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To: "Santa" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
From: "Patrick Mahoney" <email@example.com>
RE: Christmas List
Dear Santa,
It's been a long time since I've written. In fact, the last time I wrote you was just after Thanksgiving in 1976. I carefully composed my wish list, folded it into an envelope and brought it to the post office. I remember being told by the postal clerk that it would take up to two weeks for delivery. Of course, the clerk's comment made me worry that I had mailed it too late. December of '76 was a tense one.
But these days...well you know as well as I do that the Christmas season starts earlier and earlier every year. Today when Ian and I went to Home Depot, the Christmas Tree stand was just days away from opening. Seeing this put Ian straight into the holiday spirit. And his first order of business was to email you, which we did a couple of hours ago.
I find all of this a little bit funny. Between the Christmas season starting earlier and the ability to email you, kids don't have to stress anymore. In fact, I was a little shocked that Ian didn't immediately get an auto-reply saying that his list had been duly received and processed. That said, maybe you recognize the value of anticipation and do that on purpose.
You might be wondering why I am referring to you as if you exist. That's a fair question, so let me try to explain. In 1977, my mom told me the "truth". This was probably the first major shock I suffered in my life - The lies!!! I remember sitting at the kitchen table crying as my body went completely numb. My mind raced through a (short) lifetime of the suddenly false memories about you. Sitting on your lap at the mall - I now knew this wasn't real. Making sure that the fireplace gave you sufficient ingress and egress capability - I now knew this was for naught. And though I still had no idea who'd actually been eating the cookies and drinking the milk, I knew it wasn't you.
Today I had a bit of an epiphany. Because of Ian's infectious enthusiasm and total faith in the magic of the holidays, it occurred to me that even though my mom told me that you where not real, she didn't have the means to prove it. But I was 8 years old and knew nothing about classic logical theory, so I naturally just took her word for it. However, I've learned one or two things in the last 33 years, and tonight the following thought occurred to me:
My mother told me that Santa Claus doesn't exist.
My mother could not prove that Santa Claus doesn't exist.
Santa Claus exists.
I know I'm taking some major liberties with modus tollens, but dare to dream, right? Besides, this is a letter to you, not a thesis for a post graduate degree at MIT. Further, many argue it's impossible to prove a negative. So if examined in that context, it can't be proved that you don't exist.
Regardless of what's true or not true, I've got nothing to lose by emailing you. I've been a pretty good boy this year, and all this training is making me feel younger and younger every day. Given all this, maybe I still qualify for your consideration? If so, here is my list:
|Zipp Vuka Integrated Aerobar
I assume that since you have a lot of ground to cover over a 24 hour period, you know a few things about aerodynamics. So I'm sure you'll agree that these aerobars look straight up fast. Weighing in at only 860 grams, they won't add too much weight to your sleigh. And when you consider the Zipp's provide 4 axes of adjustment with only 2 bolts and also claim to have the cleanest internal cable routing in the industry, you end up with some pretty nice aerobars.
|Newton Momentum Trail Shoe
OK, so I know I've been saying I really don't want these things. But since you know everything, then you already know that I do actually want them. The reason is simple: I love my Newton Gravity's so much that I am actually really precious about where I run with them. This means that trails are off limits. I know this sounds crazy (especially coming from me), but I don't want to get them dirty.
On the other hand, Newton shoes make my feet happier than any other running shoes I've ever worn. And since I'd love to spend some more time on the trails this winter and spring, I might as well break down and ask you for them.
|Argyle Sweater Vest
I'm thinking that if you do exist, you've got a sense of humor. How could you not? You live in the coldest region on earth and are surrounded by elves. And if this isn't enough, one night a year you are faced with the impossible task of circling the globe dropping off gifts. Even the best urban Fedex driver only gets a few square miles to cover. The stress you have to deal with must be incredibly high. So I'm betting you deal with it by getting in as many laughs as possible.
If I see this sweater under the tree, I'll know I'm right about the sense of humor. And everything else, too.


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On July 17, the region's head Yunus-Bek Yevkurov met with the ROSSETI delegation headed by the First Deputy General Director for Technical Policy Roman Berdnikov. The parties discussed the current progress for implementing the instructions given by the Russian government on improving the republic's energy sector, particularly focusing on payment discipline pertaining to the electricity used, while also defining new directions of focus.
The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Sultan Tsechoyev, aide and consultant Issa Tsoloyev, General Director of the Republic's Last Resort Supplier of the North Caucasian Federal District and Kalmykiya (a subsidiary of ROSSETI) Artur Aushev and interim General Director of the North Caucasian Interregional Distribution Grid Company Sergey Arkhipov.
While discussing the issue of working with non-paying consumers, Roman Berdnikov offered his gratitude for the multi-faceted assistance provided by Yunus-Bek Yevkurov in resolving any issues between the last resort supplier and the republic's bailiff services.
Head of the region's last resort suppliers Artur Aushev stated that the level of payments for the republic's last resort supplier IngushEnergo OJSC on the Russian wholesale electricity and power market
amounted to 100.5% in the first half of this year, which is 42.7% higher than the previous year. A significant improvement in the payment discipline for consumers on the retail market was also evident in the first half of this year, which amounted to a 65% increase over the previous year.
The parties also discussed the construction and renovation of the electricity network infrastructure in accordance with the region's development plans, primarily to improve the reliability of the power supply.
This also included the topic of consolidating Ingushetia's network facilities. Meeting participants particularly looked into the possibility of consolidating
Ingushetia's electricity network facilities through the North Caucasus Interregional Distribution Grid Company and settling the debt owed by the companies within the water and sewage treatment sector. Forecasts predict that successfully implementing these agreements will improve payment discipline, will allow for the implementation of a unified technical policy and will also improve the quality and the reliability of services while lowering their costs.
The discussion also raised the issue of the personnel shortage in the sector. ROSSETI offered to implement a program to construct special housing for those working in the energy industry. Roman Berdnikov believes that this would increase the influx of highly qualified personnel into the region while simultaneously improving the use of new generation equipment. Ingushetia's head supported the ROSSETI initiative and gave instructions to appropriate officials to meet with the heads of cities and various regions in the republic to discuss providing land for these purposes.
Roman Berdnikov and Yunus-Bek Yevkurov separately discussed the possibilities of using the parties' potential for creating a cutting-edge transformer maintenance plant in the republic which would serve Ingushetia and the surrounding regions.

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For some time now, developers have used asynchronous programming techniques to get more out of their applications, with increasing amounts of work done in the background without freezing the screen. Web applications and services support a base level of concurrency naturally by virtue of the ability of web servers to handle many requests simultaneously. At the level of individual requests, work done in parallel, especially when multiple external resources need to be accessed, can result in shorter response times for users.
Recognizing this reality, Microsoft has continually improved and simplified its language and platform support for asynchronous programming in .NET. The latest innovation came in 2013 when Microsoft introduced the async and await keywords in the .NET 4.5 release. Now, New Relic's .NET Agent release 6.0 includes general availability of accurate instrumentation for applications that use the latest async techniques in .NET.
Understanding async: a taxi analogy
To understand the value of Microsoft's latest support for async programming, think about going on a business trip that involves a plane flight. Imagine doing this the old-fashioned (pre-Uber) way: taking a cab to and from the airport on both ends of your trip. Now imagine that the cab company wanted to provide you an extra service: a "dossier" at the end of your trip, listing the times you left your house, left the cab at the airport, got back in the cab upon your return, and finally, returned to your house. How could it accomplish this?
One way would be to have the cabbie wait at the airport after dropping you off until you returned from your trip. The driver could write all the times on a clipboard and simply hand you your dossier at the end. That works, but the cab company is going to have a hard time staying in business with its cabs sitting at the airport so long, waiting for particular passengers to return.
A smarter approach would be for the cabbie who drove you to the airport to write down the times and hand them to the dispatcher when she got back to the cab depot (yeah, they used to have those, remember the old "Taxi" TV show?). When you return from your trip, the dispatcher would send another cab to the airport, handing the driver the dossier to complete after picking you up at the airport and dropping you off at home.
On days with plenty of demand from riders, more of the cabs stay busy, more of the time. Much better, right?
What is async in .NET?
Getting back to software, the improved async capability in .NET 4.5 and later boils down to compiler, runtime, and (significantly) IIS and WCF support for two new C# keywords, async and await:
- Declaring a method async means that it returns a promise (also known as a future) rather than a direct result. A promise typically wraps a result of a specific type and will yield its result once available. This makes sense for operations that take significant time to complete and may execute on separate threads, or via a blocking system call.
- Callers of async methods can await the result of the promise returned by the method any time after calling the method (not necessarily immediately). So a caller can call an async method to get things started, do some unrelated work (including, potentially, calling other async methods), then await the result when there's nothing else to be done, with execution automatically continuing after the await returns.
- When a method awaits the result of a call to an async method, it doesn't block—it just suspends execution, which is picked up once the result is available through the magic of the .NET runtime. Meanwhile, control returns to the caller of the method that did the await. A method cannot do an await unless it declares itself as async. So if the caller of that method also decides to await, then the cycle continues. Sort of a "hall of mirrors" effect, but with some powerful benefits.
Where does the buck stop?
At this point, you may be wondering "where does it all end?" If things are really async all the way down in, say, a Web API application (i.e., even the controller methods are declared as async), then what's to stop the request lifecycle from completing before all the awaits have resumed, resulting in an incomplete response to the client?
Here, too, Microsoft has handled the details in .NET and IIS/ASP, which keep track of outstanding awaits in a request and postpone its completion until they return. This leads to some nice performance characteristics for applications that use async and await.
What are the benefits of async/await?
Concurrency: Imagine that you're implementing a REST API using C# and web API. You have an endpoint that needs to fetch data from a database and two external services, then combine the result into some JSON to return to a mobile app. You also need to update some statistics you're keeping in a local cache to reflect particulars of the request.
Since the database and service calls take time, you'd like to get them all started right away, do the cache update while they're executing, then finish processing when the results are available. Before async/await, you probably would have done this using
Thread.Start and
Thread.Join, or perhaps the TPL (Task Parallel Library) with .NET threading. But async/await and compatible client libraries (
HttpClient.SendAsync for external service calls,
SqlCommand.ExecuteReaderAsync, etc. for databases) let you do it without ever having to create threads on your own.
The client libraries expose async methods, and behind the scenes, they create threads for you, returning promises whose results can be awaited. The awaits return when the threads finish their work.
Here's a simple code sample:
public class MyWebApiController : ApiController { private static readonly HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient(); public async Task<IEnumerable> Get() { var taskList = new List<Task>(); taskList.Add(MakeRequest("someUrl1")); taskList.Add(MakeRequest("someUrl2")); taskList.Add(MakeRequest("someUrl3")); CallMyOtherLocalWork(); var result = await Task.WhenAll(taskList); return result; } private async Task MakeRequest(String url)OK, foo { var task = await httpClient.GetStringAsync(url); return task; } }
In this example, each of the three
HttpClient.GetStringAsync() calls will execute in parallel, with each of the three calls to MakeRequest suspended at that point, with control returning to the
Get() method in the controller. The await on
Task.WhenAll() allows the controller method itself to be suspended by IIS/ASP until all the awaits resume and finish, at which point the web API request itself completes, returning an array of strings containing the external call results. But something else good happens here too.
Scalability: So far, async/await may seem like slightly easier ways of getting concurrency in your application, right? That's only part of the story.
The IIS web server running .NET web applications and services (including WCF) has evolved into a highly scalable software platform capable of handling large volumes of low-latency traffic, as you can see in many of today's microservice architectures. Like most web servers, one way IIS scales is by maintaining a pool of threads that can be immediately assigned to handle incoming requests. Under extreme load, however, the chance that all the threads in the pool will be busy goes up, and with it the chance that an incoming request will have to wait, or even fail. If this condition persists, IIS reacts by adding threads to its pool, but it does so conservatively. That means using the threads already in the pool as efficiently as possible is the key to good performance under load.
Let's go back to the code sample above. Once you await in your top-level controller method, IIS is smart enough to return the thread under which your request was running back to the pool, where it can immediately be used to handle other incoming requests. Each time one of your awaits resumes, you get a thread from the pool to resume the awaited method. It may not be the thread you started with, but IIS restores all important contextual information for you, so it really doesn't matter.
The result? In IIS as a whole, threads stay busy, not blocked, yielding much better scalability! Congratulations, you're now running a digital version of a smart cab service!
New Relic support for async in our .NET agent Release 6.0
Once you decide that the concurrency and scalability advantages of async/await are what's required for your high-throughput web service or application, you'll want to make sure you're using the latest version of the New Relic .NET Agent.
Release 6.0 of the agent plugs right into the new generation of async-capable network and database client libraries (see the public documentation for details) to give you accurate timings on your async calls. In particular, when you view your application in the APM UI, you'll be able to see:
- The stacked overview chart showing the time taken by the components of your application, representing the Total Time taken in processing requests. Now, however, you get a superimposed line showing the Response Time for your requests—the actual time they take to complete. The area "above the line" shows the benefits of concurrency in your application: the time spent processing awaited tasks in parallel, often by external servers and databases:
- While a visual representation of the overall concurrency in your application is a great start, you'll likely want to dig deeper when troubleshooting performance issues. Transaction traces, generated specifically for slow transactions, are your starting point for this investigation, and with our new async support, you'll see the segments of your transaction that executed asynchronously starting at roughly the same timestamp. From here, you can think about rearranging the way your transaction does its work to gain even more concurrency speedup:
Try it today
At New Relic, we're big fans of the way .NET has introduced asynchronous capabilities in its standard HTTP and database client libraries, while encouraging database vendors to do the same. The tight integration with IIS/ASP means that once you start using these libraries and the simple coding techniques required, you get instant concurrency and scalability advantages in your applications. By adding async instrumentation support to the .NET agent, we're casting our vote in favor of our customers leveraging these new technologies as soon as possible.
Download and install the latest New Relic .NET agent today and take advantage of our support for async!


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Possibly the worst golf course I have ever played, Sanlan RV and Golf Resort in Lakeland, FL offers a relatively nice RV park with two swimming pools, one large enough to swim real laps. The bathrooms and showers are also large and clean, and the toilets are commercial grade. The laundry room has big washers and dryers and lots of machines, like a mini-laundromat. The Staff, especially the park rangers, are very helpful. However, coming and going after hours can be a problem, because they don't give short-term visitors after-hours key cards.
I thought it would be great to stay and play golf, NAUGHT. The golf course is absolutely dreadful. Sanlan was/is part of a working cattle ranch, cattle graze along the perimeter. The golf course has been converted from a cattle pasture to fairways, and not well. I doubt they moved any dirt to smooth the course out. The fairways are dry and hard, which gives you 20 extra yards on good drives. But riding in a cart is like bouncing across ski moguls. I hope you back is in better shape than mine?
No marshals, so 6 guys playing together, and 3 guys playing from one bag of clubs, are what I experienced on 3/18/18. At least they let me play through, but it didn't make-up for the condition of the course. Sanlan charged $32 for 18 holes and a cart. But having just played Palm Cove in Palm City for $25, made Sanlan a total rip-off.
Also, Lakeland, FL is nothing special. I tried to find a local micro-brew (non-chain restaurant) to meet my pal Rich, who was driving home to Maryland from Tampa. Rich is a beer aficionado, but we ended up at Smokey Bones, a FL chain.
Sanlan RV & Golf Resort proves my inclination, when visiting FL stay on the coast, either east or west. Florida is about the beach, and there are so many nice golf courses to choose from with great rates.


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Stung by the abandonments of children as old as 17 under Nebraska's new "safe haven" law, the governor and lawmakers agreed Monday to narrow the legislation's broad wording to protect only the parents of newborns from prosecution.
Forty of the Legislature's 49 senators support amending the law so it applies only to infants up to 3 days old, legislative Speaker Mike Flood said at a news conference. The age cap would change the Nebraska law from the most lenient to one of the nation's most restrictive.
At least 18 children, the youngest 22 months and many of them teens, have been abandoned since the law took effect in July. Nebraska's law doesn't define the word "child," so it has been interpreted to let anyone leave child up to age 18 at a state-licensed hospital without fear of prosecution for the abandonment.
Most states let parents and guardians drop off children who are up to a month old at hospitals or other safe institutions. Sixteen states have a 3-day-old age cap such as the one agreed to in Nebraska.
Every state has a safe-haven law, which is meant to save the lives of unwanted infants.
Unintended consequences
The Nebraska law has had "serious, unintended consequences," Gov. Dave Heineman said. "This law needs to be changed to focus on infants."
The governor reiterated that he would prefer not to call a special session before the Legislature's regular session in January. But he indicated he could change his mind.
"If circumstances dictate, particularly if we have several more from out of state, I won't hesitate to make that call" for a special session, Heineman said.
Should Heineman not call a special session, Flood said, lawmakers would quickly change the law, probably within the first couple weeks of the session.
The rash of drop-offs included a teenage girl from Iowa and a Michigan boy whose mother drove to Omaha to leave him at a Omaha hospital. The events put Nebraska in the type of national spotlight that makes politicians wince.
"Saturday Night Live" poked fun at the law last weekend. During the "Weekend Update" segment, Seth Meyers said, "A second teenager has been left at an area hospital under Nebraska's new safe-haven law, which allows parents to abandon their children without fear of prosecution. Or what is known in Manhattan as boarding school."
Psychological scars
A national expert on safe-haven laws commended Nebraska officials for moving to impose an age limit, but he said action should be taken now to prevent older children from receiving the scars of abandonment.
"It affects children," said Tim Jaccard, president of the National Safe Haven Alliance. "When children are older they have the ability to understand what's going on and they're thinking, 'Mommy and Daddy don't want me anymore, so they're throwing me in a hospital.' That's a psychological blow."
Jaccard said that over the last decade about 1,560 kids have been dropped off under safe-haven laws.
Before the law is changed, Nebraska officials are trying to prevent more drop-offs.
Heineman has authorized Health and Human Services to spend up to $100,000 promoting a help line for parents and guardians operated by United Way. If it is flooded with calls, up to $200,000 in state money could be used to add phone lines.
The state is also sending letters to all adoptive parents and guardians of children who are former state wards. The letter provides phone numbers and Web sites of agencies that can help them if they are having problems with their children.
The letter also suggests parents contact Boys Town, an Omaha home for troubled youths that for decades has taken in children who are having problems.
The letter does not mention that Nebraska has a safe-haven law.


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The Alpine Chamois arrived in New Zealand in 1907 and the first surviving releases were made, again in the Mount Cook region. It is one of New Zealand's most graceful game animals but are extremely fast, being able to cover any terrain with great agility and velocity.
The horns of the Chamois found in New Zealand are as large as any found elsewhere in the world. Trophy horns start at round 8 inches long but can be as long as 11 inches. The winter skins are a spectacular black colour, with white facial features. In summer they are an impressive fawn tan that blends into surrounding tussock country.
When hunting Chamois you always have to remember that they have exceptional eyesight that has even been compared to six power binoculars, so planning a perfect stalk is always essential.
Chamois inhabit country similar to Tahr but normally a little lower in winter and they grace the tussock country and bush edge in summer of the Mt Cook and other regions. Our hunts are either on foot from huts, or by helicopter access to the remote locations.
Chamois can be hunted all year round; however their skins are at their best from April to August (winter coats) and December to February (summer coat). Their rut period is May/June.


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Employees who work for hospitals, government agencies and schools often have access to 403b plans. These plans allow workers to put money aside out of their paychecks and use those funds to save for retirement. A 403b plan provides immediate tax savings as well as long-term tax-deferred growth in the years and decades leading up to retirement.
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'Values Voter Bus Tour' to Travel Across America
'Values Voter Bus Tour' to Travel Across America
Conservative lobbying group Family Research Council Action announced Saturday the launch of a "Values Voter Bus Tour" that will travel the country between now and the Nov. 12, 2012 election, carrying the message of faith, family and freedom.
The announcement came on day two of the three-day Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., which is hosting discussions about social issues such as marriage, abortion and religious freedom, and featuring speeches by GOP presidential candidates.
"Over the next year, the Values Voter Bus will travel the country registering voters and speaking to the views held by millions of American voters who are deeply concerned about issues impacting the family and the broader culture," Tony Perkins, president of FRC Action, said in a statement.
The nationwide bus tour follows a "Values Bus" tour across Iowa this summer to elevate key issues impacting the family and broader culture in advance of the Ames Straw Poll. Earlier, a "Judge Bus" tour saw the ouster of three Iowa Supreme Court justices who ruled in 2009 that a legislative ban on gay marriage was a violation of the state's equal protection clause. Both the tours were organized by FRC Action and its allies.
After the ongoing Values Voter Summit, the "Values Voter Bus" will depart for events next week in New Hampshire and will be joined by presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann. The tour will then proceed to the swing states of Ohio and Missouri, and over the next year it will travel through "other battleground states, including North Carolina and Minnesota which have marriage amendments on their ballots."
"We have invited the presidential candidates to join the 'Values Voter Bus Tour' so that they can speak directly to values voters about their plans to protect marriage, safeguard religious liberty, protect the rights of the unborn and restore fiscal sanity," Perkins said.
Perkins added that he agreed with President Barack Obama who recently said that this election "is a contest of values." The 2012 election is indeed about values, he said. But "President Obama's values are clear – marriage, life and the Constitution mean little to him in the pursuit of his radical agenda."
He said values voters may have their favorite primary candidates but "they are united in the belief that President Obama must be a one-term President." Obama, he stressed, must be replaced "if we hope to make America militarily strong and secure, economically prosperous and free, and socially healthy and virtuous."
FRC Action, a legislative action arm of Family Research Council, was founded in 1992 to educate the general public and cultural leaders about traditional American values and to promote the philosophy of the Founding Fathers concerning the nature of ordered liberty, according to the group's website.


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It's not only his personal life, where he encountered with numerous pitfalls. But also he endured numerous hardships in his musical journey. Professionally, a rapper, singer, and songwriter, French gave nearly a decade working for street DVD series called Cocaine City and continued with mixtapes releases collaborating with famous rappers including Max B, Rick Ross, Akon, Drake, Diddy and more, until the release of first studio album Excuse My French in 2013.
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If there was any question before, now there can be no doubt: The liberal media today represents a clear and present danger to Constitutional government, freedom and the future of America. We are at a crossroads. The elections in November will decide our future. Freedom or slavery? Liberty or tyranny?
The liberal news media have given up all notion of objectivity. They've chosen the future they want. They want Barack Obama unleashed for a second term. They want the Progressive agenda he will bring. And they are doing everything they can to re-elect the most left-wing President in American history and every politician who supports his agenda.
The choice for conservatives is clear. We fight or we perish. We must win, so we must fight. The most powerful weapons at our disposal are the Media Research Center and its "Tell the Truth!" 2012 campaign.
For 25 years, the MRC has served as the conservative movement's only answer to the Left's ultimate weapon: liberal media bias. On a daily basis the MRC documents, exposes and neutralizes the liberal media on a variety of fronts. Through its News Analysis Division monitoring the media 24 hours a day, through MRC's five Web sites, through its highly influential NewsBusters, through MRC TV, through e-mail alerts, through MRC Action's 520,000 strong and growing grassroots army, through Special Reports and through MRC's on news service CNSNews.com.
With its $4 million-plus "Tell the Truth!" 2012 campaign each of these core MRC assets will be working overtime to monitor liberal media bias. Additionally, the MRC will aggressively advertise these efforts, putting the liberal media elites on notice:
We're on the march in 2012 and we need your most generous possible support today. Thank you.
This time around, the Obama machine cannot run on the fairy dust of Hope and Change. The president's record is a losing one. Their path to victory is to vilify their opponents and hide their policy failures. Make no mistake, Mr. Obama's opponent in this election will face one of the most scorching personal assaults the country has ever witnessed.
We're already seeing the liberal media's campaign for Obama's reelection through their narrative of the "Republican War on Women." We see it in their thinly veiled bigotry toward Mitt Romney's Mormon religion and their constant harping about his wealth and supposed "disconnect" from the poor — even about his dog from almost 30 years ago. And they're just getting warmed up.
But nothing better epitomizes the Left's blatant hypocrisy and the disgraceful extent they will go to support Obama and the liberal agenda than the media's war on Rush Limbaugh and their handling of the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman shooting case in Florida. At the same time, these sorry episodes also demonstrate the power of the Media Research Center to turn the tables on the leftist media.
A court in Florida will determine whether George Zimmerman lawfully shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense. But NBC took not a minute to publicly render its verdict: guilty! Worse, NBC deliberately lied to its viewers and other media outlets and committed gross journalistic malpractice in its decision to follow the race-baiting lead of Al Sharpton (the despicable hired hand of NBC's sister channel on cable, MSNBC) and Jesse Jackson. The result has been a number of grotesque beatings of innocent white civilians in recent weeks and the potential for Rodney King-style riots once a verdict in a court of law is actually rendered.
The shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, a Hispanic, occurred on Feb. 26. Three weeks later, the police released the audio of Zimmerman's 911 call from that night, which said in part:
Zimmerman: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. Or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about."
Dispatcher: "Okay, and this guy, is he black, white or Hispanic?"
Zimmerman: "He looks black."
That was the real call. But when NBC News got a hold of it, they edited out the dispatcher's question and made the sequence like this:
Zimmerman: "This guy looks like he's up to no good.... He looks black."
MRC's NewsBusters blog was the first to expose NBC's deceit, followed by an appearance by Brent Bozell on Hannity on Fox News. The good news is that MRC's reporting helped spark sparked national outrage and caused an internal investigation at NBC and the subsequent firing of at least one of the producers responsible for the lie.
In late February, Rush used some unfortunate language to describe Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke—who had appeared before Congress demanding welfare payments to cover contraception. He was wrong to use this language and he apologized—on the air—several times.
But the liberal media don't care about what Rush said. They just want to get him.
In response, the MRC created a petition Web site, IStandWithRush.org, calling on folks to express their support for Rush's vital contribution to the conservative movement. That action generated more than 41,000 petitions and 62,000 calls and e-mails, which were sent to the sponsors who were leaving Rush's show at the time. (Since then, his audience and sponsors have grown more numerous than ever!)
In state after state, starting in New Hampshire and South Carolina and spreading across America, the 520,000 activist members of MRC Action have consistently confronted liberal reporters for attacking conservatives in the primary races. Our grassroots army hit literally hundreds of events throughout the primaries, distributing thousands of signs and stickers. In every case, we were cheerfully surrounded by thousands of conservatives who wanted our "Tell the Truth!" materials. They took everything we could supply them with and they confronted the left-wing media at every single event.
The MRC's "Tell the Truth!" message was everywhere. As a result, the leftist news media, on TV and in print, could not keep us out of the picture, with our signs showing in the background throughout the length of several live reports. Wherever they were, we were there too, and millions of Americans saw us and our grassroots supporters through CBS, ABC, CNN, Fox News, The Washington Post and the many local TV affiliates, newspapers and online media.
In addition, we have also been spreading the "Tell the Truth!" banner through social media Facebook and Twitter, as well as e-mail. This is the largest social media effort ever undertaken by conservatives through these platforms. By our calculations, more than 1 million Americans will participate over the course of this campaign. (We have also made and will continue to make much use billboard signs and mobile billboard trucks broadcasting our message in targeted cities, including a massive 1,684—square-foot billboard in Times Square, New York City.)
In state after state, at scores of events, our grassroots army and targeting marketing efforts continued to show up — and will continue to show up. Our main message, "Don't Believe the Liberal Media!" is now part of the 2012 election campaign and the liberal media are being forced to acknowledge it. We are fighting back.
Media bias is EVERYONE's problem, impacting the ability of every free market and conservative organization to get its ideas across and debunk the Left. We will continue to reach out to conservative organizations and grassroots groups with targeted MRC communications in order to form coalitions and make media bias a national issue for the whole conservative movement.
We will approach fellow conservative organizations to offer customized communication concerning media bias relevant to their specific missions. For example, if Americans for Prosperity wants to find out the worst media bias on issues of taxes and other fiscal matters — but not have to sift through bias on social issues like faith, gay marriage, etc. — the MRC will send a custom email with the "worst of " bias on the exact issues they are interested in.
In addition, this effort will include outreach to leaders from both parties on Capitol Hill, presenting the most egregious examples of liberal bias in the campaign. And we will create and distribute to every media producer a "rolodex" of conservative issue representatives so they know exactly who to call to get our side of the story.
A stand alone website for "Tell the Truth!" 2012 will be the focal point for this effort and will expand the already strong brand of the Media Research Center.
The MRC News Analysis Division will:
The MRC Business and Media Institute
BMI's strength is analyzing economic claims, pointing out flaws in coverage and showing how the media tends to take government's side against businesses on regulatory and tax issues. Throughout the campaign, BMI will publish fact-checks on the numbers reporters use, contact industry/academics for differing perspectives and present free market arguments that reporters rarely make.
The MRC Culture and Media Institute
The Obama machine and its allies in the media have already begun to paint the GOP nominee as "weird," as well as religiously and socially "extreme." That plays to CMI's strength. Also, as any of the following issues come up on the campaign trail, CMI can quickly react: abortion (Planned Parenthood), gay marriage, attacks on women, gun control, patriotism, Hollywood's influence, ethics, religion, morality, etc.
CNSNews.com will launch three initiatives to combat liberal media bias for "Tell the Truth!" 2012:
Rankings — The MRC will rank, on a weekly or monthly basis, the worst national media outlet or media personality for the most overtly, liberally biased coverage of the preceding week and work to skewer them for an entire week. It will have a qualitative component to it in addition to being backed by quantitative data that cites their bias. We will publically "dishonor" each winner and Brent Bozell will issue a statement and challenge to not let the media wreak havoc and influence in the election of 2012.
Advertising — These rankings will be used to implement a smart advertising campaign, especially using online banner ads at major political outlets like the Washington Post, Politico, USA Today, etc. With each new ranking and unveiling of the Worst Election Coverage DisHonor, the MRC would host online banner ads that invite people to click and find out who worked the hardest to sabotage the 2012 election that past week.
Rapid Response — MRC will monitor the news daily to use in pitching specific examples and/or reaction to the news outlets, continuously challenging the liberal media for trying to influence the election.
All of the campaign elements mentioned below are dependent on raising the funds required.
|Fundraising ("Tell the Truth Tour" & Regional Meetings)
|Equipment, Supplies & Support
|Measure Public Perception of Media/Impact
News Analysis Division
|Outreach and Coalition Building
|Documentary on Media Bias
|Weekly Show/Podcast
|Local/Regional Bias Monitors
|Increased/Specialized Monitoring Efforts
Business and Media Institute / Culture Media Institute
|Two Special Reports each (4 total)
|Four smaller reports each (8 total)
|Five reports on George Soros political donations
|Editorial Cartoons (at least 2 per month)
|Additional staff to accomplish above
|Candidate Fact Checking
|Tell the Truth about Economics
|Video Journalism (2 person video team to track candidates plus equipment)
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As a child I was incredibly good with money, I would always save up my pocket-money not wasting on things like sweets and waiting to buy something very special.
I put a lot of this down to education, my Aunts would explain to me all about the value of money, I thought it was so special and loved keeping my own financial accounts from as young as 10.
Fast forward 20 years and I am not so good, I lost my way a little, but I wish I hadn't, my parents were not good (still not good) role models when it came to finances and I think that is a big factor.
I realised we were following a little down the same path with our kids and now with Addison entering school I think it is the right time as her little brain is a huge sponge for learning.
Think Money sent us a crafty piggy bank package, whilst Addison decorated her special little Piggy Bank we would talk about what they were for and the importance of money. Think Money are not alone, in a recent survey over 3/4 of parents asked, said they would like financial education to start in primary school.
Addison decided to decorate her Pig pink and have Gold Sparkles on hers like her favourite coins, when I asked her about money she didn't fully understand the concept that coins added up would buy things but did understand that Mummy has to work to make coins.
Think Money asked us to share our Top Three Financial Tips for our Children
3 Financial Tips for Addison at 4
- Pocket Money – I am going to start giving Addison a very small amount of pocket-money now, maybe something like 50p/£1 per week in exchange for something simple like tidying her toys. This way she learns the value of earning and saving your coins to buy a treat.
- Waste – I think children can very easily waste things, food, toys etc – we have been trying to teach Addison that waste costs and we should not waste.
- Reselling or Donating – Addison loves it when we sell on her unused toys/clothes, we explain to her that they are going to other boys and girls and with the money we received we buy things for her current size/age. If we do not sell we always take her with us to charity shops that we donate to. It gives her an understanding of the value of items not matter if they are needed still.
Three Financial Tips for Addison as an Adult
- Pension – A regret of both Ashley and I is the fact we do not have private pensions, as young adults we did not fully understand the importance and now we have no budget to have them, but it is crucial whether in employment or personally we would like for our children to have a pension as soon as they are earning in full-time employment.
- Budget – In my early adult years I always stuck to a budget, I think it is a great way of making sure you don't overspend, a great deal of the past 10 years I spend to many sleepless nights worrying about how we will pay the bills, sticking to a budget would have saved these worries.
- Credit – If you can help it always live to your means, credit cards can be a downward spiral. If you have to take a credit card, do make sure to research for the best deal and look at the APR.
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Wiley R. Reynolds Jr. (1917-2005) was born in New York City. His father, Wiley, Sr., was a prominent banker in Palm Beach. After graduating Yale University, Wiley worked at the First National Bank of Palm Beach. He later joined the Florida Defense Force and the Civil Air Patrol. In 1943 he enlisted in the Army Air Corps serving until discharged in 1945. After the war, Wiley returned to banking.
Richard P. Robbins (1893-1966) served as a county judge from 1924-1961 and as attorney for the Town of Palm Beach. Robbins served in the US Navy as a pilot during World War I. In World War II, he served with the 1st Air Squadron, FDF, and the Civil Air Patrol. In 1943 Maj. Robbins was appointed commander of the Florida CAP Wing.
Roy S. Rood (1918-2011) was born in Rood, Florida. After graduating from Jupiter High School, Rood took outdoor jobs until the beginning of World War II when he joined the navy. Roy served in Virginia, Jacksonville, FL and in the Pacific as an aircraft mechanic the aircraft carrier USS Hollandia that took part in the battle for Okinawa. Later, he returned to Jupiter and founded the multimillion-dollar Rood Landscaping.
Lt. Donald Ross (d. 1944) became Lake Park's first causality of the war. Ross was serving with the 191st Tank Battalion in Germany when his unit crossed an anti-tank barrier under enemy fire when a mortar killed Ross. A memorial to Ross and another local resident killed in action, Ellison Wilson, was erected to honor their sacrifice. It is at the intersection of the two roads named after them.
Gleason Stambaugh (1905-1979), owner of Florida Music Company, donated his time and boat to Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 3, Division 2. By the end of the war, he commanded 1,700 regular and temporary reserve Coast Guardsmen in Palm Beach County. In 1942 he encountered what he identified as an Italian submarine which immediately dove underwater for which he was thankful as his boat only carried a shotgun—no match for the deck cannons on the sub! The men used their own boats (some carried depth charges and 50-caliber machine guns) to patrol offshore during the night, watching for stricken vessels and German submarines. They were also responsible for security at the Port of Palm Beach, maintained coastal watch towers, patrolled the beach by horseback and on foot, and manned the bridges crossing Lake Worth, checking everyone's identification.
As a child, David R. Thompson (1921-2007) delivered newspapers and telegrams to many of the residences in Palm Beach. Thompson became interested in aviation as a boy and wanted to be a pilot like his older brother. After working with the CAP, he joined the army and served in Europe in Gen. Patton's 3rd Army. Thompson survived the Battle of the Bulge and was in Paris on V-E Day.
Charles Weeks Jr. learned to fly at Morrison Field under President Roosevelt's aviation expansion program. He joined the 1st Air Squadron, FDF, and the CAP at West Palm Beach, receiving the Air Medal for his service. Weeks enlisted in the Army Air Corps, made 16 flights across the Atlantic, and served in the American, European, and Pacific theaters of war. From June 1940 to 1991, Weeks flew 15,000 hours.
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Only catching up with recent events this evening, including WUWT-TV presenting a more balanced antidote to Al Gore's scarathon "dirty energy=dirty weather" (which is here).
Andrew Montford is on at the moment. Well done Anthony – enjoy!
To watch WUWT-TV click here or to go to the USTREAM site click the image below.
For those in the UK (or at least on GMT) here's the remainder of the schedule with times converted to GMT.
|Andrew Montford (live)
|5pm GMT 9AM PST Nov15
|The Hockey Stick/28Gate
|Dr. Roy Spencer (live)
|6pm GMT 10AM PST Nov15
|What Causes Climate Change?
|Steve McIntyre (live)
|7pm GMT 11AM PST Nov15
|The Climate Year in Review: a new focus on extremes
|Dr. Tim Ball (live)
|8pm GMT 12PM PST Nov15
|Warming – A deception?
|Joe Bastardi (live)
|9pm GMT 1PM PST Nov15
|Forecasting extremes
|Joe D'Aleo (live)
|10:30 GMT 1:30PM PST Nov15
|Extreme weather & Sandy
|John Kehr (live)
|11pm GMT 2PM PST Nov15
|The Inconvenient Skeptic
|Harold Ambler (live)
|12 midnight GMT / 3PM PST Nov15
|Ignoring Weather History
|Maurizo Morabito (live)
|0:30 am GMT 3:30PM PST Nov15
|BBC's Twenty Eight Gate
|Donna Laframboise (live)
|1am GMT 4PM PST Nov15
|The IPCC – Unreliable & Untrustworthy
|Anthony Watts & Evan Jones (live)
|2am GMT 5PM PST Nov15
|Update on the surfacestations project and Watts et al paper.


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You and I are ethically justified in using deadly force against agents of The State just about anytime we encounter them in their "official capacity". Cops, TSA, IRS, AFT, whatever.
When one of these "people" attempts to enforce some counterfeit "law"- any "law" that is an attempt to regulate or control anything other than aggression or theft- against anyone, they become the bad guy and it is your absolute human right to resist them however you see fit, including killing them if they don't cooperate. It is "illegal", and therefore suicidal, of course, but it is still your right. I will never condemn anyone for killing an agent of The State under such a circumstance. I can't even get too worked up over an actual thief/aggressor killing an enforcer. A bad guy killing another bad guy doesn't concern me too much, and it's one less enforcer you and I have to deal with.
Any "traffic stop"; any airport scan or pat-down; any demand to see your permit or license; any official interaction at all is a credible threat to initiate force against you. You're foolish if you don't recognize the danger. You twitch an eyelid at the wrong moment and the agent of The State will kill you in the name of "officer safety". That constitutes a credible threat to your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Do you disagree?
Many people don't want to hear this truth. They would rather weasel-word their way around the foundational facts of the matter. They don't want to be seen as "extreme". Those who defend themselves against bad guys are not "extreme"; those who support the bad guys and pretend their actions are legitimate in any way are the ones who are extreme.
No, I am not going to resort to deadly force against an agent of The State unless I feel I have nothing to lose. And, yet, the parasitic vermin of The State seem to be working really hard to make sure that those who love and really understand liberty are backed into a corner, with nothing to lose, as soon as possible. You'd think they are just dying to start a war over liberty. Well... It's their funeral.


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The fact Randy Orton beat AJ Styles in the No. 1 contender's match to see who faces Bray Wyatt for the WWE World Title wasn't all that surprising. What will surprise me is WWE sustaining the momentum this kind of match offers the company's fan base.
WWE did a good job of not only creating a compelling story line in Orton and Wyatt and a backstory it can build from. It also booked a match in Styles and Orton that could have been a headliner at WrestleMania 33.
SmackDown Live may not have been as solid as it has in the past few weeks, but there is no denying the amount of potential a round-robin program between all three wrestlers can generate. Add the emergence of Luke Harper to the mix and the blue brand has once again created more with less.
The best thing about this holy union is no mention of John Cena anywhere. WWE is doing the right thing to stay clear of the Cena train and the possible backlash from the fans over giving him yet another chance at a world title.
My immediate fear about the match between Orton and Wyatt is the creative team gave the fans the rising action and the climax of the movie long before it gave them the beginning and rising action. It may have been a bit too soon. How will the writers remedy that? How can Orton, who is not as skilled on the mic as Wyatt or flashy as someone like Triple H, give us a few more poetic masterpieces? If this is supposed to be the 12-time world champion's chance to unseat Wyatt at the leader's table, he will have to be just as proficient in a promo as his is in the ring.
Can Orton, who is stiff and robotic at times, come out of his shell and adapt to the unorthodox style of the current WWE World Champion?
There are times when WWE has gone to its well too often, bringing along veteran talent to compete for titles. I don't think this is the case. Cena is an overused commodity. Orton, although long in tenure, has a flare for the dramatic. By turning on his "master" two weeks ago, he has also made Wyatt the sympathetic babyface, which is a role the Eater of Worlds is not accustomed to. WWE has been searching for a new cryptic character to fill the role Undertaker has so willingly accepted over the years. With the potential retirement stipulation added to the match with Roman Reigns at WrestleMania, might Wyatt step in and reap the benefits of a man with a dark soul should acquire?
This is the kind of match where Orton does not have to win to prove a point. For so long, Wyatt has lost to the best WWE had to offer. Putting the company strap on his shoulder was the right thing to do and the right time to do it. The worst thing that could happen now is he drops the title to his pupil. This main event may blow the roof off the event in Orlando, but don't expect a new champion to be crowned. The best thing for business is for Wyatt to retain and Orton to look great putting him over.
Anything less would prove WWE is retreating from progress. The Viper isn't a bad idea as champion. It's just not the right chess move for the company to play right now.


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Chakor all emotional as Anjor gets dressed up for 'haldi ceremony' | Udaan
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Chakor all emotional as Anjor gets dressed up for 'haldi ceremony' | Udaan
Chakor who lives in Sitapur saves Anjor from getting kidnapped while she is on her way to her destination. Unfortunately, she is unaware of Anjor's real identity.
Udaan is an Indian television drama show that airs weekday evenings on Colors TV. It replaced the long-running Colors TV series Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon. The show is produced by Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and is based on his unreleased movie of the same name. It currently stars Meera Deosthale and Vijayendra Kumeria in the lead roles.
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And then ... I AM HOME!!! My angel of metal stash in the form of Mr Barry Smith (yes you! kind sir :) has struck again! Isn't it great to have a creative guardian angel especially when one is wandering aimlessly in legoland? And this time, the stash even came along with a metal cutter!!! OMG!!! Aren't I blessed! Thank you so much once again B :)
I know this may seem veering off path, but please hear me out. On the 21st of this month, we once again celebrate World Peace Day. I have promised myself and a lovely friend, MaryJane that I would participate in this PROJECT championed by her (please click on link). Well, Barry's stash came just in time to get me out of legoland and straight into some rather contemplative thoughts on Peace.
The concept of Peace is never as simple as it sounds. For before any sort of communion or peace is achieved, most of the time sacrifices of some sort would have already been made. In Honor Of was created to remind us of such sacrifices, and to remember those who have fallen so that others/we may live in Peace.
When I first began making this piece, I knew I wanted a sort of shrine so that I may immortalize "Peace". I proceeded to search for an old Treaty of Peace on the net and found one which dated back to 1783. Then somehow I had to find a way to highlight the word 'Peace' on the treaty. I chose to frame it through an old key mounted on a clay tablet. The heart symbol has always called out to me, but in this case, it screamed to be included.
The elements came together quite naturally and the piece was finally completed. But what I did not expect was the overwhelming poignancy that hit me when I looked at it as a completed piece. What begin as a shrine to immortalize "Peace", suddenly looks to me, more and more like a memorial. Even the shape of the key reminded me of a cross.
On a lighter note, it never fails to amaze me how the artwork can take a life of its own in the midst of the process, turning the artist into a mere doer of its fancy.
When In Honor of was created to remember those who have made that sacrifice so that others may live in peace, Declaration of Peace was a natural extension of the aftermath of this sacrifice.
The repurpose copper fashioned into a time capsule holding a rusted pen nib symbolizes "written peace" (like in Peace Treaties). A pair of wing findings, old gears and a heart make the other part of the piece. They represent an environment that I frequently associate with Peace … Freedom.