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San Diego Mayor Bob Filner says he won't resign, even as one of the women accusing him of sexual harassment takes "the next step" and files formal charges.
A number of friends and supporters came forward last week with allegations from female staff members that Filner's behavior has been "reprehensible," including groping, kissing and making lewd comments.
Filner, 70, issued a statement saying "I need help." He admitted treating women poorly and possibly intimidating them, but insisted that a "fair and independent investigation'' will clear him of forthcoming sexual harassment charges.
Filner's chief of staff, Vince Hall, resigned Friday, tweeting, "As a lifelong activist for women's rights and equality, I feel I must resign effective today."
Attorney Marco Gonzalez, a longtime Filner supporter who called for his resignation last week, says he will be representing one of the women.
Gonzalez says a formal complaint will be filed shortly. If Filner does not resign or get recalled, his defense could be taxpayer-funded.
In the days since the scandal broke, Filner has made a number of comments that seem to make his situation worse, including "I'm a hugger. Of both men and women."
The National Military Women Veterans Association of America has revoked a lifetime leadership award for his work on behalf of women veterans, including the issue of sexual assault in the military, though he will still keynote a victims' benefit to "address" the scandal.

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[June 14, 2014]
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If you want to find
Earth's vast reservoirs of water, you may have to look beyond the
obvious places like the oceans and polar ice caps.
Scientists on Friday said massive amounts of water appear to exist
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"It may equal or perhaps be larger than the amount of water in the
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"It's no longer liquid water that we're talking about at these great
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Jacobsen said water is taken down into the mantle with minerals
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being exposed to conditions simulating the heat and pressure of the
"transition zone" and observations of events in this zone based on
seismic data from a network of more than 2,000 seismometers across
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signature of the presence of water at those depths.
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Schmandt said in a statement. "If there is a substantial amount of
H2O in the transition zone, then some melting should take place in
areas where there is flow into the lower mantle, and that is
consistent with what we found."
The research built on another study in March showing that a
commercially worthless diamond found in Brazil contained ringwoodite
that entrapped water amounting to more than 1 percent of its weight.
Ringwoodite has been found in meteorites, but this was the first
terrestrial sample because it normally is so deeply buried.
(Reporting by Will Dunham; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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Prom Hair, Makeup and Nails./
I am so excited to tell you that I am officially a high school graduate! I graduated last night and will be going to college to study communications (I hope to work in public relations in the fashion business) in September.
Last week was my senior prom. I wanted to show you my nails, hair and the makeup I wore, because it really lasted through a long night of dancing the night away.
My prom day started by getting a manicure. I wanted to go natural because my dress was bright red. I chose MAC Thimbleweed from the Proenza Schouler collection. It is a pale nude and gave my nails just enough color and lots of shine.
My Mom did my makeup and she helped me to chose the best long-lasting products, but I insisted on a lot of my Urban Decay favorites a few things like CoverGirl's Bombshell Mascara, it's the only one I will use, and Urban Decay's Perversion Ink for Eyes. I wanted to look bronzey and natural with a little bit of a bronzey smokey eye. I wanted my lips natural with Urban Decay's Naked lipgloss too. I don't like a lot of makeup on my eyes because my eyes and lashes are very dark already.
After my makeup was done, I went to the salon, where Paul did my hair. I wanted some pulled back and to wear some down. I have a lot of hair and it is naturally very wavy and almost curly. I showed Paul a few pictures, but really just let him do what he wanted in the back and then had him do some loose waves on the bottom.
Here is the final look at my prom makeup. It came out how I envisioned it.
Prom was great! My best advice to those going to prom is to use long-lasting makeup and a good makeup primer. The makeup primer my Mom used on me from Hourglass worked really well because my makeup looked just good at the end of the night as I did when I left for the prom.


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Terra Nova wrote about learning stuff from video games and Games*Design*Art*Culture added some thoughts. It looked to me like the general line of reasoning was this: Gamers like to claim that violent games don't teach violent behaviors, yet we say that we can make games to teach people nonviolent subjects; How can we live with the contradiction? Do games teach or not?
I thought I'd throw in my ever-decreasing-in-value two cents.
So I guess here's my 1.43 cents.
I think the answer to this lies in the distinction between exactly what games are teaching, can teach and do teach.
My most important assertion: There is not necessarily a one-to-one relationship between the actions a person makes in a game and the thought patterns they are extrapolating from that manipulation.
As an example: when I make Mario jump, I'm not learning how to jump better. Nothing in that action prepares me to slam-dunk. I'm certainly not making it more likely that I will increase jumping in my daily life, or that I'll run around trying to smash turtles. What I may be doing is increasing my reaction time to projected sequences in a virtual space. What's commonly called twitch-behavior. I'm also formulating an analysis of how long it takes for Mario to jump in response to my button-press and therefore calculating a general plan of how to react to future threats.
Of course, I've already talked in this blog about how firing a gun in real life is just not at all like firing one in a video game. This still doesn't mean that a kid won't build a conceptual model of firearms that is strikingly flawed, with lethal results.
But if your child shoots someone because they claim to be unsure of the lethality of a gun because in a game it takes several shots to kill someone, then your child is an idiot. Plain fucking truth. Because what's at issue there is that the child was willing to do violence. The fact that they 'didn't know' the gun would kill is irrelevant. Someone, some real-life human being, failed to teach basic socialization to that child.
So we're really talking about different issues.
The first thing we should investigate is: What types of attitudes are games suggesting as valid, what effect does this have on different ages of gamers and what types of behaviors are they adopting in response to those attitudes?
The second thing we should investigate is: What types of general thought processes are utilized/formulated while playing video games and to what degree are they applicable to different real-world tasks?
The third thing we should investigate is: What are the best formats for maximizing retention of information in educational games, and what kind of interactions produce that retention?
The fourth thing we should investigate is: Why the fuck can't such seemingly educated people as politicians tell the goddamn difference between correlation and causation, still?
Games don't so much teach as suggest. I would argue that they aren't necessarily as suggestive as non-interactive media because a gamer has the ability to modify the media. In a first-person-shooter the player always has the option to not shoot back. It's highly unlikely to be a course of action, but the choice is there. An Arnold Schwarznegger movie, where he blasts Arabs while spouting cheesy jokes, offers no choices at all - which, to me at least, makes it more pedantic than any videogame.
Children are impressionable. This is clear. The problem with any kind of media is that without a mature figure to guide children, they are going to learn all sorts of really shitty, backward, awful behaviors. That's because a good portion (most? all?) of art/media rely on the expression of emotions that are strong and important and aren't necessarily fluffy and cuddly. Sometimes the media has room to comment on itself, to help provide a reasonable framework, but often this isn't the case. Which is where educated, socially-aware individuals come into play.
And in reality, we live in a world of shitheads and bad parents and worse role models and violent, insane assholes.
There will always be people claiming that the video game made them do it, or the television, or their abusive daddy, or the talking dog, or twinkies, or any other stupid thing they can throw up like a magical ward.
The riddle of our actions is that nothing makes you do anything, but everything makes you act. The best solution may be fostering culpability, and indeed much of maturity could lay in being able to claim your mistakes and failures, no matter how terrible or idiotic.


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Well, it's good to be back online again. And lots has happened since my last post. A few weeks ago I did a talk in Maida Vale, which has been received with some interest in certain circles. Here's a brief description of the talk as advertised by the venue, Islamic Centre England:
"Nafeez will give an introduction into the covert intelligence operations, economic intrigues and rampant political corruption that have dominated Western 'national security' policies since the end of the Second World War. Using newly declassified secret government files and other reliable documentation, Nafeez will reveal the official deceit that justified Anglo-American imperial expansion during the Cold War, post-Cold War and post-9/11 periods. He will lay bare the dynamics behind historical and current US and British militarism, its overarching goals, and the escalating political, economic and ecological crises generated by the current global imperial system."
The talk was recorded in full, including the Q & A session, by the London Sound Posse, and is available online here.
Paul Stott from the parapolitical journal, Notes from the Borderland, who attended the talk has put up a short summary and review, which i paste below for your ease:
November 12, 2006
I went to see Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed speak in Maida Vale this evening, discussing war, terrorism and international relations. Ahmed is best known for three books he has published in very short succesion about the "war on terror' and more recently for his book on the 7 July bombings.
The Good Old Days?
Ahmed started from the position that the war on terror is a continuation of an Anglo-American imperialism that has been going on for some time, with Britain accepting the role of "junior partner" at the start of the Cold War. To Ahmed the Bush/Blair partnership is not unique, but historically consistent. Secondly the Cold War saw the "Communist threat" justifying American expansion into all corners of the globe - Ahmed argues this threat was not only greatly overstated, but that internal government documents indicate that by and large both the British and the Americans were far more concerned about "ultra-nationalist" movements. As for terrorism, the Gladio (stay behind) networks in Europe after World War II indicate the clear involvement of the US in terrorism, often in the name of left-wing organisations.
Friend or Foe?
With the Cold War ending, the US was faced with both new opportunities, and new challenges. Ahmed argues that America still sees its rival in several significant oil-producing areas as Russia, whilst in the long term China is its principal fear. Given this he feels it essential to look at areas where American interests overlap with those of Islamist groups such as Al-Qaeda. Ahmed sees clear evidence of this in different parts of the world - the Caucases, the Balkans, North Africa and Chechnya were cited. Indeed Dutch intelligence reports from Bosnia (where Dutch troops are accused of failing to prevent a major massacre by the Serbs) indicate the Americans severly de-stabilised the area by bringing ex-Mujahideen fighters into the region.
Although there is not a lot of good published material in English on developments in Algeria, Ahmed cited Robert Fisk on the dirty tricks in the war between Western intelligence agencies, the Algerian state and Islamists. This has included bombings on the French Metro which appear to have been conducted by groups after they had been thoroughly penetrated by the French intelligence services.
Summing Up
In conclusion Ahmed sees two major roles for Al-Qaeda - they justify the militarisation of western societies, and they justify Western intervention in parts of the world that are rich in natural resources. As these resources become increasingly under threat, such struggles will become more important, not less. Pessimistically he sees the world approaching the end of a particular epoch, the American epoch, and one that will get very unpleasant. Ahmed called for the development of new values, and new thinking that rejects capitalism and respects the environment. As a Muslim, he believes this should have a spiritual dimension.
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At talks like this making an intervention is a rather inexact science. However the size of the audience required brevity, and one of the three activists from the 9/11 Truth Movement rather struggled with this concept. Ahmed was critical of the general conduct of the Britan and Ireland 9/11 Truth Movement, who appear less relevant and more closed in their thinking than similar groups in the States. The central point is perhaps this - 9/11 showed the world as it is, rather than being some sort of Year Zero for a new world order. Another intervention came from Shane Collins of Lambeth Green Party who talked of the need to introduce "carbon quotas" which could be bought and sold by individuals. As that appears to suggest that the very wealthy such as Roman Abramovich are going to be able to do a lot more than me in this future green world - count me out!
Personally I was deeply impressed by Ahmed's grasp of history and his use of sources. If I have a criticism of his talk it is that he actually repeated a mistake I have seen from the 9/11 Truth campaigners - he talked of America and Britain, but not of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, all "players" with dishonourable intentions of their own. Indeed Iran has looked to greatly increase its influence in the Muslim world in the past decade - from Sudan, to the Lebanon and most recently to Iraq. Imperialism can come in all colours, and in small packages as well as large.
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Rumors come and go, but as we told you back in August, this one has merit. Lexus is slowly letting the cat out of the bag about the HS 250h, its new dedicated-hybrid model.
We told you back in August that Lexus was developing its own dedicated hybrid model to sell alongside Al Gore's favorite ride, the Toyota Prius. Months ago this was only rumor but now the Japanese giant has made the news official, by launching a new section on its consumer site this week. The site offers little detail about the new hybrid other than it will be called Lexus HS 250h and it'll go on sale in the Fall of 2009.
If you can't wait to get your hands on a luxury dedicated hybrid until then, don't fret. Lexus will debut the HS 250h at the Detroit Auto Show on January 11th. While little detail is actually known about the earth-saving Lexus, we're willing to bet our mother's soul that it'll be built upon the same platform and feature the same next-generation Hybrid Synergy Drive as the next-gen Prius – also set to debut in Detroit. Toyota will soldier on with the nickel-metal hydride battery packs until the lithium-ion battery packs are validated, but will change the packs as a mid-cycle refresh rather than wait for an all-new vehicle.
We're curious how the Lexus HS 250h will hold up against the much rumored Cadillac EFLEX that's also making its debut in Detroit next month. Until then, we have an image of what the Lexus HS 250h could look like below.
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Manuscript Monday: Evelyn Runnette
Denver native Evelyn Runnette was born in 1903. She was a librarian, outdoorswoman, traveler, and among many other things, an avid scrapbooker.
Her scrapbooks (collection WH1008) span the years 1914-1925, and include photographs, hand-written notes and journal entries, programs, invitations, clippings, drawings, postcards, and other great memorabilia. They are beautiful, detailed and inspiring accounts of her time spent at East High School, the University of Denver, and beyond.
To read more about Evelyn Runnette and her collection, click here to view our online archival finding aid. You can search many other finding aids here as well.
This collection, along with endless others, are available in the Western History and Genealogy Department of the Central Library, where Evelyn Runnette worked as a librarian!


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Sarah Jessica Parker has been known for her fashion sense over the years, whether she is in character or simply out and about in society. However, lately she's been wearing fewer and fewer beautiful heels, thanks to a deformity in her feet occurring due to wearing too many of those height-increasing pumps.
Parker began wearing high-heeled shoes for up to 18 hours a day when she shot Sex and the City. While HBO's hit show ended its six-season run in 2004, the 47-year-old actress has continued to wear high heels on a frequent basis. While she usually springs for more expensive shoes, the actress recently wore cheaper shoes during the shooting of I Don't Know How She Does It and she later ended up at the podiatrist because of the footwear change. Parker told Net-A-Porter the podiatrist delivered fairly dismal news.
"I went to a foot doctor and he said, 'Your foot does things it shouldn't be able to do. That bone there...you've created that bone. It doesn't belong there."
Being told you are taking poor care of your feet is already a bad sign, but being told you have a foot deformity should be a wake up call. The actress says she is cutting back on heels, and while she's less than chipper about it, she does seem to be taking the shoe change fairly well, which is a good sign.
"The moral of the story is, the chickens are coming home to roost. It's sad, because my feet took me all over the world, but eventually they were like, 'You know what, we are really tired, can you just stop—and don't put cheap shoes on us?'"
You can next catch Parker in Escape From Planet Earth, in theaters now. Luckily the flick's animated, so the actress shouldn't have had to worry about her feet problems this time around.


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SEA 2014 "Energy & Economy" April 24 – 26, 2014 Austin, TX ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15 Please visit the SEA webpage to read the CFP and submit an abstract. Anthropologists have a long, if uneven, history of engagement with studies of energy and economy – from the use of wind in ancient exchange and the effects of domestication on production, to the contemporary dependence on the consumption of fossil fuels. While Leslie White most explicitly incorporated energy in his mid-century macroevolutionary model, the discipline's engagements with energy and economy include a wide variety of approaches ranging from cultural ecology and systems-based approaches to political ecology and ecofeminism. Despite these diverse engagements, economistic understandings of the relationship between energy and economy continue to dominate the intellectual and policy landscape. Anthropological insights, however, make it clear that actual human engagements with energy almost never follow a simple logic of economic efficiency. What can the historical, material and ethnographic records tell us about the empirical relationships between the environment, economy, culture, and energy use? Better analysis of these mutually influencing relationships enriches scholarship and has critical policy relevance – particularly given the urgent need for a transition to less carbon-intensive energy sources. Human societies have always relied on continued resource inputs, yet explicit consideration of energy is often neglected in social scientific work. Perhaps this is due to energy's invisibility – its doxic, taken-for-granted flow as mysterious to most people as its effects are profound and ubiquitous. Uneven social, political economic, and environmental impacts simultaneously accompany these flows in a global circuitry of energy and trade that is as cultural as it is physical, bringing different, intersecting forms of power into perspective. Energy flows, then, are at the very foundations of economic provision and therefore provide a compelling lens through which to examine the economic affairs of any society. We are especially keen on stimulating interdisciplinary engagement with the meeting theme. SEA 2014 is thus planned in conjunction with the SAA meetings in Austin, Texas and we strongly encourage submissions from archaeologists, and other anthropologists, as well as economists, historians and other scholars of the human condition. Texas will provide a particularly relevant backdrop for SEA 2014 given the state's notable energy resources and significant influence on US and global energy policy. Austin is an especially pleasant setting, with delightful spring weather and a vibrant music scene. We welcome anthropologically informed and theoretically relevant papers and posters that address (but are certainly not limited to) the following questions: Economic Theory: concepts, method, professional practice, interdisciplinaryWhat fundamental reorientations of theory and method are needed to widen appreciation of humanity's past, present and future dependence on energy flows? What theories and methodologies are most useful for understanding shifts between energy regimes? What are the most promising ethnographic frontiers for understanding the transition away from the fossil fuel era? How can a long-term perspective incorporating non-industrial societies bolster how we envision energy flows and human-environmental relations? How might we best think about vulnerability, sustainability and resilience? Should economic anthropologists resume measuring food, fuel and labor in terms related to advances in environmental economics or human ecology? How might renewed attention to energy reunite or reconfigure four-field anthropology? Production: environmental interfaces, labor, work, social structuring How can we best categorize diversity in the cultural and material production of energy – from energy used to fuel human labor and the fire used to smelt iron, to the biological, nuclear and solar technologies now being explored? How have prehistoric and more contemporary social groups resisted particular energy regimes even when technological or labor capacities may have allowed them? What role has energy played in the development and reorganization of societies? How have historical and contemporary energy regimes shaped and been shaped by social and political relations? What are the physical, social, cultural, political and economic ramifications of extracting, processing and using carbon-intensive fuels and growing renewable electricity? Exchange: energy, social circuitry, markets, commodification How has energy affected the ways market and non-market exchange shapes social connection and dislocation? How do we best account for the energy embodied in goods and services exchanged? How are gender, age, kinship, class and other dimensions of social organization related to energy? What are the possibilities for incorporating externalities in market-based efforts to speed energy transitions? What are the impacts when we commodify resources necessary for life? How is money related to energy flow? Consumption: style, status, decision making How are habitus, consumption styles, status desires, and imaginaries related to the flow of energy involved in people's ongoing construction of meaning and identity? How can energy and other resource demand from a growing middle class in BRIC and other countries be understood and accommodated? How might we interpret flat to declining energy use in the OECD/developed countries? What can economic anthropologists contribute to understanding peoples' use of renewable energy technologies, distributed energy, smart grids, private electricity generation, etc.? Economic & Energy Transitions: governance, finance, movements and the future What precedents in the archaeological and historical record could help us understand the economic and social implications of slow vs. sudden shocks in energy supply? What is the minimum net energy surplus needed for societal functioning, and how useful is net energy analysis in our fields? What roles do debt and finance, including bubbles, play in the creation and reproduction of existing and potential energy regimes? How are modes of political and economic governance related to control over past, present and future energies? What is expertise, and how do experts affect the forecasting of possible energy futures? How are war and militaries part of past and future energy transitions? How have/can social movements shape(d) energy cultures?
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An IEP is designed to be a "flow-on" document where the issues are identified up-front and the remainder of the document covers methods of dealing with them.
The IEP will start with a bit of information about the child, the diagnosis, who is present at the meeting, etc. I'm not going to cover this bit as it's simply box-ticking on the form.
The first part of the IEP will attempt to ask and answer two questions;
1. What are the child's strengths and interests?
2. What are the perceived weaknesses of the child?
It is important to get these questions properly answered as the entire remainder of the IEP will reference them. This post will attempt to provide some background on the sorts of things that should be in these areas with particular emphasis on their relevance to the aspergers condition.
Keep in mind though that aspergers manifests itself differently from one individual to another and that all children will have different strengths and weaknesses. Your child's IEP should look considerably different from that of another child. They're individual education plans, after all.
What are the child's strengths and interests?
In this section, you should be making a note of things such as;
- particular subjects that the child is good at
- specific abilities which the child can draw up (eg: artistic talents)
- specific abilities which are part of the aspergers condition and which are demonstrated in the child (for example; good long term memory).
- the best learning patterns for the child; ie: they are very "visual".
- specific interests - for example; the child loves transformers, dinosaurs etc.
What are the perceived weaknesses of the child?
In this section, you need to be quite specific. Simply saying "English" isn't sufficient - you need to cover things such as;
- subject areas - specific parts of a subject, spelling - (part of English) for example
- social skills - since these are part of the criteria for aspergers, it's expected that they will make an appearance somewhere as a weakness - again, be specific - for example; problems making friends, is very different from problems playing with other children.
- issues with children taking things literally - this is a well documented asperger trait that you should be aware of. In particular, this can cause issues in religion classes and when classmates make general comments to your child. We recently had some issues with our child taking religious instruction too literally.
- emotive concerns - remember that children with aspergers aren't always great at showing emotion but they DO still FEEL those emotions. If your child is unhappy about coming to school, there could be an emotive reason behind it.
- muscular issues - aspergers is known for hypotonia (low muscle tone), this may affect performance at sports and even sitting/standing posture.
- memory and concentration issues - common asperger traits are poor short term memory and high distractability. These interfere with a child's ability to stay focussed and to carry out multi-part instructions. It is expected that they will appear in the IEP at some point, again, be specific.
- comorbid conditions - many aspergers children have additional issues including learning problems, add/adhd, bipolar disorder and dsylexia amongst others. You need to ensure that these are referenced in the IEP.
- medication - if your child is on any medication, for example; Ritalin, you should make sure that it gets mentioned here.
- routine fixations - aspergers children can often display great resistance to change. If this is affecting your child at school, make sure that it's listed in the IEP.
- meltdowns - if your child's meltdowns are an issue or if they are increasing, even if this is only happening at home, get it listed on the IEP. Increased meltdowns could indicate that the child is under stress. It could also mean that it's only a matter of time before your child has a meltdown at school. Forewarned is forearmed, and teachers who have been made aware of the condition are more likely to be sympathetic to your child.
In my next post, I'll look at ways in which the IEP can address the weaknesses by drawing on the strengths.


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No politician wants to be compared to Richard Nixon, but Mitt Romney might like the following.
First, consider the similarities in their 1960 and 2012 presidential contests. Romney and Nixon were both mighty warriors, but they still lacked the natural ease of the best retail politicians. In person, they were warm, charming— even gentle. But on television it was different. When they debated their cool and telegenic opponents, they sometimes appeared square and old-fashioned in comparison. They just didn't connect the way successful presidential aspirants typically do.
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So, when they lost the general election, many in the press quickly wrote their political obituaries. All conceded their brilliance, stamina and mastery of the facts—especially those of the troubles brewing overseas. But they were, by most accounts, finished.
But the tenacious Nixon would prove his naysayers wrong by once again capturing the GOP nomination eight years later, a feat made all the more remarkable by the further diminishment of his brand in 1962 when he lost a race for a lesser post, the California governorship. There was likely not a soul in the United States who believed he could shake off such visible losses.
Of course he did shake them off, and for nearly 50 years, Nixon's 1968 feat stands unmatched. Besides Adlai Stevenson, he has been the only presidential nominee—of either party—to overcome the stigma of losing a general election to be offered a second chance as the party's nominee.
Romney recognizes well the historical odds against becoming a repeat nominee. In the film Mitt, which documents his two presidential campaigns, he is captured at a fundraiser making an "L" on his forehead to depict how a failed nominee becomes "a loser for life." "We just brutalize whoever loses," he says. We can assume George McGovern, Michael Dukakis, Bob Dole, Al Gore, John Kerry and John McCain came to a similar conclusion.
Will Romney be different from these other failed nominees? Could he defy the odds and make a comeback presidential bid capturing the GOP nomination after all the doubt, second-guessing and blame that accompany such a loss? According to the latest Quinnipiac poll, many Americans seem to think so—45 percent of voters said the United States would be better off today with Romney as president.
That was also the question on not just the minds but the lips of many at a recent private gathering in Utah known as the E2 Summit, Romney's now-annual retreat for high-profile politicians, policymakers, innovators, entrepreneurs, business leaders, top bundlers and, of course, a core group of long-time Romney loyalists. (Disclosure: I served in multiple roles in the 2012 campaign, including adviser to the economic team, television surrogate and fundraiser.) Although the subject was not on any agenda or the topic of any speech or breakout session, virtually every meal, cocktail hour and coffee break included quiet ruminations over whether Romney could successfully run again.
The event was off the record, so I need to honor those ground rules, but suffice to say that many of speakers, some of the brightest lights of the Republican Party, and with no particular allegiance to Romney, saw great merit in a Mitt resurgence.
Who knows if they are right, but if Romney were ultimately able to pull a Nixonian rabbit out of his hat and capture the GOP nomination, it would be due to the following three factors:
1. Romney is re-emerging as the de facto leader of the Republican Party.
Nixon also emerged into this role, mainly due to his successful efforts to increase republican seats in Congress and governorships in the 1966 midterms. Romney is similarly engaged in this year's midterms, slowly re-earning goodwill from the partywith multiple successful endorsements, fundraising for Republican bright lights like Ed Gillespie and mobilizing his loyalists to support Sen. Rob Portman's efforts to re-take the Senate.
And, lucky for Romney, no one can currently compete with him in this arena. Chris Christie, the closest thing Republicans have to a Clinton-quality retail politician and with the powerful perch as head of the Republican Governors' Association, is hobbled by "Bridgegate" and, more importantly for establishment Republicans, the declining fiscal fortunes of New Jersey. And, because the biggest bundlers gravitate toward electability, many potential Christie donors are staying on the sidelines for now.


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|System: PC, X360, PS3
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Mercury Steam
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Codemasters
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Oct. 23, 2007
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Mature
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
by Devin Finley
July 2, 2007 - Welcome to the mind of Clive Barker, where supernatural powers and the latest in conventional warfare may still not be enough to get you out alive. Jericho is the term given to the team of seven members all equipped with different weapons, as well as different special abilities. We begin our journey as a single character, but soon gain the ability to swap through any of the seven to use each player accordingly.
Jericho allows us to give the basic commands while controlling the other Jerichos from one players standpoint (move forward, hold position, regroup etc.) but also gives us access to play from any one character we choose, be it the exorcist (to enchant weapons), the blood mage (a spell caster who, uh, cuts herself to unleash these powers), the two healers (who keep your time alive time after time), or the telekinetic (who moves objects with her mind).
Strategy will play a large part in this game in at least two ways as you lead the Jerichos to the heart of darkness to save all mankind. Like all war games, you'll want your machine gunner in front and your sniper in back, but with this team, keeping your healers in a safe position needs to be thought about as well, seeing as only they can revive dead team members. You do have the power to play as any character; however, you have no say in forcing them to use special powers remotely, as you can tell them how to move. They will however, perform their specials automatically, based on the circumstance. Clive Barker's Jericho is a first person shooter, as you may have already guess, based on the idea that the seven Jerichos hold the fate of the world in their hands while advancing toward an ancient evil in the city of Al-Khali.
We've been promised easy control amongst the Jerichos via the pressing of two buttons, so the switch to and from a character should not be a difficult process. We'll also be able to combine the attacks of more than one Jericho later in the game for a greater, more damaging effect. Expect to face precious opponents lacking in skin, but prevailing in stench. Think a man nailed to a cross to suffer for eternity (see Clive Barker's Jericho trailer) or perhaps Voldo's (Soul Calibur) brother, or much of his family for that matter. Though they may be hard to look at, don't expect a free moment without them. The trailer may not have been hugely packed much information as to what the Jericho's mission in the game is, or how actual game play will look, but it certainly opened your eyes as to how the visuals will play out. It will be hard to predict, as of now, whether the character switch will be as smooth as promised, and we find that much of the games value and replay value may rest on this aspect of the game itself; but given the level of Clive Barker's involvement, as well as the beauty of the visuals so far, we can expect that this attribute will be up to par.
Devin Finley
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Miller lifts UNC-Greensboro over Campbell 84-69 in NIT
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Isaiah Miller scored 25 points, tying his career high, as UNC Greensboro defeated Campbell 84-69 in the first round of the NIT on Tuesday...
UNCG, Indiana, Bama and TCU earn top seeds in NIT
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Alonso lifts UNC Greensboro to SoCon quarterfinal win 77-70
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Align was the centerpiece for Indianapolis Museum of Art's Autumn Equinox event, E is for Equinox, held on September 20th. More images found here.
Stand photographs were included in the Art Duo | Duo Art exhibition at Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam.
Select Trigger posters were exhibited in the Biel / Bienne Festival of Photography in Switzerland.
The Contemporary in Baltimore, in collaboration with Lease Agreement Gallery, recently invited Type A to speak about their work at MICA in Baltimore. Watch their talk here.


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The Ant and the Bee
Book 52
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Publisher Description
Enhanced audio with music, sound affects and professional actors.
"The Ant and the Bee" is the 52nd book in the series of beginning readers from ReadingTeacher.com.
The 80 books in the series use systematic phonics to ensure that your beginning readers will get a great start in reading proficiency.
The books begin at a very simple level and gradually introduce new sounds and words until students have mastered all 44 phonemes (sounds) in the English language.
The books should be read in order, because the sounds and words in each book build upon those learned in previous books. It is important that students master each book before moving on to the next.
Each new word throughout the program is repeated at least 5 times in the book in which it first appears and 5 more times in the next 10 books.
Story Summary:
Ben the ant and Bill the Bee play a game of Hide-and-Seek. Bill hides first in a net, then Ben hides in a bus. Later Ben hides in a bed. When Bill looks for Ben in a honey jar, he gets stuck inside. He spies Ben nearby in a bed and calls for help. Ben rescues Bill with a net and together they enjoy spilled honey from the jar.


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Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life
SynopsisFor all those who have been enchanted by the power of synchronicity and are ready to be taken further down the path, Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life offers the next step. Here, Carol Adrienne, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Celestine Prophecy: An Experimental Guide, provides a practical workbook that shows you how to tap the unsuspected potential of synchronicty -- the force revealed in everyday coincidences -- and use the power of your own intuition. Using dozens of examples from her own life and work, and offering an array of write-in exercises, Carol Adrienne reveals how you can use synchronicity to find your purpose in life and achieve the rewards that come from living in harmony with the souls'code.
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Jun 14, 2011
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Watch Seth Rogen's Emotional Senate Testimony About Alzheimer's
Yesterday, Seth Rogen testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services to raise awareness about Alzheimer's Disease, from which his mother-in-law suffers. The testimony was, of course, hilarious but it was also surprisingly touching.
"I came here today for a few reasons. One, I'm a huge House of Cards fan. Just marathoned the whole thing. Had to be here. Two is to say people need more help," he said.
There were more jokes ("Yes, I'm aware this has nothing to do with the legalization of marijuana") but Rogen focused on highlighting the disease's devastating affects, both physically and emotionally.
Watching the disease, which is the 6th leading cause of death in the U.S., take hold of his mother-in-law spurred Rogen into action, which, as he notes, is unusual.
"That's right, he situation is so dire that it caused me, a lazy, self-involved, generally self-medicated manchild to start a entire charity organization," he said after mentioning Hilarity for Charity.
The whole thing is worth a watch.


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Fresh from the garden frittata recipe
I have two secrets to surviving my 2-hour-a-day commute. One is audiobooks. The other is this frittata recipe.
First, "frittata" is just fun to say. You can put a pause in the middle if you want it to sound vaguely naughty. Or you can rrrrroll your r's, like the Two Fat Ladies, who taught me how to make frittatas, did. Second, it's fun and fast to make. Third, while it's best fresh and shared with guests, it's still marvelous microwaved in the morning, and gets you out of the house fast with protein and vegetables in your belly and no more dishes to wash but a plate and a fork.
And like an omelet, you can put anything in it, but some things are better than other things: veggies fresh from your garden or your local farmer's market are better than anything.
Meanwhile, you may have noticed that Digging In has new ingredients in its frittata. I've got co-conspirators now, in Julie Lovell, who designed the Rocky Mountain News' garden section, Dig, and who has joined The Denver Post's design staff. And Dana Coffield, who's been features editor, Grow editor and these days, a cityside editor here at The Post. She shepherded my first garden stories. Together, these women are garden aces. Dana has cocker spaniels, chickens, bees and a killer Three Sisters garden. Julie has Labradors, a pond, a pet toad and a big vegetable patch. I myself live under a Reign of Terrier, grow lots of xeric perennials, and herbs and edibles wherever I can coax them to grow (I have clay, the second worst kind of clay you can have, and that's another garden story entirely)
Back to the kitchen. The other night I whisked up a big frittata for breakfast and made myself a conglomeration — a mess of sloppy eggs with stuff in it — with the leftovers for dinner. (But natch, I've burned the onions because I was up in the computer room typing away). The ingredient of the night is kale. I bought a big bunch, and I've decided that it's very tasty, but I really need to become expert at cooking it and putting it in things (that's your cue to post recipes in the comments). Kale of all kinds — dinosaur, regular, Red Russian — grows so well here, is so mostly unplagued by bugs, that I feel it's my duty as a Coloradan to cook with it.
And this bunch is quite tasty. I actually ate some of it raw alongside a chicken salad. But I think it's going to be much better chopped into a frittata — along with onions, garlic, and chopped Yukon gold potatoes from the farmer's market, and dotted with some chevre that was on sale for a buck a quarter pound.
To really do a frittata right, you need a good cast-iron skillet, well seasoned. If you can swipe your finger across its inside, and feel no roughness, that's the one. You want one that will almost completely let go of a fried egg. (More on cast iron cooking here.) Here are the other details — but you can substitute almost any green for the kale (chard, spinach) and any vegetable for the potatoes and onions, or any cheese (try really good Parmesan or Manchego) for the chevre. You can add your home-grown peeled, seeded, chopped tomatoes (drain as much liquid from them as you can). You can use garlic chives or oregano or fresh dill or parsley or marjoram. I can't wait to try it with home-grown "Zamboni" broccoli raab, if my little patch of seedlings continues to grow.
Kale, Onion, Potato and Chevre frittata
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 onion, coarsely chopped
1-2 garlic cloves, minced (or one teaspoon prepared chopped garlic)
2 cups kale leaves, pulled off of the tough veins and torn into bite-size pieces
1 tablespoon Bragg's Aminos or balsamic vinegar
3 plum-sized Yukon Gold potatoes, boiled
6 eggs, beaten until just a bit foamy
Salt, pepper, and other herbs to taste
2 ounces chevre
Pinch of red chile flakes, smoked red pepper or paprika
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a 9-inch cast-iron skillet, sweat the onion and garlic in the olive oil and butter over low heat; do not allow to brown. When the onion is soft and nearly translucent, add the kale and stir to coat it with the butter and oil mixture. Add the Bragg's Aminos or balsamic vinegar; cover and cook for about 4 minutes. Add the potatoes and stir to distribute. Add the beaten eggs and salt, pepper or other dried herbs (an herbes de Provence mixture goes nicely.). Stir to distribute the eggs around the potatoes, kale and onions. Plop small chunks of the goat cheese on top; sprinkle on the chile or pepper or paprika. Bake for 30 minutes or until the edges are brown and solid and the cheese is melted. Remove and allow to set until the pan is cool. Cut into wedges; separate the wedges between layers of paper towel or parchment and place in a resealable bag in the refrigerator. To reheat, microwave for about 30 to 40 seconds on medium high.


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Offbeat Beijing rom-com, mixed up in a puzzle, that's beautifully played by its two leads.
CF: The "Taichi" Trilogy Set to Release 2 Films
Set in late Qing Dynasty, the movie concentrates on how an ordinary man becomes a Taichi master, fighting off foreign invaders and monstrous machines.
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Recently Chinese actress Zhang Jingchu has been to the city of Pompeii, a partially buried ancient town-city near modern Naples in Italy. She appeared in casual clothes and stolled around the ancient Roman wrecks and appreciated the beautiful scenes there
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Rumours that the couple has gone their separate ways after rumours that their marriage was on the rocks
Yesterday, a source claimed that the two had already finalized their divorce last week and that Gaile has returned to the US, where her parents reside at.
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ode to septum
It all started with a boring afternoon. I felt invigorated to get myself a new piercing and I was noticing how easy it was to get a septum pierced. I've never pierced myself before, but I was broke enough to do it now. I bought myself a 14g sterilized hollow needle and got a friend that knew how to make a man push the limit. After 5 minutes of pain and sorrow, I had myself a septum at 16g. I knew it needed some space to relax and didn't take much advantage of the moment, so I let the piercing heal with lots of sea-salt. There was a bit of soreness in the time being but after a good amount of time to heal, I had myself a comfortable septum.
With a stupid plan, I got my old captive barbell [12g] from my packages and got it in after a prequel stretch from a 14g. This was to pull off during my 08' prom and it sure was a big hit with the ladies and gents. It was in for a great amount of time and with the fact that the ball on the ended countered as a weight, my septum was up for a fresh stretching a few months later! I found out about the new invention, U-shaped pieces called 'retainers'. They were a gift from god and I got myself a beautiful metal 10g. It slipped right in and I never had it down. It was my own little secret.
With a few months later, I was on towards a new gauge, 8. This one was no big deal at all, and I got a new retainer for such a cheap price! It was bought in from somebody and never picked up, so I got it for 10$. It went right in, as usual. I was starting to have high hopes that this septum I had was perfect until I noticed the straightness of the item being slightly off...I had high hopes that it would all change after a lot more stretching.
I went all the way out to Pasadena, ca to get myself a 7g because I thought it would help to go slow because the gauges were getting a bit larger than usual. It slipped right in, and the owner himself told me that the septum was straight and seemed professional as can be. The septum was soon switched out for a large 6g piece back and forth all the time. I got my septum use to it after taking it in and out and finally getting a silicone piece to make the septum inconspicuous. It hurt to get in, since the silicone piece was double-flared and really small, but it was the best piece I've ever had.
After a great amount of time of that piece sitting in my septum, I knew the time had come for a beautiful 4g. I bought a silicone piece because I had fallen in love with these double-flared pieces. Sadly enough, this piece did not want to go in. it was obviously not time, so I took lots of time soothing the septum and taking the double-flared 6g in and out to get it slightly use to the stretch. I had worn a heavy 6g as well and looked ever-so brutal. I started to notice light on the other side after a great amount of time in front of the vanity mirror. It was like the light to heaven; I slowly put a 16g behind it, then switched it for a 14g. I took them all out and slipped in the 4g as ease! It was double-flared and all! It was the most painless stretch of all! This one felt lubed [from all the bogies] and there was no pain [let it be known I was about to knock out from a Unisom sleeping pill]. With victory in my head, I slept the night away.
5-6 months later, I have been watching videos all about stretching to a 2g and was so determined. I got a friend to get me a 2g taper and bought yet another silicone 2g piece [double-flared]. I got the 2g taper in with ease, but couldn't seem to get the 2g in with all the effort! Knowing that the 2g stretch is quite a jump, I rested with my mere 4g and waited another day. I thought it was because the piece was double-flared so I went out to buy a gorgeous metal 2g that looked pretty hefty, but it was unflared and it had a home in not only my heart, but my nose. I tried again; pushing the lubed 2g taper through my septum with less pain this time but still couldn't budge in the un-flared piece. I got it in a little, on the one side, but it didn't want to pass the rest. I went to my nearest parlor and had the pieces measured since something had to be wrong. The girl said the unflared metal piece was great and on the dot a 6.5mm. the taper on the other hand was a rare 3g, 5.9mm.
I wept, feeling the victor had a plastic trophy. My pride was squished knowing that I was far from the goal of a 1/4".
I started searching for 3g pieces all over the net, knowing my septum can handle it, even though the stretch is a bit of a hassle but doable. I found myself a site I've been going all the while, onetribe! They had a piece that was just what I was looking for, and all the more bamboo. The people in my parlor suggest bamboo all the time for septums because of the nutritional qualities it supplements. Supposedly, a bamboo piece in a septum leads to quicker healing as well as thicker skin. I bought it as soon as possible and they arrived in less than a week! I popped one of those bad boys as soon as possible. It was a close stretch; I felt the burn and the sore nose. It was worth it, being the bridge to the next block. That piece of jewelry was the biggest pain in my entire life. It would always dry up, and the more jojoba and vitamin e oil I put on, it felt like it was just sucking it back out... it also made my nose feel very uncomfortable and I put up with that bad boy for a good 3 weeks. I had to try and get in the unflared metal piece and gave it a push. It went in like magic! I felt relieved getting that disgusting piece out my nose and vowed to never make my fistula ever go through such a scary moment like that again.
Right now I have my unflared metal piece in and it is a week before New Year's. I feel so comfortable with my metal piece; I'm a little ashamed I am going to have to switch it out for the silicone piece. The metal piece still give a pain to the touch of the tip of the nose and I found out why, the nose uses the skin of the septum to have extra room being pushed back like that and with a 6.5mm piece of metal in the way, naturally it will give an ouchie! I need to get the silicone in sooner or later, but I'm going to wait that off until the day before New Year's. If it doesn't work out, I will just handle the metal piece in for a good month and give another go. By then, I know the silicone will fly right in.
Overall, I didn't know I was going to go as big as I am now. It is a beauty that I take in vain. I show off the septum droop with pride, the slightly visible metal piece even gives me shivers. I don't know if I would ever go off to a 0g. I think the only case for going up to an 8.2mm piece would be to stop the septum from being so gosh-dang roomie. The 0g septum pictures do look gorgeous, though. The septum shows in full force on the side of the nose, but I don't think I'm prepared to show everybody my septum. Remember, I haven't worn a big piece in there since my 6g! People would be horrified to see the growth of this hole and I would be scared to be opened up as an outcast. The only reason I even went as far as I did was because of the spontaneous boost of confidence I felt growing with it and looking at mere 14g septums and laugh and conquer! It also taught me to not take life so seriously, I would look at my face with depression and laugh once I saw that septum peaking an d waving to say 'hello'.
I would suggest a septum to everybody! It is the nicest piercing to have. It heals very quickly, never gives any trouble, and as long as you are nice to it and give it lots of time with oil baths, it will treat you like gold as well! Hope this story helped the poor sap googling 'septum stretches' like I would and hope to god it would give advice for that next boost it took!
PS: you will get there, kiddos.
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Politics & Government
Big business prepares for a less friendly Washington
WASHINGTON — After years of playing offense, big business is getting ready for the less familiar role of playing defense following President-elect Barack Obama's victory and legislative gains by other Democrats.
Corporate America enjoyed favorable treatment under the Bush administration for almost eight years and for most of the era of Republican control of Congress from 1995 to 2007.
Now unions may gain a stronger hand, and business is bracing for greater financial regulation, worker-friendly policies and an emphasis on social spending.
From a guarded view on trade to expanded collective-bargaining rights, there's a new wind blowing through the Capitol and big business groups are bracing for a storm.
One reason they're sure to find a less sympathetic ear is that members of groups such as the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent big bucks trying to defeat Democrats in congressional races.
Instead, Democrats expanded their numbers in both chambers. That left these groups on Wednesday trying to put a bright face on results that gave Democrats at least five more Senate seats and 18 new members of the House of Representatives.
"There are many areas of potential cooperation," John Engler, a former Republican governor of Michigan and now the president of the manufacturers' group, said in an optimistic morning-after news conference.
Greg Casey, president of the Business-Industry Political Action Committee, offered: "It's an opportunity for the American people to ask for competence in government."
Business lobbies can take solace in one important development: Democrats appear to have failed to win enough Senate seats to reach the 60-vote margin needed to cut off debate and force votes on controversial legislation.
This numbers game is important because unions have their eye on rapid passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, which was supported by Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden. The legislation would end seven decades of secret balloting during union drives and instead allow organizers to collect signatures from a majority of workers to form a union. This process is called "card check."
"We're very optimistic about an Obama presidency. The Employee Free Choice Act is our number one legislative priority for next year and we are going to be pushing very hard," said Thea Lee, the chief economist for the AFL-CIO. "It was the centerpiece of our electoral efforts . . . we are very confident that it will happen."
Less than 24 hours after the election, both unions and big business were busy identifying who they'd be pressuring if the issue goes to a vote early next year. Many House members voted for it earlier this year, knowing that it wouldn't pass the Senate.
Now, with a president who won't veto the pro-union legislation, more Democrats in the Senate and Republicans in disarray, it's a different ballgame.
"Next time out its not going to be considered a 'free vote' by anybody, so that's a changing dynamic," said R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president of government affairs for the Chamber of Commerce. "I am still positive that we can defeat it."
Manufacturers fear an early vote on the question.
"This is not the time and certainly not the issue to build a relationship," Engler said, suggesting that Obama and Democrats will need big business to help turn around the economy. He identified Virginia's Democratic senator-elect, Mark Warner, a pro-business centrist, as a Democrat he'll be lobbying to block the card-check measure.
While recognizing that unions will have a voice in the White House for the first time in many years, the Chamber's Josten wasn't worried that he won't be heard.
"I had to fight for two years with the Republican majority in Congress on immigration (reform) . . . the majority of people we were fighting were Republicans," he said. He also recalled that the business group also fought a losing battle against complicated new accounting rules after energy giant Enron's collapse.
With the jobless rate expected to rise above 7 percent before Obama takes office and the economy expected to contract sharply over the 10 weeks until inauguration, Josten thinks that reversing the economic slump will trump any activist agenda.
"It's the economy, the economy and the economy," he said. "Obama is a smart guy and he knows his policies depend on the economy growing."
To ask a question about this story or any economic question, go to McClatchy's economy Q&A
Tremendous economic problems await Obama
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UTC Aerospace Systems held a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by dignitaries, partners and suppliers to celebrate the inauguration of its new Propeller Systems facility in Casablanca, Morocco. The new subsidiary, Ratier-Figeac Maroc, (RFM) is UTC Aerospace Systems' first facility in Africa. UTC Aerospace Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX).
"We are delighted to celebrate the opening of RFM in Morocco and to build partnerships within the community," said Michel Ferey, who leads the Propeller Systems business at UTC Aerospace Systems. "This is a great opportunity for UTC Aerospace Systems to expand operations and grow our Propeller Systems business."
RFM was created in January 2011 as part of an ongoing Propeller Systems' cost reduction strategy. During the facility's construction, RFM technicians trained at the IMA ("Institut des Metiers de l'Aeronautique") – the Moroccan Institute specialized in training in aeronautical activities. Employees began working onsite at the RFM facility in Morocco upon the building's completion in March 2012.
In addition to the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the inauguration included a tour of the RFM assembly shop and several speeches by key dignitaries, including the French Ambassador in Morocco, the President of the GIMAS, and the Moroccan Minister Abdelkader Amara, who thanked the Propeller Systems' team for its confidence in Morocco to build this new industrial site.
The RFM facility covers 46,000 square feet, and is specialized in the assembly of cockpit controls and cabin equipment.
UTC Aerospace Systems' Propeller Systems unit designs, manufactures and services propeller systems, cockpit controls, cabin equipment and Trimmable Horizontal Stabilizer Actuator (THSA) systems for commercial, regional, corporate and military aircraft..
UTC Aerospace Systems designs, manufactures and services integrated systems and components for the aerospace and defense industries. UTC Aerospace Systems supports a global customer base with significant worldwide manufacturing and customer service facilities.
United Technologies Corp., based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company that provides high-technology products and services to the aerospace and building industries.
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Cyclists take part in a protest rally calling for more and safer bicycle infrastructure, in Rome's central Via dei Fori Imperiali near the Colosseum on April 28, 2012. The 'salvaiciclisti' demo in Rome – inspired by the #cyclesafe campaign by The Times – attracted 50,000 people on bikes. In London, 10,000 joined the the Big Ride and another 3K rode in Edinburgh's to Pedal on Parliament.
All three events were inspired the London Cycling Campaign.
We've ridden in London and Rome and reading this story wondered what organized protest rides would look like in the States.
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