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Minnesota Law & Politics is a monthly magazine mostly directed to Minnesota's legal community. In its current issue, Dwight Hobbes profiles Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison. (Hobbes's profile is one of the issue's three profiles of Minnesota's freshmen congressmen, sandwiched between profiles of Michele Bachmann and Tim Walz.)
Referring to the 2006 campaign in which Ellison was elected to the House, Hobbes states: "When Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten didn't drag his religion (Muslim) into things, she got on his wife, Kim Ellison, about parking tickets." This is a cheap shot that is false and unwarranted.
Kersten was essentially the only mainstream media reporter or columnist who explored the subject of Ellison's checkered past and radical associations during the 2006 campaign. Ellison's checkered past includes his long commitment to and advocacy of the Nation of Islam over the period 1989-1998, during which time he employed aliases including Keith Hakim, Keith X Ellison and Keith Ellison-Muhammad. After Ellison's nomination by the DFL Fifth District convention in May 2006, Ellison essentially began his primary campaign with a demonstrably false letter to the local chapter of the Jewish Community Relations Council addressing his involvement with the Nation of Islam.
Although Kersten's coverage of Ellison during the campaign included reference to Ellison's involvement with the Nation of Islam, Ellison himself had acknowledged that his involvement with the Nation of Islam was an issue in the campaign before Kersten ever wrote about it. Moreover, she never "dragged his religion (Muslim) into things." I believe that Hobbes may be, shall we say, confused on this score.
Hobbes is also confused on the subject of parking tickets. Those with long memories may recall the news stories reporting that Ellison's numerous fines for unpaid parking tickets and moving violations had led to the suspension of Ellison's driver's license on more occasions than Ellison could recall. The story was broken by KSTP News in July 2006 and reluctantly picked up by Star Tribune reporter Dane Smith. I don't believe that Kersten wrote about Ellison's parking tickets, moving violations, unpaid fines or license suspensions.
The Star Tribune reported Ellison's willful violation of Minnesota campaign finance law requirements as a state legislator in an article by Pat Doyle. The article credited Kersten with contributing research. Ellison's violations of the campaign finance law had led to the imposition of a civil fine that remained unpaid as of May 2006.
For some reason Hobbes doesn't mention Ellison's run-in with the IRS. Ellison fell afoul of the IRS after failing to pay $25,000 in income taxes. I don't believe Kersten wrote about that either.
Hobbes to the contrary notwithstanding, one would think Ellison's difficulties following the law were legitimately newsworthy in the course of a hotly contested DFL primary campaign. They make out a striking pattern of lawbreaking since Ellison undertook the practice of law in 1990.
Moreover, Kersten certainly never "got on Kim Ellison." It was the Ellison campaign itself that produced Mrs. Ellison to take responsibility for Ellison's campaign finance infractions as well as Ellison's driver's license suspensions. If anyone, then, it was the Ellison campaign — not Katherine Kersten — who "got on Kim Ellison."
Ellison's religion is also of some interest, though I am quite sure that Kersten never "dragged it in" to her columns on Ellison. It would be interesting to learn which branch of Islam it is to which Ellison adheres and whether it supports homosexual rights, abortion rights, legal equality for women, the separation of church or mosque and state and related elements of the DFL platform.
I believe that Hobbes's cheap shot at Kersten makes about as many errors as it is humanly possible to make in the course of one short sentence. One might almost think Hobbes doesn't care to get his facts straight when it comes to Katherine Kersten, or Keith Ellison, for that matter.
UPDATE: In one column — Kersten's September 18, 2006 column on "Keith Ellison's excuse brigade" — Kersten mentioned Ellison's numerous, previously reported legal issues and hypothesized that "[m]any are willing to overlook Ellison's record because they are breathless with excitement at the chance to send the first Muslim — and the first black Minnesotan — to Congress." In that column Kersten focused on Ellison's support for Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam: "The Excuse Brigade has sought to counter these inconvenient facts by falling back on the nuclear option — the B word. Folks who draw attention to Ellison's support for Farrakhan are bigots, they say." Hobbes's article represents an almost clinical manifestation of the phenomenon Kersten was describing in that column.
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Before & After: West Village Kitchen Goes from Ick to Slick
You may think your kitchen looks bad, but then there's this. When designer Carly Yates set out to redo this West Village kitchen, she definitely had her work cut out for her. Carly presented her renovation at our last Apartment Therapy Design Evening in New York; for those of you who weren't able to make it, here are all the details.
Under Carly's guidance, this kitchen, which hadn't been updated since the building was built in the 60s, was transformed into a modern, streamlined cooking space. All the major elements stayed in the same place, but the appliances, cabinets, countertops, and tile got a modern update. For a more contemporary look, Carly chose black absolute, a granite which has less graining and sediment. The granite has a honed finish as opposed to shiny one, and was finished with an eased edge (a lightly sanded 90 degree cut) instead of a beveled edge. The cabinet material is a custom finish developed by Carly, a White Oak veneer with a light white wash and a minimal, very matte polyurethane. This finish provides protection but allows the wood grain to shine through.
Carly also came up with some creative storage solutions for this small kitchen — shelves wrap a structural column, and in the corner by the window, where a soffit makes having a full cabinet impossible, she opted for open shelving. The total construction cost for the project came out to $162/square foot. Carly attributes her success to a clever mix of low and high price fixtures, appliances and finishes. The most important thing in a renovation, she says, is to find the right people for the job:
Do not compromise on the skill level and experience of a contractor. That is KEY. For example, $5 a square foot tile can look like $50 tile if installed perfectly and with unique touches.
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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 10:32 AM
President Barack Obama's campaign allies continued to push out an unauthorized video of rival Mitt Romney dismissing the half of Americans who don't pay income taxes, while the Republican nominee tried to turn the campaign disruption into a debate over the role of government in family finances.
"My course for the American economy will encourage private investment and personal freedom," Romney wrote in an op-ed essay in Wednesday's USA Today. "Instead of creating a web of dependency, I will pursue policies that grow our economy and lift Americans out of poverty."
It remains to be seen whether Romney's remarks at a private fundraiser, captured on hidden camera, would shake loose a dead heat that's persisted in the presidential campaign for months. An Associated Press-GfK poll out Wednesday shows an improvement in Obama's job approval rating and confidence in the country's direction, but the race is a dead heat among those most likely to vote.
Romney's USA Today essay avoided mention of the claim he makes on the video that nearly half of Americans believe they are victims and entitled to a range of government support and that as a candidate, he doesn't feel a need to worry about them. His running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, told KRNV-TV in Reno, Nev., that Romney "was obviously inarticulate in making this point" that government dependency and economic stagnation have risen under Obama.
Obama, appearing Tuesday on CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman," rejected the notion that many Americans feel they are victims. "One thing I've learned as president is that you represent the entire country," he said.
A super political action committee supporting Obama was more pointed in the first television advertisement using Romney's words, released Wednesday morning and scheduled to run in battlegrounds Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.
The ad includes video of Romney saying, "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility." An announcer interjects, "And Mitt Romney will never convince us he's on our side."
With early and absentee voting beginning in a number of states, both sides hoped to lock in votes long before Election Day. The first of three presidential debates is scheduled for Oct. 3, and the two camps were looking to secure any edge as Obama's post-convention polling advantage seemed to be ebbing. Obama planned a rare full day at the White House Wednesday, including a private meeting with Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi; Romney scheduled a fundraiser in Atlanta and two appearances in Miami, including a candidate forum with the Spanish-language TV network Univision.
The Romney campaign continued to respond to the criticism of his fundraiser remarks Wednesday by pointing out videotaped comments Obama made in 1998 as evidence he favored government redistribution of wealth. An Illinois state senator at the time, Obama said he believes in redistribution "at least to a certain level to make sure everybody's got a shot."
"I know some believe that government should take from some to give to the others," Romney said in an interview Tuesday on Fox News Channel. "I think the president makes it clear in the tape that was released today that that's what he believes. I think that's an entirely foreign concept. I believe America was built on the principle of government caring for those in need, but getting out of the way and allowing free people to pursue their dreams."
But in his Fox interview, Romney continued to cast a segment of the country as unable to rally around his tax-cutting message.
"I recognize that those people who are not paying income tax are going to say, 'Gosh, this provision that Mitt keeps talking about lowering income taxes, that's not going to be real attractive to them,'" Romney said. "And those that are dependent upon government and those that think government's job is to redistribute, I'm not going to get them."
Some Republicans distanced themselves from their party's nominee.
"I disagree with Governor Romney's insinuation that 47 percent of Americans believe they are victims who must depend on the government for their care," Linda McMahon, the Republican candidate for a Senate seat in Connecticut, said in a statement posted to her website.
Sen. Scott Brown, facing a tough re-election race in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, said of Romney's comments, "That's not the way I view the world."
And New Mexico's Republican governor, Susana Martinez, noted in reaction to Romney's remarks that many in New Mexico live at or below the poverty level, and "that safety net is a good thing."
On Wednesday, the Romney campaign released two television ads accusing the Obama administration of conducting a "war on coal." The ads come one day after Virginia-based Alpha Natural Resources disclosed that it is closing mines in Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania and eliminating 1,200 jobs. Alpha CEO Kevin Crutchfield blamed the shutdowns, in part, on "a regulatory environment that's aggressively aimed at constraining the use of coal."
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Additional black spot question
I recently had the prep work for 3 crowns done. Since one of the crowns was a front tooth, I asked the dentist about whitening my teeth before the permanent crown was done. I started using the trays right away but had to take a break because the material irritated my gums where the crown prep was done. The break I took was for about 6 days.
The first morning I went to take the trays out, one of the tooth molds had a black substance in the form. When I looked at my mouth, that tooth is one of the old silver fillings that still needs to be replaced; so I thought the silver and the whitening substance just did something goofy. It has been 2 days now, and directly behind that tooth, I am missing a tooth. There is now a black spot on the gum, and I cannot get it to go away. My dentist is on vacation, but I am going next week to have the 2 crowns seated and the color matched for the third. Of course, I am worried about the spot and don`t want to wait for my dentist to get back for an explanation. Any ideas?
It may be what we call an amalgam tattoo (from the silver filling). This is not harmful, but it may be permanent.
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I certainly think that this is a very constructive reply but as with all these things I shall be reading it carefully a few times before responding.
Dear David, As a researcher, writer and publisher, I think you can appreciate my concern over the proposed closure of Broadfield House! I have attached a letter that I wrote this week to three MPs: Rt. Hon. Andy Burnham, MPSecretary of State to the Department for Culture, Media & SportBarbara Follett, MPMinister for Culture, Creative Industries & TourismLynda Waltho, MPStourbridge Here I explain the situation and the impact this will have on Stourbridge - not just the immediate future, but the long-lasting effect to the International Festival of Glass Biennale, which will inevitably be deprecated, and the long-lasting future to the area. I have, for some time, used the facilities available to the public, namely the archives at Himley Hall, the various glass stored at Himley and Broadfield House, and the expertise of the thoroughly welcoming staff - what a delight to meet such people, who prove so helpful and informed! I have also assisted with the archiving work and was glad that my input proved useful. I will be happy to offer my services again in the future, if they are required. While my feelings may be at odds with some people, I know that as a museum Broadfield House can always be improved upon. For example, disabled access is hardly welcoming to the majority of the collection. However, just because the Red House Glass Cone may appear to have "adequate space" (as claimed by a member of staff at Red House), the actual floor area truly required is far in excess to what is available (assuming it is the rooms in the upper floor?) - after all, what is displayed at Broadfield House is just part of that which is actually in storage. I therefore suggest that it might be worth considering the old Stuart Glass site opposite the Red House - I understand the developers have halted work and the area required is quite small in relation to the rest of the site. In fact, buildings already exist that could possibly be deployed, thereby reducing the expenditure further. Think how this could plan out over the years - two totally independent sites, just yards apart, offering a totally diverse and educational look at how the glass was made, and the spectacular end-results! I agree that this land either needs purchasing, or securing on a long lease, at a time when the council is trying to save money. But I also believe strongly in looking ahead to the future and not simply looking at "available solutions", which will simply prove inadequate over time, and threaten the international status that Broadfield has built up over the 30 years of its existence. In any event, the immediate need is to secure the future of the Broadfield House glass collections and I therefore totally oppose the move. Stourbridge's main asset is its glass heritage. I urge the council not to take hasty action which jeopardises this. I look forward to any comments you may have.
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VFW posts looking to grow youngerBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 22. 2013 10:37PM
Mention "VFW hall," and some people will envision a smoky room with veterans drinking beer at a bar and recalling battles.
Today, however, VFW posts nationwide are reaching out to younger veterans in an effort to shave a few years off the face of the organization, said Randi Law, communications director for the VFW's national headquarters in Kansas City, Mo.
"There are still a lot of people we haven't connected with, and we'd like to connect with them," said Law.
Those connections are being made in New Hampshire, said Dana Hussey, state adjutant for the New Hampshire Department of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
"We're getting the younger ones now," said Hussey. "They're into family-related stuff, and as a whole, more of those types of activities are taking place."
That change is being seen at Derry Post 1617.
"I just swore in some younger guys," said post Cmdr. Carl Starosciak. "We do all right with our numbers. We lose some members each year, but we've been picking up new ones, too. I'd say over the last two years we've seen a lot of growth as far as the number of members go."
Starosciak was quick to credit the recruiting efforts of his senior vice commander, Justin Morrison.
"And the new guys are involved," said Starosciak. "They don't just come in to sit for a while. They want to be part of everything we do."
"I was hesitant myself the first time I walked in," said Morrison, a Derry resident. "I was expecting the dark room, being shunned by everyone in there. It was exactly the opposite; they were so welcoming. You just go in, sit down and talk with people who have been through everything you have."
Morrison, who served in the U.S. Air Force as an A-10 crew chief from 2001 to 2007, stationed in Florida, Las Vegas and South Korea, said the experience helped nudge him to take on a leadership role at the post. He said the type of camaraderie found in a VFW post can't be found in a typical pool hall, sports bar or coffee shop.
"It's also the networking that goes on," said Morrison. "Just talking to someone who already knows how to navigate the benefits system, who to talk to to get this, who to ask for to get that, makes life so much easier."
The VFW, a lobbying organization for millions of veterans, traces its roots to two groups formed in 1899 by Spanish-American War veterans. They merged in 1913 and adopted the name Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. The group boasts 7,000 posts worldwide. In 1992, it had 2.16 million members, mostly World War II veterans.
Today, it has 1.5 million. Of that number, only 17 percent - 220,000 - are veterans of post-Vietnam war conflicts, according to the organization's website. In New Hampshire, there are 51 VFW posts. District 7, which includes Exeter, Salem, Portsmouth and Derry, has nine posts, the most of any district in the state.
Hussey said current membership statistics, valid through June 19, show numbers are down in every district this year compared with those in 2012.
Overall, statewide membership is at 8,048 members, down from 8,250 in 2012. District 6, which includes Manchester, Nashua and Bedford, has 1,724 members, down from 1,760 last year.
"We need another 200 recruits by early July to reach the membership level we had last year," said Hussey. "I think we have a good shot at it. Recruiting is working in places like Rochester, in Derry, in Pelham ... we lose members, mostly to death, but we are starting to get the Iraq veterans, the Afghanistan veterans. The numbers are close to staying even."
People interested in establishing a VFW post must gather the signatures of 35 combat veterans willing to become charter members. An application must then get approval from the VFW's governing board.
Once a post is opened, membership is open to men and women veterans who can document they served in a combat zone.
Morrison said his post has made an effort to spruce up its image.
"It used to look exactly like the dark, smoky room you might think a VFW canteen would look like," he said. "But a new coat of paint and cleaning the place up helps draw in some new faces."
Morrison has also tried to introduce new activities, including a motorcycle ride, while maintaining annual favorites such as Buddy Poppy sales around Memorial Day.
"I know when people think of the VFW, they think of the function hall, but that's just a way for a post to raise money," said Morrison. "The VFW is the people there, the programs they offer. It's talking to a stranger 34 years older than you are and realizing they went through the same things you did. And they're ready to listen.''
"Rochester hasn't had a canteen in over 30 years," said Hussey.
Hussey said many of the newer family-oriented activities the VFW is offering double as fundraisers. He said several VFW posts still run bingo games.
Others raise funds through ham and bean suppers. And two posts have started junior-girls units, in which daughters and their fathers work on patriotic activities such as ceremonies at the State Veterans Cemetery and visits to residents at the Veterans Home and VA Medical Centers in Manchester and White River Junction, Vt.


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Italian astronomers have detected a planet that survived the red giant expansion of its home star. The researchers say that the discovery could be a sneak peek at the fate that awaits the Earth, some four or five billion years from now.
The surviving planet was discovered by an international team of more than twenty astronomers, headed by Roberto Silvotti, researcher at the INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte.
In the last five years, there has been a veritable explosion (no pun intended) in the number of extra-solar planets we have discovered. But at an age of roughly 10 billion years, V 391 Pegasi b is by far the oldest, and the first to be seen orbiting a post-red-giant star.
The red giant phase of stellar evolution takes place when a sun-like star has exhausted all its hydrogen. The star then expands massively, swelling to a size that would easily engulf the inner planets in our solar system. The Earth is right on the limit of that expansion zone, and V 391 Pegasi b orbits its star slightly beyond that limit.
Silvotti explains: "As far as our planets are concerned, we expect Mercury and Venus to disappear in the sun's envelope, whereas Mars should survive. The fate of the Earth is less clear because its position is really at the limit. All this will happen in about five billion years, when the Earth will be more or less the same age as V 391 Pegasi b, i.e. ten billion years."
The team says the discovery was almost accidental. "While we were analysing the irregularities of V 391 Pegasi's luminosity variations with a method called timing method, we began to suspect that these irregularities might have been caused by a planet," Silvotti says.
After seven years of further observations, the team felt confident in discarding other possible interpretations of the data and saying that the star was orbited by a planet. Direct observation of an alien world is still some way off.
"Neither with the largest telescopes available today, nor with those available tomorrow," Silvotti confirms. "But the future generations of telescopes will definitely make such a thing possible."
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Skip to comments.Iranian Alert - September 18 - IRAN READYING FOR CONFLICT WITH US - New Intelligence Reports
Posted on 09/18/2005 9:36:10 AM PDT by DoctorZIn
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Iran Readying for Conflict With USAmir Taheri
Incredible though it may sound there are signs that Tehran may be preparing for a military confrontation with the United States, and has convinced itself that it could win.
The first sign came last June with the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of the Islamic Republic, an event that completed the conquest of all levers of power by the most radical elements of the establishment.
Since then the revolutionary factions have conducted a little publicized purge of the military, the security, the civil service, and state-owned corporations and media.
The most significant purges have affected the military high command.
Among those replaced are the defense minister, the commander-in-chief of the regular army and his four deputies, 11 senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and five commanders of the paramilitary Mobilization of the Dispossessed. Some of the purged officers have been parked in a mysterious new organ called The Defense Guidance Commission attached to the office of the Supreme Guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenehi.
The minister of intelligence and security and the minister of the interior, who controls the police and the gendarmerie, have also been replaced.
Another sign that Tehran may be preparing for war is the appointment of military officers to posts normally held by civilians, such as governors, mayors and directors of major public corporations.
But, perhaps, the surest sign yet is the military build up under way in the five provinces bordering Iraq. The region, with a population of 20 millions, has been put under the control of the IRGC which has also taken over units of the regular army, including the 88th Division, and the border police. Iran is estimated to have 250,000 troops in the area, its biggest military build-up since the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988.
One of the first acts of the new Cabinet led by Ahmadinejad was to approve an emergency fund of $700 million to be disbursed at the discretion of the supreme guide for sacred defense purposes.
The new administration has also decided to speed up defense disbursements under a five-year plan approved by Khamenehi last year. The plan aims at doubling the military budget by 2010. But it now seems that, thanks to rising oil revenues, most of the plan could be completed by 2008.
In the past few weeks top regime figures, including Khamenehi and Ahmadinejad, have made a series of unscheduled visits to Mashhad, Irans second largest city. One curious fact revealed during these visits is that a bunker-like structure to house the supreme guide is being completed close to the holy shrine of Reza, the eighth imam. The complex could also house the top echelon of government, including the president, the Cabinet and members of the Islamic Majlis (Parliament).
The choice of Mashhad is not accidental. The city is located 1,000 km from Tehran and thus as far as possible inside Iran from American fire power in Iraq and the Gulf. The US is also expected to shrink from attacks against the Mashhad bunker for fear of collateral damage to the holy shrine of the imam a few hundred yards away.
The summers comings-and-goings in Mashhad have provoked rumors that Khamenehi plans to appoint Abbas Vaez Tabasi, the mulla who runs the eighth imams foundation, as deputy supreme guide, just in case!
The belief that the Americans would not attack sites close to holy shrines has also led to the creation of a massive new military base at Fadak, a suburb of the holy city of Qom where the eighth imams sister is buried, south of Tehran. Work on the base that covers an area of 7.2 square km started in August.
Piecing together the bits of the jigsaw one may guess the outline of Tehrans scenario for what it believes is an inevitable clash with the US:
The diplomatic tussle over Irans nuclear plans goes to the Security Council that will fail to take a decision thanks to Russian and Chinese vetoes.
The US, after much huffing and puffing launches air strikes against Irans nuclear installations. (Tehran loves Israel to also participate because that would give the Islamic Republic a better claim to be fighting on behalf of Islam as a whole.)
Iran retaliates by ordering the forces it controls inside Iraq to attack American and British troops. At the same time the Lebanese branch of the Hezbollah launches massive rocket attacks against Israel while Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, whose leaders spent the past month in Tehran meeting Khamenehi and his aides, organize a wave of suicide operations against Israel from Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The US and its British allies, stationed in southern Iraq, launch a three-pronged attack, from Shalamcheh, Hamroun and Shatt Al-Arab to seize control of Khuzestan, the province that accounts for 70 percent of Irans oil production.
Iranian Special Forces attack Iraq from the Zaynalkosh salient, south of the Kurdish provinces, some 80 km from Baghdads first defenses in Baaqubah.
Hazara Shiites strikes against Kabul, the Afghan capital, from Maydanshahr while Pushtun warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the remnants of the Taleban, some of whom are under Iranian protection, attack across Afghanistan.
The Americans and their allies attack Khuzestan.
Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz.
The Americans attack the Iranian provinces of Kermanshahan and Kurdistan.
US-led forces attack across the Mandali-Ilam axis. The Iranians retreat to the Zagross mountain range, the first line of Irans natural defenses. (To fight along the Zagross the IRGC is building new bases at Khorramabad, Pessyan, Borujerd, Zagheh and Malayer in the province of Luristan. The bases would assure the logistics of a quarter of a million troops, and provide temporary shelter for half a million refugees from the border. These bases will complement older ones further west, at Sahneh and Kangavar. )
Oil prices top $100 and the global economy plunges into a crisis.
Americans launch cruise missiles against regime targets in Tehran. But the regime is already in Mashhad.
Global TV networks air images of indiscriminate carnage and wanton destruction in Iranian cities.
The Security Council meets in emergency and orders a cease-fire while the American media and Congress revolt against President George W Bush and his pre-emptive strategy.
Anti-Bush marches in Washington and dozens of other cities with Hollywood figures and other celebrities calling for Bush to be overthrown.
Bush accepts a UN-brokered cease-fire and withdraws his forces.
The Islamic Republic emerges victorious from what Ahmadinejad sees as a clash of civilizations.
The Americans leave Iraq and Afghanistan as Bush becomes a lame duck for the rest of his presidency.
The Islamic Republic gains new domestic legitimacy and proceeds to crush its opponents as enemies of the nation and of Islam.
Iran can speed up making its nuclear weapons and long-range missiles without being harassed by Washington.
Iran becomes the core power of a new Islamic pole in a multipolar system with China, the European Union and Latin America, Under the Bolivarist leadership of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez emerging as other poles.
Bushs successor acknowledges Irans new status and sends Bill Clinton, who apologized to Iran for our past misdeeds in 2000, to Tehran to offer another formal apology on behalf of Bushs successor and offer Ahmadinejad a grand bargain.
The Islamic Republic is now free to proceed to address what Khamenehi has described as its greatest historic task which is the destruction of Israel.
Sounds outlandish? Well, it is. The Islamic Republic is a fragile structure in a zone of political earthquakes. Logically, the last thing it should want is war. Nevertheless, former President Muhammad Khatami has warned that Tehran may be boxing itself into a position in which it will either have to surrender or fight.
And finally, Media Clips:
- Iranian blogger, Mehrangiz Kar, Rooz Online reported that in Iran these days there is talk of replacing detention and flogging as forms of punishment with something more human.
- Iranian blogger, Mehdrad Sheibani, Rooz Online reported that President Ahmadinejad surprisingly spoke of the grandeur of Iranians. Yes, these are the words of a president whose normal speeches at home repeat Islam or Islamic in every sentence he pronounces.
- SMCCDI (Information Service) reported that Iranian political activists gathered, yesterday afternoon, in front of the building which is hosting the Islamic Republic regime's Representation Office at the UN.
- Iranian blogger, Vahid Sabetian, Rooz Online reported that the new hardline government of Iran has tasked the new Minister of Justice to write the bill for defining political crimes in Iran.
- Kenneth R. Timmerman, NewsMax reported that former hostage from the U.S. embassy in Tehran, said: out of his 51 interrogations, Ahmadinejad personally had conducted one-third of them.
- BBC News reported that the UK government has described as "unhelpful" a speech by the Iranian president in which he asserted Iran's right to produce nuclear energy.
- Ynet News reported that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with South African President Thabo Mbeki and asked him to advance the referral of Irans nuclear program to discussion at the United Nations Security Council.
- Roger Kimball, The NY Sun reported on the Hitchens, Galloway clash ina debate on the Iraq War. Plus a video.
- CNN reported that Iran's president is absolutely "determined" to pursue a nuclear energy program and will "use every resource" it has to battle the United States and European nations trying to prevent it.
- Reuters reported that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the United Nations on Saturday to stand up to Iran.
- The Financial Times reported that Iran is seeking a compromise in its nuclear-fuel stand-off.
- The Washington Times reported cracks appeared in the U.S.-European diplomatic drive to curb Iran's nuclear weapons program, when Paris would not object to Mr. Ahmadinejad's suggestion that Iran share its nuclear energy technology with other Islamic countries.
- IranMania reported that Iran's President Ahmadinejad met with UN Chief Kofi Annan. a photo.
- Ken Timmerman's Speech outside of the UN.
- A video of the George Galloway and Christopher Hitchens debate on Iraq in New York.
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Memo to the mullahs: better lay in a large supply of Sharia-approved body bags.
The best thing that could happen is if Iran attacks us before they get the bomb. We're certainly not going to pre-empt them. But if they attack us, we'll have no choice but to take it to them.
Smallpox don't leave big holes in the ground, though.
> ... purge of the military ...
So what characterizes those purged, and their replacements?
The article doesn't say.
If this is a purge of legacy military for reasons of
religious zealotry, and replacement by religiously-correct
beard-brains in uniform, then it suggests a further
degrading of Iran's former military capabilities, rather
than preparations for a successful war.
The article also suggests that Iran is expecting direct
attacks on the nuke sites. My advocacy would be to
merely take down the power grids that run those sites.
This can be done with almost no collateral damage. We
can keep them down as long as necessary, and even expand
the outages to further instruct the mullahs.
We're Doomed!!!!
Just kidding.
Read through the story. All the key parts have the US doing the atacking except for the terrorists and the Iranian SF. The terrorists are attacking now. The Iranian SF, bit better trained terrorists. The 250,000 man army in the desert? Multiple targets for precission munitions.
My take on the story? PZZZZPPUT.
The problem with that, is you gotta feed them while you wait, and wait, and wait, and wait...
In the past few weeks top regime figures, including Khamenehi and Ahmadinejad, have made a series of unscheduled visits to Mashhad, Irans second largest city. One curious fact revealed during these visits is that a bunker-like structure to house the supreme guide is being completed close to the holy shrine of Reza, the eighth imam. The complex could also house the top echelon of government, including the president, the Cabinet and members of the Islamic Majlis (Parliament).
The choice of Mashhad is not accidental. The city is located 1,000 km from Tehran and thus as far as possible inside Iran from American fire power in Iraq and the Gulf. The US is also expected to shrink from attacks against the Mashhad bunker for fear of collateral damage to the holy shrine of the imam a few hundred yards away.
I think we can reach out and touch somebody there. They might be right about the mosk thing though. In fact, that's a given. We are too afraid of Media opinion to hit good hard targets like mosk bunkers.
double dare us
when we do something, bleed on us and scream a lot
hope leftists here dislike our enemies bleeding and screaming
attack our friends, who then bleed and scream
hope rightists here don't care about our friends bleeding and screaming
So clever. But actually, the left doesn't give a darn whether they bleed or scream. It just wants power. Any excuse for any charge will suffice. The weather, for instance. Great whopping lies, for instance. So who needs Iranian nutjobs?
You are correct, but a massive blast wave will clear the area so we can insert large oil sucking straws in the sand. Small pox would create a need to dig many smaller holes for the refuse.
I see Baghdad Bob is in Tehran now.
Oh no! Oh no! Not the raging volcanic eruption of rage from the Arab street again...
The last 19 predicted eruptions were little more than barely noticle farts.
If they continue or resume unacceptable behavior, do it again. At some point the penalty with exceed their reward, and the behaviors will cease.
Neither do neutron bombs - - they don't leave a lingering bio-hazard, they kill everything (including biological agents, but do leave infrastructure intact...
two words: plausible deniability.
Have I missed something in the U.S. papers or TV news?
I've read several accounts in foreign news sources of Condi and/or Pres. Bush and/or Blair walking out when Ahmadinejad spoke at the U.N.
That's not news? Has anyone here reported this?
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Brooker was a member of the UCSB cross country team and became a part of the track and field team for the 2011 season...She ran a personal best time of 4:32.02 in the 1,500m at the UCSD Triton Invite, placing second out of 65 runners...Brooker ran a season best time of 2:11.02 in the 800m at the Occidental Invite where she placed eighth...Finished 17th in the 5k at Conference with a season best time of 17:25.90.
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High School
Had a successful track career, winning the Pacific View League Championship three years in a row in the 800m...She qualified for the CIF-SS Masters Meet in 2008 and came away with a ninth-place finish...Two-time CIF Finalist in the 800m, finishing fourth on both occasions...Holds her high school's record and the Pacific View League record in the 800m...Also took the 1600m League Title in 2007...Was All-League in track all four years of her high school career...Earned All-League honors in cross country from 2004-2007.
Brooker was born in Columbus, Ohio...Is a lifelong member of the California Scholarship Federation...Her favorite band is Trapt.
Collegiate Career Bests
800m - 2:11.02 (Occidental Invitational, 5/7/2011)
1,500m - 4:32.02 (UCSD Triton Invite, 4/22/2011)
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Chief Joseph
Nez Percé Chieftain
Hinmaton-Yalaktit (Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt) (1840 - 21 September 1904) was leader of the Nez Perce; most commonly known as Chief Joseph, his Indian name means "Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain"
- Perhaps you think the Creator sent you here to dispose of us as you see fit. If I thought you were sent by the Creator, I might be induced to think you had a right to dispose of me. Do not misunderstand me, but understand fully with reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with as I choose. The one who has a right to dispose of it is the one who has created it. I claim a right to live on my land and accord you the privilege to return to yours.
- Speech rejecting the demands that he lead his people onto a reservation. (1876)
- In the treaty councils the commissioners have claimed that our country had been sold to the Government. Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses, and I want to buy them." I say to him, "No, my horses suit me, I will not sell them." Then he goes to my neighbor, and says to him: "Joseph has some good horses. I want to buy them, but he refuses to sell." My neighbor answers, "Pay me the money, and I will sell you Joseph's horses." The white man returns to me and says, "Joseph, I have bought your horses, and you must let me have them." If we sold our lands to the Government, this is the way they were bought.
- Arguing against the right of the US Government to force his people to leave their lands (1876)
- Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before, I have it in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our Chiefs are killed; Looking Glass is dead, Ta Hool Hool Shute is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are — perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my Chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the Sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
- Speech in surrendering to General Nelson Appleton Miles after long evading a pursuit nearly to the border of Canada. (October 5, 1877)
Lincoln Hall Speech (1879)Edit
- Washington DC (14 January 1879)
- Too many misinterpretations have been made; too many misunderstandings have come up between the white men and the Indians. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them the same laws. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect all rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. If you tie a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the Great White Chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.
- I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.
- When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.
- I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men. If an Indian breaks the law, punish him by the law. If a white man breaks the law, punish him also.
- Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.
- Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike — brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
Quotes about Chief JosephEdit
- Inspired by the teachings of Smohalla, Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé in Idaho rebelled in 1877. Before he was trapped only thirty miles short of refuge in Canada, he had consistently outwitted and outfought a superior United States Army... although he forbade his warriors to scalp or to torture, the Whites massacred his women and children. Finally, with most of his warriors dead, his people starving, freezing, and maimed, Chief Joseph walked toward the White generals, handed his rifle to them, and said: "I am tired of fighting ... My people ask me for food, and I have none to give. It is cold, and we have no blankets, no wood. My people are starving to death. Where is my little daughter? I do not know ... Hear me, my chiefs. I have fought; but from where the sun now stands, Joseph will fight no more forever."
- Peter Farb, Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)


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Woman killed in wreck that shut down 69/I-10 interchange
Update: The woman who drove through the median into oncoming traffic around 9:45 this morning succumbed to her wounds at an area hospital. She was identified as 22-year-old Emily Riu of Beaumont.
Previous reporting:
One woman was seriously injured in a wreck that has the Interstate 10/Highway 69 interchange shut off to traffic. According to officers, a woman traveling from Interstate 10 in the westbound lanes collided with a truck. The truck hit the barrier of the overpass on Highway 69 and did not receive any serious injuries.
The car driven by the woman passed through the grassy median between the east and westbound lanes and was struck on the drivers side by a truck traveling northbound. She was transported to the hospital in serious condition. The driver of the westbound truck also went to the hospitals, but his injuries were not thought to be life-threatening.
Both directions are currently shut down and the Beaumont Police Department is asking citizens in the area to take Washington Boulevard rather than the highway. Officers said they believe it will be a few more hours before all the debris is cleared and lanes are reopened.


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Website targets climate change in our state
A Jamestowner recently told me that he was glad we have experienced a bitterly cold winter because it finally put all of the global warming "foolishness" to rest.
Unfortunately, that's not the way it works. However, such reasoning is why the launch of the new website – RIClimateChange.org – is so important. The website is the joint efforts of scientists from the University of Rhode Island and several state agencies. The website is designed to educate us about the effect of climate change on Rhode Island and its residents. Called the R.I. Climate Change Collaborative, the group's website also informs people what they can do about global warming.
According to the website, "Climate change and global warming are here. This double-barreled phenomenon has and will continue to have impacts on your everyday life – some good, some bad, some unpredictable. But climate change and global warming have indeed arrived.
"Whether you are among those most likely to be affected – a climate scientist, environmentalist, public health worker, developer, insurance adjuster, ark builder or just your average man or woman on the street – you will be affected. In fact, you are realizing the impacts at this moment, never mind those your children will experience. But the process can sneak up on you. It's like gaining those first few ounces that turn into pounds. So let's be clear: this is not a call for future generations to be on the alert and see how these activities play out. Climate change and global warming are with us right now, and it is time for people to start learning about them and taking action. Temperatures are getting higher, storms are getting more severe in every season, and it is not your parents' environment anymore."
The website is attractive, well designed and easy to navigate. It is loaded with important information about the ongoing climate change, including events such as lectures and additional articles for further reading.
Visit RIClimateChange.org and learn about why our cold, cold winter doesn't mean that climate change is not happening.
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In exercise 69 of the Latin For Beginners textbook, question no. 3 has the following sentence:
Diana, lunae clarae pulchra dea, lata in silva habitat.
I can identify 'pulchra' and 'lata' as being emphatic, but I do not understand why 'lunae' is not emphatic.
According to the textbook, it says that 'Possessive pronouns and modifying genitives normally stand after their nouns. When placed before their nouns they are emphatic.'
'lunae' is in the genitive and is placed before its noun, which is 'dea'. So it should be emphatic. Can anybody tell me if I am right or not?


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Summerfest 2014: Nas Announced to Perform July 1st
Billed as the "World's Largest Music Festival," Milwaukee's Summerfest has announced their official 2014 lineup. The grand festival which spans over 11 days will take place at the 75 acre Henry Maier Festival grounds. The festival will run June 25 - 29 2014 and pick up again Jul 1 - 6 2014.
The diverse festival will cater to the needs of every music fan as it offers top performances from all genres of music, including pop music, contemporary country, punk, indie rock, indie pop, metal, soul, EDM, hip hop, and more. Nas was announced to perform at the festival, scheduled to take the stage July 1st.
Other artists announced to perform at the festival include Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Outkast, Ludacris and more. Tickets for the event are on sale now.


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Veterinarians: National Zoo panda cub is healthy
September 18, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Zoo's giant panda cub has been given a clean bill of health after its first veterinary exam.
Veterinarians performed a 20-minute examination Monday after panda mother Mei Xiang (may SHONG) gave them an opportunity. She put the female cub down and left the den for a short time to eat bamboo and drink water.
The cub, born Aug. 23, is already showing her coloration with black patches around her ears, eyes and back.
Curator Brandie Smith says it's amazing to see how much the cub has grown in less than a month. It now weighs slightly less than two pounds, more than double her weight from a short exam on Aug. 25.
From nose to tail, the cub is 10.6 inches long. Her eyes have not yet opened.


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Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and general manager Kenny Williams nearly got into a fight Tuesday, June 8, after an argument occurred, the Chicago Sun-Times' Joe Cowley reports. The White Sox drafted Guillen's son, OF Ozney Guillen, in the 22nd round, and Ozzie Guillen publicly said he'd give Ozney $50,000 just to go to college instead of sign with the team. Williams confronted Ozzie Guillen, and the situation became heated.
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Healthcare is being revolutionized by Big Data analytics, with the focus on improving patient outcomes and reducing costs. One of the most widespread data-driven innovations in the healthcare field is personalized medicine: giving patients and their care providers more case-specific information for making accurate diagnoses and effective treatment plans. Other healthcare initiatives that are driven by Big Data include digital patient records, integrating data from multiple clinical trials, genomic analysis, tracking disease outbreaks across global populations and improving patient engagement. Infochimps gives healthcare enterprises the ability to effectively manage and gain insights from their Big Data while reducing infrastructure complexity and cost.
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I am breastfeeding my 18 month old. At around 15 months my period came back and since then I am gaining so much weight. It cannot be simple because I am eating higher calories in comparison to milk production. True I am not producing that much milk as my son is nursing less than before but I know I am not eating that much to warrant this extraordinary weight gain.
Plus I am just not feeling fit and healthy. I have lost lean muscle, my workouts are suffering not able to perform, sprint, or so anything I used to do earlier well.
I was in much better shape during pregnancy and one year post partum than I am now.
I feel sluggish and bloated and my health is really suffering.
I am quite sure it is linked to hormones from extended breastfeeding. Now that my supply has dwindled I may be estrogen dominant and lacking in nutrients? Anyone experienced this?
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Merging models is a common need in model-based activities; its relevance is far from being limited to version control. However, merging models is much more complex than merging source code. EMF Diff/Merge provides a lightweight engine for comparing and merging models using IDs.
Its scope includes, among others:
- 2-way and 3-way comparison of arbitrary EMF models (or "instance models").
- Matching of model elements by ID, where an ID can be any "signature" that uniquely identifies the element within its scope: Ecore ID, XML ID, qualified name, location in model tree, etc.
- A simple GUI with reusable UI components.
The tool is intended to satisfy the following requirements:
- It must support the comparison and merge of large models (scalability, reliability).
- The consistency of the model being merged must be preserved by the tool whenever possible, by automatically merging interdependent differences together.
- The order in which differences are merged must have no impact.
The final goal is to obtain a mature, versatile software building block for multiple usages: version control, incremental model transformations, model refactoring, etc.
The EMF Diff/Merge project is part of EMF.
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kookaburra needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 150 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
A childcare centre which needs an image upgrade via a logo for business cards and basic design & colours for a future website. The old logo should be used as a base but with a contemporary look with colours suitable for a childcare business (not primary colours). Obviously a childcare theme, but not babyish - wanting a more contemporary look which will appeal to parents more than children. Area is an upmarket professional client base
Kookaburra Kindergarten Chatswood
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- needs to look like a kookaburra with a contemporary professional but friendly feel
- open on colours but deep pastels rather than primary colours preferred
- refer to old logo as a reference. See entry by igrin for the old logo
- kookaburra with and without holding child will be considered
- no primary colours or baby pictures or cartoons/drawings
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The North Carolina Medical Society Foundation (NCMSF) is the philanthropic arm of the North Carolina Medical Society. The mission of the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation is to improve access to quality health care for all North Carolinians. Our portfolio of programs demonstrates our commitment to this vision.
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A Media Guide to Volcanoes
As many of you know, I tend to get a little irate when it comes to poor reporting on volcanoes in the media. Now, we can place a lot of the blame of the fact that most people have not had much experience talking scientifically (or at all) about volcanic activity, so instead they try to cope as best as they can with some wildly inaccurate terminology, descriptions and interpretations. Well, those excuses can no longer exist, as I've decided to make a handy media guide to volcanoes. Just like a sports team will hand out a guide of their team, players, statistics and more to reporters covering the event, this will hopefully help media who are trying to tackle reporting on volcanism to not make those common errors that plague so much of it. Enjoy.
The basics:
1. This is a volcano
So is this.
So is this.
Take home message: not all volcanoes look the same, so substituting volcano A for volcano B in a news report is a big no-no.
2. This is a caldera
Most calderas are formed by collapse rather than explosion. The explosive part of a caldera-forming eruption releases vast volumes of volcanic material, which then leaves empty space in the ground which causes the caldera to form. This doesn't need to occur directly from an eruption — see Katmai 1912. So, remember caldera = collapse.
3. This is a crater (a feature on a volcano)
Craters are formed by explosions, they are excavated (unlike a caldera, see above).
Things that can be erupted from a volcano:
Lava (molten rock — when underground, it is called magma), ash (tiny fragments of volcanic glass), lithics (chunks of rock that happen to get incorporated into the eruption), tephra (fine and coarse volcanic material), pumice (volcanic material full of air bubbles that is light enough to float in water), scoria (volcanic material full of air bubbles that doesn't float), volcanic gases (mostly water vapor, significant carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, minor amounts of a lot of other stuff).
Things that aren't erupted from a volcano:
Smoke (formed by combustion — there is no combustion in a volcanic eruption; see below), magma (see above "lava"), marshmallow fluff.
Some useful things to know about volcanic eruptions and volcanoes:
- Lava moves slowly (walking speed) most of the time. If your reports say that something came "rushing down the mountain," it was likely either a pyroclastic flow (hot volcanic debris moving as an avalanche) or a lahar (volcanic mudflow).
- Lava is hot, but it isn't "boiling." The bubbles in lava are gases escaping due to changes in their solubility (ability to remain dissolved).
- Volcanic mudflows (lahars) aren't hot. Most eyewitness accounts report that they are cold (thanks to all the water), but they are full of volcanic debris from the eruption and whatever material they have picked up along the way.
- Volcanic plumes can be big. In fact, a volcano shooting ash "a mile into the sky" is actually pretty tiny. To even be considered a Plinian eruption, you need to be producing an ash plume that reaches at least 35-40 km or 21-25 miles up. So, does that mile-high (~5,280 foot/ 1.6 km) ash plume seem that impressive anymore?
- An "active" volcano doesn't necessarily mean it is erupting — if it is highly restless (earthquakes, etc.), then it can be considered active. If not, then the volcano is "dormant," meaning it hasn't erupted in years to thousands of years. An "extinct" volcano hasn't erupted in likely over a million years. Remember, most volcanoes spend much if their existence not erupting.
Top 10 things that must be true* based on what I read in the media (*hint: they aren't.):
I've added my corrections in italics.
- There are only 7 volcanoes on earth: Yellowstone, Kilauea, St. Helens, Etna, Vesuvius, Eyjafjallajokull and Santorini. If another volcano erupts, it is "new." There are literally thousands of active volcanoes worldwide, some of which are much more active than the "big 7." In fact, there are quite a few that have produced significant eruptions in the past 10,000 years.
- All every volcanologist does all day is try to figure out how to "predict" the next eruption. Predicting volcanoes is useful, but there are many other avenues of research that we pursue, such as rates of magma accumulation, the sources of magma in a volcano, how a pyroclastic flow disperses, the health hazards of volcanic smog and much, much more.
- Every volcanic eruption will produce a dramatic climatic shift that will doom us all. Very few eruptions ever produce a noticeable change in the global climate — and even ones that seem like they would often have only very small effects.
- Each new eruption is a sign that the volcano is ramping up to something dramatic, huge and unexpected. Volcanoes can do what they please and there are rarely patterns — beyond the very broad generalization that the longer between eruptions, the larger the eruption. However, that is misleading as there are countless examples of small eruptions from volcanoes that erupt infrequently.
- Volcano can only "spew" and "belch" for material. Also, adding "super" or "mega" in front of thing makes it better. What is with these bodily functions? How about "expel" or "spreads" or "hurls?" (Come on folks, break out the thesaurus sometime.) As for "supereruption" and "supervolcano," they are tired, somewhat meaningless hype words.
- Every blip of volcanic unrest (earthquakes, deformation, degassing) means a horrific eruption is in the works. Active volcanoes are restless, so earthquakes, deformation and all the works can be expected between eruptions and during times that lead to no eruption. Panicking every time a volcano makes a noise is like pulling the fire alarm if you see a pack of matches on the ground.
- If a volcano produced a giant eruption in its past, the current activity is definitely leading to something as big or bigger. Giant eruptions are the exception for volcanoes rather than the rule. You need a lot of accumulated, eruptible magma for a large eruption, and most research suggests that this is a tricky proposition. Yellowstone is an excellent example — sure, big eruptions, but also lots of little ones between the famous very large eruptions.
- The "Ring of Fire" is the only important volcanic feature on the planet. I don't know how many articles about volcanic eruptions I read that have somewhere in them a reference to the Ring of Fire, for example: "Indonesia straddles the "Pacific Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanos and fault lines around the Pacific Basin." The Ring of Fire is a bit of a contrivance, like "supervolcano." The Pacific is rimmed by subduction zones that have volcanoes, but there are plenty of volcanoes elsewhere. It isn't an important fact for us to hear every time.
- Volcanoes sit atop a pool of liquid rock. This is a model that has fallen by the wayside. Most magmatic systems are a mixture of magma, crystals and gases — and those proportions change. They aren't big empty vats that "fill" with magma before each eruption. Magma may intrude the "mush" under a volcano, but only at places like Kilauea is there a constant stream of almost entirely molten magma under the volcano.
- Only eruptions that cause death have an effect on people. Many stories list the last eruption that caused fatalities. However, refugees are a major issue when it comes to volcanic activity that may or may not cause deaths directly related to an eruption.
Just as geologists have to strive to be better communicators of their science to the public, the media needs to be better at accurately describing and reporting on the natural world. When in doubt, talk to a volcanologist/geologist!


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KEENE, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum called Friday for immediate cuts to Social Security benefits, risking the wrath of older voters and countless others who balk at changes to the entitlement program.
"We can't wait 10 years," even though "everybody wants to," Santorum told a crowd while campaigning in New Hampshire and looking to set himself apart from his Republican rivals four days before the New Hampshire primary.
Most of his opponents have advocated phasing in a reduction and say immediate cuts would be too big a shock to current and soon-to-be retirees.
Politicians typically suggest phase-in periods of up to a decade when broaching the topic of changing Social Security to avoid grievous consequences from angering older voters.
Clearly aware of the risks, Santorum argued that everyone must sacrifice now because the nation's "house is on fire" with soaring federal debt. He argued that he is being courageous and honest by telling Americans they can't afford to wait to rein in Social Security's growing costs. And he said he anticipated possible attack ads on his position.
He made a similar pitch last week in Fort Dodge, Iowa, when he was getting little attention in the GOP race — and before he came from the back of the pack to nearly win the Iowa caucuses.
At that event, Santorum said: "The Democratic National Committee is going to say, 'Ah, ... he's for changing benefits now.' Yes, I am. Yes, I am."
"We need to change benefits for everybody now," Santorum said at the time. "Is everybody going to take a little bit of a hit? No, but a lot of people will."
Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, says changes should include a higher eligibility age to qualify for Social Security benefits, and tighter restrictions on benefits for upper-income people. Americans now qualify for reduced Social Security benefits at age 62 and full benefits at 66, soon to rise to 67.
Social Security pays proportionately higher benefits to low-income people. But Santorum says wealthy retirees' proportionate benefits should be trimmed further. He did not offer details.
This week, he told New Hampshire audiences that Americans over 65 were society's poorest age group in 1937, when Social Security was created. Now that group is the wealthiest, he said.
He also noted that Americans now live much longer, putting far bigger demands on the government retirement program.
Santorum offers only modest details on how he would implement his proposed changes. He has not said how much money he hopes to save.
In a brief interview Friday as he plowed his way through a crowd after the Keene event, he was asked if the nation should make the changes now.
"I think we should, yeah," Santorum said. "Obviously we're going to have to go through a debate next year and figure out ways in which to make the revenues meet the expenditures."
He tells voters he would rule out higher taxes or more deficit spending to help the Social Security program. That leaves benefit cuts as the only way to match revenues and costs, he notes.
Santorum's call for immediate benefit cuts puts him at odds with his Republican rivals.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who came under fire for calling Social Security a "Ponzi Scheme," tried to recover in part by emphasizing that any changes in benefits would not affect current or soon-to-be retirees.
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas says younger workers should be able to opt out of Social Security taxes and retirement benefits. "My plan explicitly protects the elderly and the sick in the transition," he says.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has said in a statement, "We must keep the promises made to our current retirees: their Social Security and Medicare benefits should not be affected."
Like Santorum, Romney has called for increasing the eligibility age for Social Security and slowing benefits to high-income recipients. His aides have said the pace of change has yet to be decided, but soon-to-be beneficiaries would not be affected.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich calls for giving younger workers the option of diverting Social Security taxes to private retirement accounts. Some independent groups say his proposal, which is based on a Chilean program and does not anticipate automatic benefit cuts, is unduly optimistic.
President Barack Obama last year discussed possible reductions in Social Security benefits as part of a large debt-reduction deal with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. The talks collapsed, however.
The Romney and Gingrich campaigns had no immediate comment Friday on Santorum's proposals.
A House Republican budget-cutting plan, authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would exempt everyone now over 55 from proposed reductions in Social Security benefits.
Ryan and others have said a phased-in change would give Americans time to plan their retirements without surprises. But Santorum says those officials are seeking political cover by delaying their proposed changes.
"That's why you see Paul Ryan saying, 'Oh, I'm going to fix Social Security, I'm going to fix Medicare in 10 years,'" Santorum told a crowd Thursday in Northfield, N.H.
He said Ryan assumes, "well, if you're under 55, you won't be paying much attention, right? Well, the problem is, this is not a problem that we can wait 10 years to solve."
Max Richtman, president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, said in an interview that cuts in Social Security benefits are not justified under any timetable.
Santorum, he said, "is willing to change the rules in the middle of the game." He called Santorum's proposals "Ryan on steroids."


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In this role, Mr. Wilson provides expert advice to senior OCC executives on commercial credit markets and policy matters, formulates commercial credit supervisory guidance and examination procedures, and represents the OCC externally on commercial credit risk issues affecting the banking industry. Mr. Wilson serves as Chairperson of the National Commercial Credit Committee, which advises the National Risk Committee on commercial credit risks and trends in the U.S. banking system.
Previously, Mr. Wilson managed the Shared National Credit (SNC) Program, the agency's largest and most complex commercial credit examination activity. The annual examination is administered jointly with the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Mr. Wilson began his OCC career in 1979 assigned to the Oklahoma City Field Office and earned his National Bank Examiner commission in 1982. He served as a Problem Bank Analyst in the Southwestern District Office before working in the Fort Worth and Dallas Field Offices as an Examiner in Charge and credit lead for many community, midsize, and large banks. He has extensive experience supervising problem banks and evaluating commercial credit risk.
A native of Oklahoma, Mr. Wilson graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1978 with a BBA in Finance. He earned his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1998.


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Upcoming: Flute, whistle and other workshops at the Border Gaitherin' at Coldstream 1st- 3rd June 2012. Full details from the Border Gaitherin' web site.
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"Facilitating the safe use of radiation and radioactive materials
at the University of South Alabama"
The goal of University of South Alabama's Radiation Safety Department is to promote the safe and efficient use of radiation throughout the university system.
Objectives toward this goal include (but are not limited to):
1. Education of radiation safety to users of radiation (or any interested parties).
2. Quality control checks in all areas of radiation use.
3. Assure the USA System is in compliance with Federal & State regulations.
The National Council on Radiation Protection affirms that the goals of radiation protection are simply to: (1) prevent the occurrence of clinically-significant radiation-induced deterministic effects by adhering to dose limits that are below the apparent threshold levels; and (2) limit the risk of stochastic effects (e.g., cancers) in exposed persons to an amount that is acceptable in relation to the benefits to the individual and to society from the activities that generate such exposures.
The Radiation Safety Office has been a University-wide program since its inception in 1976 when the Alabama Department of Public Health issued a Broad Scope Medical License for Radioactive Materials to the University of South Alabama. In 1982 the Radiation Safety Office was separated from the Environmental Health & Safety Department and reestablished as a separate department under the auspices of a Radiation Safety Committee. The Committee is composed of members from the following areas:
College of Medicine • College of Arts and Sciences • Radiation Safety Office
Environmental Safety and Compliance • Hospital Administration
Radiation Oncology services
Medical Staff • Nursing Services • Department of Radiology
The Radiation Safety Committee was established to oversee all uses of radioactive material permitted by the University of South Alabama.
To oversee the use of licensed radioactive material, the Committee shall, with the help of the radiation safety officer:
1. Be responsible for monitoring the institutional program to maintain individual and collective doses as low as reasonably achievable;
2. Review, on the basis of safety and with regard to the regulatory training and experience standards, and approve or disapprove any individual who is to be listed as an authorized user, the Radiation Safety Officer, or Teletherapy Physicist before submitting a license application or request for amendment or renewal;
3. Review on the basis of safety and approve or disapprove each proposed method of use of radioactive material;
4. Review on the basis of safety, and approve with the advice and consent of the Radiation Safety Officer and the management representative, or disapprove procedures and radiation safety program changes prior to submittal to the Agency for licensing action;
5. Review quarterly, with the assistance of the Radiation Safety Officer, occupational radiation exposure records of all personnel working with radioactive material;
6. Review quarterly, with the assistance of the Radiation Safety Officer, all incidents involving radioactive material with respect to cause and subsequent actions taken;
7. Review annually, with the assistance of the Radiation Safety Officer, the radioactive material program; and
8. Establish a table of investigational and action levels for occupational dose that, when exceeded, will initiate investigations and/or considerations of action by the Radiation Safety Officer.
This department currently manages the University-wide Radiation Safety Program that involves a Broad Medical Radioactive Materials License, eleven x-ray registrations and a particle accelerator registration; all issued by the Alabama Department of Public Health. We work with about thirty different departments that have between fifty and sixty active permit holders who utilize radiation.
Subpermit Holder Personal Data Form
Permit Holder Personal Data Form
Application for the Non-Human Use of Radionuclides
Application for the Non-Human Use of Irradiation
Application for the Human Use of Radionuclides-Standard Diagnostic and Therapeutic
University of South Alabama Radiation Safety Procedures Manual [PDF]
Regulations for Control of Radiation in Alabama
US Food & Drug Administration; Radiation Emitting Products
Answers to Questions about Radiation and You
Director: David A. Wiik, M.S.
The director is responsible to the Dean of the College of Medicine for operation of the department and to the Radiation Safety Committee for the University-wide radiation safety program. The director serves as the University Radiation Safety Officer (RSO). He serves on various committees at both hospitals & the main campus, conducts radiation safety training to users of radiation, reviews new user applications for presentation to the committee and oversees the radioactive materials license & machine registrations. He practices other health physics duties as they present themselves.
Assistant Radiation Safety Officer: Michelle Taylor, B.S., R.T., R.N.
The Assistant Radiation Safety Officer is responsible to the RSO for overseeing day-to-day RST activities of the department such as described below. Additionally, she officially interacts with the Agency by letter and telephone, performs the RAM shipping, and teaches the technical aspects of radiation safety to users of unsealed sources.
Radiation Safety Technologist (RST): Laura LaFontaine, R.T.
The Radiation Safety Technologist is responsible to the Radiation Safety Officer for maintaining the records associated with the personnel exposure monitoring, collection and disposal of radionuclide waste, lab surveys, lab inspections, hood surveys, instrument calibrations, electron microscope surveys, radionuclide distributions, waste container labeling and distributions, thyroid bioassays, radionuclide shipping container wipe tests and surveys.
Contact information
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Radiation Safety Office
5795 USA Drive North, CSAB Room 257
Mobile, Alabama 36688
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An unlikely consortium of cranberry growers, eastern Oregon cattle ranchers, environmentalists and county commissioners are lined up to oppose a land exchange that would enable Michael Keiser, developer of the internationally acclaimed Bandon Dunes golf resort, to build another championship course along the southern Oregon coast.
The state parks commission will vote Nov. 20 whether to approve a swap involving Keiser's corporation, Bandon Biota LLC, state park land, cash and a 6,100-acre ranch in Grant County, far to the east.
Staff with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department have recommended the commission approve the trade. To do so, the commission must agree the deal provides an "overwhelming public benefit" to the parks system that is "resounding, clear and obvious."
Critics say it's anything but.
In written testimony, the Grant County Stockgrowers President Jack Johns said the ranch land in his county is nothing more than "a puzzle piece in a big money business deal for Michael Keiser's personal gain."
Under the proposal, Bandon Biota would receive 280 non-oceanfront acres of the 878-acre Bandon State Natural Area. On that land, Keiser would build his sixth course, Bandon Links, a walking-only course — no motorized carts allowed — that the company describes as a championship, links style, affordable municipal layout. The other Bandon Dunes courses, developed over the past 15 years, are considered among the finest public courses in the world. They're also expensive, with greens fees ranging up to $295 in the peak summer season.
In return for the state land, Bandon Biota would trade 111 acres adjacent to the natural area and 98 acres next to Bullards Beach State Park, provide $450,000 as a matching grant to protect Whale Cove, $300,000 to control gorse plants on state parks land and trail easements to two other beach areas.
It is the final element of the trade that has stirred up the most opposition. Bandon Biota would provide $2.5 million to help the state parks department buy the Grouse Mountain Ranch in Grant County, a 6,100-acre spread with rangeland and about 1,000 acres of Ponderosa pine forest.
The Grant County commissioners are harshly critical of the proposal, saying it would establish a "horrible precedent" to rural Oregon counties that are on the brink of financial insolvency. The exchange would reduce the county tax base and add more government-owned land in a county where public ownership already approaches 70 percent. The deal also would reduce the amount of grazing land available to local ranchers, the commissioners said.
In response, the parks department said it will continue hay production on Grouse Mountain Ranch and allow some commercial timber harvest. County services associated with the new park land will be "compensated," according to the parks department's staff report.
Back on the coast, opponents worry that continued golf course development will impact farming by reducing the "critical mass" of agricultural operations, especially cranberry bogs.
"How many golf courses do we need?" grower Jeff Haga asked. "It is creating some jobs, but there's got to be other things that create jobs other than a bunch of golf courses."
Cameron La Follette, land use director for the Oregon Coastal Alliance, said concerns over land use, water rights and farming infrastructure have unified opponents.
"This exchange is bringing together people who (usually) don't talk to each other," she said, "because Keiser wants to change the face of rural Coos County."
A Bandon Dunes representative did not return a phone call seeking comment. In a May interview with golfchannel.com, however, Keiser is described as saying the new Bandon Links course would be a "philanthropic" offering to the community. The course would create 80 jobs, provide affordable greens fees and establish a junior caddy program, according to the online article.
Keiser is quoted as saying, "I see it as a $15 million gift to Coos and Curry County golfers and juniors who don't even know they miss golf."
Parks department spokesman Chris Havel said the commission's upcoming decision is extremely difficult.
The land-use group 1000 Friends of Oregon said that's because the exchange doesn't meet the required legal standard of a resounding, clear and obvious public benefit.
"If you must agonize over the decision or there is even serious debate, it's not 'obvious' and it does not pass the legal test," 1000 Friends staff attorney Steve McCoy wrote to the parks commission. "The 'overwhelming public benefit' is simply not there."