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An excerpt from the book This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America by Ryan Grim.
In the summer of 1996, the San Jose Mercury News broke the story of the connection between L.A. crack dealers and the U.S. funded Nicaraguan Contras. More than a month later, the Washington Post weighed in with a five-story, roughly 10,000-word broadside that ripped the series apart, debunking its central tenets and wondering aloud what it is about black people that makes them so paranoid.
The Post's editorial board explained that "the shock of the story for many was not simply the sheer monstrousness of the idea of an official agency contributing to a modern-day plague—and to a plague targeted on blacks. The shock was the credibility the story seems to have generated when it reached some parts of the black community."
But it wasn't their fault they were so gullible, the Post assured in a separate piece, blaming a "history of victimization" that had led to "outright paranoia."
"It doesn't matter whether the series' claims are 'proved' true," read another story. "To some folks—graduates of Watergate, Iran-contra and FBI harassment of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.—they feel so true that even if they're refuted, they'll still be fact to them."
Facts, indeed, are a funny thing. The Washington Post, while it launched its assault on the Mercury News, had facts at its disposal demonstrating that the story was accurate.
The Post's longtime Central American correspondent, Douglas Farah, was in El Salvador when the story, written by the Mercury News' Gary Webb, broke, revealing that the Contras, a confederation of paramilitary rebels sponsored by the CIA, had been funding some of their operations by importing cocaine into the United States. One of their best customers was a man named Freeway Rick—Ricky Donnell Ross—then a Southern California dealer who was running an operation that the Los Angeles Times dubbed "the Wal-Mart of crack dealing."
"My first thought was, 'Holy shit!' because there'd been so many rumors in the region of this going on," Farah said when I interviewed him for a book on the history of drugs in America 12 years later. "There had always been these stories floating around about [the Contras and] cocaine. I knew [Contra leader] Adolfo Calero and some of the other folks there, and they were all sleazebags. You wouldn't read the story and say, 'Oh my god, these guys would never do that.' It was more like, 'Oh, one more dirty thing they were doing.' So I took it seriously."
Farah immediately hit the streets of Managua, which was in the midst of an election, meaning all the players he needed were right there in town. "I had an amazing run of luck where I had rounded up everybody I needed to see in 24 hours," says Farah, who filed a lengthy exposé confirming and even advancing Webb's story. "I thought my story was really cool."
That's when he ran into trouble. His story was eventually cut and buried—running on page 18 at a mere 948 words."I did have a long and dispiriting fight with the editors at the Post because … their basic take was that I was dealing with a bunch of liars, so it was one person's word against another person's word, and therefore you couldn't tell the truth. But it was pretty clear to me," he says. "I wasn't in general in confrontation with my editors, but this thing was weird and I knew it was weird."
"One of my big fights on this was with Pincus," Farah recalls, "and my disadvantage was that I was in Managua, and he was sitting in on the story meetings and talking directly to the editors. And we had a disagreement over the validity of what I was finding. At the time, I didn't realize he had been an agency employee for a while. That might have helped me understand what was going on there a bit."
Webb based his report on court records and interviews with key drug runners. One of them, Danilo Blandón, was once described by Assistant U.S. Attorney L.J. O'Neale as "the biggest Nicaraguan cocaine dealer in the United States."
Webb had been unable to get Blandón to talk, but the cocaine dealer testified at a trial shortly before the series came out. Blandón wasn't on trial himself, wasn't facing any jail time and was in fact being paid by the U.S. government to act as an informant. In other words, he had no obvious incentive to lie to make the United States look bad. Nevertheless, in sworn testimony, he said that in 1981 alone, his drug operation sold almost a ton of cocaine—worth millions of dollars—in the United States, and that "whatever we were running in L.A., the profit was going to the Contra revolution."
Blandón's boss in the operation was Norwin Meneses, the head of political operations and U.S. fundraising for the Contras. Meneses was known as Rey de la Droga—"King of Drugs"—and had been under active investigation by the U.S. government since the early '70s as the California cocaine cartel's top representative in Nicaragua. The Drug Enforcement Administration considered him a major trafficker, and he had been implicated in 45 separate federal investigations, Webb discovered through government documents. Regardless, Meneses had never served any time in federal prison and lived out in the open in his San Francisco home.
In 1981, Blandón testified, he and Meneses traveled to Honduras to meet Colonel Enrique Bermúdez, the military leader of the Contra army and a full-time CIA employee. "While Blandón says Bermúdez didn't know cocaine would be the fundraising device they used," Webb wrote, "the presence of the mysterious Mr. Meneses strongly suggests otherwise." The reporter drew on court documents and government records to show that anyone remotely involved in, or familiar with, the drug world at the time knew exactly how Meneses went about raising revenue.
Pincus brushes off the battle over the Contra story. "Originally, I didn't do anything about it because I checked it out and didn't believe it to be true," he told me. "If you go look at the chronology, I didn't write about it until the Black Caucus took it up as a serious issue …. To be honest, I can't remember talking to Doug at the time."
"I think very highly of Doug Farah. I think he's an outstanding reporter," says Robert McCartney, who edited the story. "I don't remember there being any issue at the time of sort of significant concern over discrepancies in the reporting."
The Post hadn't so much discredited Webb's story about the specific connections between the Contras and Los Angeles dealers, but rather had gone after conclusions that others had drawn about CIA intentions. The two became one and the same and the Post took them both apart.
"This has been a long time, but if I remember correctly, the thesis of Webb's story was that the CIA deliberately used the Contras to pump crack cocaine into African-American neighborhoods," says McCartney. Webb hadn't reported that, but it didn't matter.
It gets stranger: Pincus says he didn't actually disagree with Webb's thesis—that the Contras were running drugs—but rather objected to the idea that the CIA was running drugs. Webb had reported, rather, that the Contras were a CIA-backed army but didn't pin the trafficking on them directly. "To me, it was no great shock that some of the people the agency was dealing with were also drug dealers. But the idea that the agency was then running the drug program was totally different."
Pincus' front-page piece ran at more than 4,000 words and was headlined, "CIA and Crack: Evidence Is Lacking of Contra-Tied Plot." The evidence, in fact, was not lacking. It was on the editing room floor. The New York Times and Los Angeles Times would also weigh in with stories purporting to debunk Webb's scoop, but only the Post, as far as I know, did so with independent evidence that backed him up.
Webb's editor, under pressure, eventually backed off the story. Webb was demoted and sent to a dustbin bureau 150 miles from San Jose. He resigned after settling an arbitration claim and went to work for a small alternative weekly. Over the next several years, his marriage fell apart and his meager wages were garnished for child support. On Dec. 10, 2004, Webb was discovered dead, shot twice in the head with his father's .38. The local coroner declared the death a suicide.
In 1998, an in-depth investigation by a committee run by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) established that Webb and black Americans suspicious about government complicity in the drug trade, had been, in essence, correct all along.
Yet obituaries in the major papers still referred to his "discredited" series. The Los Angeles Times obit recalls his "widely criticized series linking the CIA to the explosion of crack cocaine in Los Angeles," noting, "Major newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Washington Post, wrote reports discrediting elements of Webb's reporting." The New York Times ran a five-paragraph Reuters obit that remembered Gary Webb as "a reporter who won national attention with a series of articles, later discredited," making no mention of the fact that subsequent calls for an investigation were heeded, and that the investigation confirmed a great deal of Webb's reporting.
"Web of Deception" sat atop media critic Howard Kurtz's write-up in the Post. "There was a time when Gary Webb was at the center of a huge, racially charged national controversy. That was eight years ago, and it turned out badly for him," Kurtz began. "The lesson," he concluded, "is that just because a news outlet makes sensational charges doesn't make them true, and just because the rest of the media challenge the charges doesn't make them part of some cover-up."
Farah, who's now a consultant on the drug trade with the Department of Homeland Security, speculates that the Post's proximity to the corridors of power made it beholden to whatever the official line was at the time. He said that he saw a "great deal of weight on what the official response was, whether it was Haiti or El Salvador death squads. There was so much Washington influence that it ends up dominating the story no matter what the reality on the ground was."
"If you're talking about our intelligence community tolerating—if not promoting—drugs to pay for black ops, it's rather an uncomfortable thing to do [report on] when you're an establishment paper like the Post," Farah says. "If you were going to be directly rubbing up against the government, they wanted it more solid than it could probably ever be done."
Ryan Grim is the author of This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America. He is the senior congressional correspondent for the Huffington Post.
An excerpt from the book This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America by Ryan Grim.

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Examining the Effect of Acupuncture on Sleep Difficulties Related to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00868517
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 25, 2009
Results First Posted : November 17, 2014
Last Update Posted : April 28, 2015
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|Condition or disease
|Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
|Other: True group auricular acupuncture Other: Sham group auricular acupuncture Other: Wait-List Control Group
|Not Applicable
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|35 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|The Effect of Acupuncture on PTSD-Related Insomnia
|Study Start Date :
|October 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2011
Experimental: True Group Auricular Acupuncture
Received true group auricular acupuncture twice weekly for a period of two months.
Other: True group auricular acupuncture
Received true group auricular acupuncture
Sham Comparator: Sham Group Auricular Acupuncture
Received sham group auricular acupuncture twice weekly for a period of two months.
Other: Sham group auricular acupuncture
Received sham auricular acupuncture.
Wait-List Control Group
Served as wait list control. Did not receive any acupuncture during the study period.
Other: Wait-List Control Group
Received conventional care only. Eligible to receive true group auricular acupuncture once study period completed.
- Perceived Sleep Quality [ Time Frame: t=2 months ]
Perceived sleep quality: subjective assessment of how restorative and undisturbed sleep has been. Measured by Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) and Morin sleep diary refreshness and soundness ratings.
ISI: 7-item, self-report questionnaire based on DSM-IV criteria for insomnia. ISI scores range from 0 to 28 with higher scores reflecting greater insomnia. Total scores were reported, and an ISI cutoff total score of > 8 is indicative of probable insomnia.
The Morin Sleep Diary refreshness and soundness ratings are based on a 5-point Likert scale with scores ranging from 1 to 5. Scores for these two questions were reported and higher scores indicate higher perceived sleep quality.
- Fragmented Sleep Patterns-Total Sleep Time, Sleep Latency, and Naps [ Time Frame: t=2 months ]Disruptive sleep patterns were analyzed by looking at Total Sleep Time (TST), Sleep Latency (SL), and Naps (short episodes of sleep at times other than bedtime). Morin sleep diaries (MSD) and wrist actigraphs (WA) were the study instruments used to collect this data.
- Hypnotic Medication Use [ Time Frame: t=2 months ]Amount of sleep medication taken by study participants. Measured by looking at demographic questionnaire results, chart reviews and Morin sleep diary (MSD).
- Attrition Rates [ Time Frame: t=2 months ]Examined attendance rates in attending group sessions to examine attrition rates.
- Number of Participants That Were Satisfied Based on Veteran Satisfaction Scores for True Group Acupuncture vs. Sham Group Acupuncture [ Time Frame: t= 2 months ]
- Fragmented Sleep Patterns-Sleep Efficiency [ Time Frame: t=2 months ]Disruptive sleep patterns that were analyzed by looking at Sleep Efficiency(SE). Morin sleep diaries (MSD) and wrist actigraphs (WA) were the study instruments used to collect this data.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Combat veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom conflicts;
- Diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) per Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) IV criteria;
- Have insomnia as indicated by a score equal to or greater than 8 on the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI);
- Diagnosis of insomnia made after PTSD diagnosis; and
- If on psychotropic medications, must be on stable psychotropic medication regimen for one month prior to enrollment in study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Does not speak English;
- Not competent to sign informed consent;
- History of moderate or severe traumatic brain injury
- Start use of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) or Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure (BiPAP) during the study.
- Experiencing severe psychiatric illness defined as suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, or psychosis;
- History of substance abuse Dependence (as defined per DSM IV criteria) during the one year preceding enrollment in the study OR history of illicit substance use for 3 months prior to study enrollment OR positive Audit C score at study enrollment (defined as score of 5 and above).
- Received acupuncture during past 3 months.
- On Coumadin, Heparin, or Lovenox
- Pregnancy
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00868517
|United States, District of Columbia
|Washington DC VA Medical Center, Washington, DC
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20422
|Principal Investigator:
|Michelle Kennedy Prisco, MSN BC-ANP
|Washington DC VA Medical Center, Washington, DC
|Responsible Party:
|US Department of Veterans Affairs
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00868517 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|March 25, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|November 17, 2014
|Last Update Posted:
|April 28, 2015
|Last Verified:
|September 2014
Keywords provided by VA Office of Research and Development ( US Department of Veterans Affairs ):
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Enduring Freedom
Combat Disorders
Complementary Therapies
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorders, Traumatic
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
Pathologic Processes
Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
Mental Disorders
Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic
Sleep Wake Disorders
Nervous System Diseases


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Either I have a dirty mind or I'm old and out of touch with the latest tween trends (okay, probably both), but when I took my 11-year-old daughter and her friend to the mall and watched them head for a rack of "I (Heart) Boys With (Mustache Graphic)" T-shirts, I couldn't help but feel slightly alarmed. Wait a minute, why do they heart boys with mustaches?! It can't possibly be for the reason I'm thinking, can it? And if it is, why are they selling these shirts to young girls in the first place?!
I had to be missing something, I decided. Maybe mustaches had some new, non-sexual implication. So when my daughter and her friend went to try on "The Future Mrs. Styles" tees, I resisted the temptation to give them a pop culture history lesson comparing and contrasting One Direction/New Kids on the Block ("In my day, we wore 'The Future Mrs. Knight' shirts") and texted a friend for his opinion: If you saw a girl wearing a shirt that said "I Heart Boys With Mustaches," what would you think?
In reply, he sent me a YouTube video of the infamous "Who wants a mustache ride?" scene from Super Troopers.
That's what I thought, I texted back.
I called my boyfriend and asked him the same question.
"Who wants a mustache ride?" was his immediate response. (I swear, I have yet to meet a man who doesn't love that movie.)
Luckily the girls emerged from the dressing room empty-handed, so I was spared any immediate decisions/explanations regarding potentially inappropriate clothing. But as we went from store to store, I started noticing mustaches everywhere: On iPhone cases and socks. Little mustache-shaped earrings. What was going on here? Clearly I was late to some kind of party.
At home, I did a little research (yes, I had to Google "mustache trend," which is pathetic). Turns out the mustache has indeed become some sort of hipster/retro/ironic trendy thing. Who knew? (Everybody except me.) So -- phew! -- my kid and all the other tween girls at the mall weren't Super Troopers fans after all, so to speak.
Still, I don't think I could actually allow my girl to wear one of those shirts in public. Not because of what she's thinking about, but because of what every man will instantly think about when he looks at her: "Who wants a mustache ride?" And what the hell is wrong with the people making inappropriate T-shirts like these for teens knowing damn well what they mean even if the kids wearing them don't have a clue?
Would you let your daughter wear an "I Heart Boys With Mustaches" T-shirt?
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Sophomores Rastislav Racz and Luke Cummings each picked up a trio of victories on Saturday afternoon to help MIT's men's swimming and diving team overcome visiting Colby College, 176-94, in the Zesiger Pool. The No. 15 Engineers' (4-0) perfect dual meet record remained intact thanks to the triumph, while the Mules (2-3) fell to a nationally-ranked opponent for the third time this season.
Racz and Cummings were each part of MIT's win in the meet's opening event, the 200-yard medley relay, along with Jeff Zhou and Laurent Charpentier. The quartet clocked in at 1:35.94 to earn maximum points, while second-place was claimed by Tech's "B" relay team of Peter Wellings, Deke Hu, Toomas Sepp and Kalvin Kao.
Racz picked up his other two victories in the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke events. In the 100, the Bratislava, Slovakia native touched the wall at 59.58 to beat out the competition, while in the 200, he clocked in at 2:14.17, just ahead of runner-up and teammate John Walk, who finished with a time of 2:19.48.
Cummings was part of 1-2 finishes for Tech in both the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle events. His finishing time of 22.04 in the 50-yard freestyle was just fast enough to edge out teammate Charpentier (22.11), while his 48.56 in the 100-yard freestyle was once again a shade faster than his fellow Engineer, this time being Wellings (48.84).
Freshman Michael Dobson earned himself a pair of individual victories, claiming maximum points in both the 500-yard and 1000-yard freestyle events. The rookie won the 500 with a time of 4:51.40 and the 1000 by touching the wall at 9:56.78. He was joined in the 1000-yard event by second-place finisher and fellow freshman Jack Hill, who claimed the runner-up spot with a time of 10:02.03.
The Cardinal and Gray impressively grabbed the top three spots in two separate events - the 100-yard backstroke and the 100-yard butterfly. In the backstroke, Trace Sauter (56.34), Sepp (58.12), and Ted Tomlinson (1:01.49) did the honors, while in the butterfly, Charpentier (53.50), Sepp (53.70) and George Rossick (55.60) gave MIT the sweep.
Hu finished the 200-yard butterfly in 2:02.87 to win the event, while Rossick claimed second with a time of 2:10.02.
Freshman Carson Darling swept the diving events, winning both the one-meter (216.65 points) and three-meter (225.70 points) portions.
Though it was treated as an exhibition after the Engineers had already secured the victory, Tech put forth the top four times in the 200-yard individual medley with Kao, Sepp, Hu and Eric Roselli.
MIT will have little time to celebrate its victory, as it will return to the pool tomorrow afternoon, Sunday, Jan. 20, when it will travel to Springfield, Mass., to take on New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference foes Springfield College and the United States Coast Guard Academy at 1:00 p.m. Meanwhile, Colby will next compete on Saturday, Jan. 26, when it will be on the road at Bates College at 1:00 p.m.


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Police say Cassidy Ray Rhoads faces possible charges of improper possession of a weapon by a previous offender, felony menacing, unlawfully carrying a concealed weapon, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.
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August 28, 2003
For Dr. Phil's guests, weight has caused conflict and controversy. They've been rejected, ridiculed, and become ill because of the extra pounds they've gained " or are terrified of gaining.
A Feud About Fat
Jessica, 13, weighs almost 300 pounds. Her sister, Rebecca, is 11 and weighs 225 pounds. Their Aunt Donna says she desperately wants to help them lose weight, but their mom, Maryann, says Donna needs to back off and butt out.
Dr. Phil gets to the heart of this fight over fat.
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Joseph, 37, is a married father of five who says he has a beef with McDonald's. He claims that a manager at a restaurant refused to hire him because he weighs over 400 pounds. Now he's suing under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Learn more about the groundbreaking lawsuit.
"I'm Stuck in a Fat Suit"
Peggy gained 125 pounds after a car accident and says she feels like a skinny woman trapped inside a fat woman's body. She is so ashamed of her appearance that after saving a man's life, she didn't want the news to do a story on her.
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Charlene says she becomes physically ill and has to push her plate away if she sees a fat person eat. Fearing that she soon won't be able to eat in a public establishment because of her phobia, she turns to Dr. Phil for help.
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Ryan, Rubio plot party future as 2016 talk starts
Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio, two potential 2016 presidential candidates, laid out policy prescriptions for their Republican Party on Tuesday night, nudging a party still smarting from Mitt Romney's loss to President Barack Obama to reach out to a broader audience.
Ryan, the GOP's vice presidential nominee in November's election and chairman of the powerful House Budget Committee, told his audience that their party cannot write off large swaths of Americans -- a subtle reminder of Mitt Romney's remarks criticizing 47 percent of Americans who don't pay income taxes. And Ryan made clear that he would be making poverty in America a central part of his political message as he weighs a presidential campaign of his own.
"You know, both parties tend to divide Americans into our voters and their voters. Let's be really clear: Republicans must steer very clear of that trap. We must speak to the aspirations and the anxieties of every American," Ryan said at a dinner to honor his former boss, Jack Kemp, who also was a failed GOP vice presidential nominee.
Rubio, too, said the party risked irrelevance if it only appealed to wealthy voters and made clear the party had to reach out to large segments of the electorate that Romney seemed to write off. Should Rubio run, his pitch and personal biography seem tailored to those voters.
"There are millions of Mario Rubios all across America today," Rubio said of his father, a bartender whom he described as "poor and motherless with limited education."
"They aren't looking for a handout," Rubio continued. "All they just want is a job that provides for their families. ... It all starts with our people -- in the kitchens of our hotels, in the landscaping crews that work in our neighborhoods, in the late night janitorial shifts that clean our offices. That's where you will find the dreams America was built on, that's where you will find the promise of tomorrow."
The 2016 presidential race was an undercurrent to the evening. As he began his remarks, Ryan joked that he and Rubio soon would be sharing meals in states that lead off the nominating calendar.
"Know any good diners in New Hampshire or Iowa?" Ryan asked the room to laughter before delivering a speech on ending poverty. "I'm sure the press won't read too much into that one."
Rubio, who already has made a trip to Iowa since Election Day, made a nod to another state that is early in the primary calendar.
"I will not stand by and watch the people of South Carolina ignored," Rubio said to more laughter.
Ryan's remarks on poverty closely resembled a speech he gave in Cleveland during the campaign's final weeks. Ryan had hoped to use that speech to reset a flailing Romney-Ryan campaign, perhaps blunt the criticism of Romney's "47 percent" remarks and make an appeal to struggling Americans a cornerstone of a final push.
Romney's aides in Boston put a nix on that campaign strategy and Ryan returned to his standard speech the next day.
Ryan, now freed of Romney's handlers, was reflective at times about his 12 weeks on the ticket and offered praise to his political partners Kemp and Romney during his 20-minute speech here.
"Now Jack and I share something else in common: We both used to be the next vice president of the United States," Ryan said. "You know, although I wish this election had turned out differently, I'm proud of the campaign Mitt Romney and I ran."
But, he acknowledged, "the election, it didn't go our way, and the Republican Party can't make excuses."
He hinted the 2012 campaign was unlikely to be his last.
"Losing is part of politics, and can often prepare the way for the greatest victories," Ryan said.
Rubio, too, seemed attuned to a 2016 campaign. His remarks borrowed heavily from lines he tested in Iowa just a week after November's elections and suggested a message on poverty and education might be central to a 2016 campaign.
"The path to a prosperous and growing American middle class is the combination of a vibrant economy that creates these middle-class jobs and a people with the skills needed for these new jobs," said Rubio, urged by some to make a White House run of his own in 2012. Rubio was often pushed as a potential Romney running mate.
"Not so long ago, even if you didn't graduate from high school, if you were willing to work, you could find a job that paid enough for you to buy a home, start a family and eventually send your kids to college and a better life," Rubio said. "Those days are long gone, and they are probably not coming back."


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Another year has passed. The Christmas bird counts are in the bag. It's time to sit back and enjoy the cold weather.
One of the last-of-the-year counts was on the last day of the year. It was the Orient Count, which includes most of the North Fork, Plum Island, Shelter Island, and a small part of the northern South Fork — Morton Wildlife Refuge in Noyac to Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton. There were about 10 of us covering the South Fork portion. It was a warm day with on-and-off sunshine, intermittent showers, and barely a wisp of a wind. Unlike on the Orient count day last year, there was not a speck of snow and none of the waters were frozen. In other words, if not a harbinger of the coming siege of global warming and rising sea levels, it was a perfect day for seeing birds and listening to their calls.
I was blessed with being able to accompany two keen-eyed, keen-eared birders — John Gluth, who works in advertising in the city, and Vicki Bustamante, who lives in Montauk. Both of them had already participated in at least two other Long Island Christmas bird counts. Vicki took her birdsong player hoping that we would get some of the rarer ones to respond to the digital calls of their species. And one did.
It was a ruby-crowned kinglet that John thought he had seen in the brush along the shore of Cedar Point County Park. Vicki played the ruby-crown song and call and the bird responded, coming out in the open so John could verify it. My ears are bad on high notes; I couldn't hear the kinglet's response, or the songs and call uttered by the soprano and alto utterers, but I could hear the songs from Vicki's device if the device was held close to my ears.
My eyes aren't so hot either. Suffice to say, my role was mostly limited to four-wheeling the two around and writing down on a clipboard the birds seen and heard. We started around 7 a.m. at Cedar Point, finished at Barcelona at 4 p.m. In that time, we drove some 32 miles of roads and a couple of miles of beaches, including the Cedar Point spit.
Was it a sign of global warming, or was it just an unusually spring-like day at the end of December? Two of the most common land birds observed were robins and bluebirds, of which we counted about 75 and 20. Shouldn't most of them have been in the Deep South by now? Except for the yellow-rumped warbler, or myrtle warbler, which feeds on cedar berries and other winter fruit, the New World warblers, which are primarily insectivorous, should be in the tropics or subtropics at this time.
How is it then, that Terry Sullivan and Al Daniels came up with an unmistakable black-and-white warbler in their territory, the Village of North Haven? If the sighting is accepted by the Audubon authorities, and it definitely should be, then it will go down in the annals of the 50-plus Orient counts as a "count bird," one that has never appeared in any of the past counts.
Another bird that should have flown (or glided?) south by now showed up at Orient Point. Mary Laura Lamont, the count coordinator, and her husband, Eric, were coming back from surveying Plum Island, where they observed, among other biota, a house wren and an aster in bloom, when they looked up and saw a turkey vulture sailing by. Steve Biasetti observed another rare bird, a sedge wren (one of two marsh wren species) at Orient Point.
On our side of the Peconic Estuary we saw lots of different sparrows, including tree, field, song, and white-throated sparrows, juncos, and a large number of goldfinches flitting about. Off Northwest Road, the Peach Farm, which is depicted on an 1838 U.S. Coast Survey map as the only farm in that thickly forested Northwest area, is now a very low-density subdivision, with pastures and an old-time look. True to form, it turned up flocks of birds including eastern bluebirds, robins, and many more.
The waters were so calm that one could almost see the rafts of ducks sitting just off the shore of the North Fork from our South Fork vantage points. But there weren't that many ducks to be seen. There were almost as many horned grebes as other waterfowl species. A few common loons gave their eerie calls, and the long-tailed ducks, or old-squaw, were very noisy. At other times it was so quiet that that the monotonic tremolos produced by the rapidly beating wings of the goldeneye ducks, or "whistlers," scooting low over the water could be heard from more than a mile away.
With his powerful scope, John picked out a single razorback, one of the auks, far out on Gardiner's Bay. A red-necked grebe showed up in North Fork waters along with a couple of harlequin ducks. Vicki Bustamante e-mailed me that another auk, a dovekie, was seen resting on the rocks 25 feet off Montauk Point on Monday.
One of the last birds to show up over Larkin's Pond just before John had to leave, as he was going on a fourth count the following morning in Nassau County, was the fish crow. It flew over the pond from southwest to northeast repeating over and over that distinctive nasal caw which sounds like a crow with a head cold. This southern species has made an impressive beachhead around Sag Harbor and other parts of the East End. John says about 300 were tallied in the Captree count that covers part of Fire Island and the mainland area to the north.
Mary Laura has not yet received all of the results but she said from the looks of things that the final count will number well over 115 species. That's a good number for Long Island; however, California and Central American Christmas counts generally run over 200 species. After 50 years of climate change, we may be pushing such a large quantity here.


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Thursday June 13, 2013
Kim Cattrall, 56, brought sexy back on the opening night of her new stage role in Sweet Bird of Youth at The Old Vic, directed by War Horse's Marianne Elliott.
The former Sex And The City actress plays the role of Alexandra del Lago, a failing actress who finds relief in the arms of a young gigolo, played by Broadway star Seth Numrich, 26.
The experienced actress praised her co-star in saying that he was her "equal partner" in their performance, and compared it to a game of tennis.
"I feel this way almost on every project, I feel like I have to learn how to act again. I feel that both of us were at that level and we've grown together."
"And it really is like playing a great tennis match with Nadal and Federer - he grabs the ball and throws it over in my direction and I throw it back.
"That's how it feels every night, it feels like tennis! But equal partners."
The artisitic director at The Old Vic, Kevin Spacey, personally asked Cattrall to take on the role.
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Here's the teaser/intro that Namarupa provide.
by Daniel Dale
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It was in the spring of 2009. I had just finished teaching a yoga class at a health club in Manhattan, when a man who had been waiting by the door entered and began to do his own practice. I immediately took note of his uncommon form. He was moving and breathing just as I had seen demonstrated by Srivatsa Ramaswami and A.G. Mohan, two notable students of Krishnamacharya's. I begged the man's pardon for interrupting, but asked if he wouldn't mind my asking where he had learned to practice in such a way.
"I learned in Madras, back in the 70s," he said. "May I ask, from whom?" I inquired, to which he replied, "You probably haven't heard of him." I believe I then said, "Try me." I was soon glad I had persisted; much to my delight, he said he had studied with "a man named Krishnamacharya." ... continued online...
And I did. I know of this magazine from an article Ramaswami wrote on his own studies with Krishnamacharya. I highly recommend it, only a couple of pounds/dollars to download an edition with the option of ordering the paper copy if you so wish.
The article on Richard's notebooks blew me away. He studied with Krishnamacharya in the 70's, only for a few months, but at the same time as my own teacher Ramaswami, perhaps they crossed on the stairs going up to Krishnamacharya's room.
So the description of Krishnamacharya, his style of teaching, what he was teaching, was familiar to me from all the stories Ramaswami had told of his 30 odd years with him. And yet here, in Richard's article, is Krishnamacharya teaching in English, and it's as if his teaching has been preserved in wax.
'Richard said K's teaching methodology consisted of 4 steps. First, he would demonstrate. Then he would dictate the steps verbally and Richard would take notes and/or draw a picture. Then K had Richard do it while he dictated the steps. Lastly, Richard would do it on his own and K would watch without dictating'. p6
So in the article, Richard is flicking through his notebook for the first time in years, it's somehow like hearing a faint echo....
We're used to hearing Krishnamacharya 2nd hand, 10th hand, in translation, through a process of Chinese whispers. Ramaswami was taught by him in Tamil I believe, so even here as close to the source as you can now get, there's still a translation to English and a constant revisiting. It's Krishnamacharya but it's also Ramaswami (and perhaps all the better for it). That said I remember towards the end of Ramaswami's TT course seeing a copy of Krishnamacharya's Yogasanagalu, as I flicked through the 120 odd pictures of Krishnamacharya in asana I was struck by the thought, "This is exactly, exactly, what Ramaswami has been teaching us". The postures, the variations, all exactly the same.
With Richard's notebooks, there's such an immediacy, I can hear Krishnamacharya's voice as if he's talking directly to me and in a sense he is.
"Later, he tells me how to organize my yoga notes for teaching. 'Each section, yes, standing positions, laying positions, jumping, sitting positions, face up positions, face down.' But for now, I must keep this book as it is, chronologically." p22
This by the way is pretty much exactly as Ramaswami organized his book The Complete book of Vinyasa Krama.
And Krishnamacharya's teaching is preserved 'in wax' in another way too. Although he only studied four to five days a week for a couple of months, Richard has continued to practice, alone, for the last thirty years just as Krishnamacharya taught him. In a sense he's not part of the US 'yoga community/lifestyle as we tend to think of it, he's just someone who went to India and continued to practice the yoga he was taught there, just as he learned it.
How refreshing is that.
It reminds me of how privileged I was to be able to study with Ramaswami, who also continues to practice and teach just as Krishnamacharya taught him. And how just a couple of days before I read the article I had decided to go back to practicing Vinyasa Krama as Ramaswami had taught me....the article was a confirmation of sorts.
Is this what lineage is all about?
Perhaps I should consider a little teaching, passing on what was passed on to me.
Perhaps I should consider a little teaching, passing on what was passed on to me.
Richard actually says something quite wonderful about lineage, here's a taster, buy the article for this alone
'Richard: Yeah. I mean, these documents also remain, but basically what remains is our students. And that can fetch back very far. I sometimes, in a class, say, okay, let's say you're fifty. You are in your vital time. Or, fifty-five. And you teach something really important to a five-year-old. And that five-year- old remembers it. And when that five- year-old gets to be fifty-five, she teaches it to a five-year-old. How far back can this class reach? So, it goes 2000, 1950, 1900, 1850. You know, it takes
twenty people to get back a thousand years'. p17
Love that.
Or get the article/magazine for the clear and precise instructions Krishnamacharya gives Richard on the breath, on certain postures, how he introduces him to pranayama after just a couple of weeks. Of how he invites him to teach, expects him to teach but only one student at a time, two at most. Or for where he recommends 45 minutes practice, an hour at most or for where he tells Richard,
'Too many people battle and torture their way through yoga, go too fast.' p22
But my favourite quote from the article comes right at the end.
"Going over the materials brought 1971 back again, clear as crystal. And K along with it all, his eyes, his delicate way of moving, his strength, his humanity. And the love and respect you and the others have. A great gift."p25
Thank you Richard for Sharing your notebooks and all at Namupura for sharing them with the rest of us.


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Neymar dos Santos junior is right now one of the hottest commodities in world football. His performances in the Liga do Brazil have attracted interest from the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester City, and Chelsea among many others.
Recent reports suggest that Neymar could be on his way to Spain in the near future, with a possible move to Barcelona on the cards.
But with big-spending Manchester City coming to the table with their own offer for the Brazilian, could a move to the Premier League be in the cards for Neymar?
Barcelona are seemingly desperate to acquire the 21-year-old, doing all that they possibly can to persuade Neymar to join forces with the likes of Lionel Messi, Xavi, and Andrés Iniesta.
Along with that, Neymar's Brazilian teammate and Barcelona defender Dani Alves has been doing a little persuasive work himself to try and get Neymar to join him at the Camp Nou.
"I've been at it for ages," Alves told FIFA.com. "When the rumours of him making a move to Europe started I told him he should come to Barcelona. It's more than just a club."
Manchester City, however, are keen to not let this become a one horse race for Neymar, and are planning their own £55 million swoop for the Brazilian in the summer.
And with the Citizens having the financial upper hand on the Catalan giants, there is a definite possibility that Neymar could be making a switch to the Etihad.
According to Goal.com, City executives have already made multiple trips to Brazil to discuss the possibility of the big-money switch, with their Director of Football Txiki Begiristain personally flying over to hold talks with Santos. This could spell trouble for Barcelona who would have hoped to sign Neymar to their ranks this summer.
Neymar has pledged his allegiance to Santos to stay with the club at least until after the 2014 World Cup. But that won't stop every team in Europe from throwing down their bids for the super star during this summer's transfer window.
Knowing that the 21-year-old will have some big decisions to make in the coming years, fellow Brazilians such as Dani Alves, Ronaldo, and Pelé, have all thrown down their advice for youngster. The advice from them is to snub the Premier League and make the move to Spain.
Whether Neymar will follow the advice given to him is unknown at the moment, but what we do know is that no matter where he may end up, Neymar will become a legend in the making.
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The LCS was supposed to be the U.S. Navy's warship of the future. But the prototypes have been plagued with problems.
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Mark Hammond, Secretary of State
South Carolina Secretary of State Mark Hammond grew up in Spartanburg, where he graduated from Dorman High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Newberry College in 1986, and went on to obtain a Masters in Education from Clemson University in 1988.
Secretary Hammond is dedicated to efficiency, accountability, transparency and customer service. Some of his more notable successes as Secretary of State include:
- Initiating reforms targeting charity and telemarketing abuses, collecting more than $1.3 million in fines to date;
- Requesting and implementing improvements to the South Carolina Solicitation of Charitable Funds Act to facilitate enforcement of the Act, assuring charitable donors more accountability and transparency from nonprofit organizations;
- Offering SC Business One Stop (SCBOS), a Web-based program that allows users to electronically register a new or existing business or apply for other licenses with several state agencies at one time
- Offering online search capabilities for boards and commissions vacancies, notaries public, Uniform Commercial Codes filings and recorded statutory liens;
- Championing for and getting new legislation offering clear statutory definitions for notarial acts as well as other needed updates;
- Seizing over $51.5 million in counterfeit merchandise, resulting in the arrest of more than 550 people; and
- Continuing the annual Scrooges and Angels list of charities, and providing the percentage of receipts that actually go toward the charitable cause.
The main objective of Secretary Hammond's fourth term in office is to continue to make improvements ensuring that the Office of the Secretary of State is efficient and customer-friendly, with easy access to the services provided.
Secretary Hammond is an ex-officio member of the South Carolina Consumer Affairs Commission and Legislative Council. He has served as the liaison to the Notary Public Administrators (NPA) section of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), where he has also served on the International Relations Committee, the Standing Committee on Business Services, and the Company Formation Task Force. Mark was named an Outstanding Alumnus by the South Carolina Shrine Bowl for Public Service in 2006; named a Henry Toll Fellow by the Council of State Governments and recipient of the Sesquicentennial Medal of Honor Award Outstanding Alumni by Newberry College in 2007; a Rising State Leader by the Canadian Embassy and Canadas network of Consulates General in 2008; and a trustee to Spartanburg Methodist College in 2009.
On a personal note, Secretary Hammond and his wife Ginny have three children. The Hammonds are members of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg.


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Dog training classes
Bring your puppy or dog to the Wisconsin Humane Society for our fun and engaging training classes!
All of our classes use reward-based training techniques and we will teach you how you can use a clicker for training. Current vaccinations, including combination Distemper vaccination, protection from kennel cough (Bordetella), and Rabies, if your dog is older than four months, are required for all classes.
Guardians must be at least 18 years old and due to the interactive nature of the classes, children under the age of 8 are NOT allowed to attend. Class size is limited, so view the calendar and sign up today!
Available dog training classes
Shy Dog Class | For dogs 5 months and older
Class Length: 6 Weeks
Class Fee: Adopted $130 | Not Adopted $150
These classes are designed for dogs that are fearful or shy of people, other dogs, objects, noises, etc. We will focus on desensitizing and counter conditioning techniques. We will also teach basic training cues that help your dog to build confidence and make you proud. Dogs come on the first night!
Puppy ABC's (Appropriate Behavior Class) | For dogs less than 5 months
Class Length: 6 Weeks
Class Fee: Adopted $130 | Not Adopted $150
These classes are designed to provide essential socialization with people, other puppies and new places. We discuss normal puppy behavior such as mouthing, chewing and house training and introduce your puppy to important cues like sit, come and down. Puppies DO NOT come on the first night!
Dog Manners Class | For dogs 5 months and older
Class Length: 6 Weeks
Class Fee: Adopted $130 | Not Adopted $150
We will introduce you to the way dogs think and learn. We will focus on basic cues like sit, down, stay, off, drop-it, walking on a loose leash, plus much more. We will discuss common behavior challenges and provide management and training solutions. Please, no dogs the first night of class, humans only!
To sign up for a class, view the calendar here.
Payments for all classes must be made in advance and are non-refundable. For more information, call 414-431-6107. WHS also offers behavior consultations for those problems that cannot be addressed in a group class. For more information, click here.


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This is currently what the majority of our apartment looks like right now. It's very "bare bones" around here.I am itching to decorate this place!
– For the dining area: 1) Cover our half-mirror, half-wall with some panels. 2) Build a dining bar.
– For the live/work area: 1) Build the base for a couch and sew cushions, pillows and throws. 2) Build a large work/dining table. 3) Build a two-compartment coffee table. 4) Sew curtains and maybe a rug or two. 5) Build a coat rack and shoe caddy.
– For the sleep area: 1) Build a headboard. 2) Build an accessories area. 3) Sew curtains and maybe a rug. 4) Sew about 98,357,928,475 blankets, quilts, and pillows for our bed (I like a lot of blankets to sleep with).
– For kitchen area: 1) Sew or buy more towels and other kitchen utensils. 2) Sew a rug.
– For all areas: 1) Hang wall decor. 2) Build or find appropriate lighting.
When I look at this list, it overwhelms me a bit and I become anxious to have it done… two months ago. What makes the situation even more challenging is that I currently work 45+ hours most weeks and Will and I hardly ever have a day off together. I refuse to allow all of these factors to send me to the closest furniture store and pick out what "will work for now." I want this place to be the home I envision.
A delightful little twist to kick-start our motivation is that we recently found out that a new friend will be staying with us for 10 days in a couple of weeks. TEN DAYS! =D November 7 will be here before we know it! If that isn't enough to get us moving, I don't know what will. I am very excited to see what all we can accomplish between now and then. We plan on sharing how to's and photos and all that jazz as we finish projects. So be watching Twitter, Facebook, and here for links to check out the progress. :)
Oh yeah! And if any of you Nashville friends have a truck and would be willing to help transport some of our supplies for these projects, that would be the best! A meal and a high five would be waiting for you. ;-)
I guess this was just a bit of a vent of how I have been feeling while at home lately. Don't get me wrong; it's not all bad. For instance, I am currently listening to The Shins sing through my record player, my cute cat is sleeping in the sunlight and I am getting ready to (finally) organize our closet. It is a good day. I just can't wait until things are even better around here. :)
love, erin
* I promise that I will stop using Photo Booth photos for all of my posts. I guess I have just been lazy. Ha!