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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The number of applicants for new jobless benefits fell last week to the lowest level since January 2008, data showed Thursday, but the drop likely stemmed from a beginning-of-the-year quirk whose effects may soon fade and push first-time filings back up.
Initial applications for unemployment benefits sank by 37,000 to a seasonally adjusted 335,000 in the week ended Jan. 12, the Labor Department said.
The government had been expecting a much bigger increase in unadjusted numbers based on patterns in prior years, but that didn't happen. Such a quirk occurs every so often after a holiday season. Read about strange quirk in claims.
Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had forecast claims would drop to 368,000 from last week's slightly revised 372,000. Yet some warned that the decline could be much sharper because of the seasonal quirk.
The one-month average of claims, typically a more accurate labor-market indicator in that its smooths out week-to-week volatility, fell by a smaller 6,750 to stand at 359,250. That's still near a four-year low, however.
The level of claims is often quite volatile in December and January because of the holidays and seasonal hiring patterns. Economists often discount the report until the end of the month.
There's been little change in the direction of claims since the fall, suggesting the nation's labor market continues to expand at a modest pace. The U.S. has added, on average, about 153,000 net jobs a month since the start of 2011.
Also Thursday, the Labor Department said continuing claims increased by 87,000 to a seasonally adjusted 3.21 million in the week ended Jan. 5. Continuing claims reflect the number of people already receiving benefits.
About 5.82 million people received some kind of state or federal benefit in the week ended Dec. 29, up 465,547 from the prior week. Total claims are reported with a two-week lag.


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Two dozen people, four of them slightly injured, were left stranded high off the ground after a roller coaster ride struck a tree branch at a Six Flags amusement park in southern California on Monday evening, fire officials said.
The Ninja roller coaster, which races at highway speeds suspended from an elevated track, stalled about 20 to 30 feet in the air, leaving some of its occupants trapped in the ride's open cars for more than two hours before they were rescued.
The trouble at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Santa Clarita, California, about 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles, started at about 6 p.m. local time when the ride struck a branch of an adjacent tree, Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman Michael Pittman said.
Department spokesman Ed Pickett said the last of the 24 riders stranded by the mishap were extricated by about 8:30 p.m.
Local media footage showed rescuers in hard hats working from an elevated platform and a perch atop the ride's support beams aiding the roller coaster's occupants, one of whom could be seen gripping a safety harness.
The park said on its website that the Ninja was temporarily closed after the accident. Park officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
"Ninja pivots with precision as you narrowly miss tagging land and water, whipping around at 55 miles per hour," according to the website, which describes the suspended, swinging roller coaster as one of only four such rides in the United States.
Four of the riders suffered minor injuries and two of them were sent to a hospital for treatment, Pickett said.
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All Links in Two Topics of Indiatimes (indiatimes.com) Are Vulnerable to XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Attacks
(1) Domain Description:
"The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world according to Audit Bureau of Circulations (India). According to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2012, the Times of India is the most widely read English newspaper in India with a readership of 7.643 million. This ranks the Times of India as the top English daily in India by readership. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report 2012, Times of India was ranked 88th among India's most trusted brands and subsequently, according to the Brand Trust Report 2013, Times of India was ranked 100th among India's most trusted brands. In 2014 however, Times of India was ranked 174th among India's most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report 2014, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory." (en.Wikipedia.org)
(2) Vulnerability description:The web application indiatimes.com online website has a security problem. Hacker can exploit it by XSS bugs.
The code flaw occurs at Indiatimes's URL links. Indiatimes only filter part of the filenames in its website. All URLs under Indiatimes's "photogallery" and "top-llists" topics are affected.
Indiatimes uses part of the links under "photogallery" and "top-llists" topics to construct its website content without any checking of those links at all. This mistake is very popular in nowaday websites. Developer is not security expert.
The vulnerability can be attacked without user login. Tests were performed on Mozilla Firefox (26.0) in Ubuntu (12.04) and Microsoft IE (9.0.15) in Windows 7.
POC Codes:
photogallery/">homeqingdao
lists/">singaporemanagementuniversity
photogallery/lifestyle/">astar
lists/technology/">nationaluniversityofsingapore
POC Video:
Blog Details:http://securityrelated.blogspot.com/2014/11/two-topics-of-indiatimes-indiatimescom.html
What is XSS?
"Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are a type of injection, in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted web sites. XSS attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code, generally in the form of a browser side script, to a different end user. Flaws that allow these attacks to succeed are quite widespread and occur anywhere a web application uses input from a user within the output it generates without validating or encoding it." (OWASP)
(3) Vulnerability Disclosure:
The vulnerabilities were reported to Indiatimes in early September, 2014. However they are still unpatched.
Discovered and Reported by:
Wang Jing, Division of Mathematical Sciences (MAS), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. (@justqdjing)
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Memorial Day is considered by many as the opening day of summer and the start of many mountain bike trips and adventures. But let us not forget that this holiday weekend exists for the military service men and women who died while in battle. It is also a significant opportunity to thank all those who have served in the military, specially those who have been injured while in service.
Road or mountain, getting our wounded veterans on bikes on Memorial Day and any day is a worthy cause.
Now more than ever, the cause to give back to our veterans is a worthy undertaking. WTB has taken them to the Weir Ranch to experience the freedom of playing like a kid in the woods once again. And Trek has been taking them on a road and mtb adventure just to experience the joy of pedaling despite any adversity.
In that vein, there is a special mountain bike event that celebrates the lives and the resilience of those who served and/or have been injured in the global war on terror, focused in Iraq and Afghanistan. The event is called the Warrior 100K mountain bike ride and it takes place May 23-25, 2013, near Waco, Texas.
Video: 2012 W100K Highlights
The George W. Bush Institute organizes the event and George W. himself rides with the participants during the event. This year, 14 warriors will join President Bush on the three-day ride at Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas next week. They include the athletes listed below.
Many of the athletes have lost limbs from their injuries sustained in the battlefield. But they persevere and continue to live life to the fullest and enjoy the freedom they helped provide.
This year's line-up
- Major James C. Anderson, Jr., USA, from San Antonio, TX
- Sergeant First Class Manuel A. Colón, USA from Orlando, FL
- Sergeant First Class Thomas W. Costello, USA, from Shelby, NC
- Staff Sergeant Matthew P. DeWitt, USA, Ret. from Weare, NH
- First Sergeant Robert A. Ferrara, USA, Ret. from San Antonio, TX
- Major John Dana Greer, USA, Ret., from Savannah, GA
- Lieutenant Colonel David Johnson, USA
- Staff Sergeant Joshua M. Krueger, USMC, Ret. from Hubertus, WI
- Staff Sergeant Michael D. Morabito, USA, Ret., from Converse, TX
- Staff Sergeant Jeffrey R. Palenske, USA from Chicago, IL
- Master Sergeant Roque Rodriguez-Urena, USAF Ret., from Charleston, SC
- Staff Sergeant Omar R. Romney, USA, Ret., from Clarksville, TN
- Specialist José E. Santiago, USA from Centennial, CO
- Major Kent G. Solheim, USA from Raeford, NC;
Full rider Bios are available at https://www.bushcenter.org/w100k/2013-w100k-warriors
For more information visit https://www.bushcenter.org/military-service-initiative/w100k
The Bikes
Trek Bikes has been quietly sponsoring this event without any publicity or announcement whatsover. But we noticed the Trek Logo on the W100k site and we hunted down Trek's Eric Bjorling for confirmation. They indeed supply a bike for every athlete participating in this event and they work with each one to outfit the bike with special controls to operate the bike. It is not uncommon that some athletes are missing limbs from injuries suffered in combat. So the bikes need to be customized for the rider. And of course, the riders get to keep the bikes.
This year, the event was right in time for the Trek Fuel 29er launch so the Warriors 100k riders got the hottest bikes in the market. The Fuel 26er has been around a while and it is fully optimized with Fox DRCV suspension front and rear. So this 29er version in the Fuel EX7 is much anticipated and will help the athletes complete this three day event.


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Budweiser Man of the Match: Kekuta Manneh
Referee: Juan Guzman
Attendance: 38,833
CENTURYLINK FIELD, Seattle, Wash.
Oct. 9, 2013 (WEEK 33, MLS Game #299)
7 p.m. PT (TSN/RDS2; Bell mobile devices; TEAM 1410 radio and teamradio.ca)
The Cascadia Cup hits fever pitch this week as Seattle Sounders FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC kick things off with a midweek encounter at CenturyLink Field. Sounders FC can clinch their place in the MLS Cup Playoffs with a victory, coming off a heavy 5-1 loss at the Colorado Rapids last weekend. Whitecaps FC still have their slim postseason alive, following their dramatic 2-2 draw with the Portland Timbers at BC Place on Sunday.
REFEREE: Juan Guzman. AR1 (bench): Fabio Tovar; AR2 (opposite): Peter Balciunas; 4th: Dave Gantar
MLS Career: 36 games; FC/gm: 25.0; Y/gm: 3.7; R: 12; pens: 8
DISABLED LIST: SEA: Josh Ford
SUSPENDED: SEA: Zach Scott (through Oct. 13)
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: SEA: Leo Gonzalez, Djimi Traore … VAN: Jordan Harvey, Camilo Sanvezzo
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: SEA: Osvaldo Alonso, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Adam Moffat, Brad Evans … VAN: Gershon Koffie, Russell Teibert, Lee Young-Pyo, Nigel Reo-Coker
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: SEA: Brad Evans, Eddie Johnson (USA) … VAN: Johnny Leveron (Honduras); Darren Mattocks (Jamaica)
ALL-TIME (7 meetings): Sounders FC 3 wins, 12 goals … Whitecaps FC 1 win, 9 goals … Ties 3
AT SEATTLE (3 meetings): Sounders FC 2 wins, 7 goals … Whitecaps FC 0 wins, 5 goals … Ties 1
6/8: SEA 3, VAN 2 (Rose 9; Carrasco 70; Neagle 81 – Sanvezzo 10, 26)
7/6: VAN 2, SEA 0 (Miller 4; Mattocks 79)
- The teams are meeting for the third time this season. Darren Mattocks and Kenny Miller scored to give Whitecaps FC a 2-0 victory on July 6 at BC Place; less than a month earlier, Lamar Neagle's late goal capped a comeback and gave Sounders FC a 3-2 victory before a crowd of better than 53,000 at CenturyLink Field.
- The Vancouver victory in the last meeting was their first ever against their Cascadia rivals to the south since coming to MLS. Sounders FC had won three of the first six meetings, with three draws.
- The clubs have a rivalry dating back to 1974 in the old North American Soccer League, and continuing through the A-League and USL First Division.
- Coaches record: Sigi Schmid vs. VAN: P7 W3 L1 T3 … Martin Rennie vs. SEA: P5 W1 L2 T2
- Whitecaps FC took the lead after just four minutes. Kenny Miller received a long ball over the top from Corey Hertzog before cutting back on his right foot just inside the box and placing the ball in the bottom-right corner of Michael Gspurning's goal.
- The insurance tally for Vancouver came 11 minutes from full time. Substitute Darren Mattocks latched onto a Gershon Koffie flicked header to break through on goal and finish with a left-footed effort.
- VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC (4-1-2-3): Brad Knighton - Lee Young-Pyo, Johnny Leveron, Brad Rusin, Jordan Harvey - Jun Marques Davidson - Nigel Reo-Coker, Gershon Koffie - Corey Hertzog (Daigo Kobayashi 64), Kenny Miller (Matt Watson 90), Camilo Sanvezzo (Darren Mattocks 76).
- SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC (4-4-2): Michael Gspurning - Zach Scott, Djimi Traore, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Leo Gonzalez (DeAndre Yedlin 79) - Brad Evans, Shalrie Joseph, Servando Carrasco, Lamar Neagle (Mauro Rosales 72) - Eddie Johnson, Obafemi Martins.
Seattle Sounders FC suffered one of the heaviest losses in their MLS club history, falling 5-1 to the Colorado Rapids on Saturday evening at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. Sounders FC are in second place in the Western Conference with 52 points from 30 matches.
- The Rapids took the lead with the second-fastest goal in league history. A Gabriel Torres pass set rookie Deshorn Brown free along the left side of the penalty box, and he fired home past Sounders FC goalkeeper Michael Gspurning after just 15 seconds.
- It was 2-0 after 10 minutes, when a quick corner from Vicente Sanchez picked out Dillon Powers alone in front of the net for an easy header.
- Then in the 31st minute it was 3-0, when Brown raced onto a pass over the top of the Seattle back line and coolly slotted home from inside the box. The Rapids made it 4-0 in the 41st minute when Drew Moor got the final touch to another Sanchez corner kick.
- Sounders FC pulled a goal back in the 63rd minute when Eddie Johnson stroked home a shot from inside the area, but their fate was truly sealed 11 minutes from the end when Zach Scott was ejected on a second yellow card.
- Gabriel Torres completed a magical night for the hosts with a far post blast from the right side of the penalty area a minute into stoppage time.
- Sounders FC head coach Sigi Schmid made two changes to the team that reached a 1-1 draw with the New York Red Bulls at CenturyLink Field. Zach Scott came into central defense in place of Djimi Traore, and Adam Moffat started for Obafemi Martins.
- SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC (4-4-2): Michael Gspurning - DeAndre Yedlin, Zach Scott (ejected 79), Jhon Kennedy Hurtado (Patrick Ianni 46), Marc Burch - Mauro Rosales (Dylan Remick 65), Adam Moffat, Osvaldo Alonso (Andy Rose 74), Brad Evans - Lamar Neagle, Eddie Johnson.
- The loss to Colorado matches the club's heaviest defeat in MLS play – equaling the 4-0 loss to the LA Galaxy on May 26 of this season – and the five goals were the most Sounders FC have ever allowed in league play.
- "I thought our fight was there," Seattle head coach Sigi Schmid said. "I thought we came out and I thought we played well in the first 20 minutes. Overall when you look at the flow of the game, I didn't think we got completely outplayed, I think we got countered on, and when you give up two set-piece goals and a goal in the first 30 seconds, you know, that's unacceptable."
- Sounders FC have now gone three games without a victory, matching their second-longest winless run this year. They opened the season winless in five matches.
- "We have to learn that that's not good enough," Schmid said. "You can't walk on the field and assume that you're going to be in the game. You have to be in the game mentally right from the beginning of the game."
- Eddie Johnson scored his second goal in the last three matches for the lone Seattle goal. He has four goals in the last 11 matches.
- "It's about taking your opportunities when you get them. I was a bit unlucky with the header. The 'keeper made a good save. But I got my second chance and I wanted to make sure I put it in the net," Johnson said. "We put ourselves in a big hole, but we came out in the second half and we responded well. Our intensity was there and we played with nothing to lose."
- Rookie Dylan Remick, the club's second-round selection in this year's SuperDraft, made his MLS debut, coming on for the final 65 minutes.
- After returning from suspension, Zach Scott came back into the starting lineup – but will miss the Vancouver match after being sent off for a second time in as many games following a second yellow card.
- "It's good to get your [butt] kicked at this time of the year, just to remind you that this is the real thing," said Schmid. "And if you don't come out completely prepared mentally and ready to give everything you have, you're going to get your [butt] kicked."
- Clint Dempsey missed a third consecutive match, and has made just a single substitute appearance in the last six league contests.
- "Obviously Clint is still recovering from his injury," Schmid said. "(U.S. national team coach) Jurgen (Klinsmann) understood that and we spoke as well. We felt that it's a good chance for him fitness-wise to make up some things, to make sure his hamstring gets 100 percent ready. We want him ready for the playoffs. Jurgen as well wants him ready for their final things and the World Cup and everything else. It's a win-win for both sides."
Vancouver Whitecaps FC saw their home winless run stretched to four games, despite coming back for a 2-2 draw with the Portland Timbers on Sunday evening at BC Place. Whitecaps FC are in seventh place in the Western Conference with 42 points from 31 matches.
- The Timbers took the lead in the 41st minute. Darlington Nagbe turned well outside the area and hit a full-blooded screamer that found the top left corner, beating Whitecaps FC goalkeeper David Ousted.
- Whitecaps FC pulled level in the 76th minute, when Camilo scored from a free kick from more than 30 yards out that took a deflection into the bottom corner of the goal.
- But almost before Vancouver was done celebrating, the visitors stormed back down to the other end of the field and restored the one-goal margin as Nagbe held off a defender then squared for Will Johnson to lash home from the top of the box.
- Yet a stroke of sheer brillance provided the equalizer. After a marauding build-up down the left, Darren Mattocks' cross found Lee Young-Pyo overlapping on the right side. He pulled back for Camilo near the top of the box, and the Brazilian conjured a flying, acrobatic overhead kick that beat Portland goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts from 16 yards.
- Whitecaps FC head coach Martin Rennie made three changes to the team that fell 1-0 to Real Salt Lake at BC Place. Matt Watson, Daigo Kobayashi and Darren Mattocks came into the team, in place of Gershon Koffie, Russell Teibert and Tommy Heinemann.
- VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC (4-1-3-2): David Ousted - Lee Young-Pyo, Carlyle Mitchell, Jay DeMerit, Jordan Harvey - Jun Marques Davidson - Matt Watson (Russell Teibert 64), Daigo Kobayashi (Kekuta Manneh 71), Nigel Reo-Coker - Camilo Sanvezzo, Darren Mattocks
- Whitecaps FC saw their home winless streak extended to four matches with the draw, having taken two of a possible 12 points since a 2-0 defeat of San Jose on Aug. 10. Vancouver has won one of their last eight league matches.
- "We'll have to carry this momentum into Wednesday's game. I saw the [Colorado-Seattle] result … and I was like why couldn't they wait for us to do that. Especially with Seattle being the best team in our Western Conference, they're going to be ready to come at us and make a statement, because something like that shouldn't happen," said defenderJay DeMerit. "We've got to be able to match them early, and if we do I think we've got a chance to win the Cascadia Cup. Anytime your club wins silverware, it's always a huge confidence booster."
- Camilo Sanvezzo scored two goals in a game for the second time in the last three matches, including a stunning flying side volley, to bring Whitecaps FC back for the result vs. Portland.
- "It was just an incredible passage of play. He scored an unbelievable free kick and then right away, we lost a goal which is very disappointing, but another minute we had scored again," said Whitecaps FC head coach Martin Rennie. "I think moments like that, you're a fan of soccer. You can't help but be excited by it and you can't help but be thankful we have a team that is very close to being a very good team. It's not quite there yet, but it's not far away."
- Camilo has scored the last four Vancouver goals; he now has five 2-goal games and is tied for the league lead in multi-goal games. He is second in the MLS Golden Boot standings with 18 goals.
- "I thought we played very well, and if we continue to play the same way the next three games we'll have a very good chance," Camilo said. "It's disappointing [when being down 2-1] but the game was not over so we tried to attack and we were able to score."
- Darren Mattocks made his first start since Aug. 24, playing the full match in attack alongside Camilo. Daigo Kobayashi also returned to the starting lineup for the first time since Sept. 7, playing 71 minutes. He had come off the substitutes' bench each of the last two matches.
- "What a threat we were, with [Darren] Mattocks, Camilo [Sanvezzo], Kekuta [Manneh] and at times with Daigo [Kobayashi], what a threat," Rennie said. "I think if we get those kind of players on the field and if we get Russell [Teibert] probably doing what he was doing a little bit earlier in the game, then we have a fantastic chance to do that. It's obviously a big ask, but we want to make sure now we focus on Wednesday."
- After originally considered delaying joining the Jamaican national team, Darren Mattocks has left for international duty for the World Cup qualifying week.
- "We'd have liked to have had him, because he could have built on that performance," Rennie said. "At times he's been unfortunate because sometimes he goes away for nearly two weeks, doesn't play, probably doesn't train and then he's out of the team again. So that's frustrating, but that's part of having players who play for their national teams."
- Kenny Miller missed a second consecutive match with a groin injury. "I don't know that it's serious," Rennie said. "It's just that a groin strain is going to take at least a few days to get better and we were hoping it would be better for the game [Sunday]. He pulled up again in training the day before the game I think. So I think that was the point where obviously he couldn't play. But we're not sure if he'll be able to play this game [against Seattle] or not and obviously if he can he's a big addition for us. We'll have to wait and see."


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Former presidents offer bipartisan salute to 'W' at library dedication
DALLAS -- A rare conclave of five U.S. presidents, bonded by pressures and crises others can only imagine, joined arms Thursday to dedicate the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.
With gentle nods to rivalry and disagreements past and current, they celebrated the nation's 43rd commander-in-chief -- the strength he projected, and the devotion he poured into the job. Amid a bright spring sunshine and under extraordinary security, they hailed bipartisanship and resolve.
The speeches and ceremony focused on areas of agreement, such as Bush's effort to combat AIDS in Africa. Bush himself acknowledged the controversy of his tenure.
"The political winds blow left and right, the polls rise and fall, supporters come and go. But in the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold," Bush said, adding that his guiding conviction, is that this country "must strive to expand the reach of freedom."
"I dedicate this library with unshakable faith in the future of our country," he said, his voice cracking with emotion. "Whatever challenges come before us, I will always believe our nation's best days lie ahead."
The grand civic pageant lasted less than 90 minutes but brought thousands of former Bush aides and supporters to the campus of Southern Methodist University. Prime ministers and presidents who shared the world stage with Bush baked under the cloudless sky.
"This is a Texas-sized party, and that's worthy of what we're here to do today," President Barack Obama said, after a private tour with the other presidents. He spoke of the presidents' club as a "support group," much needed, because "It's impossible to truly understand the nature of the job until yours."
He spoke of Bush's "incredible strength and resolve" after the Sept. 11 attacks, the "compassion" he showed in leading a global fight against malaria and HIV, the "commitment to reach across the aisle, to unlikely allies like Sen. Edward Kennedy," to ensure a good education for all children and to overhaul immigration policy, a fight that still persists.
"Mr. President, for your service, for your courage, for your sense of humor and most of all for your love of country, thank you very much," Obama said.
Nearby, protesters decried Bush's invasion of Iraq and other policies in demonstrations that remained peaceful.
Apart from Obama and his four predecessors, history may well record that more than merely five presidents attended Thursday's festivities. Among the others on hand with potential White House ambitions in 2016: Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and brother and son of presidents, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state.
The library will give scholars and tourists alike an opportunity to reminisce about the controversies of the Bush era. And there were many.
Debate still rages over his decision to invade Iraq after the Sept. 11 attacks, on the pretext that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that were never found. His handling of Afghanistan, where U.S. forces are as yet engaged in this nation's longest war, remains controversial.
There were fights over a costly expansion of Medicare to add drug benefits for seniors, failed efforts to overhaul Social Security and enact immigration reform -- issues that continue to vex Washington.
Clinton lauded Bush for putting these fights on display at his library. By inviting second-guessing, he said, "he has honored that deepest American tradition" of robust debate.
"We're here to celebrate a country we all love, a service we all render. And debate and difference is a part of every free society," Clinton said.
Of all the presidents on the dais, Obama has been the most critical. He built his 2008 campaign around promises to undo the Bush legacy and reverse policies foreign and domestic. He spent most of his first term trying to do that, all the while pointing at the struggling economy he inherited.
Bush himself had won the White House promising to restore honor and integrity to the Oval Office, a swipe at Clinton.
But bitterness fades with time, and former presidents are generous and gentle with one another, at least in public.
Just as most eulogies gloss past the warts and shortcomings of the departed loved one, those who spoke Thursday emphasized the positive. At times it had the feel of a roast.
Democratic President Jimmy Carter hailed Bush's efforts early in his term to stop civil war in Sudan. And he joked about a cartoon in which a child says that he grows up, he wants to be a former president -- clearly a less arduous role.
"Four of us have already made that goal. One of us is working on it," Carter said.
On the plaza at the Bush Center, a sea of VIPs filled white folding chairs.
The governors of Texas, Arizona and New Jersey were on hand, along with Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Seven Texas congressmen, all Republicans, were on hand.
Longtime Bush strategists Karl Rove, Karen Hughes and Mark McKinnon mingled with the likes of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, House Speaker John Boehner, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and famous and unknown alumni of the Bush era.
Jim Oberwetter, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and president of the Dallas Regional Chamber, called it a great day.
"But the bigger import is what it means for the city and for SMU. I believe it moves us up a notch in terms of international. Because it becomes a center for academic discussion and debate in addition to the programs our president has," he said.
As for Bush, Oberwetter said, "He served at a very difficult time in our nation's history and 9-11 shaped his presidency. Yes, there's a lot of controversy remaining, but President Obama has continued many of the policies that the president put in place, especially with respect to counterterrorism."
"Right here, there's a so much loyalty to this president and what he went through and the eight years," said U.S. Rep. Roger Williams of Texas, a longtime Bush friend, waiting for the ceremony to begin. "It's a chance to remind people he did a lot things, a lot of great things, for those eight years."
Don Evans, Bush's childhood friend from Midland, Texas, and later, his commerce secretary, opened the program. He spoke of Bush's "steady resolve and principled leadership."
Today, he said, is a day to honor the Bushes' service and "to honor the American presidency."
Apart from five living presidents, relatives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan lent yet more sense of history to the occasion. There were five first ladies, current and former.
Since leaving office, Bush has shied from the public arena, maintaining that former presidents only cause their successors trouble by opining on topics of the day. And GOP leaders haven't exactly embraced a man whose presidency is still viewed unfavorably by many Americans.
So the former president has altogether avoided the campaign trail -- in stark contrast to his Democratic predecessor, Bill Clinton - and focused instead on the George W. Bush Institute, a nonpartisan policy think tank housed at the center.
The institute builds upon aspects of the Bush White House, addressing issues like education reform, global health and military service.
The ongoing policy work has sometimes brought Bush in conflict with his party -- particularly the increasingly influential "tea party'' crowd -- as he has pushed foreign aid, federal accountability in education and a "benevolent spirit" in the immigration debate.
Bush has suggested the principles that guided his presidency need to be "articulated and defended as time goes on," but he has avoided giving his fellow Republicans any specific directions or advice.
That's partly because Bush isn't eager to re-enter the spotlight, even to defend his presidency; if his center wasn't opening, any retrospectives on the Bush White House would almost certainly lack the former commander in chief's perspective.
The Bush Center's unveiling, however, has forced the former president and his confidants to confront his tenure.
Bush loyalists are champing at the bit to set the facts straight from their view.
And when prodded recently in an interview with The Dallas Morning News, Bush didn't think twice about offering a spirited defense on everything from his fiscal record to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the philosophy of compassionate conservatism.
He and his wife, Laura, have stressed that while history will prove the ultimate judge, it's important for people to remember the circumstances surrounding key moments.
"It's easy to forget what life was like when the decision was made," Bush said, referring specifically to the Iraq invasion.
In explaining that heat of the moment, the center's museum features two distinct parts: the presidency Bush planned and the one he got.
Early exhibits focus on tax cuts, faith-based initiatives and No Child Left Behind. But as warped World Trade Center steel comes into view, a museum panel reminds visitors that Sept. 11 thrust Bush into a "new and unexpected role: War President."
The 14,000-square-foot exhibition hall, while not shying away from the Bush years' more contentious parts, takes pains to elucidate Bush's decision-making process.
The museum concedes that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. But it highlights the evils of Saddam Hussein, noting that the dictator "supported terrorism, including paying the families of suicide bombers."
The hall chronicles the disasters that were Hurricane Katrina and the 2008 financial meltdown. But it counters that Bush "met each crisis by working to restore order and providing practical plans for recovery."
And the Decision Points Theater lets visitors explore four major Bush decisions, hear competing viewpoints and then vote for the best course of action. Ultimately, though, Bush comes on the screen to describe why he did what he did.


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6 p.m. - 8 p.m. - Dover Democrats annual Franklin Roosevelt dinner.
DOVER — Speaker of the House Terie Norelli said Saturday that the atmosphere in Concord is already starting to improve under Democratic leadership.
Norelli was one of the special guests during Dover Democratic Committee's sixth annual dinner, which marked the 80th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration.
With different seating arrangements at the House of Representatives, Democrats and Republicans sit among each other, with no aisle dividing the two parties. Norelli said when it comes to the biennial state budget, it will take cooperation with the Republicans and the Senate to reach a favorable consensus.
"We are all about compromise and getting things done," she said.
Norelli said a priority in the state is a stronger economy and job creation. She noted the budget proposed by Gov. Maggie Hassan includes more money toward the university system and community colleges. The budget also proposes restoring the position of economic development director, to help benefit the businesses atmosphere in New Hampshire.
The proposed budget also includes a safety net for families, as well as funding for children in need of services, both of which will help strengthen families in the state, said Norelli.Also a guest speaker at Saturday's dinner was Ray Buckley, chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. He encouraged fellow Democrats to support Democratic leaders like U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, to ensure Republicans do not become victorious in the next election."You've got to get online, you've got to write letters to the editor," said Buckley. "We've got a lot to be proud of."
He said that the Democratic leadership in Concord helped return "sanity" to the Statehouse, while the Tea Party is "just as whacko as they were and they are getting worse."
District 2 Executive Councilor Colin Van Ostern, the third speaker at Saturday's dinner, said if the Legislators succeed in building a stronger economy that looks out for workers, as well as creating more jobs, "The next election is going to be a cakewalk."
He also praised Hassan for signing a bill doubling tax credits for research and development.
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As many as 200,000 Egyptians assembled in Cairo's Tahrir Square and other major cities across the country to protest against Islamist President Mohamed Morsi's self-issued edict that grants him sweeping powers, including what his critics say is immunity of his office and his Muslim Brotherhood-controlled assembly from judicial oversight. Since President Morsi's declaration of the decree last Thursday, a 15-year-old member of the Muslim Brotherhood has been killed, more than 500 people injured and a dozen of his supporters' offices ransacked or set ablaze.
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Originally from Nassau County, Myer attended the University of Michigan for undergraduate and graduate school. She's lived in Park Slope for the past 20 years.
Before joining BBP in 2007, she was the director of the Brooklyn Office of City Planning for eight years, where she led the rezoning efforts in her home borough.
In the last year and a half, Myer helped secure city and state funding to open the first 20 acres of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Her work is devoted to "making sure that we build a really beautiful park on budget and on time," Myer said.
The first phase right now involves building five acres of new soccer fields at Pier 5, to be followed by the construction of a basketball complex. The corporation is also building a bridge to connect the park to its surrounding neighborhood.
"We've got lots coming up in terms of construction," Myer said.
Since maintenance for the park has to be funded by internal revenue, as designated in a 2002 agreement between the state and city governments, BBP also released a Request for Proposals in October for a hotel and an apartment housing development at the park.
In addition, one particularly exciting thing BBP is unveiling is the addition of a sculpture of the park to The Panorama at the Queens Museum of Art to be ready for public viewing this week.
The third phase of her work, Myer said, is the actual maintenance of the park.
This involves "making sure that its really beautifully maintained in the most sustainable way possible," she said, "and programmed in a way thats really unique for Brooklynites."
The park is unique, she said, because of it's gorgeous view of the Brooklyn harbor and the Manhattan skyline.
Sustainability comes from using recycled materials and environmentally-friendly services, such as solar-powered vehicles.
The biggest reward of Myer's job is "seeing how well received that is," she said, referring to BBP's commitment to sustainability, "and how beautifully people take care of it while they're here.
"We're so lucky to have capital money to build a beautiful park," she added.


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Computer Science
At one time, running a first-tier computer science program required a large financial outlay that limited these programs to large, typically state-funded institutions. In recent years, however, the software needed for a computer science program has become, for the most part, free, and the computer hardware needed has come into common use.
The major limitation for a quality computer science program now is the faculty available to teach. It has become apparent that teaching computer science is not well-suited to large classes. Many experts suggest that hands-on apprenticeships and one-on-one mentoring are more appropriate approaches to learning to program.
The small class sizes and extensive student-faculty involvement at Covenant College provide a superior environment for learning computer science.
In addition, most programs in scientific and technical disciplines pretend that skills and information can be taught in a value-free manner. This is never the case. In fact, the assertion that some field of human endeavor can be held apart from and exist independently of God is a profound moral choice, regardless of the denials of those claiming moral neutrality.
At Covenant, our computer science students receive a thorough grounding in Christian teaching and worldview through Covenant's in-depth core curriculum. In addition, the relationship between computer science and Christianity is examined throughout the computer science curriculum.
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Increasingly, the world in which we live is a world molded by computing. Many Christians have recently noticed that by failing to engage "Hollywood" they have lost an important chance to make a Christian worldview known. However, computing is molding our world far more than movies ever have. How it molds it - for good or for bad - is the result of a million individual decisions made each day by people in the computing industry. Christians need to be salt and light in this process.
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Covenant College's Department of Computer Science offers a major in computer science, which is the broadest and most established of the computing disciplines. Our course work is based on the ACM / IEEE CC 2001 Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Computer Science. The program requires 40 credit hours of COS courses as well as a supporting course in quantitative methods for a total of 44 credit hours. We also offer a minor in computer science.


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If we fall off the fiscal cliff, retirees could face a 17 percent increase in their 2013 income taxes, predicts CFP professional Leon LaBrecque, a lawyer and certified public accountant.
LaBrecque weighed the impact of eight unpleasant financial problems he believes retirees — and those on the brink of retirement — are most likely to encounter as a result of the nation sliding over the cliff. He estimates the dollar impact and predicts the likelihood of Congress passing a solution.
He says that for retirees and those doing retirement planning, "The most dangerous one of all is the expiration of the Bush tax cuts because it changes everything."
Here's his list:
- Expiration of the Bush income and estate taxes ($246 billion impact). This will hit everyone who pays income taxes and anyone whose estate is over $1 million. The fix: Extend all or some tax brackets and extend the current estate tax limits. Probability of Congress taking this step: very high.
- Alternative minimum tax, or AMT, patch ($50 billion impact). This law was designed to extract money from millionaires who wiggled out of paying taxes. The AMT isn't indexed for inflation, so now it is hitting some people who make as little as $40,000. The fix: another patch. Probability of it passing Congress: very high.
- Sequestration ($109 billion impact). These federal spending cuts were mandated by Congress last year as part of a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling. Social Security and Medicaid aren't affected, but Medicare Part D could get a 2 percent haircut, pushing up what Medicare recipients pay. The fix: new budget cuts. Probability of these passing: slightly above zero.
- Expiration of the payroll tax holiday ($115 billion impact). President Barack Obama cut payroll taxes by 2 percentage points to stimulate the economy. The fix: Extend the cuts. Probability of passage: slight.
- Unearned income Medicare contribution tax ($24 billion impact). This affects singles with incomes greater than $200,000 and couples with incomes greater than $250,000. The fix: Repeal the Affordable Care Act. Probability: subzero.
- Expiration of the debt ceiling ($300 billion impact). The whole world would feel the pain if the U.S. couldn't borrow. The fix: Raise the debt ceiling. Probability of passage: good.
- Doc fix ($15 billion to $22 billion impact). Physicians who treat Medicare patients will take a sharp pay cut. The fix: Adjust Medicare pay guidelines. Probability of passage: maybe. (Docs can afford good lobbyists.)
- Small-business and stimulus tax breaks ($27 billion impact). This involves a host of small tax breaks, including the individual retirement account charitable rollover, which allows people older than 70½ to make mandatory IRA withdrawals by sending the money directly to a charity. These donations aren't tax-deductible, but neither do they count as income, which could result in higher taxes on Social Security or higher Medicare premiums. The law expired last year, but some are still hoping it will be extended retroactively. Likelihood of passage: 50-50.


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Gaza rocket arsenal problem for Israel
By Jonathan Marcus
BBC diplomatic and defence correspondent
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The upsurge of fighting between Israel and Hamas has highlighted, once again, the total disparity of force between the two sides.
Israeli aircraft and naval units can operate against targets in the Gaza Strip pretty much at will.
If there were to be a major ground incursion by Israel - something that probably both sides would want to avoid - the military balance again would be overwhelmingly in Israel's favour.
Equally though, the fighting has highlighted the pervasive risk posed by the Palestinian rocket arsenal to Israeli citizens living in the southern part of the country.
Palestinian rockets may not be especially sophisticated or accurate.
Nonetheless, they remain a serious threat, as the direct hit on an apartment building in Kiryat Malachi on Thursday morning, which left three dead, demonstrated.
Israeli towns or cities in a broad arc south of Tel Aviv are all potentially within range of these rockets. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis live in their shadow and this is a situation that successive Israeli governments have struggled to deal with.
The Palestinian rocket arsenal is large and gradually improving over time. Many of the shorter-range systems, like the Qassam - a generic name for a whole family of weapons - are built in factories and workshops in the Gaza Strip itself. These have ranges up to a dozen or so kilometres.
'Surgical strikes'
Grad missiles, many thought to be supplied by Iran, have a slightly longer reach - up to about 20km - though some upgraded versions may have a considerably longer range.
A Chinese-designed rocket, the WS-1E, has also been used against Israeli targets - these have a range of around 40km.
The most potent weapons in the Palestinian arsenal are the Fajr-5 rockets. These have a potential range of up to 75km, threatening the fringes of Tel Aviv - Israel's largest city.
Storage sites for these weapons have been among the specific targets sought out by Israeli aircraft.
Israeli military spokesmen claim to have been remarkably successful in destroying them, though there are reports that at least one Fajr-5 has been fired during the current round of fighting.
Israel's response to the missile threat has been both defensive and offensive in nature. Its relatively new anti-missile system - dubbed Iron Dome - is heavily engaged in the current fighting. This has been operational since 2011.
Each of the four available batteries can defend an area the size of a medium-sized town.
Powerful radars identify and track incoming missiles; their likely landing point is estimated and the battery then fires interceptor missiles at those determined to be heading for populated areas.
Ticking clock
Iron Dome appears to be working well in this crisis but no defensive system can be 100% successful.
Israel has also sought to disrupt missile consignments heading to the Gaza Strip.
This is especially the case for the longer-range Iranian and Chinese-designed rockets, some of which, analysts believe, come by a complex smuggling network from Iran, to Sudan and then overland through Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula into the Gaza Strip.
The "mystery" air attack against a consignment of shipping containers outside an Iranian-operated arms factory in Sudan in late October is widely seen as having been carried out by the Israeli Air Force in an attempt to interrupt weapons supplies going to Hamas or other Palestinian groups.
Regular air strikes in the Gaza Strip have targeted individual leaders of some of the smaller Palestinian factions, along with crews getting ready to launch rockets.
But this is the largest Israeli operation since its ground incursion into the northern Gaza Strip in 2008-09.
Inevitably, for all the talk from Israeli spokesmen of "surgical strikes", Palestinian civilians have been killed.
Civilian casualties, of course, could rise dramatically if the Israelis move towards a ground offensive. All of the pressures point towards an escalation of the fighting before it dies down.
The outcome may well be another uneasy ceasefire that perhaps could last for some time.
That is clearly what the Israelis want out of this. But the basic dilemmas in the Gaza Strip remain unchanged.
There is no sign of any credible peace process. And, once this crisis ends, the clock may well be ticking towards the next eruption of violence.


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You can almost hear the squeaking sneakers already as you flip the calendar to October. Here's the latest rundown from South Orange:
On Saturday Seton Hall added to its recent parade of big-name visitors when the most coveted player in the Class of 2009, Lincoln's 6-5 wing dynamo Lance Stephenson, came to campus for an unofficial visit. While it's unlikely the Hall will land either Stephenson or heralded Philadelphia guard Tyreke Evans, their interest has generated good recruiting buzz as the Hall seeks to fill its remaining scholarship(s).
Two new names on the Pirates' radar:
Chris Turner, a 6-5 wing player from North Carolina, who is now doing a postgrad year at The Patterson School (alma mater of Hall freshman Jeremy Hazell). He had originally committed to Maryland.
Dominic Rutledge, a 6-7 forward from Edison Prep in Edison, N.J. Marquette has been recruiting him heavily.
A few dates to remember:
Thursday, October 18: Seton Hall's Midnight Madness (it will not be done jointly with the women's team this year, which is good). Most schools hold the event on Oct. 15, but SHU's is late because of fall break that weekend.
Saturday, October 20: Bobby Gonzalez will host a public clinic at Walsh, including an open practice, a Q&A with Gonzo, lunch and a tour of the on-campus facility.
Wednesday, October 24: Big East Media day at Madison Square Garden. Prediction: Louisville will be ranked No. 1 preseason.
One legitimate concern is how much practice time the Pirates will get in the Prudential Center, which is booked with concerts and Devils use from its Oct. 25 right up until the first game Nov. 11.
Postscript: Gonzalez did meet with P.J. Carlesimo in Seattle last weekend. The thrust of the conversation: The challenges facing Seton Hall in the gargantuan Big East and how at the Hall you have to think outside the box a little bit to keep up.
Good story: Gonzalez called the Sonics' offices to leave a message for P.J. on Sunday and Carlesimo actually picked up the phone. Working in the office on a Sunday in September? Same old P.J.


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Background: Three months ago, I asked this question, which is a bit related to the following (if the answer to it was Yes, then answer to this one would be Yes too, but since that was a No, it still may be that this one has a positive answer).
Question: does existence of RHS imply existence of LHS in this formula: $$ w.\lim_{\lambda\to\lambda_{0}}f_\lambda(t)=w.\lim_{\Delta t\to 0}\frac{1}{2\Delta t}\left(w.\lim_{\lambda\to\lambda0}\int_{t-\Delta t}^{t+\Delta t}f_\lambda(\tau)d\tau\right) $$
where $w.\lim$ is meant to denote the limit in Schwartz distributions space (i.e. weak star limit on test function space), and $f_\lambda$ are generally distributions from the Schwartz space, parametrized with a real number $\lambda$ - family of Schwartz distributions. In case that the claim does not hold for all Schwartz distributions, it would be interesting to know whether it holds for locally integrable functions.
Proof that the existence of LHS implies existence of RHS is simple, since the integral of a test function is again a test function.
EDIT: As Pietro noted, integral represents the convolution of f with the characteristic function of an interval which is shrinking - so I believe the question can be reformulated in the spirit of my previous question, which was
It is provable that $f_\lambda\to f\Rightarrow f_\lambda*g\to f*g$ if $g$ has a compact support (shown in my textbook). In my particular case, $g=u(t+\triangle t)-u(t-\triangle t)$. Does for that particular case, $f_\lambda*g\to f*g\Rightarrow f_\lambda\to f$?
but now, we say that $\Delta t$ is not fixed (like in that previous question). Is that right?
Dec. 2011. EDIT: After a while, I returned to this question and felt the need to explain it a bit more. Zen Harper's answer shows that RHS is well-defined, but it doesn't seem to answer the question whether it's possible to have a family $f_\lambda$ which doesn't have a limit for $\lambda\to\lambda_0$ (i.e. LHS doesn't exist) but for which the iterated limit on the right has a value, i.e. RHS exists.
It appears to me it would be enough to show that if the inner limit on the right exists for all $\Delta t$ in some neighbourhood of $0$, then the LHS limit exists. Would it be enough?


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I've been taking photos for over a decade, in that time winning several awards, being published internationally and exhibiting work in galleries across North America and Europe.
Currently you'll find me taking photos all over the world. This year I've done shoots in over a dozen countries, and have even bigger projects in the works for 2011.
The prints I currently have available are from my latest show International Exit. Images from my time spent living and traveling in the Czech Republic and Germany from 2005-2007.
Before years end expect new images from Australia, Russia, Italy, Austria, and Japan.
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On Friday Micah Claire and I loaded up and headed to Hot Springs for a SUPER fun play date with Kayley and Cole. Micah Claire and Kayley had a great time playing with one another. Micah Claire didn't know what in the world to think about baby Cole. Before yesterday if you asked her is she wanted mommy to have another baby she would ecstatically say Yes. But after watching mommy hold and love on Cole she will emphatically say NO when you ask her.
Snack time! Micah Claire ate her very first fruit roll up (of course she loved it!) Ms. Shannon was nice enough to send an extra one home with M.C!
I am telling you he is the BEST baby in the world. He was so quite and happy that I would forget he was there.


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Pretoria mine pump supplier sold to major Swedish group
- Pretoria's AQS Liquid Transfer sold to major European pump distributor AxFlow
- Deal safeguards more than 100 jobs
- Continuing overseas interest in South African SMEs
AxFlow Holding, based in Stockholm Sweden, has acquired the majority share in AQS Liquid Transfer, an importer and distributor of pumps in South Africa. The growth initiative is in line with AxFlow's strategy to expand its business outside Europe.
AxFlow is a major distributor of high quality liquid fluid handling equipment with operations in 27 European countries, representing world leading manufacturers and providing comprehensive technical services tailored to the needs of a multitude of process industries.
AQS was formed in 1994 in Pretoria and from its 8 branches the company today provides a nationwide sales and pump repair service encompassing a wide range of pump types. Throughout the years AQS has built a strong market position in South Africa serving the mining industry, utilities and agriculture. Annual sales exceed 140 MZAR (US$9.1m) and the number of employees is 103.
"Having established a very strong market position in Europe over the past 25 years, we have been looking for ways to expand our business outside Europe. South Africa is an interesting market for us and an important gateway to the continent," says Ole Weiner, President of AxFlow, and continues,
"Our growth philosophy is based on finding great local companies that we, together with the local team, can make even better. The owners of AQS have built a sound company with a fine team of engineers and service staff with a strong drive to grow the business further. We are very happy to join forces with the AQS team."
AQS' management, headed by Managing Director Gerhard Prinsloo, will continue to lead and drive forward the company. "We, the shareholders, directors and personnel of AQS are excited about the future with AxFlow as a partner. We fully believe in and remain committed to the economic potential of South Africa and Africa as a whole. AxFlow bring with them a wealth of opportunities, knowledge and expertise to further develop and exploit current and future markets on the continent. AxFlow has an impressive track record in Europe and a growth and development strategy that we very much want to be a part of and contribute to," says Gerhard Prinsloo.
Xigo Director Andrew Bahlmann, who advised AQS, said: "Despite current economic uncertainty, this deal provides further confirmation that large overseas acquirers remain interested in buying South African SMEs. Axflow and AQS are a great fit together, and we wish them well in the future."


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Glenn Beck calls him "one of the most important men in America," People For the American Way call him the "right's favorite pseudo-historian, " and Time Magazine listed him among the 25 most influential evangelicals in 2005. He's David Barton, founder and president of WallBuilders, and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann wants him teaching the freshman class of recently elected Republicans all about the U.S. Constitution.
"Rep. Michele Bachmann announced last month that she wants to hold "Constitution classes" for new members of Congress in the hopes of preventing them from being "co-opted into the Washington system." She's already announced several people she wants to teach the classes, including David Barton, a controversial figure whose ideas about the constitution and the founding fathers have drawn sharp criticism from both the religious and secular communities. "Every week the hour before we take our first votes, we have our weekly class so that we are reminded of our constitutional jurisdictional limits," Bachmann told Glenn Beck in a recent radio interview. She mentioned Barton as a key figure in those weekly classes."
Anyone who pays attention to the nomination and approval of Supreme Court nominees knows that there are different schools of thought regarding the constitution and how it should be applied in court cases, but Barton's interpretations and views go beyond whether we have a "living constitution" or not, they are something far more radical and dangerous. In short, Barton has a theocracy-tinged exceptionalist view of America that would see the equal treatment of non-Christian religions eliminated. That isn't hyperbole on my part, I'll let Barton speak for himself.
"The true historic meaning of "religion" excludes paganism and witchcraft, and thus, does not compel a conclusion that McCollum has state taxpayer standing … paganism and witchcraft were never intended to receive the protections of the Religion Clauses. Thus, in the present case there can be no violation of those clauses … Should this Court conclude that McCollum has taxpayer standing … this Court should at least acknowledge that its conclusion is compelled by Supreme Court precedent, not by history or the intent of the Framers."
That quote is from an amicus brief written by Barton in the case of Patrick M. McCollum; et al., v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, currently before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. McCollum v. CDCR centers on the state of California's discriminatory "five faiths" policy, which limits the hiring of paid chaplains to Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, and Native American adherents.
It's unsurprising that Rep. Michele Bachmann is so keen on Barton since she tried to funnel tainted contribution money into an anti-Pagan charity (which they later returned), one that has ties to the virulently anti-Pagan New Apostolic Reformation. Indeed, Barton and Bachmann have been chummy for years.
"Bachmann and Barton have a long relationship going back to Bachmann's time as state senator. Barton was invited to Minnesota to help Bachmann with legislation on school history standards, she's appeared his radio show numerous times and she and Barton have conducted tours in Washington, D.C., to demonstrate to tea partiers how religious the Founding Fathers were."
Sadly, Bachmann isn't the only politician Barton has on his speed-dial. He helped Republican candidate Marco Rubio win a senate seat, and Mary Fallin the governor's chair in Oklahoma, this November. He's also close to potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates like Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin.
Despite being engaged in various scandals and outrages, nothing seems to have slowed Barton's ascent to a position of influence in national politics. That he may be in a position now to "educate" unexperienced politicians elected with a largely fiscal mandate by an unhappy electorate is chilling. If Barton gathers enough "students" among holders of high political office, how long before his distorted perspectives on the Religion Clauses start to carry real weight? As recently as 1999 there was a congressional effort to ban Wiccans from serving in the military. Who's to say that the next time an anti-Pagan (or minority-religion) amendment gets attached to a vital spending bill it won't sail through the House and get ignored by the Senate?
What is certain is that any politician who counts Barton as a friend or mentor can't be guaranteed to have the best interests of religious minorities in America at heart. If your representative, governor, or senator was endorsed by, or takes "lessons" from, Barton, maybe you should ask them if they agree with his stance on the Religion Clauses.