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Canvassers push during the final days of voter registration
It's the evening before the voter registration deadline of Oct. 7. Night students and maintenance workers trickle through the UNM campus. Just a few hours ago, walkways and bus stops swarmed with canvassers and campaigners. Have these crusaders for partisanship laid down their pens until the next presidential election?
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Alibi's Online Election Guide
Our full Election Guide, complete with endorsements, bond issues and propositions, hits stands Thursday, Oct. 30. But for those who are voting early, follow this link to help you decide your vote if you just can't wait.
Answer Me This
Central New Mexico gets hit with ... ? What did someone call the Drunk Busters Hotline to report? How much does gas cost in Burque? Spaceport firm Virgin Galactic turns down a big offer.
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Our Annual Hawt Singlez Review
It's strange that after looking at something long enough, you cease to feel anything about it. That kind of desensitization is exactly what happened to me over the course of a few hours at a gay male strip club. By the time my companions and I left that filthy, filthy place, the initial heart-sinking embarrassment of witnessing such debauched hilarity was gone. For a spell, watching naked men writhe around on stage became normal.
Talking Points
"NewsHour" Sums Us Up
State politics with Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez
Ray Suarez can tell New Mexico isn't normal.
"It's not like other parts of the country, and it's not even like the places that border it," says the senior correspondent for the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." "It's a place apart in good and interesting ways."
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The city's code compliance official previously ruled that the Church of Scientology needed a conditional use permit for its proposed Downtown hub. At the Oct. 6 meeting, the church appealed the decision, arguing that it should instead receive a permissive use permit to convert the Gizmo building at Fourth Street and Central into a Scientology center. A conditional use permit requires holding a public hearing with neighborhood input, unlike a permissive permit. Councilors voted to uphold the code compliance official's ruling as consistent with the 2010 Downtown Sector Plan.
Whose Side Are You On?
What does "liberal" really mean, anyway?
As Election Day approaches, political commercials are tossing out labels like hand grenades. The word "liberal" is uttered in the same tone of voice as "leper." "Conservative" is used to imply a total detachment from modern times. But what do these divisive labels really mean? Are you voting Republican because you think "liberal" is a dirty word? Are you pulling a straight Democratic lever in the voting booth because you don't want to be labeled "conservative"? Maybe you should find out exactly what those words mean.
Odds & Ends
Dateline: Brazil—If, for some reason, Barack Obama doesn't become the next President of the United States, at least he's got a shot in Brazil. Eight, in fact. A grand total of eight candidates in Brazil's upcoming local elections have adopted the name "Barack Obama," hoping to catch some attention in the notoriously crowded races. Obama isn't alone, either. More than 200 hopefuls contesting the municipal polls this weekend have renamed themselves after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the country's popular president, who maintains an 80 percent approval rating. Brazilian election law allows candidates to either register under their own name or choose a new one. Among the more outlandish candidates running for various offices this year are "Elephant Without a Tail," "Germany in the Lorry," "Golden Fork," "King of the Cuckolds," "Kung Fu Fatty" and "The Second King of Prawns." Although no Brazilian candidate has adopted the name of Obama rival John McCain, there is one "Bill Clinton," a "DJ Saddam" and three Bin Ladens (John Bin Laden, Chico Bin Laden and Luis Bin Laden). Claudio Henrique dos Anjos, who is running for mayor of Belford Roxo, said he changed his name to Claudio Henrique-Barack Obama because, "I am Black and I wore a suit on television and people started to tell me I was just like that Barack Obama guy in the United States."
Thanks for finally covering some of the 14 third-party presidential candidates. Alternative candidates don't spoil elections. They bring up many good issues for debate and inspire voters with choices. The real spoilers are nonvoters and the media shutout of third parties.


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Veteran And Rookie Roadsters Face Off In Droptop Doubleheader
Like an aging ballplayer, the Mazda is starting to look a little gray around the temples - a bit vulnerable.We've been eying this fight for a long time. Since the reborn Mini first burst on the scene in 2002, really. Oh, the Mini Cooper Convertible has been around since 2005, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to compare them. What with all that physical and visual weight from the Mini's nearly useless rear seats, it just didn't seem like a fair fight. The classically proportioned rear-drive Mazda MX-5 Miata against a front-drive droptop with a pair of roll hoops awkwardly stationed behind the second row of seats, Tour de France-sized blind spots and a windshield header so far away from the driver as to be oddly distant - not to mention streetlight blocking? No, the Mini Convertible wasn't the answer we were looking for.
And neither, as it turns out, have been all the other suitors the industry has concocted over the Miata's considerable lifespan. Everything from General Motors' Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky twins to the Aussie-built Mercury Capri, Toyota MR2 Spyder and Honda Del Sol has tried to crack Miata's iron grip on the affordable and fun basic roadster crown, and all have collapsed rather miserably. The Miata has been around for nearly a quarter century, and it's cornered the affordable convertible market for both new enthusiasts and golden oldies looking for a British sports car that doesn't leak and bears no trace of Lucas electrics. To borrow shamelessly from Terence Mann of Field Of Dreams (say it in your best James Earl Jones bellow):
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been the Miata. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. The sports car market has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But the Miata has marked the time."But now, like an aging ballplayer, the Mazda is starting to look a little gray around the temples - a bit vulnerable. Despite a steady stream of small tweaks and tugs and a parade of special editions, this third-generation NC Miata has been on the market since 2005. Since that time, Mini has effectively released its second generation of ragtop Coopers with this new-for-2012 Mini Roadster, and it poses a more serious threat to the Miata than even we realized.Continue reading 2012 Mini Cooper S Roadster vs. 2012 Mazda MX-5 Miata Special Edition
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Chipotle Mexican Grill partners with Pizzeria Locale for fast casual concept
Chipotle Mexican Grill is launching a new fast casual restaurant called Pizzeria Locale in partnership with restaurateurs Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, best known for Frasca, their fine-dining establishment in downtown Boulder.
Pizzeria Locale will feature 10 classic 'zas on their menu, with four "American classics," plus wiggle-room for customers to create their own pies.
The original Pizzeria Locale, a full-service restaurant, opened on Boulder's Pearl Street in 2011. The first fast-casual version opened in May near Broadway and 6th Avenue in Denver. Partnering with Chipotle, a Denver-based operation that has spread like wildfire across the country, will allow the pizza operation to tap the skills and experience of a successful mega-company that trades on the New York Stock Exchange.
"Bobby and Lachlan are extraordinary restaurateurs who truly understand what it takes to provide an exceptional dining experience," Steve Ells, Chipotle's founder and co-CEO, said in a press release. "Opening Pizzeria Locale using a model similar to Chipotle allows us to make extraordinary pizza, made with high-quality ingredients accessible to everyone."
Pizzeria Locale plans to eventually expand, but with a go-slow approach aimed to grow its staff and expertise from within. For the record, Frasca and the original Pizzeria Locale are not part of the partnership and unaffiliated with Chipotle.


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A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration says as many as three people are dead after the crash of a small plane in Collinsville.
Lynn Lunsford says local authorities have told the agency that as many as three were killed in the Sunday evening crash. Lunsford also confirmed that no one on the ground was injured.
Collinsville Police Chief Jimmie Richey told the Tulsa World that more than one person was killed, but didn't release a specific number.
The FAA says the single-engine aircraft departed Tulsa around 5:50 p.m. Sunday en route to Manhattan, Kan. The plane crashed inside the city limits of Collinsville, about 30 minutes northeast of Tulsa.
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Although 25 percent of adults over the age of 45 take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins -- which can sap your energy and cause problems for your sex life -- a new study reveals that changes to your diet might actually do a better job without the energy-sapping, sex-killing side effects.
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association followed 345 people with high cholesterol who were placed on one of two vegetarian low-cholesterol diets for six months. The first was a low-saturated-fat diet and participants were told simply to eat low-fat dairy and get more fruits and vegetables into their meals. The second group had help from nutritionists to incorporate specific cholesterol-lowering foods into their meals, including soy proteins, nuts, oats, peas, and beans. That group saw a drop in cholesterol three times higher than the group on the regular low-saturated-fat diet, and both diets proved to be at least as successful as early trials of statins.
If you've been battling high cholesterol, try some of these swaps for a tasty, low-cholesterol diet:
Breakfast: The low-fat group ate Raisin Bran cereal for breakfast, but the second group ate oat-bran cereal with strawberries and jam. For a seasonal twist, try this recipe for a Peachy Oat Breakfast and chase it down with a glass of soy milk, as those in the study did.
Mid-Morning Snack: For a cholesterol-lowering hunger fix, grab another peach (or some cantaloupe, grapes, nectarines, or apricots also in season now) and a handful of almonds when hunger strikes, and chase them down with another glass of soy milk. Or throw all your fruit, soy milk, and nuts, along with a little ice, into a blender to make something like the Women's Health Immunity Builder smoothie.
Lunch: For lunch, the low-cholesterol group downed sandwiches made with oat-bran bread, tofu slices, lettuce, tomato, and cucumber, accompanied by Spicy Black Bean Soup. The tofu slices provided the soy protein that proved so successful at lowering cholesterol, but if that doesn't tempt your palate, replace tofu with avocado, as in this Roasted Bell Pepper and Avocado Sandwich and have another glass of soy milk instead.
Mid-Afternoon Snack: The healthy dieters had more almonds and fresh fruit in the afternoon, but with an added dose of psyllium, a form of soluble fiber made from ground up psyllium seeds. Psyllium may not be very appetizing, so to get your fill of fiber, try these Banana, Yogurt, and Walnut Muffins; the bananas and oatmeal both contain high levels of soluble fiber.
Dinner: Dieters who shed the most cholesterol swapped pasta for pearled barley and an omelet for a tofu bake with ratatouille. To jazz up plain barley, make a Creamy Barley Risotto or add asparagus and cucumbers and top with a yogurt-dill dressing. Then add some tofu to this recipe for Easy Ratatouille. Just be sure your tofu is organic; nonorganic tofu has been found to contain high levels of cancer-causing hexane.
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Three very different books are perched at the top of our list - they describe respectively man's easy descent into savagery, a fruit pickers' strike in California and the memories of a scientist who helped popularize physics. You all know Lord of the Flies by William Golding. In Dubious Battle is the first book in John Steinbeck's Dustbowl trilogy that also includes Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Adventures of a Curious Character is collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
The Golding book is a signed presentation copy from the author to Angharad Ryder. It was sold by Addyman Books located in that bookselling mecca of Hay-on-Wye. We'll let Anne Brichto from Addyman take over from here: "Angharad's profession was teaching and she did this well enough to end up as the head of a private girl's school on the south coast of England. In her leisure time she learned to fly light aircraft which she adored but over and above all this she was a book collector of the highest order.
"If she liked an author she would have every one of their works, in first edition in wrappers. She was ahead of her time in recognizing the extra value of a signed first edition. In order to get signatures from authors, she wrote letters. I wish we could see some of these letters as they were obviously very good when you read the responses. The replies from J.G. Ballard and John Fowles had a flirtatious tone. Fowles mentioned in one letter how much he would like to meet her.
"Angharad's authors included Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, Marina Warner, Fowles, Ballard and Golding. She never met any of them but the correspondences stretched over years and included Christmas cards from the authors.
"When we met Ms Ryder, she was a graceful 80-year-old, a petite and well-spoken lady, and her eyes were filled with sparkle and humor. She had retired to France and made the long trip to Hay-on-Wye to sell her collection to the bookshop that most appreciated the work that had gone into it. We were grateful she chose us."
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Theft, child molestation, rape, prostitution, murder: These are just a few of the crimes with which Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees have been charged in recent years.
The TSA's dismal record of properly recruiting and screening its employees is the subject of a new report from Congressman Marsha Blackburn. The Tennessee Republican's report, based on news accounts, details just 50 of the dozens of crimes for which TSA employees have been arrested since 2005.
Fifteen of the cases involved the theft of airplane passengers' possessions. While TSA officers are required to screen all passengers' possessions before letting passengers board planes, a number of these officers have helped themselves to cash, debit cards, laptop computers, iPads, and even painkillers. A screener at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport lifted over $50,000 worth of electronics from the people he was supposedly serving, often selling them on the Internet before his shift had even ended. Screeners at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport have stolen tens of thousands of dollars in cash; two who swiped $40,000 got a whopping six months' jail time for their crimes. As of a year ago 500 TSA officers had been "fired or suspended for stealing from passenger luggage since … 2001," according to Hot Air. And these are just the ones who got caught.
Theft is followed closely by sex crimes and child pornography charges, with 14 such incidents listed in Blackburn's report. Six TSA employees were charged with possession of child pornography; one of them got caught because he "uploaded explicit pictures of young girls to an Internet site on which he also posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform," the report notes. Eight others were charged variously with child molestation, rape (including child rape), and even running a prostitution ring. It's not hard to figure out why persons possessing such proclivities would seek jobs where they would be able to ogle and grope other people's private parts with impunity.
Speaking of ogling others' privates, one such viewing precipitated one of the five incidents of assault in the report. Rolando Negrin, a TSA screener at Miami International Airport, beat one of his coworkers for making fun of the size of his genitalia after spotting it during a body-scanner training exercise. Another assaulted an airport employee over a parking space. Still another threw a cup of hot coffee at an American Airlines pilot who asked her and other TSA workers to refrain from using profanity on duty — apparently an unreasonable request as far as she was concerned.
Three TSA employees were arrested for bribery. One accepted part of the proceeds of theft from passengers to keep quiet; another took money to help smuggle marijuana through Los Angeles International Airport; and the third scored $200 to ensure that a fellow TSA employee passed his screening test.
Other TSA employees were charged with crimes involving drugs, illegal firearms (in some cases trying to sneak them past TSA checkpoints), airport screening failures, conspiracy, impersonating a federal officer, and driving under the influence of alcohol. One top TSA official in Mississippi was even charged with stabbing to death another TSA employee with whom he had allegedly been having an affair.
Blackburn writes that the TSA's response to practically every incident detailed in her report was "The unacceptable behavior of a few individuals in no way reflects the dedication of our nearly 50,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) who work tirelessly to keep our skies safe." Yet as she points out, "what TSA fails to recognize is that the collective actions of TSOs repeatedly appearing in our national headlines and being arrested for serious crimes does in fact reflect poorly on TSA's nearly 50,000 Transportation Security Officers."
Moreover, she observes, if the TSA were really serious about having the best workforce available, it would not recruit new employees by placing ads on pizza boxes and gas pumps (as it did in the D.C. area), and it would "consistently conduct criminal and credit background checks on new and existing employees" — something the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has been repeatedly told is not done, TSA assertions to the contrary notwithstanding.
In addition, says Blackburn, "one of the greatest threats to airline security is the ever present insider threat." The fact that TSA employees have assisted drug dealers in getting past TSA checkpoints should give anyone pause. What is to say they wouldn't do the same for terrorists, especially if those terrorists were to dupe them into thinking the terrorists were "just" drug smugglers?
"Despite the ever present threat of domestic terrorism," Blackburn declares, "many Transportation Security Officers have proven time and time again that they are unqualified to serve as one of our nation's last lines of defense."
Blackburn believes that the solution to the problem is to improve the TSA's employee screening and training processes, and that certainly wouldn't hurt. A better solution, however, might be to abolish the TSA — whose methods security expert Bruce Schneier has dubbed "security theater" — and let the private sector, which seems to secure numerous locations and events with minimal inconvenience to the public, try its hand at protecting plane passengers. Goodness knows we've felt the TSA's hand long enough.
Photo: A Transportation Security Administration officer discovers unallowable liquids in a passenger's carry on luggage at the security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on August 3, 2011 in Atlanta.


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"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." – 1 Peter 5:8, NKJV
by Toni Birdsong
A sobering reality that comes with our goal to #LiveSticky as Christ followers online is being wise to the enemy's schemes. You know the score, beloved. The last thing the enemy wants to see is Jesus and His tribe of twenty-first-century, Internet-savvy followers gaining ground online. The enemy turns up the volume, complicates the simple, and amplifies the yammering so we don't know which way is up. He is the cultivator of fear, paranoia, and intimidation. He is the master of confusion and the king of anxiety. His goal is the same as it was in the garden.
The enemy sets out each day to silence God's message of hope and genuine relationship with His children. But you don't have to pick up the lies the enemy is putting down. God's Truth is your weapon as you log on each day.
Lies of the enemy
- You are in the minority in the online world.
- You are outvoted, outnumbered, and outranked here on earth.
- Your faith is obsolete tradition rather than the God-breathed origin of humankind.
- Your voice isn't relevant.
- No one is listening to you.
- Engaging in social media is too hard, and you can't make a difference.
- You're living in end times, and the online world is too lost to change.
God's Truth
- Your inheritance includes the riches of heaven, and you belong to the holy majority (1 Peter 1:4; 1 John 4:4). You + God = a majority.
- As God's child, you've been given dominion and power over this earth (Genesis 1:28).
- The earth is the Lord's and everything in it (including the Internet).
- The voice of Truth—His voice through you—is desperately needed in online conversations (Psalm 78:6; Acts 1:8).
- You carry a message that has transformed every generation since the beginning of time (John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 4).
- Everywhere you turn online, ears (and hearts) are burning for truth and hope. The world is morally and spiritually starving to death (Isaiah 1; Matthew 5:14; Luke 5:31; Romans 5:8; 8:7–8; Philippians 2:15).
- We win (Job 19:25; Acts 1:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:8).
So get in the game beloved, there's no turning back, sitting the bench, or asking the ref for a time out. God has given you have everything you need for triumph and promises that through Him you can do all things. It's your responsiblity to influence the online conversation and tell a clicking, texting, searching generation that they can't google their eternal life.
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Anywho, this is the first wholly filler episode, in and of itself. Absolutely nothing was gained from this episode. The kids get into danger and the Autobots lose an unimportant Mini-Con to the Decepticons.
But, really, the whole thing just felt uninteresting. I mean, we get the kids and Demolishor sinking into the Saharan depths into an underground temple, but like the earliest episodes, the kids simply aren't entertaining enough to hold our attention or really care about them beyond the simple preference of "no unnecessary deaths, please and thank you".
The fights on the surface were superfluous since the real meat of the episode was down below, but sadly the mystery meat was tofu.
Carlos makes a pretty dull mention of Harrison Ford that, while usually would be seen as a cheap pop culture reference, the flip side means that Mr. Ford gets his own TFWiki article.
And then we come to the most infamous part of the episode. Arguably one of the most B-movie level moments in any TF cartoon:
S-spider robots.
Spider... robots.
The ancient Saharan civilization...
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I mean, not even the script can be at fault for this one.
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National League East rivals will play split doubleheader at Citizens Bank Park
The Phillies and Braves have rescheduled their rainout into a doubleheader.
Philadelphia and Atlanta had their game washed away by the poor weather on Tuesday, but they'll make it up as part of a day-night doubleheader at Citizens Bank Park on June 28. All tickets for the April 15 game will be honored for the night game on June 28, which is scheduled to start at 7:35 p.m. ET.
The Phillies and Braves were originally scheduled to play at 3:05 p.m. on June 28, but now they'll play the first game of the doubleheader at 2:05 p.m. All gates will open at 12:05 p.m. for the early game, and gates will open at 6:35 p.m. for the night game of the doubleheader.
Ticketholders for the April 15 game will also be allowed to exchange their tickets for seats at a future regular-season game, subject to availability. The new date must be prior to the June 28 makeup date.
Ticket exchanges can be done in person at the Citizens Bank Park advance ticket windows during the week or via mail. Exchanges can be obtained by sending the April 15 tickets, along with your requested date, to: Philadelphia Phillies Ticket Office, One Citizens Bank Way, Philadelphia, PA, 19148.


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This recipe takes about 10 minutes to cook, once you've cut all your vegetables. It's a good dish to top pasta or serve with grilled chicken, lean beef, or salmon.
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Nothing makes an occasion more festive than a beautifully presented cake.
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Roasting really brings out the flavors of this delicious combination.
Healthy ingredients combined into an Italian classic.
Healthy appetizers for you and your guests.
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These are dark days at Villa Park. The Claret and Blue helped found the Premiership 20 years ago, but find themselves in danger of being relegated for the first time unless they can climb out of the EPL basement. Facing the defending champs is never going to inspire much confidence, though, and while Villa put forth a decent performance yesterday against Man City, they still dropped the match 1-0. For two decades, it wasn't rocket science to keep this squad in the Premiership; now, it looks like they're headed for splashdown.
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No one can deny that to protect one self is an innate God-given right. It is primal and it�s also an American right given by our forefathers in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
No one can deny that to protect one self is an innate God-given right. It is primal and it�s also an American right given by our forefathers in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Americans enjoy a general sense of security for the most part. We are insulated from military coups and tyrannical regimes, as is commonplace in some countries. For over 200 years, since gaining independence from the British, we have lived in a republic, free of violence from other governments and certainly our own.
This freedom and others are born out of our Constitution as was adopted September 17, 1787 and went into effect March 4, 1789. The first 10 amendments, referred to as the Bill of Rights, were ratified on December 17, 1791.
Contained in the Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment is designed to be the protector of those rights. For example, the Second Amendment enforces and protects the First Amendment. The First Amendment reads as follows:
�Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.�
This opening to the Bill of Rights provides the core of what sets us apart from the rest of the world. Can you imagine a life living in fear of imprisonment for expressing our religious beliefs or even discussing the problems we see with our leadership? Can you imagine living in silence for fear of death or imprisonment?
The Second Amendment is designed to protect these very basic human rights. The Second Amendment states:
�A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.�
What does this mean? To understand we must first understand when written in 1789, the colonies had just gained independence from a tyrannical government, the British. We were now the United States of America and it was very fresh in the minds of our leaders how important it was to safeguard our freedom.
They had lost their brothers and sisters to the advances of the British during the Revolutionary War, so this newfound freedom needed protecting.
The Second Amendment was written not to protect us from others, but to protect us from ourselves if our own government turned rogue.
There was no standing army at the time of ratification of the Bill of Rights so the �militia aspect� within the Second Amendment is often challenged. Opponents say we don�t need the Second Amendment because we now have a military.
This can easily be trumped by the very fact that a government with a standing army is all the more reason for the people to be armed. A military that obeys a tyrannical leader of a tyrannical regime is a danger to our way of life.
Ignorance breeds fear. Fear spreads like poison ivy. The Diane Feinsteins of American politics threaten our basic rights by marketing misinformation. Though her true modus operandi is to ban all guns except for the military and police, she and her cronies attempt to incrementally whittle away at our Second Amendment rights.
If she wins at banning �assault rifles,� an inaccurate term, then she goes for the jugular vein next. That�s just how liberal progressives operate and each time they �win,� we lose a little more freedom. The foundation of our nation is eroded through their wrongful association of firearms with evil.
Firearms used the wrong way are no way near as dangerous as someone like Feinstein using her office and authority to subversively cut the legs out from under our rights as a free people.
Without guns or weapons to protect ourselves from aggressors, we are completely vulnerable to outside attacks and imprisonment. Recent history proves that deception of the people can lead to genocide.
Adolph Hitler was quoted as saying, �The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.�
Hitler enacted a number of gun control laws that affected all citizens, with the exception of the military, but ultimately took all gun rights from Jews. In November 1938, Jews were ordered by decree to turn over all weapons including knives with the penalty of noncompliance being imprisonment of up to five years.
This was a precursor to their internment in prison camps and the holocaust resulting in the extermination of over 5.9 million Jews before Hitler could be ousted. Unbelievably, some people still refuse to believe the holocaust ever happened, that the death camps were non-existent and the intended genocide of the Jewish people is just concocted. Hitler was the personification of pure evil.
The Nazi�s were only one regime in history that used gun control to disable the public and further gain power and control. In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control with over 20 million dissidents being rounded up and exterminated.
China established gun control in 1935 and by 1952, over 20 million were rounded up and exterminated.
Uganda established gun control in 1970 and by 1979, over 300,000 Christians were rounded up and exterminated.
These are just a few results, but at a minimum, over 56 million people were executed as a result of gun control in the 20th century alone.
Gun control laws instituted in Australia have resulted in a rise in homicides of around 300 percent and armed robberies of 44 percent. It is now illegal to defend yourself in Australia. Do we want these problems here?
From these examples, it becomes clear that gun control laws adversely affect law-abiding citizens that own weapons for their intended purposes, self defense and sport.
Think about the following: there are around 3,000 abortions performed daily since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case whose ruling made it legal for mothers to abort their young. Since that case, there have been well over 50 million abortions.
Why is abortion significant to our gun control discussion? It�s important because those persons politically aligned to support laws prohibiting law-abiding citizens from owning firearms or certain types of firearms also tout the tragic death toll of people killed by firearms. We hear about the gun violence death toll all the time from the mainstream media but when was the last time you heard a reporter give numbers on how many abortions were performed that day?
In 2011, there were 8,583 gun related deaths in the U.S., less than one-third of 1 percent of the total death toll. This number does not include unborn children since they are not counted as a death statistic. Now multiply 3,000 abortions per day times 365 and you will find that the total number of abortions in 2011 is well over 1 million deaths.
So, there are more unborn fetuses murdered in three days than there are people killed by guns in the U.S. in an entire year. Does that put things into perspective? Why do liberal progressives believe it�s OK to murder unborn children but not OK to defend one self by exercising our Second Amendment rights?
From the above comparative analysis, it becomes clear that gun control is not at all about saving lives, but about power, control and indoctrinated fear. The left�s gun control dialogue is a smokescreen and political diversion crafted to steer the emotions of the public into conformity.
An example of this is the recent Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings that led to other copycat shootings and more political posturing. �Never let a good crisis go to waste��. or a tragedy for that matter.
The Second Amendment was written as a protective safeguard against those politicians and extremists with malcontent for our constitution and our wellbeing. It was written for us, �We the People,� to aid in protecting our sovereign rights, innate to our unique American heritage.
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land. It would take repeal of the Second Amendment by Congress to take this basic right away. If this happens, even under duress, we are finished as the greatest country in the history of the world.
Make your voice heard. The time is now, not later, when your freedom of speech is stifled.
John Nix is the co-founder and partner at Matrix East, PLLC. He�s also the president of the CSS Neuse Foundation and the lead plaintiff in the Nix, et al v. Eric Holder case, for the reversal of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The opinions of the guest columnist are not necessarily those of The Free Press.


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This vibrant and energetic city has some of Great Britain's top art galleries, museums, universities, shopping areas, restaurants and music venues. Also a European City of Culture, there's so much more than meets the eye to this post-industrial city. Glasgow plays host to some of the country's top music, fashion, sporting and arts events, drawing a diverse crowd throughout the year. In 2014 it will plays host city to the Commonwealth Games again making its mark as a top class city.
Whether you're planning a visit to Glasgow in pursuit of the city's excellent shopping facilities, to enjoy a leading international musical act in concert, or cheering on your team during an international football match, you're certain to find an affordable hotel within easy reach of your desired attraction. Glasgow has a wealth of good quality hotels to suit all visitors.
You'll find with excellent and good value Glasgow hotel options, by the River Clyde in the heart of the city centre or beside the green sprawling parks of the west end. Glasgow's west end is a popular nightspot and is well-liked area for its lively and laid-back restaurants and bars.
Some of Glasgow's glamorous offerings are located conveniently around the central George Square area and in the fashionable Merchant City nearby.
On the morning after, grab a big Scottish breakfast or hearty brunch in Glasgow, as there are many great locales throughout, in the university quarters of the city, the city centre, Merchant city and around Byres Road. From eleven in the morning you can usually enjoy a hair of the dog to boot!
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[On the off chance you ain't yet seen it, here's the teaser to the Red Bull Supernatural. Gonna be intense.]
Travis Rice has just dropped the official list of invited riders to his and Red Bull's little backcountry shindig that'll be going down in B.C. shortly. A heavier list of snowboarders you couldn't dream up. Check the chat…
18 of the world's top snowboarders to meet at Baldface Lodge, Feb. 3-8th
Red Bull and Travis Rice today announce the 16 snowboarders who accepted invitations to compete at the inaugural Red Bull Supernatural at Baldface Lodge outside of Nelson, B.C., Canada. Invites were sent to riders on the forefront of bringing freestyle snowboarding into natural terrain. On one day between February 3rd and 8th, riders from seven different countries will compete in a first-of-its-kind backcountry competition designed to challenge, then crown the best all-around snowboarder on the planet.
The invite list is partially made up of the top finishers from the Quiksilver Natural Selection, such as Mark Carter, DCP, Nicolas Müller and Wolfgang Nyvelt. Travis Rice and a panel of experts next extended invites to established pros and freeride contenders including Jake Blauvelt, John Jackson, Mark Landvik and Terje Håkonsen. To round out the freestyle contingent of the field, Scotty Lago and Kazu Kokubo, along with two wildcards who are deeply involved in contest-based slopestyle snowboarding, were invited.
Wildcard invites will go to the X Games men's slopestyle gold medalist, to be crowned on January 28th in Aspen, and the current top seeded slopestyle rider on the TTR World Tour, Canadian Mark McMorris. If Mark McMorris wins slopestyle at X Games, the second wildcard spot will go to the silver medalist.
Red Bull Supernatural's judging team will include some of the most recognized legends of snowboarding including Tom Burt (Head Judge), Andy Hetzel, Temple Cummins, Shin Campos, Bryan Iguchi and Mel Simmons (Assistant Head Judge). The overall impression judging system will be used taking into account the line's risk, flow, amplitude, creativity, tricks and control.
Overall judged scores will look at the riders' use of the course as a whole, navigating the steep upper tree section, two cliff bands, a 300' wide jump and a lower powder park section. All competitors will receive two complete runs with a bonus third run going to the riders who finish in the top eight after the first two runs. The best single run score of the day will win.
Red Bull Supernatural Confirmed Rider List:
David Carrier-Porcheron CAN
Devun Walsh CAN
Eero Niemela FIN
Gigi Ruff AUS
Jake Blauvelt USA
John Jackson USA
Kazu Kokubo JPN
Lucas Debari USA
Mark Carter USA
Mark Landvik USA
Nicolas Müller SUI
Eric Jackson USA
Scotty Lago USA
Terje Håkonsen NOR
Travis Rice USA
Wolfgang Nyvelt AUS
For photos, video and updates on Red Bull Supernatural, please visit www.redbullusa.com/supernatural. Fans in the U.S. can tune-in March 31st to catch the two-hour Red Bull Supernatural special airing nationally on NBC from 1-3pm EST. The event airs as part of a new sports programming block called the "Red Bull Signature Series" which features the most progressive snowboarding, mountain biking, freestyle motocross, skiing and BMX events. For more information, visit www.redbullsignatureseries.com.


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The widening income gap is affecting higher education
Students from lower income households have always been able to turn to public institutions of higher learning to make their dreams come true. Public universities, whether national, prefectural or municipal, offered high quality education for much less money. However, a recent survey by a research group at the University of Tokyo has found that the well-publicized widening income gap is now being reflected in public university enrollments.
The survey received 1,064 responses from parents of children who graduated high school in the spring of 2012. Households where the annual income was ¥4 million or less were classified as low income, while those whose annual income was ¥10.5 or more were classified as high income.
The percentage of low income students who advanced to a public university last year was 7.4, while the percentage of high income students who did the same was 20.4. In other words, the enrollment rate for higher income students was almost three times that of lower income students.
The research group conducted the same survey in 2006. In that year, 9.1 percent of the lower income students went on to public universities while 11.9 percent of higher income students did, a negligible difference. At the same time the ratio of lower income to higher income students who went on to private universities hasn't changed significantly since 2006, when the research group concluded that public universities were fulfilling their mission of providing educational opportunities for lower income students. The group can no longer draw such a conclusion.
The reason for the widening gap is that more higher income students are applying to public universities because even they feel the need to save money. Public universities have a limited number of openings for new students, and higher income students tend to do better on entrance tests because they can afford supplemental education, such as juku (cram schools), which lower income students can't afford.
The survey also asked those parents who thought their children's academic achievements were "high" whether or not their children actually went on to university. Among these respondents, in 2006, 67 percent of lower income students and 72.9 percent of higher income students advanced to university; while in 2012 the respective portions were 53.3 percent and 76.9 percent.
The research group has called on the education ministry to provide more financial assistance to lower income students so that they can attend and afford university. In 2011 the average annual tuition for a public university was ¥540,000 and for a private university ¥860,000.
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The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial is located in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, and honors American soldiers who died in Europe during World War II.
The cemetery is located on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach (one of the landing beaches of the Normandy Invasion) and the English Channel. It contains the remains of 9,387 American military dead, most of whom were killed during the invasion of Normandy and ensuing military operations in World War II. The graves face westward, towards the United States.
France is affectionately referred to as "the Hexagon" for its overall shape.French history goes back to the Gauls, a Celtic tribe which inhabited the area circa 300BC until being conquered by Julius Caesar.The Franks were the first tribe to adopt Catholic Christianity after the Roman Empire collapsed. France became an independent location in the Treaty of Verdun in (843 AD), which divided up Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire into several portions.The French monarchy reached its zenith during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, who stood for seventy-two years as the Monarch of all Monarchs. His palace of Versailles and its Hall of Mirrors are a splendid treasure-trove of Baroque art.The French Revolution ended the rule of the monarchy with the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" On July 14th, 1789 angry mobs stormed La Bastille prison and began the Revolution in which Louis XVI, his wife Marie-Antoinette and thousands of others met the guillotine.One decade after the revolution, Napolean Bonaparte seized control of the Republic and named himself Emperor. His armies conquered most of Europe and his Napoleonic Code became a lasting legal foundation for concepts of personal status and property.During the period of colonization France controlled the largest empire in the world, second only to Britain.France is one of the founding members of the European Union and the United Nations, as well as one of the nuclear armed nations of the world.Text by Steve Smith.


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Lind hits two doubles in first rehab game
TORONTO -- Adam Lind hit a pair of doubles in his first rehab game for the Gulf Coast Blue Jays on Thursday morning.
Lind received two at-bats before he was removed from the game. In addition to the doubles, he also scored a run.
Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos said that Lind is days away from making a return. He'll likely be back on Monday for the start of a three-game series in Seattle, but an even earlier return hasn't been completely ruled out.
"He didn't feel like he was going to need a whole lot of rehab games," Anthopoulos said. "He just felt his timing was there. He said he faced Neil Wagner and [Roberto] Osuna, who were throwing hard. His big thing was more velocity. He said he was seeing the ball great, he was hitting the ball very hard."
Lind has been out since July 7 with a fractured right foot. He suffered the injury several weeks before but attempted to play through the pain until an MRI revealed the extent of the damage.
The 31-year-old likely will start at designated hitter until Edwin Encarnacion returns from the DL. Once both players are back, they'll split time at DH and first base.
Lind is hitting .320 with an .878 OPS, four homers and 27 RBIs in 61 games this season.
"He made a good point: If he feels his timing is already there, more games in Dunedin or Gulf Coast is [not] going to prepare him to face a guy like Felix Hernandez on Monday," Anthopoulos said.
"There's no one really out there that's going to simulate what he's going to face. His big thing was just to continue to see live BP, get some guys hopefully throwing hard, but he feels like he is really close."


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Clinical Athletic Training by Jeff Konin, MEd, ATC, MPT, has been written to provide the athletic trainer with a well-rounded understanding of the non-traditional athletic training setting. The primary goal of this book is to prepare athletic trainers for clinical settings with relevant and practical information. The textbook has been carefully planned to meet the needs of today's student, while still serving as an excellent reference for those currently certified and practicing in clinical settings.
Here is what David Perrin, PhD, ATC of the University of Virginia says in the foreword of Clinical Athletic Training, edited by Jeff Konin, MEd, ATC, MPT plus 19 outstanding contributors. As these powerful words describe, this book will be an asset to all athletic training students.
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Bristol Palin denied Margaret Cho's claim that she was forced by her mother to appear on "Dancing with the Stars" and said if her bisexual former castmate understood her politics she would embrace them "faster than KD Lang at an Indigo Girls concert."
Cho wrote last week that "the only reason Bristol was on the show was because Sarah Palin forced her to do it. Sarah supposedly blames Bristol harshly and openly" for not winning the 2008 election.
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She also took a dig at people who assumed a recent Facebook posting about MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, wasn't really written by her because it contained the fancy word "canard":
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - This past weekend, the MIT women's fencing team competed in the 112th IFA Championship, the oldest collegiate championship in the country. The Engineers finished 11th out of 12 teams, which include Boston College, Brandeis University, Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Vassar College and Yale University.
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Italy's highest court ordered a new trial for Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito
American student Amanda Knox's second appeals trial in her British roommate's murder opened in Florence Monday in the absence of the star defendant.
Italy's highest court ordered a new trial for Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, overturning their acquittals in the gruesome 2007 slaying of Meredith Kercher with a harsh assessment of an appeals court acquittal in 2011. The Court of Cassation said the acquittal was full of "deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions.
The appellate court is expected to re-examine forensic evidence to determine whether Knox and her former boyfriend helped kill the 21-year-old Kercher while the two women shared an apartment in the Umbrian university town of Perugia.
Knox, now a 26-year-old University of Washington student in Seattle, has not returned to Italy for the trial, nor is she compelled by law to do so. The appellate court hearing the new case could declare her in contempt of court but that carries no additional penalties.
"We refute the idea that because Amanda is not coming, that Amanda is guilty, that Amanda is using a strategy. Amanda always said she was a friend of Meredith's, Amanda has always respected the Italian justice system," Knox's defense lawyer Luciano Ghirga told reporters before the trial opened.
Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, now 29, were convicted and later acquitted in Kercher's death. Knox served four years of a 26-year sentence, including three years on a slander conviction for falsely accusing a Perugia bar owner in the murder, before leaving Italy a free woman after her 2011 acquittal.
The bar owner, Patrick Lumumba, showed up at the trial Monday, saying he did so to underline the damage he suffered from Knox's false accusations.
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In its first move, the Florence court rejected a motion by Knox's lawyers to exclude Lumbumba from the new appeals trial as a civil participant, a status that allows him to seek further damages. His lawyer says Lumbumba is owed more than $139,500 in legal fees.
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My craziest incident with another driver went down like this: I'm doing about 80 in the left lane of a two-lane highway in the middle of nowhere. Guy comes up from behind me pretty fast, so I try to move right to let him by. He tries to pass me on the right at the same time and nearly hits me. I honk my horn and give him the finger.
This causes him to completely lose his mind, apparently. He tries to sideswipe my car, blocks me from passing, brake checks me a bunch of times and points out the window as if to say, "Let's pull over and settle this with a round of fisticuffs."
Since I forgot to do bath salts that day like him, I'm like, thanks but no thanks. I slow down, make him think I'm pulling over, then blow past him after he comes to a stop. I don't know if he came after me. The whole ordeal was honestly pretty scary. It helped that I was in a WRX and he was in some mid-90s Nissan sedan.
Since then I've stopped flipping the bird to other drivers, and I've learned to just let things slide more. You never know who you're gonna run into or what they're prepared to do.
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Sylven Landesberg and Great Moments In Israeli TelevisionPosted by KCarpenter on February 1st, 2012
I love international basketball. I love it because it gives lots of standout college players a place to work hard and earn a spot in the NBA outside of the limelight of the American media-sports-industrial complex. More importantly, however, I love international basketball because it gives lots of collegiate standouts a place to be unabashedly goofy. ACC fans likely remember Sylven Landesberg, the 2008-09 conference Rookie of the Year who seemed poised to break out in a big way after a brilliant freshman season for Virginia. At the end of his sophomore year, Landesberg was suspended from the team for failing to meet academic obligations. He didn't come back.
Cut to the present: Landesberg plays in the Israeli league for Maccabi Haifa, displaying his legitimate basketball talents as well as his incredibly goofy side. So, without further ado, The Best International Basketball Non-Basketball Video Clip of An ACC Standout (displacing the Italian GQ interview of former North Carolina player Danny Green talking about dancing): Landesberg singing a high-rent karaoke version of "Empire State of Mind" for television.


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How to build a corporate culture of policy compliance
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and the successful deviant. Where else would hackers, who go to jail repeatedly for their crimes, be the celebrated cause for a counter-culture movement?
In a culture such as this, compliance with laws, regulations, policies or any other rules coming from the establishment look to many people boring and deadening. In the eyes of some, the person who complies has sold out, has been defeated by the system. It is into this larger societal conversation that we information security practitioners are sending our training and awareness messages, and it is no surprise that non-compliance has been, and continues to be, rampant.
While all information security professionals will no doubt acknowledge that their organizations have compliance problems, few have investigated the specific ways that their organization's corporate culture actually fosters non-compliance. How an organization approaches rules, approaches compliance and checks on compliance will have a profound impact on the success or failure of an information security effort. Unfortunately, culture-shifting efforts are most often not an official part of the Information Security Department's budget.
To help build a corporate culture that is truly supportive of compliance, I suggest three important endeavors:
- First of these is an awareness and training program that speaks directly to the merits of being in compliance with laws, regulations, policies, standards and other rules. Too many training and awareness efforts assume that the recipients of information security material are on board with the notion of compliance, that they only want the details of how to come into compliance.
- Second amongst these is the clarification of roles and responsibilities when it comes to information security. We need to be very specific about accountability. We need to follow up via performance reviews, internal audits, automatic vulnerability identification software and other checking mechanisms, in order to make sure that people are delivering in a manner consistent with assigned roles and responsibilities. This means that job descriptions need to explicitly include information security tasks. These tasks need to appear not only in the job descriptions of technical specialists, but also managers and end users.
- The third of these suggestions for establishing a corporate culture conducive to compliance involves the funding for compliance-checking jobs (be these people internal employees, consultants, contractors, whatever). The Information Security Department in general should not be tasked with this compliance checking because it would be a conflict of interest. It is the Information Security Department's role to develop draft rules, and to develop a consensus around these draft rules. It should not be the Information Security Department's job to check its own work. This checking should instead be done by an Internal Audit Department, a compliance group in the Legal Department, a Chief Privacy Officer (generally also in the Legal Department), external auditors and/or others.
Only when management truly sees the need to establish a corporate culture of compliance, when they have actually communicated that message to the rank-and-file, when they have begun to hold people accountable for results and when they provide funding for compliance- checking can we expect to see the beginnings of a corporate culture conducive to compliance with information security rules.
- Read this tip, also by Charles Cresson Wood, on how action-forcing mechanisms encourage policy compliance.
- Learn how some companies are using employee dismissal to set an example for policy infractions in this article, Pink slips motivate policy compliance.
- There are important factors you should consider before investing in a policy-compliance tool. Learn about those factors in this column.
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Charles Cresson Wood, CISSP, CISA, CISM, is an independent information security consultant based in Sausalito, Calif. He specializes in the development of information security documents including policies, standards, procedures and job descriptions. He is also the author of Information Security Policies Made Easy. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A domestic kitty cat turned into a sour puss Monday evening.
Aqua, a 2-year-old tuxedo tabby sent police on a chase after he attacked his owner, Marta Hevia, 52, and then jumped out of a window, the Daily News reported.
The cat clawed Hevia's arms and bit her knees as she exited the bathroom in her New York apartment.
"Nothing like this ever happened before. He kept jumping and jumping at me," Hevia told the Daily News. "I was coming out of the bathroom when he attacked. I said, 'No, Aqua! No!' He was trying to kill me."
Hevia called the police and the NYPD's Emergency Service Unit was dispatched to her home. But Aqua was determined to evade lock-up.
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One officer on the scene said he had never seen a cat do that before.
Although Aqua left his owner and officers stunned, they were able to cage him, but were unsure why the crazy cat may have snapped.
"He's neutered, but he's always after (my other cat) because she's in heat," Hevia told the Daily News. "Maybe it was my perfume. Maybe he didn't like it. I don't know."