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Jean-Luc Ribaldi (Top! en Francais)
Christina Fry (Top! auf Deutsch)
Diana Perez (Top! En Español)
Double Exposure for Channel 4, 1997-8 (10 episodes in each language, 30 in all)
Three series in Channel 4's schools' programming block teaching French, German and Spanish through a game show format, and conducted entirely in the particular tongue. The two teams were each made up of a native speaker and a British learner, and games included a quiz about France / Germany / Spain, a conveyor belt memory game (as per The Generation Game), matching photos to their captions, and various physical games involving following instructions in the foreign tongue, one of which was usually a copy-the-chef cookery challenge.
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This task force was charged with examining how CSUDH manages our pre- and post-award processes. They looked at best practices nationally in terms of policy, organizational structure, staffing, and funding. The task force then recommended steps to enhance CSUDH's effectiveness and efficiency, stimulate additional faculty interest and outcomes in securing external grants and contracts, and generate additional, sustainable revenue increases.
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My Daughter, Geum Sa-wol () is a 2015 South Korean television series starring Baek Jin-hee, Park Se-young, Jeon In-hwa, Yoon Hyun-min, and Do Sang-woo. It aired on MBC on Saturdays and Sundays 21:45 for 51 episodes from September 5, 2015 until February 28, 2016. Although the drama enjoyed high viewership ratings, with the finale earning national viewership of 33.6%, critics described the drama as "absurdly unrealistic".

Plot
Sa-wol, Hye-sang and Oh-wol grow up in the same orphanage as best friends. On the day the orphanage collapses, Hye-sang finds out that Sa-wol is to be adopted by her wealthy biological father instead of her after a DNA test that reveals the mixed up between them. Eager to be raised in the upper class society, Hye-sang traps the orphanage director, who is also her true father, in the collapsing building with Oh-wol to hide the truth. However, when Sa-wol ended up being brought into the family as well, Hye-sang starts tormenting, blame shifting and burying the truth, to make herself the better daughter. As the story goes, her web of lies gets bigger and bigger and becomes harder to control.

Cast
Baek Jin-hee as Geum Sa-wol
Kal So-won as young Sa-wol
Park Se-young as Oh Hye-sang
Lee Na-yoon as young Hye-sang
Yoon Hyun-min as Kang Chan-bin
Jeon Jin-seo as young Chan-bin
Jeon In-hwa as Shin Deuk-ye
Do Sang-woo as Joo Se-hoon
Go Woo-rim as child Se-hoon
Goo Seung-hyun as young Se-hoon
Ahn Nae-sang as Joo Ki-hwang
Song Ha-yoon as Lee Hong-do/Joo Oh-wol
Son Chang-min as Kang Man-hoo
Park Sang-won as Oh Min-ho
Do Ji-won as Han Ji-hye
Kim Hee-jung as Choi Ma-ri
Park Won-sook as So Kook-ja
Lee Yeon-doo as Kang Dal-rae
Kwak Ji-hye as child Dal-rae
Kim Go-eun as young Dal-rae
Kang Rae-yeon as Kang Jjil-rae
Kim So-eun as child Jjil-rae
Park Soo-bin as young Jjil-rae
Choi Dae-chul as Im Shi-ro
Jung Yoon-seok as young Shi-ro
Kim Bo-yoon as young Kang Dal-rae
Yoon Bok-in as Yoo Kwon-soon
Kim Ji-young as Im Mi-rang
Lee Tae-woo as Im Woo-rang
Lee Jung-gil as Shin Ji-sang
Oh Mi-yeon as Kim Hye-soon (Cameo)
Kim Ho-jin as Geum Hyung-sik (Cameo)
Kim Ji-ho as Kim Ji-young (Cameo)
Yoo Jae-suk as himself (Cameo)
Lee Dong-ha as Hye-sang's lawyer in charge

Ratings

Note: episode 41 wasn't aired on Saturday January 23 due to broadcast of the football Asian Olympic qualification match between South Korea and Jordan. This episode was aired on Sunday January 24, 2016.

Awards and nominations

References

2015 South Korean television series debuts
2016 South Korean television series endings
MBC TV television dramas
Korean-language television shows
South Korean melodrama television series
Television shows written by Kim Soon-ok

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Let me explain something about this whole "house obsession" thing before I show you this really rockin' house that I found. [Don't roll your eyes!] I've always looked for houses. Even when I was a kid, I looked for houses. I am that person who would go to open houses just to see what they look like inside…you know…if I didn't have two kids and a husband who refuses to go with me.
A house for sale is like a possible and alternate reality and I can't help but imagine what breakfast would be like in each of these houses that I find. So, roll your eyes if you must, but I'm going to keep looking for houses and I'll probably keep posting them on here.
Check out the original light fixture.
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I totally understand the looking at houses sickness, I really love to look at them as well.
That house is beautiful! But I totally agree with you on the wallpaper and carpet issues.
I'm a housey, too, and without the interested husband. He HATES looking at houses but I can go to open houses and models and Parade of Homes every weekend.


CONVOCATION 26 February 2017: Stop making war!
Women in Black continue denouncing in 2017 all militarism and wars because they do not guarantee just and sustainable human development. We do not believe in armed struggle because it perpetuates the law of the most powerful.
We are living through a process of collective failure at the moment of resolving conflicts: new threats and emergencies — a worldwide refugee crisis, increase of social militarization, the barbarity of terrorism and its policy of instilling fear, all of which extend and provoke polarization and very dangerous demagogic politics.
There is war in Syria, a situation that seems to have no end after 6 years of combat that has produced thousands of deaths, millions of persons displaced, and thousands of children disappeared. The recent attacks in Turkey seem to be a prelude to more violence in the future. Afghanistan is experiencing continual armed confrontations of sectarian violence. South Sudan is experiencing ethnic violence. The war in Yemen is a humanitarian crisis with millions of people on the verge of famine. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is experiencing generalized violence, endemic corruption and extensive areas devastated by war.
With the tensions between the United States and Mexico over the promises to build a wall on the border and the deportation of persons from the host country, the most powerful actor on the world stage is creating destabilizing uncertainty.
Europe is adrift owing to the disintegration of the European project, social dismantling, lack of a political policy other than to just close the borders, and the resurgence of nationalisms and xenophobia. It is a Europe in which the civil society has no voice, cannot undertake any actions, can do nothing, and in which lack of transparency in government is brutal with respect to persons fleeing from armed conflict.
Spain is a significant exporter of weapons, 7th in the world. In March, Madrid will be the meeting spot for arms merchants and agents who benefit from the business of war. HOMSEC (Homeland Security and Defense) is sponsoring a trade show for the process of securitization on the national and international agendas, a professional platform focused on national security of a geostrategic nation in relation to Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. This type of event foments the culture of conflict and war, and models of repressive security measures centered on military threats to the territorial and political integrity of the States. These initiatives only contribute to the reduction of rights and liberties in pursuit of a false idea of security.
♀ We support the objectives of the campaign "Opening Borders" and demand that the governments and parliaments of Spain and Europe comply with the international instruments with regard to human rights and the statutes related to refugees and thus cover all the needs of the persons who ask for assistance and protection.
♀ Management of borders of the countries that are promoting repressive migrant policies that lead to death, stigmatization and marginalization of collectives of victims of foreign policies exercised by the very countries of destination are measures that we consider racist and xenophobic and one more step towards fascism.
♀ Urgent measures should be taken to end commerce in weapons that feed the violence and the conflicts that are devastating humanity. We consider it a positive note that the City Council of Madrid is not supporting the HOMSEC 6th International Exhibition of Security and Defense Technologies.
♀ It is urgent and necessary to give political cover to the activists, agents for peace, and the values that guide their approach of tolerance, understanding, solidarity and empathy.
We join with the actions that are to be developed against the HOMSEC event.


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As strange as it may sound, the head of Focus on the Family is trying to find just the right place in his Colorado Springs office to put a framed copy of an editorial from the New York Times. Under the headline "Super Bowl Censorship," it defended the Christian group's right to buy a prime chunk of airtime, even if the ad focused on the decision by an ailing Pam Tebow to ignore her doctors' advice to abort her fifth child -- a son named Tim. Protests by the National Organization for Women, NARAL Pro-Choice America and others, it said, were "puzzling and dismaying."
"The would-be censors are on the wrong track," proclaimed the Times. "Instead of trying to silence an opponent, advocates for allowing women to make their own decisions about whether to have a child should be using the Super Bowl spotlight to convey what their movement is all about. ... Viewers can watch and judge for themselves. Or they can get up from the couch and get a sandwich."
Where should Focus on the Family President Jim Daly place this memento? After all, it represents a major event during the final days of founder Dr. James Dobson, the child psychologist who over three decades built one of America's most powerful radio franchises and evangelical ministries. Dobson's farewell broadcast was Feb. 26th.
Daly, who became Focus on the Family president in 2005, is thinking about putting the framed editorial between two photos. In one, Daly is standing with President George W. Bush. In the other, he is standing with President Barack Obama.
"I'll find a spot," he said. "That would be a rather symbolic place to put it."
Daly has worked for Focus on the Family for two decades, focusing on building a global audience of 200 million listeners. He is well aware that some loyalists on the legendary Focus on the Family mailing list -- a major resource when raising money or inspiring grassroots support on hot issues -- are worried about recent strategic moves.
Take, for example, Daly's decision to attend an Obama White House conference on fatherhood. Some also questioned the decision not to fight CBS over the right to explicitly mention abortion in the Super Bowl ad.
"I don't want to underestimate their concerns," said Daly. "There are people who want to see more of the hard-hitting approach. The thing is, I'm not sure that approach still works today."
While it's impossible to say if Focus on the Family will take another Super Bowl plunge, the mainstream-media approach used in the Tebow family ad is a sign to what lies ahead, and not just because the Heisman Trophy winner will soon be playing in nearby Denver.
The goal all along was to use the brief advertisement to point viewers toward a longer version of the Tebow story at FocusOnTheFamily.com, said spokesman Gary Schneeberger. Thus, the crucial post-Super Bowl numbers were these -- 92 million of the 106 million who watched the game told researchers they saw the Tebow ad. Among those who did, 6 percent said the spot and the furor surrounding it made them think twice about their beliefs on abortion. In all, about 1.5 million people went online to watch the more detailed Tebow feature.
Daly and Schneeberger insisted that there was no sneaky, brilliant strategy to hide the ad's contents, other than their desire to keep pressure off Tebow as he prepared for his final college bowl game. Nevertheless, a giant media storm was triggered by an early report that Focus on the Family was planning a Super Bowl ad, coupled with a later wire-service story that the Tebows were involved. The result, said Schneeberger, was the equivalent of $32 million worth of free ink and airtime in national media.
"The people who didn't approve of the ad that they had never seen ended up doing all of our talking points for us," he said. "We didn't have to say anything else."
The key lesson, agreed Daly, was that it's possible to "reach out and hold a dialogue" with an audience larger than the Focus on the Family mailing list. The Super Bowl project proved that the ministry could frame a message in such a way that "people outside of our niche had a chance to catch it and it does appear that some caught it. We think that's progress."


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United States: Government Further Tightens Cuban Sanctions Targeting Cuban Travel, Hotels, Cigars and Rum
On September 24, 2020, the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") published a Final Rule in the Federal Register that amended the Cuban Assets Control Regulations ("CACR") to further implement the President's foreign policy to deny the Cuban regime sources of revenue.
Bart McMillan
November 17, 2020 Author: Bart McMillan, Alexandre Lamy and Iris Zhang
Major elements of the changes include:
Professional (Including Business) Meetings and Conferences: The Final Rule amends a CACR general license to eliminate the authorization for CACR parties to attend or organize professional (including business) meetings or conferences in Cuba, unless it is authorized on a case-by-case basis by OFAC. This change will make it more onerous for CACR parties to travel to engage in preliminary business discussions or negotiations with potential counterparties in Cuba. This amendment, however, keeps in place the authorization for travel to Cuba to conduct professional (including business) research pursuant to a general license.
Public Performances, Clinics, Workshops, Competitions, and Exhibitions: The Final Rule removes a general license that authorizes CACR parties to participate in or organize certain public performances, clinics, workshops, other athletic or non-athletic competitions, and exhibitions, and replaces it with a specific licensing policy (i.e., permitting the authorization of specific activities on a case-by-case basis by OFAC). The authorization for travel by amateur and semi-professional athletic teams for athletic competitions in Cuba, however, remains in place.
Cuba Prohibited Accommodations List: The Final Rule adds a new prohibition for CACR parties regarding lodging and related transactions (e.g., making reservations or paying for lodging) at certain properties in Cuba identified on the US State Department's newly created "Cuba Prohibited Accommodations List" (the "CPA List"). This prohibition applies to all categories of Cuba authorized travel except for travel for official government purposes. The CPA List includes 433 properties owned or controlled by the Cuban government, prohibited government officials, members of the Communist Party of Cuba, and close relatives of the foregoing categories of persons. The Trump Administration previously prohibited lodging in hotels identified with links to the Cuban military, intelligence, and security services through the CACR and the "Cuba Restricted List." In addition, the restrictions related to the Cuba Restricted List do not apply to all categories of Cuba authorized travel.
Cuban-Origin Alcohol and Tobacco: The Final Rule amends four CACR general licenses to restrict the importation of Cuban-origin alcohol and tobacco products into the United States. Previously, OFAC had authorized importation of Cuban-origin alcohol and tobacco products for personal, non-commercial use. OFAC has also eliminated the exception that allowed CACR parties to buy Cuban-origin goods in third countries and bring them back to the United States, although such Cuban-origin goods may be purchased and consumed by CACR parties in third countries.
The Final Rule also makes several technical and conforming changes in the CACR. On September 23, OFAC published a number of new and updated Frequently Asked Questions regarding these changes.
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Bart McMillan leads the Chicago Office's International Trade Compliance Subpractice within the North American International Commercial Practice. He advises US and non-US companies on international trade compliance matters arising under US export controls, trade sanctions, and antiboycott rules, as well as under US customs laws with respect to classification, valuation, country of origin, free trade agreements, and the protection of intellectual property at the US border. His practice also covers antibribery and specialized commercial compliance issues in sales and sales promotion under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), non-US antibribery law, and non-US commercial laws. Mr. McMillan has been practicing with Baker McKenzie for the entirety of his legal career, and during 2004 he was located in the Washington, DC office. He is a frequent speaker on international trade compliance matters at seminars, conferences, and company training events. While pursuing his J.D. at NYU School of Law, Mr. McMillan was Staff Editor (1997-98) and Associate Editor (1998-99), New York University Law Review; and he participated in a semester exchange to the Central European University (Budapest) (Legal Studies Dep't).
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Alexandre Lamy joined Baker McKenzie in 2009 and currently works in the Firm's International Trade Practice Group. He assists clients with sanctions and export controls (Export Administration Regulations (EAR); International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)) and he advises clients on corporate compliance matters. Since August 2011, Alex has served on the steering group for the ABA Section of International Law's Export Controls & Economic Sanctions Committee and is currently a Vice Chair of the Committee. He has organized several events regarding recent developments in US trade sanctions and export controls for the Committee.
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I know I am not the only one that enjoys doing his work at Starbucks. I see others doing so all the time when I come in and when I finally leave. But what is it exactly that makes Starbucks not only an attractive place to work, but an effective one. Is it the community feel of the place, and the people that are in it; or is it the food and beverages that are sold that make Starbucks good for working in/at? Perhaps it is the locations of some Starbucks that offer great outside places to enjoy in good/great weather?
These reasons and more make Starbucks a great and effective place to do one's work at/in, and I am sure for each person who does so regularly, each has his/her own reasons. But for me what really makes Starbucks "my office" is that it provides an easy reliable place that while still "orderly" is never dull and static. I have always found it hard to work, read, and write in "control" environments.
When I am working, I need to be a part of the world and in it, not separated from it. Being at Starbucks, does that for me; thus, that is why it is my second office. Starbucks, as my seconed office gives me more than just a place to do and get work done it provides "atmosphere." What are some of your thoughs on the subject? Do you use Starbucks as an office? If so why, and if not why not?


The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal presented by Minister of Power, Energy, and Business Development Ravi Karunanayake to appoint a committee.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed a five-member Ministerial Committee to resolve the existing power crisis and to present recommendations on the mid-term and long-term measures on resolving the crisis.
Minister of Finance, Minister of Power, Energy and Business Development, Minister of Highways & Road Development and Petroleum Resources Development and Minister of Ports and Shipping and Southern Development have been appointed as the other members of the committee.


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UA 054 - The Women's Center Records, 1974-1975, 1998-2018
"UA 054 - The Women's Center Records, 1974-1975, 1998-2018." Finding Aids. BGSU University Libraries, 15 Jan. 2019, lib.bgsu.edu/finding_aids/items/show/1477. Accessed 29 Jan. 2020.
BGSU, University Archives, Women
Records documenting the activities of the Women's Center at Bowling Green State University during its first 20 years.
Duplication of materials in this collection is permitted for the purposes of preservation and research. Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright.
The Women's Center (now the Center for Women and Gender Equity - CWGE) was established at Bowling Green State University in September 1998 with the mission to be a place where people care about and respect women. It offers extensive programming on women's issues and maintains a resource library. The first director of the Women's Center, Mary Krueger, served from 1998-2017. Beginning in 2018, Angela Clark-Taylor became director of the CWGE.
The first portion of this collection (boxes 1-2) consists of policy documents and newsletters. The second part (boxes 3-8) is made up of the contents from "archive books" compiled and maintained by the Women's Center during its first 20 years. These archive book contain news clippings, activity fliers, event programs, photographs, and other documentary records.
Collection size: 1 letter-sized manuscript box and 1 half-legal-sized manuscript box (0.50 cubic feet)
Policy on Violence, Jan-Oct 2001
Policy on Violence, Nov 2001-Feb 2002
Policy on Violence, Feb-May 2002
Women's Center Newsletters, 1999
Women's Center Newsletters and fliers, 2005, 2007
Center for Continued Learning, 1974-1975
"The Feminization of Power" exhibit text and photo panels, [2000?]
Pencil - The Women's Center, n.d.
1998-1999 archive book (part 1)
2007-2008 archive book
Jonah's Room - Lactation Room @ Women's Center, 2012


Pets are an important part of the family. Treat your pup to a waterproof dog house. It's easy, reliable, and longlasting.
With Flex Seal, you can protect your pet from the rain, snow, sleet, and moisture. Follow our easy dog house guide and grab the supplies listed below.
Your little furry friend will thank you.
With your measuring tape, mark up all of your pieces of wood. Use markers to denote where you will cut each piece of wood so that each part fits together perfectly. The front and the back of the dog house will be 31 ¼" X 36" tall (at the peak) and 24" tall (at sides). The opening for the front piece is 15" high and 11" wide. The sides of the dog house are 33 ¼" wide by 23" tall. The roof (sheet galvanized steel) on each side is 23" by 38 ¼". The floor is 30 ¼" by 33 ¼". As you'll see in the video below, a patio is attached to the dog house. The patio has a 28" wide by 18" deep frame made with 2" by 4"s with eight pieces of cedar for the decking. Each piece is 3 ½" wide and 18" long.
Step #2: Carefully Make Your Cuts.
Keep your hands and eyes safe. Wear a pair of protective goggles to protect your eyes from any flying debris. Also, consider wearing protective gloves to protect your hands. Open spaces are good for working on a project like this. Great places include the garage and your backyard. You don't want any jagged pieces. After cutting your pieces to the appropriate measurements, smooth everything out with your orbital sander. You want to keep the house safe for your pet.
Step #3: Easily Drill Together.
Take your tools and drill each piece carefully together. Make sure each piece is securely fastened before moving on to the next piece. It is best to start from bottom to top. Lay down your floor foundation and gradually start to drill the sides onto the platform. Let the roof be the very last thing that your drill onto the structure with your roofing nails.
Step #4: Seal the Roof.
Pour your Flex Seal Liquid into a paint tray. (Close the Flex Seal Liquid top securely.) Dip your paint roller in the paint tray and roll Flex Seal Liquid along the entire roof. Let each coat dry for 24 to 48 hours before adding another coat. Flex Seal Liquid will keep your dog house dry and, more importantly, your dog.
Step #5: Spray Your House.
From an 8- to 12-inch distance, spray Flex Seal Clear along the outside of the remaining part of the dog house. Just like your roof, let each coat dry for 24 to 48 hours. Flex Seal Clear dries into a rubber waterproof sealant that can last in extreme weather.
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Victoria to boost housing and homeless support in Wyndham
by Julia Grove 13 December 2016
From Treasurer and Member for Werribee Tim Pallas:
Twenty new properties will be purchased or built and up to 50 properties leased to support those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Wyndham.
Treasurer and Member for Werribee Tim Pallas today announced a $15 million investment in H3 Wyndham Alliance to help more than 1700 people doing it tough in the Wyndham area.
It will include the purchase of 12 one-bedroom units for long-term rough sleepers and construction of eight self- contained units for young people, including young parents at risk of homelessness.
The funding will help provide access to sustainable housing for the time a person needs while providing wrap around services to support those who need a greater level of assistance, including family violence support, youth support services, mental health, drug and alcohol counselling, legal and financial help.
Wyndham is currently the fastest growing local government area in Victoria and in need of housing and homelessness support.
Established in 2007, the H3 Wyndham Alliance is a partnership of agencies representing health, housing and homelessness in the Western Melbourne area, bringing together different agencies to work in an integrated way.
The Alliance's response aims to take into account the need to address housing vulnerability along the spectrum of housing needs, from immediate housing crisis through to early intervention.
The announcement is part of the Andrew Labor Government's record $109 million homelessness package announced in November – providing targeted support that helps people get back on their feet.
Clarion call for housing first approach to end homelessness
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Ludo Campbell-Reid on diagnosing urban ills and his new challenge at Wyndham in Melbourne's west
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New property taxes rejected by industry but applauded on behalf of the community
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Browsing stories tagged SMAP Mr.S
Oricon charts for September 8th - 14th 2014, Southern All Stars and Mariya Takeuchi top
Southern All Stars tops the singles charts with Tokyo VICTORY the theme song for the TBS TV coverage of the 2014 Asian Games. Idol and dance unit E-girls lands in #2 with single Highschool Love and Korean vocal group ...
Aldnoah.ZERO, B1A4, B1A4 SOLO DAY - Japanese ver, E-Girls, fripSide, fripSide infinite synthesis 2, May J., Minori Chihara, Minori Chihara 10th Anniversary Best Album, Minori Chihara SANCTUARY, Oricon, Oricon Weekly, Sawano Hiroyuki, SawanoHiroyuki[nZk], SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] A/Z, SMAP, SMAP Mr.S
Oricon charts for September 1st - 7th 2014, Hey! Say! JUMP and SMAP top
Hey! Say! JUMP tops the singles charts with Weekender / Asu e no YELL selling over 184,000 copies. Their 13th single's title tracks are both featured as theme songs for TV dramas featuring group members. Three character song releases for anime Free! - Eternal Summer...
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SMAP album Mr.S release details, 21st album (updated)
SMAP recently announced new album Mr.S with lead song Mr.S - SAITEI DE SAIKOU NO OTOKO -. Their 21st original album comes on two CDs and available in two editions plus a special version with goods. Album Mr.S is scheduled for release on September 3rd 2014...
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Neocons Downplay `Moral Issue` In Election. Stupid Party Believes Them
It didn't take the neoconservatives long to figure out the real truth about the election and explain to us, hanging breathless, what we should think about it.
David Brooks in the New York Times was perhaps the first to unveil it to the rest of us out here in the boonies.
The truth, you see, is that "it is certainly wrong" that the "moral issue" was the driving force in the election. That delusion comes from a "poorly worded question" in the exit polls.
"When asked about the issue that most influenced their vote," Mr. Brooks writes,
"voters were given the option of saying 'moral values.' But that phrase can mean anything—or nothing. Who doesn't vote on moral values? If you ask an inept question, you get a misleading result." [The Values-Vote Myth, November 6, 2004]
And if you want a misleading result before you ask the question, you get neocon propaganda. Neoconservatives don't like the "moral issue" or the white Christian evangelicals who take that issue seriously enough to vote on it.
What the neoconservatives care about is foreign policy, especially how all those white Christian cattle in the backwaters can be rounded up to fight the Middle East wars the neocons are slobbering to wage—"World War IV," as neocon guru Norman Podhoretz likes to call it.
Mr. Brooks, despite occasional reservations about the Iraq boondoggle, is on board for that agenda too, and much of his column sought to explain how the election was really "a broad victory for [President] Bush" and that a national consensus behind the "war on terror" was what led to his victory.
Yet, as I have noted before, only 51 percent of the voters supported Mr. Bush at all, and while he did win the election, there was nothing "broad" about it.
The broad victory was not that of Mr. Bush and his foreign policy but of the moral issue—the massive and simultaneous success of 11 state ballot measures that rejected same-sex marriage.
There's no "misleading question" involved here. It was straight-forward and so simple even neocons could grasp it, which they do, which is why they are so eager to explain it away before the rest of the country starts talking about matters they don't want to talk about.
The neoconservatives of course are not the only people who don't want to talk about such matters—namely, the moral direction of the nation and its culture. The Republican establishment doesn't want to talk about it either, which is why, as the Washington Post reported last week, evangelicals had to drag the GOP kicking and screaming to support the marriage amendments at all.
In Michigan, state Sen. Alan Cropsey, sponsor of a bill to ban homosexual marriage, told the Post "the Republican Party was not helpful at all. It's not like they were the instigators. They were the Johnny-come-latelies, if anything." Several other activists say the same.
So far from Republicans or the White House using the ballot measures to crank out the evangelical vote, the evangelicals themselves—and in some areas Roman Catholic groups—created the movement. Evangelical leader Charles Colson says, "The White House guys were kind of resisting it [the marriage issue] on the grounds that 'We haven't decided what position we want to take on that.'" [Evangelicals Say They Led Charge For the GOP, By Alan Cooperman and Thomas B. Edsall, November 8, 2004]
What the election returns really tell us, then, has little to do with President Bush (who a week before the election defended "rights to a civil union, a legal arrangement, if that's what a state chooses to do," and explicitly renounced the GOP platform on same-sex marriage on ABC's Good Morning America), let alone his foreign policy.
What they tell us is that the Republican Party including its top leader still doesn't get it and that it still prefers to take its signals from neoconservatives like Mr. Brooks and the cultural and ideological ghetto they represent.
The White House and the GOP didn't want to support the grassroots movement against same-sex marriage because the people who staff those institutions are more comfortable with the people who write the Washington Post and the New York Times than with the Middle Americans whose votes they desperately want and need.
It's not easy to argue that a party able to win the White House and both houses of Congress is the Stupid Party, but stupidity is largely a matter of being unable to learn, and what this election tells us more than anything else is that, at least up until Election Day, the Republican Party had learned nothing.
Nor has Mr. Brooks. He and his neocon allies now have four more years to plot how to derail the Middle American Revolution toward which this election clearly points.
If Mr. Bush is not stupid, he'll derail the neocons from the White House now.
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Sam Francis [email him] is a nationally syndicated columnist. A selection of his columns, America Extinguished: Mass Immigration And The Disintegration Of American Culture, is now available from Americans For Immigration Control. Click here for Sam Francis' website. Click here to order his monograph, Ethnopolitics: Immigration, Race, and the American Political Future.


The Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund is providing the financial fuel for scores of arts and leisure activities that highlight the cultural diversity of Kansas City, Missouri.
The Chalk Walk and Festival was a hit last fall, thanks in part to the $7,500 it received through this program. This two-day event showcased hundreds of professional, student and amateur artists who got down on their knees at Crown Center to create lively and powerful images on sponsored brick canvas.
But this was only one of many vibrant attractions offered for local residents and visitors to sample a bit of Kansas City culture.
Managed by the Office of Culture and Creative Services, the NTDF program is not only thriving after 28 years, the number of arts and leisure activities across the City is rising, generating even more demand for these resources to grow.
In fiscal year 2016-17, more than $1.8 million from convention and tourism tax dollars were approved in support of 193 activities. Events like PorchFestKC, the Trolley Run for the Children's Center for the Visually Impaired, Planet Rock Drill Team Show, Comida KC, a world tour of Latin flavors, and performances by the Kansas City Ballet, are more examples of the activities that demonstrate the City's distinct and diverse neighborhoods through cultural, social, ethnic, historic, educational, and recreational activities.
The OCCS accepts funding applications from non-profit groups both annually and quarterly. Eligible applications are reviewed by a committee of 15 members appointed by Mayor and City Council, two from each council district and three at-large members appointed by the Mayor, who recommend funding awards to City Council for approval.
The application process went green last year, moving completely online to make it even more user-friendly and efficient. Besides money, recipients receive benefits like social media and City website promotion of events, free marketing opportunities via the Culture and Creative Services segment of the Channel 2 Weekly Report, promotion on the electronic City Hall lobby screen and the 26 kiosks located on and near the streetcar route (River Market to Crown Center).
Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre's Producing Artistic Director Karen Paisley said, that NTDF "Has made such a difference for us and made it possible for us to do so much more than we could do before... it really makes a difference." The NTDF supports the theatre's current season.
Director of Creative Services Megan Crigger said she fully expects the list of events to grow even longer in the coming year.
Applicant workshops will be held in the summer to help local nonprofits learn about this funding program and any changes to the application and selection process.
NTDF Program Manager Denise Dillard said helping applicants through the application process is a professional highlight. "I enjoy working with genuinely passionate people, helping to connect them to City resources," she said.
Stay tuned to the City's website (kcmo.gov/citymanagersoffice/ntdf/) for upcoming application deadlines and workshop dates. Don't forget to check out Channel 2 (Weekly Report air times are 8 a.m., 5 p.m. and midnight), and the kiosks located throughout downtown, for information about upcoming NTDF-supported events.
For questions about the application process, contact Denise Dillard at 816-513-3451 or Denise.Dillard@KCMO.org.


Sleep in Rollers have been on the scene for a few years now but having naturally long and thick hair, I never had difficulty when it comes to adding volume to my locks.
But while at the Professional Beauty in the RDS recently, (read about it here) Sleep-in Rollers were on offer so I said why the hell not! Let's see what all the fuss is about!
They come in a convenient pink storage bag with 20 Velcro/sponge rollers, pins, and a DVD on how to use them. While the DVD is a nice touch, I resorted to a quick Youtube Tutorial on my phone. I dried my hair until about 80% and put in the rollers. My hair is so long and thick there was no blood left in my hands by the time i'd finished. And off I went to bed.
WARNING: I don't have any makeup on in the following pics!
A little bit. I tossed and I turned a lot, and even found myself cursing the instruments of insomnia I voluntarily secured to my head all in the name of beauty.
Although it wasn't the most restful night, I did like the end result. Was it worth it though? No. I don't think I'll put myself through it again. I like my sleep too much.
So if your investing, buy the drying hood too. Unless you sleep like a rock, it's the only way they can be used comfortably in my personal opinion.
So what's the verdict? They are good, and the end result is fabulous, but the Unique Selling Point of Sleep In Rollers is SLEEP. In my opinion they can only be used in conjunction with the hood, or while vertical.
I know lots of people found no issue with sleeping in them so don't take my word for it.


Two leading Pendle politicians have described a proposal for a new trans-Pennine motorway linking Lancashire and Yorkshire as "pure froth" and a "red herring".
Lib Dem peer and Pendle representative Coun. Tony Greaves and County Coun. Azhar Ali were responding to a report where Coun. Keith Wakefield, the former Leader of Leeds City Council and current Chairman of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority's Transport Committee and Coun. Simon Cooke, Leader of the Conservative group on Bradford City Council, were arguing for transport improvements including a proposal to extend the M65 to connect Colne and Keighley.
Couns Wakefield and Cooke are increasingly concerned the Northern Powerhouse is focusing on a small number of expensive projects, such as a rail and road tunnel through the Pennines between Manchester and Sheffield.
While Coun. Greaves shares those concerns, he has dismissed the M65 extension.
Coun. Greaves said: "People can say what they want about it but it is pure froth.
"Lancashire County Council is the highways authority and Pendle Council is supporting its proposal for a bypass road connecting the M65 with the A56 around Foulridge. If that happens in the next 20 years I will be surprised but that is what people are pressing for.
"We also want to see railway from Colne reopened as an alternative transport route, a proper double track line from Rosegrove to Skipton which would then link right across the country.
"The Northern Powerhouse is just a slogan and one of its dafter schemes is putting a new tunnel to connect Manchester and Sheffield which would be the longest road tunnel in Europe. The car will have ceased to be a common mode of transport by the time that is completed.
County Coun. Ali said more realistic infrastructure improvements need to be implemented to ensure Pendle is not left out on a limb and more people leave the area.
He said: "The Northern Powerhouse is quickly becoming the Northern Poorhouse.
"We have got HS1, HS2 and HS3 but George Osborne is just focusing on the big cities and not East Lancashire and outlying parts of West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.
"I think had the M65 been built right through all those years ago then the economic fortunes of Pendle may be very different but we are where we are.
"George Osborne has just announced £300m. just to look at creating a line between Manchester and Sheffield.
"Colne to Skipton would cost a fraction of that, and that would link Preston to Skipton and Liverpool through to Hull for freight which I think would be of greater benefit than years of arguing over a new line or extension of the M65 which is a red herring.
"We have a proposal for a bypass which is not even on the government's radar.


Violence has traditionally lied at the core of politics – as a form of coercion of citizens by the state, as the prime form of interstate relations, and also as a social mechanism, underlying social transactions, hierarchies and social order. However, after the catastrophes of the 20th century, the amount of violence employed by the state against its citizens and against other states has reduced. The idea of human rights has proliferated, including freedom from violence, and the use of force in international relations has been constrained by multilateral agreements and institutions. The world seemed to be progressing from a Hobbesian anarchy to a Kantian liberal order.
But the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the USSR and Yugoslavia has brought into open the long-frozen conflicts, has revealed sub- and non-state groups dealing in violence, and has returned violence to the core of domestic societies and international politics. This has become particularly evident in the post-Soviet space which in the past 30 years has seen a return of civil wars, separatism, domestic violence and police repression, as well as recent neocolonial wars in Georgia and Ukraine.
The Spring School in Stepantsminda aims to explore this problem by undertaking a comparative study of violence in the post-Soviet states. It will examine various forms of violence, from domestic societies to oppressive practices and authoritarian resilience in many post-Soviet countries and to regional conflicts and geopolitical dilemmas in the South Caucasus.
The academic directors of the School are Sergei Medvedev (Professor, Department of Political Science, NRU HSE) and David Darchiashvili (Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Ilia State University). The School will bring together 25 students and will include lectures by Russian and Georgian scholars, seminars, student work in groups, as well as screening and discussing films dealing with the problem of violence.
The venue for the School is the Hotel Kazbegi of Ilia State University, situated in Stepantsminda in north-eastern Georgia. In their free time, the participants will be able to engage in various social activities, exploring the beautiful foothills of Mount Kazbek and the neighboring villages, hiking up to Gergeti Monastery, etc. The working language is English.
The Spring School is part of the educational project Escapes from Modernity in the framework of which twenty five summer, winter, and spring schools have been organized in various locations across Europe. Since 2007, over 500 students from 30 nations have become graduates of the schools.
Students of any academic level and any university are welcome to apply. Please contact us at escapes@hse.ru to find out the cost of participation and submit your application. An application must include the applicant's full name, institutional affiliation (university, department, program, year of study) and contact details (e-mail, phone number).
Application deadline is 18 February 2018.
Contacts: Anastasia Gergel, Project Assistant, escapes@hse.ru, +7 (985) 971-5227.


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A Very K Pod Lunch in Haro Strait-June 23rd, 2015
Today Captain Pete and I left the dock on the Seahawk with a glorious sunny day, a boat full of curious and excited passengers, and plenty of whale reports from which to choose. Armed with our whale knowledge and eagerness to see wildlife, we headed North out of Roche Harbor. Right off the bat we were greeted in Mosquito Pass with a great blue heron taking off with its large, slow wingbeats as well as a bald eagle perched in a tree.
Heading out into Haro Strait towards Stuart Island, we began slowing down to scan for wildlife when suddenly a black dorsal fin and back exploded out of the water as an Orca porpoised passed! Just as we were recovering from the excitement of a first sighting we saw another! and another! It was K Pod racing across the channel in a hurry!
Killer whales are one of the quickest marine mammals in the entire ocean, with the ability to sprint at 35 miles per hour! Our residents rarely need to move at such speeds, as they are very effective at hunting and corralling salmon without moving too quickly. Transients, however, will sometimes engage in high-speed chases with one of their favorite snacks, the Dall's porpoise. These black-and-white speed demons can just barely outswim Orcas at 36 miles per hour! To reach this incredible speed (remember, we are talking about a 30 foot, 6 ton animal here), they must "porpoise", or get their bodies partially out of the water. Doing this exposes more surface area to air, which causes significantly less drag on their bodies than does water.
In comparison to these mind-blowingly fast speeds, K Pod was taking a brisk walk down the Strait at around 8 or 9 Knots (very similar to miles per hour) towards Henry Island. We kept pace with the leaders of the group, which was very spread out, until we reached Kellet Bluffs at which point they decided to have a little lunch. We watched as their pace relaxed and a male and a female dove with a splash and abrupt direction change, indicating they found a delicious King Salmon to much on.
Once the group reached the shoreline, they fanned out in a line to echo-locate, or use their sonar, more effectively. When operating like this, each whale not only gets images from the sound beams it sends out, but also from those of its neighbors.
As we were passed by the leaders, we hung out in the water to let the rest of the pod make their way by and we got great views of the K13 matriline including K13 (Skagit) and and her daughter K20 (Spock) and son K27 (Deadhead). This active crew was great to watch. As they passed us by to grab their lunch, we wished a hearty "live long and prosper" as we headed back North to check out some other wildlife.
Up near Spieden Island we got some great views of lots of harbor seals hauled out on a reef as well as a bald eagle flying away from it's nest. All these animals benefit from the presence of the Pacific Salmon, which are considered a "Keystone Species" (A plant/animal on which all or most other organisms in an ecosystem depend).
One of the best parts of this tour were the people! I was asked so many wonderful questions about whales and other wildlife, and us naturalists live for the opportunity to show off our knowledge of the ecosystem. Satisfied with our lovely experience on the water, we headed back down to Roche Harbor. Another Whale of a Day in the Salish Sea!
Naturalist Mike J
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D-Day Recollection
PFC Harry Crouch of Clifton talks about World War II in his own words.
Clifton resident Harry Crouch, 83, participated in the D-Day landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944. Crouch, a private, was assigned to the 357th Infantry Regiment of the 90th Infantry Division as a communications operator. He received five stars during his military career, including a Bronze Star awarded by Gen. George Patton.
Below is an account of Crouch's experiences during the war, told in his own words.
"On June the fifth is when they started loading us on boats right off the channel. The next thing I knew, I was sitting out in the English Channel, and they said the communication men get off. When I hit the water, I don't think my feet touched bottom. Being the way I had my field pack, I could float myself, and about three or four of us came to land. Then the shell came in and they pulled the ship back, and they brought it in the next morning, and [the Germans] still hit it again.
I was on land that first night by myself with two of the other boys, and I didn't even know them. I just knew they came off the same time I did.
The next day the ship hit a mine, and today, the Susan B. Anthony ship is sitting where those boys unloaded off."
"I HAD a full field pack and a 300 radio – about 130 pounds. I got everything to shore, but I lost the field pack because I couldn't move with that thing. I kept my rifle, my ammunition, and my radio.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't think any of us got any sleep. I did radio back one or two times to the ships to call them and tell them that there's Germans coming across a certain area near us. I was calling back to the Navy and the ship before the rest of them ever came ashore.
We went anywhere we could hide. We were almost like what you would call a bunch of spies. Anything we saw move, we would take and notify it back. I was told afterwards, "Did you know the Germans could have picked up your radio signals?" I said if they could understand my radio signals, fine, because I was crying.
We were definitely on our own at that time. You do anything you can to survive. Someone said, "Oh, you're scared." Well I was. I ain't ashamed to tell anyone I was scared."
In the months that followed, the 90th Infantry Division participated in some of the bloodiest battles in the war as the division moved from the Normandy Peninsula. In December, the 90th Infantry Division came to the Saar River in Germany.
"We kind of thought we were pulling in for maybe a few week's break, being that it was snowing so hard. A call came down one morning just before Christmas. The 101st Airborne Company of the 82nd Airborne Division had dropped into Bastogne. They had 36 hours of rations, and their ammunition was getting awfully low.
I was the person on the radio and I didn't know what the hell to do so I just handed it to the first man who was close that was high up. Gen. Patton answered it himself, and he said, "We will be there, through snow, through blizzard."
He gave us orders to get dressed in camouflage. He got from someplace a truckload of white underwear and sheets. The men put on underwear on the outside of their uniform, and the vehicles and tanks were covered in sheets. I'll tell you, when you put long-johns up over the top of your combat boots and leave them on the outside, that is a heck-of-a-lookin' bunch of men.
All the insignias and everything on the vehicles, all the insignias on our uniforms were either taped over or covered over with white."
"THE 358th INFANTRY men attacked that morning. We went in so close with everything we could, and all the Germans ever heard that morning was the crunching of the feet of the 358th Infantry. All they heard was somebody walking – they thought it was their own men moving around.
They tell – and I wasn't there myself, but I was told by some of the men – that a German colonel, they patted him on the shoulder, and he tried to get his men lined up for attack, but the ones he was talking to were American boys.
[The Germans] had one heck of a battle after they realized what was going on, but we had a lot of men already lined up coming back behind. I'm glad we got as many as we did before they knew what was going on.
Thirty-five hours from the time we received that call, we were attacking at the place known as the Seven Roads to Hell, the Seven Roads at Bastogne. That was about a 20- to 24-hour hard battle, and I mean hard."
In May of 1945, the 357th, 358th, and 359th Infantry Regiments arrived in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia.
"The next thing I knew, it was May, and that was when the next time I can say I was really scared. That was the day that the Seventh Panther Division surrendered to Gen. Patton at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. When you put them over there, and [the Germans] are coming in on tanks, and you line them up in a line along sides in the fields, if one of them had shot one gun, I got a feeling a lot of us would have messed our pants. I'm pretty sure of it. And I know I'm one of them.
We were in our positions, and they were coming into us with any white thing they could tie on the end of the canons. They were coming into us surrendering because they didn't want to surrender to Russia. They traveled for miles on the last two days to surrender.
There wasn't any ceremony. The only thing I've ever heard is after the war was over, an old Russian guy, he said to Patton, "Let's drink to our victory." [Patton] said, "As far as I'm concerned, they called us both sons-of-bitches, so we'll drink to two sons-of-bitches."
That was just the way he was. It didn't make a damn who it was. He said what he thought, when he thought it, where he thought it.
I spent about at least a fourth of my time in combat with him, or within talking distance of him. The whole damn time I would be in radio reach of him. That's the trouble – I was around him too much because I still got a lot of the spunk that he had. I still say what I think regardless of who it is."
Harry and his wife Nina have been married 60 years; they have two children, six grandchildren, and 20-something great-grandchildren. They live off Compton Road in Clifton.
Clifton War Hero Harry Crouch Looks Back
WW II Veterans Reflect on Service, New Memorial
Portrait of an Immigrant U.S. Soldier
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'The Bachelorette' spoilers: Who are 'The Bachelorette' star Hannah Brown's Final 12 bachelors?
The Bachelorette spoilers have allegedly revealed the final 12 bachelors who are competing on Hannah Brown's currently-filming season.
Season 15 of The Bachelorette began taping on March 16, and Hannah has already made some huge cuts considering she started with over two dozen bachelors.
Hannah was spotted and photographed in Boston and Newport on dates with her final 15 guys late last week, and according to Reality Steve spoiler blogger Steve Carbone, he has figured out Hannah's 12 remaining suitors for the new The Bachelorette season that will premiere Monday, May 13 at 8PM ET/PT on ABC.
[Spoiler Warning: Please stop reading now if you don't want to find out which guys allegedly make it far in The Bachelorette season].
Based on numerous eyewitness accounts and social media postings about the public dates, the following 15 bachelors accompanied Hannah to Massachusetts and Rhode Island: Dylan Barbour, Tyler Cameron, Grant Eckel, Kevin Fortenberry, Devin Harris, Mike Johnson, John Paul Jones, Dustin Kendrick, Luke Parker, Garrett Powell, Connor Saeli, Luke Stone, Matteo Valles, Peter Weber, and Jed Wyatt.
After a group date and two one-on-one dates with Jed and Tyler in Boston and Newport, respectively, Hannah's fourth Rose Ceremony of the season took place at Belcourt Castle in Newport on March 31, according to Bachelor Spoilers' Instagram account.
Carbone reported Hannah eliminated Luke S., Matteo, and John Paul at this Rose Ceremony, which will air in Episode 4.
Carbone claims the three men were obviously ousted in Newport because they all immediately returned to social media and started adding followers.
The other 12 bachelors, however, still haven't had any social-media activity at all since taping commenced.
Hannah and her 12 guys then reportedly traveled to Scotland, where Episode 5 of The Bachelorette's fifteenth season is currently being filmed.
Below is more information on the 12 bachelors still allegedly in the running for Hannah's heart.
Connor S. is a 24-year-old from Dallas, TX. He brought a step stool to The Bachelor Season 23 finale when he met Hannah. He wanted to make sure they saw eye-to-eye and were on "the same level."
Devin is a 27-year-old from Sherman Oaks, CA.
Dustin is a 30-year-old from Chicago, IL. He gave a great toast to Hannah when he met her on The Bachelor finale since she doesn't exactly have a way with words.
Dylan is a 24-year-old from San Diego, CA; Garrett is a 27-year-old from Birmingham, AL; Grant is a 30-year-old from San Clemente, CA; and Jed is a 25-year-old from Nashville, TN.
Kevin is a 27-year-old from Manteno, IL, and Mike is a 31-year-old from San Antonio, TX.
Luke P. is a 24-year-old from Gainesville, GA, who made it known on The Bachelor finale Hannah was the only woman from Colton's season whom he wanted to star on The Bachelorette.
Tyler is a 26-year-old from Jupiter, FL, and Peter is a 27-year-old from Westlake Village, CA.


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GAME RELEASE: Indianapolis at Houston
Colts resume AFC South play with visit to Houston.
The Indianapolis Colts will resume AFC South play with a trip to Houston in Week 6 to face the Texans on NBC's Sunday Night Football. The game time is set for 8:30 p.m. EST at NRG Stadium.
The contest will mark the 29th all-time meeting between the teams in the regular season, with the Colts holding a 23-5 advantage. Indianapolis fell to Houston, 16-10, in their last matchup on Dec. 20, 2015 at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Last week, the Colts hosted the Chicago Bears and won, 29-23.
Down 23-19 with 7:04 left in the game, quarterback Andrew Luck (28-of-39 passing for 322 yards and two touchdowns) led the Colts offense on a six-play, 82-yard drive that resulted in a 35-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver T.Y. Hilton (10 receptions for 171 yards and one touchdown). The series marked Luck's 16th fourth quarter or overtime game-winning drive of his career as the Colts would go on to win 29-23.
Running back Frank Gore led the team with 75 rushing yards on 14 carries (5.4 avg.) and passed Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown for ninth on the NFL's all-time rushing list.
Kicker Adam Vinatieri converted all five of his fi eld goal attempts and two extra points for 17 points on the game. Vinatieri currently has made 38 consecutive field goals dating back to last season which ranks second in franchise history, third in NFL history and is the longest active streak in the NFL.
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Friday: Defeat for NJ Public Unions
How did this fly under the radar? I blame joblessness on my own part and Anthony Weiner's penis.
TRENTON — New Jersey lawmakers tonight voted to enact a sweeping plan to cut public worker benefits after a long day of high-pitched political drama in the streets of Trenton and behind closed doors.
Union members chanted outside the Statehouse and in the Assembly balcony, and dissident Democrats tried to stall with amendments and technicalities. Although they successfully convinced top lawmakers to remove a controversial provision restricting public workers' access to out-of-state medical care, they failed to halt a historic defeat for New Jersey's powerful unions and a political victory for Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
The bill passed the Assembly 46-32 and will be sent to Christie's desk for his signature. Fourteen Democrats voted for the bill, while 32 opposed it. After the vote, protesters in the balcony shouted "Shame on you!"
Unions have blasted the bill for ending their ability to collectively bargain their medical benefits. Health care plans for 500,000 public workers would be set by a new state panel comprised of union workers and state managers, rather than at the negotiating table. A sunset provision would allow unions to resume collective bargaining after increased health care contributions are phased in over four years.
In addition, police officers, firefighters, teachers and rank-and-file public workers would all pay more for their pensions and health benefits.
Supporters of the bill say the state needs to cut costs because the pension and health systems are underfunded by more than $120 billion total. The Christie administration estimated the bill would save $3 billion in health benefits over the next 10 years and $120 billion in pension costs over 30 years. Much of the pension savings are from the controversial elimination of the cost-of-living adjustments for retirees, which unions have threatened to challenge in court.
The bill that passed will affect not only future retirees but *current* ones by eliminating cost of living increases. (People who think the Republicans won't screw around with Medicare for current retirees should think again. In fact, anyone who is not wealthy and is still a Republican should have their head examined.) Some people might ask what's the big deal but it's already ridiculously expensive to live in New Jersey. In my suburb, the median salary is $109,000/year and that and a quarter will get you a modest townhouse, barely. Those of us without jobs are really screwed but it's not much better for people living on pensions when the property taxes soar. We can thank Christie Todd Whitman for the pension problems. I believe it was Whitman who shoved the burden of financing the pensions onto local municipalities in the 90's.
There are many problems with the way NJ runs its local governments. Frankly, there are too many of them. This is the densest state of the union in terms of population and the state is carved up into thousands of tiny fiefdoms that are run inefficiently. Not only is there a lot of duplication of effort, some residents get away with paying relatively little. One middle class suburb might have sky high property taxes while a swankier suburb with higher real estate values pays substantially less in property taxes. The difference is that the middle class suburb is a receiving school district while the Bonus Class suburb is a sending district that doesn't need to fund facilities or staff for the high school. Isn't that conveeeeeenient?
In this state, it feels like the burden of funding everything is squarely on the shoulders of the middle class. You educate the children of the poor AND the wealthy. It's a sweet deal if you're rich and can benefit from the property tax version of the Matthew Effect. The property tax issue and home rule problem here has been extremely resistant to modification. But it doesn't help that neither the state legislature, nor any governor of NJ I've ever suffered under, has made any attempt to make it fairer for the people most under stress by the tax situation. The rich get richer, the poor get a lot of grandstanding but no real solutions and the middle gets the shaft.
Local government is expensive. You definitely get what you pay for. I would prefer a more equitable way to fund the state rather than the crushing property taxes that are forcing some of us out of NJ. A higher tax on the rich is way overdue. Municipal government overhaul is overdue. Shifting the burden from property taxes to an occupation tax and a more progressive income tax is way overdue. Loosening up the state's bizarre liquor license laws to reel in more revenue is overdue (very few groceries sell wine, beer or liquor and very few restaurants have liquor licenses).
But year after year, the only solution that is ever proposed is to underfund the pensions and demonize the unions. The politicians in this state are completely inept at ever addressing any of the problems that have plagued NJ since I moved here 20 years ago. This is no way to treat your children's teachers, or your neighborhood police officers or your emergency services people or any of the other people you forget you need until you need them. Joblessness and a reduced income trickles down on the handyman, the cashier whose grocery store is closing and the piano teachers. We all suffer when the rich rig the system in their favor and screw the rest of us.
A word to the stingy, MBA class suburbanites: When you go to the next Board of Ed meeting to complain about the budget or the fact that your bratty, overindulged kid has to walk on pavement to get to the bus stop, leave your $58,000 Lexus SUVs at home. Driving them when your kid's favorite social studies teacher is about to get the ax is in very bad taste. I know, I know, no one will tell you this but I feel I owe it to you to let you know how crass, rude and insensitive it is. You look like novo riche, status conscious social climbers and a school board meeting is not a place to do networking.
Did I mention I am willing to relocate?
The following is a statement from NJEA president Barbara Keshishian:
"Today marks a new low point in the attack on New Jersey's school employees and other public workers. With their action today, the 46 Assembly members who voted 'yes' sent a clear message that their promises aren't worth the paper they are written on.
"By stripping even currently retired public employees of their promised and earned cost-of-living adjustments, these legislators signaled that no promise they make should ever be believed by any New Jersey voter.
"Retirees who count on their pensions for a modest level of security after a lifetime of public service will suffer because of today's vote. NJEA will challenge these illegal actions in court. We cannot and will not allow this outrageous raid on retirees' pension checks to stand. This pension raid would reduce many retired workers' pensions by 40% or more by the end of their lives.
"A legislature and governor who will raid the pension checks of retirees and the paychecks of middle-class workers but lack the courage or integrity to ask the very wealthy to share the sacrifice of even a modest tax increase are not the representatives of the people who elected them.
"Politicians who think it is acceptable to ask middle-class families to pay $5,000 more out of pocket for drastically reduced benefits but refuse to ask a $5,000 sacrifice from taxpayers earning $750,000 a year have failed in their obligation to represent the interests of all their constituents.
"Elected leaders who say they support collective bargaining but vote to undermine it as severely as this legislation does cannot be trusted or believed any longer when they claim to stand for the values and principles that working-class voters hold dear.
"Today's vote was a victory for those who believe that America's widening wealth gap and its growing preference for the wealthy over the working class are good for America. For those of us who believe that democracy belongs to all voters, regardless of their wealth, today serves as a call to take back our government by joining forces with elected leaders and those who aspire to office who truly believe in fairness, honesty and genuine collaboration.
"We salute the 32 brave Assemblywomen and Assemblymen who opposed this attack on the middle class, as well as the 16 honorable Senators who did the same earlier this week. The 200,000 members of the New Jersey Education Association will not forget the courage and integrity they demonstrated throughout this process."
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jjmtacoma, on June 24, 2011 at 12:13 pm said:
I will never understand the mentality of people who act in ways that say, "I'm suffering so I want to see EVERYONE else suffer too!"
I think it isn't entirely conservative voters who want to take the benefits away from public workers – The middle class is running around wanting to "burn the witches" without figuring out who is leading the call.
The "owners" know this is a great time to take away the last shreds of humanity and the public is cheering it on.
churl, on June 24, 2011 at 1:36 pm said:
I get amused when our local tax crazies start screaming and threatening people over their $500 annual property tax bills (that would be for about a $100k property valuation). I had one gentleman tell me his monthly bill in Ohio was greater than his annual bill in WNC, but we still have the Mercedes/Cadillac crowd crying, whining, and tea bagging over a few bucks– they are really concerned that some "undeserving" wretch may get something they didn't bleed for. Greed. A lack of empathy. Meanness. It's the same regardless of the dollars involved.
myiq2xu, on June 24, 2011 at 1:46 pm said:
Public employees are the only unions left to bust.
gumsnapper, on June 24, 2011 at 2:00 pm said:
I see Greenwald is listed under links on the sidebar there. What do you think of his column today in Salon, where he's beating up on Hillary?
Riverdaughter, on June 24, 2011 at 2:57 pm said:
Don't they always beat up on Hillary? They're anti-war, Luke the rest if us aren't.
Hillary said something to the effect that if asked, Americans would side with Libyan rebels and not Qaddafi. I think this is true. What hasn't been asked is whether Americans would like to translate that sympathy into financial support for military efforts.
I think Glenn knows the difference but he acts like they're the same thing. He must think we're stupid.
IIRC, the goal of the Libyan action was to enforce a no-fly zone to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. I supported this. Not only would it be humanitarian, it would help fuel the Arab Spring. But it costs money. When the mission was taken over by NATO, it was our obligation to kick in our share.
The House is in the hands of the Republicans who seem to be pushing Obama to reject this nation's NATO treaty obligations. Us that what Glenn wants? Just curious because he seems to gloss over that.
Senator Clinton, 2003:
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, 'WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEBATE AND DISAGREE WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION!'
Secretary Clinton, 2011:
But the bottom line is, whose side are you on? Are you on Qadhafi's side or are you on the side of the aspirations of the Libyan people and the international coalition that has been created to support them?
She was right then and wrong now.
The current debate is about funding, not the rightness of the cause.
During the debates over the Iraq war, even the cause was dubious.
Where has she squashed debate on Libya? She hasn't. But in a way, it would be like saying do you side with the Ratko Mladic or the Srebrenicans being slaughtered. It's a no brainer. This was a humanitarian action, not a declared war. No troops will be landing in Tripoli. We went to Kosovo with NATO. This is not Iraq.
Mr. Mike, on June 24, 2011 at 2:33 pm said:
Unless sufficient numbers of real Democrats follow thru by showing up at the polls to counter the party machine voters nothing will change. Pelosi, Schumer, Frank, Dodd, and Reid all have to go for a start.
These people have done more damage than 10 Anthony Weiners.
To paraphrase the Joker, "This party needs an enema."
abbeysbooks, on June 24, 2011 at 7:43 pm said:
Weiner was just deterrence so you called it right. The medium is the message. All this is just the beginning. Most of you are too young to have any idea of the last depression or grew up with adults who talked about it a lot.
This one is going to be a lot worse.
I told a bunch of religious lady Obama haters that the liberals hated him as much as they. They were shocked. Had no idea.
When they asked who I was voting for I told them the worst one I could vote for. But don't I want to improve things? We are way beyond that point I said. It's too late. Now our only chance is to implode the system. Hollywood is getting imploded lately, have you noticed?
RD, on June 24, 2011 at 10:04 pm said:
Good job. They don't get it and they have been confused about what socialism really is.
now, if only more liberals would do this…
{{pat on back}}
DandyTiger, on June 24, 2011 at 8:03 pm said:
We're so fucked. I try to say more, but that's all that come out.
myiq2xu, on June 24, 2011 at 10:55 pm said:
Ruh-roh, look who's making campaign commercials:
riverdaughter, on June 25, 2011 at 10:12 am said:
Nah-gah-happen. His campaign speeches have even less content than Obama's and he's a mean SOB to regular constituents.
Nobody here really likes him
paper doll, on June 25, 2011 at 9:03 am said:
haven't we seen it many times? A workforce is sacked and then those hired back are given a 3rd of the wage . This time those doing the limited hiring ( for which you are suppose to kiss their feet ) will be quickly start up private companies, often owned by our current " leaders" . The plan for "public servants"….a term like "retirement fund," which will become the answer in a trivia game


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Emitel S.A.
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited
Advised Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited, a UK-listed Investment Trust, on the acquisition of Emitel S.A., a Polish telecom tower infrastructure business
Grupo Totalmédia
Consortium of Private Investors Led by the Management Team
Advised Explorer Investments on the sale of Grupo Totalmédia, the leading specialist logistics player in Iberia operating in two-man home delivery, assembly and installation of furniture, heavy goods and groceries as well as the distribution of autoparts and leaflets
California-based Property and Casualty insurance subsidiary of Covéa
Porch Group
Advising Covéa, a leading French mutual insurance company, on the sale of its wholly owned subsidiary, CSE Insurance group, to Porch Group
Pulsant Limited
Antin Infrastructure Partners
Advised Antin Infrastructure Partners on its acquisition of Pulsant from Oak Hill and Scottish Equity Partners. Pulsant is a hybrid cloud specialist, with a nationwide network of 10 data centres across the UK delivering secure, scalable and resilient cloud, colocation and networking services
The Natural Fruit Company
Fremman Capital
Advised Fremman on the acquisition of The Natural Fruit Company, a leading European producer and distributor of citrus fruits (both conventional and organic) including oranges, lemons, tangerines, grapefruit and persimmon fruit
Portfolio of 16 European Consumer Healthcare brands from Sanofi
Advising Sanofi, a leading global player in the Consumer Healthcare market, on the divestiture of a portfolio of 16 European Consumer Healthcare brands to STADA, a German pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare company owned by Bain Capital and Cinven
Rights to General, Right Guard and Dry Idea brands
Advised Henkel on its brand divestment program (including the sale of the General, Right Guard and Dry Idea brands)
Le Petit Depot
Phoon Huat
Advised Le Petit Depot, Singapore's leading online platform specializing in the sale of European food products, on the sale of a controlling stake to, and strategic partnership with, Phoon Huat
AtlasEdge Joint Venture
Liberty Global Inc., Digital Colony
Advised Liberty Global Inc., one of the world's leading converged telecommunication companies with operations in seven European countries, on the creation of AtlasEdge, a pan-European Edge Data Centre Joint Venture with the digital infrastructure investor Digital Colony
International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc.'s Fruit Preparations business
Frulact Serviços Partilhados, SA
Advised International Flavors & Fragrances on the divestiture of its European-based Fruit Preparation business to Frulact Serviços Partilhados, SA
Learning Materials for the K-12 Segment in Spain
Sanoma Oyj
Advising Sanoma Oyj (HEL: SAA1V), a European learning and media company listed on Nasdaq Helsinki, on the acquisition of Santillana Spain, a leading Spanish provider of K-12 learning materials, from Promotora de Informaciones S.A. (Grupo Prisa, BME: PRS)
Axión Group
Asterion Industrial Partners
Advised AMP Capital on the sale of its portfolio company Axión Group, a leading independent broadcasting and telecommunications infrastructure provider in Spain, to Asterion Industrial Partners, a Spanish infrastructure fund
VX Fiber
AMP Capital
Advised VX Fiber, an international infrastructure and technology business focused on Fibre-to-the-Home networks, on its sale to the infrastructure fund AMP Capital
Integrated supplier of preserved and frozen vegetables
ACON Agri Investments S.L.
Advised ACON Agri Investments S.L., a special purpose vehicle of ACON Investments LLC, on the acquisition of Grupo Alsur, a leading integrated supplier of preserved and frozen vegetables with operations in Spain and Peru
Community Fibre Limited
Warburg Pincus LLC, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners
Advised Warburg Pincus LLC and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in CommunityFibre Limited, a leading full fibre network infrastructure platform in UK
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Arcland Sakamoto
Advising Arcland Sakamoto, a leading owner and operator of large home centers, on the acquisition of LIXIL VIVA, a leading owner and operator of large home centers and a listed subsidiary of LIXIL Group, a leading Japanese manufacturer of building and housing materials
Tesco plc's Thailand and Malaysia businesses
Charoen Pokphand Group
Advised Tesco plc, a leading UK retailer, on the sale of its Thailand and Malaysia businesses to Charoen Pokphand Group, the Thai conglomerate
Asia and US rights to Physiogel
LG Household & Health Care
Advised GlaxoSmithKline plc ("GSK"), the UK listed international pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare company, on the divestiture of the rights to Physiogel Asia and the US to Korea-based LG Household & Health Care Ltd
Daimler's Mercedes-Benz passenger car and private vans distribution operations in Colombia
Inchcape PLC
Advised Inchcape, a leading global independent multi-brand automotive distributor, on its acquisition of the Mercedes-Benz passenger car and private vans distribution operations in Colombia from Daimler Colombia
Nitta Casings and Nitta Casings Canada
Viscofan
Advised Viscofan (BME:VIS), the #1 producer of artificial casings for the meat industry worldwide (>30% market share), on the acquisition of Nitta Casings and Nitta Casings Canada ("NCI" and "NCCI") one of the leading brands in the production of collagen casings in North America, from Nitta Gelatin (TSE:4977)
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International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc.
Advising IFF, a global leader in flavors and fragrances, on its merger with DuPont's Nutrition & Biosciences Division, creating a clear global leader in the specialty ingredients sector
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Heidrick & Struggles
Advised 2Get, the largest independent search firm in Brazil, on its sale to Heidrick & Struggles, a leading global player in executive search and consulting


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