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July 20, 2010 — -- Lindsay Lohan's stint in the slammer could be as short as two weeks.
ABC News affiliate KABC TV in Los Angels has learned the actress, who began her sentence today at the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, California, has a projected release date of Aug. 2. Earlier this month, she was sentenced to 90 days in prison and 90 days in-patient rehab for violating her 2007 probation.
Lohan could spend more time in jail because Beverly Hills Judge Masha Revel ruled out work release or electronic monitoring in her probation violation case.
ABCNews.com's calls to the L.A. County Sheriff's Department were not immediately returned.
Ten minutes late, clad in sunglasses that couldn't hide a steely glare, Lohan marched past a throng of photographers and glitter-throwing fans today for a pre-prison court hearing.
She sat through a brief courtroom discussion before Revel ordered that all cameras be shut off for Lohan's handcuffing. The actress stood, placed her hands behind her back, and let two deputies cuff her and lead her out of the courtroom without making a scene.
Not so for her estranged father. Michael Lohan shouted, "We love you, Lindsay," as she was escorted out. Lohan's mother, Dina, and younger sister, Ali, also watched as she was taken into custody.
From the courtroom, Lohan went to a courthouse holding facility before shipping off to the Lynwood facility. Before leaving the courthouse, she swapped out her jeans, sleeveless top, cropped jacket and corset belt for her new, albeit temporary, wardrobe: an orange jail jumpsuit.
Shawn Chapman Holley, who resigned as Lohan's lawyer after her July 6 sentencing, represented the actress at the hearing. She addressed reporters afterwards, saying that she stepped back into the Lohan case when the actress decided she did not want famed O.J. Simpson attorney Robert Shapiro to represent her.
"She's stepped up, she's accepted responsibility," Holley said about Lohan. "She's scared as anyone would be, but she's as resolute and she's doing it."
Lohan's surrender came two weeks after her tearful sentencing hearing, in which she sobbed as Judge Revel handed down her sentence.
What Lindsay Lohan's Jail Stint Looks Like
Lohan will serve her time at the same facility that housed Paris Hilton in 2007 and will be segregated from the general jail population. At most, she may only end up serving 23 days of the 90-day sentence. At the July 6 hearing, L.A. County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore noted that "female, non-violent prisoners will do about 25 percent of their sentence" because L.A. jails suffer from "an overcrowding situation."
At a news conference outside the Lynwood facility today, Whitmore said Lohan "has been extremely cooperative" so far.
"As with any inmate, Lohan was treated just like any other," he added, noting that most inmates don't draw throngs of paparazzi. "Inside it's business as usual."
Her time in prison won't be posh. Lohan will swap her plush bed for a vinyl mattress and her sprawling home for a 12-by-8 foot cell. She won't be able to smoke in jail or wear makeup.
According to a former inmate, today will be brutal for the 24-year-old starlet.
"It is something you will never forget," former inmate Tanya told "Good Morning America" today. "When you get strip searched it takes away a lot of dignity. You are not in a room by yourself."
But ABC News legal analyst Dana Cole said that for most of her time behind bars, Lohan will just be bored.
"It's not going to be the worst situation imaginable, far from it," Cole said, noting that she'll be separated from other inmates for her own protection. "It's just going to be boring basically."
At least Lohan will be cooped up with someone she knows -- sort of. The Los Angeles Times reported today that one of Lohan's inmates at the Lynwood jail is 19-year-old Alexis Neiers, whose "bling ring" of accused burglars targeted celebrity residences, including Lohan's Hollywood Hills home.
Neiers is currently serving a 180-day sentence for felony first-degree residential burglary of actor Orlando Bloom's home.
Of course, because Whitmore noted that Lohan "will be kept away from [the] general population" of the jail, they may not meet at all.
Lindsay Lohan's Road to Jail
The days leading up to Lohan's surrender were anything but serene. According to People magazine, she spent a stressful weekend at the Pickford Lofts sober living facility in L.A.
"She has not been able to sleep and has barely been eating. All weekend, Lindsay kept crying, chain smoking and chewing her nails," a source told People. "She is a nervous, fidgety mess, and her legal team, family and friends are very concerned about her fragile state."
But the night before heading to court and then jail, Lohan seemed at least a little lighthearted. On Twitter, she wrote "the only "bookings" that i'm familiar with are Disney Films, never thought that i'd be "booking" into Jail... eeeks."
She also retweeted an ABCNews.com story about pets victimized by the BP oil spill.
Lohan is scheduled to be released from jail in time for the premiere of her newest movie, "Machete," in which she plays a gun-toting nun.
This will be Lohan's second time in jail. She spent 84 minutes in prison in 2007 after pleading guilty to two misdemeanor counts of being under the influence of cocaine and no contest to two counts of driving with a blood-alcohol level above 0.08 percent and one count of reckless driving.
The year 2007 was also the year of two very public arrests for Lohan. She was sentenced to three years of probation but requested a one-year extension in October after failing to complete her alcohol-education courses on time.
ABC News Radio's David Alpert contributed to this report.


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Today's News: Our Take - Keith Urban: I Don't Know If I'm Returning to Idol
American Idol fans aren't the only ones waiting to find out who will join the judges' table next season: Keith Urban is too!
"I have no official information of anything," the country singer told The Associated Press. "I'm pretty much in the same boat as everybody else here with the rumors that have been floating around. It was like this before I signed on ... so it's not unusual for the Idol folks to be in this place of figuring out what they want to do, then they always pull it together."
Jennifer Hudson in talks to join American Idol
Earlier this month, it was reported that Urban, along with Randy Jackson, Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj, would be dropped from the show next season. Jackson has since confirmed his exit.
Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly wouldn't comment on the remaining judges, but said it was likely that the singing show would return to a three-judge panel. Former contestant Jennifer Hudson is reportedly in talks to join the table.
VIDEO: Idol winner Candice Glover reflects on Season 12, her winning moment and "Lovesong"
Despite this season's rocky road, which included falling ratings and constant battles between Carey and Minaj, Urban said he loved working with the contestants. "I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else," he said. "They've got no star power, just nothing going on but just this raw talent that's just beautiful to see, and you look at them and just go, 'All you're needing is life experience ... because you've got everything else ready to go.'"
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FLB claims conservatives eat their young. I'm trying to think how that would work. We can't use ketchup, because it's red–duh!–and goodness knows there will be no French's mustard employed. Perhaps it will just be A-1 steak sauce, in honour of our rightful place in the front of the line of the universe. And the preferred draft status.
All kidding aside. Or most kidding aside…
In the "Let's Roger Roger" sweepstakes from Sarcastro's that I'm stirring up again, I see that Terry has said this:
I regularly take fellow Republicans to task for what I believe to be straying from conservative principles.
I've seen this thinking for years among parties of the left-leaning ideologies. Words cannot describe how happy I am to see it cropping up on the Eastern side of the continuum as well.
Politics is not a religion. I don't fear a theocracy, because the probability of any theocratic government in the U.S. is just about as high as the number of pounds I lose over Christmas. I do fear the elevation of party ideology to theosophic standard, though.
Politics is a zero-sum game by definition. One candidate will win, while the other loses. Governance, however, is to be a sum-all proposition. Everyone is to come away served by their involvement, whether by guns or by butter.
The minute anybody starts talking about a political party as though it were an unfailing power, you lose the sum-all proposition of governance. It becomes more about a punch-card binding, a stifling of free thought. Blind party loyalty is the death of reason.


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The standard features of the Toyota Yaris iA Base include 1.5L I-4 106hp engine, 6-speed manual transmission with overdrive, 4-wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS), side seat mounted airbags, curtain 1st and 2nd row overhead airbags, airbag occupancy sensor, air conditioning, 16" aluminum wheels, cruise control, ABS and driveline traction control, electronic stability.
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Friends of the Earth (FoE) has called in some of the world's leading climate change experts as witnesses to assist the Queensland Land Court in understanding FoE's climate change case against the Wandoan Mega Mine. FoE are calling on the Court to recommend that the Queensland Government reject the mine as part of the formal approval process for the proposed mine.
Please put in a submission against exploration application for coal and CSG in western Victoria. These must be put in by August 21.
Seven environment groups last week provided a detailed submission to the Federal Senate Inquiry into coal seam gas and the Murray-Darling, arguing that the industry represents one of the gravest new threats that has ever been seen to the Basin.
Friends of the Earth Australia has today criticised the carbon price mechanism for its generous handouts to polluters and for its limited impact on greenhouse gas emissions.
The Victorian government intends to renew Alcoa's mining lease for another 50 years.
Please get active now to stop another half century of coal mining and greenhouse pollution.
Friends of the Earth International, the world's largest global grassroots federation of environmental groups, is marking its 40th anniversary. Throughout the year we will celebrate, together with our member groups and supporters, all that we have achieved over the past forty years.
Victorian environment groups have called on the Federal Government to stick to its election promise to 'bridge the gap' and save the Murray-Darling river system by buying back water entitlements from willing sellers.
The report of the Windsor Inquiry into the socio-economic effects of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, released today, has suggested an immediate halt to the Commonwealth's voluntary water buyback program.
Today's announcement of the Multi Party Climate Change Committee (MPCCC) agreed pathway of an interim price 'hard-wired' to become an emissions trading scheme takes Australia in the wrong direction, says Friends of the Earth Australia, and away from real solutions to the climate crisis.
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Want to get that cute guy's number? Make sure you're chatting him up when it's sunny out.
The advice comes courtesy of a new study from the University of South Brittany in France. In the study, a researcher sent a hot guy to approach random women on the street and ask for their phone numbers.
The results? Most of the ladies were more likely to give him their numbers when the sun was out. On cloudy days? He only scored numbers from 13.9 percent of the women asked.
The theory is that environmental factors like light and temperature can affect your mood and, in turn, influence whether or not we're in a friendly mood that day.
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Respond to the Government's consultation English rights-of-way legislation
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Respond to the Government's consultation English rights-of-way legislation
Why do cyclists need to respond to this consultation?
At the moment, the system for recording, diverting and extinguishing public rights of way in England is extremely bureaucratic, but the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra) consultation on the processes involved is a good opportunity to press for the changes that will help enhance the experience of cycling in the countryside.
Take action!
This is a public consultation, so if you would like to add your support to CTC's recommendations for improving the system in the interests of cycling, please send in your own response to Defra along the lines we suggest below.
Details of the consultation, response forms and Defra's contact details are all on their website. The deadline is 6/08/2012.
We suggest that you make any cycling specific comments as part of a covering email to Defra with their 'consultation response form' (if used) attached.
Please send us an email if you have any queries.
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The 2000 Countryside & Rights of Way Act included a proposal to stop any changes to the definitive map of rights of way after 2026, and Natural England was mandated to provide data on all unrecorded rights in England to ensure that no unrecorded paths would be lost as a result of this closure. Unfortunately, this process failed.
Natural England convened a Stakeholder Working Group to recommend ways of resolving this problem, and their report Stepping Forward was published in March 2010. This suggested how the highly bureaucratic process of adding, deleting or changing rights of way could be improved.
Defra are now consulting on these recommendations with a list of 29 questions, plus a further 33 questions over the suggested impact assessments. Many of these questions require a good working knowledge of the current process, and others appear to be aimed at rights of way professionals.
However, the proposal in 'Stepping Forward' of most interest to off-road cyclists was Proposal 31, outlined in more detail below. This proposal suggests a review to see how cyclists and other non-motorised users can be better catered for, but has not been included in the consultation. Nevertheless, we do need to gather support for this idea, so we urge as many people as possible to comment on it.
The consultation consists of three sections. CTC broadly supports the intentions underlining all of them:
Section 1. Improvements to the Definitive Map Modification Order process
This process assesses historic and user evidence to correct the definitive map, and facilitate the addition of unrecorded rights of way.
Qs 1 - 16
Suggested response: Agree to the proposals outlined in questions 1 - 9 + 12 - they will help smooth the process.
Note, however, that even if these proposals are implemented, the process will continue to be slow and costly, with unacceptable delays continuing to be a problem.
Q 3 refers to routes that need protection from any map closure
Suggested response: Many paths start/finish on 'roads' which were assumed to be public when the definitive map was drawn up in the 1950s, but are not actually recorded as public on any highway authority maps or documents. If these 'roads' are not now recorded on the definitive map or list of streets, the paths that start/finish on them will become cul-de-sacs, not through routes.
Q 8 refers to the risk that a local authority may use any streamlined process to eliminate reasonable applications as a means of avoiding its statutory duties
Suggested response: On balance, most local authorities will not abuse any new processes, but that some habitually poorly performing authorities may abuse this process. There may be a role for Local Access Forums to oversee this process.
Q 14 asks about agreeing and using diversions before orders are confirmed
Suggested response: Agree with the change in process.
Section 2. Changes to the Public Path Order (PPO) process
PPOs are largely used for path diversions.
Qs 17, 18, 21 and 23
Suggested response: these changes are acceptable – they will largely benefit the landowner.
Qs 19 & 20 ask about the effects on best practice by local authorities
Suggested response: diligent local authorities will use any new systems effectively, but poorly performing local authorities are less likely to "assert and protect" rights of way (in accordance with their legal status) to the benefit of the user.
Section 3. The implications of the 2010 Penfold Report - this recommended how rights of way modifications could be assimilated into the planning process
Suggested response: agree with the intentions to better co-ordinate planning processes with any order to change rights of way; no comment to make on the potential outcomes of any changes.
Impact assessments (3)
Q i to Q xxxiii - these questions appear to be pointed at rights of way professionals.
Cycling on the rights of way network - Proposal 31
In Section 12 (p16) of the consultation, Defra state:
"Defra proposes to collaborate with all relevant stakeholders to look at the best way of providing 'offroad routes' that benefit all types of non-motorised traffic, including both cyclists and equestrians, and that also improve the cohesiveness of the network."
This is in response to Proposal 31 in the Natural England Stakeholder Working Group report Stepping Forward, which stated:
"A review should be carried out of how routes for cyclists could best fit in with the highways network to form an integrated whole, and provide for usage by all non-motorised users".
The full text of the comments are as follows – with para 7.9 being particularly relevant:
7.6 A particular example of the difficulties that arise from the separation between recording legal status and managing the highways infrastructure is that of routes for cyclists.
7.7 Cycling is very much a part of the sustainability agenda, and this sector has seen hugely successful improvement schemes in recent years. You might expect routes for cyclists to be recorded on the definitive map and statement – a record of non-motorised rights of way – but they are not. Currently where a footpath is converted into a cycle track, it gets removed from the definitive map and statement, and that alone is sufficient to draw objections. It would be strange to record a cycle track as a bridleway – meaning that cyclists would need to give way to horse riders – or as a restricted byway. Equally it is a cause of resentment that horse-riders have no right to use cycle routes in the same way that cyclists may use bridleways. In principle, the Group feels that this separation is looking outdated: cycle routes should be recordable on the definitive map and statement, and where appropriate should be available for use by all non-motorised users. This idea and the whole issue of how cycle tracks are created require further thought and development, so that Government can consult on it in due course.
7.8 A related topic is whether the current classification of public highways is the most appropriate for modern needs. Currently the legal status may be shown on the definitive map and statement in any of these ways:
a. footpath;
b. bridleway;
c. restricted byway; or
d. byway open to all traffic.
7.9 On the face of it, a single type of legal status for horse-riders, cyclists and carriage drivers would be simpler. All are forms of non‐motorised transportation. There would be significant practical difficulties in giving effect to this principle, and the subject is not within the core scope of this Group, but the issue should be given further consideration by Government."
Suggest response: CTC strongly supports the concept of simplifying legal status, and suggests that any response to Defra includes a recommendation that this option is positively examined with the aim of opening the whole of the rights of way network to cyclists unless there is a good reason not to. There should be a reasonable process for identifying these limited exceptions to the general rule, with clear criteria and an accountable process for doing so.
CTC is happy to support opening up cycle routes in certain circumstances to horse-riders in principle, provided the path in question is suitably surfaced, of sufficient width and presents no height restrictions (e.g. tunnels too low for horse-riders) to ensure that sharing is conflict and hazard-free.


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Green Book
VOL. 58, No. 7
Rules and Regulations
40 CFR Part 81
Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes
DATE: Tuesday, January 12, 1993
ACTION: Final rule.
SUMMARY: On April 8, 1992, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) submitted a request for redesignation to attainment for sulfur dioxide (SO2) in Colbert and Lauderdale Counties, Alabama. The redesignation request included five years of quality assured monitoring data which showed no exceedances of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for SO2. The State has also implemented controls to reduce emissions to the level indicated by dispersion modeling. EPA is redesignating Colbert County, Alabama, and Lauderdale County, Alabama to attainment for sulfur dioxide (SO2).
DATES: This action will be effective March 15, 1993 unless notice is received within 30 days that someone wishes to submit adverse or critical comments. If the effective date is delayed, timely notice will be published in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the material submitted by Alabama may be examined during normal business hours at the following locations.
Public Information Reference Unit, Library Systems Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460
Region IV Air Programs Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, 345 Courtland Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30365
Air Division, Alabama Department of Environmental Management, 1751 Congressman W.L. Dickinson Drive, Montgomery, Alabama 36109.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Miller of the Region IV Air Programs Branch at 404-347-2864 and at the above address.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a Federal Register notice published March 3, 1978, Lauderdale and Colbert Counties, Alabama, were designated as nonattainment for SO2. On April 8, 1992, the Air Division of ADEM submitted a request for Colbert and Lauderdale Counties to be redesignated to attainment for SO2.
This request was based on five years (1987-1991) of quality assured monitoring data obtained from the four ambient monitors located in both counties which showed that Colbert County and Lauderdale County had not violated the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for SO2. The State has also implemented controls to reduce emissions to the level indicated by dispersion modeling. The State of Alabama has met all of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA) requirements for redesignation pursuant to 107(d)(3)(E).
SS 107(d)(3)(E)(i) The Administrator has determined that the area has attained the National Ambient Air Quality Standard.
Alabama submitted air quality data showing that Lauderdale and Colbert Counties have attained the sulfur dioxide NAAQS for the five year period, 1987-1991. During that period there were no exceedances, and hence, no violations of the sulfur dioxide standard.
SS 107(d)(3)(E)(ii) The Administrator has fully approved the applicable implementation plan for the area under Section 110(k).
The Alabama SO2 SIP is fully approved and meets all requirements under section 110(k) which are applicable to the Colbert and Lauderdale County areas. Under section 110(k)(5) of the CAAA, whenever the Administrator finds that a SIP is substantially inadequate to attain or maintain the relevant NAAQS, the Administrator shall require the state to revise the plan as necessary to correct such inadequacies. A source specific SIP revision was published in the Federal Register at 55 FR 2235 on January 23, 1990. The notice revised Plant Colbert's operating permit to reduce allowable SO2 emissions from 4.0 lbs SO2 emitted/mmBTU to 2.2 lbs SO2 emitted/mmBTU.
SS 107(d)(3)(E)(iii) The Administrator determines that the improvement in air quality is due to permanent and enforceable reductions in emissions resulting from implementation of the applicable implementation plan and applicable Federal air pollutant control regulations and other permanent and enforceable reductions.
TVA Plant Colbert comprises the only significant source of SO2 emissions in Lauderdale and Colbert Counties. Therefore, all SO2 emission reductions came from this source. TVA Plant Colbert's new allowable emission rate of 2.2 lbs SO2 emitted/mmBTU was made permanent and federally enforceable through a source specific SIP revision published January 23, 1990 at 55 FR 2235. The revision was made to ensure that no emission limit reflects credit for the use of any stack height greater than Good Engineering Practice (GEP). Dispersion modeling was required for all sources including Plant Colbert that were identified as utilizing stack heights or dispersion techniques prohibited by the GEP regulations. Dispersion modeling results for Plant Colbert showed that it would be necessary to revise the allowable SO2 emission rate from 4.0 lbs SO2 emitted/mmBTU to 2.2 lbs SO2 emitted/mmBTU. This reduction of credit for stack heights in excess of GEP ensures protection of the NAAQS at ground level as well as decreasing interstate impacts from SO2 transport. Therefore, permanent enforceable SO2 emissions reductions have been made through State and Federal programs.
SS 107(d)(3)(E)(iv) The Administrator has fully approved a maintenance plan for the area as meeting the requirements of section 175A.
ADEM submitted a maintenance plan pursuant to section 175A. However, since Colbert and Lauderdale Counties are secondary nonattainment for SO2, this maintenance plan is not required by EPA for redesignation.
SS 107(d)(3)(E)(v) The State containing such area has met all requirements applicable to the area under section 110 and part D.
The State has complied with all requirements for section 110 of the Act and part D. In addition, a PSD program exists and will apply in Lauderdale and Colbert Counties upon redesignation to attainment. Therefore, the State has complied with all requirements of section 110 and Part D of the Act. Therefore, all of the requirements of section 107(d)(3)(E) have been satisfied.
Additional information is provided in a Technical Support Document which contains a detailed review of the material submitted. This is available at the EPA address given previously.
Final Action
EPA is approving the redesignation of Colbert and Lauderdale Counties, Alabama, to attainment for SO2 . This action is being taken without prior proposal because the changes are noncontroversial and EPA anticipates no significant comments on them. The public should be advised that this action will be effective 60 days from the date of this Federal Register notice. However, if notice is received within 30 days that someone wishes to submit adverse or critical comments, this action will be withdrawn and two subsequent notices will be published before the effective date. One notice will withdraw the final action and another will begin a new rulemaking by announcing a proposal of the action and establishing a comment period.
Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 600 et seq., EPA must prepare a regulatory flexibility analysis assessing the impact of any proposed or final rule on small entities. 5 U.S.C. 603 and 604. Alternatively, EPA may certify that the rule will not have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities. Small entities include small businesses, small not-for-profit enterprises, and government entities with jurisdiction over populations of less than 50,000.
Redesignation of an area to attainment under section 107(d)(3)(E) of the CAA does not impose any new requirements on small entities. Redesignation is an action that affects the status of a geographical area and does not impose any regulatory requirements on sources. The Administrator certifies that the approval of the redesignation request will not affect a substantial number of small entities.
This action has been classified as a table 2 action by the Regional Administrator under the procedures published in the Federal Register on January 6, 1989, (54 FR 2214-2225). On January 6, 1989, the Office of Management and Budget waived table 2 and table 3 SIP revisions (54 FR 2222) from the requirements of section 3 of Executive Order 12291 for two years.
EPA has submitted a request for a permanent waiver for table 2 and table 3 SIP revisions. OMB has agreed to continue the temporary waiver until such time as it rules on EPA's request.
Under section 307(b)(1) of the Act, petitions for judicial review of this action must be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate by March 15, 1993. This action may not be challenged later in proceedings to enforce its requirements. (See 307(b)(2).)
Nothing in this action shall be construed as permitting or allowing or establishing a precedent for any future request for a redesignation of any nonattainment area. Each request for redesignation of any nonattainment area shall be considered separately in light of specific technical, economic, and environmental factors and in relation to relevant statutory and regulatory requirements.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 81
Air pollution control, National parks, Wilderness areas.
Dated: December 15, 1992.
Patrick M. Tobin, Acting Regional Administrator.
40 CFR part 81, subpart C, is amended as follows:
1. The authority citation for part 81 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7407, 7501-7515, 7601.
2. Section 81.301 is amended by revising the table for "Alabama -- SO2 " to read as follows:
SS 81.301 Alabama.
* * * * * Alabama -- Sulfur Dioxide Designated Does Does Cannot Better than natl standards area not not be meet meet classified primary secondary standardsstandards Statewide ........ ........ .......... X [FR Doc. 93-643 Filed 1-11-93; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560-50-M


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For decades, the crumbling men's comfort station on Boston Common had been locked, a tomb encasing ancient urinals and rusting pipes. On Monday it reopened with grandeur, housing not restrooms but a sandwich kiosk fit for a king — or, at least, for nobility.
Earl of Sandwich, the chain owned partly by descendants of the British peer for whom the lunch staple is named, has resuscitated the 1920s bathroom for its second Boston outpost, investing heavily to restore the eight-sided, 660-square-foot stand.
"I spent a seven-figure sum — in excess of a million bucks! — on [barely] 500 feet, which I don't think has been done before. But we have a 15-year-lease with the city and feel very good about it," said Robert Earl, whose company will pay the city $50,000 annually. "We're in love with the location."
Earl is not the earl — his business partner in the chain is John Montagu, the 11th Earl of Sandwich — but he presides over a hospitality empire that includes Planet Hollywood. He has two Earl of Sandwich outlets in Europe and 20 in the United States, including one at Logan Airport.
A 61-year-old bundle of energy who resembles the late actor Dudley Moore, Earl described the appeal of the site and his menu as balloons bobbed and signs boasted of "the world's greatest hot sandwiches!"
Earl ignored his BlackBerry's ping but interrupted himself to reach out to customers seated under red umbrellas. "How's the sandwich, sir?" he said, turning to a middle-aged man enjoying a late lunch beside a poodle.
"Super," the man said.
"Spread the word, please! I haven't paid the contractors yet," Earl said, flashing an impish grin. And then: "Look how busy we are, straight off."
The crowd at outdoor tables and take-out windows — there are no indoor seats — was a mix of students, office workers, retirees, and late-fall tourists.
"I'm totally adding this one to my list," said Jacob Athyal, a Suffolk University junior sitting down for a picnic with a dozen classmates. "We're going to tell more people, definitely."
The former bathroom, once known as the "pink palace" for the hue of its stone blocks, is one of nine historic structures on the Common, located near the Parkman Bandstand. It retains its original look, including copper flashing and clerestory windows, but with the chain's name proclaimed above the roof.
The rehabilitation grew partly out of a trip City Councilor Michael P. Ross made to New York City in 2008 to explore creative uses of park space. Earl's company, with its made-to-order $6.49 sandwiches, won the bidding process in September 2011, aiming to open within a year. Complications with restoring utilities to the abandoned site pushed that back.
After a soft weekend opening, the formal celebration included speeches by Earl, the earl, and local officials. Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who is recovering from a viral infection and a compression fracture, thanked the company in a statement.
The Fourth Earl of Sandwich was also First Lord of the Admiralty, commanding the Royal Navy during the American Revolution, but all is forgiven. The restaurant gave free Veterans Day sandwiches to veterans in uniform, and the 11th Earl, a member of the House of Lords, looked thrilled to tour the Cradle of Liberty, strolling the Public Garden and admiring the State House.
"I'm so delighted to be in Boston for the very first time," said Montagu, whose great-great-great-great-great grandfather, also John Montagu, gave us the sandwich.
Lore says it was invented at the card table, easily downed with one hand and no cutlery.
Not so, said Robert Earl, calling it a wartime naval innovation. "There was no time to feed the troops, so he said, just get two pieces of bread and put some boiled beef in the middle."
The nobleman, a tall, understated fellow in an elephant-pattern necktie, said he hadn't heard that before. He credited his ancestor with pioneering copper hulls to reinforce battleships but said at best the Fourth Earl was an early, famous consumer of the food now carrying his name, whether at his desk, at sea, or at the card table.
What is known is that the company is on the march. Earl, whose son is a Boston University sophomore, left the Common to visit potential expansion sites. "We plan to open several," he said, "and go for domination in Boston!"
Eric Moskowitz can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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ElBaradei's nomination had been confirmed by several sources and state media on Saturday, but just before midnight a presidential spokesman told reporters that the prime minister had not in fact been chosen.
The abrupt U-turn came amid opposition to the appointment by the Nour Party, Egypt's second Islamist force after Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement, highlighting the challenge the military faces in finding consensus among liberals and conservatives on who should run the country.
Clashes between tens of thousands of pro- and anti-Morsi protesters swept the Arab world's most populous nation on Friday and at least 35 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded.
The violence, which saw rival factions fighting street battles in central Cairo and many others cities and towns, underlined the pressing need for a swift political solution seen as inclusive to all.
"We extend our hand to everyone, everyone is a part of this nation," the spokesman told reporters. "The Muslim Brotherhood has plenty of opportunities to run for all elections including the coming presidential elections or the ones to follow."
Minutes after he spoke, state media reported that the public prosecutor ordered that four top Brotherhood leaders held this week be detained for a further 15 days on accusations that they incited violence against protesters.
The four included Saad el-Katatni, head of the group's political wing, and Khairat El-Shater, its political strategist.
Islamist support crucial
The Brotherhood has said it wants nothing to do with the military's plans for a new interim government. It believes Morsi should be reinstated, and has pledged to keep protesting until he is.
The Nour Party, however, had agreed to the army-backed transition plan leading to new elections. Its withdrawal from the process would strip that plan of vital Islamist support.
And following the Nour rejection, the interim administration headed by Adli Mansour delayed naming the new prime minister.
On Sunday, people were still reeling from one of the bloodiest days in over two years of tumultuous upheaval since autocrat Hosni Mubarak, who ruled for 30 years, was toppled in a popular uprising that was part of the 2011 "Arab Spring".
The Brotherhood called for another day of protest on Sunday, meaning that relative calm on Saturday may prove to be only a temporary lull.
Huge protests were staged on June 30 to pressure Morsi into resigning amid growing anger at economic stagnation and the perception among many that the Brotherhood was seeking to take control of every part of the state - a charge it fiercely denies.
Millions took to the streets to cheer his ouster on Wednesday, but for many Islamists it was a bitter reversal that raised fears of a return to the suppression they endured for decades under autocratic rulers.
The military said it had not carried out a coup, but merely enforced the will of the people.
Alarm overseas
The events of the last week have raised alarm among Egypt's allies in the West, including main aid donors the United States and the European Union, and in Israel, with which Egypt has had a US-backed peace treaty since 1979.
On Saturday, President Barack Obama condemned the violence, and said the United States was not working with any particular party or group in Egypt.
Washington has not condemned the military takeover or called it a coup, prompting suspicion within the Brotherhood that it tacitly supports the overthrow of the country's first freely elected president.
Obama has ordered a review to determine whether annual US assistance of $1.5 billion, most which goes to the Egyptian military, should be cut off as required by law if a country's military ousts a democratically elected leader.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel held three conversations with the head of Egypt's armed forces on Friday and Saturday, emphasizing the need for "a peaceful civilian transition in Egypt," the Pentagon said on Saturday.
"He also noted the importance of security for the Egyptian people, Egypt's neighbours, and the region," Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement, without characterizing the reaction of Egyptian General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Egypt can ill afford to lose foreign aid. The country appears headed for a looming funding crunch unless it can quickly access money from overseas. The local currency has lost 11 percent of its value since late last year.
Newspapers on Saturday quoted ElBaradei as saying he expected Gulf Arab monarchies that were hostile to the Brotherhood's rule to offer financial support to the new authorities.
Only gas-rich Qatar provided substantial funds to Morsi's government, totalling $7 billion in loans and grants. Turkey and Libya also provided smaller loans and deposits.
© Thomson Reuters 2013


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SPRINGFIELD, Mass.: The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame has announced its candidates for the 2011 Bob Cousy Award, which includes Virginia Commonwealth University's Joey Rodriguez.
The annual award, named for Hall of Famer and former Boston Celtic Bob Cousy, recognizes college basketball's top point guard.
Rodriguez is one of three CAA point guard candidates, and several of the Rams' opposing point guards from this year are also featured on the list. Ten games into his senior season, Rodriguez is averaging 11.7 points per game and a CAA-leading 5.3 assists per game. He also set the single-game team record for assists with 17 against University of North Carolina – Greensboro on November 12th of this year.
Coming off a junior year in which he earned Second-Team All-CAA accolades, Rodriguez was named to the Preseason All-CAA First Team prior to this season. For his career, he ranks fourth all-time in steals with 190 and is just five assists (425 total) away from being fifth all-time in assists.
"Bob is one of the great players in the history of basketball and his point guard ability was well ahead of his time,†said Ken Kauffman, Chair of the Bob Cousy Award. "This award recognizes his incredible talents from the past while also honoring the best in today's game. We look forward to honoring this year's award winner come April.â€
Previous winners of the Bob Cousy Award have included: Jameer Nelson (St. Joseph's), Raymond Felton (North Carolina), Dee Brown (Illinois), Acie Law (Texas A&M), D.J. Augustin (Texas), Ty Lawson (North Carolina) and Greivis Vasquez (Maryland). For more information on the 2011 Bob Cousy Award, log onto www.cousyaward.com
The list of candidates will be narrowed down to a final group of five points guards on March 5th, and the Bob Cousy awarded winner will be announced April 4th.
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Ronovan Hester Shares Advice on Writing Collaboration @RonovanWrites
How to Collaborate When Writing a Book by Ronovan Hester
As some of you know by now, if not you will shortly, I co-authored a book with the Award Winning Author PS Bartlett of the Razor's Adventures Pirate Tales. This being my debut novel, it was an interesting experience to go through and one from which I'm taking take a lot away. As with any experience, there was plenty of good and some bad. I'll explain the bad in the following in the How To parts of the article. This was a first for both of us, the collaborating part.
First I want to put down what you should consider when the idea of collaboration comes your way. In no way does any of this mean to say anything bad about my experience. I am taking good and not as good things I've learned and putting them him for you.
Things to do Before Collaborating
- Read the work of the other author. You want to see if the two of you have the same ideas, general style, and taste in writing and word usage. I personally loved PS Bartlett's The Blue Diamond: The Razor's Edge and that is what led to our becoming friends and co-author.
- Establish a rapport with the co-author. You want to be able to communicate with each other. You want to understand the language of the other person. By this, I mean you want to know when they are serious or joking, or when they are having a bad day and you can read emails and know it's not you but just a bad day.
- Exchange writing samples for critique of work unrelated to any project you might work on together. See if you can handle criticism and a give and take process. See if the other person understands what you mean and if you understand them when talking about writing aspects of Character and Plot.
If you don't do the above three things, your writing experience will likely be a disaster. I'm not saying it will definitely be one, but it could be.
Now you've agreed to begin the process of coming up with ideas. What do you do now?
Things to do Before Beginning to Write
- Agree on the type of writing process.
- There are different ways of writing a book with a partner.
- Each person may write alternating chapters.
- One person takes the lead on writing the first draft.
- The lead writer writes a chapter, the co-author reads it, and a discussion takes place before moving to the next chapter. (Although the lead writer in the process may keep writing as the ideas flow.)
- Agree on roles in the process.
- Depending on a book there may be;
- Who is responsible for what kind of research?
- Subject matter
- Style
- Or Voice, that may lend itself to one writer being the first draft writer, if that is the route you are taking.
- Who will be responsible for parts of editing and proofing?
- Is there one best at catching continuity?
- Tense
- Point of view check
- Tightening up the writing
This is a sticky one as editing will step on toes and possibly hurt feelings. This is why there needs to be a lot of agreements and thought before even beginning a collaboration.
- Agree on the final approval process.
- How do you determine when it is ready for the editor?
- Who is to say when the final draft is complete?
- What happens if one of you does not approve in the end?
- Agree on what happens if one drops out of the project.
- Do you scrap the entire project if only a certain percentage of the manuscript is completed?
- Does the remaining author continue with full credit and rights?
- Does the remaining author continue writing, with credit given to the co-author, but the continuing writer retaining all rights?
- Does the remaining author continue and both authors share credit and rights?
- When I refer to rights above I mean rights to the characters, the intellectual property, all rights related to the ownership of the book and characters, and the profits.
The above looks like a lot to consider and go through, but you need to do it. You don't want to get to the middle of the process and discover this is not where you want to be, or maybe, just maybe, you discover your co-author is not into the project as much as you are.
Maybe you were expecting something about how to do a collaboration as in how to share documents in Google Docs through Google Drive. People jump into a writing partnership with a friend and end up discovering the friendship isn't as strong as they thought. When sharing creations and giving some control of your ideas over to another there can be some problems arise. Feelings may be hurt, prides may wound, and friendships may end.
One final thing I would suggest; put it all in writing. Why should you do this? I'm not saying for legal reasons, I'm saying for reference reasons. A writing project can take a long time, and memories can vary. A document agreed on by both authors can be a great thing to have on hand. Document and note everything. It is important when ideas come up and each author agrees to changes. This can be a fun part of your life and a rewarding one, but don't let it be a regrettable one.
I again want to stress, this article has nothing to do with how my own personal collaboration process went as far as the negatives go. I know what went great and I know what could have gone better.
PS Bartlett allowed me to run rampant with the book. I wrote the first draft, creating the story, and the characters with only one thing she wanted done for the most part, get a man with red hair and blue eyes that could be the captain of a ship to a certain place in the Caribbean by a certain time.
You would think she would have more concerns about a character who ends up being so important to her series of books. She wasn't. I loved The Blue Diamond: The Razor's Edge and that world created. I understood it. I discussed with her what this world could be and encouraged her to go for it. She went into her prequel trilogy and I into the book that became Amber Wake: Gabriel Falling. She trusted I would create characters with depth and character to match what she needed in her future books. While writing her trilogy she would ask me if the man I wrote as Captain Gabriel Wallace had certain things she could use in her books or if there were certain characters he had with him she could use. It worked out very well.
After I finished nitpicking my drafts to death, which took me about 4-5 weeks to write, I passed it over to Bartlett, as I call her or Blonde Bartlett the Sea Siren, her Pirate Name. Once some of her trilogy work was done, she then went to work on our book, added her flavor to it, her needed touches to match what all she did in the future with the man known as Wallace in the book, tightened up some of the sections, and added some proper ship and pirate jargon.
The final product was a story about 95-98% what I started with, and a read of language that blends nicely once you get past that initial set up and get on with it stage of unrest conflict causes. With four reviews in so far we have Three 5 Star reviews and One 4.5 Star review.
Here is part of the 4.5 Review.
This prequel is written to explain an enigmatic pirate, Captain Rasmus Bergman, found in a series written by P.S. Bartlett. Author Ronovan Hester was selected by P.S. Bartlett to go back in time to develop the character of this fierce, yet protective man. Set in the early 1700's, Hester uses a very formal Old English dialogue and non-dialogue language style. The historical descriptions are done smoothly, and flow nicely without being to "teachy".
A word of advice is to settle into the language as quickly as possible. It was a bit of a stumbling block for me, as I tried to mentally get the long slow phraseology to catch up with the fast scenes. Hester seems to settle into a great story-telling groove after the third chapter. After that I was along for the ride…
As stated above, the language is Old English and a bit stiff at the start. I don't know if I warmed up or if Ronovan Hester warmed up, but it flowed through my mind smoother after a couple of chapters.
In Amber Wake, Gabriel Falling, Hester takes on the challenge of writing first person and steers clear of some of the pit-falls of that style. He doesn't describe what is happening behind him or on another boat. As a reader, you only know what Captain Rasmus Bergman knows, which is critical in first-person writing.
Another challenge is developing a character from someone else's series. Hester takes this in stride and creates a back-story to explain the famous pirate. He includes history of what could explain Rasmus' high moral standards (for a pirate) and his upper class education. At times the internal and external dialogue, and the actions seemed at odds, but it didn't stop me from reading.
This is the first I've read of The Razor Adventures Pirate Tales. It would be entertaining to get readers together, who read these books in different order, and see if we each have a favorite character based on which book we read first.
So in conclusion; Ivory Dawn, Amber Wake, Demons and Pearls, and Jaded Tides are all prequels to The Blue Diamond. Unlike Ivory Dawn, Amber Wake is a stand-alone novel, but barely.
Why include the review here, and why the 4.5 and not one of the 5's? This one shows some of those things that can happen with co-authors. However, you can see how overall it worked out nicely. Eventually you have to put the book out and into the hands of the public. We could have spent another month or more . . . maybe . . . and found some of those things mentioned above, but that's one reason a professional editor was paid. Obviously, the points were not problems to keep from publishing or keeping his reader and others from enjoying the book. With any review, it's an opinion and a matter of taste, this coming from a man who created and runs a book review and interview site. In reality, the book could be a two. I like it. I am proud of what I've done. That's what matters at the end of the day.
Thank you, Jo, for allowing me to take up some of your space today. You are one of the most highly respected people in the author support world I know and the fact you volunteered for this is truly an honor.
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February 20, 2016 at 11:23 am
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Jo Robinson hosts Ronovan Hester talking about collaboration when writing a book and it also applies across any form of joint project. Ronovan and Author P.S. Bartlett have just released Amber Wake: Gabriel Falling as a prequel to her successful series The Razor's Adventures Pirate Tales.
February 20, 2016 at 11:48 am
That's a really interesting read from Ronovan. I can imagine collaboration being an absolute nightmare, but with PS taking a fairly hands-off role in the drafting of the story, it sounds as though Ronovan was given a fair amount of rope. So to write.
@ Ronovan, I was interested in your comments about paying a professional editor to pick up on issues, yet the reviewer (I mean 4.5 is a very good rating anyway) still picked on dialogue and action inconsistencies. Is that because you didn't brief the editor to look for those sort of issues? I remember reading the first chapter and thinking some of the dialogue didn't sit right. I had the initial impression it was set in England but some of the language sounded American, so I was confused then.
February 20, 2016 at 6:16 pm
I didn't have contact with the editor. She's edited previous books by my co-author, PS Bartlett. Thus, she was aware of what to look for. If you mean the chapter I put up on my sites, that was the pre-edit versions. I imagine some language bleed over does occur. I mostly went for story, plots, sub-plots, and character development. Then Bartlett went through and tightened the script up, added parts that needed to, edited to fit her style, for the most part without taking my voice away from it, technical things about ships from her experience having written her previous books in the series, and including certain aspects she needed in there for future book continuity and for her own personal enjoyment of the book, meaning her thoughts on what needed to be added to bring different aspects to the book.
We did the beta-reader thing. Then she sent it to the editor, did the edits, mostly keeping the core of the story and characters as originally done, and then uploaded to Kindle and Createspace, or was it the other way around? 🙂 I wasn't there so I'm not sure. It got loaded.
I mainly enjoyed the experience of writing and creating through that original 2-3 drafts I did before handing it off to PS Bartlett. I've learned how it all works, albeit knowing to begin with but it is good to see it in action.
Thank you for reading, commenting. 🙂 I hope you get it and let me know what you think as a reader in a review, and as an author in email. 😀 Unless the review would be awful, then rip me apart in an email. But I know it's not your main genre.
Much Respect to you Mel,
February 20, 2016 at 6:40 pm
Thanks for such a detailed reply about the process. From memory, I think the American spelling stood out for a ye olde pirate booke. But it's months ago. Honor and odor I think?
The question is, if one sets a book in England, should English or Americanese be used? Difficult. Americanese, to me, doesn't sound authentic.
And, I haven't read it, so I can't let you know. But, I do the email thing first for people.
I don't have a main genre. I read everything.
February 20, 2016 at 6:46 pm
I have a book planned for later set almost exclusively around English citizens. In that one I plan to use the English spellings. For this one there wasn't a discussion about what spellings to use. I think it works best for the writer to use what they know. But like I said, I plan to try for the full-on English version soon. I downloaded the Grammarly and it catches those spellings for me. I've tested it. Thank you for commenting. I like 'Americanese'. 🙂
February 20, 2016 at 6:54 pm
February 20, 2016 at 9:31 pm
Soon as I get the process going I'll be sharing. But yes, grammar is big as well. I do try to keep the grammar straight as far as what someone might call an item or process. I've read USA based books written by Europeans and there is terminology and cultural aspects that scream at someone from the USA at pulls the reader out of the story. I'll not be rushing an English based book, and I'll likely use an editor who is expert in that type of writing. Wendy Janes comes to mind. 🙂
February 21, 2016 at 6:07 am
@Roughseasinthemed I believe each reader, especially those who aren't accustomed to reading in the "Old englishese" I write my pirate stories in, may find my style a bit unfamiliar at first but others have no concern at all and never mention it. It's like walking a tight rope. One could easily fall to either side, but to keep one's balance between authentic proper English or sounding as if these 18th century people fell through time from yesterday requires not only balance but flexibility. I don't want to run readers off with too many ye's and lengthy sentences but at the same time, injecting just enough, I believe, allows them to be carried deeper into the time period…at least that's what my editor as well as many of my previous readers have told me.
For instance, here is the original verbiage from Ron's final draft:
"Gabriel, there's trouble brewing upstairs," Miles Jacobs said, taking an empty chair at the corner table of the tavern. I looked at my First Lieutenant; the seriousness of the situation was obvious from his set jaw and clenched teeth. My eyes traveled to the stairs at the opposite end of the tavern. The big room was crowded with members of the Royal Navy and local seamen. There was only one business to be found at the top of those stairs and any trouble up there would be ugly.
The final version:
"Gabriel, there's trouble brewing upstairs," Miles Jacobs said, taking an empty chair at the corner table of the tavern. When I observed my lieutenant's set jaw and clenched teeth, I immediately appreciated the seriousness of his words. My eyes followed his to the steps at the opposite end of the tavern, passing over the crowded room of Royal Navy men and local seamen. There was only one nature of affairs to be found at the top of those stairs and it was never the prudent sort.
I'm not certain this is a perfect example of what I'm trying to explain, however, I hope it explains things a bit.
February 21, 2016 at 11:55 am
Thanks for adding your perspective, PS, as well as Ronovan's interesting post and subsequent comments.
On ye olde English, I would say that the general guidance is similar to those for using dialects in books, a little is OK, but don't overdo it. Some people advocate not deviating from standard English at all. I think it's an author's decision.
I've done 'collaborative' writing. It can vary between an absolute disaster zone and very good indeed. I found it worked better when it was clear that someone was in charge (me), who had definite goals regarding style, direction, content. Discussion, disagreement, compromise are all fine, but agreement on roles is critical. And in my case, being brought in as an experienced writer/editor/publisher, it made sense that I steered the projects.
It's an interesting topic, and I look forward to any future posts Ronovan, or you, or both of you write about it. In a way, it reminds me of guest blogging on a much bigger scale. The same issues need to be considered though.
February 20, 2016 at 12:05 pm
This is very interesting and as Ronovan mentioned I thought it might be much more about the actual writing process but realise that there is obviously so much more to consider beforehand. Very wise words which should ensure a friendship stands up to any later confusion. As a journalist we often worked on articles together and at first I was extremely apprehensive so used to doing things 'my way' but I found it invigorating and challenging in a positive way that resulted in fully formed articles. Oh, there were plenty of 'discussions' along the way though and no original agreements on how to proceed, that would have been useful!
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Jonah Goldberg Slams 'Niggling Pedant' Piers Morgan After Monday's Interview
After CNN's Piers Morgan belittled conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg for upwards of 11 minutes on Monday night, Goldberg fired back Tuesday on his National Review blog and called it a "shameful spectacle." He accused Morgan of being a partisan hack while claiming journalistic impartiality.
"Liberal journalists don't think they have any biases, which makes it very hard for them to compensate for them," Goldberg wrote on Tuesday. He added that Morgan all the while was "making the case for Obama from what he thinks is the centrist position."
The interview began innocently, as Morgan asked about Goldberg's newest
book "The Tyranny of Cliches." But he immediately switched gears and,
in Goldberg's words, "cross-examined" him over the conservative backlash
against President Obama's remark that Mitt Romney would not have given
the order to kill bin Laden.
Morgan was a fierce defender of the President and a critic of the Republicans, all while claiming to be a "devil's advocate." Goldberg later ranted that Morgan was "carrying water for the Democrats."
"Are we really going to do this sort of high school debating tactic crap?" Goldberg exclaimed at one point in the interview, to which Morgan replied in the affirmative.
[Video below the break. Audio here.]
Towards the end of the interview, Morgan lauded the President as "quite
cool." He decried the Republican line of "Obama's too cool" concerning
his recent appearance on Jimmy Fallon, interview with Rolling Stone, and
jokes made at the White House correspondents dinner.
A partial transcript of the interview, which aired on April 30 on Piers Morgan Tonight at 9:10 p.m. EDT, is as follows:
PIERS MORGAN: If Barack Obama had been on the record two or three years
ago, saying – and Mitt Romney was the president at the time – and had
said I do not believe it is worth spending this kind of money, going
after one guy, are you telling me with a straight face, again, that Mitt
Romney wouldn't have capitalized on that if he had then taken out Osama
bin Laden? He wouldn't have reminded his number one challenger that he
said he wouldn't have spent the money?
JONAH GOLDBERG, author: Well, first of all, your characterization of what Mitt Romney said, I think, is off.
MORGAN: No, it's not.
GOLDBERG: Of course it is.
MORGAN: No, it's not.
GOLDBERG: Mitt Romney was talking about fighting the war on terror in the context of fighting one – coming after one man. He never said if I have the opportunity, you know, he wasn't spending all of this money. That's not what Barack Obama did when he got Osama bin Laden. It was a pretty cheap operation. No problem with that, I support it.
MORGAN: How much does it cost?
GOLDBERG: It didn't cost --
MORGAN: What's your idea of cheap?
GOLDBERG: Are we really going to do this sort of high school debating tactic crap?
MORGAN: Yes. I'm curious what you think of what cheap means.
GOLDBERG: I would put it at – I don't know, $50 million, $40 million.
MORGAN: Wow. And that's cheap in the Republican world?
GOLDBERG: That's cheap in comparison to what the cost of the War on Terror is.
MORGAN: No wonder the country got into the mess it did.
GOLDBERG: I suppose that that's supposed to be a really telling point. I'm not quite sure how it is.
MORGAN: I'm just saying the Republican administration obviously led to a huge financial collapse. You wouldn't dispute that.
GOLDBERG: I would and I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.
MORGAN: Would you dispute that after eight years of Republican administration the country went into a huge economic collapse?
GOLDBERG: No, but that's a timeline question.
GOLDBERG: It came afterwards, yes.
MORGAN: Do you thin – given we're talking about ideology, as you put it.
GOLDBERG: Uh-huh.
MORGAN: Do you think the ideology that $50 million is cheap? I don't know what it cost, the mission, actually, but $50 million is cheap is part of the problem here?
GOLDBERG: I think the debate tactic of getting – of sort of standing on a soap box and waxing poetic about how much I think this operation cost is cheap. That said –
MORGAN: But you're criticizing the cliched ideology of the liberals here, and I'm playing devil's advocate. I'm not saying you're wrong. But I'm saying when it comes to cheap ideology, chucking out statements like $50 million is cheap.
GOLDBERG: Well, I didn't chuck it out. You pried it out of me. You begged me for an answer.
MORGAN: That's good journalism, isn't it?
GOLDBERG: Maybe, you know –
MORGAN: Isn't that the point of an interview about this kind of issue?
GOLDBERG: No, but you're cross-examining me. You're not interviewing me.
MORGAN: What do you think of the whole debate about Obama's too cool? Republicans throwing this back at him, saying you can't be on entertainment shows, doing the slow jam with Jimmy Fallon. You can't be on the cover of "Rolling Stone" magazine if you're to be taken seriously. This is the wrong kind of thing. I mean, are they really expecting us to believe that if Mitt Romney was president, he wouldn't do stuff like this occasionally?
GOLDBERG: Oh I think he would do stuff – I don't think he'd be on "Rolling Stone," because I think "Rolling Stone" would burst into flames before that happened. But –
MORGAN: Is it a legitimate line of attack?
GOLDBERG: I don't think that's quite the line of attack. I think he certainly has every right to do it. I don't think any – I don't know of anybody who says he can't do it. But at the same time, I do think that some of that act is wearing thin. You can only be cool for so long in American life, and I think in life in general.
MORGAN: But I watched him at the White House Correspondents Dinner. I was there. And he had a ready wit, charm, delivery, great comic timing. You couldn't dispute it. Everybody was falling about laughing. He got more laughs than Jimmy Kimmel did. You can't dispute the guy is quite cool.
And why would Americans not like to have a cool president? Doesn't it resonate quite well around the world to have a guy that can sing like Al Green, that can crack jokes like the best comedians? I mean, isn't this good for America?
-- Matt Hadro is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center


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The Denver Debacle
Barack Obama received a valuable reminder in his drubbing the first debate: He is a president, not a king.
In the hours after the Republican challenger Mitt Romney embarrassed the incumbent in their first meeting, Obama loyalists expressed puzzlement that the incumbent had done badly. But Obama has only himself to blame, because he set himself up for this emperor-has-no-clothes moment. For the past four years, he has worked assiduously to avoid being questioned, maintaining a regal detachment from the media and other sources of dissent and skeptical inquiry.
Obama has set a modern record for refusal to be quizzed by the media, taking questions from reporters far less often than did Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and even George W. Bush. Obama has shied from mixing it up with members of Congress, too. And, especially since Rahm Emanuel's departure, Obama is surrounded by a large number of yes men who aren't likely to get in his face.
This insularity led directly to the Denver debacle: Obama was out of practice and unprepared to be challenged. The White House had supposed that Obama's forays into social media — town hall meetings with YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and the like — would replace traditional presidential communication. By relying on such venues, Obama's argument skills atrophied, and he was ill-equipped to engage in old-fashioned give and take.
Luckily for Obama, the debates are, as one adviser put it Thursday, "a three-game series." Romney's after-debate glow will likely fade as he attempts to explain his dubious assertions that he would not reduce taxes paid by the wealthy and that his tax cuts wouldn't increase the deficit. But even if Obama ultimately prevails, he should remember Denver as a warning: He does himself no favors by hiding from tough questioning.
Towson University political scientist Martha Kumar, who keeps a running tally of Obama's media appearances, tells me he had 19 solo news conferences in the White House as of Sept. 30. That compares to 26 for Ronald Reagan at the same point in his presidency, 59 for George H.W. Bush, and 31 for Bill Clinton. Obama had more formal news conferences than George W. Bush (13), but Bush engaged in many more informal Q&A sessions with reporters: 340 at this stage in his presidency to Obama's 105. (Clinton had 585 at this point, the elder Bush had 309 and Reagan had 135.)
Obama hasn't held a news conference since June. After a Cabinet meeting in July, a reporter tried to ask him whether new gun laws were needed after the Colorado shooting — and Obama brushed off the inquiry with a joke.
In lieu of taking hard questions, Obama has opted for gauzy, soft-focus interviews with the likes of "Entertainment Tonight," gentle appearances on late-night comedy shows, kid-glove satellite hits with regional TV stations, and joint appearances with the first lady where questions are certain to be soft. Tough questions are rare in one-on-one interviews, because Obama controls the topic — and the interviewer wants to be invited back.
The problem of president-in-the-bubble isn't unique to this one. As Democrats were quick to point out Wednesday night, other incumbent presidents — Jimmy Carter, Reagan and both Bushes — did poorly in their first debates. One former Obama White House official directly attributed Obama's diminished debating skills to four years in the White House removed from verbal sparring.
Obama's body language conveyed a sense that he felt it beneath him to be sharing a stage with Romney. The Republican National Committee released a video Thursday morning titled "Smirk" that showed Obama's reaction to Romney's barbs (eyes downcast, lips pursed, taking notes). He frequently tossed in phrases that indicated annoyance with the proceedings, which he thought were covering old ground ("We've had this discussion before. ... As I indicated earlier. ... ").
After a night to sleep on it, and some time to huddle with aides, Obama on Thursday found the lively retorts that had eluded him Wednesday night. "When I got onto the stage, I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney," he told supporters in Denver. "But it couldn't have been Mitt Romney because the real Mitt Romney has been running around the country for the last year promising $5 trillion in tax cuts that favor the wealthy. The fellow on stage last night said he didn't know anything about that."
Nice comeback. Had Obama allowed himself to be challenged over the past four years, he might have come up with it in real time.
Dana Milbank writes this column for The Washington Post. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Commissioners vote in favor of project near Century Village
Busloads of homeowners upset about development
After years of postponement and protests, Palm Beach County commissioners voted 4-2 to redevelop land adjacent to Century Village in West Palm Beach.
Busloads of homeowners from the retirement community arrived early at the commission chambers Thursday hoping to persuade the board to vote down the project.
The development, called Reflection Bay, would bring close to 700 condos and townhomes to the property at Haverhill Road and Okeechobee Boulevard. In addition, shops, restaurants and a 100-bed assisted living facility would be built.
Some property owners had enjoyed sweeping views of an 18-hole golf course. That course would be moved and whittled down to a nine-hole, par 3 course.
"They're going to put buildings in here, high-rises in here, houses in here," said Century Village resident Cookey Currier.
Currier's neighbor, Solomon Beck, lives on the other side of sprawling Century Village. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the project because of its aesthetics and the boost he believes it will bring to the property tax base in the area.
It will have "places to stroll, places (for) entertainment, places for doctors and lawyers, places where people can live," said Beck. "Instead of driving great distances to get someplace, what a town used to be, everything is within walking distance."


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Think about it… "While Canada & Australia compete for high-skilled immigrants, America fast-tracks an unskilled welfare class…"
On our suddenly race-obsessed politics
Mark Steyn - National Review Online
To an immigrant such as myself (not the undocumented kind, but documented up to the hilt, alas), one of the most striking features of election-night analysis was the lightly worn racial obsession. On Fox News, Democrat Kirsten Powers argued that Republicans needed to deal with the reality that America is becoming what she called a "brown country." Her fellow Democrat Bob Beckel observed on several occasions that if the share of the "white vote" was held down below 73 percent Romney would lose. In the end, it was 72 percent and he did. Beckel's assertion — that if you knew the ethnic composition of the electorate you also knew the result — turned out to be correct.
This is what less enlightened societies call tribalism: For example, in the 1980 election leading to Zimbabwe's independence, Joshua Nkomo's ZAPU-PF got the votes of the Ndebele people while Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF secured those of the Shona — and, as there were more Shona than Ndebele, Mugabe won. That same year America held an election, and Ronald Reagan won a landslide victory. Nobody talked about tribal-vote shares back then, but had the percentage of what Beckel calls the "white vote" been the same in 2012 as it was in 1980 (88 percent), Mitt Romney would have won in an even bigger landslide than Reagan. The "white vote" will be even lower in 2016, and so, on the Beckel model, Republicans are set to lose all over again.
Hence the urge to get on the right side of America's fastest-growing demographic. Only 27 percent of Hispanics voted for Romney. But all that could change if the GOP were to sign on to support some means of legalizing the presence of the 12–20 million fine upstanding members of the Undocumented-American community who are allegedly "social conservatives" and thus natural Republican voters. Once we pass amnesty, argues Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, "future immigrants will be more open to the Republican Party because, unlike many immigrants who are already here, they won't have been harmed or insulted by Republican politicians."
So, if I follow correctly, instead of getting 27 percent of the 10 percent Hispanic vote, Republicans will get, oh, 38 percent of the 25 percent Hispanic vote, and sweep to victory.
Everyone talks about this demographic transformation as if it's a natural phenomenon, like Hurricane Sandy. Indeed, I notice that many of those exulting in the inevitable eclipse of "white America" are the same people who assure me that demographic arguments about the Islamization of Europe are completely preposterous. But in neither the United States nor Europe is it a natural phenomenon. Rather, it's the fruit of conscious government policy.
According to the Census, in 1970 the "Non-Hispanic White" population of California was 78 percent. By the 2010 census, it was 40 percent. Over the same period, the 10 percent Hispanic population quadrupled and caught up with whites.
That doesn't sound terribly "natural" does it? If one were informed that, say, the population of Nigeria had gone from 80 percent black in 1970 to 40 percent black today, one would suspect something rather odd and unnatural had been going on. Twenty years ago, Rwanda was about 14 percent Tutsi. Now it's just under 10 percent. So it takes a bunch of Hutu butchers getting out their machetes and engaging in seven-figure genocide to lower the Tutsi population by a third. But, when the white population of California falls by half, that's "natural," just the way it is, one of those things, could happen to anyone.
Every four years, the Republican party pines for another Reagan. But Ronald Reagan, governor of California for eight years, couldn't get elected in today's not-so-Golden State. Jerry Brown, Governor Moonbeam back in the Seventies, now presides as Governor Twilight, lead vampire of a malign alliance of unionized bureaucrats and a swollen dependency class that maintains them in office at the expense of a remorselessly shrinking productive class. As the nation's demographic profile trends ever more Californian, perhaps Norquist's predictions of naturally conservative Hispanics pining for a new Reagan will come to fruition. Or perhaps Bob Beckel's more crudely determinative analysis will prove correct — that, in a multicultural society, jostling identity groups will stick with the party of ethnocultural spoils.
Once upon a time, the Democrats thought differently. It was their first progressive president, Woodrow Wilson, who imposed the concept of "self-determination" on post–Great War Europe, insisting that the multicultural empires of the Habsburgs and Romanovs be replaced by a patchwork of ethnic statelets from the Balkans to the Baltics. He would be surprised to find his own party presiding over a Habsburgian America of bilingual Balkanization as a matter of electoral strategy.
The short history of the Western Hemisphere is as follows: North America was colonized by Anglo-Celts, Central and South America by "Hispanics." Up north, two centuries of constitutional evolution and economic growth; down south, coups, corruption, generalissimos, and presidents-for-life. None of us can know the future. It may be that Charles Krauthammer is correct that Hispanics are natural Republicans merely pining for amnesty, a Hallmark Cinco de Mayo card, and a mariachi band at the inaugural ball. Or it may be that, in defiance of Dr. Krauthammer, Grover Norquist, and Little Mary Sunshine, demographics is destiny and, absent assimilationist incentives this country no longer imposes, a Latin American population will wind up living in a Latin American society. Don't take it from a right-wing bigot like me, take it from the New York Times. In 2009, Jason DeParle filed a story about suburban Maryland, in which he helpfully explained the municipality of Langley Park to Times readers:
Now nearly two-thirds Latino and foreign-born, it has the aesthetics of suburban sprawl and the aura of Central America. Laundromats double as money-transfer stores. Jobless men drink and sleep in the sun. There is no city government, few community leaders, and little community.
Golly. You'd almost get the impression that Mr. DeParle thinks that laundromats doubling as money-transfer stores, jobless men drinking and sleeping in the sun, and dysfunctional government are somehow characteristic of Central America. That sounds awfully judgmental for a Times man, no?
Republicans think they're importing hardworking immigrants who want a shot at the American Dream; the Democrats think they're importing clients for Big Government. The Left is right: Just under 60 percent of immigrants receive some form of welfare. I see the recent Republican proposals for some form of amnesty contain all sorts of supposed safeguards against gaming the system, including a $525 application fee for each stage of the legalization process. On my own recent visit to a U.S. Immigration office, I was interested to be told that, as a matter of policy, the Obama administration is now rubberstamping all "fee waiver" requests for "exceptional hardship" filed by members of approved identity groups. And so it will go for all those GOP safeguards. While Canada and Australia compete for high-skilled immigrants, America fast-tracks an unskilled welfare class of such economic benefit to their new homeland they can't even afford a couple of hundred bucks for the necessary paperwork.
It's hardly their fault. If you were told you could walk into a First World nation and access free education, free health care, free services in your own language, and have someone else pay your entrance fee, why wouldn't you? So, yes, Republicans should "moderate" their tone toward immigrants, and de-moderate their attitude to the Dems who suckered the GOP all too predictably. Decades of faintheartedness toward some of the most destabilizing features of any society, including bilingualism (take it from a semi-Belgian Canadian), have brought the party to its date with destiny. Or as Peggy Lee sang long ago in a lost land, "Mañana is soon enough for me."
— Mark Steyn, a National Review columnist, is the author of After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. © 2012 Mark Steyn
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Still The Hardest Working Man in Showbiz
James Brown has once again proven that he's still got flair ... even though he died nearly a week ago.
The Godfather of Soul, who passed away on Christmas day, underwent one last costume change for his second viewing in Augusta, GA early Saturday morning.
Brown rocked a shiny blue blazer with a matching tie this time around, a drastic change from the suit he wore during the New York viewing on Thursday.
Eat your heart out, Cher!


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Linux doesn't have EDT, but there are scores of editors available. The only one that's guaranteed to be included in every UNIX version is vi---forget it, your sysadm must have installed something better. Probably the most popular editor is emacs, which can emulate EDT to a certain degree; jed is another editor that provides EDT emulation.
These two editors are particularly useful for editing program sources, since they have two features unknown to EDT: syntax hilighting and automatic indentation. Moreover, you can compile your programs from within the editor (command ESC-X compile); in case of a syntax error, the cursor will be positioned on the offending line. I bet that you'll never want to use the true blue EDT again.
If you have emacs: start it, then type ESC-X edt-emulation-on. Pressing ALT--X or ESC-X is emacs' way of issuing commands, like EDT's CTRL--Z. From now on, emacs acts like EDT apart from a few commands. Differences:
don't press CTRL--Z to issue commands (if you did, you stopped emacs. Type fg to resume it);
there's an extensive on-line help. Press CTRL-H ?, or CTRL-H T to start a tutorial;
to save a file, press CTRL-X CTRL-S;
to exit, press CTRL-X CTRL-C;
to insert a new file in a buffer, press CTRL-X CTRL-F, then CTRL-X B to switch among buffers.
If you have jed: ask your sysadm to configure jed properly. Emulation is already on when you start it; use the normal keypad keys, and press CTRL--H CTRL--H or CTRL-? to get help. Commands are issued in the same way as emacs'. In addition, there are some handy key bindings missing in the original EDT; key bindings can also be tailored to your own taste. Ask your sysadm.
In alternative, you may use another editor with a completely different interface. emacs in native mode is an obvious choice; another popular editor is joe, which can emulate other editors like emacs itself (being even easier to use) or the DOS editor. Invoke the editor as jmacs or jstar and press, respectively, CTRL-X H or CTRL-J to get online help. emacs and jed are much more powerful than good ol' EDT.


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