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It was sundowner time at the Cantina tapas bar in the picturesque village of Frigiliana, a few miles inland from the Costa del Sol town of Nerja. Inside, local men were watching bullfighting on television and smoking cigars in quiet contravention of the smoking ban. Outside, expatriate Britons were discussing the vagaries of living in Spain while downing glasses of tinto de verano, the popular summer drink of red wine and lemonade. Mark Jones, who runs his own gardening and pool maintenance company, had spent two days queuing at the local municipal office to renew his residence permit. "I got there at 9am on the first day and my number was 26; by lunchtime they were only up to number 6 and they close at 2pm," he complained. "You have to renew every bit of paper here every few years but I can't afford two days off to queue in an office. There are no staff now because of the cuts, so it all takes longer. It's like everywhere – as soon as the recession hits, it's the immigrants who cop it worst." Conversation turned to a local couple, who are desperate to leave Spain but who can't because their house is still unsold after four years on the market - despite dropping the asking price from €1 million to €750,000. In 1992 the BBC spent millions of pounds launching an ill-fated soap opera, Eldorado, following the fortunes of British expats on the Costa del Sol. The project flopped and was cancelled a year later. Now, 20 years later, the real-life diaspora is experiencing an equally disastrous end to its Iberian dream. Times are desperate in Spain. More than a million people took the streets earlier this month to protest at budget cuts, 24 per cent unemployment and the rising cost of living. The price of milk and bread has risen by 48 per cent during the last year, according to a recent study, and of potatoes by 116 per cent. 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Now 89, Mrs Hilling has never seen any return on her money, owes more than €300,000 to Rothschild Bank on the mortgage and relies on handouts from her children to stay in Spain. "It's devastating," she said. "The man was British, very charming, and said there was no risk. My children said 'Mummy, please don't do this', but I needed the extra income. Now I'm fighting for my life and my home." She is one of more than 100 mainly elderly British expats who have banded together in a Spanish court action to have their mortgages voided, arguing they were mis-sold. Rothschild and several Scandinavian banks also named in the legal action claim the financial advisers are to blame; and the advisers, who are not regulated in Spain as they are in Britain, insist the risk was mentioned in the small print. In a country fighting for its own survival, Spanish politicians are not unduly concerned with the plight of British residents, particularly when many are retired so do not actively contribute to the national economy. Spain's government is currently involved in a dispute with Britain over extent of free health care for Britons under EU law and there are moves to force them to pay 10 per cent of their prescription costs. But for some, returning home remains unthinkable. Former fitness instructor and gym owner Jo Morrison, 49, moved to Spain from London with her partner Lloyd 11 years ago. In 2008 she sold her house in Putney so she could open a gym in Nerja but the project failed after her business partner pulled out, and then the global financial crisis erupted. She now works as a cleaner while renting a one-bedroom home. "Sometimes we've gone without food and I still can't believe that I don't have my house or any savings any more," she said. "But Spain is my home now. 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A report in today's Wall Street Journal claims that Sun's execs have been shopping the company around recently and that IBM is an interested party. The report indicates that if the talks between the two companies go well, a deal could be announced fairly soon. The number allegedly being floated by IBM is $10 to $11 per share for Sun, which would put the total size of the deal at $8 billion.
Assuming that IBM is actually interested in buying Sun, the obvious question is "why?" There is a ton of overlap between the two companies' product lines, so it's hard to see a lot of complementarity there. In fact, such a deal would seem overwhelmingly to be about one thing for IBM: shrinking the competition. Suns execs would pocket fat bonuses, and the former Silicon Valley high-flyer would be chopped up and absorbed into the belly of the Big Blue beast. Parts of Sun's business with no volume and hence no real future in the present market (things like the SPARC processor family) would be end-of-lifed, while some software assets and other IP could be picked up and used by IBM.
Of course, the prospect of IBM gobbling up a weakened competitor on the cheap doesn't sit well with everyone. The Computer & Communications Industry Association sent out a statement this morning expressing deep skepticism about IBM's motives in this deal, and branding IBM with the "m"-word (monopoly).
"IBM's continued monopoly dominance of the high end computer market is a key factor and starting point in any analysis of this proposed deal," said CCIA's CEO Ed Black. "If this merger is announced, it will require careful, extensive review by antitrust authorities because of the wide range of tech products both companies now produce. IBM and Sun have been fierce competitors for years. A merger would eliminate a key competitor, which affects choice and prices down the line on numerous IT products."
So there you have it: if a deal is announced, expect some push-back from anyone with concerns about the antitrust implications, a group that could include HP and Cisco.
Keep the software, throw out the hardware?
There's some excitement among the commentariat about the hardware side of this deal—particularly around Sun's storage and server business—but I'm not feeling it. IBM is has been transitioning to a services model for some time, and this has been a good thing in two respects: 1) its services division has been profitable, and 2) hardware purchases have taken a much worse beating in the downturn than have services. Both of these factors added up to a relatively strong 2008 fourth quarter at IBM, when more hardware-centric rivals were hurting because their sales had suddenly fallen off a cliff with the rest of the economy.
When you add IBM's success with services to its proven prowess in building its own quite capable hardware, I have no idea why the company would want Sun's hardware business for any other reason than to kill it off and remove some competition. If IBM could sop up Sun's enterprise customers through a deal like this and ease them into the IBM ecosystem, that would put Big Blue in a better position against HP (and, with yesterday's big announcement, Cisco).
Sun's software portfolio could be another matter, though. There are some redundancies there (i.e., AIX vs. Solaris, or DB2 vs. MySQL), but Sun's lineup also contains some interesting open-source gems that IBM could put to good use, like Java and OpenOffice. Any IBM adaptation of Sun's open-source portfolio would probably entail some licensing changes, though.
IBM wasn't happy when Sun released Java under the GPL instead of a more permissive open source software license. It's possible that if IBM acquired Sun, Big Blue would move Java towards a multilicensed approach and potentially put it under the Apache Software License in addition to the GPL. This would make it easier for Sun's Java technology to be integrated into existing open source Java implementations, such as the Apache Harmony project, and it would also make it easier for Java to be repurposed by third parties for proprietary uses.
The CDDL, currently the license under which OpenSolaris is distributed, is incompatible with the GPL. This largely precludes the sharing of source code between Linux and OpenSolaris. It's very likely that IBM would adjust OpenSolaris licensing so that the useful parts of the Solaris stack—particularly ZFS and DTrace—can be integrated into the Linux kernel.
Ryan Paul contributed to this report

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So far the album has been received with high praise and it's only been out for a week. I was away for a work trip last weekend so I first listened to the album last Thursday night/Friday morning on Spotify. I loved it. I knew I was gonna head out immediately once I got home to purchase it. I bought it Wednesday. It's a fantastic album. It's everything you could ever want from Lorde, especially as a follow-up to Pure Heroine. The songs are emotional, catchy, and have that edgy sound Lorde is so well known for. It takes listeners on an emotional roller coaster from start to finish. It will have you dancing with songs like "Green Light" and "Supercut", singing to "Perfect Places" and "Homemade Dynamite", crying while listening to "Liability", and loving everything else in between.
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Regular readers may know that I'm wont to joke that we are all African-Americans, and so should be eligible for minority set-asides, scholarships and/or reparations (should they ever be awarded). My joke is based upon the prevailing hypothesis about the origin of modern Homo sapiens sapiens. Personally, I've never accepted the Out of Africa model (aka single replacement), but it's been the favored scientific "wisdom" for some time. The proposals of Milford H. Wolpoff, who advances the multiregional hypothesis, have always seemed to make more sense, but even that model envisions Africa as our ultimate homeland.
The Out of Africa model proposes that all modern humans descend from a common ancestral branch that first arose in Africa sometime around a mere 200,000 years ago. From Africa, these thoroughly modern humans spread out to populate the entire world about 60,000 years ago, displacing all previous populations (such as Neanderthals) who then died off.
The multiregional hypothesis differs by proposing that rather than displacing earlier forms of humans, the more recent migrants from Africa simply interbred with and absorbed those populations.
Recently, some Russian geneticists reported on research that suggests that the common ancestor of all modern humans may never have lived in Africa. Their research was published by a company that might be called part of the "alternative" scientific press.
You may not believe in human evolution. This post doesn't argue for or against evolution but is an attempt to demonstrate how political correctness can corrupt what's presented as objective science.
Some believe that the reason that the Out of Africa model became so popular is simple political correctness. [emphasis added to quotes]
Scientific evidence refuting the theory of modern humanity's African genesis is common knowledge among those familiar with the most recent scientific papers on the human Genome, Mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosomes. Regrettably, within mainstream press and academia circles, there seems to be a conspicuous – and dare we say it – deliberate vacuum when it comes to reporting news of these recent studies and their obvious implications.Australian historian Greg Jefferys explains that, "The whole 'Out of Africa' myth has its roots in the mainstream academic campaign in the 1990′s to remove the concept of Race. When I did my degree they all spent a lot of time on the 'Out of Africa' thing but it's been completely disproved by genetics. Mainstream still hold on to it."
Yes, some are motivated by a desire to "remove the concept of Race," but others (who prefer to divide us) use the "myth" to help promote Afrocentrism, as illustrated by a book written by Professor Mary Lefkowitz and reviewed by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.:
"Not Out of Africa" combines a learned demolition of various politically correct historical fantasies with a thoughtful inquiry into questions of historical method and of academic freedom. Anyone perplexed by multicultural education should read it.
So history as well as anthropology falls victim to political correctness. A particular bias for the Out of Africa model is said to be more prevalent in Europe and the USA, while scientists elsewhere (particularly Russia and China) tend to disagree. Harvard biochemist Christian Schwabe wrote,
The "out of Africa" idea of human evolution is dominant among anthropologists perhaps because most fossils were found there, because of the commitment to a single origin scenario, and finally because of cultural demands that all humans be of equal descent. In the final analysis these are not very forceful reasons.
Perhaps because of "cultural demands", political correctness and the politicization of "science" are becoming the norm in the United States and Europe. Most obvious is the slanting of the science on "global warming", which is also called inadvertent climate modification, greenhouse effect, anthropogenic climate change, anthropogenic global warming, global climate change, global heating, climate breakdown, and climate insecurity.
The ever-morphing terminology is one clue that politicization happens frequently in climate science.
Most scientific studies expressing an opinion accept the theory that humans cause global warming, says one much-cited meta-analysis. That amazing 97.1% "consensus" figure is proof, however, only of how cleverly some lie with statistics. Nearly two thirds of the studies examined expressed no opinion. In addition, the meta-analysis included research abstracts from only peer-reviewed scientific literature. Which brings us to another way that political correctness infects science: through the suppression and deliberate non-publication of opposing views.
Peer review is the standard for credibility. Or it used to be.
Now political correctness is used to prevent opposing viewpoints from being published in peer-reviewed journals in the first place, which keeps the world from seeing any research-based evidence that refutes the prevailing "wisdom", seemingly confirming the imaginary "consensus".
Thus the need for an alternative scientific press, such as the one that published the findings of those Russian geneticists.
Similar forces of political correctness gave rise to a need for the New Media (aka the alternative media, including the "pajamas media" or bloggers). As mainstream media falls victim to political correctness, the alternative media steps in.
There are obvious parallels between the current suppression of some "inconvenient" scientific facts and the Catholic Church's suppression of Galileo's work in defense of the theories of Copernicus.
A New Inquisition?
While that might sound extreme, consider that one professor has actually proposed holding "climate deniers" criminally negligent:
What are we to make of those behind the well documented corporate funding of global warming denial? Those who purposefully strive to make sure "inexact, incomplete and contradictory information" is given to the public? I believe we understand them correctly when we know them to be not only corrupt and deceitful, but criminally negligent in their willful disregard for human life. It is time for modern societies to interpret and update their legal systems accordingly.
The professor sounds far from "modern" in his analysis. His argument also sounds like a classic case of projection: Who is suppressing "contradictory information?"
Yet more evidence:
Climate science has become 'too green' and 'blind to bias' scientists have warned after it was claimed a major journal suppressed research which cast doubt on the speed of global warming.
The journal Environmental Research Letters refused to publish an article by Lennart Bengtsson and other academics which flagged up inconsistencies in temperature projections. …
Prof [Richard] Tol, who refused to sign a recent Intergovernmental Pancel on Climate Change (IPCC) report because it was too alarmist said: "Environmental Research Letters is known for making politically inspired decisions. They are very green, and not the scientific journal that they claim to be.
"There are few people with as much credibility as Lennart Bengtsson. His integrity is beyond doubt."
The paper by Prof Bengtsson, of Reading University, challenged findings by the IPCC that the global average temperature would rise by up to 4.5C if greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were allowed to double.
It suggested that the climate might be much less sensitive to greenhouse gases than has previously been claimed.
Unfortunately, common sense wins some and loses some. Here's more evidence of politically correct suppression combined with economic bullying:
Some of the world's top PR companies have for the first time publicly ruled out working with climate change deniers, marking a fundamental shift in the multi-billion dollar industry that has grown up around the issue of global warming.
Public relations firms have played a critical role over the years in framing the debate on climate change and its solutions – as well as the extensive disinformation campaigns launched to block those initiatives.
Now a number of the top 25 global PR firms have told the Guardian they will not represent clients who deny man-made climate change, or take campaigns seeking to block regulations limiting carbon pollution. Companies include WPP, Waggener Edstrom (WE) Worldwide, Weber Shandwick, Text100, and Finn Partners. …
Not surprisingly, all things considered, that news comes on the heels of this:
U.S. President Barack Obama and EU leaders meeting in Brussels this month [March 2014] will throw their combined weight behind tackling climate change, a document seen by Reuters says, in a show of developed world solidarity on the need for a new global deal. …
Both the European Union and the United States are preparing new pledges on cutting emissions for the first quarter of 2015, ahead of a U.N. summit in Paris that is meant to agree a new worldwide deal.
Its aim must be to limit any global average temperature increase to less than 2 degrees Celsius compared with pre-industrial levels "and should therefore include ambitious mitigation contributions, notably from the world's major economies and other significant emitters," the document said.
Why doesn't Obama just stretch out his all-powerful hand and command the oceans to stop rising?
Political correctness also impedes science with regard to determining how the Americas were first populated. For political reasons, activists persuaded the U.S. Congress to pass a law that requires ancient human remains found within the USA to be controlled by "Native Americans", who are assumed to be the descendants of the deceased. Remains are turned over to tribes living in the same geographical area for reburial, as if humans haven't migrated over the intervening tens of thousands of years. In some cases, no scientific study of the remains is conducted, as that would be disrespectful towards "the ancestors" and would desecrate their remains.
Everything from mineral rights to land rights to separate nationhood status depends upon maintaining the "common wisdom" (or imaginary consensus) that the ancestors of today's "Native Americans" were the only first inhabitants of this hemisphere and were basically homogenous. In addition, some Native American mythologies teach that "the ancestors" were indigenous to the Americas, so they never could have been Out of Africa, or even Siberia. To say otherwise is politically incorrect and disrespectful to their culture. After all, this is a now a nation where cultural relativism is almost a religion.
Cultural relativism is the view that no culture is superior to any other culture when comparing systems of morality, law, politics, etc. It's the philosophical notion that all cultural beliefs are equally valid and that truth itself is relative, depending on the cultural environment.
In truth, we are all immigrants to this hemisphere, the only variable being time. Who came first is yet to be determined, if it will even be allowed to be determined. The way things are looking, we may never know the truth, because politics is far too involved in the study of Ancient America.
So the Solutreans may never get their due. The Solutrean hypothesis proposes that migrants from western Europe arrived on the east coast of America somewhere between 21,000 and 13,500 years ago. That hypothesis, as you might imagine, has "not been well received."
The field of psychology is similarly infected by politics. For example, research is published purporting to prove that conservatives are mentally ill or that whites are particularly, if not uniquely, prone to subconscious racial microaggressions, the latter hypothesis leading to some very ridiculous, divisive, and rather unfortunate incidents.
Anthropology, history, paleontology, archaeology, psychology–these are not the only fields of study subject to corruption by political correctness, but they seem to be the most susceptible, especially the social sciences.
Everything is political and everything is tainted with politics.
Politically corrupted science bodes ill for this Republic, which is the topic of an upcoming post. Stay tuned.


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For the past few days, foursquare has been teasing us with some screenshots along with some cryptic tweets, using the hashtag #allnew4sq. This of course means that the company is planning to drop a new version of its app on us very soon.
A new tease today suggests that the "coming soon" mentioned previously actually means next week:
The burning question: what should we do tonight? The #allnew4sq is coming this week! bit.ly/M8UmVa
— foursquare (@foursquare) June 2, 2012
The tweet says "this week", but I have to believe that a new version won't be pushed on the weekend, which is a technology no-no, so lets call it next week.
Prior to today's tweet and screenshot, the previous scenario features ice cream:
It's a perfect day out and you're finishing up at lunch. The #allnew4sq has ideas for what to do next. Coming soon! bit.ly/L4MWxY
— foursquare (@foursquare) June 1, 2012
What these tweets tell us is that foursquare is taking all of the data that it has collected from its over 2 billion check-ins and 20M+ users since launching in March 2009 at South By Southwest. Since then, the company has been crowdsourcing tips and information for venues in the biggest cities in the world.
Other than going by the tweets, which share scenarios of foursquare data actually helping you make decisions, its move to create an "Explore" section shows us that the company has built a very unique social graph, a massive database of venues and a huge amount of tips about where the best places to go are.
When Explore launched, we noticed that its offerings were far superior to the iteration of Google Places at that time:
When you visit Explore on the web and login to your account, you're presented with a map and search options. It now becomes a community driven and extremely social version of Google Maps, and also a way better offering than Google Places.
It looks like Google has been watching the company's moves, because it recently blew up its Google Place pages with what it calls Google+ Local.
Both offerings seem to leave Yelp in the dust, which had been the de-facto service for people who wanted the best recommendations on where to eat or venues to go to in their area. If foursquare's new version actually digs down into making recommendations based on where you are, what you like, and what time of day it is, it's going to be a huge upgrade.
What else does foursquare have up its sleeve? We'll have to wait until next week to find out, but I'd venture a guess that it's going to blow our minds. Foursquare isn't a check-in service / game anymore, it's a business with massive potential.
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If you're in the mood for a classic love story with just a touch of mushy sentimentality, you can't really go past Mouna Ragam. Mani Ratnam's beautiful 1986 film takes an arranged marriage between a compliant groom and a reluctant bride as the starting point for a look at relationships and how two strangers can learn to live with each other. It's well worth watching for the excellent performances from the main leads, Mohan, Revathi and Karthik, but also for the simple but effective storyline and wonderful music.
The story follows Divya (Revathi) a fairly happy-go-lucky student whose world is shattered when her family arranges her marriage. The groom is Chandrakumar (Mohan) and even though Divya lists all her worst qualities on their uncomfortable first meeting, Chandra likes her honesty and decides that she will be the perfect wife for him. The opening scenes add to the realistic feel of the film as they illustrate just how young Divya is, playing tricks on her older sister and husband, and showing her simplistic and childish ideas to counteract the unwelcome marriage proposal. However, against all her objections, Divya is pressured into the wedding by that age-old family drama – a threatened heart attack / medical collapse. Divya is just as susceptible as every other film heroine and without further ado her husband whisks her off to a new life in Delhi.
The relationship is shown as difficult right from the start. As Chandrakumar shows Divya around his house in Delhi after the wedding, Divya's body language makes it obvious that she doesn't want to be there, while Chandrakumar is clearly feeling the hostile vibes but trying to be as welcoming as possible. This awkwardness seems exactly what I would expect from two strangers suddenly having to live together and Mani Ratnam has captured their uneasiness perfectly. I don't know, never having been through it, but this seems to be a plausible reaction to the abrupt intimacy between two people who have only just met. It's thought-provoking and one of the things I love about the film, that just a few moments can invoke such a complicated emotional response from me.
Despite her classy new abode, which is a world away in size and conveniences from her family home, Divya is very unhappy with her marriage. So much so that when asked what she would like most from her new husband, her immediate answer is a divorce. This is a pivotal scene and it's beautifully played out by Mohan and Revathi. Chandrakumar's shock and hurt are palpable while Divya appears to be no more than a sulky school girl trying to be as obnoxious as possible. Needless to say as a rejection it works well, and since she follows it up with more nasty remarks it's to his credit that Chandrakumar manages to keep his cool. This is the turning point of the film for me with Chandrakumar's character partly due to his emotional responses (which make me feel sorry for him), and partly because he shows more personality in interactions with his work colleagues. It's an important change since up until this point he's fairly bland and unexciting, making Divya's reluctance to go through with the marriage relatively understandable. But Chandrakumar seems a good catch. He's got a good job, a nice house and is considerate and understanding, particularly when faced with Divya's immature taunts. With just a few simple scenes, Mani Ratnam turns the story around, and suddenly it's Divya's reactions and inability to make the best of things that become difficult to understand and instead of wanting her to get divorced, I want Divya to fall in love with Chandrakumar and be happy in her marriage.
Eventually Chandrakumar asks Divya exactly why she is so against the idea of their marriage (possibly something he should have done before the wedding), and she tells him about her first love Manohar (Karthik), who was killed just as they were about to get married. The story of Manohar and Divya is told in flashback and although Karthik only has a small role, he's an excellent romantic partner for Revathi and the two share great chemistry together. The difference between the two relationships stands out clearly. Divya and Manohar have a light and happy relationship, their scenes together are full of life and there is a sense of energy that is missing between Divya and Chandrakumar. Karthik is very appealing here as the quintessential 'bad boy' who is of course not really bad at all. However, while the romance is well told and Divya with Manohar is happier and nicer person, she also seems quite mature, which seems at odds with her juvenile responses to Chandrakumar, and her earlier carefree attitude as a student.
In the face of such strong contempt from Divya, Chandrakumar tries to arrange a divorce, but the law states that the couple has to be together for a year before they can apply. Naturally over this time Divya comes to see the good side of Chandrakumar and slowly develops feelings for him, while Chandrakumar gets a little of his own back by throwing her earlier remarks back at her and ignoring her attempts to be more friendly. This being a Tamil film it's not guaranteed that there will be a happy ending, and the developing relationship is compelling viewing as the deadline for the divorce looms.
There is so much to enjoy here. Revathi is excellent in her role as Divya and her self-realisation and development of maturity is captivating. Initially she lets her emotions track across her face just like any young girl and her petulance and hostility is perfectly nasty. Just think of how obnoxious any group of schoolgirls can be – that is exactly what Mani Ratnam has captured here. With Divya's slow acceptance of her husband there is a softening of her expressions, and when the realisation of what she has done sinks in there is maturity in her actions too. However she is still a young girl at heart, as shown by the tricks she plays on the driver Sanjit Singh. I love the way Mani Ratnam emphasizes her isolation by moving the couple to Delhi where Divya cannot understand the language and is confused by the cultural differences. It adds to the problems she has and ensures that she has to resolve her problems by herself. There is no convenient family or friend to help her, although the lack of interference from Chandrakumar's family is a little surprising.
Mohan is just as good and although his Chandrakumar initially seems too perfect to be true, he becomes more human and therefore more likeable in the second half. He does an excellent job of portraying a 'nice guy' and has just the right amount of revenge on Divya without becoming cruel or spiteful. He's an ideal contrast to the passion of Karthik, and I kept thinking of the old proverb 'still waters run deep' when the camera focused on Chandrakumar's patience and tolerance.
Although the story is nothing new it's beautifully told using a simple style with well developed characters and situations. As an added bonus the music by Ilaiyaraaja is excellent and this song Nilaave Vaa, sung by SP Balasubrahmanyam is just beautiful.
Mouna Ragam rightly deserves to be called a classic and despite the fact that I know what is going to happen, I get drawn into the story every time. Each character is perfectly drawn, the actors all fit their roles easily and there is none of the overblown melodrama which usually infects similar love stories of the time. It's one of my favourite romances, and I thoroughly recommend watching. 5 stars.


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I love living in New York City, but at times I feel like my tight budget limits my usual splurges. My latest obsession to deal with the money crunch? Bite-sized everything.
It may sound silly, but why give up all the foods you love to save a few cents, when many restaurants now offer mini portions for a portion of the price? It's the best of both worlds.
First up, Starbucks. I don't even like coffee, but I just can't get enough of the short, skim, chai tea latte. That's right, you read correctly, short. They don't list it on the menu, but Starbucks offers drinks ranging in size from short, tall, grande, and venti. By ordering the short, you cut down on price and calories… what more could a girl ask for?
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I've tried to limit dinner dates with my friends too, but sometimes after a long day I just need to kick back and relax with my gal pals at our favorite eatery around the corner. The answer to my problems? Sliders. Sliders are bite-sized burgers typically dished out two per plate. This dish has been popping up on restaurant menus across the country, and allows me to get my American fix for half the price. Our favorite slider hotspot in the city is the Cinema Café on 3rd Avenue (and the french fries are to die for).
Topping off my favorite mini splurges is the new trend of tiny desserts. I have a killer sweet tooth, and bite-sized desserts like mini Snicker's pie and crème brulee are just enough to keep me (and my wallet) full.
Now that I've shared my foodie money saving secrets, tell me, what's your tip to keep your splurges but cut back on spending?
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Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43
LOS ANGELES — Conservative media publisher and activist Andrew Breitbart, a firebrand who was embraced by anti-tax, conservative tea partiers and reviled by liberals for his Internet investigations that brought down politicians and chastised mainstream journalism, died Thursday at age 43.
Breitbart was behind investigations that led to the resignations of former Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York and former U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod.
His loudmouth style was lionized by his fans for exposing government corruption and media bias. He was a colorful and often abrasive user of Twitter, including a final message that called a follower a "putz."
Breitbart was skilled at finding issues that pushed conservative buttons while pulling Internet traffic to his websites anchored to news aggregator Brietbart.com.
"I'm committed to the destruction of the old media guard," he once said. "And it's a very good business model."
It also was a radical departure from conservative voices of the past such as William F. Buckley Jr.
"I do what I do because the mainstream media chooses not to do it," Breitbart said. "The game of the left controlling the narrative ... is ending."
Republican candidates for president were quick to offer praise and condolences after learning of his death.
Newt Gingrich tweeted: "Andrew Breitbart was the most innovative pioneer in conservative activist social media in America. He had great courage and creativity."
Condolences also came from his liberal critics.
"We've disagreed more than we've found common ground, but there was never any question of Andrew's passion for and commitment to what he believed," said Ari Rabin-Havt of Media Matters, a liberal watchdog group.
Breitbart's website, bigjournalism.com, said Thursday he died of natural causes. He was walking near his house in the Brentwood neighborhood shortly after midnight when he collapsed, said actor Orson Bean, his father-in-law.
He was rushed to the emergency room at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Breitbart had suffered heart problems a year earlier, but Bean said he could not pinpoint what happened.
"It's devastating," Bean told The Associated Press.
Larry Dietz, watch commander at the Los Angeles County coroner's office, said a cause of death was unknown and an autopsy was likely.
Breitbart's online profile called him a "mild-mannered family guy," However, Rick Santorum said he was a "powerful force."
"He will be what a huge loss ... for our country and certainly for the conservative movement and my prayers go out to his family," Santorum said. "I'm really sorry to hear it."
Mitt Romney posted to Twitter: "Ann and I are deeply saddened by the passing of (at)AndrewBreitbart: brilliant entrepreneur, fearless conservative, loving husband and father."
Sherrod, who is black, was ousted from her job as the USDA's state rural development director for Georgia in July 2010 after an edited video surfaced of her making what appeared to be a racist remark. She is seen telling an NAACP group that she was initially reluctant to help a white farmer save his farm more than two decades ago, long before she worked for USDA.
Missing from the clip was the rest of the speech, which was meant as a lesson in racial healing. Sherrod told the crowd she eventually realized her mistake and helped the farmer save his farm.
Once the entire video surfaced, Sherrod received numerous apologies from the administration — including from President Barack Obama — and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asked her to return to the department to work on civil rights issues.
She declined Vilsack's offer but later sued Breitbart, his employee, Larry O'Connor, and an unnamed "John Doe" defendant for "defamation, false light and intentional infliction of emotional distress."
A lawyer for O'Connor said Thursday that it is unclear whether the case will proceed for the other two defendants, who were in the process of trying to get the case dismissed from federal court.
Breitbart's websites also featured a 2009 hidden-camera video that brought embarrassment to the community group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The videos show ACORN staffers offering advice on taxes and other issues to actors posing as a prostitute and pimp.
Those videos triggered a firestorm of criticism, with some ACORN employees appearing willing to support illegal schemes involving tax advice, misuse of public funds and illegal trafficking in children.
A Government Accountability Office report cleared ACORN of criminal activities.
Even so, public pressure led Congress to block previously approved funds from going to ACORN and to stop future payments. Roughly 10 percent of ACORN's funds came from federal grants and the group eventually disbanded.
Breitbart also sparked a controversy that ultimately led to the resignation of Weiner, whose problems began on May 28 when Bretibart's website posted a lewd photograph of an underwear-clad crotch and said it had been sent from Weiner's Twitter account to a Seattle woman.
Initially, Weiner lied, saying his account had been hacked. But he pointedly did not report the incident to law enforcement — a step that could have led the way to charges of wrongdoing far more serious than mere sexting.
Additionally, his public denials were less than solid — particularly when he told an interviewer that he could not "say with certitude" that he wasn't the man in the underwear photo.
Weiner's spokesman said the photo was just a distraction and that the congressman doesn't know the person named by the hacker.
The congressman denied sending the photo and said he had retained an attorney and hired a private security company to figure out how someone could pull off such a prank.
But Weiner dropped that story line on June 6, offering a lengthy public confession at a Manhattan news conference, acknowledging to online activity involving at least six women.
Breitbart seldom showed restraint in his vitriol to his critics and seemed to relish in the negative attention his antics earned him.
After Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts died in 2009, Breitbart tweeted, "Rest in Chappaquiddick" and called him "a special pile of human excrement." When critics questioned his tone, he tweeted they "missed my best ones!"
Breitbart is survived by his wife, Susannah Bean Breitbart, and four children.


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VERSIONversion 0.40065
SYNOPSISManual Index
How to inflate and deflate field values.
DESCRIPTIONWhen working with the various ways that data can be transformed, in and out, the meaning of the terms 'inflate' and 'deflate' starts to feel kind of slippery. The one constant is that values presented in an HTML form must be in a string format, or presented with select elements or checkboxes.
There are two general types of inflation/deflation provided by FormHandler. The first, 'standard' type inflates values in order to validate them, and deflates them in order to present them in string format via HTML. The other ('DB') type takes values provided by defaults (usually a DB row, or item, but could also be a field default or an init_object) and munges the values coming in and changes them back going out.
Standard inflation/deflationThe standard type of inflation/deflation is implemented by using some of the following options for inflation:
inflate_method transform (using 'apply')
..and the following options for deflation:
deflate_method deflation (field attribute)
When validation starts, the param input will be inflated by the inflate method, allowing validation to be performed on the inflated object.
When the 'fif' fill-in-form value is returned for HTML generation, the deflation is used to flatten the object, usually into a string format.
DB inflation/deflationThe 'DB' type of inflation/deflation uses 'inflate_default_method' for inflation, and 'deflate_value_method' for deflation. Deflation could also be handled by changing the value in one of the various validation methods.
This type of inflation/deflation is, logically, just a different way of providing data munging around the defaults (item/init_object/default) and 'value' output. The same effect could be achieved by performing a transformation outside of FormHandler - if you were handling the database updates yourself. Since the DBIC model enables automatic database updates, this kind of inflation/deflation makes that easier.
One circumstance in which this type of inflation/deflation is useful is when there's a single field in the database row object which you want to expand into a compound field in the form.
Attributes used in deflation/inflationInflation methods
The field 'input' comes from the params that are passed in from the submission of the form, so the input will always be in string format if it comes from an HTTP request. It's also possible to pass in params in other formats, of course. Or the params could be pre-processed before passing in to FormHandler.
You should not normally be changing the 'input' attribute of a field. If you want the changed field value to be used when re-presenting the form, such as when you're adopting a standard format for the field, you should set "fif_from_value => 1".
There are three options for standard inflation, or transforming the field's 'input' to the field's 'value':
- inflate_method
Provide a method on the field which inflates the field 'input' (from params):
has_field 'futility' => ( inflate_method => \&inflate_field ); sub inflate_field { my ( $self, $value ) = @_; .... return $value; }
- transform
- In a sequence of 'apply' actions, changes the format of the 'value' that is being validated. This might be useful if there are some validations that work on one format of the value, and some that work on another.
- set the value in validation methods
- In a validate method, you can change the format of the value, with $field->value(...);
Deflation methods
- deflate_method
Most general purpose deflation method. Provide a coderef which is a method
on the field:
has_field => 'foo' => ( deflate_method => \&deflate_foo ); sub deflate_foo { my ( $self, $value ) = @_; # $self is the 'foo' field <perform conversion> return $value; }
- deflation
This is a coderef that performs deflation.
has_field => 'bar' => ( deflation => sub { shift $value; ... return $value } );
- set the value in validation methods
- Just like for inflation, you can change the value in a validation method; however, it won't be used for fill-in-form unless you set the 'fif_from_value' flag to true.
Normally the fill-in-form value will be the param value that was submitted. If you want to change the format of the input when re-presenting the form, you can set 'fif_from_value'.
Earlier versions of FormHandler provided a 'deflate_to' attribute which allowed the deflation methods to be used for multiple, confusing purposes. This flag has been removed, since it made the process hard to understand and was mixing apples and oranges. The new inflation/deflation methods can handle all of the previous situations.
AUTHORFormHandler Contributors - see HTML::FormHandler
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSEThis software is copyright (c) 2016 by Gerda Shank.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.


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Putnam County Board of Education agrees to organization-wide FMLA compliance, resolving US Labor Department lawsuit
Consent judgment also includes order to pay $50,000 in lost wages to former employee
WINFIELD, W.Va. — The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia has approved a consent judgment ordering the Putnam County Board of Education in Winfield to pay $50,000 in back wages to a former employee to resolve a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor alleging violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act. The judgment also orders the defendants to implement several specific measures to ensure future compliance with the FMLA.
The department filed suit following an investigation by its Wage and Hour Division that found the school board unlawfully had terminated the employee, who worked as a maintenance electrician, when he asked to take time off to care for a parent with a serious health condition. Investigators found that the school board retaliated against the employee for requesting leave that was FMLA-protected when it first attempted to force him to resign and then ultimately terminated his employment. The school board had failed to provide the employee with any of the required FMLA notices about his rights under the law. This failure prevented him from asserting his FMLA rights and hindered his ability to make an educated decision about requesting leave. Also, the school board did not post any notice of employees' rights under the FMLA in conspicuous places as required by law and failed to include adequate information notifying all employees of FMLA leave protections in its employee handbook.
"Today's judgment provides peace of mind for Putnam County Board of Education employees and their families who rely on the FMLA's critical workplace flexibility protections," said Mary Beth Maxwell, acting deputy administrator of the Wage and Hour Division. "This case demonstrates the Labor Department's commitment to ensuring that employees are not retaliated against or prevented from exercising their FMLA rights. The school board has agreed to some significant compliance assurance measures. We encourage other employers to adopt similar proactive approaches to educating their workforces about the FMLA and ensuring sustained compliance with the law."
Pursuant to the court-approved consent judgment, the school board has agreed to implement a number of measures in order to prevent future violations of the FMLA. These measures include designating (a) manager(s) who will be responsible for ensuring proper administration of the FMLA; posting the official FMLA poster in conspicuous places so employees in all schools within the Putnam County Board of Education system can see it; training managers and supervisors on FMLA rules and requirements, and providing the Labor Department with notice of completion of all such trainings; and providing all personnel a written FMLA handbook explaining the employer's and employees' rights and responsibilities under the act.
Additionally, the school board must review all denied requests for employee leave for the 2012-2013 school year to ensure that it did not interfere with, restrain or deny the exercise of any right provided under the FMLA, and remedy any FMLA-related errors found to include restoring any affected employee to the leave, pay and employment position he or she would have occupied had the FMLA-related error not occurred. The school board must conduct a similar review and provide all appropriate remedies to any current or former employees who allege within the next six months that they were not afforded their rights under the FMLA at any time during the two-year period prior to the consent judgment.
The FMLA allows eligible employees to take unpaid leave to bond with a newborn, newly adopted or newly placed child, for their own serious health condition, or to care for a seriously ill child, spouse or parent, without fear of losing their jobs and with continuation of health care coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave. FMLA leave may also be taken for specified reasons related to certain military deployments and to care for a covered service member with a serious injury or illness. An employer is prohibited from interfering with, restraining, or denying the exercise of, or the attempt to exercise, an FMLA right. Prohibited conduct includes refusal to authorize FMLA leave for an eligible employee.
Current and former employees who worked for the Putnam County Board of Education system and believe that they were denied the exercise of any right provided under FMLA during the past two years should contact the school system at 304-586-0500 or the Wage and Hour Division's area office in Charleston, W.Va., at 304-347-5206.
The Labor Department's regional solicitor office in Philadelphia negotiated the resolution of this case.
A copy of the FMLA poster prepared by the department (WH 1420) is available at http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/fmla.htm.
For more information on the FMLA or other federal labor laws enforced by the Wage and Hour Division, call the division's toll-free helpline at 866-4US-WAGE (487-9243) or its Charleston Area Office. Information also is available at http://www.dol.gov/whd/.


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In October this year I celebrated one year of full-time travel, not as a backpacker (am too old), not as a gap year girlie (am far too old) or as someone who was lucky enough to take a sabbatical from work or be retired (am not old enough – phew!). Instead I took my work with me. For one year I have been working and travelling as a digital nomad – a new(ish) breed of travellers who are location independent and require only one constant to maintain their business – the internet.
While in digital nomad terms I'm actually a toddler, waddling around with the padding of training pants softening the unexpected falls – of which there are many – I have learnt more in the last twelve months than I thought possible. Because I get lots of questions about how, why and when I became a digital nomad, I wanted to take some time to share with you all that I've learnt and to give you some food for thought to consider if this lifestyle – one of perpetual travel and freedom – is for you.
The reasons why and how I became a digital nomad are many but the short version is I met and fell in love with another digital nomad and after only a little persuading I converted to his religion. Prior to this I was a single girl deeply in love with my city – London – I had a good job, a great social life and the perfect bachelorette pad with one of my best girls. I travelled often for both work and for pleasure but always came home. I assumed that this was as good as it would get for my wanderlust. This is my first piece of advice about life that I've learnt in the last year – never assume that this is as good as it gets!
It was at the end of the first holiday my boyfriend and I shared -Â a quick 10 day tour of Malaysia – as I folded clothes back into my suitcase, when my boyfriend turned to me and simply said: "You know it doesn't have to be like this. We could both travel much more often. You could work for yourself," And thus the seed was planted…
Almost exactly one year later we left London for good. The year that followed has taken me to 19 countries across three continents. We have travelled slowly staying in some places for a few months and this has enabled me to build my copywriting business as well as use my blog to get travel writing gigs. It's not always plain sailing. There have been moments when we don't know where we will be one week to the next and there have been weeks when jobs have fallen through or I've had to chase payments – it may sound strange but it's the work problems that worry me more than the travel problems. Travel and all its unexpected turns and conundrums is a known unknown quantity but working for myself and all the fear that comes with that is still a little unpredictable.
So is this a life for you? Have you ever considered becoming a digital nomad? I found myself faced with innumerable questions before I left London but I now know these five questions are the most important ones that you should ask yourself to help you determine if it's something you can and want to do:
1. Can I work remotely in my current job? This question could seem straightforward – I bet you're thinking "No, of course I can't, case closed, dream abandoned forever" – Â but remote working is seeing a real surge in popularity at the moment and you'd be surprised how many companies are prepared to be flexible to keep hold of good staff. There's only one way to find out if you can keep your job and travel and that's to ask the right person.
2. To freelance or not to freelance? If you can't work remotely for your current employer but could freelance in your current profession or if you have transferable skills then you're already half way to being a digital nomad, all you need to do is focus on the service you can provide a client and build the client base. This was probably the biggest challenge for me as I'm not able to go to networking events or meetings very easily. However, a lot of companies and clients don't need to see a face to give you a job. There's a lot of work online and for creative industries the market is currently very competitive thanks to online job boards like Elance. At the beginning, focus on applying for jobs you are confident about working on so that you can deliver high quality work on time. In an ideal world you should also have at least 6 months of savings behind you to act as as a buffer so your drop in income isn't so frightening. There are numerous websites out there offering practical advice about freelancing as well as industry specific job websites; a few Google searches and you'll be enlightened and encouraged.
3. Warning: This is not a holiday! Do you really want to work and travel? For every beautiful beach I've sunbathed on, for every mountain I've snowboarded down and for every delicious bite of Asian street food I've enjoyed, there have been at least ten emails I've had to handle, not to mention sitting and doing to do the writing work I'm tasked to do. People at home laugh when I tell them I need a holiday because they think our life is a constant holiday. It isn't; I work harder than I ever did in my previous job in London. But I enjoy the work I do, especially as I get to do it against the ever-changing backdrop of all the places I never thought I'd see or enjoy. That's worth a lot to me and if it is to you then read on…
4. What are you prepared to give up? So say you're a freelancer with clients and you're happy to take your work-life balance seriously so really all you need to do is pack your bags and go… Go on, go! What are you waiting for? Well, if you're still hanging around and reading this you'll know, like I do that travelling full time is not for everyone and as glamorous as it sounds, it's not as dream-like as people think especially if you're working too. There's a lot you miss out on. I miss people – my Mum! – and when we are in places we don't warm to quickly or if we have a problem (e.g. delayed flights, dead rats in our rental apartment, collapsed ceilings in our hotel – all true stories) then I am very quick to reassess our lifestyle. I also miss silly things like having a wardrobe I can fill to bursting with clothes I don't wear, I miss my recipe books, I miss my sewing machine and I miss being in the same time zone as my friends and family. You have to be prepared to sacrifice and miss things.
5. What do you want to achieve? While many nomads are happy to take each day as it comes, for me it's important to keep asking myself what I want to achieve by this lifestyle and in addition to ticking destinations off a bucket list, our lifestyle is all about a better quality of life for less money and a life of more freedom and flexibility. Being a digital nomad gives you a great opportunity to devote time to fulfilling personal goals because you have the freedom to change your environment to suit that. This year I wanted to write a novel so we found a comfortable house in Thailand for two months and I locked myself away and worked on that. Next year we want to snowboard for a few months and see the Northern Lights so Finland here we come! These are personal goals we'd really struggle to achieve if you had a full time job in a fixed location.
Being a digital nomad isn't for everyone and it remains to be seen how long I'll keep going; I may never make it out of my padded training pants! That said, I know that I've grown more, learnt more, laughed more, worked more, smiled more and loved so many more wonderful places in the least year than any other in my life and for that I'm incredibly grateful and proud to be a digital nomad.
This post was written by Frankie Thompson who was a Travelette from 2012 – 2015. Originally from London, UK, Frankie was nomadic for several years before settling in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where she lives with her Australian partner and baby boy. She spends her time buying vintage dresses, riding a rusty old bike around the canals and writing books inspired by her travels. Frankie blogs about travel, writing and motherhood at As the Bird flies blog.


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Adding a multiplayer component to a God of War game still sounds a little confusing. Earlier looks have been tantalizing, in that violent, kill-everything sort of way.
Today, Sony shared a new trailer for the 4 vs 4 team bloodbath. They have also announced a multiplayer beta to run in the "near future."
Should you desperately wish to hack and slash your way through a representation of ancient Greece, slaughtering your foes, a PlayStation Plus membership might be your best bet. Game director Todd Papy writes that the beta will be "available exclusively first to PlayStation Plus subscribers" and mysteriously adds, "there may a few other secret inroads."
There's no word on when, specifically, the beta is expected to launch or what those "secret inroads" to early participation may prove to be.
God of War: Ascension is due out on March 12.
Are You Ready for the God of War: Ascension Multiplayer Beta? [PlayStation Blog]


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Hypocrisy, thy name is liberalism. What a difference a few years makes.
Remember when "progressive" media types chided President George W. Bush till they were blue in the face for "going it alone" on Iraq? Well, apparently "going it alone" is totally cool if you have a "D" after your name.
David Corn, Washington bureau chief over at the uber-liberal "Mother Jones" is disappointed that an increasingly imperialist Barack Obama wasn't imperialist enough during his recent State of the Union Address. He's furious that our already chestless Commander-in-Hearing-Himself-Talk showed off his bona fides in weakness and "let the Republicans off easy."
Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio listen as President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Wrote Corn:
Obama didn't use this opportunity to focus on the reason he has to go it alone: Republicans hell-bent on disrupting the government and thwarting all the initiatives he deems necessary for the good of the nation. Even when he quasi-denounced the government shutdown, he did not name-check House Speaker John Boehner and his tea-party-driven comrades.
What? "All the initiatives" Obama "deems necessary"? "Go it alone"? Yeah, Josef Stalin – affectionately nicknamed "Uncle Joe" by Obama's hero, FDR – had a lot of initiatives he "deemed necessary," too. And like Obama, he also preferred the "go it alone" approach.
Seriously, has Mr. Corn never heard of the separation of powers? The president doesn't get to just unilaterally "deem" laws into effect. He's the chief executive, not the chief lawmaker. Neither should he be the chief lawbreaker.
[sharequote align="center"]He's the chief executive, not the chief lawmaker. Neither should he be the chief lawbreaker.[/sharequote]
Yet here we are and so he is.
More than any other president in American history (yes, Nixon included), Obama has done both – make the "law" and break the law. Just consider, for instance, his unprecedented, arbitrary, capricious and completely illegal "do-whatever-I-want-to-do" shredding of his signature dark comedy: Obamacare.
Get used to it. During last Tuesday's State of the Union Obama announced his intention to keep at it. In fact, he plans to ramp-up the lawlessness.
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And why shouldn't he? A gutless GOP establishment has let him get away with it at every turn. Corn was partly right. He was justified in taking a jab at the speaker of the House. On this we agree: John Boehner needs to be "checked," just not for the reasons Corn supposes.
Even some liberals are waking up to the fact that, for the first time, America is living under – as Sen. Ted Cruz calls it – "the imperial presidency." In a posting originally titled "Obama: Efforts to rein him in not serious," the off-the-rails-liberal "CNN.com" took Obama to task for his autocratic misbehavior (CNN later changed the article title to "President Obama says he's not recalibrating ambitions." Amazing what an angry phone call from this White House can do to the Obama-natical state-run media).
Noted CNN:
"Once, Barack Obama spoke of what he wanted for his presidency in terms of healing a nation divided. 'This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal,' he said.
"Today, Obama is talking about executive orders and executive actions – with a pen or phone – if a divided Congress won't or can't act on an agenda he laid out this week in his State of the Union Address. …
"Sen. Ted Cruz described the actions as 'the imperial presidency,'" continued CNN, "and House Republicans have threatened to rein in the president's use of executive actions.
"'I don't think that's very serious,' Obama said. …"
Right. Most despots don't take "very serious" efforts to rein them in, particularly when their political opposition has shown neither the courage nor the inclination to do so.
David Corn disagrees. He thinks more despotism is just what the "progressive" doctor ordered. He ended his Mother Jones rant – all but calling the president a weenie:
"Obama barely called out Republicans in this speech; he did not exploit this high-profile moment to confront the obstructionist opposition," he complained.
Au contraire, my corny little friend. Barack Hussein Obama has stored up no short supply of exploitations. Most especially, he has exploited the very people he is sworn to serve.
"We the people."
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by Lillian Duncan
Writers write!
For most of us, we don't make a living from our writing. For you that do, congratulations. For the rest of us, what happens when a crisis comes? Can we justify the time, money, and emotional effort writing takes away from your family and/or the current crisis?
To answer that question, it's important to remember there will always be another crisis, another problem, another reason to take you away from your writing.
Since I've joined ACFW, I've seen this topic come up in different forms numerous times on the loop. How do I respond when family or friends treat my writing time as unimportant? How do I find the time to write? How do I meet deadlines when life gets messy? How do I get past writer's block? How do I deal with the first or the hundredth rejection?
For me the answer is simple.
Ignore _________ and keep writing.
(fill in the blank with your reason)
To become a writer means making a commitment. To become a published writer means making a bigger commitment. And the first commitment has to be to take time to do it. Of course, there are times when writing gets pushed aside for a day or two and that's perfectly acceptable.
But writers write.
As I write this, my husband is facing a triple bypass in a few days. We only found out yesterday and it came as quite a shock. But I spent the morning writing guest blogs that I'd already committed to doing. I knew if I could not do them, everyone would be gracious.
But writers write.
God gives us the desire and talent to be writers but to become a writer we must not only make the commitment but follow through on it. Most people won't understand my advice and some may even disagree vehemently, but writers will get it. It's not always easy or fun….
But writer's write.
Lillian Duncan writes stories of faith mingled with murder and mayhem. To learn more about her writing and her books, visit her at www.lillianduncan.net or www.lillianduncan.wordpress.com. DECEPTION (published by HarbourLight Books) is her latest release.