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Watch this cute video. Sheeba likes it too.
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Someone To Say I Love You
Watch this cute video. Sheeba likes it too.
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Joy in the morning
The Lord had mercy and lay His hand of healing on me.The Bible says He does not allow testing more than our endurance.
Today I did not have to take any medication, whereas yesterday I was unable to take a single step without piercing pain.
Praise Jesus . It is His doing.
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Sunday, 25 September 2011
Sunday Blessings -The Fruit of Trials
"This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be
my disciples." --John 15:
Last week Ken and I visited Tim, a friend from church, who grows several rare varieties
of grapes on the hillside behind his house. I was surprised that Tim had planted
his vines along a steep and rocky portion of the hill. "Why didn't you plant the
vines at the base of the hill?" I asked him. "The soil certainly looks a lot better-and
there's more sun."
Tim smiled. "There's a rule you need to remember when it comes to growing these
special varieties of grapes," he said. "When you feed them luxuriously with lots
of nutrients and fertilizer, the vine produces a profuse bush of leaves and cane.
But the fruit it grows is sparse and very poor. Oh make no mistake," he laughed.
"The plant loves lots of fertilizer. But it invests all those nutrients into growing
lush, dark, beautiful leaves. And when the vine has finished doing that, it has
very little energy left to produce fruit. It certainly looks like a beautiful vine.
But that's it. It just looks good."
How, then, do you get good grapes? As Tim explained it, you have to make sure the
grapevine struggles! You plant it in rocky, flinty soil, or you girdle the vine
by wrapping wires around the cordons, forcing the plant to struggle as it tries
to draw nutrients from its roots. This causes the distressed vine to divert most
all of its prized and hard-won nutrients into the fruit, instead of the leaves.
The result of these trials and tribulations is the sweetest fruit possible.
So... maybe the rocky soil and steep inclines in your life aren't so bad after all.
The trials and struggles, disappointments and setbacks you face, this "girdling"
that presses you in from all sides... is a bruising of blessing. And you won't
bear a crop without it.
Lord, when this life is all over and I stand before you, I want you to find sweet
fruit in my life... and not just leaves.
Joni and Friends
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Friday, 23 September 2011
What Kind of Patient Am I?
Photos from a gift shop in the old city.
I am recovering from my cold, but last night i had a bad fall. I slipped on some water on the porch (in the dark) and had to struggle real hard to get up. My Sheeba tried to encourage me by wagging her tail. I did not disturb or alarm Mum and Aunt, they were a few feet away.
Anyway, my left elbow and knee are quite painful. Painkillers are doing for me.
Is Patience Dangerous?
Ed Welch
We can't work on everything at once so we prioritize. Do you have any particular spiritual priorities right now? Are you focused on anything specific?
Is patience high on your list of priorities?
Is it in the top two or three?
If so—you are in danger. Yes, danger.
"Love is patient, love is kind" (1 Corinthians 13:4). I believe that. Patience covers a good bit of love's terrain. But consider how it might be dangerous when it becomes our primary agenda.
Patience can be self-righteous
Patience, at least the way we apply it, can mean this: "You are messed up. I'm not. But, being the generous type, I will wait until you finally get it and reach my level." Too often, patience is actually no agenda at all. The real agenda is for the dolts around us who need to change.
Patience without humility is self-righteousness. It leaves underlying resentment and anger unattended.
Patience can be passive
If we know anything about ourselves, we know that we are not perfect. We expect to have a long agenda for growth and change. Patience, however, tends to just sit around and wait. It has a keener vision for other people's sins than it does for one's own sin and weaknesses. This makes it a hopeless goal because it lacks furvor for daily growth. Instead, it waits to be "tried" by people or events.
Patience can be silent
Along with the smug self-righteousness that can seep into patience, another problem is that patience offers no compelling reason to speak with the other person. Patience tends to be silent, and, especially in close relationships, the last thing you want to do is be silent when the other person is being sinful or even irritating. If we are bothered by something that has happened in a relationship, our kingdom instincts should be to speak about the matter in a way that is humble and edifying. From this perspective, I would be so sad if my wife or friends were "patient" with me.
Patience without a willingness to speak openly and in the best interests of the relationship is cowardice, even hatred.
Patience is best when paired with kindness
Yes, patience is a fruit of the Spirit, in which case it works best when it rests on a godly explanation:
The Lord is so patient with me—so patient. And other people have to be patient with me every day. Therefore, it is my honor to be able to extend that patience to others. Usually patience will speak to the other person, sometimes it won't.
This version is less dangerous. But it could still use an addition. To be safe, we should remember Paul's words (above) and add kindness. While patience is willing to cover minor offenses, kindness is busy strategizing ways to do good. Patience-kindness is less prone to sitting around and waiting for change in others, and it avoids the arrogance and cowardice that can lie hidden under motives that can be more deceptive than we realize.
Edward T. Welch, M.Div., Ph.D., is a counselor and faculty member at CCEF and holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology with a neuro-psychology specialty from the University of Utah as well as a Master of Divinity degree from Biblical Theological Seminary. Ed has been counseling for over twenty-six years and has written many books and articles on biblical counseling.
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Put food on our plates
Indian estimates of poverty range from 270 million to 450 million people. The World Bank reckons 300 million Indians live on less than a Dollar a day.
(Source Hindustan Times)
Yet the government played a cruel joke on our starving masses by saying that anyone who earns 32 Rupees (66 cents) a day is not poor. That amount can only buy you a bowl of rice or a few pieces of flat bread (rotis) once a day.
How can our rulers who have stashes of money in their banks feel the rumblings of an empty stomach.
Reminds me of passages from the Old Testament (Bible) when Israel was in captivity. Both the remnants and captives were suffering.
Jesus had compassion on the hungry crowds who were following him.
32 And Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, "I feel compassion for the people, because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way."
(Gospel of Matthew)
Jesus performed a miracle right there - feeding the hungry crowd with a few pieces of bread and fish.
Dear Lord , Bless my few pieces of "fish and bread", so I can share it with others in need.
Megan in front of a Government building in New Delhi before they flew back to Canada.
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Labels: India Uncut
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Need an Isolation Retreat
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Sunday, 18 September 2011
Sunday Blessings -The Way, The Truth and The Life
The Way, the Truth, and the Life
Jonathan Dodson »
In the prior four posts (Sunday Blessings), we examined, all to briefly, the claim of Christ and the claim of pluralism: the belief in Jesus as the only way to God and belief that the many paths lead to God. We've seen that religious pluralism is inaccurate, arrogant, and intolerant. Is Christianity any better? I'd like to suggest three ways that Christianity is better from the claim of Jesus himself. He said that he is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6). Let's take each point.
Christianity Should Make Us Incredibly Humble
First, Jesus is the Way. What does this mean? Does it mean that Jesus is our trailblazer, clearing the other religious options aside so we can hike our way to heaven through spiritual or moral improvement. If I keep the Ten Commandments, if I serve the poor and love my neighbor, if I pray and read the Bible enough, then God will accept me. No. As the way, Jesus doesn't create a path for us to hike. We can never make it, do enough spiritual, moral, or social good to impress God. Much less love him with all our soul, mind, and strength. We can't make it up the path. We all fail to love and serve the infinitely admirable and lovable God. In fact, we love other things more, which is a crime of infinite proportions. It's against a holy, righteous God. The sentence for our crime must be carried out.
When Jesus takes the arduous hike for us he goes down into the valley where the criminals die. He hikes down into our sin, our rebellion, our failures and he heaps them all on his back and climbs on a cross, where he is punished for our crime, a bloody gruesome death. The innocent punished for the guilty. If he doesn't take our punishment, then we must endure it—forever separation from God. If you reject Jesus, then you will pay the infinite consequences. However, if you embrace Jesus in his sin-absorbing death you get forgiveness, and Jesus hikes not only through the valley but up the mountain to carry your forgiveness to God where he pleads our innocence (Heb 10). This is what it means for Jesus to be the way. He is the redemptive way. He takes our place. This understanding of Jesus as the way should make us incredibly humble not arrogant. We realize how undeserving we are and how much mercy we have been shown.
Christianity is Wonderfully Enlightening
Jesus is also the Truth. What does that mean? In John 1, we are told that God became flesh and was full of grace and truth in Jesus. The truth is that God is Jesus. This is enlightening. Christianity is the only religion where God comes down to man and becomes man. All other religions man has to work his way to God. The truth is Jesus, the truth is a person, and the truth dies in our place, for our crimes, and in turn gives us his life.
God makes his way down to man and dies for us. That's grace. It isn't a special prayer or a codeword we say at the pearly gates. In Christianity, the truth is essentially revealed in a Person, Jesus, full of grace and truth. In all other religions, God is impersonal, but in Christianity we meet God in Jesus which is wonderfully enlightening and moving.
Christianity Should Make Us Persuasively Tolerant
Finally, Jesus is the Life. As if it wasn't enough to be our way, incredibly humbling, and the truth, truly enlightening, Jesus caps it off by offering us not just his death, but his life. What life? Later on in John, Jesus says he is the resurrection and the life, and that whoever believes in him, though he die yet he will live" (11:25). He goes down into the valley to take our death and rises up from the dead on the other side of valley where he prepares a new place for us to enjoy life with him forever. The hope of that life should break into the lives of Christians today, making us persuasively tolerant.
We tolerantly extend people the dignity of their own beliefs. We don't minimize the differences between religions. We honor them. The life of Christ produces in us true humility. But it also produces in us true enlightenment. We've come to grasp grace that God works his way down to us, dies for our moral and religious failures, and offers us life. If this is true, we must lovingly, humbly try to persuade others to believe in Jesus, who alone offers the wonderful promise of the way to God, the truth of God, and life of God.
The Heart of the Gospel
In the end, it doesn't matter how nice or moral a person is because there is not enough niceness or morality to pay for our rejection of God. Either we must be rejected or we turn to Jesus who was rejected for us. This is the heart of the gospel. Jesus lays down his very own life for those who reject him, for his enemies, for those who don't believe in him, and he offers them forgiveness. Amazing! Why would we reject such a man?
Instead of being unenlightened, Jesus is truly enlightening as the God who is full of grace and truth. Instead of being arrogant, Jesus should make us incredibly humble, he created the way to God for us at the expense of his own death. Finally, instead of being intolerant, Jesus should make us persuasively tolerant, granting people the dignity of unbelief in Christ but pleading with them to believe in Christ for true life!
Doubt and Faith
In the end, you have to decide where to place your faith. Both religious pluralism and Chrisitianity require faith. Leslie Newbigin said: "Doubt is not autonomous." What he meant is that you can't doubt alone. We can't doubt one thing without placing our faith in another. You doubt Jesus and trust pluralism, or you trust Jesus and doubt pluralism. You can't say "I believe Jesus is the only way" and say "I believe all religions lead to God." So, will you place faith in Jesus who is the way, truth, and life? Or will you place your faith religious pluralism? I hope you'll choose Jesus.
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Labels: Sunday Blessings
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
The Methods God Uses To Teach His Children
2. By making us wait for what we need or want. He teaches us patience.
3. By stretching us beyond the realm of the familier. He teaches us vision.
4. By taking us through the consequences of wrong choices.He teaches us values .
5. By allowing us to fail and make terrible mistakes. He teaches us wisdom.
6. By sustaining pain and affliction. He teaches us humility.
7. By involving us in the lives of difficult people. He teaches us unselfishness.
(taken from Chuck Swindoll' s study guide)
I needed to be reminded of these living insights this evening because I was feeling very tired , worn out and blue from my care giving duties.
Aunt Maya has been with us for 2 months now.Looking after her is not a burden, but dealing with her medical problems and other life issues causes heaviness of heart. I wrote 2 or 3 paragraphs about it but deleted it all.
I wish her children and grandchildren were concerned and caring. That irks me quite a bit. It hurts her too. Please pray for Aunt Maya' s healing , she has several medical problems and a nagging cough too. She also needs suitable accommodation.
Last night I arranged a dinner party for the three sisters, My Mom , her younger sister Maureen and their sister in law Aunt Maya. Just to cheer them up . We had a good time.
I was feeling very low this evening but the scriptures from Romans 12 lifted me up an d put me on the straight and narrow.
9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor; 11 not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer, 13 contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep
Romans 12
(New Testament)
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Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Ravi Zacharias on many religions claiming to be the true path
Dr Ravi Zacharias says while examining various religions and world views we should keep
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Sunday, 11 September 2011
Sunday Blessings -Is Pluralism More Tolerant Than Christianity?
Jonathan Dodson »
In the prior (Sunday Blessings) posts, we have examined the claim that Jesus is the only way to God is both unenlightened and arrogant. As it turns out, it's actually the opposite. It is religious pluralism that is rather unenlightened and carries an air of arrogance. In this post we will examine the important idea of tolerance. Is religious pluralism more tolerant than Christianity?
Is Religious Pluralism Truly Tolerant?
Very often people hold to religious pluralism because they think it is more tolerant than Christianity. I'll be the first to say that we need tolerance, but what does it mean to be tolerant? To be tolerant is to accommodate differences, which can be very noble. I believe that Christians should be some of the most accommodating kinds of people, giving everyone the dignity to believe whatever they want and not enforcing their beliefs on others through politics or preaching. We should winsomely tolerate different beliefs. Interestingly, religious pluralism doesn't really allow for this kind of tolerance. Instead of accommodating spiritual differences, religious pluralism blunts them. Let me explain.
"The claim that all paths lead to the same God actually minimizes other religions by asserting a new religious claim. When someone says all paths lead to the same God, they blunt the distinctives between religions, throwing them all in one pot, saying: "See, they all get us to God so the differences don't really matter." This isn't tolerance; it's a power play. When asserting all religions lead to God, the distinctive and very different views of God and how to reach him in Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam are brushed aside in one powerful swoop. The Eightfold Noble Path of Buddhism, the 5 Pillars of Islam, and the Gospel of Christ are not tolerated but told they must submit to a new religious claim–all ways lead to God–despite the fact that this isn't what those religions teach.
The Religion of Pluralism
People spend years studying and practicing their religious distinctives. To say they don't really matter is highly intolerant! The very notion of religious tolerance assumes there are differences to tolerate but pluralism is intolerant of those very differences! In this sense, religious pluralism is a religion of its own. It has its own religious absolute—all paths lead to the same God—and requires people of other faiths to embrace this absolute, without any religious backing at all. It is highly evangelistic! Religious pluralism is highly political and preachy. Yet, it does so under the guise of tolerance. It is a leap of faith to say there are many paths to God; it is not a self-evident fact. It isn't even an educated leap, nor is it as humble and tolerant as it might appear.
Recall Stephen Prothero's comment regarding religious pluralism:
"But this sentiment, however well-intentioned, is neither accurate nor ethically responsible. God is not one." He goes on: "Faith in the unity of religions is just that—faith (perhaps even a kind of fundamentalism). And the leap that gets us there is an act of the hyperactive imagination."
Enlightened, Humble, Tolerant?
As it turns out, the reasons for subscribing to religious pluralism—enlightenment, humility, and tolerance—actually backfire. They don't carry through. Religious pluralism isn't enlightened, it's inaccurate; it isn't humble, it's fiercely dogmatic; and it isn't really all that tolerant because it intolerantly blunts religious distinctives. In the end, religious pluralism is a religion, a leap of faith, based on contradiction and is highly untenable. Christianity, on the other hand, should respect and honor the various distinctives of other religions, comparing them, and honoring their differing principles–Karma (Hinduism), Enlightenment (Buddhism), Submission (Islam), and Grace (Christianity). In the next and final post, I will examine Jesus' exclusive claim, and the charge that his teachings in Christianity are unenlightened, arrogant, and intolerant. In particular, we will examine the unique principle of grace.
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India 's Black Wednesday- Delhi Terror
The bomb was placed in a suitcase near gate number five of the high court where more than 200 people had gathered to collect passes to enter the premises. Wednesday is a busy day at the court since Public Interest Litigations are filed on the day. The injured were rushed to nearby hospitals — Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Safdarjung Hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital.
The blast caused a four feet deep crater at the spot, indicating it was a powerful bomb. The police said there were traces of ammonium nitrate and pentaerythritol tetranitrate and it appeared to be a sophisticated bomb
Security personnel secure the site of the blast outside the Delhi High Court in New Delhi on Wednesday . Subhav Shukla/PTI
There was no CCTV camera at the sensitive location. The Delhi Police has released sketches of two suspects based on descriptions provided by eyewitnesses. The metal detectors at the gates were also not functioning.
The e-mail sent by HuJI, says the death sentence awarded to Afzal Guru, the 2001 Parliament attack convict, be revoked. It threatened to target major high courts and the Supreme Court of India if it was not done. The veracity of the mail is yet to be ascertained. The case has been handed over to National Investigating Agency (NIA), which will supervise the probe with a special 20-member team, according to government sources.
"We take the mail very seriously," said NIA chief SC Sinha.
Speaking in Parliament, Home Minister P Chidambaram said the government will not be intimidated by terrorist groups and it is "determined to track down the perpetrators of this horrific crime and bring them to justice".
He regretted that the blast happened despite sharing of intelligence among several agencies. "Intelligence agencies constantly share intelligence inputs with Delhi Police. Intelligence pertaining to threats emanating from certain groups was shared with Delhi Police in July, 2011," he said.
Reacting from Bangladesh where he is on a tour, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described the as "a cowardly act of a terrorist nature". He added, "We will deal with it… we will never succumb to the pressure of terrorism."
"This is a long war in which all political parties, all the people of India have to stand united so that the scourge of terrorism is crushed," he said.
Meanwhile, the BJP and the Left parties have asked the government to explain whether there was any intelligence failure.
(Source Firstpost.com)
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Friday, 9 September 2011
Anna Hazare- India' s New Messiah
Mr Hazare went on a fast which lasted for 12 days and kept everyone on tenterhooks and glued to the TV.
I am quite skeptical of the Lokpal Anti corruption bill which is the bone of contention between the government and social and civil activists.
It will take more than a law to eradicate or at least lessen the corruption an d moral decay which has seeped into our society. A change of heart is required.
The Indian government has been rocked by recent corruption scandals including an alleged telecoms bribery scam that may have cost the country $39bn (£23bn), suspected financial malpractice linked to the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games and accusation that homes for war widows were diverted to civil servants.
A recent survey said corruption in Asia's third largest economy had cost billions of dollars and threatened to derail growth.
A local politician giving an interview.
I am calling Anna Hazare , India' s new Messiah because he was able to rally toegther his countrymen of all ages, backgrounds and walks of life together for a common cause. They found a role model in him, an idealist, a Gandhi like hero.
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A competitive game between George Mason and South Florida came to a halt that silenced the Sun Dome crowd as USF star Anthony Collins collapsed to the floor, delaying the game several minutes before EMTs carted him off on a stretcher.
Collins took a knee to the head during a scramble for the ball early in the second half of the Patriots-Bulls matchup in Tampa. While Collins did not appear to move his legs after the injury on the court, Tampa Bay Times USF beat reporter Greg Auman reported he'd been told Collins did have movement in the extremities after he was taken off the court. We'll update this post as more information on Collins's condition becomes available, but sights like you see above will never cease to be a shock. [Big East Network]


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That was completely random! And he got alot more out of spanish in one semester than I got out of two years. No fair!
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To the editor: Mr. Parker: You are not 'conflicted' about unions; you are clearly anti-union and ill informed about them too.
Unions must give the same pay, benefits, and support in defense of discipline as scabs. NLRB sees to that.
Hostess did not fail due to unions but because people didn't buy as many Twinkies as they used to. When they went bust, the lender took out millions in fees up front for 3 years while management then doubled and tripled their own salaries. For those reasons, the Bakers union, who had given back millions in concessions in the first bankruptcy, declined to do so again. The lenders and management viewed the Bakers' pensions as cash available to them, and not as obligations to the Bakers. This nowadays is being 'Bained', where desperate companies try to stay afloat at the cost of their employees' futures and pensions.
UAW may have driven up the cost of autos, but the Bakers, UMW, and dozens of other unions of which you are unaware do not operate like that otherwise they'd quickly be out of jobs. When companies are doing well, unions rightly expect to share the wealth they helped to create. And when a union gives back wages and benefits to help their struggling business, they do not deserve to see everyone else profit at their expense.
R.E. Perry
To the editor: Please extend a heartfelt thank you to the staff of Somersworth Middle School, parents, community members, and Fosters' readers for their generous support of our annual Christmas stocking drive.
We were able to donate 105 filled stockings to the Somersworth Fire Department! An additional 45 students and their families were able to be supported because of their generosity. Thank you all very much for supporting Somersworth children!
Happy New Year!
Kelly Warren
Maureen Jackman
Somersworth Middle School
Somersworth Youth Connection
To the editor: If you are the praying sort I ask you to say a prayer for the families of the slain at Sandy Hook.
The parents will, out of habit, go to their children's bed rooms to wake them and they won't be there. There will be gifts under the trees and no one to open them. There will be chairs at the dinner table and no one to sit in them.
We must also keep in mind the teachers who died in a vain attempt to save their beloved students.
Pete Eldredge
To the editor: It is amazing to me how so many people can be uninformed and mislead. This whole illogical onslaught against "assault weapons" and "automatic weapons" being responsible for a couple of mentally ill, unmonitored people going on killing rampages.
First let's look at "assault weapons".
Any weapon used to do harm is an assault weapon, including the fertilizer McVeigh used in the Oklahoma City bombing. What about the airplanes used in the Twin Towers attack? Or the knives used to kill and cut up 26 children in China last week. So let's drop the "assault weapons" tact.
Next let's look at the "automatic weapons" term the anti gun propagandist like to throw out there. Automatic weapons are illegal in the United States, have been for years. Not one automatic weapon was used in any of the recent mental meltdown attacks. Not one NRA member participated in any of the attacks.
In contrast, of the last three killing sprees everyone of the murderers were on or had been on isotropic drugs for mental illness and at least the last two committed the atrocities with stolen guns.
Ronald Reagan said "We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." This includes these murderers, the gun owners who did not secure their weapons and the society that decided we could put just give these people drugs and send them back on the streets. Sandy Point is not the fault of videos games or Hollywood or guns. It is the fault of the killers.
Blaming the guns for Columbine or Virginia Tech or Sandy Point is akin to blaming Foster Daily Democrat for the ill informed gun control zealots. Which among this crowd is willing to tell me I do not have the right to protect my family? Which among them would be willing to take the lives of the hundreds that were saved at Columbine or Virginia Tech or Sandy Point by a person who had a gun. Each of the killers took their life or attempted to after being confronted by a bystander or law enforcement officer with a gun.
The legal guns saved hundreds of lives in these attacks and private citizens with firearms save tens of thousands of lives every year. Again, who among you are willing to tell me I cannot defend my family against evil?
Allan R. Trombley
To the editor: Seems the tax on medical devices will take place starting in January.
Guess who will pay for the tax?
Since most medical devices such as hips, knees prosthetic arms and legs are used by senior citizens or war injured veterans, and their implants are paid for by government programs such as Medicare or veterans medical payments, won't the government programs pay the tax?
After all the companies can't take a loss and will more than likely increase the cost to pay for the tax, then when the billing goes to one or another of our government programs the included tax cost will be paid by government, won't it?
OH, yeah guess who the government is, the working stiff who has taxes deducted from his paycheck every week. So what's this tax on replacement limbs and implanted hips, knees etc. just another way to get into the peoples pockets with a hidden tax to businesses that increases cost of products.
Harriet E. Cady
To the editor: After reading today's paper its good to know that TJ Jean and some of his loyal band of clowns were hard at work developing an ordinance on placement of political signs, from the bottom of my heart I want to thank you!
Meanwhile, on planet earth the rest of us are grieving and trying to come up with solutions of the ever growing issue of protecting our children in our schools. Not one word has been spoken from our police chief (who just got a substantial raise) nor our highly respected city council (sarcasm). I sent an email to each council member asking how we will be proactive in the protection of our children at schools and as of this time have not received a single response, big surprise! I even sent it to the deputy mayor, A. Ray Varney, twice!
So now my heart has been broken and it pains me to pen this letter exposing the simple fact that absolutley nothing will be done and that this will all be forgotten about sooner or later, then our city council can go back to the important issues like political signs, stop signs, diagonal crosswalks in front of Walgreens, fireworks ordinances. And most of all being hostile to small business!
Steve Plante
Editor's note: Letters written by Steve T. Plante of Rochester are separate and distinct from those by another letter writer who signs his letters Steve and Kimberly Plante, also of Rochester.
To the editor: Now that House Republicans have rejected Speaker John Boehner's "Plan B" — pushing us that much closer to a looming fiscal crisis in January — PETA has a suggestion that would save animals and help avoid the fiscal cliff: Cut all funding for wasteful experiments on animals.
We can save billions if we stop addicting monkeys to crack cocaine, cutting up rats' genitals in erectile dysfunction studies, injecting chicken eggs with pure alcohol to see how the exposure affects baby chicks, and harming animals in other pointless experiments. In fact, nearly half of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) current $30 billion annual research budget is awarded to experimenters for projects that involve experiments on animals that are cruel, do nothing to advance human health, and contribute to the country's expanding deficit.
NIH should be funding sophisticated research that will help humans rather than squandering billions of federal funds on irrelevant experiments that should have been relegated to the dustbin long ago. To find out more, please visit www.PETA.org.
Kathy Guillermo
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Norfolk, Va.
To the editor: There is a letter to the editor showing up in various papers. The writer complains that Carol Shea-Porter is not listening to her constituents on her Facebook page. Maybe the writer doesn't realize that Carol Shea-Porter's swearing-in date is Jan. 3; that until that date she actually has no constituents nor does she have an official Facebook page; and that he should write to still-in-office Rep. Frank Guinta, not to Shea-Porter's campaign Facebook.
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Hi, Y'all. In Title is no question, on the contrary I want to share with you my view on this matter. There will not be anything that can be seen elsewhere. Everything will be completely original and, I hope, interesting and possibly useful for you.
First, look at this
I call this the diatonic scale boxes.
In any boxing start to play a scale starting from 1 up (or down also), you get what is called Ionian scale. In each box, this scale has its own fingering. This is necessary to "copy" in memory of the head, eyes and fingers.
Do the same, starting with 2. You get 2 (Dorian) mode Ionian scale, which in essence is also a scale.
Well, more unusual and should be understandable, since the 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, you will receive respectively Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian modes (that is the same as the scale).
These scales in the boxes you have to learn to play so that, without hesitation, his fingers found themselves the right notes. At this session will take more than one (day, month and perhaps even...), but it's worth it.
But this is just the beginning. If you like, to be continued!


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Dinner Tonight: Braised Lentils with Winter Greens and a Fried Egg Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
The weather in Chicago has been absurdly cold the last week or so, with consistent below-average temperatures threatening winter before we've even seen the leaves change. My usual instinct is to respond with cooking that suits the temperature. If I don't want it to be this cold, then at least I can eat food that tastes best when it is this cold.
And so I turned (again) to a recipe from Last Night's Dinner, an informal little dish that's as comforting as an "old worn out sweater." Simple lentils with shallot and red wine, a pile of braised winter greens, and a fried egg on top. It's tasty, full of vitamins, and very easy to make.
I immediately thought back to something I cooked in April, a lentil salad with fresh wilted baby spinach. The flavors here are deeper, and winter greens are the star -- any kind of chard works well, or something sturdier like kale, mustard greens, or collards.
Braised Lentils with Winter Greens and a Fried Egg
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- 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1/2 cup French green lentils
- 1 bunch winter greens, such as kale, chard, collards, etc.
- 1 shallot, peeled and minced
- 1/2 cup red wine
- 1 clove garlic, chopped
- 1/8 teaspoon red chili flakes, or to taste
- Splash of lemon juice or sherry vinegar
- salt and black pepper
- 2 eggs
In a medium saucepan, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil over medium heat. Add the shallot and saute until soft, 2-3 minutes. Add 1 cup water and the red wine, bring to a boil, and simmer, covered, until the lentils are tender but not mushy, 30 minutes or so. Add more water as necessary. Season to taste with salt.
In the meantime, wash the greens and slice the leaves away from the stems and roughly chop the leaves. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil, garlic, and chili flakes in a saucepan or large skillet until fragrant, then add the leaves along with 1/4 cup or so of water and a pinch of salt. Cover, turn the heat to medium-low, and allow the leaves to steam as the water evaporates, tasting for tenderness and adding more water as necessary. Finish with lemon juice or vinegar to taste, and perhaps more olive oil.
When the lentils and greens are nearing completion, heat the remaining oil in a small non-stick skillet and fry the eggs sunny-side-up, about 3 minutes over medium-low heat, until the whites are set but the yolk is still runny.
Serve the greens on a bed of lentils, topped with the egg and fresh black pepper.
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At the campsite, you will find bathing facilities, mini-golf, water slide, shops, cafeterias, a fully-licensed restaurant and much more to make your stay here with us as enjoyable as possible.
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After spending a half-hour on the phone with Carrie Rodriguez, an interesting though unexpected career trajectory came into view. Without intending to, the conversation regimented itself into sections detailing the contributions of four inspirational figures that have helped guide her bright Americana music.
First, she talked about Lee Townsend, the famed California producer that has overseen her last three albums. The conversation then turned to Luke Jacobs, the multi-instrumentalist that will her accompany Rodriguez for her return concert at Natasha's on Thursday. In discussing the development of her musical voice, the talk centered on songwriter Chip Taylor, who essentially discovered Rodriguez. And in closing, the Austin, Tx.-based fiddler, songwriter and vocalist reflected upon a recent tour where she placed her own music on hold to play backup for actor/singer Jeff Bridges.
You could almost add a fourth figure into the interview – the man indirectly responsible for her first gig of 2013.
"Our first show is at the Texas Black Tie and Boots Inaugural Ball in Washington, DC.," Rodriguez said. "It's an inauguration party for President Obama, so that will be a fun kickoff."
First up is Townsend, the producer of Rodriguez's new Give Me All You Got album as well as its two predecessors. Noted for his work with the pioneering guitarist Bill Frisell among others, Townsend sets tunes with folk, bluegrass and even R&B overtones within light and live-sounding frameworks.
"Lee is a very laid back guy," Rodriguez said. "He is California through and through having lived in the Bay Area for 30 years. Before he got into the music business, he studied psychology, which is really helpful as a producer because he is so good at making all the musicians, including myself, feel at ease.
"Lee encourages us all to do what we do best. I've seen him work with Bill Frisell and it's really a special talent that Lee has to sort of direct without letting the artist feel like they're being directed."
Jacobs has been Rodriguez's bandmate for years and has become increasingly visible on her recordings. The pair co-wrote some of the strongest material on Give Me All You Got, including Tragic and the album-closing I Don't Mind Waiting. Jacobs will serve as Rodriguez's lone accompanist at her Natasha's show.
"Luke and I have been out on the road together for the last couple of years, so a lot of the songs were pretty well worked out because we had been playing them live. That's really a luxury.
"We currently perform as a duo – a duo with a lot of gear. Luke plays lap steel guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica; I've got electric mandolin, fiddle and tenor guitar. We even have a portable record player that we're going to be spinning some records from before the show starts."
Give Me All You Got also sports several songs written or co-written by Taylor, the mentoring songsmith best known for the '60s hits Wild Thing and Angel of the Morning. Taylor discovered Rodriguez at Austin's SXSW conference in 2001 and introduced her to national audiences through a series of duet albums and tours
"I had no interest in even being a singer before I met Chip," Rodriguez said. "I had never tried it, except for maybe in the car with the windows rolled up. No, I spent the young part of my life working on the violin, first in classical music and then studying different fiddle styles. My goal in life was to get a gig with someone like Chip Taylor as a sideman.
"Today, it's hard to even put into words how much he has affected my musical life. I think it's taken getting away from working with him a little bit to fully appreciate that."
And then there is The Dude. Prior to completing Give Me All You Got, Rodriguez was asked, upon recommendation by T Bone Burnett, to complete a series of concert dates with Bridges. True to his character credo of "The Dudes abides" in the Coen Brothers classic The Big Lebowski, Bridges dubbed his band The Abiders.
"That was so cool," Rodriguez said of the experience. "Jeff Bridges is just one of the most down to earth people I've ever met. It's amazing that someone with that kind of fame can be such a regular guy.
"To start that tour off, we went out to his Montana ranch for a few days to rehearse and get to know him, his lifestyle and just the whole vibe before we went out on the road. He's just like The Dude, only a bit more responsible."
Carrie Rodriguez with Luke Jacobs perform at 8 tonight at Natasha's Bistro, 112 Esplanade. Warren Byrom will open.Tickets are $15. Call (859) 259-2754 or go to www.beetnik.com


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Accel Telecom Launches First Standalone Connected Car Smartphone
18 Feb, 2013, 09:00 GMT
TEL AVIV, Israel, February 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
VOYAGER connects drivers easily, clearly and safely
Accel Telecom, a leading Israeli telecommunications company, has officially launched VOYAGER, the ultimate Connected Car Smartphone device. VOYAGER is the first standalone Connected Car Smartphone device that can be easily installed in any car and operates using an existing phone number via a twin-SIM.
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View the You Tube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQiT2ldUqbY&feature=youtu.be
VOYAGER is a dedicated Connected Car Smartphone device that provides drivers with a safer and superior Connected Car experience. The device combines Android based Smartphone technology with an HSUPA Qualcomm module to deliver a driver centric device that ensures safer calling, easy navigation via a dedicated Waze launcher key and multiple car focused applications.
VOYAGER is designed to enhance safe driving with hands-free dialing, dedicated large physical keys, crystal clear, echo free sound quality and an in-car 3G WiFi Hotspot connection among the many core features. VOYAGER also connects to the car on-board diagnostics (OBD) to allow car diagnostics, fleet management applications and more.
At some point in the future, every car will need to be connected to the outside world through a cellular network. The most user-friendly and secure way to enable this is by embedding a SIM card and a communication module inside the car.
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Shmulik Keret, VP Waze, said: "VOYAGER will provide drivers with a superb Waze navigation experience and we are excited to partner with Accel Telecom on this innovative connected car device."
Marc Seelenfreund, CEO Accel, said: "Our user-friendly, cost effective and secure Carfone devices have seen substantial market success. We expect strong demand for the new generation VOYAGER Connected Car Smartphone device in both European and US markets in line with recent industry reports and our own research with industry influencers."
Key features:
- Android UI
- HSUPA Qualcomm based device
- In-car 3G-WiFi Hotspot connectivity
- Integration with Google and Exchange
- High level noise reduction and echo cancelation
- Voice activation
- Driver centric design to ensure safe driving
- Dedicated hard keys for safe intuitive operation
- Car centric applications for advanced communication
- Dedicated Waze launcher key for easy navigation
- Crystal clear echo free sound quality
- Connection to OBD via BT or RS232
About Accel Telecom
Accel Telecom is a leader in the Israeli telecommunications market known for its ability to introduce the newest and most robust solutions in IP, wireless and cellular technologies to the telecom market. Accel work with leading telecom and mobile operators providing cutting edge communications solutions.
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A message from the Capuchin Friars:
Our life is rooted in deep Christian commitment to all those whom we serve. To those we have failed to protect because one of our brothers sexually abused, we sincerely apologize. Although we are unable to undo the past, we have come to understand the profound and complex wounds suffered by the victims and their families. Given that knowledge, we are committed to respond with compassion and justice to those who have been harmed. We also commit ourselves to prevent, educate and respond in ways that we hope will reflect the examples and teachings of Jesus and St. Francis of Assisi.
Pastoral Care & Conciliation
This site contains documents and resources pertaining to sexual abuse or misconduct. The spokesperson for the St. Joseph Province on matters related to sexual abuse/misconduct is Amy Peterson, director of the Office of Pastoral Care & Conciliation.
Contact Information:
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If you, or anyone you know, has experienced abuse by a friar, employee or volunteer for the Capuchin Province of St. Joseph, no matter where or when, we urge you to:
1. Call law enforcement to submit a report;
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You may also choose to contact the director of the Office of Pastoral Care and Conciliation who will take your report and explain any special supportive services available. The director will provide a compassionate response to anyone who has experienced sexual abuse from a person in a position of trust within the Capuchin Province of St. Joseph. The information you provide will be forwarded to the law enforcement agency in the county where the abuse occurred.
Reporting abuse is never easy. We have created a process which is as safe and confidential as possible, given legal requirements.
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Here's an interesting one-off about Windows Mobile 6.5. Microsoft has mandated that all phones running the OS feature a physical "Start" button.
(We can see an example here in the new HTC Touch Pro.)
Using the Start button will not take you to the Home screen, like the Zune, but to that trademark honeycomb icon screen that's new to Windows Mobile 6.5. As much as we like touchscreens, mandating a hard button in the 6.5 spec seems like a smart decision from Microsoft—one that should keep widely varied phones running the OS doing so with some level of consistency. [Gizmodo Windows 6.5 Liveblog]


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Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) Deployment Scenarios
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Network Working Group M. McBride Request for Comments: 4611 J. Meylor BCP: 121 D. Meyer Category: Best Current Practice August 2006 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) Deployment Scenarios Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). Abstract This document describes best current practices for intra-domain and inter-domain deployment of the Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) in conjunction with Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM). Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................2 1.1. BCP, Experimental Protocols, and Normative References ......3 2. Inter-domain MSDP Peering Scenarios .............................4 2.1. Peering between PIM Border Routers .........................4 2.2. Peering between Non-Border Routers .........................5 2.3. MSDP Peering without BGP ...................................7 2.4. MSDP Peering at a Multicast Exchange .......................7 3. Intra-domain MSDP Peering Scenarios .............................7 3.1. Peering between MSDP- and MBGP-Configured Routers ..........8 3.2. MSDP Peer Is Not BGP Peer (or No BGP Peer) .................8 3.3. Hierarchical Mesh Groups ...................................9 3.4. MSDP and Route Reflectors .................................10 3.5. MSDP and Anycast RPs ......................................11 4. Security Considerations ........................................11 4.1. Filtering SA Messages .....................................11 4.2. SA Message State Limits ...................................12 5. Acknowledgements ...............................................12 6. References .....................................................12 6.1. Normative References ......................................12 6.2. Informative References ....................................13 McBride, et al. Best Current Practice [Page 1] RFC 4611 MSDP Deployment Scenarios August 2006 1. Introduction MSDP [RFC3618] is used primarily in two deployment scenarios: o Between PIM Domains MSDP can be used between Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) [RFC4601] domains to convey information about active sources available in other domains. MSDP peering used in such cases is generally one-to-one peering, and utilizes the deterministic peer-RPF (Reverse Path Forwarding) rules described in the MSDP specification (i.e., it does not use mesh-groups). Peerings can be aggregated on a single MSDP peer. Such a peer can typically have from one to hundreds of peerings, which is similar in scale to BGP peerings. o Within a PIM Domain MSDP is often used between Anycast Rendezvous Points (Anycast-RPs) [RFC3446] within a PIM domain to synchronize information about the active sources being served by each Anycast-RP peer (by virtue of IGP reachability). MSDP peering used in this scenario is typically based on MSDP mesh groups, where anywhere from two to tens of peers can comprise a given mesh group, although more than ten is not typical. One or more of these mesh-group peers may also have additional one-to-one peerings with MSDP peers outside that PIM domain for discovery of external sources. MSDP for anycast-RP without external MSDP peering is a valid deployment option and common. Current best practice for MSDP deployment utilizes PIM-SM and the Border Gateway Protocol with multi-protocol extensions (MBGP) [RFC4271, RFC2858]. This document outlines how these protocols work together to provide an intra-domain and inter-domain Any Source Multicast (ASM) service. The PIM-SM specification assumes that SM operates only in one PIM domain. MSDP is used to enable the use of multiple PIM domains by distributing the required information about active multicast sources to other PIM domains. Due to breaking the Internet multicast infrastructure down to multiple PIM domains, MSDP also enables the possibility of setting policy on the visibility of the groups and sources. Transit IP providers typically deploy MSDP to be part of the global multicast infrastructure by connecting to their upstream and peer multicast networks using MSDP. McBride, et al. Best Current Practice [Page 2] RFC 4611 MSDP Deployment Scenarios August 2006Show full document text


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14mm Red Softline Multifilament Mooring Strop With Stainless Steel Shackle x 5 Metres
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14mm 3 Strand Red Softline Multifilament Mooring Strop.
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FACETIME- Clean living: Trice makes homes nice
As a Marine, Scott Trice was one of the few, the proud... the clean. "We were required to do inspection," he says, "and part of our inspection was janitorial service."
Eighteen years after his honorable discharge, Trice, now 40, says his military training helps him run his company, 815 Inc., which he started in 2001 with wife, Thea Nicole Trice.
"One needs to have that discipline," he says. "It all boils down to that military training."
It may also boil down to entrepreneurial spirit, which Trice, a 1984 grad of Albemarle High School, showed early.
"As a little kid I started out fixing bikes for 50 cents," he recalls. "It wasn't much, but it was a start."
That enterprising spirit never left him. During 16 years working for Centel (which changed names many times before its current incarnation as mobile phone company Alltel and local provider Embarq), Trice found an independent way to earn extra money at work: starting an exercise program for company employees.
And today, he says, he's always looking for ways to diversify his business. In addition to standard commercial and residential cleaning services and distribution of janitorial and medical supplies, the company is offering a new service, "Home Assistant," designed to help people with errands, shopping, and the other minutiae of running a household.
Trice says he decided to launch the extra service after scanning the yellow pages and finding nothing similar. "We saw a niche we could fill," he says. Conversations with his current housecleaning clients– many of whom are working parents– also suggested there would be demand, he says. Returning videos, picking up or dropping off dry cleaning, and picking up groceries are all services offered, as are washing and folding laundry and even preparing basic meals.
Event planning is also on the list. "We can get balloons, flowers, clowns," he says, "or set up a nice dinner for two."
The latter service, he says, is popular among husbands. "We guys need some help in the romantic area," he jokes.
Five years after its launch with a staff of three, 815 has expanded to 15 employees– including Trice's older sister, Linda Jackson– who acts as his general manager– and several cousins and nieces.
While some families might be at each other's throats, Trice says working with his family is no problem, even when there are disagreements.
"We all know it's not personal," he says. "It's all about business when it comes to our clients."
And, he insists, being a local family-run business offers customers advantages over the larger franchise cleaning operations in town.
"I'm visiting the clients, checking in behind my employees to ensure that the job gets done right," he explains. And while he admits "We're not the cheapest guy on the block," Trice says the company makes up for it with a high quality of service.
"The thing that stands out is our personal touch and that we're here in Charlottesville," he says.
Customers are taking notice.
"How many cleaners actually give you a hug when they come to your house?" laughs 815 client David Sequeira, who commutes to work in Richmond and decided to outsource his cleaning last year.
"They know their customers, they care about their customers, and it's a pleasure to give them my business," he adds. "I don't know any other contractor I've ever said that about."
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Lemme Take You To The Beach
This album has almost everything I could ever want. Surf And Zappa. All it would need is a big fat-assed Tiki on the cover! Pure heaven (en Regalia).
Don't let the sand get in your panties!
by Sean Westergaard
Lemme Take You to the Beach is a lovingly assembled tribute to Frank Zappa put together by the folks on the Cowabunga Internet mailing list. This collection works on so many levels it's almost ridiculous, from the tunes themselves to the perfectly parodied cover art. As hardcore Zappa fans know, he was involved in producing a number of surf and novelty singles before the Mothers were formed (compiled on the Cucamonga compilation), and surfy elements continued to surface in some of the early Mothers work. Many of the Mothers' early songs could easily be arranged as surf instros, but some of the participants really got creative with the project and went for some unexpected song choices. Tracks like "Lumpy Gravy" and "The Orange County Lumber Truck" or the songs from Cruising With Ruben & the Jets would seem like obvious choices, but who would have ever thought "Jewish Princess" or "We Are Not Alone" would work in this context? (They do!!) "Aybe Sea" is another interesting choice that comes off really well, and what surf band in its right mind would even think of attempting "G-Spot Tornado"?? Well, the answer is the Invisible Birds, and they do a great job with it. "Baby Snakes" is utterly transformed by Don's Mobile Barbers by slowing it way down and putting it in a minor key. "Zoot Allures" isn't a surf tune, and it isn't treated as one here, but the Foolz sure do a nice job with it. "Peaches en Regalia" is also very well done, as is the version of "King Kong," with some monstrous fuzz bass and Dada madness at the end. "You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here" slips inexplicably into Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" for a moment, but it's a moment Frank probably would have found pretty amusing (Zappa's own work was rife with stolen musical quotes). The title track is the only one with any vocals to speak of, but its inclusion was almost mandatory given the project. Lemme Take You to the Beach is a fun record that would be great for fans of that surfy sound who are looking for something a little more adventurous than "Wipe Out," and it will certainly please Zappa fans. Well done.
1 An Introduction Phil Dirt
2 Lumpy Gravy Spoilers
3 Let's Make the Water Turn Black Atomic Mosquitos
4 The Orange County Lumber Truck Fudge
5 Letter from Jeepers Estrume'n'tal
6 Memories of el Monte Bitch Boys
7 Jewish Princess Sr. Bikini
8 G-Spot Tornado Invisible Birds
9 Baby Snakes Don's Mobile Barbers
10 We Are Not Alone Concaves
11 Zoot Allures Foolz
12 I Ain't Got No Heart Green Windows
13 Love of My Life Muffinmates
14 Any Way the Wind Blows Diamondheads
15 I'm Not Satisfied Urban Surf Kings
16 You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here Test Tone Five
17 Lumpy Gravy Pavlov's Woody
18 Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance Corky Niedermayer
19 Aybe Sea Breakfastime
20 Peaches en Regalia Pollo Del Mar
21 Willie the Pimp Vivisectors
22 Mr. Green Genes Thurston Lava Tube
23 King Kong Wrong Object
24 Cruising for Burgers Moore, R. Stevie
25 The Air Our Flying Saucer
26 If We'd All Been Living in California...
27 Lemme Take You to the Beach Frankie And The Pool Boys


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Another Canadian loser. Great. Being Canadian this is such a proud moment.
This is that punk ass poseur Avril Lavigne the other day in Malibu needing help figuring out how to put gas in her tank. Eventually a pap had to help her. Because she keeps it so real, you know?
It's been ages since Avril and Deryck Whibley have been seen publicly together. The last was a couple of months ago, at MyHouse, and the NY Daily News had reported that they were scrapping other all night.
LA's been buzzing for months that it's over and that it's only a matter of time before the announcement is made. Interestingly enough, LA is also buzzing about the reason.
Nothing slamdunk but the rumours are running wild that Avril has switched to girls. Not sure if I buy it but that's indeed what they're saying. And she did supposedly made out once, or more, with Ebola Hilton, remember?
They're still pretty tight, by the way, Avril and Ebola. So if you weren't on board before, you should be well on board now:
Avril Lavigne is a useless, contaminated, little sh-t.
Photos from JG/Splashnewsoneline.com
Another Canadian loser. Great. Being Canadian this is such a proud moment.


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Sound Off for March 1
Who cares if the articles in Sound Off are balanced? What does it matter? I think you have too much time on your hands if you spend your morning calculating the ratio of pro-Democrat to pro-Republican Sound Offs.
And honestly, how many people, Republican or Democrat, have anything good to say about Dan Malloy, besides the fact that he can give a good press conference during a big storm. Even his fellow Democrats are calling his budget garbage.
Re: SALT ON ROADS. It is time to stop using this salt material on all state and town roads. It is rotting out our cars, bridges and look what it is doing to our town and state plow trucks. They are buying new ones more often. Those of you who live in an area where the run-off runs anywhere near your property better have your wells tested. Two were contaminated on East Street in the area of West Chestnut Hill Road in Litchfield and the state paid for a new well for one of them. Write your state reps and local selectmen.
Obsessive anti-Obama rants, I wanted to ask the person who obsesses on railing against the President of the U.S., daily ... to take a rest! Please give us a break... more than half the country voted for the man. Can you please show some respect for the Americans who wanted to give him a second term? If he was as corrupt as you think, he would not have been re-elected. Your constant complaining is well-documented....we all know your low opinion... and it is a symptom of your general unhappiness! Maybe you should try to take all your energy and help someone - a shelter and elderly companion, a newspaper route, work at a golf course. Chronic complaining is a form of neurosis and is just a lost form of negative energy. It serves no good and helps to stir the negative pot which is America these days...
The attendance policy at THS is a joke. it was just revised last summer for the exact same reason, too many absences and not getting the credit. Now is going to be revisited again. If kids don't go to school and exceed the amount of days they should not and II repeat, should not get credit.
Don't reinvent the wheel. OWTS has had an attendance policy for years and they enforce it, not like THS. You make a rule, kids don't abide by it and then you want to change it. That's not right. Enforce the rules that you in place. The kids run the school and that's why there are so many problems occurring there. Prepare the kids for life and life situations in getting a job. If you don't show up, you don't get credit. You don't just show up when you feel like it, or you will be terminated from your job.
Torrington is...entertaining. Living in the "Towers" is more so. With our 'windows on Torrington'... we see a lot. Let me give you an example. After the recent snowstorms (the "big" one), we watched the Torrington town workers struggle to plow the large municipal parking lot (behind the library).
They piled tons of snow up again by the fence. Days later...they worked diligently to remove the snow with a bucket loader and...what has to be their smallest dump truck. Well...maybe it's the only one they had. Today on the Feb. 25...they brought the snow back...by the small dump truck load...working tirelessly. Placing it exactly where they took it from...days before.
Then when they put it all back...from wherever they had removed it to (?)....I'm again watching them (as I write)...you guessed it...taking all the snow away by the bucketful and yea...that small dump truck. It begs the question...who is in charge of this oh-so-public boondoggle?
I have seen the enemy...and the POGO was right...it is us...


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Lake Kennedy Senior Center holds Veterans Day event
With everything the Lake Kennedy Senior Center does for its members, it took a while for it to come up with the idea of holding a special event for its veterans.
But when it finally did, the center went all out, and on Friday afternoon more than 100 veterans, from World War II to Desert Storm, and their spouses came to the center for lunch, presentations and entertainment from the senior center's numerous members during the first Veteran's Appreciation Day luncheon.
The event was free for veterans and $7 for non-vets.
For those who founded the event, it had a special meaning.
"This event is really special to our hearts because we appreciate our veterans," said Myri Del Leon, recreational specialist at the center. "I have many veterans in my family, so I like to offer programs with a meaning, so I said let's do it annually."
The event featured a light lunch, which began with an invocation by Chaplain Larry Ager, a Vietnam veteran from the Army who served on and off until 2005.
"There are a lot of veterans who predate me. We just stand on their shoulders and move forward," Ager said. "Tell the veterans 'welcome home' and thank their family members, who share the loneliness and worry with the veteran until he comes home."
There were also short speeches from Del Leon and the community partners who made the luncheon possible.
The highlight of the event was guest speaker and veteran Jonathan Scalone, who spoke to veterans about facing the end of life and how seniors should approach the questions surrounding it.
"We have served our country. One more patriotic act is to serve our family so they don't fight over the care you choose," Scalone said.
After that came the entertainment, featuring the Suncoast Sunshine Cloggers, singing from retired Air Force Col. Joe Neelon and Shirley Sabel, and a rousing climax with the senior center choir and dancers joining in a rendition of "God Bless America."
Veterans were allowed the opportunity to come onstage and share their stories with their fellow veterans, but nobody took the offer.
That didn't mean they didn't have a good time or appreciate the efforts of the senior center.
"Everything was well done. I hope they have another one this year," said Korean War veteran Dick Beaulieu before being overcome by emotions for a moment and saying, "It's hard sometimes."
"It's a special thing to do for special people on a special day," Sean Reilly, a veteran of Desert Storm and Operation Freedom in Iraq from 2005-06. "It's wonderful all the volunteers who come out and share their free time."
The lunch was sponsored by United Nursing Services, Platinum Elite Realty, GMC Financial Services, Southwest Florida Coastal Home Watch, Lowes, Bealls, Publix and Downtowner Car Wash.
"We salute all our veterans and we are thankful for them and we hope we can do this every year and it gets bigger and better," Del Leon said.


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In my 'day job', I'm an IT professional at the University of Nottingham: my alma mater from which I graduated in Archaeology and Geography some time ago. However, I've retained my fascination with archaeology and I'm excited to be starting a part-time MA in Archaeology here in September. In the year leading up to this, I've read academic books and papers voraciously, enjoyed the regular research seminars in the Department, joined The Prehistoric Society and attended some fascinating conferences. I'm really looking forward to studying the subject again in depth over the next two years.
Today, however, archaeology had to be set aside for the morning, as my wife and I attended a friend's funeral. It was an occasion to share happy memories with her family and to celebrate her life, so in that sense, it was a positive event and we were glad to be there. Recently, I was reading some of the papers regarding the Neolithic landscape of Avebury and Stonehenge in Wiltshire and Mike Parker Pearson's suggestion of the landscape being divided into domains of the living and of the ancestors, with the transition from life through death to the realm of the ancestors perhaps being related to ritual passage through the landscape. During moments of reflection at the graveside before the committal, I realised that the ritual in which we participating was one which people and communities have shared for thousands of years and that, just at that moment, we had something intangible in common with our Neolithic predecessors.
On a happier note, my archaeological activity today involved some preparation for a conference on Deer and People which is being organised by our zooarchaeology lecturer in the department, Naomi Sykes. It's to be held in September in Lincoln and I volunteered to help. We've discussed some issues for supporting the conference, so I've set up an e-mail address for it and provided a link to the conference web page on the University's web site. Today, I've done some work on Powerpoint slides for the conference to be displayed on screen before or between speakers, themed to the colours of the various sessions in the programme.
Lastly, we're packing tonight for our regular family holiday in Northumberland, my home county and the original inspiration for my interest in archaeology, with its landscape rich in remains from the past. I'm looking forward to the luxury of some time to sit and read. I have some papers in PDF format to catch up with on my laptop and iPad while we're away but I won't be able to resist packing a few of the archaeology books I have on loan from the University Library and of course there's Barter Books to visit in Alnwick. Can one have too many archaeology books? My wife may disagree but I think not!


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Britain's telecommunications regulator says its "preliminary view" is that "there is currently insufficient evidence to justify regulation to prohibit certain forms of traffic management." In other words, Ofcom sees no need for open Internet rules, given the agency's view that nothing has happened in United Kingdom cyberspace to merit them.
The "consultation," as Ofcom calls its new discussion piece, notes "the absence of complaints or concrete examples of discrimination" presented to the agency so far. Titled Traffic management and 'net neutrality', it comes following yesterday's record for British Internet consumption. The BBC reports that the England vs. Slovenia World Cup game generated 800,000 simultaneous streams—a "peak number watching at any one time."
Traffic Management also comes as the European Commission promises a big debate about net neutrality this summer.
Who bears the costs?
But what caught our eye about the piece—the equivalent of a Notice of Inquiry launched by our Federal Communications Commission—is its theory of Internet economics. The report plays down worries about the prospect of ISPs charging content and applications providers for access to Internet subscribers, or seeing this as a form of potential discrimination.
Ofcom's "initial view" is that a ban on this sort of practice, which our FCC is currently considering, "is unlikely to lead to efficient market outcomes."
"In simple terms," the UK commission continues, "it means that consumers [would] have to bear all of the costs in a 'two sided market' in which content and applications providers clearly benefit from access to consumers as well as vice versa."
What is a 'two sided market'? Within the context of the 'Net, Ofcom defines it as so:
The two sides consist of consumers purchasing internet connectivity on the one hand, and content, applications and service providers on the other. ISPs allow consumers to access content, applications and services, and the latter to access consumers. In theory, this should be a mutually beneficial arrangement. Satisfying the demand of each side depends in part on the participation of the other. For example, consumers would value internet connectivity more highly the more content and applications they can access. Similarly the value content providers find in offering online services increases with consumer internet take-up as it offers them a chance to reach larger numbers of consumers.
The trick in a market like this is for both sides to find the right balance, Ofcom suggests. If ISPs charge too much to consumers, they'll use broadband less. If ISPs overcharge content providers, that could chill investment in new applications and content.
So "in theory, the ISP is well-placed to act as an 'honest broker' bringing two sets of preferences together," the document contends.
Therefore, banning "voluntary commercial agreements" (as the telcos in the US call them), would only be appropriate "if there was evidence that consumers place value on additional services, applications and content significantly more than the service providers value access to consumers."
Ofcom adds that "it is not clear that such a prohibition would be proportionate. Indeed the introduction of wholesale charging could be consistent with an efficient market outcome."
What this analysis seems to assume is that if ISPs can't charge content and application providers like Google for access to their own subscribers, the burden of paying for Internet on-ramp access will fall directly on consumers in the form of subscription fees. Less able to sustain those additional costs than content providers, people might respond by buying or using less broadband, depressing the Internet investment economy.
But we can envision a very different scenario. If ISPs are allowed to charge content providers for better subscriber access, those content providers will transfer their new costs to consumers in a myriad of hidden ways: more ads, more exploitation of user data, and worst of all, more tiers of access that tithe the best thing about the 'Net right now—that consumers can upload content and create their own environments for very little money.
The question is how to regulate that economy so that the Internet's main virtue continues to thrive.
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Still, the regulator acknowledges that "some forms of discrimination could raise consumer concerns" and that "discriminatory practices by firms with substantial market power are likely to come under particularly close scrutiny."
But Ofcom says that this doesn't mean that governments actually have to do something to make net neutrality so. It's a "common understanding" among EU nations that an open and neutral Internet is desirable, the regulator notes. This could be achieved in a variety of ways, however, "not least appropriate forbearance from regulation. There is no obligation on national regulators to introduce restrictions on traffic management or other forms of network management."
The most proactive suggestion the document makes is that ISP network management and pricing practices should be as transparent as possible.
"We believe that, in any future commercial scenario," Ofcom writes, "it is critical that consumers should have access to meaningful information on policies that affect their experience including relevant traffic prioritisation, degradation or blocking policies being applied by their ISP and that they are able to factor this in when making purchasing and/or switching decisions."


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To us, corporate social responsibility is about much more than just business, it goes right to the heart of our philosophy.
We're a family company and believe that, by operating in the right way, we can create a better world for generations to come. We strive to make all our hotels socially responsible, treating our communities, guests and stakeholders with the understanding and respect that we'd show our own loved ones.