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36. chickenhead
Name often used to describe a woman who has her hair up in such a style that it compares to the plume of feathers on the top of a chickens head
What's up with her hair, looks like a damn chickenhead..I'm gonna pour some hot sauce on her
by Doublefish September 18, 2003 add a video add an image
37. chickenhead
A head, usually cut off a chicken, which is kept on your mantle piece
nice chickenhead bob!
by hahaha July 22, 2003 add a video add an image
38. chickenhead
A nickname for John Olerud of the Seattle Mariners, whose nose vaguely reminds one of a chicken's beak. Nickname was earned during his time as a New York Met.
Whaddaya say, Chickenhead, drive 'em in!
by Jack July 14, 2003 add a video add an image
39. Chickenhead
Blacking out so hard that you can't remember what you did the night before.
"Dude, I got so chickenhead last night that I punched a cop!"
40. chicken head
An old (but still common) style of a knob that is used mostly in industrial applications and guitar amplifiers. It looks like a long narrow triangle over a round skirt, and looking from the side it curves down at the point. From the side it resembles the head of a chicken.
Those chicken heads really dress up your amp.
41. chickenhead
Someone who sucks ball sack and makes shitty poker calls with trash like 88 when there are two all ins and a Q on the flop and then goes to catch his set on the turn.
Im Chris Gravel and im a chickenhead.
Im Chris Gravel and I suck at poker
Im Chris Gravel and my dad and I team up to run trains on my two sisters.
Im Chris Gravel.
42. chickenhead
A dance that became popular through the Chingy, "Right Thurr" video.
Damn!..look at that girl doin the chickenhead!
by nycmami February 18, 2005 add a video add an image
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New party NI21 offers opposition outlet
Northern Ireland's newest political party is certainly different in one respect, its name. NI21 is not a title which immediately resonates of politics. Some wags suggest it is more like the name of a road in the Republic or a scientific term for some horrible virus. But then given all the current party titles, perhaps it is a name which will connect with the young and the previously disenchanted.
Like everyone else we will have to await some flesh on the bones of the new party before gauging whether it stands a good chance of survival or will become just another seven-day wonder. There is no doubt that John McCallister and Basil McCrea are very able politicians and will each bring a cadre of support to the new party, not necessarily from the same constituency.
They pitch the party as confident, pro-union and progressive. They also intimate that it will be non-sectarian and should be positioned somewhere alongside Alliance. In the new Northern Ireland that, in theory, should give it a fighting chance, especially since the number of people voting for existing parties continues to fall.
But will those who have given up on politics, or never engaged in the first place, be moved to join or support NI21?
This newspaper has argued consistently for pluralist politics in Northern Ireland, offering voters as many shades of opinion as possible to help dilute the traditional tribal politics and for that reason welcomes the emergence of a new party.
There is a lack of dynamism in Northern Ireland politics today, with the Executive hamstrung to an extent by the rules of power-sharing and the fact that there is little opposition to the DUP-Sinn Fein power bloc which is the effective ruling elite.
NI21, at the very least, should provide an outlet for those who feel the current set-up is flawed and that a viable opposition is needed.
Time will tell if any of the hopes for NI21 are fulfilled, but it promises to be a slick operation which may cause at least a frisson of excitement.
Even that would be welcome.
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So long TV Guide, we have new ways to choose our stories. Apps that use predictive technology to tell you what’s on TV. The Wall Street Journal reports:
App developers are updating the traditional channel guide to show viewers programs that are uniquely relevant to them based on their social circles.
Instead of channel-surfing or scrolling through a long list of shows, viewers can use these mobile apps to display shows that they or their friends like based on their preferences. Some of the apps integrate with Facebook Inc.'s social network to identify and recommend TV shows and sports teams liked on the social network.
I can see how apps that use social features could be useful. You like people that probably like stuff you like, and when they let an app know that they like a show, chances are good that you might like it too. But, like we’ve said more times than there are plankton floating in the sea, follow the money. Here’s another way for advertisers to target precisely segmented groups of people, like: 18-25 year-olds who watch “How I Met Your Mother” between noon and 3:00 p.m. on a Wednesday. Or, 40 -50 year-olds who say like to keep up with the Kardashians (you’re either sick or lying - either way you’re sick). And what might advertisers not try to sell to people that are into “The Wire,” “Breaking Bad,” and NPR’s “Fresh Air”? Probably a tote bag.
The app field for channel surfing is pretty crowded. Again from the Journal:
Given those challenges, and the strides being made in the TV industry by giants like Apple Inc., Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey said many social TV start-ups will likely get gobbled up and their ideas brought into bigger projects.
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Congrats tiffa and Meks !! Beautiful babes and awesome names . I'm like hippy - I wouldn't even call it a problem but when my guys lip is in the nip feels tender so pretty much each feed I pull his little lower lip out . If I don't his...
Sila she is precious !!!!! I adore her name .
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Braco is a gazer. This simply means that through his gaze, healings, insights, peacefulness, help and other positive results seem to imminate from his gazing out upon a silent group of people who are gazing back. This does not make much sense to our active and proactive medical models and interactive societal approach to living. Skeptics, criticizers and scoofers are quick to disbelieve the veracity of such experiences. However, some of those skeptics have been healed from medical complications such as failing cardiovascular systems. How do we explain what is occuring? It is essential to be discerning--too many charlatans abound. It is also essential to be inquisitive--too many opportunities that we do not yet understand may prove to be helpful for ourselves and others.
Dr. Carol Francis decided to interview as many at the Los Angeles Braco gazing as she could within 2.5 hours and over 30 people shared what they felt, experienced and gained from these moments. Interesting, meaning healings occurred for people who were not in attendance and had no direct belief in Braco's gift. Again, How do we explain this? These 2.5 hours have been condensed and shared for you to consider what narratives and personal experience help us understand about the Braco Gaze. As many interviews in a show is presented as can be grouped together so stay tuned to further interviews that may express what you are needing to understand. Also, we look forward to more data, research and scientific investigations into these experiences and BracoAmerica.com is attempted to provide such. BracoAmerica is also on Facebook for those wishing to have more interaction with others around the globe.
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School board cuts $6.8 million from schools budget
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None of them describe any of the victims as being Jews).
A new campign of agitation against the Jewish population was under way today, however, in Berlin and the provinces. An inundation of anti-Semitic leaflets denouncing the Jews appeared in Berlin and several of the provincial centers. They urged a renewed, vigorous boycott of Jews in the Reich.
“The Jews are boycotting German exports abroad,” the leaflet stated, “yet Germans are buying from Jews and are thus supporting the fight against Germany and against Hitler.
“Whoever buys from a Jew is a traitor”
Ominous for the Jews was the visit here on Tuesday of Julius Streicher, organizer of the Nazi anti-Jewish boycott, Nazi overlord of Franconia and editor of the notorious weekly, Der Stuermer, which more than any other single agency has been responsible for the renewal of anti-Jewish activities in Bavaria and throughout the country. Streicher was officially received by the Hitler government and an official car was placed at his disposal for the tenure of his visit.
Much speculation was aroused, once Streicher’s visit became known publicly, whether his conferences with government officials signified their intention of aiding him in a new onslaught on the Jews. This was considered highly likely in view of the popularity of anti-Semitism among the storm troops and the desire of the government to keep them pacified by giving them their way in matters not affecting general government policy.
Strongest opposition to the anti-Jewish boycott has always come from Minister of Economics Schmitt on the grounds that the boycott has created considerable harm to the German economic structure. In recent months, with the increasing seriousness of Germany’s economic plight, some heed had been given to his words. But now Dr. Schmitt is ill and his resignation from the cabinet has been deferred only by pressure put upon him by Chancellor Hitler.
It is felt that if sufficient demand for a new anti-Jewish campaign is made now there will be little opposition to it, and it will be approved by the governing regime.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency is enabled to present further evidence of the anti-Jewish program planned by the rebel storm troop leaders to embarrass the Hitler government by making it act as protectors of the Jews against the general population.
A special representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency secured an admission card to secret S. A. meetings at which it was “revealed” how the Jews had sabotaged and prevented a German victory at the battle of the Marne; how the Jews have succeeded in business by ruining the German middle-class, and at which renewed vigorous boycotting of the Jews
The group of S. A. leaders who fell in the Hitler “housecleaning,” it was learned, had planned a virtual pogrom on the Jews, chiefly with the purpose of embarrassing the government. The crushing of their attempted coup prevented this, but gang of storm troopers have been responsible for at least one attack on the Jews in Berlin—the raid on the Trianon Cafe in which 250 Jews, including two Americans, were the victims of a storm troop attack. One of the Americans was slightly injured.
Reports of the detention of Cardinal Faulhaber, stern critic of the Nazi regime for its attempts to regiment religion, which caused deep concern here today, coupled was urged. with the established fact that approximately 2,000 refugees, most of whom were said to be Catholics, fled across the border from German Upper Silesia last night into Poland, gave credence to reports that the Catholics, rather than the Jews, were the objects of a campaign of violence in Silesia.
A government official asked tonight concerning reports of the detention of the Cardinal, declined either to deny or confirm that the prelate has been imprisoned.
The spokesman said, however, that this failure flatly to deny that Faulhaber was in custody was not to be taken as indicating that something has happened to him.
The official’s statement was in answer to inquiries by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent and representatives of an American newspaper and of Reuter’s (British) news agency.
The exodus of Catholics followed a violent tirade against Catholic priests delivered by Governor Brueckner of Silesia. It followed the slaying of a still undetermined number of Catholic leaders, including Herr Erich Klausener, Father Muhler, organizer of the “Catholic Action” movement in Munich; the former Bavarian Minister of the Interior, Herr Stuetzel; von Seisser, commander of the Munich police at the time of Hitler’s aborted “beer putsch,” and Herr von Kahr, Bavarian Premier at that time.
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1. ThirdeYe
01-01-2009 07:36 PM
White turn signals? Against michigan law I had white bulbs in them for a while until I learned they were illegal so I ended up putting amber bulbs into them. And I'm an idiot sometimes, I forgot that they had Amber ones in Japan as well.
2. Jdm
01-01-2009 12:17 PM
Jdm = Amber Corners
I use to like the Clear Corners, but they got played out for me. Almost everyone had them here. Please tell me you have Hyper White Bulbs to go with them. With the stock bulbs, the corners look yellow. Yuck!
P.S. Happy New Year!
3. ThirdeYe
01-01-2009 07:01 AM
Amber corners ftl! :P actually I like the looks of the ambers too, but one of mine had a crack in it so I thought I'd JDM it up. Unfortunately, I don't remember how much the MasterLock steering wheel lock costed me, but I think it was between $20-30, not too bad.
4. Jdm
12-30-2008 01:10 AM
Since I'm paranoid, maybe I should get one of those superior Clubs as well. How much are they?
5. Jdm
12-30-2008 12:53 AM
Didn't you know I hate emblems?
My trunk is shaved and the front needs to be shaved. It still has the two holes where the emblem use to be. I need to find myself some 98+ all red taillights. Damn it, I knew I shouldn't have sold it with my old car.
6. ThirdeYe
12-30-2008 12:45 AM
Well it's a little different than a regular club, it's a Master Lock one with 4 prongs instead of 2 and it's supposedly a little better -shrugs- It's heavy as hell, so it seems pretty strong.
7. Jdm
12-30-2008 12:41 AM
The Club? Those things are so easy to break. All you need is a pipe to bend it back and it'll snap. It's made of aluminum. What you need is an Auto Lock.
Integras and Civics have it bad. My old 90 Integra and 91 CRX got broken into before. Shady bastards even took my girlfriend's tissue box cover at the time.
I keep a good eye on my car. I think the only way they will steal it, is if they tow it. My friend's sister and her boyfriend had their Type R towed away. No parking violations or anything. They just stole it like that.
8. ThirdeYe
12-29-2008 09:44 AM
I'm a security freak, I've heard of lots of Integra theft horror stories, I even went so far as to use... -crowd shrieks- The Club! lol
9. Jdm
12-29-2008 03:27 AM
Now I'm afraid of thieves messing with it. So many of my cars and my friend's cars have been broken into. The Bay Area is notorious for car thieves. Especially targeting Honda and Acuras. If they want it, they'll find a way to get it. But I rigged a lot of things in my Integra, so it'll take them some time to get it.
You and me the same, brother. I usually spend more compared to what I receive, but like you's all good. I just like seeing the surprise look on their faces.
10. ThirdeYe
12-28-2008 10:09 PM
Very nice! Lovin' the lowered blades look. It was good... just so-so, didn't really get too much. Spent most of my money on every once else, but it's all good!
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1. Now how can I get tickets to sit there?
2. Take that Midwest Airlines!
3. The - tickets can always be found on E-bay.
And trust me, if you want to watch the game, don't sit there. It may be a "destination" and kinda kitschy, but it is a horrible place to watch a game. Your angle puts the pitcher in the third base dugout, and with the columns in the fence, you are always losing the path of the ball from the pitcher to catcher, and also as it flies around the diamond.
But if you are one of the fans that the Brewers need (fairweather fans paying a pretty penny to say they've been to a game), this spot is for you.
4. How can you say it's the first time the Brewers signed a deal with an airline? Midwest had substantial advertising with them.
It says THE airline not an airline.
6. There are distinct disadvantages to see parts of the field from there, but the feel you get being on the field is pretty cool.
I don't think it has anything to do with fairweather anything. If you can afford it, it is a pretty good experience. Obviously, you can't which is why you would be so bitter.
7. great for entertaining clients, frankly you end up watching much of the game on the TVs.
8. Now they can fit 100,000 people into Miller Park with the smaller seats and less leg room.
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Born September 2, 1966 in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, to a Catholic family, of a Lebanese father and a Mexican mother. At age 12, her parents decided to send her to a boarding school in Louisiana. After being a troublemaker, playing pranks on the poor nuns, she was sent by her parents to Houston, where she lived with an aunt until she turned 17.
Returning to Mexico, she attended College in Mexico City, studying International Relations. Whilst Hayek always showed interest in acting, she thought it is implausible for her. Despite, she eventually decided to drop Collage to pursue an acting career. After spending some time working in theater productions, she moved on to television and taken a few roles on some local Soap Operas, such as Teresa. She was very soon the most loved and adored celebrity in Mexico.
Hayek's fulfillment in Mexico was not enough for her. In 1992 she decide to move to Los Angeles, California. Unfamiliar with the English language, Hayek spent the first year learning English and taking acting lessons. After studying with the respected acting teacher Stella Adler, she auditioned for Mi Vida Loca. Her audition impressed Allison Anders, who gave her a small role and thus allowing her to enter the Screen Actors Guild.
Taking more auditions and small roles, Salma Hayek's talent was soon spotted by Robert Rodriguez, who casted her to his Desperado film in 1995, along with Antonio Banderas. Following, Hayek earned her casts to some more office box hits, such as Will Smith's Wild Wild West. Most notably was her appearance in the role of Serendipity in Dogma.
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This video's painful to watch at moments, because this couple is about the most indecisive pair of people on earth, like when they epically struggle to name the laptop. But you do get to see everything you get in the XO's box, like a letter from Nicholas Negroponte, presumably thanking you for your charity (to the… Read… 12/21/07 2:20am 12/21/07 2:20am | http://gizmodo.com/tag/groped | dclm-gs1-103960003 |
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Province of Iloilo
Map of the Philippines with Iloilo highlighted
Coordinates: 11°00′N 122°40′E / 11.000°N 122.667°E / 11.000; 122.667Coordinates: 11°00′N 122°40′E / 11.000°N 122.667°E / 11.000; 122.667
Country Philippines
Region Western Visayas (Region VI)
Founded 1566
Capital Iloilo City
• Type Province of the Philippines
• Governor Arthur Defensor, Sr. (Liberal)
• Vice Governor Raul Tupas (Liberal)
• Total 5,079.17 km2 (1,961.08 sq mi)
Area rank 23rd out of 80
Population (2010)[2]
• Total 1,805,576
• Rank 11th out of 80
• Density 360/km2 (920/sq mi)
• Density rank 14th out of 80
Excluding Iloilo City
• Independent cities 1
• Component cities 1
• Municipalities 42
• Barangays 1,721
including independent cities: 1,901
• Districts 1st to 5th districts of Iloilo
including independent cities: Lone district of Iloilo City
Time zone PHT (UTC+8)
ZIP Code 5000 - 5043
Spoken languages Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a, Capiznon, Tagalog, English
Iloilo is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Iloilo occupies the southeast portion of Panay Island and is bordered by province of Antique to the west and province of Capiz and the Jintotolo Channel to the north. Just off Iloilo's southeast coast is the island province Guimaras, once part of Iloilo but now an independent province. Across the Panay Gulf and Guimaras Strait is Negros Occidental. Iloilo's capital is Iloilo City though the city itself is independent and not governed by the provincial government of Iloilo.
According to the 2010 national census, the population of province excluding Iloilo City is 1,805,576. If Iloilo City is included, the population is 2,230,195.[2]
At the time of the Spanish conquest, writing was a new import and the use of organic medium such as leaf and bamboo, and no pre-Hispanic written accounts of Iloilo exist today. Oral history, in the form of recited epics, has survived to a small degree, with a few recordings made from the last known surviving binukots. But from these oral history and from writings from other sources, one can still glean Iloilo's prehispanic past.
Recent historical evidence elucidates the history of Iloilo. Iloilo grew from the local settlement called Irong-Irong and was founded by Datu Paiburong after he and his fellows within the Confederation of Madja-as bought the island of Panay from the Negrito Chieftain, Marikudo. The Confederation of Madya-as eventually grew a powerful and strong naval presence that it rivaled the nearby states of the Rajahnate of Cebu, The Kingdom of Tondo and the Sultanate of Sulu when it came to wealth and prestige.
Left to right: Images from the Boxer Codex illustrating an ancient kadatuan or tumao of the Visayans of Panay wearing the distinctive colors of their social status: [1] a noble couple and [2] a royal couple. The wealth and prestige of these Visayans from Panay are clearly demonstrated vis-a-vis their loin-cloth wearing Cebuano neighbors which the Spaniards called "Pintados" or "Tattooed Ones"
By 1612, this state had grown so powerful militarily and economically, their naval power regularly threatened Chinese Imperial shipping. So much so, that the Chuan-chou gazeeter specifically reported that the Pisheya (Bisaya) [Another term for people from Iloilo] consistently made devastating raids against the Empire's commerce [3]
Nevertheless Spain eventually succeeded on conquering of the island of Panay when Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi moved his headquarters from the island of Cebu and creating the first Spanish settlement in the island in Ogtong in 1566. This is mainly due in part to the rivalries between the Bisaya and Moro, of which the former found an ally in Spanish against the latter. The Bisaya accepted alliances with Spain, to defend themselves against the enslaving Moros. In 1581, the encomienda in Ogtong was moved to La Villa Rica de Arevalo, because of frequent coastal raids by Moro and Dutch privateers, this was again moved near the mouth of the Irong-irong river founding what is now Iloilo City and constructing Fort San Pedro to defend it in 1616.[4]
Nevertheless, the area itself began to prosper, due it's successful textile and sugar industry. As a result, it received Chinese immigrants from the west (that worked for its trades) and Latinos from the ports of Mexico in the east (to man it's military installations). And over time Iloilo grew to be the most important province outside Manila.
The City of Iloilo by virtue of a Royal Decree of 1896 was given the honor of having a Coat of Arms with the Inscription: "La Muy Leal y Noble Ciudad de Iloilo in reward for it's loyalty to Spain during the Philippine uprising. Over time, this made Iloilo the "Queen's Favored City in the South" or simply "Queen's City of the South" (A name mistakenly appropriated for Cebu). During the American period, Iloilo then became a home to many firsts: including the first department stores and cinemas in the country. Nevertheless, Iloilo experienced a fall from grace after it was severely devastated in World War II and then had a decline during the 1950s-2000s. In part due to the great Iloilo fire which ruined the economy and the slow death of the sugar and textile industries that eventually impelled the Lopez, Araneta, De Rama, Sy and Arroyo families (Iloilo then, had the highest concentration of millionaires outside Manila) to abandon the city to go to other areas such as Cebu, Bacolod and the National Capital. Still, the large Middle-Class populace of Iloilo and it's agri-business sector has managed to maintain the province despite the exodus of its prominent families.
Political map of Iloilo
The Province of Iloilo has the largest marshland in Western Visayas after the Sanderbans.
Iloilo is subdivided into 42 municipalities, one component city, and one highly urbanized city
• Iloilo City (independent from Iloilo province, but remains the capital of the province)
• Passi City (the first and only component city in the province)
Climate data for Iloilo, Philippines — NOAA Station Id: PH98637
Average high °C (°F) 29.7
Daily mean °C (°F) 26.1
Average low °C (°F) 22.7
Rainfall mm (inches) 39.9
% humidity 82 80 75 73 77 82 85 85 85 84 84 83 81.25
Population census of Iloilo
Year Pop. ±% p.a.
1990 1,337,981 —
1995 1,415,022 +1.13%
2000 1,559,182 +1.96%
2007 1,691,878 +1.17%
2010 1,805,576 +2.19%
Excluding Iloilo City
Source: National Statistics Office[2]
People from Iloilo are called Ilonggos. There are two local languages spoken in the province: Hiligaynon sometimes called Ilonggo, and Kinaray-a. Hiligaynon and variants of it are spoken in Iloilo city and a few towns of the province. Spanish is strictly a local language, at least in a historical way with the number of natural Spanish speakers strongly declining after WWII, and due to this, there are today many Ilonggos who do not consider it a local language.
The Ten Commandments in Hiligaynon, the language of Panay.
Hiligaynon (informally referred to as Ilonggo) is an Austronesian language spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines. Hiligaynon is concentrated in the city of Iloilo[5] and westside of Negros Occidental province. It is also spoken in the other provinces in Panay island, such as Capiz, Antique, Aklan, Guimaras, and many parts of Mindanao like Koronadal City, South Cotabato, North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Kidapawan City and Cotabato City and also in some parts of Maguindanao municipalities of Datu Paglas, Buluan and Mangudadatu as well. (It is spoken as a second language by Karay-a in Antique, Aklanon and Malaynon in Aklan, Cebuano in Siquijor, and Capiznon in Capiz.). There are approximately 7,000,000 people in and outside the Philippines who are native speakers of Hiligaynon, and an additional 4,000,000 who are capable of speaking it with a substantial degree of proficiency.
The language is referred to as Ilonggo in Negros Occidental and in Iloilo. More precisely, Ilonggo is an ethnoliguistic group referring to the people living in Panay and the culture associated with the people speaking Hiligaynon. The boundaries of the dialect called Ilonggo and that called Hiligaynon are unclear. The disagreement of where what name is correct extends to Philippine language specialists and native laymen.
Spanish architecture can be seen in old buildings in downtown Iloilo. Chinese merchants and Indonesians were trading with the Ilonggos long before the Spaniards came. The ruling Spanish government encouraged these foreign merchants to trade in Iloilo but they were not given privileges like ownership of land. Foreign merchants and Spaniards intermarried with the locals, and the Mestizo class was eventually born from their union. The Mestizo offsprings of the local nobilities later emerged as the ruling class of the Ilonggos (see Principalía).
The town's fiesta is one of the most important events for Ilonggos. Almost every town (municipality) in Iloilo has a fiesta and festival celebrated annually.
Iloilo is also home to two of the countries cultural minorities the Sulod-Bukidnon and the Ati.
Local government[edit]
The Old Capitol Building of the Province of Iloilo.
• Governor: Arthur D. Defensor, Sr.
• Vice Governor: Raul C. Tupas
Provincial Board Members:
1st District
1. Ninfa S. Garin
2. Dennis T. Valencia
2nd District
1. Demmy P. Sonza
2. June S. Mondejar
3rd District
1. Emmanuel R. Gallar
2. Licurgo P. Tirador
4th District
1. Carmen Rita M. Bautista
2. Maria Shalene P. Hidalgo
5th District
1. Nielo C. Tupas
2. Jesus C. Salcedo
Ex-officio Board Members:
1. PCL President: Paolo M. Guanco
2. ABC President: Jeneda C. Salcedo
3. SK President: Charmine P. de Vicente
District Representatives:
1. 1st District: Oscar S. Garin, Jr.
2. 2nd District: Arcadio H. Gorriceta
3. 3rd District: Arthur D. Defensor, Jr.
4. 4th District: Hernan G. Biron, Jr.
5. 5th District: Niel C. Tupas, Jr.
The Miag-ao Church is one of the Baroque Churches of the Philippines.
St. William The Hermit Parish Church of Passi City, the longest and one of the largest and oldest churches in Iloilo Province
Miagao Church. The World Heritage Site. The Aztec-Baroque inspired church with Filipino botanicals used to carved on the facade. It is known for its intricate facade and pyramidal bell towers. The church was used as a fortress during the olden days. It is a massive structure built of yellowish Limestones.
Molo Church. The Gothic Renaissance Church of Molo was used as a watch tower to warn the people if there are any attackers on the shore of Iloilo City. It is a fine coral stone church with Classical and Gothic details. It is also known as the feminist church because of the beautiful female saints lining inside the church.
Cabatuan Church. This Neoclassic Church, known to be the most massive Hispanic structure in Iloilo is built of red bricks. It is believed to be the largest red brick structure in the Visayas and it was given the title "Model of Temples" by the 'El Eco de Panay'. The Cabatuan Church is known to be the only extant Spanish colonial church with three facades.
San Jose Church. The beautiful church in front of plaza Libertad is considered the most historic amongst the churches in Iloilo City. It is a Byzantine-Neoclassic Church planned to look like the Spanish Church of Valencia del Cid. The Church is known for its collection of priceless Catholic treasures.
Old Capitol building of the Province of Iloilo. A National Historical Site. The building was built with wood stone during the Spanish colonization. It served as the capitol when the civil government of Iloilo was founded in 1901. The National Historical Institute (NHI) formally recognized the Old Capitol as a historical landmark through a marker installed on its walls on April 11, 2010.[6]
Universities and Colleges[edit]
Notable Ilonggos[edit]
Iloilo City is home to regional television stations of GMA Network (GMA TV6 & GMA News TV 28), TV5 (UHF 36) and ABS-CBN (ABS-CBN TV10 & Studio 23 (UHF 38).
1. ^ "List of Provinces". PSGC Interactive. Makati City, Philippines: National Statistical Coordination Board. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
3. ^ Chuan-chou Fu-chi (Ch.10) Year 1612
4. ^
5. ^ and
6. ^ "Old Iloilo capitol now a national historical site". Philippine Information Agency. 13 April 2010. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
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I just bought several Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) from GoDaddy. I have a VPN with hostgator and when I add an account with WHM and then I go to that site with a link that has the IDN, it displays in the browser as the puny-code. How can I make the browser display the correct encoding, instead of the puny-code?
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This will be dependent on client-side browser settings. Are you just wanting to do this for your own testing, or are you wanting to somehow configure your server/pages so that the nice IDN is displayed as intended in the browser for all users? – w3d Oct 27 '12 at 8:48
Yes, the latter. – jeffslofish Oct 27 '12 at 18:29
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The browser is showing the punny-code as a way to protect you from phishing sites. There are several Unicode glyphs who are virtually indistinguishable one from another.
which is the good one?
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Which web browsers have you tried and what tld(s) are the idn domains for?
Firefox supports IDN but only for some tld's - go to about:config in the firefox address bar and search for idn to see the list.
.ws isn't on firefox's whitelist, they have a page here:
That has links to there policy documents and details on how to get a tld added. You could enable IDN for .ws in your own copy of firefox by adding network.IDN.whitelist.ws with the value true to about:config.
That will only work for you of course...
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I have tried Chrome, and the tld is .ws. – jeffslofish Oct 27 '12 at 5:42
and I just tried Firefox. That doesn't work either. But Safari does work! It would be nice if they all did. This is on OSX btw. – jeffslofish Oct 27 '12 at 5:44
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2. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, with Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion, $21.95): A book based on a lecture about living, given by a university professor with terminal cancer.
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney (Abrams, $12.95): This follow-up to "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" chronicles Greg Heffley's attempts to navigate the hazards of middle school and keep his secret safe, especially from his older brother, Rodrick.
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Double metal studs designed to reduce noise transmission.
A wall stud is a vertical member in the light frame construction techniques called balloon framing and platform framing of a building's wall.
It is variously also called "stick and platform", "stick and frame", or "stick and box" construction colloquially; the 'sticks' carry the vertical loads, and the rectangular platforms made of floor joists, headers and sub-floors, hold the outward forces in check and keep the walls in parallel and from bulging. In the mostly obsolescent and now rare balloon framing method, the wall studs are very long and tall and run from sill plate to roof plate, with the walls holding up the floors. In tall balloon framed buildings, studs are usually augmented by substantial posts, especially in the corners or midpoints of long walls.
The "sticks" refer to the wall studs and the wall plates which are much thinner in cross section than the structural elements in the older, post and beam and balloon framing methods of light frame construction. Being thinner and lighter, stick construction techniques are easier and speedier than the older methods, and balloon framing has been made illegal in new construction in many jurisdictions, for fire safety reasons—the plates and platforms in platform framing providing an automatic fire stop inside walls, and so are deemed much safer by fire safety officials.
Traditionally, studs were made of wood, usually 2×4 or 2×6 dimensional lumber. In North America, studs are typically placed 16 inches (406 mm) from each other's centre, but sometimes also at 12 inches (305 mm) or 24 inches (610 mm). Steel studs are gaining popularity, especially for non load-bearing walls.
Other terms[edit]
• post or column − a doubled or other integral multiple of a group of studs nailed side by side, or (equivalent, a metal sheathed concrete filled column) used in a load bearing wall to transfer the weight of an upper structure to the bearing wall of a foundation, footing, and ground. Posts in walls are most common near high decorative windows, long spans near a wide window or sliding door, and other locations where architectural beauty conflicts with the need for engineering strength and safety.
Based on the WCLIB grading rules,[1] there is only one grade of stud: STUD. A stud is graded for vertical application, and its stress requirements and allowable visual defects reflect that application. A stud is most similar to a #2 grade, which is held to a higher standard during grading. The biggest difference between the two is the frequency, placement and size of knots and overall allowable wane.
Locating studs[edit]
When mounting an object such as a shelf to a wall and maximum strength is desired, the goal is to attach the object to the studs in the wall, as drywall or plaster will take significantly less weight.
Using a stud finder, one can easily locate studs in most walls, though this may not work on very thick plaster, or plaster walls built with wire-lath.
If a stud finder does not work or is unavailable, it is often the easiest to tap lightly on the wall with the underside of one's fist. The resonating vibration especially from plaster and drywalls is an indication for a cavity behind. Tapping against a stud usually results in considerably less vibration. Another practice is to use a hammer and lightly tap on the wall while listening for sound differences until the stud is found. A third option is to resort to trial and error. Drilling a hole into the wall with a masonry bit, the difference between hitting a stud and not will be clear. If a stud is not hit, the bit will punch through quickly, with no resistance after the plaster or drywall. If a stud has been hit, the bit will put up considerable resistance. The bit may still drill into the wood or the metal, but progress will be slower. This is more manifest with a masonry bit than a wood drilling bit. After the first stud is found, others will typically be found 16 inches (about 40 cm) in either horizontal direction.
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I'm planning to update my app with push support. I connect to the Apple server with a php script and send all the pushs at once, the close the connection.
How many can I send in a minute? Do you guys have any experience with that?
All the best, John
PS: Can you recommend pushwoosh.com or urbanairship.com ? How fast do they deliver Pushs?
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In theory you could send billions; but your server IP would get blacklisted by Apple for breaching the guidelines, section 5. developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html I recommend you visit the websites you have listed for answers to that. Also note there is no guarantee a message will be pushed to a device. It's all in the guide developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/… – Luke Dec 18 '12 at 13:20
Let's say I have 100.000 users in my database and everyone should get a push notification. How long would that take to send? – John Smith Dec 18 '12 at 13:24
You can batch them all off to Apple without problem, assuming no problems at your server end, but it's then up to Apple to deliver them. It could take any length of time for this to occur and there is no guarantee of a message reaching a device. – Luke Dec 18 '12 at 13:35
So how many can I send in a minute? What's the limitation Apple gives (maybe their server isn't fast enough / something else)? – John Smith Dec 18 '12 at 13:36
I use this regular PHP script to process mine. stackoverflow.com/questions/12019077/simple-format-apn/… Admittedly only dealing with small numbers of devices, I send them off in this fashion and let Apple do the real work. You could test the script on your hardware and remove the line pushing to Apple if you're looking for solid answers re: quantities per minute. Else for better tracking and stats, there's this from UA urbanairship.com/products/push-messaging#analyze – Luke Dec 18 '12 at 13:44
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Here's what Apple say regarding push speed in their Technical Note :
Push Notification Throughput and Error Checking
There are no caps or batch size limits for using APNs. The iOS 6.1 press release stated that APNs has sent over 4 trillion push notifications since it was established. It was announced at WWDC 2012 that APNs is sending 7 billion notifications daily.
If you're seeing throughput lower than 9,000 notifications per second, your server might benefit from improved error handling logic.
We can assume from this quote that you should be able to send at least 9000 notifications per second.
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Dacia 1410 CLi Break information summary
What body style?
estate/station wagon with 4/5 seats
How long?
4405 mm
How heavy?
980 kg
What size engine?
1.4 litre, 1397 cm3
How many cylinders?
4, Straight
How much power?
60 PS / 59 bhp / 44 kW @ 5000 rpm
How much torque?
97 Nm / 72 / 9.9 kgm @ 3500 rpm
How fast?
143 km/h, 89 mph
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Dacia 1410 CLi Break technical specifications
The Dacia 1410 CLi Break is a front wheel drive motor vehicle, with the engine positioned in the front, and a 5 door estate/station wagon body.
Its engine is a naturally aspirated petrol, 1.4 litre, overhead valve 4 cylinder with 2 valves per cylinder. This unit has an output of 59 bhp (60 PS/44 kW) of power at 5000 rpm, and maximum torque of 97 N·m (72 lb·ft/9.9 kgm) at 3500 rpm.
The engine transmits power to the wheels by means of a 5 speed manual set of gears.
It weighs a stated 980 kg at the kerb.
It is said to be able to attain a maxiumum speed of 143 km/h which is 89 mph.
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Dacia 1410 CLi Break data
Body type4/5 seater estate/station wagon
Number of doors5
dimensions & weights
Wheelbase 2441 96.1
Track/tread (front)
Track/tread (rear)
Length 4405 173.4
Width 1780 70.1
Height 1380 54.3
Ground clearance
length:wheelbase ratio 1.8
Kerb weight 980 kg 2161 lb
Weight distribution
fuel tank capacity 47.5 litres 10.4 UK Gal 12.5 US Gal
Drag coefficient
Frontal area
engine type naturally aspirated petrol
Engine manufacturer Renault
Engine code
Cylinders Straight 4
Capacity 1.4 litre
1397 cc
(85.25 cu in)
Bore × Stroke 76 × 77 mm
2.99 × 3.03 in
Bore/stroke ratio 0.99
overhead valve (OHV)
2 valves per cylinder
8 valves in total
maximum power output 60 PS (59 bhp) (44 kW)
at 5000 rpm
Specific output 42.2 bhp/litre
0.69 bhp/cu in
maximum torque 97 Nm (72 ft·lb) (9.9 kgm)
at 3500 rpm
Specific torque 69.43 Nm/litre
0.84 ft·lb/cu3
Engine construction
compression ratio
Fuel system
bmep (brake mean effective pressure) 872.5 kPa (126.6 psi)
Maximum RPM
crankshaft bearings
Engine coolant Water
Unitary capacity 349.25 cc
Aspiration Normal
Compressor N/A
Intercooler None
Catalytic converter Y
Acceleration 0-80km/h (50mph)
Acceleration 0-60mph
Acceleration 0-100km/h
Acceleration 0-160km/h (100mph)
Standing quarter-mile
Standing kilometre
Maximum speed 143 km/h (89 mph)
Power-to-weight ratio 61.04 PS/g
44.89 kW/g
60.2 bhp/ton
0.03 bhp/lb
Weight-to-power ratio 22.27 kg/kW
37.21 lb/bhp
fuel consumption
Fuel consumption
universal consumption (calculated from the above)
litres per 100km
km per litre
Carbon dioxide emissions
Carfolio Calculated CO2 ?
VED band (UK)
CO2 Effizienz (DE)
Engine position front
Engine layout transverse
Drive wheels front wheel drive
Torque split N/A
turns lock-to-lock
Turning circle
Front suspension
Rear suspension
Wheel size front
Wheel size rear
Tyres front 165/70 R 13 S
Tyres rear 165/70 R 13 S
Brakes F/R Di/Dr
Front brake diameter
Rear brake diameter
Gearbox 5 speed manual
Top gear ratio
Final drive ratio
general ID112662
Production total
Model code
Model family
RAC rating 14.3
Insurance classification No information available
Tax band No information available
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gordonfowlds#313919 writes:
Cantwell responded to a letter I sent in support of this pipeline. She is worried that by building this pipeline that it will impact the development of renewable energy. She is also worried about the impact on the environment as a result of developing the tar sands.
Here was my response back. If you really want to encourage renewables than increase the taxes on crude oil and its refined products. The Canadians are not going to sit idly by when they sit on an oil resource that is almost as large as that in Saudi Arabia. It is being developed as of this moment. Billions is going into it and the Chinese government and Chinese companies are up to their eyeballs in it as well.
We are being utterly naive not to make sure the US is a player in this resource. From a conspiracy standpoint perhaps Chinese money has bought these Senators and Congressman. Perhaps world corporate actually wants the alternative route since Asia is in ascension and we are in decline. I hate to think that way, but supporting the Keystone pipeline from both an economic and environmental standpoint makes the most sense given the situation.
For example one person argued Canadians will get the most benefit and the most of the jobs. This is true, but that will happen anyway no matter which pipeline is built. How silly it does not matter they actually would get more jobs if they build the other pipeline in the case of Keystone their will be US jobs.
Now there is a third option they build them both, which I am against, but even then this is better for us than not building Keystone and have that oil being funneled through Kitimat to China and Asia with no benefit whatsoever to the US.
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I want to output the following:
Average CPU utilization across all cores, over the last n seconds, in a single percentage value.
So if I have 4 CPUs and their combined user and system utilization over the last 10 seconds is:
# not actual output
CPU1 10%
CPU2 20%
CPU3 30%
CPU4 40%
I want to be able to get this output:
Since the average of those utilizations is 25%.
What is the simplest one-liner to output this value?
(Not being able to specify the duration is fine, as long as it's a reasonable default).
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So this is exact output you get into stdout or file? CPU1 10% CPU2 20% CPU3 30% CPU4 40% – Danila Ladner May 8 at 16:49
Why do you want one-liner? It's very difficult, the line will be very long. – Gnouc May 8 at 16:52
A long line is fine. I want to put this in to tmux so it will periodically show average CPU consumption. – Neil May 8 at 16:54
The CPU1 10% isn't real output. I'm saying that you can get something equivalent to that output from one of the many CPU utilization utilities in Linux. – Neil May 8 at 16:55
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If the output similar like that, you can save it to a file, then:
cat output.txt | cut -d" " -f2 | cut -d"%" -f1 | awk '{ total += $1; count++ } END { print total/count }'
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Part of the question was to actually get a utility that would output CPU utilization either per-CPU, or average over all CPUs. sar does this. – Neil May 8 at 17:10
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You could parse the output of the collectl utility, which is designed for what you're doing.
Running with no options gives:
[root@mdmarra ~]# collectl
waiting for 1 second sample...
28 6 2760 2596 0 0 41857 205 1 6 0 5
25 3 1499 820 0 0 40 4 1 8 1 4
25 0 1669 1039 0 0 0 0 4 27 3 25
25 0 1460 856 0 0 0 0 3 16 2 17
Let me see if I can get the output you're looking for.
If you're just trying to put this in a tmux session, why not use nmon? It's prettier.
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Is there any output from a program that is likely installed on CentOS by default? Or by processing output from proc? collectl isn't widely deployed. – Neil May 8 at 16:52
There's sar... but probably not. – ewwhite May 8 at 16:54
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You can do this easily with sar:
sar -u 10 1 | tail -n 1 | awk '{print $8}' | perl -nle 'printf "%1.2f\n", 100 - $_;'
Explanation follows:
sar -u 10 1 will show average CPU utilization for all CPUs over the last 10 seconds 1 time.
awk will grab the 8th column, which is the idle time.
perl is subtracting idle time from 100%, which is "CPU utilization" in general.
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Does anyone know how to get sar to show CPU utilization over the last second that has already passed, so this program won't block for the duration while it calculates the numbers? – Neil May 8 at 17:10
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How about mpstat?
mpstat -P ALL 2 1 | grep "Average.*all" | awk '{print $3+$5}'
Will print average of all cpus for last 2 seconds.
I think sysstat is highly available on RHEL OS.
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škošmi zəvůk
Native to Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan
Native speakers 3,000 (2009)[1]
Language family
Writing system None
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ISO 639-3 isk
Linguasphere 58-ABD-db
The Ishkashimi language is one of the Pamir languages of the Southeastern Iranian language group. Its distribution is in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan, Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan and Chitral region of Pakistan.
The total number of speakers is c. 2500, most of them are now dispersed throughout Tajikistan and Russia. About 400 still live in the village of Ryn on the border with Afghanistan near the town of Ishkoshim. Ishkashimi is closely related to Zebaki and Sanglechi (in Afghanistan). Nevertheless, there are considerable differences between this subgroup, the Wakhi language and the other subgroup of the Pamir languages formed by Shughni, Rushani, Sarikoli, Yazgulyam, etc.
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Police announced while the incidents were still going on that 57 people had been detained and a further six jailed, while four police officers were injured, two of them seriously. Police said they would issue a final number later.
"We dedicated several thousand personnel to policing the game and we faced, beginning two hours before the game started, escalating attacks," police spokesman Athanassios Kokalakis said.
Sports general secretary Panos Bitsaxis said on television that the state had taken "the best possible security measures" and accused football clubs of doing nothing to curb the fanatical supporters and of opposing the state's attempts to impose tougher sanctions. Bitsaxis left open the option of postponing the next round.
According to league rules, Panathinaikos is facing having three points deducted and a steep fine, up to €180,000, and could play several games in front of empty stands. Up to two points could also be deducted from the following season.
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Broncobiv 08-12-2011 08:05 PM
I am using a pair of Altec Lansing external speakers (with a subwoofer) that came with my Dell computer purchased in 2000 (still using the speakers, but a newer computer obviously). These are the speakers (mine are white, but the model number is the same, so I assume all the specs are identical):
The left speaker plugs directly into the right speaker, the right speaker plugs directly into the sub, and the sub plugs directly into the audio card in the tower. I've never had a problem with these speakers, no matter which of my computers I've plugged them into. For the past couple of months, a crackling noise has been coming out of the right speaker only. It was only every once in a while, so it was fairly easy to ignore. But for the past day, it's been a constant crackle, still coming from the right speaker only.
As far as troubleshooting goes, here's what I've found out: It scales with the volume knob. Turn the volume knob on the speaker up, and it gets louder. Turn the volume all the way down, and the noise stops. Changing the volume within the Windows sounds controls does nothing, however. Mute, up, down, nothing changes unless you actually turn the knob on the speaker. Lastly, it still happens when I use headphones. Again, the crackling only comes out of the right headphone.
Any help?? This is driving me nuts and I can't listen to music!
Fedaykin 08-12-2011 11:08 PM
If it happens with headphones and speakers, it's nothing wrong with the speakers, interference, etc.
Probably a ****ty sound card that's failing. If your computer is under warranty, make them replace the motherboard (almost all computer's sold in the last 5 years that weren't sold as very high end models have sound cards built into the motherboard).
If not, you can by a cheap replacement sound card and disable the onboard one.
For example: for $12
Of course, unless you know what you are doing with computers, find a friend that does (and buy them a damn six-pack or something for helping!) =)
Ha! or you can buy a USB one you don't have to crack the case to install:
I've never used one of those, so for all I know they are complete ****, but *shrug*
Broncobiv 08-13-2011 02:21 AM
There is an actual sound card, not just the one built into the motherboard. But if it sounds to you like it's a sound card issue and not the speakers themselves (because it happens through headphones, too), then tomorrow I'll swap out the sound card with another one from an old computer. If that fixes the problem, then I guess that's my answer!
Thanks for the idea on where to start. I'll post tomorrow if swapping sound cards fixed it.
Broncobiv 08-13-2011 06:51 PM
Well, I took the sound card out and replaced it with another one I had sitting around. Turned on the computer - no crackling!
Then just for the hell of it, I switched them back and turned the computer back on - still no crackling! guess all I had to do was pull it out and plug it back in? Gotta love that age-old fix! But then again, I like to believe that it was my threat of replacing him with an older model that got the sound card working again. Either way...problem solved I guess.
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Quantitative separation of ceramide, sphingoids (dihydrosphingosine, sphingosine, psychosine), and glycosphingolipids as individual fractions was achieved with silicic acid, Dowex column chromatography, and specific solvent mixtures that have not been previously described. Purified ceramide, resolved as a single band, was assayed by thin-layer chromatography (TLC) followed by gas chromatography (GC) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Sphingoids, purified by Dowex, were assayed by GC and HPLC without mild alkaline hydrolysis, which reduces the yield by interfering with the free amino group of psychosine and dihydrosphingosine. Several less polar (than cerebroside) alkali-/acid-labile glycosphingolipids that elute with galactosylceramide were also identified. Neutral and acidic glycosphingolipids, quantitatively recovered and purified to homogeneity, were resolved by TLC. We used these techniques to determine sphingolipids and sphingoids of vertebrate central nervous system (CNS) tissue, using as little as 30-50 mg (wet weight) of tissue. In addition, phosphatidylcholine and sphingomyelin, relevant to ceramide metabolism, were quantitatively recovered in pure form and resolved by TLC. This method, used to study CNS sphingolipid content, may well be applicable to determine the sphingolipid composition of other tissues and cell culture, but further experiments are necessary to ascertain this.[1]
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Bulgan logoBulgan aimag is located in the heart of Mongolia - Orkhon and Selenge basins bordering to Selenge, Tuv, Uvurkhangai, Arkhangai and Khuvsgul aimags respectively and to the Russian Federation for 160km border line. As the aimag is overall a mountainous area and it belongs to Khuvsgul, Khangai and Bulgankhan mountainious region. The aimag has many high mountains such as Khantai (2,000m above the sea level) and Buteel (1,800m above the sea level) at its north, Bureg (1,600 to 2,000m above the sea level) and other smaller mountains that are stretched along the latitude. The northern areas of the aimag are rich with granite from Mesozoic era, the vast southern territories are rich with Paleozoic and Mesozoic moraine and the central parts of the aimag are rich in lappilus from Jurassic era and trap stone from quaternary era. In 1967, there was an earthquake in Mogod sum forming many land splits that show the surface of this area has not been completely formed yet. Bulgan aimag is rich in resource of anthracite and other constructive materials. The aimag has many historical sites including the remains of the Bai-Balyk town of Uyghur state, remains of a Chinese town from 10-11th century which is at just east of Khar Bukh river, ruins of Tsogt Taij's mansion and the White Palace, Chin Tolgoi ruins, old military base ruins, remains of an ancient Mongolian town which is in Uvgunt and Emgent of Buregkhangai sum and Khugnu-Tarni monastery which is considered to be a historical gem.
Besides monuments belonging to ancient Mongolian states are plenty in this aimag including Turkic era monument in Mogod sum that is dedicated to the tax collector and the Altan Gerege or the Golden Paiz with Orkhon scripts which was found from the Khunnu graves. The Gerege's Orkhon Turkic script is not only invaluable to the Mongolian linguistics but also very valuable to Central Asian linguistics. Beautiful natural reserves and protected areas such as Eg-Selenge, Eg-Tarvagatai cross, Uran-Togoo, Khugnu Khaan Bulgan and high mountains such as Khantai, Avzaga Khairkhan, Bureg, Namnan, Zalman, Dulaan Khaan, Buural khaan, Ikh Baga Agt and Meej are the scenic spots of the aimag.
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I'm wondering where is Grandma Koch in all of this? Why isn't she standing up for Will's wife and Will's children, which are Also her Grandchildren??
Where does she stand on this issue? IMO she is the one who should decide who will run the park.
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A yoga sequence that’s good for you and bad for bugs
If you get sick more times a year than Lauren Conrad swears off best friends, you may be able to blame your immune system—a team of trillions of white blood cells that, when healthy, attacks unwelcome invaders like viruses. Some immune systems fight certain invaders better than others depending on several factors, including the route by which the bugs entered the body (i.e., nose vs. mouth) and how well the body has demolished them in the past, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Yoga can help stimulate the four main physiological systems that are linked to the immune system: the circulatory, digestive, nervous, and endocrine systems, says Surya Kolpakov, a certified yoga therapist and owner of Aranama Studio in Newton Center, Massachusetts. Poses that affect at least one of these four systems help bolster immune function, says Kolpakov, who teaches workshops on yoga for immunity. “For example, I’ve found that bow pose is one of the best ways to stimulate digestion and improve immunity,” he says. To help stave off colds and other bothersome bugs, he recommends these immunity-boosting poses.
Down dog vinyasa
This short dynamic sequence, targeting the circulatory system, is an excellent all-around warm-up. It stretches and strengthens most of the major muscle groups, promoting circulation and helping white blood cells move through the body to fight invaders.
1. Begin in plank pose splaying your fingers out wide on the mat to create a firm base.
2. Lift your hips up into downward-facing dog pose (adho mukha svanasana). Take a couple of long breaths here.
3. Slowly lower the hips and bring the body parallel to the floor, returning to plank pose.
4. If comfortable, lower the hips even further bringing the chest through the upper arms into upward-facing dog pose (urdhva mukha svanasana) or cobra pose (bhujangasana). In either cobra or up dog, avoid locking your elbows, keep your back long, and stretch the whole front of the body by gently lifting the chest. Keep your neck in line with your spine, gently stretching your chin forward without pinching your neck. Take another long breath here.
5. On your next inhale, smoothly and fluidly move back to down dog by curling your toes under, pressing your palms firmly into the floor, lifting your knees off the floor and raising your hips up and back. Straighten your knees as much as is comfortable.
6. Exhale right back to plank pose.
7. Inhale slowly to up dog or cobra again.
8. Exhale back to plank.
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In 1788, Aimée de Buc de Rivery, 13-year-old Creole daughter of a prominent family in Martinique, was returning from convent school in France when her ship was captured by pirates. She was sold to a slave trader in Tunis who, in turn, sold her to the household of the Ottoman Sultan in Constantinople, where she was initiated into his seraglio. The seraglio was a place of astonishing, disorienting weirdness: The several hundred women there led lives of unfathomable luxury and ease in what was essentially a prison. Forbidden to venture beyond the palace walls, watched day and night by court eunuchs, and denied even the rudiments of education, the women filled their days by bathing, receiving instruction (from the eunuchs) in every imaginable sexual technique, and gossiping. The sultan could not possibly sleep with all of his thousands of wives, so there was a great deal of competition among those who wished to receive his attention. Aimée, understandably slow in picking up the rules of the game, eventually scored a coup when she was summoned to spend the night with the sultan--only to have him die later in the evening. Ordinarily this would have resulted in her banishment, but the new sultan was enraptured by her skill on the violin and made her one of his favorites. She also became the adoptive mother of a son who succeeded to the sultanate and proceeded to institute a number of pro-Western reforms. Aimée survived it all--the intrigues of the court, the army coups, the bitchiness in the harem--and was allowed the privilege of receiving last rites from a Jesuit on her deathbed.
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1. Nakshidil tells her son that Turkey is like an ancient tree with its roots in the East and its limbs in the West. What does she mean? How does this apply to Turkey today?
2. What are the meanings of the word harem in the book? Why was the harem important for the sultan?
3. How does Nakshidil find life in the harem similar to life in the convent? What family values and what ways to please a man did she learn in the convent? How did they differ from the ones she was taught in the harem?
4. At one point, Nakshidil looks in the mirror and realizes she has been transformed. How has she changed physically, emotionally, and culturally?<
5. Turkey was constantly struggling with the European powers. What were some of the issues? What was the Turks’ attitude toward the French? What impact did Napoleon have on Turkey?
6. What was the relationship between Turkey and Russia? What effect did Catherine the Great have on Turkey? What was Catherine’s goal vis-à-vis Istanbul?
7. Flowers, especially tulips, were important in Ottoman Turkey. Talk about how they were used in the palace and what significance they had.
8. What did Nakshidil have to learn in order to become a Muslim? What are the five pillars of Islam?
9. In the Ottoman Empire, clothing was used to signify status, religion, and power. How was this done? What were the most important parts of the wardrobe? How is clothing used today to signify power and wealth?
10. What was the importance of religion in Nakshidil’s life as a child? As an adult?
11. The valide sultan was the most powerful woman in the Ottoman Empire. How did she express that power in the harem? How did she use her influence with the sultan? What were the material prizes?
12. How does Nakshidil describe the harem at the end of her life?
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I live in an old home which has stained glass (leaded?) side/top lights around the front and rear door. I can feel the cold air already radiating through, and I want to try to insulate them somehow. The stained glass is recessed in about 4" of wood looking from the outside. I was thinking of getting a piece of glass cut and sandwiching it between some wood moulding around the perimeter on top of the stained glass. Does anyone have any tips on how this should be done and if it works well?
1. What type of glass should I use?
2. I plan to seal the new glass with caulk, but will I still get condensation between the panes?
2. Should I instead consider getting a custom fixed storm window made?
04:48AM | 11/02/01
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I don't know all the answers, but I can tell you that if you look at storm windows, they have tiny weep holes so that they're not 100% airtight. I believe that's how you prevent condensation between the panes.
So, a partial answer is that your space between panes shouldn't be totally airtight.
Jay J
05:08AM | 11/02/01
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Hi wible1,
I know this to be a common problem w/sidelights. However, more contemporary sidelights are much thicker or are built double-paned. Unless your sidelights are made of glass that's NOT meant for that purpose, it's a little 'difficult' for me to understand why you're feeling so much cold air.
Are you SURE the air is radiating through the stained glass and not around the door, itself? I mean, there isn't much glass to sidelights. The effect you are experiencing isn't out of the ordinary, but you're making sound like the air is almost 'blowing in'. This type of thermal transfer is normal where there is a 'surface' (which is your glass) between a cold surface (outside) and a warm surface (inside). The 2 'elements' will try to equalize each other with the cold air moving towards the warm air (since cold air sinks), and the warm air moving towards the cold air (since warm air rises.)
As far as installing a storm door, sure, you could do that but I'm not aware of a single-swing storm door for an entry door w/sidelights where the storm door will 'enclose' the entire entryway. Yes, you can get a storm door for just the entry door but your problem INCLUDES the sidelights.
As an aside, we bought our home w/an entry door and sidelights. We demolished that in place of double-entry doors. We then installed double storm doors too. Aestetically, it looks nice. (We have full-oval, solid oak entry doors.) This does pose its own set of 'issues'. (I'll leave that alone unless you're contemplating this approach. I will assume not.) I'm only mentioning this because the only way we could get a storm door was to go w/double-entry doors. The storm doors are full-view doors so you can 'enjoy' the doors from the outside too.
As far as insulating your sidelights, assuming the entry door and sidelights aren't leaking, I wouldn't do it. You could start a condensation/mold/mildew situation. And besides, they'd look kinda funny. If these sidelights and the entry door are part of the home's character, beings that you own an 'old house', you may end up just consider it something you need to live with.
If you have more info to offer, perhaps I can say more to your questions. My best to ya and hope this helps.
Jay J -Moderator
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Thanks for the reply, Jay. A little clarification - I may have exaggerated on my explanation of the air infiltration; the stained glass sidelights and transom appear to be very old (the house is 80 years old). My concern is not that I can feel a "breeze", but that the type of glass used is single pane and seems like a poor insulator, based on the coldness I can feel radiating through (for the reasons you described in your second paragraph). Since I am in the process of replacing my old aluminum windows with vinyl insulated windows, I wanted to do something in these areas since I feel I'm losing a lot of heat there, but still keep the same look. I wasn't considering a storm door, only a fixed frame of glass over each sidelight/transom, essentially making them double paned. My question was whether to consider installing a piece of glass within moulding and seal the edges in caulk, or to consider a fixed "storm window" over each section, assuming they make those sizes. I understand your concern about moisture, but wouldn't meticulous construction of the frame and silicon caulk prevent that?
Thanks again.
Jay J
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Hi wible1,
I'm sure I overstated the 'situation'. SOmetimes, I exadurate to make my 'point'.
Anyways, I think that if you were to build your own double-pane, you'll end up w/mold/mildew because the 'gap' isn't under vacume. Sure, 'trapped air' is a great insulator but you'll have moisture issues. As the air heats and cools, moisture and air will be 'moving' in and out of that space. Unless you can create a vacume and have a perfect seal, I think your efforts will prove unuseful.
At the same time, you could still have a 'what the heck attitude'. You have nothing to loose except a few $$$ and a little time. WHat I'm saying is that in spite of my $.02, try it anyways. You never know - It may just work (and I'll be wrong for the 2nd time today!)
My best to ya and hope this helps.
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I think I've discovered a new disability and, what's more, I think I suffer from it. I've called it taplexia and it's the inability to tell hot taps from cold, unless they have an 'H' or a 'C' attached to them, or just maybe a red or a blue ring around them.
Now there is a convention here that the hot tap should be situated on the left and the cold on the right. It's even made it into the building regs: where hot and cold taps are provided, the hot tap should be on the left says Part GWhat could be clearer than that? But somehow this convention/regulation has passed me by all these 60 years and I still find myself turning on both taps to find out which is which. The more modern the tap, the worse it seems to get.
Mixer taps in particular leave me completely at sea because they are so designery these days that they eschew all that retro-chique details like red or blue bands. The other morning I was in a strange bathroom (don't ask what I was doing there - this isn't a confessional) and I was faced with a Noughties mixer tap set-up. One spout, two handles: enough to induce a mild panic. I wanted hot but like the idiot-taplexic that I am I started on the right hand side. What was weird was that after five seconds or so it started running hot and I congratulated myself on guessing correctly. Only it turned out to be but a short burst of hot, presumably because the cold pipe had been inadvertently heated as it passed by a nearby radiator or something. It then ran cold on me and it dawned on me that I must have guessed wrong. Silly me.
So I then went left and ran that one. But after ten seconds or more it was still running cold. Could it be that the right tap was actually the hot one and that I just hadn't been patient enough to let the real hot water find its way to the spout? Should I try it again and see? So I turned off the still cold hot tap on the left and went back right. Then I stopped myself mid-track. Surely there had to be an easy answer to this? How come I had been turning this pair of mixer taps on and off for more than a minute and still hadn't got a clue which tap was hot and which was cold? This could only be taplexia in its severest form. A complete failure to adapt to the modern world. For some people it's passwords, for others it's TV remotes. For me, it's taps.
There is of course a simple cure for taplexia. Turn them both on and wait till the ensuing water turns lukewarm. Then you can simply turn one off and—hey voila— even I can work out which is which. But my inner greenie tells me that this is incredibly wasteful habit and I just don't like doing it. So I struggle on with my guesswork approach, often wasting as just as much water by guessing wrong.
Maybe writing about it will help. Maybe not. I won't know until I face another strange set of taps. Even if I do work out a cure, I am still faced with hotel shower syndrome.....or HSS as it's infrequently acronymed. This will find me standing naked in an unfamiliar environment fiddling with dials and levers none of which I have any idea about. It's like it's all been designed to make me feel inadequate.
Is it just me? Or is taplexia widespread?
12 Dec 2013
Does embodied energy really matter?
We are hearing more and more about embodied energy and the role it plays in the carbon story. But what exactly is embodied energy and should we pay attention to it at all? Good questions both and the answers are not straightforward.
Firstly, what defines embodied energy? Essentially, it's the energy used to manufacture a product or construct a building. Thus building a new house involves assembling a long list of diverse materials and each of these materials had to be made from other materials and all this had to be transported from A to B to C to wherever your building site is. All this manufacturing and transportation involves expending energy and so, long before your house is ever lived in and the heating is turned on, the TV and computers get fired up and the lights switched on, you have used a great deal of energy — embodied energy.
My rule of thumb calculations show that a typical detached new house, built using brick and block and timber windows, uses around 40tonnes of CO2 in its construction. Now what does that represent? Let's have some comparators.
• The UK releases around 10 tonnes of CO2 per head of population per annum
• A car driving 12,000 miles a year uses around 4 tonnes of CO2
• A family of four flying to Spain and back uses around 2.5 tonnes
• A typical uninsulated 1970s house burns as much as 15 tonnes of CO2 per annum
• A building regs standard new house will burn around 4 tonnes of CO2 per annum
• Same house built to Passivhaus standard will burn around 1.5 - 2 tonnes of CO2 per annum
So given all that, how does the 40 tonnes of CO2 used to construct a new house stack up? One interesting observation is that if you replace a 15-tonne 1970s house with a 1.5-tonne Passivhaus, you will have achieve a net saving of CO2 within three years. In such an instance, you might feel you could afford to ignore the embodied energy total of 40 tonnes.
But of course, not many new homes are replacement dwellings, so they are in fact adding to the overall load of CO2 which Britain as a whole emits. And very, very few new homes are being built to Passivhaus standards or similar, so more typically they will be adding something like ten years of operational energy use in the construction phase alone.
This balance between embodied energy and operational energy is critical. And complex. You have to make some heroic assumptions, such as how long will a house last? And what will be the carbon intensity of energy in years to come? Does the embodied energy level go up significantly if you add energy saving features such as triple glazing to the design? What about features that may need replacing in the house — such as triple glazed windows — long before the design life of the house is through? There are no straightforward answers here. Everything rests on the assumptions made.
And what about reducing the embodied energy levels in a new house? Well, it can be done. The bulk of the embodied energy in new UK housing goes into the concrete and masonry elements because they are both energy intensive to manufacture and extremely heavy relative to volume. In the model house in the Housebuilders Bible 10, masonry and concrete materials make up 27 tonnes CO2 out of a total of 36 tonnes (that's 75%).
Interestingly, over half of this 27 tonnes of CO2 is made up of bricks and mortar, rather than concrete products. There are ample opportunities to switch to materials with lower embodied energy, such as timber and natural materials like stone and slate. Plastics and foam insulation have minimal impact overall (partly because they are so light) so that switching over to alternative materials such as natural insulation isn't really going to make any significant difference. Nor will switching to lime-based products.
And, of course, there is the question of cost. There are similar calculations to be made about construction costs versus running costs and maintenance costs and in some ways financial costs are a proxy for energy loadings. As people often point out, if carbon was correctly priced from an environmental point of view (i.e. if there was a carbon tax applied across the board), then there would be no need to carry out embodied energy calculations separate to cost calculations.
Which begs the question, should we be worried about embodied energy at all, or is it just an obscure branch of environmentalism, pursued by geeks and nerds, which is ultimately of no consequence. By the time we get to 2050, we will either have sorted out our power supplies so that they are all low carbon and thus talk of embodied energy will be irrelevant, or we will be all heading to hell in a handcart, in which case embodied energy will also be irrelevant.
I'm not sure there is a clearcut answer to any of this but energy wonks (I count myself as one) find it all rather fascinating. If you want to know more @CraigJonesUK is the man. Craig has created the invaluable (and freely available) ICE database which will tell you more about embodied energy than you are ever likely to want to know.
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They Do Have a Point, Don't They
Last week, the court denied a request by the American Civil Liberties Union to release portions of past rulings that would explain how it has interpreted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. There are legitimate national security concerns at stake, but the court should share its legal reasoning with the public.
-The Times Editorial Board
Dear Children,
No, there aren't.
Anonymous said...
The Times editorial board obviously loves Romance more than Truth. They only want to protect us so they must know what is best for us, right?
hipparchia said...
everybody loves Romance more than Truth.
Anonymous said...
I would have entitled this little snippet: "Don't get me wrong, but..."
As I recall, even at the end of the viet nam war when everyone was against it, if you wanted to make a public statement against it, you had to first make prefatory remarks about how much you hated commies and especially ho chi minh & them scurvy viet cong.
TGGP said...
SCOTUS is full of old coots that have young clerks do all their work for them, why would they be allowed access to classified information in the first place?
The Romans had it right with law: it needs to be publicly available for everyone to read. This Common Law stuff is just a foolish detour.
Anonymous said...
Not the Supremes, TGGP. The FISA court. Anyway, the board's right. The court should explain its reasoning. Any security concerns, should we momentarily assume that such exist, are irrelevant here.
Our host is hair-splitting. The board's with you, IOZ, at least here.
IOZ said...
That's not hair-splitting. The concession to supposed legitimacy undermines the argument.
Adam said...
what would an illegitimate national security concern look like?
CK said...
New Orleans
Matthew said...
Speaking of "don't get me wrong, but" Check out this post by Lambert at Corrente:
NOTE I thought Hillary would suck, since she has no plan to restore Constitutional government, but I didn’t think Obama would suck. I guess he plans to unite the country on the basis of his personal charisma and leadership qualities, rather than on qualities like keeping his oath, or on the Constitution.
TROLL PROPHYLACTIC I will vote for either Hillary or Obama in the general, and will even give them money and volunteer. Yes, if they don’t deliver on this basic, basic issue, they suck. But it’s one thing to suck, and it’s another thing to—like the Republicans—be possessed of suckitude so massive that even the pus-encrusted spawn of Chtulhu turn away in horror. Eh?
mistah charley, ph.d. said...
Atrios has an excellent summary of the three Democratic "frontrunners":
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Chapter 17
Suddenly the intruder felt something pointing at him in the small of his back and a cold steely voice coming from behind him. "If you want to get out of here alive, I suggest you drop the gun!" When the intruder hesitated, Carlos voice grew even colder. "I said drop the gun!" He pressed the gun harder in the intruder's back. "Trust me; you don't want to challenge me. I'm a much faster shooter than you are, you'll be dead before you even get a single shot off."
The intruder knew he was beaten and complied. Travis flipped the switch to turn on the lights and Mark tied the intruder's hands behind his back before sitting him in a chair. "Who is he?" Tyler asked no one in particular.
"We don't know yet Tyler, he's wearing a mask." Mark answered and pulled the ski mask off the intruder's head to reveal his face in full view to everyone in the room. Once the mask was off and they saw who the intruder was, Jeff clung onto Christian and Tyler's arm for protection. "It's okay Jeff, he can't hurt you, you're safe." That didn't help to sooth Jeff's fears at all, he started crying hysterically. Christian pulled Jeff onto his lap and into his arms. "What's wrong little man, why are you crying?"
Jeff muttered something under his breath but no one could hear what he was saying so Christian asked him to say it again a little louder. "It's him, it's Mr. Donavan. I think he came here looking for me. Don't let him take me, please don't let him take me."
Everyone looked at Jeff and Christian with concern and confusion. "What's going on here, why is Jeff crying Chris?" Tyler asked. Then he remembered something he learned about Mr. Donavan during Dillon's visit and it made Tyler angry. He stared at Mr. Donavan with fiery eyes. "What the hell did you do to my son you piece of shit?"
The whole room went cold. The look on Tyler's face and the anger radiating off his voice and body was bone chilling. No one had ever seen Tyler like that before. Christian knew he had to tell Tyler what Jeff had told him earlier that day. He was waiting for some privacy to tell Tyler without Jeff being in close proximity but now that doesn't seem to be possible. "There's something you need to know, but I want you to wait until I had told you everything. Then if there's anything that you want done, let me take care of it."
Tyler reluctantly agreed and Christian told him everything that Jeff had told him about his time at the Donavan's home. How Mr. Donavan had been climbing in bed with Jeff every night since the first night he was there, how he tried to fondle Jeff penis and butt when ever they were alone. How Mr. Donavan kept trying to kiss him even though Jeff didn't want him to, and how Mr. Donavan threatened to kill Jeff if he was to tell anyone. As Christian told the story, the anger kept rising in Tyler until it was almost at a boiling point. By the time Christian had finished, Tyler was ready to explode.
"Kevin can you take Jeff and Terry to the game room for me please?" Kevin said sure and gathered the boys. As they were leaving the living room, Christian asked Tyler what he was doing. "I'm going to show this son of a bitch what happens when someone fucks with my sons!"
Tyler got up from the couch with an evil and sinister smile and told Carlos and Mark to take Mr. Donavan to the wrestling room. Christian couldn't let what was going to happen to occur and stopped Tyler. "No Ty, don't do it." He got up and pulled Tyler onto his lap and tightly held him down. "I'll take care of it myself. Once I'm finished with him, he'll think twice before trying to attack our family again."
Everyone could see the malice and anger in Christian's eyes as well as Tyler's. After getting a nod from Christian, Carlos and Mark led Mr. Donavan to the wrestling room. In the meantime, Tyler pulled his anger back in. He'll let Christian handle this while making sure Christian wouldn't go too far and get himself into trouble although Tyler wasn't too sure he wouldn't go too far himself. Once Christian had calmed Tyler down, they got up and went to the wrestling room.
Meanwhile, Kevin was in the game room holding Terry while keeping a close eye on Jeff. He could see something was bothering him; his attention wasn't on the game. "What's wrong Jeff? You have something on your mind buddy?"
Jeff turned his head around and Kevin could see the tears running down his cheeks. "I'm afraid of what daddy Ty and daddy Chris is going to do to Mr. Donavan. I don't want them to get into any trouble and be taken away. Daddy Ty looked angrier than I ever seen him before."
Kevin patted the spot next to him on the sofa. "Come here for a minute kiddo?" Jeff put the game on pause and walked over and sat next to Kevin on the sofa pulling out some tissues to wipe his eyes and blow his nose. Kevin put his arm around Jeff's shoulder and pulled Jeff up against him. "You know Christian and Tyler love you guy's right?" Jeff nodded. "Well, when Tyler heard what happened at the Donavan's and there was nothing he could do about it, his anger got a little out of control. Luckily Christian is there to keep him from losing any more control than he already has, but they won't do anything to hurt you boys in any way. They're just having a meeting with Mr. Donavan to make sure he knows that if any harm comes to their family he'll have them to deal with, and no one wants to go up against Tyler Jackson."
"I know and that's what I'm afraid of." Kevin asked Jeff what he meant by that. "I think what Mr. Donavan did was too much to keep either of them under control and they're going to do something that will get them into a lot of trouble."
"Don't worry about that Jeff." Kevin said reassuredly. "You just worry about being a kid. That's all your daddies want for you is to enjoy being a kid, they'll take care of everything else. That's what daddies do."
Jeff calm down a little after that, and Kevin asked if he wanted to play any more video games and Jeff nodded. "I think I'll play a racing game this time though. I'm really not in the mood to play any fighting games right now."
"Have at it bud." Kevin smiled. Jeff went back to playing video games while Kevin wondered if what he had told Jeff was true or not. He hoped it was because he didn't know if Tyler could keep his cool this time. Someone had hurt one of his family members and that's something Tyler can't tolerate.
When the others got to the wrestling room Christian told Carlos to untie Mr. Donavan. When Carlos did, Christian walked up, stood in front of him, and stared him directly in the eyes. "You think you're tough by attacking little boys, now lets see how you handle a man." Mr. Donavan just stood there trying to figure a way out of the predicament he had put himself in. "What's the matter; you don't have the balls to handle a man?" Christian taunted him.
Travis leaned over and whispered in Tyler's ear in confusion. "What the hell is he thinking? Why isn't he beating the guy to a bloody pulp for what he did to your son? Upstairs he looked like he was ready to kill."
Tyler smiled wickedly. "It's quite simple actually; Chris is letting Mr. Donavan take the first punch. That way he can say Mr. Donavan threw the first punch and Chris acted in self defense. Also with us as witnesses, the police won't have anything to charge him with."
"What if the police search the house?" Travis asked as they watched Christian continued to taunt Mr. Donavan. "I'm sure they'll find out the fight took place down here and not up in the house where he broke in."
"Don't worry Travis." Carlos answered. "All Christian is going to do is avenge Jeff and get the point across that if anyone hurts a member of his family they'll have him or Tyler to deal with. Mr. Donavan should be glad he's dealing with Christian and not Tyler. Tyler's a lethal weapon when he gets out of control." Travis stared at Carlos with a look that said you got to be kidding me. "No I'm not kidding. Mark and I had trained him very well."
At that moment they heard Christian say something that got to Mr. Donavan. "I guess you're not a real man since you're just standing there. Maybe you're looking for a big cock to stuff up your tight pussy. Is that what you're looking for pussy boy?"
The insult was too much for Mr. Donavan to take. He charged at Christian but Christian was waiting for it. He blocked the punch and struck out with a right punch to Mr. Donavan's rib cage. When Mr. Donavan hovered over from the pain Christian kneed him in the sternum. Mr. Donavan' staggered back but Christian didn't let up. He followed up with a punch to the right eye and then one powerful blow to the left cheek. When Mr. Donavan hit the floor Christian just started whaling on him throwing punches to any parts of his face and chest he swung at. Christian made sure not to ruff him up too badly though.
With his last punch Christian knocked Mr. Donavan semi unconscious. He didn't want him completely unconscious; he wanted Mr. Donavan to hear what he had to say. "Remember that the next time you try to fuck with my family asshole, because the next time you won't get off so lucky, trust me!" Christian then kicked him in the stomach for good measure.
Christian walked over to Tyler, leaving Mr. Donavan on the floor bleeding. Tyler grabbed his hands to check them out to make sure Christian was okay. "You didn't hurt yourself did you?" Christian told him he didn't. "Okay." He then turned to the others. "Can you clean that mess up for me please Carlos and Mark? Travis, can you call the cops for me? Chris and I are going to check on Jeff to make sure he's okay."
The guys said they would and Christian and Tyler went to the game room to check on the boys stopping in the bathroom for Christian to wash his hands of the blood. When Jeff saw them coming in and seeing blood on Christian's hands, he ran over to them in a panic. "You didn't hurt him too bad, did you?"
"No, why would you ask that?" Christian asked. When he looked toward Kevin he nodded toward Christian's right hand where he still had some blood between his fingers. "Come here for a minute kiddo." Christian reached down and picked Jeff up. "I know you can tell that I'd been fighting but I promise you I didn't hurt him too bad. I just let him know what can happen when someone hurts our boys. Now that he's gotten the message, you don't have to worry about him anymore."
While Christian continued to talk to Jeff Carlos came in to inform Tyler that the police was there. "Okay, but please don't fight if you really don't have to. I don't want you or daddy Ty to get into any trouble."
Christian promised they wouldn't before he noticed that Tyler was gone. "Go back to playing your video game little man; I'm going to help daddy Ty deal with the rest of the situation." Jeff said okay and Christian put him down. Mark suggested he wash his hands again before going out there and Christian agreed.
While Christian was dealing with Jeff, Tyler was handling the situation with the police. When a Detective Miles Truman asked about the bruises on Mr. Donavan's face, Christian walked in. "He attacked me and I defended my home and family."
"You expect me to believe that?" Detective Truman asked, eyeing Christian suspiciously. "You look like you can kill that guy with your bare hands." Tyler told the detective that Mr. Donavan should be glad that Christian didn't because he could have. Detective Truman grew frustrated and tried to intimidate Tyler and Christian at that point. "I want to know exactly what happened here, and I want to know now!"
Tyler and Christian ignored the attempt of intimidation and explained to Detective Truman and his partner Detective Antoine Maxwell about the attempted murder. How Mr. Donavan broke in the house and attempted to kill Jeff but was pointing the gun at Tyler because Jeff was sitting between him and Christian, how Carlos prevented that from happening, and how Mr. Donavan attacked Christian which ended up with Christian whipping his ass. From time to time Detective Truman would stop them to have Carlos, Mark, or Travis to verify what is being said was the truth which they did.
Once the officers had a statement from everyone involved, they handcuffed Mr. Donavan and escorted him to the police cruiser and took him to the station to be process. Tyler informed them that he'll be down to file a restraining order against Mr. Donavan in the morning.
Soon after the police had taken Mr. Donavan away Tyler got a call on his cell phone from Josh Brady. While he was talking with Josh, Christian went to get the boys ready for bed and the others headed for their rooms as well. It had been an exhausting day for everyone.
When Tyler got into bed Christian was already asleep. Tyler snuggled up against Christian and Christian immediately wrapped his arms around Tyler but never woke up. Just feeling Christian's arm around him lulled Tyler into dream land. He always felt safe and protected in his lover's arms.
When the alarm went off Monday morning Tyler and Christian was still a little tired but got ready to start their day. After showering and dressing they went to get the boys ready. Tyler decided to go casual for the day and put on a purple Polo shirt, black Boss jean shorts, and black sox and shoes. Christian was dressed in his uniform as usual.
After waking Jeff, Christian started to search for some clothes for him to wear, but Jeff wanted to pick out his own clothes and Christian told him to have at it but said he would be checking him afterwards before going to help Tyler with Terry. While Tyler was bathing Terry Christian got out some clothes for Terry to wear. As they were getting Terry ready Tyler asked Christian what his schedule was like for the day. "I'm on base from seven to three so I won't be having breakfast with you. After that I need to stop at the mall to see how the items from Clarkson's Fashion is selling, I should be home around five."
"Okay, I'll be at the office all morning working on some reports. I need to go to the airport this afternoon to meet with the crew of the plane and make arrangements for the trip on Friday. I should be home before you though."
"Okay." Christian said. By that time Terry was dressed so they headed to the kitchen. Travis and Kevin was already there making breakfast while Carlos and Mark were setting the table. A few minutes later Jeff came in dressed in a white short sleeved shirt, blue shorts, and white socks and shoes. Christian took a look at him and nodded in approval which put a smile on Jeff's face. He then gave Jeff and Terry a kiss on the forehead and kissed Tyler on the lips. "I need to get to work now. I'll see you guys tonight."
Tyler placed Terry in his highchair to feed him and Jeff sat next to him at the table. "Okay baby, I'll see you later. Don't forget to take Alex and Matt with you."
Christian grunted but contacted Alex and Matt on the walkie talkie to let them know he was leaving. Five minutes later Alex and Matt walked into the kitchen ready to go and the three of them headed out for the base in Christian's car.
The rest of the guys sat down for breakfast while Tyler finished feeding Terry. Once Terry had finished eating, Tyler handed him his bottle and started on his own breakfast. Half way through breakfast Travis left for the base himself. Soon after, everyone pitched in with the cleaning and they too headed out while Kevin did more checking for a housekeeper.
When Christian got to the base the first thing he did was to go and have a pass issued for his two security detail. After that was taken care of, he went to his office. As he was walking through his unit some of the other marines wondered who the two guys with him were but didn't voiced their questions. Not that Christian would have answered them anyway. He felt it was none of their business and no one needed to know.
When he reached his office, Alex and Matt stood on post outside the door. Christian made a call to Janet for some assistance for what he had planned. He wanted to surprise Tyler for his birthday and there was no one better to help him with the surprise than Janet.
While Janet was talking to Christian Tyler arrived at the office. He didn't want to interrupt her conversation so he continued straight to his office to get the boys settled in. Jeff on the other hand waved hello and Janet waved back with a smile. Once the boys were settled, Tyler checked and replied to his e-mails. After that was taken care of, he started on his reports. About an hour later Janet came in with his cup of coffee. "Good morning Tyler. I have your coffee and the contracts for the McDonald's franchise."
"Thank you Janet and good morning to you too. Have you faxed the contracts to Scanner?" Janet said she had and everything was squared away. "Good! Now all I need to do is make sure the accounts are open and set up the seventeenth floor for the corporate offices. I'll be leaving a little early for lunch today, I need to go to the police station."
"Why?" Janet asked concerned so Tyler told her about the incident with Mr. Donavan last night. "He broke in your house to harm a little boy? That's so demented! I hope you're pressing charges against him." Tyler said they were and Janet told him that was good because he deserves to be in jail. "Just to let you know, I'll be taking an extra hour for lunch myself to run some errands."
"That's fine because I'll be back late this afternoon. I need to meet with the pilots and stewardesses to arrange the trip for this weekend. I want to make sure everything is running properly before my family gets on board."
"Okay, I'm going back to my desk now. I have some work I need to catch up on." Tyler nodded and Janet left his office. Tyler called Mr. Willis to check on the accounts before finishing the report he was working on. Around ten thirty Tyler gathered the boys and headed to the police station.
Christian used his morning to talk with his coworkers about the Hunk of the Marine calendar. Despite Troy's attempt to ruin the project some of his coworkers were willing to participate in it. The one who wasn't interested, Christian just crossed off the list and added other names. He knows they'll be kicking themselves in the ass when the calendar gets a great review. When he talked to the new additions, they all said yes. Once he had a commitment from them he asked for their measurements so he can select their outfits.
After taking care of that, Christian started on the paper work that was on his desk. He was grateful that no rumors were spreading around the office from Troy but he wondered if Troy wasn't planning something else again. He pushed that thought out of his mind for now; he'll deal with it when or if it happens. For now he has work to do.
Tyler arrived at the police station with his enterprise and walked up to the front desk. He spoke with the desk sergeant there on duty. "May I help you gentlemen?" The sergeant asked.
"Yes, my name is Tyler Jackson and I like to file a restraining order against Peter Donavan." The desk sergeant asked whom he was speaking of. "I'm speaking of the man that was brought in last night due to a break in of my house."
After looking up the file on the computer the sergeant picked up the phone. When the phone was answered he relayed the message. "Mr. Jackson is here to file a restraining order against the break in last night." He waited a minute for an answer before hanging up. "Someone will be right out to assist you." Tyler thanked him and Carlos walked him over to a chair to wait.
A few minutes later Detective Maxwell came out to speak with Tyler. "Mr. Jackson, I understand you wish to file a restraining order against Mr. Donavan?" Tyler told him that was correct. "Then let's go to my office so we can take care of that."
Before leaving, Tyler asked Mark for a favor. "Can you watch the boys for me Mark?" Mark said he will and Tyler handed him Terry. He then told Jeff to stay with Mark and he and Carlos then followed Detective Maxwell to his office.
The detective sat behind his desk and gestured for the guys to have a seat. Carlos helped Tyler to a chair and they both sat down. "Now tell me the reason behind this restraining order. I know there's more to the story from last night."
Tyler explained to Detective Maxwell the he wants the restraining order because he's Jeff guardian and Jeff is a key witness in a case against Mr. Donavan for reckless driving and child endangerment. He believes Mr. Donavan broke in his house to try to eliminate Jeff so he couldn't testify against him in court. He also stated that he wanted to press charges against Mr. Donavan for child molestation on Jeff which occurred while Jeff was in his custody. Through the whole explanation Carlos studied the detective face for any type of reaction but didn't get one.
When Tyler finished explaining they waited to see what Detective Maxwell would say. "Well, I think you have a case for the restraining order, but the child molestation charges may be another thing all together. You can file the charges but without a witness it may be difficult to prove."
"I don't think it will be that difficult to prove Detective." Tyler replied firmly. "Mr. Donavan had already been convicted for several child molestation charges before and is still on parole for those charges. Any judge can see he hasn't change and will convict him again."
"I hope that's true. Anyone who could do that to an innocent child deserves to be behind bars. As for the restraining order, I know a judge who can sign off on the order. Let me give him a call and see what I can do." Detective Maxwell picked up the phone and made a call to the judge. When the judge came on the line he explained why he was calling and asked if the judge could sign off on the order. When he had gotten his answer, he thanked the judge and hung up. "Okay, Judge Randy Tucker will be over in five minutes to sign off on the order. I just need to fill out the paper work; do you have time to wait?"
Tyler said he did and the detective filled out the paper work while the guys waited. Five minutes later the judge knocked on the door. Detective Maxwell invited him in and introduced Judge Tucker to Tyler and Carlos. Judge Tucker eyed Tyler curiously and asked if he was Tyler Jackson the famous model. Tyler said he was and Judge Tucker laughed. Seeing the confused look on their faces to his laughter, the judge explained. "My wife is such a big fan that she has your calendar hanging on her office wall. She'll be so upset that she wasn't here to meet you."
Hearing the explanation made everyone laughed too. When the laughter died down, the judge asked to see the order. After looking over the order the judge had no problem with signing off on it. After signing, he handed the order to Tyler but Carlos took it instead to look it over. Once he saw it was in proper order he handed it to Tyler.
Tyler thanked the judge and detective for their help. He told the judge to have his wife stop by his office on Wednesday and he'll sign her calendar if she likes. The judge said she would love it and he'll tell her when he gets home tonight.
Tyler thanked them again for their help before he and Carlos made their departure. Judge Tucker stayed behind to discuss a case with Detective Maxwell. When they got back out front, Mark asked them if everything was taken care of. "Yes, now how about we head to McDonald's for lunch? Oh shit, I still have to feed Terry."
"It's okay Tyler." Mark told him as they all walked out to the SUV. "He just finished a bottle about five minutes ago. He should be fine for a couple more hours. That'll give you enough time to have lunch yourself."
Tyler nodded as they climbed into the SUB with Carlos behind the wheel and headed for the McDonald's. On the way Tyler called Christian to see if he wanted to have lunch with them. Christian said he was having lunch with Travis so they can go over a few things and will see him at home. That was okay with Tyler. As much as he loves Christian he wouldn't stand in the way of his and Travis's friendship. By the end of the conversation they had gotten to the McDonald's so Tyler and Christian ended the call. They told each other I love you before hanging up.
After getting off the phone with Tyler, Christian went to Travis's office. "Hey man, are you ready for lunch?" Travis asked Christian if he was having lunch with Tyler. "No, I need to discuss something with you over lunch and can't do it with Ty there."
"Okay, just let me finish this paper work and I'll be ready to go." Christian said okay and sat down to wait. A couple of minutes later Travis was done and they were leaving base for lunch with Christian's two security guys behind them. "Where are we having lunch?"
"I thought we go to that Jamaican restaurant down the street. How's that sound?" Travis said that sounded good. "What about you guys?" He asked Alex and Matt who also said it sounded good and they walked to Christian's car in the parking lot.
"So what do you have to talk to me about that Tyler can't hear?" Travis asked on the way to the restaurant. "I'm guessing it has something to do with Tyler if he can't hear what it's about."
"Yeah it does." Christian then went on to tell Travis about Tyler's birthday and what he got him and that he needs Travis to take it to be wrap. He also asked Travis for his assistance in the preparation and setting up the conference room. "I'm taking the whole day off on Thursday to get everything done."
"Sounds like a plan. I have my base physical at eight on that day, but I should be done by nine. I can help you after that." Just then they got to the restaurant. After the waitress took their orders, they continued to discuss Tyler's surprise. Even Alex and Matt got in on the conversation which lasted throughout lunch. By the time they had everything situated their lunch break was over so they headed back to base.
After finishing their lunch, Tyler and his group went to the airport. When they arrived, the pilots and stewardesses were waiting. After introducing themselves they all climbed on board. Keith Janason, one of the pilots of the plane, showed them around. To Tyler's surprise both offices comes with internet access, fax machine, office phone with a private line, and copier. Tyler will need to buy a scanner for the computer though. While Keith was showing Tyler around, Tyler discussed the trip with him and made all the arrangements for Friday.
As Tyler was talking with Keith, Carlos and Mark were talking with Brad (Bradford) Jones, the co pilot of the plane. They wanted to make sure the plane was in great condition and there will be no problems with Friday's trip. Brad assured them that the plane was in top condition and there will be no problems on Friday.
At one point during the conversation Brad brought up the subject about the scandals with Cindy Campbell. "I heard about the scandals, how is Mr. Jackson doing with all of that?" Brad glanced at Tyler before turning back to Carlos and Mark. "From the looks of it, it seems like he already had put it behind him."
"You hit the nail on the head there Brad." Carlos smiled. "Tyler is the kind of person that doesn't let anything get him down. He's a strong minded person that uses all of his resources to defeat his opponents and come out on top."
"He's also the kind of person that wouldn't hesitate to use those resources to protect the people he loves." Mark added. "You won't find a better person than Tyler Jackson, he's the best!" He finished with a smile.
"I may be over stepping my bounds here, and you can tell me to butt out if you want, but I have to ask." Carlos and Mark nodded for Brad to continue. "It seems like there's more than just a business relationship going on here with you guys?"
Both guys smiled but it was Mark who answered. "You're very perspective Brad. Carlos and I are not just Tyler's head of security, we're his friends too. He trusts us completely and we trust him completely. There's nothing in the world that we wouldn't do for him, and there's nothing that he wouldn't do for us. He's our brother and we love him very much!"
Brad couldn't help to let a tear fall from his eyes. The love and loyalty Mark put into those words just made Brad want to cry. "I've always wanted a boss like that. The last boss we had couldn't care less if any of us had gotten injured in an accident, just as long as he had gotten away unharmed. I think we're going to love working for our new boss." Brad smiled with tears still running down his cheeks.
"I think Tyler is going to love having you on the payroll. Just remember, you treat him right and he'll treat you right. You hurt him in any way, then, well let's not think about that, shall we?" Carlos said with a mysterious grin which made Brad wonder what he meant about that but he decided not to ask. After all, he wasn't sure he really wanted to know.
After ten more minutes of conversation Tyler and his group made their departure telling the crew they would see them on Friday. The crew replied that they were looking forward to it. The gang then headed back to Tyler's office stopping along the way for some slurpees.
Around three o'clock Christian left the base to head to his shop at the mall. When he got there he went to check the books to see how the production on Clarkson's Fashion was going. Christian saw that the products were selling well but can be improved as time goes on. Christian wasn't worried about that though. He has about another month for the products to sell before he had to make a decision to discontinue the products.
A half an hour after arriving, Angie (Angela) Bowers, a store employee knocked on the office door to tell Christian that JR was there to see him. "Please show him back to the office Angie." Angie nodded and showed JR to the office.
When JR walked in, Christian stood up and walked around the desk to give JR a hug. "It's good to see you JR but what are you doing here? You didn't need to come all the way down here. You could have seen me at home, you know?"
"I know Uncle Chris but I wanted to talk to you without Uncle Ty around. You don't mind do you?" Christian smiled at JR calling him Uncle Chris; he had never done that before. He told JR he didn't mind and asked JR why he needed to talk with him without Tyler around. "It's about Uncle Ty. I'm worried about him. When I saw him yesterday he looked like he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders and now he's got some crazy nut following him and telling me to have my dad to hire some security for me. What's going on Uncle Chris?"
That news surprised Christian. He had no idea that someone was following Tyler. "Have a seat kiddo. There's something I need to tell you and its going to take a while."
JR sat down in a chair and Christian sat next to him instead of sitting behind his desk. Christian told him what was going on with Tyler but didn't tell him everything. He thought it was best not to tell him everything; he didn't want to have JR worry even more than he was. "As far as this guy who is following Ty goes, I don't know anything about that. Ty hasn't mentioned it to me yet." At that moment JR interrupted Christian to tell him about the guy who was following Tyler. "Then I think your uncle has a good idea about having your father hiring some security for you. This guy might go after you just to get to him."
"That's what Uncle Ty told me. I've already talked to my dad and Mr. Chang is sending a couple of security today. They should arrive here by tomorrow." JR shook his head in disbelief at his next statement. "I can't believe someone would harm an innocent person just to get to Uncle Ty."
"Some people are just ruthless in that way. They don't care who they hurt just as long as they accomplish their goal. They have no feelings for others just as long as they don't get caught in the process. It's better that you learn now that the world is full of bigoted and violent people."
JR had nothing to say to that so he just nodded. He knows Christian is right some people will destroy others if it suits their purpose. JR let out a heavy sigh of understanding. "Well, I better go. I need to get home for dinner."
Christian nodded as they stood up. He could see that JR was still a little worry. "Don't worry JR. I'll make sure that Ty doesn't get hurt in any way. You have my word on that. You just worry about being a teenager and let us adults worry about everything else."
JR gave Christian another hug and buried his face into Christian chest. "I'll try. You and Uncle Ty just make sure you keep everyone safe. I can't lose you guys." After holding the hug for another minute, JR let Christian go and said his goodbye. Before he left Christian made sure to tell him about Tyler's surprise and told him to make sure he and his father will be there.
JR said they will be and he was going to do some more shopping around for Tyler's present tomorrow. He didn't find anything he wanted to get Tyler while shopping around today. Christian gave him a few suggestions and JR said he will check them out.
Before leaving the store himself, Christian checked the schedule to find out when the next time Danny will be at the store. He needed to talk with him about a day shift manager. The schedule showed that Danny was working from ten to six tomorrow so Christian decided to talk to him sometime tomorrow.
As he was driving home, Christian kept thinking about what JR told him. He wondered why Tyler didn't mention anything to him about someone following him. He can't understand why Tyler thinks he needs to fight everyone who wants to do him harm on his own. Christian knows Tyler is strong but even the strongest person needs a shoulder to lean on for support sometimes. Christian wants to be that shoulder for Tyler but how can he get Tyler to lean on him. The more he thought about Tyler not telling him about someone following him, the angrier he got. By the time he arrived home, Christian decided to pull Tyler aside after dinner and talk to him in private about it.
When Tyler got back to his office Janet gave him a message from Justin Craimer. It seems that Joshua Williams had just gotten his first modeling job and was happy about it. The job is for a Nike's shoe commercial. "Thank you Janet. I'll call Justin to discuss it with him."
"Okay boss." Janet replied. "I also made up a list of things you will need to set up the floor for the McDonald's corporate offices. I can buy the items and arrange the delivery for you tomorrow if you like."
"Thank you Janet. That will be great because I plan on going to the base tomorrow to check out the site and models for the Hunk of the Marines calendar. I need to get that started. I really appreciate all the work you're doing for me." Janet told him it was no problem; she was just doing her job. "It's more than what is in your job requirement. I couldn't have gotten through all this without you."
"You're welcome boss!" She replied with an enthusiastic tone. Janet loves working for Tyler. Tyler always shows his appreciation. None of her other bosses had ever shown their appreciation for her work. As Tyler walked to his office Janet remember something else she wanted to tell him. "I'll also be leaving an hour early today. Brian and I are going out to dinner."
"That's fine, have a good time. I'll probably be leaving early myself." Tyler called over his shoulder before walking into his office. After putting Terry in his playpen he called Justin. Justin told him that Joshua's commercial will be taped on Monday at ten and Justin will be there to oversee the shoot. He asked for Tyler to be there also so they can have lunch together. Tyler checked his schedule and told Justin he was free so they scheduled it in their book and disconnected the call.
For the next two hours Tyler reviewed the contracts of some of his models. He has three models whose contract will be up soon so Tyler called Scanner to draw up new ones. Scanner said he will have them ready and on his desk by Thursday. Tyler thanked him and told Scanner to send him the bill for the work Scanner had done for the past month. Tyler wanted to get that bill out of the way. He hates having debts that needs to be paid off. He rather get them out of the way so he wouldn't have to worry about them in the future.
After hanging up with Scanner, he checked his accounts. Everything looked fine there so no worries. Next he checked his e-mails. The ones that were scams and junk he trashed, the ones that were about the talent search he replied back.
When all of that was taken care of, he gathered the boys to go home. By that time Janet had already left so Tyler had to make sure the office was locked down and the alarm set. As the elevator was going down to the lobby, he pulled out his cell phone and walkie talkie Carlos who was talking to the corporation head of security with Mark. "I'm on my way down now Carlos."
Carlos walkie talkie him back. "Okay Tyler. I'll have the truck out front by the time you get down here. Mark will be waiting in the lobby by the elevators for you. I'll let security know you're leaving."
Mark was sure enough waiting by the elevators when Tyler got to the lobby and the truck was out front. He grabbed Tyler's right arm because Tyler had Terry's carrier in his left hand and his cane in the right and led him out to the SUV. Tyler said good night to the security on his way out and he'll see them tomorrow. They replied back with the same response. Once everyone was buckled in, they headed for home.
Travis arrived home before everyone else had so he and Kevin started making dinner which was spaghetti. After washing their hands, Travis started cutting the onions while Kevin cut the celeries. Half way through Tyler and the others arrived home and pitched in to help.
Tyler started making the home made spaghetti sauce while Carlos brown the ground beef and Mark cut the green peppers. While the sauce was simmering Tyler boiled some water for the noodles. Once the onions, celeries, and green peppers were cut, Travis put them on the stove to steam. In the meantime, Kevin put the noodles on to boil.
When the ground beef was browned, Carlos dumped it into a strainer and placed the strainer in the sink to drain the access grease. Christian had just arrived home and kissed Tyler hello. He then washed his hands and made the garlic bread. Once the vegetables had steamed and the sauce was simmered Tyler mixed it together before adding the ground beef and mixed again before putting it into a large bowl. By now the noodles was done boiling so Kevin dumped it into another strainer to drain the water.
Meanwhile, Christian was cutting the garlic bread and Travis was making lemonade and ice tea. Since dinner was almost done Carlos and Mark started to set the table. Once the noodles were drained Kevin put that in a large bowl also. Jeff on the other hand got up from the table from where he was watching television and went to wash up. Once everything was laid out on the table they all sat down to eat.
During dinner they all talked about their day. When Christian mentioned JR coming to see him at the mall, Tyler's ears perked up. "What did he come to see you at the store for?" All Christian said was that JR was worry about him because of all the stress Tyler was under. "I'll have to talk to him. He's too young to be worrying about things like that."
"That's what I told him, but you know he worries about you just as much as you worry about him. He just wants to make sure you're safe and happy."
"I know, and I want the same for him. It's just that he's too young to be worrying about me, he a teenager after all. He should be worrying about school, dating, and being a teenager." Tyler sighed. "I'll have a talk with him tomorrow."
"Yes, I think you should do that." Christian agreed. The rest of dinner went on with general conversation and watching television. When dinner was over, everyone helped with the cleaning. Christian pulled Travis aside to speak with him. "Let's go up to my room. I need to give you Ty's present now before he and I have a talk."
Travis could hear the concern in Christian's voice but didn't say anything. Christian will tell him what is bothering him when he's ready. When they got to Christian and Tyler's room Christian went to his closet and pulled out Tyler's present. When Travis saw what the present was, he thought it was a good gift. "He's going to love this bro."
"I hope so; it's what he's been wanting for a while now." Christian smiled. "Don't forget to hide it on the top shelf in here after you get it wrap. I want it out of Ty's reach until his birthday. Ty can be snoopy sometimes." He finished with a laugh.
Travis laughed too. "Okay bro. I'll make sure to hide it on the top shelf so the surprise won't get spoiled. Besides, I'd love to see the look on his face when he finds out what you got him for his birthday." He said still laughing.
Christian went back down to the kitchen while Travis went to his and Kevin's room to hide Tyler's gift. When Christian reached the kitchen he pulled Tyler aside. "Let's go to your office, we need to talk." Tyler nodded and they went into Tyler's office. Once the door was shut, Christian released his pent upped anger. "Ty, why didn't you tell me about the guy that was following you yesterday? Don't you know I love you and would do anything for you! I can't believe you didn't tell me, instead I had to hear it from JR!"
Tyler knew he messed upped and it showed in Christian's voice. Christian tone was angry. Tyler had never seen Christian angry before, and now that he has, he's not sure he ever wants to see it again. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you babe." Tyler said apologetically. "I didn't want you to worry. You have enough on your plate with Troy and setting up your corporate office that I didn't want you worrying about me. I'm just so use to taking care of myself that it's hard to let someone else take care of me." Tyler lowered his head so Christian wouldn't see the tear that was beginning to fall.
Christian pulled Tyler close to him and wrapped him in his arms, his anger dissipating a little as Tyler held on tight. "That's just it Ty. I want to take care of you, just like you take care of me. I want you to lean on me for support and know I'll always be there for you whenever you need me."
"I know you will Chris, it's just hard for me. I always had to be the strong one. All my life I had to take care of myself and my sister because there was no one there to take care of us. Even in previous relationships I had to be the strong one. There was never a shoulder for me to lean on for support or to cry on when I needed one. Justin and my sister did what they could, but it wasn't enough. I just couldn't burden myself on them, and I can't burden myself on you."
"Ty, you're not a burden." The compassion and love in Christian's voice was unmistakable. "Lean on me whenever you need to. Cry on my shoulder whenever you need to also. Let me be your rock just like you're mine. We're in this together. You don't have to fight the world alone."
The two stood there just holding onto one another. It was a minute before Tyler spoke again. "Okay, I'll try to lean on you for support when I need it but be patient with me. I'm not use to having a crutch to lean on. I might slip up every now or then, but I'll try."
Christian promised Tyler he'll be patient just as long as Tyler remembers that Christian will be there to support him through anything and everything. Tyler said he'll remember and try to ask for help if he needs it. After a couple more minutes of just holding on to each other the two released the hug just when there was a knock at the door.
Christian opened the door to find Carlos standing there. "Sorry to interrupt you guys." Christian let him know he didn't interrupt because they had finished their conversation. "I just wanted to let Tyler know that Josh Brady is here to see him."
"Oh shit!" Tyler explained. "I forgot he's supposed to start my painting today. Tell him I'll be right there please Carlos?" Carlos said sure and went to tell Josh. "Can you take care of the boys while Josh is doing my painting? I don't know what kind of painting Josh wants to do, and I rather not have Jeff walking in and seeing something he's too young to see."
"Sure." Christian agreed with a smile. "I'll give him some ice cream and take him to the game room. He should be too busy then to walk in on anything, although I might want to take a peak myself." He teased Tyler.
"I don't think so buddy boy!" Tyler teased back. "If I'm lying there half undress with you in the room, Josh may get a picture that he might not want to paint. And that will be a picture that I definitely don't want going on auction either."
The two shared a laugh before going out to greet Josh. They found him in the living room with the others watching television and talking like they were old friends. "Hello Josh, how are you?"
Josh turned his head when he heard Tyler's voice. "Hello Mr. Jackson, I'm fine. How are you?" He said with a smile. He then saw that Christian and Tyler were holding hands. *How come I never knew that Mr. Jackson was gay? He may be the perfect person for me to talk to about some things.* He thought to himself.
"I'm fine Josh." Tyler grinned. "I'm guessing you met everyone else so let me introduce my boyfriend Christian." One of Josh's eyebrow rose when Tyler said that, which didn't go unnoticed by anyone. "I like for you to do a painting of him for the auction also. I'll pay you for your services."
Josh didn't hesitate with his answer. He'd like nothing more than to paint this gorgeous hunk of a man. "Sure Mr. Jackson. I can start his painting when I'm finish with yours. Your painting shouldn't take me no longer then a month to paint. Or I can do his painting on weekends."
"I'll leave you to work that out with Chris. Are you ready to get started?" Josh said he was. "Good, let's go up to the attic then. It's warmer up there and more private."
"Okay." Josh answered. He got up and followed Tyler to the stairs while Christian took Jeff into the kitchen for some ice cream. Before they could take their first step onto the stairs, the doorbell rang again. Tyler asked Josh to wait for him right there while he answer the door. Josh said he would and Tyler went to answer the door.
"Hello Mr. Jackson, how are you?" A young male voice answered. Tyler put his hand to his lips to indicate for silence as he invited the visitor in. "I'm sorry, am I interrupting anything?" The young male asked in a quieter voice this time.
"No, everything is fine." Tyler replied in the same quiet voice. "You'll find out in a minute why I want you to be quiet." The visitor whispered an okay and followed Tyler to the stairs. Once they reached the stairs both boys gasped. They couldn't believe what they were seeing. Standing in front of them was the object of their affection live and in person. . Tyler took this time to make the introduction. "Josh Brady, I like for you to meet..."
To Be Continued...
Writer's Corner:
We started out where we left off with the break in of Tyler's house. Mr. Donavan really got himself into a lot of trouble. For a minute there I thought Carlos was going to shoot him. Luckily Mr. Donavan did the right thing by surrendering.
In this chapter we found out what happen to Jeff while he was in Mr. Donavan custody. I put that in here because if you remember from previous chapter that Mr. Donavan is a convicted child molester. It looks like Mr. Donavan hasn't learned his lesson.
How about that ass whipping that Christian laid on Mr. Donavan? I know if someone had molested my child I would do the same thing Christian did and probably worse. Like Carlos said, Mr. Donavan should be lucky that he got an ass whipping from Christian and not Tyler. I don't think Tyler would have been able to stop.
The next day Christian interviewed his coworkers for the calendar. Some were interested and some were not. Christian didn't let that bother him though. He just crossed their name off and added other names. Give me some names guys and if I like them, I'll write them into the story.
That same morning Tyler went to the police station to file the restraining order against Mr. Donavan. One of the detectives in charge of the case knew a judge that helped him out with signing off on it. I'm glad that Tyler got the good detective and not the bad detective this time.
Christian had lunch with Travis to discuss Tyler's surprise. What do you think that surprise is? What is Tyler's present that Christian needs Travis to take to be wrapped?
After lunch, Tyler and his group went to the airport to check out the Jet and make the arrangements for Friday's trip. While they were there Tyler found out more about the plane and the pilots found out more about Tyler. Do you think this will be a good employer/employee relationship?
JR had his talk with Christian in this chapter. It looks like JR and Christian and getting closer. It put a smile on Christian's face when JR called him Uncle Chris. They also had a heart to heart talk about Tyler. It looks like JR worries about his uncle a lot. What do you think the reason for that is?
It looks like Tyler has a great relationship with his secretary as well. Janet goes beyond her call of duty and Tyler lets her know how much he appreciates her work. He showed it by letting Janet leave early for a date with her boyfriend. I wish I had a boss like that.
Christian and Tyler had their first little lover's coral. Tyler never had seen Christian angry until now. I'm glad they talked it all out. We also got another bit of insight to Tyler's character. He feels like he has to be the strong one because that's how he grew up. What went on during his childhood that made him like this? Keep reading to find out.
What do you guys think about the cliff hanger? Who is the visitor that Josh can't keep his eyes from looking at? How will this meeting turn out? Could it be the start of a new relationship? Or will it be a buss? Find out in the next chapter of Malibu Hearts or Best Friends to find that out.
One more thing you guys! My new story Malibu Hearts is located in the Gay/High School section of the Nifty Archive's if you want to read that story. It's a spin off series to Best Friends so from time to time the two stories may be involved with each other.
Editor's corner:
Hello one and all, hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as I did. So much going on and I can't wait to find out what will happen.
Romeo pretty much covered everything. One thing going through my mind while reading out of all the couples which one would you like to see trouble between? I was thinking while Carlos and Mark were talking with Brad about what if Brad made a play for Mark? I know they are all in love but it can't be perfect all the time right?
How many laughed when Tyler told Chris to take Alex and Matt with him and Chris grunted.
I still don't think that we have heard the last from Mr. Donavan.
So stick around for more exciting chapters to come. As always drop Romeo an email and let him know how you are enjoying the story. You may not think it does, but it helps an author a lot to let him know that is story is being read and enjoyed.
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Why is everyone so down on Jason Garrett?
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1. BoysFan4ever
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Speaking of Cowher he had a nice interview with Belicheck before the game this weekend.
He seems very comfortable & is doing a great job on TV.
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Or just drafting well, regardless of where they were picking. I'm not sure where people are getting the idea that they were ever so bad that they would have been able to accumulate top 10 picks for years on end.
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April 2 2013 2:58 PM
The Saudi Arabia of Sashimi
Eight tiny Pacific island nations banded together to fight pirates and change the rules of the sea.
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This move, Remengesau says, was highly unorthodox. "But," he says, smiling, "I've been in leadership long enough to understand that if you think inside the box, very little meaningful change will happen." From this new position of strength, the PNA began making a lot more changes.
Big Move No. 2 came in 2007, when the PNA flipped the divide-and-conquer game through their "vessel day scheme.” The plan limits both the number of boats in their collective waters and the total number of days those boats are allowed to fish. The PNA then auctioned off fishing days to the highest bidder. The vessel day scheme put the PNA in a position of power: Tuna-fleet nations suddenly had to outbid one another instead of playing the islands off one another, and capping the boats and days meant less tuna caught for more money.
"Because everyone will tell you," Remengesau says, "that at the rate we're going, there won't be any big-eye tuna or bluefin in the near future." (In fact, in early January, scientists released data showing that bluefin tuna in the North Pacific will soon be effectively extinct.) Remengesau leans back and takes a long sip of water. I take the moment to make sure the alligator is nowhere in sight. When he's done, he leans in a bit and tells me how the PNA created the world's largest certified sustainable purse-seine fishery.
Purse seining uses giant nets slung between boats to scoop up entire schools of tuna and, often, everything else—so-called by-catch that can include anything from sea turtles to whale sharks. Purse seiners rely heavily on the territorial waters of PNA nations, which means those vessels need fishing licenses. So the PNA made these licenses contingent on the boats following strict rules designed to limit both tuna catch and by-catch.
In effect, the PNA used its fishing licenses to create the world's largest sustainable purse-seine fishery. So sustainable, in fact, that the fishery was certified by the Marine Stewardship Council, a nonprofit organization that sets standards for sustainable fishing. Bill Holden, the MSC's Pacific fisheries manager, later told me it's rare for the nonprofit to certify a nation—or eight nations, for that matter; usually, they certify only individual boats or companies. But, he said, it's also rare for a fish-rich nation to influence the behavior of the foreign fleets plying their waters. Big Move No. 3.
Tuna's Last Stand.
But then, Remengesau says, came the Biggest Move of all.
One of the challenges the PNA faces in protecting its tuna is that tuna moves. Unlike most fish, tuna are warm-blooded, and their warm muscles make them incredibly strong swimmers. Yellowfin can reach speeds of up to 50 miles per hour and navigate enormous distances, sometimes crossing entire oceans.
"The key word here is migratory,” as Remengesau puts it. Trees, rare earth minerals, and oil don’t move, but the biggest natural resource here darts in and out of protected PNA waters, into other nations’ waters, out into lawless open ocean, and back again. “If you really understand that, you understand why international waters have to be part of the equation."
To really protect tuna, the PNA needed to somehow section off vast swaths of international waters, something that, technically, a small clutch of island countries should not be able to do since the open ocean belongs to all states.
So the PNA pulled a highly controversial move. In 2010, they again leveraged their power through their fishing licenses, telling foreign companies that if they wanted to fish the PNA’s teeming, tuna-rich territorial waters, they had to agree to not fish the international waters in between territories. Once again, purse seiners had little choice but to agree.
In one audacious act, the PNA established the world’s first protected pockets of international water—four of them—that, together with the nations’ own waters, create a 1.7 million square mile tuna highway, roughly half the size of Europe. Big Move No. 4.
In a few short years, the PNA managed to upend traditional power relations between the distant-water fishing nations and host countries, establish the first country-run MSC-certified sustainable tuna fishery, and establish vast tuna highways for the migratory fish. Not bad. | http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/04/tuna_protection_and_piracy_pna_changed_the_rules_of_the_high_seas.2.html | dclm-gs1-307240003 |
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If this weren't Washington 2014, but rather George Orwell's novel 1984, then the sign emblazoned on the front of the Ministry of Truth—"War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength"—would have to be amended to add a fourth slogan: Knowledge is Crime.
Seven Free Passes for the National Security State
1. Kidnapping.
After 9/11, the CIA got into kidnapping in a big way. At least 136 "terror suspects" and possibly many more (including completely innocent people) were kidnapped off the streets of global cities, as well as from the backlands of the planet, often with the help of local police or intelligence agencies. Fifty-four other countries were enlisted in the enterprise. The prisoners were delivered either into the Bush administration's secret global system of prisons, also known as "black sites," to be detained and mistreated, or they were "rendered" directly into the hands of torturing regimes from Egypt to Uzbekistan. No American involved has been brought to court for such illegal acts (nor did the American government ever offer an apology, no less restitution to anyone it kidnapped, even those who turned out not to be "terror suspects"). One set of CIA agents was, however, indicted in Italy for a kidnapping and rendition to Egypt. Among them was the Agency's Milan station chief Robert Seldon Lady. He had achieved brief notoriety for overseeing a la dolce vita version of rendition and later fled the country for the United States. Last year, he was briefly taken into custody in Panama, only to be spirited out of that country and back to safety by the US government.
2. Torture (and other abuses).
To be accurate, a single member of the national security state has gone to prison thanks to the CIA's torture program. That was John Kiriakou, a former CIA agent who tortured no one, but offended the Obama administrations by turning whistleblower and going public about Agency torture. He is now serving a 30-month prison sentence "for disclosing a covert operative's name to a reporter." In other words, the only crime that could be prosecuted in connection with the Agency's torture campaign was one that threatened to let the American public know more about it.
Now, however, thanks to leaks from the embattled Senate Intelligence Committee's 6,300-page report on the CIA's interrogation and torture program, we know that the Agency "used interrogation methods that weren't approved by the Justice Department or CIA headquarters." In other words, its agents went beyond even those techniques approved in the torture memos, which in turn means that they acted illegally even by the standards of the Bush administration. This should be an obvious signal for the beginning of prosecutions, but—not surprisingly—it looks like the only prosecution on the horizon might be of whoever leaked parts of the unreleased Senate report to McClatchy News.
3. The destruction of evidence of a crime.
To purposely destroy evidence in order to impede a future investigation of possible criminal acts is itself, of course, a crime. We know that such a thing did indeed happen. Jose Rodriguez, Jr., the head of CIA clandestine operations, destroyed 92 videotapes of the repeated waterboardings of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who planned the 9/11 attacks, and alleged al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah, "tapes that he had been explicitly told to preserve as part of an official investigation." The Justice Department investigated his act, but never charged him. He has since defended himself in a book, Hard Measures, saying that he was, in essence, "tired of waiting for Washington's bureaucracy to make a decision that protected American lives." He is still free and writing op-eds for the Washington Post defending the interrogation program whose tapes he destroyed.
4. The planning of an extralegal prison system.
As is now well known, a global network of extralegal prisons, or "black sites," at which acts of torture and abuse of every sort could be committed was set up at the wishes of the highest officials of the Bush administration. This system was created specifically to avoid putting terror suspects into the US legal system. In that sense, it was by definition extralegal, if not illegal. It represented, that is, a concerted effort to avoid any of the constraints or oversight that US law or the US courts might have imposed on the treatment of detainees. This was a well-planned crime committed not under the rubric of war against any specific power, but of a global war without end against al-Qaeda and like-minded groups.
5. The killing of detainees in that extralegal system.
The deaths of detainees in CIA custody in offshore (or borrowed) prisons as a result of harsh treatment ordered by their Agency handlers was not considered a crime. In two cases—in the "Salt Pit" in Afghanistan and at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq—such deaths were investigated by the Justice Department, but no one was ever charged. In the case of Gul Rahman, the prisoner in the Salt Pit, according to the Washington Post, "a CIA officer allegedly ordered Afghan guards in November 2002 to strip Rahman and chain him to the concrete floor of his cell. Temperatures plunged overnight, and Rahman froze to death. Hypothermia was listed as the cause of death and Rahman was buried in an unmarked grave." (In a rare case brought before a military court, a low-level Army interrogator was convicted of "killing an Iraqi general by stuffing him face-first into a sleeping bag," and sentenced to "forfeit $6,000 of his salary over the next four months, receive a formal reprimand, and spend 60 days restricted to his home, office, and church.")
6. Assassination.
Once upon a time, off-the-books assassination was generally a rare act of state and always one that presidents could deny responsibility for. Now, it is part of everyday life in the White House and at the CIA. The president's role as assassin-in-chief, as the man who quite literally makes the final decision on whom to kill, has been all-but-publicly promoted as a political plus. The drone assassination campaigns in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, though "covert" and run by a civilian agency (with much secret help from the US Air Force) are openly reported on in the media and discussed as a seeming point of pride by those involved. In 2009, for instance, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta didn't hesitate to enthusiastically praise the drone attacks in Pakistan as "the only game in town." And best of all, they are "legal." We know this because the White House had the Justice Department prepare a 50-page document on their legality that it has refused to release to the public. In these campaigns in the backlands of distant places where there are seldom reporters, we nonetheless know that thousands of people have died, including significant numbers of children. Being run by a civilian agency, they cannot in any normal sense be "acts of war." In another world, they would certainly be considered illegal and possibly war crimes, as Christof Heyns, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, has suggested. Top officials have taken responsibility for these acts, including the drone killings in Yemen of four American citizens condemned to death by a White House that has enthusiastically taken on the role of judge, jury, and executioner. No one involved, however, will ever see a day in court.
7. Perjury before Congress.
Lying to Congress in public testimony is, of course, perjury. Among others, we know that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper committed it in a strikingly bald-faced way on March 12, 2013. When asked by Senator Ron Wyden whether the NSA had gathered "any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans"—a question submitted to him a day in advance—Clapper answered, "No, sir. Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly." This was a lie, pure and simple, as the Snowden revelations on the NSA's gathering of phone metadata on all Americans (including, assumedly, our congressional representatives) would later make clear. Clapper subsequently apologized, saying that he spoke in what he called "the least untruthful" way possible, which, were crime on anyone's mind, would essentially have been a confession. Congress did nothing. Just in case you wondered, Clapper remains the director of national intelligence with the "support" of the president.
Mind you, the above seven categories don't even take into account the sort of warrantless surveillance of Americans that should have put someone in a court of law, or the ways in which various warrior corporations overbilled or cheated the government in its war zones, or the ways private contractors "ran wild" in those same zones. Even relatively low-level crimes by minor figures in the national security state have normally not been criminalized. Take, for example, the private surveillance of and cyberstalking of "love interests," or "LOVEINT," by NSA employees using government surveillance systems. The NSA claims that at least one employee was "disciplined" for this, but no one was taken to court. A rare exception: a number of low level military figures in the Abu Ghraib scandal were tried for their abusive actions, convicted, and sent to jail, though no one higher than a colonel was held accountable in court for those infamously systematic and organized acts of torture and abuse.
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YMMV: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Broken Base: Reviewers, fans, casual viewers, all possible groups are split!
• The Character Died with Him: Denholm Elliott, who portrayed Indy's friend and college Marcus Brody in the previous films, died in 1992. In this film, it is explained by Indy saying that Marcus passed away sometime between Last Crusade and now.
• Contested Sequel
• Critical Dissonance: Critics generally enjoyed it, while fans seem to loathe it. On Rotten Tomatoes, the audience score is lower than the critics score.
• Fanfic Fuel: This installment definitively establishes that Indy was an active OSS agent for the entirety of World War II proper note , and that he spent around a decade spying against the Soviets with the CIA during the Cold War. That's around seventeen years of undocumented high-stakes adventures.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Since this is to Indiana Jones fans what the prequels were to Star Wars fans, a lot of Indy fans like to pretend this film doesn't exist.
• Inferred Holocaust: The tribe that lived near the temple most likely were killed by the departing spacescraft or drowned by the river flooding the valley.
• At least, any who remained after the Russians gunned down all the tribesmen who were guarding the temple, as shown on-screen.
• Memetic Mutation: Nuking the fridge.
• Mis-blamed: Lucas gets blamed for the decision to make Soviets the villains rather than Nazis like in the previous films. In reality, due to the harrowing experience of making Schindler's List, Spielberg felt he could no longer make movies featuring Nazis as simply stock villains, although Harrison Ford's advanced age since the previous film also accounted for it.
• Narm: At the end when Indy says the secret Mayan treasure was knowledge. "Knowledge was their treasure." And he says this with a big stupid grin while the cast looks at the camera.
• Older Than They Think: The 1999 video-game Indiana Jones And The Infernal Machine used Soviets as villains and featured Sufficiently Advanced Aliens from another dimension as a major plot point about nine years before this movie did.
• The original 1982 Back to the Future script featured Marty McFly surviving a nuclear blast in a fridge-time machine, in order to return to the present. This was scrapped because it was too expensive to pull off, and there were concerns that kids who watched the movie might climb into abandoned refrigerators to "play Marty." If that sounds at all familiar, it's because Spielberg was also executive producer of that film, and also used the idea in an earlier version of the script in the earlier years of the franchise that was later adapted into this movie.
• One True Pairing: There is one aspect of this movie about which pretty much everyone can agree, and that is that Karen Allen's return as Marion Ravenwood is FUCKING AWESOME.
• The Scrappy: Mutt, to some people. It doesn't help that he's played by Shia Labeouf.
• Special Effect Failure: The prairie dogs, the monkeys and the aliens have been derided for this. The chase scene in the final act utilizes a good deal of green screen.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: A common complaint of its disappointed viewers. Some long term fans criticized the heavy emphasis on CGI for many of its action set pieces (and in general) when the original trilogy was famous for its now iconic stunt work and great use of practical effects alongside CGI. Others feel the shift away from supernatural/fantasy elements towards sci-fi and aliens was a move too far.
• They Just Didn't Care: Like the Star Wars prequel trilogy that came before it, this long delayed 4th Indy film is often bashed due to the writing, which is viewed as so inferior to that of the first three films that most fans and critics just can't shake the feeling that no one really cared about the film while working on it.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: So much could have been done with examining how hard it would be for Indy to still have adventures at his advanced age, but the final product feels more like an excuse for Ford and co play out their older guy hero fantasies.
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Whereas a locked cell phone will only accept SIM cards from its current provider, an unlocked cell phone will accept a SIM card from any service provider. (This is very useful if you want to use your phone abroad, for example.) To identify an unlocked cell phone, follow these steps.
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Power down your cell phone, remove the battery cover and battery, then look for the SIM card.
• If you cannot find a SIM card in the back, look for one in the side or top of the phone. It may be covered by a small plastic flap. On some models, you will need to open the flap with a pin.
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• If your cell phone operates without a SIM card, it is a CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access) phone, as opposed to the more common GSM (Global System for Mobile communication). CDMAs cannot be unlocked.
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Insert a different service provider's SIM card into your phone and close it back up. For example, if you have TMobile, insert a Cingular SIM card. The easiest way to do this is to borrow a phone from a friend.
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Power up your phone.
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Try to access the phone book or make a call. If the phone functions normally, you have an unlocked cell phone. If it says “Restricted,” “Contact Service Provider,” etc. (in other words , doesn’t allow you to access your phone book or make calls), you have a locked phone that won’t accept other SIM cards from other providers.
• With an unlocked phone you are able to use phones with any SIM cards including international SIM cards.
• Some ways of unlocking phones are illegal and is advised against.
• There are many methods to unlocking phones, but the best way to obtain an unlocked phone is purchasing one directly from the manufacturer.
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Her husband is in exile. Her daughter is handicapped. Her country is in ruin. And the pope? He barely registered. Welcome to Sonia Gonzalez's life.
Sonia Gonzalez leads her three-year-old daughter down an unlighted flight of wooden stairs and out the front door of their apartment building into the dazzling sun over Havana, fiery even in January. Her face set in grim concentration, she unfolds a borrowed stroller and tells the child, Sonia Maria Elizondo, to hop in. This morning her daughter decides not to fuss, and mother and daughter set off briskly, heading northeast on Avenida 17, crossing busy Calle 42, deftly negotiating in black midheeled pumps the jagged ruts, piled garbage, and mud patches along the aged sidewalks of the city's Playa district.
"AOye, chica!" calls a worn-faced man in dingy T-shirt and dungarees as he rushes across the street to greet Sonia. He's a friend she hasn't seen in months, and he inquires about Sonia Maria's godmother, who recently moved to Spain. "She called you twice before she left," Sonia tells the man, "but couldn't reach you."
"Ah, bueno," he says; faulty communication in Havana is hardly unusual. Then he smiles down at Sonia Maria. "Hasn't that baby grown so big, Anina! So did you watch the pope yesterday?" Pope John Paul II had arrived for his historic visit to Cuba and celebrated a mass in Santa Clara the day before; the papal tour is an obligatory part of every conversation. "Sure," Sonia says, even though she'd caught only a bit of the live broadcast and won't have time to watch much of the ceremonies in CamagYey later this day.
Almost every weekday morning at about eight -- the time she should be working at her job as a mechanical engineer, selling machine components to manufacturers -- Sonia makes this trek to a clinic for her daughter's hourlong physical therapy. Sonia Maria was born with a malformation of her feet that has required surgery and months of therapy.
Sonia is 27 years old, her smooth brown face and black Asian eyes (characteristic of her mother's side of the family) framed by long ringlets she usually pulls back in a braid or bun. She is dressed for work in ivory pants and black, lacy blouse. Her daughter has the same dark, cottony hair but her father's down-turned eyes.
Two oversize posters adorn the walls of the small physical therapy room: One touts the legendary Tropicana nightclub; another features a happy couple standing next to a bright red Nissan Sentra they've rented from Havanauto, the state rental-car enterprise. "Somos los primeros," the print proclaims. "We're number one." Interspersed among the posters are graphic color photos of patients with missing legs, burned arms, arthritic hips. Against the far wall a man lies on his side on a flat examining table, two heated discs placed on his left hip, which is covered by a towel. A woman in a skirt and full slip sits in a chair with a heat lamp trained on her upper spine.
Sonia Maria's therapist arrives and promptly pours herself a thimble of thick, sugary coffee from a red thermos. Behind her enters Teresita, one of the clinic supervisors, carrying two of the posters that are everywhere in the city these days: the pope against a brilliant azure background. Teresita sits at a desk and unfurls them. She gazes down for a moment. "Ay, Santo Padre," she sighs. "May you bring us tranquillity ... unity ... peace." Then she rises quickly and strides to the center of the room. Reaching out a hand in mock blessing, she addresses her audience: "The pope sees a jinetera [prostitute]," she begins. "'!Carisimo!' he says to the jinetera. 'No,' she replies --" and Teresita spreads her arms and shimmies her insubstantial chest. 'ABaratisima!'" (It is a play on the church blessing, with Spanish words for "very expensive" and "very cheap.")
At this cue, therapists and patients begin to offer their own papal jokes. There are a thousand going around Havana these days, and many extremely obscure or obscene puns. At the same time, with their penchant for embracing the contradictory and tenebrous, Cubans are putting on a passionate display of piety in honor of the pope's unprecedented visit to their island. They crowd into churches, cheer the passing of the Popemobile, and decorate their homes with images of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Virgin of Charity, Cuba's patroness. They voice hope that the Holy Father will somehow impel change in their unworkable economic system, somehow encourage Cuban families to unite instead of dispersing to other parts of the world. But they also say that five days of comfort and joy can't possibly have a lasting influence on their lives or their nation.
Unlike the many Cubans gathering around kitchen tables or front porches to debate the meaning of the visit, unfiltered cigarettes in one hand and glasses of rum in the other, Sonia Gonzalez doesn't allow herself the luxury of speculation. There was a time she might have been likely to discuss the significance of the occasion with her father, a party militante, back when she was a student and member of the communist youth party. But that was before her life got much harder. The pope is not going to bring back her father, who died almost two years ago, or her husband, who, three and a half years ago, left for Miami with no advance word to anyone, without knowing Sonia was pregnant.
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by Christopher Ness
1. God the Father’s election, God the Son’s redemption, and God the Holy Ghost’s sanctification, must all be of equal extent and latitude; but universal redemption, in the Arminian sense of it, makes these unequal.
This is clear; for as the Father, Word, and Spirit are One in essence, so are they One in willing, working, and witnessing the redemption of sinners. As there are Three that bear witness on earth, the Spirit, the water, and the blood; so there are Three which bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; “and these Three agree in one” (1Jo 5:6,8). Whom the Father elects, the Son redeems, and the Holy Ghost sanctifies. If then there be a universal redemption there must be a universal election, and a universal sanctification also, and so, by consequence, a universal salvation. That the Son redeems no more than the Father elects is evident from two scriptures. The first is Joh 5:23, which declares the Son must be honoured as equal with the Father; but, to say that the Son redeemed all, and the Father elected but few, is to give greater honour to the One than to the Other, and to make an inequality in Their operations. The second scripture is Joh 17:9,10: “All Thine are Mine and all Mine are Thine,” etc. They were the Father’s by electing love, and they became the Son’s by gift and redemption: “Thine they were, and Thou gavest them Me” (Joh 17:6). Christ redeems only those whom the Father gave unto Him. Hence God’s “book of life” wherein the number of the elect is recorded, is called also the “Lamb’s book of life; intimating that the number of those elected by the Father is commensurate with those redeemed by the Son. That Christ redeems no greater number than the Spirit sanctifies is evident from 1Jo 5:6,7; there must be water to sanctify where there is blood to redeem. Christ’s oblation is not of larger extent than the Spirit’s operation. Thus it is most apparent that all the three Persons in the Trinity have one object and one design of love. They are equal in essence, equal in honour, and equal in operation.
2. The benefits of Christ’s death and resurrection are of equal extent in their objects; but the benefit of Christ’s resurrection is not extended to all.
That the benefit of Christ’s resurrection is not extended to all and everyone alike, but is peculiar to believers, is acknowledged even by the Arminians. That the death and resurrection of Christ are of equal extent in their objects is evident from Ro 8:33,34 (they are both put together), “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect,” for whom Christ died? Who can condemn those for whom Christ was raised? Those for whom Christ died and rose again cannot be condemned. “Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification (Ro 4:25). Those that have the fruit of Christ’s battle have the fruit of His victory also; but this cannot be said of all men, for on some the wrath of God abideth (Joh 3:36).
3. The benefit of Christ’s death and intercession are of equal extent in their objects; but Christ intercedes not for all.
All are sinners: and every sinner must die, either in himself or his Surety, for “the wages of sin is death. And the suretyship of Christ consists of this, that He died for us (Ro 6:23). He was “made a curse for us,” that is, in our stead (Ga 3:13; 2Co 5:21). Judah was surety for Benjamin’s safety (Ge 44:32), and Christ is the surety of the new covenant (Heb 7:22); He took upon Him our sins in His death (Isa 53:4-8; 1Pe 2:24). If Christ was a surety for all, then He offered up a satisfaction for all, in becoming sin, and bearing the curse and wrath of God in their stead. But this is not done for all; for Christ knows not workers of iniquity, and of them He says, I never knew you” (Mt 7:23); yet He knows His sheep, and He laid down His life for them (Joh 10:11-15).
This is plain from several scriptures. The good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep . . . (I) know My sheep, and am known of Mine . . . and I lay down My life for My sheep” (Joh 10:11-15). Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are My friends” (Joh 5:13, 14). “Feed the church, which He hath purchased with His own blood (Ac 20:28). “Christ loved the church, and gave Himself for it (Eph 5:25). Christ died for such as were Paul and Titus, not such as were Pharaoh and Judas, who were “goats” and not “sheep” (Mt 25:33). He died to save His people from their sins, and therefore His name was called Jesus (Mt 1:21); who are called the “redeemed of the Lord” (Ps 107:2). Now since those for whom Christ died are such as “hear His voice and follow Him, to whom He “gives eternal life” (Joh 10:27, 28), such as He sanctifies, and cleanses, and presents to Himself without spot or wrinkle” (Eph 5:27), and such as He hath “redeemed from all iniquity, to purify them to Himself a peculiar people” (Tit 2:14), such as are His people, His chosen, His children, it cannot be intended for all unless we say that Pharaoh, Judas, etc., were of the sheep, friends, and church of Christ. It is true He died for enemies (Ro 5:10), but it was to reconcile them to God; such were the believing Romans, who being Gentiles, Christ called “other sheep,” not of the Jewish fold.
7. Those for whom Christ’s death was intended, to them it must be applied; but it is not applied to all, therefore it was not intended for all.
The end and design cannot be severed from the action to accomplish that end. Christ’s aim being to bestow what he obtains, He obtains nothing but what He applies. He Himself speaks of some from whom the gospel was hid, and of others to whom it was revealed or made known. Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes” (Mt 11:25). The sum total of the intercession of Christ is, that what He has obtained may be applied, (see John 17 throughout).
Sin hinders reconciliation; and Christ’s death is a propitiation for sin (Ro 3:25), so that all for whom Christ died must be reconciled to God; the death of Christ is the cause, and reconciliation the effect following the cause. If all be reconciled, all must be saved, and nothing can be laid to the charge of any. Take away the sin, and you acquit the sinner. But to grant such an acquittance and reconciliation to all brings in many absurdities; for upon this hypothesis it follows, 1st that Cain, Pharaoh etc., were reconciled to God by Christ’s death when they were (at the time of Christ’s dying) in the torments of hell, and never to be delivered therefrom. 2nd, that God damns reconciled persons. 3rd, that God takes double pay for one fault, in punishing both the Surety and the debtor. 4th, that Christ’s reconciling of some is ineffectual, etc. But these things are not so; for to those for whom Christ died repentance is granted, and remission of sins (Ac 5:31); to them is given freedom from the slavery of sin, and regeneration to newness of life (Ro 6:6 Heb 2:14,15); on them is bestowed purifying grace, “purifying their hearts by faith” (Ac 15:9); they have the blood of Christ to purge their conscience from dead works, that they may serve the living God (Heb 9:14), and theirs is life eternal: “I give to them eternal life, and they shall never perish (Joh 10:28). All these fruits are evidences of our reconciliation by Christ’s death.
It is true Christ is said to give His life a ransom for all:” but not for all men, or for every man individually; the Scripture is the best expounder of itself, and the “all” is rendered “many in Mt 20:28, and Mr 10:45: “The Son of man came to give His life a ransom for many. My blood is shed for many, for the remission of sins (Mt 26:28). And it is so frequently restrained to His sheep, friends, church, believers, chosen, and such as are given to Christ, that it must mean some of all sorts; which, in equivalent terms, is clearly expressed in Re 5:9, 10: Thou hast redeemed us out of every kindred and tongue, and people and nation.” Therefore the word “all” must be taken for all the elect, all His church, all His children that the Father hath given Him, etc., not all men universally, and every man individually.
First, It opposes His justice. If Christ redeemed Pharaoh and Judas, then redeemed souls are unjustly damned; this hypothesis sets the death of Christ in direct opposition to God’s justice. And how could Christ die for Judas’ sin when Christ’s death was his very sin?
Third, It opposes His power. If Christ died intentionally (as to God) for all, then God’s intentions are frustrated, since all are not saved. Then God is not omnipotent if crossed in His designs by the work of His own hands. And to say that freedom was obtained by Christ’s death for those who are not set free is ridiculous, and making a laughing stock of religion.
The Extent of the Atonement
1. All the sins of all men, 2. All the sins of some men, or 3.Some of the sins of all men.
In which case it may be said:
a. That if the last be true, all men have some sins to answer for, and so none are saved. b. That if the second be true, then Christ, in their stead suffered for all the sins of all the elect in the whole world, and this is the truth. c. But if the first be the case, why are not all men free from the punishment due unto their sins?
Objections Against Particular Redemption Answered
Objection 2. The words “all and every,” often used in Scripture, must be taken universally.
Answer: 1. All” and “every must not be taken for a universal affirmative collectively, and for every man individually, in the common quoted scriptures; but distributively, as in Mt 9:35, where we are told that Christ went about healing every sickness and every disease among the people: that is, any and every kind of disease, for Christ healed not every disease individually. Also in Col 1:28, where every” is taken distributively three times over, and must be restricted to those to whom Paul preached.
2. All” in 1Ti 2:4, cannot be taken for every man individually, since it is not the will of God that all men in this large sense should be saved: for it is His will that some men should be damned, and that very justly, for their sins and transgressions. Unto some men it will be said, “Depart, ye cursed, into everlasting fire.” If God willeth all men to be saved, then all men will be saved, for “He (God) doeth according to His will in the army of Heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth (Da 4:35). God faileth not, He cannot be disappointed in His own will, for He worketh all things after the counsel of it. Again, in Heb 2:9, Jesus is said to “taste death for every [man];” it is in the very next verse restricted to “sons brought to glory,” and in Heb 2:11, to “sanctified ones. 1Ti 2:6 (“who gave Himself a ransom for all”) is rendered in the parallel text in Tit 2:14, “who gave Himself for us.” Now, who are the persons called “us” in this text? Are they not particularized as redeemed from all iniquity, purified and made a peculiar people?” For all” of this description Christ gave Himself a ransom, and for none else.
The prophet David saith, “All men are liars;” take the word strictly, and he must be a liar that saith so.
Objection 3. In Joh 3:16, and in 1Jo 2:2, it is declared that God gave Christ for the world,” and for the sins of the whole world; which must be taken literally.
Answer: 1. The word “world” is of various significations. A decree went out that all the world should be taxed (Lu 2:1), that is, the Roman empire and such countries in subjection thereto. The faith of the church of Rome was spoken of throughout the whole world” (Ro 1:8), that is, throughout all the churches, and among all the saints in the world. When the Pharisees said to Christ, Behold, the world is gone after Him” (Joh 12:19), by reference we find that they meant “much people who went out of Jerusalem to meet Jesus, crying, “Hosanna” (Joh 12:12,13). The Pharisees themselves, who so said, they were not gone after Christ; therefore the whole world was not gone, they themselves not being gone. So Joh 3:16: “God so loved the world cannot be understood of the world in a strict sense, for so birds, beasts, fishes, and all inanimate things are comprehended, which cannot have everlasting life; nor can it be the world of men, but as God is the Preserver of both man and beast (Ps 31:6). There is God’s love to creatures, His love to men, and His love to good men. God’s love was the cause of His sending Christ, and the word “whosoever” (in the verse) restrains this love of God to some and not to others. It must therefore be properly God’s love to good men, the third love; not such as He found good, but such as He made so.
2. There is a world of believers (Re 5:9); and as manna was only for Israel, so Christ, the true manna, the Bread from Heaven, gives life to the world of believers only (Joh 6:33). Christ was believed on in the world of believers only (1Ti 3:16); the reconciled world (2Co 5:19): and all men have not faith” (2Th 3:2). There is also the world of unbelievers. “All the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon” (Re 13:3,4). “The whole world lieth in wickedness” (1Jo 5:19). The believing world is a world in the world (“these are in the world,” Joh 17:11); and they are taken and chosen out of the world. They are in the world, and sojourning among the inhabitants of it as strangers and pilgrims only, this not being their rest, their home; their desires being towards a better country (Heb 11:13-16). And that they are taken and chosen out of the world and given to Christ is clear from Joh 15:19: If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore, the world hateth you.” Also from Joh 17:6,9: “I have manifested Thy Name unto the men which Thou gavest Me out of the world . . . I pray for them; I pray not for the world.
“Zion’s garden wall’d around, Chosen and made peculiar ground; A little spot, enclosed by grace, Out of the world’s wide wilderness.”
3. It is granted that God hath a respect for all mankind. “We trust,” saith Paul, in the living God, who is the Saviour,” i.e., the Preserver, “of all men, especially of those that believe” (1Ti 4:10). The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works (Ps 145:9). “He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good; and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust” (Mt 5:45). All this implies not eternal preservation, but only temporal providence and preservation; for the wages of sin would have been paid at the birth of it, and the world (through confusion by sin) would have fallen about Adam’s ears, had not Christ been the glorious undertaker.
4. The word “world” is sometimes in Scripture put for Gentiles in opposition to Jews, and so it is in 1Jo 2:2. John wrote to the Jews, and ministered unto the circumcision (see Ga 2:9), and he says unto them, Christ is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world,” that is, not for the Jews only, but for the Gentiles also. The Jewish nation considered themselves as the peculiar people of God; and so they were, for to them “pertained the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises.” And Christ was a Jew, of whom concerning the flesh Christ came (Ro 9:4,5). The Jews were always taught to appropriate the Messiah exclusively to themselves, to the utter rejection of the Gentiles, who were called “strangers,” “uncircumcised, common, unclean, dogs,” etc. And it was unlawful for a Jew to keep company or have any dealings with a Gentile (see Mt 10:5; Mr 7:17; Ac 10:28, and Ac 11:3). The salvation of the Gentiles is in various parts of Scripture called a “mystery, hidden mystery;” the “mystery of Christ which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men … that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs” (Eph 3:4-6; Col 1:27). But when this mystery was revealed and made fully known by the divine mission to Paul, who was by Christ sent to preach to the Gentiles (Ac 26:17,18), when it was declared by the vision of the unclean beasts and the Lord’s consequent commission to Peter (Ac 10:9-15,20), then the contentions of the circumcision ceased (Ac 11:2,3); they found “the middle wall of partition between Jew and Gentile was “broken down;” the latter, who before were “aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise,” being now “brought nigh by the blood of Christ.” They glorified God saying, “Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.” Jesus Christ is not only the propitiation for the sins of us Jews, but for the Gentiles also (Eph 2:11-18).
5. The foregoing is proved from Ro 11:12, where the two words, “world” and “Gentiles,” are both used as signifying one and the same thing. “If the fall of them (Jews) be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
“It was a controversy agitated among the Jewish doctors whether, when the Messiah came, the Gentiles, the ‘world’ should have any benefit by Him. The majority was exceeding large on the negative of the question; only some few, as old Simeon and others, knew that He should be ‘a light to lighten the Gentiles,’ as well as ‘the glory of His people of Israel.’ The rest concluded that the most severe judgments and dreadful calamities would befall the Gentiles; yea, that they should be cast into hell, in the room of the Israelites” (Dr. John Gill).
Answer: 1. There is a difference between a necessary extension and a voluntary one. Adam’s sin was extensive necessarily, but salvation by Christ is of free grace, wholly of God’s pleasure, and is therefore called the “free gift” (Ro 5:15).
2. Christ is nowhere compared to Adam in the extent of His object, but only in the efficacy of His obedience. All, and everyone, are not in Christ radically, as they were in Adam; all are not given to Christ; but as many (saith Christ) as Thou has given Me.” As all the offspring of Adam fell by his sin, so all that are Christ’s are saved by His death; as all that are in Adam die, so all that are in Christ are made alive (1Co 15:22).
3. That the apostle might not be misunderstood, and the word “all” in Ro 5:18 taken universally, the term of comprehension is varied in the following verse, and “all” is rendered “many. By the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Objection 5. In Ro 14:15, it is said, destroy not him for whom Christ died. And in 2Pe 2:1, persons are described as “denying the Lord that bought them.
Answer: 1. Everlasting destruction cannot be intended by the word destroy in Ro 14:15, and the context shows this; for the apostle, throughout the chapter, is exhorting the believing Romans not to contemn or condemn one another on account of things indifferent; neither to destroy the weak believer’s peace of mind by doing anything (which although it be indifferent, and not evil in itself) may yet prove a stumbling-block to him. I am persuaded, says Paul, “that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth anything unclean, to him it is unclean. If thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not” (by thy conduct in eating meat esteemed by thy brother unclean) the peace of mind of one of the weaklings of that flock “for which Christ died.” Put not a stumbling-block, or an occasion of falling or offence in thy weak brother’s way (Ro 14:13-15). “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. Give none offense” (1Co 10:31,32). To the same purport is 1 Corinthians 8 throughout.
2. The persons spoken of in 2Pe 2:1, as “denying the Lord that bought them,” are described by the apostle thus, “false teachers” — hypocritical professors, tares among the wheat (Mt 13:25,38), in whom was never the root of the matter; not bought and redeemed by Christ from eternal death, but had merely escaped, or abstained, from the pollutions of the world through a theoretical knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (2Pe 2:20). To answer certain purposes, they made an outward profession of the gospel, which obliged them for a space to be outwardly moral; associated with the people of God, insinuated themselves into churches, privily introduced therein damnable heresies. Many followed their pernicious ways, by reason of whom the way of truth was evil spoken of, and they made merchandise of true believers. They continued thus for a while, and then either their sheep’s clothing was stripped off them, or they threw it off themselves, and returned back again into the world. They were all this while “goats” and not “sheep;” ravening wolves, not gentle lambs. And Peter closes the chapter concerning them by saying, “It is happened to them according to the true proverb. The dog is turned to its own vomit again, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire” (2Pe 2:1-3,17-22).
3. The apostle (2Pe 2:1) does not appear to be there speaking concerning the purchase of the Redeemer’s blood, the name or title, Lord (Greek, depotes), is nowhere else applied to Christ in the New Testament, but to the Father, as in Lu 2:29; Ac 4:24; 2Ti 2:22; and especially in Jude 4, where “the only Lord God is distinguished from “our Lord Jesus Christ. And even though it could be proved to apply to Christ in the above text, it may be explained upon the principle that it is no unusual thing with the inspired writers to speak of things not as they actually are, but according to the profession of the party. Thus, for instance, (Mt 13:12): Whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath” that is, which he seemeth to have,” as explained in Lu 8:18. Thus apostates are said to be “twice dead,” which would seem to import that they had been spiritually alive, though in fact that was never the case, but merely what they professed to be.
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true enough joe296, but consider....the "unwed airheads walking around with bloated bellies, welfare checks, food stamps and other governmental supports" also get to vote and they keep voting for more free stuff and will continue to do so until the sun becomes a burned out acorn. one could argue ( @ the risk of being beheaded by a feminist ) that the real origin of our demise could just be the women's vote. of course, i am aware that something like 40% of women don't vote for this sewage but that also means that 60% DO. just consider that but don't tell your mom, sister, wife, girlfriend or female
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<em>SAN JOSE, CA - NOVEMBER 19: (L-R) Mauricio Rua and Dan Henderson wrap each other up during an UFC Light Heavyweight bout at the HP Pavillion on November 19, 2011 in San Jose, California. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)</em>
Fans expected fireworks when former Pride standouts Dan Henderson and Mauricio "Shogun" Rua finally met last night (November 19, 2011) in the main event of UFC 139, although something tells me they didn't expect one of the greatest fights of all time.
The two heavy-handed strikers collided with a furious force that had the HP Pavilion rocking from start to finish in a back and forth battle filled with knockdowns, H-bombs and boatloads of blood.
Henderson had all the momentum early but as the fight wore on, Shogun took over and showcased tremendous heart, although miraculously neither man could finish the other.
When it finally came time to tally the scorecards, it was ruled unanimously in favor of Henderson, the former Pride and Strikeforce champion.
So what key factors allowed him to pull out the victory? And where do both of these warriors go from here?
Henderson got off to a terrific start, blasting Rua with a short uppercut, threatening with a guillotine choke and then unloading on the Brazilian with a huge flurry of strikes while "Shogun" was forced to cover up against the fence and absorb every blow.
Rua would bounce back with a right hand that connected behind the ear and dropped Henderson, but just like his fight with Rafael Cavalcante, "Hendo" grabbed a single leg and escaped danger with the the threat of a takedown.
The pace slowed slightly in round two as both men tried to catch their breath in the clinch, but that didn't stop Henderson from unleashing one of the nastiest combinations of his storied career.
He tags "Shogun" with a probing left hand primarily used to gauge the perfect distance for his lethal right and then crushes the Brazilian with a perfect right cross to the chin.
Watch how just as Shogun covers up to protect his eyes, Henderson finds the perfect window to slip in a beautiful uppercut and he continued to press forward.
While rounds one and two were entertaining, round three was what this fight will likely be remembered for. Henderson was slightly in control but then seized it with another terrific setup for his big bomb of a right hand.
4_mediumWhat how Henderson creates an opening for his right hand by connecting with a nice inside leg kick.
With "Shogun" off balance slightly and forced to stay directly in front of him even for a brief instant, Henderson explodes forward with a big right hook that blasts the Brazilian in the side of the head.
Shogun came within seconds of being stopped here as "Hendo" swarmed him with a huge flurry of strikes but referee Josh Rosenthal allowed it to continue.
Rua held on to Henderson for dear life in a body lock with the faint hope that the Strikeforce light heavyweight champion would be too tired to finish him off. His prayers were answered when his American opponent finally slowed down long enough to give him an opportunity to respond.
Not only did he respond, but he threatened to end the fight with a heel hook and when Henderson backed off, "Shogun" got to his feet and took him down at the end of the round, something that likely saved him from a 10-8.
From this point on, both men were exhausted, but Rua was the slightly fresher man and he showed his pure heart and determination by winning round four and then dominating round five with his offensive grappling.
Despite the fact that he had absorbed more punishment than a masochist at a dominatrix convention, Rua went to work on his clearly gassed foe with the utilization of some slick trip takedowns.
Not content to simply ride out the end of the fourth and the entire fifth rounds, Rua passed Henderson's guard like butter, actually taking the mount six total times in the final two frames.
He spent a heavy majority of the fifth round in full mount, but exhaustion and the damage absorbed had taken their toll on him as well and he couldn't put forth enough offense to force a stoppage.
Thus, the reason for the judges, who all gave the fight to Henderson 48-47 to give the former Olympian a unanimous decision. We can complain all we want about how the fifth round should have been a 10-8 and the fight should have been ruled a draw, but it will still go down as one of the most memorable, violent and dramatic fights in UFC history.
For "Shogun" Rua, he is very lucky that this fight was five rounds. If it had simply been three, it would have been a dominant clean sweep across the boards for Henderson. The extra two rounds gave him a chance to come back but he needed to be more effective early. Where were his kicks? It appeared that he got suckered into a punching exchange and while he's got heavy hands of his own, you simply don't want to go blow-for-blow with Dan freaking Henderson. If he'd been able to establish some leg and body kicks, that would have really taken some of the zest out of "Hendo's" power strikes.
Depending on how long he's going to be out of commission after a tremendous war like that, Rua has plenty of options for future opponents. Quinton Jackson called him out for UFC Japan after losing his title shot to Jon Jones and that would be a terrific rematch. Other possibilities include Strikeforce light heavyweights like Gegard Mousasi or "King" Mo Lawal, who may both be coming to the UFC soon.
For Dan Henderson, he was on fire for three rounds. He's proven time and time again that he can find creative ways to set up the huge right hand and by doing so, he's more than just a one-punch knockout artist. He set up his right hand with leg kicks, jabs, body punches, you name it. Despite knowing it's coming, it's still very difficult to actually predict when it's coming. If he has anything to work on after that fight, it's the conditioning. He was clearly exhausted in round five and that's the type of thing that could cost him if he were to fight for a title in 2012.
In regards to potential upcoming opponents, Dana White mentioned that Dan Henderson can have a title shot at middleweight or light heavyweight if he wants it, although he'd still be second in line at both weight classes behind Chael Sonnen and Rashad Evans. If he doesn't want to wait, he could take on Rashad Evans and try to take his number one contender position away from him. Other than that, it would be smarter to play the waiting game for the title than take any other fight, unless perhaps a rematch were offered with Rua. That would probably do a huge pay-per-view number given the word of mouth from last night's fight.
So what do you think, Maniacs?
Was this the best fight in UFC history? Or is everyone letting it get to their head since the match is still so fresh? Does Dan Henderson have it in him to potentially be the UFC champion at 185 or 205 pounds?
Sound off!
For complete UFC 139: "Shogun vs. Henderson" results, including blow-by-blow, fight-by-fight coverage of the entire pay-per-view (PPV) event as well as immediate post-fight reaction click herehere and here.
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Could you be any more self righteous?
While I am not impressed with the author of this article, I have been really impressed with the intelligent responses. This is a poor attempt at more leftist propoganda by the writer, pushing an untrue point of view.
The author tries to use a film review to bolster his opinion that the left is far more open minded than the right simply because they are giving good reviews to a movie that perhaps goes against a leftwing point of view.
I prefer to see it that some people on the left are finally seeing the truth and can't help but to agree with some of it at some point.
I don't get it. Are you saying that the conservatives are wrong because they're NOT acting like hypocrites? If someone from the Left makes a conservative argument, such as Guggenheim did, are you suggesting that conservatives should object to his film because he's not "one of them?"
This blog topic makes no sense. Isn't it somewhat logical, and sane, to shout, "By god, he finally gets it!" when someone agrees with something you've said after years and years of argument?
The true story would be if a highly liberal blogger disagreed, or engaged in ad-hominem attacks upon Guggenheim simply because he's been the torch-bearer for liberal causes in the past.
"..when Guggenheim makes a film offering wholehearted support for a conservative cause, liberal critics have written just as many glowing reviews as conservative ones. What does that tell you about who's got the most open mind here?"
Mr. Goldstein:
By your own statement, I believe you are showing yourself to have a closed mind or at least a mind with a filter that only allows a liberal viewpoint. If, as you write, both liberals and conservatives recommend this film then perhaps, just perhaps, the subject (our childrens' education) transends political ideology and it deserves the attention this film could provide.
Inconvenient Truth... is an inconvenient lie. Remember... "global warming"... is now weather... I mean "climate change"???? Whose squirming the truth? And Michael Moore's documentaries are not truth sayers, they are propaganda. Remember "Roger & Me"... he INTERVIEWED ROGER TWICE! My dear God!
Wait a minute... we have a rare situation where conservatives and liberals agree on a major issue. And Goldstein says in effect that because liberals agree on this issue, that they're more open minded. Really? I mean, it couldn't possibly be that unwavering, unquestioning liberal support for teacher's unions and the public school establishment all these years was wrong in the first place?
Kudos to the left for finally coming around on the issue, but that somehow makes them better people? Does Patrick start his morning coffee with a dash of bile, or does he produce it naturally?
Come on, Patrick... you know if Davis was a historically right-wing film director the left would be on auto-bash if his film had even the slightest hint of a right of center message. You really think you and your buddies would be giving this film postitive reviews if a right-wing director made the EXACT same movie? Please. If you really had an "open mind" it would be obvious to you that you aren't that open minded.
"What does that tell you about who's got the most open mind here?"
Ah, the liberal 'mind'. Ignore the fact that your entire article premise is exactly the opposite of your conclusion - that you wrote a whole article about how a LEFT-WING filmmaker was accepted by Conservatives ...
Isn't it just amazing how full of themselves left-wingers are? You defend your broken education policies for decades in the face of their obvious failure. You defend teachers' unions in the face of their corruption and ineptitude. And all that time Conservatives try to tell you that you're wrong, and you just plug your ears.
But now a left-wing filmmaker finally gets a clue and tells you what we've been telling you all this time. Backed into a corner you have to admit you're wrong. But you still find a way to pat yourself on the back - man, I'm so OPEN MINDED for finally admitting my world view is wrong!
You want to deserve your smug feelings? Admit your entire political ideology is a farce. Admit you backed the wrong pony in 2008. Then you can carry yourself with pride. Until then you're just a laughingstock.
>>What does that tell you about who's got the most open mind here??>>
Well, certainly that it's not Patrick Goldstein.
One has to wonder if our national media has ever given a conservative leaning documentary, or movie, (noting that they are few and far between) a cheerful, welcome, and good review. I mean, anyone out there in la la land.
It would appear that most veryone sees this one as a balanced and fair look at a critically important topic. Goldstein is blinded by his biases.
Come on. Everything Michael Moore does is a left-wing polemic, generally studded with tricks, errors, and untruths. The two scenarios are not comparable.
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I have to confess that while I don’t watch television much these days, as a kid I adored the cartoons of Hanna-Barbera. They were always colorful and fun, and I have many happy memories of early weekend mornings in front of the tele before rushing off to play for the day. These cartoons are not full of skimpily clad girls with attitudes that would make an adult blush (as so many are today) – they are from the good old days of innocent entertainment. This broad selection covers some of my favorites, and definitely the top of the pick. I hope this list as fun a trip down memory lane for you all as it was for me.
The Herculoids
Together, the Herculoids battled to defend their planet from menaces on Quasar and from Outer Space. All of the Herculoids displayed Human-level intelligence, and Zandor & Tarra displayed a working knowledge of complex alien technologies as well as the ability to pilot interstellar spacecraft. Although the “speech” of their companions was limited and repetitive, Zandor, Tarra and Dorno (c.f.The Mutoids: “Gleep says that the aliens who landed are attacking Dorno and Tundro.”) demonstrated that Gloop & Gleep, at least, had a comprehensive mode of communication, and that they could at least understand and interpret the “language”. In reality, the voices were brief tracks supplied by two actors and reused throughout the series, in keeping with Hanna-Barbera’s thrifty ethos.
The Quick Draw McGraw Show
Quick Draw McGraw is the anthropomorphic cartoon horse, the third cartoon television production created by Hanna-Barbera following their success with The Ruff & Reddy Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show. It debuted in 1959. Quick Draw was usually depicted as a sheriff in these short films set in the American Old West. Each episode was approximately six minutes long; this allowed four episodes per half-hour program with commercial advertisements in between. Quick Draw was often accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican burro called Baba Looey, who spoke English with a Mexican accent. Quick Draw satirized the westerns that were popular among the American public at the time. His character was well-intentioned, but somewhat dim.
The Huckleberry Hound Show
One of the very first HB cartoons, beginning in 1958, and lasting 69 episodes. The Huckleberry Hound Show was probably the series that truly made Hanna-Barbera a household name, and is often credited with legitimizing the concept of animation produced specifically for television; it won an Emmy award in 1961. Three segments were included in the program: one featuring Huckleberry Hound; Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo; and Pixie and Dixie, two mice who in each short found a new way to outwit the cat Mr. Jinks.
Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show. He was the first break-out character created by Hanna-Barbera Studios, and was eventually more popular than Huckleberry Hound. In 1961 he was given his own show, The Yogi Bear Show, which also included the segments Snagglepuss and Yakky Doodle. Yogi was one of several Hanna-Barbera characters to have a collar, which allowed the body to be kept static and to redraw just the head in each frame when he was speaking, thus reducing the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from 14,000 to around 2,000.
Johnny Quest
Jonny Quest was about a boy who accompanies his father on extraordinary adventures. It featured more realistic violence than earlier Hanna-Barbera programs, adding suspense and impact to the show. This, the first of several Hanna-Barbera action-based adventure shows, ran on ABC in prime time for one season in 1964–1965. The series was inspired by the James Bond film Dr. No, and its visual style was unusual for its time, combining a fairly realistic depiction of human figures and objects with fairly limited animation techniques. The series made heavy use of rich music scores, offscreen impacts with sound effects, reaction shots, cycling animations, cutaways, scene to scene dissolves, and abbreviated dialogue to move the story forward, without requiring extensive original animation of figures.
The Jetsons
The Jetsons
The Jetsons originally ran on Sunday nights on ABC from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963. It was Hanna-Barbera’s space age counterpart to The Flintstones. A half-hour family sitcom projecting contemporary American culture and lifestyle into another time period. The Jetsons live in a futuristic utopia of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions. George Jetson (the father) works 3 hours a day and 3 days a week for his short, tyrannical boss named Mr. Cosmo Spacely, owner of the company Spacely Space Sprockets. Typical episodes involve Mr. Spacely firing and rehiring or promoting and demoting George Jetson.
Tom and Jerry
Tom and Jerry centered on a never-ending rivalry between a housecat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose chases and battles often involved comic violence. Hanna and Barbera ultimately wrote and directed one hundred and fourteen Tom and Jerry cartoons at the MGM cartoon studio in Hollywood, California between 1940 and 1957, when the animation unit was closed. The original series is notable for having won the Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) seven times. Throughout the years, the term and title Tom and Jerry became practically synonymous with never-ending rivalry, as much as the related “cat and mouse fight” metaphor has.
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 13, 1969 at 10:30 a.m. EST and ran for two seasons on CBS as a half-hour long show. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was a breakaway hit for Hanna-Barbera and CBS, who quickly introduced similar cartoons to accompany Scooby-Doo: Josie and the Pussycats, The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, The Funky Phantom, Speed Buggy, Jabberjaw, and Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels. From episode to episode, the plot varied very little – with the “gang” breaking down near a haunted building, trying to find clues, eventually solving the puzzle, and heading off again. Despite this, the show was immensely popular – and beyond any doubt greater than the future series which included the annoying Scrappy Doo (Scooby’s nephew).
The Smurfs
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The Smurfs is a American cartoon series that aired on NBC from 1981 to 1990. Made by Hanna-Barbera, it is based on the Belgian comic series The Smurfs, created by Peyo, and aired for 256 episodes, with a total of 421 stories. The show became a major success for NBC, spawning spin-off television specials on an almost yearly basis. The Smurfs was nominated multiple times for Daytime Emmy awards, and won Outstanding Children’s Entertainment Series in 1982–1983. The Smurfs television show enjoyed continued success until 1990, when, after a decade of success, NBC cancelled it due to decreasing ratings.
The Flintstones
The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man’s life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend. This show played like a prehistoric Honeymooners and its popularity rested heavily on its consistently entertaining juxtaposition of modern-day concerns in the Stone Age setting. The first prime-time animated series geared for adults, the show originally aired from 1960 to 1966 on the ABC network. The show is an allegory to American society of the mid-20th century; in the Flintstones’ fantasy version of the past, dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, and other long extinct animals co-exist with barefoot cavemen, who use technology very similar to that of the mid-20th century, although made entirely from pre-industrial materials and largely powered through the use of various animals.
Notable Omissions: Top Cat, Captain Caveman, Space Ghost, Birdman, and the Snorks
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Go on a road trip across any stretch of this vast Canadian landscape and you're likely to hit "dead zones" along the way - pockets where cellular coverage either disappears or was never really present in the first place. Wilson's Sleek Cell Phone Booster proves very capable in bringing those reception bars back to keep conversations going.
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Dropped calls aren't fun, and they can happen at the most inopportune times, but if it's something you find yourself dealing with often, the Sleek might be your answer. As a signal booster, it's primarily aimed at drivers, though it does also offer a home kit in case you have the same problem there, too.
The package consists of a cradle with three sets of holders for the sides, a 4.25-inch rubber antenna attached to a long 10- or 12-foot cable with a coaxial output at the end, and a 12-volt USB charger to keep the Sleek up and running. The cradle itself also comes with a mounting bracket with an adhesive backing to stick to the dash. I opted to just leave it lying in one of my cup holders, which made no difference in performance.
Placing the antenna using the strong magnet underneath on the vehicle's roof is simple, but running the cable and keeping it well-hidden from everyone else isn't. If you know what you're doing, you might be able to snake it under the door seal, but if not, you likely have to bury as much of the cable as possible under the driver or passenger seat.
As is, the Sleek is designed to only enhance the signal of the phone nestled in its cradle, so the antenna won't be able to actually do anything for passengers with phones that have no reception. Wilson does offer other larger systems that can cast a wider net to heighten reception for multiple handsets, but they're also more expensive.
One key upside is that the Sleek is agnostic, meaning it will work with just about any phone, regardless of brand, carrier, model or design. The holders on the sides have three different slots to slide them in from the top for the best fit, except this can become a problem for passengers who may have handsets that are different in size due to their design or the case they're housed in. Swapping phones is easy enough because the cradle doesn't need to have a wired connection to any handset leaning on it, but in order to get the most out of the Sleek, users will have to hold the cradle with the phone in it, all while connected to the antenna and charger.
It can be a little cumbersome, which is why a Bluetooth headset or speakerphone is a must for a driver - hands-free is the law, after all.
Despite the design hurdles, the booster worked like a charm. Driving around all parts of the Greater Toronto Area gave me five full bars all the time, and this was with multiple phones - iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Palm Pre. This was especially the case in areas where reception is choppy or unreliable. To see a phone go from two bars to five is really something. Other areas outside the city also showed an increase in reception once I placed the phone in the cradle.
And though the manual suggests that you place the phone as close as possible to the Sleek when in the cradle (meaning taking the phone out of a protective case), I had increased reception even when phones were still encased.
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Hey all,
Just a quick question from a new guy. Here's the scenario: The Eagle Project is done. The Final Report has been signed by the beneficiary rep. and the Scoutmaster. The paperwork is pretty much ready to sit in a lockbox until the remaining merit badges are done. But there's one problem: I believe the Fundraising Application was never completed or turned in. Now, the beneficiary handled all funds and donations directly. The scout did go to two businesses and successfully asked for discounts and donations of materials, as well as presenting the church's congregation with the plan and asking for donations to the CHURCH to help pay for the project.
The scout never handled or received any funds, but he did ask for donations of materials, which requires a fundraising app. Which was not written or turned in.
So, what can be done in this situation?
Thanks a lot.
• #2
You can expect that any Eagle Application Review Person at Council will look at the overall report, see monies and "stuff" being bought and/or donated and ask " how was this done?" Things are tightening up all over. Check with your local District and Council Eagle BoR folks about the specifics they might want.
I would suggest an addendum reporting that Johnny Scout handled no money, that discounts from merchants were negotiated for the project beneficiary's benefit, and that the beneficiary collected and handled all the "stuff". You can (truthfully) mention that Johnnny Scout helped in the discount negotiations, but that the beneficiary supplied the matrerials for the project to proceed. True?
I know that Scoutson worked with his beneficiary (he would not have called them that, but never mind) and never bought or collected any materials. He just made sure the ben'ry obtained the supplies needed. This was reported in the Eagle Project book, hence, no fundraising form needed.
• #3
I would let the review committee know the boy handled no funds. Simply notifying the congregation that the church is seeking funds for the project is not the same as actually going through a fundraising process. Any member of the congregation could have made the same announcement and not handled any funds. The church secretary that puts the announcement in the bulletin is not participating in the process of fundraising. If she collects the money and processes it, she is.
I shy away from Eagle Projects that need resources, unless the beneficiary handles all the expenses. The boy only does the work using the materials provided.
• #4
The big need for the form is so that scout eagle projects do not compete with council fundraising. i.e. friends of scouting, popcorn sales, etc. Councils don't want individuals put in situation where they decide whether to donate to friends of scouting or an eagle project.
As for what happened here, a good attached explanation is fine. My real worry, which is not a show stopper, is that the scout might face questions about his leadership. Whose project was it? Who led the money raiser? I would just make sure the explanation says that the beneficiary handled and collected the funds. That's fine. But if they coordinated and led everything, that's not so good.
• #5
IMHO, the scout should report that he did not do any fundraising. Funds were provided by the beneficiary. How the beneficiary got those funds is immaterial to any work the boy did. In the process of announcing his project he informed any folks wanting to make donations to send funds directly to the beneficiary. As such, he is representing the beneficiary, not the BSA.
The boy's leadership was shown in negotiating discounts for materials.
Like Stosh, I direct boys to projects where minimum or no fundraising is involved. Most communities have a grant or two (from that 90% of taxpayer dollars that went to "non-essential" services ) that can pay for materials, but not labor.
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I agree that he didn't do any fundraising, especially since had nothing to do with the money.
• #6
A non-issue. Submit the packet when he's ready and don't worry. Have the scout explain in his narrative that the funds were raised through the church and all he did was negotiate some discounts. Odds are low anyone will question the fundraising app.
• #7
Thanks everyone. This has been a help. One more aspect before I go forward: The scout did say in his Proposal that a Fund. App. would be needed and applied for. Can we write this off as poor plan following? Or is he in deeper trouble for failing do what he said he would?
• #8
It was a contingency which was planned for but not exercised.
You're really thinking too much about this. Let the Scout worry/deal with it. If the advancement folks have an issue, they will contact the Scout and he can handle it then. And if they have a problem, what's the down side? Are they going to have him arrested? Skinned? Boiled in oil? Worse case the Scout jumps through a couple paperwork hoops. There is no down side here but a good opportunity for the Scout to learn a lesson about reading instructions, attention to detail and follow-through. But, then again, probably not as I doubt it will ever be mentioned.
Unless you are the beneficiary or Scoutmaster, you really don't have a dog in this fight. Please tell me you aren't the Scout's parent. This should be a minor hurdle for an Eagle Scout to handle.
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we had this happen to a boy a couple of years ago. He even had a fundraising event (pancake breakfast). The boy had a coach, but the coach volunteered before realizing it was all going on during their busy family travel time... and yep it got missed. SO... we called in the our district person that handles our eagle stuff. Seeing as he followed all the rules and it was just an oops of not filling out a form she did agree to have him fill out the form even after it was done.
So basically I would say check with the person from the district that handles your eagle paperwork and boards. Because I'm not sure if this is something that would need a fundraising form for or just a write up in the work book of how funds will be raised and handled (as there is a spot for that as well) | http://www.scouter.com/forum/advancement-resources/398784-didn-t-do-fundraising-application | dclm-gs1-038970004 |
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EPR Approach to Intro Stat: Entities and Properties
Posted: Jun 28, 1996 10:42 PM
[I've posted this message to the sci.stat.edu UseNet newsgroup
and to four mail lists where there may be interest. Apologies to
recipients who receive multiple copies.]
Consider three questions:
human reality?
2. Are the concepts of "entity" and "property of an entity" ap-
propriate concepts to teach at the beginning of an introduc-
tory statistics course?
3. What is a variable?
Consider a condensed version of how the concepts of entities,
properties, and variables could be presented to students:
during the course of a minute or so, you might think about, among
other things, a friend, an appointment, todays weather, and an
Many different types of entities exist, for example,
- physical objects
- processes
- organisms
- events
- ideas
- societal entities (e.g., educational institutions)
- symbols
- forces
- waves
- mathematical entities (e.g., sets, numbers, vectors).
People usually view entities as existing in two different places:
we use a map to stand for its territory.
organizing the multitude of stimuli that enter our minds minute
by minute when we are awake.
entity, the concept of "entity" may be the most fundamental con-
cept of human reality.
unconscious level, some people have difficulty grasping the fun-
damental role that the concept plays in their thought.
usually omitted because, when dealing with specific issues, it is
usually not necessary to drill down all the way to the founda-
tional concept and discuss "things" at such a basic level. In-
stead, discussions (of specific issues) usually concern one or
more particular *types* of entities, which are best referred to
by their type names. For example, medical researchers often
study a type of entity called "human beings".
foundation for most other concepts in statistics and empirical
the beginning of an introductory statistics course is invaluable.
Every entity has associated with it a set of attributes or
We usually report the value of a property with words, with sym-
bols, or with numbers. For example, your height might be 5 feet
9 inches.
If we need to *know* the value of a property of an entity, we can
apply an appropriate measuring instrument *to* the entity. If
the instrument is measuring properly, it will return a measure-
ment to us that is an estimate of the value of the property in
estimate of the persons height.
Empirical researchers and statisticians usually refer to proper-
ties of entities as *variables*. That is, when researchers or
statisticians refer to a variable, they are usually referring
(either specifically or generally) to some property of some type
of entity.
Thus the important statistical concept of "variable" can be de-
fined in terms of the three more fundamental concepts of "enti-
ty", "property of an entity", and "value of a property of an en-
tity". A simple version of the definition is
A "variable" is equivalent to a property of an entity.
I have argued that we can use the concepts of "entity" and "prop-
erty of an entity" and "value of a property of an entity" to de-
fine the concept of "variable". The three defining concepts are
simple, intuitive, and fundamental. Thus I maintain that it is
useful to introduce the three concepts at the beginning of an
introductory statistics course, as a way of helping students to
understand the concept of "variable".
I invite readers who disagree to present their views in the
sci.stat.edu UseNet newsgroup (= EdStat-L).
The above points are part of a broader discussion of an approach
to the introductory statistics course available at
Donald B. Macnaughton MatStat Research Consulting Inc.
donmac@hookup.net Toronto, Canada
Joint Statistical Mtgs, Session 201, Tuesday August 6, 2 PM
To help evaluate the above characterization of a variable, it is
useful to consider definitions of the concept that have been pro-
posed by others.
"random variable".
Kotz and Johnson (1982-1988) also do not define the term "vari-
able". Their entry for "random variable" consists of "See PROB-
ABILITY THEORY". In the entry for "probability theory" Heyde
course, the "points" are equivalent to entities.
Marriott (1990) gives the following definition:
variable Generally any quantity which varies. More pre-
cisely, a variable in the mathematical sense, i.e. a quan-
tity which may take any one of a specified set of values.
It is convenient to apply the same word to denote non-
sense since any human individual may take one of two 'val-
ues', male or female.
Marriott defines variables in terms of the concepts of "quantity"
and "characteristic". These two somewhat abstract concepts are
equivalent to the more tightly delineated concept of "property of
an entity".
an entity, a particular organism whose sex has been determined
("measured") is somewhere about. In fact, for virtually *all*
variables, it is reasonable to see entities existing behind the
variables. (The entities are whatever are associated with the
rows in a standard computer-package data table, in which the col-
umns represent variables.)
I believe that we should move the entities in statistical analy-
sis to the foreground since, from the point of view of empirical
researchers, the entities are an important and tangible aspect of
the research, and as such should not be left lurking in the back-
Vogt (1993) defines a variable as
Variable Any finding (an attribute or characteristic) that
can change, that can _vary_, or that can be expressed as
more than one value or in _various_ values or categories.
The opposite of a variable is a constant.
Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Other; or experimental treat-
ment: Drug A, Drug B, Drug C.
Vogt uses the concepts of "finding", "attribute", and "charac-
teristic" to define variables. As with the defining concepts in
Marriott's definition, these three somewhat abstract concepts are
all equivalent to the more tightly delineated concept of "prop-
erty of an entity".
Like Marriott, Vogt makes no direct reference to the concept of
"entity" although there are entities lurking in the background in
each of his three examples.
Modern definitions of the concept of "variable" are beginning to
definition, entities are still often given short shrift in the
rest of the discussion.
For example, Freedman, Pisani, Purves, and Adhikari define a var-
iable as
A _variable_ is a characteristic which changes from person
to person in a study (1991, 40).
they seem to assume that only people can be entities. (One sus-
pects, however, that this limitation is not their actual intent,
and is instead an editing error.)
Moore, in his exemplary introductory statistics textbook, begins
by defining "individuals" as
the objects described by a set of data. Individuals may be
people, but they may also be animals or things.
He then defines a "variable" as
any characteristic of an individual. A variable can take
different values for different individuals (1995, 10).
(The choice of which *names* to use for the concepts "entity" and
dictated by considerations of generality and ease of understand-
ing. However, the present discussion is not about the choice of
names for the concepts, but is about the concepts themselves, re-
gardless of what we decide to call them.)
a "set of data". If we assume that Moore is following the con-
vention of defining each term in a conceptual system in terms of
other more fundamental terms, his definition suggests that he
phenomenalistic approach.
"entity" (= "individual") as being more fundamental than the con-
of "entity" as a primitive. And although we can *illustrate* the
concept of "entity" for students by discussing many examples of
entities, we should tell students that the concept itself will,
to avoid circularity, be left verbally undefined.
children through non-verbal linking of consistent sets of stim-
uli. Thus one could argue that the stimuli (sense data) that one
receives are the fundamental units of reality. At a preconscious
level this approach seems quite reasonable. But at the conscious
level, which is the level at which all human discussion about
at the discussion level it makes sense to designate the concept
of "entity" as fundamental and therefore verbally undefined.]
Similarly, I believe that the concepts of "properties of enti-
ties" and "values of properties of entities" are best left as
primitives, defined solely through human experience and through
discussion of examples.
On the other hand, I agree with Moore that we can give the con-
cept "variable" a formal or informal verbal definition in terms
of the concepts of entities, properties, and values.
In their comprehensive unified view of many of the main statisti-
cal topics, Kendall, Stuart, and Ord characterize variables in a
way that is similar to the approach described in this note al-
though they use somewhat different underpinnings. In particular,
the concept of "population" is "the fundamental notion in statis-
tical theory" (1987, 1994). They then give five examples of dif-
ferent types of entities to illustrate what a population can be
made of. However, although Kendall et al populate their popula-
tions with entities, they do not recognize the concept of "enti-
ty" as being a concept in its own right, more fundamental than
the ball game at second base.
In the second paragraph of chapter 1 Kendall et al prepare for
discussion of the concept of "variable" by discussing the concept
populations" as opposed to the more general concept of "proper-
ties of entities". (Entities are more general than populations
I believe that we should first introduce students to the funda-
mental concepts of "entity" and "property of an entity". Then we
of those concepts. By building the discussion around what appear
to be the most fundamental concepts of human reality, I believe
we make the field of statistics substantially easier for students
to understand.
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A common form of knock-down is a completely knock-down (CKD), which is a complete kit needed to assemble a product. It is also a method of supplying parts to a market, particularly in shipping to foreign nations, and serves as a way of counting or pricing.1 CKD is a common practice within the automotive industry, the bus and heavy truck industry, and the rail vehicle industry, as well as electronics, furniture, and in other products. Businesses sell knocked down kits to their foreign affiliates or licensees for various reasons, including to avoid import taxes, to receive tax preferences for providing local manufacturing jobs, or even to be considered as a bidder at all (for example, in public transit projects with "buy national" rules).
Technically, the terms "knockdown" or "kits of parts" are both misnomers, because the knockdowns were never built up in the first place, and the shipments of parts are often not in the form of kits,1 but rather bulk-packed by type of part into shipping containers. The degree of "knockdown" depends on the desires and technical abilities of the receiving organization or on government import regulations.1 Developing nations may pursue trade and economic policies that call for import substitution or local content regulations. Companies with CKD operations help the country substitute the finished products it imports with locally assembled substitutes.
Knockdown kit assembling plants are less expensive to establish and maintain, because they do not need modern robotic equipment, and the workforce is usually much less expensive in comparison to the home country. They may also be effective for low-volume production. The CKD concept allows firms in developing markets to gain expertise in a particular industry. At the same time, the CKD kit exporting company gains new markets that would otherwise be closed.2
In the automotive industry, the most basic form of a vehicle in KD kit lacks the wheels, internal combustion engine, transmission, and batterycitation needed - which are either supplied as parts for assembly (a "complete" kit), or obtained from third parties (an "incomplete" kit); all of the interiors are already installed at the originating factory. The term SKD for semi-knocked-down refers to a kit with complete, welded car body, usually coated or already painted. To gain some extra tax preferences, the manufacturer needs to further localise the car, i.e. increase the share of parts produced by local manufacturers, such as tires, wheels, seats, headlights, windscreens and glass, batteries, interior plastics, etc.; down to the engine and transmission. At some point, even the steel body could be pressed, welded, and painted locally; this effectively makes KD assembly only a couple of steps behind the full-scale production.
By the time that Henry Ford co-wrote his 1922 memoir My Life and Work, the Ford Motor Company was already shipping car parts from its Michigan plants for final assembly in the U.S. regions or foreign countries where the cars would be sold.3
During World War II, a great number of U.S. and Canadian-built vehicles - most notably light and heavy trucks like Willys MB/Ford GPW/GPA, GMC-353/CCKW and vehicles from the CMP family - were crated and shipped overseas in KD form - in various degrees of completedness - to Allied countries, in order to sustain their war effort. Assembly lines were preferably set up in local automotive factories where appropriate tooling and equipment could be easily found, but in case of need other types of buildings could be used, especially in on-the-field situations, and on occasion even open-air rebuilding camps were set up, managed by military personnel. Due to male mobilization, sometimes women workforce was employed. CKD military vehicles could be stored for shipment in one vehicle-per-crate form (or SUP, Single Unit Pack) or as several vehicles (usually 2 to 3) divided in 2 or more crates. Vehicles shipped to certain countries could be lacking some items like cabs, beds or tyres, that were built and provided locally..45
In the 1950s and 60s Lotus Cars sold its Lotus Seven car in CDK form to evade the UK Purchase tax that applied to sales of fully assembled vehicles.
In 1961, Renault began negotiations for a first partnership agreement with AMC for assembly of Rambler automobiles in Europe.6 Beginning in 1962, and continuing through 1967, AMC also sold CKD kits of its passenger cars to Renault. They were assembled in Renault's factory in Haren, Belgium and sold through its dealers in Algeria, Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The deal allowed AMC to sell its cars in new markets without having to make a major Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The arrangement was good for the French automaker because its product range was lacking large cars and it needed to offer an "executive" model in its European markets.7 The situation changed by 1977. It was now AMC that sought outside support for a new car in the U.S. sub-compact market segment, which led to the first of many agreements with Renault.
AMC Javelin by Karmann 1968 brochure cover
In Russia, the most known KD assembling facilities are owned by Avtotor,citation needed which produces Hummer H2, BMW 3-series and BMW 5-series in Kaliningrad, and Renault Logan in Moscow using facilities that once belonged to AZLK. In Kaluga, Volkswagen Group is currently constructing a new plant, which when completed, is expected to produce an annual output of 150,000 units.10
In the USA, Daimler AG has a CKD assembly plant in South Carolina that re-assembles Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans for sale in the US and Canada at Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner dealers, along with Dodge dealers prior to Fiat Group's takeover of Chrysler Group LLC — essentially to circumvent the 25% US tariff on imported light trucks that is also known as the Chicken Tax. The Sprinter was eventually replaced in the Dodge/Ram Trucks lineup with the similar Ram ProMaster, a rebadged Fiat Ducato. Unlike the CKD Dodge Sprinter, the ProMaster is fully imported to the US from a Chrysler plant in Mexico, which is part of the North American Free Trade Agreement and not subject to the Chicken Tax.
In 2009, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited announced that it will export pickup trucks powered by diesel engines from India to the US in knockdown kit (CKD) form, again to circumvent the Chicken Tax.11 Mahindra planned to export CKDs to the US as complete vehicles that will be assembled in the US from kits of parts shipped in crates.11 However, Mahindra's US CKD and export plans never materialized and were subject to several lawsuits.
Unserviceable military aircraft are also sold as "knockdowns" after they have ended their service life, packaging them with serviceable aircraft. This allows them to be used for cannibalization of spare parts.
1. ^ a b c Miller, Russell R. (2000). Doing business in newly privatized markets: global opportunities and challenges. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 281. ISBN 978-1-56720-260-1. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
2. ^ Lind, Tommy. Partnerships - a solution. Tommy Lind's History of Renault 1898-1975. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
6. ^ Lind, Tommy. International agreements.... Tommy Lind's History of Renault 1898-1975. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
7. ^ Le Cimetiere Des Autos Oubloees: Renault Rambler (1962-67) (in French). The graveyard of forgotten cars. 2007-04-04. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
8. ^ Webster, Mark (2002). Assembly: New Zealand car production 1921-98. New Zealand: Reed Books. pp. 1–223. ISBN 0-7900-0846-7.
9. ^ "ZAZ increased car output by 7% in Q1 2006" Bank AVALdead link, retrieved on: 3 September 2007.
12. ^ Brill, Debra (2001). History of the J.G. Brill Company. Indiana University Press. pp. 56–57. ISBN 978-0-253-33949-2.
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Fluorescent minerals emit visible light when exposed to ultraviolet light
Fluorescent marine fishes
Fluorescence is the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation. It also occurs when molecules are excited to higher electronic states by energetic electron bombardment, such as occurs, for example, in the natural aurora, high-altitude nuclear explosions, and rocket-born electron gun experiments.[1] It is a form of luminescence. In most cases, the emitted light has a longer wavelength, and therefore lower energy, than the absorbed radiation. However, when the absorbed electromagnetic radiation is intense, it is possible for one electron to absorb two photons; this two-photon absorption can lead to emission of radiation having a shorter wavelength than the absorbed radiation. The emitted radiation may also be of the same wavelength as the absorbed radiation, termed "resonance fluorescence".[2]
The most striking examples of fluorescence occur when the absorbed radiation is in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum, and thus invisible to the human eye, and the emitted light is in the visible region.
Fluorescence has many practical applications, including mineralogy, gemology, chemical sensors (fluorescence spectroscopy), fluorescent labelling, dyes, biological detectors, and, most commonly, fluorescent lamps.
An early observation of fluorescence was described in 1560 by Bernardino de Sahagún and in 1565 by Nicolás Monardes in the infusion known as lignum nephriticum (Latin for "kidney wood"). It was derived from the wood of two tree species, Pterocarpus indicus and Eysenhardtia polystachya.[3][4][5][6] The chemical compound responsible for this fluorescence is matlaline, which is the oxidation product of one of the flavonoids found in this wood.[3]
In 1819, Edward D. Clarke[7] and in 1822 René Just Haüy[8] described fluorescence in fluorites, Sir David Brewster described the phenomenon for chlorophyll in 1833[9] and Sir John Herschel did the same for quinine in 1845.[10]
Physical principles[edit]
Excitation: S_0 + h \nu_{ex} \to S_1
Fluorescence (emission): S_1 \to S_0 + h \nu_{em} + heat
here h\nu is a generic term for photon energy with h = Planck's constant and \nu = frequency of light. (The specific frequencies of exciting and emitted light are dependent on the particular system.)
Quantum yield[edit]
\Phi = \frac {\textrm{Number of photons emitted}} {\textrm{Number of photons absorbed}}
\Phi = \frac{ { k}_{ f} }{ \sum_{i}{ k}_{i } }
where { k}_{ f} is the rate of spontaneous emission of radiation and
\sum_{i}{ k}_{i }
\left[S 1 \right] = \left[S 1 \right]_0 e^{-\Gamma t}
\Gamma_{tot}=\Gamma_{rad} + \Gamma_{nrad}
where \Gamma_{tot} is the total decay rate, \Gamma_{rad} the radiative decay rate and \Gamma_{nrad} the non-radiative decay rate. It is similar to a first-order chemical reaction in which the first-order rate constant is the sum of all of the rates (a parallel kinetic model). If the rate of spontaneous emission, or any of the other rates are fast, the lifetime is short. For commonly used fluorescent compounds, typical excited state decay times for photon emissions with energies from the UV to near infrared are within the range of 0.5 to 20 nanoseconds. The fluorescence lifetime is an important parameter for practical applications of fluorescence such as fluorescence resonance energy transfer and Fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy.
Jablonski diagram[edit]
Fluorescence anisotropy[edit]
Fluorescence anisotropy can be defined quantitatively as
r = {I_\parallel - I_\perp \over I_\parallel + 2I_\perp}
where I_\parallel is the emitted intensity parallel to polarization of the excitation light and I_\perp is the emitted intensity perpendicular to the polarization of the excitation light.[17]
There are several general rules that deal with fluorescence. Each of the following rules has exceptions but they are useful guidelines for understanding fluorescence. (These rules do not necessarily apply to Two-photon absorption.)
Kasha–Vavilov rule[edit]
Mirror image rule[edit]
Stokes shift[edit]
In general, emitted fluorescent light has a longer wavelength and lower energy than the absorbed light.[20] This phenomenon, known as Stokes shift, is due to energy loss between the time a photon is absorbed and when it is emitted. The causes and magnitude of Stokes shift can be complex and are dependent on the fluorophore and its environment. However, there are some common causes. It is frequently due to non-radiative decay to the lowest vibrational energy level of the excited state. Another factor is that the emission of fluorescence frequently leaves a fluorophore in the highest vibrational level of the ground state.
Fluorescence in nature[edit]
Gemology, mineralogy, and geology[edit]
Fluorescence of Aragonite
Gemstones, minerals, may have a distinctive fluorescence or may fluoresce differently under short-wave ultraviolet, long-wave ultraviolet, or X-rays.
Organic liquids[edit]
Common materials that fluoresce[edit]
Applications of fluorescence[edit]
Analytical chemistry[edit]
Biochemistry and medicine[edit]
Other techniques[edit]
• SAFI (species altered fluorescence imaging) an imaging technique in electrokinetics and microfluidics.[25] It uses non-electromigrating dyes whose fluorescence is easily quenched by migrating chemical species of interest. The dye(s) are usually seeded everywhere in the flow and differential quenching of their fluorescence by analytes is directly observed.
See also[edit]
1. ^ a b Gilmore, Forrest R. et al. (1992). "Franck-Condon Factors, r-Centroids, Electronic Transition Moments, and Einstein Coefficients for Many Nitrogen and Oxygen Band Systems". Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 21 (5): 1005–1107.
3. ^ a b Acuña, A. Ulises; Amat-Guerri, Francisco; Morcillo, Purificación; Liras, Marta; Rodríguez, Benjamín (2009). "Structure and Formation of the Fluorescent Compound of Lignum nephriticum". Organic Letters 11 (14): 3020–3023. doi:10.1021/ol901022g. PMID 19586062. Available on-line at: Chinese Academy of Science.
4. ^ Safford, William Edwin (1916). "Lignum nephriticum". Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Government Printing Office. p. 271–298.
5. ^ Valeur, B.; Berberan-Santos, M. R. N. (2011). "A Brief History of Fluorescence and Phosphorescence before the Emergence of Quantum Theory". Journal of Chemical Education 88 (6): 731. doi:10.1021/ed100182h.
6. ^ "The Fluorescence of Lignum nephriticum: A Flash Back to the Past and a Simple Demonstration of Natural Substance Fluorescence".
7. ^ Edward Daniel Clarke (1819) "Account of a newly discovered variety of green fluor spar, of very uncommon beauty, and with remarkable properties of colour and phosphorescence," The Annals of Philosophy, 14 : 34 - 36; from page 35: "The finer crystals are perfectly transparent. Their colour by transmitted light is an intense emerald green; but by reflected light, the colour is a deep sapphire blue; … ".
8. ^ Haüy merely repeats Clarke's observation regarding the colors of the specimen of fluorite which he (Clarke) had examined: Haüy, Traité de Minéralogie, 2nd ed. (Paris, France: Bachelier and Huzard, 1822), vol. 1, page 512. Fluorite is called "chaux fluatée" by Haüy. From page 512: "... violette par réflection, et verdâtre par transparence au Derbyshire." ([the color of fluorite is] violet by reflection, and greenish by transmission in [specimens from] Derbyshire.)
9. ^ David Brewster (1834) "On the colours of natural bodies," Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 12 : 538-545; on page 542, Brewster mentions that when white light passes through an alcoholic solution of chlorophyll, red light is reflected from it.
10. ^ See:
12. ^ Stokes (1852), pages 472-473. In a footnote on page 473, Stokes acknowledges that in 1843, Edmond Becquerel had observed that quinine acid sulfate strongly absorbs ultraviolet radiation (i.e., solar radiation beyond Fraunhofer's H band in the solar spectrum). See: Edmond Becquerel (1843) "Des effets produits sur les corps par les rayons solaires" (On the effects produced on substances by solar rays), Comptes rendus, 17 : 882-884; on page 883, Becquerel cites quinine acid sulfate ("sulfate acide de quinine") as strongly absorbing ultraviolet light.
13. ^ a b Animation for the principle of fluorescence and UV-visible absorbance
14. ^ Lakowicz, Joseph R. Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy(second edition). Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 1999 p. 10
15. ^ Valeur, Bernard, Berberan-Santos, Mario 2012. Molecular Fluorescence: Principles and Applications 2nd ed., Wiley-VCH, p. 64
16. ^ Lakowicz, J. R. (1999). Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers pp 12-13
19. ^ Lakowicz, J. R. (1999). Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers pp 6–8
22. ^ "Fluorometric Assay Using Dimeric Dyes for Double- and Single-Stranded DNA and RNA with Picogram Sensitivity"; H.S. Rye, J.M. Dabora, M.A. Quesada, R.A. Mathies, A.N. Glazer, Analytical Biochemistry, Volume 208, Issue 1, January 1993, Pages 144–150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/abio.1993.1020
23. ^ Daniel C. Harris (May 2004). Exploring chemical analysis. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-7167-0571-0. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
24. ^ Joseph R. Lakowicz (2006). Principles of fluorescence spectroscopy. Springer. p. xxvi. ISBN 978-0-387-31278-1. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
25. ^ https://microfluidics.stanford.edu/Publications/ParticleTracking_Diagnostics/Shkolnikov_A%20method%20for%20non-invasive%20full-field%20imaging%20and%20quantification%20of%20chemical%20species.pdf
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Zebra Report is FanHouse's analysis of actual NFL rules and how they are to be applied ... because most fans think they could do a better job than the NFL officials, yet definitely could not. Click here for an introduction as to how we do things.
Obviously, the discussion of bad judgment calls never stops when it comes to officiating in any sport. There will always be complaints, legitimate or not, in this field. It does seem like we've sufficiently covered most of the biggies this year in Zebra Report, but our work is never done. For this week's version (and I apologize for the tardiness, in case anyone cares), we'll turn back to the lifeblood of TZR: the readers. Once again, I've got a nice slate of emails from which to choose.
• We've covered this before, but I continue to get questions as to why a quarterback is allowed to spike a football to stop the clock without it being intentional grounding. In the intentional grounding rule (8-2, pp. 53-54), there is an exception for stopping the clock:
The key part of that rule, remember, is the word "immediate." A quarterback cannot decide to spike the ball and claim it was to save time after dropping back for a few seconds.
• ZR Hall of Famer Guy from Montana wants to discuss intentional grounding and the rule's seeming lack of teeth. I've tried to pare down his questions, but it's a task. Guy himself would tell you he's a bit verbose. I'll answer this in three different parts. Guy's in bold and I'm not. Here goes nothing:
"My pet peeve is when a qb, in the pocket, under duress, throws the ball in the 'area' of an eligible receiver to escape the penalty. The rule is supposed to penalize a qb for intentionally throwing an incomplete pass to avoid a sack. The issue is, more often than not, the ball is thrown in such a way there is no chance in Hades the ball can be caught. Watch Phillip Rivers abuse this rule ... he is always throwing at the feet of a running back once he realizes the screen play called is busted. To me this flies in the face of what the rule was meant to negate. A catchable ball is considered in pass interference calls. Why not on intentional grounding rulings?"
Well, that's a good question. My opinion is that, at some point, you have to give the players credit for finding a way around a rule and gaining benefit for their team. In this example, Rivers is simply making a smart play (oh, and go easy on Guy, Chargers fans, he's one of you). If you get into calling this, you have to start worrying about calling too much. For example, all offensive lineman hold, but they get away with it when they keep their hands inside the shoulders.
"The other issue is what does 'the ball being thrown in the area of a receiver' actually mean? Do the rules actually say what the radius is or is it completely up to the judgment of the official? Can you tell me what the rule actually says? I'd be interested."
The rulebook uses the phrase "realistic chance of completion" and then defines it. All it says is this: "A realistic chance of completion is defined as a pass that lands in the direction and the vicinity of an originally eligible receiver."
It's tough to say a ball definitely doesn't have a realistic chance of completion when you are talking about a human being throwing a ball to another, sometimes 45 yards away and sometimes while the passer is getting hit just as he throws. Think about a terrible quarterback getting hit as he's throwing a pass. Can you really, 100 percent, figure where he wanted to throw it? Generally, officials try to err on the side of believing the quarterback knew where he was throwing it. Which leads us to the last question from Guy ...
"And finally (if that wasn't enough) intentional grounding is the only call the officials, without fail, will always huddle up and call well after the whistle was blown. Why is this? I understand every once in a while the refs needing to talk things out but EVERY TIME??? Can the line judges or referee not make the call unilaterally on their own once in a while? I think this speaks to the obtusiveness of this rule. Refs are afraid to make the ruling without consulting with one another."
Actually, the reason officials all huddle on potential grounding calls goes hand-in-hand with my comment above that we're trying to figure out where a quarterback actually meant to throw a pass. Considering the referee is watching only the quarterback, the umpire is watching the blockers (usually including at least one eligible receiver), the line judge and head linesman are looking at receivers only on their respective sides of the field, you need to have everyone in there to discuss where the eligible receivers were in comparison to where the pass went. Once they all say where their guys were, they can try to figure out if grounding should be called or not. The huddles may be annoying to people watching the game, but they are quite necessary when it comes to getting the call correct. Just remember each official is only watching a certain number of players. They aren't all out there trying to watch 22 guys at once.
Great questions as always, Guy. Keep it up, man.
• Emailer Mike has more on this subject: "Peyton Manning hit one of his offensive lineman in the back instead of grounding the ball during last week's Thursday night game. There were no other receivers in the surrounding area. I thought that was against the rules and lineman were ineligible receivers. The Colts ended up getting the first down on the next play and eventually scored a TD on that drive. Please set me straight."
That I can do, Mike. Offensive lineman are definitely ineligible, but here's the portion of the illegal touching rule that applies to this case (Rule 8-1-8a, p. 52):
(a) is first touched intentionally or is caught by an ineligible offensive play
Note the word "intentionally." If a pass hits an ineligible receiver in the back, it's not a penalty because he didn't mean to touch it.
• Reader Wes sent this question along: "I saw a highlight on ESPN about the closing minutes (or seconds, not sure) of the Chargers/Cincinatti game. During a spiked ball to stop the clock by the Chargers, the ESPN people said that LaDainian Tomlinson was in an illegal formation, but that the refs didn't call it. The Chargers kicked the winning field goal on the next play. Now, Tomlinson wasn't on the line, but in the backfield, though he was on the far hash, near the sideline. Was this illegal?"
There's nothing I can find that says it definitely is illegal. The rulebook only says the offense has to have at least seven men on the line of scrimmage and that the players -- other than the quarterback -- not on the line must be at least one yard off the line of scrimmage when the play begins. I did find this obscure rule that says a player cannot "linger." (12-3-2, p. 88):
It is unsportsmanlike conduct for ... (k) Using entering substitutes, legally returning players, substitutes on sidelines, or withdrawn players to confuse opponents. The clarification is also to be interpreted as covering any
lingering by players leaving the field when being substituted for.
Now, I don't think this sounds like LdT was lingering, but it's the only possible explanation I can find that would say he was doing something illegal.
Also of note here, in one game this past Sunday (I think it was the Packers-Seahawks game) I heard an official call illegal formation "because the tight end was covered." I scoured all 130-plus pages of the rulebook, and there is absolutely nothing in it that says you can't cover the tight end. In fact, that would mean unbalanced line formations were illegal, and they aren't. I believe this was a mistake, but I'm open to correction (if there are any NFL officials reading and I'm wrong, please shoot me an email).
That's all the space we have for this week. Remember to keep those eyes peeled in Week 17. As I said in the intro, the lifeblood of The Zebra Report is you, thus, I'd like to say thanks to all my readers on this New Year's Day.
Got a rules-related question? Whether it's elementary, high school or NFL, email TZR and he'll see what he can do.
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Sound out there? It's not unthinkable.
Consider the fact that we are closer to a truly kumbaya nation-less global community than ever before. Today it is far cheaper and easier to bounce around the planet than at any time in human history. So much so that the notion of travelling abroad "to find one's self" has transitioned from elite status symbol to middle class rite of passage. Furthermore, digital technology has made it possible to work anywherefrom everywhere. And an international financial infrastructure provides us with ATMs and the ability to "charge it" wherever we go.
The biggest barrier to simply "joining" another country isn't the miles between, as has been the case for most of human history, but rather the laws and regulations of the people in charge.
Of course, the vast majority of today's global vagabonds aren't escaping humdrum, they're fleeing poverty. According to the 2010 Census, 40 million people in the U.S. were born elsewhere — mostly from Latin America. This figure represents an all-time high, with nine million more foreign born than in 2000.
The U.S. is not alone in its role as immigrant magnet. In 2009, Eurostat published a report (PDF) showing that there were 20 million foreign-born people residing in the European Union (not including 12 million E.U.-born citizens living in a different member state). Even newly rich, non-Western nations are attracting migrant workers en masse, and mostly treating them crappily.
As countries struggle with their identity issues — some better than others — there's another, stranger immigrant element of this new open world. The past few decades have seen the rise of a small global elite class who use their wealth to avoid being too firmly committed to any one nation in particular. The super rich own homes on multiple continents; keep their money virtual and nation-less in the labyrinth of international banking; and travel with ease amongst it all.
This may seem like the beginning of a screed against the 1% and their lack of civic obligation. But I propose that the more interesting question isn't how can we stop them from living the state-less lifestyle, but rather what if everyone else could?
It's not unthinkable. History has shown time and again that what is exclusive to the super rich one day will become common the next. Who had indoor plumbing, cars and cellphones first? Who has them now? It's not so ludicrous to think that the law of accelerating returns will allow everyone to one day become an international jet setter and just forgo this whole "nation thing."
It's weird, but hear us out.
Citizenship As Wardrobe
Proceeding Facebook's much-hyped, if ultimately clumsy IPO, co-founder Eduardo Saverin (played by Andrew Garfield in the movie) found himself at the center of a kerfuffle that went so far as to directly inspire standing U.S. senators to move to alter federal law because of his actions.
In order to retain more of the $3.84 billion potential haul from his 4% stake in the company, Saverin took the unusual, if practical step to renounce his U.S. citizenship and officially become Singaporean. As a citizen of the south Asian island nation, Saverin would be treated to stunning beaches, dynamic street food, and no capital gains tax in addition to a top income tax of only 20%.
The move was, at the time, speculated to save the Brazilian-born Saverin more than $600 million in potential taxes. This nation shopping by the super rich happens more than you might realize. For example, the same year as Saverin's ex-patriating, socialite Denise Rich exchanged her U.S. citizenship for an Austrian one. (Those of a certain age may remember Denise as the ex-wife of Marc Rich, the indicted fugitive hedge fund manager who was controversially pardoned by President Clinton on his last day in office following donations of Denise to the Clinton Library and Democratic National Party.)
According to the Wall Street Journal, there has been a marked increase in Americans seeking to renounce their citizenship. Last year, 1,800 Americans officially renounced their citizenship, a figure six times that of 2008.
Of course, nation shopping isn't the only way to avoid tax obligations. An easier way would be to allow your assets to couch surf through a complicated web of offshore accounts. Just ask Mitt Romney (though he probably won't say much). While the federal government has moved to regulate these offshore shenanigans, they still happen with some frequency. It is estimated that the total amount of assets from U.S.-based citizens hiding in offshore accounts amounts to the trillions.
How You Can Give Up On Your Country
The super wealthy have the means hire top shelf legal teams and accounting magicians to help them become naturalized citizens of the island nation of Nada. But that doesn't mean statelessness is out of reach from the rest of us schmoes.
As mentioned above, commercial air travel is cheaper than at any time in history. The cost of a plane ticket has become so accessible that our current infrastructure is finding it difficult to keep up with the demand. Cheap seats + plentiful flights = more bottlenecks + delays. There have, of course, been some fluctuations in the cost of travel — largely attributable to price fixing by the global oil cartel. But generally speaking, the cost of consumer travel is down. And advancements in transportation technology — specifically, green, renewable technology — promise to bring the costs of continent hopping down even further. And should scientists ever perfect Star Trek-ish warp drive or transporters (not unthinkable, BTW) all neighborhoods of the world will be a few steps away.
Sci-fi dreams aside, the democratized nature of the Web already allows anyone to establish an international virtual and economic presence. Anyone with a smartphone has the ability to set up their own offshore accounts, buy property internationally or send and receive payments from anywhere.
We are already everywhere. Even if our passports don't reflect as much.
But Don't We Need Governments?
We've previously explored some concepts for experimental new nations. But would it be possible for us all to create an open world on top of what we already have? To that question that we just asked ourselves, we can answer back with a definitive "maybe."
First, a note to those of you reading this while gritting their teeth and preparing angry, profanity-laden, ALL CAPS commentary about the necessity of an authority to keep order. And indeed, there may be elements of our species that need to be kept under some form of control. But perhaps — just perhaps — we are actually better than we give ourselves credit for.
We've previously noted Harvard Professor Stephen Pinker's findings that despite what you may hear in the news, we are living in the safest time in the history of history. In developed parts of the world, street crimes of all kind have generally fallen over the past century. There is a clear correlation between modernism and low levels of violence. Moreover, when it comes to violence between nations, we are living through an historic lull. There is a parallel relationship between lowered international borders and fewer wars: it's better (and cheaper) to engage in trade with your neighbors rather than to risk fighting them.
But order is more than about dampening violence. What recourse do we have should someone screw us over in business if there's no authoritative and government-run legal system? Maybe we can just continue to do what we do now: Complain about it on the Internet. The Web allows anyone to broadcast their opinion to the entire world. In so much, consumer review-driven merchant boards like Yelp yield a lot of power over businesses. The same could be said for eBay seller feedback, Amazon user reviews, Glassdoor comments from former employees, or even your credit rating. Sometimes public shaming is enough of a deterrent to cause people to act ethically.
This new nation-less world is, admittedly, pretty far out there. But I would also contend that it is not an unfathomable outcome. Were we all to decide to drop this whole "nation" thing tomorrow and embrace an open world, the worst instincts of mankind may indeed make themselves known. However, as we continue to develop as a species, it may foster the opportunity for us to finally live up to the true promise of ourselves.
Or, maybe I'm completely wrong and all the pundits are right and — despite what they've said about every previous election cycle — this one is truly "the most important election of our times."
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After a video circulated around the internet that Samsung was showing off a new 23-inch OLED monitor, the company has owned up that it mislabelled an LCD screen.
It turns out the monitor was just a P2370L LCD monitor, which to be fair was high end enough to ape some OLED features, such as being thinner than most other monitors and having terrific contrast ratio.
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Open CMA has finally been fixed to work on the new firmwares.
After the recently released 2.00 and 2.01 firmware updates for the PlayStation Vita, Open CMA versions 4.5 and below no longer worked due to Sony’s new changes. However, now a new version, Open CMA 5, has been made by Virtuous Flame to work with the newest Vita firmwares. It’s recommend you download and use it, if you are on firmwares higher than 1.81. Open CMA 5 will only work on 2.00 and higher, so if you are on firmwares 1.81 and below continue and/or use my existing Open CMA 4.5 version. You can find the download for Open CMA 5 below with a description of what Open CMA is for those of you who need clarification or are new.
What is Open CMA?
Open CMA is the content manager assistant to copy files to the Vita. Open CMA is the same as the official Sony version but modified, so that you can copy files without any internet connection unlike the official Sony CMA which requires a constant internet connection to the Sony Servers, something that can be inconvenient It will also not sneak a patch or do a forced firmware update on your device if one comes out and it will not send any data to Sony or their servers about whats being copied, edited, and transferred. Open CMA also does not collect data regarding crashes.
In General it:
1. Allows offline transfers on either PC or Vita.
2. Allows lower firmwares to transfer. (Open CMA 5 works on 2.00+ Only)
3. Disallows the sending of information to Sony.
4. No contact to Sony’s servers.
5. Open CMA prevents CMA from auto updates or mandatory updates.
6. It also allows you to transfer anything black listed, it doesn’t check their servers to confirm if its on the PSN.
7. Lets you copy Homebrew, ISO/CSO to use with an exploit with less errors.
How to Install VF’s Open CMA 5
1. Download the latest verision of the Official CMA
2. Apply VF”s Open CMA 5 patch in the same folder as the official one
3. Run .bat and then setdll.exe
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1. Gotron’s avatar
Thank. I feel so free on a ps vita on v2.01
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1. Kyle’s avatar
You sir are a genius. Thank you for the tip!
2. kitsunisan’s avatar
This, this, 1000 times this! Run the .bat as administrator, otherwise it won’t be able to install the necessary files.
3. jckun’s avatar
uhhh dud admin uh soory to ask this but theres no admin on my pc right click thingy please ms again thanks
4. brando’s avatar
Computer OS
Windows 7
PS Vita Updated to 2.01
original offical cma folder!
4.When i ran bat file it says Access is Denied
0 file copied
Error: The Process “CMADownloader.exe” not found
Error: Couldnt vack up CMA.exw to CMA.exe~: 5
Samething with CMA Downloader.exe and CMANPLIB
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Thank you (I live in USA) if that matters…
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its not working.. help..
8. exequiel’s avatar
is this still works?
9. exequiel’s avatar
cma5 is not working need help guys T_T
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1. AyeGuy’s avatar
Turn off your internet and try to connect your vita to your computer.
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ATTENTION-Correct way for Installing OCMA
1-Download the RAR file
2-Extract all the files to the Original CMA folder.
3-Run “RUN” file
4-Run Setdll.exe
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“ATTENTION-Correct way for Installing OCMA
1-Download the RAR file
2-Extract all the files to the Original CMA folder.
3-Run “RUN” file
4-Run Setdll.exe”
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Thanks brother! Love your work.
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erro archivo cma doulader no encotrado.exe no encotrado
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Guys, kindly check the comments before you post.
otherwise it work.
Thank You
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Ok i did this called copy and that i i did run file and run setled then uhhh about this right click on the run setled there no adminitrator thingy on my com what the f think im doom and whats fuck when i put py psp vita on usb mode the screen gow frezee ow myyyy can anybody help im using the botton to manuver that shit vita and please i cant notice my coonection on pc even it was coonected
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I’ll just wait for a new patch for Open CMA.
Thanks anyways.
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Romney on 47% comments: I was 'completely wrong'
(CNN) - Mitt Romney said he was "completely wrong" when he argued that nearly half of Americans were "victims" and dependent on government.
The admission came Thursday as the GOP presidential candidate sought to clarify his controversial "47%" comments.
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Last month, secretly recorded video of Romney at a May fundraiser showed the Republican candidate saying 47% of Americans will vote for President Barack Obama "no matter what."
Romney ads: U.S. can't afford four more years of Obama
Adding to his argument about entitlement, Romney said his "job is not to worry about those people."
"I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives," he added.
The former Massachusetts governor acknowledged the comments were "off the cuff" and "not elegantly stated," but he defended the main point of the message, saying he was criticizing the increasing size of government and entitlement programs.
"We have a very different approach – the president and I – between a government-dominated society and a society driven by free people pursuing their dreams," Romney said.
"We were of course talking about a campaign and how he is going to get close to half the vote," Romney said. "I'm going to get half the vote, I hope, I want to get 50.1% or more. Frankly we have two very different views about America."
"I absolutely believe, however, that my life has shown that I care about 100% and that's been demonstrated throughout my life. And this whole campaign is about the 100%. When I become president, it will be helping the 100%."
What’s your reaction to Mitt Romney saying his secretly recorded comment that nearly half of Americans were victims dependent on government was "completely wrong?" Share your thoughts below or using the hashtag #47percent.
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1. Project
Why in God's name should payroll taxes be counted? Do liberals count them when they're claiming that they rich are under-taxed? Very fuzzy math, to be sure.
October 5, 2012 12:21 am at 12:21 am |
2. bmull
I see nothing wrong with what Romney said the first time. The bottom half of the country are victims of the top 1% and should expect their government to try to protect them. I saw what happened in 2007 when Wall Street tanked. The well-off fired workers and expected everyone else to work harder to reimburse them for their investment losses. If that's not victimization I don't know what is.
3. Chris
How many times can this guy change his mind??!! I've looked for a reason to vote for Romney, but the problem I keep running into is that I simply don't know for what I'd be voting. I'd be more likely to vote for someone I'd don't 100% agree with, but stands firm on their values. This guy has so clearly been pandering throughout his entire campaign, that I haven't the foggiest notion what he'd actually do in office. I have zero trust in anything he says anymore.
4. Johnny
Takes the Mittens how long to admit a mistake? Suddenly he cares about the poor...what a lying jerk!!
5. fekt
way to take a debate victory and try to turn it into a chance to etch a sketch your 47% commments that you completely stood by when they came out. I suppose he was hoping to take the opportunity of the debates and a slitght uptick in the polls to appear more human. sadly he just appeared to flip flop again and change the conversation away from the debates to his asinine comments from the video. Way to go MITTENS. We thank you for your help in changing the conversation back to your weakness again.
6. Kahless
Someone should do an ad showing clips of Romney in the debate when he flip-flops, then cut to an etch-a-sketch being shaken.
7. PDOC
Here we go again!!! Romney is so fake he makes my stomach hurt. He will say and do anything to win this Presidency...I will never trust him! He's trying to clear up his 47% comment now? He would of said that when he was confronted about it originally. If he is elected President I would respect the wishes of the American people but I warn, brace yourself because the middle class will suffer and the military will be going to war Against Iran and maybe even Syria.
8. MK
Words are like bullets once you say something there is no way to take it back.. sorry Mitt, damage is already done. Seems like you are back peddling a lot these days.
9. pflatman
Wow, can this weather-vane be any more FOS?
10. Flip FlopNey
And yet another Flip Flop, this guy is worse than a frog with a high dose of caffeine.
October 5, 2012 12:22 am at 12:22 am |
11. Sal Garcia
Mitt was pandering to High Income Donors when he made those statements in the first place. Now he is pandering to the independants and moderate Republicans but stating he's for the middle class. There are many intances where he will change his message depending on who his audiance is. As one of his advisors once said he can be like an Etch-A Sketch. He will continue to pander and make promises until he gets elected, it's just a means to an end.
12. Askmehow
So Romney is 53% correct. That gets you an F for failure.
The candidates haven't mentioned the forbidden words: The Middle Class of America. As if only the middle and Upper class works hard and pays taxes. Without the lower class the higher class wouldn't know how to wipe their own mess.
13. Greg
I can't believe that Mitt is this stupid....No matter what he says now the "47%" as he calls us will never vote for the bigot.
14. Art Gregoire
I will continue to share and write as many Anti Romney posts I can till this election is over. I'm taking off the Gloves and Game is on Mitt Witt. I want to keep your lying ass out of our Whitehouse. Go back to the Cayman Islands where you and your money belong. You wouldn't know the truth if it was inserted up your
15. Alex V
"I was completely wrong" Finally something I can agree with Mitt Romney on!
16. Franky
Flip-Flopper of the year award!!!!
This dude is slicker than ice on a cold winters night. I'll say anything to be president Mittens.
Will the real Mitt Romney , please stand up, please stand up?
October 5, 2012 12:23 am at 12:23 am |
17. Kris
Sorry Mitt, you cannot just push this one away. It would've been one thing if it had been one sentence in a topic about something completely different. But you rambled on and on about this, insulting many people who work hard to not have to depend on government assistance.
18. Marley
Yet, another FLIP-FLOP!!!
19. Ron
He will admit it yes, but it doesn't mean that he still doesn't think it is 100% true... flip flop...
20. raggedyart
There, there, ...all better now! So you can vote for me now, and I promise I'm not an Etch-a-Sketch. After all, I defended my comments before I was against them.
October 5, 2012 12:24 am at 12:24 am |
21. Craig
Amusing to seet he liberal media strive to come up with stories to take away from Obama's dismal debate performance.
22. jdg
Truth be told we were or are in a recession and why wouldn't we have more people receive govt assistance. This is the aftermath of a ten year war about weapons of mass destruction tht was never found and used 911 tragedy to propel the us into war in Iraq and the perpetrators responsible for 911 were camped out in afghanastan. The heavy cost of the war was just a part of it along with the banks and their underhanded practices. The president has done in house spending to.help keep people a float until the economy gets better.
23. pockets
Romney will say anything to anyone to look good. I think the man is evil. I mean it, he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Bloomers and all. Flip flopping away.
24. MashaSobaka
Of course he's taking it back. The most welfare-dependent states are red states and many of the people who pay no income tax are the elderly. He can't afford to keep offending his biggest supporters now that US citizens' inability to read a graph and understand basic mathematics has put him back in the game.
25. Ardon Williams
Of he would com forward now and say he was completely wrong after this debate. He is only saying this now because he is on a high from a fairly good debate. So of course let me come out and say this now while I'm on a quick high with the people and maybe they will give me a pass on what I said prior. That is exactly what Obama was speaking about in the debate the other day that for so many months Romney was saying one thing and now he is saying different things. "Politics as usual"
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The line that I grab on the starboard side pulls the rudder up onto the deck. Pulling on the port side deploys it. I'm describing everything with the rudder retracted onto the deck. A line runs from the reachable cleat on the starboard side, back through a line-sized hole near the bottom of the assembly. There is a little plastic piece on the starboard side with a little hole in it that the line enters, and then exits, and the line travels up and runs through the middle hole in the rudder, from starboard to port side. It then runs up to the hole in the rudder towards the front of the kayak with the rudder up on the deck, through that hole traveling from port back to starboard side, then back through the rear hole, from starboard back to port side. It then wraps back around the pully on the port side, from coming through the rear hole on the rudder, around from top to bottom. Then you run the line through the line sized holes on the bottom of the assembly on the port side. Mine has a much thicker bungee cord tied to the line a short ways after it leads up from the rudder, which then attaches to a cleat on the port side, same position as the cleat on the starboard side. I pull the bungee on the port side to deploy the rudder. The purpose of the thick bungee is that there remains tension on it even with the rudder deployed. So if the rudder catches on something it can lift a little, but the tension will pull it back down once beyond whatever it was dragging or catching on passes.
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Miss Universe win goes to Miss Mexico, Jimena Navarrete
Miss-universe-hosts Jimena Navarrete, Miss Mexico, was crowned Miss Universe 2010 in Las Vegas on Monday night, taking over where the previous title holder, Stefania Fernandez of Venezuela, left off.
Others in the top five were Miss Australia, Jesinta Campbell; Miss Jamaica, Yendi Phillipps; Miss Ukraine, Anna Poslavska; and Miss Philippines, Venus Raj.
The 22-year-old answered a question about unsupervised Internet use, saying through an interpreter that the Internet's important, sure, but when it comes to kids online, "We must be sure to teach them the values that we learned as a family." (For the other questions -- hint: how about those airport scanners, eh? -- check in Las Vegas Weekly.)
And what of Rima Fakih, our own Miss USA? Alas, she didn't make the top 15 -- and according to Robin Leach on Twitter, she decided afterward "to be with family instead of being at pageant princess party in LAX at Luxor."
After the break: pictures of Navarrete with her grandma, and Fakih in a bikini. Because we can.
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Top photo: Jimena Navarrete, Miss Mexico 2010, of Guadalajara, is crowned Miss Universe 2010 in Las Vegas on Monday. Credit: Matt Petit / EPA / Miss Universe L.P., LLLP
Second photo, above: Pageant hosts Bret Michaels and Natalie Morales with Miss Universe 2009 Stefania Fernandez at the Mandalay Bay hotel on Monday. Credit: Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty Images
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Miss Universe 2010, Jimena Navarrete, onstage with her grandmother in Las Vegas. Credit: Patrick Prather / EPA / Miss Universe L.P., LLLP
Photo: Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih performs in her swimsuit as part of the Miss Universe pageant. And yes, seriously, performed -- the show had them dancing in those purple swimsuits. Look down! Right now! Credit: Patrick Prather / EPA / Miss Universe L.P., LLLP
Photo: Young ladies dancing in bikinis! Credit: Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty Images
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WoooW ! She Is Really Pretty !!
TENNILLE your probably black or Jamaican...the most beautiful girl always wins and this is is was miss Mexico from Guadalajara...may the most beautiful girl win stap HATING. ps. you dont need to speak english to be smart and beautiful shows how much you know
buaa! dont be racist! ((way)) u said MIS Mexico cant speak inglish? hahaha! SHE WON-->MIS UNIVERSE!!!
What matters the most is beauty and miss Mexico
had it all and by the way she does speak english. It's all about beauty. 8 latinas as miss universe in the past 11 years. Latinas are beauty.
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Of course Mrs Mexico speaks spanish you idiot!
You are just gealous because the latinas take the crown!
Well... Considering the fact that almost one half of the world is made up of Spanish-speaking countries, it's no surprise that a lot (not EVERYONE) of the ladies that go on to win such coveted title ARE Spanish-speakers. Thinking that someone should not aspire to such title just because they don't speak English is foolish. The contest is not Miss English-Speaking Universe!!! It IS Miss Universe, eluding to the fact that it's a contest for the diverse population of our world. I think this title should have rightfully gone to Mexico on previous occasions, but the contestants always tried to speak in English (a language not native to the country) and many times made foolish grammatical mistakes that made them seem less deserving to the judges. Unfortunately, the anti-Mexican sentiment in the U.S. transcends into other realms, including beauty pageants, and it is my belief it has affected the judges decisions in the past. Come on...!!! Venezuela has had what...? 11 Miss Universe recipients, and they have pretty much all been manufactured and don't really portray true authentic beauty... AND they have all spoken in Spanish... haven't even tried to speak in English... but they are not ridiculed or accused of being less deserving... Oh but wait... Venezuela is not directly under the U.S.; therefore, it hasn't provoked a negative sentiment within the U.S. inhabitants. Congratulations Mexico!!! It's about time!!!
@ Tennille..I am so sorry that you are not educated enough to know that Spanish is a universal language and NOT English.
The most beautiful woman in the World are Latina and the Miss Universe Pageant shows it. I'm sure glad my girlfriend is Mexican!!! Que Viva Mexico!
About time Mexico got what it deserves....Remember 2 years ago when the crown was robbed from Mexico. Yes Elisa Najera is much more beautiful than Deyana Mendoza. Justice has been serve!!!
Viva Jimena Navarrete
she not need speak english dont be racist
I am proud for the contestants that pass the ten finalist! it takes a lot of determination to have and keep a body in shape and not only that, but contestants have to be really educated and smart believe it or not many contestants had had a higher education. Also they have to go over rigorous exercise for modeling, for dancing,smiling and putting up with morrons too. but they all have a dream, it takes yearsn, years of preparation for a contestant to become the first top ten. and to win the crown! Viva Mexico!!! Felicidades Señorita hiciste a un pais sentirse orgulloso....
Im hispanic , but i think that yendi phillips should have won because her scores were higher and to me she was the prettiest girl there.the judges cheated her of her well deserved crown.
Muchas Felicidades que padre que ganaste me encanto por ser tapatia como yo,estoy orgullosa de ti,lo mas importante es que el resto del mundo sepa de nuestra tierra!!!que es hermosa!!!!UNICA
of course may the best win! :) you dont need to speak english to win, you just have to show your talent and what your good at wink* ♥
I am proud to be Latina because the richest man in the world is Latino (Carlos Slim) as well the most beautiful and intelligent woman of the UNIVERSE. I am sorry for those who hate true beauty lol.
She is a beautiful Mexican girl! I am so sorry for the envy this contest has generated. People saying stupid remarks and dumb comments like "it is about politics, she does not speak English, etc. etc." Why so many Americans can not be humble and accept other countries winning? When news spread the world that a Mexican is the richest man in the world (Carlos Slim) it happened the same thing. Many Americans writing stupid comments about it. Now, we like it or not Mexico has the richest man in the world and the most beautiful girl! And Cancun, Mariachi and Tequila to celebrate. Cheers!
Im glad Mexico won..its time ! and yeah, i dont understand that dumb comment.. they dont need to speak english to win da crown,. or is dat a rule ? to speak english ? we have to be mature and get it right u should be happy miss Jamaica made it to da end.. and stop being jealous and dumb..there is no reason to think like dat..
Well, i am reading about who is bias or not. I am Jamaican. I dont see why mexico deserve anything less she answered her question properly and no tenille u dont have to speak english to enter or win the competition. Additionally, it's beauty and brains! not jus looks alone because if miss mexico had messed up one her question yendi would have definately take it home. i am proud of her she came 2nd out of 83! the only thing i didnt like was miss mexico getting a higher score on her dress than yendi. but overall mexico was the successor and nothing is wrong with that. Yendi did her best! hooray for her!
Cacheux: Stop acting like you're a genius! English is the universal Language. It's not the most spoken but for business English first Spanish second! Go review your notes or something. Just like USD is the universal currency!
Does speaking english mean beauty?? Ha, ha, ha ha, ha. I am sure Tennille is just kidding. Not a smart person should think that. My native language is not english, Am I ugly. Or I was wrong, it was not a beauty pageant Tennille was refering to, it was a spelling bee or something like that , quite apealling since the contestants wore bikinis. Ha, ha, ha. ha.
By the way, the Miss Mexico final answer was a clever one. It was well balanced to me, she recalled the importance of internet as an introduction, she did not mess with controvertial issues but then went right to children concerns wich everyone could agree. She went away over censorship discussions, but focus on family children education of values, and then, to let -in freedom, which all of us appreciate- the children to decide wisely,
Don't care what all of you say, wished that Ms. Philippines have won!
don't hate
Miss Mexico might have been the most beautiful woman in the pageant but she has yet to answer her question correctly. She had ample time to give a better response while the translator conveyed her answer in 2 parts to the audience. Though it is a beauty pageant, the question and answer segment is also a very vital part of the competition. I'm not insinuating that Miss Jamaica or any other contestant should have won but 2 other women answered their questions better than Miss Mexico. The fact that Miss Jamaica received scattered boos about her opinion from the insensitive and ignorant crowd was a testament that a beautiful face and figure to compliment it is all that matters, intelligence is nothing!
Someone with an ID "Angel" on here said that the Latinas were winning 11 years on the road. What is it, wishfull thinking?
As far as I remember, year 2002 Miss Russia, Oxana Fedorova won Miss Universe crown. Three years later, Miss Canada (who was also a Russian native) Natalia Glebova, won Miss Universe crown. So, I don't know where the 11 years for the Latinos come in, but they sure hadn't won then.
Oh yeah, Miss Russia Kseniya Sukhinova also was crowned "Miss World" 2008.
I guess it is all about personal preference, but I think Russian/Ukrainian women are the sexiest, they are more rare, exotic, 90% of them 5'9"-5'11" long legged, beautiful chick bones and fair skin, plus they all speak English, tough as nails and smart. I am sure a kazillion of the US guys who go to Russia every month will have no problem agreeing with me.
But again, it's all about the taste.
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Not a ton of stuff is going on.
[utterfrivolity] and [Ava] should expect presents within the next couple of weeks.
Here are some other favorites from the contest:
There will be an open house on Saturday at CEC. Check it out.
Tickets are $5 and go to charity.
We might be able to hit that up, but in the event that we can't, we might be holding an emergency contest for tickets. Keep your eyes peeled.
The big story yesterday that you might consider relevant to us is the release of the Reebok Women's "Champagne" jersey. We actually don't know anything about this, believe it or not. We're generally of the opinion that if you don't think a jersey in the style that the players wear is attractive enough for you, your priorities as a hockey fan are way off. But the NHL keeps forgetting to ask for our seal of approval on things. We might have to issue them an official reprimand at some point.
A lot of big talk has been going on about NHL contracts and the policing of them, etc. Again, we basically believe that if a guy wants to play for a specific team for the right reasons, and the team is amicable to that, the agent, GM, and player will all get together and make it work in a way that isn't shitty. We will judge a player by his contract. A shitty or sneaky contract often belies what we perceive as personal issues on the part of the player or the negotiating GM. Which is why we appreciate the "non-awful person rule" that Ray Shero has made regarding people who he will seriously talk numbers with. Ilya Kovalchuk is a bag of dicks, his contract showed that, and the NHL recognized--not in a consistent or classy fashion, but they did it nevertheless. When we get some consistency, we will be a better league for it. In the meantime, dicks will be dicks. People who want contracts like Kovalchuk's aren't people we want on our team.
Part of our strategy for 2010-11 should definitely be Beating The Devils, though. We can't afford to be wet blankets again, especially with Girl Jeans Ilya streaking down the wing six times a year. Vomit.
Basically "people are assholes" is all we're trying to say and we don't deal with that.
In this final (painful) stretch of summer, try to remember:
New arena.
Seriously upgraded defense.
Chances are you have AC in your car.
(If you don't, we're sorry.)
We love you.
drum roll please.
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"Reflections on the Theme of Viktor Ekbom"
by utterfrivolity.
We can't really say anything but well done.
We received a lot of really amazing submissions from all ya'all bitches out there. We were stunned, inspired, and often brought to tears by your valiant efforts to bling underage hockey players. They have never been as sexy as they were under the layers of your glitter and dancing cartoon animals. We applaud your every effort.
But, it has to come down to one.
That's the thing with contests.
Only one survives.
So, allow us to explain why our favor has gone to this specific masterpiece.
We get the very vivid feeling here that Viktor Ekbom himself constructed this masterpiece for his very own myspace page, in order to tell the world that he is, in fact, a cutie. The hearts in the background, the glitter of his jersey, all would match his meticulously planned background scheme, his right side aligned photo scheme (because he's just THAT COOL), his ironically sassy profile text, et cetera. We really appreciate a sense of realism in our Blingees. And this provides the height of it.
Okay, so there, Untterfrivolity, send us your address and all of that shit so we can send you whatever we find as a prize. (Generally this involves us wearing short skirst and low-cut tops to the sports store to get free shit. Wish us luck.)
Also, as a surprise bonus (A surprise even to Zoe!) I am awarding the "Kim is drunk and loves this" award to Ava.
Here is why.
There are fucking whales on his FACE.
I can't avoid that.
I will personally send you a magical prize of awesome. Just send us your address and all of your dreams (worst nightmares) will come true.
Okay, well, that sums up the U21 Blingee contest quite while.
We hope you all appreciate our selections. They are made carefully and with extreme attention to details.
On another note, guess who's birthday is tomorrow!
24 years of kicking ass and taking names.
Everyone raise a glass.
Preferably a glass of...
We're serious over here.
Love yinz.
Go Pens.
don't believe the hype
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Well, unless it's these two.
But I mean, at least he showed up:
Sid doesn't know. Mike doesn't know. Who knows?
Miracles up in this bitch.
but what caused the most media frenzy yesterday?
Now: the logo mysteries.
Pensblog posted a large version of the Pens logo:
This is going to be such a beautiful disaster.
you don't even know
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Update: official word from Pens that John Barbero has passed.
We wanted his voice in Consol. A very, very, very sad day.
A lot has been going on lately, believe it or not. Really, though, we can't claim we're privy to it personally.
We just love hockey. It is seriously about high time that the season starts and puts us out of our misery.
Rumors going around that Pens announcer John Barbero was not doing very well today and may have passed away this evening. No confirmation, but either way you should keep him and his family in your thoughts. What. A. Voice. Overenthusiastic monster truck guys like they have in Washington should respect.
Our Blingee contest does indeed have a resolution. Here is a mere taste of what is to come:
from our personal Blingee Master, [TP]
Finally, Consol Energy Center glimmering in yesterday's sunshine after the big rainstorm:
If you've been to CEC lately, it feels like an exhibit from the future. All of the gates are named after companies. The inside looks bright white like a concept sketch--which is strangely exciting.
The old barn:
Might be one of the last times I get to see it.
She's pretty, isn't she?
That's all for now. Big stuff coming soon. I know we keep promising that, but we still think next season is "soon."
We have no concept of time. If we did we'd die waiting for hockey.
check out pittsburghpenguins.com tomorrow at NOON for a live stream of the press conference where we get big-time Winter Classic logo/uniform announcements and Gary "Horsehair Plaster" Bettman action. Dear god.
and now for something completely different
Written by PH Staff on .
As you probably know, the Pens have been having prospect camp. No one in PH-land has been able to attend prospect camp, so we recommend checking out the vids/commentary from Eric P at Pensblog:
day 1
day 2
day 3
Prospect camp concludes tomorrow with a 3pm practice at Southpointe.
We may update this post later with info from friends who got to attend camp today/earlier in the week.
Also, does Eric Tangradi's voice scare anybody else? It's so deep. Kind of unreal.
You know it's summer 'cause there's some big time video about installing carpet:
CEC got the Frozen Four in 2013. Wooooo and stuff, yeah you probably knew all this already.
But it is July and we've got nothing.
We're trying to put together some kind of coloring activity for everybody.
Last post, somebody suggested a Blingee challenge. So, we present:
The Jailbait Blingee Challenge!
Blingee current prospects from around the NHL and/or European leagues.
For players who are now older than 21, feel free to use an old picture.
The winner will receive a secret prize package to be determined later, but all submissions will be posted for your enjoyment/seizure.
Don't be shy! E-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and use "U-21 Championships" as your subject line.
update: some news going on about the Pens' Winter Classic sweater. *tingle*
ice sluts? maybe not, but. . .
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The Penguins announced yesterday that they will be introducing an "Ice Crew" at the CEC.
The pitch sounds innocuous enough, and even suggests that men and women will be given equal consideration:
Putting the crew on skates will add a new level of excitement to the Penguins’ game presentation as the team enters a new era at CONSOL Energy Center.
“We’ll be looking for energy, athleticism and passion for the Penguins,” said James Santilli, the team’s vice president of marketing. “We think it’s a great way for fans to get even more involved with Penguins hockey and help make games at CONSOL Energy Center an even greater entertainment experience.”
Okay, whatever. There is a certain level of crap that we will put up with from people who work in marketing.
However, the audition dates for dudes haven't even been scheduled, leading us to believe that they'll probably just add some nonthreatening types on at the end if they can't fill all of roster spots on the crew with girls.
There are NO specific height and weight requirements; however our uniform demands a lean and tone figure. Being physically fit is a part of the athletic, high-energy Pittsburgh Penguins Ice Crew image.
Translation: if you have curves, gtfo. Only skinny people have energy and passion. Here is a list of requirements for the ice crew:
Skating or figure skating technique
Ability to skate in hockey skates
Striking appearance
Physically fit (lean & toned)
Energetic and outgoing personality
Communication skills
Hockey knowledge
"Hockey knowledge" comes last. But if you do apply, they do want to know if you have modeling experience:
Translation: We're probably judging your boobs.
Find a hairstyle that compliments your natural beauty. Hair needs to be styled and worn all down. Make-up should be tasteful - wear makeup that flatters you. Nails should be painted a French manicure or a neutral shade of polish.
wtf on this one. No idea.
If you're interested in these shenanigans, more information is here and here.
We had a long rant written about how ice girls were damaging to the organization's image and spread a negative sexual message to fans, especially young girls who have an interest in hockey.
We also questioned the decision to make a change to the ice crew, seeing as the old ice crew seemed plenty capable and professional, and this just seems gimmicky. I mean, weren't all the Pens games going to be sold out anyway without ice sluts?
Now: Pensblog broke the info that the ice crew will be not a group of "ice girls" like you'd see in other hockey markets, but an extension of the Pens Patrol.
We're familiar with the Pens Patrol girls, who dress (mostly) covered and are ideal footsoldiers for any marketing campaign because they have just the obnoxious, college-type personality required to approach strangers and ask them to do things or accept promotional material.
We totally understand needing high-energy people for the job, athletically capable people who can skate, whatever. Never mind that the old ice crew was mostly random dudes and some women in track jackets, who seemed nice enough.
From a marketing standpoint, though, do you really think were the Pens in danger of losing ticket sales or fan interest because they didn't have a group of loud [Belegost]ers to entertain us during TV timeout?
And the worst part is that no matter how much this anonymous Penguins official that Pensblog spoke to says that these aren't ice sluts, the organization has made it apparent that how you look in a crop top is a very important hiring point. The Penguins organization has instituted a "no fatties" policy, in essence--which seems unusual if they aren't trying to sell sex appeal with this new ice crew, even if they state that sweatsuits will be worn. No matter how much you love the Penguins, female students of Pittsburgh, no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how bubbly your personality or willingness to do the work, or capability to do the work in terms of skating ability, physical ability, etc.--you're probably not going to be able to get the job unless you've got a perfectly flat stomach. Sorry, hockey (and hockey operations) aren't for everyone. And let's not forget the weird manicure requirements. Jesus.
Basically, this still perpetuates a negative sexual message. Sure, you have to have an athletic background to play hockey at a high level, and you need like, a modicum of physical capability to clean the ice surface at a hockey arena. None of this has anything to do with your nails, how flat your tummy is when you pull your shirt up, or your makeup and hairstyle. And if they're looking for an enthusiastic, likable fan crew, those things are equally irrelevant.
(Let's not forget that Dustin Byfuglien is obese and he won a Stanley Cup. /burn)
Sorry, Pens organization, we're not buying it.
James Santilli = officially on notice.
The fact remains that this bull[Nogrod] has nothing to do with the on-ice product so we have to wonder why it is so important to a hockey team's vice president of marketing. Sell the game, not some girls who yell at you and throw t-shirts and spend their off-days at the gym so they can fit into that dress and go to Diesel.
It's stupid, and sneaky.
We can't say that enough.
Drop the puck already so we can care about something important.
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Written by Kim on .
It's that time againnnnnn....
We actually couldn't tell the difference between weird fan posters for this movie and the real deal, so forgive whichever one this is.
So you should all be used to random appearances of us drunk liveblogging [Nogrod]y teen movies. Tonight is another special event.
Join us here, live, getting drunk while watching the epic cinematic masterpiece that is New Moon. We will have nothing insightful to say, this is just how we spend our evenings and thought we'd invite along several hundred of our BFFs (you guys.)
You can catch other lovely historical incidents of this here and here.
We're adding this lovely feature where you can watch our asinine conversation MOMENT BY MOMENT right here on this blog. Because what we have to say is SO VERY INTERESTING.
Well, and if we get alcohol poisoning, hopefully someone will call the cops. We love all of you. LET'S GET IT STAH-TED.
beautiful ikr
go pens
can we get a "woooo"?
Written by PH Staff on .
We've promoted it everywhere else on the Internet, so if you haven't already, please check out
our Guest Post Wednesday on the Pensblog.
If you've got a few minutes. It's about Cities and Feelings.
In other news, is Kovalchuk an dbag or what?
srsly Ilya baby we used to have a soft spot for you and your girl jeans until you started acting like Curry's gift to hockey and we're just going to have to disagree.
We suggest he round up the girls and take a therapeutic trip to H&M before deciding where he's going to sign.
Just a thought.
Pens signed Brett Sterling and he's cool or something.
Babies are having camp soon.
Is it October yet?
Nabokov is going to Russia and we cried for days (even though we only heard about it a few hours ago), SAD.
P.S. Great post about enforcer moves around the Atlantic Division from our buddy Travis:
at The Goon Blog
well hello?
Written by PH Staff on .
We weren't expecting you, sir, but there's plenty of room around. . .
Pens have signed forward (according to Wikipedia, a center) Ryan Craig to a one-year 500k deal.
Contract is two-way. The closest he's ever come to playing a full NHL season was 72 games (and 27 points) for Tampa Bay in 2006-07. In 2007-08 his knee gave up at life and he missed 59 games. Jobbed around, probably still battling that knee thing. Spent most of last season with the Norfolk Admirals and put up better numbers. Chances are he's WBS material and this won't affect our Search for a Winger, but we may see him in the event of injury to other guys throughout the season. He might provide some competitiveness in training camp. A farm-team depth decision more than anything since we might be bringing up someone fresh to center the fourth line (some rumor floating around about moving Malkin to Staal's wing permanently).
Mostly we just wanted to post this old pic from Tampa's site because OMG HIS KID IS SO CUTE.
Welcome to the Pens' organization, love.
We have a special surprise in the works for the coming days/weeks. And as we mentioned there's a good chance for a PH Road Trip later this summer.
Written by Kim on .
with Pensblog, because they're fancy like that.
If you want news, that's the place to be.
While I hate art, artists, art school, and generally anyone who has ever picked up a paintbrush, camera, or charcoal pencil, save a couple of special individuals named Seth and Joe, Our Friend and Yours Jeff said it best through the art of photography:
That's basically how we feel about everything.
So, what's happening out there?
The Recchin' ball just won't die.
Boston's got him again.
The Flyers have the rights to Nabby, but we won't allow it, so it won't happen.
Arnott's rights are the Debs' once again.
Leighton is all Philly all the time.
Winnik became an Av and Sergei Kostitsyn was traded to Nashville.
So basically that means that nothing is happening and that we hate the world and that everything is a huge swaying boner in the breeze.
For once, however, the draft photos don't look like they were lifted straight up outta the late 80s. The black background ones are pretty classy in theory. They'd actually be kind of cool if, you know, we weren't trusting it to a handful of babies to not ham it up in them. Which, for the record, you can't.
Sir you are 18 years old.
Stop pretending like you've got somewhere to go.
As a head's up, we're going to be doing a liveblog with the boys next door over at tPB tomorrow for FA.
If you want to check out what we have to say or what some other fine contributers have to say about what's happening, or worse, what those homers have to say about anything, we'll post a link to the happenings. Everyone should keep you updated and humored for the day.
This summer is really grating on us.
But luckily we're going to be taking a trip to *drumroll* Canada!
Later on.
If Versteeg signs with the Leafs, expect us to have the shirtsys by preseason.
Oh, or we might go to Tennessee. It all depends.
We are free floating drifters, please do not pin us down with these "plans" you deal with. Ugh. As if.
[Belegost] it.
Go Pens.
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Philadelphia Phillies – Awards: Stolen Base Champions.
During the past 123 seasons, starting in 1886, when the National League have been able to record stolen bases, eight Phils have eleven times stolen more bases than anyone else in the NL, including one time when a Phil was tied with another National Leaguer.
The first Phil, when the team was then called the Quakers, to win the stolen base title, Ed Andrews, is also the first National Leaguer to win the title, winning it in 1886 with 56 stolen bases. The next Phillie player to win the title was Jim Fogarty, who won it with 99 steals in 1889. Hall of Famer Billy Hamilton was the third Phil to lead the league in steals, doing it four times in a six-year period, with 102 steals in 1890, 111 steals in 1891 (which is still the team’s franchise record, although Juan Samuel is listed as the modern single season steal leader with his 72 steals in 1984), 98 in 1894 and 97 in 1895. Fellow Hall of Famer Ed Delahanty became the fourth Phillie player to lead the league in steals, stealing 58 bases in 1898. No Phil would win the title for the next thirty-four seasons. Hall of Famer Chuck Klein then became the fifth Phil to win the stolen base crown with his 20 steals during his MVP season of 1932. Danny Murtaugh becomes the next Phil to win the title, swiping just 18 bases in 1941. Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn was the seventh Phil to win the title as he steals 32 bases during his rookie season of 1948. It would then be another fifty-three seasons before another Phil would win the title. In 2001, Jimmy Rollins would win the title, tying with Juan Pierre of the Colorado Rockies, with both men stealing 46 bases.
Of the eight Phils to lead the league in stolen bases, four of them (Billy Hamilton, Ed Delahanty, Chuck Klein and Richie Ashburn) are now in the Hall of Famers, responsible for a total of seven titles. Hamilton has the highest total among the champs, with 111 steal in 1891, setting the franchise’s overall stolen base record, while Danny Murtaugh has the lowest with his 18 steals in 1941. The Phils have won seven stolen base titles in the 19th Century, three in the 20th Century, and one, so far, in the 21st Century.
Who would be the next Phillie player to lead the National League in stolen bases? Jimmy Rollins is the most likely Phil to win it, but history is not on his side.
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except those people go through years of training to protect the President from harm
where as, a old senile woman can purchase a gun at any other part of the country, you ******* moron
if you want to have a truly satirical look on the gun issue in America, you should stop being stupid for 5 minutes
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By Thomas Wheeler
For decades, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in what has come to be known as the "Cold War". With both sides fully nuclear-capable, neither side really dared to make the first move that would surely have brought the civilized world down to ruin. Still, we were hardly on friendly terms. The United States represented freedom and individuality, while the Soviet Union represented tyranny and communism.
There was something fascinating about the Soviet Union, though. Its people didn't look any different from us, and yet they were otherwise so very different. Their way of government was totally anathema by American standards. Their language was a mystery. Even their alphabet was different. Some letters were recognizable, but there was that backwards "R", and some of those other letters that looked like nothing in English.
For most Americans, the Soviets were regarded, and not necessarily inaccurately, as the bad guys. This was certainly true in most pop culture outlets, including comic books. If there was a Russian in a comic book, the odds were that he or she was one of the bad guys. There were rare exceptions, but these were generally defectors who had seen the red, white, and blue lights of American liberty.
Still, after many decades, things started to ease up a bit. With the coming of "glasnost" and "perestroika" it was gradually possible to be Russian and still be one of the good guys, at least to some degree. And eventually, the comic book companies started to get some Soviet super-heroes that hadn't abandoned their homeland in order to become heroes. The Marvel Universe assembled the Soviet Super-Soldiers, later known as the Winter Guard, after the Soviet Union collapsed.
The DC Universe created -- the ROCKET REDS! And while their name might not be the most politically correct anymore, and their fortunes have certainly risen and fallen, much as the fortunes of the former Soviet republics, they're still very much around and active. And a Rocket Red has just joined the DC Universe Classics line through its current online exclusive edition, the DC Signature Series, available on MattyCollector.Com.
When Mattel first announced their planned DC Universe line, via the subscription service known as Club Infinite Earths, there was also a poll to choose the first of the "Fan's Choice" figures. These were characters that, for one reason or another, couldn't be released in the standard retail line, largely because of size issues, but there was no such hindrance in the subscription line.
Of the four contenders, I've tended to think that two were something of a joke. I just tend to question whether there was a significant demand for a Black Lantern version of Swamp Thing, and I wonder how many fans even knew (or cared) who the Shaggy Man was.
But the other two contenders were a lot more popular. They included Rocket Red, and Metron. It honestly didn't surprise me that Metron won. There had been a significant New Gods presence in the DC Universe Classics line, but Metron, a very prominent individual in that group, had been distinctly absent, not because of the character's size -- he was a fairly normal-sized individual -- but because of his Mobius Chair, which Metron would HAVE to come with. This was not a small piece of hardware. It couldn't plausibly be done at retail -- but as an online special? Yeah, that could be done. And so it was.
For me, the choice wasn't easy when the poll came up. I liked both characters. And when the winner was announced, I remained hopeful that we would also get Rocket Red someday. And -- here he is! Makes me wonder just how close that poll was.
So, where did the Rocket Reds come from? Let's have a look at their history in the DC Universe, and then the figure.
Rocket Red was created by Steve Englehart and Joe Staton, he first appeared in Justice League No. 3 (July 1987). His first DC Universe canon appearance was in Green Lantern Corps No. 208 (January 1987).
The term "Rocket Reds" refers to any member of the Rocket Red Brigade; the name in the singular is used to refer especially to the three individual characters named Rocket Red who were members of the Justice League. These comprise the original Rocket Red No. 7 (later revealed as an android), Dmitri Pushkin (Rocket Red No. 4) and Gavril Ivanovich.
Originally created for the Soviet Union by Green Lantern Kilowog, the Rocket Red Brigade — normal human beings enhanced using "forced evolution" and armored battle-suits — proudly defended the USSR.
Their abilities included super strength, invulnerability, flight (through rocket packs/boots), the ability to project powerful energy blasts and "mecha-empathy" — the ability to sense and control computers and machines (though to what extent is not clear).
Among the more notable Rocket Reds are: Decorated Russian soldier Josef Denisovich, who was a close friend of the alien Green Lantern Kilowog. He was also the first member of the Rocket Red Brigade. Josef was turned against Kilowog by the Soviet government, and died fighting Kilowog.
The man known as Vladimir Mikoyan turned out to be a Manhunter. Vladmir was the first Rocket Red admitted into Justice League International. During the Millennium event, he was exposed as a Manhunter android and destroyed by Booster Gold (with the assistance of the Justice League and a force of other, human, Rocket Reds). After the Manhunter was discovered, Dimitri Pushkin was admitted into the Justice League.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, the other Rocket Reds fell on hard times. Several were brainwashed to serve as agents of the super-criminal Sonar. Many of the suits ended up on the black market. As seen in the pages of Chase #3 (April 1998), some of the more unscrupulous Rocket Reds began working for the Russian Organizatsiya Mafiya in order to feed their families.
Later four of the suits came into the possession of Vandal Savage, during the DC One Million event. He imprisoned four of the Titans, Jesse Quick, Arsenal, Tempest, and temporary member Supergirl, in them and used them as missiles. He managed to destroy the South American city of Montevideo, Uruguay though Tempest managed to save himself. The other Titans were saved as well before their respective suits could detonate.
Surviving members of the Rocket Red Brigade took their armor back from the Russian Army to fight the world prison break during the events of Villains United. They also appeared protecting Russia's border in 52, wearing new, more advanced suits of armor. They were seen again in One Year Later protecting Russia while hindering Green Lantern Hal Jordan's attempt to apprehend an interstellar criminal in Green Lantern #10. After the ensuing situation was resolved, the current Rocket Red #1 is even promoted as a possible Justice League member in the future, should the League plan to expand. Ice was hidden in a suit of Rocket Red armor during her regeneration.
In Checkmate v.2 # 22, it is revealed that Checkmate has since recruited the current Rocket Red # 1, Captain Maks Chazov, as its White Queen's Knight, with the apparent consent of Chazov's Russian government superiors.
In Blackest Night #3, the Rocket Reds were briefly seen in battle with Dimitri Pushkin, whose body had been reanimated as a Black Lantern.
In Justice League of America #45, the League meets the German Rakete-Auslese, or "Rocket Elite", who Batman notes are the German equivalent of the Rocket Reds, and use some of the same technology in their flying battlesuits.
During Mon-El's tour of the earth, he visits Moscow and helps the Rocket Reds during a battle with Georgian terrorists. Afterwards, a female Rocket Red pilot named Ivana takes Mon on a tour of St. Basil's Cathedral and gives him the first kiss he's ever received from a human.
The Rocket Red Brigade appears in Justice League: Generation Lost #4. One of their former number who had served under the USSR, Gavril Ivanovich, joins the members of the former Justice League International in tracking down Maxwell Lord.
During The New 52, Gavril is admitted into the new, United Nations-sanctioned Justice League as the official representative of Russia.
Sadly, this Rocket Red was killed during an early mission, and not too long after, the Justice League International title was canceled.
I don't necessarily want to draw too much of a connection here, but let me throw in the fact that years ago, in Marvel Comics, not long after most of the Soviet Oktober Guard team met their demise in the G.I. Joe: Special Missions title, that book was canceled. There's a lesson here: if you want to have a successful comic book run -- don't kill the Russkies.
As to some further details on individual Rocket Reds: Dmitri Pushkin (Rocket Red No. 4) became a member of the Justice League International after the previously assigned Rocket Red No. 7 was revealed to be a Manhunter android. A kind-hearted and jolly man with a taste for American culture, Dimitri served with the Justice League International for many years.
When his armor was destroyed by Lobo, he replaced it with a more advanced model made on Apokolips. This happened during a small-team Justice League mission to save Mister Miracle. He also suffered the destruction of his battle suit while facing Time Commander in Animal Man No. 16 (Oct 1989), when Dimitri served with Justice League Europe. During this time, Maxwell Lord made arrangements with the Russian government for Dmitri's wife, Belina, and his two children, Mischa and Tascha, to live with him at the League's Paris embassy. He also became friends with Buddy Baker, in a manner similar to the friendship of Blue Beetle and Booster Gold. Dimitri and Buddy initially bonded because they both had wives and children.
Dmitri is featured in the second Captain Atom Annual, helping to defend the country of Bialya from various threats.
In Justice League Europe No. 28, Dimitri was part of the resistance against Starro because his armor prevented the alien from controlling his mind. Dmitri was neutralized when Starro threatened to harm his family. He willingly surrendered to the alien's control in order to keep them safe. Other Justice League members eventually defeated the menace.
Later, Dmitri and most of the Reds are taken over by the sound-using criminal Sonar. In the same issue, Russian government reports have him listed as retired.
Dimitri was the only European on the team initially. He retired from super-heroics for a long time before dying in The OMAC Project, self-destructing to save the other members of the old JLI. His last words to Booster Gold were "My wife and children, Michael ... tell them I love them."
In the Booster Gold series, Rocket Red's grandfather, Dr. Sergei Pushkin, was a Russian scientist working with the U.S. on the space race in 1952. Task Force X was given a mission to expose Pushkin as a traitor to the American cause. Thanks to Pushkin, the launch was ahead of schedule, and the Russians were conducting a flight to outer space that night. Booster Gold traveled through time to stop it, giving a diversion to Task Force X to apprehend Pushkin without exposing him. Pushkin became more careful, and the space program started to lag behind until he was exposed by Frank Rock as a traitor in 1954. Because he was a valuable source, the U.S. placed him under house arrest where he worked on the Rocket Red armor in secret until he was sprung in 1957 by the Soviets. He did not live to see his work completed, and it was up to his son, Dimitri, to finish the suit. The legacy of the Rocket Reds was secure until 1962.
The 2010 ongoing series Justice League: Generation Lost introduced a new Rocket Red named Gavril Ivanovich. In this title, several members of the erstwhile JLI, pursuing a group of OMACs controlled by the resurrected Maxwell Lord, encounter a fight among a group of Rocket Reds, whose infighting was triggered by renegade Rocket Red (Gavril Ivanovich), who remains loyal to the old Communist cause and is resistant to the capitalist values of the modern Rocket Red brigade. He also sports a bulkier, outdated suit of armor that resembles Pushkin's armor rather than the sleek, modern suits worn by the other members of the brigade. The Justice League members intervene to prevent collateral damage, and Ivanovich joins the group (somewhat to their initial reluctance) in a move that paralleled Pushkin's choice to join the original JLI years earlier.
Gavril cements his membership in the new group during a fight against the Checkmate organization, suffering serious injuries but earning the team's respect. While the team deals with the apparent loss of Blue Beetle, Gavril bonds with Fire. He shares his insecurities about being thought of as a joke by his teammates due to his poor grasp of the English language, and the two grow close, eventually sharing a passionate kiss. During the final battle against Lords' army of OMACs, Gavril's armor is heavily damaged. Once Lord is temporarily defeated and the battle ends, the injured Gavril sets out to repair his suit.
In the timeline of The New 52, Gavril was featured in the ongoing series Justice League International as a member of a United Nations-assembled superhero team led by Booster Gold, until he is killed early in the title's run. One more reason to hate the New 52.
It has long seemed to me that the DC Universe is sorely lacking in armored characters (unlike the Marvel Universe -- I'm talking to you, Tony Stark), and while Rocket Red may not be as major a player as some, I'm glad he's around.
This new figure is not actually the first Rocket Red figure. A version based on the Apokolips-built armor was produced a number of years ago as part of the Justice League Unlimited line. But this is the first time Rocket Red has appeared in a modern, non-animated line.
So, how's the figure? Really spectacular, but an equally valid question is -- who's the figure? Who's under this Rocket Red armor? Unfortunately, there's no way to know.
The text on the box very specifically says "Real Name: Varies", and goes on to confirm most of what I've already stated above. "Created to protect Russian airspace from foreign intruders, the Rocket Reds are soldiers sporting powerful armored battle suits that grant them the ability to fly, shoot plasma blasters, and use mecha-empathy - the power to sense and control electronics. Continuously upgraded with the newest technology, the Rocket Reds are an extremely proud fighting force, willing to sacrifice everything to protect the land they love."
As part of the Rocket Red armor, each Rocket Red has a large number emblazoned on his chestplate. Honestly, I had the idea, and even suggested it to Mattel in an e-mail, that it might be a cool idea to have the figure come with some vinyl stickers, like G.I. Joe vehicles, and let the buyer decide what number to give the figure. In retrospect, this might not have worked out. The chestplate is somewhat curved, and has a semi-metallic painted surface. I've had trouble with stickers on surfaces like that.
The Rocket Red has an "01" on his armor, but over the years, I've seen a wide range of numbers, even edging into three digits. As to who's in this armor -- well, it could be anybody, and honestly isn't all that relevant to the figure.
I would like to take a moment and commend whoever is doing the artwork on these DC Signature Series packaged. It's excellent, and the painting of Rocket Red is one of the most impressive I've yet seen.
Back to the figure. For starters, and this is doubtless why Rocket Red had to be held off for the Signature Series -- he's huge. The average size of a DC Universe Classics type figure is 6-1/2". Rocket Red is more like 9-1/2". This does, as such, require a certain amount of speculative explanation.
The Rocket Red armors have varied over the years. Some of the earliest models were very boxy looking. Then there was that Apokolips version, and the more modern version, which this figure is based on -- thank goodness, since it is the most impressive of the lot. Depending on the artist, the Rocket Reds have tended to be portrayed as slightly to substantially larger than an average human being, but at least some of this has been attributable to the armor. Again, depending on the artist, there's been no indication that the wearers themselves are substantially larger people -- at least not by THIS much, despite the well-defined human-looking musculature of much of the armor.
So I suspect we're left with either a case of the armor being designed to mimic a large but otherwise human-looking form, and being able to house an otherwise normal-sized human that can still fully utilize the armor, or that remark about "forced evolution" being part of the Rocket Red program has resulted in soldiers capable of some rather considerable growth spurts every time they don their armor.
Rocket Red lives up to his name by being mostly red. The helmet, arms, and legs are all red, as is the abdominal area. And the limbs all closely mimic human musculature. The helmet is mostly red with a somewhat T-shaped silver visor. I'm a bit reminded here of a Cobra Battle Android Trooper as far as basic appearance is concerned, but it still looks cool.
Rocket Red's hands are gloved, but not in any bulky sense. They're red just like the sleeves of the armor. Interestingly enough, the thumb and index fingers are distinct, but the remaining three fingers of the hand are sort of unified in a sort of partial mitten. The backs of the hands have raised lines that are painted in a metallic white.
Strapped to the lower arms are a pair of plasma blasters. These are rather long, somewhat trapezoid-shaped units, with two distinct barrels at the front.
Rocket Red is wearing a heavily armored chestplate, with broad, flared shoulders. The chestplate is mostly smooth, with a red star on one side, and the "01" number on the other. Rocket Red also has a backplate, which includes a futuristic-looking jetpack. The chestplate and backplate are a semi-metallic white in color. He also has protective trunks (hey, if I was going into some sort of superhuman battle, I'd want that area protected), which are also metallic white.
The uniform is completed by very fancy boots, which like the other raised sections of his armor, are a semi-metallic white in color, with a bit of silver trim, most notably the knee pads and some ridged detail on the front.
Rocket Red uses some previously established body parts. The torso and lower torso armor pieces are separate attachments, over an otherwise standard body. This is the body that has been used, to one degree or another, for several large male heroes, whose proportions are otherwise relatively normal, such as Atom Smasher, Colossal Boy, and Apache Chief. Certainly they also work well for Rocket Red, whose torso armor makes him look a bit bulkier.
Distinct to Rocket Red are the lower arms, hands, lower legs, and feet, to accommodate the unusual gloves, the plasma blasters, and the highly detailed boots.
Paintwork on the figure isn't all that extensive. Really just the faceplate on the helmet, the lines on the backs of the gloves, and a bit of silver detail on some of the armor. And, of course, the red star and number. However, I suspect that this was a relatively easy figure for the paint crews, due in no small part to the lack of a distinctive face.
Any criticisms? Just one. The head has a number of what I call "mold creases" in it, which tends to happen when the plastic is not sufficiently liquefied before being injected into the mold. If this figure had possessed a standard human face, it would've been a disaster. But it's still a little problematic, especially since the silver visor brings out the creases that much more. Let's hope this isn't going to be an increasing problem with these figures.
Of course, Rocket Red is superbly articulated, and is fully poseable at the head, arms, upper arm swivel, elbows, wrists, mid-torso, waist, legs, upper leg swivel, knees, and ankles.
Let me address one other question -- Could Rocket Red be the newest "army-builder" in the DC Universe Classics line? Granted, the line hasn't had that many army-builders. The only other two I can think of would be the Parademon and the Manhunter Robot.
Rocket Red was not inexpensive, but if you've got the disposable income, I see no reason not to have more than one in your collection. The only problem is the "01" on the armor. Technically speaking, every Rocket Red has a distinct number, and all of the figures have "01".
Now, maybe you're skilled enough to find a way to safely remove the existing number and paint a new one in its place. If so, congratulations and good luck to you. For those of us disinclined to try that, but who still want more than one Rocket Red, let me suggest a little conceptual dodge here. Maybe there's more than one Rocket Red per number. Maybe they operate in units. Or maybe the Russian government assigns the name number to more than one Rocket Red just to keep people fooled as to how many Rocket Reds they've really got working for them. Just a thought.
So, what's my final word? I'm sincerely pleased to see Rocket Red join the DC Universe Classics/Signature Series collection. Mattel's done a really excellent job with this figure, and he's wearing the most up to date Rocket Red armor, which in my opinion is the best design of them all. I truly believe that any DC Universe fan will be pleased to add this superb figure to their collection.
The DC UNIVERSE SIGNATURE SERIES figure of ROCKET RED definitely has my highest recommendation! | https://www.mastercollector.com/articles/reviews/rockred-review.html | dclm-gs1-203800004 |
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North Korea's former poet laureate takes a look at the new leader's shifting tone of voice.
January 2nd, 2013
Kim Jong Un’s new year speech has broken a silence held for 19 years, for during this time, there was no new year speech in North Korea. Under Kim Il-sung, the new year’s speech was that occasion in the year when the leader provided guidance to his people. As all power is concentrated under the leader, the new year speech provided a framework and sets the tone for the coming year. Kim Il-sung made the speeches himself. After his death however, Kim Jong Il did not continue in his father’s footsteps. Instead, he chose to convey his message through editorials published by the important state mouthpieces such as Rodong Sinmun, the Korean People’s Army and the Youth Vanguard.
As the new year’s speech was by then perceived to be an inseparable limb of the leader, these state editorials assumed absolute legitimacy as if they had been uttered in a speech made by Kim Jong Il himself. From 1995 onwards, Party members had to study Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong Il’s teachings together with the state editorials and produce self-criticisms based on these materials.
The fact that Kim Jong Un delivered this new year’s message through a speech shows that he wants to associate his psychological authority with that of his grandfather Kim Il-sung rather than that of his father Kim Jong Il. Clearly, Kim Jong Un understands very well the ordinary North Korean’s mistrust of Kim Jong Il. This explains why he began his speech with the following shocking words: “Dear Comrades!”
New words that appear in Kim Jong Un’s new year speech
In North Korea, the adjective ‘dear’ has been exclusively reserved for Kim Jong Il: while Kim Il Sung was ‘beloved and respected’, Kim Jong Il was ‘dear’. Yet in the new year speech Kim Jong Il’s personal adjective has been used to describe ‘comrades’. Two motives for this stand out. First, with no more ‘Dear Leader’, ‘Beloved and Respected Leader’ Kim Jong Un can have the limelight. Second, a ‘dear’ intimacy is being stressed as existing between the new leader and his comrades.
The new year speech plays even bolder linguistic games than the displacement of adjectives – it includes new phrases never uttered before. The country is described as ‘Mt. Baekdu Great Nation’ and by extension, the army is called ‘Mt. Baekdu Revolutionary Strong Army’. These neologisms too are associated with Kim Il-sung, because Mt. Baekdu is at the center of the Kim Il-sung revolutionary tradition. The omission of a certain word is also very conspicuous. While Kim Jong Il stressed his country as a ‘Strong and Prosperous Great Nation’, the ‘great’ has now been dropped and the country has become a ‘Strong and Prosperous Nation’.
Kim Jong Il stated that the essence of a ‘Strong and Prosperous Great Nation’ was a free-standing economy rooted in a great ideology and a great military. Nevertheless, ordinary North Koreans have mocked the fact such an impoverished nation was always prefixed by ‘great’. This kind of thinking was even accompanied by a mistrust of the competence of Kim Jong Il’s regime. With Kim Jong Un’s new year speech omitting the word ‘great’ from the list of descriptors, it is re-establishing itself as a ‘strong’ nation. To replace ‘great’, new phrases such as ‘Socialist Strong and Prosperous Nation’ and ‘World’s Number One Strong Nation’ have been employed to convey some sense of inclusion in the world around them.
The sense of a hopeful nation re-establishing itself ideologically can be seen too in the new terminology used to describe policy. It is surprising that the phrase ‘accurate guidance’ appears in Kim Jong Un’s speech. In North Korea, ‘guidance’ is a synonym of ‘greatness’. For a country ruled by a hereditary dictatorship, the fact that ‘guidance’ has become ‘accurate guidance’ is a linguistic innovation of significant revolutionary import. That ‘guidance’ is now being referred to as ‘accurate guidance’ is yet another indicator that the new leadership has acknowledged the people’s disgruntlement with the failures of Kim Jong Il’s rule.
(Part 2 published tomorrow: what kind of change, if any, is signaled in Kim Jong Un’s new year speech?)
Jang Jin-sung is North Korea’s former poet laureate under Kim Jong Il, and is now Editor-in-chief of New Focus International.
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• alefal
A very interesting read! I’m looking forwards to part two of this analysis.
• Aaron Mc Nicholas
Rhetoric that draws on the stylings of Kim Il-sung is more likely to be effective in sustaining the family’s personality cult. Kim Jong-un is less iconic than his father, and Kim Jong-il was less iconic than his father. Continue that trend and eventually the Kim dynasty will fade, so Kim Jong-un has to style himself after his grandfather.
It’s a long term strategy for a government that observers can barely believe hasn’t collapsed by now. Will there even be another generation of Kim in 50-60 years that’ll have this problem?
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Calves and the Cold
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Calf losses due to cold can result from both severely frost bitten parts as well as from freezing to death or hypothermia. Appropriate management can help cattle producers avoid many of these losses for those operations that have calves born during the cold season.
Frostbite is the damage to body tissues that occurs when these tissues freeze. The extremities are most at risk. Frozen ears and tails result in changes of cattle appearance but do not affect cattle performance significantly. Frozen feet generally result in a calf that must be put to sleep or will die. Occasionally teats of a recently calved cow freeze resulting in mastitis and frequently loss of milk production in at least one quarter of the udder.
Newborn calves are most at risk because they are wet and because they have a large surface area in relation to their total body mass. Calves are not fully capable of maintaining temperature the first several hours of life. Newborn calves have a circulatory system that is less able to respond to cold changes as compared to more mature animals.
Weather conditions have a great effect on the risk of frostbite and hypothermia, above and beyond just creating low temperatures. Wind is often the biggest factor. The effect of wind is often referred to as wind chill and tells how living things “feel the temperature”. Wind chill is often many degrees colder than the actual temperature. Humidity has a large effect on cold as well since humid air can take more warmth away from animals.
The surfaces on which cattle must rest also have a great effect on the risk of frostbite. If cattle must lie on snow ice or frozen ground they will lose much more body heat than if they can rest on dry bedding or grass. Snow or ice from freezing rain on calves dramatically increases heat loss.
Intake of the first milk (colostrum) and physical activity help calves maintain and generate the heat they need for body process to work properly. Attentive mothers vigorously clean newborn calves and stimulate this activity and the nursing of colostrums. Inexperienced or less attentive dams may let a calf get cold enough so it is sluggish and hyperthermia results.
Recommendations for preventing frostbite and hypothermia in Virginia Cattle:
• Provide windbreaks for calving cows when wind chill temperatures are below 20º F.
• Provide bedding for calving cows when wind chill temperatures are below 10º F. Often the most convenient way to do this is to roll out a dry round bale of hay.
• House calving cows and calves less than 1 day of age when wind chills are below 10º F. and calves cannot be kept dry because of snow or rain. Remember, housing can also be a negative because organisms that cause scours and pneumonia build up in barns and stalls. Finding the right balance of protecting calves from the cold but not exposing them to sickness bugs requires special skill when weather conditions are severe during calving.
Treatment of frostbite:
• Detect frostbite early. Examine newborn calves carefully when conditions create a risk. If ear-tips are frozen there is significant risk that feet may be experiencing damage as well.
• Thaw tissues as quickly as possible. Much of the damage of frostbite occurs during the thawing process. Ice crystals form that damage all tissues. A fast thaw decreases ice-crystal time.
• Once tissues are thawed re-freezing must be prevented. This nearly always means housing with heat for several days. Because of damage to circulation from the initial freezing these tissues will re-freeze very easily.
• Tissues that will recover from freezing should stay warm. If tissues are cold to the touch the next day there has probably been enough damage so that blood supply is gone and the feet or other parts will become gangrenous.
Treatment of hyperthermia:
• Careful observation of newborn calves during cold conditions is crucial. Healthy calves stand often, nurse large amounts of colostrums and are alert as evidenced by their holding the head up and getting up when encouraged. Extremities should feel warm.
• Cold calves should be warmed and fed warm colostrums. If they do not nurse then they should be given a bottle or tubed with colostrums or a commercial colostrums substitute.
• A number of warming techniques can be successful. A few hours in the floor board of the pickup truck with the heater on high saves many calves. Hair dryers both dry and warm cold calves. Heat lamps work best if calves are already dry. Electric blankets can be very effective. Some producers have built boxes with a forced air heater that are very effective.
• Severe cases of hyperthermia require special attention. Sometimes warming the outside of the calf shunts blood from the critical organs and results in death. Warm water baths can warm a very cold calf quickly, but sometimes result in death. Warm IV solutions or warm enemas administered by veterinarians can sometimes overcome this problem.
Careful attention and appropriate treatments during cold weather calving can save calves’ lives and improve profitability in tough cattle economic times.
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Across the country, Republican governors and legislators are pushing unnecessary and suppressive photo identification laws that would require all voters to produce a specific current government-issued photo ID before casting a ballot. Read the DNC Voting Rights Institute report on these proposals here:
The Voting Rights Institute has studied the impact of photo ID laws using the actual costs incurred in Indiana and Georgia—the two states that have implemented photo ID laws—and considered the cost estimates from 17 states where photo ID laws were introduced this year.
In 2011, Republicans have advanced photo ID legislation in at least 35 states. The report concluded that if these 35 states enact a photo ID law, they collectively will spend at least $276 million, and possibly as much as $828 million, in the first four years alone. At a time when states are experiencing huge budget shortfalls, it would be an enormous waste to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to disenfranchise voters.
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Detox or Die Trying
My body is a temple that each summer is desecrated by Mr. Sam Adams; his London buddy, Mr. Gordon; and assorted hangers-on. Thus, with a chill in the air signaling the end of elastic-waistband shorts, I knew it was time for something radical.
Not Betty Ford (that would be "rehab" for those scorin' at home), but a detox diet. Get all the poisons out of the ol' system, reinvigorate the ol' noodle and recover all the randomly dropped "d's" and "g's" in my writin'. Maybe I'll even lose a few pounds and be worthy of the post-Jenny Craig Valerie Bertinelli. Rrrrowl.
Someone I trust recommended a best-selling three-week regime. This person lived to tell, so it must be a winner.
Then I read the detox details.
People, be leery of a 200-page book in which 126 pages are testimonies from Twinkie-stuffed bozos. Fred flippin' Flintstone, I didn't pay $24.95 (plus tax in you liberal, unpatriotic, unreal-American states) to hear about your problems!
Next, be suspicious of chapters dedicated solely to explaining why enemas are your best friend. Sorry, but coffee only enters this body through one portal and, pal, it is on a different end of the digestive system.
Then, worry if you need to buy a warehouse of supplements to fill the nutritional gaps caused by the cleansing. (Note: To save money, most of the supplement ingredients can be scraped off the floor of your local nursery. Also, did you know aloe vera leaves your skin soft and supple when you apply it externally and your intestines' smooth and silky when you consume it? Consider yourself educated.)
The actual detox instructions came down to this: eat only vegetables, especially dark leafy greens, but only after you boil them beyond recognition, toss most of the nutrient-filled water, then stick the remnants in a $500 juicer that renders them completely unrecognizable and tasteless.
(Oh, there was also a warning that detox-ers with unresolved "issues" in their lives may experience suicidal thoughts and bouts of unexplained public nudity. But this is just "a hiccup in the healing process," so don't panic.)
Sounds fun -- let's go!
Day 1: Not bad. You eat every two hours. By "eat," I mean you drink quarts of enzyme concoctions and herbal teas. All these things all fruit flavored, yet a nice crisp Macintosh violates the detox. Go figure.
Day 2: I'm peeing every two hours. Dear Lord, am I pregnant?
Day 3: Lost 4 pounds. Still, chamomile tea tastes like ass. And not Victoria's Secret quality, either.
Day 4: Neither light-headed nor dizzy today. I feel like I lost an old friend. I eye the stale box of donuts in the trash. Hmmm …
Day 5: Down 6 pounds. I make "cleansing soup." Gallons of vegetables and seasonings later, mmm, it tastes just like ... water.
Day 6: Since I no longer chew anything, I give up brushing and flossing. Bonus!
Day 7: Dear God, no more [radio edit] herbal tea. They all [censored] SUCK! SUCK MY [digitally altered] MOTHERHUMPING [bleeeeeeeep]!!
Day 8: Down 9 pounds. I haven't gone this long without alcohol since high school. I don't seem to have the DTs. Confirmation that I'm not an alcoholic.
Day 9: I'm craving a cigarette, though I haven't smoked in eons. Is detoxing like sex? Assuming sex is like "vegetable" juice, distilled water and gallons of [redacted] herbal [cuckoo] tea.
Day 10: Seeing the 180s again! This is because my body is free of all heavy metals, insecticides and other poisons. Or because I'm consuming only 348 calories a day.
Day 11: The book's last chapter warns about coming off detox too soon. Could send my body into fatal shock. Now that's incentive.
Day 12: Dropped 13 pounds. It's not that I miss food. I just miss flavor. Any flavor. Except [deleted] herbal ass tea flavor.
Day 13: Screw it. Going for a latte and a maple nut scone. Life's too [buuuzz] short to be thin, healthy and miserable.
Day 14: Went to and fattened up my rankings with many a smiley face. | http://blogonkevin.blogspot.com/2008/10/detox-or-die-trying.html?showComment=1224811860000 | dclm-gs1-243830004 |
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Clockwise from top, Valencia skyline, Veles e Vents building, City of Arts and Science, Turia Riverbed Gardens, Virgin Square (Turia Fountain and Cathedral), modernist buildings in Town Hall Square.
Coat of arms
Valencia is located in Spain
Location of Valencia in Spain
Coordinates: 39°28′N 0°23′W / 39.467°N 0.383°W / 39.467; -0.383Coordinates: 39°28′N 0°23′W / 39.467°N 0.383°W / 39.467; -0.383
Country Spain
Autonomous Community Valencian Community
Province Valencia
Comarca Valencia
Founded 137 BC
• Type Mayor-council government
• Body Ajuntament de València
• Mayor Rita Barberá (PP)
• City 134.65 km2 (51.99 sq mi)
Elevation 15 m (49 ft)
Population (2010) INE
• City 809,267
• Density 6,000/km2 (16,000/sq mi)
• Urban 1,175,000 to 1,564,145
• Metro 1,705,742 to 2,300,000
Demonym valenciàvalenciana (va)
valencianovalenciana (es)
Time zone CET (GMT +1)
Postcode 46000-46080
ISO 3166-2 ES-V
Website Valencia Tourism Office
Valencia is integrated into an industrial area on the Costa del Azahar (Orange Blossom Coast). Valencia's main festival is the Falles. The traditional Spanish dish, paella, originated in Valencia.
The original Latin name of the city was Valentia (Latin pronunciation: [waˈlentia]), meaning "strength", or "valour", the city being named according to the Roman practice of recognizing the valour of former Roman soldiers after a war. The Roman historian Livy explains that the founding of Valentia in the 2nd century BC was due to the settling of the Roman soldiers who fought against an Iberian rebel, Viriato. During the rule of the Muslim kingdoms in Spain, it was called Medina at-Turab (مدينة التراب, 'City of Sands'), since it was located on the banks of the River Turia, while the term Balansiyya (بلنسية) was reserved for the entire Taifa of Valencia. By gradual sound changes, Valentia [waˈlentia] has become Valencia [baˈlenθja] in the Castilian and València [vaˈlensia] in Valencian (in Valencian the grave accent <è> /ɛ/ contrasts with the acute accent <é> /e/, nevertheless the word 'València' is an exception to this rule which is spelled according to Catalan etymology, though it uses a pronunciation closer to Vulgar Latin).
The city is situated on the banks of the Turia river, on the eastern coast of the Iberian peninsula and the western part of the Mediterranean Sea, fronting the Gulf of Valencia. At the time of its founding by the Romans it stood on a river island in the Turia, 6.4 km (4 mi) from the sea. The Albufera, a saltwater lagoon and estuary which lies about 11 km (7 mi) south of the city, is one of the largest lakes in Spain; it was bought by the City Council from the Crown of Spain for 1,072,980 pesetas in 1911,[7] and today forms the main portion of the Parc Natural de l'Albufera (Albufera Nature Reserve), with a surface area of 21,120 hectares (52,000 acres). Because of its cultural, historical and ecological value, it was declared a natural park by the Generalitat Valenciana in 1986.
Valencia has a subtropical climate on the borderline of the Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa)[8] with very mild winters and long warm to hot summers.
Its average annual temperature is 22.3 °C (72.1 °F) during the day and 13.4 °C (56.1 °F) at night. In the coldest month—January—the maximum temperature typically during the day ranges from 10 to 20 °C (50 to 68 °F), the minimum temperature typically at night ranges from 2 to 12 °C (36 to 54 °F) and the average sea temperature is 14 °C (57 °F).[9] In the warmest month—August—the temperature during the day typically ranges from 28–34 °C (82–93 °F), about 23 °C (73 °F) at night and the average sea temperature is 26 °C (79 °F).[9] Generally, summer temperatures similar to those experienced in northern part of Europe last about 8 months, from April to November. March is transitional, the temperature often exceeds 20 °C (68 °F), with an average temperature of 19 °C (66 °F) during the day and 9 °C (48 °F) at night. December, January and February are the coldest months, with average temperatures around 17 °C (63 °F) during the day and 8 °C (46 °F) at night. Valencia has one of the mildest winters in Europe, owing to its southern location on the Mediterranean Sea. The January average is comparable to temperatures expected for May and September in the major cities of Northern Europe.
Sunshine duration hours are 2,660 per year, from 150 (average nearly 5 hours of sunshine duration at day) in December to 314 (average above 10 hours of sunshine duration at day) in July. Average annual temperature of the sea is 18.5 °C (65.3 °F). Average relative humidity is 60% in April to 68% in August.[10]
Climate data for Valencia
Average high °C (°F) 16.1
Daily mean °C (°F) 11.5
Average low °C (°F) 7.0
Precipitation mm (inches) 36
Avg. precipitation days (≥ 1 mm) 4 3 4 5 5 3 1 2 4 5 4 5 44
Mean monthly sunshine hours 169 169 212 229 256 271 314 285 237 201 167 150 2,660
Source: World Meteorological Organization (UN),[11] Agencia Estatal de Meteorología[10]
Commercial zone
Valencia enjoyed strong economic growth over the last decade, much of it spurred by tourism and the construction industry,[citation needed] with concurrent development and expansion of telecommunications and transport. Air Nostrum, a regional airline, is headquartered in Valencia.[12] The city's economy is service-oriented, as nearly 84% of the working population is employed in service sector occupations. However, the city still maintains an important industrial base, with 5.5% of the population employed in this sector. Agricultural activities are still carried on in the municipality, even though of relatively minor importance with only 1.9% of the working population and 3973 hectares planted mostly in orchards and citrus groves.
Since the break of the crisis (2008), Valencia has been among the Spanish regions most affected by it and has not been able to slow down growing unemployment rate, growing government debt etc. Severe spending cuts have been introduced by the city authorities.
In 2009, Valencia was the 29th fastest improving European city.[13] Its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science and the arts contributes to its status as one of the world's "Gamma"-rank global cities.[1]
The large factory of Ford Motor Company lies in suburb of city, in Almussafes.[14]
The Valencia metropolitan area had a GDP amounting to $52.7 billion, and $28,141 per capita.[15]
Port of Valencia
Valencia’s port is the biggest on the Mediterranean western coast,[16] the first of Spain in container traffic as of 2008[17] and the second of Spain[18] in total traffic, handling 20% of Spain’s exports.[19] The main exports are foodstuffs and beverages. Other exports include oranges, furniture, ceramic tiles, fans, textiles and iron products. Valencia’s manufacturing sector focuses on metallurgy, chemicals, textiles, shipbuilding and brewing. Small and medium sized industries are an important part of the local economy, and unemployment is lower than the Spanish average.
Following the announcement that the 32nd America's Cup would be held in Valencia in 2007, the port underwent radical changes in which it was divided into two parts, one part remaining unchanged while the other section would be used exclusively for the America's Cup festivities. The two sections are now divided by a wall that projects far into the water in an effort to maintain clean water for the America's Cup side.
The North station (Estació del nord)
Public transport is provided by the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) which operates the Metrovalencia and other rail and bus services. The Estació del nord (North Station) is the main railway terminus in Valencia. A new temporary station, Estación de València-Joaquín Sorolla, has been built on land adjacent to this terminus to accommodate high speed AVE trains to and from Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and Alicante. Valencia Airport is situated 9 km (5.6 mi) west of Valencia city centre. Alicante Airport is situated about 170 km (110 mi) south of Valencia.
The City of Valencia also makes available a bicycle sharing system named ValenbiSi to both visitors and residents. As of October 13, 2012, the system has 2750 bikes distributed over 250 stations all throughout the city.[20]
Palau de congressos, Norman Foster
Starting in the mid-1990s, Valencia, formerly an industrial centre, saw rapid development which expanded its cultural and touristic possibilities, and transformed it into a newly vibrant city. Many local landmarks were restored, including the ancient Towers of the medieval city (Serrano Towers and Quart Towers), and the San Miguel de los Reyes monastery which now holds a conservation library. Whole sections of the old city, for example the Carmen Quarter, have been extensively renovated. The Paseo Marítimo, a 4 km (2 mi) long palm tree-lined promenade was constructed along the beaches of the north side of the port (Playa Las Arenas, Playa Cabañal and Playa de la Malvarrosa).
In its long history, Valencia has acquired many local traditions and festivals, among them the Falles, which were declared Celebrations of International Touristic Interest (Fiestas de Interés Turístico Internacional) on 25 January 1965, and the Water Tribunal of Valencia (Tribunal de las Aguas de Valencia), which was declared an intangible cultural heritage of humanity (Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad) in 2009. In addition to these Valencia has hosted world-class events that helped shape the city's reputation and put it in the international spotlight, e.g., the Regional Exhibition of 1909, the 32nd and the 33rd America's Cup competitions, the European Grand Prix of Formula One auto racing, the Valencia Open 500 tennis tournament, and the Global Champions Tour of equestrian sports.
The 2005 America's Cup yachting races were held at Valencia in June and July 2005 and attracted huge crowds. According to official data from the organizing committee, as many as 150,000 visitors flocked to Valencia's port each day during the two weeks of events.[citation needed]
The third largest city in Spain and the 15th most populous municipality in the European Union, Valencia has a population of 809,267[21] within its administrative limits on a land area of 134.6 km2 (52 sq mi). It is. The urban area of Valencia extending beyond the administrative city limits has a population of between 1,175,000[22] and 1,564,145.[23] 1,705,742[24][25][26] or 2,300,000[27] or 2,516,818[28] people live in the Valencia metropolitan area. Between 2007 and 2008 there was a 14% increase in the foreign born population with the largest numeric increases by country being from Bolivia, Romania and Italy.
One notable demographic change in Valencia in the last decade has been the growth in the foreign born population which has risen from 1.5% in the year 2000[29] to 15.1% in 2009,[30] a trend that has also occurred in the two larger cities of Madrid and Barcelona.[31] The main countries of origin were Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Morocco and Romania.[32]
Street lighting by Sueca-Literato Azorín, Falles 2008
Traditional preparation of paella
La Tomatina, an annual tomato fight, draws crowds to the nearby town of Buñol in August. There are also a number of well-preserved traditional Catholic festivities throughout the year. Holy week celebrations in Valencia are considered some of the most colourful in Spain.[citation needed] Valencia has a metro system, the Metrovalencia (Valencia Metro).
Valencia used to be a location of the Formula One European Grand Prix, first hosting the event on 24 August 2008. The city was axed at the beginning og the grand prix season 2013
The University of Valencia (officially Universitat de València Estudi General) was founded in 1499, being one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain, and the oldest university in the Valencian Community. It was listed as one of the four leading Spanish universities in the 2011 Shangai Academic Ranking of World Universities.
In 2012, Berklee College of Music opened a new campus at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia providing focus on the music of the region through its Mediterranean Music Institute.[33] Since 2003, Valencia also hosts the music courses of Musikeon, leading musical institution in the Spanish-speaking world.
Roman Valentia[edit]
Roman Cornucopia, symbol of Valentia, found on the floor of a Roman building excavated in the Plaza de la Virgen.
Middle Ages[edit]
Visigothic Period
Muslim Balansiya
Towers of Serranos
El Micalet or El Miguelete
Pennon of the Conquest, the flag raised by the Moors of Valencia on 1238 to indicate their surrender to the troops of king James I of Aragon.
Christian Reconquest
James I the Conqueror, King of Aragon
According to historical data on the capitulation of the city, the kingdom of Valencia had a population of 120,000 Muslims, 65,000 Christians and 2,000 Jews, who by the terms of the capitulation and its covenants were mostly allowed to remain on their land. According to the Arab historian Hussein Mones of the University of Cairo, these were the words which King Zayan spoke to James I when he surrendered the keys to the city:
"In the city of Valencia live Muslims, the nobles of my people, along with Christians and Jews. I hope you continue to govern in the same harmony, all working and living together in this noble land. Here, during my reign, Easter processions went out and Christians professed their religion freely, as our Quran recognizes Christ and the Virgin. I hope you bestow the same treatment to the Muslims of Valencia."
Golden Age of Valencia[edit]
Hall of Columns in the Silk Exchange (Lonja de la Seda) of Valencia
The 15th century was a time of economic expansion, known as the Valencian Golden Age, in which culture and the arts flourished. Concurrent population growth made Valencia the most populous city in the Kingdom of Aragon. Local industry, led by textile production, reached a great development, and a financial institution, the Canvi de Taula, was created to support municipal banking operations; Valencian bankers lent funds to Queen Isabella I of Castile for Columbus' voyage in 1492. At the end of the century the Silk Exchange (Llotja de la Seda) building was erected as the city became a commercial emporium that attracted merchants from all over Europe.
This boom was reflected in the growth of artistic and cultural pursuits. Some of the most emblematic buildings of the city were built during this period, including the Serranos Towers (1392), the Lonja (1482), the Miguelete and the Chapel of the Kings of the Convent of Santo Domingo. In painting and sculpture, Flemish and Italian trends had an influence on artists such as Lluís Dalmau, Peris Gonçal and Forment Damian. Literature flourished with the patronage of the court of Alfonso the Magnanimous, supporting authors like Ausias March, Roiç de Corella, and Isabel de Villena. By 1460 Joanot Martorell wrote Tirant lo Blanch, an innovative novel of chivalry that influenced many later writers, from Cervantes to Shakespeare. Ausiàs March was one of the first poets to use the everyday language Valencian, instead of the troubadour language, Occitan. Also around this time, between 1499 and 1502, the University of Valencia was founded under the parsimonious name of Estudio General (General Studies).
Valencia was one of the most influential cities on the Mediterranean in the 15th and 16th centuries. The first printing press in the Iberian Peninsula was located in Valencia. The first printed Bible in a Romance language, the Valencian Bible attributed to Bonifaci Ferrer, was printed in Valencia circa 1478.
Early Modern[edit]
Spanish Empire
The Meeting of the Brotherhoods (La paz de las Germanías), by Marcelino de Unceta
Following the discovery of the Americas, the European economy was oriented towards the Atlantic to the detriment of the Mediterranean trade. Despite the dynastic union of Aragon with Castile, the conquest and exploitation of America was the exclusive domain of Castile. The Valencians, like the Catalans, Aragonese and Majorcans, were prohibited participation in the cross-Atlantic commerce. Faced with this loss of business, Valencia suffered a severe economic crisis, which manifested itself early in 1519–1523 when the artisan guilds known as the Germanies revolted against the government of the Habsburg king Charles I in Valencia, now part of the Crown of Aragon, with most of the fighting done in 1521. The revolt was an anti-monarchist, anti-feudal autonomist movement inspired by the Italian republics, and a social revolt against the nobility who had fled the city before an epidemic of plague in 1519. It also bore a strong anti-Islamic aspect, as rebels rioted against Aragon's population of mudéjars and imposed forced conversions to Christianity. The uprising and its leaders were brutally repressed by the vicereine Germaine of Foix, an action which accelerated the authoritarian centralization of the government of Charles I. Queen Germaine favored harsh treatment of the agermanats; she is thought to have signed the death warrants of 100 former rebels personally, and sources indicate that as many as 800 executions may have occurred in total. The agermanats are comparable to the comuneros of neighboring Castile, who fought a similar revolt against Charles from 1520–1522.
The crisis deepened during the 17th century with the expulsion in 1609 of the Jews and the Moriscos, descendants of the Muslim population that converted to Christianity under threat of exile from Ferdinand and Isabella in 1502. From 1609 through 1614, the Spanish government systematically forced Moriscos to leave the kingdom for Muslim North Africa. They were concentrated in the former Kingdom of Aragon, where they constituted a fifth of the population, and the Valencia area specifically, where they were roughly a third of the total population.[35] The expulsion caused the financial ruin of some of the nobility and the bankruptcy of the Taula de Canvi in 1613. The Crown endeavoured to compensate the nobles, who had lost much of their agricultural labour force; this harmed the economy of the city for generations to come. Later, during the so-called Catalan Revolt (1640–1652), Valencia contributed to the cause of Philip IV with militias and money, resulting in a period of further economic hardship exacerbated by the arrival of troops from other parts of Spain.
Expulsion of the Moriscos from Valencia Grau by Pere Oromig
Valencia under the Bourbons
The decline of the city reached its nadir with the War of Spanish Succession (1702–1709) that marked the end of the political and legal independence of the Kingdom of Valencia. During the War of the Spanish Succession, Valencia sided with Charles of Austria. On 24 January 1706, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, 1st Earl of Monmouth, led a handful of English cavalrymen into the city after riding south from Barcelona, capturing the nearby fortress at Sagunt, and bluffing the Spanish Bourbon army into withdrawal.
The English held the city for 16 months and defeated several attempts to expel them. English soldiers advanced as far as Requena on the road to Madrid. After the victory of the Bourbons at the Battle of Almansa on 25 April 1707, the English army evacuated Valencia and Philip V ordered the repeal of the privileges of Valencia as punishment for the kingdom's support of Charles of Austria. By the Nueva Planta decrees (Decretos de Nueva Planta) the ancient Charters of Valencia were abolished and the city was governed by the Castilian Charter. The Bourbon forces burned important cities like Xativa, where pictures of the Spanish Bourbons in public places are hung upside down as a protest to this day. The capital of the Kingdom of Valencia was moved to Orihuela, an outrage to the citizens of Valencia. Philip ordered the Cortes to meet with the Viceroy of Valencia, Cardinal Luis de Belluga, who opposed the change of capital because of the proximity of Orihuela, a religious, cultural and now political centre, to Murcia (capital of another viceroyalty and his diocese). Because of his hatred of the city of Orihuela which had bombarded and looted Valencia during the War of Succession, the cardinal resigned the viceroyalty as a protest against the actions of Philip, who finally relented and returned the capital to Valencia.
With the abolition of the charters of Valencia and most of its institutions, and the conformation of the kingdom and its capital to the laws and customs of Castile, top civil officials were no longer elected, but instead were appointed directly from Madrid, the king's court city, the offices often filled by foreign aristocrats. Valencia had to become accustomed to being an occupied city, living with the presence of troops quartered in the Citadel near the convent of Santo Domingo and in other buildings such as the Lonja, which served as a barracks until 1762.
Palau de Justicia
The Valencian economy recovered during the 18th century with the rising manufacture of woven silk and ceramic tiles. The Palau de Justicia is an example of the affluence manifested in the most prosperous times of Bourbon rule (1758–1802) during the rule of Charles III. The 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment in Europe, and its humanistic ideals influenced such men as Gregory Maians and Perez Bayer in Valencia, who maintained correspondence with the leading French and German thinkers of the time. In this atmosphere of the exaltation of ideas the Economic Society of Friends of the Country (Societat Econòmica d'Amics del País) was founded in 1776; it introduced numerous improvements in agriculture and industry and promoted various cultural, civic, and economic institutions in Valencia.
Late modern and contemporary[edit]
19th century
Triumphal welcome of Ferdinand at Valencia, 1814 by Miquel Parra
During the Napoleonic invasion, the Valencians had sent their representatives to the Cortes of Cádiz, where a liberal, anti-seigneurial national constitution was drafted. Ferdinand VII became king after the victorious end of the Peninsular War, by which Spain was freed from the Napoleonic domination. When he returned on 24 March 1814 from exile in France, he was requested by the Cortes to respect the liberal Constitution of 1812, which seriously limited the royal powers. Ferdinand refused and went to Valencia instead of Madrid. Here, on April 17, General Elio invited the King to reclaim his absolute rights and put his troops at the King's disposition. The king abolished the Constitution of 1812; this act was followed by the dissolution of the two chambers of the Spanish Parliament on 10 May. Thus began the six years (1814–1820) of absolutist rule, but the constitution was reinstated during the Trienio Liberal, a period of three years of liberal government in Spain from 1820–1823. A fervent follower of the absolutist cause, Elío had played an important role in the repression of the supporters of the Constitution of 1812. For this, he was arrested in 1820 and executed in 1822 by garroting. Conflict between the absolutists and the liberals continued, and in the period of conservative rule called the Ominous Decade (1823–1833) which followed the Trienio Liberal there was ruthless repression by government forces and the Catholic Inquisition. The last victim of the Inquisition was Gaietà Ripoli, a teacher accused of being a deist and a Mason who was hanged in Valencia in 1824.
Baldomero Espartero became, on the death of King Ferdinand VII in 1833, one of the most ardent defenders of the hereditary rights of his daughter, Isabella II. On the outbreak of the First Carlist War, the government sent him to the front, where he severely defeated the Carlists in many encounters. He was associated with the radical, or progressive, wing of Spanish liberalism and would become its symbol and champion after taking credit for the victory over the Carlists in 1839. During the regency of Maria Cristina, Espartero ruled Spain for two years as its 18th Prime Minister from 16 September 1840 to 21 May 1841. Under his progressive government the old regime was tenuously reconciled to his liberal policies. During this period of upheaval in the provinces he declared all the estates of the Church, its congregations and its religious orders to be national property, although in Valencia most of it was subsequently acquired by the local bourgeoisie. City life in Valencia carried on in a revolutionary climate, with frequent clashes between liberals and republicans and the constant threat of reprisals by the Carlist troops of General Cabrera.
The reign of Isabella II as an adult (1843–1868) proved to be a period of relative stability and growth for Valencia in which services and the infrastructure, including municipal water supply, paved roads, and gas distribution were substantially improved, and a large-scale construction project was initiated at the port. Gas lighting was introduced in 1840 and soon after a public works project began to pave the streets with cobblestones, a task that took several years because of the lack of council funds. The public water supply network was completed in 1850, and in 1858 the architects Sebastián Monleón Estellés, Antonino Sancho and Timoteo Calvo drafted a general expansion project for the city which included the demolition of its ancient walls (a second version was printed in 1868). Neither proposed project received final approval, but they did serve as a guide, although not necessarily closely followed, for future growth. By 1860 the municipality had 140,416 inhabitants, and beginning in 1866 the ancient city walls were almost entirely demolished to facilitate urban expansion. Electricity was introduced to Valencia in 1882.
During the Cantonal Revolution of 1873, a cantonalist uprising that took place during the First Spanish Republic, the city was consolidated with most of the nearby cities in the Federal Canton of Valencia (proclaimed on July 19 and dissolved on August 7). It did not have the revolutionary fervor of the movement in cities like Alcoy, as it was initiated by the bourgeoisie, but the Madrid government sent General Martinez-Campos to stifle the rebellion by force of arms and subjected Valencia to an intense bombardment. The city surrendered on August 7; Alfonso XII was proclaimed king on 29 December 1874, and arrived in Valencia on 11 January 1875 on his way to Madrid, marking the end of the first republic. Despite the Bourbon restoration, the roughly even balance between conservatives and liberals in the government was sustained in Valencia until the granting of universal male suffrage in 1890, after which the Republicans, led by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, gained considerably more of the popular vote.
During the second half of the 19th century the bourgeoisie encouraged the development of the city and its environs; land-owners were enriched by the introduction of the orange crop and the expansion of vineyards and other crops,. This economic boom corresponded with a revival of local traditions and of the Valencian language, which had been ruthlessly suppressed from the time of Philip V. Around 1870, the Valencian Renaissance, a movement committed to the revival of the Valencian language and traditions, began to gain ascendancy. In its early stages the movement inclined to the romanticism of the poet Teodor Llorente, and resisted the more assertive remonstrances of Constantine Llombart, founder of the still extant cultural society, Rat Penat Lo, which is dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of the Valencian language and culture.
In 1894 the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Valencia (Circle of Fine Arts in Valencia) was founded.
20th century
Interior of the Columbus Market (Mercat de Colom)
In the early 20th century Valencia was an industrialized city. The silk industry had disappeared, but there was a large production of hides and skins, wood, metals and foodstuffs, this last with substantial exports, particularly of wine and citrus. Small businesses predominated, but with the rapid mechanization of industry larger companies were being formed. The best expression of this dynamic was in the regional exhibitions, including that of 1909 held next to the pedestrian avenue L'Albereda (Paseo de la Alameda), which depicted the progress of agriculture and industry. Among the most architecturally successful buildings of the era were those designed in the Art Nouveau style, such as the North Station (Gare du Nord) and the Central and Columbus markets.
Industrial workers began to organize in increasing numbers to demand better living conditions. The Republican party of Blasco Ibáñez responded to these demands and gained enormous popular support, dominating the ruling council between 1901 and 1923.
Palau de la Generalitat, symbol of the recovery of self-government in Valencia, and seat of the Government of Valencia since 1978
The dictatorship of Franco forbade political parties and began a harsh ideological and cultural repression countenanced[36] and sometimes even led by the Church.[37][38] The financial markets were destabilised, causing a severe economic crisis during which rationing was imposed; a black market in rationed goods existed for over a decade. The Francoist administrations of Valencia silenced publicity of the catastrophic consequences of the floods of 1949 with the attendant dozens of deaths, but could not do the same after the even more tragic flood of 1957 when the river Turia overflowed its banks again, killing many Valencians (officially, eighty-one died; the actual figure is not known). To prevent further disasters, the river was eventually diverted to a new course. The old river bed was abandoned for years, and successive Francoist mayors proposed making it a motorway, but that option was finally rejected with the advent of democracy and fervent neighborhood protests. The river was divided in two at the western city limits (Plan Sur de Valencia), and diverted southwards along a new course that skirts the city, before meeting the Mediterranean. The old course of the river continues, dry, through the city centre, almost to the sea. The old riverbed is now a verdant sunken park called the 'Garden of the Turia' (Jardí del Túria or Jardín del Turia) that allows cyclists and pedestrians to traverse much of the city without the use of roads; overhead bridges carry motor traffic across the park.
The economy began to recover in the early 1960s, and the city experienced explosive population growth through immigration spurred by the jobs created with the implementation of major urban projects and infrastructure improvements. With the advent of democracy in Spain, the ancient kingdom of Valencia was established as a new autonomous entity, the Valencian Community, the Statute of Autonomy of 1982 designating Valencia as its capital. On the night of 23 February 1981, shortly after Antonio Tejero had stormed Congress, the Captain General of the Third Military Region, Jaime Milans del Bosch, rose up in Valencia, put tanks on the streets, declared a state of emergency and tried to convince other senior military figures to support the coup. After the televised message of King Juan Carlos I, those in the military who had not yet aligned themselves decided to remain loyal to the government, and the coup failed. Despite this lack of support, Milans del Bosch only surrendered at 5 a.m. on the next day, 24 February.
City Hall (Ayuntamiento or l'Ajuntament).
Democracy has led to the recovery of the Valencian language and culture, but could not resolve the social tensions concerning these symbols; this identity conflict, known facetiously as the Battle of Valencia, has been characterised by considerable conflict and violence, dividing Valencia socially and politically.
Valencia has experienced a surge in its cultural development during the last thirty years, exemplified by exhibitions and performances at such iconic institutions as the Palau de la Música, the Palacio de Congresos, the Metro, the City of Arts and Sciences (Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències), the Valencian Museum of Enlightenment and Modernity (Museo Valenciano de la Ilustracion y la Modernidad), and the Institute of Modern Art (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno). The various productions of Santiago Calatrava, a renowned structural engineer, architect, and sculptor and of the architect Félix Candela have contributed to Valencia's international reputation. These public works and the ongoing rehabilitation of the Old City (Ciutat Vella) have helped improve the city's livability and tourism is continually increasing.
21st century
On 9 July 2006, during Mass at Valencia's Cathedral, Our Lady of the Forsaken Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI used, at the World Day of Families, the Santo Caliz, a 1st-century Middle-Eastern artifact believed by many to be the Holy Grail. It was supposedly brought to that church by Emperor Valerian in the 3rd century, after having been brought by St. Peter to Rome from Jerusalem. The Santo Caliz (Holy Chalice) is a simple, small stone cup. Its base was added in medieval times and consists of fine gold, alabaster and gem stones.[39]
Valencia was selected in 2003 to host the historic America's Cup yacht race, the first European city ever to do so. The America's Cup matches took place in summer 2007. On 3 July 2007, Alinghi defeated Team New Zealand and successfully defended the America's Cup. Twenty-two days later, on 25 July 2007, the leaders of the Alinghi syndicate, holder of the America's Cup, officially announced that Valencia would be the host city for the 33rd America's Cup, held in June 2009.[40]
Since 1991 the City Council has been governed by the People's Party of Spain (Partido Popular) (PP) and Mayor Rita Barberá Nolla who became mayor by a pact made with the Valencian Union. She is a member of the National Council of the People's Party and a Representative in the Valencian regional Parliament (Corts Valencianes). She turned down an offer to become a national deputy at the 2008 Spanish General Election.[41]
Main sights[edit]
Historic Central Market (Mercado Central) of Valencia
The ancient winding streets of the Barrio del Carmen contain buildings dating to Roman and Arabic times. The Cathedral, built between the 13th and 15th centuries, is primarily of Gothic style but contains elements of Baroque and Romanesque architecture. Beside the Cathedral is the Gothic Basilica of the Virgin (Basílica De La Virgen De Los Desamparados). The 15th-century Serrano and Quart towers are part of what was once the wall surrounding the city.
UNESCO has recognised the Silk Exchange market (La Llotja de la Seda), erected in early Valencian Gothic style, as a World Heritage Site.[42] The modernist Central Market (Mercado Central) is one of the largest in Europe. The main railway station Estación Del Norte is built in modernisme (the Spanish version of Art Nouveau) style.
The cathedral[edit]
Northern view of the cathedral: dome, apse, Micalet (belfry) and the Basilica of Our Lady
Sitting of the Tribunal de las Aguas outside the Portal of the Apostles of the Valencia Cathedral
The Tribunal de las Aguas (Water Court), a court dating from Moorish times that hears and mediates in matters relating to irrigation water, sits at noon every Thursday outside the Puerta de Apostoles (Portal of the Apostles).[43]
Medieval churches[edit]
Façade of Real Colegio del Corpus Christi
Among the parish churches are Saints John (Baptist and Evangelist), rebuilt in 1368, whose dome, decorated by Palonino, contains some of the best frescoes in Spain; El Templo (the Temple), the ancient church of the Knights Templar, which passed into the hands of the Order of Montesa and was rebuilt in the reigns of Ferdinand VI and Charles III; the former convent of the Dominicans, at one time the headquarters of the Capital General, the cloister of which has a beautiful Gothic wing and the chapter room, large columns imitating palm trees; the Colegio del Corpus Christi, which is devoted to the Blessed Sacrament, and in which perpetual adoration is carried on; the Jesuit college, which was destroyed in 1868 by the revolutionary Committee of the Popular Front, but later rebuilt; and the Colegio de San Juan (also of the Society), the former college of the nobles, now a provincial institute for secondary instruction.
Other Medieval churches of Valencia are:
Squares and gardens[edit]
The largest plaza in Valencia is the Plaça de l'Ajuntament or Plaza del Ayuntamiento; it is home to the City Hall (Ayuntamiento) on its western side and the central post office (Edificio de Correos) on its eastern side, a cinema which shows classic movies, and many restaurants and bars. The plaza is triangular in shape, with a large cement lot at the southern end, normally surrounded by flower vendors. It serves as ground zero during the Les Falles when the fireworks of the Mascletà can be heard every afternoon. There is a large fountain at the northern end.
The Turia River was diverted in the 1960s, after severe flooding, and the old river bed is now the Turia gardens, which contain a children’s playground, a fountain, and sports fields. The Palau de la Música is adjacent to the Turia gardens and the City of Arts and Sciences lies at one end.
Other gardens in Valencia include the Jardines de Monforte (Montforte Gardens), the Jardin Botanico (Botanical Gardens) and the Jardines de Real (Royal Gardens).
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia
L'Hemisfèric, a IMAX 3D-cinema, planetarium and laserium
Club League Sport Venue Established Capacity
Valencia C.F. La Liga Football Mestalla 1919 55,000
Levante UD La Liga Football Estadi Ciutat de València 1909 25,354
Huracán Valencia Segunda División B Football Municipal de Manises 2011 1,000
Valencia Club de Fútbol Mestalla Segunda División B Football Ciudad Deportiva de Paterna 1944 4,000
Valencia Basket Club ACB Basketball Pabellón Fuente San Luis 1986 9,000
Ros Casares Valencia Liga Femenina Basketball Pabellón Fuente San Luis 1996 9,000
Valencia FS Tercera División Futsal San Isidro 1983 500
Les Abelles División de Honor B Rugby Union Polideportivo Quatre carreres 1971 500
CAU Rugby Valencia División de Honor B Rugby Union Campo del Río Turia 1973 2,000
Valencia is also internationally famous for its football club, Valencia C.F., which won the Spanish league in 2002 and 2004 (the year it also won the UEFA Cup), for a total of six times, and was a UEFA Champions League runner-up in 2000 and 2001. The team's stadium is the Mestalla; its city rival Levante UD also plays in the highest division after gaining promotion two years ago, their stadium is Estadi Ciutat de València. From the year 2011 there has been a third team in the city, Huracán Valencia, who play their games in Municipal de Manises, in the Segunda División B.
American Football[edit]
Motor sports[edit]
People born in Valencia and Valencia province[edit]
Mayor Rita Barberá in 2008
• Ciutat Vella: La Seu, La Xerea, El Carmen, El Pilar, El Mercado, San Francisco.
• Extramurs: El Botànic, La Roqueta, La Pechina, Arrancapins.
Palace of the Generalitat Valenciana
• Olivereta: Nou Moles, Soternes, Tres Forques, La Fontsanta, La Luz.
• Jesús: La Raiosa, L'Hort de Senabre, The Covered Cross, Saint Marcelino, Real Way.
• Poblats Marítims: El Grau, El Cabanyal, El Canyameral, La Malva-Rosa, Beteró, Nazaret.
• Algiròs: Illa Perduda, Ciutat Jardí, Amistat, Vega Baixa, la Carrasca.
• Benimaclet: Benimaclet, Camí de Vera.
• Rascanya: Orriols, Torrefiel, Sant Llorenç.
• Benicalap: Benicalap, Ciutat Fallera.
• Pobles del Nord: Benifaraig, Poble Nou, Carpesa, Cases de Bàrcena, Mauella, Massarrojos, Borbotó.
• Pobles de l'Oest: Benimàmet, Beniferri.
• Pobles del Sud: Forn d'Alcedo, Castellar-l'Oliveral, Pinedo, el Saler, el Palmar, el Perellonet, la Torre,
Twin towns and sister cities[edit]
Valencia is twinned with:[44]
See also[edit]
2. ^ Top 50 World Container PortsWorld Shipping Council
3. ^ "Districte 1. Ciutat Vella". Oficina d'Estadística. Ajuntament de València (in valenciano y español). 2008. Retrieved 16 de febrero de 2010.
9. ^ a b " Valencia Climate Guide". Retrieved 16 June 2012.
10. ^ a b "Standard Climate Values. Valencia".
11. ^ "Weather Information for Valencia".
12. ^ "Contact List." Air Nostrum. Retrieved on 20 May 2009.
14. ^ Global Operations – Spain: Valencia Body and Assembly –
16. ^ "Valenciaport in figures". Retrieved 1 January 2009.
19. ^ Mckinley, James C. (2 March 2011). "NY Times, 30 July 2008". Retrieved 9 March 2011. [dead link]
20. ^ Valenbisi's official website
22. ^ "Demographia: World Urban Areas" (PDF). Retrieved 9 March 2011.
23. ^ EurostatLarger Urban Zones: Urban
24. ^ The Principal Agglomerations of the World – Population Statistics and Maps –
25. ^ Datos de áreas urbanas en 2006 según el proyecto AUDES5
26. ^ Conurbaciones en 2006 según el proyecto AUDES5
28. ^ "Population by sex and age groups"Eurostat, 2012
29. ^ "foreign born population in 2001". Retrieved 9 March 2011.
31. ^ "Table 1.1 foreign born population". Retrieved 9 March 2011.
32. ^ "Table 1.5 foreign born population 2007". Retrieved 9 March 2011.
34. ^ "Institut Valencià d'Estadística". Retrieved 9 March 2011.
35. ^ Meyerson, Mark D. In the Age of Fernando and Isabel: Between Coexistence and Crusade. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-520-06888-9.
37. ^ Michael R. Tobin (17 October 2007). Georges Bernanos. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7735-6045-1.
39. ^ "About the Santo Caliz (Holy Chalice)". Retrieved 9 March 2011.
40. ^ Announcement of the election as host city for 33rd America's Cup[dead link]
41. ^ El Pais
42. ^ "La Lonja listing on Unesco site". Retrieved 9 March 2011.
43. ^ "Valencia’s unique 'Water Court'". Reality Sense. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
Further reading[edit]
• "Valencia". Spain and Portugal: handbook for travellers (3rd ed.). Leipsic: Karl Baedeker. 1908. OCLC 1581249
• "Valencia". The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.). New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1910. OCLC 14782424
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Hunter Stockton Thompson—“gonzo” journalist, legendary wild man, and would-be local politician—was born in Louisville in 1937 to Jack R. and Virginia Thompson; his father was an insurance agent. Thompson stood out as an intelligent, charismatic individual and a troublemaker in high school. He was a member of the Athenaeum, the school’s prestigious literary society, but he also began to have run-ins with the law and was arrested more than once. He finally served thirty days in jail while his friends were graduating from high school.
Thompson joined the Air Force in 1955 and was stationed at Eglin Air Proving Ground in Florida, where he began writing entertaining sports articles for the base newspaper. He soon chafed under the restrictions of military life, however, and he managed to get his separation papers in 1957. Thompson moved to New York, where he worked as a copyboy for Time-Life, read F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner, wrote fiction, and met Sandy Dawn Conklin, the woman he would marry in 1963. He soon went west to Big Sur, California. Then, in 1962, he moved to Brazil and wrote pieces for the National Observer, truly beginning his life as a journalist.
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A journalist almost from birth, Hunter Stockton Thompson began writing for his neighborhood newspaper at age ten. In 1956, Thompson joined the United States Air Force and penned a weekly sports column for the Elgin base’s newspaper, The Common Courier. Between 1959 and 1965, he served as a correspondent for Time, the New York Herald Tribune and the National Observer. In 1963, in Greenwich Village, he married Sandra Dawn, with whom he had a son, Juan.
The 1960’s
In the 1960’s, the radical youth of the United States demanded a mode of journalism that would divorce itself from a media they viewed as pandering to the political hierarchy. They found it in Thompson’s work. In 1964, Thompson wrote an article for the Nation, “Motorcycle Gangs: Losers and Outsiders,” and began to challenge the media’s representation of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang. He rode and lived with the motorcycle gang until 1966 when he completed Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, one of the best examples of New Journalism participant-observer reporting.
Thompson became known as a champion of the New Journalism, a form noted for its participant-observer approach and that would later become known as “gonzo journalism.”
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It seems as if nothing known about Hunter Stockton Thompson is simple, authoritative, or goes without contention (even his birth date is occasionally contested as occurring between 1937 and 1939). Certain things are known for sure: He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jack (an insurance salesman) and Virginia (a homemaker) as the oldest of three children; his father died of a heart attack before he was sixteen, and he found himself sentenced and incarcerated for sixty days for the robbery of a service-station attendant before he completed high school. Thompson only served half that time as a result of good behavior and never actually completed high school.
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As such, Thompson’s childhood established indicative trends that he would become synonymous with later in his adult life. As a child, Thompson reported for the Southern Star, a newspaper run and operated by children, where the Louisville Courier-Journal noted that he made approximately 10 to 15 cents an issue. Moreover, as mature as this vocational choice was at a young age, little compares to Thompson’s more mature indulgences for alcohol, women, and illegal behavior. Thompson’s friends and family attribute the loss of his father as being the major catalyst for his societal disregard. Others have argued that Thompson’s early life has been held up to too close a...
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Regardless of how seriously one considers Thompson’s remarks on his own approach to writing or journalism, it is difficult not to acknowledge his own unique contributions to public inquiry. Thompson rarely minced words and less frequently chose a phrase that did not articulate exactly what his perspective was on any given matter. Whether such colorful use of metaphor, emotion, and polemic can be considered as journalistic in its integrity is a matter of some debate. Thompson’s answer to that problem was simple; from the outset of his career he claimed quite vociferously that the material to be read came directly from his perspective alone. Whether or not one celebrates or declaims that perspective is open to debate.
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Anonymous asked: You're an extremely misinformed individual. The cops were called. There was an investigation. Guess what happened in 1998? NOTHING. No child rape. Read the goddamn Freeh report if you don't believe me. Oh right, the summary counts as reading things these days.
Nope, I read the whole thing. You obviously didn’t. If you did, you’d read the part on Page 62 about Paterno waiting to report Sandusky’s rape of a child to other leaders at Penn State because “he didn’t want to interfere with their weekends.”
Here’s an excerpt from Freeh’s statement:
And if nothing happened, why was Sandusky convicted? I’m not going to debate this further until you come out from behind anon to defend a convicted child rapist and his enablers.
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Magical abilities
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Lithia is the gatekeeper of Zenith's ocean portal, and Tecna's bonded selkie.
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She appears to speak in a logical tone like Tecna.
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Lithia first appears in guarding the ocean portal to Zenith when Tritannus appears and takes her powers away from
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Lithia is one of the selkies that had been attacked by the devourer.
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• Lithia's name is a reference to lithium batteries, understandable since she's the Guardian of Zenith's gate, the world of technology and all things electronic and digital.
• Both Lithia and Mirta are voiced by Natalie Lander in the Nickelodeon version. Yet, she made her voice higher for Lithia's voice.
• Lithia is a play on the name Lydia.
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