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By Giles Ward
Humming the familiar strains of Erik Satie's Gnossienne No.1 to himself, renowned film composer Jocelyn Thwaite steps in front of the 01.59 Paddington Express.
As the only witness, Danny Lunt grabs the opportunity to live the life that the dead man no longer wants and that he always thought he deserved – if only he'd had the money.
Told along the timeline preceding and following Jocelyn's death, The Price of Everything weaves the lives of these two men together and asks the age-old question: Is the grass really any greener…?
Published with a CD of Erik Satie's piano works performed by Klara Koermendi
1. Gnossiennes no.1
2. Gnossiennes no.2
3. Gnossiennes no.3
4. Petite Ouverture a Danser
5. Premiere Pensee Rose-Croix
6. Gymnopedies no.1
7. Gymnopedies no.2
8. Gymnopedies no.3
9. Pieces Froides (d'une maniere tres particuliere)
10. Vexations
Satie devised a style of music he referred to as 'furniture' music – music to be played as a background to some other activity. His first attempts to perform his furniture music were an unqualified failure. Now music as a backdrop to every day life – in restaurants and bars – is common place. Satie understood how music could be an accompaniment to create ambience and mood – like when reading a book, for example.
Dimensions: 139 mm x 215 mm
Pages: 179
Format: Paperback
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Federal Judge Suspends Enforcement of Contraceptive Mandate for Grace CollegeTuesday, December 31st, 2013
A federal court decided on December 27th to have the Obama administration suspend enforcement of the abortion pill mandate against Grace College and Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana. The injunction will allow Grace to offer medical coverage to its employees without being forced to offer drugs the college sees as contrary to its religious convictions. This is a preliminary stay to the mandate while the federal case against the government continues.
"Grace appreciates the court's decision in upholding our rights as a Christian based institution to keep our most core beliefs and convictions regarding the sanctity of human life," said Grace President Bill Katip. "Although this is only the first step, we believe the courts will continue to see the unconstitutional nature of this mandate and continue to protect our religious freedoms."
Grace filed its lawsuit jointly with Biola University in California against the federal government in August 2012. The suit is a direct challenge to the Department of Health and Human Services' requirement which mandates that faith-based employers must provide insurance coverage to its employees which includes all government approved contraceptive drugs including those objected to by many as abortifacient. The joint suit filed by Grace and Biola University argues that the contraceptive mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act as well as the schools' First and Fifth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution.
For additional information concerning the federal law suit, see the press release from Alliance Defending Freedom at http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/8737.
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The other title for this post is "We Need The Punk In Cyberpunk Now."
Recent events has me thinking on a big influence on my formative years: the literature and the aesthetic of cyberpunk. While many grew up with images of the space age, with (white, western) humanity cementing its manifest destiny among the stars, I grew up when a certain generation of authors looked at the great space wheel of 2001: A Space Odyssey and wondered how many of the components were built by globalized companies using third world labor.
This was a world were the buds of the modern internet first took root when we started connecting home computers into telephone lines, then immediately used it to trade porn and complain about movies. Cell phones first hinted at the idea we wouldn't be tied to cables and trunk-lines forever. And corporations grew, adopting a "Shareholder Profits Shall Be the Whole of the Law" attitude which still rules today. Conversations like the one ceased to be dialog out of Alan J. Pakula thrillers:
"We can make tones of money using these quick-term stock scams and hiding the results overseas. Now it'll crash the economy-"
"What about the quarterly profits?"
"Oh, we'll see a massive spike before total devastation."
"We can blame the immigrants. Do it, and we'll be rich enough to not care."
And instead became standard operating procedure for every global company out there.
Take all of the above, mingle onto it the visual aesthetics of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, the paintings of Patrick Nagel, and Michael Mann's visual palette from Miami Vice, and you have the birth of a neon-drenched corporate dystopia where the wealthy live in technological splendor, while the same technology alternately imprisons and liberates those scrambling to survive day in, day out. The tools of the oppressors became ways we could give them a massive "Fuck You."
But while we have cyberpunk's technology for the most part (No wicked cybernetics, but re-read Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net. The book opens with someone killed by a drone strike, folks), and we certainly have the ever-present corporate domination (Get and watch the Max Headroom collection from Shout Factory. Check "Grossberg's Return" for the shocking idea of the media creating news, not reporting it – *cough*InfoWars*cough* – while "Lessons" talks explicitly about education treated as a commodity to keep it out of the hands of the poor), we are missing some things.
The aesthetics for one. I think Starcadian best expresses this longing for a familiar vibe in the video for "Chinatown"
The other part we've lost – and some would argue never really had – was the punk part. That rebellious growl at seeing our future stolen, at dehumanization, and at the abuse of power. The part of the aesthetic born from folks like Stiff Little Fingers. Listen to "Suspect Device"
They take away our freedom
In the name of liberty
Why can't they all just clear off
Why can't they let us be
They make us feel indebted
For saving us from hell
And then they put us through it
It's time the bastards fell
Don't believe them
Don't believe them
Don't be bitten twice
You gotta suss, suss, suss, suss, suss, suss
Suss, suspect device
Tell me that's not the punk part of the equation in a song?
This is what we need in the world right now. We need the punk side of cyberpunk. We need our Suspect Devices. We need our Edison Carters, though these days he'd be working for ProPublica, not Network 23. It's out there, but right now it's controlled by people who think swatting a lady for not appreciating the dick picks you sent her after seeing her Steam profile. We need to take it back. We need to use what we learned from our CyberPunk forefathers to take this world and cast it into ugly, sharp relief. We need to channel the growling anger of punk and it's children, and focus it on the folks who'd take away our freedoms in the name of liberty.
When I see an article posted about how our new administration is taking pages out of Totalitarianism 101 (Say, by de-legitimizing a free press or picking targets for 'true patriots' to rail against), I don't react with a sad face. I use the angry one. And I tell them exactly how they can fight – Maybe not with their fists, but with dollars, votes, and showing up at a town hall meeting with a ZIP code on your chest while getting into a legislator's grill.
I think anyone writing contemporary SF who felt something shiver inside when they watched the opening minutes of Blade Runner, saw Synners spelled in a unique way, or heard the sky described as television tuned to a dead channel, should do the same. Or as Henry Rollins put it:
So, borrowing from Joe's bandmate, Paul – when they kick down your front door, how you gonna come? With your hands on your head? Or on the record button of your cell phone, streaming live and direct to the world?
It's cyberpunk time.
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Course opening in Wilmington for athletes to train for American Ninja Warrior
Another episode of American Ninja Warrior will air Monday July 6, but this time we're all crossing our fingers for a couple of our own. Two contestants, one from Surf City and one from Oak Island, will compete in the world's toughest obstacle course.
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Mr. Lyttle, you have a great deal of experience as a pacifist. When did you decide that you were a pacifist, and how did your early involvement in pacifist causes affect your personal and professional development?
I was introduced to pacifism by my mother, who was a rationalist Unitarian with considerable Quaker background. It has always seemed to me that pacifism is the most reasonable political position; this particularly so after studying the works and life of Gandhi. I took the conscientious objector position in regard to the Korean War. Later, in choosing a vocation, I decided to work in the peace movement rather than try to become a physician. I believe this was because I believed that working for peace was the most important thing that I could do with my life, but it may have been because I thought that medical school would be too difficult. In any event, I have never regretted the decision. The decision to work in the peace movement eventually led me to study political science rather than concentrate on the physical or biological sciences, and this led me to develop the "Apocalypse Equation," a mathematical probability proof that nuclear deterrence will produce catastrophic accidents with nuclear weapons and nuclear war, therefore that the military approach to security is irrational, and the nonviolent approach to resolving conflicts the most reasonable.
Your writings include a book examining the anti-war movement in Chicago during the 1960's. In your opinion, how does the anti-war movement of today compare to that of the Vietnam era?
It is my impression that the main difference between today's coalition anti-war-against-Iraq movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement is that today's movement has been computerized, and makes extensive use of computers and other solid-state electronic devices for communication and graphic arts purposes. This makes it possible for today's movement to more rapidly educate people, organize demonstrations, and produce attractive leaflets and signs. Another effect of the improvements in communication is to make today's movement much more global in character. Still another difference I see is that the people and organizations in today's movement seem to more widely accept that nonviolent strategies and tactics are the best. On the other hand, both movements are the same in that they are driven mainly by the energy, optimism and courage of young people, and the faces of these young people tend to express the same open, loving, and helpful spirit.
Neither of the two dominant American political parties embraces pacifist ideals. What is there about militaristic activities that appeals to the leaders of these parties, and what prevents them from proposing pacifist solutions to national and international problems?
Pacifism involves ideas that are difficult to sell to any group of people, not only to the leaders of the dominant United States political parties. Most deeply, there are philosophic assumptions that must be addressed. Most people believe that they have a "right" to armed self-defense. This belief is understandable in the face of political horrors like Nazism, Stalinism, activities of China's Red Guard, Pol Pot's regime, and the brutalities of dozens of tyrants throughout the world, particularly in Africa, Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia. Most people see no alternative to military force to countering these brutal political entities. However, believing that one has a right to armed self-defense does not address the strategic question of what is the best way to oppose "evil". The military approach assumes that the end justifies the means, and creates a means that is successful to the extent to which it, itself, is capable of evil. The U.S. "won" World War II because it was capable of killing people and destroying property more efficiently than its enemies. Neither the Nazis nor the Japanese imperialists developed a weapon as terrible as the atomic bomb. At the same time, military force seems to "work" in the sense that it gains "victories" over "enemies." This means that most people not only believe that they have the right of armed self-defense, but that war will protect them. This is particularly true of U.S. citizens, who see the history of the U.S. as an almost uninterrupted succession of military victories over various enemies that now has made the U.S. the world's only "superpower". Not only can the U.S. defeat any enemy, but it can defeat most of them in major wars without losing more than a few dozen people on our side.
This apparent "success" of U.S. military force is seen most of all in the U.S. government. The Constitution assumes that the U.S. will have a military institution capable of "defending" it. The President is the Commander in Chief. George Washington, a general, led the colonies to victory against the British. Abraham Lincoln, who kept the Union united with military force, is lauded by many as our greatest President. Franklin D. Roosevelt led the U.S. to victory in World War II. Harry Truman ordered the Korean War. Ronald Reagan "won" the "Cold War", etc. What is superficially evident to nearly all of our political ŇleadersÓ is that U.S. military power has been amazingly "successful". They therefore support the military, and always give the military budgetary priority.
In addition, the military is closely tied to corporate capitalism. Vast sums are budgeted for weapons, and some of our largest corporations, such as Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, General Electric, etc., are deeply involved in weapons production. This creates an economic incentive for managers, workers, and politicians to want military production to continue. Most people, and the politicians who represent them, believe in the necessity and practicality of military force, and do not know how "prosperity" can be maintained without weapons production and the maintenance of military bases.
At the same time, the traditional pacifist movement has not presented a strong critique of military force. The traditional pacifist movement is religiously based, composed mainly of people in the traditional Protestant peace churches, the Brethren, Mennonites, and Quakers, and, more recently, radical Catholics. The arguments used by most of these people are "faithbased", and, while moral arguments based on the Bible are always important, they do not greatly influence people who do not consider themselves religious, or believe that religious morality is irrelevant to international politics. By and large, these are the people who run the country, the academic political philosophers and "scientists" in the elite universities, the managers and scientists in the giant corporations, and the professional politicians. To these people, at least until recently, pacifist analyses and proposals have seemed at least "unrealistic", and at worst "sentimental nonsense". To most of these people, military approaches to peace tend to work, and there is no alternative to them.
To most of those who run our society, nonviolent resistance, as developed by Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, is not seen as a realistic alternative to military force. The standard criticism of nonviolent resistance is that nonviolence may work in a society that has some democratic, civil liberties, and civil rights traditions, but it will not work against totalitarian societies ruled by ruthless tyrants like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, et al. Those who make this criticism usually have not studied the theory or history of nonviolent resistance, and ignore the role that nonviolent resistance and other forms of noncooperation and nonviolent mass protest played in achieving the "velvet revolution" in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.
The platform of the Pacifist Party includes statements on issues of environmentalism and equality in addition to nonviolence. How does the Pacifist Party make decisions about whether to support principles other than pacifism?
In theory, the United States Pacifist Party determines its platform by means of the democratic process, that involves conferences, conventions, etc. In practice, there have been so few people active in the party that policies have tended to be produced by face-to-face conversations, emails, and letters between a few individuals. If more people become active in the party, more conventional democratic process will tend to be used. Since some of the people interested in the party are Quakers, the party probably will always try to develop policies through consensus rather than majority vote.
How do you believe the principles of pacifism can be applied during this time of George W. Bush's perpetual war?
It seems to me that the USPP provides the most realistic and penetrating analysis there is of the foreign policies of the Bush administration. Bush has propounded the doctrine of "preventive war" on the grounds that it is the best policy for combating "terrorism" and generating "security" for the U.S. This foreign policy is based, first, on nuclear deterrence, and, second, on large arsenals of precisionguided weapons. The Administration maintains that deterrence will prevent nuclear war forever, and that the precisionguided weapons will enable the U.S. to win all conventional wars quickly, and with negligible losses in personnel on the U.S. side. The pacifist analysis explains, in irrefutable scientific terms, why nuclear deterrence can be expected to collapse at any time into catastrophic accidents with nuclear weapons and nuclear war, and, by means of historical, sociological, and psychological concepts, why continually fighting conventional wars will make more and more enemies for the U.S., and the people of the U.S. less and less secure. At the same time, the pacifist analysis points out that, for Christians people who consider themselves faith-based, military force is simply immoral contrary to God's Commandments. In sum, pacifist principles are the most scientifically realistic in their approach, and may be the most religiously moral as well.
What are the benefits of starting a political party based upon pacifism? Why not just create a new non-profit organization?
Because pacifism offers what may be the most radical critique there is of the military and dominant economic institutions of our society, the mass media, and "educational" institutions, normally exert considerable effort to prevent the pacifist viewpoint from reaching the general public. In times of national elections this wall of censorship tends to develop cracks because most U.S. citizens believe that all viewpoints should be heard. Therefore, candidates running on a pacifist ticket can expect may more opportunities to speak in the mass media, and at universities and colleges, than they normally would have. This is particularly true of a pacifist Presidential candidate. Since it is the President who determines foreign policy, people will tend to be most interested in what a pacifist Presidential candidate has to say about foreign affairs. A pacifist political party therefore is an efficient vehicle for promoting pacifist ideas.
What are the greatest challenges you have faced in organizing a political party from the ground up?
Organizing a pacifist political party is about the most difficult organizational task I have undertaken. First, most people are not pacifists. They may be antimilitarist, and prefer to solve most conflicts without war, but when "push comes to shove" they will support military power.
Second, many people who consider themselves personal pacifists, and would not serve in armed forces, do not believe that pacifism can be made politically relevant. Therefore, they have no interest in a pacifist party. Some of them believe in political change through mass organization, They try to develop a Ňnonviolent revolutionÓ by working in coalitions with different social justice movements. Since most of the people in these movements are not pacifists, the pacifists tend to further lose interest in pacifist analyses.
Third, some pacifists have a theory of social change that does not involve conventional electoral politics or mass movements. They apparently believe that social change best is achieved through small nonviolent direct action projectsĐcivil disobedience projectsĐin which a few people confront harmful government policies.
Fourth, many pacifists are uninterested in promoting a pacifist party because they see social change possible only through the existing, dominant, political parties, mainly the Democratic Party. Therefore, they invest their energy in strengthening the left wing of the Democratic Party.
Fifth, still other pacifists are attracted to third parties, such as the Green Party, that seem to have larger initial constituencies, and a greater chance of success than a pacifist party.
Sixth, organizing a pacifist party is difficult because it is dangerous. Since pacifism strikes at the heart of the military institution, and many of the large corporations that profit from military production, rightwing extremists sometimes physically threaten politically active pacifists. In addition, outspoken pacifists tend to be blocked from obtaining higher academic degrees, and from promotions in many professions.
At heart, the main difficulty with organizing a pacifist political party is that few people realize that the pacifist political analysis, which includes nonviolent resistance as an alternative to military force, is the most rational and scientific; in fact, that it is the only analysis that offers a lasting solution to the major problems of our society.
What is the future of the Pacifist Party? Do you plan on running for President again in 2004, or will there be a new Pacifist Party presidential candidate?
Since I am now 75, I do not know if I will try to run again for President under the auspices of the USPP. In any event, the Presidential candidate would best be determined by a convention. I hope that the party will hold at least a conference, and, possibly, a convention, the summer of 2003.
What can someone who supports the ideals of the Pacifist Party do to help?
To help the USPP, it probably is most important to organize local branches. These branches can then address themselves to discussing policy questions, distributing literature, selecting candidates for local offices, and having the candidates listed on ballots, etc. Financial contributions always are helpful. Checks should be made out to the United States Pacifist Party, and sent to 5729 S. Dorchester Ave., Chicago, IL 60637.
One of the most effective outreach vehicles for the USPP is its website, whose URL is: www.uspacifistparty.org. Tragically, the site's webmaster died of cancer a few months ago, and the site is now considerably out of date. We are looking for a competent webmaster who is a pacifist, and has considerable experience working in the nonviolent movements for peace and social change.
Don't let us do all the talking. Talk back!
We're eager for your contribution. Get your thoughts down, organize them coherently into an irregular essay, then submit it to us for publication!


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Dining Area
3.84m(12'7'') x 3.82m(12'6'')
The dining area used to be a 3rd bedroom. It is now combined into the lounge to form a large lounge dining room. I could be reinstated as a separate bedroom if required. Radiator. Dimmer. Telephone point. Radiator. Fireplace. Glazed door leading to the conservatory.
3.54m(11'7'') x 3.93m(12'11'')
A superb addition to the property over looking the rear garden and pool. Featuring a brick floor with hardwood double glazed windows. Two radiators. Wall light. Side door and double doors to the rear garden.
Kitchen Diner
4.84m(15'11'') x 3.19m(10'5'')
A large well fitted and well equipped kitchen diner over looking the rear garden. Part tiled walls. Featuring a good range of units comprising one and a half bowl sink unit with mixer tap with cupboards under. Adjacent tiled working surfaces with cupboards and drawers under. Plumbing for washing machine. Plumbing for dishwasher. Integrated Diplomat stainless steel gas hob and oven. Stainless steel extractor. Wall cupboards. Fitted shelving. Cupboard housing the Potterton gas fired boiler. Breakfast bar. Tiled floor. Telephone point. Glazed display cabinet. Tv point. Glazed door to the rear gardens. Glazed door to the conservatory.
Kitchen Diner
Bedroom 1
4.13m(13'7'') x 3.52m(11'6'')
A large double bedroom. Featuring a range of fitted bedroom furniture comprising 2 wardrobes, bedside cabinets, shelving and over bed storage. Radiator. Upvc double glazed bay window.
Bedroom 2
3.48m(11'5'') x 3.01m(9'11'')
A double room with glazed doors to the gardens. Radiator.
2.65m(8'8'') x 2.53m(8'4'')
A good sized bathroom with part tiled walls. Wall cabinet. Heated towel rail. Shelved cupboard with lagged hot water tank. Tiled floor. Panelled bath with a fitted shower and glazed shower screen. Pedestal wash hand basin. Bidet. Low level W.C. Radiator.
Rear Garden
The beautiful well secluded rear garden has a fabulous circular heated pool ( if the pool is not required it could be filled in and the lawn re laid ). Large paved patio with the remainder of the garden being laid to lawn with well stocked flower and shrub borders. Shed. Paved pathways. Side gates. Upvc soffits, facias and guttering.
Rear Garden
Rear Garden
Front Garden
A very pretty front garden being laid mainly to lawn with an array of flowers, plants, shrubs and trees. Outside lights.
Ample off road parking in the drive.
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OFL Celebrates 2008 Season with Gala LunchPosted by Paul under OFL , OFL 2008 , Sports
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|Pictured clockwise, Chris "The Ghost" Walker, Ron "Randy Moss" Burman,
James "Smooth" Muir, John "Are You Sarah" O'Connor, Jesusa "Pinkie" Tran,
Paul "The Mad Bomber" McRae, Kirk "I'm Just An Ordinary Superstar" Ireland,
Larisa "Jerry Jones" Christensen, Carlos "The Jackal" Nahas, Marie "Fair Weather" Cote, and Peter "The Rabbit" Arseneau.
Kanata, ON — The Obfuscated Football League (OFL) gathered at the Kanata Local Heroes to celebrate the 2008 season and hand out its individual awards in a lavish ceremony attended by many OFL players and front office personnel.
First off was the award for "Executive of the Year" which went to the hard working Larisa Christensen of the French Foreign Legion. Tirelessly retooling her lineup from week to week in an effort to combat the league champion Irish Stout, Christensen was gratified to be honored, quoted as saying, "How about I trade this award for Kirk? Is fair, no?"
John O'Connor was honored as "Foreigner of the Year" and gratefully accepted, saying, "Why is the only true Irish bloke playing on the French team? And, miss! Miss! I want the soup and sandwich! Miss! Over here!"
Marie Cote won as "Non-Guy Player of the Year", though it will never be known for sure as she was the one who made out the certificates.
"Rookie of the Year" went to James Muir whose lengthy acceptance speech, "Thanks", truly moved the entire crowd.
"Defensive Player of the Year" was a tie, going to both Kirk Ireland of the Irish Stout and Carlos Nahas of the French Foreign Legion. "But I am much better looking," said Ireland and Nahas simultaneously.
Ireland also won for "Offensive Player of the Year" after leading the league in scoring by a wide margin. A visibly emotional Ireland stated, "I couldn't have done it without my exceptionally accurate and gutsy quarterback." Choking back the tears, he continued, "Really, I owe it all to Paul McRae. That's my teammate…that's my quarterback!"
There was barely a dry eye in the house as Paul McRae accepted the OFL MVP award for 2008. McRae was typically humble accepting his third MVP, saying, "If only these bozos had held on to a few more passes, my stats would have been even better!"
The OFL looks forward to the 2009 season as the three time champion Irish Stout look to defend their title against all comers.


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On September 2, 3 and 4 over 900 new Calvin students poured into Grand Rapids neighborhoods for Streetfest 2004: Celebrating Neighborhoods. As part of orientation, Streetfest gives first-year students a taste of service-learning in the community. This year, students collaborated with 66 different agencies, organizations and churches on their works-in-progress in 25 neighborhoods.
Huntington Bank partners with Calvin to make Streetfest possible, supplying not only funds but also volunteers and mentors from among its staff. One of them, a vice president at the bank, is Carol Vriend Petter '76. Besides laboring alongside students, she also spoke to them in the chapel before they fanned out to their work sites.
In preparing her talk, Carol was, at first, clear only about what she did not want to say. "I was sure I wasn't going to use guilt in any way, shape or form to stimulate people to think about inner-city service," she said.
Guilt-motivated service, she admits, is a subject about which she's very sensitive. Just before she herself became a college freshman, the members of her home church were encouraged to read Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger. That reading led to "such excruciating, tormenting guilt for me that I became deeply alienated from God," Carol said. "There can be no joyful communion with God if you're suffering under this impossible load of responsibility for the world."
Carol has worked hard in the years since to alleviate the weight of "works righteousness" she caught when she was a teenager. She found herself wanting to tell Calvin students what she's learned: that there's a different, less simplistic way of thinking about and doing community service, a way that's not a project but more like an adventure, a journey of discovery. It's a journey Carol says she's still on.
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As a college freshman, you will quickly discover that the introductory course to any discipline requires a new, larger vocabulary. In a beginning music class, for instance, you will learn that not all music played in a concert hall is classical. It may be renaissance, baroque or romantic. In your first philosophy class, you will be presented with terms such as utilitarianism and deontology, and other mouthfuls bound to make your parents think they're getting their money's worth. And in accounting, you'll wade from debits and credits to take a plunge in the deep end: depreciation, accruals and amortization.
Today you are taking a required core course called Celebrating Neighborhoods 101 — specifically, Celebrating Grand Rapids Neighborhoods. To be consistent with what you will do in your classes next week, let's begin by defining a few terms relevant to neighborhoods. A little lexicon, compiled by Yale University professor Dolores Hayden, defines and illustrates 75 words that allegedly have already made it into the vocabularies of architects and engineers. Here are a few entries from Dr. Hayden's lexicon:
• Boomburb: a suburb on steroids, a suburb growing by double digits
each year. And its companion,
You know, relative to these new words, our word for the day, neighborhood, sounds downright quaint and old fashioned, something like VCR, carbon copy, clothesline and handwritten notes. Who talks about neighborhoods nowadays, communities where people care about each other and care about the surroundings in which they live? Is the word neighborhood and the possibilities to which it points a bit outmoded perhaps? You know, if you "google" the word neighborhood, you will be presented, in exactly 4.47 seconds on my over-the-hill computer, with many links to virtual neighborhoods. Has the old reality of neighborhood — people caring about people — perhaps morphed into a new reality — nameless people sending inconsequential messages to each other? Then today's focus for celebration would be the triumph of technology over geography. It's a small world after all!
Those of you who are from Michigan will know that Jennifer Granholm, our governor, has what she is calling her "Cool Cities" initiative. She promised to give $2 million in grants to those people who came up with the best ideas to make Michigan cities, in her word, "cooler." Granholm said, and I quote, that she "sought projects that would create a vibrant street life and enhance neighborhoods with a mix of residential, retail, entertainment and other commercial ventures."
So if we're celebrating neighborhoods today, and we know that several neighborhoods are in for an upgrade, maybe we should celebrate the foresight and enlightenment of the state government, or the ingenuity of those who won the grants, or the promise of increased economic activity in the lucky neighborhoods. Is that what today's celebration is about?
Memories of the seemingly cohesive neighborhoods of yesteryear or the experience of instant and unfettered access to virtual neighborhoods, or the governor's promise of seed money to build an office-retail complex in the Wealthy Street area — well, none of these ideas, it seems to me, is sufficiently strong to carry a full day of celebration.
To complicate matters further, some of you are going to serve today in real neighborhoods, not virtual, where destructive forces have won many battles — destructive, anti-neighborhood forces like drugs, poverty and hopelessness. You will behold the casualties. In certain Grand Rapids neighborhoods it's not at all obvious that there's anything to celebrate.
So we've got a problem. A whole day devoted to celebration, a room full of people, vans and city buses ready to transport us to a worksite, and no clear focus in view … yet. It seems to me that to find a reason to celebrate, we are going to have to look harder and deeper. With our natural eyes, we may see abandoned, rusted vehicles; vacant lots, littered and overgrown; housing scarcely fit for people. We may see the beauty of a neighborhood, a wooded area, for instance, reduced to a mountain of wood chips in a day. We may see vast stretches of logo buildings homogenizing what once was a neighborhood with character — but to celebrate today, we cannot let our eyes settle on any of this. We must believe that there is more to every neighborhood than what our natural eyes can see.
Today you are going to meet people, not buildings — people who live and work in Grand Rapids neighborhoods, people whose eyesight is every bit as keen as yours. These people are not glibly optimistic about urban problems. But, and this is important, they are saying in word and deed, "O God, in this world where I see so much that doesn't reflect your character, I would be useful to you."
Many of you will spend your time with those who lead various programs. Surely these people, with their rich experience and devotion to their task, are worth celebrating. But there's so much more. There are volunteers who serve week in and week out, who are leavens for good in the neighborhoods. And there are ordinary folks, not necessarily attached to any formal program, who simply choose to make neighborhoods work, who choose to be neighborly, sometimes in unspeakably difficult life circumstances.
These folks, who are passionate about being useful to the Lord, do not wear tell-tale yellow ribbons on their lapels; they are of no particular race, age or gender; they do not crow about their neighborliness. So, to spot them you will have to look and listen with the eyes and ears of your heart. Perhaps you will need repeated exposures before you recognize them. Here's my suggestion: Let's regard these folks as our honored guests today. Let's celebrate them. Let's honor them, not with the usual trappings of celebrations like cake, music and decorations, but by being attentive and systematic observers, hungry to learn. Let's honor them by being students, not in name only, but in spirit.
You know, during the next four years, professors will present you with new ideas — ideas that do not mesh gracefully with all that you have been taught up until now. Some of these ideas will unsettle you, like they did me. I dare say most of you, if not all of you, will struggle, at times, with who you are, what you were created for and where you are going; you may change your major several times, like I did. Some of you will get entangled in relationships that are not good for you. In short, the growing pains that are a normal part of your college years can easily command all your attention. And guess what? After you graduate, there will be new growing pains. You will bring your own heart, with its layers of complication, into a work environment, with its layers of complications.
Why am I saying this? To create a context for saying that the people who live to bless others, who take community and neighborhood seriously, do not make this extraordinary choice because their life circumstances are extraordinary. They are buffeted by the realities of life just as you are and will be. They made their mistakes during their college years and make more today. Not all of them landed a good job right out of college or, if they did, some of them were down-sized, to use the euphemism of the day. Not all married someone who was easy to live with. But, despite all of this, they decide, they choose, they rededicate themselves again and again, if necessary, to use their education and their gifts to bless others. Each day anew they pray something like this, "O Lord, keep me from frittering away my life on things that have no significance beyond the moment. I will let your tug on my heart win over all other tugs — tugs like convenience, popularity, fortune and power."
You probably know the word mentor. In the workplace, it often suggests a senior executive anointing a younger version of himself as his protégé. The mentor can steer the protégé to the plum assignments that will contribute to the quickest advance in the organization.
This is "old-think." Let's turn this image on its head. Let's begin by defining mentor as anyone from whom we can learn — regardless of their place on the food chain. Let's not wait for a single mentor to pick one of us as a protégé. Let's take the initiative and pick out our own mentors — lots of them. And let's not look only for folks with whom we have a lot in common. We may have more to learn from someone who is very different. Today let's begin by looking for mentors, mentors of a particular kind: mentors who can teach us about blessing others, despite the relentless pressure to live self-absorbed lives, pressure we all feel at every stage of our lives.
Some of you will work close to downtown today. Well, a little further west, close to the Grand River, by a rusted railroad bridge, works a sculptor. His name is Mic Carlson. I expect that he is working today, feverishly, because he is attempting to complete a series of 29 statues of St. Francis of Assisi, that 13th-century monk who penned the prayer that begins, "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace." Carlson received the inspiration for this project when he visited Assisi, Italy, six years ago. Next week, all 29 statues will be boxed and shipped to Assisi, where they are expected to arrive in time and in tact for an exhibition at the Basilica of St. Francis.
How does Carlson create these stunning bronze sculptures of St. Francis, beginning with only a slab of brown wax that looks like a big chunk of chocolate? Carlson's technique is simply stated: he chips away at all that is not St. Francis so that only St. Francis, with his lean face and soulful eyes, remains.
Today, you will meet representatives of those who are chipping away at all that is not neighborhood so that only neighborhood remains. I know of a retired attorney who spends his time cutting through red tape so that foster parents may adopt the child whom they've grown to love. Chip, chip. I know of a woman, a member of City Hope, who spends hours each week interceding for prodigal sons and daughters. Chip, chip. I know of a man who left a high-paying job in mid-career to work for Mel Trotter ministries, where he invests himself in the lives of people who have lost their way, aided and abetted by drugs and alcohol. Chip, chip. I know of business people who donate time and materials to ICCF [Inner City Christian Federation] so that ICCF can build houses for people who cannot afford to pay market rates. Chip, chip. Today you are joining their ranks by sorting clothes, painting a fence, pulling up weeds, lending a hand to someone with too much to do. Chip, chip. Chip, chip.
And when it's all over, you will leave, and today will become just another forgettable day in the blur we call orientation … or will it? Today could become the day when you start thinking seriously about neighborhoods, what enhances and what erodes them, what Jennifer Granholm's money can and cannot accomplish, what snout scapes, logo buildings and zoomburbs are doing to people's lives, and what your life has to do with any of this.
In response to a question about his sculpting project, Mic Carlson said, "It's more than just art work to me, you know; I'm driven to do this. I know God is guiding me on the right path. It started out as a project, but now it's a journey." Beautiful. It started out as a project but now it's a journey. Streetfest — it is starting out as a project; may it become your journey.
— Carol Vriend Petter '76 is a vice president at Huntington Bank in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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"A Translation Guide to 19th Century Polish Language Civil Registration Documents," by Judith R. Frazin, was available at the Philly 2009 conference, published by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois. The book review includes an interview with Judith, who is well-known in Jewish genealogical circles.
It also mentions Judith's two upcoming appearances – the book will be available at both programs:
— 2pm, Sunday, October 18: "Finding Treasure in 19th Century Polish Documents," at 2 p.m. Sunday at Temple Beth Israel, Skokie. There is no charge.
— 1.30pm, Sunday, October 25: A beginner's workshop, open to the public, Northbrook Public Library.
Northbrook resident Judith R. Frazin, an award-winning genealogist with a special knack for language, has released the newest version of a book that already is a vital tool both for Polish and Jewish history scholars and ordinary people hoping to trace their family history.
She's been working on Jewish genealogy for 39 years, served 10 years as president of the JGS of Illinois, and also served on the IAJGS board. She received the Wigilia Medal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America.
Frazin focuses on documents that followed the Napoleonic Code, the system of civil laws formalized in 1804. The narrative style was used only within "Russian" Poland, although Krakow, a city located in "Austrian" Poland is an exception to the rule. In the rest of "Austrian" Poland, a column-like format in German or Latin was usually used, and in areas of Poland under German control, various formats were used, though mostly in German.
Her guide is not a dictionary, since the scope of the actual documents is more limited. However, most of the Polish words in the guide were found in actual documents, which Frazin believes is an advantage since a researcher does not have to go through page after page to find what is desired.
Words in the guide are alphabetized and sub-divided into 15 topics, such as age, birth, census, death, family, illness, etc. The book's other sections include suggestions on how to locate an old Polish town on a modern map, how to find old documents and indices from Polish towns, sample records in both block and cursive script, and direction as to how to extract the data from the documents. There's a list of 19th-century given names, finding records at Polish archives, and more.
"The story I was told was that my grandparents lived in the same town, Staszow, near Krakow, met and fell in love. But her father was not in favor of the marriage, though nobody seemed to know why. So my grandparents ran away, intending to elope. My grandmother's father found out, grabbed a horse and wagon, went after them and brought them back. My grandmother was 'grounded,' but made some excuse to leave the house and went straight to my grandfather's home, where they were married. He then emigrated to the United States in 1903 and sent for her a few months later. I had known my grandmother all my life and I absolutely could not see her in this situation," she added.
Read the complete article at the link above, which also explains how to purchase the book ($41).
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Toronto Coun. Doug Ford says he will stick by his brother's side in the months ahead, rather than run again for a council seat or pursue any attempt to become a member of the provincial legislature.
Mayor Rob Ford's brother held a brief news conference Thursday morning to announce he will not be running in the next provincial election, which could come as early as this spring.
"Folks, my priority is obviously, my family first, the people of Etobicoke North, the city of Toronto and obviously, my brother, Rob," he told reporters on Thursday morning.
To that end, Coun. Ford confirmed he will be running the campaign to re-elect his brother, though he will not seek re-election himself as a councillor in his Etobicoke ward.
The single-term councillor hinted that he might still be hanging around Toronto City Hall, even if he is not an elected member.
"I wouldn't rule out coming down here. I'll work for $1 a year to make sure Rob, again, moves forward, make sure this is the most prosperous city in the world," he said.
Ford admitted that he has aspirations to seek a seat in the provincial legislature, just as his father did nearly two decades ago.
"I'll tell you I will eventually, one day, run provincially," he said. "I love provincial politics."
Ford had previously talked about a desire to take a run at a provincial seat for the Progressive Conservatives, though he has never been an official candidate.
Ford's leaving 'a loss' for council
Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti said that Ford's decision to leave will be "a loss" for council.
"He does stand up and he brings up some really important matters and he'll be missed down here," Mammoliti said.
Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly said that Ford's decision not to run again was for him to make.
Kelly said it appeared the mayor and his brother "are obviously in a campaign mode" and they would together have to decide the electoral strategy they want to pursue.
Coun. Denzil Minnan-Wong, who has yet to decide if he will pursue a mayoral bid himself, said that others should "respect" the decision Ford made to shift his focus to his brother's campaign.
Asked to describe Ford's legacy at city hall, Minnan-Wong said the councillor "certainly wasn't shy in terms of letting people know what he thought and he tried his best to help out his brother — sometimes he was successful, other times not so much."
Rob Ford confident about re-election
When PC Leader Tim Hudak was recently asked about whether he would approve nomination papers for Ford, he told reporters that he wouldn't talk about potential candidates.
Other Tories said little when asked about Ford's announcement on Thursday.
"I'm not going to comment about people who aren't candidates for our party," Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod told reporters at Queen's Park.
Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli said the PCs are "happy for Doug," though he said the party is focused on matters of interest to Ontarians.
Last year, the PCs recruited a member of Toronto city council to run in a byelection. That contest saw Doug Holyday, the city's former deputy mayor, win the open seat for the Tories in Etobicoke.
The mayor said Thursday that he fully supported his brother's decision and was thankful for his friendship and loyalty.
"There's no doubt in my mind that we're going to get re-elected," he said.
As of late Thursday morning, just two candidates had registered to run for the councillor position in Ward 2 Etobicoke North, according to information posted on the city's website. Coun. Ford did not file papers prior to making his announcement.
So far, Ford is facing more than 20 other people who have registered to run for mayor. That group includes two former city councillors, David Soknacki and Norm Gardner.
Coun. Karen Stintz is expected to file papers for a mayoral run in the near future, now that Maria Augimeri has been named as her replacement as chair of the Toronto Transit Commission.
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My daughter will be 2 1/2 in late february. She is very afraid of the potty (screams, cries, throws a fit). If it weren't fo this, I feel she'd be ready to potty train. We tried the thick training underwear and she held her potty when it was off and waited until we put the underwear on to go potty.
We have tried fun book (Everyone Poops, etc.), a song and dance, praise, just talking about how everyone uses the potty. While she responds to this, when it comes time to actually go potty, she tells me she is scared and wants to go in her diaper.
My only fear in delaying her potty training is that we will just come accross the same issue later, and then she will be close to three, and unable to attend pre-school in the fall.
I feel like I have failed as a parent somehow. Please help!
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Monday, April 06, 2009
23 Comments:
- The Lakelander said...
"Cutting back"
- said...
I find everything is going up the same!
- said...
Its not just me either, everyone seems to be saying the same thing!
- said...
Its all bris to the mill
- said...
That $300 doesn't include tips.
- said...
Excellent post Your Grace, if slightly sharp.
Brings tears to the eyes at the thought!
- said...
recusant; you mean 'bris to the mohel'.
- Frugal Dougal said...
A shame and short-sighted, as a mass circumcision campaign would reduce HPV far more than blanket-vaccination of girls - 90% of whom will clear the virus if exposed - with a substance which is increasingly causing concerns abroad and here.
- said...
This is getting prepuce-terous.
How do circumcise a whale?
Send down four skindivers.
- said...
This will have repercussions, it reminds me of a case last year where Surgeons cut 16 washers from a man's penis. Apparently it was 'not clear how the situation arose'. For those who find it 'unsurmountable', might I suggest THIS.
- said...
Everything you need to know, and more at www.NOCIRC.org
- said...
Its no skin off my nose what they do to the pricks in America.
- Mark Lyndon said...
I'd have paid 100 times that for my son to be left alone. Cutting parts off babies' genitals is just wrong. If he wants to have it done when he's 18 (16 if he knows what he's doing), I'll pay for it then, and help him find a good surgeon. It's safer and less painful to wait, and the results are cosmetically better.
Canadian Paediatric Society
"Recommendation: Circumcision of newborns should not be routinely performed."
"Circumcision is a 'non-therapeutic' procedure, which means it is not medically necessary."
"After reviewing the scientific evidence for and against circumcision, the CPS does not recommend routine circumcision for newborn boys. Many paediatricians no longer perform circumcisions.
RACP Policy Statement on Circumcision
"After extensive review of the literature the Royal Australasian College of Physicians reaffirms that there is no medical indication for routine neonatal circumcision."
(those last nine words are in bold on their website, and almost all the men responsible for this statement will be circumcised themselves, as the male circumcision rate in Australia in 1950 was about 90%. "Routine" circumcision is now *banned* in public hospitals in Australia in all states except one.)
British Medical Association: The law and ethics of male circumcision - guidance for doctors
"to circumcise for therapeutic reasons where medical research has shown other techniques to be at least as effective and less invasive would be unethical and inappropriate."
Drops in male circumcision:
USA: from 90% to 57%
Canada: from 47% to 9.2%
UK: from 35% to about 5% (less than 1% among non-Muslims)
Australia: 90% to 12.6% ("routine" circumcision has recently been *banned* in public hospitals in all states except one, so the rate will now be a lot lower)
New Zealand: 95% to below 3% (mostly Samoans and Tongans)
South America and Europe: never above 5%
It's worth remembering that we wouldn't even be having this discussion if it weren't for the fact that 19th century doctors thought that :
a) masturbation caused various physical and mental problems (including epilepsy, convulsions, paralysis, tuberculosis etc), and
b) circumcision stopped masturbation.
Both of those sound ridiculous today I know, but if you don't believe me, then check out this link:
A Short History of Circumcision in North America In the Physicians' Own Words
Over a hundred years later, circumcised men keep looking for new ways to defend the practice.
The record payout for a botched circumcision is $22.8 million. It was said at the time that the victim "will never be able to function sexually as a normal male and will require extensive reconstructive surgery and psychological counseling as well as lifelong urological care and treatment by infectious disease specialists."
Sure, cases like that are very rare, but why should they happen at all? If you look up the galleries of botched jobs, one thing that may surprise you is just how many jobs were botched cosmetically, rather than medically. Skin tags and skin bridges and hair growing half way up the shaft are not normal, but would not be counted as medical complications.
News just in last week: A jury in Atlanta has awarded $1.8 million to a boy whose penis was severed in a botched circumcision five years ago. The Fulton County jury also awarded the boy's mother another $500,000.
- said...
Strange that Christians should jeer at the holy commandment of circumcision, even though Jesus was circumcised and the anniversary of that happy event is commemorated in the Christian calendar.
- said...
Circumcision is old covenant, we now have a better covenant.
The old covenant(Our performance based)was all the pressure on us to perform.
The new covenant total reliance( by faith) on what God has done for us.
- said...
Things have changed. God saw it necessary way back when they where in the desert. Conditions where different and God saw the drawbacks. But we should think long and hard about it these days.
- Gnostic said...
Foreclosure on the foreskin? Maybe they could offer terms?
- said...
Everything seems pretty much sewn up these days. Which reminds me of a joke:
what have parliamentary rules and diamonds got in common?
They are both pretty much impossible to break!
- said...
Its supposed to curb prolific masturbation. Is it in the parliamentary allowance? Or maybe it would be good to include it as a free offer with every Sky subscription.
- Mark Lyndon said...
Anonymous said...
Strange that Christians should jeer at the holy commandment of circumcision, even though Jesus was circumcised and the anniversary of that happy event is commemorated in the Christian calendar.
Funny how Christians didn't circumcise for the best part of two millennia, and yet because of some seriously bad *medical* opinions in the late 19th century, some Christians are looking for reasons to do it today.
95% of Christians worldwide do *not* circumcise, and the Catholic church has been opposed for centuries:
The Holy Roman Church "...commands all who glory in the name of Christian, at whatever time, before or after baptism, to cease entirely from circumcision, since, whether or not one places hope in it, it cannot be observed at all without the loss of eternal salvation."
From Cantate Domino, re-affirmed by Pope Pius XII in 1952
"From a moral point of view, circumcision is permissible if, in accordance with therapeutic principles, it prevents a disease that cannot be countered in any other way." Pope Pius XII in 1952
The form of circumcision undergone by Christ was nothing like a modern day circumcision anyway. He would have looked more like an intact man than like someone who has had a typical American circumcision. The most common form of circumcision today was only introduced by rabbis (not Christians) over a century after the crucifixion.
- ZZMike said...
Mark Lyndon: "The Fulton County jury also awarded the boy's mother another $500,000."
American jurors are a silly lot. I wonder what the nature of the damages claimed by the mother were.
- said...
Well .......in most of the world I suggest unless there is a medical reason for it circumcision is on a par (albeit not as potentially medically serious)with female genital mutilation (as per Ayan Hirsi Ali's comments on the subject).....however in Africa statistics appear to show that male circumcision is effective in preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS so maybe it is a case of horses for courses?
- Mark Lyndon said...
ZZMike: The mother does NOT get anything for herself. She was awarded money to pay for his medical expenses and psychological counseling. The rest of the money goes into a trust account for him when he is an adult.
Anonymous: There are seven African countries where men are more likely to be HIV+ if they've been circumcised. Eg in Rwanda, 3.5% of circumcised men are HIV+, but only 2.1% of intact men. In Cameroon, 4.1% of circumcised men are HIV+, but only 1.1% of intact men. If male circumcision really was effective in preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS, this simply wouldn't happen.


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Brazilian skateboarder hits the heights
By Shannon Russell The Cincinnati Enquirer
Pro skateboarder Sandro Dias didn't even have time to catch his breath. Five minutes after skating the 60-foot wide half pipe in a Mobile Skatepark Series vert demo Monday afternoon, fans barraged the 28-year-old Brazilian with programs, boards and T-shirts.
Dias smiled and obliged, just the way you'd hope the world's top-ranked vert skateboarder would.
"It's crazy," said Dias, who speaks Portuguese and some English. "I don't even feel like I'm the best skater."
Dias was dubbed World Cup Skateboarding's best vert skater after winning contests in Australia, Brazil and Canada.
At Sawyer Point he was the crowd favorite, soaring to altitudes 12 feet higher than the 13-foot tall half pipe. He was third in Monday's Skateboarding Vert Best Trick Contest.
The 5-foot-5 skateboarder, who placed second in last year's X Games for Best Trick (a Backside 540 Christ Air to Body Jar), has been a top 10 finisher in competitions for the past five years.
"I don't know how to explain it," Sandro said. "Everyone has a different style. For me, it's just easy to go higher."
Furlong, the world's seventh-ranked vert skateboarder, competes against Dias 15 times a year. He still can't figure out Dias' secrets.
"He has a good pump and good speed. Sometimes the shorter you are, the higher you can get," Furlong said. "But we all try to answer that: What kind of advantage does he have that we don't?"
Furlong said Dias' athletic feats, friendly demeanor and constant smile have won the hearts of fans. Yet he's still overshadowed by some of vert skateboarding's biggest names, like Bucky Lasek, Bob Burnquist and Andy Macdonald.
"He goes higher than anyone right now," said Jason Rothmayer, World Cup judge and Mobile Skatepark Series head skateboarding judge.
Dias has a skateboarding sponsor - Shiva Tech Skateboards - which is a pro's most crucial financial and marketing security. He's also sponsored by Reef, Red Bull, Split Clothing, Oakley, Tent Beach and Connexion Wheels.
Not that Dias is fretting about keeping up with his competition. He's more concerned with the bone spur in his right knee and the scrapes on his elbows.
"I just try to keep skating positive. I try not to worry," Dias said.
Growing up in Sao Paulo, Dias said there wasn't much support for skating. In fact his family always said " 'Are you crazy or what?' " he said, laughing.
Dias and his best Brazilian friends - Burnquist, vert skater Lincoln Ueda and female inline skater Fabiola da Silva - traveled far from home to pursue their dreams. Skateboarding has grown in Brazil since Dias was a teenager, and he frequently returns home to visit and compete.
Australian skater Renton Millar said Dias ups the ante for other skaters and is more of a pal than an intimidator.
"It's cool for me (to skate with Dias)," Millar said. "Because he's good, he's really good. He's like the best."
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Luis Enrique gave credit to Juventus and explained his decision to drop Francesco Totti, but acknowledged Roma's "game was over after 10 minutes."
The Giallorossi fell to a quick one-two from Arturo Vidal, then Andrea Pirlo scored the follow-up to a penalty after Maarten Stekelenburg's dismissal for an eventual 4-0 defeat.
"After eight minutes we were 2-0 down with the only two chances. Juve are at a remarkable level this season, so the game was already over at that stage. When they went 3-0 up and we had a man down, it really was over," he told Sky Sport Italia.
"There was a big difference between the teams tonight and we compliment the Serie A leaders for their victory."
Totti and Erik Lamela were surprisingly on the bench at the Juventus Stadium.
"I did not see it as a risk. Don't forget Totti was playing in the Coppa Italia game here and we lost 3-0. It's too easy to talk about decisions afterwards. Juventus have great quality and physicality, so I thought it was best to adopt a more physical approach and reserve Totti for the next game.
"We must already look ahead to Wednesday with Fiorentina and then Napoli. Every time a defeat like this happens, of course we are worried.
"It was a game that I thought required more stamina and strength, so I believed this was the right line-up for the occasion. After those first eight minutes, it made no difference who was on the pitch. We had two trequartisti, Fabio Borini and Miralem Pjanic.
"I have played a few games in my career and know intensity is crucial. It's true we are struggling to find that intensity and tonight Juve were more intense. I don't think we are four goals different to Juve, but tonight that was the case.
"Of course I will continue the same way. We know there are some bad defeats, but we have done some good things too and are still close to third place. Naturally every setback is a problem, but each game is very difficult to predict in Serie A.
"We still have three home games, plus trips to Cesena and Verona. We certainly have to improve away, but are doing a good job at the Olimpico and we're up there."
Luis Enrique was also shown footage of the incident in the final minutes. Stephan Lichtsteiner mocked Lamela by waving four fingers – a gesture famously done by Totti against Juventus some years ago – and the Roma player responded by spitting on his shoulder.
"It is ugly for me to see a player who is winning 4-0 to do that at this level, while it is also ugly for Lamela to spit."
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Rodger's quick take
Published 9:43 pm, Monday, November 5, 2012
Before the horse racing season goes to the back burner, let me just say this: Chad Brown from Mechanicville continues to prove why he is one of the top trainers in the country. Brown is coming off a big Breeders' Cup performance in which he won a race with Zagora and was close with several others on the game's biggest stage. It's been a banner year for Brown. His next challenge — and it will happen — is having a contender in the Kentucky Derby. NewsChannel 13's Rodger Wyland can be heard weekdays from 9 a.m. to noon on WOFX 980 AM.


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Is LG Viewty Outselling iPhone in UK?
Submitted by lalit on December 22, 2007 - 3:16pm.
According to Dial-a-Phone, LG's touchscreen phone Viewty (KU990) is outselling the iPhone in UK. Viewty was also launched in early November and has sold 310,000 units. The Viewty has outperformed sales of the already successful and less costly Chocolate and Shine lines. Though there is no sales figure available for the iPhone in UK, Dial-a-Phone says that the LG Viewty is outselling iPhone. The problem with Dial-a-Phone's statement is that they don't have any data on iPhone sales, plus they were excluded from iPhone's sales strategy. The company also said "the iPhone interface and usability are amazing but Apple's greed has resulted in the iPhone sales falling way short of its potential". Now this looks like a wound they are trying to lick and not iPhone sales problem. There are no concrete sales data for iPhone but then also analysts and Companies like Dial-a-Phone are saying that iPhone sales are disappointing in UK. Neither Apple nor O2 have ever said what their sales goals were for November and December, then how can one say that they have not reached their sales goals. News like this is rumor rather than fact.
iPhone Is No.2 In North American Smartphone Market Share In Its First Full Quarter
Submitted by lalit on December 18, 2007 - 7:35pm.
The iPhone has grabbed 27% of all smartphone sells in North America and the iphone is yet not released in Canada and Mexico. The other big thing is only AT&T is selling iPhones where as the other mobile platforms are sold by all wireless carriers present in North America. The numbers reached by iPhone in just one full quarter of sell shows the influence iPhone will have on all the up coming smartphones. These numbers indicate that Apple outsold all Windows Mobile smartphones and Symbian phone combined in US for Q3 of 2007. The numbers are particularly embarrassing for Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer who announced in a TV interview in January that Apple wouldn't capture more then two to three percent of the market and laughed at the cost of the iPhone, he described his own Windows Mobile platform as having or soon acquiring 60 to 80% of the smartphone market. Its not just the number of iPhones sold, the Mobile Browser Stats for November 2007 showed iPhone at 47%, whereas the Windows CE had just 32% even though it has been selling with mobile browser for more then 5 years. So a product that was launched 5 months back is reaching 50% mark in mobile browser share. That is a serious problem for all the companies that were designing smartphone browsers.
Add More Features to Leopard's Screen Sharing
Submitted by lalit on December 18, 2007 - 6:09pm.
The Screen Sharing feature of iChat in Leopard is one of the most useful features. The Screen Sharing is based on Apple's Remote Desktop package. Apple's Remote Desktop Application can be used to maintain multiple computer but you have to pay $500 to buy the software. Luckily Apple left at least some of that functionality in the more-limited screen sharing application, which is disabled by default in Leopard. Macworld has posted complete instruction to activate these functionalities on your Mac. You should definitely check out complete details at MacWorld's website.
GPS Coming To iPhone Via External Dongle
Submitted by lalit on December 18, 2007 - 5:32pm.
We have seen few software based global positioning systems for iPhone. Part Foundry has announced first true GPS module that works with jail broken iPhone. The module will ship in February for $89. All software is open source and new applications are bring written for the module. The module is small enough to put on a keychain and has all the benefits that GPS provides. For more information about the GPS module check Part Foundry's website.
First It Was Wii Now PS3 Is Also Beating Xbox 360 In Weekly Sales
Submitted by lalit on December 14, 2007 - 10:07am.
It took Wii less then one year to overtake Xbox 360's total sales in two years. Now for past 2 months even PS3 is beating Xbox 360 in weekly sales. PS3 saw increase in sales when its price was dropped in October. Since then PS3 has been on continues rise. As of today PS3 has sold more then 7 Million units. It took Xbox almost 14 months to reach that mark but PS3 has done it in 12 months. Plus the boast in sales will definitely encourage game developers to develop more games for PS3 which would help PS3 sells in longer run. If PS3 continues to grow at this rate it would be a serious problem for Xbox 360 as Wii has already taken the number one spot for gaming consoles and the fight is on for the second place. [Via VG Chartz]
Rumor: Metallic Grey Macbooks Sighted on Apple's Campus
Submitted by lalit on December 14, 2007 - 9:41am.
Appleinsider is reporting that dark grey or gunmetal colored notebook of slender proportions making rounds in an area where Apple traditionally conducts stress tests. The notebook is thinner then the 13" Macbook but rest of the proportions are similar. There is no evidence that the sightings are of the sub-notebook that has been rumored for past one year. But it looks like Apple will very soon add to or update its laptop line.
Forbes: What Steve Jobs Will Unveil At Macworld?
Submitted by lalit on December 13, 2007 - 7:26pm.
Forbes has posted a list of what Apple might show at Macworld 2008. According to Rachel Rosmarin Apple fan's most cherished list includes Sub-notebook, Tablet, iPhones and more content for iTunes. The sub-notebook has been rumored for past two years and it is believed that the sub-notebook will have 12" or 13" LED backlit screen and no optical drive. It will be priced $1500 or more. The tablet that many think will be extension of iPhone's Multi-touch user interface and will have a 10" screen. Now will Apple jump in to a flop tablet market remain a question? In the past few months we have seen many references of rental content in iTunes code. How soon you will see the rental offering and what will be offered in the rental service is everyone's guess. You can read Rachel's Post here.
Leopard will Increase Mac Sales
Submitted by lalit on December 12, 2007 - 9:33am.
According to ChangeWave, " Apple computer sales continue to show strong consumer momentum. Not only is Apple maintaining the highest satisfaction levels among all manufacturers, but consumer purchases over the next 90 days look exceptionally robust." One in four respondents say that the release of Leopard makes them more likely to buy a Mac in the future according to the survey done by ChangeWave. Research firm Goldman Sachs is also predicting a very strong holiday sales for all Apple products and their analyst David Bailey remains confident about the company's forthcoming products like the new iPhone in 2008. By the look of it Mac sales are not slowing down anytime soon and Leopard is having almost the opposite effect of what Vista had on customers.
Toshiba to Release SCiB Batteries in March That Will Recharge in 5 Minutes
Submitted by lalit on December 12, 2007 - 9:13am.
Toshiba will release Super Charge ion Batteries (SCiB) in March of 2008, it will take just 5 minutes to recharge the battery to its 90% capacity and the battery will last 10 years or more (5000+ recharge). The SCiB batteries won't short-circuit and explode like Li-ion batteries. The 2.4V version measures 62 x 95 x 13mm and weighs 150 grams while the bigger, 24V version measures 100 x 300 x 45mm and 2000 grams. Well these batteries won't be used in laptop or MP3 players any time soon because of their size and weight. But I am waiting for the day when I can charge my laptop in 5 minutes. Initially the batteries will be used in hybrid cars and industrial devices.
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