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Oh where to begin. Seriously.
This past weekend was spent frolicking with the fabulously fantastic Fillmore's at the Fillmore Family Reunion (blog post to follow in the near future). Try saying that 3 times fast. I had to work today (Monday) and so a very beautiful, gracious and anonymous donor offered to help pay for a plane ticket so I could be back before I turned into a pumpkin. I was super grateful that I was able to spend the time that I did have with Mitchell's side of the family. So it was slightly sad when everyone was enjoying themselves Sunday evening and I had to be a party pooper and leave. (I was already feeling pretty stressed about going to work the next day. I have a lot of responsibility at this new job and Monday meant the first day that I would be flying solo …. no trainer … no nothin'… on my own.)
Mitchell dropped me off at the airport … I boarded the plane and before we knew it … the sky had become filled with swirling dark grey cotton candy. So we sat in the plane forEVER. Finally we took off. This is where the fun begins …….
1. A very friendly crazy lady sat down next to me. She had been stuck in airports all day with her 6 month old. By the time she got to our flight she had pretty much forgotten how to even hold her baby. The poor thing was seriously just dangling, pinned between her knees and the seats in front of us. I didn't want the poor thing to die, so I offered to hold the cute little bugger. Well, the mom ended up falling asleep and I was left to entertain a 6 month old. Much harder than it looks. Props to all you mothers who dare fly with babies. Soooooo that meant no nap for me.
2. Earlier at the airport gate, I caught a guy staring at me. Thought nothing of it. As I took my seat on the plane … I noticed that he was sitting diagonal to me. I was still okay with that. But then the staring continued. And intensified. I would catch him staring at me and then he would give me this "come hither" look. I don't know where that guy learned how to talk with his eyes that way … but it freaked me out. Seriously. Barf. At some point I caught him trying to mouth a couple words to me … I am horrible at lip reading…. thankfully. At one point the nice crazy lady woke up and went to the bathroom … she was the only barrier between me and him. As soon as she left he made his move. He leaned across the aisle trying to get my attention. I flashed my wedding ring casually while scratching my face and totally snubbed him big time. Most uncomfortable flight on the planet.
3. I get off the plane. Take a shuttle to the Park N' Jet. Drive home. Drag my stuff up the stairs to our door. Shove my key in the door and turn …. nothing. After trying about 50 bajillion different deadbolt/door lock twist combinations and calling Mitchell, I ended up going over to the neighbors house (by this time it was midnight). They tried with no such luck. Said sorry and then shut their door. The straw that broke the camel's back for sure. Exhausted. Cranky. Bed-less. Stressed … and an orphan.
this is what an exhausted, bed-less, cranky and stressed orphan looks like. boy am I glad I carry my camera everywhere so I can document joyous occasions such as this.
I thought up the possible game plans …
A) sleep in the ole' minivan and go to work the next morning stinky while adorned in dirty clothes.
B) try and find a super cheap motel room that doesn't smell like a thrift store.
C) homeless shelter or build my own shelter
D) drive the hour and wake up the entire Hicken household and sleep in my old room.
I chose D. Finally got to bed around 1. Had to get up early. Woke up. Felt like I had been trampled by a herd of wild buffalo. Put on some of my mom's clean clothes. Got a blessing from my dad. Drove to work. Had a fabulous day. Didn't yawn once. Moral of this bedtime story … priesthood blessings are real and amazing. Thanks dad.


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(Q) Are these replicas actual size?
(A) Since the molds are made from actual battlefield recoveries, they are the same size as the original projectile.
(Q) What are the replicas made of?
(A) The replicas are made of # 1 casting plaster (tinted with black pigment), hand-painted, and strengthened by immersion in an acetone/super glue solution and sealed with polyurethane.
(Q) How much do they weigh?
(A) At about 1/5th actual weight, they are easily handled and affordably shipped.
(Q) How about shipping?
(A) Shipping rates per replica vary depending upon the destination and the size and number of pieces being shipped. It is advisable to email or call me so I can quote an accurate shipping cost.
(Q) Can I get them without the plaques?
(A) Unless otherwise specified they will be shipped mounted permanently to the wood-grained plaque. Unmounted replicas are also available. The price is the same.
(Q) How can I make payment?
(A) Personal checks, company checks, or USPS (Postal) money orders are the only forms of payment which I can accept at this time.
(Q) Will they break if they are dropped?
(A) Elementary schoolteachers and heavyweight jugglers have asked this question. Yes, if dropped on a hard surface, these replicas might break. But they won't kill everyone in the room.
(Q) Do you want to make a mold of my shell?
(A) If you have an example of a Civil War artillery projectile, land mine, or hand grenade that is not on the catalog page of this website, and you are willing to lend it (for about two weeks), you can receive free replicas for giving me the opportunity to expand my inventory. References are available upon request.

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center government permanent job for graduate Post of Field Publicity Assistant in Field Publicity Assistant-Nagaland & Manipur Kohima 2017
Applications, as per format given on website www.dfp.nic.in/kohima, are invited from eligible candidates for filling up one post of Field Publicity Assistant under Regional Office, Directorate of Field Publicity, Nagaland & Manipur Region under unreserved category in the pay scale (Pre revised Scale 5200-20200, GP- 2800) Pay Matrix Level-5 (as per 7th pay commission).
1. Nature of Work
a. To assist Field Publicity Officer of Directorate of Field Publicity in organizing publicity programmes for Government of India in rural and semi-urban areas.
b. To liaison with village level functionaries for organizing publicity programmes in villages.
c. Maintenance of office records & AV equipment and preparation of reports on programme activities.
2. Essential Qualification
a. The applicant should possess a minimum qualification of Graduation from recognized University.
b. He/She should be familiar with operation of Audio/Visual Equipment/Public Address System etc. (please attach certificate as documentary proof of training/experience).
c. Ability to speak in Regional Languages.
3. Desirable
a. Background of social work in rural areas and experience in media related works
b. Possession of valid light Motor Vehicle License issued by Govt. Transport Authority.
c. Familiarity with computer operation and ability to work on photo/video editing software
d. Excellent communication skills.
4. Age Group a. The age of candidate should not be less than 20 years and not more than 35 years as on 30.07.2017. Relaxation for Government servants upto 5 years and for SC/ST/OBC in accordance with the Notification/orders/circulars issued by the Central Government.
5. Physical Fitness a. The applicant should be physically fit to carry out Field Publicity Programmes in rural areas.
6. Probation Period: a. 2 (Two years)
7. Other Instructions
a. Application form along with duly attested copies of qualification certificates including 10th or matriculation and 12th or Higher Secondary marksheets should reach the office of the undersigned on or before 15 days of advertisement in Employment News.
b. One self addressed envelope duly stamped should be sent along with application form.
c. Eligible candidates shall have to appear for Interview/ test at their own cost. No remuneration shall be paid by office for this purpose.
d. Candidates will have to present original documents at the time of Interview/test. Without original documents, candidates shall not be allowed to appear in the Interview/test.
(MangjangamTouthang) Regional Head/Joint Director Kohima
Format for Application
To ,
The Joint Director (N&M)
Directorate of Field Publicity
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Regional Office, Officers' Hill
1. Name of the Post : Field Publicity Assistant
2. Name of the candidate :
3. Gender :
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Good food,
good friends,
and unconditional love,
are the keys to true
Sorry for the absence of sketches.
I just got back down to Savannah and finished unpacking,
and I've still got some stuff to get straightened out here,
so it may be a few more days till I can get something uploaded.
I apologize.
I'll start up sketch requests for September soon.
I hope you can forgive the lateness.
Thanks for your understanding, and thanks for reading!
Love you all,
and goodnight!
Emily J Sampson
Thursday, September 2, 2010
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From my journals, not edited:
I've started to write this several times, without much success. Partly, I am very tired, tired of traveling, tired of packing and unpacking. I hesitate to say that they had it right 100 years ago. Traveling more slowly, with enormous trunks of clothes, was it easier? But 100 years ago, I would not be traveling - it was limited to a stratum of society to which I would not have belonged. Sometimes I wonder whether I would have ever fit into society. It is romantic to think not, but I suspect most women were sufficiently socialized to accept the roles that were available to them.
Vienna was larger in many ways than either Krakow or even Budapest. The buildings felt larger, the characters felt larger, the life being lived was louder and larger. Krakow was very touristy, but in Vienna there was a glimpse of life being lived. Yet, of course, Americans, when they think at all, think of Austria being dead. And in ways it was - the glory was in the past. It was not clear that a young and vibrant community was building anything.
[Which brings up a side-thought - are there young and vibrant communities building things anywhere? Or am I an old fart who does not see the accomplishments of youth? Is anyone building a city the way Vienna was built? Or do you have to be a Hapsburg? Do most youth of any point in time indulge themselves, and see themselves as the tortured and misunderstood geniuses of their city?]
The concert, as was true of the concert in Warsaw, was saccharine. I did not share this view with anyone but Ann. But the Mozart and Strauss they played could have been supermarket music. The group was accomplished, the dancing and singing diverting. But the choice was to appeal to a base denominator of taste.
I enjoyed the House of Music more. This is a museum of sound, and was quite different from anything else I saw or did so far on this trip. The third floor was the science of sound, some about hearing, some about production, they even explained Fourier transforms. The fourth floor was a museum of the greats, starting with Haydn, but Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and then Strauss, Mahler and lesser lights.
I learned some about the history of these men (they were mostly schmucks, each in their own schmucky way, and nothing was said about women, except as wives and mistresses, and nothing about anyone who was not a white protestant male). This in turn raises the ongoing discussion about the life of the artist vs. the art that they create.
I have always preferred to not know the life. I'd also rather not know the name. Should the art be appreciated for itself? Yes, I believe in the purest form. But within even the context of that purity, there is room for more, defensibly arguing for the setting, the history, the story behind. In one simple, outside the art argument - one can find what one loves better with such guideposts. While not being prejudiced in advance, one has the potential to discover new and different and grow beyond the old. But there is so much, that having the guideposts helps. Could guideposts be on content? (say piano rather than electric guitar) Could one remove the cult of the person ?
The more powerful defense is that context enriches the art. That understanding the influences, the teachers, even the patrons clarifies what the artist was trying to accomplish. The change in Haydn's music from the time in the employ of the Esterhazy's to the London symphonies is a reflection of who was footing the bill and their tastes. Knowing what was going on when Haydn started composing, what each of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert heard, makes the novelty, the genius of their work stand more starkly forth. Finally, knowing that all of the guys started out relatively poor (except maybe Mozart) and worked their way to fame and greatness is not just inspiring to musicians but to all of us.
Yet, at what point does knowing context tip over into the cult of the person? This happens all the time in science. Why should it matter what beer Einstein drank? Or where Francis Crick summered? Does where Marie Curie lived matter? One could argue yes, to understand what she gave up to devote herself to science. But Einstein's beer? This cult is more obvious in artists, especially today's pop artists. It was true of Mozart and Haydn, and others. Does it matter if the artist is dead or alive? Alive they have a chance to earn a living as an artist, always a precarious proposition.
But me, my experience, what did learning about Haydn's parrot (who could allegedly say "Papa Haydn") and seeing his handwriting, and the houses where he lived matter to my perception? I learned more of the "why" behind his invention of the string quartet (those were the players available to him when he started writing). And of course, I appreciated the long work, hard work to get where he was. I cannot answer for now. No answer popped out.
As we drive through the countryside, there are huge windfarms. 100s and 100s of modern windmills with red and white striped (for Austria?) tips. I understand how the folks on Martha's Vinyard, etc object to the offshore farms, but I think they are wrong. We live with wires and buildings and all sorts of structural detritus of human existence, and windfarms are just one more. But one that might make a difference in the long run.
More on the Jews of Austria later.


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Welcome to the MG Car Club Tyne Tees Centre
Tyne-Tees Centre supports all MG Car Club members across Northumberland, Durham, Teesside, East Cleveland, the Tees Valley and parts of North Yorkshire.
The Centre won the prestigious Nuffield Gold Cup in 1983 and 2009.
We provide a comprehensive and wide-ranging programme of events throughout the year, some with a sporting theme, catering for all MGs from 1924 to the current models. The Calendar of Events and details of upcoming events can be found by clicking on the Future Events tab on the top left of this page. Tyne-Tees members are regularly out and about in MG cars from 1933 -2018!
In 2018 we will hold two monthly Natters or Club Meets, in the north and south of our area, to which all are very welcome. Details of what's happening can be found by clicking on the Natter Information tab on the top left of this page.
This Centre has a very active Committee whose aim is to enable you to get the very best enjoyment from our events, and of course, driving your MG car!
Our four major road runs, Cobweb Run, Prince Bishops & St. Cuthbert's Run, Old Speckled Hen Run and Autumn Leaves Run, are very popular and attract entries from far and wide. We run Production Car Autotests, and mount highly attractive car displays at events such as the Croft Nostalgia Weekend.
You are guaranteed a warm welcome at all of our Events and Natters….we are the Marque of Friendship!
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Get your suit ready for downhill and cross country action! Fort Duffield Derby 2012 is going to be held on May 12-13th, details inside.
More information >> Visit Red House Bikes
More information >> Visit KY Point Series
More Pictures >> Duffield Derby 2012 Gallery
Pictures from the 2012 DH event below:
Junior Podium
Intro Podium
Sport Podium
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The Kansas City Chiefs won 10 of the 11 games they played without star running back Jamaal Charles in 2015, with younger backs Charcandrick West and Spencer Ware rushing for a combined 1,037 yards in 11 starts (4.5 yards per carry).
Considering that we have proof the Chiefs can be very successful without Charles and that he is 29 years old with a less-than-ideal injury history, it's fair to wonder if he's worth his $5.8 million salary.
Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk is thinking not.
"The conversation is, 'Why does Kansas City keep Jamaal Charles when you saw Spencer Ware and Charcandrick West? For what reason?'" Faulk said recently, per the Kansas City Star. "I can't even see what reason they would continue to pay (him) if they have a way of getting up from under that contract and dispersing money elsewhere to fill some of the gaps that they have. And that's just real talk — that's the business of the game."
"I love Jamaal, and I think he could find another home," he added. "I think there's a lot left in him. But looking at what went on when he went down in Kansas City, are his days possibly numbered there?"
The Chiefs are projected to have nearly $33 million in salary cap space, but they have a ton of defensive free agents to take care of. Pro Football Focus rated Justin Houston as the team's best defender in 2015, but the next six guys listed are all slated to hit free agency. Tamba Hali and Derrick Johnson aren't spring chickens, but they're still key contributors and leaders, and Eric Berry, Jaye Howard and Sean Smith will be expensive.
If the Chiefs risk losing any of those guys due to cap constraints, they should strongly consider saving themselves $5.3 million by waving goodbye to an aging, injury-prone and replaceable player at a devalued position.


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How to Manage the Explosion of IoT Data
The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved quite rapidly, especially if you consider how long it took for little packet-switching networks like ARPANET to morph into today's nearly ubiquitous internet. Our nascent IoT ecosystem is already populated by billions of sensors and connected devices, hundreds of millions of servers, and thousands of hybrid clouds serving billions of people... all of them perpetually producing and/or consuming data in an explosion of information.
This evolution has given rise to entirely new user interfaces influenced by models geared to augment reality and create frictionless human experiences with devices and applications. We now have an expectation of interactive immediacy with technology that is rapidly becoming second nature and represents a big, generational paradigm shift. What we think of as a computer is changing, as is the way we engage our technology.
Consider your laptop or smartphone and all the many applications you use both personally and professionally, along with the many sites and services and sensors that power those applications. Then think of a similar set of apps for a business unit, then a company, then a conglomerate. Add to those all the connected technologies that seem to have grown commonplace overnight:
- GPS trackers for cars and commercial fleet management
- LiDAR-dependent vehicle safety and traffic management systems
- Energy usage monitoring systems and air quality sensors measuring on a room-by-room or city-by-city basis
- Smart outlets that enable remote appliance or equipment control
- Connected HVAC systems, security systems, and appliances that don't require smart outlets to permit remote user control
- Drones deployed by hobbyists, businesses, news organizations, governments, and armies
- Inexpensive speakers equipped with natural-language processing engines and reimagined as digital personal assistants (Amazon Echo, Google Home)
- Smart routers and gateways increasing geared to take on management of other connected or smart devices and services.
The list could run on through hundreds if not thousands of use cases. All of these devices and sensors and applications and their various modes of connectivity surround us - with more coming online every day - collectively creating astronomical volumes of data. IDC estimates that by 2020, the data we create and copy annually will reach 44 zettabytes or 44 trillion gigabytes.
This crush of computing things facilitates our augmented capabilities and new user experiences because the technology that makes them possible (machine learning and advanced analytics and all that now broadly falls under the "AI" banner) requires massive amounts of data to work properly.
Therein lies the problem. The explosion of "things" makes understanding what needs to connect to what challenging. As noted in Forrester's 2016 Internet of Things Heat Map, "Because of the enormous range of sensors, customer scenarios, and business cases, the technologies for IoT sensor devices, radios, network protocols, software protocols, and data formats are very diverse. There is nothing like the market norms and industry standards of data center, PC, or mobile device technology." Bandwidth is also a concern. Cisco estimates that global machine-to-machine connections alone will grow to 12.2 billion by 2020 and that global M2M IP traffic will grow six-fold over this same period. Managing that enormous flow of data - wrangling, cleaning, culling, transporting, storing, exchanging, integrating - is tremendously complicated and expensive in terms of both time and money.
Until now, IoT implementations have relied almost exclusively on the cloud and large data centers for compute power, bound by bandwidth availability. But that ephemeral model just can't continue to hold up under the data-deluged weight of our new reality. What to do?
The solution for information technology architectures is the same as it is for architecting physical buildings of might and scale: We must distribute the structural load.
In the case of IoT, the new blueprint involves shifting a great deal of computation to the "edge" - out to the local gateways and devices themselves (as opposed to having to transport everything to the cloud). Edge microservices and tiny AI engines can now handle application logic, event processing, and integration duties reliably in real time at the router level (often even at the sensor level), then transmit only essential details to the cloud. This is a better fit for emerging IoT use cases. For example, if an autonomous car has to react in a second, its software can't take three seconds to start up. Aside from reducing latency and enabling real-time responsiveness in devices, edge-based microservices also reduce bandwidth blockage and overall expense because fewer, coarser data packets need to travel to and from the cloud. That expense reduction is impressive: Researcher and Wikibon cofounder David Floyer ran an analysis that showed the costs to be about 1/3 of a cloud-only approach. And security implementation also incurs edge benefits. As Paul Stevens of mission-critical telecom hardware firm Advantech, explained in Senza Fili Consulting's 2017 Power at the Edge Report, virtual functions can now be run either on devices that are at the edge of the network or up in the cloud. "The security gateway function... is evolving, especially with densification," he said, "We're finding that it's better adapted to aggregation points at the edge, which secure data as it hits the network instead of placing gateways in the core." InterDigital's Debashish Purkayastha echoed this logic in the same report, "As personal data traverses the internet, it is vulnerable to being stolen. With edge computing, we can process data at the edge, so we can keep [sensitive] data in a local context. We don't let it go outside the local context, into the internet."
The cloud is still an essential tool, but with this edge-computing shift, a new model emerges where constant cloud connectivity is not essential. Most data will be digested at or near its point of origin. Things that require real-time response (as in an autonomous vehicle approaching a red light) will be handled on-site in the moment (in that individual car). Things that require global distribution on an intermittent basis (as with system updates and upgrades to an entire line of autonomous vehicles) can be optimized, managed, and dispersed via the cloud. The cloud's role then becomes synergistic as opposed to directive: Its economy of scale can be directed to build and refine machine learning models on massive data sets, thereby further augmenting intelligence, which can further be acted on at the edge.
This expansion of compute capability at the source of interface with the physical world represents a natural next-step toward IoT maturity, and delivers a strategy for best utilizing our technology in an increasingly data-driven world.
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|Five years ago the boy vanished without a trace. Today he came back. Five years after he disappeared, young Daniel Linwood returned to his suburban home for dinner as though he'd never left. It's a blessing for both his family and their community. And I've snagged the exclusive interview. But it turns out Daniel is just one of a string of abducted children who have mysteriously returned to their families with no memory of their lost years. Some people want me to leave it be. Some want me to simply let the healing process begin. But these wounds are deeper than anyone realizes. To get the story on these bizarre kidnappings, I need the help of the one woman who owes me nothing. I've got to find answers before another life is snatched away from sight and time and memory. But doing so means we could be the next ones to go.
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Found only in Genesis 21:16 in the account of Hagar and her child: "And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot," literally "stretchings of a bow," a typical oriental way of indicating distance.
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In a democracy, voters — not politicians — should determine their government. But in Ohio both parties have engaged in gerrymandering, the unfair practice of drawing district lines to favor themselves over opponents. Out of public sight, politicians cherry-pick their voters instead of voters picking their politicians.
So the Fair Districts = Fair Elections campaign has generated a ballot initiative against congressional gerrymandering in Ohio. However, Ohio's General Assembly leadership says it doesn't want to give up control of the current closed-door congressional redistricting. And yet four of the seven members of Fair District's proposed Redistricting Commission would come from the Assembly: two from the majority, two from the minority. In addition, the affirmative vote of four members of the commission, including at least two from the minority party in the legislature, will be required.
So in contrast to the unfair, undemocratic redistricting process supported by current legislative leadership, in Fair Districts' proposal, the General Assembly does in fact retain significant control, but only as the negotiated result of an open bipartisan process, not a secret partisan one.
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By KOTC Staff
Nick Heynen is scheduled to make his King of the Cage debut at the promotion's upcoming "Hypersonic" event in Calgary, Alberta; the only problem is the undefeated lightweight is without an opponent. Although the Lloydminster fighter is understandably disappointed that his original foe Mike Hodgson had to withdraw, Heynen is continuing to train hard for the June 26th card.
"It's business as usual," Heynen said. "I'm not changing anything. I wasn't really putting together too much of a game plan for this guy (Hodgson); as far as what he's able to do I really felt as though I could beat him anywhere that I wanted to take the fight. So, like I said, I'll continue to train, continue to prepare to fight and hopefully they find me something."
Heynen arrives in KOTC having gone 3-0 since he turned professional in 2010, with all three victories come way of TKO or submission. After training for several years before he decided to take a fight, the 27 year-old-fighter's pro career is off to a good start.
"I've been training off and on for about the last four years or so," said Heynen. "I worked on the drilling rigs for a long time, so I'd be out of town, so you could never train then you know? For about two thirds of the year I was out of town."
"I was 26, going on 27 at the time, and a job opportunity came up where I could be home at some point during the day," Heynen added, while discussing what was behind his decision to turn pro in December, 2010. "So now I'm at home at some point every day in Lloydminster so I can train. I decided it was kind of now or never so I made it happen."
Before relocating to Lloydminster for work, Heynen honed his fighting abilities at the Canuckles facility in Calgary, home of Canadian MMA pioneer Max Marin. More recently, Heynen has been training out of Lloydminster's MMA United gym, under the watchful eye of trainers like Jason Sagal and Travis Quesnel.
"I would say I'm well rounded," Heynen said when asked to evaluate his skills. "I'm pretty confident fighting no matter where it goes. When I started learning MMA I didn't just learn jiu-jitsu or wrestling. I went into a MMA club and started learning everything."
"As far as what needs the most work I'd probably say my Muay Thai and jiu-jitsu," Heynen conceded. "My wrestling and hands are probably stronger than my kicks and jiu-jitsu, but I like to work on everything."
Although Heynen's managed to score three wins since he turned pro approximately seven months ago, he's not overly optimistic that he can make MMA a full time job in the short term.
"If I could get the sponsorship to do it I would," said Heyen. "It's tough in Canada; there's not really a lot of money behind it up here. Where I'm at, everybody work's in the oil patch for long hours, then train after. I'd like to do it full time; it would be much more beneficial obviously, but I'll have to get some more big name fights in before the big sponsors start coming forward."
Upon hearing what kind of schedule Heynen is forced to keep in order to prepare for a fight, there should be few questions about the lightweight's dedication to the sport.
"There's days where I only get maybe three hours of sleep because of work and training," Heynen revealed. "Some days I'll be able to train then go in and work all night, come home, want to train but then get called out to another job. It's tough."
"Hypersonic" will be hosted by Calgary's Deerfoot Inn and Casino, and will see Jordan McKay face Jayson Peck in the main event.


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Win again, however, is precisely what Logano did, notching his third straight Sprint Cup Series victory and sixth overall this season. Logano has been the hottest driver on the circuit in 2014 and 2015; notching 11 Sprint Cup wins over the past two seasons — most among all drivers in NASCAR's top series. This latest win at the notorious Super Speedway earned Logano a rare sweep of the Sprint Cup Series Eliminator Round, giving him powerful momentum as he moves on to face off against seven other drivers vying for the title of 2015 Sprint Cup Champion.
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Park Ji-sung urges South Korea to prove 2002 was no fluke
The knockout stages of the World Cup get under way tomorrow with Park Ji-sung, the South Korea captain, challenging the team to show that their epic run to the semi-finals in 2002 was not a fluke.sports Updated: Jun 26, 2010 11:34 IST
The knockout stages of the World Cup get under way tomorrow with Park Ji-sung, the South Korea captain, challenging the team to show that their epic run to the semi-finals in 2002 was not a fluke.
This is the first time Korea have qualified from the group stages outside co-hosting the tournament, and they will play Uruguay in Port Elizabeth for the right to become the first side into the quarter-finals. Park was part of the side that eliminated Spain and Italy before losing to Germany in the semi-finals eight years ago and he believes the current team may be even better.
"The biggest change is experience," he said. "In 2002 we already had some players playing in foreign leagues but this time around we have a lot of players whohave either played in European leagues or are currently playing there and that in itselfhas been a great help forus."
Park was named man of the match in the 2-0 defeat of Greece as well as the 2-2 draw against Nigeria that sealed their qualification from Group B and he said he had received a good-luck message from Manchester United's manager, Sir Alex Ferguson.
"We ourselves don't have a clear conviction of how far we can go but in 2002 we made it to the semi-finals and I don't think that was just because it was on home ground," the 29-year-old said.
"We will do our best to prove that was not the case. I can't compare this team to the 2002 team that was the best team in our history but this 2010 team is improving and we have got through the first round of games. At the end of the World Cup we will be able to compare the previous team with this one and hopefully then we can say we are better."
Uruguay, however, are ranked 16th in Fifa's world rankings, 31 places abovethe Koreans, and have not conceded a goal in their opening three games while scoring four. After winning Group A and helping to eliminate both France and the hosts South Africa, the South Americans are entitled to be regarded as the favourites to reach a quarter-final against the USA or Ghana.
The draw has been kind although the Uruguayan coach, Oscar Tabrez, said today that his team could not be regarded as potential champions. "We still think that is out of our reach but we have our hopes and our dreams," he said.
Tabrez was only three when his nation last won the tournament, their second, in Brazil in 1950. "To talk about that team is to talk about people who are right up there in heaven. We hold them in extraordinary esteem.
"I don't know what would happen if we were to achieve what that team did. In 1950 and throughout my childhood I heard talk about those champions. We are going to continue to try doing our best and let history be."
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The home of Moose Jaw's new hyperbaric chamber was unveiled Friday morning.
Less than a year after the provincial government reversed course and decided that the oxygen therapy machine could remain in Moose Jaw, government officials including Premier Brad Wall, and Five Hills Health Region (FHHR) staff gave a tour of the new addition to the Wigmore hospital.
"We've been huge advocates for (the chamber) right back to 1997," said Moose Jaw Fire Fighters Association President Gord Hewitt. He helped lead the charge of lobbyists trying to keep the hyperbaric chamber as a health care option in Moose Jaw.
The Fire Fighters Association has contributed funds to the operation of the hyperbaric chamber since the first one was set up in the Moose Jaw Union Hospital.
Hewitt said they believe firmly in the hyperbaric's life-saving abilities. "We've seen the benefit of it..you remember (last year) a 15-year old boy from rural Saskatchewan (Arcola) had his life saved by it."
Premier Wall acknowledged the government's initial decision in 2013 to not include the chamber in the new hospital was "a mistake".
"Credit to the fire fighters in this community, credit to the (Health) Foundation, credit to the (Moose Jaw MLAs) Greg Lawrence and Warren Michelson, credit to the patients who came forward and said 'here's how I benefitted from this', who worked hard to tell us we should revisit the decision."
Wall added he was "grateful to the (Moose Jaw Health Foundation) to help with the capital costs. We're going to cover the operating costs, and it's a great example of a community coming together."
The Moose Jaw Health Foundation (MJHF) launched their fall campaign last September, with a goal of raising $2.3 million cover costs of a number of pieces of medical equipment, including the hyperbaric chamber. The money will also cover construction costs associated with building an addition on to the Wigmore hospital, which was almost finished at the time and opened in October.
The total cost of the hyperbaric chamber, construction and all, is "about $840-thousand" said MJHF Executive Director Kelly McElree. She added the new hyperbaric machine cost about $200,000.
Dr. George Miller said the chamber is "a resource for the province that was lacking before".
The Moose Jaw physician is one of two local doctors trained in hyperbaric medicine and said the machine can be used to treat burns and carbon monoxide poisoning.
"Extra oxygen works in a variety of different ways," Miller said. "This actually stimulates stem cells and we can actually get ingrowths of tissue by putting oxygen across the area. It can also treat infection."
The new hyperbaric chamber has been fully tested, and will begin operation on Monday, March 7.


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Artwork Wednesday: The Birthplace of McGee and McGrew
With the Jim Robb's Yukon exhibition coming to a close on August 23rd, this week's Artwork Wednesday will feature his piece entitled The Birthplace of McGee and McGrew currently on display in the gallery.
A popular Northern poem as told by the bard of the Yukon, Robert W. Service, here Jim creates a mystifying composition illustrating the house where the iconic poems The Shooting of Dan McGew and The Cremation of Sam McGee were conceived. Before his literary career, Service was an employee of the Imperial Bank of Canada and in 1904 he was transferred to the Whitehorse branch. Legend has it, that during a walk one Saturday night, Service overheard the lively sounds of the town's nightlife drifting from a saloon. Inspired by the cacophony coming from the bars crowd, the verse "a bunch of the boys were whooping it up" was brought to mind. Instantly inspired, he immediately head to the bank to write down the line. In Jim's piece, the artist depicts the silhouette of Service sitting in the bank window burning the midnight oil completing The Shooting of Dan McGrew.
A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon;
The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune;
Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,
And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.
It was only a short while later that Service heard a story from a Dawson miner about fellow who cremated his companion after a long cold journey. Once again inspired by the fantasy of the North, Service was taken by the tale and embarked on a walk through the forest where he composed The Cremation of Sam McGee. These poems along with a small selection of others all inspired by the Yukon were published in Service's book of poems titled Songs of a Sourdough in 1907.
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Sam McGee's cabin
This photo shows the cabin of Sam McGee where it was orginally located on Elliot Street between Third and Fourth Aveune in Whitehorse. Today, the cabin is maintained and held on the MacBride Museum site. While Service describes Sam McGee as a prospector from Tennessee, this is merely a testement to the elaborate imagination of the poet. The real Sam McGee was in fact a buisness man, who operated lodgings at Canyon Creek, orginally from Ontario and arrived in the Yukon in 1898. Service ultized the rhyming properties of McGee's name, and excersiced his poetic license in re-creating the Dawson miner's story.
Service's cabin in Dawson City
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Read The Shooting of Dan McGrew here, and The Cremation of Sam McGee here. Also, to learn more about Robert W. Service's career and life in the Yukon visit here.


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This is an new website feature where teachers can share information with students and parents related to their individual classrooms. The Classroom Reminder page also has an option for teachers to add links to school resources and homework section where assignments can be posted. Please inquire about how you can set up your Classroom Reminder page to best suit the needs of your school.


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One of the many joys of freelancing is being able to work from any suitable remote location, obviously dependant upon your type of work. This means that you can completing your invoices from you laptop in bed while still in your pyjamas, writing articles from your favourite coffee shop, or you can be responding to your emails while enjoying the sunshine from your balcony. While this is fantastic, the majority of freelance work is done from a computer, and it is important to have a tailor prepared workstation for you to claim as productive space. Here are some things worth considering when you are setting up your workstation.
Freelancing often feels like a dream come true - you can be working in a field that is interesting and engaging to you from a desirable location on a schedule that you planned yourself, but it's not an easy way to earn an income. There are lots of bumps in the road between you and your pay check, but a lot of these are easily solved or avoided.
Keeping clients is a key factor to ensuring a decent and fairly consistent flow of money into your account, and if you manage to maintain a good working relationship, it is very common for clients to keep requesting your work and services. As a freelancer, you are able to pick and choose your clients and associates to build up a professional circle of people you like to work with and who you trust, but keeping these relationships can often be hard work, especially with so much on the line from your side of the deal. Here are some good practices to make habit to ensure that they keep coming back for more.
Particularly for those who are paid by the project or paid by the page, it is important to be able to work quickly as a freelancer in order to make the most profit out of the time that you dedicate to a cause. While quality is important and helps establish your reputation, quantity is what will pay the bills. Here are a few tricks to help you boost your productivity and to work faster.
In a standard employment, contracts are signed at the start of a working agreement and, generally speaking, your boss takes care of all of the details after that. You tend to receive a pay check which has your tax and national insurance and any other legal fees (depending upon your country of residence or employment) deducted from your earnings, and any miscalculations are found out when the government does its annual review of taxes or when you do your yearly tax returns and any mistakes are reimbursed, one way or another.
Are you looking to move away from conventional office hours to arrange your own schedules, following a career that you are passionate about? If you have any of the following skills, perhaps it is time for you to start looking at freelancing work, as the market is demanding more freelancers in these particular fields.
So you have purchased all of the equipment that you require to work your new job with professional ease, and you are mentally rearing to get started on your new freelance project. You have set up an online portfolio, maybe even a website or some social networking profiles linked to your new freelance work, but there is one thing missing between you and achieving your goal - the work itself. Unlike most jobs with conventional hours worked in an office, freelance work doesn't just come to you, and it doesn't grow on trees, and so you have to really proactively go out and search for it.
Depending very much upon your business and your profession, but if you are somebody who works from home, or somebody who is in charge of their own schedule, there will always be times when work is the last thing you want to focus on. One of the key factors to having a successful business is to stay motivated, and in some cases, a lack of motivation can have serious consequences on your monthly income. Sometimes we even start looking for distractions that we can use as an excuse to get out of progressing further, and we always hate ourselves later for wasting the time in retrospect, especially when we are forced to catch up during a time when we should be enjoying some time off. Here are a few tips for creating and maintaining motivation, that can also help you to manage your time.
Freelancing is becoming more and more popular in almost every industry sector. Companies are seeing benefits by charging per project instead of hiring people on the traditional 9-5 daily grind, but as a newbie to the world of freelancing, there are many traps you can fall into that can have very negative effects on your pay, your sanity, your reputation and in fact on your social life, which is probably one of the reasons you decided to move away working standard hours. Here are a few things to look out for when you are starting out to help you establish yourself well economically and professionally.


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Thank you to everyone who came to hear Ben Anderson talk about programming at his library. We had a huge turnout and learned some great ideas for teen programming as well as working with library adminstration.
Our informal discussion: standing room only!
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EXTRAORDINAIRE, Paris, France, January 1, 1641 with the date at the top in Roman numerals but then also dated at the bottom of the back page: "1 Janvier, 1641".
* Earliest of newspapers to be had
This "extraordinary" issue was done for a singular purpose, as defines most "extraordinaries" produced since then. The headings at the top of the front page roughly translate to: "1. The state of affairs in Turkey. 2. And that of the city of Liege"
This issue published simultaneously along with the "Gazette" of Paris, the very first regular newspaper published in France which started 10 years previous in 1631 by Théophraste Renaudot but with influential backing by the powerful Cardinal de Richelieu.
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Nutrition is the key to maintaining a long and healthy life. Eating healthy and nutritious food will help reduce the risk of: Heart disease Stroke Bone loss Some forms of cancer Anemia High blood pressure High cholesterol Diabetes Here are a few Common Sense Food Rules. And watch this video to learn about Clean […]
March is National Nutrition MonthFebruary 29, 2016 by Kathleen Wolfe
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Easy Online Prescription RefillsFebruary 24, 2016 by Kathleen Wolfe
Did you know that refilling your prescription is as easy as 1-2-3?! Just go to our website millerspharmacy.com Click on Refill Prescriptions (you will be directed here) Choose whether your prescription is Retail or patient-specific Compounded, and type in the RX number You can refill up to 6 prescriptions at a time. And you can […]
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The Importance of Pharmacist CounselingFebruary 19, 2016 by Kathleen Wolfe
It's the little things that matter the most in Pharmacy. At Millers Pharmacy, David Miller, R.PH, requires all his pharmacists to actively counsel patients about their medications, a practice started by his Father, Richard Miller in the 1960's. The Pharmacist will make certain that the patient knows how and when to take a medication […]
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Has Anxiety Got You by the Throat?February 15, 2016 by Kathleen Wolfe
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Did You Know: February is Heart Health MonthFebruary 9, 2016 by Kathleen Wolfe
This February, Celebrate (and Improve!) Heart Health 6 Heart Health Tips From a Top Cardiologist As you go about your day, you probably don't think much about the organ that makes it all possible: your heart. It pumps for you all day long, and it's your hardest working muscle. You can help keep it […]
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Did You Know: SaltFebruary 5, 2016 by Kathleen Wolfe
Salt is not just salt! Salt is an essential part of all human and animal life. Our body uses salt to maintain some of its essential functions. For example, salt is used to uptake certain nutrients from our intestines. Salt also helps to maintain fluid in our blood cells and to relay information in our […]
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New Weakerthans Track
Download: Weakerthans - "Night Windows"
The Weakerthans were the band that moved me from punk rock to indie rock way way back in '98 via the Propaghandi connection. First loves are always important, so I was excited to see that they are touring a bit again this summer, including a date at the Triple Rock on September 25.
And now, here is a lovely mp3 that they let leak!
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These lovely trees in my front yard
Are not all that they seem.
Their autumn spree may light the eye;
Delighting as they gleam,
But do not climb their branches,
Or loaf beneath the leaves.
Do not relax against their bark
Or slumber, taking ZZees.
I've been below their reaching roots.
I've seen where they do dwell.
If you insist I will you show,
But can't I simply tell?
The snake was in my basement dear.
And striking through my pipes.
It came out full of stinking roots.
The plumber too said "Yipes!"
"How did your toilet ever flow?"
Said he, and did he pity us!
Those lovely trees in my front yard,
Are what you call, insidious!


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Following the Board of Trustees meeting this weekend, Chairman Charles "Bud" Koch announced more than $6 million in new leadership gifts from five trustees. While individual donors have chosen to remain anonymous, the impact of their collective philanthropy on student, faculty and programmatic support will be evident on campus for generations to come.
"Like so many of our alumni and friends, our trustees are inspired every day by the outstanding students and faculty at Case Western Reserve," says Koch. "These trustees' generosity is a shining example to others of the value of supporting an institution that improves people's lives through excellence in education and research."
These gifts build upon the fundraising success at Case Western Reserve University that has been growing since Barbara R. Snyder's investiture as president in 2007. In fiscal year 2008-09, the university received $108 million in total fundraising, the second-highest year in its history.
These gifts also follow major trustee gift announcements in Fiscal Year 2008-2009, including $3 million from outgoing board chairman Frank N. Linsalata and his wife, Jocelyne; $5 million from incoming board chairman Bud Koch and his wife, Katie; and $7.5 million from trustee Chuck Fowler and his wife, Char.
"I often say that our Trustees know us best," President Barbara R. Snyder said. "When these leaders invest in Case Western Reserve, they send a powerful message to the broader community about the progress we are making. I am grateful to every one of them for their support."
Posted by: Amy Raufman February 22, 2010 04:37 PM | Category: Faculty Support , Individuals , Priorities , Program Enhancement and Community Outreach , Schools , Source , Student Investment , University Wide


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Has anyone else read, or have listened to the Royal Spyness series by Rhys Bowen.
I listen to them on audible while I am scrapbooking it keeps me entertained and keeps me from going CRAZY staring at the screen.
I highly recommend this series, they are witty and clever without being explicit or vulgar.
The series is set in the 1930s in the UK and Georgiana "Georgie" is a minor royal who gets caught up in mysteries.


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Diesel announced that Norwegian designer Andreas Melbostad will succeed Sophia Kokosalaki as creative director of its premium Diesel Black Gold line.
Melbostad, who previously worked with Nicole Farhi, Phi, Guy Laroche, Yves Saint Laurent and Calvin Klein, will make his Black Gold debut when the brand shares its pre-fall collection in December.
Kokosalaki left her post at Diesel Black Gold after the brands spring summer 2013 show in New York in September.


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Small excerpt
He watched her eyes turn a color deeper than blood and he could see the impression of her fangs pressing against her upper lip waiting to descend. Her hand came to her mouth trying to cover what she knew he was seeing. Her eyes met his, as he saw her struggle. He understood she couldn't control their descent any longer.
"It's at moments like this that I despise what I am. If you went running from me now, I couldn't blame you. But I swear I'll never hurt you."
He touched her face, she was still beautiful and he believed nothing could sway his feelings for her.
"Do you see me running? No babe, not me, you saved my life and now it's time for payback baby. I've never wanted any woman as I want you."
He bent his head to hers and touched her lips kissing her letting his tongue find what he knew she feared. He didn't move her from him as he let his tongue trace the small eye teeth which were now sharp and larger than before.
God damn it she had fangs, shit, and they seemed sharp. He slowly broke away from her and she immediately turned her face from him. He needed to see what she had told him, what she was so afraid to show him. So he took his large hand and put it under her chin lifting her face up to his and her crimson eyes, with their large black pupils now stared at him. She had pools of tears in them, breaking his heart. He saw her lush lips just barely covering her eye teeth which now were small sharp fangs and he couldn't explain the rush of desire which washed over him.
Christ, she was a vampire. In his fifteen years on the NYPD he'd thought he'd seen it all including sights which may not have been meant for the human eye to see. He felt like the guy who had been abducted by aliens and sexually assaulted, no one believed him, except others who'd had the same experience. This was no doubt real, she was real, and he didn't give a fuck what she was, he wanted her now more than ever.
Blurb:With her comes the Night
Rath Williams is a New York City Police Department Detective, one of New York's finest warriors. His job is his life and unfortunately it's left him little else. One night, he comes face to face with mortality, but he beats death.
Out of the dark, out of the night, a beautiful stranger appears saving the fallen police officer's life. A brutal attack left him and his partner for dead. If not for her, he would have died, should have died.
Melinda Taylor is a vampire. Her bite and exchange of blood saved the handsome police officer. In the process, she fell in love with him, but never figured on acting on her emotions.Being the warrior always, once back on the job he sets out to find what had killed his partner and nearly took his life. He'd been searching for five years when he she walks out of the shadows and into his life, changing it forever. He never figured on love. He'll learn that what he thought of as reality wasn't even close to the truth.
This is my personal favorite...........this can be a series..........
With her comes the Night....is centered around a female vampire. She's not some horrible monster but a very old species. Her kind and others like her walk amont us every day, some humans can detect there is something different about them and others haven't a clue. We don't smell them, especially the shape shifters, their scents are strong and they've learned to cover them over well.
Sometimes we have trouble waking in the morning, some of us blackout from drinking too much and some sleep walk?I could go on and on telling you the moments we lose or do we?
Enter a world......and it's just the tip of the iceberg......they're out there among us and With her comes the Night introduces you to another world. One that was thought of as lost and forgotten.
Thank you...........


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In 1983 he co-founded Cloppert, Portman & Sauter, and then added current partner, Mark Foley, in 1984 to form Cloppert, Portman, Sauter, Latanick & Foley in 1985, where he continued practicing in the areas of of workers' compensation and personal injury.
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President Obama last month moved the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline to the bottom of his agenda. This week House Republicans took action to move it back to the top.
The pipeline project, which would connect the tar sands of Canada to oil refineries in Texas, has stirred controversy in some host states, mainly over environmental concerns. Mr. Obama was to decide this month whether to approve it, but the timetable was pushed back a year – after the 2012 election, some note – to study a possible new pipeline route.
Now Republicans on Capitol Hill are trying to make the pipeline a card to play in their negotiations with Mr. Obama and Democrats over tax policy.
For weeks, Congress has been gridlocked over what to do about expiring tax cuts. Lawmakers have proposed and counterproposed bills that will retain workers' payroll tax "holiday" for another year, as well as extend unemployment benefits. But the two parties remain far apart on how to do that without adding billions of dollars to the federal deficit.
Democrats appeared to be winning the public-relations war, though Republican leaders have insisted they do not want to let the tax holiday – worth about $1,000 to the average family – expire on Dec. 31. If Congress doesn't act, the employee payroll tax jumps back to 6.2 percent, up from a 4.2 percent this year.
But Republican leaders are stymied, because of strong disagreement within GOP ranks on how to proceed on this issue. Many rank-and-file conservatives see the current payroll tax cut as not actually a cut, because it requires the US Treasury to make up what taxpayers do not pay in to the main funding stream for Social Security, adding to federal deficits. Fractious GOP caucus meetings had failed to find common ground.
But Thursday's move to include approval of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline drew cheers from GOP lawmakers and is rallying conservative support, if only because the pipeline puts Republicans on the side of fighting for jobs, not just protecting millionaires from tax hikes.
For weeks, Obama and Democratic leaders have hammered Republicans for refusing to allow a surtax on millionaires and billionaires to pay for these popular measures. It was a matter of simple fairness, they said.
Polls showed that voters shared that view, likely to be Exhibit A in Democrats' 2012 campaign to hold the Senate and take back the House. And GOP leaders took note. In a switch, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R) of Kentucky last week told his caucus that extending payroll tax cuts was crucial to GOP prospects in 2012.
Many rank-and-file Republicans still don't buy it. But the prospect of a fight with the White House over the oil pipeline is giving House Republicans a new rallying point. Cheers erupted during a private meeting of the House GOP caucus Thursday morning as Speaker John Boehner, adding the pipeline to the GOP plan, called on Republicans to "take the fight" to the president.
"The Keystone pipeline project will create tens of thousands of jobs immediately," said Mr. Boehner afterward.
"It's pretty clear that the president has decided to push this decision off for a year, conveniently until after his next election," he added. "Well, the American people can't wait, as the president said."
In a briefing on Thursday, Obama characterized the speaker's move as just "wanting to dicker," to see "what they can extract from us in order to get this done."
"However many jobs might be generated by a Keystone pipeline, they're going to be a lot fewer than the jobs that are created by extending the payroll tax cut and extending unemployment insurance," Obama added.
The House GOP bill, released Friday, also includes a measure to block a 27 percent cut in payments to doctors who serve Medicare patients, set to begin on Jan. 1. Republicans propose a two-year "doc fix." And it would block new federal regulations to limit toxic emissions from industrial boilers – another measure aimed to win support from conservatives and Democrats from coal states.
The plan continues a GOP assault on the president's signature health-care reform, defunding an $8 billion prevention and public health fund. It also extends tax breaks for business investment and $16.5 billion in block grants to the states to help needy families, including new limits to prevent accessing welfare funds in strip clubs, liquor stores, or casinos.
The House bill is expected on the floor for votes next week.
The Senate, meanwhile, is stuck in neutral. On Thursday the Democratic plan and the Republican plan each fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance a payroll tax bill to the floor.


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1966: Kerry Shawn Keys served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in India in Devarakonda beginning in 1966
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Kerry Shawn Keys can be contacted at kerrykeysayahoodcom
Country of Service: India
Training Group: Vershire Vermont
Cities you served in: Devarakonda
Arrival Year: 1966
Departure Year: 1968
Work Description:
Applied Nutrition kitchen gardens
Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:
Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:
Were wonderful
Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:
anyone in my group
Originally posted: April 5, 2008
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