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Santiago, Chile, May 31, 2012 / 12:08 am MT (CNA).- A Chilean researcher and his colleagues say the Guttmacher Institute's response to a study on abortion's effects on maternal mortality has spread "erroneous and misleading information."
Dr. Elard Koch, an epidemiologist at the University of Chile with the Chilean Maternal Mortality Research Initiative, said that his project's study showed restrictive abortion laws did not affect maternal mortality trends.
"In fact, maternal mortality ratios steadily decreased over the last fifty years, mainly associated to an increase in educational level of women and maternal health facilities and regardless of the extent of abortion restrictions in the country," he said May 25.
He and his fellow researchers with the research initiative said "it is absolutely possible for developing countries to decrease maternal and abortion mortality without requiring any liberal law of abortion."
Their study, titled "Women's Education Level, Maternal Health Facilities, Abortion Legislation and Maternal Deaths: A Natural Experiment in Chile from 1957 to 2007," was published May 4 on the peer-reviewed online publication PLoS One.
It prompted a response from the Guttmacher Institute, the former research arm of Planned Parenthood. The Guttmacher Institute in a May 23 advisory claimed that the study was inconclusive because Chile's pre-1989 law was "already highly restrictive." It claimed the study's reliance on Chile's vital statistics registration system was "a critical methodological weakness."
Koch and his colleagues produced a point-by-point response that said the Guttmacher Institute's advisory comment produced "major misinformation" in depicting Chile's pre-1989 abortion law as highly restrictive.
"Abortion was legal in Chile from 1931 to 1967, after permission of three physicians or one physician and two witnesses," the researchers explained. "From 1967 to 1989, abortion was simplified and allowed based on the opinion of two physicians."
The pre-1989 law allowing abortion for "therapeutic reasons" was "loosely interpreted" in many cases to mean abortion on request. The 1989 abortion ban meant a "major transition from a partially restrictive to a fully restrictive law."
Koch and his colleagues said that even if the Guttmacher Institute were correct about Chile's abortion law, it would not invalidate their study's main conclusion that abortion restrictions did not affect maternal mortality trends in Chile.
The Chilean Maternal Mortality Research Initiative study assessed the impact of many different factors believed to influence maternal mortality, not only abortion legality. Women's education level, better access to maternal health care facilities and professionals, nutrition programs, and sanitary services access were among the other factors judged.
The study found that women's education level is the main factor in the decrease in Chilean maternal mortality, with each additional year of maternal education corresponding to a decrease in the mortality rate of 29.3 per 100,000 live births.
The Guttmacher Institute contended that the abortion numbers drawn from Chile's vital registration system were more unreliable after the procedure was banned. It said that abortion as a cause of death is often misreported or under-reported in countries where the procedure is illegal. It said data sources such as surveys of women and surveys of health professionals are needed to measure the consequences of "unsafe abortion."
However, Koch and his fellow researchers said the Chilean registry of vital data is "robust and reliable" and is a resource recognized by the World Health Organization, the United Nations and other international groups.
They said studies based on indirect estimates are at substantial more risk of bias than "studies based on actual data." Indirect estimates are largely based on opinion surveys whose scientific validity is "unknown."
The researchers charged that the Guttmacher Institute has long used surveys of women and health professionals "almost to the point of abuse." Though they have some value for anecdotal purposes, they are too flawed to accurately assess the number of induced abortions.
The researchers said their research was "intensively peer-reviewed by independent scientists."
They also said that the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet had rejected a peer review of their study.
"This is not surprising," they said, saying their research "seriously challenges" several reports The Lancet has published over the last decade, mostly based on the Guttmacher Institute's indirect estimates of induced abortions.
On May 18, Koch and his colleagues examined the discrepancies between these methdolodies in estimates of illegal abortion in several Latin American countries.
"Not surprisingly, we found that the methodology developed by scientists from the Guttmacher Institute appears to grossly overestimate the number of possible induced abortions in developing countries," Koch said.
The Guttcmacher Insittute claimed that 400,400 abortions took place in Colombia in 2008, though Koch and his colleagues' methodology estimated only 21,978 procedures took place that year.
Koch has said that the abortion estimates from the Guttmacher Institute are "beyond what is emperically possible."
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The conventional wisdom in California is that older, white voters won't support education and robust public services because they don't see themselves in California's younger, largely Latino generations.
I just finished reading a new examination of Census data on housing from USC demographer Dowell Myers that turns the conventional wisdom on its head.
Myers sees a growing partnership between older California whites and younger Latinos over home ownership.
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Older whites need to sell, but there are not younger, white homeowners to buy homes.
So older whites have a huge interest in investing in the education of the younger generations, even if those generations do not look like them.
Myers writes: "Aging white homeowners and young Latinos share a common interest.
"While some have pointed to a growing divide between ethnic groups and generations, the new evidence suggests a growing partnership through homeownership, a willing exchange between sellers and buyers."
While white home ownership declined, Myers notes, the number of "Latino homeowners increased by 383,778 over the decade, accounting for 78.5% of California's total growth in homeownership.
"It is young Latino home buyers, and also Asians, who have taken up the slack from diminished white demand.
"Latinos contributed 32.4% of the new homeowners at young ages during the 2000s, and they have potential to do much more.
The clear challenge for the future will be how to pick up the growing slack from the increased sell-off of older homeowners. 'Who is going to buy your house?' has become an important question for all of us."
Can this mutual self-interest between older whites and younger Latinos provide for the basis for a new California politics?


text: It's tough being a musician! While most of the academic world can make a mistake or two and still qualify for the coveted A+ grade, if that happened on the concert stage, there would be a stampede out the door! Thomas Duffy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the inherent unfairness in the life of a young musician, and gives the students "permission" to make a couple mistakes, while still qualifying for a top grade. The Prelude is precisely imprecise, with harmonic material floating around at the whims of the woodwinds. The processional-style March is at first heard in its most excellent form, then with the human element of error added on the repeat. The CD-ROM included with the band set is an incredible teaching tool that offers a teacher's guide, warm-ups and studies, composer interviews, program notes, MIDI accompaniments which allow students to play along while controlling the tempo and much, much more. This is a welcome new format for student discovery in performing concert band literature!


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IRVINE, Calif. (KTLA) — There's outcry at UC Irvine over a student-produced video that some say is offensive and racist.
The video shows members of Lambda Theta Delta doing a parody the Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z song "Suit and Tie."
In the video, one of the fraternity members appears in "blackface."
Many students at the university have complained about the video.
The fraternity took down the video and apologized on its Facebook page, saying the students involved were reprimanded prior to the controversy.
But many other students say that's not enough. They're calling on university administrators to take action against the fraternity.
A UC official says the school is trying to determine if the fraternity or individual students are responsible for the video and what kind of punishment, if any, should be dealt.


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Dia de Tus Muertos art show soon!
Here is one of the paintings for the art show in San Diego:
Dia De Tus Muertos
Day of the Dead Group Show curated by Sandra Equihua & Jorge R. Gutierrez
October 29th, 2010 – December 5th, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, October 29th, 6-10pm
This is sure to be an amazing show with a lineup featuring Israel Sanchez, Sandra Equihua, Martin Ontiveros, Amanda Visell, Lorelay Bove, Gerald de Jesus, Sadie Figueroa, Rhode Montijo, Simon Varela, and Jorge R. Gutierrez. Hope to see you there!


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Guilty Pleasures is a monthly found comedy show created by former Philly comedian and self-described silly misanthrope Brendan Kennedy, and co-hosted by beloved local comedian Roger C. Snair. Each month, a group of comedians is assembled for dramatic readings of the worst in scripts, YouTube videos, poetry and more. Roger often also submits his own plays.
This past December, Brendan handed over the hosting reins for the show in preparation for a January move to LA. Who's the lucky dude who's taking over for Brendan? Why, it's Joe Moore, of "Pizza Pals with Joe Moore" and Dog Mountain fame! How'd he get the job? A grueling interview process, of course! Here's a transcript of Brendan putting Joe through the ringer.
Brendan Kennedy: Are you familiar with what we do here at Guilty Pleasures?
Joe Moore: Of course! You get really talented comics from Philadelphia and have them read bizarre pieces of fiction, poetry or plays. Then, they bring it to life. It's one of the strangest things I have ever seen done on stage. It's about taking something that maybe wasn't very good and turning into something hilarious.
The show is unique in that it has sketch comedians, improvisers and stand ups all on one stage interacting. I actually saw a LOT of performers for the first time on stage at Guilty Pleasures who I may not have seen otherwise.
The X-Factor is Roger C. Snair. Roger is one of the most talented individuals in the city, and the fact that he is on the show says a lot about how remarkable the show is.
Guilty Pleasures and TV Party was the one night of comedy I knew I could bring friends who had never been exposed to Philly Comedy and they could walk away satisfied and interested in seeing more.
Brendan Kennedy: How did you hear about Guilty Pleasures?
Joe Moore: You told me about it once, probably about 2 and a half years ago. I don't remember when I first went but I haven't really missed a show since. I think once when I had a migraine, but that was it.
Brendan Kennedy: What makes you qualified to host Guilty Pleasures?
Joe Moore: I'm pretty sure there is going to be free beer there. So that makes me qualified, I think. Besides it never looked like you were doing anything too difficult up there. Just get funny people on, and stand on the side of the stage laughing. I can do that.
The real leg work is finding the crazy stuff to read, and as a guy who spends a lot of time reading crap online, I can take care of that.
I also may be completely under-qualified. But let's not get off track here. Free beer.
Brendan Kennedy: What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Joe Moore: I don't feel too guilty about many things I like. For instance, I have Ace of Base's "The Sign" in my car. I also eat a lot of pizza and chocolate. Some might say I should feel guilty about that, but I don't. All of those things are great.
I also subscribe to a monthly digest of amateur science fiction/horror authors. It feels a little weird to say that out loud. So that might be it…
Oh boy, yeah, that's it.
Brendan Kennedy: I understand you have experience working with the soon-to-be-prize-winning WitOut.net feature "Pizza Pals with Joe Moore." What skills from that position do you think you will be able to bring to Guilty Pleasures?
Joe Moore: "Pizza Pals" is an ongoing adventure I take with WitOut.Net where I talk to very funny people about pizza instead of comedy. Talking about pizza can reveal more about a person than where they went to school, or what their first car was or whatever.
I am excited at the prospect that I might win an award for doing it, though I haven't heard anything about that. That's not why I do it. I like comedy and I like pizza. It's also a great guise to use to just meet performers I really like.
It was through "Pizza Pals" that I first met Roger C. Snair. I've got to meet more of my heroes by talking about pizza since then.
But to answer your question, I will probably have pizza before the show.
Brendan Kennedy: Will you bring pizza to Guilty Pleasures?
Joe Moore: That's a great idea that is also an expensive idea… so maybe someday. I also don't know if I want people with their mouths full while there is funny stuff going on.
But, if someone was sitting in the audience and wanted to go in on a pizza with someone they just met who was also in the audience, I think that's a beautiful thing and ought to be encouraged.
Brendan Kennedy: What aspects of your personality do you think will mesh well with Roger C. Snair's style of working?
Joe Moore: Roger and I have eaten pizza together, taken the PATCO back to New Jersey together and talked on the phone a couple times. He's one of the nicest people I've ever met and is one of the most dynamic performers I've ever seen.
None of those are aspects of my personality. But hey, I think I'm a pretty cool dude. Roger seems to think so too, and that's good enough for me.
Brendan Kennedy: What's your five-year marketing plan for expanding the Roger C. Snair brand?
Joe Moore: I don't want to bog this interview down with all the details, but "CBS" and "RCS" share two out of 3 letters. Look into that what you want, I'm just saying…
But lets think small for now. We could start by getting some more likes on the Facebook page for the show. It's at 33 "likes," I say we can get it to 70!
Brendan Kennedy: How soon can you start? I'm trying to ditch this town.
Joe Moore: Available immediately. Thanks for your time.
The next 'Guilty Pleasures' is this Wednesday, February 6th at Philly Improv Theater @ The Shubin Theatre (407 Bainbridge Street). Show starts at 8:30PM. Tickets are $10 at the door, $8 online in advance.
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Toledo Area Ministries has helped a lot of people in its 127 years, including more than 60,000 in 2012. Now the Christian faith-based organization needs some cash to help its own ministry.
Toledo Area Ministries has helped a lot of people in its 127 years, including more than 60,000 in 2012. Now the Christian faith-based organization needs some cash to help its own ministry.
The Rev. Steven Anthony, Toledo Area Ministries' executive director since 2007--�Most people here call me Pastor Steve,� he said�sent an emergency appeal letter dated Sept. 5 that said, in boldface type, �Toledo Area Ministries is currently facing a financial emergency where our immediate need is to raise funds for our operating expenses to support the programs that grants do not pay for.�
The nonprofit organization needs to bolster its core budget, Pastor Steve said, and hopes to bring in $30,000 so it can be in the black by the end of the year. That core is for expenses that cannot be paid for by grants, which have restrictions on how money is spent.
Toledo Area Ministries is doing fine with the grants it administers, Pastor Steve said, such as Keeping It Together, its largest grant program that especially helps people in marriages and relationships to improve their economic stability. Keeping It Together is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. But a nonprofit organization cannot function well by grants alone. At Toledo Area Ministries, �We have grant-funded programs and we have programs that are strictly donation-based, and our donation-based programs are also hurting for money,� Pastor Steve said.
Feed Your Neighbor is one of those donation-based programs. It has been in operation for 39 years. In 2012 its food pantries supplied more than 78,000 people with food for their households, providing groceries for more than 700,000 meals. �All donations go 100 percent to food,� Pastor Steve said, �so we don't take anything off the top to run it.�
Pastor Steve said that Toledo Area Ministries' financial emergency came from �what I call triple convergence. Our donations were down in the first half of the year, and then there was a change in the way that we � were billing to some of our grants,� and for the third element, when Ohio's state budget year begins Toledo Area Ministries always receives some payments later than usual. That �tipped us over. It made us spend all of our cash,� he said.
Pastor Steve has been working in the social justice aspect of ministry for a long time, including writing grants for support. In Toledo, he was pastor of the Dorr Street Church of God for 13 years and then joined First Church of God working in two half-time positions, on the church's pastoral staff and as executive director of its social outreach ministries, which is a nonprofit organization separate from the church.
He said that the first successful grant he wrote was in 1987, for $50,000 from the state of Illinois for a teen center, but he said he �had to send the whole thing back because we didn't have the capacity to do what we had written. So that was a big lesson learned; fortunately, I had raised enough unrestricted cash for us to continue.�
Pastor Steve, who worked in sales earlier in his life, has a philosophy about raising funds for Toledo Area Ministries. �I read the stories, I hear the testimonies [of Toledo Area Ministries' effect on those it serves] and I just absolutely love what we do, so I'm not ashamed to ask anybody for anything, for their help. To me there's no shame in asking.� He continued, �Would I rather be doing direct service? Sure, but if we lack the resources to do direct service, then I'll wake up that day going, 'Who can I ask?'�
Toledoans are not accustomed to giving to Toledo Area Ministries, Pastor Steve said. At one time, the organization's support came mostly from denominational sources, for social justice work. But the denominations started thinking congregations should be doing that work, so those funds for Toledo Area Ministries lessened and Pastor Steve turned to the public.
�In the past five years there have been roughly 3,500 people that have given us something, whether it's $5 or $1,000,� he said. �We're not rich. In fact, we're cash poor, and while we may have a good number of grants, grants are never enough. At some point, grants become a self-defeating or diminishing thing.�
Pastor Steve wants to lessen the grant dependence. �We're 87 percent grant dependent; that's terrible. We shouldn't be over 50 percent. We've got some work to do, and I just want people to know we need cash to be able to do the work that we do and change the lives that we're changing.�
His metaphor for his life-changing ministry is not an umbrella that covers many programs that help people and make for social justice. Pastor Steve's image is a flower box.
�The flower box provides the foundation and nutrition for programs to grow up out of,� he said. �It's important that the flower box be strong, it's important that the flower box have a lot of nutrition in it, it's important that the flower box be flexible enough to support things as they happen." translated to money, that means having cash at hand rather than waiting for a grant.
Then with ready cash, Pastor Steve can look to service."I really want to focus on life transformation," he said. "I want to tell life-transformation stories. The letters and the phone calls we get about people's lives who have changed brings me to tears just about every time I read them. These are people that were hurting, who had given up, they had lost hope, and somehow they encountered us.
�All the services that are brought to bear in that person's life, along with the help of God, people's lives change. I want to be there, to be part of their circle for their life to change. I want our programs to be there, and the only way that's going to happen is if we do better on the fund-raising side. So I guess I'm announcing to the world, to the Toledo world, here we are and we're going to raise some money.�
For more information about Toledo Area Ministries or to make a donation, go to www.tamohio.org, call 419-242-7401, or send a letter to TAM at 3043 Monroe St., Toledo, OH 43606.
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discotechnicians!smooth mix and the video is from another plane.
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Remix ConvertI bought Artificial Horizon & been playing it around twice a month for a wee while now. I like the way you folks have appeared to embrace interpretation. The essence of how you make & play music does not generally suit cover attempts namely as so much of each particpant's contribution is both personal & collectively the spirit of the sound. It seems that the genre of these styles of remix, however manage to embrace an outside perspective whilst wholly reliant on the original spirit. I dance in my van along the M8 and also on a hill to the phrases given. Another mail is needed to lend some eloquence to my sentiments.


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Eric Schaller has been writing occasional SpecTech columns for the Clarion blog for a while now, and his most recent is about "mutations that involve homeotic genes and the monstrous results that can arise". And the results are, indeed, monstrous!
Meanwhile, occasional Schaller collaborator Jeff VanderMeer has released a new book called Monstrous Creatures, full of monstrosities you really don't want to live without. It's been getting monstrously great reviews (including one from Charles Tan that, rather embarrassingly for me when linking to it, starts with my name).
I have, through much effort, managed to secure an interview with VanderMeer about his new book. It was cut a little short, so I can't publish it anywhere other than here, but purely for archiving, here it is:
Matthew Cheney: Your recent collection of nonfiction, Monstrous Creatures, includes a remarkable array of ideas and insights, and is one of the few books I know -- perhaps the only book I know -- to plunge into both the world of genre fiction and whatever-is-other-than-genre fiction with equal aplomb -- indeed, to deconstruct, subvert, and ignore the very boundaries said to create "genre fiction" and "whatever-is-other-than-genre fiction". Did you set out to create such a project, or did you discover it when you began to collect the disparate pieces into a book?
Jeff VanderMeer: Shhhwmmwoowoooogggg! Gwarrrrffffmmmaaaaawwwg! Meat! MEAT!
MC: Perhaps I should rephrase -- what I wanted to get at was your, I think, extraordinary, and, indeed, eloquent, ability to see work beyond its publishing categories, to investigate it at a purely textual level and so free it from the hierarchical bounds of--
JV: Snoooorrrrffffnaggggg! Vaaaarrggggggmmmoooooggggg! MEEEEAAAAAT!
MC: And that passion comes through on the page, but--
MC: Please, let go, I need that arm to type with--
JV: MEAT! Snaaarrrrgglllleeee pppfffaaaatttt!
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Place to Be NationJune 5, 2013 at 2:49 pm | Posted in News | Leave a comment
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Hi Everyone, over the last six months I've been sharing great content with my friends at RetrowareTV.com. In addition to RWTV (please support them), and of course Racketboy.com I've also taken on a major role with the newly formed Place to Be Nation website – home of one of my favorite podcats (The Place to Be Podcast) as well as other great content in the world of Games, Sports, Wrestling and Pop Culture.
I encourage everyone to check it out and thank you for your continued support.
The 2002 Sports Video Game Awards: ThatSportsGamer Show Special EditionDecember 29, 2012 at 10:57 am | Posted in Podcasts | Leave a comment
Tags: 2002 Games of the Year, High Heat Baseball 2003, Madden NFL 2003, NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona, NBA Live 2003, NCAA College Basketball 2k3, NCAA Football 2003, NHL 2k3, sports video games, ThatSportsgamer.com, video games, WWE Smackdown! Shut Your Mouth
Prior to announcing their 2012 sports video game awards, I joined a special ThatSportsGamer Show podcast to talk about the best sports games from a decade earlier. Relive a time where there were at least six baseball games released in one calendar year, as well as multiple wrestling and basketball games. We each talked about two honorable mention picks and then listed our top 3 games of 2002 before crowning the 2002 Sports Game of the Year.
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Angry Video Game Nerd: Atari SportsDecember 28, 2012 at 7:18 pm | Posted in Videos | 2 Comments
Tags: Angry Video Game Nerd, Atari 2600, Atari Sports, Atari sports games, Retro Gaming, Super Challenge Baseball, Super Challenge Football, video games
I've noted previously that some of my first video game memories are playing Super Challenge Baseball and Super Challenge Football on the Atari 2600 at my grandparent's house. The Atari 2600 was littered with sports games, with results ranging from horrible to "decent". I'm a fan of James Rolfe's work as the Angry Video Game Nerd after first stumbling upon his videos in the spring of 2011 (Yes, late to the party). This is his first look at sports games and what better place to start than early Atari games? His satire is always funny and the underlying message he talks about at the end absolutely rings true. I do have to point out that you can take control of other fielders in Super Challenge Baseball. I need to bust that one out and remember how!
When Capcom Made Sports GamesDecember 15, 2012 at 9:13 am | Posted in Features | Leave a comment
Tags: Capcom, Capcom's Gold Medal Challenge, Capcom's Soccer Shootout, Mega Man Soccer, MVP Football, NES, Retro Gaming, Saturday Night Slam Masters, Sega Genesis, SNES, Sports games, video games
Capcom's legacy in the video game industry will forever be linked to popular series like Mega Man, Street Fighter and Resident Evil. The publishing giant was a top third-party contributor going back to the 8-bit era and their titles have graced almost every video game console. Capcom has tackled multiple genres along the way, demonstrating a mastery in platformers, fighting games and role-playing games. Booming after a successful run on the NES, Capcom turned its eyes to sports games on home consoles for the first time in 1992. How did things turn out? Here are the stories of the five sports games Capcom released over three years in the 1990s.
Kirby's Dream SportNovember 25, 2012 at 8:32 am | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Tags: Kirby, Kirby mini-golf, Kirby sports games, Kirby's Dream Course, Retro Gaming, SNES, Sports games, Super Nintendo, video games
Nintendo recently celebrated 20 years of Kirby adventures with a Wii compilation that features his main conquests through Dream Land. Kirby's gaming catalog extends far past his canonical platformers and these ancillary games could fill their own compilation disc. He's been the headliner in multiple puzzle games, a pinball title and a Breakout-style block-busting game. Kirby has had a racing spin-off and has dueled with his Nintendo peers in the Super Smash Bros. series. Even though Kirby has clearly been able to handle yielding a sword or spear in his own games, he has never been invited to one of Mario's golf or tennis outings. Despite his multi-genre flexibility, the pink puffball has only had one appearance in a sports-themed game. When King Dedede stole all the stars in Dream Land, Kirby shook off his non-sporty stereotype to do mini-golf battle in Kirby's Dream Course for the Super Nintendo.
TIME Magazine's All-Time 100 Greatest Video GamesNovember 18, 2012 at 3:43 pm | Posted in News | 1 Comment
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All-time lists are always subjective but at times can be purposefully confrontational or downright lacking in thoroughness. The TIME tech staff that put together their list did an amazing job and I absolutely recommend reading their work. You can never please everyone with these type of lists but there is a terrific blend of appealing to both casual and hardcore gamers with their selections. How did the sports genre fare?
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WWE '13 and the Attitude Era: ThatSportsGamer Show Episode 35November 15, 2012 at 11:36 pm | Posted in Podcasts | Leave a comment
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I'm really enjoying WWE '13, especially the ability to replay storylines from the Attitude Era. If you liked wrestling from 1997 to 2000, this feature is what you've been waiting for since WWF No Mercy on the Nintendo 64. Keep your eye out for great sales this holiday season to pick the game up at a discount (we're playing on PS3). Then you can use that saved money to purchase the Fan Axxess pass for all the game's DLC plus much more.
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Wide World of Retro Sports Game Videos Vol. 1September 25, 2012 at 12:13 am | Posted in Videos | 3 Comments
Tags: Bo Jackson, Bo Jackson Tecmo Super Bowl, Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball, Ice Hockey, John Madden ambulance, John Madden Football '92, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out TKO, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, NES, Nintendo, Nintendo Legend, retro game videos, Retro Sports Gaming, Sega Genesis, Sports games, Tecmo Bowl, video games, YouTube sports game videos
There are a lot of great retro sports game videos on YouTube and across the internet. We highlighted the excellent Polygon mash-up A Brief History of Sports Games recently and it prompted me to explore the medium further for our readers. Our newest feature, the Wide World of Retro Sports Game Videos, gathers five videos all in one place for your viewing pleasure. We'll look to share sports game highlights, reviews, mash-ups, and more. If it is retro sports-themed, then it belongs on Retro Sports Gamer World. Volume One features one of the most popular sports game videos of all-time, an ambulance montage from John Madden Football '92, crazy defensive plays from a softball game, the fastest "tool assisted" fingers to ever face Mike Tyson, and a "Lets Play" review of the classic NES game Ice Hockey.
Bo Jackson goes crazy in Tecmo Super Bowl
If you ever needed to show someone proof of Bo Jackson's power in Tecmo Super Bowl, witness the hapless New England Patriots chasing him around for an entire quarter before he finally completes a 99-yard touchdown run. I would love to know how many takes this video took to complete as there are some really close calls. Bo knows YouTube views. This video has surpassed an audience of 1.25 million.
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Behind the Scenes with Tecmo Super Bowl 2013September 21, 2012 at 9:06 pm | Posted in Features | 6 Comments
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Tecmo Super Bowl. I would like to channel John Facenda's stoic voiceover of "The Autumn Wind" while I wax nostalgic about one of the greatest sports games ever. There was the joy at finding a copy at the video store to rent with a buddy for the weekend, followed by hours of play, eyes bleeding from a lack of sleep when my parents would pick me up for church the next day. There were the stories a friend would tell over lunch after staying home sick from school the day prior to play through another season. The game had every NFL team with real players and a complete regular season mode. These were dreams coming true for sports gamers in 1991. And if you didn't witness Bo Jackson with your own NES controller, you've probably seen him in YouTube videos racing around defenders or on someone's list of the greatest video game characters of all-time. How do you recapture this video game magic of decades past? With hard work, passion, and a dedicated community, the team from Tecmobowl.org keeps Tecmo Super Bowl alive with an updated game each year. Here is the story of Tecmo Super Bowl 2013.
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EA's NHL Hockey Series Through the Years – InfographicSeptember 13, 2012 at 11:15 am | Posted in News | 2 Comments
Tags: EA Hockey, EA Sports, hockey games, Mega Drive, NHL 13, NHL 95, NHL Hockey, NHL hockey infographic, Retro Gaming, SEGA, Sega Genesis, Sports games, video games
With NHL 13 now released, EA's NHL Hockey series has amassed 22 titles since debuting in 1991 (23 when you include EA Hockey). Justin Bourne at http://www.thescore.com blogged an awesome infographic highlighting different pieces of trivia about the series. The tidbit about NHL Hockey debuting on the Mega Drive is technically incorrect (was released on the Genesis in North America only but would work on the Mega Drive) but that's just nit-picking. Seeing all the covers next to each other brings back a lot of memories. Did you know that NHL 95 had 24 players with a rating of 100? And if you were ever curious about the geographical background of all the cover athletes, well, this infographic is for you.
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All of the proceeds from this year's event will go directly to Brave Hearts Idaho to help veterans in crisis and the Idaho State Veterans Home.
The Brave Hearts Corporation works in conjunction with the Idaho Veterans Assistance League, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, to help Idaho Veterans and their families who are facing financial crisis.
The funds Brave Hearts receives distributed in one-time grants up to $500.00 for the needs of our Idaho Veterans – from paying their power and heating bills, home or mortgage expenses to emergency home or car repairs. All cases are thoroughly and thoughtfully considered, as in the case of terminally ill Veteran dying from the side effects he received in Vietnam from Agent Orange. This brave Veteran received a grant to travel to his home to be laid to rest in the family plot.
Brave Hearts relies, in big part, on the contributions from individuals, corporation and foundation whose hearts are touched by the great need of those courageous men and women who have served our great country. It should be noted all Brave Hearts staff and board members are entirely volunteers, donation their time and talent to the organization. with little overhead, virtually all funds received are donated to our Veterans.
PURPOSE: The general nature and purpose of this corporation shall be: The receipt, collection, and holding of donated monies for redistribution in the way of providing emergency funding for Idaho Veterans and their families who are experiencing critical need.


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Halfway through its run, 12 million people have attended the London 2012 Festival across the UK.
The festival began on 21 June and since then has featured more than 25,000 artists in more than 12,000 events and performances. Based on figures calculated at the end of July, 9.6 million people have taken part in free events such as the Royal Opera House's BP Summer Big Screens and water-bound opera The Owl and the Pussycat.
Other London 2012 festival events involving the ROH included Falstaff, Otello, Les Troyens and our unique collaboration with London's National Gallery, Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. The free exhibition related to this last event is open until 23 September. Some of our events were also part of the glorious festival within a festival celebrating Shakespeare.
The Festival continues until the final day of the Paralympics on 9 September and, looking back on two weeks of sport so far and ahead to the Paralympics, Royal Opera House Chief Executive Tony Hall wrote of the importance of a cultural as well as sporting legacy from the Games in the Telegraph. He also discussed the possibility of marking the festival a regular occurrence.
Have you enjoyed the London 2012 Festival? Has the summer of sport completely distracted you from the cultural events or have the arts provided a welcome alternative to Olympic fever?


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Prez scholar goes Nixonian
Well, sort of. Timothy Naftali, the presidential recordings scholar and terrorism expert at UVA's Miller Center, will leave this fall to become the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California.>Naftali is well known for his writings in Slate as well as books on the Cold War. But lest ye think Naftali is some sort of devoted fan of wiretappings (he does after all run the Miller Center's project on Oval Office tapes), he comes off in today's Washington Post story as a self-described Gen-Xer with a passion for 1960s and 1970s pop culture.
"That period was phenomenal in American history," he tells the Post. "You've got all the lunar landings. You've got the Miami Dolphins' perfect season, you've got Ali versus Frazier. You've got some of the greatest movies ever made, you know, Godfather I and II."


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Here's the cards for January 2013:
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These are wonderful, thank you so much! I am so excited that you've decided to make journal cards. I have quite a journal card obsession right now!
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tangolaw necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 322 diseños de 81 diseñadores freelance.
I think this is a first-rate, fun design challenge in that I have a law practice (normally a conservative occupation) that is very forward-thinking (I hope!) and unconventional in setup (virtual).
I am a Wharton- and University of Michigan Law School-trained lawyer with a cutting-edge, boutique law practice serving mostly U.S.-based high tech startup companies.
I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina but most of my clients are based in the Silicon Valley.
Current and potential clients needing a top attorney for their startup company (again, mostly high tech companies). Because I work from Argentina, sometimes potential clients may feel nervous about working with me because I am so far away physically. Usually, once they talk with me, their concerns are allayed and they realize that as long as I do excellent work, there's no issue. Partly because of this unique concern, my image needs to inspire confidence without coming across as too stuffy.
Mostly, my target will be executives of high tech companies but many of them will still be fairly young (under 40). Demographically, they tend to be a well-educated and fairly cultured bunch.
Because I am an attorney, the design cannot be goofy, childish or cartoonish. However, it cannot be stodgy, stuffy or staid.
If you can incorporate the light blue color of the Argentina flag, it is a plus: http://www.chevroncars.com/learn/fl…a-flag.gif
It does not have to be the only color and the logo doesn't have to have it, but it would be nice if this color could be incorporated because I am based in Argentina.
I chose the name TangoLaw for my business because tango is one of the first things people think of when they think of Argentina. However, if the logo is to evoke tango (the dance), it must be VERY subtle and indirect. It cannot have an overly obvious and heavy-handed connection because I am providing legal services, not dance lessons. :)
It is a very fine line to walk because even the name itself -- TangoLaw -- was scary for me to choose because I want to be taken seriously as a lawyer and it's a very unconventional name to choose for a law business. So the logo needs to be solid enough to not allow people to think I am not a serious professional. Especially when I am dealing with my clients' legal issues.
Here's a website I like: http://www.robertcouturier.com/ (no logo, but I like the design of the site).
For fashion designers, I like: Narciso Rodriguez, Donna Karan, Giorgio Armani, Max Mara, Theory (sophisticated, modern but not boring).
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LINCOLN HEIGHTS, Calif. (KTLA) — Traffic was stopped for hours on northbound 5 Freeway in Lincoln Heights Friday morning after a pursuit of three robbery suspects ended in a deadly crash.
It all began with a robbery at a 7-Eleven store located at 4th and Cummings in Boyle Heights, according to the LAPD.
A high-speed police pursuit ensued with the three suspects in a burgundy SUV.
Officers lost sight of the suspect vehicle, but it was picked up by an LAPD airship minutes later.
The pursuit came to an end when the SUV crashed on the northbound 5 Freeway at Broadway, just south of the 110 Freeway.
"It was traveling so fast that it lost control by itself. It cut across lanes one through four, where it collided with a bridge support underpass," said LAPD Sgt. Rudy Lopez.
The SUV flipped over multiple times, and all three suspects were trapped inside the vehicle.
One of the suspects was ultimately pronounced dead at the scene. The two other suspects were rushed to the hospital.
Police found dollar bills as well as coin wrappers scattered around the wrecked vehicle.
It wasn't immediately known how much money was stolen. Police said a knife was used in the robbery, but that no one was hurt.
The northbound 5 was closed for hours for the homicide investigation, backing up traffic for miles during the morning commute.
It was finally re-opened shortly before 8 a.m., but traffic was slow-going. As an alternate to the 5, you can take the 101 Freeway.


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With the current world in turmoil war is waged through out the lands of both the Imperial Continent and the Lands of Beginning. Will there be peace between the two or will one side conquer the other. You decide. join our family at Naruto Beginnings a
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GIMME SHELTER- Fresh eyes: Liven up space with a new look
Caroline Andersson-Henri
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Q: Now that spring is here, I want to spruce up my space. What can I do to liven things up without spending a fortunate on redecorating?
A: You don't need a fortune to "spruce up your space," but you do need to be willing to change your perspective, even some old habits. Here are few ideas to get you started:
De-clutter: In general, we have too much stuff: gifts, things we saw on sale and couldn't resist, things that are familiar but have passed their time. We put our things in place and just get used to seeing them there, even if they don't add to the decor or might look better someplace else. Look at you space with fresh eyes and make a change.
Rearrange: Look at new furniture placement possibilities to give your space a new perspective. Consider slipcovers or even a great throw and some new pillows. The same is true for decorative accessories. Remember, collectables look best when grouped together, rather than scattered around the house.
Freshen up with paint: Change the mood of a room with a change of color. If not the entire room, then what about a focal wall in the space? And remember, paint is not just for walls, but also for trim: doors, windows, and ceilings.
Add art to a wall: Art can punch a space. Experiment with grouping the art. Every sideboard, chest, or sofa against a wall doesn't need one picture or one mirror above it.
Quick fix update in the kitchen: Get a new look with a simple window treatment offering new color and style. Coordinate with a few decorative counter-top accessories. Tile a back-splash, or if it's not in the budget, hang framed tiles interspersed across the space. Dated golden oak cabinets can come alive with new paint, a wash or glaze, or new knobs.
The bathroom: Replace the shower curtain and coordinate with decorative accessories. Even new towels can go a long way. Consider using them decoratively by layering different colors.
Don't forget the entrance: The entrance to your home should not be an after thought or catch-all place. The entry is where you welcome guests into your home; it's the focal point of introduction. Entries should be inviting. A touch of color and a plant or floral arrangement coupled with interesting art on the walls can make a statement.
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Shock Trauma successfully executes face transplant
36-hour operation restores mans facial expression, motor functions
The most extensive full-face transplant in the world was done right here at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Thanks to a grant from the Department of Defense, 38-year-old Richard Norris has a remarkable story of faith and an extraordinary transformation.
After living 15 years as a recluse, he chose to risk groundbreaking face transplant surgery that's also designed to help wounded warriors. Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, who was doing research on treating severe injuries of troops returning from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, was also treating Norris, but needed a matching donor. The parents of a young Marine heard about Norris' story and made the decision to donate their son's face to him.
The 36-hour operation with hundreds of doctors and professional staff restored his facial expression, sensory and motor functions, giving him a second chance at life. Five other lives were also saved through the historic gift of organ donation.
Norris, who suffered a shotgun blast, first came to Shock Trauma to explore reconstructive options in 2005. Now, the result of more than 10 years of research and lots of collaboration has changed a life and made medical history.


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After a week where the CM Punk talk has started to die down, people within WWE are looking ahead to the March 3rd RAW from Chicago. There is a lot of concern about how that show will play out. With The Undertaker and Hulk Hogan scheduled to return at the February 24th RAW, they could be brought to the Chicago RAW as a way to counter the Punk chants.
There was less concern this past week because while there were Punk chants at live events, they didn't pick up or last that long. The feeling is that with nothing major happening with the Los Angeles crowd at RAW on Monday, it's pretty much a done situation with the possible exception of Chicago.
Going into the Los Angeles RAW this week, officials feared fans would hijack the show and ruin the John Cena vs. Randy Orton main event. The idea was to bring Daniel Bryan out twice, including right before the main event, have him go over strong and get the chants out of the way.
There remains mixed feelings within the company regarding Punk's status. Virtually nobody agrees with him when it comes to walking out 30 minutes before a live TV shoot. Many have sympathy for some of his concerns but they argue that Punk was legitimately the #2 guy in the company for a while. On a related note, it's acknowledged that Punk was very popular but the belief is that he was not a ticket seller to live events and only on occasion was he a difference maker in pay-per-view business. At the same time, Punk was the #2 merchandise seller.
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Tijuana, Mexico, July 17, 2009 – Germany claimed its second victory in as many outings in Pool B of the FIVB Women's Junior World Championship after defeating Czech Republic in straight sets by score of 25-20, 25-13, 25-22. The Czechs dropped to 0-2.
Janine Volker and Sarah Petrausch topped Germany with 12 and 11 points respectively while Berit Kauffeldt and Anja Brandt added 9 and 8. Czech Tereza Vanzurova, who had 29 points the day before, was stopped and finished with only 6 points.
Czech Republic led 8-7 at the first technical time-out led by the offense of Kvapilova and Svobodnikova, but Germany made a steady climb carried by Petrausch and led 16-13 at the second mandatory pause. Melicharkova kept her Czech side in competition but Germany improved its game even more and Kaufeldt was hitting hard late in the set for the 25-20 win.
The second set saw Germany in front 8-4 at the first pause taking advantage of several unforced errors of the opponent. The attacks of Petrausch and Volker led to a 16-10 advantage in the second stop. The balanced German offense continued the rest of the set with improved service game to win it 25-13.
Germany took the lead 8-4 in the third set with steady overall performance. Two spikes of Volker started the Germans. The Czechs tied at 9-9 with a block from Honkova but Germany answered back with three consecutive blocks by Petrausch, Brandt and Mollers for a 12-9 lead. The Czechs came back towed by Vanzurova to tie at 15-all but Volker kept Germany in front 16-15. The Czcech returned to retake the lead behind Honkova and Vincourova but Petrausch tied at 18 with two kills. One block by Kauffeldt broke a tie at 21-21 and Germany went on to win 25-22.


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A "Scouting in the Electronic Age" Surveystevejb68 on October 13, 2010 in Leadership, Scouting Blogs
I, like many Scouters, read several Scouting related blogs. One of them, Scoutmaster, found at http://scoutmaster.typepad.com/my_weblog/ , recently posted a survey featuring questions about the Scout program in this electronic age. How does your troop use computers, cell phones, and mp3 players? It caught my attention so I took the survey.
Our troop has a policy that asks the boys to leave their mp3 players and cell phones at home when we have a troop activity, like a camping trip. The adults will usually have one cel phone along in case of an emergency, but we ask that they do not use it and set a good example for the boys. If our trip is a long distance from home, we do allow the boys to bring their mp3 players along, but we store them in the car once we arrive at camp. I have talked to several local Scouters who have a troop policy similar to this.
I am curious as to what the results of Clark's survey will be. I bet he will be sharing them on his blog and his podcast. You can take the survey at Scouting in the Electronic Age.


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Dyn3 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 68 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
We're a small european startup, which will provide astrological services to lottery players from various EU-member countries.
EU Lottery players are our target market;
- age range from 16-65+
- low- to middle-class appeal
- for both women & men equally
- "player mentality"
The Logo will ideally be usable in both electronic and print media.
We're looking for a brand identity for our startup, which provides astrology based services to Lottery players in the EU.
The winning design will determine the entire identity of our startup.
* Logo text "astro-lotto"; optionally ending with ".com"
The designer is free to choose the capitalization for each letter in the logo. The logo may or may not contain the ending ".com".
* Logo must be easy to read; serif fonts should be avoided.
* minimum size ~ 472x118; larger sizes preferred, as we intend to use the logo as banner/header element for our website
* Logo may not contain elements referring to money or currency
* Logo should, ideally, be convertible to black & white or grayscale with little modification, as we intend to use it for print media as well.
In terms of style, we are looking for a blend of positive, affirmative and sincere, a little flash but not overdone. Two steps up from tabloid level and two steps down from Wall Street Journal.
You are free to choose a pleasing colour scheme for your logo. While the target market is EU, it's not a requirement to use EU symbols or colours. We are looking for fresh ideas and so we will consider all designs meeting above criteria equally, regardless of typography and colours. Surprise us!
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The TVCoverUp is a novel, simple and elegant way to conceal a flat screen television. With a TVCoverUp, a television screen is no longer a stark center of attention, detracting from a room's decor. Instead, framed art provides the focal point - until it deftly swings upward to reveal the television hidden beneath.
The Automated Contact Closure box utilizes a DPDT (Double Pole Double Throw) relay to control the 12VDC actuators to open or close the lid. This unit requires standard 110 AC power. The contact closure allows you to use a standard toggle switch or a dry contact can be used to integrate into most universal remote control or home automation systems. Two micro limit switches are provided to cut the power to the actuators unless the TV is in a fully retracted position, when using automatic tilting or articulating TV mounts.
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Neo-Cons, Israel Lobby Mobilize to Pre-empt Obama Pentagon Favorite
By Jim Lobe December 19, 2012
Inter Press Service
Neo-conservatives and leaders of the powerful Israel lobby are mobilising their forces in what looks like an all-out campaign to pre-empt the nomination by President Barack Obama of an outspoken former Republican senator and decorated Vietnam War hero to replace Leon Panetta as secretary of defence.
The campaign was launched last week after senior White House officials leaked word that Chuck Hagel, who also co-chairs the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), was likely to get the nomination whenever, as expected any time, Panetta formally announces his retirement.
It gathered steam in the last few days with prominent neo-cons leading the charge against the former Nebraska senator.
If Obama goes ahead with the nomination, it could signal a key shift in U.S. Middle East policy, if only because Hagel, a Republican realist in the tradition of former President Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State James Baker, has been a forthright critic of some of Israel's policies and a consistent advocate of diplomatic engagement with Iran.
In fact, some observers would see his nomination as "payback" to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who clashed repeatedly with Obama during his first term over Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and his repeated threats to attack Iran. Netanyahu also made little secret of his preference for Republican Gov. Mitt Romney in last month's presidential election.
Indeed, fears among neo-conservatives and the more mainstream Israel lobby here that Obama intends to exert real pressure on Israel in his second term appear to be motivating the burgeoning campaign against Hagel's possible nomination.
Their goal, therefore, is to convince Obama that he will pay an excessively high political cost if he goes through with Hagel's nomination. If the nomination goes forward, most observers believe it will be very difficult to defeat given the reluctance many Senate Republicans would feel about rejecting one of their own (despite the fact that Hagel endorsed Obama for the presidency in 2008).
The main charge leveled so far against Hagel, who also chairs the influential Atlantic Council think tank, is that he is "anti-Israel" – some go so far as to call him "anti-Semitic" – and that he has repeatedly expressed scepticism about carrying out a military attack against Iran if it fails to bow to Western demands that it curb – or, preferably, in Israel's view – abandon its nuclear programme. (The Daily Beast's Ali Gharib notes that these attacks have been leveled by some liberals as well as conservatives.)
"Hagel certainly does have anti-Israel, pro-appeasement-of-Iran bona fides," wrote William Kristol, editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard, in the magazine's lead editorial this week.
"While still a senator, Hagel said that 'a military strike against Iran, a military option, is not a viable, feasible, responsible option,'" noted Kristol, a co-founder of the neo-conservative Project for a New American Century (PNAC), which played a key role in beating the drums for war against Iraq one decade ago, and, more recently, the controversial Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI).
He was joined Tuesday by two other prominent neo-conservatives known for their strong support of Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party – Elliott Abrams, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who served as George W. Bush's top Middle East aide; and Bret Stephens, who writes the "Global View" column in the Wall Street Journal.
Noting that Hagel had once explained to a friendly interviewer that "the Jewish Lobby intimidates a lot of people up here (in Congress)," Stephens suggested that the use of that expression smelled of anti-Semitism, particularly in light of his criticisms of Israel during the second Palestinian intifada and its 2006 war in Lebanon, and his opposition to various sanctions imposed on Iran.
"Mr. Hagel's Jewish lobby remark was well in keeping with the broader pattern of his thinking," wrote Stephens, who went on to quote from an interview Hagel conducted with a retired U.S. Mideast diplomat in 2006, as alleged evidence of the former senator's anti-Semitism or hostility to Israel.
"I'm a United States senator, not an Israeli senator," Hagel told Aaron David Miller. "I'm a United States senator. I support Israel. But my first interest is I take an oath of office to the Constitution of the United States. Not to a president. Not a party. Not to Israel."
While such a statement would appear uncontroversial on its face, Stephens' charges were nonetheless echoed by Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a pillar of the more-conventional Israel lobby.
"Chuck Hagel would not be the first, second, or third choice for the American Jewish community's friends in Israel," Foxman told neo-conservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin.
"His record relating to Israel and the U.S.-Israel relationship is, at best, disturbing, and, at worst, very troubling," said Foxman who added that Hagel's sentiments …about the Jewish lobby border on anti-Semitism."
Still, Foxman, who, unlike the neo-conservatives, tries to remain scrupulously non-partisan, told The Times of Israel he would not oppose the nomination if it went forward.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the most influential pro-Israel lobby group, has so far kept a discreet silence, although a former longstanding spokesman, Josh Block, who now heads The Israel Project, strongly denounced Hagel for his opposition to sanctions against Iran and his refusal to sign various letters and resolutions against Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas that were favoured, if not drafted, by AIPAC.
In some ways, the latest campaign is reminiscent of that carried out against Chas Freeman, a highly decorated retired ambassador, who was appointed to chair the National Intelligence Council early in Obama's administration, only to withdraw from consideration after an intense campaign by leading neo-conservatives and the Israel lobby oppose him.
In that case, however, they focused less on Freeman's criticism of U.S. policy toward Israel than on his allegedly close ties to the Chinese leadership.
With Hagel, of course, the stakes would be much higher given the importance of the Pentagon in policy-making, particularly in the Middle East where Obama, consistent with Hagel's own views, is trying hard to lighten the U.S. footprint in order to "pivot" U.S. military forces more towards the Asia/Pacific.
Also, unlike the Freedman case, Hagel's foes will find it difficult to use other non-Mideast issues to mobilise opposition to his possible nomination. Frank Gaffney, head of the hardline neo-conservative Center for Security Policy (CSP), denounced Hagel in a Washington Times op-ed Tuesday for his early scepticism about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, his belief that the Pentagon was "bloated", and his support, along with other Republican realists, for gradual nuclear disarmament.
Another emerging argument is that if, as expected, Obama nominates Sen. John Kerry as secretary of state, putting another older white male at the top in the Pentagon would defeat the president's belief that his cabinet should be demographically diverse.
In the very short time since the Hagel controversy has erupted, a number of prominent Jewish voices have spoken in his support, including Miller who told the Daily Beast's "Open Zion" blog, "Hagel is a strong supporter of Israel."
In addition, former U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer told Politico that the criticism directed against Hagel was "terribly misguided", while the "pro-peace, pro-Israel" J Street lobby group said Hagel "would be an outstanding choice" to head the Pentagon.
Most observers believe much now depends on whether prominent senators closely tied to the Israel lobby on either side of the aisle speak out against Hagel.
So far, Republican Senators McCain and Lindsay Graham, whose views generally reflect those of the neo-conservatives and who played a key role in rallying opposition to Obama's possible nomination as secretary of state U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, have promised to grill Hagel on his "Jewish lobby" remarks if he is nominated but have not said they would necessarily oppose him, as they did with Rice.
Jim Lobe is the Washington bureau chief of the Inter Press Service and a contributor to Right Web. He blogs at http://www.lobelog.com/.


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Cam Boyd and his son, Les, were all smiles on Monday morning as they welcomed customers into their new $6 million Boyd Chevrolet Cadillac Buick facility on Spartanburg Highway in Hendersonville.
Cam Boyd and his son, Les, were all smiles on Monday morning as they welcomed customers into their new $6 million Boyd Chevrolet Cadillac Buick facility on Spartanburg Highway in Hendersonville. The 27,000-square-foot space has given the family business the space it needs to continue to grow.
"We're very confident in our future here," said Les, who co-owns the facility along with his father. "We now have a building with everything under one roof. The layout is more customer-friendly."
The building has a large service area with a waiting room, a spacious showroom, a detailing center, lot space for hundreds of new and pre-owned cards, plus more than a dozen modern offices for customer service and backroom functions such as accounting.
Cam said Cooper Construction of Hendersonville built the facility, and all of the building's lighting was purchased from the GE Lighting plant also on Spartanburg Highway. He said he's hoping the building will "become a showroom for the GE clients to visit."
They "tried to use as many local people as we could" to get the new facility built, Cam Boyd said.
As Les Boyd stepped into an empty office, the motion-censor ceiling lights went on automatically. The lighting provides several benefits, including bringing out the colors on the cars more, adding security and giving the company high energy efficiency. The GE lights are so efficient, Cam said, it only costs an extra $100 a month to leave the lights on overnight so customers can see the cars, and the lot can remain highly visible for security.
Customers Rodger and Jayne Morse bought a new Buick Enclave at Boyd's old location in Five Points about two weeks ago. On Monday, they were at the new Spartanburg location to get some tips from their salesman, Lee Edgerton.
"We love it!" Rodger Morse said of the new facility.
"We want a tour!" Jayne Morse said from the back seat. Edgerton said he'd be happy to give them a tour.
"I'm getting used to the new building, but I love it," Edgerton added. "These are the best customers I could ever deal with."
The building "seems so much roomier here," Rodger Morse said. "The other place was a little tight."
That's exactly why the Boyd family decided to invest in a new facility – they had simply outgrown the Five Points location, where they had been located for decades. Plus, Cam Boyd added, Hendersonville High can use the 3-acre former location to expand.
"My wife and I graduated from Hendersonville High, as well as our son and daughter," he said. The high school "needed the room, and we needed more room" at Boyd.
In January, the county purchased the property for about $2.75 million and is considering closing a portion of Ninth Avenue that runs between the property and the school, according to county Finance Director J. Carey McLelland. When the Boyd appraisal came in about $600,000 over the county's appraisal, Cam Boyd and his wife, Sally, reduced the purchase price by that amount.
"We would rather have the school have it than anything else," Cam Boyd said.
"We are still in the planning stages of what the property will be used for after we get it," said Hendersonville High Principal Bobby Wilkins. "We have architects looking at the school as it is now and at the new property."
The school can use the property "to help with many things. One is the sizes of our classrooms. We will be able to get out of the classrooms that are not big enough for 30-plus students," Wilkins said. "Other (issues) are school security, student and teacher parking, space for extracurricular events, just to name a few."
The Boyds picked the Spartanburg Highway location for the new facility, Les Boyd said, "because of the widening of Upward Road, the traffic coming down Spartanburg Highway, and because of the 225 connector coming from South Carolina." He said he thinks that end of town is up-and-coming. "We feel we are in a good location to benefit our company."
On Monday, customer Mike Carriker was sitting comfortably in the buildings new service waiting room, enjoying a book while waiting for his Chevy truck to be serviced. He said the new facility is so nice that he doesn't mind driving a few extra miles from his Mills River home.
"I like Boyd," he said. "I bought my truck from them about two-and-a-half years ago, so I service it with them." The new location "is a big change from the old place."
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Download the authoritative guide: Cloud Computing: Using the Cloud for Competitive AdvantageIn a report released Tuesday, Gartner Dataquest forecasts worldwide blade server shipments will increase dramatically, growing from the 84,810 units it expects will ship in 2002 to more than 1 million in 2006. The IT research firm also anticipates that revenue from blades will reach at least $1.2 billion during this time.
With the major hardware vendors now jumping on the server blade bandwagon, blades are becoming big business and are one of the few segments of the server market still experiencing rapid growth.In a report released Tuesday, Gartner Dataquest forecasts worldwide blade server shipments will increase dramatically, growing from the 84,810 units it expects will ship in 2002 to more than 1 million in 2006. The IT research firm also anticipates that revenue from blades will reach at least $1.2 billion during this time.
"For vendors to gain any competitive advantage and enjoy market share from this cycle disruption, the blade product offering must include demonstrable advantages for customers over rack-optimized servers," said Jeffrey Hewitt, principal analyst covering servers for Gartner Dataquest''s Computing Platform Worldwide group.
"These include significant space advantages, proven ease of installation and removal, and management software that facilitates the installation of blades into an enterprise environment," Hewitt added.
Gartner Dataquest advises enterprises looking at blade server technology to weigh their priorities carefully before deciding whether to use blade servers. If server density is an overriding concern, then customers may feel an urgency to adopt blade technology as soon as possible. This need must be balanced with the lack of compatibility that will exist between blades from different vendors.
Gartner Dataquest believes that this lack of compatibility will slow the market''s growth.
"A lack of standards will be a primary market inhibitor as many end users will be reluctant to install a blade server that appears to be proprietary. This restriction on blade server demand will encourage the development of a standard designed specifically for blade servers to which the worldwide server vendors adhere," said Hewitt. "The acceptance of such a standard should help reduce end-user inhibition to install blade servers."
Gartner Dataquest analysts therefore recommend server vendors help drive the development of a blade server standard.
Hewlett-Packard hopes to be one such vendor. On Tuesday, HP announced OpenBlade, an open specification for blade servers designed to drive the development of standards-based blade server architectures and in turn provide enterprises with interoperable, multivendor blade server solutions.
The OpenBlade spec extends and complements the CompactPCI (cPCI) standards with the addition of enterprise computing functionality, such as Fibre Channel connections to SAN and NAS storage, and remote management capabilities through the use of an on-board management LAN.
Until a de facto standard is reached (whether HP''s or another), however, Gartner Dataquest recommends vendors have a blade server product line to keep from being "locked out" of sales that require blade solutions. Partnering with smaller blade vendors or leveraging current development efforts are efficient ways to enter this market without overspending.
Gartner Dataquest analysts also suggest that most enterprises considering purchasing a blade server hold out for more mature products that adhere to standards truly developed for blade servers. The products under consideration should include significant server density advantages as well as software and hardware management and availability features.
More detailed analysis on the blade server market is available in the Gartner Spotlight report "Server Blades: The New Cutting Edge for Servers." The report is available for purchase via Gartner''s Web site or telephone at +1 408 468 8000.
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The Story of Class Violence
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Louis Adamic
Foreword by Jon Bekken
AK Press: 352 pp., $19.95 paper
Louis Adamic is the forgotten Boswell of early Los Angeles, perhaps the first writer to tune himself into the then-youthful city and report back. Born in Slovenia in either 1898 or 1899 (records differ), he passed through Ellis Island in 1913 and served in the U.S. Army during World War I before settling in San Pedro where, through most of the 1920s, he worked as a watchman in the office of the harbor pilot. Great ocean liners passed in front of his window, and at dusk, the wireless stations on battleships sent forth flashes of light.
It's a striking picture, evoked by Carey McWilliams, who noted that his friend Adamic was always more at home in San Pedro than in the "fleshpots of Los Angeles," then in the midst of a crazy, oil-driven boom. Yet it was Los Angeles that inspired Adamic. "He thrived on Los Angeles. He reveled in its freaks, fakirs, and frauds," McWilliams wrote.
Adamic became not only a historian and sociologist of the city, but its prophet too. It was he who first called it an "enormous village" and got at the soul of what he thought of as a bad place, "full of old dying people, and young people who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America -- full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religions and cults and fake science, and wildcat business enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profits, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people."
Adamic gathered his impressions in "Laughing in the Jungle," a memoir published in 1932. It was his second important book. The first, "Dynamite," appeared the previous year and was revised in 1935. This latter version has just been reissued, with a foreword by labor historian Jon Bekken.
"Dynamite" -- subtitled "The Story of Class Violence in America" -- had a troubled route to publication. Adamic originally intended to tell the story of the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times, an act of terrorism that killed more than 20 people. Two brothers, James and John McNamara, were found guilty, and Adamic saw in this drama a microcosm of the social and economic forces that in the early 20th century brought Los Angeles, and parts of the country at large, to the brink of socialism and revolution. He unearthed a great stack of material, reconstructed the saga detail by detail -- and then failed to publish all his findings.
Libel was almost certainly an issue. In a still later book, "My America," Adamic wrote more fully about the role played by the aging muckraker Lincoln Steffens, who brokered the McNamara brothers' guilty plea. Essentially, Adamic thought that Steffens, who died in 1936, sold the McNamaras, and labor, down the river. He believed too that the swift collapse of the brothers' defense was tied to the land grab then being orchestrated by a group of Los Angeles capitalists, led by Harrison Gray Otis, the generalissimo of The Times.
All this was explosive, and Adamic never gathered all the strands of what he learned. Instead, while letting The Times bombing take central place in "Dynamite," he reframed the book as an inquiry into violence in the American labor movement, beginning with the Molly Maguires and ending with the legalized murder of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Along the way, he addressed the Eugene Debs Pullman rebellion, the trial of Big Bill Haywood for murder in Idaho and the use of Pinkerton detectives against striking miners in Montana and West Virginia, writing openly of "class war" and concluding with a clarion call of high moral purpose.
"In fine," Adamic wrote, "the American working class will be violent until the workers become revolutionary in their minds and motives and organize their revolutionary spirit into force -- into unions with revolutionary aims to power. Then they will be able to afford to dispense with such violence as has been described in this book."
Adamic thought and hoped that the climax of this struggle was still in the future. Yet reading "Dynamite" now, we see that, although he didn't realize it, he was describing how the class war was already lost. By showing a link between labor and anarchists, Otis and other big business leaders created the context in which socialism became a dirty word in America. A pattern of thought, of propaganda almost, was successfully imposed. "Dynamite" remains, therefore, salutary and instructive, posing a question that seems fundamental and relevant: How, if the haves behave ruthlessly and irresponsibly, can the have-nots fight back?
Adamic wrote here about an era when dynamite gave a desperate if comprehensible answer; he died in 1951, shot in the head in a blazing New Jersey farmhouse, at a time when he was being hounded by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Whether he committed suicide or was murdered remains another mystery. "The more I see of America the less I think it is a land of laughs," he once said, and he died the victim of the same sort of unendurable political tensions that "Dynamite" evokes. He's a writer who demands our attention.
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The Overlord CDL Team are pleased to announce the availability for version 1.0.M1 of the Overlord CDL component.
This component provides two types of governance capabilities, based on the WS-CDL standard. The first capability can be used to validate the behaviour of services against the choreography(s) in which they are participating. The second capability performs static conformance checking, of services implemented using "conversation aware" ESB actions, against a choreography description.
Feedback on this release, and suggestions for features in subsequent releases, would be appreciated and can be recorded either in the Overlord User Forum or by creating an entry in the JIRA issue tracking system.
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The following tribute for our series on John Paul Stevens is by David Levi, dean of Duke Law School. Levi clerked for Justice Powell during the 1981 Supreme Court Term.
In my era as a law clerk, it was customary for each of the Justices to take to lunch the law clerks of the other Justices, chambers by chambers. In my recollection, Justice Stevens took the Powell clerks to the Monocle toward the end of the 1981 Term. Having been a law clerk himself, he said to us words to this effect: "Right about now, you may be feeling somewhat cynical about or disappointed in the Court. But I want to tell you that once you have left here for a while and gone on to practice or teach, your respect for the institution will come back, perhaps even stronger than it ever was." I am happy to say that Justice Stevens was right, and, speaking for myself, his wonderful service on the Court is one of the reasons. Others have commented on his contributions to legal doctrine, but what stands out for me, as a former federal judge, is his total dedication to the art and craft of judging.