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The Final Word
Three years ago I started this blog to share my observations about Northwestern Law, legal education, legal practice, and life in Chicago. It's been a great experience and I've enjoyed writing it very much.
This is my last post on this blog for now. I don't make any promises or predictions about whether this is a permanent or only semi-permanent hiatus, but at this time I need to focus on the long-form writing projects to which I have committed.
Thank you for your readership, and for your support of this enterprise, these past few years.
"Best Career Prospects" – Northwestern Law ranked first by The Princeton Review
Earlier this week, The Princeton Review released its annual Best Law Schools guide, and I am pleased to report that Northwestern Law once again has placed at or near the top in a number of categories, including the #1 spot for Best Career Prospects—a position we have held for 6 of the 10 years that The Princeton Review has published these rankings.
The Princeton Review compiled the lists based on surveys of 19,500 students attending 169 law schools during the 2011-12, 2012-13, and 2013-14 academic years. According to its site, the survey asked students about their school's academics, student body and campus life, and their career plans.
I am delighted by our strong showing in several important categories and am particularly pleased with the consistency of our Best Career Prospects ranking over time. These results serve as a ringing endorsement of the many features that embody the Northwestern Law Difference—our outstanding students and faculty, our collaborative culture, our innovative programs, the effective manner in which we educate and prepare students for their careers, and the myriad ways our alumni positively impact society.
I also would like to thank our Career Strategy Center team for the services and counsel they provide to our students and graduates—they have done an exceptional job.
As this article in Forbes explains yet again, the employment picture for recent law grads is not rosy. There has been a fundamental shift in the hiring market for legal talent, and it is incumbent upon us in legal education to acknowledge, understand, and respond to this evolution. I've written about this a lot on this blog because the legal job market—and in particular, jobs for Northwestern Law graduates—continues to be a major focus of my efforts. I appreciate the acknowledgement of our efforts from the students who responded to The Princeton Review's survey, and want to stress that we will in no way "rest on our laurels." There is much yet to be done.
Prof. Ron Allen in China
Earlier this month, Professor Ronald Allen was awarded the 2014 China Friendship Award. Ron recently returned from the award ceremony in Beijing, where he and his fellow award recipients were well and justly celebrated—they met with the Prime Minister and Vice-Prime Minister, and they were invited by the President to attend a state dinner celebrating the 65th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Ron was also the guest of honor at a publication party for his book, Professor Allen on Evidence.
While he was in Beijing he also met with members of the Supreme People's Court to discuss the ongoing efforts to develop a modern universal evidence code for the People's Republic of China.
Ron is the Chair of the Foreign Board of Advisors of the Evidence Law and Forensic Sciences Institute at China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. He is also the sole non-Chinese advisor to the National Research Project on the Law of Evidence, an initiative conducted at the behest of the Supreme People's Court as part of the effort to reform that country's evidentiary rules. Ron has been working with the Chinese on this for nearly fifteen years. In January, he will return to China for a working session with the committee—on which, interestingly, a number of Ron's former students also serve—to comment on the current draft of the reform document.
In November, Ron will host an important conference here at Northwestern Law, "The Foundations of the Law of Evidence and their Implications for Developing Countries," at which legal scholars and prominent law reformers from around the world—notably from China and Tanzania—will discuss the process by which developing countries adapt, adopt, and evolve their legal systems. Based solely on the list of participating scholars, I am confident that the discussions will have real and meaningful effects worldwide.
Thanks to Ron for his many contributions to Northwestern Law, and to the larger world.
The Law and Economics of Digital Markets
Today and tomorrow the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth will host the Fourth Annual Research Roundtable on the Law and Economics of Digital Markets. Peter DiCola, Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern Law, and Shane Greenstein, Kellogg Chair in Information Technology at the Kellogg School of Management, organize this ongoing roundtable series. The papers presented will include both economic studies of the transition to digital retail of music and legal studies of how copyright law and contract law intersect in the digital environment. This is a unique forum for business economists and legal scholars to come together to discuss the radical changes to the copyright industries brought about by new technology. It's fascinating work.
Peter and Shane have brought together an interesting and important group of scholars for this event—a complete list of participants and roundtable papers can be found on the Searle Center website.
Law's machines
Good concise summary by Prof. Ray Campbell of the promise of legal technology, focusing on both the short-term and long-term implications.
Reports of higher ed's demise greatly exaggerated
Good sense from my president, Morty Schapiro, and his co-author.
Brave new world
On IBM's Watson and the Legal Profession by two provocative legal futurists.
Robert Downey Jr. visits Northwestern Law
UPDATE: Great coverage from ABC News on the visit.
Robert Downey Jr. is in Chicago today promoting his new film, The Judge, which opens this weekend. He stopped by the Law School to discuss the movie with our students.
Third-year student Leesa Haspel and I moderated the Q & A. Because the character Robert plays in the film is a Northwestern Law graduate, Leesa kicked it off by asking how he prepared to play a lawyer. His response? "Well, first of all, I tried to get on the other side of the bench." The discussion that followed was by turns thoughtful and irreverent, ranging in subject from the production of The Judge, to the actor's craft, to what makes a great lawyer.
The Q & A was videorecorded, and I invite you to watch it here.
It was great having Robert here – I now count him among our alumni, even if he only played one on the silver screen.
NU Law alums of the nation, unite
For the October 16 cross-national happy hours at key venues around the U.S. Details here.
Northwestern Wildcats!
Winning streak, including implausible wins versus Penn St. and Wisconsin. Kudos here from the Wildcats blog of record.


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Renegade country singer Eric Church played to type at the CMAs in Nashville, where he performed his new single, "The Outsiders," to a hungry crowd eager to hear new music from him.
Church broke through with his previous studio album, "Chief," which won the Country Music Assn. Award for album of the year at the 2012 ceremony. At this year's event, the North Carolina-born singer was teasing the release of his new album, also called "The Outsiders," due out in February. No longer an underdog, Church nonetheless continued his role as the yin to Blake Shelton's softer, more palatable yang at the CMAs.
Church performed one of the evening's most anticipated events, and before the show, the singer expressed concern that "The Outsiders" might ruffle traditionalists' feathers. He was probably right. Big, brash and borderline heavy metal in its delivery, the song sounded nearly as much like Motley Crue as it did Vince Gill.
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"They're the in crowd, we're the other ones / It's a different kind of cloth that we're cut from" he sang, his trademark cop glasses shielding his eyes. Turns out the glasses served another purpose. As he and his guitar band hit voluminous chords, fireballs burst on the stage like this was a KISS concert. "We're the fighters, the all-nighters, so fire it up and get a little higher," he sang while behind him a bunch of men screamed: "That's who we are."
Was there any hint of twang? Yes, certainly, and a boogie-rock suggestive guitar solo that hinted at some Lynyrd Skynyrd or Black Oak Arkansas inspiration. And like those influences, "The Outsiders" felt built for driving and volume, a war cry from the trenches.
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Psi Chi's history has been a rich and colorful one. It began with a brief conversation between two students at the University of Kansas late one night in 1927. The charter that formally created the organization was signed at Yale University in 1929. At first, Psi Chi grew slowly, but it began flourishing after World War II. When Ruth Cousins took over the leadership in late 1958, the society experienced an immediate infusion of energy and purpose. Her spirit remains a dominant force today. The latest challenge facing Psi Chi will be to respond effectively to the enormous changes among psychology students in the new century.
—Hogan & Takooshian, 2004, Spring Eye on Psi Chi
1927 Edwin Newman and Fredrick H. Lewis,
students at the University of Kansas, came up with the idea to create a national
student organization for psychology.
1928 The National Council for a
Psychological Fraternity was convened. A steering committee began to lay the
foundation for the organization, including writing a constitution.
1929 During the Ninth International Congress
of Psychology, hosted by APA, representatives from 11 colleges and universities
signed the charter creating the new society.
1930 At the second annual meeting:
1931 The mimeographed newsletter was
1932 The first Psi Chi Handbook was issued to chapters.
1934 The society consisted of 27 chapters
and 612 active members with 1,920 members in all (including active, honorary,
associate, and alumni).
1936 President Martin
Fritz brought the issue of making membership more exclusive. A
discussion followed among the national officers and chapter members
and resulted in guidelines for membership. Those
guidelines, with some minor revisions, are still in use today.
1941 Psi Chi grew to 34 chapters. Except for
two new chapters installed in 1942, no additional chapters were added during
World War II. National meetings were canceled during these years, but chapters
continued to function. Not surprisingly, several national officers were called
to service.
1946 Psi Chi's organization of research
papers for regions became a permanent part of the Psi Chi program at both the
national and regional meetings. The practice continues to this day, and is
considered by the Board of Directors to be one of the most important activities
of the association.
1949 Psi Chi grew to
73 chapters, and queries regarding new chapters continued at a substantial
1950 The first award of $150 for a Psi Chi member engaged in research and in need of financial assistance
was given to Walter Barbe of Baylor University.
1950–1954 Thirty-eight new chapters were
granted charters, increasing the number of chapters chartered up until then
by half.
1952 The APA committee on Student Activities
met with the Psi Chi Executive Committee agreeing that in the future, APA would
provide space in the American
Psychologist for news about Psi Chi. In addition, beginning with the next
annual meeting in Cleveland, some provision would be made for Psi Chi at the
1954 Psi Chi's 25th anniversary.
Registration fees increased from $3 to $5.
1956 Psi Chi moved
into the attic of the 16th Street building of the APA in Washington, DC.
1959 Ruth Cousins proposed inviting
distinguished speakers to Psi Chi programs. Psi Chi has
continued to sponsor distinguished speakers at the annual APA convention ever
1964 Psi Chi moved into the new 17th Street
headquarters of the APA. For the first time, there was adequate space for the
executive director and her one-person, part-time staff.
1965 Psi Chi officially became an
"honor" society and an affiliate of the Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS), and it remains so today.
1970 Jerome S. Bruner was named the first
"Honorary Member" of Psi Chi, a designation to recognize psychologists who have
international reputations, or who have made contributions to the field of
psychology or to Psi Chi. The title was changed to Distinguished Member in
1971 George W. Albee, a pioneer of clinical
psychology, was recognized as a Psi Chi Distinguished Member.
1976 Certificates were awarded for the first
time to students who presented research at approved conventions and
1980 Psi Chi moved to another APA building
in Arlington, Virginia.
1981–1982 During this academic year, 7,322
new members were inducted into Psi Chi, the largest number in a single year up
to that time. During the same period, 27 new chapters were chartered.
1982 The one-time registration fee was
increased to $25.
1986 At the annual meeting with APA, Psi Chi
and Psi Beta cosponsored an open meeting, further developing what had already
become a valuable relationship. Since then, they have continued to cosponsor
other programs at the annual meeting.
1987 The society relocated to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1992 Recognition awards for chapters and
faculty leaders were presented for the first time.
1998 "Raise Your Voices for Psi Chi" is adopted it as the official song.
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Part One :
Five years ago Sony started offering a Nightshot mode on certain Cybershot digicams. In Nightshot mode the internal IR blocking filter is temporarily moved aside, out of the light path to the sensor, enabling handheld infrared photography with an off-the-shelf digital camera. Nightshot mode, despite its limitations, made these Cybershot models very popular among IR photographers. The last Sony digicams to offer this mode, the DSC-F828 and DSC-V3, disappeared from the market some time ago.
Now there is a new Nightshot kid on the block, the DSC-H9. Does it offer the same opportunities for infrared photography? The DSC-H9 is quite a change from the previous models with Nightshot. It has a bigger zoom range, image stabilizer, better/faster autofocus, big and bright flip LCD, smaller overall size and ... a much smaller image sensor.
I am currently using a DSC-F717 for my IR photography; last year I removed the internal blocking filter to bypass the Nighshot limitations. This IR modification makes the 717 a great IR digicam, but there is always room for improvement. The lack of true wide angle zoom on the 7x7s requires the use of a bulky converter to get to 28 mm (the newer 828 and V3 include the 28 mm zoom setting), and the LCD is small and has its limitations. On paper the DSC-H9 looks great: it has a wide angle zoom (at 31 mm a bit less than I would like, but better than the 38 mm minimum on the DSC-F707/717) and packs a lot of punch into a small package.
Nightshot Limitations With the DSC-H9 in Nightshot mode, the only setting one can adjust is the amount of megapixels that are captured; the rest seems to be fully automatic. I did most of my testing in 5 MP instead of 8 MP mode (easier to compare results with my Sony 717, and maybe better image quality?). I set the camera at 80 or 100 ISO before testing, but I'm not sure yet if it retains that setting in Nightshot mode. Nightshot always works with full open aperture (variable from f/2.7 to f/4.5) and a maximum 1/30 sec shutter speed. The slow shutter speed is less a problem because the image stabilizer (Steadyshot) helps, at least for static scenes like landscapes. Although it is not completely reliable at these shutter speeds, I got acceptable images even at full 465 mm zoom in Nightshot mode.
This is a huge improvement compared to older Cybershot models, where anything above 50 mm equivalent or so in Nightshot mode requires a tripod. Of course a modded DSC-F717 is better, but that is not an off-the-shelf option. The other limitation is that - like previous Nightshot incarnations - in normal daylight, ND filters are required to prevent overexposure at 1/30 sec. (check Jerry's excellent article about Nightshot mode in the Beginner's Section).
The Nightshot Switch There is a way to bypass the Nightshot limitations, by using an 'in-between' setting for the Nightshot switch. This removes the blocking filter with the camera still in the mode as set with the mode dial. Just a slight touch will switch back to full Nightshot mode or normal camera mode: one has to fiddle with the switch before every picture. Also, there is a fuzzy black border in the lower part of the image when using this trick. The border is caused by the frame of the IR blocking filter that is not yet completely out of the optical path. With this setting, just looking at the LCD shows that the camera uses both infrared and normal light. With the blocking filter removed in normal mode I could not set the white balance (Aperture priority mode and R72 filter); the red/purple tint seems to be outside the possible WB range. One can choose a black-and-white mode for BW IR pictures directly out of the camera, but for experimenting with color infrared the H9 does not look promising.
Using filters For best results, an infrared filter is necessary (plus ND filters when using Nightshot mode). We run into some trouble here ... There is no official way to mount filters on the H9, except for the non-standard 74 mm filter thread on the Sony lens adapter. Obviously, there are no 74 mm infrared filters on the market. Stepdown rings that mount on the Sony lens adapter are available, but only the 72 mm size seems safe for mounting a filter. Pemaraal is working on a telescoping adapter that should work with smaller filters; it looks very nice but is not yet available.
When hand holding one filter directly in front of the H9 lens, 58 mm filter size is OK: even at maximum wide angle setting there is no vignetting, as long as you keep your fingers in the right position ;-) I started experimenting with a Cokin P filter holder with resin filters; it works, but it is bulky compared to the H9. Mounting a stack of round filters (infrared + ND4 + ND8, as with previous Nightshot models) is not an easy solution either. Even with the new Pemaraal adapter, three 58 mm filters would give strong vignetting at wide angle, and a stack of bigger filters would be heavy and expensive. So, for the infrared filter some kind of compromise or workaround will be necessary.
Conclusion: There are some problems, but overall the H9 looks promising.
In Part 2 we take a closer look at: suitable infrared filters, required Post Processing, and image quality issues for infrared photography (compared to other options like the older DSC-F717).
Here is one of my early results (using very little image processing).
You can find some IR examples in my DSC-H9 test gallery.
H9 IR Test Gallery
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Did you know Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction? Did you know she was born into America's social elite and yet much of her writing was critical of the privileged classes? Did you know she wrote dozens of short stories? Did you know she designed and oversaw the construction of a 113-acre mansion where she could garden and write in peace?
But my favorite piece of Edith Wharton trivia is that you or I could stage our wedding in The Mount, the writer's palatial pad in Massachusetts (although I don't think the rental fee is in my price range).
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a remarkable woman. She remains one of America's greatest writers and her work shows an acute understanding of life and people. She could also have had a career in landscape gardening or interior design if the whim had taken her.
Her 1920 novel, The Age of Innocence, helps to define her literary legacy as it won the 1921 Pulitzer, but Ethan Frome (1911) and The House of Mirth (1905) are also immensely important novels in her portfolio. Her 1904 non-fiction book, Italian Villas and Their Gardens, is also well regarded and The Decoration of Houses (1897) is an important manual in the history of home decoration. Wharton described herself in a letter as being "a better landscape gardener than novelist."
Italian Villas and Their Gardens is famous for its 26 illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. The book looks at more than 75 villas and is still a key reference tool today for landscape gardeners. The House of Mirth was her first important piece of fiction and the book's tragic protagonist, Lily Bart, is one of her most famous characters.
Wharton had a wealth of talent. She was a great traveler and wrote one of the first travel books about Morocco. She campaigned to support the refugees fleeing the conflict during World War I and wrote a book about her experiences on the front line – Fighting France from Dunkerque to Belfort.
She was a francophone and lived in France after the War. She had a home in Provence and is buried in Versailles. It seems that this woman, who stood toe-to-toe with the male intellectuals of this era, was never dull.
Where do you start? Perhaps with her highly regarded ghost stories like Tales of Men and Ghosts from 1910. Another option would be her autobiography, A Backward Glance - published in 1934 three years before her death.
A bio from 1975 written from letters and manuscripts.
1. Ethan Frome - $4,500
A first edition bound in polished calf. The book includes a tipped in typed letter, signed by Wharton, on the stationary of Oeuvre Des Enfants des Flanders to Mr. Hoyt. The letter is dated January 8th, 1917.
2. The Age of Innocence - $2,000
A first edition complete with an original later issue dust jacket.
3=. The Age of Innocence - $1,500
A first edition lacking the rare dust jacket.
3=. Italian Villas and Their Gardens - $1,500
A first edition in the gilt-stamped illustrated green cloth.
3=. Ethan Frome - $1,500
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Last year we reported that a number of schools across Derbyshire had installed nest boxes of their own, and had joined together to share images from their nest box cameras. It's called the Derbyshire Schools Birdcam Project. This year even more have joined and all are now enjoying the opportunity to witness the nesting habits of birds at first hand.
Not every school has been lucky enough to have activity in their own boxes - that's nature for you. But they can all enjoy the successes of other schools through their project website and blog. Each school also has their own birdcam blog where children, parents and members of the community record their observations. All comments are moderated prior to publication online, of course.
Right now there is plenty to watch in the school boxes:
The first blue tit chicks hatched out over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. This was followed by a succession of hatchings in other boxes including two great tit broods, with the final couple expected by this weekend. This year, the project schools are also enjoying images from a camera set up over a kestrel nest site at Povey Farm near Dronfield. Six eggs have been laid with the chicks due to hatch towards the end of this month."
Next week Derby Museum & Art Gallery welcomes the children from Brigg Infants on a school educational visit to trial run our new peregrine falcon teaching session. Here's some work they did based on our birds last year:
For schoolchildren it's probably far more exciting to watch a blue tit feed a caterpillar to baby birds in their own school nest box than it is to watch peregrine falcons miles away up a Cathedral Tower. But all around us spring marches on, and very soon UK TV's annual "BBC Springwatch" will be starting. This is a two week opportunity for the whole country to stop what it's doing for one hour each evening and sit enthralled by some of the most amazing live views of UK nature that TV engineers can provide. Still not as good as your very own blue tits and peregrines, though!
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Dr. Kabir Julka, gastroenterologist, Dreyer Medical Clinic
Dr. Kabir Julka has joined the department of gastroenterology at Dreyer Medical Clinic, and is seeing patients at the clinic's Highland and Rush-Copley Campus. He has special interests in pancreatic and biliary diseases as well as inflammatory bowel diseases. Julka received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 2000 and his medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 2004. He completed his residency at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University in 2007 and his Gastroenterology and Therapeutic Endoscopy fellowships at the University of Washington Medical Center in 2012. He has hospital privileges at both Provena Mercy Medical Center and Rush-Copley Medical Center.
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May is National Stroke Awareness Month
Kyle R.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
By: Kyle Reynolds
My name is Kyle Reynolds and I am from Hopkins, Minnesota. On January 21st, 2003 during a varsity basketball game sometime during the first quarter I suffered a stroke. I received an inbound pass from teammate Kris Humphries, and began to advance the ball up court. When I met my defender, I quickly switched from right to left with a crossover dribble. However, when I crossed over my left hand was non responsive. Nevertheless, I was able to RECOVER the ball and pass it back to Kris.
Then, I began to stumble around in a disoriented manner. Onlookers described me as appearing drunk, but I was unaware of this behavior and internally I thought I was still in the game. I was stumbling close to my bench and was guided to a chair moments before collapsing. As previously mentioned, all of this occurred without my awareness. "What's wrong ", questioned everyone? A squirt of water into my mouth revealed that the stroke was manifesting itself, as the water trickled down my face, the facial droop had begun. One of my teammates parents, Bill Rosenberg, recognized the early signs of Stroke through the facial droop cue.
They called for an ambulance to rush me to the emergency room. In addition, my stepfather is a physician, and he understood that every second without oxygen to the brain would result in greater loss of tissue. Therefore, he called the hospital prior to my arrival to warn them of my arrival. After a battery of nearly every test imaginable, the doctors found a tear in my carotid artery. The tear lead to a clot formation from the blood coagulating until the clot shot into my brain. As my cold naked body laid lifelessly on the operating table, the neurologist informed my parents that I suffered a massive stroke, and that the outcome would be bleak, at best.
They were provided with two options: First, they could do nothing and I would have been paralyzed or in a vegetable state, or they could introduce a new drug called tPA that could break the clot. However, because tPA is most effective 3 hours post stroke, there was a chance that it could make the clot burst which would have ended my life. My parents knew that their son wouldn't want to live the remainder of his life in a wheelchair, so they rolled the dice and administered the tPA. I was fortunate that the drug was effective at dissolving the clot, and that I was rushed to North Memorial Medical center in Robbinsdale, MN because it was the only hospital at this time that used tPA.
Had I arrived at any other hospital besides North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, I most likely would have died. Subsequently, the tPA was successful at dissolving the clot, but the neurologists informed my parents that I had sustained substantial brain damage. I remember waking sometime in the early hours of the morning. My mother and a nurse were in the hospital room when I awoke, and my mom, Lisa told me that I had a stroke. Under the influence of the anesthesia, I couldn't accurately process what that meant, so my response to my mom was... " Does that mean I don't have to go to school tomorrow"?
Little did I know, it would be an extended period of time before I would return to back to my junior year in high school. I drifted in and out of consciousness the first few days, as they doctors tried to deduce the cause of the cerebral vascular accident. The first thing that came to everyone's mind was drugs. I was an athlete and obsessively healthy and had never used drugs because I was very cognizant to only put healthy foods in my body. I also didn't have any FAMILY HISTORY of stoke, or high cholesterol.
The next step was to review the video tape from the game. They believed I may have been elbowed in the neck during the game which could have caused the tear in my carotid. However, upon review of the tape there was one instance of a screen I was trying to fight through where my opponents elbows hit me on the left side of my neck. Since my injury occurred on the right side of my carotid, it wasn't likely that was the source of the injury. The only explanation was that it must have been a freak accident.
I have since graduated from the University of Minnesota against all odds. I hope that my success can be a vehicle to inspire others to shoot for the impossible.
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Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh has affirmed the government strong intention to eliminate terror and rebellion elements in Saada governorate. In an interview with the Arab ban satellite channel, MBC, Saleh said that Yemeni citizens are supporting the army in its fight against al-Houthis.
He conveyed that there are documents proving foreign support coming from some Iranian sources. According to him, this was also confirmed by some arrested Houthi members. "But we don't accuse the Iranian government," the Yemeni leader stated. The president denied that the Saada war is a regional war as "Yemen can not be a place for others to war in," noting that Yemen has no relation with the disagreement between the Saudi Kingdom and Iran.
He made clear al-Qaeda and Houthis are not linked to each other but each supports the other to harm the country's security and stability.
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By Pastor Butch Paugh
August 22, 2009
We have all heard it said that silence is golden. There are times however; when silence can become the most vile, contemptible and cowardly evil that could ever permeate a society; when silence is the fruit of fear. When through silence a society condones any evil, silence becomes sin! When a societies laws become corrupt and the power (civil authorities) that pass and enforce these laws becomes so totally invasive and seemingly so powerful, that the evil perpetrated by them is quietly and meekly accepted by the people in that society, then "fear reigns"! Justice, judgment and truth are destroyed, evil is, at first tolerated, and eventually and inevitably embraced! The longer the deafening silence remains, the greater becomes the fear and evil and the embracing of them. And the greater the fear, the greater the silence! Fear and silence are cancers that will slowly devour the very conscience of man and will surely destroy his soul.
The scriptures tell us that fear is bondage, (Rom. 8:15) and that Christ came to deliver us from it (Heb. 2:15). Fear brings torment (I John 4:18), and will eventually cause us to be cast into eternal damnation! (Rev. 21:8) All manner of evil, unspeakable atrocities, detestable, despicable, vile and decadent evils become accepted as healthy and good! As the twins of fear and ignorance are nurtured and grown, so grows the immoral, putrid filth of what reprobate mankind will accept and embrace! Without the absolute unchangeable laws of natures Creator, nature itself becomes perverted! Mans debauchery knows no limits when once he is allowed to break the eternal immutable laws of God, and no man has the courage to correct, punish or destroy that evil! (Jer. 17:9 – Rom. 1:28)
A wise man once said, "That which we tolerate today, we will embrace tomorrow". I think it could be safely stated that, "that which we tolerate today, we will embrace tomorrow, and that it will eventually become politically correct and "legally" protected." At that point, society is doomed if the righteous cease being righteous through the silence of sin!
Evil can only reign through fear! Fear can only control the people when they become part of that evil through fear itself! Ignorance, fear and tyranny, both spiritual and physical, are the fruit of a complacent and cowardly society! The only "salvation" for a nation (society) that has turned from righteous foundations and started drifting toward evil, is for the righteous people of that nations society to rise up in whatever means necessary to "cut" that evil root out of their society, lest that root grow and destroy their nation! History and scripture are replete with accounts of righteous men, whether few or many (righteous men rely on God's strength), who have protected the innocent, overthrown tyrants and destroyed evil from among them for the glory of their Creator and the sake of their future generations! A reverent fear of God will allow a "righteous" people to do no less!
Our founding fathers, which are now called "terrorists" by the wicked, vile and hateful powers that now rule by force, prove the above statement. These righteous few were willing to lose all their "stuff" and sacrifice their very lives to restore and preserve a righteous society for future generations!
If we truly are the lovers of liberty as we proclaim to be, if we are part of "the" called (Rom. 8:28), and if we are truly the sons and daughters of God, we can do no less! The blood of untold numbers of righteous men who went before us and the pure, righteous blood of our Saviour is crying out to us to stand, to speak out, to fight, and if need be, to die standing against evil, no matter what "form" it may take. Evil may appear as a masked figure seeking to steal, kill and destroy! Or it may appear in a uniform, wearing a badge, a black robe or a three piece suit! It may appear in the halls of Congress in the halls of "justice-judgment", or in the church sanctuary posing as a minister of light (II Cor. 11:15). If those that call themselves the church (called out ones) are sincerely seeking to do righteousness they will not be silenced! They will grow into the maturity and in the mind of Christ, and will be able to discern between good and evil (Heb. 5:14). If they are His bride, they will expose evil (Eph. 5:11), hate it (Ps. 37:10, Job 1:1, Rom. 12:9, I Pet. 3:11), and destroy (purge) it from themselves and their nation or it will destroy their nation.(Deut. 17:7-19, 19:20-21, 22:21, 24:7, Rom. 1:32)
I know how a lot of people who read this will think to themselves that you have quoted all, but one of the scriptures, out of the Old Testament. There are many other scriptures in the writings of the New Testament that most definitely make reference to the death penalty. One very important point that most people do not consider when studying the New Testament, is the fact that Israel was under bondage to a foreign conqueror, namely the Roman empire, because they had sinned by not following the laws of God written to them in the Old Testament! There was no New Testament when the Christ came, nor for decades after He went back to His Father. We must indeed be very careful to rightfully divide the Word of Truth (II Tim. 2:16).
By their fruits you shall know them! A truly born again individual cannot remain silent. If he does not stand for truth (John 14:6) then he knows that hell is his doom! (Mt. 10:33) Many will cry, "Lord, Lord!" and honor Him with their "lips" but their hearts are not with Him! (Mt. 7:22-23, 15:8)
Through the fear of man shall the masses be deceived into Hell! (Mt. 15:28)
Let's get back to discussing the paralyzing fear that now grips and controls our society, including the modern day church in America. I have been told by many that I am a brave man, but to be bluntly honest, I am just an ordinary man with all the weaknesses of others. The only difference is the strength and courage that comes to me from an absolute faith I have in my Saviour and sovereign God! Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the overcoming of fear through faith!
The complacency and compromise we see in the church today is the result of generations of false teaching, both outside and inside the church walls. Government controlled public schools and seminaries have, through lies and false teachings, destroyed the knowledge of truth in scriptures and history. We now have the product (fruit) of generations of a deliberate dumbing down of society. An ignorant, apathetic, spineless, mindless, soulless, mass of humanity that only desires one thing (Hos. 4:6): security! They have sold themselves into a total tyranny for a bowl of "soup." Now we have become a people that are willing to accept anything the powers that be determine to be "good."
Our civil leaders and ignorant or perhaps willfully ignorant pastors have taught us that to obey man's laws is the only way to please "God." Civil government has become totally decadent because the "social" church has become complacent and has sinned unto silence! Not only has civil authority ignored and tried to destroy the eternal law of God, but the church itself has become totally antinomian, (without law). They have taught that the law has been done away with, contrary to scriptures themselves! (Mt.5:12) Without law, there is no sin (Rom. 3:20, 4:15, and 5:13). Christ did not free us from the law, but rather from the curse of the law, sin and death! (Rom. 8: 1-15) To break God's law makes you a sinner even if you go to church and profess Christ! (I John 3:4, Rom. 3:31) Fear itself is a fruit of sin! (Rom. 8:15) We who walk after the Spirit and are of God overcome the spirit of fear! (II Tim. 1:7) Perfect (mature) love cast out fear and the torment that comes with it! (I John 4:16)
So then, why are those who call themselves the redeemed of God, afraid to even speak the truth? We have become a people so fearful of offending evil, fearful that we may be persecuted and or prosecuted for even speaking the truth that we have fulfilled Mt. 5:13 because of our sinful silence!
We are so pleased to speak of forgiveness, meekness, humbleness and "love" that we have forsaken teaching the very essence of forgiveness and salvation! Repentance! How does society know to repent if no man has the Godly courage to expose their sin!?
Why has the church become so politically correct, which is simply a term for complacency and compromise, that we don't call sodomy, murder, adultery, fornication, stealing, covetousness, and all other things contrary to the righteous laws of God what they are!? Sin! Abominations!? Evil!? Decadence and immorality!? Why does the "church" remain, in reality, silent on these matters!? Do we not know that we are going to give account for the evil that we tolerate!? Because we say that we know God and call ourselves the people of God, and confess that we love Him with our lips, but we fail to stand against evil it will bring a greater damnation on us!? Are we not just making pretense of righteousness? (Mt. 23:14, Pro. 24:10-12, Luke 12:47-48) How are we not like the Pharisees that Christ called the sons of Satan? (James 4:17, Mt. 23:24-33)
We have become such a wicked and perverse generation, just as spoken of in the scriptures, that we now call good evil and evil good (Is. 5:20). Why does our society, and even most "Christians" lament the death of a murderer of 60,000 innocent children (abortionist Tiller), and condemn the one who had the Godly courage to stop the slaughter of the innocent while weeping and wailing over the early death of a man who help "pervert" the minds of millions?! A man who paid at least one family $15 million in hush money so they wouldn't expose his perversion with children! These two instances are irrefutable proof of the conditions of society in America!
The "church" today prefers to "pick and choose" the scriptures they want to believe and live by! They ignore the manifold scriptures that condemn murderers, sodomites, lesbians, adulterers, fornicators and others to death! Both in the Old and New Testaments! They choose to ignore the scriptures in Numbers 25 where one man had the courage to do what was right while the civil and church authorities sat by and did nothing! And by doing what was right, saved an entire nation. Or when the head preacher of his day (high priest) in II Kings chapter 11, overthrew the civil authority even with being charged with treason and reinstated "lawful" government! The "preachers" stepped up to the holy call to stop an unrighteous civil government and set a whole nation free from an ungodly tyrant! Just like the preachers and clergy of the Revolution in America!
Our time is fast coming to close for a chance of repentance in America! We may have already crossed the line according to II Kings 24:4 with the holocaust of abortion (killing) of 60 million children! Be that as it may, we are still accountable to a Holy God for our sin of silence! Our silence and inaction has been and will continue to be, judged both now and in eternity!
The choice is ours! We will all answer individually on the Day of Judgment! (II Cor. 5:10)
It is the whole duty of all men to obey God! (Ecc. 12:13-14) How much more to those who confess Him as Saviour!?
Accountability to a Holy God is not optional! America, repent or perish!


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Bob Dole famously cried "Where's the outrage?" during his presidential run against Bill Clinton. I'd like to revise that, with a twist, when looking at some recent internet video viewership numbers: I'd add in "where's the analysis?" to "where's the outrage?"
My outrage began when I read a Multichannel News story claiming that Univision's web series "Vidas Cruzadas" had become one of the "three most-watched online properties ever," with 2 million video streams served. The story was served up as fact, without any analysis whatsoever.
My beef: 2 million views, across 16 episodes, works out to roughly 125,000 views per episode. And if their views followed the typical online-video trajectory, the first episode probably accounted for more than half of those total views, with the balance eking out 50,000 or less.
However you slice it, however, that's hardly enough views to put "Vidas Cruzadas" into the top 100, let alone the top three. Here at Revision3 we've got a lot of shows with more than 2 million lifetime views -- and a couple that consistently do better than 150,000 an episode. Two million's not bad, but it certainly is nothing to write home about -- or to shoot off a press release over.
But it's not just Univision and Multichannel News that are off target here. During the past few weeks there have been numerous other mysterious web video numbers bandied about, with little or no analysis or skepticism in any of the reporting.
Over at CNet, Yahoo called its show "Prime Time in No Time" "the most watched original show in the history of the internet," claiming 280 million streams in the 20 months or so since it launched last March. I guess Yahoo (and CNet) have never heard of Fred, Machinima or Smosh, three of the 17 YouTube channels -- akin to shows in YouTube verbiage -- that have each delivered more than 280 million views since they launched.
But wait, there's more! Internet news site Mashable rolled out a " top 10 most watched" list with partner Visible Measures, claiming to show the most-watched web series for September 2009. The numbers are impressive, with Fred coming in at No. 1 with almost 21.5 million views, and Smosh with 13 million. How, exactly, are those views counted, though? The Mashable reporter didn't know, but was nice enough to introduce me to Matt Cutler, VP for marketing and analytics at Visible Measures. His response: "For the charts we publish with partners like Mashable, we're using publicly sourced data that is self-reported by the 150+ video sharing destinations that we cover with our Viral Reach Database."
But just how realistic are all these "self-reported" views? Visible Measures follows the IAB's standard reporting guidelines in its own internal metrics, which logs a view after only a paltry three seconds of watching. But those "self-reported views" from just about everyone else out there are far more generous.
According to a study from video aggregator TubeMogul, nearly every site -- including Yahoo and YouTube -- count a "play start" as a view, even if you only watch for a fraction of a second. And what happens if the same person stops, then restarts a video, because of connection or buffering issue? Nearly everyone counts that as yet another view, further spiking the numbers. And what about AutoPlay -- where a video starts to play when you load a web page, even if you didn't ask for it? Those are routinely considered views as well, both on video-sharing sites and on social-networking services.
Take the Slide Funspace application, for example, one of the top add-ins to Facebook. When a Facebook users loads up the application, a video starts playing automatically. During my last visit, episode five of what was recently touted as "Facebook's First Hit Series" started playing immediately, without my asking for it.
Is that a view? Yes, according to the currently accepted state of video measurement on the internet. But should it be? I think not. It would be like channel surfing past "ESPN 8" on the way to Monday Night Football, and having Nielsen count you as a viewer of the Dodgeball Championship on "The Ocho."
I don't mean to disparage the programs I've called out. Most of them are very entertaining, creative and enjoyable to watch. But to call any of them a monster hit based on what appears be at least some inadvertent or drive-by viewership seems a bit disingenuous. Or as Dan Brekke, one of the best news editors I've worked with used to say, it's "an opportunity for investigation."
So if the reporters from Multichannel News, CNet and Mashable won't do the digging here, you'll have to. Before signing off on an internet video campaign, make sure you get the answers to the following questions:
How do you count views? Find out whether they count, or discount, AutoPlay views. Also, ask how long someone has to watch before a view is counted as a view. For many, it's simply a play start, others follow the IAB's three-second rule. These numbers are very important, especially because another recent study from TubeMogul found that more than 50% of online video viewers clicked away within a minute. Engagement matters, and three seconds does not an engaged experience make!
How about multiple views from the same user? This is also a big deal, particularly for those unscrupulous video producers trying to game the system. According to Tubemogul, "it is common knowledge ... that YouTube caps views at 200 per IP address." That means someone can hit play on a video 200 times, and log 200 unique views of a video. Multiply that by just a few users, and you have the online video version of "click fraud."
How many views do you get for each episode? Make sure you get a per-episode number, rather than an average for all episodes. Most scripted episodic series have a huge open, but subsequent episodes can tail off dramatically.
Is viewership growing, shrinking or steady? A mature internet video show with a committed audience should have a consistent per-episode viewership number. If it's all over the map, or declining, it's a sign of either artificially enhanced viewership, or a drive-by, non-committed audience. Results are better when the audience is committed.
How do you count unique viewers? It's very difficult on the internet, especially in a hyper-distributed world, to figure out exactly how many unique viewers watch a group of episodes. Find out where those unique viewer numbers come from: are they unique web-page visitors for show and episode pages, actual unique viewers of all episodes, or something else?
Where do the views come from? It's important to know how many of those views happen via a producer's website as opposed to distribution partners such as YouTube and Metacafe. Sure, you can build engaging, repeat audiences on those platforms, but typically your most enthusiastic audiences will gravitate to the show's home base.
Do you pay for any views, or are they all organic? It's easy to buy video views, especially if you count AutoPlay, below the fold, three-second experiences as a view. Some marketing is obviously preferred, but if more than 10% or so are purchased, that's definitely a red flag.
~ ~ ~ Jim Louderback is CEO of internet video network Revision3. For more details on these issues, you can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com, or follow him on Twitter: @jlouderb


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HER mom, drives HER crazy?
Thought I'd plan on coming out for 2 nights. Alone. I need to have a little space from Nan for 2 days and I want to see Truman. So, I'm planning on beginning of March. Will discuss dates with you to what's convenient for you. I would stay at the hotel only because I need very much to be alone or I will have to be committed. My identity has been lost just when I almost had one and I have to recover it.
P.S. Could you send Clive Davis, who is again head of Arista Records, a sample of your music? He's 71 years old now and Jewish and I think he would listen to you. Try!
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One of the high-profile companies in this movement is Japanese vehicle maker Honda, which recently joined Brazilian wind-power association Abeeolica. Honda had announced in April that it was setting up a local energy subsidiary to build a 27MW project in southern Brazil with a total investment of BRL100 million ($44 million).
According to Elbia Melo, executive secretary at Abeeolica, Honda is also interested in using a logo that proves it uses wind power in its operations. Volvo and two other automotive manufacturers are also aiming for the logo, said Melo.
"The drive behind these movements are price and clean power," said Mikio Kawai, CEO of Brazilian power trading firm Safira Energia. "The automotive sector is looking for clean power because it still produces cars that are polluting." Kawai said demand for clean power from the automotive sector has increased in the past 18 months.
Swedish car maker Volvo is also planning to invest in renewable power, although it is at a pilot stage of implementing solar and wind micro generation to supply part of its offices in the city of Curitiba in the Brazilian state of Parana. A spokesperson told Windpower Monthly that Volvo is planning to increase investment in renewable power, likely be both in wind and solar.
Honda, on the other hand, is already ordering nine 3MW turbines from Vestas for a project that is due to start operations by September 2014. The power will supply the whole energy needs of its factory in the state of Sao Paulo and, according to Carlos Eigi, CEO of Honda's local energy subsidiary Honda Energy, should reduce the company's power bills by 44%. The results from the experience will determine whether Honda Energy will invest in new wind-power projects to supply its motorbike factory in Manaus in the Amazon forest region.
Kawai confirmed that the financial drive is strong for both buyers and sellers of power in the non-regulated market. According to his calculations, wind developers can sell power for 30-50% more than the price obtained at an auction, while large consumers can reduce what they pay for each megawatt hour by 10-15%.
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Florida's Role in the Civil War
- The students will demonstrate an understanding of how Florida played a vital role in the Civil War and contributed to the Confederate Army.
Sunshine State Standards Benchmarks:SS.A.1.2.1 - SS.A.4.2.6 - SS.A.6.2.3
rural abolish secede skirmishes drafted bondage disembarked retreated documented
Suggested Activities:
- On a current map of the U.S. identify the Union States, the Confederate States, and U.S. territories. Creat a map key and color the states depending on their classification.
- Have the students create a story clock illustrating the events that were discussed in this selection.
- Using a map of Florida, have the students locate and mark the areas where important battles occurred.
- Have the students research further the role of salt in keeping food from spoiling.
- Have the students read the Emancipation Proclamation and discuss.
- Have the students research further on the "Cow Cavalry."
- Complete and review FCAT questions.
(Note: Actual FCAT practice passages are wrtten at the students' independent reading level. These Florida History selections are written at the students' instructional reading level. Therefore, students should not be asked to complete the questions until after receiving class instruction on the vocabulary and content of the passage. Students should also read the Florida History selection independently before answering the FCAT questions and be permited to return to the selection for rereading as they answer.)
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Economic radical Paul Ryan has endorsed Mitt Romney, Romney's embraced the Ryan budget, and the House Republicans have voted to enact the Romney/Ryan vision of the future into law. Yet an eerie silence has settled over the vision itself: How would it affect our daily lives? What kind of country would we become?
The Romney/Ryan America of tomorrow is more like the science-fiction worlds of H.G. Wells' Time Machine or Fritz Lang's Metropolis than it is like the United States as we know it. The privileged few would be even more wealthy than they are today, while the rest of us struggle to survive in a dystopic world of disease, deprivation, and fear.
That's not lefty rhetoric, either. All you have to do is read the budget.
What did Romney say about Ryan's budget? "He is setting the right tone for finally getting spending and entitlements under control. Anyone who has read my book knows that we are on the same page." For his part, Paul Ryan expressed confidence that Romney will enact something very close to the budget he proposed and House Republicans passed this week.
And yet the real vision they're offering for the country is somehow off-limits in polite company. They're being treated like reasonable politicians, rather than as radicals whose social agenda is severely out of step with that their predecessors in both parties. That has to stop. We need to quit discussing the political horse-race and start talking in real-life terms about the country they intend to create.
Here are five glimpses of the American future under Romney, Ryan, and the Republicans:
1. Diseased America
Forget what it means to be a just society for a moment (they certainly have) and think about what it will mean for the public health of our nation if the Romney/Ryan budget is ever enacted.
By 2022 their plan would cut Federal Medicaid funding by roughly one-third. The Urban Institute has estimated that states would drop between 14 million and 27 million people from Medicaid by 2021. Provider reimbursements would drop by roughly one-third, too, meaning that even people who still have Medicaid coverage will find it increasingly difficult to find doctors and hospitals willing to treat them. The Romney/Ryan plan's radical changes to Medicare would also dramatically cut older Americans' access to health care.
We live with the constant threat of deadly pandemics like avian flu and SARS. The fact that those two diseases didn't kill millions shouldn't be taken as proof that it can't happen, any more than failed terrorist attacks prove we aren't at risk: We are. And we're increasingly facing the risk of MRSAs and other deadly drug-resistant infections, which have a tendency to develop and spread in medically underserved populations such as inner cities and prisons.
So forget the inhumanity of this plan, one-percenters, and look at it selfishly: The Romney/Ryan plan to dismantle health will endanger your lives.
2. Time Machine America
Middle class? Not in their world. There will be the rich — and everybody else.
The Romney/Ryan plan guts the financial security of middle-class Americans by leaving them to face on old age of deprivation, impossibly costly health care, and reduced benefits. What's more, their radical cuts will create a cascading wave of unemployment that will make today's intractable job situation even worse.
At the same time the Romney/Ryan plan promises more huge tax cuts for the wealthy and uber-wealthy (more about that shortly), which it tries to offset by closing unspecified loopholes.
Which loopholes could they mean? There aren't many to choose from. They probably intend to cut or eliminate the mortgage interest tax deduction, which would decimate already-struggling middle class homeowners, and the tax deduction for employer-provided healthcare, which would leave middle-class Americans with even less health coverage than they have today.
Their tax policy, along with the dismantling of our retirement security, will guide us toward that H.G. Wells world, where a small pampered elite frolicking in luxurious gardens while the rest of the country struggles in dark underground tunnels of job insecurity and financial difficulty.
3. Starving America
And a lot of those "underground Americans" will starve. As the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities documents, 62 percent of the Ryan/Romney cuts come from programs that serve low-income communities.
Millions of people would lose access to food stamps or see their benefits cut substantially, even though studies have shown that this program doesn't contribute to the deficit in any substantial way. (In other words, they're just doing it because they don't like people in need.)
The Ryan/Romney plan to promote what Ryan calls "Welfare Reform Part 2" ignores the lessons of Part 1. By reducing funds and turning many of these programs back to the states, their plan would subject low-income Americans to humiliating tests, steep benefit cuts, and other cutbacks.
The end result would be a steep increase in food insecurity and hunger, in a nation that's already at or near the top of the charts for these problems when compared to other industrialized nations. In fact, at last report more than 9 percent of US homes experienced "food insecurity" and 5.4 percent of homes were severely food insecure. Expect those figures to rise sharply in Ryan and Romney's America.
4. Death-Star America
Romney and Ryan don't want to cut all government spending. They're proposing steep increases to defense expenditures, in ways that clearly violate the last "grand bargain" between Congressional Republicans and the President.
When combined with their steep cuts elsewhere, which reduces all non-mandated government spending to something close to zero, the Romney/Ryan vision of government is one that provides less than the bare minimum to its citizens while spending many times (see CBPP and Matt Yglesias for more) what other nations spend on extravagant and needless military programs.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would turn our nation into an armed fortress, ringed on the outside with expensive but often nonfunctional science-fiction weaponry and rotting from within from poverty and fear.
5. Obscene-Wealth America
That's the world the rest of us would live in. But for wealthy people like Mitt Romney life would be very sweet indeed. Millionaires would get to keep their extravagant Bush tax cuts, under which a top tax rate that was 91 percent under Eisenhower and 70 percent under Reagan is only 35 percent – and Ryan and Romney would top that off by giving them another $265,000 per year in cuts!
As the CBPP reports, " After-tax incomes would rise by 12.5 percent among millionaires, but just 1.9 percent for middle-income households" – and after the many other cuts and "loophole closings" in Romney/Ryan, after-tax income would actually plummet for those middle-income families.
Conclusion: RomneyWorld USA
All that – and it doesn't even reduce the deficit! In fact, Ira Stoll correctly notes in Reason that "it would increase federal outlays to $4,888 billion in 2022 from $3,624 billion in 2012, an increase of about 35% over ten years."
And yet Ryan's being celebrated in the media as a "bold" advocate for deficit reduction, and he's Mitt Romney's right-hand man on the economy. Americans need to understand what kind of country we will become if they succeed. Mitt Romney is likely to become the standard-bearer for his party, and he has embraced this vision of the future.
Voters need to understand what that means. When they talk about budgets they're not talking about numbers on a page. They're talking about us.


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COLUMBIA -- A developer wants to clean up a brownfield on Bluffton Road and build a shopping center, but Jaz Development has at least one reason to embrace the contaminated property.
There are tax credits at stake.
The incentive would be applied against the taxes that would be paid for the cleanup work.
Under South Carolina's voluntary cleanup program for developers who didn't cause the initial contamination, Jaz could receive a credit amount equal to 50 percent of its cleanup expenses for a tax year.
It's capped at $50,000 per year. Up to $100,000 of credit that isn't used could be carried forward five years.
But the public isn't privy to specifics.
"If this company has filed a return claiming this credit, we would not be able to release such information as it would be contained on an application/tax return which is protected from disclosure per (state law)," said S.C. Department of Revenue spokeswoman Samantha Cheek in an email Thursday.
She pointed to another incentive, one that would be up to Beaufort County Council to award: A five-year exemption from county property taxes for property and improvements laid out in the cleanup contract.
But at this early stage in the redevelopment process, the value of any tax credits would all be projections.
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control requires Jaz to follow a schedule of reporting deadlines to show a work plan, progress at the site, and benefits to the community.
On Wednesday, DHEC spokeswoman Lindsey Evans said the agreement with Jaz will go forward.
Last week marked the end of a 30-day window during which the public could have submitted comments on the cleanup proposal pending before DHEC. But nobody weighed in.
"Given the absence of comments and/or information which would prevent us from executing the (voluntary cleanup contract), we intend to proceed with the full execution of the (contract)," Evans said.
DHEC also had no information about what Jaz stands to gain in tax incentives. Repeated attempts to reach Jaz have been unsuccessful.
"We do not know what the actual costs will be at this time for this specific contract, so we cannot yet figure what the tax credit will be," said Evans.
Jaz, of Roswell-Ga., intends to develop the the 66 acres of land into a regional shopping center spanning as much as 321,000 square feet. The address is 34 Bluffton Rd, a site with U.S. 278 and the Crescent golf community to the north.
Most of the land has never been developed, but a few acres were used by a printing business called Mister Label from 1969 until 2003. The business housed and used toxic chemicals there.
In 2011, MLI Holdings, an Illinois corporation previously known as Mister Label, entered into a contract with DHEC as the party responsible for causing the contamination. That contract requires ongoing groundwater monitoring.
But to turn the land into a shopping center, Jaz will have to undertaken an additional environmental cleanup process.
Bluffton Gateway, as it's tentatively named, could open by the end of 2015 or beginning of 2016.


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Southampton lost their unbeaten start to the npower Championship season as they fell to a 3-2 defeat to Leicester at the King Power Stadium.
Nigel Adkins' side had begun life back in the top tier of the Football League in impressive fashion, but found themselves 2-0 down inside 22 minutes. Darius Vassell and Richie Wellens helped put the smile back on the face of under-pressure manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, with the Foxes having gone three games without a win since the opening day.
A Dan Harding header put Saints back in the game after 28 minutes before an own goal from striker Rickie Lambert restored Leicester's two-goal cushion on the stroke of half-time. However, Southampton came out strongly after the restart and David Connolly reduced the deficit in the 53rd minute.
Saints' defeat saw fellow promoted side Brighton go top of the table after they beat Peterborough 2-0. The Posh, who themselves were also in League One last season, went behind in the 10th minute to a Craig Noone effort. Recent signing Ryan Harley settled the tie in the 64th minute much to delight of the majority of fans at the Amex Stadium.
Fellow high-fliers Derby fell to a 2-1 home defeat to Burnley, with Charlie Austin netting either side of Theo Robinson's goal. Marvin Emnes continued his impressive start to the season by handing Middlesbrough the lead against Coventry, although Lukas Jutkiewicz scored a late equaliser for the visitors as the game ended 1-1.
Blackpool also threw away three points at Crystal Palace, with Glenn Murray equalising in the 77th minute after Alex Baptiste's first-half opener in another 1-1 draw.
Hull secured a 1-0 home victory against Reading thanks to a superb Robbie Brady strike, while Millwall and Barnsley played out a goalless draw.
Bristol City winger Albert Adomah saw his first-half effort cancelled out in South Yorkshire as James Hayter earned Doncaster a 1-1 draw and their first point of the season.
Ipswich overcame 10-man Leeds 2-1 at Portman Road thanks to late goals from Jason Scotland and Keith Andrews. Ross McCormack had broken the deadlock for the visitors but Aidy White's dismissal changed the balance of the game.
Finally, in another 1-1 draw, substitute Nwankwo Kanu rescued a point for Portsmouth after Andrew Taylor had given Cardiff the lead at Fratton Park.
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text: We get to see some new faces on Music Bank tonight. Guy.M, Lee Sun Jung Band and Old Time give us their first live performances on Music Bank. On the other hand, ballad singer Navi performs Well Done, Shi Hyun is with Cloud Nine, Piggy Dolls performs Trend and Woo Joo and Kim Mi Yeon comes together for Happy Together.


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ESP Training is a new game/application for the iPhone that, were it not for a fantastic connection to Ghostbusters, would be a fairly nondescript app. Lucky for that connection, then!
The game seeks to test your extrasensory perception abilities by asking you to place your iPhone down on the table, guess which shape is being displayed, then pick it up and see if you're right or not.
Your results are tracked over time, just like Brain Age.
The fun in this comes not from honing your ESP skills, but by realising the shapes are the exact same ones used in a scene from 1984's Ghostbusters, meaning you can pretend that every time you get an answer wrong, Dr. Peter Venkman (back off man, he's a scientist) will shock the crap out of you.


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At the beginning of January, Johnna Bailey began work as immigration attorney for the Community Legal Center, a resource for the working poor.
"It's defined as those who are just above the poverty line, meaning that legal aid would not serve them, but it's still too expensive for them to hire a private attorney," Bailey said.
In addition to the immigrant justice program, directed by Bailey, there is also, within the CLC, a civil division handling cases such as uncontested divorces, tenant-landlord issues, wills and estates.
Immigration falls under federal law and, because the immigration court for the region is in Memphis, the program services all of Tennessee, Arkansas, the western third of Kentucky and areas north of Jackson in Mississippi. It keeps Bailey and her colleague, Sally Joyner, a 2012 graduate of the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, extremely busy.
"We obviously see a lot of clients, many of whom we aren't able to service just because of capacity, so half of my job is representing those clients, but the other half would be placing those clients with pro bono attorneys," Bailey said.
She has found the Memphis legal community to be willing and eager to help when called upon and, to that end, the CLC also works to train lawyers who don't have any previous immigration experience.
"We're constantly recruiting new pro bono attorneys who would like to donate their time," Bailey said.
Clinic is held on the first and third Tuesday evenings of every month. Due to the scope of the area involved, with some clients as far away as Chattanooga, Tenn., much is done over the phone, though face-to-face consultations are preferable.
"Ideally, I'm trying to place those clients with a Chattanooga immigration attorney who would volunteer their time free of charge to handle those cases and then, as they come to court, I can handle the court aspect," Bailey said.
She also has found that immigration judges realize many clients may be coming from so far away and "are pretty generous with allowing you to do telephonic representation."
The daughter of a minister father and schoolteacher mother, Bailey was born in Little Rock, Ark., but moved around as a child with her family. It was Danville, Ind., she eventually left to attend school at Bryan College in Dayton, Tenn., where she studied philosophy and theology.
Later, working as a program coordinator for the family literacy program at a refugee resettlement agency in Chicago inspired her to go to law school.
She attended John Marshall Law School in Atlanta and found a mentor in professor Joseph Rosen, who she worked with as an associate in his private immigration group.
The new year brought new surroundings and when her husband, also an attorney, was offered a position as in-house counsel for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, they made the move to Memphis, bringing them closer to family in Arkansas.
"I didn't actually know what I was going to do, leaving my job in Atlanta," Bailey said, "but this opportunity with Community Legal Center was almost immediate."
The job is ideal for her, focusing on her training as an immigration attorney and working within the scope of a nonprofit and the ideals that first led her into law.
"It's what I dreamed of returning to after law school," Bailey said.
The work is currently part time, allowing her to spend more time with the couple's 9-month-old son. The two lawyers named their son Atticus after one of the most famous, fictional attorneys of all time. The family has settled into Memphis nicely, taking advantage of the Cooper-Young Farmer's Market, the Memphis Zoo and exploring the city's many barbecue restaurants.
"We're trying to take advantage of everything that Memphis offers … ," Bailey said. "It has everything you need as a small family."
Having seen both sides of the fence first-hand, it is from personal knowledge that Bailey speaks.
"In private practice you have the flexibility of dividing your time between profit cases and pro-bono cases, but I do like being back at a nonprofit," she said. "It's a different client base, and I say that with a positive spin. I really appreciate the clients we work with, they're just so appreciative and very responsive; it's a welcome change. I've enjoyed my time – I say that having only been here for four weeks, but it's been really good so far."
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STOCKHOLM, May 09, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- iZettle, Europe's No.1 provider of mobile payment services and apps, has closed a €40 million Series C funding. London-based growth investor Zouk Capital led the round, with participation from Dawn Capital and Intel Capital, and Series A and B investors Creandum, Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Northzone and SEB Private Equity.
Investors in previous rounds included, American Express, MasterCard and Banco Santander. Nathan Medlock, a principal in Zouk's Growth Capital Team will join the iZettle board.
iZettle will use the funding to continue growing in existing markets as well as identifying new potential territories for expansion.
"Using a card for payment is second nature to all of us, so it remains extraordinary that millions of small companies and traders are still locked out of this system by their size," said Medlock. "iZettle gives this huge market the ability to accept card payments, helping smaller enterprises save time, paper and energy while professionalising their operations."
iZettle started in 2011, offering an easy way to take card payments using mini credit card readers that transform smartphones and tablets into cash registers. Today, small businesses come to iZettle for tools to grow their business: from complete point of sale solutions, to free sales overview apps like reports and graphs to spot sales opportunities and identify loyal customers.
"Building on its early successes in Europe, we're excited about iZettle's growth plans, and believe this round will give them the fire power required to execute on the next phase of expansion," Medlock added, "At the core of Zouk's investment thesis is the emergence of what we call resource intelligence: recognising that not only should we be doing more with less, but that resources, process and systems are more connected than ever. iZettle is a great example of this concept in action."
Said Jacob de Geer, iZettle co-founder and CEO: "Small businesses are the lifeblood of the global economy. Our mission from the start has been to democratize and simplify payments around the world to help small businesses grow their business."
iZettle takes just minutes to set up, and works with all major payment cards. With iZettle there's no subscription, set up fee, monthly fee or minimum. Instead, iZettle merchants pay a small percentage of each transaction. iZettle then electronically deposits payments in the seller's bank account.
Sweden's Financial Supervisory Authority regulates iZettle, whose services are EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) approved and compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
In addition to Mexico and Brazil, the iZettle app, Chip & PIN and Chip & Signature readers, and free business management software are now available in the U.K., Spain, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.
In a recent Tech5 competition by technology focused media company The Next Web, iZettle was ranked one of the three fastest growing companies in Europe.
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CHICAGO – Lately, the Kansas City Royals have brought out the worst in White Sox pitcher Jake Peavy.
Over the previous 21/2 seasons, Kansas City was Peavy's kryptonite. He went 0-6 with a 5.56 ERA in his past seven starts against the Royals, which scored at least three runs in each of those starts. Peavy finally overcame Kansas City in his first start of the season Wednesday at U.S. Cellular Field, despite shaky defense behind him that committed three errors.
Peavy (1-0) gave up two runs (one earned) in six innings on 107 pitches in the Sox's 5-2 win. He didn't walk a batter while striking out six and surrendering four hits to beat the Royals for the first time since May 15, 2010, at Kauffman Stadium.
"Getting off to a good start is always nice," Peavy said. "It's not of uttermost importance, but against a team that has been our nemesis, it's like if we lose a few, 'Here we go again,' and everyone jumps on 'We can't beat the Royals.' I think it was big for us to come out and win."
WBC prepared Rios, De Aza: The World Baseball Classic, though it extended spring training by a week, was a blessing for some of the MLB players who participated in the event.
Sox manager Robin Ventura said outfielders Alex Rios and Alejandro De Aza, who represented Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, respectively, were able to get a head start thanks to playing in the competitive games. Although it hasn't shown up in the box score for De Aza, who is still looking for his first hit of the season, Rios' comfort level has been noticeable to Ventura.
"I think there's for some guys, it's you get there and you might not be ready," Ventura said. "It just moves your clock up. For [Rios] and De Aza, they played the longest too. So, they are in game situations earlier then everybody and they are playing nine innings earlier then everybody."
Pesky Royals: Of all the teams the Sox play each year, the Royals have become a major pest the past two seasons.
Since 2011, the Sox are 15-23 against Kansas City, including a 9-11 mark at U.S. Cellular Field. In comparison, they thrived when facing the Royals from 2006-10 posting a 54-37 record and were especially impressive at home where they went 31-15. While the Tigers, coming off a World Series appearance, and an improved Indians squad have received a lot of attention for their improvements, the Royals have been under the radar.
"There's not a whole lot of name recognition over there, but they got guys who can really, really play and they're going to be right in the middle of things," Peavy said. "We understand that we have to play better against Kansas City to be the team we want to be."


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MT. HERMON � Shaylen Burnett scored 16 points, grabbed nine rebounds and dished out nine assists to lead Southern Alamance past visiting Southwest Guilford 58-47 in a non-conference girls� basketball game Wednesday night.
Hollie Boggs drained a pair of 3-pointers and finished with 12 points while Megan Allen added 10 for the Patriots (19-4).
Southern Alamance mounted a second-half rally to gain control after trailing 30-27 at halftime. The Patriots held Southwest Guilford to 17 second-half points.
-- RIVER MILL 62, ROXBORO COMMUNITY 16: At Roxboro, the Jaguars breezed past Roxboro Community in the Carolina 12 2-A/1-A Conference game with Daijah Faucette scoring 14 points to lead five players in double figure scoring.
Lenaira Ruffin added 12 points while Kayla Burns, Kena Brincefield and Lenaja Ruffin scored 10 points apiece for river Mill (20-3, 15-0).
-- CLOVER GARDEN 32, ST. THOMAS MOORE 27: At Chapel Hill, Clover Garden rallied from a three-point deficit entering the fourth quarter to capture a semifinal victory in the Central Carolina Athletic League Tournament.
Grayson Harris had 13 points, 21 rebounds, four steals and two blocked shots to pace the Grizzlies (13-2).
CloverGardenwill face Woods Charter in Saturday�s championship game at Woods Charter.
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At Mt. Hermon, Terrell Leach scored 22 points and K.J. Langley added 21 to lead visiting Southwest Guilford past Southern Alamance 91-58 in a non-conference game.
Jalen Burnett had 16 points and Dairyon Matkins added 15, including four 3-pointers, for the Patriots (8-13).
Ben Ferguson added nine points and three rebounds for the Cowboys (23-0).


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Register a prayer time herePrayer topicsMarch 2012 prayer letter
The General's introduction to 'Sharing the Vision' can be read online in English. French, Spanish and German versions coming soon.
Listen to or watch the General read her latest letter
Danish Congress celebrations include first appointments to Greenland
Celebrations in Denmark included the historic appointment by the General of officers to 'open fire' for The Salvation Army in Greenland. Lieutenants Magnus and Petura Haraldsen were commissioned as Salvation Army officers before being presented with the Greenland flag.
The General Shares in Practical and Spiritual Ministry in Moldova
From muddy village roads to Spirit-filled meetings, General Linda Bond experienced the breadth of Salvation Army ministry during her visit to Moldova.
Nordic Leaders and Estonian Salvationists Challenged During Visit By General
The visit of General Linda Bond to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, was marked by times of influence and inspiration.
The General Takes Scottish Salvationists Back To Soul-Saving Roots
The General was the special guest when Salvationists joined friends from other churches at the International Climbing Arena in Edinburgh for the 'Changing Minds'-themed Roots Scotland conference.
The General Reveals Welsh Links During Visit to 'Land of Song'
'Songs of praises', as featured in the great Welsh hymn 'Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah', resounded throughout the visit to Wales by the General this month.
Sharing the Vision: March 2012
The General writes: 'When I share this global vision, I am conscious that it must also work on a personal and local level. Diversity is great. Division is tragic. Uniformity is impossible. Unity is a gift. So wherever you find yourself today, may your eyes be wide open to what you, and your corps, can do'
The General Shares Message of Encouragement and Challenge in Norway
The congregation at Oslo Temple Corps, Norway, was energised, encouraged and uplifted by the visit of General Linda Bond. The General - making her first visit as international leader to the Norway, Iceland and The Faeroes Territory - emphasised the importance of seeking the power of the Holy Spirit and reaching out with the mission of Jesus Christ.
Worldwide Prayer Meeting prayer email - March 2012
The latest prayer email from the General, including a request for help in encouraging other Salvationists to join the thousands already signed up for the Thursday morning prayer meeting
Spiritual Impact and Spectacular Scenes as the General Visits India South Eastern Territory
Spectacular decorations and large, excited crowds greeted General Linda Bond during her visit to The Salvation Army's India South Eastern Territory. However, what will long stay in the minds and hearts of those who were present is the spiritual impact of the visit, with many people dedicating or rededicating their lives to God.
The General Inspires Salvationists and Friends in India South Western Territory
The General's visit to The Salvation Army's India South Western Territory was a time of great celebration, spiritual challenge and inspiration. Thousands of Salvationists and friends met together in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, to worship God and to see and hear their international leader.
Staff Band Celebration Benefits Salvation Army Expansion in Africa
The General was delighted to accept £50,000 to support the continuing expansion of Salvation Army ministry in Africa. The money was raised through ISB120, a successful series of meetings held last year to mark the 120th anniversary of the International Staff Band
Hungarian Salvationists Encouraged by General's Visit
Many sought a deeper relationship with Christ during the visit of General Linda Bond to Hungary. She was joined by Europe Zone leaders and leaders of the Switzerland, Austria and Hungary Territory
The General Urges Swiss Salvationists to Share Christ's Message of Freedom, Hope and Life
The General, making her first visit as international leader to The Salvation Army's Switzerland, Austria and Hungary Territory, challenged Salvationists in Switzerland to live a consistent life of faith
The General Makes Strong First Impression in France and Belgium Territory
Making her first visit as international leader to the France and Belgium Territory, the General left the territory's Salvationists in no doubt as to her strong convictions or her ability to share her message with great simplicity.
The General Challenges Salvationists and Friends of the Finland and Estonia Territory
The visit of the General to Finland had a significant spiritual impact on Salvationists and friends of the Finland and Estonia Territory. The General challenged the territory to prepare for revival, adding that the people of God's Army are to go forward filled with joy and praise.
Spanish Salvationists Respond to the General's Challenge
Salvationists from across Spain gathered in great excitement to welcome the General when she visited the Salvation Army's Spain Command.
Tremendous Move to the Mercy Seat During General's Visit to South America East Territory
Salvationists in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay prayed and prepared for many months for the South America East Territorial Congress and the visit of the General.
The General Calls Salvationists to Continued 24/7 Prayer for Justice
'We need to be advocates to God' says the General on the first anniversary of the Global Call to 24-7 Prayer.
The General Launches 'One Army, One Mission, One Message'
International Vision and Mission Priorities for The Salvation Army launched on 13 October 2011.
Worldwide Prayer MeetingThe Salvation Army's weekly 30-minute international prayer meeting has begun. Every Thursday, we are encouraging people around the world to pray for the Army and our mission priorities.
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