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The above picture is taken from an article by Matthew Marino at the blog, The Gospel Side, titled Celebrity Jeopardy, Pastors Edition. In it he said one thing that for me really nailed it:
Last summer, in a post entitled "When did evangelicals get popes?" I pointed out the ironic similarities between celebrity video-venue preachers and the papacy that Protestantism rose in protest against. Extending the irony has been Pope Francis' humility this year in contrast to the growing list of celebrity pastor abuses…
I encourage you to read all of it.
Like Matthew, I got comments — by email, Twitter and on the blog — that my emphasis on this topic and of Driscoll in particular was skewing too negative. But I think that there's a time and a place to raise awareness of issues and thereby hold leaders accountable.
And if Warren Throckmorton's blog post yesterday is accurate, maybe now is the time to back off:
…As it turns out, the publisher, Harper Collins Christian, has now corrected the section in question by quoting and footnoting the section of Ryken's book I identified. Nearly all of the problems I identified have been addressed…
More to the point, there's been an indication of true repentance as posted at Christianity Today yesterday in an article titled Mark Driscoll Retracts Bestseller Status, Resets Life.
…In the lengthy letter via Mars Hill's online network, The City, Driscoll reflects on what he has gotten right and wrong over the past 17 years, which have seen the church he founded grow beyond his expectations to an estimated 13,000 people worshiping weekly in 15 locations in five states. Many praised the statement on Twitter for its humility, while many others said it still left their concerns unresolved…
[The full letter was leaked on Reddit.]
In Proverbs 27 we read,
6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
profuse are the kisses of an enemy. (ESV)
If I am critical of the prominent writers and pastors who have been the subject of recent brought-on-by-themselves controversies, I am doing so as an insider, as someone who wants to see the scandals off the front page of the Christian websites and blogs. So we bring things into the open hopefully for a short season in order to see a turnaround and as a preventative that things don't get worse.
Several years ago I wrote a paraphrase of II Tim 3:16, the verse that talks about scripture being useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness. While I am NOT drawing a parallel between a blog and God's holy word, in the paraphrase I noted that scripture:
- shows us the path God would have us walk
- highlights when and where we've gotten off the path
- points the way back to the path
- gives us the advice we need to keep from wandering off the path in future
Now mapping that back to the verse in Proverbs; this is the kind of thing I hope that we would do for and with one another. "As iron sharpens iron…" The goal should be that we would raise the standard of integrity, point out when and where we leave that path, find the way to get back on track, and put safeguards in to place that stop us from wandering.
Furthermore, I would want someone to do that for me.


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When I got to the wreck Easter morning, as you know, I spotted a seal. In the fog and from a distance, I first imagined it another creature–one more typically associated with Easter but for some reason with a flattened tail and sleeping on the beach. I gave it wide berth, but when it turned
and looked up, I noticed it was either a deformed bunny sans ears OR NOT an Easter bunny but rather a seal that seemed to has a sense of boat survey work, the clue being that it was reading Colvin's Steel Boat Building, Vol. 1.
Having with me a silkie speaker of Halichoerus grypus aka hooked-nosed sea pig, I thought I'd ask a few questions via translation. After dispensing with initial interview protocols, I learned that ᐅᒡᖪᒃ , as this young male gray calls himself, witnessed Le Papillon arrive on the beach and was calculating odds of it rolling off the beach in like but reverse manner. ᐅᒡᖪᒃ demonstrated as he spoke, and
after astounding me with jargon like panting, racking, hogging, sagging, and hogging some more, he grew quiet, pensively stroking his juvenile whiskers. "Sooner . . . would have been better than now, but, in my not-so-humble seal opinion, it needs a strong vessel . . . of several hundred orca-power at least (must be how seals calculate terrific torque) to wrestle the pinky free of this entombing sand and
So I risked sounding like a fool and asked the next question . . . which ᐅᒡᖪᒃ met with such guffaws and explosive
seal chortles that . . . totally mortified, I backed off . . .
I turned back once while leaving; ᐅᒡᖪᒃ must have felt bad. My translator told me she heard him mutter something about "I can't believe I said that. I need to learn a bit of tact with these terrestrials." Then, he said something about heading for South Street Seaport next . . . . hmmmmm!
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. No . . I won't translate the question into English. ᐅᒡᖪᒃ . . . Good luck with your salvage plans. And all your projects.

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Some people have asked why I'm growing a mustache and raising money to support awareness and improvement of men's health this year. After all, Movember has taken place annually for ten years now, but I've never participated. What motivated me to jump in now?
In July 2012, my stepfather, Fritz Triebold, was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He subsequently received a series of six injections of Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine to kill the cancerous areas on the wall of his bladder. BCG treatment is a form of immunotherapy that involves flooding the bladder with live tuberculosis bacteria, which have been found to kill cancer cells in the bladder in 67% of all cases. Immediately following each of the treatments, he would come home and sleep for a few hours, then endure several days of pain related to the insertion and eventual removal of the catheter he was required to use. Not much fun.
My dad was retested for active cancer earlier this year. Unfortunately, the first series of treatments did not fully eradicate the disease, so he underwent another course of six treatments. While the experience wasn't easier the second time, Dad was both more tolerant of the pain and more positive in his outlook. Hopes were high that he would be cancer-free when he was retested at the end of the second intervention.
And he was.
Dad's bladder has been clear of cancer since last month. However, his doctors want him to undergo three more BCG treatments, just to be sure. This is standard procedure, but it means that there will be more pain and queasiness for my Dad to deal with, probably early next year.
This ordeal will always be remembered by our family. One way for me to do so is by participating in Movember, which aims to raise awareness of, and funds to combat, mens' health issues. Bladder cancer may seem like an egalitarian disease, but statistics show that men are three times more likely to develop it than women. Approximately 23,000 American men will contract bladder cancer in a given year and about 5,000 of them will die as a result.
I hope you will join me by making a generous donation to Movember. Your gift will help our family celebrate Dad's victory over bladder cancer and fund related awareness and treatment efforts for others. Please make a donation, in whatever amount you can afford, on my Movember page today. Thanks!


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put my feet back on the ground
put me up, take my heart
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Put me up, put me down
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That's what they say
but I can't prove
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As we get close you
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I hold you in my arms
and you say Jamboo
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When I hold my baby tighter she says I do it nicer
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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - The United States is not ruling out air strikes to assist the Iraqi government fight a growing radical Islamist insurgency, President Barack Obama said on Thursday, raising the possibility of the first American military intervention in Iraq since the end of the US-led war.
Obama was asked whether Washington would consider drone strikes to combat violence that threatens to break up the country.
"Iraq is going to need more help. It's going to need more help from us, and it's going to need more help from the international community," he said.
"My team is working around the clock to identify how we can provide the most effective assistance to them. I don't rule out anything, because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold," he said.
Speaking to reporters at the White House as he met Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Obama said the Iraqis needed to do more to bridge sectarian divides in the country, but he noted military action was needed right away.
"It's fair to say that in our consultations with the Iraqis there will be some short-term immediate things that need to be done militarily, and our national security team is looking at all the options," Obama said.
"But this should be also a wakeup call for the Iraqi government. There has to be a political component to this."
White House spokesman Jay Carney said later that the United States was not contemplating sending ground troops to Iraq.
Obama won the White House in 2008 largely on the back of his opposition to the US war in Iraq.
American troops returned home under his tenure, and are preparing to leave Afghanistan, where the US combat mission is slated to come to a close at the end of this year.
Critics, including Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner, said Obama had contributed to the unrest in Iraq by failing to negotiate a deal under which the United States would have left a small force there after pulling out troops at the end of 2011.
Boehner urged Obama to deliver military and other aid promised to the government in Baghdad.
"What's the president doing? Taking a nap?" he said.
The Obama administration has highlighted recent US support including delivery of 300 Hellfire missiles, millions of rounds of small arms fire, thousands of rounds of tank ammunition, machine guns and other weapons for the Iraqi Security Forces.
It also notified Congress recently of an additional sale of $1 billion in arms that is now in a 30-day review period, according to the White House.
Iraqi Kurdish forces took control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Thursday, after government troops abandoned their posts in the face of a march by Sunni rebels toward Baghdad following their capture of the country's second city, Mosul.
The insurgents, from an Al-Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which operates in Iraq and neighbouring Syria, overran the city of Tikrit on Wednesday.
It also closed in on the biggest oil refinery in the country at Baiji, making further gains in a rapid military advance against the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad.
The White House said the refinery was still controlled by the government, but the broader unrest has led to increasingly urgent discussions in Washington about what to do.
Secretary of State John Kerry said Obama was "prepared to make key decisions in short order" and Vice President Joe Biden told Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in a phone call that Washington was ready to intensify and accelerate security support.
The potential for US military intervention in the country alarmed some of Obama's fellow Democrats.
"I don't think there's any appetite in our country for us to become engaged in military activity in Iraq," said Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader.
"War begets war. It's just not a good idea."
But some other lawmakers said they would support US air strikes to help the Iraqi military.
"There is no scenario where we can stop the bleeding in Iraq without American air power. The Iraqi army is on the verge of collapse," Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters after leaving a classified briefing for the Senate Armed Services Committee by US Department of Defense officials.
"It's in our national security interest to intervene."
Obama repeated his mantra that the United States would act militarily if it was within its national security interests.
The discussion had not advanced to the point where the administration had asked Congress for additional or emergency funds for operations in Iraq, congressional aides said.


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By Matt Dellinger, CNN
Astronauts on the International Space Station get to do the coolest experiments. And sometimes the simplest ones can be the most impressive.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield demonstrates what happens when you wring out a soaking wet washcloth in zero gravity. The idea came from two high school students in Nova Scotia who won a contest to design a simple science experiment to be conducted on the ISS. The experiment had to use materials that were already available on the space station and was selected out of almost 100 entries.
Watch the video above to see the incredible effect of weightlessness on the water absorbed by the washcloth.
What are some simple experiments you would like to see conducted in space? Let us know in the comments below!
(The Science Seat will resume next Friday)
I would like to see them use the bathroom. Oops....guess will not happen.
I really liked the experiment. I thought the water would stream away from the cloth not layer on top of it. I'm not a scientist by any stretch (I had the most boring science teachers ever) but I would have thought the pressure of the wringing would force the water away from the cloth. A very fun experiment.
Bad science since the experiment and the headline were not on the same page. The wash cloth was not in space, it was enclosed in a climate controlled capsule in space. That is, controlled temperature (room temp), controlled atmospheric pressure, controlled relative humidity etc. only thing that space had to do with it it was gravity which did not separate the water from the cloth beyond the pressure exerted on it from the wringing. I suspect if this were truly in space the water, of course would be frozen solid, if warmed up it would almost instantaneously evaporate into the atmosphere of space.
As an astrophysicist I think the experiment was gay. And lame.
He/she/it is also a trolioliolllo. Don't feed it, eventually it will drop off and scuttle away.
Did I say "also"? I misspoke, that would imply that the poster actually is an astrophysicist and not a full-time intellectual buttt-pimple.
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I hate to tell you guys this, but you still can get butt pimples in space. You should see my butt! Pimple heaven!!
The kids who thought of this experiment should have a great future. The ability to take the simple and imagine more should take them far in life. Great experiment, fun to watch.
One thing for sure the bubble don^t bubble up fly away.
Personally, I'd love to see if NASA can figure out why women need sweaters and blankets when it's 78 degrees, the furnace and fireplace are going, etc. I swear, some women could stand amidst a house fire and complain they are cold.
BTW, I enjoyed the experiment, too. Not what I expected. Please, however, never ever show us converting your urine to drinking water. I'm totally serious about that.
This would be tax dollars well spent. Seriously, can we set down string-field theory for a sec and figure this out? My plan is to throw booze at the problem until it fixes itself.
throw a paper airplane out there!
more information about circular motion
didn't the great Dr. Dre already explain that with his scientific method of the three wheel motion
What happens while wring out a soaking wet washcloth in zero gravity? Frankly, the possible phenomenon has led me to see the graceful eruption of a solar prominence in space. Wish it would lead the way for scientists to speculate some truth under the surface of the Sun.
One experiment NASA will never do (because the Soviets already tried) is to reenter the atmosphere at hypersonic 17,500 mph. What happens at 17,500 mph upon descent into air, one quickly evaporates as do meteors. Ever since the Soviets confirmed this fact, NASA was born in order to con the masses that man can 'drop' a tin-can from LEO at hypersonic and 'land' safely via a parachute. Indeed, the 'space race' was a con conjured up via the same Nazi scientists (National Socialist Zionists) in the USSR and USA. Since then, the world audience has been wholly duped by these con men, and now we have 'astro-evolution' embedded in the psyche of the general public, as well as comical experiments with wet handkerchiefs while performing parabolic maneuvers over Kazakhstan....
I agree.
I'm sure you do, sparky. I'll bet most people with zero knowledge and poor learning skills would as well.
I disagree, but only cause I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Neither does he/she!
Someone at CNN should really moderate Buck Rogers comment into oblivion.
That wouldn't be moderation. That would be censorship. People are free to have oppinions about things and Buck Rogers backed the oppinion up well, but I'm not saying he's right. I do know that many Nazi scientists were given asylum in the U.S. in order to further their research and develop programs in the U.S. N.A.S.A. got allot of those scientists as did JPL and MK Ultra. Plus there is also the question about radiation levels in space. There is a huge radiation belt around Earth and it is questionable whether or not humans could survive this with the type of protection we have developed. You may not agree with any of these opinions but that doesn't mean they aren't legitimate sources for questioning the information we are being fed by the media and history books.
I don't know - I thought the experiment was interesting. I thought the water would spray off in all directions, but the surface tension of the water makes it stay together in a blob around the cloth. Maybe this would be effective in coating surfaces or other processes which can't be done easily in gravity fields.
Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.


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The Vampire Diaries Season 5 Promo: Get a First Look at a Human Katherine
"Human looks better on you than I would have thought, Katherine."
That's right, Vampire Diaries fans. As Silas - or is it Stefan (Paul Wesley) - says in the first promo for Season 5, Katherine (Nina Dobrev) is a human when the show returns on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 8/7c.
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The steamy teaser, which shows Katherine and Silas sharing a nice tub-side chat and Elena and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) getting busy in the sack, promises that new faces and new surprises are ahead. "This season the rules have changed," the teaser says.
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The Vampire Diaries premieres on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 8/7c on The CW. Make sure to check back soon for cast interviews from the set.
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Jonathan Mayer, a researcher at Stanford, has contributed a patch for Firefox that will block third-party cookies from installing on the user's browser. The patch is set to be incorporated into Firefox 22. (Update: while the "target milestone" for this patch is version 22, Mozilla reached out to us on Monday to say that it can't confirm the exact date or version in which the patch will be officially incorporated). For some sense of timing on the project, Firefox 19 was released on Tuesday.
With the patch, Firefox would allow all cookies from sites that a user actively visits, but it would block cookies from third-party sites if a user has not visited that cookie's origin site. Advertisers generally place third-party cookies and can collect data about a user across several websites with them. This is used to serve more targeted ads or refine where an advertising firm should spend its money.
Blocking third-party cookies would not be new or unheard of among browsers; Apple's Safari already rejects cookies from third parties. In a blog post on Friday, Mayer called the Firefox patch "a slightly relaxed version of the Safari policy." Chrome allows all cookies, and Internet Explorer blocks some third-party cookies, although not all.
The balance between user privacy and money from advertisers has been difficult to strike. Last February, the US suggested companies agree to an "Internet Privacy Agreement" that would protect users who added themselves to a "Do Not Track" list. Despite the publication of that agreement, little real change has occurred in companies' practices. In May 2012, the UK enacted an almost pointlessly broad "cookie law," which required users' consent to install cookies—although "consent" was later redefined as "implied consent" which meant if a user visited a site for the first time, and that site showed a notice that it was serving cookies to the user's browser, and the user took no action, that meant that the user had consented to that site's cookies.
Users can already manually disable cookies in Firefox, but in a future version it will be an automatically enabled feature.


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The security argument between Apple's iOS and Google's Android system for smartphones is heating up yet again. In a recent study conducted by Daniel R. Thomas, Alastair R. Beresford, and Andrew Rice at the University of Cambridge, research concluded that 90 percent of Android devices are exposed to at least one critical vulnerability.
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The threat model was constructed using three common attack vectors: installation attack (malicious codes installed through app download); dynamic code loading (an existing app downloads new malicious codes); and injection (an attacker injects malicious codes directly into the device's existing system).
Each of these threats requires regular updates and patches from both the manufacturers and the software companies. However, Android devices receive an average of only 1.26 updates per year to fix these evolving threats.
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ETSU returns to action after an 11-day layoff
ATLANTA (Feb. 8, 2012) – The ETSU women's tennis team gets back to action on Thursday – following an 11-day layoff – as it travels to Piedmont Park in Atlanta to take on No. 47 Georgia State at 2 p.m.
Thursday begins a six-match road swing for ETSU (1-0), which includes two ranked opponents back-to-back with Georgia State and No. 61 Virginia Tech on Saturday. The Bucs are then slated to play Appalachian State (Feb. 19), UNC Wilmington (Feb. 24), South Carolina State (Feb. 25) and UNC Asheville (Mar. 1) before finally returning home to take on Liberty on Mar. 3.
ETSU started the season back on Jan. 28 by defeating Radford 4-3 at the Bristol Racquet Club. In that matchup, ETSU swept the Highlanders in doubles through set scores of 8-6, 9-8 and 8-7 to go up 1-0 for the match, and split singles 3-3 to eventually take the victory.
Senior Paula Jaime (Madrid, Spain) – the No. 115-ranked ITA women's singles player – earned her first victory of dual match play in a 6-1, 6-3 decision over Radford's Petra Dajevic. Jaime enters Thursday with a 13-3 overall singles record this season after going 12-3 through fall tournament play.
Freshman Kelsey Williams (Sunbury, Australia) and senior Marine Wieliczko (Rouen, France) also started dual play 1-0, with Williams taking down Taylor Newman decisively, 6-1, 6-2, and Wieliczko sealing the match for ETSU after coming back from a set down to defeat Hannah Crawford 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Georgia State (3-1) recently climbed to No. 47 in the ITA women's national team rankings following a 4-2 victory over then-No. 43 William and Mary on Jan. 28. That weekend, the Panthers went 1-1 after falling to then-No. 13 Georgia Tech on Friday. The Panthers' No. 47 ranking is their highest since 2009, when they were ranked No. 46.
ETSU and Georgia State have split their last two meetings by a score of 4-3 each time, with the Panthers taking the match last year in Atlanta and ETSU getting the better of Georgia State two years ago in Bristol.
Fans wishing to follow the action can do so via live stats and a live blog provided by GeorgiaStateSports.com.
For more information on ETSU tennis, please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the tennis links.


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Teachers Teaching Teachers #157 – 06.24.09 – (3 of 3) Teaching the New Writing – Kevin, Bryan, Marva, Troy, and Dawn mix it up!
On this podcast, our guest host, Kevin Hodgson helped to wrap up the third episode of a Teachers Teaching Teachers 3-part series that centerd on the book Kevin helped to edit (and contributed a chapter to) called Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change and Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom.
On June 10, TTT hosts Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim interviewed the editors about the project, which looks at changes in the writing classroom through the lens of technology and assessment. (listen to the podcast of that show over at TTT#155). In the second show in this series, on June 17, TTT156, Paul turned the host reins over to Kevin as he chatted with some of the chapter writers about the concept of collaboration in the technology-infused classroom.
In this podcast, as Kevin once again graciously agreed to host the show, we looked at the concept of audience and technology is opening up new doors for publication and expanding audiences and what that does to writing in the classroom.
Chapter authors Dawn Reed, high school teacher and teacher-consultant with the Red Cedar Writing Project; Troy Hicks, associate Professor and director of the Chippewa Writing Project; and Bryan Crandall, high school teacher and a teacher-consultant with the Louisville Writing Project, shared examples of their classroom practices to prompt a discussion about audience in writing using digital technology. The topics they discussed included high school students using multimodal ways of writing in a speech class and an example of what happens when you take the senior project "digital." In addition, Marva Solomon joined us to talk about her work with a small group of struggling elementary school writers. The title of her chapter is "True adventures of Students "Writing Online: Mummies, Vampires and schnauzers, Oh My!"
Please enjoy the podcast, and add a comment with your story about how writing is changing in your classroom.
This podcast is the third of three Teachers Teaching Teachers shows in June that focused on this book. On TTT#155 (June 10) we had the editors of the book. Next for TTT#156 (June 17), we had authors from the different chapters of Teaching the New Writing on the show.
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A year or so ago I was at a wedding, and a very successful doctor started talking to me. I was very impressed with this doctor and already knew of him through several people before our meeting. He was involved in some fascinating and cutting-edge research...Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 7 Comments
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In this article Harrison discusses how your life is controlled by your decisions and your commitment to them. You have the power to choose in your life, and your decisions shape your entire existence. You need to choose to make empowering decisions in your life and your career. You need to make a commitment to back up your decision. People who achieve the most are those people who make decisions and then proceed to follow through with them. There is so much power in making decisions and making these decisions with commitment. If you do not make decisions about your life and stand behind them, your life will be made and shaped by someone else. Do not let others and the world decide what happens to you. Decide what you want for your life and commit to those decisions today.
Assessing your employers' needs will lead you to success in both your job search and your career, so work to ascertain exactly what it is they are looking for. Once you know what your employer wants, do precisely what is expected of you and you will succeed. Determine exactly what your employer is seeking by asking lots of questions in the interview. Those who take the time to understand their employers' needs are those who wind up with the best jobs.
In this article Harrison discusses how happiness comes from within and not from objects outside of yourself. Each and every one of us is seeking something. The worst sensation is to strive for something and, upon achieving it, to discover that it is empty for us. We all want the superficial outcomes. However what happens is that in seeking these things our brain tries to convince our subconscious that the trivial stuff matters. This ends up creating an internal struggle that really inhibits your ability to ever get anywhere. In your life the most important thing you can do is become the person you are trying to be, instead of trying to get a different life through things, people, and circumstances outside of yourself. You can achieve your dreams; just remember to look within yourself first, in order to assess what is truly important to you and your happiness.
Rumors are extremely dangerous. Competitors and colleagues alike share incorrect, negative information about you, these rumors can spread like wildfire and quickly shipwreck your career. Make sure that your peers know and understand you, show courtesy and respect for others, and avoid all types of arrogance; if you can do these things, you can mitigate the likelihood and potential damage of rumors.
While your relationship with your parents shapes the future course of your life, you do not have control over the events of your childhood. Find a mentor, someone to listen to and guide you going forward will give you confidence going forward and enhance your chances of success. A good mentor will give you the psychological grounding and confidence to achieve anything.
The character of your goals will determine your accomplishments, your impact on the world, and the quality of your life. The world respects people whose goals are of good character, and having such goals will motivate you to great achievement. Goals predicated on harming others will never take you very far, and people with such goals never retain their positions for long.
When I was around 14 years old, I spent several months going to a public high school on the outskirts of Detroit. Within a short time, I met a couple of kids I liked. These kids had all been using "snuff"or chewing tobacco for years.
If you can believe something, it is quite possible that you can achieve it. All of your expectations begin in your mind, so you must think highly of yourself in order to do well. Believe religiously in your strengths, your abilities, and the strength of the market. Do not listen to negative influences or surround yourself with negative people, as you will find the happiness and success you seek in a positive place.
In this article Harrison discusses the role of authority in your job. In order to get a job, stay employed and succeed in the world, you need to demonstrate authority. You need to portray strength and confidence to your employer and potential employers. Many people have very little self confidence and are constantly asking others questions and seeking the approval and authority of other people. We use authority to govern our relationship and interaction with the world. The more presumed authority you have to offer your employer, the bigger difference it will make. Authority has a giant impact on your success and what ends up happening to you in your career and job. You need to always cultivate authority.
There is a tremendous amount of negativity, harm and hurt in the world. These forces are all around us and conspiring to bring us down and reduce us to less than we are capable of being. In order to reach our potential and be the people we are capable of becoming, we need to do everything we can to be positive in the face of overwhelming negativity. This will save us, make us strong and give us the lives we are entitled to and deserve.
In this article Harrison discusses how it is important to stay focused. According to Harrison anyone can get started on the road to success and a life of fulfillment but the real task is staying on the path of success. Staying on track can make a giant difference in the quality of your life. No one is going to be there to keep you on your mission and this is the most important thing you must realize. You have to stay focused even amidst the myriad distractions of people and life. Everyone has a spirit within, which drives him or her to do great things. It is those naysayers around us, and the prospect of something bad happening that often keeps us barred back, and on the sidelines. But there is nothing glorious, fulfilling, or memorable about spending your life on the sidelines. You need to run the race, and once you start running you need to stay on track.
In work and in life, everyone slips at some point. Left unchecked, however, a slip become difficult to stop and turn into a fall. People slip either because of things within their control, or because of things outside of their control that they should nevertheless be addressing. You must take action when you are slipping, whatever the reason for the slip may be, and don't let gravity hold you back.
There are many people and organizations who, for a variety of reasons, seem never to succeed no matter what they do and experience perpetual bad luck. Do not waste time analyzing the causes of ill luck; simply avoid people and businesses who seem to have it, and instead associate yourself with those inclined to growth and development to achieve your goals.
You cannot create alibis for your life and hope to achieve anything. Rather than spend your time creating alibis, use this time to address the reasons you haven't yet reached your full potential. Interestingly, people who fail to achieve what they want are always making excuses as to why they do not succeed. The world does not care about your reasons for failure, it only cares about results.
Avoiding problems, not challenging yourself, and giving up in the face of challenges are all forms of being a loser. Your reaction to any given situation is far more important than the situation itself. Whether you are the type of person who moves towards or away things will ultimately determine your career success; those who move toward things make consistent progress, confronting their fears by facing and dealing with them.
Gauging the people around you and giving them exactly what they want can determine the success or failure of any action you undertake. This ability separates the great entrepreneurs from the average. Instead of assuming that you know what people want, work to ascertain peoples' actual desires and fulfill them. When you go out of your way to fulfill the needs of your employer rather than focusing on your own needs, you will find great things happening in your career.
Opportunities present themselves to you everyday, although you may not always see them. Recognize these opportunities, and take advantage of as many of them as possible rather than letting them pass you by. You cannot afford to let individual opportunities slip through your fingers. Visualize the potential opportunities in each meeting, and try never to let one slip by.
Nothing is more crucial to your career success than being "in the zone", and genuinely passionate about your work. Most people, rather than existing in the zone, merely go through the motions of what they feel others expect of them in the hopes of achieving wealth and achievement. To reach your full potential, find work that comes naturally to you, at which you are good, and that makes you happy. When you have this passion, everything else will fall into place and outside obstacles will cease to hinder you.
One of the most important things you can do in your career is generate value for your employer far in excess of what you receive back. You can talk your way into a high-paying job, but you will not remain there unless you provide more than you take. Organizations thrive when all of their members produce goods and services efficiently. Your career depends on providing more than you take, and surrounding yourself with people who do the same.
Nothing gets accomplished when peoples' values are in conflict, so it is very important to work with an employer who shares your outlook and values. Find a work environment where you fit in, and where people like you. Value conflicts with your coworkers can undermine your performance, whereas a harmonious work environment reinforces your performance and values. Most cases of workplace excellence involve people in jobs that match their values, and finding this harmony will change your career and life.
Information sharing, as exemplified by the internet, is changing the world for the better and is the way of the future. You must also become a force for sharing information in order to experience progress and achieve your goals.
Concentrate on your employer's needs in order to achieve career stability. While everyone seeks security, it is detrimental to approach your job search with this as your main motivator; concentrating instead on the value that you provide your employer will increase your own value. Give your job your all, and you will be seen a productive unit in your employer's organization, and security will follow naturally.
You will come across both people who believe in you and those who do not in your life; it is vital that you surround yourself with those who believe in you and what you can achieve. The beliefs of others dictate what ends up happening to you, so it is equally important to avoid those who do not believe in you. Define yourself in terms of the person you want to be, and start acting like that person.
In this article Harrison explains how unlearning can make us happy and help us grow. One of the most important forms of growth is unlearning. All learning we do, in a sense involves unlearning. The more we can unlearn, the more likely we are to experience the sense of growth and progress we so desire. Imagine how much more productive your life would be if you could unlearn many of the beliefs and behaviors that have caused you so much stress. You and your life would be utterly and completely transformed. This would result in an incredible sea change in the way you approach and live your life.
Your success will largely depend on the extent to which you can handle frustration and rejection. In fact, you need to become an expert at failure, because you can learn so much from the experience. The more you are rejected, the closer you bring yourself to eventual success. Never give up, remember that the law of averages is working in your favor, and keep pushing through towards success. Set aside your emotions and negative feelings about rejection.
You need not only to fit in, but to be seen as fitting in with your coworkers. Harmonizing with your work environment is one of the most important things you can do for your career, and failing to do so can cause you serious problems. Achieving such harmony, however, will ultimately bring you closer to your career goals, and is among the primary things that society demands of its participants.
Avoid the envy of others. Successful individuals know envy can lead others to undermine them; in order to remain powerful, you must paradoxically minimize the appearance of power. Avoiding envy will put you in a much better position to succeed and effectively compete.
Successful people manage their minds well; your mindset is the prime determining factor in anything and everything that happens to you. Just as you strive to become and stay physically fit, you must ensure that your mind is stable and moving in the direction of your goals in order to achieve happiness.
You must desire success in whatever you are doing, and make sure that desire matches who you are and want to be. Put your heart into what you are doing, and be behind it 100%. When you go out into the world you will inevitably face rejection; having your heart in soul invested in your chosen career will help you overcome this rejection and keep pushing forward towards success.
You will find much greater success and contentment by focusing on your connections to others rather than your differences. While all people see themselves as separate entities, you must remember that all things and people are interdependent. Your position in your life and career results from how well connected to the people around you, not your relative difference or transcendence.
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Wal-Mart to close earlier this Christmas Eve
Stores will close at 6 p.m. Saturday this year, two hours earlier than usual
Stores will close at 6 p.m. Saturday this year, two hours earlier than usual
Last-minute shoppers have one Saturday left for Christmas shopping but not for the entire day if they're headed to Wal-Mart.
This year, Wal-Mart will close at 6 p.m. Christmas Eve, two hours earlier than usual.
The company's chief operating officer and executive vice president, Judith McKenna, said the change is a way to say thank-you to employees and let them spend more time with their families.
If you need something, try Target, where most stores will be open until 10 p.m. or 11 p.m. this Saturday, or Walgreens, where certain locations will remain open all weekend around the clock.
Wal-Mart will re-open Monday.


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Like many single women, I have a Saturday brunch ritual with friends. When friends aren't available—or sometimes when they are, but I feel cranky or sub-human or haven't washed my hair for so long it could be the inciting incident for Contagion 2—I take myself out with my computer or a book to inhale an embarassingly bougie omelet (that EXISTS, guys) and get some shit done.
Among the many social hazards of eating for one (being ignored by waiters; being sandwiched in between two Bloody Mary-drunk groups of friends at a bar; being judged for drinking alone, etc.) is something that may or not be specific to me.
Nearly every week, no exaggeration, some guy comes up to me and goes, "Sasha?" (Or something like Sasha.)
"No, sorry."
"Oh." Guy looks sheepish, shrugs, apologizes, derps off into the horizon.
After this happened a few times and I caught the drift of what was going on—the awkward search for your OK Cupid first date at the restaurant bar—I began to add on:
"Good luck!"
I have long been aware that I vaguely resemble every girl someone used to live with/was in drama club with/went to UJA camp with. For years, people have been telling me emphatically: "You look just like this girl I know/used to know!" to which I usually respond with a shrug and a "Thanks? I guess?" because what else can you say? It's not really a compliment or an insult; I suppose I am just a template for a certain kind of girl. Which doesn't feel good or bad so much as just a thing that exists that I have gotten used to at this point. The weirdest occurrence of this was the homeless man in a New York McDonalds who approached me and my younger sister and told me that I was the spitting image of his dead wife (he had spent the last 15 minutes drawing a picture of me on notebook paper, which he gave to me and I saved for years until deciding it was too creepy to keep forever).
It was only after OK Cupid became ubiquitous that men started coming up to me, hedging and scuffing their Converses, then smiling bravely and blurting, "Leah?" or whatever, and it's different from all the other times that I've been mistaken for other women: they think I'm Leah or Sasha because I am of a certain age (26) and alone at a place/time that is conventionally reserved for friends or couples.
I'm not on a dating website for no good reason other than the fact A) I don't feel like going out of my way to look for anybody and B) My job already requires me to be on the Internet more than is probably healthy. I'm also a complete voyeur by nature, and the idea of what is essentially playing Pokémon Snap but with human beings would be completely addictive. So were I to join up, I would lose my already passing acquaintance with fresh air and sunlight and end up looking like a shower-shriveled thumb. Who wants to date that?
I will admit: as I scarf my omelet like a Dickensian orphan with a MacBook Air, I keep my eye on the guy having a coffee at a table for two and waiting for his Sarah or Leah or Sasha or Jen. What if she doesn't show up? Maybe he'll walk over to me—Jen 2.0, an ersatz Jen, just as much a stranger and a possibility—and be like, "How's that omelet?" And I'll be like, "There's not enough goat cheese in it." And he'll be like, "That sucks," and then we will fall in love and get married?
But JenLeahSasha shows up every time, and also weirdly looks nothing like me.
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Cosmosphere adds motion flight simulator
The Associated Press
HUTCHINSON — The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson is preparing to debut a motion flight simulator with a choice of six themed rides.
The pod-like machine, called the "naviGATOR," will give visitors the feel of blasting off to the international space station, flying with the Navy's Blue Angels or take part in some other flight.
Rides will be offered for the first time Friday. They last four minutes and cost $5 per person.
Former Hutchinson resident Julie Purin won a contest to name the simulator and chose "naviGATOR," inspired by the 1986 science fiction movie "Flight of the Navigator." Cosmosphere officials had been calling it the Predator.
Online: Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center: http://www.cosmo.org


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Hope College will feature pianist Alexandra Mascolo-David on Wednesday, March 7, at
7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
In addition, she will also be featured during a piano masterclass in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music on Thursday, March 8, at 11 a.m.
The public is invited to both events. Admission is free.
Mascolo-David has performed and led workshops and master classes in Europe, China and the Americas, including a New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall in May 2004.
"Alexandra Mascolo-David is a splendid pianist-refined, searching and expressive, and her playing is loaded with insight and interpretive detail," "The Washington Post" has said.
Mascolo-David recently performed in the area for the Fontana Chamber Arts Summer Festival in Kalamazoo, and for the Irving S. Gilmore Summer Camp with Brazilian pianist Rubia Santos, with whom she founded the "Belle Donne" piano duo. Mascolo-David has taught at the Interlochen Arts camp and at Iowa State University, and currently is an associate professor of piano at Central Michigan University. She has received numerous prizes and awards, including the First Prize in the Piano Competition of Braga, Portugal, and the Provost's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity from Central Michigan University.
In addition to her performances and teaching, Mascolo-David has also recorded several compact discs which have received strong reviews.
Additional information may be obtained online by visiting www.mascolodavid.com.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Avenue, on corner of College Avenue and 12th Street. Nykerk Hall of Music is located at the former 177 E. 12th St. between College and Columbia avenues.


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A judge on Tuesday dropped charges that rapper Foxy Brown violated a court order by mooning her neighbor after the woman told prosecutors she would not testify at the trial.
Assistant District Attorney Robert Isdith said he had tried to meet with the neighbor, Irene Raymond, in the weeks before the trial and didn't get anywhere. When he finally got in touch with her, she said she didn't want to pursue the case, he said.
"While the district attorney's office has no doubt the defendant committed this crime, we have no other choice but to dismiss this case," Isdith said.
Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, pleaded not guilty to criminal contempt and her trial was slated to begin Tuesday, following a dressing-down at her last court hearing by State Supreme Court Justice John Walsh when she appeared hours late.
The 31-year-old hip hop star was punctual this time, wearing a short silver silk dress and towering spike heels, and smiled and hugged he attorneys as the courtroom erupted when Walsh dismissed the case.
"I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed," she said outside court, as she gave a thumbs-up and smiled for cameras. She described Raymond as jealous, and someone with a "borderline obsession," "someone who wants to be you or have your life ... that I worked really hard for," she said.
The Brooklyn-based rapper was a teenager when she broke onto the rap scene as a protege of Jay-Z, but her career has foundered in recent years.
Prosecutors said Brown violated the order in July 2010 by screaming at Raymond before bending over, baring her buttocks and showing her underwear while shouting an obscenity.
Had the case gone to trial, her attorney Salvatore Strazzullo said her defense would have been not only did she not moon Raymond, but she wasn't even wearing underwear at the time, so the neighbor was not telling the truth.
Brown was issued the order of protection after pleading guilty in 2008 to menacing Raymond with her cellphone. The two had been in a fight over Brown blasting her car stereo outside their Brooklyn building in the leafy Prospect Heights neighborhood. The restraining order is in effect until 2013, her attorney said.
Strazzullo said they would be filing a civil suit in Brooklyn alleging malicious prosecution.
Brown became one of rap's more popular stars in the 1990s, but in recent years she has stayed in the headlines mainly for her legal problems and hot temper. She also has said she suffered from hearing problems.
Her debut CD, "Ill Na Na," was released in 1996. She released her platinum-selling sophomore album, "Chyna Doll," in 1999. Her third album, "Broken Silence," — released in 2001 — reached gold status.
She rapped in the hip-hop group The Firm, which also featured Nas.
Brown said outside court that she's headed directly to the recording studio now that she's free of the case, and said she's not planning to return to criminal court any time soon.


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Found this blurb written up on someones blog:
Sirius (SIRI) to be Killed by Apple (AAPL)?
With news Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is in negotiations with major music labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment (NYSE:SNE), Warner Music Group Corp. (WMG) and EMI Group Ltd.for the purpose of improving iTunes customers' access to music on multiple devices, the question is how painful that could become to Sirius (NASDAQ:SIRI), which is finally starting to get some competition, and some of it is potent.
"Clearly, Sirius XM Radio is in no position to take a hit from Apple," says Seeking Alpha, "whose confidence is expressed well through this segment of their annual report:
"'Additionally, the Company's strategy includes expanding its distribution network to effectively reach more customers and provide them with a high-quality sales and post-sales support experience. The Company is therefore uniquely positioned to offer superior and well-integrated digital lifestyle and productivity solutions.'
"I believe that the price of SIRI stock may drop significantly if Apple follows through with its plans with the aforementioned various music industry giants and takes a generous slice of Sirius XM Radio's pie of profit."
Sirius plunged Monday to closed at $1.74, dropping $0.07, or 3.87 percent.
A few people commented on other message boards that this was a reason for the drift downward on the stock. Personally I think its more of people buying into the stock in hopes of a short run up due to the financial uncuffing of Liberty Media, but thats more opinion than anything else.
P.S. On reading through this blurb, a lot of credence is given to the opinions of the SA gang, and previous blurbs and opinionated articles / hack pieces of theirs are more used to bash or pump stocks of their choosing. The person writing this blog entry, did so without a lot of facts to back up what they were writing. So please dont take my reposting of this as a belief in what it states. I do not share the authors opinion.


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Another cyclist was hit and killed by an Albuquerque driver.
Have you tried any Instagram diets?
"Would you rather..." with The Lonely Island. (Yes. Yes, everything with The Lonely Island)
Hey! Can we play trade-sies real quick? I have a gun, you have some heroin so why not, ya know?
German Government officials decided they actually did commit genocide. HUH.
What a teacher in Colorado Springs did to prevent any of her students from committing suicide might make you cry.
Gawd, another independent candidate that's running for president?


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The Low-Down
Samsung's new Galaxy Note 8.0, which hits stores on April 11, is a Android tablet with an 8-inch screen. Like its smaller and larger brothers, the 5.5-inch Galaxy Note II and 10.1-inch Galaxy Note 10.1, the Note 8.0 uses the company's EMR (electromagnetic resonance) S-Pen stylus, which works with a Wacom digitizer layer beneath the screen. It's a compelling midsize tablet, but the price is a bit rich, considering the competition.
Samsung may be the most market-reactive company on the planet. After many in the tech press predicted its demise, the original Galaxy Note turned out to be a hit. Then the iPad Mini blazed a trail in the near-8-inch-screen category. Combine those two developments and you get the Galaxy Note 8.0. Incredibly, Samsung already has a tablet playing in the 7-inch category—part of its Galaxy Tab series. Samsung has so flooded the market with tablets that, if you include the Galaxy S 4 (which is technically a phone with a 5-inch screen), the only screen size from 5 to 10 inches that the company has neglected is 9 inches.
That said, 8 inches does seem to be the screen sweet spot. The Note 8.0 is comfortable to hold in the hand, has plenty of screen real estate to scribble on, offers plenty of battery life, and is perfect for movie watching. In typical Samsung style, the hardware is handsome without being remarkable. The Note 8.0 is slightly wider, taller, and thicker than the iPad Mini, yet the plastic case makes its construction feel cheaper than Apple's cool-milled aluminum. The 1280 x 800–pixel screen has a slightly higher resolution than its Apple rival, but the different is insignificant given the Note's slightly larger screen and wider aspect ratio. Still, images look crisp, if lacking the razor-sharp quality of the high-pixel-density screens that have become the norm lately.
Aside from the S Pen, the hardware feature that most differentiates the Note 8.0 from the iPad is the infrared emitter that enables the Note's WatchOn remote control functionality (more about that in a bit). Embedded IR seems to be a trend in mobile electronics—the new HTC One has it too. Strangely, it's a data-transmission feature that dates back to the Palm Pilot.
The Note 8.0 runs the Android Jelly Bean OS, but it is obscured beneath a thick coating of Samsung's own TouchWiz Nature UX and augmented even further by specialized S Pen software. Some of the TouchWiz features are inspired, including the pop-out thumb-scrollable menu of frequently used apps, and the MultiWindow mode that allows you to run multiple apps at the same time.
The S Pen works with the same specialized S Note apps found on the Galaxy Note II oversize phone. Like that device, the Note 8.0 also has handwriting recognition that works pretty well and "hover over" functionality that delivers pop-up previews of files and photos (although this is somewhat inconsistent—sometimes info pops up, sometimes it doesn't).
Samsung also has a Reading Mode that optimizes the backlight and tint for reading. Curiously, though, this doesn't work with the Kindle for Android app. The Note 8.0 also includes an S Pen-friendly version of Flipboard, in which hovering over a tile launches a pop-up menu that lets you jump directly to a story.
Like the new HTC One, the Note 8.0 includes an app that turns the device into a universal remote control. Samsung's app is called WatchON, and like HTC's offering it includes a recommendation engine that checks what is on TV now and can offer suggestions based on your preferences. WatchON also delivers up content from Hulu, Blockbuster, and Netflix and can play that content on the device. It's an interesting way to get users started on an integrated second-screen experience. For the moment, WatchON seems to be focused on content discovery, but in the not-too-distant future, I expect many tabletmakers will be looking for a way to use these devices to steal away viewers' attention to streaming video. Broadcasters and cable operators, beware.
Samsung also includes a lot of other productivity goodies such as Polaris Office, which lets you edit and create Microsoft Office documents, and Awesome Note, a slick-looking to-do list manager, plus 50 GB of free Dropbox storage for two years. And if all of your friends also have Samsung devices, the Note 8.0's Group Play feature lets you share music and video and collaborate on documents.
There's so much software stuffed onto the Note that it can get a bit confusing when you just want to play a song, look at a picture, watch a video, or surf the Web. Do I use Music Hub, Music Player, or Play Music? Do I use Play Movies & TV, Video Player, or WatchON? Do I use the Internet app or Chrome? Extra choices aren't always helpful when you just want to get something done.
With its 1.6-GHz quad-core processor and 2 GB of RAM, the Note 8.0 is fast and snappy, with no performance lags in our testing. The screen is fine for reading and video watching but a bit disappointing when viewed next to high-pixel-density screens such as the full-size iPad. (It's worth mentioning, by the way, that the Note is a formidable video player, with built-in support for MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, and DivX.) The 4600-millamp battery is impressive; we made it through an entire weekend without recharging. But the Note's cameras—5-megapixel on the back, 1.3-megapixel on the front—are letdowns. Low-light photos were universally disappointing.
On the whole, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 is a likable, useful tablet with impressive performance. It would be a no-brainer purchase were it not for the price: Samsung wants $400 for it. That's $70 more than the baseline 16 GB iPad mini, and $200 more than a 7-inch Nexus 7. Maybe some folks are really into the S Pen technology, but I have a hard time believing that a stylus merits a 20 percent markup. It's a shame, too, because at $300, the Galaxy Note 8.0 would be a pretty compelling device.


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Sirius XM's SkyDock isn't the most elegant accessory I've ever seen—it's basically a standalone satellite radio receiver with an iPod connector—but it's the only way to listen to space radio on your iPhone or iPod Touch, for now.
The stalky dock, which leverages iPhone OS 3.0's new hardware support (remember that?), plugs into your car's DC jack, which it depends on for power and support, and will run $120, not including the required subscription to Sirius XM radio. The companion app, which bears no resemblance to Sirius XM's previous radio app, simply sets your iPhone up as a radio controller. Mercifully, it's free. [AllThingsD]
SIRIUS XM RADIO INTRODUCES THE FIRST DEVICE TO RECEIVE LIVE SATELLITE RADIO CONTROLLED BY THE iPOD TOUCH AND iPHONE
XM SkyDock™ allows customers to enjoy live XM and "The Best of SIRIUS" in their vehicles using the iPod touch or iPhone
NEW YORK–August 26, 2009–SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) today introduced XM SkyDock, the first satellite radio controlled by an iPod touch or iPhone. The XM SkyDock is also one of the first products to take advantage of the new hardware control capabilities of iPhone OS 3.0.
Designed for easy use through the existing vehicle audio system, SkyDock has a built-in XM tuner controlled by a free App that users download from the App Store. The App allows control of the XM tuner using the capabilities of the iPod touch or iPhone Multi-Touch user interface. SkyDock will also charge iPod touch and iPhone devices while listening to live satellite radio.
"XM SkyDock will allow millions of users to add live SIRIUS XM Radio capability to their iPod touch or iPhone while in their vehicle," said Bob Law, Group Vice President and General Manager, After Market Division, SIRIUS XM Radio. "XM SkyDock makes their favorite programming from XM and 'The Best of SIRIUS' available to iPod touch and iPhone users anywhere they drive, coast to coast."
Listeners can use their iPod touch and iPhone to listen to all their favorite sports, talk, news, entertainment and commercial-free music programming, including Oprah Radio, MLB Home Plate, the PGA TOUR Network, Opie & Anthony, Bob Edwards, Jamie Foxx and Blue Collar Comedy. For the first time, subscribers can also listen to the complete "Best of SIRIUS" package, including Howard Stern and his two 24/7 channels, Martha Stewart Living Radio, SIRIUS NASCAR Radio, sports play-by-play and the Playboy Radio channel, all controlled by the iPod touch and iPhone.
Listeners can also tag songs they hear on XM's music channels for later purchase from the iTunes Store–including songs on XM's 24/7 artist branded commercial-free channels such as Jimmy Buffett's Radio Margaritaville, Elvis Radio, Eminem's Shade 45, The Grateful Dead Channel, B.B. King's Bluesville, Willie Nelson's Willie's Place, Siriusly Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen's E Street Radio. Other features include game alerts and sports ticker, artist and song alerts as well as a stock ticker.
The XM SkyDock is a perfect companion to the SIRIUS XM Premium Online App, which allows subscribers to receive SIRIUS XM's Premium Internet service on their iPhone and iPod touch when they are out of the vehicle and on-the-go, at home, or at the office.
XM SkyDock comes with SIRIUS XM's patent-pending PowerConnect™ technology, which simplifies Do-It-Yourself vehicle installation, working through the existing vehicle radio and making it easy to move from vehicle to vehicle. An Aux In Cable is a standard in-box accessory to facilitate Aux In connections in vehicles with Aux In capability. SkyDock's flexible stalk optimizes the iPod touch or iPhone placement in the vehicle. Customers can view the touch-screen interface in portrait or landscape modes. Accessories include Magnetic Mount Antenna and spacers to accommodate the various iPod touch and iPhone product generations.
XM SkyDock is compatible with iPod touch (1st generation), iPod touch (2nd generation), iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. All models require iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
XM SkyDock will be sold in stores and will also be available at www.shop.xmradio.com with an MSRP $119.99 in fall 2009. The XM SkyDock App will be available at the same time.
This device has been granted preliminary approval by the Federal Communications Commission but is still undergoing evaluation by the Commission.
For more information on XM, please visit www.xmradio.com.


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by Sean Croxton & Chef Lance Roll
Over the years, I have gotten my fair share of email from readers, viewers, and listeners wondering what they can do if high-quality (grass-fed, free-range, wild) protein sources aren't quite in the budget.
Well, here's a pretty cool option — you can drink more bone broth!
It's cheap. It heals the gut, thus improving nutrient absorption. And apparently, when consumed in sufficient quantities, it reduces our protein needs. In other words, we can get away with consuming less protein.
Sarah Pope covered this topic pretty thoroughly in her Real Food Summit presentation, which I have posted for FREE viewing as part of yesterday's blog.
Check out the video clip below in which Chef Lance Roll and I discuss this fascinating benefit of that magical elixir we call bone broth.
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The poor pay the most
You might think Massachusetts has a progressive tax code, since the good liberals on Beacon Hill have done whatever they could – income tax exemptions and deductibles, exempting food and clothing from the sales tax – to tilt the tax burden away from the commonwealth's neediest citizens.
You might think Massachusetts has a flat tax code, since it's written into the state constitution that everyone must be charged the same tax rates on earned and unearned income.
In either case, you'd be wrong, but in order to know that, someone would have to ask the question. Thanks to a provision in this summer's transportation financing law – put there by Sen. Karen Spilka, it should be noted – the new Tax Fairness Commission asked the DOR how much different income groups are paying in state taxes.
According to a State House News Service story sent to subscribers (which I can't find online, which may mean no one bothered to publish it), the DOR (I can't find the report online either) broke up taxpayers by quintile and showed how much of their earnings they pay in income, sales and certain excise taxes:
Top earners: 5.7 percent of earnings
Second quintile: 6.25 percent
Third quintile: 6.8 percent
Fourth quintile: 8 percent
Lowest quintile: 12.2 percent
There's more questions to be asked, and a serious discussion to be had. I'm hoping some would-be governors will take it on. I have more thoughts here.


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In contemporary art, it's not hard to summon nostalgia for the late '60s and early '70s, a time when so much of what artists were producing seemed authentically new and authentically cool (at least given today's perceptions about "authentic," "new," or "cool"). The art world was smaller and more manageable in many ways, not least because the practice of discovering "alternative modernisms" had yet to be discovered. In New York, which was still regarded as its capital, artists were still colonizing the neglected downtown Manhattan lofts that would later become coveted real estate; more to the point, they were making art in these spaces that had no place in typical white-cube galleries and museums.
That's what made the 1971 exhibition Works for New Spaces such a critical moment in the Walker's history and, arguably, in the broader art world. Curated by then-director Martin Friedman, the show inaugurated the Walker's new building designed by Edward Larabee Barnes, whose seven white-cube galleries were, in fact, designed specifically with these new kinds of artworks in mind. As the title indicates, 21 of its 22 works were special commissions, with artists making the work partly or wholly on site. That practice is commonplace now, but this was the first time it had been done, at least on such a wide scale.
By 1971, Friedman had been leading the Walker for a decade, establishing his reputation as "a vigorous champion of everything that is farthest out on the current art scene," as Hilton Kramer noted in the New York Times, reviewing both Works for New Spaces and the new Barnes building. But the commissioning of new art, which has become integral to the Walker's mission, didn't really get underway until the late 60s, while the Barnes building was under construction.
As Friedman recalled in the Walker's Bits & Pieces collections catalogue, those commissions included Red Grooms' The Discount Store, installed in the State Theatre building a few blocks away on Hennepin Avenue; and outdoor works around the city by William Wegman, Richard Treiber, Barry LeVa and others for 9 Artists/9 Spaces. Regarding that show, Friedman said that "practically everything was destroyed in one way or another by the public" during what he called "tense anarchic days, with protests, riots, and bombings all over the country. … We certainly never thought of what we were doing as confrontational, but those were difficult times." (More on 9 Artists/9 Spaces here and here.)
The art in Works for New Spaces, however, was presented in and around a new, pretty much universally lauded building (the one exception being a strobe-light piece by the artist group Pulsa in Loring Park), so the Walker director could be as far-out as he wished without worrying about people attacking the art. As he put it, "the artists we invited could hardly wait to attack the building, and they did, in the most amazing ways."
Looking back 40 years from another era of "difficult times," Friedman's references to artists and the public on the attack, not to mention the destruction of artworks, are notable. Even if riots and bombings are still mostly taking place outside the U.S., there's no question about the domestic factor in Time's naming "the protester" as its "Person of the Year" with a cover story penned by Kurt Andersen.
It's also easier to see how 1971 and Works for New Spaces were not so much the advent of the '70s but rather a culmination of the '60s—a decade "of relentless and discombobulating avant-gardism, when everything looked and sounded perpetually new new new," as Andersen observes in another piece in the current issue of Vanity Fair. Incidentally, his characterization of the '60s in that article is part of a broader and fascinating complaint about how current culture seems stuck rewinding the past 20 years. Perhaps that phenomenon explains a craving for new-new-new alternatives to the same-old same-old—or maybe just a fondness for old art that was once bracingly new.
Above, Minneapolis Tribune coverage of the opening festivities for the new building and the show, which "has completely dominated the local art scene lately and continues to be a source of discussion and debate," wrote critic Mike Steele in a later piece.
The forms in Lynda Benglis' Adhesive Products "assume the character of spectral, primordial creatures." One of the "products" was remounted for the 2010 Walker exhibition Abstract Resistance; and in 2009, Friedman wrote a comprehensive story about the Benglis commission in Art in America. (This quote and those following are from the exhibition catalog.)
In Siah Armajani's Fifth Element, "a folded gold plane floats in space with no visible means of support and rotates mysteriously on its vertical axis. The supporting device, an electromagnet developed by University of Minnesota physicists, is concealed within the white ceiling box. Armajani's use of sophisticated technology is that of a mystic."
Created with "gauze-like fabric tautly stretched across a space," Robert Irwin's No Title was remounted in 2009, appropriately enough, in the Walker's Friedman Gallery, part of the 2005 expansion to Barnes' 1971 building. A blog post about the reinstallation shows some great archival images of Irwin and an assistant at work.
Sam Gilliam, "once associated with the Washington School of Color-field painting," had by 1971 "abaondoned the use of the stretched canvas" to make works like Carousel Merge, above. Gilliam intended the canvas to be "hung in a variety of configurations in any given space."
Larry Bell used "a huge vacuum chamber to adhere vaporous layers of a silver alloy on glass plates, which then assume an elusive reflectivity" in Garst's Mind No. 2.
In James Seawright's Network III, a "suspended light grid receives its impulses from a programmed computer," but the viewer is also "a participant whose movements direct the patterned activity overhead."
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Seniors sizzle for Miami in win over FSU
TALLAHASSEE – Miami coach Jim Larranaga switched up his starting lineup Monday night and played five seniors for the first time all season.
With just two Atlantic Coast Conference wins, the Hurricanes needed a change.
Miami exploded offensively during the 77-73 victory against rival Florida State, scoring the most points since an 84-69 win against Texas Southern in the fourth game of the year. The win was just the third in conference play and the second on the road against the Seminoles in eight attempts.
"From my point of view, that's the best we've played at both ends of the court," Larranaga said. "I thought our defense was strong in the first half. Not until Ian Miller went on a roll right at the end of the half did I get concerned.
"I like those seniors, and the way they responded to the challenge that was put to them. This is your last go 'round. You have eight games left. How do you want to remember it? Tonight, they showed that they really want to go out playing better basketball and winning some of these close games."
Donnavan Kirk scored a team-high 16 points for Miami (12-12, 3-8 ACC).
Rion Brown finished with 14 and Tonye Jekiri chipped in with 15. Erik Swoope and Raphael Akpejiori made their first starts of the season with the lineup change.
The victory was just the Hurricanes' second in their past eight games.
Miller scored 13 points for Florida State (14-10, 5-7) in his first game back from an ankle injury. Devon Bookert scored 17 and Aaron Thomas had 16 in the loss. The Seminoles have lost 6 of 8.
The early moments of the first half looked like a meeting between teams with seven combined ACC wins. Neither could put the ball in the basket as Miami started 3-for-13 from the field, while Florida State was 2-for-10. The Seminoles didn't match the physicality inside, but the 3-point shot got both teams rolling.
Miami's five first-half 3-pointers helped extend its lead to 12 points before Miller caught fire. Miller buried a pair of back-to-back 3-pointers and added a pull-up jumper with 37 seconds left to keep the Seminoles within single digits at halftime.
The Hurricanes extended their lead to a game-high 13 after a 5-0 start to the second half that featured several Florida State blunders. Michael Ojo was called for a technical foul, Montay Brandon missed two free throws and Thomas fouled a 3-point shooter. The Seminoles answered with a 16-6 run that saved themselves from being run out the building.
"One of the things we do by slowing the game down is controlling the tempo," said Miami guard Garrius Adams, who scored 12 points.
Miami played zone for most of the game and Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton said that caused the Seminoles to play a bit hesitant offensively.
"This is part of the learning process, how do you handle adversity?" Hamilton said. "How do you find a way to reach deep down inside when things are not going the way you want? That's when you learn and you grow.
"I thought the effort was good, but I do think we had some execution failures on the defensive end."


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3 teenage girls killed in Asiana crash were schoolmates in China
The three teenage girls killed in the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash in San Francisco attended the same school in China, Chinese state media reported.
Two of the girls, Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, died at the scene of the crash at San Francisco International Airport on July 6.
The third victim died Friday at San Francisco General Hospital, the hospital said, without disclosing her name, age or hometown. She had been listed in critical condition. China News identified the third girl as Liu Yipeng and said she attended school with the other two victims.
Ye and Wang, both 16, were part of a group of Chinese students on their way to West Valley Christian Church and School in West Hills for a three-week summer camp. Their bodies were recovered soon after the Boeing 777 clipped a seawall and slammed into a runway.
Ye's body was found close to the aircraft's left wing. San Francisco police confirmed Friday that a fire truck responding to the incident had hit her, but said the San Mateo County coroner had yet to determine the cause of her death.
Gordon Shyy, a San Francisco police spokesman, said the girl was outside the jet and covered in fire retardant foam when the fire truck "went over her."
An investigation into the incident is continuing.
More than 180 people were hurt in the crash, with injuries including broken bones, road rash, spinal cord injuries and internal bleeding. San Francisco General, which treated 67 patients, said Friday afternoon that six remained hospitalized, including two adults in critical condition. Stanford Hospital, which saw 55 crash survivors, said Friday that its one remaining patient was listed in serious condition.
The National Transportation Safety Board's investigation of the crash is expected to take months to complete.
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MILAN – An Italian appeals court on Friday overturned the convictions of three Google executives who had been held criminally responsible for a video on a Google site that showed a disabled teen being bullied.
Google said it was "delighted" with the appellate ruling that cleared global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer, its senior vice-president and chief legal officer David Drummond and retired chief financial officer George Reyes of any wrongdoing.
The original verdict raised concerns that Internet platforms could be forced to police their content in Italy, and beyond, while putting European privacy concerns at odds with the freewheeling nature of the Internet.
A lower court in 2010 convicted the three of privacy violations for a 2006 video posted on Google Video, a video-sharing service Google ran before the company acquired YouTube later that year.
None of the executives charged in the case were in any way involved in the posting of the video and Google said they took it down within two hours of being notified by authorities.
Google, in its final arguments before the court, noted 72 hours-worth of video is posted on YouTube every minute — which would be impossible to preview. That is up from 20 hours of video a minute at the time of the initial verdict.
Google and other hosting platforms generally rely on other users flagging objectionable content.
"We're very happy that the verdict has been reversed and our colleagues' names have been cleared," Giorgia Abeltino, Policy Manager, Google Italy said in a statement. "Of course, while we are delighted with the appeal, our thoughts continue to be with the family, who have been through the ordeal."
The footage in question showed an autistic student in Turin being pushed, pummeled with objects, including a pack of tissues, and insulted by classmates, who called him a "mongoloid."
The prosecutor's case — based on a complaint by an advocacy group — emphasized that the video had been viewed 5,500 times over the two months it was online, when it climbed to the top of Google Italy's "most entertaining" video list and had more than 80 comments, including users urging its removal.
Google argued that it was unaware of the offensive material and acted swiftly to remove it after being notified by authorities.


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I'm officially on vacation… and I couldn't be happier. I don't plan on doing much the next two weeks, except spend lots of time with my kids and my husband doing pretty much NADA!
But before I sign-off until 2013, I just wanted to share with you some of the great Christmas content we've gathered throughout the years since we launched SpanglishBaby. After all, this is the fourth holiday season we're celebrating! From posts about how we celebrate La Navidad in our bilingual and bicultural households to really cool Christmas-related activities and yummy recipes, there's something for everyone, so check it out:
A Christmas Gift: 9 Villancicos Navideños {Printable Lyrics PDF}
Christmas Carols for Posadas – Villancicos Para Pedir Posadas {Printable}
Celebrating Las Posadas: From Mexico to the US
A Bicultural Christmas Photo — We asked our regular contributors to share one photo that represents Christmas for their families.
Posadas in Mexico: The Largest Nativity Scene in the World
Santa Claus: Does It Matter What Color He Is or What Language He Speaks?
Your Bicultural Holiday Traditions — A series of posts written by bloggers and our contributors exploring how the holidays are celebrated in their bilingual and bicultural casitas.
A Multicultural Noche Buena Feast
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas Bath Fun: Christmas Kids Activity
Christmas Party Favor: Snowman Play Dough
Burrito Sabanero Puppets on a Stick {Holiday Craft}
Christmas Activity for Kids: Snowman Bowling
Christmas Activity Sheets in Spanish {Printable}
Poinsettia Craft {Printable Activity}
Gluten-Free Quinoa, Almond and Sherry Cake — Christmas with a Twist
Christmas Baking with Kids: Gingerbread Man
Last Minute Holiday Drink: Warm Winter Margarita
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