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(CNN) – The story has been floating around for months on the campaign trail, but Mitt Romney and his wife Ann have largely avoiding discussing the fate of their Irish Setter Seamus, who the now-candidate put in a kennel and strapped to the roof of his family's station wagon for a trip to Canada in the 1980s.
On Monday, the couple addressed the story head on, saying in an interview with ABC News that the tale of Seamus was clouded with misinformation.
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"It's crazy," Ann Romney said in the interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer. "The dog loved it."
The candidate's wife explained how excited the dog got when he saw the crate, saying she thought it was "a kinder thing to bring him along than to leave him in the kennel for two weeks."
When asked if he would transport a dog like that now, Mitt Romney said he would not.
"Certainly not with the attention it's received," Romney said.
The story has circulated among Romney's opponents for months.
In January, the top adviser to President Barack Obama's reelection campaign took a not-so-veiled jab at Mitt Romney, tweeting a photo of the president riding in the presidential limousine with his Portuguese Water Dog Bo.
"How loving owners transport their dogs," David Axelrod wrote.
Newt Gingrich first introduced the tale of Romney's dog Seamus into the 2012 contest earlier in January, when his campaign released a web video featuring Romney awkwardly explaining how his family's Irish Setter ended up in a kennel on the top of a moving car.
As Romney explained in the Fox News clip featured by the Gingrich campaign, "he climbed up there regularly, enjoyed himself. He was in a kennel at home a great deal of time as well.
"We loved the dog," Romney continued. "It was where he was comfortable and we had five kids inside the car and my guess is he liked it a lot better in his kennel than he would have liked it inside."
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Axelrod is killing him with this. I love it. Bo is alot cooler than Seamus anyway. And who comes up with a name like Seamus for a dog??
"When asked if he would transport a dog like that now, Mitt Romney said he would not. "Certainly not with the attention it's received," Romney said."
Wow, so you'd do it again if you were sure you wouldn't get caught. Very revealing. Your wife lying about the dog enjoying riding in it's on fecal matter for 12 hours was also a lie. I guess that's why, according to your sons, the dog ran away and was never seen again when you finally arrived in Canada.
He means he wouldn't do it since it hurt him in the polls.....of course, next week, he'll decide he is for putting the dog on the roof again.
Judgement is one of the most important qualities you need to be president. It's the little things that show it. Just asking ...what about dogs in the back of a truck?
This is how out of touch Romney is. Placing their family dog in a kennel and on the roof. My wife will decimate me in an instant if I placed our dog Conan in a kennel let alone placing the kennel in the roof top of the car and run the car at a speed of 65 miles per hour. May be Romney owed to make a big kennel and try to stay in the kennel on the roof top of his car and get their dog drive to see how he feels.
The reason they wouldn't do it again? Bad press from doing it.
I suppose there are countless ways you can abuse your child without being arrested, but yes, I suppose it would look bad for a politician.
"Excited" = "Feared for his life".
Crapping down the back of the car is not a sign of enjoyment.
no he,ll be in the trunk
The media is so biased. They make a big deal out of this, but fail to report that Obama hangs out with known terrorists.
Political media coverage is literally going to the dogs! There are more important matters to discuss and debate than transporting a dog on the roof of a car.
I have to admit that I get wheezy when stocks goes up, because that means oil prices goes up too, when stocks goes down oil prices goes down. These folks are trading oil prices on the stock market like there is no tomorrow, then blaming the president that he's not drilling in every back yard choking the earth of oxygen. This is rediculous that oilis not about supply and demand anymore, but its for the few wealthy, who will use the repubs to throw more wool over the eyes of the already severely gullible American people.
To be so filthy rich all his life and still transport his dog on the roof of a car is sickening. This twisted idiot had no excuse. He had more than enough money to take them all on a vacation without the need to strap a dog onto the roof of a car to drive to CANADA. Words fail me..
Riiiiiiigggghhhhttt!!! And he can't have illegals working for him while he's running for President. "ha ha ha ha".
Isn't he funny (not). Don't ever believe a word a mormon tells you -they are out for #1 only.
Certainly not with the attention it's received," Romney said.
God forbid he admiits it was the wrong thing to do, transporting a dog for 12 hours on top of a car, Is this guy capable of simple human feelings?


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Most people know they can newspapers and soda bottles, and DO. But how do you handle the other items cluttering basements, garages and closets? Here are some tips for green ways to get rid of abandoned everyday items
Some stores, like Nike offer a Reuse-a-Shoe program, which processes and recycles the footwear into sports surfaces for basketball courts, tennis courts, running tracks and playgrounds. Already, over 20 million pairs of athletic shoes worldwide have been recycled.
Many people upgrade items like game consoles, digital cameras, MP3 players, VCRs, computers, and computer monitors every few years, not to mention all the consumables like VHS tapes, game cartridges, cords, cables, and cassettes. While some municipalities and provinces have plans for recycling these items, a company called GreenDisk does this by mail (for about $7 per 10 kilograms).
Computers contain a number of valuable metals (gold & solver) as well as several harmful chemicals, so it's important to make sure they're properly recycled. Most major computer manufacturers now offer some type of recycling program. Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Gateway, Apple and Toshiba all have recycling programs - check their Web sites for details. Again, many municipalities and several provinces have recycling plans for computers.
While many municipalities have no formal mattress recycling program, and often charities like Goodwill refuse to take them (citing health issues). Many communities have a Freecycle Network, which is an online community where a bulletin board posts items offered for re-use/re-cycling for whoever want=s to take it off your hands. See the websites for Freecycle and Craigslist.
When you upgrade to a new gizmo (typically, its about every year or two), don't just chuck the old one. Small electronics are full of big toxics. You can drop orphaned cell phones, pagers and PDAs at Staples stores around the country. The company has partnered with non-profit CollectiveGood, which collects and recycles the phones. Some phones are refurbished and re-used in developing countries. Other phones are broken down and the metals are separated out for re-use or proper disposal.
Many dry cleaners, tailors, and alteration shops will take old hangers back and reuse them. Ditto, drycleaners recycle those plastic bags and have drop-off bins when you bring in new cleaning. In some cities, you can recycle drycleaning bags with other plastic bags.
Incidentally, drycleaning has gone "green" over the past few years. The process used to use a harmful chemical known as "perc" with suspected carcinogens, and now cleaners offer either "wet cleaning," and "perc-free" drycleaning, Also consider avoiding buying clothes labeled "dry clean only."
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The Theater of God's Redemption
from R.C. Sproul Jul 06, 2020 Category: ArticlesIn every generation, every culture there is a dominant prevailing spirit. The Germans coined a word for it, Zeitgeist, a term that joins two common ideas together. Zeit is the German word for "time," Geist is the German word for "spirit." So Zeitgeist means "spirit of the time" or "spirit... Keep Reading
Viewing Calvin at the Bottom of a Deep Well
from Keith Mathison May 06, 2009 Category: ArticlesThe nineteenth-century Roman Catholic theologian George Tyrrell once criticized Adolf von Harnack's liberal view of Jesus in these now famous words: "The Christ that Harnack sees, looking back through nineteen centuries of Catholic darkness, is only the reflection of a Liberal Protestant face, seen at the bottom of a deep well." In other words, nineteenth-century liberals projected their own values and ideals onto Jesus and then used this man-made Jesus to support those values and ideals. Keep Reading
Complacent Repentance
from Burk Parsons May 06, 2009 Category: ArticlesI love to hear stories about our faithful forefathers in ages past, and while it may be mere legend, I have heard that the great nineteenth-century British pastor Charles Spurgeon posted a sign on the door of his study. Each time he passed through the door of his study he could not avoid seeing the sign, which read: "Perhaps today." It was his way of reminding himself that Jesus could return any day. So Spurgeon lived, prayed, and preached -- eagerly and expectantly. Keep Reading
Divine Immutability and the Doctrines of Grace (pt. 2)
from John MacArthur May 05, 2009 Category: ArticlesThe idea that God does what He wants, and that what He does is true and right because He does it, is foundational to our understanding of everything in Scripture, including the doctrine of election. Keep Reading
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from Various May 05, 2009 Category: Tabletalk MagazineThe May edition of Tabletalk is out. This month's theme is "The 7 Letters of Revelation" to urge readers on toward holiness. Contributors include R.C. Sproul, Mark Bates, Chris Donato, Paul Gardner, Dennis Johnson, John MacArthur, Roger Nicole, Cornelis Venema and R. Fowler White. Keep Reading
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from Keith Mathison May 04, 2009 Category: Ligonier AcademyLigonier Academy is pleased to announce the courses that will be offered in January 2010 as part of our Doctor of Ministry program. For more information on this new program, please visit the Ligonier Academy Doctor of Ministry website. Keep Reading
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from John MacArthur May 04, 2009 Category: ArticlesThe Bible repeatedly and unapologetically underscores the fact that God does not change. In fact, He cannot change because He cannot improve on absolute perfection or decline in His eternally fixed nature. His person does not change: "'For I the Lord do not change'" (Mal. 3:6). His plans do not change: "The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations" (Ps. 33:11). His purpose does not change: "So when God desired to show more convincingly . . . the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath" (Heb. 6:17). God does not change His mind: "'The Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret'" (1 Sam. 15:29); or His words: "The Holy One of Israel . . . does not call back his words" (Isa. 31:1-2); or His calling: "The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable" (Rom. 11:29; cf. Heb. 13:8; James 1:17). There are absolutely no changes in God, no variations, and no surprises (cf. Ps. 102:27). Keep Reading
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from Greg Bailey May 03, 2009 Category: ArticlesNews reports in recent days have brought word of an outbreak of swine flu in Mexico and around the world, raising fears of a "pandemic." For those of us who live in the West, where health care and good nutrition are taken for granted, a plague is a thing virtually unknown. Of course, it was not so for our forefathers in the faith. How did they react in the face of mass outbreaks of disease? Keep Reading
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from Keith Mathison May 01, 2009 Category: ArticlesOne of the most common ways of looking at the relationship between science and faith is the conflict thesis, which posits an inherent conflict between science and religion. The conflict thesis was popularized in the nineteenth century by John William Draper and by Andrew Dickson White. Despite the acknowledged poor scholarship underlying these works, the conflict thesis has persisted among both believers and unbelievers. Today, some scientists, including Peter Atkins, Daniel Dennett, and Richard Dawkins, are asserting that there should no longer be any conflict because science has shown us either that God does not exist or that God almost certainly does not exist. Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Apr 30, 2009 Category: ArticlesRembrandt used a fascinating technique whenever he painted his portraits, much like Michelangelo did when he created his sculptures. He used a technique later described by German philosophers (particularly Herder) as the "fruitful moment." (The German word for moment means "the blink of an eye.") Keep Reading


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The U.S. Supreme Court blocked Arizona's Clean Elections system from distributing matching funds, throwing a number of high profile campaigns into disarray just weeks before candidates were to start receiving money.
The court on June 8 granted a request by the Goldwater Institute to halt a recent ruling of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that declared matching funds constitutional. The justices ordered that the distribution of matching funds be put on hold until it can hear a full appeal of the matching funds system.
Goldwater Institute attorney Nick Dranias said he doesn't expect the court to hear the appeal in McComish v. Bennett until around October, meaning matching funds are essentially finished for 2010.
The primary election is Aug. 24. The general election is Nov. 2.
"At minimum, I think we've succeeded in stopping the violation of our clients' first amendment rights for this election cycle," he said. "The blocking of matching funds continues until they reject or accept our appeal."
Clean Elections Commission Executive Director Todd Lang said he was "extremely disappointed" in the Supreme Court's ruling and called it a step back for the freedom of speech.
"To take such an action as this so late in an election cycle is unprecedented. Matching funds result in more speech and more political debate, not less," Lang said in a press release.
But Dranias and Clint Bolick, director of the Goldwater Institute's legal division, said publicly funded candidates had fair warning that matching funds might not be there for them. U.S. District Court judge Roslyn Silver wrote in 2008 – more than a year before her ruling – that the system was likely unconstitutional.
"People were on notice not only from the court rulings but from the Clean Elections folks themselves that matching funds were in serious jeopardy this year. So people who gambled that public subsidies would be available to them now are reaping the folly of such a gamble," Bolick said.
The decision will take a major toll on several campaigns, most notably in the governor's race. Businessman Buz Mills has already spent nearly $2.3 million in his quest for the Republican nomination, and due to the court's ruling, incumbent Gov. Jan Brewer and state Treasurer Dean Martin will be left with only $707,000 for the Republican primary, instead of the total $2.1 million they had been slated to receive due to matching funds.
Martin is running a publicly funded campaign, despite being one of the plaintiffs in the case against matching funds. He said he opposes the matching funds system but said he decided to run clean because the system is set up to put traditional candidates at a disadvantage.
Despite the loss of about $1.4 million to his campaign, Martin called the Supreme Court's ruling a victory. Brewer loses the same amount, he said, and unlike him, she's already spent some of her Clean Elections money.
"She suffers the bigger loss. She's already been spending money," Martin said. "Regardless of what this does to my capmaign it's a long-term improvement to Arizona, and our election system is worth it."
Others disagreed. Lobbyist Chris Herstam said the ruling hurt Martin far more than Brewer. Most polls show Brewer, who got a major bump in the polls after signing a popular illegal immigration law, with substantial leads over both of her challengers.
"I think the Supreme Court ruling is a killer for the Dean Martin campaign," Herstam said.
Some, such as Democratic consultant Barry Dill, felt Attorney General Terry Goddard, the Democratic nominee for governor, would reap the benefits of the ruling. Brewer would've had to spend her matching funds before the primary election, but still could've used some of the $2.1 million to attack Goddard if she felt her lead against Martin and Mills was secure.
"With the matching funds we expected Brewer to go ahead and start marching onto a general election platform and beat the hell out of Terry Goddard with the extra money," Dill said. Now that doesn't appear to be quite the case. She won't have that luxury."
Brewer said she felt it was "extremely unusual" for the judicial branch to change in the middle of an election cycle and said she hoped the Supreme Court would reconsider its decision. Both Dranias and Lang said they considered that to be extremely unlikely, and that there is no recourse for publicly funded candidates in 2010.
"When you go into Clean Elections you go in knowing what the amounts are. But you also go in, as we did, relying on what the voters passed in 1998, and a portion of that was the matching funds," said Doug Cole, a spokesman for Brewer's campaign.
In a brief to the court on June 7, the Goldwater Institute cited John Munger, a Republican gubernatorial candidate who dropped out of the race the prior week, saying his privately funded campaign couldn't compete with the millions his rivals would get from Mills' spending.
Munger, the former chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, said he had no plans to get back into the race, but said he probably wouldn't have dropped out if he had known the Supreme Court would strike down matching funds. At the time he withdrew, Munger said he had only raised about $325,000.
"I wish they had issued this ruling a week ago," he said. "It appeared to us … there wasn't going to be any change within this election cycle."
The court could still uphold the Ninth Circuit's ruling and reinstate matching funds for future election cycles, Lang said, but said the court has been hostile to campaign finance reform – as evidenced by its decision earlier this year in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, which lifted restrictions on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions.
"If they're willing to come in and strike down matching funds in the middle of a cycle, it's pretty clear where they're going to go," Lang said. "There's still a chance that we could win but frankly I'm not optimistic at this point."
Some, such as Democratic attorney general candidate Felecia Rotellini, said she decided to run a privately funded campaign because of the threat to matching funds. "From the very beginning back in September, we strategically decided that I had to run my own race, and the best way to do that was to run as a traditional candidate," said Rotellini, who is running against two publicly funded opponents in the primary.
The Clean Elections Commission was scheduled to begin distributing matching funds on June 22.
Dranias said the Goldwater Institute has until late August to file its appeal.


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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Dead Island
Posted by Rot at 11:32 AM
Labels: dead island, theofantastique, trailer, video game, youtube.com, zombies
4 comments:
- JHMDF said...
This game was announced almost 4 years ago... and then it just dropped off the face of the earth. As soon as they put the new trailer up, it came up for pre-order at Gamestop... and I can't wait for my copy.
- February 24, 2011 at 3:37 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
- February 24, 2011 at 4:56 PM
- Hopsy the beer drinking clown said...
just when the you thought that zombies games had nothing more to offer, well, the trailer was really cool and the dad reminded me of Ed Norton. I wonder who they got for voice actors...intriguing.
- February 24, 2011 at 5:10 PM
- Samhainn said...
Heard about this trailer but had not watched it until just now. That was brilliant!
- February 26, 2011 at 11:19 AM
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Rams Served Up First Conference Victory
Sep 21, 2005
Farmingdale State 3 (30, 30, 30)
Maritime College 0 (6, 17, 10)
Farmingdale State (4-7, 1-0 Skyline) picked up their first conference victory tonight after defeating Maritime College (0-4, 0-3 Skyline) 3-0. The Rams won the first game decidingly with a score of 30-6, followed by wins 30-17 and 30-10.
Melissa Rudy (Dix Hills, NY/Hills East) totaled 14 service aces and six kills for Farmingdale State. Gina Moscato (Hicksville, NY/Hicksville) finished with eight service aces and seven kills.
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Do you have a photo of a CBU stamp? I don't think I've ever seen one, so maybe it's not like I was expecting..?or maybe Bryon can post a pix of his as he has a C BU code??
sorry just noticed this thread Here is a pic of mine from a 08C ( August of 69) car.


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Lindsay Lohan Rumored to Be a 'Hot Mess' at Art Basel Festival
Lindsay Lohan maintains her innocence in the whole Barron Hilton beatdown drama, but now witnesses day she was a hot mess at the Art Basel Festival in Miami last week.
"Lindsay was a mess at every event at Art Basel," a source told Radar Online. "She was so careful never to be caught with a drink in her hand and no one saw her do any drugs." So she couldn't be that hot of a mess, right? Well, wrong.
"Lindsay would be at a party in a VIP section with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West and she would start freaking out that people were taking pictures of her and make security throw people out. But the crazy thing was, no one was taking pictures of her, if anything it was of Kanye and Kim."
What's more, the witness says that Lohan's shortlived relationship with a young model named Morgan O'Connor drove her off the deep end. "Lindsay had a tantrum when she would see Morgan's ex-girlfriend at events," an insider said. "She would throw her arms in the air, stomp her feet and fling her hair around. She was acting like she was 10 years old."
The spy added, "Morgan wants nothing to do with her at all. He is telling people that he is nervous and freaking out that his career is going to be affected by all her crazy evilness. She's obsessed with him," the source revealed. "He is telling his friends is not her boyfriend and doesn't want to be with her."
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Public Enemy #1 right now is the man who made a ridiculously shoddy YouTube video titled "The Innocence of Muslims." This man and his so-called "film" have been blamed with a very broad brush for every riot and protest across the Mideast.
It is all so....impossible. This video sat unwatched for months until an Egyptian television station decided to promote it as some kind of global insult. Not you, not anyone you know and not anyone they know ever heard of this. But when the "Arab street" decided to stage riots outside American embassies, our government derided "continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims — as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions."
Susan Rice, our ambassador to the United Nations, even wrongly blamed the terrorist attack that killed our ambassador and three others in Libya on the video. She told ABC it was "a direct result of a heinous and offensive video that was widely disseminated, that the U.S. government had nothing to do with, which we have made clear is reprehensible and disgusting."
The Obama administration asked YouTube to review whether they should censor it, since it may have violated the website's terms of service. Its maker was publicly outed and dragged by a posse of armed cops into a "voluntary" session with his federal probation officers in Los Angeles.
This is the exact opposite of the way the so-called "progressive" elites usually toast the eviscerators of religion in Hollywood and Manhattan.
Rather than condemn attacks on all religions as "reprehensible and disgusting," they usually honor the courage of the artist who put ants on Christ's crucifix, or sinks it in a vial of urine, or smears dung on an image of the Virgin Mary. As part of their arrogant dance on behalf of "artistic freedom," the cosmopolitans not only insist these artists are to be honored, but they demand and expect Christian taxpayers to subsidize them.
As a carpet-bagging candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in New York in 1999, Hillary Clinton was no Profile in Outrage. After several days of silence after Chris Ofili's dung-smeared Virgin Mary hit the fan when it was displayed at the taxpayer-funded Brooklyn Museum, Mrs. Clinton announced "Our feelings of being offended should not lead to the penalizing and shutting down of an entire museum."
Last year, AP reported Mrs. Clinton attended a showing of "The Book of Mormon" on Broadway from the strenuously religion-bashing "South Park" creators, apparently without holding a press conference before or after the musical to declare "We condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions."
Islamic exceptionalism really showed its ugly head when the elites started arguing in national newspapers that the video creator should be jailed. On September 13, USA Today put forward religion professor Anthea Butler to declare she wouldn't have jailed the makers of "The Last Temptation of Christ," but she would jail the anti-Muslim director because he "indirectly and inadvertently inflamed people half a world away, resulting in the deaths of U.S. Embassy personnel."
That's not only factually untrue, since we've learned the Libya attack had nothing to do with YouTube. It grants Muslim radicals a permit to jail any artist they feel has insulted Islam. And what of the millions of Christians insulted by that hideous Jesus movie?
Even so-called journalists have supported censorship. Sarah Chayes, for six years the Paris Bureau Chief of NPR, wrote in the Los Angeles Times on September 18 that his video was "not, arguably, free speech protected under the U.S. Constitution" because it inflames radicals half a world away. In her long experience in Afghanistan, she has seen Pakistani radicals use any "pretext" for riots – and she wants those "pretexts" removed from the Internet.
She calls the video "speech that is deliberately tailored to put lives and property at immediate risk." Like many Islamic exceptionalists, she claimed "heightened volatility" in the Mideast demands a crackdown: "such provocation is certainly irresponsible – and reveals an ironic alliance of convenience between Christian extremists and the Islamist extremists they claim to hate."
One satirist put this hyperbole in perspective. Fouad Ajami recounted a mock Twitter statement by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, presently butchering his Muslim subjects."Wow, it's good that I've been killing women and children. It's good I've been shelling mosques," said the fake tweet. "Imagine what would have happened had I made an anti-Muslim video. They would have really come after me."
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2012/09/22/bozell-column-islamic-exceptionalism#ixzz27MBHUV7h


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Hello,I wanted to use Markus's really nice RTC library on my Taiji-Uino Due but the code is not working. Here is his library: https://github.com/MarkusLange/Arduino-Due-RTC-LibraryIf I run the example "Due_RTC_Simple_Sample", I do not get anything back on the serial monitor. However, If I plug in my Arduino brand Arduino Due, I get results like I expect from the example sketch.I have a second Taiji-Uino and that one is having the same problem... Maybe I got a couple of them from a bad batch?Can someone else with a Taiji-uino Due verify what I am seeing?
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Feminist (good) turned misandrist (not good) Sita Devi (Lalita Pawar) guides Mr. and Mrs. 55 through its initial phases in which we are also introduced to a number of excellent characters and legendary actors who are my favorites from the era. But before moving forward, how about a more recent mention of the other side of the argument to the second bit of Devi's sentence above? This, from Rang De Basanti (2006):
Sue has a point!
Of course they're not serious :o)
Preetam Kumar (Guru Dutt) the cartoonist, suffers from what a doctor calls the 'sickness of hunger and unemployment'. Anita (Madhubala), an orphan, belongs to a wealthy family and lives with her aunt Sita Devi. Anita's father's will is revealed on her twenty-first birthday, and leaves the women in a fix: she must marry within a month or lose her dad's fortune. Sita Devi devises a plan involving Preetam that would help the women inherit the fortune. What follows is hilarious and often enlightening in many ways, complete with some excellent music (O. P. Nayyar) and lyrics (Majrooh Sultanpuri), and a fantastic supporting cast including Johnny Walker, Yasmin, Kum Kum, Tun Tun.
Produced and directed by Guru Dutt, there's much to like about it. The narrative arc is splendid. There's a natural flow to the character development, and the comedy and the performances that deliver it so convincingly make it delightfully entertaining and engaging. But it's not merely a romantic comedy. Complete with some sequences high on the drama quotient, it even carries a valid social message -- seek and ye shall discover, likely through Madhubala, who strikes a balance between modernity, femininity, and traditionalism. Of course, she is magnificent!
This doesn't sound too bossy at all, does it?
Okay, I really need one of these in my little Bollywood shrine.
Honorable mention to Yasmin, who plays the role of Johnny Walker's girlfriend. She really is the surprise element, and makes the most of her presence.
Which brings us to what I think is the biggest strength of the film -- the antics of Guru Dutt and Johnny Walker. The most effective comedy is presented by them, and the situations they give rise to are hilarious.
Most of you know this already, but there probably aren't many who can say a lot without saying much while relying on their facial expressions. Dutt and Walker are two of the finest at that. You might recall their performance in Pyaasa (1957) was phenomenal too. Here, at least initially, their standing in the social hierarchy is inverted to some extent. But it really doesn't take much to appreciate how well they work together,...
...as is the case with Dutt and Madhubala, who are brilliant.
The music is a definite complement, with a decent assortment of very familiar tracks. As was the case with the other Madhubala film I saw recently -- Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958 -- discussed here) -- I did not know these songs belonged to this film, and shame on me for not paying attention to album artwork in greatest hits compilations. Sample my favorites from the soundtrack, each featuring some combination of Mohammad Rafi and Geeta Dutt:
- Dil Par Hua Aisa Jadoo
- Thandi Hawa Kaali Ghata
- Jaane Kahaan Mera
- Chal Diye Banda Nawaaz
- Meri Duniya Lut Rahi Thi
- Preetam Aan Milo (watch only if you've seen the film)
The most popular from this list are likely #s 3 and 6. I had to listen to #5 more than once before moving forward, it's a beautifully written qawwali. And #6 is interesting, I think I'd come across it in the C. H. Atma Golden Collection discussed in this post. Here is the original song by Atma (fantastic stuff). The song in the film is Geeta Dutt's rendition.
All in all, a wonderful cinematic treat that is, after only one viewing, in my list of favorite comedies!
Movie rating: 4.25/5 (Excellent!)
If you are aware of any films in which Guru Dutt has starred opposite Madhubala, please let me know!
Music rating: 4.5/5 (Excellent!)
My classification: PG (for theme)
And finally...
I've been on quite a Madhubala-centric run recently, and she's made my all-time favorites list in record time. Know why?
She definitely keeps it real ;)


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WASHINGTON — "Tax expenditures" — those deductions, credits, exclusions, loopholes and other goodies that clutter up the tax code — now amount to nearly $1.2 trillion a year, the government says.
It's not all corporate tax giveaways and special-interest handouts: More than 90% of federal tax breaks go to individual taxpayers.
Since the government started accounting for tax preferences in 1974, the value of individual tax breaks has increased seven times faster than that of corporations, according to a USA TODAY analysis of tax expenditure data collected by the National Priorities Project.
"One of the things that we found — and it's perhaps the underlying reason why the tax conversation is so complicated — is that the tax code really does cut across people of all income brackets in this country. Every income group gets some kind of tax expenditure," said Jo Comerford, the group's director. "It flies in the face of the myth that tax expenditures return only to corporations, when the fact is they return by and large to individuals."
And many of the most popular individual tax breaks are among the fastest-growing. Individual taxpayers are likely to save a total of $45.8 billion in 2014 because of a provision exempting home sales from capital gains taxes — nearly double the amount from five years before.
Non-taxable Social Security benefits will save retired and disabled people $32.9 billion — up 59% since 2009. Employees will save $212.8 billion because their employer-provided health benefits aren't taxed — a 47% increase from 2009.
Those cherished individual tax breaks could complicate what seems to be the most serious effort by Congress to overhaul the tax system in 27 years. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 tamed individual tax breaks for nearly a decade — until Congress added in more tax breaks in a 1997 law that cut capital gains tax rates, exempted taxes on most home sales, and enacted a child credit.
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McBride argues that some popular low-income tax benefits like the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit are, in some ways, worse than welfare spending. They're less transparent, more open to abuse, face less congressional oversight and are poorly administered by the Internal Revenue Service, he said.
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(CNN) - It looks like neither Mitt Romney nor President Barack Obama will land the endorsement of former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul in this final hour of election 2012.
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"I don't think there's enough difference between the two candidates, and I assume the victor today will be the status quo," Paul said. "We're going to continue with basically the same policies that we've had for a long time, so I don't see the election, as the way its turning out, to be very crucial at all."
Meanwhile, the candidates have argued the importance of the election and sparred in a series of debates. They have also battered one another on the airwaves, where millions of dollars have been poured into advertising in a handful of key swing states.
Paul ended his active campaign efforts in May as his path to the nomination appeared mathematically impossible, though his delegates to state-level political conventions - which decide delegates to the Republican National Convention - continued to push for his long-shot bid.
At the Republican National Convention in Tampa, a video tribute to Paul was played, and the former candidate held a separate rally in the city. "I'm convinced that we're living at the end of an era," Paul said, saying the moment "provides an opportunity."
In his CNN interview, Paul said he is not concerned with the amount of money being spent in politics.
"I think we should be shocked to know that people are willing to put that much money up. Not that they did, but why are they doing it? Why have they been hoodwinked into thinking that there's a real contest going on? That's what the real problem is," he said. "But the fact that people can spend their money and they want to invest in politics, that's fine."
Pressed by CNN's Brooke Baldwin, Paul said, "what's wrong is all this money is [it's] being spent to influence and control and own government, to be used for their benefit."
Paul did not seek re-election to the House this year, in which he has served on and off since 1976.
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Unbelievable how many of you are so brainwashed by the liberal media and FOX. Educate yourself on Dr. Paul and you will be suprised
I've long supported Ron Paul...I love the guy...but I think he was a coward not to endorse Gary Johnson in this election. Paul's a libertarian. Johnson's a libertarian. If Ron Paul was willing to put his money where his mouth is, he would have endorsed the one candidate who agrees with 99% of his political positions. As it stands, Paul just let his "movement" fizzle out. Very disappointing.
God bless Ron Paul.
cnn = politics ..... shame on you guys for not giving dr paul his rightfully earned coverage
This election was a WASTE of $$$.Same garbage and nothing to look forward to but more debt!Ron Paul had it right!
I wrote in Ron Paul today and found out my dad (on the wrong side of 60) did the same!
I voted this morning@6:25 I chose to write in my vote for Ron Paul.why?because being in NY the republican party did not do a good job of informing registered republicans of their primary date.All I spoke to about when the primary was on what date, I got a differrent date each time.Myself I believe that the republican party did this purposely to keep Ron Paul supporters at bay. I did write the RNC+told them how I felt(not that it did any good)The RNC is a DISGRACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love Ron Paul.............if the gop would have backed him they would be celibrating now instead of crying.
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The party should have NEVER have strayed from the old Barry Goldwater standards. The party had a great chance to regain it's glory by nominating Ron Paul. Instead, the GOP nominates a flip-flopping nobody. Dr. Ron Paul has never flip-flopped, or had to backpeddal on any of his positions.
Silly GOP – ditch the social conservatives and neo-cons, and get back to the basics of what the Party of Lincoln once stood for.
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When Matthew Gregoire's head hits the pillow at night, the sound of police and fire scanners continues to fill his ears. He just happens to have two speakers in his pillow so he can hear the breaking news at all times.
The 42-year-old Millville man, a retired Woonsocket, R.I., firefighter, is one of several scanner followers who have learned the power of Twitter.
Under @ProvFireVideos, Mr. Gregoire has put out more than 21,000 tweets about fires in Central Massachusetts and beyond, crimes such as a murder in Worcester, and information on the lighter side.
"I tweet serious incidents, and then to break it up I have a little sense of humor," Mr. Gregoire said. "I'll tweet important things, breaking news. I don't tie up Twitter with nonsense."
Before Twitter and other social media networking websites existed, the information that shot across scanners usually stayed within the confines of someone's home or went to paging companies that sent out information to news organizations paying for the service. Some people who listen to scanners actually provide the information for the paging companies, but Twitter seems to have made that system obsolete.
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Joseph M. Tortorelli tweets under @ScanWorcester and runs www.scanworcester.com, which broadcasts Worcester Police and Worcester Fire Department feeds. He said he grew up near the Park Avenue fire station in Worcester, and the sound of firetrucks always had him wondering where they were going.
His parents had a scanner going, and his uncle fed Mr. Tortorelli's interest at a young age.
The 31-year-old Worcester resident has sound in his blood. His family has run Worcester Sound and Lights for decades. He always has a scanner in his vehicle.
With tweets about fire calls and other calls in Worcester, Mr. Tortorelli filters out the calls that won't draw interest. He doesn't feel the urge to put out tweets if nothing is happening.
"I don't feel like a slave. It is a labor of love," said Mr. Tortorelli, who has more than 860 Twitter followers. "I enjoy sharing the information. To me it is quality over quantity."
Leominster Firefighter Scott A. LaPrade, whose Twitter handle is @ScottLaPrade, has been chasing fires with his son for years. Both of them do a lot of fire photography, so listening to the scanners is a must. That's how they know where to go.
One day his fire chief told him about Twitter.
"I decided to give it a try," the 50-year-old veteran firefighter said. "That's when I started realizing how much information is out there. Once you start putting out some good news, all of a sudden people who retweet it say, 'That is someone I want to follow.' " All three men photograph fires or police calls when they can. Mr. Gregoire is also a freelance cameraman for Fox25 news.
"I have five scanners in my office. I have a scanner in my living room and a scanner on my bed nightstand," Mr. Gregoire said. "In my truck I have four scanners and two handheld. They are always with me."
These men tend to tweet a lot of fire information, starting with initial reports and often followed by more of the story. A sample result: "#Worcester engine 15 reporting food on the stove." That was a tweet Mr. Gregoire put out Sunday afternoon.
"In my sleep I filter out the irrelevant calls," Mr. Tortorelli said about his bedside fire scanner. "When three tones go off in Worcester, it is a big deal. That pretty much is a report of a working structure fire. I've been listening long enough that I know that if a call from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the afternoon or 5 to 7 p.m. comes, it is probably food on the stove."
Having a solid pool of Twitter followers has Mr. Gregoire listening to the radio chatter a little more, he admits. As of Sunday, Mr. Gregoire had more than 2,780 Twitter followers.
The times his Twitter feed goes quiet — well, that is when Mr. Gregoire is on vacation.
People who are scanner enthusiasts follow trends in the business. When some police and fire agencies started to use trunked radio systems, it allowed more users to share different radio frequencies. Trunking scanners were created to capture those conversations.
Mr. Tortorelli said some public safety departments are now going digital, while others across the country are using encrypted radios. Encrypted systems cannot be heard by scanners. Digital scanners can hear the digital messages.
"I can't think of a reason why we shouldn't be able to listen," Mr. Tortorelli said. "I strongly believe radio communications should be out in the public. It gives the public more respect for the work that they do."
Police and fire logs show the same information, he said.
Mr. Gregoire believes some information should not be made public immediately. He understands that police have ongoing investigations. And in killings and fatal accidents, victims' names need to be confirmed before they are broadcast, he said.
"What I don't agree with is the encryption several departments are going to," Mr. Gregoire said. "They should at least have a frequency that can be heard."
Some departments in Rhode Island have all their transmissions encrypted, Mr. Gregoire said.
Worcester police use encrypted radios for the investigative divisions, those that handle drug investigations, gang surveillance and homicide investigations.
"We don't have a problem with citizens scanning police calls," Police Chief Gary J. Gemme said. "We believe that there are certain times it is important to have encrypted radios so we can conduct criminal investigations."
Police also have a concern that those under investigation may use scanners to listen in on police and try to discover if they are being investigated and learn the methods used by police. Daily police and fire calls for Worcester can be heard over scanners.
"The challenge today with social media, cell phones and all of the applications that are available is that everything becomes very transparent," the chief said. "When it comes to day-to-day police operations that is a positive, but when you are conducting ongoing criminal investigations you do need that level of security that the encrypted radio offers."
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#Worcester engine 15 reporting food on the stove— Matthew Gregoire (@ProvFireVideos) March 10, 2013
Fire under control. FIU to the scene. Reported to be a box of hardwood floor dust.— Joe (@ScanWorcester) March 6, 2013
Hubbardston FD on scene 2 story multiple dwelling - nothing showing from outside— Scott LaPrade (@ScottLaPrade) March 11, 2013


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The South Africa Reserve Bank has taken the unexpected move of hiking rates today at the conclusion of their monthly policy meeting, and the rand is plummeting on the news.
The SARB hiked its benchmark interest rate 50 basis points to 5.50%. Market economists expected rates to be left on hold.
The rate hike comes on the heels of two other unexpected rate hikes by central banks in emerging markets earlier this week. Across EM, markets have been caught in a storm of portfolio outflows as the Federal Reserve begins winding down its quantitative easing program, reducing dollar liquidity in worldwide.
Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of India unexpectedly hiked its benchmark interest rate 25 basis points to 8.00%.
And at the conclusion of an emergency meeting last night in Ankara, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey announced massive rate hikes to shore up the plummeting lira, raising its benchmark overnight rate a whopping 425 basis points to 12.00%.
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Britany Wallace (also known as Katrina Ember Blackwolf) is currently studying Business at Moravian College, 2012. She has been working on her blog KEB Perspectives since August 2011. We met at my alma mater and have kept in regular contact since I graduated. Now, she has agreed to help her fellow greyhound by writing a business-angled blog dedicated to, you guessed it, tea!
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Most people receive periodic breaks during work hours to do what they wish: get up, walk around, men's or ladies' room breaks, and smoking are on the list. But, how many of those people take that brief reprieve to make themselves a warm cup of tea? Drinking tea has many effects on the drinker; both mentally and physically. Physically, some teas can have a positive and preventative effect on your immune systems and act as antiviral or antimicrobial substances. Other teas can have antiallergenic properties, as well as lowering blood pressure. Mentally, some teas can calm or soothe anxiety or confusion. Others are designed to ease headaches and relax the muscles to help sleep; and still others can aid in concentration and alertness. Some teas are made specifically to cure certain symptoms such as sore throats or upset stomachs. The herbs create a healing environment inside the body and promote bodily health, as herbs were used previously as healing medicines.
Too often, we take for granted those brief breaks we are given during the work day and we "abuse" them by using them for unproductive things. "While some stress is a normal part of the workplace, excessive stress can interfere with your productivity and reduce your physical and emotional health. (Helpguide.org)" Those short breaks are designed with your health in mind! Combine tea drinking and other effortless and calming stress-relief techniques and you could have a much more productive day on your hands. In order to effectively deal with stress you have to recognize it and deal with it. A great way to deal with it, both proactively and retroactively, is to take more time out of the day just for YOU. Having a nice warm cup of herbal tea on your 15 minute break (or even during the day while you are working) can be all you need sometimes to just relax and breathe for a few seconds. It gives you the necessary time to regroup, rethink, ask new questions, or just chill and prepare to take on another part of your work.
Some alarming and interesting statistics can be found at Stress.org explaining how many people feel stressed at work and how severe it is. Nearly everyone has work-related stress; most of them do not know how to effectively handle it. Having a cup of tea on hand all day long can be calming and reassuring, but your short breaks are a great time to take a few minutes to have a healthy snack or take a 15 minute brisk walk around the office or around the block. Drink a bottle of water and eat an apple or some celery sticks. These short tasks are entirely focused on you and can make all the difference in your day. Take the time for yourself and ignore work for just those few minutes. Warmth spreads from the inside out, so a cup of tea is calming from the inside and the warm is relaxing.
Those of you who know me, know that I am a very stressed person by nature. But, for as hectic as my life gets sometimes, those few minutes just for me; without my family or friends, without my partner, without work or things to do, I can just relax and think about me. That time is mine and I do not allow anything to distract me. The best thing you can do for yourself to handle workplace stress is to develop positive habits and remove negative habits. Try not to do things which promote anxiety such as nail biting, smoking, or pacing. Some positive habits which might help you relax are to have a small, healthy snack, take a quick walk unrelated to work, write a thoughtful thank you note or brief letter to someone you care about and haven't spoken to in a while. Some people use the time for meditations to help them relax.
In short, different herbal teas have many proactive health benefits and most have a healing element to them. Keeping a mug of warm tea at your desk is helpful to keep you on track, relaxed, and doing the best work that you can do. Utilize your brief breaks at work to take some time for yourself and de-stress. Use tea as a pick-me-up and to remind you there is goodness in the world! Happy drinking and Happy Holidays!
Bliss, Rosalie. (2011, March 1). Herbal Teas May Provide Health Benefits. Retrieved from: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110301122055.htm
Newcombe, Rachel. (n.d.). The Health Benefits of Herbal Teas. Retrieved from: http://health.learninginfo.org/herbal-teas.htm
Sowder, Jules. (n.d.). Herbal Tea Benefits. Retrieved from: http://www.learn-about-tea.com/herbal-tea-benefits.html
Segal, Jeanne, Smith, M., Robinson, L., & Segal, R. (2011, October). Stress At Work: Tips to Reduce and Manage Job and Workplace Stress. Retrieved from: http://helpguide.org/mental/work_stress_management.htm
Job Stress. The American Institute of Stress. Retrieved from: http://www.stress.org/job.htm
Heathfield, Susan. (n.d.). Understanding Stress and Workplace Stress. Retrieved from: http://humanresources.about.com/od/stressandtimemanagement/a/stress_time.htm


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Best Buy Co. said Chief Financial Officer Jim Muehlbauer is leaving the company in the latest executive change at the consumer-electronics chain.
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It was only last week that Press-Here reported on rumors that Apple was working on an iPad "Mini," not so much small in size but in price. Now, reports from Korea say that a subsidiary of LG has been sending 7.85-inch displays to Apple for testing -- which could mean the iPad "Mini" just might be a smaller version of the tablet computer.
Analyst Brian White of Ticonderoga Industries toured China and Taiwan and spoke of rumors he'd heard along his trip, saying that Apple was working on a stripped-down iPad they could sell for around $199, mainly to developing countries, which he dubbed the "Mini." However, the name referred to its price and smaller capabilities, not its actual size. Now, with reports the tablet computer could be made smaller, it's even more interesting for the tablet market. The pint-sized iPad could be wildly attractive to new buyers in the industrialized and developing worlds who want a smaller tablet.
Strangely, Apple's Steve Jobs hated the idea of a smaller tablet, including lambasting the 7-inch screen as a "tweener" that no one wants. So would Jobs have approved of shrinking the iPad's 9.7-inch screen to almost 8 inches?


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In small classes like "Story and Theology" and "Hope and the Future," students wrestle with sacred texts and their interpretations through discussion and debates that often spill all the way into their residence halls. Just as thought-provoking are "Reason, Faith, and the Search for Meaning," "Judaism, Islam, and the Christian Faith," and "Religion and American Culture."
Our faculty members are eager to collaborate with students on research papers. Dr. Ann Pederson has provided students with the chance to present their work at national conferences, and recent student papers have been titled "Between Buffy and Jesus: A Question of Salvation," and "God and Gothic."
We also encourage additional studies in other departments, where the critical thinking skills you develop in our department help you excel.


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12 Days of Handmade Christmas Ornaments!
Be sure to check back here each day! We will have 12 different amazing crafty bloggers over the next 12 days showing off their handmade oraments along with the tutorials to make them!
Kicking off our ornament party is
Dani @ The Craft Rookie!
This very sweet lady has been my brainstorming buddy for this party. She is also the designer of my blog button. Thank for everything Dani! I am so excited you are a part of this!
So here she is, these ornaments are so cute and creative, hope you enjoy!
Happy December ~ it's finally here!


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For Presidents, one rule of thumb for political survival is not to leave your country for too long, especially if you are thinking of waging a regional war against al-Qaeda militants. That seemed to be the thinking for Mauritania's leader Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, when he emerged on Tuesday, nearly six weeks after being shot in the stomach back home and airlifted to France for surgery — complicating the West's plans for a military assault against Islamic hard-liners across Mauritania's border in northern Mali. Having vanished from sight since Oct. 14, Aziz, looking somewhat drawn and thin, met French President François Hollande at the Élysée Palace. "I am fine, I am starting to recover," he told reporters afterward. "I have the intention to return quickly, in the next days."
Aziz had better hope he returns in time. During his long recuperation in Paris, his rivals have begun to plot their future without the President, who himself came to power in a political coup in 2008. Officials from within the ruling circle recently met with opposition parties, in an attempt to piece together a post-Aziz plan. And the biggest opposition party has called a national day of protest for Wednesday, in a move to declare Aziz's four-year rule over. The official government version of Aziz's shooting on Oct. 13 was that a soldier had fired at the presidential convoy by accident while Aziz was traveling on a country road. But many Mauritanians are incredulous, speculating instead that the shooting involved a dispute between the President and another man over a woman. No matter the cause, Aziz's absence has provided his foes with a chance to try to remove him. "The people have been preparing to get him out of power," says Hacen Ould Lebatt, a French-Mauritanian journalist in the French city of Marseille, who keeps close contact with politicians in his home country. "If people had not seen him today, it would be very easy for them to meet tomorrow and say, 'He's not coming back,'" Lebatt says. "President Hollande has saved him."
(MORE: How the Injury to an African Dictator May Hobble France)
France (as well as the U.S.) has good reasons to try to save Aziz's presidency. Mauritania, a large, oil-rich northwest African country adjoining Mali, is a crucial player in the West's plans to dislodge al-Qaeda allies in control of northern Mali. After a military coup in Mali last March overthrew the government in Bamako, a coalition of Tuareg groups and an affiliate of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, seized control of two-thirds of the country, effectively splitting one of the West's closest allies in West Africa into two. Since then, thousands of Malians have fled to Mauritania, escaping, by their account, an oppressive Islamic stranglehold back home. A stringent form of Shari'a has taken hold, with music banned and women forbidden to walk in the streets without a male relative.
For the West, the fear is that northern Mali's vast desert terrain could become a training ground and operational base for terrorist groups seeking to launch attacks against nearby Europe; AQIM leaders in northern Mali have already made clear they plan to target Westerners if Europe and the U.S. backs a military invasion. Meanwhile, Hollande is desperate to see six French hostages freed after months in captivity in northern Mali.
Last month, the U.N. Security Council gave African leaders 45 days — until early December — to come up with a military plan to force AQIM and its allies out of the territory and reunite Mali. The plan aims to deploy about 3,300 West African troops, perhaps early next year, after intensive military training by the U.S. and France, in which the West would also provide logistics and intelligence. But Algeria, the biggest military player in the region by far, has so far refused to back the invasion plan, rebuffing pleas by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others. And last week, General Carter Ham, who heads the U.S. military's Africa Command, admitted to students in Paris that the military strategy was "extremely difficult."
(MORE: Will the World Go to War to Save Mali?)
With Algeria sitting out the conflict, Mauritania is perhaps the West's only hope of military involvement by an Arab country, as well as by one of Mali's direct neighbors. "Without Mauritania, this could be blacks vs. Arabs," Lebatt says.
Once Aziz returns home, his most urgent decision is likely to be whether to go to war against al-Qaeda — that is, if he is able to stay in power. While it would please France, which has extensive business ties with the country, deploying his soldiers would be deeply unpopular among Mauritanians, according to Nasser Weddady, a Mauritanian exile in Boston, whose Twitter feed acts as an ongoing news service on his country's political dramas. "No one in Mauritania wants to go to war in Mali," he tweeted on Tuesday after Aziz met Hollande in Paris. In another tweet he wrote, "If Aziz comes back to Mauritania & gives the order to go fight in Mali, he will be either deposed, shot or both by his own military." That shooting, if it occurs, is unlikely to be brushed off by the government as an accident.


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Standard Bank 5150 Ekurhuleni
The Standard Bank 5150 Ekurhuleni returns to Germiston on 21 October 2018!
The event has been hosted successfully at Germiston Lake since 2013 attracting close to 1400 athletes each year since its inception growing to become the biggest standard distance triathlon in South Africa.
In addition to thousands of amateur athletes, the event was frequented by South African Olympic triathletes along with some of South Africa's best long distance triathletes.
The 2018 edition of the Standard Bank 5150 Ekurhuleni sees the introduction of the FUNTRI distance. The FUNTRI is a short distance which allows novice athletes to enjoy the day in a non-threatening environment. The FUNTRI comprises a 400m swim, 20km cycle and 5km run while the Olympic distance will be 1.5km swim, 40km cycle and 10km run.


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Cereoid wrote: > > Cloned plants would genetically identical. One can theoretically raise an > INFINITE number of genetically identical plants. Mind boggling, isn't it? It > is being done all the time. GH: no kidding... thanks for the info. > > The rest depends on how they were raised. Genetically identical plants grown > under different conditions may outwardly look different. > GH: I understand it depends on what part the plant started from in the case of fragmentation etc. However, in the case of some well organized "spore" bearing asexual plants, they should all look pretty much the same... like Dandelions for instance. (A Dandelion is an asexual plant if I'm not mistaken). Now, it's pretty noticeable on your lawn that some Dandelions get a lot larger than others at maturity. If we assume that they are all genetically IDENTICAL (or arranged it so), then this would tell us something about the effect of the "average environment" on Dandelion growth, would it not? I mean, we could compute a mean and a standard deviation for the height and weight of an ensemble of "genetically identical" Dandelions... isn't this so? This would tell us how much the "environmental variance" was. > The old nature verses nurture argument? > GH: Yes sir.... big time. The thesis here, is that there is such a thing as a "universal environmental growth curve deficit" for, in effect, every living thing on the planet. Of course, you have to "eliminate the genetic component" first, to measure it. Seems to me, from what I've heard.... agriculturists must ALREADY KNOW the answer to this question, at least for specific asexual crops... and probably know it to 2-decimal places. I'd like to find out what it is. You have no idea how important this is. Scientists now suspect that this "universal growth curve deficit" in humans (see: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/ghammond/growth5.JPG is actually the scientific explanation of "God", because of it's impact on the brain. Identical Twin studies are used extensively in Psychology as you know. But now it is suspected that this "growth curve deficit" actually exists in every living thing... and the first thing to look at would be Plants... where, interestingly, the genetic component can apparently be ENTIRELY ELIMINATED, unlike the case for the higher animals because of sexual reproduction. Any further info on asexual crop measurements... such as the "standard deviation in crop yield per acre" for identical plants, would be of the keenest interest. -- BE SURE TO VISIT MY WEBSITE, BELOW: ----------------------------------------------------------- George Hammond, M.S. Physics Email: ghammond at mediaone.net Website: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/ghammond/index.html -----------------------------------------------------------


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He's not the most credible figure these days, but it looks like Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was right about one thing: California legislators are girlie-men.
Or at least they fight like girlie men -- judging by Wednesday's pathetic shoving match on the floor of the Assembly.
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The short version of the story (video above): during a debate over two redevelopment bills that were part of the state budget package, Republican Assemblyman Don Wagner compared the bills -- which require redevelopment agencies to give the state money, or be eliminated -- to the sort of shakedown you'd see in the Sopranos.
Assemblyman Anthony Portantino rose to demand an apology for what he saw as an insult to Italian-Americans.
Wagner apologized sarcastically "to any Italian Americans who are not in the Mafia and engaged in insurance scams."
That didn't help things.
Assemblyman Warren Furutani then confronted him, and here's where things went horribly wrong. Video shows a bit of shoving quickly broken up by lawmakers.
Now I don't generally condone fighting, but the tradition of legislative fisticuffs is a grand and noble one.
Fights in the California legislature were, by various accounts, early in the last century, and in our early days.
Those were days, mind you, when lawmakers also knew how to negotiate big deals and balance budgets. But in this term-limited era, all the legislative dark arts -- from the deal to the fistfight -- appear to be lost.
And legislators, of all people, should know how to throw a punch, literally and figuratively. But they don't.
The context Wednesday was crucial. The majority party, unable to figure out a way to fight Republicans, surrendered, passing accounting gimmicks and cuts (especially to higher education) that Democrats openly disavowed even as they voted for them. Imagine if the Democrats had some intimidating scrappers in their caucus.
Might be a bit easier to get four Republican votes, huh?
There were some good things even about this fight. Fighting also is a good way to get attention, and legislators desperately need more of it. Ask yourself -- had you heard of Don Wagner or Warren Furutani before yesterday's weak shoving match landed them on the evening news.
The trouble is that these fighting amateurs couldn't land a good punch--if you're going to take the publicity hit, you should get a good hit in.
Also, it's significant that redevelopment bills sparked the fight. Gov. Brown's redevelopment plan was the only significant reform that advanced during this budget season, though lawmakers stopped short of eliminating the agencies, as the governor rightfully suggested. Real reform sparked a real fight, or as close to a real fight as this group is available of.
So imagine two things: that California lawmakers were to push for comprehensive constitutional reform and were to work on their fighting skills. We could fix the budget and maybe even fund a real rainy day fund by televising the whole thing on pay-per-view.
(One little addition:Tim Cavanaugh of Reason magazine, who like me is a champion of legislative fistfights, has posted a terrific video of great fights from around the world here).
More on the budget here.


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Les Dames d'Escoffier (LDEI) is a world wide philanthropic society of professional women leaders in the fields of food, fine beverage and hospitality. For this class, Atlanta LDEI members partner with ACFB for a special evening of education and entertainment. 100% of ticket proceeds benefit the Food Bank.
1/28 to 1/29
Simple Abundance: Cooking and Entertaining with Les Dames d'Escoffier
$75, Demonstration & Tasting
10pm - 12am


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I've made my first novel, Ventus, available as a free download, as well as excerpts from two of the Virga books. I am looking forward to putting up a number of short stories in the near future.
To celebrate the August, 2007 publication of Queen of Candesce, I decided to re-release my first novel as an eBook. You can download it from this page. Ventus was first published by Tor Books in 2000, and and you can still buy it; to everyone who would just like to sample my work, I hope you enjoy this version.
I've released this book under a Creative Commons license, which means you can read it and distribute it freely, but not make derivative works or sell it.
I've made large tracts of these two Virga books available. If you want to find out what the Virga universe is all about, you can check it out here:
In spring 2005, the Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts of National Defense Canada (that is to say, the army) hired me to write a dramatized future military scenario. The book-length work, Crisis in Zefra, was set in a mythical African city-state, about 20 years in the future, and concerned a group of Canadian peacekeepers who are trying to ready the city for its first democratic vote while fighting an insurgency. The project ran to 27,000 words and was published by the army as a bound paperback book.
If you'd like to read Crisis in Zefra, you can download it in PDF form.
I'll be a guest panelist this Sunday at this annual conference
We'll be discussing "Technology optimism and pessimism" at this year's Silicon Flatirons conference in Boulder, Colorado. Here's who I'll be speaking with:
I'll be packing a lot into two days. Come out and visit
Here's what I'll be up to--a particularly fun set of panels this year!
Format: Reading
14 Feb 2020, Friday 20:30 - 20:55
14 Feb 2020, Friday 21:00 - 21:50
Our behemoth of a spaceship has been in transit since the days of our many-times-great grandparents. We've finally reached an Earth-like planet and are ready to go. What will our panel (of appointed/anointed/hereditary/elected?) leaders suggest doing first? Have they forgotten something important? Watch the panel map out our future and that of the human race on this, our new home. Then suggest your own ideas.
15 Feb 2020, Saturday 12:00 - 12:50
The world as we know it has changed dramatically in the last 100 years. How about the next 100? What might everyday life be like a century from now? What technological marvels will the near future bring? What social changes will take place? How about natural and human-made disasters? Overall — where will we be, and how will we get there? Is the Singularity coming? "Day Million"? Or will our grandchildren herd sheep and shiver in the dark?
15 Feb 2020, Saturday 14:00 - 14:50
Creatures that are part human and part machine. Sentient alien species. People living on ships and across time itself. The future is full of people. So what does it mean to be a person in the future? How might futuristic societies evolve based upon their surroundings and histories? How can we escape the perils and pitfalls of contemporary social norms in order to create societies that feel completely fresh and new?
15 Feb 2020, Saturday 16:00 - 16:50
15 Feb 2020, Saturday 17:00 - 17:50
Here's where you can find me through September, 2019.
How and where to find me during Worldcon
Here's my schedule. I'm not going to be in Dublin very long, so I'm going to prioritize meeting people and socializing over sightseeing. You can expect to find me around the con most of the time from Thursday afternoon to Sunday.
15 Aug 2019, Thursday 14:00 - 14:50, Level 4 Foyer (CCD)
16 Aug 2019, Friday 13:00 - 13:50, Level 3 Foyer (KK/LB) (CCD)
16 Aug 2019, Friday 15:00 - 15:20, Liffey Room-3 (Readings) (CCD)
Format: Panel
17 Aug 2019, Saturday 10:00 - 10:50, Liffey Hall-2 (CCD)
Will humans ever live long-term in space, or is it easier to let our 'mind children' go to the stars, whether as uploaded minds or independent intelligences? If humans (or AI) leave for space, would we miss them?
Lauren James (Walker Books) (M), Diane Duane (The Owl Springs Partnership), Karl Schroeder (Tor Books), Laurence Raphael Brothers
Format: Panel
17 Aug 2019, Saturday 15:00 - 15:50, Wicklow Room-3 (CCD)
Writing is a many wondrous thing filled with highs and lows, but those lows can be really tough to navigate either after a great success or after a lack of success. Rejection is something every writer has to face, but how do writers keep writing in the face of failure? What lessons have they learned along the way? Our panellists share the ups and downs of a writing life.
Aliette de Bodard, Ian R MacLeod (M), Karl Schroeder (Tor Books), George Sandison (Titan Books), Nina Allan
I'll be attending this Boston convention again this year, Feb. 15-17, and reading from my new novel, Stealing Worlds
Boskone is held at the Boston Weston Waterfront, close to all the best action in downtown Boston. I'm flying in Thursday night so I'll be available to chat, sign and read from Friday afternoon onwards.
Here's my final schedule. What's on here matches closes my current obsessions, and a lot of these topics are front and center in Stealing Worlds. So expect me to be vocal, opinionated, and engaged!
15 Feb 2019, Friday 16:00 - 16:50, Burroughs (Westin)
How can you design a really GOOD alien? How can writers/artists imbue their creations with a genuine sense of otherness? What do our depictions of aliens tell us about ourselves?
James Cambias, Dr. Stephen P. Kelner Jr. (Ascent Leadership Networks) (M), Jeffrey A. Carver, Laurence Raphael Brothers (Freelance), Karl Schroeder
16 Feb 2019, Saturday 12:00 - 12:50, Harbor II (Westin)
1984 was published in 1949. 2001: A Space Odyssey was published in 1968. Neither was predictive ... at least for the year they were putatively about. Should science fiction set in the near future try to be prophetic? Can it avoid becoming dated? Does it always have to be dystopic? There's a lot of it out there these days, but what makes a near-future story successful?
Fran Wilde, Michael Swanwick, Karl Schroeder, Paul Di Filippo (M), Brett James
Format: Panel
16 Feb 2019, Saturday 14:00 - 14:50, Burroughs (Westin)
Whether you deal in coin, platinum, electronic credits, or chickens, all societies rest upon an agreed-upon economic foundation. However, fantastic fiction rarely features a reference to any body that establishes and monitors a financial system. How important is it to see a working (or failing) economy in an SF/F world? Can you realistically have a cashless society (Star Trek) or a civilization run by orcs (LOTR)? What are the economic drivers that keep these worlds turning? Fellowships that cross multiple borders to throw away precious metal objects so rarely pay well. How do our heroes and villains survive without visible incomes of any kind?
MR Richardson (Room 10 Publishing) (M), Fonda Lee, Karl Schroeder , Steve Miller (Liaden Universe), Mr. Walter H. Hunt (Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts)
16 Feb 2019, Saturday 15:00 - 15:25, Griffin (Westin)
16 Feb 2019, Saturday 16:00 - 16:50, Galleria - Autographing (Westin)
16 Feb 2019, Saturday 17:00 - 17:50, Galleria - Kaffeeklatsch 1 (Westin)
16 Feb 2019, Saturday 20:00 - 20:50, Griffin (Westin)
What science fiction concept, other than space travel, would you most like to see realized? Flying cars? Matter replicators? Time travel? Why? What would be the impact on civilization of this wish fulfillment? Flying cars crashing into buildings, replicators putting manufacturers out of business, time travelers running wild, oh my!
Alan Brown (M), Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert, Marshall Ryan Maresca, Mary Anne Mohanraj (Speculative Literature Foundation), Karl Schroeder
17 Feb 2019, Sunday 10:00 - 10:50, Burroughs (Westin)
When, how, why, what? Following up on last year's "The Future of Work" ... How far can we reasonably project that automation of jobs will advance in the real world in the next 10 years? Why? What limits to automation are presently visible? What plausible limits have we not yet encountered? What about the longer term? What jobs can we reasonably expect will be completely automatable in years to come? We'll focus on technical aspects, not so much on societal acceptance, and not at all on societal impact.
Mark Olson (M), Jeff Hecht, Karl Schroeder, Laurence Raphael Brothers (Freelance), Brianna Wu
17 Feb 2019, Sunday 11:00 - 11:50, Burroughs (Westin)
Twentieth-century history shows that automation can increase productivity and stimulate new employment. More recent developments, however, haven't always been so productive or stimulating (e.g., grocery store self-checkouts). Are we nearing a point of no return — when technological advances chiefly function to replace human labor? What happens to society once work gets scarce, and stays that way? And what might the transition to that brave new (jobless) world entail?
Mark Olson (M), Karl Schroeder, B. Diane Martin, John P. Murphy, Brianna Wu
Some fun topics this year, plus a reading and signing
Here's my Boskone schedule for 2018:
Format: Panel
17 Feb 2018, Saturday 10:00 - 11:00, Marina 4 (Westin)
Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should. Characters like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Masamune Shirow's Major demonstrate some consequences of the headlong pursuit of scientific breakthroughs. What are the real stakes in the playing-god game? Will we use technological advances for good or evil? What will guide us? And how does fiction help inform our ethical dilemmas?
Pete Hollmer, Karl Schroeder, JeffWarner (M), LJ Cohen, Cady Coleman
Format: Panel
17 Feb 2018, Saturday 11:00 - 12:00, Burroughs (Westin)
European expansion into the American West and other "new frontiers" used to be portrayed as a great adventure — and a civilizing enterprise. For those being invaded, however, colonial expansion has been less pleasant. The Space Act of 2015 allows the commercialization of space by private entities. But if powerful technocrats like Elon Musk use tropes from Westerns to promote Mars exploration, will we venture into space with the same old colonialist attitudes? Or can we learn from history, and approach space exploration with new mindsets?
Allen M. Steele (M), Vandana Singh, Pete Hollmer, Karl Schroeder, William Hayashi
Format: Panel
17 Feb 2018, Saturday 15:00 - 16:00, Burroughs (Westin)
Our panelists consider their favorite gadgets, and list their Top 10 — including landmark examples from the past, as well as modern gadgets that are currently changing the future.
Priscilla Olson (M), Karl Schroeder, Geary Gravel, Daniel P. Dern, Carrie Cuinn
Format: Reading
17 Feb 2018, Saturday 16:30 - 17:00, Griffin (Westin)
Karl Schroeder
Format: Kaffeeklatsch
17 Feb 2018, Saturday 17:00 - 18:00, Harbor I - Kaffeeklatsch 2 (Westin)
Karl Schroeder
Format: Panel
18 Feb 2018, Sunday 11:00 - 12:00, Marina 2 (Westin)
How has innovation — changing technologies, new digital platforms, advanced AIs — altered the fundamental nature of work? While humans may always have a place in the labor hierarchy, just where will we find ourselves on the food chain? Is there room for everyone? Specifically, how will technology eliminate current jobs and enable new ones?
Mark L. Olson (M), Karl Schroeder, James Cambias, Jeff Hecht, B. Diane Martin
Hope to see you there!
I'm a member of the Association of Professional Futurists with my own consultancy, and am also currently Chair of the Canadian node of the Millennium Project, a private/public foresight consultancy active in 50 nations. As well, I am an award-winning author with ten published novels translated into as many languages. I write, give talks, and conduct workshops on numerous topics related to the future, including:
For a complete bio, go here. To contact me, email karl at kschroeder dot com
I use Science Fiction to communicate the results of actual futures studies. Some of my recent research relates to how we'll govern ourselves in the future. I've worked with a few clients on this and published some results.
Here are two examples--and you can read the first for free:
The Canadian army commissioned me to write Crisis in Urlia, a fictionalized study of the future of military command-and-control. You can download a PDF of the book here:
For the "optimistic Science Fiction" anthology Hieroglyph, I wrote "Degrees of Freedom," set in Haida Gwaii. "Degrees of Freedom" is about an attempt to develop new governing systems by Canadian First Nations people.
I'm continuing to research this exciting area and would be happy to share my findings.
"Science fiction at its best."
--Kim Stanley Robinson
"Lean and hugely engaging ... and highly recommended."
--Open Letters Monthly, an Arts and Literature Review
(Sun of Suns and Queen of Candesce are combined in Cities of the Air)
"An adventure-filled tale of sword
fights and naval battles... the real fun of this coming-of-age tale includes a
pirate treasure hunt and grand scale naval invasions set in the cold, far
reaches of space. "
—Kirkus Reviews (listed in top 10 SF novels for 2006)
"With Queen of Candesce, [Schroeder] has achieved a clockwork balance of deftly paced adventure and humour, set against an intriguing and unique vision of humanity's far future.
--The Globe and Mail
"[Pirate Sun] is fun in the same league as the best SF ever has had to offer, fully as exciting and full of cool science as work from the golden age of SF, but with characterization and plot layering equal to the scrutiny of critical appraisers."
"...A rollicking good read... fun, bookish, and full of insane air battles"
"A grand flying-pirate-ship-chases-and-escapes-and-meetings-with-monsters adventure, and it ends not with a debate or a seminar but with a gigantic zero-gee battle around Candesce, a climactic unmasking and showdown, just desserts, and other satisfying stuff."


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Safer-at-home update: All Clark Realty sales offices are open for scheduled appointments with your agent. Property showings with required safety protocols are possible. The majority of our agents and staff will continue to work remotely through June in compliance with Hawaii's 'safer-at-home' order. Our top priority, always, is the health and well-being of our clients, agents, employees, and communities. Contact your agent for more information or View the latest Big Island listings with Virtual Tours.
In 2015, 618 fee-simple condos were sold on the Big Island, with a median price of $288,750. In 2016, prices for fee-simple condos range from approx. $60,000 to over $10,000,000.
On the Big Island, use of the term SFR isn't commonplace, but, for buyers coming from some mainland markets, it is a term that identifies single-family residential listings that are stand-alone (detached) homes. In some areas, SFR may include townhomes or duplex properties if the owner owns the land as well as the improvements on it. For our purposes, we'll use SFR to reference properties that do not fall under Hawaii's CPR (Condominium Property Regime) laws.
In Hawaii, CPR (condo) ownership is described as ownership of a unit (this can be a traditional apartment-style dwelling, a townhouse or a detached unit) along with a percentage of undivided interest in the common elements.
Under this definition, it is not uncommon, especially in the Kona-Kohala resorts, to find large free-standing custom homes that fall into the condominium ownership category. These condominium projects typically offer desirable amenities packages, recreation opportunities, and well-maintained open spaces as common elements for owners to enjoy.
There are also a few CPR properties across the Big Island that appear to be SFR properties but are actually parcels of land that have been "CPR'ed" and may share only a driveway as a common element. The specifics for each condominium project will be spelled out in the Declaration of the Condominium Property Regime paperwork and your REALTOR® and lender will help you navigate the purchase of a CPR/condo property.
1. Traditional condos allow greater flexibility for an owner who wants to "lock and go" at short notice or frequently throughout the year. If your Big Island property is a 2nd home or if you travel often, knowing that common area maintenance is covered and that someone is keeping an eye on the physical infrastructure of the project can bring significant piece of mind.
2. Traditional condos require less on-going exterior maintenance, freeing up more time for owners to enjoy an active, outdoor island lifestyle. Of course, some folks find great joy in gardening or perfecting the exterior of their home, but if you'd rather be on the water (or in a hammock reading a book) on Saturday morning instead of mowing a lawn or coordinating a landscaping crew, a condo can offer that option.
3. If you're set on owning an ocean view or oceanfront property, including condos in your search will give you more options to choose from, starting at around $100,000 for a small studio with an ocean view.
If you think a condo may be right for you, you can use these links to start your search: