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The old port of Antsiranana sits on one of the most beautiful bays in Madagascar, if not the world. The town is also known as Diego Suarez, the surnames of two marauding Portuguese captains who landed there in 1506 and sold several of the local inhabitants into slavery.
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DEAR ABBY: It's Father's Day and I'd like to salute one particular unsung hero - my dad. He was there for me and my sister despite a difficult workload throughout our childhood. He has always been generous with love and affection, and I have no doubt that he has sacrificed things he wanted personally for our benefit.
Dad has been the calming voice during times of strife. He can fix anything from a broken washing machine to a broken heart. He has not only nurtured us, but our children as well.
He has been our role model when it comes to setting an example of what a man, husband, father and grandfather should be. He is never judgmental and has always shown us the best in ourselves. He's consistent in his love of God, country and family. He is patient, kind, generous and smart in ways I only wish I could be.
To top it off, he found us the best mother we could have hoped for. They have been married 58 years. My unsung hero doesn't wear a cape, but I do believe he has certainly earned a halo. - SHARON IN BRANDON, FLA.
DEAR SHARON: What a sweet letter. I'm printing it to honor not only your father but also the millions of men who dedicate themselves daily to raising their children with love and support. In addition, I'd like to extend a Happy Father's Day to fathers everywhere - not only birth fathers but also stepfathers, foster fathers and those caring individuals who mentor youngsters whose parents are absent or deceased.
Bless you all. DEAR ABBY: Will you please help librarians across the country clarify something that is generally misrepresented to the public?
Patrons who need assistance operating a computer MAY be able to get help at their local library. That's 'may,' not 'can.' Too often, people are instructed to go to their library and use a computer to file taxes, redeem a gift, print pictures, etc. The fact is, not every library has computers with Internet access. Most do, but not all.
Further, many libraries lack sufficient staff to offer one-on-one support to operate a computer. To someone who is proficient, it may seem strange that a person can't simply lay a hand on a mouse and go. The reality is, computers and the Internet are not intuitive to those who haven't been exposed to them- and there are many.
While I don't know of a librarian who wouldn't like to offer unlimited assistance to computer users, libraries nationwide are losing staff due to budget cuts. At the same time, use of libraries is steadily increasing. It's frustrating to disappoint patrons who expect to receive instruction in computer operation. We prefer they leave our building happy.
So, Abby, please spread the word. Computers and Internet services vary from library to library. Readers should ask their librarian about what services are available at their local branch. - CONCERNED CITIZEN, EASTHAMPTON, MASS.
DEAR CONCERNED CITIZEN: Thank you for shining a light on this important subject.
Readers, if this letter is as disturbing to you as it is to me, write your congressional representative and express your concern. For lower- and middle-income people of every age, libraries have performed - and continue to perform - a vital function. Their budgets must not be slashed to the point that they can no longer fulfill their mission of informing and educating the public.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.


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Lynn Novick has been making acclaimed documentary films about American history for more than twenty years. Since the late 1990s, she has been directing/producing partner of filmmaker Ken Burns. Their most recent collaboration, PROHIBITION, is a three part, five and a half hour series airing on PBS in the fall of 2011. It tells the story of the rise, reign, and fall of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution and all of its consequences – intended and otherwise. The film raises vital questions that are as relevant today as they were 100 years ago – about means and ends, individual rights and responsibilities, the proper role of government, and finally, who is – and who is not – a real American.
In 2010, Novick was director/producer with Burns, and writer with Burns and David McMahon, of THE TENTH INNING, a four hour update of the 1994 series, BASEBALL which brought the tumultuous story of our national pastime up to the present day. In 2007 she was director/producer with Burns of THE WAR, an epic seven-part series that told the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of nearly 40 men and women from four American towns. The series explored the most intimate human dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in history and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives. THE WAR received 3 Emmy awards as well as the Television Critics' Association award for best news and information program of 2007.
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In 1994, she produced the most-watched series in the history of public television, Burns's nine-part, 18 hour series, BASEBALL, (1994) for which she received an Emmy Award. In 2001, Novick produced Burns's 10-part series, JAZZ, which explores in detail the culture, politics and dreams that gave birth to jazz music and follows this most American of art forms from its origins in blues and ragtime through swing, bebop and fusion. Jazz was nominated for five Emmy Awards.
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Novick came to Florentine Films in 1989 to work on Burns's landmark 1990 series, THE CIVIL WAR, as associate producer for post production. She previously served as researcher and associate producer for Bill Moyers on two PBS series: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth and A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers. A graduate of Yale, she lives in New York City with her husband, Robert Smith, and their two children.


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The deepening disenchantment on the far Left with Barack Obama has sparked a campaign here in New England to track Mr. Obama's appointments and moves as he prepares to take office. Folks at The Phoenix group of alternative newspapers (Boston,Providence, Portland) have started a site named Take Back Barack.
Jeff Inglis, a commentator at the site, writes yesterday (excerpts,emphasis added):
….I've come to a deeper understanding of this visceral feeling I have of worry about Obama….
….Only time will tell whether Obama will do the right things, the things we voted for him to do – withdraw from Iraq, improve our education system, fix healthcare, green the economy. Many liberals and progressives are counseling us to wait and see, to give Obama a chance to make change.
That is the wrong path. We cannot sit back on whatever laurels we may have heard by electing Obama and let him do what he and his advisors want. We must remain constantly involved, a constant force to push Obama, his advisors, and Congress to do what we know needs to be done.
He might just do the right things, even if we left him alone. But we can't take that chance – especially with the advisors he has chosen. Maybe he can take the Clinton out of Hillary and the McCain out of Jim Jones. Maybe they will come around – or even already have – to share Obama's views on many topics. But I'm not willing to bet my future, my country's future on that….Obama called on us to stand up and take our country back. We need to do that – and we start by Taking Back Barack.
Ralph Nader is not happy either. On Democracy Now (Dec 5) here is Nader in an exchange with Amy Goodman (excerpts):
…after appointing all the heavyweights, keeping Gates as Secretary of Defense, Hillary Clinton at State Department, and other positions—Treasury, for example, coming from Wall Street—the article said, well, it's time now to consider some liberal appointees….Well, what's left?….As long as liberals and progressives gave Obama a pass during the election and didn't demand anything in return, he knew that he had their votes and he had their support regardless and moved right, moved to the corporate. And that's reflected in the appointments that he has been putting in place….Now we look forward to the second level. Who's going to be Food and Drug Administration head? Who's going to be the head of the Auto Safety Agency or EPA? Will so-called liberals and progressives get their share of the Obama administration at that second level? It remains to be seen. But the signs are not very auspicious.
….(Obama) defeated Hillary Clinton in a close race, and now he's reinstalling the Bill Clinton administration. Now, there are two interpretations, briefly, here. One, it could reflect his insecurity. That way, by putting Clintonites all over the government and keeping Gates, he is basically eliminating a lot of potential centers of criticism and challenge to his administration after January 20….
Amy Goodman asks about the Marine General Jim Jones nomination as National Security Adviser:
Jim Jones is basically the representative of what President Eisenhower cautioned us about, the military-industrial complex. He is experienced. He's clever. And now he's in the White House. So the question is, who's going to run what? Is Obama going to transform Jim Jones? Is Obama going to transform all these establishment appointees? Or are they going to, in effect, transform him, in contrast to his more liberal rhetoric?
Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin is with Nader in this discussion and she has much to say about Iraq and Afghanistan; we'll leave that for a later post. Stay tuned.
h/t Brian Maloney: Radio Equalizer


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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Obamacare upheld Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Obamacare upheld Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Next Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current Events Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message UnposterJoined: 04 Jun 2006 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 5:54 pm Post subject: My understanding is that the idea of health care as a "right" goes back to at least the UN Declaration of Human Rights. As for it being a "natural" right, I don't think a philosophical argument can made. As for it being a politically created "right," well, anything is possible. But, whether it is a right or not, to me, is a moot point. People have a right to pass legislation that people think is in their best interests, such as social security and medicare. And, I still don't really understand the logic of taxes being theft UNLESS you are an anarchist. Government has to be supported -and whether you want to call it taxes, fees or "bumble bees," it does not matter, once you have government, you have a re-distribution of resources toward a social focus - whatever that social focus may be. If people want to use government resources toward subsidizing health care or education or building roads or whatever, that is what government is for. I think someone's Canadian friend makes a good point. Americans are fairly nice people but (our) focus on military and war is out of alignment with (our) character. And, (our) lack of focus on health care is also out of alignment with (our) character. Back to top TitusJoined: 19 May 2012 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:23 pm Post subject: northway wrote: Two things: First, if health care isn't a right, doesn't it necessarily follow that you would turn sick people away from hospitals if they don't have the means to pay? Are you really willing to do that? Second, Democrats wanted a public option in addition to the private market solution that we ended up with. Had this occurred, there would have at least been the possibility that you wouldn't be forced to buy a plan from a for-profit insurance company. As it is, that didn't fly, and we're left with a system where we have to pay private insurers (subsidizing private industry, if you will). Obama is a bad negotiator. He started with the concession. He should have started with Medicare (or Medicaid? don't know the diff) for all and settled for a public option. He started with the PO and settled for a gift to the insurance industry. When you have the upper hand in a negotiation you start BIG and dig in your heels and beat the weaker party around and walk away and manipulate them and then concede a few points to the weaker party. I'd rather the feds set goalposts and let the states experiment. The Canada Health Act is a guide to the provinces that uses transfer payments to bribe their compliance. I don't know if healthcare is a right or what a right is or where they come from but it doesn't make sense for this country to have millions of people using emergency rooms for colds and cuts. I watched a program on Current TV a while back that followed firemen around in LA. These firemen were the primary healthcare providers for several million people. Firemen! I don't think Obamacare is much of an improvement. As I understand it, many firms are cutting back hours to avoid the full-time requirements etc on employees. The whole thing is a mess. Back to top KurosJoined: 27 Apr 2004 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:36 pm Post subject: Titus wrote: I don't think Obamacare is much of an improvement. As I understand it, many firms are cutting back hours to avoid the full-time requirements etc on employees. The whole thing is a mess. Obama, public option or no, needed to decouple healthcare costs from employers. Here in the United States, the government spends $197 billion a year in a tax expenditure for an employer-provided healthcare plan deduction. Thus, employers are saddled with the burden of providing healthcare. Proper healthcare reform would have engaged this, liberated employers, and placed the burden of healthcare on some combination of the government and the individual. Mandating individuals to purchase healthcare is a corporate hand-out to insurance companies. Mandating larger employers to purchase healthcare is just messed up. Remember that free-riding is still a viable option. The penalty of the mandate is reasonable when you balance it against all Medicaid gives you. Whatever isn't covered you can negotiate with the healthcare provider. Sometimes you can pay 30% on the dollar if you have the cash ready to pay. Back to top TitusJoined: 19 May 2012 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:50 pm Post subject: I work for a firm in the USA. I pay out the ass for my healthcare benefits. My employer pays half, but that's just a deduction on my wages. I agree the employers should not have this responsibility (though it's fine to offer top-up benefits). Isn't this a legacy of WW2? Another thing we can blame that war for. My buddy had cancer when he was 18 and is self-employed. He has not had health insurance for 14 years. He is upper middle class by any measure but wasn't able to afford insurance. He had his buddy put him as a ghost employee and then included him on the corp plan and had him pay cash under the table for his insurance. He's delighted at the Affordable Care Act but I guess anything is an improvement over the present mess. Back to top KurosJoined: 27 Apr 2004 Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:04 am Post subject: Fox wrote: In a rational world filled with state-governments who actually cared first and foremost about their people's welfare, this would definitely be correct; the terms of what you call the "carrot" are simply too beneficial to be rationally turned down if such is your goal. In the real world, however, team-sport politics evidently turn such "easy choices" into tough ones: Quote: Fifteen governors reject or leaning against expanded Medicaid program At least 15 governors have indicated they will not participate in the expansion of Medicaid under the healthcare law, striking a blow to President Obama�s promise of broader insurance coverage. Before Thursday�s Supreme Court ruling, states had the option of either increasing their Medicaid rolls or being penalized by the federal government. The high court struck down that offer as unconstitutional. Governors still have a financial incentive to participate in the expansion of coverage for low-income people, since the government will foot most of the bill through 2016. But the decision is also loaded with politics, particularly for Republican governors who are adamantly opposed to �ObamaCare.� �You can make the political call real quick, but the actual decision is a complicated one,� said Matt Salo of the National Association of Medicaid Directors. �Governors are going to be looking at the numbers and asking: Does this make sense for us?� Seven states with Republican governors have given a flat �no� to the Medicaid expansion since the Supreme Court ruling, according to reports and press statements (see list below). States that will decline to participate include Florida, where Gov. Rick Scott (R) turned his opposition to the law into a political career, and Louisiana, where Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has vowed to help elect Mitt Romney as president in order to repeal it. In eight other states � seven with GOP governors � the Medicaid expansion seems unlikely, given comments from governors and their offices. ... And the states most vehemently against it are often the ones who are most desparately in need of it. In an era where state governments are literally willing to see their people go without health care rather than give the Obama Administration the perceived victory of paying for health care for them, what should be an easy choice evidently becomes a quite difficult one for certain parties! Kuros wrote: With just the stick, every State also had an easy choice: accept the Medicaid expansion. Again, in a world of rational, compassionate governance, this would definitely be correct, and in such a world the "stick" wouldn't even be needed, because it would be the rawest of raw stupidity to turn down the "carrot." But once again, back in the real world, where denying the Obama Administration any sort of perceived victory is an end in itself for certain parties, it becomes a tougher choice. Plenty of governors have outright said they'll turn down the Medicaid expansion for their citizens in service of their ideological interests, and although I think even they would balk at throwing away 100% of Medicaid funding in their little political game, I suspect there would be quite a bit of agonizing over it, since for these people the choice in a certain sense becomes a question of which is more important: remaining in office, or telling Obama to go to Hell. Okay, so I have some updates for Fox. Several Republican Governors have moved towards Obamacare already. Christie removes another excuse against the Medicaid expansion Florida's Scott concludes deal with Sebelius on Medicaid Bob Laszewski wrote: A million Floridians will now be eligible for Medicaid��the Obama administration is happy about that. Republican Rick Scott gets to do it his way��in an almost entirely private market. This from today's Tampa Bay Times: Quote: [Scott's] endorsement of the expansion came hours after the federal government agreed to grant Florida a conditional waiver to privatize Medicaid statewide for the state's more than 3 million current recipients, more than half of which are children or people under age 21. Scott has agreed to only a three year trial expansion and the legislature must vote in favor of it��not a certainty. And, the Obama administration is taking some big risks��a five county trial of Scott's privatization program has had lots of problems. In prior posts I have said that Republican governors, so adamantly opposed to "Obamacare," ought to go to Washington and negotiate a deal on Medicaid expansion. If they believe they can manage Medicaid better than the traditional federal route, which is what they claim every time they demand block grants, then they should put a deal on the table. Ultimately, the feds will pay 90% of costs and the state will pay 10% of the cost of the expansion. The Republican governors don't believe they can save 10% if given more flexibility? Scott did that. Here's a helpful map for Medicaid Expansion by state. I have to imagine that some of this opposition will topple Republican governors, especially those not in the South. Back to top rolloJoined: 10 May 2006Location: China Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:51 am Post subject: Government provided healthcare is just putting more power in the hand of governments, and taking away some freedom. No way around that. but at the same tme i understand that in a large diverse society the government is going to have to play a large part. For one thing government control will lower cost, probably also lower quality. But cost is the big issue. I personally do not like a central government to have too much power! i really do not understand health care as an inalienable right. How so? How about economic sucess is an inalienable right. Back to top FoxJoined: 04 Mar 2009 Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 3:38 pm Post subject: I'm not surprised to see Christie go for the expansion. He strikes me as less wildly partisan than many of his peers; obviously ideologically conservative, but still open to pragmatism. He probably planned on "caving" all along. As far as Scott, he didn't cave, he set a trap. Not even a cunning or secretive trap, and the Obama Administration simply didn't care. Anything for a few days of good headlines in the news I guess. Quote: What didn�t get reported as much is that Scott�s announcement coincided with the go-ahead from the Administration for Florida to fully privatize their Medicaid system. The move into managed care represents an enormous cash cow for private corporate interests, including Scott�s former colleagues � he ran a health care company (notable for his racking up the largest Medicare fraud fine in history). A pilot project was seen as disastrous for almost everyone involved, save perhaps the insurers. Providers and patients alike are uneasy about full privatization. But even that's not enough for the Florida Legislature it would seem! Quote: So what was up with the Legislature�s rejection? Tea Party politics? Some unlikely show of principle against crony capitalism and corporate welfare? No. They just want a different kind of privatization. Arkansas� privatization, in particular � which would just completely liquidate the public Medicaid program and have the state, in the immediate term, pay for premiums for everyone up to 138% of the poverty line to purchase private health insurance. There would be no more public disposition of Medicaid for the poor. It folds Medicaid into the as-yet-untested insurance exchanges. What should be an easy decision -- an almost entirely federally-funded expansion of Medicaid -- evidently becomes quite a tough one when your primary priority becomes, "How can our fat-cat donors maximize their slice of the handout?" Back to top Plain MeaningJoined: 18 Oct 2014 Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 3:08 pm Post subject: Tennessee Governor Moves To Expand Medicaid Coverage Quote: Tennessee's Gov. Bill Haslam is moving to expand Medicaid in his state, using federal funds from the Affordable Care Act. Haslam announced the plan Monday morning; it'll be debated by the legislature next month. Back to top sirius blackJoined: 04 Jun 2010 Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 7:58 pm Post subject: The anti Obamacare thing is not about ideology. Both Obama and Hillary had pretty much the same plan during the campaign. Not a peep out of Republicans, McCain down, about how'evil' it is. They didn't challenge it on its merits much at all, only the feasibility. The rest of the industrialized world has propsered while having it. Healthcare in America could be cheaper were it not for a lack of competition that the health care industry keeps that way to maintain high wages (AMA) and profits (big pharma, etc.). If there was true competition we could have a much better system. Infinitely better. You can't even call it a system before. It was severely broken for the average person. Over 60 percent of personal bankrupticies due to medical bills. It was a crisis and the Republicans rather than solve it just took the lobby money from health care and f*cked the rest of us since they get a great health benefits package themselves. The huge opposition was founded on lies and it wasn't about Obamacare it was about igniting a base. The GOP lost big in 2008 and found a way to get the base going and it worked with the 2010 elections. The other reason is their strategy from day one is to give Obama no wins. Obsruct EVERYTHING even if its good for the country. If they vote for it, say they forced him to. The Dems are not much better. Cowards mostly. At least we can respect the GOP for actually acting on thier insanity with zealotry. The last reason it was fought so hard was because they knew it would work and the last thing they wanted was some sort of legacy that Obama can have for the history books. Obama has governed as a centrist. Kept a lot of Bush appointees initially. He's been bought and paid for by a few groups. So, this is not about supporting him because I believe in him. Its about the truth. We had the fortune of seeing how all the other countries planned their healthcare and learn from their mistakes. We have the biggest advantage. Economy of scale that should make health care cheaper than anywhere else. But we are a nation where our government, federal, state and to some extent local in many places are simply a tool for the corporations and special interests. The GOP especially but some Dems are lemmings. They ( some voters) beleve the lie and a lot of the voting is based on a dream that they can be of the 1% and the selling of their status in America to be forever a class above socially, ecnonomically than certain groups (Blacks, Latinos, poor whites). And the poor whites only means of self worth is to feel they are better than poor people of color even when knowngly voting against their own self interest....as long as it maintains that illusoin they are better than the other groups. The fact that the GOP can't/won't offer anything in place of it shows you that they are paid off. Back to top guavashakeJoined: 09 Nov 2013 Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 2:06 am Post subject: Obamacare Architect Admits Democrats Lied to 'Stupid Americans' to Pass Obamacare http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/11/obamacare-architect-admits-democrats-lied-to-stupid-americans-to-pass-obamacare-video/ At an October 2013 conference Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber bragged about deceiving the American people, who he thinks are stupid. Gruber's comments will blow your mind. "This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scores the mandate as taxes the bill dies. So it's written to do that… If you get a law that says healthy people are going to pay and sick people would get money, it would not have passed. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And, basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really very very critical to get the thing to pass. And, you know, it's the second best argument. I wish Mark was right we could make this transparent but I would rather have this law than not." And, that is exactly what Democrats did. They lied to the American people in order to pass Obamacare. And, now they even admit it. Back to top sirius blackJoined: 04 Jun 2010 Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 1:47 pm Post subject: Of courst some of the Dems lied. But thats a deflection. Would it have passed otherwise? Maybe not. DOes it matter. Yes, the system should be free and open. However, its a deflection of the issue of healthcare generally and some of the architects lying about it does NOT mean it is not needed. Johnson lied about parts of the Civil Rights Act. He threatned, bribed, berated congressmen for the votes. If you look at any socaetal changing act like the woman's right to vote, or gay marriage or whatever, I wouldn't be surprised to see that someone lied about something to get it passed. Lets talk about the need. The need is there and the FACT is that the opposition to it is or at least the funding, is based totally on the health care industry's greed. In every society I can thnk of doctor's live at least n upper middleclass life in their country. Europe's doctor's are wealthy. Europe has successful pharmaceutical companies. Guess what? They also have national health care. Its more than doable and with our size it would be cheaper than what the european countries citizens pay. So, stop using deflection as a reason why it shouldn't happen. Talk about why it should or shouldn't on its own merits. Back to top guavashakeJoined: 09 Nov 2013 Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 4:50 pm Post subject: sirius black wrote: Of courst some of the Dems lied. But thats a deflection. Would it have passed otherwise? Maybe not. DOes it matter. Yes, the system should be free and open. However, its a deflection of the issue of healthcare generally and some of the architects lying about it does NOT mean it is not needed. Johnson lied about parts of the Civil Rights Act. He threatned, bribed, berated congressmen for the votes. If you look at any socaetal changing act like the woman's right to vote, or gay marriage or whatever, I wouldn't be surprised to see that someone lied about something to get it passed. Lets talk about the need. The need is there and the FACT is that the opposition to it is or at least the funding, is based totally on the health care industry's greed. In every society I can thnk of doctor's live at least n upper middleclass life in their country. Europe's doctor's are wealthy. Europe has successful pharmaceutical companies. Guess what? They also have national health care. Its more than doable and with our size it would be cheaper than what the european countries citizens pay. So, stop using deflection as a reason why it shouldn't happen. Talk about why it should or shouldn't on its own merits. I see, this is your justification for you lying about Michael Brown, or anything else for that matter. Try actually reading the 25 volumes of the grand jury transcript. I read it. Especially the transcript of the accomplice named Johnson who was with Brown when they stole the cigarillos and encountered the police. You claim that it was not Michael Brown in the store. You didn't read the transcript. The whole "Hands up don't shoot" narrative is a false urban legend. You want to further the lies and the urban legend. You want to create a myth to further your agenda. You are not interested in the truth. Liar. Oh, excuse me, deflector. Back to top sirius blackJoined: 04 Jun 2010 Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 5:43 pm Post subject: You're on an Obamacare thread talking about Ferguson? LOL...says it all. Back to top guavashakeJoined: 09 Nov 2013 Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 12:14 am Post subject: sirius black wrote: You're on an Obamacare thread talking about Ferguson? LOL...says it all. I'm talking about you... and your attempt to justify lies and fairy tales. On this thread and any thread... You seem to have a chronic problem. Back to top sirius blackJoined: 04 Jun 2010 Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 6:26 pm Post subject: guavashake wrote: sirius black wrote: You're on an Obamacare thread talking about Ferguson? LOL...says it all. I'm talking about you... and your attempt to justify lies and fairy tales. On this thread and any thread... You seem to have a chronic problem. So, you have a problem with me specifically? ooooh is that so. Hmm...so the f*ck what. Add that to the list of things I could give a flying eff about. Probably upset because I tell the truth and as Jack Nicholson said "You can't handle the truth". Address the points I made about Obamacare and this thread and comment about other things on that thread and respect the people reading this thread who want to discuss Obamacare. 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Brittany Larson, 27, of New Milford, previously pleaded guilty under the Alford Doctrine. She was married and pregnant in her third trimester at the time of the alleged assault. Pleading guilty under the Alford doctrine means a defendant does not agree with all of the facts of the case, but believe they would lose at trial and could receive more favorable sentencing by pleading guilty.
Judge James Ginocchio executed a 10-year sentence, suspended after a nine month prison term. Larson was also sentenced to 10 years probation and registration as a sex offender for 10 years. How long Larson actually serves in prison is up to the Connecticut Department of Corrections.
Larson, a New Milford resident, turned herself in to Connecticut State Police during the week of Columbus Day 2011. She had been an employee at the therapeutic boarding school in for students with learning differences. Larson was released on a $25,000 bond during proceedings, and later pleaded not guilty to one count of second-degree sexual assault.
In June 2012, she turned down a plea deal that would have meant a 10-year sentence suspended after 15 months, instead opting for a jury trial. Eventually being sentenced to nine months in prison with probation and registration as a sex offender.
According to an arrest affidavit, staff members at the school for 10 to 18 year olds became suspicious of an inappropriate relationship after discovering racy online interactions with on the victim's Facebook page. The school reported the matter to authorities and terminated Larson's employment.
Larson told authorities the relationship between her and the student turned intimate in June 2011, and that she set up a secret Facebook page to communicate discreetly. The victim reportedly told police that the encounters took place on campus in multiple locations.
According to Web site for the Sabbaday Lane school, "The Glenholme School is a therapeutic boarding school for young people, ages 10 to 18, diagnosed with Asperger's, ADHD, PDD, OCD, Tourette's, depression, anxiety, and various learning differences. The program provides a treatment milieu designed to build competence socially and academically. Glenholme's learning environment supports and enhances the success of special needs students."
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|This genomic sequence was predicted to be a transcriptional regulatory region based on chromatin state analysis from the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) project. It was validated as a functional enhancer by the Sharpr-MPRA technique (Systematic high-resolution activation and repression profiling with reporter tiling using massively parallel reporter assays) in both HepG2 liver carcinoma cells (group: HepG2 Activating non-DNase unmatched - State 20:ReprD, Polycomb repression with Duke DNase/promoter and conservation enriched) and K562 erythroleukemia cells (group: K562 Activating DNase unmatched - State 8:EnhW, candidate weak enhancer and open chromatin). [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2018]


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"Time it was and what a time it was, it was - a time of innocence, a time of confidences. Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph. Preserve your memories; they're all that's left you." [Simon and Garfunkel, Bookends]
It was late in the day as I drove slowly down the short dirt road to the small parking lot that bordered the river. After I got out of the car I walked slowly down to the edge of the water and looked downstream. The river ran straight down to a gently bend where it formed a deep pool against the log cribbing that lined the bank. On the near bank a large cedar log was firmly anchored to the bottom; a suitable place for an angler to sit and watch the water. I gathered myself together and returned to my car and assembled my gear.


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Google announced that the new version of Android, known as 4.4 or KitKat, will appear on the new Nexus 4, and other Nexus and Android devices in the coming weeks.
KitKat will also show up on the Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play Editions in the next few weeks, according to Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps on the Official Google blog.
However, those with the Galaxy Nexus will be disappointed. The update won't be coming because it now "falls outside of the 18-month update window when Google and others traditionally update devices," according to 9to5Google.
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With KitKat, we've slimmed down Android's memory footprint by doing things like removing unnecessary background services and reducing the memory consumption of features that you use all the time. We did this not only within Android but across Google services like Chrome and YouTube. RAM (or memory) is one of the most expensive parts of a phone, and now Android can run comfortably on the 512MB of RAM devices that are popular in much of the world, bringing the latest goodies in Android 4.4 within reach for the next billion smartphone users.
The news seems to confirm reports that the new version of Android was supposed to make the platform accessible across the globe.so those in the developing world can purchase new low-end, updated and less-fragmented Android phones.


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OVER 350 SHOP stewards and trade union activists sponsored the unofficial 'Trade Unionists and Unemployed Against the Programme' (TUUAP) grouping which campaigned for a 'NO' vote on the PESP. Over 100 regularly attended TUUAP meetings in the main cities and towns. Many of these had long records as militants fighting against centralised bargaining, for more democracy in the unions and for solidarity with workers in struggle.
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'Calvin and Hobbes' Creator Breaks His Legendary Silence, Talks About an Animated Movie
Since publishing the last 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip on December 31, 1995, Bill Watterson, the notoriously private creator behind the series, has only granted one interview (an e-mail exchange with his hometown newspaper, the Plain Dealer, on the 15th anniversary of the strip). Many have tried to get in touch with Mr. Watterson over the years (and a documentary is scheduled to hit theaters this year on that very topic) and almost all have failed.
But, inexplicably, Watterson has emerged from hiding and spoke at length about the legacy of 'Calvin and Hobbes' and the potential for an animated movie.
Speaking with Mental Floss' Jake Rossen (we still have no idea how Mr. Rossen landed this interview), Watterson touched on a number of topics (does he ever want to peel off one of those stupid "Calvin urinating" decals off the back of a truck?), but perhaps most interestingly, definitively answered the question as to whether we'll ever see an animated 'Calvin and Hobbes' movie. Previously, Watterson had remained somewhat open to the idea (in that he never said never), but that stance seems to have changed.
When asked about a 'Calvin and Hobbes' movie, specifically the long-hoped-for Pixar collaboration, Watterson was resolute: it's not going to happen.
The visual sophistication of Pixar blows me away, but I have zero interest in animating Calvin and Hobbes. If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie's needs get served. As a comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes works exactly the way I intended it to. There's no upside for me in adapting it.
No one ever really knows if Pixar would make a 'Calvin and Hobbes' movie if Watterson were interested (they have their own franchise about a toy that comes to life), but for everyone who's dreamed of seeing their favorite boy and tiger pair coming to life, this should close to door on those hopes. While it's disappointing, Watterson is absolutely right. There is no upside, at all, to a 'Calvin and Hobbes' movie.
There's plenty of other gems in the all-too-short interview including some confirmation on popular urban legends (did he really set fire to a box of Hobbes stuffed animals a toy company sent to his house?) but we suggest you read the entire article here. And then lose yourself in the entire 'Calvin and Hobbes' archives, online, for free.


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Revolution creator Eric Kirpke was surprisingly candid during a recent conference call with journalists, revealing much about what viewers can expect of the drama's future. The showrunner opened up about the reasoning behind last Monday's death, Grace's return and when we'll find out why the power went out! (It's sooner than you might think.) Here are six juicy teases. [Spoilers ahead]
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1. Maggie's death ushers in a new sense of danger
Last week, Revolution killed off one of the series' most interesting characters, Maggie (Anna Lise Philips). The heart-wrenching death was a shock to a lot of viewers, who didn't expect to lose the doctor so soon. But if you find yourself missing Mags, you aren't the only one. "I sort of have a bad habit in the shows that I run of killing off the people that I love and I think Maggie was one of those," Kripke told reporters.
The showrunner explained that Maggie's death was unfortunately necessary "to show that this world had very real stakes ... and we very quickly realized the scariest thing we could do was to kill the doctor among them." Kripke added, "We want the audience to really understand that nobody is safe, including the main characters." But don't get too excited, people. It's unlikely that Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos) will be biting the dust any time soon.
Revolution Burning Questions: Charlie's Got Some Serious Mommy Issues
2. The secret behind the blackout will be revealed soon
According to Kripke, the writers are currently in discussions to reveal the reason the lights went out by the end of the first season. "That's sort of my philosophy about not being too precious with anything. So we may reveal the secret sooner than later," Kripke said. "I just know that, for me, the longer you drag out an answer, the more pressure there is that that answer is the greatest answer ever given in the history of man. And frankly, I'm just not that smart." The showrunner also hinted that learning whatever caused the blackout will lead to an ever bigger — and scarier! — mystery.
But until the blackout's cause is revealed, Kripke said to keep your eyes peeled: "You should look for clues everywhere," he hinted. And that includes the shot of the blackout spreading across the Earth in the pilot, which Kripke said is "an accurate representation" of whatever turned the lights off.
3. Episode 10 is not one to be missed
Charlie and the gang will (finally) catch up to her brother Danny (Graham Rogers) in the 10th episode. And after weeks of the same cat-and-mouse game, the showrunner promises the siblings' reunion will shake up the series, leading to a story much bigger than simply a rescue mission. "I would say by Episode 10, we will have played the prologue [of getting Danny back] and it's time to begin the next chapter of the show," Kripke said. "It's time to explore much more why the show is in fact titled Revolution." Any thoughts on what he might mean by that?
Revolution Claims Its First Victim, Drops Another BombshellBesides the Charlie and Danny reunion, Episode 10 will also feature the anticipated reunion between Miles (Billy Burke) and General Monroe (David Lyons). While we've seen flashbacks of the pair together, everything has changed since then, creating a "tragic, emotional, Cain and Abel" relationship between the former besties. "They confront each other for the first time in years," Kripke explained. "They still really love each other and when they see each other, they're not really sure whether they're going to kill each other or hug each other."4. Grace will be back — and soon!
Grace (Maria Howell), the mysterious woman to whom Kripke hinted is at the center of Revolution's mythology, will reappear in Episode 7, along with her kidnapper Randall. "She is under duress with this character Randall and she's in a dangerous position now," Kripke said. He also teased that the pairs' story line will play a major part in the second half of the season.
Revolution Burning Questions: Rachel's Fate Revealed
5. Kripke has a very strange definition of "glamorous"
Wanna hear something scary? According to Kripke, Revolution actually glamorizes life without electricity. "I think what would actually happen in the result of a global blackout would be much harrier than even what we're depicting," he said. "We're really precariously balanced as a society and if you pull that rug out from under us things would get bad really quickly." We'll get to see more of Revolution's "glamorous" depiction of the post-electric world in Episode 6, when we get our first glimpse of organized crime.
6. What to expect of the upcoming fifth episode, "Soul Train"
Monday's episode will explore Capt. Neville's (Giancarlo Esposito) backstory and his "character, who before the blackout was pretty mild-mannered and maybe a little submissive, and how [he transformed] into the violent psychopath that he is today," Kripke explained. This close look at Neville will also include the introduction of his wife, Julia, played by Grey's Anatomy's Kim Raver. "We're planting Kim now and we're going to meet her in the present day and really explore her character a couple episodes down the line [in Episode 8]. We're going to see how a very normal, suburban wife before the blackout ... transformed into Lady Macbeth [post-blackout]."
Revolution's Elizabeth Mitchell and Giancarlo Esposito Share Their Theories on the BlackoutAlso, expect some big changes for Rachel (Elizabeth Mitchell) when Danny arrives in Philadelphia. "General Monroe has Rachel where he wants her," Kripke said. "She doesn't really care about her own well-being, but of course, she cares about the well-being of her son. So he's really able to twist her arm and force her to reveal things" that she's been holding on to. And whatever secrets Rachel's been keeping must be pretty bad, because when the whole truth eventually comes out "it will be pretty explosive for Charlie to hear."Not more secrets! How many mysteries can one woman have? At least this week we'll hopefully be getting more answers than questions from the Matheson matriarch — potentially even a bit about why the lights went out!Revolution airs Mondays at 10/9c on NBC.


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Friday, October 7, 2011
on why i enjoy being a stickman
Posted by The Author at 7:01 AM
Labels: dakwah and tarbiyyah, graphic art
2 comments:
- Inche gabbana said...
yeah man. the real world is more than just black, white and gray. most of the times, you really can't differentiate the colors. it's pretty challenging.
sometimes it can be quite colorful tho. ;)
- October 7, 2011 at 9:07 AM
- The Author said...
this road is long, i swear ("jalan ni sumpah panjang!") ;)
- October 7, 2011 at 9:49 PM
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Another Cold War with Russia? Here's Why
BI: Sergei Magnitsky was just one statistic among more than 4,000 people who die each year after being consigned to Russia's overcrowded and brutality-plagued prison system.
But the story of the dedicated corporate lawyer who died under suspicious circumstances in pretrial custody two years ago, after being arrested by the very police officers he had testified against in a major corruption case, has shocked the world and led to a wave of repercussions that could undo the tenuous "reset" that has thawed US-Russian relations since President Obama took office.
The US Senate is considering a bill that would impose visa restrictions and financial penalties on 60 Russians allegedly involved in Mr. Magnitsky's imprisonment and death, while the State Department has already put less sweeping measures in place. Russia has retaliated with its own list of 11 US citizens, mainly associated with the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, who may not enter Russia.
But as US and Russian officials ratchet up their rhetoric and exchange cold-war-style blacklists, many who are closely involved with the case say they don't want to see it become a new source of division, but rather hope for an outcome that establishes new standards of international accountability.
"This is not an anti-Russian campaign by any means," says Bill Browder, founder of Hermitage Capital, once Russia's largest investment fund, for whom Magnitsky was working at the time of his 2008 arrest.
Backlash already
The controversy may already be taking a toll at the nuts-and-bolts level of US-Russia relations.
Two Russian generals of the Interior Ministry, which oversees police and internal troops, have reportedly called off plans to attend a conference on intellectual property rights in Washington next week after two senators, Roger Wicker (R) of Mississippi and Benjamin Cardin (D) Maryland, urged the State Department to review their visa applications. The senators allege the two officers, Gen. Maj. Tatiana Gerasimova and Gen. Maj. Nikolai Shelepanov, were involved in the Interior Ministry's coverup of what happened to Magnitsky.
News agencies quoted The Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights, which organized the conference together with the US Justice Department, as saying it "had no indication that any of these officials were involved in the Magnitsky matter."
Mr. Browder's intense international lobbying efforts, aimed at forcing the Russian government to bring Magnitsky's alleged killers to justice, have been the driving force behind the sanctions announced in the United States, as well as a bill currently before the Canadian Parliament, and measures at various stages of development in several European countries.
Browder, once an active player in Russian financial circles and an early supporter of then-President Vladimir Putin, left the country in late 2005 and has since been banned from the country on "national security" grounds.
"This is an anti-impunity campaign to target the money and travel privileges of corrupt officials for the benefit of honest Russians," he says. "We have huge support among the Russian people for what we are doing."
As a lawyer working for Hermitage, Magnitsky uncovered what he later testified was a vast scam by top police officials to embezzle $230 million that Hermitage Fund companies had paid in corporate taxes in 2006. According to him, the corrupt cops used corporate seals and documents seized in a June 2007 raid on Hermitage's Moscow office to set up fake companies under the same names, which then applied for and received a full tax rebate.
Browder believes the scheme to defraud the state treasury of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars must have involved a wide range of conspirators, including tax officials and high-level government figures.
Magnitsky appeared twice before the State Investigative Committee in 2008, where he described in detail how the theft had been carried out and named several police officials. The Interior Ministry, which oversees the police, subsequently assigned those same officers to investigate Magnitsky's claims and, in November 2008, they arrested him and charged him, ironically, with tax evasion.
A year later, Magnitsky was dead. According to a report issued last summer by a commission of human rights experts working under President Dmitry Medvedev, he had been systematically deprived of medical treatment, kept in appalling conditions, and denied access to his family.
Brutal quest for confession of guilt
On the night he died, prison officials kept an ambulance waiting for an hour while eight guards took Magnitsky into a holding cell in handcuffs as prison doctors stood by, says Valery Borshchev, a member of the Kremlin human rights council.
"It has been established that he was beaten, even though he was in a critical state of health, in an effort to make him sign a confession of guilt," says Mr. Borshchev. "I don't think they meant to kill him, but taken all together, it led to his death."
The Interior Ministry has rejected the findings of the Kremlin human rights council, even though Mr. Medvedev appeared to endorse them last July, saying "[Magnitsky] is gone, and to all appearance, indeed some crimes were committed leading at least to this result."
The State Investigative Committee has extended its inquiry eight times, and is slated to report on Nov. 24.
"I have little hope that we will ever see this case investigated properly," says Borshchev. "Nobody [at the top] wants the real reasons it happened to be revealed."
Last month two doctors were indicted on charges of negligence, and they may go to trial. But Browder says the doctors are small fish. "These doctors are clearly guilty of the more serious crime of torture by deliberately withholding medical care from a gravely ill man, but that is not being addressed in the case against them," he says.
Out of 60 people, including high officials, who have been identified as involved, "58 have been fully exonerated," Browder says. "Only these two lowest-level people ... are being charged. They are clearly scapegoats."
Many Russian human rights veterans say that, despite the risk of worsening East-West relations, pressuring the government through international sanctions may be the only way to bring about justice in such cases.
"There are lots of miscarriages of justice in the Russian system, and no one ever answers for them, but Magnitsky was the employee of a prestigious foreign firm and many people worked to bring his story into the light," says Oleg Orlov, chairman of Memorial, Russia's largest human rights organization. "So, this kind of pressure, even if it gets denounced as 'interference into Russia's internal affairs,' is actually good for Russian citizens," he adds. "The case has become a lever that gives rise to real hopes that the system can be changed."
Browder echoes that sentiment in laying out the objectives of his campaign. The first is specific justice for Magnitsky, whose death hit Browder "like a knife through my heart."
The second, more important goal: "making sure that Sergei's death wasn't a meaningless death, but something that has changed Russia for the better."