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Occupational Health Program
The University of Texas at San Antonio Occupational Health Program is designed to provide oversight for university personnel who are exposed to animals and certain biological, chemical, and other physical hazards. This will be accomplished through assessment, management, education and preventive medicine. The medical surveillance component is critical for an effective occupational health program. This program applies to all University of Texas at San Antonio employees.
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UTSA employees who work with chemical, biological or physical hazards or with animals should complete the UTSA OHP Risk and Health Assessment. These assessments allow the Occupational Health Program, Licensed Health Care Professional/Provider (LHCP), to assess your employment health risks to reduce the potential of an exposure to an absolute minimum. The information provided on these forms is solely for the protection of personnel and the environment. Our staff, working with your supervisor or the Principal Investigator, will determine whether appropriate biosafety levels are in place and make recommendations to include facilities environmental controls, personal protective equipment, workplace practices, as well as medical surveillance recommendations to the Occupational Health Program (OHP) staff.
Questions regarding the OHP should be directed to the Occupational Health Coordinator at 458-5304 or 458-5072. Specific questions regarding the hazards and recommended protective measures associated with using biological, chemical, radiological materials or radiation producing machines in the laboratory should be directed to Laboratory Safety.
Who should complete a Risk Assessment?
- All employees at the University of Texas at San Antonio who work in a hazardous area or job function.
- Employees who change job positions that result in changes in workplace hazards.
- When your work responsibilities change to involve different workplace hazards.
Enrollment Form (Use the online form)
Enrollment in the UTSA Occupational Health Program is mandatory for employees who work in areas that are at a high risk of contact with certain chemicals, biological agents, radiation and/or animals while working at UTSA. The enrollment process requires all participants to complete the online form. You will also be required to complete related safety and facilities training prior to working with these hazardous materials or being allowed access to certain high risk facilities. These hazards, job functions, and facilities that require enrollment are listed on the accompanying chart. Mandatory enrollment ensures that state and federal regulatory requirements for worker protection and vaccination are met.
Once you have completed and submitted your enrollment form and submitted all required vaccination and test records for your job functions to the OHP staff, you are considered enrolled in the UTSA Occupational Health Program.
Medical Clearance
Once all OHP forms, test results and vaccinations required for your job function or work area have been processed by the UTSA Occupational Health Program LHCP (or your personal LHCP, if applicable), you and your supervisor will be notified of your medical approval to work in that job function or work area.
The UTSA OHP staff respects your right to privacy and has a fiduciary responsibility to maintain this privacy. Personal health information will not be released to management, non-LHCP staff, Human Resources staff, Employee Assistance Program personnel, other persons, or members of your family without your written consent. Exceptions to confidentiality may occur in instances where state and federal laws require release of health information. You have the right to access your medical records as part of the Occupational Health Program. At any time, enrolled participants may request to schedule a work-related medical consultation during normal working hours with one of the OHP medical professionals. Your medical records will be maintained in an appropriate secured location for the duration of your employment plus thirty (30) years.
UTSA students (non-employees) enrolled in academic research programs that involve working directly or indirectly with: 1) live animal research, unfixed animal tissues or wastes; 2) non-human primates with potentially infectious diseases, their blood, unfixed tissues or wastes; or 3) pathogenic organisms, should be enrolled in a medical surveillance program. To begin this process, the Principal Investigator (PI) or Lab Supervisor completes and signs the Student Request and Authorization for Medical Surveillance form and submits it to LARC for approval. Upon approval, students should go to the Concentra Medical Center or Texas MedClinic location listed on the LARC form to complete a medical surveillance questionnaire and be evaluated by a health care professional. For questions, please contact LARC Business Operations Manager at 210-458-6173 or see OHP Flowchart (PDF) for additional instructions.
Volunteers (non-employees) or Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC) approved institutional committee Community Members (non-employees) that participate in research, educational, or inspection programs working directly or indirectly with: 1) live animal research, unfixed animal tissues or wastes; 2) non-human primates with potentially infectious diseases, their blood, unfixed tissues or wastes; or 3) pathogenic organisms, should be enrolled in a medical surveillance program. To begin this process, the Principal Investigator (PI) or Lab/Area Supervisor completes and signs the Volunteer Request and Authorization for Medical Surveillance form. Volunteers should go to the Concentra Medical Center or Texas MedClinic location listed on the LARC form to complete a medical surveillance questionnaire and be evaluated by a health care professional. For questions, please contact LARC Business Operations Manager at 210-458-6173 or see the OHP Flowchart for additional instructions.
Individuals not employed by UTSA, but who will be conducting work with animals at UTSA, must provide proof of current participation in an occupational health program equivalent to that being provided at UTSA before being allowed access to high containment level 3 labs and/or animal facilities. See the OHP flowchart for additional instructions.
Occupational Exposure
Any occupational exposure, injury, illness, animal bite or scratch, needle stick, allergic reaction, accident, etc., must be immediately reported to the supervisor/PI and the UTSA WCI/Occupational Health Coordinator (458-5304). Supervisors must complete the Supervisor's Detailed Description Of Injury / Illness And Accident Scene form and an Employees First Report of Injury Statement form must be completed by the employee. Send the completed forms to the EHSRM office within 24 hours of the injury. A copy may be faxed to 458-7450 and the originals sent via campus mail. These forms are required whether or not there is lost time from work. Additional forms and instructions are located at: www.utsa.edu/safety/#/workplace/wci.
After-hours incidents or incidents requiring immediate medical attention should be referred to an urgent care clinic or the hospital emergency room as appropriate.
Employees are encouraged to seek medical evaluation for symptoms that they suspect may be related to infectious agents in their work area.
Anyone observing conditions or work practices that pose a potential risk should notify their supervisor. Supervisors should contact us at (458-5250) for further investigation and potential mitigation.
Prevention is the most effective approach to managing hazards. Classroom, on-line, and on-the-job training programs are available to educate employees about the hazards to which they may be occupationally exposed, the types of exposures that place their health at risk, the nature and significance of such risks, as well as basic first aid and follow-up for potential exposures.
For more information, contact the Occupational Health and Workers Compensation Insurance Coordinator.


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Housing crisis, economic crisis, or merely a financial crisis?
There is no housing crisis, at least not in most of the world. There are plenty of houses available for use that are currently unused. The same is true of commercial buildings.
Which of these following images show a housing crisis?
A suburban neighborhood in the US with a row of for sale signs.
abandoned barracks in a military base (Treasure Island, California)
A real estate development in Idaho that has been been abandoned since 2008.
An urban neighborhood in Great Britain with a row of for sale signs.
a village in Burma devastated by fire:
the incineration of Hiroshima, Japan by bomb:
cots in New Orleans at the Astrodome after Hurricane Katrina:
Lava consumes some homes in 2005 in Kashmir:
So, let's be clear that a housing crisis is completely distinct from a housing surplus. When there is a housing surplus in a particular locality or region, the value of houses tends to fall relative to the value of other things (such as food prices or fuel prices or prices of stocks). That is not a housing crisis, though it may be a financial crisis, especially for those who have speculatively gambled on financed real estate investments. Their choices may be "punished" by the natural consequence of severe financial losses.
However, when a personal financial crisis results from unsuccessful gambling on real estate, that is certainly not a large-scale housing crisis (as in a shortage of housing). That is just a personal financial crisis. Even when a financial credit bubble shrinks ("deflates"), that is at most a "financial crisis" (resulting in a sudden redistribution of affluence from debtors to creditors), not an actual economic crisis.
An economic crisis would be things like a shortage of food, a shortage of fuel, or even a shortage of housing. Rising prices are not an economic crisis. When housing prices were rising exponentially prior to recent years, those rising prices were not an economic crisis. Currently, as fuel prices approach their 2008 highs, that is not an economic crisis either.
Gasoline prices are currently over $10 per gallon (again) in the UK. That has resulted in an economic shift as people spend more on priority fuel expenses and less on things like housing or recreation or travel. That was the basic point of my 2004 article, "The Real U.S. Deficit: OIL," and in particular of the section I titled "the dominoil effect."
So, if there is a large-scale economic crisis in the world today, it is simply the redistribution of affluence away from places that used to dominate economically, like the UK, Germany, and Japan, toward places that have the most valued resources, like OPEC.
In the 20th century, the US and the USSR rose from relative obscurity to be the two dominant superpowers of global economics. Why? Was it similar political systems? No. (Lots of other places also had political systems similar to either the US or the USSR.) So, what did they have in common?
The US was the #1 producer of oil in the world for most of the 20th century. The #2 oil-producing region for most of the 20th century was the USSR (and that geographic region is now referenced as the "Former" Soviet Union or FSU).
By 1991, the USSR's economic boom was waning. By 1999, the economic boom of the US was showing signs of instability as well. However, a boom in borrowing extended the US economy temporarily.
From where did the US borrow to fund the final boom in housing? To a great extent, the population of the US (and the government of the US) borrowed from it's trading partners, as in from those that the US imported goods, such as Communist China as well as the booming OPEC countries.
So, what is underway in Japan and the EU and the US? A financial shift as in a shift in ownership. The ownership of companies in those countries is shifting away from those countries to the emerging new powers.
Note that my personal opinion is that most references to other issues besides this are distractions for those who are unwilling or unable to recognize the simplicity of what is happening. Creating political dramas (such as controversies and promises of political solutions) are the jobs that politicians are hired and trained to perform, similar to professional wrestlers or to actors or agents of any other kind.
This is an actual segment from a pro wrestling TV show in 2008 featuring the campaigning of candidate Senator Barrack Obama:
So, national and local politicians are agents of a larger "drama." The myth of dictatorship is that a single patriarch is the entire issue, such as Hitler or Pope Benedict, who formally announced the Holy Roman Inquisition of ritual human sacrifice and torture. Was the figurehead who announced something (even if listed as the official author of something) perhaps supported by a staff of advisors, "ghost-writers," and even lobbyists and founding sources?
If there are empires and dynasties with a series of imperialist figureheads, then perhaps the entire bureaucracy that supports any particular figurehead has a functioning role in the activity known as imperialism. Was Woodrow Wilson personally responsible for the development of the Federal Reserve, or was it Colonel House (his top adviser), or was it a half dozen people or a few hundred or a few thousand or a few million?
Pope Benedict did not personally perform the Inquisition. He had help.
Hitler did not personally invade Poland or France. He had help, too.
These people merely were the mouthpieces for "ripe" social initiatives that obviously involved the cooperation of thousands of active participants. One individual is not solely responsible for the collaboration of thousands of people. That is why empires can last beyond the lifetime of a single founder or proponent, such as comrade Lenin.
Otherwise, we could blame George Washington personally for the policies carried out in the name of the United States at My Lai during the invasion of Vietnam by the U.S. Military. Blaming is the denial of responsibility. Beware of those who reject any responsibility for their own participation in social trends.
Here is a message from WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) in 2008 from the RNC (Republican National Convention) repeating basically the same mentality as all other propaganda campaigns to encourage political activism and "good citizenship through voting:
Like in the above 2008 video of the WWE's promotion of participation in the Republican and Democratic Party's conventions, the masses are indoctrinated as to what trivial issues to heroically campaign for or against. Of course, to the passionate masses, those political issues are not labeled trivial. If successful, a campaign may produce a result that is not personally trivial, similar to a successful lawsuit.
Further, to those who benefit from the distraction of the masses, the various trivial issues have a function that is not trivial. For instance, a major Chinese bank, HSBC, has been growing in the US, UK, and Canada for quite a while. HSBC stands for Hong-Kong Shang-hei Banking Corporation. Below is an image of currency issued by HSBC. Note also that Hong Kong was a British colony until recently.
As the masses invest their attention in political activism rather than in making simple and practical financial adjustments (such as prudent re-allocation of investments as well as re-structuring their finances to access the fullest advantages and protections of the current legal system), creditors like HSBC increase their concentration of affluence. Focus away from it or toward it, but either way there is a massive redistribution of affluence away from the debt-addicted middle class of the West and toward the creditors to whom they owe their homes (and who increasingly are the shareholders that own the companies for which they work).
Why does the FDA promote behaviors that increase obesity and diabetes and medical addictions? Well, what private commercial interests lobbied for the formation of the FDA and have always directed the public policies of the FDA? Why do public schools prepare people for the lives that fit the interests of those who design and fund public education systems? Why is there an immense programming of non-violence and gun control in recent decades?
Yuri Bezmenov, who allegedly has been evading his former employer the KGB for decades, provided some possible explanations in 1984 in the video below. By the way, note that anyone who naively trusts the absolute veracity of any "former" spy might not know much about the nature of organized crime syndicates or secret police agencies. Even if Yuri was totally sincere, it may be that the KGB (and those who formed and direct it outside of public attention) may value his publicizing of certain information. Also keep in mind that in the US the CIA and NSA operated prior to publicity drawing attention to their operation or influence.
Propaganda is the crowning genius of the great imperialist interests. If the NSA agents claim to have higher authority than the CIA which claims to have authority over the US military-industrial complex, then one might ask what interests formed and direct the NSA? Who guides those who guide those who guide the masses?
Well, who are we taught is both evil and, even more important, defeated? Those KGB agents are rather clever, aren't they?
Of course, I am joking to suggest that the KGB currently rules the world. No organization that is publicly recognized to exist would ever be the heart of imperialism, not the BIS or the Vatican or HSBC. Obviously, propagandists rule the world and their specialty is misdirection, right?
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (Monday, December 3, 2012) – The Colorado Rapids announced on Monday that the club has acquired midfielder/forward Atiba Harris from the Vancouver Whitecaps, in exchange for an international roster spot. Harris, 27, is a seven year veteran of MLS, having scored 17 goals and added 19 assists in 138 matches (109 starts) with four different clubs.
To acquire the Saint Kitts and Nevis international, the Rapids traded an international roster spot for the 2015 and 2016 seasons to Vancouver, an extension of the spot traded to the Whitecaps for allocation money prior to the 2012 season.
"Atiba is a versatile, exciting attacking player who has a lot of experience for his age," said Rapids Technical Director Paul Bravo. "He can play both wide midfield and attacking positions and his speed, skills and tenacity will give our team a boost in the attacking third. We're excited to welcome him to the club."
Harris originally came to MLS in 2006, joining Real Salt Lake after youth stints in Europe with English club Newcastle United and Spanish side Cádiz. He played two seasons with RSL before joining Chivas USA in 2008, and then went to FC Dallas via trade late in 2009. Harris played a key role for Dallas in 2010, including starting against the Rapids in MLS Cup, before the Whitecaps selected the midfielder/forward in the 2011 Expansion Draft.
A veteran and captain for the Saint Kitts and Nevis National Team, Harris is originally from Basseterre in the small island nation in the West Indies. He has played 27 matches for his country, including several in World Cup Qualifying in CONCACAF (the soccer region for North America, Central America and the Caribbean), scoring 10 goals. Harris was the first Kittian to play professionally in Spain and in MLS.
The Colorado Rapids recently ended their 2012 season and will open preseason camp in mid-January of 2013. For more information on the team, or to purchase Season Tickets for the 2013 season, call 303-825-GOAL or visit www.ColoradoRapids.com.
TRANSACTION: Rapids acquire midfielder/forward Atiba Harris from the Vancouver Whitecaps in exchange for an international roster spot in the 2015 and 2016 MLS seasons.
Atiba Harris
Full Name: Atiba Harris
Number: TBD
Position: Midfielder/Forward
Born: January 9, 1985 - Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Citizenship: Saint Kitts and Nevis, USA
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 170 lbs
Last Team: Vancouver Whitecaps FC (MLS)
Acquired: Acquired by the Colorado Rapids on Monday, December 3, 2012 from Vancouver Whitecaps FC in exchange for an international roster spot.
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March 18, 2013
Cyprus will put forward a new proposal on Monday under which a tax-free threshold or a lower tax rate for smaller depositors could be introduced, media reports said on Monday, in a move aimed at easing the pain of a bailout agreement which will impose an unprecedented tax on savers.
Reuters cited a government source in Cyprus as saying that the country is mulling a tax-free threshold on the bank deposit levy for smaller deposits. The level was still under discussion, it said. Earlier Dow Jones cited two unnamed European officials as saying savers with 100,000 to 500,000 euros would face a 10 percent tax, while those with savings over 500,000 euros would be taxed at 15 percent. Those with savings up to 100,000 euros would be taxed at 3 percent, according the report.
Under the original plan, every depositor under 100,000 euros would be taxed at 6.75 percent and those over that amount would face a 9.9 percent tax. The Cypriot Parliament has delayed a vote on the plan to Tuesday, an EU official told Reuters, "to allow time for more negotiations".
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SAN JOSE — Computer networking and communications giant Cisco Systems is at the center of a probe involving allegations that some of its workers bribed Russian officials to bolster its sales in that country.
In a report Sunday about the allegations, online news site BuzzFeed said the San Jose corporation is being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission.
But that assertion is countered by a Feb. 20 regulatory filing by Cisco, which said it is conducting the probe "at the request" of the two federal agencies.
Officials with the SEC and Justice Department declined to comment.
Cisco's filing said it is looking into "possible violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act involving business activities of the company's operations in Russia and certain of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and by certain resellers of the company's products in those countries."
Cisco's filing also said it "takes any such allegations very seriously and is fully cooperating with and sharing the results of its investigation with the commission and the department," adding that the matter is not expected to have "a material adverse effect" on its finances or operations.
In a statement to this newspaper Monday, Cisco added that "we take our responsibilities as a global business seriously and are committed to compliance with the laws of every country where we do business. We have rigorous training and standards in place to help ensure that our employees and partners comply with those laws and investigate any allegation that laws have been violated."
The company said it has hired international law firm WilmerHale to conduct its investigation.
Citing what it said were "two former Cisco insiders," BuzzFeed said the bribes were kickbacks "built into the large discounts Cisco gave certain middleman distributors that were well-connected in Russia. The size of the discounts are head-turning, usually 35 percent to 40 percent, but sometimes as high as 68 percent off the list price."
It added that "instead of discounting equipment in the normal way, by lowering the price, parts of the discounts were often structured as rebates: Cisco sent money back to the middlemen after a sale. Some intermediaries were so close to the Russian companies and government agencies — Cisco's end customers — that these intermediaries functioned as their agents."
The middlemen companies, BuzzFeed said, "would direct the rebate money to be sent to bank accounts in offshore havens such as Cyprus, the British Virgin Islands or Bermuda."
Although BuzzFeed said the former Cisco employees didn't know who controlled the offshore accounts, it said one of the employees claimed the intent of the rebates "was to make sure they were able to stimulate, materially stimulate," people working for the government entities.
Although Cisco's filing said the countries involved in the investigation collectively comprise less than 2 percent of its revenue, Russia represents a growing market for the company. In its most recent annual report, Cisco said its year-over-year product sales in Russia increased 11 percent in 2013 and 15 percent in 2012.
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Top Items:
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Republicans are losing the spending argument — For the past several years, congressional Republicans have focused relentlessly on a single message: Washington — led by President Obama — is spending too much money, and it needs to stop. — But according to new Washington Post-ABC News polling …
Discussion: Forbes, NBCNews.com, Washington Times and Post Politics
Rick Ungar / Forbes: Must Obama Save The GOP In Order To Save His Agenda And End Dysfunctional Government?
Kasie Hunt / NBCNews.com: Bloomberg scores victory on guns in Illinois race
Seth McLaughlin / Washington Times: CPAC: Chris Christie snubbed for criticizing GOP on Sandy relief
Sean Sullivan / Post Politics: Democrats nominate Robin Kelly in Illinois special election
Michael Kinsley / New Republic:
Annihilate! — Whoever could have imagined that Republicans could be such wussies? After all, the GOP is the Party of Testosterone. Democrats are the ones who are supposed to be wimpy and weepy. But lately the Republicans have been a bunch of crybabies: Hey mama, President Obama is picking on us.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Dorian De Wind / The Moderate Voice: About the New Republican Party
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A political DUI — Some of us can recall the helpless feeling of being in a vehicle driven by someone who is intoxicated. If you're like me, you don't want to cause a scene unless the driving is really erratic. But there comes a moment when you need to say: Stop the car. You're going to hurt someone.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Maddow Blog, Angry Bear, Mother Jones and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Beverly Mann / Angry Bear: Why Does Washington Post Columnist David Ignatius Say Obama Should Have Allowed Default …
Mark Murray / NBCNews.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Public wary about sequester cuts, but Obama in stronger political position than GOP — With automatic, across-the-board spending cuts set to begin Friday, majorities of Americans believe they aren't a good idea and say the contentious budget negotiations make them less confident …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: The Morning Plum: How's that GOP "makeover" going?
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: The party 'in need of a major makeover'
Taylor Marsh: NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll: Obama Creaming Republicans on Every Issue, with One Depressing Downside
Sarah Muller / msnbc.com: Poll: The public doesn't like the sequester cuts, the GOP, or this same partisan rerun
Senate GOP ponders shifting power to Obama — Days before the March 1 deadline, Senate Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would cancel $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts and instead turn over authority to President Barack Obama to achieve the same level of savings under a plan to be filed by March 8.
Discussion: Roll Call, Business Insider and The Caucus
Alan K. Ota / Roll Call: Senate GOP Divided on Sequester Alternative
Jared Bernstein / Business Insider: Believe It Or Not, Sequester Politics Are Getting Worse
Jonathan Weisman / The Caucus: Senate Republicans Fail to Reach Consensus on Alternative to Cuts
Wall Street Journal:
The Sequester Revelation — Obama has the legal power to avoid spending-cut damage. — And when the Republicans opened the seventh seal of the sequester, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black and the stars fell unto the Earth; and our nation's ability to forecast severe weather …
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Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com: Obama boxed in on sequester
Jonah Goldberg / National Review: Great Editorial, And Great Minds
David Nather / Politico: Is President Obama telling the truth about sequestration?
Dana Bash / CNN:
Congressional leaders invited to W.H. on spending cuts deadline day
Congressional leaders invited to W.H. on spending cuts deadline day
Discussion: Politico, Hot Air and The Daily Caller
Jake Sherman / Politico: Friday summit at W.H. on sequester
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
President Obama to Meet Congressional Leaders Friday
President Obama to Meet Congressional Leaders Friday
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ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Obama Finally Agrees To Meet With Congressional Leaders On Averting Sequester Cuts... Day After They Go Into Effect...
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Video: The road to a deal begins with ... one million steps?
Jim Messina to open consulting firm
Jim Messina to open consulting firm
Discussion: Post Politics
Natalie Jennings / Post Politics: Jim Messina launches consulting firm
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Brief Supporting Same-Sex Marriage Gets More Republican Support — More than two dozen Republicans — including a top adviser to Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, and a former congresswoman who made banning same-sex marriage her signature issue — have added their names …
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G-A-Y / Good As You: Marilyn Musgrave now opposes Prop 8? Wait, what? WHAT?!?!? (**UPDATED! Musgrave denies it all)
Jacob Combs / Equality On Trial: UPDATED: Corporate America speaks out against Prop 8, plus marriage equality updates from the Midwest
Eli Stokols / KDVR.com:
Marilyn Musgrave denies NYT report that she supports gay marriage
Marilyn Musgrave denies NYT report that she supports gay marriage
Discussion: Joe. My. God., AMERICAblog and Towleroad News #gay
Roger Parloff / Fortune:
Dozens of big U.S. companies to back gay marriage
Dozens of big U.S. companies to back gay marriage
Discussion: News Desk, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, AMERICAblog, emptywheel, Firedoglake, Taking Note and Joe. My. God.
Amy Davidson / News Desk: The Economic Closet: The Business Case for Gay Marriage
Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch: Apple, Facebook Tell Supreme Court That Marriage Equality Is A 'Business Imperative'
Teddy Partridge / Firedoglake: Congressman Mark Takano (D-CA) Asks Obama to File Amicus Brief in Prop 8 Case Before SCOTUS
Andrew Rosenthal / Taking Note: Republicans Against Proposition 8 — Sheryl Stolberg reported …
Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
Corporations urge Supreme Court to embrace gay marriage
Corporations urge Supreme Court to embrace gay marriage
Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Elahe Izadi / NationalJournal.com:
The Real Reason Why Chris Christie Wasn't Invited to CPAC — ACU Chairman Al Cardenas criticizes New Jersey's Republican governor for supporting Sandy aid bill, Medicaid expansion. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was not invited to speak at the annual CPAC conference this year …
Discussion: Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite and Hot Air
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Christie Dons the Sanbenito
Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: MURDOCH AND AILES TROT OUT SURROGATES TO DEFEND THE OBJECT OF THEIR MANCRUSH
Noah Rothman / Mediaite: Same Day Christie Embraces Obamacare, Fox's Eric Bolling Tells Conservatives He's Their 2016 Savior
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Charles Krauthammer: Chris Christie CPAC snub a mistake
Charles Krauthammer: Chris Christie CPAC snub a mistake
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Joe. My. God.
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Al Cardenas defends Chris Christie CPAC snub
Al Cardenas defends Chris Christie CPAC snub
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
No CPAC Invite for Christie Because of 'Limited Future' in Republican Party
No CPAC Invite for Christie Because of 'Limited Future' in Republican Party
Jill Lawrence / NationalJournal.com: Chris Christie is a Republican Without a Party
Allahpundit / Hot Air: CPAC source: Christie wasn't invited this year because he has a "limited future" …
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect: Conservatives Shun Popular GOP Governor
Kelsey Osterman / Red Alert Politics: No CPAC for Gov. Chris Christie due to "limited future" in GOP
Kos / Daily Kos: Top conservative conference keeps Christie away, because Palin is apparently the future
Jeffrey Young / The Huffington Post: Chris Christie Medicaid Plan To Offer Coverage To Poor New Jersey Residents
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Christie's Honeymoon With Conservatives Is Over
Christie's Honeymoon With Conservatives Is Over
Discussion: The Week, Hot Air, National Review and OpenSecrets.org
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Krauthammer: C'mon, let Christie speak at CPAC
Robert Costa / National Review: Christie Backers Still Eyeing 2016
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
As Budgets Face Cuts, Austerity Kills Government Jobs — WASHINGTON — The federal government, the nation's largest consumer and investor, is cutting back at a pace exceeded in the last half-century only by the military demobilizations after the Vietnam War and the cold war.
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner, AEIdeas, The Week, Right Wing News, Brad DeLong, Marginal Revolution and Board of Governors …
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas: US needs more private-sector growth, not GDP accounting tricks
William Teach / Right Wing News: NY Times Trots Out "Austerity" Regarding Sequester
J. Bradford DeLong / Brad DeLong: Yes, We May Well Have a Double Dip This Year. Why Do You Ask?
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke / Board of Governors …: Testimony — Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress
Liberty Street Economics:
State Unemployment and the Allocation of Federal Stimulus Spending
State Unemployment and the Allocation of Federal Stimulus Spending
Discussion: AEIdeas
Nina Totenberg / Law:
Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Voting Rights Act … Once again, race is front and center at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. And once again, the bull's eye is the 1965 Voting Rights Act, widely viewed as the most effective and successful civil rights legislation in American history.
Discussion: msnbc.com, The Hinterland Gazette and Althouse
Robert Gifford / msnbc.com: NOW Today: Landmark case
Janet Shan / The Hinterland Gazette: 5 Things You Need to Know Today Feb. 27: Rosa Parks Statue to Be Unveiled, Voting Rights Act Before SCOTUS
Ann Althouse / Althouse: "Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Voting Rights Act."
Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Supreme Court Voting Rights Act Case: DOJ's Tom Perez Calls Section 5 'Regrettably' Necessary
Supreme Court Voting Rights Act Case: DOJ's Tom Perez Calls Section 5 'Regrettably' Necessary
Discussion: Guardian, THEROOT.COM, Talking Points Memo and Wall Street Journal
Benjamin Todd Jealous / THEROOT.COM: Save Our Endangered Voting Rights
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo: Overturning The Voting Rights Act Would Be Seminal Moment For Conservative Legal Movement
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal: Supreme Court to Tackle Voting-Rights Case
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Voting Act Challenge Hinges on a Formula
Voting Act Challenge Hinges on a Formula
Discussion: SCOTUSblog, Election Law Blog and ACS Blog
Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog: From the Shelby County argument
Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog: Shelby County Coverage Game Plan
Asimon / ACS Blog: Federalism and the Voting Rights Act
Talking Points Memo:
White House 'Cannot Support' House VAWA — The White House said Tuesday that it "cannot support" the House version of the Violence Against Women Act and called on GOP leaders to allow a vote on the bipartisan Senate-passed reauthorization. But it stopped short of a veto threat.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill: House expected to pass Senate version of VAWA bill this week
Amy Rose / Rookie:
This Charming Man: An Interview With Morrissey — I don't think I really need to introduce you guys to Morrissey, but just in case: He's been an icon for, oh, more than three decades now. He began his career in the early '80s as the frontman (and heart) of the Smiths before going solo in 1987 …
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay, Telegraph and PinkNews.co.uk
Alice Vincent / Telegraph: Morrissey: 'If men were homosexual, there would be no wars'
Dick Morris / The Hill:
Sequester: A secret plan — President Obama's massive and voluble campaign against the sequester has a deep political motivation that is not apparent on the surface. He is engaging in a battle he knows he'll lose. Republicans are not going to budge on agreeing to tax hikes to avoid …
Deadline Detroit:
U.P. State Senator Tom Casperson Is Some Kind Of Birther — State Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, was on Michael Patrick Shiels' Lansing radio program today and had some fun and interesting things to say about where President Obama was born. — Casperson, whose name might sound familiar …
Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Balloon Juice
Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Pope speaks of "rough seas" of papacy at emotional farewell — (Reuters) - Pope Benedict bid an emotional farewell at his last general audience on Wednesday, acknowledging the "rough seas" that marked his papacy "when it seemed that the Lord was sleeping." — In an unusually public outpouring …
Discussion: New York Times, Gothamist, WFPL and Gawker
Jen Chung / Gothamist: Photos: Pope Benedict Signs Off, Says It's Been Great But Pope-ing Ain't Easy
Mark Memmott / WFPL: Sometimes 'The Lord Seemed To Sleep,' Pope Says In Farewell
Agence France Presse:
Alleged rape victim in Maldives 'to be flogged' — MALE — A Maldives court has sentenced a 15-year-old alleged rape victim to 100 lashes and eight months under house arrest after she admitted having had premarital sex in a separate incident, an official said Wednesday.
Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
A matter of principle — What the Hagel fight did — Now that President Obama will finally have the defense secretary he wanted in Chuck Hagel, the question arises: Was the anti-Hagel fight worth it? Why did Republicans decide to fight it if they weren't going to win?
Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
Reason for mass release of illegal immigrants "hard to believe," Boehner says — House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Tuesday in an interview with CBS News blasted the "outrageous" move by federal immigration officials to OK the release of hundreds of illegal immigrants as a way to save money ahead …
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"The first part's insistence that Judeo-Christian values require gay equality is so confidently and cogently asserted that it amounts to something new and invigorating in gay religious apologetics."—Booklist
"God vs. Gay is an excellent resource for those struggling to reconcile their sexual feelings — or those of a loved one — with being a person of devout religious faith. Michaelson never panders, attempts to set aside all biases and simply lets the text speak for itself. What happens when he clears the smoke of punditry and bigotry is a beautiful thing, and the discussion over equality and human diversity is elevated because of Michaelson's willingness to have faith in the words of the Torah — and in human dignity."—NewVoices.org
"Mixing memoir and academic analysis in this well-researched and concisely written treatise, Michaelson embarks on a mission to reconcile sexuality with Judeo-Christian religious traditions… Inclusive and modern theology that will give both Jewish and Christian readers a reason to celebrate sexual diversity."—Kirkus Reviews
"This title is very much worth reading and particularly useful for those interested in religion, civil rights, and social progress."—Library Journal
"God vs. Gay is a game-changer and highly recommended in the debate…Michaelson has packed so much into his slim volume. A pleasurable and intelligent read, this is a book for our times and a book for the ages."—EDGE
"As a salvo in the case for equality, however, it shows how to reframe the debate and stop seeing a chasm between God and gay."—Publisher's Weekly
"Michaelson looks at the Hebrew and Christian Bible with keen intellect, wit, and often surprising insights. He roots his arguments not in dry exegesis but in hard-won self-acceptance and passionate concern for others. I highly recommended God vs. Gay? for anyone seeking to understand how being homosexual and religious are not antithetical."—Joe Perez, author of Soulfully Gay
"'The irony of God versus Gay is that actually Gay and God go together. Opening to one leads to the other.' So writes Jay Michaelson in the postscript to this beautiful, soulful book. Michaelson charts a journey from rejection to full acceptance, from religious alienation to spiritual wholeness that will brings the reader closer to the Divine. It did for me and it will for anyone who has felt abandoned by their faith and rejected for who they are. This is a healing book that yearns to be read."—Sharon Groves, Director, Religion and Faith Program, Human Rights Campaign Foundation
"God vs. Gay? is a timely and important book in this religious and political moment. Michaelson's book prepares us, regardless of religious or sexual identity, to delve deeper into our souls, our traditions, and into the truth that religion is in fact a source of liberation."—Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the largest gay and lesbian synagogue in the world
"Through careful discussions of Jewish and Christian teachings on homosexuality Michaelson masterfully reveals that both religions allow for the full embrace of LGBT persons. This religious-ethical work is illuminating and a must read for anyone who wants to understand the current debate over religion and homosexuality."—Rabbi David Ellenson, President Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
"Michaelson shows that 'God versus gay' is a myth and that the overwhelming majority of our shared religious values favor equality for LGBT people." —Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun
"God vs. Gay? is essential reading for people of all faiths who want to be allies of our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. This book articulates what many of us have felt in our hearts for a long time: that our religious conscience compels us to support equality, not oppose it."—Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, co-author of Jewish with Feeling and From Age-ing to Sage-ing, Blessings for Health, Peace of Mind, and Prosperity
A Note from the Series Editor
Part One Why our fundamental values support, rather than oppose, equality for sexual minorities
Chapter 1 "It is not good for a person to be alone"
Intimate relationship heals the primary flaw in creation
Chapter 2 "I am asleep but my heart is awake: the voice of my beloved knocks"
A loving God could never want the "closet"
Chapter 3 "Love your neighbor as yourself"
Love demands authentic compassion for others
Chapter 4 "By the word of God were the heavens made"
Sexual diversity is natural and part of God's creation
Chapter 5 "Thou shalt not bear false witness"
Honesty and integrity are sacred; "coming out" is a religious act
Chapter 6 "Justice—justice shall you pursue"
Inequality is an affront to religious values
Part Two What the "bad verses" really say about homosexuality
Chapter 7 Leviticus
One form of male intimacy is related to worship of foreign gods
Chapter 8 Sodom
Cruelty and inhospitality are the "sins of Sodom"
Chapter 9 The Gospels
What Jesus didn't say about homosexuality
Chapter 10 Romans
Men not being dominant is a consequence of turning from God
Chapter 11 Corinthians and Timothy
Christians should not mingle with a pagan, idolatrous, lascivious society
Chapter 12 David and Jonathan
Love between men in the Bible
Chapter 13 Sexual diversity in Christian theology
How did we get here from there?
Part Three Why inclusion of sexual minorities is good, not bad, for religious values
Chapter 14 "You shall be holy, for I am holy"
Equality for LGBT people is good for families, marriage, and sexual ethics
Chapter 15 "When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me"
The growth of religious values is good for individuals and religious communities
Chapter 16 "Everyone whose spirit moved him brought an offering to God"
Sexual diversity, like other forms of diversity, enriches religious lives and communities
Chapter 17 "And I have filled him with the spirit of God . . . to devise subtle works in gold, silver, and brass"
What is homosexuality for?
Chapter 18 "For nothing in creation can separate you from the love of God"
Table of Scriptural Authorities
For Further Reading
LGBT Religious Organizations


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As Thanksgiving Day approaches it's time for all of us to take a step back, reflect on our lives and give thanks for everything that makes us complete - not just that turkey with all the fixins that's going to make your stomach full.
In that spirit, for this week's, 'A Quick Nine,' feature, we asked our PGA.com Facebook fans to tell us: Why are you thankful for golf?
The question was clearly a hit as we received more feedback for a single question than ever before, so we're thankful for that. It was so powerful, in fact, that newly elected PGA of America President, Allen Wronowski, was the very first to chime in.
President Wronowski said he's thankful for golf, "Because I've had a successful 34-year career (and still going!), met my beautiful wife and have made so many amazing lifelong friends."
Not a bad way to start off this week's feature, eh? Without further adieu, let's see what it is about the beautiful game of golf that you're thankful for:
1. Because it's a healthy activity.
Facebook fan quotes:
"I had a kidney transplant 9 years ago. Golf, along with my two retrievers, keeps my exercise level high enough to help stave off the negative effects of my transplant meds. Golf also keeps my competitive fires burning and helps to keep me well rounded." -- Ron Lutz
"At my age I'm glad I'm able to play golf for so many reasons." -- Helen Pratt
"It gives me exercise, beautiful surroundings, solitude, 4 hours away from my cell, people watching and meeting." -- James King
"No one will realize the rewards of what golf offers until you are 78 years old with knee transplants and realize that golf is the one thing that keeps you out of the lounge chair and out near nature. I have enjoyed golf for over 50 years and can't imagine what my physical condition would be without it. Thank God everyday that there is one sport that senior people can actually compete in until death. Thanks to everyone involved in making golf an enjoyable outing." -- Don Spann
2. Because it releases stress.
Facebook fan quotes:
"I am thankful for golf because it is an awesome outlet! All of my worries and problems are forgotten while I'm on the golf course, it's a great escape." -- Jeremy Lane
"Golf is the single most important activity I have to keep me sane while living in the Middle East. Getting up early on a weekend to spend time on beautifully manicured greens and fairways is about all that keeps me going over here. Thank you to this glorious game for being a worldwide passion!" -- Mike Groves
"Like being in a park… relaxing!" -- Ronique Breaux-Jordan
"As a parent of a child with autism and a nurse in private practice, I am thankful for the game of golf. The concentration that golf requires, along with the exercise and sunshine, helps me to return to my life and work, refreshed and refocused." -- Pamela Ferro
"Stress release (on a good day), reason to get out of the house, way to meet new people. Have fun with your friends. If you get good you make millions of dollars. Little bit of exercise. All kinds of good stuff." -- Jonathan Cameron
"I am thankful for golf because it allows me to relieve stress. Because i like taking out my aggression and being rewarded with good shots pars, and birdies. Also thankful because it allows me to see my friends and JUST HAVE FUN!" -- Peter Owens
3. Because, no matter what, it always keeps you coming back for more.
Facebook fan quotes:
"I played the worst round of my life this summer... shanks, lost balls, out of bounds, water hazards... but I made a memorable par from the rough on the 10th hole and now that's all I really remember about that round." -- Gordon Mair
"I'm thankful that I found a swing that works... shot an 82 last time, best score ever since I'm a mid 90's golfer!" -- Johnny Huang
"I'm thankful for golf because of the challenge and the fact that no two rounds are ever the same. I love being outdoors enjoying the scenery and the company of my golf partners on that particular day. It is a very humbling sport, I still can't break 80." -- Jeremy Durfey
4. Because it teaches life lessons.
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"Because it teaches me life. When you have to rise to the occasion and you don't have the shot, it provides the desired humility required to make the appropriate decision." -- Kelly Ray Mulholland
"To me golf is like the game of life... Every decision is yours and you have to deal with the consequences of that decision, good or bad… play it as it lies." -- Jason Steadman
"Through golf I have met people I otherwise would not have encountered, and come to know one person more than I imagined… myself." -- Paul Dawlearn
"I am thankful for golf because it taught me almost everything I know about life!" -- Kris E. Wilson
5. Because, to put it kindly… it gets you away from home.
Facebook fan quotes:
"Gives me four hours away from the nagging at home." -- Adam Roth "Because golf gets me away from the wife for a few hours and into the 19th hole after." -- Ben Doran
"It gets my husband out of the house." -- Jennifer Kroman
"I'm thankful for golf, because it gives me a little quiet time away from my girlfriend." -- Bryan Dwayne Hall
6. Because it builds relationships.
Facebook fan quotes:
"I play with a group called The Humbler's that was started in 1972. We play by the rules, respect the game and each other. We recently lost the founding member in a car accident and another long time member due to cancer. Golf brought us all together but it is the friendships and loyalties that keep us together." -- Melissa Meza Lesch
"Brings moments and people together." -- Mininho Chi
"It kept me out of trouble when I was younger, it gave me fun times to look forward to as I got older, such as playing in tournaments with friends, but most importantly it gave me something to do with my dad and still continue to do with him. He didn't know his father growing up so it was something we do together and it gives us time to spend together." -- Darren Scartissi
"Golf is the greatest game ever! The bond that it has created between my father and I is something I wouldn't trade for anything! I can't wait to share that bond with my nephews and my children (if I have them lol)." -- Joseph Tyler Walski
"I love golf, as it is something my husband and I enjoy and do together, because of physical problems, I am unable to exercise in a normal way, but golf is a form of exercise that doesn't tax this old body as much and gives me much time with the love of my life, my husband. What more could there be?" -- Elaine Arbon-Slaven
"I am thankful for golf because it is the sport that brings our family together. Talking about our individual leagues at dinner or enjoying a family golf vacation, golf has given me fun family memories throughout my life." -- Lora Harp
"Golf is how I met my husband!" -- Lanita Legan
7. Because it's great to watch.
Facebook fan quotes:
"I'm thankful for the worldwide coverage of golf, watching live from around the world. Watching great players and of course the Champions Tour. I love golf, play it as much as I can. Kansas is cold today… 44 degrees and windy, not a good day for golf. Thank you PGA!" -- George M Anthony
8. Because it's ageless.
Facebook fan quotes:
"I am grateful for golf because it is the great equalizer. Where else could a 70-year-old man school a 26-year-old in a sporting event?" -- Kevin Eckam
"I'm thankful for golf because I played with my grandpa and kept him happy till he passed away from cancer this pass winter." -- Travis Miller
9. Because it became a career.
Facebook fan quotes:
"I like watching the ball float away into the blue sky. And I like to watch it disappear into the hole. Golf has brought me a career, an opportunity to give to others, and most importantly friends.." -- Mike Aldrich
"Not only has golf become my passion, but its also become my future career. I am a PGA Golf Management student and the game of golf has shaped me into the mature, responsible, and friendly person I am today. I can't thank the game of golf enough for everything it has given me, and even more so what it still has to offer.." -- Christopher John Kelley
"When I was in college I applied to be a lifeguard at Porter Valley CC. After dropping off my application I started chatting up who I thought was a Member and ended up being a Regional GM at ClubCorp. He hired me in the parking lot to develop an aquatics program at Braemar CC across town. I've held many other positions since at many other clubs. Today, I consult and direct for over 70 clubs in the US and Canada on member retention, marketing & communication. I am thankful for that day in the golf course parking lot." -- Zack Bates
"I am thankful for golf because it is my career, my passion, my hobby, and my source of entertainment. With 21 years servicing the golf business, 10 of which as a PGA Golf Professional, I have met some of the greatest people. It is a very rewarding profession." -- Jerry Palinski
"Growing up in North East L.A. golf gave me a safe haven from all the distractions that could have led me down a different direction in life. Playing at Arroyo Seco Par 3 G.C. put me in an environment around people who encouraged me to do better. Meeting former Touring Professionals like Jeff Sanday and Paul Runyan made me want to learn more about the game. The desire to learn more about the history of the game made me a better player and gave me the skill of a writer. Talking and writing about golf lead me to my first real job, as a golf journalist for a local magazine, and I was still attending college. Although times have changed, I still can honestly look back and say without the game of golf, I would not be where I am at today. For that I am thankful for golf." -- Marcelo Araujo
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5 Tips on Designing a Small Living Room to be Spacious and Comfortable.
The living room is a room provided by the host to welcome someone's presence. The living room is usually designed as well and as attractive as possible so that people who come to visit feel comfortable and at ease.
The design of the living room becomes very important because the living room becomes the first part that will be assessed by someone who comes to visit your house.
Some people sometimes feel confused to arrange the living room that has it because the size of the room they have has a small size. Though you should not need to feel confused to organize your small room, a beautiful and comfortable living room. A small size living room is usually used for houses of type 36. To make your small living room spacious and comfortable you can change the following:
Living Room Accessories
To give a broad impression on the small living room that you have, choose some accessories in the living room that has a size that is not too large, such as the selection of a simple sofa size and adjusted to the size of your living room. You can also add accessories that can reflect light such as jars that can give a broad impression on your living room.
Put a Mirror in the Living Room
The use of a mirror in a small living room, in addition to being an accessory that can enhance the design of your living room, a mirror can also function to reflect incoming light, thus providing a brighter effect and can reflect a visual image that is wider than its original size.
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Choose bright colors and avoid dark colors. Dark colors can give your room a narrow effect. Choose bright colors like green or white that can reflect light so that your small living room will look brighter and less congested.
If you apply a wallpaper motif on the walls of your room, choose a motif that is not too crowded so that the broad impression is maintained in your minimalist living room.
Lights on the Ceiling
The amount of light entering will affect the impression created by the homeowner. To give a broad impression, maximum lighting is required.
Skylights or the use of lights on the ceiling of the living room roof is currently in great demand by many people because Skylights are considered capable of giving the impression of spacious and luxurious and does not require a lot of space for installation. So it is more simple and minimalist. More words Later
Maximizing Cabinet Function
If you have several accessories or many displays, you can maximize the function of the cabinet by putting everything in and arranging it neatly.
So much space is left without beads here and there. This will give a broader and neat impression on your small living room. So that your guests will feel comfortable and comfortable to linger in your home. @Panduanrumah.net
The most important thing in creating a spacious atmosphere in a minimalist living room is not to put too much trinkets and excessive furniture.
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How to Design a Modern and Elegant Interior Living Room
The interior design of the living room needs serious attention, because this place is part of the social life of the homeowner, a place where he has the opportunity to provide comfort to people who come to visit.
Such comfort is not only in the form of a welcoming and pampering treat, but also the atmosphere of a comfortable, pleasant living room that makes anyone feel comfortable to linger in the room. A minimalist house with a relatively narrow living room area can be designed in such a way that it looks modern, elegant and makes people feel at home in it, by paying attention to the following matters:
Furniture Selection
The main and most appropriate furniture to decorate a narrow living room is a minimalist sofa with a size that matches the dimensions of the room.
Do not install a lot of chairs, because in addition to taking up a lot of space also gives the impression of tightness. Not to mention it will make you bother when you want to move position. The color of the sofa can be chosen according to taste.
But it is advisable to choose a sofa whose color contrasts with the color of the living room wall or vice versa, has the same motif and test color as the color of the living room wall.
If contrasting colors are chosen, then a modern impression will be presented, and if the same color is chosen then the living room will look elegant and look more spacious.
In addition to the sofa, you can also place a sideboard in one corner of the living room if the space is still possible.
But if not, it should be avoided and not forced to cram a limited size space with a variety of objects because it will make the atmosphere seem dirty.
The interior design for the living room which also functions as a family room can also be decorated with television, but as much as possible in the form of LED TV with thin dimensions and can be affixed to the wall, so it does not take up the living room space.
Lighting Sets
Lighting influences the impression created by the living room. Lighting that is too excessive will give the impression of stifling reverse lighting that is too minimal to make the eyes get tired quickly. That's why the lighting factor also needs attention.
During the day, of course lighting will depend on sunlight. To adjust how much light comes in, you can use the curtains that adorn the glass windows.
While at night, the lights attached to the ceiling try to provide adequate lighting.
But if you want to create the impression of luxury, use a ceiling light that is rather dim and add lighting with enough light in one corner of the room with a position parallel to the living room table.
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SRINAGAR -- A TV reporter on Friday accused JKLF chief Yasin Malik of roughing her up and breaking her phone, but the separatist leader alleged she had barged into his bedroom.
Kanwaljit Sandhu, an India Today group reporter against whom Malik filed a police complaint of criminal trespass, said she had sought permission from the separatist leader's sister to talk to him.
"I was introduced to a lady people said was Malik's sister. She told me to go in and speak to him about the interview.
"I entered his room without the cameraman. The cameraman was waiting outside. When I told Malik I was from India Today TV, he lost his cool. He snatched and smashed my mobile phone.
"I and our staff were manhandled and forced out of the house in Maisuma area of Srinagar."
Malik, who heads the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, had another story.
He told police that the reporter barged into his bedroom and later accused him of "manhandling her".
Addressing the media here, Malik said the journalist had not sought an appointment to interview him.
He alleged that she lied to his sister that she had an appointment for an interview with him.
"She suddenly barged into my bedroom when I was asleep and starting shooting and recording on her mobile phone.
"This shocked me. I objected to her behaviour. I snatched her mobile phone and asked her to leave my bedroom. She then started crying and alleging that I had manhandled her."
Malik said: "I am asking the media fraternity whether this is the right way of interviewing a person?"
He said he had filed a complaint of criminal and malicious trespass against the journalist.
India Today TV recently did an expose showing three separatist leaders confess that they had been getting funds from Pakistan for creating unrest in the Kashmir Valley.
Malik on Friday said if anybody could prove that he owned any property other than his ancestral home in Maisuma area of Srinagar, he would give up his political career.
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New York voters bet big Tuesday on casino gambling as an economic energy shot, agreeing to let seven Las Vegas-style gaming palaces be built around the state, including eventually in New York City.
In a measure that became a referendum on the job-creating potential and social price of gambling, a constitutional amendment allowing the casinos was approved 57 percent to 43 percent, with 60 percent of the vote counted.
The vote was a major win for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who proposed casinos as a way to aid the long-distressed upstate economy. The first four casinos would be built upstate, at sites to be chosen by developers. A New York City casino would be built in seven years and possibly more could be built in the suburbs, although some casino operators say the law could allow that sooner.
But while Cuomo hailed the measure as a way to generate jobs and tax revenue — his administration even reworded the ballot language to emphasize those disputed benefits — critics from progressive good-government groups to the state Conservative Party and the state's Roman Catholic bishops warned that the governor's projections were inflated and the social cost to families and communities would be profound.
The Democratic governor secured broad support among organizations that would get a piece of the gambling revenue, including businesses hoping for spinoff effects and unions that would benefit from construction and more school aid. Cuomo framed the referendum not as a question on gambling, but as a way to capture what he said is $1.2 billion a year in current gambling revenue that New Yorkers now spend at casinos elsewhere, including Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Canada.
"We are putting New York state in a position to have those dollars spent here in our communities, which will benefit our local economies and tourism industries, as well as support education and property tax relief," Cuomo said.
Cuomo's budget office says the state would take in $430 million in new casino revenue, with $238 million for education, in a repeat of the strategy that approved lottery games. The rest would go to communities near casinos to compensate for public safety and social costs and for tax reduction.
The issue will now go to Cuomo's Gaming Commission, which will work with proposals from casino operators. They will choose locations for what are planned to be resort destinations with hotels and convention space. One would be in the Southern Tier near Binghamton, two in the Catskills and Mid-Hudson Valley region, and another in the Saratoga Springs-Albany area.
Tuesday's referendum hit New Yorkers just as public sentiment started to favor casinos after years of being split over the issue.
An October Siena College poll found the Cuomo administration's rosy rewording of the referendum — to promise jobs, tax relief and school aid — worked. The rewrite pushed support to 55 percent.
The state Board of Elections also took the unusual step of moving the referendum from last position to the top of the ballot, a more advantageous spot for constitutional questions put to voters.
An organized and well-funded campaign helped secure the vote. Cuomo had provided guarantees of exclusive gambling territory to Indian tribes that operate five casinos under federal law and other agreements to sideline operators of video slot machine centers at race tracks.
That sidelined the big money that was expected to counter supporters' TV ad blitz. One pro-casino, statewide spot financed by the NY Jobs Now Committee featured a hard-hatted everyman, with a script saying the proposal "would start to bring that money back to New York and create over 10,000 good-paying new jobs in New York state."
Critics criticized the referendum's unusually rosy, one-side view of casinos.
In an analysis called "A Sucker's Bet," the nonpartisan Empire Center for Public Policy found that even using Cuomo's numbers, the benefit of casinos would be minimal. The center's E.J. McMahon says the measure, at best, would improve upstate private-sector employment by about 0.4 of 1 percent and boost state school aid by just 1 percent.
State Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long called the casino effort "the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the taxpayers of the state of New York," while The New York Times called the rewording "advocacy, pure and simple."
Brooklyn lawyer Eric Snyder unsuccessfully challenged the working in court. The state Board of Elections won on a technicality that Snyder didn't file his lawsuit by the Aug. 19 deadline, although the state didn't post the rewritten wording until Aug. 21. Powerful Republican Sen. John DeFrancisco is pushing a bill to prohibit rewording.


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Pratt & Whitney Supports Urban Youth at CPEP Challenge Day
Since 1986, CPEP - Catalysts Powering Educational Performance - has been providing children in Connecticut with an exciting approach to the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and math. Students in 11 urban cities throughout the state attend out-of-school programs – supported by CPEP staff, volunteers and mentors – and work on challenging projects, which eventually make their way to the much-anticipated CPEP Day each May.
This year, CPEP Challenge Day took place on May 10 at the Hartford Armory on Broad Street and featured hundreds of enthusiastic youth, ready to put their designs to the test. Air-powered boats, mousetrap vehicles, magnetic levitation vehicles, roller coasters, egg-drop packages and Rube Goldberg machines filled the Armory's "parlors," with other fun events, such as chess matches, minute-to-win-it events and math challenges, taking place in booths interspersed around the hall.
A number of partners and sponsors support CPEP, including Pratt & Whitney and United Technologies, who also provide many of the day's volunteer judges.
"I volunteered at CPEP last year and enjoyed judging the kids' work, so I volunteered again this year," said Karim Kamareddine of Pratt & Whitney. "The fun part for me is seeing the kids show off the fruits of their hard work. It's great to be in a place with hundreds of kids excited to learn and to participate in a statewide event."
Abigail Piva, also of Pratt & Whitney, was another of the STEM professionals on hand to judge designs.
"CPEP Day combines a huge focus around science and engineering with the excitement and fun of the kids showing off their projects," she said.
STEM professional judges included engineers, teachers, scientists and area business leaders.
Piva continued, "I am proud Pratt & Whitney represents a large amount of the day's volunteers, as CPEP is truly a winning program in the Hartford area."
For more information about CPEP and its participating communities, visit them online at www.cpep.org.


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Europe's best budget ski resorts
By Joe Minihane, Special to CNN • Updated 21st January 2013
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For the budget conscious, the mere mention of skiing in Europe has been known to cause whiplash from people reaching around too quickly for their wallets.
Those who keep a close watch on their cash tend to avoid resorts that charge the equivalent of a mortgage payment for the privilege of taking a few runs down a mountain and then forking out US$20 for a hot cider afterward.
Europe's famed alpine destinations are the worst culprits. Look beyond the pistes of Switzerland, Austria and France, however, and there are bargains to be found across the continent.
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Soldeu, Andorra
High in the Pyrenees and sandwiched between France and Spain, Andorra is an ideal alternative to the more pricey Alps. Soldeu is the tiny nation's biggest and best resort, with an incredibly cheap weekly pass (US$259), and one-day access costing just US$57.
Best of all, the pass covers the wider Grandvalira area, with access to other resorts and an impressive 204 kilometers (126 miles) of runs.
The focus is largely on family at this beginner-to-intermediate hill, though there are plenty of lively bars in Soldeu village.
The resort is accessible from budget airports at Perpignan in the south of France, and Girona, north of Barcelona.
Lift pass: US$259 for five days out of seven;
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Nosal, Zakopane, Poland
In Europe, east means cheap, especially if you're after a European ski holiday.
Zakopane best exemplifies Poland's underground reputation as a go-to spot for winter sports. This vast area has a number of different resorts, each offering lift passes for which you need to buy separate tickets.
But considering you can take 15 trips on the Nosal resort's lift for just $16, with nearby Gubalowka offering 10 rides from the same amount, it's cheap to hop around and try different slopes.
Packages are recommended for this type of trip, as transportation between areas can be tricky without an organized tour.
If you want to stick with one place, Nosal is the pick. It has four good beginner runs and a vicious, steep black area for veteran skiers and snowboarders.
Best of all, the runs are open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., with floodlights fired up after sunset.
Lift pass: US$16;
Cerna Hora, Czech Republic
Cerna Hora is home to the country's longest single run, a two-kilometer monster (1.2 mile) that'll test the hardiest alpine skier.
As with most eastern European resorts, the lift pass is an insanely good value. The US$89 three-day pass makes Cerna Hora ideal for weekend trips. Its 14 slopes are reached by the Czech Republic's only eight-person gondola. The area also has 70 kilometers (43 miles) of cross-country routes.
What sets Cerna Hora apart is proximity to the spa town of
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Seven-day lift pass: US$162; three-day lift pass for US$89;
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Bansko, Bulgaria
Bulgaria is gaining a reputation as the top destination for skiers desperate for good snow and heaving local bars, but who lack funds to hit the likes of Switzerland and Italy.
About 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of the capital of Sofia, and located at the foot of the Pirin Mountains, Bansko is the country's biggest and best resort.
It's something of a mission to reach, but worth the effort. The area has been modernized in recent years, with decent hotels and stacks of traditional "mehana" for excellent local food, including rich salads, soups, meats and, of course, wine and Bulgarian rakia.
The season runs until mid-April, depending on snowfall.
Five-day lift pass: US$186;
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You may not know it, but the wilds of Scotland have become popular as a skiing destination in recent years. Bitterly cold winters and heavy snowfall mean CairnGorm mountain is buried in snow from December to March.
Skiers and boarders hit the slopes between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., light depending, with 30 kilometers (18 miles) of runs, dedicated snowboard park and lots of cross-country trails.
Not necessarily great for a weeklong trip, CairnGorm is worth a visit if you're on a city break in Edinburgh and don't mind the two-and-a-half-hour drive north.
Geared toward beginners and intermediates, CairnGorm is good if you want to try skiing for the first time or don't fancy the rigmarole of arranging an entire trip based around the slopes and aprés ski excess.
Lift pass: US$52;
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