text:
I just wanted to see how many different kinds of people we got going on this site :D
Just give a holler and let everyone know what area you represent!
I'm from Brampton, but for the sake of simplicity I'll say Toronto! WOO!
Views: 24566
I was going to make a joke about that, but actually, on consideration,
Let Portugals loss be New Zealands gain, you would be very welcome I think. Though to be perfectly honest and open with you, the shops, beaches and weather is far nicer in Australia!. ( It hurts a Kiwi to admit that in public, but I know my duty to a friend, Nia. :) ) Half a million Kiwis live in Australia simply because it is more fun and less rain.
Auckland University though, has always had a pretty good reputation for research!. The sailing on our Harbour is pretty amazing too.
I would love to visit/live in Australia if it were not the expense of moving and finding somewhere to live. I have heard some great things of the beauty of Australia.
Good for you. I live in Florida on the SE coast with many bible thumpers. I don't hide my atheism but I have the benifet of an atheist Meet Up group. Not all the believers shun me but they make no bones about it when they do. I could care less. As long as atheist hide in the closet the longer it will take to be accepted
I'm from Wyobraska. (Nickname for the Nebraska Panhandle.) About as far from civilisation as you can be in the continental USA, more specifically Broadwater (population 128). Sixty miles (100km) E of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and sixty miles N of Sidney, Nebraska (the home of Cabela's).
Life in this village is pretty slow, the biggest thing recently that happened here was a bull attacked the post office in the middle of the night smashing its door, then stampeded up the street in front of our house and left a cow pie in the street out front.
The streets are dirt, everything else is dirt too, and the village runs on cattle and corn.
Hobbiton, Middle Earth.
Which is cunningly hidden in plain sight in Auckland, New Zealand.
*Waves hello to the north and north west*
I'm from Ottawa, Canada.
For those looking to assemble physically/IRL: We have a major atheist conference coming up here at the end of November. We're only 5 hours by car from Toronto, 2 from Montreal, 6 from Buffalo, 8 from NYC and Boston (and also have a train station and international airport for those farther afield). Hope to see some of you there: eschaton2012.ca
I'm here in Yuma, AZ. Very conservative religious atmosphere, good-ole-boys town. I moved from Texas (southern baptist, assembly of god sects) to this border city which is drenched more in catholicism and private, small conservative evangelical churches. We have one church, United Church of Christ, this is supposedly Open-And-Affirming and embraces, welcomes Atheists, Agnostics, Alternative spirituality and they ARE a very active, supportive member of our PFLAG Yuma charter, so I give them a few kudos and do refer them to unfortunate GLBT youth and sad-n-lonely GLBT's who need that spirituality 'home',ha. I actually attended a UCC service (accompanying my In-Recovery Sober partner who can't get past the 3rd step of AA's religion-based 12 step program) and yes it was warm, welcoming but also very prayer and god based, which turned both of us off. My partner attending that religious service still did not help her with the 'god' aspect of AA. Thankfully we have a no-religion based alternative to AA here finally, SMART Recovery :)
Lastly, religion rears its' ugly head within work places and even on job interviews here. I've been unemployed for a bit (taking my time this time). My last job's supervisor discriminated against me because I'm GLBT and he hailed from the bible belt south and was obviously VERY southern baptist. The company supposedly had a o-tolerence bullying policy but my boss blatently gave preferential treatment to straight people (i was out gay and had loving pics of my partner on my cubicle wall). I did not pray, bow my head when he gave prayers for various touchy-feelie situations (employee died; disaster deaths etc) in our little closed-door team meetings. Could I "prove" I was being discriminated against? No! So, I endured the treatment until I my physical and mental health became unbearable, then I quit. Going on job interviews (& I dress and conduct myself most professionally), I can see and 'sense' the bias. At one job interview earlier this year, (private, AZ-based company) the Interviewer actually asked me: "If I was hired into a work atmosphere that was 'family-based' and supported employees exhibiting their religious beliefs, what are my feelings about that? FYI, AZ is a Right-To-Work state where you can be fired for being GLBT or if they just don't like you. From what I can recall after composing myself from the shock, I think I said that I have no religious beliefs and as long as religious employees did not try to enforce their beliefs on me or the religious exhibitions did not prevent me from doing my job or being rewarded for good work, I have no problems with that). From the look at the person's face and the fact that I was never called back, I'd say my response blew my prospect of getting that job. Yes, I could have lied and given an answer he wanted, but I am trying to be 'true to myself' and I hope it doesn't get me killed here (there are known KKK groups here and they're tight with the local bubbas). OK, enough from me. TMI, lol
Don't let the barstards grind you down, sport. :)
I can see how much more your burden is with the religious. Maybe you don't owe them the truth, have you thought?.
Consider the real danger they may put you in. It is nice of course to be friends with your workmates, but that, in the final breakdown, ain't why we go to work, is it. We go there to earn money, first and foremost, and maybe to extend ourselves.
Maybe you owe it to yourself to lie, even though it is repugnant to a moral person, but maybe it is the sane thing to do?. Kind of like lying to an enemy force?. I don't see that you need to risk your own safety, merely to tell the truth to a pack of bigots?.
Arizona is one of the worst for being anything but the general religious populace. It is tough being Hispanic, gay, atheist . That bitch of a governor and the legislature has all the cards. I hope they vote her out but to many zealots in that state prevent that from happening.Florida is no picnic but in my area it is tolerable.
I feel for you John,we hear all about Arizona here in Australia, the great american dream doesn't apply in Az unless you're a white, wealthy, fundie who votes republican.
Wherever there is bigotry, hatred and ignorance, religion is not far away.
"Wherever there is bigotry, hatred and ignorance, religion is not far away."
They have a commutative relationship; wherever there is religion, bigotry, hatred and ignorance are not far away.
Thanks Tom, yes definitely commutative.
Whenever we get the fundies knocking on our door I always ask how they feel about the people in our neighborhood (Newtown in Sydney very large LGBT population) and according to the last census 77% of all residents recorded no religion.
They always show that ingrained ignorance in their reply, "you have to answer to god" that's when I tell them to get off my doorstep because their bigotry is showing.
© 2018 Atheist Nexus. All rights reserved. Admin: Richard Haynes. Powered by


text:
Curiosity rover blasts, grabs and fondles its first Martian rock
Lump of Mars thoroughly investigated in drive-by examination
Mars rover Curiosity has completed its first contact with the Martian surface, successfully fondling a rock with its robotic arm.
The nuclear truck arrived at the "Jake Matijevic" rock, named after a late NASA engineer, after a short drive and probed the stone with its robotic arm to assess its chemical elements.
As well as getting to grips with the Martian rock, Curiosity also blasted the specimen with its Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, which is on a turret at the end of the arm. The Mars Hand Lens Imager, also on the turret, got a close-up shot of the rock.
The Chemistry and Camera instrument, or ChemCam, shot laser pulses at Jake Matijevic rock from the top of the rover's mast, to help verify the chemical findings.
Close-up of Jake Matijevic rock. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
The rock won't necessarily give Mars boffins a lot of data to work with, but the football-sized specimen was a good opportunity for Curiosity to test its gizmos and gadgets before it gets down to the serious science at Glenelg.
With the drive-by test-run behind it, the rover has now resumed its journey to Glenelg, where three different types of terrain will give it plenty to do. There it will get to use another of its robotic arm's attachments: the drill.
Before that, Curiosity is keeping its eye out for some likely soil to scoop up and pour into its onboard labs for analysis, as it starts its search for environments that have supported or could support microbial life. ®
Sponsored: Minds Mastering Machines - Call for papers now open

subset: commoncrawl


text:
New Orleans piano legend and master of the ivories, Henry Butler plays boogie-woogie, jazz, blues and classical music in the line of Professor Longhair, James Booker, Tuts Washington, and Allen Toussaint. He returns to Denver in a unique setting at Balistreri Vineyards on Saturday, August 9th.
To get your tickets, click here, or call Judi Williams at 303-446-7614, Arvida at 303-446-7631, or the day of, Tina Cartagena at 720-254-8511. Thank you for joining us for the 9th Annual KUVO Signature Fundraising Event. Let's get ready for the party! Please let us know if you have any questions, we may share them on the air!


text:
byJack McCarthy on
Government Gets On Board
In 2012, federal, state and local governments began to move toward cloud computing as they realized the cost savings it could achieve.
This trend will gain steam in 2013 as agencies rush to take advantage of cloud hosting. In response, system integrators and other solution providers in the government space will retool their business to provide cloud services.
Email this CRN article


text:
Jaime Hernandez: The 1996-S Uncirculated Soccer Commemorative Half Dollar was issued to celebrate the Olympic Games. The Mint made numerous Commemoratives during the Olympic Games.
Obverse: Obverse depicts two women playing soccer, it has the inscriptions, "Liberty USA Atlanta 1996 XXVI Olympiad and In God We Trust.
Reverse: The reverse design has an olympic flame with the words "Half Dollar, United States of America, E Pluribus Unum, Atlanta, and the year 1996. This is also the same reverse design that was used in the Swimming Half Dollar.
Pre Issue Price: $10.50
Regular Issue Price: $11.50
Max Mintage: 3,000,000
© 1999-2018 Collectors Universe NASDAQ: CLCT


text:
Oh Barley, your story brought tears to my eyes this morning. What a rough start and ending to your very short life. You were a very special boy that deserved so much more. thank you for reminding us how very important that heartworm medicine is.
Printable View
Oh Barley, your story brought tears to my eyes this morning. What a rough start and ending to your very short life. You were a very special boy that deserved so much more. thank you for reminding us how very important that heartworm medicine is.
Hello, What a touching tribute regarding Barley. I have tears in my eyes after reading your story and I am sorry you are no longer with us. Barley really sounds as if he was a loving special dog and he certainly deserved a longer life. Thank Goodness, you and others helped make his final months/days good for him.
I agree with you; we should protect our animals with med to prevent heartworms. I have a friend who at the time did not give her dog heartworm med. I said to her: "you say that you love your dog but if you really loved her, you would spend the money to get and give her heartworm prevention med" and soon after that, she took her dog for exam (no heartworms) and got heartworm med. Back to Barley, thank you for telling us about him, he really was a special. Congrats on being DOTD!
Oh Barley, what a story! You were a handsome boy and it seems touched quite a few hearts, including mine.:love: How brave of your humans to tell your story to help save other dogs! And what wonderful people, all that were mentioned, for helping you! :)
I hope you being DOTD is a special day for your humans.:love: I know you're looking down from the Rainbow Bridge. :)
Dear beautiful Barley~What a brave and courageous boy you were, a true survivor. Your indomitable spirit, your love for life despite your incredible health challenges, are truly an inspiration to us all. I too am in tears after reading your very moving story. I'm crying tears of sadness knowing you were taken from your Mom and Dad and all who loved you far before your time, and happy tears, knowing that there still exists in this world selfless, caring, devoted animal lovers like Claudia and Alan, Neuse River Golden Retriever Rescue, Dr. Riego and all at the Glenwood Animal Clinic, and of course your amazing Mom and Dad; people and organizations dedicated to giving deserving doggies such as yourself a chance at happiness and a healthy life. You fought SO valiantly, sweetheart, but you also lived those wonderful 2 years on your terms (to your Mom's dismay;)), enjoying every moment of your wonderful new life to the fullest; you just were THAT happy.:) And when it came to time for you to leave for the Rainbow Bridge, when your body grew too weary to carry on, you did so so valiantly, surrounded by family and so many of the caring friends you had made along the way, your heart filled with LOVE! Your family no longer has you there in body, Barley, but your precious spirit and your legacy, a legacy of unconditional love, courage and devotion, is everlasting. Your short life is testament to the enduring spirit of the canine, and your family's devotion and unconditional love the benchmark for all animal parents. I only hope more will heed your Mommy's plea in hopes that with time, no more doggies or families will have to suffer the heartbreak of a heartworm diagnosis. Now, run happy and healthy at the Rainbow Bridge, beautiful Barley, until that wonderful day or renunion, when you and your Mom and Dad, your doggies buds Maggie and Happy, and those precious kitties, are together again!:love::love::love: And to the parents of Barley, thank you SO much for all that you did for your beautiful boy. He was truly blessed to have known your family's unconditional love and devotion, and you equally blessed, having known Barley's Velcro love, having had the honor of sharing those near 2 years with truly, one of the most special dogs God ever created. (((hugs)))
What a loving tribute to such a courageous dog...I'm sure that Barley enjoyed every loving moment with his family. He will be missed...:love::love::love:
Bless you beautiful Barley. My heart breaks for you. Bless your wonderful Mom and Dad, and your BFF the Vet and the rescuers and everyone who was there for you:love:


text:
I have had several sea smoke's in the past. I think at least a couple from the '04 and '05 vintages and while I enjoyed them, I thought they could have used more time. I did not get the "tastes like a syrah" feeling, not even close, after trying those.
That said, there was nothing about the '07 Southing that resembled a Pinot! Color was very dark, black cherry and in the middle of the glass it veered towards opaque. The nose was all raisin and raisin on the palate with very noticeable tannins that got more aggressive as the wine opened up, where it started to taste jammy. I was left completely disappointed and for the first time I nearly agreed with tasters that said it tasted more like a syrah than a pinot, except that I would say the flavor profile matched closer to an overripe Zinfandel. Really...
"This is the strangest life I've ever known."
when i read the first paragraph I was like uh oh, my taste buds must be shot.
but it defintiely has syrah in it not zin !
This is my sig -> www.brownteacup.com
(Wine distributor)
Definitely not zin. The 07s are more restrained than previous vintages.
I guess my main point was that it did not taste like a pinot. I said more like a zinfandel than a syrah because of the jammy-ness, not really to say anything of those that think syrah.
And I did not find, personally, that this wine was in any sort of way "restrained".
"This is the strangest life I've ever known."
|Powered by Social Strata


text:
A 58-year-old motorcyclist from Gainesville died Saturday afternoon when she crashed while riding with a group of people in Silver Springs, according to Florida Highway Patrol troopers.
SILVER SPRINGS — A 58-year-old motorcyclist from Gainesville died Saturday afternoon when she crashed while riding with a group of people in Silver Springs, according to Florida Highway Patrol troopers.
The accident occurred on Northeast 145th Avenue Road near Northeast 46th Street. The road is a two-lane roadway, with several curves.
Troopers said Marta G. Artenzio-Mills, of Gainesville, was heading northbound on Northeast 145th Avenue Road, negotiating a lefthand curve approaching 46th Street when her motorcycle went off the roadway and she lost control of the bike, ejecting her.
Artenzio-Mills was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said. She was not wearing a helmet, troopers said.
Officials said Artenzio-Mills was among 10 motorcyclists in the group, and they were all riding single-file. Speed, troopers said, was not an issue.
The majority of the riders who were part of the group declined to talk to the Star-Banner.
One of them, Jeff Gehman, did say they are part of a group that enjoys riding, most of whom are from Gainesville. When they meet, they usually go on long bike rides, he said. In those rides, usually every weekend, they will travel to different places and, along the way, stop at various communities or landmarks to eat and sightsee.
The dead woman was a veteran motorcycle rider with 30 years of experience, Gehman said.
"She's a very accomplished rider," he said.
The death is the second fatality in two days in Marion County and the county's 37th traffic-related death for the year.
On Friday, 72-year-old Robert W. Ratliff, a seasonal resident who lives both in Illinois and Ocala, was killed when the 1979 Dodge 200 van he was driving ran off the roadway as he was traveling southbound on Northwest Gainesville Road and collided head-on into a palm tree at the intersection of Northwest 63rd Street. The impact sheered off the top of the palm tree.
Ratliff was pronounced dead by a paramedic on scene, officials said.
Authorities said it is not yet known if Ratliff, who was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash, had a medical condition or why the van ran off the road.


text:
NORRISTOWN — Are you young and feel as though your voice isn't heard by adults? Are you tired of the negativity that plagues Norristown? Are you bored? Afraid? Frustrated?
Norristown youth (ages 13 and older) are invited to bring their voice to a special "Youth Speaks" event on Friday, Jan. 11, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Greater Norristown Police Athletic League (GNPAL), 340 Harding Boulevard, Norristown.
This free event, sponsored by Norristown Area Communities That Care for Youth (CTC) and the Norristown Violence Prevention Initiative, will feature group discussion, open mic, and team building activities. Local artist Mydera SpeakMeFree (www.speakmefree.com) will also share her poem, "Town."
Domino's Pizza will provide dinner, and Sneaker Villa of Norristown will provide door prizes. Adults are welcome to attend, but the event is specifically for the young voices of Norristown.
For more information, please contact Viviann Schorle, coordinator, Norristown Violence Prevention Initiative, at 610-630-2111 ext. 257 or email@example.com.
Established in 2001, Norristown Area CTC brings together community residents and leaders to prevent substance abuse and violence in order to secure a more safe, caring and educated environment in which youth can live and grow to be productive members of our community. Norristown Area CTC is governed by a collaborative community board of residents, social service agencies, law enforcement, school district officials, faith-based organizations, and youth, as well as other interested community members. For more information about Norristown Area CTC, please visit www.norristownctc.org.


text:
Melik Ohanian's film Days, I See what I Saw and what I will See was produced in 2011 for the Sharjah Biennial, but was never screened there because it was deemed in direct contrast with the interests of the sheikh who financed the exhibition. Ohanian shows the horrible conditions in which many Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi immigrants are forced to live, while practically confined to a work camp; a very different reality from the opulent image public opinion has of life in the Arab Emirates.
The movie camera, installed on a 100-meter-long network of tracks, filmed day and night the space in front of it. Every day, the artist dismantled and replaced the dolly, moving the shot 100 meters forward, thus obtaining two distinct videos, with respectively diurnal and nocturnal images. The editing produced two singular long takes which represent 1,100 meters of space the camera traveled through the streets of the camp, for a total duration of 42 minutes. The two versions are projected concurrently on two sides of the same screen, going beyond the traditional borders of a film projection.


text:
Tots were on the lookout this past Saturday morning (March 23), as the annual Easter Egg Hunt — sponsored by the Grand River Area Family YMCA, in cooperation with the Chillicothe Parks Department — was held.
Choose the plan that's right for you. Digital access or digital and print delivery.


text:
Brett Dioguardi
Director of Partnerships, BOULD, LLC.
After working, studying, and traveling around the world for sustainability, I am excited to call Denver, Colorado my home. I work for a great start-up in the green building and experiential education space called BOULD.
BOULD is a mission-driven social enterprise organization that seeks to eliminate substandard housing by providing comprehensive green building education for professionals and students. BOULD utilizes collaboration with affordable housing builders and green building certification standards to provide relevant hands-on project experience and continuing education programming.


text:
Telltale Games and Mojang Announce 'Minecraft: Story Mode'
If you thought Tales from the Borderlands sounded like a stretch for Telltale Games to turn into an adventure game, then you ain't seen nothin' yet. Mojang and Telltale have announced that they're working on an adventure game based on Minecraft. It sounds like it would be a tough one to pull off, but based on Telltale's incredibly high level of quality work lately, I wouldn't put it past them.
We really know very little about the game so far, other than that the first episode will come to various platforms, including iOS, sometime in 2015, and that it will be "as Minecrafty as possible."


text:
SYS-CON.TV Webcasts
Did you read today's front page stories & breaking news?
Today's Top SOA Links
From the Wires
Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. Announces Filing of Shelf Registration
By: Marketwired .
Dec. 14, 2012 04:43 PM
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -- (Marketwire) -- 12/14/12 -- Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. ("Company") (NYSE MKT: UVE) announced that it has filed a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). When the shelf registration statement is declared effective by the SEC, it will allow the Company to offer and sell, from time to time in the future, in one or more offerings, up to an aggregate of $100 million of its securities, which may consist of common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, warrants, rights, depositary shares or units consisting of any of the foregoing. In addition, the selling stockholder named in the registration statement may, from time to time in one or more offerings, offer and sell up to 7,000,000 shares of the Company's common stock held by such selling stockholder. The Company will not receive any proceeds from the sale of common stock by the selling stockholder.
The shelf registration statement is intended to give the Company additional flexibility to finance future business opportunities and support the Company's insurance subsidiaries by accessing the capital markets in an efficient and cost effective manner. Specific securities, terms and offering prices will be determined at the time of any offering and disclosed in a separate prospectus supplement to be filed with the SEC at the time of each offering. The Company has no present intention of making an offering.
The selling stockholder requested that the Company register his shares of common stock in order to facilitate diversification of his assets. He has advised the Company that he has made no arrangements or commitments for the sale of the shares being registered.
The shelf registration statement filed by the Company with the SEC has not yet become effective. No securities covered by the registration statement may be sold prior to its effectiveness, nor may offers to buy those securities be accepted before that time, and no securities will be offered by the Company unless and until the Company determines to proceed with an offering. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities covered by the registration statement, nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. Any offer of the securities by the Company may be made solely by means of the prospectus included in the registration statement and the prospectus supplement for any future offering by the Company.
About Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc.
Forward-Looking Statements and Risk Factors
Investor Contact:
Web 2.0 Latest News
Subscribe to the World's Most Powerful Newsletters
Subscribe to Our Rss Feeds & Get Your SYS-CON News Live!
SYS-CON Featured Whitepapers
Most Read This Week


text:
FIFA's future is secured well into the future, but the series is also known for making decent progress in its yearly iterations. A new trailer for FIFA 14 shows off the new features coming for this installment.
The trailer, which resembles more of a slow-mo highlight reel, highlights the pure shot feature, improve ball protection mechanics, and more exact movement. All of that should help you secure high-scoring games in which you reach two or even three points.


text:
Either the Washington Wizards or the New Orleans Hornets will end a losing streak on Tuesday night when the two teams meet in the Big Easy.
The Wizards have dropped two in a row since their upset of the defending champion Miami Heat one week ago Tuesday. They lost in Atlanta and fell at home to the Golden State Warriors 101-97 on Saturday.
In that setback, the Wiz lost starting point guard A.J. Price in the first quarter with a fractured right hand. He is out of the lineup and Price was only the starter because John Wall is still on the shelf with a knee injury.
In Price's absence, Shaun Livingston is expected to get the start, but Washington is considering all options.
"We're looking at different scenarios," acknowledged head coach Randy Wittman. "We haven't done anything, don't know when, or if, we will do anything, but we're looking at different options, different people."
Wittman conceded that they brought some players in as possible replacements.
Against the Warriors, the Wizards were done in by a poor first quarter. Washington lost the opening frame 28-21 and ultimately fell by four. The Wizards only committed eight turnovers and were led by 22 from Jordan Crawford off the bench.
The Hornets have dropped three in a row, including a Saturday loss to the Heat by a 106-90 score. The three losses came at the expense of very good NBA Championship contenders, the Heat, the Memphis Grizzlies and Los Angeles Lakers.
The Hornets struggled in the second quarter against the Heat. Miami out-paced New Orleans 33-15 before the half and that proved to be enough.
"There was bad stuff in both quarters to start the game defensively," said head coach Monty Williams. "The first half, I think our young guys were in awe and that's natural."
Ryan Anderson once again led the way for the Hornets with 24 points on 4-for-6 shooting from the 3-point line. Robin Lopez added 20 points and eight rebounds.
The Hornets allowed over 100 points for the third time in the last five games. The poor defensive performance has forced Williams to make some decisions.
"We should get some help when we get Anthony Davis back sometime next week and I may have to make another change," Williams said. "Because our guards aren't guarding the ball defensively the way that we need to."
The Wizards, who play their next two away from home and are the only winless road team in the NBA, have won two of their last three in New Orleans.


text:
Has-Maher-a! The Not-So-New Depths of Bill Maher's Delusion and Depravity
By Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America | December 4, 2012
In a recent interview with the Jewish Journal, unfunny comedian Bill Maher has once again praised Israel for its restraint in only committing rampant war crimes in Gaza rather than a full-scale nuclear genocide of a civilian population.
Two-and-a-half years ago, I wrote a lengthy post about Maher's appalling anti-Islam bigotry and staggering ignorance regarding the factual history of his favorite colonial-settler ethnocracy, Israel. While Maher's vitriolic attacks on Muslims, grotesque caricature of Palestinians in particular and unconditional fealty to Zionist propaganda has continued unabated in the intervening years, comments made in his Jewish Journal interview – conducted just days after the Israeli military concluded its latest criminal bombardment of besieged Gaza that succeeded in murdering over 160 people, including 42 children – concisely illustrate his warped understanding of reality.
Condemning religious people for ignorance of their own doctrinal scripture, Maher says, "I think if they read the bible, especially the Old Testament, I think they would be appalled," adding that if biblical stories were de-contextualized and read only as a vengeful deity "wiping these people out and ethnically cleaning [sic] them for no apparent reason, how he does things on a whim and how he's jealous; They'd go, 'This is terrible.'"
While Maher may be correct on this point, he then claims that Judaism is "certainly not as dangerous as Islam and Christianity. Those are warlike religions." One is left to wonder if Maher knows what the Old Testament actually is.
Maher finds elements of Judaism "insane" and "funny" and, in his world, the religion seems to boil down to kooky inventions like the Shabbos Elevator which "doesn't really threaten anybody's life."
For Maher, who seems to be channeling the myopia of Jon Stewart here, every Muslim is a brainwashed terrorist, while every Jew is just a hapless nebbish – one part Catskills-era Jackie Mason, one part whining Yiddish Bubbe. Muslims are violent fanatics who blow things up, whereas Jews are more concerned with hikes in bus fares and guilt-tripping their children. Never in Maher's mind could Jewish people be seen as racists, occupiers, ethnic cleansers, and colonists. Never could they level neighborhoods, attack civilian populations with the most high-tech killing machines and chemical weapons, or discriminate against communities based solely on their religion or ethnicity. They are victims – always – never aggressors.
It is therefore unsurprising that Maher stated, "Y'know, maybe Arabs and Jews are both crazy, but Jews save a tiny piece of their mind for science, math, and writing sitcoms. Arabs, on the other severed hand, seem to spend all their time handing down grudges from one generation to the next."
Maher has apparently never stopped to wonder what the world would be like without coffee, carpets, windmills, parachutes, soap, fountain pens, romantic poetry, algorithms, trigonometry, rose windows, pointed arches, scalpels, forceps, dissolving stitches, anesthesia, cataract surgery, cameras and the science of optics – to name just a few – all products of Arab and Muslim minds. And where would we all be without Khalil Gibran, Steve Jobs, and 1980's pop sensation Tiffany, whose last name is Darwish?
Because he is generally seen as "liberal" in mainstream discourse, the inconsistencies and ignorance in Maher's conception of world religions and his passionate attachment to Israel are cause for concern.
To his credit, Maher is honest about his proclivities. "I've never hid the fact that I don't think it's a conflict where both sides are equally guilty," he told Danielle Berrin, who writes the "Hollywood Jew" column for the Jewish Journal. "I'm more on the side of the Israelis; that's why Benjamin Netanyahu did my show a few years ago, before he was Prime Minister."
Is Maher saying here that Netanyahu will only do interviews with Zionists? Maher also neglects to mention that his interview with Netanyahu was in 2006, soon after Israel had decimated southern Lebanon for a month, killing 1,180 people (about a third of whom were children), wounding over 4,050, and displacing about 970,000 others as direct result of the more than 7,000 air attacks by the Israeli Air Force and an additional 2,500 bombardments by the Israeli Navy that deliberately contravened international law and targeted civilian infrastructure.
Maher repeatedly praised the assault in which Lebanese men, women and children were being blown to pieces, claiming that condemning Israeli war crimes (which he benignly referred to as Israel being "forced to kill people in its own defense") was the same thing as anti-Semitism. Maher seemed blissfully oblivious to the facts, including evidence that Israel had actually instigated the conflict and willfully continued the "widespread destruction of apartments, houses, electricity and water services, roads, bridges, factories and ports… even when it became clear that the victims of the bombardment were predominantly civilians, which was the case from the first days of the conflict."
At the end of his fawning interview with the once-and-future Prime Minister, Maher quotes a Jerusalem Post article: "The Foreign Ministry would do well to watch Bill Maher to learn how to sell Israel's case to a TV audience… ," then asks Netanyahu, "What do you think? I could roll that way!"
Netanyahu's response? "Hey Bill, watch it, if I'm Prime Minister, you'll get the job."
Clearly, they both got their wish.
Maher's original admission that he is "more on the side of the Israelis" acknowledges that he finds Palestinians – an indigenous population that was dispossessed, displaced and all but destroyed by militarily superior Zionist forces and which has lived as refugees under perpetual occupation, deliberately denied sovereignty, self-determination and self-defense for over six decades; a people demonized, dehumanized and traumatized who are routinely condemned in their desperate resistance to subjugation, colonization and collective punishment for not taking enough care to protect the lives and collective identity of its oppressors and occupiers – far more culpable for the persistence of a century-old "conflict" than the Israelis – a nuclear-armed, superpower-backed, settler society that institutionally discriminates against the non-Jewish communities whose lives it controls.
And this guy is called "liberal"?
Maher's take on Israel/Palestine boils down to this: "It's not that complicated: Stop firing rockets into Israel and perhaps they won't annihilate you," he told Berrin. Perhaps. Annihilate. That Israel might cease its occupation, blockade, night raids, airstrikes and land theft is obviously not the problem here. No, it's the futile and frustrated reaction to such trifles that is beyond Maher's pale. Again, one hundred years of history is erased and replaced by an invented narrative of violent Arabs endlessly attacking innocent Israeli Jews. Maher is obviously unaware that, according to a 2009 study, "it is overwhelmingly Israel, not Palestine, that kills first" following a ceasefire, thus instigating retaliatory rocket fire from Gaza. "Indeed," the study concluded, "it is virtually always Israel that kills first after a lull lasting more than a week." The recent Israeli bombing campaign against Gaza is no exception.
Moreover, Maher seems to be unaware that four years have passed since Israel's massacre in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009, claiming that Palestinians "lost over 1,000 people" in the recent Israeli offensive. Keeping abreast of facts, of course, isn't Maher's concern when describing a week of devastation wrought upon a caged population of 1.7 million with nowhere to run and no viable means to protect itself as Gaza gets, in Maher's words, its "ass kicked." One can assume that, in his childhood, Maher spent many an hour kicking the asses of ants with a magnifying glass.
But all this is merely prologue to where both Maher and his interlocutor Berrin were about to go. Berrin posed a leading question to Maher about proportionality and the vast discrepancy between Israeli and Palestinian death tolls and got the answer she was hoping for:
Its obvious that Israelis, in all of their battles with the Palestinians, show restraint. Because they have nuclear weapons. And if the situation was reversed, I don't doubt for a second that Palestinians would fire them immediately. They'd use the maximum of what they have available and the Israelis don't.
Ok, ignore the hypothetical nature of role-reversal (how would an indigenous population occupy and colonize parts of its own land?) and leave aside the sheer stupidity of assuming Palestinians in Gaza would launch nuclear weapons at a state in which 20% of the population are themselves Palestinian or that Tel Aviv is roughly 50 miles away from Gaza meaning that Palestinians would essentially be dropping a nuke on themselves. Or the weirdness of suggesting that the Palestinian goal of self-determination, statehood and equal rights in their historic homeland could be achieved by physically obliterating that very homeland and making it literally uninhabitable. And forget that the "restraint" Maher lauds in Israel's recent round of murder is a casualty ratio of 33-1.
Maher actually contends here that Israel shows "restraint" merely by not engaging in the complete nuclear holocaust of Palestinians, a desperate refugee population Israel itself created through ethnic cleansing and continued occupation. The fact that Israel's conventional military might and capacity for lethal destruction far surpasses that of most countries on the planet is obviously irrelevant, as is the tragedy that such "restraint" in late November included the murder of ten members of the al-Dalou family, including four children, crushed to death when Israel bombed their three-story home in Gaza. Such is the Israeli conception of "restraint" and Maher's explicit endorsement of excessive Israeli force against a civilian Palestinian population.
Maher has said similar things before. A few years ago he suggested that, if rockets were fired into the United States from Canada, "we would have nuked them a hundred times by now," despite the fact that the analogy literally makes no sense. In fact, Maher's penchant for recycling material is nothing new. On November 21, when a ceasefire was announced, Maher tweeted:
- ✔
Glad Hillary was able to get a cease-fire in Gaza. Otherwise known as Stopping to Reload.
Obviously, for Maher, those "reloading" are the Palestinians and not the Israelis, who are annually gifted with $3 billion in military aid from the United States, have their own booming arms industry, and have some of the planet's most sophisticated and deadly weaponry in its own perennially loaded arsenal. Maher used the same line on March 18, 2011 during an obsequious Real Time interview with Israeli ambassador Michael Oren because, hey, when it's disingenuous and not funny the first time, why not roll it out a year-and-a-half later?
Before wrapping up the Jewish Journal interview, Maher resorted to tossing out some hackneyed hasbara talking points. While it should be remembered that "the Palestinians do have gripes," he said (yes, gripes), the real threat to Israel is "becoming a minority Jewish state within their own country." Whose country? Oh, and, yeah, calling for demographic engineering isn't particularly progressive, Bill. It's just racist.
Maher of course can't let the interview end without interjecting the mother of all hasbara canards: that Israeli actions against the Palestinians in Gaza (aka war crimes) are motivated primarily by "self-defense." As always, the occupied indigenous refugees with homemade rockets and smuggled AK-47s are transformed into eliminationist aggressors while the colonizing occupiers armed with drones, Apache helicopters, F-16 jets, tanks, warships, white phosphorous and nuclear bombs are the innocent victims of senseless anti-Semitic violence. It goes without saying that, for Maher, Palestinians are never entitled to defend themselves.
But remember, as Maher told the Jewish Journal, Judaism simply isn't a "warlike religion" like the others – despite the fact that a self-proclaimed "Jewish State" was established atop Palestine, its native inhabitants massacred or driven from the land by Zionist militias, its towns, villages, groves and orchards razed and reduced to rubble by Israeli bombs, tank treads and bulldozers.
Never mind that, during the 2008-9 massacre of Gaza known in Israel as Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli military rabbinate actively called upon Jewish soldiers not to "show mercy" towards its "enemy," comparing Palestinians to ancient Philistines, ripe for righteous slaughter. It disseminated material declaring "a biblical ban on surrendering a single millimeter of it [the Land of Israel] to gentiles, though all sorts of impure distortions and foolishness of autonomy, enclaves and other national weaknesses," and insisting, "We will not abandon it to the hands of another nation, not a finger, not a nail of it."
Never mind that chief army rabbi, Brigadier General Avichai Rontzki, made it perfectly clear that the rabbinate's goal in relation to Israeli soldiers was "to fill them with yiddishkeit and a fighting spirit." In that campaign, the Israeli military killed over 1,400 Palestinians, the majority of whom were non-combatant men, women and children, and wounding thousands upon thousands more in just over three weeks. Despite the worldwide condemnation of Israeli war crimes in Gaza, Rontzki remained convinced that "[i]n Israel's wars, warriors are God-fearing people, righteous people, people who don't have sins on their hands."
Never mind that, in November 2009, rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, an Israeli settler who lives in the illegal West Bank colony of Yitzhar near Nablus, published The King's Torah, which "describes how it is possible to kill non-Jews according to halakha (Jewish religious law)." According to the Israeli press, "the book contains no fewer than 230 pages on the laws concerning the killing of non-Jews, a kind of guide for anyone who ponders the question of if and when it is permissible to take the life of a non-Jew" and states that, as non-Jews are "uncompassionate by nature," even children are legitimate targets for murder. "One must consider killing even babies," the book says, "because of the future danger that will be caused if they are allowed to grow up to be as wicked as their parents."
Never mind that during the most recent Israeli attacks, with the Biblical moniker Operation Pillar of Cloud, Gilad Sharon, son of former Prime Minister/comatose war criminal Ariel Sharon, declared in The Jerusalem Post that – because Hamas won a majority in Parliamentary elections in January 2006 – "the residents of Gaza are not innocent," urging the Israeli military to "flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza," just like the United States decimated the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. "There is no middle path here," Sharon concluded, "either the Gazans and their infrastructure are made to pay the price, or we reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip."
Never mind that Knesset minister Michael Ben-Ari echoed Sharon's sentiments, saying, "There are no innocents in Gaza," imploring the Israeli military to "mow them!" Referring to Gaza as the Biblical Sodom, Ben-Ari addressed soldiers directly, asserting that "there are no righteous men, turn it into rubble. Paint it red! We are worried about you and rely on you. We all do, all of the Nation of Israel," an unmistakable reference to all Jewish people worldwide, not merely citizens of the State of Israel.
Never mind that, on November 21, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon declared that "most of the people" in Gaza killed by Israel "deserved it," falsely claiming that those killed and wounded "were just armed terrorists," when in fact the vast majority were unarmed civilians, including dozens of women, children and babies.
Never mind that more than 90% of Jewish Israelis supported Israel's November 2012 bombardment of Gaza. Never mind that roughly 94% supported Cast Lead. Never mind that, according to a recent study, Israel remains the single most militarized nation in the world, a distinction it has held for nearly 20 straight years.
No, no, not "warlike." Not at all.
Back in September 2010, Maher told Larry King that, along with Saudi Salafis and the Afghan Taliban, he thought "Hamas is crazy." When King asked how "a civilized world" should "deal with crazies," Maher replied, "I would say, first thing is don't use the Army." Considering his obvious affinity for and justification of Israeli violence against Palestinians in Gaza, either Maher somehow exempts the Israeli military from such a prescription or, more appropriately, he doesn't find Israel to be part of the "civilized world." It is doubtful Maher would pick the latter option.
To make the point that Maher is uninformed on the topic of Israel and Palestine is obvious. That his enthusiastic promotion of Zionist propaganda and apologia seems not to affect his reputation as a mainstream liberal mouthpiece is considerably more alarming.
Related articles
- Oh Bill Maher, There You Go Again… (randomrationality.com)
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.


text:
Finally realizing that 'we'll let congress work it out' wasn't going to cut it for the tax deductions and loopholes he plans to cut to make his tax plan deficit neutral, Romney floated some ideas now on how he might go about it. One the ideas he floated he called the deduction 'bucket' which is essentially putting a cap on the deductions you can take. His plan is set the limit at $17,000. Under this plan, you can take any combination of deductions you want but once your total deductions reach $17,000; that is all you get, you can't take any more.
Now I don't know if this suggestion would balance the equation with the rest of Romney's plan (critics are highly doubtful) but I'm not really interested in that point here. I'm interested in this idea in and of itself, is implementing a tax deduction cap a good idea? It sounds like a fair idea that would affect higher income earners more than lower income earners and should raise considerable revenue. Should we implement something like this (regardless of who wins) and is $17,000 the right figure or should it be higher or lower? What do you think?


text:
You are a fan of hess ? Come to discover the best forums hess on the internet and share your experience with a community fan of hess . You can also build a forum hess and create your online discussion.
Free forum : The 1st Forum for Professionals in the Tonsorial Arts
stylists, clippers, scissors, razors, hair, cuts, barbers, barber, shop, supplies, sell, trade, help, wanted, haircuts, osters, andis, lather, machines, barbershop, salon, traditional, barbering, #hess, clipper, repair


text:
Submission + - Chrome Throws Flash Into the Sandbox (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: Google announced today that it will be extending Chrome's sandboxing technology to include the Flash Player plug-in. "Sandboxing" technology is a method of isolating an application from the rest of the operating system and tightly controlling its resources. According to Google, the new sandboxing feature adds an additional layer of protection and will help protect users against malicious pages that attempt to hijack systems or steal information from the system.


text:
posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Jan 2006 18:14 UTC, submitted by Anonymous
"Monad, also known more formally as the MSH Command Shell, is a next generation Windows command shell. Built on top of the .NET Framework, MSH provides a powerful infrastructure for the automation of a wide range of administrative tasks. At last, the command line is a first-class citizen in the world of Windows system management."


text:
One imaginative TamaTalker will win a combo pack containing one Tamagotci Connection v1, one Tamagotchi v2 and one Tamagotchi Mini!
Download the official contest entry form (available here and seen below) and use the File Attachments field to upload your evolving Tamagotchi character to enter (must be GIF, JPEG or PNG format). Only one entry per person!
Your entry must be on this entry form:


text:
It's become an annual occurrence that big-name players are linked with big-money moves to big-status clubs.
And whilst the stories may receive big levels of attention, the realistic chances of them actually happening are usually fairly small.
However that's not to say that virtually every football fan on the planet doesn't enjoy a bit of unbelievable speculation from time to time, and this year the rumour mill has been sent into overdrive.
When high-profile players depart clubs on a whim it's usually a fairly shocking affair for all involved, but it does stand to prove that in the modern game it's become an unheard of rarity for a player to actually pledge their unerring allegiance to one team for the entirety of their careers, and follow through with the promise.
With that being said we look at ten of the most surprising and perhaps painfully shocking transfers that could stand to happen this year...
Do YOU want to write for GiveMeSport? Get started today by signing-up and submitting an article HERE: https://www.givemesport.com/writeforgms


text: Obviously, we don't have access to all of Blizzard's audience, and our polls are definitely much less scientific than the data Blizzard gets to look at (you better believe they're tracking transfers and faction and race choices with a close eye, just as they're tracking server populations 24/7), but just for the heck of it, we'll ask. After the break, we've got a few polls designed to give us a very general look at how transfers are playing out so far. There's a lot of anecdotal experiences flying around since transfers went live, but I'd like to know, a little more objectively, just how things are panning out.


text:
Help, discussion, magazine feedback and more
Moderators: ChriThor, LXF moderators
c0rd0bes wrote:OSx will be available for x86 and will be gunning for Microsoft's share of the OS market.
c0rd0bes wrote:I think apple can rely on their base users to still buy the hardware whilst opening the Osx to the whole x86 vannila and all.
Rhakios wrote:Maybe, I am in the process of getting it via bittorrent. Why? Because for yet another limited time, it's free!.
Return to Magazine and coverdiscs
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests


text:
Flames round up Blue Colts in first dual meet of season
December 8, 2013 | Colonial Heights, Va.
Liberty University's wrestling team traveled with 10 of its top competitors through a wintry mix of weather conditions to Colonial Heights High School, south of Richmond, on Sunday to open its dual meet schedule against Middlesex (N.J.) Community College.
The Flames won two matches by forfeit and recorded two technical falls and five major decisions in the lopsided 41-3 victory over the Blue Colts.
Returning NCWA national runner-up and 2012 champion Aaron Thompson got his first action of the season after recovering from a knee injury, notching a 13-2 major decision over Middlesex's Mike Vettori at 197 pounds.
At 174, Flames junior Keyshaun Ward scored multiple takedowns and back points against Angelo D'Agostino, posting a 21-6 tech fall triumph.
Freshman Ryan Diehl, who had captured Liberty's only individual championship at last month's Fall Brawl, dominated Middlesex's Deshaun Hazul at 133 pounds, winning by tech fall in just 2 minutes, 36 seconds.
Three other freshmen scored major decisions for the Flames: Tim Nordan opened the match by shutting out Anthony Spaziani, 13-0 at 125; Ike Podell blanked Kyle Jensen, 11-0 at 141; and Josh Ferenczy outscored Taylor Black, 15-4 at 165.
Also for Liberty, sophomore Peter Tatanish defeated Gavin Pejakovich by 17-4 major decision at 149 and 157-pounder junior Chase Boontjer and sophomore heavyweight Josh Travers won by forfeit. Freshman Matt Reynolds suffered the only setback, losing his 184-pound match to Kurtis Hewitt, 5-3 in overtime.
Due to the weather forecast, Ferrum College, which had competed with a less select group of Flames at Saturday's Turkey Bowl hosted by Southern Virginia University, dropped out of what was originally scheduled to be a tri-match.
Liberty next competes at the Citrus Classic Invitational, Dec. 29-30 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.


text:
"What are we without our mothers?" Texans wide receiver
The All-Pro, who was hitting the links in preparation for the inaugural Andre Johnson Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic, is teeing off for a great cause. The charitable event will benefit the Houston Area Women's Center, an organization dedicated to helping individuals affected by domestic and sexual violence in their efforts to move forward.
"My foundation is always working with kids that grew up in a single parent home and things like that," Johnson said. "I've been able to work with the women at the Women's Center in the past, and we wanted to reach back out to them and work with them again. Giving back to the women that have been battered and stuff like that and have been through some tough things in their life, just to help them get back on their feet. We just try to help out as much as we can."
President and CEO Rebecca White was elated with Johnson's selection of the Women's Center as the golf classic's beneficiary.
"It's just fabulous," White said. "I just can't tell you how excited we are. Of course, we're all big football fans, but we're also big fans of people who step up in our community and do something about the issues that we as a community confront. Domestic and sexual violence, not everyone wants to come out and talk about that. We're very impressed with the level of leadership and courage and compassion that this event shows to those that we serve."
"That is just truly amazing," Chair of the Women's Center Sandra Aultman echoed. "We haven't had anyone of this celebrity, one of our hometown heroes, step up for our organization. It's going to be far reaching."
For 37 years the Women's Center has been providing shelter, counseling and advocacy to support women, children and men in building lives free from the effects of violence. Johnson's contribution will assist in providing a place of refuge and relief to the 120 people living in residential shelters.
"We're still talking with Mr. Johnson and the foundation about exactly where they want to see those dollars to go," White said, "but we have many, many very valuable programs that help address the problems of domestic and sexual violence and help those affected move their lives forward. That's what it's really all about."
Johnson explained why he chose a golf tournament to raise money, as opposed to some other activity.
"I'm getting older, I'm not a young kid anymore," he said with a laugh. "I just think with time the decisions you make just change. Right now, golf is my new little thing of interest, I guess."


text:
I gotta make myself go, so if there's a process it may not happen and it needs to happen.
Printable View
I gotta make myself go, so if there's a process it may not happen and it needs to happen.
The times don't really seem set in stone, it says 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after, but I showed up 3 hours early without any issue.
Going to Costa Rica in January. I did a quick search through the thread and it was only mentioned a few times with no specifics. We're into good food, good drinks, beginner/amateur surfing, snorkeling, scuba, hiking and anything beach related.
Damn you, Southwest 40% off deal!
Just booked a flight to Connecticut for the middle of January. I'm already dreading the cold, but also assuming all the alcohol I'll be drinking will keep me warm.
I get to leave for the Bridge Concert in a week :). I think we are going to spend a short time in Vegas too.... Life is good .... cr****
My work is sending me to MA the first week of November. I'll be doing a pub crawl the evening of Nov 3 around the Tremont area if anyone wants to join.
Alright. Going to Europe at the end of the year. Planning on doing some camping, hostel hopping, and staying with acquaintances. We're gonna need some snow gear I assume to be safe? Wondering if anyone has experience travelling in the winter time over there and any tips they could pass on.
Snow Gear? It really depends where In Europe you are going to. England gets maybe a week of snow every winter. Scandinavia is your main snowfest.
I'm currently in Reykjavik. Had puffin and shark for lunch.
Is puffin worth all the hype?
Headed to Los Cabos next week. More excited about two weeks off work than a sunny holiday. Planning on hitting all the great snorkel spots in the area.
I saved the whale last night. It was the last thing I ate on my plate.
I am trying to maybe make a trip out to Vegas in the next week or two. Visit some friends and buy a ferret.
Is Puffin gamey?
Has any one been to panama? Suggestions on backpacking through panama?
Would taking a train from Brussels to Budapest then into Romania be worth it or would flying into Budapest from Brussels be better?
Also, has anyone been to Romania and surrounding countries, any recommendations?
I am currently toying with Barcelona to Berlin to Romania for an archaeology trip then train to Brussels or another cheap port back to Vancouver/Canada. Would it be worth it do just do a couple of cities that a far apart from each other for a week at a time or should I spend my resources in a smaller area?
It depends how much of a train geek you are. If traveling by train is not in itself something that you derive pleasure from, then just fly. It's likely to be both cheaper and faster.
I have been to Budapest but not Romania. I definitely want to visit Romania, Bulgaria, and Ukraine as well, when I have the free time. They are supposed to be fantastic.
Looking to cross an item off my bucket list, going to a Duke game in January. I did some research and there doesn't seem to be much to do or see in North Carolina so I was thinking of flying into D.C., playing there for two days, then driving to North Carolina for a couple days. Any suggestions?
no suggestions from me, but since I'll be in D.C. for the first weekend of February I'm curious as well!! I was just planning on getting the tour bus pass thingy and seeing the historic sights, but definitely interested in some night life options.
this travel article from the New York Times.
Canadians and Canada-lovers: any tips for Whistler? I'm going skiing there next week.
Driving up to Vancouver and back from 12/26 thru 1/4. No set timeframe other than spending NYE in Vancouver and stopping in SF, Portland and Seattle either on the way up or down. Did Seattle in March and loved it, can't wait to go back. Any suggestions for Portland or Vancouver?
I also was accepted into an archaeological dig in Romania and just weighing it all now. I am looking at flights and the best value seems to be in Budapest for 1200 rt from Seattle. I saw SEA - Brussels for 800 a few weeks ago but that is gone now. Any ideas for where is the best to fly into? Any highlights for the area in the summer time?
ask this guy...


text:
Hospitality and Tourism Management
SACE4850 - Orgniz Studies Capstone Semin
Fall 2011
This course is designed to be the capstone seminar for the organizational studies degree. The focus for the course is the application of previously learned information in areas such as: ethics, communications, leadership, and interpersonal relations. The teaching method for this course is case study in nature. All students will have the opportunity to apply theory into practice as it pertains to the workplace setting.
Prerequisite: SACE3200
3 Credits
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with SACE4850
No Courses Found


text:
GW Cross Country Returns to Action at Saturday's Leopard Invitational
Colonials Set for Final Race Before Atlantic 10 Championship
Oct. 18, 2013
Men's 8K Course Map | Women's 6K Course Map
WASHINGTON - The George Washington men's and women's cross country teams return to action at Saturday's Leopard Invitational at Metzgar Fields, hosted by Lafayette University.
The men's 8,000-meter race commences at 10:00 a.m., followed by the women's 6,000-meter race at 11:00 a.m.
The Leopard Invitational marks the final tune-up race for both teams ahead of the Atlantic 10 Championships on November 2 in Richmond, Va.
The teams last competed at the Leopard Invitational during the 2011 season, with the women's team taking 10th place out of 12 teams and the men finishing in 12th out of 13 squads.
Graduate student Angela Ryck leads the women's team with four consecutive top-GW finishes, including a first-place performance at Catholic Invitational and a fifth-place performance at the Mount St. Mary's Duals.
Juniors Erica Halvorson and Katie Luker are the only student-athletes from either team to previously compete at the Leopard Invitational. Luker finished in 57th place in 2011 while Halvorson took 76th place.
On the men's side, sophomore Ryan Tucker paces the squad with three top-GW finishes. Freshman Seamus Roddy led the Colonials in their last race, taking 45th place at the Paul Short Invitational on Oct. 5.
More Headlines
09/03/2013 | M. Cross Country
George Washington Athletics to Reinstate Diving, Track
Sports to Offer Additional Opportunities for Student-Athlete Achievement and Team Competitiveness
11/14/2013 | M. Cross Country
GW Cross Country to Run at NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional on Friday
Colonials Return to Lehigh for Chance at NCAA Championships
10/15/2013 | M. Cross Country
@GW_Sports, @MasonAthletics to Commence Revolutionary Rivalry
Atlantic 10 Conference Rivals Will Compete Annually for Tri-Corner Hat Trophy


text:
Read the details of the bill on the Illinois General Assembly site at http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocTypeID=SB&DocNum=3236&GAID=11&SessionID=84&LegID=64281.
In a prepared statement, Riders for Better Transit said, "the proposed legislation is aimed at addressing the inadequate funding for transit options at a time when residents are increasingly looking for an alternative to driving. The Chicago area is one of the country's most congested regions. Strong transit service helps reduce congestion, improve commute times, save households money and enhance the region's quality-of-life, making transit one of the wisest transportation investments available.
"Transit Fast Forward would generate an estimated $11.6 million in 2013, and a projected $168 million over the first five years. It indexes the state gas tax with inflation, a move that will dedicate an additional fraction of a penny per gallon to public transportation. The end result will be better commutes for drivers and transit riders alike."


text:
Cayambe Climber's Log
WDW4 - Jan 9, 2012 9:57 am Date Climbed: Jan 5, 2012Reached 5,600 meters
Left from the Refugio around midnight with a large group, started snowing around 4 am, made it to 5,600 around dawn before being turned back by a combo of low visibility and crevasses.
lutty11 - Dec 28, 2011 10:47 pm Date Climbed: Nov 17, 2010Normal Route
One of the best days climbing. Fresh/wet/sketchy snow early on, proved to become much more stable as we ascended. Could have used one more acclimation day!
karore - Oct 8, 2011 11:36 am Date Climbed: Jan 4, 2011Normal Rute
Straight climb but it was cloudy so we didn't get to see much.
noahs213 - Nov 7, 2010 4:01 pm Date Climbed: Nov 5, 2010Great
Straightforward. Final crevasse was not bad but everyone turned around even the American guides.
russmeehan - Aug 5, 2010 11:06 am Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2010Normal Route
Camped below glacier (no fee). Left at 1:38 am. and made the top at 6:50 am. Had to zig zag through crevasses near top and set up a belay for a steep snow wall (about 1 to 2 body lengths of 90 degrees). A snow stake would be helpful and some wands since most groups turn around below the big crevasse.
Epica - Sep 22, 2009 12:32 am Date Climbed: Oct 27, 2008One of the best days of my life!
Started out around midnight from the refuge, but the lack of acclimatization finally caught up with me and didn't make it to the top. I still loved being on that mountain and will be back one day, with much more time to enjoy!
Shirley Lam - Aug 18, 2009 3:25 pm Date Climbed: Jan 29, 2009Thank goodness...
I was still getting over some pretty bad stomach problems, so it was nice that mother nature had a little pity for me and gave us great weather and snow conditions!
bighornmonkey - Feb 2, 2009 5:19 pm Date Climbed: Jan 29, 2009Awesome conditions
Clear/windless night made the summit push a breeze especially since we were well acclimated having climbed Chimborazo and Cotopaxi a few days before. Great view over a sea of cloud from the top.
Bill Kish - Jan 26, 2009 10:46 am Date Climbed: Jan 15, 2009Normal Route
Wet weather left a lot of new snow on the mountain. We turned around at 5100m due to unstable snow conditions.
0302Explorer - Apr 24, 2008 10:57 pm Date Climbed: Apr 20, 2008Normal Route
After a long, lousy winter here we got lucky and had good conditions under a full moon. With a lot of new snow, we were concerned about conditions. It was a bit soft at the base of the glacier but firmed up quickly and we had nearly perfect conditions. A narrow bridge over a crevasse near the summit presented the only real challenge beyond the altitude - smooth sailing to a frigid summit with fantastic views all the way to Chimborazo.
We spent the night at the plateau above the refuge. While we were concerned about leaving our tents and gear, we were alone on the mountain and back in time to beat the first day hikers up to the plateau.
kommish - Jan 31, 2008 6:46 pm Date Climbed: Jan 16, 2008Normal Route
Great views, was a wonderful sunrise.
Hotfeet - Jan 21, 2008 8:44 pm Date Climbed: Jan 19, 2008Standard route
A very long and worthwhiole climb. Beautiful mountain. Very windy.
lefty - Jan 16, 2008 1:16 am Date Climbed: Jan 9, 2008Normal Route
This was a very enjoyable and relatively easy climb. The slope is much less steep than Cotopaxi, except near the top. It was a clear and windless night with nice snow conditons. We had to downclimb into the Bergshrund near the top and use two tools to climb back out of it on the way down. Some groups managed to get around it on the left side.
Boriss Andean - Sep 21, 2007 12:55 am Date Climbed: Nov 13, 2005Route Climbed: Normal Route.
Edgar and I started climbing up at midnight from the refuge. Ice/snow conditions were good, even though we fell inside a couple of small snow covered cravasses at the base of the summit:-).
Summited few minutes after sunrise, The view was great.
Bill562 - Jul 13, 2007 5:40 pm Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2007Cayambe normal route
Climbed with Haliku and Axe. This climb was much easier than slogging up Coto in bad weather. Ironically, good weather on Cayambe is much more rare than on Coto. A good boot track was present most of the way. The crux was the 70 deg snow bridge across the bergshrund.
This climb made it five for five peaks in Ecuador for our team on this trip.
Haliku - Jul 13, 2007 9:47 am Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2007Normal Route
What a beautiful day; blue sky and sunny with light winds for most of the climb! Axe, Bill562 and I climbed with Guide Freddy Ramirez of Sierra Nevada. There is still some snow on the road so we had to carry gear to the hut.
bolojm - Jun 19, 2007 5:14 am Date Climbed: Feb 18, 2005Summited via normal route
We fought through an ice storm on the way up...totally coated in ice, but we made it! The clouds cleared and the sun came out for the way down. Forgot to put sunscreen on the underside of my nose...ouch! It was a great day, not as much trouble at nearly 19,000' as I thought I would have. No Diamox, just Gingko, Cytomax, luck and determination even though I felt nauseous at 18,000'.
marauders - Jan 23, 2007 6:07 pm Date Climbed: Jan 12, 2007Climbed Normal Route: Jan 12, 2007
The mountain was in perfect condition. We left at midnight and summited in 7 hours under a blanket of stars. During the last 30 minutes the sun rose and the winds kicked up to 40mph with moist clouds that covered us in a sheet of ice.
We crossed over 8 cravesses but they were very narrow and safe to cross. The bergschrund at the top also had a large, secure snow bridge that made for very easy crossing. I can't imagine this mountain could have been in much better conditions. We were fortunate!
We didn't have a guide, so the clear night was mandatory for safe route finding. There is no boot track on Cayambe so good route finding or a guide is necessary. The hut is easily the best in Ecuador. It seems like a small resort compared to the others.
moneal - Jan 21, 2007 3:04 pm Date Climbed: Jan 6, 2007Normal route
Got blown off the mountain by high winds (40-50 mph sustained with higher gusts). Turned around shortly after the glacier started. Too bad cause I felt great
tjbst47 - Jan 16, 2007 12:08 am Date Climbed: Jan 15, 2007normal route
Hired a guide (The Explorer, Riena Victoria, Mariscal) after my partner left. Nice guy, but I question his techniques. Tried to short rope me (3 m) which I didnt allow, and he didnt carry any pro and anchor building materials. Anyhow, he knew the route well and there is no path in the snow like Coto and Chimbo. Easy summit after climbing Chimbo. 5.5 hours from the hut. The real story is how the brakes when out on the jeep on the way down the mountain. Rolled the jeep onto the roof. Scary, but fortunately no one was hurt.


text:
Return of the Rummy?Comments
Steve Clemons has an interesting notion:
Rumsfeld's public ruminations about what might be possible in achieving efficiencies and dealing with a tough budgetary environment were leading the nation in my view to do some of the "rebalancing" back in early 2001 that would have been healthy for the country. Robert Kagan,writing in July 2001, strongly disagreed with my perspective, but his piece gives a sense of the times before 9/11 that roughly feel like the budgetary and hard choice debates unfolding today.
A return to Rumsfeld's efforts to strangle some parts of the Pentagon while conceptualizing new ways to achieve security would be a constructive discussion for the Obama team to consider.
Obama, Leon Panetta, Tom Donilon, Ashton Carter, David Petraeus, General Dempsey and others on the Obama national security team may find that such public discourse could very well help Americans see something that might be true — that greater security deliverables are possible with reform and change, even amidst budget cuts.
Maybe it's time to invite Donald Rumsfeld to be invited to join the respective advisory boards tasked with thinking through new blueprints for a reformed and rewired military strategy. Controversial, of course — but also a smart thing to do, even in an election year.
It's possible that there are some lessons of value to be learned from Rumsfeld's first eight months on the job; he did undertake a serious effort to re-think the US defense posture, and he wasn't afraid to engage in brutal fights against entrenched Pentagon interests. As I've suggested at other times, in an entirely different universe Rumsfeld might have ended his career with the legacy of an important reformer, rather than as the Worst Secretary of Defense in History.
But in this universe, Donald Rumsfeld is a colossal failure who shouldn't be admitted to polite society. Normally, that would be no object to using him strategically in the coming defense budget wars. However, Rumsfeld is almost unique in American political life in that virtually everyone recognizes him as a colossal failure. The uniformed military hates him, the Pentagon civilians hate him, the neocons hate him, liberals hate him, and even centrists don't particularly care for him. You bring someone like Rummy on to your team in order to provide cover, but Rummy doesn't provide cover; he attracts fire, almost all of it deserved. And while Rummy might have some private lessons to impart to Panetta, I very much doubt that he'd be interested in helping out a Democratic administration in any fashion that wouldn't also be part of his own rehabilitation.


text:
Switch to Forum Live View Locked: Forum Guidelines - PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING
|10 years ago :: Sep 23, 2008 - 10:23PM #1
Dear Church & State forum participants:
First of all, allow me to tell you how glad I am to see this forum active. There have been times in the past when things were a lot quieter - too quiet, in fact. Activity is much better than that sort of quietude.
However, as I am sure we are all aware, this can be a particularly contentious forum, due to the general nature of the issues we discuss here. The questions of whether, to what extent, and/or how religion and government should interact or intersect can lead to some very heated exchanges. With that in mind, allow me to set forth a few reminders of what does, and does not, belong in this forum:
1. The Beliefnet Rules of Conduct (yes, that's a link) apply as surely to this forum as to anyplace else on Beliefnet. Please be familiar with them and adhere to them when you are engaging in discussions on this forum.
2. This forum is intended for examining and discussing a variety of issues that impact or are impacted by the actions and possible interactions of government and religion in (at least primarily, if not entirely) the United States of America. There's nothing wrong with mentioning other nations and how they deal with similar issues, provided that any such mention is made in reference to an already ongoing discussion of something that is happening in the U.S. and is actually germane to the topic of the thread in which it is introduced.
3. This forum is NOT intended as a repository for threads regarding homosexuality or any other "one-note-Charlie" type of topic. When the front page here begins to show a theme of having many threads devoted to what is essentially the same topic, those threads will be either merged, moved to a more appropriate place, or closed so as to stimulate discussion of multiple issues rather than risk our becoming a single-issue community. Variety is the spice of life, and no one wants to hear the same old thing day in and day out. If we want to encourage lively discussion with multiple participants, we have to actually have something of interest to offer.
4. Note that homosexuality is certainly germane to discussions of things like civil rights, and since civil rights are certainly a Church and State issue, there is no prohibition upon bringing it up, if this is done in the context of a larger discussion. But just coming in here and making it a standalone topic, or using a tenuous connection to a Church and State issue as a pretext to engage in repetitive gay-bashing (or bashing any group solely on the basis of gender, race, religious belief or any other characteristic defining a group) will not lead to any useful discussion, and may lead to the merging, movement, or closure of threads - and occasionally, to the deletion of posts. Relevance is key here, as is civility. I sincerely hope that at some point new people coming to this forum and reading this message will wonder why a host even found it necessary to spell this out, but as of the writing of this post, this has been a serious issue in recent weeks.
5. We are, ostensibly at least, all adults here, and we ought to be able to engage in discussion and debate in mature and civilized tones. Furthermore, we ought to be able to disagree without being disagreeable. More on that here (yes, that's another link; please feel free to click it).
6. Finally, please be aware that this particular forum is not intended as a partisan stronghold for either Liberals or Conservatives, Republicans or Democrats, Christians or non-Christians. Not only is your Host team here (that's Davelaw40 and myself) committed to honesty and fairness in both moderation and discussion, but we ourselves represent more than one point of view that, if taken together, pretty much cover most of the spectrum with regard to the various topics likely to be discussed here. A look at our public profiles would tell you that much. The effect this is intended to have upon the tone of this forum, I will leave as an exercise for the reader.
Beliefnet Community Co-Host,
Church & State Issues
Shared pain is lessened, shared joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy. - Mike Callahan, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Quick Reply
Viewing this thread :: 0 registered and 1 guest
No registered users viewing


text:
Hopefully u guys can see it
SAR, why didn't you tell us you got a job at the Post?
Media hates the Jets
what else is new?
Why is it that we are considered clowns yet the Giants can say and do whatever they want?
I get it they have won two superbowls in recent years but its not like we have done nothing. Our in season record are probably identical.
The birdcage needs to be lined with something.
Made me laugh, though it should be Woody and Tanny in the car with Rex.
The media has gotten a green light to bash the Jets and they're using 3 pre-season game (6 quarters of starter play) as the reasoning for crushing this team.
I have NEVER, in all the years I've been watching football seen a team take this much abuse for very little actual reason when looking at the product on the field..
This isn't a team that won 2 games last year, they were 8 and 8 in what everyone recognizes as a down season.
Truth hurts.
They don't much like the image they've crafted for themselves through their hijinks and their low comedy, through their coach¹s over-the-top confidence contrasted with their intramural rival's under-the-radar style.
"We are professionals," Darrelle Revis said not long ago, standing inside the Jets' locker room at their practice facility. "This isn¹t some fraternity house.
We conduct serious business in here."
Revis does. Most of them do, despite the occasional bursts of buffoonery that make their way out of the locker room and onto the back page. The Jets' daily outfit of choice really does involve helmets and shoulder pads and mouth guards and cleats; it only seems to comprise of floppy shoes and red noses and funny hats and water-squirting carnations.
They want to change that perception. The good news? They have perfect role models to emulate, headquartered half an hour north of them in New Jersey, based just a few yards up the hallway at MetLife Stadium, because if any group can provide a perfect blueprint for how to alter the conversation surrounding themselves, it's the Giants.
The team in blue may never have been quite so outlandish as the one in green, but for a good long while they were also choked by conventional wisdom: The quarterback was too passive to ever be championship caliber, missing the family chromosome that made his big brother a Big Winner. The coach was too demanding, too aloof, too old-school to reach modern players. The GM was too low-key, the organization too stodgy, the whole operation too much of another time.
Only, the Giants found the best way to blow up that bogus blueprint. They won a title. And then they won another one. Along the way, Eli Manning has emerged as the brother with the championship jewel for either ring finger, Tom Coughlin has evolved into a virtual Hall of Fame lock and proof that you can reinvent yourself on the fly, Jerry Reese has blossomed into the very model of the modern football executive and the Mara-Tisch partnership has grown to define pitch-perfect management not only for the NFL but for any pro organization with steep aspirations and deep ambitions.
Proving you aren¹t tied to your reputation. Or to perception. Or to history.
You can change. You can improve your lot. Your reach really can exceed your grasp.
"I think the character of this team was such that we were able to embrace the things -- the sacrifices, the work -- that [go] into winning a championship even before we were maybe good enough to win one," says Justin Tuck, a cornerstone of both parades the Giants have earned for themselves across the past five years. "And maybe that meant that when we were ready to win, and we had a real opportunity, we were able to take advantage of it."
The Giants are evidence everything every franchise covets is available to you if you are willing to make hard choices and harder sacrifices, and that is why this flashless, dashless operation now cruises in style, the top down and the motor purring.
The Jets? Yes, there is reason for concern beyond last year¹s penchant for piling into clown cars at the worst possible moments. The offense was historically inept by preseason standards, and projects to be something between pop gun and two-headed pathetic. Rex Ryan, everyone¹s darling for two years, suddenly seems more ringmaster than taskmaster. Some wonder if Mike Tannenbaum spent the offseason playing Song Pop and Words With Friends instead of having a gander at his razor-thin roster.
All fair questions. All legitimate concerns. All understandable reasons why you can ask if Woody Johnson owns the team, or Pagliacci. And all fixable.
If they truly want to be fixed. The model is there for them. Ryan can study how Coughlin today is a clear 2.0 version of what we saw before 2007.
San-Bow (or is it Te-chez?) may not have the inherent quarterbacking skill of Eli, but both halves of that partnership have done plenty of winning at the position. And for everyone who classifies Tannenbaum as inert well, go back and see what people were saying about Reese a year ago today.
You can't go from jalopy to Jaguar just by wishing it to be so. But you can get there. The Giants have proven it. Can the Jets?
For picking up a QB that won a playoff game last year as their back-up?
For not scoring a TD in the pre-season?
For drafting un-proven yet incredibly talented WR in the second round?
For being 8 and 8 last year?
Rex has been presented a tremendous opportunity to bring the team together under an "us against the world" mentality. Nobody believes in this team but Rex and the team themselves.
A smart coach would use this to fire the guys up, much like Rex did vs. the Patriots in the playoffs 2 seasons ago (as evidenced by the Bart Scott post-game interview).
Maybe sprinkle in some Jerry Jones-style media restrictions as a "f*ck you" to the NYC media. And then let your record do the talking for you.
As long as we are on the cover Woody is happy.


text:
US$9.0 million in GEF funds for Heart of Borneo forests
The program is designed to ensure the sustainable management of forest resources and biodiversity in the Indonesian Heart of Borneo (HOB) by strengthening Indonesian government capacity to develop sustainable local community livelihood opportunities and sustainable financing schemes.
WWF began supporting this programmatic approach in 2009 with the HoB governments, and since that time WWF has been working closely with the ADB, as the lead GEF implementing agency, to turn this idea into a reality.
This has been a big team effort with extraordinary levels of network support during the last 3 years and moving forth will be a significant program to transition the HoB region toward to a green economy.
Of the total, US$2.5 million will come from GEF and $4 million from the Asian Development Bank, $0.5 million from the Government of Indonesia and $2 million from WWF.
The project will aim at improving management of forest resources and biodiversity in four districts in the Indonesian HOB, and in particular will contribute to the: (i) decrease in forest loss; and (ii) reduction in the incidence of wildlife and biodiversity poaching, specifically for flagship species like the rhino, orangutan, and pygmy elephant. The project will be structured around the following components:
1. Strengthening Policies and Institutions for Sustainable Forest and Biodiversity Management.
2. Management of Land use, Land Use Change, and Forestry. This component will establish REDD+ demonstration sites to showcase REDD+ strategies. Special focus will be on tapping local communities, including indigenous peoples' communities, enhancing their inputs and capacities in forest and biodiversity conservation activities
3. Implement Sustainable Financing Mechanisms.
4: Create Sustainable Livelihood Systems for Indigenous Peoples. Of the project's targeted 1,898 beneficiary Dayak households, 538 households (or 28 percent) are located in four villages influencing the Kayan Mentarang National Park.


text:
With the onset of winter, you may be trading in your outdoor hikes and swims for the treadmill. But that doesn't mean you have to be bored by your routine. Mix up your treadmill time with this fun routine, created by Patricia Friberg, a Los Angeles-based trainer and star of three fitness DVDs, most recently "Power 4 Pink Workout" ($20 at Amazon).
Warm up
Do a light jog or fast walk for five minutes with no incline.
Super slow motion
Treadmill setup: 0.5 miles per hour with an incline of 10.
With your hands at your sides, palms facing back, take a very slow step with your right foot. As your right heel strikes the treadmill, your left arm should move slowly upward on the diagonal. Pause for a second as you extend your left leg behind you before it moves in front, firming your glutes. Repeat.
Duration: Two minutes.
Low squat sideways step
Treadmill setup: 1 to 1.5 mph with an incline of 10.
Pause the treadmill while you set up and get ready for this exercise. Standing sideways, lower yourself into a deep squat, being careful to keep your knees in line above your ankles. As the treadmill moves, stay low in your squat and side-step. You will feel your gluteus medius (the side of your butt) working hard. Before you switch sides, pause the treadmill.
Duration: Alternate sides for one minute at a time for a total of four minutes.
Low backward walking
Treadmill setup: 1 to 2 mph with an incline of 10.
Facing away from the treadmill, hold onto the handrails carefully and keep your knees bent in a squat position. Walk slowly, paying attention to articulating your toe-to-heel movement.
Duration: Two minutes.
Cardio blast
Treadmill setup: 6 to 9 mph without an incline.
Begin to sprint facing forward for one minute, then hit the pause button and carefully step off the treadmill. Standing next to the treadmill, get low into a squat position, pressing down into the floor before you use your legs to jump high into the air, reaching your arms up. Catch your landing in a squat position before exploding up in the air again.
Duration: One-minute sprint and 15 squat jumps repeated two to three times.
Hill and abs training
Treadmill setup: 3.5 to 6 mph with an incline of 15.
Walk or run for two minutes, then hit the pause button and step off the machine. Place your hands on the treadmill and your feet on the floor so you are in an incline position (resembling the top of a pushup, but with your hands on the machine). Your hands should be directly under your shoulders, and your feet firmly positioned on the floor. Since your heart rate should already be up, it's important to lift your chest slightly forward, keeping your head in line with your spine so you don't get dizzy. Remain in the plank position as you bring your right knee in toward your chest without rotating your hips and hold for 30 seconds. Switch legs.
Duration: A two-minute walk or run, followed by a one-minute plank. Repeat sequence twice.
Row lunge
Treadmill setup: A comfortable walking or running pace without an incline.
After a three-minute walk or jog, pause the machine and step off. Hook a resistance tube around a secure pole or rail on the treadmill, making sure there isn't an opening where the band could slide off. Loop it over the rail and thread one handle through the other so that you have one handle to hold a long tube. To make this more difficult, step farther away from your anchor point. Hold the handle with your right hand, palms facing each other. Place your right leg backward in a lunge position. As you pull your right elbow back, rotate your torso toward your right and extend your left arm. Bend your left elbow and rotate toward your left side as your right arm reaches forward. Switch hands and repeat on the other side. When you're done, remove the band from the treadmill.
Duration: A three-minute walk or run followed by 15 reps on each side.
Rolling hills
Treadmill setup: Walk or jog at a comfortable pace without an incline.
Start by walking or jogging without an incline for 30 seconds. Then walk or jog the following: 30 seconds at an incline of 5, 30 seconds at an incline of 10, 30 seconds at an incline of 5, 30 seconds at no incline. Repeat the process.
Duration: 10 minutes or walking or jogging.
Cool down
Walk for five minutes at a comfortable pace without an incline.
StarTribune.com welcomes and encourages readers to comment and engage in substantive, mutually respectful exchanges over news topics. Commenters must follow our Terms of Use.
- Keep it civil and stay on topic.
- No profanity, vulgarity, racial slurs or personal attacks.
- Comments with web links are not permitted.
- Comments that violate the above will be removed. Repeat violators may lose their commenting privileges on StarTribune.com.
Comments will be reviewed before being published.


text:
Here are links to five online stories that members of The Rep's editorial board found enlightening, or fun, or both.
Here are links to five online stories that members of The Rep's editorial board found enlightening, or fun, or both.
RESURFACING U.S. Navy divers are working in the Savannah River to bring pieces of the Confederate ship CSS Georgia to the surface. But retrieval of the ironclad ship is less about preserving history than preparing to deepen the city's shipping channel.
SUNNY SIDE UP AND DOWN The sun is reversing its magnetic poles, a process that occurs every 11 years and sometimes disrupts satellite communications.
LIFESAVER Despite the disturbing photo, this is worth a read: An auto mechanic in Argentina saw a YouTube video about a device that will extract a cork from a wine bottle and made the leap to an invention that could save babies who are stuck in the birth canal. The World Health Organization thinks it can make a huge difference in poor countries.
TMI Queen honeybees kiss and tell, according to researchers at Penn State and two other universities.
SEA CHANGE AT CIA Twenty years ago, there were no women in the upper ranks of the CIA. Now, five of the top eight are women.
On Twitter: @gbeckREP


text:
Bluebirds soar ten points clear
Tommy Smith marked his first start since October by firing Cardiff 10 points clear at the top of the Championship with a 2-1 win at Blackpool.
Smith, who has previously earned promotion to the top flight with Watford and QPR, came back from a hamstring injury with a substitute appearance against Ipswich last weekend and his deflected second-half volley - a maiden strike for the Bluebirds - proved enough to sink Blackpool in an even contest.
Kim Bo-Kyung put Cardiff in front in the 54th minute but Gary Taylor-Fletcher levelled on the hour. And just four minute later Smith produced the goal which secured all three points.
Hull were unable to retake second place from Leicester as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Peterborough at London Road.
Leicester moved into the automatic promotion spots with victory over Middlesbrough on Friday night and, although Hull took the lead in the 33rd minute via an own goal from Joe Newell, Posh grabbed a point courtesy of Grant McCann's penalty 11 minutes from time.
Former Eagles boss Dougie Freedman returned to Crystal Palace for the first time with Bolton and came away with a point in a goalless draw.
Gianfranco Zola's Watford cemented their place in the top six with a thumping 4-0 win over Huddersfield, who are without a league win since November. Troy Deeney opened the scoring from the penalty spot with the final kick of the first half and Matej Vydra added a brace (57, 74) before Cristian Battocchio polished off the scoring four minutes from time.
Burnley continued their good run under manager Sean Dyche and are four points behind Watford after a 2-0 victory at Millwall - Sam Vokes (19) and Danny Ings (59) netting the goals.
Michael Appleton was officially unveiled as Blackburn's third manager of the season on Thursday but his first week did not have a happy ending as Rovers went down 2-1 to Charlton. A long-range strike from Dale Stephens opened the scoring for the Addicks in the 26th minute and, although Jordan Rhodes levelled three minutes after half-time, Yann Kermorgant struck the winner in the 64th minute.
The lunchtime game saw East Midlands rivals Derby and Nottingham Forest meet at Pride Park and they fought out a 1-1 draw. Chris Cohen opened the scoring for Forest just after the half-hour mark but that was cancelled out by Jamie Ward seven minutes after the break.
Nikola Zigic salvaged a much-needed point for Birmingham with an injury-time equaliser against play-off chasing Brighton in a 2-2 draw. Steven Caldwell put Blues ahead in the 18th minute but Ashley Barnes (24) and David Lopez Moreno (43) looked to have won it before Zigic capitalised on an error by Tomasz Kuszczak.
Sean O'Driscoll's appointment as Bristol City boss failed to change their fortunes as Ross McCormack earned a 1-0 victory for Leeds at Elland Road.
An 89th-minute equaliser from Danny Rose secured a 1-1 draw for Barnsley against Ipswich, for whom Luke Chambers had opened the scoring 11 minutes after half-time, while Dean Saunders is still searching for his first win as Wolves boss following a 0-0 draw with Sheffield Wednesday.
Use a Facebook account to add a comment, subject to Facebook's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your Facebook name, photo & other personal information you make public on Facebook will appear with your comment, and may be used on ESPN's media platforms. Learn more.


text:
2011 Baseball
Transylvania rallies to complete sweep
Transylvania tallies eight runs in eighth inning to finish sweep
April 2, 2011
By: Mallory Kemper, sports information intern
Game 1 Box Score I Game 2 Box Score
LEXINGTON, Kentucky - The Bluffton University baseball fell twice to Transylvania University, 13-3 and 18-13, on Saturday, April 2, 2011, in Heartland Conference action. The Beavers slipped to 8-13 on the season and 0-6 in the HCAC, while Transylvania improved to 4-2 in the HCAC and 13-5 overall.
Tyler Gibson (Sylvania/Southview) fell to 0-2 on the season, going just 2.1 innings and giving up 12 runs on 11 hits. Junior Pioneer pitcher Chris Bloch improved to 2-0 after allowing three runs on six hits in seven innings. Bloch fanned seven Beavers in his complete-game victory.


text:
HAYWARD — Hayward Area Recreation and Park District will recognize its volunteers Saturday, April 18.
In 2014, 915 district volunteers donated more than 55,000 hours. They helped out in various programs: aquatics, arts, camps, dance, special needs, theater arts, gymnastics, nature, parks, youth, sports and senior adults.
The volunteers will be honored at a brunch at 10 a.m. at the Hayward Area Senor Center. The volunteer of the year will be announced.
The senior center is at 22325 N. Third St.


text:
This was sent to me by a friend. The list is very long, but lots of animals need new homes. I do not know the circumstances as to why the farm is closing.
Please Cross Post--if you or anyone you know can help, please send this along to them.
A farm located in Williamstown , NJ is shutting down. Birds, horses, miniature horses, donkeys, goats, sheep, pigs, dogs/puppies, cats, guinea pigs and chickens are all in need of good homes immediately.
** Sprout - Papered dwarf mini stud, bay w/ white blaze, will be 3yrs this summer, eats minimal feed if any, eats hay but does best on soaked hay cubes **
** Nemo - Dwarf mini horse , dunn 4 yrs old, eats minimal feed if any, soaked hay cubes, prone to colic because so small (has colicked before) **
** Gorilla - Papered dwarf mini stud, chocolate 8 yrs old, has scoleosis of back, bowed front legs, eats soaked hay cubes (has never colicked or been sick) - Leggs friend - have been together from start **
** Leggs - Papered large mini mare, white & tan 6 yrs old, Gorrilla's friend - have been together from start **
** Emily - Small mini mare, red & white pinto 2 yrs old, sweet, humble, so loving follows you everywhere, must stay w/ Hope (sister) **
** Hope - Mini mare, white & dunn pinto 4 yrs old, about to foal a mini mule, her first, must stay w/ Emily (sister) **
** Apache - Larger mini 36" gelding, black & white 15 yrs old, prefers to be dominant, but will back down if someone is tougher. Otherwise great w/ people and other animals, never colicked or sick, does not need to be w/ anyone **
** Promise - Miniature donkey stud, 9 1/2 yrs old, very good boy, no vices, good w/ others **
** Mommy - red & white pinto 21 yrs old (does not act old), 1 blue eye, healthy, no vices **
** Honey - Barbados sheep female, 8 yrs old, wants to follow a human (very humble) **
** Full Size Donkey - male, not good w/ feet being trimmed so they never get done **
** Belgian Horse - no info **
** 2 Newfoundlands used as herd dogs **
** Numerous little dogs, chihuaha, pomeranian, and mixes **
6 pot belly pigs
** 16 goats - The goats are the trendy new breed "Pygorra", pygmy and angora crosses. They look like angoras-all woolly but are small. They were bred to be wool and fiber goats that do not require shearing like sheep. **
** 18 cats **
** Also guinea pigs, birds, chickens, and a beautiful blue/gray angora rabbit that is running loose in the yard and sleeping with a turkey. **
If anyone is interested in helping to provide a loving home for any of these animals please e-mail Kris @ bluebirdacrefarm@... and she will get your info to pass onto the woman who is losing her farm.
If you are able to provide a home to any of these individuals, please contact Kris. ** Serious guardians only. **