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Jack Anderson
Richard Nixon detested syndicated reporter Jack Anderson and put right at the top of his "enemies list." When Nixon-ordered CIA and FBI volunteered surveillance of the muckraker failed to dig up any dirt, the plot to assassinate Anderson took on a life of its own at the White House.
by Don Fulsom
During Richard Nixon's presidency, Jack Anderson was America's premier investigative journalist—and Nixon's most despised. In the most chilling crime contemplated by the President's men, Anderson was targeted for assassination.
A strict moralist, Anderson's stated lifetime goal was to keep government honest. A devout Mormon, he viewed his reportorial undertaking as a noble summons from the Almighty.
Former Anderson legman Howard Kurtz recalls that Anderson was gentle, patient and avuncular "with the young and ambitious wannabes who rotated through his small office." He adds that Anderson's "ability to persuade people at the highest level of government to share secrets with him was uncanny, especially in an era when most journalists were deferential toward the nation's leaders and when top political columnists had cozy relationships with the high and mighty."
Anderson was the last of the old-time muckrakers and, according to his biographer, Mark Feldstein, "an important transitional figure in the evolution of adversarial journalism …" Feldstein conceded, however, that Anderson would sometimes stoop fairly low to get a good story: "He swiped secret documents, used bugging equipment to eavesdrop on conversations, and jubilantly savaged his enemies, unconcerned with such journalistic niceties as fairness and balance," the author pointed out in a 2004 interview with The Washington Post.
By 1972, Anderson had won both a Pulitzer Prize and the highest perch on Nixon's notorious enemies list. To please or appease their Anderson-phobic boss—or possibly to follow his orders—at least two of Nixon's presidential henchmen and a CIA doctor actually conspired to bump off the boss's most hated nemesis.
A bombastic self-promoter as well as an old-fashioned shoe-leather newspaperman of unquestioned accuracy, Anderson had branched out from a nationally syndicated column, "Washington Merry-Go-Round," (read by some 45 million people) into TV, radio, magazines and the lucrative lecture circuit.
His exclusives—running into the hundreds—included several that sent the volcanic Nixon up the Oval Office wall: A secret U.S. tilt away from India toward Pakistan; the CIA's clandestine use of the Mob in numerous efforts to murder Cuban leader Fidel Castro (A plot secretly run by Nixon as vice president); and an under-the-table link between a Nixon administration decision todrop a government antitrust suit against ITT and a $400,000 ITT pledge to underwrite the 1972 Republican convention.
After the ITT column ran, an incensed President asked No. 1 aide Bob Haldeman why he could not find someone to rifle Anderson's files. This, undoubtedly, would have required a break-in at Anderson's office.
President Nixon had an even bigger, older reason to hate Jack Anderson. He blamed the intrepid journalist, in part, for keeping him from winning his first White House bid.
As the 1960 election neared, Anderson and his patron, tutor and partner, Drew Pearson (who died in 1969, leaving the column to Anderson), disclosed that, in 1956, Vice President Nixon's unscrupulous brother Donald had received a $205,000 "loan" from Dick's longtime Sugar Daddy, billionaire businessman Howard Hughes. Soon after the Hughes money reached Donald, the IRS—reversing a prior ruling—granted tax-exempt status to Hughes's shady "medical institute."
Described by Nixon aide John Ehrlichman as a "florid, peach-shaped fellow given to wearing white sports jackets and colorful neckties," Donald Nixon had always been a potential embarrassment to his brother. "Don talked loudly, extravagantly and incessantly, so the Nixon campaigns always discouraged his participation," Ehrlichman wryly observed in his book, Witness to Power.
At first, Nixon denied the Hughes loan story; but he was later forced to admit that the billionaire's bucks had indeed enriched his brother. That is until Don blew the money on a pipe dream—a California chain of "Nixon-Burger" drive-in restaurants that quickly folded.
Richard Nixon was convinced that this particular Pearson-Anderson "Washington Merry-Go-Round" dispatch had contributed mightily to his razor-thin presidential loss to Sen. John F. Kennedy.
Illustrative of Nixon's enmity toward Anderson and Pearson was the reaction of Ehrichman, a senior 1968 Nixon campaign aide, when he learned that the two reporters would be staying at Nixon's Miami Beach hotel during the Republican convention: "'No! Of all the reporters in the world, not those two!' I yelled. Nixon would have a stroke on the very eve of his nomination; they were his deadliest (author's emphasis) foes."
Ehrlichman pressured the mobbed-up Teamsters Union—which held the mortgage on the hotel—and, as a result, Anderson and Pearson had to stay elsewhere.
As President, Nixon was so frightened of the mischief his "poor, dumb, damn brother" Donald might blunder into—and that Jack Anderson might expose—that he bugged Don's phones and put a full-time Secret Service tail on him.
CIA and FBI Surveillance
Meantime, the Central Intelligence Agency was keeping a close eye on almost all of Anderson's activities. It was also conducting "personal surveillances" of Jack's legmen, Brit Hume and Les Whitten.
In addition, Anderson was being watched and followed by agents of the FBI, whose director, Nixon crony J. Edgar Hoover, privately called the columnist a "jackal" with a mind that is "lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures." When Hoover dispatched agents to stake out Anderson's house, the columnist sent several of his nine children outside to have some fun: take their pictures and let the air out of their tires.
Hoover volunteered the FBI's files on Anderson to the White House, where counsel John Dean found them of absolutely no value to Anderson-loathers on the premises. Sadly for them, Hoover's Anderson files turned out to be mainly old newspaper and magazine clippings.
Next, the White House secretly probed Anderson's alleged participation in a questionable Maryland land deal. The President's men came up empty. They got the same result when they tried to pin down a tip about possible shady dealings by Anderson's brother.
Dean says Nixon had full knowledge of all of the anti-Anderson maneuverings: "Colson was reporting to the President on his efforts."
The eventual star witness for Watergate investigators, Dean and his accusations against the President and his co-conspirators have stood the test of time. When Nixon's secret tape recordings were later made released, Dean's photographic memory of events was totally confirmed. Though he was convicted of multiple felonies, the former White House counsel served only four months in a special U.S. Marshals "safe house" near Baltimore in return for his cooperation with prosecutors. He is now an investment banker, lecturer, and outspoken critic of the Iraq war.
Jack Anderson fought the administration's efforts to discredit him. He publicly charged that Colson had started a false rumor that the reporter had accepted $100,000 to write articles favorable to former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. And he had one of his legman do an FBI-style ransacking of J. Edgar Hoover's garbage. A search of Hoover's refuse, however, yielded nothing of consequence—just many empty cartons of a popular anti-acid, indicating the FBI director suffered from gas pains.
The Plot to Assassinate Anderson
In this ugly atmosphere, the White House started plotting Anderson's slaying—one scoop Anderson was not able to break himself. That juicy story was unearthed by Watergate ace Bob Woodward. In a September 21, 1975 Washington Post piece, Woodward reported that an unnamed top White House aide gave Nixon's chief spy E. Howard Hunt "the order to kill Anderson."
The plan allegedly involved the use of poison—one that could not be detected during an autopsy—obtained from a CIA physician. Woodward wrote that the assassination order came from a "senior official in the Nixon White House," and that it was "canceled at the last minute . . ." He added that former Watergate investigators were surprised "that such a plan could have been kept secret for so long." Hunt's former White House supervisor, Colson, claimed he'd never heard of the aborted Anderson assassination plan, Woodward elaborated.
Like Colson, E. Howard Hunt was a Brown University grad. He was a handsome, literate (he had written scores of spy novels under an assumed name, and had ghost-written the autobiography of former CIA Director Allen Dulles), gun toting, take-no-prisoners, retired spook who had worked years earlier with Vice President Nixon on the planned CIA-Mafia murder of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. A master of deception and disinformation, Hunt was also a close friend of CIA Director Richard Helms. As a Nixon aide, Hunt got the CIA to supply him with "Mission Impossible"-like disguises—such as a red wig, a voice-altering device, and a gait-changing appliance for one of his legs.
A CIA memo, which came to light in the 1970s, placed Hunt in Dallas the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. In the mid-'80s, Hunt lost a lawsuit he brought against a newsletter for implicating him the JFK assassination.
On his deathbed early in this century, Hunt confessed that he knew of plans by rogue CIA agents to assassinate Kennedy, but claimed he decided against becoming a conspirator. Hunt's son—St. John Hunt—recently disclosed that his mother told him his dad was in Dallas "on business" on November 22, 1963.
Hunt never publicly acknowledged that Nixon White House anti-Jack Anderson efforts included murder. However, in an affidavit about a key meeting with Colson related to "dirty tricks" against Anderson, Hunt did say, "Colson seemed more than usually agitated, and I formed the impression that he had just come from a meeting with President Nixon."
The President's Hit Man
Colson was known around the White House as "the Assassin." Nixon's top assistant, Bob Haldeman, actually described him as the President's "hit man."
A hard-drinking, beefy, tough-talking ex-Marine captain, Colson lived by the motto on a sign above his bar in his den at home: "If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." He spent much time revving-up Nixon's cruelest instincts. And Nixon did the same with Colson.
Even in the immediate wake of the Watergate break-in, Nixon and Colson had the abominable Anderson on their minds. In a June 20, 1972 conversation, the two men sought to minimize the seriousness of Watergate by comparing it to Anderson's award-winning story that the Nixon administration secretly tilted toward Pakistan in its war with India.
Colson: "They gave Anderson a Pulitzer Prize. In other words, stealing documents (unintelligible) for (unintelligible).
President: Belonging to the government, top secret, shit … did any of these people (who are criticizing the Watergate burglary) squeal about (Anderson's actions) then?
Colson: Yeah, isn't that true?
President: That's my point. Did (Sen. George) McGovern, did the (New York) Times, did the (Washington) Post squeal about that then? Now here was an attempted theft that failed, against a political party, not against the government of the United States. They give Pulitzer Prizes for publishing stolen documents.
The Hay-Adams Hotel Plotters: G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt
It was in this same conversation, incidentally, that the President first indicated, at least on tape, that he had known in advance of the break-in—telling Colson: "It doesn't sound like a, a skillful job. (Unintelligible.) If we didn't know better, (we) would have thought it was deliberately botched."
G. Gordon Liddy—an articulate ex-FBI agent and defeated GOP congressional hopeful from upstate New York—was considered by some of his Nixon cohorts to be a wacky loose cannon. He was a fan of Nazi propaganda films, a strong believer in racial purity, and often packed heat—an expensive German pistol with a silencer. In May of 1972 – only weeks before the first Watergate break-in when the listening bugs were originally planted – Liddy used that gun to shoot out several streetlights during an aborted pre-Watergate break-in at the Washington headquarters of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. George McGovern.
When Jeb Magruder, head of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, had an up close and personal run-in with the volatile Liddy, Liddy threatened: "Get your hand off me or I'll kill you." Magruder recalled. But when Magruder recommended that Liddy be fired, the White House vetoed the idea. Nixon aide Gordon Strachan responded: "He may be a Hitler, but at least he's our Hitler." Nixon himself loved Liddy's loyalty, once enthusing: "He hates the other side."
In his 1980 book Will, Liddy said that he and Hunt were assigned the White House task of "stopping" Anderson: "We examined all the alternatives and very quickly came to the conclusion the only way you're going to be able to stop him is to kill him . . . And that was the recommendation." As Liddy succinctly told Anderson in person on a subsequent TV talk show: "The rationale was to come up with a method of silencing you through killing you."
Liddy said he and Hunt originally planned to poison Anderson with LSD (known more for creating colorful hallucinations than for its lethality). A CIA doctor—Edward Gunn, an expert on poisons and their antidotes—sat in on the final rubout talks.
Those occurred in March 1972 over lunch at the swank Hay-Adams Hotel, a block from the White House. The conspirators were convinced Anderson had crossed an unforgivable line by blowing the cover of a CIA spy—an accusation that was never proved.
Liddy later admitted that the group had considered playing "aspirin roulette" with Anderson—"in which one takes a single tablet of a deadly poison, packs it in a Bayer aspirin jar, (then) we place it in the man's medicine chest, and one day he gets that tablet and that's that."
When poisoning and a fake car crash were dismissed as impractical, the Hay-Adams group settled on making Anderson's killing look like an accidental part of a random sidewalk robbery. Liddy said he handed Dr. Gunn a $100 bill (from Nixon's re-election committee's intelligence fund) for the physician's consultative services.
After the CIA doctor left, Liddy suggested to Hunt that the Miami Cubans already recruited as leak-plugging "plumbers" (and future Watergate burglars) be assigned to kill Anderson. Liddy said Hunt had bragged to him that members of this Hunt-mentored group "had been involved in organized crime and who had, among them, killed … 22 men, including two who were hanged from a beam in a garage."
The Cubans idolized Hunt, whom they still referred to as "Eduardo," his CIA code name during secret CIA plots against Castro and his Communist regime, including the catastrophic Bay of Pigs invasion, in the early '60s. When Hunt mentioned that his Nixon White House "principal" (assumed by Liddy to be Colson) might object to using the plumbers to murder Anderson, Liddy volunteered: "If necessary, I'll do it."
The Anderson assassination scheme was eventually shelved (by Nixon and Colson, according to Liddy), but the columnist went to his grave in 2005 (after a long battle with Parkinson's) concurring with Liddy's take that "Richard Nixon wanted me dead."
Nixon as Thug-in-Chief
Was Nixon capable of ordering a Mafia-style hit on an enemy? The answer is yes. And here are a few examples:
·• As already mentioned, as vice president, he ran CIA-Mafia murder plots against Cuban leader Fidel Castro (Attorney General Robert Kennedy later supervised these "black" operations); and he sanctioned the slaying of Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis—telling an aide, "If it turns out we have to kill the bastard, just don't do it on American soil."
· • As president, Nixon gave the green light to the assassination of Chilean President Salvador Allende.
· • His corrupt vice president, Spiro Agnew, feared Nixon would have him bumped off if he didn't resign over a bribery scandal.
· • Nixon once cabled a thinly veiled death threat to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu.
· • Nixon loyalist J. Edgar Hoover seldom criticized the President. But in 1972, the FBI chief told a friendly reporter (Andrew Tully, who wrote a syndicated column called "Capital File"), on the condition his remarks would not be published until after his death, that some of Nixon's aides "don't know a goddamned thing about due process of law. They think they can get away with murder."
·• Washington Post Watergate sleuth Bob Woodward, who—with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein—was exposing Watergate crimes left and right, was warned by his secret FBI source, Mark Felt (a.k.a. "Deep Throat") that "your lives are in danger."
·• Nixon and his top aide, Bob Haldeman, once discussed enlisting Teamsters thugs ("murderers," Haldeman called them; "guys who will knock their heads off," Nixon exulted) to assault a group of anti-war demonstrators.
George Washington University Professor Mark Feldstein, an expert on Anderson, explains why the LSD and poison ideas were discarded: "The trouble was as a Mormon and a teetotaler, (Anderson) didn't drink alcohol, so that was out. So then they talked about making him crash in an automobile accident, but they would have had to go to the CIA and use a special car for that."
In Liddy's memory: "We discussed Dr. Gunn's suggestion, which was the use of an automobile to hit Mr. Anderson's automobile when it was in a turn in the circle up near Chevy Chase. There is a way that has apparently been known by the Central Intelligence Agency that if you hit a car at just the right speed and angle, it will flip and burn and kill the occupant."
In the end, G. Gordon Liddy said he'd carry out Anderson's assassination himself by "knifing him, slitting his throat, and staging it as a mugging that would look like a Washington street crime."
Who knows what bizarre turn a revived Anderson assassination plot might have taken next, if Liddy and Hunt had not been put out of business—and eventually behind bars—for their leadership of a botched but non-fatal Watergate break-in crime in June of 1972, a black bag job the White House played down as "third-rate burglary attempt."
That break-in—at the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate office building—and its subsequent cover-up forced Richard Nixon to quit the presidency in disgrace in August of 1974 in order to avoid being thrown out of office. When he resigned, all but a few members of his own party had deserted him, and his public approval ratings were only in the teens—far lower than those of the recently unpopular George W. Bush. Only a hasty pardon from his hand picked presidential successor and close personal friend, Gerald Ford, prevented a criminal trial of, and probable jail sentence for, Nixon.
Hunt died several years ago. But Liddy and Colson are still around. Liddy, known in the talk radio trade as the "G-Man," hosts a syndicated right-wing blab fest on about 150 stations. He served the longest prison sentence of any Watergate criminal—52 months—for refusing to cooperate with prosecutors. He takes pride in the fact he never "snitched."
Colson became a born-again Christian about the same time he pled guilty to the Watergate crime of defaming anti-war leader Daniel Ellsburg. He was sentenced to one to three years in prison, but was let out after seven months because of a family emergency.
Nixon's hit man now runs a big ministry for ex-convicts and crime victims. Colson has apparently never wavered from his initial contention that he was out of the loop in the squalid conspiracy to slit the throat of the President's perceived chief villain.
Of course, Nixon and Colson—if they were indeed the puppet masters in the canceled plot—could have used the same excuse as Liddy. As the G-Man explained to Anderson during their first meeting, on ABC's "Good Morning America" in 1980: "Murder is a technical term. You call it murder because you think it unjustified. I would say it was justifiable homicide, given the truth of the situation."
In his post-resignation years, Nixon was never quizzed about the planned hit on Anderson. If he had been, perhaps his answer would have been similar to the one he gave in his famous $1 million 1977 TV interview with David Frost. Seeking to justify his alleged violations of constitutional rights, Nixon told to his British interrogator: "If the president does it, that means it is not illegal."
Aside from those cited, sources include: Howard Kurtz, Washington Post, "Jack Anderson, Gentleman with a Rake," Dec. 18, 2005; President Nixon, Richard Reeves; Witness to Power, John Ehrlichman; Blind Ambition, John Dean; USA Today; The New York Times; Associated Press; The Virgin Island Daily News; Anderson's recollections from a George Washington University oral history project; Nightmare, Anthony Lukas; The Arrogance of Power, Anthony Summers; Mark Feldstein, NPR interview on "All Thing's Considered," Aug. 3, 2004; Plausible Denial, Mark Lane; and "The Real Story," CNBC, June 13, 1991; Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia.


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Roy MJ, Sticha DL, Kraus PL, Olsen DE. Simulation and virtual reality in medical education and therapy: a protocol. Cyberpsychol Behav 2006;9:245-247.
Abstract: Continuing medical education has historically been provided primarily by didactic lectures, though adult learners prefer experiential or self-directed learning. Young physicians have extensive experience with computer-based or "video" games, priming them for medical education- and treating their patients-via new technologies. We report our use of standardized patients (SPs) to educate physicians on the diagnosis and treatment of biological and chemical warfare agent exposure. We trained professional actors to serve as SPs representing exposure to biological agents such as anthrax and smallpox. We rotated workshop participants through teaching stations to interview, examine, diagnose and treat SPs. We also trained SPs to simulate a chemical mass casualty (MASCAL) incident. Workshop participants worked together to treat MASCAL victims, followed by discussion of key teaching points. More recently, we developed computer-based simulation (CBS) modules of patients exposed to biological agents. We compare the strengths and weaknesses of CBS vs. live SPs. Finally, we detail plans for a randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of virtual reality (VR) exposure therapy compared to pharmacotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is associated with significant disability and healthcare costs, which may be ameliorated by the identification of more effective therapy.
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New DNA Testing Schemes for Cavalier King Charles Spaniels
Following consultation with the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel breed health coordinator, on behalf of the breed clubs, the Kennel Club has approved new official DNA testing schemes for Curly Coat-Dry Eye and Episodic Falling in the breed.
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If the owner includes the original registration certificate for the dog (not a copy) then a new registration certificate will be issued, with the DNA result on it, free of charge. Please send any DNA test certificates to Health & Breeder Services, The Kennel Club, 1 5 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, London W1J 8AB or scan and email copies of the certificates to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Kennel Club continues to work alongside breed clubs and breed health coordinators, in a collaborative effort to improve the health of pedigree dogs. The Kennel Club is happy to accommodate a club's request to add a new DNA test to its lists and would normally need a formal request from the breed's health coordinator or a majority request from the breed clubs.
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Rowed in the three position of the varsity four B which finished fourth in the grand final, helping Radcliffe claim the first ever Ivy League Championship Regatta May 13 ... Contributed in the varsity four B to Radcliffe's sweep of No. 20 Dartmouth and Syracuse to claim the O'Leary Cup April 14 … Sat in the one seat of the varsity four B for Radcliffe's first-place finish (8:30.6) at the Class of 1975 Cup April 7 … Rowed in the one seat of the third varsity eight as Radcliffe topped Brown March 31 … Helped the varsity four B to win the Beanpot over rivals Boston College, MIT and Northeastern.
Freshman • 2011
Rowed with the third varsity eight six times and the varsity four B twice … Led the third varsity eight to a 6:53.72 second-place finish in the petite final at the EAWRC Sprints … Contributed to a runner-up finish, ahead of Boston University and Boston College at the Beanpot April 30 … Helped the varsity four B place second ahead of Minnesota and Syracuse at the Charles River Challenge.
Before Harvard
On varsity crew for three years during which she rowed in the bow seat … Third boat placed third at NEIRA Championships in 2008, and in '09 first boat won first place … Placed seventh at Nationals in 2009, and second boat placed sixth in '10 … Won the Miller Award, given to the best student-athlete in the school … Played on league-champion field hockey and ice hockey teams … All-New England player in '09 for field hockey … All-league honorable mention for ice hockey in 2010 … Member of the Cum Laude Society and graduated with high distinction … Editor-in-chief of her high school's literary and arts magazine … Recipient of the Davidson Award for music and the Bramhall-Bridge Purchase Prize for her work in AP photography … Member of Student Life Council and string ensemble, and officer in Asian Culture Club.
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Changes, but you can't go wrong with a single-breasted, solid color suit in black, grey or navy blue and always remember a single-breasted suit will make you look slimmer and sleeker in appearance.
In men's formal wear a stylish suit can conjure up a number of images, all of them positive.
A suit can make you look powerful, mature, conservative, or sexy. Remember, most women love men in suits!
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Wool is always a safe option when buying a suit. It looks good and wears well.
Worsted wools are lightweight for spring and summer. Gabardine wools are heavier for winter. Wool Crepes are lightweight with softer finishes. Flannel wools are heaviest. Patterns for interview suits are limited to solids, stripes (pinstripe, chalk stripe, beaded-stripe, multistripe), Glen plaids, and checks (hounds-tooth, windowpane, and herringbone).
The first thing to look for in a man's watch is a large face, as these designs are generally accepted by everyone as looking stylish.
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(Reuters) - Two teams that know the peaks and valleys of the National Football League all too well clash on Saturday when the Kansas City Chiefs visit the Indianapolis Colts for a wild-card showdown.
The Chiefs, one year removed from a two-win campaign, are the Cinderella story of this NFL season after opening with nine straight victories and clinching their first playoff spot in four years.
A season ago it was the Colts who reached the playoffs one year after going a dismal 2-14.
But the clock will strike midnight for one team on Saturday in Indianapolis where the AFC South champion Colts (11-5) will host the wild card Chiefs (11-5).
"Any time you can be a part of the turnaround, it's a special feeling," said Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith. "These guys have worked hard and deserve a ton of credit.
"It's special to be a part of this."
The Chiefs, seeking their first playoff win in 20 years, can attribute their revival to head coach Andy Reid, who arrived after being fired by the Philadelphia Eagles, and hard luck quarterback Smith.
Smith, the top pick in the 2005 draft, was never able to silence critics during seven turbulent years with San Francisco before finally losing his starting job to backup Colin Kaepernick midway through last season.
More steady than spectacular, Smith has never thrown for more than 3,313 yards in a season but finds ways to win, posting a sparkling 30-9-1 record over the last three years.
The Colts are also led by a top draft pick in quarterback Andrew Luck, who has had big shoes to fill after taking over for future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning.
In two seasons, Luck has guided Indianapolis to 22 wins and passed for 8,196 yards, the most ever by a player in his first two campaigns.
But while Luck has exceeded expectations the second year quarterback must still prove he can deliver when it counts most and win a playoff game.
"We know the postseason's a whole different ball game and it's one-and-done," said Luck. "We're excited about that."
Luck, who tossed 23 touchdowns and just nine interceptions, will be wary of an opportunistic Chiefs defense that struggled late in the season but still finished with the second most takeaways (36).
The Chiefs offensive line will have to be on the lookout for Colts linebacker Robert Mathis who led the NFL with 19.5 sacks.
After a mid-season swoon that saw Indianapolis drop three-of-five contests, the Colts have found their stride and head into the playoffs riding a three-game win streak, including a 23-7 thrashing of Chiefs two weeks ago.
In contrast, following their spectacular 9-0 start the Chiefs sputtered down the home stretch losing five-of-seven including their last two.
Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto; Editing by Frank Pingue


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Hi there! As some of you have probably noticed, I haven't been spending much time here, so I thought I'd take a moment to share what has been taking up all my attention. Farmsteads of the California Coast, just released by Yellow Pear Press, is one of four books I had the pleasure of photographing last year. What an amazing project it was, especially for a farm nerd like me.
Novella Carpenter says, "This book will make you want to milk a water buffalo or barbecue some oysters."
Sarah Henry and I traversed the California coast visiting some of our favorite farms (Hog Island Oyster Co, Gospel Flat Farm) and discovering new ones (Double 8 Dairy, Good Land Organics).... Sarah penning the tales of twelve unique coastal farms and I telling the visual story with my photographs. I couldn't have asked for a richer collaboration.
If you'd like to read more about what folks are saying about the book, you can read here, here andhere. And I'm especially excited to see the book featured in the newest issue of Cherry Bombe.
Here's a little visual taste of some of the farms we featured in the book... Or you can see more on my photography website.
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Definitive Technology Unveils Bluetooth Tablet Speaker
New "Sound Cylinder" speaker clips on to most tablets and features built-in subwoofer for superior sound
Jan 02, 2013, 07:00 ET
BALTIMORE, Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Definitive Technology announced today its first Bluetooth speaker system, the "Sound Cylinder," to bring high performance sound to tablets and other portable Bluetooth enabled devices. Sound Cylinder's innovative clip system securely attaches the speaker to most tablets and many laptop computers.
The consumer electronics industry will get its first peek at Definitive's new Sound Cylinder at the company's exhibit space, booth 4809 in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, at CES 2013, Jan. 8-11 in Las Vegas.
Sound Cylinder doubles as a table stand for an attached tablet. A built-in pivoting "kickstand" securely holds the device at an ideal angle for viewing and listening. It connects wirelessly to Bluetooth enabled devices or via an audio cable to any device with an analog audio output jack. The built-in rechargeable battery provides up to 10 hours of high quality listening.
Befitting Definitive's reputation as a leading maker of ultra-high performance component home loudspeakers for discriminating listeners, Sound Cylinder's audio performance is exemplary. It features a built-in side-firing subwoofer in addition to stereo speakers to provide listeners with rich, full-bodied stereo sound wherever they may go. Surround Array image enhancement processing creates a life-like soundstage that extends beyond the compact dimensions of the cylinder.
"Thanks to rapid advances in portable devices such as tablets and smart phones, enjoying music and video content on the go is within the reach of everyone," said Kevin Duffy, Definitive Technology's President. "Headphones are fine but they're not always practical, especially when you want to share an audio experience with others. Sound Cylinder answers the need for convenient high quality audio on the move."
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The product design is the result of collaboration between world renowned Frog Design and the DEI Global Design Center, headed by Chief Design Officer Michael DiTullo. Frog Design is an innovation firm with 12 locations around the globe and more than 1,000 designers, strategists, and engineers. The DEI Global Design Center is a multi-disciplinary design studio located in the Vista, CA office of Definitive's corporate parent, DEI Holdings.
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Wikiomics:Protein mass spectrometry
Protein mass spectrometry can be divided into:
- identification of proteins/peptides
- quantification
A good introductory tutorial from USC Computational Biology group is here.
- 1 Protein/peptide identification
- 2 Protein quantification
- 3 Frameworks/pipelines
- 4 File formats
- 5 Spectrum datasets
- 6 Web sites
- 7 Reviews
- 8 Tutorials
- 9 Other tools to be sorted out
- 10 Credits
Protein/peptide identification
Peptide Mass Fingerprinting (PMF) or (MS)
Old method, superseded by MS/MS
- algorithms:
- Mascot (gives probabilistic score)
- Aldente
- ProFound ProFound
- caveats
- no sequence information
- journals started to require that at least one peptide of a protein identified by PMF should be confirmed by MS/MS
Peptide fragment fingerprinting (PFF) or (MS/MS)
- algorithms (most commonly used):
- Sequest $$$
- Mascot $$$, free but limited web server form
- OMSSA Open Mass Spectrometry Search Algorithm, open source
- XTandem open source effort from Canada
- algorithms (other/new/experimental):
- Spectrum Mill $$$
- this paper claims 5-15% more confident hits than Sequest: [1]
- InsPecT A new variable mods search from Pevzner & Tanner @UCSD (free?)
- filtering bad quality spectra
- filtering of the results
- Trans Proteomic Pipeline [2] (free?)
- download from Sourceforge (TPP Cygwin Setup for Windows or 'Trans-Proteomic Pipeline' for Linux)
- commercial offshot IPP
- wiki devoted to TPP TPP_Wiki
- dynamic newsgroup: spctools-discuss
- Trans Proteomic Pipeline [2] (free?)
- DTASelect it seems to be in a semi-frozen state (free for nonprofit but requires signed MTA)
Protein databases
Use (if possible):
- IPI International Protein Index
- always use target-decoy database (i.e. concatenated: human_IPI + reversed_human_IPI)
- decoy databases creation methods:
- protein reversal (simple to perform. does not scramble fortunately quite rare palindromic sequences)
- peptide pseudo-reversal (used in Sorcerer by Sage-N Research)
- MEGGAYGAGKAGGAFDPYTL => (trypsin digest, used Ms-Digest) MEGGAYGAGK AGGAFDPYTL => GAGYAGGEMK-ALTYPDFAGG (each peptide reversed, but trypsin digestion site preserved -> guessed from the Elias 2007 paper)
- shuffled
- MEGGAYGAGKAGGAFDPYTL => FYAGADEAGMGTYKGGAGLP (used SMS, results differ each time) -> recommended by EBI ppl
- random (i.e. creating database of random proteins based on frequency of AA in source fasta file)
- protein reversal (simple to perform. does not scramble fortunately quite rare palindromic sequences)
- to create decoy database use DBToolkit free java standalone
Modification databases
- Unimod (> 500 natural + labels)
- Delta Mass A Database of Protein Post Translational Modifications (in vivo)
- RESID detailed descriptions of > 400 modifications
Peptide Tag Searching
"Designed to characterize peptides with mutations or unexpected post-translational modifications." (from Popitam page)
- GutenTag free for non-profit, MTA required. Assigns fewer peptides than Sequest but with fewer false positives. Occupies a middle ground between mainstream search algorithms and de novo sequencing.
de novo sequence determination algorithms
Spectral matching
The idea is that if one can match spectrum of an unknown peptide to a very similar MS/MS spectrum in a database with a determined sequence/annotation then one can annotate unknown peptide in a process similar to orthologue annotation in protein sequence databases. Caveat: bad annotations will also get propagated.
- P3 (server) from Global Proteomics Machine (free)
- SpectraST from ISB, Seattle (not as many species/options as P3). Ca 500x faster than Sequest on the same set.
lecture notes by Henry Lam from ISB
- BiblioSpec from MacCoss lab. (free for non-profit, online licence)
- command line only
Spectral libraries available here@PeptideAtlas
Protein quantification
- approaches
- isotopic labeling (ICAT, ITRAQ, SILAC, 18O- or 15N-labeling)
- label-free methods
- software
- ASAPRatio from Trans Proteomics Pipeline:
"calculates the relative abundances of proteins and the corresponding confidence intervals from ICAT-type ESI-LC/MS data"
- MSQuant Parser for Mascot results for quantitation (Windows only)
- Trans Proteomic Pipeline (TPP) most popular, included in Sorcerer from Sage-N Research. Windows/Cygwin/Perl or Linux based.
- Open-MS German, C++ based
- Sorcerer $$$ FPGA-based fast hardware solution for SEQUEST & Tandem searches with TPP on top of it.
File formats
- .bdx from Bruker Daltonics
- .dta SEQUEST/Thermoelectron. Two versions:
- single pectra
- multiple spectra concateneted in one file
- .mgf multiple spectra, Mascot (Matrix science)
- mzXML (used by Trans Proteomics Pipeline)
- mzData (standard set by HUPO Proteomics Standard Initiative)
Spectrum datasets
Good for testing programs:
- Open Proteomics Database OPD
- HUPO Plasma Proteome Project files PRIDE@EBI
Web sites
- UCSD (Pevzner)
- U. of Washington (MacCoss)
- Proteome Commons collection of tools & links
- GenePattern proteomics modules from Broad Inst.
- USC in LA several programs: PepHMM, Sub-DeNovo, SuffixTree-MS.
For a good review of programs and aspects of protein identification by mass spectrometry see:
- Frédérique Lisacek's @Proteomics Web-based MS/MS Data Analysis on the web: Mascot, Phenyx and X!Tandem
Other tools to be sorted out
$$$ programs
- ProteinLynx Global SERVER $$$, from Waters Waters Corporation
- Phenyx from GeneBio (online web server)
Needs to be sorted out.
- DeNovoID web
- SPIDER (PDF) de novo + homology search in other species based on a set of tags
- OpenSea (HTML) Java program available from authors
ModifiComb (HTML) (available from authors?)
- Darek Kedra wrote this tutorial


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First, you should look into whether your seasonal job will be adding health benefits for you. If you work more than 120 days a year, you are considered full-time; this means that not offering you health benefits will trigger a penalty for the employer. (This applies only if the employer has 50 or more employees that count as full time.)
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Former DHS Official Says Boston Bombing Proves ACLU & EFF Are Wrong About Surveillance And CISPA
from the call-up-OED:-'crass'-needs-to-be-redefined dept
There have been a lot of kneejerk reactions to the Boston Marathon bombing. Between certain politicians and pundits quickly turning the horrific event into makeshift planks to support their pet legislation/conspiracy theories and the New York Post cranking out reports so "exclusive" they weren't even true, the internet and airwaves have been filled with the sort of stupidity we've sadly come to expect when tragedy strikes.
Then something comes along that swaggers right up to you and punches you in the face with its breathtaking imbecility. This is Stewart Baker's "contribution" to the national discussion, filed over at the otherwise esteemed Volokh Conspiracy under the heading "Fool Me Once..."
When people say, "The stupid! It burns!" they're usually referring to garden variety stupidity or the occasional bit of advanced moronics that momentarily derails entire comment threads. This thing that Baker has cobbled together out of the stuff he likes best -- surveillance and more surveillance -- towers over other moments of burning stupid like a Wicker Man made entirely from straw. The stupid here doesn't simply burn. It immolates the rational person's mind, replacing coherent arguments with searing, nightmarish pain that reduces responses to stunted internet-native declarations like "wat."
Baker wants us to believe that the EFF and the ACLU are wrong... in both instances. What it actually shows is the EFF/ACLU's consistency on these issues. Unless Baker has heard otherwise, the EFF and ACLU are still against widespread surveillance (along with CISPA). This event, as terrible as it was, doesn't change that stance.
Only someone like Baker, a former DHS "company man" and freelance contributor to the underdeveloped "TSA porn" genre, would take the stance that the FBI's release of camera footage capturing the two bombing suspects' images justifies the massive amount of surveillance many in this country are subjected to in nearly every public space. (His take conveniently ignores the fact that the stills posted by the FBI appear to have been captured by cameras deployed by private businesses.)
Only someone who seems to detest the actions of privacy advocates would insinuate through a disingenuous headline ("What they said about street cameras before the bombing") that the EFF and ACLU would change their views on surveillance after an event like this. They won't. Only fair-weather friends of Constitutional rights and civil liberties change their stances after a tragedy like this. (See also: EVERYTHING THE GOVERNMENT HAS ENACTED SINCE SEPT. 11, 2001 THAT DEALS WITH NATIONAL "SAFETY" OR "SECURITY.")
And only someone who knows CISPA is a purposely flawed bill aimed at giving the government even more control and surveillance powers would have the gall to cheapen this tragedy by attempting to equate the two using a bullshit "conclusion" hastily MS Painted together and dropped unceremoniously into the blogosphere like a flaming bag of foul-smelling rhetoric on the doormat.
One question, though, Stewart, tied into Boston Marathon as you've done with yours: all of this surveillance, all these increased security measures, all this warrantless wiretapping, all these pat downs and scans at the airport, all of these drones flying all over the world, all these double-secret interpretations of super-secret laws, all of these redacted FOIA responses, all of this Cyber Pearl Harbor hand wringing, all of encroachment of the government into every aspect of American existence?
What did it prevent?
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Abstract: Perceptions of Prophecy: Images of Divination in Etruscan, Greek and Roman Art
The lecture explores images of acts of prophecy in Etruscan, Greek and Roman religious art. Ancient Italian rituals of divination required certain gestures, postures, instruments and personnel, and these can be analyzed and organized to show a complete vocabulary of iconography utilized to depict oracles and prophecies. The inquiry starts with themes shown in engravings on Etruscan mirrors, which were themselves used as instruments of prophecy and which show some of the most famous instances of purely Etruscan prophetic myth: the story of the prophet Cacu and the Vipenas Brothers, and the story of the child Tages, who sang out the principles of the Etrusca disciplina , which was then transmitted to all the Etruscans. What is surprising is that many of the motifs and themes found in Etruscan art of the fourth and third centuries BCE can be identified also in Greek and Roman representations. The famous Villa of the Mysteries at Pompeii has numerous prophetic motifs which long went unrecognized, but which, once identified, make a significant difference in the interpretation of the mytho-ritual depictions of the Mysteries.
N.T. de Grummond, "Mirrors and Manteia: Themes of Prophecy on Etruscan and Praenestine Mirrors," in Aspetti e problemi della produzione degli specchi etruschi figurati, Rome, 2000, pp. 27-67. "Mirrors, Marriage and Mysteries," Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplement 47, 2002, pp. 63-85.
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The Worker Occupational Safety and Health Training and Education Program (WOSHTEP)
Multilingual Health & Safety Resource Guide
This guide is a collection of links to worker training materials such as fact sheets, checklists, and other educational resources that are available online and can be printed to distribute to workers participating in workplace injury and illness prevention programs.
You can find the current guide to view or print on the LOHP Multilingual Guide page.
These materials are arranged in two ways to assist you in quickly finding appropriate training aids: by topic and by language.
At the end of the Guide, you'll find a listing of web sites with multilingual materials that contain additional health and safety information and resources in other languages.
The Guide is designed to complement the statewide Worker Occupational Safety and Health Training and Education Program (WOSHTEP). The Guide was prepared by the Labor Occupational Health Program at UC Berkeley for the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation. Please review each document before using it to be sure it is appropriate for your audience.
July 2009
Quick Links
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- Current CHSWC Annual Report of programs and data
- Guidebook for Injured Workers
- Guides about filing workers' comp claims
- Carve-Out/Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Young Workers and Workers' Compensation
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i'm looking for someone taking me from cape town to the rocklands this summer. Unfortunaly i'm not yet 21 (nor do i have a driving license) so renting a car isn't an option. i have been talking to the owner of the de pakhuys camping and he offerd me to take a public bus and then pick me up at some hotel close to clanwilliam where i would have to spend a night at. as money is lacking i'm trying to avoid this night at the hotel and instead looking for someone giving me a ride.
Are there any other climbers ariving in cape town around the 11th of July who are hiring a car? Is there anyone from south africa going to the rocklands for a few days around this date? Any other ideas?
thanks a lot in advance
daniel, munich
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Yep. I will be going up every week during July. I am happy to give you a lift. Drop me a PM.
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Yu Darvish struck out two while retiring all six White Sox batters he faced Tuesday in his first spring start before Chicago scored 11 runs over the next two innings in a 14-8 win over the Texas Rangers.
Darvish, the Japanese ace who won 16 games as a major league rookie last season, threw his fastball in the mid-90s.
Nestor Molina and Brian Omogrosso, the first two White Sox pitchers, both had two shutout innings.
Chicago scored six runs in the third off 20-year-old Cody Buckel. The right-hander, the top minor league pitcher in the Rangers organization last year, walked five of the seven batters he faced.
Evan Meek, in Rangers camp on a minor league contract, allowed five runs and five hits and got only two outs in the fourth.


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Beware of 281-581-7601 – Unwanted Telemarketing Call From Promark Research
I don't mind the occasional telemarketing phone call from time to time, whether it be political or business, but I was under the impression that telemarketers were not supposed to call your residence after 8 p.m. Apparently that is not the rule, because my phone rang last night (Sunday) at 10:33 p.m.
When I answered the phone, the person on the other end asked that I take part in a quick survey. This wasn't an automated call like the ones I get from political campaigns, but this was an actual person.
That's when I started the questioning.
I asked for the operator's name, his supervisor's name, company name and then I spoke to his supervisor and I asked her specifically, "Do you realize what time it is?"
Her reply to me: "It is around 10:30."
"Aren't your calls supposed to stop at 8 p.m.?" I asked. "You just woke my family up with this unnecessary disturbance."
Her reply to me was, "Oh no, we are allowed to call at any time and that we have a deadline to meet for a client and are doing last-minute surveys."
At that point I was very upset and said to her, "Oh, I said I don't care about your last-minute survey or your client, or for that fact and that you're trying to cover up at the last minute to complete a job that you couldn't complete in a timely manner. Now may I have your company name and a phone number that I can reach them at during normal business hours?"
The supervisor gave me the company name along with their phone number — Promark Research 281-587-7601. This company is based in Houston.
I have no idea what kind of survey they were trying to conduct or what client they were trying to serve, but I was very upset about this call.
When I called Promark Research this morning to voice my complaint against the company, the lady who answered the phone said she could not help me because she was the human resources director and that no one was in the office and she was covering the phones.
I'm just letting you know that if you have caller ID and this company name or number comes up — just let it ring.
I found out this interesting stat, thanks to the Pew Research Center, 14% of people contacted by phone actually agree to participate in these kinds of surveys. That's a decline from 1997 when 43% of people contacted would participate.


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Student or Learner
Nowadays, you can use an iPhone instead of a credit card. How do you think? High technology has been making life easier. However, your money in your account could be taken by high technology criminals. That is one of advantages and one of disadvantages of using mobile phones.
Using mobiles phone has many advantages. With a mobile phone, especially a smart phone, you can comunicate, entertain, study, even do business. It does not really matter how far you are, you are still able to make (video) phone calls or send messages to anyone you want. A mobile phone is like a pocket entertaining device because it can be used to listen to music, watch movies, play games, picture and surf the internet everytime and everywhere. According to a research, in 2011, in Vietnam, over 56% of internet users use mobile phones to access the internet. They are very useful for studying, people just download on the internet, install in the mobile phone and use easily many necessary educational softwares, for example, dictionary softwares are very helpful to learn foreign language. Moreover, there are many official softwares which can be used by officers, bussinessmen such as Microsoft Office, stock softwares, etc.
Although there are a lot of advantages of using mobile phones that you can continue to pick, it also has several negative sides. Firstly, instead of going out to date, to meet, peole prefer to stay at home and make a phone call to start a conversation to others. Secondly, according to a report of WHO, mobile phone radiation could harm heavy user's health, for example, 40% increasing the risk of brain cancer. Thirdly, many users can not keep themselves from slaving away at mobile phones, especially the young generation. It has a very bad influence on theirs health and other activities such as working, studying... Forthly, it is the sercurity problems. People usually have many private things in the mobile phones and it would be tragedy if their mobile phones was lost or stolen.
In general, mobile phone brings back comfortable lives to us even some problems. The world would be upset without using mobile phones. To avoid the problems, each individual user must manage his own time of using mobile phones soundly. Beside, manufactorises of mobile phones (like Samsung, Apple, Nokia...) should warn the users about the problems more strongly./.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The Legislature passed California's massive state spending plan Friday amid sharp divisions over whether the compromise struck by Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown will further the state's recovery or eventually return it to the multibillion-dollar deficits common during the recession.
Lawmakers had until midnight Saturday to send the governor a balanced budget for the fiscal year that begins in July, but they acted swiftly after the state's top Democrats reached a deal earlier in the week. Both houses approved AB110 on party-line votes: 28-10 in the Senate and 54-25 in the Assembly.
Senate leader Darrell Steinberg said the $96.3 billion Democratic spending plan ends the "doom-and-gloom" scenarios that were a hallmark of years past, when deficits grew into the double digits, state programs were eliminated, workers were furloughed and budget deadlines were blown by weeks and sometimes months.
"The passage of the budget may just represent the end of one very difficult era and the beginning of a new and better era – an era of economic growth, hope and restoration," said Steinberg, a Democrat from Sacramento.
Republican lawmakers in both houses of the Legislature were less enthusiastic. They said the spending plan contained accounting gimmicks and failed to address some of the state's most pressing fiscal time bombs, including tens of billions of dollars in unfunded public employee pension liabilities.
Republican Assemblyman Jeff Gorell also said it contains additional spending that will come back to hurt the state once the higher sales and income taxes passed by voters last fall expire.
"We will have to make cuts again," said Gorell, of Camarillo. "With this budget, we have positioned ourselves perfectly to repeat the mistakes of the past."
Thanks to a recent voter-approved initiative, Democrats could pass the budget on a simple majority vote and did not need Republicans' support. Democrats noted the budget maintains a roughly $1 billion reserve and will not restore all the programs cut during the recession.
It also funnels significantly more money to K-12 schools and alters the education funding formula so more money will flow to district with high levels of students who come from low-income families, who are not proficient in English or who are foster children. The funding shift was one of Brown's top legislative priorities of the year.
"Today we vote on a budget that marks a new beginning for California," said Democratic Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, of Woodland Hills. "By passing this budget today, we can solidify California's recovery."
Democratic lawmakers said they did not get the spending restorations they sought because the leadership agreed to go with the governor's more conservative estimates of tax revenue in the coming fiscal year. They favor a revenue estimate offered by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office, which was $3.2 billion higher.
Many Democrats hope to reopen the budget after the first of the year if revenue does indeed come in ahead of the governor's estimate, but Brown has said he agreed to no such thing.
Among the objections raised by Republicans and even some Democratic lawmakers was a funding shift agreed to by the governor that transferred $500 million from an account funded by industry fines that is supposed to pay for the state's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The money instead is being lent to the state's general fund.
Similar internal transfers from years past have left the state owing billions of dollars from its general fund to a variety of state programs. Republicans said this budget makes too little headway in repaying that money and in addressing the state's longer-term debts, primarily pensions and retiree health care obligations.
Republican Sen. Ted Gaines, of Rocklin, also noted that the state will be challenged to pay for the governor's high-speed rail and water-delivery projects, which have a combined price tag approaching $100 billion.
He asked lawmakers to think of the long term "so that we can grow the economy fast enough so we can address the unfunded obligations that we have."
Associated Press writer Tom Verdin contributed to this report.


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Does any one here owns and rides a RRD Domingo V2 and can give a little review about this board.
Importent for me is to know: How does this board perform in Light wind, is it comparable to the lightwind capicity of a North nugget/naish fish?
I want to use this board as my light wind board on flat water and wave board for small surf.


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Presented by O'Reilly's Auto Parts
It's true Detroit has been kicked around a lot these past few years but, after witnessing the latest installment in the nearly six-decade-old institution known as the Detroit Autorama, gearheads and hot rodders should rejoice in the fact there are still many extremely talented car builders out there who are continuing to push the boundaries and show us something new.
The 59th Autorama, sponsored by Meguiar's and presented by O'Reilly Auto Parts, was again responsible for filling the 700,000 square feet of Cobo Center in downtown Detroit to its edges with hot cars and thousands of spectators.
In addition, another 100,000 square feet of basement area was used to house the Autorama Extreme, which is devoted to traditional-styled rods, customs, and motorcycles and, for the first time this year, these folks didn't have to share floor space with the Japanese tuner cars—a fact the hard-core rodders really enjoyed. A show within a show, the downstairs group still had awards presentations and bands playing, but the type of car entered would be something you might have seen prior to 1960, and many of them were covered in flat or satin paints rather than the gloss you'd find upstairs in the "regular" car show.
Another unique aspect of the Detroit show is not a lot of other hot rod events can boast about the fact the Big Three have booths at their shows. Factory Ford, GM, and Mopar teams displayed their most recent cars, and the facility was ringed with aftermarket vendors. Back in the corner of the room (covering roughly 30,000 square feet) was the 19th annual Toy-A-Rama, which not only highlights collectible scale-model cars of every description but also racing memorabilia, custom bicycles, and pedal cars.
Show organizers also set aside special areas for the Builder of the Year, Bobby Alloway (see more of his display on page 54), the Cavalcade of Customs honoring '50s- and '60s-eras cars (and organized by customizer Chuck Miller), Artist Alley (where folks could purchase original and limited-edition pieces of automotive-related artwork), a model car contest, Drag City USA (for a look back at vintage drag racing and the cars that made it so exciting), and the Motor City Auto Art Mavens' Pinstriper's Panel Jam and charity auction (where onlookers could have something pinstriped while they waited or bid on artwork created at the show).
But most of the upstairs space was devoted to more than 600 rods and rides of all sorts, with the bulk of them being what most people would call a real hot rod (not a lot of tuner cars or '95 Mustangs). We're talking Nomads and GTOs, Chevelles, and Barracudas, and lots of cars with numbers in the name such as 442, F-100, and Boss 429.
Performance and styling have always been at the forefront of what most rodders are looking for, and the owners of some of the best vehicles with those qualifications have their eyes fixed on the show's grand prize: the Don Ridler Memorial Award. Presented to a car with "first time shown" status, the ride has to be innovative in its design, too, which is something some hopeful car owners fail to produce. Nice-looking cars aside, this is the Ridler award, and therefore it has to be exceptional.
Of the hopefuls who believe they have a chance to win, eight finalists (called the Pirelli Great 8) are named and just one of them will be the recipient of the Ridler. Pirelli sponsors the Great 8 and, just for being named to that exclusive list you receive $1,000 and a commemorative jacket. The Pirelli Great 8 list is usually announced after the first day and those named have to wait until Sunday afternoon to find out who wins.
This year Bruce Ricks, of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, picked up the top prize with his '56 Ford convertible nicknamed "Suncammer." Built by Steve Cook Creations in Oklahoma City the smoky silver ragtop was stunning top to bottom, and featured a 427-cammer motor under the modified hood (with a one-off intake manifold with the Ford logo cast in place). Subtle body mods were also made (extending the front fenders downward, A-pillar leaned back) and it sits on a longer wheelbase. Nickel plating was subtle, and both the interior and top were stitched by Gabe's Street Rod Upholstery.
Even in tough economic times, the Autorama didn't disappoint. But when one of the big anniversary shows are held, it seems that all the stops are pulled out, and next year's show will celebrate 60 years of the Autorama, so you know it will be an extravaganza! For more photos of this event, be sure to check out www.streetrodder.com.