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Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she's looking forward to working with re-elected US President Barack Obama to tackle global economic and security challenges.
Mr Obama has triumphed over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win a second four-year term. Ms Gillard was among the first world leaders to congratulate him, before he even began his victory speech.
"On behalf of the government and people of Australia, I offer warm congratulations to President Barack Obama on his re-election and wish him every success for his second term in office," she said in a statement.
"Australia has worked closely with President Obama and his administration over the past four years. I look forward to continuing this friendship."
Australia and the US have a long history of working together to address global security and economic challenges, the prime minister said.
"I look forward to continuing to do so with President Obama on behalf of the people we serve," she said.
Mr Gillard has a warm personal rapport with Mr Obama. The pair famously tossed a football in the Oval Office and joked about the merits of Vegemite during a visit to a Washington DC school.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott also congratulated Mr Obama on his victory.
"It was a hard-fought contest worthy of one of the world's greatest democracies," Mr Abbott said.
"The United States is Australia's largest and most important ally and Australia can look forward to a continuation of the best possible relations with the United States."
Senior Labor politicians Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese took to Twitter to congratulate Mr Obama, while coalition foreign affairs spokeswoman Julie Bishop said she expects the strong bilateral relationship will endure.
US Ambassador to Australia Jeffrey Bleich, who was appointed by Mr Obama and counts him as a close friend, says he will now "see what the future brings" in terms of his role in the new administration.
"I love this job," Mr Bleich told reporters at a US embassy-organised election event at the National Press Club in Canberra.
"If he wants me to do something else, obviously you do what your president asks you to do. But he'd have to pry me out of here first."
Obama also won a mock poll at the embassy event, winning 84 votes to Romney's 19. Mr Bleich polled third, with 14 write-in votes.
"That's 14 more votes than I ever received for president before, so I'm going to declare that a victory," Mr Bleich joked.
Former prime minister Bob Hawke and American-born former NSW premier Kristina Keneally were among a select 200 people invited to watch the race for the White House at a US Consulate function in Sydney.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—For the first time at the Division III level, the Birmingham-Southern men's soccer team has entered the national rankings, coming in 22nd in this week's D3soccer.com coaches poll.
The Panthers, who are undefeated at 6-0, received 98 points in the poll, 22 points behind Hope College (4-1-1) and 10 points ahead of UW-Oshkosh (4-0-3). Messiah College (6-0) is ranked first in the nation, followed by Ohio Wesleyan (7-0) and Montclair State (6-0). BSC is the only Southern Athletic Association team ranked at this time, and is one of 17 teams in the Top 25 without any losses.
"While being listed in the Top 25 for the very first time in Division III is a nice tribute to our guys in this early part of the season, we still have a very long way to go to achieve our dream of doing the 'impossible in order to achieve the possible,'" Head Coach Preston Goldfarb said. "Polls are nice, especially for the first time in this Division, but continuing to believe as a mechanism for achieving the possible through tunnel vision focus, is more important."
The Panthers are on the road for their next four games before returning home to open SAA play on Saturday, Oct. 5, hosting Rhodes at 2 p.m. at BSC Soccer Park.
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ONARGA — Over in mid-state Onarga, the softball field there is called White Field. After the Gardner-South Wilmington opened up the Class 1A Gilman Sectional there with a 20-2 win over Westminster Christian on Wednesday, the Lady Panthers just may be referring to it as White Hot Field.
"I'm very happy," GSW coach Jon Posing said. "Lately the girls have been in the frame of mind that they can hit every pitch, but we've been talking to them about being patient and getting their pitch. They did that today and they hit the ball hard."
GSW belted out 15 hits on the day in beating the Warriors.
The Panthers got off the bus ready for action and responded with seven runs in the top of the first inning.
"I was not upset at all that we lost the coin toss," Posing said. "I asked the girls to go out and get me six runs in the first and they got me seven. They were generous."
Actually, the Panthers only garnered one hit in the first inning, but took advantage of four walks and three errors by an overwhelmed and bewildered Westminster Christian team.
"That's the best feeling, to come out and get that many runs on the board," Abby Horrie said. "That really pumped us up."
"It was an awesome feeling because, at that time we knew we were going to win," Becca Bernardy said.
Horrie had the lone hit in the first, on her way to a 3-for-4 game at the plate. Two of her hits were doubles. Bernardy was 2-for-4 at the plate with one of her hits being a double.
"This team has a lot of offense," Posing said. "Up and down the lineup, they did a good job tonight."
Also at the plate for GSW, Maranda Residori was 3-for-4, Lexi Posing 2-for-3 with a double and Paige Lardi was 2-for-3 with a double.
About the only drama remaining after the seven-run first was when the Warriors opened their half of the frame with three straight hits against winning pitcher Emily Foley, in the process scoring both of their runs.
"Emily's tough and she settled in after that first inning," Coach Posing said. "I was happy with everything today. The way we hit, the way we pitched and the way we fielded."
Foley went all five innings allowing four hits and one walk while striking out eight.
GSW will now play Donovan on Saturday at 11 a.m. in the championship game. Donovan beat St. Francis De Sales on Wednesday 10-4.
"I've never been this far before and it's exciting," Horrie said. "We know we have to play hard to keep it going."


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Quote:HEY! for all you krav guys out there!...........how does the grading system go in your art? and who invented it? Thanks!
Quote:The Krav Blue belt is generaly accepted as equil to a Karate Black Belt.
Quote:Brian,It seems to be more of a mental test than anything. Can you mentally keep yourself motivated to continue for 3-5 hours, days etc.From my limited interaction with Krav Maga and RBSD it not only deals with requirements (punches, kicks, locks, fighting) but also delves into stressful situations (scenerios), adrenal stress, etc. To me it would make sense to make this a major part of the testing... pushing the students to be very uncomfortable via hard long tests and pushing them mentally.Does this make it better than karate? No. It is just the way they do it.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Amanda Olson of Hastings (Neb.) has been named the NAIA Women's Soccer National Offensive Player of the Week and Jazmin Alvarez of Concordia (Calif.) has been selected as the National Defensive Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Olson and Alvarez were selected based on their performances from Oct. 28 – Nov. 3 and were chosen out of a pool of conference, independent and unaffiliated group winners.
Olson, a Lincoln, Neb., native, had a hand in all five of Hastings goals this week. The senior midfielder scored the game-winner in the Broncos 1-0 double overtime victory over Concordia (Neb.) and added two goals and two assists in the team's 4-1 win over Mount Marty (S.D.). On the season, Olson leads the team in goals (17) and points (40), while ranking third in assists (6). She also ranks among the NAIA leaders in total goals (22nd, 17), total points (28, 40), total game winning goals (30th, 4), shots per game (32nd, 4.72), goals per game (33rd, .94) and points per game (38th, 2.22). With this week's victories, Hastings earned the No. 2 seed heading into the Great Plains Athletic Conference tournament.
Alvarez, a goaltender from Chino, Calif., helped Concordia clinch its first Golden State Athletic Conference regular-season title in program history with two victories on the week. Alvarez mae six saves in wins over then-No.15 The Master's (Calif.), 2-1, and Arizona Christian, 7-0. The freshman has yet to lose a game in goal for the Eagles (12-0-3) and has recorded five shutouts on the season. She ranks 7th nationally in goals against average (.620), having allowed just nine goals on the year.
For a complete list of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
The next NAIA National Women's Soccer Players of the Week will be announced Nov. 12.
Offensive Nominees: Hannah Osmon, Lyon (Ark.); Hannah Madsen, Montreat (N.C.); Michelle Sandage, William Jessup (Calif.); Audrey Sullivan, Corban (Ore.); Samantha Yasatan, Trinity International (Ill.); Brooklyn Morgan, Spring Arbor (Mich.); Mandi Achten, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Tiffany Dimaculangan, Westmont (Calif.); Kaitlyn Hamersky, Kansas Wesleyan; Alyson Joyce, Point Park (Pa.); Jessica Ralph, Campbellsville (Ky.); Amber Brown-Longoria, Oklahoma Wesleyan; Jeri Nagle, Grand View (Iowa); Mollie Plocher, Presentation (S.D.); Allison Worsham, Oklahoma City; Fabiola Sanchez, Martin Methodist (Tenn.); Frida Bremer, Northwestern Ohio.
Defensive Nominees: Stephanie Spiteri, Lyon (Ark.); Stephanie Gagnon, Bryan (Tenn.); Whitney Galindo, Menlo (Calif.); Patty Hughes, Northwest (Wash.); Sarah Vrosh, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Kristiana Griffith, Taylor (Ind.); Amrbi Stein, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Brittany Toth, Hastings (Neb.); Destinee Evans, Ottawa (Kan.); Lizzie Hoffa, Asbury (Ky.); Johanna Henrikson, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Kaylee Vitale, Waldorf (Iowa); Kayla Pitman, Grand View (Iowa); Sam Surrell, Presentation (S.D.); Emily Oldacre, Southwestern Christian (Okla.); Rachel Blackney, Martin Methodist (Tenn.); Blaire Schmalenberg, Madonna (Mich.).
2013 National Women's Soccer Players of the Week (Offensive; Defensive)
Week 1 (Sept. 10): Florence Dadson, Robert Morris (Ill.); Brittany Toth, Hastings (Neb.)
Week 2 (Sept. 17): Karly Linton, Spring Arbor (Mich.); Sarah Yancer, Spring Arbor (Mich.)
Week 3 (Sept. 24): Esther Anyanwu, Brenau (Ga.); Felicia Reimann, Morningside (Iowa)
Week 4 (Oct. 1): Angela Bianchi, Judson (Ill.); Amanda Coleman, St. Francis (Ill.)
Week 5 (Oct. 8): Jessica Martinez, Columbia (S.C.); Kristin Fulbright, Northwest Christian (Ore.)
Week 6 (Oct. 15): Molly Machometa, Viterbo (Wis.); Morgan Aukshunas, Biola (Calif.)
Week 7 (Oct. 22): Rhianne Parsons, Cumberland (Tenn.); Lauren Terry, Vanguard (Calif.)
Week 8 (Oct. 29): Megan Daniels, Concordia (Calif.); Kristen Morency, John Brown (Ark.)
Week 9 (Nov. 5): Amanda Olson, Hastings (Neb.); Jazmin Alvarez, Concordia (Calif.)


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Omar Gonzalez y Robbie Keane Finalistas en los Premios MLS
CARSON, Calif. (Wednesday, November 20, 2013) – LA Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez and forward Robbie Keane have each been named finalists for end of season MLS awards. Gonzalez is one of three finalists for the league's Defender of the Year award while Keane has been named as one of three finalists for the Volkswagen Most Valuable Player award. Additionally, the Galaxy are one of three clubs up for the annual Xbox Team Fair Play award. The Xbox Team Fair Play award will be announced on Monday, November 25 while the MLS Defender of the Year award will be unveiled a day later on Tuesday, November 26. The winner of Volkswagen Most Valuable Player award will be announced two days prior to MLS Cup on Thursday, December 5.
Keane finished the 2013 MLS season with 16 goals and 11 assists in just 23 games, leading the Galaxy in each category. One of two players in MLS with 10 or more goals and assists, Keane's 16 goals were the fourth most in MLS while his 11 assists were the third most in the league. The Galaxy were 9-1-3 in the regular season games when Keane tallied either a goal or an assist and he either scored or assisted on more than half (27) of the Galaxy's 53 goals during the 2013 campaign.
Named the Galaxy captain before the start of the season, Keane will look to join Carlos Ruiz in 2002 and Landon Donovan in 2009 as the only Galaxy players to be selected as the MLS MVP. He is the first Galaxy player to be named a finalist for the award since Edson Buddle was in 2010 while Cobi Jones (1998) and Donovan (2008) were also finalists for the award.
The MLS Defender of the Year in 2011 and a finalist for the award in 2010, Gonzalez is looking to become the fourth player in MLS history to win the award twice. He appeared in and started 27 games for the Galaxy this season, helping the club keep 10 clean sheets and collect a 13-7-7 record in those matches, compared to a 2-4-1 record in the seven games that he missed. Playing his first full season since suffering a serious knee injury in January 2012, Gonzalez scored once and added two assists while only committing 17 fouls and being booked just twice during the regular season.
In addition to Gonzalez winning the award in 2011, the only other Galaxy player to be selected as the MLS Defender of the Year was Robin Fraser, who won the award in 1999. Fraser was also named a finalist for the award in 1996, 1998 and 2000 while Alexi Lalas (2002) and Tyrone Marshall (2005) were also finalists for the honor while playing with the Galaxy, as was Gonzalez in 2010.
Rounding out the Galaxy awards finalists, the club is up for the Xbox Fair Play award, which is selected by MLS based on objective criteria such as fewest fouls committed and cards received and on the subjective evaluation of sportsmanlike behavior. LA's 386 fouls committed in the 2013 regular season were the third fewest in MLS while the club's 36 yellow cards were the fewest in the league. The Galaxy were also shown just one red card during the season after being shown six in the previous two years combined. In addition to the Galaxy, the Houston Dynamo and Vancouver Whitecaps FC have also been selected as finalists for the award.
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Latest 'Pay To Be On 'Public' TV' Scam Involves Football Coach Jimmy Johnson
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The scam continued to morph. A few years ago, under the name "In Focus," it was "hosted" by Martin Sheen, until that got called out and was shut down. Then it was "Outlook with Ben Kingsley." But the basics of the scam were the same. The semi-famous or famous "host" obviously just comes in for like a day of reading intros on a cheap TV set, and then they show a "profile" on the company who paid big bucks. The claims of being on "public TV" are massively exaggerated to downright bogus. The NY Times did a big expose on this scam back in 2008. NPR did a detailed takedown in 2010. PBS itself has put out a warning to people not to believe the claims from these ever-rotating operations about their shows being on "public television." It notes that it has no association with any such show and PBS never solicits money from organizations to be on TV.
But it keeps morphing, as evidenced by the Martin Sheen and Ben Kingsley versions, both of which happened long after those stories.
The latest version uses the same basic playbook -- and this time the "talent" is famed football coach Jimmy Johnson, and the show is called "Leading Edge with Jimmy Johnson." The reason I know about this is because the somewhat clueless folks who work there decided to pitch Techdirt/Floor64 to be on the program (apparently unaware that we'd written about scammers like themselves before):
My name is Barbara Rock, I'm the assistant to Mr. Bill Thomas who is the Sr. Producer for Leading Edge on National Public Television. If you're not familiar with the program, it's an interstitial news break that airs prime time in the U.S. on National Public Television just after The Nightly Business Report.Note the careful word choice. "National Public Television," not PBS (though, a neat attempt to confuse with National Public Radio). Also, whoever is behind "Leading Edge" also is doing some fairly dodgy SEO work. They've registered a ton of domain names like "leadingedgeseriespbs.com" (and .org and .biz and many more) trying to imply an association with PBS that isn't really there. According to the Washington Post article linked above, they did the same with the Martin Sheen show, with numerous sites using combinations of "Martin Sheen" and "PBS" in the URLs, but with small disclaimers elsewhere saying they're not associated with PBS. That article also notes that the actual contract terms say that the videos "will be distributed" to "public Television stations in all 50 states," with potential "estimated viewership and reach for one year [of] 60 million households."
The reason for my contact Mr. Thomas will be producing a few segments for our upcoming season highlighting innovative breakthroughs and solutions that are changing the way we live and work, and our research department has forwarded to Mr. Thomas a general profile on Floor64 as a possible invite to the program for this segment.
If you have a few minutes one day next week, Mr. Thomas would like to discuss this with you in more detail, to learn more about Floor64 and to see if the organization would be a good fit for this segment.
Yes, again, carefully ambiguous language. By saying "distributed" it just means they'll send them out -- not that anyone will air them.
I sought more information from "Barbara Rock" and she was rather straightforward in admitting that we would have to pay -- though she insisted that it wasn't a fee to be on the show, even though it clearly was:
For starters this is not a "pay-for-play" where we would be asking Floor64 to buy airtime. As a matter fact Public TV does not sell commercials. An interstitial news break is the 5 min. between programs on Public Television. The only costs associated is a pre-production/underwriting fee of $18,900 plus travel. In addition to being featured on The Leading Edge program Floor64 would also receive a fully produced 5 min. corp. demo and a fully produced 1 min. commercial that would air primetime on CNBC 50 times in the markets of your choice. All production and distribution is included in the fee.Again, note the careful choice of words. You're not "buying airtime" -- just "pre-production, underwriting." Real TV programs don't do that. She also followed up on the claim about PBS/public television saying:
Our program airs across the country on Public Television, some of which are PBS affiliated, however our segments run on all Public TV stations not just the ones that are PBS affiliated. Our presenting station is KRCB in San Francisco.So she claims they run on "all Public TV stations" which is clearly a bogus claim. Furthermore, if you click on that KRCB link, the URL suggests it was once about "Leading Edge" but now takes you to a "page not found" link, so if KRCB ever did show Leading Edge, that appeared to have gone away. I asked Barbara about this missing link, and she apparently decided I was asking too many questions, refusing any further responses. I also reached out multiple times to KRCB's senior executives, Nancy Dobbs and Larry Stratton, both of whom refused to respond to email and phone requests for comments. I'm not sure why, but that certainly seems fairly sketchy.
However, before Barbara stopped responding to me, she did offer two examples of companies that had participated in the Leading Edge series as enticements as to why I might be interested: GigaOm and DocuSign. Now, I know folks at GigaOm, and they're not ones to be taken in by a scam like this. But, indeed, there they are, featured on the Leading Edge site.
No matter what, this seems like another version of the same old scam, tricking businesses into paying big bucks for questionable claims of being on "public television" on a show hosted by some celebrity. Indeed, if you do a search, you can find a bunch of businesses in press releases about how "Leading Edge with Jimmy Johnson" will "host an upcoming segment" on whatever it is that business is doing. Hopefully, with a bit more attention, Jimmy Johnson will back away from this, the same way Walter Cronkite, Hugh Downs, Joan Lunden, Martin Sheen and Ben Kingsley did in the past. But, of course, it seems likely the deal will just morph and be back with another semi-famous "host" soon after.


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If your business travel is taking you abroad for the first time, you'll want to make sure that you are prepared for the adventure. If you'll be driving car rentals, it's best to research traffic laws in the area you'll be staying. However, that's not where your preparations should end.
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Pregnant designer Tara Subkoff traveled to LA before Fashion Week to meet with her ex-fiancé, "The King's Speech" director Tom Hooper, after their messy split last month. Sources say the pair are "trying to be friends," and may reconcile. Page Six revealed last month that Subkoff is pregnant with Hooper's child and that he ended their relationship at the same time she discovered she was expecting. "Tom is crazy busy directing," said a source, referring to his adaptation of "Les Misérables," starring Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe. "But they're trying to be friends, and potentially to reconcile. They are doing well and are in good spirits together." Subkoff has since returned from LA to become a Fashion Week fixture. She threw a "boozy brunch" presentation at Buddakan for her Imitation line Sunday, where Rose McGowan and Gina Gershon came out for support and magicians performed for guests and models alike. She later partied at an Imitation and Doyle Mueser bash, and has been spotted at events for Annabelle Dexter Jones and Faith Connexion and House of Waris.
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Whew...now that was a storm!
Been all over recently, but wanted to post a few observations before the next freight train hits Utah starting tomorrow. The new snow came in with a density change about 5" into the new snow. It was easily found probing, and people with skinnier skis seemed to have a bit more difficulty dealing with it. I never really felt it skiing. I've been thinking about the shallower snowpack + the MLK rain crust/hoar interface in Millcreek/Lambs/Parleys lately, and my concerns were validated with a really nasty slide in Lambs: http://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanch ... on_2212011. Read the details: it would have likely killed someone caught or at least they would have wished they were dead.


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Ralph Lauren And Its Lawyers Discover The Streisand Effect On Bogus DMCA Takedown
from the someone's-bright-idea dept
So, not surprisingly, BoingBoing put up a nice post explaining the whole thing, including a nice quote from lawyer Wendy Seltzer about fair use... and, of course, another version of the image, and dared Ralph Lauren to sue. Hopefully Ralph Lauren and its lawyers get the message and offer a quick apology. In the meantime, it makes you wonder what the hell anyone was thinking in sending out such a bogus DMCA. Do people really not recognize the consequences?


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Information technology associate professor Jeff Pittges was awarded a 2012 IBM Faculty Award to further his research on teaching Business Intelligence (BI). The award includes a $10,000 donation for research. The IBM Faculty Awards is a worldwide competitive program, and nominations for these awards must be initiated by someone within IBM. Pittges is the only professor from Virginia who received this award in 2012. Award winners hail from universities across the globe including Carnegie Mellon University, University of Cambridge, Columbia University, University of Michigan, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and MSU Moscow State University. Pittges was one of 91 information technology faculty members to receive this international award.
Pittges says that this award will provide funding for his students to more effectively learn the area of business intelligence. "Students in my Data Warehousing, Mining, and Reporting (ITEC 442) class develop a data warehouse, a data integration process, reports and dashboards, and a data mining application using machine learning algorithms. Through IBM's Academic Initiative, my students have access to IBM technology including the DB2 database, InfoSphere Warehouse, Cognos (reporting and dashboards), and SPSS analytics," says Pittges. He is developing role-based learning activities that provide the students with hands-on experience in developing a complete BI infrastructure.
IBM employee and 1975 RU alumna Penelope Gardner sponsored Pittges throughout the award application process. She was excited to be able to open doors for RU faculty with IBM. "I was so thrilled to be able to spend time on campus again. I'm so proud of Jeff Pittges because it takes effort to apply for this award. He is going above and beyond to create a tool that will be available for other faculty to use. It is a 'feather in the cap' for RU to have leading faculty in this field," says Gardner.
IBM has been an extremely valuable resource in helping the information technology department develop a Master's program in Data and Information Management, says Pittges. He attended the IBM Information on Demand (IOD) conference in October of 2012 and participated in the Academic track with other schools that are developing similar programs. He says all of the schools are facing similar challenges to develop the expertise necessary to train students to manage and analyze big data. "Partnering with companies like IBM is the only way for a university to remain current with best practices. IBM has been extremely generous sharing their technology and their expertise. IBM has provided real data sets from their clients so my students are working in a real environment using industry leading products to solve real problems with real data," adds Pittges. He says his students learn the concepts and principles in class. Then they apply the concepts and principles in the project to better prepare for a career in the IT field.
"Business Intelligence is driven by industry. My research is not an obvious fit for traditional academic funding programs given the heavy focus on industry needs. Data science is becoming a huge need for industry, but before data may be analyzed, the data must be collected and managed effectively. More research is needed to improve how we teach students to collect and manage big data," says Pittges. This is the first step, he says, to providing our students with better knowledge and practice in business intelligence.
"I'm thrilled to receive the award, but the funding pales in comparison to the support I have received from IBM. Penelope has introduced me to several experts who continue to help me develop realistic projects for students," says Pittges. Gardner says that now the networking has begun, Pittges has the opportunity to approach IBM again for future funding. Pittges asked for $10,000 in 2012, and will submit a proposal this spring for $20,000. "Based on what he's done and will do with this award, I feel confident that he'll be supported in the future," adds Gardner.


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Most Famous Ancient Greek and Roman Coin Collectors and Investors (Video)
Most Famous Coin Collectors Mentioned in the Video:
Roman Emperor Augustus, Emperor 27 B.C. – 14 A.D.
Thomas Jefferson President of the United States 1801-1805
John Quincy Adams President 1821-1825
Franklin Delano Roosevelt President 1933-1945
Tony Blair United Kingdom Prime Minister 1997-2007
James Earl Jones famous for doing Star Wars Movie voice for Darth Vader
Wayne Gretzky Hockey Champion who invests in to coins
Buddy Ebsen famous actor for Beverly Hillbillies television show
Penny Marshall actress from famous show Laverne & Shirley
Nelson Bunker Hunt Billionaire Oil Tycoon and Investor famously tied in with cornering the silver Market in the 1980's and had to sell his coin collection through Sotheby's in 1990
He was also the proud owner of the most famous ancient Roman coin of them all associated with the assassination of Julius Caesar for the sake of "liberty" by his most famous assassin Brutus
Peter Weller an actor in the Robocop movies actually owned the famous Brutus coin at one point from the Nelson Bunker Hunt collector. Another probable owner of that coin was the late Jerry Weintraub, a famous Hollywood producer.
King Farouk of Egypt who ruled 1936-1952 owned on the most expensive American Gold Double Eagle coin ever sold for over seven million dollars.
Nicole Kidman has been rumored to collect coins, perhaps we'll find out more one day.
Andre Dawson Baseball Hall of Fame Star
Paul McCartney of the Beatles
King Louis XIV 'Sun King" builder of Palace of Versailles had a fantastic con collection
King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who ruled 1900-1946 had the best coin collection
John Larroquette Emmy award winning actor
Bruce Williams popular talk show host, second after Rush Limbaugh collects coins
Dennis Rodman Bulls Basketball Champion collects coins
Mayer Amschel Rothschild founder of the Rothschild dynasty collected coins and amassed a fortune
Jackie Onassis had an amazing gold coin collection
JP Morgan Family had an amazing coin collection and donated pieces to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kellan Lutz actor and model, played in a movie called Hercules
Charlie Bodin actor said on twitter he is a coin collector
Medici family, known to be patrons of the arts collected coins
Allessandro Farnese who was grandson of Pope Paul III, both of whom collected coins put together one of the finest collections of coins, sculpture and artifacts from ancient Greek and Roman times.
King George III of England made the first ancient coin museum in England
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How To Make Perfect Chevron Stripes Every Time
In general, I'm more of a "just wing it" type person. I have little patience and always assume I'm right about most things. But when it came to the painting of these chevron stripes, I had to throw my old routine out the window and really pay attention to get super star results. Do you remember my chevron spray painted carpet? Here's how I got the look!
What You Need
Masking Tape
Pencil or chalk stick
Nails (optional)
Chalk Line (with non-permanent chalk)
Hammer (optional)
1. How Many Zigs & Zags?
To start, you want to first determine how many zigs and zags you want per stripe. I decided I wanted 3 lows and two highs, or rather two peaks on each stripe (it makes sense when you look at the picture).
2. Chalk Lines
After deciding how many lines I would need to make (3 total to make the number of zig zags I wanted), I nailed a nail with a large head at the end of the rug at the beginning of where each chalk line will need to be made. (If you have someone helping you, there's no need for nails!) If you don't have the ability to hammer into the floor like I do, try using a 2×4 and a friend to hold it down while you do this process. You could alternately take the piece outside and nail into the grass if that's an option. Run your chalk line out and snap each line several times to make it as dark as possible.
3. Time To Measure
My stripes are each 12″ thick. To achieve this I used a ruler and marked 12″ up the first line. On the second line I measured up 6″ and then started the same process over again. The last line I returned to the original starting position (just like the first) and marked my way up the tape.
4. Let's Get Tape-Tastic!
I won't lie, taping is hard on the knees. You think it's a simple process, but in all reality, it was the most time consuming part of the entire process. To start, you'll want to be consistent on your taping in relation to the marks you made. Either run the tape from marking to marking and place the tape above or below the marking, just make sure you do the same thing on every piece of tape laid. It will throw your design off if not, and don't be afraid to use the ruler to tear your tape in perfectly so you have exact lines.
5. Paint Away
Paint between your lines, allowing the paint to cure slightly but not all the way. With the fabric spray paint, I actually removed the tape as soon as I was done spraying. Make sure to pull the tape off and angle it towards the painted area. This will ensure any drips or pulling of the paint will go back into the area it matches color wise.
Additional Notes:
You'll note that it's not imperative to clean your space before starting as evident by the stray sock, floor tiles, shoes and skateboards in the near vicinity. Creativity happens when it happens, so go with it! Make sure to check out the final look for this project. It has held up well and makes a big statement for very little money!
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Bill and Melinda Gates on Top 3 Myths of Poverty
Many people think poverty is increasing around the world. But in fact things are getting better almost everywhere, say Bill and Melinda Gates. They talk with WSJ's Gary Rosen about three deeply damaging myths about global poverty and development.
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... I ... are we losing the battle against global poverty is foreign aid away ... and does it contribute to overpopulation ... our guests today Bill and Melinda Gates answer an emphatic no to all three questions they join us this morning from Seattle good morning ... Monday morning ... well so I'm that that to him you've written a piece for The Wall Street Journal over the weekend in your foundation ... releases its annual letter today and in in both of these you want to combat these nets these destructive myth so so Bill let's start with you ... and the FirstNet ... isn't that just realism ... that the view that a lot of people in America have ... that the pour around the world are pretty much doomed this tape or that we haven't made much progress there ... yet it's easy for people to be confused about that because they are often seen ... pictures of poor countries I think while ... were rich their foreign aid it seems like a constant ... however ... a ... their wealth of bills for countries has been changing ... many day you would of thought of this as for now ... middle income Brazil China ... I am and saw many countries moving up ... and it really is an amazingly positive story ... it's taken place just in the last generation ... in fact I predict in the lead letter that was up almost note for countries ... within the next twenty years ... well so um what are some especially impressive cases especially places you visit and say ... two decades ago and where your active now through the foundation ... aam and I were an ... eye on Mexico City in nineteen eighty seven in you can see people carrying water drugs around and was really quite Legion fireman so when you go back now you can say wow this is a city with ... a mostly middle class people here ... and stretching Mexico's rich enough ... of that they're self-sufficient ... they don't receive a lot of data were not ... having to put our resources there were putting him in the countries that are moving not ... have a chance of becoming self sustaining like Mexico and so ... on ... most the world's population Aus middle income ... the ... about two billion ... pedestal for week and ... I call most of those ... in a very ... defined period of time by having the right programs also speaking of these programs there's this whole question of foreign aid and this is the second and if you want to deal with ... there is this common impression that foreign aid is in effect gives it it means to create the correction ... of writing it down it it creates a kind of economic dependence says oh is is this view so wrong ... also if you just focus on headlines seem see a lot of stories about ... the programs that don't work ... on the back seat each in a very small piece that was misdirected ... offered sample in global fund a two percent he's the isthmus threat to the global Fund found itself ... and not really highlighting that ninety eight percent begins to ... of large effectiveness ... the ability to understand how to measure outcomes of the world's got a lot better about ... after all linen I are very analytical we wanna make sure the money were given has big impact on we've chosen ... a lot of these teen oriented programs for the ... the Foundation's focus ... so the answer is that he has a lot of great hits overall it's very valuable ... even though there are some cases that that a house and to achieve its goals ... now it using the thing is especially effective in certain key sectors where where do you think been great successes of four native tongue ... well how can a culture of the two that ... are really are enabling ... out allowing ... a chance ... on to be ... healthy so they can learn and contribute ... allowing the farming sector to ... give that nutrition and ... free up labor for ... other activities also the two most of living ... so so Melinda to turn to this this third myth BB overpopulation if ... this is a special concern of yours because of your interest ... in reproductive health so it so I did tell me abt what what what's the problem with this view is that ... well it's interesting that my interest because my interest in women and girls in the economic opportunities that they can have to lift their families ... and I traveled around the globe you know Oprah over a decade now ... I NetEase when any ... one access to contraceptives they know about the under educated about them and they say why can't I get them ... and when you look at the global statistics which you start to realize is that we have two hundred million women ... would like to have access to contraceptives two dollars ... and the reason I wanted to write this and this though is when I come back to the you ask people say to me ... you know after the bid talk to me troubles but that if you kill or Simi nice children out with other partners through vaccines ... are we gonna over populate the planet that's a belief in the United States and its ... and the reason we have that meant that persists is that Paul Ehrlich was very ... successful with his bucket nineteen sixty eight the population bomb ... telling people were to overcome the planet were to over populate the planet when in fact when you look at what's happened since the late nineteen sixties ... country after country where women are educated have access to contraceptives ... don't actually bring down the birth rate their children as more of their children live ... well so I'm ... let me ask you add both of you really a broader question you view in the past with your annual letter talked about the activities of the foundation here ... here here trying I think it into shape opinion about the sort of work you do why why is it important to do this what what them what effect you hope to have ... bullies men served ... up ... it's understandable why ... people might leave them ... in the Dooley of them ... then they would ... retain the work of our foundation really is a waste as well as the big government aid programs going after those same area so we decided to take and ... just really drive home ... odd that these are ... aam believes ... of that don't have evidence in fact the evidence of the countryside is why we're so excited ... how we want people to be more of the more committed ... um we're talking about how to do this cup batter ... what now now also in I think you're very candid about this you do have a kind of I'm agenda ... policy wise and that ... you think it would be good for the U S and other Western countries to contribute more ... in foreign aid so he can you talk a little bit about how the foundation ... works with government programs as many people consider them to be these very separate things and they think oh the Gates Foundation ... is business oriented ineffective and then we have all these government programs that are hopeless failures incorrect ... was a late evening a specific example we were on the grounds Ethiopia with a whole host of partners ... aam on Health for women children and and and it's because the Ethiopian government has built out their primary healthcare centers these little health posts ... eighteen thousand of them around the country staff with to rein in its thirty thousand healthcare workers ... and what we do in partnership with people like us AIG and UNICEF to help screen vaccines is wheat each do our peace in supporting that primary health post ... working with the government Ethiopia to say what are the lifesaving medicines ... that women and children and men should have that we know will bring down the childhood illness that of that mentality in this country so we work side by side ... and we actually critique each other's work ... and if we see a supply chain issuer medicines are flowing or vaccines are going ... we flow that information back to one another ... well okay one final point here though so ... where were seeing tough economic times ... here in the U S in your up ... lots of people out of work pressure on government spending ... that we spend already entirely too much of public funds on for a day and then can we really afford to spend anymore as important is that might be ... for the United States and so a bit less than one percent of its budget on foreign aid ... and icy of all the parts of the budget that's for you can see the impact millions of lives saved countries being uplifted to become self sufficient ... OS I wish we would would spend more ... other European governments to spend a bit over three percent of their budget ... and so we're nowhere near that the most generous ... but people should feel good about war going on and ... innovation ... in a look at the partnerships we have the government see are we getting smarter or we we doing this the best rate possible ... I think Bill points out in his part in a letter in foreign aid will we see in the global fund working mean the difference to what's happening on the ground in Africa ... people sleeping under bed nets children seeking other bed nets mothers will tell you we've not seen malaria in our community we use to see it six years ago ... that's the difference because of the global fund ... and that's why we feel so strongly to make sure that that money continues to flow because we meet the people ... the families are actually affected by a ... very good twelve year annual letter to short to provoke lots of discussion and maybe even some change so I Bill and Melinda Gates things very much for joining us ... the thank you ... for Wall Street Journal weekend Revue I'm Gary Rosen ...


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The Southwest Florida Event Center is a state of the art performing arts center and dinner theater opening in Bonita Springs just north of Naples in 2016. The center hosts live performing arts, comedy and music as well as banquets, weddings and private and corpate events. The centers hosts an outside Farmers Market every Friday between October and March, with a Culinary & Farmers Market Hybrid every third Friday featuring hot and cold foods to go and live demonstrations by local chefs.


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Raiders middle linebacker Rolando McClain signed a citation for overly dark window tint Tuesday as "(Expletive) y'all," Decatur (Ala.) police said.
Officers arrested the former Alabama star on a charge of giving a false name to law enforcement.
When a patrol supervisor asked McClain to put his real name on the ticket, McClain told the sergeant, "That is my name," police spokesman Lt. John Crouch told The Decatur Daily.
McClain, the Raiders' first-round pick in 2010, could have avoided arrest simply by signing his name to the ticket.
He was released on $1,000 cash bail a short time later.
McClain had letter from doctor about window tint. He has "photosensitivity, needs ultraviolet radiation protection." Maybe McClain, who's struggled in his three years with Oakland, can't see running backs.
"I'm falsely accused of everything," McClain told the Decatur Times Daily from the parking lot of City Hall. "It's corrupt. It's terrible."
When the newspaper asked him if he believes police are out to get him, McClain said, "Yes. You said it. I answered it."
He was suspended by the Raiders for two games this season for conduct detrimental to the team, and then didn't play in the last three games. McClain, the team's first-round pick in 2010, is expected to be released as soon as it makes sense salary-cap wise and is not in the team's plans.
His arrest follows his November 2011 arrest in Decatur, where he went to high school, on assault charges. McClain was found guilty in municipal court but the chargers were dismissed on appeal to Morgan County circuit clerk when the victim, Rishard Tapscott, told prosecutors he no longer wanted to pursue the case.


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Computers and Intractability
This work is in three parts. The first introduces NP completeness and describes how to go about proving that a problem is NP complete. The second part looks at more advanced topics, such as the structure of the class of NP problems - you might think of all NP complete problems as being more or less the same, but the authors show that there is more it than that. They also describe tractable ways of obtaining approximate solutions to NP complete problems.
It's the third part which will be the most important for most people though. This consists of a list of a large number of NP complete problems including references to the proof of their NP completeness. So whether you are you are a student of computational complexity, you are thinking of attacking the million dollar P=NP question, or you just have to write a program for a problem which you think might be NP complete, you will find that this book is a useful addition to your library.


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Found a nice guide and summary for the episode:
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This has probably been brought up before, and im just being stupid and picky instead of enjoying the series for what it is. But how the hell does every individual from underground terrorist cells to entire countries own mobile suits?? I mean its not as if al Qaeda or the Taliban own fleets of tanks and aircraft carriers, or could even afford to own them assuming they had the desire. so wtf???
alright ill shut up now.
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The Helions are almost as out-dated as the Anfs. In order to financially support the nations of AEU, an excessive amount of arms-trading took place. As Sergei angrily pointed out, it leads to the Helions falling into hands of terrorists.
Both Helions and Anfs are horribly ineffective against standard issue MS of the major nations. Once they were replaced entirely by better units, these MS entered the Black Market at bargain prices. That's how resistance groups could afford them.
And don't forget, there is also the super-cheap workloaders.
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Price of getting a MS is only a small part of the problem. The biggest cost of military hardware's comes from maintenance. There's the spare parts and the personnels that needs to be trained. Most terrorists won't have the infrastructure for such things.
Just getting the tanks or MS and not knowing how to keeps them in peak condition usually make them end up target practises when you actually need to use them.
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As for the Green Hornet, I thought it was pretty cool. FINALLY some hand to hand action. I can't remember when, if ever there was that kind of physical intervention before.
Also, it's nice to see Celestial Being one-up everyone without firing anything. Very crafty touch. And also crafty of Setsuna to pull a Death Note style Light act. Though I think Setsuna is probably a lot kinder in heart even in his dual-face than Light ever was.
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A few scattered thoughts:
-Someone give Ali Al Sarges a better suit.
Still, that was one of the better one-on-one sequences so far, especially so for Setsuna. Not many big pretty beams and artful dodging, but when it finished I was relatively more satisfied.
-Marina Ismail isn't going to survive if something like that happens again. I wonder if anyone actually heard her crying out Setsuna's name, but that will be for later. I realise there will probably be lots of people flaming her again, since the way she has been acting isn't giving her any brownie points to the more critical viewers, however understandable her reaction might be given the situation in which she had ascended to the throne, assuming that she had no real choice to begin with.
-So Ali knows, Marina confirms, Graham suspects....Who's to stop any other major character from recognizing Setsuna for who he is? I assume Graham's suspicions would be along the line of believing Setsuna to be from one of the major players in the chaos that ensued after Rafmadi's (sp?) kidnapping, but nothing more.
-How in the world did Hong Long dodge all those frickin' bullets?! Time to hire pals with a better aim, Ali...Unless Mr. Hong has supersonic speed and inhuman reflexes, that is.
-Somehow the scene where Exia came in unarmed and walking towards the palace despite being bombarded took the cake for me. Not entirely sure why, though. Maybe it was because of the way Exia walked inexorably towards the palace despite the opposition. Not a bad way to take the limelight back.
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When Marina says she's only a formal figure she really is... I mean she didn't even finish to order to not shoot against Exia that people did that, followed by the regular army. I think Azadistan has a long way to go before being called a true country. Ah and Exia has the phase shift for sure, or how it is called in 00 universe.
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The MS tech had been out for decades in the 00 universe, unlike say the SEED or Wing world. The existence of Work-loaders means even the civilian sector are familiar with mobilesuit maintenance. And anyway you don't need them in peak condition; they are usually used against infantry, and as I said before they don't stand a chance against real armies.
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Grant it, should he ever run into setsuna on the street, particularly in an area where Celestial being might show up... well yeah... he'll know well enough
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For some reason I loved this episode, first of all I thought fight between Ali and Setsuna was awesome, I think this was the first time I thought Setsuna used skill instead of just relying on Exia. Second how the CB release the Massoud was well done. So with episode 13, that means 1/4 of the series is done, and so far I very pleased with this show and think it's going on to right direction , despite with some flaw that other people might points out.
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Favorite episode so far! Setsuna became my favorite as of this episode! Do you guys think that the whole Azadistan arc is over now? Or do you think they will return there? I want to see more Setsuna and Marina! Marina is weak right now but as the series goes on I know she will rely on herself more after the little talk she had with Setsuna.
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I just wrote a really long and creative take on this last episode and my cpu plug accidently came outta the wall as I wrote my last sentence >_<....So I am extremely pi$$ed right now...A short version would be something like this:
Setsuna fight good
Setsuna's character cross bridge
He fight with soul so he is Gundam now
Ali is no more than mid-boss but he fight good too
Fight look pretty and stuff
Graham is still the $hit
Tieria is still b!tch
9 outta 10...
I'm off to watch my Tigers in the BCS championship game, maybe that lost post will return, I doubt I can do better than what I wanted you guys to see though ...
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7/10 this ep for me...nothing was particularly amazing...it seems it's stuff we've already seen in other places, from Lockon/Setsuna teamup to Tieria being a bastard to Sumeragi to Setsuna vs. Ali emoing over God to Graham being Graham...meh ep. Not amazing, but not bad.
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Oh it's ok wingdarkness, I also had my share of that kind of mishaps like you did...>.<;; and not just once during a really good post that was also lost because our PC suddenly decided to turn off for no apparent reason, but TWICE in a row...@.@;; I know how that feels...>.>;;
I also noticed Tieria is becoming more and more of a jerk as the series goes by...is he compensating for something...
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New Gundam Pilots Revealed!
Source: http://celestialbeing.net/
New pilots for Gundam Thrine Eins, Zwei, and Drei and the color of the new Gundams confirmed by Newtype magazine.
The names of the pilots of Gundam Throne and their voice-actors:
- Thrones Eins - Yohan Trinity / Katsuyuki Konishi (guy on top)
- Thrones Zwei - Mihaeru Trinity / Daisuke Namikawa (guy in the middle)
- Thrones Drei - Neena Trinity / Rie Kugimiya (girl on bottom)
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Will Google's New Hamfisted Censorship On Autocomplete Raise Questions Of Human Meddling?
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As we noted when the announcement was made, this is really difficult to do in any reasonable manner. What's "closely associated with piracy," one day becomes a legitimate format the next. Take MP3s for example. Five or six years ago, if Google had made this decision, you would imagine that Google might have decided to block "mp3" from autocomplete -- and yet, now, MP3 is the standard that is used around the world in all sorts of legitimate online music stores, including iTunes and Amazon. We pointed out that blocking things like "bittorrent" or just "torrent" would be a mistake of the same nature -- as it's just a standard that has plenty of legitimate uses, even if it's frequently used for unauthorized copying today.
Unfortunately, whoever was in charge of handling this at Google went for a simplistic sledge hammer approach, with the company now dropping a variety of terms, many of which have perfectly legitimate uses. Many of the choices seem totally arbitrary. As expected, BitTorrent and torrent are now blocked -- despite plenty of legal uses, and the fact that BitTorrent itself is a perfectly legal company with tons of companies using its technology for completely noninfringing purposes. In the TorrentFreak link above, there are reactions from a variety of companies, including BitTorrent Inc., RapidShare and Vodo, who all note that this move appears to hurt their legitimate businesses.
And that's where I wonder if this move will backfire in a big way on Google. While the concept of "search neutrality" may be one of the more ridiculous ideas to come out of Google-haters for years, the fact that the company is now clearly hand-picking "winners and losers" when it comes to searches on these kinds of technologies and services seems like something that will be used as evidence against Google at some point.
Google had a strong defense in the past to complaints of bias, in that it was focused on not meddling with its results. However, while this move doesn't directly mess with the actual results, by mucking with autocomplete, it is likely to have an impact on the kinds of searches that people do, driving them away from many perfectly legitimate solutions, for no reason other than that the company caved to pressure based on no legal rationale. All this really does is now open the door for others to demand that Google adjust its search recommendations and results in their favor as well. I'm really surprised Google would agree to do this in the first place, let alone do it in such a... simplistic and overly broad fashion.


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The blogosphere exploded on Tuesday with the rumor that President-Elect Barack Obama might ask Sen. Hillary Clinton to be our next secretary of state.
Immediately, pro- and anti-Hillary comments lit up the Web. Personally, I can't wait for her to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but in the meantime, welcome to the next eight (I hope) years, where fractious Democrats, liberals, progressives, libertarians and even a few conservatives -- opinionators each and every one of them -- create a cacophony of comment over every move Obama does or doesn't make.
This is why I'm bewildered by a comment made by conservative Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan last week. "There is joy to be had in being out of power," she said. "You don't have to defend stupid decisions anymore. You get to criticize with complete abandon."
What stupid decisions did you have to defend in your influential column, Peggy? Perhaps invading Iraq? If you thought that was dumb, why didn't you speak out before more than 4,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed, numberless people were wounded or displaced, and our national treasury was looted? What other wisdom did we miss from the woman Brian Williams nominated this year for a Pulitzer Prize?
But perhaps this illustrates one of the interesting differences between liberals and conservatives. Liberals argue over almost everything. They're the ones who gave us the phrase, "circular firing squad."
But for the past eight years, conservatives have marched in lockstep to defend the indefensible. Just about everything that President Bush and his administration have done has been endlessly praised, defended and echoed. In fact, in their arrogance, Republicans have described Bush's actions -- to an increasingly skeptical populace -- as creating its own new reality.
I'm thinking of the unnamed Bush official who, in 2005, told reporter Ron Suskind, "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Now that most of America has rejected Bush's version of reality, you have to ask, what were these people thinking?
Was it the lizard brain in action? That's the amygdala, an almond-sized part of the right side of the brain that generates fear and blocks out the logical left side of the brain. When presented with a life-threatening situation, the amygdala kicks into gear in the classic "flight or fight" mode. Reason becomes impossible and the subconscious looks for any nonverbal cue that communicates safety and security.
Since 9/11, the lizard brain of the white heterosexual male appears to have been in charge of the national psyche. Fear -- of terrorism, of "the other," of pointy-headed do-gooder liberals out to take your Bibles and guns away, of homosexuals and feminists and black people -- has been steering the ship of state. No questions allowed.
We like to think that this election was a triumph for the reality-based, multicultural community -- the people who didn't believe we would be greeted as liberators in Iraq and who suspected that cowboy capitalism might not advance the greater good.
Simon Rosenberg, president of NDN (formerly the New Democratic Network), recently described the fix the GOP is in right now.
"I really believe there is a strong argument to be made that the GOP is further from power, more discredited and more out of touch with the American people than any time since the days of FDR and Truman," he said. "The GOP's challenge isn't a moderate-conservative one, a North-South one, a black-white-brown one - it is a forward/backward one... Their government failed at a level that has done grave and lasting damage to their brand, and their leaders seem firmly grounded in an old politics that is simply no longer credible in this new day."
The GOP will have to completely reinvent itself, he said.
"They will have to develop a new argument that meets the emerging challenges of the new century head on; a new electoral map; a new coalition that at some point begins to accept our fast-growing, nonwhite population; and competency in a whole new set of media and tech tools. They will have to shed the exploitation of race that has been at the core of their domestic politics; shed their raging intolerance of people not like them; of their comfort with politics and theater over governing; of the binary simplicity of the Cold War and the limitations of free market fundamentalism... This task is a big and complex one, harder perhaps than anything the right has had to do since the founding of the National Review in 1955."
Or, at the very least, can we hope that instead of finding new leaders who will tell them what to think, Republicans will start thinking independently again? There's a great new conversation going on, and their voices would be welcome.
Yes, there will always be people out to get us. But give the old lizard brain a rest.
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The blogosphere exploded on Tuesday with the rumor that President-Elect Barack Obama might ask Sen. Hillary Clinton to be our next secretary of state.
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Trial Set for Woman Accused of Backing Over Officer
A June 5 trial has been set for a woman accused of running over a Missoula police officer with her car in an attempt to flee.
Lt. Rich Stepper shot Dawnette Eaton in the arm as she drove away after his partner, Officer Deni Poling, was struck Jan. 7.
The officers were attempting to arrest Eaton on a parole violation. Poling was seriously injured and Stepper placed on leave until an internal investigation found his use of force was reasonable.
The 47-year-old Eaton appeared in Missoula County District Tuesday with a sling on her injured arm.
She is charged with assault, escape and failing to remain at an accident scene where a person was seriously injured.
The Missoulian reports she is in jail on $150,000 bail.
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Out-of-State Entry and the Cost Efficiency of Local Commercial Banks
The Riegle-Neal Act allows commercial banks to operate with complete freedom across state lines beginning in June 1997. In an attempt to gauge the impact that full interstate banking will have on the industry, we examine bank performance data from states that passed interstate banking laws prior to the Riegle-Neal Act. We estimate cost inefficiency for banks that operated exclusively in local markets in 1992, then regress those estimates on the intensity of out-of-state activity in those markets during that year.
In the years immediately following the removal of barriers to out-of-state banks, we find that increased entry is associated with increased inefficiency for local banks. However, this appears to be a short-run phenomenon only -- in markets that have allowed out-of-state entry for at least six years, we find that inefficiency declines in response to increased entry. On average, cost inefficiency at local banks declines by about 3 percent for each additional year that banks face interstate competition.
What do our results portend for the performance of local banks under the Riegle-Neal Act? Interstate competition is already well under way in many metropolitan markets because of state-by-state reciprocal compacts. For local banks in these markets, Riegle-Neal will likely enhance the forces of competition by expanding the number of potential entrants. In markets for which Riegle-Neal marks the first introduction of interstate competition, our results suggest that interstate competition will gradually deliver substantial gains in cost efficiency over the course of the next decade.
As with all OCC Working Papers, the opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency or the Department of the Treasury.
Any whole or partial reproduction of material in this paper should include the following citation: DeYoung, Hasan, and Kirchhoff, "Out-of-State Entry and the Cost Efficiency of Local Commercial Banks," Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, E&PA Working Paper 97-7, April 1997.
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Three Hannibal residents are accused of stealing change, soft drinks and snacks valued at up to $300 from a Louisiana laundry.
The arrests were in conjunction with the break-in at LA Laundry Mat along Highway 79, on the south side of Louisiana, early on the morning of Feb. 13.
Police said the three were captured with the help of surveillance video that the laundry owner had just installed.
A warrant was issued for Andrew Joseph Lee Lewis, 11312 New London Gravel Road, Hannibal (born 1995), charging him with burglary in the second degre, a Class C felony. Bond was set at $10,000, cash only.
Arraignment was scheduled for Tyler Scott Franklin, 212 N. Sixth, Hannibal, (born 1991) for Wednesday, Feb. 20, in Pike County Circuit Court at Bowling Green. He is charged with burglary in the second degree, a Class C felony.
Arraignment was also scheduled for Zachary M. Todd, 841 Hazel St., Apt. A, Hannibal, (born 1991) for 9 a.m. Wednesday. He is charged with burglary in the second degree, a Class C felony.
Bond for Franklin and Todd were set at $10,000, cash only, by Judge David Hamilton Ash.


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Obituary: Charles Robert "Bob" Ollmann
Charles Robert "Bob" Ollmann, 80, of Cairo, passed away Tuesday, October 9, 2012, at the Harry S. Truman V.A. Hospital in Columbia, Missouri.
Charles was born January 30, 1932, in Lake City, Iowa to W. M. Ollmann and Eleanor Blahauvietz Ollmann. The family moved to Macon when he was in high school and he finished his education there.
Bob was a member of the Local VFW Post 2654 in Moberly. He served in the Army from 1952-1954 during the Korean War and was awarded numerous medals, including the Korean Service Medal, the UN Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal and a Bronze Service Star.
Bob enjoyed traveling, and attending old flywheel shows. He was interested in farming and antique tractors, draft horses and motorcycles. He especially loved his family and being with them at family gatherings and picnics.
Bob married Reta Allen in Macon in 1982, and she survives of the home. He is also survived by his sister, Sharon Sweitzer and husband Max of Macon; children, Keith Ollmann and Lorena of Columbia, South America, Bobby Ollmann and Kaye of Cairo, Missouri, Julie Christopher and Doug of Depauw, Indiana, Tracy Smith and Scott of Kansas City, Missouri, Kim Melvin and John Gonnerman of Columbia, Missouri, and Dea Beal of Moberly, Missouri; grandchildren, Kevin Mosquera, Qetesh Ollmann, Amanda Ollmann, Levi Christopher, Amber Christopher, Jory Baker, Ryan Baker, Miranda Baker, Chasity Reeder, J.C. Beal, and Samantha Smith; great-grandchildren, Ciara Reeder, Colin Reeder, Layne Reeder, Liam Reeder, Adrienne Peaks and Westen Boyd; as well as three nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, W. M. and Eleanor; two sisters, Dixie Frazier and Shirley Ollmann; a brother, Jerry Ollmann; a son, Timothy Ollmann; and a granddaughter, Tabitha Christopher.
Services will be Monday, October 15, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. at PATHWAY MEMORIAL Funeral Home in Moberly with interment in the Veterans Cemetery in Jacksonville with military honors. Visitation will be from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 14, 2012.
In lieu of flowers, Memorial Contributions are appreciated to the family who will be donating to various
Veterans Programs.
Pathway Memorial Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements.


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Each week or so (I hope), I'll sit down with a cookbook, pick it apart, and tell you all about it. Each review will feature a rating scale from 1 to 5 cupcakes, with 1 being the worst and 5 being the best. I'll rate each book on several criteria: presentation, illustrations, depth of information, practicality, value, permanent library, gift giving, and an overall rating.
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|Depth of Information
|Permanent Library
|Gift Giving
|Level of Difficulty
Presentation: How is the book laid out? Is it written in a clear, concise manner? Is it easy to use and understand? How does it look overall?
Illustrations: Are there pictures or photos? How many? Are they good pictures? In books, as well as blogs, you eat with your eyes. The pictures have to sell it for me to want to make it. Are the pictures of the finished product appetizing? Are the pictures of the process informative?
Depth of Information: Does it give good information to help me enhance and improve my baking? Is it merely a list of ingredients and directions, or does it tell me why I'm doing certain things? Is it comprehensive, or limited in concepts? It may be a book completely about cupcakes or cookies, but are there a variety of different techniques used within the book? A variety of recipes to master?
Practicality: Is this something everyone can use, or is it targeting a specific crowd? Is it something to refer to often (a go-to guide), or something that will sit on a shelf as a collector's item?
Value: Is it worth the price the publisher suggests? Would I pay full price for it? Am I going to get my money's worth from it with years of use?
Permanent Library: Is this something I would own? Is it worthy to sit on my shelves? Is it something I will refer to again and again?
Gift Giving: Would I give this away as a gift to a friend?
Overall: How do I feel about the book as a whole? Is it something I fell in love with? Or something I wanted to throw away?
I will also be taking the level of difficulty in the recipes into consideration. Is the book written for beginning bakers-- those that only bake on weekends or for birthday parties? Are the recipes and ideas for bakers of an average skill level—those who are comfortable baking regularly and have acquired a bit more skill, but are still learning with each batch baked (I consider myself to be part of this category), or for more serious bakers—those who are on the level of professionals?
I'll also feature recipes that I feel to be Stand-Out Recipes. These are recipes that sound amazingly good to me. They're the recipes that make me excited to bake them.
As I do more reviews, I'll link all the pages here, making this the main page to check out all my reviews, so keep stopping back to see what's next!


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Mexican workers file human rights complaint against Tim Hortons boss
A cup of Tim Hortons coffee is poured in Toronto on May 14 2010. (Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
The Canadian Press
Published Friday, November 9, 2012 7:24PM EST
Last Updated Friday, November 9, 2012 7:37PM EST
DAWSON CREEK, B.C. - Four temporary foreign workers from Mexico who worked at two Tim Hortons locations in Dawson Creek, B.C., have launched a human rights complaint against the boss they call a racist.
They say Tony Van Den Bosch charged them double rent, called them Mexican idiots, said he owned their lives and regularly asked for their passports.
Lawyer Eugene Kung of the BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre, which launched the complaint at the BC Human Rights Tribunal, says Van Den Bosch threatened to send the workers back to Mexico when they complained about their working and living conditions at his home.
He says the workers lived two to a room in a five-bedroom house and were asked to pay $200 each at the beginning of the month and an additional $200 rent mid-month.
Kung says additional complaints have been filed with the Labour Ministry regarding Van Den Bosch's breaches of the Employment Standards Act.
A spokeswoman for Tim Hortons Corp., was not available for comment, and Kung says Van Den Bosch no longer owns the franchises in the northern B.C. city.
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Back in spring 2010, we reported on new legislation that affords working moms regular breaks and a place that's not a bathroom to breastfeed and/or pump. Although the official rules have yet to been finalized, the Department of Labor has already been citing companies for failure to make accommodations. So far, 23 companies have been cited. If they don't comply, they could be slapped with a fine.
Plus: 15 Products That Make Breastfeeding Easier
Among the companies are some names you might know:
Dillard's: Failure to provide adequate space and failure to provide reasonable time to pump. They've agreed to comply.
Starbucks: Failure to provide adequate space. They've agreed to comply.
McDonald's franchise based in Murrieta, Calif.: Failure to provide reasonable time to pump. They've agreed to comply.
Plus: 15 Breastfeeding Celebrity Moms
If you believe your employer has violated the law, you can contact the Department of Labor's toll-free helpline at 1-866-487-9243.
Did you pump? If so, what kind of accommodations did you company make?


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Ingredients for the biscuits:
- 2 cups flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup cold butter, cubed
- 2 eggs
- Buttermilk
- Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
- Using a pastry blender cut butter into the dry ingredients.
- Crack eggs into a cup, add enough buttermilk to fill up 1 cup. Lightly mix eggs and buttermilk with a fork.
- Pour into bowl with dry ingredients.
- Mix only until flour is incorporated, handle as little as possible to make light biscuits. The dough will be sticky and in order to roll into balls you might need to add a wee bit of flour. The dough should still be slightly sticky.
- Take pieces of dough and roll into 17 balls.
- Roll each ball into following mixture:
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts, I used pecans
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- Combine ingredients and roll the balls of dough in this mixture.
- Place in a greased 9" round pie pan.
- Bake at 400º for 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown.
- Invert immediately on a plate.
- Cool slightly and drizzle with glaze:
1 cup icing sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice