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Sony's VAIO E-Series is targeted at those after affordable multimedia functionality for the whole family. The VAIO VPCEC1M1E/WI is a 17.3-inch machine that offers great usability and comfort and provides more than enough power for multimedia use.
The 17.3-inch widescreen display dominates the chassis. Its 1600 x 900-pixel resolution is very sharp and colour reproduction is excellent, making this machine ideal for those who want to edit their holiday snaps and enjoy movies.
The size of the screen means portability suffers, however. At 3.1kg it's not the lightest machine to carry – although it is comfortable enough to use around the house – and the battery life of 110-minutes is shocking. We expect a minimum of 180 minutes from modern laptops, meaning the Sony falls far short of expectations.
This drops yet further when watching DVDs, which is a poor showing for a machine designed for multimedia use.
Attractive design
Nevertheless, the chassis' design is attractive. The matt-silver lid doesn't easily scratch or attract fingerprints, while the white interior looks great. The palmrest does feature a glitter effect, however, which may not suit all tastes.
Three hotkeys are fitted on the chassis, just above the keyboard. The Assist button helps you diagnose and solve any issues you may have with the laptop, while the Web button lets you boot up a secondary, Linux-based operating system for browsing the web without starting up Windows 7. Finally, the VAIO button allows quick and easy access to all your multimedia files.
The keyboard stands out as one of the best we've used in a long time. There's no flex and the travel and weight of the keys is just right, meaning a very comfortable and intuitive experience.
Intel's latest Core i3 processing technology is on board, as well as 4096MB of memory. Performance is decent as a result and you'll be able to run office applications with ease, as well as photo or movie editing suites without issues.
Graphical performance also impressed, thanks to the ATi graphics card and 512MB of dedicated video memory. You won't be able to play the latest games with all the settings turned up, but older games will run fine and you'll be able to edit high-definition (HD) movies without a problem.
A 500GB hard drive is also included, offering you plenty of storage space for all your files and folders.
We are big fans of the VAIO E-Series machines we've seen in the past, and the VPCEC1M1E/WI is no exception. It's a comfortable and powerful machine, but it's just a shame mobility is so poor.
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The World Cup thriller between the United States and Portugal on Sunday night was the most watched soccer game in American history.
ESPN announced Monday that its telecast of the game averaged 18,220,000 viewers. The previous high for a soccer game came in 1999, when 17.975 million viewers watched the U.S. women win the 1999 World Cup final in a game played at the Rose Bowl.
Viewership peaked at nearly 23 million during the frenzied final minutes of the 2-2 draw.
The network also set an American ratings record for any men's soccer game. USA-Portugal earned a 9.6 rating (reflecting the percentage of televisions tuned into the broadcast). That's higher than the 9.5 rating earned by the 1994 World Cup final between Italy and Brazil that was also played at the Rose Bowl. The 1999 women's final still holds the mark with an 11.4, however.
USA-Portugal was the most watched non-football telecast in ESPN history.
Approximately 11 million viewers watched last week's USA-Ghana game. That total set a record for a soccer broadcast on an ESPN network and was the ninth-most watched overall. The games that had more viewers, including the 1994 men's and 1999 women's World Cup final, were all broadcast on ABC.
A broadcast of USA-Portugal on the Spanish-language Univision drew 6.5 million viewers, a record for an American game on the network. Combining both the ESPN and Univision numbers means the game had 24.7 million viewers, which may have set a new record for any soccer game broadcast in the United States. (That mark is held by the 2010 World Cup final, which attracted approximately the same amount of viewers on both ABC and Univision. The exact number )
As a comparison, the average late-afternoon Sunday football game on Fox averaged 27.2 million viewers in 2013.

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As women wait longer to get married and start a family more expectant moms may find themselves booked for a visit with a genetic counselor. Though the words "genetic counselor" may sound scary, perhaps conjuring images of a futuristic society that's embraced eugenics, you can relax.
All pregnant women who are 35 and over are advised to meet with a genetic counselor before their first ultrasound to review family history, discuss chances of genetic disorders and explore genetic testing options. It's truly routine for women of advanced maternal age to be sent to counseling.
"We ask you about yourself and we decide together what your best options are," explained Lauren Korty, lead genetic counselor at UC San Diego Health's Fetal Care and Genetics Center, which recently relocated to Sorrento Valley. "We are trained to be non-directive and to help reduce anxiety."
Another reason many women may find genetic counseling a stress reliever is that it is now possible to screen for some of the most common genetic abnormalities earlier, more accurately and without any risk to the fetus.
These non-invasive prenatal tests became available in late 2011 and have since led to a 30 percent reduction in traditional amniocentesis and
chorionic villus sampling (CVS), both of which involve inserting either needles or catheters into the womb and carry an increased risk of miscarriage.
The pluses of the new screening method include: a greater than 98 percent detection rate for Down's syndrome (the most common chromosomal abnormality, affecting 1 in 700 live births) and a less than 0.5 percent false positive rate. Traditional early screening tests have 80 to 90 percent detection rates and 3 to 5 percent false positive rates.
Non-invasive testing can also be done as early as the tenth week of pregnancy, with results available within a week. Last but certainly not least, testing poses no risk to the fetus.
"Before non-invasive testing, the only way women with an increased risk of chromosome abnormalities on routine serum screening could get more information was to proceed with an invasive test that had a 1 in 300 to 1 in 500 chance of causing a miscarriage," Korty said. "Now, we can offer this person a test that has no risk to their pregnancy."
Non-invasive prenatal testing is based on a technology known as massively parallel genomic sequencing, which uses a highly sensitive assay to quantify millions of DNA fragments in biological samples.
In the context of fetal genetics testing, the assay is tuned to detect fetal DNA fragments in the mother's blood plasma. Fetal DNA is believed to enter the maternal bloodstream via the placenta.
Higher than expected amounts of DNA associated with a particular chromosome indicate the presence of three copies of that chromosome instead of the usual pair, a condition known as trisomy, caused by errors in cell division of either sperm or egg cells.
Trisomy 21 (three copies of the 21st chromosome) is the cause of about 95 percent of all cases of Down's syndrome, while
trisomy 13 and
trisomy 18 result in rare but fatal birth defects.
The test also detects lower than expected amounts of chromosomal DNA (monosomy), associated with conditions such as
Turner syndrome.
"Non-invasive prenatal testing is what everyone is most excited about right now," Korty said. "It's not a replacement for invasive diagnostic procedures, but it is reducing unnecessary invasive procedures and it will continue to evolve."
Korty recommends fetal DNA testing for all women 35 and over, women with increased risk of a chromosome abnormality on routine serum screening, pregnancies with ultrasound findings or for families with a previous trisomy.
Fetal DNA testing is not recommended for low-risk women or those with multiple gestations because it has not been sufficiently evaluated in these groups, according to the
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Oils are fats that are liquid at room temperature. This food group includes oils you cook with, plus foods that are mostly oil, such as mayonnaise and salad dressing. Oils give the body vitamin E and essential fatty acids, which keep cells and tissues healthy and help the body heal. But oils and other fats are high in calories. Eating too much fat leads to weight gain and increased risk of heart disease.
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Some fats are liquid. Others are solid. And all of them can be bad for you if you eat too much. Food labels tell you which fats a food contains. Some are healthier than others:
Unsaturated fats are found in some oils (such as olive, peanut, and canola), nuts, seeds, and fish. These are the healthiest fats. They can be good for your heart in moderate amounts.
Saturated fats are found in animal foods, such as butter, lard, beef, and high-fat dairy. These are less healthy, and should be limited.
Trans fats are found in some fast food, such as french fries, snack foods (like chips and cookies), and some margarines and shortenings. These are the worst fats for you. Avoid them when you can.
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PHILADELPHIA — The NHL may as well put out a casting call for a movie set in Philadelphia.
The league sent its top draft prospects to all the tourist areas for photos and interviews, from the Rocky statue, to the baseball stadium, and, yes, the obligatory cheesesteak stand.
But much like the fictional fighter who conquered the odds, only one standout can stand tall as the No. 1 overall pick.
And with the first pick of the 2014 draft, the Florida Panthers select …
Well, unlike some of the recent drafts, this one remained a mystery heading into Friday night's draft at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center.
There is no consensus No. 1 pick and the Panthers have plenty of options to help try and turn the franchise into a consistent playoff team.
Panthers general manager Dale Tallon, however, hasn't been shy about his willingness to trade the No. 1 pick for the right price. Florida has been stockpiling prospects since Tallon became general manager in May 2010, and the GM wants his young team to grow together.
The top candidates for No. 1 include: Kingston Frontenacs center Samuel Bennett, Barrie Colts defenseman Aaron Ekblad, Kootenay Ice center Sam Reinhart and Prince Albert Raiders center Leon Draisaitl.
Ekblad, Bennett, Reinhart, Draisaitl, Oshawa left wing Michael Dal Colle, and Sarnia defenseman Michael DeAngelo all were invited to tour Philadelphia this week and check out the sights. They'd all rather check out a No. 1 jersey with a name on the back Friday night.
If the Panthers don't trade the pick, Ekblad just might be the one.
The Sabres have the second pick, and Edmonton; Calgary; N.Y. Islanders; Vancouver; Carolina; Toronto; Winnipeg; and Anaheim complete the top 10.
"I believe that Ekblad is going to go 1," Sabres general manager Tim Murray said. "Then we pick who we have left, the next guy on our list. If he doesn't go 1, I'd be surprised, I guess. And I guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
Here are five things to know about the NHL draft:
Never heard of any of the prospects expected to get drafted? No problem. The big names on the market are more than enough to interest NHL fans heading into the draft. Philadelphia's Vincent Lecavalier, San Jose's Joe Thornton, Pittsburgh's James Neal, Vancouver's Ryan Kesler, and Ottawa's Jason Spezza are all up for grabs this summer, and what better way to make a splash on draft weekend than with a huge deal. All have some sort of issues, from age to big contracts, but there's always a team willing to make the one move it feels can put them into the thick of Stanley Cup contention.
The Flyers haven't celebrated a Stanley Cup championship since 1975, but the orange-and-black faithful always make themselves heard. The Wells Fargo Center was expected to be packed this weekend for the draft, yet another highlight for the hockey-mad city. Philadelphia has been the site of the Stanley Cup finals, a Winter Classic and a Frozen Four, all since 2010. The Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation provides free skating programs, ice hockey instruction, equipment and academic services to inner-city children. "With the hockey enthusiasm here, and the ability to hold major events in Philadelphia, we thought it was a natural fit," Commissioner Gary Bettman said. "We know that the city can host big events."
The Los Angeles Kings won two of the past three Stanley Cups and seemed poised to build a hockey dynasty in an unlikely place. Kings general manager Dean Lombardi will likely only make small tweaks to his championship roster. Of the 24 players on the Kings' 2012 championship roster, 17 are still with the organization. He can draft — and he has plenty of chances this week to build the roster from within. The Kings are one of five teams that have a whopping nine picks this weekend, along with Dallas, the New York Islanders, St. Louis and Washington.
Like father, like son? There are several offspring of former NHL players available in the draft. Brendan Lemieux (son of Claude), William Nylander (Michael), Kasperi Kapanen (Sami), Ryan MacInnis (Al), are likely draft picks this weekend.
Like any draft, the names are barely called when teams are already looking toward 2015. The NHL announced the 2015 draft will be held June 26-27 at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida.


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Ever since I was a kid, there's always been something deeply and profoundly appealing to me about a new, crisp piece of paper. It always spoke to me of possibility and excitement because I really wasn't limited in what I could draw or write upon it. As long as I could imagine it, I could work towards it. Sure, I wasn't going to be slapping down a Monet masterpiece first time through… but there wasn't anything saying I could not get there.
I still feel that way today when I get a new notepad, open a fresh file in a word processor or sit down to craft a new blog post. The thought that beckons me forward is simply "Let's see where the muse takes me today." I mean, I don't think that exact phrase, but it certainly describes the feeling.
It's for that reason that my favorite Calvin and Hobbes comic (and also the last comic Bill Watterson ever created of that brilliant strip) is this:
It's also the perfect comic for the start of this brand and shiny new year of 2014, especially here in New England as the snow falls steadily from Winter Storm Hercules. On a side note… that's easily the most badass winter storm name I've ever heard. I mean… Hercules, for the love of Zeus (mythological puns all fully intended my friends).
I've spent time over the past week or so thinking over my own personal goals and resolutions for 2014. Now, a lot of people finding the "resolution" game to be weak and I can certainly understand why. It's hard to argue with the idea that every day is an opportunity to begin anew without waiting for the calendar to flip to a new year. However, there's something terribly convenient about using January 1st as a convenient reminder point to take stock in how things are going and what you may need to do in order to point yourself in the right direction. For me, this is partially borne of spending the last 12 years in Corporate America where metrics are very keenly parsed by calendar points in time.
My list of goals is mostly created and I've begun the equally important task of creating a system by which I can achieve my goals (which tends to be the shortfall of the resolution crowd – lots of ideas and very little planning to go with them). I look forward to 2014 with an open heart.
So if you are thinking over what this upcoming year holds in store for you and you have that same feeling as our friends Calvin and Hobbes where you see a year of possibilities… good. Don't let the cynicism of others rob you of that feeling, certainly not so soon in the year – shake it free from your spirit. But also be sure to remember that hoping and wishing does not a solid plan make. (Must… resist… urge… to make… political commentary…)
But be bold about your optimism and nurture it, beginning today. Even if it's not the sole thing to carry you through 2014 successfully, it certainly makes for a brighter start and a bit of a glow in your heart… and those are both very good things.
It's a magical world, ol' blog buddies. Let's go exploring.


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Welcome to Tree of Life: Branching Out, a collaborative writing challenge where creative minds meet epic film music!
Writers representing all genres from across the globe were invited to contribute their own chapter to an album-inspired story, collectively written over the course of 26 days. Each writer found inspiration in a featured composition from the motion picture advertising music production house, audiomachine's TREE OF LIFE album.
These clever storytellers spun the tale in whatever direction they chose, picking up where the previous writer left off within a 24 hour window, resulting in the ultimate collaborative tale.
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Cover design by Ryo Ishido
Sunflower by Jennifer Redstreake Geary
This anthology is dedicated in memory of Tina Downey, our dearest friend, fellow storyteller and firm believer that life is good…
All proceeds of the TREE OF LIFE ebook will benefit the Downey Education Fund set up for Tina's children.
Branching Out logo designed by artist, Jennifer Redstreake Geary.
TREE OF LIFE: BRANCHING OUT Collaborative Story
(July 15_Part 1) Amy Willoughby-Burle_The Great Unknown
(July 16_Part 2) John Wiswell_Rebirth
(July 17_Part 3) M. Pax_Homecoming
(July 18_Part 4) Al Diaz_Solstice Sun *audiomachine Favorite!
(July 19_Part 5) Gary Philip Pennick_The Fire Within
(July 20_Part 6) DL Hammons_Above and Beyond
(July 21_Part 7) Susan Scott_The Legend Begins
(July 22_ Part 8) Ruth Long_The Truth *audiomachine Favorite!
(July 23_Part 9) Djinnia_Breaking Through
(July 24_ Part 10) Daniel Swensen_Across the Horizon
(July 25_Part 11) KC Hunter_The New World *audiomachine Favorite!
(July 26_Part 12) Shannon Kenoyer Lawrence_Turning Point
(July 27_Part 13) Tina Downey_Cry Freedom *RIP August 23, 2014…farväl min vän…
(July 28_Part 14) Beverly Fox_Ashes to Ashes
(July 29_Part 15) Michelle Wallace_Life Chronicles
(July 30_Part 16) Mina Lobo_An Unfinished Life
(July 31_Part 17) Gwen Gardner_Hallowed Dawn
(August 1_Part 18) Angela Brown_Leaving the Nest
(August 2_Part 19) Lisa Shambrook_Day One
(August 3_Part 20) Sarah Wesson_Age of Innocence
(August 4_Part 21) Leighton Williams_Apotheosis
(August 5_Part 22) Elise Fallson_Equinox *Fan Favorite!
(August 6_Part 23) Vidya Sury_Hope and Glory
(August 7_Part 24) Damyanti Biswas_Remember the Titans
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(August 9_Part 26) Amy Willoughby-Burle_Final Hope *Fan Favorite!
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Audiomachine's Top 3
Al Diaz
Ruth Long
KC Hunter
The Top 3 favorite excerpts, chosen by audiomachine, were awarded signed Tree of Life albums, by celebrated composer, Paul Dinletir.
Fan Favorites
Amy Willoughby-Burle
C. Lee McKenzie
Elise Fallson
The Top 3 fan favorites were awarded original signed tree-inspired artwork by Jennifer Redstreake Geary, and a pound of Biltmore Coffee Traders elixir of life (trust me–it's that good).
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Jin Chae
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Gummy Bear maker to set up shop in Pleasant Prairie, create 400 jobs
Gummy Bear maker Haribo will build its first North American manufacturing facility in Pleasant Prairie and create 400 jobs, Gov. Scott Walker announced Thursday.
"We believe initially at least 400 jobs, although we believe they'll continue to grow and prosper as their product continues to do well here in this region," Walker said.
The facility is expected to be roughly 500,000 square feet in size and cost about $242 million to build.
It will be located on the west side of Interstate 94, south of County Highway C and north of State Highway 165.
Walker made the announcement after touting that the state's unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent in February, the lowest level since November 2000.
"This is a sweet day for Kenosha County," Kenosha County Executive Jim Kreuser said in a statement. "We are incredibly excited about this investment and the long term positive impact it will have on our entire area and residents."
The family-owned, German-based candy maker was founded in 1920 in Bonn and employs nearly 7,000 people worldwide, the company said.
Another candy maker, Jelly Belly, moved its distribution center out of the area in 2015.


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Biographies and Autobiographies
One of the wonderful things about people is that no two are alike! Which means everyone has a unique life experience. And who isn't a bit curious about the lives of others? There are some amazing people out there! People who have moved us, people who work to help others, people who have changed the world.
Even if we never get to meet some of the world's most amazing people (or even most of them) there are so many biographies and autobiographies for us to read. The best biographies give you a full picture of a life worth knowing about, and the best autobiographies make you feel like they are coming from the heart. And let's be honest: the most popular biographies and popular autobiographies usually spill the tea, amirite? Let's hear those secrets!


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The 765 GRAVEL RS is the child prodigy that, from a very young age, has benefitted from all of LOOK's expertise! Its secret ambition - to become the master of the garage, as it ultimately wants to replace every other bike.
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The light and sturdy 765 GRAVEL RS bike is a genuine innovation when it comes to pushing your limits and experiencing adventure! Cycling needs to reinvent itself, to open itself up to new possibilities. Those who practice the sport need to be surprised, to experience a change of scenery and most of all, to be challenged both physically and mentally.
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Since LOOK's beginning in the cycling world, at a time when metal was king, our material of choice has always been carbon. For over 30 years, we have developed - within our own factories - a unique expertise and an extensive know-how in carbon fiber technologies to achieve highly-specific and performance-oriented properties.
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA - June 28, 2001 - The USENIX Association today named the GNU Project and its contributors as recipients of its prestigious USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award. The announcement was made just before the keynote address at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference where the developers of Kerberos were also awarded the Software Tools User Group (STUG) award.
"The contributions of these two groups to the technical community have been incredible. The Lifetime Achievement and STUG awards are simply a way for the technical community to thank them for the invaluable tools and resources they have given us," said Andrew Hume, Vice President of the USENIX Association. "It's difficult to imagine how most of us could do systems work without using GNU Project derived tools."
The GNU Project was started in 1984 by Richard M. Stallman, taking up the challenge of developing a Unix-like operating system that is completely Free Software -- freely redistributable, and modifiable by all of its users. Today, the GNU system is widely used as part of the GNU/Linux system. GNU/Linux is the integrated combination of the GNU operating system with the kernel, Linux, written by Linus Torvalds in 1991. Now that the core operating system is completed, the GNU Project continues to develop user-space software for GNU/Linux users.
"Software freedom succeeds. Without freedom, no one could have written the many utilities and other applications in GNU/Linux," said Robert J. Chassell, who accepted the award for the GNU Project. "But freedom needs to be defended; and the defense of freedom is expensive. There are those who want to limit what students may study, limit what programmers may write, and limit what you and others may share or purchase. We must continue to preserve and advance freedom for users and programmers."
Kerberos was developed in much the same fashion as the GNU system. Created by a team of contributors from Project Athena at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), it was made freely available and has since been incorporated into many operating system products, both commercial and non-commercial. Kerberos was the first widely deployed network authentication system to assume that security risks were higher from people inside a network rather than outside. The Kerberos authentication system uses cryptography to authenticate users to a server and exchanges encryption keys that can be used to encrypt subsequent communication, providing privacy and data integrity during the course of business.
"We made a decision very early on in the development of Kerberos to make the source code freely available and to allow royalty free integration with commercial and non-commercial systems," said Clifford Newman, who accepted the award for the Kerberos contributors. "This decision contributed significantly to the success of Kerberos. It's ironic that most users of Kerberos don't even know they are using it."
The awards kicked off USENIX Annual Technical Conference, now in its 26th consecutive year, included four best paper acknowledgments:
-- "Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMware Workstation's Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor" by Jeremy Sugerman, Ganesh Venkitachalam, Beng-Hong Lim -- "A Toolkit for User-level Filesystems" by David Mazieres -- "Nickle: Language Principles and Pragmatics" by Bart Massey and Keith Packard -- "MEF: Malicious Email Filter" by Student Authors: Matthew G. Schultz and Eleazar Eskin, together with Erez Zadok and Manasi Bhattacharyya
"This is a conference that selected 48 excellent papers out of 138 submissions. Our program reflects the newest technology as well as the luminaries in the industry," said Yoonho Park, USENIX 2001 Program Chair. "Winning a best paper award amid such competition means your work is going to move technology forward. And that's what this conference is all about."
The USENIX Annual Technical Conference continues in Boston, Massachusetts from June 28 - 30, 2001. Information about USENIX Awards and Recipients is available online at www.usenix.org/directory/awards.html and www.usenix.org/directory/stug.html.
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A couple of months ago I wrote about the limitations of Google as a search engine for family history and genealogy. and noted that for some searches Altavista produced far more relevant results.
Now there is a new search engine, called Cuil, and after a quick look it seems quite good, and worth trying if you are researching genealogy and family history.
One of the problems with Google is that their search algorithm is based on the number of links, and so they show you the most popular sites first, rather than the most relevant to what you are looking for. So the site with the information you need may be several pages down the list.
Cuil, on the other hand, promises to concentrate on relevance, and after a couple of test searches they seem to deliver what they promise. One problem I did find, though, is that Cuil doesn't like too many keywords, so you need to choose your keywords with care.
Anyway, it's definitely worth a try, and should be a useful addition to your search tools.
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Week-to-week gains: The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Survivor, The Amazing Race, and 48 Hours.
Week-to-week losses: NCIS, Person of Interest, NCIS: Los Angeles, Golden Boy, The Mentalist, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Undercover Boss, and 60 Minutes.
Below are the CBS TV show ratings averages as of the end of week 24 of the 2012-13 season (Sunday, March 10, 2013). Ratings are typically the best way to tell if a show will be cancelled or renewed.
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|CBS non-scripted
TV shows
|18-49 demo
rating (actual)
in millions
|Survivor: Philippines
|2.9 (2.85)
|cycle 25 ratings
|The Amazing Race (fall)
|2.6 (2.56)
|cycle 21 ratings
|Survivor: Caramoan
|2.5 (2.50)
|cycle 26 ratings
|60 Minutes
|2.3 (2.28)
|season 45 ratings
|The Amazing Race (spring)
|2.3 (2.27)
|cycle 22 ratings
|Undercover Boss
|1.7 (1.69)
|season 4 ratings
|48 Hours
|1.0 (1.04)
|season 26 ratings
|The Job (cancelled)
|0.8 (0.80)
|season 1 ratings
These charts incorporate the daily final CBS show ratings (reported by Nielsen) and are sorted by the 18-49 demographic. Network advertisers typically prize those viewers most and so will pay more to reach them. There's lots of information that the networks take into consideration when cancelling or renewing a TV series but the ratings are the biggest factor. The higher the ratings, the better chance that the show will be renewed. And yes, they take it into account when a show airs on a Friday or Saturday night.
What do you think? Are you surprised by any of the averages? Which show(s) do you feel should be doing better or worse, based on their quality? Comment below.


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My interview for Latitude News, April 25, 2012 (Note: Latitude News is now defunct; some pix missing in this post)
Beena Sarwar
Tourists take photographs, but Don Perrault is the rare traveler who uses photography to give something back. I met Don Perrault at an Amnesty International get-together at an art gallery in South Boston. He fit the type of the optical engineer he is, unassuming, conservatively dressed and soft-spoken. But he spends his free time traveling and taking photographs, primarily in Africa and Asia.
He's begun selling these to raise money for nonprofits working on health, education and gender empowerment. His highest-grossing photos, sold at a silent auction, went for a cool $5,000.
Perrault wants his photos to spread awareness of the world's natural beauty and cultural diversity and to improve the prospects for health and education for indigenous people. It brings him satisfaction, and a bit of glory — in 2011, his high school, Sacred Heart in Kingston, Massachusetts, gave him its highest honor, the Ketteler Medal, named for a 19th century German bishop who worked for social justice for the working poor. Perrault gave his acceptance speech wearing a traditional Mongolian outfit.
How did your travels translate into this mission, to fund-raise for the causes you're interested in?
I started off traveling in China in 1991 — I've always been interested in Asian and South Asian culture. I also traveled to East Africa and to Pakistan. I got more interested in culture, landscape, diversity and the preservation of cultural traditions. When you travel to these places you learn a lot about how great the culture is but also what problems there are.
Perrault went to the Zhala monastery, in the village of Daotongba in eastern Tibet in 2000. The abbots of the monastery, Kenpo Lobey (with stick in center) and Tenzin, invited him to stay for several days. "Apparently I was the first Westerner to ever visit their village on the grasslands at 13,000 feet." (Don Perrault)
So how did the fund-raising part start?
A couple of things happened around the same time in 2010. Liz Sheehan is a childhood friend. She started Containers to Clinics, in which shipping containers are converted into portable medical clinics for places like Haiti and Namibia. Her clinic was on display at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) in Boston. I gave her 10 photos, of the Himalayas, to auction, and she sold all of them in a silent auction at a salon party at her house, for about $5,000 each. That raised money to cover half of the cost for the clinic to go to Haiti.
I helped another friend, Jagdish Dhingra, a surgeon who volunteers with Medical Missions for Children; he goes every year to Rwanda, where he operates for free. He had a fund-raiser at his home in Brookline; I gave him photos I had taken in Uganda in the early 1990s, coincidentally just 10 miles from the border of Rwanda where he works. He had a silent auction and sold them all.
I realized that there's potential in doing this regularly, working with other NGOs.
What are you involved with these days?
My main focus is on the Dance for Everyone project, which was started a couple of years ago with the classical dance artist Aparna Sindhoor in Somerville, Massachusetts. We sponsor two dance teachers, a male and a female, to go from Trivandaram in Kerala, in south India, to a village on the weekends and give free dance lessons to children.
Through my photography, I volunteer for Women for Afghan Women by helping with promotion and fund-raising. I also sponsor a girl to go to high school in Afghanistan, funded through my freelance photography. On a personal level, I've been sponsoring a girl from a family I stayed with in Tibet to go to school – she's now in college.
Another thing I'm working on is the Visual Raga project, looking at the connections between Indian ragas (classical songs) and nature, interpreting music through photographs, sometimes in a natural scene, sometimes with a dancer to help interpret them. I've been working with students of Neena Gulati, the director of Triveni School of Dance in Brookline, Massachusetts. One of my photos from this series uses six different poses of Tara Ahmed, dancing through Arnold Arboretum, superimposed on one image (see photo below).
Is there anything you'd like to add?
Just this, that people have their own way of doing things; photography is just the way I chose to contribute to the world – that's the message I'm trying to get across. What I'm doing is nothing amazing or unique, it's something everyone has the ability to do.
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Welcome to Dragon Cave! Dragon Cave is an online adoptables game. Collect eggs, raise them to adulthood, and then breed them to create interesting lineages. New dragons are added regularly!
Pyrovar Dragons live at high altitudes in areas with lots of volcanic activity. They are commonly associated with geysers and hot springs and enjoy soaking in the scalding water. Females bury their eggs in these areas warmed by geothermal energy and abandon them soon after. As a result, these dragons are territorial and solitary from a young age. Despite their affinity with water they have powerful flame breath and fire magic. They are entirely carnivorous and utilize a variety of hunting styles, from chasing down prey from the air to lying in wait beneath the water's surface to ambush any unwitting creatures that wander by.
Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.


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Peter Aseltine
Mike Horan
Elyse Coffey
Citizen Inquiries-
In December 2011, the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) embarked on Operation Facial Scrub, one of its most promising fraud prevention initiatives. Utilizing facial recognition technology, the MVC began a full "scrub" of its 19 million photo record database to identify any duplicative photo records that may indicate administrative errors or customer fraud.
Throughout 2012, MVC security professionals began to analyze the results of the scrub. To date, more than 600,000 matches have been reviewed and internal action taken when warranted. Of those, approximately 1,800 suspension cases were identified, which required customers to re-verify their identities with the MVC. Administrative suspensions were imposed on 146 individuals for misstatements of identification. The MVC has referred 669 potential criminal cases to the Attorney General's Office. Information on false licenses is also shared via a secure website with 22 state and federal partners so they can pursue other cases of fraud.
In addition to scrubbing the 19 million photos in the system, the MVC is working diligently to maintain the integrity of the database through a nightly scrub of all new photos taken at its 39 agencies statewide. This ensures that attempted fraud will be identified and stopped quickly.
"A driver's license is a powerful document that enables the holder to open financial accounts, obtain and drive motor vehicles, and board airplanes," said Attorney General Chiesa. "We know the 9/11 terrorists had fraudulent licenses from other states. By detecting individuals who have false licenses, law enforcement can potentially uncover other types of crime that these individuals may be involved in, including identity theft, financial fraud and even terrorism."
"Those of us in business and government who regularly handle sensitive information always talk about weeding out fraud and abuse," said MVC Chairman and Chief Administrator Raymond P. Martinez. "This security tool really provides us with that extra edge to thoroughly comb through our records and identify everything from simple record errors to more egregious acts of fraud."
"Our first 38 criminal prosecutions in Operation Facial Scrub include truck and bus drivers who have no business being on our roadways and registered sex offenders who tried to hide their criminal pasts," said Director Stephen J. Taylor of the Division of Criminal Justice. "We will continue to work with the Motor Vehicle Commission and our law enforcement partners to detect and aggressively prosecute criminals who obtain licenses using false identities."
Attorney General Chiesa today announced criminal charges against 38 people who fraudulently obtained additional driver's licenses in false identities. The charges filed by the Division of Criminal Justice include the following defendants, each of whom was charged with use of personal identifying information of another (2nd degree), tampering with public records (3rd degree), and, in some cases, forgery (3rd degree):
The 38 defendants charged by the Attorney General's Office include five sex offenders and 29 individuals who obtained fraudulent licenses after their real licenses had been suspended. Of the defendants with suspended licenses, 22 had been charged with DUI offenses, including 11 who had three or more DUI offenses. Eight of the cases involve the use of false identities to obtain commercial driver's licenses to drive trucks or buses. The cases also include several defendants who owed child support or were ineligible for a New Jersey driver's license.
A full list of the 38 defendants charged is attached to this press release and posted with the release at www.njpublicsafety.com. The second-degree charges against the defendants carry a sentence of five to 10 years in state prison and a fine of up to $150,000, while the third-degree charges carry a sentence of three to five years in state prison and a $15,000 fine. The charges are merely accusations and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
The charges announced today represent the first wave of prosecutions by the Attorney General's Office as a result of Operation Facial Scrub. Of the 669 potential criminal cases referred by the MVC to the Division of Criminal Justice, 60 cases involve commercial driver's licenses. Each case involves an individual who has obtained a license or licenses using a false name or names. These cases will be the subject of further investigations and potential prosecutions by the Division of Criminal Justice, the New Jersey State Police and the 21 County Prosecutors' Offices. Local police departments may also be asked to assist in the investigations.
As results came in from the initial scrub, the MVC expanded the sharing of its valuable Operation Facial Scrub information by establishing the Aggregated Investigative Reporting Service (AIRS) in June 2012. This system, featuring users from 22 state and federal agencies, allows strategic sharing of information with partners that may be susceptible to fraudulent activity committed by the same individuals already investigated by the MVC. With real-time access to the information, the agencies can review and evaluate the identified individuals and pursue cases as well.
The MVC, the Division of Criminal Justice, and the New Jersey Office of Information Technology have implemented a secure AIRS website, which serves as a central clearinghouse for key information on potential criminal fraud suspects identified through Operation Facial Scrub. The 22 state and federal agencies participating in AIRS have access to the secure information, which has generated the following investigations to date, among others:
Attorney General Chiesa commended the attorneys and detectives who have worked on the criminal investigations. They include Deputy Attorneys General Debra Conrad, Lilianne Daniel, Mary Erin McAnally, Valerie Noto, Krystle Nova, Jacqueline Olivadoti and Anthony Torntore of the Division of Criminal Justice Specialized Crimes Bureau; Detectives Cecil Boone, Franco Cignarella, Michael Duffield, Sean Egan, Christian Harden, Kelly Howard, Joseph McCray and Nicholas Olenick of the Division of Criminal Justice Specialized Crimes Bureau; and Detectives Douglas Adams, Aaron Auclair, Enrique Bryan, James Carnival, Bryan Catterson, James Mitchell, Jeovanny Rodriguez, Keith Roslan and Wanda Stojanov of the New Jersey State Police. Attorney General Chiesa also commended all of the individuals who worked on the cases for the MVC.
Chief Administrator Martinez and Attorney General Chiesa thanked the New Jersey Department of Homeland Security, the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the MVC Division of Security, Investigation & Internal Audit and the various other internal divisions that assisted the MVC in implementing Operation Facial Scrub.
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Justin Timberlake is finally finished teasing us! Er, well, sort of. He still hasn't told us much info about the new album, The 20/20 Experience, that he's set to release sometime later this year. But, after more than six years, JT finally just delivered some new music to us in the form of his new single, "Suit & Tie," featuring Jay-Z. And, shortly after the song hit the 'net late last night at around midnight, Twitter exploded with off-the-cuff reactions from just about everyone. Some people immediately said they loved it, while others said they hated it after running through it a few times. But, either way, a whole lot of people spent the rest of their nights—and most of their mornings when they woke up—bumping the new tune from Justin.
So, what's the final verdict on it? It's really too soon to tell. But, judging from the Twitter reactions we've seen so far, there are lots and lots (and LOTS!) of opinions going around. So, we compiled a collection of The 50 Best Twitter Reactions To Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie." While you let the song play for the 357th time today, we recommend checking them out. And, then hit us at @vibemagazine to let us know what you think about the song.


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Skyfall's Ben Whishaw Comes Out, Confirms Civil Partnership
Skyfall actor Ben Whishaw came out Sunday and revealed that he entered into a civil partnership with composer Mark Bradshaw last August in Sydney, Australia, The Daily Mail reports.
Whishaw and Bradshaw met on the 2009 film Bright Star, in which Whishaw played the famous poet John Keats and for which Bradshaw composed the score.
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Whishaw, 32, has been notoriously private about his personal life over the years, but his spokesman confirmed his union Sunday. "Ben has never hidden his sexuality, but like many actors he prefers not to discuss his family or life outside of his work. Due to speculation, I can confirm that Ben and Mark entered into a civil partnership in August 2012. They were proud to do so and are very happy."
Whishaw most recently co-starred in Skyfall as Q, the MI6 quartermaster. He is also known for his roles in the 2008 remake of Brideshead Revisited and the BBC2 drama The Hour. Bradshaw most recently composed the music for the Elisabeth Moss-led miniseries Top of the Lake.
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february 21, 2014
INDIO, Calif. — A man who has been convicted of killing two of his infant children and hiding their plastic-wrapped bodies in storage units in Arkansas and Arizona was sentenced to death Friday in a California courthouse.
Jason Michael Hann, 39, who is already serving a 30-year sentence for the murder of his 2-month-old son, Jason, received the death penalty for the slaying of his 10-month-old daughter, Montana.
"These kids never had a chance of life," said Bruce Price, an alternate juror who supported the death penalty decision. "This guy was trying to cover up his crimes as he went along."
Some jurors initially resisted sending Hann to his death, but they eventually agreed to recommend that he die for his crimes. Riverside Superior Court Judge James Hawkins upheld the death sentence, denying a defense motion to reduce the sentence to life without parole.
Hann did not speak in his own defense. He sat in court, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, showing no signs of emotion.
Montana's mother, Krissy Lyyn Werntz, was also charged in the killing. Her trial is scheduled to start on March 17.
Hann killed his infant daughter with a blow to head in Desert Hot Springs in 2001. Prosecutors said Hann wrapped her body in duct tape and plastic bags, then hid it in a blue "Tupperware-type" container stashed in a storage unit in Arkansas.
The body was found a year later after Hann stopped making payments on the storage unit. The contents of the unit were auctioned off, and the body was discovered by the new owner.
Hann and Wertz were arrested in 2002 at a motel in Portland, Maine. A day after the arrest, investigators found the body of the second infant, Jason, in a storage unit in Lake Havasu, Ariz. The boy, who had been killed in Vermont in 1999, and was also in a rubber container.
When the couple was arrested in Maine, they had in their custody a new child, a month old boy who also showed signs of abuse, including broken ribs, bleeding under his skin and internal injuries.
After the court hearing Friday, Price said the abused child was more proof that Hann deserved death. If the boy had not been saved, he likely would have suffered the same fate as his siblings, the juror said.
"(Hann) had already committed a crime against someone and he was in the process of doing the same thing," Price said. "He got what he deserved."


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Retreat Brings Changing Lives Group Closer Together
by Nitra Gutierrez, Middle School and High School Program Associate
Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble (CLTYE) had an AMAZING retreat this weekend.
Being part of this ensemble takes hard work, focus and determination. Our work together can look many ways. Sometimes it means having big conversations about power, gender and relationships. Sometimes it means playing theatre games that help us let down our guard and be our authentic selves together. But sometimes, being part of this ensemble means letting go of the everyday and doing something extraordinary. That's what we did this weekend.
Saturday morning we packed up our sleeping bags and headed out on a mini-road trip to the Candlelight Ranch.
We jumped right in and started our adventure with some fun on the zip-lines. This group was FEARLESS!
We traversed a canyon on a wire (think a tightrope) and even though we were locked into safety harnesses, we had to conquer some serious nerves to do it. We made dinner together, painted each others' faces, played games, made a fire, told scary stories, serenaded each other with improvised love songs and woke up the next morning to work on our teamwork on a low ropes course before we packed it all up and came home. It was an experience full of energy, friendship and fun.
Something magical seems to happen on these retreats (and I don't just mean that now my 35 year old mind is playing "Call me Maybe" on a loop) I don't know if it's because we had some concentrated time to live together as a family or because facing our fears of heights drew us closer together. What I do know is that we learned a little bit about who we are as individuals and a lot about who we are as a team – and we are more of an ensemble than ever.
A big THANK YOU to our fantastic community of Changing Lives ensemble members, their supportive families and guardians and our volunteers for making this retreat an unforgettable event.


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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Controlled demolition is hard
The political front for the MEK terrorist group - the wacky cult labeled a terrorist group by the United States (though the right-wing nuts, needless to say, want to change that) while being financially sponsored by the United States, and the group which supplied the agents provocateurs behind the recent ultra-violent protests in Iran - is called the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
The settlers lose a bank.
The Head Jew tasked Ben Stein with slurring Ron Paul on the assumption Paul would mention Israel. Paul didn't mention Israel, the hung-over (?) Stein slurred anyway, and hilarity ensued.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
"The characterisation of the Iranian movement in those terms was false in several ways. For a start, notwithstanding the 'confessions' issuing from various protesters tortured by the basiji, there is no evidence of any US involvement in the 'Green' movement."
I just had to laugh (and we're just talking about the publicly admitted support, not the black ops).
Stephen Lendman on some particular examples of Jewish thievery. These issues will all be dealt with when the shitty little country is under democratic majority rule.
Some dual loyalists in Europe are attacking Hamas in a Belgian court, relying expressly on Goldstone. The Israelis are cheering the new Euro-AIPAC - note how they don't shy away from celebrating dual loyalty - but I can see how this initiative will backfire.
Air Gates.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Oscar for Berlusconi
- the cameraman meticulously following Berlusconi's every move mysteriously turns away vaguely into the crowd just before the attack;
- you can see the swing of the attacker at Berlusconi, which misses him;
- Berlusconi immediately puts a black piece of plastic he had been holding in his hand (?) over his face (but in the moment before he does so you can see his face is unmarked);
- there is no blood above the plastic at first, but when Berlusconi emerges from his car there is a new smear of blood under his eye;
- his bodyguards spend some time obscuring our view while they apply the makeup in the car (and one may have a can of some spray-on substance);
- the makeup appears as caked and dried blood, not what you would see as the result of a very recent attack.
The trickery worked - Berlusconi's personal popularity in Italy soared after the attack.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
The Rest Of The World
"Bolivian President Evo Morales announced today that a world conference of social movements is to take place in Bolivia, as a response to the failure of the 15th Summit on Climate Change, recently held in Copenhagen.It's shit or get off the pot time, and since the United States suffers from terminal constipation . . . .
"The problems of climate change are directly linked to the irrational development of industry," said the president . . . ."
There is room for some optimism that real efforts at arresting climate change can be combined with an anti-capitalist movement that can wrest control of the world away from the selfish and stupid Americans.
Five countries
"For me, the image that remains of Copenhagen is of Mr. Obama appearing at a press conference to announce an agreement that only five countries had seen, then rushing off to the airport to fly home and avoid a snowstorm back home. He has taken on a grave responsibility in history. If his action proves unworthy, if the voluntary commitments of the United States and others prove insufficient and if future negotiations are derailed, it will have been Mr. Obama who single-handedly traded in international law for big-power politics on climate change.
Perhaps the UN will rally itself to get better organized. Perhaps Mr. Obama's gambit will work, the U.S. Senate will pass legislation and other countries will do their part. Or perhaps we have just witnessed a serious step toward global ruin through our failure to co-operate on a complex and difficult challenge that requires patience, expertise, goodwill and respect for international law – all of which were in short supply in Copenhagen"
Just to get in front of the obvious comments - I know it is Sachs, but you still have to ask yourself: is what he is saying true? It is. Obama showed up late, and imposed a five country 'agreement' on the rest of the world which made a mockery of the conference.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Jimmy Carter has to perform a ritual self-abnegation before the Jews to allow his grandson to run for office in Georgia (non-denial denial). Of course, as we all know, the Jews have no power and would never use any power they had in a collective action to protect the right of their state to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The core principles of the teabagger 'Climategate' conspiracy:
- someone will make money; and
- the Jews will take over the world (seems a bit superfluous).
More 'bagger logic (it may be a spoof).
And more Copenhagen anti-China spin (some of the comments are much smarter).
Tarantino on the 'bloodcurdling' violence of the Jews.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Another 'dual loyalist' spy. This was no 'loose cannon': he was placed in the American government for a specific purpose (although all the spin is supposed to fool us over his motives - Jews only have one motive). Note the very complicated 'legend' created for him in Israel over a span of many years, all to make his infiltration successful.
Speaking of dual loyalty - and the man who inspires my talk about blood-dripping fangs - Elliott Abrams is still hard at work (and Robert Parry is still one of the very few reliable American writers).
Rosie DiManno keeps up her reputation as Canada's worst columnist. I think her employment by the Star contravenes the principles of Joseph Atkinson that are supposed to govern the running of the newspaper. The real reason for the Conservative's bizarre support of the worst outrages of Judeofascism is the increasing influence of the Christian Zionists. It is interesting that the collapse of Canwest means that the Jews have lost a lot of leverage over Canadian politics, making it more difficult for the Jews to extort more money for their massive holocaust museum/excuse for killing Palestinians and stealing their land.
Wtf? This is like having Ernst Zündel lead a fundraiser for the JDL! Hospital officials should be fired.
From Pakistan:
"A parliamentary committee investigating US security agency Blackwater's presence in Pakistan has raised an alarm over the recent spate of extra-judicial killings and abductions of innocent citizens by foreign agencies "under the garb of the war on terror".
The concerns were expressed by members of the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Human Rights, which was chaired by Riaz Fatiyana.
The sub-committee's convener, Javed Hashmi, informed that a group named Special American was operating in Pakistan, and that it had tried to buy a hotel in Peshawar.
The committee unanimously decided to propose to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to take steps to stop the activities of foreign agencies in the country.
The committee also sought a detailed report within three months.
The committee also sought a list of missing persons particularly those who disappeared from Balochistan. "
If the leaders won't act, it is time for direct action on climate change. I'm hoping that the grandchildren of the teabaggers and Bloggers For Exxon die of malaria.
Larry Summers, financial genius.
The abject Israeli apology to the Swedes and other 'anti-Semites' is no doubt being prepared. Are the Israeli organ thieves still at work? They deny it, but then again they vehemently denied - along with a massive slurring campaign - what they are now admitting.
"Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri visits Damascus to pay his condolences to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad upon the death of the latter's brother, after nearly five years since the assassination of the former's father, widely blamed on the latter, to whose own father he has now, suddenly, developed an uncanny physical resemblance."
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Also from Dobbin: "The Ugly Canadian".
Bangladesh's disappearing island.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at Copenhagen (unfortunately I can't find a non-CIA source for this speech). Hugo Chávez' speech at Copenhagen. The Chinese tried to lead the rest of the world at Copenhagen, at least until Obama swept in and imposed a non-agreement on everybody (with the American press putting the entire blame for the failure of a real agreement on China!). China needs to work on its propaganda skills.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer: "CIA Requests Its Own Documents From Author":
"The documents requested from Albarelli centered on two subjects. The first top-secret CIA document details a meeting between an official of the Sandoz Chemical Company and an undercover CIA operator. The document reveals a close relationship between the firm and the agency, and provides stunning details about a mysterious 1951 outbreak of "insanity" in a small French town, Pont St. Esprit. In a covert experiment, the village was surreptitiously administered the powerful hallucinogen LSD in an attempt to see if there was a viable method of waging war without killing people or destroying property. A related document appears to reveal that famed LSD inventor, Albert Hoffmann, maintained a close relationship with the CIA.
The second document requested reveals intelligence links between one of the criminals who murdered Frank Olson and the assassination of JFK, including a possible working relationship with suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. About seven years ago, after an Internet article by Albarelli, an agency official requested that Albarelli send the CIA a copy of a top-secret report from the CIA's Robert Lashbrook to Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, director of its Chemical Division. The document concerned a Pentagon and CIA cover-up of the 1953 death of a patient at the New York Psychiatric Institute. That patient, Harold Blauer, was killed by an injection of drugs administered under a covert CIA contract."
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Predictions made in 2000 about life in 2010. Mine will be more successful: in 2020, the state of Israel will be under the full political control of Palestinians.
Argentina proves that if you tell the IMF to fuck off, all will be well. This article even tells creditors how to massage their books to cover the missing money that won't be repaid (I could care less about their books).
The assholes at JS-Kit are finally finishing the screwing over of clients of Haloscan (although they must be given credit for publishing the scathing comments!). I hope the money grab means they are on the way out.
Matt Taibbi notes how Obama replaced all his semi-'progressive' election campaign advisers with Wall Streeters all connected to Bob Rubin when it came time to run the economy (my emphasis in red):
"The significance of all of these appointments isn't that the Wall Street types are now in a position to provide direct favors to their former employers. It's that, with one or two exceptions, they collectively offer a microcosm of what the Democratic Party has come to stand for in the 21st century. Virtually all of the Rubinites brought in to manage the economy under Obama share the same fundamental political philosophy carefully articulated for years by the Hamilton Project: Expand the safety net to protect the poor, but let Wall Street do whatever it wants. "Bob Rubin, these guys, they're classic limousine liberals," says David Sirota, a former Democratic strategist. "These are basically people who have made shitloads of money in the speculative economy, but they want to call themselves good Democrats because they're willing to give a little more to the poor. That's the model for this Democratic Party: Let the rich do their thing, but give a fraction more to everyone else."
Even the members of Obama's economic team who have spent most of their lives in public office have managed to make small fortunes on Wall Street. The president's economic czar, Larry Summers, was paid more than $5.2 million in 2008 alone as a managing director of the hedge fund D.E. Shaw, and pocketed an additional $2.7 million in speaking fees from a smorgasbord of future bailout recipients, including Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. At Treasury, Geithner's aide Gene Sperling earned a staggering $887,727 from Goldman Sachs last year for performing the punch-line-worthy service of "advice on charitable giving." Sperling's fellow Treasury appointee, Mark Patterson, received $637,492 as a full-time lobbyist for Goldman Sachs, and another top Geithner aide, Lee Sachs, made more than $3 million working for a New York hedge fund called Mariner Investment Group. The list goes on and on. Even Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who has been out of government for only 30 months of his adult life, managed to collect $18 million during his private-sector stint with a Wall Street firm called Wasserstein-Perella.
The point is that an economic team made up exclusively of callous millionaire-assholes has absolutely zero interest in reforming the gamed system that made them rich in the first place. "You can't expect these people to do anything other than protect Wall Street," says Rep. Cliff Stearns, a Republican from Florida. That thinking was clear from Obama's first address to Congress, when he stressed the importance of getting Americans to borrow like crazy again. "Credit is the lifeblood of the economy," he declared, pledging "the full force of the federal government to ensure that the major banks that Americans depend on have enough confidence and enough money." A president elected on a platform of change was announcing, in so many words, that he planned to change nothing fundamental when it came to the economy. Rather than doing what FDR had done during the Great Depression and institute stringent new rules to curb financial abuses, Obama planned to institutionalize the policy, firmly established during the Bush years, of keeping a few megafirms rich at the expense of everyone else."
It is funny that the new Democrats now have a political theory identical to the old - say, Nixon-era - Republicans (the Republicans are now wallowing with the religious crazies, and don't have a sane policy on anything). American politics has shifted wildly right. The calculation that a few bones thrown in the general direction of the poor will prevent any kind of mass uprising damaging to the rich appears to be true. The only thing resembling a mass uprising in American politics is the teabaggers, who are used to push politics further to the right. There really is no hope for the United States.
Every person who dies as a result of the Exxon success in Copenhagen is the moral responsibility of the Bloggers For Exxon, and I won't let them forget it.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
One of the things I've noticed is that the deniers are insanely preoccupied with Al Gore. This connects directly to swiftboating.
The arguments of idiots.
The reaction of the Canadian Conservatives to the Yes Men prank proves it hit home.
Yet another Canadian 'security certificate' struck down. If we can't jail CSIS for wanton abuse of the Canadian Constitution, can't we fold them up for utter incompetence and money wasting?
Is Erik Prince 'Graymailing' the US Government?
American government destabilization efforts in Venezuela.
If you can believe it, the Israeli threat against the British government for not interfering in the British legal system - the Israelis don't recognize a legal system as having any constitutional separation from the interests of the government - is to exclude Britain from the hilarious 'peace process', a threat that must be an example of that famous Jewish humor we keep hearing about.
"Virtually everywhere in the world people tend to be more educated than their parents. This is no longer true in the United States. A report by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities indicates that the U.S. is one of only two nations on Earth in which people aged 25 to 34 have lower educational attainment than their parents."
Democratic Party apologists are preparing the propaganda base for a useless health care bill, reasoning that a lousy bill can be built on. No, it can't. Without a 'public option', there will be no pressure to improve the situation, and it will be many more decades before the United States has a first world health care system (by which point the U. S. will be firmly second world anyway). For most people, all they will see is a new requirement to give money to insurance companies. With the Republicans on the ropes, the Democrats are committing political suicide. It is amazing what insurance company graft - and tribal devotion to Israel - can accomplish.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Speaking of which, it looks like he is good for at least an additional two Purple Hearts. I hope the Jews are grateful.
Speaking of which, American analysts are tying themselves into knots trying to understand the psychology/sociopathy of Joe Lieberman. It is simple: he is a Jew. World Jewry feels that Obama is Bad For The Jews, and a decent health care bill would ensure that Obama is reelected. Thus, the Head Jew sent Joe to sabotage the process.
Direct action.
Internationally wanted war criminals.
The famous Jew 'Porn Sex Video', presumably named after the family trade.
The most recent spin is that Goldman Sachs bankers aren't carrying.
A Skull & Bones Party?
Holiday news from Germany (a very Southern U. S. sounding story):
"The fight took place in the western city of Aachen when a 74-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman both laid claim to a shopping trolley on Saturday.
As the pensioner wrestled the cart from the hands of his rival, her 24-year-old brother stepped forward and floored him with a punch.
Together with their 53-year-old mother, the brother and sister then took the trolley into the supermarket. But the OAP came round and followed them to the cheese counter.
He clubbed the younger man with a salami as his mother tried to fend him off with a sharp 4lbs piece of Parmesan.
The pensioner then pushed the woman down on to a glass countertop on which she cracked her head.
Police arrived to break up the melee. Two of those involved were treated in hospital for minor injuries.
The trolley was undamaged.
A police spokesman said a sudden rush of shoppers on the last-but-one Saturday before Christmas had depleted the supermarket's trolley reserves and "raised tensions" between the would-be customers."
Monday, December 14, 2009
Debutante party for China
"Why are climate change deniers like Stephens more interested in possible but unlikely scenarios like nuclear attacks by rogue states rather than the real and ongoing threat to national security and global stability posed by climate change?"
and also note, as you'll hear the exact opposite from various 'truthers', Climategateologists, swift boaters, Sarah Palins and their fucking ilk:
"(After all, if "indifference to evidence" is one indication of "the totalitarian impulse" described by Stephens, how embarrassing it must be for him to assert, as he did in his column Tuesday, "The earth has registered no discernable warming in the past 10 years" when, on that very same day, the World Meteorological Organization reported that "The decade from 2000 to 2009 was warmer than the decade from 1990 to 1999, which in turn was warmer than from 1980 to 1989," and further that "The year 2009 is likely to rank in the top 10 warmest on record since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850…")"
Hilarity always ensues when a government official contacts Cryptome, in this case ominously offering to 'help' a whistleblower.
"I'm sorry but we blew up your laptop (welcome to Israel)". This is just vandalism. When will put the mad dog down?
Homemade Submarines.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Bliar, unusually candid about the lying process (my emphasis in red):
"Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he would have taken the decision to remove Saddam Hussein even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
In an excerpt from a BBC interview to be aired Sunday, Blair said: "I would still have thought it right to remove him. I mean obviously you would have had to use and deploy different arguments, about the nature of the threat."
It is a misuse of the subjunctive to say he 'world have' removed Saddam without evidence of weapons of mass destruction when in fact he did remove Saddam without evidence of weapons of mass destruction.
Banksy's Christmas story picture. Sometimes you have to wonder if the whole Zionist project isn't just revenge against Christianity.
New York City politicians and officials feel that the fine religious sensibilities of some religious nuts have more value than the lives of the people living in New York City.
"Climate science under attack". See also here.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
"Many of the protesters arrested at the G20 riots
this year have had their bail dates set for mid-
December, the same time as Copenhagen. Coincidence?"
Of course, the 'Climategate' 'Truthers' don't have that problem, as they have come directly from one of their teabagging parties.
On Juan 'Langley' Cole:
"Juan Cole is an expert on the Middle East. He knows Arabic and Farsi and probably a handful of other languages. He knows more about the Arabic and Islamic world than most Arabs and Muslims can hope to learn in a lifetime. But he supports the empire. I have attended one of his lectures in which he said he was not against the war on Iraq in principle but he only disagreed with the way the Bush administration (at the time) was carrying it out. Here he wishes Israel a happy 60th birthday: http://www.juancole.com/2008/05/happy-60th-to-israel.html
I'll continue to read his blog and plan to read his new book because he knows his stuff. But politically, a pair of Iraqi shoes have done more for the cause than all of Juan Cole's writings combined"
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
- A lot of the confusion about Exxon's intentions derives from a statement made by its CEO in January to the effect that Exxon favored a carbon tax over a cap-and-trade system (subsequently repeated by Exxon in Australia). Of course, at the same time, Exxon was pouring millions into 'think tanks' completely opposed to either system, so you should treat the statements of Exxon as part of its greenwashing campaign. Carbon taxes, where tried, have been ineffective in reducing demand, and most experts propose both carbon taxes - which should be revenue neutral, with the additional government income returned to taxpayers with tax cuts elsewhere - and a cap-and-trade system.
- Ah, those Zionazis and the Master Race. She's lucky they didn't ban ugly.
- Record companies like to mislabel music sharing as 'theft'. This is what real theft looks like.
- A lawyer in California who represented a bankrupt predatory lender appears to have been murdered, possibly a 'targeted killing'. The start of the uprising?
- He had just won his school award for bird keeping (then he bit the bird's head off).
- Angel-haunted.
- A Toronto woman has been charged with the Canadian Criminal Code offense of 'fraudulently pretending to exercise witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration'. I assume that if you are a real and not a fraudulent witch you have a complete defense.
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Tuesday, December 9, 2009
Sarah Palin, pied piper of the 'Climategate' 'Truthers'. You must be so proud.
Big Oil makes annual profits larger than any group of corporations has ever made in human history. Cutting supply without allowing them to reap the windfall profits will put an end to that. Billions of profits, gone. A few million dollars - less than pocket change - artfully spread here and there is enough to completely fool the Conspiracy-Industrial Complex. Any greenwashing expert could tell you how to do it.
Obama had to wait to go to China so he could find out how many troops the Chinese would fund to go to Afghanistan. All the time he waited he had Dennis Ross on his back, screaming in his ear for more troops for the Wars For The Jews. The only way out for the Chinese will be to convert those increasingly worthless dollars - thanks to those very Wars For The Jews - into semi-worthless hard assets, and then send the guards to ensure the local masses don't try to steal anything. The first picture says it all.
The cathouse on C Street is still up to its old tricks.
American taxpayers fund a charity which pays money to Israeli troops who are imprisoned for disobeying orders to evacuate illegal settlements - assuming they can find any such imprisoned soldiers! - and even pays a bounty to Israeli soldiers for shooting Palestinians.
The always hilarious Dersh on Knox. Americans are outraged, but all juries know that innocent people don't give a variety of untrue alibis, and especially don't give an untrue alibi which results in an innocent man being arrested. Add a little DNA and a bratty defendant, and a conviction is entirely reasonable.
Amazing Japanese crash.
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
- The members of the Council on Foreign Relations think Israel is a shitty little country (Barry Chamish will say 'I told you so').
- Weird attempt to blame 'Climategate' on the Russian government (without any evidence whatsoever, and even weirder when you consider that the emails were probably stolen by a paid-off insider and not hacked at all), while admitting that anybody can buy the services of Russian hackers. Note that one of the shibboleths of the 'Climategate' 'Truthers' is that the mainstream media won't touch the story, which is odd since it is all over the mainstream media and this article, from the 'lefty' Independent, seems to accept the oily and obviously false 'Climategate' premise that the emails prove some kind of scientific malfeasance.
- For people who always claim they haven't done anything wrong, the Jews sure spend an enormous amount of time unsuccessfully trying to prove that the Wars For The Jews aren't wars for the Jews.
- "Colton Harris-Moore, the barefoot boy bandit, outfoxes sheriffs" by escaping in stolen planes! He taught himself to fly from video games! "[H]is weakness is pizzas, which he asks to be delivered at the edge of the woods."
Monday, December 07, 2009
Monday, December 6, 2009
- "Attention Christmas Shoppers: Top Ten Brands to Boycott"
- For the Jew who has everything (although you know they'd prefer the white phosphorous snow globe that makes the sound of screaming Palestinian children when you shake it).
- "Anyhow the lesson here is clearly that scientists need to be much nicer in how they respond to thugs. Right before they drown, our grandkids will thank us for being ever so sensible in this crucial regard." You really have to be illiterate, retarded, or paid off by Exxon to see even the slightest evidence in any of the emails of the slightest wrongdoing. What we see in the stolen emails is a group of people reacting to the vicious onslaught of the denier douches.
- "An Open Letter to Congress From US Scientists on Climate Change and Recently Stolen Emails" refers to 18 leading U.S. scientific organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological Society, which state the "consensus scientific view".
- "Ocean Acidification Will Cost Us Dearly"
- The deniers would prefer to believe in a world-wide scientific conspiracy of hundreds of scientists in dozens of labs over decades - all with no apparent motive to lie - rather than give up their idea that the Queen leads a conspiracy of Illuminati, Freemasons and, of course, Jews who are using climate change as part of their deadly plan to sap our precious bodily fluids.
- The CIA, Blackwater, and bin Laden.
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Bottom line
- Big oil is going to lose billions of dollars a year in profit if meaningful climate change initiatives go through.
- All the big name thinks tanks, etc, that challenge the scientific consensus are funded by Big Oil.
- The scientific consensus remain a consensus: for all intents and purposes, minus a few publicity hounds and those paid off by Big Oil, all the experts in the field, based on consistent data for the last thirty years, accept the fact that human activity causes climate change and the world is headed for an utter catastrophe if we don't do something about it.
If you have trouble with any of these statements, go find another blog. If you are not with us - and by 'us' I mean the legion of moral and decent people - you are against us, and to hell with you.
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
- This link (from stevieb), along with the comments to it, does a good job at explaining the funding behind the oil industry propaganda campaign. Actually the whole site is good. Note also the third paragraph here. Also note that this attack on internal emails is part of a larger campaign. A few years ago, some of the oil companies decided for PR purposes to start pretending to be environmentalists, hoping that the stupidest and moist gullible would be fooled. Judging from many of the comments to this site, their plan seems to have worked! There is not the slightest doubt that there is a huge conspiracy going on here, run by Big Oil and those it pays to serve as its mouthpieces and spies.
- 'Dual loyalty' is an American government job requirement.
- I'll bet the Jewish world-wide delight over the Swiss minaret decision will start to sink a bit when the full ramifications become clear, there and in other countries. After all, it wouldn't be fair to single out Muslims (in fact, the discrimination against one religion might sink the ban, making a more carefully drafted attack on both Muslims and Jews more likely to succeed). By the way, the Swiss now have one of the most curious constitutional provisions in the world ("The construction of minarets is prohibited.").
- The Big Book Of Lies is a bad history textbook.
- 9/11 is not a joke.
- Folding money.
Friday, December 04, 2009
Climate catastrope and the sociopaths
"The likely future of access to water in such a world is dark, indeed. George Monbiot of The Guardian writes that an increase in average global temperatures of 1.5° C—that is, a mere 0.7-0.8° C beyond the level relative to pre-industrial temperatures that has already been achieved due to historical emissions—exposes some 400 million humans to what he refers to rather dryly as water stress, while an average global temperature increase of 2.1° C is estimated to place between 2.3 and 3 billion people at risk of outright water shortages. Monbiot's compatriot Mark Lynas finds a 2° C rise in average global temperatures to nearly eradicate the mountain glaciers on which the millions who currently reside in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia depend upon for their water, and he claims a 3° C such rise to imply a drastic reduction in the Himalayan glaciers that today provide life for more than half of humanity.
Without serious action aimed at mitigating the consequences of climate change in the near term, these average temperatures increases—to say nothing of even more apocalyptic ones—will likely come to pass. A poll conducted in April found nine out of ten climatologists to believe that humanity would fail to limit global warming to 2° C, while the UK Met Office recently concluded that a 4° C average-temperature increase—a temperature increase that Met scientists claim would threaten the water supply of half the world's population—could well occur by the year 2060. Just two weeks ago, in fact, scientists with the Global Carbon Project found the prospect of a 6° C average-temperature increase by the end of the century—an eventuality that would problematize the existence of the vast majority of currently existing humanity—to be entirely within the realm of possibility.
With regard to climate change then, present reality seems far worse than even the most pessimistic observers could have imagined some time ago. Both the present concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as well as their current rates of emission are far higher than they should be if much of humanity is to have a chance of flourishing in the foreseeable future. The world's leaders, especially the most powerful among them, have decidedly failed to address this emergency with the sense of urgency it requires. The climate legislation proposed by the lawmaking body of the society most responsible for climate change—the United States—calls for reductions in carbon emissions on a scale entirely inadequate for preventing catastrophic climate change, and Barack Obama has recently expressed that no binding treaty should be expected from the decidedly critical Copenhagen climate summit that will take place next month. Parallels with other examples of imperial arrogance—the recent overwhelming rejection by U.S. legislators of the Goldstone report, for example, or the Obama administration's caving on the question of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem—could be made."
The people opposed to doing anything about this, including all the Bloggers For Exxon and anybody who talks up 'Climategate' into a conspiracy, are nothing more than 'I'm all right Jack' sociopaths hiding behind a veneer of pseudo-scepticism in order to justify their selfishness. We see this pseudo-scepticism everywhere now, particularly in the United States - where American power has been thought to insulate Americans from the effects of the facts, including scientific facts - and it forms the basis of the creationist arguments that evolution is only a 'theory' and the refusnik vaccination nutters who can dabble with the alternative medicine quacks because they get a free immunological ride from the fact that moral and decent people have all been vaccinated. The climate sociopaths fear that it will be a few more cents more expensive to fill up the Hummer so they can drive the Hummer to the mountain so they can drive the ATV up the mountain so they can wreck the mountain driving motorcycles back down. Of course, psychopath corporations like Exxon don't like the science as the plans are to increase energy costs - therefore reducing demand - while not passing the excess profits to the producers, thus making their businesses less profitable (why is this so hard to understand? - selling less stuff at the same percentage profit levels equals less profit).
The phony scepticism has created a conspiracy theory that climate change is just a scam created for traders to make money. Of course, they will make money. The economic solutions have been devised by economists working within a capitalist system. If you have a problem with the economics of the solution you should be leading the revolution, not dooming most of the world with your selfishness.
Thursday, December 03, 2009
'Climategate' backfire
Wednesday, December 3, 2009
- More on the morality of not paying banksters: the predators counted on the honesty of the poor in creating their new financial products.
- Via Irish4Palestine, a list in Political Theatrics of the people slaughtered by the Jews in what the Jews call Operation Cast Lead. There can never be a complete list, as the Jews did things like send people into buildings for shelter and then shell the buildings.
- Paul Craig Roberts:
"The 'defense' budget is an entitlement for the military/security complex about which President Eisenhower warned us 50 years ago. A person has to be crazy to believe that the United States, 'the world's only superpower,' protected by oceans on its East and West and by puppet states on its North and South, needs a 'defense' budget larger than the military spending of the rest of the world combined."
- If all the old people were ice floed (probably a good idea anyway; btw, the Inuit don't do it), Americans would have legal gay marriage in all but the most hillbilly places (speaking of the geighs, I can see where this confusion could create a lot of problems).
- I thirst!
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Pol Pot's apology
The fact he doesn't get excused for being a monster doesn't mean that his list of morons isn't a good one. It is important to note that the anti-science crowd is the same as the racist, homophobic, misogynist, fascist, conservative, Republican crowd. The Bloggers For Exxon can look to one side and see Rush Limbaugh, and look to the other side and see Glenn Beck. If you lie down with dogs you get fleas. Don't forget - you can't sit this one out. Not to decide seals the fate of everybody. Either you side with the experts, or you side with Big Business interests and this rag-tag host of douchebags who hold all the usual 'conservative' opinions.
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
- The Pentagon is getting ready for clear sailing:
"the U.S. Navy is...planning for potential combat situations that may arise once global warming has melted the Arctic Ocean's summer ice within two decades. A 35-page memo from the Department of the Navy spells out a five-year plan expressing the need to develop new technology and strategies in the event things become contentious in the open waters of the Arctic Circle by 2030."Just keep listening to those Bloggers For Exxon.
- The sectarian segregation of Baghdad.
- The guy who incompetently tried to set up Syria to take the fall for the Israeli assassination of Hariri is still around.
- Stephen Walt responds to Thomas Friedman's remarkable expression of the white man's burden (or should I say, Jewish man's burden), which contained the following amazing paragraph:
"Yes, after two decades in which US foreign policy has been largely dedicated to rescuing Muslims or trying to help free them from tyranny — in Bosnia, Darfur, Kuwait, Somalia, Lebanon, Kurdistan, post-earthquake Pakistan, post-tsunami Indonesia, Iraq and Afghanistan — a narrative that says America is dedicated to keeping Muslims down is thriving."This satire is the last thing that Friedman should have written, if only he had a clue.
- Why do people persist in treating corporations as entities to which moral obligations can be owed? Baffling. We need a new system where it is immoral not to take from corporations.
- Israel spying on the UN (put the mad dog down!).
- Peter W. Galbraith follows Yinon to a $100 million personal payday.
- Covers of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face":
- Christopher Walken (a poor effort by his standards, made a little better when mixed with the original video).
- Alex Borstein doing Marlee Matlin (from the 'jump the shark' ultra-self-indulgent episode of 'Family Guy').
- And the best, Eric Cartman (see also his touching ballad, "Minorities in my Waterpark", from the episode 'Pee', which contains a great parody of animal testing).


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Youth Development Coordinator/High Performance Assistant
Cycling BC is seeking a skilled and highly motivated individual to coordinate our High Performance and Youth Development programs. The successful candidate will play a critical role in growing participation through the coordination of a new middle/high school program and youth racing leagues.
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The coordination of youth participation in schools, along with the provision of local racing opportunities and the accessibility of a world class high performance program will literally provide a pathway from the playground to the podium for BC bases athletes. Cycling BC wishes to appoint someone with a passion for sport and the self motivation to help drive the success of these initiatives. This is a full time position based at the Cycling BC offices in Vancouver.
This position requires passion, great organization skills and a keen attention to detail. Interested candidates should call our CEO directly (604-737-3164) to discuss their interest in the position or submit a cover letter a resume via email or post to:
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