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4.27 (88,466 ratings by Goodreads)
By (author) Laini Taylor
Paperback US$15.86
From National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor comes an epic fantasy about a mythic lost city and its dark past. The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was just five years old, he's been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the form of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever. What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? And who is the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo's dreams? In this sweeping and breathtaking novel by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, the shadow of the past is as real as the ghosts who haunt the citadel of murdered gods. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares, love and carnage. The answers await in Weep.
For ages 12-17
Format Hardback | 544 pages
Publication City/Country United States
Muse of Nightmares
"An epic world of gods, moths and nightmares; a world where the dream chooses the dreamer."--p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times}Justine Magazine
About Laini Taylor
Laini Taylor is the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Honor Book Strange the Dreamer and its sequel, Muse of Nightmares. Taylor is also the author of the global sensation the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy and the companion novella Night of Cake & Puppets. Taylor's other works include the Dreamdark books: Blackbringer and Silksinger, and the National Book Award finalist Lips Touch: Three Times. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, and their daughter, Clementine. Her website is lainitaylor.com.
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Vatican is forced to deny claim that the Pope questioned Christ's divinity
Journalist Eugenio Scalfari claimed Pope Francis said Christ is not God incarnate
Vatican insisted this 'cannot be considered a faithful account of what was said'
Atheist Scalfari has previously claimed Pope Francis denied the existence of hell
By Faith Ridler For Mailonline
Published: 11:18 EST, 10 October 2019 | Updated: 11:51 EST, 10 October 2019
The Vatican has denied a claim that Pope Francis questioned Christ's divinity, insisting comments published by an Italian journalist are not a 'faithful account of what was actually said'.
In a statement given on Wednesday, Matteo Bruni said 'any words' Eugenio Scalfari attributed 'in quotation marks to the Holy Father' instead 'represent a personal and free interpretation of what he heard'.
Bruni, the director of the Holy See Press Office, added: 'As already stated on other occasions, the words that Dr. Eugenio Scalfari attributes in quotation marks to the Holy Father during talks with him cannot be considered a faithful account of what was actually said but represent a personal and free interpretation of what he heard, as appears completely evident from what is written today regarding the divinity of Jesus Christ'.
The Vatican has denied a claim that Pope Francis (pictured) questioned Christ's divinity
The statement comes after Scalfari, 95, wrote in a column for La Repubblica that 'Pope Francis conceives Christ as Jesus of Nazareth, a man, not God incarnate', the Catholic News Agency reported.
In the article, Scalfari - who is known to not take notes in interviews - did not claim he had recently spoken to Pope Francis, only that he had discussed the matter with him previously.
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If the pontiff had made this statement as reported by Scalfari, it would mean he had directly contradicted the Catholic belief that Jesus is God incarnate.
Dr Paolo Ruffini, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Communications, also commented on the article after a Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon on Thursday.
A statement from director of the Holy See Press Office Matteo Bruni insisted comments published by Eugenio Scalfari are not a 'faithful account of what was actually said'
According to the Catholic Herald, Ruffini denied Pope Francis had ever said 'what Scalfari wrote that he said'.
He added: 'On this, as you know, there has already been a clear denial by the Director of the Press Office, Dr Bruni. However, I would like to reiterate that the Holy Father never said what Scalfari wrote that he said.
'Therefore, both the quoted remarks, and the free reconstruction and interpretation by Dr Scalfari of the colloquies — which go back to more than two years ago — cannot be considered a faithful account of what was said by the Pope.
'And that will be found rather throughout the Church's magisterium and Pope Francis's own, on Jesus: true God and true man.'
Scalfari previously claimed Pope Francis had denied the existence of hell - which the Vatican was again forced to deny. He later admitted some of the quotes which translated this claim were 'not shared by Pope Francis'.

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To the main Judicial Inquiry page - to the Hazel McCallion page.
Toronto Sun - Oct. 2, 2009 - By Rob Lamberti, Sun Media, ROB.LAMBERTI@SUNMEDIA.CA
Hazel cleared - or not?
Judge to rule on mayor's conflict
Some say an independent review into allegations of conflict of interest involving Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion cleared her.
Others aren't so sure.
On the one hand, the report said a video of a May 21, 2008 meeting showed she didn't declare a conflict of interest even though minutes of the session state she did. In two previous meetings she did state she had a conflict.
That was enough for council to vote 6-4 for a judicial review by a superior court judge.
For her supporters, it's like a witch hunt -- for others, it's optics.
"First of all, I hired a lawyer a couple of weeks ago and ... reported to me that I complied with the act," McCallion said. "The city council hired an independent lawyer ... and I complied with the act. So, I don't know."
She laughed when asked if this was personal.
"No comment," McCallion said.
Ward 9 Councillor Pat Saito believes it's a salvo fired in a bid to unseat the 88-year-old mayor.
'WITCH HUNT'
Patricia Mullin, Ward 2 councillor, agrees, saying there's a plot afoot.
"We had a legal opinion ... that spelled out there was no wrongdoing," Mullin said.
"Why would I vote for something just to go on a witch hunt? I believe there's a lot more to this. I'm not going to be a part of that," she said.
And the proposed inquiry will be unnecessarily expensive, Mullin said.
Toronto law firm McLean and Kerr was picked by the city to review documents dealing with the conditional purchase of a parcel of land in the city's downtown for about $15 million. The land was to be developed into a hotel and convention centre.
The deal was being brokered by McCallion's realtor son, Peter, through a company called World Class Developments. The 3.4-hectare site in City Centre, which was later discovered to be contaminated with radioactive beryllium, was owned in part by OMERS, the giant municipal employees' pension fund. OMERS also owns some shares in Mississauga's hydro company.
COMPLICATED CASE
That deal eventually fell through.
Then the city became interested in the land for the construction of a Sheridan College campus, and when the contamination was discovered, the landowner removed about 5,000 cubic metres of soil to clean the property.
Council also believed the land was overvalued and had it reassessed.
The city agreed to buy the land next to Square One shopping mall Wednesday.
It's a complicated case and the law firm was to make it uncomplicated.
Dealing specifically with the May 21, 2008 meeting, the law firm said McCallion should have disclosed her financial interest in World Class Developments' involvement in the property.
But the legal opinion said the mayor's actions were the result of an "honest error in judgment or committed through inadvertence" and that she wouldn't be subject to penalties outlined in the municipal conflict of interest act.
And that motivated Ward 7 Councillor Nando Iannicca to say it seems the mayor was somehow in conflict, but it wasn't clear how serious it was.
So he put forward a motion -- seconded by Ward 6 Councillor Carolyn Parrish -- calling for a judicial review of the matter, meaning a high court judge will decide if a conflict of interest occurred.
For Iannicca, it's a necessary step.
"The only way to bring it back is independent of council, with someone else of competent jurisdiction, review it, and it takes us wherever it takes us," Iannicca said in an interview. "I hope everybody is going to be exonerated, but it doesn't look like one group of politicians are washing another one's hands."
Parrish was in meetings yesterday but sent a written statement.
"The recent land transaction with OMERS, on behalf of Sheridan College, created considerable turmoil and raised questions of conflict of interest, amongst others," she wrote.
"Council unanimously asked the outside law firm of McLean and Kerr to review a series of documents and answer a variety of questions regarding soil contaminants on the subject lands as well as superior court of Ontario affidavits challenging the land we were about to purchase was free of encumbrances," Parrish wrote.
"The lawyers' report, including statements by Peter McCallion and the mayor, clearly show bad judgment was exercised, at the very least.
"It was my reluctant duty to pass the whole file on to a qualified, independent judge appointed by the province," her statement read.
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Whats wrong with Duke? Nothing new
Tough scheduling, slow team development plaguing Blue Devils
January 19, 2017 Shawn Krest Sports
DURHAM — news may not have reached the tents popping up in Krzyzewskiville, but Duke's season is apparently over.The Blue Devils, heading into the weekend, lost two straight to fall to 2-3 in the ACC. They've plunged 11 spots in the AP poll, to 18. The team has no point guard and is getting buried under an avalanche of turnovers. When Duke manages to avoid losing the ball, there's too much one-on-one play, led by Jayson Tatum, instead of running an offense. And then there's the Grayson Allen saga, which has been a season-long distraction.Things haven't been this bad in Durham since, well, last year.If you remember way back when, Duke lost three straight games early in the ACC season, dropping to 3-3, and then 4-4.Then there was the national championship season of 2014-15, which included a 2-2 sky-is-falling start to ACC play. The year before that? Duke lost two of its first three ACC games.If the numbers aren't convincing enough that this isn't a shocking new development in Durham, consider the words:"I think we've done some things to get better. It hasn't equated in wins, but it's part of the process of growing as a team. We've got to do more.""You try to pay attention to improvement, and we are playing well. We are playing our hearts out, and that has not been rewarded. A lot of people do not get rewarded when they play; they are doing something with all of their heart. We have been rewarded a lot, that is why those banners are out there. Right now it is a cruel time, it's a tough one. It's different if it is attitude or whatever, but they are busting their butts.""We have good effort. Our guys came to play. They've practiced well. I just don't think we're confident right now. I'm not saying we have no confidence. Confident when we shoot it. I just don't see it. I don't feel it, and that happens. That's a part of learning. I'm not totally surprised with us losing—, because I've never felt we're a great team. I've felt we're really a great group of kids working our butts off, winning some big games and stuff like that, but we're not that team yet. Maybe through the adversity that we have had and will have, we will be afforded the opportunity of doing that. When you have a group of youngsters, you're trying to cram three or four years of stuff in one year, so this loss was like a year."The first quote is from Jeff Capel, on this week's ACC conference call. The second is from Mike Krzyzewski, after Duke lost to Syracuse at Cameron last year. The third is K after losing to Miami at Cameron in 2015, 83 days before cutting down the nets in Indianapolis.In other words, it takes awhile for the March Duke powerhouse to develop. This year's team is taking a little extra time, due to the large number of injuries the team has suffered. Duke scholarship players have missed a total of 56 games to injury this season, and that total doesn't include the three games (and counting) Coach K has missed."This is like our October," Krzyzewski said in January, before his surgery, referring to the team's stunted development.The ACC schedule also hasn't done the Blue Devils any favors. Duke's back-to-back losses that raised all the uproar came in road games, at No. 9 Florida State and No. 14 Louisville. Consecutive road games against ranked ACC foes isn't unprecendented, but it's fairly rare. Rarer still is to run that road gauntlet without losing. Duke has had five such stretches in the schedule since the 2003-04 season. Three times, the Blue Devils have gone 1-1. Twice, they've lost both games. The last time Duke won both ends of a ranked-road trip like that? 1958, when the Blue Devils beat No. 7 UNC and No. 10 NC State.The last time UNC played back-to-back ACC road games against ranked teams was 2013, when the Tar Heels lost to No. 8 Miami and No. 2 Duke. The Tar Heels last swept a ranked road trip in 2004 (No. 12 Clemson and No. 14 Maryland).NC State's last ranked road trip was 2008, when the Pack lost at No. 1 Carolina and No. 24 Clemson. The last time the Pack won both ends of a similar trip was in 1958 (No. 6 Carolina, No. 8 Maryland)."We're coming off of two straight losses against two good teams on the road in hostile environments," Capel said. "We've played against better competition. Having said that, we have to be stronger. We have to be mentally tougher."
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In-state players opening eyes at college football all-star games
NFL Notebook: Saints looking at Johnny Manziel, Pats going to White House
March 23, 2017 NSJ Staff Sports
Pats visiting Trump on 4/19The Super Bowl champion New England Patriots will make their fifth trip to the White House on April 19, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced on Thursday.The Patriots have met […]
Stars shine as UNC rolls to sweet tourney victory against Butler
March 25, 2017 Brett Friedlander Sports
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Justin Jackson and Joel Berry have formed a 1-2 punch that has carried the North Carolina basketball team all season. And yet, even though one or the other has led the Tar […]
Former Deacon Collins gaining confidence in NBA Summer League
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John Collins was admittedly nervous in his NBA Las Vegas Summer League debut for the Atlanta Hawks last Friday. "It was my first professional game ever, I'm going to have nerves," the former Wake Forest […]


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Q: c++ Why does a .ignore() function not work properly? A list of Numbers go to the Stack if the number is greater then 0 and less than 50. A number goes to the queue if the number is greater than 50 and less than 100. If the data is not a number, I want to discard it and go to the next read. This is where I am getting some problems.
Here is the while loop I am using to process the file of numbers:
while (infile)
{
    infile >> number; //takes in a number
    if (0 < number && number < 50)
    {
        PushToStack(number); // pushed to stack
    }
    else if (50 < number && number < 100)
    {
        PushToQueue(number); // pushes to queue
    }
    else
    {
        // discard and move to next read
        infile.ignore(1, '\n');
    }
}

I have tested this code a few times now and I have produced the following output:
Pushed To Stack: 12
Pushed To Stack: 44
Pushed To Stack: 23
Pushed To Queue: 55
Pushed To Queue: 55

As soon as a letter (lets say n for example) is included in the set, it does not continue reading the other numbers and it also repeats the last number. I thought infile.ignore(1,'\n') would skip to the next line. According to the c++ documentation, .ignore should skip to the next line. I assume I am using the ignore function incorrectly. Or is there be a better way, without using .ignore to skip any bad data included and continue reading in numbers from a file like this?

A: infile.ignore(1, '\n') will ignore at most one character.
try this instead:
infile.ignore(std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');
this will ignore as many characters as the architecture can count, but will stop ignoring after encountering a newline or end of file.
std::numeric_limits is defined in <limits>

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Hungerturm steht für:
 Hungerturm (Bauwerk), ein Gefängnisturm, meistens Bestandteil von Befestigungsanlagen
 Hungerturm (Gastronomie), eine verglaste, mehrstöckige Vitrine für Speisen in Kneipen
 Hungerturm (Deutschfeistritz), eine Burgruine in der Steiermark

Hungerturm heißen folgende Türme:
 Hungerturm, Turm der Stadtbefestigung in Bernau bei Berlin, Landkreis Barnim, Brandenburg
 Hungerturm (Tauberbischofsheim), in Tauberbischofsheim, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg
 Hungerturm (Wittenburg), in Wittenburg, Landkreis Ludwigslust-Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Siehe auch
 Gefangenenturm
 Hungerburg

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Just in time for spring comes a refreshing and alive exhibition—one that has been months in the making. Trent Call and Dan Christofferson at Kayo Gallery this month truly bloom with a vibrant evolution—paintings with an old-timey class and a pop-culture flare.
This is new work, not only in its chronology, but also in its approach. For Call, it shows a significant departure from his work of seasons prior. More muted, abstracted, gestural figures emerge from a painterly background. Smaller in format and more intimate because of it, his works are subtle—but still true to his loud, bright, animated works. The large triptych in his vintage style almost seems like the odd man out in this new portfolio.
Dan Christofferson, also a very illustrative artist, exercises a discerning use of exposed wood grain in his altar-like panels (detail of "Eternal Paternal" pictured above). These pieces, too, are different from a previous body of work. Highly stylized and paying homage to the Bay Area's visual language, his works—regally backed by fabric hanging from the corners—are dialed-in surrealist calligraphic doodles that hint at an underlying narrative. Immaculately executed, the paintings—which really seem more like drawings—reveal lonely, comical figures. Adorned with words like "freedom," "beauty," "health" and "wisdom," they seem vaguely like emblematic advertisements obscured by uncertainty, as the words are written in German. High-art and bluecollar all at once, clean-lined, fun works are a break from the norm.


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Dwayne Harris named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Dwayne Harris has been selected the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week for his game-winning performance in the Giants' 27-20 victory over the Dallas Cowboys.
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Harris scored the deciding points with his 100-yard kickoff return with 7:01 remaining in the fourth quarter. It was the first kickoff return in Giants history that accounted for the deciding points in the fourth quarter of a game in which the Giants trailed or were tied.
>> ALL-TIME KICK RETURN TDS
Harris' clutch runback – an immediate response to a Dallas touchdown that had tied the game at 20 - was the Giants' first kickoff return touchdown since David Wilson's 97-yard return vs. New Orleans on Dec. 9, 2012. The five-year veteran and first-year Giant tied the franchise record for longest kickoff return touchdown. Pro Football Hall of Famer Emlen Tunnell returned a kickoff 100 yards vs. the New York Yankees on Nov. 4, 1951, and Clarence Childs matched him against Minnesota on Dec. 6, 1964.
It was Harris' first career kickoff return touchdown, on his 85th career runback. He has two punt return touchdowns, and four receiving touchdowns, including one this year. Harris played his first four seasons with Dallas before joining the Giants last offseason as a free agent. He is only the third player in NFL history with a kickoff return touchdown vs. a team for which he played the previous season. The others were Bo Roberson (87 yards for Oakland vs. San Diego on Sept. 30, 1962) and Aaron Stecker (98 yards for New Orleans vs. Tampa Bay on Dec. 19, 2004).
Harris had three kickoff returns for 149 yards, as well as two receptions for 43 yards. His 38-yard reception in the second quarter was the second-longest of his career.
This is the Giants' second Player of the Week award in three weeks; quarterback Eli Manning was the NFC Offensive Player of the Week for his 41-completion, 441-yard performance in a Week 5 victory over San Francisco. Manning also accounted for the game-winning points against the Niners, throwing a 12-yard touchdown pass to Larry Donnell with 21 seconds remaining.
>> GIANTS VS. SAINTS STORYLINES
Harris is the first Giants player to win the special teams award since Josh Brown in Week 15 of the 2013 season. He is the first non-kicker since Wilson was honored in Week 14 in 2012, following his kickoff return vs. New Orleans.
Gameday Photo Timeline: Giants vs. Cowboys (10/25)
Gameday photo timeline from the Giants Week 7 win vs. Cowboys
1:00 PM - Fans tailgating hours before the Giants take on the Cowboys at MetLife Stadium - View Gallery
2:30 PM - Players take the field to begin their pregame warmups - View Gallery
4:20 PM - Giants line up for the National Anthem shortly before kickoff
4:25 PM - Giants are joined by former CB Everson Walls and SVU's Mariska Hagerty as they get set to kickoff against the Cowboys at MetLife Stadium
5:25, 1ST QTR, Dan Bailey kicks a 30-yard field goal, DAL 3 - NYG 0
14:07, 2ND QTR, Eli Manning passes to Rueben Randle for 24 yards - Watch Highlight
11:02, 2ND QTR, Orleans Darkwa runs for a 15-yard touchdown, NYG 7 - DAL 3 - Watch Highlight
7:29, 2ND QTR, Matt Cassel passes to Terrance Williams for a 27-yard completion, which sets up a 48-yard Dan Bailey field goal, NYG 7 - DAL 6
2:17, 2ND QTR, Darren McFadden rushes for a 1-yard touchdown, DAL 13 - NYG 7
1:04, 2ND QTR, Dwayne Harris hauls in a 38-yard pass from Eli Manning to set up 47-yard Josh Brown field goal, DAL 13 - NYG 10 - Watch Highlight
11:19, 3RD QTR, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie intercepts Matt Cassel, and returns it 58 yards for a touchdown, NYG 17 - DAL 13 - Watch Highlight
7:54, 3RD QTR, Brandon Meriweather intercepts Matt Cassel at the NYG 1 - Watch Highlight
6:33, 3RD QTR, Rueben Randle makes a spectacular one-handed catch near Giants midfield for 44 yards - Watch Highlight
5:55, 3RD QTR, Shane Vereen runs for 39 yards to the DAL 11 - Watch Highlight
3:18, 3RD QTR, After two great plays by Randle and Vereen, Josh Brown kicks a 34-yard field goal, NYG 20 - DAL 13
15:00, 4TH QTR, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie intercepts his second pass of the day and returns it for 12 yards - Watch Highlight
7:14, 4TH QTR, Devin Street catches a 25-yard pass from Matt Cassel in the back of the end zone for a touchdown, NYG 20 - DAL 20
7:01, 4TH QTR, Dwayne Harris returns the kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown, NYG 27 - DAL 20 - Watch Highlight
1:36, 4TH QTR, Giants' Myles White recovers the muffed punt by Cole Beasley at DAL 16
Final Score: New York Giants 27, Dallas Cowboys 20. Coach Coughlin becomes the seventh coach with at least 100 victories and two Super Bowl wins with one franchise - Watch Game Highlights
Coach Coughlin addresses the team immediately following the Giants win against the Cowboys. Coach Coughlin awarded game ball by Eli Manning - Watch Giants Locker Room Celebration


Midnight Rider is a song first recorded on the Allman Brothers Band's second album Idlwild South, in 1970).
"Midnight Rider" is about a man who rides a horse while running from the law in a journey that goes on forever.1 In episode 11 Captain Daily says to his co-pilot, that he thinks himself to be like "a cowboy". He then adds, "The plane's my horse, and the sky an open desert"(111.1).
Moments later, Flight 828 experiences turbulence and the plane is transported 5 1/2 years into the future. After the passengers land, Captain Daly is interrogated by NSA Director Robert Vance who tells him the government's National Transportation Safety Board (NTBS) blames him for the incident saying he "made a series of unconventional maneuvers" (111.1).
Therefore, when viewers see Daly and Ben blazing down the road as "Midnight Rider" plays on the car's radio, the song's lyrics offer a fitting backdrop to Daly's lines of dialogue in the scene which wreak of desperation and determination. He tells Ben how the government and media have put him through hell for something he had no control of, and how he has even lost his son and wife who won't even to talk to him (111.15).
Just as "Midnight Rider" repeats a line about "holding on to a silver dollar" which is a sign of hope, in this episode Captain Daly's "pilot's wings" serve a similar purpose, albeit, exploring hope from a different angle (i.e. the framework of the series mythology).
What changed? When Daly broke through the time barrier, he found hope again. But what does that mean or what that looks like remains to be seen? Does Daly sacrifice himself? Is that how he earns his wings back? Does the plane crash or blow up in another time period with only Fiona surviving? Will she reemerge as a darker Fiona 2.0?
Even if Daly's horse (plane) ride doesn't last forever, as the iconic line of "Midnight Rider" suggests, now that his Pilot's Wings have been passed on to Cal, and Daly has passed on his role of Captain to Ben, fans of the series hope that the series will continue, if not forever, for at least another 3-5 seasons.
For other uses, see Midnight Rider (disambiguation).
(1971) "Ain't Wastin' Time No More"
"Midnight Rider" is a song by the American rock band the Allman Brothers Band. It was the second single from their second studio album, Idlewild South (1970), released on Capricorn Records. The song was primarily written by vocalist Gregg Allman, who first began composing it at a rented cabin outside Macon, Georgia. He enlisted the help of roadie Robert Kim Payne to complete the song's lyrics. He and Payne broke into Capricorn Sound Studios to complete a demo of the song.
While the original Allman Brothers release of the song did not chart, "Midnight Rider" was much more successful in cover versions. Gregg Allman's solo version of the song, released in 1973, was its biggest chart success; it was a top 20 hit in the U.S. and Canada. A cover by Jamaican singer, Paul Davidson, represented its biggest peak in the United Kingdom, where it hit number ten. Country artist Willie Nelson also recorded a version of the song that peaked at number six on U.S. country charts.


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Do the Tories and their media allies know they could get Jeremy Corbyn killed?
Sam Chipman
Parliament Square, London. 18th June 2016. A message of hope and unity in tribute to MP Jo Cox
The Sun recently remarked that Jeremy Corbyn had met with a member of the Czech intelligence service, and was an informer of the Soviet regime – since then, the story has been repeated and repeated by those on the right of politics, despite no evidence to back up the story but one unreliable, and frankly delusional, source (who also claimed the Czech's were responsible for Live Aid).
The head of the Czech Security Forces Archive has said that allegations are untrue. And an analyst with the defence ministry of the Czech Republic agreed, saying that Sarkocy (the source) was a liar. Yet the story still seems to run…
Th e Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson jumped on the smear bandwagon saying that Corbyn had "never had Britain's interests at heart", and claimed he had met with foreign spies, which he said was a "betrayal of this country."
Ben Bradley, MP for Mansfield took to Twitter to allege that Corbyn "Sold British secrets to communist spies. He has since removed his tweet and issued a full apology after contact from Corbyn's lawyers and the threat of a libel case.
A report by The Independent found that 75% of press coverage misrepresents Jeremy Corbyn. The Media's vested interests are well known, Corbyn wants to close down tax loopholes that Media baron's use to hide their wealth from the taxman, but for democratically elected politicians to give their lies credibility is almost beyond belief, and very worrying.
These desperate attempts to tarnish Corbyn's reputation are dangerous. They could get him killed.
Darren Osborne, 48, was jailed last month for murder and attempted murder after he drove a white van into a crowd of worshippers outside a mosque. During his trial, Osborne admitted he wanted to kill Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.
Parliment Square, London. 18th June 2016. Flowers laid in the memory of murdered MP, JO Cox
And of course, lest we forget the late Jo Cox, MP for Batley & Spen, who was fatally shot and stabbed by far-right fanatic Thomas Mair before a constituents' surgery in the run-up to the EU referendum.
When government ministers give credence to entirely false and ridiculous smears not only do they demean their office and undermine our democracy, they give an air of credibility to such trains of thoughts that can lead to the kind of extremism that ended in the murder of MP Jo Cox – let's not make the same mistakes again.
Radicalisation is not a problem just within Islam, and the media and politicians have to be more careful with their use of language and line of attack. The slow-burning hate created by such stories and repeated inflammation can lead to grave consequences.
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Nick Young's Baby Mama Doesn't Regret Getting Pregnant While He Was with Iggy Azalea
Photo Credit: Instagram
By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
It was rumored Nick Young and Iggy Azalea's engagement fell apart due to Nick's cheating ways, and now his baby mama confirms that she's actually pregnant with their second child, and she got knocked up while he was with Iggy.
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Low self esteem much?
Hershey says:
She don't love ha self!!!!!!!!
Peachy says:
Exactly. She really is a mess.
Queen says:
All I know is you reap what you sow. She knew he was in a relationship and he didn't care he was in a relationship. Karma will be something serious.
Treasure8430 says:
Hmm Baby #2 and he didn't propose to you…..yet???? LOL that is the joke. That's why I was never interested in messing with a dude who has a young kid(s) with his baby mother…there's always that chance of folks still messing….I wasn't trying to make time for that triangle..and I felt like I was too young to be a step mom and I didn't have any kids foh
Yeah I Said It! says:
The thirst is real.
This woman is sad. There is no way I would allow a man to use me like this. I'm sure he will never marry her either.
This is why she will forever be the baby mama and never a wife. At the end of the day yea he not marrying Iggy but I guarantee he won't be marrying her. Mark my words he's going to go on and marry someone else and she going to always be what she is a baby mama good for occasional hookups that's it because she allows it. So desperate to be with Nick trifling behind so pathetic smh. I can't stand Iggy but at least she stop being stupid and had sense enough to leave Nick alone.
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Pathetic all around. But anyone who refers to themselves as Swaggy P should be avoided at all costs.
Some women really don't have any pride or self respect. She will never be more than a fling and having his babies won't change that. Iggy better not go back to Nick's trifling tail either. He will never change.
Beauty says:
Its sad, she shouldn't be dragged because we dont kno what he was telling her when they were sleeping together and as a woman i can say most if not all of us at some point have been stupid for a man and let love block our common sense
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Lisa GubernickStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
Updated Dec. 6, 2000 12:01 am ET
Nuclear fission. Number theory. Greek mythology. Not exactly the makings of a light evening out on the town. But in recent months on stages across America, theater audiences have been paying to immerse themselves in subjects they haven't touched since they were in college, if then.
"I couldn't follow the science -- which is what they were talking about most of the time," says Marianne Johnson, a New York business consultant who saw "Copenhagen," the hit Broadway show about atomic scientists Niels Bohr and...


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Consumers look for ways to blunt impact of consumption tax hike
by Mark Schreiber
Japan's consumption tax on goods and services has arguably been unpopular from the get-go. Introduced at 3 percent in 1989 as a means of improving public finances, the rate was raised to 5 percent in 1997, 8 percent in 2014 and, from Oct. 1 of this year, to 10 percent.
As we shall see, the latest tax hike is likely to have more far-reaching impacts on consumer behavior than before. A growing number of retailers, manufacturers and financial service providers are viewing the latest increase as an opportunity to harness information technology and customer relationship marketing to blunt the tax's impact — such as by offering bonus points and other premiums, discounts and rebates.
The tax hike is also expected to hasten the general trend, already in motion, toward cashless transactions.
Japan has lagged considerably behind most major economies in its adoption of cash substitutes.
Its transition only increased by 6.2 percent in the decade from 2007 to 2016. Three years ago, only 18.9 percent of Japanese were utilizing electronic payment methods — a rate far lower than in South Korea (96.4 percent), the U.K. (68.7), Australia (59.1), Canada (56.4), Sweden (51.5), and the U.S. and France (both 46 percent).
To demonstrate the appeal of this new consumer paradigm, Flash (Oct. 22-29) produced a "Complete manual on consumption tax cashless rebates for IT weaklings." Through astute electronic shopping and payment methods — pei-katsu being the new term for this activity — its reporter demonstrated how he harnessed discounts and bonus points from PayPay and Yahoo Card, claiming to have saved ¥355 off ordinary prices in a single day. The breakdown: ¥38 from shopping online for a musical instrument cable; ¥16 from purchasing his breakfast at a convenience store; a ¥100 reduction from a pasta lunch at an Italian restaurant; ¥174 from dinner at a gyōza restaurant; and ¥27 when drinking at an izakaya pub. Over the course of a month, he concluded, total savings over ordinary cash could easily come to as much as ¥5,000.
One major difference from previous tax increases is a two-tier system by which food items purchased at supermarkets, convenience stores, fast-food outlets and so on will be taxed at the previous rate of 8 percent, whereas customers at restaurants, bars and other eat-in establishments will pay 10 percent — even for what is essentially the same item.
This 2 percent disparity, discussed in the In-depth Business Economic Report in Shukan Jitsuwa (Oct. 17), is likely to boost demand for food delivery services such as Uber Eats, and may also spawn completely new types of business.
According to a source in the food and beverage industry, bolstered by demand from working couples and solitary male households, the food delivery market grew year on year by 5.9 percent to ¥404.8 billion in 2018. Further growth is anticipated.
"The Oct. 1 tax increase was not applied to living necessities (such as newspapers and foodstuffs)," a management consultant explained. "So both takeout and delivery types of food and beverage businesses, which charge the lower rate of 8 percent, can expect increased demand."
Uber Eats, a food delivery service from the United States that began operations in Japan in 2016, stands to become one of the prime beneficiaries. It has presently tied up to deliver meals from some 1,500 food service companies.
Gusto, a chain of budget family restaurants, last April introduced its own line of pizzas with a chewy type of crust. It is hoping to parlay the popular new item so as to straddle both the eat-in and home delivery business models.
The new tax structure may also benefit the so-called ghost restaurants — another business that surfaced in New York around 2010 — which exclusively engage in outside deliveries.
As opposed to startup costs ranging from ¥10 million to ¥15 million for a new restaurant, a business like the new Kitchen Base chain can hold down initial investment costs to just a fraction of the above.
On Sept. 18, another ghost restaurant, 6curry, opened in Tokyo's Ebisu district. It will rely exclusively on Uber Eats to make deliveries.
More difficult to gauge at this stage is how the tax rise might affect crime. Specifically, international gold smuggling, the main sources of which have been Hong Kong, South Korea and China.
Yukan Fuji (Oct. 6) reported that in the market for precious metals, 2 percent can make a significant difference. As an example, let's say a person purchases 4 kilograms of pure gold, valued at ¥20 million, in a country that doesn't tax sales. If legally imported into Japan, a 10 percent import duty will cost ¥2 million. So if a smuggler can avoid that payment and resell their 4 kilograms of gold at the same ¥22 million as a legal business, they profit by ¥2 million.
The correlation between the consumption tax and illicit gold becomes more evident when compared with earlier years. The year before 2014, when the tax was 5 percent, customs confiscated 133 kilograms; in 2017, three years after the tax had been raised to 8 percent, 6,277 kilograms had been intercepted.
Lured by the prospect of larger ill-gotten gains, smugglers have been hard at work to devise clever new methods. A photo supplied by Kansai International Airport customs showed the handle of a large calligraphy brush and a Chinese inkstone, both forged from pure gold, that were recently nabbed by customs agents.
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Innovation Award Winners: Anglo American Dawson Mine
Excellence in mining was celebrated at the Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference (QMIHSC), Health and Innovation Awards, with Anglo American Dawson Mine taking home the win for the Innovation Award and Kestrel Resources the winner of the Health Award.
Over 1000 industry leaders and professionals came together at the largest health and safety conference of its kind in the southern hemisphere which culminated with the Health and Innovation Awards gala on August 24.
The Awards were developed to recognise creative and practical solutions in the health and safety space and to promote their application across the state's resources industry.
Anglo American Dawson Mine's pioneering Workshop Wheel Chock won the Innovation Award and the Dawson Mine Maintenance team also caught the attention of the passionate industry conference delegates, taking home the People Choice Award too.
QMIHSC 2022 Chair Peter Newman said Anglo American's innovation creates a safer and simpler way of working on mining trucks in workshops, while significantly reducing the potential for fatalities and injuries.
"Their solution moves the dial on safety in mine workshops by introducing a hard engineering control to remove the risk of unsafe wheel chock ejection," Mr Newman said.
Health Award Winners: Kestrel Coal Resources
Kestrel Coal Resources were announced as the winner of the Health Awards category for their 2022 Lifestyle Challenge and Mr Newman commended Kestrel for their commitment to culture improvements and healthy lifestyle changes at their operation through the wellbeing initiative.
"A safe and high performing workforce is one that is healthy and happy in their workplace," Mr Newman said.
"The workforce behind Queensland's mining industry, in particular many fly in fly out (FIFO) or Drive in Drive Out (DIDO) workers, work long and physically exhausting shifts, away from the support of their families."
"Kestrel's initiative is an outstanding example of caring for the workforce and their health."
Industry Legends
Legends Award Winners: Greg Dalliston & Jim Parsons
Moura-based Pick and Shovel Miner Jim Parsons and Industry Safety and Health Representative, Greg Dalliston from Morayfield were also recognised, both receiving the honorable Legends Award at QMIHSC.
QMIHSC 2022 Chair Peter Newman said Jim and Greg are both outstanding examples of the world-class workforce behind the state's mining sector, who foster an environment of proactive health and safety behaviors at the mine, organisation and industry levels.
"Across their impressive careers, Jim and Greg tirelessly served Queensland's mining industry as role models and mentors to assist in the ongoing, continuous cycle of safety improvement," Mr Newman said.
"The industry is committed to eliminating fatalities, injuries and occupational illnesses, with a strong focus on building and sustaining respectful workplaces,"
"We hope that Jim and Greg's shared experiences, achievements and long-standing commitment to promoting health and safety excellence in our sector will inspire present and future generations of industry leaders to continue driving our vision of Zero Serious Harm.
"The mining industry's core value and commitment is the safety, health and psychological wellbeing of its workforce, where everyone who goes to work returns home safe and healthy,
"Jim and Greg embody this year's conference theme – Together we Collaborate, Innovate and Educate – and prove what is possible through collaboration as we work together to respond to broader industry safety and health challenges."
The QMIHSC Legends Award was established in 2017 to recognise those in Queensland's mining industry who have made substantial, sustained and significant improvements to health and safety in the mining industry.
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Bangs & Whimpers - Robert Aldrich's ...ALL THE MARBLES (1981)
Did Robert Aldrich go out with a whimper or a bang?
Review by Eric Hillis
Bangs & Whimpers is a series in which we take a look at the final movies of acclaimed and significant filmmakers. In this instalment we examine the final work of Robert Aldrich.
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Peter Falk, Vicki Frederick, Laurene Landon, Burt Young, Claudette Nevins, Richard Jaeckel
Robert Aldrich enjoyed a career that took in a variety of genres, but he's arguably best known for kicking off the crudely nicknamed 'Hagsploitation' or 'Psycho-Biddy' sub-genre with 1962's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. Hagsploitation movies revolved around older actresses, often those whose mainstream Hollywood careers had dried up, torturing one another with vindictive, psychological cruelty. Along with Baby Jane, Aldrich explored this idea further in 1964's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte and 1968's UK set The Killing of Sister George. Having made his name from depictions of women behaving awfully towards one another, it's fitting that Aldrich went out with a movie in which women literally beat seven bells out of each other, 1981's female wrestling drama ...All the Marbles, also known in some parts as 'The California Dolls'.
Belonging to the same sort of 'loveable loser' buddy genre as Robert Altman's California Split and Hal Ashby's Lookin' to Get Out, ...All the Marbles gives us a unique trio of protagonists - wrestlers Iris (Vicki Frederick) and Molly (Laurene Landon), a tag team known as 'The California Dolls', and their huckster manager Harry (Peter Falk) - and follows their exploits as they travel the rust belt of middle America in an attempt to rack up enough wins in the ring to take part in a coveted championship match at the MGM Grand in Reno.
Initially, this seems a pipedream, as Harry books the girls into a series of sleazy smalltown smackdowns, exploiting their Playboy centrefold looks to win bookings. Iris, the older of the pair, has grown cynical with Harry, but the wily manager uses his old world charm to keep the girls on his side, lecturing them on Italian opera and American literature on the long drives through an autumnal and smokestack stained MidWestern landscape.
The girls' relationship with Harry reaches a tipping point when he books them into a mud wrestling match at a county fair, an event which ends in all four wrestlers involved revealing more than just their athleticism. Taking her destiny in her own hands, Iris sleeps with seedy promoter Eddie Cisco (Burt Young, an actor who seemed to turn up in every movie of this period), who repays her generosity by booking the Dolls into the Reno match. Harry, whose fractious relationship with Iris has been developing from paternal to perverted, is outraged at the thought of Cisco, his long-time enemy, sleeping with Iris, and his jealousy threatens the Dolls' big chance at landing the title they so badly crave.
The last time I watched ...All the Marbles I was far too young to pick up on its messed up gender politics and the confused tone it has in this regard, but viewing it as an adult there are some decidedly uncomfortable scenes. Not once, but twice do we witness Harry deploying physical violence against Iris. Though the latter is clearly physically superior to Harry, and barely acknowledges the backhanded smacks she receives, it doesn't make these moments any easier to watch, and sours the viewer on the otherwise loveable Harry. Curiously, though Aldrich shoots both scenes in somewhat innocuous fashion, composer Frank De Vol accompanies each hit with a Psycho-esque string stab, as though he takes this violence far more seriously than his director does.
Remove these disagreeable moments and you have a minor gem of the road movie genre, raucous in its ring bouts and sensitive and humourous elsewhere. Mel Frohman and Rich Eustis's script gives Falk plenty of great lines to wrap his distinctive hang-dog jowls around, with zingers like "Don't move; I want to forget you just as you are," and "What can you expect from a day that begins with getting out of bed," while a monologue about how Harry's immigrant father learned English from reading the New York Times and Clifford Odets is a Falk showreel moment. Falk is at his breezy best here, making it all look terribly easy, as was his way, while the Amazonian Frederick does a fine job of conveying the frustration of being a woman whose talent is overlooked in favour of her appearance.
Frederick and Landon were put through extensive training prior to filming, and their athletic prowess pays off in the film's splendidly staged wrestling scenes; particularly the climactic bout, an extended set-piece which reminds the viewer that this was likely greenlit as a cash-in on the success of the then nascent Rocky franchise.
I have to confess that personally I can't think of anything less enticing than watching wrestling, so it helps to have Falk at ringside interjecting with rapid fire quips, but if you are a devotee of the 'sport', you'll no doubt be impressed by the skills of the Dolls and their opponents. Prior to 2008's The Wrestler, Aldrich's final film held the undisputed title of wrestling's greatest cinematic treatment, and the director was developing a sequel at the time of his death from kidney failure. in 1983.
The verdict: Did Robert Aldrich go out with a whimper or a bang?
While ...All the Marbles is unlikely to feature in too many highlight reels of Aldrich's career, it's a fun ride, a film anchored by one of Peter Falk's finest performances. Not quite a bang as loud as a California Doll hitting the mat, but a bang nonetheless.
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Organizations calls for Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association to rescind its endorsement of Donald Trump
By Cleveland 19 Digital Team
Published: Oct. 13, 2016 at 3:39 PM EDT|Updated: Oct. 13, 2016 at 9:02 PM EDT
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Recently, for the first time in the organization's history, some of the members of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association took a vote on whom to back in the presidential election.
As a result, the CPPA endorsed controversial GOP candidate Donald Trump.
That vote and the results are not sitting well with members of The Cleveland Black Shield Police Association.
The Black Shield will hold a news conference Thursday along with other community groups to address what it calls sexually abusive comments by Presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The organization says it shares the country's disgust with the scurrilous, sexist and criminally suggestive comments of Trump. It further says the statements made by republican presidential candidate are consistent with the oft repeated and disrespectful and/or racist comments he's made about African Americans, immigr ants of color and now women.
Black Shield says what was once the comments of a spoiled brat now his recent statements about grabbing the genitalia of women shows that he would have no problem committing criminal acts, including sexually violating and even raping women that he has power over.
Black Shield President Lynn Hampton says these comments are a clear indication that Trump is not fit to be President of the United States of America. Further, we who are police officers and are duty bound to arrest individuals who commit the types of acts that Mr. Trump brags about, are ashamed that a small percentage of our brothers in blue would endorse this type of behavior.
Simply stated, Hampton says, the endorsement of Donald Trump does not represent the position of the vast majority of Cleveland Police officers and should be rescinded immediately.
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Q: VMWare Workstation 6.5.5 Install Freezes I am trying to install VMWare Workstation 6.5.5 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit), but at about 2/3 of the progress bar, it freezes where it says:
Installing VMWare Player 2.5.5
   Configuring...

Interestingly, it is so frozen, that even after I hit cancel, it is still stuck.
CPU consumption is at 0% and the command with which I launched the installer is:
sudo sh VMware-Workstation-6.5.5-328052.x86_64.bundle

Anyone has seen this before?
Any idea why this is happening and how to solve this?

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For $500,000! Rick Perry Backs AT&T Merger Plan With T-Mobile
More crony capitalism from Rick Perry, the finest Texas Governor money can buy. We've talked about the pay-for-play deal Perry and his people had with Merck with Gardasil, but this is a lot bigger and has deeper ramifications.
Perry wrote a letter endorsing the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. Nothing inappropriate in that, until you learn AT&T's PAC has given Perry over $500,000 since he has been in office, according to the Texas Ethics Commission.
From the National Journal:
In the May 25 letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and the other commissioners, the GOP presidential candidate urged approval of the controversial megadeal on behalf of a home-state company. AT&T is headquartered in Dallas. T-Mobile is owned by a German telecommunications company.
"I believe that this merger will continue to provide for great consumer choice, offer a wide range of service options, and spur continued innovation," Perry wrote. "The future rests in wireless broadband, and the federal government's swift approval of the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile would send a strong signal to employers, consumers, and states that our federal government is serious about meeting the communication and technology needs of Texans and all Americans." Perry cited "the commitment of at least an additional $8 billion in private investment over seven years as a result of this merger" as a reason to support the deal.
On Wednesday, the Justice Department sued to block the merger. "We believe the combination of AT&T and T-Mobile would result in tens of millions of consumers all across the United States facing higher prices, fewer choices, and lower-quality products for their mobile wireless services," Deputy Attorney General James Cole said.
Over the past decade, AT&T's political action committee has given Perry more than $500,000, according to the Texas Ethics Commission's records. Those contributions already have Democrats on the offensive.
"This is just one more example of Rick Perry's pay-to-play network that represents the same old type of lobbyist-first politics. He might try to pretend to be some outsider, but as his record continues to come to light, the American people will see right through his facade," said Ty Matsdorf, spokesman for American Bridge 21st Century, a Democratic opposition research organization.
Perry spokesman Mark Miner defended his boss's actions.
"AT&T is a highly regarded Texas-based company, creating thousands of good American jobs and providing critical communications services worldwide," Miner said in a statement to National Journal. "Gov. Perry believes the combination of the two telecom companies will be good for consumers, good for technology innovation, and good for American job creation."
Perry, as always spins this as "aw shucks, I was just tryin' to create some jobs." Yeah, jobs for his accountants.
This isn't an isolated incident. This is how Perry does business.
Glenn Garvin looks at Perry's record and compares him to Obama, in the way both try to use government to pick winners and losers:
The unfortunate fact is that Perry and Obama have a lot more in common than either would like to admit. They both think they're smarter than the laws of economics and that they make wiser choices than markets do. And they both see taxpayer money as a giant trough for feeding their political pals. Perry is actually truthful about this, sort of. "I am a pro-business governor," he told Time magazine last week. "I will be a pro-business president." What he means is that he's pro-certain-businesses, the ones run by his friends.
As governor of Texas, Perry controls hundreds of millions of dollars in state handouts to corporations for "job creation and economic development." Not surprisingly, it turns out that the funds are especially good at developing one particular sector of the Texas economy: Perry's campaign funds.
The Texas Observer revealed earlier this year that of the 55 companies that have dipped into the $345 million Texas Enterprise Fund controlled by Perry, 20 have been have donated money either directly to Perry's political campaign funds or to the Republican Governors Association, his Washington posse.
We're not talking chump change: The Observer counted donations over $2 million. Meanwhile, The Dallas Morning News looked into the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, another of the taxpayer teats under Perry's control, and found eight companies that received $16 million in subsidies who, totally coincidentally, donated $1.4 million to the governor's campaign.
And Perry is not content to merely pick taxpayer pockets on behalf of his corporate friends; he'll resort to strong-arm robbery when necessary. The biggest controversy of his decade in the governor's mansion was an arrogant attempted land-grab called the Trans-Texas Corridor, a $185 billion system of super-highways for which the state would have had to acquire as much as a thousand square miles of territory.
To deal with troublesome property owners who didn't want to sell, Perry persuaded the legislature to pass a new form of eminent domain known as "quick-claim," in which the state could have seized any land it wanted with just 90 days of notice, then "negotiate" the price later. The super-highway plan died in 2010 only because the federal government showed more concern for the rights of bugs and bunnies than Perry did for the property rights of his constituents, pulling the plug on its chunk of the budget out of environmental concerns.
President Obama's enemies often refer to him as a socialist. But what he really has been practicing in Washington the past two and a half years is crony capitalism, using programs like TARP and the stimulus package to funnel trillions of dollars in swag to politically connected companies. The result has been an economy that barely rises to the level of narcolepsy in its best moments. Perry has been doing the same thing with a smaller budget in Austin, though the damage hasn't been as great because he had the foresight to run for governor in a state floating on a lake of oil.
The only change we'll get in Washington if he's elected is to the names of the recipients of the corporate welfare checks.
For those not familiar with the Trans-Texas Corridor, that would have been one of the largest thefts of private land in history. Texans were angered like no time in recent memory. It was stopped, for now. The result of this fiasco saw Perry draw no less that 4 primary challengers in 2006, and several hard hitting independent challengers in the general election. Had one of those indies dropped out and threw their support to the other, Perry wouldn't be Governor today. As it was, Perry won re-election with 39% of the vote.
The TTC deserves more discussion and that will come. Meanwhile, for those that want more information, check out Corridor Watch's website here.
This is corruption, pure and simple. Perry talks a good line and is good at pretending to be a Conservative, but he is far from it. Between his pay-for-play schemes, and highly questionable real estate deals, Rick Perry has become quite wealthy while never really working at anything but a government job.
I don't care how you look at it, Rick Perry isn't much of an upgrade from Barack Obama. We can do so much better than this guy. We have to do much better than this guy. The nation can't survive much more corruption in public office, and Rick Perry is nothing more than more of the same.
America deserves better.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- During the agency's fifth annual Environmental Awards Ceremony in San
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The EPA Region 9 Environmental Awards program acknowledges commitment and significant
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The primary goal of the Presidio Compost and Regeneration Program is to develop high-quality, natural
soil amendments for use throughout this spectacular 1,500-acre Army post turned national park. In 2002,
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contribute to waste reduction, re-use or recycling. Good re-usable furniture and products are donated to a
hospital run Hospice thrift store or the Home Health for Hispanic Mothers program. Ink and toner
cartridges are donated to a local school which recycles them and uses the funds for school field trips.
Blue wrap is recycled in the surgery department. Stretch wrap is recycled in the receiving department.
This year the X-ray department purchased a new film developer machine that will reduce hospital water
and chemical use by half. The cafeteria recycles cups and plastic ware as well as aluminum cooking pans
and cooking oil. This year their Earth Day program will include a community wide mercury thermometer
exchange. St Elizabeth's is a small but significant hospital doing their part to 'first do no harm.'
Peninsula Open Space Trust
Peninsula Open Space Trust is dedicated to protecting the beauty, character, and diversity of the San
Francisco Peninsula coast. Since its founding in 1977 by a small group of local, visionary citizens, the
Trust has protected more than 50,000 acres of open space. Celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2002, the
Trust undertook an unprecedented $200 million campaign to save 20,000 acres of endangered coast. One
of several high profile accomplishments, the Trust spearheaded a partnership with California State Parks
to acquire and restore the 130-year-old Pigeon Point Lighthouse. Thanks to the Trust's hard work, the
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Ritu Primlani, Greening South Asian Restaurants
Rita Primlani's organization, Greening South Asian Restaurants, seeks to educate and facilitate South
Asian restaurants in implementing environmental practices such as waste reduction, recycling,
composting, energy efficiency, improving water quality and pollution prevention. To ensure program
access, Greening South Asian Restaurant's work includes providing language interpreters for non-
English speaking restaurant owners. In December 2002, 10-plus businesses in Alameda County received
green business certification through the County's green business program. Primlani's environmental
education program helped many of those restaurants exceed requirements by more than 200 percent.
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formerly incarcerated students, substance abusers, and the unemployed. By the most recent tally, 80
percent of trainees completed their programs and 93 percent of graduates were placed in jobs paying an
average wage of $11.42 per hour. Under the passionate and unflappable leadership of Alonzo Emery,
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handling, and lead and asbestos abatement, resulting in contaminated wetlands being restored, overall
neighborhood and community revitalization, and a trained workforce ready to take on environmental
careers. In recommending this nomination to us, Patricia Foster, Mayor of East Palo Alto wrote, "Alonzo
(Emery) and Project Build are revitalizing East Palo Alto's environment, not just in the soil and
groundwater, but in our people's hearts and lives".
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George Zastrow has proven to be a true friend to the Russian River. He co-chaired the Russian River
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from the 53 miles of the Russian River from Cloverdale to Jenner. He's succeeded in acquiring local,
state and federal funds for this effort. He now volunteers to scout out potential clean upsites and "watch
dogs" industry on the Lower Russian River. Through his tireless efforts, one of the most noteworthy
water shed and river contamination cases was brought to justice. Zastrow also owns and operates a local
print shop where he uses the large glass storefront window to display panoramas depicting the river in
both splendor and peril reminding the community that the river's health is of the utmost importance.
The Dow Wetlands Environmental Team
For the past 12 years a team of Dow employees, retirees, and community members have labored tirelessly
to create an award winning wetlands habitat between the cities of Pittsburg and Antioch, Calif. along the
banks of the San Joaquin River near its confluence with the Sacramento River. Led by employees Krist
Jensen and Sheryl Sturges, the area was cleared of debris and abandoned auto bodies. The Dow
Wetlands is used for public enjoyment and education and is registered with the Wildlife Habitat Council,
who awarded the wetlands its national Corporate Habitat of the Year in 2000. The Dow team has
partnered with UC Berkeley, the Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Learner Centered School, Lincoln Childcare
Center, local school districts, and other organizations to restore, rehabilitate and management the wildlife
habitat. The annual Environmental Faire draws approximately 1,500 to 2,000 visitors. Coastal America
and the Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership recently approached the team to lead other
corporations throughout California to undertake conservation and wetlands restoration projects.
The Straus Family Creamery, an organic dairy processor that processes milk from its own dairy and two
others, has consistently pushed the envelope to improve its environmental responsibility. Straus bottles
its milk in recycled and reusable glass bottles, has retooled equipment to use less water, and supports
family farmers in its area by helping them convert to organic. With the help of the Resource
Conservation District and the EPA, the creamery put in a methane digester to power both its dairy and its
upcoming new creamery. The company has hired a green architect to plan an environmentally
responsible manufacturing plant and it works closely with the community to minimize non-point source
pollution. The Straus Family Creamery works to educate the community on organic, family farmers, the
benefits of reusable packaging, and other environmental issues.
Judi Henderson of Mannequin Madness
Mannequin Madness creatively reuses and recycles mannequins and is a one of its kind in Northern
California. Opening its doors in 2001, the store rents or resells old, broken, or unused mannequins at
significant discount to businesses, non-profits, and individuals. In one six-month period, Mannequin
Madness diverted over 100,000 pounds of mannequins from Bay Area landfills. The store pays a small
incentive fee for the 7-20 pound mannequins that would normally be dumped into landfills where they do
not easily biodegrade. State Senator Jackie Speier along with the San Francisco Renaissance
Entrepreneur Center last year awarded the business the "Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award.@
Mannequin Madness also uses recycled styrofoam peanuts when shipping mannequins and is a local
recycle collection facility for styrofoam peanuts.
Environmental Circuit Prosecutor Project: California District Attorneys Association
The California District Attorneys Associations Environmental Circuit Prosecutor Project is a unique and
innovative program that provides experienced environmental prosecutors and training to rural counties
that lack the expertise and the personnel to prosecute environmental crime. In one of its biggest
settlements, circuit prosecutors along with the Attorney General's office, negotiated with responsible
parties in Stanislaus County for violations stemming from the Westley tire fire that engulfed over five
million waste tires in 1999. Since its inception in 1998, the circuit prosecutor project has handled over
900 major environmental cases and obtained more than $22 million in penalties, fines and costs.
Because of state budget cuts, this program often stands as the sole source of environmental enforcement
and training in many rural counties and also provides a potential deterrent to violations, further protecting
public health and the environment.
Margaret Perry, Nan Deniston, and Wayne Miller
Smith Ranch, Parker Family Forest and Miller Ranch
The families of these three ranches located in the Ten Mile River watershed of Mendocino County are
being recognized for their good land stewardship. They are committed to implementing the best
management practices coupled with a sustainable forestry philosophy that preserves the beauty of their
lands, sustains its economic viability and promotes the recovery of the watershed and threatened salmon
species. Leaving light footprints on the landscape is a continuing commitment by these ranchers -- an
accelerated recovery of this sediment-impaired watershed is expected because of their combined work.
These landowners' silvicultural operations have resulted in water protection, soil stability, forest
productivity, wildlife habitat and natural diversity for further generations to come.
Hewlett Packard Product Recycling Solutions Program
Hewlett Packard has been an industry leader in its efforts to promote recycling and product stewardship.
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management programs across the country. This growing, changing product stream presents new
challenges and responsibilities in designing and managing electronic products to reduce their life-cycle
environmental impacts. Hewlett Packard's computer hardware recycling service is a simple and
environmentally sound take-back program that offers consumers and business customers the ability to
return any piece of computer hardware from any manufacturer. Its state-of-the- art processing facilities
ensure that unwanted hardware is reused or recycled in a way that conserves resources. Hewlett Packard
program provides leadership in the electronic manufacturing industry and protects the environment from
contamination from toxic materials such as lead, mercury and cadmium.
Petaluma Poultry
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Early in 2001 a group of 13 employees voluntarily created the company's "sustainability team" to reduce
the facility's ecological footprint. By 2002, the facility's workforce of 240 people had greened
operations at the feed mill, hatchery, farms and processing plant/administration and sales offices. While
Petaluma Poultry's production increased by over 20 percent in 2002, natural gas usage per unit decreased
by roughly 4 percent thanks to a more efficient boiler and careful management and the gathering of real-
time data in the barns. Long ago the company abandoned the use of herbicides, experimenting with
white distilled vinegar and using push mowers to control weeds in the native grass landscaping where the
free range chickens roam. A vector control strip keeps insects and rodents controlled. Petaluma Poultry
runs an aggressive recycling program for everything from paper, cardboard and glass to wood pallets, oil
filters and antifreeze. The facility also recycles 30,000 square yards of bedding and manure annually,
providing materials to local landscapers, vineyards, pastures and rice fields.
Petaluma & Irvine
For 100 years, 3M's success has come from developing innovative technologies and products to meet
customers' needs. 3M is committed to sustainable development through environmental protection, social
responsibility and economic progress. From 1990-2001, the company reduced its volatile organic air
emissions by 91 percent, its manufacturing releases to water by 84 percent, reduced its rate of waste
generation by 35 percent and reduced by 88 percent chemical releases reported annually to the EPA's
Toxic Release Inventory . In addition, 3M has been an active member in the EPA's National
Environmental Performance Track program. Over the last year, 3M has assisted Region 9 recruit new
performance track members and set the bar for environmental excellence in Region 9.
Facilities seeking entry into the Performance Track Program must have adopted and implemented an
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public outreach and performance reporting, and have a record of sustained compliance with
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aeronautics, aerospace, information technology, astrobiology, space science, earth science,
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Pest Management and Integrated Vegetation Management including use of goats for vegetation control,
traps for pest control and composting for fertilizer, NASA reduced their pesticide use by 98 percent in
eight years (in 1994 they were applying 4,000 gallons of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers on their
property, in 2002 they used 50 gallons). The facility further committed to reduce their energy use by
7,894,714 kilowatt hours by 2005.
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