The Essex Relay for Life made history with its “20th Anniversary Relay” event held for the twentieth time at the Community College of Baltimore County – Essex campus(CCBC-Essex) . However, as with many large, multi-discipline events, this one could not have been accomplished without the support and sponsorship of many partners. The Essex Relay was honored to have the support of the CCBC – Essex campus. A special thanks goes to the dean of the campus, Dr. Al Starr along with the Theatre Department, Public Safety and the Maintenance/Grounds crew – all contributed to the relay's success!
Some other folks partnered with the Essex Relay to provide fun and entertainment including “Music by Jimmy D,” “The Magic of Kirtley,” “Patty the Clown” and the “Bubble Lady” (Margie Lynch). Children of all enjoyed the music, magic and the great bubble creations.
Local businesses and organizations also partnered with Essex Relay to insure the success of the event. These sponsors include: Disability Support Services, XPEDX, Al Packer's White Marsh Ford, MARS Supermarkets, Jerry D's Catering, Geresbeck's Supermarkets, Chick-Fil-A, Tom Casson's Nursery, Costco, Frank Woke, Pizza John's and Jephthah Lodge #222.
Some special thanks are also extended to a wonderful photographer, John DiPaula; an awesome emcee, Bob Delmont from WPOC 93.1 Baltimore's Country Radio Station; a fantastic survivor and guest speaker, Larry “Wes” Hensen known as Captain Dee-Fense and “Super Ravens Fan”; and, a beautifully talented Ed McFarland, Bagpiper, who led the Luminaria Ceremony Lap.
It is important for cancer supporters to thank these sponsors to let them know how appreciated their support is.
For more information about cancer and/or Relay for Life events, contact the American Cancer Society through the website, toll free number 1-800-227-2345 or through the local offices at White Marsh 410-931-6850.
Source: www.examiner.com
Obama's Harvard law professor says 'President MUST be defeated in 2012' (and he's the man Barack used to have on speed dial) - Daily Mail
- Roberto Unger, 65, is respected author and Brazilian politician
- Taught Obama about 'reinventing democracy' at Harvard Law School
- Professor was an adviser during the 2008 election campaign
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A former professor of Barack Obama has turned against his one-time student and publicly urged voters not to re-elect him.
Roberto Unger posted a video on YouTube detailing the reasons why he believes the President does not deserve a second term in the White House.
Mr Unger, a prominent Brazilian politician and an adviser to Obama in 2008, said: 'President Obama must be defeated in the coming election. He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States.'
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Scathing: Obama's former professor Roberto Unger said that he had 'failed' the United States and should not be re-elected
The 65-year-old academic was in frequent contact with Mr Obama on his Blackberry throughout the last election campaign but has since decided that he no longer agreed with the President's decisions.
His list of complaints against the President is a long one in the video entitled 'Beyond Obama'.
The esteemed philosopher is scathing of Mr Obama's plans to salvage America's ailing economy, saying that his policy solely consists of 'financial confidence and food stamps'.
He adds: 'He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices.'
The politician admits that if Republican candidate Mitt Romney wins the election 'there will be a cost... in judicial and administrative appointments'.
However his most barbed remarks he reserves for the Democrat leader saying that Mr Obama has 'evoked a politics of handholding, but no one changes the world without a struggle'.
Delete! The President regularly talked to Unger during his 2008 campaign... this is no longer likely to be the case
Taking a shot: Roberto Unger criticised President Obama after being a long time supporter
His summary of the past four years is equally scathing: 'Give the bond markets what they want, bail out the reckless so long as they are also rich, use fiscal and monetary stimulus to make up for the absence of any consequential broadening of economic and educational opportunity, sweeten the pill of disempowerment with a touch of tax fairness, even though the effect of any such tax reform is sure to be modest.'
Making enemies: Obama has lost a respected adviser Roberto Unger
Most of Mr Unger's comments seem to be politically to the left of Mr Obama, but he insists that the Republicans would be no more destructive than the Democrats as 'the risk of military adventurism' would remain the same.
And some would doubtless strike a chord with the President's GOP opponents, including the academic's attacks on Mr Obama's efforts to reform healthcare.
Mr Unger argues: 'He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care in the mistaken belief that he would be spared a fight.'
He also suggests that, despite their fierce rivalry, the Democrats' agenda is little different to that of the Republicans, saying the party aims 'to put a human face on the programme of its adversaries'.
The professor concludes his video by saying: 'Only a political reversal can allow the voice of democratic prophecy to speak once again in American life.'
Mr Unger is a renowned politician in his native Brazil. He has twice has run for president of Brazil and has served as Minister of Strategic Affairs.
Unger was one of the founding members of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party and drafted its founding manifesto.
He has also advised on politics throughout Latin America.
Model student: Obama was taught by Unger when he attended Harvard Law School in 1988
The professor is a respected author having published dozens of books on economics, philosophy and politics.
In philosophy, his arguments are said to focus on some the greatest problems of the human existence.
The video, which was posted three weeks ago, has been viewed 22,000 times.
Mr Unger has taught at Harvard Law since 1976.
Obama studied jurisprudence and reinventing democracy with the professor.
The President attended Harvard Law School in 1988 and was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year.
Last week Obama announced that young immigrants who were brought into the U.S. illegally will no longer be deported.
The Obama administration said the policy change announced on Friday will affect as many as 800,000 qualified immigrants who have lived in fear of deportation.
The President also came in for sharp criticism last week after he combined fundraising events with an official event - and charged the bill to the taxpayer.
Obama raised a total of $4.5million at the fundraisers, one at Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker's house and the other at the five-star Plaza Hotel.
However, the President's re-election campaign will not have to pay the full cost of his jaunt to the Big Apple, because he scheduled a short visit to the World Trade Center site.
Watch the video
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
Ariz. Law Expected to Prompt Suits From Both Sides - ABC News
Police agencies that would enforce the most controversial part of Arizona's 2010 immigration law are expected to get squeezed by legal challenges from opposite sides if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the law in the coming days.
Opponents of the Arizona law, known as SB1070, are likely to sue police departments on claims that officers racially profile people as they enforce the provision of the law that requires police to check the immigration status of people they stop for other reasons.
But legal challenges also are expected from the other side: from supporters who could claim that a police agency has broken the law if it restricts the enforcement of SB1070.
"There are people just waiting to challenge this law on both sides of the spectrum," said Tucson Police Chief Roberto Villasenor.
A little-known section of the law lets anyone sue an agency that has a policy that restricts the enforcement of immigration law. The provision was aimed at holding cities accountable for "sanctuary policies" that discourage or prohibit officers from inquiring about a person's immigration status. Agencies that are found by a court to have sanctuary policies face fines of $500 to $5,000 for each day such a violation remains in effect after the filing of the lawsuit.
The right to sue was among the parts of the law that were allowed to take effect in July 2010. But a federal judge has barred police from enforcing the law's more contentious sections, such as a requirement that officers check the immigration status of people they stop for other reasons.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule before the end of the month on Gov. Jan Brewer's appeal of the 2010 ruling. Legal experts expect that the court likely will uphold the requirement for immigration-status checks, siding with Arizona officials' legal argument that SB1070 is not trumped by federal immigration law.
Such a ruling will prompt groups that already have challenged the law to ask the courts to again prevent enforcement of the controversial sections based on other arguments, such as racial profiling.
While seven challenges to the law have been filed, no lawsuits have been brought to court so far that alleged that a police agency had a sanctuary policy.
The question about what types of immigration inquiries police can make came to a head in Arizona during 2007 when Phoenix police Officer Nick Erfle was killed by an illegal immigrant, who shot the officer as he tried to arrest the immigrant on a warrant.
After his release from prison and subsequent deportation, the immigrant sneaked into the country again and was arrested for misdemeanor assault in Scottsdale, but wasn't reported to federal immigration authorities. The immigrant was fatally shot a short time later by police as he pointed a gun at a carjacking victim's head.
Phoenix revamped its policy on officers inquiring about people's immigration status after a union representing 2,500 rank-and-file officers had complained that officers were tired of seeing crimes tied to illegal immigration.
Under the law's right-to-sue provision, officers are indemnified from having to pay attorney fees and other legal costs in such lawsuits unless they are found to have acted in bad faith.
Source: abcnews.go.com
'World's largest wind farm' begins to take shape off the coast of Essex - Daily Mail
- When complete, the 1.7 billion project in the Thames Estuary will boast 217 turbines
- It will be able to generate enough electricity for 750,000 homes
- Set to be connected to the National Grid next spring
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When fully operational, it will be the world's largest offshore wind farm - and, as these pictures show, work on the project in the Thames Estuary is moving along at quite a pace.
The wind farm, which is being built in the shallow waters 12 miles off the coasts of Kent and Essex, which, when complete will feature 217 turbines that will be able to supply enough electricity to power a quarter of London's homes.
The 1.7 billion wind farm, known as the London Array, is owned by the utility companies E.ON, Dong Energy and Masdar and is expected to start sending energy to the National Grid next spring.
The first phase of the project will generate 630 megawatts of power - equivalent to a small gas or coal fired power station and enough to supply 470,000 homes.
Corridors of power: When complete, the London Array wind farm will be the largest in the world
Vast: The 1.7 billion London Array wind farm will feature 217 turbines when complete
The second phase will bring the total to 217 turbines, each towering 147 metres above the estuary, giving 1000 mw of power, enough for 750,000 homes.
Work on the project began in January.
It was originally given the go-ahead in May 2009.
At present, the world's largest offshore wind farm is the 102-turbine Walney project, located off the coast of Cumbria.
The Walney project is capable of providing sufficient electricity for about 320,000 homes.
Work in progress: Construction work takes place on one of the wind turbines in the Thames Estuary
Estuarine energy: The turbines, in the Thames Estuary, will eventually be able to generate enough electricity for 750,000 homes
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
No sexy outfits nuns told in 1,300-year-old 'rule' book - Daily Telegraph
Warning that both nuns and clergymen are dressing inappropriately, he adds: “It shames me to speak of the bold impudence of conceit and the fine insolence of stupidity which are found both among nuns who abide under the rule of a settlement, and among the men of the Church … With many-coloured vestments and with elegant adornments, the body is set off and the external form decked out limb by limb.”
As well as lifestyle advice, Aldhelm - an energetic evangelist and early supporter of women’s education - includes biographies of female saints famed for their virginity who he holds up as role models, including Scholastica, the patron saint of nuns and twin sister of St Benedict; Christina, tortured to death for her faith by her pagan father; and Dorothy, executed for her Christianity after turning down a marriage proposal.
Written in Latin in the seventh century, the book is the first known text from England to be aimed at a female readership. At the time, Barking was a country village outside London and its abbey, founded in 666AD, was home to generations of nuns for more than 800 years.
Whilst Aldhelm had no ecclesiastical authority over the abbey, his advice would have been heeded because he was a noted scholar of his day, of royal blood, who founded two monasteries and served as an abbot and a bishop.
The four pages up for auction at Sotheby’s next month are inscribed on vellum - high quality parchment made from sheep skin or calf hide – from a copy of the book produced in around 800AD, and believed to have been owned at one stage by St Dunstan, a tenth-century Archbishop of Canterbury. They are expected to fetch £500,000.
Timothy Bolton, a specialist in western medieval manuscripts at Sotheby’s, said: “Aldhelm’s work is remarkable because there simply aren’t any texts by English authors addressed to women before this.
"He expects the nuns to study and understand his sophisticated writings, raising the bar of education for women to the same level of men, becoming the first English feminist author.”
The extract forms part of an auction of 60 rare manuscripts, spanning more than five millennia, that are expected to fetch more than £2 million in total.
They include fragments of Homer’s The Iliad dating to the year of Christ’s birth which were used by the Egyptians to wrap around a mummy; a document belonging to the father of King Harold, the last Anglo Saxon king; and the earliest surviving text of one of the most important passages from the New Testament, St Paul’s Epistle to the Romans.
They will be sold by Martin Schoyen, a Norwegian collector and heir to a shipping and transport business.
Dr Christopher de Hamel, the fellow librarian of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and an expert on ancient manuscripts, said: “This sale is exceptional in telling the story of Western script from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages. It contains the bare bone relics of the history of the English language.”
The sale includes The Godwine Charter, drawn up for Earl Godwine, the most powerful English lord in the decades before the Norman Conquest and the father of King Harold, who was defeated and killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Dated c. 1013 to 1020 and written on vellum in Anglo Saxon, the document details Earl Godwine’s sale of a swine pasture, believed to be in Kent, to one of his tenants, Leofwine the Red, for “forty pence and two pounds and an allowance of eight ambers of corn”.
Expected to fetch up to £250,000 at auction, it is one of the rarest surviving Anglo Saxon texts from before the Norman Conquest, after which Old English, replaced by Latin and French, ceased to be the language of officialdom.
The sale will also include the Wyman Fragment, the earliest surviving version of an excerpt from St Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, widely acknowledged as one of the most famous documents in the history of Christianity.
Dating from the late third century when Christianity was still an illegal cult in the Roman empire, the vellum fragment written in Greek comprises Romans 4:23-5:3 on one side, and on the other, Romans 5:8-13, including the crucial passage on the justification by faith which forms the core of the Epistle and of the theology of Christianity: “Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
For this passage of the Epistle, the Wyman Fragment is universally accepted as the earliest surviving version and is expected to fetch up to £200,000 at auction.
The fragment was reportedly found in the early 20th century by a group of Arabs at Fustât, in north-eastern Cairo, Egypt, near the site of the Roman fortress of Babylon.
Mr Schoyen acquired it in 1988 from the heirs of the American anthropologist, Dr Leland Wyman, who bought it from an antiquities dealer in Cairo in 1950.
Fragments from Homer’s The Iliad dating from c. 0 will also feature in the sale. Experts believe the papyrus fragments were once part of a scroll once used by the ancient Egyptians to wrap around a mummy, which survived in the sands of North Africa.
They were first acquired by the Austrian conservator, Dr Anton Fackelmann, in Cairo in 1969 as part of a mummy cartonage. Mr Schoyen acquired them from his heirs in 1998 and they are estimated to fetch £30,000 at auction.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Only Way Is (out of) Essex for Sam and Joey - The Sun
The pair began dating when they met on the second series of Towie last year.
Now they see themselves as the next Katie Price and Peter Andre — whose fly-on-the-wall ITV2 series was a huge hit until the couple divorced.
Last week Sam and Joey were spotted discussing plans for a new reality show in central London’s swanky W Hotel.
Insiders revealed: “Sam and Joey were talking about how they were going to do their own spin-off show and how they’d love it to be on ITV2.
“Joey said he thought Sam would be perfect starring in her own show and that people would finally get to see her funny side.”
The move comes after Sam admitted last month that she thought it could be time to leave Towie behind. The blonde beauty has written a book, launched her boutique — called Minnies — and won numerous modelling jobs thanks to the show.
She said: “I’ve done five series so there will come a time when I leave.
“I don’t want to be there with no new storylines because I’ve already done everything I can do.”
However, Sam has warned Joey that she won’t act the fool in a new telly series.
Our insider continued: “Sam was insistent she didn’t want to come across as stupid in the show — that was her main focus.
“They both seemed very excited by the new venture.”
Sam has appeared in ITV’s Essex hit since it was launched in October 2010, while Joey joined in March 2011.
Last night Joey’s manager said: “There is nothing official being discussed yet and there are no plans for Joey to go anywhere at the minute.
“But the guys may chat about ideas they have.”
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
Hot and Humid Weather to Invade Windsor-Essex, Tuesday to Thursday - windsorite.ca
We’re in for a lot of heat in the coming days in Windsor-Essex.
Environment Canada says a very warm air mass is projected to arrive on Monday over southwestern Ontario and make its way across the rest of Southern Ontario through the week.
The heat is expected to intensify and spread over much of Southern Ontario on Tuesday building into a three-day heat episode. Monday’s high temperatures are expected to reach the 30°C or 86°F mark in Windsor. The mercury is anticipated to soar past 35°C or 95°F Tuesday and likely persist through Thursday, affecting Windsor, Essex County and much of Southwestern Ontario to the greater Toronto area.
Elevated humidity levels will combine with the high temperatures to give humidex values of 40°C or 104°F and higher. Night-time temperatures will also remain very warm and are not expected to drop below 22°C or 72°F.
This is expected to make for very uncomfortable conditions and moderate to high readings in the air quality health index.
Source: windsorite.ca
No-marks: TOWIE invades Hollywood but Mark Wright and his pals are a disaster - Daily Mirror
First there was Frank Sinatra’s hell-raising Rat Pack.
Then came Tinsel Town’s 1980s Brat Pack.
And now here they are... Essex’s legendary Prat Pack!
OK, I’ll admit I fully expected Mark Wright’s Hollywood Nights to be pretty bad.
But all credit to Mark and his mates... they swiftly exceed my wildest nightmares.
This horrible hour of sheer tedium isn’t just bad... it’s a spectacular disaster that thoroughly deserves to rank alongside OMG! With Peaches Geldof and Outcasts among the worst programmes ever to disgrace the screen.
Congratulations to the top team at ITV2 on a fantastic addition to your stable of greatness.
The breathtakingly boring action starts after muscular Mark warns us: “Some of what you are about to see has been set up by me purely for your entertainment.” What entertainment?
Anyway, the non-story so far seems to be that a nice-but-dim himbo and his uncharismatic crew from Britain’s spray-tanned zone have been given a fistful of dollars to go to Los Angeles for a five-week holiday in the sun.
After a transparently fabricated mix-up over the tickets, three of them have to fly economy class. Who cares?
And when they arrive in California – surprise surprise – another transparently fabricated mix-up over the car hire.
So the boys are forced to drive off in a clapped-out old Ford Mondeo. Hilarious.
Oh no... now there’s yet another transparently fabricated mix-up over the hotel...
It’s a dreadful dump in the dangerous part of town... where our heroes witness an entirely staged fake shoot-out complete with a counterfeit cop. Terrifying.
Even classically trained thespians would struggle to make this child-like pretend tosh seem real.
But in the hands of five blocks of wood who can’t act their way out of a paper bag it’s a total joke.
So let’s meet sauna-loving Mr Wright’s impressive “entourage”: Mark’s minder DJ Nick DaFunk, aka Mr Expert, Mark’s business manager Neil, aka Mr 80s, Mark’s fat friend Tommy, aka Mr Mummy’s Boy and Mark’s driver Georgie, aka Mr Wheels.
It’s unclear whether Mr Wheels and the gormless gang are aware that the string-pulling producers are choreographing the far-fetched scrapes they keep getting into.
But they can’t possibly be as stupid as they look. So we can assume they’re in on the ruse.
Back to the deceitful drama... and after conveniently hooking up with a car full of scantily-clad stunners, Mark phones his pals: “I’m wiv de gels.
They’re gonna drive me back nah. I need to pick yous up.” A fine cut-glass accent. Estuary English as a second language.
Good on these lucky lads for nabbing a free vacation at gullible ITV’s expense.
But who wants to watch a bunch of bozos hamming it up in silly situations that simply don’t ring true?
Compared to this ludicrous “structured reality” shambles The Only Way Is Essex and Made In Chelsea look like Shakespeare...
No comedy... but a whole load of errors.
Big Brother: House of the Rising Dumb
Big Brother... and self-styled tough guy Chris declares: “I fancy eating an onion... it puts hairs on my chest.”
Yeah, Chris... very manly. One day it might even make your voice break.
And so Channel 5’s moronic inferno trundles on. And on...
Who ate all the sausages? Who gives a damn? Except cretinous country bumpkin Laura who clashes with her fellow females and sobs: “Girls never like me.”
Big surprise. I’m guessing boys don’t go a bundle on her either.
Meanwhile, eat your heart out Casanova... you’ve met your match. And his name is Luke Scrase. An old-school romantic, fluent in the language of love.
Marvel at this great seducer as he works his magic on trashy Ashleigh...
“I want to smash your back doors in,” he whispers. What woman could resist such charm and sophistication?
Not Ashleigh, that’s for damned sure. She wraps her legs around Luke’s face and purrs: “Don’t you start doing stuff like that on national television.”
Translation: “Start doing stuff like that... it’ll get us on national television.” Ashleigh’s no fool. Or is she?
Going down to the Depp...
Another triumph for the British education system as learned Annie Grace climbs aboard E4’s Love Shaft and dazzles us with her general knowledge.
Question: “Who’s the Prime Minister?” Annie: “What now? Er... Gordon Brown.” So close!
Question: “What’s the capital of America?” Annie: “New York.” Embarrassing silence. “It’s not New York?”
No it isn’t. But nice try.
Cut to the 21-year-old singer’s mortified mother Vickie, who cries: “What have I taught my daughter?”
Not a whole helluva lot, it would seem.
But this is the inexplicable speed-dating show set in a lift for no apparent reason.
So it doesn’t matter that poor Annie isn’t the sharpest pin in the pack.
It’s all about romance. . . and on her ascent to the penthouse suite, the fun-loving redhead is really hoping to meet Johnny Depp.
That’s gonna happen. Instead, she is confronted by a naked dork called Luca with a photograph of Mr Depp dangling over his private parts.
No one knows why.
An empty exercise in towering pointlessness, this pathetic programme is dangerously addictive.
Just say no.
Only Abi at home
An extreme case of soap agoraphobia as brilliant Abi Branning sensibly turns down the chance to spend eight weeks in the tropical paradise of Costa Rica.
Because there’s no way she’s leaving glamorous Albert Square!
After finishing (and presumably failing) her exams, Abs reveals: “The only thing that got me through all that revising was the thought of summer with Jay and my mates.” An exciting prospect...
Desperate to persuade her dim daughter to spread her wings, Britain’s worst mother Tanya sighs: “If you stay round here you’ll end up like me.”
Sleeping around , burying your cheating husband alive, etc.
But in the tiny micro-world of EastEnders, even the three-mile odyssey from Walford to the West End is considered an epic journey.
So Central America is simply out of the question.
Never mind... Kat’s back and all of a sudden the Beeb’s suicide-inducing Cockney drama feels slightly less depressing.
Issuing those dark threats she never goes through with, the magnificent Mrs Moon has declared war on her evil cousin-in-law Michael.
Oozing malevolence, E20’s top slapper snarls: “Michael Moon is a snake with a cesspit where his heart should be.”
Atta girl. Welcome home...
Losing marbs
Confusion as ITV2 proudly presents The Only Way Is Marbs.
I thought the only way was Essex.
It can’t be both.
But here they are… the orange people all on holiday in the same place at the same time.
In their tacky spiritual home, Marbella.
And a lucky break for loser Arg as giant Gemma shows him her massive backside and squeals: “You ain’t ever gonna get this candy.”
Arg’s relief is palpable…
Big up
Series end for Sky Atlantic’s marvellous Mad Men as womaniser extraordinaire Don Draper ordered a drink, lit his umpteenth cigarette… and prepared to play the field.
A great scene bringing down the curtain on a great series.
Which, inexplicably, hardly anyone watched.
But I did… and it restored my faith in television.
Big down
Pure poetry on Sky Living’s masterpiece Katie as The Pricey drawls: “I love you. I still don’t know what them words mean.”
Then Her Travesty has a tasteful tattoo of stockings and suspenders inked on to her thigh.
“You’ll look like a map!” cries her horrified mum Amy. “Dreadful.”
Agreed.
My fave lines
Euro 2012, England v France… and ITV’s cliché king Clive Tyldesley booms: “Agincourt, Waterloo… and now Donetsk!” Great comparison. What an idiot.
ITV… and the continuity lady says: “What with the sunshine hiding from us in the UK how about we at ITV give you a dose?” Er… no thanks.
More crap from Embarrassing Bodies Live At The Clinic… as excrement-obsessed Dr Dawn Harper informs us: “Tonight I’m having my poo examined to find out if eating your greens could actually help prevent cancer.”
Just shut the hell up…
Over to Euro 2012… and BBC1’s Mark Lawrenson declares: “You know what team stands for... Together Everyone Achieves More.”
Commentator Jonathan Pearce: “Was that your mantra at Liverpool?”Mark: “No, I just made it up.”
To Made In Chelsea’s sparsely attended end-of-season party… where midget Spencer Matthews reveals that his short romance with dwarf-like Louise Thompson is over.
Leaving him single... and free to star in Channel 5’s The Bachelor.
How convenient.
Source: www.mirror.co.uk
Timeline of the health care law - CNN
(CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court will rule this month on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act , the health-care reform law that President Obama had signed in March 2010. Here's a look at key moments in the law's history:
Feb. 24, 2009 -- In a joint session to Congress, President Obama says: "So let there be no doubt: Health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year."
March 5, 2009 -- The White House holds its first health care summit.
April 21, 2009 -- Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley hold the first of three roundtables bringing together health policy and industry experts to discuss the development of health care reform legislation.
July 15, 2009 -- The Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passes The Affordable Health Choices Act. The bipartisan bill includes more than 160 Republican amendments accepted during the month-long mark-up, one of the longest in Congressional history.
July 31, 2009 -- The bill is reported out of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce by a vote of 31 to 28.
August 15, 2009 -- During the August recess, Obama goes on the road in support of the bill. Angry Tea Party members and conservatives lash out against the bill at town halls. President Obama battles a false rumor that the legislation includes "death panels" that could decide whether people live or die.
August 26, 2009 -- Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy, a leading proponent of health care reform, dies. That risks Senate Democrats losing their 60-seat filibuster-proof supermajority.
September 29, 2009 -- The Senate Finance Committee rejects two amendments to include a government-run public health insurance option in the only compromise health care bill so far.
October 13, 2009 -- The Senate Finance Committee approves Baucus' landmark health reform bill, the America's Healthy Future Act.
November 7, 2009 -- The House of Representatives passes a version of the sweeping health care bill by a vote of 220-215.
December 19, 2009 -- Senator Ben Nelson, a conservative Democratic, becomes the 60th vote needed to pass the Senate version of the health care bill.
December 24, 2009 -- The Senate passes its health care bill 60-39.
January 17, 2010 -- Obama stumps for Martha Coakley in a tight race against Scott Brown to replace Kennedy. Brown had pledged to vote against Democratic health care efforts.
January 19, 2010 -- Brown wins the special election, jeopardizing the health care legislation.
February 25, 2010 -- Obama holds a televised heath care summit with leaders from both parties to explain the health care bill.
March 11, 2010 -- In a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Majority Leader Harry Reid says Democrats will use 'reconciliation' to pass the health care bill, needing only 51 votes.
March 21, 2010 -- The Senate passes its version of the bill, sending the legislation to Obama's desk to be signed. A separate package of changes expanding the reach of the measure also passed the House over unanimous GOP opposition, and will be taken up by the Senate.
March 23, 2010 -- Obama signs the health care bill into law.
August 12, 2011 -- The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that parts of the law are unconstitutional.
November 8, 2011 -- The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington rules that the law is constitutional.
November 14, 2011 -- The Supreme Court agrees to hear a legal challenge to the law after 26 states, led by Florida, petitioned the high court.
March 26, 2012 -- The Supreme Court begins three days of oral arguments over the constitutionality of the law.
Source: www.cnn.com
I would be sad about this. Because the truth is that Renemy and Obama are virtually the same person. However, I am voting for Ron Paul. At least I know his policies would turn around our economy, and that he won't get us into any more unconstitutional undeclared wars! -Oz
- Ozlanthos, Springtucky, USA, 18/6/2012 05:46
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