Prerequisite: HIS218H1 or HPS316H1

Distribution Requirements: Humanities

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3) HIS476H1 - Senior Thesis Previous Course Number: HIS476Y1

Hours: 24S Compulsory for all Specialists undertaking a one-year dissertation. History Specialists only. Students must find topics and thesis supervisors. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. See department website for prerequisites and specific registration instructions. Prerequisite: HIS475H1 and consent of supervisor and department

Exclusion: HIS476Y1, HIS498H1, HIS499Y1

Distribution Requirements: Humanities

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3) HIS482H1 - Soccer: The History of the World's Game Previous Course Number: HIS199H1

Hours: 24S This seminar proposes to explore the history of the world's most popular sport, soccer, in broader political, social, and economic context. We will consider critical approaches to the history of sport; modern soccer's emergence in industrializing Britain; its globalization; its mobilization asIN THE AFTERMATH of Golden State's Monday rout of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Steve Kerr said, "I thought Steph [Curry] was great. His energy was great, and he set the tone. I love that he took 20 shots." Then, the money phrase: "When he's aggressive, we go."

As Kerr spoke, Klay Thompson leaned against the wall of the crowded media room, dressed in cat-burglar black, hidden between media members, fidgeting and fiddling with his phone. It wasn't clear whether Klay, who makes occasional trips to Klay World, was paying any attention at all. But after he took the stage, he was strictly on message. "I love that he took 20 shots," Thompson said of Curry. "When he's aggressive, we go."

When he's aggressive, we go.

Maybe that's the new mantra, or maybe


it's just how the Warriors have learned to discuss an uncomfortable truth -- that today's Steph just isn't as dynamic as last year's Steph.

Curry has produced one signature moment this season when he set the record for 3-pointers in a game, sinking 13 against the New Orleans Pelicans. It was the exception that proved the rule, an evocation of how he used to thrill on a regular basis last season. And in February, following the hype of last season's All-Star weekend, Curry obliterated a tough, six-game road trip in what was essentially his opus: scoring 229 points in 205 minutes, sinking an unfathomable 43 3-pointers. He averaged 43.8 points over the final four of those games, a stretch that included yet another half-court shot in Orlando and culminatedin a 46-point (including 12 mostly impossible 3-pointers) performance in Oklahoma City. That game ended with an iconic game winner, casually slung from a spot parallel to the lip of the Thunder logo at half court.

Nobody else was trying this stuff, let alone in the highest-leverage moments, let alone actually succeeding at it.

Just last winter he was redefining everything. His pregame rituals were events, in part because they seemed like windows into a laboratory for a wholly new way of doing basketball. "He's this generation's Jordan," said Jason Kidd. "We all wanted to be like Mike, and children today will grow up seeing Steph." Kevin Garnett declared, "Like Michael Jordan was a whole other thing, this guy is his own thing. It's beautiful for basketball."

Coming off an embarrassing


NBA Finals collapse, but with Kevin Durant in tow, the Warriors remained as talked-about as ever, just not because of the guy who drove 90 percent of the interest in their ascent. A man who drew Jordan comparisons from future Hall of Famers suddenly found himself in the backseat of a car he built.

Early in the season, the Warriors obsessed over making Durant comfortable. Curry participated in that project, starting with the free-agency recruitment meeting, after which Curry texted Durant that he couldn't care less who was the face of the franchise, who got the most recognition or who sold the most shoes.

By his own admission, Curry tried to defer from the first moments of training camp. For Durant, it was a process that went about as seamlesslyas his "I DO ME, AND I CHILL" Twitter bio would indicate. From the beginning, Warriors KD looked pretty much exactly like Thunder KD. He glided into his shots with customary command, scoring with ease from every angle. He was virtuosic from Day 1, filling in whatever voids Golden State might have on a given night. Whether it was passing, rim protection or fast breaks that end in the meanest Euro-step this side of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Durant excelled at every skill, literally all of them. Well, maybe not literally all of them (more on that later).

Though the focus of scrutiny, Durant appeared unburdened. Victories were toasted with cool Coors Lights. Kerr's Warriors believe in having fun; wins can leave visiting locker rooms strewn with more recyclable materials than


a grocery store parking lot. It's an ethos that resonates with Durant, who often notes that basketball doesn't approximate life. With a spartan basketball culture in the rearview, KD was living his.

There was a hiccup here or there, but the Warriors were rolling, and having a blast. The two-time reigning MVP just hadn't quite joined the party. Curry, who'd seized command of the NBA zeitgeist for a couple of seasons, was now playing decently, but he was restrained in approach and too often contained in impact. Everything was going fine, but something wasn't clicking. When asked about Curry's drop-off, the favored Kerr phrase was, "He set the bar so high."

It carries some truth, in that Curry did submit one of the greatest offensive seasons in league history. Butthis season.

"We do a lot of stuff off the ball," Kerr said. "So obviously with KD's arrival, the dynamics changed a little bit. So, Steph has the ball a little less this year. So does KD." Christian Petersen/Getty Images

Fissures had been forming. Genial Steph was noticeably frustrated with the state of affairs, perhaps more so than he'd ever been in the Kerr era. He played poorly overall on Christmas -- 15 points on 36 percent shooting -- and had barely touched the ball down the stretch. In the final four minutes, Curry took as many shots as Cavs role player Richard Jefferson (one). Though it was a regular-season game, Kerr elected to sub Curry out on the last defensive possession for the taller and longer Shaun Livingston. It


was an understandable move to thwart a LeBron James pick-and-roll aimed directly at Curry, but it amplified the embarrassment. Steph's head was in his hands as Kyrie Irving hit the game winner over Thompson.

Curry's reputation was taking a beating, and the Warriors didn't appear substantially more assured of a title than they would've been with last season's squad. The wooing of Durant wasn't like Miami's super-team formation, which arose out of LeBron and Dwyane Wade's deep friendship. Curry and Durant got along just fine, but Curry simply went along with the pursuit of KD -- it wasn't something he concocted. He'd been a good soldier by accepting what was right for the franchise, by abruptly leaving his basketball camp to fly to the Hamptons. For this, his rewardhad been a diminished reputation, offensive marginalization and little outward, organizational praise for the sacrifice.

"I think Steph has probably had the biggest adjustment of all of our players from Kevin's arrival."

A week later, still in the wake of the fourth-quarter Christmas collapse, Kerr finally conceded that the biggest adjustment had not been Durant's, after all. "I think Steph has probably had the biggest adjustment of all of our players from Kevin's arrival," he told the attending media. On the season, Curry's usage rate remains slightly higher than Durant's -- 28.9 compared to 27.6. But when Curry's was at 32.6 last season, the Warriors set a new NBA wins record.

A few days after Christmas, Curry spoke up about the state of affairs. "I definitely want to be in more


slightly from last season's rate of 18.8. On the season, he has seen 19.6 screens per game; 25 starting point guards have seen more. The team has scored only 1.09 points per play, which is 20th in the league. Hence, Curry's public and private frustration.

But since that Christmas Day loss, the story has changed. Per SportVU data, the Warriors have bumped up the screens that the reigning MVP sees to 23.4 per game, and the team's scoring average has ballooned to 1.16 points per play, which would rank fourth best over a full season. Curry has nearly doubled his scoring average out of the pick-and-roll, from 4.9 through Christmas Day to 8.4 since.

Adding the 2014 MVP into the mix was supposed to launch the Warriors' offense into anotherthat's not an indictment of referees," Kerr explained of the strategic shift. "Look at the last play of the Cleveland game on Christmas. League comes out, and says, 'Oh yeah, he got tripped.' If that's in the middle of the game, they call that. If that's at the end of the game, they don't. There's not as much freedom of movement late in games."

Whether it's late or early, the Warriors' best screen-and-rolls involve Green, which is fine for involving Golden State's occasional squeaky wheel. Here's the issue: It relegates at least one MVP to the periphery. That worked for the Warriors when they blitzed the Phoenix Suns late on Nov. 13 at Oracle. Durant hung around the corner, acting as a highly overqualified Harrison Barnes, as the Warriors


playing the Angels, one of the teams they beat in the playoffs.

In other words: They could have traded for Roy Halladay if (a) they weren't paying Torii Hunter so damn much and (b) they had prospects to offer.

They have karma: Owner Arte Moreno has nearly tripled the value of his franchise over what he paid for it without jacking up ticket prices or holding out for a new stadium when the old one didn't need to be replaced. He's also rarely quoted in the media, which is a breath of fresh air from the perspective of someone in a sports market where the NHL team's owner can't shut his yap.

Free Napster: It's always tempting to think what power numbers Mike Napoli would put up if he wasn't catchingat some point Rodney will be promoted to the closer's role. Better yet, there's the younger option, Kevin Jepsen.

History might be repeating itself: The Angels had a run of good teams in the 1980s followed by some lean years since they focused on free agents and trades. In 2010, they're coming into a somewhat shaky season. Their only representation among Baseball Prospectus' top 50 prospects is 18-year-old outfielder Mike Trout, who is starting the season in single-A (which is actually amazing for someone who graduated high school less than 12 months ago).

Slight revision: Second baseman Howie Kendrick is still a batting title waiting to happen. It would just have to be a National League batting title with a team which is too bad to care about secondary skills


out the second pitch? Former outfielder Tim Salmon (he was in the California/Anaheim era) is throwing out the first ball on Opening Day. He is second on the Angels' all-time list in on-base percentage and slugging percentage behind a couple guys named Carew and Guerrero.

Nothing beats a good hate-on: Angels fans hate going to Dodger Stadium more than Ottawa Senators fans hate having Leafs and Canadiens fans take over Scotiabank Place.

The other oldish ballplayer from New Brunswick: Former Angels all-star pitcher Jason Dickson is making a comeback in the New Brunswick Senior Baseball League. He's actually five years younger than fellow New Brunswickian Matt Stairs.

What are these bases on balls you speak of? The Angels drew just 547 walks last season, 101 from the departed Figgins. The rubPittsburgh – Haley 24 interception return (Michaels kick)
 Pittsburgh – Dial 4 pass from Brown (Michaels kick)

Week 7 (Sunday October 27, 1963): Dallas Cowboys

at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 Game time:
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 Game attendance: 19,047
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Scoring Drives:

 Dallas – Clarke 5 pass from Meredith (Baker kick)
 Dallas – Folkins 35 pass from Meredith (Baker kick)
 Pittsburgh – Dial 83 pass from Browns (kick failed)
 Dallas – Howton 13 pass from Meredith (Baker kick)
 Pittsburgh – Dial 25 pass from Brown (Tracy kick)
 Pittsburgh – Dial 14 pass from Brown (Tracy kick)
 Pittsburgh – Mack 85 pass from Brown (Michaels kick)

Week 8 (Sunday November 3, 1963): Green Bay Packers

at Milwaukee County Stadium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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interest rates. That includes taking on crazy amounts of risk, or investing in complex products they don't understand, in the hope of higher yields. The Fed is producing a bull market in scams, Ponzi schemes and associated rackets.

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently warned about an epidemic of bogus high-yield "corporate promissory notes" being marketed to investors by scam artists.

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The Wall Street Journal's Jason Zweig highlighted the woes of those sold complex "reverse convertibles," a legal but complicated product with embedded risks. Eric Lewis, chief investment officer of Bedrock Capital Management in Los Altos, Calif., suggestscompetitive world of wheelchair rugby - a sport in which players don gladiator-style wheelchairs built to withstand crunching impacts and frequent roll-overs. The welded-together chairs look like contraptions out of Mad Max, and the men inside them seem well-suited for that post-apocalyptic environment despite their disabilities. Most laypeople think "quadriplegic" means "completely paralyzed," but it simply indicates some loss of movement in all four limbs. As these competitors prove, you can do a lot with limited mobility.

The film's sports angle is highly involving: After introducing us to the game's rules, it sets up a bitter rivalry in which one star, a hot-headed, unbelievably competitive man who gets kicked off the U.S.A. team, defects to become the Canadian team's coach. What's worse, he leads the Canucks to defeat the


longtime-champion Americans. Understandably, his old teammates hold a grudge, and the filmmakers follow as they take the rivalry to the Paralympics. (The Paralympics, not to be confused with the Special Olympics, are an offshoot of the official Olympics for athletes with physical disabilities; held in the same facilities after the main attraction has ended, the Games draw some amazing talent.)

On another front, Murderball affords a fascinating look at what it's like to suffer a spinal-cord injury. The rugby team's players talk frankly about every aspect of their lives, from dealing with a curious public to re-learning how to have sex, and we see how near-death accidents affect friendships and family dynamics. (We get more backstory on the charismatic Austinite Mark Zupan, whose best friend was driving drunk whenfrom the previous owner. He had bought the house a year prior for about $7,500 (yes, seventy-five hundred), because it had sat abandoned and condemned for about eight years. It was an eyesore. My neighbors have all confirmed that much for me. Inside was supposedly just as much a disaster, though you wouldn't know it now since he pretty much gutted and rehabbed it. Clearly he didn't rehab the attic, though. Anyways, one of the things he said while we were commenting on the cute kitchen the first time we saw it, was that we should have seen it before! It was weird, he told us. There was writing on the walls and stuff. Someone had written "All Men Must Die!" on one of the walls. On another


endangered Karner blue butterfly. The APBP is a National Natural Landmark, Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area Site, a New York State Unique Area, Bird Conservation Area and a National Audubon Society Important Bird Area. Characterized by rolling sand dunes and miles of trails, the APBP offers visitors many recreational opportunities including hiking, bird watching, cross-country skiing, horseback riding, mountain biking, hunting, fishing and canoeing. The Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission is a public-private partnership created by the NYS Legislature in 1988 to protect and manage the APBP and provide the public with educational and recreational opportunities.

As the gateway to the Pine Bush, the Discovery Center is a state-of-the-art “green” certified interpretive center where visitors come to understand why the Pine Bush is rare and special. A visitto support these rare and wonderful creatures.”

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The 3,300+ – acre Albany Pine Bush Preserve (APBP), located in New York’s Capital District, protects one of the best remaining inland pitch-pine scrub oak barrens in the world. This extraordinary fire-dependent ecosystem provides habitat for many plants and animals and supports 75 New York State-designated wildlife Species of Greatest Conservation Need, including the endangered Karner blue butterfly. The APBP is a National Natural Landmark, Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area Site, a New York State Unique Area, Bird Conservation Area and a National Audubon Society Important Bird Area. Characterized by rolling sand dunes and miles of trails, the APBP offers visitors many recreational opportunities including hiking, bird watching, cross-country skiing, horseback riding, mountain biking, hunting,


evaluate their opinions about the pros and cons Wakanda's secrecy.

Should Wakanda, as literally the most advanced nation in the world, make their presence known in order to help the rest of us?

Or should they remain in their protective bubble, flourishing year after year as the world continues to slide into chaos?

Killmonger, nephew of the former Wakandan King T'Chaka, was playing basketball on the court below his Oakland apartment the night T'Chaka killed his father N'Jobu. Prince N'Jobu, serving as a spy in the United States, had grown frustrated with his brother's policies of ignoring the plights of black people suffering through the ongoing racism of the 1970's, in the aftermath of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.

His intention was to steal vibranium—Wakanda's most valuableresource and the strongest substance in the universe—and sell it to an arms dealer, Ulysses Klaue, in exchange for weapons to use in his growing resistance movement.

Learning of his brother's plans (via a second spy named Zuri), King T'Chaka was less than amused and turned up unannounced at Prince N'Jobu's apartment. His intention was to take the prince back home to stand trial, but this worked out as one might expect—N'Jobu resisted and attempted to murder Zuri for betraying him. Choosing to protect Zuri instead of his own brother, T'Chaka killed N'Jobu... and left.

Thus we set the origins of the young boy who would be king.

Little Erik, who'd spent his young life in an impoverished and violent town of northern California, was abandoned by his uncle King T'Chaka,


sown by T'Chaka himself—had a good cause to grow into a vengeful zealot.

Are Erik Killmonger's Dreams Evil... or Enlightened?

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Killmonger grew up obsessed with not only avenging his father but seeing N'Jobu's plan enforced. But not by stealing vibranium piecemeal from Wakanda, that's small potatoes. No, Killmonger's goal was to train himself by any means necessary in order to prepare for a coup to seize Wakanda as his own.

Like a self-made legend, Killmonger saw himself becoming the man who would take over Wakanda and, as the new king, swiftly change their international policy and begin bringing his vision to light on a massive scale.

Big dreams for a young man and yet... he came extraordinarily close to achieving them all. But what exactly was his vision and howexactly did he hope to achieve it?

By meticulous planning, for starters...

Working for the CIA, Killmonger learned all the tools of the trade related to destabilizing governments. But he also became a master combatant, readying himself for personal combat with T'Challa himself. After T'Chaka was killed by a bomb in Vienna (in Captain America: Civil War), T'Challa became the new king, putting him in the position of having to accept challengers, as we saw at his coronation at Warrior Falls.

In the Black Panther film, we learn that Wakandan tradition allows for any tribe to put forth a challenger to the throne. Only one tribe accepts the anti-technology Jabari, so T'Challa is required to drink an herbal potion (administered by the priest Zuri, ally to the former King T'Chaka), which


temporarily strips away his enhanced strength. The challenger loses, and everyone thinks it's finished...

Enter Killmonger. Days after the coronation, Killmonger arrives on the scene with the corpse of Klaue, who'd just escaped T'Challa, Okoye (his general of the Dora Milaje) and Nakia.

After defeating T'Challa and throwing him to his presumable death, Killmonger is accepted by the tribes as their new king.

His aim is to export the advanced weapons technology of Wakanda and export it across the globe, to arm the oppressed peoples of the world so that they might band together, rise up, and create an empire over which Killmonger himself would rule. Is this a silly comic book villain plot? Yes and no.

Certainly we can see some of the "over the top" world dictator syndrome, not unlikehimself with the those tribes who believed as he did, who knew that Wakanda should be flexing their muscle and establishing themselves as not just a global superpower but THE global superpower. Wakanda wasn't just capable of helping the world. It was ready to rule it.

King Killmonger

King Killmonger

As pointed out, Killmonger is a psychopath. He wasn't setting himself up to be some benevolent dictator. His treatment of women, in particular, comes across as very disturbing if viewed as a trend.

Remember his first murder in the film is that of the female museum curator who, honestly, he had no particular reason to poison during his heist. Klaue's goons came in and shot up the others, but Killmonger personally took the time to poison this woman's coffee so she could


die at his feet. It was a cold and unnecessary move. And her only crime? She was wrong about the historical origins of certain relics on display.

Erik also shot his own girlfriend, the Bonnie to his Clyde, when Klaue held her as a temporary shield to protect himself. Upon his victory of T'Challa at Warrior Falls, it was the women who instantly fled, perhaps recognizing the danger he posed to them specifically. And in the subterranean chambers where the magical heart-shaped herbs grew, Killmonger had no qualms grabbing an old lady priest by the throat and picking her up, Darth Vader-style, to let her know in no uncertain terms that when he tells them to do something, they better get it done.

Bottom line here is that Killmonger, whoseto heal him of his mortal wounds. King T'Challa made the offer, but Killmonger refused to accept.

Dying before the setting sun, in similar fashion to the death of many heroes throughout cinematic history, Killmonger's last words were (to paraphrase) that he preferred death over a lifetime of incarceration.

He'd rather die, just as many kidnapped Africans had chosen to commit suicide by jumping overboard slave ships along the Middle Passage instead of facing the living nightmare of being a slave on some foreign soil. That's how deep Killmonger's sentiments run. Whatever else one might say about him, Erik is a true believer.

And that's the core of the issue with this character. What exactly does he believe, and what exactly was he trying to achieve? I said he was a


most heroes, California teen Hector Haveck's powers weren't caused by catastrophe. All he wanted for the summer was to get close to his Robotics classmate, Yésica. Instead "Heck" is forced to grapple with a new series of inexplicable and totally worthless abnormal abilities...abilities which quickly grow out of his control.

Meanwhile, unsettling side effects begin to manifest. Heck inadvertently bounces back and forth through time and keeps crossing into a parallel world called "Earch," whose underwater ruler Oannes is bent on merging the two worlds together, using Heck as the conduit. In our world, a secret cabal of spies and global elites are helping make the arrangements on this end, using Hector as an unwitting pawn.

Intertwining story arcs of Nikola Tesla, Godfather of the Electrical Age, and featuring cameosWinds, currents and massive whirlpools that carry warm and cold water around the ocean – known as eddies – create localised pathways or funnels for carbon to be stored.

The Southern Ocean is a sponge for carbon dioxide. Here, Australian oceanographer and Southern Ocean specialist Steve Rintoul explains how the ocean absorbs CO2. A scientist at CSIRO and the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research centre, he was interviewed in January, 2012 aboard the Australian Government's Antarctic re-supply vessel, Aurora Australis by PhD student Nick Roden.

Lead author, Dr Jean-Baptiste Sallée from British Antarctic Survey says, “The Southern Ocean is a large window by which the atmosphere connects to the interior of the ocean below. Until now we didn’t know exactly the physical processes of how carbon ends up being


explore the workings of the ocean with the help of small robotic probes – known as Argo floats. In 2002, 80 floats were deployed in the Southern Ocean to collect information on the temperature and salinity. This unique set of observations spanning 10 years has enabled scientists to investigate this remote region of the world for the first time.

The floats are just over a metre in length and dive to depths of 2km. Today, there are over 3000 floats in the oceans worldwide providing detailed information used in oceanic climate models.

The team also analysed temperature, salinity and pressure data collected from ship-based observations since the 1990s. The instrument used for this is called a CTD profiler which is a cluster of sensors taking measurements as it’s lowered deepOn the southern flank of England, buffeted by the fierce winds of the English Channel, Portsmouth has been a hub of the British Navy – and British power – since the reign of Henry VIII 500 years ago. Without Portsmouth, Britain’s empire could not have become the largest in the world.

Here, bristling with cannons, sits Lord Nelson’s flagship, the HMS Victory, which led to Britain’s triumph in the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar against the French and Spanish and thus to 100 years of British supremacy of the seas. Here, ahead of World War I, Britain built the potent Dreadnoughts that touched off a naval arms race around the world.

“Portsmouth was arguably the biggest, most advanced military industrial complex in the world,” says Jock Gardner, a naval historian with


Britain’s Ministry of Defense.

Even today, the docks at Portsmouth reflect the city’s crucial role in powering Britain. An aircraft carrier, destroyer, and frigate line up in port. Portsmouth remains the home of most of the Royal Navy’s surface fleet.

Yet the coastal city has also been subject to recurring military cuts since World War II, giving it today the feel of a living museum more than a bustling Navy town. Now one more part of its seafaring identity is vanishing: In late August the city closed its last shipbuilding facility, leaving England without the ability to produce large advanced warships.

In the grand scheme of all that is Britain, its military, its economy, and its global historic clout, this is a side note. But it’s taken on greater political andsymbolic significance in a year in which Britain is questioning its standing in the world – perhaps more than at any time since the end of World War II. Britain faces two major referendums, one of which would physically shrink its population, reduce its landmass, and put key defense capabilities at risk. The other would sever its historical ties to Europe.

Scotland is holding a vote on Sept. 18 on whether it wants to stay part of the United Kingdom, to which it has belonged for 307 years, or whether citizens will forge forward with a smaller but independent nation that secessionists argue will be more aligned with Scottish sensibilities. At the same time, amid a rise in anger at the European Union, Prime Minister David Cameron is moving


half after Christopher Columbus had established outposts in the Americas, writes Niall Ferguson in his 2003 book, “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World.”

But Britain progressively caught up and overpowered its European rivals, through prowess and piracy on the seas, a knack for copying the financial institutions pioneered by the Dutch, and through its position at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, he writes. In 1880 Britain’s share of world manufacturing production was 23 percent. In 1909 the empire stretched 12.7 million square miles across five continents, with India at its heart. “Rule, Britannia!” was the patriotic song that encapsulated the mood of the 18th and 19th centuries.

But as the 20th century dawned, attitudes about Britain’s rule hardened. It began with atrocities committed against civilians during the secondcountries. It has the world’s fifth largest military, is one of five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and has nuclear capability. It boasts the sixth largest economy. When the US needs an ally, it turns first to Britain.

There have been many moments of British unity and pride in the past half century, from the victory in the Falklands war off the coast of Argentina in 1982 to hosting the 2012 London Olympics 30 years later. But “declinism” has also been a recurring theme, from deindustrialization that began in the 1970s and turned Britain’s economy from a manufacturing economy to a services economy, to the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis.

Through it all, Britain’s leaders have continued to tout the nation’s clout in world affairs.


Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath dubbed Britain “a medium power of the first rank” in December 1970. Former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said in 1992 that Britain “punched above her weight in the world.” In November 2010, Mr. Cameron rejected the notion of decline altogether. “What I have seen in my first six months as prime minister is a nation at the center of all the big discussions,” he said.

But since then he’s had to contend with secessionist sentiments that threaten to put Britain one step further from the center of world affairs.

• • •

The Scottish Parliament, a sleek steel, oak, and granite structure, sits in the shadow of Edinburgh’s Salisbury Crags at the end of Royal Mile. On this day the glass-paneled chamber is host tomedieval stone walls and Elizabethan ramparts that has changed hands between Scotland and England for centuries. Ms. French, like many residents here, was born in Scotland but ended up on the English side of the border.

For her a “yes” vote would be a logistical disaster – and possibly a financial one. She works in the nuclear facility on the Scottish side. “I think Scotland is far better off in the union than out,” she says.

Even if Scots do vote to stay part of the UK, Britain may have to contend with emboldened regions that reject the consolidated power of Westminster. Former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in a Guardian op-ed piece in June, put it this way: “The Scots have already sunk without trace the old idea of


a three-dimensional model from the two-dimensional frames on the computer.

"We focused on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster because it is of particular interest for research into the nervous system. Unfortunately, it is particularly difficult to develop a suitable clearing method for insects, "explains Marko Pende."For the tissue to become transparent, it has to be treated with special chemicals, and in insect tissues these chemicals have always destroyed the fluorescent molecules until now." In addition, insect tissue contains chitin, which can hardly be made transparent. Also, Drosophila has particularly robust pigments in it its eyes.

The team at TU Wien (Vienna), together with the University of Vienna and the Medical University, succeeded in finding a way to make Drosophila flies completely transparent without destroying the fluorescent marker molecules. This wasthe coordinated Paris terror attacks in November.

Firefighters had to deploy three water cannons to quell the flames and the metal hull of the bus split in two.

Local mayor Didier Paillard said: "This act of premeditated vandalism could have been tragic.

"It follows an attempted homicide on a worker by a Molotov cocktail on July 22 and buildings being looted."

An investigation into the attack is currently under way.


lot of blood, sweat, and tears until you understand how to reasonably approach a very basic combat situation.

For example, in just my second battle with invaders from outer space in X-Com and in the second turn of the battle (following the first turn in which all I had accomplished was merely moving my ten man squad off an airplane onto the streets of a town overrun by aliens), eight of my soldiers were killed in a single grenade blast. Worse still, five of those eight were characters that I had managed to level up following my first encounter with aliens, in which half of my squad was sacrificed to defeat the crew of a small flying saucer. Oh, and did I mention that when characters die in X-Comaway from an interest in complicated systems and high levels of challenge) has moved us instead towards appreciating the pleasures of experiencing narrative resolution, spectacle, and the feeling of occupying game worlds. The higher premium for the game requires a game that you will want to love and take home with you, not something that makes you cry in your living room, more often than not conditioning us towards seeking only pleasure and not expecting any appreciable and acceptable level of pain.

G. Christopher Williams is a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He posts his weekly contribution to the Moving Pixels blog at PopMattersevery Wednesday. Besides also serving as Multimedia Editor at PopMatters and writing at his own blog, 8-bit confessional, he has also published


Depth) investigating the physics of faulting and has been involved in projects studying active faulting in Taiwan and in the deep mines of South Africa. He also works on regional tectonic problems in various parts of the world. His lab pursues a number of research projects in reservoir geomechanics, especially in regard to production from shale and tight gas reservoirs. He has also extended his interest in geomechanics to research on environmental problems such as the geologic sequestration of CO2 and coastal subsidence in Lousiana. His book, Reservoir Geomechanics, was published by Cambridge University Press and is now in its fifth printing. The book integrates the fields of structural geology, rock mechanics and petroleum engineering with application to problems in the oil and gas industry.The united states Of America is a corporation owned by foreign interests Seteembar 21, 2008

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Below are two articles covering the fact that, since the Act of 1871 which established the District of Columbia, we have been living under the UNITED STATES CORPORATION which is owned by certain international bankers and aristocracy of Europe and Britain.

In 1871 the Congress changed the name of the original Constitution by changing ONE WORD — and that was very significant as you will read.

Some people do not understand that ONE WORD or TWO WORDS difference in any “legal” document DO make the critical difference. But, Congress has known, and does know, this.

I’m told this corporation, established in 1871, will be cancelled by NESARA and NESARA will also restore the


ORIGINAL Constitution which assists in restoring our Constitutional Rights and the Bill of Rights and our rights as described in the Declaration of Independence.

1871, February 21: Congress Passes an Act to Provide a Government for the District of Columbia, also known as the Act of 1871*

With no constitutional authority to do so, Congress creates a separate form of government for the District of Columbia, a ten mile square parcel of land (see, Acts of the Forty-first Congress,” Section 34, Session III, chapters 61 and 62).

The act — passed when the country was weakened and financially depleted in the aftermath of the Civil War — was a strategic move by foreign interests (international bankers) who were intent upon gaining a stranglehold on the coffers and neck of America.

Congress cuta deal with the international bankers (specifically Rothschilds of London) to incur a DEBT to said bankers. Because the bankers were not about to lend money to a floundering nation without serious stipulations, they devised a way to get their foot in the door of the United States.

The Act of 1871 formed a corporation called THE UNITED STATES. The corporation, OWNED by foreign interests, moved in and shoved the original Constitution into a dustbin. With the Act of 1871, the organic Constitution was defaced — in effect vandalized and sabotage — when the title was capitalized and the word “for” was changed to “of” in the title.

* Info from yet unpublished book, “Pentimento: Freedom Revisited.” As you will see when reading, just as much of my knowledge of


players.” Then she adds:

“It was also a strategic maneuver by British and European interests (international bankers) intent on gaining a stranglehold on the coffers of America. And, because Congress knew our country was in dire financial straits, certain members of Congress cut a deal with the international bankers (in those days, the Rothschilds of London were dipping their fingers into everyone’s pie). . . . . There you have the WHY, why members of Congress permitted the international bankers to gain further control of America. . . . . .

“Then, by passing the Act of 1871, Congress formed a corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. This corporation, owned by foreign interests, shoved the organic version of the Constitution aside by changing the word ‘for’ to ‘of’ in theagainst the unpayable federal debt. They also pledged the unincorporated federal territories, national parks forests, birth certificates, and nonprofit organizations, as collateral against the federal debt. All has already been transferred as payment to the international bankers.

Unwittingly, America has returned to its pre-American Revolution, feudal roots whereby all land is held by a sovereign and the common people had no rights to hold allodial title to property. Once again, We the People are the tenants and sharecroppers renting our own property from a Sovereign in the guise of the Federal Reserve Bank. We the people have exchanged one master for another. .”


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It's been one year since the world lost Cory Monteith to a drug overdose and his family continues to struggle to cope with the loss.

Especially his parents.

While Cory's mom, Ann McGregor, broke her silence on Twitter last August to set things straight, this is the first time she's speaking out about her son's death.

In the interview with Good Morning2012 » Nationals »

The Oct 2011 Penn State cricket team Led by 21 year old Haris Mohiuddin, who had a spell of 3 over,3 wickets for 7 runs in the 2011 Midwest regional, and a very good batsman, the Penn State team is young, comprised mainly of 19, 20 & 21 year olds. One...

Shiv Chanderpaul, with Lloyd Jodah,founder & President of American College Cricket, & TV Asia’s Subhi Flying 15 hours from Bangladesh where he played in the BPL, Shiv Chanderpaul stopped briefly in New York City to met with me. Long lines and delays at Customs, and Immigration at the airport meant Shiv only had just...

The Iowa State Cyclones Cricket Club will be in uniforms at the nationals, courtesy of Coca Cola Countless times I’ve heard the


miss a beat when he ended his holdout a few days before the 2018 regular season started because his "pay me or trade me" ultimatum to the Seahawks fell on deaf ears. He had emerged as a Defensive Player of the Year candidate before fracturing his left leg, the same one he broke two years ago, in a Week 4 contest against the Cardinals. The five-time All-Pro was tied for the NFL lead with three interceptions when he got hurt.

Fortunately for Thomas, an injury in a contract year isn't a kiss of death financially anymore. The Panthers raised a lot of eyebrows by signing left tackle Matt Kalil to a five-year, $55.5 million contract with $25 million in guarantees, of which $24 million was fully guaranteed at signing,as a free agent in 2017. He got the deal after missing most of the 2016 season, his final one with the Vikings who drafted him, because of a hip problem and regressing since being named a Pro Bowl alternate as a rookie in 2012.

The Bears gave wide receiver Allen Robinson a three-year, $42 million contract with $25.2 million in guarantees at the start of free agency this year despite him tearing the ACL in his left knee during the Jaguars' 2017 season opener. Robinson was coming off a subpar 2016 campaign which could have been partially attributed to quarterback Blake Bortles' struggles.

Although Thomas turns 30 before the 2019 season starts, he was playing at a much higher level than either Kalil or Robinson were before their injuries.


quite measure up to the franchise tag recipients' respective totals. His 64 quarterback pressures (combined sacks, quarterback hurries and quarterback hits) according to PFF put him in a six-way tie for the 13th most in the NFL with Von Miller (Broncos), Geno Atkins (Bengals), Melvin Ingram (Chargers), Yannick Ngakoue (Jaguars) and Clark. Flowers had one more pressure than Lawrence and beat Clowney by five.

The ideal situation for Flowers is the teams having familiarity with him getting into a bidding war for his services. Former Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia, who is in his second year as head coach with the Lions, needs to improve Detroit's pass rush. Bob Quinn was a long-time Patriots scout and front office executive before becoming Lions general manager in 2016. Brian Flores, whoassumed Patricia's role with the Patriots after his departure, was hired as the Dolphins' head coach following New England's win over the Rams in Super Bowl LIII. Miami had trouble getting to the quarterback last season.

Contract package: $72.5 million for five years

$72.5 million for five years Overall guarantees: $40 million

$40 million Fully guaranteed at signing: $32.5 million

$32.5 million First three years: $47 million

Fowler got a chance to reinvent himself when the Rams gave the Jaguars a 2019 third-round pick and a 2020 fifth-round pick to get him at last season's trading deadline in late October. His career never quite got untracked in Jacksonville. Fowler tore his left ACL in Jacksonville's first minicamp practice a week after being the third overall pick in the 2015 draft. Although Fowler had


a career high eight sacks in 2017, the Jaguars declined to pick up their fifth-year option on him for 2019. $14.2 million was a pretty steep price for someone who operated primarily as a situational pass rusher.

Fowler wasn't a consistent pass rushing force after his arrival in Los Angeles but more than validated the trade against the Saints in the NFC Championship Game. His overtime hit on quarterback Drew Brees while he was throwing caused the interception which helped set up the game winning field goal. Fowler also tied for the Rams' postseason lead in sacks with 1.5.

It wouldn't be surprising if some team gets seduced by the potential that made Fowler an early first-round pick and his playoff performance. Not having the fifth-year option exercised may workA 36-year-old Italian man has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity and committed to the Central Mental Hospital.

Sevario Bellante admitted killing 39-year-old Tom O’ Gorman at his home in Castleknock in Dublin in January 2014, but denied the charge of murder.

The Central Criminal Court today heard that Mr O'Gorman, a freelance journalist and employee of the Iona Institute, was a good and decent man who died in a very disturbing and highly irrational way.

The jury was told that Mr O'Gorman said or did nothing to cause his death.

The defence had called for a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.

Ms Justice Margaret Heneghan had told the jury the evidence in the case pointed one way.

Bellante admitted attacking Mr O'Gorman sometime in the evening


and early hours of 11 and 12 January 2014, stabbing him with a kitchen knife and hitting him with a hand dumbbell.

There was no closing statement from the prosecution today - the only submission was made by defence counsel Sean Guerin.

He told the jury that Mr O'Gorman was a good and decent man who met his death in a very disturbing and highly irrational way and nothing he did or said could have caused his death.

Mr Guerin said how Mr O'Gorman's remains were treated then can only be seen through the lens of insanity.

Bellante, he said, had been treated for mental illness for ten years and his medication kept his illness in check. However, his medical regime changed and two to three days after his anti-psychotic medication had[Spermatogenesis in a pteridophyte. 1. First stages of the motile apparatus].
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Outlast is a survival horror video game developed and published by Red Barrels Games, a company founded by people previously involved with video games such as Prince of Persia, Assassin’s Creed,Splinter Cell and Uncharted. It was released on September 4, 2013 for Microsoft Windows and scheduled for a PlayStation 4 release on February 5, 2014.

Now, Exophase has posted the full Outlast PS4 trophy list. It goes as follows:

Bronze

Illuminated – Restore power to the Administrative Block

Flushed – Drain the Sewers

Soaked – Activate the sprinklers in the Male Ward

Emancipated – Collect the key in the Female Ward

Silver

Educated – Collect 15 documents and complete 15 recordings

Punished – Finish the game

Gold

Pulitzer – Collect all documents and complete all recordings

Lunatic – Finish the game in Insane mode

Will you be pickingof his customers. This approval was outdone by general acclaim when Scott went into the shipbuilding business. In May 1836 Scott's first seagoing ship was launched at King George Sound. A gala was organised to celebrate the launching of the Lady Stirling which was the first large ship built from local timber. Lady Ellen Stirling was not available and the ship was launched by the wife of Lieutenant Roe.

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In 1837, Scott made substantial investment in the Fremantle Whaling Company, which established a whaling station at Bathers Beach at the entrance to Fremantle Harbour. His co-investors included the Fremantle merchant John Bateman. Scott's Fremantle Whaling Company paid for a tunnel to be dug under the Round House prison by the prisoners. This tunnel went beneath the prison and linked


issue by making sure that the leaders started getting involved in the manual work, going on service calls with team members, and even coming out to inspect the mechanical room themselves. While this made workers a bit nervous at first, they soon began to see it as an opportunity to make suggestions and bring up issues directly to the leaders. This has led to the discovery of many great ideas and solutions.

When Childers gave his input, he highlighted the power of investing in your team. Show value, show appreciation, and have their backs. Employees are loyal when they feel like their leaders are loyal to them.

Additionally, Childers brought up the concept of holding on to older workers. Instead of losing them to retirement, offer them different positions withinpipeline. Continue reading →

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Eric and I got together once again for an Instigator Podcast. In this episode we discuss the Sabres decisions at the draft table, the Andrej Sekera trade and whether or not Ryan Miller or Thomas Vanek will be on the team next season. As always, we close things with plus/minus.

Eight years, $52 million. That was the deal that lured Danny Briere away from Buffalo on that fateful July day that so many hockey fans in Buffalo continue to circle back to.

Six years after signing his massive deal, Briere is set to be bought out at the age of 35 after injuries limited a few seasons in Philly and a particularly ineffective 2013 campaign made him a prime buyout candidate. As he prepares to hit


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The Syracuse Orangemen's offense relies on effective quarterback play from Ryan Nassib, and although the senior signal-caller did not make many big plays against the Pittsburgh Panthers' defense, he did enough to win the game on Friday night.

Nassib only completed 19-of-29 pass attempts for 185 yards, zero touchdowns and one interception, which is a far cry from the numbers he usually puts up on a weekly basis.

The West Chester, Pennsylvania, native did avoid turnovers for the most part though, and scrambled for a critical first down in the fourth quarter that helped the Orangemen run out the clock.

If Syracuse's defense continues to play the way it has the past two games, Nassib will just have to keep the chains moving and lead the Orangemen toa couple of touchdowns per game in order to win in the Big East Conference.

Syracuse's Offense Is Having an Identity Crisis

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The Syracuse Orangemen's no-huddle offense looked as though it would gash the Pittsburgh Panthers early on, but did not produce a single scoring drive after their first offensive possession of the evening.

Much of the troubles can be attributed to Ryan Nassib's struggles throwing the football and that forced the Orangemen to run the football a little bit more than they usually do.

At times, Jerome Smith appeared as though he could be effective on the ground and other times the Syracuse offensive line did not seem to have the talent required up front to allow the Orangemen to run the ball consistently.

Opposing teams are going to continue


Pittsburgh's defense all night, or establish a legitimate ground game to set themselves up with shorter third downs.

Devin Street Is Just Getting Warmed Up for Pittsburgh

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After failing to haul in more than five passes in any of the Pittsburgh Panthers' first four games of the season, junior wide receiver Devin Street went off against the Syracuse Orangemen to the tune of 10 receptions for 130 yards.

Streets finished last season with 754 receiving yards and could haul in a lot more than that this year. The 6'4", 190-pounder should be a matchup nightmare for just about every cornerback in the Big East Conference, and Friday night's game could be the start of a fantastic season for Streets if Tino Sunseri continues to look his way.

Pittsburgh's DefenseHas to Force More Turnovers

Although the Pittsburgh Panthers did an outstanding job at slowing down the Syracuse Orangemen's explosive offense, their defense did not force enough turnovers to win the game.

In Pittsburgh's three losses this season they have a minus-four turnover margin, but in their two victories, the Panthers are plus-five in the turnover department.

The Panthers picked off Ryan Nassib in the end zone and did not allow a single point after Syracuse's opening possession. However, the defense needs to make some offense of their own by forcing fumbles and forcing opposing quarterbacks into throwing more interceptions if they hope to finish with a winning record in the Big East Conference.

Syracuse Is a Dark Horse to Win the Big East Conference

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Knights are the runaway favorites to win the Big East Conference, but if anyone else could challenge those two teams for the conference crown this season it's the Syracuse Orangemen.

Ryan Nassib is still one of the Big East's top signal-callers, despite an off-game against the Pittsburgh Panthers, and Syracuse's defense has made major strides in its last two contests.

Syracuse sacked Tino Sunseri five times and held Ray Graham to 57 yards on 24 carries, which is a great accomplishment for any defense.

If the Orangemen continue to play strong defense, Syracuse has more than enough offensive weaponry to compete with anyone in the Big East this year.

Pittsburgh Is Still One of the Most Mysterious Teams in the Country

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The Pittsburgh Panthers were all but written off to startthe 2012 college football season after their Week 1 loss to the Youngstown State Penguins, and things did not get much better after they were blown out by the Cincinnati Bearcats the following week.

Pittsburgh rebounded with a convincing upset over the Virginia Tech Hokies and blew out the Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs to get back to .500.

The Panthers had not lost to the Syracuse Orangemen since 2004 and were expected to escape the Carrier Dome with their eighth straight win in the series, but never generated enough consistency on offense to come away with a victory.

A low-scoring affair should have favored the Panthers against Syracuse. Instead, Pittsburgh created more questions than they answered in their loss to the Orangemen.


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Has Obama's housing policy failed?

There's not much President Obama could have done to fix the housing market, experts say.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Obama is expected to once again offer ways to help the beleaguered housing market in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night.

But don't look for Obama to announce any major new initiatives, a far cry from his debut State of the Union speech in 2009, when he previewed the first of what would become a long line of foreclosure fixes.

Obama took office in 2009, promising swift action to address the mortgage crisis. He quickly unveiled his signature foreclosure prevention program, known as HAMP, and his refinance program, known as HARP.

But the HAMP program, which was designed to lower troubled borrowers'jobs -- and the administration's effort did little to help them.

In response, Obama rolled out a multitude of initiatives designed to help the underwater and the unemployed. But few of them have had much impact.

"He focused his gun in the wrong place," said Anthony Sanders, a real estate finance professor at George Mason University. "The administration's approach is to kick the can down the road. That doesn't lead to a recovery and just strings the problem along."

But the president deserves points for having the Federal Housing Administration step in to provide mortgages for homeowners and for spurring homebuying with a tax credit, said John Burns, head of John Burns Real Estate Consulting. They staunched the bleeding in home sales and values. The Federal Reserve has also tried to


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He had a person he once cared for, but she married his brother and soon gave birth to his niece... Over time his unrequited love distorted and changed him as he brooded on how the love of his life was stolen from him.

One day his niece texted him asking to stay at his place because she wasn't getting along with her dad. She had done this before and he said it was fine, but this time he started to notice how much she had grown... in more ways than one... and that she also was the split image of his unrequited love...

With his judgment clouded and his mind twisted he pulled out an aphrodisiac he had gotten from a vendor by chance and decided toAlan Sepinwall

Hung has more to offer than just John Thomas jokes. Amidst all the sniggering humor about how Ray has been taught to "do your best with the gifts God gave you" is some smart comedy about the state of 21st century America in general, as well as a superb lead performance from Thomas Jane.

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The pilot, directed by Alexander Payne ("Sideways"), is superb, and the first handful of episodes (there are 10 in the season), prove that the writing is consistently strong, the characters multidimensional and the tone assured and surprising in its depth.

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Jane is utterly believable as the hapless Ray, who, during the show's first four episodes, lurches from one disaster to another. But his character's a little too weighted down - and, no,


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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the shortlist of seven feature films that have been chosen as semi-finalists for the annual Oscar for Make-Up and Hairstyling at the 86th Annual Academy Awards. The three finalists will be informed of their Oscar nomination on Thursday, January 16 at 5:30 AM PT with the winner announced at the annual Oscar presentation on Sunday, March 2.

The seven movies that have been shortlisted for their achievements in make-up and hairstyling are:

American Hustle

Dallas Buyers Club

The Great Gatsby

Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

The Lone Ranger

Below is the official press release announcing the shortlist in the category:

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that seven films remain in competition in the Makeupa single year. These experts determined that in 2007 alone, about 762,400 people around the world died prematurely as a result of being exposed to pollution that was emitted to make goods that were used somewhere else.

“In our global economy, the goods and services consumed in one region may entail production of large quantities of air pollution — and related mortality — in other regions,” the researchers explained this week in the journal Nature. To the extent that international trade makes goods cheaper, they added, “the consumer savings may come at the expense of lives lost elsewhere.”

Here are some more numbers to help understand the health consequences of international trade in 2007:

The maximum size of the fine particles that cause air pollution, measured in micrometers. To get an


Latin America as a result of U.S. air pollution.

A Boeing assembly line in Renton, Wash. (Ted S. Warren / Associated Press)

Premature deaths in China due to air pollution that was created in the course of making stuff that was ultimately used in other places. Among these early deaths, about 54,000 were tied to the production of things consumed in the United States, and an equal number were related to items used in western Europe.

A thick haze hangs over Beijing and much of eastern China in this 2015 satellite image. (Jeff Schmaltz / NASA)

Approximate number of early deaths in eastern Europe that were due to pollutants emitted in western Europe. The reverse figure was a comparatively low 17,000.

A Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. (Adam Berry / Getty Images)

Ranking ofUnited States in terms of number of early deaths around the world caused by consumption of goods and services here. (That number, by the way, was about 170,000.) China got the top ranking (roughly 840,000 premature deaths), followed by India in second place (about 440,000 premature deaths) and western Europe in third (310,000 premature deaths). Fourth place went to countries in Asia besides China, a region that includes Japan and South Korea (220,000 premature deaths).

A woman wears a mask for protection against air pollution in Beijing. (Andy Wong / Associated Press)

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Ranking of the United States in terms of the number of early deaths suffered by citizens of other countries because of pollutants emitted during the production of goods and services used here. (That figure was estimated to be


102,000.) The only region whose consumption caused more premature deaths to other people was western Europe; consumption there hastened the deaths of about 173,000 people from other parts of the world.

Americans spend nearly $40 billion on imported telephones. (Kiichiro Sato / Associated Press)

The percentage of premature deaths around the world caused by air pollution that could be traced to a region other than the one where the death occurred.

A worker operates a machine to make socks at a production plant in Yiwu, China. (Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press)

The percentage of premature deaths around the world caused by fine particulate matter emitted to make stuff in one place that was actually used somewhere else.

A drone is inspected at a manufacturing plant in Tijuana. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

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FollowNew York City has an abortion rate almost double of the national average of 23%–and even higher in some demographics. In the city, more African-American babies are killed than are born. A recent report shows the city’s abortion rate at 40%, down from 41% in 2009, with some stunning numbers in the Bronx at 48% and a horrifyingly shocking number of 60% among African-Americans, which was unchanged from2009. The website NYC41PERCENT.com reports “For every 1,000 African-American babies born, 1,448 were aborted.” That means being black in New York is basically being an endangered species

Did you catch that? 60% of all African-American babies are killed before they can take a breath and the city is concerned about my choice to drink soda. It’s so ridiculous, illogical, and inane that


Hatch, recently past away. He was my dad's favorite and closest brother. Our families spent lots of our fun family vacations together. They are some of my closest cousins. Dells youngest son, Derek, is married to Heidi Hatch, the famous news reported for Channel 2 News here in the State of Utah. She and I are good friends. I will post some photos below of the funeral. The pics are of Dell and Joan's children which are the ones still alive. The blonde woman is Dells oldest daughter, Michelle, and the largest boy is his son, Cory from his first marriage. Otherwise, they only have the 3 sons left, of Joan's children, alive. Bernd and I used to go visit these relatives often when we lived in St.was just internal bleeding hemorrhoids. We are thankful it was nothing too serious. I love my dad and hope he lives a long time. ♥

On the other side of the Maui island is the town of Lahaina. It is a big tourist stop along the outer edge of the island. Long ago the sailors would land in Lahaina, Maui, for shore leave. It's been a hot little town for hundreds of years now. They have a cute train that goes through the Sugar Cane fields nearby. It is a short 20 min. ride back and forth, but it was so beautiful and scenic.We also visited the Whalers Museum at the Whalers Village nearby. Do you see my two sweet babies enjoying themselves? (Enlargements below)

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bunch of papaya fruit at the same farm. The next day we did a 'day trip' to the other side, East, of the Maui Island to the famous 7 sacred pools, near the small town of Hana, Maui.

Here you see us making several stops along the island to take pictures and see the beautiful landscape and scenery along the coast.The last picture is of some of the pools at the 7 sacred pool attraction. These technically are 7 or more pools which had formed one after another down the hillside to the ocean, due to waterfalls and a river washing down the East side of the Volcano into the ocean. Many people climb the hillside to go to these individual pools and swim. This photo was taken overBritish chancellor Philip Hammon REUTERS/Bobby Yip LONDON — Public sector net borrowing increased by £1.2 billion in April compared to the same time in 2016, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics released on Tuesday showed.

"Public sector net borrowing (excluding public sector banks) increased by £1.2 billion to £10.4 billion in April 2017, compared with April 2016; this is the highest April borrowing since 2014," the ONS said in a data release.

Economists polled before the release forecast a deficit of £8.9 billion.

While on a monthly basis the deficit increased, the deficit fell on an annualised basis in the financial year ending in March compared to the end of March 2016.

"Public sector net borrowing (excluding public sector banks) decreased by £23.4 billion to £48.7 billion in the


financial year ending March 2017 (April 2016 to March 2017), compared with the financial year ending March 2016," the ONS said.

That marks the lowest net borrowing in the UK since March 2008, just before the worst of the financial crisis hit the UK.

The independent Office for Budget Responsibility had forecast a larger deficit, with the ONS noting that it had predicted "that public sector net borrowing (excluding public sector banks) would be £51.7 billion during the financial year ending March 2017."

Here is the ONS' chart of the deficit:

Office for National Statistics

Reducing public sector net borrowing — also known as the deficit — has become perhaps the most important issue in UK economic policy since the financial crisis. Getting rid of the deficit has become something of a politicalnecessity, with a surplus seen as the ultimate goal for the UK's public finances.

In its simplest terms, a government runs a budget deficit when in a single year it collects less in revenues than it spends. Governments must then borrow to make up the shortfall, adding to national debt. Britain has run a deficit every year since 2001-02 when the Labour government created a small surplus. That marks the longest period of continuous deficits since the early 19th century.

All major political parties have pledged to reduce the deficit in their recently released election manifestos.

Alongside the deficit numbers, ONS figures showed that the overall level of government debt continued to rise, hitting £1.722 trillion by the end of April, up £114 billion from the same time last year. Debt


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A Fight in the Doctor’s Office

Novella

Cary Holladay

2008. 978-1-4243-3111-6

Winner of the 2007 Miami University Press Novella Contest

In Spring 1967, Jenny Havener, a young newlywed in Washington, DC, finds herself deserted by her husband. Her parents, ashamed and eager to find him, take Jenny on a search through the Virginia countryside. Their travels lead them to the rural community of Glen Allen. Jenny doesn’t find her husband, but she meets a disabled African-American baby with whom she falls in love on sight. She abandons her search for her husband, parts way with her parents (who worry she is becoming unhinged) and settles in Glen Allen for the purpose of spending as much time as possible with the child. She settles into an abandoned furniture store and defies the community’s growingVirginia and Pennsylvania. She holds degrees from the College of William and Mary and from Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of four previous books: The Quick-Change Artist: Stories; Mercury; The Palace of Wasted Footsteps; and The People Down South. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, The Goodheart Prize, and the O. Henry Prize, among others. Her husband is the writer John Bensko. They live in Memphis, Tennessee.


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warrants at Newbold’s home.   The agents recovered eight firearms,

including two assault rifles, and a small amount of marijuana.

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agents, and carried a .44 caliber revolver when he received $40,000

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Re: Bucs new uniforms

I think they could wear lingerie and still beat us.

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March 3rd, 2014, 6:47 pm

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Re: Bucs new uniforms

Killwill25 wrote:

I think they could wear lingerie and still beat us.

Did you watch the Bucs play last year? I realize the Lions weren't great, but the Bucs won only 4 games despite having a plus-10 turnover margin - they were pathetic.

Beats their old old old unis...ewwwww. What's with that retarded flamboyant musketeer?

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March 4th, 2014, 10:12 am

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Beats their old old old unis...ewwwww. What's with that retarded flamboyantJERUSALEM -- Israel on Sunday kicked off festivities to celebrate the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, even as it bolstered its forces along the Gaza border and in the West Bank in anticipation of mass Palestinian protests of the move.

A day before the embassy's formal opening, Israel hosted a gala party at its Foreign Ministry with President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka, her husband, Jared Kushner, and other American VIPs.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump's "bold decision" in upending decades of U.S. policy by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital. "It's the right thing to do," a smiling Netanyahu told the jubilant crowd.

Trump announced his decision on Jerusalem in December, triggering a joyous reaction from Netanyahu's nationalist government. The move infuriated the Palestinians, who claim Israeli-annexed east


Jerusalem as their capital.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas halted ties with the Trump administration and declared it unfit to remain in its role as the sole mediator in peace talks.

The rival Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, has been staging a series of weekly demonstrations against a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the territory. Those protests are to climax Monday, with tens of thousands of people expected to gather along the Israeli border in an event timed to coincide with the U.S. Embassy move.

Hamas has signalled that large crowds, numbering perhaps in the thousands, might try to break through the border fence to realize the "right of return" to lost homes.

Both the embassy move and the protests have symbolic timing. Trump has said the opening is meant to coincideat the fence and flown flaming kites over it to try to set Israeli fields on fire.

On Friday, a Palestinian crowd attacked the main cargo crossing between Israel and Gaza, disrupting shipments of cooking fuel, gasoline and building materials, and causing millions of dollars in damage. Israeli officials said it could take weeks or months to repair the crossing.

"Unfortunately, the crossing is closed today and will remain closed until the foreseeable future due to severe damage caused by Palestinian rioters," said Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a military spokesman. "It is still unclear how long it will take to fix and replace the necessary parts."

The Israeli military announced that it bolstered forces on the Gaza border with combat battalions, special units, intelligence forces and snipers. Israeli warplanes also dropped


leaflets in Gaza, urging residents to stay far from the fence.

"You deserve a better government. You deserve a better future," the leaflets said. "Do not approach the security fence nor participate in the Hamas display that is putting you in risk."

A high-ranking delegation of Gaza's Hamas rulers headed Sunday to Egypt, amid diplomatic efforts aimed at containing the mass rally. But one of the Hamas participants, Khalil al-Hayya, said there were no breakthroughs and the march would go on as planned Monday.

The army said it was also reinforcing its troops in the West Bank with several combat battalions and intelligence units in case of possible unrest there as well.

Sunday's celebrations coincided with Israel's "Jerusalem Day," the 51st anniversary of what it refers to the city's "unification" during the1967 Mideast war.

Israel immediately annexed east Jerusalem -- home to the city's most sensitive Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy sites -- in a move that has not received international recognition. The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.

In an annual ritual, tens of thousands of Israelis marched through Jerusalem's Old City to mark the day. Revelers sang, danced and waved Israeli flags.

Earlier Sunday, Netanyahu told his Cabinet that there would be a "series of decisions" to build up Jerusalem, including its contested eastern sector. Shortly after, the government approved construction of a $57 million cable car system that will link west Jerusalem to the Old City.

Although Trump has said his declaration does not set the final borders of the city, his recognition of Jerusalem


as Israel's capital has been perceived by both Israel and the Palestinians as taking Israel's side in the most sensitive issue in their conflict. Only two countries, Guatemala and Paraguay, have said they will follow suit. Most of the world maintains embassies in Tel Aviv, saying the Jerusalem issue must first be resolved.

In a reflection of the deep sensitivities, dozens of countries -- including Britain, France and Germany -- skipped Sunday night's celebration at the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

Netanyahu, who frequently clashed with President Barack Obama, has found a welcome partner in Trump. The new administration has lined up solidly behind Netanyahu in his dealings with the Palestinians and delighted him last week when it withdrew from the international nuclear deal with Iran, Obama's top foreign policy achievement.

Addressing thecrowd Sunday evening, Netanyahu said Israelis would be "eternally grateful" for Trump's decision on Jerusalem.

"Thank you, President Trump, for your bold decision. Thank you for making the alliance between Israel and the United States stronger than ever," he said.

Netanyahu said Trump's decision recognized a 3,000-year Jewish connection to Jerusalem and the "truth" that Jerusalem will be Israel's capital under any future peace deal.

"It's been the capital of our state for the past 70 years. It will remain our capital for all time," he said.

Kushner and Ivanka Trump sat in the front row near Netanyahu during the ceremony but did not speak. Netanyahu called their presence a "national and international statement" that "touches our hearts."

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Trump was fulfilling a key campaign promise by moving


conducted at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, advertising by pharmaceutical companies in medical journals is clearly associated with bias against “non-drug” therapies in those journals.*

Researchers examined a year’s worth of issues from 11 “major medical journals,” including influential publications, such as The New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the British Medical Journal. Investigators tallied the amount and content of advertising per journal, and noted any coverage of dietary supplements, including the conclusions reached regarding those nutritional supplements.

Journals with the greatest amount of pharmaceutical company-sponsored advertising were least likely to feature articles about dietary supplements. More to the point, when such journals did feature articles regarding supplements, the conclusions were more likely to be negative rather than positive, or merelyWith the 2010 elections over, its time to give the 2012 Presidential its own thread. We kick it off with some reflections from Peggy Noonan:

All eyes have been on Capitol Hill, but let's take a look at the early stages of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

This week the papers have been full of sightings—Newt and Huckabee are in Iowa, Pawlenty's in New Hampshire. But maybe the more interesting story is that a lot of potential candidates will decide if they are definitely going to run between now and New Year's—and some of them will be deciding over Thanksgiving weekend. It's all happening now, they're deciding in long walks, at the dinner table, and while watching the football game on the couch. They'll be talking it through,


disheartened and depressed, but they haven't disappeared. They'll show up for a presidential race, especially if the Republicans do not learn one of the great lessons of 2010: The center has to embrace the conservative; if it doesn't, the conservative loses. Add to that the fact that the White House is actually full of talented people, and though they haven't proved good at governing they did prove good not long ago at campaigning. It's their gift. It's ignored at the GOP's peril.

All of this means that for Republicans, the choice of presidential nominee will demand an unusual level of sobriety and due diligence from everyone in the party, from primary voters in Iowa to county chairmen in South Carolina, and from party hacks in Washington to tea partythough he has been traveling regularly to Iowa, New Hampshire and appearing on the national shows.

Certainly POTH is highly unreliable source, especially with regard to racially-tinged issues, but I must confess that it irks me how many Republicans seem to have a tin ear or worse on some of the history of the civil rights movement.===========================

Gov. Barbour’s Dream WorldPublished: December 21, 2010

In Gov. Haley Barbour’s hazy, dream-coated South, the civil-rights era was an easy transition for his Mississippi hometown of Yazoo City. As he told the Weekly Standard recently, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an unmemorable speaker, and notorious White Citizens Councils protected the world from violent racists.

Perhaps Mr. Barbour, one of the most powerful men in the Republican Party and a potential presidential candidate,


back - by delivering one of the gay rights movement's most elusive and coveted breakthroughs.

The symbolism of the don't ask, don't tell repeal cannot be underestimated. It's not just that for the civil rights community, it represents a long-awaited extension of the historic arc - first blacks, then women, now gays. It was also Obama decisively transcending the triangulated trimming of Bill Clinton, who instituted don't ask, don't tell in the first place. Even more subtly and understatedly, the repeal represents the taming of the most conservative of the nation's institutions, the military, by a movement historically among the most avant-garde. Whatever your views, that is a cultural landmark.

Then came START, which was important for Obama not just because of the dearth of foreign policy achievements these pastthe great Republican ascendancy of 2010 lasted less than two months. Republicans will enter the 112th Congress with larger numbers but no longer with the wind - the overwhelming Nov. 2 repudiation of Obama's social-democratic agenda - at their backs.

"Harry Reid has eaten our lunch," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, lamenting his side's "capitulation" in the lame-duck session. Yes, but it was less Harry than Barry. Obama came back with a vengeance. His string of lame-duck successes is a singular political achievement. Because of it, the epic battles of the 112th Congress begin on what would have seemed impossible just one month ago - a level playing field.

****Susan Estrich Obama the Genius

Was it only a month ago that the chattering class was writing off the president as being almost


treaty with Russia, signed into law the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" and even got some judges confirmed. That's just off the top of my head.

Even without Rahm, it turns out the president knows his way around tough negotiations and games of chicken, not only forging a compromise but landing himself squarely in the middle. "Triangulation" minus Dick Morris. He has been decisive, tough and confident. When House Democrats revolted, he stood up to them and told them what was what. The once unified Republican bloc splintered. He found the votes he needed. The issue that threatened the early days of Bill Clinton's presidency — gays in the military — was resolved with the stroke of a pen.

Who is this genius?

Who is this natural-born leader?

None other thanvery non-threatening to moderates and independents. Not a Martin Luther King of orators, but his political savvy and skills are very good and easily underrated. Kind of the opposite of the vocal right that is so hated but without a major distinction in policies. Less polarizing. Pawlenty was probably McCain's correct choice and adviser's first choice. May very well be VP choice in '12 if he never comes up from 2nd tier for top of the ticket.

Unlike the recent works published by his potential competitors for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, Tim Pawlenty's "Courage to Stand" is notable for its overt humility and avoidance of sweeping statements that might be perceived as hyperbolic.

The former Minnesota governor's attempt at a pre-presidential campaign tome is similar to those penned by


former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in that it is part biography, part vindication of his own political record, and part policy prescription for America's future. But he spills more ink describing specific examples of his leadership as chief executive of his state while taking a more humble approach.

It's not that Pawlenty is particularly shy about touting his accomplishments. It is instead a matter of tone. As the low-key Minnesotan puts it on page 97, "Because of human frailty, it's important that leaders avoid the temptation to be self-righteous. Confidence and strength are one thing; a false notion of personal perfection is another."

Pawlenty has been positioning himself as the "anti-Romney" in the nascent race by touting his blue-collar background as the son ofa businessman in contrast to the wealth and privilege that Romney was born into, and that theme shines through in "Courage to Stand."

Although the author repeatedly touts his social and economic conservative bona fides, it is Pawlenty's accommodation and humility that permeates the book. "Today, two lightning-rod issues associated with social policy are abortion and gay marriage," Pawlenty writes. "I'm pro-life and in favor of traditional marriage, but when I talk about these issues, I watch my tone."

And in a sentence that could be perceived as a not-so-subtle jab at the tenor of Romney's book, "No Apology", Pawlenty writes, "Sometimes an apology is itself a sign of strength."

But at least as pronounced as the contrasts with Romney's work are the differences between Pawlenty's book and Palin's 2009 No.


1 bestseller, "Going Rogue."

While Palin writes about her triumphant exploits as a starting guard on her state championship high school basketball team, Pawlenty seems unashamed to note that he never made it past the junior varsity level in hockey - yet he still exudes passion for the sport.

While Palin's book portrays a take-no-prisoners approach to politics, in which the former small-town mayor takes on the old bulls to defeat an incumbent Republican for the governorship, Pawlenty writes about how his career ambition was to become a dentist when he enrolled at the University of Minnesota. Later on, he opted not to run for the Senate race he intended to pursue in 2002 after getting a phone call from Vice President Cheney asking him to defer to Norm Colemanfor the good of the GOP.

"Going Rogue" is replete with rampant score settling with former staff members and political adversaries, whom Palin almost portrays as modern-day Dickensian villains, while "Courage to Stand" has scarcely a negative word about anyone and praises Democrats ranging from Bill Clinton to John Mellencamp.

It's clear that Pawlenty strives to be perceived as genuine and relatable, and he would rather accept being labeled "boring" than risk becoming polarizing or accused of political posturing.

Perhaps more important is that the 50-year-old provides dozens of specific examples from his government experience thus far to cast himself as ready for the next office - and that will be a major theme in his likely presidential campaign in contrast to some of the front-runners, like Palin and Romney.

Romney's first


book, "Turnaround" - published in 2004 - is a 384-page case study about his leadership of the Salt Lake City Olympics. He presents his many challenges and how he approached them, the national security aspect of the event and the funding and budgeting associated with the Olympics. A six-page epilogue discusses his ascension to the Massachusetts governorship. His second book in 2010 is devoted mostly to his national platform and largely glosses over his record in his one term as governor, as he chooses instead to sharply critique President Obama's performance.

Pawlenty's book, by contrast, pulls out a few examples of record-setting tax cuts and how he achieved them, as well as his handling of a nine-day government shutdown over a budget battle in 2005.

He also discusses his trademissions to China, which could prove to be a critical issue in 2012 - particularly with the likes of Romney and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels potentially in the race.

And in a three-page passage deep into the part of the book that delves into his gubernatorial record, Palwenty walks through how he navigated a $1.6 billion deal with Essar Steel, a major corporation based in India that hoped to develop a manufacturing plant in Minnesota's Iron Range. Upon learning that the company was doing business with a plant in Iran, Pawlenty forced a choice on the company, showing how he prioritizes security matters with economic development and how he may approach diplomacy.

There's also a chapter devoted to the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis and his response to


the tragedy. Pawlenty takes the time to point out that a Democrat in the state called one of his staffers during the first few hours of emergency response to say how he was going to use the disaster to denigrate the governor. Pawlenty, who refuses to name the Democrat "because what he did was so awful," calls it "one of the most disgusting examples of low politicking I've seen in my entire career."

He even exposes his doubts about running for a second term and his decision to ignore the advice of political consultants about going negative toward the end of his re-election race. And he artfully handles how his education in "Minnesota Nice" crept into his line of work.

But can Pawlenty's nice-guy Midwesterner image work in today's hot-buttonpresidential veto are unlikely, as the true bottom line becomes known, in terms of increased costs, decreased access to care, and increased government controls, health care once again will be a decisive campaign issue. Efforts to dismantle or defund Obamacare will continue for the next two years. And as the public listens more to the credible Rep. Paul Ryan, the president will be on the defensive daily.

6. Tea Party Momentum

The momentum will not stop. With a majority voice and a mandate, GOP House members, and the increasingly popular Speaker John Boehner, are making all the right moves, with humility and focus on the most important issues: the economy and health care. Fired up by victories in the historic midterm elections, Tea Party, conservative, older, and right-leaning moderate voters


vote like a Republican may cost him his seat. And Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the single sleaziest member of the Senate, may face a challenge in a state whose GOP is animated by its Republican governor Chris Christie.

Morris says: "If we switch seats in North Dakota, Florida, Nebraska, Virginia, and Montana – red states all – we get control by 52-48.

But he went on to mention 8 others, all plausible: Wisconsin, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Michigan, West Virginia and New Jersey.

He didn't want to say it but in a sweep that makes 60. Morris is about right for today, but the momentum it seems is going to turn one way or the other from here.

I called for clarity and 100% of R's in the Senate voted for repealto college, earning a degree at the University of Pennsylvania after attending the University of Utah for a time. He did missionary work in Taiwan and speaks fluent Mandarin. He served in both the Reagan and Bush-41 administrations. His business background in the Huntsman Corporation as an executuve, and later as well with the Huntsman Cancer Foundation.

In 2004, Jon Hunstman Jr. was elected as governor of the State of Utah by a fair margin, 57%. He was re-elected in 2008 by a whopping 77%. During his term in office, Utah was named the best managed state by the Pew Center. Many were already eyeing him for a presidential run then, which is one reason why Barack Obama offered him the job to be Ambassador to China. Get him


and gave specifics to demonstrate that it was true.

Allen West is President Obama's worst nightmare. He won't walk into a Presidential debate unsure about what he believes or how to express it. Let's see the one with the community background or ordinary Republicans question his experience or readiness to serve and to lead, 20 years in the U.S. Army he served in Operation Desert Storm, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, was battalion commander for the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, and in Afghanistan, where he trained Afghan officers to take on the responsibility of securing their own country.

2 Masters degrees I see, West is 'an avid distance runner, a PADI Master certified SCUBA diver, motorcyclist, ...His wife, Angela, holds an MBA and PhD. and works as a financial planner.'

So manysomeone placed as editor of Harvard Law Review with no actual writing required) he got it by performance.

West knew the potential costs involved, the safe thing would have been for him to stay inside the wire. If he lost some troops to an ambush, he could easily compose letters to the families and work towards his next promotion. He chose to sacrifice his career in trade for the lives and limbs of his troops.

JDN: "...waiting to hear why his "experience" qualifies him to be President?"

I answered that from my point of view and I would like to elaborate on my answer. First though to help frame my answer, may I ask you what experience is required to be qualified?

George H.W. Bush was the resume President, served in congress,


was Ambassador to China. Director of the CIA, Ambassador to the UN, served 2 terms as VP, you don't get much closer to CiC than that. He won one landslide running for 'Reagan's 3rd term'. Broke with Reagan policies and on his own he lost to the Governor of Arkansas.

The other with that level of experience was Walter Mondale, 1984. He served in the army, was elected state attorney general, served 12 years in the senate in the Hubert Humphrey seat, was Vice President of the United States (later was Ambassador to Japan) lost all 49 states other than his home state in 1984, took Wellstone's place in 2002, lost his home state becoming the first and only person in history to lose in all 50 states.

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