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With general elections expected before May, corruption scandals over high-profile defense deals, and a deflated rupee, Defense Minister A.K. Antony, who has cultivated an image of integrity, has taken a go-slow approach on vitally needed equipment projects.
The slowdown has taken hold as India is expected to spend approximately $100 billion on military modernization in the next 10 years, to boost its military capability as a hedge against neighboring rivals China and Pakistan (see pages 73-76). Defense officials are grumbling about the pace of upgrades given the gap between the country's security goals and its force strength.
"The minister's obsessive quest for an unblemished procurement process has delayed several programs, mainly the acquisition of fighter aircraft," says a senior Indian defense official, adding that the country has underinvested in all kinds of military equipment over the last three decades.
The Indian air force, which receives more modernization funding than the other military services, has experienced some of the most severe contracting delays. That includes the contract to buy 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) Rafales from Dassault, which won the competition in January 2012. The delay could extend until the end of this year and has forced the air force to extend the operational life of aging aircraft through continued upgrades. In part because of the falling Indian rupee, the cost of the deal is expected to soar to $25 billion. The request for proposals had estimated the program cost at $10.6 billion, or $82.3 million per fighter.
A $3 billion proposal to acquire 56 transport aircraft to replace the air force's antiquated HS-748, or Avro, transport aircraft and the operational clearance for the indigenously produced Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas also have been delayed. After cancellation of the AW101 helicopter deal due to a procurement scandal, the government also put on hold the proposed acquisition of 197 light utility helicopters (LUH) to replace the vintage Cheetah/Chetak fleets.
The air force is technically supposed to have 42 fighter squadrons but has only 34, each consisting of 20 aircraft. Six squadrons use aging MiG-21 fighters.
"All MiG-21 and MiG-27 aircraft will be phased out by 2018-20, leaving 26 squadrons consisting of six Jaguars, three MiG-29s, three Mirage 200s and 14 Sukhoi Su-30s," writes army Lt. Gen. (ret.) Ashok Mehta in The Pioneer newspaper. "With LCA Tejas Mark-I awaiting final operational clearance, the advance Tejas with upgraded GE 414 engines can materialize by the end of the decade. Under this phase-out plan, any delay, or heaven forbid, cancellation of the MMRCA contract by the new government will leave the Indian air force in operational lurch.
"If the MMRCA contract is signed in 2015, the first of 18 aircraft will be delivered after 32 months in 2018 and the last of the remaining 108 aircraft, to be made in India, will become operational in 2025," Mehta writes.
The air force's desired combat strength based on a two-front war would require around 50 squadrons.
Before retiring on Dec. 31, former Indian air force chief Norman Browne warned that India cannot afford to delay the MMRCA deal beyond this year. If the MMRCA does not arrive by March 2017, force levels will rapidly decrease, he said.
Despite procurement delays, the defense ministry has completed some deals, including for 12 P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft and an additional 10 C-17 heavy-lift and 12 C-130J transport aircraft. It has also developed the Tejas, upgraded 51 Mirage 2000 combat aircraft and decided to buy 42 Sukhoi Su-30 MK1 fighters from Russia, which will be assembled in India.
Other important deals close to the finish line include the acquisition of 22 Apache attack helicopters, worth around $1.4 billion, and 15 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters at an estimated cost of around $1 billion. These deals must be signed in the next financial year, beginning April 1.
In addition to aircraft, India's shopping list includes howitzers, anti-tank missiles, infantry combat vehicles, assault rifles and submarines. The army is facing "large-scale voids" in critical weaponry and ammunition and has been equally handicapped with very poor anti-tank capability and a 50% deficiency in anti-tank guided missiles.
The defense ministry has signed 17 contracts for the army in the current fiscal year. However, army chief Gen. Bikram Singh says another 23 contracts, worth around 120 billion rupees ($1.9 billion) remain in the pipeline. "We are hopeful they will be inked before March 31. It's an upward trend, a healthy trend," he says.
The Indian navy is also suffering: Its 30-year plan to induct 24 new submarines was approved in 1999, but no new vessels have entered service yet.
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LONDON - Britain's defense ministry says it is investigating allegations of sexual abuse of children at a former Royal Air Force base in Berlin.
The ministry said Friday the alleged offenses, which occurred between 1981 and 1989, involve a former RAF serviceman who was stationed in Berlin at the time and are being investigated by the RAF Police Special Investigations and Intelligence Branch.
Wing Commander Mike Dixon, who is overseeing the investigation, said in a statement that a man in his early 60s from the London area has been interviewed by RAF police.
The defense ministry urged individuals to come forward who served at, or had connections with, the ex-RAF base at Gatow during the 1980s and 1990s and might have information relating to the alleged offenses.


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Looking back at the weekend's motor racing, including NASCAR's races at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway and NHRA drag racing at Las Vegas, five things come to mind:
Darrell Wallace Jr. will probably win another race soon. Wallace, 20, became only the second African American driver to win a NASCAR national series event with his victory Saturday in the truck race at Martinsville. Wallace already was highly touted before Martinsville, and the expectations weighed heavily on him. Now that he's armed with the confidence of knowing he can reach Victory Lane, watch for Wallace to be gunning for a second win either in the three remaining truck races this year -- at Texas, Phoenix and Homestead-Miami -- or early next season.
It's a good Chase, and Jeff Gordon is poised to make it better. Matt Kenseth and Jimmie Johnson are tied for the lead in the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup but Gordon is third, 27 points back, after his win Sunday at Martinsville. Up next is the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway oval. Gordon made the Chase as a 13th driver by order of NASCAR Chairman Brian France after the race-manipulation shenanigans at Richmond. With a big day in Texas, the four-time champ could make the Chase a three-way nail-biter over the final two races at Phoenix and Homestead-Miami.
Give Danica Patrick credit for a good run. Driving a backup car because she crashed her primary car in practice, Patrick drove a solid race in her No. 10 Chevrolet at Martinsville. After starting 41st, she climbed as high as 10th -- on a short track where it's tough to pass -- before finishing 17th. That was 14 positions higher than another rookie in the field, Patrick's boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who finished 31st.
Give Kevin Harvick credit for apologizing. After a wreck with Ty Dillon at the Martinsville truck race, an emotional Harvick lashed out with personal insults against Dillon and his brother Austin, the grandsons of Richard Childress, who owns Harvick's Cup team. Sure, Harvick knows he's still driving for Childress until Harvick leaves for Stewart-Haas Racing next year, and no doubt Harvick quickly realized that his outburst was no way to finish this season with his current boss. Regardless, the 37-year-old Harvick was right to apologize the next morning, especially because Harvick -- fourth in the Chase, 28 points behind Kenseth and Johnson -- still has an outside shot at winning the Cup title for Childress.
There's no understating John Force's achievement. It's not just that the drag-racing legend clinched an unprecedented 16th funny car title at age 64, it's how he did it. Force poured it on when it most counted as the season neared its climax: His victory at Las Vegas on Sunday was his third consecutive win (and fourth overall this season). And don't forget, Force hit 310 mph to defeat his daughter Courtney for the Las Vegas win -- again, at age 64. Afterward, Force was loquacious as always. "I am going to stay out here until I drop," he said. "That will get a lot of exposure."
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Seminar - Friday 2 October 2009
Venue: Lecture theatre 4Q56, Frenchay Campus, University of the West of England
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To ensure the widest regional coverage and participation - six will be held at the Centre for Sustainable Transport at the University of Plymouth, and six at the Centre for Transport and Society at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). The series is financially supported by the South West Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership and Plymouth City Council.
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Although attendance numbers haven't been tabulated, reports from attendees at the Florida RV SuperShow Jan. 15-20 at the Florida State Fairground in Tampa indicate there was strong traffic and brisk sales.
"It was absolutely unbelievable," said Mark Hollan, general manager of the Camping World store in New Port Richey, Fla., who reported selling 40 Itasca motorhomes from Winnebago Industries Inc. "People have been staying on the sidelines and they have jumped in. I've been doing that show for 25 years and it's the biggest show I've ever had and the deals are all solid."
Dave Kelly, marketing director with the host Florida RV Trade Association (FRVTA) said attendance was good, although numbers won't be tallied until later in the week.
"We're knocking on last year's numbers," Kelly told RVBUSINESS.com.
Last year, the Florida RV SuperShow saw more than 54,000 people pass through its gates, which was reported as record attendance. Kelly said that show space was also up by double digit percentages this year compared to 2012. "It shows to us the importance that the industry puts on this show," Kelly said.
Jeff Rank, president of Forest River Inc. subsidiary Prime Time RV, said the company had "record breaking" sales.
"Traffic was absolutely awesome," Rank said. "We were really, really pleased. What we were seeing down there was what we are seeing at all the shows we've attended. There is a high sense of optimism. Right now, our retail customer is in a pretty good mood."
Sid Johnson, Jayco Inc. marketing director, said sales of both motorized and towable RVs in Tampa were the best since 2007. "Our guys are saying attendance was much heavier than it was for the last two or three years at least," Johnson said. "It's a little early to draw conclusions on how the year is going to go, but most of the shows our guys have been to so far have been pretty strong, pretty positive."


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When his campaign is not bashing Obama administration policy, Mitt Romney pledges his administration would create 12 million new jobs, something that resonates with the millions of Americans who are un- or underemployed.
It sounds like a big number, but Romney attaches no time frame to it. If he's talking about one year, that indeed would be spectacular. If that 12 million stretches over four years, not so much.
As former President Bill Clinton said last week, "It's all arithmetic."
The creation of 12 million jobs during a four-year administration would mean the creation of 3 million jobs a year, which breaks down to 250,000 jobs a month. University of Maryland economist Peter Morici, who generally supports Republican policies, says the economy needs to add 370,000 jobs a month for three years just to bring unemployment down to 6 percent, which is considered full employment.
"When President Obama ... took the stage at the Democratic Convention [in 2008], he promised Americans a better future with more jobs, lower bills and larger incomes. But after four years, it's clear the president just hasn't lived up to his promises," Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in a recent news release. "Jobs have declined, incomes have plummeted and household costs are skyrocketing."
The U.S. economy has gained more than 4 million private sector jobs since February 2010, when it is believed job losses bottomed out, but is still more than 1 million shy of where it was before the recession took hold, government statistics indicate. When job losses in the public sector are figured in, the number of job gains is far lower.
The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday reported unemployment 8.1 percent in August, adding just 96,000 jobs.
In its monthly report last week, payroll firm ADP said 201,000 jobs were added to private payrolls July to August, 185,000 of them in the service sector and 99,000 of them by small businesses, compared with 16,000 by large businesses.
"In Tampa, the Republican argument against the president's re-election was pretty simple and pretty snappy: We left him a total mess, he hasn't finished cleaning it up, so fire him and put us back in," Clinton said in his nearly 50-minute speech at the Democratic National Convention, renominating Obama for president.
"I like the argument for President Obama's re-election a lot better. He inherited a deeply damaged economy, put a floor under the crash [and] began the long, hard road to recovery."
In its latest layoffs report, the Chicago outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas said August layoffs numbered the fewest since December 2010. Employers announced 32,239 layoffs last month, down 12.5 percent from July and 37 percent fewer than August 2011 though totals for the first eight months of this year are comparable to the same period last year. The June-August average was 35,548. That compares to the June-August average of 91,268 in 2008 the last summer of the Bush administration.
"Job cuts slowed significantly over the summer, but it is too early to determine whether this is a trend," Chief Executive Officer John A. Challenger cautioned.
"If international job-cut activity is any indication, we may see a surge in downsizing in the final months of 2012 and into 2013. We do not officially track job cuts announced by foreign companies, except those reporting a specific number of layoffs impacting U.S. workers. However, it has been hard to miss some of the recent figures coming from overseas companies."
Obama is not the only modern president to face a struggling economy. When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, unemployment was on the rise, peaking at 10.8 percent in November 1982. The recovery then was much quicker, with joblessness falling to 7.3 percent by the time he faced re-election.
This time around, the unemployment rate peaked at 10.2 percent in October 2009.
What made the latest recession worse than that of the 1980s was the number of long-term unemployed, those who were unemployed for 27 weeks or more, now estimated at 6 million by the National Employment Law Project. PolitiFact.com said the average long-term unemployed had been out of work for 26.9 months in 2009. Also, personal income fell 1 percent during the most recent recession while it actually rose 5.4 percent during the recession that began during Jimmy Carter's tenure and took a second dip in the early Reagan administration.
And then there's the stock market. A far larger percentage of Americans have money in the market now than they did in the early 1980s, meaning a far greater number of people were affected by the crash, which saw the Dow Jones industrial average lose more than half its value, falling to 6,443.27 on March 6, 2009, from a high of 14,164.53 Oct. 9, 2007. The market currently stands above 13,000.
Real estate is another area of difference: During the early '80s, property values kept going up; in the current recession, values went down, putting millions of mortgages "underwater," and foreclosures soared.
"Here in America, families' wealth declined at a rate nearly seven times faster than when the market crashed in 1929," Obama said in an appearance earlier this summer. "Millions of homes were foreclosed. Our deficit soared. And 9 million of our citizens lost their jobs -- 9 million hardworking Americans who had met their responsibilities, but were forced to pay for the irresponsibility of others.
"In other words, this was not your normal recession."
Where Obama caught a break is inflation. The Reagan years saw inflation of 12.4 percent and interest rates as high as 20 percent creating a misery index (unemployment plus inflation) that peaked at 21.8 in June 1980 and hovered from 13.5 to 19.5 in the early Reagan years. With low inflation in the Obama years, the misery index peaked at 12.87 in August 2011 and in July stood at 9.71. August's index won't be available for a week when last month's inflation rate will be released.
Morici contrasts the Reagan and Obama recoveries, lauding Reagan's tax policy and trade stance. He faults Obama for not confronting China on currency manipulation, and limiting offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the North Slope of Alaska and Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
"Every dollar that goes to China or for imported oil that does not return to buy U.S. exports is lost demand for U.S.-made goods and services, and together those deficits are costing Americans 10 million jobs," Morici argues.
Morici is no fan of the Dodd-Frank financial reforms, which were passed in response to the financial chicanery that led to the recession, either -- but not because he thinks regulations should be lifted. Morici said Dodd-Frank is forcing small banks to sell out to the Wall Street behemoths "where the deal-making, sharp practices and gambling continue seemingly unabated."


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Montefiore Statement on Today's Student Demonstrators; Commitment to #DoNoHarm
Dr. Steven M. Safyer, President and CEO Of Montefiore, to Deliver Einstein's 2010 Commencement Address
Professor, Department of Medicine (Administration)
Dr. Steven Safyer is a public health leader with a national reputation for developing community-based health initiatives, including one of the first Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) Tuberculosis programs in the state, a coordinated network of AIDS care, and the Rikers Island Correctional Health program. On the strength of these and other programs, Montefiore won the 1996 Outstanding Community Service Award, one of the most prestigious awards that the AAMC bestows.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, at the start of the AIDS epidemic, Dr. Safyer led the medical and mental health program at Rikers Island, where he was a leader in New York City's effort to stem the emergence of tuberculosis and to address the devastating impact of rising rates of HIV/AIDS. While Director of the Montefiore Rikers program, he was co-PI on grants whose awards totaled close to $7 Million dollars of extra mural research support by such prestigious foundations and agencies as Robert Wood Johnson, National Institute of Drug Addiction, and American Foundation for AIDS Research.
In 1993, he became Medical Director at Montefiore and was thereafter rapidly promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. In January, 2008, following a national search, he was appointed Montefiore's CEO and President, which he has led through a comprehensive strategic planning process, integration of the newly acquired Montefiore North Division, and the signing of an unprecedented ten year affiliation agreement with Einstein, among other initiatives.
Dr. Safyer has been has been a regular lecturer to, and an appointed member of numerous panels and committees for regional and national organizations, including Health and Human Services, Association of American Medical Colleges, American Public Health Association, Aetna, Hospital Association of New York State, the Greater New York Hospital Association, and others.
Dr. Safyer has been active on health care reform in the press, in the debates and discussions, and with the political process, both at a state and national level.
Dr. Safyer received his Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University. He is a 1982 graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Montefiore in the Primary Care and Social Internal Medicine program. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.
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The Hill published an op-ed by Einstein's Dean, Dr. Allen M. Spiegel, and Montefiore President and CEO Dr. Steven Safyer titled "Angelina Jolie, the Sequester, and Health in America."


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Home Depot Is Hiring: What's It Really Like To Work There?
They're out there, 300,000 of them, in bright orange aprons, smelling faintly of fertilizer and turpentine. They're employees at America's largest home improvement retailer, Home Depot. And you could be one of them.
Home Depot typically hires 70,000 people annually, according to spokesman Stephen Holmes, although usually at the beginning of the year. Macy's and Target may swell up their ranks for the holidays, but in the world of home improvement, springtime is Christmas.
It doesn't have to be just a seasonal job though; Holmes says half of their springtime associates transition into full-time positions. Home Depot also looks for good cashiers year-round, and there are occasional openings at the management level.
There's a clear hierarchy at Home Depot, claims former employee Katie Kirsch. Cashiers are on the bottom rung, with an average hourly wage of $9.31, according to Glassdoor.com. The associates wandering the floors, advising customers on paint colors and bamboo flooring, are a loftier bunch, taking home an average hourly wage of $11.63.
And then there's the ruling class: assistant store managers, store managers, department supervisors, district managers, and division presidents, many of whom, Holmes says, started out as hourly associates knee-deep in miracle sealant. Assistant store manager at Home Depot is "a great job," says Holmes, with an average annual salary of $55,128.
"One thing to always keep in mind about Home Depot," Holmes says, "is that while you may start out as a part-time associate in a store, you really don't know where that will lead."
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But the best thing about working at Home Depot, employees agree, are the benefits. Even part-time employees have an array of benefit packages to pick from, which include medical, dental, stock options, and a 4019(k), as well as vacation and sick days. "As far as retail is concerned, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better company," one department supervisor in San Rafael, Calif., wrote on Glassdoor.com.
%VIRTUAL-hiringNow-topCity%Employees do gripe about the schedule though, saying that one day they'll be on-call at 5 a.m. to open the door, and then on-the-clock at 11 p.m. the next day to close. Home Depot "doesn't understand the term 'circadian rhythm,' " jokes the department supervisor. "It's hard to get on a normal schedule when the word 'normal' is no longer a part of your vocabulary," says another employee. Workers also don't get a discount, and managers aren't always as competent as you'd like.
If you're an expert in moulding and millwork, you're more likely to score a Home Depot gig. "But individuals shouldn't be discouraged if they don't have the background," Holmes claims, "because we have a fantastic training program across the company."
He says they conduct hands-on home improvement projects with employees, where they learn how to tile a floor themselves. "We're not aware of anyone else who does this," he says. Although Kirsch, who worked at Home Depot for 3½ years, claims that as a teenager in the floor and wall department, her training was all "learn as you go."
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There aren't many retail outlets like Home Depot, where customers usually come in with a particular task they need help with: a crack they need to seal, or a skylight they need to install. So hiring managers are really looking for applicants with "a strong knack for problem-solving."
Individuals apply online, or if they don't have internet access, they can come into a store where someone will help them. If the application hits the right keywords, a staffing manager will review it personally and, if impressed, will give the applicant a call. The final stage is a face-to-face interview, where you should show off your "passion," says Holmes.
"The other people you're working with are very passionate about the company, passionate about customers and helping them," he claims. "And if you have that passion, you can do well here."
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Assistive Technology to Enhance Inclusive Education
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This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Please check back later for the full article.
Schools, teachers, and students are increasingly able to access and apply assistive technology to enhance inclusion within mainstream classrooms. The assistive technology may take the form of simple, easy-to-use, low-tech devices, or they may encompass more sophisticated, highly complicated devices that require training and greater levels of support to manage. To ensure that a classroom is truly inclusive, the teacher and other professionals involved in supporting children with disabilities and using assistive technology require appropriate knowledge and skills to bring potential to reality. The knowledge concerning what is available in the field of assistive technology is merely the starting point. Inclusive educators also require expertise in selecting devices and services, including the student in decision making, implementing the assistive technology within an inclusive setting, and assessing the effectiveness of the assistive technology to meet the needs of the student and the classroom.
There are many successful examples of assistive technology being successfully embedded into the practices of inclusive settings, but there is still some way to go to ensure this is a seamless approach and one that is universally informed by practice. While legislation can go some way toward mandating the use of assistive technology, teachers and schools are really at the forefront of implementation. There are many benefits and difficulties associated with adopting assistive technology to support students with disabilities, particularly in developing countries. While the challenges may be great, the potential for assistive technology to impact significantly on the educational, social, and recreational outcomes for students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms is immense.


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The legal profession was once one of the pillars of the Republican Party, but that began to change when people figured out that endless government regulation is good for the law business. Now, while there are plenty of conservative lawyers, like us, the profession as a whole definitely tilts to the left.
Andrew McCarthy takes on the Lawyer Left in National Review, specifically in the context of King & Spalding's abandonment of its client, the House of Representatives, which we wrote about in The Left Politicizes the Practice of Law. McCarthy writes:
As an institution, the profession is the vanguard of the movement Left. Its votaries make their choices about representation based on progressive politics. Attorneys who are resistant to the cause but desperate to remain in the club are pressured to conform or at the very least to profess admiration for the heroic good faith in which the Lawyer Left remorselessly pursues its agenda. Thus can the profession reliably bank on cover from the GOP Lawyers Guild whenever a left-wing attorney gets nominated to a high government post or undertakes to champion some anti-bourgeois cause — and also bank on there being no need to return the favor.
K&S understands how the game is played. The firm wants to be perceived as supportive of gay marriage. In the same way, through its pro bono work for terrorists and death-row murderers, it wants to be perceived as supportive of judicializing warfare and expanding the rights of criminals. The firm figures it can't afford to be on the wrong side of the culture war.
What struck me most forcibly about McCarthy's article is the contrast between the Left's "everyone deserves a lawyer" mantra when the client is an al Qaeda terrorist and its treatment of lawyers who don't toe the left-wing line:
John Yoo is a brilliant, ethical lawyer who, while at the Justice Department, was tasked with mapping the parameters of interrogation law so that CIA officials would know what they could and could not do to high-level al-Qaeda captives. It wasn't Yoo's policy. He was simply an attorney advising a client. Did the Lawyer Left say he was merely fulfilling a cherished constitutional role? Did they depict him as a latter-day John Adams, honorably representing an unpopular cause? Of course not: They tried, instead, to ruin him. …
It's a con job. The Lawyer Left promotes a cause, not the Constitution. They're within their rights to do that — it's still a moderately free country, and I'm not suggesting that anyone try to destroy their lives and livelihoods like they tried to destroy Yoo's. I just don't see any reason to pretend that their choices reflect a high calling rather than a practical political strategy, one that has implications when Americans make the mistake of empowering them to formulate policy.
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Houston Mayor Annise Parker told the Houston Chronicle she is considering a ban on smoking in the city's 380 parks because of fire risk.
"This drought is a crisis situation," Parker told the Chronicle. "I am leaning toward a ban on smoking cigarettes, pipes, cigars — a ban on smoking in city parks. But what I want first is Houstonians to understand why we need to do it and, if at all possible, to create that voluntary compliance."
Some of the nation's largest cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, have already banned smoking in outdoor spaces, in part to reduce the litter associated with discarded cigarettes but mostly in recognition of the dangers posed by secondhand smoke.Story: Texas drought worsens from 'abysmal'
Secondhand smoke is linked to nearly 50,000 deaths per year and can exacerbate such health conditions as asthma, particularly in young children, according to the American Lung Association.
"There are a lot of benefits from a public health perspective," said Dr. Abigail Halperin, director of the Tobacco Studies Program at the University of Washington about an outdoor ban. "Even outdoors, secondhand smoke can be quite harmful to people."
Yet outdoor bans have proven controversial to enact. In New York City earlier this year, several city council members spoke against a move they said would infringe on individual liberties.
Dr. Joel Dunnington, professor of radiology at Houston's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, said the mayor's proposed ban should make sense to anyone who's seen the damage from this summer's wildfires. The added health benefit is a bonus, especially for children who could play in parks without seeing smokers.
"I think it's great," he said. "Part of what we're trying to do is de-normalize smoking as a behavior." In other words, if young people don't see people smoking, they are less likely to try it themselves.
And Halperin believes even a temporary ban in Houston parks could make it easier to enact a permanent one in the future.
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They may be in different stages of their careers, but director Jeff Nichols, 34, and actor Matthew McConaughey, 43, seem to have an awful lot in common. Most obvious is the intentional distance they keep from the Hollywood grind by choosing Austin, Texas, as their home base. It was during that city's popular South by Southwest Film Festival that the two came together to talk about their first collaboration, "Mud," the third film written and directed by Nichols, and another piece of evidence that leading man McConaughey is in the midst of a triumphant career transformation.
"One of the good things about Austin, and one of the good things about not being in Hollywood, is that you see people actually doing what they do," McConaughey said. "Those people are not in Hollywood," he continued, referring to the working-class families portrayed in the film, who make their livings and their lives alongside the Mississippi River.
Nichols grew curious about this lifestyle after coming across a photograph of a man from the region wearing a homemade diving suit. As he began to explore the setting, he was reminded of the river adventure tales he loved as a child, like Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The Arkansas native also reflected on the painful lessons in love he endured during his own early teenage years.
"Mark Twain did a really great job of capturing what it felt like to be a child on the Mississippi River, and I wanted to capture what it felt like to be 14 and have a girl break your heart in the parking lot," Nichols said, clearly referencing a personal experience that made it into the film.
These ideas coalesced into the script for "Mud," which Nichols wrote with McConaughey in mind for the titular character who befriends, and ultimately teaches, a troubled 14-year-old boy (Tye Sheridan) about heartbreak and love. After two highly acclaimed feature films, "Shotgun Stories" and "Take Shelter," Nichols had enough clout to land McConaughey for the role of the lovelorn river rat on the run from the law, and produce his largest-scale picture yet, shot entirely in rural Arkansas along the Mississippi River.
Ever the adventurer, McConaughey clearly took to the production's rustic setting. "Whether it was driving to work, or waking up right there on the Mississippi River and going to sleep at night, looking out the window — the only light you had was the tug boats going from New Orleans to St. Louis — you're like, 'This is the rhythm. This is the music. This is the smell and sights. This is the space.' "
McConaughey even brought his family along for a "nature vacation," though he admits his accommodations could hardly be called camping. "I'm in my trailer, which is highly customized. It's like living in the nicest hotel room in the world," he said with his notorious, mischievous drawl.
Despite his digs, McConaughey clearly is energized by the decidedly un-Hollywood films he's made recently, including William Friedkin's "Killer Joe," Lee Daniel's "The Paperboy," Richard Linklater's "Bernie" and Steven Soderbergh's male stripper movie "Magic Mike," all of which earned him a new level of critical praise — and a whole new realm of possibilities.
"I was hoping that it would be nice business-wise if it got me on that list for some of those other movies. And it has. In a way, probably more so than I expected," McConaughey said. "I'm in different conversations now. There are certain people that have come to me and now think I'm a very good idea — and a new, fresh idea — that didn't think I was a new, fresh idea a couple of years ago. That's fun. I'm reading much more of an assortment of things than I was three years ago."
But McConaughey's experience working with Nichols may have set the bar high for other directors. It started with the script, which instantly grabbed the actor's attention. "It read like a novel," he said. "I loved the world. I loved the smell of it, actually. I liked how there weren't conveniences in the storytelling."
Nichols impressed McConaughey even more on set. Unlike many young directors trying to prove themselves, Nichols had no problem moving on to the next scene as soon as he got what he needed. The result was a production that was on budget and on time. "That's confidence and clarity of what you want to do," McConaughey said. "There's no film I've been a part of where what was on the page is what's on the screen as much as this."
If anyone can gracefully accept such high praise, it's the mild-mannered Nichols, who doesn't seem at all in danger of trading his authentic manner and directing style for a Hollywood bungalow. "I'm still doing my own stuff, but if Hollywood wants to support that, I would gladly take their support," he said.
Nichols cites Linklater, another Austin filmmaker, as the exemplar of walking the line between artistic vision and commercial filmmaking. Just a few days earlier, Linklater gave him some sage advice. "He just kept saying you'll know at the right time to step into that world. You can't go in too soon because it'll eat you up, and I don't know if you can go in too late. I'm hoping I know."
Since McConaughey stepped away from mainstream Hollywood and achieved a new level of professional respect, it's tempting to speculate that he's ready to bid farewell to being a box-office-friendly leading man. You'd be wrong.
"I think it's an easy tendency to go, OK, you're not doing the Hollywood stuff. BS. If it's a good script and I'm interested in something, then sure," he said. "Also, the Hollywood stuff comes with a much better paycheck."
And with that signature sly smile, Matthew McConaughey reveals exactly why he is a movie star.


text: NEWS Bradford Cox: 'Very Dark' Moments Planted the Seed For New Deerhunter Album 5/1/2013 by Associated Press FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Deerhunter lounging at New York City's Ace Hotel. L-R- Lockett Pundt, Frankie Broyles, Josh Mckay, Moses Archuleta, and Bradford Cox (Photo: Harley Brown) Bradford Cox wrote what would become the final track of Deerhunter's forthcoming album, a song called "Punk," at a friend's house in New York during what he describes as a very difficult time. He'd gone north to get away from personal turmoil in his hometown of Atlanta, taking few items other than a borrowed leather jacket.Before work could start on the album, the band faced more difficulty — the departure of its longtime bassist Josh Fauver — which made Cox fear the band would break up.It did not, but Cox still wound up playing a melodic bass line on "Punk" during recording sessions earlier this year. The reason for the extra duties wasn't personnel-related."I played a lot of stuff on that song, but that's only because the demo is so confusing because I was drunk when I made it," he said during an interview at his house in Atlanta. "I was in character for that song."The smoldering, propulsive track was part of a burst of songwriting within the past two years that Cox says resulted from "very dark" things that he declined to explain further. These songs form the bulk of "Monomania," the band's fifth full-length album due to be released on May 7.Anticipation for the album was goosed by a performance of the noisy title track in early April on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," which was analyzed on more than a dozen music blogs under headlines describing it as "brilliant, bizarre." The band's past two albums each landed near the top of year-end lists, and this summer the band will curate a weekend of the British music festival All Tomorrow's Parties, an honor indicative of its stature in the indie rock world.Cox, who turns 31 on May 15, said the band had been doing all-night rehearsals to prepare for a string of tour dates around the Southeast before they head to Europe for club shows and festivals. The day of the interview, they'd practiced until 7 a.m. and Cox had awakened not long before a reporter showed up in the late afternoon."I sleep all day. That's what I do," he said. "I'm like a bat."The new album is a collage of elements familiar to Deerhunter fans — cacophony interspersed with tunefulness, guitar tones that range from scratchy to soothing and vocals that occasionally dissolve into distortion. While the first half of the album challenges listeners with the rawness of several tracks (including the intriguing "Leather Jacket II"), Side 2 features some of the band's jauntiest offerings yet.Despite a band news release describing the new album as "nocturnal garage," Cox said the intent wasn't to make it sound any different from the band's other records, though he calls it"much more of an electric rock record" than the dreamier "Halcyon Digest."By the time the band began planning for recording sessions, Cox had hundreds of demos for them to choose from. During the interview, he said there are more than 600 on his hard drive.Then came Fauver's departure. Guitarist Lockett Pundt and drummer Moses Archuleta, he said, were in favor of continuing."We were all talking about getting together to work on the new stuff, and then he just sort of dropped that on us," Cox said, adding that Fauver cited personal reasons. "I honestly thought when Josh quit, 'Oh well, I guess that's that.' But then I realized, 'What am I going to do with all these songs?'" Cox said.By January, photos surfaced of new bassist Josh McKay and new guitarist Frankie Broyles strumming their instruments at the band's Notown rehearsal space and studio in the Atlanta area. Cox describes the space as "our bat cave," where he often goes in the middle of the night to record ideas for songs.The band then spent a couple weeks listening to Cox's demos and decided together which ones they wanted to put on "Monomania." Recording sessions for the album were held in New York in January and February."Some of my favorites didn't make it on the album. Some songs that I didn't really think were worthy did make it on the album. Some songs that we all thought were the best ones didn't make it on the album. I don't know how that works," he said.Asked whether the castoffs might surface someday, Cox replied: "I mean, one would think so, but I'll probably start writing other songs. That's how it happens. That's how you have 600 songs." FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME


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From that visioning process, graduation requirements were changed in two primary ways: (1) specifying course requirements (not just numbers of credits) in core academic subjects, (2) adding the Capstones Project requirement. Both of these changes were enacted to ensure that students gained the knowledge and skill they needed to be prepared for learning after high school, to give students more flexibility in choosing an academic path that met their needs, and to expect that students maximized their learning opportunities in high school, not simply completed a number of credits.
In Fall 2016, Roaring Fork Schools changed the specific course requirements for graduation, including reducing the total number of course requirements and eliminating some requirements. The Board of Education approved these changes in October 2016.
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There's no one source of our national character. It comes from our indigenous heritage, the struggles of the early settlers, the Federation period, and, of course, our nation's experiences at war.
And perhaps for Australians more than any other, it comes from sport.
This summer marks the 80th anniversary of arguably the most significant and defining event in Australia's sporting history: the Bodyline cricket series. Countless books have been devoted to retelling the torrid saga, but it is worth recounting because of the role it played in our national story.
At its core, Bodyline amounted to a calculated attempt by the English cricketing establishment to attack the Australians - specifically the wunderkind Don Bradman - with brutal, intimidatory, even life-threatening tactics.
Hostilities reached their zenith during the Adelaide Test match, when Australian captain Bill Woodfull was struck with a barrage of balls to the torso, including one blow just below his heart. Such was the level of animosity that a pitch invasion by the crowd was feared, with police standing guard along the boundary ready to repel the furious onlookers. At the end of this distasteful day, Woodfull uttered words that are quoted and mythologised to this very day: that while there were two teams on the field, only one was playing cricket.
This accusation of English unsportsmanlike conduct propelled a bitter stoush, elevated to forceful diplomatic cables from the respective cabinet rooms. The Australian Board of Control for Cricket's cable went as far to say that: "Unless stopped at once it [Bodyline] is likely to upset the friendly relations existing between Australia and England." In the world of diplomacy, words rarely come stronger.
The enduring impact of Bodyline is deeply rooted in Australian sporting folklore, but it was about a lot more than cricket. As esteemed historians Ric Sissons and Brian Stoddart concluded in their chronicle Cricket and Empire, from a British perspective, Bodyline was principally about teaching Australia ''a lesson in imperial superiority''.
An obvious question is how Bodyline defined the way Australians of the time viewed our place in the world, and our relationship with Britain. I think the answer throws up some surprising insights into the national character - surprising because it contradicts some of the cliched myths that surround Australian sporting and national behaviour.
The most interesting fact about this episode is we Australians found ourselves the defenders of the supposedly English ideal of ''fair play''. Interesting because the accepted wisdom is that when it comes to cricket especially, we are the ruthless, the English the polite. Yes, we unleashed Lillee and Thomson. And, yes, Mitch Johnson is still breaking hands today. We play hard, but we play within both the letter and the spirit of the rules.
What the Bodyline series showed was that while we refuse to put on airs and graces, Aussies are not a ruthless, ''whatever it takes'' people. Rather, we are a plain-speaking lot, who play hard but fair, and expect no less. Ours is not a gentleman's code; it is a democratic code.
Douglas Jardine had no interest in honouring any such code. By directing his bowlers consistently to target the body, and placing fielders to prevent strokes to defend themselves, not only were life and limb threatened, the spirit of the game was deeply contravened. Obviously what was at stake was a sporting trophy; this was not war.
But Bodyline left a mark on our national consciousness because it symbolised wider issues of the period that actually did in the long run involve our sovereignty.
From a British perspective, Bodyline was principally about teaching Australia 'a lesson in imperial superiority'.
To understand that we have to put ourselves back in that summer. Australians were in the middle of the Great Depression, with the mass unemployment, homelessness and betrayal of hope that it brought. Australians did not cause that Depression and to a great extent we were powerless to tackle it because we lacked full economic sovereignty.
At home, our adherence to the gold standard and low foreign exchange reserves made it impossible to increase public spending to raise demand. Even worse, austerity was strongly recommended to us from on-high overseas - largely by English gentlemen whose gentlemanly rules had little interest in the welfare of ordinary Australians. Honouring deals between bankers was more important to them than equal sacrifice from all and fair play for working people.
The result? Catastrophic unemployment and hardship. Australians were mad as hell. So when Jardine bent the moral code to win at all costs, people joined the dots. It was only cricket, but it was typical. It symbolised the need for a new assertion of national sovereignty underpinned by the democratic rather than the gentlemanly values - to play hard, within the rules, to look after each other.
I believe Bodyline caused many Australians to wake up to the urgent need of making Australia's interests our No.1 priority and to do so in a typically Australian egalitarian manner. Bodyline played a big role in embedding a sense of independence and a desire for true sovereignty in Australia's international outlook. It did not invent these ideas that had surfaced at various points in Australia's past - but it amplified them and took them in new directions. Wartime Labor prime ministers John Curtin and Ben Chifley were heavily influenced by the awakening of egalitarian national sentiment that followed the Depression, and it informed their determination to stand up for the country's defence interests.
Today Australia stands almost alone in having stayed out of recession during the most significant global downturn since that Great Depression. This in part speaks to an enduring determination for our country never again to be at the whim of anyone who claims an inherent right to make and break the rules at our expense.
The democratic and egalitarian assertion of our national sovereignty provoked during Bodyline and the Great Depression continues to serve us well on Australia Day 2013. I believe that reflecting on those events will eventually hasten the approach of an Australian republic, even if it has fallen from the national agenda over the past decade. While England will always be our most respected cricketing foe, and among our very closest allies, I think our national conversation is sold short when it does not include a debate about our relationship with the Crown.
So let's use today to reflect on, and recommit to, the great things Australia stands for: playing hard, playing by the rules, looking after every citizen, and always defending our national interest with courage and with conviction.
Wayne Swan is federal Treasurer.


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|Fortress, Regional Capital
Sunspear by Ted Nasmith ©
|Westeros, Dorne
|House Nymeros Martell
|Faith of the Seven
|Named for
|The sigil of House Nymeros Martell[1]
|Notable places
|Old Palace, Sandship, Winding Walls, shadow city
Sunspear, also known as the Old Palace,[2] is the seat of House Nymeros Martell and the capital of Dorne. The castle is located on the Broken Arm, north of the Greenblood on the far southeastern coast of Westeros and is surrounded on three sides by the sea, and by the shadow city on the fourth side.[3][1] The palace of the Water Gardens lies three leagues away on the coastal road.[4]
Areo Hotah is the captain of guards for Doran Martell, while Caleotte and Myles are maesters serving House Martell. Ricasso is the castle's seneschal and Ser Manfrey Martell is its castellan. Alyse Ladybright is Sunspear's lord treasurer.[5]
Sunspear is a walled settlement, protected by three massive Winding Walls, encircling one another and containing miles of narrow alleys, hidden courts, and noisy bazaars. The Threefold Gate, where the gates are lined up one behind the other, avoids the labyrinth, instead allowing straight passage on a brick path to the Old Palace.[4]
One of Sunspear's chief structures is the original stronghold of House Martell, the Sandship,[1] which is a large, ugly, dun-colored building that looks like a dromond.[4] Over time, towers in Rhoynish fashion sprung up around the keep. Two other chief structures are the tall and slender Spear Tower and the great, domed Tower of the Sun.[4][2] The Spear Tower is a hundred and a half feet high, and can house noble prisoners.[4][6] In the Tower of the Sun, the high seats of the Prince of Dorne can be found: two twin seats, one with the Martell spear inlaid in gold upon its back, the other bearing the blazing Rhoynish sun.[4][6] These two towers are the first things visitors see when they arrive at Sunspear, whether by land or by sea.[1]
Shadow city
The closest thing to a true city that the Dornishmen have, the shadow city is no more than a queer, dusty town.[4][1] Built against a wall of Sunspear, the shadow city spreads westwards. Closest to Sunspear's walls, mud-brick shops and windowless hovels can be found. Stables, inns, winesinks and pillow houses are found west of those, with walls of their own. More hovels have been build against those walls, which in has led to the city becoming a labyrinth of narrow alleys, homes, and bazaars.[4][1]
Around 400 BC, the three Winding Walls were raised,[N 1] running through the shadow city, forming a defensive curtain. Only the Threefold Gate provides a straight path to the Old Palace, allowing visitors to pass all three of the Winding Walls directly, without having to pass through the labyrinth of the shadow city.[4] If need be, these gates can be heavily defended.[1]
The Sandship was the ancient keep the House Martell, minor Dornish lords. When Rhoynish warrior-queen Nymeria arrived in Dorne with her ten thousand ships around 700 BC,[N 2] Lord Mors Martell, the Lord of the Sandship, wed her, and this alliance of the Martells with the Rhoynar led to the unification of Dorne in Nymeria's War.[7]
The seat of the ruling Princes and Princesses of Dorne became Sunspear, the new castle which developed around the Sandship. It was named after the union of the Martell spear with the sun of the Rhoynar. It contains beautiful towers built in the Rhoynish fashion, such as the Spear Tower and the Tower of the Sun of the Old Palace. The Winding Walls of the castle were built around 400 BC.[1][N 1]
During Aegon's Conquest, Queen Rhaenys Targaryen confronted Princess Meria Martell at Sunspear, where the Dornish Princess defied the Targaryen invasion.[8] During the First Dornish War, the Dornishmen abandoned their castles, allowing the Targaryens to take them without fighting. Amongst the castles taken in those early years was Sunspear. Lord Rosby was named Warden of the Sands and Castellan of Sunspear, but he was killed in the Defenestration of Sunspear after the Dornishmen swarmed back into the castle from the shadow city. Later on in the war, during the two years of the Dragon's Wroth, the Targaryens burned the Dornish castles with dragonfire, with the exception of Sunspear. Conjectures by Archmaester Timotty suggests the Targaryens did so to encourage the Martells' bannermen to turn against their overlords, although the Dornish remained loyal.[9]
Rickon Stark, the son of Lord Cregan Stark, was killed in battle outside of Sunspear in one of the final battles of the conquest of Dorne.[10] The Dornishmen surrendered to King Daeron I Targaryen, the Young Dragon, in the Submission of Sunspear in 158 AC, but they rebelled in the following years.[11] Daeron's successor, King Baelor I Targaryen, walked barefoot from King's Landing to Sunspear to forge a peace with Dorne.[12]
Recent Events
A Feast for Crows
Princess Myrcella Baratheon, ward of Prince Doran Martell and betrothed to Prince Trystane Martell, has quarters in the Tower of the Sun.[3]
Following the death of his brother, Prince Oberyn, at the hands of Ser Gregor Clegane in King's Landing,[13] Prince Doran Martell orders Areo Hotah to round up the Sand Snakes,[4] with the older sisters confined in the Spear Tower and the younger ones at the Water Gardens.[6][14] Sarella remains outside of Dorne, however.[4]
After plotting to crown Myrcella as queen, Princess Arianne Martell is imprisoned for some time within the Spear Tower.[6]
A Dance with Dragons
Doran releases Arianne and the older Sand Snakes from the Spear Tower. Ser Balon Swann brings the Mountain's skull to the court of Doran in Sunspear.[15]
Chapters that take place at Sunspear
- A Feast for Crows: 2. The Captain of Guards
- A Feast for Crows: 13. The Soiled Knight
- A Feast for Crows: 40. The Princess in the Tower
- A Dance with Dragons: 38. The Watcher
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Winding Walls were raised some 700 years prior to 300 AC (The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne: Sunspear)
- ↑ The Dornish joined "[...] a thousand years ago [...]" with the Rhoynar (The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne: Queer Customs of the South) following Nymeria's flight after the end of the Rhoynish Wars, which "[...] reached a bloody climax a thousand years ago in the Second Spice War [...]" (The World of Ice & Fire, Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships). After the Second Spice War, the city Chroyane was destroyed, and has been known as the Palace of Sorrow ever since ("[...] but for a thousand years this has been the Palace of Sorrow." (A Dance with Dragons, Tyrion V))
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne: Sunspear.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Sunspear.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 13, The Soiled Knight.
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 2, The Captain Of Guards.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Appendix.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 40, Princess In The Tower.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Reign of the Targaryens: The Conquest.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne: Dorne Against the Dragons.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The North: The Lords of Winterfell.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Daeron I.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Baelor I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 70, Tyrion X.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 38, The Watcher.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 38, Jaime VI.


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Dr. William Petit, whose wife and two daughters were killed in a 2007 home invasion that horrified the country, has been approached about running for public office and is thinking about entering politics, his sister said.
On Friday, Dr. Petit said it's 50-50 that he will run for Congress.
Dr. Petit, the only survivor of the hostage ordeal in Cheshire, has had talks recently with Republican Party officials, his sister Johanna Chapman told The Associated Press this week.
On Friday, he attended a news conference in Simsbury with officials to launch a domestic violence awareness campaign and said he spoke with a Congressman from out of state about running as a Republican.
Dr. Petit, who has remarried since the invasion, set the odds of running at 50-50 and said his family is a big issued.
"Just married a year, a new baby due in eight weeks," Petit said.
"He's been recruited," Chapman said. "But I think it's a large decision and he and his wife Christine are going to have to mull it over and decide whether it's something that they want to do based on the fact that they're expecting a new baby in the beginning of December."
Petit has had a few phone conversations in recent months with Republicans about running in the 5th Congressional District, according to a Republican official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential conversations with a potential candidate. The official characterized the talks as exploratory and said Petit was considering a possible run.
Petit campaigned against the repeal of Connecticut's death penalty after his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and their daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela, were killed. The family was held hostage for hours by two paroled burglars and their home set on fire. Petit was beaten, tied up and taken to the basement, but he managed to escape and crawl to a neighbor's house for help.
Steven Hayes, 50, and Joshua Komisarjevsky, 33, have been sentenced to death for the killings.
The crime, which unsettled notions of suburban safety in Connecticut and beyond, began after Komisarjevsky spotted Hawke-Petit and Michaela at a supermarket and followed them to their home. Hawke-Petit was taken to a bank to withdraw money, then was raped and strangled back at the house. Her daughters were tied to their beds and died of smoke inhalation after the house was doused in gasoline and set on fire.
Petit has been active on Twitter, posting about political issues including the new federal health care law and the partial government shutdown.
"He's pretty passionate about the issues and he's a pretty bright guy, and I think he would be great in office," Chapman said. "I'm just not sure the timing is right. That's basically what he said. Some days it seems like a great idea and other days it seems like the worst idea."
Petit's name is widely recognized across Connecticut as a result of publicity surrounding the home invasion, and the 5th Congressional District is one of the areas where Republicans have their best chance to break Democrats' lock on the state's congressional delegation.
Petit said he's always been a Republican and his family was active in politics in Plainville.
On Friday, he also discussed the government shutdown.
"That's been the only negotiating position they've been able to have to slow down spending," he said.
He also discussed health care report.
"It's a complex issue that needs a little more thought," Petit said.
Sen. John Kissel, R-Enfield, said he wasn't surprised that Petit would consider running for office, noting his heavy involvement in the death penalty debate.
"I think when you see how laws are passed or not passed that sometimes you get a bug in you and you want to continue trying to change society in a way that you feel would help your fellow citizens," Kissel said. "Even given the personal story that he had, he really did an outstanding job of going through the research, looking at what other states were doing and really presenting a well-balanced argument when he fought for his particular side on that issue, probably evincing some of the meticulousness that a doctor would have," Kissel said.
The 5th Congressional District is represented by U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, a Democrat who is up for re-election next year. Petit was involved in fundraising for Lisa Wilson-Foley, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for the seat Esty won. Petit's sister and father each served on the Plainville Town Council in suburban Hartford at different times.
Chapman said her brother told her he didn't know if he would run for office.
In 2011, Petit successfully lobbied state senators to hold off on legislation to repeal the death penalty while one of the two killers was still facing a death penalty trial. Connecticut repealed the death penalty last year for future crimes.
In memory of his wife and their daughters, Petit created the Petit Family Foundation, which helps educate young people, improve the lives of those with chronic illnesses and protect those affected by violence.
Petit said this year he was excited about the prospect of a new baby, saying "children are always your jewels."
Among his recent tweets, Petit quoted British writer Aldous Huxley: "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."