue the production of original content. Netflix's quarterly revenue eclipsed $1 billion for the first time in the period ended March 31, a milestone attributed at least in part to the success of its original online drama "House of Cards," starring Kevin Spacey. The critically acclaimed series has been credited with bringing more subscribers to the service.
Earlier this year, Amazon Studios Inc., the entertainment unit of the online retailer run by former Walt Disney Co. executive Roy Price, began streaming 14 original comedy and children's pilots through its website. It is turning five of those programs into series starring familiar actors such as John Goodman and Ed Begley Jr. Several of the shows, including comedy "Betas," were filmed locally.
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See also: Sharp
From Middle English scharp, from Old English sċearp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-. Cognate with West Frisian skerp, Low German scharp, Dutch scherp, German scharf, Danish skarp. Compare Irish cearb ("keen; cutting"), Latin acerbus ("tart, bitter"), Tocharian B kärpye ("rough"), Latvian skârbs ("sharp, rough"), Russian щерба (ščerba, "notch"), Albanian harb ("rudeness"), from *(s)ker- ("to cut"). More at shear.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʃɑːp/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ʃɑɹp/
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
sharp (comparative sharper, superlative sharpest)
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
- 1984, Michael Grater, Paper Mask Making, →ISBN, page 55:
- If a knife which is sharp is incorrectly used it will obviously be dangerous.
- 2002, Carol Pier, Tainted Harvest, →ISBN:
- Fifteen children reported handling curvos, five machetes, and one a sharp knife used to cut yellow leaves off the banana plants.
- 2006, Werner U. Spitz, Daniel J. Spitz, Russell S. Fisher, Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death, →ISBN:
- Yet, review of 25 years of English language literature on the subject of sharp force injury adds remarkably little to this topic. Sharp force covers a vast array of injuries produced with sharp objects capable of cutting or stabbing or both.
- I keep my knives sharp so that they don't slip unexpectedly while carving.
- Ernest made the pencil too sharp and accidentally stabbed himself with it.
- A face with sharp features
- (colloquial) Intelligent.
- My nephew is a sharp lad; he can count to 100 in six languages, and he's only five years old.
- 2015 February 20, Jesse Jackson, "In the Ferguson era, Malcolm X's courage in fighting racism inspires more than ever", in The Guardian (London)[1]:
- At school, despite his sharp mind, Malcolm was laughed at by teachers when he said he wanted to be a lawyer.
- (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- The orchestra's third violin several times was sharp about an eighth of a tone.
- Having an intense, acrid flavour.
- Milly couldn't stand sharp cheeses when she was pregnant, because they made her nauseated.
- Sudden and intense.
- A pregnant woman during labor normally experiences a number of sharp contractions.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
- (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
- Michael had a number of sharp ventures that he kept off the books.
- (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
- a sharp dealer; a sharp customer
- (Can we date this quote?) Jonathan Swift
- the necessity of being so sharp and exacting
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- You'll need sharp aim to make that shot.
- 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, "Focus on Everything", in American Scientist:
- Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. […] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
- sharp criticism
- When the two rivals met, first there were sharp words, and then a fight broke out.
- (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
- You look so sharp in that tuxedo!
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Keep a sharp watch on the prisoners. I don't want them to escape!
- Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Drive down Main for three quarters of a mile, then make a sharp right turn onto Pine.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- The street down which Warwick had come intersected Front Street at a sharp angle in front of the old hotel, forming a sort of flatiron block at the junction, known as Liberty Point
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve
- (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Sure, any planar graph can be five-colored. But that result is not sharp: in fact, any planar graph can be four-colored. That is sharp: the same can't be said for any lower number.
- (chess) Tactical; risky.
- 1963, Max Euwe, Chess Master Vs. Chess Amateur (page xviii)
- Time and time again, the amateur player has lost the opportunity to make the really best move because he felt bound to follow some chess "rule" he had learned, rather than to make the sharp move which was indicated by the position.
- 1975, Luděk Pachman, Decisive Games in Chess History (page 64)
- In such situations most chess players choose the obvious and logical way: they go in for sharp play. However, not everyone is a natural attacking player […]
- 1963, Max Euwe, Chess Master Vs. Chess Amateur (page xviii)
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- a sharp pain; the sharp and frosty winter air
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Cowper
- the morning sharp and clear
- (Can we date this quote?) John Keble
- in sharpest perils faithful proved
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- a sharp appetite
- (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- in sharp contest of battle
- (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden
- A sharp assault already is begun.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- 1700, Edward Moxon, Mechanical Exercises
- Well-burnt good lime and sharp sand, if very sharp, a load of sand (about 36 bushels) to a hundred of lime (being 25 bushels, or a hundred pecks […]
- 1700, Edward Moxon, Mechanical Exercises
- (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
- (able to cut easily): keen, razor, razor-sharp
- (intelligent): brainy, bright, intelligent, keen, smart, witty
- (able to pierce easily): pointed
- (having an intense and acrid flavour): acrid, pungent
- (sudden and intense): abrupt, acute, stabbing
- (illegal, dishonest): dishonest, dodgy, illegal, illicit, underhand
- (accurate): accurate, exact, keen, precise
- (critical): acrimonious, bitter, cutting, harsh, hostile, nasty
- (stylish, attractive): chic, elegant, smart, stylish
- (observant): acute, alert, keen, observant, sharp-eyed
- (able to cut easily): blunt, dull
- (intelligent): dim, dim-witted, slow, slow-witted, thick
- (able to pierce easily): blunt
- (higher than usual by one semitone): flat
- (music: higher in pitch than required): flat
- (having an intense and acrid flavour): bland, insipid, tasteless
- (sudden and intense): dull
- (illegal, dishonest): above-board, honest, legit, legitimate, reputable
- (accurate): inaccurate, imprecise
- (critical): complimentary, flattering, friendly, kind, nice
- (stylish, attractive): inelegant, scruffy, shabby
- (observant): unobservant
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from sharp (adjective)
able to cut easily
pointed, able to pierce easily
of a note, played a semitone higher than usual
musically higher-pitched than desired
having an intense, acrid flavour
intense and sudden (of pain)
illegal or dishonest
exact, precise, accurate, keen
offensive, critical, or acrimonious
stylish or attractive
observant, alert, acute
forming a small angle
(mathematics) as extreme a value as possible
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sharp (comparative sharper, superlative sharpest)
- To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of M. Arnold to this entry?)
- Shakespeare
- You bite so sharp at reasons.
- (not comparable) Exactly.
- I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp.
- (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
- I didn't enjoy the concert much because the tenor kept going sharp on the high notes.
- (exactly): exactly, on the dot (of time), precisely
in a higher pitch than is correct or desirable
sharp (plural sharps)
- (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.
- The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F♯ (F sharp).
- Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff.
- (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- The piece was difficult to read after it had been transposed, since in the new key many notes were sharps.
- (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is written in C♯ minor (C sharp minor.)
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
- Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal.
- A sharp tool or weapon.
- Collier
- If butchers had but the manners to go to sharps, gentlemen would be contented with a rubber at cuffs.
- Collier
- (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
- (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- The casino kept in the break room a set of pictures of known sharps for the bouncers to see.
- This usage is often classified as variant spelling of shark, and unrelated to the 'pointed' or 'cutting' meanings of sharp.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Kingsley to this entry?)
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy 2010, p. 21:
- While he worked he talked to his ducks, who were waddling about hopefully, as it was almost time for the red bucket to be filled with sharps and potato-peelings.
- 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy 2010, p. 21:
- (slang, dated) An expert.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- 2006, Iain McIntyre, Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970
- The Circle was one of the few dances the older sharps frequented; mostly they were to be found in pubs, pool-halls or at the track.
- 2006, Iain McIntyre, Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970
Derived termsEdit
sign for a sharp note on the staff
note that is sharp in a particular key
cheater or dishonest person
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See alsoEdit
- (music) accidental, flat, natural
- ♯
sharp (third-person singular simple present sharps, present participle sharping, simple past and past participle sharped)
- (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
- That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song!
- To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of L'Estrange to this entry?)
- (transitive, obsolete) To sharpen.
to raise the pitch


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For Jewish Republicans: Oy vey
The dream of a Jewish Republican speaker of the House is no more.
With House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's startling ouster in a primary election this week, the man who was on a track to be the highest-ranking Jewish official in American history now appears consigned to the status of a "Jeopardy" answer. His defeat has left Jewish organizations in both parties reeling, especially the GOP's long-suffering Jewish coalition groups.
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Cantor was – and for now, remains – the No. 2 Republican in a conference of 233 lawmakers. But for Jewish Republicans, Cantor is a singular figure, the only Jewish member of the House majority and the lone Jewish leader in a party that has strenuously courted the community in recent presidential elections, to little avail.
( Also on POLITICO: 5 takeaways from Cantor shocker)
Now, with Cantor's defeat, there's no longer a point man to help organize trips to Israel for junior GOP lawmakers, as Cantor routinely did. Jewish nonprofits and advocacy groups have no other natural person in leadership to look to for a sympathetic ear. No other Republican lawmaker can claim to have precisely the same relationship with gaming billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a primary benefactor of both the Republican Party and the Republican Jewish Coalition.
And no other member can play quite the same role in promoting Jewish Republican congressional candidates, as Cantor did in one election after another. He is scheduled to headline a Long Island fundraiser this Saturday for Lee Zeldin, one of the few Jewish Republican House recruits this year.
The event was announced only a few days before Cantor's fateful primary. At the time, there was every expectation Zeldin would be appearing with the future House speaker, a man floated more than once for the vice presidency and for numerous statewide offices in his native Virginia.
( Also on POLITICO: Who is Dave Brat?)
Matt Brooks, the RJC president, called Cantor's primary "one of those incredible, evil twists of fate that just changed the potential course of history."
"There are other leaders who will emerge, but Eric was unique and it will take time and there's nobody quite like Eric in the House to immediately fill those shoes," Brooks said. "I was certainly hoping that Eric was going to be our first Jewish speaker."
Across the aisle, the reactions to Cantor's defeat ranged from shock and distress to barely-restrained glee. For partisan Jewish Democrats, Cantor has long been a supremely annoying figure, perceived as a front man for a conservative party that's hostile to the values a strong majority of Jews share on issues from economic inequality to gay marriage to immigration, the central animating issue of Cantor challenger Dave Brat's campaign.
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As Democrats seek to cement a public perception of the GOP as an intolerant and homogenous party, the defeat of the nation's leading Jewish Republican over his support for more relaxed immigration laws can only help.
And it now appears almost certain that the first Jew to lead one of the two chambers of Congress will come from the ranks of Democrats, where Jewish politicians including New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and New York Rep. Steve Israel already hold important roles of legislative and partisan leadership.


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O'Reilly: Does Andrew Cuomo need a priest or a psychiatrist?
There's no middle ground for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Not on abortion anyway. That was the clearest take-away from this year's legislative session in Albany.
You're either pro-choice or pro-life in the eyes of our ostensibly Catholic governor; there's no in between. He said it over and over again in the final weeks of the session.
The black or white rigidity of Cuomo's thinking actually sent me to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual this week -- that's a reference book for psychologists -- to check what he might have. My amateur diagnosis is that he's either totally nuts (a nonscientific term) or just plain strident. There's a third possibility, too, of course. He may be -- just may be -- manipulating the electorate for political gain.
God forbid.
The problem with the governor's assessment is that it's factually incorrect -- that, or a vast plurality of New Yorkers just became pro-lifers. Because while a significant majority of New Yorkers consider themselves pro-choice, very few of them want unrestricted abortions allowed up until the ninth month of pregnancy, according to polls, which is pretty much what the governor's failed abortion bill would have permitted. Object to that -- and what rational person wouldn't? -- and you are stamped a pro-lifer, like it or not, by our resolute governor.
It must be tempting for a New York chief executive with national ambitions to dive head first into the neo abortion wars popping up around the country. The political currency is lucrative. Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis just became a national hero in the Democratic Party for sensationally filibustering a bill that would have restricted abortions after 20 weeks and imposed stricter regulatory standards on clinics, many of which would not have been up to snuff.
But according to polls, restrictions are exactly what most Americans prefer as they begin to learn more from science about the stages of early human development. Eighty percent of Americans think that unrestricted abortion should be outlawed in the third trimester, according to Gallup, and 64 percent think it should be outlawed in the second trimester, always with exceptions for life-threatening medical emergencies.
But what Cuomo and Davis realize is that the abortion debate is never rational; it is intensely emotional and political. They understand that voters who care deeply about abortion rights may want further restrictions in an ideal world, but they don't trust legislators who would make changes in the law. The process is seen as a slippery slope.
New York is one of the most strongly pro-choice states in the country. It legalized abortion in 1970 -- three years before Roe -- with a sitting Republican governor and a Republican-led State Senate and Assembly. No way the right to an abortion is being rolled backed here, even if Roe were to be struck down. But 43 years later, what do we end up arguing about most at the end of the legislative session? Who is really pro-choice and who isn't.
Albany watchers expect the next session to kick off exactly where this one left off, with Democrats accusing Republicans of being extremist for not wanting to pass legislation that eight in 10 Americans would oppose. It is expected to be used as a battering ram against the State Senate majority that refused to act on Cuomo's bill in 2013.
That may be a good political strategy in the short term, but Cuomo's position, upon close inspection, will almost certainly make him the extremist in the broader historical view. It will unquestionably render him manipulative and doctrinaire.
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The Safe at Home Security Guide is a new web site and podcast that will present home security tips and information for urban and suburban residents. Information will be presented from the perspective of someone who has "lived" the need to improve their own security--someone who was a home theft victim, has learned and continues to learn about the topic and wants to share that knowledge with the audience.
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Following his work with the Afrika Korps, Field Marshall Rommell joins in a plot to assassinate Hitler.
In Nov 1941, a British commando unit lands in Libya, behind German lines, and attempts to assassinate Erwin Rommel, the German field marshal whose cunning and ability to elude the Allies have earned him the nickname "The Desert Fox." The assassination attempt fails, and later, in Jun 1942, Rommel enforces prisoner of war protocol when a group of British soldiers, including Lt. Col. Desmond Young, are captured by the Germans in North Africa. Young is impressed by Rommel's gentlemanly demeanor, and Rommel's reputation as a principled soldier unconcerned with politics grows. Two years and four months later, Rommel is dead, allegedly having died in battle. Rumors that the Nazis have lied about Rommel's death prompt Young to investigate, and he meets with Rommel's widow Lucie and his son Manfred, and searches for official documents. Young discovers that Rommel's downfall began on 23 Oct 1942: Due to a chronic health problem, Rommel is invalided to Germany, while in El Alamein, the German forces are under attack by the Allies. Rommel is summoned back to the desert, where he is outraged to learn that none of the desperately needed supplies and reinforcements have been sent. After ten days of fighting the British, who are now led by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Rommel realizes that he must retreat to save his troops from annihilation. When Rommel appeals to Adolf Hitler for permission to retreat, however, he is ordered to hold his position to the last man. Infuriated by Hitler's stupidity, Rommel disobeys his orders. Later, Rommel falls ill again and returns to Germany, after which the Axis forces are conquered by the Allies in Tunis. In Germany, Rommel is visited by an old friend, Dr. Karl Strolin, the mayor of Stuttgart, who is a member of a secret movement to eliminate Hitler before his unwise military decisions result in Germany's destruction. Although Rommel is bitter over Hitler's refusal to support the Afrika Korps, he cannot bring himself to join Strolin's cause. In November 1943, it has become clear that Germany will be invaded by the Allies eventually, and Rommel is assigned to inspect the Atlantic fortifications. A month later, Rommel reports to Field Marshal von Rundstedt outside Paris, and declares that the German defenses are clearly inadequate. Von Rundstedt warns Rommel that all military decisions are now being made by Hitler, who is under the influence of astrologers, and that Rommel will be closely watched, like the other military leaders. In February 1944, Strolin visits Rommel at home, but despite Strolin's insistence that many other prominent men support his plan, Rommel maintains that the plot to dispose of Hitler smacks of Communism. Rommel also declares that as a soldier, he has no business interfering with politics. Strolin finally gets Rommel to confess his hatred of Hitler, however, and later, when the Allies storm the beaches of France on D-Day, von Rundstedt and Rommel lament Hitler's consistently bad strategy. Von Rundstedt, who is aware of the plot against Hitler, encourages Rommel, but states that he himself is too old to rebel. Soon after, Rommel attempts to talk to Hitler one last time, but the "Bohemian colonel's" refusal to listen prompts Rommel to join Strolin's movement. Rommel is seriously injured when his car is bombed by Allied planes, however, and is unconscious when an attempt to kill Hitler fails. Over the next three months, Rommel recovers and is mystified by the lack of press coverage on him, as he is enormously popular with the German people. Finally, in Oct 1944, Generals Burgdorf and Maisel visit Rommel and inform him that he has been charged with treason in connection with the plot to assassinate Hitler. Rommel asserts that he will defend himself in court, but Burgdorf states that he has already been found guilty, and that if he commits suicide, Lucie and Manfred's safety will be guaranteed. Determined to save his family, Rommel agrees to leave with Burgdorf. Rommel bids farewell to Lucie, who promises to tell Manfred the truth later, then says goodbye to his son, and asks his old friend, Capt. Aldinger, to look after them. Rommel then enters the car with Burgdorf, and Lucie cries as her husband disappears into the distance.
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Rommel The Heroic Figure
Rommel 2012-08-17
Whatever his true fate,he was a true hero whether he was a German officer or not,James Mason was a great actor. MORE>
Mason is no Rommel!
RedRain 2012-08-11
There is something terribly disconcerting about hearing an English speaking actor with the quality of a voice like James Mason's playing a completely... MORE>
A Hero To more Than Just His People
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