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(IRVINE, CA) - There has to be a term for people who write at length about a subject without addressing the core root of the matter. |
(SOMERDALE, NJ) - BETRAYAL tells the true story of government sanctioned murder, CIA proprietary airlines transporting weapons and cocaine, and injuries at El Toro and Camp Lejeune. |
Separate complaints were filed challenging the display, which was installed on the Capitol grounds last month. A 2015 law required the state to allow the privately funded monument. The monument was reinstalled last month after the original version was destroyed by a man who crashed his car into it. |
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas sued on behalf of four Arkansas residents — three who identify themselves as agnostics and one as atheist — who are members of a walking and cycling club whose routes include the state Capitol grounds. The group asked that the monument and the law requiring its installatio... |
"Viewing the context surrounding both the Act and the resulting Ten Commandments Monument makes it likely that they will be perceived by adherents of the majority religious denominations as an endorsement of their beliefs, and by nonadherents as a disapproval of their individual religious choices," the group said in it... |
The second lawsuit was filed on behalf of a coalition that includes the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the Arkansas Humanist Association, as well as a Methodist minister and a rabbi who objected to the monument's display. |
A spokesman for Secretary of State Mark Martin, who is named as the defendant in both groups' lawsuits, declined to comment on the lawsuit. The lawmaker who led the push to put the Ten Commandments at the Capitol said he's confident the display will be upheld. |
"It is time for the people of this nation to stand together and defend our history and heritage," Republican Sen. Jason Rapert said in a statement. "I am committed to defending this law, I am committed to defending the U.S. Constitution, and I am committed to defending the Ten Commandments monument." |
Last June, the original monument was outside of the state Capitol less than 24 hours before it was demolished. Michael Tate Reed, the man accused of driving his car into it, apologized in 2015 for also destroying a Ten Commandments monument outside Oklahoma's Capitol. Reed was charged with criminal mischief in Arkansas... |
The 6,000-pound, 6-foot-tall granite display is now flanked by four concrete barriers intended to prevent its destruction. |
Arkansas' monument is a replica of a display at the Texas Capitol that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005. The court that year struck down Ten Commandments displays in two Kentucky courthouses. |
May 23, 2018 at 11:05 a.m. |
The United States of America sprang into existence during the Enlightenment, a period also known as the Age of Reason. The founding fathers, including those who wholeheartedly embraced religion, firmly committed themselves and their nation to a separation of church and state. They knew the dangers of a government that ... |
When our modern legislators insist that the principles of American government created during the Age of Reason were founded on religion, they rewrite history. When they insist that a secular body of laws harken back to ten religious laws, they embrace alternative facts. When they pass a law dictating the language that ... |
This monument will lose in the courts. The only question is how much this boondoggle will cost the taxpayers. This is nothing but free PR for the Arkansas legislators who pander to the most religiously fanatical of their base. "Free" meaning free for them, but very costly to us taxpayers. |
May 23, 2018 at 11:11 a.m. |
Just what is it that people don't understand about the separation of church and state? What's good for one group should be good for all, religious or non-religious. If this monument remains, then ALL groups should be allowed to install their own monuments, regardless what it is. |
May 23, 2018 at 11:17 a.m. |
Well said everyone. Seems very Reason able. |
May 23, 2018 at 12:04 p.m. |
Jason Rapert should have to personally fund the state's defense. |
May 23, 2018 at 12:42 p.m. |
Yet no one has a problem spending money that has.............."In God we trust"..... printed on it ? |
May 23, 2018 at 12:45 p.m. |
I have a problem with that, Drunken Klansman. |
May 23, 2018 at 12:54 p.m. |
ARMNAR..............evidently you don't or you would have done something about it by now besides shooting your smart mouth off. |
May 23, 2018 at 1:12 p.m. |
23Cal - You are poorly educated or rather brainwashed. What they did is prohibit establishment of a STATE denomination, such as Anglicanism, while keeping Christianity alive and well in ALL the founding documents! You need to read "Christianity and the Constitution: The Faith of the Founding Fathers" by John Eidsmoe. |
FYI: The monument had already WON in the courts previously because it was not paid for with even one red penny of state monies. The replacement was totally privately funded as well. |
Admit it: You hate Christianity and that's why you and those like you hate the Commandments. I suggest you take a look at all the buildings built during the era of the Founders and.....oh mercy, shock upon shock, you will find COUNTLESS BIBLE passages and carvings. Can't be illegal to be here in LR if it's all over DC ... |
May 23, 2018 at 1:19 p.m. |
For you radicalized liberals, the term "separation of church and state" is NOT in the Constitution or any of the Amendments nor is it in the Declaration. The term was in a letter from Jefferson to a group who feared the establishment of a state religion, such as Catholicism or Anglicanism. Jefferson explained that was ... |
What you Christianity haters need to realize is that what is prohibited is a state DENOMINATION and not the expression of Christianity, which is not a religion. Buddhism is religion, Baptist is religion, Sikh is religion, etc........religion is man made; Christianity God made. You're fighting against God and can't even... |
May 23, 2018 at 1:29 p.m. |
I wonder where they dredged up these 4 women who are offended. If they had any sense, they would find something better to protest. This will be a distraction from real injustices that actually matter. The ACLU should be ashamed to waste resources on such a stupid lawsuit. How can this even make the top 50 list of conce... |
MBTA Transit Police are apparently flabbergasted at the lack of concern wanted criminals display in the system. |
MBTA Transit Police are apparently flabbergasted at the lack of concern displayed by wanted criminals. |
"Even though we are on the verge of Labor Day Weekend 2013, it feels more like Ground Hog Day!" the department posted today on its blog. |
"We at tpdnews were actually naive enough to believe folks would stridently adhere to our advice of how NOT to get arrested on the MBTA. ... As it turns out folks are simply not heeding our advice and doing their own thing." |
The post was prompted by three T arrests Wednesday. |
Nathan Estey, 18, of Boston, was arrested at 2 a.m. at Back Bay station for loitering and was found to have a warrant out for his arrest for disorderly conduct and assault and battery, police said. |
Hollyann Johnson, 23 of Plainville, was arrested Wednesday night at Fields Corner station for piggybacking, and was found to have a warrant out for her arrest for larceny. |
Earlier that night, Collin Anderson, 24 of Dorchester, fare evaded by "piggybacking" in behind a paying customer, according to transit police. |
"YOU GUESSED IT !!!!!," the department wrote. |
A warrant for Anderson's arrest had been issued from West Roxbury District Court for violation of the commonwealth's drug laws. |
Last week a particular patent submitted by Apple outlined its plan to bring the mobile virtual assistant Siri to the desktop. It looks like Microsoft might be planning the same thing by bringing the Windows 8.1 voice assistant Cortana into Windows 9 proper. |
Cortana has actually been running within Threshold—Microsoft's codenamed OS build widely belived to be Windows 9—for some time, according to Neowin, but now the integration looks like it's moving forward. Neowin describes Cortana's "graduation" from a testing stage to a "let us push this forward and see if we can ship ... |
It seems that Cortana would run as a separate but built-in app, and instead of taking up your whole screen like in Windows Phone (which on desktop would be unforgivably annoying) Cortana will pop up in a screen about one-fourth the size of your display. It'll also be displayed directly in the center, somewhat like Appl... |
Of course lots can change between now and Threshold/Windows 9's eventual release. Microsoft could decide to drop Cortana from Windows 9, at least at first, or reversely more updates to the virtual assistant could allow for even deeper integration into the OS. Mary Jo Foley with ZDNet notes how Cortana integration in Wi... |
It would also be a nice new addition to Windows whereas most leaks and rumors have just been about scaling back from Windows 8, including the return of the Start menu and the removal of the charm bar entirely. |
Authorities at Duke University say sophomore receiver Blair Holliday was critically injured during a jet ski accident over the Fourth of July holiday. |
According to WTVD, Holliday, 19, was jet skiing Wednesday (July 4) on Lake Tillery in North Carolina when he unintentionally collided with another jet ski (driven by teammate Jamison Crowder) head on. |
While fellow Blue Devil Crowder was uninjured in the crash, Holliday suffered head injuries and had to be airlifted straight to the UNC Trauma Center in Chapel Hill. |
ESPN reports that Blair Holliday, a 6-foot-3, 195-pound receiver from Sherman Oaks, Calif., was listed as the No. 71 wide receiver in his class by ESPN.com. |
Though he only caught three passes for 30 yards in 2011, Blair was the co-recipient of Duke’s Most Improved Offensive Player award following spring drills and was expected to start at wide receiver this year in place of Brandon Braxton, who was moved to safety in the offseason. |
When news spread that Jessica Simpson and Alan Jackson would be signing autographs in the CMA Music Festival’s Fan Fair Hall, hundreds of fans began lining up early Friday morning (June 6) for a chance to get a signature and have their photos taken with the stars. |
A crush of overly-enthusiastic fans resulted in scattered, sporadic pushing and shoving when the doors of the Nashville Convention Center opened at 10 a.m., the announced start time for Simpson’s scheduled two-hour appearance. Within minutes, though, the fans were lining up as they normally do — in an orderly fashion —... |
Before the doors opened, the line of fans extended from the convention center’s entrance on Commerce Street, around the corner to Fourth Avenue in front of the Ryman Auditorium and around the other corner to Broadway. A similar line is expected Saturday (June 7) when Taylor Swift is scheduled to sign autographs for the... |
Like other artists, Simpson is capitalizing on the four-day festival to create a bond with country fans before the fall release of her first country album. Her first single, “Come On Over,” debuted this week at No. 41 on Billboard’s country chart, making it the highest-chart debut for a solo artist with no prior histor... |
On Wednesday night (June 4), Simpson attended a private party her record label, Columbia Nashville, hosted for country radio programmers. She was also introduced briefly Thursday night (June 5) during the CMA Music Festival’s first concert of the year at LP Field. The show featured performances by Jennifer Hanson, Mont... |
Jackson and his wife, Denise, also attracted a massive crowd when they began signing autographs at noon. She is the author of two books, It’s All About Him and The Road Home. He performs Saturday night (June 7) at LP Field on a bill that includes Jason Michael Carroll, Craig Morgan, Little Big Town, Jamey Johnson, Rodn... |
View photos from Jessica Simpson and Alan Jackson’s appearances at the 2008 CMA Music Festival. |
Over 100 Hull College workers and students protested on 23 April against the planned axing of up to 400 jobs at the college. Walking out over their lunch break they heard speakers from the local trade union movement. |
Two of so-called 'Big Four' supermarkets - Tesco and Sainsbury's - have announced job losses running into the thousands. |
Back the Brum bin strikers! |
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) workers took another day of strike action on 1 March after the disgraceful sacking of ten of their colleagues by email last month. The PCS and Unite unions are now demanding the reinstatement of these workers. |
Ending relationships can be awkward - but most agree doing it by text message is unacceptable. Unless you're the boss of a bus firm, that is. |
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You’ve Sold Your ETFs; Now What? |
As the champagne corks ushered in 2007, investors celebrated more next generation exchange traded funds (ETFs) that promise an exciting variety of targeted new offerings. All grown-up, with everywhere to go, new ETFs continue to hone their appeal for the investing public that craves reduced expenses, diversified risk a... |
Investors have every reason to be optimistic. The evolution of ETFs sped up significantly in the last year alone—as improving opportunities for jumping into tailor-made sectors that can pack a punch in the way of concentration, while enabling investors to diversify across a wide-array of stocks. The selection is vast a... |
1) Global ETFs will continue to outperform their domestic counterparts. |
Despite the fact that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has staged a 4-year rebound, international investments continue to lure investor cash—and in a huge way. Recent data show that $124 billion of new money has flowed in equity mutual funds this year (including ETFs), with a whopping $110 billion, or 89%, flooding the... |
In the new year, we expect international ETF offerings to maintain the foreground. Looking at 2006 numbers for global equities, their growth dwarfs their domestic benchmark counterparts. Equity fund providers will continue to respond to the currently insatiable demand for international investing as international market... |
2) Actively managed ETFs hit the marketplace with a thud. |
What was billed as the next generation for ETFs will go over like a lead balloon with investors. Active managers have taken a run at actively managed ETFs—and why not? The enormous success of ETFs has active managers scrambling to entice investors back to active management and big expenses. It won’t happen. Why? The wh... |
As such, investors will look to indexes for the benchmarks, not active management. Actively managed ETFs have no track record—no benchmark. There is no guarantee a mutual fund manager can provide performance results with an ETF. And, two-thirds of ETF assets come from institutional investors who are looking to find all... |
3) The ranks of ETFs will continue to explode. |
Tracking indexes enables investors to capture markets, sectors and capitalization parameters. The ETF universe has exploded in just the last couple of years—and for good reason: minimal expenses and innovative offerings target growth through diversified risk. And, they will become even more intriguing as world-class pr... |
Big-name fund providers will continue to pump out more lean, mean asset-building machines for every kind of investor, swelling the ranks of ETFs. Some 345+ targeted and broad-market ETFs collectively boast a current market capitalization of $410 billion in assets. There are predictions that with ongoing new offerings a... |
4) Fidelity finally joins the party. |
Even as big name ETF providers continue to expand their offerings, the big cheese continued to stand alone. Back in 2003, Fidelity tested the ETF waters with its Nasdaq Composite Tracking Index (ONEQ) fund—the name proved prophetic as it remains their only "ONE." Fidelity’s cash cow continues to be their incredibly luc... |
Steam has been one of the major success stories in the gaming world over the last few years. Valve's digital game retail and delivery platform had 75 million daily active users by January this year and, in all likelihood, more than that now. |
It's so successful, in fact, that many of its users don't bother playing games they buy through the platform. Many of them not even once. |
Ars Technica found that on average 36.9 per cent of registered games per user remain completely unplayed. Never even loaded. And a further 17 per cent of games have been played for less than one hour. That effectively means that Steam owners don't want or can't be bothered to play over half (53.9 per cent) the games th... |
And with only 21.6 per cent of registered games having been played for more than 10 hours, that leaves a lot of driftwood floating around in people's accounts or even on their hard drives. |
You might think that the vast majority of unplayed games are free-to-play titles. However, Ars Technica found that practically 100 per cent of free-to-play games have been played at least once. So those remaining untouched have more than likely cost the user money. |
The methods used by Ars Technica to discover this data might not be perfect but are clever. Its automatic crawler searched through between 80 to 90,000 public Steam user profile pages each day, which contain information on each user's library of games and how often they have played them. While that doesn't include user... |
The random survey also found that the top 20 most owned games on Steam were almost entirely dominated by Valve's own titles. Dota 2 tops the pile with an estimated 25.93 million owners. |
Skyrim, Sid Meier's Civilization V and Garry's Mod are the non-Valve games to make the list. However, they each have a high played estimation, with only between 0.3 and 0.7 million owners not playing them. Compare that to Valve's Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, which has an estimated 10.7 million copies remaining dormant and ... |
There are a number of theories you could draw from the statistics. Sales and cut-priced games could account for the whimsical nature of purchases, which at least ensures publishers, indie or otherwise, are being paid. However, we're pretty sure they'd prefer you to play the results of their efforts, rather than stare a... |
My sincere heartfelt condolences to Ron's family and friends. |
To Ron's Family, my condolences. Ron will never be forgotten and will be missed by all. We had some good times growing up together and playing Hokey sports. I just had to pull out the team basketball pictures while playing for Hokey. |
My thoughts and prayers go out to Ron's family. Such a great guy to lose at such a young age. I feel blessed I had the opportunity to know him. RIP Ron. |
Colombian environmental authorities have reported a huge shark massacre in the Malpelo wildlife sanctuary in Colombia's Pacific waters, where as many as 2,000 hammerhead, Galápagos and silky sharks may have been slaughtered for their fins. |
Sandra Bessudo, the Colombian president's top adviser on environmental issues, said a team of divers who were studying sharks in the region reported the mass killing in the waters surrounding the rock-island known as Malpelo, some 500 kilometres from the mainland. |
"I received a report, which is really unbelievable, from one of the divers who came from Russia to observe the large concentrations of sharks in Malpelo. They saw a large number of fishing trawlers entering the zone illegally," Bessudo said. The divers counted a total of 10 fishing boats, which all were flying the Cost... |
"When the divers dove, they started finding a large number of animals without their fins. They didn't see any alive," she said. One of the divers provided a video that shows the finless bodies of dead sharks on the ocean floor. |
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