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Despite Poor Reviews, Amazon Kindle Fire on Track to Be No. 2 Tablet
According to new consumer survey data from ChangeWave Research, Amazon's Kindle Fire is poised to become the first real competitor to the Apple iPad, with one in five planned tablet buyers (22%) indicating they will purchase the Kindle Fire. This is the first time since the original iPad's launch that the number two device ever achieved a double-digit percentage in terms of consumer interest.
The data comes from a November 2011 survey of 3,043 North American consumers, who were polled on their past, current and future tablet-buying plans. According to the results, 2% of respondents had already pre-ordered the device, 5% said they were "very likely" to buy and 12% said they're "somewhat likely" to buy.
Of course, the problem with surveys like this is that consumer interest doesn't always mirror real-world buying trends. It's easy to indicate you like a product, but it's much harder to actually open your wallet and pay for it. That said, what this survey does show is the power of the Amazon and Kindle brands in the minds' of consumers.
Unfortunately, Amazon may have to trade on its brand awareness and affinity to make the Kindle Fire a hit. The tablet has received mixed to downright negative reviews from a variety of sources including The NYT's David Pogue, The WSJ's Walt Mossberg, The Economist, Wired, Engadget, The Verge and others. Reviewers claim the software lacks polish and feels sluggish. "
"You feel that $200 price tag with every swipe of your finger," was one of the more memorable Kindle Fire slams from Pogue. Meanwhile, Mossberg summarily dismissed it with just a few sentences:
"To be clear, the Kindle Fire is much less capable and versatile than the entry-level $499 iPad 2. It has a fraction of the apps, a smaller screen, much weaker battery life, a slower Web browser, half the internal storage and no cameras or microphone. It also has a rigid and somewhat frustrating user interface far less fluid than Apple's."
And yet, Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle, announced last week that the Fire had become the best-selling product across all of Amazon.com.
Still, we wonder how many unsatisfied customers will return their Kindle Fires later on? Or will the tablet be "good enough," given its low price point?
If consumers buy, then regret, their Kindle Fire purchase, that could be a problem for the brand further down the road. As ChangeWave also notes, customer satisfaction is one of the key reason's for Apple's iPad dominance, with 74% of owners saying they're "very satisfied" with their device. Only 49% say the same for all other tablet manufacturers combined.
November's research also showed increasing tablet demand, including an uptick due to the holidays. 14% of respondents claimed they would buy a tablet in the next 90 days, a number that's up 8 points since August. Despite the expected Kindle Fire gains, Apple still leads by a wide margin, with 65% indicating they will buy the iPad compared with the 22% demonstrating interest in the Kindle Fire.
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As in slime, scum, slop.
Grease, goo, grime.
Mud, muck, mire.
Contamination, defilement, corruption.
As in 210,000 gallons of oil leaked from Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota last week. And don't forget last year.
SIGN THE PETITION SAYING NO TO THE TransCanada/Keystone XL EXTENSION
Who owns Keystone Pipeline?
Dakota Access, LLC, owns 75% of the pipeline while Phillips 66 owns a 25% stake.[17] Energy Transfer Partners LP and Sunoco Logistic Partners LP own together 51% and MarEn Bakken Company, the joint venture of Enbridge (75%) and Marathon Petroleum, owns 49% of the Dakota Access, LLC. It gives the following indirect stakes in the pipeline:
- Energy Transfer Partners LP and Sunoco Logistic Partners LP together – 38.2%
- Enbridge – 27.6%[18]
- Phillips 66 – 25%[17]
- Marathon Petroleum – 9.2%[18]
Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistic Partners, both subsidiaries of Energy Transfer Equity LP, has announced their merger.[19]
Bakken Holdings Company and Phillips 66 also co-own another part of the Bakken system, the Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline which runs from Patoka to storage terminals in Nederland, Texas.[20][17]
Political Ties
According to his federal disclosure forms, filed in May 2016, President Donald Trump held between $15,000 and $50,000 in stock in Energy Transfer Partners – down from $500,000 to $1 million in 2015 – and between $100,000 and $250,000 in Phillips 66. This creates a conflict of interest when making presidential decisions affecting the pipeline project. The senior Democrat on the Public Resources Committee, Raul Grijalva, called this appearance of conflict of interest "disturbing".[148] The Washington Post reported that Trump sold off his shares in Energy Transfer Partners in the summer of 2016.[149] The credibility of this claim has been questioned by liberal organizations.[150]
Trump is also indirectly linked to the project because Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren contributed $103,000 to the Trump campaign.[151][152] Trump has said that he supports the completion of the pipeline project. According to his transition team, this position "has nothing to do with his personal investments and everything to do with promoting policies that benefit all Americans."[153]
A former staffer of Iowa Governor Terry Branstad re-election campaign, Susan Fenton, who is now the director of government affairs with the Des Moines public relations firm LS2, is handling public relations for Energy Transfer.[154] Texas governor Rick Perry was a member of the Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics Partners boards of directors but resigned after Trump selected Perry as his nomination for Energy Secretary In December 2016.[155] Kelcy Warren had contributed $6 million to Perry's 2016 Presidential campaign.[156]
What does Dakota Pipeline Access have to say?
If you go to the Dakota Access Pipeline Facts, you'll find they have a page dedicated to misconceptions. Then within the misconceptions section, you'll find a document called: The Dakota Access Pipeline is safe.
The Dakota Access Pipeline is built to survive the test of time, extreme weather, and natural disaster. It uses state-of-the art construction material, including heavy-walled steel pipe that is nearly 50% thicker than required by law.
What about current events listed on their page dedicated to News and Opinions?
Selected editorials by unknown authors saying things like "protesters aligned with powerful forces in the White House, with Hollywood celebrities, and with plenty of money behind them from wacky anti-capitalist financiers" and articles celebrating the $20,000 donations made to counties and photo ops that remind me of Trump asking Ricardo Rossello if the United States "did a great job" in response to Hurricane Maria.
Would you like to contact Dakota Access Pipeline? Here's the contact info they share:

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No summary could do justice to the wealth of literature about Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s relationship to C.S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, but a few points of commonality are worth mentioning. First, Holmes was akin to Peirce in the embrace of fallibilism and the scientific method. Holmes disliked natural law thinkers because they purported to know the truth about the law by way of reason or moral teaching. In contrast, Holmes believed that the common law gradually filtered out the most workable, although not necessarily the most moral, theories; in fact, he felt that it was not the province, expertise, or training of the judge to explore issues of morality. He also believed that truth was best determined by a community of inquiring minds rather than by a judge ruling in isolation or by a justice with only eight colleagues to help work through his or her analysis. Therefore, he adhered to the doctrine of judicial restraint and deferred to statutes enacted by legislatures, which consisted of representatives elected by and accountable to the people.
Second, his notion of truth was like James's: fluid but ultimately associated with the conglomerate views of a majority that have been tested and corroborated by concrete evidence. Holmes did not share James's optimism, but he did share his literary sparkle. He also shared James's meliorism and pluralism. The Common Law is a testament to the melioristic nature of the common law system. Holmes's judicial restraint and deference to local legislatures, moreover, attest to his recognition of diverse local communities and associations that enable social cooperation and legal growth.
Third, Holmes's celebration of the instrumentalism of the common law smacks of Dewey's instrumentalism and its Darwinian complements. Like Dewey, Holmes moved pragmatism away from the science, logic, and mathematics that intrigued Peirce, away from the moral psychology and religious vibrancy that intrigued James, and towards the social and political considerations that intrigued Dewey. Holmes and Dewey were, to some degree, consequentialists; they cannot be made out as pure utilitarians—far from it—but their analyses do tend to focus on the importance of outcomes to the evaluation of human action. Finally, Holmes and Dewey emphasized the value of experiment and were majoritarian in that they maintained faith in the ability of distinct communities to arrive at unique solutions to pressing social issues and to memorialize those solutions in official legislation.
These three pragmatist influences enabled Holmes to create a theory of the common law unique to him that both accounted for and distanced itself from the legal positivism of John Austin and Hobbes, who traditionally have been thought of as adversaries of common law theory.


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With less than a week left in May, spring is flying by! I've been trying to plan out weekends for the next two months, coveting a way to spend each weekend day, usually in the great outdoors. And often based around training or racing schedules.
Tonight ended up being a perfect BBQ night after a nearly 2hr brick with hill repeats, and thus hopefully the start of many more warm spring hill & BBQ nights. So with no more complex reason than that, I'm giving away a Timex Marathon GPS unit.
The best thing though is you've got nothing more to do than leave a single comment below (multiple comments don't count around these parts!). Simply answer the question below:
What are your training and/or racing plans for this weekend ahead (Apr 27-29th)?
For those curious, I'll be doing a 10-mile trail run at Fountainhead on Saturday, and a 40ish mile bike ride on Skyline on Sunday. Definitely looking forward to both!
The entry period will run until Friday Apr 27th, 2012 at 11:59PM Eastern Time, at which point I'll close the entry period and randomly select a winner. Like the all my giveaways there are no restrictions on where the goods go to – so no matter where in the world you are, I'll send to you. The winner will get a brand new Timex Marathon GPS unit.
As I do from time to time (though, it's been a while), this particular giveaway is sponsored by one of the site sponsors (BeMultisport.com), which is an online sports device retailer based just down the road from me. They paid for the unit, though I'll pay for the shipping (which, come to think of it, if you're in Uzbekistan may actually end costing more than the unit itself…). As always, supporting site sponsors helps support the site. Circle of life thing.
(Note: If you're active duty US military and deployed, simply shoot me an e-mail and I'll get ya entered in. For those curious on how the giveaways work, here's the deets. Through careful planning I picked up a handful of them when they first came available…just so I could give them away to you. Thanks all!)


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This quilt started last year as two separate pieces from an in-person class at Country Roads Quilt Shoppe and a Carolyn Friedlander paper piecing creativebug tutorial. After combining the two pieces into one I added a border to even out the prints and piecing.
From West Virginia to Las Vegas and then to Virginia, this quilt was snuggled under after becoming only a sandwich! It also had a lot of machine quilting removed and redone; I found this task trying, but necessary.
For the paper piecing I used the scrap stash, with many of the fabrics being from Moda.
Quilting free form lines mesmerizes me because of the movement given to the quilt.
Many of these fabrics are from projects I completed prior to making this blog. It's wonderful to see those scraps from previous projects, efforts, and little things of love I sent off in the world.
The main border fabric is from "Honeymoon" by Sarah Watts for Cotton + Steel. It reminds me of James Wright.
Since I'm a Robert Kaufman and Carolyn Friedlander fan this wide backing was perfect. It adds a nice softness.
The sunlight gives the machine quilting great shadows. Aurifil thread was used on this quilt.
One quilt done and another one on the way.
Our Kickstarter is going amazingly well. Thank you to all the supporters and those that have enjoyed the work. We're really excited to being working on a new series of embroidery projects, and to be expanding Brambleton Threads.


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The countdown for NYE 2016 & NYD 2017 has started…here you have the list of some unmissable parties around the world.
Of course, let's start form Ibiza: January 1st "The event" is Circoloco at Dc-10.
Also in 2017 the line up will be great, so if you decide to visit to the White island, don't miss it. Seth Troxler, Andrea Oliva, Loco Dice, Nic Fanciulli and many more are a good reason to go there.
More info here.
From Ibiza to Madrid, January first the fireworks continue January 1st at Wan, with Luciano, Marco Carola, Paco Osuna, Richie Hawtin, The Martinez Brothers and many more.
Further info here.
Then, let's move to Barcelona, at Pacha, where December 31st the main guest will be Luciano!
From Barcelona to Germany: HYTE Berlin NYE hosts Carl Cox, Chris Liebing, Dubfire, Loco Dice, Seth Troxler, Richie Hawtin, Tobi Neumann & many more…what do you want more?
Still in Berlin, from December 28th till january 1st, Watergate hosts five days of parties, named "Every day has a new beginning". This is the line up of December 31st, but for the complete program check here.
From Berlin to New York City: Space Ibiza NYC presents two great artists: Solomun b2b Dixon (extended set).
If you are in NYC this is an unmissable party. More details here.
And now let's move to Dubai, at Blue Marlin U.A.E., that will host "El Row" "Feria de Abril" Next December 31st will play Stacey Pullen, De La Swing & many more!
From Dubai to Italy, first stop in Rome, at Cosmo NYE, with Chris Liebing, Ilario Alicante, Nina Kraviz, Loco Dice, Pan-Pot, Joseph Capriati and many more, two days of Music, 31st of December and January 1st.
Let's leave Rome and let's move to Naples, where Nice to be presents Jeff Mills, Ben Sims, Angelo Perna & Diego Amura further info here.
From Naples to Rimini, at Cocoricò, that hosts Bollywood! With Leon, Silvie Loto, idriss D., Markantonio and many more
Still in Italy, Tenax, the cult club of Florence, hosts Len Faki with an extended set. More details here.
Then let's go to London at Ministry of Sound, where Defected in the house strikes back! Further info here.
Then, still in London, Egg hosts Pan- Pot, Matador, Christian Burkhardt and many more
Xoyo London presents: Dj Koze, Die Vogel, Lawrence, Peggy Gou. All the info here.
1st of January in London? Mosaic by Maceo lands in the City, at Bankside Vaults.
All the infos here.
What about Miami…let's start at Space Club, that hosts Jamie Jones! Further info here.
From Miami to Sofia: Yalta Club organizes a great NYE, with Tale of us, Richie Hawtin, the Martinez Brothers & Liubo Ursiny .
More details here.


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Diamond, Philip. Should it Happen Here. 1937. Self-published. RAre. 12 leaves. Original printed wrappers. Nice copy. Formerly in the Library of Congress Pamphlet Collection, and previous to that one of the U.S. copyright deposit copies. $125
[An Earlier post on this blog, Mapping the Invasion of America, 1942, addressed another vision of the invasion of the United States--it is also the Most Viewed post that I've written, having been read more than 400,000 times. See also Part II of this post, here; and consider a related post on the Nazi sub-orbital Amerika Bomber]
Philip Diamond discovered an interesting concept in "blurryness" in the pursuit of building with a purpose. In his pamphlet Should it Happen Here, self-published (and printed by the Brighton Press of Brooklyn, U.S.A.) in 1937, Diamond established a need for creating (1) inexpensive housing for the unemployed and (2) poison-gas-proof housing for Americans in general, and came up with (1.5) inexpensive poison-gas-proof housing. In blurring the lines between the two needs I'm not sure that he satisfied anyone's needs, spreading his engineering/architectural gifts jut a little (or a lot) of bit too thin.
One thing Diamond was sure of was that the next war would be governed by "one man flying in an aircraft and releasing vapors of poisonous gas for destruction" and assured his readers that in this new war "there would be no front lines". "The future war will not be carried to the front line; it will be carried to the front door." That of course was true for hundreds of millions of people in Europe and the Soviet Union and South Asia, but not so in the same sense for anyone in America--unless those Americans happened to live on a remote chain of Alaskan islands. Diamond was sure that war was coming directly to the U.S., and although he doesn't name the country/countries that would be responsible for attacking America with poison gas, he did name one of the aircraft that would come here to do that--the HE112. (The HE 112 was a prototype fighter aircraft that wasn't adopted, with fewer than 100 produced. How this would get across Europe and then across the Atlantic and then across the U.S. I'm not sure.)
Once Diamond gets to the design of his house things get a little fuzzy--and heavy./ Very heavy. HE proposed a domed structure with a foot-thick "exterior roof" and a foot-thick "interior roof" of concrete, between which would be sandwiched three feet of sawdust. The sawdust was supposed to act as both a filter to noise and soot and dust from the outside world, as well as a filter for poisonous gases.
The 5-foot thick structure would be embedded on a 10-foot thick concrete bed (for earthquake protection) and surrounded on its sides by another 10-foot concrete structure of something that I can't figure out. Not surprisingly, the author announced with a section headings that there would be "No WIndows". There would be a double entry equipped with an "air condition" that would wash folks entering the house and decontaminate the gases that might've impregnated their clothing or bodies (though Diamond says nothing about outerwear).
Once inside (charmingly referred to as "the vault") the occupants would find two bedrooms, a kitchen/dining room, and two lavatories (one "miniature" for the children, not so much for "hygiene", but to "protect the delicate moal grace amongst the children". That was the best line in the pamphlet, and about the only thing that really made any sense.)
6 million of these houses could be constructed for the unemployed, costing $3,000/each, meaning that this part of the project could be funded with 18 billion dollars. This was at a time when the New Deal was having a heart attack, unemployment was spiking again, and the entire GDP of the U.S. was $91 billion, which means that Mr. Diamond was seeking a 20% cut of the GDP pie. In current terms, that 20% would mean $3 trillion.
So far as I can determine Mr. Diamond's plan was not taken seriously.
Also, this I think is my only encounter with a title pages that starts out with the words "Sub-title".


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WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of following the paper trail of $51 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars provided to rebuild a broken Iraq, the U.S. government can say with certainty that too much was wasted. But it can't say how much.
In what it called its final audit report, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Funds on Friday spelled out a range of accounting weaknesses that put "billions of American taxpayer dollars at risk of waste and misappropriation" in the largest reconstruction project of its kind in U.S. history.
"The precise amount lost to fraud and waste can never be known," the report said.
The auditors found huge problems accounting for the huge sums, but one small example of failure stood out: A contractor got away with charging $80 for a pipe fitting that its competitor was selling for $1.41. Why? The company's billing documents were reviewed sloppily by U.S. contracting officers or were not reviewed at all.
With dry understatement, the inspector general said that while he couldn't pinpoint the amount wasted, it "could be substantial."
Asked why the exact amount squandered can never be determined, the inspector general's office referred The Associated Press to a report it did in February 2009 titled "Hard Lessons," in which it said the auditors — much like the reconstruction managers themselves — faced personnel shortages and other hazards.
"Given the vicissitudes of the reconstruction effort — which was dogged from the start by persistent violence, shifting goals, constantly changing contracting practices and undermined by a lack of unity of effort — a complete accounting of all reconstruction expenditures is impossible to achieve," the report concluded.
In that same report, the inspector general, Stuart Bowen, recalled what then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld asked when they met shortly after Bowen started in January 2004: "Why did you take this job? It's an impossible task."
By law, Bowen's office reports to both the secretary of defense and the secretary of state. It goes out of business in 2013.
Bowen's office has spent more than $200 million tracking the reconstruction funds, and in addition to producing numerous reports, his office has investigated criminal fraud that has resulted in 87 indictments, 71 convictions and $176 million in fines and other penalties. These include civilians and military members accused of kickbacks, bribery, bid-rigging, fraud, embezzlement and outright theft of government property and funds.
Much, however, apparently got overlooked. Example: A $35 million Pentagon project was started in December 2006 to establish the Baghdad airport as an international economic gateway, and the inspector general found that by the end of 2010 about half the money was "at risk of being wasted" unless someone else completed the work.
Of the $51 billion that Congress approved for Iraq reconstruction, about $20 billion was for rebuilding Iraqi security forces and about $20 billion was for rebuilding the country's basic infrastructure. The programs were run mainly by the Defense Department, the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
A key weakness found by Bowen's inspectors was inadequate reviewing of contractors' invoices.
In some cases invoices were checked months after they had been paid because there were too few government contracting officers. Bowen found a case in which the State Department had only one contracting officer in Iraq to validate more than $2.5 billion in spending on a DynCorp contract for Iraqi police training.
"As a result, invoices were not properly reviewed, and the $2.5 billion in U.S. funds were vulnerable to fraud and waste," the report said. "We found this lack of control to be especially disturbing since earlier reviews of the DynCorp contract had found similar weaknesses."
In that case, the State Department eventually reconciled all of the old invoices and as of July 2009 had recovered more than $60 million.
The report touched on a problem that cropped up in virtually every major aspect of the U.S. war effort in Iraq, namely, the consequences of fighting an insurgency that proved more resilient than the Pentagon had foreseen. That not only made reconstruction more difficult, dangerous and costly, but also left the U.S. military unprepared for the grind of multiple troop deployments, the tactics of an adaptable insurgency and the complexity of battlefield wounds. It also left the U.S. government short of the expertise it needed to monitor contractors.
Although the audit was labeled as final, a spokesman for Bowen's office, Christopher M. Griffith, said several more will be done to provide additional details on what the U.S. got for its reconstruction dollars and what was wasted.
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The auditor report can be found at http://www.sigir.mil/files/audits/12-017.pdf#view=fit
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3 dead in Stockton bank robbery, gunbattle
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Robbers fleeing a California bank took three women hostage and threw two of them from their getaway vehicle, as they fired repeatedly at police during a high-speed chase. Police shot out their tires but the shooting continued, fatally wounding two suspects and the last hostage.
The violence in this central California city erupted Wednesday afternoon when officers responded to a report of a robbery at a Bank of the West branch and spotted three men taking three female hostages from the bank at gunpoint, Stockton police officer Joe Silva said.
The suspects with their hostages in tow fled in an SUV stolen from a bank worker and led officers on 45 minute chase.
During the pursuit, police said two of the hostages, both bank employees, were thrown from the SUV. One was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound; the other suffered a grazing bullet wound.
The pursuit continued as the suspects fired with AK-47 style rifles from the SUV. Fourteen police cars and many homes along the robbers' path were peppered with bullets, Police Chief Eric Jones told a news conference late Wednesday.
"It was such a chaotic … fluid situation, really one of the most dangerous, tense situations that a police officer could go through," Jones said.
"There was a lot on the line and the officers responded appropriately," he said.
When the SUV's tires were shot and the vehicle came to a stop at an intersection, officers exchanged gunfire with at least one of the assailants.
"The firing never stopped," Jones said, noting that the suspects had ammunition strapped to their bodies. "They were trying to kill (the officers), no doubt."
When it was all over, the third hostage was found dead in the SUV and one of the robbers was also dead. The police chief said the hostage was a bank customer, and that she appears to have been used by the suspects as a human shield during the shootout.
Police said the other two suspects were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, and one of them later died.
The surviving suspect was conscious, Jones said.
Witnesses said the shootout that brought the episode to a close looked like a war.
"It sounded like five minutes of straight gunfire," witness Sam York told KCRA-TV. "It seemed like it wasn't real."
Jose Maldonado, who said he saw the robbers taking the women out of the bank, said the men had rifles that looked like AK-47s slung over their shoulders and they didn't seem to care that there were police all around.
"They were not afraid. They weren't going to take no for an answer. These poor women, they were screaming, they were so distraught, so scared," Maldonado said.
Jones said the robbers also tied up a bank security guard.
The bank said in a statement that it would not provide information about the victims.
"This is a tragic incident and we are focused on supporting our customers and employees," the statement said.
Associated Press reporters Lisa Leff and Daisy Nguyen contributed to this report from San Francisco.


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Opinion: Brain Dead Politics In Virginia
Yesterday, I wrote about the brain dead approach of the current Republican Party: sign a bunch of out-of-the-mainstream pledges on taxes, women's health care and all sorts of other policies; run to the right of those pledges; and try to suppress the votes of those who disagree with you.
One of the poster boys of this brain dead approach to politics is Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. He aspires to be the next governor of Virginia after spending four years trying to deny women's health care rights, blocking Obamacare and forcing his ideology and personal beliefs on the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Cuccinelli, who expressed his support for the birther movement by claiming that Obama being born secretly in Kenya "was not out of the question." He is a hero of the Tea Party because he sued the Obama Administration over the Affordable Care Act.
His kookiness extends to Social Security numbers as well. He told a group that he and his wife were seriously considering not getting a Social Security number for their seventh child "because it is being used to track you."
He also went to the nutty extreme of altering the Virginia state seal because he felt it was immodest.
As Attorney General, Cuccinelli tried to suppress climate change research at the University of Virginia.
Not surprisingly, Cuccinelli is also a homophobe and tried to get colleges to drop policies banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.
He pushed for the defunding of Planned Parenthood and supported a plan that would force women to have a state mandated ultrasound by vaginal probe before they had an abortion.
Ken Cuccinelli is Exhibit A in the case of defining all the things that are out of touch about today's Republican Party.
Yesterday, Cuccinelli went on a local outlet of the right-wing alternate reality entertainment complex and agreed with the host that there was something suspicious about Obama's victory because Obama did not win any states with voter ID laws.
The host, Cheri Jacobus, said: "we're hearing so many stories (about voter fraud)" and pointed to states "where photo ID is required. Obama lost every one of those states. He can't win a state where photo ID is required. So clearly there's something going on out there..."
No one has presented any evidence of in-person voter fraud. It is literally a belief that is out of touch with reality.
But Cuccinelli's agreed with the host. He told her "I'm with you completely."
Ken Cuccinelli is already being anointed as the 2013 Republican nominee for governor in Virginia. His only opponent was forced out of the race.
If you were expecting anything different from the GOP after November, look at Virginia.
Republicans in the state that went blue in the Presidential and Senate races, a state Obama won twice and has two Democratic Senators, thinks Ken Cuccinelli is the direction to go.
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The Kerygma – Part Two
The Kerygma
To review, kerygma is the Greek word κήρυγμα kérugma, translated proclamation or preaching. The Kergyma is proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ in spoken words, or even proclaimed in the celebration of the Lord's Supper. It is the proclamation of Jesus redemptive work. It is the proclamation God's story of the history of redemption from the beginning of creation. Proclamation was usually followed by teaching and instruction in the elements of the faith, or the reading of a Creed. What Jesus did and taught in His ministry was included within the basic proclamation.
Here is a summary of the ancient kerygma:
- The Age of Fulfillment has dawned, the "latter days" foretold by the prophets.
- This has taken place through the birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah.
- By virtue of the resurrection, and His ascension into heaven, Jesus has been exalted at the right hand of God as King of Kings – the Messianic head of the new Israel.
- The Holy Spirit in the Church is the sign of Jesus' present power and glory.
- The Messianic Age will reach its consummation in the return of Jesus.
- An appeal is made for repentance for the forgiveness of sins, the gift of the Holy Spirit, and salvation.
Jesus the Messiah, of course, was the center of this ancient kerygma. The cross, the resurrection, and His ascension to the right hand of Majesty are crucial to the kerygmatic preaching of Messiah Jesus.
Kerygmatic preaching is not a technique that can simply be learned by articulate spokespersons, it is a relationship that must be received, experienced, and thereby announced.
There are eight kerygmatic sermons given by the Apostles in Luke's letter to Theophilus, the Acts of the Apostles. They are found in the following passages:
1) Acts 2:14-36
2) Acts 3:12-26
3) Acts 4:8-12
4) Acts 5:29-32
5) Acts 10: 34-43
6) Acts 13:16-41
7) Acts 14:15-17
8) Acts 17: 22-31


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Military bureaucrats needlessly blocked U.S. troops in Iraq from getting laser weapons -- tools that could've kept civilians from getting killed. That, in a nutshell, is what the Pentagon's Inspector General concluded after an investigation of the Marine Corps' botched attempts to send the nonlethal lasers to the war zone.
It's a major mea culpa, but it comes with an important caveat: Sure, the Marines' pencil-pushers mishandled the urgent request for lasers, first issued five years ago. But that doesn't give today's front-line commanders an excuse for circumventing the bureaucrats.
The background to the IG's investigation is a tragic one. During the bloodiest phase of the Iraq war, native civilians, long accustomed to barreling through traffic in their compact cars, would unwittingly speed toward U.S. military checkpoints.
They looked a lot like suicide bombers. Startled Americans would yell, flash their Humvees' headlights and even fire warning shots -- often to no effect.
Iraqi roads are too chaotic, and many warnings simply too ambiguous. Faced with a last-second decision to open fire or risk a suicide blast, the Americans often opted to shoot the driver.
There's no telling how many Iraqis died this way. Compounding the tragedy is the possibility that it was all preventable.
As early as the spring of 2006, the Pentagon admits, an inexpensive bit of off-the-shelf technology could have given U.S. Marines at their checkpoints in western Iraq a better way of warning off approaching drivers. But the tech -- a nonlethal laser gun that "dazzles" drivers and forces them off the road -- ran afoul of the Marines' weapon-developing bureaucracy.
The laser dazzlers were nine months late when they finally arrived in Iraq in late 2006. In the interim, as many as 50 innocent Iraqis were killed in checkpoint shootings, according to one Marine study.
"The lack of a nonlethal laser dazzler capability increased the risk of unwarranted escalation-of-force incidents and the difficulty of safeguarding civilians," the Inspector General's report (.pdf) notes.
"The decision to delay," the report adds, "was unnecessary."
The Marine Corps' failure to get lifesaving technology to its front-line troops in a timely manner speaks to the military's ongoing struggle with a bloated, slow-moving bureaucracy that seems, at times, to forget that America is at war. But in addition to condemning the bureaucracy for its lethargy, the IG also issued a warning to combat units that might try to go behind the bureaucrats' backs by buying new gear with their own funds.
The need for dazzlers was apparent even before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Lt. Gen. Martin Berndt, commander of Marine forces in Europe, included dazzlers on a list of "urgently needed capabilities" in a February 2003 letter addressed to the commandant of the Marine Corps and copied to Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Virginia. Berndt's letter should have served as a heads-up, but to be fair, the formal request for dazzlers didn't come until more than two years later, from the II Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq.
After a spate of checkpoint incidents, II MEF filed an "urgent universal need statement" in September 2005, requesting 400 dazzlers, each costing around $10,000. The urgent-need process is supposed to take just six months from request to fielding, but in this case Development Command waited six months before even *beginning *the process of buying lasers.
According to the IG, the first four months of delay resulted from Development Command's dispute with the deployed troops over which laser the Corps should purchase. II MEF had specifically requested a dazzler from Connecticut's LE Systems, but that model hadn't been certified by the Navy's laser-safety board -- though U.S. Special Forces had endorsed it. Incredibly, the spat over the dazzler brand outlasted II MEF's deployment.
I MEF, the command that replaced II MEF in Iraq in mid-2006, shared the preference for the LE Systems laser. Frustrated with the bureaucratic delays, I MEF bought 28 of LE Systems' dazzlers using its own money and had them shipped directly to Iraq.
When the Marine brass found out, they ordered I MEF to lock away the LE Systems dazzlers and never use them in combat. Today, the IG is recommending the Marine Corps investigate the circumstances of I MEF's laser purchase and "if appropriate, initiate administrative action."
Only after the LE Systems debacle did Development Command initiate the formal process for buying approved dazzlers. "An additional two months elapsed because the administrative processing of the urgent request lagged," the IG's report continued. "As a result, the Marines deployed to Iraq in 2006 were unnecessarily left without a nonlethal laser dazzler capability."
That "increased the risk of unwarranted escalation of force incidents." The 400 Navy-certified lasers didn't begin reaching Iraq until very late in 2006 or early in 2007.
In 2007, Marine Corps scientist Franz Gayl -- a longtime critic of the Pentagon establishment -- lumped the dazzler with blastproof trucks and small aerial drones as examples of urgently needed weapons that the Marine Corps bureaucracy has deliberately delayed in recent years, to the detriment of front-line troops.
"Gross mismanagement of the dazzler issue may have created a significant adverse impact on the [Ground Combat Element's] ability to accomplish its mission," he claimed. (Gayl would later be stripped of his security clearance, allegedly in retaliation for his whistleblowing efforts.)
LE Systems founder Titus Casazza explained that, perversely, delays could translate into job security for bureaucrats. "Is it that the longer things take, the more complicated you make it and the longer the approval process takes, the longer you keep your job? Nobody wants to make a decision without CYA [cover your ass] up one side and the other."
With America's state and non-state rivals only becoming more sophisticated, the Pentagon knows it must do better. The Marine Corps introduced a new Web-based system in October 2008 for tracking weapons requests. "The establishment of the Virtual Urgent Universal Need Statement system should improve the efficiencies of the urgent-needs process," the IG claimed.
That's good news for U.S. troops, but no comfort at all for all those dead Iraqis, the Marines involved in unnecessary killings, or the Marine officers who could face disciplinary action for daring to buy badly needed gear for their troops, over the heads of heel-dragging bureaucrats.
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There are only two things which give me *good* nostalgia for the 70s: ABBA music and Hindi movies. I spent the latter half of that decade wearing hideously patterned Qiana shirts, sporting feathered hair and fighting the tendency of my stomach to overhang hip-hugger bellbottoms, all the while living in rural Indiana and wishing I were dead, so that is actually saying something.
I suppose if I had cable television and thus access to reruns of the original "Starsky & Hutch" television shows that might do it too, but I don't. I love Laxmikant Pyarelal's music in this film, though, especially the opening title and background music (although the songs are fab too). It's funkadelic 1970s, all the way, and reminds me of the opening themes to those 1970s cop shows.
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Additionally, this film offers Rajesh Khanna in multiple avatars matching wits with gorgeous Zeenat Aman plus a host of my favorite villains, all doing their best with a completely wacked-out script—it's a fine way to spend a Sunday afternoon, my friends, especially when you lack cable television.
Nattily-attired bad guys have been assembled for a meeting. Their mysterious host: an infamous gangster called "Scorpion" who has looted and murdered his way across India.
He is enlisting their help to pull off an 80-lakh bank robbery, and assigns each of them a task. It falls to Pratap (Ravindra Kapoor) to deliver the money to Scorpion's man (Yusuf Khan) at the end of the heist. (It's ridiculously easy to rob and kill the poor Southern Bank truck driver and his guards so I won't dwell on it in any detail). Pratap is in love with Lily (Padma Khanna) and so plans to use the cash to set up a new life for them outside of India. Sadly for him, Lily is sleeping with Ranjit too and betrays him (note the requisite villain fish tank above the bed!).
Naturally the rest of the gang and Scorpion feel cheated, and Pratap is shot down at the airport when he tries to make a run for it. As he lies dying in a policeman's arms, he gasps out that the money from the robbery is with his daughter Rita, and the code is 77203—the rest is drowned out by a plane taking off. The police and the gang are soon on Rita's trail: she's in Kashmir.
In Kashmir, Rita (Zeenat Aman) is a ski champion (although in the skiing shots she looks suspiciously like a stunt man). She has several fans cheering her on in remarkably unenthusiastic strangely-accented monotones.
A warning sign on the slopes is chopped down by an unseen person, and Rita skis blithely on into danger. She's rescued by a local ski guide, who shows up again minutes later as a carriage driver.
When she asks him who he really is, he responds with a song: "Main Chhaila Babu" (translated as "Cool Guy" in the subtitles). It's so fun, a horse-carriage ride through deep snow. The chemistry between Zeenat and Rajesh that I noticed in Ajanabee is fizzing away here too! And despite his very very bad hair (who was responsible for RK's hair in the mid-late 70s? They should be shot!) he is very charming.
When he drops her off at her hostel, a CBI Inspector (Om Shivpuri) is waiting for her. He tells her about her father's murder and asks her about the money. She's distraught but knows nothing, and he asks her to return to Bombay to help the CBI in their investigation. At the airport observing her arrival are the gang and—Chhaila Babu, wearing a medal around his neck.
Cut to a night-time police chase, with a thief—Chhaila Babu again!—escaping into Rita's stupendously decorated pad.
A yellow shag-carpeted ledge, the perfect hiding place! After the police leave empty-handed, he watches Rita change clothes ("Baap re!"); then Macmohan and his sidekick break in. They want the money, and they think Rita knows where it is.
Naturally, Chhaila Babu steps in to save her. I will say that his action skills are not even close to his romantic skills, but Rita helps him out by kicking some ass. Macmohan sees his Scorpion medal, and both men flee. Chhaila Babu tenderly administers to Rita's wounds and kisses her; it's to-die-for romantic despite his Prince Valiant hair.
He tells her that he loves her and wants to marry her, and if she hands over the robbery money he'll take it to the police for her—otherwise he's afraid she'll be killed for it. Suspicious, Rita sees a diamond necklace hanging out of one of his pockets, and tells him furiously to get out. He tells her that society has made him a thief; that it robbed him of his family and left him with nothing to live for except vengeance, but she's unsympathetic. After he leaves, though, she cries.
He's not giving up and the next day he shows up again, this time as a taxi driver. He tells her that her words the night before have changed him.
She melts, of course! So do I. Later, he tells her about his past: that he lost his father and mother, and all he has left is his harmonica which his mother had inscribed with "Chhaila Babu"—her nickname for him when he was little. This morphs into a song, where we see flashbacks from his childhood combined with an old woman begging and looking for her son—his mother (Achala Sachdev) is still alive, and still looking for him!
Mera chhaila babu, mera dil! The humanity! I love this plot twist. She runs into Chhaila Babu and Rita shortly afterwards, and they discuss her lost son and his lost Ma, but fail to make the connection. Meanwhile, the police and the CBI Inspector are pretty sure that Chhaila Babu is Scorpion, but they need evidence.
The CBI Inspector decides to rope in Rita to help them get evidence. To that end, he takes her to a nightclub where she sees Chhaila Babu flirting with Lily, and then playing the drums when she dances to a great tune called "Kal Raat." It's a crazy number—worthy of Helen at her finest—Padma does it justice too.
The club happens to belong to Ranjit, and Macmohan is there too; he recognizes Chhaila Babu as Scorpion. As he tells Ranjit who Chhaila Babu really is, someone throws a knife into his chest and he's killed.
Rita, now jealous, decides to help the CBI to catch Scorpion. What will happen? Will the gang catch him first? Who is Chhaila Babu? Is he really Scorpion? Can Rita betray him? Will he ever find his Ma? Does he really love Rita or is he just using her? And where is the 80 lakhs rupees from the Southern Bank robbery?
Watch Chhaila Babu to find out, and for the sizzling chemistry between Rajesh and Zeenat, the fabulous music, the mod 70s ambiance and the crazed script. It's not great art—but it's solid entertainment.


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I woke up this morning to the news that Billy Graham passed away.
For some reason, I haven't been able to get it off of my mind ever since.
No, I've never met him.
No, I've never really followed him or studied him.
And, yet, I can feel the loss.
It's almost embarrassing to admit this. I know I must sound like an overly emotional person to feel pain from losing someone I don't even know.
And, yet, I can feel the loss.
Why is this I wonder? Billy Graham was an AMAZING man of God. He represents what most Christians strive for. From what I know of him, he led the ultimate Christian life. He led many people to Christ. He devoted his life to helping others find a new life through Christ and all which that entails.
I think the reason why I feel his loss is because he represents who I strive to be.
Billy Graham was so full of spiritual knowledge. In fact, he was even the spiritual advisor for our American Presidents. No wonder so many people looked up to him!
So, how did he live such a spiritual life?
The following is excerpted from "Peace with God" by Billy Graham, published in 1953, revised and expanded in 1984.
For one to grow properly certain rules must be observed for good spiritual health.
- Read your Bible daily. Do not be content to skim through a chapter merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart. It comforts, guides, corrects, encourages – all we need is there.
- Learn the secret of prayer. Prayer is communicating. Every prayer that you pray will be answered. Sometimes that answer may be "Yes" and sometimes "No," and sometimes it is "Wait," but nevertheless it will be answered.
- Rely constantly on the Holy Spirit. We know that the Holy Spirit prays for us (Romans 8), and what a comfort that should be to the weakest of us. Stand aside and let Him take over all the choices and decisions of your life.
- Attend church regularly. The visible church is Christ's organization upon earth. Christians need one another, we need to gather together to worship God and nothing can take the place of church attendance.
- Be a witnessing Christian. We witness in two ways: by life and by word – and the two, where possible, should go hand in hand.
- Let love be the ruling principle of your life. Jesus said to those who followed Him, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another" (John 13:35). The greatest demonstration of the fact that we are Christians is that we love one another.
- Be an obedient Christian. Let Christ have first place in all the choices of your life.
- Learn how to meet temptation. Temptation is not sin. It is yielding that is sin. Let Christ through the Holy Spirit do the fighting for you.
- Be a wholesome Christian. Our lives and appearance should commend the Gospel and make it attractive to others.
- Live above your circumstances. Don't let your circumstances get you down. Learn to live graciously within them, realizing the Lord Himself is with you.
In my daily life, I try to be Christ-like but never quite to the magnitude this man did. He is inspiring! I feel God can look at his life and say, "well done!"
I find myself asking,
Out of the 10 guidelines Billy Graham listed, which are the most difficult for you to carry out? Which ones do you feel you achieve well?
I know I personally can put a few on each of those lists.
I think number 7 is the most difficult for me. I feel being an obedient Christian and letting God be the number one deciding factor when I'm making decisions is definitely an area in which I can improve on!
I'm going to make it a personal mission to follow these guidelines and see what impact it can make in my life. I'm going to follow his footsteps and live a life worthy of God saying, "well done, Lacy!"
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Gilda's Club Grand Rapids announced Thursday that Wendy Wigger will become the organization's next president.
Wigger will replace Leann Arkema, who announced recently that she was moving to San Francisco and would be taking on the role of internal consultant to the organization and Gilda's LaughFest.
Wigger most recently served as GCGR's vice president of community relations and program development. As vice president, she was actively engaged in building relationships, partnerships and program opportunities between GCGR, a variety of organizations and businesses, the medical community and developing programs that serve those on a cancer or grief journey. She also provided oversight for media relations, marketing and promotions for LaughFest.
"We are thrilled to appoint Wendy to the role of president, and know she will do a fantastic job of carrying on our vision for delivering emotional health care to the region for those living with cancer or grief," said Robert Prevette, GCGR board chair. "Along with three-and-a-half years as our vice president of community relations and program development, Wendy brings a considerable professional background and deep knowledge of our vision, mission, program and community partnerships."
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"I am honored to be chosen to serve as the president for Gilda's Club Grand Rapids," Wigger said. "During my tenure with Gilda's Club, I have had the opportunity to watch and learn from Leann and participate in increasing the impact of one of the most active Gilda's Clubs in the nation. It's also been exciting to be part of the original team that helped deliver LaughFest to the community. I know I have big shoes to fill, and I am up for the challenge of creating sustainable emotional support programming for all individuals dealing with cancer, or grief for any reason."


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George W. Bush, Just Eatin' Souffle With His Buddies
George W. Bush, fresh off of his personal killing of Osama bin Laden with a golden six-shooter for which he deserves all credit, has finally commented in public about the dead Al Qaeda leader. The old galoot was booked at "a conference of hedge fund managers in Las Vegas" on Wednesday, and while he and the other thousand hookers were putting on their faces for the night, he was able to spare a few quotes.
So what was Bush doing when President Obama called him with the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed? Stuffing his face with frenchy food, as usual:
"I was eating souffle at Rise Restaurant with Laura and two buddies," Bush said when asked what he was doing when he received the call from President Obama, according to an ABC News contributor who attended the event. [...]
Bush said Obama described in detail the secret mission to raid bin Laden's Pakistani compound and the decision he made to put the plan into motion. He told Obama, "Good call."
A bit curt of a response? Well, the man doesn't like having his souffle interrupted.
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It's common wisdom that what you measure becomes important. That's how we humans work. A clock makes you focus on time and so on. I consider myself a good driver having been driving 39 years without serious accidents and only a few speed tickets. When my kids practiced for driving license I heard about eco driving and thought that was a great initiative for the youngsters.
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As it's both Wildlife Wednesday and Independence Day, let's cheer America's 242 birthday and wish a hearty huzzah for wildlife in the garden.
Wildlife is active in my garden this summer, but I've been slow at catching that activity. Feathered and furred alike, it seems they scatter when they see me with the camera! That woman is out with her weird, third eye!! Plus, it's been unusually windy here, so photos of teeny-tiny bees-n-such have been difficult to come by. Nevertheless, wildlife persists, augmenting the beauty of the early summer garden.
This brilliant male Northern Cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis, brightens the landscape with Red plumage whenever he visits my garden.
He and his lovely lady,
…never nest in my garden, but are regular visitors to the trees, feeders, and water features. They raised two chicks this spring and early summer; both babies have fledged and are learning to garden-hop. I haven't managed good shots of the girl, but the boy is working on his red attire.
He's a bit mottled in this shot, taken in mid-June. I've noticed recently that his red feathers are becoming more dominant, lessening his awkward teen appearance. Thank goodness! Soon, he and his sister will move on to a different part of the neighborhood, both in search for mates for next year.
As for White, well, it's less in the guise of wildlife and more in flower form, like this sweet Four O'clock bloom, Mirabilis jalapa. The flowers open at sundown and close early in the morning.
I guess for wildlife White, I could include some white-wing, as in this White-winged Dove, Zenaida asiatica.
Like many birds who visit the pond, this one perches on a rock which is adjacent to the tumbling rush of cool water.
Blue has greater representation in my garden with a bevy of Blue jays, Cyanocitta cristata, who call it home.
I dole out peanuts every morning and the Blue jays love them! Each morning, 7 or 8 jays take turns plucking peanuts from a ceramic bowl affixed to the fence. Additionally, a Blue jay pair nested in my Mountain Laurel tree in May and June, so I've enjoyed watching the parenting care in raising the brood and the antics of the fledglings. The newbies have finally learned how to take their own peanuts for breakfast, rather than fluttering their wings in hopes that mom or dad will share peanuts.
This Blue made a brief visit one afternoon.
Austin hosts numerous communities of Monk parakeets, Myiopsitta monachus. I see them flying over my neighborhood and hear their loud cawing, but only rarely do they land in my garden. I assume this Blue parakeet is part of a Monk group, though he/she could also be an escaped or lost pet. The bird was eyeing my pond, but was in the tree for just a few minutes.
Other Things in the garden include an uptick of damselflies and dragonflies–they thrive in summer and are constant pond companions as they flit through the garden while hunting for their meals and resting on foliage. This Neon Skimmer, Libellula croceipennis, posed beautifully one weekend afternoon as I lolled in the swing.
This male is a bright orange, his mate of a paler hue. I've observed her laying eggs in the pond several times this summer–more skimmers in our future, unless the fish eat all the larvae.
I see Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Melanerpes carolinus, during winter and early spring, but this summer, both a male and female have been regular guests at the feeder.
This guy snatched black-oil sunflower seeds from the feeder, afterwards zooming to the nearby oak tree to stuff the seeds in a hole. I didn't see a juvenile at any point, but wondered if this was parenting behavior teaching a young one.
Finally, this unknown moth surprised me late one evening.
Like most folks, I'm bedazzled by the beauty of butterflies; their bright colors and lovely patterns seduce the wildlife watcher during daylight hours. But moths are certainly gorgeous, though subtle in color. Their patterns are remarkably intricate, but we don't see these nighttime lovelies enough to appreciate their good looks or their contribution to flowers and gardens.
Wildlife in the garden–it's been a good month and I hope you've enjoyed your critters, no matter what their colors, stars, or stripes. Please post about your wild happenings and leave a link when you comment here–and happy wildlife gardening!
Happy Birthday, America–it's been a good run for our democratic institutions–may they remain.


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The Shorter, Faster, Cheaper MBA
Published: October 15, 2009 / Author: Alison Damast
Accelerated MBA programs of a year or less are gaining in popularity, but critics say they're not right for everyone and may leave some students short
Logan Snyder decided halfway through law school that he wanted to get his MBA degree. But after four years as an undergraduate business major, three years as a law student, and several years of work experience in between, spending two more years in business school was not an appealing prospect. Says Snyder: "It seemed like it would be a waste of time and money."
Fortunately for Snyder, his business background and work experience allowed him to bypass the traditional MBA route in favor of a one-year accelerated MBA program at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business(Mendoza Full-Time MBA Profile). After spending 10 weeks this summer brushing up on basic MBA core classes like accounting and finance, he jumped right into the second year of the two-year MBA program this fall and will graduate this spring. "It's been quite a whirlwind," he says. "I can't believe it when I look back four months ago and realize that I'm pretty much halfway through the program."
This type of business school journey is becoming more and more common for a growing number of students, who are tossing aside convention and opting for a shorter and more intensive business school experience at roughly half the price of a traditional two-year program. The condensed time frame of a one-year MBA program, coupled with a more attractive price tag, is proving to be irresistible for many students in this economy, say admissions officers and MBA program directors. A number of U.S. business schools that offer the accelerated programs say that applications were up significantly last year, with enrollment at record levels at some schools. And worldwide, nearly 70% of one-year MBA programs reported an increase in applications this year, according to the latest application trend survey from the Graduate Management Admission Council. To meet growing student demand for these programs, more and more schools are expanding their MBA offerings to include one-year programs, with some adding programs just in the last few months.
A Growing Trend
The trend mirrors a shift that has taken place in the MBA market over the past year, says Nunzio Quacquarelli, managing director of the QS World MBA Tour, which polled nearly 4,000 prospective MBA students in 35 countries last fall and again in the spring of 2009 for its annual applicant survey. One finding that stood out? Of this year's pool of MBA candidates, more students (44%) stated a preference for a one-year program over a two-year program (43%), a first in the applicant survey's 11-year history. In the U.S. the two-year model is still the preferred choice, but even that is beginning to change, he says. "Five year ago, the two-year MBA was significantly more popular than the one-year MBA model, but now they are neck to neck," Quacquarelli says.
Schools in the U.S. are already responding to the demand from students for alternatives. One school starting a new program is Rutgers Business School which is launching a one-year MBA program in the summer of 2010. The school has offered a two-year MBA program on its Newark (N.J.) campus for years, but never offered a one-year program, says Susan Gilbert, Rutgers' associate dean of MBA programs, who was asked by the school to explore options for a new MBA program on the school's New Brunswick campus.
While researching, she reviewed applicant data from the past few years and unearthed a surprising discovery; about 40% of the applicants to the school's two-year MBA program already held undergraduate business degrees and were likely up to speed on the concepts typically covered in first-year core MBA courses. Adding a one-year MBA program to the school's degree offerings seemed to make sense, Gilbert says, with the idea that the program would cater to these more experienced applicants. "There's a growing niche segment of students who aren't making as big of a career switch." Gilbert says. "They want their MBAs in a hurry in order to advance their career in the field and function that they are already in."
Uptick in Enrollments
Schools that already offer one-year MBA programs say they are starting to reap the rewards of catering to this new market of students. At Utah State University's Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, which has offered a one-year MBA for more than a decade, enrollment is at 56 students this fall, up from 43 last year. In fact, this year's class was so big that the first-year cohort couldn't fit into the classroom where lectures are typically held and had to move into the school's larger 80-person capacity classroom, says Ken Snyder, Huntsman's director of MBA programs.
Other schools are reporting similar upticks. At Notre Dame, applications were up about 14% this year for the school's one-year MBA program and the school matriculated a class this fall that is 30% larger than last year's, says Brian Lohr, the school's admissions director. At the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business which has one of the longest-running one-year MBA programs in the U.S., applications more than doubled this year, says Bill Valenta, the school's assistant dean for MBA programs. Part of that increase was driven by international students, who are looking for programs similar in length to those offered in their home countries, Valenta says. "There are a growing number of one-year programs in Europe, so we are seeing more international students who identify with the one-year program model," he says.
Meanwhile, some institutions that offer one-year MBA programs are seeking to make their programs more cutting-edge and appealing to students. The University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business recently revamped its one-year MBA curriculum, a move that now allows students to finish the program in either 9 or 11 months, making it one of the shortest one-year MBA programs on the market. Previously, students completed the school's accelerated program in 15 months, says Andrew Verner, the school's assistant dean of graduate programs. He's hoping the new curriculum, which allows specialization in tracks such as sports marking and sustainable business, coupled with the new program length, will strike a chord with applicants. "The preponderance of MBA programs in the U.S. are still two-year MBA programs, so if you can add a one-year program, that helps give you a leg up on the competition," Verner says.
However, admissions directors concede that accelerated MBA programs are not for everyone. There is not always as much flexibility when it comes to electives and concentrations in particular disciplines, and students are often so busy that they don't have time to get involved in campus activities.
No Summer Interning Option
And unlike two-year MBA programs, which require a summer internship between the first and second year, one-year programs typically doesn't offer students this option. In this tough job climate, when many companies are only making offers to students from their MBA summer internship cohort, that can leave one-year student at a disadvantage when it comes to the job hunt, concedes Huntsman's Snyder. The school has had to be creative about helping students prepare for the job hunt and find opportunities.
"Sometimes when we talk to the big companies, they'll say we have most of our MBA hires locked up from the summer," Snyder says. "We have to work hard to make up for the challenges of not having that summer internship."
But this is a downside that most students who enter the one-year programs say they are willing to overlook. Those who enter the one-year MBA programs tend to be more focused than the typical two-year MBA student and the internship experience is not necessarily as important for them in their career advancement, admissions directors say. Admissions officers also say they carefully screen the applicants for the one-year MBA programs, typically requiring them to have an undergraduate degree in business and several years of work experience. Many programs seek out students who are not career changers, but career advancers. "Generally, the one-year student is pretty well focused and on a career path where they are not making a large transition," says Lohr. "They are staying in essentially the same area but moving back at a higher level,"
This is the case for Allison Fromm, a one-year student at Pittsburgh's Katz School who previously worked in the accounts payable department at health-care giant Bayer before business school and plans to return to the field after graduation. But with nearly 10 years of work experience under her belt, she didn't feel that she needed the summer internship and other perks that come along with a two-year MBA. She wrestled with the decision to go back to school until she learned about the one-year MBA program. Her decision came with a trade-off, she says. "Sure, I regret the things I can't do, but would I rather have done the two-year program? Not at all," says Fromm. "With this, I can get my business foundations, not spend too much time out of the workforce and get right back in."
Not everyone in the management education world is pleased about the growing popularity of the one-year programs. A shortened MBA program may be an appropriate model for a handful of talented students with significant business experience, but it is not the right model for the majority of students, says John Fernandes, president of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), one of the leading accreditation agencies for business schools.
His association has been tracking the number of U.S. accredited schools that offer accelerated MBA programs, which they define as programs that can be completed in less than two years. There were 31 accredited schools that offered accelerated programs back in the 2005-06 academic year, a number that has since skyrocketed to 44 schools this year, AACSB data shows. "It's a very sharp increase," he says. "I'm concerned that there is a race to acceleration."
The growing popularity of these programs comes at a time when the AACSB is encouraging, and in some instances requiring, schools to add more materials and concepts to their two-year curriculum, such as ethics, sustainable development, and how to operate in a global market, Fernandes says. The new one-year programs could be flagged by accreditation officers in the next few years if they are not up to AACSB standards, he says. "If the school has a program that is not covering sufficient curriculum, that can be a slippery slope," he says. "Unless you have very experienced high-performing students, I think it's another 'buyer beware' market, both on the student and employer side."
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Do our children feel entitled to have all the things they see around them? These days children restricted to staying home often expect to have or use an iPad, an iPhone, an iPod, an electronic game, or something else in the world of technology, which parents often feel conflicted about providing.
Children are bombarded from all sides by alluring "toys." They live in an electronic world in which it seems that exciting new gadgets appear daily. They are taught early on to use the computer in school. There is endless software of mixed value for children, and they play games on the computer at home. Preschool children have their own cell phones.
In many ways play has been commercialized to a new level. Since the early days of television, parents have been struggling with children's exposure to all kinds of games and toys presented as exciting fun. But the conflict parents feel now is more intense for several reasons. One concern is that many of these new "toys" open a world to children that may be inappropriate for their age, or have content of which parents don't approve. Many video games are violent. Children are drawn to the computer for instant messaging instead of homework. The result is many more areas of conflict between parents and children.
Another reason for parents' concern is that these new "toys" are expensive. For parents who cannot afford to buy the things children want, the issue is much clearer. Those families have greater priorities. Often parents feel inadequate because of their inability to provide these things.
Yet many parents, those who have the financial means and those who don't, are concerned about what they hear as children's demands, that children seem to feel entitled to have what they want. But in one sense, children have always thought they should have whatever they want. That is the self-centered nature of childhood, and that is why there have always been conflicts between parents and children. Children want one thing and parents want something different – whether things or behavior.
What seems to be driving this now is the cost of many of these new things, the sense that they were not really intended for children, and children's apparent lack of awareness of, or indifference to the expense involved. But sometimes I wonder if this is not our own conflict as parents, which we want our children to solve for us; we wish they wouldn't ask so that we wouldn't have to worry about whether it is right or wrong to say yes or no.
A big part of the problem lies in thinking there is a right answer. Children grow and mature, which changes the answer. Situations are different, and that changes the answer, particularly now during home confinement, which is stressful to both parents and children. Parents have different values, and that changes the answer from one parent to another.
What can help is to realize that these requests or demands are really no different than the ones children have always made. It always comes back to the same question: How do we help children learn to tolerate frustration, to accept not getting everything they want, to respect parental decisions even when they don't like them? These are the things we have to start teaching from earliest childhood: making our own decisions based on our own values, about when and when not to gratify children's wishes, and helping them deal with their disappointment or anger when they don't get what they want.
This teaching and learning have to begin even before the technology question rears its head.
Elaine Heffner, LCSW, Ed.D., has written for Parents Magazine, Fox.com, Redbook, Disney online and PBS Parents, as well as other publications.l


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Kings crush Bulls 121-79 for easiest win of season
Tyreke Evans had 26 points and seven assists in the Sacramento Kings' most lopsided victory of the season, a 121-79 rout of the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night.
The Kings opened the second quarter with a 26-4 run against the lethargic Bulls to hike their lead to 34 points. It was an almost error-free first half for the Kings, who committed just one turnover and took a 65-36 lead into intermission.
The Kings shot 54 percent and tied a season low with five turnovers.
Making his first start of the season, Patrick Patterson had 14 points and nine rebounds, and Jason Thompson had 12 points for the Kings, who snapped a five-game losing streak against Chicago.
Carlos Boozer scored 21 points and Nate Robinson had 19 for the slumping Bulls, who lost their second straight and fourth in five games.
The Bulls have dropped a season-high five straight road games and have a 7-12 record since beating Milwaukee on Jan. 30.
The Bulls shot 38 percent, missed 19 of 21 3-point attempts, and committed 17 turnovers.
Short-handed Chicago played without injured forward Taj Gibson (knee) and veteran guards Richard Hamilton (back) and Kirk Hinrich (foot), who are all out indefinitely.
At least for one game, it mattered very little that Sacramento played without DeMarcus Cousins, the Kings' leading scorer and rebounder. He missed the game due to a sore left knee.
Cousins picked up his 12th technical foul of the season and was ejected from Sunday's game against Milwaukee after picking up a Flagrant 2 for elbowing Mike Dunleavy in the head.
Though there was speculation Cousins would be suspended by the NBA and miss the game, the volatile center was spared of his third league suspension this season.
"It was going to be difficult for him to play in this game regardless of what might have happened (regarding a suspension) based on the injury that DeMarcus has," Kings coach Keith Smart said before the game.
There was no letting up in the third quarter for the Kings, who didn't allow the Bulls to cut into their 29-point deficit. Isaiah Thomas had 11 points and continued to push the tempo for Sacramento, which took a 93-60 lead into the fourth.
Evans had 18 points in the first half, when the Kings shot 58 percent. Sacramento began the second quarter with an 11-2 run and the lead remained in double figures the remainder of the game.
It was a horrible first half at both ends of the court for the Bulls, who shot 35 percent, committed eight turnovers, and allowed 15 fast-break points. Boozer was the only bright spot for Chicago with 16 points.
Patterson helped get the Kings off to a fast start, making all five shots and scoring 11 first-quarter points. Sacramento shot 65 percent in the opening quarter and led 34-20.
Notes: Former league MVP Derrick Rose worked out before the game. Rose, who tore his anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee last April, is still contemplating a return to the Bulls this season. . Evans has averaged 23.7 points in his last three games. . Kings reserve forward James Johnson missed his second straight game due to personal reasons. . Attendance was 14,426.


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A Holiday Message from Arthur Kade
"'If the Gen Pop doesn't understand how brilliant Arthur Kade is, then "The Year Of The Brand" will be like an explosion of science, sex, and orgasms, that will mold a generation. "Generation K" is upon us.'…Arthur Kade…12/24/09" Awww!
2010 will be a good year for Arthur Kade if I have anything to say about it.