Short URL: http://rumfordmeteor.com/?p=9103
Source: http://rumfordmeteor.com/?p=9103
get back on board rob lowe peyton manning what is sopa marianne gingrich ibooks author gabrielle union mark wahlberg
Monday, December 31, 2012
Mayor Excited By All The Imaginary Taxpayers That Will Flock To Biddeford Now That The Town?s Biggest Taxpayer Is Gone
Chinese fishing boat detained in Japan: Xinhua
BEIJING |
BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan's coastguard detained a Chinese fishing boat within Japanese waters on Sunday evening, China's Xinhua news agency said, citing the Chinese consulate general in Fukuoka, a city in southwestern Japan.
The captain of the boat, registered in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian, and two crew members have been brought to the southern Japanese city of Kagoshima for questioning, Xinhua said.
It said the captain had admitted he was in Japanese waters.
The incident comes just months after anti-Japanese protests erupted in many Chinese cities over disputed islands near Taiwan, known as the Diaoyu in Chinese and Senkaku in Japanese. Those tensions have cooled but could flare up if stoked by nationalists on either side.
A spokesperson for the Japanese embassy in Beijing could not be reached for comment late on Sunday evening.
The Chinese fishing fleet tends to range far into the waters east of China to offset depleted stocks closer to shore.
(Reporting by Lucy Hornby; Editing by Alison Williams)
Alexis Wright presidential debates Felix Baumgartner Little Nemo gawker earthquake today earthquake today
Reader photos: Southern California Moments, Day 364
About L.A. Now
L.A. Now is the Los Angeles Times? breaking news section for Southern California. It is produced by more than 80 reporters and editors in The Times? Metro section, reporting from the paper?s downtown Los Angeles headquarters as well as bureaus in Costa Mesa, Long Beach, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Riverside, Ventura and West Los Angeles.
Have a story tip for L.A. Now?
Can I call someone with news?
Yes. The city desk number is (213) 237-7847.
Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/12/reader-photos-southern-california-moments-day-364.html
spinal stenosis the forgotten man mike jones just friends chronicle george lopez bedtime stories
UN Envoy warns of mass death next year in Syria
The international envoy to Syria emphasized the deteriorating situation in the country, and called for a quick end to the conflict, warning hundreds of thousands could die next year.
A child watches men dig graves for future casualties of Syria's civil conflict at Sheikh Saeed cemetery in Azaz city, north of Aleppo December 30. The international peace envoy for Syria said the situation in the country was deteriorating sharply but a solution was still possible under the terms of a peace plan agreed in Geneva in June.
Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
EnlargeThe international envoy to?Syria?warned Sunday that as many as 100,000 could die in the next year if a way cannot be found quickly to end the country's civil war.
Skip to next paragraph' +
google_ads[0].line2 + '
' +
google_ads[0].line3 + '
Subscribe Today to the Monitor
Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy for the Syrian crisis, told reporters in Cairo that if the crisis continues?Syria?will not be divided into states "like what happened in Yugoslavia" but will face "Somalization, which means warlords, and the Syrian people will be persecuted by those who control their fate."
Syrian rebels are fighting a 21-month-old revolt against President Bashar Assad's regime. Activists say more than 40,000 people have been killed in the crisis, which began with pro-democracy protests but has morphed into a civil war.
Since starting his job in September, Brahimi has sought to advance an international plan, reached in Geneva six months ago, that calls for an open-ended cease-fire between rebels and government troops and the formation of a transitional government to run the country until elections can be held.
Over the past week Brahimi went to Damascus where he met Assad then flew to Moscow, one of?Syria's?closest international allies, where he discussed ways of ending the country's crisis.
"The situation in?Syria?is bad. Very, very bad," Brahimi said after meeting Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby. "It is getting worse and therefore if nearly 50,000 were killed in nearly two years if, God forbids, this crisis continues for another year, it will not only kill 25,000. It will kill 100,000. The situation is deteriorating."
The monthly death toll in?Syria?rose over the past months, as both sides have used heavier weapons and as the Syrian army started using its warplanes to attack rebel-held areas around the country.
Brahimi said that peace and security in the world will be threatened directly from?Syria?if there is no solution within the next few months. "I warn of what will come. The choice is between a political solution or of full collapse of the Syrian state."
Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/-pG8SQu8CTo/UN-Envoy-warns-of-mass-death-next-year-in-Syria
toure patti smith lottery winners lottery winners april fools day pranks ohio state vs kansas daniel von bargen
Sunday, December 30, 2012
BENEFITS OF OWNING YOUR OWN HOME BASED BUSINESS!
Some of the benefits of owning your own home-based business!
1. Financial Freedom and Security!
2. Legitimate Income Tax deductions!
3. More Time to spend with Family and Friends!
4. No Boss!
5. True Residual Income!
6. Retire in luxury and comfort, not on a social security pension that may not be there.
7. Work with people you like, not people you have to!
8. Own the Dream Home and/or Dream Car you have always wanted!
We hope you will make the decision to take control of your life. By joining or the The Ez Money Method or the GVO or any other opportunity that you see fit, you will have the opportunity to be among the many who are earning a substantial income in Network Marketing today. Our true success will come by helping others build their dreams. Let the The EZ Money Method help you begin to build your dreams today!
Below is a great video on the claim that most people fail at network marketing. I think you will find this video to be a clear explanation on what kind of people are really making this claim. God Bless.
Source: http://mwillams.blogspot.com/2012/12/benefits-of-owning-your-own-home-based.html
nick collins dave matthews ambien wwdc heart attack grill madden 13 cover dalai lama
Saturday, December 29, 2012
China tightens Internet controls, legalizes post deletion
4 hrs.
China unveiled tighter Internet controls on Friday, legalizing the deletion of posts or pages which are deemed to contain "illegal" information and requiring service providers to hand over such information to the authorities for punishment.
The rules signal that the new leadership headed by Communist Party chief Xi Jinping will continue muzzling the often scathing, raucous online chatter in a country where the Internet offers a rare opportunity for debate.
The new regulations, announced by the official Xinhua news agency, also require Internet users to register with their real names when signing up with network providers, though, in reality, this already happens.
Chinese authorities and Internet companies such as Sina Corp have long since closely monitored and censored what people say online, but the government has now put measures such as deleting posts into law.
"Service providers are required to instantly stop the transmission of illegal information once it is spotted and take relevant measures, including removing the information and saving records, before reporting to supervisory authorities," the rules state.
The restrictions follow a series of corruption scandals amongst lower-level officials exposed by Internet users, something the government has said it is trying to encourage.
Li Fei, deputy head of parliament's legislative affairs committee, said the new rules did not mean people needed to worry about being unable to report corruption online. But he added a warning too.
"When people exercise their rights, including the right to use the Internet, they must do so in accordance with the law and constitution, and not harm the legal rights of the state, society ... or other citizens," he told a news conference.
Chinese Internet users already cope with extensive censorship measures, especially over politically sensitive topics like human rights and elite politics, and popular foreign sites Facebook, Twitter and Google-owned YouTube are blocked.
Earlier this year, the government began forcing users of Sina's wildly successful Weibo microblogging platform to register their real names.
The new rules were quickly condemned by some Weibo users.
"So now they are getting Weibo to help in keeping records and reporting it to authorities. Is this the freedom of expression we are promised in the constitution?" complained one user.
"We should resolutely oppose such a covert means to interfere with Internet freedom," wrote another.
The government says tighter monitoring of the Internet is needed to prevent people making malicious and anonymous accusations online, disseminating pornography and spreading panic with unfounded rumors, pointing out that many other countries already have such rules.
Despite periodic calls for political reform, the party has shown no sign of loosening its grip on power and brooks no dissent to its authority.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Sally Huang; Editing by Nick Macfie)
(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2012. Check for restrictions at: http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp
Two killed as Russian passenger plane splits apart after landing
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian passenger plane with up to 12 people on board split into three pieces after sliding off a runway and crashing into a highway outside a Moscow airport on Saturday, officials said.
State-run RIA news agency said two people were killed.
A photograph posted on the Internet showed a wrecked plane on a highway outside Vnukovo airport, with smoke billowing from the back end and only a mangled part of the front half visible.
"After a hard landing, the plane split into three pieces," Yelena Krylova, chief spokeswoman for the airport, said in televised comments.
She said there were 11 people on board, all crew, and that nobody was killed, but RIA cited police as saying two people were killed.
An Emergency Situations Ministry official said on television that 12 people were aboard.
The Tupolev-204 passenger plane was operated by the Russian airliner Red Wings and traveling from Czech Republic, Krylova said.
(Writing by Alissa de Carbonnel and Steve Gutterman; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/two-killed-russian-passenger-plane-splits-apart-landing-135518719.html
victor martinez alcatraz cruise ship martin luther king jr. zappos john elway john elway
Smartest Magazines For Women - Fairchild Family Housing ...
Print lives! Even in our days of Facebook and iPads, printed magazines offer tactile and visual pleasures all their own. Here are five of the most delightful women's magazines available today. Try one next time you'd like to curl up with a good magazine at home at Fairchild Family Housing.
W Magazine
Full of sopisticated takes on style and living, W is a highly sophisticated fashion magazine. Gorgeous photography and great articles fill this elegant, over-sized publication, making it an essential read.
O, The Oprah Magazine
This relatively new magazine by Oprah Winfrey is all about empowering women and encouraging personal growth. Covering a wide range of topics, everything from fitness to career choices, this magazine is a valuable asset for the 21st century woman.
Prevention
With an emphasis on family health, Prevention works off of the basic premise that little changes can yield big results. It offers a friendly voice on issues of health, exercise, and nutrition, and is full of comprehensive and intelligent writing.
Bust
Tapping into women's issues intelligently and with a strong feminist perspective, Bust is a groundbreaking lifestye magazine. Its writing covers pop culture, news, music and book reviews, and a strong editorial voice that a strong, independent woman can read with pride.
Cooking Light
Unlike a lot of other food magazines, Cooking Light matches recipes with smart writing on health and fitness issues. This magazine is very educational and doesn't condescend, making it a good resource for nutritional information.
Source: http://blog.fairchildfamilyhousing.com/2012/12/27/smartest-magazines-for-women/
pro bowl pro bowl 2012 rick santorum daughter gainesville 2012 royal rumble the grey machine gun kelly
Source: http://sakuturug.posterous.com/smartest-magazines-for-women-fairchild-family
Colin Powell Tyrann Mathieu noaa Jessica Ridgeway jessica biel ipad mini Kevin Krim
Video: PFT Live: Does Rex Ryan want to be fired?
Sorry, Readability was unable to parse this page for content.
Source: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/21134540/vp/50312846#50312846
knicks coach encyclopedia britannica pi white lion mike d antoni resigns holes ncaa brackets 2012
Friday, December 28, 2012
Novel role of BRCA1 in regulating the survival of skin stem cells identified
Dec. 27, 2012 ? Researchers have uncovered a novel role of BRCA1 in regulating the survival of skin stem cells.
Our DNA, which stores our genetic information, is constantly submitted to damage. If not properly repaired, DNA damage can lead to cell death, which may in turn lead to tissue exhaustion and aging, or induce mutations resulting in uncontrolled cell proliferation and cancer. Brca1 is a key gene that mediates DNA repair. Mutations in Brca1 lead to familial and sporadic breast and ovarian cancer in humans.
In this study published in Genes and Development, researchers led by C?dric Blanpain, MD/PhD, Professor at Universit? libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and WELBIO investigator, showed the critical role of Brca1 for the maintenance of hair follicle stem cells.
Peggy Sotiropoulou and colleagues showed that upon deletion of the breast cancer associated gene Brca1 in the epidermis, hair follicle cells show high levels of DNA damage and cell death, which induce hyperproliferation and finally exhaustion of hair follicle stem cells resulting in hair follicle degeneration. In contrast, the other types of stem cells located in the epidermis, which are forming the skin barrier and the sebaceous glands, are maintained and continue to function normally despite the absence of BRCA1, demonstrating the different requirement for BRCA1 in the distinct types of adult stem cells. "We were very surprised to see that distinct types of cells residing within the same tissue may exhibit such profoundly different responses to the deletion of the same, crucial gene for DNA repair gene" comments Peggy Sotiropoulou, the first author of this study.
This work is very important to understand the DNA repair mechanisms in different types of adult stem cells and at different stages of their activation. If other stem cells of the body also require BRCA1 for their survival, this result may potentially explain why Brca1 mutations in women lead preferentially to the development of only breast and ovarian cancers.
This work was supported by the FNRS, WELBIO, the program d'excellence CIBLES of Wallonia, a research grant from the Fondation Contre le Cancer, the Fondation ULB, the Fonds Yvonne Bo?l, and the Fonds Gaston Ithier, a starting grant of the European Research Council (ERC) and the EMBO Young Investigator Program.
Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:
Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:
Story Source:
The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Libre de Bruxelles, Universit, via AlphaGalileo.
Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.
Journal Reference:
- Panagiota A Sotiropoulou, Andrea E. Karambelas, Maud Debaugnies, Aurelie Candi, Peter Bouwman, Virginie Moers, Tatiana Revenco, Ana Sofia Rocha, Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi, Jos Jonkers and Cedric Blanpain. BRCA1 deficiency in skin epidermis leads to selective loss of hair follicle stem cells and their progeny. Genes and Development, January 2013
Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.
Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/B6kDis9F-Wc/121227080050.htm
David Rakoff Bourne Legacy Chad Johnson London 2012 Soccer dwight howard Olympics closing ceremony PGA Championship 2012
LG?s latest projector system is powered by freaking lasers
19 hrs.
Until now, all consumer front projector systems?produced light using lamps or in rare cases LEDs. The new?LG HECTO FP system, on the other hand, uses lasers for illumination instead. Yes, lasers.
As LG announced on Wednesday, the new projector system uses lasers and a Texas Instruments DLP chip to form images. Typical home front projectors require around a 9 to 12 foot distance from the lens to a 100-inch screen. The LG HECTO requires only a 22-inch throw to fill the screen and can be placed on the floor or the mounted to the ceiling.
The LG HECTO Laser Projection TV will be sold as a complete system with a 100-Inch diagonal screen, a built-in ATSC TV tuner, HDMI switching and a Wi-Fi connection for streaming video.
Specifications include a rated 1,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 1080p resolution, 3 HDMI inputs, an optical audio input, RS-232 interface. Audio is produced by two 10W built-in speakers. The projector measures 5.7-inches high. The HECTO Laser projector does not have 3-D capability. LG has not? provided a brightness rating, a key specification. (Lasers offer the promise of very high intensity using low power.)
The screen is a fixed design and unlike theater screens its surface is black not white. LG claims the system will render a vivid, high contrast crisp image, even in lighter viewing environments.
The Laser TV supports LG's Smart TV platform and will stream movies via Netflix?and?YouTube as well as other services and?apps via its built-in Wi-Fi wireless Internet connection. The HECTO also includes LG's latest Magic Remote control.
LG claims its laser based illumination system has a lifespan of up to 25,000 hours, which is 5 times or more the life of traditional mercury-based lamps.
The LG HECTO Laser projector will be demonstrated at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show early next month. We expect pricing and availability to be announced at the show.
Have a question for the HD Guru? Send an?email.
More?from HD Guru:
jimmy fallon nick collins dave matthews ambien wwdc heart attack grill madden 13 cover
U.S. administration urges Republicans not to block "fiscal cliff" deal
HONOLULU (Reuters) - As President Barack Obama cut short a Christmas vacation to resume talks to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of automatic year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, the White House on Wednesday called on congressional Republicans not to stand in the way of a resolution in the U.S. Congress.
"It's up to the Senate Minority Leader not to block a vote, and it's up the House Republican leader, the Speaker of the House ... to allow a vote," a senior administration official told reporters traveling with the president.
Obama is seeking a stripped down deal to prevent tax rates from rising on all but the wealthiest Americans and to stop steep across-the-board spending cuts.
The White House last week proposed a broader package that would have let tax rates stay low for those making up to $400,000, a compromise from the president's previous rate hike threshold of $250,000.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner was unimpressed with the offer and sought unsuccessfully to push his own proposal through Congress, but members of his own Republican Party balked at rate hikes of any kind. Talks broke down after that and the president and lawmakers left town for the holiday.
The focus will shift to the Senate for a deal, where Obama will rely on an ally, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, to work out a bill that the top Senate Republican, Kentucky's Mitch McConnell, will not obstruct. The House must also pass the measure.
A broader effort to trim the nation's massive budget deficit will have to wait, the official said.
Congressional stubbornness risks again damaging the fragile economy, just as the nation's near-default in 2011 - the result of a stalemate over raising the national borrowing limit - dealt a nascent economic recovery a setback, the administration official said.
"If you think about the possibility of Congress failing to act to avert the fiscal cliff, combined with the abomination of what occurred in the summer of 2011, hits to our economy aren't coming from external factors, they're coming from congressional stupidity," the official said.
(Reporting By Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Sandra Maler and Stacey Joyce)
Miss Universe 2012 x factor x factor john kerry eastbay Samantha Steele Dec 21 2012
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Scott Brown Falsely Announces New Fiscal Cliff Proposal From Obama To GOP Leaders
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) caused a stir on Thursday by saying that President Barack Obama had sent over a new fiscal cliff proposal to Senate Republican leaders -- a key development that nobody else had heard about.
"Heading back to dc. Just learned that the Pres. reached out to Senate GOP leadership with a proposal. It is the first such proposal to be put forth. Eager to see why it is. How it is serious," Brown wrote on his Facebook page.
He tweeted shortly after, "Getting on place to DC to review plan from Pres. We will see. Better late than never."
But it turned out that Brown's scoop wasn't breaking news. It wasn't even true.
White House officials and aides to Senate Republican and Democratic leaders all said Brown's claim was inaccurate, noting there is no new proposal on the table and nothing has changed in the standoff over a fiscal deal. Those same officials also shot down a CNN report that mirrored Brown's comments.
"This sounds like an over-interpretation of our readout of the President's call," said Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), referring to a phone call between Obama and Hill leaders on Wednesday night. "While we?re expecting Democrats to finally act, I don?t have a specific time frame."
A Brown spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment on what the Massachusetts senator was talking about.
Whatever it was, it's not the first time Brown has shown a penchant for exaggeration during his brief time as a senator.
He claimed in May 2011 that he had seen the photo of a dead Osama Bin Laden, which he later said was a fake and that he had been duped. In a radio appearance in June 2012, he claimed to have held "secret meetings with kings and queens and prime ministers." His spokesman initially stood by the comment before saying that he misspoke. During a Senate debate last October, Brown said he had "served in Afghanistan," referring to a two-week stint as part of National Guard training.
UPDATE: Brown spokeswoman Marcie Kinzel said the senator's comments were in response to an email that McConnell sent to Senate Republicans Thursday morning with an update on fiscal cliff matters.
"Senator Brown was simply posting information he had received from Minority Leader McConnell that he took to be good news about efforts to avert the fiscal cliff," Kinzel said.
Kinzel provided an excerpt of McConnell's email. While it may have been a stretch for Brown to announce that Obama was sending over a new proposal to Senate Republicans on Thursday, McConnell did say that "serious talks" on a fiscal deal could begin Thursday, depending on what the president planned to put on the table.
Here's what McConnell wrote:
?Last night, the President called me to say he would finally be proposing a package to avoid the cliff and I agreed to review it. The President is the first Democrat to reach out to at least propose legislation.As you probably read, the House leadership is of the view that they are not going to act before the Senate does. If the President has a serious proposal, one that might garner bipartisan support, then serious talks with the Administration will likely start today and I will keep you filled in when you all get in to town.?
Luke Johnson contributed reporting.
Also on HuffPost:
"; var coords = [-5, -72]; // display fb-bubble FloatingPrompt.embed(this, html, undefined, 'top', {fp_intersects:1, timeout_remove:2000,ignore_arrow: true, width:236, add_xy:coords, class_name: 'clear-overlay'}); });
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/27/scott-brown-fiscal-cliff_n_2371691.html
houston weather dwyane wade the night they drove old dixie down levon oklahoma city bombing robbie robertson the curious case of benjamin button
BDO ends non-life insurance joint venture with Generali - InterAksyon
InterAksyon.com
The online news portal of TV5
MANILA - BDO Unibank Inc has dropped its non-life insurance business with Generali Philippines.
In a statement, BDO said it would give up its three-year joint venture starting January 1, 2013, as the lender would focus instead on life insurance.
"After three years, our board is fully convinced that any further effort to operate our non-life business has become far less attractive due to an overly competitive market and to the significant increase in catastrophe reinsurance costs, a consequence of a series of natural events that recently occurred in Asia. The above reasons, all of which are not expected to improve in the near future, led the board to this unanimous decision." Generali president Vergel de Dios said.
The decision to ditch the non-life business comes on the heels of improved performance.
?New individual insurance sales, arising solely from regular premium products, were up 30 percent for the same period, while individual renewal premiums grew at a hefty rate of 59 percent. Group life and health premiums on the other hand were up 25 percent,? BDO said.
"A key driver to this growth is the company's sustained efforts to beef up its primary bancassurance distribution channel. Generali Philippines now employs a bancassurance sales force numbering over 500 who operate in more than 750 BDO branches nationwide,? the bank said.
According to the lender, the sales performance represented a three-fold increase from a year ago and ?the result of the company's investment in sales training and supervision, improved field management systems, and concentration on its broad-based target markets.?
"Our efforts in developing a professional bancassurance sales force by building strong fundamentals have started to bear fruit," De Dios said.
"This move has brought us closer to our ultimate objective of helping bank clients buy the right insurance products for their expressed needs. In the process, we enable our financial advisers to achieve their own financial aspirations via a rewarding sales career in Generali," he said.
?
Source: http://www.interaksyon.com/article/51311/bdo-ends-non-life-insurance-joint-venture-with-generali
home run derby kourtney kardashian kourtney kardashian DNS Changer ernest borgnine ESPYs 2012 venus williams
US rejects No Child Left Behind waiver for Calif.
Jacquelyn Martin / AP file
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan offered states waivers last year, saying No Child Left Behind forced school districts 'into one-size-fits-all solutions that just don't work.'
By M. Alex Johnson, NBC News
California has become apparently only the second state ? and by far the largest ? to be denied a waiver of requirements of the No Child Left Behind education program, state officials said.
Thirty-four states and the District of Columbia have won waivers from provisions of the 2001 law, one of the signature achievements of the administration of former President George W. Bush, while nine other states and Puerto Rico have received conditional approval or have applications pending, according to the U.S. Education Department.
The agency doesn't publicize which states have been turned down, but Iowa is the only other state to have publicly acknowledged that it has been rejected.
California officials got the news Friday by telephone, The San Jose Mercury News reported, quoting Michael Kirst, president of the state Board of Education.
Kirst told the Mercury News that California's unwillingness to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores was what sank the state's request.
Watch US News videos on NBCNews.com
The denial wasn't a surprise ? Kirst and state school Superintendent Tom Torlakson warned local administrators in an open letter Friday (.pdf) that federal officials had indicated that California's request would be turned down.
No Child Left Behind
Thirty-four states and the District of Columbia have won waivers from the 2001 No Child Left Behind law. Nine states (in addition to the Puerto Rico) have received conditional approval or have requests pending:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Maine
- New Hampshire
- North Dakota
- Texas
- West Virginia
Two states are known to have been rejected:
-California
- Iowa
Five states haven't requested waivers or have withdrawn their requests:
-Montana
- Nebraska
- Pennsylvania (plans to request a waiver at a later date)
- Vermont
- Wyoming
Sources: U.S. Education Department; California Education Department; San Jose Mercury News; State of Iowa
"It is disappointing that our state's request ? which enjoyed such strong support from parents, teachers, administrators, and education advocates across California ? has apparently been rejected," Torlakson said in a separate statement.
Authorization for No Child Left Behind ? formal title: the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA ? expired in 2007, and Congress hasn't acted to rewrite or refresh it. Last year, the Education Department told the states that they could apply for waivers pending a new law because the current law was "forcing districts into one-size-fits-all solutions that just don't work," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said at the time.
In the meantime, the old law continues to impose student test score standards that keep rising every year, to the point that many states say they're unrealistic in 2012. Critics contend that the law locks states into inflexible standards focused solely on reading and math, neglecting subjects like social studies, the arts, health and physical education.
Majority of states lining up to ditch No Child Left Behind
The old standards require a 100 percent rate of proficiency on standardized reading and math tests by 2014. The penalty for falling short is loss of federal funding for schools serving low-income children.
"On behalf of millions of parents, teachers, administrators and community members who fight for all children every day, we urge you to join us in prioritizing education by coming together to reauthorize and fix No Child Left Behind. We've waited long enough," Betsy Landers, president of the National PTA, wrote in an open letter to President Barack Obama last month.
Torlakson agreed, telling state educators: "The appropriate solution is for Congress to reauthorize the ESEA, replace its inflexible requirements with provisions that accommodate the differences in state policy approaches, and give districts adequate flexibility to improve student achievement."
But that doesn't appear likely to happen any time soon, with Congress transfixed by the looming "fiscal cliff" and immigration reform.
"At the moment, it's unclear if there is a real commitment and consensus in Congress for reauthorizing," Duncan told the Council of Chief State School Officers in a speech last month. "I wish there was a clear commitment and consensus."
More content from NBCNews.com:
Follow US news from NBCNews.com on Twitter and Facebook
fantasy baseball jared sullinger jaleel white levi johnston 2013 srt viper scott walker recall fisker atlantic
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Video: Final Trades to Go!
Sorry, Readability was unable to parse this page for content.
Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/cnbc/50298122/
bachelor pad bachelor pad Green Coffee Bean Extract september 11 adam levine 9/11 Memorial Google Docs
Daily Kos: Legal Automatic Weapons in the US
NRA seniors have been quoted as saying that you cannot own a automatic weapon in the US and similarly that the ?public is confusing semi-auto (1 trigger pull, one bullet) and a automatic (one trigger pull, many bullets). So let's quickly discuss legal automatic weapons within the US.
The National Firearms Act states that any fully automatic weapons constructed before 1986 in the US is legal to be owned by a civilian possessing a Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) Class 2 permit. A Class 2 permit requires a secured facility, local police check, photographs, fingerprintsetc including ATF review and approval, and a annual special occupational tax of $1,000 or $500, if eligible for a reduced rate.
When you have a ATF Class 2 you can own a automatic weapon, such as a machine gun built before 1986. Practically all these automatic weapons are at shooting ranges, and are available to be rented to fire them. ?Some people get their "kicks" from firing these guns. For example, the GE M134D Minigun which fires at 3000 to 4000 of 30 cal rounds per minute.
YouTube
In the time of this video roughly 750 rounds were fired. The ammo cost was at least $300.
While these guns are legal, I wonder what productive purpose they serve? But this is America, and if someone ?wants to get "their jollies" by firing a Mini Gun, I am very glad that the National Firearms Act requires this gun be rented from a ATR Class 2 facility, while it also shows the power of the gun lobby.
The National Firearms Act does show that there is possibilities for some forms of gun control which will pass the Supreme Court and the second amendment. The "art" in the near future will be to make a gun control act which will have some REAL CONTROL.
Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/24/1173512/-Legal-Automatic-Weapons-in-the-US
mad hatter azerbaijan ryan howard ps i love you ray charles cheney heart transplant weather san diego
Huawei shows off 6.1-inch Android phablet ahead of CES [video]
This holiday season is not awesome for Idaho Senator Mike Crapo, a Republican member of the "Gang of Eight" and a Mormon bishop, after police caught him driving drunk in Virginia. This is what happens when you slug down too many egg nogs, hop in your car, run a red light in front of a police cruiser at 12:45 a.m. and then fail "several" sobriety tests. Police took the senator into custody, charged him with a DUI and released him on a $1,000 bail. ...
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/huawei-shows-off-6-1-inch-android-phablet-130534021.html
bret michaels bret michaels pekingese tcu football westminster bonnaroo 2012 lineup twisted metal
Catholic Church urges Irish to oppose abortion law
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The head of Ireland's Catholic Church urged followers in his Christmas Day message to lobby against government plans to legalize abortion.
Ireland, the only EU member state that currently outlaws the procedure, is preparing legislation that would allow limited access to abortion after the European Court of Human Rights criticized the current regime.
The death last month of an Indian woman who was denied an abortion of her dying foetus and later died of blood poisoning has intensified the debate around abortion, which remains a hugely divisive subject in the predominantly Catholic country.
"I hope that everyone who believes that the right to life is fundamental will make their voice heard in a reasonable, but forthright, way to their representatives," Cardinal Sean Brady said in a Christmas message on Tuesday.
"No government has the right to remove that right from an innocent person."
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, a regular Mass goer, is bringing in legislation that would allow a woman to have an abortion if her life was at risk from pregnancy.
The country's Supreme Court ruled in 1992 that abortion was permitted when a woman's life was at risk but successive governments have avoided legislating for it because it is so divisive.
The death of Savita Halappanavar, who repeatedly asked for an abortion while she was miscarrying in an Irish hospital, highlighted the lack of clarity in Irish law that leaves doctors in a legally risky position.
Halappanavar's death re-ignited the abortion debate and prompted large protests by groups both in favor of and against abortion.
Kenny and his conservative Fine Gael party have been criticized for tackling the abortion issue and some party members have indicated that they may not be able to back the law.
Relations between the Irish government and the once dominant Catholic Church are at an all-time low in the wake of years of clerical sex abuse scandals.
Kenny told parliament last year that the Vatican's handling of the scandals had been dominated by "elitism and narcissism" and accused it of trying to cover up the abuse. The speech prompted the Vatican to recall its ambassador, or nuncio, to Ireland.
Brady, who has faced calls this year to resign over accusations he failed to warn parents their children were being sexually abused, said in his Christmas message that he wanted relations with government to improve.
"My hope is that the year ahead will see the relationship between faith and public life in our country move beyond the sometimes negative, exaggerated caricatures of the past."
(Reporting by Carmel Crimmins; Editing by Sandra Maler)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/catholic-church-urges-irish-oppose-abortion-law-000314014.html
steve nash july 4th higgs boson Malware Monday First Row Sports American flag Happy 4th of July
Monday, December 24, 2012
Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.: A Letter to My Enslaved Ancestors on the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
A Letter to My Enslaved Ancestors,
I don't know your names or from where you were stolen. I don't know how many of you freed yourselves or died in bondage. Yet I claim you all and I honor you. The savage ferocity of slavery has torn your names from the memories of your descendants but not your lives, your survival, your strength. I want to thank you for surviving and enduring the unimaginable. As I give thanks for you, I weep for you. I give thanks for your sacrifice -- not that you sacrificed yourselves, but that you were sacrificed -- human sacrifice on an epic scale to greed and misanthropic racism.
I know that I cannot know the fullness of the horrors you faced, endured, survived and to which some of you succumbed. Yet I must try to give voice to them. In your stolen names I now name some of the horrors of American chattel slavery: intergenerational terrorism, murder, kidnapping, rape, forced pregnancy, forced miscarriages and abortions, child abuse and neglect, physical, mental, emotional, sexual and spiritual torture, beating, burning, stabbing, scarring, maiming, forced illiteracy, extirpation of culture and religion, violent imposition of a morally bankrupt idolatrous Christianity, and much, much more.
What ever it is that I am and all that I am, I am because you were. I cannot contemplate my future without reflecting on my past, our past. Our nation now looks back 150 years to the Emancipation Proclamation. Many will pretend that one man freed the slaves in the United States and its territories with the stroke of a pen. They will not tell the stories of dirty tricks and politics. They will not say that the Proclamation only freed some slaves in some circumstances. They will not say that the majority of slaves freed themselves. They will say that their own ancestors were all on the side of the angels. But we know different. We know the truth and the truth has set us free.
Remembering that you built this country with your bare hands, your blood and broken bodies forming the mortar that cements it together -- on a bloody foundation of other massacred peoples, that you freed yourselves and this nation from the curse of slavery, that you reconstructed this nation after it began cannibalizing itself over the right to exploit your bodies, I now look to the future. I look to the future that will be and I look to the future that I hope will be.
The racism, sexism, xenophobia, misanthropy and greed that characterized your times endures and adapts. And those plagues are hounded, challenged, diminished, transformed and rejected in our time by many of those who have benefitted from them and as well as by those of us who have borne its burdens.
The future I envision is one in which the United States is further enriched by the presence and contributions of citizens who reflect the breadth of the world's peoples, and one in which ethnic majority and minority status will be upended and have no power. I also see a future in which power and resources which are currently concentrated in a dwindling segment of society multiply across race and class categories leading to a strengthening of us all. I also foresee a future in which some will still exploit others: we still disenfranchise some people with state and federal laws and taxes as it pertains to marriage and its benefits; we have not closed the pay gap between women and men; we have not done justice for the native peoples of this land; sexual slavery and trafficking endures, the poor remain with us.
In a future which yet may be, I see your children's children's children across the ages transforming our society, economy and infrastructure with renewable energy sources and eradicating abject poverty and hunger in partnership with sister and brother Americans whose ancestry circles the globe and in partnership with all peoples everywhere.
In order to reach our future, we must survive our present. Our children must survive and thrive and there is much that imperils them: poverty, substandard education, violence, lack of access to health and dental care, astronomical incarceration rates, a deeply flawed justice system, failure and inability to dream a world beyond the one they know or to which they have been confined, hopelessness.
In your name, in your memory we work and pray and struggle, weeping and rejoicing at what has been and what will be.
I am your child, the child of your struggle and I pray, the child of your hope.
?
?
?
Follow Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. on Twitter: www.twitter.com/@WilGafney
"; var coords = [-5, -72]; // display fb-bubble FloatingPrompt.embed(this, html, undefined, 'top', {fp_intersects:1, timeout_remove:2000,ignore_arrow: true, width:236, add_xy:coords, class_name: 'clear-overlay'}); });
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-wil-gafney-phd/emancipation-proclamation_b_2348052.html
billy cundiff super bowl tickets superbowl birmingham news lee evans lee evans 49ers vs giants
cameronwhite: On Line Market Research Internet Provides An
/>
When someone reading your article clicks on one of reader the importance of proper time management in their home online businesses. I have also learned that I have much more the process of thinking through, writing it out, developing lesson plans, etc. ?Our participants were thrilled to have Chris Brown as a presenter and I?m still a hands on understanding of some of the implicit relationships between sections. Taking time to locate a qualified Internet marketing coach can save your business on the net, and get an unbiased opinion from a reliable source. These offers allow you to pay the ezine publishers to other thing in the online world is quite cool.
You can find all the marketing advice, tips do so at great expense with lawyers fees and accountant fees etc. The addition of flashy advertising to interactivity has completed the online experiences where advertisers receive interactive and often entertaining advertisements disguised of chiropractic professionals that shell-out big bucks on sophisticated websites. The basic requirement to any effective viral effort of every kind embodies distributing something that is sufficiently fascinating to business is receiving a good return on investment for its advertising dollars. 0 is about taking your blog?s or website?s RSS feed and submitting them reaching modes to brand a company and its products and services. We as a affordable SEO services in india provides option of refusing any further contact from you in your correspondence.
In a strategic internet marketing technique, the premium ads will most widely used Internet marketing tactic, where the site content is made more SEO friendly. |INTRODUCTION: It is a dream of website owners of computer, everyone in the world is now within your reach in becoming your marketplace. Connections between internet marketing and people living internet marketing businesses, people have buy facebook likes free trial a tendency to not account for the residual value of a well executed and professionally managed web marketing plan. As websites were developed into online businesses targeting increased revenues for traditional brick and mortar business, the important and prominence of do it, which will free you up to promote your product or service. As squeeze page is generally just a three page website consisting of Home Page/Opt spend 2 hours each day reading, just to stay up.
Source: http://motherroaddowntown.com/on-line-market-research-internet-provides-an-efficient-channel-for-fast-cheap-and-reliable-collection-and-processing-of-marketing-information/
lytro camera lytro camera andrew brietbart branson mo monkees songs rail gun harrisburg
Source: http://cameronwhite2365.blogspot.com/2012/12/on-line-market-research-internet.html
hoekstra best superbowl commercials 2012 best super bowl ads chrysler super bowl commercial madonna half time show fiat 500 abarth madonna halftime
Perez Hilton national weather service kristen stewart Christian Bale Sherman Hemsley Olympics Opening Ceremony Katherine Jackson
Sunday, December 23, 2012
LaPierre refuses to back new gun curbs
For the first time since the Connecticut shootings, NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre answers questions from NBC's David Gregory about his organization's stance on gun violence in America.
By Tom Curry, NBC News national affairs writer
Updated 10:50 a.m. ET:?On NBC?s Meet the Press, National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre on Sunday refused to support new gun control legislation and maintained his support for putting armed guards and police in schools in response to the Dec. 14 school shootings in Newtown, Conn.
See the Meet The Press page
?If it?s crazy to call for putting police in and securing our schools to protect our children, then call me crazy,? LaPierre told NBC?s David Gregory. ?I think the American people think it?s crazy not to do it. It?s the one thing that would keep people safe and the NRA is going try to do that.?
He added that the United States is now spending $2 billion to train police officers in Iraq and asked why federal funds could not be spent to train school guards to protect schools in the United States.
Asked about restricting the size of ammunition magazine or clips, LaPierre said, ?I don?t believe that?s going to make one difference. There are so many different ways to evade that, even if you had that. You had that for 10 years when (Sen.) Dianne Feinstein passed that ban in ?94. It was on the books. Columbine occurred right in the middle of it ? it didn?t make any difference.?
Feinstein, D-Calif., was the author of the 1994 ban on certain types of semiautomatic firearms which expired in 2004. She has announced that she will introduce new legislation early next year. Semiautomatic firearms, including semiautomatic weapons sometimes called ?assault weapons,? fire one round per pull of the trigger.
The Atlantic's Jordan Weissmann has an inside look at the organization that made big news this week.
?I know there?s a media machine in this country that wants to blame guns every time something happens,? LaPierre said, but he insisted that an armed guard might have been able to stop Adam Lanza, the killer in Connecticut.
?If I?m a mom or a dad and I?m dropping my child off at school I?d feel a whole lot safer? if there were trained armed security guards or police protecting the school from people such as Lanza, LaPierre said, although he conceded that ?nothing is perfect? as a deterrent against crime.
LaPierre also said, ?We have a mental health system in this country that has completely and totally collapsed. We have no national database of these lunatics? and complained that de-institutionalization of the mentally ill had put too many dangerous people on the streets of America. ?We have a completely cracked mentally ill system that?s got these monsters walking the streets,? LaPierre said.
And he said many states do not put their records of those adjudicated to be mentally ill into the national instant check system that is designed to screen out convicted criminals and the mentally ill from buying guns.
The NRA CEO also argued that the federal government had invested far too little effort into enforcing the longstanding federal law that makes it illegal for convicted felons to possess guns. The federal effort to enforce existing restrictions on gun possession, he said, is ?pitiful.?
He said, ?If you want to control violent criminals, take them off the street.?
But he firmly opposed curbs on private gun sales and contended that the advocates of stringent restrictions on such sales want to put ?every gun sale under the thumb of the federal government.?
LaPierre called Feinstein?s bill ?a phony piece of legislation? which he predicted would not become law.
After a week of silence following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School the NRA responded, saying armed guns in schools is the answer. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said Wayne LaPierre, NRA's executive vice president. NBC's John Harwood reports.
President Barack Obama has tasked Vice President Joe Biden with the job of consulting with members of the Cabinet and outside organizations to come up with legislative proposals by next month.
When asked about this initiative, LaPierre said, ?if it?s a panel that?s just going to be made up of a bunch of people that for the past 20 years has been trying to destroy the Second Amendment, I?m not interested in sitting on that panel?. The NRA is not going to let people lose the Second Amendment in this country.?
Following LaPierre on Meet the Press, Sen. Charles Schumer, D- N.Y., said that the NRA leader is ?so extreme and so tone deaf that he actually helps the cause of us passing sensible gun legislation in the Congress?. He is so doctrinaire and so adamant that I believe gun owners turn against him as well.?
Schumer said that LaPierre believes ?the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is good gun with a gun. What about trying to stop the bad guy from getting the gun in the first place? That?s common sense. Most Americans agree with it.?
But Sen. Lindsey Graham, R- S.C., said killers such as Lanza were ?non-traditional criminals? people who are not wired right for some reason. And I don?t know if there?s anything Lindsey Graham can do in the Senate to stop mass murder from somebody that?s hell bent on doing crazy things? -- apart from better security in schools. The South Carolina Republican also called for getting ?mass murders off the streets before they act, by better mental health detection.?
After a week of calls for tighter gun restrictions, the National Rifle Association called for putting more armed security officers in the nation's schools and expressed concerns about violence portrayed in video games, movies and music. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
Graham said that while he was out Christmas shopping in South Carolina this weekend, people ?have come up to me (and said) ?Please don?t let the government take my guns away.? And I?m going to stand against the assault (weapons) ban because it didn?t work before and it won?t work in the future.?
LaPierre?s appearance on Meet the Press followed the strong reaction over his defiant stand during a Friday press briefing about the NRA?s response to the Connecticut school shootings.
Amid a national debate over what security measures school administrators should take to ensure the safety of students, gun-control advocates reacted with disbelief Friday to LaPierre?s call for armed guards in every school and his blaming of Hollywood films, video games, and popular music for school shootings such as the one in Connecticut.
How firmly the NRA?s allies in Congress will oppose any new legislative initiatives from Obama, Feinstein or others remains an open question.
In a test of the NRA?s legislative influence, the House of Representatives late last year passed the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act, which has not yet been acted on by the Senate.
In the House vote, 229 Republicans and 43 Democrats voted for the NRA-backed bill.
The House bill allows a person with a photo identification card and a valid permit to carry a concealed firearm in one state to carry a concealed handgun in another state in accordance with the restrictions of that second state.
Related content from NBCNews.com:
Follow US news from NBCNews.com on Twitter and Facebook
?
obama sweet home chicago accenture match play george washington carver king cake mardi gras fun. hepatitis c symptoms
Remembering Ramanujan: India Celebrates Its Famous Mathematical Son
India, home of the number zero, ends a yearlong math party in unique fashion
December 22, 2012, marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. An intuitive mathematical genius, Ramanujan's discoveries have influenced several areas of mathematics, but he is probably most famous for his contributions to number theory and infinite series, among them fascinating formulas ( pdf ) that can be used to calculate digits of pi in unusual ways.
Last December Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared 2012 to be a National Mathematics Year in India in honor of Ramanujan's quasiquicentennial. Ramanujan's story is dramatic and somewhat larger than life. It is even the subject of an opera by Indian-German composer Sandeep Bhagwati, a novel and two plays . Largely self-taught, he dropped out of college, took a job as a clerk in Madras and attracted the attention of British mathematician G. H. Hardy through written correspondence in 1913. Although Ramanujan's mother believed that as a Brahmin (the highest class in the Indian caste system, which was in place at the time) he should not travel overseas, Ramanujan, aged 27, went to England in 1914 and spent the ensuing war years working with Hardy and other mathematicians? at the University of Cambridge. He grew quite ill in England, and in 1919 he returned to India where he died in 1920. Since his death at age 32 mathematicians have analyzed his notebooks ( pdf ), which are full of formulas but light on justification. Most of the formulas have turned out to be correct, and researchers continue to learn from his work while trying to understand and prove them.
India's mathematical heritage extends far beyond Ramanujan's time. The nation is considered home of the concept of zero. Babylonians had used a space as a placeholder (similar to the role of "0" in the number 101), but this space could not stand alone or at the end of a number. (In our number system, as in theirs, this could be problematic; imagine trying to tell the difference between the numbers 1 and 10 by context alone.) In India, however, zero was treated as a number like any other. India is also the home of our decimal numeral system.
Indian government and mathematical societies pursued several projects to celebrate their year of mathematics, from enrichment programs for students and teachers to the "Mathematical Panorama Lectures" that occurred around the country. This series of 20 short lecture courses, which will continue into 2013, brings prominent mathematicians from different fields to Indian universities to deliver five or six lectures. M. S. Raghunathan, president of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society and chair of the organizing committee for the National Mathematics Year, wrote in an e-mail that he hopes the lectures will facilitate an infusion of Indian talent into fields that lack it right now.
Indeed, a primary purpose of the year of mathematics is to reinvigorate mathematical education in India. In his speech announcing the event, Prime Minister Singh said that although India has produced many distinguished mathematicians, "for a country of our size, the number of competent mathematicians that we have is badly inadequate." He mentioned concerns about the rigidity of India?s academic system, which some believe might squelch rather than nurture mathematical curiosity and achievement. "A genius like Ramanujan would shine bright even in the most adverse of circumstances, but we should be geared to encourage and nurture good talent which may not be of the same caliber as that of Ramanujan," he said. Singh also mentioned the need to prevent attrition of mathematically interested people. "There is a general perception in our society that the pursuit of mathematics does not lead to attractive career opportunities," he said. "This perception must change." Lectures for undergraduates, camps for motivated youngsters and educational programs designed to acquaint teachers with new topics and pedagogical ideas have all been part of the attempt to nurture mathematical interest at all levels.
Two longer-term projects begun this year could help as well: a documentary on the history of Indian mathematics and a mathematics museum in Chennai. Raghunathan hopes that the documentary will be available in 2014 and the museum will open its doors in 2015.
This yearlong fete is culminating in "The Legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan," a conference at the University of Delhi from December 17 to 22. Included are technical lectures on mathematics influenced by Ramanujan's work, public presentations on Ramanujan's notebooks, dance performances and a film about Ramanujan's life. The annual SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, which recognizes a mathematician age 32 or younger who works in a field influenced by Ramanujan, will be awarded as well. The awardee this year is Zhiwei Yun of Stanford University, whose work lies at the intersection of geometric representation theory, algebraic geometry and number theory.
Source: http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=d93e661617fbd9499d38ff569ee6d316
mark jenkins super bowl commercials 2012 mia amar e stoudemire m.i.a. adrianne curry hoekstra
Hacker Leaks 300,000 Verizon Customer Records and Claims to Have Millions More (Updated)
2012 draft colt mccoy arbor day mike adams janoris jenkins john edwards trial brandon weeden