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Joseph Turvey presented his Spring/Summer 2015 collection during London Collections: Men.
Joseph Turvey presented his Spring/Summer 2015 collection during London Collections: Men.
Emerging artisinal hats brand from Tulum, NORTE, unveil its new campaign featuring model Franco Bauducco shot by Pol Rodriguez & Agustin Ponso.
Jon Arri and Yves Gaetan photographed by Esperanza Moya and styled by Anna Otero, in exclusive for Fucking Young! Online.
The OverReact pushes comfort to the edge, then barrels over that edge. Nike stripped out anything that could get in the way of your foot on top of their React Foam technology.
Nan Hu uses a unique three-dimensional knitted structure to experiment with the shape and feel of traditional sex toys.
Clean up the oceans, one backpack at a time.
ENTRELACS is the first chain collection from le gramme, inspired by an architectural feature of the traditional Japanese art of zen gardens: kusari-doi, the rain chain.
In need of some authentic distraction by means of unbridled enthused menswear chit-chat? Tom Àdam Vitolins got you covered.
We like our sneakers the same way we like our pizza crust – chunky.
Ivan Carbone stands a lean, muscular six foot two inches tall and has the type of cheeky beam that will let him get away with murder.
Presented on fictional characters – enlarged young male personalities – JW Anderson Spring/Summer 2021 collection juxtaposes notions of pragmatism and playfulness within a context of cozy domesticity.
Y/PROJECT has been selected to win the ANDAM family fund award, receiving a special prize of 150,000€.
For the campaign, the Italian brand tapped models Islam Dulatov and Ismael Savane.
For Spring/Summer 2021, SUNNEI merges reality with the virtual world.
With Spring 2021, GmbH is not showing a collection in the normal sense, but rather as 3 projects experimenting with how fashion can be a progressive force.
MatchesFashion.com unveiled a new editorial featuring Ben Allen shot by Hamish Anderson, featuring a selection of SS20 printed shirts, flowing silhouettes and relaxed separates.
The new album explores human pain and suffering, but also healing and redemption.
Nike's ISPA launch just over two years ago might have passed quietly under your radar, but as the climate continues to pose new threats and city living conditions faces new challenges for athletes, ISPA's profile is increasing and raising the design stakes.
The Danish fashion house Han Kjøbenhavn and the safety footwear maker Airtox join forces in a new and unexpected collaboration.
Stefano Maggiolo and Kristof Hegyi captured by the lens of Laukart, in exclusive for Fucking Young! Online.
Tommy Hilfiger introduces its new capsule collection in collaboration with iconic streetwear brand AAPE by A Bathing Ape.
London based artist Dom Sebastian collaborates with Bimba y Lola to create out of his own peculiar, wild and wonderful world a reinterpretation of the SS20 Collection #thisisHOT
"I believe that if luck and resilience will guide me for as long as I work in fashion, I will thrive. You just need to know your worth."
Badara at UNO Models photographed by Aylen Torres and styled by Francisco Ugarte, in exclusive for Fucking Young! Online.
Summer is here! And after a weird Springtime where life stood still, we can't wait to finally go out and enjoy the sun.
This summer, DIESEL presents a brand new beachwear collaboration rendered in partnership with Sea-Doo.
This season, the designer Louis Gabriel Nouchi collaborates with the legendary football club of the French capital, Paris Saint Germain.
Creative director of Y/PROJECT Glenn Martens is taking the Paris-based label to a new chapter of its history with the launch of "Evergreen", a 100% sustainable eco-friendly line, as well as a new e-commerce platform.
The winner of Soho House Art Prize 2020 will exhibit their work during Miami Art Basel, plus join Tracey Emin, Charming Baker and Dread Scott in its permanent collection.
Balmain's Resort 2021 campaign features Jon Kortajarena, Maluma, Nicholas Galitzine, Rome Flynn, and Jorge López.
Burberry is proudly reaffirming its long-standing support for the global LGBTQ+ community, releasing a video showing a special performance of Ultra Naté's song 'Free' in celebration of love, togetherness, and freedom.
Hollywood actor and amateur skateboarder, Jack Dylan Grazer fronts our Spring/Summer 2020 Olympic Issue shot by Kapturing in 2028 Olympic host city of Los Angeles. While 16-year-old Grazer empowers kids to go out and claim their own piece to skate on, the Olympics can also connect to fond childhood memories. We also look at it for inspiration and a call for togetherness.Spring/Summer 2020


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Has Jolene Blalock (T'pol) been mentioned yet?-Karma
Is it just me, or did Alyson Hannigan not look all that great on the recent FHM cover? She's hot in the above pictures, but the FHM did not do her justice at all.Has Jolene Blalock (T'pol) been mentioned yet?-Karma
On the utterly horrible news that Melissa Stark is giving up her MNF gig I'd like to add her as honorary Hottie #5a
You do think will be a suitable replacement? (And by suitable, I mean a woman. Dickerson, great player, lousy reporter)Bonnie Berstein would be a top pick, but she's tied to CBS.Jillian Barberie would work, but again she's tied to Fox
I say Lisa Guerrero is not only the most knowledgeable woman in sports, but also the HOTTEST. She just retired from her gig on The Best Damned Sports Show, so I'm not sure what she's got on tap next, but I need to see a lot MORE of her, and real soon. Got all too used to seeing her on a daily basis on that show. God how I've missed her these last 3 weeks...I'll have to go dig up a pic of her somewhere.
Guerrero joins MNF as sideline reporterNEW YORK (AP) -- Lisa Guerrero will join ABC's Monday Night Football as a sideline reporter for the upcoming season. She replaces Melissa Stark, who will not return for a fourth season because she is expecting her first child in September. "There isn't a bigger opportunity in sports than Monday Night Football," Guerrero said Wednesday. "To be associated with a booth that includes Al Michaels and John Madden is a dream come true for a football fan." Guerrero comes to Monday Night Football from FOX Sports, where she worked on Best Damn Sports Show Period. She has also appeared in more than 200 commercials and dozens of television shows, including Matlock and Frasier. Michaels has been the play-by-play announcer for Monday Night Football since 1986, while Madden is entering his second season as analyst. "Lisa will be a terrific addition to Monday Night Football," ABC Sports president George Bodenheimer said. "I'm very confident that she will have great chemistry with John and Al, and with her knowledge and experience covering the NFL, she will provide great insights about the game and its players."
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The White RoadPosted by Dorian in John Connolly, Monday Mystery, The White Road
In many ways, this is the "part two" for The Killing Kind, and the structure of the two books very broadly resembles the structure of Every Dead Thing. Only, instead of cramming the "Parker is too late to realize the obvious set-up by the villain" storyline in the middle of the actual storyline, the "Parker is too late to realize the obvious set-up" storyline gets moved into another book entirely. It works much better this time in terms of pacing and overall satisfaction. We do, after all, get two full stories now, instead of two rather rushed ones, but it also means that the ending of the last book lacks resolution and this book requires familiarity with what happened before to catch what's going on.
The book opens with a brief flash-forward, as Angel and Louis travel to Georgia to kill the three men who organized the lynching of Errol Rich when Louis was a young boy. It's an important scene for a couple reasons. One, it sets up a storyline for Angel that's more in depth than what he's had before, where we see the lengths Angel must go to to exorcise the psychic damage Faulkner did to him. Of the three regular male leads, Angel is the least likely to kill, but Faulkner's actions have essentially corrupted him, and now Angel feels a need to kill to act as catharsis. The background we get on both Angel and Louis later in the book ties into this as well: Angel has been a perpetual victim for most of his life, and it's only his association with Parker and Louis that has moved him beyond that. Faulkner has set him back. Louis, meanwhile, killed his first man when he was thirteen, when he planted a bomb in a whistle to kill the man who murdered his mother and raped his aunt. Louis has always been about killing those who need killing in order to satisfy the greater good. The other purpose the scene serves is to very explicitly lay out the theme for the book; sins of the past have consequences now.
The main plot concerns Parker being contacted by an old acquaintance from his NYPD days, a former prosecutor named Elliot Norton now semi-retired to South Carolina and working as a defense attorney. His current client is Atys Jones, a black man accused of raping and murdering his white girl-friend, Marianne Larousse, daughter of wealthy industrialist Earl Larousse. Complicating the matter is the presence of Roger Bowen, the closest thing to a leader a loose-knit confederation of racist groups, using public outrage over Marianne's death to raise funds for the defense of Reverend Faulkner. Before leaving for South Carolina, Parker speaks with Faulkner in prison, where he is awaiting a bail appeal hearing and arguing that he was the innocent victim of his children's violent predations. Faulkner offers Parker a deal; don't testify against him and he won't have Rachel killed, an offer Parker refuses before Faulkner speaks to him of Black Angels again, implying that the beings that Parker is angering at this point are inhuman and explicitly supernatural. After Parker leaves, Faulkner begins signing to the man in the opposite cell, a serial killer named Cyrush Nairn, whose real crimes have so far been undetected, doing time for an attempted burglary and pretending to be deaf and mute-though he is perfectly capable of hearing and only affects to be mute. Faulkner is aware of Nairn's crimes and has been arranging to "give" Rachel to him once Nairn is released.
In South Carolina, Parker quickly finds the situation to be infinitely more complicated than he initially surmised. Atys Jones and Marianne Larousse were not just lovers; in the past, her family owned his family and one of his ancestors led a brief slave rebellion. Further, Elliot Norton was good friends with Earl Larousse Jr, Marianne's older brother, and one of his clients, Landron Mobley, was hired muscle for Roger Bowen. Bowen is chummy with the Larousse family and claims to employ a man named Kittim, who is leading the efforts to free Faulkner. Kittim is a curious case, as everyone in Bowen's movement agrees that Kittim is "legendary" but no one can actually ever seem to remember what, precisely, he is famous for. This odd memory gap and the stench of rotting meat that follows Kittim around serve to unnerve everyone. In addition, Atys Jones mother and aunt both went missing from the same swamp that Marianne Larousse's body was found in nearly twenty years ago, and his father appears to be an ex-con turned jailhouse preacher named Tereus, who went to jail for killing the man who raped Aty's mother and was the presumed father of Atys Jones until Parker starts researching the situation for himself. As a further complication, the rest of the circle that included Norton, Earl Jr and Mobley are being killed off by a woman with scaled skin one by one. As is usual for Parker's life, things quickly go to hell, and he frequently finds himself having visions of a ghostly car trailing him.
After much back-and-forthing with Parker criss-crossing the state, with Louis acting as occasional bodyguard, Kittim and Bowen's men kill Atys and Norton disappears (without, tellingly, leaving a body behind, a sure sign of guilt by genre convention), while Angel makes a side-trip to New York to contact the same synagogue that hired the Golem to kill Faulkner in the previous book. Eventually the truth is revealed in a confrontation in the swamp, Earl Jr, Norton and their friends, under the guidance of Mobley, raped Atys Jones mother and aunt, burning both women and leaving them for dead in the swamp, but Melia, Atys's aunt, survived, living in the swamp and giving rise to the local legend of a ghostly, scaled woman. When Tereus was released from jail they began their revenge scheme, starting with the murder of Marianne Larousse, whose relationship with Atys they were unaware of. Mobley used his knowledge of Norton and Earl Jr's involvement and sold it to Bowen as blackmail material to force the Larousse family to bankroll his activities. The inevitable confrontation ends with everyone but Parker dead, and Kittim trying to escape into the swamp, only to be captured by members of the synagogue who are aware, quite plainly and literally, not human but a spirit animating a corpse.
Back home, Faulkner is granted bail and his confederates arrange an escape for him. One by one Faulkner's group is picked off by people working for either Louis or the synagogue, but Cyrus Nairn is busily stalking Rachel and Parker's unborn child. In short order, Parker, Angel and Louis find and kill Faulkner, frustrating his ambitions to become a martyr by ensuring that, as far as the world is concerned, he simply disappears. Rachel lures Nairn into the woods, beats him and drowns him in the river. In a
epilogue, Cyrus finds himself along "the White Road", the metaphor for the path of the dead that Tereus used in his conversations with Parker, and the ghostly car waiting for him. Inside are the spirits of Stritch and Pudd and his sister, each with the manners of their deaths visited upon them over and over again. Tellingly, like the incident with Rachel, these scenes are not relayed to us by Parker, but by an omniscient narrator; Rachel's actions and the nature of the afterlife for these characters is information withheld from Parker.
In a lot of ways this book represents the "end" of the first cycle of Charlie Parker stories. While the elements of the supernatural have always been present, going forward it's more explicitly a factor in the stories, so Faulkner's suggestion that he is the last of Parker's strictly human foes is largely correct. It also ties many of the loose threads from earlier books together with Faulkner acting as a motivating factor for events since the Travelling Man first appeared. The themes the series revisits over and over are laid out here again; the sins of the past continue to have consequences in the present, and the world is a "honeycomb" with secrets buried deeper and deeper in it, all in layers, and each secret waiting to harm those living on the surface of the world.


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Thank you very much. Nicely done.
Amazing job mate! It is unbelievable that this guide didn't make it into the top 20. You should try and post this on the official forums,if such things are allowed.
In the meantime ill be linking this to all my guildies in the hope that it will enrich their experience of Warcraft. Its sad that a sizeable amount of the player base these days dont know the slightest thing about the Lore that makes up the Warcraft universe,nor do they care. A guide like this can only help the situation though.
Anyways,cheers again for the awesome guide =)
good overview, a few mistakes (in your section on dwarves you mentioned that they emerged from uldum and named their surroundings khaz modan, this is incorrect as uldum is located in southern kalimdor, not eastern kingdoms where khaz modan lies. the earthen were actually held within ulduar and uldaman, while the tol'vir safeguarded the region, (not a city!) of uldum) here and there but pretty much spot on (on a general basis),
writing style was very poor however and many sentences simply did not make sense. good effort though and it's nice to see other people enjoying the lore.
Awesome, Ive been trying to figure the lore before WC3 for a long time and now I know it all :P
This is truly a great summary, thank you! One point of lore I've always found interesting is that, when Aegwynn sealed Sargaras in his tomb, she warded it against all races on Azeroth; none of the races could open the tomb. This is what motivated Sargaras to bring the Orcs to Azeroth; they were immune to her ward!
Very excellent lore guide, a few things though:
-You said Dalaran was North East of Strom, when it is in fact North West.
- The Dwarves had awoken before when you stated. Dwarves were not just awakening when Medivh had awoken, the Dwarves had ties with the humans far before the birth of Medivh
one word: amazing
Don't let the "Red T-shirt kids" get you down. Nice summary, just ordered my first Warcraft book (Rise of the Horde) two days ago from Amazon so this was perfect timing.
Good work!
All of you people coddling this person's underwhelming effort is analogous to the American Pinchot for participatory trophies. Praising subpar work is counterproductive. Sure, this person summarized Warcraft lore very well. But, all that entails is a series of copy+pasting efforts off of Blizzard's website. The hardest part of this effort is collecting pictures; that does absolutely nothing from a guide-perspective. To make this a worthwhile read as far as a "guide" is concerned, we would need some way for a person to approach this document with a specific need and in turn that person be able to easily come to the information.
Such as, I have no idea where the Dwarfs came from in Warcraft, so I come to this guide. I am stuck doing a text match through "control + f" to find the information, or I have to read the whole document. I've wasted all my time because in this example I only wanted to know about Dwarfs. If this were a paper at the university level, you'd get an F despite its contents being on point.
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Pinchot is my bosses name, stupid auto correct... I meant penchant...
No one here is saying that this is the most well written, complete or best formatted bit of writing. We're simply showing appreciation for what he did for the community. It was an interesting bit of reading for a lore nub like myself, despite the few technical and grammatical errors.
If it makes you feel better about yourself to come crap in someone else's thread, have fun. You smell like a troll anyway...
Send from my phone while taking a dump, excuse any typos.
Also,why you felt the need to take a swipe at Americans with your "participatory trophies" comment is beyond me. It leads me to believe that you are either attempting to troll or are just a mean spirited person with an axe to grind.
This was awesome!!
I've always had trouble understanding the lore/timeline of Warcraft, but I think I may even go buy some of the books now!
And everyone who have stupid comments or comments that insult this persons writing style or even copy pasting style can go F*** OFF!
If you took a moment to read what I posted, you might realize I provided some constructive criticism for what I assume is a developing mind; "tough love" or whatever you want to call it. I acknowledged this individual is on point with their information. Anyone taking offense to the comment about coddling or Americans obviously has some inside experience on being given credit when credit isn't due. Get over it, you got beat by other people. You can lick your wounds and cry about how the big mean forum troll told you it wasn't good or you can step back and observe your efforts and see how to improve upon them. Now, if this author is an adult then they deserve much more ridicule, and should know better than to try to re-invent an article that is already on the internet. Take a few moments to search the internet and you find Lore guides much more deserving of our praise than this effort.
The text is too small for me to read.
Fantastic guide, but theres a problem: a guide should be easy to read. A wall of text with images dotting around and inside, altogether formatted as a huge image is enough to drive people off before they even start reading. Opening your huge images on my tiny 1280x900 laptop screen is truly a PITA. I would recommend you reformat your guide to a more forum-friendly form.


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German Grand Prix: Sebastian Vettel hopes for 1st win on home soil
The Formula One championship goes to this weekend's German Grand Prix on a bankrupt circuit amid concern over tire safety and with three-time champion Sebastian Vettel seeking his first win on home soil.india Updated: Jul 05, 2013 00:00 IST
The Formula One championship goes to this weekend's German Grand Prix on a bankrupt circuit amid concern over tire safety and with three-time champion Sebastian Vettel seeking his first win on home soil.
The race at the Nuerburgring comes a week after a chaotic British GP in which five cars suffered tire blowouts, including that of leader Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes.
Pirelli moved quickly to address the problem, and a different type of tires will be used for Sunday's race, hoping to address the problems and appease angry teams.
The German GP, which alternates between Hockenheim and Nuerburgring, arrives at the latter in the Eifel hills with the storied circuit officially bankrupt.
Read more: German rivalry simmers between Vettel and Rosberg
The only reason the race is taking place is because F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone decided to accept a smaller fee for the right to stage it.
Ecclestone has indicated he will come to the race, although he faces possible bribery charges from Munich prosecutors. Ecclestone skipped last year's race at Hockenheim.
Hamilton won the previous F1 race at the Nuerburgring in 2011. The British driver is still winless since switching to Mercedes this season.
Hamilton described the tire incidents in Silverstone as "unacceptable," but the former world champion welcomed the reaction of Pirelli.
Pirelli refuses to take blame for British GP tyre blowouts
"I am satisfied, but only when we get there (Germany) will we have a better idea how it is for us," Hamilton said. "Everyone is in the same boat, but I'm glad action has been taken.
"It's still a concern. We'll see how the weekend goes but I'm sure they've taken the right steps to make it safe."
In Germany, Pirelli will use a Kevlar belt — a fiber that is more resistant to punctures — instead of steel on its rear tires.
From this month's Hungarian GP on July 28 onward, the Italian manufacturer will revert to the type of tires it used in 2012 combined with the current compounds from this season.
"I'm confident the right decisions will be taken because safety is a very important factor," said Mercedes' Nico Rosberg, who won in Silverstone. "(Pirelli) will have everything under control for the Nuerburgring."
Pirelli said the teams contributed to the tire failures at Silverstone by mounting the tires the wrong way around — putting the less resilient inner wall on the outer edge — and having their tire pressures too low, increasing friction.
Read more: Nico Rosberg hopes to keep Mercedes momentum
"Surprisingly, the Nuerburgring is one of the circuits that we have the least experience of, having only raced there once before in Formula One, but we're certain that we have chosen the correct compromise between performance and durability by bringing the medium and soft compounds," Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery said.
While insisting that the steel-belted version is completely safe when used correctly, Hembery said the Kevlar-belted version is easier to manage — "we prefer to bring a less sophisticated tire."
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, who finished third in Silverstone, said he was sure there would be an improvement.
"I know that various modifications have been applied and let's hope that means all of us drivers can race in safe conditions," Alonso said.
"At the moment, we can't make any predictions, because no one has tried them and we don't know what and how many benefits they can bring, apart from trusting in the fact that it won't be dangerous to race."
Read more: Alonso says drivers must trust Pirelli
Vettel has never won in Germany; in fact he hasn't won in Europe in 22 months.
At Silverstone, Vettel retired when leading in the closing stages due to a gearbox breakdown. But he still leads the championship after eight of 19 races and has three wins this season.
The German has 132 points but Alonso cut the gap in Britain and has 111.
"We have to regain the lost points as soon as possible," Vettel said.
Read more: Hawthorn to Hamilton: 60 years of British success
Rosberg, who has won two of the past three races, said he wasn't that concerned with the choice of tires.
"With the car we have it doesn't matter which tires we use because we have a very quick car in general so I am confident we can stay where we are, more or less," Rosberg said.
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From: perrault@i... (David Perrault)
Date: Fri Feb 4, 2000 11:01 am
Subject: Ventilation Plenum
>Your description is a little fuzzy. How about a drawing?
>Matt Spransy
What's fuzzy about a six foot high box that's a foot deep and four
feet wide?!?
Put a hole at the top and one at the bottom. One on the studio side,
one on the outside. Opposite corners. Baffles extend about two thirds
of the way across the width to force the flow into an S like flow.
Hey, it's really just a big duct made out of wood. Not very abstract,
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The best thing about the internet? Being able to have your office in your spare room, if you like – here's me, off ill at home, working. Amazing, isn't it? Yes, it is.
Why'm I at home? Sniffles, snot, cough-splutter-germs: a cold, a man cold, an excuse to sit around typing in my pants. Only I'm not, obviously; I had to answer the door this morning, which put pay to my dream of penning this DiScussion in my smalls with the heating up on ten. So, erase that image from your mind right now… thanks. My absence from the DiSopolis has had one positive effect on the site today: this DiScussion, which – if the title wasn't too much of a giveaway – focuses on songs to while away off-sick-with-a-cold time. After all, something has to fill the space 'tween Neighbours and Neighbours, and there are only so many cups of tea a grown man can drink.
Think of this as a gift from me to you, if you too are stuck at home, wearing a layer too many and dribbling muck out'ff your nostrils. Ergh, but it does lead to a rather nice mixtape:
'Germs' by Yeasayer
Too obvious a starting point? P'haps, but it's lovely, and when your cold first rolls into your nose and throat, all you want is something nice, and this is really, really nice. Sort of proggy, sort of woozy, quite a bit 'out there'; it's a perfect start to today's mixtape project.
Get it: available on All Hour Cymbals, album on We Are Free, out November 5.
'The House Song' by The Beta Band
'Cause you're gonna have to get used to seeing the inside of it for a couple of days, and not a lot else (save the chemist for essential Lemsip top-ups). Hyponotic and just a little bit weird, The Beta Band make strangely perfect bedfellows with Yeasayer. A classic opening one-two.
Get it: available on The Three EPs, compilation on Regal.
'Pox' by Xiu Xiu
Face it: however bad your cold is, it could always be worse. It's not like you've nasty spots and blisters all over you skin or anything like that – just a few mank hankies in your pockets. It's somewhat unsettling that Xiu Xiu manage to express the discomfort of disease through song with such alarming precision.
Get it: available on La Foret, album on 5RC.
'Babe, I'm On Fire' by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
If you're really unlucky though, what you've got could turn into to something of a fever. Sounds here like Nick Cave's possessed by something burning under his skin.
Get it: available on Nocturama, album on Mute.
'Plague Music' by Vaux
And even then, it could still be worse. These guys sound as if they're being stabbed in the eyes by tiny needles, over and over again. Is acupuncture a known cure for the common cold?
Get it: available on Plague Music, EP on Equal Vision.
'Sheena Is A Parasite' by The Horrors
If you're seeing something funny in your poop, it probably isn't a cold that you've got. Um, go to the doctors, yeah? And avert your eyes from the video below.
Get it: available on Strange House, album on Loog.
Video: 'Sheena Is A Parasite'
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'Every Breath Is A Bomb' by The Blood Brothers
This is how it usually starts: you wake up, sore throat. Can't talk all that well, let alone scream. Best get the Tunes on standby. (Just be grateful you're not as unwell as this young lady.)
Get it: available on Burn, Piano Island, Burn, album on ArtistDirect.
'Cold & Wet' by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
The next step: soggy nose, puffy eyes. Awwww, want a mug of coco? Extra blanket? Want me to tuck you in?
Get it: available on The Letting Go, album on Domino.
'Cover Me' by Björk
Ah, g'wan then. Off you go, sleep tight…
Get it: available on Post, album on One Little Indian.
'I Wanna Sleep' by No Age
Too true, too true: my advice is to prop your head up a little higher than usual and leave a window slightly open. Apparently that'll set you dozing sooner than without such measures. And if that fails: Night Nurse?
Get it: available on Weirdo Rippers, album/compilation on FatCat.
'Up All Night' by The Double
Of course, there's no guarantee.
Get it: available on Loose In The Air, album on Matador.
'The Power Of Yawning' by Enon
And the next day you could be rather less-than-rested, grumpy and lethargic. There's a recipe for such a state though: a nice hot toddy.
Get it: available on Hocus Pocus, album on Touch & Go.
'Lemon And Little Lemon' by Deerhoof
For which you might need one of these, be it big or small.
Get it: available on The Runners Four, album on ATP.
'Wild Whiskey' by Comets On Fire
And just a splash of this. It doesn't necessarily need to be wild, mind you.
Get it: available on Blue Cathedral, album on Sub Pop.
'Missed Medicine' by Her Space Holiday
Don't, basically. Although to be fair it's not like any of these cold remedies are actually cures; all they do is help the symptoms be less of a pain in the arse. Or nose. If you are experiencing pains in the posterior, please consult song number six.
Get it: available on The Past Presents The Future, album on Wichita.
'Pumpkin Soup' by Kate Nash
Soup's good for a cold, too, although I'm not 100 per cent certain that a pumpkin is all that perfect. Still, what with it being Halloween tomorrow, at least there's no shortage of the core ingredient. Nice and hot – buy a crusty loaf and soak that yummy stuff up. Just avoid the kisses Miss Nash speaks of here: you don't wanna go spreading your disease.
Get it: available on Made Of Bricks, album on Fiction.
'A Little Distance' by Tristeza
Precisely: keep them away from you for a couple of days and all will be sweet. Right now I'm utterly alone. Cripes, it's a bit depressing doing this, actually… good thing this instrumental number's so gorgeous or else I'd really be in a snotty pit of despair.
Get it: available on Spine & Sensory, album on Better Looking Records.
'The Medication Is Wearing Off' by Eels
Give it a day and it will, along with your headache and thumping head. The snot: it'll dry. Mmm, crusty pickings for Tube rides.
Get it: available on Electro-Shock Blues, album on DreamWorks.
'Now That The Feeling Has Gone' by Gruff Rhys
You can go about your business once more, like you were never a shivering, blubbing wreck with nowt to do but watch the clock until another Simpsons repeat. Well done you!
Get it: available on Candylion, album on Rough Trade.
DiScuss: Care to make a second volume of songs to pass the cold-suffering person's time, trapped in their flat? Oh go on. What songs do you turn to when you're felling lousy? Had yourself a cold yet this (almost) winter? Won't be long, we can promise that much. Now, another cuppa…


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Dr. Timothy Paul Jones is a distinguished theologian, a professor at The Southern Baptist Seminary, and editor of the Journal of Discipleship and Family Ministry. Oh, he's also a pop culture savant and expert on J.R.R. Tolkien. We recently got him talking about The Hobbit movie―care to listen in?
T&TO: What should every parent know about The Hobbit?
Jones: The Hobbit will span three films: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and There and Back Again (2014). The films are based on a book from J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien wrote the book for children, although the book's readership has long since transcended any age limitation.
Even though The Hobbit will hit theaters a decade after The Lord of the Rings films, this reversed order wasn't the case when it comes to the books. The first version of The Hobbit book was published in 1937, several years prior to the first installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
If The Hobbit films follow Tolkien's text, there will be a lot of wizardry and a bit of burglary, a couple of quite violent conflicts, and plenty of puffing on pipe-weed. The Hobbit films are likely to provide foundations for fruitful family discussions about magic and morals, wealth and war, and more.
T&TO: The Hobbit is overwhelmingly favored by Christian groups, but some parents warn that kind of blanket endorsement is potentially harmful. Your thoughts?
Jones: Part of this favor in the Christian community stems from the fact that J.R.R. Tolkien's writings originated within a Christian worldview. In fact, Tolkien took the very term "Middle-earth" from an Old English poem about Christ's ascension! Tolkien was a devout Roman Catholic, and God used Tolkien to bring C.S. Lewis to faith in Jesus Christ.
When asked about the religious perspective of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien described the trilogy as "a fundamentally religious and Catholic work, unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion,' to cults or practices, in the Imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism."
I would suggest that this is no less true of The Hobbit. Although the work is certainly no allegory—Tolkien despised allegories—the characters are deeply symbolic, representing humanity's deep sense of exile as well as our struggle not to center our lives on the pursuit of earthly wealth or power.
Despite the origins of The Hobbit in a Christian worldview, I would agree that a blanket endorsement is undeserved—and I'd say the same about any other work of popular art and culture. Here's why: Such endorsements can unintentionally provide parents with a false comfort, the idea that they can place this book or movie or digital download in front of their children without having to engage in critique or conversation about it.
Visit Dr. Jones online at: www.TimothyPaulJones.com.
Will you and/or your kids go see The Hobbit movie? It releases December 14th, this Friday.


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The San Jose Earthquakes' natural rival is without a doubt the LA Galaxy, but casting a wider net over the MLS landscape ensnares another team that Quakes supporters and players alike can't wait to face. Tonight at Buck Shaw Stadium, the star-studded New York Red Bulls arrive in town for a showdown between the Big Apple and Silicon Valley.
Both clubs can point to their origins in the league's inaugural season of 1996, though then they both sported different monikers and arguably uglier jerseys. The two teams are known for engineering the first player transaction in MLS history, as prior to the 1996 season local hero Troy Dayak was traded to San Jose. Current Quakes Ramiro Corrales and Jason Hernandez both spent time wearing the Black and Red of the MetroStars. And in 33 meetings between them, only three goals separate the two sides.
Those MetroStars and Clash teams clashed 11 times during the first four years of MLS, with San Jose collecting 7 wins over the Beast from the East. Notable victories in that stretch came on September 6, 1997 (4-0) and August 9, 1998 (5-1), with the latter kicking off a 10-game unbeaten streak against New York that would stretch until 2003. From cavernous Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands to bowling alley thin Spartan Stadium in the South Bay, the Clash/Quakes racked up an even dozen wins against the MetroStars.
With San Jose flexing its dominance over New York, the intensity of the rivalry went down a notch. However, in the year of the Earthquakes second MLS Cup championship — New York has never won a trophy in the club's 18 year existence — and again the following season, two of the greatest MLS games of all time were contested between the two sides.
On July 2, 2003 in a game befitting the impending Independence Day tradition, fireworks in the form of dramatic goals filled Giants Stadium. After 90 minutes of end to end soccer, with both teams netting three goals apiece, including a brace from Brian Ching, and following a sideline fracas involving a certain towel whipping Corrales, the match crept into stoppage time. Almost immediately, New York grabbed the lead through Clint Mathis, but the Earthquakes equalized through Landon Donovan. And after a tense overtime period — yes, MLS games used to go to overtime — the teams settled for a 4-4 draw.
Not quite a year later, on May 8, 2004 the rivals topped themselves in another scoring fest. At home in Spartan Stadium, the Earthquakes battled the MetroStars through a first half that ended 3-3. In the match's second stanza, the home side collected two quick goals from Ronnie Ekelund and Craig Waibel to put the visitors on their back heels. However, after the MetroStarts pulled one goal back, forward Cornell Glen making his first start for New York completed the comeback in the last minute of regulation to consign the match to a 5-5 result. To this day, the 10 goals scored in the match marks a high watermark for a MLS regular season draw.
The rivalry between the two clubs went on hiatus after the Quakes were relocated to Houston, but it came back with a vengeance with the reformed Earthquakes and the rebranded Red Bulls in the 2008 season. A sellout Buck Shaw Stadium crowd saw a Ryan Johnson penalty kick goal mark the only difference between the two teams in a tense affair in October 2009. And on May 8, 2010, after Red Bulls defender Luke Sassano was shown a red card only 13 minutes into the game, San Jose reeled off a very comfortable 4-0 victory behind goals from four different Earthquakes — including former defender Bobby Burling's only ever MLS goal.
By season's end, with New York at the top of the Eastern Conference and San Jose sneaking into the postseason as the lowest ranked team, the Red Bulls and Quakes faced off in a two leg playoff series that was every bit a David versus Goliath encounter. Following a disheartening 1-0 loss at home to New York, the Earthquakes headed east to Red Bull Arena with dreams of advancing in the playoffs. Behind two wonder strikes from Bobby Convey and a late header from Chris Wondolowski, it was mission accomplished for San Jose in earning a 3-2 aggregate score series victory. The Red Bulls, looking that season like a team that could contend for their first MLS Cup championship, went home empty handed for a 15th straight MLS season.
The last two meetings between the teams have ended with the same 2-2 score line, but each match was memorable in its own way. On July 2, 2011 in front of over 41,000 fans at Stanford Stadium, a pair of Joel Lindpere goals sandwiched strikes from Khari Stephenson and Steven Lenhart in the highly entertaining match. Last year on April 14 at Red Bull Arena, the Earthquakes twice came back from a goal down to earn a valuable point on the road. More notable than the result that evening was the brutal takedown of Shea Salinas by New York defender Rafa Marquez that left the Quakes winger with a broken shoulder, a moment that neither he nor his teammates will forget.
17 seasons and 33 games later, New York and San Jose again prepare to do battle. Great moments from the past have set the stage for Sunday's match, and players from both sides will surely want to put one past their rivals. And no matter what happens this time around, the event will surely be entertaining.
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There are no married bachelors.bbyrd009 wrote:then i invite you to state an objective truth, and you should have no problems doing that!PaulSacramento wrote:You do realize that if there is no objective truth and all truth is subjective ( which must be the case if there is no objective truth) then what you said is, at best, truth for you and at worse, no truth at all.bbyrd009 wrote:i think the problem here is imagining that there is such a thing as objective or "factual" truth, when truth is better characterized as a moving target, perhaps; and evidenced by the "fact" that you cannot name any absolute truth, none whatsoever. Try, and see what happens. The Bible Itself will disagree with you, imo.Philip wrote:Rick, let's take the matter of Jesus' confirmations of the OT as being Scripture, and that He came to fulfill the OT - how can those things be true, but not literally so? Now, I'm not asking whether Jesus was saying the Scriptures themselves were all LITERALLY true (as they can be true in various ways) - I'm asking how His CONFIRMATIONS that the OT is ALL God-given can be TRUE, without His assertions about this matter not being FACTUALLY true? Did He say this or not? Is it true or not? Because if it is not, then we have lots of creative writing and the ramblings of men indiscernibly mixed in with God's word. So which is it? Are such statements of Jesus literally true (meaning they are FACTUALLY so), or not?
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County to pay deputies at schools with surplus
Orange County Sheriff's Office deputies will be posted at 78 elementary schools in unincorporated areas of the county on Monday.
County officials made the decision to post deputies at schools after the Sandy Hook shooting tragedy.
The plan calls for paying deputies with surplus money, at a cost of about $3 million.
Mayor Teresa Jacobs says, however, that protecting children is invaluable.
"We have an opportunity to provide security," Jacobs said. "I believe the outcome [at Sandy Hook] would have been different if a deputy or law enforcement officer would have been there."
Twenty children and six adults were killed in the mass shooting in Connecticut just days before the Christmas holiday break.
In Orange County, deputies are already stationed at middle and high schools.
Sheriff Jerry Demings said he believes his office can accommodate the elementary school security positions without affecting deputies' everyday duties.
Schools inside city limits can choose whether to post police officers at schools.


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There are very few things to get excited about when the team you obsess over is bad. One of the few things to get excited about are prospects making their Major League debut late in the season, and that is exactly what will happen tomorrow night in Milwaukee. The Cubs have announced that 25-year-old southpaw Chris Rusin will pitch tomorrow night. Rusin was drafted by the Cubs in the 2009 amateur draft in the fourth round, and he has made steady progress in the system since then. Here is a pretty stellar scouting report from John Arguello at Cubs Den…
"I've watched Rusin often in the minor leagues and most recently in the Dominican League and, if you like the art of pitching, he is a pleasure to watch. He works in the 88-90 mph range with his fastball and, according to Baseball America, has the best change-up and command in the system. Those two factors make his otherwise average stuff play up quite a bit. Rusin attacks the lower part of the strike zone, often jumping ahead of hitters early in the count. He keeps hitters off balance by constantly changing speeds and locations so that when he does "fire" a 90 mph fastball, it probably looks more like 95 mph. Despite a fringe average fastball, hitters often fail to get a good swing on it.
Rusin numbers in the Dominican Winter league are solid. He has a 2.84 ERA and a solid 2.8/7.5 walk to strikeout ratio. That ratio is pretty much in line with his minor league career rates of 1.93/7.05.
Rusin also has had excellent groundball to flyball ratios. This winter his G/F ratio is 3.45 and it was 3.61 at Iowa this past season. The solid strikeout and ground ball numbers bode well for a pitcher in Wrigley Field, especially when the wind is blowing out, as it often does in the summer.
He's not a top end starter but he can certainly give you some solid innings at the back of the rotation, perhaps as soon as April of next season. He isn't going to beat himself out there. His FIP numbers throughout his minor league career seem to indicate that if you put a good defense around him, he'll keep you in the game consistently."
Here's a look at Rusin's numbers this year with Iowa.
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Posted: November 17, 2008
A Visible Reason that Precludes a Victory Lap
I generally agree with much of what Doug Chapin says in matters of election administration and specifically agree with three points he makes in his contribution to Rick's cyber-roundtable on this topic:
- first, it is important not to be overly alarmist about the prospects of the voting process in advance of Election Day, as some voter protection groups sometimes seem to be;
- second, from initial appearances the process on November 4 generally went better than many expected, especially in states that lacked early voting;
- and third, preliminary assessments of the voting process in this year's general election are necessarily incomplete, since provisional ballots have yet to be counted and other aspects of the process remain unfinished (a point I made in my own previous post in this series).
Nonetheless, despite these points of agreement, I differ with Doug on his assertion that the voting process is entitled to take a "victory lap" based the "successes" of this year.
Nor do I believe that it is necessary to invoke Heather Gerken's notion of an "invisible election" in order reject Doug's "victory lap" characterization. Heather may well be correct that an overabundance of problems went unreported. But one glaring defect did not, although it is not mentioned by Doug and somewhat downplayed by Heather.
This flaw is the unconscionably long lines that some voters were forced to endure on November 4. As I argued in my own earlier contribution to this dialogue, this is one patently indefensible practice that need not await a final gathering of evidence in order to be condemned as unacceptable--and thus it prevents a declaration of administrative success about November 4.
Heather refers to waits of "three hours of more," and of course the fact that it takes anyone three hours to cast a ballot on Election Day should be horrific enough. But three hours is mild in comparison to what the media reported.
A cursory LexisNexis search reveals the following news stories:
- Lines four to five hours long in Maryland (NPR)
- Up to five hours in Indiana (Nobelsville Ledger)
- More than 5 hours in Detroit and Philadelphia (Stateline.org) [an article that quoted Doug on a different point]
- Four and six hour waits in Missouri (St. Louis Dispatch)
- Six and seven hour waits in Virginia (Virginian Pilot, Gannett News)
- Seven hour waits in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia Inquirer)
But that is not all. Amazingly, there were multiple reports of voters in Pennsylvania waiting for eleven or eleven-and-one-half hours to cast their ballot on November 4! One report, from CNN about Upper Darby voters, was republished in an Australian newspaper. Two other separate reports, about precincts at "Allen High" and "Lincoln University... in Chester County," were published in Morning Call, an Allentown paper.
To be sure, these fiascos did not occur in every state or everywhere in a single state. But no voter should have to suffer such hardship on Election Day, especially in a state like Pennsylvania that lacks an early voting option.
The fact that voters this year were willing to withstand this injustice, in order exercise their democratic right to participate in this historic election, hardly excuses the administrative malfeasance perpetrated against them.
There could have been massive disenfranchisement, or civil unrest, if voters had lost their patience as they reasonably might have. The administrative system deserves no credit for their having been extraordinary in their willingness to wait.
Thus, if November 4 involved a victory in the operation of the democratic process, it was the voters' own victory in triumphing over the adversity imposed upon them by the system. But that is not the kind of victory that Doug appears to have in mind.
He suggests instead an administrative victory that the election officials are entitled to celebrate. I for one, however, do not think such official celebrations are in order when voters must wait five, six, seven--even eleven hours--to cast a ballot on the only day that the law permits them to do so.
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One Baird speech, 17 busy civil servants: how a D.C. event sowed panic in Ottawa
WASHINGTON – A recent Washington speech in which Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird demanded quick action on the Keystone XL pipeline appears to have prompted considerable anxiety back home in Ottawa.
A panicked search for clarity about what the minister had actually said wound up prompting an email chain that involved no fewer than 17 civil servants.
The cause of concern was a single line in Baird's speech in which he suggested that even a quick rejection of the project would be better than the ongoing uncertainty and foot-dragging surrounding the long-delayed project.
Virtually every news organization that covered the January speech, Canadian and American alike, zeroed in on that headline-grabbing remark. So, apparently, did some of Keystone XL's many supporters within government.
Emails obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act illustrate a sense of panic at the highest level of government: the Privy Council Office, the central bureaucracy that serves the prime minister and cabinet.
In a series of emails marked "Urgent," one official requested documented evidence that Baird had actually said what he was reported to have said.
"I need that quote — need to know when he said it," said one message from a senior analyst in the PCO's communications department. "Need it by 8:30 (a.m.) please."
The 17 people involved in the email chain came from various federal departments both in Ottawa and at the Canadian embassy in Washington. The hunt for Baird's remarks apparently lasted into the next day, even though his speech was carried live on Canadian network television.
The speech had also been covered by numerous domestic and international media organizations, and a transcript was provided to reporters and also posted on the website of the Department of Foreign Affairs.
"Please forward to me ASAP, as requested yesterday," said another email from PCO, the morning after the speech.
"Need it as quickly as you can get it."
The official appeared especially concerned that Baird had said, explicitly, that a "no" on Keystone would be better than silence. Here's what he actually said:
"With the construction season coming up, I don't want a single worker sitting at home when they could be getting a knock on the door saying, 'You got a great job,'" Baird told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Jan. 16.
"So if there's one message I'm going to be promoting on this trip, it's this: the time for Keystone is now. I'll go further — the time for a decision on Keystone is now, even if it's not the right one."
The email chain from January suggests the civil service deployed considerable effort to assist PCO.
"Multiple people working on your request," one Foreign Affairs employee replied. "Regrettably this is taking more time than it should."
One diplomat asked whether they really wanted an audio file, in addition to the transcript, because "people are working very hard on this."
For reasons not entirely clear in the email chain, the panic eventually abated.
"We're still interested in seeing it but at this point you can dial down the urgency," said the PCO official. "Later in the day is fine, no one needs to skip a coffee break over this."
On the substance of the file, the Canadian government didn't wind up getting what it wanted. Later in Baird's trip, he appeared at a podium with his U.S. counterpart John Kerry, and the secretary of state explained that he would take his time to go through the mountain of public comments generated by the Keystone consultation.
Thirteen weeks later, the U.S. government suspended the approval process, not only because of the public feedback but also because a Nebraska court dispute had put the pipeline route in limbo.
Meanwhile, Baird's any-answer-will-do remark appears to have vanished entirely from the Canadian government's hymn book.
Asked this week whether it was still the federal position that a quick rejection was preferable to a later approval, a Baird spokesman replied in an email: "Our Government knows that Keystone XL will create jobs and economic growth on both sides of the border while increasing North American energy security."
"The U.S. State Department has determined, on multiple occasions, it will be environmentally sound, and we are confident the Obama administration will make the right decision."


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Grains were trading stronger in the overnight session, but opened and finished lower during the day session. December corn closed ¼ cent lower at $6.50 ¾, December wheat down 6 ¼ cents at $6.36 ¼, and November soybeans down 1 ¼ cents at $12.25 ½.
The fact that we opened lower could be attributed to the selloff in the outside markets early this morning. A cancellation of the EcoFin meeting a day before Wednesday's Euro Summit was viewed as bearish the Euro Currency and bullish the US Dollar. Despite this crude oil still found plenty of support today as it crossed some more technical moving averages and for the first time since 2008 the front month crude was trading higher than the rest of the contracts going all the way to 2019 over supply concerns.
December corn has stayed near the 200 day moving average for the past 11 trading sessions in a row. We have been in a rather tight trading range ever since the October supply and demand report and the markets seems to be waiting for more fundamental direction. Bean's and wheat are both trading lower from the October report even despite renewed interest in soybeans from the managed money.
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Agreed: The GOP needs to do something. But what?
- Alhtough united against Obamacare%2C there%27s a GOP divide between the establishment and Tea Party
- %22The worst thing you can do is say we aren%27t doing anything wrong%2C%22 Haley says.
- Walker%3A The government shutdown cost the party without a payoff
WASHINGTON — Republicans have been united (and perhaps delighted) by the travails of the Affordable Care Act that are now dogging President Obama and dividing congressional Democrats. But there is less consensus about what the GOP should do to heal its own significant fissures.
Since last month's government shutdown drove the public's assessment of the party to record lows, USA TODAY has sat down for extended interviews with five top Republicans who represent different factions of the party, from the congressional moderates (Maine Sen. Susan Collins) to the Tea Party movement (Sarah Palin) as well as the pragmatic governors (Nikki Haley of South Carolina and Scott Walker of Wisconsin), and the old guard (former vice president Dick Cheney).
Has the Republican Party gotten off track?
"You can't look at the history of where we've been the last few years and say we've done things right," Haley, who is running for a second term in 2014, said in an interview at the state Capitol in Columbia, S.C. "I think, if anything, we've got lessons to learn."
Step one is to "admit our faults," she said. "The worst thing you can do is say we aren't doing anything wrong."
These GOP leaders draw lessons from Mitt Romney's loss to Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election and from the split decision in the two gubernatorial elections this month, in New Jersey and Virginia. But their prescriptions are sometimes conflicting — underscoring a divide between establishment Republicans and Tea Party conservatives that hasn't abated.
Among the lessons learned:
• No more shutdowns.
The 16-day partial government shutdown last month over Republican demands to defund Obamacare is now generally seen as a misstep that cost the party's political standing with voters without delivering policy benefits.
"I'm not going to speak ill of any Republican ... but I did greatly disagree with the strategy that some of my Tea Party colleagues pursued," Collins, who helped negotiate the framework of an agreement that ended the standoff, said in an interview in her Senate office. While she voted against the Affordable Care Act, "linking it to the continued functioning of government was a strategy that was doomed to fail from the very beginning."
Walker, who is running for a second term in 2014, agrees. "I'm willing to take on fights, obviously, but I want an end game," he said. "Part of the reason (Americans) are so upset with Congress in both parties is they perceive Washington just fighting for the sake of fighting."
Still, Palin remains a defender. "It was standing up on principle," she said, calling it not a true "shutdown" but a "slimdown."
• Stand for something.
Romney's campaign is widely derided for focusing only on Obama's shortcomings, not on a clear vision of what he would do differently.
"If you look at that presidential election, everybody thought if they said enough about President Obama's record, that was enough," Haley said. "But never did we say what we were for."
At one point, Walker said he was so frustrated by the course of the Romney campaign that he sent a long e-mail to the candidate, offering some unsolicited advice. "Repeat your plan over and over again," he wrote. "Give out more details" and "show more passion." He never heard back from him.
As for Cheney, he said the party shouldn't let its zeal for cutting the federal budget undercut its traditional support for Pentagon spending and military muscle.
"I've got problems with what's happening to defense," the former Defense secretary said in an interview at his home outside Jackson Hole, Wyo., adding it was "very, very dangerous" to go ahead with cuts under the so-called sequester. "The thing I worry about is that it's gotten to the point where even a lot of my Republican friends are saying, 'At least we're cutting something.'"
• Reach out to Democrats in the middle . . .
Collins says Republicans should work with Democrats to reach bipartisan deals on big issues like a tax code overhaul and a sweeping budget deal, "casting aside the politics and working for the good of our nation." That could help restore confidence in government. "If trust is at an all-time low, then people can't expect that we're going to be able to solve the really big problems facing our country."
• . . . or hang tough on the right.
Not so fast, Palin said.
"The old-school thinking Republicans who think that this is a time to compromise and reach out across -- where is that getting us?" the former Alaska governor demanded. "We keep losing issues. We keep losing on Obamacare and deficit spending." She endorsed the more defiant approach of the Tea Party, "a grassroots movement that is the right movement needed for America today."
Cheney defended the Tea Party, too. "As a political party, we need to re-energize the base," he said. He said if he were still in the House, where he was elected to six terms, he might well be counted among Tea Party ranks.
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Personal stories of Planetary Society Members
One of the most remarkable minds of 20th century exploration, Planetary Society co-Founder Bruce C. Murray was stilled on, August 29, 2013 at the age of 81. The Planetary Society owes its existence to Bruce. In fact every human and every robot now exploring the planets owes a debt to Bruce Murray. We were enriched by having known the man; the world of science and exploration is so much poorer for his loss.
We invite Members of The Planetary Society to share your memories of Dr. Murray or reflections on his impact on the course of space exploration with us.
We will share your stories with Dr. Murray's family.
November 10, 2013
Thank You Mr. Murray for helping found The Society & giving us a way to unite foward & outward looking Citizens of the World. Thank you for insisting that we 'see' on every mission. May YOUR eyes now be able to take in the 'Entire' picture. ... more »
October 28, 2013
Memories of Professor Bruce Murray My first memories of Dr. Murray were in regards to the Mariner to Venus and Mercury (Mariner 10) mission. Dr. Murray was the principle investigator of the science team for the visual imaging subsystem. I was an untried , unbuilt lens designer assigned to the visual imaging subsystem design team for Mariner 10 at JPL. The science team set the requirements for the performance of the visual imaging (television) subsystem, and it was up to the design team to meet the requirements. The lenses and telescopes designed for previous Mariner missions had been a commercial ... more »
October 23, 2013
By Wally Schirra's Mercury flight I was already seven years old. By time Mariner flew by Mars Dr. Murrays' bold demand for cameras added to my excessive desire to explore space.
Due to the formation of The Planetary Society he helped form, I can help in ways that were never possible prior to the Society coming into existence. Not just myself but all of the countless numbers of people who came to help in space exploration in some way or another. He has built a wonderful path for anyone to wander down and explore while directly or indirectly ... more »
October 22, 2013
After taking his course on the planetary science of Mars, I had the good fortune to work as a Caltech undergrad in Bruce Murray's lab as a research assistant in 1973-1974. I was looking at the distribution of Mars wrinkle ridges in Mariner 9 data sets. Jurrie van der Woude helped me to understand the photo organization and data systems and I enjoyed pestering grad students Mike Malin and Rich Terrell with questions. They put up with me (a chemistry major) because I worked cheap. I also had the opportunity to help out on the Mariner ... more »
October 22, 2013
Bruce Murray's legacy will live for as long as we explore the universe. EVERY picture that we marvel at, learn from, or use as cmputer background or screen saver owes its existence to the demand that Dr. Murry placed on all missions to the planets. It must carry a camera. Every probe or rover that we send out to explore the universe sends home pictures just like we do when we visit any place. No matter if it is grandma's or the Grand Canyon we take pictures to commemorate the trip. With Dr. Murray's vision we are taking pictures of ... more »
October 22, 2013
I never met Bruce Murray or knew the details of his work, but I did know that he was a giant in exploring the geology of our solar system. I sense that an era of space exploration is slipping into history. I salute the man and his accomplishments. ... more »
October 21, 2013
One cannot underestimate Bruce's forsight to suggest we photograph every mission to the stars, let alone all of his other accomplishments! The incredible photographs stemmimg from his ideas light up young explorer's faces and direct their gazes heavenward. Once a young explorer looks up - the sky is limitless...the discoveries will be incredible... Thank you Bruce Murray! ... more »
October 20, 2013
Providing pictures from spacecraft missions are the best and easiest way to connect the general public with scientific data. I did not know that Bruce Murray was instrumental in making this a "rule" of planetary exploration. Bravo to the legacy of Mr Murray! ... more »
October 20, 2013
If we as a race do not travel to the stars, then one day everything and everyone will disappear from existence. Thanks to you and other people of vision (who BTW inspire me and many others with more to give)I have hope that one day the human race will move beyond the pale blue dot that is our birth- place. We explore because that is what we are. Thanks for reminding us all of that. ... more »
October 20, 2013
Since September of 1981 I have looked to Carl Sagan and Bruce Murray for inspiration to be part of planetary exploration efforts and the Planetary Society's related Space efforts. I hope he continues to inspire others thru his efforts and the ideas of others in the Society. Thank you Bruce for all that you did ! ... more »
October 20, 2013
To me, Mr. Murray has brought space, science and a tremendous sense of belonging to a space-based group of people. He made space simple for the non-professional, average Joe-on-the-street. I know his efforts enticed and entertained the idea of space travel to a young generation. All of us in the Planetary Society will miss his presence, but his spirit will continue to drive us forward. May God keep Bruce in His loving arms. ... more »
October 20, 2013
I never had the opportunity to meet Bruce in person, but I know that my understanding of planetary science would be woefully inadequate without his many contributions, not the least of which was ensuring that the imagery of our solar system was of prime concern for all spacecraft. I cannot imagine what planetary science would be like without this imagery, and neither could Bruce. I am eternally grateful to him for this understanding and for compelling his peers to ensure imagery was a primary concern in all missions.
While we could focus on this one primary detail, however, I also feel ... more »
October 20, 2013
Bruce was just taking over the helm at JPL when I was leaving for another aerospace position in 1976. He had great vision and charted the trail for future Voyagers with his vision and leadership! Thanks, Bruce! ... more »
October 20, 2013
Thanks Bruce ... more »
October 19, 2013
My mother used to tell me that my first words (at about age 2) were, "Here, Moon!" So, my interest in astronomy goes back quite a ways ... ;-) I never met Bill Murray, but I want to express my immense gratitude to him for the wonderful images from the space program that have enriched all of our lives. Saturn especially -- from time to time I think of how Galileo was mystified by the image of Saturn in his primitive telescope -- unimaginable! It really makes me wonder what we may be looking at, uncomprehending, today. Thank you ... more »
October 19, 2013
Although I was sad to hear of the passing away of Bruce Murray recently I was glad to hear of his legacy of initiating more imaging capability on planetary spacecraft. That is one thing that I find most inspiring of interplanetary missions including with the increasing resolution or of new places. I feel this way in general but also in the pages of the Planetary Society's magazine The Planetary Report. I also appreciate Bruce Murray's part in helping to make the Planetary Society as a leading voice in Washington in support of exploring the heavens. Doug Currie Hamilton Ontario Canada Saturday, October ... more »
October 19, 2013
I didn't know Bruce nor even how important he was to our exploration of space - and to me personally. I have been a dreamer all my life - about space and our solar system in particular. Being able to live long enough to see all that we have discovered about our solar system (and our universe) has been a great and wonderful gift to me and being the highly visually focused person that I am, space photography (of all kinds) has had the greatest impact on my appreciation of my and our species place in time and ... more »
October 19, 2013
Bruce. It was your vision and partnership with Carl Sagan that embedded my interst in astronomy. Thank you for helping to form TPS, and making it easy for all to start an interactive journey that enabled so many to help steer space policy and direction. I remember the letter I received asking me to join TPS in 1980. Been a member since. God bless you and your family. Bill Campbell Calgary Canada. ... more »
October 19, 2013
I never knew the man, but felt his effect through my membership of the Planetary Society.That he made such an impact during his sojourn on Earth is one of the wondrous aspects of those who do. Losing his presence is sad, but that he was here is to be celebrated. ... more »
October 19, 2013
My condolences to Bruce Murray's family and coworkers. ... more »


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One family helped shape Cape Coral into what it is today by contributing one of the first businesses to the city in the early 1960s.
Elmer Tabor moved to Cape Coral in 1960 from West Virginia with his family. He said after his grandfather retired to the area in 1957, his family began to spend more time in Fort Myers during the summer.
When the development of Cape Coral began in 1958, Tabor's grandfather asked his father to pack up the kids and open a grocery store in Cape Coral, due to his knowledge of having a business in West Virginia for many years. In 1960, Elmer's father opened a grocery store for a total of 13 Cape Coral residents.
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Some of the early houses built in Cape Coral near the Yacht Club.
Elmer's Grocery Store remained in business through 1966 and then changed ownership when Big John opened the grocery store, which remained open until 1987.
"That is a good example of what kind of guts it took for people like my parents to do this," he said. "Without people like my parents and my grandparents, Cape Coral wouldn't be like it is today."
Tabor said Cape Coral's growth was a collaboration of true honest pioneers who started businesses like the first grocery store, laundry mat and doctors office.
When residents began to first move to Cape Coral, he said the average age was in the mid 40s, but "once the base services were set, it immediately went to the average age of 70."
Cape Coral continued to grow and schools, hospitals and libraries were built, which allowed the community to become more than a retirement place, "it became a great place to raise a family," Tabor said.
When they moved to Cape Coral, his family became familiar with the seven-mile road, which was a dirt road traveling from Cape Coral Parkway to Pine Island Road.
"It used to be an hour drive to get to Fort Myers," he said. "To go to the beach on Sunday, you would have to drive through downtown Fort Myers, which was a two hour trek one way."
Early telephone lines made life interesting in Cape Coral in the early 1960s because of the eight-party line the Tabors family had to share with their neighbors.
"There were eight households on one telephone line," he said, adding that if you picked up the phone and heard someone's conversation, you would have to hang up and wait for their conversation to be over before using the phone.
Another fond memory he had while growing up in Cape Coral was the mail boat, which delivered their mail and took passengers for a ride along the delivery route. He said once the mail left Fort Myers, the boat would make its first stop in Cape Coral and he would take advantage of traveling on the boat every chance he had.
"There was not much to do," he said laughing.
Most of the activities Tabor and his friends participated in were water based.
"We water skied in the canals that they were digging," he said.
Once the San Carlos canal was built, he and his buddies built a big ski jump and anchored it out in the middle of the canal for entertainment every Saturday and Sunday.
Cape Coral did not have any schools in the early '60s, Tabor said, which resulted in all the kids having to pile on the bus and head to school in Fort Myers. In 1968, it was decided that Cape Coral would be split in half. Those living on the south side of Cape Coral were transported to Cypress Lake and kids living on the north end of the Cape were sent to North Fort Myers, he said.
When the decision was first made to separate the kids into two different boundaries, he said, "We were not happy because we grew up together and did not want to be separated."
Tabor graduated from high school the same year Cape Coral became incorporated. He said during the first 10 years of living in the Cape, he saw residents create their independence.
"There's always been a separation of Fort Myers and Cape Coral," he said, due to Fort Myers being the county seat where the court house, jail, attorneys' offices and hospitals were located. "They never looked at Cape Coral for anything but a bedroom community."
Residents of Cape Coral had the mind set and mentality that they had to go to Fort Myers to purchase many items, Tabor said because "we grew up relying on Fort Myers."
After residing in Cape Coral for more than 50 years and being apart of the city's growth, Tabor believes he has watched the city evolve into a great community.
He said Cape Coral now has opportunities for young graduates of high school and college students to begin their career instead of traveling somewhere else.
"We have one of the safest cities crime wise, some of the best parks and we have some of the greatest beaches in the world not 30 minutes away," Tabor said.
"I think it is our responsibility as citizens to strive and make it a better place than we found it," he said, which has always been his philosophy.
"Don't forget those who have shed their blood, sweat and tears to get it where it is," Tabor said about Cape Coral. "Let's all have pride in our community."


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Tuesday with Tomlin
Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin would not commit to a starting running back today, saying only that he expected Isaac Redman back at practice Wednesday, while Rashard Mendenhall has been cleared to return to individual drills.
Jonathan Dwyer, who has started the past two games - gaining over 100 yards in each - is expected to sit out practice Wednesday and return Thursday.
Tomlin said he'll wait until later in the week to make a decision on who starts, but the feeling here is that Dwyer starts, Redman serves as a third-down and short-yardage back and Mendenhall sits out again while he gets that Achilles' tendon 100 percent healthy.
@ Troy Polamalu and Marcus Gilbert are out again, while Stevenson Sylvester is also looking doubtful with a hamstring.
@ Ryan Clark will have to pass concussion tests but should be OK.
LaMarr Woodley's hamstring is still a little sore and the Steelers will be limited at practice early in the week.
@ Tomlin said he expects that the league is keeping a close eye on the situation in New York this week with the weather.
There's been extensive flooding in the New York/New Jersey area, making travel around the city difficult.
Things aren't expected to get back to normal for several days and I wouldn't be surprised if this game was bumped to Monday night to allow an extra day for cleanup.
@ If you're looking for some insight into what the Steelers are planning to do with rookie nose tackle Alameda Ta'amu, look no further than the move they made Tuesday.
The Steelers released practice squad defensive tackle Corbin Bryant and signed John Malecki and tight end/fullback Jamie McCoy to the practice squad.
That tells me that they are planning on activating Ta'amu to the active roster and releasing a tight end.
Dale Lolley


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Blush,sunkissed pink,coral,cinnamon,warm greey 4
Lemon,tulip yellow,sunflower,gold
Glacier, cloud
Very nice card Nic love your cute image and embossed background
jacqui x
Rosie is just too cute, love your bright Sunny colours for her, cheer anyone up. Carolxx
My oh my oh my! Sometimes a gorgeously coloured image wonderful embossing and perfectly toned matting is all that is needed!!! Wonderful! Julie x
awwww she is totally adorable! the sky looks wonderful and that embossing just sets it off beautifully :)
Love how you've coloured the image Coops and the white embossed background is fab x
A beautiful card Nic, love the gorgeous image.
Donna x
Lovely cas card Nic, love the colouring, really stands out. Hugs, Amanda x
This is really sweet and a great layout with the embossed background. Have a lovely weekend Nic. Hugs, Claire x
she is a sweetie! x
ah this is so pretty Nic...love the soft colours.
Love this, Coops. The clean look is perfect for this cute and beautifully coloured image. Tracey x
She is just the cutest hun! What a lovely fresh card, makes me think of clean cotton sheets straight off the line. Beautiful! Hugs Sxx
Totally adorable! Jo x
Such a beautiful card Coops your so creative xx
Beautiful Nic,love the colours and great design.xxx
Gorgeous CAS card Nic. The image looks fab and I love the pretty embossed background.
Have a good weekend
Lorraine x
Gorgeous Coops, I love the embossing! So pretty :) The layout is great, whenever I have to do CAS I always use the same layout, every time haha, so I might just borrow this layout for next time LOL.
Tags xx
Gorgeous card Nic. Such a sweet image and coloured beautifully. I love the embossing too.
Sue xx
what a stunning card sweetie....perfect and wonderful to view your work as always such a pleasure to visit hugs sassyxxx
Beautiful card. Love this cute image, your wonderful sky and the beautiful embossing. Enjoy your weekend. hugs, pat Kx
Hi sweetie! This card may be CAS, but it's soooooo cute! I love the image. Haven't seen it before, but it's on my "must get list". lol I love the embossed background too. I think it gives the card a touch of elegance.
Hugs! xx
oh this is absolutely adorable, super sweet image and great cas design
thank you for joining in with the cutie pies, you never fail to make us say "aaawww" at your fab entries xx
Well your CAS cards are still so gorgeous Nic... love this little lady with her bandaged legs!
Christine x
Cute nic!
This is gorgeous Coops, she's adorable and love the embossing too.
Wendy xx
Adorable, love the yelllows...
TFS Coops~
Oh so pretty - that hair looks amazing - fab image xx
wow great card nic and if this is what you come up with when you are not in a crafty mood ... well what more can I say lol ... just love that little girlie .. well done ... just doing a bit of blog hopping ... its been a lovely sunny day here today ... isit going to last ?? ...happy crafting and love sandy xx
So sweet and the embossing looks fab!
Hugs Jo x
Lovely Spring card, such a cutie
Aawwww....this is totally adorable, Nic. Loooove the cute image. Beautifully done with the skies in the background. Hugs...Mona
Lovely cheerful card Nic. Love this sweet image, fab colours and embossing too :o) Hugs, Lisa x
Perferct CAS card Coops,love the colours and such an adorable image...beautiful.
Luv CHRISSYxx
Gorgeous card Nic - adorable image so beautifully coloured and fab embossing.
Debs xx
ps Thanks for playing along at The Cuties - good luck xx
Lovely card Nic.
Thanks for joining us at Cutie Pie's.
Sue x
Still so beautiful, even for a CAS card. Sometimes simple works best :-)
Emma xx
love your CAS card and cute image,love the colour and embossed background
carol x
Aww what a mega cute image Coops! I love your colouring… so pretty… and the embossing is beautiful... it's a fab CAS card hun! :-)
Hope you're having a lovely weekend!
Big hugs
Sue xx
This is great Coops. Different for you and I love it.
This gorgeous little cheery image, would make anybody feel better, Luv Sam x
She is GORJUSS!!! Love this card Coops. x
Gorgeous card Coop's I like the sweet image and the embossing.
Kevin xx
A real breath of spring, love the image. xx
Cute get well card, Thanks for joining us at Brown Sugar.
What a delightful card, love the sweet image :o)
Jackie xx
Gorgeous creation. Love this yellow <3 Jen xxx
Gorgeous creation. Love this yellow <3 Jen xxx
I am loving the embossed look Nic. For someone who was not in a crafty mood you have certainly done justice to this lovely card. Judy x
awww I love this Nic!! she's such a cutie and those yellows are awesome!
huge hugs Lou xxx
Soooooo cute and gorgeous too.
Hi Nic, an adorable card love the embossing and Rosie is just so cute! Susan x
Sweet card Nic, I love this image. Love the colour choice. Lovely embossing too. Hugs, Wends xxx
A great CAS card. It would cheer anyone up. Elaine
Wowsa Nic, this is a gorgeous card! The white background is a perfect backdrop and really makes this stand out. Sweet, sweet image and fab colouring!
Really gorgeous, love the sweet image and the embossing fab, gorgeous colouring too
Lindsay xx
So very gorgeous!!! Love your colouring & the fab embossed detail. Hugs Juls xxx
She is so adorable. Just gorgeous.
Beautiful card the embossing really sets the card off
Gorgeous! You do CAS so well Nic!
Aawww a lovely CAS card hun, such a pretty image and love the embossing too!
Nice card, love your coloring. Thanks for joining Brown Sugar Get Well challenge.
Awww, what a little ray of sunshine she is! :)
Adorable, sweet card, just so cute! :)
such a cute and sweet card and of course beautifully colored. The embossed flowers work so perfectly with this image.
Hi! such a sweet card,your colouring really is amazing**Coops and love her so much.hugs Lou.xx
This is fabulous! Love that embossing. Have to have a look for that folder... It looks great with the kraft card too.
Thank you for joining us at Browns Sugar this week. We would love to see you back soon again. Good luck!
Beautiful CAS card Nic I really love this image and your colours look perfect with the kraft card xx
Such a pretty card, love the image
thanks for sharing it with us over at Brown Sugar in our get well soon challenge and good luck
Julie x
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Gorgeous card Nic, love the adorable image and just perfect for the challenge - love it.
Thank you for joining the Cutie Pies CAS challenge and good luck x Susan x
Oh my! I love this card! Your coloring is just amazing. Thanks for joining us last week at Crafty Creations. I hope you get to join us again real soon!
Lovely card and image, thanks for joining us at Cutie Pie CAS challenge, good luck cheers Sue N x


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The first step is to get a manifest format for all existing tests. This was landed today in bug 616999 and is currently on mozilla-central. This requires that all test files in directories be in the manifest file and that the manifest file includes all files in the directory (verified at make time). Basically if you do a build, it will error out if you forget to add a manifest or test file to the manifest. Pretty straightforward.
The manifest we have chosen is the ini format from mozmill. We found that there is no silver bullet for a perfect test manifest, which is why we chose an existing format that met the needs of xpcshell. This is easy to hand edit (as opposed to json), is easy to parse from python and javascript. As compared to reftests which have a custom manifest format, we needed to just have a list of test files and more specifically a way to associate a head and tail script file (not easy with reftest manifests). The format might not work for everything, but it gives us a second format to work with depending on the problem we are solving.


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Responding to criticism from the US, UK and other countries over the Hong Kong national security law, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian urged foreign countries on Wednesday to refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of Hong Kong.
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Vegetable tagine with almond & chickpea couscous
A take on a traditional Moroccan dish, this quick tagine will have you thinking of Arabian nights
Nutrition and extra info
- tagine only
- Easily doubled / halved
- Healthy
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal483
- fat11g
- saturates1g
- carbs85g
- sugars33g
- fibre10g
- protein15g
- salt0.61g
- 400g pack shallot, peeled and cut in half
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- 2 tbsp olive oil
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- 1 large butternut squash, about 1¼kg/2 lb 12oz, peeled, deseeded and cut into bite size chunks
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- 12 small pitted prunes
- 2 tsp clear honey
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- 2 tbsp chopped mint, plus extra for spinkling
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