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This is the second part of my series on the Kala Ghoda Art Festival. Please read Part 1 before reading further.
Mumbai is the city of dreams, the city which never sleeps. This post is about the visual art displays representing the city. And let me start with one of my favourites –
Dhanda, or business, is what keeps this city going. The city is called the commercial capital of our country, and this is a word that applies to all – from the lowliest labourer to the corporate honcho. This word looms over the city skyline, in letters represented by skyscrapers, towering over tiny hutments that cover every inch of space far below, on the ground. What a perfect representation of our city!!!
|This is one of my fav pics.. the huge letters representing skyscrapers with shanties all around them, captured with the heritage building of the David Sasoon Library.. so typical of Mumbai, isnt it ?|
Space being the biggest commodity here, another oft repeated word is FSI – Floor Space Index. Instead, here is an artist’s rendition of another FSI – Floral Space Index!!! How much better and more colourful it is!!!
In this city obsessed with space, birds are taking a hit, especially sparrows, which have all but disappeared from the concrete jungle that is the city.
However, there is another side – the side of a city slowly waking up to the issue, for example, by building bird houses.
I loved this representation of a well, showing us the reflection of all the buildings which are supposedly around it... scarcely the water which it is meant to hold!
This installation showed us our city, as was evident from the Wankhede Stadium and the Nehru Science centre models. Unfortunately, the information board wasn’t put up, so we had to make our own interpretations – does this represent, for instance, the island city being flooded once again?
The best among all was undoubtedly the one representing Mumbai’s famed Dabbawalas. This huge dabba has apparently been made by students of the Singapore International School, which really impressed me.
And here is the dabbawala.... literally carrying the city on his back...
The attention to detail is great.... there are our most popular monuments right there, along with a few dabbas..
And here is a closer look at the man himself. What a wonderful tribute to a group of men who make it possible for us to have hot meals from home delivered to our office!
People come to the city, with stars in their eyes... which is represented by this installation, which literally shows stars in our eyes! There are stars... and then again there are stars – filmstars!
It is impossible to talk of Mumbai without films and film stars figuring somewhere. And they were here too, in large numbers, I may add – if not in person, in representations! One of the most prominent installations depicted 100 years of Indian Cinema....
with the father of Indian Cinema, Dadasaheb Phalke looming over the installation...
and loads of film stars, of course, the bulk from Hindi films.....
They were everywhere to be seen... even hanging from the trees!
Fashion in the city wasn’t neglected either, with this huge, high heeled shoe entitled ‘Shoe in a Metro’.
And finally, among installations related to the city, there was this huge replica of a Mummy, right outside the side entrance of the Museum, encouraging visitors to go look at the Mummy which is on display at the museum. And it looks like the ploy was successful, since we saw huge queues waiting for a glimpse of the Mummy, and thanked the stars we already had our turn!
If you are wondering, no, thats not all.... there is still more to see.. And we are still at Rampart Row! So, come back again, tomorrow, for some more glimpses of KGAF 2013!
Once again, for those of you who want to go and see it for yourselves, here is a link to the complete schedule.... | <urn:uuid:6b629874-3ce8-45fb-81d3-41efd0873d63> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://anushankarn.blogspot.com/2013/02/kala-ghoda-arts-festival-part-2.html | 2013-06-19T06:22:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964037 | 857 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Caps and Pens Tangle in Prelude to Classic
December 23 vs. Pittsburgh Penguins at Verizon Center
820AM, 1500AM and XM
Pre-Cap pre-game podcast on washingtoncaps.com at 2 p.m.
Pittsburgh Penguins (23-10-2)
Washington Capitals (20-12-4)
Washington plays its 37th game of the season on Thursday when it hosts the Pittsburgh Penguins at Verizon Center. The meeting will be the first of four between the two teams this season, and a prelude to the much more ballyhooed meeting between the two teams next week at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh for the NHL’s Winter Classic.
Thursday’s game figures to be a focal point of the HBO series “24/7: The Road To The Winter Classic.”
The Caps stopped an eight-game winless slide on Sunday in Ottawa with a 3-2 win over the Senators. They followed that up with a convincing 5-1 win over the Devils on Tuesday.
Now their focus is squarely on Pittsburgh, a team they play twice in the next four games. Washington wants to take a three-game winning streak into the NHL’s two-day holiday break.
“I think we’re looking forward to the game because the buildup is so big,” says Caps coach Bruce Boudreau. “They haven’t stopped winning; they had a little blip in the radar. We’re in like a mini-turnaround. We’re not where we want to be, but it’s better than going in 0-10.”
Washington’s confidence is building, collectively and individually. Even though the quartet of the Caps’ top offensive players – Alex Ovechkin
, Nicklas Backstrom
, Alexander Semin
and Mike Green
– has been quiet for a prolonged period, the Caps have gotten contributions from the rest of the roster.
The Caps had five different goal-scorers in the win over the Devils, including three members of the 2010 Calder Cup champion Hershey Bears: Andrew Gordon
, Jay Beagle
and John Carlson
. Those contributions have been welcome in light of the ongoing offensive slump of the team’s top offensive talents.
Since the start of the 2007-08 season, the Capitals are 151-49-27 when one or more of Ovechkin, Backstrom, Semin and Green scores in a game. The Caps are 16-33-6 when none of those players scores.
Already this season, the Caps have had 14 such games (3-11-1). Currently, Washington is in the midst of an almost unfathomable run in which none of those four players have scored in seven straight games. The Caps have totaled 13 goals in those seven games, with five of them coming in Tuesday’s win over New Jersey.
“We want everybody clicking on all cylinders,” says Boudreau. “Right now, we’ve got maybe 12 or 13 guys going as good as they can, and we’re winning different ways. But our power play’s not going very well. We’ve got certain individuals not scoring the way they’re accustomed to scoring. Last game [against the Devils], we gave up 35 shots.
“All year it seems we’re looking for the perfect game and it hasn’t happened. But we’d like to see more of the kind of game from [Tuesday] night more often.”
Each of the Caps’ young duo of defensemen – Karl Alzner
and John Carlson
– is plus-6 in the team’s last four games. Those two might be counted on to help assume some of the burden for shutting down the likes of Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin when the Pens pay a visit to the District on Thursday.
“It’s going to be good,” says Alzner. “It’s going to be a lot of fun. A lot of times you rise to that occasion. It’s a lot of responsibility to play well against those guys. It’s going to be a lot of what we’ve seen the last two games with tight gaps. The less they touch the puck, the better it’s going to be for us.”
In the three seasons immediately following the lockout, the Caps struggled against their former Patrick Division rivals and frequent postseason opponents. Washington was 2-8-2 against the Pens over a span of three seasons starting in 2005-06, but the Caps have had the upper hand since. Over the last two seasons, the Capitals are 7-0-1 against the Penguins.
Washington’s last regulation setback to the Penguins was a 4-2 defeat at Verizon Center on March 9, 2008.
“I think it’s a great barometer to see where we are at because they’re playing the best hockey arguably of any team in the NHL right now,” says Boudreau. “When you play against the best, it finds where you have to go and where you have to be. And as a coach, it will definitely be a great test.
“They’re a great team and we have a good rivalry against them. It’s one of the great things that HBO is going to be able to catch is that all the talking that we think goes on will go on.”
is expected to get his fourth consecutive start in goal for Washington and the first of his NHL career against Pittsburgh. He will be starting four straight games for the first time since starting six in a row in late October-early November. He also started the first six games of the season.
In winning each of his last two starts, Neuvirth stopped 59 of the 62 shots he faced.
The Penguins hit town on the heels of Wednesday night’s 5-2 home ice win over the Florida Panthers.
Pittsburgh got off to a slow start this season, and the Pens were at 7-8-1 after a 7-4 loss to Boston on Nov. 10. The Penguins then went on a tear in which they picked up at least a point in 15 straight (14-0-1), a stretch that included a 12-game winning streak.
The Penguins dropped a pair of games to Atlantic Division foes Philadelphia and the Rangers last week before returning to the win column with Monday’s 6-1 thumping of the Coyotes.
Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the Capitals on Thursday is the task of trying to shut down Penguins center Sidney Crosby. Recently, no team has been able to do it.
With a goal in Wednesday’s game against Florida, Crosby extended his scoring streak to 22 consecutive games. That matches the second-longest streak in the league over the last 18 seasons. Dany Heatley – then with Ottawa – had a 22-game streak in 2005. Quebec’s Mats Sundin had a 30-game streak during the 1992-93 season.
During the life of his streak, Crosby has 22 goals and 43 points. He leads the league in goals (28) and points (58).
Ex-Caps goalie Brent Johnson started Wednesday’s game against the Panthers, but he did not finish. Marc-Andre Fleury came on in relief after two periods and played the final frame. Johnson left because of a lower body injury. Fleury is expected to get the start against Washington on Thursday.
Fleury got off to a dismal start this season, winning just one of his first eight starts (1-6). He posted a 3.56 GAA and an .853 save pct. during that span.
Since then, he has rebounded quite nicely. Fleury is 14-1-1 in his last 17 appearances (16 starts) with a 1.76 GAA and a .940 save pct.
Lifetime against the Capitals, Fleury is 8-3-2 with a 3.17 GAA and a .903 save pct. He started his career with a 7-0 run against Washington. Since then, he is 1-3-2 with a 4.54 GAA and an .861 save pct. in his last seven starts against the Capitals. | <urn:uuid:36010516-8d39-484f-8c88-73091ca57b0c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://capitals.nhl.com/club/preview.htm?id=2010020510 | 2013-06-19T06:48:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962062 | 1,749 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
As we've been reporting, this weekend is national drug take-back weekend. The Oneida Nation hosted their drug take-back earlier today. The effort has collected nearly 500 tons of prescription medication in a little over a year. Oneida Nation Police Chief Joseph Smith expresses just how important national prescription take-back day is. He says, "Their dangerous to have, this is a sensible way to take care of used drugs." If you missed today's event, you can drop off your unwanted or expired prescription drugs tomorrow at the casino from ten until two. | <urn:uuid:ba4f7afb-3319-4fac-96bc-705681cdae72> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cnyhomepage.com/fulltext?nxd_id=151512 | 2013-06-19T06:30:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935987 | 112 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Sen. Marco Rubio's proposal to allow undocumented immigrant youth to stay in the country legally has elicited interest among some immigration reform advocates. That's primarily because it has breathed life into a moribund effort. Under Rubio's as-yet unwritten plan, men and women who came to the United States as children and are pursuing higher education would be able to live in the country legally. Unlike the original DREAM Act, which has failed repeatedly to pass the U.S. Congress, the legislation wouldn't provide a pathway to citizenship for this group. It would only create that venue for men and women joining the military.
Some cheerleaders for the original DREAM Act look at the Rubio plan as a way to potentially break the logjam on immigration reform. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who opposes the original DREAM Act, has not dismissed the proposal outright. Plus, as Rubio points out, the men and women who qualify for his version of the DREAM Act could eventually become citizens through existing venues.
Look at these existing venues, however, and it becomes evident that the current system would exclude a huge number of DREAM Act recipients from citizenship. And--ironically, given our economic climate--the men and women who could face the steepest challenges are aspiring entrepreneurs. Under current laws, it is extremely difficult to become a permanent resident in the United States if you want to create a business.
WHY ARE WE STOPPING START UPS?
There are two major venues for immigrants who want to start enterprises from scratch to become green card holders. One is the so-called "investor visa" or EB5. The other is a visa for people of exceptional ability, or the EB2. Both set a very high bar for cash investment or demonstrated qualifications, excluding thousands of men and women who could build impressive businesses here, given the chance. Like its moniker suggests, the investor visa is reserved for foreign nationals making substantial investments in the United States. Those who invest a minimum of $1,000,000 in a venture that creates a minimum of ten jobs can qualify for a green card.
While that sum is cut in half if the enterprise is established in a high unemployment or rural area, the high figure means a small fraction of immigrant entrepreneurs are able to qualify. That leaves a visa earmarked for people of "exceptional ability." For that category, if you don't have an employer petitioning on your behalf--and, with few exceptions, entrepreneurs can't petition for themselves--you need to show that your presence in the United States would benefit the national interest. That's a tough hurdle to overcome.
A Mexican entrepreneur who has established a successful restaurant chain across Texas, for example, would have difficulty meeting that requirement because his business is confined to just one state. For a forthcoming report I authored for the Council on Foreign Relations on Latino immigrant entrepreneurs, I spoke with some of the most successful foreign-born Hispanic business owners in the United States. Strikingly, nearly all of them had become citizens through marriage.
That is a well-worn path among the highly-skilled: over half of immigrants who at one point studied on a student visa at a U.S. university become citizens because of their spouse. This is not to say these men and women don't legitimately want a lifelong commitment to the people they have married. Still, the fact that so many obtain a green card by exchanging wedding vows is an indication of how difficult it is to become a green card holder through an employer or establishing businesses. That's the case when these immigrants' companies are employing hundreds of people and earning well over a million dollars a year in revenue.
RENTING THE AMERICAN DREAM DREAM
Act entrepreneurs who do not get hitched to a U.S. citizen or have hundreds of thousands of dollars in capital to invest would most likely find themselves residing in the netherworld of living in the U.S. without the guarantee of permanent residency. To be sure, the vast majority of businesses started by this group would (like most small businesses in America) not have paid employees. But companies that start small can grow into something big.
Mexican-native Maria de Lourdes Sobrino, for example, began selling gelatin desserts from a Los Angeles storefront in 1982. Today Lulu's Desserts has $8 million in annual revenue and its products can be found in 1500 Walmarts across the country. That kind of growth never would have happened if Lourdes Sobrino had been on a "non-immigrant" visa of the type Senator Rubio has proposed. It would have been too risky to invest personal savings and hire employees.
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This is just out. I like the point Professor Taylor makes near the end about how virtually everyone involved in the transplanting of a kidney from one person to another is paid except the person who gives up a precious part of his/her body. (Of course, the recipient is not paid but that's for obvious reasons: that person benefits big time.) Not only that, but some of the people--I have in mind the doctors--are often paid very well. The restriction on sale is, in effect, a price control of zero.
By the way, I'm an advisor to something called LifeSharers. It's a creative response to the restriction on selling kidneys and other body parts. The idea is to give people an incentive to give up their body parts on death by having them qualify, by joining, to get other people's body parts if they need them in the future.
Signing up for organ donation is a social contract. In the case of organ scarcity it is appropriate to favor fellow organ donors over free riders. When it is time to allocate a scarce resource, it is fair to assign priority to people who are willing to both give and receive.
Notice that, unlike all those other phony social contracts (how do I not remember signing?), this really is a social contract. | <urn:uuid:6f330445-51d8-44f8-9a36-cc71d711d480> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/11/the_moral_case.html | 2013-06-19T06:41:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978217 | 263 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
New Jersey GazetteersEdit This Page
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Several guides to place names in New Jersey have been published. The best are:
- Gordon, Thomas F. A Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey. 1834. Digital version at Google Books - free. Reprint, New Orleans, La.: Polyanthos, 1973: FHL Book 974.9 E5g; Film 897471; Fiche 6046927.
- Gannett, Henry. A Geographic Dictionary of New Jersey. 1894. Reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978. FHL Book 974.9 E5; FHL Fiche 6046942.)
- National Gazetteer of the United States of America—New Jersey 1983. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1983. FHL Book 974.9 E5n.) This book lists all the political and geographic features represented on the United States Geographical Survey 7.5-minute topographical maps. The gazetteer can be used for finding the location of some churches, cemeteries, and schools.
- United States Geographical Survey's Geographical Names Information System (GNIS) - Find which county a town is in, what town a cemetery is in, even where a postoffice or building is.
- State of New Jersey Locality Name Search -- by the State of New Jersey.
- New Jersey Gazetteer -- By Hometown Locator (both browse and search capabilities).
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Last week Two weeks ago, Heather, Julie and I tried something new. We trekked downtown (which isn’t seeming so far away for Heather these days, she’s there a lot) and we attended September’s Indy WordLab. It’s true. I spend my day looking at words, and for fun, in the evening, I went to an event about words.
It was so much more than that.
For starters, I finally got to see Indy Reads Books for myself. It’s a real used bookstore, located right on Mass Ave. It operates as part of Indy Reads, Indianapolis’ Adult Literacy education initiative.
There’s a speaker (usually a writer) who leads the group in some kind of writing exercise.
Our group was lead by Indy WordLab organizer and author of Nothing New: An Irreverant History of Storytelling and Social Media, Ryan Brock. He led us in an exercise that started with 30 minutes of writing, then a shorter amount of time (6 minutes?) and then finally, 90 seconds. The only requirement was that we include the phrase “autumn leaves”.
So what did I write?
I wrote about my kid, of course. Here is my 30 minute product. It kind of sums up what’s been going on around here the last few weeks. It was inspired by the fact that she learned to ride a two-wheeler on my birthday. It’s not a gift I’ll soon forget.
The end of summer is a new beginning. New shoes because her feet have grown. New backpack and lunchbox because her tastes have changed.
She’s asking for phone numbers and posting on My Big Campus. She guards passwords and tracks her allowance. The training wheels have come off as the neighborhood pool closed, and she’s taken off down the street.
Her birthstone earrings have been returend to her jewelery box, and she’s raided mine for a pair of hook earrings.
Autumn leaves turn as she leaves one place and surges head first into the next.
After we wrote, we shared in small groups. It was like a college writing class, except it was free, it was for fun, and there was no grade.
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Review: The ‘PowerLung’ Breathing Device
A few weeks ago I caught wind of a breathing device that looked very interesting.
It has been around since 1999 and a number of studies and white papers support its efficacy in improving breath control. Its users and advocates include musicians, doctors, athletes of all kinds, scuba divers and swimmers, and lung patients.
So, I decided to buy one on a fluke and check it out.
Called the PowerLung, it is a nifty device that gives measured resistance throughout the respiration cycle. It does this through what the company calls threshold resistance. It provides for a more consistent exercise experience.
When you breathe in and out through PowerLung, you are working against a threshold of resistance that is the same for every breath. You are not breathing through a restricted orifice where the load can be reduced just by changing the way you breathe.
The device has two large control dials for adjusting the inhalation and exhalation resistance levels independently. Inside each control dial lies the secret to the PowerLung - some type of control-flow valve that helps to keep the resistance consistent.
Fortunately, the company provides an 8-part video series on YouTube that gives very comprehensive instructions. One of the best – and I think the most important – video tips, advises you to not let pride get in the way of using the device and trick you into setting the levels too high.
This sample video from that series gives an overview of the product and its purpose.
Where and how do I buy one? Which model do I buy?
The most disappointing aspect of the PowerLung experience has nothing to do with the product itself, buy rather has to do with their web site.
Choosing which model that will work for you is not particularly easy. Sorting through the company web site and understanding the purchasing process is also a bit confusing.
First and most hard to image, their web site is not geared for e-commerce, online purchases.
In my own quest to buy a PowerLung, I was first channeled into a U.S. regional site, then after deciding on which model I wanted, I was forwarded to a local distributor’s web site where it could be ultimately purchased.
To compound the confusion there are seven different models to choose from. In addition to the four base models:
- Performer Series M422T
- Performer Series P617B
- Performer Series T343A
How I chose the BreatheAir model
Each model comes with fairly detailed description and so I was able to create a short list of three potential models to buy.
However, during the purchasing process the decision was made for me. I discovered that only one model was available for me to buy through the distributor and this is how I ultimately ended up with the yellow-colored BreatheAir model.
Fortunately for me, dumb luck was on my side and this model seems to be the right fit.
Training with PowerLung is very simple – it involves a 3-set routine, done twice daily.
- Inhale and exhale through the PowerLung (a repetition)
- Perform these repetitions 9 more times
- Take a short break
- Repeat these steps two more times for a total of 30 repetitions
That’s it. A two-minute routine, done twice every day.
Now the question that I am sure you are asking right now is, yeah but does it work?
After two weeks of owning and working with mine I would have to say that yes, it does work. However that being said, I could not tell you with any certainty what those changes and improvements are – at least not yet.
Within the first few days for example, my embouchure aperture felt strange – as if it were twice its normal size.
I chose to ignore that sensation, and after a week it felt normal again; I started to feel that indeed my breathing was smoother and more relaxed. I felt less fatigued over the long haul – especially at the very ends of the breath or at the very ends of phrases.
To me, this sensation - as well as other, less-tangible positives – was worth the high price and the hassle of how to select and buy one. The PowerLung ain’t cheap, but it sure is handy. Most important for me personally is that having it around has helped to keep on track for doing breathing exercises on a daily basis.
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The reading last night at The Cell Theater in New York was a blast. I think I did pretty well, and the other readers were all great and entertaining. And there was free wine. What more do you want?
Famous author Sean Ferrell showed up, which was a great surprise, and I asked him to video my reading. When I got home and checked the camera, there were two videos. This was the first one:
That’s right: Thirty-six seconds of Sean Ferrell’s foot.
The second video started off better: It was actually me, reading! A bit shaky, perhaps, as if Sean was falling into a coma of some sort as my voice washed over him, but still, video. Then, at the 2 minutes mark: Done. I don’t recall seeing Sean sleeping, but then I was distracted:
(giggling courtesy of The Duchess)
All in all, though, a lot of fun, and I thank Karen Heuler and The Tandem Reading Series for the invitation! The Cell has an amazing program of events – music, literature, art – so I encourage anyone in the area to stop by! | <urn:uuid:52cc8ad9-66db-4ca7-aa5f-8d0663d3e28c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jeffreysomers.com/blather/?p=1735 | 2013-06-19T06:23:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97886 | 243 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Well… I didn’t care for ‘Murder by Night’, but I like this one. I seem to be going against most people’s likes / dislikes at the moment!
T.C. is shot while teaching Magnum to fly, leading Magnum to uncover that it was a case of mistaken identity, and that a Mexican Mafia King is actually after HIM – and “Mac” (mk. II) is wrapped up in the middle of it all. I personally really like this one…
This review contains spoilers.
I seem to be out of step with my MPI likes and dislikes at the moment – the previous episode, ‘Murder by Night’, many people seem to love, whereas I wasn’t really overwhelmed; similarly, this episode, ‘On the Fly’, doesn’t seem to be that popular, but personally I really like it.
It sees the return of Mac mk. II, a.k.a. Jim Bonnick, who hasn’t appeared in the series for quite a while (in fact, his last appearance was ‘The Love-For-Sale Boat’ back in the fifth season; he didn’t appear in the sixth season at all).
Some people don’t like the second incarnation of Mac, but I have to say, generally I find him good value for money – whenever he appears, he’s up to no good, and causing no end of trouble for our hero.
Another reason I like this episode is that it has a lot of action – latter episodes of the show’s run were often toned down action-wise, becoming more action-driven, but this one has some very action-packed sequences. Although I wouldn’t necessarily like to see this level of action in each and every episode, I do like it in this story. (I particularly like the siege / shootout at Robin’s Nest – surely one of the most bloodthirsty sequences of the show’s run!)
The only moment I’m not too keen on was the inevitable kissy-kissy sequence between Magnum and Maria – I feel that there is very little chemistry between the pair, and it just gets in the way of the overall plot.
But generally, I find this to be an underrated episode – it has a number of good twists to the plot, some good character moments, and as mentioned above, some good action sequences.
The latter portion of the story, with Magnum and the badly wounded Mac stuck up in the air, in an aircraft that Magnum can barely fly, is one of the things that most stuck in my head about the seventh season until I came to re-watch it on DVD.
So all-in-all, although some don’t like it, I find this to be a very good (and underrated) episode. I guess at the end of the day, a lot of it is down to how much you like the second incarnation of Mac.
Other notes, bloopers and misc.:
* Another case of the DVD version having abridged act breaks – they do it just to annoy me!!
* When the car is chasing alongside the airplane just before it takes off, you can clearly see the roll cage inside the car, to stop the roof folding in when it turns over moments later.
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Department of Advanced Nursing Education
Imagining the worlds we wish for: Change makers, nurses impacting policy
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A biographical overview of Syringa Marshall-Burnett's career as a nursing educator, an 'activist' in the Nurses Association of Jamaica; a participant in the International Council of Nurses (INC); the initiator of the annual conference on nursing research; and her involvement in research and publication in nursing. | <urn:uuid:b19e2c68-84fd-449d-bd0e-de663886b9e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mord.mona.uwi.edu/biblio/viewrefs.asp?rid=1843 | 2013-06-19T06:48:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.794489 | 107 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) is one of the world’s largest and most influential scientific organizations, representing 23 independent scientific societies and over 90,000 individual scientists. Regular readers of this blog will be aware that FASEB also takes a keen interest in educating and informing the public about the value and achievements of biomedical research. Every year FASEB presents the Excellence in Science Award to ‘recognize outstanding achievement by women in biological science’, and this year the award has been given to Professor Gail Martin of the University of California, San Fransisco, principally for discoveries she made in mice.
Gail Martin was the first scientist to isolate embryonic stem cells, a term she coined, from the mouse embryo and culture them in vitro in 1981, and demonstrated that when injected into a mouse these cells formed a type of tumor known as a teratoma (1). The production of a teratoma was very significant since these tumors contain normal cells from all three of the germ layers that give rise to every tissue in our bodies, so their presence confirmed that the cells were pluripotent. This seminal study, along with the nearly simultaneous discovery by Martin Evans and Matthew Kaufman that pluripotent stem cells derived from the mouse embryo could be grown in the mouse uterus, paved the way for the whole field of embryonic stem cell research and more recently the development of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.
Gail Martin’s research continues to focus on the mechanisms that control early embryonic development in mice, chickens and zebrafish, with a particular focus on the role of the Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF) family of signaling molecules. Her work is an example of basic research at its best. Mutations in FGF receptors are associated with more than a dozen congenital bone disorders (2), and it is through understanding of the fundamental processes involved in controlling development that we will be able to design effective treatments for these disorders.
We congratulate Professor Martin on this award, an award that highlights a career that has contributed a great deal to our understanding of life.
Gail Martin was not the only one to be honored last week, on Sunday our own Professor David Jentsch received the Joseph Cochin Young Investigator award by the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD). The CPDD is the largest and oldest organization for the scientific study of drug dependence and addictions in the US, whose members have made great contributions to the treatment of drug dependence, and is a World Health Organization collaborating centre for research and training. Every year the CPDD awards the Joseph Cochin Young Investigator award to an investigator under the age of 40 in recognition of their research contributions to the field of drug abuse, and this award emphasises the importance of the David’s work to future progress in treating drug addictions.
Well done to David from all your friends at Speaking of Research!
- Martin G.R. “Isolation of a pluripotent cell line from early mouse embryos cultured in medium conditioned by teratocarcinoma stem cells.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Volume 78(12), Pages 7634-7638 (1981). PubMed Central: PMC349323
- Chen L. and Deng C.X. “Roles of FGF signaling in skeletal development and human genetic diseases” Front Biosci. Volume 1;10, Pages 1961-1976 (2005). PubMed: 15769677 | <urn:uuid:0f9a6665-a844-4612-9119-955dff05cbc6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://speakingofresearch.com/2010/06/21/faseb-excellence-in-science-award-for-stem-cell-pioneer/ | 2013-06-19T06:16:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923065 | 719 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
On Friday June 22nd we arrived at the Universal River Assembly for the second half of Family Groove Company, and I’m glad we made it because they eased us into a great night of bumpin’ with their upbeat yet chill jams. The night was warm and pleasant, it was the my first trip to the Peoria Riverfront and I couldn’t have asked for a better setting. The venue is a picturesque park running alongside the river with a large and beautiful fountain spraying dashes of water high in the sky, greeting you as you come in the main entrance. The sun was still barely hanging in the western sky when we were getting in and we could hear Family Groove Company rockin’ it out as we passed the children playing in the fountain.
Once “inside” the atmosphere was nice and relaxed, with the perfect amount of people to space ratio. If you wanted to get up close to the stage, there was no shoving through crowds; or if on the other hand you wanted to hang back, there were plenty of chairs and picnic tables to sit on. DJ Solo made it difficult to stay put though as he brought us some fun and heavy tracks. Among some sweet originals, including a particularly unique song that borrowed a line from an insurance company commercial – of all places – he pumped it up with a sweet cover of my favorite Darude song “Sandstorm,” and got the crowd ready for the headliners.
EOTO is a band that I have seen many, many, many, times. It is amazing that despite these numerous encounters I do not get tired of their shows. The truth is, and I have said this before, that they manage to keep it fresh unlike any other band I’ve seen. With only two members, Jason Hann and Michael Travis, one would think it would be difficult for them to keep up with the current music scene; however they not only keep up, they sail past most acts that may even have bigger lights and performances, bringing forth a percussion-loaded jam unlike any other. Plastic petals lined the stage, flashing colors and images to EOTO’s dub-stepesque beats. It is hard to describe their sound, I would say that they are a jam-band-electronica-bass mix, but it doesn’t matter what “genre” you call your own I am willing to bet you will LOVE this duo. When they’re not jammin’ out as EOTO they’re playing in String Cheese…need I say more? | <urn:uuid:0ff3b274-9369-4385-8fe4-0bab299a80ee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://summercampfestival.com/2012/07/26/universal-rhythm-assembly-night-one/ | 2013-06-19T06:22:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977117 | 529 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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An Exceptionally Unique Experience in Care
After trying to get pregnant for 2-1/2 years, Becky Kohl and her husband decided to seek the help of a fertility specialist. However, their first experience with one Milwaukee area fertility program turned out to be disappointing in more than one way. Over a period of six months, Becky tried three intrauterine insemination (IUI) procedures, but none of them worked. As disheartening as that was, Becky was also dealing with a health care experience that felt cold and impersonal. "I just didn't feel like I was getting the care and attention that should have been a part of this very sensitive and emotional process, " remembers Becky.
Most assisted-fertility procedures require working closely with each woman's reproductive cycles. Conditions and circumstances change daily, there is a certain window of opportunity and timing is crucial. Becky explains her experience, "Just calling to schedule the IUI was frustrating. Many times I would have to leave messages and wait for someone to get back to me." Her visits to the clinic also lacked sensitivity. "It seemed like I was always dealing and working with someone different - there was no consistency, not even in the doctors that I would see. It all felt very cold."
At this time, a friend recommended that she try Aurora Fertility Services. "From the moment I walked through the door, I knew I was in the right place," says Becky. "The physical environment itself was warm and calming." Becky was put in contact with a nurse who would become her care coordinator and individual contact throughout the journey. "She was always available when I called and she even called me on a regular basis just to check in."
Becky met with Ellen Hayes, MD who is board-certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology.Dr. Hayes offers expertise and experience in all aspects of fertility including assisted reproductive technologies such as IUI and in-vitro fertilization. Under Dr. Hayes' care, Becky experienced the compassionate, personalized care she had been expecting. "Everyone at Aurora Fertility Services truly cares about you as a person and treats you with respect and importance." She could now focus on having a baby instead of worrying about the care she was receiving, and, she finally felt a sense of hope. "I just knew we were going to get pregnant."
Her first IUI attempt at Aurora did not 'take' and Becky decided to try in-vitro fertilization. Within three months of switching to Aurora Fertility Services, Becky was pregnant. "Fertility treatments, especially in-vitro fertilization, can be very stressful. Aurora made the entire process as easy as it could have been." Along with the emotional toll of fertility treatment, the process is expensive. "With Aurora I felt like I was getting my money's worth."
As a faith-filled couple, Becky and her husband included prayer in their journey. "We feel doubly blessed to have found Aurora Fertility Services – blessed to have received the expert, sensitive, compassionate medical and emotional care, and blessed to have received the gift of our twin girls." Becky has gone on to refer other women to Aurora Fertility Services and is also looking forward to having them help her conceive again this summer.
Shared Success Program
Along with sensitive, patient-centered care, and success rates above the national average, Aurora Fertility Services offers the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Shared Success Program which provides a 70% refund to those who don't achieve their dream of delivering a baby. This program eases the financial anxiety associated with IVF and makes costs more predictable. For more information call 877-358-0833.
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Animal also inspiring to be made as a birthday cake idea. And one of the friendly animal is chicken. So make a chicken cake is must be interesting idea. To make a chicken cake we can use several ways. The first one is by using a chicken related toppers and make a coloring touch to make a perfect atmosphere. And the second one is make a chicken shaped-cake. To help you making the cake, here are several pictures of chicken cake for your references.
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Road projects move forward in JemisonBy Emily Beckett Published 8:43pm Monday, October 1, 2012
Another phase of the process to repair County Road 42 in Jemison is complete.
The Jemison City Council approved a grant Monday from the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program for the state to resurface the road from U.S. Highway 31 to Interstate 65.
“We know that 42 is a major artery between 31 and 65,” Mayor Eddie Reed said. “The road is in dire need of repairing, and it will be paved.”
Reed said the grant is for about $800,000.
Bidding on the project will take place in January, and construction will start in March.
“We do plan to write a letter of thank-you,” Reed said.
Another pending state project is paving Highway 191 (also known as Church Street) in Jemison.
The council has approved all preliminary paperwork and is ready for the state to begin repairs.
In addition, the state informed Reed that the city must upgrade its traffic lights at the intersection of Union Grove Road and Highway 31 in the future.
According to the state, the current red lights are obsolete and need to be replaced with LED lights.
Reed said the upgrade would cost Jemison about $8,000.
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The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says a Tampa man now faces second degree murder charges in the death of his father.
Deputies say, on March 27, Shendrick Partin struck his father several times with a hammer and a door stop while the older man lay in bed.
The attack occurred in the 1900 block of Erin Brooke Drive.
Samuel Partin, 61, died from his injuries.
Deputies say they found blood-stained boots, jeans and a sweatshirt during a search after the crime.
They say witnesses saw the son in those clothes on the day of the attack.
Deputies also say they recovered the hammer and door stop with blood on them.
An autopsy found Samuel Partin died from blunt impact to the head with cerebral contusions and lacerations.
The Sheriff's Office says the Florida Department of Law Enforcement discovered the sweatshirt contained both the son's blood and the father's blood.
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Terrorism and civil liberty
Is torture ever justified?
Have the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 put a lasting dent in civil liberties? The first of a series begins this week with a look at torture
IN EVERY war, information is a weapon. In a “war against terrorism”, where the adversary wears no uniform and hides among the civilian population, information can matter even more. But does that mean that torture can sometimes be justified to extract information?
The answer in international law is categorical: no. As laid down in treaties such as the Geneva Conventions, the UN Convention against Torture and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the ban on torture or any cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment is absolute, even in times of war. Along with genocide, torture is the only crime that every state must punish, no matter who commits it or where. Defenders of this blanket prohibition offer arguments that range from the moral (torture degrades and corrupts the society that allows it) to the practical (people will say anything under torture so the information they provide is unreliable anyway).
The September 11th attacks have not driven any rich democracy to reverse itself and make torture legal. But they have encouraged the bending of definitions and the turning of blind eyes. There is a greater readiness among governments that would never practise torture themselves to use information which less squeamish states have obtained—through torture.
Start with definitions. Most civilised people squirm at the thought of putting suspected terrorists on the rack or pulling off toenails. What if that prisoner knew the whereabouts of a ticking bomb—maybe a biological, chemical or even nuclear one? Wouldn't a little sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation or even water-dunking be justified to save hundreds and perhaps thousands of lives? Whatever the law says, a lot of people seem to think so.
In a BBC survey of 27,000 people in 25 countries last October, more than one out of three people in nine of those countries, including America, considered a degree of torture acceptable if it saved lives. Opposition was highest in most European and English-speaking countries (see chart). Another poll in 2005 by the Pew Research Centre found that nearly half of all Americans thought the torture of suspected terrorists was sometimes justified.
Two Republican presidential hopefuls, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, support the “enhanced” interrogation of suspects in the event of an imminent attack. Dick Cheney, America's vice-president, recently suggested that “dunking” a terrorist in water to save lives was a “no-brainer”. The ensuing uproar led him to backtrack, claiming that he was not, of course, referring to “water-boarding”, or simulated drowning, a technique regarded as tantamount to torture and banned in the American army's own interrogation manual.
I'll tickle you into submission
One objection to allowing moderate physical pressure is the difficulty of knowing where to draw the line. If stress positions and sleep deprivation do not work, do you progress to branding with red-hot irons and beating to a pulp? And can you rely on interrogators to heed such distinctions? It is the danger of a slippery slope that makes opponents of torture insist on a total ban.
Israel is the only country in modern times to have openly allowed “moderate physical pressure” as a “last resort”. Since interrogators used such methods anyway, it was argued, passing an explicit law would at least make it possible to set out some limits. But in 1999, citing the slippery-slope argument, Israel's Supreme Court ruled that torture could never be justified, even in the case of a ticking bomb. It went on to outlaw techniques such as sleep deprivation, exposure to extremes of hot and cold, prolonged stress positions, hooding and violent shaking.
In the 1970s Britain used similar techniques against suspected terrorists in Northern Ireland. These were banned in 1978 following a case brought by the Republic of Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights. Although not torture, such methods did amount to inhumane treatment, the court ruled. In 2002 the International Criminal Court for ex-Yugoslavia in The Hague decided that prolonged solitary confinement constituted torture. Such rulings did not prevent America from resorting to such harsh techniques when interrogating suspects in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantánamo Bay, however. Former detainees in those places have spoken of severe beatings, water-boarding, excruciating stress positions, mock executions, sleep deprivation and much else besides.
Administration lawyers argued that since al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies were not a state party to the Geneva Conventions they were not covered by its ban on torture and other maltreatment. True, America had ratified (in 1988) the Convention against Torture, but that applied only to acts carried out on American soil, they said. And though America's own 1994 federal statute against torture did cover acts by Americans abroad, this applied only to full-blown torture, not lesser abuses.
In the notorious “torture memos” drawn up by the Department of Justice and the Pentagon in 2002 and 2003, the same lawyers sought to restrict the normal definition of torture—“severe pain or suffering”—to extreme acts equivalent to “serious physical injury, organ failure, or even death”. Furthermore, as a wartime commander in chief whose main duty was to protect the American people, the president had the power to override both domestic and international law, they argued. After being leaked in 2004 most of these memos were “withdrawn”, though not the one on the president's wartime powers.
Mr Bush and his colleagues have always said that America neither authorises nor condones torture. “We don't do torture,” the president famously said. But Mr Bush has been vaguer about the grey area between torture and more moderate pressure. Soon after suspected terrorists were first sent to Guantánamo in January 2002 he said that America's armed forces would treat the detainees “humanely” in a manner “consistent with the Geneva Conventions”—but only “to the extent appropriate and consistent with military necessity”.
Not until the Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan in 2006 did the administration accept that all detainees, wherever held, were protected by Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which bans all forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment as well as torture. The 2005 Detainee Treatment Act, incorporating an amendment by Senator John McCain, already prohibited such treatment by American soldiers anywhere in the world. But it did not apply to the CIA.
Co-operating with torturers
Yet it is the CIA that has been responsible for the “extraordinary rendition” of suspects to clandestine prisons in third countries for “enhanced” interrogation (whether by that country's agents or the CIA itself) amounting at times, many suspect, to torture. The programme's existence was not officially confirmed until Mr Bush announced last year the transfer to Guantánamo of the last 14 “high-value” detainees then being held in so-called “black sites” around the world. Of some 100 suspected terrorists believed to have been “rendered” over the past six years, 39 remain unaccounted for, Human Rights Watch, a New York-based lobby, says.
In July this year Mr Bush set out new broad guidelines for interrogations under a resumed CIA programme. He says the newly authorised techniques now comply fully with the Geneva Conventions' ban on “outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment” as well as torture. Even if true (which is hard to know because the details have not been disclosed), the programme itself with its enforced disappearances and black sites, which even the International Red Cross is not allowed to visit, violates basic tenets of international law.
Even if a country bans torture, how should it treat information that others have extracted this way? In 2004 Britain's Court of Appeal ruled that information acquired through torture was admissible as evidence in court. David Blunkett, then Britain's home secretary, welcomed the ruling. Although the government “unreservedly” condemned torture, he said, it would be “irresponsible not to take appropriate account of any information which could help protect national security and public safety.” But the ruling was later overturned by the House of Lords.
A separate question is whether governments should use information extracted under torture by others for counter-terrorist purposes, even if it is not admissible as evidence. Most probably agree with Mr Blunkett that it would be irresponsible not to. But a case can be made that this is, in effect, condoning the use of torture by allies.
Britain has also run into trouble when trying to deport suspected foreign terrorists against whom it has not got enough evidence to secure a conviction in court. Under international law, a country must make sure that the person it wishes to expel is not in danger of being tortured or subjected to other abuse in the receiving country. In 2005 the UN's special rapporteur on torture criticised Britain for relying on “diplomatic assurances” that deportees would not be tortured. Charles Clarke, who had succeeded Mr Blunkett as home secretary, retorted that the rights of the victims of the London Tube bombings that year mattered more than those of the perpetrators. The UN should “look at human rights in the round”, he said, “rather than simply focusing all the time on the terrorist.” Fine—except that no British court had convicted these suspects as terrorists.
To date, 144 countries have ratified the Convention against Torture. (The hold-outs include such usual suspects as Sudan, North Korea, Myanmar and Zimbabwe, but also India.) And yet, the UN's special rapporteur told the Security Council in June, torture remains widespread. Amnesty International noted cases of state-sponsored torture or other inhumane treatment in 102 of the 153 countries included in its 2007 report. The worst offenders were China, Egypt (both of which are parties to the convention), Myanmar and North Korea, along with several African countries. America's transgressions are trivial by comparison. The worry, argues Kenneth Roth, director of Human Rights Watch, is that when America breaks the rules it encourages others to do the same.
Why does torture endure? Part of the reason, argues Michael Ignatieff, a Canadian writer, may be that it is at times motivated not so much by a desire to extract vital information but by something baser, such as an urge to inflict pain, exact revenge, or even just for fun. That seems to have been part of the motivation of the Americans who abused prisoners in Abu Ghraib, for example. But torture may also endure because it sometimes works.
They'll say anything
Many critics of torture claim that it is ineffective as well as repugnant. Since people will say anything just to stop the pain, the information gleaned may not be reliable. On the other hand, if people do say anything under torture, you might expect some of what they say to be true and therefore—if those being tortured really are terrorists—useful to the authorities. Torture certainly helped induce Guy Fawkes to betray his co-conspirators after they had tried to blow up King James I and the British Parliament on November 5th 1605.
Asked recently about the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation in secret prisons, George Tenet, the CIA's director until 2004, replied that the agency's widely condemned rendition programme had saved lives, disrupted plots and provided “invaluable” information in the war against terrorism. Indeed, while denying the use of full-blown torture, he said that the programme on its own was “worth more than the FBI, the CIA and the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us.”
Mr Ignatieff, for his own part, sees no trumping argument on behalf of terrorists that makes their claims to human rights and dignity prevail over the security interests—and right to life—of the majority. Yet he continues to advocate a total ban. “We cannot torture, in other words, because of who we are,” he says. He knows that many will disagree. | <urn:uuid:87ce4b41-2b4a-46dd-b440-7b33d93b8ab6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.economist.com/node/9832909 | 2013-06-19T06:50:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96002 | 2,531 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Ecosse Titanium Series FE Ti XX Motorcycle: $300,000
Yes, there is the $555,000 Dodge Tomahawk that can compete as the world’s most expensive motorcycle. But it technically has four wheels! Many have christened the Ecosse Titanium Series FE Ti XX Motorcycle as the world’s most expensive motorcycle. It gives other motorbikes a run for their money with its price tag of $300,000 and a high-end titanium chassis fit with carbon fiber wheels. This motorcycle also delivers 210-foot pounds of pure torque.
Harry Winston Opus 12 Watch: $260,000
The Harry Winston Opus 12 wristwatch has no typical minute and hour hands. It has elegant blue metal arms that look more like sharp weapons. It takes pride in its sophistication, well enough to cast a price tag of $260,000 for their wristwatch.
This watch can work for about 45 hours with 607 parts, 80 jewels and 3 barrels. It even renders animation of the 12 hour hands for each hour change. It also animates the minute hands for every five minutes. The watch has a diameter of 46mm with a white gold case and anti-reflective sapphire crystal.
It has an air of exclusivity because only 120 units will be created to tell time in a Copernican-inspired revolution fashion.
Megatrend MKIII Speakers: $80,000
When the volume of sound is overwhelming, it is often referenced as a “wall of sound.” But Transmission Audio’s Megatrend MKIII Speakers take this idiomatic phrase to a whole new literal level. Standing seven feet tall and three feet wide, this is a real wall of speakers for the steep price of $80,000.
MWE Emperor 200 PC WorkStation: $45,000
The MWE Emperor 200 will definitely make working easier with this sophisticated workstation featuring three monitors, a touch screen interface, air filtration system, an electric powered leather seat and light therapy illumination. In short, this has everything you need for a comfortable work experience – all for the exorbitant price of $45,000.
These workstations are made to order according to customer specifications. One can even add peripherals such as iPhone docks. But it can take up to six months to construct a unit.
S-Works + McLaren Venge Bicycle: $18,000
With the sudden spike in popularity of biking, it has been increasingly difficult to buy an inexpensive bicycle. The normal range is from $2,500 up. But a specific kind of bicycle integrates exceptional technology to propel the price tag of the bicycle to $18,000. This is the S-Works + McLaren Venge Bicycle.
The S-Works + McLaren Venge Bicycle uses its technological advantage to lessen the stiffness of an already lightweight carbon-fiber rocket. This directly translates to speed. But for the price, will it be better to buy this technology or just pedal harder?
Vertu Constellation Smartphone: $13,800
When considering the price of a smartphone, many people probe the features and specifications of the gadget. But the Vertu luxury smartphone takes it up a notch. A unit costs around $13,800. But the only glaring difference of this smartphone is that it’s running a Symbian operating system and a Swype keyboard. It also has a red gold exterioir with 24/7 Concierge Live application. This also helps you secure exclusive access to clubs, arrange travel trips, order expensive wine and even get in touch with a security specialist.
The Kohler Numi Toilet System: $6,400
For the rich and powerful, it is not enough to take care of your excretions through normal means. The Kohler Numi breaks all boundaries when it comes to toilet systems with this contraption worth $6,400. This unit has a touchscreen interface and a smart bidet for easier cleaning. The seat is also heated and there is a vent underneath that blows warm air for additional comfort.
Stax SR-009 Earspeakers: $5,250
“Beats by Dre” has successfully established itself as the brand of choice when it comes to headphones. This brand is already expensive with its rapper endorsements but it pales in comparison to the headphones of a certain Japanese company. The Stax SR-009 can handle a frequency response between 5 to 42,000 Hertz and you can have this sonic flexibility for $5,250.
Even with its design, Stax maintains that these should not be called headphones but rather as ear speakers. Moreover, you need an amplifier worth $2,000 to power the unit further.
Victorinox 1TB Swiss Army Knife: $3,000
We know Swiss knives should be everything you need in a nice and neat package. With the advent of the digital revolution, why not include a thumb drive with it? This is the new feature of the upcoming Victorinox 1TB Swiss Army Knife. Yes, that’s one terabyte of data storage in a little bundle in the comforts of your pocket.
For practical purposes, the USB 2.0 thumb drive can be detached from the Swiss Knife so that there won’t be a dangling hazard each time you have to transfer files. But for a thumb drive with a few practical knives and features, are you really willing to shell out $3,000?
iPhone 4 Docking Station Made of Crystal: $500
A docking station is a convenient way to sync files and to charge an iPhone. But will you shell out more than $500 for an iPhone docking station made of crystal and painted with platinum? The price of the gadget alone is almost enough to buy a new iPhone 4 altogether. | <urn:uuid:891e4a7d-4f63-44a0-8f6d-356dca34cbba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gadgetsnu.com/10-most-expensive-gadgets/ | 2013-06-19T06:22:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931697 | 1,197 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I have a F-ed up 8500GT. When I install the 8500GT and boot it up, I get a black screen.
All the fans and stuff are one. I tested on my computer (AMD 5200+) and my friend's Dell. I made sure that it wasn't a PSU problem coz mine is a 600W one and my friends is a brand new Sparkle 400W. Lastly all the symptoms are the same, and there is NO beep from turning on the computer.
So can anyone tell me whats going on?
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Rated 4.0 out of 5.0 by Lyn1700 Great Stay
We had a great stay at the hotel. Satisfied all our needs and the room turned out to be perfect. We got an opportunity to play in the pool and have some fun. The breakfast gave everyone something to choose from with no complaints. It was great to have free parking!
February 7, 2013
Rated 5.0 out of 5.0 by Gerann Wonderful
The receptionist, accommodations, amenities, social hour, everything about this property were A+++++! And almost most important they welcomed our pets and treated them like family.
February 7, 2013
Rated 4.0 out of 5.0 by Nick47 Staff is special
Staff worked Very hard To make our stay As pleasant as possible
January 28, 2013
Rated 5.0 out of 5.0 by sagtx1212 Excellent hotel, comfortable and great service
My family and I spend a week in this hotel. The service is great as well as the rooms. The location of the hotel was important to us and we were close to so many places to spend a great time and having fun.
We reccomend this hotel, we enjoy our stay and When we comback to Atlanta this hotel will be our first option, no doubt .
January 3, 2013
Rated 5.0 out of 5.0 by JJWW Large room Plus Breakfast Dinner Wine
Very comfortable hotel. Nothing flashy. Large clean rooms and just an easy place to stay. Parking is easy and free. Free Wifi, too. They serve a hot breakfast and even served a pretty good dinner as part of the price. I had the steak burrito and a salad the night I was there. I have stayed here before and will continue to use it as my hotel in Atlanta. Right in the center of Buckhead so the location is perfect if you are covering the city.
December 14, 2012
Rated 5.0 out of 5.0 by BigEasy Great Living Space
The beds and the bed sheets were wonderful. Everything was very clean. The staff was super helpful on helping me get my wireless connection going to my ipad. Luckily the only issue with the ipad was that I didn't know what I was doing. The breakfast was wonderful with lots of choices on food and drink. I would recommend this place and I stay here everytime I come to Atlanta.
December 7, 2012
Rated 2.0 out of 5.0 by d607 Bad Service
We rented two suites for family in town visiting us and had multiple issues with the service. We asked for a room with two beds and were told there were none even though we had reserved one. Then we asked for a roll away bed and were told they were all in use. The hotel was empty during our stay, so much so the staff commented on how vacant they were so I don't think the beds were in use but rather they did not want to bring one up.
We were charged double for our room and then the desk clerks could not figure out how to correct it. The double charge was to one of our guests cards which was embarrassing to correct (we had paid for the rooms).
The front desk mistakenly checked out both of our rooms when one group left then kept calling our guests to demand they "extend their stay" (which was already paid for).
I loved the free laundry, indoor pool, and shuttle but due to the lack of accommodation won't be using this hotel to house our visitors anymore.
November 28, 2012
Rated 3.0 out of 5.0 by BJinVA Old Hotel and Renovating.
Hotel is old with an odor!! Renovating but rooms needs to be seriously overhauled.
November 7, 2012
Rated 2.0 out of 5.0 by platmember Terrible service and construction on very dated rooms
I am a platinum priority club member and I try to stay at Staybridge Suites whenever I can. I can honestly say this was one of worst that I have ever stayed at. The amount of construction was very distracting, and I was woken up every morning by the sound of workmen hammering away. The rooms were VERY dated and looked dirty and worn, which Im sure prompted the makeover.
During the hospitality hour, my coworker and I showed up 5 minutes after it was supposed to have begun but the attendant was running behind because the food was not fully set up yet. She completley ignored us as we were standing in the room waiting for her to finish setting up, and when we said hello to her, she responded with "yeah, hi" and blatantly rolled her eyes. unbelievable.
November 1, 2012
Rated 5.0 out of 5.0 by CharlieR My Stay at Your Staybridge
I stayed three nights. I could have stayed forever. The accomodations were roomy, neat and clean. No detail was left out. An added bonus was the warm, caring, and knoweledgable staff. I recommend this hotel.
October 18, 2012
Rated 5.0 out of 5.0 by Patriuska99 Very good!
Thanks a lot for the stay at Staybridge.
Very good and comfortable hotel and service.
Hope to be back sometime!
October 15, 2012
Rated 4.0 out of 5.0 by dblazzinhot613 Nice room
Great room and service was good.Breakfast was kind of skimppy no bacon or sausauge after 8 am ?The bed was frash and a good sleeper for me.Will return to this location soon.
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Now, for people interested in Korean culture, I want to tell you one shocking fact about Korean marriage .
In Korea, marriage is not related to the 'pure love' but 'money' and 'family background'.
It is custom to exchange money before the marriage.
Here's about '2000won to 5000won' normally.
Especially, Korean women are extremly materialistic. Korean men do not care about how much money she got or do not bother about exchanging money before marriage. However, Korean women are different.
They wil not accept marriage if you show a little amount of money to her mother !
They are materialistic . To be with Korean woman,
1. you have to be accepted by her grand father, grand mother, great grand mother , great grand father, great great grand parents, father, mother , aunt, niece .. and so many .
If one of them says strangely , she would not like you.
2. You have to buy her a lot of presents whenever dating.
If not, she would be pissed off because she thinks that she is not pretty so he does not buy her 'that clothes ~~ !! that bags ~~~!! '
3. When she hurts a bit, you have to show her a lot of careness
4. Whenever eating out, You have to prepare extra money for buying her food and presents !
5. You have to celebrate 20 day's anniversary, 50 day's anniversary, 100 day's anniversary, White day, Her birthday, Her mother's birthday , Her brother or sister's birthday, her father's birthday and her friend's birthday
6.You should understand her plastic surgery face .
7. You should listen to her stories about other girl's face .
Korean women like to talk about other girls's faces that she is ugly and fat .
8. You should speak English well
9. You should not fat
Because they like to show off their bf to her friends. If friends say you look bad, she would stop contact you.
It's what I saw from Koreans.
that was hillarious... ROFL
It's true. I hope I'm not influenced by it's social atmosphere :(
I love the things you write. haha
well.. I just wrote the reality :D
lol Those qualities are not that far from a perfect guy.
Those are just right. I mean who in the earth wouldn't want that kind of guy. As they say, you are not only marrying the girl but also the parents. And, of course, the parents would only want the best for their daughter(and also son) that's why they have those qualifications. umm.. I'm just curious, is this based on experience? Do you know someone whose in this kind of situation? :)
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From USA Today bestselling author Jo Goodman....
True To The Law
HE WAS ON THE HUNT FOR A RUNAWAY BEAUTY
"Find her" is the only instruction that private detective Cobb Bridger receives from Andrew Mackey. The scion of a wealthy Chicago family, Mackey is desperate to know the whereabouts of the woman who disappeared from his employ, taking with her something of great value. Intrigued as much by what Mackey won't say about the missing item as he is by Mackey's description of the missing woman, Cobb accepts the assignment.
AND THE ONE TRUE LIE THAT COULD DESTROY THEM BOTH
Bitter Springs, Wyoming, has a new schoolteacher who may or may not be exactly what she seems. Upon making the acquaintance of Miss Tru Morrow, Cobb begins to question the guilt of this golden-haired lady—and the protective feelings she stirs in him. His investigation hinges on understanding where the
In this engrossing novel set in 1889 Wyoming, Goodman (A Place Called Home) delivers a lovable and feisty heroine and an upstanding lawman who find each other in highly unlikely circumstances. Gertrude “Tru” Morrow is bereft and at loose ends after the death of her wealthy employer, Charlotte Mackey, in Chicago. She takes a job as a schoolteacher in the tiny town of Bitter Springs, Wyo., but trouble follows her: Mrs. Mackey’s grandson, Andrew, thinks Tru stole from his grandmother and hires detective Cobb Bridger to find her. In the process of checking her out, Cobb falls hard for Tru, a minister’s daughter with a fondness for fine whiskey. All that remains is to figure out who’s lying to whom. Engaging characters and a well-plotted story will captivate the reader all the way to the satisfying conclusion.
~ Publishers Weekly
Thorne Brothers Trilogy
The Last Renegade
SHE HIRED HIM TO PROTECT HER TOWN
As the owner of the Pennyroyal Saloon and Hotel, Lorraine Berry is privy to almost everything that goes on in Bitter Springs, Wyoming—including the bloodshed plaguing its citizens. With all of the good men dying at the hands of a local rancher and his three sons, Raine hires a shootist to be the town's protector. But her handsome new employee is more than a hired hand; he's a man that keeps his guns close and his secrets closer.
BUT NOTHING COULD PROTECT HER HEART
After a chance encounter on a train, Kellen Coltrane travels to the Pennyroyal to carry out a dying man's last wish. But once he meets the hotel's fiery-haired proprietor, Coltrane finds himself assuming the role of the shootist's accomplice and agrees to protect Bitter Springs. And as he learns more about Raine's own
tragedy, Coltrane can't deny his growing desire for the courageous
widow, or the urge to protect her from the threat that draws near…
Multidimensional villains and heroes add humor and drama to a complicated, fast-paced, and deliciously believable story of love, sex, and secrets.
~ Publishers Weekly
"Fans of western romance will be thrilled with this delightful addition to Goodman's strong list."
"Simmering sexual tension, exceptional character development, and slowly revealed secrets make this a book to savor."
~ Library Journal
"The Last Renegade plays out like the best classic western movies. Tension builds steadily as the pages turn, with author Jo Goodman teasingly offering up tidbits that round out the characters and plot as the story winds towards a good old-fashioned western conclusion. Goodman uses beautifully evocative language to set the scene, and her use of physical descriptors and dialogue paint portraits of the characters right down to “cheeks apple red with windburn and excitement.” The Last Renegade …is exceptional across the board, a sheer delight."
~ Reader to Reader
A Place Called Home
When Thea Wyndham and Mitchell Baker learn they've been named joint guardians for their late friends' three children, they're little more than acquaintances. Barely polite acquaintances, at that. Something about Mitch's forthright intensity has always left ad exec Thea feeling off-balance,
while Mitch makes no secret of his disdain when Thea offers
him financial assistance if he'll take sole guardianship.
Thea is far from heartless. She's just plain terrified of her new parenting responsibilities. Both she and Mitch are romantically involved with other people. Yet the more time they spend together, the less certain she is of her loyalties. There are complications and mis-steps, tears and laughter - lots of it.
And somehow, through it all, the dawning realization that the
last place she thought she'd find herself could be just where
December 6, 2011
VERDICT Realistic, romantic, and infused with plenty of humor, this brilliantly executed, fearlessly sensual first contemporary title from an author who has made her name in historicals is a stunning success. While this reviewer wouldn’t want to see Goodman neglect the historical arena, another modern-day winner like this heartwarming novel would be more than welcome. Goodman (Kissing Comfort) lives in West Virginia.
~ Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
Check out all the winners and categories athttp://www.likesbooks.com/2008_2007.html
"Goodman's elegant and wryly witty style ensures that her latest is a perfect treat for readers who enjoy smart, sensual love stories á la
Praise For The Novels Of Jo Goodman
"Exquisitely written. Rich in detail, the characters are passionately drawn... An excellent read."
--- The Oakland Press
"Delightful and exciting... Goodman holds the suspense as well as the surprises and never lets up on the passion."
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The Hawthornes butted heads today. We were in Colorado and I wanted to go north to Pikes Peak. I wanted to be in the Rocky Mountains. I wanted SNOW. Mr. Hawthorne is scared of snow and put his foot down. I love snow. I wanted to see snow. It wouldn't be in Colorado Springs though. He just replaced the rear brakes and didn't want to test them any more. I kept telling him about this cog railway that takes you to the top. He'd have none of it. Thus no midst of Rocky Mountains. No Pikes Peak. No summit at a 14,000-plus peak. No cog railway. We turned south. Our destinations: Taos, then Santa Fe.
I'm sad. This is the last of snow covered mountains I'll ever see for some time. I wanted to go North. Alas, we go South.
Oh wait! What's this? This is on top of a mountain that we wound way around. We started out at about in the mid-60's, temperature-wise, not age-wise. Then we drove up Paseo del Pueblo Norte. There was snow on the ground and in the treetops and the temperature was a nipply 22 degrees.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Modern Euro Country
With a new place to decorate I really need to get inspired. Having a passion for vintage/modern I am always looking for new ways to merge the two and I think I've found it! Say hello to Modern Euro Country. I love these photos from Canadian Home & Country and especially love the styling tips offered along with these Scandinavian inspired homes. I hope the tips provide some structure to my current miss-matched collection of things! | <urn:uuid:28b47147-a291-45ec-8085-ee0ccab7894c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.liveworkdesignblog.com/2010/05/modern-euro-country.html | 2013-06-19T06:16:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934686 | 98 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
President Barack Obama goes to help a little egg roller on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 9, 2012, during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an annual family-friendly rite of spring, President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle kicked off the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, joining tens of thousands of youngsters and their parents in a day of racing, reading, sports and crafts on a breezy, sun-splashed South Lawn.
"We are so thrilled all of you could join us," Obama said from the South Portico, flanked by the first lady, their daughters Malia and Sasha and the Easter Bunny.
"It's a beautiful day __ perfect weather," enthused Mrs. Obama. "There's something for everyone ... I hope you put on your comfortable shoes."
The annual event, first held in 1878 when Rutherford B. Hayes was president, featured traditional egg-rolling races __ as well as obstacle courses, book-readings, musical performances, cooking with celebrity chefs and clowns galore. There was even a yoga garden. Officials expected some 30,000 kids and their parents to take part.
After welcoming the throng, the president and his family __ including first grandmother Marian Robinson __ set off to mix and mingle as the president's own Marine Band played Irving Berlin's "Easter Parade."
His first stop was the day's centerpiece event, the egg rolling race. Obama blew the whistle and joined in the cheers of parents as youngsters scampered across the grass toward a finish line a short distance away. "We've got a winner over here," he shouted as one child finished the course.
He then joined the rest of his family on the book-reading stage. Malia and Sasha took turns reading from "A Sick Day for Amos McGee" by Philip C. Stead. He followed with Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," which he called an "all-time classic," and encouraged his audience to join in the growling, roaring and teeth-gnashing of the characters. "You guys were excellent wild things," he said, before excusing himself. "I've got to go to work. I'm gnashing my teeth."
Mrs. Obama kept to the animal theme by reading, "The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear" by Don and Audrey Wood.
Elsewhere, children could take part in sports with the likes of tennis star Michael Chang, NBA standouts Mitch Richmond and Daryll Dawkins and Olympians Michelle Kwan and Dominique Dawes.
On the basketball court, Obama played the game "Shoot for Strength" with a group of kids and the Harlem Globetrotters. The contest involves sinking shots __ and doing pushups. It took Obama eight tries to sink a basket. He then joined in the pushups that are the game's "reward." ''I'm all pushed-up-out!" he said.
Obama also managed to fit in a few minutes of tennis with one of the sport's legends, Chris Evert.
The event's theme was "Let's Go, Let's Play, Let's Move," encouraging physical activity as part of Mrs. Obama's initiative to counter childhood obesity.
Other celebrity book-readers included actors Forest Whitaker and Julianne Moore. Musical performances came from performers Janelle Monae, Cody Simpson, Rachel Crow and the characters from "Sesame Street."
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Ramsey space from Ramsey algebra with restricted reductions, II
TimeMay 31 2012 - 3:30pm - 4:30 pm
SpeakerWen Chean Teh (OSU)
AbstractI will define Ramsey spaces and Ramsey algebras. Certain structures are Ramsey spaces if and only their underlying algebras are Ramsey algebras. I will discuss a generalization of this.
NotesDifferent day and room than usual.
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Is Calorie Labeling Playing Favorites?
We wrote on Monday about the numerous benefits of calorie labeling on health and consumer choices. Here's an update on how the debate is unfolding throughout the intertubes. Blogger Ezra Klein has a print piece in today's Washington Post praising calorie labeling as a way to wean Americans off foods that will increase our waist size and most likely kill us. An excerpt:
But will putting calorie counts where we can see them make a difference? Possibly. Early studies, along with some anecdotal evidence, show that this practice is driving eaters to choose lighter items.
We're still waiting for the full data from New York's experiment. But the researchers there shared unpublished numbers with the County of Los Angeles Public Health Department, which was preparing an analysis in case Los Angeles wanted to follow New York's lead. Based on those numbers, Los Angeles researchers settled on a "conservative" estimate: 10 percent of chain restaurant patrons would order meals that were merely 100 calories lighter.
Surprisingly, that mild change in behavior has a huge and immediate effect: It would avert 38.9 percent of the county's expected weight gain in the next year. If 20 percent of patrons order meals with 150 fewer calories, it would avert 116 percent of the expected weight gain, which is to say that the County of Los Angeles would actually lose weight.
On his blog, Matt Yglesias agreed, but argued that "what seems really wrongheaded about the NYC law is to limit its effect to chain restaurants." Atrios responded that New York's labeling law is limited to chain restaurants because "requiring it of every restaurant for every item would really place a really large burden on small establishments." He added, "It's more reasonable for large chains because their menu items are standardized and the cost can be spread over their entire chain.
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All the games and rides are going,
skillet throwing, animals showing.
This is the Fair at its best.
There're horses and cows and cattle and sheep,
rabbits, alpaca and chicks that go "peep".
There're drawings and paintings and sculptures too,
and some of this stuff was made by you!
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Look away Chelsea supporters, this guy wrecked your day yesterday. - Paul Thomas
There were unexpected performances all over the place yesterday, what will West Brom vs. Spurs and Manchester City vs. Liverpool bring us today on Super Bowl Sunday?
Mark Bunn had a great match for me that was almost immediately nullified by a number of the other inexpensive keepers (Jussi Jaaskelainen, Wojciech Szczesny, and Adam Federici to name three) have double digit matches as well. Some newcomers - Moussa Sissoko, Christopher Samba, Andre Townsend, and Nacho Monreal - also had exceptional outings with Sissoko's brace being the biggest output of the day overall. On the disappointing side, Juan Mata and Wayne Rooney both scored but managed to pick up yellow cards and generally not pile the phantom points on top of their scoring efforts. Michu continued to disappoint throwing out a zero despite playing the full 90 for the Swans. My sense is that there would have been a huge rush to drop him even at his entry price if Swansea didn't have a double match coming up next week. If he doesn't do well then patience for many may well run out.
The big question remaining today is how Liverpool does on their trip to the Etihad and how that impacts prices for Liverpool's two-gamers. For the first time in recent memory someone (Luis Suarez) has surpassed Robin van Persie's price. Managers would surely like to see the prices of Suarez, Steven Gerrard, Daniel Sturridge and Glen Johnson (among others) fall for the occasion of Liverpool's two matches over the next game week.
With that, let's chat.
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No Indian push on unconstitutional polls: Maldivian president
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Assuring the world that his nation was committed to democracy, Maldivian President Mohamed Waheed, who is on his first official visit to India, said Monday New Delhi was not pushing the Indian Ocean nation to do anything "unconstitutional" on holding presidential elections.
Waheed, who was propelled to the Maldivian presidency under extraordinary circumstances after incumbent Mohamed Nasheed resigned Feb 7 following a police rebellion, said he was personally committed to holding early elections, but political consensus was eluding the coalition government.
"I can assure you that Maldives is committed to democracy. There is no turning back," Waheed said at a press conference on the third day of his five-day visit to India after holding talks with the top Indian political leadership on the troubled situation in his country.
"We are not willing for an autocratic and dictatorial system in Maldives. We came back to Maldives and are working there because we want a better future for our children. I assure you there is no threat to democracy in Maldives," he said, to queries about the future of democracy in his country in the wake of recent developments and the political unrest.
Waheed is in India within three weeks of Nasheed visiting here to drum up support for his call for early presidential polls.
The president also threw up his hands with regard to holding elections in the Maldives ahead of the promised July 2013 deadline, saying there were hurdles of political consensus and constitutional provisions, considering that the Maldives is an executive presidency like in the US and not a parliamentary democracy with a prime minister at the helm like in India.
"I am all for early, free and fair elections as early as the constitution may allow. But, except for Nasheed's party, all other parties in the country are against elections before July 2013. Also, the constitution has to be amended for holding early elections and for that we need two-thirds majority. This is unlikely to happen now," Waheed said.
Asked for India's response to the situation in the Maldives during his talks with the leadership here, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Waheed said: "India is not pushing us to do anything that is against our constitution."
Waheed was the vice president in Nasheed's government that lasted for three years since the first multi-party democratic polls in 2008, which led to the ouster of the dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoon from power.
"The 2008 polls...this is not the end of our democracy. It is the arrival of a new era in our democracy. The whole question is about democracy and not about Nasheed. It is a democracy in a hundred percent Muslim nation. It is a unique story," Waheed said.
Describing his nation as "a young and a very new" democracy, the visiting president said they had set up new institutions and these had problems, as their functioning was yet to be refined. "It will take time to do," he added.
He also denied being under the influence of Gayoom, noting that the former president's party was part of his coalition. "I have supported a national unity government and I have always worked along with all the parties in my government," he said.
On the fall-out with Nasheed after being part of his government for three years, Waheed said his predecessor had failed to uphold the political agreements he had entered to with other parties, including his, and was trying to appoint the Maldivian Democratic Party's representatives in all key positions.
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BJP SAYS, IT IS SETTING THE AGENDA FIRST FOR DELHI POLLS
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Browse audio clips from Oprah Radio host Dr. Mehmet Oz's past shows.
Dr. Oz and Oprah look back at some of his most memorable moments. Poop questions, weight loss transformations and more! Plus, guests who say Dr. Oz saved their lives.
Oprah Radio host Dr. Mehmet Oz talks with Dr. Woodson Merrell about healing common ailments with Integrative and Homeopathic Medicine.
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Very affordable. Excellent keypad.
- Cons Somewhat difficult to set up. Call quality not quite as good as competitors.
The Doro PhoneEasy 345gsm is an attractive, simple voice phone, but there are several better options, including another one from Doro with the same service plans.
Simple and affordable, the Doro PhoneEasy 345gsm looks like a good low-cost option for basic users. But it has an important design flaw, and there are better simple options available. I can't recommend this phone enthusiastically.
The 345gsm is a comfortably sized candy-bar-style phone at 4.9 by 2 by .6 inches (HWD) and 3.5 ounces, coated in a soft-touch black or white plastic. The phone has huge rubberized buttons and a bright-enough, basic 1.8-inch 128-by-96 color LCD screen with large fonts.
At $40, with no-contract service plans from Consumer Cellular starting at $10 a month, the 345gsm is extremely affordable. Consumer Cellular uses AT&T's physical network, but charges less than the major carriers do per minute for light users (though they don't offer free nights and weekends.)
But here's the design flaw. The 345gsm has a "panic button" on the back that calls a user-programmed number if you press it three times. The panic button is exactly where I put my index finger when I'm holding the phone up to my ear. So I keep pressing it randomly during phone calls. This is very annoying.
Now, not everyone puts their finger in that location. When I handed the phone to my colleague Joel Santo Domingo, he didn't have the same problem. But once you know the button is there, it's a comfortable little depression, and your finger sort of gravitates to it. It's a bad design.
Performance and Features
The 345gsm is a decent voice phone, but I like its stablemate the PhoneEasy 410gsm better. Like the 410gsm, the 345gsm gets better reception and sounds better than AT&T's other simple phone, the Pantech Breeze. But the 345gsm sounded a bit muddier, both on receive and transmit, than the 410; it was still acceptable, just not as good as its cousin. The speakerphone was loud but sounded hollow.
Like the 410gsm, the 345gsm has a powerful vibrate mode and comes with 20 ringtones, including classical music and traditional phone rings. It connected with my Plantronics Voyager Pro Bluetooth headset without a problem. I got six and a half hours of talk time, which isn't terrific for a GSM phone; the 410gsm did better.
The software on here is very similar to the 410gsm. As on the 410gsm, the basic menu selections are bold and simple, but initial setup is too complicated for technophobes.
For instance, to set up the panic and speed dial buttons you need to go down to "Settings" and scroll down past the visible options. I can't see technophobes doing much with the awkward calendar, either, though the built-in calculator and FM radio are easier to use. Reading text messages is a snap, but entering them takes a whole lot of button-pressing. The phone also comes with two games: the classic Snake and a whack-a-mole game called Smash.
Settings and Conclusions
If you don't think you'll use any of these functions, you can make them disappear with an option buried deep within the Settings menu. Many options are buried deep in the maze of Settings, which is fine for the kinds of people who would read this review, but probably not as good for the folks they're buying the phones for.
Americans looking for simple cell phones have several options today. They can go with the relatively expensive Samsung Jitterbug J, which comes with a lot of great hand-holding, such as a 24-hour operator service. They can pick up the PhoneEasy 410gsm, which is more expensive but also solid and better-designed. Or they can choose the Samsung Knack, which works with the much-lauded Verizon Wireless network. All three phones are better than the Doro PhoneEasy 345gsm.
Benchmark Test Results
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The Åland Islands Peace Institute
The Åland Islands Peace Institute woks practically and with research into peace and conflict issues in a broadly defined sense, with Åland and the special status that Åland enjoys under international law as a starting point. The Institute focuses on forms of autonomy, minority issues, demilitarisation and conflict management. The Åland Islands Peace Institute takes part in several national and international networks of organisations working on closely related issues. The Peace Institute is an independent charitable foundation, which was founded in 1992. The Board of the Institute takes decisions on the overall activities of the Institute, while the Research Council is responsible for the scientific direction of the research activitites of the Institute.
Activity report 2012
Activity Report 2011
Activity Report 2010
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The Olympics: not so bad after all then
12 August, 2012
There has been no shortage of speculation about the impact of the London Olympics on the pub and restaurant market – and particularly in the capital. So far though, the big chains at least look to be overall beneficiaries, or at least haven’t seen an adverse reaction, writes Peter Martin.
Provisional figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker, which is the biggest and most comprehensive barometer for the market, monitoring sales from 26 operating groups representing combined annual turnover of over £6 billion, show that for the first full week of the Games combined like-for-like sales across the country were marginally up on the same week last year.
In contrast, the week running up to and including the opening ceremony and first weekend was not good and down on last year. The full July trading figures will be published this Wednesday – and by the end of this week our Tracker participants will also know the results of week two.
What we do know is that companies such as TGI Fridays have seen bumper sales in their sites around the Olympic venues, in particular in Westfield Stratford. We also know that London’s West End was pretty much deserted, or at least full of the wrong sort of tourists, during week one – a fact reflected in the many small-sample straw polls already put out. Although latest retail data from Experian suggests that week two saw shoppers start to return to the West End with footfall up.
Of course, it is also all about context. Overall, restaurants look to have done better than pubs in Olympic week one, but the corresponding week last year was hot and pubs had a boom time while restaurants suffered. Figures for week two will also have to take into account that the riots hit that week last year.
We will have a fuller picture of the Olympics effect soon and companies participating in the Tracker survey will be the ones to receive the hard weekly numbers. Business Tracker is a free service for the market, and open to any restaurant, pub or bar group with over £10m in annual sales.
The important thing will not be so much what happened during the fortnight of the Games, but what happens next, and whether this phenonemal showcase will drive more business, particularly from tourists, to London and the UK as a whole.
- The new Peach Report magazine - OUT NOW
- New openings: Greene King Hungry for more, Jamie's slims down
- May sales uplift for pub and restaurant chains
- Fullers managed pubs see 7% like-for-like growth
- New openings: TRG spreads Coast to Coast; Cosmo goes north, Peach south
- Fowle and Watson line up for Future of Finance panel
- Bramwell picks Wild Lime for high street pubs
- New openings: Pink Shed pop-up, Debenhams, Tea Monkey, Farm House
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You can't skip an upgrade step. If the 4.82 upgrade isn't working, then we need to resolve that; but that step cannot be skipped.
When I ran this, I get the screen that I am suppose to see. You should reupload the upgrade.php script and run it.
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Fourth of July.
Normally we celebrate this day and enjoy our freedom. This year we cannot sit back and rest with BBQ during the day and fireworks at night.
This year – this week starting today
– we must fight for our independence. If we do not fight now, we may never be free again to celebrate Independence Day.
As it stands, we have one party that wants to trample our freedom and will do whatever it takes to achieve their goal of a massive government takeover of our
lives. We have another party that is afraid to take a stand and wrings its hands saying there are problems, but never corrects the problems.
The burden of protecting our Constitution, and America’s independence, is on our shoulders. This week’s Supreme Court decision reinforces the fact that We the
People must defend our Liberty. Americans have known this from the moment Benjamin Franklin walked out of Constitution Hall and replied to the lady who asked
what form of government we got, “a republic, madam, if you can keep it.” We must keep our republic.
Our country is in grave danger. Some are trying to sugarcoat our problems. They are not being honest or worse they simply do not understand how serious the situation
You deserve the truth. Most of you reading this know the truth already: we are headed toward economic collapse because of out-of-control spending on out-of-control government programs. The ruling elites control more of our lives than ever before. Some citizens do not understand how precious and rare and fragile our freedom is. Others know what is a risk, what could become our future, and are scared, angry, and left wondering what to do.
We have college students in this country who think that anarchy is the answer. 49% of Americans do not pay taxes and want those who do pay taxes and do support the country to support these “takers” as though they were dependent children, not independent Americans. Our country is divided and the ruling elites think these divisions will help them secure even more power and control over us. They don’t seem to care that the risky game they are playing by dividing America on race, gender and class could have harmful and even history-altering ramifications for the great “melting pot” of America.
In the face of these threats and assaults on our Liberty from America’s ruling elites, Tea Party Patriots have stood firm for our core values: fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets. Our values, and our strength in numbers, brought the largest turnover in Congress in decades, stopped the Wisconsin recalls, educated our fellow citizens that the affordable health care act was anything but affordable, increased awareness and understanding of the Constitution across America, and stopped cap and trade.
But our work is not done. Now, more than ever, we must stand up and save our country – before it’s too late. Don’t look to the White House, or to Congress, or to the Senate or the Supreme Court. Look in the mirror. It’s up to you. Because you, me, and everyone in the Tea Party Patriots – we are the last people left standing for our country.
The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance. Your eternal vigilance. Your country needs you now.
Here is what you must do, to save our country, starting right now:
- Congressmen are going home on vacation to celebrate our Independence. How ironic and sad that week from Independence Day the Supreme Court got it wrong and upheld the biggest government takeover in America’s history. Nevertheless, the Congressmen – Representatives and Senators – will be home over the next 10 days.
- We need you to call their offices and find out every parade, town hall, civic speaking engagement they plan to attend. If the Congressional office won’t tell you, call the campaign office to get the information. We know the so-called “representatives” love a good photo op on the Fourth of July. They will not be able to help themselves and will gravitate towards cameras and microphones.
- Let us know where they are going to be so that others in your area can join you to show up everywhere they are over the next 10 days.
- Find the candidates running against incumbents to let us know where they are as well.
- When you see them, ask them 2 questions ON VIDEO:
a. “If elected will you repeal government-controlled health care in full in early 2013 so that the taxes increases are not implemented and we maintain control of our doctor-patient decisions?”
b. “If elected will you vote to balance our budget in 5 years without raising taxes and actually have the fortitude to stick to the budgeted spending?”
- Upload the answers to YouTube and send us a link.
- Tea Party Patriots will work to compile the results in a scorecard that links to the videos. We cannot create such a scorecard without your help and without every one of us working together to make it happen. We MUST first get the candidates on the record for meeting our demands so that we can hold them accountable beginning on election night.
- Once they are on the record, we can inform and educate our fellow voters why these legislative goals must be accomplished. Immediately following the elections we will use these promises to hold our elected officials accountable. We did not completely understand how quickly the freshmen could stray in 2011. We do now and we will not let that happen in 2013. It starts with knowing where they stand, what they promise.
What happens if the elected officials or candidates act as if they are better than you and that you do not deserve the respect of an answer? RECORD IT on VIDEO, upload it, and send us the link!
What happens if they tell you they do not want cameras in their town hall? RECORD IT on VIDEO, upload it, and send us the link! We will make them famous.
We are not going away! We will fight and this is our mission for Independence Day week 2012. If you are not willing to do it, you better enjoy your Independence Day because it might be the last one you truly have as free citizens.
It’s up to you to save our country. We are the last Patriots standing. Make this week count – to keep America Independent.
Be on the lookout over the weekend for us to have a way to capture the videos.
Tea Party Patriots National Support Team
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Questions concerning the issues that matter most to you
Heh heh, did you buy that?
The archives are nice and updated and redesigned and la de da.
What follows is your standard column. Not much more can be said, aside
from "THOR IS A COOL GUY!". Go on -- say it. Don't make me hurt you! Aww,
are you gonna cry? Is the big baby gonna have himself a cry? Pa-thetic.
|A slightly confusing question|
Is this a decent game for neo geo pocket color. And if it is, do you know
anywhere I can get ahold of a faq for it.
After a few seconds spent pondering the meaning of this letter, I noticed the
subject was "bio motor unitron question". I have never heard of that
sucker. This should be interesting.
Mmkay, it's an RPG... there are 10 player characters... s'got big robots... and
it's for the Neo Geo Pocket Color... and that's it. Information is scarce, so your chances of
finding a FAQ are slim.
|Didn't Chris Farley do this skit on SNL?|
Dear Mr. Thor With The Thing And The Hey And The Froinlayven,
What is it with the "quotes" in all the recent Square "translations"
lately, anyway? They're driving me "crazy."
As far as I know, in some Japanese games the same symbol is used for emphasis and quotation. (If you've played Wild ARMs,
you know what they look like.) The problem is
translators seem to just do a massive Search/Replace, instead of actually
paying attention to the script, and using the right symbol for the right
Also, will there ever be a
time when any "translator" on any modern "console" game will learn the
difference between "you're" and "your," "they're" "their" and "there,"
"to" "too" and "two?" Or is it too much to "hope" for?
I wish I could learn the difference between them. Seriously
though, yeah, try Working Designs. They actually care. And shockingly
enough, Legend of Legaia has a great translation (at least what I've
seen of it so far, I haven't completed the game yet).|
|I see Paris, I see France...|
Dear Thorgasm (by the way, I'm a guy. Don't you feel filthy now?)|
Yeah, but that feeling's pretty normal for me.|
Last week I was in France. I was in a city in the southern part of the
country named Aix-en-Provence, and I stumbled into a video game store. I
figured I'd check out what they had for PSX games, and low and behold,
what do I see? Final Fantasy 8! Now, it had a little sticker on it, that
said something in French. To the best of my ability, I translated it to
Beta version. But it was in a double CD case, and was not another game
that came with a demo. It also cost about 500 francs, which is about 83
American dollars. First thought was that it was the Japanese version.
But it wasn't written in Japanese. Second thought was that the Japanese
and European version were released at about the same time, but I've heard
before that Europe usually doesn't get the game for a year or longer after
Japan. So I wanted to know if you could shed some light on this. Just to
further confuse you, they were carrying a similar copy of Saga Frontier 2,
and a few other games, not all from Square, that haven't been released
- Confused in France
I have no clue. Maybe it was an imported copy of the Japanese version
in a translated package. Or, uh, something. Anyone out there have an
idea what Confused found?|
|SO many QUESTIONS I can't even THINK of a TOPIC!|
(Various Final Fantasy spoilage, dude)
Dear Thor, Omnipotent Deity of Fulmination, Inconsequential Gatherer of
Recreational Connundrums, and Wearer of Erotic Trousers:
A. Exactly what tragic consequences would result if I DID operate the
Playstation controllers with my head, elbows, or stomach? I've operated my
SNES with my ears for the longest time and haven't had any problems,
although the voices inside my head never leave me alone.
Sony's Evil Lawyers will sue you for misuse of their fine product.
Sony will also sue if the Dual Shock is used as a meat tenderizer, a
boomerrang, or a sexual aid. (My apologies for that last one. As a certified smartass, I
was contractually bound.)|
2. My favorite Final Fantasy Moment was the assault against the Giant of
Bab-il in FF IV, but it's not one of the choices. Farfennoogen!!|
Neither is FF6's "leap" scene at the beginning of the World of Ruin. Ahh well, I guess we couldn't include everything.
IV. If Lorelai's not feeling so well, why don't you be kind and return the
favor by making HER some of those Prozac cookies?|
As much as I'd love to play doctor |with for my lovely and
talented colleague, I'm afraid she's the only one that knows the seven secret herbs
and spices that go into prozac cookies, so I'm unable to whip up a batch
00000101. My important question. Do you think anything will be edited in
the U.S. translation of Final Fantasy V? I have the same "completely legal
translated copy" that LockeZ had, and I was wondering what other words
were suitable for the crystal spirit of "Air Quest." That, and the lap
dance in the Tule pub.|
No one knows. I've heard Woolsey translated FFV before he left Square,
and they've been sitting on the script ever since. Chances are anything
of really adult nature was edited out, or at least only alluded
to. On the other hand, if Square actually writes a new translation,
we could be in for a real treat. Xenogears proved typos and mistakes
are (mostly) a thing of the past in Square games, and FFV wouldn't
be bogged down by the mountains of text like Xenog....
Oh, wait; this would mean Square would make a decision which didn't piss everyone off. Nevermind then!
Well, I shall go spend the next eternity focusing upon the animated Shadow
Zero next to your name. Thanks a lot, take care, and may Teri Hatcher be
forever aroused by your pants.
- The Chicken
|Great moments in misuse|
Hey thor..I agree totally with what Gianpiero said about the sony dual
shock crud in the manual but I might add that there are plenty of morons
out there and if someone was to be injured from using the dual shock like
that then Sony could be liable for a HUGE lawsuit, but by putting that
into the manual Sony is basically saving their asses if that were to
Thought I'd let u know.....
So unless Sony does its part to protect the magnificently unintelligent,
they'll be sued. Poor guys. I mean, why even bother protecting someone
who'd try and use the Dual Shock with their elbows? Hopefully this sort
of person would try to retrieve a piece toast with their tongue, and die long
before he or she could reproduce.
Yesterday I asked readers if they knew of any books or series which reminded
them of RPGs. I received tons of feedback. Below are just a handfull of suggestions
sent in by bookworms around the globe.
The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind is excellent. He is my
favorite fantasy author, and has been for about 4 years now. The
stories are excellent, and I would love to see an RPG set in the world he
Try reading Diamond Age and Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson. They're some of
the best books I've ever read.
As I may have mentioned to you before, my RPG-like fantasy-type book
series of choice is the renshai trilogy (not the renshai chronicales, I'm
not up to them yet) by Mickey Zucker Reichert. They're great fantasy
books based on swordsmanship and some odd form of Norse mythology. And
there's a cool guy named Colbey Castilinsson in them.
They wouldn't happen to have a god named "Sexypants", would they?
Dennis L. McKiernan's books are at the top of my list. All of the Mithgar
books are quality (well, some more than others), and that they all tie in
together in one way or another (since they all take place in the same
world) really makes you want to read more. The Iron Tower Trillogy (his
first three books about Mithgar) is very much like Tolkien's LotR (read:
almost exactly the same), but less wordy and less tedious.
Dave Duncan's Seventh Swordsman is a great trilogy, and his A Man of His
Word quadrilogy is also fantastic. Yeah, so read these books, they might
even be on tape (not likely though).
Other suggestions include "Coldfire" by C. S. Friedman; Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker"
trilogy; "Tailchaser's Song" by Tad Williams; "The Dragon and the George" by
Gordon R. Dickson;
"The chronicles of Amber" by Roger Zelazny; the "Groth" trilogy by Thor Antrim (heh heh, snuck that one in there); Steven Brust's "Dragaera", and countless others. Okay, maybe twenty others. But just
'cause I can count 'em doesn't mean I'm going to list 'em all.
|So funny it stood out from the crowd|
While I've read some Tolkien books and enjoyed them, I believe he has
NOTHING on Piers Anthony. Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series is
one of the best "anthologies" ever written, I think. (I'm such a mark). |
Aye, Piers Anthony books are fun as hades. Except "Firefly". That one was
By the way, something you may find humorous. During my English class, we
were discussing 19th century authors such as Melville and Poe, and the
teacher asked if any current authors have matched their impact on the
literary world. While I said Piers Anthony, H.P. Lovecraft, and Clive
Barker (only 4 people had heard of any of these authors. 4 of 25), the
winner of this discussion by nearly unanimous vote was.. R.L. Stine. R.L.
STINE, famed author of the mature-if-you're-under-7 series Goosebumps. I
find that extremely sad, and if anything, it shows how.. illiterate the
current generation of high-school students have become.|
Excuse me, I have to go do my little "I was homeschooled!" dance again.
|Unfit for Print|
(Final Fantasy VI, VII spoilers)
I just want you to READ this. I'd like it posted but you never post any
thing i send you anyway. What's wrong with the people who enter the polls?
Obviously some people have only played playstation games. Everytime
anything from FF7 is on a poll it gets tons of votes. PEOPLE. FF7 was ok
but it wasn't that good compared to some of the other Final Fantasys. FF6
was substantially a better game. It had a better soundtrack. As for Kefka,
he was pretty much pretty close in coolness with Sephiroth but Kefka was a
good bad guy. Sephiroth wasn't fun to fight. Everyone wanted him to be a
good guy. Kefka's motives were a lot clearer and made more sense. FF6's
only real downside comes from the fact that the second half wasn't as good
as the first half but it's not like the whole game can be equal in
goodness either. So i'm telling you people, don't vote blindly if you've
never played pretty much any of the games on the poll unless they're for
playstaytion. And if you actually have maybe you should re-analyze your
- Ross Levine
Time and time again, I receive letters such as this one. The content
varies, but the message is always the same: "What's wrong with
these people? They don't agree with me!"
It's called a poll. People give their opinions. You give yours. Get over it.
Was Final Fantasy VI better than Final Fantasy VII? Was Kefka a better
baddy than Sephiroth? And for that matter, did Final Fantasy VI
really go downhill in the World of Ruin?
If you ask this guy, or me for that matter, yes. But that's just our
opinions. Not fact. Plenty could, and do, disagree. Which is why there's
a poll. To get a general idea what the masses think. Snub your nose at
"newbies" and scoff because they enjoy Final Fantasy VII all you want.
It's not going to change anything.
For the record, I voted the death of Aeris as the most memorable scene.
Not because I've only played PlayStation RPGs, but because it affected
me more than even the opera scene. Of course, the opera scene was powerful
too -- indeed, it made John Romero cry! -- but just because you like it
better doesn't mean the opera scene is better than the death
scene, or that I'm wrong.
So next time you notice your favorite game, song or memory is losing
in the polls, don't get mad, be glad. You're unique. After all, who
wants think just like everyone else?
Damnit, I'm starting to sound like an anti-smoking campaign. End rant.
|Dirty old men|
can you send me nudie pix of FuSoYa?
Ask and you shall receive...|| ||
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(That's Mr. inept megalomaniac to you, pal.)
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|Quote of the Undetermined Amount of Time|
|"By the way, put back the Now Playing thingy or I will kill you."|
(Why I'll never agree to meet a fan.)
Quickies are fun for girls and boys of all ages!
I know your a Teri Hatcher fan so you should rent the movie Heavens
Prisoner's. Fast forward to 41:43.
Heh heh, I do love my readers.
Actually, In FF5, there is an attack called Kururu, which turns your
characters into frogs.
- Petau Sese Boutrous Boutrous Seko Tutu Annan
During school today I was walking through the hall, and an idea for
another nickname came up! How's "Hybrid of Mario and Pikachu"? Lemme
Fare thee well Thor "Son of Mario and Pikachu" Antrim.
You're weird, kid. Cool, but weird.
Ahh well, I suppose even "Hybrid of Mario and Pikachu" is better than
"Thorgy" or "Thorgasm". And what ever happened to good ol' "Sexypants"?
Those were the days, man. Those were the days...
The boss music in Xenogears clearly says Sentient Mode is capable. Me and
about... 3 other people I know all came up with that independantly, listen
to the slow plot version if you don't believe me.
Huh. He may have a point there.
"The Legend of Link Saving Zelda's Ass Every Friggin' Game"
Not quite. Link's Awakening anyone? What about Zelda][?
Hey, you had to save Zelda in Zelda II: The Adventures of Link!
And as for Link's Awakening, it was about saving Zelda. She just got really fat, and
liked floating in the ocean, and kind of collected enough dirt to support
wildlife, and changed her name to Koholint. Honest!
|Thor Stuff: Egotism at its finest|
I know this isn't really my department... but does anyone out there have
nifty fan art of Xenogears' Ramsus? He's just too cool.
Speaking of, I thought I was almost done with Xenogears. I had reached
the Tower of Babel. Then to my horror, a group I hang with informed
me that the ToB was only halfway through the game, not towards the
end. Then they laughed at me. And then I cried. And cried, and cried.
Damn you Xenogears, when will this madness end?!
Thor "god of blunder" Antrim
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Bruce Guthrie, the Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Senate, appeared on statewide television last week and did what Maria Cantwell hasn't done this election season—firmly aligned himself with the Seattle liberals and progressives.
While Cantwell plays to the muddled, post-9/11 center and GOP candidate Mike McGavick tries to pass himself off as a reformer, Guthrie declared himself antiwar, anti–Patriot Act, pro–gay marriage, and pro-pot. Cantwell, meanwhile, says gay marriage is not an issue, and McGavick recently called for drug testing of welfare recipients. "I'd prefer drug and alcohol testing of members of Congress," Guthrie said during the candidates' televised debate Oct. 17.
In the past, most TV stations have limited debaters to the D's and R's. But KING-TV goes by a set of complicated and lengthy guidelines to measure a candidate's appeal to voters, one of which is how much money a candidate's campaign has raised. This time, it was set at $1.2 million. So Guthrie, a former Western Washington University business lecturer, turned off his instinctual hatred of debt, mortgaged his house, pooled his savings, and landed a loan from a commercial bank, which he gave to his campaign.
And there he was on TV, calling for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq the same day that 11 U.S. soldiers were killed there, while Cantwell and McGavick, in essence, backed the war effort.
Guthrie, a Libertarian since his college days at Cornell, calls the two major parties "big ugly parties" that leave gay voters and many lefties "stuck" with nowhere to turn.
"We're gun-toting economists on drugs," Guthrie says, laughing about the longtime Libertarian rep in his rundown Lake City office, which is located next to an empty storefront and a bar called Cadillac Jack's. Guthrie doesn't own a gun but supports gun rights. He smoked his last joint in 1985, he says, but is all for decriminalizing marijuana use.
For decades, Libertarian candidates have hewed to an antigovernment, fiscally conservative, gun-rights line, while stressing personal freedom and privacy rights and opposing most wars. Though they've been mostly on the fringes, current political realities may make it easier for a Libertarian to appeal to educated, urban voters in ways that religious Republicans and warrior Democrats cannot.
Not that any of this makes it easy for Guthrie to get serious exposure. He says he was rebuffed by papers large and small across the state when requesting endorsement interviews. And the Libertarian Party in Washington state has hardly been a hit with the electorate in the past. In 2004, its gubernatorial candidate, Ruth Bennett, pulled 2 percent of the vote, likely stripping votes from Republican candidate Dino Rossi in a historically tight and controversial election that went to Democrat Christine Gregoire. In the same election, Guthrie took 2.5 percent of the vote in running for office in the 2nd Congressional District.
But now, Guthrie has made a public ripple in ways that Green Party senatorial candidate Aaron Dixon can only wish for. Dixon was arrested for trespassing after being barred from the KING-TV debate taping on Oct. 17. Meanwhile, Guthrie showed up in coverage of the debate on KING-TV as well as in The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Guthrie's next move is to decide whether he's going to spend a significant amount of that $1.2 million on the campaign. He says he'll decide later this week whether to run TV ads in the remaining days before the election. Seriously. A Libertarian running TV ads. Finally the Kill Your Television crowd will have a reason to tune in. | <urn:uuid:9991bdc2-3f5f-4c2f-84a4-1aaeee327cc5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.seattleweekly.com/2006-10-25/news/the-l-word/ | 2013-06-19T06:49:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976152 | 782 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Animal Planet is an American satellite and cable television channel (also broadcast via IPTV in the UK), that launched on October 1, 1996. It is distributed by Discovery Communications.
A high-definition simulcast of the channel launched on September 1, 2007.
Animal Planet was created in cooperation with the BBC by Discovery Communications on October 1, 1996.
On January 1, 1997, Animal Planet's distribution grew as a result of Discovery Communications, buying the channel space of WOR EMI Service (a national feed of New York's WWOR-TV), that was implemented in the light of the SyndEx laws enforced by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
It is available throughout the United States, as well as in over 70 countries around the world.
Country-specific versions of the channel have been created in Canada, India, Japan, Taiwan and other countries.
The National Aquarium in Baltimore has an exhibit of "Animal Planet Australia: Wild Extreme". It opened in late 2005 in a multi-million dollar expansion. Animal Planet and the National Aquarium in Baltimore (in 2004) announced a multi-year partnership which produced an original orientation film that gives Aquarium visitors background on the Australian area which inspired the new exhibit and a dedicated area inside the expansion where visitors can learn about Animal Planet's conservation efforts and other programming. The partnership also has possible future productions of TV programs about the National Aquarium in Baltimore's research and exhibits.
In 2006, BBC Worldwide sold its 20% interest in Animal Planet US back to Discovery Communications. The BBC maintained its 50% ownership in Animal Planet Europe, Animal Planet Asia and Animal Planet Latin America, as well as its minority position in Animal Planet Japan and Animal Planet Canada. Animal Planet is additionally an associate member of the Caribbean Cable Cooperative.
Genius Products has announced a U.S. distribution agreement not only with Animal Planet, but also with TLC.
Jakks Pacific has just signed a license to make Animal Planet pet products.
On February 3, 2008, Animal Planet "relaunched" itself under a new image that "sheds its soft and furry side for programming and an image with more bite."As part of the relaunch, Animal Planet replaced their elephant and spinning globe logo for a starker text image that allows more flexibility in its usage Eight new shows and specials scheduled to air in February, with the new shows aimed at reaching a more adult audience with programming designed to tap into humans' basic instincts with stories that reiterate what makes humans human.
The goal is to move from being perceived by viewers as paternalistic, preachy, and observation-based to being seen as active, entertaining and edgy. That means targeting adults 25-49, rather than full families, with less voice-of-God narration and more visceral imagery and sounds. Think of it as swapping a drab narrator saying that a lion is about to kill its prey for the blood-curdling scream of the doomed creature as it meets its demise.
—Anne Becker, Broadcasting & Cable.
Animal Planet HD is a 1080i high definition simulcast of Animal Planet, that launched on September 1, 2007. It is currently available on Dish Network, Cox, Comcast, Charter, DirecTV and Time Warner Cable.
It was also recently launched, (February 3, 2009) in Norway for Canal Digital, in which Norway is the first country outside the US to get this channel in HD. | <urn:uuid:2dabb78a-0331-4b0f-9f9d-5d6d04d42e85> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shvoong.com/entertainment/tv/2022052-animal-planet/ | 2013-06-19T06:23:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956394 | 698 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Posted Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, at 11:55 AM
Mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah Mia Love speaks during the Republican National Convention on August 28, 2012 in Tampa, Florida.
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images.
My cynical ears thought that GOP star Mia Love's convention speech was a little cliched, rousing but unmemorable, taking all its best lines from historical figures. But you could say the same for most Barack Obama speeches, and hell, they've worked for him. All Love needs to do to get to Congress is defeat Rep. Jim Matheson, who holds the most Republican district not currently held by a Republican -- 14 points more Republican than the country at large.*
And she might be pulling it off.
The Saratoga Springs mayor led 51 percent to 36 percent, with 13 percent undecided. Love’s pollster had found Matheson ahead in July with 51 percent, so the new poll indicates a dramatic shift in the race. Previous public polling had also shown Matheson with a signficant lead.
Love would be the first black female Republican in the House, and arguably the most prominent black Mormon in America. How do you run against that? Like this:
In an age of stronger partisan loyalty, it's increasingly hard for the "I hate my party, really!" message to overcome the "there's an R behind my name" message.
*The Cook rating is pretty simple. A district that votes the same way as the rest of the country +0. So, if you're in a district that Barack Obama won by 7 points, you're in +0-land. If your district voted 50-50 for Obama-McCain, it edges Republican. An R+14 district is Republican landslide territory. | <urn:uuid:a96ed59f-eb98-46c9-b763-a60b9ca6bcc0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/09/26/mia_love_the_inevitability_of_the_black_female_mormon_republican_congresswoman.html | 2013-06-19T06:45:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961394 | 372 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Florence Boutwell knew little of the Spokane Valley terrain, let alone the history, when she enlisted in the U.S. Navy and headed west from New Jersey almost 68 years ago.
Soon after arriving in the Inland Northwest, Boutwell reported to the Naval Supply Deport, a conglomeration of military storage buildings in an area along Sullivan Road that is now the site of the Spokane Business and Industrial Park. In an effort to familiarize herself with her new home, Boutwell decided to subscribe to the Spokane Valley Herald, a weekly newspaper first published in 1920.
“I can remember the Herald when I first moved here,” said Boutwell. “It was a way to learn about the Valley and the people. “You’d go to places around town and see people reading it and talking about the articles.”
Like many aspects of American life in 1942, the local paper was scaled back as the nation concentrated its efforts on winning a world war. The Herald typically consisted of around four pages with community news and a sparse collection of advertisements.
Readers stayed informed about area happenings that tied into the war such as the Great Northern Railway donating a depot in Greenacres to the Red Cross. Volunteers were needed to sew blankets and other supplies to send overseas.
Other features – such as a list of “Air Raid Rules” presented by the Washington State Defense Council and a notice of the next scheduled meeting of the Spokane County Civilian Defense Council – spoke to the priorities of Spokane Valley residents during turbulent times.
Boutwell also remembers the Herald chronicling the ongoing history of the Valley from the latest in local commerce to the most recent news in high school sports. Correspondents from various sections of the area like Veradale, Dishman and Opportunity would contribute stories to the paper each week. The result was a patchwork quilt of information that formed the unfolding story of Spokane Valley.
Years later, Boutwell drew upon some of those same stories when compiling a three-volume history of the Spokane Valley spanning back to 1846. Along with interviews of longtime Valley residents, old copies of the Herald helped Boutwell track over a century of growth.
This year, Boutwell will celebrate her 90th birthday along with a newspaper that has served as a weekly biography of the Spokane Valley for nine decades.
“The Herald has always been very important to the Valley,” Boutwell said. “It’s part of our history.”
In March of 1944, the Herald trumpeted the success of the Central Valley boys basketball squad, a team that emerged victorious at the Spokane County post-season tournament and advanced to the state tournament in Seattle. Howard Herman recalls being a reserve senior on that Bears roster, “holding down the bench.”
Herman’s family moved to Spokane Valley from the city of Spokane in 1940. He remembers reading the Herald every week for the sports articles and a feature called “Dust from the Files” that summarized news stories from the Valley in 10-year increments going back to 1920.
Herman, now 84, still reads the paper each week.
“I’m getting to the point where I recognize almost everything in “Dust from the Files,” said the longtime area lawyer. “The thing I value about it is if I’ve missed something in the Spokane paper or on the news, I can read about it in the Herald.”
In the years after World War II, the Herald reflected the burgeoning development of the area between the city of Spokane and the Idaho border, an area that, at the time, included only one incorporated city in Millwood. John Vlahovich took over as publisher of the paper in 1948. His son, John Jr., who began working for the Herald as a reporter/editor in 1968, recalls the paper thriving from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s when the local commercial scene was comprised largely of locally owned businesses that routinely advertised in the Herald.
“Those businesses really had a loyalty to the community,” said John, now a broadcaster for the local public radio station.
Correspondents still covered different portions of the Valley, sending in stories of an arts and crafts sale in Otis Orchards or a choir concert in Greenacres. The approach, John said, was part of “an overall mission to cover the entire Valley.”
“The Herald was really a rallying point for residents,” he said. “The paper was really a unifying thing that promoted the local economy and the quality of life here.”
In the mid-1960s, the paper began utilizing new technology such as an offset printer that made publishing more efficient. In addition to the newspaper, the Herald press printed a variety of commercial publications.
While the popularity of the paper was a boon to business, John also remembers the wide-read success meaning a step up in accountability.
“You misspelled a name, you heard about it,” he said.
John’s brothers, Mike and Jerry also worked at the Herald. Mike, who later moved on to the Spokesman-Review, wrote about the local sports scene and Jerry was involved in the commercial printing side of the business.
In 1992, John Sr. sold the Herald to local businessman Clark Hager. Now retired and living in Chatteroy, Hager recalls how the acquisition “kept the paper afloat.”
Hager owned the paper from 1992 to 1996, a time in which the idea of incorporating of Spokane Valley continued to gain momentum. Hager said the role of the Herald was critical to the eventual vote for cityhood on the May 2002 ballot.
“I don’t think incorporation would have happened if we hadn’t supported it,” Hager said.
As for the overall impact of the paper, Hager said Spokane Valley has been fortunate to have a weekly retrospective of community news and events for the better part of nine decades.
“It’s meant so much just in the journalistic sense,” he said. “The entire history of the Valley is in those papers.” | <urn:uuid:a28ff83f-4722-4e7e-87a6-7dc9bdd2a6f0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.spokanevalleyonline.com/articles_svnews/2010/040910_herald_retrospective.html | 2013-06-19T06:29:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962008 | 1,286 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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ArtsMidwest is one of six regional arts organizations in the United States, serving audiences, arts organizations and artists throughout the primary region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Each year, the Indiana Arts Commission provides a grant to ArtsMidwest, which is then combined with money from the other states in the region. This money is granted out to presenting organizations from Indiana to tour both our own state and other Midwestern states. In FY2013, ArtsMidwest provided $105,150 in services in our state which includes dues and additional funds by ArtsMidwest. These services were provided through a variety of programs and services.
In FY2013, the following Indiana organizations received funds through the Arts Midwest Touring Fund:
Additionally, the 2011-2013 Arts Midwest World Fest program featuring Yamma Ensemble (Israel), Tarim: Uygur Song and Dance (People’s Republic of China), Qawal Najmuddin Saifuddin & Brothers (Pakistan), and Çudamani (Indonesia) visited schools and community centers across Indiana. These educational and performance events reached more than 6,000 residents, including more than 5,000 youth, with each of the four ensembles.
For more information about ArtsMidwest and the programs and services they offer, please visit their website at http://www.artsmidwest.org/. | <urn:uuid:69bbbc53-57b7-440d-8216-d57e002b97bb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.state.in.us/arts/2698.htm | 2013-06-19T06:28:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142617/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93297 | 329 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Welcome to the University Honors and Leadership (UHL) program’s website. UHL is the University of Colorado Denver’s university-wide honors program, offering both a traditional academic honors curriculum and one of the nation’s only honors-level programs in leadership studies. The UHL program offers its students a wealth of opportunities in the classroom and beyond, including the chance to take small, seminar-style courses from some of the university’s best professors, to engage in research and creative endeavors with nationally and internationally prominent scholars at the Downtown Denver and Anschutz Medical Campuses, and to be a part of a community of students whose bonds extend well beyond the classroom.
I encourage you to explore
the many benefits that the UHL program has to offer. You will find on our website a wealth of information about the program, and we are always happy to talk with prospective students and their parents about the many benefits of the UHL experience. Please do not hesitate to contact us
with any questions that you may have about the program.
Steven G. Medema, Director
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UNICEF and MTV: Lights! Camera! Action!
4 November, 2009, Kyiv – Today the filming of the feature film “Embrace me” has began. The main goal of the film is to highlight the problem of HIV/AIDS among young people in Ukraine. The film is created under the partnership of the MTV’s international campaign Staying Alive: Ignite and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). One of the film locations, night club “Heaven”, was open to the journalists, giving them a unique opportunity to observe the filming process, talk to the actors and celebrities, and ask UNICEF and MTV representatives questions.
The HIV/AIDS epidemics in Ukraine is growing faster than anywhere in Europe. Four out of five HIV infected are young people, just like me. That’s why I am making film “Embrace me.” It’s about those who live for fun and love, those who look for adventures and happines. I believe this film will help save lives,” says Lyubomir Kobylchuk, the film director.
“Embrace me” is a story about life of young people in Ukraine, made of several mini-stories. Max is a car seller, who enjoys amusement and risk, without thinking about the danger of HIV/AIDS. Lera, a TV presenter, believes that everyone is responsible for their love relations. Barman at the night club thinks HIV/AIDS cannot affect him personally and, out of principle, refuses to get tested.
Although the characters in the film are fictional, they are not far from reality and everyone can recongize themselves in it. Along with professional actors, Ukrainian celebrities, such as stylist Olga Navrocka, singer Kasha Saltsova, TV presenter Yanina Sokolova and boxer Volodymyr Virchis will play their parts. And even ordinary young people, representing the target group of the film, had an opportunity to get a role. More than 60 people sent their videos, expressing their opinion about HIV/AIDS and ways to overcome the problem, to the open casting. In addition, more than 100 young people participated in the fotocasting on the popular youth website: www.nightlife.ua. The winners, Karina Nightingale and Alexander Sernyak, are now part of the film cast.
“Young people are at the core of the epidemic in Ukraine and it is important for them to adopt healthy lifestyle techniques. HIV testing should become a regular practice for everyone. HIV testing is confidential and pre and post-counseling is provided. It is important to remember that the main HIV transmission modes are injecting drug use and unprotected sex,” says Olena Sakovych, Youth and Adolescent Development Officer at UNICEF.
Andrey Urenov, Head of Production and Programming at MTV Ukraine: «MTV creates a lifestyle of millions of young people around the world. Being aware of our responsibilities, we are implementing an international project in Ukraine - Staying Alive: Ignite, because HIV/AIDS epidemic among young people in our country has reached dangerous proportions. This awareness will help save lives in our young audience, and that is why we strive to be heard».
The film “Embrace me” will be premiered on MTV and other channels in Ukraine on December 1st, the World AIDS Day.
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how to make a underline in richtextbox in vb 2005
Can anybody can help with my problem.
i have two richtextbox that compare if the wring word is inputted..
i want just to underline the words that the user have type wrong..
my problem is the next word that is wrong or not equal i not underline but the first word is being underline.
Dim Str1 As Array
Dim str2 As Array
On Error Resume Next
Str1 = Split(Trim(richtextbox1.text), " ")
str2 = Split(Trim(richtextbox2.text), " ")
For i As Integer = 0 To Str1.Length - 1
If String.Compare(Str1(i).ToString, str2(i).ToString, False) <> 0 Then
If Str1(i).ToString <> str2(i).ToString Then
'underline the data that a wrong word
'the equal string is the error that needs to be underline
'the problem occurs on the wrong word
errorcounter = errorcounter + 1
PS.. it must be done on lostfocus event.
Really appropriated your help. i'am really lost here.
Re: how to make a underline in richtextbox in vb 2005
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about the exhibition
New Works 95.1
San Antonio, TX/New York, NY
January 14–February 26, 1995An Interview with Jesse Amado by Frances Colpitt
Frances Colpitt: Could you talk a little bit about your installation and how you conceive of its unfolding?
Jesse Amado: Well, I think I should be able to. I want to attempt to get through a lot of things that I feel are trapped inside. It has to do with a societal syntax and with a personal syntax, and most of all with a visual syntax. The theme is the washing and the cleansing of all of those things. So, I want to go through the process of cleansing, and more importantly, I hope that the poetics of the works will also be something much more, ultimately.
FC: One of the main ingredients in this exhibition is soap, and it seems very much like the kind of material that you would choose. Were you attracted to the soap because of its smell and its sense of waxy tactility?
JA: The idea of the soap is for all those reasons: the tactile quality of it, the smell of it, particularly this soap that I am using. Just taking it out of one box and putting it into another was quite an experience because it is an incredibly strong smelling soap. Then, there is the whole notion of washing, which is something I like to do. I like to wash up. Another thing that sort of was a revelation was a botanica in my new neighborhood. I told you about the place that I am getting ready to move into. My neighbor is a botanica. So, I went in there and there was a wonderful display of about one hundred different soaps that one can get in order to wash oneself with the hope of, perhaps, having a better love life. There are so many soaps that are available through this botanica to use to cleanse yourself, and to wash away the things that are impure and that are keeping you from being happier, I suppose. And the packaging of this soap is really beautiful too. So that convinced me once I saw that. I was wanting to change my work, to reevaluate it, to see what was wrong with it and what was strong about it. I thought the perfect metaphor for that would be to just wash away everything that had ever been accumulated in my work.
FC: One of the things I was going to ask you is whether your work responds to the place of its making. And now I see that although the work appears very cool and conceptual–and it appears to be homeless in a way–there are reference points in your living in San Antonio.
JA: Yes, that is very true. I am essentially tethered to this area for many reasons: because of my family, and because of my job most of all. I made the commitment to stay in this town a long time ago, but I also made a commitment to art and so I had to find a way of making a substantial art or meaningful art. One way of doing that was to refer to what San Antonio is and the pleasures that San Antonio has to offer in terms of its imagery and in terms of the kind of things that surrounded me when I was a child. You know the iconography of San Antonio is very prevalent, and I know that this plays an important part in my work even though it is not very evident, but it does derive from that.
FC: Maybe it is more metaphorical than it is formal. Your work does not reflect what we would call the indigenous style of San Antonio.
JA: The formal part of the work is important. So I do not forget about that, but I also want to stress the metaphorical aspect of it. I think of my work in very poetic terms. Poetry is very important to me....
FC: In this particular work or installation, the soap is the generative object–the motif of the show–and then you will also be using mirrors and glass.
JA: Real shiny, reflective kind of things.
FC: And the sink in the middle.
JA: It will actually be mounted on a table. And that will drain into a trough, where the soapy water will accumulate. So it will be a whole process of having the soaps in their boxes, I think, and then maybe having soaps out of their boxes, then the soaps being picked up and used to wash with, and put into another compartment. There is a ritualistic, ordered aspect of the washing that I hope to accomplish. The reason that I have the mirror is because I want to see myself going through the process of washing during the installation. Also, because of its reflection, the mirror emphasizes the duality of things. If I can see my “dual” self, I can remove myself instead of focusing on myself. If I can be beside myself, by using the mirror, and see myself doing what I am doing, it will probably help me get to the place I am hoping to get to.
FC: Is it an autobiographical exhibition?
JA: Of course it starts there and I am the author of what is going on there. But I am trying to distance myself as quickly as I possibly can, and through the mirrors I will be able to achieve that. Hopefully when the act is finished and when the viewers come in, they can see themselves as well, and
possibly see something more than themselves. They can see how they are when they are beside themselves.
FC: Something that I have noticed about your work is that it is not just the objects, but the space between them that is very important. So even though there are individual pieces, there is an activation and utilization of all the space, which becomes charged.
JA: Yeah, I try to put myself in the place of the viewer and I try to create a distance between myself and the work as soon as I possibly can. I try to become the viewer suddenly, instead of maker. I try to go through the movement that a viewer would, and I kind of like that part of the process. I think about activating the viewer, whether I want to keep him still or make him move. There has to be some kind of movement. There has to be some kind of outside force that I think that the art work needs to complete it. The activation is essentially important. I try to come to it as soon as possible.
FC: Are you shifting roles? Are you artist and then viewer, and then artist and then viewer?
JA: Yes, and gradually I remove myself almost completely as the artist. I just want to give up the work as soon as I possibly can. I feel much better about the work if I can do that.
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Southern California will enter the 2012 football season thin in the backfield, but has already received good news for 2013. Ty Isaac of Joliet Catholic in Illinois has verbally committed to Lane Kiffin and USC. The 6’3, 215 pound prospect is ranked second nationally at his position by rivals.com, and received offers from a multitude of BCS programs.
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Building Science Explorer
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From front door of the Black Sheep Inn you can choose a ton of hiking trails, with a huge variety of scenery and environment. Within two hours walk you can reach 4 distinct climate zones.
The plateau and ridge hike offer shorter jaunts that let you get acclimated to the altitude (3200 meters) whill affording fantastic views.
Once you are comfortable, you can tackle longer journeys to the cloud forest, through the Rio Toachi canyon and up to Lake Quilotoa.
The Lake Quilotoa hike is considered one of the best hikes in Ecuador.
Guests generally hire a truck to make the one hour drive up to the lake, and then
follow a mostly downhill course from the lake back to the Black Sheep Inn.
This route takes about 4 to 6 hours, starting at an altitude of 3900 meters, traveling about a quarter of the rim around the lake, then down off the crater to the town of Guayama. From Guayama the trail leads to the top of dramatic cliffs above Rio Sihui. You then take a trail down to the river (altitude 2800 meters), and up the other side of the canyon, eventually climbing to Chugchilán and Black Sheep Inn at 3200 meters elevation.
Going the other way (from the inn to the lake) is certainly possible, but because the hike is mostly uphill, you should budget an extra 2 hours or more (6 to 9 hours total).
We recommend taking a local native guide for this hike, which we can arrange for you
at the inn.
If you are not in the mood for a big hike, you can also arrange for a truck to bring you to the lake, wait for you, and bring you back. The first hour of crater rim walk is quite gentle, and affords plenty of spectacular views of the lake.
Hiking down from the crater rim to the lakeside is also an option. Descent takes 30 minutes, an climbing back up takes about an hour. Yes, you can swim in the lake, but the water is very cold (5° celcius). Coming back up from the lake, you can hire a mule to ride for a few dollars.
Rio Toachi Canyon
Exploring the canyon presents a couple options. Hikes begin by following road and trails
from Black Sheep Inn down to
the Rio Toachi river. Then at the town of
Itualo, you can choose to go left (downstream) or right (upstream).
The downstream trail makes for an easier hike (3-5 hours total) that leads to the suspension bridge. From the bridge you can connect with a road that leads back upwards to the Mission Workshop at Chinalo, where you can check out their showroom of hand-carved furniture. This round trip trail is also a good choice to do on horseback.
The upstream trail is a bit more challenging (4 -6 hours total). It follows the Rio Toachi upstream to the tributary river, Rio Sihui. From there the trail follows Rio Sihui upstream through a lovely uninhabited stretch (a bit of bushwacking and river crossing is sometimes necessary) and emerge at the base of the farmland hills that lead back to Chugchilán and the Black Sheep Inn.
The land rising from the canyon features four distinct climates in a ten kilometer radius.
Climate 1 -- At the bottom of the canyon (2600 meters, 8500 feet elevation), tropical trees such as avocado and citrus grow.
Climate 2 -- The Black Sheep Inn (3200 meters, 10,500 feet elevation) still has a large variety of trees, lush grassy areas and we can grow leafy greens for organic salads.
Climate 3 -- The high paramó (3500 meters, 11,500 feet elevation & above) is an exposed alpine grassland, mostly above the tree line.
Climate 4 -- on the other side of the paramó, as the elevation drops off 3000 meters or 10,000 feet, there is dense jungle and Cloud Forest.
Walking to the plateau from Black Sheep Inn only takes about 35 minutes. Once you're on the plateau, you can spend hours following the edge, with views into arroyos and down cliffsides into the Rio Toachi Canyon.
Since this hike is mostly on level ground, it's a good first hike, to see how your body is adjusting to the high altitude. You can also enjoy the plateau on horseback.
Black Sheep Inn is located part way up a mountain ridge. Hiking up to the top of the ridge above the inn takes about 25 minutes. From the top, you can follow the ridgeline trail with stunning views on both sides. The whole loop around the ridge and back to the inn takes from one hour to 90 minutes.
The ridge hike is not long, but it involves a serious little climb at the outset. It's a good way to gauge how you feel with uphill treks in the high altitude.
Iliniza Cloud Forest
Hiking to the cloud forest from Black Sheep Inn takes about 2 hours. On the way,
the road climbs into the paramó - high altitude grasslands above the tree line.
Up in the paramó, you have the option to visit a locally run cheese factory that was started 30 years ago by Swiss missionaries. Over the Western edge of the paramo, the cloud forest begins. You can delve into the clouds and hike in the high altitude rain forest. A local guide can be hired for this hike, who will be able to show you paths through the jungle, and give some explanation of medicinal plants, bird life, waterfalls, and other points of interest.
You can hike a loop that takes in the cloud forest, traveling along dirt roads that
wind their way up to the small town of Chinalo-Alto, along the upper edge of the cloud forest,
and eventually back down to Chugchilán and the Black Sheep Inn. This
hike takes about 5 hours total. You can also enjoy this route
We have a reasonably complete Bird List for our local cloud forest.
The cloud forest is part of the Iliniza Ecological Reserve, a vast area of land that receives very little ecological protection. more about the reserve.
Guantualo Market and Isinlivi
Guantualo is a small village that sits on the other side of the Rio Toachi canyon
from Black Sheep Inn. Their market happens every Monday. It's a low-key affair,
a fairly extensive market but definitely not geared towards tourists -- think rubber boots and
cooking pots for sale, not so much indigenous handicrafts.
The hike to Guantualo takes about 3 hours, traveling down to the river and then up the other side of the canyon.
Guantualo is only a few hours hike from the town of Isinlivi. You can plan a
one way hike from Black Sheep Inn to Guantualo, onward to Isinlivi, and then stay overnight at the
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"Charlotte's Web, " "Huckleberry Finn" and "A Secret Garden" are books adults remember from childhood that taught us about life while stimulating our imaginations.
Summer is a great time to expand a child's experience by helping him or her take part in our Summer Reading Program.
The library will offer more than 60 free programs at various branches this summer, including modular locations. We will have drummers, musicians, storytellers, crafts, a "Pinkalicious" party, magicians and all sorts of wild critters -- even ladybugs from Longue Vue House and Garden.
Program participants will receive prizes for completing eight books or 800 pages during the summer. Prizes include a free pass to Audubon Zoo for a child and adult, a Pizza Hut coupon and more.
This year's Teen Reading Program is bigger than ever. We are offering teen game nights, a movie night, a cartooning class and an appearance by Rhythm and Soul. Teens who complete the program will be entered into a drawing for cool prizes.
The fun starts May 30 with a big kick-off party at the Latter Library. The final party is Aug. 1. Schedules are coming soon to our Web site and to your local library. Look for updates all summer.
We will again offer online Summer Reading Program software, accessible through NewOrleansPublicLibrary.org on the Web. Children and teens may sign up online, keep their reading logs online and even post book reviews. We'll announce events on the software as well. We've added links to fun Web sites geared to ages 12 and younger and to teens 13 and older.
Research has shown that children who read during summer vacation months, even a moderate amount, can maintain reading skills all summer long. Children who don't read during the summer may lessen their reading skills and be forced to catch up again in the fall.
We make reading fun and easy during summer. The public library offers thousands of books, from classics to the latest Magic Tree House series. It costs nothing to borrow them.
Children's library fines are a nickel a day for a late book. The library also holds books on CD, music, and DVDs for borrowers 18 and older. Thanks to the generosity of Reading is Fundamental and First Book, we will have book giveaways all summer. Look for a Summer Reading Program schedule in a future column.
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It's Children's Book Week! Charmaine Neville will appear today at 1:30 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Branch, 1611 Caffin Ave. Bonnie Festring will tell stories Friday at 10 a.m. at the Nix Branch, 1401 S. Carrollton Ave. Amelie Prescott will tell stories Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Mid-City Branch, 330 N. Carrollton Ave. All programs are free and open to the public.
A highlight of Children's Book Week is the end of our bookmark contest. Younger patrons submitted bookmark designs with original art work and this week winning bookmarks were chosen. The contest was held in two age categories: 11 and younger and 12 to 18.
Winners in the 12 to 18 category are: First place: Stephen Uwaezuokem, a ninth-grade student at Abramson Science & Technology School; second place: Allen Lefort, a seventh-grade student at Albert Wicker School; third place: David Ducros, a ninth-grade student at Warren Easton High School.
Winners in the 11 and younger category are: first place: Tommy Rick, a fifth-grade student at Lusher Charter School; second place: Helena Usey a pre-kindergarten student at Audubon Charter School; third place: Kichara Hagen, a second-grade student at Benjamin Banneker Charter School.
First-place winners received a $75 bookstore gift certificate; second-place winners received a $25 bookstore gift certificate; and third-place winners received a T-shirt for themselves and a favorite teacher.
Entries were received from 440 students from six private and 19 public schools. Come and get your winning bookmarks and a color-changing mood pencils. For information, call 504.596.2588.
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Yoga classes for children continue on Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. through May 26 at the main library Children's Room. Come in and learn basic stretch moves from instructor Susan Kierr and learn how to use yoga throughout the summer. The program is sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women. You may bring your own mat. Wear comfortable clothing. For information, call 504.596.2588.
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From the "Not Afraid to Blow Our Own Horn" Department
We at BustedHalo.com are committed to publishing stories that encourage and enhance the discussion of faith and culture. As our mission statement makes clear, we live in an age filled with seekers who are “desperately trying to find deeper meaning in their lives but whose journey has little to do with traditional religious institutions.” We often highlight the diverse lives and experiences of young adult “spiritual seekers” all over North America and around the world.
But we don’t often take the opportunity to shine a light on one of our own. Which is why today I’d like to direct you somewhere else to read about a young adult we are very proud.
Unless you’ve read our staff bios in our “About Us” section here at BustedHalo, you may not be aware that our editor-in-chief, Bill McGarvey, is also an accomplished musician and songwriter. Over the past decade Bill has released five albums (both as a solo artist and with his former band Valentine Smith) that have been acclaimed by publications ranging from the New York Times and the Washington Post to Billboard. In addition to extensive touring and radio airplay, Bill’s music has also appeared in both films and network television.
This week, the National Catholic Reporter (NCR)—a highly respected independent newsweekly—published a cover story on Bill in which he discusses his new album Beautiful Mess, and how his own “spiritual seeking” informs both his work as a songwriter and as the editor of BustedHalo.com
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Monday, August 31, 2009
If you don’t know what Codex Alimentarius is you better find out before it is too late. The Codex Alimentarius is a threat to the freedom of people's right to choose nutrition, natural healing and alternative medicine. Ratified by the World Health Organization, and going into Law in the United States in December 31 2009, the threat to health freedom has never been greater.
What will happen if we become Codex compliant? “Nutricide” Criminalizing natural health vitamins and herbs. Codex will make your currently available nutrients, which are your right by “Common Law”, meaning anything not currently forbidden is permittable, and mandate “Napoleonic Code”, which will mean anything not listed as permitted will then be now forbidden.
Codex has declared nutrients as “toxins” and will illegalize any nutrient that has ANY effect on humans. Meaning that commonly used vitamins will soon be illegal and not available even with a prescription. With exceptions to the Codex “positive list” which has nothing positive on it. Things like fluoride will be on that permittable list. Fluoride is known to be unhealthy and shocking enough… it is also known to make people complacent. Good thing its in our drinking water everywhere … otherwise people might catch on to Codex and stand up for their rights!
What else will Codex regulate and mandate? World food regulations and legalizations of mandated toxicity. ... Mandated toxicity that will result in every animal on the planet used for food consumption MUST be treated with growth hormones and antibiotics. YES..! Every animal including fish and even every the dairy cow MUST be treated with Monsanto’s recombinant bovine growth hormone. And that is not just conventional meats and dairy either. Organic standards are set very low which allows the organic farmers to use veterinary drugs such as growth hormones and antibiotics and still allowing them to list there products as organic.
The one is just as disturbing as well, all food, except foods being consumed raw, MUST be irradiated including organic. And it doesn’t stop there with the irradiating, hormones and antibiotics.
One of the scariest mandates to me is the already banned chemicals Codex will bring back. There are twelve known very bad banned organic chemicals, called “POP” which stands for persistent organic pollutants. These twelve POP’s are so bad that 176 countries including the US have already banned the use of them. Nine of the twelve forbidden POP’s are pesticides. Codex brought back seven of the nine forbidden chemicals. Chemicals like Deildrin, Aldrin and Hexachlorobenzene and not in small amounts either. This will also mean that imported foods containing these substances can not be stopped at our borders. Under Codex it would be a trade violation. You can see for yourself on their website here and go to the "official standards" on the top right for a list of the toxic chemicals they are permitting and the amounts that they state are acceptable.
It has been estimated that the Codex mandates, standards, regulation and illegalization of vitamins and minerals will result in an initial three billion deaths. One billion due to starvation and the other two billion deaths due to diseases, such as cancer, cardio-vascular disease and diabetes. Which are currently preventable and curable with the use of nutrition, natural healing and alternative medicine.
To understand more and make sure you or your family member doesn’t become one of these estimated statistics PLEASE go to www.healthfreedomusa.org and MAKE SURE you sign the citizens petition to make sure that voice be heard in the legal challenge against Codex. Click and Sign here : Citizens Petition. PLEASE... Sign it and pass it to everyone you know. To thoroughly and easily understand what this is all about... Click Here and watch this first part of a series of talks by Dr. Rima Laibow MD, available on DVD from the Natural Solutions Foundation, an non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about how to stop Codex Alimentarius from taking away our right to freely choose nutritional health.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
One shocking secret is the fact that there are over 800 chemicals used in personal care products are known to be toxic. Thanks FDA! And the average person is exposed to at least 120 chemicals EACH DAY by using personal care products.
The most shocking dirty secret to me is the fact that (most) toothpastes contain PESTICIDES! Look at your tube… if it has Triclosan… it has pesticides in it! Triclosan is a pesticide that accumulates in the fatty tissue in your body and is suspected to be a hormone disruptor by interfering with thyroid function.
Another shocker it that by cleaning your hands with antibacterial soap is the same as cleaning you hands with pesticides. The American Medical Association does not recommend using anti bacterial soaps in your home or in a pediatrician’s office BUT they do in hospitals. This to me seems not right. Especially since these antibacterial soaps are not effective at killing viruses that make you sick. The same is true for hand sanitizers. Antibacterial soaps and sanitizers are said to kill 99% of bacteria. But you don’t catch the common cold or flu from bacteria. You get them from viruses. So you are covering yourself with pesticides and you may still get sick.
The dirtiest secret about some antibacterial products is that when you combine them with chlorinated water, (for example when you wash your hands) the two together make chloroform, which you will then inhale. Chloroform is a suspected carcinogen. So stick to soap and water, I am sure you can do with out the pesticides and chloroform fumes.
And of course your soap had a dirty secret too! Many bar soaps are made with a chemical called Ethylenediamine Tetraacetic Acid ( EDTA). It’s an amino acid that binds to heavy metals, like mercury. So when you wash with it and then it gets rinsed down the drain and then it ends up contaminating the ocean. These contaminates then make their way into the fish & shellfish that live in the ocean and then you eat them! So when you eat the fish you are also eating the EDTA and the mercury that binds to it. And we all know mercury is one of the most toxic elements on the planet.
Here is another dirty dirty one… Parabens. It is a preservative found in almost ALL of your products. You will find them in your shampoo, conditioner, lotion shaving gel, and toothpaste. They all have parabens in them so they are able to sit on every shelf in every food and drug store in America. And dirtiest part of this secret is that they are also found intact in breast tumors! Now isn’t that enough to ban these parabens? Avoid any product that has any ingredient ending in paraben or aben. They are also hormone disruptors, mimicking estrogen and increasing your risk for hormone sensitive cancers, like breast cancer.
Parabens are not the only dirty one to watch out for. You want to also watch out for the following:
Sodium laurel or lauryl sulfate (SLS), also known as sodium laureth sulfate (SLES)– Found in car washes, engine degreasers, garage floor cleaners… and in over 90% of personal care products! SLS breaks down the skin’s moisture barrier, easily penetrates the skin, and allows other chemicals to easily penetrate. Combined with other chemicals, SLS becomes a “nitrosamine”, a potent class of carcinogen. It can also cause hair loss. SLES is sometimes disguised with the labeling “comes from coconut” or “coconut-derived”.
Mineral Oil, Paraffin, and Petrolatum – Petroleum products coat the skin like plastic, clogging pores and creating a build-up of toxins, which in turn accumulate and can lead to dermatological issues. Slows cellular development, which can cause you to show earlier signs of aging. Suspected cause of cancer. Disruptive of hormonal activity.
Toluene – Poison! Danger! Harmful or fatal if swallowed! Harmful if inhaled or absorbed through the skin. Made from petroleum or coal tar, and found in most synthetic fragrances. Chronic exposure linked to anemia, lowered blood cell count, liver or kidney damage, and may affect a developing fetus. Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) contains toluene. Other names may include benzoic and benzyl.
Phenol carbolic acid– Found in many lotions and skin creams. Can cause circulatory collapse, paralysis, convulsions, coma and even death from respiratory failure.
Propylene glycol – Used as a moisturizer in cosmetics and as a carrier in fragrance oils. Shown to cause dermatitis, kidney or liver abnormalities, and may inhibit skin cell growth or cause skin irritation.
Acrylamide– Found in many hand and face creams. Linked to mammary tumors in lab research.
Dioxane– Found in compounds known as PEG, Polysorbates, Laureth, ethoxylated alcohols. Common in a wide range of personal care products. The compounds are usually contaminated with high concentrations of highly volatile 1,4-dioxane, easily absorbed through the skin.
Dioxane’s carcinogenicity was first reported in 1965 and later confirmed in studies including one from the National Cancer Institute in 1978. Nasal passages and liver are the most vulnerable. Dioxane is easily removed during the manufacturing process by “vacuum stripping”. Warning: It is a synthetic derivative of coconut. Watch for hidden language on labels, such as “comes from coconut”.
Basically you skin is you body’s largest organ don’t load it up with known toxic chemicals. If you aren’t sure about your personal care products go to one of my favorite sites. www.skindeep.com this site by the Environmental Working Group rates all products and gives you a reading of just how toxic they really are.
Another good tip… read the labels of what goes into your skin the same way you would for what you eat. They can have the same effects on your body… toxic.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Many of you know I am a HUGE fan of Hippocrates Health Institute and Sanoviv Medical Institute where I had an incredible experience detoxing and building my immunity.
For those of you interested in a program like this to revitalize every system of your body, maximize the healing power of nature, cleanse toxins and or heal the causes of disease BUT you do not have the time of money to go to a place like Hippocrates or Sanoviv. I would like to introduce to you...
The Detox Miracle Sourcebook by Robert Morse N.D.
The Detox Miracle Sourcebook shows you how to cleanse your body of the poisons that are destroying your health, and start the process of complete cellular regeneration that leads to true healing. Based on 30 years of clinical experience, treating thousands of people with conditions ranging from OVERWEIGHT to CANCER, Dr. Robert Morse reveals his ultimate healing system - the Detox Miracle!
The following is the introduction from The Detox Sourcebook:
Welcome to a fantastic journey into vitality. Health is one of our greatest assets, and many refer to the body as a temple, or a vehicle that carries around the true Self while we are on this planet. However, we often treat our cars better than we treat out bodies. (this is an example that I have been using for years, so I am sold in the 1st paragraph)
The information contained in this book was not taken from double-blind studies, from misconstrued facts and figures of treatment agencies, or from "bought and paid for" scientific research. i wrote this book based on thirty years of self experience, and from clinical observation of thousand years of self- experience, and from clinical observation of thousands of patients who used my programs to overcome their toxic conditions and disease.
Basically, we have two choices to make when we develop a condition or disease: treatment or detoxification. If we choose treatment, we have two additional choices. The first choice is allopathic medicine, which is status-quo medical or chemical approach. The second choice is natural (traditional) medicine, which uses products made from natural sources of herbs to treat the symptoms. If we choose the allopathic approach to "fight" our disease, it is important to understand that allopathic medicine offers only three types of treatment for any condition: chemical medicines, radiation or surgery.
Pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of money developing drugs and training medical (allopathic) doctors in how to use these chemical medicines in the presence of disease. But, "curing" the disease (in the sense of removing its cause, not just its symptoms) is not a part of this approach - which is a totally a "treatment" - based modalitiy. Chemical medicines are used for everything from simple headaches and fevers to degenerative conditions, like Parkinson's disease or cancer.
The second form of treatment in allopathic medical procedures is some type of burning or radiation. This is used in most diagnostic procedures (x-rays, for example) and some treatment procedures, especially but not limited to cancer.
The third procedure that the allopathic medical profession can use to treat a problem or condition is surgery. Surgery is the simply the removal of the "bad" tissue that is causing the problem. If the disease is cancer of the breast, simply remove the breast and the patient is "cured".
Natural medicine, or what I refer to as "traditional medicine," differs from the allopathic approach. Natural medicine simply treats disease with a natural products (those made from animal, plant or mineral substances) or herbs, which are found in nature. The science of natural medicine has been around for hundred of thousand of years, at one level or another. (Chemical medicine only 125 yrs old)
Most of the substances used in natural medicine have no damaging side effects, while most chemical medicines have some degree of harmful side effects. However, it is fair to say that some natural products used without the proper wisdom can still create harm. Supplementing calcium in the presence of a parathyroid weakness, for example, results in a stone formation or excessive free calcium. In general, the diagnostic procedures used in natural medicine including iridology, kinesiology, pulsing, hair or tissue analysis, and many others are none invasive and not harmful to the patient whatsoever.
Most health care systems today, including allopathic, naturopathic and homeopathic medicine, are treatment-based modialities. Treating symptoms never cures the "causes." Until a genuine cure has been effected, we will always be suffering in some form. The alternative to treatment is True Naturopathy (detoxification) a little known science of nature that has been used for hundreds of years, by hundreds of thousands of people and animals worldwide. It has restored health and vitality to their physical, emotional and mental bodies. Detoxification encompasses the science of chemistry, biochemistry, botanical science and physics, and had always been at the heart of true healing. For that reason, detoxification should be at the heart of natural medicine today, but has been forgotten in our modern world of "treatment."
Detoxification is not a system of treatment or way to remove symptom; it is a system of curing by addressing the cause of the disease. It involves the understanding that the body is the healer, and that energy is at the core of healing. It also sheds a light on the true cause of disease - the destruction of energy. Energy or the destruction of energy results from what we eat, drink, breathe, put on our skin, and from what we think and feel. These are six ways we either make ourselves healthy and vital, or sick and weak.
Naturopathy is the purest form of healing. Its procedures and diagnostic tools are all totally non-invasive, and at its core are alkalization and detoxification, which is explained in great depths throughout the book. The Detox Miracle Sourcebook is about this second opinion, true healing through detoxification and its related sciences. However, the approach taken here never puts science above the power of God and nature, as science is only the study of what already is.
My success with true detoxification in chronic and degenerative issues has been recognized worldwide. Out of 100 people who come to us with various types of cancer, approximately 70 percent cure themselves, 20 percent can't do the program and 10 percent are too advanced or don't want to live. Our success with regerneration in spinal cord injuries is also phenomenal: a thirty-two year old female, who had severed her upper cervical spine (a C3-C4 spinal cord severation) twelve years previously, came into out clinic. In eleven months she had complete feeling and movement throughout her body. A young Amish man who had a tractor accident, which left him a quadriplegic at the C4-C5 level, in six months had total feeling in his toes.
One of the hardest parts of this program is working with the mind. Like a computer, you get out what you put in. This book will supply you with the most up-to-date and thorough information you need to feed your mind and thus educate yourself about the miraculous healing system of your body. It will cover some physiology, chemistry, physics and nutrition all in a way that you can understand and immediately use. It will also encourage you to "change your mind" from one of toxic thinking to one of natural and pure thinking.
Most people live to eat; I would like you to start thinking about eating to live, and this book will show you how to do that. What you eat has a direct effect upon your health, and I have proven this year-in and year-out on hundred clients. I have seen cancer, time and time again, cleaned out of the body. Also, diabetes, coronary artery disease and arthritis all eliminated. I have seen spinal cord injuries reconnect and nerve damage from strokes, multiple sclerosis and the like, heal.
There is no magic or mystery to health or disease. Disease is a natural process! When we understand how the body works, and what causes the tissues in the body to fail, we will then understand what causes disease symptoms, and how to reverse it.
This book will take you on a journey with many important steps along the way. You will learn about the species your physical body comes from; how your body works; the nature of disease. And finally, what health is. One of the premises of this book is that health is really very simple, yet we spend a large part of out time and money trying to achieve it. The Detox Miracle Sourcebook will help you understand your species, and encourage you toward eating in harmony with your anatomical, physiological and biochemical processes. This will give you vitality and a disease-free life.
Allow yourself the time and discipline to become alive again through detoxification! Put your heart, self-discipline and soul into it. Detoxification will be one of the greatest things you do for yourself in your lifetime.
Note: as this book was written for the healthcare practitioner and lay person alike, some chapters are more scientifically based than others. For myself, I say, "Keep it simple!" Pass over those chapters that might confuse you at first. Come back later and read them to better understand your body and how it works. Your body is a very complex machine, but keeping it healthy is very simple.
1. Natural (nature's) health is NOT alternative medicine. Natural Health is traditional medicine.
2. Nature's way is hundreds of thousands of years old. chemical medicine is only 125 years old.
3. Since the advent of chemical medicine, disease has skyrocketed.
4. Medicine should only consist of natural remidies that alkalize, clean and regenerate the body.
GETTING STARTED : 10 WAYS TO BE SUCCESSFUL
As you prepare to the information presented in the book, here is an overview. This is what is takes to be successul. These ten principles or recommendations will help you tremendously in achieving success and the health and vitality you want from your detoxification and regeneration process. These points will be covered in depth as you continue to work with the book.
1. The diet is your number one key to success. What you eat, drink, breathe, and what you put on your skin is how you bring the outside world in. Study and learn the concepts in this book about a raw food diet. The greater percentage of raw fruits and vegetables (salads) you eat, the greater your success will be. If you have cancer, a spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, parkinson's or any other chronic degenerative condition, you will want to consume 100% raw, "live" food diet of fruits and vegetables (salads) only.
2. Invite the help of a health care professional who has experience in the use of raw foods and other natural detoxification procedures, like fasting. Especially with illnesses like cancer and other chronic, degenerative conditions, it is beneficial to have guidance and support throughout your healing process. Ultimately you are responsible for yourself, but there are many valuable resources to assist you in making this journey into vibrant health.
3. Find someone who is adept at "reading" the iris of the eye ( a science known as iridology). This is one of nature's greatest, at present, only types of soft tissue analysis. it will give you a road map of your stregths and weaknesses. It will also indicate your congestive (lymphatic) and chemical accumulations. This is invaluable in helping you address your glandular or organ weaknesses. For this I recommend an herbal (formula0 program. Use herbs to address your cellular weaknesses and to move and clean your lymphatic system, GI tract, and lungs. ( Resource guide in book for herbal companies that supply such formulas)
Almost 100% of homo sapians have glandular weaknesses. Begin this process by taking the "What is your body telling you" self assessment questionaire found in chapter 5 in the book to determine yours.
Use basal temperature study test ( found in appendix A) for thyroid functio to determine your level of thyroid function. This is extremely important when considering utilization and metabolism.
If you have a high or especially low blood pressure, you know you have adrenal gland weakness. Again, check your self assesment questionaire to determine other side effects of adreanal gland weakness.
4. Always "move" your lymph system. Everyone has a stagnant lymph system to one degree or another. All cell need to eat and excrete, and your lymph system is your sewer system. Your lymph nodes are your septic tanks. Keep them cleanes out! Use an herbal formula for your kidneys and eat a lot of fruits> Clean and enhance your GI tract with raw foods and a restoritive intestinal formula. Avoid laxatives or purgatives, acidophilus, bifidophilus or any other intestinal flora. Your intestinal flora will restore itself. Exercise (like walking or swiming) is extremely important in moving your lymph system, especially in your lower extremities.
Let yourself sweat! your skin is your largest eliminative organ. Keep it clean and stimulated with dry skin brushing, regular as well as hot-cold showers, and by sweating.
5. You will want to spend a month on an herbal parasite formula ( a resourse guide at the back of the book to find excellant herbal companies that carry these) This will help get rid of the larger worms, flukes, etc., It will also help reduce your microorganisms (candida, bacteria, etc.,) that affect your desire for foods.
6. Clean your liver and enhance your pancreas for about a month or so before starting on your detoxification program. See shapter 8 for suggestions about supporting and cleansing these organs with herbs and herbal formulas. If you have diabetes or you're excessively thin you will probably need three months or so.
7. If your're on chemical medications, don't worry. Ther aer very few possible interactions with this program and these herbal formulas.
Most chemicals weaken and destroy cells. Chemotherapy causes high acidosis and destroys cells causing future cancer or the spreading (metastasis) of cancer.
Radiation inflames, burns, and destroys cells (tissues), an dcan cause cancer to metastasize.
If you're on high blood pressure medication, simply watch your blood pressure. This program can bring down your blood pressure fast. Use common sense. If your blood pressure is low, lowering it further with chemical meds might not be too smart.
If your blood pressure is low, you must work to get it normalized by enhansing and regenerating your adrenal glands. Diabetes (Type II) is very easy to overcome in most cases. If you're on insulin, watch your blood sugars. The same principle applies as with high blood pressure.
9. As you detoxify and regenerate, your body will go through sysmptoms of a "healing crisis." This is normal, natural and positive. As you understand about the healing crisis you'll understand what "disease" truly are. see chapter 5 Remember, disease symptoms manifest from two sources - conjestion and cellular weakness.
10. Finally Attitude, attitude, attitude! Enjoy what you are doing! Always remember why you're getting your body (or physical vehicle) healthy. Your body is your mobility in this physical world. Many of your weaknesses are genetically passed on to you. Your toxicity may have developed in utero, so give it time to be released. Vibrant health in this world does not occur overnight. sometimes its' hard work - but well worth it. It connects you with life, love and God.
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Assumption BVM parish began in 1911 and closed in 1989, it's buildings were torn down soon afterwards. It was one of the "west side" Detroit Polish parishes, one of the smaller ones. It just so happens that my mother and her family were members of the parish. Active members. I have been trying for years to get a copy of the parish's silver jubilee book to add to my family history collection. I know that my mother and other members of her family were mentioned in the book because Ceil Jensen, who extracted the surnames for the PGSA database (and whose family were also members of this parish) was kind enough to share with me a photo from the book that included my mother. And while I am very grateful to Ceil for her kindness, it's not the same as having my own copy of the entire book for my collection.
I often look up Assumption BVM (Blessed Virgin Mary) Church in online data bases, eBay, libraries, and used book sellers hoping to find the Detroit parish's Silver Jubilee Book. I've had no problem finding jubilee books for Assumption BVM. The thing is, it's the wrong Assumption BMV parish. You see, Detroit had two churches with essentially the same name. One was The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (my mother's parish) and the other one is Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The second church parish was begun in 1928, was a much larger church, is not Polish, and is still a vital and functioning parish. It happens that it has a grotto on the parish grounds so it has gotten tagged with the name Assumption Grotto over the years but that's not its official name. Inevitably, when I look up the jubilee book for my mother's parish I find lots of results for other parish but none for hers. The only copy I know of that I could access for her Assumption BVM parish is in the Polish Museum of America in Chicago. I keep intending to get there to look it up but it just hasn't worked out.
I had the same experience Friday night when I was online perusing the ANSWER database for the Library of Michigan . I did a search for Assumption BVM like I always do and I came up with pretty much the same results that I always get (results for the newer parish but not for the older one). This time I took a closer look as I scrolled through the results and what did I find? A copy of "Assumption Grotto Silver Jubilee book 1911-1937". Hmm. Wrong church name, right dates. It was late in the evening when I found it, too late to call and ask a librarian to check it out for me. Could it be that they had a copy but it had been improperly cataloged? I couldn't help but get excited about the possibility. I've been looking for this book for soooo long...
So yesterday morning I grabbed my camera, jumped in the car, and drove up to Lansing (little over an hour's drive) to check out the situation. It was my lucky day! While the copy they had wasn't an original but a photocopy, it was still more than I had been able to access anywhere else! And bonus... they also had a photocopy of the parish's golden jubilee book! I didn't even know the parish had a golden jubilee book... I'd never seen a reference to it before (guess it was mis-cataloged too)! It was hard to hold still long enough to photograph both books. I was doing the happy-dance (aka the "good-time-polka" for those of us of Polish descent ;-), you know, the one every genealogist does when they make a major find? Boy, it's been a while since I've been dancing to that tune!
So the good news is I now have complete copies of the silver and golden jubilee books for Assumption BVM parish :-) The only fly in the ointment, so to speak, is that the books are almost entirely written in Polish so I can't read them :-( | <urn:uuid:c2138890-9948-4c13-812b-69fcf6cf55ad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://creativegene.blogspot.com/2007/01/assumption-bvm-parish-jubilee-books.html?showComment=1170094740000 | 2013-05-19T19:28:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698017611/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095337-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987708 | 866 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
In the 2009-10 tax year, more than 16,000 people declared an annual income of more than £1 million to HM Revenue and Customs."It is believed." No kidding, Sherlock. By now it ought to be obvious to even the most greedy politician that if you crank up marginal rates, you'll surely get less money than your static model tells you, and it's possible, should you crank them up high enough, you'll get less money than you were collecting at the old, lower rates. Anyone who claims that they can close the deficit by raising marginal rates on some small minority who can afford tax accountants is either stupid or lying. They've got to be lying, because it's difficult to imagine how a person could be so blitheringly stupid and still manage to eat solid food without choking to death.*
This number fell to just 6,000 after Gordon Brown introduced the new 50p top rate of income tax shortly before the last general election...
It is believed that rich Britons moved abroad or took steps to avoid paying the new levy by reducing their taxable incomes...
Far from raising funds, it actually cost the UK £7 billion in lost tax revenue.
Laffer's famous curve has showed as much since the 70s. But one thing that always bothered me about how conservatives used it is that they always argued that by setting rates lower, you could maximize government income. They are correct, obviously, but why in the world would a conservative want to maximize government income? Big government is by its very nature liberal/progressive - the more money government has, the more society-molding things they'll find upon which to spend it.** It seems that one efficient way for conservatives to limit government is to go along with higher rates, which will result in less revenue immediately and in the end, in less government.
Higher rates won't bring in more money, or at least not nearly as much more money as is promised. But it's not about the money; it's about envy. The people to whom the higher rates should apply are generally smart enough to avoid them. That's good news. The better news is that the people who demanded higher rates on everyone else get to sleep well in the knowledge that the rich are paying their "fair share" - which will, ironically, be less than they pay today - even while the pool from which they vote themselves largesse every election grows smaller and smaller.
*The voters who elect such politicians are not that blitheringly stupid, they are simply looking for the government to raise their morale by punishing people who have the audacity to make more than them.
** Of course, this only applies to governments in which spending is limited to actual revenues, such as most state governments, in the short term. But it applies to everyone in the long term. | <urn:uuid:cb6d3ed0-75e7-4027-9e57-55be09a733fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://elborak.blogspot.com/2012/11/its-not-about-money.html | 2013-05-19T19:28:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698017611/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095337-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983076 | 573 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
On April 14th, 2011, I had written a article titled "Ambedkar, the forgotten free market economist" in the Pragati The Indian National Interest Review published by The Takshashila Institution founded by Mr Nitin Pai on Dr B R Ambedkar's 120th Birth Anniversary. The article received quite undue criticism from utterly misguided and misunderstood followers like Anand Teltumbde.
Subsequently, I also published another article titled "The Untouchable Case for Indian Capitalism" in the Wall Street Journal Asia on May 31, 2011.
In general, both these articles were welcomed by many well established authors, economists, historians and other social scientists in India and abroad. It was really a great encouragement for me. I had no dream in my life to receive such a generous positive motivation from many great people.
I also briefly met today the leading proponent of India's Dalit capitalism movement Mr Chandrabhan Prasad, (http://
In fact, I started writing quit a bit after these articles were published in early months in 2011.
What I saw today in the Parliament Street: 121st Birth Anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar
The entire Parliament Street become like any "market place" with book stalls, free distribution of posters, etc mostly news items covering the legacy of B R Ambedkar.
The one big change in all these years on this street is the big stall of Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI). Dicci distributed not only the corporate style of cake cutting but also a half a liter mineral water bottle to people at free of cost. All others distributed the tiny water pockets. Dicci''s unique proposition for all the dalit people is "Be Job Givers, Not Job Seekers". It also proudly says that dalit capitalism is a antidote for most of the ills associated with its people. This is a big change "Yes we can".
But there is a long way to go. Let me end with a interesting fact about Jotirao Phule. Those you read the book India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha can recollect that great Jotirao Phule was a successful entrepreneur before becoming a social reformer in 19th Century India. Perhaps, it took six decades to realise the dalit community in India that the populist policies of government is no use for removing away from poverty and hunger. | <urn:uuid:fdf6649e-6bdd-4e81-9709-a408524ceaf3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hayekorder.blogspot.com/2012/04/one-year-after-birth-of-ambedkars-free.html | 2013-05-19T19:43:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698017611/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095337-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950975 | 495 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Vidamatte? Appo nee enne ingarne enge poga vidamatte?
Is there a keralite who does not know this dialogue, or the circumstances under which it was delivered? Mannichitrathazhu must be one of the Malayalam movies I have seen most number of times. I find it thrilling even today, and do try to watch the amazing ending every time the movie is on TV, which is atleast once a month. I remember the first time I saw it, my family was huddled around the TV and not anyone uttered a word. My mother, wise as ever, realized that it would be an impossible feat to get us to the dinner table. She brought our dinner, a delicious macaroni and raita, to the living room :) . And inspite of being spellbound by the movie, I was able to appreciate the delicious meal. I think it makes a great TV dinner, for when that much awaited program is on. And if someone tells you that you should have dinner at the dining table, set an example for the kids, blah blah blah, you know just how to react…( it works, seriously !!!)
1. 450 grms macaroni
2. 400 grms boneless chicken cubed
3. 300 grms button mushrooms sliced
4. 3 large onions
5. 1 large tomato
6. 1 tbsp ginger paste
7. 1 tbsp garlic garlic
8. 3 tbsps red chilli powder
9. 1 tbsp coriander powder
10. ½ tsp turmeric powder
11. 5 cardamom, 5 cloves, 1 inch cinnamon, 1 tbsp fennel seeds ground together
12. 2 tbsp pepper powder
13. 1 chicken stock cube
14. 2 tbsp soya sauce
15. 1 tbsp chilli sauce
16. 1 tbsp tomato sauce
17. 3 tbsp oil refined
18. Salt to taste
Cook macaroni according to package instructions till al dente and keep aside.
Heat a pan and dry roast chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and the ground spices till you get a strong smell of the roasted powders. Be careful not to burn the masala powders, or you will have to start fresh. If you do not roast the masala, the curry may have a slightly raw taste of the powders.
Grind the onions and tomato separately adding as little water as possible.
Heat oil in a pan large enough to hold the chicken and macaroni. Sauté the onion paste till it browns lightly. To this, add the ginger and garlic pastes and fry for a few minutes till the onion paste darkens. Reduce heat to minimum and add the roasted powders and mix well. Add the tomato paste, chicken, mushrooms, chicken stock and salt and stir it so that the chicken is coated well with the gravy. When the chicken is half cooked, add soya, chilli and tomato sauce. Let it simmer till the chicken is completely cooked. Remove the chicken pieces with a slotted spoon and tear them into shreds. Transfer the cooked macaroni and shredded chicken back to the pan along with the pepper powder and mix well. Heat for a few minutes and serve hot with a tomato and onion raita.
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June 13th, 2010, 06:39 AM #81
Distinctly underwhelmed by the quality of the football so far.
June 13th, 2010, 01:17 PM #82
Tim Howard, Kahne of RSA, and the Nigerian goalie didn't seem to have ANY problems making good saves. I blame poor goaltending. Blaming the ball sounds like such a cop out.
Originally Posted by Deadmarsh28
That Algerian goalie? That was a HORRIBLE attempt at a save. You don't dive superman style to try and make a block, and reacted about 30 seconds too late. But yea, totally the balls fault.
June 13th, 2010, 01:20 PM #83
England, France and some of the other teams need to take note of that.
Germany attacked through the middle, on the flanks, their player movement was fluid, the passing crisp and almost telepathic and the coach got his tactics spot on. The other thing is when they got the ball in the attacking phase there were at least 2-4 players in the box.
France and England were so static and rigid with their player roles and often when a cross came in their was just one player in the box.
Early days yet but Germany looked good today.
June 13th, 2010, 01:27 PM #84
Germany 4 v Australia 0
Analysis: Absolutely the most dominant game and form of the tournament thus far. Germany looked unstoppable. The touches were superb, the finishing, the build up, it was a display of dominance. Australia is not a bad team either. They certainly got outmatched in this one. They played dumb football, and looked tired. Germany got big goals from their big players, Podolski, Kluse, Muller. They were the first team I have seen this tournament REALLY use the wings, and use the width of the field. They just found an amazing amount of space with diagonal runs and great through balls. Germany has looked the best of any team so far. Australia played incredibly dumb. They were down, and they started fouling, and taking cards. Cahill got a red, and is done for the tourney. One of their key players. They got yellows after being down 3-0 and 4-0 for things like yelling at the refs. They will be shorthanded against Serbia and Ghana.
Final Verdict: Germany is the best so far. Scary stuff. Look for them to breeze this group and make a solid push into the next round. They are young, exciting and talented. What they will do against a better opponent is up for debate. But that was a clinic today. Australia, sorry, but your done. You are going to be shorthanded against a speedy Ghana team, you are too old to keep up with the 3rd youngest team int he tourney, so how do you think you will fair against Ghana? The youngest team? The shot themselves in the foot with cards. Cahill is done, they have two defenders with Yellow, who in my guess will be taking lots of fouls against Ghana because they get beat. So expect them to be short agains Serbia also. Well deserved spanking by the superb Germans.
Man of the Match: Lukas Padolski, M Germany. A dominant figure in the middle. Controlled play, set up Kloses goal, had a number of unfinished crosses and plays, and buried an absolute missile for the first goal of the match. Top quality form from the German star.
June 13th, 2010, 01:28 PM #85
Their use of the wings and spreading the field was the best I have seen. Top quality stuff. True true, England and France clustered the middle and had everyone piling on Rooney. Spread the field, spread the D, open up your strikers. Seems like Soccer tactics 101, but the only ones to execute it so far is Germany. Against a pretty quality defensive team too. They gave up only 4 goals in all of qualifying.
Originally Posted by Crazy_Ivan
June 13th, 2010, 02:42 PM #86
June 13th, 2010, 06:12 PM #87
One of the Aussie coaches should have been told to hit the showers as well for giving the forearm jerk after the 2nd goal. The refs had nothing to do with the Aussies getting their asses kicked, sure didn't play very classy either.
June 14th, 2010, 04:54 AM #88
I think that ball has been the goalies best friend. I can-not recall a single free-kick on target, the longer range shots are flying way over or way wide.
June 14th, 2010, 05:30 AM #89
van der vaart is pissing me OFF. stay on your side, stay out of sneijder's way and stop making poor OLD MAN van bronckhorst run that entire left side solo. UGH!!!!!!
Go figure, van der Vaart gets pulled, and the team gets new life. He should just stick to bangin' his hot wife and keep his selfish ass off the pitch!
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June 14th, 2010, 06:44 AM #90
Efficient rather than entertaining from Holland. I agree about Van der Vart, why this guy thinks he has a free role to roam all over the place is beyond me.
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Chris Cormack wrote:
> use chromium of course which is BSD licensed. I think the issue is the
> tablesorter code, but then again I'm not sure, any patches to make the
> page render faster under Firefox would be gratefully received.
(because it's not needed on 90+% of use) many moons ago, that wasn't
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I dusted off the duplicator yesterday to carve out these signs for my friend’s grandsons’ rooms.
I had to call to get the correct spelling and I’m glad I did for Johnathan. I’d have left the h out!
They are meant to hang on the wall or they can free stand on chest of drawers.
They are made from 5/8” Koa that I found in the wood room that was left over from another project.
I debated on painting in the letters, but we’ll see how they like them just like this. It can be done later.
They are finished with clear matte spray.
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on October 3, 2012 at 5:55 PM
This is a very similar book to Max's book "Grace" but is adapted for teens and young adults. I have read both "Grace" and "Wild Grace" and both are similar and different in ways too. To me, this book felt a little longer than "Grace" and to me probably had more information.
This book features some stories of some teens that found God's grace! There are also questions in the book with some space to write your answers. This a great book and a good size for anyone wanting to read to learn more about God's grace! Even though this book is adapted for teens, I still recommend it to anyone!
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Phillips spent 20 years working at Britain’s left-wing The Guardian where she finally realized that many journalists were out of touch. She explained how journalists see the conclusion first, and then distort evidence and facts to prove their point. “There are quite a number of people who … start with the conclusion and say let’s make the facts fit the conclusion.”
As the world mourns the loss of one of the greatest stateswomen of the 20th century, Washington Post London bureau chief Anthony Faiola wrote yesterday that Margaret Thatcher’s death “appears to be opening old wounds.” To do so, however, Faiola selectively picked up anecdotes of left-wing hate-mongering, such as how the UK's leading conservative paper Faiola noted how the UK's Tory-leaning Telegraph newspaper had to close down the comments section about Lady Thatcher’s death due to the depraved vitriol of the nation’s left wing Internet trolls.
Faiola's prime example of how Lady Thatcher's death was dividing Great Britain was the occasional outbreak of leftists punks dancing in the streets in celebration of the former prime minister's death. Included in the story was a photograph from St. George's Square in Glasgow, where it seems only about 15-20 people showed up to figuratively dance on the Iron Lady's grave.
On Monday's All In show on MSNBC, host Chris Hayes praised Britain's "beloved" national health care program as possibly "one of the great hallmarks of western social democracy," as he admitted to delivering criticism from a liberal point of view of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's administration.
During a report on Tuesday's NBC Today, correspondent Michelle Kosinski took gratuitous shots at Margaret Thatcher while detailing funeral plans for the former British prime minister who died Monday: "...many feel this is appropriate that it will not be a state funeral because she remains so controversial....How controversial is Thatcher still today?...in Glasgow, jubilant dancing in the streets." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Kosinski did explain that a friend of Thatcher's "was quoted as saying that [Thatcher] herself did not want [a state funeral], thinking it would be a waste of money." However, during a news brief in the 9 a.m. ET hour, anchor Natalie Morales stated Kosinski's initial remark about the funeral plans as fact: "Although Thatcher will receive a large ceremonial funeral with full military honors, it will not be state funeral. Thatcher, known as the Iron Lady, was apparently too controversial for that honor."
Coverage of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's death and life was relegated to below the fold at USA Today this morning (pictured here; the paper stopped posting front-page pics two years ago).
Three items above the fold (excluding left-side teases to coverage of other stories) were considered more important that the Iron Lady's passing: "Remembering Annette Funicello"; a "Duplicate programs waste billions" item about wasteful government spending (useful, but it's not as if we didn't know this already); and to top it off, a 6x6 photo from the first half of the NCAA men's basketball finals, the result of which the paper was unable to report because the game ended after its publication deadline.
MSNBC continued the bashing of Margaret Thatcher on Monday. Richard Wolffe, a British journalist and editor of the network's website, smeared the late prime minister as "the antithesis of freedom" when it came to how she dealt with her domestic enemies. The liberal reporter sneered that the Conservative politician "hurt working families and working people." Now host Alex Wagner even went so far as to quote arch-socialist Ken Livingstone while attacking Thatcher.
Speaking of the woman who was instrumental in bringing about the end of the totalitarian threat of Soviet Communism, Wolffe, a former correspondent for Newsweek, excoriated, "She had an attitude to her domestic enemies that frankly was the antithesis of freedom." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] The journalist summarized Thatcher as "someone who was a pioneer for women, who actually also hurt working families and working people and that includes teachers and women across the board."
Monday's CBS This Morning played up the domestic critics of Margaret Thatcher as they covered the breaking news of her death. Mark Phillips, reporting from London, spotlighted how Thatcher was once called "Plunder-woman" by a British union leader, and how she was "contentious here, famous for breaking the back of the very strong labor movement in Britain." Phillips also noted how the former prime minister was "a figure both reviled and revered."
During a retrospective on the "Iron Lady", correspondent Elizabeth Palmer ballyhooed how Thatcher's "trademark helmet hair, cut-glass accent, and bullying style became a staple of British satire".
ABC's Good Morning America on Monday broke into live coverage to report that the "controversial" "titan" Margaret Thatcher had died. The morning show's reporters highlighted both her conservative beliefs, for which she was "vilified," and compared her to Winston Churchill.
Guest co-host Elizabeth Vargas announced that the late Prime Minister's "belief in herself and her policies" led to her being "both adored and vilified even to this day in Great Britain. A very controversial, but very, very important figure, undoubtedly." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] Later in the show, George Stephanopoulos returned to announce: "A titan has fallen."
CBS correspondent Mark Phillips took journalistic hype to a new low on Wednesday's CBS This Morning when he compared Princess Kate's pregnancy to that of Jesus Christ over 2,000 years ago: "This is day three of what's becoming, perhaps, the most talked about pregnancy since Bethlehem." [audio available here; video below the jump]
Phillips delivered this beyond bizarre throwaway line as he began his report outside the hospital in London where the Duchess of Cambridge is being treated for hyperemesis gravidarum - a severe form of morning sickness. He added, "The news today seems to be better."
At the top of Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie cheered the news that President Obama may make one of his major campaign donors, Anna Wintour, an ambassador: "Going Vogue? A report this morning that the President could appoint Vogue's famed editor-in-chief Anna Wintour to be his next ambassador to England or France. More on what could be a very fashionable decision." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
During a panel discussion later in the show, fellow co-host Willie Geist excused the obvious patronage job: "This is not unusual...I think something like 30% of appointees to ambassadorships are political, as a reward for people who raise a lot of money." That prompted a round of jokes about giving money to Obama to get an appointment. Fill-in news reader Tamron remarked: "[Wintour] raised more than $500,000 for his campaign, so we need to get on the ball....We need to get it going..."
On Monday's CBS This Morning, Norah O'Donnell helped British author Frances Osborne advance discriminatory policy prescriptions from the left to get more women in high positions of political and economic power. Osborne stated that so-called "positive discrimination" is "necessary...to equal out the opportunity" for women. O'Donnell also reacted enthusiastically to a draft E.U. quota that would require businesses to set aside 40 percent of their boards for women.
The best-selling writer also hyped the continuing political fight over federal funding for abortion giant Planned Parenthood as "women...beginning to lose their rights." [audio clips available here; video below the jump]
With President Obama's election win, the worldwide celebrations have commenced again. NBC's Today show documented as much as they possibly could on Wednesday morning.
Reporting from London, foreign correspondent Michelle Kosinski was tasked with narrating the story of how the election has been perceived and reported overseas. Eerily similar to four long years ago, jubilant residents from other sovereign nations were shown in a high spirits after a second term was guaranteed to Obama. [ video below, MP3 audio here ]
In a pre-recorded interview with former President Bill Clinton aired on Tuesday's Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN host Morgan fawned over the former Democratic President and complained about the "God damned Twenty-Second Amendment" as he suggested that Clinton should be President "for the next 30 years."
As NewsBusters has been reporting, the Obama-loving media spent many days in recent weeks trashing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for alleged gaffes he made during his overseas trip to Europe and Israel.
Rather surprisingly, in an interview to be aired on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS Sunday, Obama-supporter and former Secretary of State Colin Powell gave Romney good grades for his trip saying, "He demonstrated that he can participate in foreign relations in a way that is constructive...I think he did himself good by going to these countries" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
During a report about "why we love the British" on Thursday's NBC Today, special correspondent Tom Brokaw declared: "In one of our election years, the British watch America with a sense of bewilderment." Left-wing BBC anchor Katty Kay sniffed: "When we talk about God, guns, and government, those are the three big things we don't understand." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
She then lamented: "The role of government here [in the United States] is much more complicated, people don't want it in America. In Britain, we expect government to provide things for us."
In an unaired portion of an interview with British Prime Minister David Cameron meant to be featured on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer pressed Cameron to compare the London Olympics with the winter games run by Mitt Romney: "Do you think that Mitt Romney, the challenges he faced in 2002 in Salt Lake City, compared at all to what you faced here in London?" [View video after the jump]
After pushing Cameron to criticize Romney, moments later, Lauer went after Britain's head of Parliament for daring to modestly cut back on the nation's massive government spending: "You put in place some very difficult austerity measures that were controversial, hard for a lot of people to swallow. And yet, in the last quarter, your economy shrunk. So, was austerity the right path to take at that particular time, facing this very stubborn recession?"
Managing to squeeze politics into the opening ceremony of the Olympics on Friday, NBC hosts Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira cheered a tribute to Britain's government-run National Health Service, with Lauer declaring: "Back in the states...we're locked in this kind of partisan debate over the future of health care in our own country. Here, they feel so strongly about their health care system, they're actually celebrating it as part of the Olympic opening ceremony." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
"Someone should have told Mitt Romney that they still speak English in England," snarked Washington Post political reporter Chris Cillizza as he awarded Romney the "Worst Week In Washington" on Sunday for calmly laying out security concerns to NBC before the London Olympics -- concerns the networks themselves reported beforehand.
That matches the attitude that political reporter Philip Rucker brought to his Romney story's lede on Saturday: "Mitt Romney’s Friday was better than his Thursday. He did very little." Cillizza said Romney "seemed to be talking in a foreign language, politically speaking," and once again, the Post cited the "Mitt the Twit" headline:
Not only is the Associated Press aptly currently described as the Administration's Press -- as least as long as the White House's current occupant remains there -- it also seems to be serving as the Administration's Protection.
In a story about the "Lie-bor" scandal, wherein British banks have admitted to colluding to set the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) -- arguably the world’s most important benchmark for interest rates -- artificially low, AP reporter Martin Crutsinger "somehow" forgot that current Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was President of the New York Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank during much of the time period in which Congressional investigators are interested. Clearly, they want to know what Geithner knew, and when he knew it. The first three paragraphs of Crutsinger's writeup, followed by his sole context-free mention of Geithner, follow the jump (bolds are mine throughout this post):
As part of NBC's wall-to-wall Today show coverage of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrating her Diamond Jubilee on Tuesday, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell listed ways in which the United States has supposedly slighted the monarch over the years: "...she's put up with a lot from her former subjects. The indignity of going to where the revolution started, to celebrate the bicentennial of our independence from the monarchy."
There ought to be a law against newscasters blatantly lying to the public.
On Monday, MSNBC's Martin Bashir falsely claimed the economic plans put forth by Great Britain and Spain are "the Romney-Ryan budget in action...almost exactly, word for word" without informing his viewers that those countries raised taxes to fight their deficits (video follows with transcript and commentary):
In an interview with British Prime Minister David Cameron aired on Wednesday's NBC Rock Center, Nightly News anchor Brian Williams cautioned Cameron about one of his predecessors: "You'll concede, Prime Minister Blair may never recover from that label that was attached to him. Someone used the word 'poodle' to describe his relationship with President Bush as the march to war [in Iraq] continued."
Moments earlier, Williams touted Cameron's criticism of the Iraq war: "Cameron, whose wife was in New York on 9/11, gave a speech in '06 criticizing the Iraq war, in which he said, 'Democracy cannot quickly be imposed from the outside. Liberty grows from the ground. It cannot be dropped from the air by an unmanned drone.'"
Novelist (and Socialist Workers Party member) China Mieville wrote the main essay for the London issue of the New York Times Sunday Magazine, "'Oh London, You Drama Queen.'" According to him, London is a mess of racism and youth alienation, and only free public housing and celebration of loud music on the tube will save it. He also excused last summer's burning and rioting, motivated by a "deep sense of injustice": "Youths taking TVs, clothes, carpets, food from broken-open shops, sometimes with dizzy exuberance, sometimes with what looked like thoughtful care."
Even the photo captions are replete with leftist smuggery, contrasting an old-fashioned butcher with a bleak-looking dance club: "Smithfield Market, in Central London, is rooted in the past./The scene at Plastic People, a club in Hackney, looks to the future."
Moving after midnight, bailiffs supported by police officers dismantled a tent encampment outside St. Paul's Cathedral here early Tuesday, ending a four-month protest that caused tension within the Church of England and resonated with Britons opposed to what they see as runaway capitalist greed.
In “For London Youth, Down and Out Is Way of Life,” New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr. came up with a sparkling new solution to the looters and rioters who stole sneakers and cell phones in last summer's nationwide rampage: Taxpayer-funded job training!
Thomas last got Times Watch’s attention last December with his bizarre hypothetical of what might happen if Europe abandoned it’s euro currency scheme. He wrote on Thursday’s front page:
British Prime Minister David Cameron was embraced by conservatives and euro-skeptics after rejecting a European Union agreement aimed at stabilizing the troubled economic union. Yet the tone of the New York Times news coverage is that he blundered, “isolating” Britain by failing to accept the accord’s requirements, including that members submit their budgets to the EU for approval even before being considered by their country’s own parliaments.
The Washington Post on Saturday offered a chiding, negative response to British Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision to veto a new European Union treaty that would have more closely bound the country and meant the possibility of new taxes.
Staff writer Anthony Faiola scolded on the front page, “At the same time, Cameron made life harder for a region desperately trying to unite behind a plan to subdue a debt crisis that is threatening the global economy.” The 26 paragraph story featured only the Conservative Cameron to defend the decision, but touted several outraged and disappointed liberals.
Following the contemptible storming of the British Embassy in Iran by violent protestors, President Obama rightly condemned the Iranian government for not controlling the protestors and protecting a diplomatic outpost. In doing so, however, he made yet another embarrassing foreign policy gaffe: referring to the embassy as "English" instead of "British."
How do you think the media would have treated a Republican presidential candidate if he or she made the same mistake? Check out a video of the press conference after the break, and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
If you don't hear much about the Iranian mob which stormed the British embassy earlier today in future news reports, you can probably at least partially blame the Associated Press, which considers the event so unimportant that it's not even part of its main U.S. site's top ten world stories as of 10:25 p.m. (saved here at host for future reference, fair use and discussion purposes).
For those who are curious as to the identification of the ten stories considered more important, here they are:
New York Times correspondent Alan Cowell issued a moralistic “Memo from London” on Monday on the humble joys of post-World War II austerity compared to today, where the "have-nots" are tempted by things they cannot have: “As the riots in London and elsewhere in August seemed to show, the profound gulf between haves and have-nots has been magnified by the inequalities and envies of a society that has built its newest altars to consumption and greed.” | <urn:uuid:b51bf7e6-0e4d-45d3-9b6a-26810f497404> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newsbusters.org/issues/foreign-policy/europe/britain | 2013-05-19T19:29:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698017611/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095337-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965432 | 3,835 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Sports fans have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving
By Doug Halberstadt
Many people around the country will pause this week to give thanks for the blessings in their lives. I have come up with the following things for people in the sports world to be thankful about.
• The entire state of Colorado should be thankful Peyton Manning decided to become a Bronco.
• Rockford Auburn High School should be thankful Dan Appino decided to become a Knight.
• The Chicago Cubs organization would be wise to give thanks for the opportunity to play in Wrigley Field. That ensures that fans will still come to the ballpark, regardless of the talent of the team.
• Lance Armstrong should thank the millions of fans who continue to hold him in such high esteem despite the doping allegations levied against him.
• The Rockford Auburn and Rockford Jefferson High School football teams should thank the Rockford taxpayers for the brand-new artificial turf field they had to play their home games on this season.
• Chicago Bulls fans might want to thank the medical professionals who have treated Derrick Rose during his knee injury and the rehabilitation period that has followed.
• Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall should give thanks to the Bears’ front office for getting them back together on the same team.
• The Rockford IceHogs and the BMO Harris Bank Center would be wise to send a thank-you note to the NHL owners and players for their prolonged dispute.
• The golfers I saw at Aldeen Golf Course last Sunday (Nov. 18) should be extremely grateful for the beautiful weather we have experienced.
• To the thousands of participants in the athletic programs offered by the Rockford Park District, they should thank the staff and volunteers that make it all possible.
• Drivers and the fans of short-track racing should be thankful for the lifelong commitment to their sport by the Deery family.
• Families from our area that cannot afford a $500 (or more) day at a major league game should be thankful that the Rockford RiverHawks, Foresters and the Beloit Snappers offer an affordable alternative.
• Every overpaid professional athlete should be thankful our country puts such a huge emphasis on sports. This allows them to continue to collect their exorbitant incomes and maintain their lavish lifestyles.
• I’m thankful for the opportunity to enjoy the world of sports on so many levels, as a fan, participant, parent and for the past several years, as a writer.
Those are just a few of the random things I was able to think of during my time of thankful reflection. I’m positive there are a multitude of other blessings in the world of sports that I’ve overlooked or missed entirely. The purpose of this column wasn’t intended to be a comprehensive list. My intention was to encourage all of us to count our many blessings. Happy Thanksgiving!
From the Nov. 21-27, 2012, issue
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i'm sloane & i like to look at things and read things and go places that may or may not exist.
Toshirō Mifune on the set of Seven Samurai with director Akira Kurosawa carrying a live blade the only type of sword he would use in his enactment as samurai in films. He would often repeat:By carrying a live blade, it has forced me to master each movement. I must be a perfectionist. It also gives me a sense of realism. | <urn:uuid:5428570d-b9b6-4f21-8618-4034c1522990> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sloaneohno.tumblr.com/post/39544750615/toshiro-mifune-toshiro-mifune-on-the-set-of | 2013-05-19T19:36:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698017611/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095337-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968114 | 101 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A friend of mine asked me if I wanted to help him measure up his new apartment and, despite the fact that it was Desperate Housewives night (how dare you suggest I have no life!) I went along. Partly because helping friends is second nature to me (if you read this, you’re a Nazi… see below) and partly because this particular friend has a pretty lousy track record in apartments and I was rather interested in what he picked up this time.
For instance, he once rented a room with an insane landlady who didn’t allow him to have a fridge or a computer on his room and who demanded that he’d be home each night before eleven. On that point he decided to call the renting process quits and announced he’d move out the next Saturday. When he and his father arrived at the house, the lady had dumped all his belongings in the rain outside.
Currently he rents a small room in a house in the most southern part of the city (there’s cows walking 20 feet away from his place, I kid you not) that ended up not just being subrented to him but also the lady he rented it from, the man she rented it from and the woman he rented it from. When large water bills started appearing out of nowhere this was a nice warning sign to get the hell out.
From the one end of the city he found a place to live on the other side: a room plus bathroom in a big student building in Amsterdam North. For those not into the Amsterdam Know How: North is known as a pretty bad neighborhood with houses built around the 1960´s (need I say more?). An American friend of mine once went there because he thought it would be `nice to see how the working class lives´, to which I replied that the entire problem was that they weren’t working.
But I digress.
According to my friend getting there took only a 10 minute bus ride from Amsterdam’s main train station and so last Tuesday after dinner at the university we went on our way. After 25 minutes in the bus my friend admitted he did not recognize anything and went up to the driver to ask which stop we needed, which we ended up having missed. I believe I gave him the same look I gave The Squirrel when he admitted a secret love for James Blunt music.
After exiting bus 1 we entered another bus which delivered us somewhere in the direction of where we needed to be. But not quite there. We walked through a deserted mall and passed a snack food place with the name Fries Plaza, which saddened me for so many more reasons than one. We climbed up a hill to get to the street because my friend (and by then I was using the term loosely) believed he saw a bus stop. He did, but not one where the bus we needed stops.
In the end he walked into a gas station while I stayed around a DVD rental place to look at the Hooligans poster they had and wonder what the hell Hollywood has done to Charlie Hunnam’s face (I give them one week to undo it).
The apartment was in fact fine, and bigger than what he has now. The measuring took 5 minutes and his view at night is quite good (he’s on the 13th floor and even though North’s a criminal hell hole, with all the lights at night it’s pretty nice). But while I was sitting in the tram, on my way back to my apartment with my own kitchen and my own bathroom and more space than most of my friends former rooms thrown together for only 2 euro 50 per month in one of the nicest parts of the city. I wondered, why didn’t he just get a deal like I did.
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Preliminary TV ratings best in 12 years
NEW YORK -- Game 7 drew the highest preliminary rating for an NBA Finals game since 1998.
The Lakers' 83-79 win Thursday night on ABC earned an 18.2 overnight rating. That's the highest for an NBA game since Michael Jordan won his last championship with the Bulls in Game 6 of the 1998 Finals against the Jazz, which posted a 22.9.
The rating was 32 percent higher than the only other Game 7 of the past 16 years, that one being Pistons-Spurs in 2005, which drew a 13.8.
Ratings represent the percentage of all homes with televisions tuned into a program. Overnight ratings measure the country's largest markets.
The game drew a 39.7 rating in Los Angeles and a 33.9 in Boston.
Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press
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ok got mine in the mail today
i got a great deal from a guy on ebay paid about $14 a figure for 2 full sets of bruce wayne and batman inc shipping included
was quite pleased!
anyway got them in the mail today and wasquite pleased with these especially
the batman not so much, but the damian robin, knight, and man of bats
3 new characters getting figures for the first time (ok damian had a figure before, but this is first damian as robin)
i use the batman and son damian as damian unmasked or in civilian clothing
the damian robin looks a LOT like the custom i made over a year ago!
a knight with no squire....disappointing...i know we wont get a wave 2 of this or we would've seen it at comic con or by now....sigh
here we go you be the judge!
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America's no democracy. It wasn't established to be one. It never was and isn't now.
Latter day framers today would be called a Wall Street crowd. They included money-lenders, investors, speculators, merchants, politicians, planters, and lawyers. High-mindedness wasn't on their agenda.
They wanted America run by people who owned it. They made sure it turned out that way. Wheeler-dealer government is policy. The "supreme law of the land" is whatever presidents and sitting governments say.
Wealth and power alone mattered. It's more than ever true today. Popular interests are entirely excluded. Government of, by, and for the people never existed and doesn't now. Constitutional rhetoric is window dressing. It's self-serving for powerful interests. They're accountable to themselves alone. Rule of law principles are null and void.
Democracy is illusory. America's been on a fast track to tyranny for years. Post-9/11, things hardened exponentially. Police state America is real. Duopoly power assures it. Monied interests have full control.
Homeland repression is policy. Resisters are threatened. They can be arrested, abused or murdered. Obama appointed himself judge, jury and executioner. That's how tyranny works.
Obama's rogue agenda threatens world peace. He's waging political, financial, social, and hot wars. He targets humanity. He's eroding fundamental freedoms. They're fast disappearing.
Progressive Radio News Hour regular Paul Craig Roberts says "it has happened here." Institutionalized tyranny is real. Dissent is targeted. So are whistleblowers. Permanent war on humanity is policy.
So are extrajudicial killing, torture, guilt by accusation, indefinite detention, military tribunal justice, lawless surveillance, warrantless wiretapping, unchecked secrecy, manufactured threats, criminalized peace and social justice advocacy, and compromised academic freedom.
The criminal class in Washington is bipartisan. Obama nominally heads it. He governs to the right of George Bush. He's arguably America's worst ever president. He elevated rogue leadership to a higher level.
He's a war criminal multiple times over. He governs lawlessly for the monied interests that own him. Whatever they want they get.
Militancy and anti-progressivism defines his agenda. He's lawless, belligerent, and pro-war.
He's hard-right, reactionary, and pro-corporate. He's anti-democratic, anti-dissent, anti-freedom, anti-civil and human rights, anti-environmental sanity, and anti-government of, by and for the people.
He spurns fundamental freedoms and social justice. He usurped unbridled power. He's advancing mass impoverishment, corruption and grand theft at the highest federal and corporate levels.
He's a moral coward. Arguably he's amoral. He's a serial liar. He broke every major promise made. He represents the worst of rogue leaders.
Law Professor Francis Boyle told Progressive Radio News Hour listeners he should be impeached. He urged House Republicans to so. He belongs in prison, not high office.
He's heading America for WW III. If he's not stopped, it looms. Humanity may not survive his second term.
No president should have unbridled power. Obama uses his recklessly. No one is safe anywhere.
Voltaire once said it's "dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." It's dangerous living in America at the wrong time.
Repression targets popular anger. Supporting right over wrong is threatened. Full-blown tyranny is a hair's breath away. International, constitutional, and US statute laws are null and void.
Equity, justice, and other democratic values long ago were abandoned. Corporate empowerment and advancing America's imperium alone matter.
Anyone can be targeted for any reason or none at all. They can be indefinitely detained without charge or trial. Baseless suspicions alone matter. Constitutional protections don't apply. Unchecked power is policy.
Obama has diktat authority. He has final say. He afforded himself unchecked power. Patriot Act provisions established domestic terrorism. It did so for the first time. It turned lawfulness on its head.
Evidence isn't needed. Accusations suffice. US citizens and permanent residents are vulnerable. They're unjustly targeted for supporting right over wrong.
They're guilty if (wrongfully) accused of intimidating or coercing a civilian population, influencing government policy by intimidation or coercion, and/or affecting government conduct by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.
Sweeping federal powers reflect policy. Obama takes full advantage lawlessly.
He targets global justice advocates, freedom-fighters, whistleblowers, civil libertarians, environmental and animal rights activists, unwanted immigrants, and Muslims for political advantage as well as praying to the wrong God.
Anything goes replaced constitutional protections. No one's safe anywhere. Doing the right thing is criminalized. Challenging state lawlessness risks arrest or death. It's not hard imagining where this ends.
Police state crackdowns escalate. Resistance is called dangerous to national security. Dissent is endangered. So are fundamental freedoms. They're fast disappearing. Full-blown tyranny looms. Obama's policies advance it.
On August 25, 2011, the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms headlined "2001-2011: A decade of civil liberties's erosion in America."
Former Nazi leader Herman Goering was quoted, saying:
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. Tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace-makers for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger.Professor Gary Orfield co-directs UCLA's Civil Rights Project. In May 2003, he said:
The loss of civil rights often begins with the reduction of rights in a time of crisis, for a minority that has become the scapegoat for a problem facing the nation.
The situation can become particularly explosive in a time of national tragedy or war.
But when civil rights for one group of Americans are threatened and the disappearance of those rights is accepted, it becomes a potential threat to many others.He expressed concern about targeting America's most vulnerable. He said Muslims and Arabs are endangered. They're scapegoated in the name of national security. They're terrorized for political advantage.
US-style fascism is real. It's wrapped in the American flag. Big Business/Big Government/Big Brother rule. Machiavellian ruthlessness is policy. Bipartisan complicity enforces it.
Obama's nominally in charge. He usurped unprecedented powers. Police state control is policy. Merriam-Webster calls it:
a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administration and judicial organs of the government according to publicly known legal procedures.Iron fist harshness targets challengers. It's a short leap to anything goes.
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) says Washington "consistently (doesn't) recognize the protections afforded by the US Constitution and international law, and in doing so, it has failed in its responsibility to maintain a democratic society that is both open to, and accountable to, the people."
Anti-government criticism is endangered. It's criminalized if Washington says so. Obama did what his supporters thought impossible.
He exceeded the worst of George Bush. He governs like a tinpot despot. The worst is yet to come.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at email@example.com. His new book is titled How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening. http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/
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Murkowski slams NPR-A plan, conservation groups pleased
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Aug. 13 he has chosen a preferred alternative for a land management plan for the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve, although details of the plan remain sketchy.
The newly-proposed “Alternative B-2” management plan would open 11 million acres of the reserve to oil and gas leasing but would also place 13 million acres in special conservation areas, Salazar said. A pipeline crossing of a special use area or other industry activity is not prohibited, he said, but will be subject to special stipulations to protect the uses of the special areas.
“Our plan will not foreclose a pipeline, but when one is proposed it will have to go through the full regulatory process including an environmental impact statement,” the Secretary said.
The Interior Department has been considering several alternatives for managing the reserve, one an Alternative A continues the status quo; a second, more environmentally restrictive Alternative B that establishes large special conservation areas; an Alternative C that is less restrictive, and an Alternative D that essentially opens all of the reserve to oil and gas development.
Until Monday the department had not selected a preferred alternative. The new B-2 plan is now the preferred one, Salazar said. It combines elements of the other plans, but Salazar did not provide details Monday.
The preferred alternative will now be incorporated into a final environmental impact statement for the NPR-A. Salazar’s final approval of the EIS is expected in December, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Director Bud Mike Pool said at the briefing.
“In the next few weeks we will be meeting with the state of Alaska, the North Slope Borough and other concerned Alaska stakeholders to go through the details,” Salazar said.
A major concern for the state and Shell Oil, which plans exploration drilling in the Chukchi Sea, is whether the new management plan will create difficulties in securing a pipeline right-of-way across the reserve.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was quick to criticize the plan.
“The administration has picked the most restrictive management plan possible. The environmentally-sensitive Teshepuk Lake area was already under a 10-year deferral for additional study, but this (new) alternative goes vastly beyond that, putting half the petroleum reserve off limits. The decision denies U.S. taxpayers both revenue and jobs at a time when our nation faces record debt and unemployment,” Murkowski said in a statement.
Conservation groups praised the alternative, however.
“If adopted, the preferred management strategy would protect the calving grounds of the Teshepuk Lake and Western Arctic caribou herds,” the Wilderness Society said in a statement issued Monday. “Essential nesting habitat for thousands of shorebirds, molting habitat for geese, and coastlines used for walrus haul-outs and polar bear dens would not be developed under this plan.”
The Audubon Society voiced similar sentiments.
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Bhandarkar’s happy with his Heroine!
By Hindustan Times
Madhur Bhandarkar faced many hurdles while making Heroine, but the filmmaker is now delighted to see the response and has expressed gratitude to the people who supported him all through.
“After 72 days of extensive shooting and great team work, I am a happy man with the response Heroine has got,” Bhandarkar wrote on his blog madhurbhandarkar.net.
He added, “So to begin with, I am thankful to all of you, my audience, for whom I make my film. It’s not an easy task to make a film that is about your own industry and yet I am glad that everything fell in place.” | <urn:uuid:47ce488f-e86d-449f-b1de-45e78a187906> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bollywood.com/node/37839 | 2013-05-19T19:45:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698017611/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095337-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972848 | 163 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
What child (or adult for that matter!) doesn't like playing "make believe" every so often? Whether you're playing a grocery store clerk, lemonade stand attendant or maybe you like playing with puppets... all you need is a little playhouse. Frank was on Steven and Chris to show us how he made his nieces their very own theatre. Read on for the step by step instructions on how to make your kids their very own playhouse. You need:
Drill & bits
Table Saw or Router & Table
1"x4" pine--24 ln ft.
1"x3" pine--24 ln ft
Wood screws--2 ½" wood
4 hinges--butt hinges or garden gate hinges
This is built in three sections - 2 side panels and 1 center panel (frame and panel construction).Center panel
- is 46"x 40" wide frame with an opening of approximately 12" x 33" wide (for puppet/window area).
- Cut four 1x4 rails at 40" long (two of these pieces will be the side rails and the other two pieces will be the top and bottom rails).
- Cut panel to 34"wide by 27" high.
- On tablesaw (or router and table) pass the rails through on the short face to create the dado at a depth of 1/2" (or channel cut...this cut allows the panel to slide in).
- are 46"x 14" frames with 1/8" ply.
- Cut four 1"x3" rails down to 46" in length (side rails) - mitre the ends - and cut four 1"x3" rails to 14" in length (top and bottom rails) - mitre the ends.
- Cut 2 panels to 42" long x 10" wide.
- On tablesaw (or router table) pass the rails through (on the short face) to create the dado at a depth of 1/2" (or channel cut...this cut allows the panel to slide in).
- Assemble all components (rails and panels) using glue and screws--don't forget to pre-drill your components.
- Once all panels are assembled, they are interconnected using hinges.
- A piece of 1/8" ply is cut and used as at the top rail of the center structure to identify (signage) the project i.e.; playhouse, lemonade stand, etc...
- Also, a piece of 1"x3" pine is cut to size to fit in the opening , to create a ledge (Stage Floor).
**The two side panels are put together with using "mitre joints", whereas the center frame is put together using "butt joints."
- You can stain or paint to finish.
- A regular or standard mini curtain rod can be installed to hang the curtain.
- Installing mini lights (purchased at a hobby/craft store) is also an option.
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UPDATE 1-Airbus sees A320neo orders, sets goal for earlier model
* Could add over 100 A320neo orders by end-March
* Aimes to sell 200 current-generation models this year
* Industry tensions flare again over jet prices
ORLANDO, Fla., March 11 (Reuters) - European planemaker Airbus hinted on Monday at imminent orders worth over $10 billion for A320neo passenger jets, saying cumulative orders for the revamped jet would probably hit 2,000 by the end of this month.
Airbus has so far sold 1,878 of the latest fuel-saving member of its single-aisle medium-haul jet family, which competes with the Boeing 737 in the largest part of the market.
Boeing outsold Airbus in 2012 for the first time in six years and remains ahead this year.
But Airbus has the advantage in fuel-saving medium-haul airliners that have taken the aviation world by storm and serve as a cash cow for producers.
At the same time, both manufacturers must ensure existing models continue to sell to prevent a dip in production and damage to their supply chains as they prepare to switch over to the new models from mid-decade - a period known as the "bridge".
"I think I can at least do 200," said commercial chief John Leahy, referring to the existing "A320ceo" model.
"It would be nice to get to 300, but at least 200," he said on the sidelines of the world's largest aviation finance conference in Florida.
"I think there is no problem with the bridge right now and A320ceo's are continuing to sell because it is a minimum change airplane. We are not changing the model, just the engines."
Airbus is awaiting confirmation of a tentative $2.8 billion order for 16 A320neo revamped aircraft from Hawaiian Airways, while industry sources say the two manufacturers are scrapping over a potentially rapid order from Indonesia's Lion Air.
In an interview, Leahy accused Boeing of using "aggressive" pricing in the crucial narrowbody segment of the market, where Airbus and Boeing compete for orders estimated at $2 trillion over the next 20 years at list prices.
The claim contrasts with recent suggestions that pricing had stabilized following a rough patch as planemakers fought to establish new versions of their best-selling models, the Airbus A320neo followed a year later by the Boeing 737 MAX.
"There is still very aggressive pricing as they attempt to claw back market share on the MAX," Leahy said.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes Chief Executive Ray Conner told analysts last week that the U.S. company had been forced to be "a little more aggressive" after entering the market late with a revamped 737 but that things were "in good shape now".
Both planemakers have accused the other of sparking a price war to defend or gain market share, which is split roughly evenly. Industry buyers say competition remains intense, fuelled partly by conflicting ambitions in their global sales battle.
Boeing officials have vowed to maintain 50 percent of the market, disrupting Airbus efforts to hold on to recent gains. Leahy said he expected to keep a share approaching 60 percent.
Leahy earlier also told the ISTAT aircraft financing conference that the wide-body A350, the planemaker's newest jet, would make its maiden flight in the summer but not necessarily in time for the June 17-21 Paris air show.
He vowed to stick with the A350-800, the smallest member of the mid-sized long-range jet, despite predictions from at least one customer, Qatar Airways, that the 270-seat model may be scrapped.
"We have no intention of doing that," Leahy said.
However he said sales teams had been urged to upgrade customers to larger and more profitable versions until production hits its stride towards the end of the decade.
Boeing is expected to offer for sale within weeks a revamped version of the 777, its top-selling wide-body jet, to compete with the largest new Airbus twinjet, the A350-1000.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes Marketing Vice-President Randy Tinseth said technology plans for the new mini-jumbo 777, expected to seat some 400 people, were coming together quickly.
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Well hello everyone! I know I haven't posted anything in awhile..been busy you know the deal! This Saturday I will be a vendor at the Weedsport Old Tyme Christmas. I am not even a little bit ready with my crafts but wanted to show you what cards I have done so far. Only 9..but hey I still have time, right? Procrastinator thats me! Leave me your comments, I would love to know what you think!
I was playing with the other set of new stamps I got in the gina k set. This is the card I came up with.
Red and green cs is whats left of the package in the gina k set. thats great cs by the way! set of 3 tree stamp is also from the gina k holiday cheer set(i stamped some extra in a line). Embossed with green powder. the sentiment is also from the holiday cheer stamp set. Pop dots used under the matted sentiment.
Thanks for dropping by and as always I welcome your comments....
I am making some tags for a friend who is doing much baked goodies for this weekend to sell. I had my ideas going and they were ahead of me I think. More buttons in xmas theme were nowhere to be found so i have to now go to another store. Honest opinions please....how does this look with the xmas themed buttons on it? should i replace it with something else? I really like how i embossed the tag. The color that it is shows up very nicely. The tag is cut from the cricut @ 6.5 inches. gold paper of tag is from gina k designs. Embossed with my sizzix embossing folder. the green cs under the white cs is from gina k designs. Kelly green inking on the edges of the white cs. Ribbon also from Gina K designs. xmas themed buttons are from my stash.
Today I made a xmas card--started out copying a design from a wreath i saw on mojo monday site....then it totally turned out different....I like it but now i see that i used white cs and the bow on the wreath is white but the ribbon is more cream. now i am unhappy with it and need to change it somehow?
I used a sizzix embossing folder for the card background, 1 and 1/4 in stars cut from my cricut expression,standard size hole punch for the red berries, and ribbon from Gina K. The double mat behind the wreath is 3d dotted. Please leave comments on your honest opinions...thanks!
Hello all! It's a beautiful Sunday here in NY! The temperature was nearly 70 today! We have been outside most of the day enjoying it because it will be gone as quick as it came!
Today i have made a card for MoJo Monday. I just found this blog from following a friend who subscribed. The challenge was fun! Due by 8pm today, so get your entries in quickly! You can visit the blog: mojomonday.blogspot.com to see the other wonderful entries. Here is my take on the sketch. I used red and green cs from Gina K designs, Ho Ho Ho paper is scrap cs, mini silver brads also from Gina K, stamp from the Gina K Holiday Cheer Stamp kit(colored with colored pencils: red, burnt sienna, terra cotta & moss green), tied with beautiful ribbon from Gina K. The cs squares are also 3d dotted to the card.
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Hi all! Today my Gina K stamps came! What a great package! I got 20 fabulous sheets of colored cardstock(and not the crappy stuff either!), a baggie of assorted beautiful ribbons, a baggie of 2 colors of mini brads, 4 different sized clear containers-for gift giving, a sheet of sentiment stamps and finally a sheet of image stamps. Oh ya i also got a white gel pen since mine dried up! both stamp sheets had ezmount on them too. For a first time cutter it was easy enough to cut around the images to mount them on my acrylic blocks. I tested the sentiments out already. 2 THUMBS UP! Some need to be cut down more, the ink was blobbing on the rubber..didnt leave a good image.
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Here is a card I made for a friend who is expecting. I finally got settled down enough from this last move to start crafting again. I thought this card turned out rather well and I wanted to share.
On a personal note, our move went ok, well at least its over now. We are planning to buy this house, closing date is the first of October. Hopefully this means we can settle down for awhile and stop moving, but I know better than that.
The kids are both involved in scouts. I somehow found myself as Cubmaster at a new pack. Amazing how that title follows you around. I don't see how, but I guess I have a big neon sign floating above my head.
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Re: PCI hotplug question.
Russell King (email@example.com)
Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:35:25 +0000
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:15:20PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> I can't find my copy of the PCI Hotplug spec right now (and it's not
> free for download anymore...), but I think that once a user presses the
> latch button, the OS _has_ to power down that slot within a reasonable
> amount of time. So there's no way that a driver could return an error
> to the remove() callback and have a chance to still be around in a
> moment or so. And some systems (ACPI controlled PCI Hotplug), we don't
> have a choice, as the BIOS is about to do the powerdown anyway, and we
> can't stop it.
Not only that, but with Cardbus-based PCI expansion systems, a complete
PCI bus tree could have been removed and be gone before the drivers get
notified, if the user pulls the cardbus card from the slot.
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So the rabbis came. Or, at least, a thousand of them went to their telephones to listen to a conference call with President Obama about healthcare reform. And they learned, in the fifteen-minute briefing on a Wednesday morning, August 19, that “we are God’s partners in matters of life and death.” “I am going to need your help in accomplishing necessary reform,” Obama told the rabbis—asking them to use their sermons to “tell the stories of healthcare dilemmas to illustrate what is at stake.”
The call was part of the president’s August push for the faltering healthcare plan, which included a webcast address to around 140,000 “religious”—meaning, mostly, Christians—later that same day. “This debate over health care,” he told the audience, “goes to the heart of who we are as a people.” And so, he said, “I need you to knock on doors, talk to neighbors, spread the facts, and speak the truth”—“There are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness.”
All of this is straightforward enough; the man has a political agenda, which is faltering, and thus he seeks new help. Indeed, the fact that he spent the day courting the people gathered by the self-proclaimed religious left is a sign that the president’s earlier attempts to sell health-care reform on purely economic grounds— Nationalized health care will save money!—has failed to convince enough people. And so he attempts, in the words of the New York Times, “to reframe the healthcare debate as ‘a core ethical and moral obligation.’”
But that line in the morning call to the rabbis, “we are God’s partners in matters of life and death”—it passes beyond the merely pushy and partisan into the deep realms of the disturbing, yes?
The Day for the Religious, as it was probably marked on the White House calendar for the healthcare campaign, had its share of ironies. The first information on the supposedly off-the-record morning phone call came from the Twitter feeds of at least three rabbis— twittering rabbis?—who were providing their friends a blow-by-blow account during the call, apparently forgetting that anyone could then see them online.
The president’s comment about our being God’s partners was Twittered by Rabbi Jack Moline of Virginia, who later erased the notes from the Twitter website, replacing them with the somewhat peculiar message: “My lack of tech literacy results in a huge mistake—apologies to all for my tweets this afternoon. They have been deleted.” My own sense is that no one capable of using the Twitter service—or even of using a noun like “tweets”—gets to plead computer incompetence as an excuse; but, reached by reporters, other participants confirmed the accuracy of Moline’s original notes.
The obvious irony, of course, is the simple, undeniable fact that if this Day for the Religious had been engineered by a conservative, we would have been deafened by the nation’s chattering classes, howling about an illegal—or, at least, unconstitutional, or, at any rate, unethical—violation of the separation of church and state.
As it happens, on Beliefnet.com, the indefatigable separationist Barry Lynn (the “Rev. Barry Lynn,” as he is always quick to note, head of the ban-all-public-religion organization, People for the American Way) was mocked, a little, for the kid gloves with which he handled Obama’s sudden August religiosity. And
he replied that he had, after all, told reporters that the day’s events “crossed the line,” even if he didn’t go full fury after the president. But, really, what Obama did wasn’t all that bad: “The comment about ‘bearing false witness,’” Lynn observed, “was clearly designed as a biblical reference. It wasn’t as sneaky as President Bush’s coded message about ‘power, wonder-working power’ he slipped into his 2003 State of the Union address right from the Baptist hymnal.”
Ah, right. President Obama’s lapse from Barry Lynn’s rhetorical taste wasn’t as bad as President Bush’s, because the new, Democratic president was actually quoting from the Bible, while the old, Republican president was referencing a Baptist hymn. Which is more of a threat to the secular republic, because . . . well, because hymns are more central to Christianity than the Bible? Or because more people will resonate with a line from a hymn than a line from the Bible? Or because only people on the religious right can carry a tune, and Bush was sneakily calling them to rise up singing, hymnals in their cruel, bloody hands, while Obama—ah, sweet Obama—was merely urging the religious left to denounce their fellow citizens in the words of Jesus himself, as found in their gentle Bibles, bound in limp black leather?
Fishing for Disinformation
That word denounce is chosen not entirely at random. On August 4, the White House set up an email box to receive “tips” about those who opposed health-care reform. “There is a lot of disinformation about health-insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end-of-life care,” the official governmental website announced. “These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health-insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to email@example.com.”
The quick negative reaction may have been caused by those phrasings about how the government wants to “keep track” of “casual conversation,” with its echoes of “Report Your Neighbors When They Commit Crimes Against the State.” By August 17, the White House had shut down the electronic tip box, citing worries about how the data would be used—which is, really, the second problem with the whole idea. The first is that it didn’t occur to anyone in the president’s office that this was a bad thing to do. Yes, the government gathering information about your conversations is a dangerous precedent, and data like that hungers to be acted on. But even worse is encouraging Americans to report their neighbors’ conversations to the government. We just aren’t like that, and here is something that genuinely does go to “the heart of who we are as a people.”
In God We Trust
And yet, the fact that the wrongness of this tip box didn’t occur to the White House suggests something more about the Obama presidency—something that bears on both the president’s Day for the Religious and the general healthcare debate. Yes, there are easy ironies that can be pointed out in all this, mostly of the outrageous-if-Republicans-do-it-but-allowable-if-Democrats-do-it kind. But those ironies have their root, their origin, in a primal feeling present in this White House—the profound sense that we are trustworthy and they are not.
In other words, it is not hypocrisy, in their minds, to admit that they would have taken to the streets if Bush’s government tried some of the things that Obama’s government is doing. When they set up a government program to encourage people to report the fishy in their midst, they mean to use it merely to combat disinformation—for they know they can be trusted not to use the gathered material for the purposes to which the previous administration would have wanted to use it. And when they quote the Bible, they are simply using a language their audiences will recognize—for they know they can be trusted not to build the theocracy at which they think their opponents aimed.
As far as religious rhetoric goes, one wishes they had shown the same willingness to trust their government during the Bush administration, and the Clinton administration, and the first Bush administration, and the Reagan, and the Carter, and back and back and back. It’s probably too much to ask, say, the Rev. Barry Lynn to understand that Christian rhetoric is woven so completely into the English language that to ban it would leave us with nothing but threadbare conversation. And it’s surely too much to ask him to understand that religious conviction is draped so fully over the American experience that to eradicate it would leave us with nothing but a naked public square, to use a very First Things phrase: a national forum that is stark, brutal, and alien.
Phrases like “bearing false witness” are what we know and how we speak. I confess I was a little creeped out by the request that the rabbis use their sermons to “tell the stories of healthcare dilemmas to illustrate what is a stake.” Not just the content but the structure of sermons is now being scripted from the White House, like some kind of homiletics class: “Use a story to connect with the people in the pews; reach them where they live.” But if Barack Obama wants to speak in religious words to Americans precisely as a religious people, who would say him nay?
The trouble is the particular version of religious language he speaks. Tevi Troy, who was deputy secretary of health and human services in the Bush administration, swiped at the president for using part of the Rosh Hashanah service—“On Rosh Hashanah will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed how many will pass from the earth and how many will be created; who will live and who will die”—as the segue to the comment about how “we are God’s partners in matters of life and death.”
Bad enough, Troy remarked, is the fact that the Jewish New Year doesn’t come till September 18, which makes the president’s greeting, “ shanah tovah [happy new year] to all of you” something like “wishing people Merry Christmas on Thanksgiving.” (Several participants commented on the oddity of having “Deutschland Uber Alles” playing while the rabbis waited on hold, but the company hosting the call was probably providing generic “Classical Background Music” and didn’t recognize that something called, say, Haydn’s Kaiserquartett has had other uses.)
David Saperstein, another rabbi on the conference call, defended Obama’s remarks, writing: “The bottom line is that the president spoke in strong moral terms, referencing Jewish themes and ideas in a manner that showed deep knowledge, respect, interest, and understanding of our tradition and our values. It was a moving experience for me—and I suspect for almost every rabbi on the call.” But to do so, Saperstein had to soften considerably the point: not that we are God’s partners in matters of life and death, but merely “we are God’s partners in preserving life and delaying death.”
Perhaps we are. But only perhaps. The language of partnership with God is a tricky, dangerous one, easy to misunderstand—particularly if it is used by those whose rhetorical style is already messianic, as President Obama’s is. And, besides, he didn’t speak of preserving and delaying. He said flat out that we are “God’s partners in matters of life and death.”
The answer to which is simply no. We’re not. And when we imagine we are, we begin to think we get to decide who is to live and who is to die. We begin to think that a “panel of experts” can inscribe and seal in their book of healthcare rules how many will pass from the earth and how many will be created.
“Death panels,” Sarah Palin called such proposed groups of experts, and she was immediately and widely attacked for the phrase. Even National Review editorialized against her for the comment. But, given the state of likely panelists these days—the profession of medical ethicists evinces nearly uniform support for public-financed abortion and legalized euthanasia, for example—the phrase has some resonance. After all, on August 3, “a group of some of the most distinguished health economists in the country sent a letter to the president and Congress in support of the administration’s proposal for the establishment of an independent board of doctors and health experts to guide Medicare policy,” the White House recently reported.
The signers were “household names to health-policy wonks,” in the chatty boast of Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget and Obama’s point man on health-care reform. And, sure enough, the letter proclaimed the primarily economic purpose of the experts’ role in all this: “A properly structured Independent Medicare Advisory Council, with a congressional mandate and authority to do so, can reduce the rate of growth of health expenditures substantially.”
It may well have been comments such as Palin’s that caused the White House to ask for reports of fishy disinformation—and led Obama to speak of people bearing false witness. The proposed boards obviously aren’t death panels, designed by the pending legislation to ration health care by depriving the ill of services they would like. And yet, couldn’t they become that? Couldn’t they start to act that way, particularly when they’ve been told that their purpose is to save money?
The only real answer we’ve been given is the one that’s rooted in the same conviction from which blossomed the casual-conversation tip box—the belief that the people in the present administration are so uniquely trustworthy that they must be allowed to do what others should not. The finances of health care in this country are a mess and manifestly unfair; it’s hard to be opposed on principle to the idea that we need reform. But I don’t trust the potential administrators of a nationalized health care to be always benevolent. I don’t trust them to refrain from making doctors perform abortions. I don’t trust them not to use the opportunity for legalizing euthanasia. I don’t trust them to keep from using nationalized health care for social engineering.
I especially don’t trust them when they suppose that they are God’s full partners—partners in matters of life and death.
· On the front page of the Wall Street Journal, an article about thefts of hay in Texas, in which we’re told, “Searing summer temperatures and a lack of rain have turned pastures here brown and crunchy, depriving cattle of the green grass they usually live on this time of year. That has made hay, a particular kind of dried grass that is nutritious feed of livestock, a precious commodity.”
Think about that for a moment. The Wall Street Journal now thinks it has to define for its readers what hay is, in case they don’t know. Turns out to be “a particular kind of dried grass.” Often used, as it happens, to feed cows (a particular kind of large domesticated animal) on ranches (a particular kind of property on which nutritious livestock is kept).
· The dangers of email headers automatically generated by truncating the first line of the message: A publicity email I received today announced in its subject-line the news that the “Bishop of Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe Accepts The Gospel.” About time, I thought. But opening the email, I discovered that, in fact, the “Bishop of Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe Accepts The Gospel Tide’s Invitation to Speak at Fall Banquets.” Ah, well. The Gospel Tide is a sixty-three-year-old Mennonite ministry that produces Christian radio broadcasts. And the bishop of Christ Church in Zimbabwe will be speaking this fall at the organization’s banquets.
· In December 2007, when Belmont Abbey College discovered coverage for abortion, contraception, and sterilization tucked away in their employee health-insurance policy, they did what any Catholic college would—well, ought to—do, they had that coverage removed. As William Thierfelder, president of the College, explained, “The teaching of the Catholic Church on this moral issue is clear. The responsibility of the College as a Catholic college sponsored by the monks of Belmont Abbey to follow Church teaching is equally clear. There was no other course of action possible if we were to operate in fidelity to our mission and to our identity as a Catholic college.”
Now, after a complaint was filed by eight faculty members, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that Belmont Abbey is discriminating against women: “By denying prescription contraception drugs, Respondent is discriminating based on gender because only females take oral prescription contraceptives. By denying coverage, men are not affected, only women.” Should the college and the faculty members who filed the complaint not be able to reach an acceptable settlement, the EEOC can file a lawsuit against the college in federal court.
In its efforts to eradicate discrimination in employment, the EEOC’s ruling tramples North Carolina law. While the state does require that health-insurance plans provide coverage for contraception, there is an exception for religious employers who may request from their insurer a health plan that excludes “coverage for prescription contraceptive drugs or devices that are contrary to the employer’s religious tenets.” In fact, before the eight faculty members at Belmont Abbey filed a complaint with the EEOC, they filed a complaint with the North Carolina Department of Insurance and the Department confirmed the college’s status as a religious institution exempt from the law.
Thierfelder has expressed confidence that the school’s “actions ultimately will be found to be in compliance with all federal and state laws and with the U.S. Constitution,” but even President Bush’s (now rescinded) conscience clause protected only hospitals and healthcare workers. We need, and we need now, a wide-ranging conscience exemption that reaches across the economic spectrum.
· Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Here in an interview is everything you could possibly want to know on the subject of Justice Ginsburg: “feminist legal agendas,” “women of means” with choices, plus “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
Q: If you were a lawyer again, what would you want to accomplish as a future feminist legal agenda?
GINSBURG: Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that had changed their abortion laws before Roe [to make abortion legal] are not going to change back. So we have a policy that affects only poor women, and it can never be otherwise, and I don’t know why this hasn’t been said more often.
Q: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?
GINSBURG: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [ Harris v. McRae—in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.
The interview was softball. Which populations—the ones we don’t want to have too many of—might she have had in mind? If abortion proved ineffective in keeping them under control, did she have other methods in mind? What does Medicaid-paid abortions for poor women—when connected to “populations we don’t want too many of”—actually suggest to her? If “women of means” have choices poor women don’t, is it choice she wishes to extend to the poor or population reduction? All these and others went unasked. Ginsburg’s future feminist legal agenda turns out to be nothing more than the old feminist legal agenda: abortion, and abortion, and abortion.
· A story has been running in Dallas about “Baby Bella,” a baby abandoned in an apartment complex hallway moments following her birth. The mother, who had disguised her pregnancy to relatives and to her ex-boyfriend, came forward later to Child Protective Services saying, “I made a mistake.” She is facing child-endangerment charges that carry a possible two- to twenty-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine.
We cannot help but remark that had the woman demanded a late-term abortion, she wouldn’t be facing any legal troubles at all—which underscores the nutty convolutions of logic that abortion imposes on society. The only factor here that determines what happens to a pregnant woman is where and under what circumstances her baby is discarded. An abortuary is permissible; the hallway of an apartment complex is not. Of course there is a difference, but perhaps it is not the obvious one. The mother at the abortion clinic never has an opportunity to see her child alive when she realizes, “I made a mistake.” Baby Bella was placed in the care of her biological father, and we are minded to remember both him and Baby Bella’s mother in prayer.
· “We’re supposed to be the most multicultural city in the world and it doesn’t seem terribly inclusive,” Denny Alexander explained. It, as it turns out, is ten-year-old playground equipment found in two parks in the west end of Toronto. The offending objects depict the biblical story of Noah’s Ark, complete with cute pictures of animals in male-female pairings. In the most multicultural city in the world, that just won’t do. The equipment won’t be removed immediately, but the city had decided that, when it “wears out,” it won’t be replaced. “Toronto’s motto is Diversity our Strength,” wrote councilman Adam Giambrone. “City policies across the board look to reflect our multicultural city. One way of doing that is not focusing on any specific cultural or religious tradition.” You really can’t better that line about how awful it is for an inclusive city to, um, include something biblical.
· Believe it or not, sodium silicate (“liquid glass” to its friends) is in the news. The federal government gave this unassuming compound a huge boost in popularity by making it the official poison for killing fuel-inefficient cars under its now, alas, bankrupt “Cash-for-Clunkers” program. In a detailed, 136-page manual distributed to dealers, the government mandated that “clunkers” be permanently disabled by running the engine with sodium silicate instead of oil, thereby abrading the engine beyond repair.
Suppliers happily scrambled to meet the sudden demand (the Wall Street Journal reported that one distributor was working “sixteen-hour days”), and across the nation, mechanics were energized by the prospect of a novel thrill: “At dealerships across America, mechanics accustomed to fixing engines are battling for the chance to ruin them. ‘Everybody wants to go first, so I’m probably going to have to make them draw straws,’ says Jim Burton of Randy Curnow Buick Pontiac GMC in Kansas City, Kansas. As service manager, however, he might reserve that thrill for himself. ‘I can’t wait,’ he says.”
By all accounts, the prescribed method is quick, safe, and effective. At one dealership in Kansas, sodium silicate killed a 2002 Ford Windstar and a 1999 Jeep in approximately two minutes. (A 1988 Jeep held out for six minutes. “Sometimes,” observed the dealership president, “those old engines are hardest to kill.”) The simplicity, efficiency, and dispatch with which this debut federal euthanasia program was administered should help quiet fears that the federal government is incompetent to administer health care.
· Fr. Kevin Thew Forrester’s selection as bishop of the Episcopal Church’s diocese of Northern Michigan hit a snag in July when—as announced by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori—a majority of the Episcopal bishops and diocesan committees refused to give their necessary consent to his election. Forrester will not be a bishop, and we can’t think why not. His rejection, we learn, is entirely due to doctrinal worries over his orthodoxy. Forrester reportedly denies the existence of satan, doesn’t believe God sent Christ to die for the sins of the world, accepts universal salvation, received Buddhist “lay ordination” in 2004, and once read the Qur’an in worship declaring it “the Word of God.” Now surely, as more than one Episcopal bishop one time or another has accepted one or more of the propositions at issue, perhaps it is a case of Forrester believing too many of them all at once?
· The United Methodist Church’s conferences are voting on a measure that would open church membership to active homosexuals. Twenty-seven of forty-four regional governing bodies reporting voted no. There are sixty-two conferences in total (not all have reported their votes), and the proposal requires support from two-thirds of the conferences for adoption.
The United Methodists have another seventy-two conferences in Africa, the Philippines, and Europe. Those votes are ongoing, and the results will not be known until the spring of next year. Observers, however, point out that African opposition is a large factor in UMC efforts to revise how Methodists officially regard homosexuality. With American Methodists declining and developing-world Methodists growing, conservative African Christian influence will only increase. Coincidently, or perhaps not so coincidentally, the conferences were also required to wade through some twenty-three constitutional amendments that would have altered relations between American Methodists and other Methodists, permitting national churches—like that of the U.S.—to “contextualize” outreach for homosexuals, among other things. Under the same two-thirds rule for adoption, none passed. The UMC has eight million members in America and another three and half million members outside the United States.
· Rachel’s Tears, Hannah’s Hopes: Liturgies and Prayers for Healing from Loss Related to Childbearing and Childbirth to the Enriching our Worship is a liturgical supplement adopted at the Episcopal Church’s 2009 General Convention specifically addressing women and men experiencing guilt and a sense of sin from abortion. Initiated in 2003 by Georgette Forney, president of Anglicans for Life, it took six years to convince Episcopalians that some women and men may indeed come to suffer for their role in securing an abortion. There is a deep, deep reluctance, previously noted on these pages, to acknowledge that women receiving an abortion may one day come to regret it.
· One opponent to the liturgical resource, the Rev. Nina Churchman in Denver, Colorado, found herself “sickened to discover that the rite for abortion is couched wholly in terms of sin and transgression.” Well it is a service of confession and reconciliation. The rite is expressly intended for those women and men who have come, belatedly, to recognize the sinfulness of aborting their very human unborn babies. One rather presumes there must be something to confess if there is to be reconciliation with God. The Rev. Churchman believes nothing of the sort. She was especially distressed that the order includes such phrases as “I seek God’s forgiveness...” and “God rejoices that you have come seeking God’s merciful forgiveness...”
· In point of fact, says the Rev. Churchman, “women should be able to mourn the loss of an aborted fetus without having to confess anything. God, unlike what the liturgy states, also rejoices that women facing unplanned pregnancies have the freedom to carefully choose the best option—birth, adoption, or abortion—for themselves and their families.” Whether God rejoices over choice is a very much disputed assertion, but we are confident in asserting that among the “best” options among Churchman’s choices, the preferred option of the unborn child is not consulted.
· Possibly you noticed the goofy formulation in that Episcopal rite for abortion: “God rejoices that you have come seeking God’s merciful forgiveness.” We’re told it could have been worse. Initial drafts included invocations of the “Mothering God” and “Daughter Jesus.” By comparison, the God who rejoices in the other God’s merciful forgiveness doesn’t sound too bad.
· Georgette Fortney, Anglicans for Life president, took up the Episcopal confessional rite for abortion and took it up very personally. She obtained an abortion when she was sixteen, and it was not until many years later that the weight of it hit her. She began asking for an Episcopal healing service for women like her. “This is a ministry,” she told us, “that is necessary in the [Episcopal] church. So many people hurt over it and experience a great distance from God. They have come to believe this is the ‘unforgivable sin.’ They need an opportunity to know God can and will forgive and love them.”
· Last month’s issue of First Things was spotted by a reader in the New Age section at the Barnes & Noble in Overland Park, Kansas. We can’t think how it ended up in that part of the bookstore, but perhaps the manager concluded that anything with “apocalypse” on the cover belonged there. Think of it: A customer trying to dope out the real meaning behind 220.127.116.11.0, the last date in the baktun cycle of the Mayan Long Count calendar (December 21, 2012), instead walks out with a copy of René Girard under his arm. It’s the end of the world as we know it.
· Every six months or so another two or three books by Benedict XVI show up from Ignatius Press. Here’s a roundup of the latest.
Faith and the Future is a collection of radio addresses Ratzinger delivered in 1969 that draw heavily on his then recently published Introduction to Christianity. Here he argues that faith is a form of trust required for knowledge, a decision to embark on the adventure of loving God and entrusting our lives to him. Faith, he says, may never rely solely on “a bundle of philosophical certainties,” but instead to “prove its own legitimacy in advance” it must reflect “on its own inner reasonableness and by presenting itself as a reasonable whole” it may “be offered to men as a possible and responsible choice.”
A brief discussion of faith in Christ over manmade progress follows, after which Ratzinger reflects on the Church at the time of the Enlightenment and its similarity to the postconciliar Church, chiefly in the sterility of renewal based exclusively on rationalism in contrast to a more organic reappropriation of tradition. Ratzinger’s calls for fidelity to Christ over the politics and demands of the world stir the heart, and his predictions of a smaller, less influential but more devout Church continue to ring true forty years later.
Next, Saint Paul, a collection of papal audiences that together offers a basic, short introduction to the Apostle’s life and writings. These are not scholarly, but pastoral. Benedict pays special attention to Christology and the doctrine of justification, teaching old truths with interesting historical notes. On justification, for instance, he notes that the wall of legal and cultural distinctions keeping Jews from corruption by pagan religions was no longer necessary because of Christ. Because Christ unites us “ with and in the one God . . . the wall is no longer necessary; our common identity within the diversity of cultures is Christ, and it is he who makes us just. Being just simply means being with Christ and in Christ. And this suffices. Further observances are no longer necessary.”
Finally there’s Credo for Today: What Christians Believe, a “greatest hits” collection of passages from Benedict’s most famous works on topics of basic Christianity. On faith and love, for example, he writes: “For what faith basically means is just that this shortfall that we all have in our love is made up by the surplus of Jesus Christ’s love, acting on our behalf. He simply tells us that God himself has poured out among us a superabundance of his love and has thus made good in advance all our deficiency. Ultimately, faith means nothing other than admitting that we have this kind of shortfall; it means opening our hand and accepting a gift. In its simplest and innermost form, faith is nothing but reaching that point in love at which we recognize that we, too, need to be given something. . . . To that extent, faith is already present in and with true loving; it simply represents that impulse in love which leads to its finding its true self: the openness of someone who does not insist on his own capabilities, but is aware of receiving something as a gift and of standing in need of it.”
· We knew about evangelical romance novels and Mormon vampire fiction, but we didn’t know about Beverly Lewis. The author of The Secret, The Missing, and the forthcoming The Telling, is acclaimed as “the top name in Amish fiction.” What will they think of next?
· The Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California extends official recognition to some eighty-six campus religious organizations. Sixty of them are Christian, seven Jewish, four interfaith, three each for Buddhists and Muslims, and one group each for nine other organizations with other affiliations. So who should be the next director of Religious Life on a campus that is largely Christian with small but visible minorities of Jewish, Buddhist, and Muslim students?
The obvious answer: Varun Soni, glowingly described as “the first Hindu primary spiritual leader at any American university.” “I feel proud,” Soni said. “I feel like I can be a proponent of Hinduism in the public sphere.” And why not? Except, of course, imagine the outcry at the school if a Catholic priest, appointed director, had proudly said that the job made a proponent of Catholicism in the public sphere.
· The headline from a recent Newsweek article by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend reads: “Why Barack Obama represents American Catholics better than the Pope does.” An alternative does suggest itself. “Why Barack Obama represents Kathleen Kennedy Townsend better than the Pope does.”
· My Sister’s Keeper is a film about Anna, an eleven-year-old girl genetically designed by her parents to be her ailing sister’s ready organ bank. Tired of hanging around only for the purpose of sending a steady supply of body parts on to her sister—a kidney this time—Anna initiates a lawsuit against her parents seeking “medical emancipation” so that she never again has to worry about her parents’ harvesting of her organs.
Movie reviewer Roger Ebert, writing a review of the film in the pages of the Chicago Sun-Times, suggests the movie is, really, “a practical parable about the debate between pro-choice and pro-life. If you’re pro-life, you would require Anna to donate her kidney, although there is a chance she could die, and her sister doesn’t have a good prognosis. If you’re pro-choice, you would support Anna’s lawsuit.”
Come again? Ebert’s characterization of pro-life vs. pro-choice views is inept at best, simplistically stupid at worst, and heavy handed in all events. The pro-life segment of the audience would demand Anna’s submission to medical utilitarianism—you exist, therefore you donate? The pro-choice portion would excuse Anna of any familial obligation—it’s your sister, no skin off your nose? Besides, movie parables are rarely practical.
· Researchers have learned that unborn babies at thirty-weeks gestation are forming short-term memories. By the time unborn children reach thirty-four weeks in development, they are “able to store information and retrieve it four weeks later.” Doubtless, this is something to put in the memory bank for later retrieval.
· Periodic suggestions are made to remove “In God We Trust” from U.S. coinage and currency—a motto regarded as a horrible transgression against separation of church and state in some quarters. Conversely, not a few regard removal as a naked assault against religion. We haven’t got a dog in this fight, frankly, but viewing removal as an attack against religion is a doubtful premise. The motto in fact stirred up all sorts of mixed reaction when it first appeared on the now obsolete and short-lived U.S. two-cent piece in 1864, the result of a proposal offered by a Congregationalist minister that such a motto would boost Union morale in the Civil War. President Lincoln passed it on to the treasury department and there you go.
Not everyone was pleased and it has come in for jabs and jibes ever since. President Theodore Roosevelt went so far as to remove it from gold coinage in 1907, but relented following an ensuing uproar. But even before that, the motto was the target of frequent barbs. Even the famous Morgan silver dollar, first minted in 1878, wasn’t spared. The Christian Union at the time suggested instead “Forgive Us Our Debts” might be a better one.
Another critic, noting the silver content was worth about ninety-two cents at the time, offered a footnote: “At About 8 percent Off.” The Hartford Courant would have preferred “One Hundred Cents” but added regretfully, “that would be more of a whopper than the other.”
· Counting money, Time magazine breathlessly the reader informs, increases one’s social happiness and, confirmed by a separate study, also serves as a pain reliever. Just two more reasons, as we count them, for you to count your money when renewing your subscription to First Things.
Public Square Sources: God’s Partners, Ben Smith in Politico, August 19, 2009. Barry W. Lynn, Beliefnet.com, August 24, 2009. Fishy Email Box, New York Times, August 17, 2009. Tevi Troy, National Review Online, August 20, 2009. David Saperstein, Religious Action Center, August 24, 2009. Sarah Palin, ABC News, August 7, 2009. Editorial against Palin, National Review, August 17, 2009. Orszag and IMAC, Office of Management and Budget, August 4, 2009.
While We’re At It Sources: Hay Rustling, Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2009. Ginsberg, New York Times, July 12, 2009. Bishop’s Email, Gospel Tide news release, August 19, 2009. Money’s Motto, Morgan Silver Dollars: A Complete History and Price Guide. Baby Bella, Dallas Morning News, July 21, 2009. Belmont Abbey, LifeSiteNews.com, August 14, 2009. Toronto’s Parks, Toronto Star, May 28, 2009. Killing Cars, Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2009. Not Bishop Forrester, OneNewsNow.com, July 28, 2009. Methodists, UMC News, August 2009. Rite for abortion, Episcopal Life Online, August 2009. Georgette Fortney, FIRST THINGS telephone interview. Fetal Memory, Washington Times July 16, 2009. Amish Fiction, Publisher’s Weekly, July 27, 2009. Hindu Chaplain, Daily Trojan (June 3, 2009). Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Newsweek, July 9, 2009. Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, June 24, 2009. Counting Money, Time, Jul 25, 2009.
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Former Guardian Life CIO Frank Wander’s new book recounts a history of IT failure and offers a prescription for success. He begins with a list of major missteps from the 1960s forward, along with statistics from sources such as the Standish Group, Gartner and McKinsey verifying dismal rates of project success right up to the present. Wander’s diagnosis is that IT organizations remain trapped in an industrial mindset that works well for manual processes but is worse than incompetent at the task of managing intellectual processes. Management guru Peter Drucker would seem to agree.
Wander, who now heads the IT Excellence Institute, quotes Drucker in the first chapter of Transforming IT Culture: How to Use Social Intelligence, Human Factors and Collaboration to Create an IT Department that Outperforms. Wander sees growing awareness of a “blind spot” in the business world: people feel unease about the future, he says, and have some sense of an imminent and momentous shift. Peter Drucker anticipated the problem, Wander suggests:
The most important, and indeed the truly unique contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the manual worker in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the twenty-first century is similarly to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker.
That goal requires evolving from industrial process-based efficiency to what Wander calls “people-based potential,” which will be manifested in an “emerging socioproductive age.” He stresses that the process lessons of the industrial era are by no means to be forgotten, and indeed have important applications in the engineering aspects of IT. However, he insists that IT projects are inherently emotional and quasi-artistic endeavors. Process discipline is a foundation upon which to erect a productive social structure — the social system, according to Wander, is the factory. The people who make it up must be considered not simply as means to an end, but as ends in themselves.
That being the case, managers need to add new skills to their standard management and process disciplines, according to Wander. Over a career of fixing broken IT organizations and running projects on time and within budget, Wander has affirmed the value of a humanistic management approach characterized by “prosocial” behavior and an ethos of serving one’s subordinates. He writes on p74:
To transform organizational behavior, I established ground rules in my town halls and leadership meetings by communicating that the basis of our success would be building a trust-based community where meaningful collaboration and prosocial behaviors would infuse every interaction. Those behaviors included sharing/helping, caring for one another (empathy and compassion) openness/acceptance of others’ personalities and ideas, complete transparency (no hidden agendas), and an absence of blame. Ultimately, the goal was to create harmony, because that is a powerful driver of collaborative productivity.
Musical performance metaphors abound in the book, with teams likened to orchestras or improvisers in ensemble. Probably the most common word in the book is “caring,” used in the sense of managers taking a humane approach to their knowledge worker subordinates. If it all sounds a bit touchy-feely, don’t be fooled: the book is about competing fiercely — but not against the people on your own team.
A “cruel but fair” approach just won’t cut it with knowledge workers, Wander implies, and backs up his point of view with science. He details how the limbic system responds to threats by triggering survival mechanisms that drown out creativity and cooperation. On p42, Wander caricatures knowledge workers in a socially toxic work environment with a photograph of the statues of Easter Island staring stony-faced. The caption reads: “The Beatings Won’t Stop Until Morale Improves.”
Most readers will probably recognize elements presented in Wander’s Chapter 5 case study: “An Unproductive State of Mind: Toxic Leadership and its Aftermath.” However, in most cases the toxicity of a given organization will be considerably lower — and its effects more subtle. Few people go through a career without intervals of living hell — and probably some moments of organizational bliss as well. Most knowledge work is probably well within the tolerable zone (leaving aside the time immediately around deadlines) but still tinged throughout with a detectable odor of Dilbert — Scott Adams' cubicle-dwelling cartoon character that began satirizing the emerging knowledge work environment in 1989.
It is in that tolerable zone that Wander’s work may be most important, because the problem is so pervasive. A Dilbertized work environment, where people are cogs in a machine, their individuality and dignity subordinated to bureaucratic processes, is at best a mediocre environment. If you depend on people’s creativity, you must engage them as individuals with a unique contribution to make. Managers who master that engagement will enjoy a team that is not only more productive in the most basic sense, but also more creative and innovative than the Dilbert shops. If enough teams begin to work at this level, then the IT organizations’ project record may finally turn from failure to success. You can measure that as you like: in happiness — or in cold, hard cash. | <urn:uuid:df16fc80-0460-4e72-948d-cf4d9785d1b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.insurancetech.com/management-strategies/whats-driving-its-record-of-failure-and/240150455 | 2013-05-19T19:14:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698017611/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095337-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945692 | 1,090 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Adieu Kuala Lumpur, welcome Jakarta!
The big move has begun and Jakarta will be home for AirAsia Bhd after being based in Kuala Lumpur for a decade.
It is growth beyond Malaysian shores which is tempting AirAsia.
“Growth in Malaysia will be boring at a single digit of 3 percent, 4 percent to 5 percent but countries like Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia are where there is plenty of opportunities over the next 10 to 15 years and that should keep AirAsia busy,” a Maybank Investment analyst said.
It is for these reasons – though AirAsia’s diplomatic answer for wanting to relocate is to be near the Asean permanent secretariat – that it is shifting to Jakarta.
“When we started, we did not have a vision but somehow we became very big and now we have to look at how to manage,” AirAsia group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes said in an interview recently.
What really pushed him to make the bold decision to relocate was the unwinding of the share swap with Malaysia Airlines (MAS), he said.
The share swap between both airlines ended in May due to objections from MAS unions.
It was only when he was director of MAS did he realise what “fantastic operations” he and his long-time business partner Datuk Kamarudin Meranun had built of AirAsia over the past decade.
“It was the unswap that woke me on the potential of the AirAsia. You don’t appreciate it until you see it (from the other side) and if I had put in the same energies for MAS into regional development, (just imagine the possibilities). All this has given me a new lease of life and I cannot tell you how excited I am of AirAsia’s future and the future is really good for us,” he said.
Although he was sad over the unwinding, he said: “I am glad it is over.”
Fernandes and Kamarudin started AirAsia a decade ago with two aircraft but grew to have operations in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan. It also has a medium-haul sister airline in AirAsia X.
It is eyeing five more joint ventures in markets like China, South Korea, Vietnam and India.
Fernandes alluded that he would also like to set up AirAsia Africa.
The airline may have grown by leaps and bounds into a regional low cost carrier and competition is a given for AirAsia but its biggest challenge is really about staying focused and in implementation.
Therefore, the move to Jakarta would mean there is a core team that looks at every aspect of the business. Some see this as creating better coordination and cohesiveness to enable AirAsia to focus and tap opportunities in the region.
Fernandes will also move to Jakarta, although he keeps saying “this (Malaysia) is my home.”
Below are the excepts of the interview with Fernandes:
Can you ever give up as CEO of the Malaysian operations?
Of course I will not let go, but the day-to-day jobs, like carrying bags, being in every meeting, there can be a Malaysian CEO to do all that. But I would still be heavily involved in the day-to-day running of the airline.
Can someone do what you do because you are synonymous with AirAsia?
It cannot be same, but I am not leaving, I am still around. All this is a good change and hopefully we can build new relationships with the appointment of the Malaysian CEO. Also, by appointing a CEO for Malaysia I want to show that AirAsia is not about one person, not about me and Kamarudin.
In reality you are the person (behind the airline).
But I am not going to live forever. It is all about succession planning apart from growth. However, I am not leaving anytime soon.
Is securing landing rights still an issue?
That has changed dramatically over the past few years as countries are seeing the benefits of economic development.
Has Indonesia imposed conditions that AirAsia must be based there to tap the market, and are you getting landing rights?
No. But we get plenty of landing rights. We don’t have any issues and Indonesia is perhaps the most open aviation market, it has so many domestic airlines. Airlines are the ones giving us a hard time in every market. The hardest time I have is in my own home country, and I am not running away from my country. Remember, we are listed here and AirAsia is a home brand.
Malaysian operations are a major contributor to AirAsia’s earnings but growth will mature experts say, where is the next growth area?
Hard to say but the (market) share will grow in markets like Indonesia and Japan. Malaysia’s returns is still most profitable. Cost wise, ours is still the same as Indonesia and China but our cost advantage in Malaysia is eroding as airport charges go up whereas in other countries they are building low cost terminals for us.
Outlook of your financial results?
They will be good for the second quarter and there will be a bonus in the third quarter because of lower fuel prices.
Are MAS problems too big to be fixed?
Nope, They could have been fixed. Everything was laid out for MAS. The people I feel sorry for, are the staff, even though some thought the share swap was a bad thing. In reality, you had to really look at the staff of AirAsia, how they have grown in terms of salaries and careers and that was the plan for MAS too.
Yes, there will be short-term pain but you have to make the business successful as you cannot be on life-support, or be on sukuks or WAUs forever. There has to be an end at some stage. So the idea we were putting would have transformed the airline at some point.
The thinking is that the management should have engaged more with the employees instead of bull-dozing changes through?
I was not there, so I can’t say. You know me and you know my style – I am the best engager, and I even know the guys that carry my bags.
I disagree with the statement, for whatever was put in front of the union, they did not want change. There even argued over over the stopping of flights to Buenos Aires. With that level of thinking, how can you carry out changes? But we have a different culture at AirAsia, and there is no resistance to change.
Your biggest gain and biggest regret over the collaboration?
The biggest gain is, we are now friends with Khazanah Nasional Bhd and I can pick up the phone and call AJ (Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, MAS group CEO). I have made some good friends in MAS, I certainly could not do that before. Biggest gain is that the people who had very negative views of me, had begun to see that I am not the devil re-incarnated.
I had the opportunity to at least meet my detractors face to face and give them a better opportunity to know me. My biggest regret is that we did not finish what we set out to do. Me and Din could have done a lot for MAS and helped MAS. But I am not someone to cry over the past, we move on.
Are you sending your aircraft for maintenance to MAS?
No, we have not done that. I don’t think it will happen. I think it will be a headache for the management. If you read some of the comments it is like, we are benefiting, so we are not sending.
Are you recruiting some of MAS crew, those they are letting go?
We are taking 50 of the MAS Indian crew. Since we have grown, and if they are prepared to be mobile, we are prepared to take. But there are plenty of opportunities for crew out there.
Is there any progress in the area of training with MAS?
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Forex Flash: EUR/USD to fail at 1.3122 resistance - Commerzbank
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FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - Commerzbank analysts expect the rebound from the Nov-28 low at 1.2880 to resume and reach the 1.3122 resistance line and the 1.3150/80 major resistance after having already breached the 1.3023 zone. "We look for failure shortly and for a slide back to the 1.2880/76 support", wrote analyst Karen Jones. "Key support is seen as 1.2815, the 2011-2012 support line, failure here should provoke losses to 1.2783, the 200 day ma then the 1.2661/24 November low and January low. Initial support lies at 1.3023, 1.3000 - the market will need to slide back below here to alleviate immediate upside pressure", added the Commerzbank analyst. | <urn:uuid:aa0955ee-b9a9-4ae8-b56a-d3c61b7b88b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.investopedia.com/forex/news/fxstreet/forexflasheurusdtofailat13122resistance-commerzbank.aspx | 2013-05-19T19:55:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698017611/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095337-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896185 | 201 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Prof. Bleeg 3
In the opening line of his poem “Harlem” Langston Hughes asks, “What happens to a dream deferred?” First published in 1950, when segregation was still legal nearly a hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation declared all slaves free, this poem reflects the African American struggle for equality in a country where “separate but equal” public facilities were at times violently enforced. In the South, these facilities included public drinking fountains, bathrooms, transportation, schools, places of employment—all were legally segregated. In the North, segregation was illegal, yet blacks met discrimination in the workplace and the housing market, in restaurants and nightclubs, boutiques and department stores. Meanwhile, U.S. citizens and politicians would continue to point to the Declaration of Independence as evidence of our nation’s moral leadership in the world: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The poem’s central question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” reminds readers that for many Americans equality remains a dream.
In this course, we will examine how various African American writers, from former slave Harriet Jacobs to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison and beyond, address the contradictions of living in a self-proclaimed free and democratic society with a painful legacy of slavery and segregation. Our readings will proceed more or less chronologically, allowing us to trace the changes in African American literature over two centuries to the present moment when, for the first time in history, the U.S. elected a black president less than forty-five years after the 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed all forms of segregation. Your grandparents and perhaps your parents were alive then and remember what legal segregation was like, and you, too, likely have your own stories related to discrimination. During the semester, there will be opportunities to share those stories as we discuss how the writers we read depict African American lives at various points in history. How do these diverse writers wrestle with questions of individual and communal identity? In terms of subject matter, voice, and style, what choices do they make in creating their poems and stories? This course will serve as an introduction to African American literature and the array of rich aesthetic traditions, including vernacular, folklore, spirituals, blues, and jazz, that inform and enrich not only the literature but the texture of cultures across America.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — “As a Catholic woman, I take reproductive health seriously, and today it is under attack,” Caroline Kennedy — daughter of America’s first Catholic president — stated during her prime-time speech endorsing President Barack Obama last night, Sept. 6, at the Democratic National Convention.
Kennedy’s astonishing invocation of her Catholic faith in support of abortion — which the Church teaches is always intrinsically evil — capped off what is being described as the most pro-abortion convention of a national party in U.S. history.
Another poke in the eye to social conservatives: The new Democratic platform features a plank endorsing homosexual “marriage.” The unprecedented deletion of any reference to God in this year’s Democratic platform — put back only after three roll-call votes — was also a turnoff for traditional Christian viewers. Boos from the floor upon the reintroduction of God into the platform probably didn’t help.
Convention speakers included such luminaries of the abortion movement as Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund; Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America; and Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who rose to national prominence with her demand that even employers who object to the federal contraception mandate on moral or religious grounds should be forced to pay for it anyway.
“It’s like we woke up in a bad episode of Mad Men,” said Richards, in a reference to the furor provoked by the controversial federal mandate and GOP attempts to end federal funding of organizations that provide abortion services.
“When Mitt Romney says he’ll ‘get rid of’ Planned Parenthood and turn the clock back on a century of progress, it has real consequences for the 3 million patients who depended on Planned Parenthood last year,” Richards told the convention.
The “get rid of” quote was a reference to Romney’s publicly stated vow to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood if he is elected. According to FactCheck.org, Planned Parenthood received $363.2 million, about a third of its budget, from the federal government in 2008-09.
As for contraception, the Republican Party has no position on the “issue,” other than opposition to forcing employers who regard it as morally repugnant to pay for contraception coverage, including access to abortifacents, without even a co-pay.
Nevertheless, Planned Parenthood made the most of its high-profile role at the Charlotte convention. It joined in the “war on women” drumbeat and handed out condom souvenirs — presented in bright-pink sleeves that looked like matchbooks, bearing the slogan: “Protect yourself from Romney and Ryan in this election.” A spokesman for the group told the Daily Caller that they were “literally mobbed on the sidewalks” by condom seekers.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, widely viewed as the architect of the contraception mandate, also addressed the convention.
While giving top billing to abortion-rights leaders, the Democratic Party also adopted a platform that supports abortion under virtually all circumstances. The language does not rule out even partial-birth or late-term abortions and seems to endorse public funding of abortion. The formula that abortions should be “safe, legal and rare,” at least an acknowledgement of the gravity of the issue, was dropped in 2008.
The current abortion plank reads, in part: “The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to make decisions regarding her pregnancy, including a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay. We oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.”
Steve Schneck, director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at Catholic University of America and a co-chair of Catholics for Obama, admitted that he is not pleased by the language in the platform.
“It’s well-known that Democrats for Life pushed hard but had little success in advocating for changes to the 2012 Democratic Party platform that made more room in the party for pro-life concerns,” said Schneck, a member of Democrats for Life, who debated budget issues with vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan in the pages of Our Sunday Visitor. He added that about 30% of Democrats nationally identify themselves as pro-life.
Instead of influencing the platform, however, Democrats for Life were relegated to a hotel, where the group held a panel discussion entitled “Can You Be Pro-Life in a Pro-Choice Party?” It drew about 40 people.
The abortion activism spilled out of the convention and into the streets, where activists from around the U.S. gathered. Pro-lifer Brice Griffin and her 11-year-old daughter Zoe attended a prayer vigil to end abortion last Friday in Charlotte. Griffin said that Zoe was reduced to tears after a pro-abortion demonstrator called her “stupid.”
Griffin added that the pro-life group spread out several thousand red carnations to remember the children who die each day through abortion. One pro-abortion activist brazenly picked up two carnations, according to Griffin, and, placing one behind each ear, announced that she was commemorating her two abortions.
The incident made it into the Charlotte Observer. “I had two abortions, no regrets,” Lucia Liberta of the “End Pornography and Patriarchy” group was quoted as saying. “Without this basic right, women cannot be free.”
“The Democrats are definitely drawing a line in the sand and saying, ‘We support abortion with no apology,’” said Bryan Kemper of Stand True, an anti-abortion group.
The emphasis on abortion and contraception is an element of a broader campaign to present Republicans as opposed to the interests of women, an important group of voters in the tight 2012 presidential race.
The “war on women” rhetoric surfaced as soon as religious leaders, backed by some of their allies in the GOP, began to strongly oppose the contraception mandate. Media coverage of that dispute picked up the theme, but Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life organization, doesn’t think it is working.
“They are true believers, and it’s hard for them to get outside of that mindset. But they are doing worse [than they were] among women,” said Dannenfelser.
Indeed, an ABC News poll released earlier this month found that the president’s popularity with women was “under water.”
The poll found that, among women registered voters, the president’s favorables had fallen from 57-39 favorable-unfavorable in April to a current 46-50.
“I think they overreached with Sandra Fluke because she is not a sympathetic character for most women,” Dannenfelser said.
Dannenfelser added that the removal of the word “rare” from the Democratic plank is significant, because doing so “reflects [their] desire to be purists and reveals that they are extremists.” However, Dannenfelser thinks that this gives her group an opening. “We are exploiting that,” she said.
She noted that the Susan B. Anthony List made a $42,000 ad buy for a spot featuring abortion survivor Melissa Ohden that ran on major networks during the president’s acceptance speech. SBA has plans to purchase additional TV time to highlight what the organization terms the president’s “extreme record on abortion.”
Dannenfelser said that the Ohden ad is particularly relevant because President Obama voted four times against legislation that would have provided medical attention to children such as Ohden who are born alive despite an attempted abortion.
“On balance,” Michael Barone, a columnist and the American Enterprise Institute’s noted expert on electoral politics, called the Democratic convention’s emphasis on abortion “a mistake” because “it’s being emphasized at a time when swing voters think the economy is the most important issue.”
The Democrats themselves may realize that a steady diet of abortion may turn away more moderate voters. Indeed, asked if the emphasis will convince some voters that the Democrats are radical on the social issues, Barone replied, “They are putting their radicals on at 5 or 6pm [when fewer people are watching]. They are going heavy on this stuff before 10pm.” Still, Democrats may be “sending a message that they are not concentrating on the right causes.”
“What is so interesting is that this is not one of the issues you could have imagined the Democrats seizing upon four years ago — or this year,” said Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank.
Ornstein is a Democrat who teamed with the Brookings Institution’s Thomas Mann to write It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, which is critical of Republicans.
Ornstein said that the abortion pitch is “not an unalloyed plus” for the Democrats but that it has the possibility of attracting pro-choice Republican women and those who believe that withdrawing federal funding from Planned Parenthood would be bad for women who seek the organization’s contraceptive services.
Meanwhile, Democrats for Life soldiered on in Charlotte. Bart Stupak, the former Michigan congressman who did not seek re-election after casting a vote for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, despite strong pro-life concerns, was one of the speakers.
During the final bruising weeks that culminated in the passage of the health bill, it was Stupak who negotiated the executive order that ostensibly banned federal funding of abortion and led several pro-life Democrats to provide the crucial votes necessary to secure the passage of Obamacare.
Now, two years later, during the Democrats for Life gathering in Charlotte, he expressed misgivings about the contraception mandate authorized under the health bill. In response to a question, Stupak reportedly said of the Health and Human Services rule, “I think it’s illegal. I believe it has contraceptive services; it also has drugs that induce [abortion] ... abortifacient drugs.”
Stupak nevertheless expressed his hope that the issue could be resolved in the future.
Another speaker was Kathy Dahlkemper, the former Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania’s third district, who joined Stupak in voting for Obamacare. She was defeated for re-election in the 2010 midterm election.
Dahlkemper said she knew that when she cast her vote for the health bill it could cost her the seat, but said that “health care for all is something priests and bishops have supported for many years.”
“The Democratic Party aligns with most of my beliefs and values more than the Republican Party that only claims to be pro-life,” she told the Register. “Some of the extremists in the pro-life movement are only pro-birth.”
Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life, told the Register that her party’s uncompromisingly pro-abortion stance is costing them votes.
“[The evolution of the stance] was gradual,” she said, “and it’s not really a winning strategy. Only if we have the pro-life Democrats will we get back into the majority.”
Asked if the Democrats for Life are fighting a lost battle Michael Barone, the political analyst, replied, “Yes,” adding that it is not likely that the Democratic Party will alter its staunchly pro-abortion stand any time soon.
The Rev. Gabriel Salguero, president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, delivered a prayer at the convention. He said he is a registered independent and is pro-life.
“Last night at the convention, we had a pro-life nun speak,” he noted, in a reference to Sister Simone Campbell of Network, a Catholic social-justice lobby. “It’s very clear that … a growing group of evangelicals and Catholics are pro-life and trying to have that conversation with the Democratic National Convention.”
Yet, in the Vatican's recent "Instruction" outlining its concerns with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and related organizations, Network, the organization Sister Simone has led as executive director since 2004, was criticized for its silence "on the right to life from conception to natural death, a question that is part of the lively public debate about abortion and euthanasia in the United States."
Recently, Sister Simone led a “Nuns on the Bus” tour that traveled across the country protesting vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s proposed budget cuts. During her convention speech, she described her advocacy of government programs for the needy as “pro-life.”
Sister Simone was quoted this week in The Weekly Standard. When asked if doctors who perform abortions should be penalized, she said, “That’s beyond my pay grade.”
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, gave the final benediction at the Democratic convention, as he had done earlier at the Republican convention. Cardinal Dolan’s two prayers were strikingly similar, with just a bit of tinkering.
He did not fail to pray for unborn children. "We ask your benediction on those waiting to be born, that they may be welcomed and protected," Cardinal Dolan prayed at the Democratic convention.
In Charlotte, Dolan also prayed about not refashioning the "institutions [God] has given us," which is hard not to construe as an allusion to same-sex “marriage.”
Catholic intellectual George Weigel praised Cardinal Dolan’s prayer at the Democratic convention, noting that he doubted "that any American bishop in history has delivered a more courageous benediction at a public event, under more difficult circumstances."
Not everybody was quite pleased. Washington’s Examiner newspaper reported that “liberals on Twitter” lost no time in expressing “displeasure with a pro-life benediction,” many using profane or vulgar language in their tweets.
Cardinal Dolan’s New York Archdiocese is one of the Catholic institutions suing the federal government in an effort to overturn the HHS contraception mandate.
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JUCO WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
CF heads into season with high hopes
Patriots have been a frequent visitor to state tourney
Published: Monday, October 31, 2011 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 10:36 p.m.
During head coach Cheryl Rice's first nine seasons, the CF women's basketball team is a perennial name mentioned in the FCSAA state tournament. The Patriots have been state runners-up twice and been a game away from the title game another four times.
CF WOMEN FAST FACTS
Head Coach: Cheryl Rice (10th season, 194-95 record)
Last season's record: 18-14, state semifinalist)
Returning players: Quinnecia Twine (5-8, So., G), Briana Gibson (6-0, So., F), Simone High (5-9, So., G/F).
Key newcomers: Taylor Broadnax (5-7, Fr., G), Dasia Daniels (5-7, Fr., G), Jennifer Froden (5-6, Fr., G), Denisse Pozo (5-7, So., G), Rona Gabriel (6-1, Fr., F), Nikarre Sesler (5-2, So., G), Sherita Carter (5-7, Fr., G), Brittany Taylor (5-11, Fr., F), Shay Wright (5-10, Fr., F), Najah Chambers (6-1, Fr., F), Jakia Grimsley (5-6, Fr., G), TiChina Mitchell (5-11, Fr., F).
Season opener: 6 p.m. Wednesday, at home vs. University of Tampa.
With a solid core of sophomores and a slew of promising freshmen, there's no reason to think CF won't be in the mix again during the upcoming 2011-12 season, which starts Nov. 2 at home against the University of Tampa.
“We have the potential to become that team,” said Rice of making a run in the state playoffs. “We're talented and we have a nice sophomore nucleus to build from, which is something we didn't have last year.”
The aforementioned core of sophomores was a luxury the Patriots didn't have in 2010-11; with just one second-year player actually in the rotation, it was a season of freshmen learning on the fly.
Rice was implicit in stating the Patriots have no starters currently, but it's hard to think that sophomore Quinnecia Twine won't be a major piece of the puzzle.
The sophomore from Atlanta averaged 11.1 points and 1.9 steals while taking and making the most shots on the team as a freshman. Twine, for one, already sees a vast difference in this year's Patriots.
“I think we're going to do pretty good,” Twine said. “This year we have a lot of players who are willing to work hard.”
Rice agreed with her player, saying, “It's clearly evident that they're working harder and pushing each other (in practice). That's the edge this team has at this time over last year's.”
Twine said she's more comfortable with her ball-handling ability, something she said her coach forced her to improve upon in 2010-11. With that in mind, the second-year player expects to spend some time at both the point and shooting guard positions throughout the season.
“I wasn't strong with my ball-handing skills, but Coach liked to push me and make me play the point,” Twine said. “She told me to be more of a slasher than a shooter, so I think I've become more of a threat.”
The Patriots don't want to stop pressing on defense and running on offense, which shouldn't be a problem with the influx of talent. In fact, that will be a major component of how CF operates.
“We're going to play pressure defense and we want to get up and down the court as quickly as possible,” Rice said.
Rice said all of her freshmen are coming along nicely and will play a role for a team that hopes to go as deep as 10 or 12 players in the rotation.
The Patriots coach did highlight TiChina Mitchell, a 5-foot-11 forward from Woodbridge, Va., and Najah Chambers, a 6-foot-1 forward from Patterson, N.J., but only because they will be among the tallest members of the squad.
From a local aspect, Denisse Pozo, a 5-foot-7 point guard, joins the Patriots as a sophomore. Pozo last played for Trinity Catholic High School in the 2003-2004 season. In all, eight of the 15 members listed on CF's roster played high school basketball in Florida.
No one is guaranteeing a state (or even conference) title in Ocala. But for the Patriots to succeed, they know preparation and resolve will be two key elements.
“We've got to be more (mentally) strong and more focused,” Twine said. “We have to push each other and drive each other hard in practice.”
With not many experienced ballers returning, Rice knows the team will only go as far as a group of young players will help take them.
“In all fairness to all the freshmen coming in, they're making the transition from high school to college,” Rice said. “As time goes on, they'll all play their roles.
“That's kind of something we've emphasized as a team.”
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By David Ponce
It was with trembling hands that I opened the package two weeks ago: the N70 was here! If you had seen the sorry state my V300 was in, you’d understand my excitement. And, hopefully you’ll understand this even more once you realize just what an amazing piece of technology had just entered my life (if only for a while, as I have to return the phone when I’m done). While it may not cure world hunger, owning the N70 will definitely cure you from cell envy.
So here I will write the first of a couple of reviews. I feel that this particular product warrants a little closer inspection than other things that come through the OhGizmo headquarters. I’ve even included my very first, ahem, video review. You will marvel, dumbfounded, at our hefty production budget.
Out here, for those of you who make it a point not to read through reviews, know this. The N70 is a smartphone that wears Armani suits by day, and hits the clubs at night. It’s solid, powerful and jam-packed with features rarely found all combined in one package like this. Everything works as it should and works well.
Allright, for the meat, come in.
The N70 is the second N-Series phone to come out. First, there was the N90, and it will be followed by the much anticipated N91. Under the hood, the operating system is S60 (Symbian) and as such, it is a smartphone, though Nokia doesn’t overemphasize this point. The main feature here, is the nicely integrated 2MP camera, though as you’re about to see, the full feature list is about as long as my arm.
So, let’s get started with some pictures. Below, I am pasting a series of “unpacking” shots.
First off, if you’re not the reading type, you can just scroll down to see the video review. Like I mentioned, it’s really crappy. Bad lighting, bad sound, no jingle, even lower quality because of Youtube, etc. So, make fun all you want, but just know that I’m aware of how bad it is. Yeah, knock yourselves out in the comments, I don’t mind.
On with the writing. So what makes the N70 so special? Well, here’s a quick rundown. At the end of this article, you can find a slightly longer list with highlights of the tech specs, and also a link to a PDF containing a blow-by-blow of every single feature on the phone. But the things that count are the 2MP camera with flash, the FM tuner, the video recorder to MPEG4 format, the full-screen playback, the hotswappable RS-MMC slot, and the slew of features that come with the S60 operating system, including the ability to add third-party applications.
The device has 32MB of RAM, so there’s plenty of juice to run everything. And everything does run quite nicely.
So how IS the phone? Well, reception, for one, is very good, catching signals in places my V300 turned into a paperweight. The camera is protected by a sliding cover. The cover has a spring-type mechanism that completes the motion for you once you’ve pushed the cover halfway. Simply opening this cover activates the camera. The only problem is that the said cover feels slightly too plastic-y. I’m almost scared to play with it for fear of wrenching it off, though I know my fears are unfounded. I did try on a few occasions to tug a little harder, just to see, and it does hold up quite well. It’s just that it doesn’t feel as monolithic as the rest of the phone.
The screen’s brightness adjusts automatically, and I found that I was always able to read it, even in bright daylight. Images are clear and crisp, and the colors vivid.
The phone isn’t particularly small, though it’s not overly big either. It’s definitely shorter, narrower and lighter than a Treo 650, though it is about the same thickness. It easily fits in a pocket and is highly portable. The keypad is a little small, to make room for the 176×208 pixel screen. Unless you have ten meaty thumbs, it’s not too small, though some people are bound to gripe about this.
Battery life is highly dependant on just what you do with the phone. Simple call taking/making with lots of standby time will give you a couple of days between charges. But, start taking pictures with flash, listening to MP3s and using Bluetooth, and you’ll be drastically cutting into your use-time, though if you charge every night, you should be able to do everything you want with the phone without having to worry.
The FM tuner works only if you plug the lanyard type headphones, though it does work quite well. It picks up all the stations, and you can also tune it manually. Sound quality is great (well, as great as FM radio can be), though for some reason, I feel the earbuds could have had 2mm in diameter less. Maybe it’s my ears. A nice feature is that the headphones double as a headset when you receive a call while listening to music.
The MP3 player sounds great, whether though the headphones or through the integrated speaker. It can get quite loud, and you could technically use the N70 as a little ghettoblaster/boombox.
So, how are the pictures? How’s the 2MP? Well, I thought that taking pictures of fruits and veggies would give you an idea, because of the colors and such. So, here are three pictures that you can click to get the full 1600 x 1200px images.
As you can see, they’re really quite nice. Good enough to print. Now, don’t go throwing your digicam just yet. While the pictures it takes are gorgeous, there are limits to what it can do. There’s no autofocus, and under low light conditions, quite a bit of noise enters the picture. But hey, these are by far the best pics I’ve seen coming out of a phone.
There a quite a few other features to talk about, and I’ll probably cover these in the next installment. Also, I do want to give you a little incentive to watch my mug discuss the N70, so I won’t write about everything. So, right below this, is the video review. Right below that, you also have a short clip taken with the phone. Keep in mind that the quality is actually much better than that, but great as it is, YouTube can fuglicize your images in a heartbeat.
So, to conclude the first part of this review, know that the N70 is a great smartphone. There are tons of productivity applications for the serious business person (not really discussed here, stay tuned for Part 2), but also a lot of fun multimedia capabilities that enhance the overall user experience. While pretty rosy, the picture isn’t perfect, as there are a couple of tiny things that nag me. First is the plastic-y feel of the camera cover. While I have faith in the phone’s craftsmanship, I just don’t like the way that part feels. And, secondly, the keyboard is a little small. Not that it could possibly be any bigger without sacrificing something, but it has to be said.
And finally, below, you will find highlights from the tech specifications. One thing to look for? The list of formats it can play. It’s pretty impressive. For a complete list of every single feature on the phone, here’s a PDF.
I’d like to ask something from you all. For Part 2, I want to take questions. There’s tons of stuff I haven’t covered, and I want to know what you’re interested in. Ask me stuff about the phone, and I’ll do my best to answer you in Part 2.
-Dual mode WCDMA/GSM and triband GSM coverage on up to five continents (GSM 900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 2100 networks)
-Up to 262,144 colors
-Automatic brightness control
Imaging and Video
-2MP camera (1600 x 1299 pixels) with 20x digital zoom
-Second VGA camera with 2x digital zoom
-Dedicated shutter key
-Integrated flash (operating range up to 1.5m)
-Flash modes: on, off, automatic and anti red-eye
Nokia XpressPrint Printing Solution
-Print digital photos directly from the device
RealPlayer Media Player
-Full-screen video playback to view downloaded, streamed or recorded video clips in larger size
-Played formats (decoding): MP3, AAC, Real Audio, WAV, Nokia Ring Tones, AMR, AMR-WB, AMR-NB, AU, MIDI, H.263, JPEG, JPEG2000, EXIF 2.2, GIF 87/89, PNG, BMP (W-BMP), MBM, MPEG-4 and eAAC+
-Up to 22MB of internal memory
-Hotswappable RS-MMC slot
-Comes with 64MB RS-MMC card
-Listen to music and interact with your favorite radio stations
-Find out what song is playing, who sings it and other artist information
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We found the 2011 Infiniti M56X, equipped with all-wheel drive, Deluxe touring package, and Technology Package, to be a very high performer. The added weight of the all-wheel-drive system is more than overcome by the additional 95 horsepower and 81 foot-pounds of torque from the new, larger engine and the deeper gearing in the silky-smooth, quick-shifting 7-speed transmission.
One drawback for both the V6 and V8 versions is that both of these more powerful engines require premium fuel.
The 5.6-liter V8 engine's sound is muffled back to provide the car with a luxury feel, and the 7-speed double-overdrive transmission certainly lowers engine rpm at highway speeds; nevertheless, the throttle response is extremely quick, and the M56 accelerates with authority. And it does so quietly. This is not the 5.6-liter V8 used in the Nissan pickup trucks. Rather, is a larger version of the Infiniti 5.0-liter V8, the division's first engine fitted with direct fuel injection cylinder heads and other technologies such as variable valve timing and intake valve lift, and a variable intake tract, yielding a combination of low-end torque, high-rpm power, and very good fuel economy for an engine this size in a heavy luxury car.
The M56X has a heavy steering feel aided by its heavier nose weight and tendency to understeer, but it acquits itself quite well on curvy roads, with lots of help from the suspension system, which uses mechanical twin-piston shock absorbers instead of electronic ones. It's plush and sporty at the same time without the harshness added by the 20-inch tires and wheels that come with the Sport package.
We found the braking to be exemplary, with a nice, high pedal, progressive actuation, and excellent ABS performance on panic stops. The standard brakes on our M56X were 12.6 inches front and 12.1 inches rear, but the Sport package brakes are huge: 14 inches front, 13.8 inches rear. Infiniti M brakes come with ABS, Electronic Brake-force Distribution and Quick Brake Assist. | <urn:uuid:fb2d9929-434a-4ba1-a0f3-d2f98c3c38f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.performanceauto.com/reviews/2011/Infiniti/M/driving_impressions.htm | 2013-05-19T19:14:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698017611/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095337-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938223 | 454 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
By ANGIE CARNATHAN
The eighth annual Get Swept Up! takes place on Wednesday, Sept. 14 from 7 a.m. until noon, and Greater Starkville Development Partnership representatives say they are still in need of volunteers.
“Get Swept Up! is a great event that brings the community together to show our visitors how much pride we take in our community,” said Robyn Cain, GSDP program coordinator. “We’re hoping to get some more volunteers before Wednesday.”
Cain said they are still a little shy of the number of volunteers they were hoping to have this year.
“Last year’s event was a huge success with over 500 volunteers,” Cain said.
Libby Gerald, Get Swept Up! coordinator, said participation is very important because it shows people from out-of-town the pride we have in our the beauty of our city.
“With the first home football game just days away, we need to look our best when visitors come to town,” Gerald said.
Allan Tucker participates each year with the Rotary Club, which has volunteered every year since the event first began in 2003.
“The appearance of our town is so important and that is one of the main reasons Rotary participates each year,” said Rotary member Allan Tucker. “We like to be involved and do our part.”
Tucker said he enjoys the event and it’s not hard to take a couple of hours out of his day to participate.
“It only takes a short period of time,” Tucker said. “If we have enough people there we can do it quickly. It only takes a couple of hours to make a huge difference in the appearance of our town.”
Both groups and individuals are encouraged to volunteer.
Volunteers will receive a Get Swept Up! T-shirt, a bottle of water, trash bags, gloves and a “buy one Cajun fillet biscuit, get one free” coupon from Bojangle’s in Starkville.
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Posted By katy On November 12, 2009 @ 6:41 am In style | 4 Comments
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Red it is.
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Bouncy Castle wrote:Hobbit.
I watched Dwarf when it first started, and to be honest, a bad episode or series of RD is sooo much better than most of the so called "comedy" they give us these days.
What has annoyed me is that Dave have been showing the previous episodes every weekend, but in reverse order, so that 5 is shown before 4, before 3, etc.
I know they are calling it a "countdown", but that's just a stoopid way of showing them.
I agree Bouncy. They could have put them in the right order to gear up for the new series. But hey ho, at least it's Red Dwarf | <urn:uuid:27b16efd-a9b4-4dfc-b550-738811caf2d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=247556 | 2013-05-19T19:13:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698017611/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095337-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982729 | 146 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg says we'll never, ever know how many terrorist plots the New York Police Department actually stopped because the number could be between 1 and 100.
Bloomberg was asked by NY1 reporter Josh Rubin how confident he was in the NYPD's oft-cited statistic that they've stopped 14 terrorist plots since 9/11. ProPublica's Justin Elliott published a story earlier Tuesday that called that number into question. This was Bloomberg's full answer to Rubin's question, according to Capital New York:
"Well, you know, you pose a question that there is no ways to prove one way or another. But let me point out to you, we haven't had one. Let's assume it's one they thwarted instead of 14. And it could very well be 28, because nobody really knows how many people. We have to be right 100 percent of the time. The terrorists only have to be right once, and you're dead. Now you want to make some noise about the study. They can study anything they want. I don't know how you'd prove it one way or another. But I could make as cogent an argument that there's double or triple the number that was stopped, we just don't know about it."
Emphasis ours. We honestly don't know how many terrorist plots we've stopped, because the number is either very small or very large, and we lose count really easily, says the mayor. Elliott's story is pretty great, and nails a bunch of the NYPD's favorite moments using news reports of the plots that don't mention the NYPD's involvement at all.
The brave NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne decided he couldn't take it anymore, and that he wasn't waiting for the PR person to come over to his desk and prepare a press release. He went right into the heart of the beast and became a commenter. He commented on Elliott's story, saying:
The NYPD never said it stopped 14 terrorist plots. We’ve repeatedly said that New York City was the target of at least 14 terrorist plots since 9/11 because it is a fact. Critics want others to believe that terrorists who failed were not threats. If you believe that, we have a bridge to sell you – one that al-Qaeda hoped to destroy.
We appreciate the NYPD’s response. But contrary to the deputy commissioner’s comments above, department officials have claimed credit for helping thwart 14 plots.
Mitchell Silber, Director of Intelligence Analysis, NYPD Intelligence Division, said the following while testifying on Capitol Hill in March, “We built an intelligence and counterterrorism program that has served as a deterrent and has helped to protect the city from fourteen terrorist plots since September 11, 2001.”
And then ProPublica's Eric Umansky weighed in:
In the comments above, the NYPD deputy commissioner says the department “has never said it stopped 14 terrorist plots.”
Our reporter Justin Elliot has already offered one statement from a top cop showing that’s not the case.
Here’s another: At a graduation ceremony for new officers less than two weeks ago, NYPD commissioner Kelly said the following: “Together our Federal partners, the Police Department has helped defeat 14 terrorist plots against New York City.”
This is how the Mayor's office and the NYPD handle problems in the summer: they send the mayor to an outdoor public event where he can offer a bad answer to an important question, and they send the NYPD spokesperson into the story's comment section to helplessly defend himself. Great job, guys. It's working well so far. | <urn:uuid:3e302bbf-4efa-4fe8-bff4-67b5e9d82f2e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/07/mayor-bloomberg-has-no-idea-how-many-terrorist-plots-nypds-foiled/54416/ | 2013-05-19T19:38:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698017611/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095337-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97206 | 739 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Tom Heaton insists form counts for nothing as Bristol City prepare to take on Brighton
Tom Heaton reckons the formbook will count for nothing when bottom-of-the-table Bristol City take on Championship play-off contenders Brighton and Hove Albion at Ashton Gate tonight.
Short-priced favourites with the nation’s bookmakers to beat the Robins, the Seagulls arrive in Bristol as the division’s form team.
Gus Poyet’s men have won four of their last five games and are up to sixth in the table after trouncing Huddersfield Town 4-1 at the weekend.
But City goalkeeper Heaton remains unfazed by Brighton’s burgeoning reputation and insists the Seagulls can go the same way as Watford and Barnsley.
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Both came to Ashton Gate in outstanding form, only to leave empty-handed after losing to Sean O’Driscoll’s rejuvenated team.
Despite their lowly position, City have won four home fixtures on the bounce and Heaton declared: “We are not going into any games with an inferiority complex any more.
“No-one is thinking ‘we’re bottom of the league’ and other teams now know they are going to have to do something special to get a result against us.
“We may be at the wrong end of the table, but we can sense the change in us and it is breeding confidence.
“That confidence means we are concentrating on what we can do rather than looking at other results and worrying about the opposition. Barnsley were unbeaten in nine games and Watford were the stand-out team when we played them in January – yet we still beat both of them.
“People talk about Brighton being in great form but, if you look at our results and performances over the last eight or nine games, you can say the same about us.”
Since returning to the Championship two seasons ago, Brighton have comfortably beaten City in all three meetings between the sides.
Poyet’s team is technically one of the best currently operating outside of the Premier League and Brighton have carved out a reputation as an excellent passing side.
But Heaton argues City can turn that to their advantage.
He explained: “Brighton kept the ball very well against us earlier in the season, but possession does not win football matches, goals do. They can have all the ball they like so long as they don’t hurt us.
“It was the same when we played Watford. They dominated possession for long periods, but we were more effective on the ball and won the game 2-0.
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Issue 8.11 | Nov 2000
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Distance Makes the Heart Grow Stronger
|The eBallot and the Bullet|
|Distance Makes the Heart Grow Stronger|
|MP3 Meets MPAA|
|Ask Dr. Bob|
|Caught in the Act|
|Now That's Slugging Percentage!|
|NASA's Backup Backup|
|DNS Gets Tongue Lashing|
|Virtual Viral Marketing Virus|
|The Weather Overground|
Talk about minimally invasive: closed chest, beating heart, and the surgeon's not even on the same continent. The man behind the high tech operation is Yulun Wang, the company is Computer Motion. And unless the FDA scrubs the OR schedule, late November will see the first completely remote surgery on a human.
Wang, a 40-year-old electrical engineer, founded Santa Barbara, California-based Computer Motion (www.computermotion.com) in 1989 as a robotics research lab, with funding from NASA. The firm soon shifted to medical robotics, producing in 1994 the first FDA-approved surgical robot, a voice-controlled endoscopic camera called Aesop.
Computer Motion's latest product - still in FDA trials - is Zeus, a robocam that does the seeing and the cutting. Doctors sit at a monitor showing endoscopic images and use computer-attached grips to guide the robotically controlled surgical instruments. With greater precision and dexterity than human surgeons, Zeus allows doctors to perform previously impossible procedures through incisions as small as 5 mm. For coronary bypass patients, this means avoiding having the chest cracked open and the heart stopped. For Computer Motion, it means a potentially huge slice of a market analysts estimate at $1.5 billion. The company recently sued for patent infringement its only major rival, Mountain View, California-based Intuitive Surgical, whose da Vinci robotic operating system is also in UStrials.
Until now, Zeus' patients and doctors were typically no farther apart than the next room. In November's test, a surgeon in the US will remove a gall bladder in France. Zeus images will be piped real-time to the doctor through end-to-end fiber.
Beyond that, telesurgery offers obvious advantages in more removed theaters of operation, from battlefields to Earth orbit. "This is the natural evolution of several technologies," says Wang. "It was never a matter of if, only a matter of when."
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