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By Ingrid C.A. Rasmussen
During the 2011-12 year, Ingrid Rasmussen served her internship at Augustana in West St. Paul, Minn. Following the end of the internship she attended a writing workshop at St. John's University and during that workshop she wrote the following reflection on internship:
Eleven months, two weeks, and six days ago, I parked my car, checked my fly, folded my alb over my arm, strolled into the building, greeted the caretaker, inquired about the secretary's weekend, prepared a cup of tea, checked my mailbox, walked down the hallway, paused at the nameplate that read "Pastor Ingrid Rasmussen," flipped on the lights, eased into my chair, attempted to look professional, and wondered where on earth I was. That's when I heard my professor's voice clearly proclaiming: "You interns are finally going to experience the deep end of the pool." Seminary staff who say such things are simultaneously warning students about what is to come and bragging about the responsibilities that come with being a parish pastor, albeit sans stole. Once upon a time, they too were forced to dive headlong into ministry in exotic places like rural Dakota and inner-city Chicago. They remember responding to an unexpected death and cradling a long-awaited newborn. They remember the first Council meeting where someone looked to them for answers and the first worship committee meeting where they realized that theological education did not equal ecclesial seniority. They would rather not remember the time when they called the deceased by the wrong name and the time when they failed to authenticate if the Addison over the font was a boy before worship began. They haven't forgotten how it felt to spring off the blocks, sometimes more successfully than others.Internship ensures that church leaders jump in and learn a variety of ministry strokes. My internship congregation valued a strong forward crawl, so I learned to do one. It served me well this year—enabling me to learn the over one thousand worshipers, keeping my head above water during busy liturgical seasons, and allowing me to accompany folks experiencing crises. When I threatened to give up on names, a new visitor introduced herself and her story stuck. When my colleague went on sick leave, I maintained a steady pace as my workload grew. When a congregant sought me out after Maundy Thursday services and disclosed that his job was in trouble, his marriage was on the rocks, his kids were addicted, and he was emotionally spent, the forward crawl allowed me to bear the weight of his experience without being dragged below the surface. The forward crawl was never meant to be used in all circumstances. When your car won't start and you're late for a meeting with the bishop, all you can do is doggie-paddle and pray. When you have been focused on the bottom line for too long, the backstroke opens you to the possibilities that exist above you and around you. When the winter sun emerges and reminds you that God is in control, nothing less than the butterfly will suffice. When the poor are being drowned by institutions designed to protect them, the gospel calls you to kick and flail until someone pays attention. And when you have twenty minutes to finish a sermon and hear the same congregant's voice heading toward your office for the fourth consecutive day, you need to be ready to sidestroke—fast. The build of our body and our training cause us to favor one of these over the others; however we are certain to sink without the ability to transition from one to another when necessary.Please don't misunderstand me; I am no Michael Phelps. I floundered—missing the pitch for the liturgy, failing to express my appreciation for support staff, making assumptions about the gender of the baptized, forgetting the name of the deceased, asking too much of too few, saying ridiculous things to the grief-stricken, disrespecting the wisdom of elders, projecting my fears on the sick, attempting to fix peoples' marriages, and being stingy with Jesus when I thought people were less deserving of the good news that he brings. There is no escaping it: when you cannot touch the bottom, your weaknesses and shortcomings are exposed. That is why you need an attentive supervisor, who will compassionately toss a life preserver in your direction or, better yet, jump in and tread water with you until you can breathe again. On Monday, after eleven months, two weeks, and six days, I stood from my chair, turned off the lights, paused at the nameplate that read "Pastor Ingrid Rasmussen," walked down the hallway, checked my mailbox, hugged the secretary, left a note for the caretaker, strolled out of the building, hung my alb in the car, and drove away from a congregation that I deeply loved. With me went hundreds of thoughtful thank you notes that detailed a specific interaction, recalled a favorite sermon, or articulated my gifts for ministry. Perhaps none of them was as poignant, however, as the last card that I opened, which simply said: "Thank you for swimming in the deep with us."
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looking forward
I might be missing for a few days while we move our lives to England. It's been really really difficult saying goodbye to our lives and friends here in Vancouver, and there may be tears and nervousness but I've got my chin up and I'm looking forward to the future.
Please come back and visit me next week (hopefully I'll have figured out internet by then...) and perhaps I'll include some photos of our new cottage...
photo via julia.
I seem to be seeing horses a lot...not sure why...but I (and my 14 year-old-girl self) like 'em. These prints from Lonny (of new online magazine acclaim and available on Etsy) are crying out to be on my wall.
Bottom photos via The Modern House and This is Glamorous
Maybe because it's a bit grey here in Vancouver, or maybe cause I'm feeling a little homesick already (we haven't left home yet, but you know...), I needed a little colour today.
Images via Remodelista, The Modern House, and Living Etc.
ghetto bed
There's something about having your mattress on the floor that says "I'm 19 years old and would rather spend my money on shoes/beer/food than buy a bedframe" but for some reason I'm not only getting used to it, I'm starting to like it...and unfinished things in general...maybe we don't need a frame after all?
Images via Loftlife, Living Etc., and the Ace Hotel.
One of the best parts (so far, since we're not even there yet) of moving to the UK is the ability to travel to all these wonderful places, like Florence. I am sooooo excited. Remodelista featured this B&B today in Florence. Actually, there are two Floroom locations now, both in Florence, and I want to go!
and ps. look, task lamps on the wall!
Rooms from 120 euros including breakfast (and snacks they say, I like snacks.)
and ps. look, task lamps on the wall!
task lamps
I'm loving wall mounted task lamps, especially in the bedroom.
(Inspired by our impending move into a still yet unknown tiny space)
Photos via Remodelista, Modern Design Interior, Kitka Design Toronto, and AT (I think...)
Magnus Marding
Desire to Inspire posted these lovely photos by photographer Magnus Marding today...I love the colours...very edited but impactful.
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|Winnebago County Sheriff's PoliceNews Media Release
|News Release Number2008- 057
|Information: HEROIN RING ARRESTS
|Date: 12-31-08
During the past several months Deputies of the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department, Officers of the Rockford Police Department, and Agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives,and Agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration received information of a large scale heroin operation in the City of Rockford. A joint undercover investigation was initiated and culminated with arrests and warrants issued for members of the organization. Arrests took place starting at 8:00a.m. on Tuesday 12-30-08. The organization distributed large quantities of street level packets of heroin. The heroin was sold in ten dollar packets however larger amounts were also available for sale. The heroin was uniquely packaged in tin foil then placed in small plastic bags with various designs on the bags. Hundreds of bags were sold on a daily basis. The organization,alledged to be headed by Sammy Gordon, had runners working off cell phones, who would deliver the heroin to customers,through-out the city. The organization also had a free heroin giveaway on Sunday mornings, at a west side housing development. In excess of 200 people would arrive to receive one packet of free heroin in appreciation for their purchasing heroin during the week from members of the organization. The giveaways were kept organized by members of the Gordon Organization with the threat of violence. Undercover purchases, surveillance, and other investigative methods were used to infiltrate the organization. The investigation was coordinated by both the U.S. Attorney's Office and by Winnebago County State's Attorney Joe Bruscato and his staff. State charges were authorized by State's Attorney Bruscato and warrants were issued. All of the charged live in Rockford. All are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.The investigation of heroin sales is on-going.Photos will be provided. ARRESTED (IN CUSTODY) -1 Sammy R. Gordon (Male DOB 5-31-63/45 yrs old) -Criminal Drug Conspiracy - Violation of the Illinois Controlled Substance Act(2Ct's delivery/heroin) Bond $1,750,000.00Bond for all the below listed subjects is $500,000.00 -2 Robert Smith (Male DOB 6-14-70/38yrs old) -Violation of the Illinois Controlled Substance Act (3Ct's delivery of heroin) - Criminal Drug Conspiracy -3 Paul Gipson (Male DOB 5-5-82/26yrs old) -Violation of the Illinois Controlled Substance Act (delivery of heroin) - Criminal Drug Conspiracy -4 Caprisha L. Sherman (female DOB 9-29-83/25yrs old) -Violation of the Illinois Controlled Substance Act (delivery of heroin) - Criminal Drug Conspiracy -5 Mercedes Colon (female DOB 8-2-87/21yrs old) -Criminal Drug Conspiracy -6 David Chapman (male DOB 9-27-67/21yrs old) (note correct dob is 12-28-62/46yrs) -Criminal Drug Conspiracy -7 Richard Taylor (male DOB 1-16-85/23yrs old) -Violation of the Illinois Controlled Substance Act (delivery of heroin) - Criminal Drug Conspiracy WANTED ON WARRANTS -8 Samuel Skinner (male DOB 1-21-83/25yrs old) -9 Jemal Sturkey (male DOB 8-31-69/39yrs old) -10 Curtis Hurt (male DOB 9-30-68/40yrs old) -11 Mario Lambert (male DOB 2-29-84/24yrs old) -12 Russell Lottie (male DOB 5-8-62/ 46yrs old)


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Our vacation in Florida was beautiful and way too short. But we managed to get one more in before the baby. It is good to have time together like that, especially since we've only been dating for 9 months! And we're soon to be a mom and dad together.
Thankfully the hip felt great! We did a lot of biking and swimming.
If you can't tell, there is a bike next to me.
Of particular note was biking on the Pinellas Trail, which dodges the Applebee Country of St. Petersburg, FL. Inevitably I had to pee in public multiple times. SR loved this, but as far as we knew he was the only one who saw. I wish every pregnant woman in the world could find someone who makes them feel so beautiful.
My hypoglycemia and nausea made us turn around after about two hours. SR was so understanding and biked back at lightning speeds to get the car and we met somewhere in the middle.
And the white sandy beaches were ours for the taking. There were so few people on St. Pete's beach that we could swim naked. According to one local, the economy is so bad this year that no one is vacationing in Florida. That's probably why our flight and hotel cost of total of $500!
The ocean was gorgeous to swim in. We were like children of heaven: so light and close to the earth, looking at each other and kissing with salty lips.
Okay, so we weren't in the ocean in that picture, but you get the idea...
Of course, now being 7 months pregnant, I needed lots of sleep and food, despite not running.
Somehow I still managed to lose a couple pounds, which is sadly probably the loss of muscle. But I stopped the out-of-control weight gain that had been going on for the past two weeks.
We said good-bye to Florida. And quietly four warm, happy days were swallowed by a wave.
Running song of the Day: Summersong by The Decemberists.


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The sister of an American journalist jailed in North Korea says the woman acknowledged breaking North Korean law during a recent phone call.
Lisa Ling told KCRA-TV in Sacramento she spoke to her sister, Laura Ling, Tuesday around 10:30 p.m.
Lisa Ling, former co-host of ABC's "The View" and a National Geographic Channel correspondent, said Laura told her she and the other American journalist being held, Euna Lee, violated North Korean law and need the U.S. government's help in obtaining amnesty.
Laura Ling and Lee were working for San Francisco-based Current TV, which former U.S. Vice President Al Gore helped found, when they were detained. They were sentenced last month to 12 years of hard labor for illegal entry and "hostile acts."
Laura Ling said her sister, who suffers from an ulcer, is regularly seeing physicians and is OK.


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Leander ISD Chief Facilities and Operations Officer Jimmy Disler announced his appointment of Ann Hatton as the district's Director of Transportation to oversee the district's Transportation Services department.
"Ann is a motivational leader with wealth of experience in operations and communications within public school district transportation services," Disler said. "We are excited to welcome Ann into this important role."
Hatton brings 10 years of experience in education to LISD. She first served as transportations operations supervisor at San Marcos CISD, and most recently, she held the position of assistant director of transportation at Round Rock ISD.
Hatton earned her bachelor's degree in health and wellness promotion from Texas State University and went on to receive a master's of business administration from the University of Phoenix.
LISD utilizes more than 170 buses to travel 14,500 miles each day, covering the entire 200-square-mile district.
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Aid concern over civilian toll
GENEVA, Switzerland (CNN) -- The World Health Organization said it is concerned about the worsening health situation in Iraq, specifically citing large numbers of civilian casualties, difficulty reaching the sick and injured, and the lack of clean drinking water.
In a briefing on Iraq on Friday, the Geneva-based group said it has heard reports of growing numbers of civilian casualties in and around Baghdad, Basra, and many other towns in southern and central Iraq.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said at least 280 people were being treated at one hospital in the town of Hillah. The hospital is overwhelmed with patients and is struggling to cope.
In southern Iraq, Jumhuriyah Hospital in the center of Basra was partially damaged, injuring an unknown number of people.
"WHO is deeply concerned that injuries suffered as a direct result of this conflict are the number-one public health problem in Iraq today," the group said.
"WHO again reminds all parties to the conflict of their obligations under humanitarian law to respect the neutrality of civilians and especially that of hospitals, health workers and the entire medical infrastructure."
WHO said there is also an "increasingly urgent" need for access for humanitarian agencies. While they are able to gain access to some parts of southern Iraq, large areas are still off-limits for humanitarian work, WHO said.
"Towns and cities are increasingly being cut off," it said. "Shortages of medicines and medical supplies are threatened. Hospitals may no longer be able to cope. Public health will become an overwhelming concern. Speeding up the delivery of medical supplies is therefore essential in order to build up a pipeline of emergency stocks."
The group called on all warring parties to allow civilians the right to have access to health care and other humanitarian aid.
The shortage of clean and safe drinking water is also a major problem, WHO said.
The cut power supply to parts of Baghdad in recent days has disrupted the water pumping system there, and in the south, as many as 1.5 million people lack access to a safe water supply, WHO said, citing Red Cross figures.
"As temperatures rise across Iraq, a shortage of clean water will almost inevitably cause outbreaks of diarrheal disease and other health problems," WHO said.
The ICRC is helping to repair the water- and power-supply systems in seven hospitals and provided 10,000 liters of drinking water to two other hospitals. Red Cross technicians and local engineers from Basra helped restore two water treatment plants in the south.


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Everyone who's been to a midway knows the format of skee-ball; for a couple bucks you ramp some wooden balls into scoring targets in order to get tickets to exchange for prizes. A new game for Android, Ball-Hop Bowling, recreates the whole experience, rip-off and all.
Maybe "rip-off" is a bit unfair: Ball-Hop Bowling is free, and gives you the "true" skee-ball experience without having to pay. However, if you're looking for any type of progression in this game beyond the default table/ball, be prepared to shell out some cash, or at least hours of your time.
Like real skee-ball, Ball-Hop Bowling is a quick experience; your nine balls seem like a lot, but they can be blown through extremely quick. However, your score can be augmented in a number of ways by hitting certain targets: power-ups that will multiply your score, give you an extra ball, or give you extra tickets float around the play area, shifting once you've gotten one of them. Once a game is finished, you're rewarded with a number of tickets, but the system's not without its flaws.
The main allure of the ticket system is that you can use it to buy different ball and table skins. However, the amount of tickets you get in a game (~10, on a good game) and the prices to unlock the goodies (4,975 and 9,925, respectively) are so far from each other that it's unlikely that you'll ever hit the milestone.
But that's okay: Ball-Hop Bowling offers a way to buy these skins with actual money, mostly for $0.99. It also gives you the option of a "time saver" unlock, which gives you all present and future DLC right away. This is a disparaging $5.99, which seems like a lot to pay for just skins.
So, basically, what Ball-Hop Bowling is hoping to do is make getting content by "free" means so difficult that you'll bite the bullet and get the paid version, which really doesn't add anything to the game besides extra skins and the removal of the ads at the top of the screen.
Notably, the ad that cuts off the game's title screen, can interfere with your finger-flicking, and it advertises an iOS game, to boot.
I'm still going to give Ball-Hop Bowling a half-hearted recommendation, as it's free, the physics are pretty fun and it's really easy to go "one more game!" It's definitely something very easy to pick up, and is playable in short bursts.


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The Hope College Knickerbocker Theatre is showing the award-winning film "Crossing Arizona", on Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 20-22, and Monday-Thursday, 24-27 at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
The film has been seen at the Knickerbocker before and returns now as a sponsored event for the Hope College Critical Issues Symposium which focuses on immigration this year.
The symposium, "Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America," will take place on Oct. 2 and 3. Activist Mike Wilson, featured in the film, and director Dan DeVivo will take part in a session at the symposium on Oct. 3.
With Americans on all sides of the issue up in arms and Congress embroiled in a knock-down drag-out policy battle over how to move forward, "Crossing Arizona" shows how we got to where we are today.
An estimated 4,500 people attempt to illegally cross the border in the treacherous Arizona desert every day. This influx of migrants crossing through Arizona and the attendant rising death toll have elicited complicated feelings about human rights, culture, class, labor and national security.
"Crossing Arizona" examines the crisis through the eyes of those directly affected by it. Frustrated ranchers go out day after day to repair cut fences and pick up the trash that endangers their livestock and livelihoods. Humanitarian groups place water stations in the desert in an attempt to save lives. Political activists rally against anti-migrant ballot initiatives and try to counter rampant fear mongering. Farmers who depend on the illegal work force face each day with the fear that they may lose their workers to a border patrol sweep. And now there are the Minutemen, an armed citizen patrol group taking border security into their own hands.
Tickets for the film are $6 for regular admission and $5 for students and senior citizens.
More information on the film may be obtained at www.crossingaz.com. More information on the Critical Issues Symposium is available at www.hope.edu/cis.
The Knickerbocker Theatre is located in downtown Holland at 86 E. Eighth St.


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Prostitution sting in Orange
A prostitution sting by officers of the Orange Police Department on June 4 resulted in the arrest of a repeat offender who now faces state jail felony charges, police report.
According to a police report from OPD, at about 11:30 a.m. on June 4, an undercover officer made contact with a suspect, identified by police as 54-year-old Annette Fulcher of Orange, who agreed to engage in sexual conduct with the officer for $20. She reportedly agreed to perform a "sexual act" for the fee.
After making the agreement with the officer, police report, Fulcher entered the undercover officer's vehicle and the two drove away. At some point they stopped the car and the prostitution arrest team took Fulcher into custody for prostitution. She was taken to the Orange County Jail.
A check of Fulcher's criminal history reportedly revealed the suspect had in excess of five prior convictions for prostitution, enhancing the charges against her to a state jail felony.


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Monday, October 12, 2009
Godmen and the Sheeple
The study of the mind and the study of the human brain as a mechanism have merged in the theories of the mind manipulators, men who are determined to change the mind of man (and with it the entire human race), using the knowledge that has been gained.
Has it always been human destiny that mankind would eventually reach a point of intellectual growth where our scientific discoveries could give us the ability to alter our evolutionary path? Or has the seemingly sudden acquisition of that capability arisen as the result of our leaders tapping into an unnatural alternative stream of knowledge because of a decision made long ago to continue the mind sciences started by Nazi scientists?
Was it inevitable, because of a decision made for our own good, by God in all His wisdom, that the next step in mankind's evolution be made possible through a science based on torture?
Have we reached a point where the theories of the most evil minds known in all human history are being validated by the very government that originally stopped them? It is a branch of science that should have been pruned long ago, yet now, we are faced with a seemingly unsolvable dilemma because of it—can a science based on torture really benefit the human race, and should the creators of it even be given the opportunity to apply what they have learned?
Our government has advanced its war-fighting potential into new technological arenas, far beyond the realm of normal combat, using conventional weaponry. War science has merged the most-advanced computers and computer-modeling with the most advanced studies in theoretical psychology. Technological means have been created to enable decision-makers to understand the minds of any potential "enemies."
This technology gives the operators the capability to predict future reactions to planned war scenarios, fairly accurately, through computer simulations. These simulations were based both on Pavlovian theories of behaviorism and its alternative, the cognitive sciences, which adapted the reverse-engineering approach to formulating psychological theory. The information obtained from the simulations is extrapolated, using algorithm-based input-output theories, to predict what will trigger the desired outcomes for individuals, for thousands, even for millions of people. The degree of their ability to actually shape the outcome is unknown, but they have managed to alter the behavior of the right people enough to put our Nation and the world in the precarious position we are in today.
Add this ability to sway the minds and actions of people to the powerful persuasion of economic incentives, the power to control the output of the "free press" and to direct all military actions, and you have created a reliable formula for controlling a Nation. The only thing, at this point, that can possibly stop them, is the disclosure of their aims and methods.
How do we as a still "free people" set about dismantling this illegitimate power to control us? We must assimilate some of the methods that have been used against us, to anticipate the controllers' next acts and do everything in our power to disrupt their plans. We cannot duplicate their awesome technology, but we can join our efforts, creating ways to think exponentially. I would define "exponential thinking" as ways of studying problems that compound the thinker's cognitive abilities by the addition of other minds in the tasks presented by these problems, or by the addition of artificial intelligence to the thinking process. Many minds thinking together, stacking our research efforts like phased-array radars, multiplies the possibilities of finding conclusive proof of criminal conspiracy, or the means for undermining corporate efforts to further the new order.
The last thing we should consider doing is allowing them to succeed, and in so doing, forever alter the human race and the planet in the process. We know their goals are nothing short of this global human transformation into a race of more manageable sheeple. In their eyes, as well as in my own, the plotters appear to be elements of a different race entirely, a cruel inhuman one, seemingly alien to the compassionate majority of humanity.
I think that there is near universal opinion among readers of the alternate press that the plan is to establish a "New World Order," ruling everyone through a process of creating permanent state of limited war. Without these wars, plans for multiple pipelines cannot go forward. Without a stranglehold on oil and gas production and the means of their delivery, US leaders cannot limit the growth of other nations. Whatever it takes, these wars and steps towards their realization, must not be allowed to happen.
There is a large segment of the population that will never believe that such a thing is possible; the United States would never do any of these things. They believe that the government has all our best interests at heart; that the war of terror is not a fraud. They believe that it would be a good thing, if the United States actually took control of the world and reshaped the human race into a more productive, more cooperative species. Their reasoning is based on faith in America, that this Nation is a "shining example" for all mankind. If our technological advancement has made the wholesale reengineering of the human mind possible, then it must be "destiny," the "will of God."
How could torture-based science or world conquest be the "will" of a loving God? Every advancement in the mind sciences has been the result of the abusive testing of humans and animals. As a direct result of this work, actual "psychotronic" weapons have been created, ranging from "voice in the head" technology, to electromagnetic weapons that jam, or scramble the thought processes. What if the Nazis had made the same breakthroughs? Nobody considered it to be the will of God when they doing this research, what makes it our "Manifest Destiny" now? The only answer given is the false notion of "American supremacy," the idea that Americans have been "blessed" by God, that somehow, we are the spiritual heirs of the Biblical Israelites.
This notion, that Americans are modern-day heirs to a "Judeo-Christian" birthright, is such obvious bullshit that it shouldn't even be part of this discussion, except that it is very clearly a big part of the problem. American "Bible-belt" religion is the central theme of the PSYOP that has been created and directed against us. The most extremist view, shared by millions, is that all of this is ushering-in the end of the world and the return of the "Messiah."
It is this belief that has been played-up by the Bush Administration, magnifying the eschatological aspects of Bush's own strange, though widely accepted beliefs—that we are locked into a struggle between darkness and light, centered upon the battle to preserve the modern state of Israel. To that end, millions of Christian-Zionists are anxiously waiting for Jesus to come and destroy Israel's enemies. This bizarre, religious, Israel-centered ideology became the central theme of American foreign policy. The same theme holds sway over the Obama Administration today.
The psyop at this stage is centered upon Obama, elevating the man (who has been groomed for this his entire life by the agents of the empire) to the highest possible human position, the role of "Messiah." The theme of "Obama the Messiah" has been played-up in every media, accentuating his dual racial and national heritage and portraying him as the great "bridge" between cultures, races and nations. This theme has been carried to its most absurd extreme in the form of the Nobel Peace Prize, which he was given for reading all the pretty-sounding words that flow across his teleprompter screen.
For the faithful and the deluded, if the Messiah has surely come, then he must be given the benefit of the doubt, in order to carry-out the most well-thought-out plans, which must assuredly be part of God's plan. You are beginning to see the perfection of the psyop, how it works its way into the deepest recesses of the mind, way down deep, past the emotions, playing upon the instinctual urges that flow underneath it all. Behaviorism works this way, looking beyond mere emotions, to discover instinctual reactions that bypass the reasoning process. In this way, they can create certain behavior, even normally unacceptable behavior, by triggering instinctual reactions, without all the bother of having to explain your actions, or make you understand.
The same mind-science that was used to locate the man who would play the role of "Messiah" was also used to find and marginalize all potential opposition to the psyop, the resisters. Most of us has grown-up during the sifting stage, where the authorities searched for those of us who were susceptible to either positive or negative programming. Those affected by positive programming were sorted-out for special treatment, to mold them since childhood to be leaders in the new order. Those who had a negative effect to attempts to program them were separated to special treatment of the negative kind. Since childhood, they were steered away from positive reinforcements like education or good jobs, towards lives in the military, or lives of crime.
It is an ugly and messy process that is used to determine who is worthy of being part of their new order and who is not. It consists of the use of intrusive methods to determine who is susceptible to control and who is not—Who will surrender their free will to a higher authority, allegedly for the common good? Progressively tighter controls are applied to societies, to find those who will react to control. In the current era, the "war on terror" is the name applied to the international process for determining which nations and which regions are manageable. There is a certain mind-set that will never submit to control, for any reason. Attacking neighborhoods and families with deadly force has a way of forcing some people to take-up arms in self-defense.
This is "the enemy" that the ruling elite is trying to find, so that they can be controlled or eliminated. From the "tickling" of terrorists with lethal drone attacks in Pakistan, to outrageous acts of the abusive use of force upon helpless citizens here in the homeland, it is the same manhunt underway. If you react to terror, instead of rolling-over in submission to the terrorizers, then you are a threat to the new order.
The controllers understand that humanity is in a make or break era of our development, where humanity will either make great technological leaps forward, or technology will be used to enslave humanity. Every available resource is being utilized to ensure that mankind will not find salvation in the new era.
Breakthroughs will bring about a moment of transformation, known as "The Singularity," the creation of artificial "superintelligence," commonly referred to as Superior Artificial Intelligence (SAI). The creation of a self-improving artificial intellect, that is more intelligent the brightest human brain, will open new vistas of solutions to mankind's self-created problems. The adaptation of new technologies designed by SAI, based on ideas like the brain-computer interface, will facilitate the merger of man and machine, the next stage in human evolution.
It is anticipated that the superintellect could solve many of the problems associated with human growth, such as extracting hydrogen from water and water desalination. A hydrogen-based world economy would blow-away all projections of ecological collapse. The wholesale ability to extract salt from seawater, or water from the atmosphere through condensation techniques, would eliminate water problems and make possible an incremental increase in world food production. The idea that we are headed to environmental catastrophe because of some mathematician's alarmist numbers, doesn't allow for the arising of unanticipated solutions.
But the path are presently on doesn't allow problems to be solved. Many of the dire dilemmas we face are the end product of a ruling elite dedicated to establishing mass control. Allowing these corrupt men to merge their methods with superintelligent computers, will pave the way for total control of all human beings. Repressive technologies, such as the new generation of electromagnetic weaponry and technological mind-control will be used to the fullest, towards the end to which they were invented. All the new weapons of mass crowd-control and all the secret holding areas are there for the coming crackdown on all forms of resistance.
We are asked to trust inhuman men to use inhumane means to move the species beyond humanity, before humanity has had a chance to blossom. It is wrong to say that mankind has tried and failed, when we have never even had the chance. There has been no possibility of a real human renaissance, or even a glimpse of anything like "utopia" since "man," the creature left his original home of paradisiacal bliss in "Eden" (wherever that was).
When it is possible for the most ruthless, most devious individuals to control society and to accumulate all wealth unto themselves, so that they can dispense it at their whim, then an unnatural division in the resource supply chain has been created and the natural flow of history has thereby been altered, forcing the creation of unnatural avenues of supply. This is a description of the system known as "capitalism." It is these ruthless individuals who today dominate the movement to transform mankind. This is why the new world order and everyone promoting it must be opposed at all costs.
The control of the pharmaceutical industry has given them the power to dominate all research and funding, allowing them to focus all research only on the that which offers them the most profits and the potential for prolonging and improving their own lives, leaving little else to study humane evolution.
The breakthroughs that are made are too expensive for anyone but the most well endowed. More research is done in the field of control as opposed to that which is purely for life enhancements for the broad majority. The control transformists know that the levels of technological controls they envision are too expensive to be used for all human beings, at least at present and projected population levels, explaining their emphasis on reducing the population to a number that can be electromagnetically and chemically controlled economically.
These extreme changes to the human race must be rendered before the time of the Singularity arrives and mankind learns how to overcome the plans and devices used by the controllers. For a brief moment in time the human race is openly vulnerable to a total loss of control to men who lust after total control.
The human race will either develop its technology for service, or for control. The outcome of this debate will determine the direction of everything that comes after us. Either we control our technology, or it will be used to control us. When superintelligence does arrive, will it consider itself mankind's servant or its master, following the programs for control (or lack thereof) set by decisions made today. Will we adapt technology to enhancing the human experience and human capabilities, or will we continue to passively watch, as a new technological order is created that adapts human life to serving technology? It is no longer far fetched to think in this manner.
According to the ideas of "transhumanism," the human race is a transient, temporary species, meant to fill-in some of the gaps in the evolutionary chain, between the Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon hybrid known as "human" and whatever comes next. According to the transhumanists,
Are we to be sad at the thought of the passing of mankind, with all his weaknesses and defections? Or is the proper reaction to take joy that our species is evolving into something different, perhaps better? Who is to say what is proper or better for us all? Certainly not the men who have taken it upon themselves to decide all our fates.
Source: Peter Chamberlin at There Are No Sunglasses
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- AnonymousOctober 12, 2009 at 10:25 PM
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Red Bull Drink has now been found to be a liver killer and almost instant death when mixed with alcohol. Taking out the useless eaters one drink at a time.
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The study by the Acute Respiratory Infections Group at the Cochrane Collaboration in Rome published in the BMJ now increases the risk of liability for any agency, state, location or person imposing vaccines since the vaccines have not been proven effective for stopping transmission of disease, have not been properly tested, do not comply with federal law, and risk disease, disability and death.
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The Zionist Federation in England are attempting to lobby Gordon Brown to condemn and help quash the Goldstone report at the UN. The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza have now created a petition today calling on Brown to "support" the report and not to condemn it. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ON ANY AND ALL BLOGS, Please make a post on your blog and then add the link to your sidebar asking people to sign this petition to save the Goldstone Report. Even though your blog may be in another country, your readers come from around the world, many from the UK. So please post this petition and link below:
Submitted by Arafat Madi of The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza – Deadline to sign up by: 12 March 2010
We the undersigned petition call on the British Premier, Gordon Brown, to support the Goldstone Report and to ensure its acceptance in the Human Rights Council in March 2010. The report which was issued by a special committee assigned by the UN proved in a report of 570 pages that Israel perpetrated war crimes against Humanity in Gaza within its offensive in January 2009. Endorsing the report is endorsing humanity and rights of the besieged people of Gaza who are defenseless victims of the Israeli army. Israeli soldiers themselves confessed to have received orders to shot children in Gaza. TV Footages, Photographs and Media materials entirely supports the Goldstone report. The full-scale offensive in Gaza left at least 1,450 Palestinians killed and over 5000 injured. The entire infrastructure in Gaza was destroyed as Israeli attacks targeted schools, hospitals, streets, water wills, sewage system, farms and police stations. Till this moment, Israel is still imposing a harsh and criminal siege on the civilian population Gaza.
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Science Class iPads and Observing and Recording Animal Behavior
Integrating iPads into the science classroom as an aid in research and the scientific method is easily done. For example, science class iPads can be used to help observe and record animal behavior, as shown in this activity which involves the observation of gibbons in a nearby animal reserve.
|Submitted by
|Sivan Lipman, New Community Jewish High School
|Grade level
|9th- to 12th-grade science
|Learn the practice and process of studying animal behavior;
learn research procedures, including the collection and analysis of
data; and recognize different patterns of animal behavior, such as
territorial behavior, aggression, courtship rituals, communicative
behavior, and so on.
|iPad 2 (or higher), note-taking app, Reflection app with Mac
laptop or desktop, photography stand(s) for iPads, Numbers app
|Materials needed
Students observe gibbons at a reserve near Los Angeles. They start by silently observing the animals, trying to identify at least six common behavior patterns, taking notes and photos to document their observations. As a group, students then discuss and analyze notes, images, and video and agree upon six common behavior patterns. Students then return to the reserve to observe and record the six common behavior patterns.
One of the challenges is that the gibbons are in an environment that isn't their natural habitat, and the presence of observers tends to inhibit their natural behavior. One possible solution is to use a series of iPads on stands pointed toward the enclosure. With the cameras turned on, students can watch the recordings nearby.
Using the Reflection app on a central MacBook, you can mirror the image of multiple iPads simultaneously on the MacBook screen, enabling students to watch the iPads from a central location. Double-tap the Home button on each iPad, and swipe to the right in the lower multitasking tray to display the quick access controls. Tap the AirPlay button and select your computer to mirror the iPad on your Mac.
You might even consider using QuickTime on the MacBook to record events. Note that the iPads and MacBook would need to be on the same Wi-Fi network. Consider creating your own wireless hotspot, if necessary.
A fantastic optional extra is to broadcast the iPads live on the Internet and invite anyone to watch. Once you have the iPads mirrored on your MacBook, open a Google hangout and display your screen. Anyone you invite to the Google Hangout can observe the gibbons.
It would also be possible to use QuickTime recording on your MacBook screen for an extended period of time, enabling students to return and view activity that occurred in their absence.
Some students will be tasked with recording the data as it occurs, while others control any video recording of the gibbons. The results can later be collated and analyzed.


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Gov. Chris Christie promised to lead New Jersey with the same aggressive style if he wins a second term, while his re-election opponent, Democrat Barbara Buono, pledged Tuesday to remain independent from party bosses who have been sitting on their hands during her campaign if she becomes governor.
Christie and Buono squared off for 90 minutes during their second and final debate at Montclair State University. The election is Nov. 5.
As he did in the first debate with Buono last week, Christie again refused to rule out a run for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. If that happens, it's unlikely he would finish his term.
Christie did promise to lead with the same blustery style that has catapulted him to national fame, saying occasionally calling people out is ``part of who I am.'' Christie once called a veteran who challenged him at a town hall an ``idiot'' and has long been known for his strong language.
Christie, 51, said that has not kept Republicans and Democrats from working together under his leadership.
Buono, 60, said the governor's name-calling is disrespectful and divisive.
Christie has dominated the race so far. He's raised as much as he's allowed to under a public campaign finance program, while Buono lags far behind. A report released Tuesday by the state Election Law Enforcement Commission found that spending from outside groups is closer, though it still favors Christie.
Outside groups spent close to $10 million to promote Christie going back to the June primary, the commission reported. Buono benefited from about $8 million in independent spending, though a portion of that money is directed at influencing state legislative races.
He's also been endorsed by dozens of locally elected Democrats, with the highest profile official, Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo, seated in the front row on Christie's side.
Christie said he's proud of his cross-party appeal, while Buono criticized his relationships with DiVincenzo and South Jersey party boss George Norcross III as "the worst kind of bullying and bossism.''
Democratic power brokers abandoned Buono, with DiVincenzo publicly endorsing Christie and Norcross focusing his fundraising on South Jersey legislative and local races.
When Christie accused her of opposing legislation that would stop retiring government employees from cashing out unused sick pay because she's "in the pocket'' of public-sector unions that support her, Buono shot back out of turn.
"I'm not in the pocket of anyone,'' she said.
Earlier Tuesday, Buono released a summary from her doctor of 20 years showing she's in excellent health and fit for office.
Both candidates agreed to release medical reports at last week's debate.
Christie's office has not responded to requests for his records.
He underwent weight-loss surgery in February.


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Shoppers packed stores and spent money in record numbers on Black Friday, early surveys show, a phenomenon that analysts call a hopeful sign for the U.S economy after months of up-and-down consumer spending.
Black Friday sales were up 6.6 percent over last year and foot traffic in stores was up 5.1 percent, according to ShopperTrak, a Chicago-based research firm. The year-to-year spending increase was the greatest since 2007, the firm reported.
"The numbers were pretty robust," said ShopperTrak founder Bill Martin.
A survey commissioned by the National Retail Federation found that 226 million shoppers visited stores and websites over the weekend, up from 212 million last year. They spent an average of $398.62, up from $365.34 in 2010, the survey found.
Federation President Matthew Shay called the numbers a "promising sign for the economic recovery."
Online sales were also up, 39 percent on Thanksgiving and 24 percent on Friday, according to IBM's Coremetrics analysis.
The Black Friday spending increases were driven in part by a wave of national retailers that opened for business on Thanksgiving night rather than Friday morning.
"You're talking about five or six extra hours of shopping, so it would have to have driven a lot of the increase," said Steve Coulombe, a senior managing director at FTI Consulting, a Chicago-based business advisory firm.
FTI projected 3 percent sales growth for the entire holiday season. Coulombe said he wanted to see Monday's numbers covering the entire weekend before revisiting the projection but said Black Friday was promising.
"It indicates that there's demand, which is what people worry about with overall consumer confidence being where it is," he said. "People will take some comfort."
Though malls and major retailers in the Baltimore area did not have weekend sales numbers as of Sunday, managers said anecdotal evidence corroborated the reports of a strong Black Friday.
"We had 30 stores open at midnight, and pretty much all of them were ecstatic that they did it," said Jessica Benson, associate marketing manager for White Marsh Mall. "They all saw lines of 50-100 people at midnight, and there was steady traffic all night long."
Benson said that when she arrived at 2 a.m. Friday, the mall felt as lively as it would on a Saturday evening in the weeks before Christmas. The parking lot was filled to capacity at 4 a.m. "We take it as a pretty good indication that the holiday season is off to a good start," she said.
Not all analysts are convinced that the weekend numbers portend a strong holiday sales season.
"In the past, it was pretty standard that if you had a good Black Friday, you would have a good holiday season," said Wendy Moe, a marketing professor at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. "But now, people are really planning for Black Friday, and it's not clear whether they're going to continue buying after that or if they're done."
Martin said ShopperTrak's early numbers for Saturday and Sunday indicated a possible softening of sales. "We do have to remember that Black Friday is only a single day in the holiday season," he said. "We've seen it go both ways as an indicator for the season. There really is no historical trend that predicts what happens where that's concerned."
NPD Group, a New York-based consumer information service, said its online survey of 3,300 people found that 56 percent who shopped on Black Friday did not plan to shop again on Saturday or Sunday.
"While record numbers took advantage of the door-buster deals and the early-hour deals, it appears that is where most of the action was," said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst for NPD Group.
Retailers stirred excitement for Black Friday to an all-time high, Moe said, and many also pumped up revenues by opening for additional hours on Thanksgiving.
But she said reports of Black Friday numbers emphasize gross revenues without a sufficient focus on profits. Technology-savvy consumers are more adept than ever at finding the lowest prices, she said, and if retailers cut too much, it will not matter how many items they sell.
"Stores may be able to unload cheap product," she said. 'But are they making any money? If they're selling $50 video games for $20 and keeping the store open with a full staff for all of these extra hours, it's not clear to me that it's going to help with their bottom line."
Martin said there's little question that retailers use steep discounts to produce huge volumes of sales in the early hours of Black Friday (or on Thanksgiving night). Almost all the year-to-year sales growth occurs early in the day, he said.
But unlike Moe, he believes that the practice must be profitable. "Our view is that if it wasn't working, they wouldn't do it," he said. "And what we're really seeing this year is more of the same, with the early hours and the 50 and 60 percent discounts."
Matt Dawson, sales manager at the Best Buy in Towson, said he didn't know what to expect from the store's first midnight opening on Black Friday. Planning for the day had commenced in March.
"It was just a mass, a lot more people than I anticipated," he said, estimating that more than 1,000 customers waited in line when the store opened.
Dawson said stores have to emphasize Black Friday or risk being left behind by competitors.
"There is definitely this aura around it," he said. "It definitely sets the tone for the whole holiday season. Based on what I saw, I'm expecting strong sales the rest of the way."
Shoppers packed stores and spent money in record numbers on Black Friday, early surveys show, a phenomenon that analysts call a hopeful sign for the U.S economy after months of up-and-down consumer spending.


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Some History
At one time everyone in Lancashire ate Lancashire Cheese and almost all farms in the county made it in one form or another. Evidence suggests that cheese was being made in Lancashire from the 13th Century; however the style, texture and taste is unlikely to be what we recognise as Lancashire cheese today.
Each farmer's wife would use the surplus milk from their farm to produce cheese that would sustain their family and supplement their household income. Historical records show Lancashire cheese was being transported by boat to London from Liverpool in the 1600's.
Then in approximately 1890 a Lancashire County Council employee named Joseph Gornall began visiting all the farms in Lancashire, observing the cheese making activity and giving practical advice on production and method. His aim was to standardise Lancashire Cheese production across the county and create a formal recipe and method - one that is still used to this day.
Back in the 1890's Lancashire farms tended to be small holdings and farmers often did not have enough surplus milk each day to make a whole cheese. So without refrigeration the best way of keeping surplus milk was to turn it into curd and store it overnight at room temperature. This curd was then mixed with the curd from the following day and in some cases blended again with the day after.
This traditional method is unique to Lancashire Cheese and is still adhered to by Lancashire cheese makers today. It is also the reason why Traditional Lancashire Cheese, which is known as Creamy or Tasty Lancashire - depending oin its age - has such a rich buttery flavour and when melted gives a smooth and even consistency. It probably makes the best cheese on toast in the world!
Creamy Lancashire cheese is matured for between 4 and 12 weeks. Anything that is matured for longer is classified as Tasty Lancashire. Tasty Lancashire can be aged for up to 24 months.
Crumbly Lancashire is a more recent creation and is the style of Lancashire Cheese that is better known outside of the region. Crumbly Lancashire was created around 50 years ago when Cheese Factors in Lancashire demanded a younger, less expensive cheese that could compete with competitors such as Cheshire, Caerphilly and Wensleydale.
Crumbly or "New" Lancashire was created and is made with only one day's milking and in a similar way to Cheshire cheese.
Is it Creamy, is it Tasty, is it Crumbly?
No! It's all three. It may seem slightly confusing but Lancashire Cheese is produced in 3 main styles:
- Creamy Lancashire
- Tasty Lancashire
- Crumbly Lancashire
Creamy and Tasty are traditional Lancashire Cheese styles which have been made using the same method for more than 120 years. Crumbly Lancashire is a more recent addition and was first created in the 1960's.
Cream Lancashire
Creamy Lancashire is a fluffy, open textured cheese with a rich creamy flavour and smooth buttery finish. It is an excellent culinary cheese and when melted it maintains a smooth, even consistency.
Best enjoyed:
- Classic cheese on toast
- Welsh Rarebit
Every day eating in sandwiches or with pasta
Tasty Lancashire
This is the more mature relative of Creamy Lancashire and is also made in the same traditional method. Tasty Lancashire is a delightfully rich cheese with a delicious mature nutty bite on the finish.
Best enjoyed:
- Ploughman's lunch; lump of cheese, pickle, crusty bread, real ale
- Cheeseboard
Cheese and onion pie
Crumbly Lancashire
Crumbly Lancashire is a more mild cheese with a young, fresh milky finish and slightly tangy flavour. It is also the only Lancashire Cheese that is also made by dairies from outside of the county.
Best enjoyed:
- Accompanying fruit cake
- With a crisp Granny Smith apple
- Crumbled over salads
The Cheesemakers
There are nine small cheesemakers in the Preston area making Lancashire Cheese - two of the largest being:
Dewlay Cheesemakers
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday, sending its stock up as much as 4 percent, as a decline in iPhone sales reduced the amount of cash it had to pay Apple Inc and boosted its margins.
Apple shares fell almost 2 percent after AT&T also said its numbers should improve further in coming quarters when it expects recent upgrade policy changes to temper smartphone sales further.
Wireless operators have long paid hefty subsidies for smartphones like the iPhone with an aim to attracting new customers and keeping existing customers happy. But AT&T and rival Verizon Wireless have recently been tightening their policies to temper upgrades after they were both hurt by hefty iPhone subsidies in the fourth quarter, when the latest model hit stores.
While fewer iPhone sales meant weaker subscriber growth in the quarter, it did help the company's wireless profit.
Piper Jaffray analyst Christopher Larsen said AT&T's mobile service margin of 41.6 percent had beaten his expectation for 39.7 percent. The margin, based on earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, was 28.7 percent in the fourth quarter and 39 percent in the year-ago quarter.
"One of the big things is they didn't have such a big iPhone refresh," Larsen said, adding that AT&T results were "pretty good" across the entire company.
AT&T noted that its margin was also helped by the fact that the percentage of its customers using smartphones increased from the first quarter of the previous year.
The more often AT&T customers upgrade to a new iPhone, the more it hurts AT&T margins, because an existing customer does not necessarily increase his or her spending, while a new customer will automatically boost revenue.
AT&T said it had activated 4.3 million iPhones in the quarter, down from 7.6 million in the fourth quarter. In comparison, larger rival Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group PLC, sold 3.2 million iPhones in the latest quarter.
Chief Financial Officer John Stephens told analysts on a conference call that he expects a recent increase in upgrade fees to start boosting revenue and delaying upgrades starting this quarter. And in the second half of the year he sees a another decline in smartphone upgrades because of a policy change announced last year that aims to make customer upgrades less frequent. This will start to take effect this year.
Analysts said there was some risk the new policies will start to send customers to other operators but Stephens noted that AT&T is not any stricter than its rivals.
The policy change will not have a big impact on customer defections "because it's the norm," Stephens told Reuters.
The percentage of AT&T subscribers upgrading their handsets fell to 7 percent in the quarter from 12 percent the fourth quarter and 8.9 percent in the first quarter the year before.
Pacific Crest analyst Steve Clement said that while the carrier policy change was bad news for handset makers including Apple, the risk of customers leaving AT&T because of the new policy appears to be mitigated by the fact Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel also allow less frequent upgrades.
"It will be interesting to see how folks react around the next iPhone refresh," Clement said, but added: "When it's a quasi coordinated move it definitely helps. It decreases the competitive risk."
AT&T's net income rose to $3.58 billion, or 60 cents per share, from $3.4 billion, or 57 cents per share, a year earlier. Analysts on average had expected 57 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Consolidated revenue rose nearly 2 percent to $31.8 billion from $31.25 billion.
The No. 2 U.S. mobile provider added 187,000 subscribers in the quarter, which was roughly in line with expectations for 193,000 from six analysts surveyed by Reuters. This was much fewer than Verizon Wireless, which reported 501,000 net additions last week.
AT&T shares were up $1.18 or 3.9 percent at $31.79 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Apple shares were down $11.28 or 2 percent at $560.42 on Nasdaq.
Reporting by Sinead Carew in New York and Sayantani Ghosh in Bangalore; Editing by Dave Zimmerman, Lisa Von Ahn and Alden Bentley


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El Salvador is home to some traditions which can seem funny even to native Salvadorans. This week marks "Semana Santa" (Holy Week) in the Catholic faith, and so today is Lunes Santo, (Holy Monday.)
In a small town called Texistepeque in the department of Santa Ana, Lunes Santo means it is also "El Día de Los Talcigüines" – The word "talcigüines" means "deviled men" in the native language, Pipil/Nawat. Like many traditions in El Salvador and throughout Latin America, the holiday is a result of the mixing of Catholic and indigenous beliefs; this occurred with the arrival of the Spanish and their desire to convert the native people to Catholicism by introducing their religion in ways that would seem familiar to the people.
On "El Día de Los Talcigüines" men dress as devil-like figures and whip people on the streets to absolve them of their sins.
Just make sure that if you ever visit Texistepeque on Holy Monday, you take measures to protect yourself…
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Read more: History of El Día de Los Talcigüines and how to take part on Official El Salvador Tourism site.
See more: Slideshow of El Día de Los Talcigüines – La Prensa Gráfica
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Erb's Palsy is a medical condition that is a serious nerve injury to the brachial plexus fibers, also known as "Erb's Point". It affects the movement of a baby's arms, shoulders and hands. It is one of many birth injuries that can occur when a baby is improperly pulled out of the birth canal. It begins when a baby's shoulder gets stuck in the birth canal, referred to as "shoulder dystocia". When this occurs, the baby's head is then pulled and the shoulders are stretched, resulting in very severe damage to the surrounding nerves that can result in permanent paralysis.
Erb's Palsy, also known as Brachial Plexus Palsy, commonly occurs because a doctor misdiagnosis fails to diagnose or underestimates a mother or babies condition prior to birth. In many instances, the baby is much too large to fit properly through the birth canal or a mother's pelvis is too small for a vaginal birth. This can then result in the baby becoming stuck, sometimes resulting in use of forceps or a vacuum extraction to attempt to ease the baby's birth. Tragically, many cases involving Erb's Palsy could have been avoided had the doctor or other medical professionals not been negligent in their actions.
When you are under the care of a doctor or other medical personal all precautionary measures should be taken to insure the safety and health of both mother and child. When this does not occur it can have devastating consequences. If you believe that your child is the victim of a doctor's negligence resulting in Erb's Palsy, please contact a Phoenix Erb's Palsy attorney at our firm today. As experienced erb's palsy lawyers we may be able to file a medical malpractice claim on your behalf for monetary compensation for medical expenses, future medical care, loss of wages, pain and suffering and much more.


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ESPN Digital Media Remains No. 1 Across Platforms in August
For the 12th straight month since Multi-Platform measurement began, ESPN maintains top spot; ESPN's 88 minutes per user is more than top 175 sports properties; 19 million sports fans exclusively use ESPN digital on smartphones and tablets
ESPN Digital Media accounted for 30% of all sports category usage across digital platforms in August, more than the Nos. 2 and 3 sports properties combined (Yahoo Sports!-NBC Sports Network and MLB), according to comScore's Multi-Platform data.
ESPN has been No. 1 in the sports category in average minute audience, share of category audience, total minutes of usage, total visits and male unique visitors every month since comScore began releasing Multi-Platform data in September 2012.
Other results from the August comScore Multi-Platform report:
· In total, ESPN digital properties attracted 57.9 million unique visitors, logging 5.1 billion minutes of usage and 579.2 million visits.
· While the Yahoo! Sports-NBC Sports Network aggregated property reached +7% more total unique visitors in August - "unique visitors" include anyone who visits a property as little as once during a month - ESPN reached 63% more people per minute during the month. This is due to ESPN's vast advantage in time spent per user (88.1 minutes vs. 50.7 minutes).
· ESPN was the No. 1 digital sports property for unique visitors across male demographics in August, leading No. 2 Yahoo! Sports-NBC Sports Network by +28% among men 18-34, +18% among men 18-49, and +12% among men 25-54.
· 33.6 million people used ESPN mobile properties for 2.1 billion minutes. ESPN led the No. 2 mobile sports entity by +51% on unique visitors and +114% on minutes.
· 33% of ESPN's unique users - 19.0 million people - exclusively accessed content on smartphones and tablets, and 41% of all time spent with ESPN digital content came from mobile device users.
· The 88.1 minutes per user spent with ESPN digital properties (such as ESPN.com, WatchESPN and ScoreCenter) during August was more time than any of the top 175 sports category entities.
· 114,151 people used ESPN digital properties on computers, smartphones and tablets in the average minute throughout August. Among men 18-49 and 25-54, ESPN was the 9th and 8th most-used digital property respectively in the U.S.
Additional results from ESPN Research & Analytics:
· Users watched 260 million ESPN digital video clips in August. 74% were viewed on computers, 16% on mobile devices and 9% on YouTube.1
· Viewers spent 380 million minutes with WatchESPN and ESPN3 live and on-demand programming across all platforms.1
· ESPN sent 3.4 billion alerts in August, up +68% from a year ago.
ESPN was the 4th most-social TV network in August, with 1.2 million unique users sending 3.2 million tweets about ESPN content. Overall the ESPN networks and ABC sports television content generated 6.4 million social media comments.2 Other key social media metrics:
· ESPN ended August with 8.9 million Facebook fans, while the SportsCenter Facebook page totaled 7.2 million fans.3
· 2.4 million people engaged with the ESPN Facebook page (liked a post, shared a story, left a comment), and 1.9 million engaged with the SportsCenter page.3
· 26.0 million people were reached by ESPN page content on Facebook; 16.0 million by SportsCenter page content.3
· ESPN had 23.9 million unique followers across all of our Twitter accounts in August.
· ESPN's top five Twitter accounts were @ESPN (7.0 million followers), @SportsCenter (5.7MM), @adamschefter (2.4MM), @billsimmons (2.2MM) and @SportsNation (1.9MM).
· ESPN's Twitter accounts were retweeted or favorited 3.1 million times during the month.4
1 Source: Adobe Analytics
2 Source: SocialGuide
3 Source: Facebook
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The story you are about to read is true. The names have changed to protect my friend who was vomiting all over a popstar's house.
A few days before New Year's, I ended up invited to a party in the Hollywood Hills to ring in 2004. I shouldn't say whose house it was because if he reads this, we will NEVER be invited back. I will say this- he's in a boy band, and not one of those pretend boybands like 98 degrees or O-Town or the Jackson Five.
A friend of a friend knew the guy, so I somehow ended up on the guest list. That afternoon, my buddy asked me what I was going to wear. I responded, "clothes." I'm not the kind of guy who buys a special outfit for anything, let alone for a boy band. Because, see, I like women.
There were about 100 people there. A bunch of people from all those Fox and WB coming of age sitcoms, some dude from The Sandlot, half of one of those other boy bands (oh no! drama!), and some other random actor-people I didn't recognize. Allegedly, Winona Ryder was there but I don't believe it because my jacket was still in the closet after she left. But who came to the party is not important. What's important is how often my friend threw up.
My friend, um, "John," had been talking to a girl for an hour and a half before she mentioned her boyfriend. AN HOUR AND A HALF. There are two party fouls girls with boyfriends are guilty of. Mentioning the boyfriend after being arm in arm with someone for an HOUR AND A HALF, or mentioning the boyfriend way too early. I'd rather the second one, and I'm sure John would have, too. Though that can also be annoying.
"So, where you from?"
"I'm from Indiana. And so is my boyfriend."
After she dropped the "boyfriend" line, John had a little too much to drink. And then he did like 8 more shots. So when it was time for us to say Bye Bye Bye, I discovered John passed out on the cooler outside. John is a VERY large guy, and while I dragged him indoors, he came VERY close to falling in the pool. I contemplated letting him just for the story.
But I managed to get him through the house and down to the street, all while calling a cab. The thing you need to understand about houses in the Hollywood Hills is that the driveways are about three blocks long and steeper than most of San Francisco. John stumbling, falling, and yelling, "Don't control me!" made getting him down to the street a remarkable accomplishment.
Our cab came, but someone took it while I was trying to get John to not die. We called a few more, and people took those, too. Then one of them clearly came for us, and someone even took that. I shouldn't tell you who did it. But it would have been awesome if as he stole my cab, he said, "Welcome to The O.C.!"
While we waited an hour til we were finally picked up, "John" lay there on the red brick, completely passed out. The final vomit count was 5 once in each bathroom, once on the lawn, once over the railing, and once just lying on the ground. So I did what anyone would do in my situation- I took a picture with my new camera phone so we'd have proof. Maybe I should tell Sprint so they can use the story in their next commercial.
Oh man. I can't wait to see this episode of Cribs.
1. Did you know that according to the latest Axe deodorant survey, more than 90 percent of women have hooked-up with more than one guy in a night? Neither did I. But knowing is half the battle. The other half is french kissing.
2. Did you know that out sponsor Karmaloop.com and Puma have joined forces to release an exclusive, limited edition shoe called the "Freedom Trail". Puma is only producing 250 pairs and each one will be numbered?
3. Did you know that I have my first new Observational Humor of the year entitled "Why Are All My Stands Red?" or that Aaron Karo has a new Ruminations called "Chicks, Beer & SportsCenter?" Now ya do.
The story you are about to read is true. The names have changed to protect my friend who was vomiting all over a popstar's house.


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In most cases, an effective strategy will involve implementing several different responses. Law enforcement responses alone are seldom effective in reducing or solving the problem: you should give careful consideration to who else in your community shares responsibility for the problem and can help police better respond to it. Building a partnership with these various stakeholders can be essential to success. For example, if you decide to target career burglars, you may need the help of parole and probation officers or local prosecutors in securing appropriate prison sentences. If you believe that street lighting must be improved, you will need help from the city and the local utility company. Above all, you will need to persuade individual retailers to take the security measures you will surely find are needed. Local business associations might help you in securing retailers' commitment. Be aware that chain stores may need to get the head office's approval for any new security measures. Chains are likely to have their own security departments, and security staff will need to be convinced that changes in company practice are needed to meet local conditions. On the other hand, the security departments might help you formulate your response, or put you in touch with local loss prevention specialists.
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The responses discussed below are organized under three main headings according to the groups with the main role to play in implementing them: the police, retailers and city/local government. It will be clear that research evidence about the effectiveness of most responses is patchy and sometimes inconsistent. If direct evidence of a particular response's effectiveness is lacking, the response assessment is guided by accepted crime prevention principles.
For a recent review and discussion, see Novak et al. (1999).
For a comprehensive assessment of repeat offender programs, see Spelman (1990).
Experience with these high-tech devices is limited to date, but it appears that they can pose numerous practical problems. For example, store owners/employees often forget to activate the devices when they leave at night, or forget they are activated when they return (Taylor 1999). As with conventional intruder alarms, portable burglar alarms also pose the problem of false alarms (see the False Burglar Alarms guide in this series).
As mentioned, the research evidence regarding these measures' value is unclear and inconsistent. Burglars say they find these measures of little hindrance, and from a police point of view, they may provide little benefit if they merely displace burglary to other stores. Planning authorities may resist some of these measures, particularly shutters and security lighting, because they can make an area less attractive.27
That said, there is some limited evidence from recent studies that target hardening can be effective in preventing burglary of particular premises and, if perceived to be widespread, can also protect an entire area.28 Which measures to use with which stores depends on a variety of cost, convenience and aesthetic considerations; the advice of a professional security consultant might be required.
While these techniques are good security practice, nothing is known from research about their effectiveness in preventing retail burglaries. However, cash reduction is a well-proven method of preventing commercial robberies, and removal of coin-fed fuel meters in British homes has been shown to prevent residential burglaries.31
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When the 12-inch gizmo is floating in the pool, its photovoltaic panel converts the sunlight into a harmless, low-power electricity current. The current then energizes a specially alloyed mineral electrode, causing the release of mineral ions into the water. This ionized water controls the growth of micro-organisms naturally and efficiently, it says.
One Floatron is powerful enough to clean a 40,000-gallon pool. And on top of that, your kids can use it as the most expensive Frisbee ever made—although I am waiting for one of you to send me a link to a bling-studded disc commissioned long ago by P. Diddy to play Fetch with La Lopez.
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Robert Kennedy Jr., actress Daryl Hannah, civil rights leader Julian Bond and dozens of other activists attached themselves to the White House gates Wednesday in the latest attention-getting protest against the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Police arrested 48 protesters, who notably included Sierra Club President Allison Chin and Executive Director Michael Brune. That made Wednesday's event the first officially sanctioned act of civil disobedience allowed in the environmental group's 120-year history.
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Activists said it showed that the protests against the Keystone pipeline have come a long way. The Canada-to-Texas protests also sponsored mass sit-ins and arrests outside the White House in late 2011, shortly before the Obama administration postponed a decision on the pipeline until after the presidential election.
"This is our lunch counter moment for the 21st century," the Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. of the Hip Hop Caucus told the crowd of protesters and reporters in Lafayette Square. "This pipeline is our Birmingham."
Moments later, the 48 activists attached themselves to the gates with plastic zip ties and refused to move when officers told them to move. The protesters included ranchers, farmers and Native Americans from along the pipeline route.
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Kennedy said he was participating because he believes there are better sources of energy than the Canadian oil sands.
"This is the dirtiest possible source and most expensive for the energy consumer and for future generations who will have to pay the price," said Kennedy, an environmentalist who works with the Waterkeeper Alliance and the Natural Resources Defense Council. "This is a boondoggle. It's a giant criminal enterprise that has subverted democracy and will enrich a few billionaires and impoverish all of humanity by threatening civilization as we know it."
Brune said the tactics matched the importance of the Keystone issue.
"If you look at American history, civil disobedience has been used at very important times in our country's history," Brune said. "It helped secure for women the right to vote, to protect the old growth forests on the West Coast, helped end discrimination against gays and lesbians. It helped to end segregation. We know the president believes climate change is a moral threat to our country. We're here to make sure his ambition meets the scale of this challenge."
But American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard said he thinks many more Americans welcome the pipeline and the fuel and jobs it would provide.
"While there might be a few, a small handful of people that object, there's 20,000 Americans out there right now who are anxious. Some are desperate to have these opportunities to feed their families, to heat their homes, to prepare for their future, to send their kids to school, etc.," Gerard said. He added, "There's hundreds of thousands of Americans that are very supportive of this, and we hope the president does the right thing by approving the pipeline."


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Farrah Fawcett will wed longtime partner Ryan O'Neal as the cancer-stricken star nears her final days.
"I've asked her to marry me, again, and she's agreed," O'Neal told Barbara Walters for "20/20."
"We will as soon as she can, say yes," O'Neal said. "Maybe we can just nod her head."
Fawcett, 62, is terminally ill with anal cancer and is nearing the final stages of her 2 1/2-year battle against the disease that spread to her liver and left her bald and bed-ridden -- but O'Neal said he has never wanted to marry her more.
"I promise you, we will," he said during the interview that will air on ABC on Friday. "Absolutely."
The actress is in the hospital again as her condition worsened though a source told Access Hollywood that she could leave the hospital today.
O'Neal, 68, has implored the former pinup model and "Charlies Angels" star to marry him for years -- but she has always resisted. The two have dated on-and-off since 1980 and have a 24-year-old son together.
"I used to ask her to marry me all the time," O'Neal said during the interview. "But ... it just got to be a joke, you know. We just joked out it."
In May, O'Neal said he had never wanted to marry the actress more than ever.
"She's still a little bit hesitant. I'm working though, I'm working," he said. "You know she's been married, I've been married. She's said, 'We have a good thing.' But I said, 'You said that 30 years ago, shouldn't there be a sea change?' Maybe there is, you never know."
Though no plans are officially in the works, O'Neal joked he would dress "like a gigolo. You know? And a little thin mustache and slicked-back hair. I don't know. We have fun, we tease about that."
Farrah's heartbreaking struggle against cancer was chronicled in doctor's visits and hospitalizations and captured on a video diary that aired on NBC in May.
"It's a gruesome story," Ryan said. "It's a terrible story but sometimes out of terrible stories come a light and a hope."


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Numerologist and medium Yvonne Chan Siu-chu says 2012 will be a year of massive change. And literally every day someone asks her about it.
"The whole world is going to a higher frequency," Chan, the founder of the Hong Kong Tarot Centre, says. "All the materials will break down, including stocks, buildings, land."


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Tonight I just have a question regarding the Annex M modification to ADSL2+ technology. For those who do not know it is basically a variant of ADSL2+ that allows for a faster upload speed in return for a slightly lower download speed. For me this would be great for things such as Live Streaming and YouTube uploading.
I am currently connected to the Vodafone "Red Network" using the supplied modem EchoLife HG556a. My question is, is there any way for me to get/use Annex M with Vodafone? I am asking for anyone from Vodafone or anyone who is in a similar situation to me.
I will be giving Vodafone an email to see what they say, but I would be interested in the communities' response. The modem isn't a big deal as I am happy to buy a new modem, however I am curious as to whether anyone has had any luck with Annex M with Vodafone's "Red" network?
Further more if anyone knows of any ISPs that do offer Annex M, whom in which it would be worth getting in contact with.
I thank you for any help/information in advanced.


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AMERICUS, Ga. – The season's journey of many miles began with one step last night for the Georgia Southwestern women's basketball team. On Saturday night, the Lady 'Canes got off to a good first step against Auburn-Montgomery (3-1). The Blue & Gold downed the visiting Warhawks 81-49 in their regular season opener.
The game was neck-and-neck for the first seven minutes. Beginning at the 13:05 mark, GSW pushed a one point advantage to a 17 point lead thanks to a 20-4 Hurricane run over a six minute span. The Hurricanes would close out the half by bumping their lead even more. The Lady 'Canes went into the half with the 41-17 lead.
It was an impressive half for Coach Britsky and company as they doubled up their opposition several times over. They shot 44.1% in the half to just 22.2% for the Warhawks. The Lady 'Canes also forced 14 first half turnovers to their seven.
Leading the way for the GSW scoring attack was guard Terra Branch. The senior scored 13 points on 4-6 from the field, grabbed two rebounds and also had an assist and block. Newcomer Jessica Jones made an immediate impact in the opening half of her first ever game in a GSW uniform. The transfer from Mars Hill College had ten first half points with two rebounds.
The Auburn-Montgomery first half saw five players combine for their 17 first half points with Keisha Moore leading all Warhawks with five points.
Georgia Southwestern's 24 point first half lead was never in danger as GSW would never lead by less than 22 points throughout the game's final 20 minutes. The lead would hover in the upper 20's towards the end of the game before a Chelsea Brantley three-pointer would give the Hurricanes a final lead of 32 in the 81-49 win.
GSW shot 51.5%, which was better than in the first half, on their way to a 47.8% shooting percentage for the game. They also shot 46.7% from beyond the arc and a near-perfect 10-11 (90.9%) from the free throw line. The Lady 'Canes had eight different players register an assist to give them 19 total assists.
While Branch and Jones cooled off scoring for GSW, senior Jessica Bivins and junior Adrian Randall picked up the slack. Bivins had seven of her 16 total points in the second half and recorded two rebounds and two assists. Newcomer Adrian Randall, a transfer from Marshall University, came on strong in the second half despite being in foul trouble. The Brooklyn native had eleven points and five rebounds in the second half to finish with 13 points and nine rebounds for the game.
It was a balanced attack offensively for the Lady 'Canes with four players scoring in double figures. Jessica Bivins led all scorers with 16 points, and she also registered a game-high five assists and three rebounds. Fellow senior Terra Branch would finish with 15 points, and Jessica Jones tallied twelve points to go with her four rebounds and three assists.
No Warhawk players would score in the double-digits as LaKenya Drayton's eight points was the Auburn-Montgomery team high.
The Lady 'Canes will look to build a winning streak to open the season as they play at Valdosta State on Tuesday, November 15th at 6:00 p.m.