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Japanese Soldiers at Work in Nanking
The historical controversy regarding the "rape" of Nanking in 1937 by the Japanese Army is hotly debated.[1] The massacres occurred in the initial occupation of the city and the two months following in mid December 1937. The initial reaction to the actions of the Japanese was reported by western journalists and even a German Nazi Party member by the name of John Rabe who assisted in protecting Chinese during the massacre and reported it on his return to Germany.The action shocked many in the west and helped cement the image of the Japanese being a brutal race in the west.
The controversy's visibility has been raised since the 1997 publication of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking. However, with few exceptions the incident had received little attention by Western historians until Chang's book was published. The reason for this was that China was a sideshow for for the United States and Britain throughout much of the war. When Chiang Kai Shek's Nationalists were overthrown by the Communists in 1948 the incident disappeared from view in the United States. The United States government reacted to the overthrow of Chaing by helping to rebuild Japan and rehabilitate the Japanese while opposing the Chinese Communists. In fact it was only "after the Cold War was the Rape of Nanking Openly discussed."[2]
Bodies of Children Killed by the Japanese at Nanking
Chang's book was instrumental as it brought new attention to the actions of the Japanese Army in the slaughter of Prisoners of War and civilians following the occupation of the city. Even as Chang's work was published "revisionist" works began to appear in the 1980s which have either denied the atrocities, sought to minimize numbers killed by Japanese Forces or rationalized the them began to appear in Japan. The revisionists were led by Masaaki Tanaka who had served as an aide to General Matsui Iwane the commander of Japanese forces at Nanking. Tanaka denied the atrocities outright calling them "fabrications" casting doubt upon numbers in the trial as "propaganda." He eventually joined in a lawsuit against the Japanese Ministry of Education to remove the words "aggression" and "Nanjing massacre" from textbooks, a lawsuit which was dismissed but was influential to other revisionists and Japanese nationalist politicians and publishers.[3]
Japanese Officer Preparing to Execute Man in Hospital
Most early accounts of the occupation and war crimes have used a number of 200,000 to 300,000 victims based upon the numbers provided during the War Crimes Trials of 1946.[4] Unlike the numbers of victims of the Nazi Holocaust the numbers are less accurate. Authors who maintain the massacres such as Chang and others such as Japanese military historian Mashario Yamamoto who admits Japanese wrongdoing and excess but challenges the numbers use the same statistical sources to make their arguments. Chang not only affirms the original numbers but extrapolates that even more may have been killed as a result of the disposal of bodies in the Yangtze River rather than in mass graves away from the city as well as the failure of survivors to report family member deaths to the Chinese authorities.[5] She also notes contemporary Chinese scholars who suggest even higher numbers.
Prince Asaka, Granduncle of Emperor Hirohito Commanded Troops at Nanking
Herbert Bix discusses Japanese knowledge of the atrocities in detail up and down the chain of command including Prince Asaka, granduncle of Emperor Hirohito who commanded troops in Nanking, the military and Foreign Office, and likely even Hirohito himself.[6]
German National and Nazi Party Member John Rabe Protected Chinese at Nanking and Reported His Experience to the German Government. He is known as "The Good Man of Nanking"
The publication of German citizen and witness to the massacres John Rabe's diaries in 2000, The Good Man of Nanking, provided an additional first hand account by a westerner who had the unique perspective of being from Japan's ally Nazi Germany. His accounts buttress the arguments of those like Chang who seek to inform the world about the size and scope of Japanese atrocities in Nanking.
Yamamoto who is a military historian by trade and is viewed as a "centrist" in the debate, places the massacres in the context of Japanese military operations beginning with the fall of Shanghai up to the capture of Nanking. Yamamoto criticizes those who deny the massacres but settles on a far lower number of deaths, questioning the numbers used at the War Crimes Trials. He blames some on the Chinese Army[7] and explains many others away in the context of operations to eliminate resistance by Chinese soldiers and police who had remained in the city in civilian clothes. He claims that "the Japanese military leadership decided to launch the campaign to hunt down Chinese soldiers in the suburban areas because a substantial number of Chinese soldiers were still hiding in such areas and posing a constant threat to the Japanese."[8] David Barrett in his review of the Yamamoto's work notes that Yamamoto believes that "there were numerous atrocities, but no massacre…."[9] Yoshihisa Tak Mastusaka notes that while a centrist Yamamoto's work's "emphasis on precedents in the history of warfare reflects an underlying apologist tone that informs much of the book."[10] Revisionist work also criticizes the trials surrounding Nanking and other Japanese atrocities. An example of such a work is Tim Maga's Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials which is critiqued by historian Richard Minear as "having a weak grasp of legal issues" and "factual errors too numerous to list."[11] Such is a recurrent theme in revisionist scholarship, the attempt to mitigate or minimize the scale of the atrocities, to cast doubt upon sources and motivations of their proponents or sources, to use questionable sources themselves or to attribute them to out of control soldiers, the fog of war and minimize command knowledge as does Yamamoto. Politics is often a key motivating factor behind revisionist work.
Iris Chang Would Later Commit Suicide
Chang would never be the same after researching and writing the Rape of Nanking. Traumatized by what she had learned and burdened by the weight of what she had taken on she killed herself on November 9th 2004.
Iconic Photo of Japanese Acts in China: A Wounded Child at Shanghai Station
"Revisionist" history will almost certainly remain with us, so long as people study the past. However one has to be careful in labeling a divergent view of a historical subject as necessarily revisionist. There are occasions when new evidence arises and a "new" or "revisionist" work may actually disprove previous conclusions regarding historic events or persons. This might occur when what we know about a subject comes from a single or limited number of sources who themselves were limited in what they had available for research and new evidence comes to light. At the same time where numerous sources from diverse points of view attest to the genuineness of an event, the revisionist's theses should be themselves scrutinized based on evidence presented as well as their political, ideological or racial motivations. While one does not want to silence voices of opposition to prevailing beliefs one has to be careful in examining their claims, especially when they arise in the context of political or ideological conflicts.
[1] Bix, Herbert P. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY 2000. pp.333-334. Bix does a good job explaining the number of victims of the incident drawing on Chinese and Japanese sources.
[2] Kreuter, Gretchen. The Forgotten Holocaust in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, March-April 1998 p.66
[3] Fogel, Joshua A. The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography, University of California Press, Berkley CA 2000, pp.87-89
[4] Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-45. Random House, New York, NY 1970 pp. 50-51. Toland in his brief discussion of the massacres notes both the civilian casualty figures and figures for male citizens of military age who were slaughtered. Toland also notes the large numbers of women raped by Japanese soldiers.
[5] Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Penguin Books, New York, NY 1997 pp.102-103. Chang has been criticized by some historians in a number of ways including that she was not a historian, that she compares the atrocities to the Nazi Holocaust and her emotional attachment to the subject which may have been a contributing factor in her 2004 suicide.
[6] Bix. p.336
[7] Yamamoto, Masahiro. The Rape of Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity. Praeger Publishers an imprint of the Greenwood Group, Westport, CT 2000. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/apus/docDetail.action?docID=10018001&p00=nanking p.83
[8] Ibid. p.92.
[9] Barrett, David P. Review of The Rape of Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity by Masashiro Yamamoto Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'Histoire XXXVIII, April/Avril 2003 p.170
[10] Mastusaka, Yoshihisa Tak. Review of The Rape of Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity by Masashiro Yamamoto American Historical Review, April 2002 p.525
[11] Minear, Richard. Review of Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials by Tim Mata American Historical Review. April 2002 p.526


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A British court has sentenced a teenage hacker to youth rehabilitation after he and other members of the Anonymous movement carried out cyber-attacks targeting financial sites like PayPal and Visa.
Jake Birchall had admitted conspiring to impair the operation of computers in 2010 and 2011. The 18-year-old Birchall was sentenced Friday to 18 months of rehabilitation and 60 hours of unpaid work.
Three other co-defendants, aged 22 to 28, were given jail sentences of up to 18 months last week for their part in the attacks. They targeted groups involved in combating Internet piracy and companies that had stopped processing online donations to WikiLeaks.
The websites for Mastercard and Visa were disrupted, and PayPal said the attacks cost it 3.5 million pounds ($5.5 million.)
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Movie review: 'The Goldfinch' is for the birds
Don't be fooled, John Crowley's constipated adaption of Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Goldfinch," might look like one of those highfalutin prestige dramas screaming for awards consideration, but it's closer to excruciating than Oscar-worthy.
The action, if you want to call it that, revolves around Theo Decker and how he came into possession of Carel Fabritis' 1654 wildlife painting, "The Goldfinch," which he was ogling at the Metropolitan Museum of Art just before a bomb exploded, killing his mother. He escapes unharmed physically but damaged emotionally.
The same could be said for us, as Crowley (the marvelous "Brooklyn") blasts us with pathos while bouncing us like a basketball between Theo's post-traumatic adolescence (Oakes Fegley) and his hokey adulthood (Ansel Elgort). The non-linear storytelling does no favors. It's full of contrivances, such as characters conveniently bumping into each other in bars or on the street. And there's lots and lots of plot, thus the exhausting 149-minute runtime.
It opens with the adult Theo alone in a hotel room about to swallow a handful of pills with a vodka chaser; then flashes back to how he got here. So back and forth we go.
Early on, the script by Peter Straughan sends Theo to live with Mom's wealthy friend, Mrs. Barbour (an antiseptic Nicole Kidman), who cares for the boy until his deadbeat dad (Luke Wilson) resurfaces - 51 days sober. He shuffles the lad off to Vegas to live with him and his trashy girlfriend, Xandra (Sarah Paulson). It's a step way down from the Park Avenue digs he's accustomed, but Sin City allows him the opportunity to befriend Boris, ("Stranger Things'" Finn Wolfhard as a teen and Aneurin Barnard as an adult), a Ukranian refugee. They grow close and discover the numbing effects of drugs, spill secrets and tackle their complicated worlds. In one tender moment, Boris lulls Theo back to sleep after one of his many nightmares about the fatal blast. BFFs for life - until the script tears them apart. Another love lost.
It's uncomfortable to watch what happens to a child in the wake of losing a parent. "Her death was my fault," Theo says over and over. That instant loss of security and love is gut-wrenching on so many levels.
I don't mind challenging material like that. And Fegley does a fine job conveying adolescent grief and his scenes with Wolfhard are strong. Ditto for his crush on the red-headed cutie, Pippa (Aimee Laurence as a child; Ashleigh Cummings as an adult). It's grownup Theo posing the problem, especially when the movie jarringly switches to Amsterdam, where unsavory guys armed with guns and bad accents suddenly appear.
It's boring, s-l-o-w and the acting demands fake tears and faces contorted to reveal anguish. Emote much? "Westworld' actor Jeffrey Wright, playing Hobie, a melancholic antique dealer, becomes the closest thing Theo has to a role model, and Wright infuses him with heart (and hope).
But it's simply not enough, as the story succumbs to the weight of its own heavy-handed metaphors (An antique dealer reconstructing furniture?). Is Theo his next restoration? Hmmmm … Or how about that goldfinch in the painting, symbolizing prosperity and happiness but weighed down by a chain? Just like the movie!
This probably isn't the adaptation Tartt would have imagined for her beloved book. But if Crowley accomplishes anything, it's that his haphazard storytelling may well send people in search of the novel to see what all the fuss was about.
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"The Goldfinch"
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Jeffrey Wright, Luke Wilson, Sarah Paulson, Finn Wolfhard, Aneurin Barnard, Oakes Fegley.
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Part of the Phone Calls to Julie Series
Ring… Ring…
WP: Hello, WordPress technical support, this is Julie, how can I help you today?
ME: Hi Julie, this is Steve from Brown Road Chronicles, thank you for taking my call today.
WP: Hi Mr. Warner… you're welcome, how can I help you today?
ME: I think I'm done.
WP: You think you're done?
ME: Yes, I think I'm done.
WP: Ummm…. done with what?
ME: I think I'm done with my blog.
WP: Okay… uhhhh…. so can I help you with something today?
ME: Well, I just didn't know what to do when I was done.
WP: Well Mr. Warner, you can close it down, or you can leave it up so others can still find and read your posts. But why do you think you're done?
ME: Well, I just haven't been spending much time writing. Have you read my blog recently?
WP: Yes, I read every time you post. Maybe you're just in a slump. All bloggers get into a writing slump sometimes.
ME: No, I've been in a slump before, I know what that's like. I think this time I'm really done. I think this blog has served its purpose. It was a good blog and every good blog, just like every good book has to have an ending, right?
WP: Yes, I guess so…
ME: Well, I think it's time to give this blog its ending. I want to do other things now. Maybe I'll start another blog, or maybe I'll keep working on my tyme4rhyme.com site. But right now I'm ready for a break. Plus, there's only so many poop, fart and sex jokes out there. Remember when I called you about BOOBS? That was funny, right?
WP: I didn't find it funny at the time, but yes, looking back it's funny.
ME: You'll be happy to know, I haven't checked my stats page in weeks.
WP: That's good…
ME: You know, Julie, this blog really changed my life. I've met a ton of really cool people, some have come and gone. Others, hopefully I can stay in touch with. It taught me the power of blogging and social media. It was therapeutic at times and it once again, reminded me that I can have a creative side to my life. That had been missing for a very long time. On the other hand, sometimes it was a headache worrying about it and constantly trying to come up with something worthy to write about. But I think I've said all I need to say here and I've always known I didn't want to be one of those bloggers that just vanished without anyone knowing where they went.
WP: Yes, that happens often… well if you need help closing it down, I can help with that.
ME: No, that's okay. I think I'll leave it up for a while so others can still read it. A good book doesn't go away once the author's done writing, right?
WP: Yes, you're right… then you could always come back to it if you wanted to.
ME: Like Brett Favre?
WP: Hahahahaha… yes like Brett Favre.
ME: We'll, I don't think so but you never know. It was a good blog, wasn't it?
WP: Yes it was… is there anything else I can help you with? We're very busy today and the phones are ringing…
ME: Ummm… uhhhh… no, I don't think so… I guess this is my last call.
WP: Mr. Warner… I'm going to hang up now.
ME: Ummmm… okay…. uhhh… wait, Julie?
WP: Yes, Mr. Warner?
ME: Thanks for reading my blog.
WP: You're welcome. I wish you the best.
ME: Okay, goodbye.
WP: Thank you for calling WordPress. Goodbye.
To all my friends: Thank you all for reading and commenting. This was an amazingly fun ride, full of humor and heartbreak, happiness and sadness, seriousness and goofiness all wrapped up in 229 posts plus many more that were never worthy of hitting the PUBLISH button. I couldn't possibly list all the bloggers that I have interacted with over the last several years. There is a core group of you though, that I feel like I know better than some of the folks in my "real life". Hopefully you know who you are and its been your friendships and interactions that have made this journey the most worthwhile. If you have not yet found me on Facebook and Twitter (@stevetwarner) and you want to, please look me up.
I will tell you all that ending a blog is not for the faint of heart. But I've been considering this for a long while and I think the time is right for me to retire Brown Road Chronicles. I don't know what I will do next on the writing front. I have recently joined a small writers group of folks in my area that write stories for kids and meets once a month, so I suspect they will keep me on my toes. Maybe there will be another blog in my future. Other than that, we'll just see what happens next. I promise though, that I will continue to write, continue to pick my guitar and sing songs, continue to raise two beautiful teenagers, continue to love my amazing wife, continue to sit around my fire pit, continue to drink too much wine and continue to own goats!
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Grab your BFF or get an extra coffee for yourself.
Starbucks' Happy Hour returns Thursday, which also is Galentine's Day, a day created in 2010 by Amy Poehler's character Leslie Knope on "Parks and Recreation."
From 2 to 7 p.m. Feb. 13, get a buy-one-get-one-free deal on all handcrafted beverages, grande or larger. To get this deal, which is available when ordering ahead on the app or and at participating locations in the U.S. and Canada, you need the Starbucks app. The offer will automatically be loaded for Starbucks Rewards members.
In October, Starbucks revamped its Happy Hour promotion, which used to rotate with different specials. Now, on select Thursdays, the deal will be a buy-one-get-one-free drink offer.
Free Chipotle guacamole:Chipotle launches 'Guac Mode' and is giving away free guac. Here's how to get the freebie
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What is Galentine's Day?
What started as a tradition created on the NBC comedy has taken on a life of its own, spawning events around the world.
In the "Parks and Recreation" episode, Knope celebrates her female friendships with a brunch featuring mimosas, waffles and super-personal gifts for her ladies.
"Every Feb. 13, my lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home, and we just come and kick it, breakfast-style," Knope said on the show. "Ladies celebrating ladies. It's like Lilith Fair, minus the angst. Plus frittatas."
Free food, deals for Galentine's Day
The following offers are available Thursday, Feb. 13, at participating locations unless otherwise noted. Some continue for Valentine's Day and others through the weekend. To be on the safe side, check with your closest location before heading out.
Auntie Anne's: Get free delivery with the purchase of any pretzel bucket Thursday with promo code GALENTINE at checkout on the DoorDash website or app.
Bahama Breeze Island Grille: For Galentine's Day Thursday, there will be five $5 specialty cocktails including the Frozen Bahamarita, Ultimate Pina Colada, Mojito Cubano, Classic Margarita and Pineapple-Coconut Martini.
Baskin-Robbins: Get $3 on cake purchases $15 or more through Friday online and with the mobile app using promo code BEMINE.
California Pizza Kitchen: Through Sunday, get the "Sweet Deal for Two" $35 special, and for dining in through Sunday get a card with a buy-one-get-one-free offer on a return visit and chance to enter the California Wine Country Sweepstakes for a two-night stay in Sonoma, California.
Carrabba's Italian Grill: Through Sunday, Carrabba's has a four-course Surf & Turf dinner for two for $60.
Carvel: Through Friday, get $2 off a pack of Lil' Hearts or a Chocolate Decadence Heart Cake or $3 off a sheet cake with a coupon posted at www.carvel.com/coupon.
Chili's: The February Margarita of the Month is the Hearts on Fire 'Rita, which costs $5.
Chuck E. Cheese: Through Friday, purchase any large pizza and get a free upgrade to an xlarge pizza.
Dickey's Barbecue Pit: Through March 22, get two Two Meat Plates for $24.
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar: Through Saturday, Fleming's has a three-course Valentine's Day menu. If you're not looking for a deal, there also is an "all-inclusive Valentine's Day experience" called "Wine, Dine, & Sparkle" with the "three-course dinner for two, premium champagne and a special gift from luxury jewelry brand David Yurman." Prices range from $500 to $1,000.
Fogo de Chão: From Thursday through Sunday, every couple that dines in gets a free dining card valid while supplies last for one lunch, dinner or Sunday brunch.
Hard Rock Cafe: Through Monday, Hard Rock has a Sips and Sweets menu and Love at First Bite menu.
McDonald's: The fast-food chain said it's trying to start a new tradition: Palentine's Day. Through Monday, get $5 off a $15 purchase with McDelivery with DoorDash and promo code LOVEMCD in the DoorDash app.
Pollo Tropical: Get buy-one-get-one free desserts Thursday with promo code CGLDSST for orders made in the dining room or drive-thru at all of the brand's Florida locations.
Postmates: The on-demand delivery service is partnering with 7-Eleven and Ben & Jerry's and through Sunday is giving away free pints of ice cream. With any 7-Eleven order on Postmates, select your favorite flavor at checkout and use code "happyvday."
Romano's Macaroni Grill: Through Sunday, the chain has a Valentine's dinner for two that includes an appetizer to share, two entrees and choice of shared dessert for $45.
Ruth Chris Steak House: Through Sunday, choose from a multi-course Porterhouse Dinner for Two or a Surf & Turf special. And through Saturday, get a $25 dining card to redeem on a dinner between Feb. 17 and March 29.
Seasons 52: The Galentine's Day deal is called the "Valentine Pairing for 2" and the $99 dinner includes two filet mignon and Maine lobster tail entrées and two glasses of Vanderpump Dry Rosé.
Slice: Through the end of month, new customers to the mobile app get $5 off their first order with code PIELOVER at more than 12,000 pizza restaurants.
Sonic Drive-In: Get a four-piece mozzarella sticks for 99 cents Thursday. No app or coupon is needed and this deal is available while supplies last.
Taco Cabana: Through Friday, get any shareable menu item and a pitcher of beer for $12.99.
TooJay's Deli: Through Sunday, TooJay's has a special Dinner for Too menu where two can eat for $25.99 with a coupon.
More deals: Many smaller chains and individual restaurants also are expected to offer savings Thursday.
Heart-shaped pizza
California Pizza Kitchen: Through Sunday, get any pizza on a special heart-shaped crispy thin crust for no additional charge.
Hungry Howie's: Get a one-topping heart-shaped pizzas for $6.99 Thursday and Friday.
Mountain Mike's Pizza: Get a 14-inch heart-shaped pizza throughout February.
Papa Gino's Pizzeria: Heart-shaped pizzas will be available through Friday. The pizzas come as a size small and served uncut. Toppings are available for an extra charge.
Papa John's: Heart-shaped pizza is available for a limited time.Order using promo code VALENTINE to get for $11. Get the heart-shaped pizza with a heart-shaped brownie for $16 with promo code BEMINE. The pizza comes uncut.
Pizza Hut: Heart-shaped pizza is back through Sunday. Get a large heart-shaped pizza on its own for $11.99 or bundle it with a dessert for $17.99.
Heart-shaped donuts and more
Auntie Anne's: Heart-shaped pretzels.
Bojangles': For a limited time, Bojangles' has Heart-Shaped Bo-Berry Biscuits.
Bruegger's Bagels: Heart Bagels are back and available in plain, cinnamon raisin and blueberry. The holiday bagels can be purchased individually or by the dozen through Friday.
Chick-fil-A: Through Feb. 29, get 30-count nuggets, 10-count Chick-n-Minis or six-count chocolate chunk cookies in heart-shaped containers.
Cinnabon: Heart-shaped CinnaPacks are available for a limited time at mall bakeries and Pilot Flying J locations nationwide.
Dairy Queen: Special February items include the Double Fudge Cookie Dough Blizzard and the heart-shaped Double Fudge Cookie Dough TreatHeart Cakes.
Dunkin': Get heart-shaped donuts and Valentine's Day pink drinks – the Pink Velvet Macchiato and Pink Velvet Signature Latte. Plus, for a limited time, get a 10-count box of Munchkins donut hole treats for $2.
Einstein Bros. Bagels: Through Friday, the chain will have heart bagels in plain, chocolate chip and cinnamon raisin.
Krispy Kreme: Get heart-shaped Conversation Heart doughnuts through Valentine's Day with a limited-edition gift box, while supplies last. The heart-shaped doughnuts have four different fillings and are topped with one of 24 sayings.
Portillo's: Through Sunday, get a heart-shaped version of the restaurant's Famous Chocolate Cake for $15.99.
Red Lobster: The chain has limited-edition "You're My Lobster" heart-shaped boxes with Cheddar Bay Biscuits.
Slim Chickens: Through Saturday, the chain has heart-shaped waffles.
Olive Garden breadstick bouquet
Olive Garden: Starting Thursday, get a bouquet of Olive Garden's buttery breadsticks in its Valentine's Day ToGo Dinner for Two. At $34.99, the deal also includes soup or salad, five cheese marinara or alfredo dipping sauces, shareable Five Cheese Ziti al Forno or chicken alfredo, and a shareable Black Tie Mousse Cake or Tiramisu for dessert.
Tyson: The brand is holding a "Chicken Nugget Bouquet Contest" with a chance to win a grand prize of $10,000 for a romantic getaway and a year's supply of Tyson chicken nuggets. To enter, create a chicken nugget bouquet and share a photo of the finished product by tweeting @TysonBrand with the hashtag #nuggetbouquetcontest. The deadline is 8 p.m. ET Feb. 17. Residents in Arizona, Connecticut, Maryland and North Dakota cannot participate, according to the contest rules.
Contributing: Kristina Webb, Palm Beach Post; Megan Marples, Arizona Republic
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Just when I thought that I had the whole Points Plus Value {aka PPV} down to a science, Weight Watchers has gone and changed things! Now, I must admit, the new program changes would not have come as so much as a surprise, had I been working the program like I should.
But I wasn't.
… A Program Change!!!
Over the last couple of weeks, I have noticed- couched between the glitzy, happy holiday commercials– were a few well placed 'teaser' commercials previewing the New Program…
… Beyond The Scale
The new concept takes the Points Plus Value to new heights by focusing on the mind, body and spirit. Not just calories.
The past Points Plus taught me HOW to eat. Beyond the Scale promises to teach me WHAT to eat!!!
I've re-committed to working the Weight Watchers program, because I know that it works! Points Plus. Beyond The Scale. It works!!!
Over the upcoming months, I'll keep you posted on my thoughts, successes, challenges and 'Ah Hah' moments as I navigate this new and exciting road!
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As of December 1, 2017, Australia introduced some big changes to its cervical cancer screening program. The outdated pap test has been replaced with a new HPV test, and intervals between testing have extended from once every two years to testing once every five years. There is also a new recommended age to begin testing. Australian women were previously encouraged to begin screening at age 18, but women are now advised to begin screening at age 25.
The reason for the changes is due to the improved accuracy of the HPV test. Experts claim that HPV testing is more accurate than the pap test, and therefore does not need to be done as often (source).


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Yikes! Sunday is the Fourth of July! What does your church do? My personal preference is to ignore secular holidays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Fourth of July, during worship. It is just too easy to shift our focus from God (What is the chief end of man?) to the glorification of parenting or the nation. Now, parenting and our nation are certainly worthy of celebration, but they should not be the focus of worship.
So Sunday may be an awkward day for some of us. Actually that is a good thing. The Christian life, done well, is full of awkward moments. Christians are called to live with a different set of priorities. Perhaps periodically we should spend some time thinking about the odd and awkward relationship that people of faith have with their nation.
There are, of course, a whole range of responses possible and Christians have tried them all. We can separate ourselves from civic and political culture. We can try to live solely within a Christian community and avoid the secular world. There are many ways to do this, from a variety of groups that separate themselves from the dominate culture to using things like the Christian Yellow Pages to shape our interactions.
At the other end of the spectrum are those who conflate nation with faith. Here we don't separate our faith from our patriotism. America and the kingdom of God are closely aligned. In its extreme form there is little distinction between Christianity and the state.
There are Christians who think faith is solely a private thing and that we should keep religious beliefs out of our political life. There are Christians who think our faith should fully inform our political life.
Some of us have thought about the relationship between faith and patriotism and are unsure what to do. Some of us have thought about the relationship between faith and patriotism and know exactly what to do. Some of us haven't given the topic any sustained thought. We simply go along with the dominate cultures flow.
As humans, we like to have the various parts of our lives mesh well together. We don't like it when there is tension between parts of our lives. The lure of a close and compatible relationship between faith and nation is a powerful one.
But I think Christians are called to recognize the relationship between faith and patriotism to be a prickly and difficult one. Yes, scripture tells us to pray for the welfare of the nation and its leaders. At the same time, the consistent message of the gospels is "Jesus is Lord" , not Caesar, not the state, not anything or anyone else. That's tough. As John Calvin noted, our minds are factories of idols.
Because Jesus is Lord, it seems to me that our faith should inform our politics and our patriotism. But, and this is a large caution, politics and patriotism are shot through with power. And the lure of power is, well, powerful. And power is not what Christians are called to be about. We are called to be a weak people in a powerful world.
I don't know how you work this out. I do hope you struggle with it from time to time. So here's to a little holiday discomfort. Amid the parades and picnics and fireworks of this weekend, I hope you take some time to think about faith and patriotism, and feel a little out of place for a while this weekend.
For all you history buffs:
The story of the Confessing Church in Germany, German Christians, and the Theological Declaration of Barmen is a sad example of the ways we can get the relationship between faith and patriotism wrong. For more on the Theological Declaration of Barmen, see this sermon, and this Wikipedia article. For the document itself, see here. My point is not to draw parallels between German then and the US today. Depending on your theology and politics, you may or may not find parallels here. But I bring this to your attention as an example, a cautionary tale, of the seductive power of patriotism, politics and power. This is why it is important for us to think seriously about these things and to live aware of the odd and awkward place Christians are called to live.
At the Presbyterian Bloggers site, you can find my most recent post on science and religion- "Science, Religion, and a Cup of Tea". You don't have to be Presbyterian or a blogger to go there…
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It's been a frustrating week in the garden as the winds have continued and the temperatures have dipped the last day or so. I've managed to put a couple of veggies and flowers into the patio pots, only to cover them up again to protect them from the weather.
Yesterday I bought a new Belle of Georgia peach to replace the one that is languishing. I'll get that in the ground over the weekend.
A big surprise is that I found a little apricot growing. One seems to be finally showing on the flower I saw…but this one never seemed to have a flower that I ever saw, so imagine my surprise to see a an actual baby apricot!! Let's see if anything more shows up!
Last Tuesday I took advantage of the short trip over to my chess teacher's house and took some wonderful pictures of the Organ Mountains. These views are literally a couple of minutes from my house…I'll share one with you now:
New Mexico has wonderful light, which attracts a lot of artists. The changes in the skies and the light that changes from second to second are things which never cease to amaze me.
Closer to home, the quail are beginning to show up on my wall. I love these guys and their plaintive calls.
Finally, Slick the Sneak was into all sorts of trouble yesterday. We left the house for an appointment and when we got back we found garbage all over the floor! This hasn't happened in quite awhile. It really was close to the boys' dinnertime, so I guess Slick was the leader of the pack in search of some grub.
This picture, which I took a couple of days ago, shows the little flash of the devil in his eyes:
Let's hope the winds die down next week! I have to put up the new grape trellises, plant a chocolate flower and really have to decide if I should bag the peaches. So far the squirrels haven't shown up, which is amazing. I see the papa or mama when I look over the wall and they gobble up the lettuce and other veg scraps I toss over right away. I suppose they're busy with babies and as they grow, I'm sure they'll be hunting for a lot more food…including peaches!
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OXFORD – (AP) Mississippi football coach Hugh Freeze has received a one-year contract extension and a $500,000 raise, increasing his base salary to $2 million per season after leading the Rebels to a bowl appearance in his first season.
Freeze was hired last December and signed an incentive-laden contract that included a $1.5 million base salary. His new contract lasts through 2016 and includes a $100,000 bonus per Southeastern Conference win, beginning with the second victory of the season.
The Rebels improved quickly under Freeze, ending a 2-year postseason absence by finishing with a 6-6 record. Ole Miss plays Pittsburgh in the BBVA Compass Bowl on Jan. 5.
Ole Miss also announced a $12.5 million upgrade to the school's practice facility. Additionally, the salary pool for Freeze's assistants will increase by 10 percent.


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The purpose and intent of sections 25-41 to 25-59 is to protect and encourage the protection of trees, shrubs, bushes and other plants; to provide for public health, safety and general welfare; to promote and preserve the city's aesthetic value, regulate and control the planting, maintenance and removal of trees, shrubs, bushes and other plants on and adjacent to public property, right-of-way and easements within the city; and manage the city's community urban forest in a strong, healthy condition for today and for the future.
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The board shall consist of five (5) citizen members who shall not be required to live within the city, but shall be persons interested in the continued prosperity of the community urban forest within the city and at least eighteen (18) years of age. Members shall be appointed by the mayor with the approval of the city council to serve at the pleasure of the city council.
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Duties & Responsibilities (a) The board shall develop a management plan for the planting, care, cultivation, pruning and removal of trees and shrubs located in city parks, on street rights-of way, and other city-owned property. The plan may include provisions designating the species of trees and shrubs to be planted, preserved and removed or replaced. Such plan shall be presented annually to the administrative committee who will make recommendation to the city council for approval. Upon acceptance and approval by the city council, such plan shall constitute the official comprehensive public tree and shrub plan for the public trees and shrubs of the City of Warrensburg.
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Blizzard's annual Blizzcon is, for the most part, a friendly get-together for like-minded fans, a place where people can hang out and revel in the fact they all love the same games.
It's a shame, then, that this year's show was closed out by a video featuring little else but slurs and a guy saying fuck a lot.
Warning: the above clip is NSFW.
The guy in question is George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher, lead singer of metal band Cannibal Corpse, who performed on-stage at Blizzcon's closing ceremony.
In addition to lending his talents to the closing gig (it wasn't actually Cannibal Corpse playing), Blizzard also aired an interview with the guy, a devoted World of Warcraft player and passionate member of the game's Horde faction. The version shown at Blizzcon was "bleeped", but we've posted the original here, just for the full effect.
It's awkward viewing, especially the "homo" and "die" parts. As you'd expect from a game with over ten million players, there are a number of World of Warcraft subscribers, gay or otherwise, not happy with Blizzard's screening of the clip, viewing it as a passive endorsement of sorts of Fisher's behaviour.
Additionally, gaming website GayGamer has been contacted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) about the matter.
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It was a peculiar evening. Rarely did she find herself outdoors after dusk, but there she was standing alone. Alone, but for the moon and the sounds that night brings.
The glow of the Moon seemed to be magnetic and the stillness that it attracted surrounded her. Enveloped in its beams, her tired mind seemed content to just soak in its milky gleam. There was something comforting about the slowness of its ascent and the darkness that accompanied.
Without realizing it, she found herself treading across the cool blades of grass. There was an intense need to follow the pale path as it radiated across the smooth, damp blades. Not sure where she was headed, the trail of light shined with reassurance that this was where she needed to go.
The only sounds that could be heard were those of her soft steps on the foliage and an occasional breeze. None of these sounds could disturb the tranquility within her.
Once deep in the woods the terrain grew steeper and at the highest point a clearing was revealed. Here the moon shone so brightly she felt that it was within her reach to touch the brilliant orb.
After a few moments of unhampered silence, a voice came to her.
"You have asked for peace, quiet, and freedom. I have come to give you these."
With a slight shake of her head, she replied, "Who are you? Where are you?"
The voice spoke with a slow, confident drawl. "Is it not easy to see? Am I not shining right before you? Late each night as your little one fails to sleep or worry races through your mind I hear you ask for stillness, freedom, simplicity."
"I can give you those things."
The calm around her had not broken, but within her heart an ache was beginning to resonate.
The voice continued, "Choose to go with me as I make my way around the world. You will no longer suffer from tiredness or demands of others. Only the flashes of stars will disturb the tranquility of our journey."
It was so tempting. The idea of soaring eternally in the soft lunar light. No concerns. No incessant demands. To rest when she needed and never have to face the unending list of to-do's and can't-be-done's. It was so very tempting.
As the pull of the Moon's light seemed to swell, the hurt in her heart grew. She wanted badly to give in and let the brightness take her away. Away from the worries caused by the crying, the fighting, the constant needs and wants of others, the emptiness of not being able to be everything for everyone.
Suddenly, a cry was heard in the darkness. The shrill sound was far off but just enough to break her trance.
Her heart screamed to turn back.
"Don't go back. You deserve to go with me." crooned the Moon. "I can offer you a forever of freedom and simplicity. You will glow with me through the eternal night and shine for all those who are weary. You will serve as their reminder that there is something more powerful than the pull of human expectations."
The cry came again.
Her heart was bursting.
Breezes began to churn and the wind was now penetrating the silence. Clouds edged their way into the outer glow of the beckoning Moon.
"Go with me. I will never make demands or cry for more. Simply be my companion. Go with me." whispered the Moon.
Once more the cry reached her ears. Her soul was torn between the desperate desire for an eternity of calm and quiet and the need to answer the call of anguish.
The clouds crept closer to the alluring light and her need to turn back pounded in her chest.
Just as the first cloud found its way in front of the Moon, her ears rang with the wail of a baby.
Her feet pounded the uneven ground, no longer lit by the lunar light, she struggled to make her way. Only the sound of sadness coming from her home pulled her through the brambles and across the field.
The wind blew fiercely now, the clouds covered the path of its beams, and the Moon's luminescence held little pull now.
She entered her home hearing only her breath. The cries had stopped. In the nursery her sweet little one slept.
She dared to lift him in her arms. The need to hold him, smell him, love him was just too strong. Breezes blew the curtains back and a sliver of the silenced Moon shone through. As the light hit, the words on the nursery wall spoke to her,
"I love you to the moon and back."
How true that was tonight.
By: Melanie A. Peters
P.S. There is no pull stronger than that of a parent to their child.


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Paul Giamatti Joins Downton Abbey
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Emmy winner Paul Giamatti is joining the cast of Downton Abbey, TVLine reports.
Giamatti will play Harold Levinson, the free-spirited playboy brother of Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) and uncle to Mary (Michelle Dockery) and Edith (Laura Carmichael). He'll be introduced in the Season 4 finale.
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Giamatti's past TV credits include the titular role in HBO's miniseries John Adams, which earned him an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
Downtown Abbey Season 4 premieres in the United States on Jan. 5 on PBS.
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A Night of Big Band Music with the Star Dusters in Gastonia
What: Star Dusters Big Band in concert.
When: 7-10 p.m. Saturday Dec. 29 and April 27.
Where: Adult Recreation Center, 519 W. Franklin Blvd., Gastonia.
Details: The Star Dusters present big band music from the 30s, 40s and 50s with sprinkles of Broadway show and contemporary tunes. The concert is sponsored by the Gastonia Parks and Recreation Department.
Cost: $7.
More Information: 704-866-6848.
How to Take Care of Those Treasures in the Attic
What: Coffee with the Curator.
When: 10:30-11:30 a.m. Wednesday. Jan. 2
Where: Gaston County Museum, 131 W. Main St., Dallas.
Details: The museum curator will identify objects and provide preservation assistance on pieces brought by visitors. If objects are too large bring photographs. Object donations to the museum will also be considered. No appointment is necessary. There is a three item limit per person and no monetary appraisals will be given.
Cost: Free.
More Information: www.gastoncountymuseum.org or 704-922-7681 ext. 101.
Lecture to Focus on Folk Art
What: "What is Folk Art?"
When: 1-2 p.m. Jan. 5.
Where: Gaston County Museum, 131 W. Main St., Dallas.
Details: Program will explore how folk artists make a living making and selling their work. Folk art differs from fine art in that it is created by everyday people and is rooted within the community and its values. It can be considered raw, untutored or self-taught, primitive and outsider art. Nellie Ashford, the featured artist in this lecture, will discuss why she started painting and how she's used her lack of formal training to her advantage.
Cost: Free.
More Information: RSVP required by Wednesday Jan. 2 to Jeff Pruett at firstname.lastname@example.com or 704-922-7681 ext. 101.
Site-Specific Instillation at County Museum a Son's Tribute to His Father
What: "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."
When: Through Jan. 5.
Where: Gaston County Museum Depot, 205 W. Main St., Dallas.
Details: "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" is the site-specific, temporary art installation created by Belmont artist Curtis Gaston in honor of his father, the late Harley B. Gaston, Jr., a former Belmont city attorney, Gaston County commissioner and district court judge. Using Harley Gaston Jr.'s deep faith and life-long civic engagement as its primary theme, the exhibit will interweave samples from the elder Gaston's collection of personal, city and county documents with fragments of Curtis Gaston's artistic works to highlight the commonalities and differences in these men's lives. Curtis Gaston plans to be at the Depot most weekdays while the installation is open between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Cost: Free.
More Information: The museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. Visit www.gastoncountymuseum.org or call 704-922-7681 ext. 101.
Get Your Scream On
What: "Create Your Own Scream!"
When: 10 a.m. Jan. 19; inclement weather date is Jan. 26.
Where: Gaston County Museum, 131 W. Main St., Dallas.
Details: Local folk artist Randall Jones will discuss artist Edward Munch and his famous painting, "Scream." Then, guided by Jones, kids will create their own version of Munch's work using crayon on cardboard. The program is for kids ages 8 to 10 years old. First prize will receive $100 and the pieces will be displayed in the museum.
Cost: Free.
More Information: RSVP required by Jan. 16 to Jeff Pruett at email@example.com or 704-922-7681 ext. 101.
'Self-Portraits' at Gaston County Museum
What: "Self-Portraits: Artwork by Kenneth Asbury."
When: Through Feb. 9.
Where: Gaston County Museum of Art & History, 131 W. Main St., Dallas.
Details: An exhibition of work by Kenneth Asbury, a fine arts major at Gaston College and a Mount Holly native.
Cost: Free.
More Information: Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Call 704-922-7681 ext. 101 or visit www.gastoncountymuseum.org.


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Look what @Sherrinda made me do!
So, over on her blog, Sherrinda has been giving me a hard time about outlines and pre-planning (probably because I gave her a hard time when she was spending way too much time and energy on trying to perfect her outline instead of just writing, but I digress). As I mentioned in my comment on her post yesterday, I took the afternoon off from forcing myself to sit at the computer and trying to write when I didn't know where I was going to do some brainstorming and come up with specific ideas for scenes coming up later in the book that I can write toward.
Yes, I sold The Art of Romance off of a synopsis . . . but it's a very general, two-page synopsis that gives the gist of the main conflict of the story but no real plot/conflict specifics. So that's why I've been foundering on this book that's now going to be at least a week late if not more. But this is what I spent the afternoon and part of the evening (if you consider from about 6 p.m. to about 2 a.m. afternoon/evening) doing:
[If you noticed, yes, it's different than my other storyboard images I've posted before—that's because the wall in my office I used to use for this is now covered with a couple of larger-than-poster sized images of the covers of the Ransome books, so this is actually in my living room.]
I find myself more productive in writing sitting in the living room with the laptop. The problem with this is that the wall where I have all of these scene cards and notes hanging is behind me. So I took the scene cards I wrote out for the next several chapters and used the Windows Sticky Notes program to make another scene-card board:
on my laptop's desktop. Now all I have to do when I forget where a chapter is going, or when I get ready to start the next one is just switch over to that program and enlarge the note, and there's all the info! (And yes, it's rather chilly and gray in Nashville this afternoon.)
(Now, if I could just get the actual writing done, that would be fantastic!)
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 5:28 pm
I love the Sticky Notes in Windows 7! What an awesome idea for them.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:06 pm
Aaaak! I saw my name and immediately started sweating! lol I think it is so cool that you had to stop and do some brainstorming to keep going. 🙂 Now would you have done that had you not been on such a close deadline?
And I love the Sticky Notes! Is that something you can download? (I have Vista)
Also…another question…when you do your chapters, do you always have two POV's per chapter?
I love the way you write and prepare to write. It just resonates with me and "clicks". When is your writing book coming out? Hhhmmmm?????
Now, you better get back to writing!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:15 pm
Someday I'll be as computer saavy as you, Kaye.
Wow. I learn something EVERY time I visit.
And why did you go and use Sherrinda's name in your title. You know she thinks she's a celebrity now.
Sigh. 🙂
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:29 pm
LOL. You got it!!
See, if you ever used my name in a title, people would think you were listing a recipe. 🙂
Did you say that the Sticky Note program is a part of Word? or an additional program?
I'm in love with OneNote after reading Sherrinda's post that your blog inspired.
I LOVE it!!!
It's an amazing visual organizer.
I can't use walls in my house for plotting because little hands made scenes disappear.
But the computer screen? Wow, now that's a different story
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:50 pm
Oh, wow, this is great. Thanks for showing us. You know I'm such a plotting nerd…and I love all this visual stuff. I was actually writing about storyboarding on The Writer's Alley today (hence my harassment of you). I'm almost 50-50 right-left brained and I think this visual method ties them both together.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:59 pm
Love how you used the post it notes. I go between different colored index cards for characters and also am slowing getting everything into OneNote which I am coming to love. I'll have to check out the Sticky Notes because I think it would be more visual like the index cards and I can take it with me when I move the laptop to a different room or outside.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 9:27 am
I love to see how you work. Great ideas!
Traci Myers permalinkWednesday, October 20, 2010 10:25 am
I have to admit that this is the book that I am most excited about. I love the synopsis! and I bet you are going to do a great job getting it done. I can see how having an outline and completed ideas would be important as my whole book could change drastically with a bad mood day, lol. Have fun and we are all waiting patiently to see where God leads you with your story.
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Rule No. 1 about spicy ingredients — you don't need to love spicy foods to love what spicy ingredients can do for the foods you do love. That's because foods such as chili peppers and hot sauces can do way more than simply add mouth-searing heat. Adding just a touch will heighten the other flavors of a dish without adding noticeable spiciness. For example, whip up your favorite mac and cheese. Now stir in just a few drops of hot sauce. Taste. It won't be spicy, but it will be better. Why am I telling you this? Because I want you to try a seriously spicy ingredient and there is no need to be scared off by the heat. Throughout Asia there are numerous condiments referred to as sambals. Most are made by grinding together chili peppers and vinegar. Depending on where you are, other ingredients — such as dried shrimp, fermented soy beans, brown sugar, spices, coconut milk, etc. — may be added. The result is a family of sauces with bright, punchy flavor and a fair amount of heat. They usually accompany meat and rice dishes and are added to taste. The international aisle of most mainstream grocers in the United States will offer at least one or two varieties and they are worth checking out. One of the most common is sambal oelek (also called chili paste or fresh chili paste), which is a simple blend of crushed chilies, salt and vinegar. Alongside sambal oelek, you may also find something labeled chili garlic sauce, which is sambal oelek with garlic added. Either is a fine choice for any of these recipe ideas. The flavors are intense, slightly acidic and almost pungently sweet. Like most vinegar-based condiments, sambals can be refrigerated for months after opening (most are marked with "best by" dates). One caution — the word sambal also sometimes refers to a spicy dish. You're looking for the condiments, which are sold in plastic and glass jars. For more ideas for using sambal, check out the Off the Beaten Aisle column over on Food Network:
Chili Garlic Roasted Shrimp with Fettuccine Start to finish: 25 minutes Servings: 4 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 tablespoon sambal oelek or chili garlic sauce 1 pound large raw shrimp, shells and veins removed 12-ounce package fresh fettuccine 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese 3 scallions, chopped Heat the oven to 450 F. Bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. In a large bowl, mix together the oil, salt, pepper and the sambal or chili garlic sauce. Add the shrimp and toss well. Transfer the shrimp, as well as any sauce in the bowl, to a rimmed baking sheet. Roast for 5 to 7 minutes, or until pink and firm. While the shrimp roast, add the pasta to the water and cook according to package directions. Reserve 1/4 cup of the cooking water, then drain. In a large bowl, combine the pasta and shrimp. Use a silicone spatula to scrape any liquid from the baking sheet into the bowl. Toss well. Sprinkle the cheese and scallions over the pasta and shrimp, as well as a bit of the reserved pasta cooking water. Toss until the cheese is melted.


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Two Easters
I awoke to a pixie whisper in my ear. "Daddy!" my daughter hissed. "I fink da Easter Bunny came!"
"He did?" I yawned. "Well, I guess we'd better go wake up your brother and see what he left you. Do you want to?"
"Yes!" she hissed. "Yes, Daddy! I do!"
"Shh!" On the other side of the bed, my wife did a half-kick as she insisted, "Wait. I need five minutes. My stomach's killing me."
I plodded alongside my skipping daughter across our one-story rental house's living room (past the two baskets expertly hidden by the Easter Bunny) and into my son's room to begin the twenty-minute process of waking him from a sound sleep.
Aside from it being Easter Morning, 2014, this was pretty much business as usual–my daughter being the first one awake, my wife wanting "five more minutes," and my son seconding his mother's sentiments by demanding the remainder of the day to sleep, as he had already "telled me firty-seven times" to "stop talking to me. I don't want to do nuffing!"
Sure, my world was pretty nuts, but things were also looking up. With the Twins in a school we'd grown quite fond of and my doctoral coursework in the bag, I had just taken a job I was fairly happy with–one requiring me to wear a tie and commute 45 minutes to downtown Phoenix. While I was not particularly a fan of the obscene amount of time I was spending ironing, attempting to color-coordinate shirt-tie-pants-socks-shoes combos, and coming to a complete stop on the freeway, I was very much a fan of the sudden influx of real, actual grown-ass man income I was earning after slumming it as a student worker for years.
This was also about the point when I had about 30 pages of my dissertation written, and was just starting to kick my own ass every frickin' night once the Twins went to bed with ice-cream-and-beer-fueled "THIS!IS!SPARTA!" thesis-writing binges usually lasting until about two in the morning. Although the topic of my wife and me having more kids would occasionally come up from time to time, it was primarily as a ridiculously funny joke, as several medical professionals had deemed our reproductive organs to be barren wastelands of fossilized sperm with no tails and one of those egg cartons everyone leaves on the grocery store shelf because it got dropped by that guy who wasn't paying attention while he was checking the expiration date because he was obnoxiously talking on his cell phone about his entire life story for everyone in the store to hear. These, of course, are highly technical medical terms.


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Celia Fenn is an International Spiritual Facilitator and Channel. She works primarily with the Archangel Michael energy to bring information about the transformation and ascension of the planet, and the work of the Indigo and Crystal beings at this time. She holds MA and PhD degrees in English Literature, and has also studied Art and Music. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
She worked for 12 years as a University academic before switching to a career in Healing and Therapy. For ten years she helped many people to find their own personal healing path to wholeness and inner peace. She then became a channel for Archangel Michael, and developed the Starchild Global website.
She is the author of A Guide to Complementary Therapies in South Africa and the e-book, The Indigo Crystal Adventure.
She has worked intensively with Indigo adults and teen-agers, as well as children, and has developed specific programs to assist these special beings to find their path in life in peace and balance, and has appeared on radio and television to discuss her work with Indigo and Crystal children. More recently, she has focused on the Ascension path and the transformations that the planet and her people are experiencing as they move into the Fifth Dimension. In the course of this work, she travels around the planet facilitating workshops and working with other Lightworkers.Her current projects also include the interface between Lightworkers and the Indigenous people of the planet and their wisdom as a necessary part of creating balance and harmony on the Earth.
Celia has been a pioneer in working with the Ascension symptoms of the Transition from Indigo to Crystal Consciousness. Her work has appeared in the "Sedona Journal of Emergence" in the USA. "Paradigm Shift" in the United Kingdom, "In Touch" magazine in New Zealand, and "Die Adler" in Germany.She wrote a regular monthly channel for"Children of the New Earth Online" for a year, and her work appears on "Planetlightworker.com" as well.
She is also passionate about Cetaceans, especially the Southern Right Whales that are found in the coastal waters of her homeland. In this work she calls together the Angelic Soul Clan of the Ocean Keepers and the Earth Keepers. She believes that the Dolphins and the Whales have a special role in creating the New Earth, and she also facilitates Cetacean workshops and "experiences".


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The head of TED, the organizer of conferences around brainy presentations on a wide variety of subjects, says online video will continue to play a central role for the group and he has high hopes for its new education platform.
TED Curator Chris Anderson said that the group's popularity surged after its decision to post its content freely online about six years ago, and that a million people watch a TED presentation each day around the world. But he said the current model of watching embedded videos on Web pages may eventually fade.
"More and more connectivity may not happen through a traditional browser. It may just be you and I talking to Siri or some moving face on a phone, asking a question, and seeing the response," he said, speaking to reporters Wednesday in Tokyo.
Anderson added he has high hopes for the group's new education platform TED-Ed, which is currently in beta testing. The tool allows teachers to organize online lessons around videos, with articles and quizzes alongside, so that students can study on their own and then spend more time in classrooms interacting with teachers and their peers.
"Maybe, it allows us to make education a better fit for the 20th century — where ideas aren't just pumped down a tube," he said.
Anderson was in Japan as part of a global tour of countries that hold TED events. The group will select presenters from outside the U.S. to speak at its conference next year in Long Beach, CA.
TED's conferences routinely fill to capacity and its online videos draw hundreds of thousands of page views, based on the format of giving presenters a set time to talk about an idea or research project. The group has also been accused of being elitist in its choice of participants and high attendance costs, and for trivializing complicated ideas.
Anderson founded the private nonprofit foundation that owns TED and heads the organization. The name TED comes from "Technology, Entertainment and Design," reflecting the group's philosophy of bringing together people from different disciplines.


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- AnonymousMarch 3, 2010 at 6:15 PM
you're kidding me right? A kid broadcasted flight directives over FAA airwaves to in-flight planes? For real? In a previous life I was an air traffic controller. That life was too stressful for me.ReplyDelete
This is the second post I have read today about that. I can't believe it! Does the person still have a job?ReplyDelete
I am glad I wasn't traveling. How do we know who is running those towers? This could get scary.
I heard that the parent, and the supervisor were suspended.ReplyDelete
I suppose the kid got promoted, and is now running the tower. Talk about bad judgment. What if he was flustered, and screwed up the flight numbers, could you imagine the carnage?
They deserve to be fired.
- AnonymousMarch 3, 2010 at 8:18 PM
It was disturbing. The little boy was cute to hear, but damn! those are jets full of PEOPLE. Kind of freaked me out. Loved the nonchalance at the pilots. They were like "cool, a 6yo is telling me where to steer this giant aircraft, no biggie."ReplyDelete
I found this so disturbing...especially at JFK. My gosh with the history in NY how could anyone find that appropiate? I'm still shaking..I just heard on the news that the controllor was put on leave...um, no-that won't work for me.ReplyDelete
To my knowledge we do not have this practice in Ireland,thank God.We do however send 16yr olds out for work experience for a couple of weeks.The try to get placed in in the job they eventually want to do ie,banking nursing engineering etc,but they only do simple jobs and observation,then write a report on their experiences.ReplyDelete
I can not believe what this child was aloud to do,I hope someone was held to account.
I can't believe this. Geez, we hesitate to let kids come to the clinic for observation days because of potential danger! Good grief, what was this person thinking? Or not thinking! I can only sit here shaking my head. KathyReplyDelete
Oh geez, I know, this is NUTS! Hey, I'm a cop and I'm taking my kid to work. Next bad guy I see my kid gets to pop a cap in his ass! Sheesh.ReplyDelete
IMHO, no one except the flight controllers should have been in the room. A child had no business in an environment such as this, much less repeating instructions from a controller to a plane in the air or on the tarmac. I saw this report on the news this morning and I couldn't believe that the pilots thought it was cute. Children do not belong in any public workplace, period! What were these "responsible" adults thinking?!ReplyDelete
I can't believe that the parent was so daft as to allow a child to give info to a landing aircraft - what is the world coming to?ReplyDelete
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Hammick History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Early Origins of the Hammick family
The surname Hammick was first found in Devon where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the 13th century.
Early History of the Hammick family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Hammick research. Another 109 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1455, 1487, 1777, 1867, and 1887 are included under the topic Early Hammick History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Hammick Spelling Variations
It is only in the last few hundred years that the English language has been standardized. For that reason, early Anglo-Saxon surnames like Hammick are characterized by many spelling variations. As the English language changed and incorporated elements of other European languages, even literate people changed the spelling of their names. Scribes and monks in the Middle Ages spelled names they sounded, so it is common to find several variations that refer to a single person. The variations of the name Hammick include: Hammock, Hammick, Ammock, Ammick and others.
Early Notables of the Hammick family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Hammick family
Many English families tired of political and religious strife left Britain for the new colonies in North America. Although the trip itself offered no relief - conditions on the ships were extremely cramped, and many travelers arrived diseased, starving, and destitute - these immigrants believed the opportunities that awaited them were worth the risks. Once in the colonies, many of the families did indeed prosper and, in turn, made significant contributions to the culture and economies of the growing colonies. An inquiry into the early roots of North American families has revealed a number of immigrants bearing the name Hammick or a variant listed above: Edward Hammock, who was a convict deported to America in 1771; Charles Hammock, who arrived at the port of New York in 1822; as well as J. Hammock, who was a ship passenger arriving in San Francisco in 1852..
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Laudari a laudato
Motto Translation: Praised by those who are praised.


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4149.5 - Western Australia's Baby Boomers: A Profile of Persons Born 1946-1965, 2003
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Western australia's baby boomers a high priority for planners
A new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publication highlighting the characteristics of Western Australia's baby boomers was launched today by Seniors Minister Sheila McHale in response to high priority state government planning needs.
In 2001, Western Australia's 557,700 baby boomers were aged 36 to 55 years and made up 29% of the population. Older baby boomers (born 1946-1955) are beginning their transition into retirement and how they will live their lives post-retirement is an important question for planners, policy makers and researchers.
Minister McHale said, "The demographic shift towards unprecedented numbers of older persons has enormous social and financial implications."
She said, "The 'coming of age' of our baby boomers will challenge and perhaps totally revolutionise the stereotyped views people have about the habits, behaviour and tastes of people in their middle to senior years".
Western Australia's ABS Regional Director, Colin Nagle said, "The publication brings together a wealth of information about our state's baby boomers and it is expected to be an invaluable reference tool for policy makers, planners and academics for many years to come".
The 'baby boom' describes the 20 year period immediately following World War II, where there was a substantial increase in the number of births. The drop in birth rates in more recent years, along with improvements in life expectancies, have been the main cause of population ageing in Australia.
Further information is in Western Australia's Baby Boomers: A Profile of Persons Born 1946-1965 (cat. no. 4149.5).
Key statistics from Australian Bureau of Statistics publication - Western Australia's Baby Boomers: A Profile of Persons Born 1946-1965 (cat. no. 4149.5) include:
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March 9, 2018
- Headline: The U.S. labor market continues to exhibit late-cycle strength. U.S. employment rose by 313,000 jobs in February, which was well above the consensus expectation of 200,000 and the first time in more than a year that monthly employment gains exceeded 300,000. Upward revisions for December and January resulted in a net gain of 54,000 jobs for those two months. February's total brought the average monthly gain for the past three months to 242,000. While the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.1%, the labor force participation rate increased by 0.3 percentage point in February to 63.0%.
- Executive Summary: Employment gains continued to surprise to the upside in February. However, despite a strong jobs report, wage growth slowed slightly after a strong increase in January, which had led investors to believe that higher wage growth might be imminent. February's jobs report may quell some of those concerns. Hiring increases were broad-based and robust in the construction, retail trade, manufacturing, professional & business services, financial activities, health care and mining sectors.
- Wage Inflation: Despite stronger-than-expected employment, annual wage growth slowed to 2.6% in February from 2.9% in January, as average hourly earnings rose 68 cents over the year and 4 cents in February to $26.74 per hour. A strong jobs report with limited wage inflation will likely lead equity markets to believe that fears about rising inflation may be overblown. If anything, today's report raises more concerns regarding productivity, which is often cited as the primary reason for stagnant wages. Although the 10-Year Treasury has risen by 2 to 3 basis points to 2.89% in response to the strong job numbers, the reaction (so far) is relatively subdued compared with January, when strong wages and employment prompted a sharp sell-off in equities and Treasurys. The CPI report for February, due next week, will be an important factor for the Fed and market participants. With job growth continuing to surprise to the upside and, more importantly, growing ever-tighter, an acceleration in wages is inevitable. The FOMC will be cognizant of this, and is expected to raise rates when it meets later this month—the first of three expected hikes this year.
- Job Growth Outlook: Without a sharp increase in labor participation, we expect the rate of job gains to moderate in coming months, as employers find it difficult to fill skilled positions from the current workforce. While the recent $1.5 trillion package of tax cuts is expected to provide a boost to the job market, gains will likely be modest given that the timing of the stimulus coincides with the economy operating at almost full capacity. Additionally, President Trump's import tariffs on steel and aluminum may adversely affect manufacturing industries, particularly autos, if input costs rise.
- CRE Sector Employment:
- Construction: Construction added a solid 61,000 jobs in February, with much of the increase among specialty trade contractors (+38,000) and construction of buildings (+16,000). Construction employment has increased by 185,000 jobs over the past four months.
- Industrial: Manufacturing payrolls rose by 31,000 in February. The increase was driven by robust hiring activity in the transportation equipment (+8,000), fabricated metal products (+6,000), machinery (+6,000) and primary metals (+4,000) sectors. The manufacturing sector has added 224,000 jobs over the past year.
- Retail: Retail employment increased by 50,000 in February, with much of the increase due to strong hiring in general merchandise stores (+18,000) and clothing & accessories stores (+15,000). Employment in these retail sub-sectors has remained largely unchanged over the past four months, even though this period traditionally sees bulk holiday hiring and layoffs. Additionally, building material & garden supply stores added 10,000 jobs.
- Office: Professional & business services added 50,000 jobs last month, with employment in temporary help services leading the charge (+27,000). Employment in the professional & business services sector has risen by 495,000 over the year.


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Top Items:
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Shift on Executive Power Lets Obama Bypass Rivals — WASHINGTON — One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power …
Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Little Green Footballs, The Heritage Foundation, Booman Tribune, The Loyal Opposition, Hit & Run, The Monkey Cage, The PJ Tatler, The Huffington Post, iOwnTheWorld.com, News Desk, American Power, Outside the Beltway, americanthinker.com, ABCNEWS, Conservatives4Palin, The Caucus, Daily Kos, msnbc.com and The Daily Dish
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs: Obama Using Executive Power to Get Around Obstructionist GOP
Mike Brownfield / The Heritage Foundation: New York Times Finally Notices Obama's Unilateral Abuse of Power
Andrew Rosenthal / The Loyal Opposition: Government By Executive Order
Tim Cavanaugh / Hit & Run: How Will Obama Protect Us From Onion Speculators?
Andrew Rudalevige / The Monkey Cage: We Can't Wait (Except When We Can)
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Senator Who Decried Bush's Use of Executive Power Plans to Help Himself to More Executive Power
Susannah Griffee / News Desk: To-Do List: Zimmerman Released; Edwards on Trial
Donald Douglas / American Power: Obama Asserts Unitary Executive Power After Campaigning Against George W. Bush as Unconstitutional …
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway: President Obama Much Bigger Fan of Executive Power Than Senator Obama
Jayce Henderson / ABCNEWS: The Note's Must-Reads for Monday, April 23, 2012
Doug Brady / Conservatives4Palin: More.
Jada F. Smith / The Caucus: The Early Word: Waste
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: The NYT And "Torture" Ctd
Judd Gregg / The Hill:
Why stay? President, Congress should just go home until after the election — The president is in full campaign mode. So is Congress. The federal government has been put into a holding pattern until the November elections. — Like "Major, Major, Major" from "Catch-22," …
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Booman Tribune
BooMan / Booman Tribune: Congress is an Official Joke
Jonathan H. Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:
How President Obama Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Executive Power
How President Obama Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Executive Power
Discussion: Balkinization
Marty Lederman / Balkinization: When Is "Unilateral" Executive Authority Not Unilateral?
Obama's campaign whisperer — Barack Obama's top advisers are making a mid-"core" correction in their attacks on Mitt Romney — with a little nudge from Bill Clinton, who is finding a niche as an Obama campaign whisperer and fundraiser. — Late last year, as Romney galloped to the right …
Discussion: American Prospect, The New Republic, TIME Ideas, Taylor Marsh and The Page
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect: Core or No Core? — The most noteworthy part of this Politico story …
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic: Team Obama's Devious Bank Shot
Jon Meacham / TIME Ideas: What History Tells Us About Romney's Chances
Mark Halperin / The Page: A "Core" Shift — WJC pushes Obama camp to target Romney …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Amnesia Candidate — Just how stupid does Mitt Romney think we are? If you've been following his campaign from the beginning, that's a question you have probably asked many times. — But the question was raised with particular force last week, when Mr. Romney tried …
Discussion: American Prospect, Consortiumnews.com, Eclectablog, Prairie Weather and Paul Krugman
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect: Mendacious Mitt Strikes Again!
Robert Parry / Consortiumnews.com: Mitt Romney: Professional Liar
Lolgop / Eclectablog: HECKUVA JOB, BUSHIE!
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Obama needs to find a theme soon
Obama needs to find a theme soon
Discussion: Paul Krugman, New York Magazine and Swampland
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: Obama's Campaign Theme
Michael Crowley / Swampland: Obama's Search for a Slogan
Leigh Ann Caldwell / CBS News:
Poll: Just three percent have favorable view of John Edwards — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — (CBS News) With opening arguments in the trial of former U.S. senator and presidential candidate John Edwards set …
Discussion: Politico, The PJ Tatler, Outside the Beltway, Indecision Forever and HotAirPundit
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Everybody Hates John Edwards
Dennis DiClaudio / Indecision Forever: John Edwards Has Three Percent Approval
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
TheDC Morning: Dick Cheney over 10 times more popular than John Edwards
TheDC Morning: Dick Cheney over 10 times more popular than John Edwards
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Ron Paul 2012 Presidential … and Booman Tribune
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: More Unpopular Than John Edwards!
Jack Hunter / Ron Paul 2012 Presidential …: Obama Worse than Bush on Civil Liberties - Romney No Different From Obama
Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
How John Edwards Could Get Cornered By the Prosecution in His Campaign Finance Trial
How John Edwards Could Get Cornered By the Prosecution in His Campaign Finance Trial
Discussion: American Spectator and Election Law Blog
John Tabin / American Spectator: Did John Edwards Commit a Crime?
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
6 things to watch for at the John Edwards trial
6 things to watch for at the John Edwards trial
Discussion: Hot Air
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Video: Former Dem VP candidate goes on trial today
Jon Huntsman Trashes GOP, Expresses Campaign Regrets — Former Republican presidential candidate compares his party to Communist China. Says Reagan would have trouble winning GOP primary in this political environment. Regrets opposition to 10-1 spending cuts to tax increase deficit deal.
Geneva Sands / Ballot Box: Huntsman: 'Of course' I'll vote for Mitt Romney
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress: Jon Huntsman Slams GOP: Reagan Would 'Likely Not' Be Able To Win Today
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Huntsman: On second thought, Romney's my guy
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: Huntsman compares GOP to China's government
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Primarily Horrendo
Maggie Haberman / Politico: Huntsman gaslights GOP, compares the party to communist China
Jon Huntsman / CNN: TRENDING: Huntsman compares GOP to Communist Party of China
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Governor Asterisk Update: Republican Who Endorsed Romney Trashes GOP
Katrina Trinko / National Review: Huntsman: The GOP's Acting Like Communist China
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Jon Huntsman: Being Disinvited by GOP After Trashing the Party is Like Living in Communist China!
Darius Dixon / Politico:
Jon Huntsman explains China comment — Jon Huntsman on Monday attempted to explain comments comparing the Republican party to the Chinese communist party. — Huntsman, the former Utah governor, said on MSNBC on Monday that the night before he was "waxing philosophical" when he brought up Republicans and China.
Caroline Bankoff / New York Magazine: Jon Huntsman Compares Republican Party to China, Gets Press
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post: Jon Huntsman, Republican antagonist
W. James Antle, III / The Spectacle Blog: U.S. Like Communist China, Needs Arab Spring
Morgen Richmond / Hot Air: Jon Huntsman: You know the GOP this year kinda reminds me of Communist China
Max Brantley / Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times: Huntsman: GOP like China
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Romney's healthcare plan may be more revolutionary than Obama's — Instead of getting coverage at work, more Americans would shop for it on their own. That would mean more choices — and more risk. — Republican candidate Mitt Romney says he would dump President Obama's healthcare overhaul and replace it with something else.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, The New Republic and Patterico's Pontifications
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Repealable But Not Replaceable
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic: What Romney Isn't Telling You About Health Care
Patterico's Pontifications: L.A. Times: Romney's Constitutional Health Care Plan Is Just Like Obama's Unconstitutional Plan!
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
House GOP targets healthcare law with major cuts
House GOP targets healthcare law with major cuts
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress: House Republicans Use Budget Cuts To Target Obamacare
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Report: Health law will save Medicare $200B
Report: Health law will save Medicare $200B
Discussion: Hit & Run and ThinkProgress
New York Post:
An $8 billion trick? — Call it President Obama's Committee for the Re-Election of the President — a political slush fund at the Health and Human Services Department. — Only this isn't some little fund from shadowy private sources; this is taxpayer money, redirected to help Obama win another term.
Discussion: Questions and Observations, Hot Air, National Review, Weekly Standard, americanthinker.com and New York Times
Bruce McQuain / Questions and Observations: Medicare Advantage: October surprise?
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Obama admin to use $8.3 billion "slush fund" to fake out seniors? Update: GAO auditors demand end to slush fund
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard: White House Scrambles to Keep Obamacare From Gutting Medicare Before Election
Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com: Obama Cons Medicare Seniors to Gain Their Votes
Politics in Minnesota:
State GOP served with eviction papers for its St. Paul office space — The debt-plagued Republican Party of Minnesota is getting kicked out of its party headquarters near the state Capitol. — Massachusetts-based Hub Properties Trust filed paperwork in Ramsey County on Wednesday to evict …
Discussion: Wonkette, Politico, Mediaite, Ballot Box, Alas, a Blog and The Raw Story
Rebecca Schoenkopf / Wonkette: MN GOP Takes Fiscal Conservatism To Logical Conclusion, Is Evicted For Not Paying Rent
Alexander Burns / Politico: Hard times at the Minnesota GOP
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box: Cash-strapped Minnesota state GOP given eviction notice
David Edwards / The Raw Story: Minnesota GOP gets eviction notice for failing to pay rent
Baird Helgeson / Hot Dish Politics:
GOP threatened with eviction at St. Paul headquarters
GOP threatened with eviction at St. Paul headquarters
Discussion: The Maddow Blog
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: The GOP 'orphan' that can't pay its rent
HOW THE MEDIA COVERED THE 2012 PRIMARY CAMPAIGN — LESS HORSE RACE THAN 2008 — By Tom Rosenstiel, Mark Jurkowitz and Tricia Sartor of PEJ — Mitt Romney needed 15 weeks once the primary contests began to gain a secure hold over his party's nomination for president.
Discussion: Firedoglake, Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, NewsBusters.org, his vorpal sword, Reuters, Guardian and PewResearch.org
Jon Walker / Firedoglake: Michigan Was Turning Point for Romney Campaign
James Crugnale / Mediaite: Media Covered Romney Twice As Favorably As Obama During GOP Primary, Study Says
Alan Colmes' Liberaland: Pew Study: Romney Got Twice As Much Favorable Coverage As Obama During Primary
Mj Lee / Reuters: Study: Mitt won media on Feb. 28
Pew Research Center / PewResearch.org: How the Media Covered the 2012 Primary Campaign
Richard Black / BBC:
White killer whale adult spotted for first time in wild — "Iceberg" is believed to be the first mature white orca observed — Scientists have made what they believe to be the first sighting of an adult white orca, or killer whale. — The adult male, which they have nicknamed Iceberg …
Katie Kindelan / ABCNEWS: Albino Killer Whale Spotted Off Russia's Eastern Coast
Philip Hoare / Guardian: The white whale's dark message
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Trayvon Martin Case - A Partially Parallel Shooting In Alabama — Reality generally does not provide the sort of parallel situations that would satisfy the rigors of social science. However, let's go to Alabama for a shooting case from April 15 with many similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Darius Dixon / Politico:
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher can't enter Afghanistan — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Monday he was denied entry into Afghanistan because of his critical views of that country's government. — "Apparently, [Afghanistan President Hamid] …
US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher denied Afghan entry
US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher denied Afghan entry
Discussion: Guardian, Wonkette and ThinkProgress
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Obama targets foreign nationals' use of new technologies in human rights abuses — President Obama issued an executive order Monday that will allow U.S. officials for the first time to impose sanctions against foreign nationals found to have used new technologies, from cellphone tracking …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, TechCrunch, Politico and Washington Wire
Michelle Quinn / Politico: W.H. sanctions target tech use in human rights abuses overseas
Laura Meckler / Washington Wire: Obama to Map Steps Aimed at Preventing Mass Atrocities
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama: 'National sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people'
Obama: 'National sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people'
Jennifer Epstein / Politico: Obama announces new steps on Syria, Iran, Kony
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Yet another new survey shows that Republican supporters know more about politics and political history than Democrats. — On eight of 13 questions about politics, Republicans outscored Democrats by an average of 18 percentage points, according to a new Pew survey titled "Partisan Differences in Knowledge."
Discussion: Wake up America, The Enterprise Blog, Hit & Run, The American Conservative, Power Line and Weasel Zippers
Susan Duclos / Wake up America: Another Poll Finds Democrats Are The Party Of Stupid
Marc Thiessen / The Enterprise Blog: Are 'cognitively impaired' conservatives better informed than liberals?
Ronald Bailey / Hit & Run: Republicans Know More Than Democrats, Says Study
Jordan Bloom / The American Conservative: The Openness Fallacy — There's a persistent pseudoscientific …
Steven Hayward / Power Line: And Republicans Are Better Looking, Too
Bryan Fischer / afa.net:
Re: Richard Grenell: Romney has some 'splaining to do — Follow me on Twitter: @BryanJFischer, on Facebook at "Focal Point" — Gov. Mitt Romney stepped on a landmine by appointing Richard Grenell, an out, loud and proud homosexual, to be his spokesman on national security and foreign policy issues.
Discussion: Little Green Footballs, ThinkProgress, Mediaite and rightwingwatch.org
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs: AFA Spokesman Bryan Fischer's List of Anti-Gay Demands for Romney
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: Social Conservative Activist Attacks Romney's Hiring Gay Spokesman: Telling 'Pro-Family Community' To 'Drop Dead'
Jeffry Scott / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Cynthia McKinney back and running for her old congressional seat — Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is preparing to run for her old 4th Congressional district seat on the Green Party ticket. — McKinney was defeated by 4th district incumbent Hank Johnson in 2006 …
Discussion: Hit & Run, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, The PJ Tatler and Ballot Access News
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run: Georgia 4 House Race Between Truther Cynthia McKinney & Guam-May-Capsize Hank Johnson Should be Awesome
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Sweet... Crackpot Cynthia McKinney Will Run Against Kook Hank Johnson in GA Rep. Race
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Georgia 4 — 'Female Michael Moore' to Face Off Against Man Who Fears Guam, an Island, Will 'Capsize'
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
President Obama Edits Out Climate Change From His Earth Day 2012 Proclamation — You'll be glad to know that in the last 12 months, that whole climate change problem went away. At least that's the impression left from comparing President Obama's 2012 Earth Day proclamation with the 2011 one.
Discussion: Get Energy Smart!, Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
A Siegel / Get Energy Smart!: "The White House Effect"?
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Soros-Funded Leftists Outraged Obama Failed To Mention Global Warming During All-Important "Earth Day" Proclamation...