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Friday night is our date night. Heybet (our 'adopted' Iraqi daughter) keeps (most of) the kids on Friday nights to give us a couple of hours off. This week we met our friends Jim and Carol McDonald, who are moving to the US in April. It will be hard to say goodbye to them. They've been a real encouragement to us. We have two connections: one is that we are both post-Asia couples, now living in Turkey. They lived in Indonesia, and we were in Singapore. Hence, they suggested we go out for Asian. There is a new place near their house called Quick China. It was the real thing. Huge red door. Waiters dressed in black and white Asian suits. Cooks that weren't Turkish. The other connection we have with them is that they are grandparents, far from their grand kids. We have grand kids far from their grandparents. It works out nicely.

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When 11th-seeded Colorado takes on No. 3 Baylor in Albuquerque Saturday night (8:40 p.m. ET, TNT) the Buffaloes will not only have the pressure of trying to pull a major upset in the South Region, but also they'll have the added weight of carrying the hopes an entire conference. Colorado, the Pac-12 champion, is the only school remaining in the tournament from the beleaguered conference. The Pac-12 sent just two teams and Cal was eliminated in the opening round earlier this week. Buffaloes coach Tad Boyle admitted on Thursday night, after Colorado knocked off UNLV, that he felt responsible for carrying the banner for his conference. On Friday, Boyle's players found themselves answering similar questions. "I think the Pac-12 is a better league than what it's gotten credit for this year," said guard Nate Tomlinson. "There are a lot of tough teams at the top of the league that battled all year. I was very surprised with what Cal did the other night." Forward Austin Dufault doesn't believe the conference needs defending. "I think the Pac-12's a good league," said the senior. "I don't think by any means we have to go out there and prove our league or anything like that." Guard Carlon Brown says the Buffaloes can't worry about the Pac-12. "We're not necessarily carrying a torch ourselves for the Pac-12, but we know that's what the media's building upon and what the Pac-12 wants us to do," Brown said. "But mainly we're playing for ourselves, each other, our fans and our coaching staff." First-place votes in parentheses. Football coaches' poll Sign up for Campus Rivalry e-mail alerts

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See Also Minor Counties Championship Matches Click on this link for the season's Other scorecards and results 67 players appeared in Other matches for Durham in 1939: W Agar; AW Austin; RL Ayton; HE Bailey; W Barron; W Beeson; JA Bell; JL Bewick; TH Booth; TB Brecken; AW Briggs; JE Brockhill; HT Brodie; FG Buglass; J Carr; JH Clarke; JA Close; J Craggs; CV Dixon; NA Doggart; HB Elliott; R Ferguson; R Fisher; EB Forster; S Freak; M Gibson; GW Greenshields; J Grigor; ML Guiney Walsh; EF Hand; L Handy; JRE Hardisty; HW Hardy; L Harris; FI Herbert; J Hey; RW Hopper; PH Hull; GH Hutchinson; TK Jackson; TWD Knowles; MS Kyle; C Lambert; WLM Law; A Lawson; JMS Lax; JC Leighton; T Lonsdale; JC Matthews; GR Mordue; JH Olsen; AH Parnaby; W Pickering; EL Proud; J Ranson; JM Robinson; CA Smart; RT Spooner; GM Tait; A Townsend; DCH Townsend; DD Walford; G Watson; W Weightman; F Westcott; JA Wheatley; RE Wylde. This page created by the CricketArchive Oracles Copyright © Durham County Cricket Club and CricketArchive

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Stars to shine at Trumpet Awards 1/17/2014, 4:54 p.m. The O’Jays and Amber Riley of “Glee” are among special guests for the 2014 Trumpet Awards on Jan. 25 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. The famed “Red Carpet” will roll out at 2 p.m. and welcome an international cast of who’s who in the areas of religion, politics, public service, law, sports and entertainment. It will be hosted by actors Melissa De Sousa and Laz Alonso. The weekend of events will include a Prayer Breakfast at 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 23 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. The festivities kick off with the Spiritual Enlightenment Award. Honorees include the Rev. Frank Brown, president of Concerned Black Clergy of Metropolitan Atlanta; the Rev. W.R. “Smokie” Norful Jr., senior pastor and gospel recording artist from Chicago; musician Linda Herring of Memphis, Tenn.; Dr. Marvin A. Moss, senior pastor of Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta; and Bishop William Sheals, senior pastor of Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Norcross. Jonathan Slocumb will host the High Tea With High Heels affair on Jan. 23 at 12:30 p.m., also at the Marriott Marquis. The Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, will moderate the Race Relations Symposium on Jan. 23 at 6 p.m. Panelists include Dr. Oliver W. Clark Jr., associate pastor at Canterbury United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Ala.; the Rev. Markel Hutchins, civil rights advocate; Shirley Sherrod, executive director of Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative in Albany; Dr. William H. Smith, founding executive director of the National Center for Race Amity in Boston; and Thomas N. Todd, civil rights attorney in Chicago. This event is free and open to the public. The International Civil Rights Walk of Fame takes place on Jan. 24 at 10 a.m. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. New footprints of AME Bishop John Hurst Adams; former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes; U.S. Olympians, educators and activists John Carlos and Tommie Smith; Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Gladstone Christie; Memorial Foundation President Harry E. Johnson Sr.; Georgia state Rep. Calvin Smyre; civil rights attorney Thomas Todd; and Salem Bible Church’s pastor, the Rev. Jasper W. Williams, will be unveiled at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site at 450 Auburn Ave. in Atlanta. TV One will broadcast the Trumpet Awards at a later date. For more information, visit http://trumpetfoundation.org.

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Oct 17, 2012 - 5:50 pm hello i am from the uk. my mum has recently been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer. She had previously been having difficulty in eating and consistent pain. hence a recent endoscopy highlighted a large tumour on her gullet. The national health oncologist tells us its terminal and she refuses to offer treatment saying that my mum appears weak. as most of you can sympathise words cant really describe this tragic experience. i dont know what to do i refuse to just watch my mum die painfully. Surely there must be some hope. a pet scan revealed the cancer has not spread but it does cover a wide area i think. my mother unfortunately has had a few bouts of melina (blood loss)in the last few days. Everyone keeps telling us its critical. i cant bear to lose hope. Is it worth consulting privare specialists? or shall i just accept this terrible fate? I would appreciate a response especially by a doctor?

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Can someone id this mushroom? Is it poisenous? Thanks Stinkhorn Phallus impudicus. Not poisonous, but not edible either (they can be eaten when very young, still in the 'egg' stage). As you've probably noticed, the full-grown fungus has a revolting smell, which attracts carrion flies to disperse the spores. Thanks resin....I have not noticed a foul smell or many flies around it. Probably finished smelling now - it looks a bit 'past its best'. Read more about them here: http://www.mushroomexpert.com/phallus_impudicus.html

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|Viewing Single Post From: Interesting/Spoilerish Tweets Week of January 14| |six||Jan 21 2013, 10:52 AM| The show explained that Nick's results might not be 100% accurate, because they didn't test the babies themselves. Marlena took steps to make sure the second results were accurate, so there was no reason to question the second test. ETA: EJ overheard Marlena expressing concerns about Nick's results, not about the second results. Edited by six, Jan 21 2013, 10:54 AM. |Interesting/Spoilerish Tweets Week of January 14 · DAYS: News, Spoilers & Discussion|

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Quote: A little off subject, but i've wondered something and never asked. Why does the scale only go to a cat 5? Can they not mesuare anything higher than 174mph? There has never been a wind speed measured higher than about 200 I think (Camille was 190 officially, the Labor Day storm was ~200 I think)... it's simply physics - if you don't have winds above a certain level you don't need a scale for them. Edit: Actually,there is a scale above Cat 5, though. It ranges from F0 to F5, if I'm not mistaken. It's called the Fujitsi(I know I spelled that wrong) scale... and it's used for TORNADOs... which is pretty much what a 200mph hurricane is, a HUGE tornado. Eloise (1975) - Elena and several other near misses (1985) - Erin & Opal (1995) - Ivan (2004) You cannot start new topics You cannot reply to topics HTML is disabled UBBCode is enabled Thread views: 48893 Note: This is NOT an official page. It is run by weather hobbyists and should not be used as a replacement for official sources. CFHC's main servers are currently located at Hostdime.com in Orlando, FL. Image Server Network thanks to Mike Potts and Amazon Web Services. If you have static file hosting space that allows dns aliasing contact us to help out! Some Maps Provided by: Great thanks to all who donated and everyone who uses the site as well. Site designed for 800x600+ resolution When in doubt, take the word of the National Hurricane Center

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Our super insulated, super tight home in central Indiana is finally ready for the installation of air conditioning and fresh air. I've done my homework (I think) and so I feel I can talk intelligently with the contractors who have come to look at what we've got. Yesterday, the fourth guy out (and by the way actually was familiar with our building materials) talked quite a bit about the importance of getting enough air circulation in a tight, well insulated home even to the point of superceding whatever the Manual J load calculations show. I told him that our home (1750 sf of ranch with full basement) had a calculated load of 12K BTUH cooling (and that came from two different guys who have been out before this one). He immediately said that he would probably need to put in a 3 ton air handler to get sufficient air circulation. Is that ok? My impression has been that the air handler needed to be matched to the condenser pretty closely. In fact, the other 3 guys all came up with a 1.5 ton compressor with a 2 ton AH. His argument is that I don't want to end up with "dead air" spots in the house, but I should have at least 9 ACH through the air handler. I'm stuck! I have no idea if this guy is right or not. Any thoughts? Like I said, he actually was somewhat familiar with our construction method and has put in Apriaire's HRVs in other homes. Help!

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It’s not long now before witches, goblins and fairies will be abroad and children will be out looking for treats and even the occasional trick! All these people dressed up in costume, the decorations and accessories that go along with Halloween are perfect fodder for the hungry photographer! If you are shooting photos this season these tips will come in useful: Finally, Ireland, the land of the banshee has a wealth of Halloween traditions. Makes for a good read!

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On the road again I will post about my awesome 4th of July cake (courtesy of Pioneer Woman , who completely makes me want to quit my job, find a cowboy and move to a big square state and just cook and take pictures of my kids (I know, plural!)) but I’ve been busy. June is a hugely busy month for the two agencies I manage (so much so that D thinks I have a second family in the Philly area) and add to that the fact that we’re supposed to audit a different agency once a year (thank you Mr Sarbannes & Mr. Oxley), I’ve been doing some traveling. I don’t mind, in fact I’m building up my bank of Marriott points so we can go away for a weekend this fall (almost have enough for two nights in Bahstahn! In a one bedroom at the Marriott vacation club!). This past week I left for Denver. I love Denver. If Denver were closer to the ocean, I’d move in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, it’s not. I was hoping to time this trip so D and C could come with me and we could spend a long weekend, but the dates just didn’t work out this time (don’t worry, I’ve already started campaigning for the same audit next year). So. I left bright and early Tuesday morning for Denver. Of course, leaving from our airport means you take the scenic route (ie. there’s a stopover somewhere) – I got to spend three hours in the Cincinnati KY airport (no, that’s not a mistake – it’s called Cincinnati airport but it’s actually located in Kentucky. Do I get to count both states for my “States I’ve been” map?). It’s actually a nice airport. The flight from CVG to Denver left on time. I lucked out and there was no one in the middle seat of the row I was in (this will come in handy later, trust me). Flying time to Denver is only a little over two hours so I should be at the hotel and able to enjoy some time just wandering around. Until the pilot comes on the PA and announces that there are thunderstorms over the Denver airport and we’ve been circling for almost an hour. The storms are moving to the East so we’ll “try to sneak in after them” otherwise we’ll be landing in Cheyenne. Circle. Circle. Circle some more. Guess what? We’re landing in Cheyenne because we’re low on fuel now! And we’re fifth in line for refueling. Guess we’re gonna be here for awhile. The flight attendants just gave up and let everyone serve themselves, there was a mad dash for the lavatories, the headsets which were two dollars an hour and a half ago were now free (the better to watch the movie they were showing (Drillbit Taylor. Does that count as cruel and unusual punishment?). Eventually we arrived in Denver. I checked into the hotel, ordered room service and went to bed. Luckily the flights home were both on time and uneventful (although packed). I think I’m traveling at least once a month from now through the end of October. It’s hard work supporting two families!

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Each month, I publish a photo essay. My hope is to capture the essence of a particular location as I continue my pursuit of adventure and exploration, showcase the craftsmanship and creativity of people around the world, and learn from the rituals and routines of different cultures. This photo essay is from Fez, Morocco. As always, all photos are my own. Fez, Morocco Photos I’ll start with this: I love Fez. If you ever have the chance to go, I highly recommend it. The ancient part of the city, known as the medina, is like a criss-crossing maze of tiny alleyways and thousand-year-old streets. There is a surprise around every corner and a dizzying array of shops selling every item you could imagine. From the rooftop of any cafe in the medina, you’ll see thousands of homes, apartments, and riads stacked on top of one another. Tucked away in these alleyways and hidden between the stacks of buildings are some unexpected surprises. One of those surprises is the Chouara Tannery. For hundreds of years, Fez has been known for its leather goods. Today, Chouara Tannery still runs a full leather production line using techniques that are largely unchanged from the 14th century. The main portion of the tannery is composed of a series of dried earth pits, which are used to hold different colors of dye. Each color is derived from a natural sources like plants and trees: brown comes from cedar trees, red from poppy flowers, green from mint, blue from indigo, and yellow from saffron. These colors are used to dye the leather for different products. The tanners begin by cleaning and shearing the animal skins. I actually saw two men pulling hair off of the skin by hand. The skins are then soaked in a mixture of pigeon feces and cow urine, which apparently removes animal fat and any remaining hair. (This is probably an appropriate time to mention that the tannery has a very distinct smell.) After drying, the raw hides are then scraped, cleaned, and softened before soaking in the dye. From what I could tell, tanners would then separate the hides into large stacks based on the type of coloration each hide would receive. After separating, the tanners would jump into a dye-filled pit and soak each piece of leather — sometimes dipping it by hand and other times jumping up and down on an entire stack of hides. Eventually, after enough soaking, someone would come along, load up both arms with wet animal skins, and take them off to hang dry along the walls and roof of the tannery.

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This delightful PEACH THEMED PARTY was submitted by Lindsay Nathanson of herb-n-peach. How cute is this peach party? I absolutely love the mason drinking jars painted with different colors and at different heights. I also love the beautiful white cake. This party is full of REALLY CUTE Ideas that would work perfectly for a neighborhood party, birthday party, picnic, bridal shower or baby shower. My favorite Peach party ideas and elements from this beautiful occasion are: - The adorable painted mason drinking glasses - The beautiful white cake with peaches on top - The painted bottle vases with flowers in them - The darling printables - The yummy peach food - and MORE! Items and supplies used in this Peach Party available in Kara’s Party Ideas Shop: Check out these awesome Peach recipes from herb-n-peach to go along with this party! - Peach and blueberry crumble recipe - Peach pops recipe - Grilled peach salad - Peach, brie and thyme tarts recipe - Peach tea recipe

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Configuring Soft- and Hard-Edge Arrays, Part I An example of hard-edge matching on video cubes at the 2001 Academy Awards show. Mapping the edges of multiple projectors to make them perform as a single, high-resolution, large-scale display offers a number of direct, application-enabling benefits. Whether the customer is seeking to dramatically increase resolution or brightness on a given screen size, reproduce material that requires unusual screen aspect ratios, create an image that is ... This content is free to access as a registered user on livedesignonline.com Why register for livedesignonline.com? It's simple and free, and here is what you get: - Daily original news covering the latest in entertainment design and technology - Features on the latest industry trends - Insights from thought leaders in the industry - The ability to view both pay-per-view and free recorded sessions from our live events including Master Classes, LDI and Envision

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Councilwoman Karen Gibson and the Lubbock City Council gave city staff a “go get ’em” at Thursday’s meeting to seek nearly $500,000 in state funding to boost a recently budgeted project to renovate North University Avenue. The council gave unanimous support to Councilman Victor Hernandez’s request to apply for about $478,000 in state grant funding, which the city will combine with about $765,000 in city bond money the council designated last month for aesthetic and structural improvements to the North Lubbock thoroughfare — upping the project’s funding to $1.2 million. “We need to continue to help stabilize that area in terms of aesthetics and also in terms of business,” Hernandez said. “So this is just going to help. We need a vibrant commercial district north of Marsha Sharp (Freeway) and this is it.” There is a catch: City staff and the council have less than a month to act in time to meet a Nov. 16 Texas Department of Public Transportation deadline to apply for the grant funding, according to Lubbock Chief Operations Officer Marsha Reed. Reed said Hernandez and city staff began discussing the option of applying for the state funding soon after the council approved Hernandez’s request to use bond funding for North University Avenue. Last month, the council voted unanimously to use about $765,000 in bond money approved by voters in 2004 for street renovations, designating the money for North University Avenue renovations as part of the 2013 budget. Hernandez said the additional funding will expand what project planners can include in the renovations, with options ranging from repaving the road and creating new sidewalks to adding irrigation and planting trees. “Even though it’s $1.2 million, $1.2 million in a major street renovation doesn’t get you very far,” he said. “In fact it’s not even going to get you halfway in this project, as far as it being completed.” Even an additional $478,000 in funding doesn’t give planners a lot to work with, Reed said. Factoring in a 15 percent administrative fee for TxDOT, and several hundred thousand dollars in planning and design expenses, the $1.2 million project is left with about $880,000 in actual construction dollars, she said. According to initial estimates, North University Avenue renovations will likely top $1.3 million. Reed recommended the council push for a plan committing to about half the work, covering about a half-mile stretch of road from Marsha Sharp Freeway to the 100 block of University Avenue near the Amigos grocery store. A final plan will go before the council for approval Nov. 8. To comment on this story:

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Protein by weight & Utilization Food Protein by weight %Net protein Utilization Eggs 12 94 Milk 4 82 Fish 18- 25 80 cheese 22-36 80 brown rice 8 70 meat and fowl 19-31 68 soy bean flour 42 61 (whey, milk derivative which is a refined product, has even more net protein than eggs) The chart tells us that an egg contain only 12 percent protein by weight. Yet because of the specific balance of amino acids present in that protein, 94 percent of it can be used by your body! 42% of soy-bean flour is protein, but the make up of that protein is such that your body is able to use only 61 percent of it. SO there is a big difference between how much protein a food contains and how much of that protein you can actually use to build muscle. Eggs an arbitrary value of a perfect 100!

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Conservationists believe there may be a ray of hope for one of the rarest tree frogs in the world found in Costa Rica. They have discovered that a frog that has not been seen for 20 years is in fact breeding in Monterverdes Cloud Forest Preserve. Here, Andrew Gray, from Manchester University, shows the male Isthmoyla rivularis that has just been found. The discovery was filmed by the BBC, which has been following the team from Manchester University and Chester Zoo as they work on conservation programmes for rare frogs. Additional footage courtesy of Alexander Villegas

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NEW YORK (WFAN) — Lenny Dykstra “desperately” wanted to be present at Friday night’s memorial for former Mets teammate Gary Carter. The problem was he was under house arrest in California. After asking a judge to let him attend, Dykstra was granted permission to cross state lines for the service at Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Dykstra “wants to stay until Sunday,” TMZ reported, to attend a get-together Saturday with Carter’s friends and family. Former Mets Wally Backman, Sid Fernandez, Keith Hernandez, Howard Johnson, Roger McDowell, Rusty Staub, Darryl Strawberry, Tim Teufel and Mookie Wilson were in attendance Friday. Did the judge make the right call? Sound off below…

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[OpenSIPS-Users] Too Many Hops problem in OpenSIPS faisal.rehman22 at yahoo.com Fri Feb 17 14:28:25 CET 2012 I have been using the OpenSIPS configuration file given here in the link http://www.opensips.org/Resources/DocsTutAsterisk just for testing & integrating with asterisk but I have gone through all the file and couldn't find the reason of Too Many Hops even though I changed its value but still giving this error & the packet size is also too large, so what should I disable in the configuration file given in the above link. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... More information about the Users

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The Chargers now have 11 players on injured reserve. Vaughn suffered a groin injury in warmups before the Chargers 34-24 win in Pittsburgh last week while Stuckey re-injured a hamstring during the game. To fill their spots on the roster, the Chargers re-signed running back Curtis Brinkley and linebacker Gary Guyton. Brinkley appeared in seven games for the Chargers and made one start before being released on Nov. 29. Guyton spent his first four seasons playing for the New England Patriots. He spent training camp with the Miami Dolphins before being released. The Chargers also released receiver Kashif Moore from the practice squad and re-signed defensive end Logan Harrell.

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Some say it could. The Las Vegas Sun reports that conservative scholar Charles Murray is warning the Republican party about the political damage the bill is going to do to them: That’s the prognosis of poker-playing scholar Charles Murray, who warned in a recent newspaper opinion piece of the political damage Republicans may face from the nation’s poker-playing masses this fall. An estimated 8 million Americans gamble online. “We are talking about a lot of people … who are angry enough to vote on the basis of this one issue, and they blame Republicans,” said Murray, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, writing in The New York Times. Just how big an effect does he think it will have? Now millions of American gamblers are being shut out of popular sites that immediately closed their doors to U.S. players. Murray argued that based on his online talks with poker players, he’s willing to bet many of the “outraged millions” are Republicans and Reagan Democrats. He was not immediately available for comment. “This law all by itself could add a few more Democratic congressional seats in the fall elections,” he wrote. And a few more seats may be the difference between holding on to the House and losing control for the Republicans. 15 seats need to change hands for the Democrats to control the House. Murray isn’t alone. Radley Balko reports that the response to his recent Fox News column has been overwhelmingly against the bill and overwhelmingly from those who traditionally vote Republican but won’t this time because of this issue. He reprints the content of many of those emails. So folks, if you want to stop this kind of nonsense in the future, not only should you vote on it, you should tell the exit pollsters that that’s why you voted. If the Republican party’s polling shows that this issue may have swung a few seats against them, they’ll think twice before doing it again.

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Like Patti McCutcheon, whose letter was published March 9, I am adamantly opposed to the installation of the Plains & Eastern Clean Line Transmission Project, which begins in western Oklahoma and terminates in western Tennessee. While Ms. McCutcheon accurately pointed out these transmission lines and poles will extend up to 200 feet in the air, I think a frame of reference is needed to appreciated the monstrous eyesores these poles and utility lines will represent. They could easily be over 10 times the height of an average house! I would also like to point out that many studies have been conducted to determine the health effects of these transmission systems, as well as their impact on real estate values. The health issues associated with these lines are inconclusive, although there is strong support indicating health hazards. But, not surprisingly, with regard to real estate valuations, the studies commissioned by the utilities indicate little or no impact while studies conducted by real estate appraisers indicate a 10-50 percent loss in value. The relevant question is: “Would you build or purchase a home if these type transmission lines were a factor?“ In referring to the website, www.PlainsandEasternEIS.com, a link is available to file a complaint as well as an option to select “Maps and Documents/Interactive Map.” This selection will display the proposed transmission line routing corridors. If this link is selected, there is a capability to zoom into the corridors to determine exact location of individual homes and properties. Please consider submitting a complaint in opposition to the installation of these power lines as they will have a negative impact on real estate values as well as present potential health risks. The deadline for submitting complaints is March 21.

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Windows 8 has had a tough run, and the number of people taking issue with the OS keeps growing. Now Samsung executive Jun Dong-soo has taken shots at the operating system, blaming it for not improving demand for PCs. “The global PC industry is steadily shrinking despite the launch of Windows 8,” Dong-soo, the president of Samsung’s memory chip division, said in a meeting with reporters in South Korea on Friday. “I think the Windows 8 system is no better than the previous Windows Vista platform.” Samsung sells a number of Windows 8 PCs, including laptops and laptop/tablet hybrids. To be fair to Windows 8, global PC sales have been declining primarily because of the rise of mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. Still, the OS (which launched in October) did not help reverse the trend. Laptop sales in particular were quite ugly during the holiday season for 2012, with Windows notebook sales down 11 percent year-over-year. Notably, Samsung doesn’t seem too impressed with Windows RT, Microsoft’s tablet-specific OS, either. Samsung is reportedly looking to stop sales of its 10.1-inch Windows RT Ativ Tab in Germany and other European countries. Via The Korea Times Samsung PCs running Windows 8: Sean Ludwig/VentureBeat

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Sotomayor's District Court Bid Aided by D'Amato and Moynihan By Garance Franke-Ruta It was widely noted yesterday that though Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nominated to her U.S. District Court judgeship by then-President George H.W. Bush in 1991, her nomination came as part of a deal with her home state senator, Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who suggested her nomination to the president. Sotomayor, in forms submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1992 and entered into the congressional hearing record, provides some more details on how the process worked -- and the role played by both senators from New York: At the suggestion of various friends, I submitted an application to and was interviewed by the Committee on the Judiciary which advises Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on his judicial recommendations. I subsequently met with Senator Moynihan who then recommended me to Senator Alfonse D'Amato. Senator D'Amato forwarded my name to the Department of Justice. I was first contacted and interviewed by the Committee of the Judiciary of the Bar of the City of New York which approved my qualifications for the appointment. Thereafter, on two occasions, I was contacted by and met with various officials at the Department of Justice. I was then sent requisite forms which I completed. I was then interviewed by an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and by a representative of the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary of the American Bar Association before my nomination by the President. Posted at 1:07 PM ET on May 27, 2009 Share This: Technorati | Tag in Del.icio.us | Digg This Previous: Is Sotomayor Fight Over Before it Begins? | Next: Liberal Groups Release Ad Backing Sotomayor Please email us to report offensive comments. Posted by: Bob_Greiner | May 28, 2009 10:00 AM Posted by: Bob Greiner | May 28, 2009 9:48 AM The comments to this entry are closed.

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ETHICS AND LOBBYING REFORM -- (Senate - June 28, 2007) BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT Mr. COBURN. I object. Mr. REID. Mr. President, does the Senator from Oklahoma wish to make a statement? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma. Mr. COBURN. Mr. President, I say to the majority leader, I do not mean to delay this bill. I am on that subcommittee. I worked hard on this bill. I agree with the majority leader that many of those recommendations need to go forward. This bill spends $12 billion over the next 3 years. We have worked tirelessly and worked hard. Mr. President, $9 billion of that $12 billion is grants. It is certainly not in the best interest of those most at risk, but I lost that fight. So I am willing to let that go. But the postgrant review process, which we asked for and were told would be in the bill before we went to conference, is not in it. Every time we ask about it, we get pushed back. Until we look at how we are going to spend the money, until we can satisfy that, I don't believe we are ready to go to conference, and I also believe there are still some problems with ports in terms of solving those problems and some of the tier 1 issues we have. My objection is not meant to be dilatory or anything else, other than to make the point that if we are going to spend $9 billion in grants to carry these recommendations out--and that is a small portion of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, but it is the $9 billion--and we refuse to have a postgrant auditing process where we look to see--because we know from what IGs have told us and the GAO, much of the money we have been spending post-9/11 has been wasted, and it hasn't gone to prevent the next terrorist act. I have a personal interest as well. I have a daughter who lives in New York City. I want her protected. I don't want to do something that might stop that, but we have to do it in a way that makes us good stewards of the taxpayers' money. That is my reason for objecting. It is not on behalf of the Republican leadership. It is on behalf of myself and my staff in trying to get good value for our money. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I say through the Chair to my friend, I guess I will ask the question: Who have you talked to who said you can't have this postaudit program in the bill? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma can answer the question of the majority leader. Mr. COBURN. My staff has relayed to me, the Federal Financial Management Subcommittee minority staff, who have been working on this issue since we passed the bill, relayed to me before I came over that they still will not grant us that access in the bill. BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT Mr. COBURN. Mr. President, if I might be recognized, I say to my colleague for New York, I have been working on this for 6 months. This isn't new. They knew this was coming. These are commitments that were made that were not kept. This is not a reflection on Senator Lieberman. This is a staff-driven problem. The only leverage I have to get staff to do what they are supposed to be doing is this. I apologize to the Senator and to his constituents. If my colleagues fix it over the break, when we come back, I would not have any objection. Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, will my colleague yield? Mr. COBURN. Yes, I yield. Mr. SCHUMER. Is that the Senator's only objection? Mr. COBURN. That is the only objection I have. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I say to Senator Coburn, I received a note. This is from Senator Lieberman's staff: We have worked very close with Senator Coburn's staff--in particular his subcommittee staff director--Katie French. Coburn's provisions were included in S. 4. The House negotiators opposed them and after long negotiations Katie signed off on our final agreement. Beth worked on this and will send more information in a moment. It appears they have worked this out. Mr. COBURN. Mr. President, I have no knowledge, I say to the majority leader, that has been worked out. The last memo I have from my staff director is that it has not. If that is the case, again, I will live up to my word that I promised the majority leader and senior Senator from New York that you would not have an objection from me-- Mr. REID. If this is the case, tomorrow in the Senator's absence, can we go ahead with this bill? Mr. COBURN. If that is the case, then I don't have a basis for objection.

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Roth revives! See how he rises!Rumours of my death have been, well, somewhat exaggerated. I was sleeping is all. Or else off gallivanting with Epistemon amidst among the fallen. And it is has been as busy as a time as ever it will be—moving, disowning, appreciating, divagating, arguing, decorating, slicing and framing, lucubrating, rising early, failing, attending, listening, not hearing, preening, expanding, gorging, sneering, perusing, pontificating, and scribbling, but only sober words, and all without the benefit of this ambivalent sketchpad to console me. Roth he rises from the dead, Says, "Whirl your cava around like blazes" "Thanum an Dhul, do you thunk I'm dead?" In little Hornsey we manage, just, to replace each drunk bottle with another, gratis, by courtesy of guests, whose magnanimity we carefully gauge and record, by the splendour of the bottle they bring, its age, its size, the grandeur of its name. Now, Mr. Dodson warned me on these very pages that Freixenet would not be suitable for the celebration of my return. Thus, in turn, I admonished our guests not to bring Freixenet, under pain of sanction. For three months gladly have I welcomed visitors bearing various cuvées, a Cristal here, a Dom Pérignon there, and I had saved for some time a particularly fine Pol Roger for this very occasion, when two nights ago a brace of unwanted (though I dare to admit it, invited, albeit by Mrs. Roth) haplodytes descended upon us for dinner, demanding champagne for the birth of their two-bit nipper, and yet bearing with them, the damned cheek of it, not champagne, but only— — Cava? We drank the Pol Roger. The wine was bitter in my mouth. Mrs. Roth abstained piously. I did not talk much at the table, only eyeing my bouteille diminuant with ever-growing pique. Their bottle, on the other hand, remained wrapped on the far counter. My friends, it is all I have left. I'm afraid, Mr. Dodson, that your only consolation is that it is not, after all, a Freixenet. Le'chayim, then. Bastards. With each slow stride, so low, the water rises slowly by my side, aswallow. And the flat sidereal rises of the moon looming, illumining, white with weight, tremulous, foaming and shiving in the weight of the vast sea. And from the sea, all ashiver with a vast cold, rising in lines of light, so slow, is the light of bells and spires, a spired city of candles and glasses, so low and so vast, and the colour of treasure, as the skin of my face rises down against the sweep of the skin of the sweep and stave of the sea, and the moon her weight and white eyes are beside me, and her bird is there in my hand to guide me.I wrote that when I was about seventeen. It was part of a dream-sequence in my starter-novel, The Ark, the drafts of which I occasionally look over with an embarrassed amusement. It wasn't all in this style. But it was parts like these that most interested me at the time. I wanted to write prose aspiring to the condition of poetry—the most flawed of ambitions, and one I now wholly repudiate. Later I wrote a poem, Chalybea, which developed some of the imagery from The Ark, in an entirely different context, and to much better effect. (It has the further advantage of being actually a poem.) I still liked, and indeed still like, underwater cities, and along with them, underwater bells. Bells. Echoes, from below, from the hollowsThe poem's narrative was punctuated in places by the sound of a 'Flibberty-gibbety bell', wafting over the waves to the action onboard a ship. And towards the end of the story, a precious clock is tossed into the water: of the bowels of the earth, billowing up. In the end, they dismantled its gearsIt is the height of bad manners to discuss one's own work as if it were that of another. I quote these passages simply to illustrate that for whatever reason, I have long associated the sea, and lower regions of the earth, with bells and clocks. Now, when writing both novel and poem, and for a long while after, I had no knowledge of the folklore of underwater bells. The Funk and Wagnall Folklore Dictionary claims that and threw it back, amid the vitreous chime of sunlight staggering upon waves. Bells which have sunk to the bottom of ponds or lakes or have been buried underground (of which every European country traditionally has examples) also ring at solemn times, such as midnight on Christmas Eve. Such bells were generally engulfed as a punishment for some human impiety.So, for instance, in Gervase of Tilbury's 1215 Otia Imperialia: In Britain there is a forest, rich in many kinds of game, which looks down on the city of Carlisle. Roughly in the middle of this forest there is a valley surrounded by hills near a public highway. In this valley, I say, every day at seven in the morning a gently-sounding peal of bells [classicum campanarum dulce resonans] is heard; and so the locals have given that lonely place the name of 'Laikibrais' in the Welsh tongue.I quote the translation of Banks and Binns (2002), though 'Welsh' [Wallico] is a rather tendentious editorial correction of 'French' [Gallico]. R. C. Cox, in his article on Laikibrais (or Laikibrait), mentions, like the Folklore Dictionary, and in very similar language, that 'The tradition of a body of water in which bells are engulfed and yet are heard to peal is a common folklore motif often associated with demonic forces or the punishment of some human impiety.' For Cox, Laikibrait is the 'lake that cries' [Old French lai ki brait], associated with the inundation of church bells at Tarn Wadling, in Inglewood Forest near Carlisle. This, also, from Georgina Jackson's 1883 book on Shropshire Folk-Lore: There is a Norfolk legend which brings out the connection between pools, bells, and the Under World very clearly. Tunstall Church in that county having been destroyed by a fire, which yet left the bells uninjured, the parson and churchwardens quarrelled for the possession of them, and meantime the Old Gentleman watched his opportunity and walked off with them. He was, however, found out and pursued by the parson, who began to exercise him in Latin. So in his hurry he made his way through the earth to his own abode taking his booty with him. The spot where he disappeared is now a boggy pool of water called Hell Hole, on the surface of which, in summer-time, bubbles are constantly appearing. These, the folk say, are caused by the continual sinking of the bells through the water on their endless journey to the bottomless pit.And from Paul Sébillot's 1905 Le Folk-Lore de France, volume 2: According to the traditions common to many standing bodies of water believed to conceal engulfed towns, the residents hear, at certain times of the year, and almost always on the occasion of great festivals, the sound of bells rising from their depths. It seems that the cities lie beneath the liquid layer, hardly overwhelmed and ruined, but almost in the state they were in at the moment they disappeared. One can even perceive them through the transparency of the waters, as those that the sea has buried; the churches remain at the bottom, and sometimes, just as our bells are singing out to announce Christian rituals, mysterious ringers set in motion the bells of the cursed cities.and: At Christmas two bells sound at full volume, under the Mare Rouge at Relans, to announce the midnight hour, and at the same moment can be heard the bells of Radenac (Morbihan) buried in a sort of quagmire, those of the Mare Sonnante at Balaiseaux (Haute-Saône), of the Vieux Bronze, and of the monastery of Fleres, engulfed beneath a lake as a punishment for the monks' impiety: only at this time, occupied with their pious soundings, can the damned obtain some respite from their torments.Sébillot, like a good philosophe, is happy to provide the rationalist's explanation. He cites the Académicien, Thomas de Saint-Mars, claiming in 1780 that the bells he hears at the waterside are not those of the sunken Herbauge, but rather those of Nantes across the water: One might add that these carillons are heard above all at two times of the year: between All Saints and Christmas, when the trees, shorn of their leaves, provide no obstacle to the propagation of the sound; and during the calm nights of the summer solstice.We hear the same themes even in a Joanna Newsom lyric: In the trough of the waves,Newsom has claimed that she found her line about the 'damnable bell', after having penned it, in a fantasy novel (this one?) about the drowned city of Ys, and this accounts also for the title of the record from which this lyric comes: Ys. The story is that the Breton city was flooded and drowned after the king's daughter, Dahut, opened the dam-gates standing as its protection against the sea. Dahut is later transformed into a morverc'h (cf. Irish English merrow) or mermaid. The myth has some similarity, it seems to me, to the Greek legend of Nisus and Scylla. From the 1839 collection of Breton ballads known as the Barzaz Breiz: which are pawing like dogs, pitch we, pale-faced and grave, as I write in my log. Then I hear a noise from the hull, seven days out to sea. . . and it is that damnable bell. Gwelous a ris ar morverc'h venn,The song of Dahut later becomes the peal of bells, lamenting, although the only literary treatment I can find online is a yucky bit of doggerel by the Canadian poet Bliss Carman, 'The Bells of Ys': M'hle c'hlevis o kannan zoken Klemvanus tonn ha kanaouenn. I saw the wan mermaid, I recall hearing her song In the air, the anguish of lament. Still along that haunted coast men tell usThe bells do not have a sound of 'silver joyance' or 'deathless rapture', for the bells are not part of the 'surge of being': the bells of Ys, as of Laikibris, Tunstall, Fleres and Herbauge, are bells of memory and admonition. The chimes are an element left over from an age now lost, kept fast, and warning us not to forget. They remind us that our world is only one world: there is a lower, just as there is a higher. They are a mark of what cannot be assimilated, a Delphic epsilon, or as Freud would have put it, a return of the repressed. They can hear at times, Then the tide is half asleep and musing, The faint sound of unsubstantial chimes Ringing through the world's tumultuous day-beat From enchanted climes. And they say those peals of fairy music Are the city's bells, Drowned long since with all their silver joyance,— That a deathless rapture in them dwells, Part forever of the surge of being As it sinks and swells. Standing on Alexander Binnie's 1897 Hornsey Lane Bridge, or rather on Suicide Bridge, as it is affectionately known, overlooking the A1 in its incarnation as Archway Road, one has the sense, more than anywhere else in London, Greenwich included, of straddling two worlds. This really is one of the most remarkable locations in the city, and one entirely unknown to me until we moved to nearby Hornsey two months ago. What happens is this: you begin in Crouch End, with Alexandra Palace just peeking up above the shop roofs, and work your way south, up a gentle slope, and with tall trees hanging overhead, past the large church. You turn right onto Hornsey Lane, with the council flats opposite, and further up the large social housing units and older interwar apartment blocks, also on a sizeable scale. The whole way you ascend almost imperceptibly, all the while nestled comfortably in roads of houses, protected: this is upmarket suburbia. Then at last you come to the bridge, you emerge, and all of a sudden, on both sides, you find this: My American readers will not be remotely surprised by this: it is the sort of thing you see all over that dark continent. But in London it is most unusual. Ours is essentially a flat city, or at most a city of gradual rises. And so to me, this view represents a genuine shock of vertigo. When I first trudged up this way, on the first sunday of Lent, on my own, in the blazing sunshine of a morning, I heard the chimes of bells wafting their way up to me from below. And there is a little world down there, too. On the bridge are wrought-iron lamp-posts, dolphins. They are the same as those seen on the banks of the Thames, world-renowned. The dolphin, not a fish, is king of the fish; hence his central place on the arms of the Worshipful Company of Fishermongers. He is king of the river. And the Archway Road is a river, too, the rush of its traffic warm and cold and calling as the currents of the Thames himself. So I descend like the celestial visitors at Clonmacnoise. You can make your way down by a snickleway beside the bridge, but I take another path, down a picturesque alley named Tile Kiln Lane, beside the reservoir to the west. I make my way down, and I begin to forget. It is easy to forget when you have something to look at. The church at the bottom of Tile Kiln Lane and around the corner, on Archway Road underlooking the bridge, is quite striking. It is St Augustine of Canterbury, first built in 1888 and variously rebuilt and retooled thereafter. It lies beneath the water, hardly overwhelmed and ruined, but almost in the state it was in at the moment it disappeared. The church is strangely caught out of time, like some sort of Neo-Gothic pagoda, prefigured by this ornament on the roof of the nearby Rokesly School: As if to emphasize the timelessness of the place, a carved inscription above the entrance commemorates George Ratcliffe Woodward, who passed away, it says, 'Anno Domini MXCXXXIV'. Now Woodward was born in 1848, and did not live to a ripe old age of -724, which he would have done if he had indeed died in AD 1124, unless of course he had invented time-travel, which really would have put his various musical and apiaristical achievements to shame. What the carver really meant to grave was MCMXXXIV, 1934. But so it goes, and we ironise. Below the Virgin and Child, between the two doors, we find a melancholy presence. It is either the graver scolding himself for a fudged date, or the very spirit of irony itself, worn out, worn down, tired, bored. The world, she wants you to forget. When you forget, you are hers. And so she offers you cuvées and cigars, television, pop music, and now the internet—that ultimate engine of lotophagose oblivion. But London! London exists to make you remember! I have been trying to remember. M'hle c'hlevis o kannan zoken, klemvanus tonn ha kanaouenn. She leaves everything just lying around for you to stumble upon, like an unexplored attic, all in a mess. This is how provocative she is. This is how she shakes her hair at you, and grins wanly, out of the corner of her eye, all the while lamenting what she has lost: a considerable amount. The city and I are on the same side, against them, whoever they are. Certainly against her scheming servants, the knave and the fool, who would be her masters. Most irrelevant of the irrelevant are they! The only living stone is London herself, and we, of whom her walls are built. I will not listen to her servants, nor to the world with its hideous spectacle. In being hers I will become, I think, myself. I have been trying to remember, no joke. I have been going to church. What, you thought I'd been wasting these months without you? We went to Easter Mass at St Paul's. Mrs. Roth did not come; but I cannot blame her, for it was so cold, and her back was in agony at the time. The sermon was rather lacklustre, and communion took forever, and the huge modern paintings were inauthentic, but all this was beside the point, because I felt like I was on safari. What was I doing there? I found myself mouthing the words to the hymns because I didn't know the music, and H., whose religiosity is perhaps a little more ambiguous than my own, mouthed along with me, because she didn't know the music either. I shook hands with perfect strangers and said Peace be with you. And where is the irony in that? How do the religious make sense of this beautiful ritual? The next week it was the same. A Dutch friend and I attended Sunday service at Austin Friars, the only Dutch church in the country, and the oldest Dutch-language Protestant church in the world, including Holland. And there the alienation was heightened: I could revel in it. Not only was I the only person in the room not to know the music—I was the only person there who couldn't understand a damned thing that was being said! The sermon went blaach blaach T. S. Eliot blaach blaach blaach The Waste Land blaach blaach Shackleton blaach blaach Emmaus, and although on reflection I could deduce the subject, the vast majority of it remained, well, double dutch. Which is not to say it lacked a fine strange music. Then we stood around the altar in a circle and looked conscientiously at the floor as the prayers were recited. Afterwards they were all terribly friendly and I felt like an ass; but my companion was delighted to be able to speak her own language, and that did please me a great deal. I force myself into these uncomfortable scenarios not from any turn towards religion, nor out of scorn for those who believe, but because of an uneasy suspicion that I have forgotten something, an art older than irony. It is as if I want the city and her ways to conquer me a little. London exists more in her church services than in her church façades. This I know; but I am trying to understand it, also. In my ears are the bells. I strain myself, for I cannot hear Herbauge—only Nantes.

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I was recently criticized for “rushing to judgment” against cops in general by calling Alton Sterling’s death “untimely and wrongful” and then accused of doing this to benefit myself. The person who brought the criticism missed the whole point of a letter to the editor I had written, which was not anti-cop at all, but only meant to invite White people to join me in trying to address a system based on an ideology that is clearly threatening our common good as a nation. I’ve worked with, talked with, interviewed, and counted as friends too many police officers to lump them all into one basket. They’re humans just like the rest of us. They bleed when they’re shot. They get scared when they go on a call. Some bring more skills to the table than others. Some make mistakes. And some break the law. My critic said I should have mentioned that they also die in the line of duty. And certainly what happened in Dallas last week demonstrated that in horrifying fashion. In truth, 26 officers have been killed so far this year. But research tells us that even though 8 out of 10 of those cops were killed by White men, police officers are far, far more likely to kill Black people – men, women, and children, often unarmed and unarrested – than they are White ones. In fact, police officers in America have killed upwards of 150 Black people in 2016 alone (roughly one every 31 hours), which is 24% of those killed, though African-Americans make up only 13% of our country’s population. Police officers are professionals. It’s not difficult to find film clips or photographs showing them doing a remarkable job of not killing people who are threatening or even shooting at them – as long as they are White. And anyway, according to The Badge of Life, a highly respected police organization, more than twice as many police officers died by suicide in 2015 than were killed by felons. Regardless, my letter wasn’t about any of that. It was about White Supremacy.

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It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker. Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool. Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker. Is it possible that these ET's are already in contact with the global elite but will not "do business" with them until humanity has one culture? Woot woot! Here is the Hardtalk interview: Personally, I am for a One World Government and I don't believe it to be as evil as ome fear. If you notice, it is mainly the US right wing that fears it, and that is a cultural thing where they wish to remian "independant" etc etc. Originally posted by Zion Mainframe A type 2 civilization controls stars, they can manipulate stars, and even use them (I'm not sure what he meant with that).

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A sneak peek at the first meeting between Ben Affleck's Nick Dunne and Rosamund Pike's Amy is among the new footage in the trailer. A new trailer for "Gone Girl" has been available for viewing online after being premiered at the 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards. It features new footage including the first meeting between Ben Affleck's Nick Dunne and Rosamund Pike's Amy. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick reports that Amy has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did he kill his wife? Directed by David Fincher, the adaptation of Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel of the same name is set to open at New York Film Festival that will kick off September 26 before the film hits U.S. theaters on October 3. Tyler Perry and Neil Patrick Harris are among the cast members.

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2009 Midwinter Meeting ALCTS Symposia at the 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting, Denver, CO Implementing an Institutional Repository: Benefits and Challenges Sponsored by Berkeley Electronic Press Institutional repositories allow libraries to acquire, maintain, and preserve scholarly and other material of lasting value to the institution. This session will review the challenges, pitfalls and promises of establishing and supporting institutional repositories so that attendees can make informed decisions. Many libraries have joined the movement to create an institutional repository, providing a mechanism to acquire, maintain, and preserve scholarly and other material of lasting value to the institution. The presentations will focus on the challenges, pitfalls and promises of establishing and supporting institutional repositories. A discussion of the legal and access issues as well as various IR platforms and models will allow attendees to make informed decisions regarding the introduction of an institutional repository. Speakers & Presentations |Moving from a Hosted to a Local IR Platform: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly||Bob Gerrity| |Open Access and Digital Copyright||Georgia Harper| |IRs: The Promises of Yesterday and Tomorrow||Greg Tananbaum| |Constructing Consortial Digital Repository Services||Jessica Branco Colati| |Early Implementation Work for IR Management: Sifting Through Choices for an Emerging Area of Service||Leah Vanderjagt| |To Host or Not to Host, or, Decisions Along the Way to a Successful Hosted Repository Solution||Marilyn Billings| Breaking Down the Silos: Planning for Discovery Tools for Library 2.0 Your patrons want an integrated, intuitive, interactive discovery experience. You want to optimize resource discovery for them. Much of our information resides in separate silos and many companies offer products that deliver an integrated experience. How can libraries evaluate the options: next generation catalog interfaces, federated search engines, link resolvers? How do they get the best fit? Sponsored by Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Speakers & Presentation Abstracts |How Do you Know What Your Users Want?||Kristin Antelman| |Next Generation Library Interfaces: Open Source||Marshall Breeding| |Link Resolvers: Reality Check||Jill Grogg| |Metasearch Options||Roy Tennant| |Silos, Haystacks, and Beaver Dams: The Landscape of Information Flow||Robert Wolven|

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...Tutoring for many years has afforded me the opportunity to go through most of the available material, and I have pinpointed the techniques and strategies that work most effectively on each question type. In a conventional classroom setting, many students are unable to keep up with the pace of th... New York, NYView Tutor I have been helping my fellow students informally since the start of high school. After graduating from MIT I feel like I can continue to assist others with a desire to learn and excel. I understand that some, if not many, students benefit greatly from a more one-on-one learning approach and I loo... Neptune, NJView Tutor ...My undergraduate education included a class in ordinary differential equations and differential equations used in my Calculus classes. I have a BA in Mathematics and an MS in Statistics from Rutgers University. With my MS degree, I had a concentration in biostatistics including: Biostats I - O... Kendall Park, NJView Tutor ...I have experience teaching the GRE. Many students dread the SAT Reading section because they find it confusing. What many students don't realize is that SAT Reading requires a new type of reading: They cannot approach SAT passages like they would a Harry Potter novel. Teaneck, NJView Tutor ...I truly enjoy seeing the light bulb go on over their heads when we are able to make a breakthrough. Over the past few years, I have tutored students within WMTPS and the Kinnelon school system. I taught mathematics at Palm Beach Community College where I also privately tutored students as well. West Milford, NJView Tutor

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i really need your opinions or suggestions on what i suppose to do with the problem of mine. here it goes: i used a 9300 previously for 1 year and using d PC Suite to transfer files etc and it installed from another phone of mine which was 6680. it worked well with my 9300 (im really sorry i couldnt remember what version that was). not until yesterday when i got myself a new 9300i. traded in with my old 9300. before handing over the phone i backed up the whole data worth 140MB using the PC suite. now the problem im facing is that i could not restore back the data from the 9300 to my new 9300i due to the different file format. the backup file was saved as .NFB file where the new pc suite (couldnt use the cd i got in the package so i downloaded from nokia site) can only detect .NCC file. how do i deal with this? i dont have any idea at all since im not really a tech-savvy person.. i feel like fainting as ALL of my contacts, messages etc are in there. appreciate if u guys cud guide me on this..is there anyway to convert the file into .NCC or is there is any traditional way to solve this (cut n paste etc)

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Camp Lohman, one of Allohak Council’ primitive Boy Scout Camps, is located on Athens Township Road 635 (T-635). The camp is covered with hills and mature woods and is very quite. There is a lot of wildlife to be seen. Turkey, White Tail Deer, Gray and Fox Squirrels, Box Turtles, Fence Lizards, Salamanders and many others. There are moss covered rocks and rock out-crops. The Camp is 33.7 acres in size and is located on T-635 between Bean Hollow Road and Peach Ridge Road. The best way to Camp Lohman is to exit onto Ohio State Route 550 from US Route 33 (take West Exit 33 turn right; East exit 33 turn left). Travel approximately 2 miles and watch for a church on the right, which is on the corner of State Route 550 and Bean Hollow Road. Turn right onto Bean Hollow Road and travel approximately one half mile and turn right onto Township Road 635 (gravel). Continue approximately two tenths of a mile and you will see Camp Lohman’s red gate and parking area on the right. There is a gravel drive approximately 300 feet long on the other side of the locked gate. If you want to park inside the gated area, check with the Allohak Council’s office. Camping is permitted anywhere on the camp property. There is an area approximately 1070 feet from the gate that is good for large groups to camp. The trail to the camping area is mostly flat and easy walking (marked in yellow). There is also a hiking trail marked in green paint that takes about an hour to hike. The trailhead is located about 40 feet from the gate on the right. First time hikers should turn left on the trailhead. The trail has a long down-hill slope on the north end. Water is not available on the property and an old “Kybo” (no roof or door) is located about 350 feet from the gate off the green trail’s left. Make sure you wear proper footwear while hiking at Camp Lohman. An old fence can be seen along parts of the property boundary. Click on the image for a PDF version of the map To use this area please contact the council office: 1340 Juliana Street Parkersburg, WV 26101-3902 Toll Free: 800.654.5272 Hours: M-F 8am – 5pm

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Flutist Kaylee Tanner, an AHS sophomore, was among dozens of local students who contributed their musical gifts toward the kickoff of Christmas season 2010 in Anacortes. See previous Gallery images, plus images in “Activities” section for scenes from weekend events. Photos are available for use as prints and online use. Please contact me for pricing. $12 for 5 X 7 inch archival print, mailing included. All Photos are © Steve Berentson. All rights reserved. Browse by Date Browse by TagAnacortes anthony's arch Baker beach boat bridge cap Cap Sante causland chamber Christmas city Commercial dakota deception pass derby downtown eagle fall ferry festival garden Guemes Island heron Hospital Island lady majestic marina maxwell memorial parade park Port sailboat salvation Santa sante Seafarers shell snow tesoro washington waterfront

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AutoAnything.tv is your trusted source for the best automotive videos from around the web. Get DIY install tips, hear exhaust sounds, check out our featured rides and more. Watch Now. Volvo C30 Lights Brighten up the path before you and throw a little more light on those who follow, with the latest in Volvo C30 automotive lights. From halogen Volvo C30 lights that illuminate the deepest, darkest nights to Euro and sport C30 lights that add racetrack edge, we've got the full C30 light spectrum covered. For further street cred, we have LED Volvo C30 lights for your back end or undercarriage that give great glow and "Fast and Furious" flash. At AutoAnything, we have the best price on any C30 light out there, backed up by our exclusive 1-year lower price guarantee. Have a Question? Have a Question?Ask a product expert!(800) 874-8888Live Chat Sometimes bad things happen to good Volvo C30 automotive lights. If you have a C30 headlight that met its match with a shopping cart gone mad or a skipped rock with impeccable aim, we have the exact aftermarket match, precision fit to your make, model and year, at a much better price than at the dealership. We have the best in C30 lighting options from the best names in the business, like Anzo and IPCW. Plus, just like 99 percent of our auto accessories, all Volvo C30 automotive lights ship straight from our factory shelves to your doorstep, fast and absolutely free.

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Guest Author - Letta Meinen The Golf Digest is always full of golfing tips, lessons, suggestions, pictures, exercise and ways to improve your game. The one of the best tips I felt says it all was from Ben Hogan to Chuck Cook, “if it is to be, it is up to me”. Chuck says he never forgot that and so if it is up to me that mean’s I have to learn and practice to improve. As many of the teachers will tell you not all tips and instructions works for everyone. People are different with different talents and personality to the game of golf. An interesting article called “The 50 Greatest Teachers Tee Off?” states a simple question and four different teachers give their views. The first question was ‘Should you chip with one club or change clubs’. The four teachers view on this is varied from one club you feel comfortable with or several if it depends on pin placement. The one teacher says if you practice with one club for different pin placements it becomes the club you can depend on in many difficult situations. By changing the degree of loft to your one club will give you a variety of success. Other teachers suggest two clubs from Pitching wedge to Sand wedge and #8 iron for a chip and run shot. Second question was “Why do Golfers Miss Short Putts?” with four different teachers with their opinion. The main reason was eye movement as they are anxious to see the ball drop in the hole. By taking their eye off the back of the ball as one teacher called it ‘darting eyes’ as it makes it more tempting to peek. All eye movement will cause several errors and missed putts. They also suggestion an error is taking the putter too far back and decelerate through the ball is always a chance for a missed short putt. Third question is “Do the Hands and Arms or Body Drive the Swing?” there was mixed responses to this question. One said that if the arms and hands move in the right arc the body will follow. He says it doesn’t work the reverse way, while another teacher said they teach more body sequence like hips, shoulders and arms. Hank Haney says he will take both sides as both things are important. It depends on the player as some swing with a hook and others with a slice stance so each player is different. Fourth question is “What’s the Most Common Fault?” and here they vary again as some say the grip, alignment, trying to hit the ball instead of a swinging motion or the shaft passing the left arm before impact. Mike Bender who I rode with in a golf tournament in Iowa says players align themselves 30-40 yards right of their target. Another teacher said that the grip that is too weak or too much in the palm of their hand makes for bad shots. The final Fifth question is “What’s your Opinion of Stack & Tilt”? They included an explanation of the Stack & Tilt swing as I had never heard of this. It was featured in their Golf Digest June issue which I skipped over. It is to swing in a single-axis motion with no shift to the right in the backswing. It was interesting to read the different teachers view point on this. First they don’t think there is one system for all golfers. Jim Hardy describes this in one of his books. After reading all the responses it describes it best as it is popular for young players with more flexibility and strength. Some say you can’t hit a ball solid if you keep the body still and it sounds like a reverse pivot which does not sound like good advice. So much for several golf teachers opinion of the many question amateurs want answered. A true golfer is always looking for ways to improve their game and make it more challenging and lower their score. That is the beauty of this game there are always ways to improve with a good attitude, healthy diet, practice and great help from the professional golfing instructors. Pick up the Golf Digest any month and you can find many ways to improve your golf game.

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Kareena’s friends, family practice for her sangeet Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan’s wedding is round the corner and friends and family are preparing for the great event. As we keep you updating about the preparation of the royal wedding, the latest update about the preparation is that Kareena’s friends and family practice for her sangeet which will be held on 14th October. The wedding will be on 16th October followed by a grand reception in two phases in Delhi and Pataudi. Sanjay and Maheep Kapoor, Karisma Kapur, Malika Arora Khan and Amrita Arora, Shakeel Ladak and Tusshar Kapoor and some others will shake a leg at Bebo’s sangeet. It is also heard that ace filmmaker and very good friend of Kareena, Karan Johar will also do some latkas and jhatkas but since he is busy in promoting his film, ‘Student Of The Year’, he can’t come regularly for the practice session. In the meanwhile, Saif has flown to Paris for some personal work and the bride to be Bebo is shuttling between Mumbai, Hyderabad and Delhi to complete her last minute commitments. Kareena Kapoor will be wearing Sharmila Tagore’s wedding outfit and the other attires for the wedding will be designed by Manish Malhotra. Saif and Kareena will enter into matrimony on October 16th after dating for 5 years. The couple will be heading to London in December for honeymoon. Kareena will continue acting post marriage and she will start shooting for Prakash Jha's 'Satyagraha' in January.

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Police in southern Mexico say assailants have burned another delivery truck of a PepsiCo-owned Mexican snack company, hours after a drug cartel claimed responsibility for last week's arson attacks against the company. A crime report by police in Michoacan state says a truck belonging to the Sabritas snack company was torched with gasoline bombs on a rural highway late Thursday. The attackers fled the scene. Earlier Thursday, the cult-like Knights Templar drug cartel hung banners in one Michoacan city claiming credit for firebombing five Sabritas distribution centers last week. Dozens of trucks were burned in those attacks. The banners accused Sabritas of allowing law-enforcement agents to use its trucks for transport and surveillance. Additional Related Source: Drug cartel claims snack company help police spy on them

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Today is National Unfriend Day, according to Jimmy Kimmel. It's day to rejoice in "[cutting] out some of the friend fat in your life." It's a day where you don't need to feel guilty about unfriending somebody on Facebook, the world's largest social network. But you should be unfriending people every so often. Not just on "Unfriend Day." The fact is, the amount of friends you have on Facebook is inversely proportional to the amount of relevancy any given News Feed story can have to you. "Friend Clutter" makes Facebook less useful, and there's no denying that. I don't know anyone who has actually spent the time to engage Facebook's useful Lists feature to organize important friends into a separate news feed. People who like to complain about Facebook often cite annoying updates from people they don't care about. You're not doing these high school classmates a favor by keeping them as "friends." Sure, the act of unfriending (and that big red button, pictured here) seems sinister and malicious, but it's not. Little do you know that those you're considering unfriending might be thinking the same thing about you. Companies like Path are built around the idea that it's actually impossible to keep in touch with that many people. Path is a separate news feed of important friends. When Path, a social app for iPhone launched, it only let you have 50 friends. Where Path is wrong is in assuming that the definition of "keeping in touch" isn't changing all the time. People have Twitter friends they've never met in person, but have a deep online back and forth with. People have Facebook friends they get back in touch with after not speaking to for years. It's up to you to decide if someone has truly exited your life, or if they're worth keeping around, as much as they may soil your news feed. But in today's day and age, an "unfriend" isn't as harmful as you might think. You're just doing spring cleaning, but in a new kind of way. If we're Facebook friends and we don't really know each other, unfriend me. I won't hold it against you. And if we someday bump into each other again, we can become friends once again.

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and Performance Parts and Accessories 1973 Nova / Chevy II Parts - VHS Classic Industries has provided restoration and performance parts for the timeless 1973 Chevy II / Nova . Whether you're in need of interior parts and soft trim, exterior sheet metal, moldings, emblems, weatherstrip and unique accessories, Classic Industries has what you need for your 1973 Chevy II / Nova . Check out one of the hottest lineups of killer Pro-Street Competitors as they slug it out in a bare knuckle bIoody brawl to see who takes home the crown and the check. Featuring the top gun test pilot Mike Moran and his new... GRAND PRIX is John Frankenheimer's film about the nine-leg world championship of Formula 1 auto racing, and stars James Garner as driver Pete Aron. Run Time: 2 hours, 56 minutes.

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This week we review a true treat, a real dessert coffee that is as exotic as it is delicious. New York Coffee Tahitian Vanilla flavored coffee is a coffee that you will want to share with a friend, show off at the office, or that may be so good that you will want to keep it all to yourself. You might be wondering what makes a vanilla flavored coffee so special. New York Coffee’s Tahitian Vanilla flavored coffee beans are flavored with Tahitian vanilla. Tahitian vanilla is actually an entirely different species of the vanilla bean-bearing plant that makes up most vanilla extract. The extract of Tahitian vanilla has an entirely different taste, one that is rapidly growing in popularity with dessert chefs the world over. New York Coffee Tahitian Vanilla Flavored Coffee Cup Experience New York Coffee Tahitian vanilla coffee smells wonderful before brewing, during brewing, and in the cup. It has a heady aroma that blends the roasty medium roast coffee aroma of New York Coffee with the heady fragrance of Tahitian vanilla, a sweet, almost floral smell. In the cup, the hint of vanilla, perhaps some sweet cherry blossom, can be detected under the coffee aroma. That cherry blossom bears fruit on the palate. This vanilla is sweeter and hearkens to fructose, natural fruit sugars. It adds a vanilla smoothness and a natural sweetness to this medium roast coffee. It takes to sweetening well, enhancing the Tahitian vanilla, and a bit of cream puts accent on the more traditional vanilla notes. A clean, sweet aftertaste lingers in the end, making this coffee an excellent closer for a meal. For those unfamiliar with Tahitian vanilla, this coffee is a great introduction to a gourmet taste that is growing in popularity. Compare it to New York Coffee Classic Vanilla flavored coffee and savor the differences.

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Created in this Craftsy class Make your knitting more efficient, comfortable and beautiful as you master six valuable methods and styles. Offer some kudos... Join the conversation... Ask a question... Add your comment... |Here are some details about my project:| What materials did you use? Can your personal knitting set-up be home decor? I argue yes! From the precious bookshelf space you rearrange to hold your growing, colourful, multi-textured stash, to the yarn bowl made from tupperware and a stationery clip that sits camouflaged on the kitchen table. I favour "picking" and yes, I knit in bed. I'm a left-side gal. You see the problem here... This way, I can maintain tension and control feed from the nightstand to my left with items I had at home anyway! As I want to add other methods and styles to my bag of tricks, the clip can/will be repurposed for Portuguese. What are you most proud of? Knitting hit me like a bolt of lightning in late February 2014. This is what happens when adjustments are made on the fly for cheap to accommodate an apartment-living zealous convert (I'll be adding photos to this "project" as more mods are made) What advice would you give someone starting this project? Don't get derailed thinking you need a hand-made ceramic yarn bowl for ?30 or a crafting room/table. Or addi turbos. These are all perfectly nice things and understandable aims, but I think of knitting and the joy it brings as an equaliser. I try to think of ways I can do more, not reasons why I have to wait to get around to it/afford it. The finer things will come, but for now my acrylics, polyesters, bamboo, and tupperware are having a whale of a time! (and I'm prioritising new Craftsy courses and skill-building!)

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The Reds can move to within a point of leaders Chelsea if they see off struggling Sunderland. Rodgers said: "We're really looking forward to playing at Anfield now on Wednesday night. It's a big game for us. "Hopefully the supporters can really get behind the team well before kick-off, get the atmosphere revved up for the game and we'll look to continue on this great run. "As you can see, we believe we can perform well and get results. "Cardiff was the fourth away game on the spin that we've won and we've played three games on the bounce away from home - Southampton, Manchester United and now at Cardiff. "We ended up with six goals [against Cardiff] - arguably we could have had one or two more. "But it was a wonderful demonstration of our mentality, resilience and our strength mentally. It was another demonstration of our offensive power."

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Source: Yahoo News quote: These are good jobs with good benefits that you don't pay for if you don't want to. quote: Despite what people are telling you, Americans shouldn't have to work in THIS country for Chinese wages. quote: The only thing that keeps UPS and Fed Ex prices anything close to reasonable is the fact that you have USPS to compete with them. If USPS disappears, see what it costs you to ship something. quote: quote: The only thing that keeps UPS and Fed Ex prices anything close to reasonable is the fact that you have USPS to compete with them. If USPS disappears, see what it costs you to ship something. It will pretty much cost you the same price as now for packages. Maybe even better than the USPS since the USPS is currently running as a monopoly (budget level shipping). UPS, FedEx and DHL are all competing against each other for most of their business. The USPS has a stranglehold on plain old letters. quote: Its not the job of the tax payer to keep people employed at good wages and benefits. quote: The entire budget for USPS is paid for by revenue from stamps and other postal services. They don't need to make a profit, and as a matter of fact, they aren't supposed to. quote: First-class mail is currently delivered to homes and businesses within one to three days in the continental U.S. Forty-two percent of first-class mail arrives the following day while 27 percent arrives in two days and 31 percent arrives in three days. Less than 1 percent arrives in four to five days. quote: Oh wait, YOU rounded that "less than 1 percent" up when you shouldn't have. quote: Are you serious?! Social Security is not a retirement plan quote: ...then we can all die happy capitalists at the ripe old age of 30 from our cars spontaneously exploding when a shopping cart dings it ... quote: I myself worked for the state of Ohio for 3 years.. I paid 100% of my quote: Exactly what will happen in coming years to Social Security and federal pension systems.

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One person died in a crash yesterday morning in Madison County that shut down one northbound lane of I-71 for several hours. James A. Matthews, 64, of Canton, died when his 2002 Ford Explorer flipped onto its top in the median just before 7 a.m. He was ejected from the SUV and died at the scene, troopers from the West Jefferson Post of the State Highway Patrol said. Matthews had been wearing a seat belt, the patrol said. The crash happened south of Rt. 56. Ice and snow was reported on the roadways, but the patrol said weather did not seem to be a factor in the crash.

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Twitter Bootstrap Workshop - Introduction Twitter Bootstrap Workshop is a tutorial session of how to use, implement and customize the Twitter framework to your web 2.0 projects. This frameworks allows your web projects to look great with minimum of effort and it has nifty features that enhance your app's user experience. We will be creating a layout for a web app that helps people to search for bachelor apartments in the city of Toronto using Twitter Bootstrap. Twitter Bootstrap Workshop is provided for free by Hacklab.TO. Chim Kan is an entrepreneur, web developer and member of Hacklab.to, a Toronto-based hacker space. He is an evangelist of Twitter Bootstrap and Ruby on Rails, freelance developer and gives workshops in web development. Before that, he worked for Google as Product Specialist in Adwords, and in many other internet companies. He has an MBA from Ivey. Learn More: Twitter Bootstrap Workshop Introduction

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NMSurf, a wireless ISP covering about 500,000 homes in New Mexico, is currently at odds with Santa Fe over building a communications tower without a proper permit from the city. The FCC has asked executives for Dish Network and Tribune Media to file reports outlining their respective positions in a five-week broadcast retransmission battle that has seen 42 Tribune stations in 33 markets blacked out on the satellite TV operator's service. Amazon executives met with FCC officials last week to discuss the pay-TV industry's alternative proposal to the agency's "Unlock the Box" NPRM. While the ink is still drying on the FCC's 278-page order on Spectrum Frontiers, it's worth taking special note of this moment in time – one that has been compared to the magnitude of releasing the 1900 MHz PCS band spectrum in the 1990s. Prior to last week's unanimous FCC vote to open up vast amounts of millimeter wave spectrum for 5G, Qualcomm had all kinds of suggestions for how it should be implemented. But the day after the historic vote, it was more interested in savoring the moment. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland.) has joined the chorus of Congressional lawmakers asking FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to step back from his proposal to overhaul the leased pay-TV set-top business. ViaSat, which had argued for greater satellite protections prior to the FCC's unanimous passage of the historic Spectrum Frontiers order last week, said it believes the order provides an approach that gives satellite operators the ability to operate and expand alongside terrestrial wireless networks. While the Wi-Fi Alliance has taken plenty of heat for not moving fast enough on the LTE-U/Wi-Fi Coexistence Test Plan, Broadcom is reminding FCC staff that indeed, the program is proceeding at a faster pace than the typical Wi-Fi Alliance program. The spectrum auction that some have hoped might change the landscape of the U.S. wireless industry may not be all that disruptive after all. A free-market think tank argues that Sprint and other smaller players will gain an unfair advantage if the FCC enacts its proposed rules on the special access market.

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Prep 30 mins Cook 30 mins Pistachio Cupcakes with Maraschino Cherry Italian Buttercream - 1⁄2 cup shortening - 1⁄2 cup white sugar - 4 egg yolks - 3⁄4 cup milk - 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract - 1 cup cake flour - 1 teaspoon baking powder - 1⁄2 teaspoon salt - 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package instant pistachio pudding mix - 1⁄2 cup sugar - 1⁄2 cup maraschino cherry juice - 4 egg whites - 2 cups butter, at room temperature - 2 teaspoons vanilla extract - 10 ounces maraschino cherries, patted dry and minced - Preheat ovento 350 degrees F. Line cupcake tin. Sift together the flour, baking powder,salt and instant pudding mix. Set aside. - In a largebowl, cream together the shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat inthe egg yolks one at a time, and then stir in the vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the milk, mixing just until incorporated. Pour batter into prepared tins. - Bake in thepreheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until tops spring back when lightlytapped. Cool 15 minutes before turning out onto cooling racks. - For Maraschio cherry Italian Buttercream. - Combine the maraschino cherry juice and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring the mixture to aboil, stirring occasionally. Once it boils, stop stirring and insert a candy thermometer. - Meanwhile,whip the egg whites in the bowl of a stand mixture to soft peaks. When the cherrysugar is at 238 degrees, add it to the egg whites in a slow steady stream withthe mixer on medium speed. - Increase thespeed to high and beat until cooled to room temperature. - Add thebutter a few tablespoons at a time, while continuing to mix on medium highspeed. Add the vanilla. Increase the speed to high and beat until smooth. Stir in minced maraschino cherries.

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The back 9 on Sunday at the Masters is usually one of the most exciting stretches in sports. If you play golf, you will experience times when you aren't playing your best. It happens to everyone, even the best players in the world. Tiger Woods clearly has a strong familiarity with Bay Hill. Everyone wants to enjoy their days and have success on the golf course, and hitting more fairways off the tee is one key to shooting lower scores.

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7:19pm PT by Lauren Savage, Billboard Mary J. Blige Testifies for Burger King Chicken In New Commercial (Video) Jay-Z isn't the only musician making news for a commercial appearance this week: None other than the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige, is the star of Burger King's latest ad for chicken snack wraps. "Crispy chicken, fresh lettuce, three cheeses, ranch dressing wrapped up in a tasty, flour tortilla," Mary passionately sings in the 30-second spot. Fans may be surprised to see the R&B diva, who usually belts out tunes on everything from heartbreak to survival, sing her heart out for chicken. But Blige is only one of many celebrities-including Salma Hayek, David Beckham and Jay Leno-featured in several new Burger King commercials. It's all part of a big move by the fast food chain, which was recently surpassed by Wendy's as the No. 2 hamburger chain in terms of sales. In addition to a series of star-studded ads, the company's expanded menu premiered Monday. As is the case with many Universal artists, many of the YouTube videos of the spot had been removed on copyright grounds by late Monday. And by Tuesday, at least one parody video had appeared on the site.

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Published on February 15th, 2012 | by Nathan Kennedy2 Confessions of a Spiritual Insomniac I’m a chronic insomniac. There’s a lot to that statement beyond my not being able to sleep at night—insights into my temperament and psychological composition, and, if you pay close enough attention, explanations as to why I’m largely sardonic in relation to topics of an over-arching and weighty nature. Really, how is an insomniac supposed to react to an endless barrage of calls to “wake up” because of this or that issue? It’s like telling a fish to take a bath. Believe me, I’ve heard plenty of calls to “wake up” these last few weeks. Google+, Facebook, my inbox, and all of my real-world social interactions seem to revolve around one issue at the moment. Don’t play coy; you know what issue I’m talking about. And immediately before that, there was the public fiasco about that one organization who started having doubts about their long-term steady relationship with that other organization because that other organization was not the kind of organization that that she was hoping he would be, and how after great heartache they ultimately decided it would be best to keep the relationship going for the good of the screaming activist children….You can’t make up a soap opera like that. We sure do follow these story lines and character arcs quite closely. The issues seem to justify our undivided attention. We are, after all, endeavoring to discuss matters of life and death, justice and injustice, conscience and coercion, and the very foundations of a free society and our place within it. We need few additional reminders to tell us that the stakes are high and life itself is on the line. Rome is burning and we have no time to fiddle around. We’ll write our congressmen, sign petitions, engage in discussions with our peers and online, blog about it, attend protests, spend every online moment reading articles and watching videos about it, and make it as sure as the grass is green that we won’t vote for [insert name of soulless politician here]. But at some point—and this point is different for every person—the issue must be, like every major difficulty in life or plot-thickening suspense-creating device in a daytime serial, handed over in prayer with the abandonment and surrender of knowing that God or the author is in control, and that our power is extremely limited. We, quite simply, need the serenity to accept the things we cannot change. Lying awake at night on a consistent basis since childhood teaches me a lot about that serenity. My insomnia arises from one of two mechanisms: one is having racing thoughts related to any particular anxiety or circumstance, and the other is hitting my creative and productive peak after sundown. The former is like trying to sleep in a burning building; the latter is like trying to sleep with a screaming infant in the other room. In either case, I feel compelled to move, to act, to change things, to get things done. I need to write another page or stanza while I have this section finally figured out, to fix that awkward chord progression with this bright new idea, or to read a book that’s been vying for my attention. On the flip side, I need to mend a friendship before it breaks, to apologize to someone for a snide remark I made that hurt them (but they didn’t say anything so I didn’t notice it at the time and just now realized it), or to figure out what I’m going to do about this particular problem or that specific issue. I can’t do anything, so why do I worry? I tell myself that it’s because I want to actually fix the problem, and that it’s irresponsible of me not do anything about it. Not being able to do anything about it, I somehow think that worrying is necessary, or somehow more just. At bottom, however, the root of all this unrest is the compulsion to act devoid of any available course of action. I must attend to the issue at hand, and that issue is sleeping. Each night during the Office of Compline, the Church prays, “Protect us, Lord, as we stay awake; watch over us as we sleep, that awake we may keep watch with Christ and asleep rest in his peace.” The nightly ritual of prayer and sleep contains within it a humble, implicit realization that each night of sleep is a rehearsal for death. We must approach it with the tranquil realization that God presides over the course of our life when we least have control—when we are most dormant, facile, and incapacitated. Death is the ultimate incapacitation, and sleep is the incapacitation built into our lives to prepare us for that final step into death. In the same way that the moment of death requires a surrender to the loving mercy of God, sleep is a nightly mechanism that makes it possible for us to continually pray, “I surrender”. The danger of constant anxiety, of constant compulsion to act even when absent a suitable ability to act, betrays the truest need of the human heart when faced with the stresses and evils of a fallen world. Amid our constant calls of “Wake up!” and “Don’t just stand there, do something!”, we miss the very real call to peace given to us by the very Gospel itself. Imagine the inner peace needed to see an evil, to know the compulsion to address it, while saying to yourself, “This is not the time or the place. I am ill equipped and incompetent here. God will provide.” God called David to slay the giant Goliath, but he also refused to settle the money dispute between two brothers, and at another point answered the Pharisees and Sadducees with “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and render unto God the things that are God’s”. No, we don’t turn a blind eye. We don’t fall into inaction and complacency. We simply refuse to fall into the trap of saying that all that’s needed is action. “Sleep child, for tomorrow is a new day.” “Don’t just do something, stand there!” Since a great bulk of our worries and anxieties seem to process from the public square these days, we must realize more deeply than ever that we can never do one bit of good at bringing the world to peace if we ourselves are not at peace. Really, I could analyze these weighty matters of great consequence without end. I could discuss the Church’s teaching on the primacy of conscience and what it truly means; I could analyze the structure of this filthy, rotten system that perpetuates injustice in countless forms; I could weigh the moral implications of voting for Candidate R, D, L, or X or conscientiously abstaining from voting altogether; I could compare and contrast Catholic pacifism with Just War Teaching and find a position somewhere within either of them; I could offer a critique of modernity, the nation-state, and Liberal Democracy and what it means for the Church to be “resident aliens” within them. Neither of these topics would do one bit of good for us or for the world, though, if not engaged with peacefully, in the tranquility and serenity of a heart made calm through the love of and trust in God. That’s the great challenge of our revolution, making peace break out first in ourselves, and second in each and every individual heart. But let us once again hold to mind, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and render unto God the things that are God’s.” The specific question was of taxation, but within his response, Christ sheds light on every question of Church and State relations that will ever arise. When Caesar oversteps his bounds and assumes the things that are God’s, and he pompously asserts his weight and authority over these matters like a bratty child declaring himself the king of the sandbox, what recourse do we have to this injustice? Yes, we act. We do what is in our power to seek justice, and we do so without compromise and without ambiguity. But to Mr. King O’ the Sandbox, we can simply carry on life as usual, deaf and disobedient to his arrogations, and if we have to, point a mocking finger and ask, “Who made you King?” [Image courtesy of ewanr at photoree.com]

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I was in Tucson that day to thank Gabby Giffords for voting for the affordable healthcare act. I was the last one in line waiting to speak to her when the shooting started. The woman next to me was the last one shot before Jared Loughner ran out of bullets – when his gun jammed it gave Roger Salzgeber and Bill Badger a moment to attack him. I had got down on the pavement to protect myself and they knocked him down on top of me. I was able to get the third magazine out of his hands before he put it in the gun and to hold on to his legs until the police came. I’m angry at what happened in the Senate on Wednesday, and as we were leaving I shouted out “shame on you”. I don’t hold a grudge against the people who escorted me from the building – I was treated very well and I understand they were just doing their jobs. But this is not the end. We are going to continue working hard for gun control – the NRA and the gun lobby will not win. We will be working to get legislation enacted – and we will be working to rid our Congress of those senators who voted against the bill. They are an embarrassment to our country, they don’t have any compassion. In my opinion, the NRA is not interested in gun safety and in gun education like it used to be. I think they are interested in selling guns and making money and that is all. I would like to thank President Obama for his hard work and for promoting this legislation. I would love this to be his legacy – making America a safer place.Reuse content

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The community is invited on Friday, Sept. 26, to celebrate Rowland High School’s 50th anniversary with a fun-filled jubilee! With a bow to its beginnings when Rowland was a small community where students were just as likely to ride a horse to school as drive a car, the 50th Jubilee will boast a good ole’ fashioned Country/Western theme. Everyone is invited: alumni, students, parents, faculty/staff (past and present), and community members. The campus will be filled with activities such as food booths to tantalize a variety of tastes, game booths, entertainment, a trip down memory lane, and tours of the new modernized facilities will begin at 3:15 p.m. Afterwards everybody is invited to the stadium to cheer the Rowland Raiders football team on to victory at 7 p.m. Rowland High School Principal Mitch Brunyer is in charge of the volunteer committee. “Being a lifelong Raider as a student, teacher, and now principal of the school, I am very proud of its history and traditions. I look forward to highlighting the school and its connection to the community – we hope everyone can help support and attend this community event!” COMMUNITY SUPPORT NEEDED: Please help with this gala by donating funds and/or goods. All contributions are tax-deductible. Banners are available for purchase ($250-$1,000) for display outside the Rowland High School Tom Aney Stadium for the entire school year.Contact ASB Director Leslie Phillips at (626)965-3448 ext. 3323 email@example.com. For more information visit www.rowlandhs.org FOOD & DRINK ITEMS IN NEED SAMPLE OF OTHER ITEMS |Water bottles||Toys & giveaways for game booths| |Hot dogs/Hot dog buns |Paint (cans of red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, black, and white)| |Condiments||Brushes, Rollers, & Paint Trays| |Soda, lemonade, ice tea||Plywood| |Individual bags of chips||Poles/logs for hitching post & directional signs| |Fruit or Fruit Trays||Tall metal stakes to hang lanterns| |Veggie Trays||Hay bales| |Rolls of Blue & white checkered tablecovers||Plastic Sleeves for Scrapbooking| |Paper Plates & Napkins||Adhesive (Tombow) for Scrapbooking Pictures| |Napkins & Silverware (Clear Plastic)||Picture Canvas/Framed/Acid Free Pen| |Troughs for ice/drink storage||Mannequins, scarecrows/t-type poles to display| |Any Country Western Items/Style Decor||2 x 4 – 20 ft. STD/BRT Premium Doug Fir (need 6)| |Old Wagon Wheels||2 x 4 – 12 ft. STD/BRT Premium Doug Fir (need 28)| |Fake Horses for hitching post||2 x 4 – 16 ft. STD/BTR Premium Doug Fir (need 21)| |Wine barrels to use for tables| |Electrical spools for tables|

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A Fan Convention Through the Eyes of a Single Cosplayer Jimmy Sherfy, second from left, as Link with a Legend of Zelda cosplay group Over Fourth of July Weekend, Anime Expo brought in 61,000 fans to the Los Angeles Convention (the turnstile numbers were over 161,000, including repeated visits). Like a lot of other fan conventions in the U.S., Anime Expo is experiencing a surge in attendance. As attention on such events grows, so is the focus on the costumes. Cosplayers, fans who dress up as pop culture figures, have become the stars of the convention circuits. Their eye-catching outfits are photographed by fellow fans, as well as the press. Some cosplayers, like Yaya Han, who we featured in last year's Anime Expo coverage, have achieved something akin to celebrity status on the convention circuit. Plenty of others, who might not be as well known, have turned their love of costumes into business ventures. This year at Anime Expo, I followed Jimmy Sherfy, a San Diego-based cosplayer who is an Anime Expo regular. During the course of four days, Sherfy provided a glimpse of what it's like to be a cosplayer attending one of the most popular conventions in the country. Sherfy as Lady Oscar Thursday: Retro Anime, Rose of Versailles Style It's getting late in the afternoon on the first day of Anime Expo and Sherfy is hanging out in the intensely crowded lobby of Los Angeles Convention Center's South Hall. Sherfy has been here for at least an hour, maybe closer to two. He hasn't gotten a convention badge yet -- the lines are still too long. In a little bit, he'll queue up for a pass that grants access only for the convention's exhibit hall. While there, he'll be on a search for a prop sword to use tomorrow. Right now, though, he's standing in the lobby, amidst the crowd, as his boyfriend, a cosplayer who goes by the name Nintentoys, poses for photo after photo. Nintentoys is dressed as Mario, and he put together a superb rendition of the famed video game character. He's also hanging out with someone dressed as Princess Peach. The folks with the cameras -- just about everyone here at Anime Expo -- are loving it. Sherfy and I head outside to chat. He's dressed in a red velvet top and is wearing fake eyelashes and a long blonde wig. So far, only two people, two girls, have recognized his costume. He heard one shout "Lady Oscar!" from afar. Sherfy is dressed as the heroine of the classic anime The Rose of Versailles -- a woman dressed as a man. It's not the androgyny of the costume that's going over the attendees' heads, as genderbent costumes and crossplay are fairly common in the convention world. It's the anime series that people don't really get. Here at Anime Expo, the focus is often on the new. Inside the venue, there are hordes of fans dressed as characters from a series called Attack on Titan, something so fresh that, right now, it's only available online and with subtitles. The Rose of Versailles is one of the hallmarks of late 1970s/early 1980s anime. In anime cosplay years, that's ancient history. There are a few different ways you can categorize anime cosplays. There are the costumes from the new shows -- those that haven't had a U.S. television or DVD release yet -- that keep the less up-to-the-minute obsessives scratching their heads. There are the old standards, many of which even people outside of this community will recognize. Those are things like Sailor Moon, Pokémon and Studio Ghibli films. Then there are the retro cosplays, outfits inspired by shows that are now far removed from convention kid radar, but inspire fanatical reactions from those who catch the reference. Sherfy chose the last category. The relative obscurity of the costume doesn't matter to him. The Rose of Versailles is one of his favorite animes. Sherfy is a baby-faced 30-year-old from San Diego. He's been going to conventions since his pre-teens, but only started cosplaying a few years ago, when he and Nintentoys decided to dress up as mascot characters from Super Mario Bros. When he started going to conventions, Sherfy spent a lot of time on the convention floor beefing up his collection of Disney and anime dolls and assorted toys that date back to the 1980s. These days, his convention experiences revolve around costumes. He spends months planning the outfits. Sometimes he makes his own. Other times he pays for someone else to make it. Sherfy cosplays frequently, but Lady Oscar is the first anime-centric costume he's worn. He debuted the ensemble a few months back in San Diego, at an event called Anime Conji. He spent a pretty penny on the piece, around $300 to commission a friend to make it, excluding the price of the materials he provided. Cosplay can be expensive, particularly if you're a stickler for details that will wow the crowd. Sherfy is pretty good at capturing the crowd's attention. He doesn't make it onto the convention floor much anymore. Frequently, he's busy posing for photos with friends and strangers. While we're outside, a passerby with a camera asks if he can take a photo. He says his friends are going to "lose their shit" when they see Lady Oscar. That was, more or less, the reaction Sherfy expected today. Mission accomplished. Up next: Legend of Zelda Sherfy and Nintentoys show off their Legend of Zelda costumes. Friday: Everyone Loves Link Anime Expo is divided into two sections. There's the West Hall and Concourse of the Convention Center. That's where most of the panels and other events take place. Then there is South Hall, home to the exhibit hall, artist alley and a massive lobby that's turned into a less organized red carpet. Cosplayers make their entrances. One person asks for a photo. The cosplayer strikes a pose. All of a sudden, a crowd of people gathers, their eyes obscured by everything from iPads to snazzy professional-quality cameras. There are certain costumes that tend to get the most attention: the sexy ones, the bizarre ones and the easily recognizable ones. On Friday, the second day of Anime Expo, Sherfy switches his costume to go the familiar route. He is dressed as Link, the hero from the video game franchise Legend of Zelda. Sherfy, Nintentoys and two other friends are all channeling characters from Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages. He's carrying a small, wooden prop sword, as he couldn't find the big, foam one that he wanted inside the exhibit hall yesterday. Since there was a Nintendo cosplay meet-up earlier that day, and since the character is quite popular, Sherfy was far from the only Link in the house. Regardless, his photo was in-demand. If you want to cosplay, particularly if you want to go all-out with your costume, you have to get used to people taking your photo. Sherfy is okay with the photos, for the most part. He doesn't really like it when someone tries to snap a shot while he's eating or fixing something on his costume. Even when the photos are unflattering, though, he doesn't make a big deal out of it. If he doesn't like the image, he simply won't tag himself when he comes across it on Facebook. In recent months, there has been a lot of talk about the treatment of cosplayers at conventions. Many have complained of harassment by other attendees. Sherfy says that he hasn't had so many problems in that regard. Once in a while, he'll encounter "old creeper guys" who might make rude remarks. The year that the X-Games were going on next door to Anime Expo, people shouted towards him as he walked passed the local Hooters restaurant. Still it's not something that has become common for him. Today, the cameras pop up one after another. More often than not, people are polite about it. People tend to ask permission to take his photo. They ask often, usually offering some sort of compliment. We stop chatting so that Sherfy oblige the requests. Someone asks him to lock swords with another Link cosplayer. Sherfy agrees and the two engage in a mock battle pose outside as the afternoon crowd begin to head towards their cars. Up next: Sailor Moon Sherfy is either Alan or Fiore. Saturday: Are you Alan or Fiore? Does it matter? Like a lot of others in the anime convention scene, Sherfy is a fan of Sailor Moon, the anime and manga series that hit the U.S. in the 1990s. "I liked anime before Sailor Moon, but Sailor Moon got me addicted," he says. The thing about cosplaying characters from Sailor Moon is, though, that there aren't a whole lot of guys in the series. "Everyone is Tuxedo Mask," he says, mentioning the heroine's dashing companion. "I wanted to be a character that you don't see a lot of in general." On Saturday, Sherfy debuts his newest cosplay, taken from the Sailor Moon universe. He let the fans decide which character he was. He could be Alan, a TV series villain. He might be Fiore, from the movie The Promise of the Rose. The costumes are similar and Sherfy doesn't seem to want to ruin anyone's excitement by correcting them. This is Sherfy's most dramatic costume of the weekend and it's a complicated one. "It's not quite finished," he says. "The first time, it's never done." Still, he looks amazing in the catsuit, with skin expertly painted green and pointy ears poking out from under a wig styled by Nintentoys. Sherfy commissioned his friend, Cynthia Ramirez, to make the costume. Ramirez, who works under the name Ahza-Miracle, specializes in custom-made costumes. She spent 23 hours over the course of three days working on the stunning catsuit. The costume had its challenges. "It has to really fit the person," she explains. On the night before the convention, after Sherfy had arrived in L.A., she hand-sewed the embellishments onto the suit. Because of the body-clinging nature of the catsuit, it's not an easy piece for the cosplayer to wear. "I was a little worried about that because I don't have a really slim figure," Sherfy confesses with a chuckle. "I have to suck it in and have a little help underneath." Earlier in the day, before we met up, Sherfy stumbled into a group of Sailor Moon cosplayers. They didn't know each other, but they spent some time posing for photos together. While we're together, a lot of fans recognize Sherfy. One person asks if he's Fiore. Almost immediately after that, someone asks where Sherfy's twin was, indicating that she thinks he's Alan. It doesn't matter which character they assumed he is, they are obviously excited to see him. Sherfy isn't immune to that kind of giddiness either. A woman cosplaying another old-school anime character passes us. Sherfy hands me his phone and asks that I get a photo of the two together. At two different points in the afternoon, grown women accompanied by children stop Sherfy. In both instances, the women give their cameras to the children so that they can pose for a photo with the cosplayer. After the second woman walks away, her Sailor Moon backpack fading into the background, I have a better understanding of what was going on here in South Hall. It's not that different from Disneyland. No matter how old you are, you might still feel a rush of excitement when you catch your favorite character roaming the amusement park. This is the scene in South Hall, except that the characters are played by fellow fans instead of paid employees. People come to Anime Expo for the panels and the parties and the exhibits. However, they're also coming because, just maybe, they will see their favorite characters come to life in front of them. Up next: Wreck-It Ralph Sherfy poses with a friend as the convention winds to a close. Sunday: The "Comfy" Costume As the convention comes to a close, Sherfy is wearing one of his "comfy" costumes. He's Rancis Fluggerbutter, a character from the Sugar Rush game in Wreck-It Ralph. For the costume, Sherfy altered clothing that he bought, adding trim to a jacket, t-shirt and pants. Nintentoys made the peanut butter cup that sits on top of blonde wig. I realize that if Sherfy and I were to meet on the street out in the regular world, I might not recognize him, given all his wigs and make-up. He says that happens a lot. It happened even more often when his hair was brown. Now, he keeps it blonde, even when the wigs are off. Similarly, there are plenty of times when he doesn't recognize his fellow cosplayers. "I'll feel really bad too," he says. "That happens a lot." Sherfy tells me that his eyes are really green -- "not like a piercing green," he adds -- but he was wearing contacts during the convention. They're the circle lens contacts that cosplayers typically find online, gray on the inside, blue on the outside. He says that they make your eyes look larger. Knowing that, I might be able to pick him out of a crowd if he weren't in costume. Maybe. During the course of our interviews, Sherfy mentions a couple times that he used to be shy. After four days of watching him interact with people at the convention, that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. He's immediately friendly, chatting with strangers, reaching out to the teenage girls who ask if they can give him a hug. In recent years, he's taken an interest in performing too. While he says that he always sang, he's now looking to get into voiceover work. He also performs at parties. Two years ago, Sherfy and Nintentoys started their own company, Epic Character Parties. They provide character-based entertainment for children's birthday parties and other events. Frequently, Sherfy will portray Peter Pan or one of the Disney princes that he has cosplayed. Nintentoys has shown up as Mario. They bring in friends from across Southern California to play other characters. He estimates that about 90 percent of the performers they work with are from the cosplay community. Since some of his other cosplayer friends have launched similar businesses, he says that they will work to help out each other on various projects. Cosplaying at conventions started out as a fun hobby for Sherfy, but now it's also business. He'll save the heavy promotion for San Diego Comic-Con, he says, simply because there are more families with children at that convention. On Sunday, though, he tracks down various friends to see if they're available to work events in the coming weeks. As we prepare for the convention to end, Sherfy thinks about what's next. Once he gets home, he'll start looking for photos that people have posted online. He might connect with a few of the people he met over the weekend on Facebook. Then he has to start planning for his next batch of costumes. Sherfy keeps an inspiration folder of cosplays he wants to try over the next year or two. Right now, he wants to add to his Disney prince wardrobe, tackle a few '80s cartoon characters and maybe portray someone from the comic Elfquest. He has a few more anime costumes in mind too, maybe something from Slayers, as well as a character from Revolutionary Girl Utena. In the meantime, though, he has to get ready for San Diego Comic-Con. Get the Theater Newsletter Get a rundown of upcoming theater events and ticket deals in Los Angeles.

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In Zimbabwe ad agencies first port of call as economy stabilises – Denford Magora by Kim Penstone In advertising circles, Zimbabwe is perhaps most famous for its now defunct currency, which was glued to billboards across the country in the award-winning “Trillion Dollar” campaign for The Zimbabwean. It’s been three years since the Zimbabwean dollar was abolished and the country adopted the US dollar as its official currency, but the perception of worthlessness remains. But (to paraphrase Ford’s famous line): have you been to Zimbabwe lately? “Zimbabwe is growing, even thriving. Commercially speaking, it’s probably more stable than South Africa!” says Denford Magora, CEO of The Jupiter Drawing Room (Zimbabwe) & Partners. He speaks from direct experience, having grown TJDR (Zimbabwe) & Partners into the largest advertising agency group in the country in just one year, boasting annual revenue of over R30 million, and a blue chip client base that includes Old Mutual Zimbabwe, Zimplats, Toyota, Nando’s, Schweppes, CBZ bank, Delta Beverages (SABMiller Zimbabwe), Western Union and South African Airways. Magora, who was born and bred in Zimbabwe and has work experience in both South Africa and the UK , already owned and operated a successful agency out of Harare. But recognising the potential for growth, especially post hyperinflation which saw the demise of many global groups in the country, he approached The Jupiter Drawing Room with a partnership proposal. Today, Magora is CEO of The Jupiter Drawing Room (Zimbabwe) & Partners, which incorporates existing agency Jericho and a new agency, The Jupiter Drawing Room (Harare). Magora explains that the abolition of the Zimbabwean dollar in 2009 was like a call to arms for Zimbabweans scattered across the globe. Many of those who had left the country have returned, with international experience, determination to make the country work, and an unfaltering belief in the future of the country that was once famous for being the “breadbasket of Africa”. Zimbabwe is currently experiencing GDP growth of 5%, but Magora points out that industrial and manufacturing capacity is operating below 60%, which means that there is plenty room for growth. He adds that many companies are waiting for so-called ‘political normalisation’ before they step into Zimbabwe – “but they forget that there is a population of around 14 million people living there now, who have needs and wants.” And for the first time in a long time, real currency to spend. “Companies are making a killing right now,” he says. “One of our largest clients has a market capitalisation on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange of more than US$1 billion. Another one of our clients has, this year, their second year with us, experienced such growth in their brand that they are failing to meet demand on the market. This is after they had expanded capacity to produce by more than 100%. They still cannot meet demand. “Opportunities abound in Zimbabwe and these continue to grow.” Magora estimates that the advertising industry in Zimbabwe is worth about US$100 million. Since commercial stabilisation, brands are eager to let their audiences know that they’re still around. They’re also trying to catch up with over a decade of stagnation, even shrinkage – so it’s natural that advertising agencies would be one of their first ports of call. “We actually believe that the US$100 million figure for Zimbabwe is an underestimation, especially when you consider that brands like Econet, Zimbabwe’s largest cellphone company has an annual advertising budget of US$12 million,” says Magora. “There are a couple of other cellphone companies, including one we handle, Netone, which is the second largest in Zimbabwe, and Telecel. Banks are also quite active, with CBZ, the largest bank in Zimbabwe, whose account is at Jupiter Harare, sitting on an annual advertising budget of around US$600 000.” That said, not every agency in Zimbabwe is growing to the tune of 200% annually. “There are no real secrets to our success,” says Magora, intimating that much of it is common sense, and holds true for advertising across the globe. “We are speaking to Zimbabweans, so you need to speak in a language that they understand.” Too many global agency groups think of ‘Africa’ as one country, and believe that a single approach will work across the entire continent. But the reality is that, even in Zimbabwe itself, the Northern and Southern regions have their own nuances that, unless understood properly, would impede the growth of a brand. “Local knowledge is key,” he says. He cautions, however, that ‘localising’ advertising does not mean dumbing it down. Zimbabwe has the highest literacy levels in Africa, resulting in one of the most sophisticated and highly-educated middle classes on the continent. It is an audience that does not take kindly to being under-estimated, and even less kindly to condescension. According to Magora Zimbabwe’s advertising industry is seriously fragmented – a point he hopse to address with the formation of the new Jupiter agency. Econet, for instance, have spread their US$12 million amongst 14 agencies in Zimbabwe plus Young and Rubicam in Johannesburg. Africom, another ISP and cellphone company, uses a small SA agency plus three smaller agencies in Zimbabwe. Magora, like his colleagues at TJDR South Africa, is a firm believer in the power of creativity when it comes to connecting with this audience. And he has proof at his fingertips: Toyota Zimbabwe, which is currently the most awarded Motoring company at Zimbabwe’s advertising awards, has seen its market share double in the time that TJDR (Zimbabwe) has been working on its brands. “This work is truly world-class, there is nothing ‘third world’ about it,” adds Magora proudly, showing a campaign created for Toyota genuine parts that the Japanese recently voted as the best work across the African continent. Magora also understands that time is of the essence in Zimbabwe – there is no operating on so-called ‘African time’ in this country! “Because these brands are playing catch up, quick turnaround times are crucial,” he says. Fortunately, he adds, the staff at TJDR (Zimbabwe) & Partners don’t mind working until 2am. “Possibly the greatest reason for our success is that we hire people who genuinely love what they do. They are passionate about advertising and creative communication, from the top of the agency to the bottom. It’s not unusual to find the accountant and the debtors clerk sitting in on a brain storming session for a brand!” It’s at this point that The Jupiter Drawing Room’s founder and group chairman Graham Warsop steps in to comment: “Really, you’re looking at the reason TJDR (Zimbabwe) & Partners has been such a success,” he says, pointing to Magora. “The secret to a great agency is having a guy in charge who loves the business of communications. Denford is a human dynamo who eats, sleeps and breathes advertising.” By all accounts, it appears to be a match made in heaven. “Like us, Jupiter is focused on Africa, born here and determined to grow up here before tackling Europe, the Middle East and Mars. We both understand not only the potential of Africa, but also it cultures and mindsets. We could, together with such a partner, establish the most prominent, creative and successful African agency network,” Magora concludes. The wheels are already in motion. TJDR has given Magora first rights to expand the group into other African territories, and although he isn’t letting on where the next agency will open its doors, he does confirm that it will happen early next year. Not least because he has already signed up three of the largest corporates in the territory! It’s almost December, Warsop points out. Everyone else is packing up for the year, but Magora is just getting started. Stay up to date with our weekly mailer. Subscribe here. It’s free!

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Wed 7 Nov 2012 Here’s what happens when an eager man-on-the-scene reporter, repping live at most likely his first presidential election night, spots a black guy with a very aggressive side part in a weird outfit…. Spoiler alert….pure struggle. Watch the video, after the jump *jerks head towards famous black guy dress in Naboo sweater* “That’s Wyclef Jean….” Ok, clearly, this guy only listens to “rap” on his pandora, and doesn’t watch the accompanying videos on youtube. He tried though! And extra credit for excitement for Wyclef…that’s mighty generous. Also, it’s not like his own colleagues are treating him any better! Do you notice how the anchorman introducing him doesn’t even know his name? He calls him Mike Blake. And the weary co-anchor has to correct him, “Blake Berman.” Thanks to Joe La Puma for making my day with this.

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Secaucus Assemblyman Vincent Prieto was elected chairman of the Hudson County Democratic Organization tonight at the political body's reorganization meeting in Jersey City. Prieto replaces the outgoing chairman, Bayonne Mayor Mark Smith. "I want to thank each and every one of you," Prieto said to the more than 500 Democratic committee members at School 7 on Laidlaw Avenue. "It's a great honor and I am pleased and I am very humbled by your vote today "The (Hudson County) Democratic organization has always been renowned across the state. It's something everyone always talks about. We want to restore it to what it has been," Prieto added. At the meeting, Jersey City Councilwoman Diane Coleman was elected vice-chairperson, Alexander Habib recording secretary, Nicholas J. Rivelli corresponding secretary and Barbara Stamato treasurer. John Minella was elected executive director of the HCDO, the only paid position in the organization. His salary could not be immediately ascertained. Prieto, 52, represents the 32nd District, which includes East Newark, Guttenberg, Harrison, Kearny, North Bergen, Secaucus, and West New York. He chairs the Assembly Budget Committee. Prieto is also a construction code official in Secaucus. He is paid $49,000 a year as a state assemblyman and earns $128,000 a year for his town job. Several high-profile Democrats attended the meeting, including Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, who is running in the Democratic primary for Senator, Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer, Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise, former state Sen. Bernard Kenny, North Bergen Mayor and state Sen. Nicholas Sacco, and Union City Mayor and state Sen. Brian Stack.

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Well OK, that’s not entirely true. I like to THINK I was the Queen….but in reality I was more like a Princess…or maybe a maidservant to a Princess. But either way, *I* thought I was pretty good at it. I even have pictures to prove it! These are some hauls from Walgreens and Albertson’s from a few years back. I don’t remember particulars but let’s just say there were SERIOUS savings involved! I’m still a big believer in the money you can save with coupons! There just came a time when I simply didn’t have time to do it anymore. (hmmm…that’s about the same time I started this blog. Go figure!) Any serious couponer will tell you….it takes a lot of time to work the deals! There’s the clipping of coupons and organizing of coupons and then studying the deals and deciding which ones to go for and which ones to pass on….and that’s just the tip of the couponing iceberg! Not to mention all the running around to different stores to get the best deal at each. I don’t want this to come off as a coupon-bashingpost at all….because it’s not! If you are SERIOUS about cutting your food budget…you definitely can save a LOT of money! But like most things in life…there are trade offs. Even though I don’t do the extreme couponing anymore…there are some things I learned from the experience that I continue to do that really help trim the grocery budget and don’t take a lot of time. You hear the word “stockpiling” alot when it comes to couponing. Some people have developed some SERIOUS stockpiles through couponing. Here are just a couple I found online. Benefits of stockpiling: you can basically “shop” at your own “store” for free! You are well-prepared for emergencies. (job loss, food shortages, etc.) Drawback: you need a lot of SPACE to STORE all that stuff! Find a website that matches up store sales with available coupons. Every week they will post a list with the sales available at your store (or whatever store you choose) and the coupons that are “out there” that match up with the deals. This is INVALUABLE! It would be almost impossible to keep track of this stuff on your own. GrocerySmarts.com even has a rating system (1 to 5 stars) to show what are the REALLY hot deals. 5 stars means….TIME TO STOCK UP! So, a quick scan down the list and I find one of our personal favorites on sale….Crest Pro Health Toothpaste! Ever since I brought this home the first time…hubster won’t use anything else. Such a toothpaste snob. ;-) Anyway, that toothpaste ain’t cheap! UNLESS it’s on sale AND you have a COUPON as well. Since I don’t personally clip coupons anymore….I head on over to ebay.com to find the people who DO! After a quick search for “Crest coupons” and I find this coupon clipper selling 20 – $.75 off 1 Crest toothpaste 4.0 oz or larger coupons for $1.25! The trick here is to check the ad the FIRST DAY IT COMES OUT so you will have time to receive the coupons in the mail before the ad ends! Not a big deal though. These coupon “sellers” are very aware that these deals are TIME SENSITIVE and will send them out promptly. At least that’s my experience. And if the store happens to “run out” of something while you wait for your coupons to arrive in the mail….you can always get a “raincheck”. Warning: I am about to attempt to do math…nobody distract me! This could be dangerous! - Regular price of Crest Pro Health Toothpaste (according to ad) $2.69 ea. - Sale price $1.69 ea (when you buy 4 or more) - Minus your $.75 cent coupon = $ .94 cents each!Now…you paid $1.25 for the coupons so you have to take that into account, but if you use all 20 coupons…that’s a savings of $15.00!

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Lian Li Announces Two New Cases Lian Li has announced two new cases that will be part of the Q Series, the PC-Q12 and PC-Q18. Both cases are designed around the small form factor mini-ITX motherboards. The PC-Q12 can hold four 2.5" hard drives while having dimensions of just 3.46” x 14.37” x 8.19”. The small dimensions do limit other areas, and video cards and internal optical drives are a no go. However, an external slim optical drive can be clipped to the back of the case. A 300W 80-Plus PSU and 80mm fan are included. The case will be available in both black and silver and will have an MSRP of $159.99. The PC-Q18 features four hot swappable 3.5" hard drive bays and a bottom cage capable of holding an additional two 3.5" or three 2.5" drives. The PC-Q18 is larger than the PC-Q12, at 7.83” x 11.42” x 14.37”, and is able to hold a bit more hardware as a result. A single 5.25" slot is available, and video cards up to 13.39" in length will also fit. A CPU cooler up to 6.3" will add to the cooling power of the two included 140mm fans. The PC-Q18 is also available in both black and silver and shares an MSRP of $159.99.

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Though the economy continues its recovery and we have made some progress on deficits, our deficits will begin growing again soon, and major long-term fiscal challenges remain. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warns that "such large and growing federal debt could have serious negative consequences, including restraining economic growth in the long term, giving policymakers less flexibility to respond to unexpected challenges, and eventually increasing the risk of a fiscal crisis." In its new Budget and Economic Outlook report, CBO projects that deficits will total $7.9 trillion over the next 10 years, while public debt will rise from $13 trillion in 2014 to $21 trillion by the end of 2024. CBO’s current-law projections are, if anything, optimistic. Under less optimistic assumptions about the future, the budget deficit would be even worse. As a share of the economy, our national debt is already higher than at any time since 1950, shortly after the end of World War II. CBO’s new report warns that, unless current policies change, debt will climb even higher and become unsustainable in coming decades. Policymakers should work together to close the long-term gap between spending and revenues, preserve important public investments for the future, and put the budget on a sustainable long-term path.

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Zoo to build power plant that uses panda poop to produce electricity Not content with housing a pair of celebrity pandas that attract hordes of avid onlookers, a zoo in France has decided to put their droppings to good use by recycling them into gas and electricity. Yuan Zi and Huan Huan — “Chubby” and “Happy” in Chinese — arrived at Beauval zoo in central France in January last year, on loan from China for 10 years at a cost of around a million dollars a year. The zoo announced Friday it would build a facility that would process the dung of the two pandas and of other animals, as well as plant matter, to produce biogas that will then be turned into heat and electricity. The plant, which will cost 2.3 million euros ($3 million), is expected to be operative in the spring of 2014. Some of the energy produced will be used to keep gorillas and manatees — also known as sea cows — warm in their pens, and to heat the building that houses elephants in the winter, allowing a 40 percent saving on the gas bill. The rest will be transformed into electricity and sold to French power giant EDF. “This initiative is a perfect fit in the policy of sustainable development that we have been applying for a long time,” said Delphine Delord, spokeswoman for the zoo. Pandas are an endangered species and only about 1,600 remain in the wild in China. Some 300 others are in captivity worldwide — mostly in China, but also in 15 foreign zoos where they are sent as part of Beijing’s efforts to use soft power to boost its image, the so-called “panda diplomacy.” They eat 35 kilos (78 pounds) of bamboo a day and defecate about 30 kilos a day, making them prime candidates for this green initiative. Beauval zoo has a total of 4,600 animals and attracted some one million visitors last year.

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Hello all. Havent seen you in a while..How have you been?? Anyhoo.. I know I havent been here in a long time. I guess I got too caught up in real life and have been forgetting to take the time to enjoy the things I have always loved… like photography. But I have come to the realization that if you dont enjoy your life and spend it doing something you truly love, then your life will pass you by without you even realizing it. So…. Im back on the bubble….although I have another newborn in the house so I dont know how frequently I will be here…but dear, sweet redbubble.. I wont neglect you again..

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- Legal Notices - Photo Gallery - Subscription Rates By JoEllen Black/Richmond News America’s fiscal solvency, Ray County elected officials and staff found a better way to cut costs from the county’s extremely tight budget: they made concessions. Unlike most years, Ray County Courthouse was open for business on Columbus Day Monday. Courts were closed, following the state’s holiday calendar, though. Office holders and staff agreed to give up a coveted paid holiday to help with the county’s budget constraint, which struggles to stay in the black in its fourth fiscal quarter. While the concession may seem small, each working day on the county payroll is around $12,000, according to Eastern Commissioner Allen Dale. “It was a fantastic concession and we’d like to thank them for that,” Dale said. “It’s good for taxpayer relations, too.”

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这是Oracle内部比较牛的一个team，兼顾到技术细节，而且又不失实际的用户环境，所以比较有挑战，而且这次的职位技术级别比较高－Senior or Principle member，具体描述如下。欢迎高手自荐。 Title: Senior/Principle member-Real World Performance Group Real World Performance Group is part of the Oracle Database product management team. We do customer benchmarks and post-product escalations to help to shorten sales cycle, to make quality insurance of the Oracle database product, and master the competitive intelligence of the Oracle database product. We are a global team including people in US, EMEA and APAC and we need people to cooperating with people in other time zones. 1. Perform database benchmarks 2. File bugs and get rapid resolutions 3. Cooperate with other people in a global team 1. Bachelor or master degree of computer science, or have firm computer science basic knowledge 2. Deep understanding of Oracle database and operating system 3. Skilled in SQL tuning 4. Proficient in writing shell scripts 5. Minimum 3 years of work experiences, better in DBA area, SQL development area or OS area 6. Self-motivated and can work under tight timeline 7. Good team work spirit and can work in a global team 8. Fluent in English and Mandarin Send your Chinese & English C.V. to ricky.zhu###gmail.com.

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Save on Sports and Fitness have spotted a great deal that will save you money on the UK’s No.1 protein shake Maximuscle Promax. Not only used by body builders and professional athletes, regular keep fit and gym goers can benefit from taking extra proteins into your diet. Maximuscle Promax contains high protein nutrition and is perfectly engineered to support lean muscle growth and aid strength and recovery. If your goal is size & strength, sports performance or getting lean Promax will help your achieve your aims. For a limited time Holland & Barrett’s body building up to half price offers are featuring Maximuslce Promax! Today if you buy direct from Maximuscle.com a 908g tub of strawberry Promax protein shake costs £33.99. Buy exactly the same tub from Holland & Barrett and get Promax for just £25.49 !! That’s a great deal saving you £8.50 !! Holland & Barrett are also featuring cheap creatine deals with good savings on it’s own range Body Fortress. Get £10.25 discount with the up to half price deals on 908g Body Fortress Creatine powder at only £10.24 !! In addition PHD Diet Whey Protein is currently on offer with £7.75 off the RRP. Pick up 1kg of PHD Diet Whey Protein in Belgian Chocolate, White Chocolate or Strawberry flavours for just £23.24….. Click through the green Go to Offer button to visit Holland & Barrett body building sale.

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Ivory enjoys enduring popularity among Chinese consumers. Durable, attractive and (perhaps most importantly) status-enhancing, ivory has been coveted among the affluent for centuries. Uses range from jewellery and other decorative objects to ear-picks and chopsticks. Much like shark fin, bird's nest, sea cucumber, sandalwood and other exotic imports from Southeast Asia, India, the Pacific and beyond, ivory's principal attraction was, and still is, its rarity. For centuries, ivory destined for the Chinese market came from Southeast Asia. Elephants ranged across maritime Asia in significant numbers until the late 19th century, and while the Asiatic elephant's tusks were not as large as those on mature African elephants, they were big enough for decorative carving. Ivory carving became a noted feature in Canton from the 18th century, largely because it was the only Chinese city open to foreign trade, and subsequently an abundance of ivory (along with many other items) was landed there. While some items - such as chopsticks - were produced relatively quickly, many master craftsmen would work on a single large piece for years. It was not unknown for skilled ivory carvers to spend more than a decade creating a superb object. Among the most complicated designs were carvings with several layers of revolving spheres all contained within a single globe. One of the best private collections of antique Chinese ivory carvings in the world belonged to the late Sephardic Jewish business magnate Sir Horace Kadoorie. An acknowledged amateur authority on Chinese ivory, Kadoorie privately published a number of detailed monographs on the subject. Every so often, local cultural groups are invited to view his stunning array of objects, collected over several decades. Closer economic connections between China and countries with African elephant populations, such as Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania, have led to significant declines in elephant populations. Smuggling from various African countries through the diplomatic bag into the mainland has been widely reported in recent years. Interestingly enough, such reports have never been denied by mainland authorities. Unsurprisingly, then, ivory is still widely offered for sale in the mainland. Shops in Guangzhou, especially around the enormous Changshalou jade market, openly sell it. That this ivory's original provenance may be - let's be diplomatic - somewhat difficult to prove is reflected by labels clearly marked 'Not for export sale'. Hong Kong developed its own ivory-carving industry in the 1950s. Skilled craftsmen decamped from Canton in large numbers following the Communist assumption of power, and recommenced operations here. They were aided in this by a number of factors. The 50s and 60s saw a significant tourist boom in the colony, and high-quality Chinese decorative items were much in demand. After the outbreak of the Korean war, in 1950, and the subsequent American-led United Nations embargo on trade with China, it became impossible for American tourists to return home with China-made souvenirs. To avoid confiscation on reaching the United States, comprehensive, detailed certificates of origin were required for any purchases that might have been tainted by Communist fingers at some point in the manufacturing process. Hong Kong-carved ivory (unlike ivory offered for sale in mainland-owned department stores) was exempt, and found many buyers. Hong Kong was a disgracefully late signatory to many international conventions on endangered species, and while contraband ivory is periodically seized here, a semi-clandestine trade goes on. Long-established shops, mostly found in the back streets of Sheung Wan and Yau Ma Tei, still offer ivory for sale. In theory, these retailers are 'using up old stocks', but as most have been in operation for decades, and the items (somehow) continue to be replaced, Hong Kong's remaining ivory artisans must be steadily working their way through godowns full of the stuff. Asian elephant populations were already in decline by the late 19th century, as tracts of jungle in Indochina, Malaya and the Dutch East Indies were cleared.

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Sam Fuld: I had a great experience there. We had a lot of success as a team and I enjoyed every year I had there. There were some great moments during the regular season and obviously in the postseason as well. I wouldn't have traded that for anything in the world. Inside The Ivy: With all the records that now belong to you in Cardinal history (such as the all-time leader in runs scored and at-bats), do you carry those achievements and your success with you over to the professional level? Sam Fuld: Well, I think it's a different stage. It's now a totally new game and I don't really rest on those records at all. There's no point in relying on them or thinking about what's happened in the past; it kind of goes out the window at this point. Everyone who plays at the pro level has obviously had some success in the past. Everyone realizes that and there's no point to really dwelling on it. Inside The Ivy: You're originally from New Hampshire but ended up on the west coast in college. How did that come about? Sam Fuld: Well, when I was searching for a college, I just wanted to find a school with good academic and baseball programs. Stanford was pretty tough to beat in regards to those two, and I really just had one opportunity. I played in a game in Long Beach, Calif. and had been in touch with the coaches before then, and that was the only opportunity they got to see me play before signing. Luckily, I played well. Inside The Ivy: You've always shown good plate discipline and a knack for getting on base. In your opinion, what set you apart from some of the more aggressive, less disciplined hitters in the Pac 10? Sam Fuld: Well, I just always knew that walks could be a real vital part of somebody's game, especially for a guy that hits at the top of the order like I. There are a lot of ways to get on base. It may not always show up on your average necessarily, but I take a lot of pride in walking and seeing a lot of pitches. Inside The Ivy: You were originally drafted by the Cubs in 2003 but did not sign. What was the biggest reason you signed in 2004 instead of the year before? Sam Fuld: There were a number of factors. For one, I wanted to go back and finish up at school. Either way I was going to get my degree; I just knew it would be nice to have it out of the way as opposed to it lingering on in the background. I also wanted to have another chance to do some things both individually and team-wise at Stanford. After my junior year, we ended the season in a tough way and that kind of left some bitterness in my mouth, so I wanted to go back and help the team out. Besides, the whole college experience is something you can't really trade for anything. Inside The Ivy: When you were drafted a second time by the Cubs, what went through your mind? Was it a sense of dread, or were you looking forward to getting another chance at potentially playing in the Windy City? Sam Fuld: No, I was definitely excited. To be honest, I was also very surprised. I thought the Cubs would be one of the last teams who would want to draft me, but at the same time I was very happy. I knew the Cubs had a great reputation and they've been nothing but good to me, so I was excited. Inside The Ivy: After you signed, we didn't hear a lot out of you for the rest of the year, because you injured your shoulder in the postseason. Tell us how the injury came about and give us an update on things. Sam Fuld: I hurt it just prior to the draft in a regional game. I came out to Mesa right when I first signed and took a physical, and that's when I first learned of the news. I suffered a torn labrum and a partially torn rotator cuff. I injured it just diving for a ball in the outfield. I didn't have to have surgery, but they elected to have me spend the whole summer here, and a lot of my time was spent just strengthening muscles around that area. So far, it's been a great recovery. Inside The Ivy: What are some of the things you're currently working on in regards to your game? Sam Fuld: Oh, man. Well, number one is just staying healthy and getting back into the swing of things—that's the main goal. It seems like it has been so long since I've actually taken part of a real game that I just want to get my swing back and stay strong. I'm just so eager to get going. Inside The Ivy: Often times when players spend four years in college, they go immediately into full-season action at one of the Class-A levels. Do you imagine yourself following suit this year? Sam Fuld: I don't like to think about it too much. I'm working with the Peoria group right now, so ideally I'd like go to a full-season team. But I have no say in it. Fuld set the College World Series record for career hits with 24 in June 2003. He surpassed former Cub Keith Moreland, who totaled 23 hits for Texas from 1973-75.

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Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Chapter Date Established: 30 September 2013 Mr. SRINJOY SARKAR Saroj Kumar Panda Dr. Suryendu Dutta DILLIP KUMAR SAHOO If you are a chapter officer, you may sign in to see more details.

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New Zealand world champion sailors Alex Maloney and Molly Meech have condemned the polluted Olympic waters, hoping the Kiwi team "make it out of Rio without getting sick" at next week's test regatta in Brazil. The pair, world champions in the exciting new women's 49erFX class that will make its Olympics debut in 2016, are the first New Zealanders to arrive in Rio de Janeiro for an event that will be crucial to getting a feel for local conditions. And they have been quick to voice their concerns about the Guanabara Bay waters that have been widely criticised for their appalling pollution levels. "The scenery is breath-taking, with the mountains that surround the bay and steep cliffs leading into the water. You can just imagine what Rio would have looked like when the explorers first found it. Before humans inhabited the bays, it must have been a luscious, beautiful paradise, where we have been told whales once had their breeding grounds," they wrote on their regular blog for sponsors Red Bull. "Unfortunately, with the hillside Favelas, comes the run off of human waste, and the once clean water now looks not so appealing with rubbish swimming in it and the water taking on a dirty brown colour. "We have our fingers crossed that all of our team makes it out of Rio without getting sick!" Games organisers and city officials have launched a campaign to improve water conditions for the Games but they clearly face a massive job over the next two years. New Zealand have 18 sailors involved in the Olympics test event. These include Olympic gold medalists and world champions Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie (women's 470) and Olympic silver medalists and world champions Peter Burling and Blair Tuke (49er). They will be into training over the next week for competition racing that starts from August 3. There are 34 countries involved in this regatta, with 320 sailors on 250 boats. Will Shane Cameron beat Kali Meehan on Saturday?

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- Special Sections - Public Notices Kristopher Lee Payton, Jr., infant son of Kristopher Lee Payton and Jessica Rene’e Walker, both of Lawrenceburg, was stillborn Jan. 4, 2013 at Frankfort Regional Medical Center. Including his parents he is also survived by a brother Brayden Michael. The Ritchie & Peach Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. If you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the Anderson News, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below. Click the question mark below to see where your account ID appears on your mailing label.

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Apart from the revelations about Avalon, The Lawyer UK 100 Annual Report once again shed light on the way the market in the North West is currently looking. The good news for law firms in the region is that costs remain low. Avalon aside, Keoghs was the only North West firm with a cost per lawyer (CPL) of more than £150,000 last year, in 61st place overall with a CPL of £165,000. Pannone’s CPL was £150,000, 73rd in the table. All the other North West firms appeared in the bottom 25 in the UK by CPL, with Hill Dickinson and Brabners Chaffe Street in the bottom five with CPLs of £119,000 and £107,000 respectively. Unfortunately revenue per lawyer (RPL) in the region is also on the low side. Halliwells’ lawyers are bringing in the most money, each generating £209,000 on average last year. Once again Hill Dickinson falls near the bottom of the table, with an RPL of just £156,000. Brabners managed the highest profit per lawyer (PPL) in the region with a combination of its low costs and reasonable RPL producing a PPL figure of £80,000. When it comes to The Lawyer’s unique earnings per partner (EPP) calculations – the average remuneration for a partner, equity or otherwise, in a law firm – the North West performs poorly compared with other regions. Four North West firms are in the bottom 10 in the UK by EPP: Keoghs, Weightmans, Cobbetts and Pannone. Weightmans appears because it has a minuscule equity partnership of just 22 partners, 27 per cent of the total. This means its average profit per equity partner (PEP) is a healthy £265,000, but EPP is down to £119,000. However, net profit at Weightmans is rising year by year, in line with other firms in the region. The North West continues to be a good place to do business.

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- Special Sections - Public Notices More serious charges have been brought against a 42-year-old Elizabethtown man who was arrested in October after reportedly threatening his wife with a revolver and eventually hitting her with it If you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the The News Enterprise, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below. Click the question mark below to see where your account ID appears on your mailing label.

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Sept. 6, 2003 The University of Tennessee volleyball team took a 3-0 decision over the host Nevada Wolf Pack to open the SBC/Sands Regency Invitational on Friday Night. The Lady Vols improve to 3-1 this season, while Nevada, a team that has qualified for the NCAA Tournament two years in a row, falls to 2-4. Tennessee out-hit the Wolf Pack .269 to .132 and committed only 18 errors compared to UN's 29. Individually, UT sophomore setter Julie Knytych dished out 31 assists and contributed 10 kills with a .500 hitting percentage. Sophomore OH Amy Morris led the Orange and White with 11 kills and nine digs, while sophomore libero Jasmine Fullove also tallied nine digs. Freshman MB Sarah Blum continued the strong start to her collegiate career, recording a match-high five blocks. "This was a good team win," UT Head Coach Rob Patrick said. "Everyone fulfilled their roles well for us tonight. We knew that minimizing our errors would be a key because we felt that our defense could carry us. As you can see, after committing eight errors in game one, we improved and made only 10 during the rest of the match. Julie did a great job setting for us and creating some great matchups for our hitters." Game one stayed close nearly the entire way through, as neither team lead by more than three points until Tennessee finally grabbed a 27-23 lead after an errant Nevada attack. The Wolf Pack, however, would bring the score back to 28-26, providing a momentary scare before UT finished off the game, 30-26. Hitting and defense served as two key factors in the first game, as the Big Orange out-hit Nevada .286 to .125 and out-dug the Wolf Pack 15 to nine. Morris had the hot hand for Tennessee, registering a game-high 7 kills behind a .500 hitting percentage. In game two, Tennessee looked to be pulling away after a six point run behind the serving of freshman Cynthia Buggs made the score 15-10. The Wolf Pack battled back and pulled within one point at 21-20, however, that was the closest they would get, as the Lady Vols went on to win, 30-25. The Big Orange was actually out-hit .286 to .233 and out-dug 18 to 16, however, four service errors by Nevada and two aces by UT helped give the game to the Orange. Knytych lead the Lady Vols with five kills in game two, while also divvying out 10 assists. The Lady Vols jumped out quickly in game three thanks in part to a 10 point run, capped with a block by freshman Sarah Blum and junior Michelle Piantadosi, that made the score 20-6. That 14-point lead proved to be insurmountable, as Tennessee clinched the match with a 30-16 win. UT out-hit the Wolf Pack .308 to -.026 in the third game and committed just four errors compared to UN's 13 attack errors and three service errors. The SBC/Sands Regency Invitational will continue on Saturday for the Lady Vols when they face Arizona State at 10 a.m. PT and Gonzaga at 5 p.m. PT. ASU defeated Gonzaga, 3-0, in the tournament's first match on Friday. UT's initial home competition this season will take place over Sept. 12-13, when the Big Orange welcomes Cal State Fullerton, East Tennessee State and Michigan for the fifth edition of the Toyota of Knoxville Lady Vol Classic.

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In a crowded room, Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett stepped down from his role amid recent allegations of grade rigging. “It’s not fair to the children in Florida that I continue as commissioner and deal with the distractions,” said Bennett. Bennett changed the grade of a charter school run by a Republican donor while he was Indiana’s school chief. All together 13 schools had their grade changed. Bennett says it was to make sure schools were being graded accurately. “They were unfairly penalized for kids that they didn’t have in their school, that wasn’t rigging anything.” Published reports show Bennett and his Indiana staff making sure the donor’s charter school received an A, instead of the C it originally earned. After the news surfaced, leaders from across the state urged Bennett resign. “You can’t have a system of integrity when you change the rules and move the goal posts to suit a particular school,” said Allsion Tant. The Florida Education Association wouldn’t go on camera, but released a statement saying: “The resignation of Florida’s latest commissioner of education is another symptom of the mistrust parents, teachers and the public have in the state’s incoherent and unsound school reform and accountability policies.” Bennett says people in Florida and Indiana should keep faith in how schools are graded. “The school grades in Florida were incredibly public. Even though this is not your question, no one in Indiana should be concerned about school grades either,” said Bennett. Bennett was the fifth person to serve as Education Commissioner since Governor Rick Scott took office 2 and a half years ago. A formal announcement has not been made on who will replace Bennett. Although the state board of education will recommend K-12 Chancellor Pam Stewart as Interim Commissioner.

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Reply to comment William Wright is the gentleman seated in the middle of the photograph in the dark suit with full white mustache. He was born 18 July 1841 and died 8 May 1932. Photo taken somewhere around the Hecla or Marguerite area of Westmoreland county. My mother remembers riding the trolley to get to the gatherings. Do you recognize anyone? Please let me know. Submitted by Mimi Curtis, great granddaughter

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On a prior episode of “Chelsea,” co-star Kristen Bell told Handler that Cheadle got her high during shooting once. He set the record straight with Handler on Thursday (April 3). “We were doing a scene — we were supposed to be walking down the street in L.A. and we were supposed to be getting someone high so that we could mess with his head and try to steal some business from him,” Cheadle tells Handler. However, included with the fake joints used on camera was a real one, though he doesn’t say who supplied it. Before the real marijuana was used, it was cleared by everyone in the scene. Even Bell agreed, though it sounds like she may not have realized they were serious about it being legitimate pot. According to Cheadle, filming ended with Bell crouched over, saying, “It was real guys, it was real.” They tried to warn her. It definitely sounds like they have a good time making that show.

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GroundFloor Media has added SlimGenics as a client. The Centennial-based client will leverage GFM’s background in health, wellness and consumer brands to raise the profile of its healthy weight management and preventive health care programs. Specifically, GFM will utilize its expertise in traditional media relations, community relations, reputation management and social media to increase awareness of SlimGenics in the company’s key markets, as well as nationally. James W. Hall, co-founder of the advertising, public relations and digital agency Vladimir Jones, has died at the age of 70. Hall founded the agency, originally named PRACO, with his wife Nechie in 1970. The firm is now run by the couple’s daughter, Meredith Vaughan, and employs 84 in Denver and Colorado Springs.

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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Ellsworth, Ephraim Elmer ELLSWORTH, Ephraim Elmer, American soldier: b. Mechanicsville, N. Y., 23 April 1837; d. Alexandria, Va., 24 May 1861. He organized about 1859 a zouave corps which became noted for the excellence of its discipline. In March 1861 he accompanied President Lincoln to Washington, and in April he went to New York, where he organized a zouave regiment of firemen, of which he became colonel. Ordered to Alexandria, he lowered a Confederate flag floating over a hotel, for which act the hotelkeeper shot him dead.

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Congressman King’s question: “This whole ‘old white people’ business does get a little tired, Charlie. I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about? Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to […] Apparently the word has gone out among our ‘free and independent’ press and that word is dark. Apparently its a thing. Men posing as women take pictures over or under the walls as biological (I feel like I have to make that distinction, now) women try on clothes. ‘A transgender woman in Idaho was arrested on Monday for taking pictures of another woman inside a Target changing room. Shauna Patricia Smith, also known […] “Children, black or white, when deprived of fathers, grow up angry at their parents,” Peterson writes. “White children displace their anger in a thousand different directions. 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So, should I become an employer again, I would hire highly qualified straight, white men and have […] ‘In proportion as economic life grew to be the dominant mistress of the state, money became the god whom all had to serve and to whom each man had to bow down. More and more, the gods of heaven were put into the corner as obsolete and outmoded, and in their stead incense was burned […] I don’t do twitter, but somebody linked to some funny tweets from PaxDickinson and this one caught my eye: ‘In 2016 we’re focused on protecting “women”, which is currently defined as a group that excludes Sarah Palin but includes Bruce Jenner’ or, The Blindness of Individualists I’m not a fan of Greg Johnson or Counter Currents, too atheist, too gay, just generally too liberal for me. That said, Greg Johnson is smart and does have some insight, such as how an individualist society can be subverted. Counter-Currents ‘Metaphysical individualism is the thesis that only particular men […] If anyone is devout and a lover of God, let him enjoy this beautiful and radiant festival. If anyone is a wise servant, let him, rejoicing, enter into the joy of his Lord. If anyone has wearied himself in fasting, let him now receive his recompense. If anyone has labored from the first hour, let […] Washington Post ‘ The South Carolina Senate on Thursday passed a controversial bill targeting refugees in the state, prompting concern that it may portend a wave of anti-refugee legislation around the country, particularly in the tense climate following the terrorist attacks in Brussels. The bill, if passed by the South Carolina House and signed into […] Miami CBS Relatives of a 17-year-old are angry the teenager was shot and killed by a homeowner who police say was protecting her property. The sister of the teen who died identified him as Trevon Johnson. She said he was a student at D. A. 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How exactly should a person respond to accusations in the Church that are false? Many times people who are accusing others are responding from hurts and disappointments. Others times they are lashing out because of unmet expectations. I have been on the receiving end recently of the “accuser spirit” and we must realize we are indeed dealing with a demonic spirit. So when these things come, I know how to walk through them, but right now several in our ministry are having this accuser spirit come after them. So I use these times as teaching moments to help others. Even our judicial system recognizes the damage accusations can cause: the defaming of character and releasing serious doubt and trust issues into others. Suffering of reputation that has been put in print on an open media forum can be a cause for libel. Slander and libel are serious accusations having the potential for lawsuits to be filed for damages incurred. The main goal in accusations is the damaging of a person’s reputation and character. Most accusations are focused into these areas. But for the Church, there is a proper process of accusation to be dealt with. If the accusations hold any weight of validity, then the facts can be presented and presented to the spiritual oversight such as a leadership team, board , or the spiritual covering. Accusation is always a time for a re-evaluation and a searching for the Holy Spirit. If there is no conviction, then there is nothing to shift or change or repent of. You keep moving forward knowing that your heart is clean. If facts cannot be presented, then the accusation is more of a private interpretation of events or conversations and this is where the waters really become muddy. These types of accusations are not meant to correct things nor are they sent as warnings. They are simply sent to inflict pain. I have had many accusations come against me and most of them slide off like water off a duck’s back. Those that seem to bring the biggest struggle come from those that you pour your life into and then they falsely accuse you. But we must remember we are dealing with a spirit and the person is simply the tool the accuser spirit is using. The carrier of this spirit has a real or imagined offense that has not been dealt with. They lash out in their desire to inflict that pain of offense towards someone else. It is usually directed toward a leader of a ministry or their team. The word ‘offended’ is not so much the action of a person against someone as it is the spoken attitude of the heart of the one bringing the accusation. They never safeguarded their heart or had never been convicted to come into alignment with God’s love. The word ‘offended’ actually means I am willing and going to spread slander about you. It has nothing to do with the words or actions of the one supposedly causing the offense, but has everything to do with the one saying they are offended. It is an attitude of the heart that is unwilling to change so it tries to discredit others to justify their current position. Offenses are held in the place of bitterness in the heart even for months and years before the opportunity is finally seen to unleash it by accusations. Many times, the accusation is the very thing God is dealing with the accuser in their own lives. They project it outward instead of dealing with it inward. It is definitely a place of being self-deceived and playing right into demonic activity. It is giving yourself to the spirit of the accuser of the brethren. You end up submitting yourself to demonic influences and those demonic forces know right when to unleash the accusations. The accuser spirit works hand in hand with the religious spirit. The bulk of accusations I hear of come in the Full Gospel circles, rather than the denominational circles. It is a religious spirit that comes against freedom and truth. It is a religious spirit that won’t recognize fivefold gifting and their function opposing specifically apostles and prophets. You see, the accuser spirit comes and convinces a person their actions will save others. It comes masked in godliness but the words have no lasting fruit of the Spirit. It comes to speak not truth but falsehood. Not only does it bind the person doing the accusing but also tries to bring others into the same accusation. It looks for the disgruntled and unhappy ones. It preys upon those not solid in faith. It’s amazing to me the power it holds over a person for such a length of time. A person offended once can be found to be offended again, even years later as it stirs the deposit left behind that was not dealt with. It is under a religious spirit that it will have a form of godliness and deny God’s power (His nature) to be formed in them. The religious spirit is the principality at work and the accuser spirit is the power to go along with it. It is a religious spirit that is trying to steal the potential from a person and their spiritual inheritance. The religious spirit keeps the person bound by the accuser spirit working through them. Every accusation, every wrong judgmental word keeps freedom from them and the deception is that they believe it is the person/people they are accusing that’s binding them when in reality, it is the bitterness and hurt in their own hearts. The accuser comes at key pivotal moments of spiritual advance and growth: Times immediately after breakthrough meetings, times of God’s Spirit moving, Spiritual advance in a region, etc. They also come when the future is about to open up before you. They come to discourage and even come against the promises of God and His plan. At the time of this writing, I had four written slanders about me come to my attention. At the same time, the ministry is growing, we have advanced and expanded into new areas, opportunities are opening, new plans are given, we are experiencing healings every service, people are starting new ministries that will impact culture and the Lord spoke to me that it is time to start writing the next book. Why wouldn’t accusations come in written form? I hope you see what I mean. Last week another ministry just had a large breakthrough. Things were shifting and guess what- accusations came, disagreement, a refusal to talk or be teachable. One thing I found to be true, those who leave a ministry without a face- to-face talk will fall into the accuser spirit. The best example for handling accusations is Nehemiah building the wall. His assignment was sure, the opposition was great, and breakthrough was occurring. The voices rose up against him but he stayed focused on the promises and the task before him. He did not empower the voices by giving them much recognition but recognized them for what they were, a demonic force trying to stop forward motion. Sadly some who accuse think they are helping others see faults but are actually moving in extreme evil that inflicts deep pain. The devil knows that to simply accuse from afar off has no real effect upon us. But to accuse close to the heart will cause disappointment, discouragement, and hurt. We need to be aware of his devices and not fellowship with the accusing spirit or those who carry it, or those who support them. If we look, we actually see so little fruit (the way we are to judge) and a dissatisfaction of life, it actually saddens me that someone could fall prey to this. The pain the person feels of being falsely accused is real. It does not come from the accusations themselves. The accusation actually holds no real weight, it only holds weight because it comes from someone we know and love. If the same accusation came from someone we don’t know, we would never even consider it. The pain comes from disappointment in the person we thought we knew. We were walking out life together and investing into each other and then suddenly the accusation comes. It is a pain of feeling deceived. It is what the Bible says: Proverbs 27: 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Friends will point to things in your life but will remain friends, willing to walk out and help correct issues. But the unwillingness to walk out the issues means the wounding was not to help change but to pass judgment and the accuser has moved from being a friend to a place of opposition. So how does a person work through this process? - First of all, remember this is a spirit at work. The same accusing spirit is making accusation before the throne of God night and day. Meaning it is relentless and accusations will be coming again in the future. The same spirit that wrongfully accused Jesus is the same spirit at work against you. The man, Jesus, understood that He was in a plan of God far more reaching than an accusation. He stayed focused on the course before Him. He did not take the accusations personally, but saw them as an accusation against God Himself and His plan upon the earth. Nehemiah did the same thing refusing to stop the work he was called to do and entertain or fall prey to the accusations requiring a defense. He simply stated the promise of God again and declared the purpose for which caused the accusations to come. - Secondly, realize God is your defense. He will defend His beloved and He will defend His word and His actions. God does not like being mocked and an accuser spirit is mocking what God is doing. In some forms, it is bordering on blasphemy. Most accusations attack the work of God and call it demonic, wrong, unbiblical, or not doctrinally correct, etc. The Bible says blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the only sin not forgiven. That’s pretty heavy but consider what the word means. ‘Blasphemy’ means ‘to declare that something that God is doing is not from Him but is from the devil’! When you consider the word ‘offended’ meaning ‘slander’, accusation is opposing what God is doing; we are getting very close to blasphemy. So God will defend what He is doing. It might take years before a person runs into the conviction of God to cause change, but conviction will one day come and their eyes will be open and they will see the damage their words have caused to others and the plan of God upon the earth. - Thirdly, you break fellowship with the person. The Bible says in the last days men will be false accusers (2 Timothy 3:3. The Bible also states in 2 Thes. 3:6 to “draw yourself away from any brother or sister who is walking disorderly.” ‘Disorderly’ means ‘not with the rule of spiritual law, out of rank, out of order, those who do not show up, those who are refusing to do the work’. In other words, we are not to associate with evil. Most of the time we still fellowship with them. When in reality, they should feel shame for their actions and learn to realize the hurt they have done the Body of Christ and will break free from the accuser spirit. You see Apostle Paul when he was still Saul, had the accuser spirit operating under a religious spirit. The only way to be free from this is the Holy Spirit needs to reveal truth while having an encounter with Christ! Our convincing will not do it. - Fourth, confess daily Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; And every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. This is a very powerful promise. When accusation comes to my attention, I confess this daily, several times a day for several weeks. Accusations come to nothing. - Fifth, if the accusation is given publicly before others, then the accusation needs to be addressed publicly. When we address private accusation publicly, we become victims of the same spirit. Jesus only addressed public accusations publically with truth. He wanted others to see that truth was greater than presumptions. - Sixth, operate at a higher place of character and honor. Do not lower yourself and come to their level but maintain the standard by which you want to be known. The Bible says in 2 Tim 3:9 that their folly will be made known to all men. The word ‘folly’ is interesting. It comes from two words “son” and “one lacking understanding and madness expressing itself in rage”. The root words of both of these means “the offspring of those incapable or unwilling to understand.” This is how God sees them and this is how we should see them. This is why they end up being numbered with the spiritually poor that we would have with us always. I have had people call me years after their accusations with such urgency in their voice to talk. They had held things against me in their hearts for years. They had spread slander and now had come under the conviction of God’s Spirit. One poor woman soon realized everything that was going wrong in her life was because of this judgmental attitude she operated in. It finally piled on her and God began to deal and convict. She was in a most miserable place and had to make amends with a long list of people. Once she did, everything turned for her and the blessing began to flow. No one had cursed her; she had cursed herself by her words. You see accusation is a pronounced curse. If not accepted it returns back on the person. Their own words could end up cursing them. There was another person who spoke slander about me to leaders in my state for years. I did not know what to do and even went to their covering to see if they could step in. They basically refused. I held my voice and continued with the assignment I had been given. A few years passed and people saw my heart was right. Many had been convinced I was like the accusations from this other person. At a corporate gathering of about 120, the conviction of the Holy Spirit fell and the person stood and asked me publicly for forgiveness for the damage done. I forgave them and made sure things were clean before us publicly in front of everyone. Were things delayed? Yes. Did God prevail, YES! With the accusation exposed and removed publicly that had been done publicly, people saw me in anew light as who i was and not through the eyes of accusation. A person is known more by their actions than their words. How we respond is important. Do we still love? (You can still address things in love). Do we maintain an open door once repentance is seen? Do we cut off the vehicle or the way accusations come? For me, when someone begins to accuse me, I distance myself from them. Many times this can be seen as rejecting a person, when it is rejecting the accusation. Here is my post from Face book again: Today I come against every accusation you are experiencing. Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; And every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. The weapon of accusation will not produce, advance or have any effect, upon you, your family, your calling, your ministry or what you believe in God! Every person, every voice, every written word that rises, judging your actions, heart, motives, and mandate from God, coming to not just wrong but evil conclusions, we and God have condemned. We say these voices are guilty of coming against the servants of God and God Himself. May God have His vengeance. May God have His defense. May God have His convicting power loosed upon their lives. May God have mercy upon their souls for the harm they have done, the evil they have released and the pain in the heart they have done. May they come to the end of demonic voices and truly hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. Saints of God hold fast you your convictions. Hold fast to the pure word of God. Hold fast to the assignment given. Hold fast in faith believing. All will be made know and revealed. All will be seen openly. A day of reckoning is coming when some will suffer shame for their actions. Some will suffer reproach, yet the faithful will have the full reward, both here upon the earth and in eternity. We count it all joy to be ridiculed and mocked and despised. We are accepted by God for what we endure. His Glory will be seen upon the saints who have been tried, not accusers of the faith. His glory will be upon the saints who have held fast, unwavering and voices, and not the ones used by demonic influences. I use my authority and LOOSE this word over your LIFE!!! NOW LET GOD BE SEEN AND HEARD!

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I am using wp-user frontend which allows you to insert shortcode in a page to show the user profile, and the user can then edit their profile from the front end. All the fields work (as in it displays the extra user fields and updates them), apart from the picture field. It gives the errors: Notice: Undefined index: cimy_uef_PICTURE_del in C:..\wp-content\plugins\cimy-user-extra-fields\cimy_uef_register.php on line 429 Notice: Undefined index: cimy_uef_PICTURE in C:\..\wp-content\plugins\cimy-user-extra-fields\cimy_uef_functions.php on line 769 Now I know you will probably just say, use it in the backend as it is intended, but I have a design to adhere to and the user needs to be able to edit their profile from the frontend. Really hope you can help.

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About a week ago an article was published on WoW.com advising readers of the financial benefits of farming a certain highly profitable fish. While we’ve also previously advised that WoW traders focus on fishing and cooking Dragonfin, we do not have quite the same community reach as WoW.com. The result over the past week has been, as you might have predicted, a sharp drop in the going rate of uncooked Dragonfin Angelfish. Generally, the price of raw Dragonfin stays higher than the prices of equivalent Northrend fish not only because the demand for the cooked fish is so high but also because the supply is diminished by not being connected at all to any fishing daily quests. The currently lower price, however, presents a fantastic opportunity for in-game chefs to turn a quick gold by simply purchasing the price-depressed fish, cooking and selling at a hefty mark-up. The key to this, and really any high-end cooking-for-profit, strategy is in attaining the Northern Spices inexpensively. One idea is to purchase Dragonfin Angelfish for less than 50 gold, the spices for less than one gold and then sell the stacks of cooked product for 100 gold or more. This nets a nice 30 gold per stack minimum profit and the time investment is minimal because we know you’ve already got your Chef’s Hat right? Be sure to consider both types of cooked Dragonfin for the most profitable variety. Both Dragonfin Filet and Blackened Dragonfin can sell profitably but our experience is that there is usually higher demand for the Filet variety. The profitability of the Blackened fish, however, was increased with the patch 3.2 changes that reduced the amount of raw fish required to cook the item. The irony to this easy tip is that the author of the post over at WoW.com quite correctly advises readers not to sell the fish when the market is flooded and to examine the entire value chain to determine whether it is best to sell the raw or cooked fish. Naturally, these key points seem to be lost on the community and the result has been a mass influx of uncooked Dragonfin onto the market. If, indeed, the uptick in raw fish on the market is attributable to this article, it can also be expected that the over supply period will end and prices will return to normal levels as the more casual players exit the market. In the mean time, we’re scooping up all the cheap fish we can find. - El’s Extreme Anglin’ page on Dragonfin pool locations and drop rates (a MUST read for WoW fishermen). - An April article from Dominate Your Server on the profitability of Dragonfin and gold generating strategy. - Our favorite Dragonfin fishing hole. - Jed’s experiences with real life fishing (or, more specifically, the lack thereof). - Tim Howgego’s fantastic analysis of the popularity of WoW fishing holes (note the comparatively low amount of Dragonblight inland fishing and how that correlates with normal supply –and thus prices- of raw Dragonfin).

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H.R.6184 - America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008110th Congress (2007-2008) |Sponsor:||Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large] (Introduced 06/04/2008)| |Committees:||House - Financial Services | Senate - Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs| |Committee Reports:||H. Rept. 110-748| |Latest Action:||12/23/2008 Became Public Law No: 110-456. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions)| |Roll Call Votes:||There has been 1 roll call vote| This bill has the status Became Law Here are the steps for Status of Legislation: - Passed House - Passed Senate - To President - Became Law Summary: H.R.6184 — 110th Congress (2007-2008)All Bill Information (Except Text) Public Law No: 110-456 (12/10/2008) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008 - Requires quarter dollars, issued beginning in 2010, to have designs on the reverse emblematic of one national site in each state, territory of the United States, and the District of Columbia. Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to select in each state a national park or other national site to be honored with a coin. Requires five coin designs in each year of the period of issuance. Instructs the Secretary to strike and make available for sale silver bullion coins that are exact duplicates of such quarter dollars. Authorizes the Director of the National Park Service to purchase for resale or distribution numismatic items issued under this Act.

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The model for this sculpture was a young dancer at the Paris Opéra Ballet School called Marie van Goethem. She lived near Degas’s apartment and studio in the Montmartre area of Paris with her mother and two sisters. Degas made this nude study around 1878. It acted as a maquette (preliminary model) for a larger, dressed version of the dancer, which was the only sculpture Degas ever exhibited in his lifetime. It provoked a fierce public reaction, as she was deemed neither beautiful or an ‘important’ enough dancer to be the subject of a sculpture. The original wax model for this bronze casting was made following numerous preparatory studies of Marie. Her pose does not reflect any actual ballet step or exercise, but he clearly liked the position as it re-appears in other work.

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A Grunt task plugin to compile Adobe Flex/ActionScript/MXML/FLV/etc. apps with the <code>mxmlc</code> compiler from the Apache/Adobe Flex SDK. A Grunt task plugin to compile Adobe Flex/ActionScript/MXML/FLV/etc. apps with the mxmlccompiler from the Apache/Adobe Flex SDK. This plugin requires Grunt If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command: npm install grunt-mxmlc --save-dev In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named mxmlc to the data object passed into A string value that is used as the raw configuration for the mxmlc command line arguments, minus the input and output files. In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt. options.rawConfiguntil I can dedicate some time to the optionscode) worked out. Copyright (c) 2013 James M. Greene Licensed under the MIT license.

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Association Names New Officers, Announces Expansion of Outreach Online PR News – 13-February-2013 – Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles, CA, February 11, 2013 – The Mar Vista Neighborhood Association kicked off 2013 at its annual Town Hall Meeting on January 24, with community leaders, state and local representatives, and a special segment with L.A. City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl. The Town Hall, which offers neighbors a chance each year to meet and exchange ideas with elected officials , this year brought in California State Assemblymember Holly Mitchell, L.A. Unified School District Board Member Steve Zimmer, and a representative from California State Senator Ted Lieu's office. Bill Rosendahl, District 11 City Council Representative, who will be stepping down as councilmember, spoke at length from his heart, sharing many of his memories of his public and private life, as well as his hopes for the future. In a touching tribute, the MVNA neighbors honored him with a flash-mob style song. Biennial elections for the MVNA Board of Directors also took place, and the new officers, who will serve for the next two years, were announced last week. Outgoing MVNA president Cary Gordon will hand the gavel over to Roseann Herman. New board member Jennifer Macy was named vice president, Sue Hirschkoff will continue as treasurer, Rob Kadota will serve as secretary and Debbie Rochlin, newsletter editor & webmaster. Sharing her thoughts about MVNA, Herman said, “We're definitely a strong force in the community. Many of the activities we've sponsored have made our area into an exceptionally caring neighborhood, from our neighborhood-wide potluck block party, to our informative newsletter and eblasts for lost pets and crime alerts, and our wonderful neighborhood interest groups. I hope we continue to improve our neighborhood and make it the best community in the City of Los Angeles." Herman added she was looking forward to furthering neighborliness and volunteerism via Neighborhood Watch meetings and outreach to newcomers and old-timers, and increasing involvement with other local organizations, such as the farmers' market, neighboring homeowners' associations, the recently formed Mar Vista Business Association, and the Mar Vista Community Council. The remaining directors are Cary Gordon, Renee Marcus, Michael Millman, Charles Rosenberg and Jean Roth. About the Mar Vista Neighborhood Association The Mar Vista Neighborhood Association was founded in 2000 to promote community spirit; improve quality of life; secure public improvements; and keep the community informed. For more information, visit the MVNA's website at mvneighbors.org, or contact Debbie Rochlin at firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Every time we go to Nagoya, we stay here. It is a business hotel, therefore it is not gorgeous. But they offer unbelievable great cost performance to stay in a hotel near the Nagoya station. The hotel is clean and staffs are very reliable. Breakfast is also great. Some Japanese main newspapers and a computer for Internet are offered in a lounge. - Reservation Options: - TripAdvisor is proud to partner with Expedia, Booking.com, Agoda, Travelocity, Hotwire, HotelTravel.com, JAPANiCAN, Priceline, Odigeo and Hotels.com so you can book your Meitetsu Inn Nagoya Ekimae reservations with confidence. We help millions of travelers each month to find the perfect hotel for both vacation and business trips, always with the best discounts and special offers.

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CHAPEL HILL – Someday doctors will find a cure for cancer. Someday man will walk on Mars. Someday engineers will find a fuel that ends our dependence on oil. And, oh, yeah, someday Clemson will come to Chapel Hill and win a basketball game against North Carolina. There was reason to believe that day might be Tuesday. The Tar Heels, after all, were coming off an unsightly loss at Georgia Tech in which it shot just 27.6 percent from the floor while the Tigers arrived at the Smith Center riding high on an eight-game winning streak and a 25-point drubbing of those same Yellow Jackets. Those circumstances only served to fuel the fire under coach Roy Williams’ team, which rose to the occasion as it always does against Clemson for a 75-65 victory that kept UNC’s all-time home record against the Tigers unblemished at a perfect 55-0. The Tar Heels have never lost to their ACC rival in Chapel Hill. So you don’t think “The Streak” really means something to those wearing Carolina blue and white? You’d never know it by the effort UNC put out in this latest renewal. “We had so much more emotion, so much more enthusiasm, so much more want-to,” Williams said afterward. “You’ve got to play the game of basketball with a sense of urgency and I didn’t feel like we played, really the last three games with a sense of urgency. But I think we had that emotional feeling out there today.” It’s a feeling that was born from the embarrassment that came from getting spanked on national television in the Tar Heels’ last game. But don’t discount the role history played in this one, either. It was as tangible as the grin on sophomore forward John Henson’s face as he jumped to chest-bump his teammates shortly after the final horn had sounded. “You don’t want to be the one team that ends the streak,” Henson, still smiling, said in the locker room later. “You just want to keep it alive. “You don’t really like to talk about it, knock on wood. You just want to go out there, play hard and hopefully, the outcome will be the one you want.” Though the names and faces change from year-to-year, there just seems to be something about the sight of orange tiger paws in Chapel Hill that brings out the best in the Tar Heels. Some more than others. Wayne Ellington was a particularly notorious Tiger tamer, burning Clemson with career-high scoring performances, buzzer-beating game-winners and other assorted daggers during his three-year college career. It’s a role that now appears to have been handed over to freshman forward Reggie Bullock. Coming off the bench early after Williams took exception to the defense being played by starter Dexter Strickland, Bullock gave the Tar Heels an immediate spark by hitting his first 3-pointer since Jan. 8. And he didn’t stop there. Not only did the youngster have a career-high 16 points by halftime (on 6 of 7 shooting), but he had two of his team’s seven steals as part of a much more intense defensive effort than the one it gave Sunday in Atlanta. Amazing how much motivation a team can get from a stern tongue lashing and the desire to keep a 54-game win streak alive. The energy carried over into the second half, during which UNC built a 10-point lead and threatened to make it easy. But not even Clemson in Chapel Hill can hide all of the Tar Heels’ shortcomings for an entire game. Eventually, the missed assignments, missed shots and mental lapses on both ends of the court began to return, allowing the Tigers to pull back even at 63 with just under eight minutes to go. That, of course, only added a little drama to the inevitable. In the end, Harrison Barnes made a big 3-pointer, Kendall Marshall hit free throws, the Tar Heels held the Tigers scoreless for the final 4:25 and the streak even Matt Doherty couldn’t foul up lives on for at least another year. Someday, Clemson will eventually come to Chapel Hill and win a basketball game. Until then, the sun will continue to rise in the east and set in the west. Just as it always does.

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Also in This Area Also in This Style Details on Slovenian Ascents in India Posted on: October 21, 2009 Rok Blagus and Luka Lindic break trail after a week of bad weather in the Bhagirathi group of India's Garhwal Himalaya. The pair, along with Marko Prezelj, climbed three new routes there last month after a permit mix-up brought them to the area. [Photo] Marko Prezelj A permit mix-up changed the climbing venue for three Slovenian alpinists last month. The result: three significant new routes in the Bhagirathi group of India's Garhwal Himalaya (read more in the October 18, 2009 NewsWire). For six months, Marko Prezelj, Rok Blagus and Luka Lindic were planning an expedition to Rimo I (7385m) in the Indian Karakoram. They received notice that the Indian Army would not allow their proposed climb just three weeks before departure. The team immediately switched their objective to the Bhagirathis. "I didn't work much on collecting information for the replacement destination," Prezelj said. "I knew that Bhagirathis are interesting for steep climbing and that was enough. I discovered during the trip approach, descent, routes, history and other information I normally check before the departure... In general it was a kind of 'on sight' trip." Prezelj leads an ice pitch on Bhagirathi IV. [Photo] Rok Blagus Adding insult to injury, Blagus said, when the team arrived in Delhi they discovered that their liaison agency had misinterpreted the army's suggestion. Plans already in motion for the Bhagirathis, they began the four-day trek to base camp at Nandanvan (ca. 4350m). They arrived on September 4, set up camp and waited out a week of lightning, rain and snow. When the weather cleared, they found even the steepest faces covered by snow. The team kept high spirits and set their sights on south- and west-facing slopes. "We were there to climb," Blagus said. "And it actually did not make much difference if we climbed hard rock or just some snow slopes." Following this philosophy, the trio took an obvious but previously unclimbed route (D+, 1000m) up Bhagirathi IV (6200m) on September 15 to acclimatize. Prezelj leads an ice pitch on Bhagirathi II. [Photo] Luka Lindic A week later, without scoping their line (ED [6b (5.10d) M5 WI5], 1300m) prior, they climbed Bhagirathi III (6454m). Arriving at the waterice section at midday, the team had to navigate wet rock and unstable, difficult-to-protect ice. The gem of the trip was an ascent of Bhagirathi II (6512m) via "the most obvious line" in the region, Blagus said. The ascent, climbed from September 29 to October 1, was climbed at an impressive ED+/ABO (6b+ [5.11a] M8 WI6+, 1300m). Blagus and Lindic descend from the narrow summit of Bhagirathi IV. Bhagirathi III is in the background. [Photo] Marko Prezelj The ascents of Bhagirathi III and Bhagirathi II were not climbed entirely free; the team made two rappels on route and descended via a 5-meter pendulum, respectively. However, all three ascents were climbed without fixed ropes or other support, and all pitches were climbed by the leader and seconds without other aid or ascenders. On Bhagirathi II, the partners led in blocks of four pitches each. The team climbed light, bringing two sleeping bags and no tents. They left base camp on October 4 and returned to Slovenia four days later. Blagus and Prezelj said the routes had excellent snow, ice and rock, which resulted in phenomenal climbing. And the trip was a success, Blagus said, because they "took things step by step and adjusted plans and strategies according to conditions, which was possible only because we were not preoccupied with goals and numbers." Sources: Rok Blagus, Marko Prezelj Lindic starts up a new route on Bhagirathi III. [Photo] Marko Prezelj Blagus climbs a section of rock on Bhagirathi III. The team encountered significantly wet conditions during the climb. [Photo] Marko Prezelj Left to right, Lindic, Blagus and Prezelj on the summit of Bhagirathi III. Prior to this expedition Blagus, 27, climbed one-on-one regularly with Lindic, 21, and Prezelj, 44. However, before September all three had teamed up together only once, two years ago in Slovenia's Julian Alps. [Photo] Marko Prezelj Here at Alpinist, our small editorial staff works hard to create in-depth stories that are thoughtfully edited, thoroughly fact-checked and beautifully designed. Please consider supporting our efforts by subscribing.

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Maryland will celebrate its 250-year thoroughbred racing tradition with the second annual Maryland Million Horse Country Tour this weekend. Four Carroll County farms are among the 21 stops in five counties where visitors can see what is involved in the making of champions. "Most people know about the Preakness and Pimlico," said Cricket Goodall, assistant executive director of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association. "They don't know about the industry and how it produces thoroughbreds." Ms. Goodall said owners are eager to open their barns and pastures to publicize the industry. Last year the event raised about $3,000 for the Maryland Council of Equine Therapies Inc., which coordinates statewide therapeutic riding and driving associations. Shamrock Farms will show its "celebrity" stallions, including Aloma's Ruler, the 1982 Preakness winner, and D JJJ Ebony Gold, the best Morgan horse in the country, said Jim Steele, manager of the 640-acre farm in Woodbine. "We will show our foals and stallions, and films of our champions performing," he said. Miniature horses will be showing off, too. At Valhalla Farm at Finksburg, home to 19 miniature horses, visitors will tour the 21-stall barn and enjoy a hands-on visit with mares and new foals. The miniatures -- they cannot be taller than 34 inches -- thrive on crowds of people eyeing and petting them, said owners Dan and Kathy Conahan. "Our horses are delighted with the attention," said Mrs. Conahan. "Even the babies are people-oriented and intelligent." The skittishness often associated with horses is not part of a miniature's nature, said Mrs. Conahan, who took Rosebud, a yearling, to Preakness activities. "There were whooshing balloons, loud bands and kids all around her," she said. "Nothing bothered her." After six years of breeding and selling the miniatures, Mrs. Conahan can attest to their assets. "They make wonderful pets and companions," she said. "They are easy to handle and manage and are not as intimidating as larger horses." The breed originally was used to haul coal from mines in England. It now numbers about 42,000 worldwide. Halter and driving demonstrations will show how well the miniatures perform. "Miniatures are willing to please and love to drive a cart," said Mrs. Conahan. "They can pull about two times their weight." The Conahans, who both work as nurses at Carroll County General Hospital, said they have had much success on their farm, which they built about three years ago. Valhalla will also be open to the public on Grandparents Day, Sept. 12, and again on Oct. 18. "Although breeding and foaling are our priorities, we don't mind having crowds a few times a year," said Mrs. Conahan. "It helps us get information out and sell our horses." Dedication Farm in Eldersburg and Derby Hill Farm in Mount Airy also are on the county tour stops, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets, which are $15 for adults and $7.50 for children, are available through the Tourist Information Center in Westminster or at any tour stop. Maps and programs also are available. Information: 848-1388.

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Zbigniew Brzezinski asserts quite candidly: "Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization."Well! If this is indeed the case, then that would explain many things wouldn't it? At the least, it would explain the ignorance of the US public with respect to it's government misdeeds abroad, for if informed, they just might hold their rulers accountable, and not allow atrocities to be committed in their name in the guise of protecting or extending "national or geopolitical interests". ZB has perhaps also made the unstated assumption that in a democracy, its people are basically kind and not blood thirsty war mongers. This is why he observes that they will only agree to war if they perceive a "direct external threat" or a "challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being". Let's examine this assertion by ZB. How does one define well-being? For instance, would the US public go to war if they couldn't fill up their SUVs anymore? Or will they only go to war upon a Pearl Harbor? What is their national threshold? History further demonstrates the execution of Socrates at the hands of a democracy, and a cynic could perhaps argue that democracy is necessarily ignorant, and ZB is being unnecessarily optimistic. He could also argue, that the self indulgent population of this opulent country couldn't care less even if they knew what was going on in their name, and may point out the example of Israel. Israel is billed as a Democracy in the midst's of a barbaric and dictatorial Middle East, an enlightened Europe in the Arab heartland, a beacon of education and civilization among the backward and unruly Arabs – as Moshe Katsav, Israel's President had so dramatically pointed out about the Palestinian Arabs living under Israeli military occupation: “... people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to different galaxy.”*1A cynic may well argue that ZB's theory of Democracy being inimical to empire building seems to be hogwash when applied to Israel. Everyone admits that Israel has a freer printed press than the United States, with a broader range of opinions being expressed there, and furthermore, that it is a democracy, even if only a racist one and primarily only for its Jewish population, at least they do elect their leaders. Then how comes Israel can persist in its illegal occupation and systematic genocide of their own Semitic brethren and cousins, the Palestinians, and the same war criminals get re-elected time and again? How can they persist in enjoying ecstatic visions of owning all the lands between the Nile and the Euphrates rivers? Perhaps this “informed people” concept of the “populist democracy” is overblown? The cynic might even argue that the premise of people giving a damn just because they live in a democracy, even when they might have strong moral traditions, is beguiling. Aren't the Jews in Israel supposed to be very moral and highly aware people, especially given their own recent history of a terrible holocaust, and a free press? Then how do they still end up being led by known killers and war criminals? Known and very popular cialis coupon which gives all the chance to receive a discount for a preparation which has to be available and exactly cialis coupons has been found in the distant room of this big house about which wood-grouses in the houses tell. The cynic might further protest that if the chief proponent of the Holocaust museum, himself a Holocaust survivor, and a Nobel Laureate author of such works as “Night”, who while vociferously argues that the world should never forget and condemns the silence of the people that led to the holocaust: “and I still curse the killers, their accomplices, the indifferent spectators who knew and kept silent”,*2 is silent himself to criticize Israel's own racial genocide in their own back yard, then how do you expect the ordinary citizenry to behave any differently? The cynic would suggest that America is no different than Israel, aren't they ideological allies? Why should democracy be inimical to imperial mobilization in one case, and not the other? Faced with these basic contradictions that few in the mainstream media would dare enlighten him about, perhaps because of their own ignorance as the basic qualifications for them seems to be "good looks" rather than "good minds", our cynic would have to go to Mars and seek counsel from the alien observers to learn that over there on Mars, they call it hypocrisy and thuggery. But here on Earth it is called Anti-Semitism and “war on terrorism”. Our cynic would be informed by the alien observers from Mars that all of Israel's funding comes from the United States, therefore their own populace don't have to shell out the money to finance their country's economic growth or militarization. He would learn that Israel is a fraudulent creation born of a fraudulent motto a land for a people, for a people without land, for a land without people (how do they keep that going?). A country acquired by mercilessly displacing the local Palestinian population and making them refugees in their own homeland, while inviting the Jews from the entire world to come live in Israel. Founded on the racist ideology of a Jews only country much like apartheid South Africa's 'white only neighborhoods', born of the Zionist vision of a handful of ideologues over a century ago to re-gather the Jews of the Diaspora of over 2000 years into a single homeland before any holocaust had occurred, they dream of conquering all the Arab lands from the “Nile to the Euphrates" as the greater Israel. The Zionist among them, living both in Israel and in the United States, continue to plan for the realization of their vision in the corridors of power in Washington. They seem to be succeeding. The cynic will learn that the Zionists founded the organization JINSA in the mid 1970s with the explicit charter to make US strong in the Middle East, a land of oil and natural riches coveted by the US for fueling its own Hegemonic plans, with Israel as its core instrument of execution. Israel maintains a very influential lobbying group AIPAC, to not only influence the elections of politicians that support their cause and to defeat those politicians who oppose them, but also to systematically and continually influence the policy decisions of the law makers in Washington to favor Israel's interests, and actively discourage those policies that even while in favor of US interests may not be in Israel's best interest. The American politicians from both its parties dutifully report to AIPAC and show their true bipartisan spirit of working together for the sake of Israel by candid remarks like: "I have always fought for the vital economic and military assistance that Israel needs. ... I called upon President Bush to respond to Israel's urgent request for assistance to confront its unprecedented economic and military crisis. The President answered with the [$9 billion] aid package he submitted to Congress last week. As House Democratic Leader, I pledge to you today: Democrats in Congress will be in the lead in the fight for passing this emergency package. ... Let no one ever question our unshakable commitment to the security that Israel must have and the safety of the Israeli people and to its qualitative military edge. Israel will never stand alone, because America will never abandon Israel."*3 The Zionists have organized other powerful think tanks and institutions to maintain their influence over the United States' politicians and upon its all important public opinion - the key to their continued survival in the Middle East. They are also a direct beneficiary of this US "war on terrorism", which is a pretext to redraw the map of the Middle East, with Israel exercising its own mini Zionist hegemony in the region in service of their benefactors in Washington. The Israeli governments regardless of their stripes (Likud or Labor), usually dominated by Zionist ideologues, continue to oppress the remaining Palestinians now living in less than 22% of their original pre-1948 land, known as the West Bank and Gaza strip. The Zionist desire is to grab even this region in the West Bank (the thin densely populated Gaza strip being useless for them for anything besides a giant prison camp for the unwanted Palestinians) which contains all the waters of Palestine underneath its rich fertile soil that Israel desperately needs for its own Jews only cities. The successive governments purposely force one crisis after another to make pretexts for building more settlements and partitioning the area into disjointed Bantustans. Their hope is that the Palestinians will finally give up and just leave out of desperation. The Zionists look towards the "settler" model of apartheid South Africa and the Pilgrim settlers of the United States of America. They seem to be following the same polices that put the majority of the black South Africans in their own mineral and diamond rich homeland into poverty stricken slums and disjointed Bantustans, and the native American Indians resettled into isolated barren reservations as the white man took upon himself the burden to civilize them, taking over their choice lands in the process to construct the egalitarian United States of America. Egalitarian that is, for everyone else except the native Indian. The Zionists well understand that justice will be hard to administer once a new Jewish generation is born and raised on the soil in Palestine, for they were born there, it's not their fault that their ancestors stole the land from the Palestinians. They will defend themselves as vigorously from eviction as a Californian would if the lowly Mexican were to come knocking at their door. Thus one sees the Zionist rulers of Israel delay making any reasonable peace because they know that time is in their favor, that making any kind of just peace in the future will have to take into account the facts on the ground that they are busy seeding! They also learn from the post apartheid South Africa that once the wealth and power is accumulated in the hands of the minority ruling class, its just and equitable redistribution later, when justice purportedly prevails and peace has been established between the warring factions, is next to impossible. As a consequence of this "settler" policy that most everyone in Israel would admit to themselves, but perhaps only in their bathroom mirrors, they also live in perpetual fear that the injustices and oppression they have afflicted on the Palestinians and the region, would one day come to haunt them. They especially fear that the Palestinians and their surrounding Arab neighbors may one day become strong enough that they will come back and demand their homes and their lands back. Having studied their own histories quite carefully, they well understand that they have bit the hand that has fed them in the past, when the Christian West was persecuting them for centuries, the Islamic East offered them refuge and shelter in their dominion. The Zionists can also recall the hand of Islam on the necks of the Jews in the battle of Khayber during the early period of Islam, when the residents of Khayber were paid back for their treacherous subversion of a peace treaty, by the Prophet of Islam with Justice prescribed in their own Torah and of their own choosing. They further realize that every Muslim in the billion plus population is also aware of this history and may seek retribution one day: “It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood.”*4 They are afraid of the day of reckoning! This fear, has now become so deep rooted in the very fabric of Israeli society, that they are blinded to any suffering they continue to inflict on the Palestinians, as they feel it is either them or us, and this is a positive feedback loop. More brutally they suppress the Palestinians, more paranoid they get when the Palestinians hit back with whatever little means at their disposal. Thus as a nation, the Israelis are on permanent war footings of their own deliberate making, and as per ZB's threat perception model, their populace will tend to elect people whom they see will protect them from the enemy. The killers of their enemy are their saviors. They regularly send their young sons and daughters to fight their enemies in the military. Almost every household in Israel has some family member having served in the armed forces, many of them stay on reservist duty. For Israel, democracy isn't inimical to their expansion plans, because the majority of the public is complicit in these goals, either through direct contribution, tacit acceptance, or willful ignorance. Moral ambiguities of Elie Wiesel - a Holocaust survivor! These however do not include the small percentage of pathological cases so traumatized by their holocaust memories and sufferings that they are psychologically unable to see Israel do any wrong. Some of these survivors have become very high profile writers, and exercise a great deal of influence in policy making related to Holocaust remembrance that helps sustain support for Israel. They argue that their suffering is so unparalleled that "It is a mystery whose parallel may only be the one of Sinai when something was revealed", and therefore they deserve special moral privilege as victims of the Holocaust. They generate a lot of controversy among Jewish moralists themselves who point out that: "Although the Holocaust inflicted horrible injustice upon us, it did not grant us certificate of everlasting righteousness. The murderers where amoral; the victims were not made moral. To be moral you must behave ethically. The test of that is daily and constant." Their consequent and sustained subjecting of the Palestinians to immoral and illegal occupation and daily persecution is debated heatedly among the moralist and academics. But it's mainly that, a source of intellectual debate and polemics, because the reality on the ground has been there for more than half a century, if their debate had any value, they would have surely figured it out by now and rectified their injustices. Those unable to see 'Israel do any wrong' due to their own Holocaust experience are clearly psychologically unable to deal with it and unable to reason or tell the difference between right and wrong any more. For them, perhaps it was the cataclysmic and apocalyptic event they feel it to be. Albeit not all Holocaust survivors have lost their ability to reason as traumatized they might be, this is the case with the author of “Night” as stated in his own defense for his censurable silence on Israel: "Do not ask me, a traumatized Jew, to be pro-Palestinian. I totally identify with Israel and cannot go along with the leftist intellectuals who reject it. Perhaps another generation will be free enough to criticize Israel; I cannot."; "My loyalty to my people, to our people, and to Israel comes first and prevents me from saying anything critical of Israel outside Israel. That is the price I pay for living in the Diaspora. As a Jew I see my role as a melitz yosher, a defender of Israel: I defend even her mistakes. Yes I feel that as a Jew who resides outside Israel I must identify with whatever Israel does - even her errors. That is the least Jews in the Diaspora can do for Israel: either speak up in praise, or keep silent. Therefore, I believe if I have something to say about certain things I do not like about Israel - and there are some - I must go there". These words are not from a rational mind, rather a severely scarred for life person by his own admissions. Hence when he says the following about the Palestinian occupied territories: "Israel did not want those territories; they were imposed on Israel in war.",*5 it is unfair to label that as hypocrisy, but rather someone who cannot see reality because he is so wrapped up in his own trauma. Hence those who criticize this prolific author and Holocaust survivor for his hypocrisy, must realize that he is not a rational person. For a rational mind, it would indeed be hypocrisy. Those psychologically ill may perhaps be forgiven for what appears to be their moral ambiguities, just as those not able to reason are not held to account in any judicial system. By the same token, they are also unfit to hold important positions of influence where their inability to tell right from wrong due to their own loss of objectivity and rational thinking, can lead to another's suffering. If they do hold such positions, as the author of “Night” does, then they must be removed from those positions. The fact that they are not removed, and continue to be given prominence and influence that helps perpetuate the occupation of another people, is not an indictment against them. But against those who keep them there, in order to exploit the personal and collective sufferings of the Jews in the Holocaust, in the service of their own nefarious Zionist agenda that was planned in the centuries past to occupy Palestine, before the Holocaust even transpired. Those who are so indicted, and justify the stealing of the land and the lives of another innocent people, shattering their tabula rasa, are hypocrites and plain old thugs, and will not be forgiven. The Zionists have hijacked the holocaust memories and Judaism itself, one of the great religions of the world, and the rational and moral Jews themselves will not forgive them. They are orchestrating and perpetuating such crimes against humanity, their complicity and contrivance in this fictitious "war on terrorism" bringing such worldwide destruction and economic exploitation, that humanity itself will not forgive them. The motivations and achievements of bringing the plight of the European Jewry who were hitherto oppressed themselves in many Christian European countries of the world, into the limelight of the world, and freeing them of their social bondage, and honoring and remembering the plight of its victims of horrors of WWII concentration camps, is indeed a prerogative and a right dutifully exercised by its people, in fact by all people as such atrocities are a calamity for all mankind. But not at the expense of victimizing another innocent people and subjecting them to such sustained sufferings, that their plight now begins to rival those of their oppressors. While the Holocaust suffering of the Jews lasted for six long apocalyptic years, the suffering and persecution of many Palestinians has gone on for more than three decades and is no less cataclysmic for the victims, some displaced in 1948 are still living in refugee camps with generations growing up and dying in these camps. With children being born in refugee camps in appalling conditions in the sniper gun-sights of the Israeli soldiers, and dying in the same camps under a hail of Israeli tank shells, never having seen the outside world, and never having entertained any hope of escape from their predicament, in their innocence they ask what makes the Jews suffering an holocaust and theirs merely murder that the world can tolerate as if it was an ordinary street crime? Millions are being held captives in their own homeland with daily humiliations and torture, treatment that one would not met out to a dog. Those who advocate support of Israel at the expense of enslaving Palestinians and killing them in small numbers at a time on a daily basis and wounding many more so that they would eventually die off as cripples but not raise the alarm in the rest of the world because numbers seem to define when mass killing is called a genocide and when it isn't, or removing them forcibly from their homeland euphemistically calling it a "population transfer", are guilty of the same crimes of genocide they accuse their own oppressors of. Their claims to ancestral lands as justification for their destruction of the indigenous population that has existed for 10,000 years, far older than their own claim of 2500 years, and in justification of their own sufferings at the hands of quite another people, ring hollower than an empty drum, and not able to withstand the scrutiny of any court of law, penal or moral, not just on Earth, but also here on Mars. And indeed, any such claims if entertained, need to be argued in a court of law, not at the barrel of a gun, and certainly not against a defenseless civil population using the animalistic “might makes right” morality long outlawed in the developed Universe, but somehow still being practiced ubiquitously on earth. Were it not for the Zionists and their machinations to forcibly create “Der Judenstaat” - the Jewish State - as envisioned by their founding father Theodor Herzl in 1896 in modern day Arab Palestine, the Jews and Muslims would be living in peace, cousins that they are, sharing many of the same ancestral Prophets and traditions, all being children of Prophet Ebrahim (Abraham), and there perhaps would also not be this fictitious "war on terrorism" being waged now. Before the Zionists set their eyes on Palestine, the Jews, and Arabs, Christians and Muslims alike, were living in Palestine peacefully, side by side, culturally intermingling, and it used to be difficult to tell them apart except by their respective religious clothing if they were religious, and not at all otherwise. Now they are at daggers drawn. How the Zionist thugs will be brought to justice on earth remains to be seen. They are for the moment very powerful, and this power may ultimately also spell their death knell, and that of their people, as it did for Firoun (Pharaoh) and his people. The silent prayers of innocent victims, be they Palestinian, Jews, or any peoples, are never ignored! There is a day of reckoning, for everyone! There is also a small minority of conscionable and outspoken Jews living both in Israel and in the United States, who actively oppose this 'moral ambiguity' and the vicious cycle of violence, and argue that this will lead to their collective suicide, both morally and physically, and they must stop oppressing the Palestinians and make a just peace with them. They come from all walks of life and professions, from the intellectual professors to teenagers. They oppose the Israeli government's oppressive policies and many of them even refuse to serve in the Israeli military preferring to go to jails instead. To last count, there were approx. 750 such Refuseniks. Some Jews even bravely put themselves in the path of the Israeli military onslaught in order to protect the innocent Palestinian homes, and sacrifice their own lives as moral witnesses to the crimes against humanity being committed in the name of Jews, putting to lie the Zionist claims to Judaism. But these voices for peace are presently a small minority and not very influential on the government or the elections. Their ideas of justice and morality also vary widely, from a single democratic non racist homeland for all the indigenous peoples, including the Palestinian Muslims and Christians in accordance with principles of modern statehood in the civilized world and with full rights of return restored for all Palestinians earlier displaced and as demanded by the UN resolutions, to a further partitioned two very co-dependent and unequal states with Israel kept much stronger than Palestine along the 1967 borders to continue to serve the imperial interests of the power-brokers on Earth, and the Zionist Jews allowed to hold on to majority of stolen Palestine. The proponents of the latter, and there are many, do not really understand the realities on the ground today for the Palestinians, and the Bantustans that have been created by annexations and appropriations by Israel, nor the stratification in Israeli society where the wealth of the region is concentrated in the hands of an elite few. The facade of the peace process also revolves around this latter idea and intentionally ignores any redistribution of wealth, return of the refugees, significant compensation for pain and suffering, and return of all the appropriations and land theft done by the Zionists since 1948. There are only a few proponents of the former more just and equitable solution. In either case, the very courageous Jews who dare to speak out against the Jewish State and its systematic and genocidal oppression of the Palestinian people are often derided and labeled by the Zionists as “self-hating Jews” and “Judenrats”. For Christians, the honorific becomes “Nazis” and “anti-Semites”, and for Muslims as for the rest of the world opposed to the Jewish State and its theology of Zionism, it remains the rallying battle cry “rise of anti-Semitism” in the world. The memories of the holocaust are deftly splashed across the globe in movies to television in response so that the world may never forget what they did to the Jews, and because of which the Jews today deserve special considerations and are beyond the pale of ordinary morality and law, for they follow their own god’s law as the chosen peoples. It is often very effective in silencing the critics. Indeed, not only is this theology preached to the world, but to the Jewish populations themselves both in Israel as well as in the Diaspora so that they too may be convinced that Zionism is Judaism that Moses brought from the Mountain exclusively for them. Thus all its moral commandments are interpreted to only apply to them and as such being endowed with a super morality above all else as god’s chosen peoples. The teachings are kept well hidden in Hebrew but are an open secret among the Hebrew speaking populations as composing the essential Jewish ethos of domination of the lowly goyems by the chosen ones. All this ultimately results in most Jews having attended such Hebrew schools growing up believing in this theology of “superiority”, leaving only a handful of rational dissenters behind who are easily dismissed as “self-hating Jews”. Help: those nasty boys are pelting stones at our tanks! Finally, our cynic will learn that in order to maintain the very essential US public opinion support, and knowing quite well that the US is a democratic nation where the populace will not stand for injustices committed on an innocent people with their tax dollars, the Israelis and their Zionist supporters spend considerable resources and energies in spinning myths and rewriting history. Their most impressive and successful myth, that will one day perhaps rival those in ancient civilizations, is that "it is the poor Israel that is under siege by the evil and barbaric Palestinians illegally living on land given to the Jews by God Almighty Himself and it is so written in their ancient scriptures". This is the dominant image in the minds of the mainstream Americans when they see the stone throwing Palestinian kid protesting his slavery of a different sort - he is free to flee but not to stay on his own land! The myth is now so powerful that it has swept over the usually rational minds of even the educated and the scholarly, the newsman and the congressman, such that the truly innocent among them do not even stop to ponder simple questions like: where are the tanks, the check points, the homes being demolished, the UN built refugee camps slum dwellers, the curfews, the midnight knocks on the door, the arbitrary beatings and imprisonment of men of all ages, the bulk of the dead kids shot in the head or the eyes, and permanently crippled casualties in this ultimate battle of biblical proportions between good and evil? In Tel Aviv Or in Jenin? As a parting shot, our cynic was warned by the alien observer from Mars about tolerating hypocrisy in the earthly societies, and the consequence of turning a blind eye towards it. While not being a penal crime on earth, it was a moral crime in every religion and value system in the Universe, and especially in the Earth's major religions it was the gravest of sins punishable by eternal damnation in the lowest recesses of hell. The reason why hypocrisy is morally so repugnant, our cynic was informed, is because it is the essential seed that enables spreading of the “banality of evil” possible in society.*6 This is what had led to the holocaust of the Jews in the first place, and is indeed responsible for spreading oppression and misery wherever it flourishes, on Earth, or elsewhere in the Universe. There would be peace and justice in the Universe, if all its inhabitants eschewed hypocrisy and adopted the simple universal moral truth logically stemming from not being hypocritical in the self-interest of survival:*7 what is good for me to do to you, should be good for you to do to me, what is evil for you to do to me, should be evil for me to do to you too! But of course mortals forget sometimes. A gentle reminder is all it takes to put them back on track, their sense of self preservation and conscience being deadly weapons against hypocrisy. Those Neanderthals who argue that human beings came about because of the struggle for “survival of the fittest”, and “might makes right” is the only evolutionary path to higher life forms and progressive civilizations as it winnows out the weak, can perhaps be asked to explain why those who willingly sacrifice themselves and their offspring at the higher altar of “truth and justice” in their courageous battles against corruption and oppression, with no guarantees of success within their own or even foreseeable life times, are immortalized as heroes and role models for all future time, while there is no memory left of the “arrogant and the mighty”, who are only derided even when remembered? Phew, what a lesson for our cynic! Better not visit Mars anymore, lest more hypocrisy gets revealed. They seem to have a dossier prepared on the earthlings! These “reflections from Mars” are first order models to help understand what is really going on in the Apartheid Israel, and are only accurate to the extent that they explain the observed phenomenon.*8 The fraudulent creation of Israel in Palestine through Machiavellian machinations are plainly manifest in the writings of David Ben Gurion and his political Zionist progenitor Theodor Herzl. Even a simple search in Google on the internet will reveal their dastardly plans for systematically depopulating Palestine of its indigenous Arab people in their own Machiavellian words a plenty: “What is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times” as David Ben Gurion insightfully noted, and which Ariel Sharon is diligently putting into practice in annexing the rest of Palestine piece meal by deceitfully inventing the “revolutionary times” as did all his predecessors. Unlike the ordinary person in the West who seeks immediate gratification, the Zionists are long term strategic planners as evidenced by Herzl's own statement: “In Basle I founded the Jewish state ... Maybe in five years, certainly in fifty, everyone will realize it.” They take baby steps in accomplishing their goals, which become irreversible steps once taken. This Zionist strategy is also what is at play in the Neocon occupation of Iraq as will become apparent through the course of this book – which is why neither the front face in the American White House, nor the front face in the Israeli Knesset, really matters a whole lot so long as the overarching goal of Eretz Israel: “from the Nile to the Euphrates” is employed as a political ideology, and its realization, a national mandate. Information today is easily accessible to anyone – if they seek it. We don't even have to go very far in history. The Israeli contemporary scholars keep reminding themselves of how they acquired the Palestinian lands, as in the recent short book from a courageous and outspoken Israeli Jew, scholar, and writer, Tanya Reinhart: “Israel/Palestine - How to End the War of 1948”. A brief excerpt from its very first page is reproduced below. Her own introductory words are a telling example of the brain washing that goes on in the Israeli society to convince its new generation, and whatever conscionable population there might be, to tow the Zionist's ideological fiction much like in the United States: "The state of Israel founded in 1948 following a war which the Israelis call the War of Independence, and the Palestinians call the Nakba - the catastrophe. A haunted, persecuted people sought to find a shelter and a state for itself, and did so at a horrible price to another people. During the war of 1948, more than half of the Palestinian population at the time - 1,380,000 people - were driven off their homeland by the Israeli army. Though Israel officially claimed that a majority of refugees fled and were not expelled, it still refused to allow them to return, as a UN resolution demanded shortly after 1948 war. Thus, the Israeli land was obtained through ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants. This is not a process unfamiliar in history. Israel's actions remain incomparable to the massive ethnic cleansing of Native Americans by the settlers and government of the United states. Had Israel stopped there, in 1948, I could probably live with it. As an Israeli, I grew up believing that this primal sin our state was founded on may be forgiven one day, because the founder's generation was driven by the faith that this was the only way to save the Jewish people from the danger of another holocaust." While Tanya Reinhart is courageous enough to openly admit the hypocrisy that she was raised in, other academics who presumably are also “leftist” dissenters and the voice of conscience of Israel – or so they project themselves, aren’t quite as forthcoming. They celebrate the existence and accomplishments of Israel as their Jewish State, albeit sometimes with mixed feelings and occasional pangs of guilt that they are famously known for in the Middle East - they will first plan to kill you with a design most brutal, and then come to your funeral lamenting: “We can forgive them for killing our children, we cannot forgive them for making us kill theirs.”*9 And during this show of “profound remorse”, they still continue to inhabit the same lands that they have militarily usurped under self-righteous prerogatives that they have given themselves as god's chosen people, and where they weren't even born to start with. Here is one such voice – Israeli Professor Barauch Kimmerling, a self proclaimed leftist dissenter and teacher of sociology in Hebrew University in Jerusalem, writing in an article “My Holiday, Their Tragedy”: “As a Jew, an atheist and a Zionist, I have two memorial days in my country, Israel. One for the Holocaust and one for soldiers who fell in wars. I also have one day of celebration, the anniversary of the day Israel declared its statehood. [...] Independence Day is a holiday for me, but also an opportunity for intense self-introspection. A person needs a state and land, and this is my land, my homeland, despite the fact that I was not born here. I am proud of the unprecedented accomplishments of this country, and feel personally responsible for its failures, foolishness, injustice, evil, and its oppression of its citizens and residents (Jewish, Arab, and others) as well as of those who are defined and defined themselves as her enemies. I know that my holiday, a day of joy and pride for me, is a day of mourning and tragedy for some of Israel's citizens and, more so, for members of the Palestinian people everywhere. I know that as long as we, all Jews everywhere, do not acknowledge this, we will not be able to live here in safety, every man and woman under their vine and under their fig tree. Happy holidays, Israel.”*10 I am still trying to parse what it means to be a “Jew, an atheist and a Zionist” all at the same time. Only intellectual moralists living in Israel can perhaps unravel such intricate conundrums and still sleep well at night and be able to look at themselves in the morning. While David Ben Gurion can claim god gave the Jews Palestine thousands of years ago in one breadth, and in the other find it okay to use god’s name to bring misery to another peoples by his own hands: “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”*11 “We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return ... The old will die and the young will forget.”*12 As now, there is no fear of a god anymore. Nietzsche had made sure of that in the nineteenth century for them as the elite prerogative of the superman having their own super morality beyond that of the ken of ordinary men, as no one morality may fit all sizes of peoples - some chosen by god, others chosen to serve the ones chosen by god, and then god died after issuing substantial land grants to his superior and choicest peoples: “According to Halachah, classic Judaism's laws and customs, for example "compassion towards others" extends to Jews only. Murder or manslaughter is judged mildly when the perpetrator is Jewish and the victim a non-Jew. Also according to Halachah, it is accepted for a Jew to kill a non-Jew if he is laying claim to "eternal Jewish land". This is what the settlers' religious organisations are alleging. There is no corresponding law in Israel's judicial system but in effect it influences the system as punishment of such crimes is very mild. Israel's state terrorism, theft of land and occupation, demolition of houses, the building of the Wall etc including the so called 'extra-judicial killings' (assassinations), are seen by Zionists as legitimate defence of the Nation and therefore fall under international law - which Israel ignores [..] Buber critisised Nazism while commending the Jewish Religion (Hassidism) but keeping quiet about its dehumanising of non-Jews (goyim). These double standards act to increase Israel's chauvinism and hatred of all non-Jews.”*13 “There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbors here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, they are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to different galaxy.”*14 ‘ “The bitter irony of fate decreed that the same biological and racist argument extended by the Nazis, and which inspired the inflammatory laws of Nuremberg, serve as the basis for the official definition of Jewishness in the bosom of the state of Israel” (quoted in Joseph Badi, Fundamental Laws of the State of Israel NY, 1960, P.156)’*15 And the divine sanction to acquire the Promised Land with a now dead divine made it entirely reasonable to destroy indigenous Palestinian history, culture, villages, and society entirely from the face of the earth with open unreserved declarations, as there is no fear of retribution by the God of anger and Retribution – eye for an eye - of the Old Testament: “Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.”*16 “We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel ... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours.” and “When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle.”*17 One could argue as did the Martian, that it is actually the “superiority” complex imparted to the Jews by their Zionism theology that makes them so inhuman. But in reality, the majority of Zionist power-brokers and their executers are atheists and “cultural Jews”! So it must only be that god died for them after giving them the fantastic land grants. If they had remained religious and then carried on with their murder and mayhem, the Martian observations may have been more correct that they are imbued with this sense of superiority over others. Indeed, I have not been able to discern any visible signs of this superiority in them in much closer examinations - they only appear to be common criminals perpetuating monumental crimes because they can get away with it due to the support of their super-power sponsors, and possess no more extra-ordinariness about them then did their arch nemesis Eichmann. They only have courage to wage wars by way of deception, and on defenseless civilian populations; they live off hand-outs from the American tax payers, and offer only spying on their generous sponsors in return. It might be worth an American asking the questions what does the Jewish State do for America for all their tax dollars except be its thuggish bouncer in the Middle East? Could they use that money on themselves in improving their own schools, social security benefits, and healthcare? The $9 Billion that was just given to Israel, how many public schools and libraries could that have kept open and properly funded in America? How much more Federal tax refund could they have got back, and continue to get back for all the Pentagon Defense contracts and military aid given to Israel for it to remain an effective bouncer? Do they want a bouncer in the Middle East? By what moral right? The one of law of the Jungle, that “might makes right”? Then how would they claim to be anything more than just glorified baboons in T-shirts and slacks? A civilization of sunglasses wearing baboons? Now that we have discovered the true reality of Israel, mainly in the words of the Israeli Jews themselves, and also tried to answer some hard questions for ourselves (which I hope the astute reader has done before reaching here), where does that leave us today? We can write and lament all we want, but so long as the American peoples continue to finance and arm Israel with their tax dollars and permit this genocide and hypocrisy to continue, there will be more and more books written in the future about the “banality of evil”! The all and mighty Zionist military machinery in Israel is operating with full impunity and with extreme prejudice against a defenseless peoples using the same terror regime as they employed to create the Jewish State in Palestine in 1948 (see Rachel Corrie in the next Chapter). Especially in the backdrop of this fiction of “war on terrorism”, they have acquired the “license” to take over whatever remaining land there is in the fertile West Bank in the guise of fighting the “terrorists”. Only the American public can stop them and force them to roll back – indeed to return to the land they were born in, the United States of America (and Eastern Europe), and return what they stole in 1948 back to its real owners as the only Just and moral solution to the Question of Palestine.*18 And this is also why the American public is deliberately kept the least bit informed about Israel lest they should demand just such a moral solution for their brethren in humanity suffering entirely due to the American sponsorship of their oppressors. But you be the judge of that as you also peruse through the next chapter about the media’s role in keeping you locked up as prisoners of the cave, and reach your own thoughtful and conscionable conclusions! It is possible that some may dismiss my “Martian discourse” that I have employed here, a tool of objectivity I learned from my honored college Professor Noam Chomsky, as liberal (or conservative) propaganda (as the case may be). These labels have become a convenient modus operandi for both sides in the very narrow spectrum discourse on any issue that exists in America, to discredit the other side. There is of course no need to evaluate what one is hearing, since one owns the truth, everyone else is a liar. For these people, my only message is 'you can bring a horse to the pond, you can't force it to drink', and if Socrates were alive today, you would be leading the charge of 'drink the hemlock'! However, the critical reader experiencing that slight tug at their conscience, and perhaps hearing the fleeting whisper of clanking chains for the first time, might wish to look into this further. They might hear a ring of truth in this Muslim writer, whose politics cannot be captured by the narrow straits of American labels such as Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, fundamentalist or secular, because Islam encompasses elements from all of them, and then some. But they are perhaps daunted at the prospect of reading all these books and undertaking the massive amounts of research needed to uncover truth which is always kept a Herculean effort away in this society. They may start by referring to the series of educational but brief pamphlets brought out by the grass-roots organization "If Americans Knew". Get their pamphlet "Rachel's Letters" to hear from a conscientious 23 year old Jew in her own words, why she gave her life in safeguarding her Jewish ideals to an Israeli Caterpillar bulldozer that was made in the USA and paid for by the American tax payer as part of America’s continued billions of dollars in annual financial aid to Israel. See next chapter for an excerpt from her letters to her mother. The mission statement of this organization ably captures the sentiments of the founding fathers of this nation when they made Freedom of the Press an integral part of the very first amendment to the US Constitution. It reads: “In a democracy, the ultimate responsibility for a nation's actions rests with its citizens. The top rung of government - the entity with the ultimate power of governance - is the asserted will of the people. Therefore, in any democracy, it is essential that its citizens be fully and accurately informed. In the United States, currently the most powerful nation on earth, it is even more essential that its citizens receive complete and undistorted information on topics of importance, so that they may wield their extraordinary power with wisdom and intelligence. Unfortunately such information is not always forthcoming. The mission of If Americans Knew is to inform and educate the American public on issues of major significance that are unreported, underreported, or misreported in the American media. It is our belief that when Americans know the facts on a subject, they will, in the final analysis, act in accordance with morality, justice, and the best interest of their nation, and the world. With insufficient information, or distorted information, they may do the precise opposite.” Is America really different from Israel? Why is ZB so concerned about American Democracy? America is a very unique country in modern times, with a relatively free civil society, its composition highly multicultural, and the majority of its population generally not seeking to dominate the world unlike the empires of colonial times. At least ZB does not think so, and neither does the 1996 public opinion poll that ZB cites betray so. I dare to presume that ZB is likely rather surprised himself by the sudden prominence of the crusading Evangelical Christians and their influence over an American President. But since they do not constitute a majority in this multicultural nation, ZB might tend to dismiss the impact of their 'la mission civilisatrice' crusading adventure, while still endorsing the “doctrinal motivational” value that can be squeezed out of it to rally the larger multicultural majority against the evil enemy of the West and hence garner their sustained support for imperial mobilization. However, for the Muslims at the receiving end of their “love of Jesus”, they are a significant menace, especially when their convoluted fanatical beliefs motivate major policy decisions in the White House – like support of Ariel Sharon and Israel over the beleaguered Palestinians, or making it “morally easier” for the American President George W. Bush Jr. to launch invasions upon Muslim nations driven by some insane religious zeal with “god” whispering in his ears: “God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East” Apart from this mutational aberration however, ZB's thesis appears correct for America, as evidenced by the massive antiwar protests that brought Nixon to his knees and an end to the Vietnam War. Indeed, at least in theory, accurate and timely public knowledge has the ability to forestall governmental and institutional misdeeds in a democracy. And ZB would argue (I presume again) that in fact, it can even derail this new Crusade if the American people begin to understand what is really going on in the White House, because the majority of Americans are not motivated by such outdated passions anymore than they are motivated for imperial mobilization. But if they perceive an enemy (real or imagined) is out to get them, they will rise in self defense, as any self respecting nation would. ZB boldly recognized this about the Americans and cleverly argued that only a new Pearl Harbor will mobilize them for war, as otherwise: “Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.” Some might argue however that despite his sagacious insights into the makings of empires, ZB could be too optimistic about Democracy. That this lofty ideal of Democracy, what Winston Churchill called the ~“worst form of government except for all the others”, can only become a reality in practice if the democracy is a genuine public franchise and not a carefully crafted deceptive process to support the democracy of the elite few; if the face of the elected leadership and presidency is not just a public image over behind the scenes policy makers who remain constant across administrations, and remain beyond the pale of democratic selection by the populace; if the election process offers real choices for intelligent candidates and is not a selection between carefully crafted dumb and dumber clones who invariably carry out the policies of the same “imperial thinkers” and “special interest” groups; if the majority public gets out to vote and does not remain apathetic even to the timely and accurate information delivered them; and if their votes are honestly counted in an unrigged election process. ZB does seems to have conveniently neglected to mention any of these self evident truisms of Democracy in his idealized projection of American Democracy, even while he is not unaware of them. These are a lot of ifs. Does America really behave as the democracy ZB projects? Or does it act more like an oligarchic empire (or dare I say oily-garchic) with the veneer of democracy where the populace indeed does vote in elections but has little impact on essential imperial policy? An oilygarchy composed of the hydra of the military-industrial-financial-media-corporate-academia-special_interests complex largely run by the same small coterie of enormously wealthy institutional elite. How useful would accurate and timely public knowledge of their ruling elite's misdeeds be in such a case even if it were possible? Wouldn't it just change the actors at best every 4 years, the script remaining the same? ZB, knowing full well the true makeup of American democracy, having been associated with both the Democrat and Republican Administrations for decades, and having claimed the dubious credit for handing the Soviets their Vietnam three decades earlier whose aftershock enables this “war on terrorism” today, is still worried that even in this bastardized democracy, adverse public opinion can be dangerous – primarily because he fears that the present generation of ordinary American people are not out to get the world (unlike the Zionist public of Israel forcibly occupying another's homeland), and can potentially fill the American main streets in protest! That their refusal to cooperate can bring the giant industrial wheels of the country to a grinding halt, send her lifeline - the Wall Street tumbling, and eviscerate the imperial pipe dreams in short order. Just think what could happen if just the dock workers refused to load and unload containers, and the truck drivers refused to drive? There'd be no food on the American tables and riots in the streets in no time! What forced the South African white apartheid leadership to accommodate Nelson Mandela and lift the ban from ANC? It was the millions of black South Africans in the streets – and they didn't even have a democracy for the blacks at the time! What toppled the Shah of Iran was not democracy, but an angry people each willing to loudly proclaim: 'I have had it up to here and am not gonna take it anymore'. The power of an angry peoples willing to lay down their lives for their rights and justice worries all tyrants and empires. And it is all the more worrisome when a nation's Constitution has awarded its informed citizenry the rights to protest, to be armed, and to gather in the streets – regardless of how the Government is elected or constituted! There is indeed a lot of thought behind his deceptively laconic statement “Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization”, for what it really states is that public protest can be destructive to the oilygarchy interests. ZB surely realizes that the latter needs the public more than the public needs them. Thus the formulation of the Patriot Acts by the Neocons and kept on the back burner until just the right moment, then hurriedly rushed into Law by the current administration just before launching World War IV. This is according to a preemption plan for democracy, to systematically and in stages, deprive the public their Constitutional rights to legally protest and voice their dissent by creating a climate of fear, persecution, derision, and incarceration on any pretext and without producing evidence or criminal charges. Whereas note that in Israel, there is no such plan of record. Their press, their scholars, and their politicians openly debate all aspects of their colonization and “resettlement” of the Palestinians. Even the dissenters and Jewish peace activists get their voices prominently heard in Israeli press, primarily because the majority of the citizens are complicit in the Zionist aspirations of the state. Also noteworthy is what is common with Israel – fear psychology. While Israel has set herself up on permanent war footings with Palestinians and is in perpetual state of war with them, America is also attempting to create a similar and permanent war footings with “World War IV”. The constant barrage of red alerts and threats from the terrorists as Pearl Harbor scenarios convinces the populace into accepting the ideas of “invasion”, “preemptive aggression”, oppression, and long term occupation of the enemy in the name of self defense. Thus we see that ZB's observation for imperial mobilization has necessitated both a new Pearl Harbor, and the curtailment of civil liberties in order to counter the democratic instincts of the American public against imperial mobilization. Perhaps the Americans should create a new Prize in Honor of Zbigniew Brzezinski: “The Brzezinski Peace Prize”, awarded annually to the person creating the shrewdest Machiavellian doctrine in the world! A word about the Swiss Cheese State We hear about the “Palestinian state” and the “peace process” a lot. Can anyone draw for me what the Palestinian state looks like? Can you then spell Swiss cheese? Would you accept such a Swiss cheese as your country with no rights to air, sea, or a proper military for self-defense, with your economy entirely subservient to the larger nuclear armed neighbor’s who controls all the ingress and egress into your country at all the borders with military checkpoints, and who not only has you completely surrounded by a fourteen foot high wall, but also controls transitions from one Swiss hole to another? Before anyone utters another word about the “Palestinian state”, please think if you would accept such a state. If not, why would you compel a poor defenseless and beleaguered peoples of over fifty years under miserable military occupation to accept it on a Buntustan’d piece of their own continuously inhabited ancestral lands at the hands of American and European Jews who weren’t even born there? But wait another 50 years and they will all be born there. That is the Israeli plan! Footnotes Chapter 3 *1 Moshe Katsav, President of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2001. *2 See Elie Wiesel's memoirs “All Rivers Run to the Sea”. *3 This bipartisan American institutional support of Israel was declared in a speech to AIPAC by Nancy Pelosi on April 1, 2003. It's a twain twilight zone, President Bush, a right-wing Republican, calls Israeli Prime Minister a "man of peace" as he seeks to dispense justice to "evil doers", and House Leader Pelosi, a liberal Democrat, assures Israel of her unflinching allegiance, as she leads the supposed opposition party in the legislature. And they intend to compete with each other in kissing the Prime Minister's enormous gluteus maximus to see who can get there first, when she states that “Democrats in Congress will be in the lead in the fight for passing this emergency [aid] package”. Some fight between two combatants who have identical aims! *4 William Shakespeare in Macbeth (3:5:121). *5 The quotes of Elie Wiesel, author of “Night”, are from Mark Chmiel's study of the sources of this lamentable hypocrisy in “Elie Wiesel and the Politics of Moral Leadership”. This is quite an illuminating exposé and a must read for every conscionable student of Zionism to appreciate how Zionist Jews have become so mentally chained to Israel – the Jewish State - that they have lost all sense of morality when it comes to Israel's barbarism on an innocent civilian peoples. This deceitful self-imposed blindness – perhaps derived from their millennia in Diaspora and their intense subjugation at the hands of the Christian goyims culminating in their abominable holocaust at their hands - may eventually be their own undoing. Unless of course other Jewish and Christian intellectuals start speaking up loudly against such hypocrisy and moral perversion, denounce Theodor Herzl as a traitor to the moral teachings of Moses, denounce the duplicity of Elie Wiesel loudly, and demand the dismantling of the perverse apartheid state Der Judenstaat. There is a lot of empty space in California where the Americans can provide all the Jewish settlers from New York, Eastern Europe, and Russia now living in Israel, a reservation that they can call Der Judenstaat if the Americans wish somehow to compensate the Jews for two Millennia of Christian persecution in Europe and the Holocaust. They can have the Hollywood set designers and architects even build them a replica of the Wailing Wall and all the Biblical cities of Eretz Yisrael. After all, America is the “Zion that will light up all the world” and that’s the rightful place for Der Judenstaat as well. Now why don’t the Christian majority and the American mainstream chew on that a little bit? A failure to combat intellectually what was seeded intellectually, is the prime source of the problem today not just in the Middle East, but in the Zionists’ conquest of America itself. The battle front is not with missiles, but in the intellectual space – a counter Balfour Declaration is urgently needed. Who has the courage in America to take the lead? Any takers? It is far easier to write messages on bombs that are dropped on defenseless civilians isn’t it? Or write useless books of history with no concomitant demand for redressing of injustices and restitution. Well let’s change all that! *6 For reference to "banality of evil", and for a better understanding of what led to the Jewish holocaust and what helped perpetuate it, see Hannah Arendt's seminal work “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”. I had studied this work over a quarter century ago, along with another "From Genesis to Genocide" written by Professor Steve Chorover, my college teacher at M.I.T., the lessons of which still ring true to me today as I witness what is beginning to happen to the Muslims in America, as discussed later in this book. It is interesting to note that Hannah Arendt had observed that Eichmann seemed to have been such an ordinary person, there appeared nothing remarkable or outstanding about him as he pathetically sat there during the Jerusalem trials – and yet having committing such extraordinary terror and genocide upon an innocent peoples. What would she observe of George Bush and his Neocon advisors, and Ariel Sharon and is terror machine in Palestine today when these monsters are ever brought to trial for monumental war crimes against humanity? It is a separate issue altogether that such war crimes trials have not deterred perpetuation of new war crimes by successor tyrants – the deterrence factor of such post crime persecution is nil and perhaps requires a gestalt shift in thinking if humankind is actually going to successfully and preemptively deter such monumental crimes being visited upon innocent civilians in the future. There isn't any atonement possible after the fact for the shattering of the tabula rasa of a peoples. The eye witness testimony of a holocaust survivor is also provided later in this book that draws parallels between the early stages of Jewish persecution in Germany, and the xenophobic fascism being experienced by Muslims in America today. While the fate of the Muslims in America will likely be a lot subtler than extermination obviously, the fascist trends are unmistakable and there is no justification for tolerating American-fascism today anymore than there was for tolerating Nazi anti-Semitism yesterday. Both are crimes against humanity whether or not the Americans recognize it. The Americans also did not seem to show much concern for the fate of the Jews during World War II as is well documented in history. Going overboard today in compensation to the Zionists at the expense of Palestinians and Muslims is as much a war crime today as the failure to act was then. *7 The source of this universal moral truth is the Biblical commandment “Do unto others as you have others do unto you” (Luke 31). However, much like the philosopher Bertrand Russel's approach towards morality, as being composed of those laws and principles that increase the common good of all the people and minimize social conflict (see his essay “What I Believe” in “Why I Am Not A Christian”), this cliché too expresses a similar morality that does not necessarily require belief in any particular religion or social order in order to follow it – obeying it increases the common good universally and minimizes social conflict. It is a common uniting principle for mankind, that if incorporated in the Constitutions of all nations, like in the Declaration of Independence in the American Constitution, and if it became the guiding principle behind all foreign and domestic policies, there might yet be lasting peace among humankind, and among nations of differing civilizations. But then how would empires be built? *8 For reference to the concentration of wealth in Israeli society, see "Middle East Illusions" by Noam Chomsky. For issues related to the return of refugees and just compensation, see "Palestinian Refugees - The Right of Return", edited by Naseer Aruri. For further discussion of a combined democratic non racist Palestine from a conscionable Jew's perspective, see the writings of Israel Shamir on the web. Question for Noam Chomsky It is inexplicable that Noam Chomsky, while being fully cognizant of the history of the usurpation of Palestine at gun point in 1948, has not publicly called for the complete dismantling of the Apartheid state of Israel and returning of all of the stolen lands back to their rightful owners. He has instead, supported the arbitrary two state solution, with Israel retreating back to the 1967 borders and a new Palestinian State in the rest. Would he himself accept such a solution for his own country if he were a Palestinian? Would any Zionist, if the roles were reversed? Chomsky had however, not called for a similar two state solution for Apartheid South Africa earlier, with the Swiss cheesed Bantustans going to the indigenous majority black African inhabitants, and the rest of their mineral rich lands going to the white South African usurping minority as the latter had persistently demanded. Why this difference in positioning in the case of Palestine? The two situations are more than just identical, the Palestinian case is far more egregious, far more brutal and genocidal, and a contemporary usurpation within our own lifetimes. And they also share the support of the American Government to sustain the Apartheid status as demanded by their favored allies and “man of peace”, with the present American Vice President Dick Cheney, as a Congressman in his earlier career, even voting against a House resolution for the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. Indeed, the only thing uncommon between the two situations, is an uncompromising honest leader and statesmen like Nelson Mandela. And for a cynic, the other thing uncommon might be the Jews and their power in America. But Noam Chomsky has never been influenced by such banal considerations. So why is Noam Chomsky agreeable to grant any portion of Palestine to the Jews for a Jews-only state when he does not even like the idea of any “religion-only” state to start with? Is it a) because God promised them Palestine and Eretz Israel; b) because it was a terrible holocaust and the Jews need a homeland; c) because “might is right” and Israel was exclusively sanctioned by the victorious Allies of World War II, built upon another victorious Allies’ loot of World War I, and that is the international reality today; d) because now that the Jews have already been there for over half a century, they might as well keep some of the stolen property; e) because it is time to have mercy on the victims who are needlessly suffering the wrath of being alive on Eretz Yisrael, so make peace at any cost under the diktats of realism rather than hopeless idealism for the sake of the suffering victims; or f) because of self-interest as he is also Jewish. As for a) David Ben Gurion himself clarified it that: “... we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs.” As for b) perhaps those so sympathetic to the Jews can give them a piece of their own real estate, perhaps in Boston, Michigan, New York, California, or London, or even Basle where Israel was founded to start with. On what basis can they award Arab lands of continuously inhabited peoples to another in compensation for their own European Christian crimes of anti-Semitism and holocaust upon the Jews? As Ben Gurion again clarified it: “There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” As for c) does international sanction i.e., agreement among the superpowers, then becomes a legitimate method of genocide and displacement of an indigenous peoples and defines a new morality? As for d) does longevity of occupation lend moral legitimacy to land theft and genocide of an innocent population? As for e) is it another disingenuous attempt to legitimize the existence of a usurper in the name of minimizing the suffering of its victims? In his own words: xx As for f) only Noam Chomsky can answer that question completely, but actions speak louder than words, and my appreciation of him stems from the fact, which he disclosed publicly, that in 1950s when he realized the realities on the ground, he left Israel to return to the United States. Actions still do continue to speak louder than words – for claims to morality is one non-stop continuous action with every breadth we take, until our very last one, as demonstrated by another moral Jewish princess, Rachel Corrie. Those who who accede to c) and d) also accede to the morality that is espoused in them. If it is indeed either of these, then is that what an intellectual is ultimately reduced to in the real world as the bottom line when the rubber meets the road and all the talk of crimes of the emperors has been peeled away? How is that any different from any petty timeserving politician who says all the right things to his constituency but recognizes the reality of power-plays and modulates his opinions and morality to suit the reality of the times when it comes time to vote on issues? I have no doubt that Noam Chomsky would agree with the following job description of an intellectual in the eloquent words of another intellectual - for his own conscionable life's work is but a reflection of these very ideals: “I too think the intellectual should constantly disturb, should bear witness to the misery of the world, should be provocative by being independent, should rebel against all hidden and open pressure and manipulations, should be the chief doubter of systems, of power and its incantations, should be a witness to their mendacity. For this very reason, an intellectual cannot fit into any role that might be assigned to him, nor can he ever be made to fit into any of the histories written by the victors. An intellectual essentially doesn't belong anywhere; he stands out as an irritant wherever he is; he does not fit into any pigeonhole completely.” (Vaclav Havel: “Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala”, quoted by Mark Chmiel in “Moral Leadership”) Hence that being the imperatives of an intellectual, especially of one who espouses the Golden rule “Do unto others ... ” and specifically if it is good enough for you to do to me, it must be good enough for me to do to you, why support anything short of the Just and moral solution for Palestine – the complete and immediate dismantling of Israel and complete restitution of the Palestinians forced into the new Diaspora; allowing those Jews who are born in Palestine to stay as a compromise, but evicting everyone else transplanted from New York, Eastern Europe, Russia and South America? If South Africa could be disarmed of its nuclear capability, so can Israel of its Samson options. The demand for Israel’s dismantling starts in the intellectual space, just as the demand for its construction was started in the intellectual space by Theodor Herzl when he wrote Der Judenstaat and asserted: “In Basle I founded the Jewish state ... Maybe in five years, certainly in fifty, everyone will realize it.” A delaying tactic only brings to fruition Ben Gurion’s predictions: “We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return ... The old will die and the young will forget”. Those who indulge in it, once again demonstrate that they willingly accede to the morality espoused in such tactics – the law of the jungle. Then how is one any better than the baboons who espouse the same morality? One is known by the morality one keeps! Politicians are already lost to Machiavelli. The latter day Zionist Neocons to Strauss. The moral scholar however carries the mantle of Plato and Socrates! He cannot compromise to the reality of power-plays, to international sanction and recognition, and what the majority of his antagonists may want – for the majority killed Socrates. Who better person to demand such a dismantling of Der Judenstaat than "arguably the most important intellectual alive"? Who can more persuasively argue for its deconstruction than Theodor Herzl argued for its construction? Only one among the Jews today, Noam Chomsky, leaving a legacy of moral greatness for the successive Jewish generations to overcome the one Herzl left them of depravity and perversion! Anything short of that is but an eyewash and a morality of the baboons. There are no illusions in the Middle East – only lack of full spectrum moral courage from those who proclaim it as their inheritance. Your response please Professor Noam Chomsky? Other references for the main text For reference to the long ancestral lineage even identifiable today and dating back millenniums, far older than the Jews, see the research done into ancient history of Palestine by Professor Hatem Bazian, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley, who has argued that why should the history only begin 2500 years ago when the Jews first arrived? There were people still living there for far longer. When the premise of 2500 years is accepted as the starting point of debate that is already a red-herring to start with, more than half the argument is already conceded. The argument really needs to stay focussed on how Palestine was usurped by super-power blessings, not whose ancestors where there earlier or whose god gave them what land grants. But if the antagonist do throw that red-herring, then the Palestinian ancestry still prevails as the continuously living inhabitants of that land, as shown by Professor Bazian. As for god’s promise argument and the Biblical theological red-herring, please see William W. Baker’s "Theft of a Nation". There is not a single red-herring that the Zionist mind has ever synthesized that has not been cogently repealed, ultimately leaving one, and only one proposition on the table for the raison d'être for existence of Der Judenstaat in Palestine - the big stick of super-power primacy and its geostrategic imperatives. I don’t have any problems if this Jewish State is moved to America or Europe where it belongs (if at all) in compensation for past crimes of the Christians upon the European Jews. It is not the problem of the Muslims or the rest of the world – we have treated the Jews fairly in our own civilizations and we did not culminate any holocaust upon them, and nor did we then, or do we now, espouse any anti-Semitism towards them, as they are our brothers in religion and in humanity. That however does not relinquish our right to fight them if they impose injustice upon us. Their plight through history is entirely an internal matter of the Judeo-Christian civilization around which Samuel Huntington has already drawn a protective fault-line. Well live within those civilizational lines my friends, and solve your own problems amongst yourselves only. For reference to inequitable redistribution of wealth and just compensation in South Africa post apartheid, witness that after years of oppression and suffering, and despite all the promises of just compensation by the reconciliation efforts, the blacks were awarded a mere $4000 per person recently. No more than 5% of the land and wealth has been redistributed since apartheid officially ended a decade ago. The vast majority of wealth in South Africa is still in the hands of the white minority. *9 Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir – another born and bred in the USA Zionist leader. *10 Baruch Kimmerling: “My Holiday, Their Tragedy”, http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/KimmerlingHoliday.htm *11 David Ben Gurion – Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), 121. Culled from the web. *12 David Ben Gurion, 1948. Culled from the web. *13 Lasse Wilhelmson: “Zionism as Jewish National Socialism”, http://www.israelshamir.net/english/wilhelmson.shtml *14 Moshe Katsav, President of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2001. It is incredible how powerful the lapses of some short term memories can be – perhaps Moshe Katsav has forgotten the Jewish Ghettos from New York to Poland that the Jews inhabited not too long ago. Furthermore, this was their state of being when they were free and no military occupying power was constricting them to death. The people whom Katsav is belittling on the other hand are living under a brutal Israeli military occupation – generations have been wasted under the murderous occupiers watchful gun turrets. Shame! What has happened to the humanity of these Israelis? Why should the world take any sympathy on these peoples anymore for their holocaust? They are handing the same systematic genocide to another innocent peoples – only spread out across generations and in plain sight of the silently spectating world. Witness the following comments of an American President Harry S. Truman from his Diary July 21, 1947. Every word of it is reflected in the Zionist Jews’ own merciless actions in Palestine since the founding of Israel in 1948. If the American public does not know it, or if the Campus Watch does not want it debated in American academia, it does not mean that the rest of the world does not know it, or that the victims of Zionist aggression do not exist. Read and weep if you are a Jew and have a conscience, as to what bad name a minority among you have brought your entire peoples: “The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as D[isplaced] P[ersons] as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler not Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog.” *15 Haim Cohen, former judge of the Supreme Court of Israel, quoted by Tariq Ali in “To be Intimidated is to be an Accomplice”, http://www.counterpunch.org/ali03042004.html *16 Moshe Dayan: Haaretz, April 4, 1969. Culled from the web. *17 Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the IDF: “New York Times 14 April 1983”. Culled from the web. *18 It would be interesting to count all the American Israeli Zionists since 1948 until the present who have made Israel their homeland and are born and raised in the USA. Under which Western “human rights” regime can they displace the indigenous and continuously living population in Palestine? I rather fear for the fate of the Jews, the recipient of God’s Messenger Moses (Peace be upon him) – if they are Jews in the sense of religion – for a coterie of misanthropic fanatics among them have hijacked their religion, their ethos, their morality, their history. And ultimately, they will surely all be made to pay, and with compounded interest! This is the Greek tragedy of the Jews – perhaps that is what is meant by “chosen”? Chosen to create mischief among mankind, the fourty year punishment by God Almighty Himself to the entire Hebrew peoples for the disobedience of a few among them to His Message, being the manifest evidence of this mischief from the very inception of the Hebrew religion. And then to be paid back with compound interest by other anti-Semitic mortals down the ages – and repeat? How would a conscionable Jew respond to such a cynical assessment of the Zionist led Jewish peoples by the vast majority of Muslims du jour, apart from the usual “anti-Semitism” slogan? Rachel Corrie responded by courageously standing in front of the murderous Israeli Bulldozer to save an innocent Palestinian home from the aggression of her own peoples, and reclaimed for herself her hijacked moral Judaic identity from the clutches of the misanthropes! Israel Shahak responded by producing works like "Jewish History Jewish Religion - The Weight of Three Thousand Years" and "Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel". Lenni Brenner responded with works like: "Zionism in the age of Dictators", “The Iron Wall', and "51 Documents". Tanya Reinhart responded with: "Israel/Palestine - How to End the War of 1948". Israel Shamir responded with "The Writings of Israel Shamir For One Democratic State In The Whole of Palestine (Israel)". The Neturei Karta Jews respond by having nothing to do with the murderous Israeli Zionists du jour: http://www.nkusa.org/aboutus/index.cfm. How thou'st respond? And not just with lofty words, but with thine pocket books? by Zahir Ebrahim Written April 17, 2008 - Updated April 22, 2008. The abominable shared fates that unite Iran (“Bush and Iran,... by Zahir Ebrahim Written April 26, 2008 - Revised May 2, 2008. Douglas J. Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, in his Hearing... by Zahir Ebrahim March 31, 2007: I wrote this essay as the Preface to "Prisoners of the Cave" during 2003. 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Chris Henry’s death bothered me. It still bothers me to this day. I come from an area where young black men die everyday. Most of the deaths are senseless, which is the reason I refuse to watch the local news. Chris Henry had his demons and the thing about demons is they never go away— they are always chasing you, hoping to catch you. Even when you think you have out run them, they can pop up at any time. In life, everyone makes bad decisions, but it only takes one to end your life. Chris Henry was running as fast as he could away from those demons, but one irrational decision and he was taken from his family. No parent wants to outlive their child and I can only imagine what Miss Glaspy was going through as she watched her son die. But her decision to allow Henry’s organs to be donated shows you how strong she is as a person. CBS brought all of the people who benefited from Henry’s organs to a Thanksgiving dinner and to say that it had an affect on everyone watching would be an understatement. Many say the greatest gift in the world is the gift of life, and Miss Glaspy gave that gift while dealing with the death of her son. Words cannot say what a remarkable act that was. God bless Miss Glaspy and all the individuals who are keeping a little piece of Chris Henry alive in them.

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Where the pervasive ones and zeros of digital media have come to dominate our lives and almost all of our modern day histories, we are slowly reaching the point where we are having to stop and rethink just how viable this media is for keeping our history intact and readable in the distant future. The hard truth is, it really isn’t viable. Where books – our friendly and familiar purveyors of history – have been known to survive for hundreds of years, digital media has an average shelf life of ten years. And that’s if you’re lucky.Many of you are sitting in front of your computer right now asking yourselves, “So, what can I do?” Librarians, archivists, and computer scientists are diligently working on large scale solutions to preserve our at risk and historically important information, but certainly you want to know what you can do at home to ensure that your files and your history can be accessed and used ten, twenty, or even ten thousand years from now. While there is, as of yet, no hard guarantee that your family photos will be around 10,000 years from now, there are a few things that you can do to keep them around long enough for the next generation to enjoy and pass on. We have some basic tips for keeping your personal digital data alive and kicking through your lifetime, and if you want to shoot for the ten thousand year mark, these tips can get you headed in that direction, too. The key concepts to remember here are Format, Media, Metadata, and Multiple copies. FMMM, if you will. Giving a little attention to each of these elements can ensure that your data will survive at least until the next great technology change, and most likely beyond it. Format. Always try to use the most common and least proprietary file formats when saving your files. If you have important email files that you would like to preserve, save them outside of your email platform as simple text files. For other documents, it has been recommended that they be saved in the PDF or PDF/Archive format. Though the PDF format is technically considered to be proprietary, the fact that the source code is available and the PDF format is now universally accepted, it is a good solution for keeping your files and their context intact. It is important to remember that for image and sound files, the larger, higher quality files are much more readable and can be used in many more ways than files that have been reduced or compressed. Compressing files for storage or emailing causes significant data loss, so avoid this when possible. Media. Some good advice from the Library of Congress is to never use re-writable discs to store your data for the long-term. Re-writable discs may be good to transfer files from one location to another, but they are problematic in terms of access and how quickly they deteriorate and become obsolete. The best place to store your data is in one large external hard drive or even with an online data storage service. External hard drives are becoming much less expensive to purchase, are more durable, and have greater overall longevity. Plus, having all of your files in one place will save you from having to search through multiple discs for one file. Metadata. Meta-what? Metadata is the data about data and is the secret weapon of the pros in digital preservation. You may best know metadata as keywords and “tags”. Including metadata within or in reference to your digital object not only helps you and others find the object, but it can also provide structure, context, authority, rights information, and validation of the object; all things that are important for long-term preservation. Metadata standards have been developed specifically for digital preservation, and adhering to these standards when you create your own metadata will lend even greater longevity to your personal digital archive. Multiple Copies. Stanford University has developed a system to preserve access to online journal subscriptions called, LOCKSS, or Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe. Where the materials that you may be looking to save are different than online journals, the same underlying principle holds true for any digital preservation effort. Keeping to this principle, you should absolutely back up your data. As mentioned, you can do this either on an external hard drive, with an online data storage service, and even better, BOTH. Your best bet is to have your personal archives backed up and stored in more than one location. In true mimicry of the LOCKSS model, you may even consider starting a file sharing network with your friends and family where you can collectively back up your files in several remote locations. Any one of these activities will bring you closer to securing your digital files for a long voyage through time, and obviously the more you do the better. If you would like to learn more/do more, check out the online resources below. Happy archiving! For Further Reading The Library of Congress guide to “What You Can Do.” A great, simple guide published by the masters of archiving. Probably the best layman’s guide out there. Check out “Preserving Your Digital Memories” and “Caring for Your Collections.” The Library of Congress guide to “What You Can Do” Wikipedia article on digital preservation. A great beginning guide to the who, what, where, and why of digital preservation. Definitely check out the links and references for further reading. Wikipedia article on digital preservation Stewart Brand’s essay on digital preservation, “Written on the Wind.” This essay provides a great overview of the digital preservation problems we are facing. Astute observations of our present needs as seen from ten years ago. Stewart Brand’s essay on digital preservation, “Written on the Wind.”

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By Stephanie Ciccarelli August 22, 2006 In 2005, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) signed the Interactive Media Agreement, an agreement that raised the fee of videogame voice-over recording sessions. Will there be more on the table in 2008? Michael Bell of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), chair of the interactive committee for SAG, is lobbying to raise the session fees in 2008, battling it out for the residuals. Back in 2005, it was understood that if SAG and AFTRA wanted to have the recording session fees raised, they had to remove their request to receive residuals. Residuals are ongoing payments made to the voice actors, connected to the popularity or syndication of their voice acting work. In effect, the unions' negotiating residuals would inspire the publishers to hire only non-union talent to provide voice acting services for their videogames as an alternative to paying union fees and subsequent residual payments. To that, veteran videogame voice actor, Bell said, "No union actor, stars included, may work for a non signatory producer without facing disciplinary action from their union. They obviously want celebrities, so that threat holds no teeth." With 2 years to wait, only time will tell. Until then, read the full editorial here on GameDaily Biz. Are any of you in this boat? StephanieRelated Topics: AFTRA, Celebrities, industry, Non-Union, radio, videogames

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