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Saturday, March 16, 2013
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Just in time for some Easter learning fun I am bringing to you this bunny themed color me emergent reader. I created this emergent reader so your child can read easily it, focus on the color sight words, and then color the pictures to match the color of each color sight word page of the emergent reader. I hope that this helps bring your child a little joy and reading confidence this Easter!
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Bunny, Bunny, What Do You See? Emergent Reader
Just in time for some Easter learning fun I am bringing to you this bunny themed color me emergent reader. I created this emergent reader so your child can read easily it, focus on the color sight words, and then color the pictures to match the color of each color sight word page of the emergent reader. I hope that this helps bring your child a little joy and reading confidence this Easter!
Most of my over 180+ printable creations are available only through my E.H.M. Member?s Only Website for a one time lifetime fee of $15.00. Click?HERE to download your free copy of my Bunny, Bunny, What Do You See? Emergent Reader.?
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Friday, March 15, 2013
Libya detains suspect in attacks on U.S. outposts in Benghazi
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Mark Hosenball
TRIPOLI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Libyan authorities have detained a man investigators believe could be an important witness or suspect in the attacks on U.S. outposts in Benghazi, Libya last September, according to people familiar with the matter.
The man, a Libyan national identified as Faraj al-Chalabi, fled to Pakistan after the attacks and only recently returned to Libya, said the sources, who include people in the United States and Libya close to the ongoing investigations. One Libyan security source said he was from Eastern Libya.
The U.S. government is aware of al-Chalabi's detention and there are signs American investigators may have been able to pose questions to him, according to the sources. It is not clear whether those questions were posed in person or through Libyan authorities.
Precisely what role the detained man played in the September 11, 2012 attacks is unclear.
U.S. sources in Washington said they did not believe he was a principal instigator or a front-line leader of the attacks on a poorly guarded temporary U.S. diplomatic mission compound and a more fortified CIA compound nearby.
U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, two CIA security officers and another U.S. diplomat were killed in the attacks.
The Benghazi incident became a major headache for President Barack Obama's administration just months before the November presidential election. Republicans assailed the Democratic president partly over security lapses, but also over the administration's conflicting early accounts of what happened.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating the case and its agents have visited Libya. So far, no individuals are known to be facing criminal charges in connection with the attacks.
At a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller said FBI investigators had been on the ground in Tripoli and elsewhere, and he believed the inquiry will "prove to be fruitful." He did not elaborate.
An FBI spokesman said on Wednesday Mueller's remarks "speak for themselves" and "Benghazi remains an ongoing investigation."
A senior Libyan official confirmed an arrest had recently been made. "There is progress in the investigation. We hope it is going in the right way," the official said, without providing more details.
At least two other men suspected of being connected to the attacks were detained by authorities outside Libya at one time or another, said one U.S. source familiar with the investigation.
In one case, Ali Harzi, a Tunisian, was picked up in Turkey and returned by authorities to Tunisia, where he was held for a time and FBI agents were allowed to question him. His lawyer later said Harzi had been conditionally set free due to a lack of evidence.
In another case, Muhammed Jamal, leader of a militant faction based in Egypt, was detained and held by Egyptian authorities. A U.S. source said Jamal, an alleged former operative of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, was still believed to be in custody.
It is not clear if U.S. authorities have been able to question him, however, and U.S. officials have said the role of Jamal in the Benghazi attacks was also unclear. However, U.S. officials have said they believe some of Jamal's followers likely were involved in the attacks.
(Additional reporting by Ali Shuaib in Tripoli; Editing by Todd Eastham)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/libya-detains-suspect-attacks-u-outposts-benghazi-201730522.html
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Once again, the city of Dallas ponders privatizing the police auto ...
The Dallas Auto Pound on Vilbig Road in West Dallas (Roberto M. Sanchez/Al Dia)
In 2010 the city of Dallas sought requests from parties interested in taking over operations of the Dallas Auto Pound on Vilbig Road in West Dallas, between W. Commerce Street and Fort Worth Avenue. Efforts to privatize the pound (and sell its 50 acres) eventually stalled, but yesterday on its inscrutable bids website the city said it?s willing to give the proposal another spin.
According to the brief document posted to the site Thursday, on March 29 the city?s hosting a chitchat at Dallas City Hall with ?qualified interested parties? who?d willing to ?contribute their insight and expertise to the feasibility of privatizing three components that make up the auto pound operation: auto pound management, towing operations and auto auction.?
The document says the Dallas Police Department-controlled pound employs about 25 civilians and 16 sworn officers.
Three years ago the city considered privatizing the pound to cut costs: As Steve Thompson noted at the time, it made a net profit of around $3.2 million annually but cost around $9 million to operate. We?re awaiting current numbers.
Right now, it costs a person about $140 if they pick up their car the same day it?s towed for whatever reason. But the cost goes up every day a car?s left in the pound ? $20 per day, plus an additional $50 for a notification letter that?s sent out after 48 hours. According to yesterday?s posting, during the 2011-12 fiscal year about 35,000 police-related tows made their way to the pound, and they find their way to Vilbig courtesy the 37 tow companies the city has OK?d to do business there.
Some, of course, are auctioned off: Last year, says the city, it sold about 6,100 cars parked at the pound, and at auction ?the average value per car is currently $825.?
Says the city?s invitation to the pre-bid meeting, ?The City seeks open feedback in a roundtable format as to how privatization can benefit the City for each component. This discussion will assist the City in decision making when considering privatization of these components and possibly the eventual issuance of a Request for Proposals (RFP).?
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House votes to prevent March 27 federal shutdown
Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, leaves the chamber after Republicans passed legislation through the House to ease the impact of $85 billion in short-term cuts and prevent a government shutdown later this month, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, leaves the chamber after Republicans passed legislation through the House to ease the impact of $85 billion in short-term cuts and prevent a government shutdown later this month, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., waves as he finishes a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Graham and a small group of GOP senators have been invited to dinner by President Barack Obama Wednesday night to address political gridlock. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2012 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans assert their budget priorities, working to give the Pentagon some flexibility on automatic budget cuts while previewing a plan to eliminate deficits in a decade. President Barack Obama launches something of a charm offensive to sway skeptical Republicans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013 file photo, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans assert their budget priorities, working to give the Pentagon some flexibility on automatic budget cuts while previewing a plan to eliminate deficits in a decade. President Barack Obama launches something of a charm offensive to sway skeptical Republicans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republicans pushed legislation through the House on Wednesday to prevent a government shutdown this month while easing the short-term impact of $85 billion in spending cuts ? at the same time previewing a longer-term plan to erase federal deficits without raising taxes.
President Barack Obama pursued a different path as the GOP asserted its budget priorities. He hosted a dinner with a dozen Republican senators at a hotel near the White House in search of bipartisan support for a deficit-cutting approach that includes the higher taxes he seeks as well as savings from Medicare and other benefit programs that they stress. The Republican leaders of the House and Senate did not participate.
Any such compromise talks were unlikely to yield fruit for months, if then, although Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the author of the House Republican budget plan, expressed hope that some progress across party lines might be possible later in the year.
"I think this whole thing will come to a crescendo this summer, and we're going to have to talk to each other to get an agreement about how to delay a debt crisis, how to save this country from a fiscal train wreck that's coming," said Ryan, who was the Republicans' vice presidential candidate last year. He added that he had spoken with Obama in recent days, but he declined to provide details.
For now, the divided government's immediate objectives are to prevent a shutdown of federal agencies on March 27, at the same time lawmakers and the White House look for ways to ease the impact of across-the-board spending cuts that kicked in less than a week ago.
The legislation that cleared the House on a bipartisan vote of 267-151 would do both, ensuring funding through the Sept. 30 end of the budget year while granting the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs greater flexibility in implementing their share of short-term spending cuts.
"This is all about whether or not we shut down the government. This is a bill to keep the government operating," said Rep. Hal Rogers, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the House Appropriations Committee.
Minority Democrats appeared torn between a desire to support legislation to keep the government open and their goal of replacing at least half of the spending cuts with provisions to increase revenue.
"Instead of closing tax loopholes for corporate jets, they want to cut 4 million meals on wheels," the party's House leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, said of Republicans.
The bill passed with the support of 53 Democrats, more than a quarter of those voting.
It now goes to the Senate, where Democrats and the White House are deep in negotiations with Republicans on changes that would give the Department of Homeland Security and other domestic agencies the same type of flexibility in administering the spending cuts that the Pentagon would receive.
Obama's two-hour dinner with Senate Republicans stemmed from a suggestion he made during a conversation recently with GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, according to a presidential aide. It also served as prelude to at least two trips to the Capitol in coming days as the chief executive meets with the rank and file of both parties in both houses.
Obama had a good exchange of ideas with lawmakers, a White House official said after the dinner. Sen. John McCain, who was among Obama's guests, told a reporter that the meal went "just fine."
The spending legislation was still pending on the House floor when Ryan began pulling back the curtain on his plan to eliminate deficits in 10 years. The government ran a deficit of more than $1 trillion for the past budget year, about $200 billion less than the year before, and the total federal debt is about $16 trillion.
To achieve his 10-year goal of producing a surplus, Ryan said he would incorporate the tax increases on the wealthy that Congress passed on Jan. 1 over the objections of many House Republicans. The hike translates into an estimated $600 billion or more in additional revenue to the government.
The Wisconsin Republican also intends to retain the $85 billion in spending cuts, which translate to a savings of $900 billion or more over a decade, and renew without significant changes a controversial proposal to overhaul Medicare.
Speaking of spending in general, he said, "We're making additional modest changes to get to balance."
Ryan had earlier floated the possibility of accelerating his Medicare proposal so it would apply to individuals currently older than 55.
Under pressure from some members of the rank and file, he decided against that ? but drew criticism during the day from Democrats anyway.
"Every time they put in a budget, the first thing they do is ask seniors to sacrifice the most," said Rep. Steve Israel of New York, who heads the Democrats' campaign committee.
Ryan's Medicare plan would give future retirees a choice between enrolling in the existing program or a roster of private alternatives, although in any case they would receive a monthly check from the government to defray the cost and be responsible for the difference.
In its previous forms, the plan also capped the overall cost of the program.
Republicans say change is necessary in order to rescue Medicare from financial ruin as members of the post-World War II baby boom generation retire in large numbers. Democrats contend the plan would effectively end the guarantee of health care coverage that Medicare embodies by exposing seniors to prohibitively large cost increases.
Obama has proposed roughly $400 billion in savings over a decade from health care benefit programs, much of it from Medicare, but he has consistently rejected Ryan's approach.
Senate Democrats are drafting their own budget, expected to be made public next week. Officials have yet to say how large a deficit it envisions in a decade, but it will differ in significant ways from the Republican approach.
Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the Budget Committee chairman, has said she will replace the across-the-board cuts with a blend of spending reductions and tax increase, an approach Obama favors.
Other Democrats say she will follow Obama's lead on Medicare, setting up a contrast with Republicans that her party hopes to exploit in the 2014 elections.
Obama's own budget has been delayed repeatedly this year, and it is not clear if he intends to release it before the House and Senate hold their debates this month.
If the administration waits until April, it could avoid certain embarrassment at the hands of Republicans. It is a ritual of budget politics for the party out of power in the White House to demand a vote on the president's budget, knowing it will fail, sometimes ignominiously.
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Associated Press writers Andrew Taylor and Julie Pace contributed to this report.
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New 3-D reconstructions show buried flood channels on Mars
Mar. 7, 2013 ? New maps of the subsurface of Mars show for the first time buried channels below the surface of the red planet. Mars is considered to have been cold and dry over the past 2.5 billion years, but these channels suggest evidence of flooding. Understanding the source and scale of the young channels present in Elysium Planitia -- an expanse of plains along the equator, and the youngest volcanic region on the planet -- is essential to comprehend recent Martian hydrologic activity and determine if such floods could have induced climate change.
The findings are reported by a team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Planetary Science Directorate in the Southwest Research Institute and the Smithsonian Institution, led by Smithsonian scientist Gareth A. Morgan, in a paper in the March 7 issue of the journal Science.
As a consequence of extensive volcanism throughout the past several hundred million years, young lava covers most of the surface of Elysium Planitia, burying evidence of its recent geologic history, including the source and most of the length of the 1,000 kilometer-long Marte Vallis channel system. Marte Vallis has a similar morphology to more ancient channel systems on Mars that likely formed by the catastrophic release of ground water; however, little is known about Marte Vallis due to its burial by lava.
The team used data from the Shallow Radar on board the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to probe the subsurface of Elysium Planitia. They were able to map the buried channels and establish that the floods originated from a now buried portion of the Cerberus Fossae fracture system.
"Our findings show that the scale of erosion was previously underestimated and that channel depth was at least twice that of previous approximations," said Morgan, geologist at the National Air and Space Museum's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and lead author on the paper. "The source of the floodwaters suggests they originated from a deep groundwater reservoir and may have been released by local tectonic or volcanic activity. This work demonstrates the importance of orbital sounding radar in understanding how water has shaped the surface of Mars."
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- Gareth. A. Morgan, Bruce. A. Campbell, Lynn. M. Carter, Jeffrey. J. Plaut, and Roger. J. Phillips. 3D Reconstruction of the Source and Scale of Buried Young Flood Channels on Mars. Science, 7 March 2013 DOI: 10.1126/science.1234787
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