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A woman accused of killing her 80-year-old mother-in-law tried to get rid of two prosecution witnesses by suggesting a murderous plot to a fellow jail inmate, the district attorney said Wednesday.
A grand jury indictment added charges of conspiracy, witness intimidation and witness tampering to the first-degree murder case against Diana Nadell, said Rockland County prosecutor Thomas Zugibe.
A call to Nadell's lawyer, Luis Penichet, was not immediately returned. Nadell, 50, of Cutler Bay, Florida, has pleaded not guilty to the murder charge.
She was arrested in May and accused in the beating, choking and stabbing death of Peggy Nadell. Police said Diana Nadell and an accomplice lured Peggy Nadell to the door of her Valley Cottage home with a late-night phone call Jan. 25, then killed her.
Diana Nadell allegedly wanted access to her husband's share of his mother's multimillion-dollar estate. The husband has not been charged.
Peggy Nadell had been a county Democratic committeewoman and was outspoken on environmental and women's rights issues.
The alleged accomplice, Andrea Benson, and two other women charged in the case have pleaded guilty. The district attorney would not say if any of them were the witnesses targeted in the plot alleged Wednesday.
He said Diana Nadell, who was awaiting trial at the Orange County Jail in Goshen, approached a fellow inmate and asked her to take part in a scheme to murder two witnesses who are cooperating with the prosecution.
He said Nadell thought the inmate she approached was about to be deported to Jamaica.
The district attorney did not say how authorities learned of the alleged plot.
"This office will do everything in its power to vigorously prosecute those who seek to intimidate and harm witnesses," Zugibe said. "This new indictment underscores the lengths our law enforcement partners will go to ensure public safety — on both sides of the jail bars."
Nadell is due in court next month on the murder charge.


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Radiohead and Other Lives @ HP Pavilion 4/11/12 [Concert Review]
Do I begin with: my excitement bubbling over in anticipation for one of my favorite bands, Other Lives, and the opportunity to mark off the bucket list seeing Radiohead live; the sweeping smile that swept across my face witnessing Thom Yorke bounce spritely "dancing" like a punk with physical tourette; or, my epiphany that Radiohead is my generation's equivalent to The Beatles?
Other Lives' opened the night with rolling guitars and Americana rock. Playing to a small early crowd (didn't we already introduce you to them?) they quickly moved through their latest album, Tamer Animal. Seemingly lost in Radiohead's huge stage setup, the group pushed through highlights "As I Lay My Head Down," "Tamer Animal," and "For 12." It was short, it was sweet, and it was over.
Now before I admit this, let me say you'll probably never trust my music judgment again: I've listened to Radiohead—but I don't "know" Radiohead. (That is an AA type confession amongst music lovers–consider yourself now my sponsor.) I was infatuated with "Creep," but I didn't realize that was Radiohead until almost three years ago. I loved Amp Live's remix of In Rainbows before I ever heard the original. Go ahead—kill me now… wait! With my final breaths of respect let me say this, "Holy shit that was amazing!"
Maybe because tonight's show was like an unopened book, but I felt like I was discovering the mastery of Radiohead's legacy. Quickly, I was lost in the music, sputtering out of control to the rhythm of the loose drums on "Bloom" and Yorke's chanting "while the ocean blooms this is what keeps me alive." Like a kaleidoscope of musical styles, songs shifted like samples from different albums amalgamated into five minute compositions. There was "15 Step" morphing from hip hop, to Spanish chillout, to crashing psycho-electronic. (In this vain you hear Can's influence.) And repeatedly, what followed was entirely different. "Morning Mr Magpie" followed hitting like a shoegaze wall of sound. Later, the sticky bass line of "The Gloaming" like futuristic dub with Yorke's haunting lyrics "They will suck you down to the other side." The night continued to jump from albums, highlighting their entire collection except, Pablo Honey.
And if aurally that wasn't enough, visually the performance rivaled some of the most noted in EDM. A wall of lights thirty feet high framed the stage often visualizing the EQ's. But most impressive, dangling above the stage like reflective tentacles were twelve video panels that shifted up and down throughout the evening giving everyone the opportunity to seem "close." The lights changed from shades of blue, green, and red engulfing the crowd in paralleling sonic tones.
Somewhere in the night I had to remind myself this was real. The magic of 12,000 people singing together "I lost myself" during "Karma Police." The energy of "There There" as Johnny Greenwood smashed on a bass drum breaking his drum stick, but grabbing another without losing the beat. My only disappointment came at 10pm, before the first, and later, second encore, knowing that Caltrain was going to win tonight's battle. (What the hell Caltrain can't you have a later train? If you didn't know, time typically stops for normal Radiohead fans during a performance.) Though in defeat walking away from one of the best performances I had ever seen, I was jubilated understanding why everyone loved Radiohead.
-All photographs by Darryl Kirchner.
Setlist (via Radiohead News)
01 Bloom
02 15 Step
03 Morning Mr Magpie
04 Kid A
05 Staircase
06 The Gloaming
07 The National Anthem
08 The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy
09 Climbing Up The Walls
10 Karma Police
11 Identikit
12 Lotus Flower
13 There There
14 Feral
15 Little By Little
16 Reckoner
17 Separator
18 I Might Be Wrong (tour debut)
19 Myxomatosis
20 Everything In Its Right Place
21 The Daily Mail
22 Planet Telex (tour debut)
23 Idioteque

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Detroit Lions general manager Martin Mayhew talked with the team's owner and was given no indication that he or coach Jim Schwartz would be fired.
"As far as I know, we're going to be back," Mayhew said Wednesday, according to the Detroit Free Press. "It could be like 'Survivor,' you know, when you go back and write somebody's name down.
"But no, as far as I know we're going to be back, and I've spoken to Mr. (William Clay) Ford. I've spoken to Bill, and we talked about our plans going forward, and we're certainly working on getting things right."
There were a variety of subjects to be addressed after the Lions' disappointing 4-12 season. Mayhew hopes to restructure quarterback Matt Stafford's contract to give the team salary-cap relief in 2013. Mayhew did the same with Stafford, defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh and wide receiver Nate Burleson before this season.
» Mayhew said no decision has been made regarding troubled wide receiver Titus Young's future with the Lions. Young was sent home during organized team activities last year for punching teammate Louis Delmas. Young also was suspended midseason by the team because of his conduct. His attitude problems heavily outweigh his football contributions.
» Mayhew admitted it was a mistake relying on Jahvid Best after 2011. The often-concussed running back never was cleared to play in 2012.
» Mayhew said Suh was the only player who improved on defense. That's not a good sign for defensive end Cliff Avril, who held out for a long-term contract but settled for the one-year franchise tag in 2012. The Lions won't give Avril the lucrative deal he desires.
» Mayhew also said he doesn't expect there to be any further coaching changes.
This clearly is a make-or-break offseason for Mayhew and Schwartz. They have been in Detroit for four full seasons and had only one playoff appearance. They were rebuilding from the disastrous period known as the Matt Millen Era, but progress halted in 2012. The running game needs to improve now that Mayhew has come to grips with Best's status. The secondary needs to be overhauled. Stafford needs to get back on track after he regressed. A few less arrests would be nice, too.
There's no more leeway in the Motor City.
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Watsi.org - Crowdsourcing Medical Care For People In Need
Crowdsourcing is changing the way that new organizations can be funded. Watsi.org is an example in healthcare.
You may hear more about Watsi in the near future.
Right now their run completely by donations but that could well change. They've also become the first non-profit to make it into Y-Combinator, a premier technoloty accelerator in San Francisco.
Here's what Paul Graham of Y Combinator says:
After about 30 seconds of looking at the site, I realized I was looking at one of the more revolutionary things I'd seen the Internet used for. Technology can now put a face on need. The people who need help around the world are individuals, not news photos, and when you see them as individuals it's hard to ignore them.
I've seen what happens—at Airbnb for example—when the Internet's ability to connect people peer to peer enters a domain that had previously been dominated by narrow channels. Historians will probably identify this as one of the most powerful forces at work in our time. And Watsi is this force applied to a big lever.
Working at a higher resolution also enables Watsi to offer a much higher level of transparency. At Watsi, 100% of your donations directly fund medical treatments. Watsi.org is separately funded. They pay all their operational costs from their own funding, and none from your donations. They even eat the credit card processing fees. So when you donate to Watsi, you never have the uncomfortable feeling that lots of your money will be eaten up by administrative costs. Your money has impact you can measure.


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Liberty News
Student dribbles basketball in race to raise awareness for charity
While many runners entered the Raleigh (N.C.) Rocks Half Marathon on April 1 with determination to set a personal record or to just finish the race, Liberty University sophomore Spencer Leeds entered with a basketball in hand.
Leeds dribbled the ball while running the entire 13.1 miles to raise awareness for Compassion International through the nonprofit organization Dribble the World.
Dribble the World works to promote a nonprofit of the runner's choice. Leeds and his sister co-sponsor a child from Uganda through Compassion International, so the charity was a natural choice. The child advocacy ministry helps more than 1.2 million children in 26 countries.
"The first time I heard about them [Compassion International] was the Tenth Avenue North concert (at Liberty) last year. Without them, I never would have known about it. So, then I got involved, and it's a great ministry," Leeds said.
To participate through Dribble the World, runners can choose any race, as long as they dribble a basketball the entire way.
Leeds first heard of that organization during his sophomore year of high school when he met its founder.
"I did a missions trip with my youth pastor, and he knew the guy who started Dribble the World," Leeds said. "His name is Dan Occhiogrosso. … I was like, 'Okay, well running's kind of cool,' but it wasn't fun. But then I picked up a basketball and I remembered 'Occhi,' and it became fun. "
While Leeds had never run more than three miles at a time and claimed that he's "not a runner," he began training in November.
Leeds, a business major and music minor, works for Liberty's technical production department and is on the sound crew for large and small events, including convocation (held three times a week), campus church and special events. After working at Coffeehouse until 6 a.m. on Saturday, Leeds drove straight to North Carolina, and was toeing the starting line by 7 a.m. on Sunday. Despite battling knee problems, Leeds finished with a time of one hour, 52 minutes.
"It doesn't matter the time," Leeds said. "Just as long as you're dribbling a basketball, people see it's still an awareness factor."
During and after the race, Leeds was able to promote Dribble the World and Compassion, as curious runners and spectators asked him why he was dribbling a ball.
"I started dribbling, and people are patting me on the shoulder, telling me 'good job,'" Leeds said. "So, I got to talk to at least five (runners) during the race. And, after, people kept coming to me."
He also was able to talk about Liberty during the race.
"In the same way as you're raising money for Compassion, they're asking you where you're from, and you say 'Liberty,'" Leeds said. "(Spectators) ask you questions, they are interested. It's definitely a platform."
Leeds trained for the half marathon around Liberty's campus with and without a basketball. On campus, he said he would get strange looks while running around the sidewalks.
"I'd be dribbling, and someone thinks they're funny and start acting like they're playing defense," he said.
He often wore his Dribble the World shirt around campus to raise awareness, and hopes to see more Liberty students get involved with the project. Upon completing the race, he is now sending out letters to raise monetary support for Compassion.
Originally, Leeds thought the race in Raleigh would be his first and last, but now he hopes to participate in another race for Dribble the World, possibly as soon as this summer.


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Patton's fourth album for Blue Note. Big John Patton with Grant Green on guitar and Harold Vick on tenor sax. With tunes like "Fat Judy" and "Good Juice," there is no worry about there being a groove. The addition of a trumpet (Blue Mitchell) means you have a horn section, and this tends to be a little much now and again. Although a little on the light side, thanks to Patton and Green, the groove does go down. ~ Michael Erlewine


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I was hoping to get some advice regarding the oft-overlooked Block 40 on our Navy FITREPs.
Has anyone received any recent advice from a peer/mentor about what to put in Block 40 post-O-4 MS? O-4 Leadership, War College, and fellowship/scholarship opportunities are obvious choices. What should someone look to have on a FITREP if they're already going to be O-4 MS complete and War College is on the horizon? I feel a little dirty putting another "cushy" recommendation as the second choice (LEGISLATIVE FELLOWS, POL-MIL, etc.) if the next time it's relevant I'm coming off a year in Newport. Do people ever recommend calling out specific locations/positions (e.g. JOINT STAFF, PENTAGON, FLAG AIDE)?


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jcander2 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 22 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
The design task it to create a logo for my new business venture. Marketing will be formed around this design, so it is important that I have quality work.
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I want a logo designed for my new business venture; Millennial Entertainment. Millennial is an agency between corporate clients and my entertainment network. We have our own in-house productions agent that is one of the best on the east coast. I want this design to look corporate and very professional to appeal to my clients.
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The Pet Collective has become the fastest-growing pet channel on YouTube, and is one of the most popular of all of YouTube's original-content channels, which seems appropriate as we head into the dog days of summer! We've got some really fantastic stuff coming up in the next few weeks, too, so I hope you'll stay tuned!
Meanwhile, here's a quick look at some of the most-watched videos on The Pet Collective. We welcome you to feature them online (provided they are embedded as YouTube links); additionally, broadcast-quality clips are available upon request.
CORGI RAE JEPSEN: 'CORGI MAYBE' -- This music "petody" has been seen more than 1.2 million times on The Pet Collective … in just three weeks! As Time Magazine's Newsfeed blog pointed out, "Mere words could never do this masterpiece justice." There are a lot of "Call Me Maybe" parodies out there … there is only one "Corgi Maybe."
PAWDELE: "DIGGING IN THE DEEP" -- "We could have had it all" … if only separation anxiety hadn't gotten in the way. Being left alone leads this little Boston Terrier to belt out a soulful ode to love and loss, but never fear, there's a happy ending — which has helped lead it to more than 650,000 views in less than two weeks!
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THE UNADOPTABLES — The Pet Collective brings compassion and insight into stories of animals who aren't perfect … and have difficulty finding adoptive homes. One of the latest episodes features Thelma, Louise and Big Red, who are inseparable … chickens. Their story is a fascinating look at pets who are neither furry nor fluffy, but who nevertheless need to find a forever home.
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Day 3 of a 3-day series:
PREREQUISITES: Must take Day 1: Cardboard Basics in Adaptive Design AND Day 2: Making Adaptive Equipment Work before taking this course.
Ideal for occupational and physical therapists, teachers, parents, or anyone with an interest in adaptation
Earn 0.5 AOTA Continuing Education Units for occupational therapists*
Led by Adaptive Design's team of expert designers and fabricators: (10:00-10:30) participants share the basic user-specific adaptation selected after Day 2, a brief description of the client, and justification for selection.(10:30-4:00) Participants construct a more complex custom adaptation from start to finish and then present final work to the group.
To receive CEU, participants must attend the full course, complete all hands-on activities and assignments, and complete the course evaluation. As this is an introductory course, proficiency in all skills may not be achieved by everyone.
Course includes a 1 hour lunch break. Bring your own or purchase from a variety of nearby locations.
Other than brief group discussions, the course consists of supervised hands-on fabrication activities. Following completion of days 1, 2 and 3 of this series, participants will be able to:
1. State the importance of proactively identifying user-specific adaptive equipment needs.
2. Use best practices when choosing and constructing customized adaptations.
3. List at least one potential adaptation from 3 categories: Positioning (multiple options), Communication (expressive, receptive, formal, informal), ADL's (feeding, dressing, toileting, self-care), Mobility and Sensory Integration, Pre-vocation, Play and Recreation, Art and Music.
4. Increase capacity to write justifications for custom-made adaptive devices that include:
- How the client is functioning without the device
- Why that functional level is problematic—listing 2 or 3 consequences that negatively impact physical, social, academic, emotional, or other developmental growth
- Projections of benefits expected to prevent the 2 or 3 negative consequences listed above
5. Demonstrate understanding of the properties, strength, and applications of single-layer and tri-wall cardboard for creating safe, functional adaptations, by executing basic carpentry and finishing techniques using hand and power tools appropriate for these materials.
6. Construct a basic adaptation for hypothetical clients.
7. Construct a customized basic adaptation for actual clients on their caseloads, with appropriate attention to aesthetic concerns.
8. Participate collaboratively when working as a team member.
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This is the third day of a 3-day series in which participants learn basic design and construction techniques for single-layer and tri-wall cardboard, as well as safe hand and power tool use. They practice: writing funding justifications; gathering required measurements and other specifications; and fabricating basic, user-specific adaptations.
Day 1, Cardboard Basics in Adaptive Design: taught basic techniques for building with cardboard, and safe tool use. Focus was on standard (single-layer) corrugated cardboard and on the process of designing an adaptation to suit the needs of an individual. Participants individually make a notions box; then in small groups, design and build a mock-up adaptation. This course must be taken before Day 2.
After Day 1, in preparation for Day 2, participants selected one of a number of basic adaptations (e.g., a footrest or an easel) to build for a client on their caseloads; gathered user-specific information necessary for building the adaptation; and drafted a brief justification.
Day 2, Making Adaptive Equipment Work: Participants presented and discussed justifications and adaptation information. Participants learned Tri-wall carpentry techniques and safe power tool use. Participants built the selected basic adaptation and submitted a finalized justification for it.
In preparation for Day 3, participants prepared a justification for a different adaptation to build on Day 3, along with collecting new information. (Instead, participants may opt to revise the adaptation built on Day 2, with revised justification and specifications.)
Day 3, Adaptive Devices: Made to Fit (this course): Participants share the user-specific adaptation selected, a brief description of the client, and justification for selection. Participants construct the adaptation from start to finish and then present final work to the group.
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A friend privately challenged me:
But what flavor spaghetti sauce will be the holy water of this religion? I
can foresee endless wars with this religious concept between the marinarian
sect, alfredian sect, meatsaucian, and bolonessian sects. And even more
worrisome are the potential plain wheat, whole wheat, Jerusalem artichoke,
spinach, angel hair, and fettuccini sub-sects arguing that each is the
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These will be called the spaghetti wars.
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If you lived in the darkened times (no science) of disease and famine, ate bad mushrooms (manna), moldy bread (ergot) like they had to or starve, washed it all down with wine all the while having no medical data that there were such things as hallucinogens, you'd have come up with your own entertaining religion and wouldn't have to piggyback upon the religions of the legions of the stoned who came before you. Their fables were simply and only based upon dreams and some written second hand hundreds of years later. I thought I'd need to invent my own imaginary beings to look over me until I found Spaghettianity. The problem with the pre-Spaghettianity religions is you have to abandon the truth of your own spirituallity, assign an imaginary superhero as the medium that you need to bargain with in order to be given back your own spiritual identity. But you've only bartered back what was already yours - you! But it won't be the real you, it will be a tainted, conditional you. Wake up and smell the spaghetti!
Potential conflicts between between sects.
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Silly Dagwood, Pastafarians don't go to war! We have calm, considerate discussion followed by metaphorical food fights. Or, incomprehensible pirate discussion followed by food fights. And then we all get drunk and say, 'I love you, man!'
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Thanks for settling the potential conflict before it had any chance of gaining too much steam Edd. A little steam cooks the noodles, to much turns em to mush...
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"Odds are, therefore I am", Is this not a "Dag Gum" quote from elsewhere?
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Patricia Lawson Warth, age 77, died on Friday August 2nd of complications due to lung cancer. Mrs. Warth was born in 1935 at Germantown Hospital, the oldest of three children born to Randolph and Olivia Lawson. She attended Miss Zara's School and later graduated from Springside School in 1955. She went on to Bennett Junior College where she studied fashion design. In 1961 she married Robert S. Warth of Longmeadow MA; they were married for 52 years. Mrs. Warth was active in the Four Counties Garden Club for over 50 years as well as the Board of Lady Visitors at St. Christopher's Hospital. She was a member of the Acorn Club and of Sunnybrook Golf Club. She is survived by her husband, Robert S. Warth, her sister Kay Lawson Ives of Boston, her daughter, Stacy W. Fiechter, her son Robert S. Warth, Jr, and four grandchildren, Sam, Olivia, Max and Erin. The interment will be privately held at West Laurel Hill Cemetery. A memorial service will be held in her honor on Friday, September 6th, 11:00 AM, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to The Rosenfeld Cancer Center at Abington Memorial Hospital, 1200 Old York Road., Abington, PA 19001.
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Voters in the Pleasantville School District are encouraged to stop by the polls on September 14th to vote on two issues related to school finances. The first issue is a renewal of the district's Physical Plant and Equipment Levy or PPEL fund, as the 10 year term expires after this year. PPEL fund money can be used to make repairs, update facilities, and purchase equipment. The second issue is a Revenue Purpose Statement in regards to recent legislation that guarantees all districts in Iowa will equally share revenue from the state sales tax. Each school must pass a Revenue Purpose Statement indicating how the money will be spent and needs expressed in the Pleasantville district include replacement of HVAC systems, tuckpointing of the high school, a new greenhouse, playground improvements, transportation maintenance and advancements in technology. Superintendent Dave Isgrig wants to stress that these issues do not increase taxes. He says in fact, despite financial issues in schools across the state, Pleasantville's school property tax will in fact decrease this fiscal year by $1.53 per thousand.
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The latest from Phil Plait at his Bad Astronomer blog is that the "doomed Russian space probe" Phobos-Grunt will be crashing back to Earth within a half-hour of this post.
This concise summary was from his post on January 4th:
In November 2011, the Russian space agency launched the much-anticipated Mars probe called Phobos-Grunt (which means "Phobos dirt" or "ground"), which would go to the Red Planet, soft-land a probe on the tiny moon Phobos, and return a sample of the surface to Earth. Unfortunately, the booster that would take it from Earth orbit into a Mars-intercept trajectory failed to fire, stranding the spacecraft in low-Earth orbit. Atmospheric drag has doomed the mission; it will most likely burn up sometime in the next two weeks.
I've been following this story a little bit since I learned about the ten species that were being sent up to the Martian moon to learn if living organisms could survive the 3-year, out-and-back journey.
The Planetary Society very carefully selected representative prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and archaea as described in the table at their website. One of these was the remarkable tardigrade, represented in this plush toy gift we gave to our daughter this Christmas. My new boss, biologist Meg Lowman, wrote a nice article on the tardigrades for her weekly column in the News & Observer.
These are unusual microscopic multicellular invertebrates that can survive being dried out (dessication) and revived as long as a year later. Their ability to survive hostile conditions where any self-respecting organism would die is the reason they are called extremophiles.
K. Ingemar Jönsson at Kristianistad University in Sweden has been running the Tardigrades in Space (TARDIS) program since 2007 when several species of organisms were successfully returned to Earth from the FOTON-M3 mission and survived exposure to both space vacuum and solar radiation.
But I doubt very much that they will be able to survive directly burning up, sans spacecraft, as Phobos-Grunt disintegrates over the Pacific Ocean within minutes.
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I've been going to ice climbing festivals for going on 20 years, and I've started to notice some themes at these tribal celebrations. Each one is a gathering of the climbing community; I romanticize these gatherings as the modern-day equivalent of the great tribal Pow Wows of centuries past, where the First Nations elders would tell stories, the youngsters would show off their physical prowess through games of skill, and the guy who sold the beer would do very, very well. Today's festival communal bonfire is the slide show, and the games of skill are represented in the competitions, formal and informal, that always take place. Small sub-groups split off into bars, romances are kindled and broken, children conceived and plans made for hunting the mythical big ice climbs lurking over the horizon like the bison of old. Like I said, it's a romantic comparison, but I believe in the idea of climbing tribes that are normally spread thin, gathering in celebration of a common idea: climbing icicles.
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Tana brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
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We are looking for a logo for a project focused on deepening the impact of social change organizations.
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-Organization Unbound is a collaborative project that aims to deepen the impact of social change organizations through experiments in expressive change. Organizations that practice expressive change strive to live out the kinds of changes they are trying to create in the world. In a highly expressive organization there is a deep coherence between the organization's overarching social vision and its daily practices.
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Pre-Ordering Mario Kart 8 Will Get You Free Gas
Mario fans who pre-order Mario Kart 8 at Best Buy can get $10 worth of free gas.
In what seems like a bit of a strange, yet apt promotion, Best Buy is handing out $10 worth of MasterCard "Gas Cash" with pre-orders of Mario Kart 8. If you pre-order the game from Apr. 27 to May 29 in store or online, you'll get a code on your receipt which you can enter on www.revupyourkart.com.
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Helping Des Moines Live Well, Play Hard and Protect the Earth.
The Park and Recreation department is responsible for the management of 75 parks across Des Moines. Besides the special features found in some of the signature parks (Ewing, Union, Greenwood, Gray's Lake and Pappajohn Sculpture Park), patrons can enjoy a variety of amenities throughout our park system such as basketball courts, BMX track, boat and bicycle rentals, disc golf courses, enclosed and open-air shelters, equipment rental and concessions, horseshoe courts, ice skating rinks, nature trails, picnic areas with tables and grills, playgrounds, ponds and fishing, sledding hills, soap box derby track, soccer and softball fields, tennis and volleyball courts, water-play features, skateboard park, dog parks and more.Overview Presentation
Gray's Lake Park is the city's best-known and most-visited recreation area. The park has unique qualities and features that prove to be popular regardless of the season or time of day. The iconic 1,400-foot-long Kruidenier Trail Pedestrian Bridge over the lake is the park's most distinguishing feature. Even more dramatic at night, the bridge comes to life as a rainbow of color lights up its16-foot-wide pathway and reflects off the dichroic glass panel railings. The 1.9-mile walk around Gray's Lake is known as "doing the loop"; for some residents, it is a daily ritual that even prairie grass burns, trail repairs and flooding won't interrupt.
Des Moines has two multi-use community centers located on opposite sides of the city to better serve residents. Both community centers provide congregate meal sites for seniors ages 60 and over, as well as warming and/or cooling centers during inclement weather. Both facilities also host a number of Camp Fire, AA and neighborhood meetings throughout the year, as well as numerous youth and adult league sports events.
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Dr. Boyce Watkins; Father Pfleger's Suspension was Disgraceful…
April 28, 2011 by Staff
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(ThyBlackMan.com) If there were ever a human being who best embodied the words "What would Jesus do?" it would be Father Michael Pfleger out of Chicago. Father Pfleger has put it on the line for 30 years as the head of the St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the south side of Chicago. The church is predominantly black, but Father Pfleger connects with his parishioners as if they were his family.
He has fought the powers that be without concern for the professional consequences. He has stood up for the poor in ways that almost no public or political figure ever has. He has fought for the dying youth of Chicago in ways that have put his own life in jeopardy. He stands up for those who cannot stand up for themselves, and that is what makes him the ultimate spiritual patriot.
You can imagine my disappointment to find out that Father Pfleger was suspended recently by Cardinal Francis George for refusing to accept Georges's request to transfer to a Catholic High School near his church. Father Pfleger has been with St. Sabina for 30 years and said he would rather leave the church than to leave St. Sabina. The decision by George was likely a political one, for the church has been working to get rid of their most celebrated pastor for years.
In response to Father Pfleger's decision not to leave, George wrote, "If that is truly your attitude, you have already left the Catholic Church and are therefore not able to pastor a Catholic parish."
As a person who has also dealt with administrators who care more about maintaining bureaucratic power than actually doing the right thing, I fully understand what my brother Michael Pfleger is going through. I remember my battles with the pseudo-intellectuals I've had to deal with at Syracuse University, who've forgotten that scholarship is meaningless when hiding it away in a tower that is inaccessible to 98% of the population.
Father Pfleger, in the spirit of Jesus Christ himself, is so connected to the true essence of God that he is unable to fit within the rigid and myopic structural confines of anyone's church. The Catholic Church and Cardinal George should all be ashamed, for suspending a man like Father Pfleger is truly in violation of the spirit of the higher power. I am incredibly disappointed with their decision.
Staff Writer; Dr. Boyce Watkins
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"Those Old Memories" will include stories, photographs, genealogy, scrapbooking, recipes, and interesting history of my family. Some family surnames: Troyer, Gardner, Moore, Hopkins, Allen, Amsberry, McPherson, Wyatt, Godfrey, Lee, Henley, Cutbirth, Tudor, Gustafsson, Larson, Hellgren, Farley, Harshbarger, Harvey, McComsey, Johnston, Hyndman, and Buchanan.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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And a belated Merry Christmas to you too, Cheri! Now that the dust has settled, it's good to be able to sit down and read some good blogs - and your blogs are always on the list. So I've selected this one for the Happy 101 award. I'm looking forward to reading more from you in 2010! You can pick up the award over at Ancestor Soup (ancestorsoup.blogspot.com) Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
- Arleen HopkinsMay 13, 2010 at 10:52 PM
I like your Website. My husband's family is from Tippah Dumas MS. William A Hopkins and Martha Jane Carpernter Hopkins, son, Lloyd Andrew Hopkins born Jan 27 1867.ReplyDelete
Lloyd moved to Texas with Brother Willie. I am on Ancestory.com under Bertling/Hopkins if you would like to check it out.
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Welcome to the Asia Markets live blog, a running account of what the region's stock markets are doing, along with other news. Today, Chinese trade numbers blow past expectations, but stocks initially ignore the result, while dairy causes a stir in Hong Kong, and Japan rises on its post-holiday return.
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- 7:04 pm
- Aussie earnings in Wonderland
- by Mike Kitchen
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Oz Minerals posts a loss, and its shares shoot 11.8% higher. Boral posts a loss, and its stock gains 6.4%. CSL posts a rise in profit, and its price falls 3.4%.
Welcome to the wilderness of mirrors? Well, perhaps it's not unusual for the market to trade on its expectations rather than nominal financial results. (Read more on early Australian trade here.)
In any case, these moves may not last the day if Chinese trade data, due out later in the morning, disappoint those same market analysts. Barclays, for one, is calling for a contraction in Chinese exports for January, and if that's the case, the gains could bleed away quickly. (See post in this previous Asia blog.)
But for now anyway, the S&P/ASX 500 is up 0.6%, with investors buying on the earnings results and a Tuesday rally on Wall Street. We'll see what the morning brings.
- 7:50 pm
- Japan blue chips rushing to catch up
- by Mike Kitchen
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Japanese markets were closed yesterday as most Asia markets booked solid gains. You could almost imagine Tokyo's stock exchange watching sadly from the window as the other bourses ran around outside, having all the buying fun.
But now Japan is trading again, and the advance is broadly solid (with the Topix up 1.2%), though the blue chips, a favorite of foreign buyers, are lagging (Nikkei Average up 0.6%).
Among those blue chips, though, are some decent rallies. Nissan is riding 2.3% higher on the back of its earnings, and Honda is up 2.1%, thanks to a more-than-30% increase in its January sales in China. (Read more on early Japanese trade here.)
Speaking of China, trade data from the world's second-largest economy could be the driving force today for equities in Japan, and for the region as a whole. Expectations for those numbers, due out later in the morning, call for a 2% gain in exports from a year earlier and a 3% rise in imports, according to a Reuters survey.
- 7:53 pm
- Markets check -- 9:53 a.m. in Tokyo
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Japan (Nikkei Average) up 0.5%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.3%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.3%
- 9:33 pm
- China exports jump, but market doesn't
- by Mike Kitchen
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China's exports rose an impressive 10.6% in January compared to a year earlier, but stocks could care less. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is up 0.6% and the Shanghai Composite is down 0.2%, just as they were ahead of the data. (See the full results here.)
So what gives? Maybe skepticism about the Chinese trade figures have rendered them powerless to move the market?
RBS chief China economist Louis Kuijs notes that, given the difference in the dates for Chinese New Year in 2013 vs. 2014, and given the fact that last January's data were distorted upward by rampant false invoicing, his team had expected the results to be skewed to the downside.
Instead, the data surprised to the upside, and Kuijs writes that "we are … left with a nagging feeling that perhaps issues such as over-invoicing have risen sharply in intensity early this year."
- 9:45 pm
- Markets check -- 10:45 a.m. in Hong Kong
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Japan (Nikkei Average) up 0.9% (at break)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.7%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 0.1%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.7%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.5%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.7%
- 10:38 pm
- China markets milk some gains
- by Laura He
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It's quite a busy day in Hong Kong markets for Chinese economic data and corporate deals.
An impressive rise of 10.6% in China's January exports has pushed Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index 0.9% higher from its starting level, though the index was initially unchanged after the data release.
Shipping stocks were boosted by the stron
ger-than-expec ted trade result: China Shipping Container Lines Co. and China Cosco Holdings climbed more than 2% each, while Orient Overseas advanced 1.7%, and ports operator cosco Pacific rose 1.6%.
Among the top gainers, however, were the dairy stocks. The gains came after China's leading dairy-products maker, China Mengniu, said Wednesday it would sell about $665 million worth of shares to France's Danone, the world's largest yogurt producer. Shares in China Mengniu jumped 4.9%, while its smaller rival Yashili International surged 5.4%.
Likewise, China's biggest raw-milk producer, Modern Dairy Holdings, advanced 2.6%.
Mainland Chinese propery developers also joined the rally after the latest company results cheered investors. One of mainland's largest developers — China Overseas Land & Investment — shot up by 5.5% after it said its contract sales in January more than doubled from the previous month.
Funds inflows into the property sector have lifted China Resources Land and Shimao Property by more than 5% apiece. Sunac China Holdings, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings and Country Garden Holdings similarly gained more than 4%.
- 11:16 pm
- Markets check -- 1:16 p.m. in Tokyo
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Japan (Nikkei Average) up 0.7%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 1.1% (at break)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.1% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.8%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.4%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.4%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.8%
- 11:39 pm
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- 12:06 am
- Machines sing the blues in Japan
- by Mike Kitchen
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Earlier today, Japan's Cabinet Office revealed that core machinery orders (that is, machinery orders not involving volatile purchases by electric utilities and shipping firms) tumbled 15.7% during December.
This was far, far more than the 4.1% drop economists had expected on average, according to a Wall Street Journal/Nikkei survey. (Details here.)
Now while this particular data set tends to swing wildly from month to month, the December print was a pretty heavy drop, reportedly one of the largest in the survey's history.
As Capital Economics put it: "Orders had surged in the previous month, so some fall was to be expected, and the usual see-saw pattern argues in favor of a rebound in January. Nonetheless, the sharp fall in December reversed a large part of the recovery in orders over the past year."
Still, the Japanese market had no problem opening higher just 10 minutes after the data came out. Maybe investors are waiting to see what next month's numbers bring.
- 12:25 am
- Markets check -- 1:25 p.m. in Hong Kong
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Japan (Nikkei Average) up 0.6%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.9%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.1%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 1.1% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.2%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.6%
- 1:15 am
- Japan ends higher as Sony iPhone talk juices shares
- by Mike Kitchen
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As the dust settled, Japan's Nikkei Average /quotes/zigman/5986735/realtime JP:NIK closed with a 0.6% gain. But with the Topix ending 1.3% higher, it seems the blue chips were the underperformers in a broad rally for Tokyo equities.
One name which beat both indexes, however, was Sony Corp., heading to bed with its shares 3.7% more expensive than they were this morning. Helping drive that gain was a report in today's Nikkei saying Sony was in talks to double its supply of camera sensors to Apple when the latter rolls out a new iPhone "as early as next year."
It may all sound a little flimsy to some readers, but then again the report quoted an unnamed person "involved in the negotiations" as saying the Apple deal was the reason Sony's recent purchase of a Renesas plant.
- 3:04 am
- Markets check -- 4:03 p.m. in Hong Kong
- by Laura He
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Japan (Nikkei Average) up 0.6% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 1.5% (closed)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.3% (closed)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 1.1% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.2% (closed)
China's surprisingly strong data sparked some doubts about the accuracy of trade numbers during the month when the weekly-long Lunar New Year holiday (when many manufacturers slow or even stop productions a few weeks before the holiday) lies in.However, the result still cheered investors on Wednesday in most Asian stock markets, with Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index widening its early gains to 1.5% at the close, and China's Shanghai Composite Index extending its four-day winning streak and closing up 0.3%.China said on Wednesday that its exports jumped 10.6% in January, much higher than the 4.3% increase in December and well above a forecast 2% increase in a Reuters survey. Read more.Due to different timings of the Lunar New Year holiday each year, analysts usually consider trade numbers for the holiday month as being distorted to some extent.
- 4:57 am
- China stocks lifted by solid trade data
- by Laura He
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Yet analysts saw January's surprising trade growth as an encouraging sign suggesting a stable economic growth for China in the first quarter of this year, mainly because the U.S. recovery is gaining momentum and the euro area is seeing improving labor markets and consumption demand.
The LNY (Lunar New Year) holiday distortion might be small this time, economists from Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a note on Wednesday.
"It seems that the LNY effect has had little impact on trade numbers, due perhaps to the fact that both January last year and January this year had the same number of working days," Ting Lu and Sylvia Sheng, China Economists for BoA Merrill Lynch wrote in the note.
"Based on the breakdown information, we think the strong January exports were driven by demand from the US and EU, while the strong January import growth was driven by China's commodity demand (especially iron ore and copper), suggesting China's investment demand could remain robust," analysts said.Meanwhile, some potential risks exist around the sustainability of the rebound, said HSBC economists in a report on Wednesday.
For instance, "recent weakness in EM markets could weigh on China exports if the volatility persists," Ma Xiaoping and Qu Hongbin, China economists for HSBC, said in a Wednesday report.


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|The Program Chooser is a sample program in ROBOTC that allows users to assign programs on the NXT brick for tele-op use. Because autonomous programs are chosen before the start of an FTC match, the program chooser enables mixing-and-matching of programs and helps users account for game variables such as start location, alliance members, opposing alliance members, game object positions, etc before a match starts.
|To use the Program Chooser, users must first compile and download any autonomous and tele-op programs they wish to be able to choose from to the NXT brick. Then the Program Chooser must be opened, compiled, and downloaded to the NXT. It can be found by navigating to the File->Open Sample Program->FIRST Tech Challenge folder and selecting 'Program Chooser.c'
|Run the Program Chooser from the NXT. The program will first ask you to choose between Dual and Single Mode:
|If Dual Mode is chosen, the Program Chooser will then allow you to choose which program will be run in the tele-op portion of the match. Once a program is chosen, the Program Chooser will make the necessary changes to the FTCConfig.txt file and end the program.
|If Single Mode is chosen, the Program Chooser will automatically make the necessary changes to the FTCConfig.txt file and end the program.
|When the program is run in an FTC match, the user will choose a program to run for autonomous and then whichever program was chosen with the Program Chooser will be run in the user control stage. This can be tested by using the Joystick Control - Competition debug window.


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It was a lightning fast two-month construction of the european car GSR Rally Porsche, but its finished. The votes have been tallied (the winner will be announced at SEMA this year) and as of today the car has been sold. Reaching $33,700, which will be donated to the SEMA Cares Charity.
Seeing a project car leave your garage is never an easy thing to do. Handing over the keys is even harder. Especially when you consider the amount of work we put into our car. From purchase to test drive the entire build was completed in 60 days. We went from a clean, well cared for Porsche 911 to a tough-as-nails rally car equipped with roll cage, suspension, major body mods and a one-off exhaust system with a tune. This car is brilliant to drive and thrilling to see on the dirt.
We bought the car and all of its parts utilizing eBay Motors, proving that no matter what your project is eBay has got you covered. To our amazement we not only finished the car but we tested it out in the desert and were astonished by how well it handled.
We congratulate the new owner of our Rally Porsche. He/She has added a car that you can enjoy on any occasion. All we ask is that you share some photos with us wherever you take it; we are suffering from severe separation anxiety.


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SSH public key authentication
This How-To will walk you through setting up public key authentication over SSH. Using key-based authentication instead of passwords means you don't have to give away system passwords. There are several benefits for doing this. For example, it can be used to automate authentication, or to enhance security by requiring a user-generated key in addition to a passphrase. Key-based authentication also simplifies the distribution and management of login credentials across several remote systems.
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Linux Foundation Acquires Linux.com: Behind the Scenes
What Do We Do With Linux.com?
Two months after SourceForge's Linux.com site stopped publishing new stories, the reason has finally been made public: The site has been acquired by the Linux Foundation. As of today, the URL redirects to a welcome page that solicits suggestions from the community about what contents the site should have. The Linux Foundation will administer the site, and SourceForge will assist in the sale of advertising. However, in many ways, the news raises as many questions as it answers about what happened and what Linux.com will look like in the future.
News of the recent sale was given to Linux.com employees and long-term contractors at the end of last November, when the editorial budget was not renewed, and Robin "Roblimo" Miller, the senior editor, received notice that he would be laid off. On January 1, Lee Schlesinger, the former managing editor and the only member of the Linux.com who was not let go, posted an article entitled, "A new year, a new Linux.com," announcing that changes were taking place."
For about a month afterwards, readers speculated freely in comments below this announcement. Many expressed anger that more information was not being offered.
In the last month, the comments had stopped. However, in the last week, several people had noticed on Whois.net that the domain had been transferred to The Linux Foundation.
Asked about the reason why the transfer took so long, Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, refused comment. However, Jon Sobel, group president, media at SourceForge, replied, "There was no specific reason. We did our best to preserve the site, but, understanding that this relationship 'between SourceForge and the Linux Foundation' would likely come to fruition, we were careful not to do anything that would interfere with its future. We were proceeding with a great deal of care."
Neither Zemlin nor Sobel would discuss the price paid for the Linux Foundation -- or whether, as some rumors would have it, the transference of the URL was a donation. "Anything I say will just provoke more questions," Sobel says.
Reasons and approaches
The reason for the transfer is easy to see from the Linux Foundation's perspective. "We also manage the Linux trademark, and obviously Linux.com is an important brand asset," Zemlin says. Acquiring the URL, Zemlin adds, "just supports the activities that the Linux Foundation is already responsible for."
By contrast, the motivation of SourceForge is harder to discern. After all, according to today's news release, visits to the site were up 21% in the past year, so ad revenue was probably increasing, too. In addition, Linux.com was one of SourceForge's four major assets (the others, in no particular order, being the Slashdot site, the ThinkGeek store, and the SourceForge repositories for free and open source software). Moreover, with SourceForge reporting general revenue increases over the last year and last quarter, the need to dispose of assets does not appear to have been pressing.
Asked about the reasons, Sobel emphasized that the transfer was for the good of everyone involved. "In the long run, the best thing for the community, the Foundation and us is to have a robust, modern community web site, and we felt this was a better, faster way to get there, with the foundation and us together, than we could do ourselves."
Another unanswered question is exactly how the sale came about. According to Sobel, "We talk regularly with 'the Linux Foundation', and I can't remember who said what to whom first. But it was a very natural discussion. We understand their aspirations, and we were independently thinking what the right thing would be for the community, and it was a discussion that came very naturally."
However, according to Zemlin, SourceForge approached the Linux Foundation about the sale -- a move for which he gives the corporation the highest praise. "The company could have done anything with that URL. They could have sold it to the highest bidder, and that highest bidder could have been a competitor. Instead, what they did was, they came to us, and worked with us to make sure that Linux.com is something that can serve the community for a long period of time."
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Excerpts of Hillary Clinton's book "Hard Choices" have begun to come out, including this thought about her 2002 Senate vote to authorize military action in Iraq: "I still got it wrong." CBS News published the excerpts, in which the possible presidential candidate says of the vote: "I thought I had acted in good faith and made the best decision I could with the information I had. And I wasn't alone in getting it wrong. But I still got it wrong. Plain and simple." Clinton also writes she "crossed [her] fingers" during debt-ceiling negotiations in 2011, after she told people she was confident a deal would be reached.
And if the former secretary of state does run for president, as many expect? "About a dozen" Republicans could beat her, the Senate's No. 4 member of the GOP says. Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso made the confident comment in an interview on C-Span, saying also foreign policy will be a leading issue in 2016. The Hill has more about his comments.
Considerable skepticism: That's what The Wall Street Journal reports a White House-backed plan to overhaul the National Security Agency's phone-data program ran into from Republicans and Democrats during a hearing Thursday. Senators on the intelligence panel raised a range of concerns, including whether the proposed changes sufficiently protect American privacy and whether any changes are necessary at all. The hearing was held on the first anniversary of leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Tax talk: Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Orrin Hatch of Utah say they've agreed to hold hearings this summer to spur movement toward comprehensive tax reform. The pair — the chairman and top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, respectively — say the committee will hold hearings about education-tax incentives, ID theft and taxpayer privacy, and corporate taxes. MNI has more about the hearings, which the senators want to use as "building blocks" to comprehensive tax reform.
Drop the word "midget." Little People of America said Sen. Bob Corker's use of the word before a Senate Banking Committee vote earlier this week was "embarrassing and insulting." Tennessee Republican Corker later apologized, saying: "I sincerely apologize for what was a poor word choice and in no way meant to offend anyone."
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